Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-21

of the members of the Legislature from
this county on legislation affecting mu
nicipal reform, the Neu Era justly points
out that Lands and Snyder, our. Demo
cratic city representative, voted right every
time. We trust the readers of the Neu
Era will not be allowed to forget about
election time that Snyder made this excel.
lent record for himself and the cause OF
Reform.
A SYRACUSE drummer was fined $40 in
Altoona for violating an ordinance reQuir
ing city license to do business, and the
firm represented by the culprit wrote a
fierce letter to the mayor of Altoona, in
which the dire announcement is made
that no longer will it allow its drummers
to stop off there, as it can get along with.
out the trade of city fifty years behind
the age" upon which the writer's look
with mingled feelings of contempt and
disgust. Hence Altoona's tears.
The more intelligent Republican news.
papers know that no chicken comes home
to rOost with more uncrring certainty
than that Old cock Gerrymander. Ohio
Republicans have fixed the state SO as te
get Is out of the 81 congressman, and i,
will be just. like Ohio politics for the re.
turns to come in the other way next fall
Many of the districts have had to be made
close to figure out SO many for the Re.
publicans, and the revolution now i'm.
pending these bids fair to gathe, lot OF
these into the Democratic fold.
ACCORDING to the last census reports
there were in the United States in 1880,
G,OOO, 600 miles Of fence which cost over
81: 900, 100000 OF this vast sum Penn.
sylvania has spent a larger part than any
state except Illinois. During the census
year alone there was expended in the
whole country for fencing purposes the
sum of s7S, ,627,O What al immense
drain this is OH our wasting timber lands
Most of this fencing is devoted to use.
less inside boundaries between small fields,
where not only is. the expense of fencing
utterly needless, but the space devoted to
it is a wanGon waste Of land.
THE Ne,o Era thinks " it is somewhat
remarkable that SO many newspapers and
private individuals who never so mach as
glanced over the published evidence of the
trial Of Fitz John Porter in 1868, now
know 30 much more about the innocence
of that individual than tho military ex-
perts who heard every word of the testi-
mony." This not nearly SO remarkable as
that few able and malignant, Republi.
eau editors, who have never read and cen
sidercd the ample testimony taken by the
last military men, who t,ied this Porter
case and acquitted him, insist that he is a
guilty man, when the concurrent testimony
of the board and all rnprejudiced judges
is that he is grossly maligned and deeply
injured man, the victim Of an unfair trial
and of the suppression of due evidence.
JUDGE ToURGEE's Our Continent is a
highly aesthetic paper, but he is intensely
slow art" aud never fails to give the high
falutins vigorous thrust. He sees with
Joy signs in the sky Of the decline of the
suntlower. 1t is fading out of poetry and
art, and to his healthy taste d" it is all ex-
quisite delight to see our coy and delicate
wildwood flowers and the tender and
graceful beauties Of the garden aud con
servatory, smiling at us from the shop
windows instead of the glaring, gaudy,
sunflower and its dusty dog
day compeer, the golden rod. 1t is evident
thas many temporarily abcrrant mind
will soon discard lukewarm absurdities of
4 spurious nstheticism, and turn with a
love to the sweet shy favorites
whom nature hides away in her innermost
temples of silence and Shade. The day of
the gaudy and glaring, the hot and tho
lustful, is fast passing away and sweet.
CT, purcr, holier taste is coming in it's
place. Evidently ga primrose by the
rivers brim " is to Touryce great deal
more than yellow primrose
No public man iii this country-not evcn
Schuyler Col."X-ever came to grief with
more conspicuous suddenness than Speaker
keifer. He was elected by :: combination
Of the Stalwarts and the jobbers. Robe
son ran him and made his committees to
suit himself and his designs on the navy.
lie got the committees and bc got % naval
to suit his designs, but before
he money has been voted Keifer has his
'wn party as well rs the Democrats down
IN him. He has exhibited himself as the
victim of the lowest partisan and factional
ceilings, as lacking parliamentary skill,
md his trick of the other day, by which
le planned to recognize d man who he
Knew would vote for the new Chinese bill.
IS entitled to the time that belonged to |
he opponents of the bill, caused Repub |
leans to hang their heads with shame.
iven his friends arc beginning to get |
|OwE Oh him because his laundering has |
ndanscrcd some of their jobs, and there
talk OF organized opposition to his re-
lection from his district in Ohio.
BEFORE abandoning its (thus far iinan-
tally unsuccessfuD attempt to maintain a
rec reading room and public library in
bis city, the Y. NJ. C. A. will appeal to
he citiyanS fo raise S7 000 tn mt ffo ,cco |