Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-29

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tison in fit phrase, congratulating him
and the commonwealth on the restora-
tiOn, in his person, to the executive
chair Of governor who has displayed
the qualities which are the standard of
JeffersOnian officials.
IT may safely be set down that there
are not three grains of wheat to the bushel
of chaff in the gossip found nowadays in
the Republican newspapers about Gov.
Pattison's cabinet and the influences
controlling its selection. We have care
fully sifted the stories of the Erening
Telegraph, Press and Pittsburgh Dispatch
and, with due credit to their spirit of ell
terprise, the yield of sound kernels is less
liberal than we have allowed.
The Harrisburg Patriot is right. Give
the governor elect a chance-and time to
think over it.
AND now all is still in the places where
the "gobble, gobblc, gobble |" of the fcs.
tive monarch OF the barnyard SO lately
resounded.
In accordance with the invariable Gus.
tom and to give the employees Of the In
TELLIGENcER the same opportunity that
other people have to be thankful thero will
be no issue of this paper tomorrow.
ACCORDING to sensational story
printed in tho Pittsburgh Dispatch Ran.
dali has brought Stenger out as the
proper man for secretary of state. He
wants Stenger fixed in some way in Penn.
sylvania. Stenger is candidate for chic,
clerk Of tho House iu tho next Congress- ,:
We have the authority of Mr.. Randall fol
saying that this story is nc: true.
Anr nuin.ayn como on apace. Thanks
giving is at hand. In tho excitement OF
election times their approach was scarcely
noticeable. but tho wide awake tradesmen
who know that time will not wait. even
for the politicians, arc getting ready for
it, and shop windows as we'll as shopkeep.
ers beam satisfaction on the passer-by and
welcome to the incomer.
The Wilkesbarre Union.L Leader, in tho
article which we reprint, is not unreasona
bio in its demand that there shall! be some
sort of legislative journal of the proceed
ings printed and laid on the desks of the
members next day, in place of the present
expensive and useless nuisance STYLED the
Record. But very material reforms on the
present publication must be enforced.
GILBERT AND SULLIvAN's new comic
opera of "Iolanthe is on the same
general plan as their others and depends
on somewhat similar accessories. It hits
off Parliament and the Lord Chancellor.
as Pinafore wattled the navy and its
ruler, and as the army, the police and the
aesthetics were successfully handled in
their other bright and sparkling produc-
tions.
THIS business of importing ostriches. to
be bred and cultivated for their feathers
is not to be sneezed at. J. Protheroe. a
wealthy Englishman who has large flecks
in South America and South Africa, has
imported score of eight year old birds
into this country, costing about $500 cach.
They live to he 40 aad ought to yield a
pound of feathers-worth on an average
300 per pound-every seven months. There
may be people living around here who
will yet see tobacco raising superseded by
'ilk culture and feather farming.
ELDER j. f. WEIsHAMPEL's Torch of
zruth-published at $40 North Queen
street, under the motto :'Buy the Truth
Ind sell it not" at 25 cents a year.
zones to US in vol. 3, No. 0, more
prightly and vigorous than ever and with |
more picturesqueness of style than is
even Of it. The current |
lumber has striking poem written by
Cider Weishampel in 1s49 a severe COM
aent on some of tho "gullible preachingv
low SO prevalent /; some slaps at sancti-
aonicus hypocrites and pretentious
}. DIS; editorial endorsements Of "good
tile Mrs. Weishampel's home made
,ince meat" and of the New York Sun
hapter vii Of the EDITORS varied career in
'erry county, whore he got black lamb.
,ok it with him to Baltimore and fed and
'ttened it on corn meal until cit busted
'side from the swelling of the meal :"
$50, how Elder w., while doing mission
~ work in Cloarieid county, froze his
70 nails off walking through snow four
et deep. Tho Torch Of Truth is a live ,
sper and when Brother Josh Lyte be- +
ms his contemplated serial in tho Jan. c
NY number fresh interest will be given {
its spicy columns.
Vermont Politics.
Tho Senate Of Vermont yesterday, witt, =
ly five dissenting votes, passed a bill X
king corporations. The Senate and v
,use, in joint assembly, reelected Wayne RI
iley, of Rutland, as railroad commits. G
ner.