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Dire in January, and some of the Retire politieiansof tlmt town, who think that the office has been held by a woman long enough. wish to succeed her. Mrs. Helm was hero a few days ago and is in vigorous health, quite capable of performing for many years the duties of the office which she has already filled with satisfation for one term It is believed that the President will permit her to retain the position. TUe Virtuous Democracy. 6x><'ial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 29. — Senator Voorheesand other prominent Democrats say there is no foundation for the statement that there is a scheme on foot for their party to secure a maby admitting Washington Territory to and thus secure two Senators, though bills for the admission of both Dakota and Washington have passed the Senate and now await the action of the House. It is true, they admit, that the Democrats could take advantage of the Repub licans in got,tine control of the Senate, but they disclaim any intention to do such a dishonorable act. as it was well understood at the time the Republicans in the Senate voted to admit Washington. a Democratic Territory, that it was done to offret Dakota politically. It is intimated that the President would not sign the bill admitting Washington if advantage was taken of the situation and Dakota was refused admission at the same time. The Coming National Drill. Special to lue Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Nov. 29.—The Secretary of the aaiional drill, to be held here in May of next year, says that the success of the enterprise is Wsured. He believes that Washington will entertain more guests at that time, and will have more foreigners in the city, and that the occasion will he moreof a national character than anything that has ever taken piace here. He has received inquiries from people in nearly every section oi the world, indicating that the project has attracted attention widespread. The interest of the American people is so widespread that the participation in the drill will undoubtedly be far in excess of all anticipation when the project was first originated and put on foot. General anti Personal. Washington, Nov. 29.—Mrs. Hunt, widow of the late Secretary Hunt, of the navy, has joined the Catholic Church. She is a prominent figure in society, and the event excites considerable interest. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending Nov. 27 was 585,B8fl: same period last year, 659.384. The shipments of fractional silver coin since Nov. 1 imount to $688,291. The President, was compelled to omit his usual afternoon reception, to day, in order to devote his mention entirely to his message and othor mat.ers to be submitted to Congress. THE FIRE RECORD. Burring of the Loomis Manufacturing Works ;st LnPorte—A Watchman Loses His Life. Special to the Indianaoolis Journal. LaPohte, Ind., Nov. 29. —The extensive factory of the Loomis Manufacturing Cos., manufacturers of buggy gears, boxes and cutters, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The build.ng was a very large brick four-story structure, :overing half a square. The loss is $20,000, with 14,400 insurance, as follows: One thousand dolars in the Traders’, of Chicago; $1,500 in the Fire Association, of Philadelphia; $1,500 in the Orient, of Hartford, and S4OO in the Phenix, of Brooklyn. The origin of the fire is unknown, as ibere had been no heat in the building since Satarday. The remains of Felix Korris, the night watchman, were found this morning, at the foot )f a stairway, and one theory of the fire is that ae fell down the stairway with his lantern, which :ansed the fire. Korris was an old German cititen, and had been a watchman at the different factories here for yearr. Sixty-five bands are thrown out of employment. The fire is a serijus blow to our industries, and a still more scri3ns blow to Mr. Loomis, who loses his all. Qe aas labored for years against adverse circumitances in establishing bis business, and had just reached a position of business prosperity.

Other Fires. Boston. Not. 29.—The insurance on the Lockwood Manufacturing Company’s property destroyed by fire on Sunday morning, aggregates $150,000. Pittsburg, Nov. 29.—Fire in the Pittsburg plate-glass works, at Creighton Station, caused by un explosion of natural eas. did damage to to the amount of $35,000; fully insured. Obituary. Special to the Indianacotis Journal. GuEBNSBtTBa.Ind., Nov. 29.—Dr. John L. Wooden died suddenly at 11:30 yesterday, in his office, lie bad just sent his stable boy to bring his team, in order to make some professional calls. The boy, becoming impatient, entered the office and found Dr. Wooden lying on a lounge, unconscious. His son. Dr. Herschel Wooden, was at once called in, but nothing could be done. Paralysis is assigned as the cause. Dr. Wooden was sixty years old last May, and had been a resident of this county gince be was four years old. fie stood high in the profession and had, together with his son, a lucrative practice. He was surgeon in the army for the Sixty-eighth Indiana Regiment, was twice made a prisoner, lying in Libby Prison at one time for three months. He was also a prominent Mason and an ex commander of the G. A. R. post of this sity, and well known throughout the order in (his State. He leaves a widow, two daughters ind two sons, all grown. Philadelphia, Nov. 29 —Capt. C. C. Adams, ipecial agent of the United States Treasury, Med last night at his home in this city. Boston, Nov. 29.— Byron Somes, a well known newspaper man. died here this evening. He had been connected with various journals in Boston, Vew York. Troy, and other cities, and was a Writer of marked ability. Colonel Morrison Will Not Contest. Chicago, Nov. 21b-Congressman W. R. Morrison left here, this evening, tor Washington. He declined to say anything about a contest or investigation, except to declare that he would not contest an election, even if he were defeated by a majority of only one. It is known to a cumber of the friends of Colonel Morrison in this city that Speaker Carlisle desires an investigation to be made of the election in Morrison's district Such an inquiry could be undertaken by resolution of the House, under which a special committee can be created. The object of such an investigation would be the bearing it might have in the next presidential campaign. If made, it wiil not be until the Fiftieth Congress meets. Meantime, Colonel Morrison intends to follow the even tenor of his way during the coming session, while at home his name is considered as that of a candidate for Governor. How a Chicago Man Took Ills Life. Chicago. Nov. 29. — Standing before a lookingglass in his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Mr. W. Schaefenbere, a grocer at 410 West Wentworth avenue, blew his brains out shortly after noon to day. By his side were a bottle of whisky, a bottle of poison and a revolver. The walls, mirror and carpet were spattered with blood and brains. In his pocket several pawn tickets were found. Diamonds, a gold watch, rings and other jewelry had been pawned, according to these tickets. A letter addressed to hi wife stated that he had lost several hundred dollars in gambling houses the night before. There is no can?e assigned for suicide other than this, as he had considerable property aud lived aappily with his wife. Boston's Labor Candidate. Boston, Nov. 29.—George E. McNeill this morning informed the committee of the Labor meeting, which last evening nominated him for Mayor, that he would accept. A telegram was sent to Henry George asking him to fix a date for his speech in Boston. PrtKSJt cures of throat and lung troubled make led Star Cough Cure popular.

