Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-26
PERSONAL.


nomination for electOr in Maine in favor
Of George W. Wooster, one Of the straight
Grecnback electors. Mr.. Bunker, having
declared for Hancock, his resignation was
necessary to give the Grcen5ackers full
proportion of the electoral ticket.
Gen. JAMES L. GRAHAM, Of New York;
was walking across the street when he was
struck and thrown down by the pole of
truck turning the corner. His collar-bone
was broken and he was severely bruised
about the head and neck. He is seventy
six years Old
The Hon. Roscoe CoNkLISG, senator in
Congress from New York, is announced to
make q series of speeches in favor Of Gar
field in the interior OF New York state.
The Hon. FREDERICK A. CONKLISc. once
representative in Congress from New York,
has made two Or three very effective
speeches in favor OF Hancock.
In Utica, n. y, last night, GRANT de-
livered eulOgy Of the carpet-bagger,
which leads the Herald to wonder curious
ly what he would say to Nebraska audi
ence in favor of the locust. That creature
has also, probably: his uses but when he
"lights'' on state and eats its substance
the people may he excused for not sup
porting s: locust ticket" for some years
afterward, at least until they have got
back their seed corn.
FOLLOWING was published in February
:, 1873, by the Christian Aarocate, then
edited by Rev. Dr.. Fowler, who gave the
Grant interview Oh Hancock to the publ,
recently '' Collector Arthur is man Of
appointments. He Was uercr 1{ccte9 to
anv office, and neter seiN be There is Sill
perstition that he was never born. but was
appointed baby. AS soon as he was old
enough to understand religion he cut loose
from the tenets Of his ancestry, because
Presbyterianism contemplated election;
MOODY and SASKEy arc now on their
way to the Pacific slope. When they re-
turned from Europe in 1875 they were in
vited to so to San Francisco, and they
promised to go some day. On their way
out they will stop in Salt Lake City and
perhaps Cheyenne. They expect to reach
San Francisco b. the 1st of November.
The people OF New Orleans have urged
them to come there, and they may 30 so
during the latter part Of the winter.
"HalIo, Chickahominy ~ said General
MCCLELLAN, as he alighted from :. train
at Syracuse, n. Y, the other day, notic-
ing man clad in a rough workirsman's
suit and covered with oil tapping the
wheels Of the cars with = hammer. The
man looked up quickly, and on seeing who
had addressed him, his face lighted up
with a look of real JOY. ''How do YOU
do, general?'' said he, as he rubbed his
greasy hands on his overa!ls and said, in
utter dismay General. my hands arc
dirty - "Ncvcr mind that and the
general gave him hearty shake.
Rev. Mr.. GRAHAM. Of Virginia City,
New, remarked in the course Of Il recent
session Of the Presbyterian synod Of tho
Pacific, that many of his church members
work in the mines by shifts, and he had
known Of men having to leave the commu-
Mon table while the bread and wine were
being distributed to take their places in
the drifts when the time for doing so ar
rived. He said that strict enforcement:
of Sabbath observance in his church wnull
drive two-thirds of the members out of it:
and that the subject presented one of the
most difficult problems with whicl. he had
to deal.
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