Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-10

declines to allow Mr.. Carlyle's niece Or
any other person to interfere in the dis
charge of the trust committed to him, but
he will return her the other papers.
MINOR TOPICS.
The ocean steamship companies deny
Miss O'Brien's story of emigrant horrors
and it is shown that her facts exist only in
very lively aud patriotic imagination.
Mr.. VOORHEES, takes the ground that the
duty of the Democratic senators in deal
ing with tho presidents nominations is
simply to confirm every nominations they
believe to be proper and to reject every
nomination they believe to be improper.
A BILL before the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature, providing that "any court of record
shall have authority to exclude minors as
spectators from the courtroom during the
trial Of any cause, civil or criminal, when
their presence is not necessary as witnesses
or parties," is supported by the Rev.
Phillips Brooks, the Rev. E. E. Hale, and
other prominent citizens of the state.
JULIA E. SMITH, the survivor Of the
Glastonbury Smith sisters, has paid her
tax this year, but not without a "solemn
protest against the iniquity of taxation
without representation, and declaration
that she has not changed her principles.
During six successive previous years she
refused to pay, and the collector seized
and sold eleven acres of land, bank
share and number of COWS.
THE Mutual Union telegraph company
is tho latest opposition to consolidated tel
egraph monopoly. 1t has put ST., 600, ,OOC
of stock and $1,000, 900 of bonds stimuli.
taneously in the market and they have
been taken with an alacrity which shows
that capital has faith in the success of the
new enterprise. The Mutual has construct
cd line from Boston to Washington via
New York and will in few days have six
wires in operation between the termini
of the line, and wires to all leading cities.
Come on!
The total number of daily journals in
the country during the census year is
placed at 962, which includes 80 dailies
which were suspended and ia which were
established in the course of that year.
The aggregate daily circulation is placed
at 1851, 1877, and the aggregate annual
circulation at 1, 127, S37, 355, with an aggre-
gate daily circulation of 1851, 1877, at an
average price per aunum of 1888. 1t ap-
pears that the people of the United States
pay out annually s26, ESQ, 100 for their
daily newspapers. New York state takes
the lead in publishing the largest number
of dailies, 115, and Pennsylvania next
with 90.
The political gossips say that Senator
John Stewart, of Franklin county, is to he
the anti Cameron candidate for governor
unless he should be made minister to Mex
leo. Representative George E. Mapes, of
VenangO county, is 1amed as the prospec-
tive anti Cameron candidate for state
treasurer, and Wolfe chairman of the Re-
publican state committee if the independ-
ents should control the state convention.
On the other hand it is predicted that Sen
ator George V. Lawrence will be the Cam
eron candidate for state treasurer, Repre-
sentative John M. Pomeroy, of Franklin
county, as chairman Of the Republican
state committee, and General Beaver, of
Centre county, as the choice of the Cam
eronians for governor.