Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-09
LANCASTER

publican party in Pennsylvania, which
is disrupted BY its domination By Sena-
tor Cameroa and his friends. Mr..
Tilden and his friends control the
Democratic organization in New
York and have set their foot upon
Tammany hall, which has rcvolted and
the revolt is sufficiently powerful to en-
danger Democraticsuccess. It does not
greatly matter which party is right or
wrong the disagreement brings defeat
to the party, and as it is q feud upon men
and not upon principles it is one which
should be healed, in the interest of the
whole party, by the voluntary or compul
sorry retirement from political control of
all the men who stand in the way OF
Democratic harmony and union.
QUEEN VICTORIA invaribly transacts
her public business between breakfast and
luncheon. This information is for the
benefit of such of our readers as may have
any matters to attend to with her maj
esty.
One of the best of English dramatic
critics says that Edwin Booth has proved
to how much greater advantage he is seen
in tho company of capable players than
when he is star among the sticks. We
cannot see the great tragedian's experience
in this respect is in any way exceptional.
A LADY who lives in "Central New
York state" near the lakes, and who has
high family connections, and who is
known in tho best society in Washington,
employs her time in summer in preserving
and picking small fruits and vegetables,
at which she has great skill and her sales
reach $4,000 year.
SOUTHERN chivalry will assert itself
under the most trying circumstances in
spite of the frequent and unjust assertion
that tho young men of tho present age
haven't tho gumptiOn of their graudfathers
There is an Augusta youth who, having
but twenty five cents left after purchasing
ball tickets, took bis lady love to an ice
cream saloon and said to the waiter.
One plate I've had mine.''
GENERAL BUTLER when he returns from
a yachting excursion learns all that has
happened in the political world. IIo pro-
fesses not to care for politics, but thcro is
probably no harm in his being we'll in
formed. Benjamin is sly, devlish sly, and
tho persistcncy with which he keeps that
starboard eye on tho Massachusetts gov
ernorship is not without meaning to the
troubled citizens Of the ancient common
wealth.
In response to the offer of Gen. Terrell,
of the Republican state central committee
of Indiana. to circulate ton thousand
copies Of Mr.. William II. English's recent
speech among the country Republican
clubs of Indiana, Mr.. English replies, ac-
cepting the proposition, and only stipulat-
ing that the Republican committee shall
pay the cost of the preparation. The
letter is bitterly sarcastic ON the subject OF
temperance and of the Republican methods
in Indiana, and expresses tho utmost
qualification at the sudden conversion Of
the Republican committee.
In offering to the House last Monday the
disgraceful tax bill that has been devised
solely for tho benefit of rich men Mr..
Robson, the Republican leader of the
House, said :" have honestly tried to re-
duce taxation" If this bill is fair indi-
cation of what Mr.. Robson can do when
trying to be honest what would happen If
an unguarded moment he were to lapse
into dishonesty The Herald points out,
however, no such moment can ever come.
To think of it reminds ono of the closing
lines of the English ballad of "Guy
Fawkes :"
When hc is dead already:
A RATHER singular petition found its
way into the petition box of the House of
Representatives, endorsed with the name
of Representative Chapman, Of Maryland.
1t is from Dr. Samuel Mudd, of Maryland,
the surgeon who attended to the assassin
Booths injuries after tho latter had es-
capped from Washington, and who, for his
action, was sent to Dry Tortugas. The
doctor sets up tho claim that while con-
fined in that place he nursed and rendered
medical services to large number OF
United States soldiers who had been
stricken with yellow fever, and asks the
government to award him some compens::-
tion. His petition is accompanied by afi-
davits and other evidence to back mp his
claim.
PERSONAL,