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NOTINGS.
Congressman George Fred Williams, who had been delayed by sickness, has this week taken the stump for the Massachusetts Democrats, speaking at Pittsford and North Adams yesterday and to-day.
A tin-plate consumers' association has been formed to secure a repeal of the McKinley tax. Its members represent the canning and other large consuming interests.
Senator Vest of Missouri, is a leader among the free coinage men, but he agrees with Mills that the tariff is the paramount issue and he thinks the Missouri Democracy is solid for Cleveland regardless of the coinage issue.
Ex-Gov. Hobart B. Bigelow of Connecticut died Sunday at the age of 67. He was of good blood, the Massachusetts Bigelows and the Pierponts, learned the machinist's trade and was the head of the great business of the Bigelow boiler company. He was mayor of New Haven in 1878 and governor of the state in 1881-2.
Dr. Madison C. Peters of the Bloomingdale Reformed church of New York preached a rousing sermon Sunday on the Dr. Briggs case. He likened it to that of Dr. Lyman Beecher, Albert Barnes and Prof David Swing, whose prosecution the Presbyterian church has occasion to remember with shame. "Such trials," he said, "should be placed side by side with the burning of witches in Massachusetts years ago, and thank God that a majority of the clergymen of New York are in sympathy with Dr. Briggs."
Judge Paschal of a Texas court has refused to permit an alien to be naturalized who avowed himself a Socialist and admirer of Johann Most, because as the judge says, such ideas are "impracticable, un-American and dangerous to society."
Senator Chandler did not appear before the interstate commission at the hearing it gave last week on his charges of the Boston & Maine railroads' wholesale bribery of New Hampshire with free passes. Perhaps he did not consider it necessary as the manager of the road has admitted practically all that he alleged about the abuse.
A sentence was inflicted in Boston Saturday under the "habitual criminal" act. David Rea an, a burglar who has before served two terms for the same crime, was caught again attempting to break and enter and was sentenced to 25 years in states prison, which as he is 54 now, is practically a life sentence.
That Admiral Stewart, who has become so conspicuous in print of late, owing to the Parnell tragedy, lived until 1869, when his 92 years proved more than he could bear. The grandfather of the late Irish leader, says a Buffalo man, once said in his hearing that he had dined with every president of the United States from the beginning down to Grant's regime, except Washington and Johnson. But he had sipped wine twice with the first president, if he had not actually dined with him.
Stephen B. Elkins wants to get into the cabinet, in Noble's place if he can, otherwise in Proctor's.
The government comptroller has complimented Gen. John. W. Corcoran of Clinton, Mass., upon his action as receiver of the National bank of Lancaster. It became involved through large loans to the insolvent West Rutland Marble company, whose money and papers Gen. Corcoran found in the woods on Tinmouth hills a few miles below West Rutland.
The first judge to get at it knocks out the Texas statute forbidding aliens to hold land there. It is in controvention of the United States' treaties with foreign powers, says the judge, and if the state supreme court upholds this decision, as is probable, it will put one of the stiffest of the "state sovereignty" states of the south in line against Kansas, Illinois and several of the western states that have such laws.
One hundred and eighty-eight students entered the Troy business college last week. This is, probably, the most successful private school in that part of the country. On account of the increased attendance they have enlarged their quarters by opening an office and reception room on the ground floor, and now have the most elegant and pleasant rooms that are used for a similar purpose.
Ex-Senator Blair of New Hampshire has resigned his position as minister to China, since the Chinese government would not receive him. He says he wants no other office, that the president was willing to appoint him to one of equal dignity, but he would not take it and he proposes to retire to private life.
Ruth is the name that ex-President and Mrs Cleveland have decided to give their little daughter, after Mrs. Cleveland's grandmother.
President Harrison gracefully sent his congratulations to Mr and Mrs Cleveland over the happy event in their family last week.
Mr. Ingalls of Kansas is "more of the opinion than ever that it will be Harrison against Cleveland the next time, and Cleveland has a comfortable reinforcement in his baby."
Senator Sherman thinks that protection is growing in favor in the South, and that half a dozen states there are so strong for the policy now that they would go Republican if the race question could be eliminated.
The directors of the New York league base ball team have been investigating the charge that the final games were thrown away to Boston and unanimously report that there is no ground for it.
The latest Washington gossip is that an arrangement has been fixed up by which Gen. Raum shall quietly retire from the pension office after election and have a new place provided for him.
Maj. W. H. Barker of New York, the chief of division who celebrated his rerating under Tanner by spending a part of $2300 arrears for a dinner pary, at which Tanner, in an after-dinner speech, got off the historic remark: "Boys, I'm with you. My legs may be a little shaky, but, if my good right arm holds out, God help the surplus," has been ejected from the pension office by order of Secretary Noble. His offense was borrowing money of his subordinates.
Only six judges were present at the opening of the Supreme Court, at Washington, on Monday. The session lasted but six minutes. All the important cases which had been set for a hearing by the full court in advance of other cases on the docket—the lottery cases, the Sayward case, the case testing the validity of the McKinley tariff bill, etc—were postponed until the second Monday in November.
Mexico has just passed a high tariff bill.
Gov. Tuttle of New Hampshire, again nominated Wednesday Col. Thos. Cogswell for railroad commissioner, on the ground that his prominence as a Democrat and a former candidate for governor justifies giving him the place which the law requires to be filled by a Democrat, that his distinguished record as a soldier, his prominence in the Grand Army, his high rank as a lawyer, and his freedom from employment by any corporation, ali peculiarly adapt him, and the people of the state have decided that the council's previous rejection of his name was not justified.
Gov. Russell will make ten speeches during the Massachusetts campaign.
There is a report from Washington that the government has concluded a convention with Germany under which American grains and provisions will be admitted into that country either free or at greatly reduced duties after the first of January next. The consideration for this concession is said to be an assurance that the president will not reimpose a duty on German beet sugar, as he is empowered to do.
