Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-17

tuity to the constituents of the syndicate
of representatives who have combined
together for mutual benefit. 1t is dis
agreeable, but as it has been done year
after year apparently no cure exists.
MINOR TOPICS.
KICKER ticket-For governor in 1882,
Chas. S. Wolfe, Of Union county. For
United States senator in 1884. John Stew
art, of Franklin county. Go!
THE Eramincr thinks that since the Re-
publicans have lost the mayor and parti-
san police in Philadelphia the Democratic
chances OF electing governor in 1882 are
good. Perhaps it will now move for
Wolfe's nomination for governor.
PASTOR MAEsDES said to his Metho-
dist congregation, at Yarker, Ontario, that
if certain members persisted in attending
dancing parties they must withdraw from
the ,hurch. Six persons instantly stood
up and asked for dismissal.
BEFORE the election tie Philadelphia
Mulhoolys declared that John Hunter
chad crank. John will put that ''crank'
in motion in few weeks, and what 4 har-
vest of Mulhooly heads will be knocked
off by it.
WOMEN arc less given to suicide than
men are, and married people than the un-
married. The favorite mode of suicide in
France is 10y the use OF charcoal or by
jumping from height that of Germany is
by drowning or shooting. The highest
death rate by suicide IS in Denmark.
ONE OF the editorial staff OF the INTEL
LIGESCEH WHO seems to be Il "prenticc
han" at election table figures, added the
Democratic school director totals ycstcr.
day. He got them ":sll right but five
The corrected totals arc: Carpenter,
24a0; Slaymaker, si36 Morton 2i21; f.
G. Snyder, 2i14: A. J. Snyder, :415
R;ngwai:, 2t11.
AN apparently destitute woman was
cared fnr by the poor athoritics of Seda.ia,
Mo-, during severe illness. 1t was after
wards learned that slc was Il widow, re-
siding in a ncighboying county, where she
owned a fine farm. had;s bank account of
$4,000 and belonged TO Il wealthy family.
Feeling sure that she was about to be
sick, She decided to so TO Scaalia under an
assumed name and receive trcatiacnt free
as a paupcr. The mayor has compelled
her to pay the bill.
THERE has been congress OF aurists in
Italy, at which Heidelberg. professor
said that experience had convinced him of
the Importance OF examining the organs Of
hearing OF engineers and fircmcn on loco
motives, both before appointing them and
every two years Or SO while in service.
The sense Of hearing becomes impaired
from various causes, and often without the
knowledge oi the person suffering from it.
Defects in this sense are not less danger
Gus than color blindness and sometimes
more difficult to discover.
THE Republican party has many things
to answer for, but, the Pnn Monthy
thinks. "thcrc is no sin in tho record of
the Republican party greater than the cree
tiou into state OF this barren wilderness
(NevadD with a population of money
hunters. stationary in numbers, though
constantly shifting in composition, ard
with a soil poisoned beyond any hope of
redemption short of the day of Judgment
Only the general credcncc given to the
gross lies told 10y the promoters of the
first Pacific railway, can account for the
popular deiasion that such country aud
such people were fit for admission into
the American Union as state