4xo4x CAMPAIGN GOSSIP From the two national headquarters by MUKBAY -ry- RUSSIAN PEASANTS IN THEIR HOMES Is the subject of Carpenter's Illustrated, letter. OTHER FEATURES ARE: Farmers of England: Henry Tuckley investigates the wages of farm labor. Ugliness at Asbury: Crawford finds not a pretty face at Asbury or Ocean Grove. A Step-Mother's Lot: Bessie Bramble thinKS she earns a place in t'.ie seventh heaven. Gnartlinns ot Purl Ida JJ. Taibell tells of the unnnlformed police of the French Capital. BrightHnmon . Howard Fielding and El. Mott send their best sketches. Women and Tront: How the fair sex should be able to en joy the sport. THE SUMMER RESORTS Treated in special letters from trained correspondents. BEST CABLE SERVICE. All the news from all the world TO-HOFS DISPATCE s000-0sss je B$$rafrlj. Established FEBRUARY Vol. 47. No. 198. Entered at Pittsburg Postoflice November, 1S87, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. 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Including Sunday Edition, at roctuts per week. I'lTT.-KUltG. SATURDAY. AUGUST 50. I8K. TWELVE PAGES A bTATE OF CIVIL WAR, The civil war in East-Tennessee is more than ordinarily productive of irreconcil able reports The same day's dispatches had a graphic account of a complete de feat inflicted on the miners by General Anderson's forces the day after the report of General Anderson's capture by his antagonists; at the same time an uncondi tional surrender of the miners to General Carries; and finally a repetition of the story of General Anderson's capture, which The Dispatch had given from the previous night's telegrams. This sort of thing is a symptom of the state of civil war going on there to a more pronounced decree than anywhere else at this time. In Buffalo and Pittsburg the situation may be described as a general condition of armed truce with occasional lapses into overt acts of war. In East Tennessee the war up to yesterday was open and unmistakable, although the latest dispatches give gleams of hope for the restoration of peace. The act of the miners, as it is reported, in capturing General Anderson under a flag of truce seems like another indication that when these outbreaks come tbey are not even conducted by the rules of civilized war fare. Perhaps, however, there may be some exaggeration on this point, through the patent unreliability of the reports. The Tennessee affair has the character istic qualities of labor troubles accen tuated in all the important points. In the first a system of convict labor was main tained which was medieval and almost semi-barbarous. An agitation within bounds to abolish that system would have commanded the sympathy and approval of the intelligent public. But the miners resorted instead to rebellion. They bade defiance to the law, opened war on the State, and challenged the forces of organ ized government. Such a course is simply suicidal. If labor thinks that it can bet ter its condition by destroying the law it simply impeaches its own intelligence and places itself in armed opposition to civili zation. When any interest, be it labor or capital, levies civil war and tries to destroy gov ernment of the people by legal methods its simply creates the necessity for severe measures of repression. They are using euch measures in Eisf Tennessee very vigorously. That is the only thing to be done until the supremacy of the law is fully restored. CANADA'S SILVER QUESTION. The silver question in Canada, as it is stated in a news dispatch elsewhere, con sists in the wide use of United States sil ver and silver certificates. Canadian bankers are unanimous in regarding this as dangerous. The "danger," though, to most of them consists in cutting down bank profits by taking the place of so much banknote circulation. One banker perceives the danger that these forms of money may sink to the silver basis; but as he was a noted opponent of United States currency in Canada when silver was not an issue it may be doubted if this is the real inspiring cause of his present opposi tion. The Canadian bankers propose that these forms of United States silver circu lation shall bo excluded from Canada.. .They have an apparent justification for that proposition in the measures against Canadian silver taken on thus sido of the border. So far as international rights are concerned the United States can offer no objection to such a measure. But if the Canadian people like the silver certificates it may be a hazardous experiment to ex clude them simply for the purpose of swelling bank circulation. So far as the United States is concerned, it makes little difference whether Canada takes our silver or not. The amount that can be absorbed there will be but a drop in the bucket of the total volume. ELECTORAL POSSIBILITIES. The approach of the season when cam paign work will begin in the field renders speculation as to the electoral vote in order. Numerous calculations of thevoto have been published, all varying widely according to the point of view. There are so many combinations that 'it is im possible to follow them all out, but one or two leading points are worth fixing in the mind. In the first place, supposing the States to retain the places in the political col umns taken In 1SS8, the Republicans will have a much larger margin to go on than they did then. The .States which voted f or Harrison In 1883 have, under the new apportionment, 219 votes, those which voted for Cleveland 175 votes and the States admitted since then have 20 votes. On this division the Republicans have 26 votes to spare without 'taking any of the new States. On the other hand, if wo count as Democratic the States that have since 1888 gone Democratic in two elections we shall have to transfer New York, Iowa and Massachusetts to the Democratic column, and this shift of 61 votes makes the two parties change places, the Democrats having 219 votes and the Republicans 175 without counting the new States. But with the new States counted, and a division of these three States made, another combina tion is rendered possible. If the Republicans carry only the ten votes of South Dakota, Idaho and "Wyoming, they can lose New York and win. If they carry all the new States, as is probable, they can lose New