Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-23

criminal law, winch reaches Tor MIN 10
punish him for arson and attempted
fraud. Of such is the average Republican
outrage" Next :?
MINOR TOPICS.
A NATIONAL synagogue in Washington
is being talked about.
The Tunkers, or German Baptists, have
1878 ministers. OF these 800 are in Penn
sylvania, s48 in Indiana, 227 in Ohio, 142
in Illinois and 1873 in Iowa. The demon
ination is represented in 20 states.
COLONEL HIGGINsoN, though great
champion Of woman suffrage, declares in a
recent article in the Woman's Journal that
the failure of female suffrage to make
headway is chiefly duo to the Indifference
of the women themselves.
THE Jews in Paris are supposed to num-
Der upwards Of $1,000. They have four
largo synagogues and six oratOries !; one
chief rabbi of the Central Consistory, four
rabbis, seven officiating ministers, and
three other rabbis for funerals and hos.
pital services.
A HEBREW citizen of Indianapolis, Ind.
sent an elaborate basket of flowers to the
Second Presbyterian church in that city
last Sunday, bearing card declaring that
it was "a token of respect for the liberal
sentiment that characterized the discourse
delivered by the Rev. William A. Bartlett
upon the Jewish question on previous
day."
A CORRESPONDENT who is of an ell.
quiring turn of mind has been reading the
verdicts of tho coroner's inquests and til c
delightful variety with which the verdicts
of heart disease and " apoplexy" are
rendered; and our correspondent finds
! in this prompt settlement Of difficult
medical problems y high tribute to the
professional skill Of the coroner and his
| experts. Sic.
In Lowesdale, N. j., Charles McAllister
bequeathed 81, 600 towards founding a
Presbyterian church as soon as respect
able number Of communicates could he
got together to form a church. Seventeen
Presbyteriaus organized and asked for the
money. The executors refused on the
ground that seventeen was not respect
able number. The. parties went to law,
| and the court has just decided that seven
teen is a respectable number, and ordered
the executors to pay.
The Lancaster Inquirer invcnts lie
about the INTELL1GENCER and further
illustrates "Peter Funkism in it's vilest
FORM" by feeble effort to explain how
the Mquirer's editor took candidates S.
for his advertisement and never inserted it
all. Now that the campaign is nearly
over and the breach of contract exposed,
the Inquirer generously Offers that ''if he
is not satisfied he has only to ask the re-
turn of his money which will be chcerfully
DONE" OF course this candidate is not on
Peter Funk's particular set-up.
MIR. EDWIN COwLEs, of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Leader, is the victim of singular
infirmity of hearing. lie says it partakes
somewhat of the nature of color blindness
as that affects the eye, he being unable to
hear certain sounds at all. For example,
he has never heard the sound of birds
song in his life. A whole room full of
canaries might be in full song and yet lie
could not hear mute, but the rustling of
their wings would be distinctly heard by
him. He can hear all the vowels, but
there are many consonant sounds which
he has never heard. He can hear a man
whisper, but could not hear him whistle.
The upper notes Of piano, violin, or
other musical instrument he never hears,
but the lower notes he hears without diff
Guilty.
PERSONAL.
Bishop kERFOOT, of the diocese of
Western Pennsylvania, is seriously broken
down in health by protracted overwork.
and it is feared, will he compelled to re-