Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-23

items, OftentlmeS years 8Itef tuoy nave
been received, and when it is difficult to
separate the legal from the illegal items.
A YANKEE engineer advertises in
Paris paper that he win undertake for
$500, 900 to set the leaning tower Of Pisa
straight. II he does not get the contract
he may offer to move the pyramids.
RAILROAD building fourished last year,
the aggregate miles Of construction being
11,343, or 1000 more than in 1881.
Scarcely any of this was in New England,
fair proportion in the Middle and South
ern states and the most OF it beyond the
Mississippi.
MoRoCco has contracted with the Paris
mint for coins of various denominations,
representing total value of about 50, OoO,-
600. On one side of the coin will be
stamped verse from the Koran, and on
the other the date according to tho Hegira.
The Paris mint frequently accepts con-
tracts of this sort from abroad.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN has vetoed his
second BILL the Lackawanna county
measure providing for the election OF d.
rectors of the poor under the distributive
system. The ground taken for the veto
is that it belongs to the class of special
legislation, and the end aimed at by the
measure is already covered by existing
laws.
The tobacco planters of the Southwest
are clamorous for the repeal of so much OF
the tobacco revenue law as prevents the
producer of tobacco from selling or giving
away the same in quantities as he may see
fit, holding that the producer of tobacco.
like the producer of wheat, corn, or any
thing else raised on farm, should have
the privilege of disposing Of the same as
he pleases.
A CAUCUS of the Republican members Of
the House was held last evening, at which,
after nearly three hours discussion it was
agreed that the tariff bill should be given
to conference committee "as the only
safe way of perfecting a bill which would
satisfy the expectations of the country"
Meantime the prospects of any bill passing
this session grow fainter daily as the Re.
publicans of the Housc-or at least the
Eastern leaders-are unwilling to take
|, the Senate bill. The editor Of the Press
keeps up his frantic appeals from Wash
> ington for some conference or consultation
among the Republican leaders out of
which will come to the party relief from
its present dilemma; but the responses
are not hearty and prompt. There seems
to be no hope of agreement except upon
r the Senate bill and that Editor Smith
) seems to think will ruin the party.
OVER in Berlin there are people with
money WHO want titles, and other people
willing to divide their titular dignities
with those who can exchange money for a
share of them. So it happened that
, Fraulein L., was welded in civil fashion
, to a certain Baron Won B., seventy and
extremely poor. Immediately after the
, ceremony two gentlemen, friends of the
, bride, took tho bridegroom to neighbor.
+ ing cafe and there paid him sum Of
g money in consideration of the loss of bis
9 wife, whom he never saw again. Frau.
, lein L. had gained her object. She could
, style herself baroness and could hope tc
be united with high Prussian alistocrat,
with whom before considerations of ranb
had stood in the way of mar: iage. A few
, days ago the baroness sued for divorce
t but her request was refused, ard she has
now gone to Italy to wait the time when
, death shall release her from her marriage
. engagement forever. The old baron,
however, is in comparatively good condi
ton, considering his age, and, in the en-
. ioyment of fair income from the money
. he received, willing to live on for many
years to come. "They who marry ole
people," says one of the sages, Gin the
, hope that they will die, hang themselves
in the unsubstantial hope that some one
, will come along and cut the halter"
> -PEE3ONAL.
"DINK DAVIS. sporting man from
Philadelphia, has won $50, 600 in the New
York faro banks.
, &c. Cook, of Franklin and Marshall
, college, was secretary OF the Delta Tau