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WEST 15.1SS4.. T7IT VOLUME 97. gh iiixl U7 FoiirieunUi Strt'ol, TiiwsgtMitlo jihowers nro worth hard i.ollarn, ami a good many of thorn. Tiik Now Orleans Exposition will show tint in this day cotton is only courtier nho holds King Coal's court train. M.

Kv.ucts is much talked of for 1'iiitoil States from Now York. Sow there is material worth working into a (Ji (JovKiiNoa Ci.kvki.ani) almost wishes that Mr. Illaitio had mado the rilllo, they tu are botlierinis him so far chances to serve 00 their country. tri Trkatiks ought not to bo considered in iu executive session, that is to with closVil doors. The public ought to know what is going 1 1.

UMlKKit, for tin1 DomocratH during the cam- S5' is making a poor list of his fraud l'l1 liud now that tho matter is being looked jfj into. 1 lis was a good enough cry till after wj election. ce: jiu Stkavkii ok Stoi.kn.?One Carl tii: a tall tliin-legged man who plays ga the jiiano. Any one knowing of his llc whereabouts will please enclose postage gt.mii> to the headquarters of the Mug- re: wiiuiiw, New York. Tin: Kanawha Gazette is early, in the field with tho suggestion of a speeinl scs- Ji? tin.

I in winter. That is about a year off. A inn Ejtccial session is a there to bo 081 some more assessment to pay for it? are mistaken, Senator Camden lias not said that ho pci would decline rc-eleetion. Therefore your oig the Register may induce cul him once more to "relax his negation" wj, does not apply. I besides, he isn't the Keg- by iter's man for the place.

ph bei Some of the Democratic newspapers complain that Mr. Hendricks is flying his kite too high. Let Thomas alone. He is very entertainiiip, and wo em are tfoing to have an election for Congressmen two years henco. Hendricks issimply JjJj about in his quiet way to "make fro tilings hum." tin Unless President Cleveland gives the State House mother's Co: son of good fat olliee, they will make hold to doubt the Simon purity of his Albany Democracy.

If ho wants four years of white-winged peace lie will do du them all uj? in a job lot as soon as he has cer read the liut line of his inaugural address. sol It is said that Mr. Uennett's cable entcrprjsc has so taxed his resources that lie a 1.., o.vll iA V.w.tlol. italfal a largo slice of his Herald property. It is probable that Mr.

liennett has not done anything of the kind. If he needed 'j money lie could raiso it without no gelling any part of his immensely valua- rct Jjle newspaper. A Washington dispatch says that the South is to have but two places in the Ses new cabinet, little Delaware supplying inj. one of them. We are not sure that this cHl will do.

Delaware didn't ilock with the M1 South when the South was flocking by herself, anil this is what Southern states- ntl men mean when they talk about "recogjiition for the South." lot The Warner-Taylor episode in the llou.se ought not to bo wasted on mem- caj bere. They are in the habit of printing pci never delivered; they ask of1 "leave to print" and get it. There is no jjV; secret about it, no shame, though it in- f0' eludes in the proceedings what never took int place. To this entent it is an untruth en- ilorsed by the habitual custom and special license of the House; and tho ex- pense falls on tho people. Tho Congreti' inn ionnl Jii-coril should be a record of the pro- ceeilings of more and no 1 sm jiik decision of the Supremo Court of nu Appeals in the Laurel Hill Sand Fork doi liailroad ease is in harmony with the propoiwive spirit of the anil in lino with tj? the drift of decisions in similar eases in Tli other States.

Conditions reasonable in ilh ISM may be intolerable now, and it would ho absurd to say that the Lcgisla- turo of 18(13 could block tho progress of ia the State for all time. Railroad compa- rie nies accept their franchises subject to the inherent right of tho Stato to regulate their charges. A rato of transportation that is fair to-day in ten years may bo ex- So lortionate and ruinous to tho shipper. ho tli Republican party vlncii elccted Jefferson was not tho Re- flr publican party of to-day, not oven its great grandfather. It did "stand moro on tho principles and doctrines of the Democratic party of to-day." Tho Democracy of today claims direct lineal descent from the 1)C Republican party of Jefferson, but tho Democratic party is now so variously com- posed and holds to views so contllcting, 00 that the party of Cleveland can hardly he said to have come down in a straight lino from the party of Jefforson.

In truth neither of tho oxisting parties can claim descent from tho Republican party of Jefferson or the Fedoral party of fe Hamilton. "Subscriber" will see how difii- S1 cult it is to Iraco to so remote a tlmo tho descent of parties in thin country, when ho tli murks the difference between tlio Democratic party which elected Buchanan nnd c.n the Demccrntic party which elected Cloveland. Tlio country changes, public questions change, nnd parties chango with tlio changed And clmngingconditions. tr CHUIMTH AS STOBY. Chapter I.

All through tlio long, weary year Bho tf saved Bomething each week out of her fr market monoy. Ho attributed it all to the high prico of mnriceting. j' Chapter II. On Christinas day sho presents him with an cider-down couvert-pidl, bought tl "with her own money. Tableau.

Chapter III. jHe praises hor thrift, nnd asks tenderly 8( Y'hy shy didn't buy something for herself, tl DARK, DULL DAYS. VEUY C1IKKULEHS OUTLOOK nr tlw Working CIuhhcw TniiTluiunand Workmen Out of Strike mill (Jlrunwork. urn' l)HTorcncun ut Plltnburgti. Dctiioit, Dec.

reduction In wages ul (orec8 has been in progress in Detroit rsomotimo until now thero nro fully men out of employment and muny ore whoso timo and pay hnvo been reiced. Only three.induBtrieahavo not boon looted. Thoso nro Inhncm rera, furriers and brcwors. This ia a ndition of affairs now to Desit. An important feature ig the i't that of the industries givg employment to tho moat men, tlio eatest number are tho least active.