York and four votes from Michigan and have six to spare.. If they carry New York and all the new States they can lose Indiana, Connecticut, Massachusetts and the four Michigan votes and still have two votes to spare; or, if Iowa be exchanged for either Indiana or Massachusetts, they will have four votes to go on. Another way of figuring is to exclude the States which are supposed to be doubtful. Excluding the 85 votes of New York, Indiana, Massachusetts, Connecti cut and Iowa, and giving ten of Michi gan's votes to the Republicans and four to the Democrats, this leaves 186 Republican votes and 173 Democratic. To win the Re publicans must get 37 votes and the Demo crats must get 59 from the doubtful list On this calculation, if the Republicans carry New York, any other single State will complete the victory. Or if they lose New York they can win with Indiana, Iowa and Massachusetts. On the other hand the Democrats most carry New York and either Indiana or Massachusetts, or New York and Iowa and Connecticut to gether. These calculations can be further varied by putting Montana in the doubtful list or supposing that the Democrats get five votes in Michigan. But it has been carried far enough to show that New York and Indiana are likely to retain much, though not all, of their former pivotal position. The calculations show that on the old party divisions the Republican party has less to win from the doubtful States than the Democratic party. The doubtful ele ment is the possibility of inroads on the Northwestern Republican States by the People's party. With the clear under standing that to carry enough electoral votes to affect the situation would insure the election of Cleveland, it is not likely that the Northwestern States will give any electoral votes to the new political organ ization. WORLD'S FAIR EXTRAVAGANCE. The charge of extravagance in the management of the World's Fair has been frequently made; and it is asserted with a good deal of show of truth that this was the cause of the appropriation being cut down one-half as much as any other. Tne Chicago Tribune spoke out in meeting the other day and demonstrated that the salaries are entirely out of proportion to the work done. Salaries of f5,000 and $10,000 per year are paid to men who do little or nothing; and in one case a head of department drawing the salary of a Con gressman is also a paid officer of the Gov ernment A summary of the way expendi tures are run is as follows: During the month of Jnne there were 1,513 employes in the executive, Director Gen eral's and construction departments, in volving an expenditure or $124,601 a month for their salaries. There are, for instance, twenty-five men helping the treasurer at a cost of $2,183, ana fifteen helping the auditor at a cost or $1,239. The lawyer of the Fair has five other lawyers to help him. There are seven men sitting around to help on the "ceiemonles." Seven doctors are practicing or waiting a chance to practice. The Janitor of the World's Fair rooms has eleven as sistants. Ten men are wondering what they shall do for ethnology, and ten more are eating up over $2,000 a month in running foreign affairs. No less than fourteen men are looking after Latin-America, when a third of them would he plenty: and "pub licity and promotion" takos twenty-five, of whom twenty don't earn their salt A peculiar feature of this affair is that other papers 'have raised a great outcry over this expose as an attack on the Fair. It seems to be inculcated that to support the enterprise itself it Is necessary to swallow abuses which are really in jurious. Because the course is taken which may lead to cutting off the evils which threaten to swamp a public enterprise, therefore the Fair itself is attacked. The logic of jobbery is usually of this sort The fact that the salary list of the Fair is set at about $1,500,000 a year, when one half or one-third the sum would be honest pay for the .work done, may explain the necessity of going to Congress a year be fore the Fair will open, and a year after Chicago's alleged 510,000,000 was raised. If anything can rum the big show it will be extravagance of this sort CONFEREE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENTS. The shape in which the conference for the nomination of a judge for the Butler Lawrence district will be put by the peculiarities of the conferee system has two unique features. Both are. of so marked a character that it is to be hoped that they would be impossible under any plan that might be adopted as a substitute for that antiquated and effete method. The first of these features is that the system brings the deadlock to such a pass that the nomination is really to be made by outsiders. No better men for such a function could be found than Senators Lee and Anderson; but no one can claim for a nomination by these gentlemen that It Is made by thepeople of the district- The conferee system, which Imperfectly repre- sents the people in the first instance, ends by removing the decision entirely away from those whose votes will be asked for the nominee. An even more vital result of the sys tem which treats the representation of the county as the personal property of the candidate who lives there is that character does not' seem to count Nothing Is moro evidently necessary than that the bench shall be upright, and even that its integrity shall be free from sus picion. Yet we have here presented a case in which a candidate can bring the nomination to a deadlock while a blot rests upon 'his record in the shape of a bribery scandal which got into the courts, and in which a verdict was blocked by the obstinate refusal of witnesses to answer. The new form which the conferee plan will take on Monday may be called a step from the conferee system to the referee system. It is to be hoped that the new development will demonstrate its superi ority to the old one by showing its appre ciation of keeping the reputation of the bench above reproach. ' MB. SITE'S NOMINATION. The nomination of W. A. Sipe, Esq., by the Democracy of the Twenty-fourth Congressional district to succeed the late Congressman Craig 'probably puts the best man in the field that the Democracy had at their disposal. Mr. Sipe is a law yer of high