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premium* commanding now. ami will therefore go out of business. The large bank* in the great cities report that they are preparing to reduce their circulating medium to the minimum tal stock will remain. This process, they say at the Treasury Department, acts the same as high license upon the saloon business—the big ones will stay in, but the small ones will be frozen out. The small banks are the ones affording most universal accommodation. Under the present pressure of public sentiment against the national banks it is not now thought that Coneress will provide other bonds for securing circulation till after the next presidential election. That is three years away. It is conceded that eighteen months will not pass before the foundation of a majority of the small banks will be removed. Then there will be opportunity afforded the legislatures jto inaugurate systems of State banks before Congress can act. Once established, the State banks will be slow to go back to the national system This is the view the most experienced Treasury officials take of the situation. It is suggested by an experienced national banker in this city that instructions should be given by all communities to their representatives so that some action may be taken before next March, if action is desired. It seems to be a question quite as important to the people as to the bankers.

CLEVELAND’S OFFENSE. Virginians Refuse To lie Comforted Because Jeff Davis’s Daughter Was Snubbed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 10.—“ Take it in whatever light you will, and leave out all political considerations, everybody mast concede that the President’s management of the affAir at the R.chmond State fair meeting was abominably bad,” said Dr. Snowden, editor of the Alexandria Gazette, one of the stanchest Democratic papers in the Old Dominion. “I have severely criticised the affair, as much because it was badly managed as anything else. I believe Cleveland is a man who will profit by experience, and I think this will do him some good. There is no question in the minds of Virginians—nor those of people in Washington, so far as I can hear—but that the presence of Miss Winnie Davis in Richmond kept Mrs. Cleveland away. Now, what Virginians object to is the apparent cowardly manner in which the President meets an emergency testing his moral courage. He should have taken Mi# Cleveland with him, and after the joint reception for her and Miss Davis he could have said, if Anybody was fool enough to criticise, that Miss Davis is a respectable lady and that Mrs. Cleveland is uot a politician. Why, I presume that if he had Known that Mis* Davis was going to New York Other day at the time she went he would have kept Mrs. Cleveland off the same Arain. Then the idea of the two ladies riding within fifty feet of each other 230 miles and not meeting! Os course. Miss Davis was on the defensive, and it was Mrs. Cleveland’s place to make the move, after refusing to meet the daughter of the Confederacy at Richmond. Most ladies, under the circumstances and in Mrs. Cleveland's position, would have requested Miss Davis to occupy the same car, and would have embraced the occasion to explain the disappointment at Richmond. I presume, however, she thought ‘the least said is soonest mended.’ I make no secret of my belief that Virginia could not be induced, under any circumstance, to cast its vote for Mr. Cleveland.” There is but one theme of discussion amone the many Virginians who come here daily, and that is the failure of Mrs. Cleveland to attend their fair. The trouble seems to thicken.

SCIENTIFIC SUGAR MAKING. 'Successful Application of Professor Wiley’s Methods to Louisiana Cane. Washington, Nov. 10.—The following telegram has been received at the Department of Agriculture: Fort Scott, Ivan., Nov 8. To the Commissioner of Agriculture. We finished boiling eighty-three tons of Louisiana cane to-night, and made nearly 19,000 pounds of strike. A weighed portion, run into centrifugal, &ave 54 per cent, of dried sugar. This will be more than 120 pounds first sugar per ton. Cane juice had 10 per cent, of sucrose, 1 8-10 per cent, of glucose, and 14 bj per cent, of total solid sugar; would have made only 80 pounds by old process. We have increased the yield fully 40 pounds per ton of sugar of fine quality. WILRY Chemist. This dispatch is regarded by the authorities at the Agricultural Department as the fulfillment of promises of important results given by the first incomplete experiments iu the diffusion process as applied to sugar-cane. The process was developed in Europe for application in the manufacture of beet sngar, and has been several times tried in this country upon the sugar-cane, bat without decided success, owing to imperfect machinery, and the necessity of considerable modifications to meet the difference in the material to be worked. In 1883 experiments in the new process were begun on a small scale in Washington, upon sorghum, and after a time such a measure of success was attained that the commissioner determined to put the process into operation UDon a larger scale. To this end a plant was established in connection with a sorghum sugar making establishment at Ottawa, Kan., and this season the new process has been carried on under the supervision of Professor Wiley with marked success. Meanwhile the sugar-cane growers of Louisiana have becomo deeply interested in the process, and have anxiously desired to learn whether it could be made applicable to their products. To test the matter, the Commissioner has decided to undertake the experiment in Louisiana upon a scale of sufficient magnitude to determine its practicability, but as a preliminary test he caused a train load of sugar-caue to be shipped from Louisiana to be worked up in the Kansas sorghum mills. It is the result of this experiment which Professor Wiley announces in his telegram. Professor Richardson, the assistant chemist at the department, says the chemical analysis of the cane jnice given by Professor Wiley shows that the cane, which had been sometime on its way from Louisiana, was of rather inferior quality, or in bad condition. He believes the new process will, within a few years, force itself iuto universal U3e, since an increase of 50 per sent, in the yield of the cane sugar crop by means which are but a trifle more expensive than those in present use, will be a motive which the most conservative planter will be unable to resist

