Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-15

AenCuCky.
NIGNAUX belongs to the French army.
Just now he is playing soldier. Such an
exhibition of billiards as he is giving was
never before seen. 1t is hardly according
to the discipline Of the French military,
but the more he runs when he meets his
adversary the better his friends like it.
THE charge industriously circulated by
gentlemen who knew it was a lie that Mr..
McGrann or Mr.. Hensel was candidate
for delegate to Cincinnati Sin Mr.. Tilden' S
interest - was such a clumsy device that it
only derived force from the persistency
with which it was repeated by people who
FIRST forged it and then kept hammcring at
it. The circumlocution of telcgraphing it
from here to Washington, thence to the
New York World, and copying it from there
back into the Examiner, was such a Won
derful feat that those who did it couldn't t
conceal their self-satisfaction over their
own ingenuity. Too thin
If the Examiner and New Era would
have stopped their accounts of the Demo-
cratic convention with statement of what
was actually done there or even the most
exaggerated report of the indescribablc
tumult that was finally quieted, they
would not have made themselves utterly
ridiculous. But when the Examiner re-
peats editOrially, as of it's own knowledge
the irresponsible blather about delegate
being paid $50 to stay at home, or about
'barrs'' of money being rolled into con-
test whose only characteristic was noise,
it discredits itself to an extent that viii
make its readers doubt ever what truth it
tells about its opponents.
AND now, if the Burmese ambassador at
Thyetmo is to be believed, or if he is accu-
rately informed, there is not a particle of
truth in the reported burnings and bury
ings alive at Mandalay of hundreds of
King Theebaw's subjects for the propitia-
tion of the evil influences which have been
reported as affecting King Theebaw. We
shall probably next hear that King Thee
baw has either reformed and developed
into the most proper sort of a despot, or
else that he never killed any of his rela-
tives and never was in need of reform, and
that all the frightful stories that have been
told about him are British concoctions
which have in view the furtherance of
British plans for a raid on Burmese terri
tory for annexing purposes. And if such
things as these should be said or limited at
they would not have the stamp of the ab-
solute improbability about them, nor
would they be absolutely unprecedented in
connection with the administration of Bri-
tish so-called interests in India.
THE Lancaster weekly Examiner is fifty
years old to-day, the first number having
been issued by Samuel Wagner, April Is,
1880. It was subsequently published by
G. w. Hamersly and Luther Richards,
and later successfully by Robert w. Mid
dleton and Edward c. Darlington. In 1858
John A Hiestand, John F, Huber and
Francis Heckert became the owners, and
when this partnership was dissolved Mr..
Hiestand became sole proprietor, and con-
tinues so. In 1872 daily edition of the
Examiner was started, and in 1876 Mr..
Hiestand bought the old Express and
united the two papers under the title of
the Examiner and Express. He announces
that the title of the paper will be hereafter
simply the Examiner. We congratulate
our contemporary on the prosperous con-
dition in which it finds itself on the at
tainment of its semi-centennial and hope
it may continue to live and prosper for
many years to come. Barring its politics,
the Examiner is a good paper.
IMPORTANT if true: GA Democrat of |
one who has held high posi-
ton in the councils of his party, informed
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