Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-26
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
IT is quite notable that the word "im-
perial " favored all the speeches of Conk-
ling and his henchmen yesterday.
THE New York Tribune is delighted at
the harmony that prevailed in the New
York convention yesterday. This is very |
much as if the lamb should rejoice at its
chance to lie down with the lion, even
though all were on the inside.
WITH ARBUTCS.
So much of patience-cold frosts and virgin
SHOWS,
So much of promise-sun and wind and show
OF brave increase and in these fieeting flow
Such end to sweetness of the springs will go
Out Of Times urn with measured, ceaseiess
somuch in little bring thee the hours
Since Time was, the hope of all-time bowers,
Thou wilt not say nay to these blooms know,
But taking, friend, will see them fair dag,
Call them half sweet a little ere they die.
And, mayhaps, looking in thy glass will say
Thy honest blush, g Not half so fair as L.
And taking, dear, will lend a grace complete
To unlocked hours and idle Wanton feet.
The race before a civil service reform
Lieut.. Parker, of the 9th cavalry, the
nephew of Attorney General Devens, who
experienced some difficulty in passing ex-
animation before an army board, but was
commissioned nevertheless, passed West
over the Union Pacific not long ago with re-
cruits. He certified on the transportation
order that I" the Pullman palace car COM
pany has furnished me with one BIRTH"
the "i" being dotted.
FRED. HAssAUREK, the editor and pro-
prietOr Of the leading German Republican
daily paper Of Cincinnati, announces his
intention to "bolt" if Gen. Grant is run
for third term, whereupon tho Chicago
organ of Gen. Logan cracks it's whip and
reads him out of the party as a ''scratcher.''
This summary process of ex-communica-
ton touches the Cincinnati Commercial on
the raw, as it has also done some scratch
ing in It's time, and it's comments as fol-
lows:
The thing to do, of course, is to purify
the Republican party. Let the scratchers
he driven forth. Let no man vote the Re
publican party ticket who is not prepared
to fall down and worship an old pair of
boots with rusty spurs on them-if COnk-
ling Logan and Cameron say so. Put up
for the safe candidate the man whose ad-
ministration cost the Republican party
fourteen states and 153 electoral votes!
PHILADELPHIA Erening Telegraph, Rep :
''It was an extreme stretch of courtesy in
General II. V. BoyntOn to offer to General
Sherman an opportunity to have the
charges preferred against him tried by a
military court Of his own selection. and
the refusal of General Sherman to call for
a court, and of the president to order one
must convince him that courtesy is wasted
in the particular quarter. The Otfense of
which General Sherman is accused is a
very gross one, and it's grossness is inten-
sified by the high official position of the
offender, and it will be a great pity if
General Boynton does not institute pro-
ceedings against the general of the army
in one of the civil courts. General Sher-
man presumcs altogether too much on his
official position and his military reputation
when he permits himself to indulge in the
kind of language he used toward Boynton,
and when he does indulge in that sort of
thing he should be brought to account. "A
verdict against General Sherman, ON either
criminal or civil issue, would do him a
world of good in the way of teaching him
some of the elementary principles of good
Manners
THE Philadelphia Ecening Telegraph
continues to find fault with the judges of
that city. Its present complaint is that
though three of them arc sitting and are
J presumed to be acting as an election
J board, "they refuse to take cognizance OF
errors-fraudulent or otherwise-on the
face of the returns, and force candidates
who have been cheated at the polls OF
, through the failure of election officers to
} perform their functions in proper fashion,
| to resort to the vexations and expensive
5 remedy of contest Such refusal on their
, part, it concludes, is ''in pre-eminent
degre satisfactory to the professional poll
ticians and their satellites who do not by
, any manner of means regard an election
$ from the same standpoint as that of hon
S Orable and law-abiding citizens who
neither hold office nor want to hold it,
: but they are to the last degree unsatisfac
S tory to honest voters, who have beer
, under the impression all along that cleo
tions arc not held exclusively for the
, benefit of people who make trade o.
a what they call politics. and that the chic
e utility of an election board composed o.
g the learned and presumably honest anG
: impartial gentlemen who preside over ou1
1 courts is to secure such determination Of
l the results of an election as cannot bt
j questioned.
q What 1t Thinks and Why.