Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-25

rangment which gives each state two
senator's.
MINOR TOPICS.
THIS depressing statement from an cx-
exchange Ohio ghouls have been at work
again. The corpse of the Greenback party
has disappeared.
WHAT the country demands at this
crisis is that the Herald's medical staff
stop plugging the presidents wound with
paper pallets, and found college with
this motto :" When ignorance is Bliss
It's folly to be wise.''
Rev. C. A. JOHNSON, Hamilton, Canada,
reinforces Brother Jasper and asserts that
the sun moves rises and sets, while the
earth remains stationary and is fiat. The
position is fortified with scriptuial texts.
THE american, of Philadelphia, insists
| that even Guiteau must not be deprived Of
his constitutional rights, lest an evil pre-
cedent be set ; also that the time is COM
ing when the internal revenue taxation can
| and should be abolished.
THE "most notorious outlaw now di-
vidcs the hOnOrs with the oldest Mason
and last surviving body servant of Wash
ington for ubiquity and phGnixical im-
mortality. Like Banquo's ghost, lie will
not down.
The new comet is said to be the one seen
in China in 1887. We must draw the
line somewhere. This wholesale impor-
ton OF Chinese fireworks free Of duty is
running American industry. Senator Mil
Ter will please notice.
| A SCIENTIFIC railroad man in the west
says that railroads are rain producers, and
that rains follow the ivon tracks in belts
Oh each side. He assigns as the main
cause for'the meteorological changes the
electro magnetism developed in the rails
sion of the atmosphere by the jar of the
train.
SENATOR ELECT MILLER, of New York,
seems to have the "banncr" pretty bad.
In short speech to 4 party of serenaders
he alluded to "that baIuer' sixteen times.
Among the many things alleged to have
been "emblazoned upon that banner "
is "protcctiOn to home industry" In
dustry' is what the ne" senator calls
wood pulp.
THERE is 4 stupid and conspicuous typo
graphical blundcr in the Oxford edition OF
the REVISION at 1 Corinthians, iii, ), which
reads "What then, is ApOllOs? and what
is Paul: Ministers through whom ye
Lord believed and each as the gave to
him. Tho word 'Lord'' has been drop
ped in ''making up the form, and insert
ed a line ahead Of its proper place it
should obviously come in after leach as
the
TIE first weeping willow tree in England
was raised from n sprout found in box of
figs brought from Asia Minor, near the
Garden OF Eden, where the willow is i'll
/
fifty years ago, and was planted and rear
ed by Alexander Pope, the poet. From
that tree twig was set out in Boston in
, 11s5 by British officer, and shortly after
was transplanted by John Park Curtis on
his estate in Virginia.
If Allegheny county were situated geo.
graphically somewhere south of Mason and
, Dixon's line, it would be perennial foun-
tain of joy to RADICAL stalwart" is a lit
tie off color just now-outrage shriekers.
In ten years the list of murders committed
in Allegheny includes about one hundred
and fifty cases, embracing some Of the
most shockingly cold -blooded instances of
crime on record. To offset This appalling
catalogue, it is of record that but four
executions in vlndication of outraged law
have taken place. This state of affairs al
gues something radically wrong.
THE Tobacco Journal, which manufac-
lures great deal of such "exclusive :"
Information, has it that some Of the to-
bacco buyers have made q combination to
) buy the 81 crop, " without competition, s"
as soon rs it is cut and before others are
aware Of their operations, and have their
agents in the field waiting for the word
ego" This startling information is sup
plemented by news from Lancaster to the
Journal Exclusively" that the leading
growers have entered into a combination
to sell their 81 crop only at certain high
figures and in bulk for one price through
out. The Journal is manifcstly in the mar
ket before the buyers Or the crop.
PERSONAL.