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PITTSBURG. MONDAY. JULY 29. 1S89.
THE W0EK AT JOHNSTOWN.
The views of Johnstown two months
after the disaster, given by our staff cor
respondence, may came some disappoint
ment over the apparently slight improve
ment that has been effected. This is, per
haps, natural, if the previous reports of
progress produced roseate views of the re
habilitation of the town. But it was hardly
to be expected that much more would be
accomplished than is shown to have been
done.
The obvious work of relief was to keep
the Johnstown people from the addition of
starvation to the other horrors from which
they had suffered; to fight off the danger of
disease from the ruined condition of the
town, and to do what was possible in the
way of clearing up the streets and starting
the people in their task of rebuilding. This
work is shown by the report to have
been well done in the main. Errors
of judgment have undoubtedly been com
mitted. The "boomer houses" which were
intended only for temporary shelter, are
said to have proved of little value; which
makes it matter of congratulation that the
people have 'been able to get something
better. But in the fact that the people of
Johnstown have been guarded from the
evils of starvation and epidemic, the work
of relief has justified itself, with the proviso,
of course, that the final accounts shall show
all the money to have been strictly applied
to the relief work.
Of course criticisms and fault-finding are
to be expected, as The Dispatch has
heretofore pointed out But, the urgent
relief work having been done, the existence
of these criticisms should emphasize the
wisdom of turning over the unexpended
relief funds to the organization of the
Johnstown people themselves.
THE EIGHT OF CONFERENCE.
The intelligence that the failure of the
employers to meet the workingmen of the
coke industry in conference upon the scale
of wages for the ensuing year, will be re
garded as unfortunate intelligence by all
who remember the suffering and disorder
which have attended wages disputes in this
interest. The outside public is hardly in a
pna; Usn to judge of the details of the wages
question; but few will find it hard to per
ceive that it was a plain right of the em
ployes to demand and receive a conference.
They form one of the parties to the contract
which is to be formed by the acceptance of
the scale; and their right to have their argu
ments heard and to hear the arguments is
one of the clearest equities in the case. The
employers can hardly expect any degree of
public sympathy when they refuse to meet
their employes and submit the question to
reason.
TJNCEETAIN MOUNTAINS.
A rather interesting fact in geography is
pointed out by the New York Sun, namely,
that no one knows exactly in what country
two of the famous mountain summits of the
world are located. Singularly enough, in
regard to the most famous of all, the geog
raphers of France and Italy cannot agree as
to whether the actual crest of Mont Blanc is
in one country or the other. The English
- nls3 claim that Monnt St Elias, which we
have fondly supposed to belong to our pos
sessions in Alaska, has been traveling
eastward during the last few years.
An English explorer, who visited the moun
tain two years ago, asserts his reasons for
the belief that the summit is located in the
territory of the British lion and not of the
American eagle; while Mr. Ball, our lead
ing authority on Alaska, takes the opposite
view.
Perhaps the English view might be
strengthened by claiming, not that the
mountain has been moving eastward, but
that our possessions have been moving west
ward. Inasmuch as we have recently
claimed that the line of Alaska extends,
over the whole of Behring Sea, it seems to
he possible, as an effort of international
logic, to assert that since our Alaska posses
sions have been expanded so much to the
west, there should have been a slightly cor
responding shrinkage on the eastward. It
would be just like the obstinate Britons to
object to our taking in oceans and mountains
at one and the same time.
BIVLDING PE0FITS ALL ABOUND.
An example of the wild combination
schemes, or the wild reports about them,
that are produced by the trust period,
is afforded by a statement that "the
wholesale grocers of the United States have
formed an association with the object of
compelling manufacturers to divide profits
with them." If the manufacturers are fools
enough to do this, the next thing, of course,
will be for the retail grocers to form associa
tions and make the wholesale grocers divide
profits. After which, as this division of
profits will necessitate the addition of extra
profits to the price paid by consumers, the
public will have to form associations re.
quiring the retail grocers to divide profits
with consumers or else the resort will be
tried of starting new groceries. When this
is done, it will be seen that the manufact
urers could have done the same thing in the
first place if that very obyious fact is not
perceived at the start.
HOODOO.
What is a hoodoo 7 A Chicago lawyer has
stated in court that a hoodoo is a something
which pursues a man with misfortune much
in the manner that a wheelbarrow makes its
presence known for a weary while to the
unlucky person who has stnmbled over it
in the dark.
Perhaps that is a fair definition of the
hoodoo as It exists in Chicago, bnt it is
hardly what we understand by that term J
here. When a Pittsburger Is hoodooed
there is no mistaking the fact. There are
certain plain and easily recognized symp
toms. The sufferer usually takes to betting
on the Pittsburg Baseball Club when it is
en one of its periodical rushes to disaster.
He goes out of town for rest in time to be
caught in a flood and nearly drowned. If
he starts to Bock Point with his church pic
nic, his rival monopolizes hfs best girl, his
new summer suit is ruined by unlooked-for
rain, and the train home is wrecked. No
undertaking of his turns out well. If he
buy gas stocks for a rise they are the only
ones in the list to tumble, A lover of the
East End, he is sure to live in Sewickley.
Every circumstance tells against him, and
all the forces of nature and man seem to be
arrayed in hostility to him.
The hoodooed Pittsbttrger has only one
resort. Let him flee to Chicago and change
his luck. He can then safely retnrn to
Pittsburg and live there in peace and hap
piness all his days.
THE QUESTION OF LIABILITY.
The commencement of a suit in this county
against the South Fork Club by the heirs
of a man who lost his life at Johnstown,
promises that the question of liability for
that disaster will be brought before the
courts here as well as in Cambria county.
Together with the suit already reported
from Johnstown it seems likely that this
important issue will be brought to an early
trial.
Whste verradical differences may exist as to
the question of civil liability, it is obviously
for the interest of all parties that it should
be authoritatively settled. Either there is
a liability on the part of the owners of the
dam or there is not, and it is justioe that
the parties on both sides should have it
settled by judicial authority which is the
case. We presume that the two cases al
ready begun will be taken as test cases, and
that other suits will be held in abeyance
until they are finally decided.
This test of the question is also inevitable.
So long as it remains undecided, the un
certainty must be prejudicial to all who are
affected by it The sooner it is tested to a
final decision the better for all concerned.
ECONOMIC ILLOGICALITIES.
Our always esteemed, but sometimes
rather haphazard, free-trade rotemporary,
the Philadelphia Record, takes the memorial
of certain New England iron manufactur
ers as a demonstration of the evils of pro
tection. The complaint of the New England
iron interests is that Pennsylvania and
Western concerns are enabled to compete
with the New England factories on their
own field. This the Record explains by
the fact that the New England manu
facturers have to pay a duty ot 75c per ton
on coal and iron ore; and the same view is
held by tho New England concerns, inas
much as they ask a removal of those duties.
But the failure of the free-trade logic to
apply to this case is apparent in a number
of ways. In the first place, the Massachu
setts manufacturers are not compelled to
bear any greater share of the duties on ore
and coal than the manufacturers of other
States. In the next place, if, in place of
protection, an absolutely free-trade or reve
nue tariff were adopted, the condition of the
New England manufacturers would not be
improved. They' would discount the case of
the man in the parable, for, without casting
out the devil of domestic competition, seven
other devils in the shape of foreign competi
tion would enter in and prove worse than
the first
The New England manufacturers are
careful not to ask for anything of that sort
In fact their position carries the theory of
protection farther than any ultra-protectionist
has heretofore gone. They regard it as a
ground for complaint that manufacturers in
the United States can make iron more
cheaply than they can and thus sell in New
England, which they consider they own as
their market The national doctrine is that
the markets of the entire country belong to
the manufacturers of the country, wherever
they may be located, who can supply them
cheapest For the enhancement of their own
protection the New Englanders ask for the
removal and reduction of duties on raw
materials; but they are careful not to sug
gest any reduction of duty on their products.
