Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-11

exposure of the condition of the treas
ury.
THE man with the straw hat looks kind
Of seldom.
THE wise man now taketh his fall over
coat ou: Of the camphor and doth not get
left.
WHAT crowd of 81 told you SOS -
there will be tomorrow. And the crop
won't be confined to Ohio, either.
THE stability of American institutions
is in imminent peril. Mr.. Arthur is con-
| fidently looked to by his intimate friends
to cause a stop to be put to the practice of
prOmiscuous presidential handshaking as
senselcss, meaningless and disgusting to
the president. This is a serious matter.
AT the time of his assassination Caesar
was master of the then known world and
at the acme of his greatness in his fifty
third year. Henry w., who was also
murdered. at forty seven had acquired his
claim for greatness. Lincoln became
president i'll his fifty. second year Of his
life, and Garfield in his fiftieth.
OUE fellow citizens, Of Swiss, nativity
cannot read the statement Of the consul
at Philadelphia in behalf of their afflicted
countrymen without having their SYM
pathies quickcned. Subscriptions for the
worthy cause in behalf of which this appeal
is issued will be received ut this Office and
promptly forwarded to the prope: author
| ity.
TIE insurance newspapers do not at
tach much credit to Governor Hoyt's late
in-thc-day refusal to charter any more of
| the death rattle " insurance companies
After two or three hundred had been au-
thoriZed to ill up the graveyards, the
insurance organs naturally think the thing
might have been allowed to go Oh until
every man was his own insurance COM
| pany.
THi- Philadelphia American, which likely
wants to do what is right, cannot find
what there is in Noble record to show
that he is 4 public-spirited aud upright
man, not a millionaire after the model of
Mr.. William II. English:' The .Au.cri.
can should inquire at Mr.. Mobiles home.
1t will find him foremost in all good works,
active in building up Erie's interests, lib.
eral. energetic, upright and honored by
all his fellow townsmen.
4 WILMINGTON man took laudanum,
and almost Immediately repented of the
rash act. He hurried to physician in
! order to procure an antidote. The NJ. ID.
thought he was drunk aud refused to re-
!icvc him SO the man died. There are
quite Il variety Of morals to this tragic
tale, but if the first and best is needed
Eever to take laudanum unless you mean
busincss-thcrc will he no necessity Of
lerSthcning the list.
Nix. WOLFE lets in good deal Of light
apon state treasury management. The
Noyes- Walter administration, it is greatly
to he feared, was far from clean and,
although it started Off we'll, it suffered
from contamination with the Quay Magcc
influences and from association with that
Bayard against whom the INTELLIGENCER
lifted its voice in partly vain protest. Mr..
Wolfe gives q good reason why the - Poo
ple's' bank bears that name, as il fattens
On the peoples money.
A BRITISH newspaper calls attention to
a noticeable feature in the social and poll
tical life of the present generation in a
decidedly increased and increasing love
for stars and crosses. The multiplication
Of orders under the present reign pre-
ceedcd apace. The Victoria Cross and
the Star of1ndia supplied what soldiers
and Indian civilians alike considered neces-
sitics. The need for the decorations of
the Indian Empire and the crown of India
was less apparent but Lord Beaconsfield's
career would not havc been complete
without his founding an order of chivalry.
Ihb. W hARlON DAhkEls
-iiacrican, changed back to a weekly and
printed in the best style of Typography, is
now re-launched under the editorial man
asement of II. NJ. Jenkins, an experienced
journalist. The american will make a
speciality of financial and economical ques-
tiOns, with proper attention to literary
matters and independent Republican poll
tics. In it's sphere the .fmeficaa will be
to Philadelphia journalism what the NJ
ton has SO long been in New York-and
England too. Jenkins can make it 90,
and we yet look to see the american bios
som forth into Quaker city daily with
money and brains to push into the first
rank
THEY are beginning to talk now as
though the jolly commander of the Cor.
win had perpetratcd a bit OF hlarity when
he and that Herald reporter scrambled up
to tho highest point they could reach on
an uninhabited piece of territory in the
Arctic regions and formally took possession
of it in the name of the government of the
United States. When it is known that no
human being, not even an Esquimaux,
exists there, the prospect Of disputed
jurisdiction takes on the appearance of a