Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1888, Page 2

NATIONAL GUARD MATTERS, Notes of Interest from the Armories of the Local Organtsations—What the, Militia Nem are Doing— Drills and In- spections, New Organizations, &c. “Bverything 1# quiet in National Guard mat- tara,” said Col. Bigelow to 8 Stak reporter, in an- ‘swer to an interrogatory of how things were in matters, “The inspections tn the schoo! of the squad are pearly through,” continued he, ‘and it ts astonish- Ing to see the great improvement made by some of ‘tne compantes. “What is the condition of the Logan Camp Guardar” queried the reporter, “Tas is diMicult, question to answer.” sald he. “They failed to second. ordered, and have been very dilatory in tangy fy bee Pap ere seems to be a lack of inter- "he continued, “in several of the companies, the Sooner thése are weeded out the better it ‘will be.” ‘The following order relative to the annual in- spection and muster of the National Guard will take place on the dates mentioned: The staff and noo-commissioned officers of the militia at the atmory of the 1st battalion atS p.m. on the 14th proximo. The Signal Corps, at the of Co. A, 2d at 8 p.m. on the ist feild and staff of the Ist regiment at the armory of the Ist battalion at 8:10 p.m. on the [4th prox- imo, The frst battalion at its ai ib 8:15 p. ‘On the 14th proximo. The fourth battalion at the armory of Co. o; the field and staff at P. m. Co. A at 8 p.m., Co. Bat 8 ato Dain, Ca, D at 9:30 p.m., on the 1 The Meld and staff oft the second regiment at the armory of Co. A, 2d battalion, at 7:45 p.m. on the ‘2let inst. The feild and staft < the 2 ae af the armory of Co. A at m. On 21st inst. Companies A. B and D, of the 24 battalion, at the armory of Co. A at 8:80, 9 and 9:30 p.m., rely, On the 2ist proximo. Co. C, of the Sr betealion atts armory at 8:30 ppm. on the 15th proximo. The fleld and staff of ‘3d bat talfon at the armory of Co. Bat 7:55 p.m, Co, A at 8 p.m., Co. B at 8: m., Co. © at 9 p.m., Co. D at 8:30 p.m., on the 17ta proximo. The 6th bat- talon at its armory at 9 p.m. on the 22d proximo, ‘The 7th dattalion at {ts armory at 9 p.m. on the ‘24th. The Ist, 6th and 7th battalions will be in- spected by battalion. ‘The accounts, records, and public property of the several organizations will be inspected at their respective armories. If not inspected with the men and officers, they will be retained as far as practicable at the armories, ready for inspection uatil specially inspected. The National Fencibies are fast coming to the front, both in efficiency in drill and in numbers; there's Bot a meeting but what new merfivers are elected. On June 21, the abuiversary of tne cor pany’s formation, will be celebrated by a parade ‘and exhibition (rill The company wiil appear in their new summer uniforms. The semi-annual driil for the company badge will also take place on that day. Numerous excursions have been planned by the exeoutive committee for the coming season. Jas. M. Watson, late of Co. H, Ist Ohio artillery, has been elected an active member of Co. A, of the 2d battalion (Union Veteran Corps). corps will give am excursion to {ts friends bear tusure. W. & Gray, first hewtenant of Co. C, of the 7th battalion, has tendered his resignation. ‘The following officers of the 7th battalion have been ordered to report for examination: First Lieut. ¢. H. Hill, Co. A; First Lieut. W. S. Gray, (0. B; First Lieut. G."B. Lucas, Co. D; Second Lieut. L. H. Davis, Co. C. ‘The following enlisted members of the National Guard have been honorably disc! : Mw Jepper, J. J. Purcell, P. W. mick, J. H. Kaiser, & K. Wade, 'E. R. Hutchinson, EB. ‘Fugmpson, Ordnance Sergt. 1. J. Bryant, Sergt. PP. inson, Jas. Lealey, W. H. Scott, Corp. D. A. Edwards, Sergt. E. W. Smitiiens, of the Signal Corps;Richard A. Pyles, W. E. Dumire, Jas. A. Dowd, Philip 8. Townshend, 8. C. Wheele Private F. P. Cadamus, of the Signal Corps, has Deen granted a furlough of two months, Some of the members of the National Guard ob- re the recent erder compelling them to appear the examining board for exanunation, and Many resignations are talked of in consequence, A movement 1s on foot to organize a brigade drum corps of thirty-stx pleces, which promises to Dea success ‘A number of well-known young men are forming ‘& mounted battery of artillery for the —— or Jetuing the National Guard. They will armed With Gatling and Hotchkiss guns. As soon as Major Pollard arrives arrangements ‘Wil be made to commence the rifle practice at oace. At the next meeting of the school of officers Col. Bigelow will speak about the mistakes made in the Tecenvinspections. He will also give instructions at the next meeting of the school of the company. The Attucks Guards ol Richmond, Captain Emmett Scott, will arrive to-morrow with a large excursion party, remaining until 6 p.m. Monday. ‘The Guards will be the guestsof the Wasuington ‘Cadet Corps, who will parade with them Monday afternoon as escort to the train. oy THE DIVORCE DETECTIVES, Mem and Women who Furnish Testi- mony to Order. SOME PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND THEIR WORK—HOW EVIDENCE AGAINST WIVES OR HUSBANDS Is 8E- CURED—JEALOUS MEN SUPPLIED WITH FACTS OR FICTIONS TO CONFIRM THEIR SUSPICIONS. 18 im the fashington now has its full share of private detectives,” said an officer of the law to a Star re- porter. “Of course there are some who have Offices, with their signs out, whose business 1s legitimate, but there are others who do business op the quiet and do not publicly announce their calling. Some of them really play the part of go- Detweena, They often turn up, stolea property, Dut never or Seldom expose the thief. = Unleves make a batil they take the spoils to one of these men, whom they stand in with, and the owner who has been robbed is soon given a chance to purchase his own property. ‘There seems to_be an understanding between centain agen- ¢ies in various cities, and property stolen im one city and carried to another frequently Pacers through the bands of bot ageacins, and owner bas tostands double tax. This class Of private detectives not ouly handie stolen prop- , Dus will obtain evidence in divorce cases to Suit’ the charges flied against efther the wife or the husband. Take, for instance, a man who imagines certain evil things against his wife which ‘are, im fact, untrue. He will visit one of these men, to whom he Will state his case and pay down ‘good sum to start an Investigation. ‘Then the ‘Wowan’s footsteps are do from pice to place, ‘and sooa areport 1s made to her husband of al” leged suspicious conduct on the part of his wife, Dut to continue the investigation another fee Must be pald, and so the case is conducted until ‘the man bas paid hundreds of doilars, and he either jets nothing in return or witnesses’ are produced fo Dlacken his wife's character. If, on the other hand, the wife is really unfaithful a man 1s em- ‘to make ber acquaintance. After awhile Visits places of amusement with her, and soon fhe ts found by the husband or some outer person im a compromising position with her supposed friend, Frequently tn divorce cases persons are found a» withesses who would not Le able to rec. ‘ognize the parties to it, Dut who will, for a certain