Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-28

an elevated atmosphere, anu HIS StOTleS
swell. and his dazzled disciples, know
ing no better, take them with q simple
faith that would tempt these great men,
if they were not truly good, to tell
them lies; but maybe they don't.
MINOR TOPICS.
WHY not locate a silk factory in Lam
caster?
SAN DIEGO. CAL, is said to prohibit by
ordinance cigarette smoking by boys.
IT took the schooner Onward two trips
to carry Charles O'Conor's library to his
summer nook at Nantucket.
If those judges of the state supreme
court who travel dead head want to keep
themselves above criticism they should
pass in the passes.
IF~persons owning idle suburban lots
would plant shade and fruit trees in them,
their growth would enhance the value of
the properties as rapidly as the taxes and
interest increase their cost
The attorney general has decided that
the permit laws of the Indian territory arc
valid and the government will take steps
to expel intruders upon the soil of the
Chickasaw and ChOctaw Indians
New YORK Tires headlines: "Symp-
toms of chang" "Rumors that Conk-
ling and Platt will withdraw, Crowley
making a canvass among the stalwarts-.
COrnell's friends also cultivatins the
Conkling men-Anticipating coming
break"
SCRANTON Republican A Lancaster
lawyer, according to the INTELL1cENCEE,
wants law enacted requiring the judges
who are reversed by the supreme court to
pay the costs Of appeal from their judg-
ment. A similar law might with equal
reason he passed mulcting the lawyer who
appeals in cases that are affirmed.
THERE are in Pennsylvania alone four
thousand men, women and children who
are wholly blind. The perils of mining are
eloquently illustrated by the melancholy
fact that in the anthracite counties the
number of blind persons is much greater,
considering tho population, than in any
other portion of the. state. Luzerne is cred
tied with having 1e7, Lac!sawanna 107
and Schuylkill 11G.
IT was this same Mr.. Conklins who is
reported in the Congressional Globe of
March 90, 1873. in the first column of its
133d page as concluding a speech with
these pregnant words estates should pass
laws to punish the briber and the bribcd
and Congress should also act. Above
statutes, however. is public opinion When
a wholesome and rugged sentiment is
awakened in this regard men will no
longer in their own behalf scufilc for place
in the purlieus of Legislatures and of
nominating conventions. They will keep
aloof. 1t will be disgraceful and fatal to
appear electioneering and manipulating for
themselves. They will wait Until the
Offices and the people seek them
The Fairfax Williamson rascality,'
which was the source of so much annoy
ancc to the Rev. DR.. Dix, OF Holy
Trinity church, New York, has suddenly
broken out in the congregation of st.
Marks p. +. church, Oh Locust street,
above Sixteenth, Philadelphia, and has
created a vcritable sensation. Over $50
letters have been received by members Of
the congregation, one of them getting as
high as thirty in day. They arc intense
ly personal, sometimes vulgar, and tho
familiarity with names, the apparent
effort to disguise in the writing employed,
the knowledge of existing family and
social relations, have induced the final be-
lief that they arc the work of some person
in the congregation who has been prompt
cd to it by love Of mischief.