Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-10

tutN nave W usht iOl II. anu peace WITH
honor, too. The Democratic party OF
the state is big enough to do justice TO all
its elements ; 1t is not big enough for a
oat fight between any of them.
THE Pittsburg glass blowers who went
to Belgium for higher wages have came
back wiser and sadder men, having found
that carrying Goals to Newcastle would
not pay.
THE only place in America where the
lotus flower OF Egypt is said to be iudi.
genous or naturalzed is on a mill pond
near Dover, Del, and IL there is any
place in the country where 1t is always
lazy afternoon 1t is down that way.
ONE Of the upper ten pawn brokers OF
New York admits to having as much as
ESQ, 900 loaned out at time on watches
s120, 900 on diamonds, aud si2. 400 on seal
skin sacques, on which he gets . or per
cent. a month aud holds collateral worth
three times as much as the amount
advanced.
OVER in New Brunswick, n. j., they
have a literary and social club something
like the " Cliosophie " of this city it is
called the " Triangle :" at one corner are
the families connected with Rutgers col.
lege, at another those OF the theological
seminary, and at the other the city pastors
and some other town folk.
The splendid new postofiice building in
Philadelphia is practically finished, aud
about next Saturday it is the postmas-
ter's design TO transfer the whole great
business of the department, with its four
hundred aud fifty carriers and over four
hundred clerks aud other employees, from
the old building to the new in fifteen
minutes. There is an increasing public
sentiment that the failure to put an
entrance in the Chestnut street side was a
blunder.
UP around Gay Head, Massachusetts,
the scene of the recent shipwreck, there is
a settlement of people Of mixed Indian aud
negro blood their amalgamatiuu dates
from the days of slavery in Massachusetts,,
when the slaves married Indians as often
as they could, because the issue OF Indians
could not be held in slavery under the
New England laws. At the recent ship
wreck the whole of this community seem
to have turned out for relief as they al
put in claims for anl were awarded prizt
money.
INCAPABLE or unworthy judges are
rarer in England than in any country and
this circumstance is ascribed 20 the fac
that instead of being recruited from the
most mediocre mambers of the bar, from
hungry otfi;e seekers without practice,
the English judges do not reach the bench
until they have shown their fitness for the
honor by long aud brilliant career as
advocates. Public opinion never ratifiss
an appointment which is not justified by
well recognized legal experience aud in
tegrity Of character.
In his testimony before the congres
sional committee on Saturday, \. NJ
Gibson, who received s. 900 as govern
meut counsel before he went out OF tue
Star Route cases, testified that he began 70
make a special study of the postofficc do
partment in 1872, and that between that
time aud 1851 he became familiar with the
business of the department, especially ia
relation to the awarding Of mail contracts
and that in 1880, before the presidential
election aud while Garfield was a member
of the House, had shown him list of 8;
expedited Star Routes.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS was not nota,
bic as writing master, and Mark TwaiG
knew school boys ten years old who corlt
spell better, but Columbus letter relating
how he found America, and his earliest
impressions of it is document now 81
highly estimated that a copy of it printed
in Rome in 1893 sold for $3.50 the othel
day. The original m manuscript of tn,
great paper" Magma Charta of Euglisl
liberty, now G6S years old, is preserved il
the British museum, aud /: not for sale
1t was once in the hands of a tailor, whC
nearly cut it up for paper patterns.
In his opinion dissenting from the re
fusal OF common pleas court No. /, 0
Philadelphia to admit Mrs. Kilgoro T.
practice law Judge Pierce argues strougl
that as women are made pension agents
pOstmastcrs and commissioners to tax,
testimony in somo states, public opinion
Is everywhere approving of such appoint
ments. They promote the public interest
which is benefited by every Legitimate
use of individual ability, while mere jus
tice, which is of interest to all, require
that all have the fullest opportunity 70
the exercise of their abilities. Thes
cases are the more noteworthy as bein
cases of public offices to which the ia
cumbent is appointed tor term of year
upon a compensation provided by la,
and in which she is required to Civ
bonds"
The Stilwart Commercial AdDertiser, {
New York, shows its teeth ut MacVeag
aud James most unmistakably, and d,
cisres that II their testimony could b
believed it would be very damaging to til
Republican party. As nobody but th
Advertiser seems TO discredit lt, that Sta