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MILLIONS IN YIEW,
Which Onk Require of North Amer
ica to Reach After Them.
ttHAT VENEZUELA HAY DO FOR US.
Eoutb. America Wants Our Profitable Pro
ducts Brought,
BUI' WILL NOT COME HEEE TOE THEM
Probably no single section of North
America is more directly interested in de
veloping and encouraging trade relations
with the Sonth American countries than
that of Pittsc-urg. Here are the recognized
headquarters on this continent not only for
iron, steel and many of their products, glass
and other commodities in universal demand,
but for numerous articles of commerce and
manufacture which could not, from any
other great manufacturing center, so readily
reach South American markets, almost un
cxceptionally without breaking bulk, as via
the continuens waterway already at hand
for a large part of the year between Pitts
burg and the South, and soon, undoubtedly,
to be rendered navigable all the year round
except in midwinter.
For these reasons, among many others,
Pittsburgers will find instructive, profitable I
and congenial suggestions in the following 1
special article from the New York JJoois
and Shoes Keenly, which is introduced with
the proposition that to ship only $100 worth
of shoes from New York to St. Thomas at
present costs "more time, worriment and
effort than would be involved in shipping
85,000 worth to San Francisco:"
HOW VENEZUELA "WOULD PAT.
Venezuela is a country which tho United
Etates should cultivate. Our products are In
demand there. Every year we increase our
exports in that direction. We oughtto monopo
lize the patronage of the 2,000,000 souls in
Venezuela so far as imports into that country
are concerned. What is the reason why we do
not? Men who have given but superficial
study to tnis question win proDaoiy reply:
"There are several reasons."
But there is but ono reason. It is because
the United States has no regular means of
communication with the Venezuelan ports,
while England has.
A merchant of Lanayra wishes to buy some
foreign goods. He reasons thus: "I will send
my order to England because I know that the
steamer which leaves LaEuayra on a certain
date i ill be in Southampton by a certain date,
and leave there on schedule time so as to again
be in this port on a certain date."
Suggest to that merchant that he can buy
cheaper in New York and he replies' "Yes, but
If I order from England I know to a certainty
when I will get niv goods. If I send to New
York, the cood Lord only knows when the
goods will reach tat"
We are tlmusauds of miles nearer the market
than our competitors, but in point of transpor
tation facilities we aro almost a century be
hind England, Germany and France.
.Mr. Bliss, of the shipping firm mentioned, Is a
man who has civen many years of careful in
vestigation to the subjects here considered. Uo
has
conecteu statistics ana prepared some
hichly interesting papers dealinc with tho de
velopment oi our trade witn southern coun
tries. Mr Bliss, speaking to a representative
of this journal, said: "Europe has for years
been practically nearer the South American
Republics than we are. Our position on this
matter of Southern trade
CA1T BE ILLUSTKATED
in this way: We have been like a drygoods
house which we will suppose is located upon
West Fiftj -third street or in any nice quiet
part of the city. The proprietor has a magnifi
cent stock; he is prepared to sell goods cheaper
than any other dealer. He doesn't advertise
.Slakes no effort to market his merchandiscbut
lolls back In his Bolt-cushioned revolving chair
and says:
0. I've got the best and the lowest-priced
goods, but if anybody wants to buy let them
hunt me up and come after them.'
"This might do if foreign merchants and
manufacturers pursued tho same policy, but it
has long been notorious that they do not. Tho
fatal policy of indifference has characterized
the United States long enough."
"Is it understood by the merchants and
tradere of Lagnayra that the United States can
sell coods cheaper than England can?"
"Yes," replied Mr. Bliss, "very Generally.
But they want their merchandise on time, and
they know that we have no adequate facilities
for filling their orders promptly. The strangest
phase of this subject, however, Is the position
held by certain nublic men and lAiilntnr
Congressmen who should be ashamed to risk
their reputation on a false statement, declare
that we must not expect to sell to South Amer
ica because we do not buy from these countries.
Nothing can be further from the truth. Wo do
sell to tho countries south of us, but it is only
a small proportion or what we buy from them.
Even Senator Beck, in a prepared speech in
Concress, insisted that we could not expect
trade with our Southern neighbors, becauso we
did not patronize them. 1 insist that figures
prove conclusively that the distinguished Sen
ator is wrong. For the year ending June 30.
