RR. - a. &he Cenfve Democrat, IowagRa'ron {| Charges, Jody Faria, of the lowa stare or, mk the ame view ac Judge Bower of ihe United States cour , ws 0 the power of the Jowa railroa! canrges. The state luw gives tie evmmusionirs power to fix railrowd worthy of consideration as nations, Asso, as we ean deal with the Indians as prospeciive citizene, having individu] as well an tribal rights, the chief difficulties of the eternal Indian question will dwappear,— Intelligencer Ep ond -— - Em LI TT Protect The Settlers. The bill reported in the Senate lust week to forfeit the entire land grant ment to make the exclusion of the Coinese absolute, evin without ne gotinting n new treaty, and even in violation of she existiog tresty,. He, therefore, would not make any ob. Jeetion to the passage of the bill, and he hoped it would pass; but this was with the distinct understanding that the House had passed it with the koowledge that the new tremty had {stone in the buildivg testifies, Boa an iy did not want to oppose it, This an- cient hostelry is now kept by a man named Smith, The Shober house, on the corner of Orange and North Queen streets, was erected in 1754 as an inscription on a The Laneaster County house was licensed io 1754. Its first landlord was Will iam Bausman, who was master of the ee RRA Bu" a 1 A . Altogether, the projectord of the en. terprise are confident thie they will accomplish much toward movieg the control of silver quotatiohs from Lon- don to New York, Why do People 1 Mw? : : “I suppose,” 1 rematked t. Mr. Johuson, the well kuo swimmer, BR a as known, the lust person who saw Maggie Rice alive He knew nothing next morning, believeing that she had returned to Mr. Brown early Bunday mor ing, as she bad dove at times previous. Nothing more was thought (of the mater umil in the evening, Maggie had promised to come to her pA R—_— J ( {aun 's home and accompany her to that such a cork as yoursell ennnot | : church. Bhe did pot come and Mr, (of the Northern Pacific Railway at { the western end of the line is, if urged [in exrnest, about the most radiesl | neasure of land grant forfeiture yet | presented. The source whence it {eomes, is calculated to ¢ dee a suspi- ewnd rates of charges canwot be re- cron that it is introduced more for disced by the commissiovers below wiility in the present campaign than sruts that will pay the railroads with sny serious purpose of its ulti- oper ex enses and some divided to mute enactment. [i may seem some- im owners, | what angracious to take that view; The stwie railroad commissioners | bot such a wide departure from the are not | kely ty impose any rales | previous course of the Senate on cor- that in ther judgment will not pay | poration questious at this particular smoh pr fit to tho railroads, ha th y juueture is most easily explained by ameeasible men they koow that rails that theory, rad enterpri-vs, like all other enter | But whether the bill be political or peises, should pay a fair profit to practical’, it is a very good one, with their ownes. Tnere is therefore no one exception. It provides that own- dmnger hat th Lowa law, wisely ad- ers of lands that they have purchased mal arstéred, witi cause confiscation of from the railroad can purchase railroad propery. Aa! there seems them again, in quaotities not ta be as lictie doubt that the law, uu- | exceeding 320 acres, by payiog $2.50 wisely #d oinisiered, may bring about | per acre to the United States. This sach result, : : | dues not seem to preserve the equities, Wo presume that it will be admit- | The only purpose of reclaiming the tel er wod that a state cannot con | land grants is to open them Th act: fiseate privat property without msk- | ual seitlers, The farmers who have lag tair comp ation; and if the law | already purchased land from the rail- of the Iowa | yislature is obnoxious | oad company have met this requires tar the obje sion that it confiscates rail- | ment, and shou!d be left undisturbed, | real projerty, it may be properly | They bave paid for the land to the | held 10 b: bad. | railroad company under a state of af- | Evideatly however, it produces no | fairs that was permi:ted by the Ubpi-| sach eff:ct ou its face. The state | ted States; aod for the Government to | eammissioners are suthoriz:d to fix | make them pay $400 more for a 160 barracks in Laveaster when the Mora. | understand how a perton sinks,’ Gray went 10 Brown's to iuquire if she vian Indians, confined there for pro- | Ob, yes, but [ can. It only such ] A was ill. The Brown household knew tection, were massacred by the Pax. |#% myself, who study thd science of | nothing of the girl further than Sat- fon boys in 1763. The old tavern re. floating, that can “undéretand the | urday evening, when she left their mained in the bands of James By. | mystery of sinking. A swimmer be- house, The hunt fcr the m’ssing gird, channay, to whose estate it belonged | comes a swimmer by eadesvoring 10 |, assistance given by Chief of Police at the time of the ex-president’s death, | find out, not #0 inuch bow to sv im, | Weikert, the findiog of the body at The Fountain Ino, in South