THE P1TTSBTTRG- DISPATCH, HONDAT, JANTTART 14, 1889.
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PITTSBPRG, MONDAY. JAN. 14. 18S9.
THE POPULAR MOVEMENT.
The proposition has been received with
many expressions of approval to turn to the
working classes and smaller business men
for subscriptions to complete the Exposi
tion. It has been plainly said that since
the rich men of the city will not do their
share, it will be well to leave them to them
selves, and to make the enterprise an en
tirely popular one.
There is much value in the suggestion.
The masses have their share of interest in
the Exposition. The man who owns his
own house, the clerk, mechanic and laborer,
the retail merchant and the jobber, all have
their share of interest in the Exposition,
and will be clad to contribute according to
their ability. It will be more work to get
together the five, ten or fifty dollar sub
scriptions than it would be if the funds
came in five hundred or thousand dollar
lumps; but it will be worth while to place
the enterprise clearly on the basis of popu
lar support.
It is possible too that such a movement
would stir up the wealthier elements. Al
though they do not alwavs seem to realize
it, the capitalists of Pittsburg will, on re
flection, perceive that it is worth their while
to keep in line with measures for the public
welfare. The popular goodwill is very
valuable to them about the time of Presi
dental and Congressional elections; and
when they see the people rallying to the
support of a public enterprise like this,
they will also see the policy of joining in the
effort.
One thing is certain. Pittsburg's Expo
sition must be made a success.
A DESEBVED EE-ELECTIOIT.
It is satisfactory to note the unanimous re
nomination, by the Republicans of the Ill
inois Legislature, of Senator Cullom to suc
ceed himself in the United States Senate,
under circumstances which make his re
election a certainty. Senator Cullom shares,
with Judge Reagan, the main credit for the
passage of the Inter-StutcCouimerce act,
which, however berated it m.iy be by the
railway interests, is a long step toward the
protection of the public against corporate
abuses. It is also an indication of his posi
tion that he has in the Senate a bill, which,
if enacted and enforced, would abolish the
oppression and injustice of trusts. Senator
Cullom's career has been free from scandals
and has been marked by ability and vigor.
In contrast with the choice of so many cor
porate attorneys and corporate millionaires
to high positions the re-election of Senator
Cullom is a matter of congratulation no less
to the public than himself.
BOOHS AND BUBBLES.
Benner's prophecies schedule an active and
prosperous year in 1889, with an advance in
prices for iron, railroad stocks and all man
ufactured commodities. This is to increase
in 1890 when "the advance will be wonder
ful" and a boom will be experienced in
everything. By the beginning of 1891 pig
iron will be $50 per ton, and the result of
such inflation will be a panic, with "com
mercial and financial revulsion and a long
down sweep or prices."
This is a very attractive programme for
the fellows who are smart enough to realize
on the boom and get their business affairs
ready for the storm, before 1S9L But as it
is impossible for everyone to realize, the
obvious conclusion is that it will be better
to jog along soberly and conservatively on a
sound basis of prices. It is practical to
indorse Mr. Benner's prophecy to the extent
that, if pig iron reaches 50 a ton, there will
be a panic; and the revulsion, as business
revulsions generally are, will be as Mr.
Benner rather redundantly declares, "com
mercial and financial." But a very good
way to avert that calamity will be to pre
vent pig iron from reaching $30. As there
is a reserve capacity of blast furnaces
capable of increasing production one-half
when pig iron reaches $25 or $30, we can
rely on that influence to check the boom
before it becomes excessively gigantic. "We
hope that Mr. Benner's bubble will not be
blown to any such degree of inflation as he
predicts, and consequently will not result in
the final explosion.
TOBACCO VERSUS WIVES.
The report that Osman Digna is curing
his followers of excessive indulgence in the
tobacco habit by taking away their wlv
and other personal property, proves that the
many-lived leader of the eastern Soudanese
is either very much in earnest in his crusade
against tobacco, or else has a decided pen
chant for appropriating the property of
his subordinates. Considering the uni
versal love of the Mahommedans for to
bacco, as exemplified by the visions of
divans and hookahs which the mention of
Mahommedan countries evokes, there is a
probability that if O&man continues to sur
pass King James in his counterblast against
the weed he will be obliged to take into his
possession the wives and other chattels of
the entire population of the Soudan. There
maybe some Arabs among them philosophical
enough to find in tobacco a solace for these
deprivations, but wives are useful property
in the Soudan. If the policy of confisca
tion is kept up it is likely to result in a con
clusion on the part of the Soudanese that
they can take back their wives and Osman
Digna's head at the same time.
A NEW AMBITION. ,
A very novel theorv of crime is presented
by the New York JVi&une in an editorial
comment to the effect that as the man who
stabbed his friend fifteen minutes alter the
New Year came in will be the first to test
electricity as an executioner, "it would not
be the strangest thing in the world if that
thought had a place in his mind when he
determined to become a murderer." Apart
from the question of fact whether the man
who did the first killing in 1889, or the one
whose execution comes first in that year,
will have the proud distinction, the idea
which represents that fame as a goal to be
striven for, is startling and discouraging.
If it is true that the adoption of anew
method of executing criminals sets the com
munity to rushing out and killing their
friends in a mad rush to secure first place in
the honor of being fatally struck by light
ning, the task of protecting human life
looks rather hopeless. The first thought
would be that the only way to stop such a
competition would be to abolish the (death
penalty altogether; but even then the idea
might continue in operation. Indeed we
think that a man would be more likely to
kill his next friend in order to secure the
notoriety of being the first who escapes exe
cution under a new law, than to compete
for the principal position in a novel sort of
execution.
exclusive privileges 15 streets.
The explanation of the traction motor bill,
just introduced in the Legislature which is
offered by its putative author in an inter
view elsewhere, calls attention to the essen
tial vice of the theory that exclusive owner
ship can be obtained by private corporations
in rights of way through the highways dedi
cated to the use of the entire public for
streets.
