Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-08

| IacheS 10 Cnc railroad employees. This
omission may yet he corrected before the
annual pass expires.
The California Methodist Episcopal
conference has denounced the facility with
which divorces are granted in that state,
and has resolved that its ministers will not
celebrate marriages for persons who have
been divOrc ed for other than Scriptural
reason, and in any case will marry none
but the innocent parties to tho transac-
tons.
| TWELVE Presbyterian churches in the
United States return 1000 members and
over, and fifty-six churches more than 500
members. DR.. Cuyler's and DIR. Talmage's
churches in Brooklyn lead the list. Among
American cities the most Presbyterians
are in Philadelphia, &c, BAG; Eext in New
York, Is, 155 then in Brooklyn, II. 159.
Chicago follows with G,241, and is the last
| city that has more than 5000 Presdyter-
ians. The cities following it are, in order,
Newark, N. J. Cincinnati, San Francis
co, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Cleveland and
Baltimore.
lF it were fair to hold one event in the
course of current happenings responsible
for indirect results, it would be easy to
show that numerous fatalities have ensued
from Guiteau's dastardly shot, The first
Was the death of President Garfield, the
next gentleman at Camden, N. j., who
dropped dead on hearing that the prcsi
dent had finally succumbed to the wound.
Seven men were killed by the funeral p, ess
train, and Knight Templar was killed at
Cleveland. Several fatal injuries were re
ceived while firing salutes on the day of
the Obsequies and the wife Of one of the
men killed by the press train fell dead
on hearing of her husbands fate.
WE print to-day the first of Il series of
four highly interesting sermons by Rev. J.
Max Hark, the popular and intelligent
Moravian pastor of this city, and will fol-
low it with the others Of the course. His
theme is an interesting ono to all church
people. He aims to point out the resem-
blance and sympathy of Lis church With
other denominations. 1t is useful and a
pleasing task, and Mr.. Hark devotes him.
self to it with a singular aptitude for the
work. The "Unitas Fratrum' has lonk
held peculiar and signally worthy place
among the Christian churches of the
world. 1t can be contemplated with un-
ceasing profit in its churchly and historical
relations.
IT is only fair to the local court-to
which the INTELLIGENCER tries to be al
ways fair-that ample correction be made
Of the current impression created by the
newspaper report that "all the Lancaster
county cases decided at Pittsburgh were
reversed by the supreme court.' The fact
is that only two of the twenty four cases
taken up from this county were hell over
for decision at Pittsburgh. That these
two were reversed was not striking, nor
unexpected, considering that the court held
them so long under consideration. OF the
twenty-fOur cases taken to the supreme
court from Lancaster county, Just half
were reversed. Thirteen of them bad been
decided by Judge Patterson and he suffered
five reversals eleven had been decided by
Judge Livingston and his reversals were
seven in number. 1t is we'll to be exact.
especially in dealing with justice and it's ad-