standing and an able and earnest leader of Western Pennsylvania Democracy. It is hardly probable that ih this national canvass that district of im portant Industries will send a Democrat to Congress; but it is not less important that even minority parties shall put good men In the field. If Mr. Sipe is elected he will be a creditable successor to the de ceased Congressman; and if he is de feated it will be after a well-contested fight A local cotemnorary announce! a wed ding with the headline: "Married a Glass Man." It is to he hoped that there will he no family Jars. Thb School Board of Washington is loudly objecting that the public schools have been turned over to the G. A. R. to be used as Darracks during their encampment. The main reason for complaint Is found in the necessity of postponing the opening of the fall sessions of the schools for one month. In this matter the students are rather likely to be grateful to the Commis sioners and the army than incensed by their invasion. This is about the time for valor to be oozing from the finger tips of Sullivan and Corbett. But the fighters keep on training. Chief Brown proposes to begin a strict enforcement of the ordinance against the obstruction of sidewalks on Monday. As a precaution against getting lost by reason of the unwonted appearance of ourstreets, it will be well to bear this reform in mind un til familiarized with the new state of things. There are several planks in the Demo cratic platform which many of that party shrink from walking. Now that one of the canals on Mars has been seen .double by the Lick observers, Schiaparelll is vindicated. And it becomes evident that the geminated discovery by the celebrated Italian astronomer was not due to a dinner accompanied by chianti as a precursor to lesearch. Apropos of strikes it is worth noting that to those in trouble a little help is worth a deal of sympathy. Secretary Rusk has chosen a most ap propriate season for his search after a cure for lumpy jaw. And it he succeed in per fecting a remedy for this malady during a Fresidental year the stump orator will be robbed of half his terrors for the public. It is now on the carpet that the inter national monetary conference will be held at Brussels. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, exhibits a spirit of lawlessness almost pro nounced enough to guarantee his re-election in a Commonwealth where lynching fre quently supersedes law. Allegheny's Common Council is as pro lific of no quorums as a Democratic Con gress. A Chicago burglar has added a bicycle to the customary kit, and he thereby suc cessfully eluded capture by a patrol wagon. After this the 'cycling policeman must be in stituted in short order. Michigan was troubled by Miner's law. Tennessee is disturbed by miners' lawless ness. A CITY of Pittsburg's size without a tene ment law and destitute of proper arrange ments to deal with contagious diseases de liberately invites an attack from epidemics. When the Pittsburg water supply runs short adulterated milk might prove useful? The defeat of the free traders will have to be a root and branch destruction now that branch headquarters of the Democratic party are to bo established at Chicago. Sporting records like civil service re form promises are made only to be broken. Is it something more than luck which finds the genial Chauncey M. Depew again In Europe when a second strike breaks out on the New York Central linesT A Presidental campaign brings forth nearly as many denials as speeches. Those Twenty-first district conferees had better put an end to the deadlock by draw ing lots or tossing up If they fail to agree on a candidate any other way. Trotting and pacing records depend a good deal on how tired the sulky is. It seems as hard to nominate a Bepub lican candidate for Congress in the Twenty first distriot as to bang a convicted murderer in Allegueny county. A board of arbitration at Buffalo would probably be swltch-tored. Hal Pointer and Nancy Hanks are kindred spirits, but they cannot make a match of It, as they move in widely sepa rated social circles. Buffalo is on the horns of a dilemma. Cleveland's letters may be useful as kindling In some districts, but they meet with very scant favor where natural gas is the customary fuel. And Hill still holds aloof. Now that the theatrical season is reopen ing ft is natural enough that the new star recently discovered is noticed to be increas ing in brilliancy. Slight Token of Appreciation. Chicago Mall. We still insist that one or a pieoe of one of those souvenir coins should be presented to Hon. Bill Holman, the champion retrencber of the world. TV hat It Is Coming To, Boston Herald. The arrest of a man at Asbury Park for bathing In his bare arms -will doubtless be followed by putting pantalettes on the limbs or tne trees.' , THE GRAND OLD MAN. What Doctor Has Done for HlmandWhat He Might Do for the Doctors. It must be inteiestlng to inquire, says the London Hospital, how it is that Mr. Glad, stone, although S2years of age, has shown himself capable of leading a political con-' test in which he has taken the most active part, without injury to his health, and ap parently without experiencing great or even Inconvenient fatigue. From inquiries we have made, we believe Mr. Gladstone's as tonishing robustness to be due to three causes: a sound constitution which be ha, had the wisdom to husband and protect; a devoted wife, who has allowed nothing to prevent her from giving the closest continuous attention to the well being, preservation ana protection from worry of her husband; and the fact that thanks to a grateful patient of the London Hospital, Mr. Gladstone's health has been committed to the medical charge of a physi cian. Sir Andrew Clark, than whom no one is better qualified, by high scientific attain ment and sound common sense, to shield a man of affairs from the many risks which have in past times frequently cut short the caieer of eminent statesmen. A man is, after all, very frequently his own phvslclaualthou.'h it has been said with truth that self doctors have fools for their patients. Still, no medical care can equal the precautionary measures a man can take wheie his own health is concerned. All of ui need eveiyday not too