Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-26


years to have endowed the post Of resi-
dent physician.
THE fact that Cooper is All Ohio man
explains great many things heretofore
wrapped in impenetrable mystery.
SINCE the discovery thatRepublicauStatc
Chairman Cooper was born in Ohio, it is
readily understood how it happens that
he SO utterly fails to appreciate the wants
of his adopted state.
VENNoE's prediction of snow.falls and
remarkably low curves of temperature''
for next month would be extremely re-
freshing to the stay-at-home brigade if the
eminent weather prophets forecasts had
not latterly been distinguished by the
uniformity with which they had gone
wrong. Observant people eau discern
naught but sorrow and misery in this lat
est outgiving Of the grounding 'sCanadian
rival.
TIE midsummer idiot is getting his
work in on the Harrisburg Telegraph, pre-
sumably in the absence of all its RESPONSE
bic editors. Its latest discovery is that
Messrs. Wallace and Cassidy conspired at
the Harrisburg convention to defeat Mr..
Hopkins because Mr.. Randall was friendly
to him, and that they are now conspiring
with the Committee of One Hundred to
defeat Mr.. Randall and elect Mr.. Pattison
to spite the Right Honorable William Nc
Mullin. The Telegraph has probably not
heard that Beaver is to be withdrawn and
ex.Gov. Curtin is to head the Regular Re-
publican ticket, and that Don Cameron is
about to resign to let Hoyt appoint DIR.
Bradley in his place.
WM. NEsBIT, well-to-do and intelli.
gent colored barber of Altoona, is one of
the representatives. of his race in this state
whom the Republican party has for years
made use Of in an ornamental capacity or
to cut wood and draw water for tho party.
He and his friends propose to put the SIM
cerity of his Republican associates to the
test by his candidacy for the Republican
nomination to the Legislature from Blair
county. His constituents woull certainly
not have to blush for him rs ga black
guard" and abetter of ringsters," and
it will be interesting to the 30, 600 Repub
lican colored voters of Pennsylvania to
see what reception is accorded to the mod
est proposition that they shall have one
in tho state Legislature.
The wife of Henry w. Lohmeyer, a
young aud we'll to- do German of Philadel.
phia, last February obtained from the
there q newborn infant and
palmed it off on her husband as his own
offspring, in order, as she says, to crafty
bis oft-expressed wish to become q father.
The deception workedto charm and young
Mr.. Lohmeyer has for five months gloried
in the paternal dignity which ho imagined
himself possessed of. Now the whole thing
has leaked out in an investigation by the
board Of poor guardians into the irregular
that have been discovered to pro-
vail in giving out children from the inst
tuition, and of which the present case is an
1t is said that it is not an infre-
4uent occurrence for young married women
to procure babies from tho almshouse. in
the same way - Mrs. Lohmeyer, and With
the knowledge Of the officials that they
sre to be used for just such purposes of
deception. Lohmeyer had become SO
much attached to his fancied offspring,
Ind the partner Of his joys processes 50
much contrition for the trick she played
On him, that he has decided to grant for
giveness to the latter and keep tho child
anyhow. They call 1t "Olivette" and
will raise it just as though she were their
own daughter.