Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-12

Some Of the anti-C Cameron people had in
troduced such = resolution, but it was
opposed by the Cameronites, and the
Democrats who were not willing to en-
dorse the administration refused to vote
on it, so it was defeated by vote of 7s
nays to 50 yeas. The passage of such
resolutions is of course inconsequential
and Ineffective, bu: whatever satisfaction
Cameron had in the resolutions endors.
ing himself is doubtless heightened by
the defeat of the resolutions endorsing
the administration. Mr.. Garield's ad-
ministration is forty days old. It has a
long time to live and learn.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE peanut crop last year amounted to
2,025, 900 bushels, valued at 81, $50, 900, an
increase of 100000 over the previous
years crop. The milk Of our $4,000, 600
cows at 12 cents gallon, is worth 1896, :
go, 600 year.
FRoUDR's Caesar has been reprinted
by Harper Brothers in cheap form in pur-
suauce of the war now raging between
that firm and Charles Scribncr's Sons.
When publishers fall out the public gets
profits.
The Pennsylvania State Medical society,
three years ago, passed resolution that
no member of any county society should
instruct pupils who could not make show
of knowing Latin and Greek. The Phila-
delphia County Medical society refuses to
appoint the examining committee required
by the state society. Philadelphia dele
gates will therefore be excluded from the
annual state convention.
is over in Trenton, N. j., that the
Democratic rooster crows. The Demo-
Gratis yesterday elected a mayor by over
500 majority. DR.. Cornelius Shepherd,
for school superintendent, has about two
hundred majority over William Hancock,
Republican. The Democrats for council
carry four out of the seven wards, which
will make the new council stand twelve
Democrats to nine Republicans. The
present council! stands eleven Republicans
to ten Democrats. The rest of the Demo-
cratic ticket generally was successful.
The new editor of the Atlantic, Mr.. L.
g. ALDRICH, wakes his mustache down
to sharp point and wears colored shirts.
In one Of the towns of Wyoming Terri
tory is a placard in a hotel dining room
which announces that a discreet waiter,
who was never known to tell the time Of
day, is employed to carry milk punches
and hot toddies to ladies' rooms in the
evening. The same hotel says that guests
will find a sewing machine, a grand piano
clergyman and all other modern conve-
niences.
THE New York Tribune, founded by
Horace Greeley, was forty years old on
Sunday last, the paper having teen start
ell on the 10th of April, 1S41. Eight years
previously the first issue OF the Sun ap
peared. In 1885 Bennett began the pub
lication of the Herald. The Times was cs-
tablished in 1850 by Henry J. Raymond.
The World, which appeared ten years
later, was first published as religious
daily, but a year later, united itself with
the Courier and Enquirer. The Graphic,
the only illustrated daily paper, was start
ed in 1873. The oldest of the New York
journals is tho Commercial ddcestiser.
which was established in the year 1897.
The Erening Post was founded year
later.
THE 1merican, published. weekly 1T
Philadelphia, offers $1,000 in twenty one
prizes, for the best editorials essays and
poems written by college students or grad
uates. The topics are not limited: The New
YorkHerald thus kindly notices it: "a Phil
adelphia paper, whose name we kindly for
bear to mention, is about to appeal to the
students of our colleges to write editorials,
essays and poems for its columns under the
hope of a series Of prizes. II every stu
dent reponds the proprietors will have
profit in the item Of waste pape- alone,
and the editors, cssayists and poets of the
staff will have lifelong holiday. There
is cynical spirit abroad which says this
is the kind of thing that suits Philadelphia.
There is also an unauthenticated rumor
that if the plan works the paper in ques-
ton will change its name to the Daily
SophomOre.'