Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1G, 1892.

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Can be found at the following pUces: PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 30 Boulevard ite Capncinea. U EW VOBK CL'sey House and Windsor Hotel. pniLADELTIIIA-A. P. Kembie, 3735 Lancaster avenue. - CHICAGO Palmer House. CI2JCINNATI-J. R. Hawley A Co, 154 Vine street LOTIISVITXE-C. T. Dw-lng; Eortliwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Co., Union Depot. WA8niXGTON, D. O Rlggs House and Ebbltt HOUSA. The few returns in which the Prohibition party is mentioned indicate a gencral falling oil in the vote, compared with four years ago. Next to relegating the Bourbon Democracy to perpetual minority Indiana needs a sensible and practical change in the system of counting and returning votes. Those who have the power to put an end to what they havo stigmatized as "legalized robbery" should not permitit to continue an hoar , after their time comes. The demonstrations of ' the Cleveland party in England over its victory of last week are not as noisy, as here, but its joy is general and deep, and, above all, lias reason in it. In announcing that the Democratlo party will not carry out the principles find policies of its platform, its leaders virtually admit that they have been playing the people for suckers. Before the election the cotton manufacturers in Providence, IL I., wero preparing to advance wages, but now they have postponed the matter until they see what the incoming party will do. TnE next House should investigate the charge that Jerry Simpson was in a plot to have himself slugged, to make it appear that he was the victim of Republican assassination, and thus securo reelection.' That sort of a scoundrel should not be permitted to sit in Congress. x It is announced that Capt. J. B. Curtis, of this city, recently elected Joint Representative from Marion and BhelDy counties, will be a candidate for Speaker of the House. He possesses the necessary legislative experience and parliamentary knowledge, and the Journal is of opinion that the Democrats could not do better than elect him. Two years hence there will be no McKinley law. Whether the Democrats repeal it outright, as they are distinctly pledged to do, or whether' they only tinker and amend it, the law as a Republican measure will no longer be in existence. The first chango the Democrats make in it, it will cease to be the McKinley law and become a Democratic measure. . At the same time that reports come from Fall River, Mass., of the reconsideration of plans to construct new factories since the election, a firm of importers in New York declares that it would be no exaggeration to say that the "relaxation of protection in America would cause the building of fifty new mills in Oldham7' (England). Those mills would take tho place of mills in this country. A DisrATCii has been sent out to the effect that A. G. Barker, editor of a newly started paper in Bremen, Marshall county, has received written notice to leave the town before Christmas, and th&t Mr. Barker is very much alarmed. If he has received such notice, all good citizens and the officers of the law should ee that Mr. Barker is protected. That tort of cowardly persecution must not be tolerated in Indiana. The Journal does not proposo to become a calamity howler, and it will regret exceedingly to seethe general prosperity of tho country interrupted, or business depressed. It will, however, record well-authenticated instances of arrested, suspended or abandoned enterprises, closing factories, strikes, reduction of wages, etc., as a matter 01 current news, just as it will continue to notice the establishment of new enterprises or the enlargement of old ones. Perhaps the managers of tho Democratic glorification procession were the first in any party in this country to express joy over the possible destruction of a new industry in their own congressional district by a device representing its downfall. Tho Sentinel probably enjoys the distinction of picturing such a representation to its readers. Tho tin-plate industry, if protected as was the plate-glass industry, which protection a Democratic Legislature of Indiana declared for, would bring capital, skilled labor and markets to Indiana. Vice - president- elect Stevenson, In his speech at IJlooruingtou, Monday night, said: "Tho verdict of the people has been pronounced against a prohibitory tariff." Herein Mr. Stevenson shows himself a demagogue and a prevaricator. There never has been a prohibitory tariffin thiscountry. Importations under the McKinley tariff law have been larger than ever before- in the history of tho country, during the same

length of time. When Mr. Stevenson I u. . a. a : (V t I

vrtua iuo ijireeiib mini a prumuuory tariff ho says what he knows perfectly well is not truo. TEE EEPUBLICAU POSITION OS THE TARIFF. Since the election some good Republicans are saying that the position of the rarty on tho tariff question must bo revised, that it has gone to an extreme on tho question, and that tho result of the election is a popular verdict that should bo accepted as notico to take a less advanced position. Those who take this viewansume that tho present position of the party favors protection fcr protection's sake, whereas they say tho true position and the one on which tho party maintained itself successfully for many years is a tariff for revenue adjusted as far as possible to protect American industriesin other words, a tariff for revenue with incidental protection. This criticism is based on a misapprehension of facts. It assumes that tho Minneapolis platform took moro advanced ground on the tariff question than any previous platform of the Republican party, and