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THE PITTSBURG THESS, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1895. 4 The masses will fight for rights that they refutu to vote for. THE PITTSBURG PRESS. JoU-TIf' neglect which has led the county to have no regularly appointed solicitor and forced It to depend from time to time upon the services of an attorney hired for the occasion. There are no two sides to the question of the advantage of having a regular solicitor, versed Intimately with the county's affairs.

If such a plan were not deemed of more advantage than the plan of getting a solicitor on the Installment plan, it would IXTEHEST BHOWJf I THE OPEJtlSQ SESSION, OS THURSDAY. the Natanhalas." It Is a sketch of life In the wilds of the North Carolina mountains and the interest ts enhanced by the natural and effective action of which the short story is full. The heroine, stolen In her infancy by a maniac. Is brought up a true child of nature and Is a most interesting study. The tale ends happily and Its descriptive work is very attractive.

The Merriam loir.pany, publishers. New York. John Oliver Hobbes contributes to the Violet series of the Merriman company "Some Good Intentions and a Blunder." It shows what mischief a chronic matchmaker can do In society and how little she regards consequences from her butler and cook to her friends In the society where she circulates. It is an excellent exponent of a very dangerous element of society and in brief space. The Merriman company, publishers, ti7 Fifth avenue.

New York. "Truth," a novel written by Louis de Villeneuve, Is a story to attract the attention of the multitude of readers who are at the present time peering into occult science and spiritualism. The writer has evidently had thrilling experiences in Investigation along those lines, and writes of them entertainingly, Introducing enough of love and romance to rob them of dreariness. It Is the first literary venture of the author and promises more excellent work In the future. The new edition of Rudyard Kipling's works, just published by Maemillan Includes all his early Indian talea, and, Indeed, forms an absolutely com.

miss.oner. The question Is consequently asked, what Is he after? Those who have been watching his honor says he has certain ly got his hooks out for something, and a the county cctrmissionershlp Is about the only thing a democrat has the right to hope for next year, unless the unexpected happens, McKenna credited with looking for the only thing In sight. Some of John Jlles' friends want him to come out for the office, but he has not given his consent, and it is thought he is not likely to do so. There are at least a half dozen other possibilities, but if they are doing any work they are keeping it very quiet. Commissioner Boyle still maintain a very reticent attitude, and will not say whether he expects to be a candidate for re-election or not.

Harvey Dowry savs he does not make the boaBt that no the county can beat him In the contest for but he doe claim that he is going to defeat John Doyle. Lowry says he is confident of winning out. Doyle, on the other hand, is so sure of tha nomination that he does not give much heed to the claims of Lowry. There will be a time of reckoning, however, and wbert the candidates are asked by the leaders to show their books and give good evidence that the names they have set down as be- longing to alleged delegates are true and correct to the best of their knowledge and belief, some idea as to who should be slated will then be obtained. When one candidate Is told how many delegates his opponent has set up he usually replies: "That's nothing; I can beat it by a hundred or more." If the number should nearly reach the limit the charge that the other fellow is engaged In the art of manufacturing returns is made.

The contest has been fought so far on friendly grounds, but things will soon begin to warm up considerably. Te Wiv "The populist party has higher Ideas of the powers of our nation man me niiuwes of the old parties. We say we can do us we Dlease with our money. They say: 'No: you must consult England. We be lieve that free coinage is possible by any nation actitiT singly and alone.

This is no experiment, but Is a well-known function of government. We prospered In the United States from 1MS4 until 1MK under a paper currency exclusively, ant coma do so again, England or no England. The pople of the west understand this matter, and thev will not be ruled by either old or new V.nfr:rni much lonlrer. "Do the nopullsts believe that the free coinage of sliver will raise its price? There Is not a populist In the United States able to read who do3 not Know mai ine iueio reculate the value of the rnti. Take for instance, copper.

The sovereign power of congress can take a sliver or gold dollar's worth of this metal and out of it coin lxtO cents, or $tu worth. Some call this 'fiat' money. No matter, it ia with cniitier. so with silver; under free coinage the dollar of the dad dies, or 4,124 grains or stanrtarn miver, can be equal to the gold dollar In debt-paying power. Whv, you newspafier men know this, and seme of you argue against It while knowing it.

You are afraid we will thin nm that it cannot be done, lou nhontutaiv nr it can be done, and it is too English to be permitted. While some foreign bond holder objects, our de generated people sueeumn. wa th Kiitrit of 177(1 In these days, I would suggest that the two old parties consolidate under the name of tory, and the mask would be off then. Free coinage of silver mlht hurt our foreign trade, and again it might not; but even If it did, this is the verv thing th (J. O.

P. has been pretending to do for the past 30 years. They have been protecting the laborer of this country against the pauper labor of Europe' If free sliver will do this, then why do you oaject A good deal of surprise was created in AlWhenv tmlltical circles when Francis J. Torrance announced that ha would not be a candidate for mayor. It had been gen erally known that he had aspirations to become chief executive of the North Side, and he acknowledges himself that he had entertained such a hope.

Business and personal matters, however, combined to change his mind, and in withdrawing from the contest he leaves the field wide open for all others with similar ambitions. Among those whose names have been mentioned in connection with the nomination are Emanuel Oppenheimer, the wholesale liquor dealer; John Henricks, member of common council from the Eleventh ward; Maj. Tyler, the real estate man, ana John P. Ober, the brewer. A weil-known politician said yesterday that he did not 'think any of the above named would make a tight when the time came for action.

Henricks is said to be ambitious for the honor, but It Is thought unlikely that he will enter the race on account of his health. Some time ago Oppenheimer announced to some of his friends that he would like to be a candidate if Torrance were not in the field. Now that Torrance has withdrawn Oppenheimer has no eerN ous obstruction in the way. Tyler has been a candidate on former occasions, and it Is said he will be a candidate this time up to a certain point, when he will drop out. A friend of John P.

