Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-24

CONGRESSMAN SCRANTON has sue.
ceeded in getting IN appropriation Of
Sl25y 900 through both houses of Con-
gress fora federal building st Scranton. It
would be interesting to know what claim
Scranton had for q government build
ing of that cost before Lancaster. Read
ing and some other towns in the state in
which the business transacted for the
government is much heavier than in
Scranton. But as that is a close con-
gressional district and Congressman
Scranton is in search Of reelection, an
appropriation of $125, 900 can be handled
to as good purpose as the job of building
" the middle penitentiary'' at Hunting
don was made to serve in that district
four years ago. After the state
had been induced to vote several
hundred thousand dollars for that
penitentiary and State Senator Fish
er, who got the job through, had
himself elected to Congress by means of
it, it was discovered that no such peni-
Tertiary was needed and the unfinished
structure is expected to be turned into a
reformatory or probably will yet be made
into another state agricultural college,
after several hundred thousand dollars
more have been spent upon it.
The anti i-Briggs pronunciamento now
numbers S3G signatures of members of
the Philadelphia bar. And still Briggs
thinks it is not going to be much of a
shower.
As Senator Ingalls, has a pass key to the
White House, it is suspected that his fight
against the river and harbor bill is made
with tho knowledge that Arthur has a
notion to veto this bill, with view of re-
gaining some of his lost popularity.
If the government fails to make out o
case of conspiracy against the Star Route
thieves as seems not unlikely-the pub.
lie will suspect a conspiracy between the
prosecution" and defense, which is al.
together likely considering the political
relations Of Bliss and Brady.
WHEN a variety show manager in
Washington wanted to find dozen girls
to act as " living statues in the national
capital he struck for Philadelphia and got
them. They ought to be stood up in the
gallery of the capitol to show what
the commonwealth of William Penn has
come to.
The Sun is very emphatically OF the
opinion that as now managed and printed,
the Congregational Record is a disgrace te
Congress and fraud on the people, for il
is q perennial lie, waste basket Of un
spoken speeches and a lying reporter o
speeches that were spoken. Another critic
aptly says that tho rule appears to be tt
print what can't be said and to say what
can't be printed.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER is talk
cd of for the succession to the English
ministry. He does not seem to be of any
use in the Star Route trial and might try
his hand at giving the tail Of the British
lion twist. At any rate he would show
the court of St. James a style of gorgeou.
attire that it hasn't seen since Beacons
field, his green coats, checkered panta-
looms aud frog chains went to glory.
GEN. BILLOr is probably tie most pop
ular man in tho French army for restor
ing the ld-fashioned drum The drum
was probably introduced into Europe b,
the Saracens, whose kettle drums were
captured by Charles Martel at Tours. Il
seems to have been adopted very quickly
in both Latin and Angle-Saxon countries
but in France it was held in much more
honor than in England, and its exclusion
from the army on the ground that warned
the enemy has been very unpopular.
SOMEBODY should clip off the ears y
Judge Advocate Swain. He maintains
that Sergeant Mason ought to be let OF
because he is not technically guilty o
trying to shoot Guiteau, rs that william w
out Of his range. This, too, despite tn
fact that the evidence to sustain tn
charge Of intent to kill is contained il
Mason's own declaration, which forms
part Of the case.
81 hore I have killed him. DOM
know whether I have or not. Itried 4
kill him. I'm not going to come out her,
to guard t. assassin"
1t is evident that there is one crank still
at large.
A LONDON newspaper has been takin,
notice of what is called Drunkards
convention" and mentioned as an alarm
ing incident thereof that 10000 "Drunk
ard" were reported to have been present
On the strength of this it moralizes as t
what the possible effect may be of massinl
80 many inebriated persons, or those VIII
are evidently in sympathy with inebria
ton. The convention is said to hav
taken place In Indiana, and all of this Oh
citement has been occasioned by the mis-
!, take in reporting the annual gathering
ofthe Tunkers, fam,liarly called Dunk
ards:''
The manufactures of New York in 1SS
gave employment to 1901 men, 6S, 90
woman, and 8, ,9ss children, in all 21s, 81