Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-19

"AAOu SuOuuC tuClT lctlluSS uuuCI lue
prosalc features of the case. Cash was
wanted, and good deal of it, to make
the quiet plantations along the York
river the fit place for the incursion of a
multitude, the erection of monuments,
orations, fireworks, foreign guests, a
president, and what not OF wonderful
things beside. Vanderbilt might have
been appealed to. He seems to have a
sentimental side to his character if it is
true as stated that he paid a hundred
thousand dollars for an old Egyptian
sandstone column; or Gould might
have come down, in gratitude for the
surrender of CORVALLIS that gave him
so rich country to plunder. But the
Yorktown people had souls above the
dollar and now there are tears.
HANG out your banners on your outer
walls.
TRICEETT, the Australian oarsman, has
just succeeded in winning his first race
| since his arrival in this country. Perhaps
| it took him all this time to become accli-
| mated.
| 10 DAY is the one hundredth anniyer-
siry Of the crowning event in the history
Of the American Revolution-the surren-
der of Lord CORVALLIS to General Wash
iagton, commanding the allied armies at
| Yorktown.
The Erie Observer, hitherto weekly
Democratic publication, has blossomed
forth into full-fedged daily, to be known
as the Ereaing ObseIcer. It is staunch in
its adherence to Mr.. Noble, and promises
to perform noble work in the good cause
now engaging the attention of the people
| OF the commonwealth.
BECAUSE it has been discovered that
some of the ancestors of Foxhall and Iro-
quois were English bred, English news
papers are beginning to claim for that
country Il share in the honors of the vic
tories of those American horses on Eng
lands turf. Next we know says con-
temporary, they'll be ranking George
Washington as one Of England's heroes
and rroudest boasts.
III is telesraphed from New York that
the president rendered tho treasury port
folio first to Senator Conkling, who de-
clined it and refused to withdraw his de-
clination. Chief Justice FOlger was next
consulted, but he decided to remain upon
the bench, where he has thirteen years
left to serve. Yesterday he rendered it to
Ex-Governor ED. Morgan, who will accept
it if he finds he can divcst himself of his
importing business, which makes him i'll
eligible, he being one of the largest i'm
porters Of tea and coffee in the country.
His business is conducted by a firm of
which he is the controlling member, and
Inc proposes to put the firm into liquida-
tion and wind up its business. 1t was
held 10y Senator Edmunds, when President
Grant appointed A. +. Stewart secretary
of the treasury, that he could not then di-
vest himself of his interest to remove the
incliyibility.
TUE Stalwart Bulletin, of Philadelphia,
thinks Riddelberger ought to be made to
feel the full penalty of the law on Virginia's
statute books which disqualilies any one
who takes part in duel from holding
Office under the commonwealth. The ap
plication of the law would force him to
resi- gu his seat i'll the state Senate and to
resign any hopes of further activity and
advancement in Virginia politics which he
may have allowed himself to entertain.
The Bulletin sadly admits, however, its
conviction that party which does not
scruplc to nullify debt which is fairly
owing will not be restrained by any con-
scientious qualms from neutralizing
statute. and expresses the belief that his
political friends will como to the rescue,
aud that if the Rsadjustcrs carry the state,
Mr.. Riddlcbergcr will be relieved by
special act from the consequences of his
indiscretion. This is the same Riddleberger
whom the Republicans were so ardently
supporting for secretary of the Senate
few months ago, and these Readjusters
are the same people who arc receiving the
aid and comfort of the federal admiuistra-
tion in their present contest with the Dem.
ocratic party, representing the honest sen.
timent of the state and pledged to scrupu-
lous fulfllmcnt of all just obligations.
TIE Democratic senators propose to put
Dudley on the rack, and his confirmation
as commissioner OF patents will not be
permitted without q contest. A RepLbli.
can contemporary admits that the removal
of Mr.. Bentley from the department was
conspicuous mistake of the Garfield
administration, and the appointment of
Dudley was in violent opposition to public
expectation and public sentiment. He is
the Jack " Dudley whose manipulations
during the Indiana campaign year ago
rendered his name SO loud-smelling and
offensive to all sense of decency. The
ultcrior purpose of Dudley's appointment
was believed to be to hand the pension
bureau. with its eight hundred ap-
over to the Indiana |
political blowers and strikers and
certain mysterious movements of the new
have confirmed this suspi-
cion. First it was announced that two |
hundred vacancies must occur on account |
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