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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW $ SOX, WASHINGTON OFFICE—SIB Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. CorrMpondqnt ' - ■ .;■* " -i •*" MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1886. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, On be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capacities. NEW YORK—St. NicholaTand Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—T. Dearing, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets. gT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern KoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. „ ■*.. ■ - - .... Telephone Call*. Business Office’. 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 CALL FORKEPBIiLICAN STATECOSVBNTIOS * l^i The Republicans of Indiana and all others ■who will co-operate with them in the coming campaign, are invited to meet in delegate convention, in the city of Indianapolis, on Thursday, the 2d Day of September, 1880, at 10 o’clock a. m. , for the purpose of adopting a platform and for nominating candidates, to be voted for at the November election, for the following offices: Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-general. Judge of the Supreme Court for the Third district Clerk of the Supreme Court Superintendent of Public Instruction. The convention will be composed of 1,194 delegates, apportioned among the several counties on the basis of the Republican vote in 1884, as follows: Counties. Del. Counties. Del. Counties. Del. Adams 6 Henry 18|Posey 11 Alien 25 Howard 1.5: Pulaski 5 Bartholomew.. 18 Huntington... 15'Putnam 13 Benton B!Jaekson lO Randolph ....21 Blackford SJ&sper 6 Ripley 11 Boone 11 Jay 13|Rush 13 Brown 3 Jefferson 16 Scott 4 Carroll 121 Jennings lUiShelby 14 Cass 18 Johnson 10 Spencer 12 Clark 15 Knox 13 Starke 2 Clay 14 Kosciusko .... 19 Sr. Joseph 22 Clinton lojLagrange 11 Steuben 11 Crawford..... G Lake U Sullivan 7 Daviess lljLaPorte 18 Switzerland... 8 Dearborn 13 Lawrence 11 : Tippecanoe.... 25 Decktur 13 Madison 15jTipton 9 SoKuib 12 Marion 72:Unien G alaware 18! Marshall 11 Vanderburg.... 27 Dubois s:Martin fiiVermillion.... 8 Elkhart 22lMiami 15|Vig;o 27 Payette 10! Monroe 9 Wabash 20 Floyd 12 Montgomery.. 18 Warren 9 Fountain 11 Morgan 12 Warrick 11 Franklin B;Newton 6 Washington... 9 FultOn 10; Noble 15; Wayne 31 Gibson 14 Ohio 3.Wells 8 Grant 17:Orango.. S.Whitfe 9 Groene 13. Owen 7 Whitley 10 Hamilton 18 Parke 13 Hancock 9 Perry 9 Total 1,194 garrison 10,Pike 9 endricks 15‘ Porter 12 The delegates from the counties composing the several congressional districts will meet in Indianapolis at 7:30 o’clock on the night preceding the date of the convention, at such places as may be hereafter designated, for the purpose of selecting— One member of the committee on permanent oreaaization. Sno member of the committee on credentials. ne member of the committee on resolutions. One vice-president of the convention. One assistant secretary of the convention. By order of the Republican State central committee. James N. Huston, Chairman. L. T. Michenkr, Secretary. Indianapolis, lud., July 24, 1886. • Garland is still in tlio Cabinet. This is a reform administration. This ia a good season of the year to plant Anarchists. - Yesterday’s rain was a sozzler while it lasted, and did thousands of dollars' worth of good. ____________ While the President is referring things to the Attorney-general, how would it do to refer to him the acceptance of his resignation? It is supposed that the desecration of the Sabbath was “reduced to the minimum” yesterday, so far as camp-meetings were concorned. A Cincinnati paper has an editorial on “The Personal History of the Devil.” It is extremely timely, as few people know very much about Ohio politics. s The Chicago Tribune thinks “cabinet pudding,” as prepared by the present administration, is a tasteless thing. That may be, but Just think of the odor of it. Somebody should invent a thermometer that will ring a bell signaling all work to cease when the mercury touched 95, and not 6o resume until it has receded enough to renier life endurable. A war with Mexico might be the means of ‘reuniting the North and South in a practical way that .would prove a profitable investment It does not speak wisdom for Mexico to fool With the question of war. It is understood that the appointment of General Hanson to succeed Thomas Hanlon, who failed of confirmation, was a sohemo to get rid of Governor Gray as a senatorial candidate. How pleasant it is for Democratic brethren to dwell together in unity. It must not be lost sight of that there are rights that organized labor demands that should be and must be conceded. It is only when Such organizations are employed to abridge the rights of other workingmen, or to interfere with the rights of employers, that they are condemned. The tobacco factories that were so quick to #dopt the eight-hour plan are obliged to go book to the old way of working ten hours a Any. They doubtless meant well, and hoped to receive enough patronage to warrant the experiment, but it bos proved a failure, and Uis useless to fight longer against the old

