Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-07

manufacturing districts. Nine-tenths OF
those thus afflicted are workers in iron
and steel and have been struck in the eye
by the metal clippings.
DURING the year which ended with
May, 1880, the deep and placer mines of
the United States produced gold and sill
yer Of the total assay value of $74, $50, ,620.
The gold was worth s33, ,6O9, ,6s3 ; the sill
yer al, ITO, ,957.
AT general Mormon conference hold
ing in St. Louis, over five hundred dele
gates are present from all over the United
States and Canada, and several from Eng
land. The president and prophet. Joseph
Smith, jr., son of Joseph Smith, ST., trans
lator of tho Book of Mormon, presides
over the meeting.
A GREAT many young women who have
been curious about the authorship of
molly Bawn," "Airy Fairy Lillian
ct I'd omne genus, and possibly few who
have been blamed with it, will be relieved
to know that their author is Mrs. Angles,
an Englishwoman, one Of the large sister,
hood of minor novelists doing excellent
work.
HAnPER's Weekly takes a sound and
sensible view of the cranky proposition to
pardon Mason who, it declares, in attempt
ing to murder a prisoner whom he was
set to protect has committed crime
against civilization itself. To exempt him
from punishment, it thinks, would be to
let every individual be the judge of who
ought to be killed, and the executioner Of
his own judgment; which is almost all
that Guiteau claimed OF exercised the
right to do.
THE Shifiler fire company, which has so
bitterly denounced the "call SYSTEM"
offers its services to the city in case Of an
emergency. This is clever. We do not
sec why they should not be accepted, sub
ject of course, to the direction and con-
troll of the chief engineer and his regula-
tions when the "emergency arises. The
fire engine and hose committee, by the
way, viii! henceforth be one of the most
important of councils, and it is notably
we'll made up Of practical men, who mean
business and will indulge in no nonsense.
ARTHUR shows his hand again, and this
time there is hardly a silk covering over
the glove of steel. He has nominated Ro-
land Worthington for collector of Boston
over Beard, although both senators and
every Republican member of the delega.
ton except Bowman and Norcross favored
the denomination of Beard. Mr.. Worth
ington is Stalwart, and his nomination
is a marked recognition Of that element of
the party in Massachusetts. The nomina-
ton of Worthington has created more ex-
citement in the Massachusetts, delegation
than any event since the time ex-Presi-
dent Grant made Simmons, General But.
ler's friend, collector of tho port.
WHILE our local medical society has
been joining with some local concern "way
down upon the Suwanee river" in condemn
ing the action of the New York state So
ciety in voting to ignore a part of their
.s:code Of ethics," referring to con-
sultations with other than regular
physicians, the st. Louis medical
society has been considering the question
Of so amending the code as to permit
consultations with homepaths. The ma
jority of a committee reported that the
change ought to be made soon, but not
just yet, and the minority favored imme-
date action. Some of these days even Rev.
John Jasper will find out that " the world
do move."
SHIPHERD is cool customer. This de-
licious morsel from his testimony before
the House committee can hardly fail to he
enjoyed by Blaine's friends
In October last had conversation with
Mr.. Blaine, occasioned by indications that
Gen. Hurlbut was then in the pay of tn,
Credit Industriel, and asked him if he
knew about these serious charges, aud es-
pecially the adjudication in the supreme
court. His energetic reply was "Oh,
bless your soul, went through these years
and years ago. know all about them,
court report and all and, for my part, L
never could see anything really out of tho
way in that business. At any rate, it is
of no importance, for Steve was elected to
Congress three or four times on that issue,
with the whole record published all over
his district" did not at that time think
proper to question the right of the head of
a cabinet to toss the supreme court out Of
one window, and the war department out
of another but when he ventured on an
attempt to amend the record of the House
of Representatives, I thought had a right
to hesitate in my own mind and I did.
This publication was made on the Sd of
November, 1876, and I am able to lay be-
fore the committee the certificate of the
clerk IF House that Gen. Hurlbut never
served in Congress after that date.
Mr.. Blaine's ''energetic'' reply is so very
characteristic that its literal report can
hardly be doubted and his tendency to
toss the supreme court out o; one
window and the war department
out of another, while he holds 4
pen between his teeth to amend the House
record, is 80 like Blaine that We would
have known him even if the considerate
Shipherd, instead of mentioning his name
had represented him with an "algebriac
SYMBOL
THERE has been no such popular and
successful publication of its kind ever es-
tablished in this countrv as Puck. The