HENRI GEORGE. He Appears at New Haven and Exponnds His Peculiar Land and Taxation Theories. Special to the IndianaDoli* Journal. Nrw Haven, Conn., Nov. 29.—Carll'a Operahouse was crowded to its utmost capacity to night, the occasion being the grand rally of the United Labor party and the presence of Henry George, of New York, the principal speaker of the evening. Brief speeches wore made by Peter J. Lynch, the labor candidate for Mayor of New Haven, and Henry C. Baldwin, of Naugatuck, the well-known ex-Greenbacker. Henry George %&a then introduced. After the applause had subsided, Mr. George stepped to the front of the platform and said; “Ladies and Gentlemen—T thank you for this reception. Men of New Haven, I came here from New York to bid you Godspeed in this movement. You are taking the only right step to purify the ballot. Ido not know whether you can carry your candidates or not. and I don’t care. Success does not mean the filling of an office. We did not meet wish success in our late election in New York, but we accomplished a work the news of which has traveled all over the land. Public opinion, in the long run, will rule. Our politics become corrupt because principle has gone out of them. The last national election turned on a question of personal character. Think of it! a Nation of sixty millions of people haggline over the personal character of two rival candidates. The work of the Republican party is done. Black slavery has been abolished. But the crusade now begun is a crusade for the emancipation of all mankind, both white and black. At last the laboring masses all over the country are organizing. Strikes and boycotts to my mind, are like swords and rifles—they are ugly weapons, and although it may be necessary in some instances to resort to them, it is not by the use of either that the workingmen can secure their rights. All over the country a great awakening of minds has been going on, but these thoughts have been crude until receutly, when they have begun to crystallize. The real heart of the labor question lies in the land question. Your candidate for Mayor has told you that for over thirty years be has earned his bread and butter in the sweat of his brow. There was some applause, but it was limited; men do not applaud those who earn their living in that way. The good things of life, the riches and amusements, are not for the workingmen. It is nut natural for men to like work. I never saw men looking for work because they liked to work, and yet we have massive protective tariff laws to keep work in the country. We are building immense ships of war that we do cot want, aua are told that we may need them sometime, and at any rate work is furnished for thousands of men. Well, if we burned up houses we would furnish men work in rebuilding them. No man has a right to demand work of another. No man has a right to say to another that he must or must not employ a certain man. What we must do is to produce a condition of things that will furnish an opportunity for all to work. What we want is that all meo should have equal opportunities to secure work. Our civilization now does not give this. It absolutely denies it. We have abolished slavery, and boast of our splendid country, where tramps abound and the alms-houses are full. I was reading, to night, of anew alms-house that was being constructed in a Western city. In this house is to be a tramp room, which is to be constructed so that it can be filled with water and the tramps forced to pump it out or drown. What is a tramp? He is an American citizen. He will work and he will vote, and the rich man who runs for office will buy his vote. It is the very rich and poor men that we fear. What a ridiculous- thing it is to tax houses. Are there two many houses in the country?” Referring to his well known principle that taxation should fall upon lard values, and that no individual should own land to the exclusion of the ccmmunitv’a right therein, Mr. George continued: “What right have those who are dead in this continent? About as much right as a man who has left a railroad train has in the car that speeds on its way. If I want to buy a vacant lot in New York I am obliged to pay the larger part of my earnings to some rich man because the will of some dpad English king who never set a foot in this country says so. What foolishness! You enter a railway car and you find all the seats filled with bundles. You attempt to sit down, and you are told that the seat is engaged. You ask how it came to be engaged, and you aro told that it was bought from the person that alighted at the last station. There is just as much sense in the car illustration as there is in the selling of land for Duildine purposes. Thpre ought to be no such thing as starvation when the great granaries are all fulL The great Creator has put enough in this world for ail. Equality of opportunity is what is needed. Justice is what we want. What you are doing this election is to elevate principles. I hope no true Democrat or Republican will fail to vote for your Labor .candidates. You cannot elect them, but come as near as yon can. Your influence will be exerted for good. Men of New Haven, do your duty and let it go forth to the world that Connecticut is waking up to the cause of labor.”