SOUR-TEMPERED CLEVELAND. He Constantly Gets Further from the People A Bad Attack of Bis Hoad. “Gi tli’s” i>w York letter. A prominent New York Democrat said to me: ‘The working people will cheer for Henry George, who comes among them. They would sheer for Blaine, who penetrates the crowd and speaks to the working people as one man to another. But Cleveland is about as far away from the common people as any American President, hardly accepti tig Buchanan." Said I: "He makes pretty good speeches from point to point." “He does speak well, but nearly every speech he makes has a suppressed resentment in it aeaiDst something natural to the people which every other President has had to stand. Look here at this sentence, iuterjected into his Harvard speech, in the presence of representatives of foreign universities:" The person to whom 1 was speaking produced the President’s address, and read this sentence: ‘‘The relation between the President and the people onght to leave hut little room in popular judgment and conscience, for unjnst and false accusations and for malicious slanders invented for the purpose of undermining the people's trust anu confidence in the administration of their government. No public officer shoold desire to check the utmost freedom of criticism as to all official acts, but tuo silly, mean and cowirdly lies that are every day found in the colimni of certain newspapers violate every initinct of American manliness and in ghoulish giee desecrate every relation of private life." ‘ Now." said my public man, “what was there to call for this burst of wrath from the Arneri-

can President at n time like this, and on an educational occasion! He evidently had got something on his mind. Cleveland has had the big head ever since he became Governor of the State, and his elevation to the presidency has inspired in him a certain tyranny of opinion which was quite manifest before to his immediate friends: even at Albany he was very eestive of a difference of opinion expressed to his face. Some men want frankness, and Cleveland always alleged that be despised a sneak; yet no man will put a friend down quicker, and especially a dependent friend, if he ventures to differ with him in a manly way. He has at last apparently come to a place where the ordinary babble of the press weighs heavily upon his rage. There is no great responsibility to tpiich which, the press has to say, and, therefore' the President ought not to regard it more than he would the talk of women or children. What really ails him is a sense of slipping down hill. There is hardly one Democrat in the country who has not had reason to feel affronted at something the President has said, < r looked, or done, or left undone. To his own Cabinet he has the reserve and semirudeness of an absolute chieftain. He has got himself into a state of sour temper, which may be the product of a sour stomach. His physical health, though naturally good, has come to a place where there are some chronic tendencies in it. All tyrants grow fat. When Henry VIII was in the height of his oppressive career be was full of humors, dropsies, superabundant fluid and the obese tendency. These ailings drove his rage further and further od until it became almost fatal to anybody to have his would send them to the Tower or block for speaking in his presence or for keeping silence. My opinion,” concluded my friend, “is that Cleveland has gone in pursuit of high society, and has lost the confidence of his own organization.”

THE GRANT RELICS. Their Present Location and the Precautions for Their Safety. Washington Special. In an upper room in one of the corners of the National Museum Building, reached by a flight of stairs with many turns, several attaches of the rauseam are at work upon the treasures which have just been delivered to tbe National Museum known to the world as the Grant relics. The room is locked, and near at hand keeping a vigilant watch on every one who approaches near lounges a man, who, though he looks quite harmless, is really heavily armed. Extra precautions are taken day and night to guard the relics, as aside from their historic value they have a high intrinsic value. The gold, and silver, and precious stones would make a rare “swag” for an enterprising burglar. The location of the room in which the relics are being prepared for exhibition will not be made known to the public. The relics, now the property of the Nation, will not probably be placed on exhibition for a month, as it will require some time to prepare them for exhibition and provide cases for holding them. Their first installation will be of a temporary character. For many of the objects in the collection special cases will have to be made, but this work will take considerable time. Meanwhile the articles will be placed temporarily on exhibition in such cases as can be provided for them at present. The collection is notable for its richness. Swords covered with gold and sparkling with diamonds, caskets of solid gold and silver, medals of gold and silver, rare stones and miuer&ls, and coins of great value to it a value of thousands of dollars, while the manuscripts and personal relics of the General give it a historical value which cannot De estimated in dollars. The gifts and testimonials coming from every quarter of the globe—from European cities and oriental potentates—make a sort of object lesson teliing of General Grant’s trip around the world.

