Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-08


James street in place of the present
structure. The water works and the
necessity for some enlargement Of our
facilities for a better supply, are sub
ject which cannot he too often urged
upon public attention, and taxpayers
and consumers will do well to think
about it and conclude upon it before an
other election on the matter is allowed
to 60 by default. The controversy over
the change in the fire department is too
fresh to make any extended reference to
it necessary here, but we believe that 4
large majority of our citizens are pre-.
pared to agree with the mayor in en-
dorsing the new system as decided i'm
provenent upon the volunteer depart
ment.
OUR always bright but not so fire.
quently accurate contemporary, the Phil
adelphia Times, fails to find in the pro-
ceedings of the Democratic convention
of this county sufficient interest to war
rant even a "four line notice - which is
somewhat surprising in a journal that so
proudly proclaims its ability and desire
to furnish its readers with cali the
news" and one too which prior to the
meeting had been so free of counsel as
to the proper course to be pursued by
the representatives of the party here.
The policy of our Independent con-
temporary, so far at least as it is eX-
hibited in its treatment of Lancaster
politics, seems to be to ignore or mis-
represent such phases as do not meet the
favor of its erratic editor. This is not
journalism, but it serves admirably to
exemplify the idiosyncrasies of class
of " independence for which our Phil
adelphia contemporary stands chief
sponsor.
THE long roll of the Independent cam
pa;gn will be sounded in Pittsbury next
Tuesday night, when Senator Stewart will
open the contest.
CHAIRMAN BOGERT, Of tie Democratic
committee, says the state convention will
be without slate He finds in the state
a sentiment for Turnkey for governor and
Ludlow for judge.
THE suggestion is aptly maio that
under the new contract for tho printing of
the Legislative Record the pages be en-
larged so as to afford a better margin tor
tying them on the tops of appIe-butter
crooks.
THE reply Of Mr.. Cooper to ex Chairman
Lear's phillippic has not yet made its ap
pearance, but it is expected to have the
red-headed and hopeful tinge that arc the
pronounced attributes OF the volatile
field marshal Of the toothache campaign.
ARABI PACuA seems at present to be
decidedly on top in the Egyptian troubles.
His followers are threatening to make cold
meat Of Tcwfik. and the khedive doesn't
seem to have any great cause for gratitude
for the intervention of the French and
English diplomacy. that has to all ap-
pearances como to grief in negotiations
with the crafty Sick Man of the East.
robson got his ears warmed in tho
House yesterday when he attempted to
take part in the discussion of proposi-
ton to strike out all item for "a deficiency
in the navy departments. The Democrats
are right in crying "hanas OFF, when
Grants secretary attempts to dip into u
subject that secured for him his present
loud.smelling reputation.
PROF. HENRY MORLEY predicts that a
great intellectual character will arise in
the near future. The professor bases his
prediction on the observed fact that a
certain average of popular culture and
certain proportion OF literary regulations
have never failed to be represented by some
mind of extraordinary power, and that
average aud proportion hayo Row been
reached CT exceeded.
Down i'll New Orleans the general pre-
position that tho pen is mightier than the
sword does not appear to extend to fire
arms, in the minds of able editors of that
mercurial cline. The account of the duel
that is published to day, while it may
prove mighty interesting to the average
reader, suggests to an esteemed conte,n-
porary that if somebody would obligingly
allow himself to be killed there might be
an end Of these affairs that arc certainly
not complimentary to our civilization and
culture. Then the survivor could be tried
and executed for murder, and there would
be no more duels Of any account in this
country.
PERSONAL.
MAJOR 3. HENRY ScHLEY, a soldier of
the late war, and a prominent Mason and
member of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, died in Frederick, Maryland, on Tues
day, at the age of 40 years.