Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-17

DuJ Tic HlSHt COIucS-Iuc CuTttllu Halls
The lights are out, the voices dumb,
And over all the shifting scenes
In peace the blessed shadows come.
REV. DIR. FULTON, of New York, in a
sermon recently made the startling an.
nouncement that although more men
than women are arrested for drunkenness
there are more women than men who
drink Intoxicating liquors. He has
counted them and knows, of course.
EDWIN ARNOLD, author Of " The Light
Of ASIA" has brought comfor. to many
sorrowing hearts with bis wonderful poem
Tor translation from the Arabicl He
who died at Azau." His later poem ON
I" The Secret of DEATH" which We print
to-day, is scarcely infericr in beauty of
sentiment or felicity Of expression.
THE Philadelphia Rscor@ has moved
into its now and elegant building near
10th and Chestnut, and there occupies
what is probably tho finest newspaper
Office in the country. On and after the
oath inst. the Record will print Sunday
edition. Pluck and push have made the
Record so and the country has never seen
such one cent paper.
CHAIRMAN BOGERT's WilkcSbarrc Union
Leader is agreed with the rest of us that
to secure success the Pennsylvania Democ-
racy must deserve success, and,a means
to that end, the platform must declare
against the spoi!s system, reputation
and sppliation of the state treasury All
of which are very vigorously denounced
in the declarations of 1881.
TOTAL ANNIutLArloS.
Oh. lie was . BOwery bOOtblack bold
And his years they numbered nine
Rough and unpol shed was lie, albeit
He constantly aimed to shine.
AS proud as u king on his box he sat
While the boys OF his set looked wistfully on
A nj "Give us q bite - they said
But the bootblack smiled lordly smile:
No free bites here ~ he cried.
Then the boys they sadly walked away,
save one who stood at his side.
" Bill, give us the core he whispered low,
That bootblack smiled once more.
And i mschievous dimple grew in his cheek
There dint goin' to be no core ~
-Hdrper's Monthly
GENERAL SHERMAN's alleged duplicity
in regard to the compulsory retirement
clause Of the army bill is exciting unfavor-
able comment. One newspaper says that
" it does not look we'll for the head of the
army to pretend to favor retirement at G.
years of age, to gain the good will Of the
younger officers, who want the old ones
out Of the way in order to hasten their
promotion, and then to have his friends
and his family exert their personal and
their social influence against this linlita-
tiOn."
CHAIRMAN COOPER, of the regular Re-
publican committee, yesterday referred to
the published letter of Thomas NJ. Mar
shall, in which he questioned tho authori-
ty by which Mr.. Cooper was made CHAIR
man of the state committee. The last
resolution in the platform adopted by the
convention Of May 10, Mr.. Cooper said,
left tue selection of the chairman to the
usages of the party. The usage has been
for the candidates to select the chairman
and for the delegates TO name the state
committee. The Independents have done
the same thing aud the Democrats will do
the same after they have held their con-
vention. That is where Cooper "drap.
ped his money purse" 1t may be set
down as safe calculation that no man
will attempt to constitute himself chair
man of the Democratic state central COM
mittee without some express authority.
The convention may or may not delegate
the selection to the candidates, but the
convention must determine how the choice
shall be made
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER, now
of the Stalwart cabinet, will not thank the
Times for rcrublishing an interview with
him in September, 1877, in which he said
9" Don Cameron has reither mind, attain
ments, dignity of character, knowledge of
public affairs, party service or personal
worth to warrant his advancement, and
he has no record but bad one as al ill.,
triguer and manager Of bad men. He was
FIRST forced into the war department., as
the price of his offer to betray his state
and renOminate General Grant, and after
being there he was so base-born in his
notions of decency and gertlehood us to
solicit and urge. by all the mean arts of
political contrivance, that he should be
retained as the companion of cabinet Off
GERS and gentlemen who did not want him.
Failing in that, by the coarse brute force
Of organized power he jost]ed his old
father out of his place, thrust himself into
Senate where he will DO an object OF
derision and disgust. The public arc
sick of these odious men, and the public
will do away with them. We have des.
troyed human bondage in the South VIC
will next break down political bondage in
the North and South.''
GEORGE l. SENEY's explanation is as
honorable as his deed. Said he "If any
one asks you why gave so much money
to the Wesleyan female college of Georgia,
tell them it was to honor my mother, to