Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-23

agreement may lie reasonably dlStruSted.
The business Of the country is good, its
railroads are making money, and the
time of the coming collapse is not yet by
good deal.
THE credit of Charleston, S. c. is Sc far
improved that its per cent. bonds have
advanced from a market value Of So in
1879 to 105 now its 6 per cents from IS
to 100, and the 4 per cents from 5S to 50.
Two important committees, it is said,
will be created after the holiday recess,
and Mr.. Kasson has been reserved for tine
craftsmanship Of the more important Of the
two. "Thcse proposed committees will
attract greater degree of public atten
ton than any of the regular committees OF
the House, anu will be charged with mat.
ters OF the highest national Importance. y
THE Ice Nan is making his rounds but
on four wheels. Ice six inches thick is
hauled through the streets, but it was
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past and no new crop has been gathered.
The days grow longer, the sun mounts
higher, and the chances Of even preserving
the results of 4 good frecza are now slim.
Lay in your icoA while il can be bought at
30 cents cwt
THERE is to be 4 fine fight between the
Stalwarts and the IIalf-Breeds over the
Pittsburgh and Wilkesbarrc postoilices
Tho nominee for Pittsburgh is one of Chris
Magee's strikers, and Of course Bayne and
maybe Senator Mitchell will antagonize
him. Congressman Scranton is backing .
new man for the Will;esbarre Office and
Hoyt stands by the incumbent. The ad
ministratiOn is expected to stand by tho
Stalwarts in both cases. But, if
In 1874, according to the returns OF the
agricultural bureau, the cotton crol
amounted to 3,sOo,0OO bales grown on g..
600, 600 acres of planting, or at the rate OF
COG acres for each bale. The acr;cul-
tural bureau reports for the present ycal
q planting Of over 1j,0G0,O00 acres, and
even if the yield is ''as bad as in 1874, .
giving, but one bale to every oOG acres,
the cotton crop for this year will amount
to &, 3330, 0G0 bales, or about 330, 600 bales
more THAN the estimates usually call for.
1T is reported that after the Citizen Re-
publicans held their conference in Phia
delpliia the other day, Senate: Stewart
said that they do not intend to place, can
didatcs in tho field in opposition to rceu-
lar nominees, bat to work for the ,uriti
cation of the party. The question of the
govemorship was discussed, and it was
understood that ID. J. Morrc!i, Generals
Beaver ard lIartranit, Josep!, l.. Cave,
| aud Senator Thomas Y. Cooper, were
General Beaver, it is said, is; I special
fa"orite.' That is wonderful. collection
o: suitable persons. Cavcn and Cooper
mix especially well. 1t looks a. though
Tie Continental conference was doing
Cameron's work quite - vel! a. tie
Washington conference.
There must be lively times anon; the
graveyard insurance companic; up around
Scranton, and there, Is in most ether sec
tions, the most disrcputablc men in the
community are at the nefarious business, OF
insuring the lives Of Old people in the hope
that they may realize by their early deaths.
Frank III. Beamisll, it seems, claims " hat
he and his associates have helped, and are
helping, to bring the graveyard officers
into Gisrepu:c, and liz addition says that
their company Uhe Comstock) is honest,
and that by the strict integrity with
which they manage its affairs. it il; crcc
from the stencil that ilovers around what
he iacctiously calls the graveyard
sh"r%.'' Aud now some parties OF the
same neral gauge, no doubt, get out 4
circular and send it broad cast over the
state denouncing itcamis! rs = "lia.'
and scoundrei" and his company as Il
band Of thieves, insuring dying mci: ard
abusing honest policy holders.
THE way in which, Kcifer made III, his
committees will not materially help the
Republicans out Of the dilemma in which
they are placed by their slender majority
and painful lack of leadership. Moreover
the speaker has alienated the natural
leader of the Republican side, k.Sson,
who will not therefore be apt t. help i.im
out of parliamentary s"rapes. On two
Occasions, already, the Democratic sharp
shooters have made the speakers seat 4
very hot corner" and they make no Sc
cret of their purpose to raise the blac'. flag
after the recess, and go into the fight with
the cry Of mo quarter" In q contest OF
this sort, keifer will miss such leaders Of
the 4Gth Congress rs Garfield, Frye, Con
ger and Hawley; and, because Of his
slight upon the Democratic leaders and
his partisan composition OF the elections
committee, Hewitt, Cox, Springer, Curtin,
Holman, BIount and other Democrats of
experience will make it hot for Mister
Keifcr.
PERSONAL.