LABOR MATTERS. Efforts to Indnco the Trades-Unions to Iden> tify Themselves with the Knights. Pittsburg, Nov. 29.—The Knights of Labor of this section are making increased efforts to gradually include all trades-unions in their order as separate districts. The Iron-molders’ Assembly, No. 1030, of this city, have had under consideration for some time past the advisability of going into one national trade district of the Knights of Labor. A meeting has been called for next Friday night, when tho matter will be more thoroughly canvassed. There are between 500 and GOO iron-mclders in the two cities. If it is decided to form a national trades district it is said that all of the Knights of Labor molders in the United States will bo included in it. Threatened Strike of Coal Miners. Pittsburg. Nov. 29.—The secretary of Assembly No. 90, Iv. of L., comprising the miners of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, has addressed a letter to the coal operators, requesting an advance in wages, giving them until Dec. 2to reply. If no answer is received a convention will be called for the purpose of taking final action. There are 7,000 miners in the fonr pools which comprise the district. The operators are willing to confer with them, but say the market will not justify higher wages. A joint convention of the miners belonging to the Knights of Labor and the members of the Miners’ Association will be held at Scottdale, Dec. 4, to decide upon united action in the event of a strike in the Connellsville coke region. A Victory for Sewlng-Cirls. New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 29.—The shirt factory of T. N. Denham & Brother has shut down for three months. Many of the striking stitchers have secured situations elsewhere, and one of the girls has commenced the manufacture shirts, and employs seven of her sister strikers. By the assistance of legal counsel the girls have succeeded in securing their wages, and noticemoney as well. The latter was at first refused by the firm, but they succumbed when threatened with an attachment. The Denhams are confident that the girls will return to work, under the reduction, in the spring. The stitehers say, however, that they will not return, even if tho reductions are restored to them. Striking Tanners Apply for Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Salem, Mass., Nov. 20.—There have been many applications for work at the tanneries this morning, and about 10 per cent, of the applicants found situations. At one shop a man was taken back by consent of the non-union men, he promising not to interfere with them in any way or shape. The manufacturers are pleased with the situation, and treat the applicants for work kindly, and in overy instance take them where there is any room. There are but a few vacancies, as tho non-union men have, very many of

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them, proved excellent help, and are trying to learn as much as possible. The poorest of the non-union men will be discharged. Havana Cigar-Makers Return to Work. New York, Nov. 29 —The workmen in all the cigar factories in Havana, Cuba, who, after being on strike since Nov. 8, went to work on Nov. 18, under an agreement to arbitrate, but went out again on the 20th, returned to work again this morning. Particulars are not received here, but it is supposed that another arrangement for arbitration has been made. The former arrangement proved impracticable. LOUISIANA LAWLESSNESS. A Member of the Legislature Waylaid by Ruffians and His Life Attempted. New Orleans, Nov. 29.—A special to the Picayune from Lake Providence, La, BAys: “S. Wilkowski, Representative from West Carroll parish, came here this afternoon and reported having been waylaid in bis parish by a gang of outlaws numbering about ten persona He was accompanied by two friends. He expressed himself as fortunate in escaping assassination by taking to the woods. He further reported that at about 10 o’clock last night his book keeper, Major John McKay, a justice of the peace, was shot and killed at his homo, about four miles from Caledonia, together with his cook, his dwelling was set on fire, and both bodies were consumed. Mr. Wilkowski has large business interests in West Carroll parish, where he has lived a great many years and brought up his family, whom he wa9 compelled to leave behind in order to escape the clutches of the outlaws. The murderers of McKay will no doubt be fully identified, because they stopped the team of Mr. Wilkowski returning home from Ashton, yesterday at about noon, when it had traversed half the distance, and beat the driver unmercifully. The three colored men who had charge of the wagou know the men, but only one of them has returned, and be is in town with Wilkowski It was Wilkowski’s custom to go to Ashton every Suudav to meet the packet, but for some reason he did not go yesterday. The lawless gang were thus disappointed in not meeting him. When asked why he did not go to Floyd, get a sheriff and posse, and hunt dowu the assassins, Wilkowski replied that it would have cost him his life to attempt to get them Major McKay was a quiet, law-abiding citizen, and was much respected.” Business Embarrassments. Cinoinnaiti, Nov. 29.—A. M. Plant, jobber in jewelry, assigned to-day to A. W. Brown. The liabilities are estimated at $35,000; assets, $13,000. There are preferences to Henry and Henrietta Hess for SIO,OOO. Memphis, Nov. 29.—Jacob Shaul, general merchant at Marianna. Ark., was closed to-day by the sheriff, by virtue of an attachmentissued by Jacob Goldman, of the firm of Adler, Goldman & Cos., of St. Louis. His liabilities are about $20,000; assets, about $15,000. New York, Nov. 29.—W. J. Austin & Cos., manufacturers of perfumery, etc., are reported to have failed. New York City banks hold the firm’s paper for over SIOO,OOO, indorsed by Baker & Clark, who failed last week. Some of it was also indorsed by H. K. Thurber, who holds collateral security. Perpetrator of Many Crimes Arrested, Cleveland. 0., Nov. 29.—One year ago the Congregational Church at Geneva was fired by an incendiary. Last summer the harness was cut from the horse of Frank Gleason, which stood in front of the church. A week aco last Sunday night the horse of Mrs. Jennie Alii man. who piavs the organ in the church, and who lives at Madison, a neighboring village, was disemboweled. A citizens’ committee was formed to ferret out the perpetrator of the outrages, and they employed a Pinkerton dectective, who to-day arrested Clark Alliman, the husband of the organist. A special from Geneva says that Alliman made a partial confession, and is in jail. He says he was prompted to his deviltry by jealousy of his wife. He had an accomplice.