Ober said last night he did not think he had any intention of running. The politicians are now looking about them for a sultuble man for the place, and the next mayor is likely to be a' man of their choice. There are many good men in Allegheny who would till the oitice of chief executive with credit to both themselves and the city. The better class of Allegheny citizens are anxious for one of these lo come forward, and announce himself. A Klate may be llxed up soon.

The Pittsburg powers that be do not intend postponing the matter of selecting a candidate for mayor until the last minute ns they did the last time. They look upon that way of doing as unnecessary and sometimes fatal. Ever since the Greater Pittsburg bill was finally disposed of by Gov. Hastings afitxing his signature to it last week there has been a good deal of talk among aspirants and their friends as to whom the lightning is going to strike. W.

H. Keech, who has all along declared that he Is not in any sense a candidate, is believed to be making a strong play for lirst piace on the ticket. His frequent trips to Harrisburg when anything is going on and the renewed Interest he has been taking in public matters is claimed by some people to be a rather good sign that he hears something buzzing near his head. When his candidacy Is suggested lo any of the leaders, they always have something good to say about him. The conclusion is reached that If Keech Is not to he the next mayor of Pittsburg there is a desperate case of Mu tation going on.

George Hclliday, president of common council, has many friends among the leaders, and if he makes much of an effort to get the nomination It is claimed that he could be slated. Attorney l.ambie is still considered among the possibilities, and hia friends make some very strong claims in his behalf. H. P. Ford, president of select council, Is looked upon us a strong candidate, and If it were to be an open field It is said he would give other aspirants an Interesting chuse.

Ex-Postmaster Jas. S. McKoan has never been considered aa a candidate, as he is not anxious for the place, but should anything occur to cause a deadlock when it comes to selecting a candidate it Is thought he may be urged to accept as being the only man upon whom all tho leaders could agree. The contest in the Twenty-sixth ward among the republicans for membership on the ward executive committee Is getting hotter every day. All sorts of schemes and plans are cooked up by the opposing factions to gain the supremacy.

Both Rides claim they will win out at the elections June 1, and so well do they figure that either faction can succeed In making the uninitiated believe It has a sure thing of it. The Barchfeld-McGarey crowd are making the strongest claims at present and a good many people belive that they will win. The Bradley faction have been saying little and have not. worked anything like the members of the McGarey outfit have done. It Is thought that the Bradley following are keeping quiet, expecting that they will be victorious, as they were before, without doing much work, or are saving their forces until the last moment, when they will turn in for all they are worth for the candidates.

John Bradley and Director Brown are close friends, and it Is thought that Brown wil tiring out the ward machinery at the proper time for Bradley. Some of the police and firemen are now hustling for the Barchfeld-McGarey' aggregation, and, it is said, they will In due time be instructed to vote for Bradley et or lose their jobs. One man In particular, who Is on the police force, has been doing all In his power for the Barchfeld-McGarey gang and says he can't be pulled off. He has been pulled off before, however, and It is claimed the feat can be performed again, if necessary. The arrest of Bryan for gambling the other day is said to have been part of the general nlan to do up the Barchfeld element.

It was circulated that Dr. Barchfeld Introduced Bryan to the club, and thu inference was allowed to be drawn that the doctor was a side partner. A friend of Barchfeld said last everltig, however, that Bryan playedlmt two games of poker In the Lotus club rooms, and that both times he lost money. The doctor still believes that Bryan Is not a gambler, and If he Is he knows nothing of it. The charge, It is claimed, was cooked up for the pnr- tmse of hurt ting Barchteid, and not tor tne sake of ridding th city of a gambler.

Bryan has defied the police, and, it is said, will Ignore their order to leave the city. The chairmen of the d'striet associations are requested to send to republican headquarters the slips containing the names of candidates to be voted on at the June elec tions for ward executive committeemen. The following districts have not yet reported First ward, First, Second and Third districts; Fourth ward, F'rst and Second districts; Fifth ward, Third district; Sixth ward. Sixth district; Seventh ward, First distrct; Eighth ward, fourth and Fifth districts: Tenth ward, First and Second Eleventh ward. Third, S.xth and Seventh districts: Twelfth ward.

First, Second and Third districts; Thirtenth ward, all districts: Fourteenth ward, First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, N'nth, Tenth and Twelfth districts'. Sixteenth ward. First and Second districts; Seventeenth ward, First and Second districts; Eighteenth ward, F'rst and Fourth districts; Nineteenth ward, Second Sixth districts; Twentieth ward, Fourth, Seventh and E-ghth districts; Twenty-first ward, all but the Third district: Twenty-second ward, First, Second Third and Fourth districts- Twentv-third ward. First, Third. Fourth and Fifth districts; Twenty-fourth ward First, Second, and Fourth dis-trietv Twenty-fifth ward.

Second district; Twnty-sixth ward. First, Second, Third, Fourth and Sixth districts; Twenty-seventh ward. First, Second, Third and Fifth Twenty-e ghth ward, First and Fourth district; Twenty-ninth ward. First d'strict; Thirtieth ward, First, Second and Third districts; Thirty-first ward, Third district; Thirty-second ward. First district; Thirty-third ward, ail districts; Thirty-fourth ward.

First and Second districts; Thirty-sixth ward. Second district. Mayor McKenna once more announces that he Is not a candidate for county coin- STEMfE C. FOSTER MEMORIAL. The 'Tress" fcadly give space to-day to a communication, which will be found elsewhere, suggesting the raising of a fund, by popular subscription, for the erection of a monument to Stephen C.

