Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-13


and excellence Of drill to the exalted
station of eighth corporal in Go. G. 1t is
reassuring to hear that the appointment
gives satisfaction.
\ WEST CHESTER paper, which sets
itself up for a political carpenter, and has
already worked out u number of state
tickets for next year, is busy running IN
"attorncy general " for nomination in the
convention and election at the polls!
AND now they have discovered that the
president, in his message, forgot to say a
word about the census. IL he lets all the
officials in that department stay on and
finds some way for them to soon set their
long owe rduo back pay they will forgive
hi; slight Of their work.
TIE new first assistant post master gcl,-
cral, publisher of the Burlington Ha~ieye,
had some experience editing funny paper,
but he has only begun to appreciate the
hunors Of life since there arc 300 prcsiden-
tial postmastcrships to he filled, an aver
age of five applicants for each, many of
them females.
MARK TwAIN's speech in Canada On
International copyright, printed Oh our
first page, seems to have been appreciated
ry the thick headed humorists Of that
region, whose sense of wit is hard TO tllaw
out. But, seriously, docs the comic orator
expect literature to ever become as popu-
lar as whisky If he does hc is a confid-
ing man.
THE Sunday law Of Pennsylvania iorbids
all persons to edo or perform any worldly
employment Oh the Lords day, commonly
called Sunday, works OF necessity and
charity only excepted Tho supreme
court has recently had occasion, in tho
case of Dale q. Knapp to oxpcurd this law
with reference to the question whether =
subscription made on Sunday for the cree
ticn of u church editice is y work of char
ity within the meaning Of tho statute.
The court took the ground that it is such
4 work, and, hence, creates valid obi
cation that may be legally enforced.
HEATHER CHINA wants to get rid OF
the hidcous dissipation Of opium smoking
that ruins millions Of its people. Chris
tian England has /, fine thing of its India
opium culture aud trade with China and
forces it with arms to take the drug be-
cause in eighty years England has drawn
no less than $500, OOO, 600 from China as the
proceeds of opium delivered at tho Chi
ncsc ports. And tho present revenue
amounts to about $35, ,OOO, 900 yearly. We
should think this spectacle would offset a
great deal Of Christian missionary work.
"Who arc the hcathen?"
IT has long bcea i widely told aud gen
orally believed story that Daniel Webster,
in a speech at Rochester, N. V, when he
was somewhat drunk, proposed to pay the
national debt with silver half dollar,
and, alludiDg to Gencsco Falls, declared
that no people could be cnslavcd that had
waterfall :. hundred fcct high. Rev. DR..
w. &. Wilkinson set about investigating
the truth of this old and familiar story and
reports that there is little or none in it..
Webster was at Rochester, made speech
and praised its waterfall, but those who
had the best opportunities to hear him
l,;S condition ,y-;k
ness that he never spoke better and more
sobcriy. 1t was only late in the festivities
and when called out second time that
Webster showed signs Of overlooking. AS
other public men have been accused of
being sick when they were drunk, it is fair
Webster should, even at this late hour, be
relieved of the charge Of inebriety Oh an
occasion when, if mellOwcd at all, it was
long after the hour OF his duty as an
orator.
In the NorristOwn casc Of a teacher on
trial for assault in having aoggcd school
boy, Judge Ross in his charge said, Was
tho punishment inflicted by the teacher
upon the pupil unnecessary, unreasonable,
or disproportionate if SO, the defendant
was guilty of the charge" The jury
found that he was not guilty, and further
that the father of the child should pay the
costs. The Times of that place wisely
says "Whcn We consider that the
child was but . years Of age, and that he
was beaten black and blue and the Of