Responsibility of Telegraph Companies. Memphis. Tenn., Nov. 29. —The United States Circuit Court decided to-day a case against the Western Uniou Telegraph Companv of interest to the public. A creditor at Memphis telegraphed to his lawyer as foliows: “A. B. owes me SI,OOO. If grounds, attach." This dispatch was not delivered. Subsequently a similar dispatch was sent by another creditor to the same lawyer. An attachment was laid and the money made, but only enough to pay the second creditor. The first creditor sued the Western Union for non-delivery of his message, and the court held the company liable for the debt, Judge Jackson delivering the opinion, saying that the dispatch disclosed on the face of it its importance. Armour Does Mis Own Killing. Chicago, Nov. 29. —A representative of Armour & Cos., who was seen this morning in regard to the telegram from Louisville, which an nounced that great numbers of live hogs had been shipped to that place to be slaughtered and the dressed meat returned to Chicago, said emphatically: “That dispatch is all bosh. Armour & Cos. have enough packing houses of their owu to do the work necessary. We have shipped no cattle anywhere to be slaughtered, and I hardly think we shall. That report must have been dreamed by a Louisville man, for we know no more about it than yourself." No Advance in Coal Prices. New York, Nov. 29. —A meetine of coal raanaeers, at which representatives of all the coal companies were present, was held this afternoon. Tnere were many individual shippers also represented, making tho most fully-attended meeting of the coal trade held this year. After a long discussion, it was decided to make no change of any kind in the prices ot anthracite coal. Chairman Potts stated, after the meeting, that, in ins opinion, there would be no further advance in prices, and that they would remain stationary until spring, when a reduction would probably be ordered. A Pacific Telegraph Cable. San Francisco. Nov. 29.— Advices from New Zealand state that a company has been reorganized to construct a Pacific cable, to cost $10,000.000, as follows: From Brisbane, or some part of New youth Wales, to North Cape, New Zealand, 1.300 knots; to tho Fiji islands, 1,200 knots; to Fanning island. 2,270 knots; to the Sandwich isl ands, 1,260 knots; to Vancouver island. 2,730 knots; across the island and strait of Georgia to Vancouver, on the main land, the terminus of the Canadian Pacific railway, 100 knots. An annual subsidy of a half million dollars is expected to be obtained from colonial and imperial governments, jointly. Steamship News. Philadelphia, Nov. 29. Arrived: Lord Gough, from Liverpool. Glasgow, Nov. 29 —Arrived: State of Nebraska, from New York. Queenstown, Nov. 29. Arrived: British Prince, from Philadelphia. Southampton, Nov. 29.— Arrived: Werra, from New York, for Bremen. New York. Now 29 —Arrived: State of Alabama, from Glasgow; Bohemia, from Hamburg. Precarious Condition of Colonel Roltnn. Chicago, Nov. 29.—Colonel Bolton, accused of postoffice defalcations,*and who is still an inmate of the county jail, is very low. having had several hemorrhages. His recovery is despaired of by some of his friends, and his physicians say he mu9t mend Boon or ultimate recovery is impossible. A Colored Rase-Ball League, Pittsburg. Nov. 29. —A meeting will be held in this city, Dec. 9. for the purpose of forming a national colored base-ball league. Delegates will be present from Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsbure, Louisville and piobably Cincinnati and Chicago. Gedaey House, Hew York, Broadway and Fortieth street, European Plan—Famous Restaurant; New and elegant—Home-hke 200 Rooms $1 per day, upwards Gen. Dan Macaulky & W. B. Bowers.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. James Boyle, a horse thief, attempted to escape from the custody of Deouty Sheriff Nelson, of UnioD Star, Mo., and was shot dead. Eliza Bethune, widow of General Bethnne, late manager of Blind Tom. the musical wonder, has been appointed conservator of Tom’s person and estate. Sam Jones closed a three weeks' campaign in Omaha yesterday. At his last meeting he raised SB,IOO for the Y. M. C. A. building. He left last night for his home in Georgia, to take a rest. The Republican State committee of New Jersey has offered a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest and conviction of those persons implicated in what they allege to have been ballot-box “fixing” in the Third Assembly district. At Chilton, Wia, the family of Joseph Keller, dealer in general merchandise, was chloroformed by burglars on Saturday night. The thieves secured $1575 in cash and about S3OO worth of goods, which they carried off in a wagon. The dead body of Mrs. Alicia Douglass, wife of Dell Douglass, a Chicago scene-painter, who had been doing some work at Sandusky, was found in the woods near the latter place on Sunday. Near the body was a chloroform bottle, and Mrs. Douglass evidently committed suicide. She had quarreled with her husband last Friday, and left him. Bud Starr, Vance Barnes, Bill Brown and Frank Moore, charged with robbing a store in the Chickasaw Nation, were expected 'at Fort Smith on Sunday, but they did not arrive, and it is reported on good authority that the four named above and three other outlaws were taken from the officers by vigilantes, near Burneyville, and hanged. At Kalamazoo. Mich., a carpenter nampd John Reed, was carrying a bunch of shingles from the