Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
MINOR TOPICS.

city IS eSClmat0Q 10 De S0V,UUV. VI GnlS
number $1,000 are Protestants, $4,000
Catholics, 10000 Jews, and $4,000 are
classed as Indifferent, infdels, etc. The
number of Protestant communicates are
5000.
VICTOR HUGO has a whim Of always talk
ing about his age. On the literary"
evening, when he is about to read to his
guests some unpublished fragment, he
never sits down to his table covered with
lamps and books without previously draw
ing large pair of spectacles from his pock-
ct. This always calls out series of excla-
nations from those about him, on which
the poet never fails to say " But I am 900
years of age, children-an old man.
Gam l tired of lifee'' said cheerful
old man the other day, in reply to the
question mot a bit of it. remember
landing in this town with chip hat and a
hickory shirt and a pair of breeches. I've
been way up and I've been fiat on my
back, yet I'd like to begin and 60 it all
over again. chip hat, shirt. breeches and
all. Why? Well, you see, when you
come to the end you don't know what's
beyond. I'm dead sure on this other
thing; and on the whole this world just
tickles me to DEATH"
The Protestant Standard says: "The
march of progress, the mighty achieve
ments Of science, the inventive genius of
man, the annihilation of time and space,
and the facilities of gathering intelligence
from the four quarters of the globs, and
spreading it out before us every morning,
are calculated to engage too much attention
and to prevent the proper study of the
Bible. But we cannot neglect this duty
with impunity. The neglect will soon be
apparent in our lives.''
The county of Rockbridge, Va, is agi-
tated by discussion of the morality of
dancing. The local pulpit has taken up
the question and a prominent clergyman
OF Lexington last Sunday took for the sub
ject of his discourse Herod's rash promise
to the dancing ninny," who demanded
the head of John the Baptist, and one de-
claimer against the practice of the art
Terpsichorean designated the modern
dance by the title of "hugging set to
music" Some of the staid old gentle
men who haven't shuffled foot " for 10 !!
these many years, have taken the side of
the eight fantastic" The regulars, as
stated by local journal whose sympathies
are evidently with the anti-dancing party,
are armed to the teeth and the fur flies
| on all Sides"
The Episcopal Register says: ''Clergy-
men who possess great powers of feloquence
in this country are generally appreciated,
and we'll rewarded for the entertainment
which they afford to congregation, and
to the public, attracts large audiences and
aids in building up churches; but in some
cases eloquence is paid for at too great a
price. The laches and peccadillos of the
popular clergyman are to apt to be over
looked by those who find pleasure in his
elegant discourses. Preaching is but a
| part of the work of faithful minister, and
although it is desirable that it should be
done by persons who have cultivated the
art of oratory, it should be kept in mind
that its object is not primarily to afford
pleasure, but to lead the erring from the
error of their way, and to make known the
truth and promises of the Gospel"
The Lutheran Observer says: ''The
man who should supply his family with
poisonous food or infected clothing would
be regarded as monster of iniquity, and
would be amenable to the civil law for
punishment but the parent who brings
or allows demoralizing newspaper to be
brought into his family commits a far
greater offence against their welfare and
or destroy the health or life of the body !;
in the other, he poisons the mind and
pollutes and ruins the soul. And this is
the sin-the shameful sin-of which multi
tudes of professed Christians are guilty at
the present. They have SO corrupted their
own minds by reading vile and sensational
papers, and they are so thoughtless, reck-
less and demoralized, that they furnish or
allow their own children the same facili-
ties of corruption which have debased
themselves. This is one of the chief
sources of vice and crime among the young
in our land, and the most disheartening
fact of all is that parents themselves are
often and in great measure the cause of it,
either through their direct agency or their
passive neglect to prevent it. -
YORK COUNTY IN ARMS.
A Revolt Against Cameron Rule.