sum, give the most damaging testimony. ‘WORKING FOR BOTH SIDES. “Some private detectives,” continued the official, “are straightforward men, and would not stoop to Goa mean act, while others would do any kind of Girty Work they might be paid for. Some of them are no more or less than ‘“zrooks," who are unaule to get other employment. Some of them go so far as to work for bot sides: ‘They will gee well paid Dy one side, and what they get in confidence they ‘Will diselost to the other side if well paid for their | Gupiicity. When business is dull some of the peo- ie who do dirty work will address a commun ca- him of his wife’s un will probably think jon to a husband informin: faithfulness. The husband the anonyinous com: friend, and begins to look after and perhaps sus this wife. ‘Then he will call in a private | Mective to shadow his wife, and often the Fesult 18 that his wife’s reputation 1s ruined and the happiness of a home is destroyed. Tuey don’t care how much trouble they cause ina family or whom they injure if they can make a few ‘and in this way many alleged scandals are Drought to the attention of the public. Take &s an illustration the celebrated Belt divorce case, | 4a Which the most Important part of the testimony ‘was taken in this city—that 1s, the testimony Wuich teaded to injure the lady's character. What Decame of the Wituesses? Three of them are now iu the penitentiary. Thelr evidence weat to prove ‘Unat the lady to the sult was not the proper per Son for a wife, but the truthrul evidence counter- acted the effect of this erjured testimony and ‘the guilty witnesses were brought to justice. It 4s, however, only one case in many Where the scoundrels are caught and made to pay the LICENSING DETECTIVES. “There is a law here,” continued ‘the oficial, “which requires private detectives to furnish a bond of $10,000, and make daily reports to the entef of puilc ind unless the bond is given the @etectives are not recognized by the authorities, | ‘The dificuity with the law is that there is no | = attached. At present there is but one Bonted or asec Prtvate detective in us city. ORCS cases Of course they Ww bardly be expected to make their report wo the of but in cases where thefts are com- en aioe see report to the chief in ‘that ey Fecover stolen propery Cn AES oman bas “What advantage has a licensea detective over one who Is not licensed?” asked the rej hg “He is recoguized by the authori and has power of making an arrest. When he recovers Fayre in force ¥, oe regular WOMEN EMPLOYED IN DIVORCE cases. “Women,” he continued, “are often employed by if they are evidence I detectives, especially ‘a divorce case and want to SOME HANDSOME SUBURBAN HOUSES—-THE OLD CLUB- HOUSE ON LAPAYETTE SQUARE SOLD—MR. E. KURTZ JOHNGON'S FINE HOUSE—A NEW 16TH-STREBT IM- PROVEMENT. “I have very little work now on hand,” said one of the best known builders in Washington toa ‘Sta reporter. “There is a good deal of building now going on in the city, but it seems to be prin- cipally small houses. When it comes to bidding On small houses I generally get left. I can’t begin to get down tothe figures that some men give. Occasionally, when I put in a bid at the lowest Umit, leaving the slightest possible promt for my- dollars, perhaps, below me. It puziles know how they can possibly do the work for the amount of their bid. But two or three hundred dollars makes a great difference to a man building @ house, and, as a rule, when I make a very low bid on a small house some one manages to cut ua- er me to that extent. With the majority of want to build a home a that 1s; question be- tween two or three builders without ard to Other considerations. Of course people right to do what they please with their own money, and it 1s natural if two articles are offered apparently of the same value to take the cheap- est. But it is this desire to get things cheap that, in my opinion, is at the bottom ef tne trouble over the lien law. ‘Contracts are made with the lowest: bidder without argon | ‘whether it is possible for the man to do the work that be contracts to dofor the amount named. Of course there are, very few buliders who are willing, even if they are abie, to make up out of their own the differeuce between the contract price and the cost Of the building. The usual practice is elther to slight the work or else to fall to all the bills, In cither case the owner of the bull has to pay. In the first instance he jliged to be making re- pairs constantly, andin the next place his proj erty is liened and he has to meet all the bills let unpaid by his contractor. If people were willing to pay whatis right for the wi done, and were careful to know about the men tney make con- tracts with, there would be very little trouble even under such a licn law as we have in the District.” SALE OF THE OLD CLUB-HOUSE. ‘Thomas J. Fisher & Co. have sold for the heirs of A. B. Stoughton to Mr. David King, for $67,500, the residence on the east side of Lafayette Square re- cently occupted by the Commissary-General. It ts ‘the invention of the purchaser to refit the house for residence purposes, When the property was purchased by Mr. Stoughton, some tiie in the 50's, it Was used as a club-louse. The price paid then Was $25,000. Commodore Rogers, who was the owner, lad bulit the house some years before and cl P ed iv as his home, After his death it was P PY, Mr. Stoughton and became a fash- sonable rding-house and then aclub-house. To one of its rooms Barton Key was borne after ‘shot by Sickles in the street nearly in front of the house. It Was im the old club-nouse that Secre- tary Seward resided, and it was here that the al- tempt was made to assassinate him the night President Lincoln was shot. In recent years it has: been occupied by the office of the Commissary- General, and was lett vacant when the new State, War and Navy Department building was com- pleted. ‘The property has a frontage of 67 feet and a depth of about 145 feet, and without considering the value of the improvements, the price pald per foot was about $6.90. The oid Tayloe residence, which adjoins this property on the uorth, is now. occupied by Senator Cameron. He bought it about two years ago and paid 368,000. HENRY E. PELLEW’S HOUSES. ‘Two houses are being built by Mr. Henry B Pellew on the south side of Rhode Island avenue between 16th and 17th streets. The teature of the plans, prepared by Win. M. Poindexter & Co., architects, 1s slimplictty combined with con” struction.” A square porch provides a Landsome approach to the main entrance. The porch as well asthe bay projection ig finished at the second story with copper trimmings, The three stories terminate in a plain cornice. ‘The arrangement of the interior provides for a central bail Which sepa- Faves the main rooms of the first story. The wood Work, a8 ina number of houses now being built, will be paiated in colors to harmonize with the furniture, Stables have been built in the rear of tuese houses, FUSE SUBURBAN HOUSES. A handsome residence 1s to be built by Mr. John Francy on Euclid avenue, University Place, just West of 14th street, The house will bea double one, and will be bullt substantially of brick laid in black mortar. The outside walis will be lined with \erra-cotta blocks, Wich Will be hollow, thus pro- viding an aif space between the outside air and the interior. ‘The hali will be in the center of the house, with the rooms opening from it on both sides.’ Surtaounting the two stories wiil be a high- pitched roof, The exterior limes will be relieved by a tower, which will be at one corner. ‘The in- tertor of the Louse will be handsomely finished fm hard wood. ‘The architect is Mr. C. D. Cole. This house will be an additica wa group of picturesque suburban houses which lave Fecently been erected in that locality. The “fine residence of Mr. Justice Harlan stands at the corner of Euclid avenue and 14th street. Adjoining it on the west is tne artistic home of Mrs. Woods, the widow of the late Justice Woods. The new house of Mr. Francy will occupy the next lot, and his partner, Sir. Jom Lynch,owns the adjoining loi, aud has under cousideration Plans for the erection of a house, Mr. W. C. Hill is contemplating ie erection of two stone resi- ences at the ‘corner of Huntington street and University Place. E. KURTZ JOBNSON’S RESIDENCE. On the triangular-shaped lot fronting Scott Cir cle on the west a fine stone and brick residence. will be erected by Mr. E. Kurtz Johnson, The house will stand entirely detached, as it fronts on-1 Massachusetts avenue, Scott Cirele, and N street, and haga side lot on’ the west. Kesting upon & substantial basement of Huminelstown bro stone, the superstructure rising to a height of thrve’stories, is built matnly of brick with corners and trimmings of brown stone. Ou the Scott Cir cle side are two large towers, connected at the third scory by astone arch that will form a pleas ing ature. “On the Massachuseitsavenue front turee stone arches resting upon stone columns form aloggla. ‘The roof will Le high pitched and will be coVered with slate. ‘The cornice and Nntais ll be, copper. anus matin entrance Will be from Massachus e uhrough a wide stone+ arch flanked with stone’ columna "The side wails and floor of the vestibule will be tiled. A high wainscoting of oak 1s one of the features of the widaand spacious entrance hall, aud the celling 1s panelled with the same wood. On the Scott Circle side are spacious reception and drawing-rooms, which will be handsomely futshed in mahogany.” Connected With the latter room by sliding doors 13 the Ubrary, Which will have the southern exposure. ‘The wood-work will be red-quartered oak. On the Tight of the entrance bail 13 the dining-room, which will be beautifully finished in white quartered oak. In the center of the house is the Staircase hail, with the staircase at the West end, lighted by large-stained glass. windows, which look into the side yard. At the first landing of the staircase will be a seat in recess. ‘There ure four rooms on the second- Story aud connected with one of the rooms ts a Dath-room With @ porcelain bath-tub and Uled foor aud walls. On this floor tere 1s another bathroom with Lollet faclities | cecupying & spacious room. ‘The third-story contains five com- modious rooms, and im the basement there 13 a Dilliard-room, ‘kitchen, and other rooms for domestic purposes. The house will be heated by steain ou the principle of Indirect radiation. ‘The architect 1s Mr. Robert Stead, and the builder Mr. W. C. Morrison, DR, LITTLE'S HOUSE. Mr. T. F. Schneider, the architect, has designed @ residence for Dr. J. W. Little, which 13 to be built at Ne, 1313 14th street, near Khode Island avenue, The housew!Il have a frontage of 22 feet and be four stories higu; the first story being an English basement aud the fourth story covered By 4 high slate roof. _A swell bay-window extends to the fourth floor.” The front will be of brick, with Stone trimmings and steps, and the entrance will be through an arcway with nooutside doors, The doctor's reception-roomn, office, laboratory and the kitchen, with pantry, &c., will occupy the first floor. ‘The parlor, lirary'and dining-room will be on the second tloor, and there will be six. cham. ders in tue LwWo Lop stories, with closets, baths and soon. 4 10TH STREET IMPROVEMENT, Mr. R. O. Holtzman has sold to Mrs. Susan ‘Shields the lot at the northeast corner of 16th and | © streets. The lot has a frontage of 67 feet on 16th street, With a depth of 90 feet, and the price paid Was $4.25 per fool. ‘The purchaser to Improve this ground by the erectian of a. fine resideace, the plans of wich have been p by Mr. Chas. Edmonston. The house’ will be erected under Mr. Kdmonston’s supervision, and It Will be one of the fine houses of the city. Itis Ot proposed to occupy the entire space with the house. “There will be an ample lawn ut the side. im continuation of the wide parking which consti. tutes one of the attractive features of 16ub street, ‘The locality 1s one of fine residences. On the oppo- site corner 1s the home of ex-Secretary Robeson, and on the same side of the street looking toward Scott circle are the residences of Sect Endi- cott and Mr. Morgaa. Adjoining the former house Mira. T. Britvouis now buldisg a large house, On the opposite side of the street 1s the house re- cently owued by ex-Secretary Windom, and at the southwest corner of 16th and O strects the First Bapust Church 1s about to build a handsome stoue church edifice, ‘There are a number of other fine specimens of architecture fronting on 16th street as its stretches toward tbe north, If anyone ts to be laid off there are the infleld whose services can unconditional and immediate release, This payee See atararmeas 1s demanded. remo naman Among the other news that the week veloped is an announcement from Pittsburg that Artnur Whitney has not been sold to Detroit. trolt ought to make our feel that here is Seal eee a hl planks of the team platform, ides securing a Player whose brilitant work in the past Will @ Solid man at thitd and will prove a card when the club comes home. Spend money and the returns will be sure to PITCHER WHITNEY. Various rumors are flying around to the effect ‘that Jim Whitney has not signed, and that nis re- Ported “pleurisy” 1s but a managerial fake to hide the true facts. ‘This 1s denied at headqi Whitney no doubt caught a bad cold on the mem- orable day when we won a game, two weeks ago fo-day, and be was genuinely laid'up in his house for a week afterwat He will probably pitch in two of the four games with ‘the first of ‘which will be played to-day. 2 ‘The outfield of the team 1s doing all that can be dove to win, and the men on first and bases are working nobly. ‘THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD. ‘The following resume of the records of the four Philadelphia games will show better than words ‘the work done by each man on the team. Daily layed right fleld twice and pitched _once, Binks, 6 putouts, 7 ensiata” und’ 5 ercire es which were made in the box. Hoy played his regular positon, cenver field, four times, made 5 ‘DIL, 4 put-outs, and 1 error. Wilmot ‘also ap. peared four thmés, made 2 two-base nits and a Single, put out 18 men, and is credited with 4 errors. ”“Shoch played once at short and twice in Tight feld. He made 3 singles and a home run, put out 1 man, made 3 ‘and 2 errors, O’Brien, of course, played four and bit the ball for singles twice, for 1 double, and 1 triple. He put out 41 men with one error. Myers