Thus, itisstated, certain street railway com
panies having been granted the privilege of
laying their tracks along the streets, claim
an exclusive ownership, and hare by that
means forbidden other passenger railways,
traction and otherwise, from reaching the
center of the city. This ownership of the
public streets by street railway corporations,
is disapproved by the authors of this bill.
It is proposed to correct it by a measure
which, at least, creates a suspicion that it
will transfer the ownership of the streets,
for the future, to the traction corporations.
The absurdity of such a conclusion would
show the persistent survival of the idea
that corporations must be granted monopo
lies. The fact that exclusive privileges in
the public streets enable corporations to
stand in the way of progress should show
the necessity of the principle that no cor
porations shall have exclusive privileges in
the public highways. They must have, of
course, ownership of the property they put
dowh in the streets, namely, the railway
track, with the right to charge tolls for its
use. But the way to amend the present
state of affairs is not to shift the exclusive
privileges from one class of corporations to
another.
If the bill provides that no corporations
shall have the monopoly of any street, but
that the tracks shall be open to the use of
all, on equitable terms, suited to the nature
of the enterprise, it will be in accordance
Ttith fundamental constitutional principles.
SHUTTING OFF BUSINESS.
An interesting illustration of the charac
ter of the bill before the Legislature, which,
under the pretext of inspection for meat,
proposes to make meat scarce and dear by
shutting out all beef dressed beyond the
State lines, appears in the fact that it
would shut out a legitimate business, which
has been pursued in the cities of this State
for many years, without the slightest com
plaint from anyone. The business of buy
ing green meats in the West, and bringing
them here to be cured and packed, has been
an undisputed one for the last generation,
and is pursued by a number of leading
packing houses. Without knowing it, the
people who drew up this piece of legislation
put it into language which would prohibit
our packing houses from curing and pack
ing their own meats.
This is really a minor point beside the
main issue of decreeing that the supply of
cheap meat for the working masses of Penn
sylvania shall be cut off; but it affords a fair j
example of the stupidity which draws up
State legislation for excluding the products
of other States. As to the main issue, that
has been stated clearly enongh already. It
is veiled behind the gauzy pretext of secur
ing healthy meat; but the purpose of making
meat more costly is clear enough in the pro
visions, and is openly avowed by the sup
porters of the bill. No one asks for the bill
except those who are interested in keeping
up the prices of meat; and its provisions are
exactly those which have been urged by the
interested classes for their own benefit,
TnEDlSPATCH'spositiononthismatteris
plain enough and has been frequently stated.
Let us have all the inspection, both in and
out of the State, that is necessary to secure
safety against diseased meat; but there must
be no restriction on the food supply of the
people.
A letter from California to the Cincin
nati Commercial Gazette, which is largely
devoted to booming M. M. Estee for a Cabi
net position, concludes with the following
prediction: "With Mr. Estee In the Cabi
net as Secretary of the Interior he would in
augurate a policy that would give out no
uncertain ring." We should think sol
With such a control of the Interior Depart
ment the most prominent thing around that
institution would be a Certain ring the
Central Pacific ring.
The announcement that Mrs. Potter has
"scandalized" New York by the revelations
of her costume in "Cleopatra," is evidently
intended to give the play an immense boom.
The public will be quick to leap to the con
clusion that any costume which can scan
dalize New York must be a stunner.
The petition or the commercial drummers
that they be allowed special privileges on
the railroads, by an amendment to the
Inter-State Commerce Act, on the ground
that they are "commercial evangelists," is
typical of the noted characteristic of that
class which numbers Sam'l of Posen as the
most retiring and modest man on the road.
They will next be claiming half-rate tickets
by virtue of their clerical character as
"evangelists."
It is instructive to observe that Yoorhees
and Turpie voted against the amendment
proposed in the Senate, putting coal on the
free list. The fact that Indiana is produc
ing considerable coal nowadays gives these
eminent Democrats considerable new light
on the tariff question.
The Philadelphia Press notes that "an
individual likely to be prominent in the
Pennsylvania Legislature this year is
familiary known as 'Eevenue Bill.' " But
it omits to state th&t in ihe last Legislature,
between the Governor and the President of
the Senate, the same individual was reduced
to a condition that can only be described
by the title of "Horizontal Bill."
Representative Weavee has ceased
to,squeeze the House, having got what he
wants out of it. The next man who wishes
something and can't get it will.Ve hope,
squeeze it until it perceives that self protec
tion can only be secured by abolishing all
special jobs.
Govebkob Hill's official recommenda
tion that Ex-Presidents be made life mem
bers of the United States Senate has not
been received with especial enthusiasm.
The suspicion that David Bennett Hill re
gards it as a possible provision for "his
political future, renders it impossible for
the rest of the country to regard it in any
other light than that -of a joke.
The American Duchess of Marlborough
nsks the custodians of the New York estate,
Which purchased her that title for $150,000,
to support her rank. The ducal rank ap
pears to be very high, but some of us must
have it.
The Cramps seem to have demonstrated
that American builders can turn out a
cruiser that surpasses in sneed anything
which foreign governments can show. This
is a step toward restoring the relative posi
tion occupied in old days when Yankee
clippers made us the second sea-faring na
tion of the world.
Senatou Inoails was left out of the
invitations to that "White Honse dinner;
but Calvin S. Brice was there. This shows
that the bounds of Presidental forgiveness
are broad, but hare their limits.
A NEW and professedly comic paper has
been started in New York, bearing the title
of Lies. It is evidently based on the belief
that, since the campaign is over, the busi
ness indicated by its title can be made a
specialty. It does not claim to be the
special organ of Wall street, notwithstand
ing its name.
PEES0SAL PARAGRAPHS.
Miss Susan Hale is giving readings for
charity in Washington.
PaESIDEXT-BLECT Harrison now has f 40,
000 insurance on his life.
Pbof. FreemAn is hard at work at Palermo
on his Sicilian history. His health is said to be
greatiy improved.
The Rev. Cuthbkbt SountJrr, who died
at Askhnm, near Penrith.Wales, the other day,
was the last surviving son of the poet.
The young men are coming to the front in
New York State. The Speaker of the House is
Only 32 and the Speaker pro tern, of the Senate
35. The oldest statesman in the Legislature is
only 65.
