Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-14
MINOR TOPICS.
MINOR TOPICS.
For persons of sedentary habits the
fashionable walking coat is too short.

fashionable walking coat Is 100 sholt.
EVERYBODY is out of town except the
chap who asks sis it warm enough for
you?''
THE new dance 1.-THE racket or racquet |
can easily lie learned. 1t is only necessary |
to visit the insane department of the aims |
house while ball is in progress.
"GARFIELD accepts - cry the Repub-
lican organs. Of course he accepts all
that is offered, including 5000 bribes and
Credit Mobiler stock.
THE elimination of Hayes career as
civil service reformer will occur when he
reaches the Pacific coast and takes tie
stump for Garfield.
THE New York Tribune of Feb. 26,
1873. called for James \. GartielG's cx-
pulsion from Congress. for bri'e-tahing.
Now it complains of Democratic news
papers for throwing mud ut its candidate
for president.
THE author of "A Fools Lrrand.
Judge Tourgee is going to visit several
states to speak for Garfield. Is his idea
to afford a palpable illustration of clear
story.
| THE Boston Herald thinks that the an
nOuncement that Senator Iamlin, OF
Maine, is not candidate for reelection,
may be looked upon as the venerable sena-
tors periodical joke, and that he may still
be included in the list of aspirants.
THE presidential election i'll Mexico
passed off with far less trouble than was
apprehended, only one attempt to start a
revolution having been made, and it in
stantly crushed with an iron hand. judy
ing by the returns in when the last news
left Mexico, Gen. Gonzales WAS sure of
election. Any attempt to prevent his
taking his seat will be put down without
delay, as Gonzales has taken the precau-
ton to keep the army on his side.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, the Ohio man who
was appointed First Controller of the treas
ury, hurrics to the front to say that the
story about his declining the Office is no
such thing. lie has too much regard for
the noble record made by the multitudin-
: Gus sons of Ohio in sacrificing themselves
in the service of their country to think OF
> marring the heroic evcnncss of that record
by single declination. Judge Lawrence
accepts the appointment as slight tribute
to the great state of Ohio.
THE ways of the Sultans c"lrt are pc
culiar in more respects than one. Nj
Maynard telegraphs the state department
that he has been waiting ten days in vai
for an audience with the Sultan i'll order
, to utter the usual formal farewell, anf
, wants to know what he shall do about it
5 Meanwhile the postmaster generals $ chair
, lately vacated hy Erring Brother Key to
the more substantial because more pcrma
T. ncnt position of district iudsesliip, j!
waiting for him.
RocmEFoHT goes back to Paris plantin!
the flag of an Intransiycnt y or irrrcon
cilable. lie was received in Paris by
crowd of the Kcarney kind, ''irreconcil
, able" as himself; and who upon occasion
would turn upon and butcher him withou
, mercy, just as they did their hostages an'
the archbishop of Paris. 1t is the fate o
such men to he the victims OF the atrociou
f doctrines they promuleate against lav
and order in society. Kcarney has had
y foretaste OF this, and Danton and Robes
s pierre are examples.
u IT is generally believed that the earl
:. withdrawal of the Tammany ticket il
Il New York is probable. a proposition t
{ claim representation on a joint eicct"r'
u ticket in the same ratio as representation
e had been demanded at Cincinnati was dis
j. cussed by the Tammany leaders b"
5 abandoned as impracticable. The prcScn
> conclusion is to support the electoral
j., ticket headed by Abram S. Hewitt. Th
Regular Democratic leaders say that wFe
= the Tammany electoral ticket is with
o drawn there will he no difficulty in effect
e ing a union upon candidates for Congres
e and Assembly.