Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-26
MINOR TOPICS.

mANoh iOf1No.
IL the division of the legislative spois
at Albany the tlumb-scrcw was relent-
lcSsly applied to all the anti Conkl;ng
kickcrs. While the arti-macline me n
were wholly ignored in the matter of ap-
pointmcnts and denied everything, the
Democrats were accorded some iavors IN
the way OF pages.
SUPERSTITION has for many years made
a stronghold of the year 1881, and has
peop'ed its passing months viii! all man
Ger Of hohgoblins and chimeras dire, so
that the feeling is widely spread that dis
astcr, death, and even the ena Of all things
earthly may be expected before the year
closes.
Up to the beginning of this month the
Rev. Todd's church, in the city of New
Haven, prOfessel in its manual to bel@ye
lii g the condemnation Of the wicked to
everlasting punishment. 1t has now dis
carded this formula, and leaves the future
fate of the wicked an open question. con-
tenting itself with protesting il belief that
the Lord will come to judge the world in
righteousness.
IN Il Montreal court one day last week
certain man appeared rs = witness for tie
defense i'll a suit brought by physician
against Il widow. His testimony was not
finished ut the time of the noon recess.
and during the brief interval the witness
ad the widow were married. Cpon his
return to the box his evidence was object
ed to by the Plaintiffs counsel, and the
objection was sustained by the court. The
whole Of his evidence was finally rejected
as illegal, the first part not having been
signed and completed before his mar
riage.
AN esteemed Philadelphia contemporary
thinks that the only one grand reason
why the people OF that city can want the
seat OF government there, is that. in such
case, better class Of members of the
Legislature might be obtained to repre-
sent them. Every few gentlemen of tai
eat and responsible position in Philalel-
phia are now willing to seek, or even to I,
accept unsought, official places, the re-
sponsibilities Of which will take them
away from their families, their Offices and |
their important priva tc business, profess
s!ona!, commercial and industrial, for the |
greater part Of the winter. II the Leg;s,a-
m Sof Il,
tanned as Legislators, because they would
have some hours every day to direct and
oversee their personal affairs, and vet be
able to perform their official dutieS.''
EDITOR DAVIS, of the Reformed Church
Messenger. has been badgered a good dea!
by complaints that he did no. publish
enough ''news" So he took up 4 secular
paper, commended to him for model of
journalistic enterprise, and prints the
following heads of articles published on
one page Of one issue Of it and he wants
to know. if this is what his religious read
srs want {:
"Lynchcd by a Mob.-A Murderer of ;
Two People Hanged - "A Wife Murder
IN Newark.-A Colored Man Clubs His I
Wife to Death and Then Sleeps Along side
;he Corpse = IAN Abscondinw Bank
'upt.--As s>igniny Hundred Thou .
;and Dollars to Ills Wife and Then {
Running Away 'Arresting Mer ,
Goods Under False {
tepresentatiMs-Wha Both Sides Have
% Say;'' "Killed While Coming from t
;hurcn - Finding Her Husband in a l
'lurderer's CeIl;'' ''Suifocated by the Gas t
+ Lime KIM "a Cousin of Secretary t
sherman Suspended - "Thinks He has
found Charlie Ross - GA SaIesman's
'uicide; 'Bartley Campbeli's Libel
'uit - ''Killed in COllision-A Wreck I
N North Carolina Railroad - Betting S
N a Dog Fight;'' "A Boilers Long t
cap "Suspension of a Mining Com :
any "Firc Among ComDustible II
'hings - ''Thc Fcrtilizing Company's n
'reditors - "a Southern Merchants h
uicidc y "An ex-County Commissioner n
,rrested; "Elevcn Dead Bodies n
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