Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-30

see that it would have Deen natWlul.
Still it was unnecessary, as this lawyer
shows by referring to the fact that the
supreme court decided in Lyons appeal.
II P. Smith Is, that court of equity
will compel the assignment of mort
gage by its holder at the request of the
debtor, when equity seems to require it
to be done. As the courts are possessed
of the power to correct any attempted
wrong by a mortgage owner. the Legis-
lature need not step in to deprive him of
his rights under the law. The suggestion
that proceedings in equity are expensive
is not of consequence, as they are not
more costly than proceedings at law are
generally made.
THE two Virginia editors having met,
Beirne succeeded in shooting Elan in
the thigh on the second attempt, when
he exposed himself satisfied and the
performance was over. 1t is not stated
whether Elan was satisfied, but we he
lieve that as the challenged party it was
his duty to be satisfied whenever Beirne
was. The cause of the latter's satisfac-
tion is evident; he set out to shoot hi:
game, and shot him. The satisfaction
for Elan is not so perceptible :; though
as he set out to be targe
and got hit, there is reason t.
suppose that he achieved his mis-
sion, and, therefore, logically should
have been content. The argument il
clear enough, but the practical result
do not seem to powerfully sustain TIN
logic inasmuch as it is not superfici
ally apparent how man can be de
lighted at being shot. Elam has caus'
for graduation, it is true, in the fac
that he was not killed, but that must b'
a JOY strongly modified by the contem
plation of his game leg.
STAMPS on bank checks will he entirei
done away with on Monday, as will ais
the tax on matches. The public will nov
have chance to see whether the abatt
ment of the match tax will reduce tn
price of tho article.
IT has boon generally supposed that tn
autecedents of the late Archbishop Woo
were Quaker. but \ correspondent of Il.
Ledger produces church records to shO'
that he was born and baptized Unit:
rian.
The New York Times reminds tho p ul
lie that if it were diligently remembere
that the favorite climbing plant 'wistaria
takes it's name from tho man to whom "
owe it's development aud cultivation, D.
Caspar Wistar, of Philadelphia, thel
) would not be the frequent incorrect mel
tiOu oi it as "wisteria " and westeria.
THE close connection between fish an
thirst was wildly illustrated at tho la
fisheries exhibition in London. Sma
placards with 4 brilliantly printed bacl
, ground of stars and stripes displayed til
names Of 81 kinds Of drinks mixed ut Il
American bar. This assortment took Il
+ prize, in its way.
, The Chicago Inter- Ocean finds mu'
satisfaction in the increasing appreciate
of the native element in America liter
turc, aud claims the credit of it for Yves
- ern newspapers, which have done SO nll
to keep alive aud stimulate interest
American fiction, while the Eastern pre-
y has pursued tho old methods of the dill
tante and cynic.
l. REVEREND DR. HERRIcK JOHNSON, W
was tho author of the resolution of tel
Il perance in the last Presbyterian senel
. assembly. corrects current impressi,
< that the deliverance on this subject W
, inimical to prohibition. On the contra
he thinks 1t pointed straight to prohi
ton in declaring for L" tho utter extermi
alton of the traffic in Intoxicating liqu
= as 4 beverage. by the power Of Christi
- conscience, public opinion and the stro
arm of tho civil law"
AT Audovcr, the headquarters of ort Il
II dox Congregationalism in the Unit
Il States, the contest betweon the "Old I'll
Il ology" and the "New Theology |,
$ been practically ended by the establis
ment of the principle that each man sh:
have the right to put his own interpret
n ton on tho "associate creed" Rev. Jose
Il Cook, disents, but the sentiment of tt
! new professors installed and the conct
I sions Of the old, are universally in the Ii
!. of thought, as declared by Prof. Harris, til
.sthe value of the creeds Of the past is til
Il they show the Christian consciousness
II the time. There must be conformity wi
3 the living spirit of the present ago.
It old systems do not satisfy the demands
Il present inquiry, We are not to accept ths
e as final, When within tho church the
II is reaching out after new Interpretation
one may suspect the healthiness of his o,
e thinking if not in accordance with t
e spirit of the age. A theology which
II chiefly concerned to obeestesmed consistel
to trace the pedigree of an orthodox ST.
cession, is decaying with dry rot, and it
certain that men will cut it down and c.
it in the fire."
Is General Corruption In Washington.
70 New York Times.
~ A complete history of the compromis
!" made by the government with defaulti
IS officers, detected swindlers, straw-biddi
o contractors and the bondsmen of the
IA persons against whom judgments for Lar