Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-20

CHAIRMAN CoopER's Media american
Philadelphia correspondent picks out Har
tranft as the next Republican nominee for
president. The Harrisburg correspondent
of the Pittsburgh Post learns ''from an ex-
cellent source that the Hon. Mcclure has
picked out his favorite for the next Dem
ocratic nomination for president, and that
he has or is striving to lasso Hensel and
other prominent Democrats to the scheme.
Tho candidate of the Hon. Mcclure is
Justice Field, of the supreme court, and
an effort is to be made to set up this state
in favor of the Californian" These two
able correspondents having disposed OF
the matter, it seems to be supertluous to
hold the national conventions.
THAT mysterious parsonage who figures
in the Phoenix park murder trial in Dub
lin as "No. ~ has proved himself to be
an important factor in the band of cut
throats now fast coming to grief. Able
to supply from seemingly Unlimited aud
times, and possessing, as has been demon
strated by Carey's evidence, the authority
that entitled him to recognition as lead
| er, it is safe to assume that when his iden-
tity is fully discovered he will be found
not to be ono of the meanest Of bis
party. 1t is already known that he has
served in the Franco. German war and also
| in our civil war and that he was wounded
| in the first. With SO much information
regarding him the detectives on his track
| will no doubt soon present him to view
| stripped Of the uncertainty which now
| surrounds him.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin suggests that
&" if it became possible for English pub
fishers to sell their publications in the
United States at cheaper rate than our
domestic books, one Cf two results must
ensue Our current literature would
either be guided by foreign authors, o.
our own authors would copyright Their
works in England, whence they would
como over here" So far as cheap publ
cations of foreign authors will lead to a
guidance of literary taste here by such
authors, as we have before shown, it is
superlative nonsense to say that this is tc
be prevented by a tariff on books. The
| facts are, as every observer will beal
witness, that foreign publications for
which there. is any demand here are re.
printed by American publishers and sold
here much cheaper than abroad. 1t ii
owing to the lack of international copy
right, and not to any provision or defec'
of the tariff laws, that the works. .of foreign
authors published in America are now tt
bs had on onr bookstalls at 10 or 20 cents
while the works of corresponding Ameri-
can authors sell at from $3.50 to So.
THE project of an International electrical
exhibition in this country is laudable
one and should receive from the govern
ment timely and commensurate aid in its
promotion. Perhaps the development Of
no discovery was begun in more simplicity
than that of electricity. Certainly rone
which we now enjoy was begun
earlier in the history of the world and i'm.
PEELED, from tho merest accident, scientific
research and assiduous investigation, and
none too has assumed its present perfec
tion through more laborious and gradual
| gradations. From the time when Thales
knew of friction electricity being produced
by rubbing amber, and puzzled himself
over the comprehension of this invisible
agency, and then in ignorance and awe
attributed to amber a soul, and Plato at
tempted to promulgate the first electric
theory in his search for palpable resli
cation of the potency, and satisfactory
knowledge Of tho origin, of electricity, up
to the time when Franklin fred alcohol
on the bank of the Schuylkill by means of