Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-25


WIEN Arthur accepted nomination he
said : There is danger in entrustins the
control of the whole law.,naking power Of
the government to a party which has in
almost every Southern state repudiated
obligations quite as sacred as those to
which the faith of the nation now stands
pledged" Virginia, Malone, Riddebcr-
ger
SINCE Chester \. Arthur became prcsi-
dent Of the United States, four army court
martial cases of drunkenness and unofficcr-
like conduct resulting from drunkenness
have been presented to him, SO that he
might approve or confirm, or else set aside
Or modify, the sentences imposed. The
sentence in each case was dismissal from
| the army, and in each President Arthur
confirmed it. The uniform result of these
four court martial cases forms very
striking and suggestive contrast with the
| conduct under like circumstances of Mr..
r. B. Hayes.
THE annual report of Chief Brooks, Of
the secret service bureau of tho treasury
department., contains the following para
graph regarding lau,l frauds
"When the fiscal year ending June 30,
$780, closed, it left one of our operatives in
the midst Of an important investigation
! into alleged land frauds originating in the
4 %n$r ,tt
sylvania. Ohio and elsewhere. BY action
OF Congress, this division was prohibited
froin spending any portion of its appropri-
alton in the investigation, hence cur rep.
sentative was compelled to transfer his
services to the interior department, in
order to complete the cases in hand. The
result of his work, as far as developed,
shows the rankest perjury and forgery, by
which parties have wrongfully appropri-
ated nearly 1000, 600 acres of the public
land. Up to present writing over 100 in
dictmeIts have been found against the
cOnSpiratOrs and several Of the parties
have been tried, convicted and penal
servitude Of seven years each metcd out
them"
MORE tlian two thousand converts to
Mormonism left Liverpool the past sum.
mer to join their brethren beyond
the Rocky mountains. In Schleswig Hol.
stein alone, the Mormon missionaries have
made three hundred converts. One steamer
that left Liverpool late in October had on
board four hundred Mormons. Last
month twenty-four mcu, who came to this
country few years ago, newly made con-
verts to Mormcnisrl, sailed from New
York IT, labor abroad among people Of
their own nationality The facility witt,
which they get recruits and raise money in
the old world is remarkable. 4 cOntcm
porary suggests "thc formation of an
auti-Mormon missionary society, whose
object should DC the sending out of mis-
s;ouaries TO visit the countries where the
Mormon agents are most active, and cir
cu!ate information as to the true nature
and designs of the Salt Lake c,nissaries. -
BEHOLD the bridegroom cometh James
Z. Weller, Of Wilkesbarre, who apparent
ly deserted his af1ianced bride on the eve
of their wedding day, returned home Wed.
nesday. thoroughly penitent for the
wrong he did coufiding girl. He has
made clean breast of the whole thing by
confessing that he ran away in order to
avoid 4 "scenc" at the nuptiais, which
was threatened by a young woman with
whom hc had been "too intimate'' rs far
back as 1878. Weller claims he pleaded
unsuccessfully with the woman to have
her forego her malicious designs, but she
was reselute and Weller, feeling that
something must be done to prevent what
he regarded as even greater esclandre than
the desertion of his bride, wrote the note
and took bis departure as recorded Re-
morse quickly overlook him and he has
come back, made frank confession of the
motives impelling him to the act, has re-
ceived the forgiveness of his affianced, and
it is whispered that they may be happy
yet.
PERSONAL.
PIERRE LORILLARD has taken his yacht
and his friends to Chesapeake Bay on a
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