Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-05

state this great monopoly does pay tax
on the millions it has earned at the eX-
pense of Pennsylvania's material inter-
ests.
Hon. JOHN NJ. STEHMAN should refer
his case to George H. Ettla and J. AL
Stober who are said to he having it under
consideration.
Hon. A. HERR SMITH announces him
self as candidate for Congress, but omits
to refer by permission" "as to charac-
ter and qualifications to Major Elwood
Griest.
1T is good sport for Squire SAM Evans
when he is hunting up local history, but
when the local history begins to hunt him
the sensation changes as rapidly as when
the tiger went in search of the Frenchman.
| JOHN H. FREY, esq.,, refers "by permis-
sion," as to character and qualifications, I"
to Levi Sensenig, Jake Price and other
members of the board of return judges
over whom he presided so ably in 1880.
AND now the Examiner charges the
editor of the Ner Era with having allowed
Democrats to edit his paper away back in
1861, when Judge Long beat Alex Hood
for judge. Is there no statute of limita-
tions in this thing:
fol foA In,
a tax of one cent each on the telegraph
messages sent and received at all Offices in
the state, making no discrimination be-
tween kilograms sent to points within and
without the state lines, has been pro-
nounced unconstitutional by the United
States supreme court, as an embargo on
inter state commerce.
THE FIRST BLUEBIRD.
dreamy haze of sunlight floats
! Across the shining fields OF snow,
| And ripping through the glory, How
A few delicious, liquid notes.
! 1t Is the first warm day of spring,
When tender breeZes wander by;
| And bluer than the soft blue sky
see the bluebirds radiant wing.
Thy message. gentle bird. know
Immortal hope thou bringest me
OF love and beauty yet to be;
or summers sure beyond the snow.
Harriet E. Paine.
SON-IN-LAw Boyer, in announcing him.
self as candidate for county solicitor,
proudly refers :" by permission Gas to
character and qualifications, to Hon. J.
B. Livingston. Hon. J. P. Wickersham,
LII. D., Abraham Bruner, Samuel NJ.
Myers, Joseph Mcclure, JohnI. Hartman,
The familiar names of Commodore John
A. Hiestand and Calvin Carter, P. L., arc
missing from this list.
AT Bishop Cheney's Reformed Episco.
pal church in Chicago an abbreviated form
of the prayer book service is printed on a
card, a copy being furnished to each per.
son on entering the church. This is found
very acceptable to strangers, to whom the
work of finding tho places in the different
parts of a prayer book is always confus.
ing. The people who attend the church
are permitted to take the cards home with
them as a memcnto of their visit. The
cost of the cards is trifing, compared with
the convenience they afford.
OUR enterprising contemporary the Ee
aminer must be congratulated on the sue
cess which attended its efforts to raise a
subscription for the relief of Sergeant Ma.
sons " Betty and the Baby" Together
our Republican contemporaries have COL
lected over $500 in this community, of
which the Examiners subscription was
much the larger portion, about $3.50. But
then the New Era had drawn on the pa.
triotism of its readers for penny subscrip-
tions to Burkholder's bell! By the way
how many were there of them in all?
THE president yesterday Sent to the
House communication from Secretary
Frelinghuysen in reply to a resolution of
that body adopted January 31st, asking
for list of American citizens confined in
British prisons under suspension of the
habeas corpus act, and requesting if not
incompatible with public interest, copies
of the correspondence relating to such
citizens. The secretary says that for some
time past negotiations have been carried
on between the two governments Gin a
spirit of entire friendship, and on. tho Sd
inst, information was received by the
department of state that all the American
citizens held as prisoners in Ireland had
been released except three, and that since
that date the further information had
reached him that O'Conner, Hart, Walsh,
Dalton and White are now in prison."
The secretary adds: "The negotiations
are still being conducted with a view to
tho release of the remaining prisoners,
and hope is entertained that the result
will be reached satisfactory and honorable
alike to both governments.
Whipping Post In Canada.
James Chute, the Norfolk county school
teacher, who was committed to the Central
prison at Toronto for fifteen months for
attempted felonious assault on one of his
pupils, on Tuesday received the first in
stallment of forty lashes, also portion of
his sentence He bore up we'll after the
third or fourth blow. He received twenty
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