Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-16

SlOeratlOnS Of.SenaCOrlal courtesy SNOuW
prevail to prevent the packing of the SILL
preme court.
MINOR TOPICS.
Mr.. HAYES will appoint one Republi-
can census supervisor in each Southern
state.
The exodus of negroes to the North
from eastern Mississippi has been over
/ 200 during the past three weeks.
THE library of the late Mr.. David Laing
of Edinburgh, has been sold in London.
The sale lasted eleven days, and the total
amount realized was $4,000.
WE repeat the question: " Why has the
Hog Ring stopped its clamor for primary
election to choose delegates to the republi-
can state convention ~ Is it sell out ?
GERMAN journals unanimously ascribe
the changes in the French Ministry of War
\ to the direct influence of Gambetta, who
has for some time been studying the
| science of war.
THE capitol of Albany, New York, has
cost thus far $40, OOO, 600, and it is all un-
finished condition. The controller, in his
| report, says it will cost millions more.
| The original estimate of cost was 81 5O0,-
600.
UPON representations made by the Bee
keepers association, the postoffice depart
| ment has decided to allow queen bees to
be "carricd in the mails with their neces-
sary attendants, as long as no person is
injured in handling Them
| HAYES yesterday sent to the Senate
nominations for the vacant missions at
London and St. Petersburg, but the mes
did not reach the capitol until after the
Senate adjourned, and the nominations
we're taken back. The names of the persons
nominated cannot be ascertained, as the
Senate has adjourned until Monday.
| A PHILADELPHIA exchange, in anticipa-
tion of the February elections, says what
is true of this locality rs well The
people of each ward have their own ticket
to elect and every voter who chooses to do
SO can have personal knowledge of the
men who are offered for his choice. The
merits of every candidate should be known
to his neighbors and can easily bc known.
If in any of the wards men have been nom-
mated whose past records are bad or even
doubtful, the February election is the
time for leaving them at home, and the
responsibility rests solely with the people
of each locality
WHEN incoming Governor Cornell bowed
out retiring Governor Robinson there was
a very pleasant interchange of cordialities,
and Mr.. Cornell frankly said that his re.
firing predecessor had fearlessly exercised
his prerogative. and had given his admins.
tratiOn high rank with those that had pre-.
ceded it, and he asked to congratulate
him upon the honorable record, and cor.
daily to wish him continued health and
prosperity. The tone was becoming, and
the assertion was perfectly true. The pity
of it s.that the campaign for Cornell was
conducted Oh such a widely different prin.
ciple, when the Republicans attributed
everything that is evil to Robinson's admin
istration. Which leads Harper's Weekly
to deplOrc that during a canvass it seems
to be thought necessary to stiSmatize all
opponents as conspirators and criminals
from whom it is indispensable that the
state should be saved if liberty is to sur
vtve. Blackguardism is called vigor, and
lying passes for cleverness and when all
is over, and the hyenas have been defeated
and victory perches upon the banner of
the tigers, the course of affairs proceeds as
before, and the loudest of the orators
would wink if you congratulated him upon
the escape of the state and the country
from the awful peril that he declared to be
so imminent.