Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-29


cause he liked Reber better, the man is
natural born idiot who thinks that the
Berks Democracy will count it against
him because Gov. Pattison liked
Schwartz better.
TWELVE young girls will engage in q
swimming contest in the Delaware river
at Philadelphia, to morrow. 1t almost
makes the blood stand still to think of
the possible results of hair pulling match
near the goal.
THE New York Republicans hav re.
quested their last years chairman t. .tp
down and out, and there are a good meny
Republicans in this state who think that
Pennsylvania might follow suit with
profit.
A sun-browned gypsy, whose pink finger
Are stained with Juice of berries; whose dark
howe'er SO languid. fill mems breast with
Lazy and sweet, with passion -molded lips;
Now with her length along the sand where
shipS
Shire through the mist now in a chaster
And making meek pretense 10 be wise.
In some tai shade she holds book, and sips
New wine from brier chalfce. Loftertng now
In fOresi g deep, she fans herself with ferns
Or straving where her own true color burns,
She binds the cardinal flower upon her brow !;
While ever near, with restless beat of wings
And wtnnOwing whir, the insect chorus sings.
FROM the luxuriant recesses of the
bGundless west, where the presidential
party is sojourning, comes the startling
story that it is not at all an unusual cir ..
cumstance for fisherman to capture a
trout in Yellowstone lake and without
detaching it from the hook to fling it into
an adjacent geyser and bring it thence
cooked to suit the taste of the most crit
icAl gourmand. The exuberant author
of this Munchausen tale could have
seen the amount that Jayhawker
Woodward had in the pot and raised him
to the limit.
CIVIL service reform as exemplified in
tie treatment it receives from Republican
politicians is great, much in the same
manner as was Diana of the Ephesiaps.
Cooper's stand and deliver circular to the
clerks in Washington, though referring to
assessments as voluntary contributions, -
is recognized by them as an invitation to
pay good round sum to the campaign
fund or make way for those who will.
Last years reform wave has simply had
the effect of making Highwayman
Tom modify the harshness of his demand /;
but the voice of Jacob in the garb of
Esau will be easily recognized by all who
claim any pretensions to political acu.
men.
THE plea of O'Donnell, Carey's assassin,
will be self defence. 1t is not easy to
understand why this method of justiica-
tion was selected, unless the prisoner
imagined that he in person represented
Ireland arising in her wrath to vindicate
her fair fame that was smirched by the
treachery of one of her citizens. 1t is
much to be feared that even plea of this
kind would not receive much consideration
at the hands of the average English jury.
The poor wretch whose patriotism or love
of notoriety got the better of his prudence,
under the stern government which now
has him in its clutches, will doubtless 60
the way of Brady, Curley and the rest to
the ignominious scaffold. The law makes
no discrimination in the value of lives, and
the murderer of that synonym of treachery,
Carey, must pay the same penalty with
him that assassinated Garfield.