Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22

BILE patrons Of the railroad company
and to suck the life blood of local manu-.
facture1s in order to supply the vam-
pires of the rail " as Railroad Commis
sioner Adams characterized the fast
freight lines, express companies and par
lor coach companies.
THERE can no longer he any doubt
that Anna Dickinson 3 essay at playing
Hamlet is an utter failure, and that sht
entirely lacks genius for dramatic repre-
sentation. Nothing but this stern fac
could account for the very general ad
verse criticism of her venture. There
has been much more of an effort to write
her up than to write her down. She is :
melancholy failure, both as an actor ani
a playwright, and the fact that she as
cribes this entirely to hostile critics
proves that she is incapable of a correc
estimate of her own powers. Exit Anna
THE wrangling Philadelphia Demo
Gratis are at it again like Kilkenny cats
If they would only finish each other of
like the Kilkenny cats did. there woult
he peace with honor.
Four dollar bank notes are popular il
Canada.
FEMALE physicians are increasing il
number in Russia.
BETWEEN hostility to the adn,ipistra
ton and Indignation at the capers of theil
present dissolute Legislature, the Ohio Re
publicans are expected to let 20 their hole
this fall.
MoRMoNIsM having waxed stronger and
stronger in twenty-oue years Of Republi
can administration, it is little late in thu
day to stigmatize the Democrats as "de
tenders of polygamy."
An Ottoman newspaper has tersely sum
med up the net results of the French cam
plign in Tunis: For France-glory
typhus, diarrhea. For the Arabs-civili
zstion, famines, massacres. General tota
death and misery.
1T has been found that pensioncr O
the war Of 1919, down in South Carolina
has been drawing his pension regularly
through the asent-thoush he died ii
1872. The agent likely thought he wa
as much entitled to it as some of the fraud.
who have been grabbing under the arrear.
Of pensions act.
UTAHs Mormons keep it from becoming
state, but New Mexico with half ths
population is likely to get in for the bene
fit Of very few men who would run the
machine, as large proportion of the popu
lation is Mexican in origin, language, ant
personal characteristics, who care yer.
little for public affairs, and know almos
nothing about American politics.
Out OF the leaping furnace flame
A mass of molten silver came;
Then beaten into pieces three,
Went forth to meet its destiny.
The first a crucifx was made,
Within soldiers knapsack laid
The second was locket fair,
Where mother kept her dead child's lair;
The third-a bangle, bright and warm,
~ e. Weo,hsrly
The Geneva canton has 600 place
where liquor is sold-an average of on
foreach 65 Inhabitants. The people spen,
$50 per head for drink and less for bread
While the canton has these 1000 whisk!
shops, it has only III butchers shops, 13
bakers shops, and 420 grocers' shops
The 81, 900. 600 which the Genevans spend
is equal to the maximun m deposits in tin
public savings banks.
THE Mahoneites propose to divide Vir
ginia into ten-shoe string congressional
districts, of which they will appropriate
eight for themselves and give over two tc
ths Democrats, taking care to group ali
the abiest Democrats and all the kicking
Rspudiators into these two in the hopt
that their conflicting ambitions may leai
to destructive Kilkenny fight even ii
the few Democratic districts.
A WASHINGTON editor, named Hinton,
whom John Sherman called ''dead beat, .
responds with alac1ity by calling Sherman
all kinds OF a liar and thief in all Ian
gusges he also reminds him, casually,
that Washington judge has recently de-
clared on the bench that criminal libel
admitted no plea of truth less than abso
lutte, and that motives could not be pleaded
in defense. That glove is too heavy fol
Sherman to pick up.
CONGRESS should lose no time in cut
ting up by the roots that moss covered
"custom'' of the supreme court, according
to which So for page of 100 words is ex-
acted for copies of decisions which many
a copyist would be glad to write for ten
cents page and that other "custom''
which prevents any one, newspaper re