p i Mm) - us 9 if,- - gWF.!r !FHE: PITTSBURG DISPATCH, "THUKSDAT, OCTOBER 20, 1893. Uje B$p4 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY ISM. Vol. 74, No. 259 Entered at Pittsburg Postofflco Ivovember, 16S7. as second-class matter. BUSINESS OFFICE, Cor. Smlthfield and Diamond Streets. News Booms and PnbUshing noose, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 78, TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW" YORK, -where complete files of THE DISPATCH can always be found. THE DISPATCH Is on sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout the United States, and at Brentano's, 5 Union Square, New York, and 17 Avenue de P Opera, Paris. France. XEKMS OF TUB DISPATCH. POSTAGE FItEE IX TI1E USTTID BTATIg. DAttT Dispatch. One Year. f 8 00 Dailt DlSPATcn, ThreeMonths 200 Dailt DisrATCii. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch Including Sunday, I year.. 10 00 Daily Di Br ATCir, including Sunday, Z m'ths. 2 SO Dailt Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 mouth 90 Sunday Disfai en. 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They also present samples of the official ballot divided as they propose, with the assertion that the division would greatly reduce the cost and facilitate the handling of the tickets. The point is an interesting one, and its decision will be awaited with some impa tience. "While it seems probable that the mode of preparing the ballots suggested in the bill will, as is claimed, be both more economical and convenient, it is to be remembered that the court cannot order a ballot to take one form or the other on account of these considera tions. The only criterion is what the law provides. The able counsel fiiing the bill are of opinion that the law does not re quire all the offices of various character to be printed on the same ballot They hold, it may be presumed, that on election day there will be one election for Fresidental electors requiring an official ballot, an other for the Judiciary requiring a separ ate ballot; and a third for county officers requiring a third ballot This might create a strong presumption in favor of the theory if it were not that equally eminent legal authority is of the opposite opinion. That being the case the Supreme Court must decide the question if it takes juris diction. Without anticipating the ruling of that eminent tribunal it may be said that the theory of the bill is somewhat difficult to harmonize with the intent of the law indicated by the requirement that all the "ballots used at any voting place shall be alike. It is quite possib'e that the change pro posed in this legal document would avert such muddles as arise from the extraordi nary size of the ticket in President3l years; but the change seems to be one rather for the Legislature than for tho courts, unless the law is generally misin terpreted. NEED rOR A PROCESSIONAL AVENUE. So far as mere politics go, it is no great loss that facilities for nightly parading are being lessened in Pittsburg. The torchlight, the drum and the transparency are fantastic relics of the politics of ten, twenty or thirty years ago, but have no special usefulness or significance in the days we are fallen upon, when "educa tional1 campaigns to convince the mind by speech and writing are all tho fashion. Hut all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; and there are some things quite outside of politics that all the speechify ing, writing and printing In the world" can never illustrate as well, or as entertain ingly, as a procession. Of that sort, for instance, is the Columbus celebration which comes off to-morrow; the occasion when the military have to turn out; the days when people of special nationalities go upon view; the parades of societies, which can thus alone display adequately the strength and personal character of their organizations, and so on. Under our cable and electric car system tho pressure upon which will constantly be growing any sort of parade will soon be a highly-risky undertaking in Pitts burg. The only way out of the difficulty will be to establish one or two streets specially for such functions. If Diamond street were opened and widened the whole way from Old avenue to Penn; and if the promised O'llara street were cut through, parallel with Penn, from the Point to Lawrenceville and the streetcars kept forever off both there would be three miles of route thus opened which might be extended to five miles by extending to Bluff street and out to Oakland. For the purpose of processional display and for ordinary vehicular traffic some ar rangement of this sort will yet have to be effected. The danger from parading in front of street cars which cross the pres ent streets in every direction is too mani fest now to think that the practice can in future years be kept up. A VERY VERSATILE OBGAN. The fertility of the New York World in the production cf free trade arguments is beyond comparison. It is unique and original, and nothing 1 ike it was ever be fore seen in the world of politics. Its lat est and most shining effort is the discovery that there has? been a great loss to the farmers from the McKinley act The exports of grain in September, 1691, were very much larger than in September, 1852. Consequently the farmer has been deprived of a gain, reciprocity is a sham, and the McKinley act is an invention of the, King of Darkness. It does not occur to 'the World that by its'own logic the ex ports of grain in September, 1891, being five months after the taking effect of the act, must have been a magnificent result of that legislation. When the impetuous free trade logic rushes triumphantly over an pbstacle 'of that sort, it is certain that it would pay no heed to the fact that ex ports of grain are a matter of surplus crops and the needs of Europe. But that is not all. Prices are lower. Corn has gone down eleven cents, oats three cents and wheat a quarter from the boom of September, 1891. When the World ponders this fact also without any reference to the share which a foreign de mand has in raising prices nothing less than a death sentence for Major If cKinley seems adequate. Yet is it more than a month since that journal drew from the statistics a fiery indictment of the McKin ley act because it had done just the oppo site of what it is now accused of doing, and raised the prices of farm products? Wc think it is just about that time since TnE Dispatch had occasion to call atten tion to the World' t unique display of itself on that score. When an allegedly great journal con demns a measure because it has raised the prices of farm products and then turns around and proposes to wipe the same