Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-20

DOhINO eAAO pssc1 yCaI GuCIC udSS ocCA la
France twenty five persons condemned to
death, Of whom two were women.
The Maryland House of Delegates has
six chaplains, to whom it pays $500, to he
divided between them equally.
THE total liabilities of Baltimore Oh
December 81, 1879, were 5,O17, Isl, 70.
The receipts for the year from all sources
were 81, 59s, 3ss, 40.
THE practice of glibly duplicating old
offenders - in crimes not proven, and of re
vamping criminal records to injure private
individuals, is like the habitation of glass
houses--dangerou in times of promiscuOus
stone throwing.
GENERAL JOE LANE and a number of
prominent Oregon Democrats have issued
an address to the members of their party
in that state, dwelling upon the impor-
tance of upholding state rights against
Capitalization and advocating government
tai reforms.
A WORKMAN in the bleachery at Mill
vile, n. j., was carried OH rail on Satur
day because he started rumor that three
of the leading mechanics were going to
persuade the men to strike for increased
pay. Some of the hands wanted to tar
and feather him.
THE Philadelphia North american says ::
"The bill for the relief of Fitz John Por-
ter has been adopted by the House COM
mittee on military affairs. 1t ought to be
passed forthwith. The recent trial proved
beyond doubt that Fitz John Porter has
been subjected to cruel Injustice
THE Cincinnati Gazette has heard from
about one-quarter of the couuties of Ohio
on the question of Republican presidential
candidates, and the figures are Sherman,
377; Blaine, 15S; Grant, 90; Washburne,
13; Garfield, IA !; Hayes, IA; Bristow, 2;
Dennison, /; Stanley Motthews, j.; nomi-
nee, 10.
over the way the query of a correspondent
who wants to know if the New Era, which
assails the present district attorney for
multiplying indictments, is the same Neac
Era that is edited by the political protector
of the last district attorney, whose official
career taught the present states office how
to multiply indictments.
An ingenious colleague in journalism
| has discovered that there are in France, at
the present moment, 1, 700 women of letters
and !, 1,15O lady artists, as they are called
in England. Two-thirds of these writer's
were born in the Provinces Normandy,
Brittany or the South, while two-thirds of
the artists are born Parisians Out of the
writer's, 1000 publish novels or moral
stories for children, 200 are poets, $50
write for pedagogue journals. Out of the
artists, 1O7 are sculptOrs, ZOE oil painters,
1913 miniaturists, 254 ceramists and 494
water-color and fan painters, or pastel and
crayon drawers.
THIS, from the New York correspondent
of the Washington Republic. seems to be
the average popular Judgment on the new
opera:
"The Pirates of Penzance may be con-
sidered as fairly acclimated now. Its sue
cess is assured, but it will never be popular
in the sense that "Pinafore has been.
1t will never be whistled and sung and
| Ur1Ofad instant SnaSOn and O,1t nf
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan said it would
not-perhaps they intended it should not
and it is not. "Pinafore" is a vaga-
bond, street gamin-it is equally at home
in the theatre and out of it. But we shall
go to hear "The Pirates of Penzancc -
without Immediately wishing to form !,
company and play it ourselves.