Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-03

the consent of the stockholders, be trans
ferred from the board of directors of the
old bank to that of the new.
THE Examiner informs the Nep Era that
Sheriff High was an open and avowed
friend of Stehman' for Senator for months
before the primary" and that though High
was elected in the New Era combination Of
last year he was not elected By it, as he
"brought to it more strength in proper.
ton than any other, and that account
squared itself when the election was over.
He boro his share of the expenses of the
campaign, and when they were paid, and
the New Era got its share out of the pot,
the account was closed" This may be
news to the New Era, but tie Goods
truth" must be told by the heEraminer, even
though other hearts should bleed
For many years this journal has main
tanned the urgent need Of better attention
to the public roads and the economy OF
every district making its highways equal
to turnpikes and abolishing the obnoxious
toll-bar. 1t is all nonsense, however, to
talk about "a separate state depart
mcnt, which should be presided over by a
general superintendent of highways, under
whom should be deputy superintendent
in each county, who in turn would have
tho immediate control Of the township
supervisors" Every great reform must be
supported by popular opinion, and local
agitation for better supervisors, for per.
manent improvements by them and for the
gradual construction of hard stone road
by making few miles of it ovcry year, is
the way to get better roads.
PH1LADELPH1A's $500" is tho best in
the land and pays, s12, 900 improvements
having boen made out of last years in
come, nearly half the receipts being taken
in on Sunday. 1t is suggested that Bar.
NUNS ingenious device of escaping the
duties on animals imported by taking an
oath that he had imported Jumbo fol
breeding purposes, may save tho Quaker
City managers good deal of money yet,
if adopted by them. Thus far they never
seem to have thought of it yet sixteen
different classes of quadrupeds, from the
lion to the llama, and from the coat to the
kangaroo, have had young in their garden.
Recently there has been change in the
direction of the society and it happens
that among the new managers who Sc.
cured their election are number of the
Philadelphia Reformers, to whom the
witty Bulletin thus addresses some prac
ticai remarks They will find work to
do at the zoo, we'll as that establishment
is conducted. There have been ugly ru.
mors afloat for some time of unfair div.
vies among tho monkeys, and it is more
than limited that there has been some TAM
pering with the polls in the bear pit. The
prairie dogs are charged with getting up
an underground monopoly and tho bills
Of the macaws need careful auditing. The
elephants, are suspected of Master Don
affiliations, and the Wolfe family is not
properly represented. The rodents are
holding secret meetings at the Beavers
headquarters, and the timid gazelles are
subscribing to the Stalwart Gnus. The
giraffes are accused of living off of high
way pickings, and the sea-lions have been
dabbling with tho water department IN a
way that needs looking after"
WITH signal enterprise and coed taste
the Baltimore s. Ohio railroad company
have just issued publication which they
have appropriately entitled Picturesque
B. & o." and which is worthy to be con-
sidcred from high artistic standpoint. 1t
is work of one hundred and fifty odd
pages, of which the letter press is very
creditable specimen of typographical skill !;
is richly bound in illuminated paper covers,
designed and executed by tho American
bank note company, and is intended for
complimentary distribution among people
who may DO interested in the subject of
which it treats. The engravings, however,
are the leading feature of merit, and the
fact that they were all made expressly for
this publication gives them a freshness
and novelty that cannot fail to be appre
ciated. The skill of some of the foremost
artists and wood engravers of tho day has
been employed in the illustration, the
drawings being by Thomas Moran, w.
Hamilton Gibson, w. L. Sheppard, G. o.
Davidson, Sol Eytinge and George Ferris
and the cutting by Bogert, Harley,
Morse, Clement, Karst, Davis, Smart and
others. Many of the engravings would
adorn the pages of a first-class magazine,
the sketches are from nature, and the
effects are as a rule particularly fine.
Whilst intended as an advertisement by
the railroad company, the publication is
devoid of Objectionable flavor and there is,
too, an entire absence of the ordinary ad-
vertising features that are made conspicu-
Gus in similar works. The author and
planner of tho book is J. G.. Pangborn,
who in years gone by had some note as
newspaper man. His treatment of the
subject in hand, which is the story of a
trip through the valley of the Virginia and
over the line of the B. s. O., is easy, off
hand and unassuming. 1t is in narrative
style, a popularity being the absence of
personal pronouns.
PERSONAL.
Tho ex- Empress EUGENE, who has been
staying at Lyons on her way back from
MarSeilleS was mObbed and hootod nc aba