Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-31
MINOR TOPICS.

was announced to sing-but didn't.
MINOR TOPICS.
UP to Dec. 81, the French government
had expelled, all told, 5,7Gs members of
religious orders, including 2,464 Jesuits.
400 Franciscans, 4O6 Capucins, 294 Domin.
leans, 24O Oblates, 239 Benedictines, and
126 Redemporists. The 1850 Trappists,
though equally smitten by the decree, had
not as yet been turned out of doors.
ONLY twelve members of the committee
of 100 Reform Republicans in Philadel-
phia have resigned because the committee
withdrew from Stokley's support and
went for Samuel King, Democrat, for
mayor. Mr.. King has greatly pleased the
Reformers with letter against police be-
ing appointed or taxed for political pur-
poses, and twenty minutes after it was
read, campaign fund OF $500 was
raised.
CONKLING makes no secret of his de-
termination to prevent, if possible, the
confirmation of George II. Forster as
Stewart L. Woodford's successor. He will
try either to have the nomination rejected
or else not acted upon. Mr.. Evarts is un-
derstood to have recommended Forster's S
appointment, and John Sherman endorsed
the recommendation. So far as known
not a single New York member in Con-
grcss favored the nomination.
ONE of AllentOwn's citizens, whose con.
science was never known to keep him
awake at nights, became tired of his wife,
and gave her away to friend for her keep.
Afterwards he regretted his action, and
calling on the consignee demanded tie re-
turn of his property. The latter was very
we'll suited with his bargain and positively
declined to comply with his request, and
the husband has been compelled to bring
an action ut law to get his wife back
again.
OK Wednesday of this week the moor,
will be near Venus; on Thursday Jupiter
will receive a call from her; early on Fri.
day morning it will be old Saturn's turn,
and on Saturday distant Neptune will be.
come yet more dim in the presence of oul
brilliant satellite. On Thursday there will
be severe test of the correctness of as.
Economical calculations. Leverrier's Ia
bles place Jupiter on that day in such a
position that he must occult the stan
known as "73 Piscium, that is, hide the
star by coming between it and the earth.
A mistake of q few seconds in the calcula.
tions would throw the star beyond the
planet S disk, and astronomers will watch
with great interest to see how close the
Hiss is. if miss there be.
THE startling discovery is made that our
Bill English will get in after all. Arthur,
vice president-elect, is foreign born. The
matter fills page of one of the New York
morning papers and has look of reality
about it, which not only warrants a scru-
tiny of the business but makes it impera-
tive. The letters cover affidavits from the
town clerks of every county in Vermont
where the biographies of Arthur allege his
birth. In every instance the record shows
that his parents did not reside in those
places at the time specified nor at any
other. His own statement of the year OF
his birth is confused. He claimed, in 1852
when admitted to the practice of law in
New York city, to have been born in 1880,
whereas the records show that he could
not have been born earlier than 1882 OF
1888, while his father was living at Dun.
ham, in Canada. Another child bearing
! his initials-C. A. Arthur, his brother
was born while his parents were living at
Fairfield, Vermont, and the confusio n
seems to have arisen through the similar.
ity ofnames. The first boy, who died, was
named Chester Abel, the second Chester
Allan. The former was so named in honor
Of 4 friend, the family doctor. The au.
thoritics of the town in which Arthur
alleges himself to have been born deny
that his birth is recorded the year he as.
| serts, or that his parents lived there at
the time Arthur has been at work writ
ing letters since he received a hint that
some one was on the track of his geneal.
ogy cndcavorins to make old residents re.
call things that did not occur and in other
cases becloud circumstances too simple to
be susceptible of doubt.