Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-28

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Mr.. Cyrus w. Fields individual notion
of the existence of this occasion prove
the good sense and good taste of tn
people and his own lack of both. ..
SAN JOsEPHs contributes another ant
still more interesting letter from Lon
don to the Philadelphia Times. He al
together distances Rev. DIR. Tiffany.
correspondence from abroad to the sam,
enterprising journal, and if he keeps OF
a popular suspicion will get abroad that
such able letters as Josephs' could not be
written anywhere outside of the Time.
Office except at Cresson.
MINOR TOPICS.
w. II. KEMBLE, erstwh;le "Bill," j.
scjourning at Bedford springs, where he
is expected to take classes in Tradition,
division and silence"
THERE ara only sixty-six candidates for
county commissioners, etc., up in Lycom.
ing, and everybody has quit work and sits
on the fence to SEQ the procession 80 by.
If Messrs. Rockwell. Brown & Co.. have
any kind Of luck they will make the patient
out to be an illustrious imbecile. It is
charitable to assume the venerable plati-
tudes telegraphed from Washington to be
emanations of moro plebian wit at the ex-
pense OF the presidential helplessness.
CHARITY covers multitude of sins, but
the mantle thrown over the Albany in
iquity is not all wool and yard wide.
Disposing of the ill-gotten $1,000 to the
relief of the INDECENT is in itself worthy
conception, yet the underlying motive is
too gauzy to make up the warp and woof
of substantial fabric.
FROM the agitation in the West Chester
papers of the repeal Of the law authoriz-
ing market clerks to confiscate light weight
butter, We suspect that Chester county
dairymen use fourteen.Ounce pound
weights habitually. The logic of the
Village Record is that because the purlieus
Of Philadelphia nourish thieves the simple
minded rural rooster ought to be allowed
to sell short weight butter with impunity.
JUSTICE in New York is swift, however
sure. The other day one justice disposed
of LOG cases in three hours, allowing lit
tie less than two minutes to the adjudica-
tion of each case. This sort of rapid tran
sit may be authorized for those in de-
fcnseless quarters, but it would bankrupt
the concern projecting it through the pre-
serves called the rights of man, if backed
by the might of means. The Fairweather
case is sample of the quality of justice
dispensed (with) by these tribunals, and
makes ono wish that the old dame who
holds the balances would adjust her spec
tacles and peer about little in this rush.
ing nineteenth century.
MIR. JOHN Roach is parsonage whose
deliverances upon matters of national i'm
port are certain to have the merit of novel;
ty. MI. Roach has conceived and brought
forth scheme whereby the United States
is to rank among the first maritime powers
of the earth. The salient feature is fleet
of one hundred iron clad vessels, of the
3.G5 interconvertible S. T. 1860 X style of
architecture, serviccable as merchantmen
i'll the halcyon days of peace, but con-
vertiblc into A 1 men of war when wars
horrid front menaces us. Mr.. Roach de-
murely remarks that the government could
find " somebody" to undertake the con-
of these hybrid terrors of the sea,
but neglects to point out how the invinci-
BILE merchantmen are to be employed when
The inventor must devise a
policy foc the government, to round out
his plan, for under existing inhibitory
statutes American commerce is filed away
among tho achives Of tho republic. Mr..
Roach's well-known disinterestedncss dis
arms suspicion of ulterior motives he i,
by the natural desire to sec
every tub stand or sail on its own bottom !;
visions of Brazilian subsidies and Robson
ian traffic in old junk are as repuguant to
his purposes as they arc, foreign to his
nature. :.