Queen | #4 how not to sink. Man or woman Highspire, and the basty virdiet of the street, was opened in 1758, and the | ¢a0 float—there 18 no exception. The jury bas all been told in these rade ‘sign representirg a fountain | big recret w knowing know, and peing | oolimns, playing theo swung in front of the [%elf possessed enoogh—that iB} Through the persistence of Joho {inn still swings as its sign, although eases of emergency —10 take advant- W. Brown, Esq, wh) persuaded Dis- Lit would be hard 10 tell now that the | age of ove’s knowledge. Bat direcily | trict Attorney Cankel to 1ake hold of | painting represents a fountain, so | the boat capeises, or the canal bavks [the affair snd have a further investie | faded and time stained is the board, subsides, or the sands shift, or the | gation, n post mortem was ordered | While the Lancaster county court | deep part of the river uncomfortably | 4.4 held last wight. In advance of | house was building court was held in | asserts itself, the ignorant mortal (ig- | the statement of the physicians it may | the Fountaie Inn from 1781 to 1784. | vorant of how to use his powers. of | bs said there was n thing discovered | The supoeme court of the state sat at | buoyancy) sets about to sink him- gpa, would indicate how Maggie Rice (at the ion in 1755. lus first landlord | #elf 4 | died. The internal organs were in a | was Ulrich Reigart, and it remained | “Sioks himself, Mr. Johnson?" [| healthy condition ava whatever in- {in that family until 1811. In that Observed, dubiously. “Yes, sinks | Swwuntions were diopped concerning | year Joon Whiteside took charge of | himself, 1 Pp go his bande, sud dows | the girl's chastity have been proven Lit, and a theatre was started at the De sinks like a flagstone, Of the 1€0 | false. Those present al the autopsy | inn and an original play bill of the | thousand and ove frenzied actions in ||. pight were Drs. Walters and El | performance given on the night of | which a drowning man indulges BOL | lenberger. District Attorney Kunkel July 11, 1811, still bangs in the old | Ove is there that lends a title of huoy- | Chief of Police Weikert Lieutenant | reading room of the inn substaniially | 80CY. Tu the first place, he clutches {of Police Kautz sand Undertaker framed. It announced that that night | ab the proverbial straw, aod there 18! Hawkins, This mosnis g the body | was the last night but two of the sea. | 00 surer way of slokivg one's sell |r po dead girl was shipped to New {son and it was for the benefit of Mrs, | than by thrusting the bands out of Port, Perry county, from which place | Jeffries. The bill was “A Tale of the water. The consequent lurch of it =as taken to Etliotisburg for in Mystery,” the “Festival Dance,” a | the body strikes fatal terror in the ieTment, | farce entitled * Sylvester Daggerwooa; | wan's heart, he struggles spasmodi The conflicting stories told by differ or a Mad Actor,” anda comedy called | ¢8ily, and then, bereft as be is of all ent persons residing at Higbspire are “The Weathercock.” Tickets «ere | CONCIousoess, vanishes to bis doom. many aod varied and the correct been rejected by the Chinese Govern. ment. If that should prove otuerwise the fault would wot be that of the Senate, Mr. Butler thought that there was a good deal of the game of pe lities in the whole business. But fi the fact that we are oo the eve of a Presiden tial election, and that each party wauis (0 get the vote of the Pacific slope, there would be no discussion in the Ecnate over the bill. In reply to #8 question of Mr, Teller about the House passing the the bill Mr, But. ler said: The Republican Senate proposes to ‘see the House play and (0 one bet ter.” That is the plain Eogliso of it. You may call it a contravention, a re- | peal, an abrogation of an existing | treaty; but the plain English of it is { that it is the violation of a treaty. You eavnot doge it. Pending debate on Mr. motion the matter went over, No official information of the re | jection of the treaty has been received | by the State Department. — A—— russ and the judges ho'd thar such walimiied power cannot be delega ed Ga the commissioners because ii msmovnts won ower of confiscation, Jadge B ew r declares that the rail is LAN George's Lancaster's Ancient Inns Taverns Which Have Stood Sinee the Revolutim. ———— The closing of the Grape hotel in the railcoad rats, with intent that gcre farm, oa $800 for 320-acre tract. | thay shall be niade fair to both the | eailroads and tieir customers, The ears now step in and assert their pow ir to determine whether the rates tht have ben made by the commis- sloners sre jus: 10 the railroads. The presumption is that this pow er of supervision exists in the courts. Et is their province to see that there is just dealing between men; and there is great opporiuoity for their diserim- ination in secu ing just dealing be. | tween railroads and people. These | Bows cases are peculiar in that the Courts are appealed to for defense by | the railroads a ;ainst the state that | Bas crested them. It is a forum into which the peopiv of Jowa may be glad that their rariroads have