Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-31
what We aid but he was not truthful.
The chairman Of tho Democratic state
commirtee does not speak officially in tho
INrELLIeENCER's editorial columns.


and for this it is condemned. It is able
to conceive proper schemes of apportion-
ment, and they have in fact been pre-
sented for its consideration in endless
variety no commission Of citizens could
find those that it would accept. The well
recognized fact is that the Republican
Senate is content with the existing ap.
portionments, and is willing to make no
others that lose it any of the party ad
vantage which it now holds. The Dem
ocratic House hopefully holds the Senate
in session, awaiting it's change of heart.
The moons wax and wane, and it comes
not.
ULrIMATUM of the people The electric
light must come and the wooden poles
must 60.
THE Fat Mems club, of Connecticut,
had their annual clam bake yesterday, at
South Norwalk, Connecticut. Twenty
one members were present, and their
weights aggregated 5,07l pounds.
IT is rumored at Washington, D. c.,
that in an investigation which will bo made
shortly in the interest of the government
there will be some startling and sensation
al developments as to how the verdict of
the Star Route trial was secured.
THE terrible tornadoes of the west and the
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on the
| continent seem to indicate that that por.
ton of the United States east of the Al
legheny mountains was intended from all
time as the securest abode of the highest
civilization.
THERE is mud geyser in the Yellow
stone region known as Editors Pate" "
bscause of the rush and roar of the seeth
ing water and mud that eternally bOilf
therein, but finds no outlet. The indi.
vtdual who christened tho place must
have been smarting at the time from a re-
cent interview with the fighting editor.
The New York Times, the leading Re
publican journal of the country, editorially
avows that it is not in favor Of "higf
duties on foreign manufactures as
means of protection to American industry
A pretty careful study of the question ha
led it to the conclusion that these higl
duties arc unnecessary and injurious. Thi
will be tho view of the Republican part!
before many years."
The year 1883 is keeping up Its recor'
as one of horrors. Midsummer has beel
crowned with death dealing tornadoes il
the west, and sixty thousand soul
are thought to have perished by the vol
cauic eruptions in Java. This morning.
mails bring, in addition to the regula
. crop of suicides and drowning accidents
the news of a passenger train running owe
an embankment. As an annus mirabsl'
1888 must surely be voted horrible sue
cess.
, II is gratifying to observe that th
number of young men entering politics
, life is steadily increasing year by year
, This is as it should be. 1t is true that th
l term politician " in its modern accepta
3 ton implies all that is dishonorable i
party knavery, Tut this is simply an abus
! of noble calling, not its legitimate out
t come. The infusion of young blood int
/ tho great parties of the land fires the car
s vass with new life, and makes the olde
party leaders turn from their petty fratr
a oidal quarrels to the living issues Of til
: campaign.
q IF the Shapiro manuscripts, claiming
. antedate b7 nearly 1 1000 years the Older
accepted manuscript of Dsuteronom
known, turns out to be fraudulent, tt
! famous Moabite potteries, which have bee
o accepted ss genuine for ten years by Ge
. man savants on the authority of the SAN
q person, mus meet with similar fate. tt
investigation now in progress, promises
D develop either case of the most upju
4 accusations against bsnefactor of tt
\ race, or else the cleverest bit of literar
= forgery since the times of that YOUTH,
+ prodigy, Thomas Chatterton.
WITH the last day of August the sun
mer vacation of the oyster comes to a
end. During the sultry summer tide b
y has been an object awakening suspicio
= and distrust, and he has beer allowed
- wax fat, unmolested in his oriny ocea
bed. But all this has come to an enc
= Like the store clerk who is fleeing fro
=. the sea side, the seductive bivalve mu
now lay aside his sportiveness and minil
ter to the wants of civilization. With Il
. expected arrival of the oyster comes Il
=. announcement that he will not be 80 n,
= merous this year, but that the decrease
!. quantity will be more than compensate
q by his improved quality. Though th
d information is not remarkable for i
t freshness and originality, it being mao
q TO do duty every year, it will be halle
:; with its annual delight by the lovers of tt
l. bivalve, who innocently swallow the,
q pleasant f1ctions with as much ease, 4;
they masticate the succulent mollusk.
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