Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-21

tne dead body OF little Maggie Hen.
necke, missing since last October, in the
river, where it had lain under the piers of
the coal wharves. Melancholy as was her
fate and tragic as the circumstances of
the finding of her wasted body, it is a less
poignant grief to her stricken parents to
know the end than to suffer the unceas-
ing and uncertain sorrow of the Ross
family, who have never had light upon
the tragic sorrow which darkened their
household.
BASEBALL mines have been organized
in the House. It will be well to post
pone the calling of the game until after
final adjournment.
THE Observer asks for bicycles for the
rural pastors.
THE opponents of free pipe lines should
remember the fate of Slaymaker's bull.
In order to promote fish eating among
the poorer classes of the English popula-
ton, low priced fish dinners will be served
up daily at tho London fish exhibition.
THE opponents of free pipe lines may as
we'll order out the fire buckets. The bill
will pass the House and the governor will
sign it. Make note of this.
THE Harrisburg Telegraph talks glibly
about oil pipe lines blighting vegetation,
destroying property and polluting streams,
| but omits to tell where.
Mr.. HENRY WATTERsON has been
standing before the mirror long enough to
discover that the press is sometimes "a
vehicle Of disjointed thought
THE Christian Adcocate heartily ap-
proves giving a chance and an attentive
| audience to the semi-centcnnial sermons of
ministers who have served the church
long enough for such celebration.
THE Examiner thinks the INTELLIGEN-
GER is egOtistical in expecting Judge Pat
tersOn to take his law and facts from 1t.
He thought SO, too, once, but came to a
| different conclusion after all the returns
were in.
JUDGE ALLISON, Of Philadelphia, is Ger
tainly considerate man. Having dis
covered that a man sentenced by him was
unjustly convicted he secured him a par
don after two years imprisonment and now
interests himself actively and earnestly in
getting him situation.
| SHAD and Organ-grlnders may be the
harbingers of spring around these parts,
but down in Georgia the negroes have a
surer one. When they hear the first
alligator's tender note, with its gentle
cadences waited on the flower and mos
quito laden zephyrs, the darkies say it is
''sho sign spring dun come.''
WHAT with being compelled to pay
S2,25O per fortnight for suite of fine
rooms, $3.50 per day for cab fare, and a
splendid prospect of being blown into
atomic fragments during the playful ,jubi-
lations of Nihilists, the itching anxiety 20
behold the cornation of the czar at Mos
COW will be materially decreased.
AT Hibalston, in Lincolnshire, England,
tho school board consists of four members.
The vicar and his wife constitute half the
board, and as the former is also chairman.
they are, by the aid of the casting vote.
able to carry everything or nothing at their
own sweet will. The vicar puts resolu
tioD, his wife seconds it, tho other two
mcmbers oppose, when the casting vote
comes in and the thing is triumphantly
carried.
The Practitioner suggests that the
meetings of the Lancaster medical society
might be made much more interesting if
patients from the county hospital were
brought before the society for examina
tion. The board of directors would no
doubt give permission and furnish convey
ance for those who required it, as there is
no class of men of whatever profession
who save SO much annually to the county
by attending and furnishing medicine to
the poor gratis, as our physicians.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. SPURGEON's lamencss has disap-
peared.
Ex-Governor FAIRCHILD, Of Wisconsin.
is the last dark horse upblanketed for the
presidential race.
JOEL B. McCALMANT, of Pottsville, is
said to be booked for the position of chief
of statistics under Secretary of Internal
Affairs Africa.
GEO. r. GUss, of tho Chester county
Democrat, will be pressed for the Demo-
cratic nomination of auditor general this
fall.
BISHOP HUGH MILLER THOMPSON, of
New Orleans, has been presented by his
late narishionera With n +o,n, En-. ~;