Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-29

and the Cameron machine will be
smashed into splinters.
The Easton Ezpress, long known as ono
of the ablest provincial newspapers in the
state, has adopted the metropolitan form
OF makeup on its first page which vastly
improves its appearance. The Ezpress
will deserve the prosperity that is bound
to reward its new departure.
That ridiculous piece of bunting known
as the presidents flag bids fair to be con.
sigued to the obscurity whence it came.
That this is contamination devoutly tu
be wished, is very evident by the expires
sion of feeling in naval circles as we'll az
in the ranks of the thinking civilians of
the land. 1t represents an idea that is not
only un-American, but that positively
savors of English aristocrscy. Away
with it.
REFERRING to the boast of Chairman
Cooper that the Grand Army of the Re-
public, as an organization, will endorse
and secretly work for the election of Gen.
Beaver and the whole Stalwart state
ticket, We have the assurance of a reliable
gentleman in this city, member of tho
local post here, that such is not tho case ;
that the organization is free from partisan
bias and cannot be used to subserve the
political ends Of any faction or party. So
far from the majority of the homo men,
bership being favorable to the election of
Beaver, our informant adds that the fact
is more likely to be the other way.
A CURIOUS phase in English criminal an
nails was presented in the spectacle of a
man arraigned for embezzling a leg. It
was wooden one, and the offender who
had been deprived of one of his own
neither cxtremitics by an accident, wore it
from a work-house where he was confined,
and of which tho leg was part of the per-
sonal property, and sold it for half a
crown, returning to the work-house on
crutches. It's pity this enterprising per-
son could not DO imported into New Jer-
sey, whero as a bank cashier he would
have much wider range for the exercise
of his superior talents.
CRY people are beginning to arrive back
from the watering places, but in the ma
jority of cases on!. {" change their resi-
dences to suburban houses and hotels
which are beginning 70 FL up rapidly.
This will have tho -:lyy of closing the
season early at those rssoi,s which arc de.
pendent upon the patronage of fashionable
people. There has been a great deal of
enjoyment this season at all the watering
places, and many persons are returning,
declaring they have had ga splendid
time," but on the whole the summer has
been disappointing to people who have
been away. Very few engagements are
heard Of and the gentlemen were SO scarce
and SO many other circumstances conspir-
ing to make young ladies vie with each
other, that there has been more desperate
and highly dangerous filtration than was
ever seen before in long time. A num-
Der of tragedies are reported to have been
the outgrowtb of injudicious conduct in
this direction, among the most noteworthy
being the case Of a young lady of great
promise who within few weeks drowned
herself because she believed she had been
deserted for another by young man with
whom she had fallen in love the same
week. The Virginia Garland shooting
affair is but a tragic ending Of several
affairs of somewhat similar nature that
have occurred this season at different
Southern watering places. Old Point
Comfort nearly had tragedy in which
two United States officers were on the
point of fighting about girl from the
South with whom both were enamored.
A young lady at the White Sulphur
Springs was prevented only with difficulty
by her mother from poisoning herself on
account of lovo affair. Saratoga and
Newport have had each one or two little
affairs, kept very quiet, in which gentle
men have been prevented by their friends
from having personal encounters about
girls.