Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-27

MINOR TOPICS.
WHEN Harve meets Leve then comes
the tug of war. "Diamond cut diamond -
so to speak and the knave in each hand
high.
THE United States corn crop averages
nearly or about 1900, ,OOO, 900 bushels, OF
Al, 7,OOO, 900 tons, enough to load 5000, ,OOO
rail cars, making sc, 900 trains each half a
miles long or enough to fill two continu.
GUS lines of box cars from Baffin's Bay to
Cape Horn, and require at least 10000
locomotives to draw them.
The Scranton Republican believes that il
the Republican factions of Lancaster coun.
ty do not cease their feuds they may meet
with tho fate OF the Kilkenny cats, and
adds !" It was hoped the reform wing
would not deal in the methods against
which its existence is a protest, but the
pressure was too great on the other side to
be resisted with grandiloquent notices,
and 50 the reformers snatched their
weapon from the Stalwarts and took their
scalps."
In 1872 for every Republican who tried
the experiment of voting for "an honest
Democrat, dishonest Democrat was
found whom the bosses bought at five
dollars head.-Ncp Era.
It is lamentably true that when the
Express and other Independent Republi-
cans supported Buckalew in 1872 their
efforts in this neighborhood were in a
measure thwarted by the venality Of men
calling themselves Democrats who sold
themselves at IS head to vote for Hart
ranft. For all that, the New Era people
do not vindicate themselves by relapsing
into the company of "reformers' who
carry elections by buying votes at from
80 cents to $3.50 and CAPTURE ballot boxes
by gangs Of hired .heelers.
THERE comes to us, from North Caro-
lima, story which seems to he full of
warning for Levi Sensenig and some others
Of the Ncw Era roosters who "essay to
crow" over the late victory of reform ::
Mr.. Franklin Moore, who lives on the
river, in Shiloh township, has a Shanghai
rooster which is year old and which has
grown to the astonishing height Of about
two feet. but which, Notwithstanding his
age and size, had never essayed to crow
until about a month ago, when the conse-
quenoes were SO disastrous that he will
probably undertake it no mole forever.
Upon this occasion the spirit moved him,
he Strengthened up to his full height, ut
tered his first shrill note, stumbled back,
fell over rock and broke one of his
legs.
THE Cincinnati Gazette insists that i'm a
military sense there soas surprise at
Shiloh. The whole dispute has been
raised by ignorance of the military art and
of military terms. When brought back to
the regular standards of our military in
stitute, there is no question left. The
way in which all the hub-bub has been
raised is by its being taken up by ignor-
ant volunteers who never can learn the art
Of war and don't know what surprise is
in the military sense, who honestly but
absurdly think that in order to constitute
surprise the enemy must catch the army
In It's shirttail asleep in its tents. But
military men, such as Grant, Sherman and
ourselves. who apply the military standards
as taught at West Point, know that in a
military sense there is no question of a sur
prise at Shiloh-a surprise SO willful, so
contrfved, so strange, 80 seemingly pro.
meditated that it has never been explain
Cd, and can never be explained, and that
the much lying Of the two responsible