scaffolding to the roof of the Second Reformed Church yesterday, when he slipped and fell to the ground, eighteen feet below* breaking his neck. The shineles fell on bis head, smashing nis skull. He was forty years old and leaves a family. Moses Ehricb. fifty years old, a retired jeweler, went to a New York barber shop and announced his intention to take a bath. While alone he cut the arteries of his left arm with a razor, lettine the blood flow into the drainagepipe of the bath-tub. When the barber found him he was dead. He had been a hopeless invalid, and this is the only reason why he should have taken his life. W. A. Baldwin, a bridge-builder, who recently moved from Vicksburg to Irondale, a small town near Birmingham, Ala., decided to return thither. He apprised his wife of his intention, whereupon she announced that she would leave him. A quarrel ensued, and A. B. Moore, the wife’s brother, took her part Both men drew pistols and began shooting rapidly. Moore fell dead and Baldwin received two flesh wounds. His wife was shot in the cheek. Cornelius McCarthy shot Dar el Sullivan, alias “Pole" Sullivan, in the neck and through the heart, last night, in front of the Tombs prison, at New York. Sullivan died from the wounds a few moments later. The two principals in the tragedy are known as Sixth-ward toughs. Both had been drinking. The shootinegrew out of an unguarded reference to the fact that McCarthy had served a terra in the penitentiary. The murderer was arrested, and at once went into a drunken sleep in his ceil. On Sunday morning John Bugh and Reuben Arnold were crossing the Vandalia track at. St. Clair avenue. East St. Louis, in a milk wagon, when the wagon was struck by the eneine of a Vandalia passenger train, knocking it into kindling wood and instantly killing the horse. Bugh and Arnold were thrown several feet into the air and were both terribly cut about the bead, bruised about the chest and shoulders, and injured internally. Arnold died in a short time, and Bugh is not expected to live. On Saturday night the schooner Comanche, owned in Oswego, laden with 21,000 bushels of corn, from Chicago for Ogdensburg, ran on a shoal about three-quarters of a mile from the west side of Point Peninsula, on Lake Ontario, and sunk. The schooner was commanded by Captain Becker, of Oswego, who. with Albert Quince, of the same city, owned the vessel. In rescuing the crew, which consisted of eight persons. Fred Tncker. a farmer, aged twenty-six years, was drowned by the capsizing of his boat.

Dank Officer* Held to Answer. Philadklphta. Nor. 29.—Ex-president, Wm. Herbst, and Cashier Henry Seifs, of the First National Bank of Glen Rock, York county. Pa., were to-day held in $5,000 bail each, by United States Commissioner Edmunds, to answer the charge of embezzlement. The testimony showed that notes amounting to over $50,000, most of which were drawn in favor of Herbst. were discounted at the bank by the cashier without the knowledge or cousent of the board of directors. Herbst obtaned bail, but Seits was unable to secure a bondsman and went to jail. Jacob and Wm. Herb9t, jr., sons of the ex president of the bank, are under arrest at Baltimore on the same charge, and will be given a bearing ou Dec. 12. Three Life-Savers Drowned. Litdington, Mich., Nov. 20. At daylieht this morning a schooner passed Ludington, and, when off Point Sable, hoisted a flag at halfmast. The Point Sable life-boit went out. but when 500 yards out the flag went to the masthead. The life-boat attempted to turn, and was capsized. The crew clung to the boat, which did not regain an upright position, but drifted ashore. Three of the crew lost their lives. Captain Flynn and Orrin Hatch died from exposure, and Jno. Smith was caught under the boat and was drowned. The schooner kept on her course. The “Syndicate A” Scheme. Chicago, Nov. 2b.—The special committee of the directors of the Board of Trade appointed recently to investigate the “Sydicate A” scheme, met to-day. A. C. Ray. who is a member of the board, was before the committee and explained that the firm of Meyers, Ray & Cos. were perfectly honest in their intentions as regards the plan, but if the directors considered the matter as being a violation of the rules, they would at once abandon the scheme. Mr. Ray was given to understand that such was the case, and he said that he would see that nothing further was done. Fatal Quarrel Del ween Women, Peteesbubg, Va., Nov. 20.—A tragic affair occurred iate last night in this city, resulting in the fatal burning of Susan Spurlock, aged sixty years. She and Mary Sprigg, aged twenty years, occupied the same house. Before retiring tPe women quarreled over sovne trifling matter, when the younger woman threw a lighted kerosene lamp at the elder, striking her in the face. The lamp exploded, and Susan was almost roasted alive. Mary Sprigg was arrested and denies having thrown the lamp. Torn to Pieces by Dynamite; Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 29—A horrible accident occurred on Lookout mountain to-day*. A young mah named Bryan, while preparing to blast a rock, found that his dynamite was frozen. To thaw it out he pieced it in the fire, when it exploded. Both of his legs were torn off and he was otherwise so badly injured that ne died in a short time. Another young man, his companion, wa3 fatally injured by the explosion. Higher than the Liberty Statue. Letter to London I)ailv News. In this morning’s Daily News the statue of Liberty just inaugurated at New York is described as towering "to the skies above all known statues of the present and the past,” and as “the Great Eastern of statues." The writer may be excused for not knowing that a much higher statue exists, and has long existed, in Afghanistan. * * * These statues are on the principal road between Cabul and Balkh, at a locality-known as Baraian. At that place the road passes through valleys, with hieh scarped cliffs of conglomerate. Probably about the early centuries of the Christian era the Buddhists excavated numerous caves, as monasteries for themselves, in the rock of these valleys. These ancient excavations still exist, and can be counted by thousands. In addition to these, a number of statues of Buddha were cutout of the solid rock. Two, at least, are still standing, and the largest was measured by Captain Talbot with the theodolite; so that we now know the height to at least a tew inches. The measure ment gave it as 173 feet high. That is rather more by a few inches than the Nelson column in Trafalgar square, aud nearly seventy feet higher than the New York figure. This figure of Buddha is the real .“Great Eastern" of stat ues. The celebrated Memuon statues of Egypt

would only come up to the knee of this mighty ikon. At Barman there is another figure of Buddha. 120 feet high. These are erect, standing figures; thero is also a sitting figure about thirty feet high. There are the remains of two other figures, but they are in a ruinous condition —one of them is estimated to have been abont fifty or sixtv feet. These statues were originally, we know, either gilt or covered with metal. The Chinese pilgrim, Hiouen Thsang, passed the spot in the first half of the seventh century, A. D., and from him we have a description of the two largest figures as they existed at that date. The statues have, of course, suffered from time. Armies have often passed by the road. Genghiz Kahn and Timur-Lnng's hosts did so, but they had only bows and arrows to throw at the idols. In later times Mohammedan soldiers have passed with artillery, and in their hatred of “Bbuts,” or idols, they fired solid shot. The idols have, thanks to their great size, stood this treatment very fairly, and, in spite of it. the true character of the figures, as well as the art style to which they belong, is still faithfully preserved. CONDITION OF WESTERN FARMERS. Some Facts To Be Considered by Those Who Have Listened to False Doctrine. Boston Journal. Statements are constantly being made by those who are endeavoring to array the agriculturists of the West against the policy of protection that the farmers of that section are far from being prosperous and are, in fact, losing money. These statements are based chiefly upon the decline in tne price of wheat. The Financial Chronicle, which cannot be accused of being an advocate of protection, makes this assumption the subject of an exhaustive article, which contains many points of interest. It says that the price of No. 2 spring wheat in Chicago from Jan. 1, 1860, to Jan. 1, 1886, was 95 g cents a bushel in gold, while the average for 1884 was 83 cents, and for 1885, 83| cents. Thus the decline from the average of the last twenty six years to the average of 1884 and 1885 is 14 per cent. From the indications the average price for the present year will be 77 cents, which would make a decline of about 20 per cent. This is quite a decline, but when it is compared with the decline in the prices of the articles which the farmer has to buy,, the farmer stands as -veil as he did when he got higher prices for his wheat. For instance, the McCormick harvesters, for which he paid S3OO in 1881, are sold for $175 at the present time. A Chicago firm which manufactures agricultural implements says that the decline in the price of the whole list has been from 25 to 30 per cent., while the prices of wagons and minor farm tools have fallen 50 per cent, since 1881. The one thing which has not fallen is the cost of labor, but in the case of smaller farmers, they and the members .of their families do the work themselves. The decline in cotton and woolen goods, sugar and other staples has been quite as marked as that of wheat since 1881. The Chronicle also calls attention to tha fact that bankruptcy would overtake and overwhelm thousands of farmers if for three yoars they had been raising and selling wheat at a loss. The fact thatfailure9 in the agricultural regions of the Northwest are no more numerous in proportion to the population than in other parts of the country disproves the assertion of bankruptcy. The testimony of agents who have millions loaned upon West ern farms that interest is promptly paid; that the principal is paid when it falls due, and that there is no special demand for mortgage loans, also disproves the existence of a condition of bankruptcy. The facts, also, that the distribution of merchandise the present season has been very large la the West, and the enormous amounts of money which have of late been moving eastward, go to show that the farmers must have money with which to pay for the goods they buy, els-> the retailers could not bo sending it to those in the cities of whom they have purchased their stocks. A fact which is lost sight of i= that the farming industry, like other industries, has made great progress during the past few years, thereby enabling the Western farmer to produce crops at much less cost than he did ten or twenty years ago.

