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THE DAILY HEWS. FRIDAY, MAT f UTt.

The Indianapolis News has a bona fide eirculation more than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper In Indiana. It ia a singular thing that Cox, the norierer of Alston, should be th* first to profit by the law anbetitating imprisonment for lile for hanging, if tha jury recommenda it, which wm only enaated by Alston’s deciding Vote in the legislature. — - -0- • Thy Brooklyn Presbyterians doubtless will hereafter let “common lame” alona. The Talmag* trial, resulting in acquittal, eeema to have accomplished nothing except to ley the foundation of feuda and bitternem.

Tax Ohio governorship is the knottiest political problem the democrats of that state have had to deal with for a long time. They are as “ ’fraid as dyath” of Sherman, and who ah all be their standard • bearer pussies them. It ia thought “Your _ Uncle Dick” Bishop ia in cahoots with Tiiden, and will be boosted by the bar’l in order to squelch any revemtonary glory to Thurman. Bo MX of the colored folks are marching home again. A boat load of fifty have come to St. Louis from Kansas City. It wasn’t all their fancy painted. They didn’t find the forty acre* and a male, and didn’t have a particularly joyous reception. Winter had net disappeared and they were compelled to camp out and provide for themselves, barely escaping starvation. They say there are hundreds in Kansu who want to get back. It is given out that the president will certainly sign the bill to prevent troope at the polls, and also a bill to repeal the juror’s test oath if presented to him u a separate measure. He is said to still retain his belief in his ssying that “he serves his party best who servea bis country best,” and to persist in considering himself president of the whole country, instead of president of a party. May be live long and prosper. ■— -»■ ■ - ' — Thebk has been more or less talk about the course of events making it necessary for President Hayes to accept a nomination for a second term. There will be leas •f this talk after he signs the bill to prevent Hoops at the polls, as it is reported he will, but in any event it is idle chatter. In his letter of acceptance he went outside his necessary course to say that the Cincinnati platform made no mention of a second term. But that for himself, “believing that the restoration of the civil service to the system established by Washington and followed by the early presidents, can be best accomplished by an executive who is under no temptation to use the patronage of his office to promote his own re-eleetion, I desire to perform what I regard aa a duty in stating now my inflexible purpose, if elected, not to be a candidate for election to a second term.” This is • pledge that can hardly be made to give way to party neoeaaity. It is not simply the expressed wish of an incumbent, the like of which has often been set aside in the face of party demands. It is a condition which was made before electionpart of the contract—and the party of the firat part could nqteat hie own words without loss of self-respect and public esteem The talk of Hayes for a second term is idle.

Thx colored convention at Nashville is something of an offset to the Vicksburg convention, and has run into some excesses which the Vicksburg convention steered clear of. It recommends to the legislaturea of the various states that they adopt acempabory system of education and make no distinction in the color of the schools, regarding separate race schools aa detrimental. Yet in the face

of this they memorialize congress to use the $360,000 of unclaimed bounty of colored soldier* for the establishment of an industrial and technical school for “col-

ored youths” at Harper’s Ferry or some convenient place. Here’s consistency. The constitution of the American protective aociety ia unobjectionable, aa is also that aociety itaolf, which is to have for ita object the amelioration of the colored race in various ways. The resolution asking congress for half a million dollar* to help Ihe negroes to emigrate is as —salmas Garfield’s proposition to appropriate $75,000 for the same purpose. The convention doubtless got its inspiration from Garfield’s motion, generously ng the amount. Congress of course not listen to sack an indefensible rebut it were better for the negroes

that they make no more like it An attent) t to subsidise a race or class would rouse the bitterest storm of prejudice, and in apita of the ballot, leave the wbald-be beneficiaries of such a in 1 aldy expos*1 to th# obloquy that la the portion of the heathen Chinee. Tan Indian territory invasion is likely to make trouble for somebody. The eqnattera, it is said, are not at all disturbed by the president's proclamation, their backers, it is alleged, being not merely lobbyists and railroad agents, but members of congress and employes of the house of representatives. It is said by the Washington cortespendent of th* Cincinnati Gazette that the clerk of the house committee on private land claims, a man who has been for years active in behalf of railroads which are trying to dispossess civilized tribes of their lands, la even now engaged in sending out maps and circulars sstting forth that certain lands in the Indian territory are open to settlement, and urging the recipient of these documents to take advantage of the opportunities offered in defiance of the presidentl proclamation. Those maps and circulars are stored in the room of the committee named, and are distributed and mailed from thence. The promoters of. this scheme at Washington make no concealment of their intention, and are not sparing of their expressions of contempt for the president . in trying to stop them. They say there is a line 300 miles long t* guard and the government hasn’t troops enough to keep out small parties here and there, which even if discovered will claim that they are enroute to Texas and can not be interfered with. They count on the past history of event* which shows that white settlers once on Indian lands to any extent have never been dispersed, and claim that by next autumn they will be able to send up a memorial from actual settlers, which congress can not disregard. The Good That Kay Coma. The extra session and the causeless contest over the conditions attached to the appropriation bills, may prove to be no worse than other “ill winds” that blow good to somebody. The inability of the president to veto an offensive or dangerous provision of a bill otherwise acceptable, ia conceded to be a defect in the constitutional authority given him; not likely to be of much consequence, except in case* analogous to the present, but when circumstances make it important at allitmay^be of the last importance. It might have been in the present case. It may yet, though very unlikely. And the contingency of such a necessity should be avoided by provision like that of the constitution of the confederacy; which allowed the separate veto of provisions in appropriation bills. As it would be aa fair for one side as the other, there ia no good reason why the amendment should not be made. But if it is not, we have the reasonable probability that no party in congress will ever make a final contest, to go before the country on, with the president about the conditions of the appropriations needed for the proper conduct of the government. If the democracy could not do it safely in the case ef the army appropriation bill, no party can ever hope to do it hereafter. They have both houses with a strong prima fane case to back them. The use of troope at the polls was a measure that even the republicans did not care to stand fully by, and made their best argument against the democratic repeal, of the fact that there were not soldiers enough in the country to allow their use with any effect

