Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-01

grasp. Mr.. Cameron does not see a fair
prospect of electing Mr.. Garfield; no1
does he have any confidence that it would
be a good thing for him if he was elected.
MINOR TOPICS.
If you say this is not'a fine day-July.
THE Democratic candidate for president
was chief of soldiers while the Republican
candidate was the chief of staff.
THE late millcrs' international exhibi-
tion in Cincinnati shows up at its conclu-
sion with deficiency of 1000, to meet
which an assessment of 335 per cent. has
been levied on the guarantors.
THAT was pleasant family reunion at
Grameroy Park yesterday-Tilden, Han
cock, Wallace and Watterson. "Should
auld acquaintance be forgot % was the song
that was sung there as in Cincinnati.
| THE Norristown Herald says New
York man was challenged to fight duel
the other day, and, being at liberty to
choose his own weapons, proposed a trip
to Boston on Sound steamer. The chal-
| lenger backed out.
In Georgia among the colored people
there exists great enthusiasm for Hancock.
A despatch from Atlanta to the Cincinnati
Commercials Republican newspaper, states
that campaign clubs composed of colored
men are being formed all over the state.
As soon as the war ended Hancock " the
soldier" declared that the military must
be kept in subordination to the civil au.
| thorities. Garfield "the statesman" for
fifteen years after the war ended did all he
could to fasten upon the necks of free
people government Of scalawags and car
pet-baggers upheld by as villainous a mill.
tary depotism as ever disgraced the world.
THE internal revenue receipts for the
fiscal year which ended yesterday were
$123, ,623, 251, and the customs receipts
$1S5. .1OS, GIL. This is an increase on the
receipts of last year of $40, ,O61 GAO from in
ternal revenue, and $47, ,85S, 5G3 from Gus.
toms. The close of the fiscal year leaves
an unexpended balance of 81, 461, 1888 in
the appropriation for the navy depart.
ment.
THE other night during scuffie in Pc.
trolia, one of the combatants drew a knife
and plunged it into the region where the
others heart was presumed to be located
The weapon pierced fourteen leaves Of a
bank book that reposed in the inside breast
pocket of the assaulted individual, and il
was only this fortunate circumstance that
saved his life. Moral: Always have a
bank account.
HoNoRs are being heaped on Edgar A.
Poe now that he is dead, his genius appre-
ciated and his faults forgotten. As has
been stated, 1t is proposed to erect
statue to Poe in the Central park at New
York, and on Monday afternoon dramat-
ic and musical entertainment was given at
the new Madison Square theatre in that
city in aid of the Poe statue fund. Quite
a number of eminent musical and dramat-
ic artists assisted at the performances.
| THAT was neat sentiment Colonel Bo-
dine, CAPTAIN of the American rifle team
got off on the occasion of the late inter-
national shoot at Dollymount. Alluding
to the successive defeats the Irish team
| l..,. ..,xo:~ol ~ %l,o hands If thoir A NOR.
ican competitors, after extremely close
contests. Colonel Bodine said that
as an individual rifeman he regretted
the defeat of his Irish friends, but as cap
tain of the American team he was proud of
the victory of his countrymen.
RAUM must 90. The fraudulent secre,
tary of the treasury is so Mortified by the
recent activity of the commissioner of in
ternal revenue at Springfield and Chicago,
which he characterizes as an indignity to
Mr.. Hayes, that he feels compelled to is
sue the necessary walking papers to that
official, and it will not be long probably
before the country is afforded another edi-
fyinr spectacle of the beautiful working
of civil service reform in this great and
glorious country.
ENCOURAGED, doubtless, by the reward of
Howard, who, for writing romance CALI
ed the life of Hayes was appointed by the
grateful subject to the important and lucra-
tive post of appraiser Of the port Of New
York, sundry persons have started in to
write sketch of Garfield for the purposes
Of the campaign. Each will endeavor to
outdo the other in the judicious use of lau-
datory adjectives, and the work of the sue
cessful man will be duly appreciated-cer-
tainly at Mentor, Ohio.
ONE of the summer fashions is new
laugh which goes like this "Te-he, te-he
Ha, ha, ha! Oh-h-h-h-ha, ha, hav The
directions are as follows "a low and sly
beginning is made with the te-he, as
though mirth was struggling inside to
break out through maidenly reserve, and
the mouth is kept tight closed, while the
ovos are ouened wide thus pivinp an ex-