The ichigan, Pullman- nad Peninsula car mpiuiics employ respectively KK) and 500 when in full force. Thoy boon compelled to reduce their force itil they now employ a total force of 0, leaving persons ummioyed in this industry alono'. Those 11 employed have had. their hours (and L'ir iucom shortened to.) All tho carled companies linvo reduced their fors about half, throwing out 1,000, and itting 477 out of 0112 retained on half ne. Three stone companies, tho Michin, Peninsular and Detroit, show a reducin in the whole force of 1,000 to 1,200 in.

Each company expects to shut wn for few weeks And probably mine with a small force. A majority of boiler and machine shops comparatively idle. There are eight these ordinarily employing 500 to 000. ninety are employed and some of Jin on "short time. Further reducns are intended.

The number of icliinists out of employment is imated at 500. Those "at work on reduced time or pay. The Detroit I Dock Company has reduced its. force (iOO to 500, working nine hours. Condors ami builders report a falling oil'50 rcent and hours generally reduced to lit.

Of the bricklayers, masons and )iact-maker8 from 00 to 75 percent are of employment. Tho same report Lh slight variations in figures is given lumbermen, turners, manufacturing armacists, cigar manufactuiers, plumra, manufacturers of hardwaro ami SM.l.toJru.o IUUUOWKU, bill! tV'llVU wufacturing establishments aro report, and of these only three prosper. Fully 00 laborers anil mechanics aro out of iployment. As this includes only 1 foremost industries it is no iteration to say that adding all industries and retailers there are 10,000 to 12,000 persons in Detroit winter unemployed. IiiVUOU Bllncr'rt Warm Window Glnsii PiTTSBuncii, December coal ners employed at the Hampton railroad il mines struck last night against a rection in the mining rate from 3 to i'A its per bushel, and the men working in am Creek and Sandy Creek mines r(ved to quit work Monday if the tribunal of three cents per bushel is not paid, the operator of thesemines insist upon eduction a general strike of the railroad ners is probable, as the latter will to work unless the uniform rate opted by the trades tribunal is paid all ners.

l'he window glass manufacturers have tilled their employes that unless the luction of 10 to 15 percent in wages is the furnaces will be blown out 3 Saturday preceding Christmas not to "tired up" again until trade improves. The Glassworkers' Association were in ision till a late hour to-night consider; the proposition, but no definite collision was arrived nt. Another meeting 11 be hold early next week. 11A.U 1IOUHMOXS. iUso oC a Colored Fired and Two Puriiona Cremated.

Dec. weeks ago ir white men, masked, went in thodc.nl night to the house of Mike Calvin, colid, and knocked at the door. When he led, they refused to answer. Ileslipil around to the front door from the rear the house, nnd saw them with guns and itols. llis wife, who was enceinte, was ghlcned into a swoon.

The men began forco the door open. Calvin in the lantimo bad succeeded in getting up inks in the floor and escaping, with his fe in his arms, to tho swamp near by, lere they took refuge, undergoing the excruciating deprivations. The isked men began to fire in tho building. II ng no noise, they set fire to the ilding, thinking Oalvm and his wife re With tho hop.se were burned death an aged negro woman and two lall children who were inmates. The inogcaped.

Tho cause assigned for the wl was because Calvin had in the Tate fciion votctl tlip Republican ticket and dit to his friends. i'Jip men were from best familiofl and wore apprehended. ie case was called, and on account of the lesn of Solicitor General Waiters a raisal resulted to-day in Calhoun county art. The grand jury found a true bill murder. Tho sentiment against them It is feared if the trjal is not bur-' id they will bo lynched.

Sewor Pipe llurued. c.lal Dlsjxitvh to the Intcllluencer, Tokonto, 0., Dec. Calumet wer Pipo Works, two miles north of ire, the largest in the country, burned is evening. The origin of tho fire is iknown. Loss, insuranco, $10,0.

One hundred and twenty-five men thrown out of employment. The jrks will bo rebuilt. CAV1TAL Orrin G. White has been appointed istmaster at Knight, W. Va.

The Comptroller of Currency hasauthor2(1 tho Mercantile. Hank of Cleveland begin business with a capital of Col. James G. Iterrett, of Washington, haa been appointed by the National einocratic Committee, master of cereonics of the inauguration exercises of resident-elect Cleveland. Tho conferees unon tho bill for tho for.

iture of tho Atlantic and Pacific land ant held a meeting Saturday and disjrccd. Tho llouso conferees refuse to tonny provision which would Bend to question to the courts. The Secretary of tho Navy recolvod a tblo message Saturday morning from ear Admiral Davis at Nagasaki, announeg a revolution in Corea, and stating that to United Slates vessels Trenton nud saipeo go there Immediately. Ex-Speaker Randall will soon start on a to tho est and South, lie will leave 'ashington immediately upon tho recess ljournment of Congress, going llrct to ouisville, where lie will remain two or ireo days, ami then go to Nashville, anil om there to Dirniinghnm, Alabama. Mrs.

Lockwood, lato candidate tor tho residency, drove lior tricyclo up to the 'hito House Saturday and dismounted i pay her rcspccls to President Arthur, 'uring her call a careless driver run over 10 tricyclo and got It badlv mixed up ith the horso anil hnrouchc." After Mrs. oclcwood had arrived and assisted in uningling her machine, she rode off in a of complicated zig-iags, caused by 10 unequal bending of various wheels, jigyy.s lettish To (lovemor Yiuice, uf North Cujitcrlpb Act. Chicago, Dec. i Haleigh, N. special snys: In reference to thu rccunt controversy betwoen Gen.

Shcrinauand Jell'orson Davis, in which tho former charged the latter with having threatened to forco certain States remain in the Confederacy, it has been stated that Davis' i lettor containing this threat was written to Governor Vance now United States Senator, in reply to his letter to President Davis of October 25, 1802. It lins been 1 stated also that tho letter of Davis had "been This is a mistako. The letter is here, and is now in (Kisscssion of a gentleman of Raleigh. It is as follows: Richmond, Nov. 11,1802.

To His Excellency, Gov. Vance, Dkak have tho honor to acknowledge yours of the 25th and re- gret tho disappointment to which some of the recruits of North Carolina have been subjected. I concur with you ns to tho 0 policy allowing tho conscript, ns far as State service will 'permit, to select the companies and regiments in which they are to serve. Tho right.sccUred'by tho volunteer to select his own coin pany waa lost, it is true, by enrollments, but tho policy was ho obvious c. of associating men together wlio would best hnrmonizo with each other that it a waa my purnoso to continue the privilege beyond the limit lixed by law.

