Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-22


and. H. about sending IN ambassador to
REazil to ssstriks' the native workmen
who are hammering new copper bottom
on the worn.out government vessel
Bronklyn. DE-. ID ''.i '-'.'., % /
THE postmaster who collects money
from the letter carriers for political pur-
poses can be made to pay $500 fine for
it, IHao HEti'I' II i"JoI.. tu-.,'.,' .
. AN enterprising local bookseller asks
passers by to stop and see Walt Whit
mans Leaves Of Grass Will they
II will surprise good many people to
be told that there are not more than 250,-
600 Jews in this country, or ono to every
two hundred Of the population.
A PHILADELPHIA man had his pet dog
inferred in tho family burying ground in
the cemetery of . Methodist church and
there is general uprising Of indignation
among the other lot owners and trustees.
MR. SULLIVAN accepts Mr.. Tug Wilson's
challenge, and Boston breathes freer in
anticipation of having its faded laurels re
stored. They tell MS now that the Madi-
son sauars exhibition was set up job.
The Cincinnati Enquirsr thus heads .
report Of the seating of Smalls &" Unpar.
slled Republican Oatrage-A Poor South
Carolipa Negro Condemned 70 Sit in tho
House-An Associate with Robson, Kei-
Ter and their Gang .....s.
The Lancaster lnQuirer greets its reader,
this week in a handsome new dress that
vastly improves its appearance. The
paper is now established in its new quar-
tiers at 26 South Queen street. and presents
visible signs of material prosperity.
"RIcEHLIEU" RoBINsoN's repartee yes
terdsy to Robeson's ''charge' of deafness
that he was not 60 hard of hearing as a
man who had been called q thief liar,
and perjuret on the floor of the House
and who was the only man in the House
who had not heard the remark-if not
refined, was unquestionably effective.
The Troy Telegram is staunch Repub-
lican paper. but Hubbell is too much for
it. II says: 'The Republicans will do
vel TO pull down that Western jayhawker
(or Jay Hubbell, which is the same thing)
snd hide him away out of sight until after
election. He is an offense to the senses of
decent voters"
A HAIR splitting theologe at New Haven
once asked President Porter, after a lec-
ture, Scan we regard Emerson as in the
true way to salvation ?'' DR.. Porter an
swered promptly, with . twinkle in his
eye, "We are told that in every nation, he
that feareth God and worketh righteous.
ness is accepted with him and suppose
that holds good even in Concord"
IT is stated that Arabi Bey is negotiat-
ing with lecture bureau for q prolonged
engagement in this country. After the
British gunboats had finished demolishing
his Notifications and he had got beyond
range of their death dealing shells, he
caused the rumor to be circulated among
the natives that the English troops had
been defeated, that eight iron .clads were
sunk, two burned and four captured, aud
that the latter would be brought to Cairo.
It is on this brilliant record that the enter
prising Americans want to secure his
services and star him against Eli Perkins
as tho champion liar of the century.
SENATOR INGALLS, does not always ap.
pear to good advantage in discussing
questions Of legislative morality, but he
has achieved q very honorable distinction
as the unsparing censor of the swindle
known as tho river and harbor appropria-
tion bill. 1t is refreshing to find the
statement mado in open Senate that tho
members Of tho conference committee have
taken care of their own states =" "notably,
conspicuously, and shsmelessly," tho bill
itself being characterized ~ . "degraded,
base, and shameless one. The adjectives
are perhaps moro vigorous than choice,
but they certainly give expression to
great deal of honest indignation which this
monstrous offspring of log-rolling has ex
cited in tho public mind.