Foster. The writer of the letter, Mr. A. V. D.

Watterson, Is, In taking the Initiative, merely moving In a direction to which, ever since the Idea of a Foster monument was suggested, every public-spirited citizen of Pittsburg has felt himself drawn. Mr. Watterson proposes that the memorial be erected in Schenley park, that the subscriptions be made by the public through the "Press," that the list be opened at once and closed on July finally encloses as an evidence of his per- sonal Interest, and as a practical beginning, a check from himself and from the sister-ln-law of Stephen Foster, Mrs. Jlary B. Foster.

The fact that Stephen C. Foster was a native of and lived In Pittsburg is one of the things that every Plttsburger has to feel justly proud of. It Is hardly an exaggeration to say that he is, up to the present time, American's best-loved song writer. As to his art, there has never been any question, either In his own land or abroad. It was the art of touching the hidden springs of memory and flooding the listener with those tenderest of recollections, the reminiscences of bygone days and of home; the art of investing the life of even the lowliest with music, the art which is highest of all arts, because It Is the deepest, as deep as the human heart.

Hundreds of men have left greater names than the man who gave the world "The Old Folks at flame," but none a name around which clings more unspoken affection. If we feel the affection, why should we not speak It, and what better way than that urged by-Mr. Watterson can there be of giving the sentiment not only tangible but enduring utterance. The songs Stephen C. Foster wrote, and which it delighted the great traveler, Hajari Taylor, to hear sung In far distant lands, will last as long as any monument.

Hut while the songs live, It would be sad If the memory of the gentle soul who con them should be permitted to die. If Flttsburg has had a greater benefactor than he, the world has not yet rendered the verdict. The "Press" desires. In common, surely, with a large number of representative citizens, to see a memorial of Stephen C. Foster In Schenley park before the honor of thus honoring him is tttken by soma other city from the lapsing city of his birth.

With that end in view, the cooperation of this paper in the manner Mr. Watterson suggests is assured, and we bespeak for his communication the careful reading and consideration that it eminently deserves. The "Press" adds $T0 to the equal amount received from Mr. Wntterson and Mrs. Foster.

Who will be the uext on the list of contributors? TIIU MIAEH Whatever effect, politically speaking, may develop from a sustained advance in the prices of products such as hopeful "goldbugite?" like Cleveland and his effervescent secretary of aurieul'ure are probably expecting, it is patent to even the most ordinary observer that the campaign of the free silver men In the western and southern stales has been both energetic and well directed. I to date the following have betn some of the most significant developments noted in the "Money Talks" column of the "Puss;" The regular democratic conventions In four of the largest counties of Illinois have declared overwhelmingly for free coinage of silver at the ratio of Pi to 1. The counties in question are Hallne, Jlereer, Morgan and Cook county, the latter better known as Chicago. The state central democratic committee has called a state convention to meet next month, and that it will declare by an overwhelming majority for free eoin.ue of silver at 10 to 1 by tho United Kutes. Independent of the action of any other nation or nations seems to be beyond que' If it rices so It woull be mere idleness to attempt to depreciate the Influence of the proceeding upon the a e) 1 re.

in Iowa a conference of the state lea lers has been held, and by resolution it endorses free coinage at a ratio of HI to 1. It was attempted by the friends of Cleveland af first to represent that (ho fcentlment of the gathering was really opposed to the silver idea. Out so earnest a single-stand, ird gold paper as the New York "Dally Commercial on Investigation, finds this representation to be without basis of fact. In Tennessee a re-olntlon for free coinage at Hi to 1 has been adopted In both branches of the legislature. In Kansas a similar resolution has been adopted at a conference of the congres sional leaders and democratic state een- tral committee.

In Kentucky a like resolution has been adapted by the convention of Clay county, and United States Senator Blackburn, who Is generally credited with being a shrewd politician, is making a sup. port of free coinage his trump card in a canvas for re-election. In Alabama the silver side has been ps- i paused nnif s. rvedly by Senator Pugh, In Tennessee by Senator Harris, in Virginia by Senator Daniels. i.f recognized as being foremost at.i--ng the leaders of their party on the floor of the Lnitea States senate and In the nation.

And how Is It in Pennsylvania, the bulwark of of "sound money?" Cameron Is of course for free silver, but Cameron doesn't count. Quay I has never defined his position. But the republican state convention has within a year declared for an Increase of the nuney circulation- of the country to $40 per cap- ita, and the Philadelphia "Press," which ts not only the most influential of pmy I organs, but Is controlled by business interests of a high order, says: "On the surface there is not yet a contest to control the coming state convention in behalf of free silver. An open contest Is hardly like- to be desired by the free silver advo- eaten, but let no on suppose that every effort will not be made lo control the con- ventlon In that interest." It Is to be noted some of the opponents of free silver hold that all the silver sentiment of the west and south Is due to the want that the people there feel of more money, eiinsyivaiiia xeeis a warn oi more i money, too, Judging from ihe state republican resolutions. Is It to be inferred, therefore, that Pennsylvania, too, is about to Join the desperate demand for unlimited silver coinage? In the Judgment of the "Press" a very considerable part of the country really is In need of more money, and when eminent gold single-standard advocates in New York begin to realize, the fact, there Is no telling where their "heresy" may Anally lead them.

If It does not commit them to a greater use of sliver, what? We do not believe they will pass silver by for paper. TUB (SOLICITOR WRAXG1.E. Judge yesterday made some ap propriate remark en the singular official I FT-? So much Interest Is taken In the contest for city treasurer that It makes little difference which candidate Is victorious, there will be a great deal of dissatisfaction experienced among those on the losing side. The candidates themselves, Maj. Dennlston and David Torrance, are not saying much for publication, at least, but their friends are doing their talking for them.

