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THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1886. \VASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. I\ S. llkath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Uan be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 4.49 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange In Paris. 35 Boulevard dee Capucines. KEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. CT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms .242 Is the Sentinel anxious to be known as “The Thievos’ Own?" It Cs the galled jade that winces, Messrs. Sentinel, Ochiltree, Coy, Bernhamer, Spaan, Oouußelman & Cos. Put us down as one of the “partisan maligSlants” in favor of sending ballot thieves and tally-sheet forgers to the penitentiary. Senator Ingalls's savage attack on the Land Commissioner for setting himself up as the only honest man in the country, and regarding would-be settlers on public lands as thieves and burglars, is of a character to make Sparks fly. There is general indignation among old isoldiers at the appointment of Dr. Dabney, the Andersonville prison guard, as a pension examiner. The veterans are beginning to ask themselves what on earth they fought for, anyhow, if their pension claims are to be scrutinized by such men as Dabney. The hearing of argument in the case of Green Smith versus the Secretary of State was had yesterday before Judge Ayres, of tho Circuit Court, and by him taken under advisement. Mr. Smith was represented by Jason B. Brown and Hon. David Turpie, and the Secretary of State by Attorney-general Michener. Our local columns give an outline •of the argument, as well as an abstract of the close and cogent argument of Mr. Michener.

the Sentinel desire the public to understand that any effort to punish the thieves and scoundrels who perpetrated the forgery upon the tally-sheets in thi3 county is “partiBan?” Are we to understand that fraud and forgeiy are so democratic that to proceed Against them is “partisan malignity?” It might be well to have a fair understanding on this point now; then the people will the better appreciate and sustain the efforts of the “partisans” who are endeavoring to put some thieves aud scoundrels into the State prison. Only a short time ago it was the Sentinel that assumed to take special and particular charge of the judicial honor and character of Judge Woods, of the United States Court. Fro word too fulsome could be written in liis praise, and our esteemed contemporary even .took the Journal to task for a presumed invasion of his authority because of a faint criticism of tho grand jury. Now, alas, the Sentinel is in despair, and gets ready to curse Judge Woods aud the federal court like a very drab. And all because Judge Woods may not look so complacently upon election frauds and upon election thieves as does the Democratic State organ. There is one thing to be said in favor of John Bull. When he finds he has made a palpable mistake he is apt to admit it, and sometimes apologizes for it. Canada is a younger brother of John Bull, and possesses the family characteristics. The Canadian authorities have just notified the United States consul-general at Halifax that they are prepared to refund the fine of S4OO imposed several months ago on a Gloucester schooner for alleged breaches of the Canadian customs regulations. The case was aggravated by the fact that, the day after the schooner was seized, and while technically in the custody of the Canadian authorities, her Yankee master hoisted tho stars and stripes at her masthead. In the eyes of the small officers of the law this was adding insult to injury, and a fine of S4OO was imposed and collected. But, after full investigation, the higher authorities have decided that the fine was wrongly imposed, and have signified their readiness to refund it, thus making confession and rectification of error. The Y'ankee skipper gets his money hack, and has the proud satisfaction, besides, .of knowiug that he made the Canucks very angry by unfurling the stars and stripes in .their faces. The Tom Johnson hay-packing company, in charge of the city street railway, Las added anew and peculiar horror to the pens on wheels in which their victims are forced to ride. Too miserably stingy to put clean or wholesome straw in the cars, if such a cheap .and country scheme even as that is considered necessary, the managers have filled the pens with short prairie hay, which, cut and ground .up by the feet of the passengers, fills the air with .a fine, irritating, penetrating powder. To persons of sensitive lungs and throats the irritation is perfectly maddening. Such an outrage would not bo tolerated for an hour in any other city than Indianapolis; but here the Tom Johnson .company does jw it pleases, oaring nothing for private right .or pubbs oouyenien.ee.- PowfWy nyjne tiiwo we

shall have Councils and city officers that will not be afraid of this corporation; but, in the meantime, the people will have to rely upon the managers for any sort of courtesy, or convenience, or comfort that may be forced out of it. If the company will not clean the cars of this stubble, the passengers should rise in their might and kick the stuff into the middle of the street, in the interest of pure air and ordinary cleanliness. To ladies, particularly, the dirty hay is offensive and outrageous. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette advances anew theory of Senator Logan's action in the Payne case by intimating that Logan’s Republicanism in recent years has not been above suspicion, and that even General Grant thought the Illinois Senator was “getting ready to go over to the Democracy.” We take no stock in this, and do not think Republicans generally will. The Washington correspondent of the Commercial Gazette is noted for the- unyielding pertinacity with which he pursues those who fall under his displeasure. Os honest and honor able impulses, he is an unrelenting and vindictive enemy. Senator Logan's course in the Payne case was a painful surprise to his friends, the Journal among the rest; but it is not necessary to seek an explanation of his action in far-fetched theories, much less by the imputation of the basest and most dishonorable motives. If wo are to account for his course in the Payne case by such motives, why not for that of Senator Evarts? Is he also preparing to go over to the Democracy? The Journal thinks they both erred in their action in the case referred to, but public men may err without being base and treacherous. Senator Logan’s fealty to the Republican party is above suspicion, and doubless the attempt to give the weight of General Grant’s name to so injurious a suspicion is a gratuitous insult to him as well as to Senator Logan.

