Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-09

be might, for instance, have stocked that
silver mine, when the water flooded it,
md have foated out on the chromos.
Perhaps the newspapers while they are
the warning to young men
afforded by Mr.. Haverly's many hot
Irons in the fire might tell US whether
they think he would have been an ex-
emplar if he had let others be burned
instead of himself.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin, which sets
itself up as an authority on a great many
of which it knows all about
and Of some it seems to he hopelessly
ignorant-thus criticises what it calls
the grammar of the governors last mes
sage to the Legislature:
He saws "We continue fragrant leg.
islative default and occupy position in
every way reprehensible, inexcusable and
defiant of law" The use of default "
is rather affected, but what shall We say OF
the three adjectives, reprehensible Of, -
" inexcusable Of" and {" defiant of ?" In
Philadelphia no child would talk about
"a position inexcusable Of law - if that is
the official usage, it ought to be corrected.
Even the governor, with all his preroga-
tives, has no right to speak bad grammar.
To appreciate the force of the above
criticism, it need only to be observed
that the form of speechwhich it criticises
is the Bulletins own invention and is
not used by the governor at all. He uses
the expression "defiant of" which is
correct. The other "of's" are the Bul
letin's interpretations they are neither
expressed nor implied by the governors =
language, and the Bulletiu's hypercriti
cism is reprehensible, inexcusable
and defiant of the rules of grammar.
JUDGE LYNCH seems to have been trans
ferred from the Southern to the Western
circuit.
AN ambulatory and amatory photo.
graper has had his travelling gallery burn
ed to the ground out near Youngstown,
Ohio, by the indignant friends of one oi
his fascinated victims. They were dis
appointed, however in their expectations
Of cromating the photographer. He was
not born to be burned.
THE Rock Island water works had be
come practically useless, their supply
being reduced from the usual q, ,00O, ,O0t
gallons daily to G, 600, 600, and the myster!
deepened daily until a scientific gent tool
the pumps apart, took out a fifty pound
catfish in sections and the subsequent pro
ceedings proceeded as before.
ACCORDING to the New York cores
pondent of the Ledger, " Senator Beck, OF
Kentucky, is looked upon AS possible
dark horse in the next Democratic ma
tional convention" The discussion of hi.
name in this connection must be confined
to people who are ignorant of the consti
tuition or Of the fact that Beck was born il
Scotland.
THE Lycoming Chronicle, the newspaper
established and owned at the time of hi
death, by the late veteran editor, Col
L.vi l.. Tate, has been bought by John B
Reilly, railroad contractor, and if Ii
pushes it with his customary energy ant
enterprise he will wake up the Lycominl
county Democracy. But even a littl'
newspaper is bigger contract than :
great job of railrOading.
IT seems to be oven easier to start
panic than fire. A big dragon fly, such
as children call "snake doctor" and
"devil's darning needIe'' flew into New
York school room yesterday, and the 97l
children became panic stricken, their erie.
excited another thousand in the same
building. an alarm OF fro was raised and
in an incredibly short time the street was
blocked by mob 1000 strong, waiIlng,
crying, shouting and trampling on each
other in their efforts to get into the school
house to their children while inside tha
children were nearly ~ frantic to get out
a few lessons in practical entymology au,
some drill in getting out of tho schoo
building in times of real danger might be
introduced with profit into tho New York
curriculum.
GERMANTOWN and the whole great com
'nnnity peopled by tho descendants ol
those who settled it are called upon to re
member that on Oct. 6 next is to DO cele
brated the two hundrcdth anniversary of
the oming hither Of those twelve families.
numbering in all thirty three persons, in
habitants of Hefeld on the Rhine, who
forced by persecution to act in self
defence, but guided by their religioui
principle of nOn-resistance by force, and
their policy Of flight from oppression,
bade farewell to the Rhine and the father.
land, and began their journey to thei,
free and quiet homo in the wilds OF
Pennsylvania. Under the leadership and
guidance of Francis Daniel Pastorius they
set led the land, established their simple
faith On these shores and laid tho broad
foundations upon which they have built
peace and prosperity. Lancaster county
ought to have large share il the cole
bration which is to come off in German
town.
Prevented from Numbering Her Child.
Mrs. Abbie Smith is a middle aged
married woman residing near Ashland, and
for many years has borne a good reputa-
ton. Yesterday morning about Z o'clock