Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-15

4 sun-di. i..l q Iaint and gray,
And IL iaacS no heed of the hours that dark
Pass over II day by day.
Ii has stood for ages among the flowers
In tie land of sky and song;
- note none but the clOudles5 hours
Its motto the Whole day long.
". e. Doune.
ANOTHER Western Pennsylvania Pres.
byterian has been dismissed from church
fellowship because he permitted dancing
at his house, DR.. John B. Donaldson Of
Cauonsburg was the offender, and his Tin
wedding Was the occasion. Is this cyclone
moving Lancasterward
THERE is scant authority for the an
ncunccment, though there is ample proba
bii;y OF its correctness, that the youngest
son of the Prince of Wales has been
marked for the church, and that his eiu-
cation is to be conducted with especial
view to his destined vocation.
TuE contest as to which judge should
hear tie Dosl1r Wagner senatorial contest
in Cumberland and Adams counties has
been settled by Judge Hermau's decision
that nearest" means by air line. Hence
Judge Barnett of Perry county has been
called i'll, and he will have Il summer S
job y! it. The Wagner people are the
batter satisfied with his selection, and
anxiousy await Bosler's next move.
4 MAN in Port JorviS who has a lot of aG
ciGent policies claims to have been par
alyZsd in lis lower limbs by railroao!
accident, but as he has borne bad name
the skeptical insurance companies are sub.
jccting him to the seveGest tests to find on
whether he is shammiug. With batteries,
hot irons and scaipels the doctors have
already done erything bnt cut off lis
legs and he has stood it with q iuriitule
that would command for q man $lG0 q
week-the amount Of his claims-Cvcc il
he is i fraud.
TIE St. Louis girl who was 50 myster
ousIy abducted AIT! as suddenly returnc,
to her home, is the subject o: some sean
| dal aud suspicion that she vas off on
| lalk, il the worst that the term implies
| The Police say they can arrest her alleged
abluctUrs if her family will say the word
and her family seem willing to let the sen
sa:ion subsida, since il has been discovuret
that she was 4 willing prisoner at th,
| lodgings OF her abductors, went out freel,
to her meals, and on her way bough
filthy French novels at the Etationer's.
THERE was Il great deal of money ia tn
| speculation of buying up the old Centcn
nial buildings, tearing them down ant
selling the materials. All Of these wcr
new and comparatively little worn ant
although the dismantled structures looked
r,mShackly and Improbable they yielded
well to those who took tenn apart ant
| sold the pieces. The main buildin.
brought $91, 900 ard Mr.. B. c. Mitchell
| who bought it for himscl and Pittshurgl
and Philadelphia syndicate, made ahou
| $500 G0G out Of the iron, glass, lumber
and iixGares which made it up-a large
dividend, probably, than anybody else 60
| out of Centennial investments.
APROpNS Of Don Cameron's rem,.t!e
that Pap Thomas hcsitatcd whether o
not to draw his sword at the outbreak .
the var, it is recalled that Gen. Sherma
| vas iii similar state OF dubi0usness. II
has put it on record concerning himscl
the national crisis had been brongh
about by the politicians, and as it wa
upon us they might fight it out," and ais
that after his first interview with Nj
Lincoln he was sadly disappointed by til
easy going language Of the president, an
"brokeollI TO John, dining the politician
generally, by say ing You have got thing
in hell of a fix, and You may get the,
ont the Eesi way You c?n.'"
RETERRING to the immense amount {
| hum bug in the show business nowaday
and to how much it is helped :!lnng b
the nc wSpapers keeping up the sensation
the Philadelphia Times says: Actu1
newspaper criticism is more honest. Nor
Intelligent and more searching, as 4 ger
eral rule. at this time than it has eve
been, 50 that while the newspal e:s advei tis
the charlatans. they at the same time Civ
warning TO their dupes. But the publ
rather likes to bs imposed on, aud wha
hi. her ambition can any one have than t
please the public Thus it is that th
whole amusement business, good and bat
has elevated one OF the a. d; above all th
others-thc art Of humtug'
| TIE Republican national committee
engaged in considering plan whereof
| the party can secure Il fairer represent;
| ton in national conventions than no.
prevails. In the national conventions ,
both parties the minority states, wit
repres sntation based on their number G
congressman instead Of on the party vote
have undue influence. The states whic
cannot bring one electoral vote to nomi
lice may choose the standard bearers o
the party, and as they are easy Of nanip
ulation by &; few designing politician
there seems to be good political sense, a
we'll as regard for equity, in the sugges
ton that to 4 greater extent the represen
| tation should be based on tue party vote