Was four times on the score card and hit safely five mes. He put out 8 men and assisted 17 times with one error. Deasley caught twice, and to him Was laid the fault of the first defeat. ‘He made no “hits, but put out 10 men, making 3 assists and 3 actual errors, no passed balls being given him, Nevin ed three times at short and once Unird. He bit 5 times, put out 5 men, assisted times, and made two errors. Donnelly played Uhree’times and mage hits. He put out 2, 4 umes, and has no errors to his O'day pitched twice, and made 1 hit. He assisted 13 times, and made 1 error. caught in the second game, bit once, put out and made 1 assist without an error, wilh 1 bali in his score, Mack caught the last game, falling vo hit safely, and putting out 2 wen, with Out ab assist or an error, Gilmore pitched the ‘winning game, 13 hits being made off him, strik- E 3 iL é pt ‘follow. ; I z fi Conway and Ganzell and Galvin and Fields were the batteries, Hits, 11 by Detrott, 6 by Pitts- burg; errors, 4 and 4. At Cineinnati—KansasCity, 3 Cincinnatl, 3. At Louisville—St. Louls, 7; Lou- ‘Pittsburg . Philadelphia. Washington .. Indianapolis Boor ce! NOTES. Smiling Mickey Weick, of New York, has another ‘tle, He 18 néw called “Big-Footed = Itis rumored that Boston has offered Burdock fo Washington tree, Another story 1s to the effect Jat Gardner is to be traded for him, ‘The Columbian College team will play the Episcopal High School nine at Alexandria to-day. ‘The Athletics’ managers have released Gambell, and Gibson, pitcuer and catcher. ‘The Night Yor the pennant 1s becoming feree. It 18 quite likely that the end of the next series will find Chicago a game ahead of Boston, The former plays four with ‘asbington, and Will take Uuree, while the Hubbites will do well with two gut of the four witn Detrott. |New York ‘and De- roit are fighting for third ‘place, with the advan- Lage on the side of the former. Boston’s Mui ‘Comspiracy Sensation. EXPLANATION OP THE ARRESTED BROKER. A dispatch to yesterday's Star gave an account of the arrest of Luke W. Holman, a real estate broker in Boston, on @ charge of conspiring to cause the murder of his halt sister named Emeline B. Holman. In an interview Holman said: “This hole matter isa Job put upon, me by certain es, but for what reason I can’t have been into it by parties that had ‘object of their own to accomplish. Some last January @ proposition was made to have my sister’s room broken into and certain Papers taken therefrom. ‘This matter was finally ‘dropged, however, because I could not find a per- son competent w do the job. Subsequently the ‘same parties suggested the plan of my sis. ter, and It was talked over, the parties agreeing find some one to do the deed, thing more of the matter till s week ago when I received at Worcester & ty in Boston well known as a faro-pl ing Ie to come to Boston at once on ho dispateny who told me that they e a & man Uo do. the deed. On May 1 parties jaccompan! 0 where I was introduced to a man was the one I Wanted. Both ot nearby while I was and Jeast heard what was said. in the idea of 5 me to 8 “testi ue EG Ly i ij 5] i i i §; E | any which it 1s written, I gave the the woman aud the key and a All this time I was satisfied I was ‘a scheme that would causo on the point several times away to the but aim” T'was algo satisfied ae FEE i f i i a8 Z i i is taal j g E é setae naa : rt is i Fe FE Ee a2 if i i it, ta necticut Yankee. If he writes his book on “L’Oncle ‘Sam et son Continent” he must needs write it in French, d<cause, although he speaks English Sharmingly, he cannot write weil in the language, And 80 soon'as Monsieur O’Rell is jase teur © reading and pounds sterling of the pretty sum. Max O'all red on this side? Even our “great American,” Mr. Sullivan, of Boston, ts sald to have landed here dead broke’ after his ‘recent journey sbroad._Auerican talent may be respected abroad, certainly isn’t a parucularly merchant le commodity. B It’s some consolation, though, to know that sev- eralof these foreigners who have bam- ‘doozled us out of our dollars in times past sunk into the commonplace position of novodies. Even Oscar Wilde, as Blakely Hall writes from Europe, is nothing now but an ordinary plebelan editor, and Blakely notes with much glee that the erstwhile sylph-like form of Mr. O. has of late become aldermanic in its superfluity of stom- ach, Fancy the ethereal disciple of greenery-yal- lery “making up” his magazine for the press in a stuffy, nolsome printing shop, and celebrating the locking up of the forms by seni out the office boy for “another ‘arf pint o’ bitter” with which to ‘add to his stomachic girth and deepen the rubicund color of his nose! I have been talking dress this week with a dress- maker. Don’t be frightened! I am not going to write a chapter on the styles, but I’m going to say sometht about somebody who can sway the fashion in feminine fabrics and fancies by a Scratch of her head. She’sa little old maid of a French woman, and she has a garret at the top of @ house on Sth avenue. She has but few patrons for whom she makes gowns, two of her best cus- tomers being Fanny Davenport and Ada Rehan; but there are fancies emia York houses which receive their new i of feminine wearing ap- Parel from this hard-featured little foreigner, and ‘she is an artist of acknowledged ability. It is a treat to see her when she is evolving a new drapery or new eifect of some kind or other. Mademolselie has her models, the same as any other artist, and they are flesh ’ and blood, too, mind you, aud no qummy ‘She will stand one of these models ‘im the middle of her garret, arrayed in the gown which is perhaps to inaugurate an entirely new style in fashion’s realm, and as she circles around the figure, just as ‘Indians in dime novels dance around a victim tied to the stake, Mademol- Selle looks sharply at every portion of the dress, and at the same Ume scratches her head vigor- ously with her er, Ever and anon she darts at the figure as eagles are sup; to dart at their prey, and with a little poke nere, a little pinch there, and a small yank in several places at Once the oat is arranged in a different way, ‘and Mademoiselle begins her war dance anew and Scratches her head more vigorously than ever, When the draperies and things are finally w her entire satisfaction, the model must do the walking about, while Mademoiselle sits stillon a high stool, watches things closely, and scratches oe head, The model must imitate See on @ rainy day, getting into a cab, bending, bowing, and sometiines dancing; she must manip: ulate a’ fun, arrange her couffure at the back of her head, and go through other movements that display to Madeioiselle the effect of her arrange- ment in every particular. Mademoiselle cot- plained to me ‘that she could not copyright her new designs in dress, She solls them outright to two or large establishments which make from fifty to five thousand or more gowns from the gesign, which, if successful, 1s copied by hup- dreds other houses without the formality of even asking mission. Mademoiselie believes she could retire in five years if a dress design Coy ht law Was passed which would allow ner 8 foyalty on each pattern sold ot ies amventiene, The little French lady remarked to me that the