Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-08

of the general government to protect its
property.

of the general government to protect its
property.
THE taxpayers of Lancaster county
have been made to sensibly realize the
benefits of Democratic representation
and Democratic administration at Har-
risburg. For nearly ten years the crowd
ed and insufficient condition Of our
county jail had been reproach and had
made it impossible for the court and the
jailer to comply with the law in sentenc-
ing and keeping prisoners. Grand juries
successfully presented the matter, and
the new buildings erected and improve
ments made from time to time were
Ineffective TO remedy the matter CON-
planned of, until the project of a new Jail
costing a large amount of money, was
recommended by the grand inquest
of last January. The bill favored by
the court to admit of business Of Ger.
tain grade being sent to the eastern
penitentiary had repeatedly failed at
Harrisburg reasons probably best
known to some of the local Republican
politicians-until it has put into the
hands of the representative from this
city, Mr.. Snyder, by whom it was pushed
to passage; and having been signed
by the governor, it is now the law.
Hereafter the court can send prisoners
to Philadelphia, where, judging from
past experience, they can be kept at far
less cost to the county than in the local
Jail, where the chief end of the direction
seems to be..tO serve one ring or the
other of the Republican factions.
THE ten dollar a week clerks are now
storming the twenty-five dollar a week
summer hotels.
IT is very evident that the revised ver-
sion of the Scriptures won't 60 Copies of
the New Testament, published at 81. %, are
profusely offered in local bookstores at 25
ceuts.
THE Legislative Record is coming again,
with it's wontod irregularity, and now
probably by the time that the applebntter
crooks are to be tied up the public may
find out what the Legislature is doug at
the extra session.
FIFTEEN thousand people are said to
have attended the opening OF John L
C,,11;uan3c IN IL,
And yet somo people have the hardihood
to deny the Hubs claim to being the most
cultured city in the Western hemisphere.
Two more suicides are reported by the
morning mails. IF men could only he
brought TO believe that they possessed i'm,
mortal souls, and that in taking their lives
they took what did not belong t. them
u'urping divlre rrcrogative, perhaps tho
suicidal manii would not become so alarm
ingly frequent.
The many followers CT King Gambrinu:
who like to look upon the beer foam when
it is white atop the glass, will hail with
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department: to made the adulteration O,
beer for the future impossible. Under the
revised forms .: brewers returns recently
adopted by the internal revenue bureau
every brewer in the United States vii
hereafter be required to return, uude,
oath, the character of every Ingredient
used in the manufacture or adulteration ol
beer, with severe penalties for false re
turns. If this sweeping regulation does
not stop adulteration, it will at least have
the effect Of letting beer bibbers into the
secret Of what they are drinking.
THE fate of Captain Webb seems to
have been without any exemplary effect.
Notice is now given by oae W. G Rich
ardson, Washington doctor, that ne has
invented an apparatus by means of which
he will be carried safely over tho great
cataract at Niagara. 1t consists of silkeu
bag of globulac elIiptica! form, covered
with an elastic gum. Ths bag is surround
ed By a network Of stro1r cords, the ends
OF which aro attached to g ring in heavy
leather belt which is wocn around the
waist. Undertakings o. this kind grow
apace, aud it will sool b necessary for
Great Britain and the Uaitsd States to
station gordon of p,iies oa either bank
of the Niagara river to arrest and confinc
the poor fools WAC for little cheap noto
riety would madly throw their lives
away.
ACCORDING to the theory rapidly becom
ing more popllar il tho modern mad
house. An insane man has no rights that
kssper is bound to respect. Tho dis
tressiny case Of William A. J. Fiss, who
died a few days ago "a tia Montgomery
county asylum from injuries received
moro than a month ago from brutal
keeper, is thu latest case in point. At the
coroner's inquest yesterday it WIS devslop
ed that the unfortunate maa had his l)wer
jaw broken in two placss, oa ea;h side Of
the mouth, at the hands of an attendant
named Goffey, who is now fugitive from
justice, with a reward of $500 placed on
his head. To losk the stable door after
the horse is stolen is never good policy,
and notwithstanding the searching inves-
tigatiou that is now being made, the pub
lie will not be prepared to condemn tho