mnch, but at the same time enough good food, and an ade quate time in bed and asleep, sleep being the rook on which manr men go to pieces in these days of hurry and rush. Now, to be certain of securing sleep, it Is essential to take each day a sufficiency of outdoor exercise, so that the system may become physically tired. Hence, Mr. Glad stone's love of tree-felling has probably done more than anything elso to conserve his wonderful staying power. In such mat ters as diet and sleep, and any one normally sound In health, who attends to them. Is noarly sure to be Iree irom serious illness, enoh of us ought to be capa ble of adequately providing for him self. In the case of ordinary mortals a few simple piecautlnns will secure that the individual shall live, and not merely exist, seeing that life is not to live, but to bo well. All this Mr. Gladstone has discovered and learned to bellow), and so he has come to bo to-3av a phenomenal instance or the best physical type of our race. The family of Mr. Gladstone have devoted themselves to their father's interests for years. Every thing is so regulated as to secure to Mr. Gladstone the minimum of worry, and he is saved from all avoid able fatigue. If work in wanted to be done, there are always willing hands free to undertake and complete it, without delay or remonstrance. All correspondence is carelully sorted and Weighed, and none hut Important letters are brought to notice on busy days. Mrs. Gladstone's solicitude for ana care of her husband is a notable ex ample for all wives, and to her care Mr. Gladstone has often attributed his escapes irnm illness, and not a little or his con tinuous good health. Yet Mrs. Gladstone never neglects her other duties. We can, (peaking from experience, declare that Mrs. Gladstone, at the very busiest time of the year, has most cheerfully and effectually aided the hospitals by her-pen, bile her convalescent home at Woodford is ono of the most economically conducted institu tions in the yi orid. The Premier of the British Empire has little timo to think of himself or his own health and requirements. The strain upon mind and body is truly appalling to those who have a preolse knowledge of the duties and responsibilities 'of this high office or State. So the duty of conserving and main taining the bealtb of the head of her Maj esty's Government is by no means a light one; but Mr. Gladstone's condition to-day proves Ltnat Sir Andrew Clark Is facile prlnops The physician in charge of such a patient has to look alter the regime, diet, exercise and hours of rest, to see that there is no un due strain in any one direction, and to ex el else sufficient tact to win his patient to like the ways, which in his caso tend to the continuance of sound health. All this and much more Sir Andrew has successfully ac complished in Mr. Gladstone's case, and the credit of this remarkable success must be shared by Mrs. Gladstone, to whom Sir Andrew would he first to acknowledge his indebtedness. ,- -. .. fit J It is now certain that Mr. Gladstone will once again become Prime Minister of Eng land and' head of Her Miijesty's Govern ment. He owes, under Providence, that position to-day in no small degree to the causes we have been considering. One of these causes, the services whioh medicine renders to the State and to all Its leaders and governors, we commend to Mr. Gladstone's most generous and earnest consideration. It is a great honor to be Prime Minister, but it is eveu a greater distinction to be Prime Minister at 82 years of age, prpbably the first example of the kind in history. If medical science has had aught to do with Mr. Gladstone's poiltion to-day, and who oan doubt that it has had ranch, what higher duty can de volve upon him as Prime Minister than to mark his assumption of office by advising the Queen to at last do justice to medicine -by creating at least two medical peers. Sir William Jenner and Sir James Paget, a physician and a sur geon respectively of world-wide reputation, have personally well deserved the honor, and the medical profession would be en nobled by their selection for It. This is one of those social reforms which press lor im mediate solution. Is Jenner or Paget less worthy ot a Hie peerage than the eminent men who now sit on the bench of Bishops, or than any of the lawyers, soldiers, or sail ors, who huve been rewarded by hereditary peerages? INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITIES. Ma Balfour, M. P., when addressing public meetings, speaks at the rate of 160 words per minute. Miss Emory, of Maine, a student of Bryri Mawr College, has received a Euro pean fellowship, which entitles her to a year's study in any European university. Captain Francis Moore, who was promoted in rank recently, has commanded the same troop in the Ninth Cavalry, United States Army, forO years. The troops ot the regiment are made up of colored men, who are excellent soldiers. 'Eichard Beverley, of Bnena Vista, Va., is not one of the pampered and over paid officials of the Postofflce Department. He walks 36 miles every day in the year ex cept Sunday, carrying the mall to and from Pleasant View, in Amborst county, and gets $350 a year for the job. Prof.vFeesenius, one of the late Baron Lieblg'&gnost eminent pupils, and one of the foremost living chemists or Germany, cele brated on Sunday the Jubileo of hU gradua tion as doctor of philosophy. He was on this occasion presonted with the freedom of the city of Wiesbaden. Mrs. Martha Annie Bex, the aged ncgress who recently went all the way Irom West Africa to see Queen Victoria, had put aside her small savings for SO years to ac complish tne trip. She is 76 years old, and one of IS children who in their youth were all sold into slavery in the United States. Dr. Lander Beunton has iounu by ex periments that his mental activity is great est when he is lying flat on a table, and that his mind, though full or ideas while he was In that position, became dull a soon as he raised his head. This will explain why some persons are brilliant only whon they are asleep'. Dr. Graham TAYLOR insists on the ac ceptance of his resignation as pastor of the Fourth Congregational Church of Hartford and as instructor in the Theological Sem inary there, and