MINOR MENTION. Treasury Circular Relative to Payment of Interest on the Pnblic Debt. Washington, Nov. 10. —The Secretary of the Treasury to-day issued the following circular in regard to prepayment of interest on the public debt: “By virtue of the authority conferred by law upon the Secretary the of Treasury, notice is hereby given that the interest due Dec. 1,188 G, on United States coupon bonds of the funded loan of 1891, will be paid without rebate on the presentation of the proper coupons at the Treasury in Washington, D. C., and at the various sub treasuries. The checks for registered interest of that loan will be forwarded to holders as soon as prepared, and may be presented for payment, without rebate, on or before the 20th instant Coupons of the four-per-cent. consols of 1907, falling due Jan. 1, 1887, will be paid on presentation before maturity, upon a rebate of interest at the rate of 3Der cent, per annum. The interest on registered stock of that loan will also be paid on and after Dec. 1, 1886, upon receipt from the Treasurer of the United States of an applica tiou, accompanied by power of attorney, authorizing that officer to collect the interest for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1886, and to retain the proportionate amount of rebate, remitting balance to applicant." Treasurer Jordan said this afternoon that the effect of the offer to prepay interest on the public debt would bo to distribute almost immediately aboutslo,ooo,ooo among about two thousand banks ami individuals in every section of the country, and would, in his opinion, boos great advantage to the moving of crops and other branches of business. The Secretary’s action, said he, was entirely for the benefit of business interests.

Corn and Other Crops. Washington, Nov. 10.—The yield in corn, according to the revised returns, is 22 bushels per acre, making a product upon the present adjustment of acreage of 668,000,000 bushels. This accords well with recent returns of condition, and will not be materially changed in the final review or the work of the year. The yield of the great corn-surplus States is variable, the lowest, of course, being in the region of drought. Ohio, 32.3; Indiana, 32.2; Illinois, 24.7; lowa, 24 5: Missouri, 22.2; Kansas, 21.3; Nebraska, 27.5. New York and the Eastern States exceed 30 bushels; Pennsylvania nearly as much, and the Southern States, generally, a reduced rate of yield. The potato product is nearly the same as lAst year, with higher yields in the East and lower in the West. The average is 73 bushels per acre, giving a product of 163,000,000 bnshels. The buckwheat crop report makes a yield of about 13 bushels per acre, promising a product exceeding 11,000,000 bushels. The apparent production of tobacco is at a rate slightly exceeding an average of 70 pounds per acre, or about 485,000,000 pounds, which is equal to the average requirements of consumption and exportation. The average rate of yield for the hay crop is close to 1 3-10 tons per acre, and the apparent product about 45,000,000 tons. Preparing for Business. Washington, Nov. 10.—Mr. Randall, chair man of the House committee on appropriations, is expected to arrive here on the 18th instant, to get things in readiness for the meeting of his committeee, which lakes place, if a quorum can be brought together, on the 22d. Among the members who are confidently expected are those composing the sub-committee on the sundry civil appropriations bill, which measure it is said to be Mr. Randall’s purpose to have in readiness to be reported to the House at the opening of the session. The estimates are now in the hands of the printer. It is said, though not by official authority, that their aggregate is slightly below the total of last year’s appropriation. Wants To Be Civilized. Washington Special. “Rain-in-the-Face," the Indian murderer of General Custer, has applied to be admitted as a student at the school at Hampton, Va. He is about forty years of age, and pledges, in substance, that he has washed the war paint off forever. General and Personal. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 10. — Mrs. Mollie S. Dalle, of Indiana, a cleric in the Patent Offiet, was today promoted from $1,200 to $1,400 a year. Ex-Senator McDonald attended the marriage of

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the daughter of ex-SoHcitor-gonera! John Goode, of Virginia, and Richard Brooke, at Epiphany Church, this morning, and this afternoon, with Representative Matson, was present at President Cleveland’s reception at the White House. W. H. Crawley, of Fort Wayne, is in the city. Prince Komatsu, uncle of the Mikado of Japan, called at the White House to-day, ir company with tbe Princess Komatsu and the members of his snite, and paid their respects to the Preswleut. They were received in the Blue parlor. The presentations ware made by Secretary Bayard. Daring tbe reception, which was quite informal, Mrs. Cleveland entered tbe parlor, and the visifcys were individually presented to her. The President’s role not to receive visitors except upon purely official business and at the tri weekly afternoon reception, goes into effect to-morrow. He proposes to devote his principal attention from now until Congress meets to the preparation of his annual message, and will not be bothered about appointments. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Alabama National Bank, of Birming ham. Ala, to commence ousine&i with a capital of $500,000, and tbe Towson National Bank, of Towson, Md., with a capital of $50,600. It is said at the Nautical Almanac office that on the evening of Friday next, Nov. 12, no less than six stars, including Aldebaran, which is of the fir3t magnitude, will be eccuited by the moon between 6 o’clock and midcight. Some of the stars are of only the fifth and sixth magnitude, and will require telescopic aid to be seen; but Aldebaran and two others, of the fourth magnitude, will be visible to the unassisted eye or bv the use of an ordinary opera-glass.

