Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-28

flight.
IT is officially reported that last year
twenty two ports of entry did not collect
a dollar in duties and that thirty-two
other ports did not collect enough to pay
expenses. If collection does not collect,
it, at least, costs.
The Guiteau jurymen are said to he all
protesting Christians. This may or may
not be good for Guiteau.
AS good men-Christians if you please
AS Garfield have enjoyed whist and de-
lighted in cribbage.
THE star route thieves have got along SO
far that they have MacNeagh and Gibson
their late prosecutors-On trial now.
ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL PHILLIPS
seems to be of the opinion that Brady and
Dorsey have retained him to prosecute
Gibson.
WHEN Joe Huber iron clads the next
cell he should have Frankfort superintcnd
the job and show him how to make it
prisoner proof
By reason of "corners" in coal and
whisky those commodities have advanced
in Cincinnati and without mild winter
PorkopOlis fears a freeZe-Out.
THE New York Sun, which usct tu
shine for all, does not seem to beam
very warmly upon its former Washington
correspondent, A. NJ. Gibson.
The young ladies' have perfect right
to wear those big hats to places of public
amusement, hut in order to prevent an
eclipse Of the stage for those sitting behind
it is their bounden duty to take along to
the hall u worsted "fascinator,' t" re-
place the hat with it rs soon IS they get
seated and give everybody a chance to sec
the worth of his or her money.
The Appletons are about to discontinue
their journal because it does not pay, and
let somebody else publish Rics's North
american Re0ie,o for him, because, Sine, it
printed SO much IngcrsOilism they found
that INSCRIPTIONS competitors were going
about the South and West and horrifying
the deeply religious school committees by
reading to thcm passages from Ingcrsoll's
essays in the North -1merican, and then
dwelling on the wickcdness of bnyin!
school books for innocent children from q
house which could put it's name on sucl
blasphemy.
| DR.. BLISS i'll magazine article, re-
counting the incidents of the president
illness, bears testimony to the fact tha:
cards were 4 frequent social diversion with
Mr.. Garfield, that his mind ran to that re
creation during his Illness and that in hi:
very last stages he made 4 motion as il
shutting carls. These facts We're wei
known to all who knew Mr.. Garfield.
habits Of life, and the Examiner very prop
er!y recalls an editorial published sont
time ago in the Nep Era, scouting the idea
that Christian like Garfield would have
anything to do with . gambling tools. y
The Era is called upon to admit that Gar
field played cards, or that he was no Chris
tian, Or that in saying what it did on tii,
subject it made goose Of itself.
| THE Press asks cditoriaily whether
Gutea,, is insane and then discusses the
question, concluding first that the evi
dent du!lness of his moral perceptions, his
apparent inability to appreciate the gravity
of the charge against him, and the salts
faction which he seems to find in the ;ria
and the Importance aud publicity i: gives
him, arc not the characteristics of Il mar
of sound mind. If the evidence fully es
tablishes the fact Of his insanity, tli, jury
have no choice bat to acqu:: him" \:
the same time that Guiteau's mental
unsoundness is Of such a degree rs to rem
der him irresponsible VIC are not thus fl,
convinced" 1t certainly d" will be hard
for some good people to reconcile them.
Selves" Sc.
THERE ought to be no doubt about it i'll
the public mind, after this lucid definition
in the New York Independent: "Law
lcssness is the heart Of the CopI. l: is the
shrill chatter that would drown the
solemn choic Of nature and the eternal
undertone on which its harmonious chorus
rests, the ccascless swell of the Trisagioa
which ever boats sweet and low and loud
and solemn from the seraph-circled throne
of God. 1t is the rebellion of weakness
against All Might, of Wickedness ayains;
Thrice Holiness, Of folly against Infinite
Wisdom. Lawlcssness is manlessness and
god!essncss." And yet this editorial
slasher is just rs clear when in full view
of the Virginia elections, he declares that
the Republican party has been "for the
preservation Of tho public faith against
all schemes of reputation"
| Settling With a Creditor.
In Uniontown, Fayette county, John
Patterson, a butcher, walking along Nor