act 'Off the face of the earth because It has lowered them, its economic versatilities remove it beyond the pale of serious argu ment NOT TOTAL TO THE CELEBRATION.' Judge Tourgee's indictment of Christo pher Columbus as a liar, freebooter, slave hunter and gold-seeker, is reinforced by the Rev. L. J. L. Mitchell, of New Haven, who gives his adhesion to the doctrine that Columbus was a man wholly un worthy the honors paid to his memory. The threat of the formation of an anti Columbian party in this year of celebra tion is interesting, but while the personnel of the opposition so far is estimable, it is hardly threatening. It is not necessary to enter into a de tailed discussion of the historical evidences in order to settle the question whether Columbus was a scoundrel, as Judge Tourgee and Mr. Mitchell class him, or an elevated and saintly character, as Wash ington Irving, and the general opinion consider him. The probability is that he was a man of his time, which means that he would aa sailor and adventurer do a great many things considered entirely legitimate and which would now be considered akin to piracy. Even later than Columbus' time, the English explorers captured slaves and won great fortunes by plundering the Spanish Main. But it is not necessary to dissect Colum bus' moral character or to decide how far we must blame him for the darkness of his age. That is outside the present cele bration from the fact that his memory is recalled in this jubilee not for what his moral character was, but for what he did. The reason of the celebration is that he was the first mariner to locate and give to the Old World the intelligence of new lands heretofore unknown. The Norse myths or legends may be given credit for what is due them without detracting from Columbus' fame. It was the discovery that could be utilized which is celebrated; and the man who accomplished that achievement conferred an infinite bene faction upon humanity without regard to his personal morals. If he had been a very Nero, it would not diminish the magnitude of his actual performance. It may reasonably be doubted whether he was anything like as dark as his opponents would paint him; but the vital point is that this is not what the world is celebrat ing his name for in this year of grace. The only way to detract from the im portance of the commemoration and the magnitude of Columbus' fame is to show that the new hemisphere is really not so important a matter as people think it " LONDON'S WATER. From tho article published elsewhere in this issue, the gradual process of improv ing the quality of London's water supply may be instructively traced. The water supply of the British Metropolis to-day is considered satisfactory, and that It is so is due to the elaborate arrangements for subsidence and filtration described. Pub-i lie opinion acting through Parliament was the incentive to the improvement, and that is the only effective motive power in such matters to be found anywhere. Whether or-not the system of filtration is the best to be adopted for the perfec tion of the water supply hereabouts is a matter dependent upon local circum stances which may require a good deal of discussion and consultation among experts for its decision. But the one essential to procuring a pure water supply, a clean atmosphere, a proper disposition of garb age or any other public benefit is an urgent demand for it from the people. When Pittsburgers once get properly aroused to their duties and powers as members of a corporate body all these and many other good things will be obtained, while the city will grow and prosper in a greater degree than ever before. THE LOSS OF STRIKES. A compilation of a group of strikes in this end of the State shows the loss of wages to the employes to have been 52, 984,235, and the loss to employers 52, 112,075, but does not include some of the later strikes which would swell the total by per centage. The Philadelphia Record, in citing the figures, very justly presents them as putting the question, "Does it pay?" TnE Dispatch has always contended that the loss of strikes makes that resort, like war, a game from which both parties can be losers. Especially from the side of labor, viewed as a means for preventing injustice by employers in the matter of wages, the resort to strikes nearly always costs more than it comes to. Suppose that the nearly three millions shown by this table to have been lost to labor had been saved up and invested in enter prises controlled by labor and fixing the rate of wages by the homogeneous action. of labor, both as employer and employed it would now have & greater influence in fixing just wages than all these futile strikes, and in addition would be a pro ductive property for its owners instead of a dead loss. On the other hand, the loss to employ ers by the same showing argurs that they would have found it profitable to have taken a course by which strikes would be invited. In the fifteen cases which make up this total the employers might have distributed $1,000,000 by profit-sharing or increased wages among their workmen and still have been over a million better off than they now are. ' ' When both employers and employed perceive the utter fatuity and loss to both sides of attempts to settle wages by brute force of endurance, and the superiority of methods by which workingmen shall share the position of employers, the labor problem will be close to solution. THE MEANING OF FUSION. In pursuance of its boom for the fusion of the Democrats and People's party in the Northwest, the New York World says: "It is simply designed to make the elec tion of Mr. Cleveland doubly sure. When he shall be again seated in the White House it will not matter much through which process his election was secured." Exactly. The movement, being one whose only result, if it has any, is to serve the Democratic cause, there should be no mistake about it It masquerades under another name, but its only possible outcome except defeat is to aid a Demo cratic victory. This is the real nature of the so-called "fusion," and it is for that reason that the Democrats are urged by their organs to support It, even at the cost of sailing under false colors for the cam paign. If all the ex-Republican members of the People's party will take nptice of the avowed .purpose of the fusion movement, its actual effect will be to restore the old party lines. The professional spy lie Caron is out in a series of reminiscences that read very muoh like a fairy tale about ex-President Johnson and the Fenians, Parn ell's ad vocaoy of physical force and so forth. Le Caron says Johnson purposely save the Fenians abundant time for