Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-17

publicans from this state twenty con.
gressmen to eight for the Democrats.
But if that is their kind of independence
and political honesty it is very difficult
to determine whether their pot or the
Stalwart kettle is the blacker.
PH1LADELPHIA's s city treasury had wind
fall yesterday in the discovery that it was
entitled to stock dividends from the N. G..
railroad company, declared in 1872, '73
aud IA, now worth 100000.
TIE proposal to erect $4,000 monu-
meEt to Longfellow on Massachusetts,
soil has got as far as s21, 900 subscriptions
and the projectors of it have come upon
New York soil for further help.
NOTHING is that wasn't. Down in
Central America somebody has found
documents that make Masonry several
thousand years older than it IS credited
to be, and from the accounts Talmage
lived in those days, too.
HEBREW beggars are as rare rs Hebrew
criminals. The Israelites do not do things
by halves. The cornerstone of the new
Hebrew orphan asylum in New York was
laid yesterday. Tho structure will cost
100000.
THE Kansas farmers who arc holding
some &, 5,O0G, 600 bushels of Old wheat and
81, 900, 900 bushels of old corn in store will
do we'll to take notice that the crop indi.
cations everywhere are good. People who
keep last years grain on hand will likely
sell it at reduced rate.
OUR exports of domestic breadstuff:
during the first four months OF the presen!
year amounted in value to SCI, ,915, 707
against s45, ,475, S12 during the first fou,
months Of 1882. During the ten month.
which ended on April 80, 1888, the value
of such exports was sl79, 73s: 343, against
s15TGl9,727 during tho corresponding
period of the previous year.
| UNEASY rests tho head about to don :
crown. In the immediate vicinity of the
Gar, when he is crowned at Moscow
there will be 450 detectives, while specia
inuercircle of ten secret police agents
comprising one Russian, three Italians
one Belgian, one Dane, one Englishman
one Frenchman, one German and ors
Swiss, who are to keep lookout for Nj
hilists.
In the Senate yesterday the McCracker
congressional gerrymander passed secont
reading, the Democrats protesting agains
the iniquity, the Republicans voting solidl,
for it, though the so called Independent!
made no open defence of its outrageous
character. In the House the free pipe
line bill passed second reading by more
than majority vote, with an am ,ndment
that the lines must have their termini i,
this state. Tho bills repeating the pre-
sent limitations on railroad capitalization.
also passed second reading without ma
terial opposition, after making the limit
$3.50, 600 per mile. The agitation Of the
tax on oil continues and while petroleum
occupies SO much attention at Harrisburg
the price of oil keeps bobbing up and down
and the total sales make a big aggregate
| Now and then MIR. Henry Bergh, ho oil
the tender heart for suffering and an
tiquated animals, is reminded tina. his
fellow beings have need of his solicitous
watchfulness. He is much exercised ovel
the Sullivan Mitchell fight and declares
that it should not have been permitted
Probably MIR. Bergh recognizes the two
champions as remnants of the pugnacious
Britors and Celts Of early times, who nee1
further amelicrating influences of civiliza-
tion TO temper their barbaric instincts.
But MIR. Bcrgh should take heart When
Mr. Sullivan retires to the classic shades
OF Boston to wrestle mentally with pa
thoguomy to discover how his native
fierceness may be subdued, and Mr.. Nit
chell lies On his laurels as champion of
England, the soothing remembrance that
a great journalistic light and whilom
bright political star beamed upon their
late encounter may eliminate their glarin ?
ferocity and make them quiet and worthy
citizens.
The production of petroleum in Russia,
although it is of rather large quantity, has
never secured extended market from its
inferior quality. The business of refining
it is still very imperfect, and those en-.
gagged in the marketing of it find a power
full impediment in the American oil OK
ported there. Consul General Heap, from
the United States to Russia, gives some
interesting information about the pc
troleum of both countries. He says the
refinery, which is about the principal one
in Russia, in the Bakow region, along the
Caspian sea. is still in its infancy,
although the employment of scientific
means to improve the process is securing
a measurable perfection. But American
petroleum leads in the markets of Asia
Minor, notwithstanding the native produc-
tion is sold cheaper. To counteract this
advantage, Russian merchants collect the
empty cans and cases which have con-
tanned American oil and whose marks are
thereon, fill them with the inferior Russian