Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-04
MINOR TOPICS.

IT is a curious coincidence that Admiral
Ammen should receive dispas Oh announc-
ing the formal confirmation Of his canal
cession in Nicaragua on the very day that
General Grants presidential chances were
quashed.
THE Yankee horn follows the sun. 4
leading hotel in Dundee, Scotland, is fur
nished throughout with furniture made in
Grand Rapids, Mich. British farmers in
view of American competition, must to
great extent abandon the production of
wheat and cheese in favor of more perish
able products.
One of Grants friends says of Wash
burne: "He ran away from Paris and
was ordered back, peremptorily by Presi-
dent Grant. have seen the official CORES
pondence. Suppose that correspondence g
should be published in the event of his
nomination, what effect would it have
among the Germans-and it is to crafty
them that the friends of Washburne cla-
NOR for his nomination. Why, my God I!
all the credit that Washburne has for his
conduct during the Franco-Prussian war
belongs more to Grant than to him. He
never made record in craftsmanship
AMONG the first signs of a Liberal victory
in England are the temperance in Parlia-
ment of the deceased-wife' s-sisters bill and
the extension of the burials act If there
are two objects on which the Liberal Eng
lishman has set his heart they are the
privilege of marrying his deceased wife's
sister and of being buried in any grave
yard he chooses; and if there are two time
honored British institutions which the
House of Lords is determined to uphold,
they are those which keep the dead dis
senter out of the graveyard Of the cstab-
lished church, and forbid the living dissen-
ter, or anybody else, from marrying his
"widow's sister,
ALMOST every Southern senator holds
his seat at the sacrifice of his peace of
mind, and if he were to die would leave his
family scantily cared for. Mr. Lamar is a
poor man in the literal sense of the word.
Mr.. Ransom is quite rs poor. Senator
Hrmpton is hardly able to maintain him
self, and General Butler is hardly SO easy
as Hampton Senator Garland has little
else but his salary, and Vance, Harris and
Morgan are in the same fix. Senators Da-
Wis, of West Virginia, and Beck, OF KEN
tucky, are the only Southern senators
who may be called independent in circum
stances. The Northern senators, on the
contrary, are rich almost without excep-
ton.
ERIE Dispatch Rep " Protests arc going
up from different parts of the state against
the means used by Secretary Quay to ad
vance his political interests. 1t is claimed
that clerks employed in his office are send
ing out letters by the thousand in favor of
certain candidates for the Legislature.
While it is natural that he should prefer
the election of his friends to those for Mr..
Grow, and perfectly proper for him to seek
by legitimate means to fill the Legislature
with those who will give him their votes
for United States senator, it may we'll be
questioned whether the use of clerks in the
employ of the state to accomplish this re-
suit is a proper proceeding. 1t is the popu.
lar impression that these officials were not
appointed for such service, and that the
machine had better be run without their
assistance"