The danger to the coast of North Carolina, and our inability to draw troops from tho Army of Northern Virginia, rendered it proper that the greatest exertion should bo made i til mediately to lill regiments in General French's command, but this did not interfere conscripts to select among those pmonta one to which they would be assigned, so long as vacancies existed in companies chosen, and that I expected would have been dono. 1 will send your letter to the War Department with a copy of my reply to you, and hope for future "there will be J1, no ground for dissatisfaction, and that, as far as feasible, disappointments to which you refer may be corrected by transfer, cc I feel grateful to you for the cordial manner in which you have sustained every proposition, connected with public defense, and trust there will always be such co-intelligence and accordanceaa will enable us' to co-operate for tlie public th good. Tho conscript act has not been to popular anywhere out of tho army. There, as you are aware, it aorves C'1 to check discontent which resulted k'l from retaining -twelvo months men Ul beyond the term of their original engage- ment and was fairly regarded a measure I'1 equitably' to distribute the burden of public defense, but the State authorities I havo nowhere offered any opposition to its execution or withheld their aid except 8:1 in the Stato of Georgia, and so far as 1,1 cadets of military institutes aie con- lM cerned in the of Virginia, I at shall endeavor bv judicial decision to settle c'' the question raised in these two States su and in tho meantime I have been cheered Ka by the evidenco of popular sentiment, I)C which supports any measure necessary to sh protect our country and secure our politi- Si cal independence. Like yourself I fn have.

hoped that party distinc- ju jtions. which existed at former times would be 'buried in the graves of the gallant men who have fallen in defense of their birthright and that we should all, as a band of brothers, strike lor the inheritance our fathers left us. With sincere regard, I am respectfully and truly, pc nFl'EHSON D.VVIS. If Ilffchor'H llcntcn. L'1( New Yoitic, December annual business meeting of Plymouth Church co was lield in Brooklyn last night.

It was in expocted that some of the church officers would resign, hut none of them did so. I Tho annual report shows the present membership to bo with 107 newad- an ditions in the year and a loss of 93. Dea- C(1 cons and other church oilicers were c0 elected for tho ensuing year. Tho candi- dn plates defeated were those who sympathizod with Mr. Beecher in his opposition to Mr.

Blaine. Pr Ui Match. Dec. wrestling match dc which has heen. announced for a week th past, for a side and a division of the gate money, between William Muldoon nj and J.

II. McLaughlin, came off this after- rei noon at Pope's Theater, and was witness- 80 eil by a great number of people. The 11,1 match was live bouts, and was won by Muldoon, he winning the second bout, catch-as-catcli-can, the fourth side hold of I tho fifth GnecoRoman, McLaughlin tak- 110 injj tho first collar-and-elbow aud tho (81 third, back hand. Hi: Safo jlj1 Cairo, Ii.l., Dec. safe in tho agent's office of the M.

C. it St. L. railroad j)r at Dresden, was broken open last ne night and stolen. Two hundred bti dollars reward is offered for tho arrest of 110 tho thieves.

The agent suspects two men Ni seen about tho offico, nil IN ltKIKP. mi A fire at Johnstown, Ohio, damaged several stores. Loss, ca; Tho dopot of tho Philadelphia Traction foi Company burned. $110,000. wi Herbert Crawford, of Cecil, Ohio, was crushed to death by tree.

The receipts of tho Hocking Valley, Ohio, Kelief Committee for the last week were $3,821. JV The imports at tho port of New York for tho week ended December 13th were $8,133,000. Tho employes of tho Union. Iron Mills, Pittsburgh, linvo accepted a fifteen percent de reduction. Iron mills at Day View, will resume, giving employment to 1,100 men.

Mrs. Williamson Carter, of Atwater, uc Ohio, was struck by a train at that place nn fend killed. The nronertv of tho Falcon Iron Com- rn panv, Jaislon, was sold by the SherilT, nv subject to a heavy mortgage. Tlireo men pickers, wero arrested di oil suspicion of having murdered Lewis di Fox, near Littlo Ark. lie Albert Peoples, of Miller's Station, 0., was fatally injured in an attempt to board Sf a freight train at Cadiz Junction.

Hczekiah Brown, a colored teacher in jc Howard county, Maryland, was lynched and hanged by thirteen masked inon. c0 The liquidators of tbo Exchange Bank, tu Montreal, havo instruoted thoir solicitors be to sue tho Directors for $700,000 over, CI urmw. While crossing Barren River, near Bowling Green, John Strausser, with a wagon team, was wushod from the regular ford and drowned. di Klisha Hyatt, Prosident of tho Hyatt, Learing Co. banking Urm, Washington, oil made an individual assignment.

Li- (j( abilities $100,000, estimated. je Six convicts working in tho coal mine at Coal Crest, mado a break for liberty. Two escaped and wore recap- 2J tured, two wcro fatally shot, and two were killed by tho guards. F. B.

Laugblin, Vico President of the jj defunct Pcnn Bank, Pittsburgh, niado an 0f assignment of all property over what is necessary to satisfy a confessed judgment for $90,000. tt, A llro at St. Mary's, destroyed wi eight stores, causing a total loss of th Tho Police udge of the town, who had ni an oflico in one of tho buildings, is miss- lu tag, and is supposed to have been burned ra to death, pi ONEJJNDKED YEARS, i rill! CENTENNIAL CONFMIENCB 1 3f Oia 1' Kiliicntlunnl iuiiI riiuuiclui Htntiuln. The Culur Cuiuea Ufi Agulu, Diuigura to Futuro aiothoUliui, Cmapmlcnu of I he InitlllQtnetr. Doc.

arc rovcrbinlly supposed lo bo dry subject contemplation, but this Centennial 0 Hethodist Conference rolls thein over its onguo as though they woro the sweetest j1, norsela which this groat assembly, with a landred yours bohiml it, could olTer to an ci drolling world. They uro dished up at 0 ivery session, uud the tnonls usually int of many courses. "How you ti lists do like to talk about your four million if communicants," remarked a member of nother denomination to ouo of tho ates yesterday; and your correspondent, hat, though there might have liecn a fr le envy in the remark, tliero were also onsiderablo common House, and a not un- eserved rebuke iu it likewise. There H1 re, however, somo things to bo said in litigation of this fault, if Fault it he. lie tirst place, tho habit of numbering its eople is not purely Methodistie.

