Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-27


consequence of allowing them to draw
and spend their money untimely, other
loose methods have come to prevail
which the governor brings UP on short
turn by announcing that hereafter the
legal requirements must be complied
with.
MARTIN LUTHER is to have colossal
bronze statue set up to his memory in
Washington. He will be quite figure
among the modern men .of-war who adorn
the squares of that wicked city.
THE tiger has begun to hunt the French
man in Philadelphia. A reform guardian
Of the poor has been sued by an employee
of the institution for trying to intimidate
radical ticket.
The House at Harrisburg got tired
having the bill to repeal the recorders
Office slumber in committee and called it
out last night by decisive vote. Brosius
and Snader Of this county voted like little
men to let it where it was.
THE navy department is preparing list
of the naval officers ON duty at Washing
ton and the length Of time they have been
there. 1t is presumed that this is prelim.
mary to general cleaning out" But
really, hadn't somebody better inquire
whether the secretary of the navy has not
out!iyed his usefulness
TIE Philadelphia Press is solid and
sensible in its argument for a Chestnut
street entrance to the new Philadelphia
postoffice. A vast majority Of pedestrians
who will walk by the building or to it OF
business will go on that side. and to have
left no entrance for them is an architec
tural blunder that no technical canon can
excuse.
THE disagreeing doctors ale at it again.
Here is Rev. DR.. Kirkus, an English
clergyman, rector of a fashionable Episco.
pal congregation in Baltimore-the
church of st. Michael's and All Angels
in which he vigorously attacks the Sun.
day and liquor laws as unreasonable and
of no aid to religion ; while out in Pitts
burgh Rev. DR.. Scovel has opened fire on
fashionable society, including manv st his
own congregation. for attending the Patt
concert where two dezen, ballet girls
kicked through the dssnce in silken sheen
and fleshly tights.
CHIcAso has takcn the initiative in re.
moving the unsightly telegraph poles and
their nets of wire in this country, and is RAP.
idly having laid a system of underground
conduit. This action towards the removal
of direct cause of the loss of human life
will be heralded with enthusiasm and
thankfulness by public who so lately has
witnessed at several Obstructive conflagra.
tions how terribly effective bar closely
strung network of telegraph wires proves
itself to be in banishing the last hope OF
safety to those in imminent peril in the
upper stories of burning buildings.
SENATOR COCHRAN would have faced
death with less dread had he foreseen his
immunity from the funereal commonplaces
that signalize death in the public service.
The graceful tribute of Senator Gordon,
reproduced elsewhere in the INTELL1GEN-
GER, is marked by all tho delicacy Of feel
ing, sens;bility of association and dis.
elimination in praise that give value
to mortuary expression. The young
senator paints his dead friend from the
heart rather than the head, challenging
no hostilities, arousing no aggression and
thus succeeds in commemorating all that
was lovable and admirable in the life of
his dead comrade.
The bill providing for the publication
by the state of all the supreme court re-
ports from first Dallas to Outerbridge has
been favorably reported, and in its favor
is given the reason that many attorneys
in the state do not own some Of the most
important of these reports, and that to
secure them costs too much under the
present manner of publication. There are
certainly very weighty reasons why they
should be published more cheaply,
but if the state relieves them
from copyright restrictions, cannot
their republication at reasonable rates be
safely left to the competition of private
enterprise ? 1t is a dangerous step for the
state to go into the business of booksell-
ing and the state printing department is
at present the subject of suspicious which
should lead to curtailment rather than
to an enlargement of the functions Of that
dana rfuoout