R7S&SBZ wwf rv ' "" t Ik THE FITTSBtJBG- DISPATCH. SATUKDAY,' JUNE 22. 1889. THE MODERN EDUCATOR. Jhe Great 20-Page We Nmier OF The Pittsburg Dispatch, PUBLISHED OX Sunday, June 23, 1889, Will be found to be tail of interesting and in structive reading. Among other features it Trill contain a romantic novelette, by Nym Crinkle, based on the events immediately pre cedine tbe Rebellion, entitled A FlirtBtinn in Fire. Articles on current topics, travels and adven tures are contributed by world-famous writers, while the news from all parts of the world is presented in a bright and readable manner, proving that Thk Pittsbcro Dispatch is Tbe Modern Educator. Ije 1 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, ISIS. Vol. 44. No.131 Entered at l'lttsbnrg Postoffice, November 14, I8S7, as second-class matter. Business Offlce-97and99Fiftb.Avenue. News Rooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street. Eastern Advertising Office, Koom 48, Tribune Building, hew York. 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Perhaps it may be an erroneous view; but we are inclined to think that tbe terms of the contract, published elsewhere, between the State and the contractors who are doing the work at Johnstown, will strike the pub lic as affording a rather good profit, and, considering that the profit is made ont of a public calamity, not a very creditable one. Eighteen per cent of a margin may not be an excessive one where the contractor as sumes the risks. That is if he bids a stated sum for the performance of certain work and takes tbe chances oi finding the work more difficult and costly than was supposed, then the 18 per cent margin is possibly not too mush. But, in this case, the contract ors take no bazzards of that sort What ever they expend for labor is repaid them by the State and eighteen per cent addi tional for furnishing and superintending the labor. If 51,000,000 is expended by the State $820,000 will go to restoring tbe streets of Tobnstown and 5180,000 will be divided among the contractors. Is not a Aire thing of that sort, taken ont of the funds devoted to the restoration of a ruined city, carrying the pursuit of the mighty dollar to an undesirable extreme? A SATISFACTORY SH0WIKG. The annual report of crops and business throughout the country districts tributary to Pittsburg, furnished to The Dispatch through the courtesy of the Pittsburg agency of B, G. Dun & Co., appears in this issue. Its showing, considering the especial cir cumstances of the year, is very satisfactory. The crops have felt the effects of the remark ably rainy weather; but while that has made corn and oats backward it seems to have been favorable to wheat, hay and pasturage. Business has been affected by the Johns town calamity in certain districts and iu other places it has been retarded by local causes. As a whole, however, the prospects are fair. Considering the allowances that must bo made for these leading drawbacks, the indications appear quite satisfactory that this section will continue to enjoy its wonted prosperity. EOOSEVZLTS PEBNICIOTJS ACTIVITY. Mr. Boosevelt is getting himself disliked out at Indianapolis. He labors under the impression that he was put on tbe Civil Service Commission for the purpose of en forcing civil service reform. Therefore he notifies the postmaster at Indianapolis that he has been guilty of violation of the law in appointing a convicted gambler to a posi tion in the postoffice, and in giving other politicians places without subjecting them to the examination required by the civil service law. Consequently, Mr. Boosevelt insists that the postmaster must dismiss these two men on the spot and fill their places by examinations, in accordance with the law. This naturally takes away the breath of the politicians around the Indianapolis postoffice; and it is not surprising to learn that "Postmaster "Wallace and other Ee publicans are especially bitter at Commis sioner Boosevelt." The Indianapolis post office, it must be remembered, is, by the usage of both parties, regarded as entirely emancipated from any necessity of observing the law. Under the Cleveland administra tion its management furnished a most re markable example of the gap between pro fessions and promises. The bestevidence of the scandalous management of Postmaster Jones, Mr. Cleveland's appointee, was the fact that it was indorsed by Commissioner Edgerton, whose theory of enforcing the civil servicejaw was that it should only be observed to tbe extent of violating it. Post master Wallace seems to be equally con vinced that his office is wholly exempt from any necessity of observing the reforms established by law, and consequently re gards Mr. Boosevelt's interference as par ticularly obnoxious. The public, however, will be glad to find that there is one Commissioner who believes that tbe law was enacted to be observed, and who is opposed to putting the most dis reputable class of politicians into public offices. TOO GOOD TO BE TETJE. V telegram from Ottawa to The Dis- ",k yesterday stated that it had been ered that the Welden extradition bill u made retroactive by the accidental of a very little word. The section ; application of the bill reads: Hall apply to any crime men- chedule committed after the -ce of this act." It should Bipwl have read: "Shall only apply," etc., and theomissionof the word "only," the Min ister of Justice says, mako its application retroactive. The bill slipped through both Canadian Houses without the omission and its effect being observed. It would be singularly humorous as well as tending to promote justice in a remarka ble degree if this view of the results of the omission of that word should prove to be correct. The mere possibility of Canada handing them over to the United States will doubtless cause a fearful fluttering among tbe precious flock of refugees across tbe border. But unfortunately it hardly seems possible that the verbal defect in the bill will give to it a retroactive character not contemplated by trie legislators who made it. The act as it stands to-day reads: "This act shall apply to any crime committed after the coming into force of this act" To a layman's ears the meaning of this is clear and can only be in terpreted in one way. Criminals who shall commit certain crimes after this act goes into effect are clearly the persons who can be extradited. Tbe addition of the word "only" would have been