way. Labor and commerce cannot be euddenly swung out of their OrSTts by arbitrary rules. It would be nice to work but two hours a day, but for the present it is preposterous to set in motion any attempt to make two hours a day's labor. The'man who Works but two hours a day, and there are too many such, is the man who ia out at the elbow, and is not in good odor with men who are not averse to working more. The workingman of to-day does not work half so hard, everything considered, as did he of a generation ago. Machinery has taken tho rough off the most of it, and the mechanic of the present is relieved of much of the drudgery that made life a burden to the wage-earners of former times. There are certain branches of industry that have not been improved as much as others, but all of them have been made more tolerable. The 'professional man has to work nearlyas hard as ever, for the reason that there has been no machine invented to do the work of the intellect. All in all, the lot of mankind is better than, ever before in the world’s history. And this is not a bad world to live in for tho man who is temperate and industrious. We are all better clothed and better fed than were our forefathers. There is little use to grumble and complain. The time will never come when mankind can hope to exist without working. The laws of nature are unalterably against such an easy way of living, and these laws cannot be safely ignored, and there is no way to set them aside or to nullify them. THE PRESIDENT'S VETO. The issue made with the President and his backers in the matter of indiscriminate and peremptory vetoes is not anew one, but was prominently before the people forty years ago. Questioned on this very point, General Taylor, then a candidate for the presidency, to which he was afterward elected, replied as follows: “The power given by the Constitution to the executive to interpose bis veto, is a high conservative power; but, in my opinion, should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of consideration by Congress. Indeed, I have thought that, for many years pasts the known opinions and wishes of the executive have exercised undue and injurious influence upon the legislative department of the government, and for this cause I have thought our system was in danger of undergoing a great change from its true theory. The personal opinions of the individual who may happen to occupy the executive chair ought not to control the action of Congress upon questions of domestic polioy; nor ought his objections to be interposed where questions of constitutional power have been settled bv the various departments of government, and acquiesced in by the people.” It must be conceded that this is a very reasonable view of the power conferred on the President in the right to veto such acts of Congress as do not meet his approval. It will not be claimed by any man that this power was bestowed on the President for the purpose of allowing him to exercise it as a caprice or according to the prejudice he may he subject to. There was a President who acted on this theory, but when he left the presidential chair he was not invited to return to it, though he used every persuasion in his power to induce the people, going so far as to go over to the party that had opposed him in his election the first time. It is too absurd to require argument to establish that it was never intended that the President should exercise this power to express his personal likes and dislikes nor to further his own nor his party’s schemes. The same organic law that gave him this power gave to the law-making branch of the government the right to enact such laws as, in its wisdom, it saw fit. If it was thought that the law-making power should be put under some restraint, it was not thought that the hundreds of men who make those laws should be made subject to the whim of one man, even though that man be President. The veto was conferred upon him only that ho might exercise it in defense of the Constitution. It is not to be thought of that the people would match the wisdom of the President, one man, against the combined wisdom of the people’s representatives in Congress. The idea is hostile to the very idea of popular government. The rulings of courts have been against this assumption from the earliest times. That a President should presume to overstep the province of the veto power, and to make it a means of impressing his policy upon the country, is so repugnant to the idea of popular government that the people have never been slow to resent it. Andrew Johnson learned the mistake he made in a way that would have taught him never to repeat it had he ever been fortunate enough to again sjt jn the presidential chair. The President’s apology for the numerous vetoes he has pronounced upon the legislation of Congress will not save him from falling under condemnation. It is not true that the action of Congress is any more hasty or inconsiderate than has been his own in coming to the conclusion to veto bills after having considered them but a few days at the most, and without the possibility of giving them a tenth of the consideration that Congress did in committee and on the floor. That President Cleveland is hostile to the idea of voting pensions to the men who served their country on the field of battle is not excuse sufficient to warrant him in passing a veto upon such measures, for the people, in the organic law of the land, conferred this right upon Congress, and it is not to be taken away at the whim of the executive. To do this is to cripple one of the co-ordinate branches of government, which was not contemplated by the Constitution. As indicated in the letter of General Taylor, which was afterward approved by the people, the function of the veto power is simply to keep Congress within the limit of the Con-

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stitutlon. This has not been exceeded in any of the instances wherein bills have been vetoed by Presfflenl Cleveland, and he has further offended in a coarse and brutal fashion by showing that he knew little or nothing of the merits of the bills he vetoed. It has been made evident that Mr. Cleveland, like Mr. Johnson, has a "policy,” and that the integrity of this personal policy of his must be preserved at whatever expense to the people. That he might have allowed ‘the bills pensioning veterans to pass is apparent to all. The Constitution was not in danger, and could not be in danger from such action on the part of Congress. If there was any wrong done, it was trifling, and did not call for the constitutional veto. He could have pointed it out in one of his messages to Congress, and the people could have passed upon in a popular election. If the people did not approve the action of Congress in this matter, they had the right and the power to change it all, and there was and is no excuse for the arbitrary, coarse and brutal exercise of the veto power as has been done by President Cleveland. LABOR’S BOYCOTT OP LABOR, Organized labor's tyranny over unorganized labor and over the individual member is something that free men must hesitate to submit to. The competent workman, the man who, left to himself, would easily take care of himself and acquire a competency, is the very man it bears hardest on, and be of all others should hesitate before committing bis interests to the keeping of an assembly or union that arrogates to itself the right to throw him out of work at the bidding of men less competent than himself, and more likely to get into difficulties with their common employer. In every strike there have been men made the victims of the power conferred upon the union; men who had no cause to complain, and who would not have thought of striking. As for the man who for any reason does not see fit to ally himself with some union, there is no assurance to him that he will be allowed to work at all, except at the sufferance of such unions as he may come into contact with. Thousands and tens of thousands of men have gone out on expensive and disastrous strikes for no other reason than that some man not a member of the union has been given employment. The Knights of Labor and similar organizations have taken the bit of temporary power between their teeth, and have assumed to declare that free American citizens shall not be allowed to work except by their permission. They have arrogated to themselves a power that the federal government of all the people would not dare to claim. There would be a revolution inside of six months were the government at Washington to make such a claim. Tho only reason the defiant attitude of these organizations has not provoked condemnation has been that, like all evils of the kind, they are suffered in patience, until patience is no longer a virtue, and the people compel a better order of things. The very fact that the Knights of Labor are rapidly increasing in numbers is the best assurance that the end is near, when the fight for. place will begin within the ranks. The time will come when the best men in it, the men who are the bone and sinew of the organization, will not be content to be the backers of men who are unfit to take care of themselves or who are too quick to find pretext for unprofitable idleness. Strike is following strike so rapidly that it is exceptional when men are allowed to work for a month without being disturbed or threatened in their positions. Within a day or two there has been another exhibition of the workings'of the “boycott” by labor upon labor in the city of New York. Thousands of cigar-makers are thrown out of work unless they surrender their individual rights, and consent to join the Knights of . Label*. This means that, unless they find favor with this organization, they are not to be permitted to work in this free country. The cigar manufacturers, hoping to placate their black-mailers, have made membership in the Knights of Labor a condition to working for them. There was a firm in the city of Chicago that tried this thing, and rushed frantically into the experiment of making eight hours a day without a corresponding reduction of wages, relying upon the patronage of those who favored this thing to float them. The plan did not work, and last week this firm was shut up by a suit in bankruptcy. The cigar manufacturers of the city of New York, who are intent on the patronage of a class to the exclusion of all workingmen, who do not wear tho badge of that organization, will find that it does not pay. A firm mean enough to do a thing like that does not deserve the patronage of men who believe in the oldfashioned idea that all Americans have the right to work for whom they please at such wages as they are willing to receive, and that no one shall say them nay. This idea is as sure to triumph in the end as popular government is to stand. It maybe that for a time trades-unions may succeed in regulating the rights of others to suit themselves; but just as soon as they become numerically strong enough to embrace the best workmen in the land, just that soon will there be an attempt to stand on individual merits, and the men who are capable will not consent to be tied down to the tyranny of unionism as has been practiced in the past in this country. Already the effect has been to cripple enterprise, with the inevitable consequence of depriving many thousands of the employment they would have enjoyed but for the interference of the organizations that strangle freedom of action. The tyranny exercised by Ihe trades-unions will only hasten the day when the better members of these organizations will not consent to

