Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-10
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
PARDEE hall, the scientific building at
lafayette college, Easton, has been rebuilt
better and to be better equip
ped than ever. About the middle of No
vember, after the election excitement has
subsided. it will be rededicated with i'm
prcssive exercises. The new nall is prac-
tically fire proof.
COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERsoLL has rc-
turned from his trip to New England, dur
ing which he made several campaign
speeches. He says he will make one of a
thousand persons who will give two thou
sand dollars each toward carrying the elec-
tion for Garfield and arthur. He seems to
think it will take several hogehcads to
carry it through.
In the first delivery of his public lecture
DR.. Tanner, the fasting man, especially
denounced DR.. Hammond and reviewed
the controversy between them. He ad-
vocated fasting for all inflammatory dis
eases and especially for dyspepsia and
rheumatism, and said that to establish,
that system for the benefit of science he
was willing to again underdo his arduous
task.
REBEL OutrageS are numcrOus)y report
cd from the Confederate county of Berks,
in this secession state Of Pennsylvania
which Hancock tried to carry over to the
rebels at Gettysburg. In Reading, on We'd
nesday three attempts wero made to burn
American flags. The flags were sus-
pended across the street with Hancock S
name on them, and the attempt to burn
them was made by Republican paradcrs.
THE Tribune estimates the Republican
majority in Vermont at $4,000. At the
September elections in 1876 the majority
was %. .S37. There is said to have been al
increased vote this year of s, 900, of which
it seems that the Democrats got 9, ,S37 and
the Republicans 1,1G3. That rate of in.
crease will carry every Northern state fol
Hancock, except Iowa, Kansas, Vermont
and Minnesota. Next?
TIE great Pan-Presbytcrian council, to
meet in Philadelphia Oh the Esd inst, is
not denominational body, but includes
representatives of all denominations whu
have the presbyterian over against the
episcopal form of church government.
There is very large representation from
abroad, many of the members being al
ready there. Among the lay Presbyterian
delegates from this country will be Judge
Strong, Senator Ferry, Gen. Mcclellan
and Stanley Matthews. The Reformed
church will be largely represented, the
delegates including Rev. John w. Nevin,
D. D., LII. D., Lancaster Rev. John II.
A. Bomberger, D. d., Co llegevillc Rev.
Thomas G. Apple, d. D., Lancaster Rev.
Franklin w. Kremer, ID. d., Lebanon.
The Republicans are distributing here 4
pretended facsimile of an application of
Robert Hanna. of South Carolina and
late of the G. S. A., for a pension. We
have no doubt he would be glad to have
it. AS he is an ignorant man who can't write
and has to make his mark, he knows not
that the constitution forever prevents such
pensions being granted. No Congress
could if it would no Democratic Con-
gross would if it could in case of Gar
fields election, possibly Longstrect and
Mosby, and Settle and Holden would get
themselves pcnsioned. Like as not the
application is forgery, like the naturali
zation papers which Cam Muhlenbcrs
sworc that he and johnson made in the
latter's back office; or a fabrication like
the tax receipts made in the back rooms of
the Er,naincr building some years ago.
CENSUS SUPERINTENDENT WALKER says
that the census gains in the South over 1870,
are easily accounted for. That census was
very badly taken and the South was grossly
Its return was run low to
rob it of it's duo apportionment and by in
takers. OF his last work Supt.
Walker says: "The Republican papers
have been making great deal of noise
about what they call fraud in the cnumcra-
ton, but they advance nothing tangible in
support of such an assertion. They base
all statements simply, Oh the discrepancy
between tho ccnsuscs Of 1870 and 1880 i'm
certain localities specified in South Caro-
lima and Mississippi. In some counties the
increase in population is sevcnty-tivc, one
hundred, and even one hundred and fifty
per centum over the figures given in 1870.
This by no means proves however, that
the enumeration just taken has been
fraudulent. My critics have failed to show
, single name wrongfully placed on tho
ists.''
PERSONAL.
Mrs. LANeTRY thinks she has been on
free exhibition long enough and wants to