Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-13

government f0r defalcationS Is 81, 3d..
1877 and that II to this sum was added
the estimated amount Of defalcations by
public officers, where suits have never
been brought to recover, the total,amount
would foot up over s6,o00,00O instead
Of S5, 36l.09.
The only reply made to this exposition
is that defalcations cannot be con-
sdered to be such until judgment is
recovered against the defaulter, OF
course the government officers have not
had time to get many judgments upon
the defalcations for the past three years.
FRIDAY was an epoch in the Jewish
history of Lancaster. Though the
original charter for the local synagogue
was granted one hundred years ago, the
present edifce, the handsome remodel.
ling of which has already been de-
scribed, Is but seventeen years old.
Though the members of the local syna.
gogue are few in number, they are large
in public spirit and their present hand
some ediflce, the re dedication of which
is elsewhere given, rejects credit on
themselves and is an ornament to the
city.
The cold wave is not quite cold enough
to freeze the base ball idiot.
WALKER BLAINE has sent another dis.
patch from Maine let the band play.
The Democratic majority in Arkansas
is only 4,136. With little effort it could
have been made unanimous.
ARTHUR is anxious to assume the SEN
atorial mantle when he leaves the presi-
dency. With Mr.. Blaine in the presidential
chair he will have an excellent chancs-to
get left.
The way Candidate Hendricks is knock
ing out Candidate Logan in the West is a
yeritable caution, The Democracy can
desire nothing better than to see the spec
tacle continued indefinitely.
IT now turns out that Harouu er Reshid.
surnamed 'the Good" whom all readers
of the Arabian Nights will remember as
the noble khalif Of Bagdad, was a lasciyi
GUS scoundrel, whose brutalities would fill
a volume. When will the icouoclasts cease
their work of demolition?
THE experience OF one Warner Wilson,
of Vernon, Mich, who found that his reli-
gious feryor was always increased by
being in state of intoxication, opeIg a
new field Of investigation for those who
have ever regarded drink and prayer as
Numerically opposed. This man appears
to have been in sober earnest in his intoxi
cation, and insisted upon getting drunk on
his death bed SO as to better prepare him
self for passage to another world, The
religious enthusiasm stimulated by drink
would be hard TO distinguish from abso-
lutte frenzy.
THE st.oug speech of ex-senator Wal
lace, extracts from which are printed in
another column, is a clear summing
up OF the prosecution In the case of
the people versus the Republican party.
He properly places the RESPONSE
bility for the business stagua,ion that
now prevails in the country, and
tue languishing merchant marine on
the shoulders of tho Republican party,
under whose administration this distress
ing state Of affairs was brought about. He
dwel!s upon the anomaly OF laborng
people idle with the winter coming on, and
O,0OO, GOO of surplus in the treasury
wrung from their scauty earnings. His ad.
dress is the thoughtful one of the states
man anxious for the peoples welfare and is
wei! calculated to convert the reasonable
man, to the opinion that the Republican