Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-12
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
IT is in order to remark THAT the
blessed rain came at last, but it did not
last nearly long enough.
Bishop SIMPSON reports to the world S
conference Of Methodists, meeting in Lon
don, that there is a falling off in training
of the young people for the church in
American Methodism, and that this ne
glect is one of the most disastrous facts
connected with it's history here.
THE NeW Era scouts the idea that tho
president the other morning, as reported,
suggested a game of cards between some
of his friends in his sick room aud de
nOunces tue suggestion that such u '' de-
vout Christian man believes in 'playing
with the tools Of the gamblers vice."
There isn't the slightest doubt that Gar
field plays whist and is Eonc the less a
devOut Christian for it.
The Philadelphia Eoeaing Bullettn
misses any commentator Of civil service
reform from the Harrisburg platform, but
suggests that "pcrhaps reference to the
matter was omitted for the sake of saving
the delegates from suspicion Of insin.
certify" AS to the endorsement of the
administration the Erening Telegraph de.
clares that " there was not delegate who
voted for the admirable resolutions Of en-
dorsement, which tho convention adopted
without any dissenting voice, who did not
know that the principles ard sentiments
Of that distinguished body Of patriots and
statesmen We're irreconcilably opposed to
them"
TIE New York Sun is hopeful that the
rural Democrats of that state will force
the three city factions to abate their diff
ferences and fuse in one harmonious Or
ganization. They ought to be made to do
it or be barred out of the state conventions.
Each of the three elements has some
strength and some following; none can
be given supremacy, none ought to DO
Ignored, but it is in the power of the coun-
try Democrats to settle all these troubles !;
and if they are determined that the party
shall be successful this fall, they will find
q way to accomplish it. If this is done at
the state convention, and ticket com
posed Of fresh, strong men is put in nomi-
nation, the Democrats will be likely to
carry the election in November by an over
whelming majority.
SENATOR BECK says that while in tho
Western country recently he expressed
the opinion that tho Democratic party
sought no advantage from any such des-
picable outrage as the attempted assas-
sination of the president, but that on no
occasion did he say he thought it would be
proper for the Democrats to vote for a
Republican president pro tenn. In re-
spouse to an inquiry as to whether, in
case of President Garlield's death, the
New York senators could be admitted at
the opening Of the next session Of the Sen
ate, before tine election of 4 president pro
tem., Senator Beck said tho first business
in order, provided Mr.. Arthur should sue
ceed to the presidency, would be the cleo
ton of a president pro tenn, who would
cf course be a Democrat.
NO, Mother Shipton, you will not get
the world to an end this ycar-some other
year. But 1881 has been, nevertheless,
a phenomenal year (observe that it reads
backwards and forwards the same) Be-
sides varied assortment of comets, singu-
lar atmospheric demonstrations in New
England, the remarkable and not infre-
quent mirage seen of the Jersey coast. the
intense heat and the extensive and extend
ed drouth in this country, the year has
been marked equally by destructive floods,
winds and fires in every part of the globe,
resulting in the loss of many lives and
waste of much property. Even the crimes
of the year have becu startling in their
number and character, ranging from the
as sassination OF two rulers to the de-
lection Of fifteen or twenty times bisa-
mist.
THE political complexion of the next
House. as its members were originally
elected was Straight Republicans, 147 :;
straight Democrats, 1872 William II.
Forney, Of Alabama, Emory Speer, Of
Georgia, George w. Jones, Of Texas, John
Paul and Abram Fulkerson, of Virginia,
Independent Democrats, 5; George w.
Laid, of Maine, and James Mosgrove, of
Pennsylvania, Greenback" " Democrats,
2; Thompson H. Murch. Of Maine, and
Nicholas Ford, OF Missouri, straight
Greenbackers, 2 and 5 Greenback ="
Republicans, to wit Ira S. HazeItine,
Thomas N. Rice, I. H. Borroughs, of Mis-
souri,, the Rev. Hyatt Smith, of Brooklyn,
and Charles N. Brumm, of Pennsylvania.
Frye, Of Maine, Norton, Miller, and
Lapham, of New York-all Republicans
have resigned, reducing tho Republican
number to 143, aud Fernando Wood has
died, reducing to 131 the Democratic
strength. If Greenbacker is elected in
Frye's place and Democrat in Morton's
place. as now seem probably, and if the
feuds in the Lapham and Miller districts
do not upset the Republican supremacy
there, the straight Republican strength
would he reduced from 147 to 145, the
straight Democratic strength inc eased
from 132 (for Democrat will surely he