Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-31


the intended sentiment of the occasion
IT is given out that not a single relative
of the late President Garfield holds Office
under this administration, and that
"Cousin Charley" after vainly waiting
around Washington for several months
with pockets full of Recommendations, has
gone back to his native Ohio, despairine
of ever becoming marshal of Utah. 1t i:
quite as much as an administration car
do to look after one presidents relatives
For respectable length into the past
the ancient bodyguards of the illustrious
G. w.. and the Oldest Mason have both
been dying numerously. Recently another
candidate, resting the foundation of public
notice on the sandy bottom of time, hat
appeared as the oldest engineer in the
United States. He lives in Georgia. Seeing
that the oldest engineer has been fire.
quently passing away into the unknown
lately, it is to be hoped that newspapers
will refrain from the usual narrowing de
tails until all of him has died.
1T seems that our white-hatted and
ruffled-shirted attorney general offended
military etiquette in New York city yes.
terday while on tho Decoration Day re
viewing stand with the president, General
Hancock and others. To all the salutes
of passing colonels-given to the presi :
dent, not to him-Brewster bowed and
scraped, Notwithstanding the quiet and
decorous behavior of General Hancock,
who, in full uniform and standing next to
the president, never, of course, forgot the
proPrieties Of the occasion.
The descriptive powers Of most of the
New York newspapers we're somewhat
strained by the dramatic incidents of the
bridge disaster. The World, however, was
more than equal to the occasion. That
exuberant type of transplanted Western
journalism added to its narrative this
graphic relation of what did not occur:
The bridge had fallen into the gulf be
low with a Thousand victims to keep it
company. A wire cable had parted Ike 4
swapping fiddlestring and instantly
thrashed hundred men and women into
a swathe of red and unrecognizable flesh :.
There had been desperate fight on the
swaying highway and scores had fallen
under the sticks of the police. A great
derrick beam, which had been left alcft
on tho Brooklyn tower had descended like
a thunderbolt on the careless jollity of the
bridge passengers and fifty human crea.
ures bad become purple pulp as suddenly
as if they had been grapes in a wine press
In Chambersburg last Sunday Rev. DR..
kennedy was preaching to an attentive
audience on the efficacy of prayer. He
had been discoursing for over thirty min
utes, when, after momentary pause he
said, Let us pray pray on" The last
clause of tho sentence, however, was
delayed too long and the Presbyterian
audience had risen to its feet at the words
" Let us pray" taking them as the signal
for the beginning of that service. The
gentleman was, of course, taken
aback by this abrupt ending of a good
sermon, but before the audience had per-
ceived its mistake he had accepted the
action as evidence that the sermon ought
to be finished and proceeded with the
prayer intended to follow the conclusion
Of the sermon, without an embarrassing
pause. 1t would probably not be safe for
The average preacher, after thirty minutes
Of the sermon to give his congregation
chance to say whether it was time to quit.