in that way.

The repeal ef an idle law, which was also an offensive one in its implications, and a dangerous one in ita possibilities, was certainly a strong prima facie case, and as a separate measure would probably have been passed with republican help and approved by a republican president. It was not the law but the process of making it a law that was the democratic weakness. Under the weight of the veto it broke down. The democrats, with all legislative power in their hand?, and the road wide open to qompel the president’s approval or leave him with no means of carrying on the govern men ti did not dare to stand up to their threat. They make no pretense now that they will. It universally conceded that they will provide the usual government supplies. In the first square stand up fight between the executive and legislative departments of the government, the latter is beaten. The duty of providing for the usual wants of the government ia teo plain to be paltered with, and the democrats know that they could not go to the country upon auch an issue aa that raised by the veto with any chance ef success. The defeat is a precedent which may pass into unwritten law. No future contestcao present a more favorable object for an adverse congress than this one did, and the democracy, reckless and malicious as part of it is, did net dare to face the country on it. The retreat and defeat, we may reasonably hope, will operate a good deal like the power of a veto on incongruous provisions of appropriation bilks. If it does the contest will not be wholly bad.

California’s Censtitntiea. The new state constitution which, after a close vote, has been adopted in California. would cover about two pages of The News. It has 233 sections, and it took the cenvention nearly six months to formulate it It ia said to contain not merely principles of law, but no end of minute laws themselves, which in effect will prevent future legislatures from performing their duties should they think differently from this constitution. It remodels the grand jury system. Such jury must be summoned once a year, but prosecution maybe made on information aa well as on indictment. In civil suits, three-fourths of the jury may make a verdict. In ciril cases or in criminal cases not amounting to felonies a jury may consist of leas than twelve members, and In the cases of the latter sort a jury may be waived. Libel suits muat be tried in the county where the libel ia published or where the plaintiff resides. The legisla-

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 9. 1879,

'are is vested With power to abolish say of tits court#, Including th* supreme court. No judge ei a higher court can draw hie ■alary except upon oath that no ease which has been mere than three months in hie court, remains undecided. A poll tax of two dollars is to be laid annually on all male inhabitants, and the legislature is authorized to lay an income tax and compel a awon statement each year from every one concerning all his property. The enly exemptions from taxation are property exempt by United State* lawz, public property and growing crops. Corporate capital Is taxed twice, the whole in th* hands of the corporation and the individual aharee in th* hands of individual owners, and there ia no reduction inth* valuation of a debtor’s visible property made on account of any debt he may owe. A corporation cannot hold any property except its own premises, longer than five years. Individual stockholders are made liabla pro rata for the dabta of a corporation incurred daring the period of their ownership. Directors are jointly and severally liable, without limit, for dll money stolen or embemled by officers of a corporation. There is a mechanic’s lien law, an sight hour labor law, an independent railroad eommiuion and a aeries of clauses confining Chinese _ to certain quarters of the towns and cities for residence, preventing their immigration, prohibiting their employment by corporationa, or on public works and excluding them from citizenship. It is aafe to aay that the like of this instrument was never adopted by a community making pretensions to civilization and constitutional government. The effect of it, aa has already been stated by prominent Californian* and published in The News, will be to so paralyze great enter priaes, necessarily carried on by corporate companies, banks and the like, aa to bring distress upon th* state. The triumph of this measure is clearly that of the hoodlums and broken down class, the anti-Chinese party and the farmers who have suffered from the exactions of mon-

opolies.