PROFANE GENERALS. Officers of the Army Whose Language Was at. Times Emphatic. New York Letter in Philadelphia Jtecord. I was reading to-day the advance proofs of an article upon the late war, in which it is stated that General Sheridan seldom swore and that General Custer never used an oath in his life, but was a mild, gentle youne blonde whose very breath was perfumed. Such nonsense should not be allowed to go into print. Custer was horribly profane at times, and Sherdan could swear all that was necessary. When Kilpatrick joined them they made a trio of as stout swearers as the Virginia sun looked down upon. Late on the night of the battle of Winchester, when Custer had seen the last of Early, whom Sheridan had sent whirling down the valley of Virginia, Custer burst into the tent where Sheridan was, caught him by the arms, whirled him around and shouted so that all in and out of the tent could hear; “ , Phil, didn’t we give them .** As one of Sheridan’s hard riders in 1864, I know what I am writing about Os course, it is all wrong, but the best of men will swear in action, and sometimes out of it, too, and when a nice young man who wants to make up a pretty history describes our old cavalry generals as Sunday-school models, when they woro simply brave, manly men with human failines, as well as heroic virtues, he should be sat down upon hard. As well might a revised version of the Bible turn Peter’s cursing and swearing into a gentle “I think, dear Madame, you must be mistaken” when a maid servant accused him of being a disciple of the Galilean teacher and he denied it with furious blasphemy. Kilpatrick, when a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, met with a deserved rebuke for his profanity. Cnster was with him when he rode up to a sergeant of the guard in his regiment, and, swearine at him furiously, ordered him to attend to a certain matter that had been neglected. The man folded his arms and stood at bay. looking Kilpatrick square in the eye. “Do you hear me, you?” said the latter; “why don’t you do as 1 tell you?” “When I receive a proper order I shall obey,"said the soldier firmly; “the articles of war forbid you to address me in the language you have used.” Custer “snickered right out in meeting” and said in a stage whisper: “By the point at once, and in a very manly way changed his front and apologized. “Sergeant." said he, “you aie right and 1 apologize; I should not have addressed you as I did.” Then he eave his orders, the man touched his cap respectfully and turned away to fulfill the command, and Kilpatrick rose many a degree in the estimation of bis soldiers. A Story of Bishop Simpson. Harrisburg Telegraph. 1 heard n story of the late Bishop Simpson that is worth recording. The good man—and he was a good man if ever one lived on this bad old earth —was slightly absent-minded, and he had a habit while preaching of twirling his handkerchief as if to collect his thoughts. One day he was preaching a sermon to & very large audience, and in the front pew sat his wife and daughter. In the course of his sermon the Bishop took out his handkerchief and absentmindedly unfolded it, never looking atTt. The handkerchief had evidently been throueh the hands of a vigorous Chinese laundryman, for it was a thing of shreds and tatters, and as the good dominie held it up in full view of the congregation he created a sensation among his hearers and a thrill of horror in his good wife, who viewed the action and saw the handkerchief that was more holey than righteous. By and by the Bishop glanced at the handhorchief, his face flushed, and he carefully concealed it. He afterwards said he couldn’t for the life of him understand what caused a smile to flit across the face of his audience while his wife and daughter were veritable pictures of despair. The Stamp-Collecting Mania. Pall Mall Gazette. The mania for collecting postage stamps seems to be gaining more ground than ever in France. Among the most famous collectors in France is a man who has over a million postage stamps preserved in 130 richly-bound volumes, and another who keeps two clerks employed in elaseifyine and arranging bis enormous collection. Added to this, there are in Paris about 150 wholesale firms employed in the trade, and one of the best known of these has lately offered from £2O to £4O for certain stamps of the year 1836. Tascan postage stamps dated before 1860 will be paid for at the rate of £6 each, while stamps from Mauritius for the year 1847 fetch £BO, and French stamps of 1849 are quoted at £1 each.