that it indorsed protection for protection's sake. This is not the case. The Republican platform of 1892 did not go as far on tho tariff question as that of 1688. If either platiorra declared In favor of protection for protection's sake it was the platform of 1883 and not that of 1803. The latter says: We believe tbat all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of doty; and that on all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference between wages abroad and at home. . That is tho Minneapolis platform and the present position of the Republican party on the tariff question. It is not an extreme position. It asserts tho true doctrino of protection, and puts it on strong and defensible ground. It cannot be abandoned without abandoning the whole doctrine of protection. There may possibly bo a question as to whether this doctrine was fairly applied and expressed in the McKinley bill, but there can be no question that it is the true doctrino of protection, and not extreme protection either. , The Journal believes that the McKinley bill was wisely conceived and carefully framed, and that it is an excellent law for the protection and promotion of American interests, but it is not prepared to say that it is the culmination of human wisdom. The Republican party is pledged to the doctrine of protection to American industries and will never surrender it until it has been shown by actual experiment that free trade or a tariff for rovenue only is better than protection for the interests of the American people; but it is not necessarily pledged to the McKinley bill. That law will have to bo modified in tbo future, as all tariff laws have been in the past, and it would have been modified even if tho Republicans had been successful in tho recent election. It does not follow because the Republican party is pledged to the doctrino and policy of protection that it should bo anchored forever to tho McKinley law. Indeed, the Journal is of opinion that it was a serious mistake in tho recent campaign to have the McKinley law mado the party platform. Instead of the real platform, adopted at Minneapolis. It is not likely that tho McKinley law; in its present form, will ever be an issue in another election, but protection will be an issuo for a long time to come. Tho Republican party stands for an idea and a policy, not for any particular measure. The vitality of protection as a policy end the impossibility of getting away from it in any plan for raising revenue are plainly shown in the present efforts of the Democrats to convince tho people that they have no idea of abolishing protection. There could be no stronger proof of the inherent justice of the doctrine and tho strong hold it has on tho people than the fact that, after denouncing it in their platform and during the entire campaign as utterly vicious and unconstitutional, and promising to destroy it, root and branch, the leaders of the Democratic party are now assuring the country that they have no intention of abolishing protection, or even of repealing the McKinley law. Their platform says:. We denounce the McKinley tarifl law enacted by the Fifty-first Congress as the culminating atrocity of class legislation, and we promise its retkal as one of the beneficent results that will follow the action of the people in intrusting power to the Democratic party. Yet now half the Democratic leaders are swearing that they never intended to repeal the McKinley law outright, and Vice-president-elect Stevenson says "no apprehension need bo felt that the business interests of the country will be imperiled." The policy of the Republican party on the tariff question is to remain true to protection not necessarily to any particular measure, but to protection as a policy, until its impolicy and unwisdom can be demonstrated by experiment. This can only be done by tho repeal of the McKinley law by the Democrats and tho enactment of a tariff for revenue only. Every day after the 4th of next March that they fail to do this they will bo playing false with tho people, and proving themselves cowards .and tricksters. Furthermore, every day that they fail to do it they will bo trilling with tho commercial interests of the country, and keeping business men in suspenso ns to what they intend to do. The present policy of the Republican party on the tariff question is to force the fightingand compel the Democrats to repeal the McKinley law, or admit that they oro a pack of political cowards, tricksters and charlatans. AO SEAT COMISQ EVEST. The next great event in Indiana will be the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in this city next year. It is a great honor for Indianapolis to be selected as tho meeting placo of this famous organization of veterans, and the people ought not toba slow in recognizing it or in meeting the responsibilities it involves. It is new twenty-six years since the first National Encampment of the G. A. 11 met in this city; The organization was then in its very infancy, and Indianapolis was comparatively a small town. It had

