Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-23

put at the beginning of the proceed
ings, and not at the end of them.
WHITAKER gets his release but neither
vindication nor the recovery of his ears
in their integrity.
You may make him premier, do what
you will, the scent of the jobber will cling
tohim still.
THE World reminds the public that,
though it was in the event of Hancock's
election that the country was to suffer from
the ravages of bad, naughty, wicked people
holding Southern war claims, in Deem
Der last loyal and economical House of
Representatives met at Washington, and
now, alas ! one little bill has been passed
appropriating s291, 900 for the payment of
1900 claims, while the committee has re-
received ten bags of claims adjudicated by
the treasury, and there are thousands of
claimants springing up on every side.
THREE fish stories come all in shoal
from Long Island! An oyster fisherman
there the other day found G3 pearls, some
of them as big as pea in single bivalve
ships crew arrived from Nova Scotia,
report having passed through 60 miles of
dead Goldfish; whale IS. feet long and IS
feet in girth. was captured off the island,
it made 100 barrels of oil and the captors
embalmed the body and towed it into
shore after having taken the entrails out
they filled her up with cork chips, of
which they put in ninety barrels, and then
twenty barrels of an embalming prepara.
ton.
A WIDELY circulated and very forcible
protest against the Republican job to
admit Dakota as state alleges that in
1872 Yankton county, the largest in the
territory, issued bonds to the amount of
$500, 600 to aid in the construction of a
railroad. The railroad was built and is in
operation but the bonds have been repu-
dated. Their validity has been upheld,
but the county officers have been aided by
the territorial legislature to disobey the
DEGREES of the courts. Acts have been
passed to prevent any levy for the pay
ment of any judgment against the county,
and the county commissioners arc empow-
cred to vacate their Offices at will, so that
when a mandamus was issued there was
no board for the writ to operate upon.
The Republican commissioners Of Mont
gomery county have reconsidered their
two mill tax levy and will increase it.
They had estimated the probable expenses
of tho county during the year at s1s4, 900,
but have since discovered that the esti-
mate is too low and that about s9O5, $40
will be required. The cash in the treasury
and the taxes outstanding amount to
s6s, 900, leaving s1s7, $40 to be raised by
taxation from s61, 196, ,s9s taxable prop.
erty. The estimate of expenditures in
cludes ten per cent. redemption of the
county loan. Under last years Demo-
cratic board the tax rate was only one and
a half mills, and during 1881 they paid off
pa, 800 on the county bonds, and over
BIS, 600 was paid for the erection of new
bridges and the repairs of old ones, leav-
ing q balance in the treasury of ss5, ,924. 10.
The present county debt is $50, 200. As
this board increased the tax rate when
they found it would not reach, would it
not be in order for our commissioners to
reduce the rate they have laid, since it has
been shown them that it is far in excess of
the requirements Of this county for the
next years expenses?
As usual, whenever q gallant Demo-
cratic soldier is assailed, Grants foul
yelp ID heard above the chorus
IF the pack. He is reported by one Nichol,
In insect who fitted around Garfield, as
saying that Rosecrans never was fit to
command an army, as he wouldn't or
rather couldn't obey orders he was a