superfluous. So Messrs. Eno, Moloney and the boodle Aldermen of New York City, Mother Man delbaum and the rest of the rascals who are enjoying themselves in the free air of Canada, can sleep easily at nights, and as time rolls on laugh at their successors in crime who go to jail instead of Canada. A BEMABKABLE LIFE. By his extreme years, remarkable preser vation oi mental powers, and, until within a few days, extraordinary health for a person of his age, Simon Cameron would under any circumstances be a notable man. The con spicuous part he long took in national poli tics gives, of course, a greatly added interest to the ending which is now seemingly at hand of his eventful career. To think that in the first quarter of the century he was already a prominent actor in pnblic affairs, and that up to the present he has never lost anything of the capacity to interest himself intelligently in matters of national or State concern, is to picture a singularly excep tional individuality. General Cameron exceeds any of the re markable old men of Europe in point of age. Mr. Gladstone is almost ten years his junior, Bismarck is a young fellow by com parison. The late Kaiser 'William alone had reached equal years. Though taking a lively concern in public matters until his latest illness, ex-Senator Cameron, since tbe election of his son in 1879 to succeed him in the Senate, has been removed from the heat and bitterness of the fray. Much of the opposition which in the more active period of his life grew out of the political acts in which he was concerned, is matter of tradition merely to the present generation. Only the qualities which made him to the end an agreeable companion, a hospitable entertainer, and an observer of such exceeding shrewdness that his opinions were always sought and heard with interest, have remained in the public mind. As far as thoughtful attentions and kind ly consideration from a numerous personal following and from the public generally could make the declining years of the aged veteran cheerful, the experience of his ld age has been an enviable one. ATOPIC TOE IDIOCY. The awful things which vivid imagina tions have imagined, of the possibility of immense cavities being formed in the bowels of the earth, by the exhaustion of the natu ral gas reservoirs, has been a favorite sub ject on which to make- a decidedly indis creet exposure of ignorance. Sometime ago the theory was evolved very much, as the New York Herald's scientist from the wilds of New Jersey states it, with the addition that tbe suction caused by the wells which are flowing must necessarily draw in the outer atmosphere and eventually blow the gas fields to kingdom come. To answer such nonsense seriously is like replying to the Hottentot's objection to the globular theory ot the earth, that the in habitants on the lower side will fall of. Still since that sort of idiocy has been pub lished, both East and West it is well to have patience with the ignorance long enough to show how silly it is. Mr. Ashbur ner's interview does so very completely and kindly, as published elsewhere.. Let ns recommend our esteemed cotemporary to give sufficient study to it, to be able to rescue themselves in the future from the temptation to make donkeys of themselves on the natural gas question. CBEDIT PBOPEBLY BESTOWED. Some childish insinuations against the competency and probity of the Pittsburgers who have handled the relief funds and sup plies for Johnstown were made by a Chicago cotemporary a few days ago, but we are glad to notice in the latest correspondence between Mayor Cregier, of Chicago, and Governor Beaver, that the former expresses a high opinion of the work done by the Pittsburg committee. It appears that Governor Beaver tele graphed to Mayor Ciegier, of Chicago, ask ing if he should make a sight draft upon him for a certain sum of money subscribed for the relief of Johnstown. The Governor received this reply: To Governor Beaver: "Your telegram received. Tho money paid over by Mr. Keith went into the common fund raised by the Chicago committee and is not subject to draft unless by authority of tbe committee. Money and supplies collected for Johnstown sufferers have been transmitted through tbe Pittsburg committee, which has done its work so promptly and effectively. We have engaged to forward ready-made houses to Johnstown through the same committee. What money remains over will no doubt go through the same channel In case it shall be deemed necessary to forward further sums. "DeWitt C. Cbegieb, Mayor." The Pittsburg committee could hardly ask for a stronger indorsement of their course since May 31 than Mayor Cregier, repre senting the metropolis of the West, has given them. Governor Beaver may not ap preciate the pointed allusion to the prompt ness and effectiveness of the committee's work, nor will the curtness and coldness of Mayor Cregier's refusal to recognize him as the proper depository for relief funds pour balm upon the Gubernatorial soul. CHAKDLEE'S PERSONAL ISSUE. Senator William E. Chandler, who is pugnacious and loquacious and wants no discount of his fighting ability, fights his battle with the Kentuckian, Blackburn, j over again in an address to Bepublican vot ers of New Hampshire.- What.Mr. Chand ler wants to make clear is that the bold Kentuckian did not pull his ear, as some of the unveracious sensational opposition or gans maliciously reported. A puzzled pub lic will be prone to ask, what if Black burn had pulled Mr. Chandler's ear? It would have been a very unbecoming, un dignified and withal cowardly assault by a big man upon a little one, and would 'have set the aggressor in a worse light before the pnblic than the attacked. So, if there had to be any explanations or denials of the reported incident, it was Blackburn, not Chandler. -who should feel the need of mak ing them. The capacity or inclination to offer person al violence to an opponent is no proof or sign of statesmanship. It was not Charles Sumner, who was degraded by the memor able personal assault which he sustained, but Bully Brooks, the aggressor. There are muscular Tories.'who are no doubt physical ly equal to pulling Mr. Gladstone's ear; but if any of them attempted it the Grand Old Man would think the punishment of the common police court best befitting tbe case. Mr. Chandler to be sure is neither a Sumner nor a Gladstone; still it might have been supposed, even by his political oppo