Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-07

uOJ itCOlucu tndb tuo picSOyteiy mas
gone thus far in amending its patent
fault.
Four weeks from to day the Republican
party will go.
EACH day a new thorn is imbedded in
the side of the Republican party.
BLAINE has been denying so much re.
Gently that denial that he is a capd date
need not cause surprise.
| BLAINE's beautiful tariff speeches are
very poor eating for the Hooking Valley
miners on the verge Of starvation.
| AND now the drummers have nomi.
mated candidate for president His
platform will doubtless be hard money
and hard cheek.
"THAT is the man Blaine is" said James
f. Joy, as he told the story of the former q
shame at dinner party seven years ago.
And "that is the man" the people will re-
| ject in November.
WHAT has become of the ''moral issue"
in the Republican press The sud-
denucss with which it was dropped after
the Indiana Sentinel interrn gatories and
their answers were made public wal
painfully surprising.
| Don CAMERON went to Ohio, but had
no time to talk to the Republican party
managers. He probably journeyed there
to ascertain for himself the correctness Of
the rumor that tho Republican party il
going. The haste with which sh he ifieturne,
would .seegn to indicate that be quickly
, ss0t at the truth of the situation.
SUNSET.
The iar.orf hills, that rise, and mount. ant
Until taey reach the dark woods on tn
Have a deep meaning and nameless rest
hat l have seen in pale-browed evening
And in an infants tired halt closed eyes
White sleeping on tho mothers peaceful
Tho long red sunset, with n golden crest
Now caps the distant forest, AMI there lies
| low, rich radianca, that nestleS DER
the whole scene OF this dying OF the day,
That tells us. IT'S q dream OF that bright shor,
Beyond: Thus, in this ali.mysterious way
Ali tired hearts may know It is-sunset
| -From The Current
WITH all Of Philadelphia's boasted re-
form tendencies in municipal sdministra
tration, New York seems better able Il
control the traction companies of the EN-
pire city than her Quaker sister. Tn,
popular demand for three cent fares on tht
Brooklyn bridge is becoming so loud tha
tho trustees have called a meeting for it!
confederation. The present rate is fiv,
oopts, which is deemed exorbitant. II
Philadelphia dreadful clamor has beer
raised for tho reduction OF street car farel
from six to five cents, but it has fallen OF
deaf cara, and present indications point Il
its remaining long unheeded.
A CRUsADE has been begun agains
skating rinks in Blnghamton, n. Y,
town so affected by the craze that tw,
large rinks are kept 10 constant operation
and the construction of another is discuss
! cd. On Sunday night Rev. o. W. Scott,
Methodist Episcopal clergyman of tn
, place, denounced the amusement In tn
most unspariDg terms. The sermon wa
, very severe and created a sensation, as i
. the course Of his remarks the reveren
, gentleman said he knew Of fourteen girl
who had been ruined by these sinks O
, iniquity. He know of many men VIII
! could not pay their honest debts becaus
( of money expended at the riuks. He kne,
s OF contracts for the purchase of home
: which had been given up for the sam
r reason. He knew of many families whic
3 had been broken up by the scandals start
y cd 10 these places. No true Christia
/. would frequent such places. The reveren,
e gentleman probably allowed his prejudic
10 to get the better of his reason. The OK
a erciss If not carried to excess Is YER
! heaithful; and as for its affording occasion
it for sin per Sc, that depends Oh the style &
d its management. Perhaps the heate
4 clerical received fall while skating, th
10 pain Of which seriously olouded his judp
Is ment.
"a murdered or Five Oents.
!. Henson Stewart shot and mortal
ID wounded Qeorpe Carter Monday niob