Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-22
MINOR TOPICS.

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MINOR TOPICS.
THE New York Democratic state COM
mittee appointed committee Of five to
protect the right of franchise of all legally
naturalized citizens and resist and expose
interference of federal officers in such con-
stitutional ri.cts.
HARrER's Weekly has made the
astounding discovery that "thc Re
publican party was the party Of
the principles which General Hancock
announced in his Louisiana order. lie WAS
relieved at his own request. not because
he enforced those principles, but because
he was believed from his conduct not to
be in sincere sympathy with them"
ALFRED CAHLIN went to Australia in its
early days, engaged in stock breeding. be-
came masnate at Wagga Wags. and re-
Gently died a bachelor leaving four million
dollars. Now it is found that his sole heir
| is his nephew. young VIM. J. Carlin. of
Philadelphia. who is about t" prove prop
erty and take possession" Young man.
60 West. and don't stop until you get to
! Australia.
DID Secretary Schurz say anything SO
| stupid rs that if the presidency was. like
| a sword or fine horse, to be 4 gift to victO-
| rious soldiers. General Sherman and Lieut..
| General Sheridan had better claims to the
Office than Hancock, who is only Major
General Mr.. Schurz, who is himself for
| eign born, ought to know that he has
about as much chance OF becoming presi-
dent as Lieutenant General Sheridan, who
| is a native of Ireland.
ONEP 4. Morton, of Wisconsin, having
| announced his intention to vote for Gar
field because Hancock was a rebel, some
| of the Republican papers are claiming
| Morton under a different name, day after
day, as a gain. One enterprisins Radical
contemporary has already announced the
following converts in Wisconsin !: p. 4.
Morton, A. p. Morton, NJ. \. P. Orton,
P. 4. Morton and \. NJ. Portion. 1t is
tho same man everytime.
JAY GOULD has more franknesS than his
editor of the Tribune, as he is reported to
have freely expressed the opinion that
Hancock and English will he elected that
Arthur loads down the Republican ticket,
and, aside from that, the Democrats are
thoroughly united on Hancock and Eng
lisll. 81 have no hope of carrying New
York. and l believe that rs goes New
York so will also 60 New Jersey at least,
and Connecticut probably" Mr.. Gould
also ventured the remark that the Repub-
lican ''machinc' had already practically
abandoned the presidential fight and
would concentrate its efforts upon carrying
the various state legislatures, with the
obvious purpose of controlling the United
States Senate.
THE TituSvilIc World is authority for a
startling exposure of the moral turpitude
of the Prohibition candidate for president.
1t has learned that Mr.. Neal Dow was
through that country, during the flush
days of Oildom, and organized a stock
company, called the Temperance Petroleum
Bonanza association, with a capital stock of
seven million dollars and seventy five cents,
After getting all the capital in his pocket,
excepting the seventy-tive cents, he kissed
his fingers to the Oil Region and opened \
saloon in Guernsey township. Two days
after the formal opening of his dive, he
Sent boy back after the seventy-tive cents.
1t is needless to state that the plucked and
plundcred stockholders roasted the young
man alive. The same veracious journal
has asccrtaincd that the Greenbackers
have made grave mistake in nominating
their man Weaver for the presidency.
General Weaver. We all remember,
passed through here in 1865 and gathered
a bottle of crude petroleum from the sur
face of Oil Creek. This he took to mon
astry in Michigan, and representing him
self as a holy friar, sold it to the Sisters of
Mercy for hair oil.''