Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-14


WHEN the New York Sun says Mr..
Tilden will not, may it be presumed to
speak with more authority than the Times
which says he will?
GEORGIA girls are leading the world in
reform. A remarkable feature at the
commencement of Wesleyan female col
lege, at Macon, Ga, was the beautiful
simplicity of the dresses worn by the
young ladies'. A number of them were
made by the young ladies themselves and
cost from 81 so to So.
TRUST the "boys" at Washington to
beat the spelling book civil service reform
For several weeks there has been noted in
the departments great deal of activity
in the business of filling all sorts of cleri
cal positions, and it is believed that SO in
dustriOusly have the appointment clerks
| devoted themselves to this task that on
Monday next, when the civil service act
| is to take effect, there will not be vacan-
cy of which notice can be sent to the civil
service commissioners.
IT is really unkind for the Harrisburg
Telegraph to print this piece of news:
The Reading Eagle states that William
NJ. Miller, secretary of the Republican
league of Berks county, has over LOO
names to the petition for Mr.. Keim, editor
of the Telegraph, to allow his name to be
used for delegate to the national kepub
licau convention. He also says that the
| movement is the voluntary offering of the
Republicans of Berks, that Mr.. Keim has
| not sought the position and know nothing
of what is going on.
For Mr.. keim, being one of the editors
of the Harrisburg Telegraph, in which the
foregoing is reprinted, will now find out
"what is going on " and, of course, put a
stop to it.
OF the entire number of life insurance
assessment companies organized under the
laws of this state, 23G in all, 10 have been
'ssOlved by the court in Dauphin county,
seven have discontinued business, and
thirty seven have made the report re
quired to che insurance department of
this state. This reckoning leaves twenty
one associations which have failed to
report, aud most of these are believed
to have abandoned their organization.
Proceedings are still pending against some
of those which have reported, and nearly
all those carrying on their business with
out challenge are companies of the old
fashioned sort, in business before the spec
ulative organization of this form of insu-
rance began.
THE high authority of justice of the
supreme court Of the United States ha 8
passed upon the delicate question of the
fitness of woman's dress, In the case of
Julia Crockett against the Milwaukee &
St. Paul railway company for damages for
injuries received at Shakopee station,
where julia fell between the cars and the
depot platform, the company set up as
defense that the woman wore a pull back
dress at the time of the accident, and was
therein guilty of contributory negligence,
in that the style of dress prevented the
full use of natural means of escape. Judge
Miller has ruled that the evidence was
admissible and the point we'll taken, say
ing that certain dresses were not proper at
certain times and places, as for example a
ball costume in a baggage car.
Mrs. LANGTRY, her manager and her
lover, are travelling from one to another of
the sea side resorts in hotel car, in which
they eat and drink and bill and COO; and
from which, when they get tired being
looked at by the crowd, they sally forth
to the races, the drives, the promenades
or the fishing grounds. There is nothing
remarkable in this, and yet the city news.
papers regale their readers daily with a
detailed account of their movements, aud
upon their arrival at Atlantic city yester
day, four Philadelphia reporters, of as
many different newspapers, rushed to the
rear door of the car and were apparently
each supplied with a copy of a prepared
interview relating howMrs. Langtry felt,
how much she has made in this country.
how she likes it, when she is going to
England and when she is coming back and
wnat Is the character of Gebhardt's at.
tentions to her. The whole affair is an
advertising dodge skillfully managed bv
the Langtry combination, aided bv the
newspapers. As social episode il in Of
course disgusting and soandalous.