Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-09

New York, the 7riJ,ne-fOundered by
Whitelaw Reid-does not denounce him
as I. bad lot, as Reid did in his famous
midnight dispatch to Garfield.
The law of compensation is inexorable
in its operation. The ring did elect an oc.
casional select councilman in Philadelphia
but he of the XXXth ward, VIM. Thorn
ton by name, is under bail for sending an
election officer $25 to " make it solid'' 70,
him.
WHOM the gods would destroy they
first inspire to sit with closed doors. A
resolution to admit newspaper reporters
and the general public to the meetings oi
the Philadelphia board Of city trusts and
the committees thereof was defeated at a
meeting of the board yesterday by q
vote Of to 4.
ACCORDING to the Patriot, whose re.
porter had an interview with him, Repre-.
sentative George E. Mapes, of Venange
county, Charles s. Wolfe's right bower
in the Independent Republican movement
in this state, will not commit himself
but slightly intimates that Philip Gar
rett, of the Committee Of One Hundred
will he the Independents candidate 70
governor.
The St. Louis Post t-DispatcA has givel
the Half Breeds something of nut t.
crack in this pungent paragraph
Some twenty years ago Conkling
Blaine, Sherman, Allison, Window, ane
Wilson were all Republican members ol
the House together. They were all pool
at that time-very poor. Blaine is now
Senate, is another millionaire !; Sherman il
trebly a millionaire ; Window is a million
aire; Wilson also got to be very rich
Roscoe Conkling-the ablest, greatest
proudest of them all is poor to-day.
The New York Tribune devotcs severa
columns Of fine type to "hunting dowr
the petty thief" who stole and published
Reid's despatch to John Hay last April il
regard to New York politics. written fo
President Garfield's benefit, and reache
the conclusion that either the night man
ager Of the Western Union at Washing
ton, J. A. Hutchinson, or the late Wash.
ington operator of the Cincinnati Gazette
Guthridge, stole the message. AS th'
Tribune had number of "petty thieves :
in its employ some years ago, getting an,
publishing the famous "cipher kilograms,
it might find its present peculiarly petit,
thief among their number.
REV. FATHER HICKEY, the Pittsburgh
priest, whose controversy with Bisho]
Tuigg for SO long time was the subjec
of much discussion in ecclesiastical circle
west of the Alleghenies and who a few
months ago went to Rome for the purpos,
of settling the difficulty, has returned, i
is said. with complete vindication, ant
will in q few days assume the rectorshi]
of the church at Braddock's. The tishol
remained in Rome to answer some charge
preferred against him by another prizes
and which he says do not alarm him in tn,
least Father Hickey's success, it is said
does not mean the downfall of the bishop
but it is merely the satisfactory adjust
lnent of a matter long at issue-an in
stance of peace with honor, so to speak.
WHEN Rev. B. J. Jennings, pastor o
the Episcopal church at Greensburg, in
this state, remarked to a female teacher
in his Sunday school that she was untruth
full, she promptly spat in his face, and :
local scribe says she did right and that he
course is generally approved by tho re
mainder of the flock. Here is aphase of re
ligious ethics that is probably indigenous t.
the locality in which We have this striking
illustration, and whose title to originality
in ecclesiastical methods is emphasized by
the fact that the difficulty between pasto
and people was inaugurated at the open
grave of parishioner. There is IL, ques
tioning their effectiveness, however, for it
is announced that the young woman's ac
was followed by the preachers speedy res
ignation. and all is again pious and prope,
in the fold at Greensburg.
The Washington Reuieso and Eramine
comnends the suggestion of Chauncey F
Black, esq.,, of York, as the Democrat,
candidate for lieutenant governor, and tn,
York Gazette most cordially seconds thu
nomination. Mr.. Black is of the type O