Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-19

corrupt Northern blatherskite for the
mission to Chill.
MINOR TOPICS.
The chances arc that COnklius and
Platt may be left. 1t is cold day for the
stalwarts.
THERE arrived in the customs districts
of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron,
Key West, Minnesota, New Bedford, New
Orleans, Now York, PassamaquOddy,
Philadelphia, and San Francisco, during
tho month ended April 80, 1881, 99,952
passengers, of whom %, 800 were immi-
grants. 2,769 citizens of the United
States returned from abroad, and 1893
aliens, not intending to rcmain in the
Unite States.
UNDEEGROUND telcgraphy is to have
trial in Philadelphia, the city councils
committee on police and firc-alarm telc
graph having by vote Of II to 5,
after Il long debate adopted rcsolu-
ton granting permission to the national
and municipal electric underground COM
panies respectively to lay underground
wires or conduits under certain streets,
provided one chamber he given FREQ Of
charge to the city. Tho companies are to
give bond for the faithful performance Of
tEcir contracts.
WHILE the Philadelphia Eccning Bulletin,
Rep, will not sympathizc with Conkling,
it wishes tho president had bccn less i'll
consistent with his proclaimed policy OF
civil service reform and it cannot imag-
inc what motive has impellcd him to such
performances Us forcing Stanley Matthews
upon al unwilling people. Likewise sthe
friends Of that reform wcrc discouraged
when they found that tho excc'lcn sys-
tenn established in the interior department
by Mr.. Schurz was promptly Ovcrthrown
by member Of President Garlield's cabi
net, and that the president had resolved to
remove from tho New York custom house
the man who had made reform l. practical
fact in that establishment"
The Providence Journal, wllilc it gives
Mr.. Henry George, the new social plilos
Opher, high credit for his insight into
things, declares that he has inflicted
4 severe blow on his rising rep.
utation by the expressed view that the cx-
pertinent of popular. government in tho
United States is an evident failure. This
| is at once felt to he fundamental and
fatal error, and the Journal thinks it may
prove as fatal to Mr.. Georges scheme of
social philosophy as Malthus' theory that
the world was in danger from over -popula-
ton, or Carlylc's, that the mass Of man.
kind were degraded and could only be
kept from ruin by the guidance and rule
Of tyrants.
| THREE CASTLES.
| By u 1imitless sea stood an innocent lad.
| And he shaped with hts infantile hand,
| While hc sang rs II sorrow he never had hal,
| castle of sand.
| And the waves OF the ocean rolled up on the
| And left never a trace of the c:sstl., OF sand.
Ey a fathOmlesss sea stood fancifll youth,
And he fashioned with tendercst care,
With a base which he deemed everlasting, for
| sOOth,
| A castle OF air.
And the waves of reality. frausht with dc.
Spair,
Swept away from its moorings the castles OF
| air.
| by a ncasurelcss sea stood q practical man,
| And he built with a fortune his own,
With i purpOSeful Nim and Il resOlute plan,
A castle of stone.
| And tho waves of disaster against it were
And he wcpt DER the wreck OF the castle OF
stone.
Frank Willing Leach.
| THE New York Times and Herald
scarcely ''catch tho idea" Of our senator
Alcxandcr's resolution at Harrisburg on
Tuesday, in which the action of Messrs.
Conkling and Platt in resigning their
places is applauded, and Senators CAM
cron and Mitchell arc recommended to
do likewise. Tho Times, while doubtfully
admitting that it "may be a joke" in
| clincs to the opinion that it is I" the result
OF that abnormal condition of mind sOmc-
times known as hysteria, which affects
men Of nervous temperament in times of
great cxcitcment;" and MIR. Conkling's
stalwart organ, the Herald, proudly prints
the proceedings under the caption Of
Pennsylvania Approves" evidently TAX
ing the matter in all seriousness.