Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-22
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS.
The Chester county Democrat don't hear

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The Chester county Democrat don't hear
much nowadays about the "dead"
Democratic party.
The North american predicts pretty
fair apportionment, because either party
can check the other. The governor can
check both.
On the whole, the Easton Argus con-
cludes, tho character of the bills intro.
duced at Harrisburg indicates that the
members are ''too fresh.''
The Harrisburg Independent discovers in
the free pipe line bill the entering wedge
to bring corporations under the control of
the state.
The Reformed Church Messenger pub.
fishes an illustrated Easter number, with
= special design for it's title head, drawn
by Mrs. J. B. Kieffer, Of this city.
To the mind of the Carlisle Volunteer
there would be some sense in making elec-
ton day legal holiday, but none at all in
giving that character to tho anniversary
of PENIS landing.
The Harrisburg Telegraph more than
suspects that the unreasoning olamor that
defeated Mr.. Oliver two years ago would
not be thrown into the scale against him
if the election could be held over again.
The Norristown Times wonders at the
credulity of the newspapers believing the
story Of dismissed naval employee who
says he had to go because he would not
black the boots of his superior officer.
The Pittsburgh Leader ridicules the
present spasm over the ease with which
divorces can be had. It insists that the
family upholds the state and that it does
not depend on the law.
The Germantown Telegraph recommends
that wooden labels, fastened with copper
wire, are the best for garden and orchard.
They should be made of pine, painted
white and inscribed in good black lead
pencil mark.
The Reading Ne1s thinks that for the
seducer and the rake there should hence
forth be but one remedy, ''and that is
death at tho hands of the injured person
at such time and place as the latter may
determine
The Wilkesbarre Union Leader avows
that it would certainly be great pity if
work on the geological survey should be
halted just when the most important part
of it, the anthracite coal deposits, remains
unfinished.
In the view of the Philadelphia Record,
the multiplication of common pleas judges
in the state has become nuisance to the
people, instead of blessing to suitors. It
concerns t.,e people that they should have
better judges and fewer of them.
The Scranson Republican insists that if
the schools have been mismanaged, the
soldiers orphans, as we'll as the state,
have been cheated, and neither patriotism,
honesty, nor common sense should OBJ
struct a thorough and impartial investi-
CATION, such as is now proposed.
The Easton Erpress thinks that, in con-
sequence of the judges being overworked,
the supreme court of the state of Penn
sylvania decides causes of great i'm
portance without knowledge of all the
points in controversy, and without due
consideration of the application of law to
particular cases.
Since rogues are shrewd enough ito see
the immense advantage that a profession
of piety gives them in their criminal
plans, the Morauian points out that all the
heavier is the responsibility resting on
Christians to exercise tho utmost care in
keeping themselves unspotted from the
world" and in insisting on making the
life of every member conform with his
profession.