expects to remove by Octo ber 1 to Chicago, to ocoupy a chair practi cally created for him in the Chicago Theo logical Seminary. Colonel Malcolm, who has been de feated in Argyleshire, was the biggest mau of the last Parliament, where big men were more numerous than in an average assembly of 670. Six feet was an average height, and there were half a dozen who towered up to 6 feet i inohes, but Colonel' Malcolm was the biggest Trojan of them all. Bitten bjr Copperhead. BaADuooK,,Aug-19. (opecfotl James New Ian, an ex-constable of Turtle Croek, was bitten on the thumb by a copperhead snake yesterday. The man is suffering terrible agony and the physicians ay that his recov ery is doubtful. - ' 0DR 8IT1YER INVADING CANADA. Montreal Banker. Discuss 'What They Es timate a Vrry Serious EvIL Montreal, Aug. 19. The American silver question is a matter which is already begin ning to agitate financial circles In Montreal, and Justly so, for it is estimated by leading bankers P. Wolferstoin Thomas, General Manager ofjlolsons Bank; William Weir, President of the Bank Vllle Marie, and J. B. Picken, of J. B. Flcken & Co. that the amonntof American currency in this coun trr amounts to between $4,000 000 and $5,000, 000, and, as the profit on circulation may fairly he estimated at 3 per cent, this means a loss of from $120,000 to $150,000 annually to the banking institutions or Canada. The attention of bankers has been partic ularly dii ected to the sudden Inrush of silver certificates Into the Dominion, as they recognize that it lsuitons dangerous as the actual sliver curiency. At present the Montreal banks and other financial institu tions rotuso to take the American dime, quarter, half-dollar or silver dollar at p-ir. In fact, they will have nothing to do with them. Within the past six months there has been an extraordinary influx or Ameri can currency, particulaily silver and silver certificates, into Cnnnda. F. Wolforsteln Thomas, General Manager of the Molsons Bank, said: "It is a considerable evil now, because it takes the pl.ice of small denomination notes, snch as ones, twos and fours. Sliver ceititi cates predominate more in the country than in the cities. The banks do not take coin silver at all, and, so far as we are concerned, we do not touch it at all." Mr. Weir, President of the Ville Marie Bank, was the man in tne breach in the gi eat flght against Amorican currency in 1869 and 1870, and is, perhaps, the best posted man on the subject in the Dominion. In answer to the query as to why there was so much American curiency in circulation in Canada, he said: "The reason why is that the people take them at par. The worst feature, to my thinking, however. Is not tho silver coinage bnt the silver certiflcites. Atpreseutit does not affect us particularly, but the trouble will come when the United States falls to carry out its engagements in gold. It cannot Ions continue to carry a dual tandard." "Do you take the silver certificate at pari" "Yes, we do, and I think we will have to call a meeting shortly of tho Bankers' Asso ciation to take up. this subject. The silver certificate is very inslduous and slides in very innocently among the United states gold treasury notes." "What action do vou think the Bankers Association will take?" "I, or couise, could not say. The question came up at our last meeting, and I, because ot my connection with the old trouble, was asked, very naturally, to give my opinion. I suggested an all-around discount from IK to 2 per cent on all American currency. Tnis, I think, would soon have mended matters, and I believe it will have to come to this in the end." "How about Canadian coinage in the United Statos-t" 'There you see their action. They recog nized the lact that if Canadian currency li allowed to enter into the list with the home currency on au equitable basis, it would to a certain extent curtail it. What was to be done? They bridged the difficulty by passing an act forbidding any American bank put ting in circulation anv Canadian currencv under a penalty of a line of 5 per cent dis count ir dlscoveied. Thus they were allowed to take it at par, but once in their possession they would be compelled to send it back to Canada. That act was accompanied with very beneficial results from their point of view, and it might not be a bad Idea for Can ada to follow the example given." LAWYEBS WAHT THEIB FEES. A Queer Complication Growing Oat of the Invading Cattleman's Cases. Laramie, Wto., Aug. 19. Judge Davidson, Judge Ballard and Attorney Breckels, who were engaged to conduct the case of John sou county against the invading stockmen, all artived in the city this morning totb tain judgment against Johnson county for the amount ot their fees. Sqme of the cat tlemen who have interests in Johnson coun ty applied to the court for an Injunction re strain? them from procuring judgment. The injunction is asked for against the com missioners us well as the attorneys. The petitioners for the injunction set up the claim that Johnson county is up to tho debt limit under tho Constitution. The at torneys, on the other hand, contend that Johnson county was not up to the debt limit, because tho funded indebtedness is not shown by the petition to have been in curred since the admission of the State, and hence the pi o visions of the Constitution do not apply. A HEW OIL FIELD. Both Lubricating Fluid and Gas Struck In Allegheny Township. Gbeensbubo, Aug. 19. Special The West Penn Gas Company, composed of capitalists of Saltsbuigand Indiana, Pa., has been re warded after a wild goose chase for oil, by striking a superior quality of lubricating oil on the McLaughlin farm, in Allegheny township, this conntv. Drillers have been at work In that nelghboihood for several months. Tho well, it is stated, is doing about four barrels per day, and hopes are enter tained of making a better snowing. The drillers have boon instructed to go down 90 feet deeper, and through the third sand if neccessary. At the depth of 1,200 feet a good flow of gas was struck. Tho property owners in that section are highly elated over the prospects. The West Penn Gas Company owns tho right of nearly all the land in that locality, and it is stated that other wells will he drilled. Two or three