Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-24
LANCASTER DAILY NrEltGENER TUESDAY FEBRUARY "a $780,
MINOR TOPICS.


IT is recorded that vessel left Boston
last week carrying eight hundred thousand
gallons of rum and one missionary. This
was an ill-balanced cargo.
THE grain merchants of France were
wiser than those of England. They made
an early calculation of the deficiency of
their bread supply, purchased all they
wanted early in the United States, as soon
as the crop was in market, paid for it in
gold, and have no more trouble, while the
English are still holding out for lower
prices.
RECENTLY an Englishman of high liter
ary fame moved out of town, but the
people of the suburban neighborhood ig-
nored him for months. Then the queen,
in driving by one day, called on him. The
news spread like wildtire, and the first
families of the vicinity all called and left
their cards at the house of the author.
He waited till he thought everybody was
come that had heard of it and was coming
at all, and then he drove out one day
and left each card at the house of its
owner.
THE World fair which will be opened in
Melbourne in October, 1880, and continue
until the following March, will be far more
complete in its appointments, it is said, than
any that has preceded it in Australia. Ex-
hibitors will not be obliged to pay rent for
space, and all goods will be admitted free
of duty. The exhibition will be open in
the evening. 1t is believed that the United
States will make a creditable display. The
most extensive exhibits will be in the de-
partment Of agricultural implements.
There will be almost nothing in fine arts.
In the various branches of labor-saving
machinery there will be a good display.
THE New York Herald kindly says to
him : "Mr. Cameron caused the Republi,
can party of his. state to do what turfmen
call backing a single horse against the
field. That is good thing to do if mai
knows all the stables, and is certain that
there are no dark horses nor any tleetel
horse than the one he puts his money on
But we have noticed that the risk is usually
thought SO great that prudent and cool
headed racing men do not back horse
against the field unless they can get hand
some odds. They know how many chance:
there are against any one horse winning
and they require advantages correspond
ing with the hazard.'
IN Great Britain public executions have
been abandoned on account Of their de
moralizing influence, and in many state
in this country hangings are now also con
Quoted in comparative private. But tn
spectacle presented in Murfrecsboro'
Tenn, on Friday last, of two men stand
ing on the gallows surrounded by a crowt
of spectators who occupied an amphi
| theatre of reserved seats at one dollar
head, ought to show the necessity o
having judicial hangings removed iron
being public show in every state. 1t i
hard to understand how an execution o
| the final decree of justice is to have an,
salutary effect when its sentence is carrie'
out to the clinking of beer glasses and tin
roasting of fat oxen.
THE South Carolina senators and repre-
| sentatives have written letter to tn
| authorities of Charleston and Spartans
burg, S. c., cordially indorsing the plan
instituted for the observance of the ON
hundredth anniversary of Gen. Morgan
great victory of Cowpens. appointed TO
the 18th of January, 1881. 1t is also pro
| posed to erect memorial column and
statue to Gen. Morgan. Gov Holiday, o
| Virginia, has written letter to Gen. ]. NJ
Drake, of. Elizabeth, N. j., expressing
qualification THAT the general, with tn
Veteran Zouaves, of that city, propose
visiting Yorktown, Va, in October 1881
and he promises the visitors kind ant
hearty welcome from the people of Virgini;
Gov. Holiday hopes, from the interest
manifested all over the country that the
proposed celebration will be worthy of th'
| occasion.