Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-27
MINOR TOPICS.

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down until sufficient fall is obtained
MINOR TOPICS.
In yesterdays cabinet mectin. Secye-
tary Evarts announced that the two trea-
ties negotiated with China had been
signed. They will be sept to the Senate
Immediately after it convencs.
YESTERDAY Arizona indulgcd in her first
legal execution Of a criminal. Perhaps it
was the timidity of inexpericncc that
caused her to select Il seventecn-ycar-old
boy to begin OH. She has plenty Of full
grown men who deserve attention as soon
as she gets her hand fairly accustomed to
the work.
ONE-uALF interest in the Columbus Daily
Times has been purchased by John G.
Thompson, and, upon tho expiration of his
term as sergeant-at-arms of the House Of
Representatives, lie will return there and
devote his entire attention to journalism.
The design is to make the Times the cen
tral organ of the Ohio Democracy.
THERE is 4 movement among the color
cd Republicans for more recognition than
they have had. Senator Bruce, who is now
an Ohio man, by the way, is presented as
4 suitable man for General Garfield to put
in his cabinet. General Garfield will prob
ably prefer that this matter be not too
mucE urged.
The Disciples, Western religious body
with which General Garfield is associated,
have taken preliminary steps, through the
board Of the General Christian missionary
society, to build new church in Wash
ington. AS the object is to be attained by
| contributions from the whole country, the
society has designated a man named Jo-
seph Smith, of Cincinnati, to receive the
subscriptions. General Garfielti's contri-
button is not stated. The Disciples hope
to lay the cornerstone about the first of
March.
CONGRESsMAN-ELECT SCRANTON comes
out in double-lcadcd editorial in his
Scranton Republican, which We elsewhere
reproduce, declaring in the most emphatic
terms for "Grow Against Hoyt'' for
| United States Senate. This will be lightly
interesting reading for some people, and
! it is just possible that it may vary the
monotony of the throat-cutting and all
that sort of thing in the Luzcrnc-Lacka-
wanna district, which heretofore has been
confined to the Democratic camp.
THE attempt Of Father Moore to break
up the Hibernian ball at Ware, Mass, OH
| Wednesday night makes a sensation in
the ncighborhood. The Hibernians will
probably bring suits against The priest,
who has been in Ware seventeen years.
He denounced the ball from the pulpit
last Sunday, and was promptly on hand in
All antc-room to warn people away. The
ball was made 4 failure and the society
lost money because of his action. lie says
their dances are immoral and he has to
oppose them from a sense of duty.
IF it is true, as reported, that the cmpc-
ror of GermeDy has directed that the ex-
pressions of the foreign press on the jew
ish question shall be submitted to him, he
is, in the judgment of the Philadelphia
Telegraph, pursuing the path of wisdom.
"If he carefully reads what the most in1u-
ential newspapers published in England
and the United States have to say with rc-
gard to the demand that the Jews shall
60, or at least shall stop making more
money than the Christian subjects of his
imperial majesty, he will be likely to pick
up heap of wisdom, and of a different
quality from that rendered him by the
court party who are understood to be at
the bottom of the anti-Jew movement
The proposed Passion play production in
New York excites the opposition even of
the Jews. Rev. F. de Sola NIendes, in
speaking at the Forty fourth street syna-
gogue, New York, on Religion out OF
Place." said that the Jew occupied pecu-
| liar position in reference to tho Passion
play. He has no interest in the matter cx-
cept as he regards the beliefs concerned as
a younger product of his own religion. If
he thought of the suffering which had been
inflicted on his race by those who hold
sacred the events which are to be displayed,
he might be Indifferent. But by long
and painful experience the Jew has become
philosopher. He knows that religion is
necessary to the safety of society, and that
all is endangered when sacred things are
made TO yield profit to a manager and