were put down previous to this, but were abandoned. MONEY FOB B. & L. DUES Contributed to the Ti orkers on Strike at One ol the Carnrgie Plants. Beaver Falls, Aug. 19. Everything re mains quiet at the Carnegie mills here. A number of families are in need of money, and it is being supplied by the Belie! Committee of the strikers. Over $200 was paid out to-day. In most cases the money goes to pay building and loan dues. Next month the strikers will draw relief from the Amalgamated Association. Subscriptions still continue to come in. The men hope that the trouble will soon be settled, but still remain firm. This afternoon a meeting was held at Co operative Hall, which was crowded, but the Pittsburg speakers expected did not airive on account of the meeting at Youngs town. J. C Killgallon, of Pittsburg, Assist ant Secretary or the Amalgamated Associa tion, was present and made a ringing speech and was followed by a- number of local speakers. Gas Goes Up at Stenbenvlile. Eteotenville, Aug. 19. Special. The Boyal Gas Company, of this city, startled consumers with an announcement of an 18 per cent ralso in the price of gas to-day. They gave asareason the scarcity of gas and low pressure of late wells, which were ex pected to do better. With other previous raises the Royal Company has increased the price 35 per cent. Lima Will Get the Lutllnrun College. Lima, O., Aug. 19. Special. Tho subscrip tion to the Lutheran College building was completed to-day, giving the committee $20,000 with which to commence the main building. This Insures its location here. Senator Calvin S. Brice gave $5,000 to the fund. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. James M. May. James M. May, late of Company D, Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, died at the home of a sister at Harvey's Bun, Clearfield county. Pa., on last Wednesday, and will be buried from his late home, 137 Bldwcll street, Allegheny, to-day. He had gone to Clearfield county on advice of his physician, hoping to better his health. Mr. May served over three years in the Second West Virginia Infantry and Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, and was highly respeciea as a Drave soiaier ana a gooa citizen. He belonged to Post IK, of Allegheny; Encamp ment No. 6.U. V. L...and K. of P. AU old soldiers aie asked to attend his fuaeral. , Obituary Notes. Geheral Eefcqio Gonzales U dead in Mex ico. lira. Trebelli, the noted singer. Is dead at Etretat, France. Alfred Kxowlxs. an old boat builder, and late foreman of the shipyards at Madison, Ind., died Thursday night In that city. Miss Annie Thomas, a prominent young lady of ALron,. daughter of Rev. J, M. Thomas, after a serious Illness oftwo weeks, died yesterday. Mas. Jask Dunbar died at Steubenvllle yesterday, aged 84 years. She Is an aunt of James P. Curry, of Cleveland, Auditor of the Nickel Plate Railroad. Emmons Ratmond, once a leading railroad maunder, died In Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, aged 88 years. When the Concord Railroad was organized he became one of its directors. In 1859 he was chosen a director In the Connecticut and Passmnpsle Rivers road, continuing so until his death, being President of that company from 1870 until 1887. He was one of the 40 original subscribers to the stock of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Va Bauroad, which company he helped to organize. DRAWING ROOM CHAT. The Balley-SIeglns Wedding A Honey moon on Bicycles. A happy event took place Thursday even ing when Miss Anpa Luella Sigglns was married to Mr. William Bailey, at Mr. Isaae W. Sigglns home in Sbousetown, by the Bev. Dr. Dillon, of Coraopolls. The wedding wasot an extremely unostentatious nature and none but relatives and a few very near friends were invited. The ceremony as performed nt 6 o'clock. Both bride and bridegroom were unattended. The bride's going-away dress, a handsome tan cIoth,wa3 also her bridal gown, and immediately alter the nuptial the couple left lor their honey moon. A honeymoon being enjoyed this week and smacking of the fin de siecle Is that of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Winehnrt. The young people took with them their camei as and -wheels, and nt this piesent moment their friends in town can possibly picture to themselves the happy couple wheeling along. Miss McCandless, who, with Mrs. McCand less, has been enjoying fashionable Bedford for the past month, is home and settled again to the work of the Columbian Exposi tion. Her rooms are in the Magee building and there Miss MeCnndless is willing to be considered as a bnrean or information. Her advice about the plan for hotel economics is particniarlv valuable. Mr. J. D. Lyon, a young banker of Pitts burg, is spending August with his family at Bedford Springs. Mr. Harvey P. Ecker is on the ocean now, on board the Bretagne, and is expected to leach New York by Tuesday next. W. G: Markell, Esq., of the East End, left on the Pennsylvania Railroad last night for the East to enjoy an extended pleasure trip before le turning home. WHITELAW BEID GOING HOME. Highly Honored on tho Eve or Leaving to Visit His Mother in Ohio. Cbioaoo, Aug. 19. Hon. Whitelaw Beid returned to this city from Springfield, 111., this morning, accompanied by Congressman Burrows, of Michigan, dud a number of politicians. In alighting from the train he accidentally jammed one of tho fingers of his right hand in the door of the car, bruis ing the member so severely as torequire the attention of a surgeon. To r. reporter Mr. Beid expressed great pleasure at the en thusiasm manifested by the assemblages at Springfield yesterday as being good augury of success Touching his future movements, Mr. Beid said: "I entertain the old-fashioned idea that candidates for the Vice Fresldencv ought not to do too much campaigning. . I do not believe, therefore, that I will make many speeches outside of my own State. Although I am of the opinion that we should pay more attention to our own cam paign than to a discussion of the Democrats and their plans, still I think the Democrats in New Tork 'are not altogether happy. We hope to carry New York, and by forcing the fight and mak ing an unflagging campaign, we can win. But It never Is good policy to