Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-30

CranSacClOn, 10 leC JUG cOllecClOn at 81
and Las rather than s. and 1.7O. The
calculation is based
entirely on what the figures de-
With the bids before them
the choice was with the commissioners
to allot to the lowest and best, and
not with Mr.. Vondersmith to select
which was the most advantageous to
him and the least so to the county. The
Republican majority Of the commission
ers, we believe, make no pretense that
they allotted the bid to the lowest bid
der, but admitted that they gave the
contract to Mr.. Albright because of
personal preference for him. 1t is not
surprising that the Examiner says &c they
did right"
DENNIS never did anything worse than
tho execrable pun perpetrated in his name
by the New Era.
THE New Era has passed the sixth mile
stone in its journalistic career, and points
with pardonable pride to its success as au
editorial and business enterprise.
IT having been discovered that D. b.
Randolph Keim could not himself pass a
civil service reform examination in orthog-
raphy or grammar, his nomination as OK
aminer is likely to he withdra wn.
In view of the numerous crimes Truth
wants to know whether we are passing
through cycle of crime which is drop
ping blood spots all over the land. We
don't know maybe we are. 1t is monot-
Qnously apparent, though, that the asso
ciated press hes Cpd its ponderous and
wiry jaws to cast up daily reports of the
damaged Delaware peach crop.
FROM the fact that tho percentage Of
arrests for drunkenness in Bangor, Me-, is
greater than in Hoboken, Newark or Bur
litgton and in Portland, Me-, greater
than Cleveland, Des Moines or New York
city, the Record infers that prohibition
does not prohibit. Prohibition was intro
duced in Maine in 1850. In 1880 the in.
crease of all crime was 2O7 per cent. while
the increase of population from 1850 to
1880 was only 11.27 per cent.
THE winter just passed has been very
severe one in California, and still fingers
in the lap of spring. A San Francisco
paper disconsolately remarks that "while
the lilacs are in flower in Maine, the May
apples budding in New York, the straw
berries blushing in the meadows in New
Hampshire, and the fragance Of peach
blossoms filling the air in Canada, the tour
ist is wearing a double heavy ulster in Los
Angles or shivering over a fro in San
Diego"
A FRENCH melodrama, founded on
events of the American Revolution, is
having great run in Paris. The scene is
in Boston. Through the open windows Of
the British generals "palace" is presented
view of tho Hudson river, flowing at the
foot OF the Rocky mountains. A statue of
King George III. stands in one corner of
tho room and base burning coal stove in
another. CORVALLIS is killed, Howe aud
Burgoyne taken prisoner, and Washington
and Franklin march in at the head of a
victorious army, declaring the war oveg
and the country free. Paris is an original
town.
THE supreme court of Indiana, in ruling
upon a murder case, has made the follow
ing important decision The proposition
that the burden was upon defendant of
creating by affirmative evidence as to his
sanity is erroneous. The burden was upon
the state to establish. beyond a reasonable
doubt, every material averment in the in
dictment. One of these was malice.
There can be no criminal intent when the
mental condition of the accused is such
that he is incapable Of forming one. and
tho burden is upon the state to provo that
when the offence was committed the mental
condition of the defendant was capable of
forming an intent. The burden is upon
the state.''
RECENT events justify full measure
Of confidence among farmers as to the
disposal of their grains next fall. Aside
from the grain raising portions Of the
United States devasted by cyclones, in
scarcely any localities are there indications
of a failure of the crops, the weather, for
them at. least, being favorable everywhere,
while 10 Europe the situation has been the
reverse. In North Africa frosts occurred
in March. the temperature in France was
far lower than usual and in England and
Scotland complication of causes have
made the outlook for an average crop of
wheat gloomy indeed. To add to the en-
enlargement which these reports stimulate
is the probability of one or all of the
foreign wars predicted and for the occur
renee of which in the near future there is
no little possibility, in the event of which
all the supply of wheat that this country
could spare would be sent to Europe at
very high prices.
Religion ana Music.
A novelty in Methodist worship was in.
troduced yesterday at the Mount Vernon
place Methodist Episcopal church in Bal.
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