MUSIC IN CHURCH. Gist of the Document Discussed and Adopted by the Opponents of Instrumental Music. Pittsburg, Nov. 10.—The sessions of the National Convention of United Presbyterians, opposed to instrumental music in churches, today, were devoted to the discussion and adoption of a lengthy declaration prepared by the committee on resolutions. The document is a forcible one, and sets forth in detail the most formidable arguments in opposition to the use of the organ in the churches. A discussion followed the reading of the paper and the resolutions accompanying it, in which many of the ministers took energetic part. It was, claimed by all, however, that they should stand by the first principles, regardless of the wishes of others. God alone, it was argued,*was Lord of the conscience, and its dictates should be obeyed regardless of men, commandments or church majorities. The paper submitted concluded as follows: “We hold it to be the constitutional right of any member of the church to demand the exclusion of instruments from the public worship of the church; but that claim we arc willing to waive if our brethren will unite with us. in accordance w th the spirit and intent of the act of the assembly of 1885, in the removal, as soon as practicable, for the sake of peace and for conscience sake, this stumbling block and cause of offense from the worship of God. But the right itself, and our liberty under the constitution of the church we dare uot and cannot, even for the sake of peace, relinquish; therefore, Resolved. First, that it is our right and privilege, as members of the United Presbyterian Church, to be left free from all necessity or obligation of any sort whatever to praise God otherwise than by the simple “singing of psalms, with grace in the heart.” .Second Believing instrumental music in connection with the worship of God to be without the authority of Divine appointment, under the New Testament dispensation, and therefore a corruption of that worship, it is our duty to refuse in any way to countenance or support its use, and we hereby counse: all our brethren to stand firm and not defile or wound their conscience by any compliance with that which is contrary to conscience, or in regard to which conscience is not clear. Third—That we appeal to our brethren who constitute, for the present, the prevailing party in the church, to stand by their agreement entered into in the Assembly of 18S5. and to carry out the pledge implied therein, and that with a view of securing unity and co-operation in this matter, we hereby invite them to a brotherly conference, and suggest the appointment of a committee to meet at such time and place as may be agreed upon, soon as practicable. Fourth —That in the meantime, assured of the justice of ou. cause, we commit both it and ourselves to Him who judges righteousness, and we want our brethren to exhibit patience and forbearance under the present trial, since we seek only liberty to worship God as Jesus Christ, our only Lord, who will be attentive to the prayers of that desire to hear His name, and will, in* His own time, appear for them, and set before them an open door which no man can shut. When the convention met in the evening, Rev. Dr. W. H. French was called upon to deliver an address which he had prepared upon tbe “Basis of Church Union.” Following the address, a committee of conference, consisting of seven clergymen and four laymen, were appointed. The committee on resolutions then presented an additional report, and a plan of organization for those United Presbyterians opposed to instrumental music. The additional resolutions declare that, as the General Assembly deliberately set aside and annulled the church doctrine with regard to the use of instrumental music iu the church of God, they solemnly agree to endeavor to secure a revival of that discipline which Christ has appointed as so essential a means of preserving the purity of doctrine and practice in the church; that they will endeavor to secure a faithful administration of tbe discipline of the church in its application, without fear or favor, to every known and persistent violator of it; that they will stand by one another in the use of all proper means to accomplish their ends. The plan of organization provides for the formation of a permanent association, to be known as the United Presbyterian Association of America, the object being to maintain and promote purity in doctrine and simplicity in worship iu the United Presbyterian Church. The members of the association shall be the members of the United Presbyterian Church in sympathy with the objects of the association, ana meetings shall be held annually at time and place fixed by the association. Immediately upon the reading of the above report adjournment was had. To-morrow's session promises to bring forth much lively discussion.

Signs es a Serious Marine Disaster. Chicago, Nov. 10.—A special from Frankfort, Mich., says: “The gale continues unabated. Wreckage is washing ashore at Point Betsy, showing that a terrible marine disaster has occurred. Captain Matthews, of the life station, reports that his surfmen picked up the top of a vessel’s cabin last night—one of the largestsized vessels. It measures twenty by twentysix feet; top load color, with a hoie for mizzen mast, the covering-board red and edge-molding blue. The ceiling has three panels, painted white. Nothing can be found to learn the name of the wreck. Small pieces c t bulwarks, painted white, are washing up. A plank has just been found indicating that she was an iron-ore vessel. The wreckage was driven in by the southwest wind. Great excitement prevails. The life-saving crew are carefully patrolling the beach in search of bodies. Ohio’s Official Vote. Columbus, 0., Nov. 10 —The official vote of the State election, received at the office of the Secretary of State, gives Robinson, Rep., 340,895; Mcßride, Dern., 329.314: Smith, Prohib., 28,657: Bonsai, Greenb., 1,902; Robinson’s plurality, 11,581. In 1884 Robinson’s plurality for Secretary of State was 11,242. The rest of the Republican State ticket has pluralities ranging from five to six thousand greater than the head of the ticket. The majorities in the Congressional districts will exceed the head of the ticket about ten thousand. The total vote iu the State will be u little over 700,000. Sure Way to Get Kid of Her. San Francisco, Nov. 10.—Mamie Kelly, a fourteen-year-old school girl, was shot and killed by her lover, Alexander Goldenson, an art student, aged nineteen, to day. Goldenson’s reason forcomraitting the crime was that he was tired of the girl and couldn’t get rid of her. When he got out of school she. hunted him, and when he repelled her she upbraided him. The affair has created considerable excitement. Goldenson is in custody. Prof. C. A. Bryoe, M. D., LL. D., editor Medical Clioic, Richmond, Va,. 6ays: “Liebig Co.’s Coca Beef Tonic is a wonderful reconstructive neent, building up the general system and supplying lost nervous energy. In all wasting diseases and broken down constitutions it i6 the agent" Also, in female complaauti, shattered nerves, dyspepsia and biliousness.

