The Inquirer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 1

7 LANCASTER, SATURDAY, JULY 11,1891. a. VOL. XXXV WHOLE NO. 2708 MUCH IN LITTLE.

E. 0. LYTE IS I'liESIDENT THREE CASES OF CHIME. Men Who Formerly Fore Good Names, the Guilty Parties. FORGERY AND EMBEZZLEMENT.

Of the State Teachers Association, Which Met This Week. The Ancestors of Our Sturdy lcnnsj 1 vania Farmers. ITS PROCEEDINGS AT BEDFORD. Ill'- WILD HOD CAPTURED. Tlie Aiihiml Huh Done Great Damage In Maiilieliu Township.

The wild hog of Manliolm township was captured ou Wednesday after an exciting chase by fifteen mounted men. Ue skipped over fences hikI sped along like a deer until finally Landlord John Uerzand Henry Iliackhlll ran him Into a corner of a wheat field. They stunned him with a big rock, Inserted a gag iu his mouth, tiod a rope around him and led him in triumph to captivity. During the past six weeks the animal has done great damage to corn Holds aud potato patches. THEY HAD MANY QUEER CUSTOMS.

service they threatened to prosecute him if lie dlil not inako good Ins shortage, which ho promised to do if given a little time. Under this pressure he borrowed money, easily getting security from innmliors of the Turn Vuralii, of which he was dent, and iu oilier Gorman societies where he hold membership. By a falsest itmnent he induced the otlior trustees of tlie Lleder-krauiz to permit him to withdraw tho funds of the society from the hank on the representation that he would put them where they would draw Interest. He, however, appropriated the money to his own use and the trustees were directed to bring suit against him. He was committed for trial.

A Trusted Forges His Neighbors Names lor Money. Ail Afternoon Devoted to tlio Memory of Dr. Wk-keridiuni. tourtinjr was as Serious a IJusiness Then as It Is Now. Allen W.

Zug, formerly a well-known cigar manufacturer of Litiz, was brought to Lancaster on Thursday by constable Haines. He was arrested at New Philadelphia, Ohio. Two years ago he drew 100 from tho Litiz National Bank on a forged chock, the bogus signature being that of his father, Joseph Zug, a well-known lartner. Since then the fugitive has been living iu various parts of the West. He was committed to prison by Alderman Spurrier for a hearing on Monday.

When he left ills home here he dressed as a Duukard, wearing long hair, whiskers, broad-brimmed hat and hooks and eyes. When he stood before the Litiz constable, in New Philadelphia, he wore simply a mustache, a derby hat and clothing like any other citizen. He had transformed hiuiseif from a Duukard to a man of the world. At first he denied his identity but the constable was so positive in his identification that Zug acknowledged that he was the mail. Three Sluters Who Married Three ltrotherj.

With ex-County Commissioner Christian Coble, of Hollaire, this unity, is living a'Mrij. Kby, his mother-iu-law, who is one ot tli three sisters who married the Kby brothers more than a half-century ago. She Is now aged over 80 and has been a widow over forty-tour years. Mrs. Joseph Ehy, another of those sisters, died last week, aged 80.

She was the mother of Dr. Joseph Ehy, of Ilummelstown, and had been a widow tor fourteen years. The first one of the sisters to die was Mrs. Christian Eby, aged 88, and her death occurred only a few weeks ago. She had been a widow for twenty-seven years.

When these girls and their husbands were newly married they all settled In the vicinity of Campbellstown, and there they lived uutil death carried away the three brothers. A LITTLE HOY CUT TO PIECES. Run Over by Two Cars ItnnJ. Uelir Has a Fatal Fall. On Friday afternoon of last week Sydney Lederman, a flve-year-old son of Julius Loderman, tho tobacco dealer, of this city, was run over by two cars of the Sea Shore express and his body so cut un as to he scarcely recognizable.