CCBKKNT OOMMLKNT. John Sherman is rapidly approaching perihelion. He will appear largest in the summer of 1880. The moon-eyed lepers were not numerous enough for the sand lot statesmen. California’s new constitution was adopted. Dsve Darts TO#a bartv: where U dot barty now? W here 1* dot lofely golden cloud dot floats on the moundata’s prow f Wbe:e is dot himmsistrahlende Stern? (The star ol the spirit’s light.) an Zoned arar mlt das Lager Bier; Arty In der Ewigkeit. De La Matjr is meeting the amenities of congressional life; see the scoring Chittenden gave him yesterday. At th* ninety-fifth regular meeting of civil engineers of the aorthwest in Chicago, the report of the committee charged three years ago with an investigation of the metric system is strongly in favor of tiie adoption of that system. They think it inevitable, and once adopted will more than repay the cost and trouble necessary for sueh adoption. There is a stirring cry that in its general legislation congress shall take the duty off of quinine, and allow the pioneer to have his staple article of diet at the lowest possible cost. A large portion of third-class matter in the mails now from the Pacific coast is coin. Request has been made from some of the Pacific coast post offices that special f&ciliiie be provided for the transmission of coin and of bullion to the mints. The adoption of a leather box or pouch to hold the mail is suggested. The post office department has the request under consideration. Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of St. Paul’s Methodist church in New York, preached a sermon on intemperance last Tuesday night. Some of his figures were as follows: In 1877 in the distillation of 74,172,442 gallons of spirituous liquor 27,000,000 bushels of grain were used, or the equivalent of 5,900,000 barrels of flour. Forty pounds of flour make sixty pounds #f broal, which would therefore make405,000,000 (our-pound loaves or 47% loaves to each family iu the United Suites. II these loaves were used as cobble stones a street 107 yards wide and 075 miles long could be pared therewith. From 1865 to 1875 we spent in this way £96,000,000. Taking the cost per pupil it'

wages of bnilders,

849,741,876; iron workera, $73,*77,976: clothing, $98,837,669; agricultural implements, $12,151,604, or a total of $585,277,584, we hare a balance of $10,000,000 more spent for liquor than all the other expenditures and burdens' This sum would provide church sittings for 16,893,309 persons, at au average expenditure of $2,000 for each church edifice. Now, as to waste of time. In New York city there are 5,t03.1iquor stores that receive daily 697,202 viaita, averaging fifteen minutes each. Summed up, this amounts to 174,300 hours, or 20

years used up in one day la sne city. To the negroes the supremac/ of the de

crats in the south is a cau.-e for uneasic

mo-

-'or uneasiness, if not alarm. Curiously enough there is a steady flow of colored people from other counties to Beaufort county, the only county in this state which the democrats did not carry at the last election.—[Charleston, S.

C., News and Ceurier.

Secretary Sherman has been paying great attention to the south. Not an officer is appointed from the Susquehanna river to the gulf of Mexico that is not satisfactory to Mr. Sherman, and he is never in any hurry until he-knows his man. The whole strength of the admistration, so far as Mr. Hayes and Mr. Sherman can control it, is and will contin us to be used in the interests of the letter’s candidacy.—[Washington Letter to

Philadelphia Times.

Freeman’s case is not a case for punishment. It is a case for instruction and for a careful review ol oar own opinions where they interfere with the integrity of natural laws. No particular sect can be*held responsible. As we understand it, the Second Adventists are comparatively liberal in their faith. They do not teach sacrifice except self-racrifice, and they do not believe in endless punishment. This poor man had lost his balance, and his example teaches us all our

own weakness.—[Boston Herald.

The blacks are free. They must and will have land. If they can not have forty acres per family by purchase on fair terms, they will seek it by eighty and one hundred and sixty in the north free. The southern planters must part with their land or part with the labor which cultivates it The reason why white labor has never sought southern lands ia that which now drives the negro from it and that is that free labor must own the land it cultivates.—[Chicago Tribune. It may be said with certainty that if the new constitution is/Adopted the material in-

Gdlden state, and through

terests of the

them the prosperity of tha whole country, will receive a blow tbs effects of which will be fait for a generation to come.—[New York

World.

For convenience, the states have ordered thqir elections for state, county, city and town officers to be held on the same day with that for president and congressmen in the year when the latter are chosen together. Bence it is seen that under the pretence of supervising elections for congress, this law enters into, affects and controls the whole canvass. Herein lies the secret of the late veto, and of others which have yet to come. -[New York Sun.

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Politics have ratker taken a back seat daring the last ten days, and, as waa fitting, we have met th* spring languor with alternat# doses of quinine and spicy gossip. Among the matten that have been most talked about are the singular aflkir of young Merritt, accused of swindling a colored lad out of a $50 bill which ha presented for change, Talmag* and his antics, Kiddls and kit antic?, Mayor Cooper and his proclamation, Edison and kit proclamation, and eld Peter Cooper with his air-cushion and his greenback theories to bring up tha rear. So much for the personal gossip of the day. When we come to more business-hk# affairs there has been a good deal of talk about our coming exhibition of 188$ about Coney island and about our dirty streets. Here is a list of matters which have been discussed daily at New York's two hundred thousand dinner tables. Perhaps on no question has there been so decided a difference of opinion in the same households as upon the merits of the Merritt case, an aoconnt of which has been given in The News.

a SPIRITUALISTIC BOOK.