A NEW BTJLER FOB BULGABIA The Great Sob ranje Selects Prince Waldemar,of Denmark, by Acclamation. Tlie Announcement Coldly Received by Citizens, Who Fail to Join in the Enthusiasm Displayed by Their Representatives. ALEXANDER’S SUCCESSOR. The Bulgarian Sobranje Selects Prince Waldernar by Acclamation. London, Nov. 10. —The session of the Bulgarian Sobranje to elect a successor to Prince Alexander was held this morning, and was not deferred until to-morrow, as was expected. M. Radoslavoff, the Prime Minister, proposed the name of Prince Waldemar. The whole assembly rose in a body and elected Waldemar by acclamation. The public in the galleries did not participate in the enthusiasm manifested by the deputies, and exhibited no approval of the election. After the election of Prince Waldemar the president of the Sobranje informed the deputies that he was confident that Europe would ratify the Prince’s election. M. Shufkoff, president of the Sobranje, and deputies Michaeloff, Baikosshoff, Grekoff and Kesim Zaada, the last named being a Turk-Bul-garian, were selected to convey to Prince Waldemar the offer of the throne. Prince Waldemar is staying at Cannes. M. Branoff, prefect of Sofia, has resigned. His dismissal had been demanded by General Kaulbars because he ejected a Russian" subject from the Sofia council chamber. The prefect at once offered to resign, but General Kaulbars insisted tnat the government dismiss him. Captain Nabokoff, the Russian who led the recent revolt at Bourgas, has been tried by the Bulgarian authorities for causing an insurrection, and convicted. He was sentenced to death. His fellow-conspirators have also been tried, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. A Pesth telegram says: “The speech made by Lord Salisbury at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, in London, yesterday.. strengthens the position of Count Kalnoky. The feeling in the Hungarian delegations is becoming composed, and the members appear less distrustful of Kalnoky. The Magyar delegates express the hope that the speech portends a fresh grouping of the powers, similar to that which Count Andrassy evoked at the Berlin congress. The committee of the delegations will meet to-morrow, Coant Andrassy presiding. It is probable the committee will demand that the imperial government resist the establishment of an exclusively Russian influence in Bulgaria ” It is reported that Prince Lobanoff, the Russian embassador at Vienna, has officially notified Count Kalnoky that Prince Nicholas, of Mingrelia, is the Czar’s candidate for the Bulgarian throne, and that the selection of Prince Waldemar does not meet with the Czar’s approval.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Salisbury’s Latest Speech Creates a Sensation Among Frenchmen. Paris, Nov. 10.—The statement made by the Marquis of Salisbury at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London last night, that England meant to remain in Egypt until her work in that country was completed, has made a profound impression in political and financial circles. The National, the France and other newspapers say they consider that the speech settles the question of evacuation, and shows that England’s determination is to make the occupation of Egypt indefinite and protracted. A Conservative Selection. Boston, Nov. 10.—E. A. Perry cables to the Herald from London, thi3 evening, as follow's: “In selecting Prince Waldemar, of Denmark, as successor to Prince Alexander, the Bulgarian Assembly has made a very conservative choice. It was feared that the patriotic party would bring forward Prince Alexander's name and insist that the abdication was legally Incomplete till approved by the Great Sobranja This course may still be held in resevre should the Bulgarian government find itimpossible to avoid the veto power of the Czar in any other way. But in fixing upon Prince Waldemar the Assembly shows that it desires to avert further complications by presentingan unexceptional princeelect for confirmation by the great powers and the Sultan. The. Prince’s acceptance of the honor is, however, very much questioned. He will certainly decline if there is risk of the Czar’s opposition.” Cable Notes. M. Paul Bert, French minister-resident in Annam, is dying of fever. A Russian engineer claims to have discovered a process of reducing petroleum to the form of crystals which may be easily and safely transported to any distance and then reconverted into liquid form. There is a strike of compositors in the Government Printing office at Littonfeld, over work for the War Department. A number of soldiers who are compositors have been ordered to take the places of the strikers. At a Socialist meeting at Mainz, Deputy Joest declared that Bebel was the most eminent orator m the Reichstag. This remark was received with enthusiastic applause, whereupon the police suppressed the meeting. The Vatican is preparing for publication an encyclical letter condemning and stigmatizine the Italian government, whose policy, the latteV will say, places the Pope in the power of a revolution which menaces his liberty. Emperor William is more vigorous. On Tuesday he received Minister Von Puttkamer and Count Herbert Bismarck, worked four hours over reports, and afterwards drove in the Thiergarten. Yesterday he was able to give attention to the reports of the Ministers of War and Marine.