“Senator Smith is the heir apparent to the governorship, and if Governor Gray vacated the office to-morrow he would be Governor. I have examined this matter thoroughly.” This remark is credited to one of Mr. Smith's attorneys. Os course, the statement of a “criminal lawyer,” with a fee in his pocket, just as he goes into court to plead tho cause of his client, is not to be taken seriously. If the attorney does not know that the Constitution absolutely forbids Senator Smith, or Senator anybody else, from being Govornor, he does not know enough to make his assertions worth a contradiction. Whatever may be the final decision as to the validity of the election for Lieutenant-governor, there can be no doubt of the unconstitutionality and absurdity of the personal claim of the man from Jennings county. The Indiana Academy of Science will meet in Indianapolis on the 29th and 30th of this month. On the evening of the 29th the president of the Academy, Dr. D. S. Jordan, will deliver an address upon “The Dispersion of Fresh-water Fishes.” Those who may wish to present papers at this meeting of the Academy, and who have not already signified their desire, should address at once one of the members of the programme committee: Dr. John C. Branner, Bloomington, Ind., or Prof. O. P. Jenkins, Greencastle, Ind. Titles of papers should le accompanied by the names of the authors, brief abstracts, and the statement of the number of minutes required for the presentation of each one. The proceedings of the citizen’s committee are taking the form of a conspiracy.—The Sentinel. The proceedings should more and more take the form of a conspiracy in favor of pure elections and the sacreduess of the ballot In that sort of a conspiracy the Sentinel may count a great many people as conspirators. The Boston Herald contains an article nearly two columns in length on “A New Boston Poet.” The new Boston poet is Mr. Henry Barnard Carpenter, an Irishman by birth, educated at Oxford, England, has been thirteen years in this country and eight in Boston. He has written some fine poetry, and evidently possesses talent of a high order, but is it not straining matters just a little to call him a Boston poet. Now tV at Archbishop Ryan has forbidden tho holding of balls for charitable purposes there is no telling when he will stop. He may go 60 far as to prohibit grab-bags, voting for the most popular, etc., and other fascinating ecclesiastical lotteries at church fairs. ADOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The publication of the rauch-talked-of Thackeray letters in Scribner’s Magazine will begin at an early date during the first year. Montgomery, Ala., boasts that it has the only electric steel railway in the world in practical and successful operation. Vice-chancellor Bacon, just retired, is the only English judge who remained on the bench up to the age of eighty-seven. The fact that a man has not cut his hair for ten or twelve years need not necessarily imply that he is eccentric. He may be bald. Among the private effects of the late Joseph Maas, the English vocalist, was an eightday clock that formerly belonged to Izaak Walton. and was made in 1641. It wa3 sold for 67 j guineas. “Winifred,” is not the name of Miss “Winnie Davis." The name “Varina,” which the young lady inherited from her mother, is the name she siens to her letters aud by which she is formally addressed. One of the most successful young colored men is Garnet D. Baltimore, a civil engineer, who was graduated some years ago from the Troy Polytechnic Institute.* He now has charge of tho enlargement of canal locks near Syracuse. Dr. Douglass, who lost his health in caring for General Grant, has gone South to spend the winter. He will be at tho Hot Springs, In Ar kansas, first, later in Florida. Mrs. Douglass is with him, and her daughter, Miss Justino Prindle, joins them later. Rev. Alexander Maokay Smith, who recently resigned the assistant rectorship of St, Thomas's Church, New York, has been elected Assistant Bishop of Kansas. Mr. Smith was graduated at Trinity College lo the close 9t 72.

