Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-27

fore August. There should be no pol
itics y" in an apportionment bill there
certainly is none in the proposition to
pass at least some kind of bill in the
House and let it get over to the Senate,
where most likely there will have to be
amendment of it. We have faith that
there is measure of independency and
decency there that will join with the
Democrats in performing the constitu-
tional duty of making an apportionment,
and it deserves to be met in good spirit.
1t has been ostentatiously given out that
the Independent senators will not do
this thing because the governors choice
of attorney general did not suit them.
They hardly take SO low view of their
duty as that.
A FIFTEEN story house is projected in
New York.
BosToN buys $3.50, 900 lot to erect a
$3.50, GOO building for . public library.
THE Pennsylvania railroad company
earned moro money last month than in
any previous February.
THE Tennessee Legislature legalize 8
pool selling except to minors Or drunken
persons.
TIE report that the internal rev.
enue districts were to be diminished is
denied. OF course.
The New York Republicans propose to
get themselves together by means of q
peace conference at Saratoga in June.
Both factions view the proposal with
caution.
THE town of Bellary, India, has passed
an ordinance against loose monkeys
which attack women and children carrying
! eatables on the streets. Bellary will have
to elect a monkey catcher.
AT full and fina! meeting of the
Schuylkill county bar the report of its
committee was adopted favoring the bill
to salary county officers, except that the
district attorney should be classed with
those officers whose salary should not be
dependent on tho amount of fees re.
ceived.
A WASHINGTON lawyer has attached
S}, 500 of the Betty and the Baby" fund
for alleged services in trying to defend
nt Macnn uhn {rsol "a l.:
teau. But he is distanced by the creditor
Of ono Of the sufferers from the Ohio food
w:io attached for an old debt $50 which he
found out was in tne hands of relief com.
mitsee for drowned out family who owed
him.
THE old fashioned cleft stick clothes pin
was never superseded in popular use by
the fancy sort, with littlo brass springs
that snap together. Millions of the old
style, lasting as they are if taken care of,
ale made and sold annually, aud like the
pins no one knows where they go. They
are made by machine that turns out 800
per minute and polished in a revolving
drum.
A FLAsHY young man from an Eastern
college, recently arrived in Tombstone,
Arizona, and tried to correct the grammar
of a native who pointed admiringly to
" them hills. He was given three min
utes TO look down the barrel of a seven
shooter and correct his collegiate impress
sions. In that brief time he had such rev.
elations of the English tongue that, at
least, withheld him from setting up as an
instructor in those parts.
WHILE Postmaster General Howe was
dying the horses of First Assistant Post
master General Frank Hatton were ruu-
ming away with him in close carriage
and from the step of it, off which he dared |
not jump, he directed the driver to guide
them into the open country and up steep
hill which in their exhausted condition
they could not climb. And yet this does
not prove that F. A. P. NJ. G.. Hatton can
guide the postal department.
The death of Postmaster General Howe
recalls the fact that he was once offered |
the chief justiceship of the United States |
court by Grant, and it is not very
creditable to either of them that the only |
reason he declined it was that the vacancy |
his resignation would have made in |
the Senate would have been filed by a |
Democrat. But it is to be recalled to his |
good fame that he was never charged with
personal dishonesty and after long years of
public service he died poor man.
THEY had quite nice little time down
at the Easter election for vestrymen of the
P. E. church o: the Evangelists in Phila-
delphia. One party was for the rector,
the other "against confessions and ali
Romish doctrines and practices in the
church of the Evangelists. After the
manner of Philadelphia politics each had
its own poll and consequently each carried
its own election unanimously; there are
charges of illegal voting and irregular
conduct all around, to be settled in the
courts.
DUKES went to Uniontown yesterday to
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