Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-24
HERE AND THERE.

The Philadelphia North Imcricdn pub
fishes cock-and-bull story about n scheme
to make cabinet officer out ofGov. Pattison.
According to tho North Imcricdn'S "spe-
cial' dispatch from New York, tn $ idea orig
mated in the desire of 1t Gov. Black and
his friends to have him succeed to the va
cancy in the gubernatorial chair, that would
have been occasioned by Gov. psttison's
translation to Washington it was favored
by the friends of the governor on his own
account Mr. Cleveland thought well of it,
and had assigned his esteemed contemporary
TO the Naval portfolio; when Mr.. Randall first,
and then Mr.. Wallace, being asked about it,
vigorously opposed it aud prevented the con-
summation of it. | don't believe a word Of
this tale. 1t IL not likely that Governor
Black ever hoped or sought or wished to
reach the gubernatorial chair in any such way:
nor that Governor Pattson ever entertained
the notion oiinterrupting of his executive career
in the middle of it; nor that the members of
the present s.ate administration promoted
such scheme; nor that Mr. Cleveland was
taken with it; nor that, if he had settled
upon it, he would have been scared oil
the nest so readily. 1know nothing about it
don't pretend to; but rs one guess about
the cabinet and the cabinet-making is as
good rs another in these days my guess is
that this is a cock-and-bull story.
Daniel Manning does not look unlike Clcve.
land himself He is of very similar tenn
perament and something of the same phys
ical build. His acquaintance with and knowl-
edge of Mr.. Cleveland began very soon be-
fore the nomination of the latter for Cover
nor and while they have been close and
warm friends ever since, few people have
troubled or taken the time of the president
elect less since November than Daniel Man
ming
y. Ellmakcr, esq, tells story that illus
trutes the scrupulousneSs of the late Paddy
O'Rourke. Having no very good defense in
suit brought against him, the arbitrators
were prompt to render judgment for the
plaintiff, and a. he wasn't ready TO
pay Captain O'Rourke readily took his law
yer's advice to take an appeal. When he
he came to qualify and heard the oath he
had to takc--that he did not make the appeal
for purposes of delay--ho promptly and
frankly snake out and declared that he would
swear to no such thing that it was delay he
was after, but he'd do no false swearing to
secure it,
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There was a rather profitless and not very
enlightcning debate in the state Senate the
other day over the proposition to introduce
the whipping post as punishment for one
class OF oilenses in Pennsylvania. The mca-
sure was certainly not strengthened by limit
ing its operation to the single class
of wife bCaters. 1t is a contraventun
of all legal principles 10 make it worse
for man TO beat his wife than
to beat anybody else. Indeed it has been the
policy of the law for ages to give man some
little discretion in dlsciplining his wife, as
well his oh ilIrpn and il il had N "a " lN-
man should be punished more severely tor
beating his own wife than for beating some
other mans wife. II the whipping post
issue is To be discussed let it come ON q fair
| test. Let it be instituted for rape, arson,
| burglary and that class of crimes and see
whether or not IT is so unpopular and retro.
| gressive measure rs some of the senators
| and more of the newspapers seem to think.
| One journal says: "The whipping post is an
| anomaly in an age when the science of pCnol.
ogy has advanced far enough TO understand
| the true purposes of judicial punishment and
TO apply it for the lettering of the offender as
| well rs of society" Wherein is a term OF
| jail associations better calculated to improve
| the prisoner than the lash2 Do the greater
number come back to the whipping post or
| the cell?
a Democrat from Salisbury, who asks no
more than "tair play" says that ever since
| Cleveland's election, a Republican element
| vice reform, but that at the late township
| elections the same element gave no support
| to the theory that 225 Democratic tax payers
| should have one representative i'll the schOo
| board and the admirably qualified gentle
| man put forward for such representative was
| vigorously antagonized by those who wan
civil service reform sauce only for the Repub,
| lican goose.
Talking with Gen St0ne-fOr thirteen years
commander of the Egyptian armies-before
| a blazing fire the other night, he frankly OK.
| pressed the opinion that the English were
| getting just what they deserve in the Soudan.
| First OF all they have no business there. II
| is the country of the Mahdi and his followers
and they follow only their instinct in repell-
ing invasion, melting insurrection and even
distrusting the Greeks from England who
bear the gifts of mediation. The little boy is
nearly right in his diagnosis of the situation
"Pa, what is England sending moro troops
to Egypt for ?' "'ro rescue Wolseley, my
son." " What is Wolseley there for % TO
rescue Gordon" What for was Gordon
sent there ~ -, "To restore peace" " Who
Mahdi had an army raised, though" Z" Pa,
do the British own that country T' /" No,
my son." Then they are campaigning in
the wrong ward, amt they P'' 1T looks
that way, Johnnie"
III England conquers the Soudan,' said
Gen. Stone, .'they will get another India. 1t is
ofvast domain and great resources. Imagine
Cairo where New Orleans is Khartoum will
correspond with St Louis, being at the junction
of the White and the Blue Nile and the
Soudan is the country beyond, like that vast
empire drained by the Missouri river. The
Mahdi's men are of that land they are
trained to war; they buckle on their
weapons as naturally as we put on our arti-
cles of dress" Three years ago Gen. Stone
was asked TO prepare an expedition to put
down the Mahdis rebellion. He made an
estimate that required 1900 infantrymen
besides cavalry and artillery, six gun boats
on the Nile and war vessel on the Red Sea.
To support this armament for a year and
firmly establish civil government in the
Soudan, it was figured ont that So 900, 900
sterling would be required. The English
tinanciers who furnish Egypt with money
scoiled at the amount, and Hicks was started
out with 10000 men to sweep tho Soudan.
None of them came back. Gordon
the peace-makor fell victim to
the policy oftomporizing; and both Stewards,
together with the journalists o. Donovan
and Nizetelly, Burnaby and Herbert, Cam
eron and Burleigh. Gen. Stone, who has
surveyed the entire ground, says the English
have violated every principle of scientific
warfare and deserve TO be beaten for their
stupidity. The Mahdi is believed by many