Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-28


newspapers he would be seen to be really
little fellow.
THEY were cousins and loved in Boston,
aud she said in Bostonese. "If our grand
mother had had but one daughter instead
Of two we should have been brother and
sister. darling.'
ARCHBISHOP LYScH's lately developed
hostility to Sir Walters Marmion," "
which he says is " insulting to Catholics, -
revives the memory of the Christian
zealot who thrashed Jew within an
inch of his life for the crime of Calvary,
saying that he had only heard of it yes.
terday."
"a WISE economy mus: be enforced in
the public expense. Profuse expenditure
by government is not only burdensome in
itself, but generates in officials spirit of
profigacy which permeates even private
life. Extravaganza breeds extravaganza
Every useless expenditure creates an ex
cuse, if it does not cause a necessity. for
further waste. ."-From Rattison's Common.
acealth Club speech.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR continues to figure
as the great peripatetic mystery. He has
Just left New York. Mr.. Arthur has had
the pleasantest presidential vacation on
record. He has enjoyed himself precisely
as he pleased, has chosen his own associ-
ates, has effectually shaken off the cares
of business and is apparently determined
not to 60 back to the White House until
frost has nipped the ghost Of the Potomac
fats. 1t is safe to say that no man ever
enjoyed being president more nor under
stood more thoroughly how to get at all
the good things therein.
The man tha. forged the name of COL
lectOr Robertson to the mysterious
" French |" Saratoga telegram has not
been discovered yet, but there is an earn
est endeavOr on the part Of tho collector
and his friends to ferret him out that is
to say, if he really has any existence dis
sOciated from the person or persons who
were directly or Indirectly benefited by
the trick. Police Commissioner French
reiterates his denial that he knows any.
thing about the authorship, and this but
stimulates to fresh exertions the detectives
that are trying to find ont all about it.
Fac Smiles of the forgery are printed in
the newspapers, and tho Republican gen.
eral committee prOclaims its I" detesta-
ton Of tho act. But, notwithstanding
all this outcry. the conviction is expressed
that the public will never be any wiser
about it than it is already. 1t has all the
information it will ever get.
IT was 4 bad day altogether for the
preachers and the churches. We read OF
Que recreant shepherd running away with
the eve lamb Of the fold, who happened
to he the wife of a parishioner; at another
place a preacher has been detected in the
reprehensible practice Of sending love let
ters to fair daughter of the flock. he be.
ing married man the monotony Of the
days record was varied by a worthy dea.
con who rearly clubbed the life out of his
Clergyman, with whom he had a slight
alteration, while two boys broke Into
their pastors house in a New YorE
town and stole largo quantity Of vair'
ables. In Mississippi they are talk.
ing about lyncbing a minister fol
a mu-derous crime committed by his
son. The affair in a Virginia church,
when two prominent pillars settled a dis
pute by morta'ly shooting each other,
and sending the bullets in unpleasant
proximity to tho preachers head, com.
prised a picturesque climax to what waf
certainly an uncommon days experience
for tho church militant in this range of
| country.