President Cleveland does not bother
himself about the detail of a state dinner. He
leaves all the arrangements to his wife, who is
very careful In her inspection of everything
pertaining to the banquet.
"Mark Twain" lost his hat and coat at a
recent ball in Connecticut, and was obliged to
drive home with no protection from the cold
save that afforded by his luxuriant locks. He
kept himself warm by cracking jokes.
M. Hammer, the new President of the Swiss
Confederacy, was Ambassador at the court of
Berlin from 1SC8 to 1876, after which be entered
the Federal Council. He is not a brilliant
orator, by any means, but he is described as a
conscientious administrator, of a calm, just,
moderate judgment, and, over and above all, a
very gentlemanly man.
Dn. Bciiliestann has dng some trial
trenches on the Acropolis of Navanno, the an
cient Pylos, the home of Nestor, and has visited
the island of Sphacteria in order to study the
Cyclopean walls, about which he is preparing a
report. In the excavations on the Athenian
Acropolis have been discovered two statues of
women, of natural size, with the heads per
fect, and of an archaic period: also two groups
in Poros stone of heroic size. Ot these, the one
represents a Hercules killing the Triton; the
other is composed of three monsters, of each of
which the upper part has the body of a man
and the lower that of a serpent. One of these
is winged. They belong to a Very remote
epoch.
TO TEST A GLUTTON.
One of the Most Remarkable Eating Con
test on Record Outlined.
Media, Pa., January 13. Everybody in
Media who had heard of it are laughing over a
wager that was made to-day between a well
known business man of the town and two other
parties, who are backing "Winileld Blakes, a
Colored driver for Brodhead's line of stages, in
regard to his ability to eat a very largo amount
at one meal or Bitting
A bet of 10 has been made and the money
put up that Blakes will eat In one hour K a
bushel of turnips, a peck of white
potatoes. 6 cups of coffee, 4 loaves of bread,
$i a pound of stewed prunes, 4 pounds of beef,
6 small pies, 3 spring chickens, 3 oyster stews,
50 raw oysters, 1 can of salmon and wash all
this down with a pint of whisky.
The bet was made in good faith and articles
of agreement drawn up. The turnips and
potatoes are to be measured whole; and, of
course, afterward cooked and mashed. The
loser of the wager is also to pay for the pro
visions. The feat is set down for February 22.
Blakes will make an attack upon the big pile
of provisions at 1 o'clock r. m., and to win will
have to clear the table by 2 o'clock. The
parties who are backing Blakes offered to put
up 50 that he would get away with the stuff in
the time allowed him. He is reported to have
done some big eating recently with pies and
oysters, and is said to have never yet got
enough. He is a young man of 21 or 25, tall
and angular, with nothing about him to denote
his big feeding qualities.
WHAT A COLLEGE COSTS.
The RIodern University Requires nn Annual
Incomoof $250,000.
From the Forum. J
In those good old times of 80 years ago, J200,-
000 or $300,000 was thought a great endowment
for a university, and $20,000 a sufficient endow
ment for a professorship. To found an Institu
tion and call it a university, in these days, with
an income of less than a quarter of a million of
dollars a year, is a broad farce. Even with
that sum many of the most important spheres
of university activity must be neglected. Twice
the amount is not more than adequate, and
Harvard university, which has an income of
more than twice that amount, is at this mo
ment showing cogent reasons for demanding
more.
And the tendency is ever toward a greater
expenditure. This is neither to be scolded at
nor whined over. Just as the material de
mands of this wonderful time have created
vast hotels, steamships and railway systems, so
the moral and intellectual demands are cre
atine great universities. A leading professor
Ud3 UCWJUIO . CIBU111C, IdllUUS lUBLUUlIOnS
compete for him, often raising his salary to a
.figure which once would have filled boards of
trustees with dismay. It does not equal yet the
sum customary among distinguished city cler
gymen, lawyers, presidents of banks and rail
roads, consulting engineers, and cooks of New
York millionaires; but it is rapidly nearing
these figures, and it ought so to do.
SEA-CALMING CARTRIDGES.
The Ingenious and Valuable Invention of a
Hartford Mnn.
From the New York Evening Snn.
A cartridge has been invented by Mr. Albert
H. Walker of Hartford, Conn., which, when
tilled with oil and discharged, will pacify the
stormiest of seas.
The receptacle is of ordinary cartridge size,
but is made of heavy paper, and is weighted
at the further end with a small piece of lead.
It will hold about two ounces of oil. It is fitted
in an ordinary cartridge shell, and fastened to
it by means of cotton shreds.
The cartridge is put into a breech-loader and
the trigger is pulled. The cotton connecting
the cartridge and the shell is ignited by the
powder. It is burned, and the cartridge, filled
with oil, is sent spinning away over the waves.
Then, at an; point the navigator may wisb, the
cartridge, because of the lead at its head, will
sink into the waves.
The oil being lighter than the water rises to
the top of the sea and spreads over it like a
film over the waves. By means of these cart
ridges a path an eighth of a mile broad can be
made through the heaviest of seas.
Seafaring men are much delighted at this in
vention. III Luck Follows.
From the St. Paul Globe.:
The fortune that follows the number 13 has a
Dakota illustration. .Three young women met
December 13 and resolved never to marry, and
to renew their pledges on that day an
nually. On the 13th of January each of them
will show up with a husband at the reunion.
Warriors to Be Feared.
From the Chicago Herald.
A Chinaman with seven arms Is one of the
freaks In a Philadelphia dime museum. We
don't want to getinto a fight with China If it
has got many such army men.
TO SAYE THE EAETH.
An Interesting Crank Who ts Panning
Congressmen flow Dr. Cahlll Would
Accomplish Wonder With Water
Waste Places 'ie bo Turned Into Oar
dens.
Correspondence of the Dispatch.
