Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-29
exc out the deficient population in

simple matter, and yet it refuses to be
fixed. The Senate has settled it several
times, but just as often has reversed its
action. Some of the senators do not
seem TO be able to anchor themselves on
the question. What they think to-day
they no longer think to morrow. The
matter seems to trouble them more than
it ought. No doubt it is disagreeable to
give up the convenience and economy of
riding free on railroads, but they cannot
get away from the constitutional man
date, and they might as we'll submit
gracefully to the inevitable.
SOME lawyers are persuasive before the
jury, and some carry conviction with the
coart, but obviously the easiest way to
get client off is to tell the district atto!-
ney that there is nothing in it " and to
get him to tell the court so.
SOME of the soldiers who have been
guarding Garfeld's tomb have become in.
sane over the dreadful monotony of their
duty and the melancholy surroundings.
In the name Of all that is reasonable why
is this guard kept up?
A CHICAGO judge has decided that a
Jews promise to marry his affianced on a
day which turned out to be Yom Kippur,
| the Jewish feast Of the atonement, Oh
which no Jewish priest would celebrate a
marriage, is not one for the breach of
which damages eau be recovered.
HoT Goals dropped from one of the New
York elevated railways, fell upon and
| scared team of horses which ran over a
boy ard crippled him for life. He has
recovered 5000 damages from the com.
pany, which may find it cheaper to carry
ash paus than to drop such shower baths
into the streets below their tracks.
RAPHAEL, born on March 2Sth, 1883,
died on March %, 1920, both Good Fri
days, had the homage of his nation paid
him yesterday by general and pompous
celebration of his fourth centennial in
Rome. A bronze bust was unveiled at
his tomb and throughout the world is
recalled the magic of his art.
TIE revival of the interest in J. Howard
Payne and his song Home, SWEET
Home,' has melted to tho front host ol
personages claiming for themselves the
authorship of certain popular airs OF
feverisby endeavoring to prove that GER
tain other people wrote them. From the
eagerness with which the data relative to
their production are sought for and dis,
cussed it would seem that the individual
who cared rather to write the songs than
make the laws of nation gave utterance
to a fine comprehension of human ma.
ture.
| Cock FIGHTING is an established sport
in Baltimore. At least twice week there
are mains in the suburbs of that city and
on the appointed nights the initiate know
where to find them. A Sun reporter,
| who tells how difficult it is for anybody
but trusted friends of the unlawful spor!
to gain admission to the place of the pit,
describes it with minuteness that still
leaves it doubtful to which class he be-
longs Of the frequenters, whom he describes
"some as having stubby boards. wear NO
collars and have their trousers tucked in
cowhide boots some look like steady 60
ing business men, and some have an ag-
gressive splendor of necktie and shininess
Of high hat denoting the city bloods.'
| CANADA proposes to tax exports Of game;
The dominion subsidies a limo of steamers
to Antwerp; Massachusetts, proposes
biennial elections, and also repeal OF
the poll tax suffrage qualification Dela-
ware intends to fine unliscensed statesmen
from other states; Memphis promises to
promptly pay the interest on it's city debt
under the settlement authorized by the
Legislature Boston entertains and sympa-
thizes with the Malagassies DR.. Higbee
gives full assent to the Coke committee
clerks to copy the records of the soldiers
orphans schools department the Chicago
Democrats renominate Carter H. Harrison
for mayor the Cincinnati saloon keepers
| association tells its members to vote as
=, they please; England wants us to agree
: upon an International police system-and
thus by governmental regulation the woll
is kept spinning around.
YESTERDAY was somewhat of a field
day TOR the press. The Louisville Courier
Journal Won its libel suit brought by a
woman whom it had accused of improper
relations with Bandit Jesse James and
whose case Gov. Crittenden's volunteered
testimony knocked into pi the libel suit
brought against the Erie Eosning Herald
by the doctors of the Dixmont insane
asylum for structures upon their manage
men. was abandoned at their cost but
out in Collinsville, ILL.,, where the people
do not wait for libel suits, the editor of
the Herald was lashed over the face and
neck with a rawhide vigorously laid on by
Mrs. Henry Marshall, wife of business
man there, for the publication of an article
which reflected upon herself, her husband
and her mother. An editor who tackles
husband, wife and mother-in. law all at
once can expect nothing less.
DION BoUcICAULT, who as play writer
has won good fortune and some fame,
has drawn tho New York dramatic critics
about his head for placing on the stage