Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-08


Now let the rule of "no work no pay"
be enforced.
THE Chinese on the Sandwich Islands,
it is feared. will soon outnumber the ma
tives. That might be a good thing for
the Sandwich Islands.
THE Wilkesbarre gin singers have been
shaken up in the judicial mixer. Out OF
800 licenses asked for and considered a
fourth were rejected.
THE woman who goes out anu leaves
her children locked up to play with the
fire has quite superseded the idiot who Gid
not known it was loaded.
IT being given out that Keim was the
best of the applicants for civil service ex.
aminer there is universal outcry by
enlightened journals for look at the whcle
list.
JERRY DUNN, indicted in Chicago
for killing Jimmy Elliott, had the
satisfaction of exhausting the regular
panel ofjurors yesterday before dozen
of his peers could be found.
IT is worthy of note and high credit to
the people of Forsyth, Ga, that on Con-
federate Decoration Day there the grave
which was heaped highest with flowers
was that of the only Union soldier buried
in the cemetery.
An Easton judge has decided that resi-
dence in the borough for year is nee
essary qualification to vote at the town
election. He's wrong. The constitutional
qualification of sixty days residence in the
district is for all - elections.
NAVAL OFFICER PoLLoCK's term at tho
Philadelphia custom house has been out
Tor a month and his successor is not yet
appointed. A suspicion dawns upon the
mind of the Philadelphia politicians that
the candidates are to be put under Keim's
patent harrow.
RECORDER LANE, of Philadelphia, being
out and Recorder Smith not yet being in,
there arc about $500 tavernkeepers ia
that city waiting and wondering to know
how they are to get their licenses. An
approval by the recorder is necessary
before it is granted by the court Of quar-
ter sessions, and if Iot lifted and paid
before June 1, penalty Of ten per cent i:
added. Without recorder they cannot
60 further.
The Washington monument-to Wash
ington, in Washington, D. C.,.is nc
longer butt for ridicule. The much de
rided stump is approaching completfo,
and the interesting account of the Ion!
drawn out affair, which is reprinted on
the fourth page of to days INTELIIGEN
GER, is calculated to put 4 stop to the
jokes which have alas too long and with
too much reason been circulated over the
failure to complete this pcnderous aui
stately scheme to overtop the pyramids OF
Egypt and the cathedrals of Europe.
TIE New York correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger is advised that the,t
is disposition Oh the part of thoughtful
minds to attach a much greater Importance
to the utterarces of ex-senator Conkling
at the Saturday Night club reception
with reference to our relations witt
Mexico than to those pertaining TO presen.
and past domestic party politics. His as
piratio. that the people of both coun
tries would appreciate the force of GoueiaI
Grants assertion that the interests of the
United States and Mexico should bs made
identical, commercially, socially ant
politically" and that the ex- president o.
the United States would be recognized a.
the leader Of a great movement to help the
Republic of Mexico develop its resources
and to bring about the natural CONNER
cial union OF the two countries" it IS be
lieved, has :. significance that does not
altogether appear on the surface. Grant
and Conkling at the head Of a Mexican
annexation movement in American pnl
tics, would make stir.
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