1887, w e imported from Brazil coffee for which
we paid 552,95376. During tho same period
the aggregate sales of goods by our merchants
and manufacturers to Brazil was S,BS7,123L In
other words, we bought six and one-half times
more than we sold.
DISPOSED TO BECIPEOCITT.
"Therefore I hold that in view of tho facts it
is the height of absurdity to claim that the
countries south of us are not disposed to recip
rocity of traae. Personally I belie ve the coming
congress to be held in this country and to be
Composed of representatives of tho South
American republics, will result in much practi
cal good. Mr. Curtis is the rjght man to manage
It, ana the representatives of this country wno
will participate are quite generally practical
men. Y o must cet our Southern friends to
visit us to soe for themselves what kind of
folks we aro and what our facilities are for
serving them. Tho congress will be a decided
advance in the right direction.
'One other point: By all means let us make
for the bouth American countries exactly the
kinds of goods which they want. No matter if
they insist on having thejpoorcst and what we
consider the flimsiest. Fill their orders and
after we have gained their confidence it will be
time to talk them into buying something bet
ter, which they will assuredly find to be the
cheapest tn the end. Take tho matter of
shoes. In many of the countries whose patron
age we want the people do not wear a new pair
ot shoes longer than a month or six weeks. The
quality and make of the shoe is so inferior that
it will not stand longer wear. For a light,
ornamental but unserviceable shoo they will
pay to France, let us suppose, from $1 60 to $2
In cold. After Rix weeks of wear it Is thrown
aside and a new pair purchased. Shoe man
ufactnrers in the United States can turn out
just as handsome a shoe and can use a quality
of leather which will outwear two or three
pairs of the article made in Franco or Ger
many. But berore you can secure the custom
of tho Sonth Americans you must make prac
tical demonstration of that fact. The most
certain, way to get an opportunity to do this is
to make them a shoe exactly as they want it.
First demonstrate to them that no can make
as good a shoe as do the factories of England,
Germany and France. That will bo a great
point gained. Then you will bo tn shape to
convince them that yon have something better
than they have been getting from tho countries
from which they have bought forgencrations."
AK AMERICAN'S STUBBORNNESS.
Said another gentleman In the same office:
"I have in mind an American gentleman who
does business not a thousand miles from Now
York. He is known all over the world as a car
builder. To him went a gentleman who has
unent years in South America and said; M
, a company has been formed in to build
aline of street cars. The capital required has
all been subscribed and they have-asked me to
Come to yonind ask jou to build the cars tbey
require.' When the great builder ascertained
that the South American company wanted cars
with top seats he exclaimed- -Nonsense! Why,
that' old style: I build a much better car now
for less money.'
"In short, he Tefnsed to take the contract.
His visitor met his refusal in this fashion:
You go ahead and give these people precisely
what they want. It will lead to something bet
ter In the future. They wish to patronize this
country; they know what they want; suppose it
Is not the best in its line; they want it, and shall
trade be driven away fiom this country just
because you are pic-ueaucu auuui iuc maiierr'
The cars were made for the South American
Company. When they were shipped one rar
was sent down on trial which was what the
builder wanted to supply them with In the first
place. Mark the result: To-day the old style,
top-seat cars are not to be found on the road in
question; tbey were sold to another company
In the interior.
' "Call It subsfdyor what you will," continued
JtrrBUee, "1 am in favor of doing something to
establish and maintain regular steam com
ruunication with all the Bouth American ports
France, Germany and England have 'mail pay
lines.
YEKY PEItTIKEifT QUESTIONS.
"Do those countries endeavor to squander
money needlessly? Are they disposed to give
away without substantial return tho moneys
raised by taxation? No. Sound commercial
policy is the consideration that prompts Gov
ernmental aid in every Instance. See how
Germany is reaching Into China. There is, I
know, an idealistic sentimeut In this country
against subsidies, but the enst of establishing
steam mail and freight routes with ports south
of us is so small in comparison with what the
results would be that it is absurd to discuss It.
Trade with Venezuela is increasing. The
Red "D" lino employs six vessels, which have
been specially built for the trade and which
also hao superior accommodations for pas
sengers. The next departure from this port
will he on Aucust SI. The steamer Philadel
phia leaving New York on that date, will t0uch
at Curacoa (famed forus goat and kid stin)
on September 7. It will arrive at Puerto Ca
bello on September 9, and at Lagnayra two days
later. Returning, it will leavo LajruayTa on
September 16 and arrive in New York on the
2Tth of the same month. The uteanishln Mara
caibo alo belonging toBoulton, Bliss fc Hallett,
plies between Curacoa and Maracaibo, con
suming seven days in the round trip.