invited them- | selves. They have not got that far as yet down this way hey never get into | eourt here of their own motion. They shave power enough to take care of themselves. W shall be very glad | indeed when we fiod them so weak as Crappeal to the law for their protec ton. ‘+ Weshall he very willing that choy shall get all the law can afford | them. The lows railroads have sscured | nothing by the decision, so loudly flsarished as in their favor, but declaration that they haves right to live, aod that they may appeal from the state commissioners to the courts to declare whet ier the rates of charges imposed by the state commissioners, ars jost. In [owa it takes state com- | missions and courts to determine | whether railrosol rates are fair. : nl In Peansylvaais :t takes only railroad | ra. : Ii the Iowa railroads are happy | aver this sitaation, the Jowa people | may be. And perchance some day | tae people of I* nnsylvania may be as well protected against railroad rob- | bry. —— A A—— Indian Question. The The [adian qaestion will, in all | probasility, be forced upon public at- wation at an early date by distarb- saces is Dakota and Montana, di- rectly traceable t) the same old causes | that have made most of our troubles | of the kind in the past, The Indiaus hold by right of sa- ered treaties which regard their little tribes ns uations, a great deal of coun- try which we cannot in the nature of suffer them to hold much tanger. Most of hem fully appreciate | the fact that in spite of the most sa. ered obligatio ws assumed by the “great father at Washington” (h must sooner or later give up their lend, bus they naturally want t> make the very best bargain obtainable, and been treated as nations have some tribal pride and spirit. The movement for the opening of their reservations bas drawn around them the usual erowd of sascnlly land iarks sad wiscrupalous white men who Bave 80 often succeeded in pro- jog lodisn wars for their own . It isu little bard to believe fo can be men #0 brutally sel- would be to subject them to hardship and injustice for the Governments own negligence, It 1¢ the right thing to forfeit every ere of land grants that can be re claimed; but the actual settlers hold irg the title from the company which the Government permitted to be giv- en, should be left nadisturbed. - FROCEDINGS IN CONGRESS ‘ “ The Bill Passad in the House and Dis cussed in the Senate. Wasmingrox, D. C. Sept. 3 —Mr. Scott in the House to-day asked unanimous consent to introduce for present consideration a bill sapple- mentary to an act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, approved May 6, 1882, Section 1 provides that from and after the passage of this at it shall be unlawful for any Chinese laborer who shall at soy time heretofore have been or may now or hereafier be a ' resident within the United States, and who shall have departed or shall de part therefrom and shall not have re | turned before the passage of this act, to return to the United States, Section 2 provides that no certifi cates of identity provided for in the fourth and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement shall here- after be imued: snd every certificate heretofore issued in pursuance thereof is hereby declared void and of no ef fect; and the Chinese laborer claiming admission by virtue thereof shall not be permitted to enter the United States, Section three provides that all du ties prescribed and liabilities and for feitures prescribed by the second, tenth, eleventh and twelith sections of the act to which this is a supple- ment are hereby extended and made applicable to the provisions of this act, Section 4 provides that all such part or parts of the ses to which this herewith are hereby repealed. Ar. Scott stated that the proposed legislation was the only means by which the Chinese laborer could be kept out of the country. Mr. Payson (1Il.) inquired whether the bill had been submitted to the Republican members from California. Mr. Scott replied that it had not. It was submitted tothem now. If the report as to the rejection of the Chi- nese treaty were correct, or if the treaty should be hereafter ratified, there was nothing in the bill in viola- tion of any treaty. Mr. Morrow ( Chl.) then asked that the bill be read again, which was done, and he expressed his approval of it. Jt was then pussed without ov- jection and sent to the Seoate. When the bill reached the Senate Mr. Stewart said he hoped that there would be no objection to its passage. Mr. George stated that the bill was [omibly unjust in txelading. Chinese mmigrants returning to country uo’er the certificates given P them aw, | this city by the sheriff briogs to an inglorious close the career of a famous inn-——a career that began in 1741 This ancient city «f Lancaster still sontains many of the hotel or tavern buildings that were erected long be fore the Revolution, and business is continued in them under their original Dame, in many lostances the great bavgiog signe painted by artists long forgotien, and bearing portraits of ihe per#on or picture of the animal or ob- Ject the hotel may have been