their raid on Canada be fore issuing the proclamation against them. He says that Parnell told him, Le Caron, that only physical foroe would free Ireland. He also adds that the Clan-na-Gael was in tieaty with Russia, for torpedo boats. This wild kind of stuff is more sensational than testimony of the informer before the Parnoll Commission; and as be pntitln book form it may sell. Since the Tory Government went out, Le Caron's supplies from the secret service fund, which keeps up such in struments of British justice, have probably been cut off; and in this default he takes to authorship. Professional spies of Le Caron's type cannot, however, be trusted to con tribute any reliable thing to history. It is a pity that there is not a larger seating capacity in the London courts. It seems that murder trials and social exposes are to Londoners what the oircus and its gladiatorial combats were to the ancient Romans. TAmmany'S supreme control of its min ions was clearly indicated by stho "hearse laughter" which gieeted the query if there were uny other namos to be offered as com petitors to Thomas F. Gllroy's nomination. Thore is no doubt that Tammany Hall is far and away the best running and most smoothly lubricated political machine in the world. But the immorality of its mo tive power and tho facility with which it produces corruption are not exactly the greatest incentives to an honest nation to elect a President who will be dependent upon Tamiriany's advice for the exercise of bis rowers of patronage and general execu tive functions. There is no very apparent political sig nificance in the partial eclipse of the sun to day. But perhaps Proressor Totten bus some hidden meaning of it to edify the publio withal. When thev get back from Chicago, some or tho Kentucky orators might And employment nearer home. As the resnlt of family leuds, fifty armed men are abroad in some out of the way region known as Scott's Ridge, and they aie expected to indnlge in a bloody light before long. No fitter subjects could be found for rhetorical persuasiveness, and great would be the fame of an evangel ist who should charm these semi-barbarians into amity by the sweetness of bis eloquent discourse. I 'Again the trans-Atlantic record has been cut by tho fast going City or Paris. This calls for the risking of more lives In tlio efforts of the 'record-holder's competi tors. That ordinance to mitigate the smoke nuisance in the business quarters of the city, which is to be introduced to Councils on Monday, should meet with hearty support and no opposition. It should be passed and enforcedas soon as it can be made law. Pittsburg's wealth, health and convenience will all be enhanced by such a measure, and there is no reasonable argu ment against It. Z Stoning Governor McKinley'g train in West Virginia is the sort of argument that is advanced against Froteotlon by adherents of the free trade party. There is a most regrettable amount of Juvenile criminality making Its appeaiance in and around Pittsburg Just now. But all the cases are so clearly the result of imma ture, hotheaded carelessness that it is ridic ulous to attribute the coincidences to the leniency of the Jury which acquitted a boy murderer the other day,notwlthstatidlng the incontrovertible evidence of his technical guilt. Odes and such like addressed to Chris topher Columbus should naturally find their way to the dead letter office. Since all the Democratic leaders differ more or less from one another and their party platform, and seeing that none of them have thought it worth while to pro pose any definite substitute for existent Protective legislation, the assumption tha$ a soaroh for official spoils is the beginning and end of their efforts appears well war ranted. Air early Indian summer might infuse some wainith into the last days of the cam paign. What with omissions in the Invitations sent out, rivalry between various officials and organizations, and the usual Impossi bility of pleasing everyone, it transpires that Columbus celebrations may be made a source of discord and dissension by con tentions and jealous parties Just as easily as any common everyday matter. Patriotic Pittsburgers must decorate to-day in order to be decorus. Children in the Pittsburg schools to day should have no trouble in remembering the date of the discovery of America. Tbore is nothing like a holiday for making a red letter day and encouraging patriotic feeling in youthtul minds. PEOPLE OK I'ROMIXENCE. Count Bozexta, whose wife is Mme. Modjeaka, is wot king on a book about Polish celebrities. Hamilton Fish is now the sole snr vivorof those distinguished men who held the Governorship of New 1 ork prior to 1879. Chatjncey Depew says that the most absorbingly interesting incident of all his European travels was his visit to the passion play at Ober-Amniergau. Edwin Booth, the actor, who has been in poor health for some time, is now able to be out and around 'his home at Lakewood, N. J. Ho is still very feeble. The Czar has put his hand into his pocket for a good purpose. He has given $300,000 for the establishment of a medical school for women in St. Petersburg. TnE Archbishop of Canterbury will read no letters on Sunday. For 30 years, it is said, ills lirace has rorused to allow any Sunday delivery to be made at his country resi dence. The vacancy in the Order of the Garter, resulting from the "death or the Duke of Sutherland, bas been filled by the confer ring of tho insignia of the order cpon the Earl of Itosebery, the Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Gladstone still adheres to his life long habit of rising about 6-30 daily an hour that most other great men of the period would consider unconscionably early for getting up. He and Mrs. Gladstone attend church every rooming. Dr. Erankel, a well-known author of Weimar, Germany, bad the temerity to criti cise a German army officer publicly last summer, because lie had forced his men to take long marches in the great heat, thus causing tho death of one soldier. The doc tor bas been arraigned and fined $35. Hartleioh, the sculptor, has nearly completed his heroio statue of .Ericsson, and tbose who, have visited his studio In New York City declare tbat It is one of the finest works of art of tho sort ever made in this country. The statue' will probably be com pleted ins bronze in the spring, when there will be appropriate dedication ceremonies. Kelly, Montague & Co. Philadelphia Inquirer. A f 10,000 beauty Grover Cleveland's con tribution to Chairman Harrity'a campaign fund.. , CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT. West Virginia is not the only border State which the Republicans are hopeful of transferring from the opposition column this year. In little Delaware the Democrats have for years past been disturbed and to an extent demoralized by faetlonal quarrels. In 1888 the State gave Cleveland about the average majority, but elected a Republican Legislature, resulting in the choice of Mr. Higgms as United States Senator. The Democrats announced that this was only an accident, and would nover happen again.' But " in 1890 the Legislature was once more Republican in both branches, and, though that was the Democratic tidal wave year throughout the country, the plurality of that party for Governor was Cut to a bare 500. This Legis lature has enacted measures to relieve the Republicans of some disadvantages which previously operated aS a handicap. Gov ernor McKinley delivered an address at Wilmington a short time Ago, and was re ceived in a most entbuslastlo manner. The leaders of the Republican forces aie men of marked ability, and have been con ducting a most rigorous canvass. It is not much wonder then that cx-Seoretaiy of State Thomas F. Bayard has cancelled his Western stumping tour, and Is devoting Sractlcnlly his entire attention to his home tnte. The term of tne other Demooiatlo Senator expires this year, and the choice of a Legislature 'which would give Hlgglns a Republican colleague would bo a sore blow to the party which so long controlled Dela ware w ithout question. The little seashore State may not vote for the Republican can didate for President this year, but it Is progressing In thtitdlrection, and the Demo crats are thoroughly aroused to the un pleasant fact. The alliterative combination of Sipe and Snee is creating considerable commotion in the country districts of Allegheny county. General Sickles' nomination for Con gress has apparently accomplished its pur pose, as the nominee now 'declares that he never bolted Cleveland and Stevenson, and will now take the stump in their behalf. A great many New York City Democrats are opposed to Sickles, and some have gone so far as to denounce his candidacy as being tho result of political blackmailing. It is neatly 35 years since General Sickles first went to Congress. When he was first elected'to Congress be was the idol of the young Democracy of New York. His tem perament was such as would have made him an ideal Southerner, for he was fiery, cour teous, enthusiastic and politics was bis life. Asa stump speaker in tbose days Sickles was without a superior In his party in New York City. lie was a bosom filend of James T. Brady, who defended him after he had committed the sensational murder of Key in sight of the White House; and that event overshadowed for the time being the ex citement which the extraordinary politics of tho day that pointed to rebellion created. When Sickles quit Congress, he thought he hadlelt politics forever, and there was no more vehement denouncer or the secession movement than he. Twice Minister to Spain, he conducted some leal business in the interim between these diplomatic ap pointments which required exactly the qualities which Sickles possessed, not a great knowledge of law but nlenty of stern courage. He has been Sheriff of New York by appointment, has been a red-hot Repub lican, a half way Republican, a mild Demo crat, a rabid Democrat and even tempor arily almost a Mugwump. He has a com fortable lortune and requires no office on that account. The Chambersburg Valley Spirit "There is one thing sure. It doesn't take a Baker's dozen of ballots to make a crazy quilt." A story comes from Buffalo concerning Lieutenant Governdr William F. Sheehan, Chairman of the Democratic State Com mittee of New York. He is known as "Blue eyed Billy," and the other day was called by legal business to Buffalo. There was a fore closure suit on the docket of the Buffalo court, and Sheehan was one of the lawyers interested in the issne thereof. The salt was on the calendar for immediate trial, and Billy had to come. He sought to have the trial postponed. True reform would suffer if be were compelled to stay In Buffalo and try that suit, said Billy. The lawyer on the other side, a Republican, didn't want the' case postponed. He was "ready with his testimony ard law Dooks and said so. Sheehan argued with him and then pleaded with him. Finally the lawyer said: "Go to my partner, Billy. Ho is a Demo crat like yourself, and if he ogress to let the case go over to the next term, I will not ob ject. He is a good Cleveland man and I lniaeine you will have no trouble with him." I shoulan't have," replied Billy, "for 1 am working night and dav to eloct his scoundrel President of tho United States." So far as appearances go Sheehan is desper ately in earnest in behalf of the national tioket. He is a youncr man. is full of hope. and realizes that his own interest requires an appearance, at least, of loyalty and in dustry. Sheehan's programme is to elect a Democratic AssemDiy so tnac senator uis cock can be taken Out and Flower be pnt Into the United States Senate. In that event Shee han will become Govornor, sorve out Flower's unexpired term, and then be nomi nated himself tor the offico and a full term. Shcohan is said to be particularly anxious to have the national ticket run well In Buffalo, where he personally controls the organization. A Detroit roan .offered to bet a moderate sum that ho could name a city of over 100,000 inhabitants south of Mason and Dixon's line in whioli Cloveland would not get a vote. The bet was eagerly accepted and the De troit man 'won. He named Washington, D. C. That supreme confidence which is such a featuro of General Weaver's-personality has not been shaken even by recent political evonts in the South. While the General was being interviewed the other day Mrs. Lease took a seat at one side and interjected comments and corrections and fired an oc casional shot at the "dying parties." Calmly and with apparent sincerity she metaphori cally laid the Republican nnd Democratic "parties on the shelf, and announced that tho People's party was marching on to sure vic tory. "The third party movement Is uni versal In this country, and' Us lnfluenco will prove Irresistible," said General Weaver. "While I do not care to give ateatimute of the vote, it will surprise the leaders of the old patties. The power and lorco of the new movement are everywhere. There has been nothing like It since the sixties! The battle is hot all along the line, our leaders are en ergetic and aggressive in every part of the country, and we will sweep everything be fore us. Their treatment of usin Georgia was as bad as pain ted.and Isee the omelet belt has extenueaas lar as ivansas. xno noouium element in towns