Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-19

that the mark on the side of the nose is
only an eighth of an inch long.
MINOR TOPICS.
A G.. DAWSON COLEMAN institute has
been established in Lebanon, for the pur-
pose of affording instruction, on certain
evenings each week, to such as may he
anxious to advance themselves. The course
of instruction is divided into three depart
ments in order to meet the requirements of
all who earnestly seek improvement.
TALKING about round dances the Pitts
burgh Post recalls the fact that Miss Sher-
man, daughter of General Sherman, refus-
cd the invitation of the Duke Alexis to
join in a round dance. Instead of giving
offence, her conscientious objections were
respected, and extorted the admiration of
the duke.
THE price of nails having been advanced
east and west to S5.1 keg, an iron city
contemporary runs over the variation in
their prices since 1852 and finds that they
have ranged from 1910 per pound to as
high figure as 81. They were lowest
in December, 1878, and highest in August,
1864.
THE NeU Era breaks out with a prOpO-
sition that the delegates from this county
to the Republican national convention
shall be elected at the May primary cleo
ton, whether the county committee likes
it or not. The plan of the Bull Ringers
is to have the county committee name the
state delegates and the state delegates
name the national delegates. The Era
says that under the rules of the party the
delegates to the national convention shall
be chosen at the primary and that May
will be plenty of time for that. 1t urges
that the county committeeman insist on
this and if it be refused them that they
bolt.
THE star of Roscoe Conkling having
been dimmed by that Rhode Island affair,
the New York Herald makes an heroic ef-
fort to brighten it up and publishes glar-
ing biography of New York's favorite
son, who, it says, shines conspicuous by
comparison with the many eminent men
nourished by New York. Virginia, it
declares, is 10 longer the mother OF
statesmen and New England and Penn
sylvania with equal opportunities can not
rank with the Empire state. The favorite
sons of whom the Herald boasts are Sena-
tor Conkling, Secretary Evarts and ex-
Secretary Fish on the Republican side,
and Ex-Governor Seymour, Ex-Governor
Tilden and Chief Justice Church ON the
Democratic side. And of them its says
eve may safely challenge any other state
or cluster of states having an equal pOpu-
lation to show an equal list or to match it
in point of capacity, experience and quail
fications for public life. There is no one
of these six who is not equal to the high
est responsibilities with which his fellow
citizens might think fit to clothe him. They
differ greatly from one another in the cast
of their faculties, and although they were
all bred to the law Mr.. Evarts surpasses
the rest in professionalreputation as much
as he may fall below some Of them in ad-
dress and dexterity as politician. Senator
Conkling, the youngest of the number, has
had the most signal and brilliant success
as a public man.
The Sunday Examiner republishes from
lscA e 1s<,I>f
authors whose names are alleged to have
been "saved from oblivion by single poems
produced" Among them are included
Jos. Rodman Drake and his "Culprit
Fay )" Fitz Greene Halleck and "Marco
Bozzaris ;" Richard Henry Dana and the
"Buccaneer - Julia Ward Howe and her
" Battle Hymn of the Republic - Bret
Harte and the Heather Chinee ;" w. w.
Story in "Cleopatra, " and Thomas Dunn
English's Ben Bolt" The imputation
in all these cases is an utterly undeservcd
exaggeration. While the productions
cited are each one of them among their re-
spective authors best, they are far from
being their only claim to merit, and might
be blotted out entirely without seriously
endangering their writer's fame. brakes
ode to the American flag is more familiar
than his charming "Culprit Fay;'' the
friends of Fitz Greene Halleck would Bit
terly resent the idea that he had written
nothing that would have rescued him from
oblivion except his stirring martial poem
the veteran of American literature who
saw it's infancy and manhood had other
claims to Immortality than poem that is
now rarely read Julia Ward Howe's
claims rest on broader foundation than
her one grand lyric; Bret Harte has done
a dozen better things than the "Heathen
Chinee;' Story's sculpture is more dura-
BILE than his verses and New Jerseys Ten
nyson, who wrote Mona Phoebe, :" will be
forgotten for Ben Bolt when his better
work is remembered.
Samuel s. Salisbury, aged 70 years, of
Altoona, cut his throat on Saturday while
in fit of mental alteration.