longer submit to it, and the unions will be restricted to their legitimate and valuable purposes. The milk in the cocoanut of the Canadian fishery dispute is beginning to be found. It is hinted now that the idea of the Dominion government is to compel concessions on the part of this government in the matter of more favorable tariff regulations affecting Canada. That is, the fishery question is simply a species of boycott to compel the modification of existing laws on-the tariff bearing on articles coming from Canada. In conducting the settlement of the dispute this should be kept in view. It may be an excellent thing that the tariff should be changed to the advantage of Canada, but it is not a very politic way to get at it for Canada to attempt to bulldoze the United States into conceding it. The sentiment here would be to resent anything of that kind, and the Canucks should be diplomatic enough to keep their purposes in the background until such time as they have succeeded in securing what they are after. That is, if they are shrewd enough to do so. The saloon-keepers of the city of Indianapolis that are guilty of taking advantage of a restaurant or cigar-stand to furnish an ambush behind which to continue the sale of liquors on Sunday the same as on other days deceive nobody, and the only effect is to increase the hostility felt for the traffic that has no respect for the laws of the people. They are digging their own grave, and will bury the business under popular condemnation so deep that it will never be resurrected. There are a few saloon men in this city that respect the law, and who, left to have their way about it, would relieve the business from much of the odium that attaches to it. They should unite to put down the cigar fronts and the restaurants that are nothing more than disguises for saloons that are run in defiance of all the laws passed for the reasonable restriction of the traffic. Even in Democratic Bourbon Kentucky the idea of regulating the saloon traffic is taking hold in a way that is not to be despised. The election held in Henry county, that State, on Saturday, on the question of local option seems to have resulted in a victory of proportions in favor of the proposition. Os the returns from ten precincts received up to Saturday evening, eight had given majorities in favor of the local-option idea, and but two went the other way, and they by only a small majority. The aggregate vote, ns far as received, shows the majority in favor of local option to be nearly two to one. This is tho true way to deal with this question. It is the only practical way to get at it. It now appears that the rumors of a famine in Labrador were a canard, concocted by some wretch not actuated by that high sense of honor that should move the human heart to speak. It were a great mistake to appeal to sweltering humanity just at this time with tales of heavy snow-storms in that country' on the 19th of July. It made the people of this region regard the natives of Labrador as specially favored by Providence. A snowstorm here now would be received with a brass band and an escort to and from the depot. The successful voyage of M. L’Hoste, from Cherbourg to London, by no means establishes the theory of successful navigation of the air at the will of the aeronaut. The attempt to sail back from London to Cherbourg may result in landing the party in Africa or Finnland, at the caprice of the winds. Steering a balloon, like the theory of inoculation for rabies, is yet an experiment, at best, and will have to submit to better tests than have yet been given it Mr. Bynum wants the question of nomination given over to a referee. This is quite a concession for the gentleman who would listen to nothing a few weeks ago, It has been remarked that the men backing Mr. Bailey are no novices in Democratic politics, and it was folly for Mr. Bynum to attempt to beat them back by blustering. It looks like a surrender, or a trap. A trap, at this stage of the game, would prove a very expensive experiment. The populace of Holland threaten anarchy because they are no longer allowed to torture live eels to death, which has “long been recognized as a national sport." Revolutions that have succeeded in the past have been founded on nobler principles than this one seems to be to thosß who have no personal experience in the pastime of kiiliDg eels. It was as might have been expected—the humiliation of Lady Dilke is almost beyond endurance. She has had very unfortunate experience in matrimony. It is a great pity that a lady that proved herself so firm in the belief in the innocence of the man whose wife she became after he was assailed, should be so bitterly undeceived. The photographs of scenery in Mexico, now on exhibition in the show windows of this city, will be handy in case there is to be war. It will be pleasant to recognize these places after the United States troops get through with the work of whipping our nearest neighbors on the South. Is Governor Gray to understand that he has been stabbed in the back by the President, who has been impelled to the act by the Democratic party of Indiana? The general belief is that Indiana Democracy does not know enough about military matterk to successfully conduct an encamp-

