Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-23

from every quarter of the state and the
prospects of auspicious weather are
good.
Mrs LASGHTRY is here.
THIS is Pennsylvan;a's big week. a..
PATrIsoN will be here on the 3lst Of Oc. |
tober.
TIE Jersey Lily has beaten the S~ed-
ish Nightingale in their race across the
Atlantic. - s-t -
Thank fortune there's a Bi-Centennial
this time to squelch that everlasting "six-
day pedestrian tournament Rowell and
Havael and the rest Of 'em will have to
take hack seat.
The Chicago Herald very successful
two cent paper, has reporters who so to
art galleries and other public places to
hunt professional ''mashers whom the
paper the next day exposes- .,u
GERRyMANDEnINa is now done by the
Britishcrs, but in crossing tho water tho
pronunciation OF the word got changed,
and now the st. James Gazette spells it
jerrymander," /" and ascribes its origin O
the we'll known Colonel jeremiah Man.
DER" Elbridge Gerry probably would not
object to that transformation.
LIN the Eighteenth Ohio congressional
district votes for ~. Wallace" Judge
Wallace - and "John Wallace" were il
legally rejected. In tho precinct eighteen
votes properly cast for Wallace were not
counted. Mr.. Mckinley, the Republican
candidate, ia given eight majority by the
official count The early report that he
! would decline the certificate is denied, and
il said he will go to Washington bent on
| usurpins the seat to which the will Of the
people called another. Mr.. Wallace, the
Democratic candidate, will contest Nc
Kinlcy's claim, land will no doubt be ac-
corded the seat. r'o,
| A SorA BILE contribution to the hi: Cen
tennia! era upon which We have just Gu
tered is issued from the press Of J. B.
! Lippiuoott, Philadelphia. by Mr.. James
McCaskey, Of this city. 1t is volume OF
2OS large octave double column pages, and
is entitled s William Penn Sketches and
Papcrs." The compilation is valuable
one, in that it aims to give the style aud
spirit oc ;ach writer represented in the
work, namely Dixon, Janney, Wecms and
Clarksen. the four best known biog-
raphers of til. ilmstrious founder Of the
commonwealth. Among the contonts arr
letters written by William Penn in 1GS:
to his wife and children and those to thu
/ Government Of Pennsylvania, its no''l'
preface ard the laws accompanying tlan
J are given in full, as are also the origina
: text of the charter, of Pennsylvania
. "Penn's Maxims,'' work little know
: outside the Society of Friends, and th
secoud part OF "No Cross, No Grown,
= the Sarrered experience of the best an
q wisest men and women Of Greece ar
htiIc, VI tlC SAI Old, sSuu Y
+ more modern times. The work is edite
o with the consummate skill and rar
literature taste that have marked all o
g Prof. McCakey's efforts in this direction
i aud the subject matter contained in it.
Q 2OS handsomely printed pages ispresente'
- in sequence Of chapters having due re
i ga,d to the orier Of time and making it
Y volume OF great interest to the Ordinar
' reader as we'll as to the student. Th
historic picture of William Penn at tn
d age of %, which adorns the title page {
the publication. is fine reproduction of
= precious canvas in Philadelphia, and
d certainly an ideal face Of a singularly rar
It human type. Altogether tho book is
q most valuable contribution to our stat
|e literature, and should find it's way into th
s hands of citizens of the commonwealth
L whose opportunities have been all to
J. meagre for study of the life and characte
n of the "apostle of liberation, the preache
D. of righteousness, the friend of humanity,
10 the Bi-Centennial of whose beneficel
IS work the people Of Pennsylvania are no
;, celebrating.