Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-17
MINOR TOPICS.

The Canadian weather prophet, Vennor,
is again troubling the public car with his
representations of squally weather. He
predicts a snow storm on the 22d Of De-
cember which will continue for seventeen
hours and cover the ground to the depth
of 111 feet.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel prints the names
and address of $3.50 male persons which,
it claims, were not returned by the CEN
sus enumerators. Most of them are be-
licvcd to be voters, and it is claimed that,
according to the usual ratio, it would bring
the population of Milwaukee up to $50, 600.
EXIT Malone. He asserted his ability
aud purpose to elect his Hancock electoral
ticket, but the regular or debt-paying
Hancock ticket received 96, GAO; the Gar
field ticket received 80, 75S, and the Ma
hone Hancock ticket received only 81, PAS,
or about one sixth of the vote Of Virginia.
GENERAL SHERMAN, in his annual re-
port to the secretary Of war, refers to the
race prejudice at West Point, holding that
the practice Of equality there is i'll advance
| Of the rest Of the country. lie believes
| that General Scoiicld is abundantly able
to manage the institution" and that the
authorities generally live up to the rule OF
impartiality in governing the academy.
In alctter recently published i'll the Her.
| all there was a curious conversation be.
tween Lii Hung Chang, the viceroy Of the
Chinese empire, and its correspondent in
reference to American affairs. The vice.
roy expressed deep interest in the prcsi
dental election. lie was anxious to have
General Grant elected, and when lc Wa:
told that there was not much probabiltt,
of that event taking place, especially AZ
General Grant was not in nomination, III
offered to send orders over to America fO
every Chinaman to vote for Grant.
| "FoR President in 1954-Gcneral Win
field S. Hancock''-is the ensign the IIol
lidaysburs Standard has nailed to its mast
head. "The Democratic party" it says
"ncvcr went into battle under I. bette
leader than Gen. Hancock. Pure in cllarac
ter and life, soldier without reproach, ;
citizen without stain, his defeat in th
campaign just closed was a national calam
ity which will become more and more ap
parent as the administration of Gariitl'
develops itself. Believing now that W
voice the sentiment of the mass of the dc
mOcracy of this county as we'll as OF tn
country, VIC move from the field which wa
lost by trcaclcry, and under the banner
of Hancock begin the conflict for goo'
government which we believe will CIT
with the election of Hancock in 1884,"
In his open letter to Garti cid, warnin;
him not to play into the hands Of Grant
friends Don Piatt uses the following re
malkablc language:
cit was your committee that invcsti
gated that national shame called 'Blacl
Friday wherein Fisk, Gould and Gran
sought through the use Of the national treas
ury to enrich themselves at the expense q
thousands Of honest men. 1t is not III
purpose to recall the details Of that infamy
The chief criminal was tracked to tn
threshold of the executive mansion, an
; your committee passed a resolution callin
upon the president to appear before tn
committee and defend himself from til
damnins proof that made him the chic
) conspiratOr. The night of the day tina
the resolution was passed you called will
it upon the president. 1t was after mid
night before you left the White House
amazed and sick at heart, and at your sug
gcstion that very day the resolution wa
!; revoked. need not say that you and
know why that resolution was SO suddcnl
abandoned. The fact that under the cil
cumstanccs it was revoked tells the who!
story. The very Democrats Of the com
: mittcc shrunk from the threatened OK
posurc."