BRB 3p ??sPP3 '"ETPSj"" ""h j. " Kr-ihJ.'T'L'fg ; o . . i THE TURNING POINT, Two Short Days to Decide Whether Other Men Will Join the Puddlers -AT JONES & LAUGHLINS', !g And a Strike be Declared in all De $ partmenls of the Works. JOINT MEETING HELD LAST EIGHT. A Knotty Question That Takes Considerable Thought and Discussion. S0ETHS1DE HEECHANTS AEE ALAEMED i Committees from the puddlers and steel workers' lodge of Jones & Laushlins' mills, Southside, held a joint meeting with the fin ishers, last night A conference will be held with the firm to-morrow, and if a settlement is not reached, a strike of all departments is threatened. The trouble at Jones and Laughlins' Mills has 3t last reached a culminating point, or, according to the bqst authority, will reach that point to-morrow night. If the firm has not stricken clause 3 out of the present Amalgamated scale by that time, unless some other action is taken, it is prom ised that the whole mill will be declared on strike and 1,400 men will lay down their tools and walk out of the gate, not to re-enter it until their demands are acceded to or the trend of events results in some other settle ment of the difficulty. Yesterday was a day of intense excite ment among the workingmen in Browns town and the importance of the question un der consideration and the suppresssd un certainty as to the outcome were plainly risible "on the faces of the men. Little knots of begrimed laborers gathered here and there on the street corners and talked the matter over. One by one the groups dis solved and their places were taken by others, the same seriousness being main tained. .THE APTEBXOOX MEETING. In the afternoon Excelsior Lodge, of the steel workers, held a long meeting, and the whole question was discussed from begin ning to end. It was agreed that the puddlers had not been treated right, and that their grievance was just, but the question in volved is more than the indorsement of the puddlers' action and joining them in their strike. Such action meant a direct clash . against the Amalgamated Association it self, and must be an independent move. The sentiment of the steel workers was for upholding the puddlers in their more. This was generally agreed on, but the mem bers wished to sound the finishers on the question, and whatever was done, they would work in conjunction with them. At last it was decided to appoint a com mittee to meet with the finishers in the evening, together with the representatives ot the puddlers. The meeting in the evening at Weaver's Hall, corner Twenty-seventh and Sarah streets, was a large and protracted one. The men seemed to iully realize that they were on the eve of an important action, and went about the discussion and settlement of it in a conservative and regular manner. AK EABNEST CONFERENCE. From the open windows, the sound of the presiding officer's gavel as it called the meeting to order, the voices of earnest speakers, and now and then ap plause as a point was wafted out on the breeze, but only gave a slight in dication of what was going on inside. This same scene was kept np until a late hour, with little change. Now and then men came out to stretch their legs, but nothing definite could be learned until the meeting was about over. It was then ascertained from members that the lodge had decided to sustain the puddlers in their recent move, but nothing will be done rashly. It was decided to hold a conference with the firm to-morrow, and it the latter then fails to strike out clause 3, of the Amalgamated scale, in je gard to working hard iron for extra payon the demand of a majority of the working men at the furnaces. A strike will be the result, unless the workingmen should come to some other settlement of the difficulty, which is not now in sight. A meeting of the different committees will be held to-day, but no indication will be given of what will be done. A QUESTION AS TO TIME. According to the established rules of the association, a strike cannot take place with out three days' notice, and some of the men seen last night said they conld not go out until that time. Others said that as it was au independent move the notice was not to be considered. The whole qnestion is one that has taxed the brains of the brightest men in the lodges involved. They have the alternative of standing by whet they think is fair and right or clashing with the laws of the asso ciation, and the result of their decision is of great importance, not only to themselves and their association, but to the merchants and public at large. The merchants" on the Southside were yes terday alarmed at the Drospect of a strike. When news came to them that a strike was imminent their alarm grew into specula tions as to its effect and what they should do to avert disaster. Jones & Laughlins' store has "shut off" accounts with the puddlers on strike, and unless they hare money they must obtain their supplies from outside firms, or or what? That's the question that may arise. THE CBOWNEB'S QUEST. Four Violent Deaths Investigated and Two Pemons Committed to Jail. E. L. Elderkin was committed to jail yes terday for criminal negligence in con tributing to the death of little Harry Bern hardt, who was killed by a cable car on Penn avenue on July 12. Elderkin was the driver of a wagon, and admitted that he scared the boy off his wagon and he jumped, directly in front ol the car and was killed. Sadie Alexander was committed to jail for trial for the murder of her babe, to which she confessed, and whose body was found in a vault in the rear ot 2016 Penu avenue. A verdict of accidental death was rendered in the case of Eugene O'Neill Carroll, aged 10 years, who was killed on Highland aTe nue by being caught in Booth & Flinn'a mixer. !A verdict of death by suicide was rendered in the case of Florence OmioV- .), I,-,,, .1 lmself yesterday to his cell door in the connty jail by a strap. A Earning Heap or Ucftur. The Soho dump, near the corner of Cen ter avenue and Soho street, m some way caught fire yesterday morning. Engine Company No. S had a plug stream on the fire yesterday morning, hut were called away to answer an alarm from box 317, leaving the fire still burning. The resi dents m that neighborhood complained last 'night to Sergeant Berry about the stench that arises fron the fire nt the dump. BEAYER'S BOLD BOLT. Continued from First Page. voted on by a call of the roll. It resulted in the adoption of the resolutions by a rote of 47 ayes to 7 nays. Those who voted "No" were J. J. Davidson, of Beaver; John Berry, of Baden; William Shaner, o! Beaver Falls; L. L. Oarson, of Beaver Falls; Henrv Mornock, of North Sewick ley township; Albert Lyon, of Ohio town ship; B. L. Ewing, of Bacoon township. A motion was made to make this vote unan imous, and in the viva voce vote that was taken there were only a few calls of No, mating the expression practically unan imous. A SPEEDT ADJOURNMENT. Chairman Marshall announced that he would appoint the committee contemplated in the resolutions early next week, and make tha names public through the news papers. The committee then immediately adjourned. After the adjournment I asked Dr. Mc Connell: "What do the resolutions mean where they provide for the appointmentof a committee to confer with similar commit tees from other counties in the district 'with a view