Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-16
MINOR TOPICS.

Piatt would not be worth much in any
event but he tries to do Garfield service
bv making out that in Credit Mobilier bu-
siness he was fool, not knave. Says Platt
"At the very time it was claimed he
was scheming to enrich himself through
Ames's rascality, he was Shining about
Washington striving to borrow $500 to pay
house rent, and SO ignorant of the COM
monest financial process that he did not
know how to negotiate an ordinary note OF
hand
If this be true new reason is given why
he should not be president. The man who
lacks the business capacity to negotiate
note of hand has no right to be vested with
the administration of public affairs.
Mr.. WHARTON BARKER, the Philadel-
phia broker, the man who really effected
Garficld's S nomination, sails for Russia to-
day. He is accompanied by Wayne
MacNea as counsel and a number of
railroad experts, who 90 for him to consider
the expediency of opening up the coal
fields in Southern Russia, the construction
of a railway system from Southern Russia
to the Sea of Azov, the establishment of
vast shipping port on that sea, the erec-
ton of works for the manufacturing OF
Bessemer steel rails, etc. Mr.. Barker has
been in the service of the Russian govern
ment for some years, and acted as its
agent in the recent construction Of Rus
| sian cruisers at Cramps shipyards.
| REQUESTS for subscriptions have been
distributed by the Republican congressional
committee, to the number of $4,000. A
prominent member of the committee re-
marks that if the friends of General Gar
field expect to receive substantial sup
psrt of this kind from the friends of Gen.
eral Grant it will he necessary to muzzle
such men as "BilI' Chandler and others
who are disposed to speak jeeringly OF
those who supported the ex-president in the
contest at Chicago; that in his cxpierence
the most liberal contributions of money
for campaign purposes have always been
received from those who supported Gen
eral Grant for the nomination.
The Woodside trouble in Pittsburgh ha:
developed into a case Of genuine ecclesias
tical humor. The Rev. Ncvin Woodside
formally tried, convicted and expelled from
the church by the properly constituted au
thority, may be found TRANQUILITY preaching
the gospel to his followers from Sabbath tt
Sabbath in the church editice, while TIN
body of the members, sustained by TIN
synod and declared to be the church, ART
hunting around for suitable hall to con
duct their services in. Were the Oak -alle.
institution Baptist church this woul'
not be so strange. But as an episode in tn
history of the " Covenanter'' organization
the body which prides itself on its stric
and stern discipline, and moralizes mucl
on the "looseness of the Baptist ant
Congregational plan, which makes eacl
congregation law unto itself, it is YER,
funny indeed.
Our esteemed Republican contemporary
the Pittsburgh Leader, is SO enthusiastic
in it's admiration of the public and privat
r virtues of Horatio Seymour that it will b
, disposed to regard the failure of his nomi
nation for the presidency at Cincinnati
5 next week as another evidence of the grea
Democratic party's "splendid capacity 70
making political ass of ITSELF" Tha
Mr.. Seymour would be nominated if Ii
could be prevailed upon to accept We d.