Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-06

Will reap ullc CIOp VI WuuiWi"
The Ferry incident reveals what quick
tempered nation the French are. They seem
to act first and think afterwards look after,
rather than before they leap Only the other
day the Chamber of Deputies rang with
howls of derision at Prime Minister Ferry's
supposed craven conduct In the Franco
China trouble. An overwhelming reversal
of government Measure forced the Ferry
cabinet to resign, and their rchiefwas publicly
branded a. a coward and traitor. No one,
however, seems 10 be able to form cabinet
| out Of the discordant elements that are now
on the surface Of French politics, and reac-
| ton in public opinion is now setting In re-
| garding the treatment accorded 10 Ferry.
| France II by no means anxious for war with
China, and It seems to be the growing belief
that Ferry's negotiations would have extri-
Gated her from her embarrassing position TO.
wards the Celestials with honor untarnished.
| 1t would be funny, hut not surprising out
come Of the situation to see the reins Of gov
ernment again placed In the hands OF the
now disgraced ex-premier.
THE state that proudly claims John l.. Sui
livan az its own seems to be sadly deserting
him In his hour Of need. At Lynn, Massa-
l chusetts, the city council committee on licen-
ses has resolved not to grant license to him
to give a sparring exhibition in that city.
Meantime John l.. Is enjoying himself on
| glorious debauch.
The Illinois high license law of 1888,
which fixes the minimum license fee for
dram shops at $500, and for malt liquors al
$50 only in cities, towns and villages, and
authorizes county boards to grant licenses on
like terms upon petition of the legal voters o
any town or precinct has diminished the
number OF saloons In Chicago from 1000 u
500, while the revenue is increased million
dollars. In nineteen other cities and town.
l | there were, before the enforcement Of higl
, license, 7S3 saloons, yielding revenue
| $50 $50 There are now in these places onl!
= | 46S saloons, but the revenue has been In
creased to S2o3,O0o. The new system ha
Q shut up the low groggeries which were re
, | sorts of vile characters and the consequence
. ia less crime and less drunkenness. TIL
: number of arrests has fallen of, and drunk
: enness has decreased In the larger cities b.
l. thirty per cent There Is also an improve
) ment in the quality OF the men who keep tn
, saloons
l. prv. DR. SUNDERLAND, In whose churc
e Miss Cleveland and her brother, tho pres
n dent, have taken a pew, has been preachin
Il In his present church thirty-two years He
"a very plain Of speech and outspoken; IA
40 abolition and Union sermons and other Dol
, attacks drove away many of his congreg
tion and he has by no means the large
charge I'm the capital city. During the la
~ campaign he was abusive of Cleveland, wit
E tongue and pen ; and the presidents choi'
's OF pew has caused much wonder. The e.
le planatiOn Of 1t Is that Rev. DIR. Sunderlar
10 was the pastor Of the presidents mothe
ir when, as a young minister, he preached
as Batavia, New York. Mrs. Cleveland had
great regard for him, and, remembering thi
n. she selected the First Presbyterian churc
and made her mothers pastor her own.
II THE fat women's convention, which sho,
Is man has assembled In Philadelphia tn
)r week, is expected to display thirty female
is whose avoirdupois will reach five tons an
p. besides the weight of the convention itsel
20 its utility in illustrating the science of gettr
ia fat and remaining fat will command for
:. respectful attention. To the credit of Il
I, fieshy beauties be 1t said, that with one a
!" cord they refused to allow an anti fat man
= apply his remedies to them.
it HENRY lRvINa.who is to be banquetted
le New York tonight by a very distinguishe
" company, played his farewell engagement O
It Saturday night and closed the richest mont
IN that he has ever known in his career upo
ia the stage The receipts for the evening wei
=, 1925; the total receipts for last week wei
!; s22,9i5, and in the past month the amour
cleared was S76,4l5. The enthusiasm Of II
- audience Saturday night when Mr.. Irwin
responded to its calls for speech was som
thing phenomenal. Mr.. Booth comes
Philadelphia this week to assert his histrion
3 mastery OF the American stage. If he voul
IS borrow some Of Mr.. Irving's fidelity to deta
re and correct accessory, and surround himse
+ with fit company, he would achieve ne