of nominating a candidate lor Con gress?"" "They mean preciselv what they say," re plied the Doctor. "We do not recognize Major McDowell as the nominee, and we will now go ahead and arrange for the nomi nation of another candidate." "But if Mercer county refuses to with draw McDowell, and if Lawrence county refuses to withdraw its allegiance to Mc Dowell, will you so ahead without them?" "Yes, sir; we will nominate another can didate without them. We can't afford to ratify any nomination that was only made with" the assistance of Jraud. If we can't indorse him now, we can't indorse him later." TWO CANDIDATES POSSIBLE. "Then, you mean to say that if Major Mc Dowell does not withdraw, there will be two Republican candidates for Congress be fore the people next fall ?" "That would be the result of the matter, hut of course McDowell will have to with draw or he will not be recognized as the regular candidate. Bntler county's Eepub lican Committee- is indignant, too, and at their meeting next week, will probably join us in this movement." "Who will Beaver county favor as a nominee?" "I do not know." "Will it be Congressman Townsend again?" "I wonld rather not answer any anestions along this line. It will come no later. Just now we must probe this corruption to the bottom. The committee was bound to take the action it did to-day. The newspa pers have made it so hot for us by saying that we would drop the matter, and stirred the matter up to such an extent, that the County Committee could not possibly ignore the trouble without a further scandal." MB. MILLEB TALES. I asked ex-Congressman Miller, as he was leaving for Mercer, how Major McDowell and his Mercer county supporters would feel about the actioj of Beaver county. Mr. Miller replied: "I came to Beaver as a Re publican of the Twenty-fifth Congressional district, and for the purpose of noting the action of the Eepublican County Committee of Beaver. I am also a friend of Major McDowell, the district nominee. I expressed a desire to two of the members of the committee here to make a statement of the position of the Mercer county Republicans on the Congressional question to the com mittee, but I presume my request was not brought officially to the "attention of the Chairman or the committee. At all events, I was not heard. THE M'DCWELL POSITION. "What I desired to say," continued Mr. Miller, "was this: If the charges of bribery were brought home to Major McDowell directly or indirectly, or remotely, that he would step down. I hare positive assur ances. that Major McDowell neither directly nor indirectly, by himself or any other per son, paid any consideration, or promised any consideration, for his nomina tion. I am further positively as sured that he did not know that anything, or any consideration either, was to be paid, or w'as paid, to secure his nomination, and that the first intimation he had of any such was the publication made in the papers since the nomination. "Both Major McDowell and the Mercer county Eepublicans desire the fullest inres tigation, and if such investigation results in placing any fault or blame upon him, he will step down. What we complain of is that Major McDowell should suffer for any other person's fault NOT GOOD POLITICS. "I do not think the action of the Bearer committee is good politics. They prejudged the nominee without a hearing, and con demned him without an inrestigation. What I would have advised, and did ad rise with two or three Beaver Iriends, was to simply appoint a committee of investiga tion. J "If the other counties take similar action and give Mercer county Eepublicans no opportunity to be heard, mv personal belief is that Mercer county will support Mc Dowell. Our people are a unit for him. Every Eepublican paper in the county is supoorting him beartilv. We believe McDowell is innocent of any corrupt practices in this matter, and, believing this, our people will support him and give him the lareest vote erer siren to a Eepublican in Mercer county. Of course we are anxious to harmonize all differences, and shall MAKE EVEEr EFFOBT to do so, but if we fail to accomplish, this, and no charges are successfully brought home to McDowell, then we will stand by him, if not another county in the district does." Mr. Miller is much oflended because he was not admitted to the committee meeting. He says he feels sure that if he had been permitted to make the authorized statemsnt to the committee that if anything could bo Tiroven to show even the remotest knowledge on the part of McDowell that money was used in the convention he (McDowell) would withdraw. If he could have told the committee this before the resolutions were offered, he ielt sure they would never hare adopted the first resolution, which repudiates McDowell. "The other resolutions are all right," con cluded Miller. "It's proper to hare an in restigation, and no person would aid one quicker than Major McDowell." THE ACTION NECESSAEY. "Well, he ought to hare said so sooner," dryly remarked Mr. Harragh. "We had to take this action to-day. The newspapers were hinting that Bearer county's com mittee would quietly drop the affair. It was our duty to pass the resolutions we did, and now we should stand by them. They do not strike personally at Major Mc Dowell. They do not say he paid the money. They simply repudiate a nomina tion which was secured with bribes." Neither ofthe three delegates to the re cent convention wbo accepted bribes were around to-day. Nor was Dr. McKinnev, wuu tutu uiciu, pmeui. .neiiner Senator Quay or Congressman Townsend had yet arrived from Washington City, although the former was expected on an evening train. L. E. Stopiel, BACKED UP BY BUTLEE. Tbo Republican Committee There Will Soon Take Similar Action. 6rCT.U. TELEOBAM TO THE msrATcn.j Btjtleb, Pa., July 19. The news of the repudiation of the nomiuation of McDowell for Congress in this district by the Beaver Eepublican County Committee meets with general approval here. Hon. Thomas Eob inson, the veteran politician, was pleased with Beaver's action. He thought it was the proper course to pursue, and that But ler connty would do tbesame thing. H. N. Gaucher, Esq., was delighted with the re sult. He -sajd it Tvas the right tiling to do under the circumstances, and intact the only course self-respecting Republicans could pursue, and there was not aehadow of ; THE a. doubt the course tbe committee of this countv- will nursue. judging of the senti ment of the people, aud of the members of tbe committee who hare been consulted. The County Committeo will meet here at 10 o'clock Wednesday next, and will 'be largely attended. The committee is com posed of 56 members. M'DOWELUSTOSITION. HE WILL RUN REGARDLESS OF ALL CON. SEQUENCES. Under No Clrcnmntnnces Will Be Content to a Ncir Nomination; Conference The Republicans ol Mercer County Sustain This Attitude. rPPECIAL TELEQBAJJ TO THI DISPATCH.l Shabon, July 19. Ex-Congressman Samuel H. Miller, of Mercer, who made the unsuccessful attempt to explain Mercer county's position to-day in the Bearer County Eepublican meeting, was the most interesting personage in Sharon to-night. He had a conference with Major McDowell as soon as he arrived in Sharon, and was still in company with several friends talk ing to the Major at 10:30 to-night, when a call was made upon the