nents, that he would not have taken so much to heart'the reports of an incident which does not quite rise to a political issue. Hap pily .in the proceedings of Congress few offensive incidents of the sort under con sideration occur. When they do happen in legislative assemblies the public is in no manner of doubt what estimate to put upon them. The announcement on behalf of that English syndicate that it is not going to buy any more breweries, but will now turn its attention to buying up flour mills and rolling mills, is both interesting and pleas ant to this country. If the English capital ists can buy our breweries, rolling mills and flour mills any faster than this country can put them up and offer them for sale, they have got heaps of idle money in England. This policy looks like encouraging the home market at the expense of foreign capital. The returns on the prohibition amend ment being all in, it seems legitimate to conclude that Mr. Wanamaker and Senator Quay did not use their official influence in favor of the amendment, or else that patron age is not more than one-tenth as powerful as it is cracked up to be. The repeated assertions from the Demo cratic press that the price of sugar is 3 cents a pound higher in this country than in England, provokes the pertinent response from the Bepublican organs that the Re publicans in Congress this winter will be prompt to cut down the sugar duty. Let us hope that the Democrats in Congress, after this unanimous deliverance of their organs, will not repeat their former blunder of op posing the reduction of the duties which permit such a burden upon the whole pub lic. The one stormy appearance in the indus trial situation is in the Homestead horizon. It is to be hoped that before the employers and workmen of those important works get into a deadlock thejr will find some means of coming to a practical and mutually satisfac tory agreement. Hon. H. P. Bbown, of Beaver, in a communication touching that board bill suit, referred to in The Dispatch of Thurs day, says it is not a bill, but a pincher. In which case all will agree with Mr. Brown that it is as much against public policy, and private policy as well, to pay that kind of a bill as it would be to refuse to pay a legitimate debt. Our statesmen should neither pinch nor permit themselves to be pinched. Between Foraker and Brice, as the two rival candidates for the United States Sena torship from Ohio, the non-partisan voters may be reminded of the two roads, one of which leads to everlasting destruction, and the other takes you straight to eternal damnation. Mb. Chattncy M. Depew makes the confession that the secret of his success as an after-dinner orator, lies in his study of in formation from the encyclopoedia and his digestion of the facts, which brings them out in a unique and surprising form. This suggests that if the material sustenance which he absorbs at those banquets is di gested in the same remarkable manner, the result may be ruinous to that gentleman's internal economy. ' Senatob Chandleb's elaborate explan ation that his ear was not pulled, is the first indication given to the wotld at large that his auricular adornments have risen to the dignity of a campaign issue in New Hamp shire. Mb. Calvin S. Bbice is buying resi dences and making commencement ad dresses in Ohio with an industry that indi cates that he regards himself as a possible successor to Senator Payne. Since the Ohio Democracy threw overboard Thurman and Pendleton, it seems to be a recognized rule that they can encourage no Senatorial candidates except those whose chief qualifi cation is a large sized bank account One hundbed and eighty-nine thousand majority for the wet side of the Constitutional amendment is calculated to create suspicions that the weather must have voted. The assertion is made by the Philadel phia Record that the women of that city "arc treated with greater gentleness and po liteness in the street cars than the women of any other cily in the country." We are glad to hear that 'Philadelphia has made such a decided improvement since the days of the Centennial, when women had to stand up in the street cars just like male bipeds. A building inspector's office divided against itself cannot stand any better than the houses which it does or does not con demn. The discovery of a variation of tempera lure of nearly twenty degrees between the extremes at various points of our water sup ply is an evidence that we have a variety which ought to suit all. tastes if they are not too exacting. Perhaps the assurance would be satisfactory if it included evidence that there is not even a greater variety of ingredients. Yestebday returned to the meteorologi cal rules ot the season and gave us the regu lation mixture of storm and sunshine. Miss Kate Fields' vigorous advocaoy of matrimony as a social question, is re garded by the Washington Star as "dis counted just a trifle by the .prefix to her name." But, are we to understand the esteemed Star as possessed of private infor mation that Miss Fields is responsible for that enduring character of that .prefix to her name? The Onlr Royal Contributors. from the New York World.! It is worthy of notethat the only two royal and imperial personages who personally con tributed to the relief of the Johnstown suffer ers were tbe widowed and almost forgotten Empress Augnsta of Germany, and the uni versally assailed and much-decried Sultan of Turkey. The Great Indian Kicker. Itsca the Chicago Trlbnne.l t Siting Bull appears to be the Captain Anson of h t race. THE TOPICAL TALKEK. Tbe 'Consul to Geneva Larceny by tbe Wind Odd nnd Ends. Roland J. Hemsiick, whose appointment as Consul to Geneva has just been Riven out. Is In Europe at tbe present time, probably in Switzerland.'' He sailed for Europe a coople of weeks or more ago with his family. Probably no one but bis most intimate friends and the members of bis family had the remotest idea that Mr. Hemmick had any ambition to servo his country in diplomacy. He returned from a long sojourn in Europe last fall and took his wife and family to- Washington, where his brother-in-law, Colonel Bayne, entortalned him for some time. Then he began to tell his friends tbat he in tended settling down for a year or two in Switzerland. Bat he didn't hint at the Con sulate which by that time he knew he was to have. In fact tbe news of his appointment was a Complete surprise to the majority of his