Washington, January 18. Every member
of the United States Senate and every commit
tee of that body is troubled mora or less with
cranks. They swarm aboutltbe Capitol proper,
and they even attack the public men there at
long range, by telegraph and by mail. An in
teresting and rather unique crank has been
following the Commutes on Commerce for
sometime. He is a philanthropist, and one
who wants to save the earth itself from de
struction and the inhabitants of the earth from
eternal damnation. His means to accomplish
this most desirable end has the merit of nov
elty. He finds that the salvation of the earth
and its people is to be obtained only through
the agency of water. He has experimented
with water with much better results than have
followed its use and abuse by the Prohibition.
1st. Some time ago the committee received a
mysterious box It had such a questionable
look that Senator Frye had it sent to a car
penter's shop to be opened. It was found to
Contain some crass and sand and nothing more.
It remained a mystery for several days.
One morning the explanation of its contents
was received in a letter from San Francisco
signed by Michael CahinM. D. The letter ex
plained that the writer had been experiment
ing with sand in the belief that it Could be
made fertile and that the grass sent to the
committee had been grown on sand. Recently
the committee received from Dr. Cahill an
other communication. In this the doctor pro
poses to solve several vital questions, among
others the question of Irish home rule, but in
another home than that which their ancestors
left them. And all this, too, is to be ac
complished by the use of the doctor's infallible
remedy water,
Dr. Cahlll entitles his latest contribution ta
the literature that adorns the shelves of the
Commerce Committee room:
"Demonstrations of rain by art, to as to open
np all the deserts and in time the polar regions
for settlement, turning the tide of European'
immigration up into the Russian Empire and
opening up two-thirds of the Chinese Empire
for China: also to establish an indenendent
Irish Republic in alliance with and under the
protection of God and tho United States for a
good purpose."
The first Sheet of this remarkable paper con
tains an extract from the San , Francisco Even
ing Bulletin of November IB, 1887, describing
the meteorological phenomena accompanying
the building of railroads in Mexico, and calling
attention to tne curious fact that water-spouts
seem to be attracted by the iron track and tele
graph wires. It is noticed that as fast as the
construction tram advances rain follows, and
this is held to be due to the large quantity of
steel rails on fiat cars, which are carried for
ward as fast as the work of construction will
permit. Dr. Cahill, commenting on these re
markable facts, Says! "This is due to the rails
becoming magnetized by jolting, which deflects
the electric current overhead at right angles to
itself, causing a jamb of ice splcula and vapof
vesicles, which fall as bucketfuls of rain. Also
the train strikes the keynote of thunder, caus
ing rain from vibrations in atmosphere, forcing
vesicles and drops to Coalesce by mechanical
violence and fall from gravity."
After this lucid explanation the Doctor pro
ceeds to show how a knowledge of the peculiar
rain-producing properties of iron and steel Can
be put to a good use. He proposes to magnetize
a large mass of iron, and with it to draw rain
from the clouds when it is needed. He also
suggests that a condenser be maintained "as a
captive metallic balloon in the zone of maxi
mum moisture overhead." With a condenser
of 200 f eet diamoter charged with electricity.
Dr. Cahlll thinks a rain-attracting power of
"21,636,363 acres Of forests or mountains" can
be had.
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The explanation of the good nses to which ho
proposes to put bis knowledge are shown by
the doctor in the second of the two papers
which he sent to the committee. It is dated
Mendocino City, Cah, December 24, and begins
thus: "I informed your honorable predecessors
of the physical destruction of the earth by the
ice accumulating around the poles exerting
unequal pressnro and forcing the water
through the planet's crust to explode and con
flagrate her. Danlei, rli., 22; II. Peter ill,
Holy Bible." The "recurring earthquakes,
unusual ice floes, tidal wares, volcanic action,
natural gas and petroleum wells" are Ml attrib
uted to these causes and are said to be the
signs of the impending Catastrophe. The Doctor
also attributes epidemic diseases and insanity
to the same causes. All of these troubles he
proposes to remedy by equalizing the popula
tion of the different portions of theglobe,and in
order to distribute the population equally, ho
proposes to make all parts of the globe equally
fertile. "The Desert of Sahara," ho says, "con
tains about 3,000,000 square miles 2,000,000
Square miles of which is still unattached.
When brought under cultivation, Sahara can,
no doubt, sustain 600,000.000 people more, for
the Arabs have a legend that were Adam to re
turn to the earth, he would, after visiting all
the nations, come to Sahara and Say it indeed
was his native Eden, so prolific is the soil
where the water Is. But an abundance of water
can be had at an Insignificant expense from
overhead as required.
"I Suggest to the United States Government
that an independent colony of the ultrA-Na-tlonal
Irish be established on tho Atlantic sea
board of Sahara to relaim the land, open it up
for settlement and establish civilization under
the emerald banners of a nation called by Jesus
Christ to obedience. Railroads may be run into
the Central and Western Soudan, opening a
mart for the products of United States fac
tories, cotton looms, agricultural Implements,
etc., into territories capable o'f sustaining 1,000,
000,000 pcoplc.now havingaboutS0,00O,0001ocked
np from the trade and commerce of the world
by the desert on the north and mountains south
and west.
"Before and after the Christian era the Irish
were a civilizing nation, but foreign invaders
and outlaw rulers and preachers have per
verted the public mind and conscience, a
chronic state of agitation resulting, which pre
vents the natural advancement of themselves
and others from sympathy. In the hands of
Providence, I suggest that the energy now
wasted in discord and agitation be given a lisW
ful vent by establishing the colony which may
tame and civilize the sparce population by ob
taining abundance of food for tliem and their
animals and educating them into the mechanic
arts and agriculture, a more humane and
rational way tban having them murder each
other, as the 'Mahdi' and English are doing.
"Say 1U,000,000 Irish throughout the world
subscribe to each for the colony. This gives
0,000,000 hard cash, on which $160,000,000 notes
may be circulated, which would plant 800,000
families at $500 on the soil. Thirty thousand
men might be armed to maintain law and order.
Many of the families would hare capital of
their own, and their Government could issue
greenbacks, so that the So0,00Q,000 might be
ample without any United States Government
support, except recognition or moral aid.
"The gallant Sixty-nlnth New York and
some veterans of Meaghor's brigade might
contribute of their1 numbers to form the nu
cleus of the army."