NEWSPAPER LIGHTS. Gossip Abont Some of New York’s Great Isd (tors—. Bennett’s Vanity. Correspondence Philadelphia Itecord. “Our Jim”—young James Gordon Bennett has returned from Europe with fire in his eye r.nd unlimited greenbacks in his fist. He ha# moved, without delay, upon Mr. Joseph Pulitzer's pictorial daily, and proposes to down it. There was a turn-un in the Herald editorial staff the day “\oung Jim" got back. Eddy Flynu was turned out of the managing editor’s chair, and Mr. Meiehan was put back, Flynn receiving a roving commission to travel. The city editor was incontinently bounced. Other changes are to be made which will revolutionize the paper. Mr. Bennett announced his determination to spend SSOO a day. if necessary, in securing fresh news for his paper and shoving it ahead. From this time on there will be war to the knife between the World and the Herald—a personallyconducted campaign, as it were. Mr. Pulitzer says he made $600,000 clear profit from his paper last year, as his personal bank account will show, and that this year it will be between SBOO,OOO and $900,000. Mr. Bennett proposes to bankrupt Mr. Pulitzer la another twelvemonth. Both men are peculiar. Pulitzer is a wonderful man of business, who has sacrificed everything to circulation, and has succeeded—for the timo being. “Youne Jim” wants to be thought head of the most influential newspaper in America. It is a queer idea of Bennett's that he likes to have himself or think himself surrounded by automata or dummies. He allows no man on the paper to call himself an editor—be is a clerk or an assistant. There is only one editor, himself, and be is the only man to be praised. When, some years ago, the youne editor came down to his office—“with the sun strong in hie eyes,” as Mr. Swiveler was accustomed to remark —and, though he could hardly stand, ordered the price of his paper to be reduced to two cents, he was fearfully enraged when the story of the occurrence leaked,out in a Sunday newspaper. One by one each man in the establishment was called into the awful presence and asked if he had let the secret out All other methods having failed, a special erabassndoi was sent to the managing editor of the Sunday newspaper in question, and he was told that “Mr. Bennett would not forget it” if he gave the name of his informant. • The embassy was an unmitigated failure. I heard another newspaper “editor and proprietor” (a weekly one) introduce a scholarly and reffhed gentleman to a Congressman from this city as “one of our help,” the other day, and I was ready to boil over with indignation. The gentleman in question is not very proud of his connection with the sheet, and he only lauged at tho arrogance of the proprietor, who, by the way, imitates Mr. Bennett in calling no man on his paper an editor, and in never mentioning any name in print as connected with his organ except his own. If he knew how everybody laughed at him for his ridiculous selfishness, and realized how different is the world’s judement from bis own, he would knock out the word “editor” in his next issue. —■- ■ ■ An Exponent of the Art. New York Sun. “I see you want a bill collector.” said a palefaced, melancholy roan with a deep voice to the president of a gas company. “Being at present disengaged, l would like the job, sir." “There are a good many miles of walking to be done during the day by a gas-bill collector,” said the president, “and you don’t look as if you could foot it two blocks. We want a man who can walk, and keep a-goine. That is the main requirement. I don’t think you will do.” “But stav!” exclaimed the deep-voiced man. “I was leading man in a ‘Lea Astray’ combine tion!” “Well, sir!” said the .President, stiffly. “And we left New York two weeks ago!” “What of it, sir? What of it?” “We played our last engagement in Kalama zoo." “Come, come, sir! What has all this to d4 with what we require principally in our bill collector?” said the gas man, getting up to shot# the applicant the door. “You don’t seem to note the fact, sir, that I.' am back in New York!" replied the leading man, drawing himself up proudly. He got the job.

The Proper Hour for Dinner, Atlanta Constitution. “There are few things,” said a prominent physician, “on which we are wrong more uniformly than eating. The heavy meal of the day should bo eaten after the day’s work is done, so that there would be rest for digestion. A. sharp breakfast—a light lunch at noon—and a hearty dinner at 6 o’clock is a perfect regime. The custom of bolting a big dinner in midday and rushing off to work is suicidal. Animals always rest after eating. Babies go to sleep after eating. Two dogs were fed on experiment, at the same time and with the same food. One was rested for six hours —the other exercised. Both were then killed. The dog that rested had digested its food. In tbe other the process of digestion had not even he 4 gun.” He Lost an Arm at Gettysburg'. Boston Transcript. “And so,” said the lady of the house, after tho transient personage bad cleared the cloth and licked the platter clean, “and so you lost your arm at Gettysburg, poor manf’. “Yes’m,” replied the tramp, his voice trembling with emotion, so the lady thought, as he recalled that glorious field of conflict. “And what day was it that you were wounded,” continued his fair interlocutor. “tho first, the second or the last day of the battle?" “Oh,” replied the tramp, “I was there hut one day, and there wan’t no battle at all. It was only a blasted cad on horseback that ran over me as I was sleeping under a fence.” “But you were in the army?” “Army? Not me; it was last summer, during one of them excursions." A Hideous Custom, Philadelphia Telegraph. The practice of hanging black draperies oa public and other buildings when an eminent public man dies is not only hideous, but it is a most barbnrons method of expressing whatever emotions of grief may fill the bosoms of the people who compose the public. Let the blnck things go the way of other foul savageries: a flag at half-mast is a dignified way of saying all that can be said with the mourning draperies of hideous custom. Progress in New England. retroit Free Press. There are sixteen towns in New England which have not increased their population over seven in the last ten years, and some have not even erected anew barn in fifteen years. Their motto is “Slow, but sure," with a great deal of ringing of church bells on Sunday. “It has more than realized my expectations, n says Prof. Dundan Campbell, M. D., LL. D. f president Royal College Physicians and Surgeons, member General Council University of Edinburgh, etc., of the Liebig Co.’s Coca Beef Tonic. Invaluable for debility, weak lungs, biliousness, dyspepsia, malaria, liver complaint, sick-headache.

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