The feeling Is becoming Intense on both sides, and threats and charges of all kinds are heard on every side, A letter received from some one very much Interested evidently gives an Idea of the situation. The writer charges that In a former article in the "Press" it was Intimated that Dennlston had the Inside track, and that his Grand Army friends would be solid for him. In this respect the writer drew considerably upon his Imagination, as the article itself will show. The communication is as follows: "Political Editor Sunday Press: In last Sunday's political column I noticed an article regarding the city in which you Intimate that Maj. Denniston has the inside track.

In this I think you are mistaken, as time will show. While no one questions the fitness of Maj. Dennlston for the position, they think that 15 years in one position ts about as long as any one man la Atitled to, especially when he has previously held a similar position In the county for the same length of time, and ts worth, at the present time, at least fcWO.OOO; so they think it Is time for him to step aside and let someone ele enjoy the benefits. "In last Sunday's Dolitlcal column Ino- clulm is solid for It Is not the case, as a great manv of them think he has been pretty well taken care of by the republican party, and has had really more than his share. If a soldier candidate Is wanted, "there are others" In Allegheny county who are just as competent, and suffered as much for their eountrv as he did, and need the position a great deal more than he does, but as thev haven't got the political pull, they won't pet in.

In regard to the strength shown by him at the last city election, that Is easily explained. He sent out, thousands of letters to his personal friends, asking their support, but even with this help he only polled a majority of 1,400. He even then would have been defeated if Dn MoWil-linm, another soldier of the Eighth Pennsylvania reserves, bad not come out as a candidate on an Independent democratic ticket, running against Capt. J. Pressly Fleming, a gallant memb-r of Hampton's battery, who was the regular nominee on the democratic ticket, with McKenna and Ootirley.

At the election, McWilllams polled over 1.C0O votes, which were taken off the vote that should have gone to Capt. Fleming, and this elected Maj. Dennlston to his fifth term as cltv trenstirer. It has been stated that McWilllams became a candidate at Mai. Dennlston's request, so as to divide the democratic vote.

lie this as It may, he polled enough votes to elect Dennlston and defeat Capt. Fleming. There) Is one thing that you seem to overlook In this matter, and that. Is the soldier element who are holding political positions in the cltv and county office. If tho powers that be decide en Davy Torrance 'or the position, they will ret their orders to hustle for him, and they will ob-y tbem.

too, as they know tbat refusal means that heads will cut off, and no man soldier or citizen, Is finlnp to work aealnst his bread and butter. This was demonstrated In the Inst tight for sheriff, when Capt. W. O. Russell, of the South Side, was a candidate for that position.

Every nrlloe-holding soldier In tb city and county offices was for Richards, nnd not only voted for him. but worked, and induced their friends to vote for Mm. This shows how fraternity Is practiced among the soldiers, so If Maj. Dennlston Is relying on this le-mnt to pull blm through, he will be badly mistaken, ns no one can be eyctd to work against his own tnterst. Fraternity Is a good thing to talk about at camp fires, but don't go 1n polities.

"Veteran." Maj. Dennlston was not to be found to talk politics, but an inllinale friend of his said that If Dennlston had fzw.un, or one-fourth of It, It was news to him. That story, he said, was a good deal like the pension story used against the major in the lust campaign. He was credited with getting any amount from to Sl.Mi per month, and gullible people believed It. "I can state," saidUhe gentleman, "and Capt.

Skinner will substantiate the statement, that the major Is paid by grateful country per month for the loss of an arm and leg. Both limbs ore in evidence, at least as much as there is left of ihin, to show that they are useless. I have never taken the liberty to ask Mr. Denniston what his bank account Is, and 1 don't think your correspondent did, but I am of the opinion that his salary as treasurer, his per month pension and his homestead, will sum up pretty nearly all the major's assets. "As for tho soldier vote question, soldiers are but men, and when Col.

Kusnell entered the race for sheriff he did so against the advice of all bis soldier friends, some of whom are now dead. They could see what he evidently did not, that as a well-known republican, be was lulug handled as a tool by the democratic lenders. I agree with your correspondent that had Dennlston been off the republican ticket the full democratic Including its adopted child, the ccntroller, would have been elected. When Jujte Rnllley wat defeated lor mayor the republican party telle on Joe I entiist to strengthen the ticket, and with litis ace Morrow, he carried it. through, course.

If the dog loites his teeth In tho service of his party. It may be good policy to give him a button, If it is only a Grand Army button. I admire Mr. Torrance. He Is a faithful and excellent nubile officer, always suave and i ways ready to give the oi'y tee full value in services for his salary, Jt 1 am of the opinion that having tested, as the city urd the republican party hits, the value of Maj.

Dennlston, It Is better to live with the devil, you know, than die with the devil you don't know. 1 em nut aware of any soldier opposition to Dennlston, unl-ss from a few soreheads, who b-'lcve that the city and the Oram! Army owes them a living, and I am perfectly confident that if Mat. Dennlston Is thrown over by the party he has served so well and faithfully that the republican chip's should see to It that a democrat pleasing to them will be nominated, for he will be elected." J. H. Stevenson, the populist, thinks his party will compel both the democratic and republican parties to take re, th" money question befoie the next campaign, anil claims that it was the populist partv which is responsible for the Agitation of the subject at present.

