Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-28
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
The stalwarts "point with pride - to
the fact that tho postal frauds were CON-
mitted under the good Mr.. Hayes and that
exposure came under a postmaster general
from wicked Mr.. Conkling's state.
THE court Of appeals Of Kentucky has
decided that the publication of legal
notices in Sunday newspaper, or in the
Sunday edition of a daily newspaper, is
equivalent to no publication at all, as Sun
day is in law dies non.
The star route contractors who are now
being pushed to the wall are said to have
given SAC, 600 in lump to carry Indiana
for Garield's party last October. Natur-
a ly they cannot understand what kind of
4 reformer this man James is.
The Springfield Republican wants to
know why man should universally -appro-
pirate that seat in the church pew next to
the aisle, the only one approaching COM
fort in the present cxcruciating style of
church architecture. Give tile woman
chance at the end seat.
DIX. GREENE says tue facts of the ar
t:cle, going the round credited to DR.. Peck
of Indianapolis, discovering the injurious
effects ofjampiDg the rope and its ten.
deDcy to produce necrosis, have been
known to and impressed upon the public
by the medical fraternity for fifty years.
The direction credited to the Scientific
Americau to bore holes in stumps, pour
il nitrs or .altpetre, set it on fire and
burr, c., t'c whole-is also older than the
Sc!e-.t;.fr isaerican.
1u.. Germantown Telegraph considers
the subject Of good roads one of prime i'm
port snce to be kept before the public and
which should never be dropped until they
are secured and turnpikes made to give
value received for their tolls. Every
man, woman and child in the community
enjoys more Or less the comfort and conve-
nience of good roads as much as the
owner of a horse. II it is no. in.the same
way it is in other ways" Roadways
should be made of stone and the Telegraph
thinks the state should build them by a
special road tax, expended by township
road superintendents, under county su-
perintendcnts, all under state commits
sioner.
STALwART as the Chicago Tribune is, it
cannot withhold its denunciation of the
reprehensible conduct of the Republican
United States senators who deem it "nec-
essary to postpone action on the presidents
nominations in order to contend for the
control of the Senate offices.'' "It is the
constitutional duty OF the Senate to act
promptly on the nominations which the
president sends in. II the president him
self, upon whom the constitutions imposes
the duty of appointing tho government
officers, should deliberately refuse to dis
charge this duty for some reason of his
own and should thereby imperil the proper
administration Of government affairs. he
would subject himself to the danger of i'm
pcachment for malfeasance in Office. But
since the constitution provides that the
Senate shall confirm Or reject his appoint
ments, that body is equally responsible for
the administration Of public affairs, and
senators who agree to Unnecessary and en-
barrassing delay in acting upon the nomi-
nations are just as guilty Of official mis-
conduct rs the president would he in the
former case.'