Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-01

L dpI W UC ICWdiuCu Will PoPuina AoSoA
as that for which the mayor received this
hearty endorsement, viz: That every
officer must do his duty and enforce the
law or he "must CO." Nevertheless,as ir
this case of the New Era's charges, a re-
sponsible party makes direct charges, le,
them be duly investigated and the ac-
cused he either vindicated or punished
as their innocence or guilt may appear
Order must reign on East King street az
well as Middle.
THE New York Times has got SO fal
along with its Star Route investigation!
as to speak of 6 Keys strange apathy.
MINOR TOPICS.
SHOULD women be called "cranks ,
because they tn rn mems headso
THE "limited " cooperative dress asso
citation is in charge of MIR. Wales. Doe.
this imply the Prints of Wales in bathing
costumes?
BECAUSE Dr. Cream, Of Chicago, was
gathered in for murder, it was enormously
reported that tho authorities were skim.
ming the Illinois river.
1T was discovered after the deccase OF
cold Abe," tho celebrated Wisconsin
war eagle, that it was not that kind Of
bird. 1t should have boen christened DR..
Mary Walker, Gail Hamilton or Joan of
Arc.
A GERMAN Savant announces that q
now moon for tho earth is now in process
OF formation by the condensation of the
zoli:scal light which surrounds our planet,
and that it may take its lace in the
heavens in the course of few years. This
is mean subterfuge to bear gas company
stock.
THE number of idiots and im5ccic per-
sons in this country is estimated at about
ono in every 900 of the general popula-
tion. There are about 2, 800 pupils ut pre-
sent in the schools for idiot and feeble
minded children, and class training is
found very much superior to individual
training.
PRETTY house aprons of white Sattcen
for pretty girls, have pockets Oh which
are bee hives in Turkey red stitched EN-
broidcry, each hive in 4 different perspec-
tive. Bees form the border: and are
scattered over the apron, while the motto,
'IIow doth the little busy bee improve each
shining hour,
And gather honey all the day from every
opening fOwcr.'
runs diagOnally across the front.
THE New York Sun has taken up the
cause Of Midhad Pasha, and devotes many
columns to proving that the trial to which
he with some other eminent and wealthy
Turks, has just been subjected on the
charge OF having murdered tho late Sultan
Abdul Aziz was CONSPIRACY, and the result
predetermined by the present heads of
the government, the sultan aud the grand
vizier. Its purpose was to destroy men
whom they feared and to plumber men
whose wealth they desired.
Poor's Railroad Manual states that
HoRATIO ALLEN who ran the first locomo-
tive ever used in the United States, and
JOHN Ericsson, who competed for the
prize for the first locomotive used Oh the
Stockton & Burlington railroad, in Eng
land, are both now living in New York.
1t is only fifty-twO years since these events
took place, but the period covers Il greater
revolution than any former epoch of ten
times its length in the history Of the
world.
MosT of our modern slang upon ihvesti-
CATION turns out to he classic. In Joseph
Caryrs Exposition of job" work in
twelve volumes, published in 1869, this
phrase is used In commenting on verse
IA, chapter 81, last clause What shall
l answer ~ he says " Surely l shall
have never a word to say. shall not he
able to frame an answer myself, nor can
any advocate among the Sons of men draw
up one for INC sohicA aoiy Aold ,cater in the
DAY OF that visitation"
The increasing carrying tr.rls of the
Mississippi is beginning to have it's logical
effect upon eastern tcrmiai. Philadelphia
shows u decline of about fifty per cent. in
its receipts Of grain as compared with the
same period last year. This cannot bc said
to be solely the result OF Mississippian com
petition, but it undoubtedly will cause, in
the years Immediately following, serious
falling off of eastern grain transportation.
The river is the natural outlet of the West
and South, and since its channel has bee;,
deepened to allow tho passage of first class
vessels it is being put to it's legitimate
uses.
MAINE is enjoying deadlock all by
herself. Since Blaine was promoted to
the presidency, his Maine-stay has rather
dropped out of range of the public Iorg-
nettc, but they h,vc brewed nice little
tempest in = tea pot for all that. The
governor and his council quarreled over
an appoinment-mores spoils, and the ex
ccutive, with lively recollection of Louis
XIV, adjourned his advisory board sine
die, and thinks of governing himself a
little while. In any other state this
wouldn't DO much Of typhoon, but up