Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-07

MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
DON CAMERON says just as sure as his
hair is red Gen. Grant win be nominated
for president. That will convey no assur-
ance Of Grants success to Mrs.
Cameron, nee Miss Sherman, for
we will bet she declares Don's hair is
auburn. This illustrates the way in which
Cameron works for Grant without alarm
ing and alternating the Sherman interest.
THE Wilmington Ecery Ecening thinks
that either the Office ought to be
abolished, or some duties should be as
signed to the vice president which would
lend dignity and importance to the place.
At present the Office is so distasteful that
it is almost impossible to secure a first
rate man to take a nomination for it, and
the constitutional provision for filling a
vacancy has become a sort of assurance
that second rate man shall occupy the
presidential Office. 1t is an expedient for
lending new terror to death.
FRED GRANT is reported as saying re-
Gently to a prominent Illinois Republican !:
my father says that there may come a
time in the history of the republic when it
may be to the vital interest of the people
of this country to nominate a president for
third term, and when precedents set by
Washington and Jefferson would stand in
the way of the common welfare. 1t there
fore becomes important to get that obstruc-
ton to the safety of the republic out of the
way. My father says he is in position to
make that trial and win that victory
against a public superstition about dam
gerous precedent"
OUR enterprising contemporary, the Har-
risburg Independent, takes another step
forward in presenting to it's readers an ad-
ditional column on each of its pages,
making it a thirty two instead of a twenty
eight column paper as formerly. With
this addition the Independent although a
penny paper, is four columns larger than
any other daily paper in Harrisburg, and
the success which it has achieved in its ed
itorial direction and business management
is fully attested by the hold which it has
secured on the favor of the people, which
it says is unprecedented in the history of
Harrisburg journalism.
BEEcnER's Christian Union thinks "the
poor pretence with which the court of
pardons endeavor to excuse their miscar-
riage of justice in Pennsylvania will only
deceive those who desire to be deceived.
Judge Pearson pronounced none too severe
sentence against Mr.. Kemble and his as
sociates in the crime of bribery, by SEN
fencing them to years imprisonment in
the penitentiary. There may be legal
question as to his right to impose such
sentence under the law but if the SEN
tence under the law was illegal the impris-
ened had his redress by an application for
a writ of ha6eas corpus and it was no
reason why he should have had pardon y
THE item of $50, 900 contained in the
consular and diplomatic bill for the enter
tainment of the king of Siam during his
proposed visit to the United States is not
much relished by the Democrats, and Re-
preventative Frost has prepared a resolu-
tion requesting the secretary of state to
furnish the House with copies Of circular
letters and other documents sent to General
mt 70 %o}o hiS fr,xy xyo1c I,p ,rv
his sojourn at foreign courts. The object
of this resolution is to ascertain if the visit
of the king of Siam is in any way a recip-
rocation of the magnificent entertainment
given to the ex-president during his visit
at the court of the Oriental potentate.
JOHN SHORT, who lived in little out
of-the-way place in Ohio, and who was not
exactly what his name implied, being six
feet six inches high, shot and killed him
self few days ago. John was peculiar
kind Of a man, one of the most singular of
his eccentricities being his avoidance and
even hatred of the female sex. 1t is un-
doubted tradition that when John was a
very small boy making mud pies with his
brother, he would fee at the sight of the
prettiest little girl, and this aversion grew
with his growth and strengthened with his
strength. He never spoke to woman or
girl if he could possibly avoid it. Added
to this interesting trait of character is the
fact that Mr.. Short was worth a million
and half. As no cause can be assigned
for his final act, it is to be presumed that
John became ashamed of his shabby treat
ment of the girls of his youth and the
women of his manhood, and took this
means of atoning for his misdeeds.
OUR esteemed contemporary, the New
Era applauds the action of Mr.. Hayes who
in sudden spasm of political virtue stay
ed his hand as he was about to approve
the deficiency bill, rider and all, and
write, instead veto message running over
with most elevated political sentiment, and
still saying nothing about the principle of
the rider, merely objecting to riders as
riders. The Era thinks that this cour-
ageous action on the part of Mr.. Hayes must
convince the Brigadiers that the fraudu-
lent president hasn't changed front on the
lofty principle that forbade his signature
of the appropriation bills during the extra
session. The Era shuts its eyes to the
fact that the very messenger who brought