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His election to the Kansas diocese was a great surprise to him. He has cot yet accepted the position. The public curiosity as to what Tennyson has to say about “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After” will soon be gratified. Locksley Hall, according to the celebrated poem, had a good deal of structural weakness in the old days. It must presem a melancholy aspect sixty years later. That Scribner’s Magazine is likely to be a success in England, as well as here, is abundantly proved by the fact that Frederick Warne &-Co.. of London, who are to act as the agents for the sale of the magazine in Great Britain, have bought outright 20,000 copies of the new magazine. * p Whistler’s portrait of Lady Colin Campbell is the center of attraction in the British Art Gallery. It is a full length—a harmony in white and ivory—and is the picture of a beautiful, stately and graceful woman in evening costume, holding up the train of her dress. The Hingham Journal says that a Hingham lady, who, having complained of being unable to tell her mine© pies from her apple pies without testing, was advised to mark them. She did so, and complacently announced: “This I’ve marked ‘T. M.’—(Tis Mince); an’ that I’ve marked ‘T. M.’—(Taint Mince.)” A Philadelphia oil-broker received the following business-like note from a woman the other day: “Please buy me 10,000 barrels of oil at 09 cents and sell at sl.lO Remit roe the difference, less your commission. Upon the promptness with which you execute this order depends my future patronage.” Ten per cent, of the students in the University of Zurich are women. Twenty-nine of them are studying medicine, fourteen philosophy and two political economy. There are forty-eight female students of medicine in London, and in Paris 103. Within the last seven years eighteen women have taken a medical degree in Paris. A New York correspondent writes that Mr. Jay Gould has got two sons right in the business harness. He had George study telegraphy, and now he is expert; and Edward, tho younger son, is a good stenographer. With these two boys the father can go anywhere, dictate his dispatches to Edward, and George wiil send them. A large and apparently vigorous woman entered a crowded horse-car in Baltimore, the other day, and after casting withering glances on several gentlemen, and not getting a seat, exclaimed, “1 cannot stand up,” and sank in a heap on the floor. This had the desired effect, for a gentleman at once arose and tho lady was seated. The following notice is in a Montana newspaper: “The night of the 14t'n inst. a dark bay mare, fifteen hands high, small white star in forehead, both hind feet white, was stolen from the stable of Ira Sampson, the undersigned. I will give the mare and SSO in cash for full and reliable particulars regarding the funeral of the thief. That’s the kind of a man I am.” The cruel operation of the laws permitting imprisonment for debt is illustrated in New Jersey in the case of Henry 11. Barry, who is confined in Camden for a debt of sllO, while his wife and children are verging on starvation through lack of means. Barry, who was impoverished by an unfortunate but honest investment, is thus kept by one relentless creditor where be can neither pay his debt nor provide for his family. Thaddf.us Fowler, whose death occurred in a Connecticut town recently, was a prolific inventor. He invented a machine for sticking pins in paper, for manufacturing iron pins, for sorting pins, for making pins, head and all, at a single stroke, for making needles, for pointing wire, for making horse shoe nails, for sharpening horse-clipping machines, and for stamping metal. He also invented a reaping and binding machine and the “sewing-bird used on ladies’ work-tables. Despite all this, however, he died comparatively poor, as he had little business capacity.