The little fellow was returning home from doing an errand and just as he was crossing the track at Prince and Walnut streets two cars that had been cut oil the train aud were running ol their own momentum, struck him and cut his body to pieces, his head only remaining whole. During the storm ou Friday of last week Frank W. Geib, oi Rapko, went to the barn, which had been struck by lightning, to take out the horses, thinking the barn was on fire. As he entered the stable one of the horses In its fright kicked him, breaking a rib and injuring him Internally. Benjamin Gehr, formerly of this city, but late ol Cambridge City, Indiana, died on July 3 from the eflocts of a fall from a scafiold.

The distance was only ton feet, but a number of timbers fell ou his body, breaking a leg and otherwise injuring him iuternally. Mr. Gehr left this city in 1859. His wile, formerly Miss Anna B. Sourbeer, and four children survive him.

Heunlou of Company B. 79th Regl men The members of Company 79th Regiment. P. V. V.

will bold their reunion at York Furnace on Wednesday and Thursday, July 22 and 23. A circular has been sent to all the comrades by the president, Lieqt. Edwin McC. Boring, asking them to report promptly, with sufficient rations and bedding fora two days campaign. All communications should be addressed to the secretary, Corporal T.

B. Hambloton, Fernglen, Lancaster county, 1a. Ilark! the reaper. Kuspberries ripen. Dog days approach.

Negroes rarely become bald. Electric cars are well patronized. Its to be a groat fruit-canning year. Jamaica oranges are largo aud sweet. Roasted almonds aid some digestions.

Landisvllle cunipiueeiing July 28 to August 7. East Harrisburgs post-office name is now Pen brook. The rush of peaches Is only about three weeks oil. Grangers Pionio at Williams Grove August 24-29. The ei'y stroet cars carried 10,500 passengers on (Saturday.

Elizabethtown's K. E. castle has adopted (lie name Unity. The P. It.

K. carried 4350 persons to Lancaster on the l-oiirth. Zubin's Corner building is having another story put upon it. Htrasliu rg Presbyterians will picnic at Rocky Springs on the 2oth. Prolossor Slouch, of Reading, says he has taught 23,000 persons to dance.

It Is estimated that fully sixteen tons of fire-crackers were sold In Philadelphia. D. F. Barr, Providence township, lost a cow, through tier fondness for Paris green. Monday, Sept.

7th will he Labor Day. It vill be immensely celebrated in Lancaster, Neffsvllle Union Sabbath school has 230 members and raised 170.50 in the past year. From Peach Bottom, 320 lambs were shipped to Philadelphia last week by H. Miller, Mrs. Sallie Smith, colored, died in Wilmington last week.

Her weight was 400 pounds. Jacob Rutter, of Hess station, shot a fish crane that moasured 6 feet 3 inches from tip to tip. Oliver Houck Is held in 700 bail for trial at August term lor firing the barn of H. H. Ilershey.

Neilson W. Pinkerton has resigned his po-ition as special messenger ill the Lancaster postoflice. Eight horses were poisoned by Paris green at Baers station, In Y'ork county, and several died. Tlie freight lates for tlie D. L.

Railroad have been lowered to tlie rates that prevail ou the main line. Contractor Johu Johnson has just completed a fine barn on Hon. A. Herr Smiths farm, near White Oak. Samuel R.

Hackman has bought the undertaking establishment of David K. Kendig, of West Willow. Thomas Scott of Middletown, Delaware, is raising a flock oi partridges from eggs hatched under a common hen. Over one hundred business men neglected to pay their mercantile tax. Alderman Deeu will collect it for the couuty treasurer.

Harrison W. Smith, a master carpenter of Reading, died on Saturday from having cut two fingers slightly with a saw the day before. A horBe leaped from an express car ou the P. R. K.

near Gap while the train was making 40 miles an hour, aud was little hurt. A reckless driver collided with Walter Waidley in Strasburg, broke a wheel of his buggy and threw him and his lady over-hoard. The Conowingo creek was said to be higher on last Friday night than lor many years. Many lonces aud small bridges were washed away. Styles Huber, Gwynedd, Montgomery county, is tho owner of the 34-year-oid mare that General Hartranft rode during tho late unpleasantness.

