Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-07


| 1873 empowOrs aud directs 10 be bought
aud coined monthly. Should the trade
dJllafs have been sO abraded in use as u
have lest a considerable part OF tEeT
/ original weight, which is not much TO De
apprchended a deduction might be made
from the price, and fractional payments
| made 10 subsidiary aud minor silver cpln.
This is 50 obviously the simple and
reasonable solution of this question that
Congress should not delay adopting It,
aud will not, probably, except for the
consideration that the coin is largely in
the hands Of spectators and not Of the
people generally.
IT is very easy to believe tuat If the
Honorable William Eaton has been
asked to take a place on the House
committee of foreign affairs with the
II ,norable Perry Belmont as its chair
man that he Indignantly resented the
idea of such distribution of honors
1t is not easy TO believe that Speaker
Carlisle contemplates such an inversion
OF the proprieties.
| Mr.. L atom IS An eX member of the
United States senate and in that body
served as chairman Of the committee on
foreign relations.
Mr.. Belmont is young man Of good
parts and has done some good public ser.
| vice but he no doubt would be glad TO
serve next below Mr.. Eaton on any com
mite, adorned with Mr.. Eaton at the
head Of it.
| NEWSPAPER nOtOriety IL slowly but
surely squeezing tue political life ont Of
James G. Blaine
MR. WV. K. NoRmsoN's friends are
already booming him for the presidency.
II is very early in mild winter to buckle
on the skates.
| IL the general dearth Of news that fol-
lows political contests, the sea serpent
stories that are now coming in will meet
with grateful appreciation.
SOME OF the members of the ex Lcgisla.
ture sang the long metre doxology before
they left Harrisburg yesterday. They
will hear the echo from their constituents
when they get home.
Nor the least surprising thing about it
is the alacrity with which some OF the
members OF the legislature who opposed
the appropriation bill avaiIed themselves
of the chance TO take nearly everything
that it gave them.
| \ GREAT load will he taken OH the pub
lie mind by the announcement that the
war worn placeman, Edward Mcpherson
Is still willing aud anxious TO bs martyr
in the public cause by the acceptance oi
official position in Washington.
A NEW YORK justice announces as the
result OF a long magisterial experience that
in more than one thousand cases Of abau
dOnment, the mother-in-la law caused al
the trouble. 1t is not thought, however,
that this announcement will cause much
ket.
LORD LORNE has been telling his EDg
lish brethren what an Utopia Canada is
and he assures them that Canadians are
proud OF their allegiance to their mother
country. Perhaps the late vioeroy would
have come nearer the truth if he had said
that Canadians fiud most cause for thank
fulness in the " let alone policy" which
tn, mother country has seen Il. TO adopt il
their regacd.
II would be interesting at the present
juncture TO learn John Stewart : opinion Of
Blaine's distribution policy. When tn,
, Franklin county senator spoke in this cit,
during the campaign, he unqualihedly 10
o dorsed the Wharton Barker scheme, aud OF
that platform nominated Blaine for the pre-
% sidency. The latter has kicked the Barke
plan full Of holes in his recent letter, an
Il an anxious public would like to be IN
a formed as TO the Protean Stewards statu
4 in the present condition Of affairs.
'e The new time standard has not prove
- to DO all that fancy painted it in the west
70 ern cities. The authorities Of Columbus
B. Cleveland aud Louisville receive numerou
n petitions to reinstate the old solar tim,
70 while in Cincinnati aud Chicago, wheI
a. the old time standard is still used, theI
"a seems no likelihood Of the immedial
adoption OF the new system. The novel,
70 OF the new plan Of computing time mu
n at first cause some inconyience, but whe
ee its manifest advantages are once apprec
m ated, its general adoption cannot be lor
/, postponed.
10 Foreign Fires.
Al The last fire In Constantinople destroy,
600 houses, a Greek church aud four sy
agogues. A snow storm prevailing al Il
" time added greatly to the suffering of Il
a homeless people.
fira In tha Ieuialatiya ,.la,a n. n.