Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-26
MINOR TOPICS.

AMONG the postoffices recently estab-
lished were "Baby Mine, " "Blow Horn''
"No Go, ~ 6: Buss" and Necessity
Mr.. HAYES will not take the stump for
Garfield on the Pacific slope. Garfield's
friends out there say that it would do
more harm than good. The report created
the greatest CONSERVATION among them.
RICHARD HENRY DANA, in Sketch OF
American Diplomacy" in the Midsummer
Scri1ner, speaking of Franklin says 'But
whatever else failed. Franklin triumphed.
His reputation as philosopher put him
very high in France, and his dress and
manners made him a great favorite with
those ladies of the court who were wearied
with stars and ribbons, with pomatum and
perfume. Besides his reception among
men of letters, think of that hour when,
amid the court beauties, the most beauti-
full out of three hundred was selected to
place crown of laurels Oh his head, and
to implant two kisses on his cheeks J"
THE Democratic national committee has
appointed two committees-One to have
charge of the distribution of documents
and newspaper and the other to arrange
for speakers. On the former committee are
Senator William A. Wallace, Of Pennsyl.
vania, the chairman of the national con-
gressional committee; Orestes Cleveland,
of New Jersey, and Bradley b. Smalley, of
Vermont. The committee on speakers
consists of Abram S. Hewitt, of New York
William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland, o
the congressional committee, B. NJ. Boyer
of Pennsylvania. General Duncan S
Walker, of Washington, d. c., was made
secretary of the committee.
In the meeting of the New Jersey STATE
dental society the damaging and some
times fatal results attending the use o.
anesthetics in unskillful hands were dis
cussed. 1t was urged that in view of th'
injury done the profession, as we'll as it,
, patrons, all reputable dentists should us<
, their best efforts to discourage the use o
anasthetics except where it cannot b'
avoided, and then when used its admins
3 tration should in all cases be preceded b!
: careful examination of the subject t.
I whom it is proposed to administer it. Th'
, point was suggested that the person pro
posing an anasthetic should not in al
e cases be relied upon, and that therefor
4 every dentist should understand enough o
| the physicians trade to decide upon tin
propriety of its administration.
! AT a meeting of the Washington Cit,
, Republican club, Mr.. Syphcr, ex-membe
of Congress from Louisiana, made lOn.
d speech, in which he criticised Grant, du,
up the bloody shirt, called Garfield as veal
q as water, and said that the Republical
party had dropped out. He read Whitela,
o Reid out of the party, and said "Mura
y Halstead was the greatest and most col
rupt political Isl,maelite in the country,
and that he had told him SO and remarked
: that Joe Medill came down to visit him II
0 Louisiana, and then, going back to st
e Louis, made the most beastly attack on tn
e South possible. Hayes, he said, was merel
/ the supe in the great fight Of 1876; tina
e heOnly came on the stage to turn tn
: light out and lower the curtain.
WE are in receipt of the initial numbe
of the Hancock Campaign Banner, pub
lished at Carlisle, Pa, and designed to q,
8 the present aggressive Democratic canvas
: of this state. Cumberland county is
e Gibraltar of Democracy, and the sturdy pc
: litical principles of the people of that re
e gion are reflected in every line of the Ban
{ ner, which is brimful of information con