latter. "What do you think of the action of the Beaver connty convention this afternoon in repudiating your nomination?" was asked, "I hare only this to say," said Mr. Mc Dowell, "if a committee had been called to act for the district, Mercer county would hare been intensely willing to act with the other counties. As they refnse us a hear ing in the committee, we cannot recognize their claims for future action, and we will abide by the issue as already made by fho district" "Then yon will not withdraw?" "No, sir; I am willing to submit'my case to the roters of the Twenty-fifth district on election day, and will abide by the result. I am in the field to stay, and think under the circumstances I should not withdraw. I receired the nomination from the Repub lican roters of the Twenty-fifth district, and have no reason for declining it." "Should a new conference be called and a new nominee be appointed, you will still re main in the field?" "Yes, sir; I will still be the district nom inee, and will fight it ont on that line. So far as I am concerned there was nothing irregular in my nomination." "To what influence do yon accredit the action of the Bearer County Committee to day?" The Major smiled and said: "On the question I cannot talk. It is not the issue just nbw, and would not be proper for me to say anything about it Ton can sayhow ever, that I am a candidate to the end." Eepublicans in Mercer county indorse the Major's action in relusing-to withdraw, and say that his rote in November will show that he has taken the right view ot the matter. To-day's meeting is the one topic of conversation to-night, and the more out spoken Eepublicans are predicting Dela mater's defeat In Mercer county if a new nominee is placed in the field. The State ticket is already seriously involved as a re sult of the present fight. A C0UPLE0F ARRESTS. TATE AND SHAFFER YISITED BY THE CONSTABLE. Both Waived a Hearlne and Gave Ball for Conrt Tbe Feelinc In Lawrence Connty Over tbe Action Taken br the Bearer Committer. - rSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO TDI DISPATCH. 1 New Castle, July 19. The news that Bearer county had repudiated tbe nomina tion of Major McDowell caused but little excitement here this afternoon. It was ex pected from the first. Coilnty Delectire Marshall, who arrested Messrs. Tate and Shaffer, the alleged bribed delegates, re turned home this erening. Downing was not at home and was not arrested. Tate and Shaffer waived a hearing Bnd gare bail for the September conrt here. William B. Wallace, Esq., charged with bribery, has not been arrested. The Chairman of the Eepublican Committee of Lawrence county said this erening: "There will be a meeting of the Connty Committee either the first or second Saturday in Au gust to nominate a candidate for Associate Judge, and to arrange a new committee. I cannot say what action, if any, the com mittee will take in this matter." Colonel O. S. Jackson, Lawrence county's candidate for Congress, was seen, and said: "I prefer not to say anything at present, as I do not know what was done." Major J. B. Brown, ex-member of the Legislature, said: "If Butler county follows in the foot steps of Bearer, as I understand she will do, and Lawrence and Mercer stick together, it will hare the effect of electing a Democratic 'Congressman in this district, I think now, as I did at first, that the men in Bearer county who started this,and the County Com mittee wbo carried it through, acted rery unwisely. For the sake of the party I am sorry." ' George W. McCracken, who was Chair man of the convention here, thinks that the action of Beaver county will not amount to much. He said: "One prominent Eepub lican will raise a campaign fund, go down to Bearer and defeat Dick Quay. It can be done as sure as you lire." The general dis position of the Republicans appears to ue to insist on McDowell running, and to punish Bearer county for lack of faith. SIcKinn'T Will I'unU tbe Cases. rSPECIAL TELEQUAM TO T1IE DISPA7CII.J .JJew Bbighton, July 19. Dr. Darid McKinney is much pleased with the action of the County Committee at Bearer to-day and telegraphed his attorneys at New Castle to push the trial promptly and thoroughly. He has secured the serrices of Judge Hice and Ellis N. Bigger as attorneys. BETJNI0N OF VETERANS. Members of tbe Old ftixty-Tblrd Reelment to Hold a Camp-Fire. A pleasant meeting of the surviving members of Company D. Sixth-third Penn sylvania Volunteers, was held last evening in the office of the Market Constable in the Market House. 'The purpose was the com pletion of arrangements for their annual re union, tt was decided to hold it at the home of Mr. William Carrick, one of the members living near Homestead. Tuesday, July 29, was fixed as the day, and an all day camp-fire was decided upon. A cordial invitation was extended to all members of the company and their wires and little ones to attend. Ample provi sions will be made for their entertainment, and a full attendance is desired. Those- ex pecting to be present are requested to send their names to Mr. Eobert McAdams, Mar ket Constable, early in the week. Due notice of trains leaving will be furnished. Tbe Dunbar Fund. Immigrant Inspector Eobert Layton yes terday recorded the following contributions to the Dunbar lund: t. nfo h TT. W. Bovd S 0 00 Bloomfield Lodge, A. O. U. W o 00 Employes oi uogsrn a. uum " William Charles & Co 10 00 Oil Well Supply Company, Limited 25 00 Buben, the Hatter , .... 5 00 Total amount of subscriptions to date.. $100 50 Examine Them as Tan Pass, If you are a judge of value in the dry goods and notion line the prices we bare on rarious articles on the sidewalk will inter est you. Thousands examine them every day and it's amusing to notice their coun tenance when they discover something they have paid more for elsewhere. That they are cash prices no one will question. It wouldn't be prudent to hare them ticketed in such bold figures if our com petitors could undersell us, but they can't. If we could represent our entire line in this way we would bare a monopoly of business as we now l)are of the goods exibited, such as black dress goods, towels, table linens, rugs, etc., etc ( Thobntov Bkos., 128 Federal sL, Ally. PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, TARIFF BATTLE NEXT. The Senate Passes the Sundry Civil Bill After a Long Debate. RELIEF FOE THE MORMON WOMEN. An Appropriation for a Home at Salt Lake Causes Trouble. A CHA5GB IN TEE TEEASTJRX POLICT. Another Plan Has Been Substituted for tbe Pally Farcaase of Bunds. The tariff bill will come up in the Senate at 2 o'clock Monday. The sundry ciril ap propriation bill has at last been passed. Secretary Wiiidom has adopted a nevf plan for the purchase of Gorernment bonds. WASHlNQTON.'July 19. Senator Alli son insisted that the Senate should remain in session until an unusually late bnr thB evening, to pass the sundry civil appropria tion bill, in order to clear the deck for the tariff battle, which is to begin on Monday. An amendment to the bill which provoked considerable discussion, was one appropri ating 51,000 for aid to the Industrial Chris tian Home Association, in Utah Territory. Mr. Cockrcll inquired as to the total num ber of inmates that hare been sheltered at the Home (which was established for the protection of Mormon women desiring