Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-21


unanimous in condemning such extor-
tions and the water committee needs to
be mindful that it does not sacrifice its
repute for good sense in its search after
greater revenue.
MINOR TOPICS.
As a fighter Burnside always was
great"
BURNSIDE must have been drinking
from Don's cauteen.
WHox the gods would destroy they first
cause to make fools of themselves in the
Senate chamber.
IF speech be silver and silence golden,
our Junior Senator still has the better of
it.
THE Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives passed the bill granting double
taxation on property in that state.
The New York Legislature has adopted
resolutions relative to a representation of
the state at tho celebration of the battles
of Yorktown, Va, ard Cowpens, S. c.
SEVERAL of the Western states have
every spring an arbor day, appointed by
the governor, and devoted to the planting
Of trees along the highways.
The streets of Cairo are to have their
names inscribed in Arabic and French and
the houses numbered. It will be the first
Mussulman town with such indications.
THE duchess Of Marlborough has com
pleted arrangements for the entire outfit
of fifteen Irish families, who will be pro-
vided with free passages to Manitoba and
located there in neatly furnished farm
eteads.
| A WILMINGTON man writes to q news.
paper of that city to disclaim the title of
"Professor " with which he had been
gratuitously dubbed in an advertisement
announcing his appearance at a local en-.
tertainment. This is refreshing.
II is understood that the friends and rel.
atives of the late Lord Beaconsfeld are
willing to assent to a public funeral and
the burial of the remains in Westminster
Abbey, unless any directions to the con.
trary are found among the papers of the
deceased. Many persons acquainted with
the will say that the wealth which Lord
Beaconsfield leaves is inconsiderable.
SENIOR CASTELAR, has published man.
ifesto in view of the coming municipal
elections in Spain in which he demands
universal suffrage, obligatory instruction,
universal liability to military service, and
municipal and provincial autonomy as far
as consistant with the supremacy of the
state. He makes strong appeal TO,
unity among the democrats.
The hoop iron manufacturers claim that
they cannot compete with foreign govern
ments unless the treasury department
gives them relief by carrying out what
they contend is the spirit of the law,
namely, that call hoop iron shall be sub
ject to one and a-half cents rer pound, ant
not admitted as manufactured iron at one
half cent per pound merely because a rivet
is put through one end of the lap" The
rivet, it is contended, is of no Use whatever
and did not increase the value of the tie
Hon. CARL ScHURz has returned tc
journalism, his first article in the St
Louis Westliche Post being on the situation
in the Senate. He shows clearly that it i.
the Republicans who are obstructing the
public business and that the Democrat.
claim, properly enough, that the Republi
can plan would be followed by repetition
of the corrupt carpet-bagger rule. "Ir
fact, =" says Mr.. Schurs, "the fight over q
few Senate Offices is nothing else but q
fight for the possession of the fedora
power in the future.''
THIRTY years ago three students, named
jackson, Malone and Fennor, were to-
gether in a room at the University of Vir
ginia. A brother student sketched the
three in group. "What shall I put un.
der each figure ?" he said, when tho draw.
ing was completed. "Put under mine, y
said jackson, "Jackson addressing the
Senate of the United States" "And
under mine, " said Malone, "delivering a
lecture to the students Of the University oi
Tennessee" And under yours, Fennor?''
"Oh, Fennor announcing decision from
the supreme bench of Louisiana" The
inscriptions were appended. jackson is
to-day in the Senate of the United States,
| Malone is at Vanderbilt IIniversitv Ton