Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-21
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
In Michigan all women paying taxes
may hold school offices. and men who arc
not taxpayers cannot.
THE irrcprcssiblc new county problem
is stirring up dull times in Crawford. The
McadvilIc Democrats are beginning to feel
more favorable to it. rs their Republican
fellow citizens always desert the home
candidates on tli: question. Titusvile
may go.
\ SECOND ADVENT congregation at
Greenwood, Kan, have lost confidence in
their pastor because, while publicly avow-
ing belief that the world would come
to al end in 1881. he secretly took 4 note
for five years ona loan of 81, 600, and dc
man.lcI twelve per cent. interest with
ample security.
GENEHAL GRANT wants John Russell
Young appointed minister t" China, Japan
or Mexico. But Mr.. Young made the
columns of the WcroM lurid with covert
attacks upon Blaine before the Chicago
convention and redoublcd them altcrwartl.
N,w Blaine. holdin. the dcstinieS of the
administration in his strong hands, will
make il Il cold day for the Iul,ns mam.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the New York Times
said that the Grant fund contributors de
sired their names kept secret, McssrS.
Gould and Vanderbilt were not unwillin.
that their generosity should bc known of
men $" Mr. Gould's Journal has made
known that three contributions of So, 900
each We're made by Vanderbilt. Gould and
Mackay--ihc bonanza king. The smallest
contribution was that of Vice President
Arthur. S@Jn
PEaF. +. W.TrSrIN.ci l.cwisburg, is the
last man 10 tackle thai. wonderful c"n,n-
drum - do bees sting fruit He Sa.cly
concludes " |. That the bee cannot pune
turc tha skin OF the grape Will, either its
tongue or is sting. ?. Tha! it is possible
that bees may tear open grapes from the
fact that they possess the necessary man
libular power. ,. We believe that they
rarely, if ever, do this, and that their de
Prrdati"ns upon grapes are confined to
eases where already from other causes,
the skin has been rupturch'
WHAT is said 10 lt the first practical
aud comprehensive attempt ut Bnycotting
ill the United States was begun against
three large New York lager beer brew
cries last Wednesday, These three are
the brcwcres of Messrs Jacob Rapport.
George Rn.ler and the +. T. NJ. Schacfer
Company. Between 5000 and 9, 600 work
iny men have resolved not to drink any
beer coming from these establishments,
because of alleged oppression by these
brewers against some of their employees.
THERE is d disposition to revive the
question Of the next spcakers!lip. The
probability that an extra session of the
Forty-sevcnth Congress will he called
brings ont renewed interest in The contest
for the place. The East puts forward as
its candidate Mr.. Frank Hiscock. Of New
York, who will he supported by the dele
Cation from his own state. Pennsylvania
and New England. The West has three
prominent candidates, Mr.. Kassm, Of
Iowa: Mr.. keifcr. OF Ohio. and Mr.. Bur
rows. of Michigan. Ii an election had
been held immediately following the re-
cent adjournment of Congress Mr.. Hiscock
would have been elected easily. Now, how
ever, the chance is greatly in favn. Of 4
Western man.
PERSONAL.
Gen. JAMES 5. BRIsEyN, now in Murta-
na, is called by the Omaha Bee "a modern
Fa.stoff, . monicbank. pIagarist,"
swashbuck!er," 'windbay." and several
other choice names.
Senator DoN CAMERON has invited Il
party to accompany him to California soon
in his special car. His wife will .ro and