Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-19

hopeless. The party in his county was
never 80 united and harmonious as
under his lead, and the party In the state
never had more confidence and respect
for him than at present. Theannounce
ment that he will not continue to serve
1t by longer adorning the Office which he
now holds causes unfeigned regret every.
where.
JOHN SHERMAN is a thrifty mar He
has never failed to make the most oi an
opportunity TO have the government pay
his private debts. The explanation ot
his extraordinary zeal to have Canaday
elected sergeant at arms Of the Senate is
readily found In the fact that Canaday
spent a good deal Of money making the
North Carolina delegation solid for
Sherman In 1850, and never until now
got dividend on that investment.
WILL the Erdniner please explain
how its party in the Senate came to de
feat union soldier in caucus for ser.
geaut alarms and to elect in his stead q
late rebel soldier
The gallows tree has recently become
more popular institution than the green
Christmas tree.
SWIVEL service reform received au Illus
tIation 10 the lightning like rapidity h
which the Democratic incumbeuts OF the
Senate offices we're ousted.
THE undertaken, who was looking for
the term implies, must derive great deal
| Of comfort from gazing at the winding
sheet 10 which the earth isi buried to-day.
MISSING Miss Cooley will probably turn
out to be as much Of bonanza to the
newspaper correspondents as the recently
escaped Lancaster jailbirds A report
comes from Wilkesbarre that the young
girl vas seen at a late hour on Monday
night in lone section of the county, bur
rying my steriously towards the mountains.
All that is nov necessary TO give the story
Its proper spice is TO place gang of gore
imbibing desperadoes on the track Of the
missing girl.
EXPERIMENTS made ia Newark last
evening teuded to show that a stream of
water falling on charged electric wires
does not conduct the electric fiuid. At.
mospheric conditions and a weak electrical
current may have couduced to bring about
this result At any rate, firemeu will be a
little chary about working in the vicinity
Of network Of electric wires. No ex
periments, however, have thus far shown
that the underground wire system is not
safer and better in every respect than
that which requires the placing of an uu
slightly pole at every street corner.
NEW JERSEY proposes to abolish the
system of letting out convict labor by con
tract The proposed substitute plovides
that only so many prisoners shall be
employed as are necessary for producing
articles used in the state institutions that
eight hours shall constitute days work
and that two hours shall be employed each
day for the moral aud intellectual iustruc.
tion of the inmates that portion Of the
earnings Of the inmates shall be
placed to their credit the bal
ance of which after payment of
the expenses OF their trial, ETC., is to be
giVou to their families or laid aside for the
| prisoner until his term expires and lastly
no more than twenty shall be employed a;
one branch Of business. These provisions
| foI the protection Of honest labor are well
worthy Of imitation in our own state, as
under them equal justice is done the toiler
within and without the prison walls.
SECRETARY FoLGER in hts report stated
that an average of $4,000, 900 annually
for national sinking fund purposes would
| be required until 1891. Senator Beck
arises to remark that since 1865, s700, 900, =
900 more than the utmost requirements Of
the sinking fund have been appropriated,
and calls for an Investigation to stop this
useless drain on the peoples resources.
Tue last public debt statement shows that
on August 81, 1865, the national debt was
~, 756, ,43l,57l on December /, 1888, 1t
was, less cash in the treasury, 81 500, 1885,
06O, being reduction of 81, 2i6, 6i6, $40 in a
little more than IS years. The senator
argues that this enormous reduction was
measurably due to the unnecessary swell
ing Of the sinking fund, aud that therefore
no more money ought to be appropriated
to that fund, it being well provided for
for fifteen or twenty years to come. The
doughty Senator from the Blue Grass re
gion will have the sympathy of the people
in his efforts to tighten the burdens of
taxation.
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS,