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WARNING c-HURCHMEN.
The Methodist Conference Still Struggling
With the Woman Question.

The Methodist Conference Still Struggling
With the Woman Question.
New YORK, May 5.-Interest in the
Methodist Episcopal Conference increases
daily. To-day there was a larger audience
present than at any previous day. Bishop
S. F. Hurst presided. The order OF business
was suspended for the porpose OF giving
the Committee on Rrles IN opportunity to
report. A number OF amendments were
made to the rules. They were unimportant,
bat created much discussion. The various
committees were then announced. General
Clinton B. Fiske then took the floor and adj
vocated the admission of women. General
Fiske contended that there was nothing in
the law of the church which says lay dele
gates shall not be women. 1t would be
revolutionary to turn women out
by q vote OF the general conference
and the church could not afford to
exclude them. Are. we SO cowardly,'
a ked General Fiske, that we would re.
fuse to admit women for fear she would fiji
the place of mani" Rev. A. j.. Kynett''
Secretary OF the Church Extension So
clety, favored the admission of women
ana SAID tnaG Baptlsts and Congregation
alists admitted them to their conference.
Rev, ID. II. Moore, of the Colorado confer
ence. commended chat women should not be
admitted. In closing DIR. Moore offered q
to previous substitutes. His
provided that during the month
OF October, 1890, a general election should
be held in each church, and that
all the members be called upon to
vote either for or against the
of women as lay delegates.
Should the majority OF the church be in
favor OF the administration. of women as |
lay delegates then the general conference in |
can complete the change. Rev.
Pendleton moved the previous question.
excitement existed while the |
vote was being taken and when the an
was made it was discovered
h the motion was lost. The vote stood
Y ayes, 1877 nays. After some discus.
sion an adjournment was had till Monday.
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DEPEW.
Mr.. Sheppard dominates Him for the
Presidency.

Mr.. Sheppard dominates Him for the
Presidency.
New York special: At a banquet last
night OF the Federal Club, a new and inn
p~oriant Republican organizations flllott
f. She .har,l. who recently bought fhe
II Ill and Express from Cyrus w. Field,
nominate Hspcw for tie Pr. sidetcy. His
remarks we're receiy, Il with cheers. When
Silet:ti ri b ught the paper it nas ge:ier-
ally supposed. from his intimacy with thr
Vanderbilt anil Hfg, ", that they had
supplied money for t.,. p.trctisse III The
boom. Mr.. SHEPPARD denied this, though
admitting that he favored Depew, SO his
f~at-fouted announcement last night was
not an entire surprise.
To-day Depew was asked what he had to
sa y. He declared he WAS not Il candidate,
as he had all along announced, and that he
" s very much surprised at ~Shephard's
nomination, and said he did not consider
it the same us that to be made at Chicago.
He had stated his position so frequently
that he thought Of having it printed in a
Z HE iOPy w "PPhS0'oo
free railroad passes. SO he could forward
it to all parts of the coultry. Mr.. Shep-
hard to-day said his paper would support
the nominee of the Republican tonven-
tion, and he thought it would be Depew,
all efforts to the contrary.
Mr.. Depew is for Blaine, and this is the
he expressed himself: 81 am a Blaine
man-frst. last and all the time. All my
Presidential preferences are for Blaine.
| never expect 10 get the nomi-
nation, but l firmly believe that
Blaine will. Mr.. Blaine's letter was
but, mark you, Mr.. Blaine never
said be would refuse~the nomination. He
merely said his name would not be pre-
to the convention. II Mr.. Blaine is
to the service, SO to speak, and his
nomination is unanimous. l have no doubt
he will accept it, and be will be the candi-
date OF the Republican party this fall"
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Theoloeicai Seminary. spoke against the
admission u women. II the question we're
submitted to a vote, he believed niue out
of every ten would vote against it.
Rev. j. a. Fay Of the New York confer
! nee, also argued against wumen's admis-
sion. He Thought the admission question.
before it was settled. should be eubmitted
to q general vote OF the church. Women, I,
he said. lacked the necessary experience.
and il admitted ssnuld weaken the force oil
lay delegation
General Samuel II. Hurst. the dairy and
tood commissioner of Ohio, was the first
laynan to gain the floor. He defended the
right OF women to admission. He alluded
to the opponents Of women ais old To-
gies,' and criticised the Bishops address.
Prof. c. j.. Little, Of syracuse University.
followed; he said be was not In favor of the
Of women at the present time
because the church at large had not ex-
pressed an opinion on the subject. Rev. r.
b. Healy, OF Philadelphia, SAID he was in !
iayor OF submitting the question to The |
annual conferences and to this end offered
amendment to the report OF the com
mittee. The amendment was seconded |
and will be voted on at the close OF the |
debate. DR.. Buckley. who had seconded
the amendment got the floor, but there
we're objections on the ground that he had
already spoken to the question. He said
ne had not spoken tn the amendment and
vas permitted by the chair to proceed.
Then numberiess points of order were raised
With the object of putting DIR. Buckley off
ne effort was successful as before he conld
'et an opportunity to speak the hour of adj
ournment for the day arrived.
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some disclosures may be- made to shed
some light On the situation.
THE BLACK FLAGS won.

The Republican factions rank and fIt
railiedto the primaries In fair force under
the flag and star tickets and ring rule as
serted its old supremacy. 1t is the wire
worker behind the throne that controls
Republican conventions as a rule, and
this case is no exception. The boss ma
chine managers know now whom their
candidates will be as well as they will
know at the close of their convention.
The popular uprising of the party will
merely be allowed to ratify the acts of
the managers whose sway is supreme.
This may be popular representation from
a Republican standpoint. It now re-
mains to be seen what action the star
will take when the bosses
the Flag faction have declared Them
selves and set up their ticket before which
will be expected to bow and ac-
in with all of the obesiance they
command. The outlook is that no
land will be needed to furnish music for
,he convention and that there will be q
big demand for ambulances after the
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Claim a Porti,n Of 7111n..

Middletown, IN. " special: The Ameri.
can heirs Of Philip Francis Renault are
about to lay claims to lands in Central
Illinois and in Missouri, the estimated
value OF which at present is about $40.
100000. Renault in his day was a court
Ter end favorite OF Louis XIV. of France.
At one time in return for some service the
King granted Renault a tract oil land three
miles wide and fifteen miles long, now situ.
ated in Illinois, and on which part of the
city OF Peoria now stands, and also large
tract OF mining and farming land in Mis-
souri,. along the banks of the Mississippi
River, a portion OF this latter land being
now occupied by the suburbs oil ST. Louis.
Renault died in Paris about the year 1850.
having lived a bachelor, and leaving as his
heirs his two brothers, Arnom and jacques
Renaolt, who had come to America and
in Bradford County, Pa. Both Of
these brothers married and bad children.
who changed their names from the French
manner OF spelling to the American Reno.
1t is the heirs of these children who are
to bring suits for the possession of
the land granted to their ancestor. The
heirs have organized, and have elected L.
Reno, OF cooperstown, N. Y, as presi-
dent OF their association. which numbers
about 400 persons.
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school Notes.

The following particulars concerning The
schools OF this district will be read with in
terest by parents and taxpayers in zen.
eral:
The enrolment to the beginning Of tb,
school month was 1866.
AS has always been usual in this district
at this time of the year, quite a number Of
pupils have fallen off from the higher grades
in order to go to work, while the primarv
grades have filed up in some rooms 70
overlooking.
Mrs. Morshead. OF the fifth grade in ts
Central building, has been sick for the past
few weeks. She is now convalsscent, and
hopes soon to be able to resume her du6s
in the school. Mrs. Darnold has been
teaching with great acceptance in the fifth
grade during Mrs. Morshead's illness.
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The business men of Leadvilie have
experienced a change Of heart on the
wide open policy and are now petition
ing the City Council in a loud and I'M
seemly voice for the annulment of the
close corporation ordinance and de-
handing the restoration of gambling on
a revenue only basis. The flight Of the
knights OF the green cloth and the clos
ing up of that great industry paralyzed
business and those who thrive on that
trade were quick to see it. Leadville is
about the last place where the country
had expected to see the reform lightning
strike. The spasm was o over, how
ever, and the merchants have repented Of
their folly.
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The Poorma.

