Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-24

FOR ONCE there Is prospect tlldL
the Lancaster school board will become
a tie, as the law contemplates that it
should he.
THE New Jersey Legislature reassem-
bled last evening. Among the bills in
trodueed in the House was one providing
for whipping post for wife beaters, and
another requiring city railway cars opa
| license.
LORD LORNE is reported to hav
spoken strongly since his return to Canada
against "the system of permitting Cana
dian emigration agents in England to send
settlers to Canada by way Of United States
ports, " inasmuch as many intending to
settle in the Dominion are thereby {" in
duced to remain in the states"
THE Denver postofice affords an cxam-
pie of the enormous growth of mail busi-
ness in the West. During the last five
years the expenses of the Office have in.
creased only one half, while its receipts
have nearly quadrupled. The money Or
der receipts were over s., 600, 600 last year
against s53O,OOO in 1879.
THE mistake in Oscar Wilde's re-
ception-whethcr it is gushing or criti-
calls in treating him as the apostle of a
new school, when in fact he is hardly
among the chief followers Of it he is a
mere Offshoot of movement which was
begun almost before he was born and in
which hc is very commonplace figure at
home.
ANTI-PoLyGAMY meetings were held last
evening in Chicago, st. Paul, Portland
(Maine) and other cities, in which speeches
were made by prominent gentlemen. The
Mormon question was discussed very gen.
orally in the pulpits of Kalamazoo, Mich
igan, on Sunday morning. A petition
asking Congress to take effective meas
ures against polygamy is receiving huE-
dreds of signatures in that city.
AT a late meeting of the trustees of the
College of the City of New York, the col
lege which costs the city between one and
two hundred thousand dollars year, it
was reported that tho number of students
now in the institution is 926, divided as
follows: Introductory department, 497
Freshmen, 19l Sophomores, 1913; Juni-
ors, GS ; Seniors, AZ. That is, of the pu.
pills who enter, less than one tenth pur-
sued the course to tho end. AS a high
school, with a single years course, the
institution seems to he fairly successful but
as soon as it asks its students to step be-
yond into its regular collegiate depart
ment they drop off rapidly.
IT has always been Il superstition among
the hunters Of Pike County that to kill a
white deer would take away all good luck
fatal shot. White deer are among the
rare animals that roam the woods. They
are SO rare, in fact, that many people he.
lieve them to be myths. Old hunters de.
clare that they have seen deer as white as
snow bounding over the Pike county
ridges in years gone by, and relate instan.
ces Of the fate which overlook men who
were SO rash as to kill them. H,rnteck
Shrner killed the last one, despite the
warnings Of the old hunters his health,
rugged rs an Ox's began to fail him and
his $50, ,01D fortune I'LL melted and he died
in the midst of domestic trouble. Two
companions shared an almost similar fate
So speaks the ''oi hunter in the New
York SIM.
THAT lumiuary of orthodoxy, the New
York Sun, thinks Judge Blacks reply to
lngersoll was incomplete, but that Rev
Geo. L. Fishers later defense of Christi
anity in the North american Recie,c is as
far off as MIR. Black was from slencing
the audacious infidel and dissipatins his
arguments. The ground taken by Prof.
Fisher at Ihe commencement is IA practical
abandonment to his opponent of the vital
point in dispute The question re-
spectins any creed proposed for belief,
whether in religion or philosophy or
science, is whether the reasons for it are
stronger than the reasons against it, ami
whether they are enough stronger to jus
tify credence. Christianity asks no more
for itself than is conceded to every other
system and theory" The Sun is of opin-
ion that Fisher gives away the whole case
when he comedies that 8: Christianity is
not divinely revealed system of doctrine.
demanding reverential faith, but one coli
corning which We must weigh Drohabili
ties and forEi an opinion, as We would
concerning any other subject" The San
shines for ail-able infidels and weak de-
| tenders Of the faith.
| PERSONAL.
Secretary FoLGER returned to Washing
ten yesterday from his visit to Geneva,
! New York.
Gen. GARIBALDI is in a helpless coli
dition. He was conveyed ashore at Naples
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