named after, still swinging, faded aud quaint, over the doors. The Lamb, the Swan, | the Fountain Ion, the Plough Tavern, the Leopard, and a host of other aa- te Revolutionary hostelries are among | these interesting relics. To them ali interesting historical incidents are at tached, but vone bold the place in history that the Grape does, The original Grape hotel was start ed by a man osmed John Harris in 1741. It was sold in 1769 to Adam Reigart at sherift’s sale. The ime mense representation of a bunch of grapes that hangs by a ponderous or namental iron bracket from the front of the building was hammered out by 8 Lavcasier blacksmith In 1760. [Ii is a masterpiece of wronght iron work- ing, the bunch of grapes being sur mounted by a covering of leaves ham mercd out so naturally as to preserve the finest tracery of a natural grape leat. Daring the Revolutionary war the supreme executive council of Peuvsylvania met at the Grape hotel. The committee of observition also met ab the Grape during the war, when the famous order was issued (0 | merchants who were suspected of sel- | ling tea contrary to the “Association {of the Continental Congres” to ap- | per before the committee. the house passed into the possession { of the Joho Michaels family, different | members of which cobducted it untis [a few years ago, when it passed into (other harde. The Grrpewas the | favorite stopping place of James | Buchanan when he visited Lancaster, is a supplement as are inconsistant | and many noted political conferences | CODeR1aZO wagons in these days of | [bave been held beneath its roof | When Buchanan was minlsterto Eng- | Innd Daniel E. Sickles was secretary {of legation. Buchanan was ecarefn! {in money matters, and wes not a Jib | eral entertainer. On one occasion he | deputized Sickles todo some entertain {ing and to have the bill sent to him. | Sick les entertained and handed a bill for the dinner to Buchanan, as direct- ed. The bill was for 8500, and when the minister read it he was speuchless for some moments. When be found his tongue he exclaimed: “Five hundred dollars! Why, 1 could have got the same thing at the Grape for 825!" Of late years the Grape has been a favorite stopping place for commer. cial travelers and theatrical compan. ies. Ii was taken in charge a few months ago by two young men who materially changed the arrangements of theinun, but their ment seems to have been unsuccessful, The Cross Keys is another very old tavern stand. It was first licensed as a tavern in 1730. This tavern was the favorite i In 1704 sold “at the bar of Mr. Whitesides.” | The Leopard tavern wes started in 1765 by Michael Diffenderfer. The old sign of a fierce crouching leapard that was swoug from the front of the house that year is sill in but the colors are almost entirely ated. A new sign similar to the old one, occupies a position in the house, be} ern's first days The Block House snd 1h flan Queen, the one opened 1742 and the other in 1760, were maintained as | taverns until a short time ego, when they were torn down to mske room for modern buildings. The quaint signs that had marked the two build. logs as taveros for a century and a quarter were destroyed by a thooght- less workman, The Choper house is one of the an cient hotels of Lancaster. It was in this house that John Jeflerson opened a theatre in 1830, the opening night of which, May 3, was marked by the appearance of Joseph Jefferson, the elder, father of the maoager, in the comedy of “The Birthday,” and the operatic farce of “Turn Out It was on the steps of the Cooper house that John Jefferson slipped sud fell dar. ing the management of the theatre and received injuries that res his death. The old ner of Prince aud tavern long before the Revolution, and daring that war Gen. Hazen and a force of tioops were quartered there, The tavern was called the cat. The Plough tavera was built in | 1748. It bas never ceased to be a public house since, although its repo- tation is not fired class at present. Each of these nucient hostelries has | | immense stabling eapacity attached | and great stone court yards, covering | in some josiances almost a block | These accommodations were pecessary | {in the days the buildings were put | io place, obliters front Ww Lhe relic of the tay Ia ii in wilted in pte CE it ing at the cor. slreels was a stone buil James Jun {women is termed Take, ns an instance, the yachting ac cident of lifracombe the other day A jovial party set sail 10 a crazy fish ing smack, and so extra capful of wind upset her. Jostantly there wes chaos and confusion, as is always the and luckless drowned 1 It is simply for a non-sw mmer risk AD Uncertain craft . Sugp 8¢, then, Mr. ' : cruising. nn case, fourteen souls Hemasives, suicidal his life io Johnson, that The be Capi are i water. Whe am I, a nopswimmer, wo do?’ “if there is nos thing flostiog catch at it steadily. The least particle will sup- port you. This beading [which was no more than av inch square] would keep your head above the water. But if there is noting at all within resch this is what you should do.” At tare Mr. Johnson sprang to his Throwing back his bead, and placing both bands in the small of his back, his form assumed a slanting po- sition. “So long as you remained as am now, #0 long would you fost.’ “Then it is not necessary for the requirements of floating that one's toes should be level with his nose?’ “Not in the least. The mole of float 0g in a moment of emergency isas | bave just illustrated —or, at least, my experience tells me that it ia the safest and the easiest. It would be an in. considerable matter for people to familiarize the.oselves with the prin ciples of floating, and a simple ac-| qusintance with the subject might | prove to be of lile long service, To { any real service, swimming must | be studied to perfection. A man : ana Bre yi al has (i; we t th 4] this feet, ot or 8 good swimmer [and the man or woman comes to think #0 oo | who can manage, SAY, A score lengths of a bath twenty yards long. but it is differoent at sea. How many yards would that same swimmer trav erse in troublous waters! But the chances are that he could float till 3 Here the water is tepid and smooth, | statements will be learned and pub. lished at the proper time. It was since learned that the sutop sy confirmed the suspicion that the young woman's death was caused by drowning I't ungs were filled with water and the heart clogged with blood. There re no finger marks about thr was rie mored by persons who kn nothing cl the ecircun “ we the al as w stances — —— Work of the Jersey Railroad Jug~ gernaut The anual statement of the reilroad snd canal cornpanies of New Je reey bas just been issued by the state prio- ter. lt shows a great loss of life by the 1atironds during last yvesr. Thir- ty-iwo railroads of the state present reports and show that 274 persons were killed and 1,062 injured The United railroads of New Jersey which comprises the main line to New York, the Camden and Amboy, the Comden snd Barlingtn county, Pem- berton sod Hightstown, the Kiukora branch, makes the siartling showing of 610 causalities during the year. O these 93 resuited in death. Oa the New York division slone 13 persons were Killed while walkiog or stan on the track, 4 persons were killed trying to get on and off the rains; 9 people los their lives Cros. sing the track acd 19 were injured in manger while cou- pling and bsndliog care at sialion; 7 employes were Killed instantly and 115 were hurt. By other accidents 20 employes lost their lives and 150 were injured. In all on the New York di vision 25 were killed and 368 inj ured. {On the Amboy division 25 werekilled {and fatally injured and 121 burs Ou the little Patters n and Hodson | River railroad, which is only 12.57 { miles long, 28 persons were killed and 83 idjured. On the Pattersén and Rampago road, jest five miles long, : : a ng ’ i his | i : B : . ill ad 22 icinred. |up, as they were called upon to quar- | Feu d, which is always the enc { 16 persons were killed and 22 icjured [ter hundreds of teams and the great | teaming, the only means of transpor- tation. - peculation. A Big B A syndicate of New York aod Eo. ropean capitalists bas obtained from | the Mexican Government certain banking privileges which will enable them to carry out a long contempla~ ted plan for establishing a bank in the City of Mexico, which will do much toward giving the control of the Iver market to Mexico and the United States, the countries which produce the bulk of the metal for the nse ol Shs world. Such h schiciun hue lon n recognized as desirable A tion fioanciers. H, B, Hollins & Co. and Robert Colgate are at the head of She New York Saphlinte. More a year ago they began negotiations through their agents with the Mexican Mortgage Bank of the Cit of Meio, ho ; the terms of the agreement just vloded the it { was found floating in the Susqehanna sought after, sits MD A——— STILL A MYSTERY, No New Light Thrown on Maggie Rioo's Tragic Feath, The mystery surrounding the death of Maggie Rice is no nearer asolution than oo the morning her dead body river at Highapire. Every effort is being made to fathom the mystery, but every iuquiry ends where it first begun. There is no clue yet discov ered that would indicate when or how Maggie Rice left the home of Mrs. Gray, at Fifth and Muench streets, on Saturday night. That is all thet eau be truthfully said about her. No person has yet come forward to say they saw the missing woman after leaving her aont’s,. Frm the hour Mr. and Mr, Gray bade Maggie and Edward Smith good sight in sits ting room at about 11 o'clock that eh Taxi Why should 100,000 Germans tear them:zlves away every year ‘rom their native land, where they enjoy all the benefits that a protective tariff can { confer upon them, and come to the | United States? Why is Eogland overrun with continental laborers escaping from the protection of “protection” to the misery of free trade? Why are the farmers of Pennsyiva- nia going away from the ‘‘home market” in a State dotted with min- ing and manufacturing industries, and scattering themselves over the lands,of the West where manufacto- ries and mines are as scarce as square i if i i 7 a:
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