Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-14
MINOR TOPICS.

In Port Jervis, N. V, yesterday, fifty
ladies voted ut the school election. A
ticket composed of ladies was defeated.
Other ticket; were in tho field, run on a
sectarian issue, the anti-Catholic ticket
being successful by plurality of 1G1.
THE Scotsman says that since ''Ouida's'
novels were taboocd by the Edinburgh
Philosophical Institution some Of the dircc-
tors have read tile whole of these obnox-
ious works, probably to qualify themselves
with arguments should the question be
again raised.
THERE is now only one theatre in the
country, the Boston Museum, where the
old system of weekly changes of bill by a
stock company is maintained. All the
rest, except the few which run plays for
long periods, are given up to travelling
parties. Actors never before earned their
pay SO easily. With only half a dozen, or
fewer, parts to study for an entire season,
and no rchearsals aftereach new play is
fairly started, the labor is almost confined
to the time actually spent in the public
performance.
NJ. GAMBETTA, in opening some two
years ago free library in Paris, limited at
a phase of the educational problem which
has not yet received much attention in
this country. If you educate people, lc
said, you unavoidab!y develop in them
certain tastes, and it is tho duty Of society
to give them the means to gratify these
tastes, which, in themselves laudablc
enough, have become doubly legitimate
through the means which society and the
state employ to force education upon peo-
pie, sometimes instinctivcly unwilling to
share in its pretended benefits.
In the state of Georgia there arc only
about 90, 600 colorcd children of school age,
and last year so, 900 were enrolled in the
Schools, In 1878 there were but 10, 80
colored children attending the public
schools. In 1874, = year after the Demo-
crlts had driven the Republican carpet
baggers from power, 52, $50 colored men
paid taxes on BOG, GjS acres of iand last
year 50, 522 colored men owned and paid
taxes on 541, ,119 acres # land. The
colored people of Georgia would not be
willing to exchange places with the foreign
born but industrious and intelligent work
ingmcn of Rhode Island.
THE Boston Pilot, noticing the recent
Irish Republican convention at Saratoga,
thus rebukes the animus that in
spired the Republican politicians to
devise that movement cit probably did
not represent many Irish voters. We have
no wish to criticisc it's proceedings but
VIC think it was a mistake to ask Irishmen
to vote the Republican ticket
merely because the Republican party
has placed some Irishman in Of
flee. There should be a better reason
than considerations of bread and butter
for supporting any party. One man, Irish
or otherwise, has just the same right to be
a Republican that another has to be
Democrat, but in either case the man
should he led by his convictions of right,
not by the hope of getting petty Office.
THE Republicans who pretend to believe
that Hancock's election will be followed
by period of depression in business, whicl,
is the latest Republican argument, have
not faith enough in their creed to bet on it.
A Cincinnati banker who made himself
conspicuous by prophesyins that govern
ment bonds would 30 down to ninety per
cent. in the event Of Democratic victory
was challenged by Hon. Theodore Cook to
back his statement, by agreeing to sell the
latter million dollars worth of four per
cent. bonds at par on the day after Han
cocks election, but declined. Another
Scion B. Smith, secretary of
The Republican central committee of New
York, backed out of a bet of se 800
against 1000 that Garfield would carry
the state in November. Betting, it is
rue, is not argument, but it has almost as
much influence.