Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-14

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and tkeir audiences to enthusiasm. At
ten miles from Lancaster,
down the Philadelphia turnpike, in
1904, Bishop Asbury, of blessed memo
ry, presided over the seventeenth annual
session of the Philadelphia conference,
some account of which specially prepared
for the INTELLIGENCER, will appear in
its columns tomorrow.
NOTWITHSTANDING the hanging of
two men for murder in New York on
Friday, the Sunday following witnessed
two cruel murders in that city committed
with deliberation that plainly showed
the murderers to make no account of the
example set by the fate of those who had
gone to their death two days before by
way of the gallows erected by the law.
Hanging is not 'played out,' but if it
has any influence to alter men from crime
it has not been demonstrated.
IT was only little election yesterday
over in Camden, but the Democrats car
ried by 600 majority the chief city of the
late Mr.. Robeson's district
BENJAMIN BUTTERWORTH, Philadel.
phia sexton, has been held to answer the
charge of indecency to little girl, but his
congressional namesake, who emptied the
ladies' gallery on a memorable occasion. is
still at large.
ONE of the witnesses in the Delaney in.
vestigation at Harrisburg heard of 100 bar
boxes of soap being cut down to sixty in a
box and thus il was that the contractor
was able to supply the state at $3.50 less
per box than the wholesale cost price.
This was as considerate as the humane
coal contractor, who supplied the state
with 1, 200 pounds to the ton to save his
horses from hauling too heavy a load up
capitol hill.
WHARTON BARKER having accomplished
civil service reform, a remodeling of the
tariff and reduction Of the internal rev.
enue, now directs that the revenue from
tobacco shall be divided among the various
states in accordance with the population, a
certain percentage to be used for the pay
ment of the states debts, and the rest for
the public schools. /" We Independents
propose to force the Regulars to adopt this,
and if possible have it placed in the next
natioral PLATFORM"
Hons. VIM. s. EvARTs and Roscoe Conk-
ling, are to be interrogated by some per.
sons who have large mercantile interests
at stake, with reference to the question
that is coming up, touching the constitu-
tionality of the new tariff. The idea has
got abroad that the Senate transcended
its functions in originating" a revenue
measure, and that if a case can be made
for the supreme court, that tribunal will
declare the whole thing null and void. If
Conkling and Evarts could be got to agree
on something it would be worth an effort,
anyhow.
THE rival operatic war between Abbey
with Nillson and Map!eson with Patti has
reached white heat. And the climax of
bombastic advertising is reached in this
description of PATHS success by her man
ager:
"In Pittsburgh the scene was some.
thing to be remembered. Magnifcently
dressed women. with Patti tickets clutched
tightly in their hands, fought their way
from one landing to another. Great
bouquets Of exquisite artificial flowers
were brushed from their corsages and
were trampled among a thousand feet.
At the matinee in Boston the lobby was
one unbroken mass of wet and dripping
men and women. After the house was in