New Plan to Suppress Bucket-Shops. Chicago, Nov. 10.—A new plan to suppress bucket-shops and restore speculative trading to former channels is being agitated by a number of members of the Board of Trade. The idea is to abolish the market reporting department of the board, at least temporarily. Without official quotations received over the tickers, it is claimed bucket-shops cannot secure enough patronage to pay office expenses. The claim is also made that by cutting off all official quotations, the outside agent who sends his orders to the large city bucket shops will be obliged to re-connect himself with regular brokers. A petition asking the directors of the Board of Trade to submit for ballot a proposition repealing the rules providing for the maintenance of a market department was signed by over seventy-five members in a very short time yesterday. There was no attempt to make a canvass of the board. The petition has now been referred by the directors to the committee on market quotations. By the proposed plan the ticker service here would be dispensed with altogether in gram and provision speculations, and the present system of market reports from this city discontinued. The Western Nail Association. Cincinnati, Nov. 10.—At the meeting of the Western Nail Association, held here to-day, the following was adopted: Resolved, That in view of the large advances in pig iron and steel which hfcve recently taken place, it is nocessary that the manufacturers of nails in allof the mills in the West should attend a general meeting, with a view of taking such action in regard to the nail business as the conditions may require. Resolved, That for the purpose of considering the above rosolution, a special meeting of all the Western nail manufacturers be held at the Monongahela House, Pittsburg. Nov. 17, at 10 a. m. The Converse Church Trial. Louisville, Nov. 10. —The testimony in the Converse trial was resumed to-day by the prosecution, and evidence whs introduced to show that the reputation of Converse’s paper, The Christ tiao Observer, was bad. Among those who testified for the prosecution were Rev. J. S, Crosby,

of Colombia, S. C.; Rev. D. McQueen, of Georgia; Rev. J. W. Flinn, of New Orleans, whose evidence was especially severe on the defendants; J. M. Keating, of Memphis; W. A. Dodd, of Louisville; Rev. T. H. Law, of South Carolina; Rev. W. E. Boggs, of Memphis, one of the prosecutors. The Converse Bros, are charged with violating the Ninth Commandment, TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The fifth awnual convention of the Citizens’ Law and Order League of the United States will be held at Albany, N. Y., the 20th, 21st and 22d of February, 1887. In a fight between fence-cutters and State rangers, Tuesday night, at a point ten miles from Brownwood, Tex., two fence-cutters, named Loveil and Roberts, were killed. After a grudge of several years' standing, Mart and Ock Smith met each other at Standford, Ky., Monday, and began shooting. Ock was shot through the heart at the first fire, and died trying to fire his pistol at his opponent, who was uninjured. At St. George de La Beauce, Quebec, a number of young men attacked a farmer named Wintle in his own house. The farmer seized a rifle and fired at his assailants, but the bullet flew wide of its mark and struck his niece, a young lady who was staying with him, killing her instantly. Alfred Guitte. of Oakland, Cal., made a hurried trip to New York by rail and caused the arrest of Joseph Reed, who sailed from San Francisco last month with Marada Guitte and Mamie Murray, representing one to be his wife and the other her sister. The girls are respectively fourteen and fifteen years of age. The parties contesting the will of Samuel J. Tilden make no allegation of mental unsoundness. but they ask the courts to set aside the provision placing a vast sum in the hands of executors with discretionary powers such as could only be exercised by the testator himself. The sum involved is estimated as high as $15,000,000. Two young burglars who have been chloroforming and robbing in the neighborhood of Saybrook. Conn, are supposed to be those under arrest in Hartford, named Gustave Anderson and Eddy Peterson. The younger is aged sixteen years. They have chloroformed and robbed people in houses at Saybrook and several adjoining villages. Their track through the State has been marked by a series of bold burglaries. About 9:30 o’clock, yesterday morning, the Hartford, Conn., police found Jesse L. Lord, formerly one of the editors of the Post, more recently on the Boston Journal of Commerce, and latterly with the Scientific American, lying on the grave of his wife, in the old North Cemetery. He had shot himself through the head. He was conveyed to the hospital, his wound being pronounced fatal. He is about fifty-five years old.

THE PROFITS OF AN EVANGELIST. Sam Small Tells How He Pays His Debts—He Refnses To Be Swindled. Atlanta Constitution. “I have receipts in full for $5,700 of debts paid in Atlanta since I was converted, less than fourteen months ago. Many of these were barred by the statute, by bankrupt proceedings, and many were partnership obligations, yet I have paid them as I came to them in the order that I thought they ought to be preferred. There are a couple of thousand dollars yet to pay, but that will be met fully inside of a few months, lam sure. Os course, I never stopped to thinir, before I was converted, how much I was in debt, and I was astonished when all these old wraiths of my past folly and recklessness mounted up before me. 1 mean to pay every cent of them as quickly as possible, and as may be just. Let me say here, that of the SB,OOO that 1 have brought to Atlanta and paid out here in a year, not a dollar of it came out of an Atlanta pocket. I have not spent a cent of any Atlauta money, for 1 haven’t received any within that time. And while we are talking about debts, I wish the Atlanta people who owe me about S6OO for court reporting fees would pay me the sums they owe me. for that would help me wonderfully to keep on feeding these little red-eared collection lawyers who are keeping up a clatier about what I ought to do. I have unearthed a couple of receipts lately for money paid years ago, and paid again since my conversion, and made the parties refund the last payments. I have in hand now a.paid draft for a bill recently presented a second time, and I am waiting for the fellow to swear to this second bill, and then I will make it warm for him. It is an awful soft snap to some of these fellows to come up with a hang dog look and say I made the account when I was drunk. They are a pretty set of scamps to be talking around as if they were honest men who were suffering great wrongs. Not only this, but I have had ex-bar-keepers, who used to threaten to kick me out of theif places when I was tight, come to me since my conversion to give them money to pay their rent, buy medicine for their sick wives and bread for their children, and, thank God, I gave it to them freely and gladly.”