He says it is the l.riXt,iKXi votes cast by the ponuli'-'ts at the last national election which the other parties ere playing for. In tin Interview yesterday on the question, he said: "What is the prime Idea of the parly on the money We b'ileve in a plent'ful volume of money, and have set our stakes at Vi per capita. To get this amount will require the use of ail our silver product, along with all the gold and even then It will be neeessnry to supplement both with a paper currency, and as to this we want the nation to Issue it without the intervention of banks. Wc do not oppose banks of discount and deposit, but we oppose banks of Issue. "Democrats of this state mieht ask what Is meant by a grea'er volume of money, but the republicans should not, for they have demanded a'i Increase of' the voluni" to Mil per capita, which would about double our circulation.

We want more monev to aid business, raise prices, to increase wr.ges, to enable debtors to throw off their heavy burdens, to help taxpayers, to help landlords: ii fact, to nid the great body of our peonte. especially I those who are morttrag-Hd'ien aiul of' this Hrtxs there sre about O.rtio.oi'Ki the Unit i Fta'e. More money of any material issue! by our rovernment will be a welcome visitor to millions of households in our lard. If we do not get rMef soon millions of these mnrtfraeed bnme wj) under the red flag of the sheriff. The man, the nwsnnr.er or th political party opposing this relief assumes a dangerous re-Spnnsibiltv.

think the United Stntes oon ii.1r.nt the double standard without other netlons Most certainly we cotil 1 and It Is a ref ecilnn on our sovereignty to doubt it. 1 reel sure that we could, but I feel a'so a Hi tie doubt about this mtjon being permitted to It by the English creditor class, holding our seur1ties These Eng-ishmen have, through the nollllclans and bankers r.f the United S'nte nlneed our onuntrv on a eol! bs. They did It stealthily, but they rlld It. foreign bond holders orde-ed It. Now we have a peonle so subdued pr.trit so cowed, so under the power of the local bosses, the sub-bosses of others hirhe.r up that wf are nhout in thp last ditch.

Tes, we could manage our own fl nances' If we were allowed to do so by the English bonri holder. We have plontv of rnn jipr) who would fight Enelnnd with bullets, but are too meek ana lowly to Co so with ballots. FEATURES OF THE MEETING. How the nuslnesa of the Ilody Will be Conducted. THE SPECIAL" LIKES OP WORK.

The presbyterians throughout the country are looking forward with great Interest to the one hundred and seventh general assembly of the pre3byterlan church in the United States of America, which will open Its sesion in Pittsburg on next Thursday morning in the Third church, Sixth avenue. The roll numbers nearly GOO commissioners, one-half ministers and one-half laymen, which will constitute the largest general assembly ever held. The assembly will be characterised by the absence of the leaders in the recent controversies of the church. On the other hand the membership will be composed almost entirely of hard-working, thinking, conservative men, and within three hours after the assembly meets plenty of leaders will appear. The opening sermon will be preached by the retiring moderator, the Rev.

Dr. Samuel A. Mutchmore, D. I). Following the sermon will be the report of the committee on arrangements, recommending that the assembly adjourn to meet at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, and that the daily hours of meeting be from 0 a.

m. to 12:30 p. and from p. m. to 5 p.

the first half hour In the morn-ing to be spent In devotional services. The Lord's supper will be administered on the first evening, when Dr. Mutchmore will preside. REV. ROBERT RUSSELL BOOTH, The Leading Candidate for Moderator.

When the assembly convenes on Thursday afternoon Stated Clerk Rev. Dr. Um. Henry Roberts will call the roll and the election of a new moderator will be taken up. Dr.

Roberts has already published the roll In pamphlet form. The canvas for moderator Is quite spirited and will become more so when the assembly meets. The leading candidate Is Rev. Robert Rus.tell Booth, of New York, although several others have been mentioned, including ex-Gov. Beaver, a layman.

Dr. Booth has been a prominent new school minister all his life, but he also has the solid s.ipport of the conservative men throughout the whole church. He Is a son of William A. and Alida Rooih. was born in the city of New York in graduated from Williams' college in ISlil, and from Auburn theological seminary in 1M52.

His first charge was at the First Presbyterian church, Troy, N. which position he filled for three and a half years. He was pastor of Mercer Street church. New York from Isill to 170, when it consolidated with the University I'lare church, and he served as pastor of the united churches for l'i yeers, and he has been pastor of Riverside church for 10 years. Thus he hns been a pastor during his entire public life.

Dr. Booth has been an active worker in church and educational enterprises. He has been trustee of Williams' college, chairman of the new schools assembly committee on foreign missions, a member of the American board's prudential committee, and of the American Evangelical alliance, and a director of the Union and Princeton theological seminaries, but when Union theological seminary left the pres-byterlan church. Dr. Booth left the seminary.

He was also chairman of the church extension committee for the presbytery of New York. He Is a man of admitted force of character, genial disposition and courteous in manners, an able, attractive and suocesful preacher and a good parliamentarian. For the position or stated cierK is thone-ht that Dr. W. II.

Roberts will have some opposition, although no candidate has vet been announced to oppose mm. ur. Roberts has been stated clerk of the general assembly for a number of years and has been eminently successful In that capacity. i it'kWi'y I it. DR.

WM. HENRY ROBERTS, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly. At the opening of the session Dr. Roberts will read the docket of business. The moderator will announce the standing committee which will practically manage the business of the assembly.

Reports will ba heard from the churches at home and abroad. On Friday the report on seminary control will be handed In. The cummit'ee on church unity will bring up their plan of federation, which has been bitterly opposed In assembly before. The committee on "consensus cried" will alsa report on that day and will ask to be continued. Reports will be received from the special committees on rebuilding Lane seminary; on reprinting th minutes on statistical and ecclesiastical blanks and on Sunday Friday evening the committee will consider the interests of the presbyterlan board of publication and Sunday school work.

Addresses will be made by Drc. James A. Warder and E. R. Craven, of Philadelphia.