and cities, comprising Democratic olubs backed by the politicians, seek to terrorize the honest citizens, the people who demand a fair vote and honest government." Mr. Weaver and his vigorous lieutenant dononneed the directory of the Columbian Exposition in ignoring the People's party in the approaching cere monies, and predicted the resentment of millions of voters, denominating such action as an insult to tne(fariners and labor. ers of the nation. TiiERais said to be some talk In Susque hanna county of ex-Speaker Gulusliu A. Grow for United States Senator. Mr. Grow is probably not a candidate. Ho in ado 'a strong canvass for the Senatorshlp a dozen years ago, and was defeated by the opposi tion of Senator Cameron. The political correspondent of the. Phil adelpliia Public Ledger hns been Investigat ing the situation in New York and leports a lack of 'definite information. He says that when, on October 29, the last day ofiegis tration is ended, and an approximation of the total voto can be figured out, it will bo time to form a fair estimate of tho result. And even then the leaders may be far off in their reckoning. Last year, Mr. Piatt, whose sources of lnloimation ought certainly to have been of the best, confidently predictod that tho full Bepubiican vote above the Harlem would bo polled for Fassett. The lesnlt is well known; ic was the failnroof country Republicans to vote that defeated Fassett with a slaughter such as has not overtaken any candidate since Folger. Richard Croker, who bas the reputation of being a close' tlgnrer, and most conserva tive In his predictions, declared last vear that Tammany would give Flower 70,000 to 80,000 majority. Yec on election night it was levealed that Flower's majority in this city was only 09,000. So the best of Judges may lall in thoir estimates of results, and there aro es special reasons this year why it should be difficult to forecast tho deolsion of election day. Chairman Harnty, of the National Democratic Committee, spoke in the most confident; way of the Democratic outlook in New York. Murphy, Sheehan, Croker and the leaders are, he said, working strenuous ly and laithfully for the success of the na tional ticket and were entirely confident that tho State wonld cast its electoral voto for Clevelnnd and Stevenson. At the He publican headquarters the managers appear equally confident of the success of Harri son. Republicans believe that the Cleve land tide has readied its height and has now begun to ebb, and that from now on Harrison will continue to grow in popnlar strength. Perhaps more people have read the Constitution in this canvass than In any re cent similar length of time. A TBIAL FOR HERE8I. Great Interest in the Case of Prof. Henry Preserved Smith. November 11 is the day appointed by tho Cincinnati Presbvtery for tho trial of Prof. Henry Preserved Smith for heresy. His case is only second in interest to that of Dr. Briggs. On some mooted points he holds more advanced views that his illustrious New Yoik compeer. Prof. Smith is the grandson of a Unitarian minister or New England, and there are those who think that the heresy of ancestors is now cropping out in a child of the third generation. When tho head or this branch of the Smith family was on his way to America a irreat storm arose at sea, and the preservation of his lire perpetuated the name "Preserved" in the tamlly. Prof. Smith's father, Henry Pre served Smith, or Dayton, O., was one of the grandest men of his day, very wealthy and a generous supporter of Lane Seminary. It is generally believed that the son was called to a professorship in the institution chiefly through the benefactions of the lather. The young professor went on in a common place way until the Briggs heresy began to bloom. Then it was Smith began to trouble the pool at Lane. About 18 months ago Prof. Smith read a paper to the Cincinnati Minis terial Association on "Inspiration." The views expressed in this paper surprised and alarmed the majority of the ministers; Prof. Evans also read on the same subject and the two papers were published In pamphlet form and circulated'through the whole church. The students in tlwe semi nary took up tbe discussion and the vacant churches began to steer clear or such men for supplies. Many of tbe students huve left Lane, some coming to Allegheny Sem inary, so that the present attendance at Lane with its five professors and 1500.000 of property is barely one dozen students. Presbytery refused to license one student on aoconnt or doctrinal unsound ness. Another was considered shaky. Dr. mith's views were naturally regarded as tbe cause of all this, and tho Piesbytery appolnted a "Committee on Errors," which reported last April that thev were ready to report. The report was, however, post poned until June on account of sickness in Prof. Smith's familv. In the meantime tbe professor went to Europe, so tho case could not come up until September. The majority of the Presbytery believes Smith's views are antagonistic to the doctrines of the oliurch, and that bo violates his ordination vows in propagating his views. Thoy think Mr. Smith should go to a more congenial church and they propose to assist him out of tbe Presbyterian Church. At the meeting of the Cincinnati Presby tery last Monday, Pror. Smith was formally indicted for heresy. Tbe first charge is that he holds that doctrinal qualification Is re requlied only at ordination. It is also charged that he teaches erroneons doc trines on inspiration. Ho holds that the writer or Chronicles suppresses certain his torical truths, and that Isaiah did not write the 27 last chapters of his book. The proposed trial excites great interest in Cincinnati. ANDY JOHNSON A FENIAN PLOTTER. Startling Bevelatlons From the Pen of Le Caron, the Notorious Spy. Lotjdos, Oct. 19. Tho reminiscences of Dr. Le Caron, the spy lor the British Govern ment, who gained such unfavorable notoriety by his disclosures on behalf of the Timet before the Parnell Commission, have been made public. In regard to the projected Fenian inv.ision of Canada ha de clares that when he and General O'Neill were received at the White House in Wash ington, by President Johnson, the President tola General O'Neill that he sympathized with the Fenians and he was willing to do all in his power to assist the Fenian move ment. "You muss remember," said Presi dent Johnson, "that I gave you full five days before issuing the Droclamation stop ping you. In God's name, what more did you want! It you could not get there in five daj s. by , you could never get there. And then as President I was compelled to enforce the neutrality laws or be denounced on every side." Le Cat