Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-26

breaking out Of the rebellions is proof
conclusive that he is not equal to the
situation of leader of his party. He
would he wise to retire before greater
grief comes to him.
THERE will be no fun for small boys in
apple stealing next autumn the crop
promises to be SO large that no boy will
care to eat apples.
SOME OF our esteemed Republican con.
temporaries have already begun to ex-
press the fear that this is to be made a
campaign of legs and crutches to the ex.
clusion of brains and principles.
LAST year there was convention of one
man in Pennsylvania and it polled fifty
thousand votes in the election. The same
ratio will hardly be maintained in Della
ware where yesterday five Greenbackcrs as
sembled and nominated themselves for the
various state Offices.
GOVERNOR CR1TTENDEN, Of Missouri,
feels good because "there is a healthier
feeling" in that state since the death of the
distinguished MIR. James. Mr.. CritIenden
says that travel has increased, the people
now feeling more secure while riding on
the rail.
The loyalty Of the Reading Times to the
Harrisburg ticket is SO Stalwart that it
keeps Marshall's name ut the head of its
editorial page as candidate for congress
man at-large. The Times gets its politi-
cal information straight from headquar-
ters, and Mr.. Cameron has for the past
few days been so busily occupied that he
hasn't had time to "b'ar de news to his
faithful organ in our neighboring' city.
NOTOKIETY seems in some cases to he
the highway to success. Sergeant Mason's
erratic shot at Guiteau was ] lucky stroke
of business for his family at least, and in-
dications arc that if he is pardoncd he
| will be taken better care of in private
service than he was in the army. And
now it is said that :; prominent theatrical
manager is anxious to obtain the acquittal
of Mrs. Wall for tho murder of her hus-
band that he may secure her services and
place her Oh the road as star.
THIS is what Senator Fair told a reporter
who asked him: GLOW are the China.
men going to like the Chinese bill %
"rLose in this country are delighted with
1t. 1t will decrease the volume of Chinese
labor and give the Mongolians now here Il
chance to raise their price. Do You KNOW
added tie senator, "there ale indications
that before long the almond eyed Celestials
will get out of California and put up cot
ton factories in Massachusetts, to compete
with Eastern CAPITALISTS They have
plenty of money to do it with
JUDGE ToURGEE is enjoying the wrath OF
some of the "truly ioyap' over the appear.
ance, in q recent number of Our Continent,
| Of poem on the Confederate " Memorial
Day." in which the heroes of the Lost
Cause were appropriately commemorated
The poem, which was not signed, was in
fact written by Judge Tourgee himself,
who had waited in vain for any Southern
poet to avail himself of the occasion, and
who repaired the omission by drawing or
himself. In the current number OF ON
Continent Judge Tourgee prints COM
panion piece, a Decoration day poem,
which is, like the other, something alto.
gether unique in its way.
PERSONAL.
MIR. w. H. VANDERBILT yesterday
| sailed from Liverpool for New York in the
| steamer Britannia.
PHILLIP CALLAN, Liberal member OF
the London Reform club yesterday.
DIR. DAVID H. NASH, one of the oldest
physicians in Connecticut, died at Bridge.
port on Wednesday evening, aged II
years.
JUDGE DAY of the probate court OF
Branstable county, Mass, has been re
moved from Office by a resolution of the
Assembly.
| FATHER CUDDIHY,of Milford, Mass,
"has announced that he will not permit
the Grand Army of the Republic to enter
the Catholic cemetery on Decoration day"
MAJOR CHARLES BURDETTE, the dwarf
with Forepaugh's show, yesterday died
of congestion of tho lungs, at Pontiac,
Mich, aged 80 years. He was thirty-two
inches high.
ROBERT S. DAVIS, treasurer of Our
Continent publishing company, and as.
sociate editor of the periodical has retired
from business on account of ill health.
The greater share of his interest in the
company has been purchased by his as
sociatcs, Judge A. w. Tourgee and DIR. d.
G. Brinton.
REV. JOHN FITZMAURICE, rector of St.
Agatha's Roman Catholic church, in Phila.
dolphia, and we'll known in this city, was
presented with purse of 81 100 by his
parishioners on Wednesday evening. The
reverend gentleman sails for Europe to.
morrow on the City of Rome. accompanied
10y his brother, Rev. James j. Fitzmaur-
ice, Of the Church of the Sacred Heart.
CRUSHED In A TUNNEL.
by n Fall of ROCK.
The new tunnel of the New York, On
tario and Western railroad, at Union Hill,
| N. Y. was the scene of an accident by
which two men, JamesMulcair and BARLEY
Fox, lost their lives, while Charles Brown,
| q fellOw-workman, escaped with serious
| injuries. The men had barely commenced
to set drill in what is known as "the
western apartment of shaft 4" when a
| huge mass of rock, weighing over twenty