Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-26

town than Lancaster.
EVEN Harper's Weekly thinks Fitz John
Porter cruelty wronged man.
STEHMAN has about concluded not to
run in Strasburg-not this time.
IT is Valentine day in the Kaufman
family, but the postman brought A. J.'s
first.
THERE may be two senators from Penn
sylvania, but Arthur does not seem to
have heard of it.
MAYBE Arthur got copy of Mitchelrs
letter and meant we'll, but mixed these
Kauffmans up.
SENATOR MITCHELL has a finc chance
now to show that he is something more
than q "ready letter writer"
IF the Ncw Era hadn't kept calling so
vocife:ously Remember Chicago" Ar
thur might have overlooked the fact that
Kaufman GA. J.) had been there.
IT was very clever in Cameron TO take
Kaufman GA. j. in out of the wet before
he and Mitchell held their conference and
agreed on an even division of tho spoils.
If Brosius wants a square game mex
Saturday, he should either demand a clean
deck at the outset or get somebody to
mark the aces for him. Verbum sap.
IT won't do for the NeU Era to snecr at
tho Cameron bosses saluting him pa
tronizingly as Mr.. Sensenig." 1t was
quite as polite when Mr. Sensenig" and
his heelers were helping to steer tho Re
form boat.
THE Examiner scores one on its Reform
contemporary when it suggests what hy'
drophobic spasms would have ensued in
the other camp had tho Examiner pub
lished doubled-leaded letter from Sena-
tor Cameron to Editor Hiestand, urging
tho Lancaster county Republicans to elect
Stehman.
In Odessa the poorer Jews arc said to be
marrying at the rate Of $50 couples per
day. They imagine that if they are mar,
ried land will be given to them free in
America or Palestine. Some enterprisins
Dauphin county man should 60 over there
and start a marriage insurance company.
1t would be beyond Attorney General Pal
mer's jurisdiction.
THIS from the Stalwart North american
"The election prosecutions in South Caro-
lima do not appear to pan out very power
fully. 1t is perhaps much to be desired
that the United States government should
not, even by implication, seem to be 4
prosecutor, yet the virtual abandonment!
of some of the cases after putting the de-
PENDANTS to considerable expense and not 4
little obIoquy has very much that aspect. -
A SPIRITED contest is progressing
among the United Presbyterians over
the question Of instrumental music in
SAuACh SCANICOo. A0 loICbJ SAO"
vote of ST. ministers and elders for and
572 against it. The presbyteries yet to be
heard from are Bloomington, Oregon, San
Francisco and Caledonia. When the re
turns are all in, it is believed that the
presbyteries who are opposed to churcl,
organs will be beaten by small ma
jority.
The Neao Era doubtless means well
when it speaks of Judge Livingston ''hew
ing his own fortune out of the rough con-
tour Of the country boy, AZ the artist
chisels his Adonis or Venus out Of the un.
shapely MARBLE" But it rather spoils the
compliment when it attributes his embar.
easements on the bench to those ''amiablc c
infirmities" which prevent enforcement
of judicial discipline among old profes
sional companions" The Nep Era will
have to do better if it wants to get an eek.
press request from the judge in behalf OF
J. W. Johnson-who is for Butler first,
and after that for Livingston
Could anything be in more execrable
taste than the "most popular piece of
music ever published in this country,
called the Verdict March, composed by
Eugene L. Blake, written in an easy
style, so that it can be played either on
piano or organ ; title page very handsome
containing portraits of Hon. Geo. Il
Corkhill, Hon. J. X. Porter, and Judge w.
S. Cox also correct picture of the
twelve jurymen who convicted the assassin
Of our late beloved president ?" or course
it will DO supplemented by Hangman's
Galop,' containing correct portrait of
Guiteau dressed in a hempcn neck-tie.
As Mr.. Brosius's candidacy on the
Beaver ticket "by express request Of
Judge Livingston is worrying the ether
side, the New Era ladies out the taffy
very lavishly to Judge Livingston. 1t
suddenly discovers that Mr.. Rawle is
an exceedingly unpopular man with the
masses in Philadelphia, and the opinion
that he is not the right kind of material
for judge is not confined to any class or
faction )" and McManes, who is down on
Rawle simply because Rawle is a munici-
pal Reformer and has antagonized the
Gas Trust bosses, is discovered by the
Era to be pretty good man, after all,
who "moves in sympathy with the
Masses" and the Ne,u Era party "now
patronizingly salute him a. Mr.. Me-