Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-09

DEMOCRATIC national conventions have
been held as follows: 1882, Baltimore
1886, Baltimore; 1910, Baltimore 1874,
Baltimore; 1s4s, Baltimore; 1852, Balti-
more 1856, Cincinnati; 1860, Charleston
1860, Baltimore; 1864, Chicago; 1868,
New York 1872, Baltimore 1876, St.
Louis.
THE British government made startling
announcement yesterday that the Parlia-
ment will be dissolved on Tuesday, March
90. 1t is expected that the general elec,
tions will be held SO that the new Parlia-
ment may meet carly in May. Mr.. Foster,
on the part of the Liberals, approved OF
the announcement. The Irish Relief bill
has passed both Houses of Parliament.
SIXTY more Cinnamon arrived i'll St.
Louis yesterday, on their way East.
Henry F. Scharrett, planter, of Pass
Christian, Mississippi, who is now in St.
Louis, says the planters in his section have
been canvassing the question of securing
Chinese laborers to fill the places of the
emigrating freedmen. Correspondence
has taken place with some of the Chinese
companies, and it is not unlikely that some
Cinnamon may be set at work on the
Mississippi plantations in a few weeks.
BISHOP SIMPSON said in sermon on
Sunday that the four great powers of the
earth are the United States, Great Britain,
Germany and Russia, for the reason that
Jesus Christ is recognized as an authority
in their jurisprudence, their legislation,
their education and their social and do
mestic organizatiOn-and that by reason
of the cohesive force thus derived and SO
upheld, these four powers are more poten-
tial for good in all that relates to the well
fare of mankind than all the other civil
powers on the face of the earth.
A PAPER called the !Sugar Beet has been
started in Philadelphia devoted to the
cultivation of and utilization of the sugar
beet" 1t is published and edited under
the most reputable names, and its purpose
is one of the highest interest to agricul-
turists in the United States and Canada
Sugar beet can be raised to great profit,
and it only needs popular information on
the subject to give impetus to this import
ant industry. Our farmers will do we'll
to get and read this new publication, and
our local agricultural society might pro-
titably inquire into the subject. Sugar
beet experiments will be made this year in
Maine. Massachusetts,, New Jersey, Mary
land, Delaware, California and Canada.
The bells of St. Marks church, Phila
delphia, were silenced by an injunction
obtained by annoyed neighbors, and the
supreme court sustained the order. The
result of that case has led to movements
against church bells elsewhere. In St.
Louis a chime in tho Congregational
Church of the Pilgrims has been attacked
by two physicians living close by. These
bells are struck every quarter of an hour,
the number of strokes numbering 1, 116 a
day, besides the tune playing on Sundays
and prayer-meeting nights. The two ply
sicians say, in applying for the injunction,
that the noise is destructive of comfort
and dangerous to health. The officers
reply that the chime is a fine one, and that
the complainants would not object if they
We're not intidels, to whom any Christian
sound would be unpleasant.
THE quinine dealers have been busy try
ing to make the public believe that the
removal of the tariff Oh quinine put up its
market price and yet they are employing
extraordinary exertions to induce Congress
to reimpose the duty on quinine, which
last year it most wisely, justly and
humanely removed. These exertions are
not strictly confined to the presentation
of facts and arguments to the National
Legislature, but they extend to and en-
brace all those means which are en-
ployed by hired lobbyists at Washington in
support of measures the merits of which
are made conspicuous by their absence.
They declare in petition to Congress that
unless the duty on quinine is imposed by
Congress their business will be "crushed
out" and yet in recent circular sent out
to their customers they inform that the
demand is greater than they can supply,
which certainly is not the condition of an
industry that is in danger of being crushed
out.
STATE ITEMS.
Saml Agnew, dry goods merchant, and