Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-24

sistent in applauding" heroic treatment .
in one case and condemning it in the
other, when in both it means disregard
and defiance of the law.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE accounts of some palatial Ameri-
can homes, published on our first page.
will teach foreign monarchs how the Amer.
lean citizen lives, summer and winter, by
the sea and in the city.
MESSAGES of 20 words, exclusive of ad-
dress, can be sent from any one part of
England to another for 25 cents. If the
telegraph companies in this country would
reduce their rates one-half they would
double their profits.
Our sprightly contemporary, the Potts
vile Chronicle, proves by donning new
dress, eularging, and other visible signs of
inward grace, that it receives the patronage
to which it's enterprise and merits entitle
it.
THE Pope and Mr.. Blaine have exchanged
friendly and sympathetic messages about
the presidents critical condition. This
seems to open the way for renewal by
the Red-mouths of the story that Blaine
wears Catholic chain left by his dead
mother.
ELEGANT fans are made of white and
tinted ostrich feathers, powdered with
gold and mounted with pearl, amber, tor
toise shell or gold. The Cincinnati En-
quirer saw, from afar. a fan of that sort
which cost, with diamonds and settings,
over 81 900.
THE mayor of New York yesterday re-
moved from Office Police Commissioners
French, Mason and Nichols, for failure to
keep the streets of that city clean. The
removals are subject to the governors ap-
prOval. The New York board of alder
men met yesterday, but. without confirm
ing any of the mayors nominations, ad
.journcd for two weeks.
THE legislative salary committee, in
Guiding Wolfe aud Ruddiman, have de-
cided to instruct counsel to proceed with
as much diligence as possible in the appeal
Of the salary case to the supreme court so
that the case may be argued before the
supreme court in Pittsburgh in October.
The sooner they get their corpse buried the
better.
The administration organ in Cincinnati
has awakened to the propriety of the
country having president. There is
nothing inconsistent in it's suggestion that
Arthur should be acting president during
Garfield's disability. That is just what
the constitution provides. Indeed there
is growing doubt whether the vice presi-
dent, even in the even. of his chicf's
death, ever can become more than "act-
ing" president, though the qualifying
term is distinction rather than "differ-
ence."
THE rumor that VIM. II. Vanderbilt had
quietly purchased the franchise of the New
York underground railroad, to push the
work vigorously to completion, when trains
will be run from the Battery to Forty
second street, at fares one or two cents
below those of the air line overhead, iu-
duced Cyrus W. Field to order his brokers
to sell out large block of the New York
Elevated stock for his account, which car
ried the price down from los to 99a. The
break at the time was puzzle to the street
but it is probably ineligible enough now.
SENATOR BECK is reported to have said
with reference to the course that Demo-
Gratis should take in case of the death of
President Garfield, "It would be time
when love of country should rise above all
party questions. As to my own course,
would be in favor Of some conservative
Republican, say Henry B. Anthony, of
Rhode Island. for the position of president
pro tenn. of the Senate, and thus avoid any
inducement for any insane person or polit-
ical fanatic to desire the death of Mr..
Arthur. In such contingency, this would
be a graceful recognition of tho fact that,
under the great calamity which has befal-
len the nation, the intensity of party spirit
and the eagerness for spoils were for the
time forgotten