Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-07
MINOR TOPICS.

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MINOR TOPICS.
CITY house-cleaning has begun and will
continue until country cousins get tired of
waiting for a chance to return those long
visits of last summer.
The Houston Post estimates the cotton
crop of Texas for this year at one million
two hundred and fifty thousand bales, or
one-fourth of the entire crop of the United
States.
BEFORE Hayes left Washington he
promised Gen. Sherman that Gen. Nelson
A. Miles should be appointed to succeed
Gen. Myer, late chief of weather bureau.
This is good news for Howgate, who is
also candidate for the position.
GEN. WEAVER, the Grccnbackcr who is
alleged to be running for president, is
much more opposed to fusion with the
Democratic now than he was two years
ago, when Democratic fusion elected
him to Congress. In the opinion of the
Times, Gen. Weaver talks like man who
has been seen.
THAT 'sneaking visit of Mr.. Barnum to
Indiana is giving the Republicans a Won
derful amount of bother. They can't un
derstand why the chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee could have been
SO inconsidcrate as to omit leaving all out
line of his plan of campaign at Mr.Jewell's S
committee headquarters.
The most startling feature Of the story
that is being industriously circulated by
the organs Of the opposition, to the effect
that a "prOminent Democrat Of Massa-
chusetts has Cancelled all his engagements
to speak for Hancock because Butler has
come out for the old commander, is that
the organs unanimously refrain from men-
tioning the name Of the alleged p. d.
The Republican victory in Vermont to-
day will offset the Democratic sweep in
Arkasas yesterday, BY the way, has the
Young Mems Republican club heard the
glorious news that the Democratic
coalition in Pulaski countyin the last-namcd
state has bare chance of clectius its can
didate for sheriff? This. if true, will give
the g flower of the city, all opportunity OF
burning some more blue lights under their
brand new banner.
THE noble speech Of Hon. Lyman
Trumbull, that old-line Republican chief
tain of Illinois, who now bears aloft the
Hancock standard, will be found on our
first page to-day. Ittecms with historical
information that will be found of special
value to the Billy Wcavers and the Hay
Browns, and other poor, weak imitators of
tue fellows who think a bloody shirt cam
paign, supplemented of course 10y the
powerful argument of plenty of money, is
the one hope of salvation for the Radical
party in its present desperate straits.
THE ingenious Mr.. Hayes gave voice to
an important state secret in a speech
which he made at Cheyenne on Saturday.
1t appears that he determined upon a trip
across the continent eighteen months ago,
but the fear that somebody might disap-
prove of it worried him. Consequently,
"to draw the fire of criticism" he three
months ago advertised the fact that he
would make the trip. The result achieved
by this advertisement Mr.. Hayes evidently
regarded as important, for. as he delight
fully explained to the Cheyenners "not a
single newspaper or a single individual
uttered word of adverse criticism" In
fact, nobody appeared to care cents
worth whether Mr.. Hayes took a trip
across the continent or whether he stayed
at home, and this lack of care on the part
fthe nation seems to have greatly COM
forted the excellent Mr.. Hayes.
THE correspondence which We elsewhere
publish indicates very clearly that the
Democrats of Virginia are regaining their
senses and that the electoral vote Of the
Old Dominion is to he anchored beyond
peradventure for Hancock and English,
The letter addressed by the chairman of
the Funder wing of the party to General
Malone, the representative of the Read
juster faction, aud the latter's response.
point to an carly meeting that will result
in the selection of compromise ticket
that will secure the full Democratic vote
and score an old-timc majority for our
candidates. :" The name of Hancock has
proved talismanic in inaugurating the era
Of good feeling, and the anticipated gath
erins Of the contending wings of the Vir.
ginia Democrats gives promise of turning
into general love-fcast in which the re-
presentatives of faction will gladly bury
all past local differences in the common
desire to aid in the restoration of the gov
ernment to the constitutional principles in
which it was founded.
The Free Thinkers national convention
at Hornellsvillc, N. Y, adjourned yester-
day after session of five days. 1t was
considered the largest and most impmtant