Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-22

until 1885. There is no good reason why
IN apportionment should not be made
md if, as has been threatened by high
authorities, that party pro.
poses to resist any attempt to improve
he present legislative apportionment it
nay be well to give them an early inti-
nation that the Democrats can be as
stubborn for the right as the opposition
Tor the wrong. The governor has power
to call the Legislature into special
session as often as it shall adjourn with |
out doing its plain constitutional duty.
THE rumors of Senator Cameron's
are again revived and in
proof of the probabilities of such a step
are cited the facts that he is in very ill
health and discontented with his politi
cal situation, that as his party will soon
have a sure majority in the Senate 10
loss could come to it from his with
drawal, and that this action, signify
ing his retirement from the die
tatorship of Pennsylvania Republi-
canism, would pave the way to such har-
mony in his party here as is necessary to
it's future success. For some time
political circles in this state have been
mysteriously promised a coming political
sensation, but it is hard to believe
that it is to arrive in this shape.
Mr.. Cameron's resignation at this
time or within a few months would
ensure Democratic succession to his
position-the elect of Legislature
in which the Democrats have q majority
on joint ballot. 1t would cast upon the
Democrats a contest for the position,
and in partisan view the Republicans
might reap some advantages from it
commensurate with the loss they would
suffer in reduction of their majority in
the Senate.
SOME Of the guests at ex-CaEdidatc
Stauffer's catfish supper seem to have got
a bone in the throat.
SAM Cox asks for free timber son be-
half of the men, women and children who
live more or less surrounded by wood
from their cradles to their coffins.'
lT is gratifying proof of internationa al
comfy that in Berlin subscriptions were
opened yesterday for the sufferers from
the American floods.
CHICAGO balieves that an ounce of pre-
ventivc is worth a pound of cure and her
police authorities are taking resolute
measures to suppress the carrying of con-
cealed weapons and to provide fire escapes
for school houses.
THE New York Herald subscription to
the sufferers from the Western floods
headed with its own $5,O0O-have reached
| $13, ,GG9.0G. But calculation of the ex-
penses Of the Arion ball, held last night,
and of the money spent upon it ard
themselves by the guest figures out
$219, 800 as the cost of this fashion triile.
LATER reports leave little room to doubt
the correctness of the information that Mr..
| Robert A. Packer has died in Florida.
The universal grief which the confirma-
ton of this intelligence will impress upon
his friends is in slight measure assuaged
by the news that loving hands were near
TO perform the last sad ministrations OF
affection.
IT has leaked out that we'll known
lady of New York, a resident of Madison
avenue, has made three bequests of ST.
000, 900 each, but the objects of her bounty
have not yet been disclosed, and 4 dozen
different subjects are discussed as meri-
torious probabilities-among them a
library, au art gallery and an Episcopal
| cathedral.
TODAY is the ever memorable anniyer-
sary of the birth of tho father of his
country. The flippant spirit of the times
may see nothing more in the occasion
than TO remark that had G. Washington
lived he would have been 151 years old,'
bat the pro!ounder and more reflective
will pause to recall anew that with the
l.psc Of generations the memory OF
Washngton's virtues, the study OF lis
character aud the emulation of his exam.
pic arc molo and more the precious herit
age of his people. He has neither lost his
place in the affections of this nation nor in
tho respect aud homage of tho world.
THE Harrisburg Patriot thus touchingly
disccurses of the late election in that city ::
s. The seasons are typical Of the hopes and
failures of man. Spring personiiies the
hopes of early and exuberent youth !;
summer exemplitlies the fulfillment of the
highest degree of all passions and plans !;
autumn with its falling leaf and its mead
ows brown and sere' shows the decay of
all cherished expectations; relentless win
ter freezes the whit3 marble slab over the
tomb of all desires, yet in nursing beneath
the icy crust the glows of another year of
experience of pleasure and sorrow teaches
that hope never dies" We've been there.
CowHIDED BY A wOmaN: -
TWO Men Who Sent a comic Valentine Meet
With Painful RetributiOD.
Away back in the West End, on Gest
street, Cincinnati, where three Or four
days ago the waters of the flood stood
three feet deep, there was lively cow
hiding late last night, Mrs Wendell