friends in this country. " Me. Hkjijiick is well fitted in every way to conserve the interests of the United States whtch come to a focus at Geneva. He is a ready and agreeable talker, and his courteous bearing is natural to him. For the benefit of the fair tourists who may find it necessary to in quire the price of a live chamois or some other equally important Information of the Consul at Geneva, it may be added tbat Mr. Hemmick is a bearded, good-looking man, in the prime of life, who dresses well, and has a pleasant fash ion of smiling frequently. Mr. Hemmick is a business man of practical experience; and has powers of observation that may be of use to the State Department.' tie Is certain to be a success as an entertainer, not only on bis own merits,but his wife's. She is the daughter of the late Mr. Smith, who wu Mr. Hostetter"s partner, and is very wealthy. Altogether Pittsburg can hardly congratu late Mr. Hemmick and herself at the same time on being so well represented in the beau, tiful Swiss city by the lake. ... The high wind was responsible for an amus ing incident on the east-bound accommodation train on the Fort Wayne Railroad about noon yesterday. The train had left Olendale station a minute or so, and tbe veteran conductor, whom all travelers on tho road know as Andy, was col lecting the tickets of thoso who had boarded tbe train at the last stop. The conductor was offered a cash fare by a big colored man, and as the former tore oft the receipt for the same tbe wind whisked it out of his hand and then oat of the window. Andy pulled the cord, stopped the train, and had it backed a hundred yards or so. Then brakemenand passengers helped the conductor in his search for the errant receipt It was found in a few seconds. The whole searching party boarded the train and a brief but excit ing episode was ended. Hardly a soul in the cars knew what had happened till it was all over, hence the excitement. . If the conductor had not found his receipt he would have had to pay in the highest fare on his run, viz.: forty cents. ... We are told by those who ought toknow that the rivers are clear of Johnstown wreckage. But the everyday un-expert citizen who crosses the Sixth street bridge can see large piles of drift weeks old still hugging the piers of several bridges. Some of tbe men who have cleaned other parts of tbe Allegheny so efficiently should at tend to tbe wreckage at points between the two cities. V Among the items in the Curious Condensa tion column on this page was one yesterday in which it was said: The 'Teal red poppy" has recently been found to have the valuable power of binding with its roots the soil in which it grows In such a manner that it will prove most valuable in supporting embank ments. Already several engineers have under taken the sowing of railway embankments with poppies. The discovery of this use for the common red poppy of the EngllBh harvest fields is not very new. English railroads have used it so for several years. On the London and North western Railroad, between Liverpool and Lon don, I remember the blazing poppies make the embankments glorious for miles in summer. Last year the poppies were about the only cheerful sights I saw in the run to London. The floods had made many landscapes dismal, and there was a monotony of green hills and valleys. PBOJIINENT PEOPLE PARAGEAPHED. The "Monstnart" mansion ot Lord Bute, near Rothesay, is said to have cost not less than J8.000.0CO, and Is believed to be the largest and costliest private palace in existence. AitABi Bet, the Egyptian patriot whose plans were foiled by England, is languishing in Ceylon. He complains that tho climate is shortening his days and that sickness is tortur ing him. The Prince of Wales has stirred up London by the statement that a leper is engaged in business in one of the meat markets of tbat city. Temporarily Londoners have become vegetarians. Lab'ouchebe Is decidedly opposed to the proposed colored evening and knee breeches, but is willing to compromise, for comfort's sake, on a loose blouse as part of an improved even ing dress for gentlemen. Maby Anderson is having a very pleasant time in LoLdon. She has fully recovered her health, and is now able to contemplate tbe fact that she is an American without having an at tack of nervous prostration. 1 1 This bit of wisdom comes from Henry Yvat terson: "The man, however eminent and con spicuous, who seriously loot to his nomination and election to the Presidency, may not be in aptly likened to one who should expect to fish out of the Atlantic Ocean with a pin hook the ticket calling for tbe capital prize in a lottery to bo drawn in the moon." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, tbe advocate of women's rights, is well-known to be a lady of prodigious learning. Once upon a time, when a reporter attempted to interview her in this city, she promptly asked him "if he was familiar with the phenomenology of Schopen hauerismf" The reporter was seized with a fit of coughing, and soon fled from her presence. The Comte de Paris, head of tbe Bourbon family, who recently celebrated his silver wed ding, is a worker. He rises at 6.30 o'clock in summer and. at 6 o'clock in the winter, and, lightine his lamp, if necessary, begins tbe labor of the day. He has a little breakfast with bis family at 8 o'clock, then he returns to his work. His correspondence is extensive and he makes a point of replying to all his letters. Alexander Graham Bell, the millionaire inventor of the telephone, is going taenjoy his summer in a novel fashion. A Baltimore boat builder has built for him the most singular looking craft that has even been put afloat, patterned somewhat after Mr. Noah's historic craft. Mr. Bell calls it a house-boat. It is an Immense catamaran, housed over with a charm ing cottage that contains double parlors, dining room, billiard room and spacious sleep ing apartments, besides kitchen, bathrooms and servants' quarters. The house is elaborately furnished and fitted up with every comfort and convenience .that can be found in a modern residence. It is propelled by two powerful screws, and in smooth water it is estimated that tbe boat will attain a speed of IS miles an honr. It is now being put together in Nova Scotia and will be ready for occupancy by the time Mr. Bell reaches there with his family and guests. They passed through New York yes terday on their way to the rendezvous. I The Katlve Will Become Rich. From the New York Telegram. There is one advantage about building a rail road through the Congo; it will not be hard to get colored porters enough. DEATHS OF A DAT. non. William III. Pratt. TCNKIUNXOCK, June Zl.