Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-31
MINOR TOPICS.

reached.
MINOR TOPICS.
A COMPLETE review of the local to-
bacco market, recent operations of buyers
and of tho new plant will be found on our
outside pages, with other matters Of local
interest.
IL our esteemed "reform" contem
porary is not moro careful in applying the
term "Picayune to "political country
editor" he may find himself complained
of for infringing the right to that appella-
ton by city political lawyer, whose
claim to this term has been ''exclusive."
ONE of the churches in Patchogue, L. l.,
has made . novel addition to its music by
introducing into the church two dozen
canary birds in cages. They sing with
the choir and also when the choir is not
singing, and their music is not complained
of by either the minister or the congrega-
tion.
Or course, the New Era had in its
minds eye Hoggy" Leonard, "Jake"
Price and " Larry Burns when it said :
"When, therefore, young men, rising into
notice, of fair abilities, and with all their
future still before them, voluntarily lend
themselves to the schemes of old and no
toriously corrupt politicians, seduced by
the promise of future preferment and re-
ward, they make the mistake of a life
time"
The Hebrew Messenger is of the opinion
that such a time-honored prayer as the
"Our Father who art in Heaven" it
would seem, has entered too deeply into
the hearts ard minds of Christians, and is
too closely identified with the tenderest
phases of family life, to permit of even
tho slightest verbal change. Deliver us
from the evil one," instead of ''Delivcr us
from evil" will not be welcome speci-
men of the work of revision.
The Philadelphia Essning Telegraph
congratulates itself that it recognized in
Malone renegade Democrat, a blatant,
unrepentant rebel, and repudiator of
public debts. 1t recognized in heidelberg
er low politician of the same sort, and
in Gorham free-lance Republican, who
had defeated the Republican candidate of
his state for governor, for purely selfish
reasons, and it therefore opposed a bar
gain which took those men into the Re-
publican fold and made the Republican
party responsible for them and their polit-
ical principles.
THE "boy preacher who delivered the
Decoration memorial sermon in this city,
must have discovered "a revised version
of Whittier, if our esteemed contemporary
correctly reports him as quoting the
poet:'
Ever its bright folds rose and fell.
On the loval winds 1t loved SO well
And a rousing majority for the right,
Shown over It with warm good ntSht.'
But then our 0. G. made one of the Millels-
villc orators say that some ono had put
it "upon record" that Washington had
been waited upon in his tent by deputa-
ton, who urged the matter of the crown
upon him, "and how he finally kicked
them out Of his tent ~
We are glad to see the Examiner awak
cncd to a proper appreciation of the "con-
test against Steinmetz for representative
which came to a sudden end. and another
for 7th ward constable, which cost the
county several hundred dollars and re-
suited in showing an increased majority
for tho Democratic candidate" While the
Examiner was hunting in the political
grave yard it is wonder it did not come
across Mayor Stauffer's libel suit against
the INTELLIGENcER and tho skeleton of
a peculiarly nice little game which the
Examiners friends tried to work to beat
''Steinmetz for representative" even at
the price of beating Boring for mayor-or
any other man.
LET it not be forgotten that when Mr..
Blaine publicly seized and carried off his
own compromising correspondence, after
having begged Mulligan on his knees to
save him from disgrace and ruin, he had
the audacity to read prepared extracts
from those letters ON the floor of the
House, upon which lame defence of the
alleged corruption was made. But he alb
solutely refused to submit tho abstracted
letters to the committee of investigation,
or to any open inspection. He then de-
stroyed the proofs by which the charges
made against him were to be sustained.
How he was able, as public man, to sur
vive that scandal, and soon after to come
near being nominated for the presidency,
is one of the marvels of these times.
PERSONAL.
Captain MAYNE REID interests himself
in sheep raising on his small estate in
Hartfordshire, England.
The monotony of Washington society
will be relieved next winter by the pres
once of King KALAKAuA.
1t seems to be settled that MURAT HAL
STEAD, field marshal of tho Cincinnati
,,rooe 10 <o hovo TIM Garu,on v,,;ec;on