on guys the Clan-na-Gael's wild plans included a treaty with Russia to manufact ure a submarine torpedo boat to inflict ter rible damage on the British Navy; a plot to assassinate the Queen, kidnap tbe l'rinco of Wales and rescue Michael Davitt from prison. In describing an interview with Parnell in Parliament, he declares that Par nell's remarks were a bombshell to him. He says: "Parnell confessed his belief that nothing but the force of arms would accom plish the final redemption of Ireland. He went carefully into details on the League's resources for an open movement of insur rection and said they had X 100,000 In the treasury. He discussed tho position of home and American revolutionary organizations and recommended the American policy." Le Caron then gives the text of a secret cir cular prepared for a dynamite campaign in tho event of Mr. Gladstone's home rulo scheme being inadequate. He gives a giaphic account of Egan's clever escape from tho countiy after the Phoenix Park murders. Ho t.ays IUan was the last per son In the world one would take for a con spirator. AKXI0US SEMINARY DIBECTOBS. Tho Disposition of a Million Dollars Is a Troublesome Question. New Yomr, Oct. 19. Anxiety is felt by the 19 directors or Union Theological Seminary, who voted to sever the seminary's connec tion with tho General Assembly of the Pres byterian Church, as to the disposition of over $1,000,000 which was donated to that in stitution during its loyalty to the Presby terian faith. Those donors who oppose tho Seminary's action are Russell Sage, who gave $5,000; Marcellns Hartley, who gave $5,000; William G. Rltch. trustee or Fajerweathor estate, $50,000, and the heir or ex-Govemor F. D. Morgan, $400 0J0, and it is possible that action may be instituted against the seminary taking tbe funds from them and placing ft in tho hands or Rev. Dr. Booth. Inasmuch as Dr. Booth's l esisrnatfon from the direc torate is likely to occur in the near future, the remaining directors are feeling nneasy. Dr. Booth's position is well known. Ho held from the first that tho contract made by the Seminary with the General Assembly in 18S0 could not be abrogated in good faith. DEATHS' HLRE AND iLSBWEBRB. John K. Anderson, Fayette County. John K. Anderson, father of Kegister and Recorder Anderson, of Fayette county, died at his home In Nlcholsen township yesteriMy. In his Cist year. His death was c.ui9cd bv dropsy. Boon after his marrive lie removed to Illinois, where he remained for several years, finally re turning to his old home. II" lias always !een a Republican, thonjrh Ills son was elected Register and Recorder on the Democratic ticket two years aeu. Edward Sllncy. Mr. Edward Sliney died yesterday morn ing at Lakewood, N J. Deceased was proprietor of the J( cw Kent House, on Lake Chautauqua, and hljdcmiscwlllherejrrittol byinany I'ltUtiurRtrs who have been gnosis at the resort over whlcmie presided. Mr. stllnev wasverj popular with Chau tauqua tourists, aiid'wlll be missed In future sca- 60113. lilies N. Carpenter. Miles N. Carpenter yesterday died at his residence In ew Orleans. He was a brother of Mrs. P. E. Collins, or Pittsburg. Mr. Carocnter w a a well-known river man. having hern con nected with rler interests for the past 40 years. Obituary Notes. James Daltov, a merchant at Latrobe, died suddenly Tuesday. Heart disease was the cause. JIYitA Goodwin, the soubrctte. who died or heart failure last haturday at her boarding house In New York City, was burled Tuesday. -Trmiv llnrrit Mtt.t.kit whn 7iR heetl ffnerallV regarded an the ablest member or the Maryland i Elllcolt City. He was (3 years old. Major David E. "Caldwell, aged 31, late crtl tornnd proiirlelororthe Lexington (.Ky.) itominu I'rameript. died there Tuesday. Two months ago he cold the 2V"neripf, his physician telling hlin that lie would never be well again. Scpebisteudskt E. G. St. Jons', late of the British Twenty-ninth Infantry, Is dead of cancer of the stomach, at Omaha. Captain St. John-was born In Sussex, England, la 1310, and served with distinction many years In the army. The family Is a well-known Knillsh one, the present bead being Lord St. John-Blokoe, of Sussex. I I DOINGS OF SOCIETY. Gifts That W1U Thankfully Bo Received at the Pittsburg Hospital Epworth League Convention Opens To-Day Yesterday a Day of Weddings. The Board of Managers of the Pittsburg Hospital for Children yesterday prepared a printed list of the articles required for tho use of the hospital in the way of bed and house linen and clothing. There nre many ladles in Pittsburg and vicinity who desire to senddrygooas to the hospital, but do not know what is needed for nse. This list has been compiled for the information of those ladies. It is at follows: Bleached sheets, 2K yards long, 2 yards wide; bleached pil low cases, 33 inches Ion, made of muslin 33 Inches wide; roller towels, 2 yards long: band towels, 1 yard long: tea towels, 1 yard long: blankets, 2Li.vnrds long, 2 yards wide: boy's night drawers; girls' night gowns; flannel wrappers; clothing of all kinds, either new or partly worn, for children from 2 to 12 years old; soft flannel, old muslin and linen, old toweling, etc. The Epworth League will hold a train ing school convention in the Wilkinsburg M. E. Church to-day. In the afternoon George V. Elotzbaugh will deliver an ad dress on "What can leaguers do to make the pastor populaiT' and Miss Louisa Edwards will ask "What can leaguers do to make strangers feel at home?" Miss Mlttie and Mr. W. H. Weeden will sing a duet, and Mr. Richard Cannon is down tor a solo, "Charity." In the evening the list of speak ers will include three ministers, Rev. Andrew C. Ellis, the new pastor of the Smlthfield Street Church, Rev. J. A. Ballan tyne and Rov. Applcton Bish. The officers of the Leagne aro Rev. J. A. Ballan tyno, Rev. T. N. Eaton, Rev. J. W. Miles, Dr. R. H. Grube, Miss Lelia Stitt, Mr. Louis Kable, Miss Martha Booth, Mr. Roland E. Rem lev, Mr. S. L. Wood, Mrs. J. W. McKnighC and Mr. Hubbs Welmor. A fashionable wedding took place in Cyclo'rama Hall, Allegheny City, last evening. Miss Henrietta Keizcnstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Itelzen stein, became the bride of Mr. Benjamin Powdennakcr, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Pow dermakcr, of Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. Meyer officiated, in the presence of a large com pany of relatives and friends or the couple. The bride wore a crystal silk, trimmed with duchess lace and wore a magnificent dia mond brooch, tho girt or her lather. Her bouquet was of bridal roses, tbe same flowers being used to fasten tbe voil tfj her hair. Four little cousins of the bride acted as flower girls. Two of thom wore whit and the other two pink. Their names are Elrose, Elsie, Myrtle and Belle Roizensteln. The mother of the groom was handsomely dressed in black velvet, and the bride's mother wore bluek satin. There was a ban quet alter the wedding ceremony, and then tne couple departed for the East. Among the guests "ere: Mr. and Mrs. Powder maker, of Philadelphia, parents of the groom: Miss Bertha Powdcnnaker, his sister: Mr. Mark Ponaormakor. or Philadol- Bhia; Mr. Joe Powdermaker, of Washington, . C; Mr. H. Powdermaker, or Wilmington, Del.