always been accustomed to handling State conventions, and tho attendance at the first encampment of tho Grand Army was not large enough to test its resources orcapacity. Tho meeting was held in the old Morrison Opera-house, cornerof Meridian and Maryland streets, and though not a,large building it was ample for the purpose. In those days the veterans did not expect ns much in tho way of accommodations and entertainment as they do now, and it did not tako as much to moke them comfort-; able. They wero younger, and all they required to have a good time was to bo let alone. Now they require and expect more, as they havo aright to do. During the twenty-six years that have passed since tho first encampment the membership of tho order has grown to 400,000. Their annual encampments have been annual ovations. Many cities have entertained them. - Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Boston, Cleveland, New Haven, Harrisburg, Chicago, Providence, Springfield, Albany, Dayton, Baltimore, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, San Francisco, St. Louis, Columbus,'- Milwaukee, Detroit and Washington are somoof the cities which have entertained tho Grand Army and vied with ono another in doing it honor. It is needless to say'tbat by this time the veterans expect pretty good treatment. The proper handling and. entertainment of the vast army of visitors will test the resources of the city and the hospitality of its people to the utmost. It will also in a sense test the hospitality of the State, for tho honor conferred in locating this meeting at 'Indianapolis is upon the State as much as tho city. Tho world's fair will be in full blast when the encampment meets, and thousands of persons will stop off .on their way .to or. from Chicago to attend tho encampment. If the honor of tho country is involyediu the success of tho world's fair, the honor of Indiana is equally involved in the success of tho National Encampment. Tho latter, will be as distinctly a State affair as tho former will bo a national affairj and every loyal Hoosier should try and contribute in somo way to its success.1 If they cannot do anything else let them como here and help swell the crowd and the enthusiasm. The old soldiers must never be allowed to leave the State without being made to feel that they were welcome. ,' .

if! PACTS FOE IK DIANA TAX-PAYERS. ' i The growth of the receipts and expenditures of the State of Indiana In ten years will attract attontion when '..the figures of tho State Treasurer's exhibit,' published in yesterday's Journal, ' are compared with those of ten years ago. A few of these comparisons aro as follows: 1882. ' 1A02. Receipts, all sources.... $3,50:1, 130 $5,3uii,l31 Disbursements, aU purposes 3.544,711 5,C33,5S6 The receipts and disbursements under the head of "general fund" for; the two years wero as follows: 182. 182. Receipts $1,2:6, 101 $2.758.lf8 Disbursements l,4o00 2i,t)C3 If from tho total receipts and disbursements of 1S02 $183,225 is deducted for advances from counties which were paid back, and $'340,000 received : for bonds in 1S03 is offset by $310,000 paid ns temporary loan, a total of 523,220, tho actual receipts of the general fund would be $2,235,713, and tho disbursements S2.10G.438. Assuming that there were no sucli offsets in financial .transactions of 1882, tho receipts of the general fund in 1802 wero $975,342 in excess of those of 1882, and the disbursements from that fund $009,533; That is, tho collections of taxes and fees in Indiana during the year which ended Oct. 31, 1892, wero 77 pe r cent, greater for. .current running expenses than during the corresponding year which ended' Oct. 31, 1882, while tho disbursements are 67 per cent, greater. , These are eye-opening figures.' but thoy aro tho most favorable for the receipts and expenditures during tho last fiscal year which can be made. A few items of expenditure during the two fiscal years will serve to indicate the causes of this increased expenditure in ten years: Disbursement 1882. Bene roleut institutions.... ..$352,060 Penal, etc. Institutions 2,,2.110 Printing and stationery 11,961 Custodian State building Engineer State building... Attorney-general's otlice.... 3,066 1892. $978,830 299.416 . J2'J,9!iG r 20,394 13,575 15,644 The increased expenditure for benevolent institutions may be better appre ciated when it is stated that in 1692 $2.49 was expended where $1 was paid in 1882. The expenses of the Attorneygeneral's office under Alonzo Green Smith are 294 per cent, greater than they were in 1882. The legal wisdom of the present Attorney-general and his corps of assistants is doubtless without precedent, but that furnishes no reason why it should cost nearly four times as much as that supplied by the Attorney-general of 1882. No separate item appears for tho State-houso custodian and engineer in 1882, the aggregate being probably so small that it was included in miscellaneous expenditures. Now that the people of Indiana are a long way from any political campaign they will havo ample timo in which to discuss the policy which has so rapidly increased State taxation and State debt, to tho end that they may net intelligently when tho time for action shall come. In spite of the verdict of last week against the. Republican reciprocity scheme, such paragraphs as the following have an interest: In the month of August, ISSl.our exports to Cuba were valned at $2.C92. Last September tbeir value reached $2,li2,&3. And thi6 increaso was very largely in tho products of the agricultural States. Moreover, moro than a three-fold increase is not a sham. . Governor Ciiasb should lose no time in organizing a vigorous attack on tho colony of gambit rs and outlaws who are now engaged in trying to effect a permanent lodgment in the northern part of this State. The leaders in tho scheme are a lot of rascals who, having been compelled to suspend operations in Chicago, aro looking for a placo near that city where they hope to be unmolested. They have selected a place called Robey, somo twenty-odd miles from Chicago,

in Lake county, where they propose to establish a race-course and gamblinghouse. Tho thing should be nipped in tho bud. If permitted to go on it will become a State scandal and perhaps get strong enough to defy the authorities. There is law enough, if enforced, to drive them out of tho State, and Governor Chase could not devote the remainder of his term to n hotter work.