After some further detail of plans, Dr. Cahill
says: "Gentlemen, I am no politician. You
have the means; please act for your own con
servation and the good of all created beings on,
in and about the earth. I have indicated the
danger and remedy and should delay cause dis
aster, your bloods be on your own heads.
May discord and wrong be wiped off the earth
and peace' and plenty abound in happiness
among all. Amen."
The Commerce Committee has not yet taken
up the consideration of Dr. Cahill's plans.
O'BRlEK-BAnr.
Bare Good Luck.
From the Chicago Times.
It was singularly in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things that a well of pure
flowing water should have been struck at an
Illinois milk factory. Now If a chalk mine
could be found in the back yard cows could be
entirely dispensed with and tbecheese couldbe
marketed for black-board use. But too much
good luck Invites misfortune.
Our Navy Becoming Formidable.
From the Dallas News.
If a few more of our old wooden, germ-nursing
vessels are sent to Hayti during the con
tinuance of ttie yellow fever in that Island, the
American navy will soon and at last become
the terror of tho seas.
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A L0EDLI TIN PEDDLER.
'A Tender of Notions Tarns Ont to be an l!n.
gllsh Nobleman.
Portland, Me., January 13. A rather ro
mantic Story IS published here of the courtship
and marriage of a Portland shop girl of humble
origin to an English lord, who, pending his en
trance upon bis rightful estates, lived here as
an itinerant vender of tinware and notions.
The young man recently came Into his title, and
with his pretty American bride is at present
presiding over one ul the finest estates in En
gland. He came here eight years ago, and happen
ing Into a wholesale store, he saw a verv pretty
shop girl and loved her at Apt sight. A court
ship and a marriage followed. The husband
was very devoted and spent many leisure hours
improving bis wife's education. In due time a
Son was born. One day the father, glancing
through a London paper, saw a death an
nouncement and shortly afterward sailed away.
His family soon joined him and are there still.
Those who might give full Information, if they
would, are the members of her family and a
prominent lawyer who was for a time In the
young man's confidence. All that will now be
told is that the young man was the youngest
son, with only a dim prospect of succeeding to
a title. Death was busy while the young fel
low was courting and peddling In Maine, and
the item in the London paper told him that he
was only one life removed from the House of
Lords.
The next thing was to reconcile his proud old
father to his American wife. For a time the
old man held out, but at last yielded. This is
the second case of the kind which has occurred
in Maine. In the first instance the nobleman
courted a Rlohmond girl, but before tho day set
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vessel of which he was first mate went down.
WELL LAID PLAINS.
Programme for the Coming Week in
Con.
gress. If Nothing Interferes.
Washington, January ll-tfhe tariff de
bate in the Senate will occupy all of this week
and Monday of next week, the time for voting
on the passage of the bill being fixed for Tues
day, the 22d, at 1 o'clock. The business of the
House this week has all been nicely planned in
advance, and, in some instances, has been made
the subject of special orders. Monday, after
passing the fortification appropriation bill, the
river and harbor bill is to be taken up. Mr.
Springer intends to try to get consideration for
the omnibus territorial bill Tuesday, but the
Indications are that he will meet with some Re
publican opposition. The Appropriation Com
mittee wish to consider and pass the sundry
civil appropriation bill Wednesday, and the
South Carolina contested election case of
Small vs Elliot is set for Thursday, and may
consume the remainder of the week.
It is to be noted, however, that a part or all
of this programme is subject to disagreement
by a report from the Committee on Rules on
the Randall resolution rescinding the rule
which now requires nn adjournment at 5 o'clock
every day. If this resolution be rejected or de
feated by individual or party effort, the result
may be a renewal of the filibustering pro
ceedings of the last week.
FRIGHTENED BY A BP00K.
A Ghost Causing nn Exodus of Negroes in
Alabama.
BirtHTNarrAH, Ala., January It A ghost is
causing an exodus of negroes from Lawrence
county Last July Calvin Mooday, a drunken,
worthless negro, murdered bis wife. The crime
was a most brutal one. Three nights after the
murder Mooday was taken from the county jail
at Moulton and lynched by colored men. The
colored men of the County boasted that no
white man had anytblngto do with the banging
of Mooday. Most of the lynching party were
known, but no effort was ever made to prose
cute them for it Recently the colored people
living in and around Monlton have been Seeing
ghosts at the honse where the Mooday family
formerly lived. The ghost visited the scene
every night, and soon the negroes became much
alarmed. Those who had taken part in tho
lynching were the first to leave the Country,
and others are following as rapidly as possible.
A correspondent writing from Moulton says:
"If tho present exodus continues Lawrence
county will Soon be without a colored citizen.
They firmly believe the ghost of Calvin Mooday
Is lurking about the old Cabin and will bring a
fearful curse on all colored people who were
in any way connected with the lynching. The
lynching of Mooday was the first and only time
In tne history of Alabama Where a criminal was
lynched by colored men.
SHIPBUILDING AT HOME.
Doctoring the Tariff So as to Encourage
American Enterprise.
"Washington, January 13. Several minor
and technical changes were made in the tariff
bill to-day, after which Mr. Gray called atten
tion to section 2310, which permits the impor
tation, In bond, free of duty, of lumber, timber,
etc, necessary for the construction and
equipment of vessels built in the
United States for foreign account and
ownership, or for employment In the
foreign trades; and he offered an amendment
So as to Include plates, deck beams, f orgings,
composition metal And all structural BbapeS,
Including machinery and parts of machinery.
The existing law, be said, as well as section
310, were intended to encourage Shipbuilding
,in the United States, but only affected wooden
vessels, wnue nis amendment would encourage
the building of iron and steel vessels.
Mr. Sherman objected to the including of
machinery and parts of machinery, as that
would interfere with American machine shops.
After a short debate, and without disposing of
Mr. Gray's amendment, the Senate proceeded
to executive business, and soon adjourned.
WOMAN'S COURAGE.
The Doughty Deeds Performed by members
of the Weaker Sex.