The Harrisburg Lumber Companys saw mill, located at llighspire, 'as totally destroyed by (ire about one oclock Sunday morning, together with a large lot of sawed lumber in the yard. Isaac Koch, watchman at tho Mount Penn Gravity Railroad station, Reading, was shot and beaten and bound early Sunday morning by two burglars who attempted to rob the safe but were frightened off. Of the almost 1.000,000 of money in the sinking fund of this state, amounts as follows are tn deposit in local banks: Lancaster Trust Company, Peoples National Bank, Central National Bank, Columbia, ,000. Farmers Recover Damages, The viewers appointed to assess damages caused by the extension of the southern oil pipe line through the farms ol George Seldomridge and Daniel Differ, of Salisbury township, and S. B.

Shaefler and A. B. Groff, of Earl, decided to allow Mr. Seldomridge 1,000 damages, Mr. Differ 330, Mr.

Sliaeller 000, and Mr. Groff 300. J. Hay Brown and H. M.

Houser appeared for Plaintifis, and Geo Nauman for the company. Perseverance will Win. Eight years ago, W. W. Grimes, a bright Marietta lad, left his position as clerk aud general utilitarian for P.

R. R. ticket agent Joseph Sultzbacb, to take a place in the wholesale grocery and importing house of Janney Audrews, 119123 Market street, Philadelphia. He hadnt any capital, but he did have iudustry-and integrity, and these is such abundance that when the old firm dissolved last week and the new firm of B. S.

Janney, Co. was formed to do busiuess at the old stand, the Marietta boy was taken into paitnerskip, though only 25 years old. Special Correspondence of Thu lnqmuini. Wasiu noton, July 9. Many Interesting things respecting tho Pennsylvania Dutch have been raked up and put together by the Hureau of Ethnology.

In reality limy are not Dulcli at all, but Germans, who came over from Rhenish Havana mostly, being invited by Queen Anne for purposes ol colonization. They arrived by way ot England and It chanced that a large part of them settled in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Chester, Lancaster, Allentown and other places which are at present centers of a imputation supplied by their descendants. During their early days in America many of them lived under primitive conditions, often lodging in the forests, iu caves, and even in hollow trees. Later on small houses were erected upon clearings, usually with two rooms, the windows being merely square openings with sliding boards on the Inside for shutters. Furniture of all kinds was home-made, and every description of garments was manufactured by the women.

Squirrel-skin moccasins were considered a luxury and the young girls when they went to church on Sunday. In order to make them last as long as possible, walked barefoot until within eight of the building, before putting them on. Nearly every farmer raised flax aud hemp for the consumption of his own family. Dyes were produced from the bark of trees and from plauts. From the loose skins of old onions a light yellow was obtained.

As a substitute fir alum urine was employed, and this was carefully poured into large vessels until enough had accumulated for the intended purpose. SOME ORIGINAL CUSTOMS. Among these primitive people many very original and surprising customs existed, none of which were more curious than those which related to the process of courtiug. No young man was considered a desirable beau unless be owned a horse aud buggy, so as to be able to take his sweetheart to church and to local gatherings on holidays. Saturday evening was thought the proper time for making love, though thedelightful pastime was apt to extend over the whole of Sunday.

Inasmuch as the distance traveled by the lover was often too great for him to return home the same night, the matter was frequenty compromised by his remaining over until the next day, so as to be at; the service of his inamorata for the Sabbath. The marriage ceremony was usually performed at the clergymaus residence, and it was he who furnished the refreshments. All household lineu and bedding were supplied by the bride, the husband providing the house. Care was taken never to carry an old broom into a new house, lest bad luck tollow; the broom must be new, and It was necessary that it should first be conveyed across a meadow. At wedding feasts and other occasions of festivity it was customary to dance for flax, the notion being that the higher the kicking the higher would be the hosts crop of that staple at the next harvest.

In parts of GarmauyJ a bride puls flax in her shoes that she may never come to want, or ties a string of flax around her left log for happiness in the married state. It was usual for the wife to devote much attention from spring until autumn to the gathering of herbs, barks and roots supposed to possess medical properties. Garden seeds were also selected for the next years planting, and the packages aud bags of these commodities, suspended from the rafters, formed quite an interesting collection. Whatever was purchased at the country stores was paid tor with butter and eggs. If the housewife found diffi-culty in her butter making the spell was believed to be the work of a witch, every looality boasting of the possession of some such necromancer in The remedy was to plunge a red-hot poker into the contents of the churn.

