Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-23

gressmen to ten Democratic or doubtful
In this evenly balanced state. This is
stretch of generosity of which We would
never have suspected the Telegraph. We
felt certain it would claim twenty-five
for its party.
COURT week came and went, but not
Richard Heilig.
O'DoNovAN Rosa has been warned to
shut up. If only no one sticks pin in
him now, the pent-up tordadoes within
will soon blow him into smithereens.
THE English journals are calling upon
this country to declare or to make it q law
that conspiracy in this country, to commit
crime in England, shall be punishable
offense.
THERE won't be any fun for the Ameli.
ican youngster on Fourth of July hereafter
with weak fire crackers and little cannon.
He will need the largest edition of the
dynamite cartridge and a Krupp gun to
size up to the Irish demonstrations.
As Governor Buffers council does not
side with him he has notified its members
that when he wants them he will serd
for them, and until he sends for them
they may understand that he has no use
for them.
THE excise law was enforced ~ in
New York yesterday. Why not l.? And
why not in Philadelphia The drinking
saloons there and bars-most of them
make no pretense of shutting up or shut
ting down on the Sabbath. Let the law
be enforced everywhere.
THE unhappy fate that befel the dogs in
the fable when they undertook to drink
empty the river to get at the bides, may
be the uncomfortable ending of the man
in Flint, Mich, who is to guzzle 200 mugs
of beer in "a hours before he can reach the
prize of twenty-five dollars.
BETTING on horse races, bucking the
tiger and keeping yacht have heretofore
been ranked as holding prime places in
the list of ways by which men and their
money are parted. But backing Italian
opera, by Offering prima donnas $1,000
per night, has come to the fore as the most
reckless diversion of the day.
BARNUM must be exceedingly unpatri.
otic. He offered 5000 to the Brooklyn
bridge company to allow him to open the
structure by having Jumbo to cross it,
when PresidentArthur is to be at the head
of the crowd who are to enjoy that honor.
The president ia bigger elephant any day
than Jumbo besides, he is an American
elephant.
The peregriuating false prophet and his
horde of followers have captured the town
of Khartoum in Soudan. This Asiatic
fraud does not enjoy the facilities of the
telegraph and the newspapers as did ou,
ephemeral Virgins, and whenever he
notes that popular consideration of him il
on the wane, he seizes town, kills the
citizens, and public interest is re-awakene6,
In the past seven years the operations
of the internal revenue department
against illicit distilations have been pros
ecuted with no small destruction of prop
erty and danger to life. The report
shows Stills seized, 6,371 persons
arrested, $500 officers and employees
killed, 80; officers and employees
wounded, sc.
THERE is lie out somewhere about the
reported recent illness of the president.
The newspapers, which have published an
| account of it, were those which had their
correspondents with the party; those
which were not so situated have strenu
ously denied and the Washington politi
| clans back up the contradiction of the
story. Inasmuch as the correspondents
who accompanied the presidential party
are among the most careful men in theil
profession, in view of the inopportune
season of Arthur's visit to Florida and
after the uncontradicted reports of his
gastronomical performance we believe he
was sick.
NOTWITHSTANDING numerous conflict
ing reports it Is probable that the corona
tion of the czar will at least be attempted
and most probably effected at the time set,
May %. 1t is an event that possessea
more significance than the interest Of a
mere formal demonstration. 1t will be
the signal of an assumption of authority,
that, while apparently now possessed by
the emperor, needs the essential attributes
of royalty to secure the absolute subjec.
ton of the subjects and the complete
recognition from the other powers Of
Europe. The present nominal position Of
the car is disastrous to his own safety and
detrimental to the welfare of his people.
1t, without other considerations, lends
color to the assertion of the revolutionists
of their right to destroy him, although his
hereditary claims are, of course, beyond
dispute. The sympathy of his people is
not with him and his soldiers regard him
with not more than common esteem. 1t
was fortunate feature of his fathers
reign that he enjoyed the love of his sol.
diery. But he had given them cause to
grant it. In measure he held the esteem
of his subjects. In ending, perhaps in