Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-02
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
Gov. ST. JOHN, of Kansas, writes to
Pennsylvania that the prohibition law
of that state is grand success on the
whole, and with the exception Of few
large cities as generally enforced and
obeyed as other laws.
TIE Chinese ministers to this govern
ment, Chin Ian Pin and Iung Wing, are
to be Withdrawn by order Of their govern
ment. They will be succeeded by !. single
representative. This is in Difference to the
expression of other first-class powers, who
are recognized by only one minister from
China.
THE new fiscal year opens with All un
usually favorable exhibit, the reduction in
the public debt for the first month, end
ing yesterday, being over $40, 600, 600,
against 81, GOO, 900 for July, 1880. This
large excess of surplus revenue over that
Of July last year is attributed largely to a
reduction OF expenditures, as the agg1e-
gate receipts for last month are nearly
500, 600 below those for July, 1880.
LESS incredulous and more charitable
people even than tho New York Herald
cannot understand how the discovery of
! the electricians that "thc ball is lodged at
a point five inches below the navel and
three and a-lialf inches to the right Of the
median line" an inch and a.hali from
the surface, .'contirms in all respects tho
theory maintained by DR.. Bliss, that this
ball passed through tic liver, travcrscd
the abdominal cavity and lodged some
where in the abdominal wall.
Ir has been discovered that among re-
cent foreign fashions, smuggled into this
country without payment OF duty, is the
institution of !. chaperonc. Henceforth,
''the frank and free youny Yankee maid
| en- is to go into tie presence Of no man
| except her father and brothers, save with
her female companion. Already in New
| York young lady canuot ride with her
| engaged husband alone. Whoever would
tlke her to the theatre must buy three
tickets and have the chaperone by at
| every moment to supervise the c''nversa-
ton and department.
TRAVELLERS who have not read of the
Parliamentary act Of 1857. for London, re-
| quirius factories and other establishments
using steam power to consume their own
| smoke, look with wonder at the tall CHM
ney stacks in Glasgow from which smoke
is seldom seen to issue. The regulation
there is by local ordinance, however, and
it is made effective by rigid police en-
| forccment. The engineer who supplied
the factories with an iLea of how to live up
to it says he provided simply series Of
grooved furnace bars with openings ut the
rear SO rs to admit the air which had been
passed under the furnacc. The :.ir had
become slightly heated in this passage
and mingled with the fame and smoke in
| their course around the boilers. furnishing
enough oxygen to consume most Of tho
smoke before the circuit was made.
| RADICAL howlers and hcclers to the
contrary Notwithstanding, the colored man
must get some sort of a chance in the
South. For here is Henry Todd, of
Daricn, Ga, who by the kindly aid of
his old owners and his own quiet manner,
industry and uprightness has accumulated
slOO, 900, lives in neat country home,
surrounded by a family OF five children.
who enjoy the luxuries Of life. Every
summer they leave the coast and spend
the hot months 1T q house which they
own in ono of the cool mountain hooks of
North Georgia. Henry Todd has care
fully kept from active participation in
politics, though he has frequently been
solicited to be a candidate. He has con-
stantly voted tho Democratic ticket and
has always warned his cOlOred friends
against the carpet bagggers who have de-
ceived and swindled them in Georgia since
the war.
| LEO HARTMAN, the alleged Nihilist,
contributes eight columns to the Herald,
purporting to he an accurate and detailed
account of the attempted assassination of
the late car by means of the railroad
mine. Hartman was engaged in that das-
tardly enterprise and he relates the Cir
cumstances with too evident gusto. II
this individual be not fraud he will un-
dOubtedly render tho cause he advocates
more despicable and odious in the estima.
tion of men than it otherwise would have
been. The Nihilist may be picturesque
and romantic to II few :listcmpered E,ncics
while at distance, but close at hand he
stands revealed in all his responsiveness
lIartman's arrival is very inopportune.
A nations president lies stricken by the
hand of an assassin, and We view such
matters now in the light of recent exper
fence. We have no sympathy with crime
of this character, and Hartman, gloatine
over tho manglcd corse of Russia's sover
eigp, is nothing but a confessed murderer
of the most hideOus type.
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PERSONAL.
The wife Of ex-senator HOWE, ot Wiz
consn, died at the residence of her SON.
in-law, Colonel Enoch Totten, in Wash
ington.