Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-24

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sassination is in any way traceable to the
conflict between him and Conkling over
the New York custom house those who
examine into that question will discover
that in that issue Mr.. Garfield was work.
ing the "spoils system " for the benefit
of his political friends.
The nomenclature of the campaign
promises to be interesting. The Inde'
pendents are stigmatized by Judge Bum
as "lOuse nits ;" by Isaiah Brown, esq,
rs " torpedOes and "parricides," and
even Lear calls them kicking mules, ad-
mitting, however, that there is consider
able dynamite in their hind legs.
An infant child who lately died in this
city was named Roscoe Garfield Brecken-
ridge.
"BRosIUs of Berks' may make a very
good title for an editorial, judged solely
from the stand. point of rhythmic effect ;
but when the gauge of accuracy is applied
to the consideration of its merits, it must
be admitted that the attempt at allitera-
tiOn has not given much force to the arti-
Gle that appears in the Erie Herald. 'Bro.
sius of Berks is simply Brosius of Berks. -
only in the mind of the editor of our con-
temporary on the lake. Such is fame.
THE Uniontown Genius of LiJerty,
which has for several years been under
the superintendence of Mr.. Albert Mar
shall, is now published under the editorial
charge of Frank NJ. Higgins, until re-
Gently city editor of the Pittsburgh Post,
in partnership with Mr.. Marshall. The
Genius Of Liberty is one of the Oldest
newspapers in the state, having been es-
tablished i'll 1905, and its excellence will
be enhanced by the valuable editorial
management of Mr.. Marshall.
''THE effects of modern scepticism as in
dulged in by young men," the Rev. DIR.
Newman Smyth said in the course of his
sermon Sunday week before the congrcga-
tion of the Old South Church in Boston,
"young men who do not know how to
take the first deep sounding in passage
of thought, are as pitiful as tho conceit of
a sea gull who, having dipped its wings in
the briny deep, seeks tho upper currents
Of the air, firmly believing that it knows
all about salt water"
CONsIsTENCIE's q jewel. Our esteem
ed contemporary, the Clarion Dem
ocrat, flies the names of John Turnkey at
its masthead as its choice for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor, and fol-
lows it up with very sensible editorial
article devoted to showing that sit would
hardly be advisable to take the only Dem
Ocrat remaining on the supreme bench of
this state, the only man who stands be-
tween the people and the corporations,
from that position, and where he will re.
main for nearly seventeen years longer,
AMI for tho sake Of putting him for four
years in the gubernatorial chair at Har-
risburg." The Democrat prints Judge
Trunkey's letter to the Venango conven-
tion, and impliedly thinks that settles it,
but all the same continues to float the
Turnkey standard subject to the deci-
sion of the Democratic state convention"
THE Christian Adcocdte puts itself on
record as follows "The more closely the
method of comforting degrees in this coun
try is looked into, and the sources from
which many of them come, and the legal,
theological, philosophical, literary, or
general attainments and works of many
who receive them arc examined, the more
scandalous do many Of the proceedings
and the more empty do the titles appear.
Many institutions not above the grade of
second-rate academies are showering de-
grees right and left. An institution. not
one of whose faculty can construe sen
tence of Latin, or write good English,
conferred the degree of LII. d. upon a
person without any pretense of having
common English education. Some OF the
most inferior schools in the far South
among tho freedmen (not those which are
really worthy of respect but schools
not up to the grade Of a grammar school,
are comforting degrees, not only on the
members of their own race and section,
but upon ministers and teachers in all
parts OF the country. Some men have
practically purchased the degree Of doctor
of divinity by gifts of books or musical
Instruments
THE nomination of Citizen Brosius con-
tinues to be the subject of general CON-
ment by the press of the state, the Regular
journals almost uniformly commencing it
as fit one the Independents testifying
to his personal merits and some of the
pungent paragraphers seizing upon the
report of tho speech made by him in this
city on Wednesday night as fine subject
for their witicisms. The Eoening telegram
some extracts from it, head
lined observation-disclosures Struck by
French Idiot Who Fell
Down Stairs-Providence Compared to
Cameron" Tho Times thinks Cooper will
have to have Brosius put under cover and
declares that candidate "who says a |
bolt of lightning from clear sky has |
fallen on his devoted head, should at once