Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-22

phia Press to name the candidate for sec
retary of internal affairs and all will be
we'll. Grace, mercy and peace.
The selection of all blonde iurymen to
try tho Malley case is new wrinkle in
criminal trials. Are the Saxon-featured
milder hammered men?
THE Half Breeds arc now congratulating
themselves that much has been accom-
plisbed Gin forcing the machine to take up
good man like Gen. Beaver AS tho
first mention Of Beavers candidacy was by
Cameron, at Chicago, in return for his be-
trayal of his constituents, it would be in
teresting to know when tho Half-Breed
pressure was first applied.
MANTRoP, one of the Peruvian COM
pany's agents who is in Jail in Philadel-
phia, threatens to smash the china when
he gets before the congressional commit
tee. He says he can clear both Hurlbut
and Blaine, who resented attempts to
bribe them that Senator MACPHERSON, Of
New Jersey, was heavy stockholder in
this company and Grant, too, but that
Blair and Boutwell, were only hired coun-
sci.
A DISAPPOINTED or dismissed deputy
has begun proceedings to oust the sheriff
of York county from Office because, in
order to get it, this official promised an
appointment under him to the now dis.
gruntled deputy. The proceedings would
command more respect if they were inspired
by better motives, but if custer for this
cause is 20 be the order of the day there
are not many county officials in the state
whose heads cannot be tumbled into the
basket. Even our present worthy Re,
form Sheriff will not deny that his election
was accomplished by the bargain to make
Hippey ana Strine his deputies.
ACATAsAUQUAl lawyer went to Allentown
the other day with ponderous remon-
STRANGE against the granting of hotel and
restaurant licenses in the former borough
bulging out of his overcoat pocket. He
was the representative of body of coffee
crusaders of tho feminine gender, who for
several weeks previous had been conduct.
ing vigorous campaign against malt and
spirituous liquors and procuring sigma
lures to their extensively circulated. petit
tions for closing the dram shops. When
the legal luminary arrived at the county
seat he hung his outer garment in the
corridor of the hotel, but when the court
house bell rang and he went to get the
precious document out Of his coat pocket
it wasn't there-some wicked ono had
stolen it, and there being no oremonstrance
and NO witnesses on hand, the licenses
were all granted, beer was victorious and
coffee was pronounced defunct beverage
iu the borough of Catasauqua.
THE New York Times seems to think
hanging was wasted on Sindram, the wife
murderer, as he did not appreciate it. He
regarded it simply as the least disagree
able means of escape from bad predica-
ment, and took it in preference to life i'm !
prisonment. "The story of Sindram's |
crime, trial, and death is so unreal, so dis.
similar to any other case in the chronicles
of felony, that it seems out of it's place in |
the world of actualities, and would be less !
confusing to the understanding and far
more pleasing to the fancy if it existed
only in the pages of romance. In Balzac
We should call it a wonderful piece of in
vention. As an incident in one of Victor
Hugo's tales that midnight game of casino
between two murderers. one at the halter's
end and the other with but week to live
would faScinafe tha shud6orin0 roadar