Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-09

IlOst IlDpiucHl tldt Ids Scl pCoA hiooS
by Republican Offices. Mahone's check
must pale by the side of this Iowa spoils-
man.
A REPORT comes from Harrisburg
that there are anticipations OF the ar
rival and sojourn there Of Vanderbilt
railroad lobby and a Gould telegraph
lobby. This will he an excellent year
for lobbyists at Harrisburg-to get them
selves into the penitentiary.
DELANEY must 60.
THE sudden rise in corn is due to a
corner.
"FoR once the "scru5 women
at Harrisburg will be expected to scrub.
By mistake the outside pages Of days
INTELLIGENCER are dated Tuesday, Jan.
10, instead cf Jan. 8
II has just bsen discovered that the
clerk Of the supreme court at Washing
ton nets as much from his fees annually
as the salaries of such presidents as Wash
ington, Jefferson and Jackson amounted
to. Reform is necessary.
THE controller in Milwaukee seems to
have level as well as a stubborn head.
Last year the city departments were duly
notified that the appropriations were OK
haus5ed but they kept on steadily spc1i
ing money and contracting debts t, b.
met out of this years appropriations. The
controller sensibly objects to this kind Of
housekeeping and refuses to allow the
grab.
THE Tobacco Leaf, in its annual trade
review, notes that 1882 opened with an
estimated stock Of seed leaf on hand, IL
Guiding the crop Of 1881 and all preceding
grcwths, of 33l, AIS cases. There were
consumed and exported in the last twelve
months, 237, cases, leaving surplus
on hand of 1928 Nearly or quite all
estimates are resolvable into the couclu-
sion that 200, 600 cases will cover the pro-
duction Of seed leaf in 1882, allowance
being made for increased acreage and di-
munit:on Of weight and size by reason of
protracted drouth. 1888 will apparently
be commenced with 81. 5j5 cases less than
the year 1882, which circumstance, from
every point of view, affords a good pros.
pect. The entire quantity of Sumatra
tobacco received at the port Of New York
last year was 1881, ,41G pounds.
TIE accomplished idiot who corresponds
with the New York Tribune from Boston
writes to that paper as follows {:
Buffers discovery that Massachusetts,
i!literacy is greater than that Of a majority
of the states is a good specimen OF the
SANDER and roorbacks with which this
extraordinary state paper abounds. By
reckoning in the illiteracy of his own i'm
mediate and peculiar supporters, the fresh
Irish immigrants and the Canadian French
in the mill towns {" the Chinese OF New
England,'D General Butler has managed
to put Massachusetts, below Iowa with hel
German aud Swedish immigration in poin;
of iIliteracy. The fraud has been prompt
ly exposed, but the governor has for the
moment got the laugh upon his state.
This was probably all he wanted.
1t would be interesting to have the
Tribune man tell where the fraud is
in Buffers calculation, and why he should
not count all the people Of Massachusett:
in his enumeration of its iliteracy.
TIE Philadelphia american is in error
when, in speaking Of the action Of thu
House at Harrisburg it says "Tho Dem
ccrats declined to make Il move toward
rctrenchmcnt and reform, and instead 0
dispensing with numerous officials, a
had been assured-by the chairman 0
their state committee, Mr. Hcrsel aInongs
otheEs-it was perfectly practicable to 90
with pegs. Indeed, we do not zee tba
there was the sign Of new order Of thing
in any of the Houses procedure; perhap
it may be different: when the new governo
gets seated. - Although Republican
Houses have for years past invariabl,
filled some sixty places at the very out
set of the session the Democrats have thu
far only filled q dozen, and are consider
ing how many of the others can be dis
pensed with, with fair prospects of loppin:
OIL half a score at least.
For long time it has been disputed
that the New York Tribune WAS maxim!
money, and the lack OF any dividends d.
clared upon its stock was cited a
proof that its business management an'
heavy Investment in . big building wer
Improbable. Yesterday the association
met and declared a dividend of2J per cent
From the registry of stock it appeared tina
Whitelaw Reid held IS shares in his owl
name and 4S more in the name of his wife
while his brother in. law owned 20 share
more, the family thus owning a!togethc
143 out Of the 200 shares. The remainder
are held in small lots, and ia nearly hal
tho cases by estates. The report state,
that, "with the exception of a loan O
$1,000 the new building had been en-
tirely paid for out of the profits Of tn
current business" Though coming to-
late for the relief Of some OF tho "estates
owning Tribune stock the news and thu
dividend will be welcome. It looks a
though it had been held back so as to de
preciate the stock and let tho Reid famil!
gobble it up.