Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-21
MINOR TOPICS.

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MINOR TOPICS.
FAIR rent, free sale and fixity of tenure,
arethe fullncss of Irish Land Lcasuers' Ge-
lnands.
THE share Of South Carolina in tic Pea
body educational fund is hereafter to be
devoted to the education of teachers.
CHRISTMAS shopping is very lively i'll the
cities. The taste for handsome and ex-
psnsive presents develops rapidly. Ex-
quisite china and jcwclry have the lead.
closely followed by sumptuoas editions Of
standard books.
CHRISTMAS falls on 4 convenient day OF
the week this year. 1t is we'll to have the
rest Of Sunday after the excitement Of 4
holiday. Next year it will occur on
Sunday and if any secular day is to be Oh
served by all means let it be Saturday.
DAKOTA wants to become Il s!a:e, Ok at
least Mr.. Bennett, Eer delegate in Congress
is anxious that part of her should be-
come one. His idea is that she should DC
cut in two, one half coming into the Union
and the other rcmaiuin. out in the cold
shadow oc 4 territorial turm oI govern
ment.
Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, of New
York, who has given away 5000, 900 for
benevolent purposes during the last sin
teen years, now says that she believes she
has done more harm than good. She says
that the poor are of two knds-"God's
poor and the devils poor and that she
has been victimized by the latter class
until she is sick of it.
THE New York Eceaing Post bitterly OPP
poses the suggestion of Stanley Matthews
for the supreme bench. 1t remarks that
the unsoundncss of Mr.. Matthews on
financial subjects not only marks him as
an altogether improper man to be trusted
with the decision Of particular questions
which may come before the supreme court
of the United States but also suggests 4
fatal doubt us to his possession Of those
well-balanccd faculties, that judicial
mind, which are indispensable qualifica
tions for membership of the tribunal of
last resort
THE work of the "cOmmittcc of one
hundred Republican reformers in Philadcl-
phia in progress for months past, reached
its elimination yesterday. At :. meeting
in the board OF trade room, beginning at
half-past three o'clock in the afternoon
and lasting over three hours, they put in
nomination their candidate for the three
important city Offices to bc filled at the
February election. Joseph L. Cavcn for
city solicitor and John Hunter for receiver
Of taxes were nominated unanimously.
William S. Stokley for mayor was nomi-
mated by i vote of SO to 30, AMI here it
was that all tbs controversy and difficulty
and sharp words and hot feeling came
out.
THEY say Don Cameron has finally
agreed to take Harry Oliver, of ofPittsburgh.
as his senatorial candidate against Grow.
It will take a hat full of divers money to
beat Grow, but the move to capture Al
legheny county for him has g worked
and he starts at the head of the field.
Hoyt declines, and McMancs promises to
Keep hands off, But here comes the Har-
'isburg Telegraph with the insinuating
notice that "Coloncl Matthew STAN
cy Quay paid out of his own pocket $780,,
1894 to the Peoples bank, of Philadel-
,hia, in liquidation of the overlrawn &C.
ount of the Republican state committee.
The campaign during which this extraor-
linary expenditure occurred was that
which resulted in the election Of Hoyt to
he gevernorship.' II Oliver is expected TO
DOT that bill too, let it be presented he
ore the senatorial election.
The Bernhardt takes the war-path. ,
linn as she is, she is unwilling to be made {
target for pulpit abuse, and through {
ewspaper man, in confidence, who gives
away with equal confidence, she serves :
his notice on unbridled preachers "Any 7
erson, be he preacher or otherwise, who
ttcmpts from this time forth to bEacken
" reputation by p:oclaimins and circulat- v
'g false reports about my life Of which +
e knows and can know nothing, will (I y
i've him fair warninS) be summariIy L
ought into court TO answer to 4 criminal 4;