ment. The one held at Lafayette was enough for that city for some time to come. The Star City people know when they have had plenty. ______________________ Thb Lafayette correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette seems to have been badly “rattled” by the sham battle, on Saturday, and makes the most remarkable report of the same. In the excitement of the hour he writes that there were forty thousand spectators present, when in truth there were not the fourth of that number. The crowd present did not compare with that of Wednesday, and, in fact, the battle was a very decorous affair compared with what it Bhould have been if it had been properly managed. The young man says: “Regiments, in lieu of companies, were opposed to each other, and the spectators got as excited as the militia participants. When the twelve pieces of artillery and six Gatling guns opened fire half the people lost their senses, and many in their excitement yelled out: “Give the rebels, hell!” Old veterans hurrahed, and tears coursed down their cheeks as they remembered how they had witnessed encounters of real fighting at Chickamauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh.” There was not half the excitement on the “field of battle” that there was around the side-shows and lager-beer stands, of which there was a great number. On Saturday J. C. Ochiltree purchased of J. O. Parker the Hendricks County Republican, of Danville. Mr. Ochiltree is in the front rank as a general newspaper writer and the Republican in his hands ought to take high rank. He is a clear, forcible and careful editorial writer, and in the matter of local news knows how to present the occurrences of the day in graphic and interesting sentences. Under his care the Republican ought to succeed better than ever. * ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. STORY OF THE MAID. He belonged to the Tenth Army Corps, And a beautiful maid did adorp9. For a stroll by the sea, He took her. did hea, And made love to her there on the shorps. Boston Courier. The latest discovery of English medical science is that scarlet fever and scarlatina are transmitted in milk from the cow to the human subject They tell of a clergyman in Lynn who hired out to a church at the nominal salary of $4,000, agreeing privately to make the church a present of SI,OOO of it A congregation in Connecticut heard of the $4,000 preacher, thought he must be extra good, offered him $4,500, and got him. Then the Lynn people understood why he pretended his salary was $4,000. When the pateut granolithic sidewalk pavement is first put down it is very sticky, but it hardens quickly. This is why a young couple of Bridgeport who stood on a fresh slab of composition while bidding each other good night had to be dug out with a pickaxe. Their shoes were ruined, but they were very grateful to the night watchman who released them and who promised not to tell. Lieutenant-governor Ames, of Massachusetts, has given the Memorial Methodist Church at Plymouth a bell cast by Paul Revere, which was used for eighty years on State institutions, and has hung lately at the Ames place, in North Easton, where it wa3 rung for Fourth-of-Julv celebrations, lx, was once known in Boston as the “Liberty Bell,” and was rung when pardon proclamations were issued by the Governor, A granite obelisk has just been erected at Lippeline, in Germany, to commemorate the fact that on the 24th of June, 1842, Prince Bismarck, at that time a paere sub-lieutenant in a cavalry regiment, threw himself into the lake of Wendelseo, and at the risk of his own life saved a drowning soldier. Prince Bismarck often remarks that he is prouder of the little silver medal conferred on him for this act of bravery than of all his seventy-six decorations. J. V. Dexter, of Denver, has a pair of ancient pistols which, he claims, are the ones n3ed by Burr when he fought the duel with Hamilton. They are flint-locks; the barrels are of laminated steel, heavily chased; the handles are of mahogany, inlaid with gold and silver. The case in which they rest also contains a flask, in which is a little powder, and also a bullet-mold. The pistols were bought of Sypher & Cos., of New York, who bought them of an old New Yorker, who bought them at the tfelo of Aaron Burr’s effeots after his death. When ’Squire Carver, of Waterville, Me., hurriedly drove on the covered bridge that 3pans the Sebasticook, for shelter from a sudden shower, he found two young men and two young women taking shelter there also. As soon as they saw the ’Squire they conferred eagerly, and then one of the men asked him if he wouldn’t marry the other youug man and one of the young