Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-18
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
The anti-monopolists of New York have
a convention meeting at Utica. 1t is
said ex-Gov. Seymour will take part in its
proceedings, and possibly Mr.. Conkling.
s. N. LEWIS, colored "straight out {"
Virginia Republican, openly declares for
Daniel, and in letter to the Washington
Post urges his friends to follow his ex-
ample.
TEXAS people do not throw themselves
on epitaphs no matter how much display
they make at funerals. Down on the Rio
Grande plain board at the head of a
mound tells the public thirteen of them
Mexican Greasers ar planted herc.''
Col. FoRNEY's Progress was astonisllcd
at the successful preservation in ice of
fresh shad caught in the Delaware, until
a friend sent him some facts and drawings
about antediluvian elephants kept ten
thousand years imbedded in frozen gravel
in Siberia.
The Clearfield Republican approves the
idea of q code of rules for tho govern
ment of the Democratic party in this state,
is pleased with the composition OF the
committee having the same in charge, and
looks for satisfactory results from their
labor.
MORMON missionaries have been preach
ing in Georgia, and in one county they have
church with hundred members. The
newspapers have, however. taken tho mat.
ter in hand, and the apostles of "the true
faith are finding their work so difficult
that it is likely they will soon retire from
the field.
NEWS is received from Rugby, Tenn,
the English colony founded by Mr..
Thomas Hughes, that over one twentieth
of the colony is suffering from typhoid
fever, two deaths having occurred and sew
eral persons being in very precarious con
| dition. A foul cistern and Imperfect
drainage tell the whole story Of stupidity
and neglect in community whose habita
ton was chosen for its sanitary advantage:
and one leading principle of which was to
be special care Of the health of its mem.
bers.
THE latest popular mania-coniined rs
yet to sentimental writer's of billet dOux-
is the practice of sticking postage stamps
upon unusual and out-of-the-way parts oi
envelopes. There is, it seems, a "postage
code" p" Of filtration, and each position Of a
stamp expresses some particular senti
ment. Postofficc clerks are loud in theil
protests against the custom, as the placing
of the stamp in any other than the orthodox
position, the upper right hand corner of
the envelope, puts them to no small in
convenience and annoyance in tho work OF
cancelling.
THE population Of Scotland has grown
more in the last ten years than in any de-
cennial period since 1921 81. 1t has 5, 734,
AL people, the females outnumbering the
males 14O,0 900. Its cities have varied in
their increase in the last decade. Glasgow
has increased from 491, GAG in 1871 to 511,
532 in 1881, or 4 per cent; Edinburgh from
197, ,593 to 228, 100, or 154S per cent.
Dundee from 12O, 724 to 142, 454, or 1S per
cent. Aberdeen from SS,1S1 to 1O5, 1854,
1918 per cent. :; Greenock from 50, 1914 to
6S, 1897, or 1922 per cent. :; Leith from
46, 434 to Gigs, or 31.73 per cent.
and Paisley from 4S, ,257 to So, ,G4s or 49, 3
per cent.
PEOPLE who do not sympathizc with
Bob 1ngersoll on general principles can
assent to all he says about Parson New
mans logic, who tells us that the crime OF
Guiteau shows three things: First, that
ignorant men should not be allowed to
vote second that foreigners should not be
allowed to vote and, third, that there
should not be so much religious liberty.
It turns out, first, that Guiteau is not All
ignorant man second, that he is not a
foreigner; aud third, that he is Christ
ian. Now, because an intelligent Ameri.
can Christian tries to murder the presi-
pent, the parson says we ought to do
something with tho ignorant foreigners
and infidels.
WITHIN the next eighteen months a
railroad will connect Kansas City with
Memphis, and then, says the Aoalanche,
Memphis will be walked up all over, and
will run a race with Kansas City for the
position of the chief Southwestern city.
By January 1st, new cotton mill will be
in operation in Memphis. At Randleman,
N. c., mill is now producing 5000 yards
of plaid per day, and other cotton mills in
the old North state are running on full
time. and have more orders than they can
fill. Altogether there is very hopeful
outlook for the "new South" and its ma.
terial interests will be greatly quickened
by tho great cotton exposition in Atlanta
to be open from October to Christmas.
Preparing for an Emergency.
A special to the World intimates that the