Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-15

burial. The latter is more apt to be
injurious to the public health, by reason
of the disturbance of the soil and the
decay of the fiesh. But if otherwise
and cremation is a public nuisance, laws
that provide for the abatement OF nui-
sances suffice for the case. Unless be-
cause it is nuisance the state has no
right to interfere with cremation. Does
Senator Nelson own a graveyard :?
AFTER long absence Mr.. Charles A.
Dana, of tho New York Sun, is welcome
back to Pennsylvania soil.
THE Philadelphia gambling houses are
closed on account IF . raid-not BY the
police, but by fast young man who has
been heavy loser and now levies black
mail This is one way of getting at it.
The subject of divorce is to be treated
in the April number of the North Amer
ican Reuiew by Judge Jameson, the well
known divorce judge of Chicago, and the
Rev. DR.. Theodore D: Woolsey, the life
long opponent of divorce.
TIE Baltimore Methodist conference
adopted resolutions condemning the car
rying and distribution of mails, running
steam street cars, and publishing, buying
or reading secular newspapers on Sunday,
and consistently oondemning campmecting
associations which receive a rebate from
Sunday travel.
The Democrats of the House at Harris.
burg have wisely resolved that their
paster and folder employees shall do their
own work and not draw the pay of the
place and divide it with proxies. This is
right. Any man elected to the place who
is not qualified for it nor willing to dis
charge its duties in person should get the
&. b. forthwith.
COLUMBIAN CoMMANDERY No. 1, K. T.,
of New York, proposes to make the trip
to California and back in August, includ.
ing the visit to the Yosemite, with every
sort of expense attached to the undertake
ing, for $3.50 for each member Of the
order anywhere in the East who chooses
to 60 under its auspices. This includes q
ten days stay in California.
AN anxious correspondent writes us to
inquire why neither the county commits
sioners nor the assessors of Marietta and
Donegal rise up to explain or defend the
charges of gross inequality in the assess
ments up in that neighborhood. We as.
sumo that their failure is owing to the fact
that these inequalities are indefensible.
And if cur correspondent can further elu
cidate the subjec-, on with the dance. |"
The House has finally agreed on second
reading to appropriate $40, 1000 each to the
ton normal schools of thu state for the
next two years, coupled with the wise pro.
vision that schools having an Indebtedness
of $4,000 shall apply the money TO its
extinguishment, and those having a less
Indebtedness than $10, 900 shall pay their
obligations before using any of said ap.
preparation to improve their property.
THE showing up in the Legislature of
the expenses Of advertising the reports OF
mercantile appraisers reveals the fact that
tho Dauphin county newspapers are the
mort voracious of all. Dauphin paid
4,O12.SO for mercantile advertising in
1881 and s4.441.6O in 1880, although its
return to the state for the former year
was only $40, O,3S1.S5 and for the latter
$10,904.21. Dauphin gives its organs
about twice as much for advertising
which brings only $40, 600 to the state as
Allegheny county spends for getting a
return of eight or nine times the amount
collected in Dauphin-and Allegheny was
always counted a bad ua.'
THE Thirteen club of New York,
organized for the laudable purpose of com
batting some idle popular superstitions, is
an assured success. 1t was organized Jan.
IL, 1883. On the cover of the published
address of the president at its last annual
dinner is picture of the 13 at dinner,
clinking glasses, while speaker jocularly
calls attention to Death, who looks in at
the door. Lower on the page an owl sits
on banner on which is inscribed tho le.
gend, "Morituri te Salutamus." The club
was not only intact at its first annual
meeting, but had increased to 13 times 10
The initiation fee is 81. .13, and the monthly
dues 13 cents. The parent club is prepared
to grant charters to other clubs, for which
s1s.1S will be charged. The applications
for charters are said to be numerous both
in America and Europe. For life men,
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