Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

so much to elevate the bench above par
tisan strife.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER
writes plain, manly, straightforward
letter to Counsellor Cook about the star
route cases. He assures him and the
country that they are public mot political
cases, to be pushed to the conclusion
which justice demands, and not as the
policy of one administration or against
the policy of any other administration.
This is the right kind of talk ,and reflects
credit on the attorney geperal but he
will appreciate the popular impatience
that something more than " talk" does
not happen to the thieves, of whose guilt
the country has so long been assured.
The aggregate value Of dairy products
in this country is from $400, OO0, 900 to
5000, 900, 900, giving employment to at
least s, ZOO, 600 people.
EVERY state in the union and every
organized territory will elect a legislature.
in whole Or in part, this year, and twenty
three states will elect a governor.
THE Shippensburg Chronicle agrees with
the Pittsburgh Post that the Democratic
state convention ought to be regularly
held in Harrisburg; and comedies with
the Williamsport Sun and Banner that the
ac ho xo%n %o
have an association.
4 MOST atrociOus social custom is the
newly introduced powder and paint"
party, to which young ladies are specially
asked to come with their hair powdered
and cheeks painted, but in modern dress.
patches are of course in orccr with
powder and paint. And yet We make fun
OF Oscar Wilde
\ newspaper correspondent Or his in
tel!igent compositor makes nice mess of
it when he undertakes to correct a con-
gresham thusly:
He miscalled throughout bis speech the
word assimilate, pronounocing rs it if
spelled assilnulate" Another honora-
BILE member persists in saying "imper-
turable' for imperturbable.
THAT brilliant luminary, the dog star,
Sirius, is leaving the earth at the rate of
$4,000 miles an hour. But as this has
been going on for some time, and the world
does not seem to have grown any better
for lack of its "balcful light" there is not
much to hope or fear from the early dis
appearance of Orion's guard and COM
pauion.
THE Methodist church is not going to
get rid of tobacco-using parsons all at
once. When tho candidates for clerical
orders before the Baltimore conference
were asked whether they would abstain
from its use and one OF them bluntly an
swered ''No,' there was a good deal Of
talk, but on the vote of conference he was
admitted by a large majority, and with
some applause.
THE Northumberland Democrat, pub
lished at Sunbury, begins its twenty
second year with continued evidence of
deserved prosperity. Though our esteem
e! contemporary has been doing yoeman
service in the cause of correct doctrine
long before it was "old enough to votc,''
Brother Eichholtz has our warm con-
gratulatiops upon the arrival of his ncws-
paper at the full stature Of political man
hood. Long may it wave.
Mr.. HENRY L. NELSON, a newspaper
correspondent who is not without logic,
writes that cit is demoralizing state of
affairs that enables men of such opposite
opinions as Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Morrison
or Mr.. Carlisle to act together in the same
organization.'' How about al 'organiza-
tion that eau cover Conkling and Blaine
Cameron and Wolfe, Logan and George
William Curtis, J. Hay Brown and Ed
Martin with one blanket E?
The Senate, it seems, will do it's share
public from taxation, notwithstanding the
surplus revenue of $3.50, 900, 900. 1t has
added couple of millions on the post
Office appropriation bill, reported favorably
on grand ocean steamship subsidy
scheme, offered to guarantee $50, 600, 600 to
Captain Eads, restored the franking privi-
lege, projected an extensive steel-clad navy
and raised certain classes Of pensions.
DURING 1880 there was a capital Of ten
and half millions invested in oyster pro-
duction, and over twenty-five million
bushels of oysters, which were sold at
nearly thirteen and half million dollars,
were produced, over fifty thousand per-
sons were employed, and they used over
four thousand vessels, besides nearly
twelve thousand boats. That this steadily
increasing industry will not soon die, there
is reasonable hope Of, as two venerable
oysters, found on tho New Jersey coast,
are believed to have reached the advanced
age of thirty years and Prof. Lockwood,
in recent essay on "The Longevity of
tho Oyster" not only comedies the claims
of these patriarchs, but holds that they
might have lived ten years longer-in
short, that so far from falling into second
childhood, they had not yet got their
growth.
THE Philadelphia Times points out most
forcibly the tendency of tho Republican