-Hou. William M. Pratt died at his home In this city yesterday, aged 73 years. Mr. Pratt was in former years one of tbe most prominent lawyers in this section of the State, and always ah active leader In- the Demo cratic ran u. He was President of the State Sen ate in 1856, and occupied many honorable posi tions. j Mr. Teeter. jrlCIAL TtLIOHAMTQ TUB DISPATCH. 1 JoHXSTOWN, I June 21. Mrs. Teeters, well known in tbe Eist End, died this afternoon. Sue was the motber-fa-law of Mr. Lane, one of Johns town's promlneilt citizens, and the mother of II. C. andO. CV Teeters, who hold prominent posi tions in the Edtor Thomson works. Mrs. xer ters was about SO tears old, and was badly Injured in rucuooa. SOMETHING ABOUT STATE POLITICS. Democratic Lender More Hopefal Than They Hnve Been Since November. trnoii A STAJT COKBiBPONDKNT. Philadelphia, June 21. Congressman O'Neill, of this city, was recently in Washing ton. This afternoon he said he thought there would soon be a change in tbe Philadelphia Federal offices. Closely questioned, be said all he knew about it was what he had seen in tbe papers and what gossip he had heard. He hadn't beard anything at tbe White House, and he had not seen anyone else who had. All Information in circulation concerning the changes in the offices seems, like Congressmen O'Neill's, not to oome from the White Honse. No one seems to know much about it bdt the President, and he is not telling. He went through here-to-nlght to Atlantic City, and be may learn something during his' stay there con cerning the growing disatisfactlon ot the ex pectant ones. The Democrats are much encouraged by tbe complaints they hear. Sheriff Krumbhaar said to-night that a hopeful feeling seems to per vade the ranks of the party all through the State, and they are going into the campaign this fall feeling a degree of confidence that didn't seem possible after last November. Speaker Boyer returned from the country to-day, mneb improved by his trip, and looking in better health than for a long time past. He expects to do a little more recruiting among the trout streams of Pike county. Mr. Boyer is saying nothing for publication about the result of the late election, but feels much en couraged concerning bis chances for tbe State Treasnrership, because of tbe reports that are coming in to him from various parts of tbe State. He has made no personal campaign, and tbe results are all the more flattering. Democratic Chairman Kiscer happened to arrive here a short time ago, and held a confer ence with the local leaders. He happened soon afterward to be in Allentown, and conferred with tne Democratic leaders in that part of the State. He will probably happen to be in various other parts of the State eie long, and accidentally meet other Democratic leaders of the sections he happens to visit. All this means tbat the Democratic organization is be ing perfected, and that a strong tight will be made to keep the prize out of Boyer' hands. Sheriff Krumbhaar said to-night that noth ing is being done as yet that is worthy of men tion, and no Democratic candidate has been considered, except in a purely local and com plimentary manner. Mr. Krnmbhaar is a member of the Democratic Executive Com mittee, and says nothing has been done yet concerning the calling ot the State convention. SIMPSON. HIS PENSION INCREASED. A Somewhat Historic Case Finally Decided by the Department. Washington, Jane 21. Assistant Secretary Bussey has returned a decision in the case of Richard Whiting, late of Company U, Thirty third Missouri Infantry. It appears from the records tbat the claimant was wounded at Tupelo, Miss., July 14, 1861, and, while lying on the field of battle in a helpless condition, re ceived a sunstroke which soon alter dissharge caused chronic nervous prostration and impairment of mind, resulting in 1874 in imbecility and dementia. The wife and guardian 'of the claimant filed an application for pension In 1883, which was granted." the rata being fixed at $24jer month, payment to begin from the date of filing the application. Subse quently, in 1SS5 the ra,te of pension was in creased to $o0 per month. The claim came be fore Assistant Secretary Bussey upon an ap peal filed by the pensioner's wife and guardian, the ground of contention being that the insane pensioner had not been adequately rated under the statutes applicable to the case, and, tbat instead ot the pension beginning at tbe date of filing the original application in 18S3 it should have begun at tbe date of the pensioner's dis charge. Inasmuch as the limitation contained in the arrears act of March 3, 1879. expressly excepts from the operation of it, all claims by or in be half of insane persons, and children under 16 years of age. Assistant Secretary Bussey holds that this exceptional provision is applicable to Whiting's claim and hence allows arrears from the date of discbarge. In addition to this feat ure of the claim the fact appears that since about 1873 the pensioner has been in a condi tion that has required "the personal aid and at tendance of another person," he having soon after 1871 become helpless from mental imbecjlity and from partial paralysis of one side, due to the sun stroke and gunshot wound, and the Assistant Secre tary has decided tbat claimant's disabilities en title him not only to arrears, but to a reratlng and increase of pension under tbe acts of 1872. 