Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-01

ment to Il continuance of the policy
which has been maintained in these COL
umnS.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE question is-at least it is one of the
questions" Is Leo Hartman Hartman ?''
If not, who is, and who is he ?
THE assaults upon Wendell Phillips's
Nihislism remind some of his admirers of
the assaults upon his Abolitionism.
A New YORK judge who fastens his
torn suspenders with shoe strings gives
away $40, 900 a year in charities.
" SUMNER is ended, and autumn is here,
Though tor the present we're not very tal
init;
Oysters arc back again,-awfully dear
Still they are back, for the month has an r
in it,"
The reader of manuscripts for Har-
per's Monthly peruses, on an average, fif-
teen contributinns day, and, on an aver
are, rejects twelve of them. In a single
twclvemonth the Harpers have rejected
the manuscripts of one thousand novels.
IT will be pretty difficult for some peo.
pie to believe the story which comes from
Michigan, that three young girls made up
a party and eloped with young man
that by going to three diHercnS ministers
he married all of them and then they all
went on bridal tour.
IT is claimed that toe many foreign
criminals are sent to this country. Tho
last arrival is that of the notorious Trips
who poured coal oil over his mistress and
burned her to death. He was pardoned in
one of tho German states and comes to
this country to spend his exile.
The people residing in tho vicinity of
New Haven postofice, in the county of
Adams, Wis, are laboring under a quite
unexampled embarrassment. The case is
probably without parallel in the history
of the United States. The postmaster,
Instead of being removed, has himself re-
moved elsewhere, and there is no candi-
date for the vacant place. The people are
without postmaster, aud nobody wants
to servo his country in that capacity.
Can such things be
And overcome us like asummer cloLd
Without our special wonder?
Aud yet Discover DeKeim finds half the
Berks county postmasters to be Democrats.
WHARTON BARKER's Philadelphia Amer
ican-now don't confound it with the
North. AmeTican-gives notice that the
battle in the Republican state convention
next week els not merely a question Of
who shall be treasurer, but by whom shall
PENNSYLVANIA be ruled-Don Cameron or
the people In other words, it is the old,
old fight rcnewed-the bosses against the
people-the government against the gov
erned-thc will of the elected by the peo.
pie, against the will of the people-dis-
honesty against honesty in politics-or,
briefly, of wrong against right" In tho
event of the nomination of Gen. Bailey
whose sole accommodation is that he was
one of the Grant Cameron "Old Guard"
at Chicago, the Democratic convention
will give tho American chance to help in
in the fight Of the people against the
bosses in November. On which side will
it be then?
TIE latest news from the English crops
is highly unfavorable. Several rains have
done great damage to the oat crops, be-
sides reducing the prospect of a good
yield from the other grains. AS conse-
quence, the yield will fall far below the
ninety per cent. which was counted on a
few weeks ago, and will force England to
draw heavily upon the other grain pro
ducing countries. At the same time, in
our country, the prolonged dry weather
has injured the wheat, and will reduce
the crop below the average yield per acre
to an extent which is not made up by the
increase in the acreage. We shall, there.
fore, have less to sell to England, but
whether We get better prices will depend
good deal upon the extent of the supply
which can be procured from Eastern Eu-
rope. 1t is reported that both Hungary
and Russia will see better yield than
usual.