Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-09


poor job Of it.
kEIFER is in despair over the work Of
arranging his committees of the House so
that every man will have his desire, the
fittest men shall have the proper places,
and yet that Cameron and the influences
which made Keifer speaker shall get all
they want. 1854 is nothing to Keifer's
perplexity.
If Tom Murphy shall be appointed as
sistant United States treasurer in New
York there is chance that Belknap "and
all of us may yet be happy. "The Half
breeds doubt the news of course but MUIR
ply is confident and Stalwart "confl
dence nowadays pans out good deal
to the ton.
FRESH evidence Of the prevailing ten.
dency to accumulate lands in single pro-
prietorship was furnished the other ~ in
Albany by the filing for record ip the
clerks Office of deeds for $50 farms from
tho old Van Rensselaer, estate to Walter
S. Church. This will make Colonel
Church one of the largest landed proprie-
tors in New York, as the farms range from
500 to 1000 acres each. ,'.9:
boutwell, is now thought to bs booked
for the navy department. The competition
is lively for the interior portfolio. Sargent
is the leading candidate. Iowa Insists on
her right to retain Kirkwood or name his
successor. Brewster is still the favorite
choice of Dame Gossip to succeed Mac
Veagh. Frelinghuysen will succeed
Blaine, aud Lincoln will stay. He is stall
wart and harmless.
IT was Col. Forney's ambition to edit
the administration organ under Buchan.
ans administration. During the last
CAMPAIGN lie cherished the hope that in
the event of Hancock's election he might
be the head of great newspaper enter,
prise in New York, which would cham.
pion the administration that was to usher
in the new era Of reconciliation, political
purity aud old fashioned economy Of fed
eral administration.
If you set hold of IS note on the
Boyleston national bank Of Boston, take 2
second look at it. There is a Photographic
ic counterfeit out On that bank. The
pink seal and figures arc excellent imi
tations of the genuine. A glance at the
green border and ends on the back of the
note show they have been engraved and
printed in such a crude manner as to al
once attract attention and determine tho
fraudulent character of the note. Tht
state arms in the left oval and the eagle il
the right oval are wretchcd travcstics
SEVERAL week ago appeals were sent
out to all the churches of the country to
!, take up a collection for the Garfield Mem
orial hospital Gil tic filst Sunday il
, November. In all, some forty Thousand
appeals were sent out to churches and tt
private citizens of well.kEown liberality
} The project turns out signal failure, les
than five Thousand dollars thus far having
+ been received from all the churches in th'
, country, and not fifteen thousand dollar
t from all other sources, including condi
t;cnal subscriptions, although $500, ,0O
= were needed for the project to build til
Y buildings and s4OO, 600 to properly endov
e the institution. AS usual it is now talke,
Y Of to transfer the undertaking from a pri
l vate association to the government.
!, The Tribune (Ialf- breed) having de
clared that the message evidenced tn
!, vigorous work Of Mr.. Blaine, Hugh Hast
+ in.'s Commercial (Stalwart) retorts as fo
! lows !: "The Tribune and the rest of til
= world might just as we'll know that til
S message is sexclusivelythe work of Prssidcn
;. Arthur, and that no member of the cali
f net Or any other party had anything to d
y with its composition beyond furnishing th
+ statistics ard information relating to th
various departments. Mr.. Blaine had tn
p pleasure of reading the message for th
!. first time after it was read to Congress.
i Is this the reason why Blaine gives ou
;. that he will pick up his hat and go rcx
6 Wednesday,?
= PERSONAL.
Speaker Keifer has appointed Benz.
/ MIN L. GAINES, of Ohio, to be his clerl
!. He is nephew Of the speaker and serve
v some time rs correspondent of the Chicag
o Times.
= JAMES MCHENEY, the London banker
- has instituted suit for libel against Pres
10 ident Bond, Of the Reading railroad, fo
= saying in an interview ON November 2
: that "Jim McHenry" Was the veries
vagabond that walked the London streets
and a notorious stock jobber.
And now "rcport has it that durin:
Miss CELESTE STAUFFER's visit to Ne1
J. York this summer Mr.. Samuel J. Tlde
e was her very attentive admirer." Mis-
n Stauffer is from New Orleans, but vel
!, known in this county. Her last visit I,
- this city, where she is popular in tn
'' younger society, ,swas during the past sum
mer, as the guest of ex-Mayor Stauffer.
G Mrs. BLACKBURN, ths accomplished
J. wife of the governor of Kentucky, will be
, gin the gubcrnatorial entertainments o
G the winter on Tuesday evening of mex
week with an old fashioned quilting part y
It will close with reel 60. S. On tn
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