Monday forenoon the committee on freemen will report, and at right a popular meeting will be held. The speakers will be colored men. Tuesday and Wednesday will be home and foreign mission days, Addresses will be made by Rev. Dr. John Gillespie, of New York, and missionaries from Sism, India, China and Mexico.

One of the warmest discussions in the coming assrmbly will be over the proposition to boycott Union seminary, and the New York presbytery overtures to assembly to pronounce upon the relations to the church of students who come to pres-bvtery from seminaries not under the control of the assembly. Another question likely to come up ts that of union with the southern presbyterlan church. There is also talk of the U. P. church ta'ilng the same course.

The committee of arrangements have been hard at work arranging for the accommodation of the visiting delegates, 'jha committee consists of Mrs. Dr. S. S. Gibson, chairman; Mrs.

William Thaw, Mrs. A. G. White, Mrs. Christie, Mrs.

Rex. Misj Brooks, Mrs. Julia A. Scott, Mrs. Mliloy, Mrs.

Kumler and Mrs. John McKelvey. Mrs. Chas Zug will look after the Itir.ch department and Mrs. John G.

Stephenson will entertain the missionaries. The foreign mDaionary meeting on Monday afternoon. May 20 will be a feature of the assembly. Among the speakers will be Mrs. D.

P. Braunie, of Colorado; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. C.

H. Henry, of Canton, China; Mrs. H. G. Ritchie, of Zung Chaw, China, and Mrs.

T. J. Gillespie, of New York, formerly of Pittsburg. The musio during the assembly will be by the choir of the East Liberty presbyterlan church, undtr the direction ol Miss Fannie Reed. i Asps P.

not have been provided for by law. Doubtless It was not anticipated that three county commissioners and a county controller could enter Into such a nonsensical tangle as to prevent the election of a solicitor, but now that the experience of this county has proven such to be a possible case, It may be regretted that the election of the solicitor was not given by the law to the commissioners alone. There are three of them, and an odd number of electors Is always less likely to deadlock than an even number. It would have been better If the controller, who makes our odd commissioners even, had been left out of the statute. It is true that, es Judge Slagle observed, if the commissioners and controller should lay aside all personal feeling and act solely with a view to promoting public Interests there would be no difficulty In their performing any duty laid upon them by law.

But unfortunately It Is just In the necessity of their laying aside their private differences for the public good that the difficulty comes In. Of course, as long as the commissioners have public business to transact In which legal counsel is needed, they will have to engage counsel specially, and the cost to the county, both in special fees and the litigation arising when the controller refuses to pay, is an imposition on taxpayers. OAS ADDICKS HOPE. The probability that the Delaware senatorial election will be decided in the United States senate on strict party lines is still more or less plausible, unless, as Indicated by late dispatches, the silver Issue should obtrude. If Col.

Dupont, the republican who received 15 out of the 2U regular legislative votes, were confronted with no greater obstacle than that nonsensical Bectlon of the Delaware constitution under which, it seems, a memher of the senate can, In certain exigencies, be governor of the state, without forfeiting hiH seat in the senate, the Dupont republicans might lea-sormbly assure themselves of their hero's admission to the senate at Washington next December, for that body is not obliged to honor Delaware constitutional eccentricities. An eastern democratic organ says, "Precedent sho that the acting governor of Delaware remains a senator while he serves in the executive office. Justice requires that he shall discharge the duties of senator In case of an emergency, as otherwise the accident of the elected governor's death by vacating a seat in the legislature might change the majority In that body and give a United States senatorshlp to a man who could not secure a majority of the men chosen by the people to elect a senator. Hie chances are that the seat will remain vacant for two years." The democratic organ In question evidently believes it is better that Delaware should be without any representation In the senate for two years than that its representation should be republican, but such a view will hardly be endorsed by the senate itself. The appeal to Acting Gov.

Watson, who is a democrat, to appclnt a free silver democrat to contest the election with Col. Dupont, Is a clever enough ruse to have been suggested by "Gas" Aldleks himself, and everybody knows how zealous Addicks will probably be to make good his threat. A chance to seat a silver man would be eagi-rly elezed by the silver senators at Washington, anil unless Col. Dupont Is willing to make his fight on a silver platform It I barely possible that what the democratic Injunctions to respect ihe sacred follies tf the Delaware constitution could not accomplish toward his icfeat, ami Addiekd' the silver issue may. A soap manufacturer will present every delegate to the Ohio republican convention with a ceike of soap.

This may be to afford the delegates an opportunity to say their hands are clean, and It may be to Insinuate that the republicans take the cake In (be buckeye state. Disappointed in watering the stock, the weather people are now stocking the deck for a game of freeze-out. The ir ttstmrgs clinch To a lead pipe cinch, The league bo far they've led. Tho flag they'll pinch. If they don't flinch For once we'll be ahead.

When the mayor of New York is at city hall the flag Hys; when the council is at city hall the fur flys. The senatorial contest in Delaware shows that when a state can be purchased by the acre it Is rather small to have two representatives in that august body, which we could Just as well do without. The Baltimore nmy thank the rainmakers for their deliverance yesterday froin our very own. If Don Dickinson wants to know whether our veterans can hear the bugle call, he ought to ask If they have a mouth on them. The Bigelow living bronze statue and tho Klkins sacred concert did not combine in harmony.

The sweet girl graduate is not bothering so much about her commencement essay as whnt kind of sleeves will be most becoming. The Japanese disapprove of bronze statuary; they even object to Russian bear. In view of recent publications, It would seem that the quickest way to get "Coin Answered" is to drop a nickel in the slot. The Delaneys got credit for one thing a long jail sentence bit fore they were tried. If Frances Willard Is really going to begin getting married, It Is to be hoped that she may be temperate about it.

