Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-24
An Outrage.

An Outrage.
What were councils thinking about
when they authorized the new telegraph
company poles to be planted on our
streets ! 1t is very doubtful whether
the city authorities have power to sane
tion this use of the streets, which are
made for travel, not to be blocked with
telegraph poles. Any citizen upon whose
property these nuisances stand has, as
we believe, the right to cut them down,
the councils permission to the contrary
notwithstanding. But that body ought
to be ashamed to have consented that
our streets should be so outrageously en-
numbered as they are by the enormous
wooden poles which have been erect
ed. In Philadelphia slender iron
po.es, that take up little more room
than awning posts, have been put up,
and the same kind should lie required
here. The new telegraph company has
just been shown by its secret agreement
with its contractor to have agreed to pay
twice rs many million dollars for the
work to be done as it will cost the con-
tractors agreeing to provide the right of
way and to pay every other item of ex-
pense. They ought to be made by the
landowners to pay for the privilege of
putting up their poles and the least the
city can do is to demand the erection of
iron ones. Let it be done before the
wires are strung.
AT Il we'll attended meeting of the
Democratic county committee this morn
ing, and after some deliberation, it was
unanimously resolved to print no judi
ciary ticket for the party in the county
ut the coming election.
ANOTHER type setting machine is in
cluded among the list of patents issued
during last week. Then there is 4 patent
means for operating stage scenery, a hog
scraYing machine, an automatic hog feed
CT, and patent voting apparatus.
IL oSS"o SCAl lbiA tidO CA-UOt. ~
Morgan, Of New York, has been asked to
take the secretaryship of the treasury and
is disinclined to do it. This is. of course,
the forerunrcr Of Postmaster General
!ames's retirement. Hon. Timothy O.
Howe is to succeed Wayne MacVeagh as
attorney general. This is rough on the
Half:breeds and the country in general.
Is the postmaster generalship to be held
open for john Cessna in case he is beaten
for Judge:
\ CRITICAL Boston bcan-fed editor
thinks It here are some lovely names
in the list of Pennsylvania dignitaries who
were to Yorktown, such as Huffnagle and
Eanderslice. Rooms and Scheep, Sassa-
man ard Schoonmacher, Stubbs, Boggs,
Potts and Boyle" If he had got into the
ho,G of the vessel, where the troops were
slowed away, he would have found Fen.
stermachers, Schoenbergers, Schleiermach-
crs, knapponbergers, Hoggs, Appenzsllers,
Bulls and Kalb1eischcs.
CLARK BRADEN proposes to deal with
Bob lngersoll as ruthlessly as the arch
infidel mangles Moses and the prophets.
lie is about to publish book unmask.
ing Ingersoll's life and real character
and the first two chapters have in them
the germs of countless libel suits. Before
reviewing his lectures Braden relates the
story of Iugersolrs youth and young man.
hood, and a more revolving picture of
filial ingratitude, personal debauchery,
drunkenness, blasphemy ard dishonor it
would be hard to draw. We don't know
who Braden is, but he certainly makes a
loud call on Irgersoll to inform the pub
lie.
THE American Register, of Washington,
d. c., which appeared in sample copies in
the early part of the summer, now comes
before the reading public as regular and
permanent journalistic institution, of six
teen double columns, we'll printed pages.
II will be devoted to politics, literature,
science and news, and will be published
by a company for whom COL McCardle,
of Mississippi, will be publisher, and that
accomplished scholar and journalist, VIM.
Aydelottc, is editorial manager The need
ola high-toned, scholarly and fearless
Democratic weekly, devoted to criticism,
has been felt in Washington, and the Req
istcr promises to fill the bill.
WHAT do you think of this story Tyncr
tells"-that "not only he did not attempt
to withhold any information as to what ho
learned respecting the star route swindle
iE the West two years ago, but that he
embodied his conclusions in report in
order that the postofice department
nigh. take action concerning them, that
he presented this report as any other
report is presented, to his superior officer,
Judge Key, then Postmaster General
that tho latter. after reading it, returned
it to Mr.. Tyner with the request that he
lock it up in his safe. and with state
ment that he (Judg Key) did not care to
go into an investigation at that time, be-
cause it would hurt the party that Mr..
Hayes also had knowledge Of the dis
covery of Tyner, and that for reasons
which he never made public he also did
not care to make the investigation that,
moreover. when Postmaster General James
came into the Office Mr.. Tyner himself
handed his report to James, and it was