Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-27

AT the school board election at Ports
mouth, England, a short time ago, Jew
headed the poll, an Episcopal clergyman
was second and Catholic priest third.
PROBABLY it must be set down as mere
ly curious coincidence that the appearance
in Maine politics of the bayonet and Cat
ling gun and the disappearance from
Augusta of the Hon. James G.. Blaine with
Boston railroad ticket in his hat-band
were simultaneous events.
WHILE the Baptist preachers are trying
to make up their minds what to do with
Baptist girls who dance, the girls will prof.
ably 90 Oh dancing, after the manner of
ltght-heartcd and light-footed youth, with
out puzzling their young brains too much
over what seems to them the Incompetent
siblc prejudice of their pastors against that
| amusement 1t might be worth while for
the preachers, before they resume the dis
cussion to consult the girls and hear what
they have to say.
JOHN BRIGHT makes bold effort to
deal with the Irish grievances i'll propos-
ing that a government commission shall
buy out such landlords as are willing to
sell, and then dispose of the holdings on
time to the tcnantry. He stops short at
making the sale compulsory. This was
deemed the fatal defect in the clauses
which he had embodied i'll MIR. Glad
stones act to enable tenants to acquire
the ownership of the land. At present,
however, neither the Conservative nor
Liberal party is ready to go as far as Mr..
Bright. The landed interest rccoils from
a measure which might, at some day. be
demanded in England and Scotland.
CONSIDERING the very modest amount OF
pay that those. are to receive who are ap-
pointed to assist in taking the United
States census, and the hard work involved
in faithfully fulfilling the duties of the
Office, it is singular that so many persons
can he found willing to undertake the busl-
ness. One hundred and fifty census su-
pervisors are to be appointed, and it is said
that there are 5000 applications for these
positions, which will pay to those who re-
ccive them only $500. AS to the cnumcra-
tors, who are to receive 500 for about
four weeks work, their number might be
made good many hundred times over out
of the multitude that stand ready to vol
untccr their services. Commenting OF
this state of society, which it regards at al
abnormal condition of its morals, an cs
tccmed contemporary expresses the opin
that the mania for officc-holding, even o
the lowest ordcr is one which promises t.
make the lives of a great many thou sands
of our citizens miserable.
The subject which is now being irccl.
discussed by the dramatic press of TIN
country is that of 'Dcad-I1eads. Th
number of this class of people is incrcas
ing every year, and it will continue to dc
so as long as managers are foolish enough
to accede to the demands made upo'
them by persons who have no more riGh
to ask for free admittancc to their theatre
than they have to ask them for thci
pockct-books. Some of the managers ar
beginning to see the result of their fool
ishness and the time will soon come whcl
the .'free list " will he abolished, and al
who desire to succeed will have to stol
the practice of 'paperinS" their houses
In the city of New York the dcad-hcat
system prevails to an alarming extent, ant
: persons extending the least favor to
= theatrical mar look for several passes
in return. Every one who owns a promi
ncnt window, where a lithograph can b
' displayed, looks for, and generally re
ceivcs. tickets. Thousands. of people gail
= free admittancc to the theatre in tina
= city every month in this manner, and som
u well known managers will no longc
allow Autographs to go out from thei
Z theatres A letter will be found on on
outside page which was written by a
= agent who gives description of his trial
: with "dead-hcads. "
No Star Chamber Practices.