In Kentucky it would seem that murder is the most effective check to Immorality. Judge Stowe's sentences yesterday were not as long as thore of Senator Evarts, but they covered the Deluney cases. Gen. Campos doesn't want any more men. Even army funerals come high in Cuba.

Brlce Is about to make a sound money campaign In Ohio It takes something of that kind to win a senatorshlp. The premature shirt waist gives temporarily to the sealskin sack. way Schenley park's proposed first sacred concert of the season brought down Director Bigelow and the thermometer. The county commissioners are now to windward on the smoke's Vou will generally find that the man who says the country is going to destruction wears a last year's straw hat. Winter lingered In the lap of Pittsburg longer than was eeemly.

Straw hats got that tired feeling jester- day afternoon. plete edition of his works, with the ex ception of two volumes "Many Inven tions" and "The Jungle Book." Macmil lan New York, publishers. RAIDED BY THE POLICE. Proprietors of Two Speak-Easles Captured. Lleuts.

Gallant and Lalus and Special Officer McElroy arrested two speak-easy proprietors on an order from court last night. Mrs. Maggie Freeman, of Murphy street, was the first victim. She had Just received, it was alleged, a lot of beer and whisky for her Sunday trade. Patrick Cody, now of Bates street, formerly of Second avenue, was the other victim.

He has been wanted by the court officials for a long time, but was too slick to be caught by them. When arrested he was in his wine cellar, filling beer bottles with a mixture of gin and stale soda, which, he claimed, is a harmless beverage. Four barels of beer, ID gallons of whisky and 30 quarts of his gin mixture were confiscated by the officers. The prisoners were placed In No. 4 police station.

EP1VOHTH LEAGIE. The Washington District Convention Held at Homestead. The fourth annual convention of the Washington district of the Epworth league met at Homestead Friday and Saturday. The district comprises all of Greene and Washington counties, part of Allegheny county, and a part of West Virginia. It was the largest convention held in this delegates being present.

Officers were elected yesterday afternoon as follows: President, Prof. Walter Mitchell, of Wellsburg, W. Va. vice presidents, W. E.

Bareus, Roscal; Prof. C. J. Fisher, Carnegie; C. M.

Liggett, Independence; C. F. Randolph, Carrnichaels. Democratic Committee Scored. New Haven, May 11.

The "Register" to-night chides the democratic state central committee for meddling in the financial problem at Its meeting to endorse President Cleveland's sound-money policy yesterday. The "Register" declares that the committee adhered to the unsatisfactory stand ttiken by the national democratic convention in ISiii! instead of adopting a straightforward sound-money resolution. R. A. H.

1874, fell on Friday. George premium Is offered for the coin. John W. Miracle plays were first presented in London In l'JKi. P.

E. The Grand Opera house stage is the largest in the city. Greensburg It is estimated that there are about native Germans In the United States. Subscriber. Grant claimed Galena, 111., as his residence at the time he was elected president of the United States.

Delaware. seems to be necessary once more to Inform you. Constant Reader, Anxious Inquirer, and perhaps a few more, that In order to secure an answer to your inquiries your name and address are necessary. B. Among educated people In this country tho English language Is as correctly spoken aa anywhere In the world.

Dublin lays claim to being the superior of any place In this respect, but the claim la not well founded. Press Reader. outlines of a terrace can be preserved if you get a few sets of Bermuda grass and pla -e them here and there In Its sides. In a year you will have a mass of grass and roots bo thick that the most severe storms cannot wash down the sides of your terrace. No other grass or weeds can grow with the Bermuda, where it has once gained a hold.

Alleghenian Meleager was distinguished for throwing the javelin. He slew the Calcydonlan boar. It was declared by the fates that he would die as soon as a piece of wood then on the fire would burn up, whereupon his mother snatched the log from the fire and extinguished it. But after Meleager had slain his maternal uncles his mother threw the brand on the fire again and Meleager died. (2) Heroi; size in sculpture denotes a stature superior to ordinary life, but not colossal.

Patriot Of the two large historical societies of the United States the Colonial Dames is the more exclusive, the Daughters of the American Revolution the larger and more active. Admission to the former requires a lineal descent from an ancestor who came to reside in an American colony prior to and "shall have rendered efficient service to his country during the colonial period, either in the colonial founding of a commonwealth or of an Institution which has survived and developed Into importance, or who shall have held an important position in tne colonial government, and who by distinguished services shall have contributed to the founding of this ereat and powerful nation." There Is no local organization of the Colonial Dames in Pittsburg, but there are about 1( or 1- members here, among them Mrs. John Harper, Miss Julia Harding. Mrs. Wallace, Mrs.

W. H. Hollind and Mrs. Nathaniel Hogg. The Initiation fee is something between and To form a local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution 12 members are necessary.

Membership blanks may be obtained by application to the headquarters of the society at 1416 street. N. Washington, D. though it is customary In fotmlng a chapter to notify the regent of the state wherein the desired chapter may be located. The state retrent of Pennsylvania Is Mrs.

Nathaniel B. Hogg, 7H Church street. The sum of $.1 must accompany every application for membership, and any woman Is eligible who has reached the age of IS and can prove a lineal descent from an ancestor who fought for the cause of independence in the revolutionary war or rendered material aid us a patriot. The Applicant must be nominated or endorsed bv some member of the society. In filling out the papers for admission a lineal descent from but one ancestor Is required.

It is, however, desirable to record as many as possible, as the first page (giving ancestral dscentl is printed In the year book of the soe'ety and is official. In forming chapters members may meet together and elect the'r own officers or the state recent may be requested to appoint a regent who will then organize the chapter. The best authority for Pennsylvania to consult is Cenealosrv." but If there is any difficulty In proving what may be only family tradition G. Washington Bull, D. Is an authority on all such points.

