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


to remember in these days when the up
ward rush of things suggests their
downward course when the rarefied air
ceases to sustain the fight.
MINOR TOPICS.
HAPPY New Year.
"ANGLO-CATHoLIc views are said to he
gaining ground rapidly in the Irish Epis-
copal church." Mrs. Hopkins will make
a note of it.
The annual reviews of the trade and
business of the country, and especially of
the cities of New York and Chicago, show
the year 1880 to have been one of re-
markable revival and of substantial and
legitimate prosperity in all branches.
The English publisher of Scribner's
Monthly telegraphs for seventeen thousand
copies of the coming midwinter (Febru.
ary) number, an advance of six thousand
upon his orders for the same issue last
year. "Who reads an American book %
A strange typographical error recently
appeared in the San Francisco Bulletin.
In an obituary notice the word California
was .pe!led Cali4nia, the figure replac-
ing the "for" and yet happening to read
the same as the syllable in which it acct
dentally appeared.
The Grow people now count "a votes for
him, six more than necessary to get the
caucus nomination. In this claim they in
clude four from Philadelphia, two from
Allegheny and all seven from Lancaster
county and four from Montgomery. Grow
will not get all of these, and his calculation
seems to be too sanguine.
ALLEN CAMPBELL, the anti Mormon
candidate for delegate in Congress at the
recent election in Utah, is coming east. He
says Governor Murray, of Utah, will de.
eide by the 4th inst. whether he will give
Delegate Cannon certificate of election.
The objection made to Cannon is that he
is an alien and a polygamist. 1t is prob.
able that, in any event, there will be con.
test in the House over the seat of the Utah
delegate.
Rev. DIR. JOHN HALL said, in a public
address, that in Dublin he was chaplain to
a prison in which there were some 800
convicts. He had only the Presbyterians
to look after; and there were only fifteen
in the prison, and his congregation was
constantly declining in numbers. 1t ran
down to only eight. And he said it was a
fact that in Ireland, where the Presbyte.
rians are as one to eight of the population,
the Presbyterian criminals arc only as one
to forty.
As already announced, it was the inten-
tion of Hayes to reappoint Secretary Ram.
sey as acting secretary of the navy every
ten days until the 4th of March next. The
question, however, arose whether he
could legally make a rcappointment
and being referred to the attorney general,
it was decided adversely. This decision
was sustained in the cabinet meeting yes
terday, and the navy department is, there.
fore, left without head. It was sug.
gested last evening that Hayes consult
General Garfield "and appoint for the un.
expired term the probable secretary under
the incoming administration
GOLD enters largely into the materials
of millinery this winter. It is seen in the
cisele velvets as a background for black,
red, or olive raised figures in cloth of
gold for crowns; in gold ribbon for
strings threads of gold are wrought in
satin in rich brocades great deal OF
gold galloon is used again {; and there arc
gold beads on all parts of the bonnet, the
small ones being wrought in net on the
crown, while large faceted gold beads
edge the front of the brim. Gold lace is
also used, but less than the other gilt gar
nitures. There are few gold brooches or
similar ornaments, except the long nail or
other long pin nsed as bonnet rest.
A REPLY to Tourgee's FOOLS Errand, -
a sensational political publication, has been
written by William Royal, a grand nephew
of Chief Justice Marshall Tourgee's de-
scription of Southern character and man.
ner is shown to be a picture of the imagi-
nation. "In accepting it," says Mr..
Royal, ''the Northern and Western people
of the Union seem to be blessed with a
singular credulity touching all matters
which tend to bring the whites of the
South into disgrace and contempt. With
out taking the trouble to inform them
selves correctly touching to people of the
Sotth they readily accept any derogatory
story that timid, sensational or designing
scoundrels may invent regarding these
people,"
THE Austin Weekly Reciew is of the opin-
ion that Texas will be divided into four
states. Such division is, expressly pro
vided for by tho joint resolution for annex
ing Texas to the United States. Ths con
ditions precedent to such divisions are that
such states shall be Of convenient size,''
that they shall have Sufficient popula-
tion," and shall organize by the consent
of Texas-not by the consent of the United
States government, for that is given in ad-
contracted for by the terms of
the joint resolution, which says that such
states "shall be entitled to admission un-
der the federal constitution. Texaa he.