to escape from polygamy), and gave it as the result of his information that it had nerer had, in all, more than 20 inmates, including children. did not appbeciate it. Mr. Edmunds stated the pmrpuse of Con gress in aiding the work of Christian women in Utah to save Mormon women from the slarery of polygamy. He admitted that not many Mormon women took adTantage of it, but said the building was an open invita tion to them, and that he should be glad to hare the people of the United States help the Home for that reasonaIone. Mr. Cockrell stated it as his belief that there were no persons at the Home except those who were receiving salaries from the United States. Mr. Vest said that he had recently seen a statement published to the effect that there never had been a dozen inmates in that Home, for which the Government had ap propriated 550,000, and now Congress was asked to appropriate $4,000 a year for no other purpose whatever than to pay salaries for a lot of people who had managed to ob tain an appropriation nnder the pretense of philanthropy. It had been started as an asy lum for poor deluded Mormon women who wanted to escape from polygamy, but it seemed that they did not want to escape. It was a notorions fact, he said, that the women of Utah were more opposed. to doing away with polygamy than the men were. A peeveeted belioious sentiment That was easily explained. It arose, not from sensuality or from any degraded feel ing, but trom religious sentiment. If one wanted to find absolute religious enthusi asm, he would find it among women. The great Architect of the universe had con structed them in that way. The essence of the female nature was dependence in this world and the next. He had asked a woman in Utah whether she was a plural wife. She said yes; that she was a third wife; that that was according to the Bible, and that her husband could not go to heaven if he did not practice polygamy when he was able to take care of sereral wires. Senator Pomeroy had had the idea that suffrage ought to be given to the women of Utah so that they could escape from polyg amy. They had got it, and every one of them had voted the polygainjstj ticket.,. Anen tne oenaie uau mrueu arounu, uncier the leadership of the Senator from Ver mont (Mr. Edmunds), and taken the suffrage away trom them. Mi. 'Edmunds admitted that tbe women of Utah had voted for the hieraichy, but it was on the same principle that colored men voted the Democratic ticket probably from religious enthusiasm. A diffebence op opinion. Mr. Vest Tt is my impression that the religious enthusiasm of ihe colored man is always in the interest of the Eepublican party. When a colored man is found voting the Democratic ticket he is ostracised on religious principles by his own associates and by white Eepublicans. In the course of the discussion, Mr. Vest resented the drift of some remarks of Mr. Edmunds as to Mr. Vest's uniform opposi tion to anti-Mormon legislation. He said that he was as much opposed to polvgamy as any living man, but there was a line be yond which he did not propose to go. The' essence of liberty was liberty of conscience. He had no right to put himself on a pedestal and say that no man should believe differ ently from him. If the Mormons had the absurd opinion that polygamy was right, as a religious matter, they should be al lowed to enjoy that opinion, but it they un dertook to put it in practice where Congress had jurisdiction, Congress should eradicate it. No man had tbe right to put him (Mr. Vest) in a false position because he had not seen proper to vote forwcertaia bills. ONLY AN INTIMATION. Mr. Edmunds disclaimed all idea of im puting anything wrong to Mr. Vest. Ete had merely intimated that that Senator had persistently yated against every proposition to deal with polygamy. Mr. Plumb Expressed the opinion that the Home for 'Women, in Utah, was an utter failure, and said that he had found that this was the ge'neral new in Salt Lake. He re garded tbe expenditure for it as a great waste of public money. Mr. Edmunds intimated that the Senator from Kansas, like other righteous men who had gone into strange places, had fallen among persons who did not tell all the truth. He knew that there was a certain opposition to the Women's Home, at Salt Lake, because tbe property was wanted for speculatire'purpoaes. Mr. Plumb said that Mr. Edmunds' in sinuation was somewnat characteristic of that Senator. He (Mr. Edmunds) saw no motire in any one which was not, compared with his own, rile. The persons whom he (Mr. Plumh) had seen in Utah were persons who had gone there from Kansas, and it was the universal talk among them that the whole thing was a failure. As to the idea or speculation, he did not see how there could be any speculation in it. as the build- Zing covered the entire lot A LITTLE IEONY, He had no doubt, howerer (this was spoken ironically) that it there was any speculation in it, he (Mr. Plumb) would be part of it. The Senator from Vermont was entitled to his own rery amiable opinion of him, and he reserved his opinion of the Senator. Mr. Edmunds If I sajd anything that cast the slightest personal reflection upon the Senator from Kansas, I withdraw it with all sincerity. Mr. Plumb I do not wish the Senator to withdraw it. I wish him to retain it. I. wish him, if he had such an opinion, to keep it. Mr. Edmunds If I had such an opinion, I would certainly retain it until I saw rea son to change it; but I cannot retain what I do not hare. The Senator from Kansas has worried himself into a state of mind con cerning a remark of mine which was one just as honorable and considerate of him as it could be of myself or any other person. Alter further discussion the amendment was agreed to. Among the other amend ments agreed to were the following: Inserting an item of $8,745 for pay ment to the widow ol the late Chief Justice Waite, that sum being equal to the balance of his year's salary. MONEY FOB BEAVEE FALLS. Inserting items for the following jjublia buildings: Alexandria, La.r $25,000 SUNDAY, JULY 20, Bearer Falls. Pa., $25,000; Paris, Tex.,f30,- y --W, uunH8) uau,, ou,uuy. Aucreuamg Jimi.oicostior the public building ai.ni. Worth, Tex., from $40,000 to $60,000. The amendment as to tbe proposed Latin American Memorial Library was taken up, tbe question being on Mr. Hawley's motion to amend it by striking out' tbe provision for a building to cost $500,000, and by sub stituting a provision for a section of the Library of Congress to be known as the Latin-American Memorial library, and ap propriating $23,000 lor its outfit. The mo tion was agreed to, and the amendment as amended.was agreed to. An amendment appropriating $35,000 ad ditional for public building at Jackson, Mich., was agreed to. An amendment ap propriating $15,000 for the purchase of ad ditional ground in Crown Hill Cemetery, near Indianapolis, for the interment of sol diers of the late war was agreed to. Mr. Sherman offered an amendment appropri ating $30,000 for an army hospital at Colum bus, O. Agreed to. THE IBBIGATION TEOUBLE. The bill was then reported to the Senate, and all the amendments aereed to in com mittee of the whole were agreed to in bulk, except those as to tbo irrigation survey, which were reserved for special votes. The discussion of the irrigation question was again started