Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-12

THE death OF GOrtScnaROn, soon SIIeI
that of Gambetta, removes from Euro |
pean politics another Of the great figures
and leaves Gladstone and Bismarck most
eminent among their contemporaries and
yet not long to follow those gone before.
The death of no single man nowadays
creates more commotion than the pebble
in the pond. Things are wisely ordered
in history as in nature that upon no
single life hangs the harmony of the
general order.
The Southern coke furnaces are advanc.
ing the price of pig iron.
DORSEY is without honor even in Ar
kausaw. The name of the county called
for him has been officially changed to that
of De Soto, which is now in such danger of
becoming disreputable.
The possibilities of telephone commu-
nication are not as yet exhaused, but the
operators are now successfully talking
between Cleveland and New York, dis
tauce of over 700 miles.
NY JEWELS.
Two sapphires have I, radiant and rare;
Bluer than summer skies.
Where are they? Show them to you? Sure
ly; there!
Look in my baby's eyes!
Mrs. N. p. Hdnd0.
THE Philadelphia politicians who got
three months in Jail for tampering with
the ballot box are, in addition, disfran-
chised for four years, which to them is
likely the severest and to tho public the
most important part of the sentence.
Meantime none of them will likely
trouble Democratic state conventions, nor
inspire the political items of blackmailing
Sunday newspapers.
THE Sunbury Democrat last week com.
pleted its twenty. y.second year, and to ap-
propriately signalize the event appears in
a new dress of type, lengthened columns
and an elaborate history of itself from it's
beginning until the present. The Democrat
has shown in the past it's value as an ex-
cellent local paper and aggressive exponent
of Democratic principles, and proposes to
continue to deserve the favors which it
| now enjoys.
"HE cometh not - they said to Anna
Peterson, a beautiful and accomplished
young lady Of Harbor Greek, near Erie,
who waited with the minister and we'd.
ding guests on March 7th at the appointed
hour, for P. Duella, her betrothed lover.
When his cold and cruel letter, simply
announcing his failure to keep his ap'
pointed engagement and his purpose to
"travel" was put iuto her hands, and
was read as she sat wreathed and yelled
for the ceremony, she fell into swoon
from which sho arose mad as Ophelia,
and now she has been placed in the state
asylum.
THE Dukes trial at Uniontown has got
along SO far as the selection of the jurors,
after good deal of successful effort by
the defendant to get dozen jurymen of
his own politics. What he hopes for may
be inferred from the fact that his counsel
accepted three of the jury which had just
| convicted man OF murder in the second
degree. The famous letters written by
Dukes to his victim have got into the
newspapers and they are bad enough to be
sure, relating the homicide's conquest of
Nuts daughter and accusing her of
wantonness. while the father in turn wrote
upbraiding Dukes. and declaring that he
would be justified in killing him.
| GoRTscHAKoFF, the great Russian min
lister, is dead. He began his diplomatic
career in 1924 and coptinued the successful
negotiator of International relations until
in 1866 he succeeded Nesselrode as minis.
ter of foreign affairs. His history is that
of Russia for half century, but long
| before his death his influence had waned
and his services were we'll nigh forgotten.
He abdicatcd his functions nominally in
1880, but years prior, though influential
with the Gar, he had lost the confidence
and cooperation of the nobility. The eldest
of the Russian diplomats, he had all the
courtly graces, wit and verbiage of the old
school, but in the revision Of tho Paris
treaty, in Russia's protest against English
interference and in the development of
the Eastern question he made a record
which some of more mushroom growth
vainly essay to rival.
NOT since Bill Poole, of odorous mem. I.
ory, bid them wrap the flag about him
and let him die otherwise than as the wise
man enfolds himself in tho drapery of his
couch, has the lower stratum of New
York society had such a funeral as was
yesterday given to Jimmy Elliott, the
murdered prize fighter. The obsequies
were conducted with unusual pomp, the
pail bearers being 36 in number and in.
Guiding many notorieties of the class to
which the dead rowdy belonged. There
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