women then and there. They had the necessary papers, in proper form, and so, while the rain pattered over their heads and the Sebasticook gurgled beneath their feet, William MeClintock and Almira Jones were made one. Mr. Booker, the British consul-general, on whom Mr. Gladstone has just requested the Queen to confer a knight commandership of the Order of St. Michael and fit. George, is one of the oldest and most respected members of the English consular service. The whole of his long career, covering a period of close upon forty years, has been passed in the United States. Sir William Booker was the first consul appointed at San Francisco in its early days, and remained there uninterruptedly until he was promoted consul-general at New York on the retirement of the late Sir F. Archibald, a few years ago. A pathetic story is told of the eldest daughter of John Brigham Young, one of the wealthiest men in Utah. She was the favorite niece of Brigham Young, was liberally educated, and was an excellent musician. Her father wanted her to marry a Mormon elder, but she eloped with a Soung newspaper man, a gentile. They went to 'ew York city, where he worked as a reporter until his eyes failed. He became blind, and she sang in a concert saloon there and supported her husband, to whom she was devoted. Then she lost her voico by sickness, and the two were likely to starve. They drifted to Chicago, and now the wife, no longer young, grinds a wheezy hand-organ day after day, rain or shine, and stiil supports her sightless husband. CONDITION OF THE CROPS. The Injury to the Corn by the Recent Drought % Not Yet Fully Determined. Chicago, Aug. I.—The following crop report will appear in this week's issue of the Farmers’ Review: “The prolonged and serious drought which has materially shortened the spring wheat crop and caused a serious menace to the corn crop was partially broken this week, copious rains having fallen in Kansas, and portions of Missouri. The injury which corn has sustained cannot yet be determined from the reports. Fully one-third the counties of Illinois, Missouri and Kansas report that com, while showing the effect of the drought, has not yet been seriously injured, and will make a fine yield if rain should come in time. The remaining counties report more or less injury, the tenor of the reports being very discouraging, declaring that many of the fields have already felt the blight, and predicting not to exceed onehalf the ordinary yield. Tho outlook is reported especially gloomy throughout the entire corn belt for all late-planted corn. One half of the lowa counties report that serious injury has already befallen the corn-fields, and that the yield for the State will fall short of an average by from 25 to 40 per cent. In Ringgold and Warren counties corn does not promise ono-half of an ordinary yield. The corn outlook in Minnesota is more favorable, with the prospect of an

average yield with continued rains. In Wiscotn sin the tenor of the reports does not indicate t® exceed two-thirds of an ordinary yield. In por tions of the State there has been no rain for six weeks, and all the crops are a bad failure. In Ohio, Indiana and Michigan the outlook is still favorable for an average yield of corn. In FarD bault. Mower and Meeker counties, in Minnesota, thejreports Indicate a better wheat yield than pre dieted in previous reports, but the remaining counties indicate that the total yield for th® State will exhibit a material shortage. Har# vesting is progressing rapidly in both Minnesota and Dakota. In Minnehaha county and Bon Homme county, D. TANARUS., wheat is thrashing ouf twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre. In Faulk county one-half the crop was cut for fodder. Ia Nebraska and lowa the wheat yield will be con* siderably short of an average. The reports indicate a very short flax yield, and in the entire Western and Northwestern belt the outlook fol the potato crop is very poor.” THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS, Speculation as to the Outcome of the Pendinf Trial—Meeting of Sympathizers. Chicago, Ang. I.—The gossip of Chicago today was chiefly in respect to the possible ouv come of the Anarchist trial, now in progress if the Criminal Court A great many expressed fears that the weakness of the law and the tactici of the defense would together furnish means of escape for the eight criminals, who are held toi be at least morally responsible for *the Haymarket riot and its result Others seemed to hold the opinion that some of them, at least, would be convicted of murder. There is a widespread difference of opinion regarding Gilmeri® evidence, which affirms that Spies applied th® torch to tho fatal bomb. It seems to bo the conviction of many police officials that Engel could have been secured as & witness for the State. His wife, at least, has intimated as much on several occasions, and it is believed that Engel could have told a talo which would have enabled the State to procure all necessarv evidence for the conviction of the prisoners, and even others not now in the docln It is believed in well-informed quarters that State’s Attorney Grinnell has still in a partly matured shape, a surprise for the defense and for the country, which be will divulge in rebuttal. That he is holding back something very important there can scarcely be a