Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-14


address its members as Republican.
The way of the man who betrays all
parties in turn is not destined to be an
easy or a pleasant one.
SOMEBODY may be wicked enough to
hint that the men who brought the Star
Route business at Washington to such
melancholy end should be drawn and
quartered.
The North american champions the
English sparrow, gives him credit for ex-
terminating the measuring worm and
saving our shade trees, ridicules the legis
lators who have doomed him to extermina.
| tion, and prophesies that he will outlive
their ungrateful and short-sighted action.
If the illustrous Mr.. Mark Antony, OF
earlier days, were around now to view the
effects of the mob's rope in the West and
the loose pistol in Pennsy ylvania he might
be inclined to think again that justice
hath fed to british beasts and men have
lost their reason.
LIKE good many other matters it is a
pretty difficult thing to reconcile the con-
flicting reports Of Queen Victoria's health.
The latest is from the London Truth, to
the effect that she has quite recovered
from the injury to her knee, but is some-
what depressed in spirits.
EXPLORER Stanley has proven himself a
worthy follower of the intrepid Living
stone. He pierces the jungles and dis
pels the darkness OF interior Africa with q
boldness that is deserving Of appreciation.
He has with him now force of 1, 900 men
and is exploring the country along the
Congo river.
In his speech yesterday Hon. John
Bright, whose twenty fifth anniversary as
a member of Parliament is being celebra-
ted at Birmingham, shows the kindliness
of his feeling towards the United States
and the attention he has paid to pub
lie affairs here. Many may not agree with
MIR. Bright's utterauces. but his long and
eminently successful public life, his intel
lisent comprehension of men and times
and his firm Obeyance to right all entitle
him to that demonstrative recognition he
is receiving in England and which is ap-
proved of here.
A NEW feature was developed in tie
Star Route trial yesterday when it was
found that one of the jurors was q
victim of delirium tremens, and while suf
fering from one of the attacks fell in a fit
t. the floor of tho court room. 1t was then
discovered that he had been all along dur.
ing the trial under the influence of drink,
and certainly this fact would seem to dis
bar him from just and intelligent con-
sideration of the questions relative to the
case and render him unfit to be one of the
number who were expected to fairly
balance tho case.
THE Star Route jury this morning
brought in verdict of not guilty, and the
famous trial is over, The verdict is what
few expected and still fewer hoped for.
The jury had sufficient opportunity to give
intelligent attention to tho tedious pro-
gress Of the trial and the developments
made, and the country had enough chance
to have just comprehension of the cas- Q
and form their own opinions of the guilt
of the prisoners The end has come at
last, but it is an unsatisfactory ending all
around. and the only joy and praise will
be in the houses of Brady, Dorsey and
their gang.
THERE was certainly a blunder some
where at the unveiling of soldiers mon
ument at Mystic Bridge, Conn.,, yesterday
when the contents of two cannons we're
fired into the ranks of the passing vete-
rams, the coarse powder striking them, il
juring with more or less severity eighteen
men. There was nothing to obstruct the
v:ew of the gunners or render the ap.
proach of the soldiers unperceived BY
them, nor was there anything like accident |
in the discharge OF the guns. The COM
mittee of arrangements were not particu-
arly brilliant in having the guns place d |
n proximity to aud p .iuted at the passing
rOops.