1874 and 18S0, the final rating being $72 per month from June 16, 1880. The case is one of peculiar interest in its historical features, one fact being tbat in 1885, upon Slanderous and false information, tbe claimant's pension was reduced to S3 per month. Another is that the claimant f ought in 101 battles and skirmishes in tbe war of the Rebellion. The case has at tracted much attention in St. Louis, and the department has received many communications from leading citizens of that city expressive of deep interest in the case. A CTJEE FOR CHOLERA MORBUS. An Old Gentleman Declnres That Arrow root I the Best Remedy. New York Graphic.l "If you want to do the race a service I can tell you what to write about," said the omnis cient old gentleman patronizingly tbe other day. "Just put it in your paper that for cholera morbus and all the approaches thereto, arrowroot is a most wonderful cure." "What, simple, infantile arrowroot of pap memories?",, "The same. You take it raw, a teaspoonful in a little water. It conldn't hurt yon, of course, to take a teacupful. I have no philoso phy about it. I don't know why it helps you, nor why the doctors don't get onto it, or what they'd say about it. Probably that is 'imagina tion.' Well, I'd just as soon be cured by Imagination as not, myself. I ain't particular. But 1 can't tell you anything about repeating the doses of raw arrowroot, because I never had to take a second one in 24 hours, nor did any of the many people I have set to using it. One did the business." HANGING CHICKENS FOE FDN. The Amusing Game Played by Ohio Boy nnd It Result. Ripley, June 21. One of John Cochran's little boys and a son of Silas McDonatd, each about 12 years old, this morning captured sev eral chickens on the street, and without the formality of a trial by a jury, proceeded to hang them. The only question propounded to the victims was: "Have you anvthing to say why you should not be hanged?" Receiving no reply, a noose was slipped over the necks of the chickens, and they were strangled to death. The chickens belonged to a neighbor. The boys were arrested, and will be tned to morrow. They thought it was great fun. Mr. Cleveland' Summer Plans. Special Telegram to The Dispatch. New York, June 2L Ex-President Cleve land has already laid out the plan of bis sum mer outing, intending to go to Marion, Mass., during tbe montb of July and tbe Adirondacks in August. He receives daily numberless invi tations to banquets and receptions, all of which he is forced to decline. Wnltlnsr for tbe End of the World. CoNNEBSVILLE, June 21. R. P. Gray, a prominent farmer and cousin of Whitelaw Reld, 'has abandoned his farm in the belief that the world will end this summer. He will not till bis fields or suffer them to bo tilled, claiming it useless. He is a recent convert to the Second Adventlsts, buttbe neighbors think him crazy. ' FACTS AND FIGDRES. The next (Florida orange crop, it is esti mated, will reach 6,000.000 boxes, against 3,000, 000 boxes for tho season just closed. The press of that State is calling a halt in orange plant ing enterprises; one or the papers remarks: "In ten years Florida will produce a box of oranges for every man, woman and child living in the United States, to say nothing of the quantities that will be produced in California, Louisiana and Mexico; then where will the prices be?" Bradstreets' reports 296 strikes, involving 75,110 strikers for tbe first five months of 1889. aeainst 389 strikes, involving 111,201 strikers for the same period of time last year, and fill strikes, involving 212,317 strikers for the first five months ot 1S87.' ' The Japan tea season for 18SS-1889, jnst closed, shows that there were exported to the United States and Canada 39,919.328 pounds, against 43,337.197 pounds for the previous sea sdh. The number of warships launched in 1888, by the various nations ot the earth, was as fol lows: England, 15; Italy, 10; France, 9; United States, 6; Germany 6; China, 4; Japan, 3; Russia, 2; Denmark, L To stick lables on tin: Rub the surface with a mixture of murfatlo acid and alcohol, and then use a thin coat of ordinary paste. CALrrOBNlA produced In 1883 3,500, OOOpounds of houey, and exported 1,000,000 pounds of It to Europe. HAKHATTANVILLE GfoSSIP. Escnped but for a Day. tKIW TOEK BtTBIAff SPECIALS. nNeW York. June 2l William F. Have meyer, 16 years old, son of tho late Henry Havemeyer, and grandson of ex-Mayor Have meyer, was in a police court to-day to answer tbe charge of insulting Mrs. Nellie Denton, in Central Park last evening. For two hours be fore the case was called, Mrs. Denton awaited young Havemeyer's arraignment. . When he was summoned to the bar, she happened to be in the corridor just outside of the courtroom door. Curiously enough, no court 6fficer noti fied tier tbat her case was on. Without a mo ment's notice, the police J stice discharged tbe young man on acconnt of tbe absence of the complainant Mrs. Denton was in a terrible temper when she learned how Havemeyer baa been.railroaded out of her clutches. She made such a row tbat eventually the justice issued a summons for young Havemeyer to appear again at court to-morrow. Mrs. Denton was sitting in the park last evening, when Have meyer, she says, called her a vile name. She had him promptly arrested. DIr. JVnnstrj'a Cook Sines the Lily. Gustavo Broche to-day got a judgment for S107 against Mrs. Langtry. Broche, who was Mrs. Langtry's cook, sued for S218 for eatables furnished and services redered. He included in tuis a bill for meat ordered by Fred Ueb bardt. On the trial an attempt was made to charge Mrs. Langtry with that bill.and for tbat purpose the question whether Gebhardtwas the actress' husband was introduced. The Judge ruled the question out. Picked Up Two Shipwrecked Crew. The steamship Saginaw brought two ship wrecked crews into port from the West Indies to-day. She was just leaving tbe harbor of San Domingo wben the schooner H. S. Marioh, of Port Jefferson, which had drifted on a bar near shore, began to sink. Miss Agnes Cox, the Marion's only passenger, and tbe crew were taken on board. Later the crew of the Maine schooner, Christian Berg, which went to pieces on a coral reef near San Domingo, were picked up at a small port. Three Tears For Steallns 10 Cent. James Riley was sentenced to three years in the penitentl.try, to-day, for stealing 10 cents from James McGlory. The theft took place on the street. Crnel Fnto Overtakes nn Organ 'Grinder. A small boat without oars or sails was blown ashore near Fort Hamilton, early this morn ing. In It lay an Italian, unconscious, and covered with blood from wounds in his head. He was revived sufficiently to tell this story: He was grinding a band organ beforn a Coney Island hotel, last evening, wben three men in a sailboat asked him to ride up to the city witn them. He accepted their Invitation and took his organ into the boat with blm. Near Fort Hamilton they threw his organ overboard, stole all his money, and beat him till he lost con sciousness. The organ grinder is thought to be dying. Detectives are after his assailants. Brick From a Wild Gooso Clinse. The steamship Holland, from London, brought into port to-day two of the blood hounds that Sir Charles Warren, ex-chief of tbe Lendon police, used in his search for Jack the Ripper. They are consigned to John L. Wlnchell, Fair Haven, Vt. Great Luck of n Great Jockey. "Snapper" Carnson, the horse jockey, has just paid 217,000 for a house next to Mayor Cbapln's residence in tbe vicinity of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Garrison's income so far this year is estimated at about $40,000, In stakes alone he has won $75,000 for Mr. Belmont this season. He will move into his new house at the close of the racing season. 