doubt, but just why he is doing so is a complete puzzle. It may his plans and actions have not yet come to a head, and that he was compelled to rest his case. The defense will commence the production of testimony to-mor-row morning to attempt to prove that the prisoners are not murderers nor accesories to murder, and that they are all that Attorney claimed for them in his opening speech of yes* terday. It is expected that Mayor Harrison will be the first witness. He will bs called upon to state what is his knowledge, previous to May 4, concerning the conduct of a‘ number of the prisoners, as to their connection with socialistic organizations, public and private meetings, etc.; also, whether or not that knowledge was such as to lead him to take any action to enforce the laws against them. The defense expects to get through during the present week, or within eight days at furthest. A number of the prisoners will be put upon the stand in then? own defense. Among them will be Spies, Fischer, Schwab and Neebe. About six hundred sypathizers of the eight men now on trial in Judge Gary's court assembled in Aurora Turner Hall, on West Huron street, last night, to listen to speeches advertised to be made by Dr. Ernest Schmidt, George Schilling, A. H. Simpson, and “ot,he< prominent speakers.” Os those advertised, Dr. Schmidt was the only one who put in an appear* ance, and he harangued the audience for nearly an hour, devoting the time to a review of the Anarchist trials and the course of the “capitalistic press” toward the men on trial. Th® Doctor's remarks were eveD tempered, and he was followed by the chairman, E. O. Stevens, who spoke in a similar vein on the affairs of labor ,in general. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the course of the “capitalistic press” in the “so-called Anarchist triala,” and aereeing to aid the defendants in securing a fair trial. The plates were then passed around and the sum of $55.65 was realized, to be devoted to the defense of Spies and his followers. A SENSVIION IN A CEMETERY. Mr. Guinea Ably Sustains the Reputation He Acquired on Decoration Day. Chicago, Aug. I.—Yesterday afternoon the body of Willie Gleason, a six-year-old boy who was drowned recently in Michigan, was taken to Calvary Cemetery for burial. The funeral wafc from the widowed mother’s residence, No. 284 Loomis street, and was accompanied by over op® hundred persons. Mrs. Gleason owns a lot In Calvary, and it was her desire to bury her son by the side of her husband. Daniel Gleason and James McNichols, brother-in-law and brother of the widow, respectively, had charge of tho funeral arrangements. at the cemetery, they discovere4 that they had neglected to take along the deed to the lot. Superintendent Guinea declined to permit the interment unless the deed was first produced,- and called the police, it is said, t® eject the funeral party. He armed himself with a shotgun and a panic ensued among th® mourners. Two of the women fainted, and a stampede ensued. The gun was discharged, but no person was shot. It is stated by members of tho funeral party that Guinea threatened to fire into the crowd, and that when he presented the gun James McNichols knocked it from his hands, thus discharging it. The superintendent’s son was armed with a horse pistol. It went off during the excitement, and one of tha mourners received a slight flesh wound in th® leg. The elder Guinea was then roughly handled by the crowd. The body was taken to the vault and placed there temporarily, while the friend® went in search of a warrant for Guinea’s arrest, Guinea created a scene on Decoration Day, causing him to be made the subject of free newspaper comment. DOWNS’S DEFENSE. Sensational Disclosures That MTill Cause Much Gossip in and About the Hub. Boston, Aug. I.—To-day th® Rev. W. W. Downs made the first of his long-promised sensational disclosures in defense of his character, 4 and the affair is likely to prove a ten-days’ wonder. At his regular meeting in Bumstead Hall a long series of resolutions were read reviewing the call of Mr. Downs to the church, the revival he inaugurated, the efforts of Deacon Joseph Storey to secure his removal, the prosecutions of the pastor and the long-suffering of th® latter in his efforts to secure a reconciliation. Tho resolutions then expel Deacon Storey on the ground of adultery and his failure to prove his innocence of that oharge, ash promised he would do. In connection with the resolutions, an affidavit was read from a female member of a church, confessing to improper intercourse with Deacon Storey. The affidavit also states that death would have been preferable to this confession and the publicity trouble that will follow, but that it is made because Deacon Storey is at the bottom of the persecution which Mr. Downs has endured. Tho woman appeared before a meeting of the church two weeks ago and niado the confession. Addresses wore made in her bohalf. a number of prayers were offered, and she was forgiven. No Opposition to Gen. Gordon, Atlanta, Gn., Aug. I.—lt has been fully developed that there will bo no opposition to U-en. Gordon’s candidacy for Governor by tho Independents or Republicans. The papers in Georgia which opposed General Gordon largely becausa they were committed against him before his announcement of hi3 candidacy, aro all coming to bis support