Vprisht Piano at a Haritnin. A fire uoright piano, used but a very short time, will be sold at $75 less than the regular price. For a genuine bargain see this piano. LECHNER SCHOENBERGER, 04 Fifth avenue, next door to opera house. Don't fall to attend Ardarv's Great Pittsburg Combination I-lcrse sale.

Hotel Boyer, the best $2 per day house In the state Mlztuvoytd Don't fall to attend Artfary's Great Fltts-burg Combination Horse sale. "The Tragical HIstorie of the Earl of Essex" Is another complete story compiled from the cipher writings of Sir Francis Bacon by Orville W. Owen, M. the discoverer of the key. The first book of the cipher story was published In October, 1SH3, and every succeeding volume adds Interest to the general history of the Eliza bethan era.

Whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to the latter will ever remain In dispute, but the work of Dr. Owen shows painstaking re search and deep thought. The story bears mmwm. its i ORVILLE W. OWEN, M.

Discoverer and adapter of the Baconian cipher. the elements of probability, as well as literary merit. The work is certainly a scholarly effort throughout and no classical reader can afford to slight it on account of literary prejudice or cultivated antlpothy to the new school. Howard Publishing company, Detriot, Mich. The Romance of the Sword Is a new Napoleonic story by George Duvall.

It is cleaner than "Mme. Sans-Gene" and fully as correct historically. The translation by Mary J. Snfford possesses the rare charm of enhancing rather than spoiling the original while retaining idiomatic charac teristics which render the stvle quaint and attractive. Merriam company, publishers, New York, and all booksellers.

Dora Kussell Is a proline writer, and Is noted for introducing considerable action Into her novels. Seldom has she reached probably the climax In "A Country Sweet heart," which Is a love romance, embracing two murders, several felonious assaults, an attempt at suicide, a runaway match, a separation, a reconciliation and the con solation of the young widow by another husband. There is no lack of Interest and action in this Story and it is well told. Rand, MeNntly Chicago, publishers. In "The Vagaries of Child-Life," which appears in "Home anil country, JNew York, for May, some Idea can be had or the progress o'f the art of illustration.

The subject itself is a happy, oneIndeed childhood is the only really happy period In our Ives hut treated ns It Is ny its autnor, Emil Meyne, heightened and made pleas-Im? to the senses of slirhf though not Im proved even by Illustration, the article furnishes a study for people of all ages especially mothers which appeals to all that good in our natures, it is puDiisnei uy W. Kay, Leonard street, New- York. The subscription price is i.iu a year, No. 2 of the beautiful White Cross literature series Is entitled "Man's Spiritual Possibilities." It is not the exponent, aa might be surmised from the title, of any cult, and yet the occultist can find in it much food for thought. Some of the revelations given In this book are more marvelous than the 3torv of "Aladdin's Lamp" or Hans Christian Anderson's "Fairy Tales." and vet, so strong ere Its basic claims, ana so well founded the positions taken, that the most Incredulous are convinced or their accuracy.

One revelation, euneo irom uie secret records of the order of the White Cross, is alone worth the price of the book. It Is, for the first time, given to the pubic and can nowhere else be obtained. It reveals the secret of continuous life, and points with unerring certainty not only to the elixir of life, but the method of Its attainment. Charles B. Rped, publisher, i street.

New York. The publication of each new volume of "The Variorum Shapespeare," by Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D., is an event which American students lock forward to with profound interest. Dr. Furness is said by English authorities to have produced the very best and most complete edition, so far as It has gone, of Shapespetite; and Gorman scholars give ample endorsement to this statement. The last issue in thl3 noble edition, which includes the collation of 40 texts and notes, which cover the entire range of Shapes-pearean research, Is "A Midsummer Night's Dream," just published by the well-known house, the J.

P. Llppincott company, in Philadelphia. The previous volumes, nine In number, Include "Komeo and Juliet," "Macbeth," ''Hamlet. 'Kin Lear," "Othello," "The Merchant of Venice "As You Like It." and "The Tempest Dr. William Aldis Wrlsht, himself 'an eminent Shapespearean, has recently speken of the work as "monumental volumes which are the admiration of every true student of Shakespeare.

J. B. Llppincott company, Philadelphia, publihers. The "rena" for May is an excellent number." and the hleh character of its contents Is one of the encouraging literary signs of the times; for it shows that a large rending public Is growing up in the United States that takes a keen interest in all the vital, social, economic and political questions of the hour. The place of honor is given to a scholarly but scathing criticism of Renan's "Life of Jesus," by John D.

McPherson, of the United States supreme court. It is written from the orthodox point of view and will be widely read and discussed. James Realf, in a paper called "A Poet of the Northwest!" Introduces a new Amerlcen poet, Jonah Le Roy Robinson, to American readers. C. J.

Buell gives his views on "A Partial Solution of the Railway Problem." Adeline Knnpp paints a strong picture In a short story called "The Wealer: A Story of the Times." Rev. T. E. Allen, a leading member of the Boston Society of Psychical Research, writes an analysis of the strange case of Mollis Fancher. of Brooklyn, which he believe establishes the fact of rlairvoyance.

B. O. Flower editor of the review, continues thB pries of papers discussing the leeal and social aspecis of the traffic in girls and kindred immoralities, roweii considers the question. "Should War Be Abolished?" Henry Wood contributes "Human Evolution and the Fall," and shows that if we accept the evolutionary philosophy we must consider the fall of Eden as a spiritual and moral advance rather than a declension. Arena Publishing company, Boston, Mass.

Louts Pendleton has added another laurel to his literary wreath in "Corona of.