Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-26
MINOR TOPICS.


MINOR TOPICS.
BEN BUTLER has been telling Conkling
some state secrets against Blaine with
which r. e. expects to make administra-
tion fur fly in Albany.
THE House and Senate agree to print
10000 copies of Smull's Legislative Hand
Book at the public expensc-a wanton,
wicked waste of the money Of the state.
THE Herald sums up the situation at
Albany as % administration members, 46
Conkling men and &c con the fence"
The weight on the fence is so great that
unless relieved it may break down.
THE New York Herald was malignant
enough against the Democratic party in
the late campaign {; it greeted Garfield
quite cheerily. Little less than three
months of his administration are over, and
just see what minccmeat the Herald makes
Of this party.
In view of Mr.. Conkling's proclamation
that he is in the hands of his friends the
wicked New York World, is moved to sug-
gest that those ''friends," without the
helpless Conkling's privity Or consent, will
proceed to trade off Platt. When the
election occurs Platt will feel like the hap
less colored boy on the deck of Mississ
ippi steamboat who was inquired of as to
his ownership. "Dunno, marster did
belong to ''Cunnel Jones when l come
aboard, but he done gone and loss me on
two little pair.''
BISHOP J. B. THOMPSON, cOlOred, of the
Southern conference, on Monday last, at
the session of the African Methodist Epis.
copal conference in New York asserted
that any man, white or colored, could live
peaceably in the South, provided he at
tended his own business. The white South
crn people were contributing literally,
both in land and money, to colored
churches, and on questions of education
were wholly in accord with their colOred
brethren. This testimony clearly more
than offsets the charges of oppression and
cruelty recently brought in the Senate by
Senators Dawes, Hoar and Others coming
as it does from man who knows what he
is talking about.
THERE is now pending in the war de-
partment great numbers of volunteer pen
sion claims which cannot be satisfactorily
verified for want of information which
missing records of discontinued volunteer
commands would afford, and as in many
instances officers of the late volunteer
forces have still under their control books
and records pertaining to their corps, di-
visions, brigades, regiments and compa-
mics, their attention is called to tho fact
that all such books and records should be
deposited with the war Office, and they arc
earnestly requested by the department to
cause the same to be forwarded without
delay to tho adjutant general of the army,
at Washington, District of Columbia. The
postage or proper express charges will be
paid by the government.
The interesting experiment is being
tried in Harrisburg of saving valuable
horse from the body of death which is
usually visited upon an equine quadruped
who breaks his leg. The Harrisburg
horse which slipped on cobble stone and
broke his leg is in charge of an expe-
rienced groom, who put pieco of strong
canvas around the horses body and by
means Of ropes and puileys fastened to the
Jo'sts above drew him up SO as to bring
the lame leg entirely off the ground. BY
slightly tiexing his three sound legs the
patient can throw his whole weight ON
the swing, and does this when he sleeps. |
AT other times he generally lightly rests
MS three legs on the ground, part of the
weight being sustained by the canvas.
The fracture was adjusted and thick
casing of plaster of Paris mt aronnd the