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Keizensteic, of Wheel ing: Mr and Mrs. M. L. Jacobs, Dayton, O , and Mr. and Mrs. Rothschilds, of Omaha. Miss Anna Esterline and Mr. Harry Rose, of Allegheny, were married In thepres ence or their intimate Iriends yesterday. It was a home wedding. Miss Edna Selma EurrERT, of Wash ington, D. C. was married last evening to Mr. Henry C. Ebliert, of this city. After a wedding tour througu tho tiast tho couple will take up their permanent residence in Pittsburg. Miss Elizabeth H. Aull last evening became the bride of Mr. J. R. Holland, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Aull, East End. Rev. Charles B. 3IItcholl, of Plainflold, N. J., performed the ceremony. Mr. Mitchell .is a brotber-in-I.iw of the bride, and is well known in Pittsburg, hav ing been pastor of the Smlthfield street JI. E. Church for four year before Mr. C E. Locke assumed tbe pastorate tnere. Tne wedding was a very pretty one. The bride was gowned in cream silk, and carried a bouquet of rosebuds and maiden-hair ferns. She was attended by two pretty little flower girls, who added much to the picture-quo beauty of the surroundings. Only relatives and very near friends were present, but even they wore enough to All the house. After a supper and reception, Mr. and Mrs. Holland left for an Eastern trip. On their return they will live In a handsomo new house baile for them and tastefully fur nished, on Park avenue, East End. The bride is a sister or Malor F. W. Aull. tho -weiWrnawn miuraKarfif'-tho -Denny estate. Mr. Mitchell win visit among mi ia ntts Durg lrlcnds and members ot his old congre gation until to-morrow evonlng, when he will return to his home. An early morning wedding toolcclace in St. Augustine Church, Lawrenceville, yes terday. Miss Emma Elizabeth SImonton was the bride and Mr. Will Berger the groom. A weddin&r Dreakfast was given at the homo of the bride's parents. Fortieth street. After their wedding tour Mr. and Mrs. Berger will be at home at their resi dence. Forty-fifth streot. There will be a social in the Sixth Pres byterian Church, Townsend street, this evening. Miss Bayne, of Brownsville, will be the guest of Mrs. M. E. Dinwiddle, of Logan street, this week. A meeting of the ladies who will assist on Allegheny day in the fair for the benefit of the Southside Hospital has been called for to-morrow in the North Avenue M. E. Church. The next meeting of the Ladies' Aid So ciety of the Southsido Hospital will be held next Tncsday at 3 o'clock in the old post office building. The committees who nave been working tor the coming rntr are ex pected to report then. The prospects are for a very successful entertainment. Tho building will pass into the hands of the ladles next week. Tnis evening Mis Laura Sballenberger, dauhterof Hon. W. S. Shalleuberger, is to be married to Mr. Earl Fen ton Palmer. The ceremony will take place in the First Bap tilt Cbnrch. Rochester, Pa., in the presence of nearly 500frpnds. The church is to bo handsomely decorated. Thoie will bo a re ception to the relative-) and immediate friends at the homo of the bride's parents. Mr. Palmer is tho uewlynirdained minister of the Baptist Church at New Castle. THE BKIGGS CASE AGAIX Let ns not bo too hard on the campaign. Tho Brlgzs heresy case will likely bo its successor. Wahington Post. TnE action of tho Board of Directors on last Thursday must be very gratifying to Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs strengthening him. as it does, in his position. .Yew York Herald. Rev. Dn. Biuaos, tho dissenting Presbyter, seems to havo considerable hold on some of tho scholars or his church. Union Theo logical Seminary being among his strongest supporters. Han Ulurg Star. At all events; thoie ought to be absolute independence or anyone pretondlng to bo what anyone is not. Tho declaration of in dependence ot tho seminary may provo to bo tho best thing for both sides. Brooklyn Eagle. The vote to dissolve relations with tho General Assembly Is notico in advance that Dr. Briggs will be retained as an Instructor. If the Synod should And that his views are heretical this finding will apply to the sem inary and a ery large body of Presby terians. Rochetter Democrat. The vote by which Union Sominary de clared its independence of the General As sembly of the Presbyterian Chnrcb stood 19 for to 1 against! This, practical unanimity is happily an assurance that the institution Is not In danger of being torn by internal dissensions. Chicago Inter Oceat. I men like Pror. Briggs had the true interests or the church which they have served in the past at heart they would resign the professorships and begin mission ary outerpriso among the malority of tho General Assembly in order to convert them to their way of thinking. Xcip fyrkSun. Uittox's appeal goes out to every liberal believer in the churcli.and It will crystallize the sentiment for or against division in dependently of tho public Interest in the personal :ato of Profojsor Briggs. That this means tuo Presbyterian churches is almost as certain as that oil and water will n ot m ix. PMlad -Ivhia Eu'Jetm. Yes, With Ben's Eight Years' Flash. Atlanta Journal. Can the Bepublicans beat the four aces McCulloch, MoVeagb, Greshim and SchurzT CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. New York has 15 national hanks. Socks are darned free at some Indian, apolls furnishing stores. Two hundred Swedes were naturaliijj at Rockford, III., on Friday. Utah lays claim to a mine of natural shoe-blacking, in EusU Valley, Utah, Terri. tory. y In 1841 each individual consumed 13 ounces of tobacco; in 1891 he consumed ;j onnces. There is-an apple tree in Hebron, Conn., 125 years old that still bears an annual crop oi fruit. - A recently married Kansas cotrplj spent their honeymoon in the depths of aa old coal mine. The dorking fowl is the only living bird that. In tbe adnlt condition, possesses five-toed foot. The first American flag was unfurled at tbe camp of the Colonial troops, In Cam bridge, Mass., on January 1, 1776. In the reign of Henry VIIL It was en acted