Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-04


upon popular federation which his ap'
pointment would involve.
Those Big Bills.
With regard to the q" big bills " paid by
Commissioners BushOng and Coble,
under such suspicious circumstances,
and after the resolution of the board to
close the business of their term, we are
informed by John H. Barnes, job printer,
that he had no interest whatever in the
bill presented and Ibid not get FIVE
cents" from the warrant drawn in his
name that for all blanks furnished to
Clerk Urban he had been paid already or
held him, and not the county responsible,
and that only his name was used in
the transaction by which Urban got his
S2ll.5O for blanks furnished for his own
use, by his .own order, and the like Of
which the county officers and not the
county ought to pay for. 1t was an i'm
pudent grab, and the two commissioners
who voted for it helped to perpetrate a
fraud upon the county,
In regard to the fees due to the county
we are Informed that Boss McMellen is
settling to-day and that the INTELLI-
GENCER's expose of the commissioners
doings has been promptly followed by the
payment of the long delinquent jury fees
into the county treasury.
Statements differ as to the time when
Urban and McMellen got their warrants.
All agree that it was after COble.
Bushong and Montgomery met and
concluded the business of their term,
and by agreement finally closed the office
so far as they were entrusted with its
administration"
AS to the services rendered by the
prothonotary for the $l,sOO secured by
McN1ellen-at the suggestion of Judges
Livingston and Patterson that he should
be livery literally compensated 1T
seems that they have been accomplished
entirely in the past year, by the extra
help i'm that office of J. Kahler Snyder
only, off and on, and that he and Mcneil
len are the beneficiaries of the very lib
eral compensation which the commits
siOners first refused to approve and
which was afterwards approved by
Coble and Bushong.
So to speak, McMellen is /" very liber-
ally compensated young man.
&c nipinn fhof thn
people who set out to answer Ingersoll
are advertising Ingersoll and themselves.
Mr.. PATrIsoN, of Philadelphia, may be
considered to he fairly in the field for the
Democratic nomination of governor, and
his friends have secured the temporary Or
ganization of the conventions to elect dele
gates.
THE Titusville Morning Herald notices
the end Of the World, it's late contcm-
porary, in nearly two columns of obituary
about the livest editorial matter and
| the largest quantity Of it ever seen in the
| survivor.
Mr.. SAMUEL JosEPHs, of Philadelphia,
has done good thing in prosecuting the
notorious Robert Lister Smith for shoot
ing him in the foot on the way home from
| the last Democratic state convention. 1t
is all the more commcndable because it
had been charged that Smith knew too
much for Joscphs to deal with him so Wig
| orously.
The Sunbury Democrat thinks the
ticket "to sweep the state" is {: Gov,
Hon. S. P. Wolverton, of Sunbury Lieut..
Gov, Hon. Robert E. Pattison, of Philadel.
phia Supreme Judge, Hon. VIM. j.
Baer, of Somerset &; Secretary Of Internal
Affairs, J. Simpson Africa, of Hunting
don. Some of the energy now devoted to
getting up tickets will come very handy
about election time.
WHEN the bill for printing Judge Pat
terson's paper book in the Steinman-Hen-
sci distarment case was presented to the
county commissioners-by whom it had 10
more right to be paid than judges
butcher bill-it was ordered to be paid, ,un
der mistaken idea, the commissioners have
told us, that they were liable for it, The
amount of it, to our best information, has
never been refunded. This was q case of
something more than a every liberal "
compensation.
LAST spring certain attaches Of the
legation, from Franco, Spain and Brazil,
took a young lady of excellent family at a
fashionable party in Washington to an
upper room in the house and piled her
with champagne until she was drunk.
For this offense the young men were ex-
PEELED from the Metropolitan club, COM
posed of the elite of West End society
they were reported to Secretary Blaine,
| who made the matter the subject of di-
plomatic correspondence and requested the
recall of the offenders, which was made.
Now they have come back and Washington
society is celebrating what to do with
them. Deliberating Funny Wash
ingtOn society.
THE fashion of New Year calls and
lavish entertainments has well-nigh run
itself to death in New York, and OH Mon
day it was noticed that the usual compli-
uoents of the season vera Maid almost on