Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-08


was more than gentle and lovely she
was wise and strong and noble. Her
judgment was good, her heart generous
and her influence great. She has gone
but her bright character remains rs an
exemplar to those who have basked in
its sunlight and were ever better for it.
THE House committee on civil service
reform has agreed upon a bill elevating
the department of agriculture to Il cabinet
Office.
The House las adopted a resolution
permitting the contestant in the Alabama
contested case of Matson VS.. Oates to
withdraw his papers. This leaves Mr..
Oates in possession of the seat.
A PERkY-BELMoNr young man;
\ poloand-pluck young man
A match-fOr-chicanery.
Mainery- Blatnery.
Not-to-be blutfed young man.
A dodgcas-you can Jim Blaine;
smart, "Go in-Stevc" Jim Blaine:
Guano Peruvian,
ked-hot-vesuvian,
Trapped-by-a-boy Jim Blaine.
WHEN Colonel Abe Buford, the veteran
turfman, joined the church short time
since, it was announced that he had alb
jured horse racings as one Of the deadly
sins, but the colonel rises to remark that
he did nothing of the kind. He still loves
good horse, he secs no reason why a
Christian should not take the conceit out
of a man who has slower horse, and he
believes that racing il a necessary incen-
tive to tho extreme improvement of blood
and training in the trotting horse. Evi-
IDENTIFY religion has not disturbed the nor
NAL level of tho colonels head.
WHARTON BARKER's American analyzes
the recent declarations of the recent Stal
wart Independent conference and asserts
that Quay and his colleagues in signing
them strike their chief direct cut across
the face "Unless the representatives of
Mr.. Cooper who signed the declarations
sincerely intend to change the machine
methods of Pennsylvania Republicanism,
and so to overthrow tho boss system
which now controls the state, they should
at once announce the withdrawal of their
signatures from the document of May 1st.
It binds them to tho work of reform, or it
stamps them as dishonest signers.''
SOCIALLY Gen. Malone has always been
tine most ambitious man that ever walked.
OF all the kicks he has received, the one
that did most to send him into tho Repub
lican party was when Virginia society
showed him the door, and the people whom
he had wined and dined and by whom he
had been invited to their big parties
and left out of their little ones, reminded
him that although he could run the polit-
cal machine, the social machine Was be
yond him. No doubt it would have beeu
greater triumph for him to have one OF
those very men, whom politically he has
for time defeated, come up and recognizes
him, than twice the fawning he has
received from the Republicans. He is
habitually nervous and i'll at ease, in gen.
eral society; while his big, placid wife
stands by his side, gorgeuosly dressed,
gushed over by one-haif the company and
silently ignored by the other.
Or all the screaming absurdities a So
cial cynic can see at a presidential levee,
the position occupied by Bruce, the color
ed ex-senator and present register of the
treasury, and his wife, is described as the
most farcical. The male element of the
Republican party nod to Bruce, sometimes
in condescending way which is meant
to be friendly, and again, with surrep-
titious glance around to see if anybody is
looking. The Republican ladies hanging
on their arms are purblind to Bruce and
stoneblind to his wife, and skurry away
from her like lightning. They dare not,
for their lives, speak civil word to
either. The Southerners on the contrary
speak to them in good humored way, as
much as to say, Well, how do you like
yourself in your new station ?" Occasion
ally, Southern woman audaciously goes
up, is introduced to them, and after talk
ing for few moments to them goes back
to her coterie to say, "Actually, my dear,
have talked to a darky in drawing
room. You don't know how queer it
seemed -
Dropped Dead In the Street.