Charles Dickens, in his choice of names for his characters, went on the principle that “Truth is stranger than fiction,” and was wont to pick his titles from tho shop signs as he went through tho London streets. For instance. “Dombey & Son” Keep a tailoring establishment on Cornhiil to this day. “Micawber’ was a erccer in Rochester. “Copperfield” is an apothecary in Deptford, Kent, and so on. But queerest of all, a cobbler in the Bowery has over his stall in large letters, “Hurtkorn! practical and anatomical shoemaker.” That is a trade mark with a vengeance. John Cline, once a celebrated rope-dancer, died at the Forrest Home, on Friday. He came to this country from England in 1828. He danced at the Bowery Theater, in this city, for four years under contract with Charles Gilbert for SIO,OOO a year. Once in Philadelphia he proved too great an attraction for such stars as Wallack and Forrest, and they plaved to empty benches while Cline danced at the Chestnut-street Theater. He was very popular with theatrical peofle, and they succeeded in placing him in the 'orrest Home in 1880. CliDe earned a great deal of money in his prime, but lost $60,000 by the failure of the United States Bank. Mrs. George W. Childs’s collection of china can only be described by e or.a word—superb. Yet she does not rest con it, but is constantly adding new gems. Agents abroad know that they may safely send her whatever treasures they find, and the fashionable jewelers in town feel at liberty to hold for her order any very fine thing in china that may come in their way. The King of Naples set, which is kept in a glass cabinet in Mrs. Childs's dining-room, is said by Cesnola to be the finest in the world. It cost SIO,OOO. Mr. Childs bad as a competitor for its possession the South Kensington Museum of London, but, as his agent had a carte-blanche order, there was no preventing his obtaining it. Frank Hatton, once Postmaster-general, now editor of the Chicago Mail, tells how he enlisted for the war. He was but a boy, and thought it would be fun to run away from his home at Cadiz, 0., and join a regiment at Xenia, in which his brother-in-law was a captain. It was awfully rainy and muddy, and after a night in camp the boy had enough and asked captain to telegraph to his father, saying that he was in camp, and asking what to do. Frank confidently expected to get orders to return home before he was sworn in; but, to his horror, the telegram that came from his stern and patriotic father read, “Swear him in,” and he was sworn in aud served four years with honor. The death is announced at Sutton, Surrey, of George Thomas Doo, R. A. (retired F. R. S.), the eminent engraver, aged eighty-seven years. He produced in 1824 his first published engraving, “The Duke of York,"after Sir Thomas Lawrence. In 1825 ho visited the eminent Parisian schools of engraving. On his return to London he opened an academy in the Savoy for the study of the antique and also of the life. Mr. Doo lectured upon painting at Kensington Museum, Harrow and elsewhere. He was appointed Historical Engraver in Ordinary to William IY in 1836, and to Qnoen Victoria in 1842. He was a member of many foreign academies, and in 1855 was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, being advanced to the full rank of R. A. in the following year. COMMENT AND OPINION. Pernicious egotism is another man’s desire to tell you about himself when you wish thefioorto tell him about yourself.—San Francisco Alta. If the Missouri authorities really want “Jim Cummings,” why don’t they advertise for him? He evidently reads the papers.—Philadelphia Inquirer. It is suspected by the uncharitable that the mugwump eulogies on the President’s message have been lying in soak for three months.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. How would John P. St. John do for the Bulgarian throne? Throwing cold water on the schemes of the sly and crafty Czar would be right in bis line.—New York Graphic. * Tiie President’s sole recommendation with referonce to the civil-service question is that the salaries of the Civil-service Commission be increased. We suspect Mr. Cleveland of being the man who, in a sinking boat where some religious

services were suggested, enthusiastically declared himself in favor of taking np a collection. —Philadelphia Press. If the Grand Army men once take up arms against Mormonism, the Mormon monster will have to go. It is a way the Grand Army folks have of settling things.—Philadelphia Press. The President’s message leaves it in donbt whether the administration rests its claims for recognition on its land policy or on its management of the Cutting case.—Chicago Journal. One of the very interesting cases that will come before the Senate is the renominatigm of Mr. Matthews, of Albany, N. Y., to be recorder for the District of Columbia.—National Republican. Congress might eive the country an agreeable surprise by adopting a resolution that no new bills shall be introduced until those now in hand have been disposed of—but it wont. —Philadelphia Inquirer. If the developments of the London divorce court continue of their current tenor, it will be prima facie evidence against a person’s moral character to find him wearing a handle to his name.—Washington Star. If Representative Morrison really believes that he was beaten by the use of money he should certainly contest Mr. Baker’s election. Otherwise he should stop talking about it It isn’t dignified.—Philadelphia Press. Senator Maxey’s talk about expelling Mr. Randall and his followers from the Democratic party is very funny. Such talk has been heard before, bat somehow Mr. Randall always refuses to be expelled.