It was among these peaceful and virtuous folks that husking parties were first in vogue, the custom being that the finder of a red ear could kiss any girl present. If a girl found such an ear aud wished to avoid being kissed she would hide it quickly, though, if discovered, the first youug man to reach her was entitled to the osculatory Special Correspondence of Tint InumincK. Bedford, July 9. This is wii bout doubt a big week for the old town of Bedford, a week that must more than remind iis oldest Inhabitants of the days when it was In the height of Its prosperity as a summer resort; for I doubt whether even then hs htg a crowd of people was to ho found here at any one time, unless it may have been that political stale conventions were held here in those elder (lavs. A large part of the brains of Pennsylvania is here now, but it will not lie here tomorrow morning for tlie 37th convocation ol the State Teachers Association will adjourn to-day, having decided that Prof.

Lyle, of Millersville, shall succeed Prol. Phillips, of West Chester, who Is now president, and that the pedagogues shall convene next year at Beaver Falls. Supt. Addison Jones, West Chester, and Miss Annie Moore, Altoona, are to support tlie hands of the president-elect as vice presidents; Prof. McGaskey continues to hold the post of secretary which he has held so long, and Asst.

Supt. J. Fletcher Slckel, of Germantown, will as of yore be ticket agent; Supt. D. S.

Kietb, of Altoona, treasurer. It Is an unusually successful convention, at least in point of attendance. The number is estimated ats high as a thousand, and the membership has been increased at least three hundred. The usual attendants from Lancaster county are here, and Messrs. Lyte, Buehrie, Brecht and others have had the lloor occasionally.

Hon. John M. Reynolds, who made the address of welcome, and Professor Lavers, of Pittsburg, who responded, are familiar namus to Millersville people; and so are Borough (Supt. L. S.

Shiinmel, of Huntingdon; Dr. Alfred E. Maltby, ol the Slippery Rock S. N. the latest addition to our list of Normals, located out in Butler county; Prof.

Brumbaugh, ol the Duukard College at Huntingdon, and Supt. Brumbaugh, his brother, who is at the head of the schools iu that county. Miss Annie Lyle read an essay ou llistoiy as a Preparation for Citizenship, a subject on which she may well bo termed au authority. Besides these people, so iauiiiiar to Inquirer readers, many of the noted educators of the state are here so many that to name them and the topics they discussed would take too much space. Ex-Governor Beaver and Governor Pat-tisou, too, lent us the dignity of their presence, aud the former talked, as he always talks, entertainingly and for an hour on Tuesday evening on his layorite educational theme, industrial education.

The Democratic head of the state talked last night, and Rev. Dr. J. O. Wilson, of Brooklyn, followed with his lecture, Yellowstone aud Yosemlto.

President Phillips In his inaugural address, A Quarter of a Centurys Progress, said that there are stiff in Pennsylvania 25,000 teachers whose yearly salaries are less than 230, and that the percentage of illiteracy is greater than in many other states, this latter being said in argument for a compulsory education law. Governor Pattison was not present soon enough to hear it. Oil Tuesday Prof. McOaskey read tho report of the Iiigbee memorial committee, showing that the funds thus far collected amount to 4,491.31 and the expenditures 4,537.78. The cost of casting the bust in bronze is not boro included, but from the pictures aud books yet on hand it is expected that enough money will be obtained to make good a small deficit.

A monument of granite will ho erected at the grave of Dr, Highea at Emmitsburg, Maryland. This monument is already finished and is ready lor shipment from Reading. It is constructed of a single block, of Quincy granite, weighing originally over twelve tons. The design is a massive polished cross against a huge boulder in its apparently primitive state. The afternoon session was devoted to the memory of Dr.

Wiekersham. A finished biographical eulogy was read by Dr. A. R. Byerly, of Millersville, and brief addresses were made by Dr.

