Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-23
MINOR TOPICS.

WAHNO4S AO6 ASSs
SENATOR BLAINE does not think it pos
sible to get the assent Of every state to the
senator-for.life scheme for ex-prcsidcnts
and cx-vice presidents, nor Of even enough
states to make it part Of tho constitution.
The small states seldom get representation
on the presidential ticket, and in the life
senatorship scheme they would discern
the entering wedge to the destruction of
their present potent equality.
The curious fact is Shown by the official
canvass of the votes cast in New York city
and county Oh the I'd inst. that not one
scratched ~ ticket for presidential Cleo
tors was voted. Every one Of the 35 can
didates on the Republican ticket received
81, CSC votes every one on the Democratic
ticket received 123,O15 votes every one
on the Greenback ticket received G1O votes,
and every one ON the Prohibition ticket
received 26 votes, and there were no de-
fective and no blank ballots.
A COMPLICATED and scandalous case was
decided by the supreme court, in Chicago,
yesterday. William A. Sloan married a
woman in Ohio, and subsequently removed
to Iowa, and there obtained through a
Chicago lawyer divorce. On tho day of
his divorce he married another woman in
Iowa, but the courts Of that state being
appealed to declared the divorce illegal
and the rc-marriage void. The Chicago
court held the divorce valid according to
the laws of Illinois. Under these cross
decisions Sloan, who has children by both
wives, cannot legally live with either
within certain territorial boundaries,
though he may legally live with his Ohio
wife in Iowa and with his Iowa wife in
Illinois
REV. DIR. TYING has preached sermon
in the power Of iaith," which lie thinks
fully explains many miracles Of recent rc-
port. In our own community, he said, we
have examples of cures wrought as a re-
suit Of prayer which must take place with
what are called modern miracles and must
be studied philosophically. 1t was this
faith, which at Lourdes, in France, ard
perhaps at Knock, in Ireland, had been
honored by God. DIR. Tying told Of the
vision which the invalid peasant shepherd
css saw in the grotto at Lourdcs twenty
two years ago and of the message she
thought she received of the Virgin in the
vision. She was n sincere, simple-hearted
peasant girl, and she believed she saw the
mother of Christ. The apparition was ac-
o,ptcd as a verify by the church of Rome
upon what was deemed sufficient ground
by learned, wise and sincere men. Many
cures as result of faith have, the speaker
said, undoubtedly been wrought in the
presence of the shrine. In the lnclosure of
the shrine he saw crutchcs without num-
bcr left there by those who had been cured.
81 am no bigot,' lie said. 81 have 10
prejudice. The Roman Catholic church is
wise in its generation above all societies of
believers. I do not find it in my heart to
impugn their sincerity. The man who can
by any sort Of doxy relieve the suffering in
this world, I will hail as fellow-worker.
Who shall say how much heterodoxy there
is prayer that shall bring blessing? It
is not possible for me to say that the con-
gregation cannot pray with is not pray
ing to God.o