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Poor insane Bartley Campbell imagines himself a whole series of historical celebrities, in the course of an hour. This beats the President’s mistake of supposing himself to be one great man all the time.—Cleveland Leader. Railroad transportation is a necessity of the age, and one of its indispensable conditions is railroad regulation. With the latter assured the canals become a comparatively insignificant element in the problem.—Brooklyn Citizen. The President’s purchase of “Red Top” and the expenditure of public money for costly improvements in that vicinity may be all right as a business snap, but the country will not look at it from that stand point Scarcely.—Detroit Tribune. The “great esteem” in which the retiring Mayor of an Indiana town was held was shown in the presentation to him by forty-four leading citizens of a horse which ran away with him the first day he got it and broke two of his ribs and a leg. Had they presetted him with a set of resolutions he would have had no sufferings and no doctor’s bills.—Yonkers Statesman. If the Avelings and that tribe of social scum find so much that is awry in American institutions, they had best decamp. Their zeal for humanity betraveth itself, as they confessedly desert humanity to the worst evils of foreign depotism, and pretend to seek a field for humanitarian innovations in a new field where things are about as near even in point of opportunities, at least, as can be easily found this side of Asia. —Louisville Courier-Journal. So long as Mr. Tilden lived it was not wholly impossible to tell what Democratic principles wore. His influence upon his party was so great, and he was so loyal to what he believed to be its principles, that when he formulated them they were unquestionably accepted as valid. But Mr. Tilden left no successor, and the consequence is that the Democracy are all at sea, and it is rather difficult to find any two of them who can agree upon cardinal points of political faith. —Philadelphia Telegraph. There is nothing striking in anything which Ihe message contains about them. In short, the recommendation of the overthrow of the protective system is the only feature that will fix the attention of the entire country. If the tariff ever was a local issue in Democratic politics, Mr. Cleveland has made it national. Manufacturers, workingmen and farmers may well ask themselves how their vast interests are to be conserved if Mr. Cleveland's policy is ever enforced in this country.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. • The mistake which too many reformers make is that when they attempt to draw men away from pernicious habits they do not offer anything that will compensate them for the loss of former pleasures. Innocent games, well-lighted and warmed rooms, books on the table and pictures on the wall—all these are undoubtedly aids to temperance; and places with such adjuncts would bring about better practical results than could be achieved by a whole library of tracts or a wilderness of fulrainations against the liquor traffic.—Philadelphia Record.

A Theme for Artists and Authors. Boston Traveller. There is a fortune for some publishing house in an illustrated holiday edition of gems from President Cleveland’s official corresDondence. The following subjects would furnish themes for both pen and pencil: “Offensive Partisanship.” “innocuous Desuetude.” “Pernicious Activity.” “Ghoulish Glee.” “Vicious Partisan Methods.” “Active and Prominent, with Noisy Enthusiasm.” “Quiet and Unobtrusive Enjoyment of Public Privileges.” We shall eagerly watch for the announcement of the work. The President’s Oversight. St. Louis Post-Dispatch .'Deni.) The President's message is ominously silent about the medicinal qualities of Mexican pulque. There is something about pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, but nothing about pneumonia in human beings in general and diploraates in particular. Miles and the Indians. Minneapolis Tribune. General Miles expresses the opinion that the Indians would make good fertilizers. The soil would become pretty thin if farmers depended upon General Miles to furnish the fertilizing material he recommends. Something in a Name. Philadelphia Press. The leader of the Prohibitionists in the South Carolina Legislature is the Hon. Mr. Boozer. If the great reform ever gets into motion, Mr. Boozer should*turn it upon his name. Wliat He Needs. Minneapolis Tribune. The President is said to have exhibited peevishness of late. He should secure employment on the staff of some newspaper long enough to absorb a supply of “ghoulish glee.” Reformed Boilers. Boston Kecord. In his annual report Admiral Porter discusses the merits of the Herresoff system of boilers. This is well The country has had too many boilers on the here she’s-off plan. Not So Bad as Was Thought. Atlanta Constitution. We learn on good authority that there are two British noblemen who are content to live with their own wives. This is a good record, considering all the circumstances. A Little Too English. Atlanta Constitution. It is thought that the male and female anelomaniacs in New York will hesitate before following the example of Lord and Lady Campbell. The General Opinion. Milwaukee Sentinel. A more scandalous exhibition of unscrupulous partisanship has seldom been witnessed than is now offered by the Democrats of Indiana. First Remark on Landing. Oil City Blizzard. The remark of the American diplomat to the lively Mexican youth evidently is: “Come, boys, get me full and have fun with me.” Cantion to Ex-Senator McDonald, New York Tribune. and If the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald doesn’t stop talking, almost before he knows it he will have' told all ho knows. Jay Gould’s Few. B altimore Republican. Jay Gould has purchased a pew in a Presbyterian church. To he appropriate, it should be A corner pew.