Several gentlemen seen YESTERDAY 81,
noid stock in the Poorman said H. -
Q a bit scared by the rumors cnr....
20 ene reported strike of zine 49,
LOO shares at 70 cents was renar4 ",e Oh
nams Dlokers who declined to state the
on;n;o Oh either the buyer or seller tn
culated are sl nar gfo o that the rumors cir.
.hao There is no foundation ;n and
=; snem. The mine was seen bv a ,aet Tor
! h;a na1ae only a few weeks ago inst asleman
Of os Ieaike OF ore, who is competent ~ i.er ehe
tho nnat he saw. and he decla ras . speak
d; st.;a.d OF tons OF the richest . y are
Poorma ,,1g o. the Board of Trustees Of tho
ata 3. M for Is called Tor Monday
Warren. ~ one ONCE of Mantle g.
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ADMIT THE WOMEN.

The WOman's Conference recently held
in New York, which was so called perhaps
from the fact that women had no voice
in it was barren Of results. No decis-
ion as to the future status of women's
relations to the conferences Of the church
was arrived at. While we are opposed to
woman suffrage for the reasons we have
pointed out in discussing the proposition
not as an abstract principle, but in its
practical workings, we are frank to avow
that In church matters, when women are
such prime factors, we would see them
have a full voice with the brethren. The
church, the school and society generally
come within the legitimate sphere of
woman's activity. The scope of her life's
work is embodied in the bearing, rear
ing and educating of children, il she shall
80 will, to keep within her work. When
she reaches out into the wide domain of
politics she is going wide Of her mission.
There are of course emergencies in the
life of women which necessitate their
engaging in the work that nature de-
signed that men should do. But this
does not change the principle of the pro-
position, that there is a class Of work
which women should not be expected to
do. Yet society is 30 organized that it
provides practically the same avenues of
business for women rs for men. There
fore to meet this emergency and provide
for 1t. we would see the principle of the
Of the sexes more generally |
observed by our institutions Of learning.
as a condition precedentto their co-labors
in after life. Women would then have
not only the advantages of men in train
ing, but in association as well. We cau
but regard it a bit Of prejudice on the
part Of the Methodist brethren that thew
did not admit women to the privileges of
a voice in their conferences. Church
affairs are l~egitimately within the scope
Of woman's work and women should have
q word to say a to the methods to be
in church work. However, we
trust that the brethren will reconsider
their resolution and late decisive action
ultimately for the admission of women
TO their councils in conference, with full
power to vote and act the same as the
men, |,
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The House.

Mr.. Caswell, of Wisconsin, criticised the
method Of the tariff reduction proposed by
the Committe on Ways and Means declar-
ing that it did not provide for any sub
~stantia' decrease upon The articles OF gen.
eral consumption. The committee should
have provided, he conteuded for the entire
removal OF the duty IN sugar. That course
would taxi a 81 tax from the food OF every
man, woman and child. such a relief
would extend to every family rich and poor.
He would give q reasonable bounty for
sugar produced in the United States, but
he would no longer continue the great tax
on the mouths OF sixty millions of people
under the guise of a tax revenue.
Mcdonald OF Minnesota spoke in opposi-
ton to the protective system, and expa-
tiated upon the injuries resulting to tine
people by o vast surplus in the Treasury.
Mr.. Gruenther remarked that his col
league Mr.. Budd, swallowed the whole dose
prepared by the Democratic majority, and
seemed to relish it greatly. endeavoring by
political sophistry to pursuade the people
OF the district, that it was a very palatable
decoction, q panacea for all evils, a long
locked for Democrotic st. Jacobs Oil that
would heal all the evils OF the body polite.
daughter. He was in favor of restoring
the wool tariff OF 1867. He was q firm be-
lever in the tariff which not only supplied
the means for the expenses of the Gov.
ernment, but at the same time
built up and encouraged home
manufacture, developed the ~inexhaustibIe
OF the country and gave employ.
ment to millions of our people. In con-
clusion he expressed a willingness to allow
the people to bring in a verdict in the case
of protection against free trade and he |
p~rophesied the verdict would consign the
party to a place among the
stragglers in the grand national procession
OF American industry.
Wheeler, o Alabama, spoken favor ofthe
bill. The committee then rose and took a |
recess until eight O'Clock, the evening SEES
sion to be for the consideration Of private
pension bills.
AT the evening session the House passed
twenty.seyen pension bill and adjourned
till tomorrow.
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THE POLITICAL CAT.
jim BLAINE OF MAINE rs ONCE
M0EsE A CANDIDATE.