The execution of the Lobel rifle, now used by the French, is reported to be something wonderful ns well as dreadful, as in Dahomey the bullets passed through forest trees and killed Dahomeyans behind them. Onr government will soon have a rifle equal to the Lebel. When sorb arms become general, It seems inevitable that cations will be forced to put themselves upon a peace basis. BUBBLES IN Tllti AHL This I Indeed Sad. Hogan An fwy do yez call th' goat "throploal fruit r Gogan Because she's a bay Nannie. Beet A Dissenter. Watts So you don't believe all men are born equall Potts Certaluly not. . Some are born twins. Sntt Next Court. Mrs. To think tbat I' should live to see this day! Mr. It Is your own fault I'm sure I don't insist on your living. It I Likely They Would. Mrs. Wickwlre My dear, that hat of yours is nvrfully shabby. Mr. Wickwlre I know it is, but If I were to get a new one just now, people might think me a Democrat. The Close of the Discussion. ( N. Peck I'd have you know, madam, that I have as much rirht to ventilate my opinions as you have, Mrs. Peck But, my dear, your opinions dou't need ventilating. They're all wind, anyway. A TOUT I'KOPhK AND IHLNGS. Grand Rue Ernest Rhxan Is the name recently bestowed upon a prominent thoroughfare of 1'aris. Tiik venerable widow of the late Bishop Alexander Campbell, who lives at Bethany, W. Vo.. celebrated her ninetieth birthday last Saturday. PiiksidknT'Geokge T. Axof.ll, of Boston, Mass., in behalf of the Humane Educational Society, is offering $?0J in prizes for essays on various humanitarian themes now under pnblio agitation. Mas. Langthy will send to the Chicago exposition a doll three feet high specially modeled to resemble her in face and figure. Mrs. Langtry is bound that tho exposition shall be a success If her eHorts can make it so. M. G ALLAN d, the well-known French artist, is giving the finishing touches to a fine series of panels intended for the "marble room? of Mr. Whitelaw Keid's Madisonavenue house. New York. The artist means to exhibit them in Paris publicly before sending them to the United States. .tCiiARLKs Dickens's old house at No. 23 Wellington street. Strand, in Loudon, will soon be a thing of the past, as it is to be remodeled for business purposes. It was there that the novelist lived while he edited All the Year Round and Household Words, and while ho wrote many of his novels. Ex-Empress Frederick of Germany, as is well known, had great regard for the late Sir Morell Mackenzie, the chief physician of her husband during his fatal illness. As a testimonial of her regard, 6be has contributed $250 to a fond collected in Loudon to build an additional wing to the Hespital for Diseases of the Throat, The wing is to be named in honor of tho dead physician. Four years ago, it is said. General Harrison went to bed on the night of election before he knew the result. The wife of General Hancock declared that the latter went to bod at 7 o'clock in the evening on election day, 1880, being too tired ro await news. Next morning he awoke at dawn and asked if there were any detinite tidings. Upon her reply: Yes, you are beaten," he turned over and went to sleep again. Elizaretii Stuart .Piielps-Ward had her first story published when she was thirteen years old, and since sho was nineteen she has supported herself by her pen. She was twenty when "Gates Ajar" gave tier fame, and she is now only forty-seven, though because of the long time she has been before the publio fche is commonly supposed to be older. Her face remains young and full of color. Mrs. PhelpsWard writes terv slowly and with painstaking care. All of her literary work in done in tho morning between 9 and 1, and she rarely in ono day writes more than enough to 1111 half a column, of a daily newspaper. Sometimes the amount produced is hardly half of that, and it is all carefully revised and rewritten until it is entirely satisfactory. in oji -Partisan w. c t. u. Thres Addmses of Welcome Resronded To by Mrs. . K. Towers, of Indianapolis. fpfclal to ttie Indianapolis Journal. Cleveland, Nov. 15. Tne opening session of the annual conference of the Nonpartisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held in Exposition Hall this afternoon. Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney, of Cleveland, the national president, presided. There were three addresses of welcome, the first by Rev. Bates, the second by Mr. White and the third (y Miss Mary C. Ingersoll. Mrs. E. K. Towers, of Indianapolis, responded to them all. Mrs. Phinney read her address as president, indicating the work that has been done by thenatonal congress during the past year and the changes and the reforms necessary to increase the usefulness of tbo National Union. Tbo last address was made by Miss Annie Wittenmeyer. of Philadelphia. A publio reception followed. SHOOTING AT KABSAS CITY. i &m- - m J. B. Porter Acain Carries Off the Lien's Share of the Pr.z3. Special lt the Inflianapolis JournaL Kansas City, Nov. 15. Tho second day of the Kansas City annual fall shooting tournament saw a large attendance of the "crack p." and furnished sport of a high cliss. As on the first d;iy, the lion's share of the honors and the money was' carried oft by J. B. Porter, of Kansas City. Today's results: First Shoot Seven live birds. Porter first, Bennett second. heeond ehoot Seven live birds Torter and Bennett divide! firs:. Reward second. Third Shoot Ten live blrda. Porter first, Ben nett second. Fourth Shoot Ten live birds. Seward and Bennett divided Mrat, Torter second. Besides those live-bird contests several shoots at tbo clay pigeons were decided, in which tbn Imlk of the money was carried oil by Porter, Bennett and Seward. Wh1kr, Polities ml Munler. Zaxesviixe, O.. Kor. 15. Word was received hero last night of a terrible light at frit. Clairaviile .Junction, a small mining town about four miles west of Bellairo. Twenty minera employed at Troll Brothera' mine indulged deeply in Intoxieatita. On returning to St. Clairsville Junction a political riinenssiou precipitated a drunken brawl, in which a miner named Veistina was killed and another mimr named Litaker was fatally injured. Knivea. atones and club were used as weapons in the melee, and several of the p.trty received injuries which are serious. Fifteen of those injured in the light were arrested, but those who inflicted the blows which were fatal acaped. '

INTERESTING IIEBESY TRIAL

Rev. Henry Preserved Smith's Defense Before the Cincinnati Presbjterj. The Lane Tlieolrgical Seminary Trofcssor Making Htny Friends Ly His Manly Standpoints from Ills Argnnirnt. Cincinnati. Nov. 15. The trial of the Rev. Henry Preserved Smith by the Cincinnati Presbytery for erroneous teaching and heresy, while it has not yet crowded the church with listeners, is assuming more and more interesting proportions. When the time for opening came this morning there were but a half dozen persons present, but in a few minutes the entire committee had assembled, axeept four.who, by their absence from roll-call, will lose their votes under the rule of the presbytery. These were Kevs. Acomb, Carson and Pollock, and Elder J. Dorette. Four elders were absent yesterday, making the court now consist of only sixty-nine judges. 1 his absentee rule, it is already hinted at, is furnishing a loopbole.of escaps for members who may be convinced that Professor Snith is right and do not want to put on record a vote to tbat effect. The speculator who cannot wait for events is already estimating that Professor Smith's defense read yesterday has made serious inroads upon the opposition, and it is claimed that while there were but three avowed friends of Professot Smith before tho trial, there could not lie found now in the presbytery two-thirds to vote against him. The reading of the minutes of yesterday's session by Temporary Clerk Francis raised a storm of objection, and to the sharp eye of the worldly observer, alwavs ouiok to discover anything iu the business demeanor of a religious body, it was apparent that the ways of a political convention wero to some extent copied. The partisanship of the prosecution and of the defense was apparent in almoat every motion made. The clerk had recorded that on the question of the eligibility of himself and two other ministers the vote to sustain their eligibility was almost unamnioun. Quick objectien was made to this by members who declared tbat at least one-third of the presbytery voted in thS negative. It was voted to amend the minutes in that particular, and on further reading; thut the clerk bad incorporated irx the minutes his own speech on the motion just referred to, and had not included those of other persons who bad spoken, it was ordered that speeches be pot in as exhibits. Professor Smith then began the reading of his defense to the seooud charge, which contained the gravamen of the charges against him. namely. that he taught that the Inspired author of the Chronicles had been guilty of asserting errors of