THE LEGALITY OF THE POOLS The State’s Complaint in the Cases Just Instituted in Pennsylvania. Gronndson Which Attorney-General Cassiday Asks that the Railway and Coal Combinations Be Declared Unlawful. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. B.—Attorney-general Cassiday to-day filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county a bill in equity between the State of Pennsylvania, plaintiff, and the Grand Trunk Railroad Company, of Canada: the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company; the West Shore Railroad Company: the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company; the New York. Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company; the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company; the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company; the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company; the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railroad Company: the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railroad Company; the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad .Company; the Pennsylvania Company; the Philadelphia. Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company; the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St Louis Railway Company; the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company; the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company; the Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company, and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company, defendants. Mr. Cassiday asserts that these corporations form what is known as the trunk-line pool, and further shows that the trunk-line contracts ar.d other contracts and agreements not only tend toward, but have actually formed a very extended monopoly, composed of the said companies and corporations respondent; that said monopoly lacks publicity, legality and responsibility to law; that said contracts are in restraint of trade and the common carrying facilities of the and in derogation of the legal right of all individuals, associations and corporations to have persons and property transported over railroads; that, being a combination to fix their charges and control the business of competing lines of railroads, they tend to prevent fair competition aud result in unjust discrimination in charges for traffic and facilities for transportation, and that, for these reasons, the said contract and monopoly thereby formed is unlawful and injurious to the community, and against public policy and prejudicial to public interests, and oppressive to individuals by subjecting their business, trade and comfort to the power of the parties forming said monopoly, and infringes upon the equal rights of individuals and the general well-being of the State. He further contends that they violate Article 17, Section 4, of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, by practically consolidating competing railroada, by placing parallel and competing railroads, in part, at least, under the control of other parallel and competing Ifnes, and by making the officers of certain railroads act through said pool and committees thereof as officers of parallel and competing lines, and in other respects violate the provisions of said 17th article. The Attor-ney-general, on behalf of the Commonwealth, therefore prays:

First—That such orders may bo made as may be necessary for the service of process on the non-resident defendants. Second—That the defendants, and each of them, may be required to make full discovery of all and singular in the premises, and especially of the contracts and agreements above mentioned, aud all other contracts, agreements, and arrangements whatsoever of a similar nature between them, or any of them. Third—That the said trunk-line contract and the several contracts and agreements above mentioned, and all other contracts, and agreements. and combinations whatsoever, of similar nature, between the said defendants, or any of them, may bo declared unlawful. Fourth —That the said defendants, and each of them, may be enjoined by the injunction of this court, especially until a hearing, and perpetually thereafter, from carrying out or acting under said contract and agreements, and each of them, and any similar contracts, agreements or understandings, and from entering into any further contracts or agreements of that nature, and from forming and acting under, or in connection with, any such combination. Fifth—Such other further or different rolief as may be or become necessary or proper. Appended to this are contracts and agreements entered into by the members of the trunk-line pool, including the organization and rates. A bill against the coal pool was also filed with the following defendants: The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company; the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company; Stephen A. Caldwell, Geo. De B. Keim, and Austin Corbin, receivers of said companies; the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company; the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company; the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; the Pennsylvania Coal Company; the New York, Lake Erie Western Railroad Company; the Lehigh Valley Coal Company: the Susquehanna Coal Company; the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company; the Summit Branch Railroad Company, and the Lykens Valley Coal Company. The coal pool meetings and the allotment of coal made to each corporation are detailed, andthd#Mr. Cassiday says: “By this action gross discrimination has been and is exercised against the consumers of coal residing in or doing business within this Commonwealth. The price of coal to consumers within this Commonwealth has been fixed at nearly 30 per cent, above the price charged for similar coal at the same point when purchased for shipment