Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-03

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this the facts would not warrant as the
verdict of cOntemporaneous history.
MINOR TOPICS.
AN old Indian preacher among the
Choctaws, who commenced his work on
the somewhat slender educational outfit
which he procured in connection with nine
months schooling. writes in the most en-
couraging manner of the progress his Sum-
day schools are making.
The Lutheran Nisitor wants Lutheran
ecumenical council held. 1t believes that
such body wonld be perhaps one of the
greatest meetings ever held, and asserts
that instead Of" few millions of Calvin
lists or Armenians or Dissenters," -" it would
represent fifty millions of Lutherans from
all quarters of the globe.
| A NEATLY bound little octave volume,
entitled "The Revised Edition of tho
New Testament" has been received by a
San Francisco paper which says cal
though the story seems in some places a
trife uncOnnected, and the incidents at
times little improbable, still. on the whole
it is most readable little work.
| SOME Of the good people who do not
despair Of the conversion of the wickedest
people in the world are laboring with
Guiteau. AS they cannot have personal
access to that malefactor, they undertake
to evangelize him by means of postal
cards. Most Of these persons are of the
order usually denominated cranks."
The Philadelphia Times contrasting it's
own with the INTELLIGENcER's course in
the judgeship nominations says: "The
great are always maganimous and culti-
vate the most generous sense of justice"
Which only proves that tho Times being SO
| much moro maganimOus is SO much greater
than the INrELLIaENCER. 9. e. d. we
presume.
On a recent Sunday, when the pastor
of ono Of the leading Presbyterian churches
of st. Louis was absent from his pulpit,
several persons expressed dissatisfaction
at seeing stranger in the pulpit, and one
lady said she would not have come if she
had known that DR.. was not going
to preach. An elder standing near very
promptly replied q" Madam, the worship
of DR.. - will be resumed next Sunday"
CT, oh -
burg which face the river front and empty
their private sewers down along the bank
of the stream, are now offended with most
sickening odOrs aud malarial gases, rising
from the filthy mass which lies there, fer
menting there in the sun, because the
water is too low to run off the excremant.
1t is very beautiful location for hand.
some houses, and the sunset and up river
views from Front street are grand, but
this sewer business is a drawback.
WHEN Spotted Tail was murdered the
other day White Thunder, another chief,
was appointed to succeed him. When
White Thunder got into Office he began
his administration by sending to the agent
the following request What want to
ask of you is that when you send tine
agent list of goods to be distributed you
will also send copy of the list to me.
Through the Interpreter will study the
list, and then we shall all know whether
We get all the goods" He is level
headed Thunderer.
SOME three or four years ago some-
What preteDtious church on Fifth
avenue, finding no American clergyman
sufficiently talented to fill its vacant
pulpit, sent across the water for British
preacher. He came, and might be sup.
posed to have had sufficient leisure, while
attending to pastoral duty in his not very
large congregation, to study the history of
the United States. Yet when the British
preacher was speaking at recent prayer
meeting held in behalf of the president.
he remarked that President Garfield was
the only Christian man who had ever oc-
cupied the presidential chair.
LIE IepUII GudI OuCL0 1t0muS, tho
book written by Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris, |
of Atlanta, Georgia, "has been received in |
England with something like enthusiasm
only shows that the literary judgment of |
England on American authors and writ.
ings has finally reached stage of intelli-
gent disccrnment. For few such striking
and interesting books, with permanent
value as we'll as powers of entertainment,
have appeared here as Uncle Remus' folk
lore of the plantation negro, a people
whom this generation is rapidly learning
to forget, but which have been factor in
our social development.
A FIGHT between DR.. Hargett and the
Rev. Mr.. Mackey is onlivening Youngs-
town, Ohio. The doctor is a middle aged
medical practitioner of good standing, the
clergyman is young Methodist pastor,
both are bachelors, and formerly they were
intimate friends. The trouble began when
Hargett sent Mackey bill for doctoring.
Mackey refused to pay, and Hargett ad-
vertised the debt for sale. Then Mackey
preached a sermon on Hargett. VIOLENTLY