Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-23
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
THE fund for the new professorships in
Harvard divinity school has reached
$113, 700.
THE projection Of Hiestand and Cameron
into the Indiana campaign looks as if
Jewell was abandoning it to the 'dam
literary fellers."
THE Recue des Deur INonGes, founded fifty
years ago, and to-day the principal review
in France, failed to pay during the first
twenty years Of its career. It now num-
bers 20, 900 subscribers at $40 year.
WESTWARD the star Of empire takes its
way. Jack Hiestand and Simon Cameron
en- route for the battlefield of Indiana! At
the first charge of Barnum's forces they
will retreat more precipitate!y than HES
tand fled from Bull Rum.
COMMODORE HIEsTASD is said to be en-
gagged for stump service every night, from
tonight until Landers is electcdin Indiana
by 5,4G0 majority. Then he will come
home and help to carry Pennsylvania
against the man who beat Grant at Chica-
so.
TIE co,,rsc of true love has not yet got
to running smooth. Here was Geo. Croft,
of Bayonnc, N. j., who found Charles Alb
bot in Jail, took him home and made
merry with him only to find the tina we'd
out adder, after some weeks, trying to
elope with Mrs. Croft. And then Carrie
Barton, who eloped to Rock Village,
n. Y, with Charles Thornton, from
Lafayette county, Mo-, two months ago,
has died from strychninc, taken after her
moneylcss husband, moody over their
| misfortunes, had been missing for several
days.
| ANTHONY TRoLLopE is about to review
Longfellow in a leading periodical, and the
Philadelphia North american takes the
matter quite seriously, as if calamity to
our great poet was impending. 1t regards
Trollope's monograph of Tliackeray as
"cxecrable," misconceiying and misun-
derstanding," "clumsy and vulgar"
"Owl-!ike" and 'cxaspcrating." lie has
also slaughtered Hawthorne in ':cockney
| vulgarity." II this be SO LongCellOw ought
to be protected. But then maybe the
| NorM american critic, who writes about
| Hawthorne "Marble Fasn," is prciu-
| diced auainst TrOIIOpe.
| MI. STINGER hits the nail on the head
when he says in his letter to the Philadc!-
phia Times: "a great outcry is being
raised and political capital is sought to be
made by Republican orators and Journal
lists on account of the small number of
pension bills passed by Congress. The
fact that the number of bills passed is
small in proportion to the number intro
duccd will not seem strange when it is
understood that nearly every pension
claim for which bill is introduced has
been oajudicated and rejected By the pensio"
office, orsr uhicha Republican Of undon1fc'l
loyalty to lis party presidGs.'
| AN attempt having been made to create
the impression that certain amount of
military poppycock surrounds Hancock, 4
Globe Democrat reporter thus dissipates
it: "The general receives at his head
quarters, and the warlike character
Of the establishment would never
be dreamed OF, for from chief to mcsscl.-
gers they are all clothed in sombrc, stupid
citizens clothes not bit OF glory and
glitter about it. Regular visitors send
their cards, and arc marched up stairs to
the sanctum, while for ladies the general
comes down and shows all the courtesy
and politeness for which he is famed. If
he is a Democrat, no one could fail to be
charmed with the manners and appearance
of the elderly whitc-moustachcd gentle
men. :: :! :: His mail comes in bags
now kilograms and letters cover his ta-
bles a foot deep, and although he may
begin opening his mail he never has time
to finish it,