0US MAIL MUCH. Why He Objects. To the Editor of The Dlspatcn: The suit for board against "Representative Brown, of Beaver, of school flag bill fame," wired yesterday from Harriiburg to the press of Pittsburg and referred to by you editorially in Thb Dispatch of June 20, is simply i$ at tempt to compel blm to pay board for himself and others from February 28. 1S8V, to May 9. 1839. a period of time during which he and his party boarded, and paid for it, too, elsewhere. This is a proposition which he seriously and, he thinks, very justly objects to, and hopes tbat the "people of tbe State will vote by a large majority," etc.. after they are in posses sion of the facts, and not before that time. Haktfokd T. Brown. Rochester, Pa. June 21. Who May Not- Dlnrry. The laws of this State forbid marriage be tween tbose bearing the following relationship of consanguinity and affinity: CONSANGUINITY. A man may not marry his mother, father's sister, mother's sister. Bister, daughter, daughter of his son or daughter. A woman may not marry her father, father's brother, mother's brother, brother, son, son of her son or daughter. AFFINITY. A man may not marry his father's wire, son's wife, son's daughter, wife's daughter, daughter of his wife's son or aanghtcr. A womanmay not marry her mother's husband, , daughter's husband, husband's son. son of her husband's son or daughter. The penalty for any such forbidden marriage is a fine of S600 and imprisonment. ' TRI-STATE TRIFLES. Daniel Clancey gave James Burke, of West Chester, Pa., an Irish potato raised in County Cork. Clancey planted two rowsof the potatoes and they came up nicely. Burke planted one and it also did well. The stalk is 15 Inches high, and tbe potato bugs, which are thick m the yard.will not touch it, tnough they go for the other potato stalks. Faemeb John Landis, of Franconla town ship, Montgomery county, Pa., hanged himself to an apple tree a few days ago becanse his son would not heed the parents' objection to tha erection of an addition to the barn. Charles Cossack, a Pole, of Plymouth, Pa., having been teased by boys, went into an bid mine to hide from them and lost his way. For three days he wandered in tbe dark, the oil of 'his lamp having given out, and two days ago, after 30 men bad vainly sought him, he chanced to find an exit. Mbs. Rachel Buckwalteb, of Klmber ton, near Phoenlxvilk, Pa., now in her 84th year, wis seen by a neighbor not very long ago high up in a cherry tree gathering material for pies. Cybus Painter, a West Chester, Pa., in valid, wanted to poll a prohibition vote so bad ly tbat ho -got four neighbors to carry him to tho place and lift blm to the Window, he being unable to sit up. A white monkey is owned by Mr. McKay, a restaurant keeper of McKeesport, Pa. Papeb bangers in WilllamspoTt, Pa., will be kept busy for the rest of the year. At least two-thirds of the houses will need repaperlng. S. L. Abxoub. of Chestor, Pa.. Is nursing a bruised thumb. Injured while hastily opening a ballot box on Tuesday night. The crafty seaside waiter who lives in Phila delphia Is hunting a good stiff wbtsp that will audibly jingle the silver in his victim's pants pocket. John Kelly, of Philadelphia, has 13 chick ens from as many eggs set In February, and one of them, a brown Leghorn, laid her first egg on Sunday last. The big crop ot locusts insures tat fowls for the Thanksgiving board. An Ohio doctor says: Now potatoes Insuffi ciently cooked cause a great deal ot sickness. A West Virginia tonsorlal artist says: The wise barber always mixes cold lather for a tender ikln. CURIOUS COHDENSATlOlfa. r Chicago expects soon to have a law lim iting the height of buildings. Paris Figaro prints a special edition ia an office 500 feet up In the Eiffel tower. Mary Fisher, a colored girl, is valedic torian of the graduating class of the Atchison High SchooL Cal Thornton, of Webbsboro, 6a .killed a highland moccasin Tuesday, with 34 eggs the size of a dove egg in it, J. I". Duffey, of Cumminjr, Ga., re cently set a hen on 17 eggs. She hatched IS chickens and left four eggs in the nest. A 4-weeks-old big belonging to Noah Montgomery, of Cumming. Ga.. waa found, frozen to death on the morning of June L Human beings are still being sold in the famine-stricken districts of China. A child under 10 brings from a dollar to a dollar and a half. A subscription bar is to be opened in Berlin, where for $150 one can drink for a whole year, and where monthly subscriptions will be sold. Of this year's graduating class at Princeton 32 will, it is said, become lawyers, 21 ministers, 14 doctors, 12 business men and 2 newspaper men. -College journalism flourishes at 'Har vard, and its graduates or undergraduates also keep the daily newspapers of Boston, particu larly the Sunday papers, supplied with college news. The greatest snuff-taking country in the world is France, though It shows a decline In the habit. In 1869 the consumption was 13,000, 000 pounds, or seven ounces per head. Now K it is five ounces. John Williams, a bachelor in Augusta, Me., wa3 told that a certain widow had set her cap for him. and John was so afraid that he might be roped into marriage that he went to the barn and hanged himself. The care a fox takes of her cubs can be seen from a list of provisions found together about an 'earth." It comprised 10 rabbits, 0 rats, 2 pheasants, 1 wild duck, 2 fowls, 1 snipe, 2 woodcocks, 32 moles: total. 