It is an fe iinerican habit; more than that, it is a sc railty of human nature, rerhaps, too, te no reason why Methodists talk more of te lioir statistics than other sects is bccauso hi liey have more of them to talk about. Dr. Dorchester, of the M. li. Church, in lu is able and exhaustive papor on this sub- id fit.

(llinlllWll afmnnUi nl Iturch in tho United States to bo ns fol- pr iwa: Traveling preachers, local reachers, members in full, fei 15; probationers, total conimu- Gi icants, 3,051,020. For tho wholo world co io figures lie gave were: Traveling an reachers, local preachers, ca iinmunicants, 5,310,043. EDUCATIONAL AND FINANCIAL. The educational and financial statistics Ac ere presented by Dr. James II.

Carlisle, the Church South, who said that within io conferences represented in that cen- dr nnial gathering there were 70 univereijs and colleges, with, perhaps, as mnuv ussical seminaries; about 100 female col- gU and 10 theological schools, Metho- sm bad now 50,000 Sunday schools, wit It uro than 300,000 teachers and 2,000,000 mils. Her churcheE-jiumhereil 30,000, id were increasing at the rate of five for cry working day in the year. These of accommodate, he id, about 10,000,000 their oney value was about $30,000,000, the 01 irsonages of Methodism being estimated rJ $20,000,000. In all its bounds the twi lurch paid yearly about $12,000,000 for tin larics and kindred claims. The nggre- tin amount raised last year for all pur- tin ises by the M.

E. Church alone was Ued by the speaker to be not less than Or 7,000.000, which, he said, was probably wi ore than half the aggregate sum raiseil Bti! that year by tho Methodist Church at cal rgc. TI1E COLOIt QUESTION. At the session which brought forth the Th iovc papers the chair was occupied for nine uy a colored man, in the reon of Bishop Campbell, of the African E. Church, and by one of those coin- jjt lences, tho whys anil wherefores of to lich no fellow can find out, it so hap- wc ned that on the very occasion when dei lor was promoted to the platform the eprcssible colored question came to the an )nt on the floor.

Dr. J. E. Edwards, of C0l M. E.

Church South, a pastor of fifty cj11 are' experience, who clierishes pleas- roj recollections of tlie times when colorpeople formed a large portion of his invocation, wanted to know how liis rk skinned brethren had been getting since altered circmnstances had set em otf by themselves, and he wassur- 1111 ised that the able statisticians had rown no light upon this subject. Could 'Vs. some one, he give them the sired information? thought 1 ey many thought so? exi the anxiety immediately betrayed by pel nost every colored man present to pour ste ulnination unon the Conference with Mr ferenco to tuis subject was no less a for urce of embarrassment to the dark faced am white haired gentleman in the chair. i AX KXIIII.KItATlNO SCSNK. cill The scene was quito exhilerating and body was sorrvthat the limirns mvon.

O- UW lbstantially thoso contained in my pre- its ninary letter), were spiced with a littlo turkey humor. Dr. Price, one of the Pu ackest of the black brethren, had not c0' pected, he said, to give any color to the oceedings beyond that which he must ha cessarily impart as silent spectator, Mi it ho could not resist the temptation a iw presented, and, following this sally, far U. S. Smith, a bright, sharp-featured at ulatto, added fuel to the fire of merri- Mi ant by observing that ho thought he bei ight reasonably hope to throw light upon tor th shies of thin color question.

Others spoke, and tlio discussion was rricd into tlio next sossion, when un- s0 tunately the play which had opened njl, th light comedy, assumed an aspect xnc lich threatened to create feeling and re- nc) en old strifes. The fear was that some- CU; ing might bo said which should convey implied reflection upon the treatment 0r the colored peoplo by their white coligionists in the South. TIIKRK AS MKTUQDISTS, KOT NEGROES. wll This fear found expression from tlio hu lored Secretary, Dr. B.

T. Tanner, who 801 precated the course whioli had boon ken in making a specialty of tho sta- to' tics of tho African portion of the Con- rence. They were there, he said, not as groes, but as Methodists. In heart and on ul they wero true to tho cause of Mctli- liam, and ho felt that the less said with ccr ference to tho color line, "tho soonest ended." Bishop Campbell, however, ho lio was now on tho floor again, thought 1 (Tercntlyj and this experienced darkey Ki ploraat, in continuing the debate, re- bu tved the anxiety which had arisen, by daring unctously that Methodism had at ino more for tho colored race East, West, Co ortn ana south, (the South being cspcc- to lly emphasized), than nil other religious l'e combined. to Excluding the representatives of tho po lored churches, the Conference is vir- be ally composed of representatives of two 'raj M.

E. Church and tho M. E. in lurch South, wi DANOBUU TO PUTUUB METHOpISJf. Dr.

J. II. Vincent's elegant paper on riio Possiblo Dangers to Futuro MetlioBin" brought on an interesting Dr. Yarrow, of the Friraitivo Moth- ajj list Church, thought that dancing lu Methodist parlors, and the ten ncy of Methodists to think moro of v0 in day newspapers than of class meetings Mi jro practices fraught with peril. Dr.

or of tho Church South, saw rocks tlv lend in tho tendency of Methodists to ab sglect sound doctrine. Dr. Sandford mi unt, M. K. tho children a tho Church should receivo more atten? pu John W.

