Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-04

MINOR TOPICS.


JOHN SuERMAN's vote against Simon
Cameron's confirmation to the Russian
mission in 1852 is said to be the lion in his
path to securing any favor from the
FAMILY in his presidential aspirations.
THE Boston Herald, Independent, says if
it were running the Republican party it
would make the ticket Washburne and
Chamberlain (Of Maine }, or, if that
wouldn't do, Hayes and Chamberlain.
The Cincinnati Gazehes canvass the
Ohio Republicans shows a preference OF
1899 for Sherman, 800 for Blaine and 541
Grant, with Garfield fourth in the list,
with following of 12s.
IT was "a notable scene" in the L. S.
supreme court OH Monday, when on mo-
ton of Mrs. Belva Lockwood, practicing
attorney, Hon. Joel Parker, a Democratic
candidate for president, and negro law
yer were sworn into practice, standing
near to the niche where the bust of Chief
Justice Taney, the author of the bred
Scott decision, is placed.
BEFORE the Senate committee to inves-
tigate the exodus, several Republican poll
ticians of Indiana have admitted, "undel
oath," that the South Carolina negroes
were induced for political purposes to set
tie ON the limestone knobs of Indiana,
that they wanted 20, 600 bucks, that if they
got them they could get away with the
Democrats cverlastingly, but that the
negroes "overdid the thing by bringing
their families.
GEN. BUTLER, of Massachusetts,, is cx
ceedingly anxious to continue in his pres
ent position of manager of the home fo
disabled soldiers, and his friend, Congress
man Russell, has introduced into tn
House 4 resolution renominating him tt
the Office. 1t is not likely, however, tina
the aspirations of the doughty warrior viii
be gratified, as Gen. Mcclellan will in al
probability he pressed for the appointment
and while it is not expected that the Re
publicans will vote for Butler, the Demo
Gratis have no reason to put him again in
position from which he has reaped so muc
| political advantage. So the prospect
that Benjamin will find himself bottle
again.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, oppose
favorable consideration of the nomination
for census supervisors. He claims that, a
the law stands, the supervisors shOul
have been equally selected from each pc
litical party. The Democrats understoo
from Mr.. Hayes and Prof. Walker tina
good men would be appointed, and tina
they supposed from the intimations {
those gentlemen that the law would b
construed SO as to give both Republican
and Democrats their rightful share {
the appointments. If the Democrats had nc
thought so, he says, they would hav
framed law which would have admitte
of no other construction. He accuse
Hayes and the superintendent of the Ger
sus of endeavoring to lull to rest all susp
cion of different course of action frOr
that he desired.
IN Tennyson' poem-play, ''The Falcon,
which has been failure, he makes Fedt
rigo, a practiced and enthusiastic falconel
address his precious bird rs a liking 9
the air." and indeed throughout treats tn
creature as male, as for that matter doe
Mr.. Longfellow in his version of the sam
story from Boccacio. In spite Of thes
two great poets falcon is always feminin
to falconer in language as in fact. Th
female bird is a third larger than tn
male, and altogether his superior il
beauty, fierceness and strength. Indeed
as pleasant writer in the London Neu
points out, she alone is "falcon," tn
male bird being tercel. Shakespeare
who knew everything and never rmisapplie'
his knowledge, makes repeated allusion
to falcons and falconry, always wsth a du
distinction of sex.
AUTHORS and publishers, and more es
pecially bookbinders, who have pride'
themselves on the sumptuous exteriors o
the presentation volumes which they hav
forwarded to Queen Victoria, will not b.
pleased to hear on the very highes
English authority, that their works do no
grace the shelves of the royal library il
the gorgeous dresses they lavishly bestov
upon them. First the books are all ex
amined by the royal librarian and onl!
such admitted as are deemed worthy ant
then, of the approved ones, no mattel
how elaborate their bindings, no matter
what famous binder has bound them il
covers meet fot royalty, the covers ar,
ruthlessly removed and thrown aside like
| so many newspaper wrappers. Then thu
| stripped books are rebound in the style il
which all books in the queens library arr
bound.
THE bill that has passed the fedora
House appropriating 800, 900 for monu
ment at Yorktown, Va, commemorative
of the surrender of the British, and $50,
600 for the celebration of the centennia
anniversary Of that event, will carry out {
resolve of the Continental Congress-
adopted on the Goth Of October, 1871
which provides that the United States
should cause to be erected at Yorktown
in Virginia, marble column, adorned
with emblems of the alliance between the
United States and his most Christian
majesty, and inscribed with succinct mar.