and occupied about an hour's time, and when it closed the amendments were agreed to. Mr. Edmunds moved to strike out of the item for a viaduct at the Eock Island bridge, the proviso repealing the law that requires the citv of Itock Island to con tribute one-half the expense. Mr. Allison offered, in view ot the lateness of the hour, to accept the amendment, and it was agreed to. Mr. Edmunds then moved to strike out the item of $101,000 for tbe further develop ment of the water power pool at Eock Island. Mr. Cullom argued' against the motion and told Mr. Edmunds emphatic ally that it would not be assented to, as his other motion had been, lor the sake of facili tating tbe passage of the bill. JUST TO SATE TIME. Mr. Edmunds offered to withdraw his motion if the paragraph were so modified as to make it subject to the conditions of the act of October 2, 1888, relating to the reconstruction of the Government dam at Eock Island, and to the Moline Water Power Compan! Mr. Cullom assented to the insertion oi that provision, and the para graph was amended accordingly. The bill was then passed. The tariff bill was taken up as unfinished business, and Mr. Aldrich cave notice that he would move to take it up at 2 o'clock on Monday. The Senate then at 8:45 adjourned till Monday at noon. A NEW BOND POLICY. WINDOM ANNOUNCES ANOTHER PLAN "FOR PURCHASES. He Sara Tbat There li Any Amount of Snrplns Money in Ibe Treasury Avail ableThe Amount Bought Will Depend on tbe Figures. Washington, July 19. Secretary Win dom issued the following circular this aft ernoon in regard to bond pnrchases: Bv virtue ot tbe authority contained in sec tion 3694 of tbe Revised Statutes, notice is hereby given that on Thursday, July 2i, at noon, proposals will be received in th vfflce of tbe Secretary of the Treasury for the sale to tbe Government of United States bonds of the acts of J uly 14, 1870, and January 20. 1871, for tbo purpose of supplving, in part, tbe require ments of the sinking fond for tbe current fiscal year. Proposals should state tbe fpecitto character of tbe bonds offered, whether cou pon or registered, rand must be for tbe sale of the bonds with accrued interest to and includ ing tbe day of sale. Tbe right Is reserved to reject any or all proposals for tbe sale ot l)onds,if itisthonghttobe for the interest of the Government to do so. The circular of April 17. 18S8, under which daily purchases ot bonds have heretofore been made Is hereby rescinded. William Windom, Secretary. The Secretary afterward made the follow ing statement in response to inquiries in re gard to his bond-buring policy: Tbe explanation of my action to-day is sim ply this: Owing to the recent very light offer ings of bonds tbe surplus has rapidly accumu lated until now It is In round numbers 130, 000,000. exclusive of 522,000,000 fractional silver coin. The recent act of Congress transfer ring $35,000,000 from the fund for redemption of national bank notes makes a large portion of this fund also available for tbe redemption of bonds. The department is therefore in a position to retire a considerable amount of tbe interest-bearing obligations of the Govern ment, and tbo advertisement issued to-day is simply intended to invite tbe bondholders to name a price at which tbey are willing to sell to tbe Government. Tbe amount to be taken will depend largely upon the prices at which they may be offered. WILL CELEBRATE LABOR DAY. Tbe Bnlldlngf Trades' Conncil Appoints a Committee and Transact! a Good Deal of Routine Bailnet Admliilool of the Electrical Union Tbo Seal Adopted. The Building Trades' Council met last evening, President Jones in the chair. It was decided to admit ithe Electrical wire men, but not the dynamo men. The former are considered as connected with the build ing trades by reason of stringing wires in houses in co urse of erection, but the dynamo men are classeed with stationary engineers and firemen, and therefore not eligible. A committee of nine was appointed to make arrangements for the celebration of Labor Day. It consists of M. P. Carrick, A. "M. Swartz, E. Williamson, John Brew, D. Mcintosh, W. Woodward, C. Corts, E. E. Stewart and John Griffith. Nearly all the local unions of the council reported fa rorably to turning out on tbat day. Invita tions to participati were extended to all the assemblies of the Amalgamated Association, Elint Glassworkers, etc. In the matter of the strike of the carpen ters in Wilkinsburg against the non-union men employed and non-union lumber used by James A. Wilson, contractor, the brick layers have notified him that after July 26 they would no longer work unless the diffi culties would be settled. The council rati fied the action of the bricklayers and de cided" tbat after that date no trades working for Mr. Wilson will be recognized. A number of important matters relating to the hod carriers and slaters working on tha. buildings of the Pittsburg Traction Company and the new postoffice, were re ferred to the Executive Committee. The council also adopted for a seal the emblem of the Federation of Labor, a globe with clasped hands and the figure "8." The hall of the council has been fitted up in a handsome manner, with offices and as semhlv rooms, and about $300 has been ex pended in making them pretty and com fortable. An Early Slornlns Bloze. The alarm from station 314 at 1 o'oloek this morning was caused by a fire at the Crescent Steel Works. The blazeconsumed an iron-clad storehouse on the river bank, near Fiftieth street. The damage amounted to about $3,000. Do They Sonnd Cbeapf 89e for a heavy black gros grain silk 24 inches wide; bring samples of the$l 25 quality from any store in either city for comparison. Another lot of dollar Henri ettas this week at 69c 60 pieces all-wool 42 inches French dress goods in stripes at 29c, were 50. A lot of wool plaids, double width, must go this week at 15. Just hare last week's price light effect If you need black all-silk satin-edga ribbons the follow ing cut price will interest you: No. 4 at 39c a bolt, 5 at 49c, 7 at 69c. 9 at 89c, 12 at $1 19. 10 at $1 39, 20 at $1 59, 40 at $1 89. See if our competitors will meet the above prices. Thoenton Beos., 128 Federal St., Allegheny, Pa. - KE patents from O. D. Levis, patent attorney of over 20 vears, exclusively in the patent business, offi'ce No. 131 Fifth avenue, next door to Pittsburg evening Leader: Andrew McWilliams, Hazzard, Pa., ap paratus for opening and closina mine doors; Eobert Neifaon, Pittsburg, tagging iron; C Nelson, Pittsburg, cork grinding machine; Ferdinand Kepp, AUegnenr, gear molding machine; Dr. William Peach, Allegheny, safety derice for incline cars; Martiii S, Miller, Pittsburg, animal trap; A. C. Fry, wilkinsburg, electrical switch. United States and all foreign 'patent procured No delay.. 