The iron works of Pennsylvania could
view the removal of duties on ore and coal
with the utmost equanimity; but when a
theory that the market of New England be
longs exclusively to New Englaud iron
works is adopted by a free-trade organ, it is
necessary to put in a protest against the out
rage upon consistency.
A Westekk eotemporary says that as
the salt combination can only increase the
per capita cost of living about five cents
per annum, it is the principle and "not the
direct pecuniary injury" which is to be
objected to. Nevertheless, if by perver
sion or violation of the laws, anyone is
enabled to levy an illegal tax of five cents
per capita on CO.000,000 people, the revenue
of $3,000,000 per year, drawn from the
pockets of the people, deserves to take rank
as a very positive and direct pecuniary
injury.
The postal authorities are reported to be
stuck in a deadlock over the question
whether the new postage stamp shall be a
bright carmine or a metallic red. In the
meantime, the sickly green stamp continues
to perform the function of carrying letters
to their destination with neatness and dis
patch. J AT Gould is quoted as saying, "I have
all the railroads I need at present;" and
one sanguine eotemporary construes this as
indicating that Mr. Gould is satisfied with
the present extent of his possessions. The
inference is not correct Supposing that
Mr. Gonld's statement could be relied upon
as expressing his real thoughts which un
fortunately is far from the case this remark
could only be accepted as meaning that in
future deals Mr. Gould will let other peo
ple have the railroads and he will take the
money.
Wnzif two Boston Chinamen sign arti
cles for a prize fight it may be regarded by
the pngilist-worshiping class as evidence
that the Mongolian is assimilating himself
to the institutions and customs of this
country.
The argument for subsidies is supported
by the statistics of the small number of
vessels engaged' in ocean transportation
under the American flag. But the statis
tics omit to state the fact that a considera
ble share of the steamers transporting
merchandise to and from onr Atlantic
ports are owned by capitalists of this
country, who for cogent reasons carry on
this branch of their business nnder the
British flag.
Mukat Halstead is able to return
from Germany without the advice and con
sent of the Seuate, or the administration,
either.
A rnizE fight, nearly resulting in a
small-sized riot, is one of the local events
reported elsewhere. It appears that among
the patrons of that affair were justices and
constables; and when the fighting became
general the constables threatened "to ar
rest somebody." Why they did not arrest
the violators of the peaoe early in the game
is a question the constables should be called
upon to explain on peril of losing their of
ficial heads.
Dfc. Janseit informs us that the ice in
Greenland is 6,000 feet thick. The informa
tion is peculiarly aggravating at this particu
lar season, when it serves to point the con
trast, between that superabundance and the
thinness of the infinitesimal chunk which
the lordly ice man now deposits on our door
steps. THEFarmers'Allianceof Alabamahasde
cided to start a factory for the manufacture
of cotton bagging, in order to defeat the
exactions of the Jute Bagging Trust The
farmers are right in their determination to
beat the trust; but is it quite certain that
they can manufacture their own bagging
more cheaply than the factories already
established will sell it to them?
A Kansas Cut man has been asleep
for three weeks. This is considered re
markable in the West, but down about the
eastern connties of this State the inquiry
would be what kept him awake so long be
fore he went to sleep.
The appearance in the editorial columns
of the New York Herald of a number of de
scriptive and philosophical paragraphs con
cerning the typical fool, is regarded by some
of our cotemporaries as a novelty in jour
nalism. The details of method may be new;
but it is a long-standing vice in journalism
for editors to obtrude their own personality
upon their editorial columns.
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
Mb. J. L. Roeckex, the well-known musician,
and Mrs. Roeckel nave just celebrated their
silver wedding.
President Habbisox has spent a little of
his time at Deer Park reading novels. Not an
office seeker has molested him since he went
there.
There is a project on foot at Fremont to
establish In that place a Lucy Webb Hayes
Seminary, as a testimonial of the high esteem
In which that lady is held.
Ex-Goveenoh Smith, of Vermont, haa just
celebrated the seventy-first anniversary of his
birth and the thirty-second of his management
of the Central Vermont Railroad system.
Mrs. Alexander Sulltvah, wife of the
ex-President of the Irish National League, has
returned from Europe, where. It is thought,
she has been representing her husband In
league councils.
General Arthur Dixwell, of Boston,! s
perhaps the most remakable baseball enthusi
ast in the country. He has retired with a
fortune from active business, and spends every
afternoon at a ball game.
JOLIAN Hawthorne Is nearly six feet tall
and looks like an athlete. His sister. Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop, is a very small woman,
with a tiny, childish face, surrounded by fluffy
auburn hair. The two are the only living chil
dren of their father, though there was another
daughter, a very handsome girl, who died in
England a number of years ago of a very dis
tressing malady.
Readers of Bertha M. Clay's ijovels will be
surprised to learn that there is no Bertha M.
Clay: A Chicago newspaper says: An English
wnter, named Mrs. Charlotte M. Braeme,
wrote stories for an English family newspaper.
As last as tbey appeared they were stolen by a
story paper in New York, who attributed them
to "Bertha M,Clay," a fictitious name which
they invented, and without the knowledge of
the author. Mrs. Braeme died in 1883; but so
popular had the stories of "Bertha M. Clay"
become that the proprietors of the paper hired
a ncmber ot writers to furnish similar stories,
all attributed to "Bertha M. Clay," and thus
have kept tho name before their readers ever
since.
FiSHIOS'S DOMAIN;
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A Washington Street Inhabited by Persons
of Distinction find Wenhh.
tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE PXSFATCH.1
"Washington, July IS. If anything were
necessary to make good what has been ap
parent for several years, that Massachusetts
avenue is to be the great fashionable thorough
fare of the city, it may be found in tho number
of distinguished public men who have recently
established themselves in that street, near
Dupont circle. Attorney General Miller, who
will soon probably he promoted tcf the Supreme
Bench, has just taken a house next door to the
elegant residence of ex-Senator Van Wyck,
which has been leased by Chief Justice Fuller.
A little farther east Secretary Proctor will
reside and entertain. Near Scott circle, on
the west Senator Vance has his home, and
east -of the Scott circle, between that
and Thomas' statue. are thn (.
dences of Vice President Morton, Justice
Lamar, Secretary Rusk, ex-Secretary Bay
ard, and many others almost as well
known. Mr. Rusk will occupy the house where
ex-Secretary of War, now Minister, Lincoln
lived, near Scott circle. On the west are the
two beautiful honses erected by Representa
tive Bayne, one of which the Colonel occupies,
while the other is the residence of General Mc
Cook. Secretary of the United States Senate.
A block farther west is the splendid solid stone
resdence of Mrs. Smith, mother of Mrs. Bavne,
one of the most beautiful and costly dwellings
of the city.
