Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-14
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them and massacre them in cold blood.

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them and massacre them in cold blood.
A CONSIDERABLE quantity of ''talk'
by Grant, to Chicago reporter on poll
tics, is telegraphed over the country by
the associated press..agent's favor, not by
reason of any worth it has. He repeats
his sympathy with Conkling, his claim
that he elected Garfield, his denial of the
Mentor treaty, and his plea for senatorial
courtesy he attributes it all to Blaine,
and ~renews his complaint about the
Cramer and Badeau charges aud the
Fish removal. There is nothing new,
nor strange, nor interesting in all this.
The opinion of few individual citizens
is worth less than Grants. He is po-
litical tramp-a veritable Micawber.
MINOR TOPICS.
Boston is to have Herdic cabs. We
knew the Pennsylvania Yankees would be
teaching the Yankees of Boston thing or
two before long.
THE Western city councils cannot SO
far forego their patriotism as to Danish the
patriotic and insidious fire cracker on the
glorious Fourth.
THE deadly sparrow having paid no
heed to imperial DEGREES of banishment
from Vienna is now hunted through the
rOyal marks by chasseurs with air guns,
AN esteemed contemporary which re-
marks upon the quick journalistic compe-
tition for the liars jack-knife in the Mil
lersville business is too modest to say that
the esteemed contemporary local reporter
quite outran the regular correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press.
IT wasn't the types, nor yet the "intel-
ligent compositor," nor the ''erudite proof
reader" but the "stupid editor" who
said that alumni day at the college would
be Thursday and baccalaureate day on
Wednesday. On the contrary just the re-
verse.
l
charity remarks that ''when it is rcmcm-
bered that members of the New York Leg
islature have brought rs much as fifty
thousand dollars, it is not much wonder r
that the story about buying one for two
thousand should be received with sus-
picion."
A FUGITIVE F. A. BLE-Into tho moon
lit Ice Cream Gardens of ancient Athens
once stumbled an Ass and began to rccitc
what he called Lunar Ode. The Guests
seated around fled in Terror, ere he had
| finished two Lines of his Solo. On the
next Evening the Nightingale sang its
Song to the Moon, and everybody listened
in Rapture. But the Ass, not discounted
by the Comparison, boastfully said: 81
sang that same Song before"
IT seems that the attempt to naturalizc
camels in Texas and New Mexico was not
after all an utter failure. The camols used
for carrying freight across the California
desert did not, for some reason, prove
profitable, and they were turned loose on
the Gila and Salt river bottoms. There
they lived and bred, until now, it is said,
they roam the lower Gila plains in large
numbers, giving the Louisiana Citizen
ground for the belief that they " will con-
tinue to increase in numbers, until a drove
of wild camels will become as common OH
the Western plains Of Arizona rs buffalo
now are on the plains east of the Rocky
mountains"
The stalwart Inter Ocean has discovered
that in 1912 President John Tyler, Secrc-
tary of State Daniel Webster and Senator
Henry Clay occupied relations similar to
those existing between President Garfield,
Secretary Blaine and Senator Conkling.
There was tho same rivalry, the same dis
trust and similar discussions, caused by
the nominations Of Clay's personal enemies
to Office. Stuns by what he considered
ingratitude, rather than submit t" what
he considered insult to himself and his
devoted friends, Clay resigned his scat in
the Senate in disgust, and was nominated
for president in 1S44-but was terribly de-
feated by that man Polk"
| PERSONAL.