Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-10

| so far apart as some aprreheud.
lr Teuuyson's claims to a peer.aa de-
| peuded On the merit Of his recr0t lo. icsl
| productions, his chances for ia, r,uor
would bs IN tle highest dogle, atlcuuttet.
CARLIsLE's unsuccessful opponents may
Sc ane'y hug themselves as they read the
accouuts Of how the speaker is bored 20
death by office seekers aud interviewers
| l. is a poor situation out Of which some
comfort cannot b. extracted.
Trhls been little more than tweu'y.fuur
years siuce Flora Temple made the famous
rcco,d Of 2l93 Sinco then one hundred
aud nineteen horses have got records of
geo and bett,r, all of whom but ten are
now living.
FROM the formation oI tie Fedora
Uljou up to 1865 South Carolina WAS the
oaly state 10 the federation without
divorce law upon her statue books. When
the state WAS reconstructed g. l~G7s Re
publican Legislature eua,''l -ucr law,
which NAMED in force uutiI 1877. when
the Democrats succeeded to power. Oue
OF the i,s- ats Of the Democrats Was to
repeal the divorce law and every subso.
quent effort 70 restore it has been a failure
Only last week the SeOate again rejected
such q proposition.
MAHoNET declared that ere tAe day Of
judgment thirty false prophets wouI
arise in Islam. Though among the last Of
these, FL Mahdi can by no means be Ieok
oned among the least. Not only
has he energetically thraShed the
Egyptian forces under Hicks Pdsll,
but no later than last SUNDAY q
detachment of bis army completely anu.
hilated force OF 500 Bashi Bazluks aud
negroes arrayed against them. For c !
false prophet FL Mahd Is doirE taleranIy |
well.
THE Times has news tult Wharton |
Barker has beeu striving 10 have hlmsell
made sccreayy Otthe treasury a, the loss |
to the cAbiuct OF probably both Folger
| and Brewster lie did not succeed, how
ever. This may account for the very
| sighting manner in shich the presidcut's
message ami Fo'Ecr's report are spoken
Of in Bakers American True, they both
snubbed his surplus division scheme but
then IS rot Senator Mitchell 10 make a
speech n supp Drt Of it" even if have
TO write it for him
BoTH Clark, Of Missouri, the newly
ch zen Democratic clerk Of the national
House OF Representatives, aud Winter
smith, Of Kentucky, chosen do0rkeCper OF
the House, were rebel soldiers during tie
| war Examiner.
So was Longstreet whom your party male
collector Of the port Of New Osleaas aud
minister to Turkey SO was Mosby, whom
it keeps as consul at Hong Kong so wa
Settle who presided over the Republican
national convention that nominated Grant
in 1872 so was Malone, who with his
Rddleberger makes your majority in the
Senate to-day Sweep before your osu
door.
WE defy the objsctoT to point out where
any clause or principle of the constitution
is violated by this tBlaine'sI plan.-Lln
caster Inquirer. Every student of the
constitution knows thai the powers not
delegated by it to the United States are
reserved to the states. The bucdeu of
proof lies on the party maintaining the
Affirmative Of proposition. II is incumb
ent on the Blaine people, therefore, to
prove, not that their plan is not prohibited
by the constitution, but that sanction for
1t is found therein, il they dssre fouu
datiOn from which TO argue. And if they
can get over the barbed wire lence pre
sented in the first paragraph of article |,
section s, of the constitution of the United
States, they will then stand upon ground
that entities them to reasonable hearing,
THE New York Tribune, claims to have
discovered gross frauds in the letting of
contract, for public work Ia Now York
city. 1t publishes evidence to sustain its
allegations that, like in the famous canal
ring operations in the stale, by a system Of
unbalanced bids" the public has been
robbed of millions Of dollars. The plan
was something like this A street open
ing or a sewer, for example, will require
excayatiOn,- much 10 rock, so much in
earth. The engineer states approximately
the amount OF each, and bids are invited.
The outside contractor makes straight
forward bid, allowing him a fair profit on
each. The inside contractor makes bid
considerably higher on one, and very much
lower on the other-resulting In a lower
average. He thus gets tho contract. Tnen
1t mysteriously turns out that, of the work
on which he has made very low bid
there is far less than the engineer estima'
ted of that on which he made an unrea
sonably high bid, far more. The engineer :
deceptive estimate aud the CONTRACTOR 4
. secret knowledge OF the real facts WORK
together.
L - S.
A Sensational Arrest
| At jamestown, New York, Charles L.
Jeiferds, a wealthy axe manufacturer, r.
ID. Doorlittle, Milo Wheeler and Del O use
! have been arrested on the charge of having
SIT fire 10 Jetferds, Baily & Co. y lounge
, | Iaotnrv Casa nm ada AFFIDAVIT yyhan u,r ras