that no person should keep above 2,000 sheep nor bold more tban two farms. It is one of the peculiar customs of tha people of Mashonaland tbat when twin babies are born tney are immediately drowned. A rhinoceros has been in the London Zoo for 23 years. This is stated to bo tho longest time an animal of this kind has lived in captivity in London. t The Norman-English ladies dressed their hair in two long plaits, and, when na ture was not liberal, lengthened the plaits with braids of wool, tow or horse hair. Iu 1840 Europe produced four times as much grain as this country; in 1887, a normal year, tho Unitod States produced nearly half as much grain as the whole of Europe. News has been received at Liverpool of the arrival at Sierra Leone, West Africa, of n remarkable specimen of the ostrich tribe. It is ten feet high and came from Central Africa. One of the most interesting exhibitions In connection with the recent Orientalist Congress in London is a collection of tools used by workmen in building the pyramids ot igypt. It is pointed out by a scientist that the world's most precious gems aro composed of tbe commonest substances, the diamond, for instance, being pure carbon that is to say, charcoal devoid of impurities. The first ice cream venders in England were Neapolitan peasantry of the poorest type, but the vendors now come from all parts of Italy, many being natives of tuo most remote country districts. A steamer which lately arrived at New York bad a curious passenger on board, in tho shape of a Nova Scotian eagle, which, bad liguted on one of tbe vessel's yards about 1C0 milo3 southeast of Nantucket Shoals. Among tbe smallest products of man's constructive talent must now be numbered a teakettle which bas been hammered by an ingenious foreign metalworker out of a small copper cola a little larger than a copper cent. Gutta percha was first introduced into Europe from Malaga in 1S4A Tho annual consumption now amounts to t ,000.000 pounds, and the East Indian trees which supply the demand are .diminishing at an alarming rate. The leading theologians of the world, who have been figuring from scriptural and other data for some time, have como to tho conclusion that Christ was crucified shortly alter 9 o'clock on the morning of Friday, April 10, A. D. 30. m Two thousand daily and weekly jour mils are printed in Paris. This is only a lit tle more tban a third less than those printed in the provinces. They are represented by 3.180. Algeria by 123, and tho other French, possessions by A3. About 1439 enormous head dresses cams into fashion in England, France and Italy. They had horns standing out from the head sometimes more tlan two feet, and from, these a veil depended which floated down tbe back of tbe wearer. The report of the Flower Girls' Mission states that the trade in cut flowers in Lor don amounts to JE5.000 a day. Although th includes the profits of the florists, a lar amount of this sum still remains to be a. counted for by the earnings of the flower jlrjp, . "j """ The increase of silk manufacture since 1S80 has been 112.73 per cent in the value or its product, cotton manufacture rankir second, being S9 51 per cent, that of wo ma'iufactnro being 26 39 percent. Tbeavi age increase in tbe entire textile industi is 33.S1 per cent. An electric recorder for registering the the output or ore has been installed on the pithead of a Belgian lead mine. Each load or ore delivered at the top of the shaft actu ates an electro-magnetic machanism, and m irks a red line on a sheet of paper moved by a revolving barreL When Madame Blavatsky died it w3 decided by her chier followers that her ashes should be divided Into three parts, one part to go to America, another to Indi.i, and a third to remain In England. The di vision was accordingly made, and tho ashes are now in the three countries. "Within less than a dozen years the lit erary world has lost Carlyle (1831), Gcoree Eliot (1SS1), Longrellow (1S32), Emerson (1SS21. Slatthew Arnold (188S), Brownin; (1888), Klnglake (1891), Lowell (1891), Walt W nitmnn 11892), George William Curtis (1S92). Whittier (1892), and Tennyson (1392). The restaurant keepers of Vienna have been in the habit of selling the fancy bread of that town on commission. Instead of buying it from tho bakers they have sold it as agents, returning what was leftover to the bakers. The latter are very rkillfal in freshening up old rolls and sending them back again. Tli esmallest screws in the world ars used in the prodnction of watches. The fourth jewel wheel screw has 200 threads to the inch, these threads being 4-1000 of an inch in diameter. The screws are too small to count, but it has been estimated that the thimble or an ordinary woman will hold 100,000 or them. LIFE'S LITTLE LAUGHS. She Must yon go so soon, darline? It Is only 10 o'clock, and father non't object If yoa stav until 12. He-True, my own. Bat that only gives me two hours In wplch to say good night. The Eev. Mr. Drowsie By the way, I observed on 9unday last that you got up suddenly and lert the chnrch before my sermon was over. I was dreply pained, and I hope you can offer some explanation. Theological Student-Oh, yes. sir; ever since I was a boy I have been a somnambulist. "The good are not always happy," There can be no doubt of this. Because, you know, they roust sorry grow. When they think or the fun they miss. "No, I didn't catch anything all day," said the fisherman; "didn't even get a bite. I " But at this moment a chariot of Are descended from out of the heavens, and he was Dome away to dwell rorever with George M ashlngton. Mr. X. I'll have to get a new silk hat; this one ha3 served Its time. Mr. Y. I know where you can get one ehesjt old Slmmrs wants to bet a hat on the election. Mr. X. Which way does he want to bet? Mr. Y. lie wants to bet on Cleveland. Mr. X. I know where I can get a hat cheaper than that. Amateur Actress (who intends to adopt the stage as a profession) No, Mr. Eersmlth. I cannot marry you. nor any man; It would inter fere with my chosen career. Mr.K. But think how a divorce would booa youl " 'Tis strange, 'tis very strange!" so X com plains. ' That I so seldom meet a man of brains." Toor XI 'tis melancholy, yet 'tis true. That men of brains avoid a chat with yoa. Budweisser Have you seen the new phv calortil sub-aqueous camera? Barlholomay What's It for? Budwelsser-To photograph the big flsathttje' away. She And are you sure you will like mar ried life as you do your club? Ile-Oh, yes. She And are you so awfully fond of your elstf He-No t very. f K ,&,-. . fa&i&&it!bJ!&iSi3k&tL' gmgfflHPOMHaaB JivMSStpAm-iSTWrSmSMfmm
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