Kiddle and his book of spiritualistic messages has stirred the questioa of spiritualism to the depths. Henry Kiddle is the superintendent of New York’s public schools, a very important position, sad has alwavs been recognized as a man of great good sense, business ability, and strength *f mind. For forty yean he has bees identified with teaching ia this city. Yet ia his sixty-second year he prints three hundred and fifty pages of as insipid drivel as aver disgraced a wandering rypsy; poetry and prose, it is all of about the same dead level of feebleness, and is too plainly the work of one parson of very common powers. Kiddle says that aims months ago his daughter, a young married woman, began to receive communications from the spirits; she would feel herself obliged to take a pencil and thea her hand would go over the paper of its own accord. She was honored by all sorts of people; but singularly enough principally by persons who were well known on earth. There are communi-

top wsra red flowars la me—t Mr. Talmafte,

— a viooaou* ou> max. Old Peter Cooper, oar hem known philanthropist, has act given up the greenback —ti—, if ko i$ oightf-niuo years aid. Ho •poke at a meeting a few days ago with his customary energy. I should sot be larpriaeed to hear that some of tha mossy neoe—ry to

dore Parker, Pope Pius, Boss Tweed, etc., and one and all ef these very different persons use the same style of language which, to pay the least, is a little aurprisiag. The book might just as well have been first entirely written oat without mentioning any one in particular, and then salted with these famous names. It might also be observed that Luther Napoleon, Pope Pius and other foreign char"cters have apparently passed their time in studying the English lamruage.as they express themselves in English fully as well as Shakespeare, Byron aad Bryant. If the spirits want t* keep any of the reputations they had on leaving, they had better abandon these posthumous compositions. I have the book before me now, and the absurdities are so many that 1 could fill a column with amusing extracts. For instance, Shakespeare who when

on earth bad a good many quite decent itte poem the second verse of which runs as follows':

thoughts and clothed them in quite respectable English, sends a poem on heavenly joy,

Second comas the godDsss, of supreme Delight, caUed Satisfaction; To teach you that All things are fox Your heart’* benefaction. What could be worse doggerel than that? Byron’s morals have improved if his poetry hasn't; he says: Though small the pleasure for your soul’s delight. They will give you a foretaste of the realms of light. Dissever the ties which bind ysu here, And you will ever rejoice ia your father’s care. Boss Tweed, the king of the ring which swindled New York out of $40,000,000 sends this message: Tell the people In the world that Boas Tweed ia no longer a reptile. No; purification comes with death. No, nor does he burn with imperishable flame* of torture Ns; God is merciful. But Is there act worn burning than thla?—the consuming fire of a volume of sin ? Can aay outside affliction compare with this? And so they keep it up; these once great men have got down to this inane drivel. In the whole book I hare been unable to find one beautiful, original thought, one good piece of verse, one good suggestion, or one bit of useful information, What are we to think of Kiddle, who puts the whole mass of rubbish forward as genu of the purest water, and seems inclined to look upon himself as the benefactor of mankind? Is a man who has so little judgment fit to rule the public schools of New Yont? Is he competent to pass judgment upon even the slate compoeitions of the infant class? Can he and ought he to be removed from his position on accouat of his book? That is the question. Does a belief in spiritualism unlit a man for every day life? Is it possible that Kiddle’s daughter has been deceiving him? These are also matters for discussion. At aqy rate the matter has given an immense advertisement to mediums and spiritualists who are delighted with their new convert. THE MAYOR AND REFORM. Mayor Cooper was elected by a reform party, who expected wonders from him. So far there have been no wonders. Cooper agrees that cijy matters are in a bad way, that the debt is burdensome—$2,60 on $100 is our tax rate now—that the streets are filth v, and that corruption is rampant in high places, but so far be has done but little, and there is growling all around. The fact is that the mayor of New York has no easy time of it. Many of the city officer* are not within his control; then his nominatiens, when he does succeed in deposing some of the barnacles who cling to the city treasury, have to be confirmed by that august body the board of aldermen, and as fully one half the members are grog shop keepers or ex-grog shop keepers, it may be imagined wbat sort of legislator* they make and what sort of help they give the mayor. Cooper can not manage the city as if he owned it; be has to twist and turn —d make the best of things. Politically he is said to be pledged to*Tilden to engineer New York for his benefit in 1880. The changes which he has made can be summed up in a very few words. He has turned the police board topsy turvy by turning the four commissioners out and nominating new ones before he knew whether the commissioners would go or not. Thtee of them seem determined to stay and the position is embarrassing. Ex-Judge Hilton, A. T. Stewart’s former partner, to whom he left $1,000,000 in money has offered to settle one serious obstacle in the way of the street cleaning bureau. He offers to take all the ashes, sweepings and garbage for private use. Hitherto this refuse basDeen a standing cause of quarrel between the harbor comm use i oners, the board of haaUh, the street cleaning bureau and the inhabit—ts of all tha bathing beaches around New York. Some people would object to meeting dead horses in the surf when they went to take their morning bath and would complain. One such complaint wonld set all Interested persons to fighting. I mentioned in a former letter to what extent the harbor was strews with garbage by the scows which started to take the mass of filth to the ocean and damped it half way. It will be a great thing for our pockets and our herb— it Hilton takes the garbage off our hands. Every boat load sent down the harbor cost the city $25. A “CRCCIBLI OF TRIAL.” Our Brooklyn friend, Talmage, nears the end of his race with the presbytery. If be is acquitted of the charges of common fame, deceit, etc., he will probably leave the Brooklyn presbjtery. If he is fonnd guilty, he will shake the dust of tbs Presbyterian church off his feet —d start some new kind of a' church. His congregation will undoubtedly go with him. To show you what kind ot a congregation he has, I need only describe the floral trophy which occupied a conspicuous place on the platform of his church last Sunday. It was an immense crncible of flowers, labelled “crucible of trial,” so that no one vould mistake it lor a water pitcher. At th*