70 head. AnaAmerican was arrested on the Aus trian frontier for having in bis luggage unmis takable dynamite bombs. On further investi gation they proved to be cocoannts, something that the Austrian authorities had never seen. A Georgia farmer prevents his cows from jumping a fence by cutting off their lower eyelashes making them think tbe fence is three times as high as it really is. If you cut 'the upper lashes a reverse illusion will result, he says. Great Britain counts on soon having the largest dynamo in the world. It is being made for the new electric light works at Dept f ord. The shaft of the macnine will be turned out of a block of steel weighing 75 tans, which has just been cast in Glasgow. For several years there was a stand ing offer of $10 for a partridge's nest containing more than 12 eggs, the records at the Smith sonian institution giving tbat s the greatest number of eggs of that specie to a nest. A party of Worcester girls recently won the money by finding a nest with 15 eggs. S. P. Jeffords, of Waycross, Ga., tells of a peculiar reptile discovered recently by one of his sons. It was a snake about six feet long, jet black, and having two horns. The horns were about two or three inches in length, and crooked so that the tips pointed toward each other. When it crawled its head was raised at least a foot from the ground, andjtho horns would keep moving, almost touching to gether. France claims the honor of utilizing a higher water pressure than that recently put In operation in the Chollar shaft on the Comstock lode, in Nevada. At Brlgnoud, li miles from the valley of Gresivaudad, near Grenoble, a turbine 9 feet 10 inches in diameter was put in operation in the year 1875, utilizing a bead of 1,638 feet. It Is still working, and gives a force of 1,500 horse-power, with a flow of 75 gallons of water per second. According to the latest educational re port of 1884, only 1,466,913 of 15.000.000 children in the Russian Empire attended schools. About 90 per cent, therefore, of young Russia receive no instruction at alL In 60 Governments there is only one school for secondary instruction to every 18,000 boys and 22,000 girls. Only 63 per cent of tbe boys of any age to attend a publlo high school can be accommodated. For girls, the number of such schools is even more insig nificant. The schoolmaster cannot be said to be abroad in Russia yet: The common fly lays more than 1Q0, eggs, and the time from egg-laying to maturity is only about two weeks. Most of us have studied geometrical progression. Here we see it illustrated. Suppose one fly commences 'to multiply and replenish the earth" about June L June 15, if all lived, would give 150. Sup pose 75 of these are females; July 1 would give us, supposing no cruel wasp or other untoward circumstances to interfere, 11,259 flies. Suppose 5.625 of these are females; we might have July 15, 843,720 flies. It might cause bad dreams if carried on further, Although John L. Sullivan wears a large shoe, he hamot a large foot for so heavy a man. It is A very manly, natural, uniform foot His fighting shoe is a No. 10. The high instep measures 9: low Instep. 9K, and the ball, 9K. The seam meaoures 14 and the ankle 9. On the shoes the spikes are placed one on tbe heel, one on the outside of the ball and one a little back of the big toe. The shoes which be will wear In his fight with Kllrain are made of fine French calfskin. The heel is flat and low, and the whole shoe is as near tbe exact shape of tbe natural foot as possible. His dress was made on a No. 9 last. Colonel George W. Adair, of Atlanta, Ga., has a sombrero which cost him 6,000. The only ornamentation about it Is a cord of gold braid wrapped around the crown. Years ago the Colonel bought a copper mine in Mexico, for which he paid 8,000 in cash. He left his home and went to the land of the greasers to show them how to make money out of a copper mine. He bought the sombrero and a big pair of boots to wear while bossing the workmen digging out the ore. The mine had been pretty well salted, or something else was the matter with it, for It yielded no money, and Colonel Adair, after some time spent In losing money on it, was glad enough to leave it and return to Atlanta. The boots bare long sinco worn out, and all the Colonel has to show for his 6,000 is the old Mexican sombrero. CLIPPED BITS OF WIT. Progress and poverty Driving street car at ?1 a day. Tots Haatt Exprttt. Geologists say that holders make sand. Observation teaches that sand makes bolder. Binghamtan Republican. There wouldn't have been any milk in the cocoannt if some da!rrmn had had tho con struction of it. Texai Sfflinjt. It is industry more than birth that lifts a boy up In the world. A bootblack may shine in society If he will stoop to conquer. Hew OrUant Picayune. "Wives should never conceal anything from their hnsbandi, " says a writer. If tnlsn ad vice was carried out it would create a revolution f la feminine pockets. Burlinjton tree Frets. , Patient Frankly, now, doctor, what do you think is the matter with me? Physician Frankly, my dear sir, 1 haven't the least idea, but we shall know all about It after the autopsy. BomcirUleournal. "Bromley, it was lucky that newsboy found your wallet, wasn't It?" "Yes. It had IHOOOlnit." "But you only gave the boy a SO cent piece." "Why, bless my soul! Ithoughtlt was a quarter." Time. He had declared his passion and was feverishly awaiting her reply. "Mr. Samson," she said, and her voice sounded like a knell, "the letter which you so kindly offered to post for me two weeks ago to-night has never reached its destination. Farewe:i."-iarprt-' H'v. Some Other Day. First Kobber I've found the dress the lady of the house does her shopping in. I snppose her purse is In thepocket. Second Bobber Then we'll have to take tha dress with us. Wecanhnnt for the poclet wnen we have a whole day to spare. ifea Xotk Sun. Good Out of Evil. Johnny Dumpsey Oh, mal lwlsh you would make- me a PIr of home-made trousers every day. Mrs. Dumpsey (much gratlned)-Why, dsrllnzr Johnny Dumpsey-lSecause the scholars all laughed at me so to-day that the teacher had to excuse me, and I've had a bully ttee Jlshlng.wlth Bill Fecfc-ffurHnffton free Frets. An Exclusive Person. On one occasion a lady called and presented a check which she, wished cashed. As she was a perfect stranger to the paying teller, he said, very politely: "Madam,, you will have to bring some one to introduce you before we can cash this check." Drawing herself up quite haughtily, she said, freeiinriy: "Bat I do not wish to knowyou,slr." Richmond JHrpaicn. The Modern Idea. Mrs. Younghusband -Oh. Charlie, the cook got angry this morning and left, bag and baggage. What are we going to do! j Mr. Younghusband-Why. my love, I thought you attended cooking school for seven months; Mrs. Youngbusband-8o I did, dearbut that was merely td Team cooking as an aecompUAa mtRt.Jlurtington tree Prut. - ' A,