On Dupont circle is "Castle Stewart" oc
cupied by the Chinese Legation. A little
farther west Is the Blaine mansion, leased by L,
Z. Letter, of Chicago, and still farther west,
near Kalorama Heights, Is the residence of
Senator Edmunds. Among numerous resi
dents ot the street devoted to literary pursuits
are Mrs. Burnett, Mrs. Dahlgren, George
Kennan and A. It Spofford, of the Congress
ional Library. No other street in this or any
other city contains the residences of so many
persons well known to the public
Connecticut avenue, which a few years ago
was expected to become the most fashionable
avenne of the city, now promises to bo usurped
by business, notwithstanding the august pres
ence and powerful Influence ot the British
Legation.
FOEGOT SUE WAS HARRIED. '
A Dashing Kansas Widow Finds Herself In
a Strange Predicament.
SEDALIA, Mo., July 28. Last winter a good
looking widow, Mrs. Sallie Aldred, who was
divorced from her husband and lives In Har
per, Kan., visited Sedalia. While here she was
wooed and won by one John Carbor. After a
brief courtship their affection was consum
mated by procuring a marriage license of the
County Recorder here and being united in
marriage. They were married in the Conrt
House at Sedalia on the 14th day of February.
1889, by Judge Z. F.Bailey, Probate Judge ox
Pettis county.
Immediately after the ceremony he called
her "baby" and she called him "pet," and they
embraced with a kiss. The certificate of mar
riage is now on record In the Recorder's office
with Judge Bailey's return. The couple lived
together but a short time here when tbey found
their tempers Incompatible and separated bv
mutual divorce. She went back to her homo
in Kansas, where she has a child, and he went
his way elsewhere.
It has been reported in and around the
woman's Kansas Home that she was married
nere, ana me report causea consiaeraule gos
sip. The woman bitterly denied it and wrote
a letter to an acquaintance here asking him if
she was married here. She says she has long
been subject to fits, and If she was married
here she says she was married in a fit or d urine
a period of mental imbecility. She claims to
have no recollection of the marnge.
A copy of the certificate was sent her. The
ceremony was witnessed by several persons.
A Kingly Cariosity.
Krom the Boston Herald. 3
They say KingKalakaua has made enough
money on his book on the Sandwich Islands to
pay the expenses of a trip to the Paris Ex
position. If be concludes to start out with the
money thus earned, he will be apt to attract
more attention in Paris than Buffalo Bill, or
even the Eiffel tower. A king who pays his
own bills out of the proceeds of his literary
labors would be a curiosity, lndeedl
Discretion nnd Valor.
From the Baltimore American. 1
The man who in time of peace deems himself
capable of beatinc an army, in time of war
thinks himself lucky If he succeeds In beating a
retreat
GOSSIP FHOH THE CAPITAL.
A President' Troubles Back-Number For
tratta of Prominent Men Clarkson
Breaking; the Record A Ne Political
Color Line A Clever Colored Congress
man. ICORBXSrONPZNCI or THE DISPATCH.
Washington, J nly 27. The mountain air is
evidently improving the President's health.
When he was heie last week he looked much
better than he has appeared since his Inaugura
tion. Possibly his freedom from many of the
cares or official life has had as much to do
with bringing about this desirable change as
the crisp cool air of the mountains. President
Harrison does not worry much about official
matters, but he Is carrying on bis individual
shoulders a larger load than any President be
fore him has borne, with the possible exception
of Mr. Cleveland Still I have heard it ob
served that the President seemed in his con
versations with office seekers and members of
Congress to enjoy rather .than to dread the
ordeal of the interview. Ho manifests no re
pugnance to it and when he is here he is as
easily accessible as any of the heads of the
departments. His own experichco in the Ben
ate has made him appreciative of the position
in which members of Congress are placed In re
lation to their constituents. One of the new
members ot Congress who called upon him
during his recent visit to Washington was
Nathan Frank, of Missouri. Mr. Frank had
not been among the most persistent of the
members of Congress besieging the White
Houtc, and yet he felt as though he was en
croaching unduly on the President's time. He
started to apologize for the importunity which
he found necessary in carrying out the wishes
of his constituents. "I am sorry," he sale, "to
trespass on your time so much, but you must
try to appreciate my position."
"I do," said the President, "Anyone who
has served a term in the Senate knows what
pressure is brought to bear on the members of
both houses of Congress. I was in the Senate
when Garfield was inaugurated. When I called
on him in relation to some office matters in In
diana he was as pale as a ghost and he looked
more dead than alive. I said to him 'I feel like
an assassin, Mr. President, but I can't help
coming to you. The buffaloes are after me.' "
Bock-Number Portrait.
When Senator Allison was in Washington
recently the attention of his friends and
acquaintances was called to the fact that ho
developed a mustache during bis journey to
the Pacific coast It changed his appearance
greatly and not for the better, for Senator
Allison has a kindly, expressive mouth, whose
smiling lips were hidden by his new hirsute
adornment. Senator Allison Is one of the few
men in the Senate wearing a beard but having
a smooth upper lip. Senator Sawyer is another.
Senator Plumb cultivates a short beard cut
somewhat after the style of an Imperial. But
the majority of public men wear mustaches.
When one of them changes his style of beard
even temporarily, as Senator Allison has done,
it makes a great difference to the photog
raphers. 'The visitors to the Capitol who buy
photographs of public men as souvenirs do
not wish to treasure photographs representing
their heroes as tbey appeared perhaps ten
years ago. There are styles in photographs as
there are in other things and a good negative
of a popular public man is worth a great deal
to the photographer only as long as it con
tinues true to nature. Let the statesman
shave off the beard that be woro when the
portrait was taken and the picture loses
almost all of its value.
Lightning- Fostofllco Chancres.
Representative Milton De Lano,of New York
was in the city this week interviewing the Post
master General abont some changes In post
offices in his district Someone asked him how
he was getting along with the Postoffice De
partment "Pretty well," he replied. "There
are 190 fourth-class postofflces in my district
and 140 of them are now run by Republicans.
The others pay so little there is no demand for
a change. I am pretty well satisfied with the
administration."
If the fourth-class postofflces were the only
offices under the Government in which Im
mediate changes were desired there would not
be much cause for dissatisfaction; in fact this
wonld be the most popular administration
with the office seekers in the history of the
Government First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Clarkson has fully met every expectation
of the members ot Congress. In the space of
time In.'which Mr. Vilas four years ago removed
4,000 postmasters of the fourth class Mi. Clark
son removed 13,000. His best record was 1,015
in one week. He Is making removals now at
the rate of about 600 per week. At this rate it
will not be long before the 55,000 fourth-class
-postofflces In the country are in the hands of,
good Republicans.
The doctrine which Mr. Clarkson so well ex
emplifies in his works he does not hesitate to
preach. It was Mr. Clarkson who went to the
President at a time when there was great com
plaint of delay in the work of making room for
good Republicans in the public offices and said
tobim: "Do you think you would have been
elected if tho people had thought you were go
ing to do this? How many votes do you think
you would have bad in the Chicago Convention
if the men there bad believed that you were
going to leave Democrats in office so long." It
is hard to satisfy everone. as Mr. Harrison has
tpund. While tho members of his own party have
complained of the delay the Democratic press
has been condemning him from the day of his
inauguration for the great number of changes
he has made.
A Clever Colored Polltlelnn.
Henry Flnmmer Cheatham, the only negro in
the Fifty-first Congress, was bom a slave near
Henderson, N. C, in December, 1SS7, on the
plantation of bis master, Isham Cheatham.