underestimate the strength of yonr opponents. Tho tariff, reciprocity and all the questions these two involve will be the Issues, togethor with finance. We will show np the wild scheme of removing the tax on State bank issues and injuring ourbanking system. Tbislattor question will certainly figure extensively in the contest." Many Republicans, and Democrats, too, Eaid their respects to Mr. Reid to-dav. H. I. Kohlsaat, ot the Inler-Ocean, arranged for a luncheon in Mr. Keid's honor at the Union League Club to meet the editors of all the daily papers, and later he visited the World's Pair grounds. He left for Xeuia, O., this evening to visit his mother. The luncheon to Mr. Reid was remarkable for the non-partisan character of the attend ance. The list of those present lopresented every daily newspaper in Chicago of what ever shade of politics. GRANGE DAY AT CHAT7IAT0.TJA. Bain Spoils the Fun and the Lightning Strikes One House. Chautauqua, Aug. 19. Special. This was Grange day .and from the number of grangers here, one might Imagine the whole State had turned its farming population into Chau tauqua. Every boat brought a throng of them, and all the upper gates turned them In by the score. On Grange and Grand Army days members of these organizations come in force. Rain spoiled the fun. A thunder shower started the storm and a house was struck by lightning and Bllghtly damaged. The rein continued all day and made the visitors as uncomfortable as possi ble. - At 11 o'olock a platform meeting was held, addressed by Master Trimble. He proposes that a bill be introduced In the National Congress to provide special schools for agri culture instead of allowing money to be ap propriated and go to schools which use the money for other purposes and neglect the agricultural work. The meeting in the afternoon was presided over by ex-President Hayes. This evening Mr. Hayes pre sided over a campflre of the Chautauqua County Veterans' Association. Speeches were made by quite a number of prominent veterans. Dr. Ely gave the fourth and last lecture on "Socialism" this afternoon. In it he tried to draw the golden mean. He con sidered the waste of competition and the means of avoiding it. He also drew some conclusions on the land question and other ideas brought up by Socialists and by some considered so absurd. THE FLAG INCIDENT SETTLED, Secretary Foster Secures the Dismissal of the Erring Jeannett Officer. Gbeensburo, Aug. 19. Special. The French flag troublo at Jeannette has been adjusted, and Policeman Thomas Spiers, who tore down the tricolored flag on Deoor ationDay, is outof ajob. Ho was removed last night by Burgess Baughman at the re quest of Secretary of Slate Foster. The Seoretary believes that the officer ex ceeded his authority when he tore down tho flag. District Attorney McCurdy attended the meeting of Councils, and took occasion, after the discharge had been made, to im press upon the minds of the Frenohmen and others the importance of having the Amer ican flag alwavs a little more prominent than that of other countries. The French are greatly delighted over the settlement. BUCHANAN'S BAD BLUNDERS. Governor BuosAirAir is a little man-hating politician. With him prinoiple Is secondary: his personal whims, grievances and vanity come first. Chattanooga Timet. Govebhob Buchaham's independent candi dature for re-election in Tennessee will probably be based on the anti-hanging idea. Colonel King ought to indorse Buchanan. Bottom Herald. 4 ,I the Democratic Governor of Tennessee runs as fast as an independent candidate as be does to keep out of sight of his insurgent miners he will make a record. New York Commercial Advertiser. Sraoi the King Incident Buchanan's chance as a bolting candidate for the Governorship of Tennessee is about equal to that of a hay mow in a cyclone. Buchanan is politically crazy. Kansas City Times. Certaiklt the spectacle of the Democratic Governor confessing himself beaten andj abandoning one of his generals to surrender to 5,000 minors who have surrounded him is calculated to make Tennesseo Republican If anything will. New York Press. Governor Buchaitah's course in dealing -with the assassin King raises grave doubts whether he has stuff in him to put down the rebellion in East Tennessee. An Executive who was as weak as ho was on that occasion is likely to be even more weak in this extra ordinary crisis. Philadelphia Bulletin. An efllcient Governor might have relieve d Tennessee of the convict stockade long be fore this, but Governor Buchanan has let things take their course while he was mak ing a record as the only Governor of tho State who ever allowed a mob to s'torm a State building at the Statu capital. St. Louis Republic Governor Buohahait, of Tennessee, has announced his independent candidacy for re-election, hoping for the Indorsement of the Populists, whose State Convention will take place next week. With four State tickets in the field. Tennessee is liable to cause Boss Harrity as much uneasiness as Alabama or Georgia. Minneapolis Tribune. For Ones Kot Guilty. Washington Post. The McKinley law neither Increased the size nor reduced the price of rooms at the summer hotels. Castles In the Air. New York Press.1 It is only children that chase rainbows to get gold. It remains for Democrats to spend gold ohastng rainbows. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are 60 species of electric fish. England claims the first place in g law making. The immigration last year amounted to 617,320 souls. When Victor Hugo was 20 he Issued his first volume a collection ofpoems. The working of the human heart la equal to the lifting of 120 tons in 2 hours. The United States of America sends S3 ministers and 1,061 consuls abroad every year. The first volume of "The History of England" appeared when David Hams was 13 years old. Most of the rope that is used for execu tions is furnished gratis by a cordage Arm la Philadelphia. A society has been organized in Iowa whose object is to push the pansy as tho flower of America. The WeatherBurean has decided to add another flag to its list. This one will indicate local rains. The exclusion of all lottery matter from the mails is said to have reduced the Income of the postofflce by over $100,000. The first