Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-22

speaker OF the next pennsylvania House
of Representatives. This is as it should
be. Step up, John!
MINOR TOPICS.
The latest new proposal in insurance is
one to insure merchants against loss by
| bad debts, and emanates from England.
THERE arrived in the United States dur
ing October 81, ,312 immigrants and 5,9O5
citizens returning from abroad. OF this
number Ireland furnishes 5,7O5, Germany
| II, ,O50 and China 474.
1T is something that American citizen
ship is purer than is the ballot in England,
but the extent to which the blot on our
electoral system is spreading makes just
| cause for serious alarm. Great funds for
election purposes arc a menace to public
checks to the Republican party Us they do
to the American board arc assisting in de-
bauching the ballot.--Sprinafeld Repu5li-
can.
THE debutante fever has attacked young
ladies of San Francisco very strongly
They learn the role of Juliet, or Ju,ia, get
their parents to buy them elegant dresses,
pay an enormous price to some graspiDg
manager for the privilege OF using his
theatre for ono night, clatter through
their parts like parrots, get numberless
bouquets, plenty Of applause from friends,
kind silence from the newspapers, and are
never heard of again.
VIZ cOddle voters too much. In place
of public discussions of current issues,
whereby men arc educated to the conscien-
tious discharge of political duties, drum
mers and hacks and money are now used
to move men to the support of parties and
candidates. A shiftlcss and ycnal class arc
being trained to sell themselves to the
highest bidder, and corruption of the suff-
rage on a broad scale progresses in moral
Massachusetts.-!SprinafeM, aass., Repub-
licdn.
THE Washington Republic, after jubil-
ating over Garficld's election, gives the fol-
lowing advice to the Republican Congress,
blissfully ignoring the fact that most OF
the things proposed arc what the Demo-
Gratis were abused all through the CAM
paign for contemplating eve want defin-
ito and comprehensive steps taken toward
the revival of American shipping. We
want just revision OF the tariff laws in tho
interests of both producer and consumer.
We want complete reform of the consul
lar service. We want = satisfactory ad
justment of the federal election laws. the
enlargement Of the supreme court COM
mensuratc with the duty required Of it, Il
constitutional nendment defining the
powers Of the respective houses Of Con-
gress in the choice Of president in certain
emergencies, and a liberal policy toward
the seat Of government and in all public
improvements everywhere"
Mrs. JOINER, the babies Of whose sister
and niece have been stolen from the ceme-
terry in Baltimore, asserts that OH Monday
night last she dreamed that she was at the
cemetery, just after heavy rain, and saw
a number of footprints in the earth around
the graves. A group Of men were disap-
pearing in the distance, one ofthem having
the body Of her niece cEspcd in his arms.
The men, she thought, placed the body in
wagon and drove away. The next day
she visited tho cemetery, not for the pur-
pose Of verifying her dream, to which she
attached no Importance, but of placing
flowers upon the graves. While there she
found scapulary that had been placed
upon the person of her niece ut the time
cf burial. This recalled her dream and
she resolved to have the graves opened.
When this had been dono she discovered
that the bodies were gone. Mrs. Joiner is
slid by the Baltimore papers to be a thor
oughly excellent woman, of good social
standing, and of unimpeacLed vcracity.
AT the annual spree of the Yale alumni,
in New York, the scrmonizer humorously
said that he filled the place because Sara
Bernhardt and Archibald Forbes, the
famous war correspondent now lecturing
in New York, had failed to comply with
their engagements to do the sermon.
Forbes, being Scotchman and only get
ting joke into his head by a surgical op-
Grafton, has taken the matter seriously and
addressed this note to the Herald
BREvOoRT HOUSE, Nov. 20, 1880.
To the Editor Of the Herald
I observe in your impression of this
morning, in the course of what is headed
"a Merry Jubilee by the Yale Alumni
Association" a synopsis of Thanks
giving Sermon" delivered by a Mr.. AL
met f. jerks. In the course of this SER
mon that gentlemen, according to your
report, referred to the '' failure of Archi-
bald Forbes and Sara Bernhardt to fulfill
their engagements to deliver the Sermon"
which default made it necessary for the
gentleman in question to deliver the SER
mon himself. So far as regards myself, l
beg to state that l never made any en-
gagement to deliver sermon either to the
Yale alumni association or to any other
body whatsoever and it is obvious, there
fore, that l could not have made the
" failure" which Mr.. jerks insinuates. I
fail TO understand on what grounds he
should have ventured the assertion.
l am, sc. ARCH. FORBES.
MIR. Forbes, intensifies the humor Of
the situation by publishing a statement
that the letter is forgery. Next