beyond the limits of the State. The market price of coal in cities outside the State, and much more remote from the mines, has, by reason of said combination, been below the market price in cities within the State and nearer the coal mines, aud even in cases of cities far remote the increase in price has not been at all commensurate with the additional cost of transportation. The said combination, by hindering competition, has restricted the development of the State, and advanced prices both for coal and for transportation, artificially, to an unjust extent; by restricting production and by advancing prices it has crippled vast industries and seriously injured the property of the State." By ordering the suspension of mining it has caused largo numbers of workmen to remain idle a considerable part of the year, and the Attor-ney-general further informs the court that the said respondents have thus unlawfully, as well as in violation of the Constitution of the commonwealth, as against public policy and to the injury and prejudice of the general public. Combined and agreed arbitrarily to fix, limit and regulate the supply, and fix, raise and control the price of an article of general consumption, which has become and is a necessary of life, and in pursuance of said combination and agreement have, and are continuing to arbitrarily fix, limit and regulate the supply, and fix, raise and control the price to the general public of an article of general consumption which is a necessary of life. Wherefore the Attorney-general, on behalf of the Commonwealth, prays— First —That the said defendants, aud each of them, may be required to make full discovery of all contracts, agreements and books of account, and all other written or printed papers, resolutions, stipulations, notices and directions in or about the premises. Second—That the said anthracito coal combination may be declared to be illegal, and the agreement entered into on Dec. 81, 1884, and all other agreements between the defendants, or any of them, of the nature above set forth, may be declared void. Third—That thel defendants, and . each of then, may be enjoined by the writ oLinjunction of this court, especially until a hearing, and perpetually thereafter, from carrying out said agreement of Dec. 31, 1884, or any similar agreement, and from uniting and confederating together to restrict the production of coal or the amount thereof to be marketed, or the time during which coal mines, or any of them, may v be

worked, or for regulating the prices to be charged, collected or paid for coal, and especially from discriminating in their prices against parties withm this Commonwealth, or iu any part thereof. Fourth—Such other further or different relief as may be or become necessary or proper in the premises. The court fixed Dec. 21 as the day on which to hear argument on the preliminary injunction. CONGRESS AND CONFERENCE. The Bnsincss Transacted Yesterday by tha Trades-Unionists Assembled at Columbus. Columbus, 0., Dec. B.—The second day's session of the Trades Congress opened at 10 a. m. The chairman announced committees on orders, resolutions, finance, and report of legislative committee. Papers were read from the St Louis Knights of Labor setting forth grievances against the boss brewers of that city. Chairman Gonapers, of the legislative committee, recommended that the congress resolve itself into a committee of the whole and attend the trades-union conference, and that in the meantime the congress committees proceed with the work assigned to each. There was some opposition to this manner of forming an amalgamation of the two bodies, but the suggestions were adopted, and the congress took a recess til] noon. When the congress convened again, J. R. Scott, of Toronto, was elected chairman of the committee of the whole, and they decided to egter the conference of trades-unions about to be held, and adjourned to meet at the call of the president At the conference, in the absence of President Weihe, of the Amalgamated Association, Secretary McGuire called order and proceeded to read the call setting forth the action of the trade conference in Philadelphia last May. John Mcßride, P. J. McGuire and Samuel Gompers were nominated for temporary chairman, and all declined except Mcßride, who was elected. McGuire was elected temporary secretary. The chair named the following committee on credentials: Messrs. Stras&or, Scott. Edmondson, Miller and McDermott. There are no Knights of Labor or Trades Assemblymen on the committee. The conference adjourned to 2p. M. At the afternoon session the committee on credentials reported as to the delegates who were entitled to seats, and all were admitted and the report adopted. Committees on permanent organization, rules and resolutions were appointed. and the former reported John Mcßride for chairman, and P. J. McGuire and John Kirchner for secretaries. Chairman Mcßride spoke of the conflicting opinions existing among the members of the conference, and asked them to so conduct the discussion as to create no animosities. All grievances should be covered up and nothing done but that which would result in good to the various organizations whose membership was represented in the conference. A large number of letters were read by the secretary, the first from President Weihe, of the Amalgamated Association. He regretted that his organization was not represented, but said if the resolutions adopted were not of a free-trade nature, the Amalgamated mieht participate in future conventions. He inclosed articles from a Pittsburg labor paper regarding the formation of Knights of Labor lodges among iron-workers and the objections that had been entered to the same. St Numerous letters of reeret were read, nearly all being of the same tenor, and H. H. Lane, of the New Haven, Conn., Trades Council, urged independent political action as the great remedy for labor troubles.