Women of Washington dress in better taste than their sisters of New York and Boston. In New York, she says, the women dress “loud;” in Boston ns Ag “dowdies,” but in Washington they have a mus Of harmony and artistic elegance which do them much credit. she also told me that she is now designs which contemplate the abolitiun of that mysterious plece of {mpedimenta, the bustle, at which announcement { am sure ‘everybody should rejoice and be glad, ‘There are curious thi in the way of news- Paper advertisements 1g upevery in the New York journals of late, which indicate more clearly than almost anything else the cos- mopolitanism Of this great city. I have cut out a few Of the odd ones recently. Here is one: sora taelin tricia tee ars i should be glad oc a chance to read some of the stories “Adonts” received in answer to his ci 1 beiteve they would make a very readable newsaper article, Here is another: Partics, not less than twelve, wishing genuine Ori- ental dinner ith or with hese Soe GRE Wing Shae Cee ote os Mr. Wong Chin Foo is a Chinaman of education and many accomplishments, who covers the Chi- nese laundries, joss houses, and opium joints for a couple of newspapers. He alsoadds to his news paper income by acting as a sort of civerone to par- es who wish to seo Lhe Oriental elephant as Ne 18 explbited in MoU street an a A “bureau *n well advert lately in the papers. its announcement says: ‘All kinds of mending for ladies and gentlemen gheap: socks darued. 5 conta pair, shirts sobosoaren, 36 conte: new collarbaud, 10 cents: new wristbands, 5 cents each, able dressmaking for ladies at Very moderate prices. Lady 1 attendance. ‘There are plenty of bachelors in New York, ana no doubt the “bureau of mending” is a paying es- ment ‘This ad. was a novelty when it first appeared, Datronicing this or slinvlar couceras Coe anerca not or concerns the annot Trent is now looked Upon quite as a matter of course: ‘The Brooklyn Clean-Towel Supply Co. will put up ‘ks in New York and Brooklyn offices al pa ne ‘The “personal” columns of some of the dailies are always interesting to the student of New York Ufe, Some of these “personals” are meaningless to the ordinary reader. For what io the world does this announcement mean? ‘The voice of N. H—k is the voice of God. Nemesis, Here is a man afflicted with mother-in-law look- oe tloman, middle-aged, educated refined, A whose domestic relations are not happy. estnes tanec: Fospond with a lady similaiy eft ‘Address Hay- ‘And here 1s a woman who evidently believes ‘that the human form divine 1s more perfect in afuence than in poverty: ‘A lady, once living in affluence, now in straitened ctroumstances, would pose as model to first-class artist ouly., Address, with stamped envelope, Seclusi town office. iS eco Icould make it very interesting for the gentle. man who advertises the following if I knew fa just what part of the West Mrs. Rex resides: ‘A young gentleman desires the acquaintance of a 7. OF widow, of lively ‘dis middle-aged Indy, oF of uvely disposition, for strict nature of the one just above that the I vously One day he called up’ the’ advertisin manager Met ~! ‘accepted unless the advertiser ‘One of the newspapers formerly had a column that became 80 notorious tor its ade of the manager felt, his ‘sense of propriety ] and gave him an order that ‘no ada so the or acquaintance of the ‘alte sexes should ‘should state that his or her object in thus and pleasing withal, and so sunny and warm in opulent sogial and business activities, that almost feels, after knowing it, that there for Cuba, even with its curse of THE 3] i Bi iit ‘quarter of a century the 1 1 ‘most brillant city of America south of New Or- leans. ‘The cathedral and plaza at Clenfuegos are ‘strikingly beautiful, and the building occupied by itsleading club, the“Circulo de Instruccion y re- creo el Liveo,” on the Calle de Santa Cruz, for merly a wealthy Cuban’s residence, 1s oriental in design, appointinents and embellishments, The harvor is Que of the fest in the world. | It is named Bahia (bay) trom jagua tree Which grows protusely fs this part of the island. The jagua resembles our American Tc Dears (8 fruit | something ‘zapota ‘appearance, is only edible by swine, which fatten’ upon it as rapidly as upon cori, The bay is five leagues in diameter, and as we steamed over iten route for Trinidad, some 80 miles by sea to the east, the picture of the splendid city, encir- cling the white shore, and brilliant in its ad col- orinys of pink, blue, and yellow, backed by far- Feaching Waves of ‘luxurlant foliage, was one Which the Mediverranean’s shores cannot Surpass, ‘The harbor entrance is most interesung. Iv tol- lows the sea in sinuous winding, i @. bold ocean bluff, upon Which looms a grim fort of Moor- 1gh design;’ and just within, aloug the debot shore, are ‘delightful quintas and villas, brilliant hued” bathing” boxes, and numberless quaint fishers’ cabins, above’ which are endless fowers and tropical verdure. ALONG THE SOUTHERN COAST. Our trip along the southern coast of Cuba was.a lazy and dreamfui one. Underneath great awn- ings perhaps half a hundred passengers, the larger number of pure Castilian, or the darker-hued tnixod Cuban, types, lolled the whole day long in languid siesta. But to me and my companion, ‘whose eycs kindled with delightas olden scenes Were discovered, or suffused with tears as olden memories of the brave and bitter ‘tor the Uberty of “his loved land were awakened, the pas- sage Was replete with interest. For the whole distance we were never a league, and.often within hailing distance, from these Witching shores. Something’ as upon the great Bahaisa Danks, the coraline sea-bed formation gives won- dertul color to the water. milk, there, 10 has the ‘glowing Sus, of 1. Again, We cross a bit of green Fivalling tne palest ‘shades of tho emefaid. Now Our course is Where the blue of the sea deepens to erimsou-Uinted purple. Aud more than once we glided through still waters Itie amber, where sea ward and shoreward there swept over hidden coral reefs mile-long surfs nigh and stately Uke massed columns Of milk-whive ‘steeds, decked with snowy pluines. Myriads of sea-gulls circitd about us Jaaily, uttering their half-whistied mc ; and at mid-day even the sleepy Cubans were roused into activity by the hovering of one of those mam- moth birds of the sea, the albatross, or “1 TRE fe the sallors havo t which tolijwed toe ay @ half uour in majestic etre parent Guta singie movement of its tremendous Wings. SOON THE SAN JUAN RIVER Was SEEN. At its mouth great breakers were tossed back and: forth over coral reefs, which, here and there rose in black, white, or mottled ledges and pinnacles to the height of an hundred feet, At the peaceful shore-edge beyond, on eitner side of the river. mouth, inconcelvably large turtles lay sunning themsélves upon ripple-washed rocks, occasionally moving in awkward lethargy, of, a0 ff determined ‘on sudden mission, plunging ‘from Gepths below. kere and there, in barren, tide. Washed spaces of shore, there suddenly emerged from the jungles veliind, herds of, wild hogs, which, catching sight of Sho palatng steamer, with excited gyrations aad cave ‘expressed ‘their astonishinent “in snortings ings, not unlike those