Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-18
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
Ii costs more to bury one dead man out
of sight than to board live one year.
REPORTED. maxim of (Paris) paper
"We only practise those virtues that pay
their expenses
WHILE 1900 miles Of railway are being
constructed in Italy, Japan has only sixty
rifles in operation and its short lines are
being extended at snail's pace.
THE American Land League of Califor.
MIA are inquiring what has become of the
fund left by the late James Lick to provide
free baths for the city of San Francisco.
THE Chester (England) commission
finds 1000 out of 5000 electors guilty of
bribery, which is almost u better average
than this free country of unpopular suf-
frage can show.
SAYS the United Presbyterian to the
mayor Of Pittsburgh, shut up the saloons,
bawdy houses, etc. Say the police autho-
tiles to the Z. r., stop your churchemcm-
bers renting houses for saloons, bawdy
houses, etc.
In the rural town Of Scranton cows
promenade tho switch tail paths around the
court house, aud goro tho people attend
ing the court. Hereabouts it is the Bull
Ring and Hog Ring politicians who make
dangerous the thoroughfares to the scat of
justice.
The Appletons have already sold by
subscription their first edition (25, ,OOO of
jeff. Davis I" Rise and Fall of the Confed-
crate Government Judge Tourgec tells
a Cleveland reporter that "The Fools
Errand" has reached sale of eco, 900 or
10000 Volumes" "Bricks Without
Straw has sold sO,OOO copies.
In a test case to determine the legality
Of the anti-treating law of Wisconsin, it
was found that the law was imperative
because Of an error in the text of its ell
actment-the bill as drawn specifying the
repeal of an old law that was dropped
when the state statutes were recently re-
vised. Judge Mallory held the law to be
imperative and void.
POLITICIANS are expecting COnkling and
Arthur's visit to New York to bear fruit,
and say that this week we are likely to
see some new developments in tho present
struggle in the Senate in both its aspects,
the organization and the confirmation of
MI. Conkling is quoted as
having said thath he had given up any notion
Of procuring the withdrawal of Robert
sons nomination either by himself or the
The man who shot and killed his mis-
tress in Pittsburgh bagnio has been con-
victed of murder in the second degree,
after charge by the court in which the
law was thus laid down in regard to
drunkenness as mitigation of crime. "If,
therefore, you believe, from the evidence,
1hat the prisoner killed Emma Foster, but
at the time was so much under the iuflu.
ence or effects of Intoxicating liquors that
he was not fully conscious of what he WAS
doing, but in crazy fit of excitement. or
in a crazed condition of mind, without
having coolly and deliberately formed the
purpose to kill, fired the pistol, he is not
guilty of murder in the first degree. If,
however, drunk and excited by liquor,
though he may have been, yet if he had
mind enough to be fully conscious he was
loing wrong, coolfy formed the murderous
ntent, then deliberately procured the pis-
ol and took it to bed with him, or deliber-
tely used it in pursuance Of his murder
us intent, actuated by a spirit of ven-
:eance or jealousy, it would be murder in
he first degree