How many men are there, asks the New
York Sun, who would bave the courage to do
what women left alone at home all over the
country are doing every night of the year?
They hear strange noises in the houses, and
without hesitation take a match or candle or
lamp and go in search of burglars. I heard of
one the other day, living in a detached house
up the Hudson, who heard sonndsasof some
one breaking in, and, who went out of doors
and walked all around her house in a cloak
thrown Over her night dress. Footprints in the
snow showed that burglars had been at work
and had fled. Another lady heard a scratching
sound at 2 in the morning and went down
stairs to find that a man had peeled all the
putty from around a parlor window pane.
Women do these things without a thought,
and usually go wholly unarmed.
Wonderful Vitality.
From the New York Tclegrsm.l
Justice Stanley Matthews appears to be un
commonly robust. Ho manages to Improve in
spite of two doctors and the efforts of 18 Wash
ington correspondents to remove him to
another sphere.
Preparing for 1802.
From the Albany Argui. 1
James G. Blame, Jr., has decided to become
a mechanical engineer. Perhaps he can, in the
future, help his father manipulate the wires.
The Other Fellows' Tarn Then.
From the Philadelphia Times.:
Those who are laughing at tbe ice men now
will sing a different song when July comes
along.
SLEEP AND DEATH.
O gentle Sleep, who oft hast cradled ine
In weary honrs,
Halt laid thy still palm on my heated brow
And bound thereon, when I was sad as now,
The silent poppy flowers I
Thou canit not aid me here ; but there Is One,
Brother of thine.
Who holds a medicine that will ease all pain;
Tell him, I pray thee, straightway, I would fain
Be eased of mine.
Bleislngs on thee,
Tbon guardlanangel to the lost child. Timet
All sbrronlng hearts
Beat thanks to thee, bat look with longing eye
To where thy brother's kinder ministry
The lax cord parts.
Paler than thou,
Elder and far more beautiful is he,
And on his brow
Bits the high calm that warrants all redress;
Abiding homfe to hearts all shelterless
"Win he allow.
Go, gentle Sleep,
Tell him the woes of time come thick and fast;
Tell him we lie
Within the shadow of the ebon gate
And lor tbe mnile of its opening wait,
Longing to die.'
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YESTERDAY'S DISPATCH.
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Drlsf Summary of the Leading Features of
Ihe Hnnmotb Doable Number.
Lord Sackville has written a letter defending
himself for having answered the Murchison
letter, and accusing Mr. Bayard of unfairness.
Many imitators of the Whltechapel fiend seem
to be springing up in various parts of England.
The Tories are delighted because the Parnell
fund In America is growing smaller. Gerald
Ine Ulmar, an American prima donna. Is being
honored by the attentions of royal personages.
The Belgian Queen and ber daughter are
going into business as publishers of 'a house
hold magazine. A party of officers engaged in
evicting tenants in County Armagh met
with vigorous resistance, the occupants
of a house assailing them with
boiling water and pitchforks. Two persons
were injured in the melee. In France great In
terest centers upon the result of the election,
and the bets are freely made that Boulanger
will come out ahead. Bismarck has arrlTCd in
Berlin and will address the Reichstag and at
tempt to forward his favorite measures. Berlin
newspapers continue their attacks on Morler,
but the public is trettlne weary of the subject.
The usual Interesting budget of continental
gossip was furnished in other cable dispatches.
A delegation of Virginians called on General
Harrison to urge him to give Mahone a place
in the Cabinet. Weaver's obstructionist tactics
have succeeded in the House, and
the Oklahoma bill will be called
up 'under a suspension of the rules.
The Pennsylvania Legislature finds plenty to
occupy its attention and a long session is pre
dicted. The question of a prohibition amend-
a?a tho appropriation bills are subjects
most discussed at present. As a result of a
county seat war in Gay county, Kansas, two
persons were killed and a large number in
jured. We3t Virginia Republicans seem con
fident that Goff will be declared Gnvernor.
Interesting statistics regarding the growth of
the Catholic Church in tbis country during the
past 100 years were furnished by a New York
correspondent." The steamer Mercedes left
New York for Hayti, for the purpose, it is sup
posed, of assisting Hlppolyte. The arrival ot
several Treasury agents at the New York ap
praiser's office has created consternation
among officials. The result of their investiga
tion is awaited with interest.
n.
There is a scheme on foot for Converting Ne
ville Island and Six miles of tbe south shore of
the Ohio into yards for the Lake Erie Railroad.
Owners Of the property In that vicinity are pre
paring to make vigorous opposition. T. B.
Barry addressed a meeting of worklngmen, and
in a three-hours' speech unmercifully scored
Powderly and other prominent K. of LofBcials.
The funerals of several of the victims of the
Wood street disaster were held on Saturday.
Law students conducted a mock trial at the
Court House. Allegheny is still torn up over
the charter question. City Solicitor Elpbin
stone and George Shlras gave their views on
the subject to the Citizens' Committee. An
Allegheny noy 12 years of age committed sui
cide by taking poison.
The Usual review and record of sporting
events, the market and editorial pace", the
muslo world and other departments were full
of interesting reading matter.
Itt.
Bill Nye, in the second part of the naper,
discussed the utility and value of the Con
gressional Record; Lillian Spencer described
Whltechapel and its wretched population;
Ouida gave her views on the subject of social
clubs for women; Captain Charles King gave
an interesting account of the way West Point
cadets are educated In horsemanship; Blakely
Hall gossiped about the swells andAngloma
niacs of Now York. Franklin File continued
his Intensely interesting storyi Shirley Dare
and Clara Belle each contributed bright letters
on topics of interest to the fair sex; Barney
gave Some curious facts and superstitions re
garding ants; E. W. Bartlett pictured the inte
rior of a Pittsburg candy factory; Prof. Shaler
unfolded new theories regarding explosions,
cyclones and mine disasters; Bessie Bramble
wrote of Southern scenes and Southern women;
E. L. Wakeman furnished an entertaining
description of ancient Galway, and Bolomon
Grundy filled a couple of columns with amus
ing reminiscences of Washington life. Other
contributors of readable and instructive spe
cial articles were Rev. George Hodges, Mrs.
