Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-27
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
ALTHOUGH Ohio has furnished the ma
tion with SO many statesmen, there are
within its bounds half a million children
who do not 60 to Sunday school.
In the recent heavy transfer of passen-
ger railway stock in Philadelphia the
Times sees daylight for the five cent fare
project which it has SO urgently advocated.
ALL clergymen who served as chaplains
during the war, as we'll as all who labored
with the sanitary commission and Chris
tian commission, are invited to reunion
which is to he held at Chautauqua ON the
5th and 9Th of August. This is to be a
combination of "love feast" and "ex-
pericnce meeting" 1t is expected that a
large number of ex-workers will be
brought together, some of whom are now
becoming we'll stricken in years.
THERBis strange perversion Of Cow
per's hymn There is fountain" etc.,
which should never be reprinted. 1t is the
change of s'have'' to 'smay'' in the third
line of the second stanza. COvpcr wrote,
for believers
And there have l, as vile Us he,
Washed all my sins away"
The rerversion throws away the joyful
confidence of the hymn, and reads {:
"And there may 1, though vile rs he,
Wash all my sins away"
IT is authoritively stated that Spear,
Independent member Congress from
Georgia, who was entered a Democrat on
Clark Adams's list, will support the Re.
publican caucus candidate for speaker.
This matter was arranged between Spear
and Garfield number of weeks ago, the
consideration being that the patronage OF
the administration shall he confided to
Spear. This has given great offense to
straight Republicans in Georgia, and there
has ever since been trouble in the family,
with the probability of more coming.
The "citizens' reception, at Elberon,
brought Grant and Garfield together for
three minutes, by the time keepers watch
"Thore was buzz of excitement as the
general, with hat in hand and bowed
head, approached President Garfield and
extended his hand, which was heartily
shaken by the president. A moment of
whispered convcrsation cnsued between
them, when Grant stepped back and walk
ing out to tho platform, entered his car
riagc, which was in waiting. 1t is reported
that Grant said, "It's chilly ovc," and
Garfield signed the bill.
THE notorious Davenport, who has SO
long hunted and harassed technical viola.
tors Of tho election laws in New York,
may be brought to tho end of his string.
He offered a federal Office for a vote
against Conklins. The following law viii
reach his case and should settle him
" Every person who shall offer or abet in
causing to he offered to any member OF
the Senate Of this state any individual adj
vantage, present or prospective, with in
tent to influence his vote or action upon
any matter which may then be pending Of
may be brought before him in his official
| capacity, shall upon conviction be impris
oned in a state prison not exceeding ter
years or shall be fined not exceeding
1000 or both in the discretion of the
court"
TIE Philadelphia Bulletin scores good
point against Col. A.. X. Mcclure, when it
| points out that the very day after his ad.
dress at Bethlehem on "the sunny side, -
his Times said "The truth is, the Ameri.
can people are in the same condition that
the people of Franco were during the
third empire-we arc become thoroughly
corrupt. The old idea Of fair play and
honesty has perished from among us we
are socially snobs, for We meanly admire
mean things we arc politically venal, fol
We don't care now men get into Office OF
administer Office so that our own party be
successful and our own stocks kept boom
ing. Hayes in Office, leprous with fraud, was
just as much an object of reverence as Geo.
Washington or Abraham Lincoln fairly
clected.- The politica! condition of the
country reflects very accurately its moral
status. There isn't Il partisan in the
country that wouldn't prefer tho success
of a scoundrel in his own party rather
than saint in tine other. If our boasted
education and intelligence have led us to
this, perhaps it would be just as vol to
uneducate little until people should get
back to tho good old-fashioned notions
that ill-gotten money, ill-gotten, place,
ill-gOtten power are not passports to adj
miration, reverence, social, religious and
political consideration. It must have
been one of the coloncrs wicked young
men who thus got upon the shady side
the Young Slasher for example.
An Abuse of Power.
Hartford Times.
Secretary Hunt keeps a government YES
sci, the Dispatch, for tho personal pleasure
of himself and friends. lie goes to Fort