Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-17
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
PF1NGsT.
WHERE'S Sensenig? this fight.
n. G.-GATCHELL and Gantz
Who is this "Lemuel Brown %
WHEN the census enumeratOrs are ap-
pointed the "best workers in the wards"
will not be behind the door.
THE jury not having vindicated John B.
Dennis, he is not candidate for Legisla-
ture. 8.
IT was Pentecostal Monday but the poll
ticians ", ere mostly filled with bad spirits
to-day.
MAJOR GRIEsT denies that he is the
Cameron candidate for Congress. He is
certainly not the anti Cameron candidate.
When the votes are counted he will find it
just about as easy to fall between two
stools as to sit on neither.
1T costs Hog Ring lawyer $40 to call
the district attorney liar in open court !;
a drunken layman, of unknown political
antecedents, gets off with s.; Bull Ring
"worker'' gets off scot free. This is
dstributive' justice.
"THE conduct of a judge, like that Of
every other functionary, is legitimate
subject of scrutiny, and when the public
good is the aim, such scrutiny is as open
to any attorney Of his court as to any
| other citizen"
"REsPECT to courts cannot he COM
PEELED. 1t is the voluntary tribute Of the
public to worth and intelligence, and
while they are found on the judgment seat,
SO long, and no longer, will they retain the
| public confidence"
LOOK out for sunstrokes The Grant Or
gans are republishing Blaine's speech in
the Chicago convention in 1872 when he
declared that Grants administration gave
the country prosperity, peace and respect
| ability and was " model"
THE delegates to the Illinois Republican
state convention have now been chosen in
all but three small counties, which will
not materially change the result. The
Grant men claim more than 100 majority
over the combined Blaine and Washburne
forces, outside of Cook county, which
would give Grant clear majority with the
entire anti Grant delegation from Cook
county adYitted.
Or the newly-elected Methodist bishops
all wear white neckties, all crown them
selves with high silk hats, and all are of
modest bearing. Bishop Haven is the
smallest as well as the oldest of the four.
He is not more than five feet five inches in
height and weighs only 130 pounds. Bishop
Hurst wears small sandy goatee. Both
Bishop Warren and Bishop Foss are tall
and somewhat slim. There isn't a NOUS
tache in the whole party. DR.. Leonard
| "ulNy Sdlu Vic OGACI 4No Iutu
wearing moustache was ever elected a
bishop in the Methodist church,
II. J. RAMsDELL's Republic has met
with such marked encouragement from
the citizens of Washington during the past
ton months that it has been decided to add
to it's interest by considerable expendi'
ture of money. A new typographical
equipment throughout has been ordered,
which will make an increase in the reading
matter equal to six pages without impair.
ing the mechanical beauty of the paper,
but on the contrary will make it still more
attractive. The increased space will en-
able the editor to add many new features
and give place to an additional number o1
writer's. A full page political cartoon will
be furnished each week during the presi-
dental canvass. The Republic also takes
a new departure in frantically urging that
somebody nominate naval hero for presi
dent.