liaritifs every me level him. Even the comic newspapers, when they make game of his theories, have a kindly word to say for the old man. H* is never even without a circular air cushion which he hangs on Mia arm when he is n#t sitting — it. Some time ego one of tha fraolaaoa shoots had a cot of Peter Cooper rushing after a hem care, gesticulabis mouth inflating it while ha ran. elusive ixvmrnoxs. Edison baa promised so much —d so long that people have grown skeptical of what he il going to do. It seems rather ungrateful to lose faith in a man who baa brought forth th* telephone —d the phonograph, but such is the world. The last news that I beard from Edison’s labaretorj over in New Jersey is that he has succeeded in getting six separate lamps writ lighted by employing a two horse power —gin*. This is not very encouraging, but wa must wait before we class hi* electric light along frith the Keeley motor. Keeley, by the way, now says that he has got a machine which will work and th* stockholders are ia high feather. I happen to know one of the principal men ip the Keeley busiaam—d lam specially interested in it on that account, although I have little faith that he wilt ever runs train from New York to Philadelphia with a thimble full of water, as Keeler says he will do. The gentleman of whom I speak is a New York man, Frank G. Green, who at ore time had an immense business ia iron pipe sod fittings. He amassed quite a fortune. In — evil hour he became interested in the Keeley motor and gave bis time and money to that; the result was that his business fell away, —a last rear he failed, with nothing left on hand but Keeley motor stock. Yet so ably did he plead the Keeley cause with his creditors that they actually lent him $3,000 to continue h is work on the motor. Green is only one of a hundred New Yorkers who have thrown away their business to run after inventions: 1 know more th— one man who abhors patents like the plague. Probably you have beard in Indi—a of Young’s diamond saw. It is — excellent thing in its way —d cuts stole five times faster th— by ordinary methods. It is a saw with a small diamond at every tooth. It works wonders, —dyetthe men who took hold of it have lost a fortune pushing it. Two brothers named Young had a splendid stone cutting business here —d were accounted rich men. They fell in love with the Diamond saw, neglected their business and ruined themselves. H. H. H.

Talmage Acquitted. Ia the Brooklyn presbytery yesterday a final vote was taken on the charges atrainst Dr. Talmage. The secretary announced that forty-five votes had been cast, twenty-fire of which were against the charges and specifications, —d sixteen in favor of sustaining them — they stood, —d four for sustaining them in part It was moved that the preamble to the charge be stricken out. This was objected to, ana it was th— suggested that a committee be appointed to draw up minutes which would be acceptable to both sides. This motion was lost Rev. Dr. Rock well offered a resolution that all the evidence having beea clearly disproven, or fully explained, as to any guilty purpose, or intent of deceit, that the charges be dismissed, and the presbytery hereby express to Dr. Talmage its heartfelt confidence in him as a minister of Christ, and Its desire that he, and his church, mav share abundantly-in divine blessing, Dr. Vandyke at once gave notice and complaint to the synod, in regard to th* manner in which the trial had be— conducted. Dr. Talmage th— asked leave to make a few remarks, and said he felt hapoy and was th—kful to the council who had defended him bo ably, th—kful to his brethren and to the press for the fairness and generosity with which they had reported the case. He should go out of this trial with increased hatred for —ything like sectarianism, for he had the sympathy of the entire Presbyterian church, with but a handful of the presbytery excepted. He had also the sympathy of the Methodist, Baptist, Congregatienal, Reformed Episconal, and Catholic churches. Though he was a Protestant in one respect, he would prefer to be in the Cctholic church, for they nad but one pope, while in other churches they had a hundred. But he pronounced his benediction on all the committee who formulated these charges, would not hear one of his friends, but spent weeks in gathering up all venom ot his enemies; and the action ef that committee had made more infidels than all of them will be ever able to make Christians. He thought the s—ior member of this committee would have been very careful anout making this scandal because of his own past experience. There was some talk of his leaving the presbytery. He though he would stick to it and go with his people wherever they went. The power that was the bane of the presbytery was now broken —d there would be more room for free action in the future. Some of their brethren said they did not tike u- l - -v. j au _»

