Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-09

Kong consulate for telling the truth. We
have always observed a resemblance be-
tween Mosby and George Washington.
WE are glad to read, day after day. the
Eraminer's hearty endorsement of the
New York Sun. When the Examiner re-
Dukes fraud and the Era shines as a
'!socicty organ" the millennium dawns.
THE Republican press of this state, with
singular unanimity, raises its voice against
the Cameron domination and the preten-
sions of Quay, but without practical
leadership it will be cor ct pretereo Mill.
THE American republic must be totter-
ing. A Washington correspondent sends
the narrowing intelligence that s. for the
first time in the history of Washington. a
member of the House has come here with
his wife, and they have gone into the lu-
crativc business of taking boarders.''
CARDINAL MANNING is in Rome, trying to
induce the Pope to consent to his plan for
subjecting the monastic orders in Great
Britain to episcopal authority, they now
being directly dependent upon the Pope.
To say nothing of the male confraternities,
there are SCI converts in the United King
dom, with over eight thousand nuns.
THAT repentant pirate who pulled the
plank from under the feet of ThcodOsia
Burr Allston keeps Oh dying in aims
houses and making last full confession of
his part in the tragic drama of the ocean.
This time the Chicago Inter- Ocean dishes
up the old fellow. Who'll set him up on
the other alley!'
THE Earl of Dunraven, who is himself a
real Celtic Irishman, says that there is no
such thing as Celtic Irish people in cx-
istence. "Thc inhabitants of Ireland are
a very mixed race, composed principally
of Cclts, Danes, and En-. ishmcn, both of
what is called the AnglO-SaXOn and the
Norman race. Itwould be hard to find
many pure Cclts in Ireland.'
| HAVING stolen the Transvaal Republic,
the British begin to arrest leading citizens
for high treason. This is on the same
principle that the impudent robber, who
has taken your watch, has you turned over
to the constable for trying to snatch it
back, and yet, when John Bull gets down
on his marrow-boncs at family prayers, he
fairly shakes the turrets of heaven with
A. L.:
Gov. VAN ZANDT is said to be extremely
anxious to succeed Burnside in the United
State Senate, and his aspirations in that
direction probably had more weight in de-
termining his declination of the mission
at St. Petersburg than his fears of the
severity of the Russian winter. lie has
gained a gaeat deal of respect in his guber-
material career, and would very probably
make more of mark in the Senate than
the incumbent has whose term of Office is
soon to expire.
For the Democratic nomination OF
United States senator in Maryland VIM.
Pinkncy Whytc reconsidcrcd his dctcrmin-
alton to withdraw too late. He had an
German made the fight and won it.
Whyte recOnsidercd, but the ground was
occupied, and in the caucus last night A.
P. German received "a votes, VIM. Pink,
ney Whyte, present L. S. senator, %, S.
Teackle Wallis, 3. In Ohio the Demo.
Gratis compliment Thurman with their
empty nomination.
THE explanation which is made fol
Judge Orvis's exhibition of temper in sch.
fencing Centre county prisoner to three
years extra imprisonment for &c sassing .
the court, does not explain. The boy may
be man, as is alleged, and an old burglar,
but the material fact is disproved that
three years were added to his sentence be-
cause he made a very natural remark tC
the court, which it's dignity should have
passed over in silence and by rcsenting
which it was exposed to the contempt OF
the public.
The Philadelphia Press has an article on
the " Infamy of Maine'' i'll which it char
acterizes the action of Governor Garcclon
and his council as '' the most brazen out
rage ever perpetrated in this country en-
titling them L" to rank with the greatest
criminals in history But it will be graf
flying to the readers of the Press to observe
i'm the next column that it still retains all
it's former admiration for J. Madison
Wells and the Louisiana returning board.
1t describes the Louisiana returning board
as can invention" of q Republican state
administration for thwarting the villainy
of the Democratic politicians of the state,
"clothed with powers which are admitted
to be extraordinary, but which alone were
sufficient for the emergency"
| PATHS Kansas Critics.
In the Patti deposition case Lcaven-
worth, Kan. yesterday, Thomas GiacOmi-
nj, an Italian, keeper of the Delmonico
restaurant, testified that Madame Patti
sent for him about 9 O'Clock on the night