Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-28

troubles seem to be that Secretary
Blaine rushed precipitately into policy
of interference which the president
knew nothing of and could not approve,
and from which Blaine expected TO Sc
cure some popular applause. The new
secretary of state had to revoke his
orders and change his policy, and the
government is not exhibited in a very
creditable light. If this is not the case
the president changed front with his
change of secretaries and Mr.. Blaine is
not the man to let the public remain in
ignorance of this state of the affair.
Mr.. WILLIAM II. ARMSTRONG, of
Williamsport, very good lawyer and a
very decent man, who is appointed
commissioner of Pacific railroads by the
president. has been standing around for
good while waiting for Cameron TO do
something for him, and if it reached the
ear of Arthur that our young senator
was for him it may be presumed not to
have initiated against Armstrong.
THIS evening from seven to eight
O'Clock the city Democracy will meet in
the several wards and make general
| nominations Tor offices to he filled at the
February elections. The list should he
SO complete as to afford good nominal
tions for every place on the ticket.
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SCoTCH potatoes, English celery and
German cabbages and tnrnips continue
phenomenal features of our foreign i'm
portations.
THE Obsercer tells of Western church
which celebrated the Lords Supper with
4 bottle and tumbler The Independent
thinks pitchers must be scarce there.
The Lancaster Mquirtr'rises on: Of tho
ashes with q half-shect issue and the dec
laration that " fires may como, and fires
may go, but the newspaper goes OH for
ever" And it declares for Butler for
governor.
THE overdue steamship Edam, to the
relief of the public mind, has at last come
into port and makes up for lost time by
reporting 2l1 steerage passengers though
she only started with 208. Three were
born on her stormy voyage.
TIE board Of regents OF the state uni-
versity of Nebraska met on Thursday in
!.incaln. and, the illness of one member
leaving the orthodox in i majority, they
dismissed three Of the professors of the
university who are described as "free
thinkers
THERE seems to be a call upon the e.
dis,ner to explain wheth it means TO be
complimentary or not when it says:
There is some talk which indicates that
the following would prove very satisfac
tory to the people Of Lancaster county:
For Supreme Judge.
Hon. JOHN r. LIvISGsTON.''
MCRAT HALsTEAD OF the Cincinnati
Commercial, and Richard Smith, of the
Gasette, are engaged in vigorous
wrestle to determine which said the
meaner things abou: Garfield before his
nomination and which was the hastier to
change front afterwards. Is this the
q harmony in the party" which Guteau
aimed at ?
n WASHINGTON correspondent without
specially S:alwart rrepossessions says ::
president Arthur will prove himself to
be great president when he is strong
enough to refuse General Grant, OF any
one else who aske him, to set 4 figure
head merely at the head of any depart
mcnt of the government. That is all
Father Howe is Or ever will be. That is
all that the smiling Key was When
people used to cali to see the postmaster
general, this amiabls satrap would walk
b!andly forth aud lead them to the door Of
the office of Mr.. Tyner. the req, postmas
ter general"
FEARS are expressed that the superior
court may hold that the tribunal which
tried Guiteau had 40 jurisdiction and
hence the tedious trial would go for
naugh:. 1t seems that in 1909 man
named Blaccn was indicted in the District
of Columbia for manslaughter. The NOR
tai blow was inflicted at Alexandria, then
within the limits of the District. The vic
tim died in Maryland. Atter ser1ict Of
guilty the prisoner was discharged. Tho
court, of which William Cranch was then
chief Judge, held, ilr the language of the
officia! report, '' that as the death happened
in st. Mary's county. in Maryland,
although the fatal stroke was given here,
the judgment must be for the prisoner, the
o!icnsc cot being complete within our
jurisdiction
COIORED people cannot sue, under the
fifteenth amendment, for damages unless
they can prove citizenship. Tha. is
the point of a decision rendered by Judge
Brown, in the United States district court,
New York, in the case of one Lewis,
a colorcd man of foreign birth, who
sued Oliver Hitchcock l. Co., restaurant
keepers, for $500 damages for refusing to
supply him with refreshments. The court
holds that there is nothing in the civil
rights bill or in the nature of the subject
creating presumption that Congress in
tended to legislatc in favor of aliens, and
that the word "citizen u this as we'll as |