book in which the word America appears was printed in the littlo mountain monastic town, St. Die, In 1507. Macrocystis, a seaweed of the South Pacific, often grows to be 30 or to Inches in diameter and 1,500 to 2,000 feet In length. Several years azo there was a law In Poland which compelled every slanderer to walk on all fours through the streets of the town. m The largest theater in the world is ths Opera House in Paris. It covers nearly three acres of ground, and cost about $20, 000,000. The most recent trustworthy investiga tion is that of M. De Cbateller, who fixes ths effective temperature of the sua at 12,600 Fahrenheit. "While drilling a gas well at Anderson, Ind., on Triday, the drill went through a vein or iron at 375 feet, tin at 459 feet and lead nt 500 feet. The size of America can be fully real ized when it has been proven that there is land enough to give every person in it a farm of 100 acres. The lighthouse tower at Cape Hatteras is 1S9 feet high from it base to tne center of the lantern. It is the tallest lighthouse tower in existence. Scientists estimate that every year a layer eqnal to li reet deep of the surface of all oceans and other bodies of water is taken np into the atmosphere in vapor. In the new Maine town of Rumford Falls, where not even a log hut stood a year ago. a $10,000 residence is building, and 709 men are at work upon mills and other structures. New Hampshire was named from Hamp shire county, in England, by John Mason, of the Plvmouth Company, to whom tho terri tory was originally granted by the English Government. An Atlanta newspaper recently referred to a lucky young rama as a "fair flower of tho South, born of the marriage of Amaryllis and a' magnolia." There are four times as many words In our language as there are in the French, yet a philologist estimates that the coinage ot new words in our tongue goes on at the rate of 1C0 annually. A whale, recently captured in Arctlo waters, was found to have imbedded in its side a harpoon that belonged to a whaling vessel that had been out of service nearly half a century. Cross-eyed men and women are the special aversion of gamblers. Negro touts at race tracks always spit in their hats when they see a man whose eyes squint. They say it kills the hoodoo. In order to discover an enemy's move ment at night, an Italian artillery officer has invented a mechanical candle, which, when sent from a cannon, will shed a light equal to 100,000 candies. A chimney piece carved from wood over 6,000 years old has recently been erected in a house in Edinburgh. The wood, an oak tree, was fonnd in a sand pit at Jlnsselburg, 13 feet below the surface. The latest heat story comes from Con necticut, where a man's cotton Jumper, whioh hung on the fence while he was rak ing hay, is said to have caught Are from the) sun and ignited the fence. Mrs. Hannah Harmon, of Brockton, Mass., claims to have lived under the admin istration of every President of the United 8tates, as she was born the dav preceding Washington's retirement from office. The amount of coloring matter In a pound of coal is enormous. It will yield enough magenta to color 500 yards of flan nel, vermlllion for 2,560 yards, aurine for 120 yards, and alizarine sufficient for 153 yards of Turkey red cloth. Thick as is an elephant's skin, no living: creature suffers more from files, mosquitoes, leeches, and other vermin than he. The pores are very large, and gadflies, mosqui toes, etc., worm themselves into the hollows and suck to repletion. The earliest known lens is one of rock crystal unearthed by Layard at Nineveh. This lens, the age of which is measured by thousands of vears, now lies in the British musenm.as bright and clear as it was the day it left the maker's lianas. A member of the City Coancil of Paris has introduced a proposition tohave lessons of history and biography impressed on tho public mind by having them printed on the enameled slzns at the corners, which now merely give the names of the streets. Ella Kittrldge an expert microscopio penman of Belfast, Me., has written several of Gladstone's speeches upon a single postal card, and sent the curiosity to the greae Liberal leader. Some of Mr. Kittridge's writing averages 20,000 words to a postal card. It is staled that a long first joint of the thumb shows will power: a long second Joint indicates strong logical or reasoning powerj a thick, wide thnmb indicates a person of marked individuality, while abroad knob at the end of the thumb is a sure indication of obstinacy. The flume which conveys the waterfront the mountains to the reservoir at San Diego, Cal., is said to be tho largest and longest thing of the kind In the world. It is 35 miles long, and is composed almost wholly of red woo d. In its course this monster Sums crosses 315 streams and canons on trestles, the longest of which Is 1,700 feet long and 83 feet high. PIB ODETTES FKOM PUCK. "How do yon like that?" asked the raid. Iffival torturer, as he tightened the thumbscrew. "Oh. itwIUdo-ata pinch," answered the pris oner. phllosoDbically. "Out of sight, out of mindP Is, I think you will And, A saw that Is quite far from right, I think yon will find. That the girl moss in mind Is the girl tnat is Just "outof sightr Bunker I heard that "Warble has married an actress. ' HiU-Howdidheeometodothst? Bunker-He has written a play, and thatUth only way he conld get a manager to read It. TATX. Once I planted some potatoes la mj garden fair and bright. Undated long and waited. And no sprout appeared in sight. But my peachblows In ths cellar. On the cold and murky flag. All serenely sprouted greenly In an ancient paper bag. Mrs. Suburban Do you raise yonr ra vegetables! " X. Mrs. Howson Lott-No. We can only afford to pay the rent of the cottage and grounds this yearj but the next we shall be well enough off to be able to raise a few tomatoes and such things. Fortune, they say, 's a fickle jadt, Inconstant as a mortal maid ; And yet. In her disdain of me. She is a pearl of constancy. Boggs I have a scheme. Fogjrs-Whatt Boggs-You boom ae for Governor, and TO boom you for Congressman! roggs What good will that dor ' Boggi We can both ran for Alderman next faB, ' Nfe-'i h:teLjgj
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