His Florence Letter OF Defamation =
Frkud as III who Know the sham
mer supposed ii 10 Be when ii was
Written.
PmLADELPHIA, May 1.-The Times will
publish tomorrow the following triple
loaded special from New York. which it will
indorse as coming direct from the most au-
thentic source:
New YORK, May Al have entirely re
liable information that the friends Of Mr..
Blaine have. within the last three days. re-
ceived direct from him his assent to an ag-
leressive movement for his denomination for
President and the assurance that If nomi
nate 1 in the face Of his Florence letter Of
~declination, be would not feel at liberty to
decline. A general and sympathetic effort
has been made by Blaine's closest friends,
such as Chairman Jones, William Walter
Phelps, Whitelaw Reid. Charles Emory
Smith and others for two months past to
get Mr. Blaine into the attitude of a pas
sive candidate. The Washington confer
ence was only a part OF the varied
IQtbuOQ6 UY WHICH luuu6HE66 HIVE Eeeu l
brought to bear upon Blaine, and the
publication of his portrait freshly taken
from life in Italy and issued by Judge this
week was decided on more han q month
ago. as the starting point for the eff rt to
make him q candidate. Every possible
pressure has been put on Blaine to getfrom
him a direct assurance that he will not de-
cline il nominated and thai assurance has
been received in this city from him within
the last three days. In u very lew days
more it will cease to be a secret that Blaine
is in tho hands Of his friends, as the Blaine
leaders will at once come to the front and
an aggressive campaign for his re-
This movement has been
pretty clearly foreshadoWed for some
weeks in such Blaine organs as the Tribune
of this city and the Philadelphia Press,
and all affectarion about Blaine's candi
dacy will now oon be thrown off and the
made an aggressive one. A part of
the original programme was the election OF
Charles Emory Smith as delegate at large
your State, and the failure was a
great disappointment to the Blaine junta
this city, but Mr.. Smith gives assurance
hat Blaine can command a majority of
the Pennsylvania delegation under any
and that il Blaine's nomi.
nation shall seem to be assured.
bbe delegation will be solid for
him. The recent expressions in
MASSACHUSETTS, and Vermont for Blaine
we're not accidental. nor are they unex-
to Blaine's friends. When all of the
men were reposing on their
because they regarded Blaine as out
IF fight, the friends OF Blaine were most
Energetic in their work in the two anti
Blaine New England States, and they got
possession OF Vermont and Massachusetts, I
While others were sleeping in fancied Sc
.urity. 1t was the expression OF the three
anti-Blaine New England States
hat made Blaine cast aside his doubts t
Ind assent to the opportunities OF his {
riends for his denomination. It is now a i
fact that Blaine is in the field aud
hat his friends have his assent to the :
movement in his favor, and that he will be I
nominated at Chicago if lard work and t
'lenty OF enthusiasm a accomplishit. /
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BLAINE A CANDIDATES.

The fact has leaked out that the Blaine
d~eclinatiOn is of, and that the Plumed
knight and his friends proposes to make
an open and aggressive fight for the
hOnors Of the Chicago convention. That
is what we had expected of him, for he is
nothing if not an aggressive factor in
national politics. AS an aggressive force,
ne must be counted, IL at all, in a cam
paign whether it is for a nomination at
the hands of his own party or before the
people. And the same forces that enc0m-
passed his defeat before will operate
against him this time. The business men
Of New York and New England doubted
his discretion in dealing with foreign
powers. And SO they do still. The de-
fenseless condition Of our maratime
cities make the conservative capitalists a
little leary of his aggressive policy. They
have trusted Mr.. Cleveland and he has
made no such mistakes. Nor is he likely
to make any in that direction. Many
conservative men i'm Mr.. Blaine's own
party fear that he may make some break
that might bring disaster on their bust
ness interests. The purse appeals stronger
to them than any considerations Of party
ascendancy. And the double dealing
of Mr.. Blaine and his friends i'm the mat
ter Of his candidacy will tend to ALLEVIATE
some of the strongest supporters of the
party, who, while they may not sulk in
their tents will be inclined to be luke
warm in his support. And he is in no
condition to go before the convention
with the faintest suspicion Of weakness
as the floating vote would be recorded
against him. He already has the weak
element Of a previous defeat and
tho loss of prestige that follows afailure,
to contend against. In the face Of all
these facts the Democratic party would
see him nominated than such a
as Gresham whose records in the
army and on the bench is a good one and
whom the business men of the country
but commend for his c0nserya
tism. But there is no chance of Gresh-
being nominated. The novelty of
. Republican candidate who wOyld not
DO on the defensive from the word 60, is
something that the G. O. P. can hardly
contemplate.
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Alaska

