Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-08

force. The places that lately knew not
the assailants of the treasury are now
thronged with strikers. Biggest and
most brazen is John Roach's Pacific
mail steamship subsidy. which comes up
hopeful and smiling.
THERE is suspicion afloat that before
We begin to overhaul Chill we had better
take an inventory of our men -cf.war. The
Chilian navy is fighter.
The Washington beaux have a chance
to show the cosmopolitan tastes of this
country. There is a graceful group of
young ladies among the diplomatic fam
lilies. The Mexican, Spanish, Portuguese,
Gillian, Hayden and Hawaiian ministers
all have unmarried daughters.
The Philadelphia Eoeniag Telegraph
detects moro anti. Mormon aggressiveness
in the message than hostility to the star
reuters, and Of is the opinion that Brady.
Dorsey & Co. felt no cold chills creep
down their backs when they read that
portion of tho message, which ought to
have made them feel the halter draw.
The Baltimore Gazette, after long
series of journalistic vicissitudes, marked
by spasms Of enterprise, is about to be CON-
verted into an Independent daily ncws-
paper called the Times, owned and run
by w. B. Hazleton, who says he will
back the venture with capital, brains and
honest purpose. Those qualities ought
to make anything a success.
A BRIGHT youth, undergoing examina-
ton few days since for admission to ono
Of the departments, found himself con-
fronted with the question: "What is the
distance from the earth to the sun? Not
having the exact number of miles with
him, he wrote in reply 81 am unable to
state accurately, but don't believe the sun
is near enough to interfere with a proper
performance of my duties if I get this
clerkship." He got it.
IT has long been suspected that the New
York merchants hurrying to and fro be-
tween their suburban homes and their
business places, were not subject to such
influences as best fitted them to resist the
temptations of their daily calling Or to
repent over their misdeeds. Hence it has
been conceived that "Ch-istian car bc
attached to moving trains on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad.
The proposition is to set apart car where
passengers can listen to Scripture reading
and prayers during their journeys to and
from the great metropolis. 1t might be
we'll to fit up the 'directors car" " ON the
great trunk lines with such appliances ;
and to haul the Philadelphia street rail-
way bosses over their own lines about six.
teen hours day in % Christian car
ENCOURAGED no doubt by the election
of Edward Mcpherson to the House clerk
ship Guiteau says 1.-The president of the
United States would never had been shot
if it had not been for the political situation
as it existed last May and June ; and say
I have right as matter of law, through
my own counsel, to ask your honor that
General Grant, Senators Conkling and
Platt, and President Arthur, and these
kind of men who were SO down upon Gar
fold that they would not speak to him on
the street. and would not 60 near the
White House, shall be put upon the stand.
I have the right to show my personal rela-
tions to these gentlemen that was on
friendly terms with them that I was COR
daily received by them and that
was we'll dressed and we'll fed at the Fifth
Avenue hotel. want to show my person
al relations to these men," All this reads
very much like the resolution which Nc
Pherson had passed in the last Pennsylva-
mia Republican state convention.