Phillips of West Chester; J. A. M. Passmore, of Philadelphia; John Morrow, of Allegheny; Professor Geist, of Marietta; Deputy Superintendent Houck, Dr. Lyte.

Millersville; Elizabeth Lloyd, Professor Fisher, of Pittsburg, and Mr. J. D. Pyott, of Lancaster. A poem was read by Miss Nellie D.

Graham, of Yardley, and appropriate selections were sung by Miss Lindsay, ol Pittsburg. Dr. Waller, who presided during the afternoon, closed the services with fitting remarks. An excursion has been arranged to visit Harpers Ferry, Winchester, Luray cav-erus, Natural Bridge and White Sulphur Springs to take place at the close of tho session. Two Oil Wells at Wersiicrsvllie.

The off well at Wesnersville has now reached a depth of 183 feet. No flow of oil has been struck but tho indications continue to be about the same as they were near the surface with slight traces of oil in the material brought out by the sand pump. The company boring tho well will continue until a depth of 2009 feet is reached. Machinery has been purchased-for the sinking of another well. Comrades Than as Well as Now.

From tlie Columbia Independent. In the Columbia Post office may be found the rare spectacle of postmaster and assistant who were comrades in tue same company in the war of tho rebellion. They entered the service as privates in Captain Joseph W. Fishers Cookman Rangers afterwards Co. 5th Penn a Roserves.

Alter the formation of the regiment Postmaster Wright became a lieutenant, and Assistant Mullen became quartermaster sergeant. The chief passed to first lieutenant, adjutant and captain oi Co. uofore the expiration of his term. STYBR ACCUSED OF FORGERY. He Places the Name of Creditors and others on Release Papers.

My name has been forged to those papers, said Squire Levi B. Yoder, on Thursday, after examining documents which had been filed in the court house by Squire David Styer of Caernarvon. The papers in question purported to release judgments and dowries against Styer's farm to the amount of 8,000, and were attested by Squire Yoder. The nine other interested parties whose names appear on the release, including Jacob Hertzler, also assert that their signatures are not genuine. The accused man is now serving his second term as a Justice oi the Peace for Caernarvon township, and has hitherto stood high in the community.

The details of this transaction are as follows: Several days ago Styer made application to tlie West End Building association of this city for a loan oi $0,080. Tlios. B. lloluhan, tlie soli, citor, looked up his property and found a dower on it and also that other heirs of the estate had a lien against the farm. Tho Building association would not loan money until these liens were satisfied, and Styer was so Informed.

In addition to the dower there was also a judgment against him. On duly 3 Styer called at the protlionotarys office with a power ot attorney signed by Jacob Hertzler, who held the judgment against him. This power of attorney was signed by Jacob Hertzler, witnessed by Jos. Weaver and Levi B. Yoder.

The power of attorney was in regular form and tlie prothono-tarv released the judgment and entered satisfaction. About the same time Mr. Ilolahan took to the recorders office a release ot the dower signed by all the heirs and duly acknowledged. This was received and entered in the office and Hint left Styers property unencumbered. The Building association then made the loan of $8,000 to Styer and entered their mortgages.

The release in the recorders office is signed by Fanny Styer, widow of David Styer, ot Caernarvon township; Jacob Hertzler, guardian of Cora and Maltha Hertzler, minor children of Catharine llertzler, deceased; Ephraim Hertzler, Ida Hertzler, Elmer Hertz-lcr, John Adam Stjer, Mary Ann Styer and IVin. Styer, all tlie children and parties in in. terest of said David Styer. It sots forth that David Styer, bought one of his fathers farms, agreeing to pay the widow $1,000 and the aforesaid heirs $3,459.51. ith the share of David Styer in the farm, the total sum charged was This release is also acknowledged betore Yoder, and witnessed by the same parties as the power ot attorney in the prothonotarys office.

With part of the money obtained from the building association Styer paid oil a note in the lloneybrook bank and also one in the New Holland bank. Dr. S. 11. Keelor, who is a creditor ol Styer and a director In the Honey-brook bunk, called upon Jacob Hertzler to makeinqnivy as to where Styer got the money to pay these notes.