Statement of Account as Between the
Fisheries and the Government.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-The Secretary Of
the Treasury to-day sent to the House the
information called for in regard to the con-
tract Of the Alaska Commercial Company
to take seals in Alaska. The Secretary
says the lease to take seals in Alaska was
for a term OF twenty years from May 1
1870. The condition relative to the tax of
30 cents per gallon on seal oil was rescinded
February 16, 1874. The total receipts by
the Government from the seal fisheries from
May, 1870 to June, 1887, was So, 059, O65,
and the expenditures ON that account were
$299,000. The Secretary says the records
b department SO far as he is advised
show no violation OF the terms of the lease
by the ~lessees. Attached to the letter is a
List of the vessels seized for taking seals
authority.
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NOT A CANDIDATE.

Master Workman PowderIy Emphatic
That He is Not a Political Candidate.
PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-General Master
Workman Powderly has written a letter in
which, after quoting from letters from all
sections OF the country, as well as from
articles in various labor papers, giving him.
advice as to what should be done at the
coming election he says: "As the campaign
up I will be annoyed still more and
take this opportunity to say that I am not
q candidate for any thing. don't favor
the turning OF the Knights of Labor into a
party and will not have anything to do
PARTIES
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The cholera has got its grip on Madrid
and Spain is likely to suffer some more
for the wrongs she has perpetrated upon
defenseless nations when in the pleni-
tude OF her powers. If there is any such
a thing as a visitation Of providence.
Spain would seem to be a fit subject for
it. her transgressions were wontonly
made against the weak with ayerice for
the motive.
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Close of the London Woo, s.,.s

LONDON, May 5.-Wool sales closed to-
day. Firmness was maintained altboupb
the competition was less keen owing to
the thin attendance. The closing prices
with the closing prices of the
last series, and show good greasy advanced
Y. good secured Kd@1d, and inferior ereasv
and secured in many cases I'd. About
$4,000 bales were offered, about l31. 600
were sold to home buyers, and $50, 600 for
export, including 5000 for America: 81. 600
bales will be carried forward.
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The anti-saloon Republicans would do
the G. 0. P. up for a principle. As it is
about the only principle there is left of
the old party of plumber and pretension,
we would suggest that they adopt the
anti-saloon platform and begin life again
on that principle. OF course, it would
get wollopped, but it will get licked any
way, and it had just as well be on a
as otherwise. This advice is
a gratuity and will doubtless be accepted
at its face value.
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EVERY Democrat SHOULD see to it that
he shall 60 and register his name the
first thing he does on Monday. 1t is of
the utmost Importance. The word of a
Republican that he has seen a Democratic
name on the record is not sufficient. 1t
is intended to deceive and will deceive
unless the Democrats are wary and on
their guard. 1t is the old Republican
which has been tried SO often and
some success in times past. This is
the first election since incorporation
and every Democrat shonld do his duty
without further admonition.
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THE FIsHERIEs TREATY.

The Republican members of the Foreign
Relations Committee OF the Senate held a
meeting to-day to hear the majority lad
verse; report on the fisheries treaty. which
had been prepared by Senator Edmuuds as
il now complete. The reports take the
ground that the treaty secures nothing OF
value to the United States except what he
longs to us by natural rights. The treaty
will probably be reported next week and
taken up as soon a the Chinese treaty is
disposed oil.