Itay, of tho same Churcli, in Lio spoko in a voice that made everybody ah ink of Gabriel's trumpet, which.is to bo iko tho dead, agreed with Dr. Yarrow an at one of tho greatest dangers was in the tu sglcct of the class meeting. For himself, ur said, ho know that Iwithout the class A ecting he should fall from space in ex Ho would have all Metliot di lists who didn't beliovo in tho class nieetn'g take their hats and go to nomo other ihuruh. Dr.Kdwards.of Virginia, thought ho old timo sort of class meetings were CI bout played out. Others who spoke wero F.

Merrick, J. Mctyrrln, A. Atwooil and W. D. Johnson, At ho latter being colorod divine', who uently pointed out the peril to which lethodisiu was exposed from ministerial acatlous.

As 1 began with figures, I will closo in ho same way. I)r. Kynott announced estorday that if tho wrogress of tho past ntinued, the next Methodist centennial ould meet ill country having Sti DO ot population, and that if Methodism, tig roL're8sed in tho samo ratio to thegrotf'tlh tho population which had marked its ost progress, it overtake those gures, and have more adherents than tho no ountry had people! This is rather hard jm the other denominations, but I would tlyise them to notsell out too hurriedly, it is just possiblo Dr. Kynctt's calcula- son on may not materialize fully. ii.

t. the cor EAST'S EEVEESES 01 I fork nGrent Company and l'refers to lkt Aluue. Dec. intimate iend of General Grant is reported as lying that ho is indeed a changed man nee the failure of tlio Arm of Grant rand; tlmt tlio shock was a Wow from i hich even his iron frame and resolute ill could not recover, lie 6aid, only a days before his failure, ho uncoil- ious was Grant of tho impendingdisasr, that lie spoke in the most enthusiastic rms of his financial standing, estimating is own wealth and that of his sons at a illion or two, and also remarking that had gone into business with the main eaof advancing the interest of his boys, ow ho seems to shun company, and to' efer being alone. There is undoubtedly a more friendly I'ling for tho project of putting General rant on the retired list, if it can be acmplished, among Democratic Senators (I members among tho ltepubli- 118.

STATE NEWS. icldonta and In Wost Vlrgluln nml Forty-five hogs recently killed at the eston insane asylum, aggregated when jatii psacd 15,011) pounds. hie Recentlv, while shooting at a turkev jJJ itch in Summers county, Frank Scott j. burst, killing him instantly. jJjUJ Scarcity of Ohio Kjver Jtailroad cars, fore which to ship coal, prevents the miners ving steady work ut the Moundsville il works.

rhe Harper's Ferry Mounted Rifles, honi ijor-Geerpo W. Green in command, jpose participating in the inauguration "jl President Cleveland. plJlCl Hie llinton Herald has entered upon its ciati lilfthvear. Cam Thompson is still at licia head, and as long as he continues Now so long at least, will the Herald con- -1, IS ue, the littld -child of Eli McWilliams, of posii aftou, a few clays since swallowed a tin and listle. It lodged in its throat, where it fron: 11 remains.

The child is in a very crit- The condition. dwe now M. K. church at Farmington, irion county, was dedicated yesterday. 11,1,1 0 sermon "wns preached by Dr.

I. 0. railing, of the Pittsburgh Female Col- vaac It is a very pretty brick structure. Harney Crow, a farmer who lived north A1 Moundsville, was found dead last week, men went out "to cnt some wood and failing inco return at the specified timo his family gclic in search of biin and found him publ id. com Charles Duffy, a cripplc, aged 17, was to Hi ested recently at his home in Nicholas riori inty by Deputy Marshal Atkinson, lleis irged with being a party to recent mail Chir jberies in that county.

He was taken aptb Charleston for a hearing. oxpc Che Clarksburg Telegram reports that a days since Joseph Cornell, who re- ed near the tunnel near there was gun- ig, and by accident tho gun lie carried discharged, the contents lodging iu abdomen, which resulted in his death cr bain Che Ilinton Headlight, after a precarious jiaV( stence of about nine months, has bustided, having been forced to tako this set on account of lack.of proper support. MeBride, the editor, has worked hard his party, is a good newspaper man 1 was printing an excellent paper. sv.m The Huntington Argut reports a sad ac- ent to a son of William McConnel, near proc it city. Whilo out hunting he was this telling a man cutting down a tree.

As Albi i tree fell a limb struck his gun, causing the Tho load of shot tore off aoug 0 lingers and struck him in tho face, inlly tting out both eyes. It was thought he settl lid not live. priv f. E. llart, of the Moundsville Herald, was 9 entered suit in tho Circuit Court of ftbu trshall county, against Samuel Dorsoy, lion wealthy citizen of that county, for do- tiort uation of character, laying his damages hud, $10,000.

The alleged libel consists in the 1 Dorsev claiming that Mr. llart had Mas en convicted of a felony and served a lirou in a State prisftn. wou Miss Jennio Smith, tho railroad evan- 8ton liat, received injuries by a fall hist week severe that she is suQ'ering intensely, 1 her physieianB arc fearful that she -jj iy never fully recover from tho lame- Miss Smith, before her miraculous re several years ago, was unable to go fti out, except as she was carried on a bed in a chair. This fall ia liable to bring out her old malady. week while Newton Louk, aged 19, 10 lived near lluttonsville, was out nting lie discovered where a rabbit had no into a log, ana set iiis gun down linstit in order to make a closur exam- ition.

In a minute or two lie attempted take up the'gun again, and it is sup- sed caught it by the muzzle and drew 2 liiin, when the hammer caught the log and discharged the contents of gun into his stomach. When dis- fered he was in a dying condition, and pircd shortly after being carricd to the use of a neighbor near by. Last Wednesday night Sheriff James Deputy J. M. Prico Lewisrg for.Moundsville, having in custody illiam Dennis, a negro man convicted the late term of the Greenbrier Circuit urt of house-breaking, and sentenced the four years imprisonment in tho State nitentiary.

