Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

party to prostitute powee in order to n
tain power, b showing ne villainEof Gel
present scheme to admtt Dakota, .WasA-
ington Territory and New Mexico as
states, with tbree representatives, six
senator's and nine electoral votes. though
their aggregate population is little If any
more than one-third the population of
Philadelphia, that has ouly five congress
men. With the same representation that
the admission Of the three pocket states
would give them, Philadelphia should
have fifteen congressman and eighteen
senator's. The following is the population
of the proposed new pocket states, COM
pared with the three most populous coun-
ties of Pennsylvania
Nsw Msxco
Alleghe ny ...... .336, ,OOJ Dakota (partl 10000
Lancaster. .l3s,OOO Washington. 5000
In addition to the foregoing counties,
Luzerne has 133, 600 Schuylkill has $780,
600, and Berks has 126, 900 each of them
possessing more Of the attributes Of
commonwealth than either of the pro-
posed pocket states. The Democrats at
tempted to play the same party cunning
when they admitted Colorado, but they
lost I'll cir presidential candidate by tho
vote Of the pocket state they created:
Nevada now has no more population than
the upper senatorial district of Lancaster
county.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. ALGERN0N SARToRIs, who is now in
Washington, will accompany Gen. Grant
and his party on their Southern tour.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is fond
of the laRorlng oar, and often rows him
self over to Cambridge to lecture.
HARRY GARFIELD, the late presidents
son, is said to be engaged matr;monially
to Miss Lulu Rockwell, the daughter of
Col. Rockwell.
DIR. BRowN.SEQUARD has declined the
position of court physician at Madrid,
much to the astorishment of the French
papers.
Mrs. ANNA RHoNE, of Lock Haven, is a
| niece of Gen. Benedict Arnold, of revolu-
tionary fame. Sho is 80 years of age, was
born in Philadelphia and came to that
section years ago with her mother, who
was Arnold S sister.
In CINCINNATI lately Prof. l.. LEO, a
dancing master accomplished the task of
waltzing ten miles without moments
rest and without once breaking step. He
changed partners sixty-seven times, cx-
! hausted 4 dozen ladies and gentlemen and
quit quito cheerful, declaring he could spin
| off five miles more.
Sir William V. Harcourt. HOME Secre-
| tary, acknowledges the receipt of al ap-
plication for the respite of DR.. LAMsoN.
The principal grounds for the application,
in addition to those previously mentioned,
| are the absence of a crime. the unreliability
of the evidence ofthe persons who profess
having sold the poison, and of the expert
ments on animals.
| ZACH CHANDLER didn't think much of
the robes in which the supreme Judges ar
ray themselves, and it is said of him that
lie once said to SALMON P. CHASE, form
er chief justice =" Salmon, when you have
your ID old jacket on you look every
inch q Judge" There is no reason why
! orc of these gowns should be called 4
Iijacket, for the skirt reaches the floor.
Judge BLATCHFORD is known to all the
second hand book stall keepers and junk
dealers in New York, not as the richest
and most industrious judge on any bench,
but as the man who collects old almanacs.
| This whimsical pursuit is almost mania
with Judge Blatchford. From the state
lest nautical almanac down to the hum
| blest patent medicine annual, nothing
with the signs of the zodiac and the phases
of the moon is foreign to his tastes.
a widower president more than rivals
the unmarried preacher in the number of
tender souvenirs received. Several who
have lately had the privilege of seeing
President ARTHUR's bed chamber speak of
the dressing table and other tables in the
room being fairly covered with dainty
gifts. There are numberless mouchoir
cases and glove boxes, sachets and other
such elegant trities, all labeled "Souvenir''
or Remembrance, "Token of Friend
ship" Forget-me-not,' or bearing SINH
lar suggestive legends.
il Times correspondent says Speaker
kEIFER has not the respect of the body
over which he presides. He is getting
further and further away from it every
day. If he does not mind his own he
will he driven from the speakers chair in
disgrace. This want of respect is first for
the man second, because Of the bargains
which made him speaker; third, the pal
pable unfairness and disgracefu! favor
itism in the formation Of the committees
fourth his incompetency as a presiding
officer.
or the bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, Bishop SCOTT is in such fail
ing condition at his home in Odessa, Del,
that his death is expected. He is moro
than 80 years of age. He is almost blind,
and is helpless, owing to paralysis. Bishop
PECK is recovering from severe and pro-
longed attack Of illness, and is beginning
| to sit up in bed, Bishop BOWMAN was