Tbe young slave's duties were very light bis
main business being to shoot partridges In
season for his master's table. This pleasant
exercise in an almost primeval forest gave him
the sound physical strength which enabled him
to bear the mental strain he put upon himself
later in life. The boon of freedom came to him
when he was too young to appreciate its value.
When the doors of the public schools were first
opened to the negroes at the South, young
Cheatham was 14 years old. His mother en
tered him at once, and at 18 he had finished the
course and established a local reputation for
being an unusually bright lad. This preliminary
education had fired him with an ambition to
learn more. Shaw University for colored peo-
Ele had just been opened in Raleigh, and young
heatbam worked on a small farm owned by
his mother until he had made money enough to
pay his way for one session. Here he quickly
enhanced his reputation for studiousness
and ability. The principal. Rev. Dr.
Tapper, knowing the pecuniary difficulties
under which he labored, made the most liberal
concessions to tbo young man. But his ex.
chequer was exhausted and he returned home
to devise ways and means for completing his
university course. Robert A. Jenkins, Esq.,
wbo had been an original Union man, and who
took a warm interest in the welfare of bisex
slavcs and encouraged them to try and elevate
themselves, was chairman of the Board of Ed
ucation. Young Cheatham appealed to him
and fully explained his situation. The appeal
was not In vain, and in a few days Mr. Jenkins
had him appointed teacher of tho colored
schools lor the Willlamsboro district This
position required him to teach only four months
and paid him 200 per annum. He was thns
enabled to complete bis university course, and
he craduated with the honors of bis class in
16S3. An unknown friend, a white Democrat
was in the audience when young Cheatham re
ceived his diploma, was struck with his ability
and bearing, and bad him at onco appointed
Superintendent of the Normal Schools for
Eastern Carolina, with headquarters at
Plymouth. About this time he married an
educated woman of his own color. He held
the position of superintendent until the Re
publicans at his old home in Henderson re
nominated him for Register of Deeds.
An Unique Contest.
Cheatham was elected and was holding this
office when he was nominated for Congress
from the Second or Black district of North
Carolina. Then began one of tho most unlquo
contests known In the history of American
politics. The friends of the Democratic in
cumbent Hon. F. M. Simmons, and some dls
ratlsfied Republicans, put up a second negro
candidate, George Allen Mebane, asblackas
the ace of spades, and had him nominated by
a kind of "rump" convention. They took pains
to excite an intense caste prejudice between
the mulattocs represented by Cheatham and
the blacks represented by Mebane. Singular
as It may seem the bitterest feelings were en
gendered ana tne ciever scueme was about to
succeed and enable tho Democrats to retain
control of a district in which the negro major
ity Is very large. But Cheatham was too wide
awake. The National Republican Execntive
Committee was informed of the facts and asked
to interfere. An antborlzed agent ot Mr
Cheatham met an authorized agent of Mr. Me
bane In the town of Warrcnton, N. C, and
handed him a check for 2,000. Mebane then
withdrew and Cheatham was elected. Mr.
Cheatham says ho will not join in any combina
tion to bolt tho tarty caucus, and he adds that
the Bresldeut lias treated him with uniform
courtesy. Mr. Cheatham is a self-made, con
scientious, energetic man of more than ordi
nary ability, and be will prove to the country
before the next Congress adjourns, that he is
one of the best representatives of hf ..
morally and mentally, this country has known!
CBbtct-Babt. I
AMlCAWBERiLIKB MARKET.
Bnlls
and Bears Are Idly Waiting For
Something; to Torn Up.
SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO TOTt DISPATCH. 1
New Yobk, July 28. Henry Clewt x Son
will say to-morrow: Very little change can bo
detected in the situation on the Stock Ex
change. A dull, hesitating tone prevalledtand
the market being entirely In the hands of
traders who shifted positions from day to day,
failed to exhibit any settled tendency in either
direction. Both bulls and bears assumed the
aggressive in turns, but only momentarily, and
the raids of one party only brought out the
support of the other, while every rally prompted
fresh attack. Conditions really changed so
little that no opportunity offered for activity
on either side; and the market Mlcawber-llke,
continued waiting for something to turn up.
The agricultural situation remained satisfac
tory: and the business outlook, though some
what complicated, generally wore a hopeful
aspect Some uneasiness naturally followed
the failure of Lewis Brothers A Co., a
wholesale drygoods house of the highest
standing; but their embarrassment was
more due to a series of mis
fortunes directly connected With the house
than to the state of the drygoods trade, which
is in exceptionally satisfactory shape. Still,
this failure serves to draw more emphatic at
tention to the condition of business generally.
The great business Interests of the conntry, it
should be borne In mind, are passing through a
process of readjustment almost amounting to
revolution, and which cannot be expected to be
complete! withodt more or less derangement
here and there. The building of new
distributing centers, and the competi
tion between both' these and rival railroad
avstems. have contributed to very materially
change the channels of trade. Wholesale trade
and manufacturing are both drifting westward;
and In some instances even southward. The
fall in Interest rates has also revolutionized
business methods, and affected some branches
of trade to just as great a degree as it has rail
road finances. Then, again, we have only just
passed an era of very small profits, which has
resulted in the formation ot an in
numerable number of trusts and other
similar forms of combination or concentra
tion, the effects of which have yet to be deter
mined. If profits are to be increased and busi
ness maintained upon a healthy basis by these
trusts, the results will be welcomed by all; but
there is so much inflation, stock watering, etc.,
about most of these schemes, and they too fre
quently flavor so much ot an attempt to sell
out upon tbe public, that their ultimate effect
for good is open to very serious question; and
this apart from political considerations.
Still another fact to be considered is the
strong tendency of British capital to seek in
vestment in our industrial establishments.
While a great deal of the talk about English
syndicates Is sheer wind, sputtered out by a lot
of irresponsible schemers, there is undoubtedly
a tendency of this sort on the part of foreign
capital which If directed In proper channels
and upon houest methods would benefltall con
cerned. There is a great plethora of money
abroad seeking investment at fair rates of in
terest and the unsatisfactory results from
American railroad shares as well as tbe recent
limited offerings of new bonds have drawn
attention to our large manufacturing inter
ests, particularly those which have been of a
highly profitable nature. If tbe present owners
of these can find good purchasers, we need not
object for the funds they receive in payment
will be quickly invested in new home enter
prises which they consider more profitable, and
the country's development correspondingly
stimulated. Tbe West never objected to East
ern or foreign capital building their railroads
on the score that the profits left their locality;
neither should they object to foreigners buying
their breweries, flour mills, etc, if they will pay
tbe price. We are sure to get back a good por
tion of the dividends in reinvestments.
A PHILADELPHIA DAEDALUS
Thinks He Has Solved the Problem of Fly
ing; a Qnnrter-Mlle n Minute.
From the Philadelphia Record.:
"Two years from now I believe I will be able
to fly to Philadelphia and back inside of an
hour," exclaimed John Weaver, a Chester car
penter, yesterday, as he rested from his labors
and mopped the honest sweat from a sun
browned brow. He was engaged In giving a
new roof to an old house on a back street of
his residential city, but he stopped long enongh
in the midst ot nail-driving to descant upon the
virtues of the invention that is to be the work
of his life.