but

mage then left, —d, as he was going out, Rev. Mr. Green, who was one of the committee, jumped up and said Dr. Talmage had been ' guilty of another falsehood in what hs had said in refer—ce to the committee. The presbytery then adjourned until Monday. New York’s Cethedral. The magnificent St. Patrick’s cathedral, New Y'ork, is rapidly approaching completion, —d it is expected that everything will be in readiness for the dedication, which will take place Mkj 25, and in which it is expected that representatives of the church from all quarters ot the United States—d Canada will participate. The main altar at the end of the cathedral will have a central spire fifty feet in bight, and the reredos will be thirty-two feet wide, in the cardinal’s throne the material employed is English oak, richly carved:—d In the reredos marble from Italy and France, where ti has been preparing. It is estimated that tha cost of the altars wUl be about $100,000. — — ■ -«»■ ■ American 8wlno Interdicted. In the British house of commons yesterday the Lord George F. Hamilton, vice-pres-ident of the council, stated that swine from Philadelphia having been discovered suffering from trichina, an order in council would be issued, enacting that swine from th* United States must be slaughtered at the port of landing. The order will take effect June 1.

It Docs Look That Way. [Philadelphia Chroalcls-Herald.] “There isn’t much difference now between stalwarts —d liberals,” says Secretary Sheris—. Not a very wide differ—oe, to be sure, for the liberal iamb i$ nestling inside the stalwart lion.

A Remarkable Eking. The Egypt!— pea is a marvelous instance of resurrection or resnscitatioo. Preserved three or four thousand years, enfolded in the clothes of a mummy, plaatiid in the soil ef another eontin—t, they bloom —d produce their kind.

Long Point, Canada, yesterday —d resulted in the defeat of Elliott who is nadir used up, at least five ribs bei ng fraetored. He c— not

and resulted

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i who is^

at least fiva ribs being fraotored. be moved for a day or two.

Beasemar Steel la the United States. Fourteen years ago there was only one Bessemer steel establishment in the country. Now there are 11, with — annual production of more th— 5W,ooo tons.

So Ufa drifts oa to hanrta torlera.

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threw.

Sba aiept and dream pt a That ha aha love# nure And alaraat wp, laap soc

a horrid thine— hay waaMatray,

Baaolred to sack him oat that day. Twas au too tnio-ho’d dad away. *«r la* lave tohen^wst a leaf **■ *-* Of •yeaamro—loTs’semblsa bright, ^UgbTheiTh« <rtT?ronf mortal*iight^

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WfclM to daa« 1m( drifted th« afght.

—{Chamber* 1 JoarSh

SCRAPS. ^ A Boston firm displajr 200 kinds of grenaSalvini has been —gaged for America next season.

The Weston Union telegraph company pays out $3,*00 per year for pens. An inmate of the widows’ home, Allegheny, Pa., is known to be 112 year* old. Speaker Randall will take th* stomp ia California when congress adjourns. D—. Rice is making his farewell tour. At —y rats he is In .Texas.—[Chicago Times. The empress of Gennaay, a lively aid lady shout to visit Queen Victoria at

Last Sunday waa the anniversary of Charley Ross' birthday - r if alive on that day he was just nine years of age.

Messrs. Longfellow, Emerson and Holmes are to write poems for the Moore centenary celebration at Boston this month. A society has been formed in Efigl—d for the preservation of “open spaces, ,r such as commons, village greens, footpaths, etc.

A p$le. worn, gray haired woman, in a white mob-cap —d white cashmere shawl— thus is the Jenny Lind of these days des-

To prevent going out between the acts, the man who everybody goes out to see must be put on the free list so as to be seen inside.—[Ex. Judge: “Have you anything to offer to the court before sentenced is paned on you ?” Prisoner: “No, judge; I had t— doUare,but my lawyers took that.”

what to do about th* Second Adv-ti—

their dignatioa^metolatJttMoDdar tiwja «d warrants are ready to ha signed, still th josti— hesitates, and ha# to-day decided t —tril the facts before the district adtofMS

VkkkiOA

the facta before

sad leave tha Adv—tists themselves are^afi—t bow. Daoii

fr**.* 1 might as well bo oa* »hw«—»lo whatoar there is to bo

-f ^“Ction in retiriouz belief before tha “•""J -k.“ to be drawn? They will spam — ins—itv defer,?*, if atfiftK and aay that if h— religious belief is to be respected ia one aesl It ®u«t ba ia ail. They claim that there w— no malice to the killing of Edith Froeaaa. although thay are beginning ta admit that poreibly they may have miatak— what they toD God’s revelation. Still they insist that it waa a perfect!? honest conviction, —d — mere urettenal than —y belief by aqy other fjffigiou* sect In th* dinn* revelation maaUoned in the tubla. Howard to-day turned But thh kind bf talk only aggravates tho people. They regard it as a dangerous symptom, —d there to some talk about preventtng penoni who hold inch view* from meeting together again if tha district attorney doto aot accede to the request of the selectmen —d arrest them. It to already leading to discussion In same of tea religions newspepeis, and the erg— of the Second Adventists to-day speaks very hardly of these people. Freeman has be— very quiet all day. H* has asked for some historical week to nod, but is not allowed to see the biole. He atiU insistb that he believes God had some wire purpose in comm—ding him to make the morifice, which will aooaw or later reveal itaelL —die somewhat inclined to think that the agitation which the act has caused may be a part of that purpose. H* refuses to see any one except — intimate friend ot two. His wife is perfectly calm. Freem—’a property

was attached by a creditor to-day.