historical fact aud ol suppressing sundry historic truths. He had not completed his defense when Dr. lioberts raised the point of order that it was not proper for Professor Smith to incorporate in his argument citations from bis pbamplet made by the committee on prosecution in its report. At this point the noon recess was taken. As the members left the church hot comments we're heard among the members and others, showinghow deeply interested they already are in the outcome. Reflection during the noon reeess seemed to have modified the views of Dr. Roberts, for, on reassembling, be asked leave to temporarily withdraw his point of order. Leave was given, and the' point was not urged furtherduring the argument. Prof. Smith read rapidly, with very little attempt at oratorical effect, with a manner that kept his argument easily 'before bis hearers. Even those who disagreed with his conclusions conld not fail to bo pleased with his treatment of the matter, lie was entirely free from passion, and had mado little or no use of the weapon of ridicule, but constantly treated the questions as serious and weighty, and looked npon the issue as one of principle, and not personal. His argument displayed easy familiarity with the matter in hand. The second charge, to which be devoted the entire day, is as follows: The Presbyterian Church In the United States of America charges the Rev. 11. P. tiuiitb, being a minister in said church and a member of the Presbytery of Cincinnati, with teaching in a pamphlet entitled. "Biblical Scholarship aud Inspiration," contrary to a fundamental doctrine of the word of God and the Confession of l-'aith, that the Holy BpirJt did not ao contiol the Inspired writers iu their composition of tho Holy Scriptures as to make tbeir utterances absolutely truthlul, 1. e.. free from error when Interpreted in their natural and Intended eense. From this Professor Smith began his arraignment of the committee thus: It Is plainly the Intention of the committee to assert that tho Holy Spirit did so "control the inspired writers in their composition of the Holy Scriptures as to make their utterances absolutely truthful, 1. o., free from error when interpreted lu their natural and intended sense." Now 1 ask tvhat 1 "the natural aud intended sensci" Is not the natural eene the lntcuded eensef Or is the intended sense something different from tho natural eensel I cannot help seeing in thia phrase :in obscurity tbat seriously mars the foroe of the proposition. The intended seufe intended by whoail If by the divine author, we si) all airree. If by the human author, I doubt .whether any will afhrtn it lu the face of Peter's assertion that the "prophets souchtaud searched diligently who propuesied of the trace which should come unto you, searching what time or what manner the spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto." Or it any assert that the intention oi the divine author Is necessarily the Intention of the human author, this proposition alto is at least debatable. ' For In the first chapter of llencsU, forexainple.it can hardly be doubted that the intention of the human author was to describe a natural week of six natural days. Probably the mnjorlty of those who hear me hold that the intontlon of the Holy spirit was to describe a geologic week of six "creative days." rothe question whose Intention the oonimlttce means lults phrase Is net superfluous. And In that view alone the language is ambiguous and should bo amended. For If ministerial standing Is to depend on a Juggle with a word, the sooner we know it the better.. . Prof. Smith then went on to object to the charge tbat it was insufficient in legal ef fect in that while it -affirms a certain doctrine to be fundamental it brings no evidence that it is fundamental. Taking up this feature he went on to show that the committee had not adduced any Scriptural text to support the position it had assumed. The strongest txt of all npon which the commute relied was that in II Timothy iii, 16, where it is declared that all Scripture is inspired by God, and is profitable for reproof, etc. He asked why th committee did not quote the revised version of this text, which reads: "Every Scripture inspired of God is profitable," etc His argument was that the word inspired described the quality, not the origin ot the Horipture. It was after dark when be concluded, and after a brief prayer the presbytery adjourned. On the way from church Prof, bmitb met several enthusiastic friends, who warmly congratulated hnn . on his argument The Conference of CathoRo Crcltit.. New York. Nov. 15. All arrangements have been made for the conference of Roman Cathode archbishops, which will be held here to-morrow in the Archepiscopal Palace. More than ordinary interest attaches to the meeting because ot tho belief that decisive action will "be taken npon the school question. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, who arrived in the city this afternoon, and who will participate in the deliberations of the conference, cornea prepared to answer all qut-stions which may I e put to htm touching the much-discussed Faribault system. Archbishop Heardon, of San Francisco, who is at the Buckingham, called on .Archbishop Corrigan to-dav. Arcbhisbop Fenbnn, of Chicago, and Mgr. Satolli. the Papal representative, also called to day at tbo Archepiscopal Palace. Caused by a Careless Mwltchmnn. Utkkalo, N. Y., Not. 15. One Jife was sacrificed and two persons wem seriously injured by a collision al the crowing of the Nickel-plate and the Delaware. Lackswanna Western railway yesterday, it was canted by the apparent carelessness of a switchman. John Connelly, fourteen year old. was instantly killed. Johu O'Connell was so badly injured that his death in ouly a matter ot time. Daniel Williams, a Delaware A Lsckawanna engineer, was badly hurt about the back. tor the Advaneemeiu of Women. MFiiriii. -Teoc. Nov. 15. The convention for the ' advancement of women was called to order in the United States Court room-this morning, where the timo was

consumed by an execntive eession. Thia afternoon and evening papers were read on 'Art," by Edna 1). CLeoey, of Boston; on "The Columbian Exposition." by Octavia Bates, of Detroit; "The Photographic Novel," by Alice Mone Blackwell. of l)orcbester, Mass., ana on "Kindergartens." by Sallie Fairchild. of Boston. To-morrow evening woman's aulfrage will be discusretl by four prornineut members, each taking fifteen minutes. GClLTf CLEKK EN'TRAITED.

Adam Lamar, of Fort Wayne, Arrested fcrAbfctracticg Valuables Irora the Mails. Special to the Tnuanapous Jo;trnL . Fort Wayne, hid.. Nor. li-rostofflce Inspector Lawrence Letherman arrested Adam Lamar, to-day, for opening letters and stealing money from them. Lamar was employed m the Fort Wayne postoflica i as a clerk, and it was hisdnty tg distribute the mail to the boxes owned by local merchants and business men. About a month siuce Postmaster Higgins commenced to receive complaints that letters containing money and postal notes were being lost in the mails. Ascertaining the uames of senders and numbers of notes as they had been paid to parties in the city he secured tho originals from Washington, and suspicion soon lell on young Lamar, as be bad signed several. The mutter was at once broaght to the notice of Chief lnspeator Bears, at Cincinnati, who detailed Mr. Letherman to work up the case A couple of test-letters, one containing a marked one-dollar bill and the other having two marked coins, were addressed to Fort Wavne parties and placed where young Lamar bad access to them. This morning it was discovered that they had failed to reach their destination and thev were hastily traced. The one-dollar bill had traveled rapidly. It had been paid bv young Lamar for his breakfast at the Cline restaurant, and by the proprietor thereof to Eckart. the" butcher, and Eckart to Mrs. Andrew Glutting, who exchanged the dollar with Mr. Higgins. For the past six weeks there have been articles missing in the malls. Early in October. Irwin Randall claims to have mailed a letter, containing ibO, ad dres?ed to Itev. A. W. Seabrease. it nover reached its destinntion. Lamar stoutly denied having anything to do with this esse, but admits the others. - His peculations will prohably not amount all told to over 5o in money, not counting the Kandali case. A I'ox ot cigars, a box of candy and several minor articles have been missed in the past few weeks. Tho young man confessed and broke comoictely down when he was taken before the deputy United States secret service commissioner. Lamar's father, who is a passenger engineer on the Tort Wayne road, immediately secured $i,00O balk AN A1R0CIUCS MURDER. Two Illinois Men Arrested on Scspic'cn ol Murdering Their Father at Morristown. Mocristown. lit, Jsov. 15. One of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in Illinois was perpetrated in Lyndon township, this county, last Thursday evening. Fr cold-blooded brutality itisdoubtfulif it has