Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-07

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with the free distribution of them, for
which there was no better reason than
for free distribution at the states ex-
pense Of hams and coal among those
who 'want them"
SECRETARY FOLGER yesterday ordered
that the word "cents' be added to the
new five cent piece, to meet the require
ments of the law.
VERMONT has amended her constitution
so as to provide for the election by the
people instead of by the Legislature of
state auditor and state treasurer. Power
once assumed thus by the people is seldom
surrendered.
TENNESSEE proposes to pay fifty cents
on the dollar and three per cent. interest
on all but the /" state debt proper" and
the bonds of educational institutions
within the state for which it is proposed
to pay par with the contract rate of inter.
est.
In the next Urited States House of
Representatives there will be 1872 Demo
Gratis, 1877 Republicans Counting the six
Virginia Readj listers as Republicans.
four Independents and two Greenbackers.
The new House will have 365 members,
| making 1863 quorum for business.
SCATTERING municipal elections held
yesterday in various towns indicate that
the Independent voter is abroad and that
| partisan lines are not closely adhered to
in local affairs. In Burlington, VT, the
Democrats elected the city judge and the
Republicans the mayor ; in Rochester,
Oswego and Utica, N. Y, there were
mixed results, while Newburg and Monroe
county show Democratic advantages.
THE time of Easter, which this year
falls unusually early, is determined by
the moon of March, which Tenuyson calls
"the roaring moon of daffodils." The
old rule is that Easter shall fall on the
Sundsy after the full moon which comes
after the vernal equinox. That brings
Easter this year on the 25th of March
In 1918 it fell on the 22d Of March, the
earliest date possible. 1t will not fal
upon that day again in this or the follow
ing century.
THAT delusive weather prophet, Wig
gins, is more obdurate than a score Of
ghostly Banquos and will not down ever
with q whole country hurting it's derisiye
taunts at his thermometrically constituted
head. He is bobbing around smilingly
with emphatic predictions Of a "big blow
on the 9th, 10th and 18th, and to give bet
ter assurances of his faith in its coming
he has skipped over to Halifax with the
intention of getting the full benefit Of th.
great storm by feeling the Canadian
winds go bowling through his prophetic
bones.
IT is somewhat gratifying to our ma
tional vanity to be assured by the Ger
mantown Telegraph that the United State,
ranks first among the countries in th,
world as regards cattle and hogs, seconi
only in horses and fourth in sheep ani
that we can make better Neufchate
cheese than the foreign article but th,
Telegraph insists that the comparison O.
our average production of wheat to til,
acre, twelve and four tenths bushels, will
England's twenty nino and a half, il
based ON the short American crop of 1881
whereas that of 1882 shows 80 per cent
more. The Telegraph may be reliabl,
depended upon to hold up the agricul
tural end of our national lire.
ALL the way over " on the steamship
British Grown, young Fannie Refill,
seemed to be overburdened with happi
ness, and despite the agonies of sea sick
ness her joy was constant sunshine to tn
passengers. They knew what light q
neither land nor sea had frightened he
trip, when, as she set foot on the PhiladeI
phia dock, young Henry Bentley rushed int,
!, her arms. carried her off to the parsons
and took his English bride to their new
home at the Falls of the Schuyikill. The,
were betrothed two years ago in Englan,
and she had followed him at his request t.
help him make his fortune in the land @
his adoption. Thus it is the world is mad
to keep going round.
In London an organization styling itsel
Society for the Suppression of Blaspte
nous Literature proposes to tie up tn
tongues. and break up the pens Q
Professors Huxley and Tyndal', Herber
Spencer aud others, "who by their writ
ings, have sworn wide spread unbelie
and, in some cases, rank atheism" Thi
society proposes to do an alarmingly grea
deed, the pagnitude of which they viii
doubtless not comprehend until the
erudite Mr.. Spencer demonstrates to then
how in the genesis of our ideas the uni
versal law of intelligence flows directl.
from the co operation of mind and nature
aad the learned Tyndall points out to thei1
astonished gaze the germ Of this very or.
eanization in the expanding intellect o.
some progressive mollusk of the Siluriar
age.
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