Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-18

have to be abandoned. Manufacturers,
it will be observed, are continuing their
operations on full time and full handed,
even though not running their works on
large profits, and mechanics have all they
can do. Building, especially, is engaging
labor, and while the prices OF market
produce advance wages are unsettled,
though it is hard to see how most en-
ployers can afford to raise them consider
ably. What the country seems to
need most of all is an abundant
harvest, to reduce the price of bread
stuffs and meats. This would help
the laborer and employer, strengthen
the interests of the tradesman and pro-
mote the general prosperity. There
seems to he fair promise of good crops.
DoN CAMERON is not much of literary
feller, but he insists on good manners and
chaste language in the revenue office.
CAMERON has been reading the third
commandment. He might give the whole
decalogue a shake to his eminent ad-
vantage.
WHEN Andy Kaufman takes possession
of the internal revenue Office tho third
commandment is to be printed in gilt let
ters, handsomely framed and hung up.
Foe once" Major Elwood Griest was
heard on the floor of Congress yesterday.
1t was the voice OF Cameron which read
those Inquirer editorials to tho executive
session of the Senate, but it was the hand
Of Griest which wrote them.
THE Baltimore Sun, whose substantial
merits command for it steady and de-
served success, has reached the forty-fifth
anniversary of the date Of its foundation,
unchanged in aught save its widened area
of usefulness and stronger hold upon the
affections of its readers.
ACCORDING to the testimony Of our es-
teemed local Republican contemporaries,
neither of them helped to wet-nurse the
Republican party. 1t seems that when it
was born Editor Hiestand was hunting
Office with a dark lantern through the
Know-Nothing lodges, and Editor Geist
was publishing scurrilous anti-abolition
Sunday paper.
THE Philadelphia Times suggests that
Senators Cameron and Mitchell might
pair off and read the Press to the president
in relief gangs. Cameron could read the
articles showing what an excellent ticket
Cameron had made for the party, and
Mitchell could read the articles overflow
ing with Indignation at Cameron's des-
potic domination of tho party in Pennsyl-
vania.
In a statement yesterday as to the illegal
fees in the recorders Office, it was calcu-
lated that the legal fee for recording a
deed containing S74 words was $1.2S-SS
cents for recording and exemplifying, and
40 cents for tho certificate and seal-and
that the charge of SO was an ovcrcharge
of S1.72. In this calculation the state tax
of so cents was overlooked. The legal
charge to be cxacted is therefore 81. .7S and
the overcharge in the case in point was
s1.22, Or about 65 per cent.
OUR DEAD SINGER.
On many Il satldoned heart the evening fire
Burns paler rs the children's hour draws
near,
That joyous hour his song made doubly
dear,
And tender memories touch the faltcrino
choir.
He sings no more on earth our vain desire
Aches for the voice we loved so long to
hear
In Dorian flute notes breathing soft and
clear.
Tho sweet contralto that could never tire.
Deafcned with listening to q harsher strain,
The M4nad's scream, tho stark barbarian's
cry,
Still tor those soothing, loving tones we
sigh
Oh, tor our vanished Orphcus once again!
The shadOwy silence hears us call in vain
His lips are hushed; his song shall never
die.
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