Mr. Hertzler and Dr. Keelor called at the prothonotary's office on Wednesday, and upon being shown the power of attorney, pronounced it to be a forgery They next called at the recorders office, and alter examining the release signed by the heirs pronounced it also to be a forgery. Detective Barnholt aud Constable Pyle, with warrants issued by Alderman Deen, traveled fifty miles in ail unsuccessful el-fort to arrest Styei, who fled from his home on the approach of the officers, and is now with irlends while his relatives are endeavormgto have thedifficulty adjusted. Legal steps to establish the forgery were taken in court Thursday morning, when the petition of Jacob Hertzler was presented, setting forth that his name to the power of attorney releasing the judgment was a forgery, and also the petition ol the witnesses to Hertzlers signature aud Justice Oders, that their names were forged.

The petitioner prayed tlie court to direct Prothonotary Hartman to strike off the entry of satisfaction. Candidates fur Delegate. A dispatch from Litiz to the Philadelphia Inquirer says: There promises to be several candidates for delegate to tlie Consti-stitutional Convention from this, the northern Senatorial district of Lancaster couuty. Two of those who avow their candidacy are Captain John R. Bricker and ex-Senator P.

J. Roebuck, both of this place. Both are well-known politicians aud men ol affairs. Ex-Senator Esaias Biilingfelt, ot Adainstown, is also a candidate, and has been Indorsed by the Neto Era, the Examiner and Tue Inquirer, the three leading Republican papers of the county. The Prohibition Slate Cftnvent'o State Chairman Patton has issued his caff for the Prohibition State Convention to meet in the Opera Home at Harrisburg, on Wednesday, August 20, at 9.30 a.

for the purpose of nominating candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General and 18 candidates for delegates-at-large to the Constitutional Convention provided for in the act of Assembly approved June 19, 1891. Fremiumg for Trotting at Oxford. At the fall fair of the Oxford Agricultural Secicty, to be hold September, 23, 24 and 25, H00 is offered iu premiums for trotting horses. There will be six races 3:30 class, purse 100; class, purse 230: 2:50 class, purse 150: 3:00 class, purse 150; 2:40 class, purse 200; 2:30 class, purse 250. The first class is for horses that have never trotted in a race aud under six years old, aud the last one iucludes trotters aud pacers.

Show Us a Younger Lancaster County Soldier. Samuel S. Rishell, of Fartnersville, enlisted August 28, 1304, being fifteen years of age the following October. He was in the battles of Fair Oaks and Johnstown Farm. He served under Col.

Spear in the lltb Pennsylvania Cavalry, and had been three mouths in the militia under Captain Kelsey. Ivneisley Robbed His Ward. John Kneisley, of Manor, who recently imposed a forged check on Reilly Bros. Raub, and who also bought furniture and other goods in this city on false representations, and then fled the country, took with him 70, the savings of Robert Nune-niacher, minor, ol whom Kneisley was guardian. The Railroad Survey.

Colonel Slaymaaer is now making the survey for the tracks from the Central division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad aud Lancaster, Oxford aud Southern Railroad. The Landisville Campmeetlng. The managers of the Landisvllle campmeeting, which opens the 28th of July, expect a big camp this year, larger than ever before, in fact, on account of two special attractions. These are the Conventions of the Womans Home Mission Society aud the Sunday-schools of the Philadelphia Conference. The sale of tents has already been large.

Hold Burglars at Witmer Station. A largo sale in the office of Christian Musselinan, lumber dealer at Witmer Station, was blown open by robbers Wednesday night. The safe was completely shattered, but the thieves were unable to break into a burglar-proof box in the lower part where the money and other valuables were deposited- While at work ou the box they were frightened away, leaving behind a large collection of burglar tools. Chester County Farmers are Like George Washington. From the Village Record.

A Lancaster county farmer says the hail during last Friday nights storm was three feel deep in his barn yard. Chester county iarmers spent too much of their early days in Sunday school to beat anything like that. Meeting of the Prison Inspectors. The Prison Inspectors met Monday and approved bills. The report for the year showed that the cost of keeping 6ach prisoner cents per day.

