Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-31
MINOR TOPICS.


GENERAL. GARFIELD says, that Grant
will not be nominaeed because the unit
rule will he beaten down.
]. HAY BRowN's last words when he
left yesterday were that he would not vote
for Blaine even if Grant were "switch. d
off, He is for Grant and the unit rule
and will surely take Lin Bartholomew's
place as delegate-at-large.
Quay stated to the Times correspondent
in Pittsburgh, when on his way to Chicago,
that he wasn't in the Lancaster fight fer
United States senator. Now his own
county of Beaver, taking advantage of his
absence, has played the same trick and at
tempted to thrust senatorial honors upon
him, and the Times thinks Quay should
hurry home or he may be made senator
in spite of all his protestation.
THE Reformed Presbyterian church OF
American in Philadelphia synod, while
| it " recognizes the fact that neither public
sentiment nor the sentiment of the church
has yet been educated to the conviction of
the great evils, moral and physical, of the
use Of tobacco" "places on record its
earnest desire that all the members Of the
church shall be total abstainers from the
manufacture sale, and use in any form of
this most dangerous weed
THE crowds at the Palmer house, Chi
cago evince much curiosity in watching
Georgia colored gentleman by the name of
Quarter, who is now practicing law in
New York. and who is there in the inter-
est of the Sherman boom. Mr.. Quarter is
in tow of ex-Sheriff Daggett, of Brooklyn,
who is a New York delegate and intends
to vote for Sherman. Quarter is very
black. He wears blue coat, an open
shir. with a big brilliant stuck i'll it, light
pants and kid gloves. A sensation was
created when he walked into the big dining
room of the Palmer house the other night
arm-in-arm with Mr.. Daggett and took a
seat directly opposite to Mrs. Don Cam,
eron and Mrs. Levi Morton. The guests
dropped their knives and forks and start
ed, and the colored walters gathered in
groups and watched and chartered, and
many stalwalt Republicans, to whom such
spectacle was rather new, did not ex
press much admiration.
c THE Methodist convention at Pitts
1 burgh has decided that congregations
: ought to kncel during prayers. Rev. Wal
t lace Radcliffe, pastor of the First Presby
c terian church, Reading, contends that thu
1 proper devotional attitude during praye
: is to kneel, and that the hymns should bt
sung by the congregation standing up
c On the OCCASION of his giving this advice
5, Rev. Mr.. Radcliffe concluded by announc
IS ing the familiar hymn, beginning, "Le
t us stand up and praise the Lord" whicl
j. admonition being practically followed b,
t those in attendance, his advice in both re
e spects has been cordially acquiesced in b.
~ the entire congregation, and it is now tn
e standard method of devotion in the church
) Rev. J. Y. Mitchell, of the Presbyterian
church, this city, breaches the standing at
W titude during prayer, but he has not ye
o elevated his congregation generally to tn
. perpendicular position.
10 YESTERDAY the church Of Rev. Thos
= K. Beecher, Elmira, N. Y, was connected
p with the Gazette and Bulletin Office of Will
+, Transport, Pa, by telephone, and portion
# of the sermon stenographically reported
q for the paper. The prayer, announcement
;s of the hymn and text were distinctly heard
Nearly every word ofthe speaker could b.
# heard in Williamsport during the course o
II an ordinary sermon, and the music of tn
organ could be heard as plainly as fit ha'
been only fifty feet away. The church bell
in Elmira were also heard in Williamspor
ringing clear and distinct. The only draw
= back to the hearing was when cars and ell
- gines were passing over the track of tn
70 Erie railroad in Elmira and on the North
=, ern Central This had the effect of drown
- ing the sound. Otherwise the experimen
i was success, and demonstrated that tn
telephone can be used for hearing sermon
% hundred miles away. The distance be
IS tween Williamsport and Elmira is seventy
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