of the American coyote, and’ with curved backs and wild jumpings and trees Here, it 18 a3 into the air on all-fours, precipitaccly peared, Some fisher’s huts of ito Ena" glimpses were caugue far up he’ stream ‘and glimpses were caug! among weird. crags and cliff of montéros'vine- owered homes, picturesque as ever peeped from heights in the Tyrol, Belind all this, tier on tier, stood almost impenetrable forests, now forever haunted by the wraiths of uncounted thousands, Spanish. and Cuban foes, who fel n te awful con Ft ict which must come again ‘until spanish barbarism is swept, from ; while beyond, looming vast and high in this sirge wopical air as anotuer Iseran, 1s, the peak of Potrellio, 6,000 feet high, the elevation in Cuba save Mount Turquino. CABILDO. ‘Toward evening we steamed up the canal from the sea to Casiido, the little outer port of ‘Trinidad, one of the oldest cities of Cuba, and in former times even surpassing in riches and spien- dor Havana in her most famous decades of opu- lence. Ci was never but an entrepot for ‘Trinidad, the latter being built upon a splendid inland harbor; but here ure some of the greatest, warehouses aid wharves inCuva, Before the rev- ven resources of this inconcetvably rich Southern coast country, and left its splendid olties effortless and silent, these vast wharves and alma- cens must have presented most suirring scenes, Stored as they constanuly were with mliioas upod millions of dollars worth of sugar, molasses, to- bacco, and especially coffee, a8 “Trinidad at that ‘ume was the greatest single coffee metropolis of the world, Deserted as they are to-day no one can pass them Without interest and even amaze- ment at their area and ponderous strength, ‘They are built of the famous Cuban wood, much resembIt ‘num. vitw, called guibrahacs, liter- Tip are beaker,” on account of. the dithoulay found tn worl Upon it with any edged tools, Pfashtoning in these guibrahaca ulkne: ings are of mahogany, and Dulkneade emah sce weanogany Umbers tn Lsces Wharts, it laid down in New York at thelr market- freq fron spikes in any American d‘pior. Here’ at Caulido are also a fsw quaint Tepe villas along the sea, bafios or ba! Monsters of- these tropl leeps huge palmetto piling, and light, datoty roofs are made of the brown abd puce palmetto leaves, ‘TRINIDAD. But three miles distant inland over a queer Uttle railway, We came to Trinidad, The almost land-locked bay at its edge 1s called Masio, It isa eae ae ‘ iH i HI i g a fomee, away there to the north, | : Ha ; i B i i-é iit i sted eiuir BEE Be sees! Iwo!” “You are worse than to!”) is a common ohe among the vine of the region, as a reminder of the rolucton, del Quemado; abd, were you here in quaint old La Vijia upon’ the heights, you would a mighty tower, ‘Manaca Isnaga, another relic Of that tragic ume. It 18 @ fortinied tower 400 feet high, built there tm- mediately atter the uprising of ’33._AU its top 13 4 monstrous bell which can be heard 5 leagues in any direction. Twenty-four strokes of its giant tongue were to warn the whites in the region about Trinidad of another Revolucion del Que- mado, “But the enslavement of blacks by Cubans. ceased When the worse enslavement of Cubans by*| ‘Spaim begun, and the tolli: of the great bell nas never besn Heard through beautiful valley. Epgar L. WAKEMAN. nie —gipbeeenienen GLADSTONE ON INGERSOLL, ‘The English Statesman Stoutly Cham- pristinn Charch, SEVERE CRITICISM OF THE ATHRIST’S FLIPPANCY RE- GARDING THINGS SACRED TO CURISTIANS—RELI- G1OUS INVESTIGATION 4 DUTY—RESULT OF INGER- 04's Loaic, In the North American Review tor May, the Rt Hon. W. E Gladstone rises to confront Col, Robert G. Ingersoli’s beliefa. The ex-premier Gescribes himself as listening from across the broad Atlantic to the clash of arms and the combat between Col. Ingersoll and Dr. Field. He pleads gulity to not having “the personal knowledge which assisted those doughty cham- plonsin making reciprocal acknowledgments, as ‘broad as could be desired, with reference to per- sonal character and motive, Such acknowledge- ments are of high value in ing the issue clear, if not always of adventitious, yet of all venomous ras ecee sear ee Uempting partially to criticise the remarkable re- ply of Col, Ingersoll, I can both’ accept in faith what has becn sald dy Dr. Field, and add what it seems to me consonant with the strain of the pages I have set before me. Having said this, Tshall allow myself the utmost in re. marks, which will be addressed exclusively to the matter, not the man.” in the ulty of the life of the obureb, ads Mr. G! are not ted to bellev- tng in Che perpetual nealth ‘of the church. Even the great Latin communion, and that communion, tically admits oF does mot clude, the oret ‘adinits, or does not ex Dility of a wide Of local and partial erFor in Opinion as well as conduct. Else ‘the admis. would be more unequivocal. Of suth errors in tenet or in temper and feeling more or less hardened into tenet, there has been a crop alike abundant and multifarious. Each Christian is suMciently apt to and dislocated condition. N: dotormities help vw indispose meu toward unbelief, and when has been de- HOSTILITY TO RELIGION. I notice these things in the mass, without par- Ucularity which might be invidious, for two im- Portant purposes, First, that we all, who hold by ‘the Gospel aad the Christain church may learn humility and modesty, as well as charity and in- duigence, fh the treatinent of ts, from our consciousness that we all, alike by our exaggera- tons and our shortcomings in belief, no less than by taulte ofconduct, have contributed to bring about this condition of fashionable hostility wo Teligious faith; and, secondly, that we may res- Olutely decline to be held bound to tenets, or to consequences of tenets, which represent fot the great Coristendam of the past aud present, but Only some hole and corner of its vast 2, not the heavenly treasure, but the rust of canker to which that treasure’ has been exposed through the incident of 1t8 custody in earthen vessels. ‘Ido not remember ever to have read a composi- tion in which the merely local coloring of particu- Jar, and even very Itmited, sections of Christianity ‘Was more systematically used aS if it had been available and legitimate argument against the reply before us. Col. Ii writes with rare and enviable brilliancy, but also with an impetus which he seems unable to con- trol Denunclation, sarcasm and invectives, bo said to consututs the staple ot his work and, if argument or some favorable admission here leaves the dry and barren heighis tor his favorite and more luxurious galloping grounds beneath. * "+ * ‘Tne paper, motewortuy as it 1s, leaves on my, mind ‘the impression of 4 buttielleld where every man strikes at every man, and all is noise, hurry and confusion. Better surely bad it nity the dominion of reason over force, 108 jast plico as the sovereign arbiter of tus Questions that invoive the main destiny of man. I will give another instance of the ‘umultuous method in which the reply conducts, not, in its nt, but itscase. Dr. Field had exnil what he at lomt¥ou are shocked at the Hindoo mother, when fof her God. Whe do you thing of Abraxas mand or Jeputnan? What 18 your opinion of Jehovah 4 SEVERE REJOINDER. ‘Taking