A. P. Davis, a leading Adventist and tha ahettorof Freeman, is thought to be hopelessly iusane, and ti is said that immediate steps are to be taken for his arrest thinking him unsafe in the community in his present state. The greveof the little victim is still watched

day and night

The supreme court of Tennessee has its hands full. There are thirteen hundred cases before the court representing five million dollars and twenty thons—d litigants. A memorial to Bishop Heber is projected, which will probably take the form of a window of stained glam in the church of Maipas, Cheshire, in which place he was born. The vice president will not ba in Washington during the rest ef tha extra session; —d Senator Wade Hampton will pair on all political questions —d shortly return to South Carolina. The busiaess hours of Detroit’s b—kshav* been changed to between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m„ the eld policy of taking two or three hoars off at noon having become distasteful to out-of-town merchants. The late Bishop Ames once said that he could st—d the cry of a baby while he was preaefaing, but that the thumping of the mother’s heels —d the buzz-saw “HWs’sh!” nearly drove him crazy. “What newspaper does an editor remind you of?” asks a subscriber in the country. He reminds us of a Christian at Work, but this is not the answer furnished with the conundrum.—rNorristowa Hetald. The oldest town in all the west, Santa Fe. is probably to be dismantled, as the railroad now running through New Mexico 1—ves it about sav— miles to the west, and ti c— not st—d the competition of a railroad city. The proprietors of the mills near Uiica have ordered base ball stopped, and —nounce that the comp—y will discharge any employe caught twice at the game.

The senate yesterday passed the house bill to authorize th* annual enlistment of 750 boya in the navy. The remainder of the session was consumed in discussing the bill prohibiting military interferenoe at elections. Mr. Morg— mads a speech of three and a half hours in favor of Iks bill. In the house ths bill to —force the eight hours waa laid oa tha table, —d a vote to reconsider it was toat, kilting it for this sean—. The silver bill was th— taken up. Mr. Fisher favored the ameadm—t making th* silver dollar 460 grains, —d showed up Mr. Kelly’s record to 1872, wh— he held views exactly oppoaite to what he holds to-day. Mr. Ohittend— spoke at length criticising Mr. De La Matyr to a rein of humor and sarcasm that caused considerable merriment. Mr. Warner argued that iaoontrovertible paper money, if carefully limited ia amount, could retain ita full face value, —d quoted financial writers to sustain that poaition.

The American Modi—1 Aaaoetatton. The American medical association at Atlanta adopted the metric syatem. The following officers were elected for the next year: President, Lewis Sayre, of New York; vice presidents, K. B. Cole, of California; B. M. Hunt, of New Orleans; O. March, of Massachusetts; T. P. Poacher, of South Carolina; permanent secretary, W. B/ Atkins—, of Philadelphia. Several able papers srore and referred for publication. Amendm—to to th* constitution will lay over till nszt year. New York was chosen aa th* nszt place of meeting. The time was not named. AU sect!—s finished tbeir business this afternoon. The association will adjourn to-day The citizens gave a b—quet last night, —d 800 were present.

A little girl was punished by her mother for some misdemeanor. When the correction had been finished me looked up pleadingly and said, “Sing to me, mamma.” “Wbatshall I sing?” 'Sing, There is rest for the weary.’ ” Philadelphia supports a woman’s club, the basis of whose constitation is economy iu all things. Th* members, who are generally wives of men on small salaries, meet alternately at one another’s houses and discuss experiences in household matters. Lord Henry Lennox said that after thirtyfive years’ knowledgejof Lord Beaconsfield he can declare that there is not a man to England who detests war more than the prime minister. It has been noticed that he seldom has more th— two or three on hand. Colonel Tom Scott writes from Florence that he has been greatly benefitted by his trip to Egypt. He proposes to pass the summer in Europe, and hopes to sail for America ia September “thoroughly invigorated and in stronger and better condition than 1 have been for m—y years.”

Tho Beal Coellaa. The word coolie is not of Chines* origin. It is the name of a hill tribe in India, whose able bodied men were accustomed to descend into tba plains for harvest work, and these were the men who, after the negro emancipation in 1834, and the dem—d for laborers in the West Indies and the Mauritius, w—t thither as such under British protection.

Anotlpzr Elevator Accident. At supper time last sight Bridget McDonough, a servant at the Galt house, Louisville, ’endeavored to leap from tha elevator while it was ia motion. Her head striking th* frame of the gateway caused the gate to fall, breaking her neck. Tb* girl wa* thrown eighty feet, and horribly m—gled.