"A bird can fly a mile a minute," he con
tinued, "and I think I ought to bo able to make
a quarter of a mile in the same time. When 1
once get my machine in order I expect I shall
be able o fly for a long time without tiring,
probably for many hours. I have never shown
my plans to a soul, but I have been thinking
them over for 14 years, and am pretty well sat
isfied that tbey will succeed. I will have two
sails of light silk, with ribs and framework of
brass and wood. These sails will be fastened
.to my arms, and will have an area altogether ot
aooutsuieei. xney win oe very mucmiKO a
bat's wings, and will work on the same princi
ple. I haven't taken out a patent yet but in
tend to Dy ana Dy.
"There's no reason in the world why a man
shouldn't go skimming tbrongh the air if he
only has the proper machinery. A man flew
like a bird in Philadelphia some years ago, but
ho lighted on the telegraph wires and came to
grief. I will soar far above such things as roofs
and wires. I expect to be a rich man some day,
as soon as I can get time and capital enough to
work out my Idea."
There is nothing arrogant about Weaver. He
is a modest man, and even talks a bit sheep
ishly of his prospective piece of aerial en
ginery. He dislikes to be guyed, he says, and
prerers to keep silent about his work. He
evolved tbe wing idea while engaged as a pat
tern maker in Roach's shipyards. To a ques
tion as to whether he bad ever heard of Darius
Green, he solemnly replied that he knew noth
ing of that gentleman. Perhaps he will one of
these days.
AN INSECT KILLS A BABY.
Its Sting Provei Fatal to an Infant Boy of
SerantoD.
Scbantok, July 28. The 10-months-old boy
of P. F. Moran, proprietor of the Westside
Hotel, died this morning after suffering Intense
pain from the effects or an insect's sting In
flicted last Sunday. The child was taken by
his parents on Sunday to Lilly Lake, and while
sitting in tbe grass made an outcry which
startled his mother, who discovere d that he
bad been stung In the calf of the leg by an
insect
The boy was seized with spasms, and by the
time the party arrived home tbe flesh of tbe
injured leg had become inflamed and bard.
The swelling then extended to other portions
of the body and the spasms continued. One of
the child's arms finally became paralyzed and
meningitis set in, resulting in death at 6
o'clock this morning. The nature of the in
sect which inflicted the fatal sting is not
known.
Hard on Ills Etch.
From the St. rani Floneer l'ress.i
Report has it that William Mahone, of Vir
ginia, has bis eye on tbe Presidency. The
Presidency is in no danger, but the strain on
Mr. Mahonc's eye will be bad.
COUNTRY C0TEUP0RAR1ES.
New Brighton News: The little fellows
swiped the big gillies at baseball yesterday.
Air Ohio editor states that a "red lady's
pocketbook" is at his office awaiting tho
owner.
WATNESBtmo Messenger: 11 we were rich
wo would have "Hay Fever." but as it Is we
are suffering from a denied bad cold.
Leechburo Reporter: We will issue an
edition every Friday, unless the Sheriff, by due
process of law, muzzles tbe press, and places
tbe seal ot the Commonwealth on tho doors of
our sanctum.
Beaveb FaixS Tribune: Wo drink from a
sewer, says a Philadelphia paper. We have
long heard of the capacity of Philadelphia
editors for drink, but we bad never dreamed
that It was so great as to require a sewer to
meet its demands.
Fkeipobt Journal.- The story we published
last week about James M. Patterson killing a
mad dog was a good old-fashioned lie. We
don't charge it up to ourselves, however, for It
was told us In good faith and we belloved It
It was the other fellow that lied.
New Castle Courant: This has been a bad
season for growing young turkeys. ,Young
turkeys do not grow well unless the season is
dry. A farmer told us last week that heusually
raised from 75 to 100 turkeys every year, but
this season being so wet the little chicks all
died.
Gheensburo Prew: W. H. Leonard, the
well-known contractor of this cltv, whose word
will pass current wherever 'known, relates the
following trnthfnl fish story: A short time ago
two persons, known to him, went fishing near
Brownsville In a flat boat and were out in the
water a short time until they were rewarded by
a monster fish weighing 85 pounds, and which
measured 14 inches between tbe eyes. When
landed its actions -were Tather peculiar, as It
was apparently wanting to be relieved ot some
thing, but they paid llttie attention to this and
were only anxious to get to shore with It when
they killed it and when opened It was found to
be inhabited by a hvinc Diz. which inmned on t
as soon as the flab was cut open, -
HEROINES OF LONG AGO.
Thrilling- Stories it tba Adventures of
Plneky Women or Pioneer Days A
Brave Fight Against Savaces Eliza
beth Zane's Heroism.
The very first women west of the Alleghenles
were Mrs. John Draper and her daughter Mary
(who became the wife of William Inglel),
when, about 1748, several families moved just
over the crest of the low Allegheny divide,
where now stands Blacksburg, Va, and made
a settlement called Draper's Meadows, says a
Charleston, W. Va., correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser. Having no sis
ter, Mary (Mrs. Ingles) bad played altogether
with her brother and grown up like a boy. She
could run as well as he. She could stand and
jump straight up nearly as high as her head;
could leap into the saddle unaided; could
stand on the floor and jump over a chair back,
and so on. This agility and strength stood her
In good stead when, in 1755, she, with other
women and children, were captured by tbe
Shawnces, and the Indians began a hasty
retreat to their homes beyond the Ohio. On
the night of the third day out Mrs. Ingles gave
birth to an Infant daughter, but this fact
caused no delay, which would have meant the
death of both mother and child, for the next
morning she was able to ride on. At the
Shawnee town the prisoners were divided up
and scattered, but Mrs. Ingles and her baby
were kept there, where she made herself so
useful that after a few weeks she was taken
along with a company of Sbawnees to help.
make salt at Big Bone Lick, soutb oi tne unio.
Thus she was v the first white woman to enter
Kentucky, long ante-dating the arrival there
of Mrs. Daniel Boone,wbo is usually given that
distinction.
A Perilous Eacnpe.
From here she resolved to esoape. and aban
doning her babe to tho Indians started with an
old Dutch woman who had more recently been
brought to the Lick. With nothing tp eat but
berries, roots and mussels, with no weapon of
defense, nor any protection from the weather
beyond their ragged clothes, barefooted, and
guided only by Mrs. Ingles' hope of recogniz
ing again tbe mouth of a large river which she
had descended all the way from her home, the
two women forced their way eastward along
the forested bank of the Ohio. At last hope
became certainty, for the picture of tho river
mouth printed on her memory did not fall her.
It was the Great Kanawha, and Its sources
were the streams which flowed through Drap
er's Meadows. Tbev turned un its course, but
were often interrupted by large streams, which
tney were oongea to ascend
for miles before
tbey could cross and retrace their channels
to the main river that was their only guide.
300 Miles Tbrongh the Wilderness.
As they got up to where the mountains are
nigh and close together, great cliffs, border
ing what is now the canyon of the New, down
which the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
makes its adventurous way, tbey were often
obliged to scale their helghts,only to find a worse
one just ahead. The old woman nearly gave
out, became quarrelsome, and finally attempted
to kill her companion for food, Mrs. Ingles
only escaping after a frightful encounter.
Through such almost superhuman trials did
she persist until at last sue came to ber home.
She had traveled in 40 days probably 500 miles.
When Mrs. Ingles stopped near where Charles
ton, the capital of West Virginia, now stands,
and made salt for ber captors in her own ket
tles, she was laying tbe foundation of the long
race of Kanawha salt makers and of one of the
most extensive local industries In tho West
Festnres of Frontier Life.