Sherwood, Rodman M. Price and Mignon,
GREEK TOILETS.
The Tendency of Woman's Dress Toward
Studied Simplicity.
I noticed some dresses quite a la grecque at
the opera, writes a Paris correspondent. They
were worn by several young married women;
they were made of gauze or tulle, with gold
Btnpes and Greek pattern, low bodices draped
rather in the peplum style, and gold bands in
the hair. For evening dress the hair is worn
very low at the back of the head, but never
smooth, always either f rise, waved or curled,
almost flat on the top of the head, and I have
seen a few ferronnieres worn. The ornament
is composed cither of a Small chain or flexible
band, jeweled or dull gold, with a large jewel
in tbe center which falls slightly on tbe fore
head, the chain encircling the head giving the
appearance of a small necklace worn round the
head. This fashion dates from tbe time of
Francis I (La Belle Ferrnnniere), and was re
vived in France about 1S23.
MRS. KJLG0KE AS MASTER.
The First Time a Woman Hns Been Ap
pointed In the Pennsylvania Conns.
From the Philadelphia Press. 1
Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore was yesterday appoint
ed by Judge Allison master to take testimony
and report to Court of Common Pleas No. 1 In
the divorce case of A B. Keer against his wife,
Kate.
This is the first time in the history of the
courts of Pennsylvania that a woman has been
appointed master In nny case, divorce or other
wise. It is not anticipated that Mrs. Kilgore
will have an unpleasant time in performing the
duties of her appointment, as the ground upon
whioh the divorce is applied for is desertion.
A Comprehensive llcfiailicn.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel. 1
An intoxicating drink is any beverage which,
taken in such quantity as men usually drink,
will produce on obfuscation of the cerebral
centers with a consequent hypertrophy of the
the tongue and a general bewilderment of the
legs.
Congress Not All-Powerfnl.
From tbe Boston Ulobc
General Weaver, of Iowa, has succeeded in
blocking the entire business of Congress, bnt
the country seems to get along pretty comfort
ably, notwithstanding. It may bo humiliating
to the Congressman's self-love, but it is so.
Why is It?
From the Oil City Blizzard.
Since tbe Pennsylvania Legislature convened
there has been a marked falling off in the
number of tramps in this seotion.
OLD SAWS RESET.
Nkvbb cry over spilt milk when beer Is only
a nickel a glass.
Nine tailors make a man, and one tailor can
make nina dudes.
A rollino stone gathers no moss, and it is
none the worse for it.
Look not a gift horse in the mouth, but keep
your eyo on his hind hoofs.
Murder will ont, and the murderer get ont if
his lawyer knows his business.
All are not thieves that dogs bark at, nor
are all honest that dogs don't bark at.
Faint heart never won a fair lady, unless the
owner of the heart bad plenty of stuff.
A WILD goose never laid a tame egg, but its
egg will grow tame if kept long enongb.
Roue was not built in a day as some of the
young Western cities of this country were.
TDIE and tide wait for no man, and not even
for a poor, weak member of tbo opposite sex.
'Tis a wise child that knows its own father by
the time the old man has done paying bis New
Year visits.
, Therz there is no fool like an old fool, ex
cept it be the young fool who fools with an "un
loaded gun."
A drowning man will catch at a straw, and
so will a thirsty man, and put one end of tbe
straw in his month.
A stitch in time savesnine, and nine stitches
in time will sometimes save a man from wear
ing an overcoat all day.
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's
door. But the trouble is that a great many
poor chaps are not lucky enough to be homo at
the time. From the W. Y,E.enlng Mail.
CUKI0US CONDENSATIONS,
An Atchison (Kan.) man has attained
considerable local reputation as a mortuary
prophet, ite has predicted the demise of a
number of people, and in every case his prophe
cies were speedily fulfilled.
A list of wealthy bachelors of New
York, with the amount of their income, and of
maiden heiresses with an estimate of their
fortune, has just been printed for the informa
tion of the marriageable members of fashiona
ble society.
One of the Caroline islands is owned by
an American sailor named Benjamin, who has
16 wives, about 60 children, and who has noth
ing to do bnt smoke his pipe and boss the
ranch. He publishes a letter in a California
paper advising other sailors to do likewise.
A community in Nebraska opposed to
lynching recently, to teach a lesson, gave a
desperado what might be termed an introduc
tion to Judge Lynch. They put a rope around
his neck and pulled him into tho air a few
times. Then he was told to go and never re
turn. Ho went.
Mr. Paul Walker, of Knox county,
Kentucky, has a herd of 13 deer on his lands,
which have become tamo. He feeds them just
as ne aoes nis other stock, and they seem to
enjoy tbe attention that is given them. When
he wants venison he goes out to the herd and
kills one, just as he would a sheep.
A peculiar story comes from Banner,
Neb. A new town called Harrisburg has grown
np in the same county, and recently an enter,
prising citlzan of the latter town went to Ban
ner, loaded tbe postoffica on bis wagon, and
carried it triumphantly to Harrisburg. Ban
ner succeeded in recovering it after a struggle.
Apple men in the lake counties and
other sections of New York State are being
subjected to no little worry through the mild
weather, which has caused fruit to rot. About
half a million barrels of apples, according to
persons who claim to know, are stored in tbe
Empire State, and half of these, it is feared,
will go to loss.
Among the possessions of a family ot
emigrants at the depot at Milledgeville, Ga.,
the other day, was a straw mattress, the inside
of which was worth abont 23 cents, and yet the
farmer was paying $2 to have it transported, as
he said he could sleep sounder in a strange
country if he had beneath him even a small
portion of Baldwin.
A case of wonderful growth, after death,
of hair and beard was brought to light by the
recent disinterment of Amzi Colyman, who
died in Belleville, N. J., four years ago. His
beard was fully 24 Inches long and covered his
breast, while his hair rested on the shoulders
and, with the beard, almost hid his features.
During his life the deceased, it is told, never
allowed his beard to grow more than two
inches in length, and always kept his hair
short.