HAM AND EGGS BY TELEGRAPH. The Curious New Device in Use in a New York Hotel to Send Meals. New York Letter. There is one hotel in New York at whose office one hears a wide departure from the old and unvaried cry of “Front,” “Take this to 247,” or “See what 90 wants.” At this hotel the clerk hears the tick of a muffled bell behind him, turns from the counter, glances at a dial about twice the size of the face of an ordinary nickel clock, and immediately behaves as if he could see through all the walls between him and the guests’ rooms, and could read the mind of any guest in the bargain. Click, goes the bell. “James, take up a Manhattan cocktail to 47." says the clerk. Click, goes the bell. “Boy,” says the clerk, “take up two soft-boiled eggs to Mr. Tompkins,” or “Johnny, run up and say to 363 that it is ten minutes after 10 o’clock.” Any visitor who spends an hour near the clerk’s desk will be amazed at the variety of orders that will be given to the hall-boys without the clerk’s hearing a word frfim any room by telephone, telegraph, speaking-tube or any other means. The explanation is at once simple and peculiar. Some genius has invented a device that he calls by a Greek name, and which is operated automatically by an electric battery exactly as the old-fashioned hotel annunciators are. In each room in the hotel is a dial with movable arrow, like a clock hand. On the dial are printed the names of everything a guest would be at all likely to want—all the drinks that ever were heard of, paper, envelopes, telegraph blanks, “help,” a doctor, police, chambermaid, messenger boy, eggs, toast, milk, soup, oysters, breakfast, dinner, tea —in fact, every eatable in common demand—a city directory, the daily papers, playing cards, cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, a barber—in short, everything in a list of 100 or 150 necessaries. The guest pulls the arrow to the name of whatever he wants, and by pressing a button reeisters his demand on the dial behind the clerk’s desk. The only purpose it serves is to save time in the execution of orders.

Midnight Solitaire on a Grave. Hartford (Conn.) Special to Boston Herald. Au astonishing story comes from Milford. Miss Gertrude Coolson, daughter of a Quebec merchant, who is attending a seminary in Mil ford, was boating at High Rock grove last summer, Her boat upset, and a young man who was with the party, Ezra J. Pike, sprung into the stream and rescued Miss Coolson. The matter was the subject of a good deal of talk in Milford, and, jokingly, Miss Coolson remarked that he had not done a very courageous act after all. This aroused Pike, who dared her to do some courageous act that he would name. She was plucky, and agreed. He dared her to go to the cemetery and play solitaire on Tom Thumb's grave for an honr, at midnight. Miss Coolson was dismayed at first, but she would not back down. With anew pack of cards and a lantern she entered the cemetery at midnight, her friends remaining at the gate. They watched the flickering light until it stopped at the crave, and, for an hour, saw dimly the form of the girl bending over as she puzzled over the complications of the game. She rejoined her friends showing no trace of excitement, and was congratulated on her courage. Milford gossips report that Mr. Pike and Miss Coolson are now engaged. Steamship News. Hamburg, Nov. 10.—Arrived: Suevia, from New York. New York. Nov. 10. —Arrived: Wyoming, from Liverpool; Devonia, from Glasgow.