These Southern frontiersmen were mainly of
Scotch-Irish stock, and brought with them a
sturdy Presbyterian piety which was preserved
and imposed npon their children. They were
uncouth, and in the course of tbe long Indian
strife which preceded the Revolution they be
came almost as barbarous and vindictive in
warfare as the redskins they were matched
against But among themselves tbey were
honest hospitable, generous and fearless.
They had a code of morals which kept "all the
men brave and all the women virtuous" to a
remarkable aegree. Family devotion was al
most universal, and one ot the most horrible
massacres began by the savages creeping upon
an unsuspecting household absorbed in prayer.
In the midst of such dangers the women and
girls bad the idea of fighting ever present to
their minds, and were by no means useless
when tbe struggle suddenly came. Wben a
fort was attacked tbe more expert ot the
women would take stations at the portholes be
side the men and handle the rifle with prac
ticed hand. Others would mold bullets and re
load tbe guns; while tbe less robust attended
to the cooking and carried water.
One Woman's Bravery.
It was in the defense of their own cabins,
when surprised, however, that these frontier
women sometimes exhibited the most extraor
dinary evidence of nerve and ability. One
such case was an attack in 1773 upon a Dunk
ard family in tbe northern part of what is now
West Virginia, named Bogarth. Mrs. Bogarth
and two men were alone in tbe house, the chil
dren being out at play. Suddenly one of the
little ones ran in crying: "Ugly red man com
ingl" Upon hearing this, one of the two men
went to the door, where he received a glancing
shot In the breast that caused him to fall back.
Tbe Indian who had shot him sprang in im
mediately after, and grappling with tbe other
white man was quickly thrown upon the bed,
and held down, while tbe man called to Mrs.
Bogarth to give him a knife. Not finding one
at hand, she seized an ax and at one blow let
out tbe brains of tbe prostrate savage. At that
instant a second Indian entering the door shot
dead the man engaged with his companion on
the bed. Mrs. Bogarth turned on him, and
with a well directed blow laid open his bowels
and made him shout for help. Upon this others
or nis party, wno nao. Deen engagea witn tne
children iu the yard, came to his assistance.
A Terrible Battle.
The first who thrust his head in at the door
had it cleft by the ax of Mrs. Bogarth and fell
lifeless to the threshold. Another, catching
hold of the feet of his wounded, bawling com
panion, drew him out of the house, whereupon
the woman, wltb the aid of tbe nrst white man,
who had somewhat recovered, succeeded in
closing and fastening the door, and the ex
ertions of the remaining savages could not
force it open. All the children in the yard had
been murdered, but tbeir mother had killed
three Indians to pay for it
Similar heroism was shown by Mrs. John
Busb, who in 1791 lived in the Muskingum val
ley, O. Two of ber children there wero al
ways a large flock of them around the cabins of
these frontier people bad been sent away early
in the morning to drive np tbe cattle. Hear
ing their screams Mr. Bush started out when
he was met at the door by an Indian, who
snatched away his gun and shot him with it
Bush fell across the threshold and tbe redskin
drew bis knife to scaln him. when Mrs. Bnsh
ran to tbe assistance ot ber husband, and with
an ax struck tbe savage with such force that
the ax fastened itself in his shoulder and was
gulled off tbe handle when be jumped back,
he then dragged her husband into the house
and closed the door. By this time other ln
dlans had come up, and after endeavoring in
vain to force open the door they began shoot
ing through It but tbe woman remained unin
jured, though 11 bullets passed through her
clothing and some grazed her skin, until neigh
bors came and drove the Indians away, bnt
could not save tbe two children.
Daring; Elizabeth Zanc.
Pleasanter stories aro thoso of tbe women
and girls who with such courage and skillfnl
woodcraft have undertaken long missions to
carry news that help was needed, or to get
powder. Such was that girl's ride in the
mountain edge of North Carolina, which
named all the creeks, according to tbe miles
she had passed. Such was "Mad Ann Bailey's"
ride, from Clemdemln's fort here at Charles
ton (W. Va.), to Lcwisburg, 100 miles away, to
get tbe powder npon which their salvation de
pended: and such was the daring exploit of
pretty Elizabeth Zane. '
She was the sister of Colonel Ebenezer Zane,
after whom Zanesvllle, O., was named, but wbo
in 1783 was near the fort at Wheeling. A sud
den alarm caused everybody, except those at
Zane's bouse, to hasten into the stockade,
among whom was the Colonel's young sister,
who had just returncdfrom school in Phila
delphia and was totally unused to these wild
scenes. The attack was fierce and prolonged,
and the powder gave out before the redskins
showed any signs of retreating. In this emer
gency it became necessary to replenish their
ammunition trom Colonel Zane's house, which
was about 60 paces distant
Ber Mission Successful.
It was therefore proposed that one of their
fleetest men should endeavor to reach the
house, get a keg of powder and return with it
The enterprise was tull of the keenest danger,
yet many volunteers presented themselves for1
tile task. Among them was Elizabeth Zane.
She was young, athletic and fearless. "You
have not one man to spare," she pleaded. "If
I fall it is only a girl, who will not be missed
in the defense of the fort Let me gol" Her
services were accepted. Divesting herself of
impeding skirts, she stood ready for the hazard
ous adventure, and wben the gate was opened
she bounded forth, buoyant with youthful con
fidence of success. Wrapt in amazement the
Indians beheld her, but shouting: "A squaw! a
squaw!" disdained to Interrupt ber progress to
her brother's door. Then Colonel Zane fas
tened a tablo cloth around ber waist aud,
emptying into it a keg of powder, again the
door was opened and she darted out Tbe In
dians were no longer passive. Ball after ball
sung around ber ears, but none touched her,
and in a moment her flying feet bad carried
tne precious ouraen gaiety into tne ion.
J.up
EXCELLENT' READING MATTER.
Abundance of Choice Litsra tare In Yester
day's 18-Pbcs Dispatch.
Yesterdays double number of Tax Dis
patch was brlmtul of Interesting matter
The news of the day from all parts of tbe world
in Its most attractive and readable form ; reviews
of sporting events, local intelligence, tbe gossip
of the summer resorts, art and musical criti
cisms, carefully prepared articles on literary,
scientiOc and religious topics, choice mlseet
lany, romantic fiction, poetry In brief, all the
features of a complete newspaper were in
eluded. When sneh a beautiful supply ot
good literature Is regularly laid before them it
is no wonder that 250,000 readers are enthusias
tic In praise of their favorite paper, Tux Dis
patch. i.
According to' previous announcement the
marriage of the Earl of Fife and frincees
Louis took place in London with imposing
ceremonies. There were 400 presents valued at
$1,000,000. An account of tbe Gladstone golden
wedding and Mr. Gladstone's speech on that
occasion was also given. John Jarrett talked
with The Dispatch correspondent repudiat
ing tbe interview published In a Manchester
paper. Americans were Interested listeners at
the Parliament-try debates. The result of the
controversy over the royal grants is considered
a warning that the royal family must be less ex
travagant in future. Bismarck proposes a Con
ference of tbe Emperors of Russia, Austria
and Germany in the interests ot peace.