Henry Scooler, a St. Louis lad, who
was kidnaped three years ago, was restored to
his parents this week, having been found
(through the aid; of a newspaper picture of
him) on a farm near Cairo, ill. After being
abducted, so the boy states, be was bound out
to a DricKmaser in an out-oi-tne-way spor,
reached after a fast ride of three days. He
afterward ran away and engaged with a farmer,
who saw the cut in a St, Louis paper, and
thinking it resembled his little employe, looked
into the matter.
John Edward, an engineer of the Illi
nois Central Railroad, who was thought to be
going into consumption, the other night
coughed up a bony substance, which, on exam,
lnatlon, proved to- be a large double tooth. A
few weeks ago Edwards underwent the opera-
tion of having his upper teeth extracted, and
during tbe operation one of the teeth, without
the knowledge of either the patient or oper
ator, slipped into bis throat, where it caused
the racking cough which was looked upon as
an unmistakable sign of consumption.
A Bridgeport (Conn.) man has invented
a boy, not the ordinary human boy. but one
that walks and pushes a cart before him a
mechanical boy. This boy when in motion
makes as much noise as a railroad tram, be
cause of tbe Internal workings of his forces.
His head is out of proportion to tbe rest of his
body, and has a horrible grotesque appearance
with its tin eyelids. The head is calculated to
frighten the average woman and the noise to
scare the sensitive horse. Consequently the
trial trips of this mechanical pedestrian have
been made at night.
There is a terra incognita outside of
Africa, and that is Labrador. The Nascapce
Indians, who live on the table-lands of that
country, have long told of an Immense water
fall, to which they refused to guide the whites
f ot fear of the vengeance of a god that lived
under the fall. During the past season an Iro
quois Indian, who was a god-fearing savage,
guided an exploring party to tbe place, and
they found a fall 2,000 feet high, carrying an
immense volume of water, and undoubtedly
tbe greatest in tbe world. Niagara is only 164
feet, and the falls of tbe Ynsemite and along
tbe Columbia are of small streams. These
Labrador falls are on the Petchikopou river.
Trees of the palm family have larger
leaves than any others. The Inaja palm, which
grows on the banks of the Amazon, have
leaves which reach a length of from 30 to 0
feet and are 10 or 12 feet in breadth. Speci
mens of the leaves of the Talipot palm, a native
of Ceylon, have been met with that are 20 feet
long and 18 feet broad. These leaves are used
by tho natives to make tents and form very ef
ficient shelters from the ram. The leaves of
the double cocoanut palm are often 30 feet long
and several feet wide. When tbe wind is xtrong
they clash together with a noise that may be
heard at a great distance. Only, one leaf is pro
duced each year, and they are so firmly at
tached to the stem of the tree and so strong in
themselves that a man may sit on the end ot
one and rock to and fro in perfect safety.
Bogota, the Capital of Colombia, is sit
uated in the "heart of the Andes," something
over 8,000 feet above the sea level, and ranks as
the third highest city on the Western Hemis
phere, Potosi and Quito only taking precedence.
There is a peculiar tradition as to the event of
its founding, in liii. It is related that three
Spaniards set out with the purpose of selecting
a capital for tho new vice-royalty of New
Grenada. One entered tbe territory through
Venezuela, a second ascended the Magdalena,
while the third's gateway was by tho Pacific
coast. All meeting on the spot where the city
is now located on the same day, with true
Spanish superstition they hailed it as an
"omen," and with great formality founded the
present city under the name of "Santa Fe de
Bozota.' Later the "Santa Fe" was dropped,
and it remains simply Bogota. Its population
13 estimated at about 60,000.
FUNNY MEX'S FANCIES.
A glance at the stage as it is now con
ducted seems to indicate that Worth makes the
star, the Want of him the ballet girl. Stxa lirk
Prttl.
With pardonable pride, and without be
ing slangy, Indianapolis may point to the fact
that she has Ben there with both feet Oil City
miuara
"How still Johnnie is," remarked Mrs.
Brown. "I'm afraid he.mnst bo up to some mis
chief." ,
"Ha, ha!" laughed tbe old man. "You think it
must be an illicit still." Evening Sun.
Stem Father It is nseless, sir, to ask me
for any more help. I have done all for you that . I
shall ever do. Yoa can go hang yonrtelf if you
choose.
Scapegrace Son (wildly) Neverl I'll marry first.
Chicago Tribune
A New York man recently paid $25 for
an almanaezTS years old. It was a foolish waste
of money. He might have got into a minstrel en
tertainment for half a dollar, and some of the
Jokes wonld ante-date bis expensive almanac HO
or 300 years. Boston Transcript.
Mother Why did you throw that pebble
at your little brother?
Boy I was preaching to him.
Mother-? ? ?
Boy-Yes, I was. Pa says "There are sermons
in stones." Montreal Star.
A Lost Opportunity. Maud What do
yon think? Mr. De Dade kissed me last night.
He grabbed me In the hall, and I was taken com
pletely off my guard, yoa know.
dlth-DearmeI Did you faint? ' f
"N-o. I was afraid he wasn't stroag enongh to
catch me." Philadelphia Record.
Notorious Quacks Ducks.
Continually In a stew -Oysters. J,
Collegiate security-Vale locks. " ,
A "regular masher"-Tbe pestle.
Cries before It's hurt-The baby.
Men of observation Astronomers.
A savage fellow The wild Indian.
The biggist tall bearer The fox. Sea Tort
Halt and Express.
Feminine Perversity. Aunt Betsy I
wonder, James, at your encouraging young Cadby
to be so much with Madeline ! He's a bad match,
and not a good fellow, 1 fear!
Papa Confound blm, no! I've given him carte
blanche to como when he likes, and she's getting
rather tired of him at last, for I'm always crack
ing him up I
Aunt Betsy And that nice fellow, Uoodenongh?
He's never here now?
Papa No; I've forbidden him the honae,and
won't even allow his name to be mentioned. She's
always thinking of him in consequence. I'ra,,lnj
hopes she'll marry him some dayl-.Vjw Tor
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