Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-15


gram yesterday from New York, saying
that " the president and secretary of the
Cincinnati convention have forwarded
the following letters to Gen. Hancock
and English - and we, of course, under
stood that the letters which followed
were those of the president and secretary
and we were induced to comment upon
the folly of those officers in doing what
the committee appointed by the cOnven-
tion had gone to New York to do. 1t
seems now that the Patriot got the mat
ter wrong, and that the letters were in
fact those presented by the committee.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE Butler goblin is again agitating
timid people in the Bay state.
YELLOW JACK has struck New Orleans
and several cases of the dread epidemic
have come to light, though strenuous ef-
forts are making to check its advance.
THE Republican papers are beginning
already to cry out against "mud throw
ing" They started in at it quite briskly,
but their stock soon run out and what they
hurled did not stick we'll.
In 1876, Mr.. Hayes being the Republi-
can candidate for president and Mr.. Gar
field candidate for Congress, the former,
in Garficld's district, received q, ,561 votes,
majority of 12,2s2; Mr.. Garfield re-
ceived eO,O12. majority of s,663.
An esteemed contemporary finds new
fault with the Democratic ticket-Mr.
English is too conspicuous. Well, that is
pity-but no one has yet found or will
ever find that fault with the nominee for
vice president selected at Chicago.
THEY say that if the walters of Del
monico's the Brunswick, and other
"swell" restaurants would tell the truth,
they would say that nearly always at
fashionable dinners in private apartments
cigarettes are handed around to the
ladies. with the cigars for gentlemen, and
that in most cases they are accepted and
smoked.
An individual by the name of Barnes
has turned up as most enthusiastic
champion of Hancock. The reason he ad-
vances for taking up the cause of the
great Union general is as novel rs it is
convincing. He once loaned tho general
an umbrella, and he returned it. Now
that is Just the sort of man We are in
search OF for president of the United
States.
No poet has ever had SO many beautiful
tributes paid to his memory by other poets
as Burns. And now Longfellow adds
Il flower to the nosegay which Whittier
and Fitz Greene Halleck have made SO
fragrant, but his poem is more stilted and
less touching than either Of theirs. 1t is,
however, worthy of the theme and author.
M,rper's Magazine publishes it in other
wise fitting typographical setting, barring
the execrablc taste of the illustration ac-
companying the last line. The fancy of
Burns as "guest and ghost" in Long
fellows library should not have been at
tempted in pictorial representation.
POSTAL statistics show that there was
an increase of nearly $500, 600 during
the last fiscal year ending on June 3Oth
over the preceding year in the receipts for
postage stamps, stamped envelopes and
postal cards. The rate of progression
was about twice as rapid as usual. The
issue of newspaper and periodical stamps
increased more than fifteen per cent, the
total amount for the fiscal year 1S79S0
being 81 252, 903. The people are reading
and writing more than ever before, and
the disposition to increase correspondence
and purchases Of periodicals is unusually
| active.
JOHN w. FORNEy's admiration for Gen.
Hancock is of old date. We find in the
INTELL1GENcER of July IL, 1869, when it
was urging Hancock strongly for the gu
bernatorial nomination, the following
item
John W. FOrney passed through Lancas-
ter the other day and dined at the Railroad
hotel. The proprietor, Mr.. Owen Hopple,
who is an old friend of Forney and we
believe Republican. had conversation
with him in which he said; "The Demo-
Gratis will nominate Hancock for governor
and he will he elected. That will make
him the next president. told Grant so
ut the White House the other day.
CHICAGO ladies remember the numbers
of cars whose conductors are rude to them,
and never afterwards ride in them. Would
it not be better plan, and kinder towards
their sisters, to make complaint to the
companies and have the impudent cOnduc-
tors discharged? One can we'll understand,
however, that ladies shrink from such a
course, owing to the possibly notoriety it
might force upon them. A trick, at which
the Chicago conductor is said to be an
adept, is to ring his bell and start his car
suddenly the moment a pretty girl steps
upon the platform, SO that his fair passen-
ger falls backwards into his arms. What
adds to the injury of his meanness is that
the most skillful practitioner is "a slovenly
fellow with sickly complexion and a
yellow mustache."
PERSONAL.
Mr.. POTTER PALMER, of Chicago, has