an equal. The victim is A. It Swarthout, a prominent and wealthy farmer residing about two miles west from tho village of Lyndon. He drove to this city, Thursday afternoon, and after attending to some business matters started for home, arriving there about 0 o'clock. His two sona, Jobrand Erneit Swarthout, were engaged at worn about the barn when their father returned, but no words were exchanged between them. Mr. Swartbout unhitched his horse and put him in the eta ble. After be bad unharnessed his horse some one stepped up behind him and shot him through the head. His body waa then placed in a cart and wheeled about a hundred rods to a straw-btack carried on top and then the straw was set afire. An old colored man was tho first to discover tho tire and gave the alarm, when the two sons rodo to the 6tack, but made no ertbrts to quench tbo flames. The absence of Mr. Swartbout did not seem to disturb bin two sons, bis daughter and daughter-in-law, and it was not until a neighbor came in and insisted upon a search being made that they instituted one. When the ashes of the straw pile were examined portions of theKkull and other bones were discovered. Clews subsequently found have led to the arrest of the two sons, .fohn and Ernest Swartbout. They deny all knowledge of the affair. COSTLY RAILWAY WRECK. Two Engines and Ten Cars Demolished Brakeman end Train p Mangled. Special to the In Alan spoils Joaraal. Four Wayne, Ind., Nov. 15. A serious wreck occurred this afternoon, at 5 o'clock, on the Pennsylvania railway, near Nevada, O. East-bound freight tram No. 74 was pulling into the siding when express train No. 7, west bound, going forty miles an hour, came along. The air-brakes on the express train failed to work, and a crash followed. The two enines were hurled twenty feet into tho ditch. Four express cars wcra wrecked and their contents ruined. Six loaded freight cars were piled up in a confused mas. Engineer Durnell and his fireman leaped and escaped with only a few bad bruises. August Kutsch. a brakeman, was fatally injured, and an unknown tramp so badly mangled that he cannot live. The crew ot the freight train escaped unhurt GENERAL R06ECRAXS ILL Suffering 'with t Cold and Threatened with - Far aly sis Ills Rrcovery Doubtful. Washington. Nor. 15. Gen. W. S. Rosecrans. Register of the Treasury, has been ill at his residence here for several weeks, and it is reported that the chances ara against his recovery. Hit daughters hare been summoned to his beside, and one of them reached town to-day. General Rosecrans was first taken with a severe cold, but since then other and more alarming symptoms have appeared, and there is noyr a threat of paralysis. 1 he fact that be is nearly seventy years old increases the danger. Hoclety of ttin Teunesseo. Special totte Indiana'- JouraaSr. Loc is, Nov." 15. The twenty-fourta annual meeting of the Society of the Tennessee begins its session here to morrow. Elaborate preparations for the entertainment of visitors have been made by the local committee. The first bnsiness session will be held ut the Lindcll Hotel at lu a. m. In the afternoon a special train will take the members to pay visit to the grave of General Sherman, iu Calvarv Cemetery, and in the evening there will be a session at the Germania Theater. On Thursday another business cession will be held at the Lindell. and Major-general Scholield will review the cadets of Washington University. llanged to a Tree in thm Suburbs. Oxkokd. N. C, Nor. 15. Wm. Burnett, colored, who attempted to assault a white girl in this county iu Aognst, was taken lrom jail just niter miduight last night and lynched. The jailir wan forced to open the jail under penalty of death, and ho was the ouly person who saw any ot the lynchers. Larly-rlsera were startled to see Burnett hanging from a tree in the suburbs of the town. Moonshiner and Two Indians Drowned. Bisk. Ida.. Nov. 15. Wilson (larber. long suspected of being a nioooshiner, met a violent death while fleeing trout a party of men whom he thought were oilicers of the law. He and two Indians got into a canoe and paddled up Big creek. Th Indiaus were drnnk iind started down stream. The canoe entered the rap ds. aud nil three were carried over the cataract and drowned. Suicide of a ItMio-d Merchant New York, Nor. 15. Mr. Brady, a retired cigar-dealer, and reputed to be worth f r00, 0OJ. committed suicide to-dav. Iln. bad been atl'icted with brain trouble for soo mouths past, and probably took his liio while insane.