Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-23

busy with more serious matters to med
die with the way that young women wear
their hair.
REFERRING to the Langtry, Patti and
like scandals the New York Tribune sets
it down to the credit of American society
that three brilliant but notorious women,
welcomed in good society abroad, have in
late years achieved In turn marked pro-
fsssional success here: but, though in some
cases pressingly introduced, not oae has
been received under a respectable New
York lady's roof.
A DISPATCH received from Scotland
Neck, North Carolina, announces the death
on Monday last, of the Hon. Mark Alexan
der, who is said to have been the oldest
OK member of Congress. He was born in
Mecklenburg county, Virginia. in 1892
served 10 Compress from that state from
1919 to 1888, and was the firm friend Of
Nathan Mason, Randolph, Clay, Madison
and others. He married a daughter Of
Governor Turner, of North Carolina. He
was the sole survivor of the celebrated
Virginia convention of 1929 aud 80. He
was person of more than ordinary men
tai capacity, and until the last days of his
ling life, manifested deep interest in the
prosperity of the country. He read the
papers of the present day with great in
terest, and seemed fond of recalling scenes
of former years in which he himself had
been a prominent actor, and delighted in
the associations and recollections of the
past.
The Philadelphia and New York Times
asrse that their comprehensive search for
reliable information about the tele-
graphers' strike results in the discovery
that the telegraph companies are in Grip
pied aud in some respects useless condi
ton. They have been enabled to make q
show Of keeping up their business only
because the public has largely Withdrawn
It's patronage. Business men with large
interests involved, requiring prompt tele
graphing, do not care to subject their
messages to the chance of mailing, which
is the condition upon which they are now
received. The fact Of it is, the telegraph
companies are not prepared to handle
business such as is required by tie
public. and, having failed for four days to
make themselves independent of the
strikers, it Is evident that the complete
telegraphic business Of the country cannot
be resumed until q compromise is effected.
It is absurd and vain for the telegraph
managers to insist that they are in good
working condition.
PERSONAL
BLAINE's book will be out in October.
KING KALAKAUA offers to sell his yacht
for 81, 500.
MARK TWAIN is In good health and
working hard ut Elmirs, N. Y. He cured
thirteen diseases by chopping wood.
EX-SENATOR CoNKLINa and ex-Secre-
tary Boutwell, will start this week on q
trip to tho Yellowstone park.
QuAY's friends are patting him on the
back and telling him he is q bigger man,
anyhow, than Don.
LoTTA il not married. The reported
groom explains positively thst it was
another woman of like name he married.
BISHOP W1LLIAns, of Connecticut, is
- saying that the Pilgrim
Fathers 6rst fell upon their knees and
then upon the sborigines.
HoN. THOMAS SWAMI, ex-mayor Of
Baltimore, ex governor OF Maryland and
ex member Of Consress, il lying danger
oasly III. BE i over 80.
BRYANr's poetry soils now better than
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