these three appeals in the reverse order tothat in which they are written, I will briefly to the challenge: “What do you Sitar ot genovan a ‘this is the ‘Vone in which q iti a xt, 2) that he ‘whatsoever on his obligation as believers to approve the conduct of Jephthah. ye) a Very serious question whether we are or are so obliged. But unis question the reply does not condescend ettber to or even & state, it Jumps to an extreme conclusion without the cy of an Intermediate Are ‘not such Methods of proceeding more suited to placards at Than to disquisitions on these most subjects? “Colonel I "scheme Of argument seems to be in the line of glittering generalities,, He does not seriously frou Bolas £0 potat, but he sets out fa mawsen without pbor of Groot, crowds ot imputations which may ‘overwavim ‘an opponent like sails rom & 55 feance or fare oniy manufacture, and relegate the ques: of & ease Into obseurity, in ion, I admit that great believers, who have been reat masters of wisdom and knowiedre, are able to expiain the inequalities of adjustment tween human delngyand the conditions in which they have been set down to work out their destiny. The climax of these inequalities Is, peruapa, Lo 0S found in the fact that whcreas rational beliet, Viewed at large, founds the providential govern: ment of the World upon the hypothesis of iree agency, there are so many cases In Which the Overbetiring taastery of circumstance appears to Feduce 1t to extinction or paralysis, Now, In one sense, without doubt, these difficul- tes are matiers for our iogitimate and necessary cognizance. “It 1s a duty incumbent upon us, re Spectively, according to our means and opportunt- ‘Lo decide for ourselves, by tne use of the facul- {y Of reason given us, the great questions of pa. tural and revealed reiizion. They are to be decided according to the e ‘and if we cannot trim the evidence into ing to the bs evidence. We are not entitled, ett inst. Deliet, to set up in this province any rule of investigation except such ‘a8 common sense Upaches us Lo use in the ordinary conduct of lire, THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE. As tm ordinary conduct, so ii considering the Dasts of belief, we are bound to look at the evi dence as a whole, We have no right to demand demonstrative proots, or the removal af all con- Micting elements, either in the one sphere or the other." What guides us sufficientiy in matters of common practice has the vory same authority to guide us in matters of speculation, Does the gen~ eral reason of the case make it probable that a finite being, with a Quite place, in a compreben- sive scheme’ devised and admiuistered by a being Who is infinite, would be able either to embrace within his view or rigutly to ‘ali the motives and the alms that may have been in the mind of the Divine Disposer? It ts not dimcult to sec that while the reply alms human nature, ft tn reailty plunges us of degradation by the jon of m, Fesponsibility, and unity. For we are justly told that “reason ‘is the supreme and final test.” Action may be merely instinctive and habitual. It passes over so soon as it is chall into the other category and finds a basis for it self in some form of opinion. But, says the reply, we have no responsibility for our opinions—we cannot help forming them according to the evi- dence as it presents Itself to us. the doctrine embraces every kind Of opinion. It'a dis- Unction be taken between conclusions to which 3 jassion or sity or imagination inciine us, End couctudions to which those have. nothing Say, then the Whole ground will be cut away from under the feet of the reply, and it will have to Dulld again ab initio, Let us try this by a test case, NUTS FOR INGERSOLL TO CRACK. A father, who has believed his son to have been through Iife upright, suddenly finds that charges are made from various quarters against Ws in- ity. OF a friend, greatly dependent for the friend, ts told tat that cqurade ts ‘couuterw and betraying him. I make no assumption Dow as to theseridence or the results Dut Y ask Wich of them could the investigation Without feeling a desire to be able to acquit? Aud What shall we say of the desire to condemn? Would Elizabeth have had no toward find- ing Mary Stuart plicated in a. racy? Did English judges and"juries approach with an un- Diased mind the trials for the Popish plot? Were the opinions formed by the English paritament ‘on the treaty of Limerick formed without the tn- tervention of the will? Did Napoleon judge ac- cording to the evidence when he acquitted himself on the matter of the Duc D’kughient Does the intellect sit in a solitary chamber, like Galileo in the palace of the vatican, and pursue celestial observation all untouched, walle the turmoil of earthly business is raging everywhere around? According to the reply it_must pe a mistake to ‘Suppose that there is anywhere in the worid such @ thing as bias, or prejudice, or prepossession, Tosum up. ‘here are many passages in these notew. which, taken by Uuemseives, orthy” are calculated to command. warm sympathy. ‘Toward the close of his tinal, or latest, leter the writer expresses himself as foliows: “Neither in tue luterest of trath nor for the ben- efit of man Js it necessary to assert wuat we do ‘not know. No cause ts enough to demand asacrifice of candor. The mysteries of lite and death, of good and evil, have never yet been a How how wise are these words. But com- ing at the close of the cohtroversy, have they not sothe of the ineffectual features of’ a death-bed re- pentence? A few pages earlier it 1s pronounced that “an infinite God has no excuse for leaving luis children 1n doubt and darkness.” Candor and upright invention are indeed every- where imauifest atuidst the flashing corruscations which really compose the stapleor Une articles and candor and upright intention also impose upon a commentator the duty of formulating his anitaad- Versions I sum them up under two heads Whereas we are placed in aa aunosphere of mys- tery, relieved only by a ilttie sphere of light round each of us, like a clearing in an American forest (Which Uns writer has so well deseribed: and rarely can see further than is necessary for ‘the direction of our own conduct from day to days we find bere, assumed by @ particular person, the character of’ an universal Judge without appeal. ‘And whereas the highest ‘self-restraint 1s heces- sary in these dark but, therefore, all the more ex- citing inquiries in order to maintain te ever utvering balance of our faculties, this writer choses to ride an unbroken horse and to throw the reins upon his neck. Ihave endeavored to give a saimple of the result, W. E. GLADSTONE, Saturday Smiles. Dude (bad pay)—“That stripe looks well—go does tis Waat would you prefer yoursell It you were choosing?” Loug-Sullering tailor—“A check.” — Phiiadeiphia Cull. In the theater—“But why do you weep? The ts certainly not so touching.” “Excuse me; 1am bewailing the money I paid to come in."—Fliegende Blatter. ‘A prominent actress is advertised as suffering from a severe fail. ‘Tlls seems rather singular, for most of us are suffering irom a severe spring. She—“Do you lixe Browning?” He—“Very much.” “I do not believe I shall ever tire of him. Do you think you ever will?” “Well, I don’t know. I used to think I'd never tire of ‘the niteen puzzle, but I did”—Omaha World. Alberto—“Do you love me, Garling?” Claribel—“Have I wot had’ all the chairs taken from the room except tbis?”