Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-27

column, double-leaded, spasm with the
sage prophecy that with a good ticket
the Republicans will carry Pennsylvania
this fall. eff"
MINOR TOPICS.
OUR exchanges are still assassinatiDg
General Jackson.
The United States Senate has five
"pairs." When Washington inspiration
takes hand flushes will hold good.
GUITEAU denies that he expressed sor.
row at the presidents relapse, and says he
still hopes Garfield will die.
DIR AGNEw has destroyed another ven.
Grated tradition. He says : Caudidly,
don't believe there is particle of malaria
about tho White House."
THE Chinese have a Masonic society in
New York. Con Suite, a member, died
last week and was buried with the
honors of the order, somewhat celestial
lied.
If report be true, one of the most reli-
able preventives of dissolution is a
bullet in the liver, and it is re-assuring,
for tho death rate cannot 10 large in this
country.
THE assertion of the Atlantic City
Times, that bathing costumes there are
unusually modest :" is calculated to
exercises very deleterious influence upon
the prospective business of that resort.
THERE will be meeting of the State
Democratic committee at Bottoms hotel,
Harrisburg, at 1s NJ. on Wednesday, Aug.
10, to determine upon a time and place for
holding the next state convention. A full
attendance of the members Of the CON-
mittee is requested in the call of Chairman
Dill.
HAVING denied that internal machines
were found on board Of steamers from
America, English papers now censure our
authorities for not having ferreted out the
culprits. These foreign journals are Oh
viously in error. Had no crime been com.
mitted, our astute Dogberries would have
hal somebody punished for it ere this.
PHILosorHICALT Titusville Herald :" We
believe that almost every mai, strapped
down by conventional ties, often feels a
vagabond desire rising within his breast,
and often wishes he could follow the cir
Gus, the travelling show, or Francis
Murphy, or become a stage drive Or a
tramp"
WHEN tho Chinese are expelled from the
United States they will have a place of
refuge comparatively close at hand. So
far from declaring that the Chinese must
60, the Spanish government proclaims
that they must come. They are wanted
in Cuba, where they will be provided for
under arrangement made with tho Chi
nese authorities. american
THE gentleman who entered the bank
this morning, glancing furtively about,
was not a suspicious character, but re-
putable citizen conveying a vial of rain
water for deposit in the vaults rs an heir
loom. To generations to come this will
be not less precious memento of ances-
tral forethought than an object Of anti
quariaE veneration.
The attitude of the United States to-
ward England during the present agitation
in Ireland is commented upon by the press
in many parts of the kingdom in a more
healthy tone than heretofore. Most of
the papers agree in expressing the belief
that England can rely on the good faith
of America in endeavorinc to prevent
renewal of and avert the attempts by con-
spirators against the British govern
lnent.
Enquirer" asks, "Why. not knights
Of Damon, as of Pythias % We cheerfully
illumine the Cimmerian darkness of this
young persons understanding. The
Knights of Pythias and the Nights of
Dam'in' arc closely associated. The lodge
of the latter opens soon after the former
closes. In strict confidence Tho en-
blcm of the order is latch key the pass
word "hic jacet.'' At the portals you say
"Mc!" in a peculiar manner known to
the initiated. Upon entering tho lodge
chamber. the master saws "Where hava
you been till this time of night?" To
this you reply with, jacet." Further
exposition of the mysteries we dare not
make and, indeed, subsequent proceed