President R. Rubiera, of the Cuban Federation of Cigar-makers, urged that only representatives of trades-unions be allowed to participate in the conference. Hugh of New Y'ork, urged that the foundation be laid for popular economic education, and declared that the Knights of Labor had exploded like a meteor; that its growth was an accident, and its mistake had been in mixed assemblies. Federation, ha claimed, was the necessity of the age. Preeident Frank Roney, of the Federated Trades of the Pacific Coast, asserted in a lengthy letter of advice that federation was the only recourse for labor. He advocated one set of laws for all trades-unions. Secretary McGuire made a motion, next, that the press be excluded from the sessions of the conference. This point was discussed the greater part of the afternoon, being presented in its various phases, and finally the motion was aereed to by a vote of 18 to 10. The adoption of the motion created considerable ill feeling, and suggested the inquiry on the part of a delegate whether those delegates who represented papers, and were making reports for the same, should be allowed to remain. The secretary suggested that all who could show credentials of membership in any trades-union should be allowed on the floor. The reporters began to present working-cards and other certificates of membership, seeing which, the president suggested that the motion adopted would not possibly exclude anyone. It wa3 finally agreed to admit all members of trados-uuious as visitors except newspaper reporters. Some discussion was had on the formation of a rational trade and labor nnion, all expressions being favorable to any plan having that object in view. F. L. Daily and W. H. Martin, of Massachusetts, representing the New England Shoe Lasters’ Union, were admitted on their credentials, but there was a spirited discussion over receiving the credentials of Georee G. Black, of the New York Stereotypers’ Union. Mr. Wright claimed they were not entitled to representation, as they should be subordinate to the typographers. He said, in reply to a question, that he would not set type to be sterotyped by this union. He was informed that all New York union printers did this, and the credentials of Mr. Black were received. All resolutions were handed to the committee on resolutions without reading. Several of them referred to the status of trades-unions and the Knights of Labor. The convention then adjourned to 9 a. m. tomorrow, without having taken any action regarding the Powderlv committee, which arrived in the city on Tuesday night. Glass Works Stopped by Apprentices. Woodbury, N. J., Dec. B.—The glass-blowers of G. G. Green’s factory went out on a strike yesterday. This action was a perfect surprise to many of the blowers, as well as to the employers and to the public. The understanding had been that the men were determined to abide by the terms of the compromise upon which they went to work in October, and had recently given their employers assurance that such was the case. The strike was brought about through the apprentices. Master Workman Coffoy was at Woodbury on Monday night, and held a meeting, which was attended by the apprentices and a few of the journeymen. Asa result of Coffey’s persuasion, the apprentices refused to work, yesterday morning, and so stopped the factory. A meeting of all the blowers and apprentices was held in the afternoon, and a majority voted to stand by the Atlantic City resolution, and break the agreement upon which they were working. Mr. Green says bis intention is to put out the fires, and not start again this year. ' Rioting at Amsterdam. Utica, N. Y., Dec. B.—A riot broke out in Amsterdam at 6 o'clock this evening among the unemployed mill hands. Two hundred or more of them gathered near KliDe & Hubb’s mill to attack the non-union employes. The police charged with drawn clubs and dispersed the crowd, several of whom were injured. There is great excitement over the affair. The city is terrorized by the threatened outbreak of the idle employes. Seventy-five special policemen are on duty. The crowds are being dispersed and the employes are not allowed to gather. Advance in the l’rice of Nalls. Cincinnati, Dec. 8 —Ths Western Nail Association, at its regular monthly meeting here today, unanimously adopted tho following: Resolved. That in view of the continual advance in pig iron aud steel supplies, the card price p£ nails be advanced to $2.40, with the usual terms.