Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-26

future 10 properly gNde our fOoAS'epe'
Perhaps judicious distribution of ice
cream or soda water tickets among the
employees of the street department
would do some god.
But such mild rewards cannot be ex
pected to discover the street committee
and commissioners. They have probably
fled the town because OF the smallpox.
They certainly cannot venture out on
the streets or they would not fail to see
the numerous mounds built up on great
many of them by the plumbers, and the
water fiends. They appear everywhere.
There never was a time when the streets
of the town were dug up as they have
been this summer and never we're
they filled in so execrably. The mounds
r.se up like tumuli. The innocent
visitor from the country, hearing of the
smallpox in Lancaster, is deceived into
the belief that these plumbers bitches
are graves into which the dead of the
neghboring houses have been hurriedly
cast. On Orange street, just west of
North Queen, groups of sympathizing
and tender-hearted strangers may be
daily observed gazing with awe
upon sample mound which
shoots athwart this street, and
bounces those in the vehicles crossing it
almost as high as could be done by the
best of the very remarkably successful
bouncing cutters so literally placed by
the present astounding street depart
ment at our street crossings. We have
a very high regard for our street com
mittee and its officers. We do not think
they can be matched anywhere. We
would like to join company to serd
them out for exhibition. 1t would nay
to send them out !; and keep the III CUT.
THE Democratic House at Harrisburg
passed the Stewart bill yesterday and
sent it to the Senate, where it was
promptly negatived in committee. This
scheme of congressional apportionment
was introduced by John Stewart him.
self and is intended to give the Repub
licans seventeen congressman to eleven
for the Democrats. If the harmonized
Republicans will not take that they will
of course never be offered anything
better. 1t was stretch of generosity
and justice to prOffer them 50 much.
The Republican line was, however,
broken by the vote of Alex. II. Morgan,
of Philadelphia, for the bill. Like Ster-
rett and Lowery he recognizes the in
justice and unreasOnableness of his
party's demand.
Elk CONGRESSMAN DEZENDuRF, in a let
ter accepting the craftsmanship of the Vir-
ginia Republican state central committee,
declares war to the knife against Mahone,
whom he accuses of all the political crimes
in the calendar. The conscienceless Re-
pudiator chieftain, in turn repudiated by
his Republican allies, bids fair to be. soon
consigned to an oblivion which has been
long deserved.
THE language of the constitution with
reference to judicial apportionment is that
counties containing a population less
than is sufficient to constitute separate
districts 100000 shall be formed into
convenient single districts, or, if neces-
sary, may be attached to contiguous dis
tricts, as the General Assembly may
provide" Adams and Fulton counties
are of this class, but does any member of
the Legislature pretend to say that a
convenient single district can be made
Of two counties twenty miles apart and
without railroad communication between
them Z?
STEAM yachts are becoming more pOpu.
lar every day with the wealthy classes. In
fact it may be said tiat to own a yacht is
quite the proper caper for the modern
millionaire. Some lover of statistics has
fished out the Information that in 1868
there were only 80 British steam yachts of
an aggregate tonnage of }, 752, while there
are now 4G6, and the aggregate tonnage is
81, 800. As with many other costly toys
yacht owners soon. tire of their posses
sions, and are willing after few tossings
on the 5riny deep, to dispose of them on
extremely moderate terms. Their princi-
pal use at present seems to be in acting
as an innocent outlet for the surplus &C
cumulatlous of the monied men of the
land.
THE Chicago Eoening Journal in an able
article recently asserted that the present
is no a politically apostolic era, but that
the two great parties of the country are at
issue merely on question of spoils, the
Republicans striving to retain control of
the official patronage, while the Demo-
Gratis are straining every nerve to oust
them. Understood in general sense the
writer's view are not incorrect. 1t is true
that no absorbing thought concentrating
issues now divide parties. The slavery
question is now settled, state sovereignty
is at rest, and both parties seem to regard
the tariff as two edged sword which it is
not safe to handle. In fact, there is a gen.
eral disposition on all sides to give the
new tariff act fair trial. But to argue
from the fact that there is no one pervad-
ing, all absorbing issue agitating the pub
lie mind, that there is no issue whatever
but that of spells, is an exceedingly
illogical deduction. Retrenchment in
national expenditure and reform in COVER
mental methods are the momentuous
issue on which the next presidential bat.