Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-08

schemes, and that this one failed is none
the less subject for congratulation, be-
cause the concOctor of it died a scoun-
drel's death for his rascally purposes.
-. MINOR TOPICS.
THE lack Of five votes killed the compu.-
sorry education bill in the Legislature Of
Indiana.
WHILE there is but one man in the
country, J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hart.
ford, who can read the book, good copies
of the Eliot Indian Bible are worth over 4
thousand dollars.
WHEN Samuel J. Tilden read the names
OF the members of Garield's cabinet he is
said to have remarked that this admins
tration would he the stormiest on record.
Our Uncle Sammy seems to have stuck Il
pin there.
The mayer of New York has astonishcd
the public by announcing that if the
Legislature will clothe him with power to
have the streets cleaned he will be able to
command for the performance of the work
the services of Lieutenant Commander
GoSringe, the officer who brought over the
Egyptian obelisk.
The Washington, D. c., presbytery was
appealed to by the North Presbyterian
chuseh for severance of it's pastoral rela-
ton with Rev. Charles H. RamsdelI, Oh
tho ground that his wife, Catholic, at
| tended mass, to the detrimcnt of her hus-
bands influence. Judge Drake, OF the
court Of claims, offered a resolution for his
expulsion, ''inasmuch it was moral sin
for a Presbyterian clergyman to take &.
Roman Catholic wife," The resolution
provoked an animated discussion, but q;
| decision is deferred.
EXPERIENCED ordnance officers are
| steadily advocating the disuse Of the bayo-
net and sabre. For hundreds of years the
war between gunpowder and steel has
| been going on, with the advantage and
gain always in favor Of the former. and
the sabre and bayOnet must in their turn
take their places in our museums by the
side Of the old pike and cuirass. They
| must yield to the revolver and rifle. cold
| steel to gunpowder and lead. In the
Franco Prussian war the unemployment
Of steel was wonderfully manifest. For
thousands who were killed or wounded by
| ball, shot Or shell, stabs Or cuts with bay
Onet, lance, or sabre were almost impcr-
! ceptibic.
lT is announced by the New York SIN
that probably the new name for .Scri5aer's S
Monthly will he the .Muahatton Monthly or
| -Han'sottaa .Nagazins, and that ST. Nicholas
| will drop the word Scribner from its title.
The magazine is understood to have cleared
profit of $4,000 last year, or six per
cent. on $1,000 600 1t is also announced
by the same authority that Mr.. Charles
| scribner has long desired to found a great
illustrated weekly paper, cone which
should have upon Harper's Weekly an effect
like that which Sc,ibner's -Mnthly wrought
upon Harper'S Magazine" Mr.. Scribner
is also credited with the purpose Of spend
ing half a million of money to start new
.ccribnsrs Mgnzi'.c
The Cambria Freeman dilatcs upon the
| hogsisEness Of the demand of the House
at Harrisburg for 10000 extra copies of
Smuli's Hand Book "This will give each
member forty copies, and as he is entitled
under existing laws to 33 copies, those
| members who came in at the present ses-
sion will get 75 copies, while those who
served two years ago and were reelected
| will get 1O6 copies. When this monstrous
| swindle was before the house the other day
on second reading, progressive statesman
from Washington county, named Billings
ley, had the cheek to say that the books
were for the people. that the state ought
to pay for them, and for his part lie pro-
posed to get all the books he could ut the
expense of the state.
PERSONAL