Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-08

IT has just been discovered by boot
maker that the system of popular elections
was devised in the interests of the matters.
THE importance of a single vote has
again been measurably demonstrated.
Chas Allen, DEM, is elected assemblyman
in Red Bank n. ]. by one majority. In
Granbury, Hood county, Texas, out of i, ,136
votes cast Garfield did not get One
SOME of the members of the Baltimore
! corn exchange are in the habit Of whist
ling to call their clerks and messengers.
Face has his peculiar whistle, and it is in
stantly recognized by his employees. The
practice makes the exchange pandemo.
mum, and the government committee re-
Gently passed law forbiding it. The
whistlcrs refuse to obey, several fines
have been imposed, and the matter is to
be taken into court.
THE queen wants Gladstone to ask Par
Lament for a grant of e40,0C0 to help the
Prince Of Wales to pay off such Of his debts
rs are considered pressing, and for an ad-
dition Of 10000 a year to his royal
highness's allowance 900 year, irrc-
spectivc of the net revenues Of the Duchy
Of Cornwall (Which amount to nearly e7O,-
600 a Year, and Of the princess's G10, 900.
Gladstone declines to make any such re-
quest and saves his popularity.
SERIOUS trouble looms up ahead for
England over the condition of affairs in
Ireland. All reports from the scene of
disturbance agree that the social disorder
affecting that unhappy island grows wider
and more formidable every day. There
arc very few landlords or agents that will
now venture to show themselves in public
unaccompanied by strong force to guard
them, and the stories are revived about the
intention of the Orangemen Of Ulster to
march down upon the South and West, dc
claring that civil war cannot be worse than
the social anarchy now prevailing. Threats
arc made by the rank and file on the Land
League that bloody revenge will be
taken for every conviction of an agitator
that may bc Obtained-that for eac;, leader
found guilty a landlord shall be shot within
the twenty. four hours
ONE Of tho most important duties the
new president will have to perform will
be the appointment of four associate JUS
tices Of the supreme court Of the United
States. Justice Clifford, notwithstanding
the natural sensitiveness of his friends on
the subject, is said to bc mentally and
physically incapable of ever taking his
seat upon the woolsack again. He is
seventy seven years old, and his health is
so prccarious that he can hardly be ex .
pected to long survive. Justice Hunts
healtl, is also threatening. He has not
been upon the bench for two years and
will probably never be able to resume his
duties. He is seventy years old. Justice
Swaync, although in good health, is
seventy six years old, and il is understood
he will retire within 4 year. Justice
Strong is also in good health, but he is
seventy two years old and it is understood
that he, too, will retire after the fourth
of March and take advantage. Of the full
pension allowed by law. Thus the next
president may have the appointment of
four new judges, a responsibility he ought
not to regard lightly. Should only Re-
publicans be selected the court will then
stand eight Republicans to one Democrat
(Jnstice Field) who was appointed by
Republican president.