Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-29

are already beginning to speculate on
the chances of the assault on Mr.. Garfield
operating in behalf of Republican sue
cess there this fall. For a commercial
idea in politics the Ohio man is to be
steadfastly depended upon.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE German authorities have suppress
ed a translation of Emile Zola's "Nana," !"
confiscating the books wherever found.
The American navy is not large, and
this is great injustice to watering places,
for there arc not officers enough to go
around and furnish respectable repro
sentation at each. Newport seems to have
corner in naval prigs just now, there be-
ing sixty of those interesting objects there
with their families.
IT will 60 hard with Englishmen CAP
tured by the Barbary free lances, as the
government refuses to ransom them here
after, UNLESS engaged in al official capacity
when captured. Some Englishman will
fall into the hands of these freebooters
one of these days, and the Barbary states
will be made one of "our colonies" to pay
for it.
THE Hawaiian minister at Washington
has written an official denial at the story
that King Kalakaua is hawking his king
dom about with the hope of finding a
purchaser. The minister explains that
the government is constitutional mon-
archy, and that the king can hardly sell
out the Islands as if they were his private
property.
WHEN our esteemed contemporary, the
NcW Era, modestly claims that its publ.
cation Of an abstract Of Maj. Slaymaker's
masters report in the Ephrata case is ''the
first authentic account of the controversy
which has been published" of course,
overloOks the fact that a moro complete
history of the case, and more extended
abstract of the same report appeared in
the INTELLIGENCER week ago.
THE cardinal archbishop of Toledo, pri-
mate of Spain, has stirred up that coun-
try and Italy with a pastoral letter advo-
eating &c establishment of tho temporal
power Of the pope of Rome, by force of
arms if this is necessary to the end. We
have been afraid that European emulation
would lead to something extraordinary
ever since the Toledo Blade OF America
has had representative there.
CHAs. A. DANA cxplOdes the Stanton
"On to Richmond :" romance of the Chi
cago Tribune. He says the articles were
written by Gen. Fitz Henry Warren and
that nothing ever appeared in the leading
columns Of the Tribune of that time which
proceeded either from Mr.. Stanton's pen
Or from his mind. Now that this moment
Gus question is set at rest, tho country can
60 right on making internal engines again
for English shipment.
WHEN Jules Vernc's fertile imasina.
ton conceived the Nautilus, he probably
had no thought Of ever seeing it material
lied; but unless all accounts lie SEQ, 900 of
the Irish skirmishing fund have been ex-
pended in the construction of q submarine
cigar shaped vessel, to he rsed, as explain
ed, for "wrecking." John P. Holland, of
Newark, was the inventor, and DR..
William Carol, Of Philadelphia, the
ostensible backer of the enterprise.
The proposition to appoint Conkling to
the Supreme Bench naturally gives rise to
a question of contingency. Not unfre-
quently tho Bench is divided in the matter
of law. In such a case, should Conkling
find himself in minority would he embar-
rass the court by resigning? And if he
resigned would he insist upon vindica-
ton? Mr.. COnkling must give bonds to
keep the peace before he takes a seat on
wool sack.
WHILE those Washington doctors have
been making the American public's mouth
water over accounts of the presidents
toothsome repasts, Mrs. Garfield has bcen
undermining their little game of quilting
the people, and at last the mine is exploded.
Under date of July 81, she wrote to her
personal friend, Mrs. Harmon Austin, of
Warren, as follows: ''The general is just
beginning to have faint suggestion of
an appetite. From newspaper reports you
would suppose he had been taking beef
steaks and lamb chops by the quantity, but
the truth is he has only tasted them to
gratify the doctors, and not always to his
advantage"
Concerning Babies.
On the 10th of June the two. year old
child of Ernest Poyette, Matteawan, N. Y,
was shot in the head. The little one was
sleeping in its cradle, when ball from a
pistol fired 200 feet away passed through a
wooden partition and into the child's head
on the right side near the forehead. The
ball has never been found or removed.
Four days after the shot was fired the