"Glvoa tea Fit*.” [Frankfort Bannar—rep ] The latest argument against Secretary Sherman for presid—t to, that hto brother to general of the army. The shadow of — army in pantomime, If dressed in blue and carrying the stars and stripes, to quite soilcient to throw a whole party into spasms.

Forty-five years age Paul Dillingham, exgovernor of Vermont, took a boy into his service to do chores for his board, and allowed him to use his library and attend tha district school. He to now fifty-five years old and he occupies a seat in the United States senate. His name to Matt. H. Carpenter. Ezekiel Hayes, the great graadfether of tha president, was a successful mechanic in Connecticut, —d kept a number of apprentices. It is said that sometimes, tike apprentices in all ages, theyttelt that they baa long work —d snort rations. At one time a new cheese was put on th* table whole. It stood nncut for a day or two, Hayes saying at each meal, “That is a nice looking cheese. It to a pity toeutiti” Tha boys thought this was growing rather monotonous, and planned to show their sentiments. The blacksmith had one day got a bar of iron nicely heated, and laid it across the iron anvil to be cut the proper lengths. The boys, with chisel —d sledges, were to cut ti off. But no hand waa raised. Hayes asked why they did not “strike.” One of them replied: “That to such a nice bar of iron: it wonld be a pity to cut It” Hayes, quickly saw tho point, and shouted, with a tough, “Strike! boys, strike I th* cheese shall be cut!”-[K*w York Tribune. It to not exactly a coachman this time, but near to it. A lady ia San Francisco wasoepti rated by a distinguished looking sir—ger who passed himself for a Mexican of large possessions. After marriage she discovered that be took care of a doctor’s horse and buggy for $20 per month. She decided that she conld not live with the flavor of the hastier about bar, —d deported for her home, leaving the following expressive billet; “1 am deeply sorry that hangar and other circumstances over which I have no control compel me to write you this note. I find that your are utterly unable to provide lot me and as I am at present unable to provide for you, —d I will have to leave you, and return to that homfc whence you stole me, —d once more fill it with the sunshine of love. Had I known that you expected mo to tire on the morning breezes for breakfast, the trade winds for dinner, —d the evening fogs foj supper, I would have honestly told you that my constitution would not be equal to it, even where the atmosphere is so odorous —d substantial aa ia this hotel in Tar Flat and would have declined to become your wife. If you shall ever marry another lady I trust you will remember the advice of your first wife, —d that the domestic menu will oonsiat of puddings made of plums rather th— of the north wind, and pie# of pumatoe rather th— of zephyr*—in short that you will provide her with a bill of fare rather th— a bill of air. If you meat me on the street hereafter pass me by os a perfect stranger, for if you do not I will be compelled to gire you the cut direct. Tear wife, Mary."

Tho Eight Hoar BUI Defeated. The eight hour law was defeated in th* house yesterday. It to said that thons members who have national workshop# in their districts voted forth* bill, and thos*deprived of those luxuries against it.

The Czar Compile*. PuiLLiropoLis, May 9.—Rua$i— Adjutant General Obrutcbeff has arrived here and published the czar’s proclamation, promising strict compliance with ths treaty of Berlin.

Fire at Toronto. Toronto. May 9.—The fire last night at tb# Oshawa Cabinet company’s warehouse destroyed tha stock and considerably damaged the building. Low $35,000.

Has# RaU. Chicago—Chicago* 10, Troys 3. Boston— Bostons 3, Clevelands 1. Buffalo—Buffalos 3, Providence 2. Cincinnati—Oincinnatii 5, Syracuse Stan 2.

A Compromise Effaeted. Thekhedive’s emissary at Constantinople •totes that a compromise has hem effected between the khedire and England aad Franca.

trill tho Czar AbtfleaSaT A St. Petersburg ^ semi-official statement has been mad#, denying th# rumors agate revived of the czar’s intended abdication.

Botralo Harbor Opoa. The ioeC embargo at Buffalo is raised, aad no furtheTttrouble to navigation is expected. Several miow at Wilkesbnrre, long idle are resuming operations.

A Hla» to Coagroaa. [New Alteay Ladgar-Steadard.} Y is# h«ads have aot noisy toagu«s.

In addition teito tonic Hostatter’s Stomach Bitter* exaroiaaaa i lafluance upon tba ktenoya and bladder, when they are inactive, by tflnaUtln# thaw to renewed exertion, thus reopening, #e it alsloe *wthe tacepe e< izepnrltie* where regular ahaaaalef exit is tha orgaae of arinatioa. Among thaw a*# WPUia abnormal aad tedanmatory atoawaW, produettve ef irreparable injury ta tho afaiamlf no* entirelj expelled. Tha Mdaey* tad bladder them - srlvw are also baoedtsd by this fttmalas, W their inactivity ia zaoaUy a preiimteary to thalr dizain aad dloonaatestion. They atoa «ry»«tina*, la common with other wall portion# el tbesyateaa,tee ?iS atemacAi bowels aad lim. io-wA*