—Detrott #ree Press. ‘The man Who never made a mistake tn his life 1s deat, dumb, lind, and sll unmarried. —Smer- ville’ Journal A Meport that Hie Has Decided se Ac- cept the Vomination. THE MAINE STATESMAN SAID 10 HAVE ASSURED 1S FRIENDS THAT HE WILL NOT DECLINE—IMPORTANT Tec, ‘The Philadelphia Twmes publishes the following tripie-leaded spectal from New York: New York, May 4—I have entirely reliable tn~ formation taat tne friends of Blaine bave, within ma Blaine within the last three days. In a very tow Gays taore it Will Cease to De a secret that Blaiue Is lu the bands of hia miends, as te Blaine leaders will at once come ont aud WAKE 4a aggressive campaign [oF his renomination, ‘Tue movement bas been pretty ‘owed for some weeks in such Blaine organs as tho Tribune of this city and the . v and all affectation about Biat now soon be thrown off and 1 aggressive one. Part of Ue origi % candidacy wi Dattie made program was tue election of Chas. Emory Smith as a deiogate. at-large from your slale; and (he failure Was « tment to the Haine Jute int city; but Mr. Smith gives Ube assurance Blaine cana command @ majority of the Pe: under any circumstances, and bomination shall serum to le as sured, Lhe delegation Will be solid for bim. The UbeX pected expressions in Massachusetts and Ver. mont for Blaine were wot accidental, por wor they unexpected to Blaine’s friends. When J antl-Blaine men were rey ing On thelr arn cause Ubey regarded Blaine as out of Ube fyui the triends of Blaine were most energetic Lu Lact Work in the two antl-Blaine New England s F Uhey got possession of Vermont aad Massach While Che others were sleeping 1p faicied ~ IU Was Che expression of bos bi ty anti-t, New England states that made Blaine «a» his doubis and assent to the urtunities of his Iriends for his renomination. Il ts now a positive fact that Blaine is: the Beld; Unat bis tre have is assent to a movement Uhat he will be nominated at Chi t hard work and plenty of entiusiasm can accompiist: tt, THE PRESBYTERIAN CENTENNIAL, Meeting of the Northern and Southern Aocembiles in Philadephia aad Balue more the Latter Part of May. ‘The General Assembly of the Southern Presty- Yerian Church will begin its annual session in the Franklin Street Presbyterian church, Baltimore, on Thursday, May 17. The general assembly 18 composed of seventy presbyterics, which embrace territory in Maryland and Missouri, and all the States to the south of these. “The number of com. missioners and oMicers who will come to this meeting will probably be 170. While the Southern General Assembly meets tn Baltimore the general assembly of the Northern Presy- terian Church will meet in Philadelphia. Tuat meeting Will be the hundredth anniversary of the Organization of Ue Geueral Assembly at Phila. deipuia, On the fourth Thursday in this month andon several days foliowing the memo Dial, services will be held in Us Music and tn Horticultura: Hall That day the general assembly Church WI suspend Its sessions missiovers to take part in the se be twenty speakers during the ses each of the two branches of ( Man Church in America, T ‘aside h Tucker, of Ving De. M. Hon. Clifford A: sions,” Rev. Dr. “Howe Missions,” Kev. WwW. dren of the Covenant,” . Benjamin ler; closing address, Rev. Dr. Jerry With From the Northern Churet: liistory of F teriantsm,” Rev. Theo. L. Cuyier, D. D., alveruntn Rev. James. 1. Brow: “Presbyverianism and Biblical Scholarship,” Rev. Howard Crosby, DD, LL.D., alternate, Ke ellan Holmes, i, D.;“Presbyterianiam and Edu: . McPherson, D. D.; alieruate, “Presbyterianisin and Kepubi Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of 1 ison,” Mew, . Da, alternate, Francis A. Horton; “Home Missions,” Rev, Geo. P. Hays, D, ., LL. D., alternate, Kev. Joun N. Newman, D. “litstorical Presbyterian Characters,” Kev.” Cas, L. Thompson, D. D., alternate, Kev. itverard Kempshali, D. D.; “Foreign Mission,” Rev, Cams, S. Pomeroy, ‘D."D., aitocnais, Rev. Henry i. Jessup, D. Dz “Closing address,” Kev. Wa F. Reed, alternate, Kev. Cuas. A. vickey, D. D. THE CASE OF DR. WOODROW. A matter of great interest to come before the Southern assembly is the case of Rev, James Woodrow, a professor in the Columbia Theolog!- ‘cal Seminary, wo Was clted before the pres tery of Augusta for beliefs and teachings w were Rot orthodox and did not confirm to the tenets of the church. The, presuytery, wustatned Dr. Woodrow, but tbe synod ordered the verdict annulled, and the case LOW comes before the geu- eral asseinbly. FOR AND AGAINST WOMEN, The Discussion on Their Fligibitity Continued im the Methodist Conter- ence. At the discussion in the Methodist General Con ference in New York yesterday on the question of the eligibility of women as lay delegates, Gen. Samuel H. Hurst, of Ohio, the Mrst layman to jain the Moor, detended the right of women to adiais- sion, He alluded to the opponents of the women as “old fogies” He criticised the bishop's address, The eplacopacy, he sald, does not interpret we law of the church, but’ the general conference does, The conference ts to be considered as the Supreme Court sitting asa body to inverpret the law. Wotan does not come her: asa stroug-minded person demanding admittance, but sie comes as the tative of the lay conference. ‘The word “laymen” Was interpreted to mean all mem- bers of the church not represented in tue tulnistry, ‘That ts the law, and if women wre “laymen,” ey are entitled to admission, Women, he continued, @o more work in the church than the men. spirit of the age is against the opponents of woman, and tue law is against them. The general conference of sad settled the question of the rights of the slave and to-day the church Will settle the rights ot The women, Prot. ©. J. Little, of Syracuse Uni- versity, followed Gen, Hurst. Iie sald Le was not 4h favor of the admission of women at the present time, because the church at large had bot ex- Pressed an opinion va Uhe suiject. He wanted women to sit there; but when they came be ‘Wanted them to come coustitutioually, and by the consent of tue whole church. Kev. Jacob Rothe Weiler, of the central Germain ovuterence, asserted that the opponents of tue report are tryin Override the constitution of tue church, aid are making an effort to strike at the con-cicutiouspess Of 90 per cent of the Christian Churel, wich has e Tor the iast 18v0 years. The ‘history of Curistianity showed that Women were never tne tended to vote, . F. B, Neely, of Philadelphia, said be was tn Bet A et : “That we subtalt to the tion "w amend the second restrictive rule by amending the words ‘and words fo lay celegutes for an annual confer. Wi legates for an a once, so that it willvead: "Nor of more than two rales may be men or women.” ” shaw, a lawyer from Des Mi argued that women are eilgibir. “He argued seated at Lae present con ‘question of their eligibility be abnual conferences afterward referring the He expected that a omnen woud boadantsbed wiut> juestion of legatt ig Falsed, Speare, of New England, spoke in favor of apd K Finse, of i i Saee as ‘San Rewa