1890, H0WI0LIYECHEAPLT Chautauqaans Instructed by Mrs. . P. Kw ing Bow to Exist on CHOICE FARE FOR $1 50 PER WEEK. Dr. Haynes, the Modern Diogenes Brings Forth His Lantern and Describes HIS PET HOBBY, THE H05EST ilA.V. Prot. VT. E. Waters Gins an Account of the American Bcfcool at Athens, Saturday at Lake Chautauqua was a busy day, and the programme rendered of exceed ing interest. Lectures were giren by Mrs. E. P. Ewing, Dr. E. J. Haynes, Prof. W. E. Waters, and the third and last of the series on "Dress" by Prof. Frederick Starr. (SFXCUX. TSLIOBJLM TO THE DISPATCH. Lake Chautauqua, July 19. "I am so puzzled about it I do not know what to do." "What is the matter?" "Why yon see there are six hours of Bible study, and I must attend them all, and the morning lecture comes at the same time and I do not know what to do." This is a sample of the person who tries to take in all of the countless attractions of the Assembly grounds. A heterogeneous mass of incongruous and dissimilar events classes, lectures, studies, conceits is continually floating before his mind and, at tbe end, all are tired out, having gained practically nothing for her hard work. The lastwe had had heard of the individual in question, she had succeeded in persuading some one to lend bis notes to her for the entertainment she conld not connect on her daily time table. No one cared to sit in the hammocks or loll in tree shades to-day, for it was very chilly sort of a cold air that makes you pull your coat' closely about yon and keep still In some warm, cozy part of the parlor. EXISTING ON $1 0 PER 'WEEK. At 11 o'clock Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, whose lectures have become so popular with Chautauquans, spoke on "Choice Fair for $150 a Week." "In the summer of 188T, while in Iowa, I kept a strict account ol tbe food used on our lamily table during a period of seven weeks. Our family con sisted of four adult persons, and we nsed chickens, beef, Iamb, real, eggs, hutter, cream, milk, vegetables, melons, grape3, in abundance, and all of the best quality. The cost was exactly $42 ?6 a week for the four, or $1 20 a week lor each person. This covered tbe cost of ererything except the hired help, which increased the cost to $2 25 per week for each of us. "At a laterdate in Boston I referred in one of my talks to my experiment in Iowa, and asserted tbat a familyof four, dispensing with hired help, could live on the fat of the land for $1 75 or-$2 per week. This state ment was scoffed at by the Boston press, aud ridiculed as extremely absurd. " 'It mfght be possible to lire thus cheaply in Iowa, where prorisions can be bought for a song, but in the East, where prices are high, such a possibility was entirely out of the question.' Yet at the rery time my wise critics were employed in ridiculing my assertions, I was demonstrating them right under their noses in the department ol domestic economy in the Young Woman's Christian Association. ETEIT IK BOSTOjr. "Forty-eight years ago the learned Dr. Lardcer asserted that it was impossible to construct a ressel of sufficient capacity to carry the coal needed to "run It by steam across the Atlantic In spite of his asser tion they do it. And in spite of journalistic assertions to the contrary, choice fare can be furnished for $1 50 per week even in Boston, "Instead of givine yon tbe bills of fare and cost of material of this association during the months of my connection with it, I will go further and give them under the manage ment ot my successor and pupil, Mrs. Clara Hayes, who,. by the way, bears the degree of M. D. E. Master of Domestic Economy. Her statement shows tbat during Novem ber and December the food, materia, tuel and ice for tbe board of 12 and for numer ous class lessons cost only $1 89 per week. These are samples of her bills of fare: November 6, Breakfast Apples, crapes, veal chops, baked potatoes, bread, batter and cof fee. November 9. Dinner Cream of celery soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, browned white po tatoes, baked sour apples, Washington pad ding, coffee. November 9, Supper Chicken salad, French rolls, corn dodgers, ginger cakes, tea, coffee. These are average meals. Her statement sustains all my assertions and her record in economy is, I think, even better than my own. SPECIMEN BILES OP PAEE. The lollowine bills of fare are average specimens of meals served to our family of four for one week in April, 1888, bread, butter and milk which are always on our table are omitted: Breakfast Oranges, creamed codfish, boiled potatoes, poached eegs on toast, coffee. Dinner Pea sonp, roast beef, brown pota toes, scallopped tomatoes, snow podding. Supper Farinos and cream, French rolls, strawberry jam, ginger wafers, tea. What do you suppose it cost? Only $1 75 each. Every family in the land can, for a similar sum, have a good bill of fare every day of every week in tbe year if the lady of the family is a provident housekeeper and understands how to select and prepare food. If I could at any hotel, restanrant or boardine house cet as well cooked. nutritious and satisfactory fare at even four times the cost I should be tempted to try boarding house life and conld even enduro Bellamy's Paradise for lazy women for a limited period. You will notice that there is little pie, pudding or cake on my bills of fare. These things are not omitted on account of their cost, but for the simple reason that with a variety of pure, wholesome food properly cooked people lose their appetite lor trash, and prefer to dispense with it and eat more digestible and nutritious food.' If one chooses to subsist on water, coarse bread, pat meal mush and the like it can be done at trifling cost, but such subsisting can scarcely be called living. The average man and woman wants and needs choico fare, and the lowest cost of such it is my desire to estimate to-day. HO"W THEY LITE AT PUEDUE UNIVESITY For three and a half weeks last fall I had charge of the boarding hall at Pardue Uni versity. Fitty-seven persons took their meals in the hall. The supply of food was liberal and the quality of the very best. The bread was all made of the best brands of patent flour. The butter was all gilt-edged, fresh and delicious The coffee was excel lent and with abundance of cream. Ererything was first-class and at a cost of $1 50 apiece per week. I confidently assert that no better fare was serred last September on anyprirare family table in any State in tbe Union than was serred to those students at Pardue University. In a magazine article Bishop Vincent has said "If I were a boy, with my man's wisdom, I should eat wholesome food and no other." In the light of this declaration, I doubt not that the Bishop would pronounce the fare which costs the students at Pardue $1 50 per week, last such food as he would eat, were he a boy again, from Sunday morning till Saturday night. WHY BOABD COMES HIGH. I assert and can demonstrate practically that choice fare can be furnished to as small a number as 50 for $1 50 a week with a fair margin of profit, at least $2 50 per day, and when students in our colleges pay from $2 25 to $3 00 per week there is a radical wrong somewhere. Our commissary depart ments are defective. There is negligence, stupidity and leakage in the kitchen. Boarders everywhere aro charged Jwhat ought to be remunerative prices even if choice fare were serred. Why so many failures in the business? Simply because those who at tempt it do not understand tbe elementary principles of the businessr They leare the marketing and cooking to incompetent servants. What wonld you think ofa busi ness man who so neglected the details of his business? There are half a million students in the cnuntrv paying $1 per week too much for indifferent board 520,000.000 a year thrown away. Go further. There are 10, 000,000 boarders in the United States suf ferine the same loss. Heie there are $520, 000,000 thrown away erery year. How long will this state of things continue? BAYXE3' HONEST MAST. Two elegant selections of song by the Harvard Quartet very pleasantly opened the first entertainment of the afternoon. Georce Vincent then stepped forward and introduced Dr.