Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-07

THEY have counted Piaistcd out in
Maine whether they will keep him counted
out has not yet been decided.
THE Examiners imperfect view of the
senatorial contest is painful. Won't some
of the FAMILY please cnligl,tcn it~ mud
de-?
THE German Jews arc being helped by
persecution. Ono of them has just been
elected by handsome majority president
Of the municipal council Of Berlin itself.
THE revised census Of South Carolina
shows that population is even greater than
first reported. So Senator Conkling's last
campaign speech is spoiled for future use.
His greatest effort now should be- to
tell the truth about what he has falsi!ied
in.
"CALIco' CHARLEY FOSTER, OF Ohio,
wants to be minister to France Levi =.
Morton prefers the New York senator
ship to any cabinet Office that nc may be
offered since he cannot get the treasury
portfolio the co!orcd population will he
satisfied with foreign mission for Fred
Douglass.
In his forthcoming article on intcroccan
transit Grant is expected "to demon
strate very clearly that the DcLesseps
scheme is impossible and propoStcrous on
engineering grounds, and that the United
States arc too much interested i'll any pro
ject of an isthmus canal to allow it go for-
ward under any but American control"
Mrs. MoLL1E GRIzzAUD has been elect
ed ensrossing clerk of the House of Rep
rcscntativcs in Tennessee. The Republi
cans generally voted for Iroughton, col
ored. Twenty Democrats combined will
her Republican friends and elected her
Her husband was young man, who wa:
killed the first year of the war while hiding
out.
CoNGER's translation takes another o
the Republican leaders out Of the Houst
and helps Kasson's chances for the speak
erslip. Should Robeson be elected to til,
Senate from New Jersey, as he expects
and Frye from Maine, as he hopes, the Re
publicans will be left practically leader
less and utterly incompetent, except b!
sheer numerical force, to cope with th'
opposition, which will have among mum
bers fitted for leadership such members a
Randall, Carlisle, McLsnc, Morrison
| Springer, Wood, Kuott and Cox.
In speech in the House OF Lords last
night Bea 2onsfield declared the accession
Of the present government had unsettled
everything in Europe, Asia and Ireland by
reversing the policy OF their predecessors
at the time of whose overthrow peace wa
assured. He strongly denounced tic con
duct Of the government in waiting unit
the last moment to propose repressive
measures in Ireland and said the circum
stances warranted an amendment to tn,
address in that sense. But the state of Ire
land required speedy measures. He there
fore recommended that the House proceed
Immediately to discuss the ministerial
measures for restoring order and liberty tt
long suffering subjects of the queen.
Mr.. THORNTON, who ran Oh the Green
back ticket, was elected as county judge
of Sullivan, New York, in the fall Of 1878
for term of six years, defeating Count!
Judge Bush, who was !. candidate for re
election on the Democratic ticket. Dur
ing the canvass Thornton announced tina
he would serve the county, if elected, fo
81, 200 a year, though the salary was 81, 500
Mr.. Thornton was elected, and has scrvet
as county judge since January, 1879, and
true tc his promise to the people, has onl!
taken 81, 200 a ar, though tie board o
visitors raised ~ usual salary. The un
successful Democratic candidate brought 4;
quo ,carraato suit, setting up that Thorn
toms agreement to serve for 81, 200 per an
mum, il elected, was in the nature of &;
bribe. made to influence the voters of thu
county, and lie prayed that Thornton
should be declared ineligible, and that liz
(Bush) should be installed in the Office a.
the one who had received the highest NUN
Der of legal votes. The highest court:
have Just decided that Thornton's promise
to take 81. 200 was in the nature Of brihe
and remove him Us ineligible for service OF
that account, but they refuse to place Busl
on the county bench, only going so far a:
! to declare the Office vacant
lTaco Aux DANES.
Was it in grim obedience to that old
motto, ''Ladies first" that Mrs. Meier.
hofer was hanged yesterday before Lam.
mems, her alleged partner in crime? She