Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-16

deserves Club fIGm the manufacturer
PERHAPS Hazen has let the floods loose
to divert attention from BeltzhoOver'
blizzard at the signal service.
If the Legislature can effect it the peo.
pie of New York city are to ride On the
elevated railways for five cents trip.
FREDDIE GEBHARDT is running around
somewhere in the southwest, but the
swollen waters have not yet reached the
tips of his ears.
THE Michigan canvas for United States
senator has got along SO far as to disclose
the fact that Ferry has been promising
offices for votes for himself and lIubbel
has been paying out money to beat Ferry.
At this rate Michigan will soon measure
up to Pennsylvania.
THE U. S. makes an eighty eight cent
dollar it has just turned out an anOma) J.
ouS Coiu WulCu uocS uUh loii oli ilo iaCC
whether it stands for five farthings Or five
dollars, and now it is discovered that half
of So, 900 gold recently coined at New Or
leans, short $3.50 per 81, 900, is in circula-
tiOn. What next?
AFTER I. long and bitter struggle for
the city offices filled by councils in PhiIa-
delphia, the Democrats and Independents
who had before defeated Baldwin for com
missioner Of highways, yesterday elected
Colonel Ludlow, au eng ineer oI the L. 5.
A., to be superintendent of the water
works. His opponent, one Shaw, as a
desperate resort circulated the story that
Ludlow was drunkald and that soon
settled Shaw. The riugsterS made one
struggling stand and then died i'll the last
ditch. The department. has large patron
age aud the Democrats are we'll satisfied
to have it liz pon-partiSan hands and run
for the public good.
REPREsENTATIVE JOHN II. LANDS has
been making such good record FOR him
self in attacking improper appropriations
that is pity lie could not withstand tbs
temptation 10 show his ears by INDUCING
in some buncombe over tho bill to pension
the surviving veterans of the Mexican
war, which came up on second reading
Lands insisted on amending it SO as +,
not make it apply to ex-Coniederates
though nobody was able to recall an;
Pennsylvania soldier of the Mexican wa,
who had served in the army of the rebel
lion, except Pemberton, of Philadelphia
and when he was hunted up it wa:
found that he has been dead for severa
years.
THE New York Herald very promptly
exposes the fallacy of an appeal made b!
Holmes, Whittier and Aldrich to Coneres.
to not take the tariff off books, lest it wOulC
enable foreign publishers to occupy ths
! market with books written and mad,
abroad, and "that higher literature viii
be discouraged and the greatest volume o
reading for the young, will be guided b,
foreign anthOrs instead of by men All
women of their own nation" All foreIs,
books for which there is general deman.
are already republished aud sold her
cheaper than foreign publishers woult
sell them, and very much cheaper than TIL
copyrighted publications of home authors
OF like rank are sold.
The Democratic state executive com
mitttee Of Pennsylvania held its frs
meeting under the new rules and the re
organization of the party in Philadelphi;
last evening, there being present W. U
Hensel chairman. Gen. Richard Coulter
Hons. L. F. Myers, w. +. Harritty, II
p. Allen and w. J. Brennan. Harrisbur,
was fixed as the place for the meeting o
the next state convention On Wednesday
Aug. 1, to be opened at 10 a. N. Their,
was an informal discussion on variou
political matters and a disposition mani
tested to secure such . change in the Law
relating to payment of tax as a suffrag
qualification as would abolish the consti
tutional provision on this subject or reduc
the tax to nominal figure.
AT length, after much time and S2J, 90
| expense, the crypt under the cathedral a
Garden City, L. L., intended as the las
resting place of A T. Stewart, has bee,
| completed. 1t is said to be of extremol
elaborate finish, is IS feet high, and in tn
centre are two stone sarcophas for the re
| mains of Mr.. aud Mrs Stewart. Consider
ing the popular belief that the stole,
body of the millionaire was never re-
covered, there is something ludicrous il
the idea of the erection Of tomb for tn
reception of body which cannot DO founs
to be put into it. But then the building o
this costly sepulchure may be additional
grounds for the impression that the re
mains are in secret possession of friends
who at an opportune time will place them
in the crypt, which skill and money, il
may bepresumed, have made doubly SO
cure.
MAIL MIsCELLANEY