It was resolved by the Inspectors to take their annual trip the first week in August. Rev. Swank, nioial instructor, was authorized to have the books of the library bound. Filed Dill In Equity. A bill iu equity was filed ou Tuesday afternoon by John B.

Peoples against Samuel W. Potts to compel the performance by the latter ot an alleged contract eutered into ith Peoples for the sale of his hotel at Wltiuers Bridge. Iu accordance with the agreement Peoples paid a sum in cash down, but Potts subsequently refused to give a deed to the premises. FOR A LONG TIME BABIES. Among these old-time "Dutch children were permitted to nurse at the mothers breast for a surprisingly long period.

One instance familiar to Dr. W. J. Hoffman, who supplied this information, was that of a boy of seven years of age, ho daily earned this privilege by splitting the amount of kindling wood necessary lor the family use. They believed that nightmares might be caught if the person afflicted were sufficiently active and ingenious.

A hostler employed by Dr. Hoffmans father secured one iu a bottle and destroyed it by burning. He believed it to have been the spirit of a black cat, which was under the control of a hostile witch. "Will-o-the-wisps were ghostly demons which haunted marshy ground of damp woods and numerous narrow escapes from them have been recorded. There is record of a widow who, obtaining no response from a peddler upon whom she had determined to bestow her affections, scraped her knee until she had secured a slight quantity of the cuticle, baked it in a cake and sent it to him, with confidence that it would stimulate his affection.

H. More Flue Fat Cattle. From the JLiiz llecoru. The tanners of the southern end ot Lancaster county are boasting that they are good cattle feeders. Tneir reports are good indeed, hut we have a farmer in the no: them end who can heat them.

It is Jacob E. Shirk, of near this place, who fattened ten head and when sold average! 1,437 lbs. at a gain of 43.20 per head, which is 2 54-100 more per head than the best report-from the southern end. Mr. Shirk is anx.

ions to know who can beat this record. Delegates who Favor Robinson. The John Wauamaker Republican Club of Elizabethtown has elected the following representatives to the State League Convention: J. C. Redsecker, D.

Z. Wituier and Hiram H. Nis-dev. They are unin-struoted as to presidency, but iaver the candidacy of Robinson. Inquiry from Swiss Immigrants.

Cyrus T. Fox, oi Reading, is in receipt of a letter from the Miuister of Switzerland to this country, asking for information as to the counties of Pennsylvania here Swiss immigrants can find good places for raising fruit, vegetables and tobacco. Now Lei Him Inspect Carefully- Col. Frank Magee, of Wriglitsville, has been appointed inspector of the Soldiers Orphans schools at a salary of 1,800 with au allowance of 300 lor traveling expenses. Our Hoard of Health.

The court has appointed M. F. Steiger-walt, Dr. D. R.

McGoimick, William A. Morton, Dr. Rv M. Bolenius and S. H.

Zahm, a Board of Health for this city, to serve the ensuing year. A Pathological Society. A number of the physicians of this city have taken preliminary steps for organizing a society to bo called The Lancaster Pathological Society. FRED. SHROEDER AX EMBEZZLER.

He Takes 1S500 of the Liederkrautz Fuads for His Own Use. Frederick Shroeder, who has long been in ihe employ of Flnke tobacco dealers, as sampler, and in whom entire confidence was placed, not only by his employers, but by others with whom ha had business relations, was arrested on Friday, after embezzling the funds S500 ol the Liederkrautz society, of which he was a trustee. What seemed to lead to this was the discovery, recently, by his employers that he was about 2,500 short in bis accounts with them. Though they retained him in their A Church Festival. There will be a festival held at Mount Eden church, Eden township, on Saturday evening, July 18tb, commencing at 6 oclock.

Refreshments of all kinds on band, and a brass band to enliven the 111)0 Lino Damages. The viewers iu the suits of Abraham Groff and Martin Sheafler, of Earl township, against the Southern Pipe Line Company, have awarded 300 damages to Groff and 900 to Shaeffer. Another Postofflce. Upper Leacock has another postoflice, by name Glenola. It is located at Leacock station ou the Downingtown aud Lancaster railroad..