Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-15

well 10 retrace. Ine largest ScrVlco OI
the true fireman is to prevent fires and
help to punish incendiarism.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE idea of cremation gains in favor in
the West. The St. Louis society has fifty
one, who has died to carry
out the principles of the society and attest
her sincere devotion to them.
STREET cars rattle about in Rome, sew
ing machines click in Jerusalem, tine
Recue des Deaur Moades is taken in at Bag
dad, Dublin ale trickles down the Pyra.
mids, and the astonished Obelisk hears
the rumble Of the elevated railroad.
"SENATOR MALONE may he all that his
opponents claim, but there is something
cruel in the last blow which has
overtaken him. The Pennsylvania Legis.
lature has passed resolution endorsing
him. What has Malone don. that he
should be so treated ?''-Puck.
BOsToN has inaugurated the idea OF
printing programmes on the Japanese paper
similar to that used in the unique napkins
now fashionable at picnics and informal
gatherings. The object of discarding the
heavier paper is to do away with the noise
that accompanies, its use.
THERE arrived in the SariOus customs
districts Of this country, during the montl
ending March 81, 4s. e33 passengers, O
whom "A, 125 were immigrants, 2. 2s4 citi
zens of the United States returning from
abroad. and 1924 aliens not intending t,
remain in this country.
THE "West Town" board of Chicago
election officers, it is reported, have ICON
pleted canvass of the late election re
turns by throwing out enough districts t.
change the complexion Of town officer
from Democratic to Republican, by major
tiles ranging from 25 to 5SG " One of the
candidates elected by this action was him
self member of the boad,' and wa
naturally inclined to a recount. Mr
Logan will please take notice of the las
''Southern outrage next time he assault
the kings English on the Senate floor.
Rev. W. MARLEY PUNsHON, LII. ID.
the distinguished Wesleyan minister, VIII
died at an early hour yesterday at Brixton
Eng, of complication Of disorders ha,
been preaching since he was ls years o
age, period of over forty years. He mal
ried his deceased wife's sister, an'
preached with great popularity in Canada
during his residence there, and in thi
country. lie collected very successful.
for memorial chapels and was one Of til
most eloquent and popular preachers o
the time. His lectures We're also highl
esteemed. especially those on ''John Bun
yam and the Huguenots." He also pub
lished small volume of poems.
Gas happy as priest wife is proverl
in Russia where few other women ar,
happy. If she dies he is deposei, and be
comes 4 mere layman; his property is
taken away from him, and distributed
half to his children and half to the govern
ment. This dreadful contingency make
the Russian priest careful to get health,
wife, if he can. and makes him take extra
ordinary good care of her after he has go
her. He waits upon her in tine most abiec
way. She must never get her feet wet
and she is petted and put in hot blanket:
if she has so much as !. cold in the head
1t is the creates; possible good fortune fol
a girl to marry a priest, infinitely better
than to be the wife of a noble.
In the opinion of the Philadelphia Ecen
Jag Bulletin what the people of Athens
really needed, at the time when St. Paul
found them gadding about trying to tell
or to hear some new thing, was a soot
three-cent afternoon newspaper and nc
doubt in the throns there might hav,
been found editors and reporters of the
very best quality. The Bulletin also re
marks ''Writins articles is but the par
of the task Of a journalist. The general
conduct of a prominent newspaper in such q
manner as to commend it to the public, tt
keep it abreast Of it's competitors, and
to cover the whole field rs gatherer O
news, is a task of rare difficulty, for whicI
some men who can write good article are
by no means fitted"
WILLIAM p. BRowN, of New York, il
undergoing five days imprisonment ant
will have to pay s25 fine to get out of Lud
low Street Jail because he refused to ba
sworn Or affirmed as juror. He wa'
willing to qualify by nothing more than
his word. He rests his refusal on the
scriptural injunctions to :'swear not at
all " and " let your yea be yea and your
nay nay, for verify more than these cometh
of evil" To an interviewer Mr. Brown said
that he had also come to the conclusion tlla.
rent was wrong. He thought that if a
man had more than he required he should
give the use of it for nothing. Hehad carried
this idea into practsce and had a firm
belief that all Christians should do the
same. He is sltisfied that all Christians
who take rent, or take oaths, are guilty OF
unchriStian nracticns He dOes not fhini,