'i ho prisoner was thought bo securely shackeled, but when at a int on tho Chesapeake Ohio railway, Jaw tween Coal Valley and Blacksburg, ho ifin aliildnn trnm liio mril a twinkling was at tho door of the train, th 51r.lynight attempting to hold him. one itli a bound in tho darkness of the the 9'ht, l)e jumpcil tho train, while in pid motion, leaving the officers behind unti in bewildered and discotnfitted. iOi 1 A white girl, named Rebecca Massev, ed about seven years, was accidentally lied by her brother, John Massey, aged out thirteen years, last week, on Gfeen- ier river, about two miles from Konce- 8V rte. The father of tho children, Andrew ussey, had left them at their hovel two three days before while he went into woods to cut lumber, and during his sence tho boy took an old loaded JJJ1' nsket in his hands, as lie alleges to put Hi" jap on tho tube, and while handling tho tho load was discharged, taking effect the rightshouldor of tho girl, producing nost instant The hoy placed the dy in bed and went Itoncoverto remained therej until his father re- JJJjJ rned, saying nothing about the shooting itil he was arrested on the following day. "5J jury was summoned Tuesday, and after J' annning into the case, returned a verct of Accidental ehooting, I i ANI) 81J11HOUXD1NG8 It Capitol nml Kxccutlvo lljilly lino of 1'ociiUarltlcH ntitl Ill.n lU'crrntiuiiH.

C( cial Corrfrjmilaict of the InldUamctr. IV rho Chief of tho ito8 stands in ono of the proudest poai- nh mortals can rcacli. Every scrap of urination relating to tliin favorite child in Fortune iu eagerly wulcomeTl and read, P1 oiily by-the people whoao snllrageH vo exalted him, but by tho all other lands enjoying ineans of pi ninatiuginformation which nro perhaps leading of tho declining itnry. Grover Cleveland iB in tho eye tno world, nml wiicro lio lives, wlint Iio tlioclnilyroutinoof GONKKNOU CLEVELAND AT WOKK. Vlsi cations and, in short, everything re- 1 igto him, command tho widest pos3i- 1111 feed tho universal appetite for infor- ion about himjMves the American jour- has st a considerable element of his con- witl Horary labor.

What wonder, there- paii that the chronicler subscribed linds self in tho good city of Albany, rang- has lbout to learn as much as possible of Giu man whom tho people delight to the )r?" 1IEAUT1FUL AL1JANV. tilll! lis Albany is verily a most interesting ride a to visit, independently of tho associ- one ons xliich it now possesses, as the of- I homo of the present Governor o( con! York State, the man who on March the 85, will bo sworn in as President of bd Republic. In natural beauty of Lion it is most favored, rising nearer jjju nearer still to the blue heavens wor i the beautiful and historic Hudson. m10 scene is city of tine wor llings, showing in frequent variety, ic buildings of imposing architecture, A from all points of observation, in its ilinrnnil (jittuuvm, IUU Capitol building. Clir TUB STOItY OP T1IE CAPITOL.

possess as tlio chief omn- wee of their city, this splendid pile, yet vvjia ihplete and unpaid for, which an old the ol local statesman described to be "a liev lie calamity," seeing that the entire the munity of the Empire State tunst pay uishand maintain its amazing supe- ten ty to all other Btrncturea of the Sou I. Perhaps the opinion of Mr. Uni enco Cook with regard to it more COm that view of vast public afte mditures made for tlje purpose of sc- Caii ug enduring expressions of genius, jh is taken by the cultured reader. 'here is nothing like a great archi- gtnj iral undertaking, with its implied ao of scnlpture and painting, eate a love of art in a community, and York has the proud distinction of cry lirst of the States of the Union to dep 5 lighted in her Capitol a beacon lire Yea shall call all the arts together and hem at work in noble tasks for her )of." ore than twenty-one years ago a Sena- J'J20 New York took the initial step to- Is the result magnificently towering -o this fair city, Ho proposed the ylc uringof plans fora new Capitol, and nronosition was cnrrioil itot has inyWl continued to be the capital of 1 Suite, but now other cities eagerly the distinction, New York espec- In 1SG0, however, the matter day ed in favor of tlio possessor of the ilege, and the next year excavating moi begun looking toward the erection ot ilding not to cost more than four mil- anj d.liars. On July the founda- stone of the projected edifice was and Juno 24,1871, amid teeming rain, Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted ons, with twenty thousand people md them to admire their "mystic and derful" ceremonial, laid the corner- i e.

Early in 1S79, the building was first PRESIDENT-ELECT O.N* 1IIS WAY TO TIIE CAI'ITOL. Upj I as ft scat of legislative wisdom. On nary 7, in the sauio year, the 1)0 1 on the second floor, in a room tempo- 8(jn adapted for their use, and the mbly in their own splendid chamber. St. artistically adapted to deliberations of was gods.

Formal occupation, with proper loni alar rejoicings was, however, deferred ber I February 12. It was not until March pae 1881, that the Senato first sat in their the i chamber, one of tlio most lavishlv Ii S- IICU JUUIlia 111 WJC con 1(1; and only in January lant did the on 1 rt of make i is quarters in the of ptuous edifice, which has cost already bus nt fifteen miliion dollars more or less, 0f will certainly cost another fivo million EUff ire it will be completed. It covers than three acres of ground, is in the known as Free Renaissance, ha8 an irior of granite, and its interior is irsified with a most surprising variety decorations, carved and painted, effects fczarre or artistic, checrfulor resslvely solemn. of is a "blending of all beauties," wliich, ever aptly it may represent the com- n-n icnsivc scope ol modern culture, is ftjw ost entirely unappreciated by a con- i rablo section of the men sent to Albany legislato. What appreciaUation can CoMitiutd on Third OLiti OUCltHSTltAJi It I'll AI Iio Oporit IIoumi OrchrHlru nt Mii'imorvlior Hull Hut Tho Opera House orchestra ir.ivo ono of popular Sunday night rehearsals at Iiunnorclior Hull last evening, that not ithstandiug tho inclemency of.

tho oathor was well attended. Tho nrorainmo wiw a choice ono. and wan spleiiidly rendered by tho fifteen gentlemen amjwsing tho organization. To lovors of iuhiO) those understanding it, tho best umbers wero tho 'eollo solo played by fr. Harry Sturm, and tho violin solo by rof.

Vans. Tho 'cello has been recently Uled to the orchestra, and it is a great nprovement. Mr. Sturm is a very tine and his selection, a m. unco, her Alono," deserved 10 warm cncoro ho received.