- Emery J. Haynes, of Bos ton, as the modern Diogenes, whose hobby was "The Honest Man," and who addressed the audience upon this subject. "We talk so much about tbe good life, the religious life, and this talk goes on through the world without any effect. Take up some definite thonght and labor for its end and success. An honest man is be, whom we can believe when he speaks. Some men are like lead, who, when they come in contact with others, turn things black, while others glisten like silver, ne that made the ey shall see. He that made tbe ear shall hear. It is foolish to think that we can do anything without discovery, lor there is One who sees and hears everything. The foundation and 'consideration of our every act should be "seen." There are ghosts in every man's heart. He is secretly and qnietly tortured with the fact.I am seen, I am known. Erery man who is hap py says with joy. 'Thou seest, thon knowest. ALL CHILDBEN LIE KA.TUBALLY. "It is self-defense. It is animalism. When the child grows older he relies on himself whether he tell the truth or not. Every tbings rests with the young man and young woman. The things that men lire by are acquired before they are 30 years of age. Young men that are doing the work, who fought the battle of Marathon and sared Greece; a little band of yonng men who fought the battle of Thermonylte and saved the, civilization of the West; a small army of young men. Cicero held all Some in his hands when he was 33. Julius Cresar was only 17 when he attracted the attention of the Imperial City. Napoleon had not reached 30 when he crossed the Alps. John Wesley held all England in his hands while yet a young man. General Grant was only 43 when he became Commander in Chief of the Army ol the United States. Edison was hardly past boyhood when he conceived the idea ot the two messages running the opposite way upon a single wire. THE PEEIOD OP ACHIEVEMENT. "How is it that one man succeeds in life while another makes a fool of himself? It is in the man. He must be honest and sincere himself. Like likes like. He must choose sni generis. Lore is one of the great factors of success and happiness. Young man, no matter how muscular, how intellectual you are, how b!o;soming your hopes, remember the mother ana lather who love you as fervidly as when a child. Men think tbey know it all and think they want it all as the next corollary. No matter what yon lose do not lose your heart. 'Honesty is the best policy' is an old saw that nerer cut a stick off yet. Be honest for the sake of honesty and of God. Do the thing and do it well. Do the godlike; do it from the highest motire and may the Lord grant you a place in the better world." Dr. Haynes is a rapid, .extemporaneous speaker, easy and graceful in his move ments on the platform and pleasing to hear. Each sentence Is simple and forcible; each argument clear, and he deals in no wide range generalities or particulars, un less it be a graphically told story to illus trate the cogency of his reasoning. THE AMEBICA1T SCHOOL AT ATHENS. At 5 o'clock Prof. W. E. Waters de - lirered a most interesting lecture on the "American School at Athens." It has long been the opinion of American students of Grecian literature and archaelogy that we must study Greece itself. This opinion gradually deepened into a conviction. Soon eminent scholars became fervid in their ad vocacy of American School at Athens for the study of the inexhaustible treasuries of Greece. Preliminaries were soon begnn in form of a called meeting of those inter ested. At this assembly statements and plans were drawn np and a circular letter sent to a large number of he most influen tial colleges in the'United States. October 1, 1882, the proposed sci ool became an actnal existence, supported by nine prom inent American colleges. The institution began under favorable auspices. Several students were entered tbe first year with the celebrated Prof. Goodwin as director. A good building was secured, and a valuable library of 1,000 volumes. The supporting colleges the second year numbered 14, and an appropriation of $3,500 was made. The membership now amounted to seyen en thusiastic and energetic men. Each made a specialty of some department and was indefatigable in his explorations. Each prepared an elaborate thesis for publica tion, thus giving American students the benefit of their investigations. THE PLAN OF WOBK IS YABIED, readings, discussions, lectures by the di rector and excursions into the surrounding country for original investigations. In tha course of the few years of its existence the reputation of tbe school was favored by the constant accessions to its library; by the high grade of work done and by tbe charac ter of the directors wbo governed it. More over, tbe Grecian Government had with great generosity presented a valuable site for the erection of a building more suitable. One was erected which i an honor to the institution. It is Oriental in structure, with flat roof and open conrt Its accommodations are ample. Besides the sleeping and study rooms are a photograoh gallery, library and guest chambers. Steps hare been made to secure a permanent di rector and endowment. Fortv thousand dol lars hare already been raised. In tbe eight years of its history only CO students hare been catalogued, but much. has been gained. The whole subject ot Grecian sciences, arts and archeology has received a thrilling im petus. The enthusiasm ot the students who have been drinking at the fountain head is as magnetic as the light. THE EVENING SESSIONS. At 7 o'clock the graduates and under graduates of the college held a meeting in the Chautauqua Literary and Social Circle building. Points of interest were d iscussed and a permanent organization formed. In tbe evening at 8 o'clock Frederick Starr continued his lectures on "Dress," showing up the Illustrations by means of stereoptican views. The professor was as interesting and spicy as ever and held the closest attention of the audience throughout. He always scores some new points, has some new theory, or else has found one. Colonel J. M. Schoonmaker, of Pittsburg, stopping at the Kent House, LaSewood, gave his friends a boating party on the yacht Grenhurst to-day. In the evening tbe party partook of a splendid banquet at Hotel Greenhurst. Tbe Ladlei Help Da Oat. Gentlemen, we don't expect yon to pay us as much tor summer shirts as yon pay the gents' furnishing people, wbo have onlr a few articles to make their profit on. The ladies help us out. Neither do we expect you to pay us as much as the stores that charge them to you. The following are cash prices: Domet negligee shirts at 29c. with pleats 39c; French silk striped flannels and Tamise flannels, 98c; silk striped cashmere and serge at $1 25 and $1 50; and on the $5 50 silk ones yon find elsewhere onr price is $3 50; other qualities at $1 75 and $2. Tbe largest line to select from. Gents' laundried shirts at 48c The 50c unlaundried shirt you buy elsewhere wo sell at 38c, double front and back. Thoenton Bkos.. 128 Federal st, Allegheny, Pa. Tbanka. See card of Thanks top of page'8. SECRETS OF STATE Divulged by Prince Bismarck Caus ing Trouble in Germanjt OFFICIAL ACTION TO BE TAKEN. Knssia Awaiting the Eesnlt of the Eoyal Interriews Before MOVING 15 THE BDLGAEIAU AFFAIE. 