Dr. A. E. Jones, who has been missing for
some days, is found to have been murdered by
a negro in Cincinnati. His body has been re
covered and tbe negro arrested. Henry Ken
nedy, a South Carolina Republican, has left
Washington much dissatisfied about the failure
of colored men to get offices. Secretary Tracy
is credited with new plans for improving the
navy. Virginia Republicans accuse Mahone of
keeping their State Democratic. Amannamed
Vanderburg, who has been connected with
various religious denominations In Crawford
county, is reported to have eloped with the
wife of one of his parishioners. Parkersburg's
Mayor sends out an earnest appeal for aid for
the sufferers from the Kanawha floods.
it
At a labor convention held In Scottdale a
strike was ordered to begin August 1. Coke
operators were not represented at the conven
tion. Tbe Eighteenth Regiment broke camp
at Uniontown and the veterans returned to
Pittsburg- The dead body of a man supposed
to be Wallace Wheeler, of Tarentum, was
found in the Allegheny river at Ross' Grove.
It Is now stated that the proposed Increase of
the force in the Pittsburg Postoffice will not
be made at present Members of St Paul's to
the number of 4,000 held an enjoyable picnic at
Silver Lake "Grove. Clara Barton gave a tea
at the Red Cross Hotel in Johnstown. The
bouse, nonopened, will shelter 35 families. H.J.
Moreland Is the inventor of a process to cool
water on trains by condensed air. There is an
unprecedented demand for laborers in this city.
The home club defeated the Clevelands again
score 11 to 5. There were good races at St
Paul and Saratoga. The usual quantity of
sporting news was given, also Prlngle's inter
esting review of the events of the week,
hi.
Fart H. includes "Lieutenant Louisa," a com
plete and fascinating story by Julian Haw
thorne. Frank Carpenter, in bis letter from
Cairo, gave very complete pictures of some of
the curious things found In that ancient city.
Kamera furnished an attractive sketch of pic
turesque scenes among tbe Adirondack's. How
kangaroos are caught in Australia was told In
an entertaining paper by Frank Kempster.
Baroness Salvador furnished a gossipy
and pleasing account of the home
life of Adellna Pattl. The
origin of tbe order of Elks was told by Morton
in a most excellent paper. Berry Wall gave
his ideas of the "proper thing" in swallow tails
and other articles of men's apparel. L. B.
France gave a graphic sketch of life at the
Mexican capital. A letter from the Otoe
Indian Agency contains much curious informa
tion regarding tbe red men ot the far West.
Helnrichs contributed one of his original and
romantic fairy stories. "Sunday Thoughts,"
Rev. George Hodges' religious talk, "Clara
Belle's Chat" Mrs. Sherwood's letter from
Spain, and several other original contributions
were included in the long list of excellent
articles.
SNAKES IN A DEP6T.
Boar Battlers Create Consternation Among;
tbe Waltlss: Passengers.
CraciMHATT, July 28. There was a scene of
wild commotion- in the crowded waiting rooms
of the CL, H. & D. depot yesterday afternoon
caused by the sudden arrival of unwelcome
visitors. They were snakes and of the variety
known as rattlers. Their snakelets, four ot
them, were In the baggage room awaiting trans
portation to a museum in New Orleans. How
they got ont no one knows. The first intima
tion ot their presence was a wild shriek from a
female, who hastily climbed on to a seat pull
ing ber skirts up around her ankles.
A snake about five feet long was crawling
slowly across the floor, his head undulating
first in one direction and then the other, as it
uncertain where to go, and closely following
his first snakeship were three others, all wrig
gling in the liveliest manner.
There was hurried scurrying of the hundred
or more commuters in the room, and standing
room on the benches was speedily at a pre
mium. Several passengers forgot all about
tbeir trains and rushed up Fifth street Finally
Depot Watchman Dennis O'Dowd appeared,
and with his cane and a poker picked up one of
the squirming rattlers and put him back in the
box. Snake No. 2 was found curled up undera
stool in front of the lunch connter. on top of
which was standing a scared girt He. too. was
put in the box. By this time, however, the
other two reptiles got away, and the closest
search failed to find them.
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.
Judge Charles RmoEi,r,'of Mineral coun
ty, W. Va,. owns a horse that eats anything a
man will eat excepting a lemon. He is espe
cially fond of sauerkraut and plug chewing to
bacco. He will take 10 cents' worth of plug to
bacco from the band of the owner, chew it np
swallow It with a relisb, and then, though
hitched to the buggy, follow the Judge on tbe
sidewalk and beg for more.
Mrs. Andt Williams, of Milton, W. Va.,
set a double-yolk egg under a hen, and from it
two chickens were hatched. And Sheriff Show
ers, of Monndsvltle, has a rooster chicken 5
weeks old that has fully developed spurs and
comb.
Dr. Buyer, of Brighton township. Bearer
county, killed two blacksnakes in his wheat
field recently One was six feet long, while the
other measured eight feet from tip to tip. The
largest one showed fight when attacked, and
chased the doctor around for a time, but he
finally pierced it with a pitchfork. A Mr.
Baker killed two copperheads, each over three
feet long.
Jacob F. Zook, of New Wilmington, Pa.,
has a duck with three legs and four feet one
leg having two well-developed feet All three
legs aro natural, and the duck uses them all. It
is a month old, and will probably lire.
"SoArBUBBLE parties" are a fashionable
amusement In the vicinity bf Beading; Tbe
point of tbe game Is to see which can blow the
largest bubble.
A Watczsbcbo firm bought a lot of wool a
few days ago. While handling a peculiarly
heavy lot in a bag tbey opened it and found a
big carcass of a sheep, bones, hide, tag, locks
and alL Tbey paid 33 cents a pound for it
THE young ladies at the Delaware Water
Gap bad a "paint and powder party'1 one night
lately, each maiden appearing with powdered
hair and painted cheeks.
Mat Walton, of Monongahela City, while
plowing near the spot where Colonel Crawford
was burned at the stake by Indians in 1782, un
earthed a sword. The blade was rusted away.
nut the handle and gnard, being of gold, were
preserved. On the handle is engraved the name
of William Crawford.
It had been noticed of lata that many of tbe
suckersand catfish in the creek near Marshall's
paper mill, in Kennett township, Chester coun
ty, Pa, are found dead or stupid, and upon ex
amination it was found that the fresh water
leeches get into the gills of the fish in large
numbers ana sap their blood.
A TOUJJO man from tbe country, who lately
found work in Akron, felt curious to knowjiow
the electric lamps were lighted. A night or
two since he planted himself at a street corner
to watch the process. Ke grew tired waiting,
but at last darkness came, and his breath was
suddenly knocked out by seeing the lamp blaze
without any human agency whatever.
ctMotrs condensations:
There are 275 women preachers in tho
United SUtes.
Silas "Wilson, a cripple who- sold soap
for a living, died In New York tha other day.
It is said be looked enough like Jay Gould to
have been bis twin brother.
The multiplication of 987,634,321 by 45
gives 44,444,414.445. Reversing the order and
multiplying 123.45.789 by 45 a result equally odd
Is obtained 8,535,555,005.
A bear tried to devour Misses Susie
Feney and Jennie Martin in Butte county, Cali
fornia, the other day, but Miss Feney's brother
arrived on the scene just in time to keep Bruin
from taking his first bite.
George W. Eaton, of Torrlngton.Conn.,
with the assistance ot his hired men, slaugh
tered 31 blacksnakes In a few minutes the other
day. The largest was over nine feet long. The
reptiles had their nest under an old bam In a
sheep pasture.
Father Byan, of Kalamazoo, is one of
the most expert electricians in the conntry. In
One corner of his room he has a sknll so ar
ranged that it chatters its teeth wben the
priestly scientist slyly tonches an electric bat
ton concealed about bis desk.
