Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-16

or proceedings. 1ucSe ldlluTcs fOu'
tinue until the social and political at
of Washington is cleared and
put upon such basis that it
shall De at disadvantage when com.
pared with honesty.
THE lynchers and the cyclones keep
pretty even in the race for popular notice.
At present the lynchers seem to have the
floor.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN says he is
glad be is not on the Ohio state ticket.
This shows Mr.. Sherinan's good sense.
He wants to keep on top OF the snow at
the coming election.
DORSEY, Of Star Route flavor, will be
kept busy the rest of h,s life and good
while longer, if he undertakes, as he
threatens to do, libel crusade against
all the newspapers which have opposed
him and his methods.
THE festive Howgate, who ran away
from the government officers at Washing
ton, after having stolen $500, 600 of the
go-srnment' money, is reported to be
roaming around the stroots OF New Or
leans in disguise. Blu: h. hasn't been
caught yet, and it is Do; "ns of the most
certain things of the age that he will be
captured. Howgate is "sly-devilish sly
and the government is either naturally or
purposely sIow-devilish slow, in trying to
bring him to tho bar of justice.
A COLORED Republican club serenaded
Dorsey in Washington yesterday, and he
made a speech to them, in the course of
which his attentive audience were regaled
with bright encomiums upon the honesty
and justice of the jury which acquitted
him and bis confreres in crime. 1t was
quite pathetic affair, and seemed to be
intended to appeal to the susceptible
hearts of his auditors to take the orator
to their bosoms, and ring his virtues to the
skies. Nobody appeared to be Inclined to
inaugurate such proceeding, and then
Dorsey closed with this picturesque trib
ute t. the jim jam and ignorant jury !:
"a halo of the glory of truth will hang
about them as long as they live, and it will
decorate every thatched cottage that has
been built or will be built in tho next
thousand years."
The Missi ssippi river improvement
committee of the St. Louis merchant OK
change has expressed it's intention to call
a meeting of all similar committees in the
great valley to devise plan to secure the
necessary appropriation" next winter
for the improvement of the river. There
have been large sums already appropriated
for this improvement, in comparison with
which much more extended and useful
should be the results. A good deal of
consideration has been given to the sub
iect, which naturally is one, from its mag
nitude and perhaps necessity, deserving of
it. But it is yet to be satisfactorily demon-
strated that any amount of labor and
appropriations will effectually secure
the end desired. The whole of tho present
plan for the improvement of the great
river is not one of entire feasibility, and it
should appear necessary that before more
money is appropriated the ultimate prac.
ticability of the scheme should be shown
by system of proceedings that will
| warrant the SUCCESS of the venture and
the deserving of tho sums asked for to
carry it on.
The fact that the main cause of the
belligerent attitude of France and China is
the desire of tho former for further ac.
QUESTION of territory in Tonquin, is we'll
set forth in interview with Marquis
Tsepg yesterday by New York Herald
reporter at St. Petersburg. The treaty
which exists between the two countries is
one which seems to tacitly acknowledge
the control of France upon the soil along
the gulf of Tonquin, but China contends
that the treaty does not explicitly deliver
the country into the ownership of France.
The situation at present is threatening,
although the marquis asserts that his
government is in favor of conciliatory
methods. China has large and we'll dis.
oiplined army and France also has one of
the best in the world. But there are
many natural and artificial disadvantages
against which she would be compelled to
contend in the event Of war, and which
would naturally augment the probabilities
of her defeat. Tonquin is country rich
in mineral wealth, and is a prize worth
having. But as France practically enjoys
already the full benefit of it, the only
reason that may be assigned for her fool
ish attitude is that she wants tho country
to be distinctively in French possession.