1 Tbe doTersment Cawillii; to Eiscind the Prohibition oa American Fork. Emperor William is makingpreparationa for hi3 trip to Enssia, at which time the much-mooted question of Bulgarian affairs will come np. Bismarck is attempting to implicate the Empress Frederick as plotting againsthim. An effort will be made to pre vent his using State secrets in his forth coming memoirs. French opposition to the Anglo-German agreement is being with drawn. TCOPTBIGHT, 1S0O, BT THE XEW TOSS ASSOCIXTX FKESS.J Beblin, Jnly 19. The qnestion of Pnnce Bismarck's right to dirnlge directly or suggestiTely through internews his knowledge of State affairs acquired while he was a Minister, will be decided imme diately upon the Emperor's return. Allu sions appearing in the Hamburger iVacA richten to Sir E. Morier, as again acting for a higher personage in supplying the press with elements to attack Prince Bismarck, disclose a desire of the Prince to publicly implicate Empress Frederics: in plotting against him. The ex-Empress has just intensified his anger by warning him that if the report is true that he is preparing his memoirs, he must publish none of her letters of her husband's without her consent, and intimating indirectly that he would be prosecuted if be failed to comply. Forth with the Prince selected from the list of ap plicants for an interview with him the cor respondent of the Dresdtner Xachrichten, a paper notorious for its hostility to Empress Frederick, and accorded him dn interview which lasted several hours. WILL SEAL THE OLD MAN'S MOtrKH. The official expectation is that the Em peror will direct the application to Prince Bismarck of the rescript which the Prince prepared after the Von Arnim trial, order ing the Ministers of State to take an oath not to publish anything relating to State business without permission from the Sov ereign. Other prorisions of the rescript gire validity to the actions of Empress Frederick. At a secret meeting of Prince Alexander of Battenberg and Prince Ferdinand of Bul garia at Eger, in Bohemia, Prince Ferdi nand asked for an explicit assurance that Prince Alexander would not return to Bul garia. He also asked what meaning was to be attached to his adoption of Major Panitza's child. He said he felt it to be useless to continue his struggles to maintain himself as rnlerat Sofia if Prince Alexander was to be his rival. Prince Alexander protested that he had no ambi tion to return to Bulgaria. Panitzas' boy, he explained, was his godson, and the adop tion of the boy had nothing to do with politics. He advised Prince Ferdinand to return to his post and govern constitu tionally, and he promised that if war shonld break out he would serve in the Bulgarian army in any capacity. AFFAIBS IS THE EAST AT A CRISIS. Emperor William has announced that he will return to Wilhelmsharen from his trip in Norwegian waters on Jnly 26. Ministers Du Vernois and Miqucl will meet him f. thereiiThe Relchzanselger last night declared tbat the Emperor s plans for his trip had not been altered owing to the political situa tion, but the facts contradict the official statement. Arrangements were made for his royage to extend a week longer. Affairs in the East are hastening to a crisis, and this caused Emperor William to advance the date of his conference with the Czir. Connt ron Schouvaloff, the Bucsian Am bassador to Berlin, wbo is now in St. Peters bnrg, has sent Chancellor ron Capriri tt formal intimation that the Czar will receive Emperor William on Ausust 10. Tha great maneuvers to which Emperor Will iam has been invited will begin on August 7 aud last for two weeks. EESULT OP THE INTEKVIEWS. The ovoe Yremya says that the position in Armenia and Bulgaria will remain in statu quo, as far as Eussian action is'con cerned, until the imperial interriews are OTer. Emperor William will probably make a briet risit to England before start ing from Kiel for Cronstadt. The original programme of a reception in St. Petersburg was prepared with a riew to the Emperor's presence. The character of the conference, involving a chance of the Emperors parting on hostile terms, caused a change, and the German Empreii, although, eager to accompany her husband, will re main at home. The opposition of France to the English, agreements abates under tbe prospective ar rangements, in which the foreign office here acquiesces. The French claims to a sphere of influence from Senegal to Lake Tchad will be submitted to a Commission on De- limitation, composed of German, English and French officials. OBJECT TO OEEMAN BEPEESENTATION. M. Eibot, the French Minister of For eign Affairs, objected to German represen tation on the commission, on the ground that the disputed territories from the Niger to Lake Tchad did not tonch German inter ests. Chancellor Von Caprivi and Lord Salisbury declining tbus to admit to be nugatory an article of the agreement deal ing with the Anglo-Gerrrran trade in tha countries drained by the Niger, M. Eibot was constrained to assent. The German Chancellor's official memor andum on the agreement ii ready for issue as soon as the English Parliament ratifies the cession of Heligoland. It declares that tbe Government sympathizes with the German rezrets over the apparent extension ot English influence in East Africa. At the same time it maintains that the im portance of Zanzibar is exaggerated and cannot compare with Heligoland's value. Germany has long coreted tha Island, and there hare been ceaseless ap peals made to the Gorernment to acquire it, the archists of the Chancellory. It con cludes with the statement that tbe conven tion is based on a just regard ol the preten sions and aspirations of both countries. WITHHOLDING THE POBK PEOHIBITION. The report first published by the Ham burg correspondent to the effect that Minis ter Lucius, in receiving a deputation on tha traffic in port through Holland, expressed an intention to rescind the prohibition on pork in October appears in all the papers. Mr. Phelps, the United States Minister, has seea Herr Lucius, who state? that the Government is still unwilling to take such a step. Professor Virchow, replying to the pro test ofa French physician against French men taking part in the Berlin Medical Congress, criticises such Chauvinism as a morbid condition of which a cruel experi ence appears not to hare cured France. Medical men, he says, ought to be ani mated by sentiments of mutual esteem. , A bill which is being prepared for the Landtag fixes the maximum working day in mines and prorides lor the appointment of inspectors with the same powers as are held by factory Inspectors. Tbe 'distinguished composer and pianist, Herr Xarer Scharwenka, sailed to-day on the new steamship Kaiser Wilhelm lor New York. Herr Scharwenka is tbe di rector of the Berlin Conservatory of Music, and as a composer Is well and favorably known througbont the United States. Ha goes to America on a pleasure tour. Matob Goorley has received an Invitation , to attend the banqnet oi tne Mayors-ciud, or, Massachusetts, at Boston, August 1Z ' Mi 3