Charleston, it is said, leads the other
cities at the country in respect to miniature
painting. Fpr 100 years this has been a pecu
liar distinction of tbe city. Thomas Coram, an
English artist was the instructor who Intro
duced the art in South Carolina.
Mrs. Stivers, who lives near the Hill
man colliery. In the vicinity of Wilkesbarre,was
In her yard stringing beans a couple of days
since, when the ground suddenly caved in. and
she, the beans and the chair on which she bad
been sitting went out of sight Her daughter
rushed to tbe spot and fonnd a great hole ten
feet across. She got help and a ladder, and tbs
mother was gotten out unhurt, but badly
A "wild woman of the mountains," who
lives on Blue Mountain, Md., was arrested the
other day after giving the daughter ot Senator
Butler, of South Carolina, a severe fright. Tha
old woman is a well-known character in thosa
parts. She is described as being but three feet
tall and her face tho acme of ugliness. She has
led her strange life in the mountains for years,
and her name is a terror to all the children in
that region.
A dead oak tree was taken up on
Wraggmall, Charleston, S. C, last week, and
under the roOts,about four feet deep, was fonnd
anlS-pounder solid shot apparently from a
siege or ship's gun. The tree was SO or 40 years
old. and, besides, no such shot fell in the city
during the last war. It is. therefore, a relic of
the Revolution, fired probably during the slega
or Charleston by Sir Henrv Clinton, and fiom
a battery near Haddrell's Point
After a separation of 40 years Jacob
Haverstraw.of Salem, N. J has met his sister,
Mrs. Rebecca Johnson, of Pavonia, N. J. Al
though they have been living within 20 miles of
one another for years past thev did not know
each other's whereabonta nntil rprpntlr. Mra
Johnson, being in Camden on a visit heard a
voong man called by tbe name Haverstraw.
Thinking she saw a family resmblance, she
addressed blm, and found be was her nephew.
JacoD was told of the discovery by his son, and
the family are again united.
John Crouse, a Syracuse millionaire
grocer, wbo died recently, was laid in what Is
probably the most costly tomb in the country.
The structure is of solid granite, every stona
being perfect The stones run through and
through the walls, and each has been fitted to
its place with mathematical precision. Tha
masonry outside as well as in is as delicate as
joiner work In tbe strictest sene. Nowhere In
tbe roof is there a vertical joint exposed to tba
sky, thus preventing any po-sibility of a leak
so often found in such work.
The journey around the Congo cataracts,
which now takes between three and four weeks,
will be made In two days by tho trains of tha
Congo Railroad, which is now in course of con
struction. The locomotives will weigh 30 tons
each, and tbe speed at first will be about 11
miles per hour. Trains will be run only during
daylight. There will be three intermediate
stations on tbe 225 miles of track. The railroad
is expected to pay expenses from the start, as
tbe outlay for carrier service over its route al
ready exceeds 450,000 a year
Young ladies of Columbia, Pa., have
this summer taken a great interest in rowing;
and nearly every girl of leisure in tbe town is
an expert at tbe ours. Tho interest in aquatic
affairs is so great that the girls have been en
deavoring to settle tbe qnestlon as to which of
their number is tbe champion. Several scrub
races have taken place, but they were unsatls,
factory, ana a great pair-oared rowing race
open to all ladies of Columbia, has been ar
ranged for September 1, for pin money, gato
receipts and the championship of Lancaster
county.
A correspondent, who climbed to the
top of Pike's Peak one July day, found tha
Signal Service officer melting snow for his
water supply, tha only one he gets. The officer
said: "Sometimes I stand at the window with
my telescope. Tbe wind without is keen and
cutting as a knife. I can see the houses of
Colorado Springs. 20 miles away, the visitors
sitting In their shirt-sleeve', sipping iced drinks
to keep cool and ladies walking about in white
summer robes. I lower the glass; the summer
scene is gone. Green trees, animal life, men
and women fadeaway like creatures in a dream,
and I am the only living thing in a world of
eternal ice and snow and silence."
An amusing incident occurred in the
quarters of the Chicago Board of Trado recent
ly. The room was in the usual uproar, it being
within an hour of tha closing time, when an old
mother cat that has its home on the board
started to move her litter of eight kittens. She
marched out of ber nest carrying a kitten by
its neck in her month. She walked very dignl
fledly and sedately up the hall and a dozen or
more of the members who saw her stopped to
watch. Then the word spread, and when she
had put the first kitten In tha new quarters
and started back for another there was a great
crowd formed In two lines looking at her. She
kept at ber wore, cbeered by the crowd, until
she had accomplished the removal of her en tiro
family.
FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES.
"Father," said Willie, who had just been
corrected, "that strap is hereditary. Isn't It?'
"I don't know that It Is." "But it descends
from father to ion. doesn't it!" Washington
Capital.
Said little Willie in the innocent prattle:
"When I get to be a man I'm going to find the pot
of gold at the foot of the rainbow. As soon as I do
that I'm irolnjc to help papa reform politics."
HasMngton Capital. '
Who tries to fill a long felt want,
Willi no such want existing.
Slakes of himself a bloomtn' hais
By in tbe work persisting.
-Oil City Blixzari.
A Severe Teacher. The Kev. Primrose
Even the dumb animals teach us a lesson,
Merrltt Yes. 1 ventured too near a mule the
other day, and be taught me a lesson I'll never
forget Stye York hvening Sun.
A proof of the immense superiority of the
classic over tbe modern physique Is the fact that
the gladiators' of old never got out of condition by
drinking, and yet they were continually Indulg
ing In ltoman punches. Baltimore American.
No Chance to Chnckle Over It Bessie
What was that great trouble of Dolly's life!
Jennie The gentleman that she jilted wentand
married another girl within a weet. Iiolly has
never been herself since. A'eio Tort i.vtningSun.
First funny man I find the greatest diffi
culty In piovldlng heads Tor my paragraphs.
Second funny man Considering their total laek
of sense, I should think that a head to them Is
rather Inappropriate, any way. Ttrre Haute Ex
press. "Gentlemen," said the candidate for office,
as he squirted a stream of tobacco Juice on the
pavement below, "my character is spotless."
"Then it's a pity, " said some one In the crowd,
that you can't wear it for a shirt!" ClothUr
and lirnltlitrr
SUGGESTED IMPBOVXXKXT.
"How do you like my suit?" said he.
The maid, confessing.
Admitted that she thought 'twould be
Improved by pressing.
CtotMer and Furnisher,
TALK Or THE GAS.
How sweet to roam by the sad sea waves,
Wbl'e no cares your mind harass, '
And what oy to think, as you watch the stars.
That you're paying no bill for gast
But oh. what trlef wben rou travel home
And tbe meter your sad eyes meet!
You And that cook has been holding "soirees"
and has burned ten mlllon feet!
Lawrence American.
Life in Pizen Creek. Landlord Jerked
beef (of tbe'BadlLands House to New York drum,
mer at breakfast table The waiter tells me you
want a napkin!
Guest Yes, sir, I would like one If not too
much trouble.
"I'll tell yoa Jess how It is. Last evening we had
anlce a mess or napkin in tbe Ice-box as you ever
seen, but la the night my infernal houn'-dos; got
tbe klrer off and ett every one on 'em. Jess bear
with us this time sad the next trip you come along
you shall have a napkiu fer yer breakfast If I have
togetupatSo-ctockandgooutand shoot It my
self. "Texas SVtingt.
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