THE WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS. Annual Meeting of the State AssociationResolutions Adopted and Officers Chosen. Syeoi&l to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Ind., Nov. 10. —The twenty-sixth annual convention of the Indiana Woman Suffrage Association, which convened in this city yesterday, to-day elected their officers for the ensuing year, and adopted the following resolutions: 1. The Indiana Woman Suffrage Association demands the ballot for woman, not as a privilege, but as an inalienable right in a government which derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. 2. We believe that this issue is a fundamental one. and paramount to all political issues of mere ex]>e<liency and method* of government. Therefore this association is non-partisan, and appeals to good meo of all parties to do simple justice to women; and ws urge the friends of suffrage to work and vote for the election of legislators who are also recognized as friends of this movement. 3. A demand should be made upon our Legislature at its coming session for all forms of woman’s suffrage which are compatible with our State and national constitutions, whether school suffrage, municipal suffrage, presidential suffrage, or otherwise, and Congress should be solicited to enfranchise women in all Territories, and to take the steps necessary for the adoption of a sixteenth amendment of the federal Constitution. We rejoice in the defeat of the Edmunds bill, which proposed to disfranchise all the women of Utah without deference to their guilt or innocence of the crime of polygamy. 5. Suffrage is needed to secure for women equal access with men to all proper fields of industry, to secure for them equal pay for equal work, to promote temperance, to improve the schools and to purify politics. 6. The advance of public sentiment is shown by the establishment of full woman suffrage in the Territories of Wyoming, Utah and.Washington, of school suffrage for women in twelve States and six Territories, and of municipal suffrage for unmarried women and widows in Novia Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and recently in Vermont; bvradioal changes in the State laws affecting the personal aud property rights of wives, mothers and widows; by the general establishment of co-education, and by the opening f wider industrial professions and careers to women. 7. In support of our demands we invoke the same patriotism, sense of justice and spirit of liberty which has already established and maintained a Republic based upon a wider suffrage than any which has hitherto existed in the world, and we trace, in the progress of suffrage in all countries where the doctrines of civil liberty prevail, a certain augury of its further extension until it becomes indeed universal. We affirm that a government of the people must be a government of men and women, and that the equal co-opera-tion of the sexes is essential alike to a happy home, 4 refined society, and a free state. The officers elected were: President—Mary E. Haggarb, of Indianapolis. Recording Secretary—Mattie S. Charles, of Richmond.. Treasurer—Mary D. Naylor, of Indianapolis. Financial Agent and Corresponding Secretary— Mary D. Naylor. Executive Committee—Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond; Sylvester Johnson, of Indianapolis; Mrs, Pauline T. Merritt. Mrs. May Wright Sewell, of Indianapolis; Mrs. Mary S. Armstrong, of Kokomo. A ice-presidents—W. D. Foulke, Richmond; Mary H. Williams, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Z. G. Wallace. Indianapolis; Sarah E. Franklin, Anderson: Mrs. Emma P. Dixon, Kokomo; Dr. Mary 11. Wilhite, Orawfordsville; Mrs. Laura C. Reynolds, Columbus; Mrs. D. Holloway. Decatur; Mrs. Anna Gifford, Tipton; Mrs. M. G. Rhenbottom. Kendallville; Mrs. Rena L. Miner, Lagrange: Mrs. R. A. Larrner, Lawreuceburg; Capt. J. B. White, Fort Wayne; Helen M, Gougar. Lafavette; Anna B. Campbell, Rush villa, Mid H. R. Ridpath, Greencastle. Welcoming speeches were made by Dr. Mary F. Thomas, on behalf of the local association, and General Bennett, Mayor of the city, to which Mrs. Z. G. Wallace, of Owen county, and Mrs. Anna Gifford, of Tipton, responded, and speeches were also made by Henry B. Blackwell, Lucy Stone and others.

Beecher's Simple Creed. BFooMrn Special. The leading feature of the day was the admission of a score of new members to the church. Mr. Beecher announced that the form of admission was of the simplest character, as were the requisitions for membership. All that was required was that the candidate should declare that she or he loved Jesus Christ and was endeavoring steadfastly to live according to the principles He inculcated. The oread of the church, he explained, was not so much air expression of the individual faith of the member and subscriber as an indication to the community at large of the lines upon which instruction might be expected from the pulpit. Then, having read the names of the candidates, he requested them to rise. Most of them were seated near the front, and when they stood up Mr. Beecher proceeded to read the form of admission. It contained several qaestions as to their religious condition, and put two or three demands to which they were supposed to accede by a nod. Too Smart for That. Pittsburg Dispatch. The election return forger seems to have got in his work at Indianapolis this year, where a number of glaring erasures and alterations in the returps have been discovered. True to its record, the Cincinnati Enquirer declares that the ' Republicans have been tampering with returns, which, as the erasures are all in favor of Democratic candidates, is equivalent to asserting that the bad Republicans have been throwing away good votes in order to get the innocent Democrats into trouble. Some folks may do that sort of thing; but out impression is that Indiana politicians are too smart to do so. Fire at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Nov. 10.—Fire broke out early this morning in the store of John Sharpless & Cos., dealers in dye stuffs, originating in the laboratory. The flames spread to the rooms occupied by Pierce & Middleton, wool dealers, Damage was also done by water to several other buildings and contents. The loss will amouot to $60,000. The Patrons of Husbandry. Philadelphia, Nov. 10. The National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, composed of delegates from everv State and Territory in the United States, commenced their twentieth annual session here to-day. The meetings will continue about eight days, and will be held in secret Judge Johnson’s Successor. Columbus, 0.. Nov. 10 —The Governor appointed to the Supremo Bench to day Judge Francis J. Dickman, of Cleveland, vice Johnson, resigned. “Liebig Co.’s Coca Beef Tonio Is far superior to the fashionable and illusive preparations of beef, wine and iron,” says Prof. F. W. Hunt, M. D., honorary member Imperial Medical Society of St Petersburg, Russia, eto. It will reconstruct the most shattered and enfeebled, reinvigorate the aged and infirm and build up sickly children. Invaluable in female irregularity, pains and exhaustion. Quiets restless children and infants.

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