Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-11

in the Stokley boat.
IF there Is anything fatter than Star
Route contract it is the post Of special
for the government 10 the prose.
cution Of the Star Reuters.
The end of the Star Route trial and the
report Of our county auditors may get
along about the same time but few men
now born will last until then.
SEVEN sons of United States senators
have fat official clerkships in WashirS'o
aud the number of relatives more remote
In degree that enjoy similar distinction is
legion.
In spite of the boasted efficiency of New
York detective agencies, Mr.. Delmonico,
prominent citizen, has been missing
nearly q week and the alleged sleuth
hounds of justice are rapidly reaching the
conclusion that the earth has swallowed
up the object Of their search.
They have disagreeing judges down in
Nashville, Tenn, too. They stand
high in the community" Reflections by
one upon the others court recently caused
them to seize each other by the throat and
draw knives, but at this stage of the
judicial Disagreement somebody else
called himself in aud they were separated.
Thus far in the Ephrata church case the
battle with carnal weapons has been re-
stricted to the pitchfork engagement
between the litigants.
The olive trees planted by Spanish
missionaries in California one hundred
years ago are still prolific of crops, while
from their stock have sprung the large
cultivation of this tree and the thriving
industry Of oil making which has attract
ed so much attention to viticulture in that
favored climate. With the development
of this interest in our country the superior
ity OF olive oil to butter as au element of
cuisine is likely to become more generally
appreciated, while the advantage of culti-
vating a richly bearing tree that yields in
seven or eight years and lasts for centuries
are not likely to escape the notice of the
California planter.
In the many, many custom houses OF
the country, from Alaska to Techs, there
are 1870 persons employed, and last year
II cost 3.07 per cent. TO collect the s2l6,
962 2l0 35 receipts. The cost to collect
VI ranged from .0lS per cent. in New
York to s50.s4 in Atlanta. There are over
thirty places where it costs over a dollar
to collect every dollar of custom receipts,
and it is real droll to read that in one
town three men, at an expense to the gov
ernmeut of 1891 .53 collected s2S2
in another, eight men, at an expense oI
IS, 1885 collected ssl9.sl, while at a
third an official force of two msn, were
paid 81 ,067. 6j for taking in s2l, aggregate
receipts for Uncle Sam.
ACCORDING to the report Of the super
yising special agent Of the United State;
treasury the undervaluations of m proved
merchandise subject to ad yalorem duties
is on the increase : The foreign manu-.
facturers of the same classes of meTchan
disc produced in the United States main
tam their market i'll this country II
competition with American manufacturer
by undertaking their invoices, 40 tina
all advantage supposed to be cuuferre,
upon American labor by the protective
tariff is couDterbalanced. II the American
manufacturer lowers the prices of hi
goods as the result of improved method
of production, the European competito
has only u make his invoices a lttl
lower to enable him to retain his Ameri
eau trade aud thus compel the Unite,
States revenue to contribute to that end
The law creating the sinking fund fu
the extinguishment of the federal deb
provides that per cent, of the entire debt
and the interest accraing on the bonds i
the sinking fund already Cancelled, sha
be added each year to the sinking fund
At first 1t was not fully met, but subss
quently the reductions became mac
larger, 30 that on June 80, 1888, the reduc
tion OF the deot had been $455, 1l5 33
more than the strict requirement of th
law. BY the very terms of the law, how
ever, the larger the fund becomes tn
greater the annual reduction must be 5
that although the sum required in lSe
was only So, $50, ,270, for last year s4G, 32l,
564 was required /; for 1898 the amour
will be s56, ,49l, 46S for 1900 it will /
go, lSO,79S, for 1904 it will b
s7s, $3.50, l06 for 1905, when the last of Il
' debt will be paid OIL under tho existiu
law, it will be s29, ,9s2,575. One school
tinauciers are Of opinion that as II
sinking fund has been exceeded by s45J
y lis, 1888, We should suspend further pa!
ments until the requirements of the fur
I catch up with that amount. Mr.. Folge
/ on the other hand, holds to the presei
1 system, by which the $3.50, 900, 900 Of
par cents. will be reduced within three
a three and half years. There will rema
$3.50, 900, 900 of 4. per cent. bonds due
, 1891, which will have to be bought In d
n open market If applied, as the law |
q quires, TO the sinking fund prior to 1
2 date Of their maturity, aud $78S, 900, 0
\ four per cents, due in 1907, but which W
!. have been bought up anu paid off by 10