Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-08
MINOR TOPICS.

The Harrisburg Patriot is very apprc-
hensive lest the reports of Democratic re-
union in New York should prove true.
PERHAPS it wasn't intended for joke,
but the lower branch OF the Louisville
councils have a committee on graveyards
composed of doctors.
THERE is a good deal in a name. Stephen
Longfellow, nephew of the poet, Henry
w. Longfellow, was held for trial in Bos-
ton, yesterday, on the charge of forging
his uncle's name to check for $1,000.
THE House committee Oh invalid pen
sions have unanimously agreed upon Il
bill, which provides for granting pension
to each surviving soldier and sailor of the
Mexican. Florida, Greek and Black Hawk
wars, at the rate Of eight dollars per
month.
SIR FRANCIS HINCKs, in a letter on the
subject of annexation, published in the
Montreal! papers yesterday, says. Il am
firmly persuaded in my own mind that the
necessary result of any change from our
present system would result inannexation,
and am equally persuaded that it could
only be accomplished after civil war
a RESOLUTION relating to the Ute vic
Tins has been referred to the committee
on Indian affairs. 1t authorizes the secrc-
tary of the interior to pay out of the Ute
Indian annuity fund to Mrs. n. {. Mccker
the sum of $1,000; to the heirs Of Frank
Dresser, $1,000; to the widow and children
of William II. Post, O,000; to Mamie J.
Elliot, 5000, for injuries suffered.
THE Tribune is entering quite ZealouSly,
now, into the so-called anti-Grant move
ment. The Tribune, it is understood,
favors Senator ConklinS us its first choice
next Mr.. Blaine next, ''anybody to beat
Grant Some of the other Republican
journals, that maintain Il iynX-cye Of vigi-
lance as to all such lcanings. note these
TitJune symptoms and Of them, the Cona-
mercidl characteriZeS it as but ''giaSpin| at
straws."
WATCH carefully any legal proceedings
you may be interested i'll about the Goth of
February. The 2Sth and 29th are legally
only one day. The supreme court of
Indiana ruled 50 in in 1876, saying: 1T
has been held by this court that the
English statu.c-21 Henry Ills in force
in this state. This statute, speaking of
the Goth of February, in leap year, pro-
vidcs Comp"titur dies Hle ct dies prortme
qao uaico de-. (And that day, as we'll
as the day next preceding, shall be
computed rs one day."
THERE was considerable Indignation
among the District of Columbia RcpubIi-
cans over the nomination of Mr.. Anger,
the present chief clerk to the third assist
ant postmaster general, to the postmaster
ship of Washington. Mr.. Anger is a
citizen of Michigan, and proprietor of a
newspaper there. The feeling is that Mr..
Hayes should have appointed a citizen OF
the District and one identified with it's in
tercsts, and not have selected man who
holds residence elsewhere.
Ex-PREsIDENT PRADO, of Peru, who is
just now in New York, says he did not
learn until his arrival in New York that
his countrymen at home had dcposed him,
and that the story of his ''Aight'' from
there is preposterous. There was no flight
about It, he AYERS. lie is entrusted with
a delicate European mission (rcating, ii
is supposed, to the purchase of iron clads),
and it was judged prudent that he should
| leave as unostcntatiOusly as possible.
Moreover, he is on friendly terms with
General Pierola, and he Prado), is cogni-
zant of nothing in his relations with that
parsonage which would make it unpleas-
ant for him to return to Peru ut this time,
even, if it were necessary.