Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-18

familiar to Cooper we are glad to believe
that Mr.. Pattison is a stranger.
''BLAINE of Maine" must 60. He was
born in Pennsylvania.
ANDREW JACKSON, of Tennessee, was
born in North Carolina, bat nobody
would have thought of it save for Cooper.
KENTUCKY has been reasonably proud
of Henry Clay, but she puts on sackcloth
and ashes since Cooper's discovery that
Clay was born in Virginia.
THE U. S. Tobacco Journal has entered
upon its fourteenth volume and claims tu
be blessed with greater prosperity and
popularity than ever before.
IT is we'll for Thaddeus Stsve MS that he
is dead. Tom Cooper would have ruu him
out of the state for having been born in
Vermont.
HAD Cooper been running the state in
those days, Benjamin Franklin would
never have got into the Continental Con
gress. He was born in Boston.
Nor satisfied with robbing cradle aud
grave, Hubbell's committee reaches down
into the dinner pals of the laborers at
He'll Gate and tries to take $3.50 eacl,
from the poorly paid workingmen.
The Republicans who are dissatisfied
with Cooper should hire Mr.. Tug Wilson
for chairman of the Pennsylvania state
committee. He won't know when he 8
licked.
The Cincinnati Commercial has heard a
rumor that Mrs. Garfield has received a
letter Of assessment from Hubbell's com
mlttee assessing her for two per cent. of
the late presidents salary.
ROBERT MORRIS, the eminent financier
and Revolutionary patriot, was supposed
to have reflected honor on himself and
Pennsylvania, but Cooper writes "Icba-
bod on his gravestone. He Was born in
England. Pennsylvania is for Pennsy!-
vanians only.
The fame of Daniel Webster has been
inseparably linked with Massachusetts,.
But the link is broken. Cooper has dis.
covered that Webster committed tho un-
pardonable sin Of having been born in
New Hampshire. The Massachusetts,
Legislature will at once order the destruc.
tiou of Bunker Hill monument.
WHEN will Americans be done calling
England "the mother country q" She II
not the mother country. Comparatively
few Of our people claim descent from Eng
land. Ireland and Germany are the TEEN.
lug hives from which our states have been
aud arc being peopled. Ireland is our
"mothcr country and Germany "our
fatherland."
The purpose of the new constitution to
obstruct special legislation has been cir
cumVented by measures paSsed relating
only to all counties or cities coexteusiye
with counties containing over 800. 600 in.
habitants," by which it has been u.dar
stood Philadelphia alone was compre-
hended. But since the late census shows
Allegheny county to have $50, 900 popula
tion, interested parties there propose to
avail themselves of the benefits Of this
legislation. The salary heretofore received
by the district attorney of Allegheny is
s., 600 year. He was reelected since the
last census, and on last Saturday he
brought suit to recover the additional
$40, 600 necessary to make his salary equal
to that of the district attorney Of Phila-
delphia. Should the Allegheny district
attorney succeed the annual expenses of
that county will 10 materially increased,
as the addition will apply to the whole
line of county officers. The assistant dis
trist attorney, of Allegheny county, enjoys
81 500 a year. The elevation of the county
to the legislative first class, increases this
1900 at one jump to $4,000, and creates
in addition second and third assistant
with salaries Of S., 600 and 81, 1000 respect.
lively. The sheriff is promoted from a
$1,000 officer to SIS, 900 official, the cor
oner from $4,000 to 81, 1000, the prothono.
tary from 5000 to $4,000, the clerk of
the courts from $4,000 to $4,000, the
register OF wills from So 500 to $4,000,
the recorder of deeds from $1,000 to $12,-
600, the controller from $4,000 to s1O,-
01O.