Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-18

The personal attacks upon Mr.. Black
are too much even for the Harrisburg
7Slegraph's strong stomach.
"TuE rain couldn't keep 'cm away
yesterday, and they stood under dripping
umbrellas to catch glimpse of the next
governor as he sped up the North Branch
yesterday.
Mn. ARMSTRONG says i,aopIe will be SUI
prised on the morning after eiectiS.. 20 see
the vote he has polled. Probably none Of
them will be half as much surprised as
Armstrong himself.
The sOphomores at Lafayette college
have been hazing the freshmen with a
banquet. This is novel way Of doing it,
but may provo very effective. il the cooks
arc sufficiently skillful. A GLASS Of fresh
men afnictsd with dyspepsia, might pro.
sent moro sorry sight than if decorated
with plaster and bandagss s. .;gGs Of an
oid fashioned hazing.
The value Of angle vote could not bs
moro effectively illustrated that in the
official returns from tho Third congress
ionai district of Ohio, which elect Noal,
the Democratic candidate, by three votes
out Of total Of many thousands. In
another district a Republican candidate
is reported to have saved his bacon" ty
The slender margin of eight votes. These
figures are full Of meaning and should
cause the individual voter to tlxes 2 higher
valuation upon his suffrage than hs srdi
narily does.
1T is hard for thinking men to believe
that Armstrong and the other GreeDback-
Labor leaders are honest in their c6s,ssslet
of the preseot political campaign. They
must see the absolute helplessness of
their cause, for Armstrosg's election is
about as probable as the passage of a
camel through the eye of q needle. If
they are really sincere in their convictions,
Why do they not concentrate on legislative
candidates, whom there is q chance to
elect, instead of frittsripg away on an i'm
possible gubernatorial candidate votes
which might be of priceless value in the
impst.dsag struggle for reform?
THE people OF the United States drink
16, 600, 600 barrels of beer per sanam yet
. leading New York brewer declares that
the consumption of beer in this country
is in its infancy" That is, assuming that
there are "a, ,OOO. 900 women and children
who never drink beer, 4, ,OOO, 900 teetotalers
who never drink anything but water, and
5000. 900 deacons and farmers who drink
old Medford rum, then the remaining 49,
OOO. 900 must drink q barrel of beer apiece
in the course Of the year and if the New
York brewer's prediction is to prove true,
there will be by the close of the century
at least So, ,O00, 600 beer drinksrs, and each
one of them will consume annually about
20 barrels of beer.
NOTHING in the political history of the
state has surpassed the fattering ovations
that have greeted Controller Pattison at
all points of his line of travel. Last week
started the ball rolling, and the people of
the oil region are keeping it up with sur.
prising vigor. The graphic recital which
We print to day of Mr.. Pattison's warm
welcome up along the North Branch
and in the petroleum fields tells its own
story. Tho peple are awake and with but
> few hours notice they flock by scores
md hundreds to railway stations, to grasp
the hand Of the Democratic candidate and
ponder the words of wisdom that fall from /
his lips whenever he finds time 10 address l
them. The Stalwart oruans vho fnr