Prof. VanH loso one of Schubert's nocturnes and nyed it in his usual correctstyle. otlior numbers on the programme uro Suppo's "Piquo. Dame overturo; urdi's linalo to "Mricheth;" Rossini's erturo to Tnncrcd, and a charming serenade by Carl. Hereafter these rehearsals will ho held ijulurly every other Sunday night.

Tlifit Cimo or Iiiliuinnnlty. rho Intici.liqkncku is in rcceipt of a i mmunication from J. M. Uiehanjs, jnt of the Humane Society, in reference tho case of Iko Smith, recently lined starving horse and a mule, lie says it on Monday night OiHcer Montgomery tho case to him, as he has kindly )orted other eases of crUeltv. Mr.

shards devoted all tho time lie could ire next niornimr in search nf Smith 1 en he learned thatOlllcer Montgomery, had seen the animals feeding on pine nber, had sworn out a warrant. Mr. shards then fed tho animals, andvolun- ily nppcared as a witness against Smith. Kiehards adds: "The laek of interest the part of our citizens generally in hholding their means ami in failing to 'J or tsuch matters as need tho attention the soeicty lias been tho greatest objlo in tho way of its mora rapid adicement." liullulrtt Itcnix. liss Annio Irwin, of Morristown, is ting Miss Minnie Darrah.

Hiring tho last two weeks, Mr. Kock, sexton, has not had a single interment lie Union cemetery. coal bank, west of town, had a steady run ever since lost spring, li the exception of a lew days for re a. iotiBton'B South Bellaire green house pi been rebuilt on the south side of rosey street, and is much larger than old one. ellaire street cars this winter arc con- ling the use of stoves, arid the long i to the ferry is made as comfortable as 551 could wish.

P11 tamer Marshall and James Curren are teatants for a gold breast pin in aid of Second M. 12. Church. A festival will icld Friday and Saturday evenings. his morning Bellairc- will be full of (j( men.

Kven the nail works and steel ks are compelled to be idle while lately burnt fan is replaced in the steel U1 ks. re social will be held at the residences of pi halklev Dawson and -Mrs. Thomnson, in vol llill, Thursdav evening, in aid of a pi istnias treat for tlie Second l'resbyte- ar i Sunday School. til ev. J.

K. McKallip spent most of last with relatives in Pennsylvania, but lj( back in time to preach as usual at First Presbyterian Church yesterday. I. M. Monroe yesterday preached at Uisciples' Church on the lethodism." There were services yes- lay, both morning and evening, at the il1 tli Bellaire M.

E. Church. At the ted Presbyterian Church there were! nnunion services vestenlav forpnnnn a sermon by Rev. D. M.

Sleuth. of ro, W. Va. 01 pi 1UVE11 KIl'l'LKS. tl jo of tho Water Muvcaicntri of tho StciMiilxmtH.

he river at this point was about station- yesterday. Tho marks indicated a tli th of 7 feet 9 inches in tho channel, hi terday's rain was general at points vo and another rise may be looked for 111 day or two which will enable the coal toget home with empties and possi- fill up for another run. At present OBt everything is out of Pittsburgh, i W. G. llorner was the only boat in I port on Saturday.

The Smoky City reached there by this time; she pass- tr lp Saturday. at he Kalio Stockdalo passed up yester- morning. hl ho Scotia passed down early Saturday ning with a good trip. he John Penney, Alex. Swift, Dexter is Resolute passed down Saturday with I.

ho "NV. N. Chancellor passed down Satay morning about 11 o'clock with a P1 trip for the Kanawha valley. ai ho liatchelor and Diurnal got away time on Saturdav. The Chesa- ke is this mornings Parkersburg i.nv;oi yji -UUaCIl IClt Oil 1110 Jjl Lawrencc yesterdav morning for Ualli- tli is, I't.

l'leasant awl Charleston, to look ei sevcrnl of the boats in his district. st ilot Frank "Williams, of Wellsburg, h( uling watch at the wheel of tho Jtay- bi ud i lamer of tho coal licet on her sc sent run to Louisville, is accompanied his wife. rc lie Dan Clark was tho first of the coal 'J1 to arrive in Cincinnati. Pittsburgh I is selling at Cincinnati as follows: ondpool, 8c afloat; third pool, 8Jc; 1" rtli pool, 9c, agreed rates. aptain Muhlcnian will be glad to give the information he can about the An- excursion to New Orleans to all who on him, while ho is in port.

The (i, i for tho round trip-will b'c $00. aptllodKnowles is again in command lie Emma Grahnm and jolly A1 Slaven i the ollice. The steamer "is now on l'i way np for tho lirst time since the ti( season. Tony Meldahl, tho well fo iwn pilot, is at the wheel. fill llrookliardt and Capt.

Jim Sand- Ik I are at the wheel of the Andes. Two Lcr pilots are not to he found on the iter Ohio. Last season tliev wero on so St. I.uwrcnco. Cnpt.

Muhleman is to a ongrntulated on having secured their in I) liarlio Reeves, one of the clerks on the Lawrence, a former Wheeling hoy, I one o( the lucky ones during tliu 15 Ion-water season. He, secured Es tv th on ono of the Dig Sandy's low watoi 00 kets and was kejit busy nearlv nil time. 111 ii addition to the 0,000,000 liushels of if. I that wero sent out from Pittsburgh Lhe present "run" there were sent out the Great Kanawha over 2,000,000 hols. Taking both the people 'incmmiu anu louisvuic ought not to cr for coal this winter.

he is duo to-day (rom Cincini, (or which point sho will leave torrowaflernoon at o'clock. This will of the Andes' first appearance in ovor five tl aths. CapUiin CliarlioMuhleman will tound in command as usual and Mart n.1 II and Charlie Knoi will do the honors ho ollice as of old. Tlw Andes is a gnifleent stern wheel packet, easv-run- in gand accommodating. Passengers are ays pleased with the Andes, and she is sc a favorite with the shippers.

