Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-13

for the session and relieves this CORPORA
ton.
THERE are mauy ways--and some of
dubious propriety-Of calling men to
grace. A Portland revivalist is by bust
ness az auctioncer. He is quoted as ex-
claiming in the midst of fervid exhorta-
ton to sinners "Twenty nine I've go.
thirty, shall have EN-? Bless the Lord!
Twenty nine are saved who will come
next? Shall | have thirty 20
Now is the wiiter of the nine dollar dry
goods clerks discomfort made mere SO BY
the spectacle o! the ''hyers' that are daily
seen skimming down East King street to
the merry accompaniment Of the jineIing
bells. The sight of the liveryman's
t,ritf charges is calculated to brig vividly
before his vision the Old saw thai none but
the wealthy enjoy life.
In seems that the state treasury sinking
fund has S2,017, 1893 SO lying idle, or
rather deposited in banking institutions
for the benefit of those which are thus
favored. The Allegheny national bank
Of Pittsburgh has a322, 800 39 and tue
Peoples (kemble's) Of Philadelphia has
$27G, 600. The only favored banks in this
city are the Fulton with s45, 900 aud the
FIRST national with $4,000.
Il sI,}. n frsrIN
murderous occurrences reported within
twenty four hours respectively from Gin
cinnati and St. Louis. In both cases VIC
read OF the killing of young man By his
infuriated and drunken father, with the
additional information that in each instance
the murder constitutes tho secoad of the
kind to be charged to the hand of the
unnatural parent, both having escaped
the penalty Of Their previous crimes. The
circums ances of the two cases are SO
similar that the transposition of the
names would almost suffice to report
either or both.
THE New Holland Clarion begins its
eleventh year with an enlargement of its
space and several other conspicuous I'M
provements that promise to gain for il
a still larger circle of readers than it al
ready enjoys. The ClurioM has been IL
hard and faithful worker in the local field
and has proved itself valuable adjunct
to the journalism of the county Of which
it stands as a very creditable exponent
The evidences of deserved prosperity
which it puts forth with tho now ye4r can
be scarcely less gratifying to the coinmu
nty than ;hey certainly must be to our
esteemed contemporary abIo and cEer-
getic editor and proprietor.
AND now it is a member of Mapiesol' S
company, an Italian Signor Somebody,
who has been robbed of hundreds of dol
lars worth of valuable jowe!ry at high
toned hotel in Philadelphia The circum-
stances of the affair are described as
PECULIAR but then it is a peculiar thing
that as a general rule there is more or less
popularity about these peculiar proceed
ings. The most notable fact in the present
peculiar instance is that the alleged victim
told the hotel keeper he wouldn't say any
thing about the robbery and thus save the
reputation OF his house provided the pro-
prietor would bear half the amount of the
loss. Such a proposition coming from
anyone but au italian signor in a big opera
company would smell very strongly Of
blackma
TIE Harrisburg Telegraph, which had
for years been the home organ Of the leg
islative roosters, but which now booms
the reform cause with all the energy Of d
sudden convert, takes the Legislature to
task tor working only eleven hours in
eleven days, and it's censurc of the appa-
rently dereict public servants will find q
responsive public echo. OF course the de-
lay in announcing the House committees
somewh retards business on that side Of
the capitol, but after they are named, aud
when the inauguration"is over, the public
will insist upon the 1slegraph's demand
for "business." The members owe it to
their constituency to give to the public
work at least five days Of square honest
work per week, devcting as much as six
hours day to sessions. Less than this
they will not be let off with.
THE committee of three appointed by
the Democratic Honse caucus to inquire
whether Nom bers are entitled to $1O0 worth
of postage stamps, besides the $50 allowed
them in lieu Of all stationery and per-
quisites" has concluded that perquisites''
does not cover postage stamps. Perhaps
not, but the question is very close one
AS few members use anything like this
amount of stamps for their official cores
pondence, aud as many of them convert
their postal orders in to cash, even "silav-
ing" their face value, we agree with the
Patriot that "the first duty of the Dem
ocrats should be to introduce bill for
bidding entirely the distribution of post
age stamps. The state could thus be
saved in the neighborhood of twenty -four
thous AMI dollars at every session of the
Legislature. Here is an opportunity to
cut down expenditures which should not
pass unimproved."