Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-06
HERE, ,ANDATHERE,.

There is a paragraph 'current in the papers
that the chair in which all the English sovcr-
oigns for the past SEQ years have sat to I've
crowned" is kept in Westminster Abbey. Not
al, brother. William ". did not sit stll to
he crowned. George ~. died at Windsor,
June &c 1880, and of course the moment the
spark lcft his body his brother became king.
Suspected long time of incipiCnt insanity,
he was dragged out of forty wears Of Oh
scurity and neglect much of it spent in
miserable poverty, surrounded hv numcr-
Gus progeny of hlStards, without
consideration or friends aud ridicu-
lous from his grotcsquc ways and lit
tie. meddling curiosity, and vet such king
was in three days discovered To be gain ON
the one gone before, Gle spoke of his dead
brother with all the semblaucc of feeling and
in tone of voice properly softcucd and sub
dued hut Just atterward when they gave him
the pen to sign the declaration, he
said in his usual tone, This is damned bad
pen YOU have given me- The preparations
made for his formal coronation had not been
completed, nearly wear later, when in the
hot Parliamentary fight of the great Reform
bill, he went down to prorOguc Parliament
in person. GrcVillc tells that .'thc king
ought not properly TO have worn the crown,
never having been crowned but when hc
was i'll the robiug room he said to Lord Hast
ings Il wear the crown, where is it . 1t was
brought to him, and when Lord Hastings
was going to put it ON his head he said. NO
body shall put the crown ON my head hut
myself He put it ON and then turned to
Lord Grey and said Now my Lord, the
coronation is over"
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Since Cloveland's election ten. Simon
Inmprpu huS "A on his l,fg
| of Andrew Jackson. which hangs on the wall
in the homestead at Donegal
have good authority for the statement
that the losses by lIerzog's fnrgcriCs will not
be so great as at first reported. 1t is said that
| $4,000 is the outside figure Of his forged
| paper, and some put it aS low ~ 100000
! Nine years ago a gentleman who was then in
| the confidence ofthe late Inland Insurance
| and Deposit company says he saw paper put
| into that institution by ITerzog which was
thrown out because of the taiut of forgery.
! BY the way, Horton. the great forgor, who
! got away with $4,000 of other peoples
money and never unloaded more than halfof
| it,was sentenced to something less than three
| years in the Lancaster Jail. How lucky he
| was that he didn't happen to be a tramp. For
| that oflense rankcr than forgery, he would
| have got the full three years.
! If Don Cameron shall hc elected To and
| serve out another full term aS United States
| senator from Pennsylvania, he will have
| been the only man who ever had a twelve
| years stretch in that body from this state.
| The nearest that any one ever came to it was
| the experience of the elder Cameron. lie
! had a four year term from 1915 TO lS49 ; an
! other cropped term from 81 to 81, fun term
! from 20 to ~ aud could have stayed there
| until 1879 if he hadn't made way for his son.
| Buchanan had ten years service from 1875 Ia
| 1915 Daniel Sturgeon eleven years, lSi0lSjl;
| and James Ross nine years from 1894 to l>n}.
| If Don Cameron should see the end OF the
| next term in the senatorial Office, his cOntinu.
| Gus service of fourteen years will have been
| the longest ever had by any individual from
| Pennsylvania and greater in the aggregate
| than that of any other except his father,
| whose years in the Senate make a total O
| eighteen. Albert Gallatin represented Penn.
! sylvania in the Senate for n year. Peter Muh.
| lenberg for less, David Wilmot for about two.
| GALLAT1N, WILMoT, Cameron
| x#r
| \ rich woman in Astoria, Long Island,
married her stepson, boy of II, and brought
| him a dover of halfa million. She wanted
| to keep the youth in the family and he didn't
| want the fortune to go out of it. James Par
| ton first married 'Fanny Fem" and then
| her daughter. There il q gentleman in Ian
caster who wed his stepmother'S sister.
! SINpRND.