She i handsomely fixed up during the low tl ter season, and was never in better con- fr ion, Bl TIDE OF BUSINESS I8TII1L lttiMAINsi AT A LOW KIIII Although Homo lNiliitd, llopnrt Sllglit ImItrowiiiont? ltremlfitnlTN oml I'rovWloun l.owtii't-lron CoiiUoucm to llocliiio, Trmlo I'lul. Nrw York, Dec. to from leading trmlo centeiH report tlmtJiollday purchases aje exhibiting a cOfitrnat with tho inactivity previously noted, yet tliovolumo of such sales is almost uniformly below tho total for 1883. Aside from tlio continued llrinncss In tlio Now England cotton markets, duo to the recent firninowi in flm raw cotton, and with the exemption of a Blightly improved distribution of goods nt IloHton, Metnphid, "Wilmington ami Savannah, general rade at all points is at as low ail obi) as over. A more conspicuous feature ia found in the long-continued and pronounced dullness of mercantile colleeions.

ltates of exchange on Xpw York interior points have declined in most nstances. Thero is no change in the inlustrial situation. WJieat lias beun ialluenced by tin; unexpectedly heavy receipts of wheat ut veatern points. It is evident that farmers ire being forced to take what they can Cash wheat at New York was wealcir Friday, closing at 83c, a loss of ljc on ho week. Corn, too, was lower, on the ailing oil' of demand after special delivrics earlier in the week.

Cash at He, a loss of Oats aro gc higher, at 22c. Hog products have been weaker ml prices lower. Lard (refined) closed 7.JJ0c, a loss of 15points, and snot mess ork closed at $12 50, a decline ol 25c per arrel. In the dry goods markets buyers ro placing orders with increased eonlience and sellers aro firmer, but spcculaivo activity is checked by reason of the anservativo outlook for retail trade. Thero were 310 failures in tlio United tates during tho past week reported to Wadttrcel'a, sis compared with 21)0 ia the receding week, and with 2-11), respectively in the corresponding eeksot 1S88, 1882 anil 1S81.

About 81 arcent were those of small traders whoso ipital was less than $5,000. Canada had lr a decrease of 15. ino.s*. rMl conditions are oil' now, and No. 1 iron is quoted ior future delivery at 8 per ton against per ton on a decline of $1 per deine of 18 per cent, during the year.

No. ig held at $17 and forge pig iron at 0. Since tho cut by the Thomas Cointny (Lehigh iron) following sharply upon publication of tho extent to which tithern pig iron had been sold in.tho ust during 1884, tho Glendon furnace iron) and the Andover (New have announced $IG as their 1885 price for forge irons. This action, addition to that taken by the Thomas Dinpany, puts No. 1 anthracite pig iron umstakably as low as $18 per ton, anil veals the unexpectedly heavy southern shipments to tho east (in 1881) ns tho lpulse.

There is no gain in bar iron ices, which are very low. Many mills idle and more are running on half inc. rails are still down to $27anil at which prices tons have ordered a fortnight. wqol. Dec.

Advert iter in its eekly. review of the wool market says: io business this week has been very milar to that for tlie corresponding week Bt year, or 8,000,000 pounds this week 8,107,000 laetvear. The demand is "been more general, and sales would ivc ucen much larger hail the offers of anufacturers been accepted. This im-. roved demand, with the large sales for le past few weeks, has given a better lie to the markftt, without any quotablo Ivanco in prices.

It is no longer a marit favorable to buyers, by prices being igy. Wools, for which a few weeks ago lere was little or no demand, can now more readily sold at prices then asked. liis the main feature of the improveent in wool. TOE COKE TRADK till and Orders and Shorter of l.ubor. Conneli.svii.le, Dec.

Keymc Courier, in its review of the coke savs: If the coke trade was blue the date oi our last report, two weeks it is bluer now. As we predicted the temporary increase in shipments is disappeared, and the daily output in again to 500 cars and promises to op still further. In the meantime coke accumulating again at the wotks. l.oadl cars are standing at the sidings for hicli the syndicate are unable to give istination. In order to oll'set litis do essing feature of trade, the operators resorting to short hours again.

This eek most of them run but four days, and le prospects are that they will not run ii uuio lor weeks. This is a pccuir hardship for the miners and awers, whoso wages have just ion scaled ten per cent. True, lore are as yet no eases of distress report1, but this is due to peculiar cireumances. During the boom, a great num)r of Hungarians were imported hither, it Binee tho days of shortened aree work and lower wages, they liavo owly but surely disappeared from the igion, and in their places aro tho old, itive-bern labor. Walk along the coke irds, or in the mines now, and familiar' ces greet you on overy hand.

Tho exois of the 'foreign labor has relieved the market from its 3n and left few idle men, ami hence lit: or no destitution, in the region, though any of tho miners "make both ends cot" only by the greatest effort of and economy. Tint Itrnxtou llnltlo. The Braxton Democrat in its issun of last' riday gives the additional about I'lyman, the mountaineer rwhom a warrant was sworn out by his ife for beating her. It will be reinem red that when the sheriff and a deputy ent after I'lyman they found him barri.iled in his novel and he fired on them iveral times. The sheriff then organized posse.

The Democrat says: "A squad of fantry, commanded by ('apt. Henry utlicld, scouted on Crites' Mountain and iickory three or four days, tryg to arrest Jake I'lyman on a peace Several skirmishes took place hereon tho contending parties. 2'lviniin iming out victorious in every ent. 1 le came into town Monday morngand announced that he was ready for ial, upon the warrant, but Capt. who has the warrant in his posseson, is still out in the mountains, and the was continued until tho which, it in thought, will not be un1 after the holidays." of' Stonownll" The Clarksburg AVim has the following: Mr.

George Uostable has secured a part the material used in the construction of ic old grist mill in which General "Stoneall" Jackson worked when a youth; ho so has wood taken from the liouse in hicli the famous commander was born, r. Unstable is having this material made ito useful articles, which lie will take to ew Orleans thiB winter and dispose of jw mvenirs of our great townsman. Some irts of the mill which were operated by le General, as well nB other well vouched ir relics, have been secured wad will lown ut tho K-xpoaition,".