Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-29

Hoar says: "There is no heresy here-N,
 question of heresy." Where is your case
 Moreover, heterodoxy is not even charged
 but only alluded to. Regarding the alleged
 departure of Prof. Smyth from the creed o1 ! the founders counsel insisted that the only question is. Has there been such departure l as to amount to violation of the contract l between him and the seminarya claim that endowments for maintaining unalterable l opinions are among the greatest public evils, for they tend to produce profession without 1 beIlef In the name not only of the profes- sors under trial, but of all the teackers in the land including, trust, the chairman of l the board of visitors, I respectfully protest against the iron shackles upon education. Counsel cited the case
 of the trustees of Phillips academy vs. James King, decision by Judge Thacher to the effect that the two creeds of Apdover, that of the original and that of the associate founders, must be interpreted as to secure the great and leading purposes of their au- thors, and that no inconsistency was to be 1 inferred on account of slight and techinal
 deviations. He showed that there is no line
 or letter in the seminary against the doctrine
 of second probation, but that is natural
 inference from the doctrine of universal
 atonement.
 At the end of Professor Dwight's address,
 lasted three hours, Professor Simeon E.
 Baldwin, of New Haven, submitted docu- mentary evidence tending to show the liberal construction accepted by the original found
 CTS. Professor Smyth then began an address in his own behalf. but court adjourned be- fore he concluded.
 NEWS FROM THE COAL FIELDS,
 The Trade Journal Sizes Up the Situa-
 tien i'm the Industry.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-The Coal Trade Journal in it's forthcoming issue will say: Anthracite holds firm in a remarkable de- gree. Closing the record of the year 1886, it IS fair to say that prices are upon the aver age frmer than at any period in the year; that the tonnage in first hands is less; that the rational expectancy is of better results next year than in any three preceding the same. Retailers are carrying fair stocks. They report their business this year as an in creasing one. There is no doubt that the de- mand for anthracite as 8 domestic fuel is in- creasiny. Some producers and jobbers claim that the demand from steam users is also in creasing and note the high price of pea and of buckwheat to prove the correctness of their claims. There is firm demand for all sizes. Had not the labor troubles of the Reading company been settled there would have been scarcity of anthracite; there is none too much being produced this week and the stock in hand is daily gro wing less. There is little new to report in the soft coal trade; it is in good shape at all points, and the operators and jobbers have great diff culty in filling orders promptly. A meeting of the representatives of the soft coal dis tricts supplying the seaboard was held on the 23d inst. There was nothing definite ac- oomplished and a further effort of the com mittee will have to be made. The great cause of the difficulty in making up this pool is road interest, which is the youngest of the competitors for the tidewater trade, and yet, as we understand it, they claim fifteen per cent. of the output in 1887. As we held all along, there is to be no strike at the mines in the Connellsville coking coal district. The result of meeting of the em mployers and the men is compromise which has for it's basis an agreement that no further demand shall be made until the selling price of coke is advanced. We note that the men of several of the Clear field mines have asked for an advance of ten cents per ton dating from the first of Jan uary. If the pool be formed and prices are advanced the result is 8 demand of labor for a share therein; they count the unpro6table ness of the past for nothing. At any rate the advance in wages should not take place before March, when present contracts run out. Our Pittsburg advices are of no change since our last except in the coke dispute, which has been settled, and the getting out of still further supplies by river to already overstocked markets. In Ohio there are still labor troubles; Mahoning valley operators and their miners are endeavoring to compro- mise their difficulties on the Columbus scale (sixty cents per ton as the basis price of mining.) We hear that several mines have already given the ten cents per ton asked. A State convention to deal with all these vexed questions is called for the 18th of January. An earnest effort is being made to have the railroads furnish better transportation facilities. The Indiana miners are working for the sliding scale system of paying wages Illinois miners have called meeting for January to discuss the wages and other collateral questions. The ship ments out of the Monongahela this year will aggregate something like 100, GOO, ,00O bushels; wages are 21s cents per bushel and there is g general disposition on part of men to work, and while they want an advance ill wages there is general feeling that it would not be good policy to strike at this time.