The Ian s in Venezuela are remarkably strict
concerning imports. The shoe manufacturer
mentioned in the introductory paragraph of
this article, would havo been confronted with
additional complications if be had essayed to
i-end his goods to Lagnayra rather than to St.
Thomas.
COLOEED DEMOCRATS.
Blectlnc of the Executive Committee In Hnr
risliurg Dcmnnd for Grcnter Recog
nltionln Offices Tariff Reform In
dorsed Election of Officers.
rf PKCIAl. T1CLKORAM TO TBI DIBPATCTM
Haerisbueo, September 13. The Dem
ocratic Executive Committee of the Colored
State League met in this city to-day and
elected B. G. Still, of Philadelphia, Presi
dent; Walter S. Brown, of Pittsburg, Treas
urer, and William Still, of Beading, Secre
tary. The committee prepared an address
for the "consideration of thinking colored
men of Pennsylvania." The address sets
forth that the negroes have been faithful to
the Bepublican darty since they were given
the right of franchise, almost to a man,
and have never been accorded the rejogni
tion due them as faithful and loyal parti
sans. Thev had been hoodwinked, and
cajoled, and filled with promises, and had
seen others reap the reward of their labors
when the campaign was over. A look into
Pennsylvania's legislative halls would
never indicate that Pennsylvania contained
over 100,000 negroes whose loyalty to the
party was undeniable. The address then
asserts that the intelligence of the negroes
is beginning to assert itself, and that many
have renounced the Bepublican party,
which has quadrennially posed as the
negro's friend The complaint is made that
the doors of workshops are owned and con
trolled chiefly by Republicans have been
tightlv barred acainst the colored people.
and thrown open to a class of foreigners
who don't become citizens.
The sixth plank of the Democratic plat
form, which holds the Bepublican party re
sponsible lor the failure to pass any law for
the relief of manual labor, is warmly in
dorsed. The position of the Democratic
party on the tariff question is also ap
proved. "We are the consumers, hence pay
the tariff," says the address, '-and yet are
debarred from the average field of labor, and
we consider it an insult to our citizenship
for any party to ask us to support a measure
favorable to a class who ignore and deny us
our God-given right and privilege to earn
our bread by the sweat of our brow."
The Southern negroes are admonished to
ally themselves with the Democratic party
as the Bepnblicans have failed to give them
the protection guaranteed by the Constitu
tion. It is claimed that under President
Cleveland the condition of the negroes in
the South was better than it is to-day. These
people are asked to "cease to be dead
martyrs and become living exponents of a
truly new South."
The address closes thus: "Do not vote
from mere sentiment, sometimes termed
gratitude, but cast your ballot with a view
to the best interest of your lace."
The colored league met in the rooms of the
Democratic State Committee.
SWALLOWED HER TEETH.
A Beading Lady Dies From Getting a Pinto
in Her Windpipe.
ISPECTAL TELEGRA1I TO TBI DISPATCH.1
Beading, September 13. Mrs. Prances
Dunsford, aged 32, wife of George H. Duns
ford, was carried out of the Academy of
Music on Tuesday night in an unconscious
condition. She had been laughing inor
dinately at the play of "The Old Home
stead," when suddenly she fainted and fell
back iu her chair. The lady was removed
to her home in an urcouscious condition.
It was not known exactly what cansed her
affliction. Her lalse teeth were missing, and
it was apprehended that she might have
swallowed them. The doctors failed to lo
cate any obstruction, and the lady lingered
in agony until this morning, when she
died.
A post mortem this afternoon located the
missing teeth securely lodged in her wind
pipe. There were two teeth fastened to a
silver plate. Mr. Dunsford until recently
lived at Franklin, near Newark, N. J., and
moved here to take the snperintendency of
the Beading Paper Mill Company.
AN OPEN RIVER AGAIN.
Tho Channel Span of the Pnnlmndlc Brldco
nt Stenbenville Finished.
To-day the superstructure of the channel
span of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St.
Louis Bailway bridge over the Ohio river
at Stcubcnville will be finished and the
false work removed, leaving the channel
clear for steamboats. The growth of traffic
on the Panhandle Bailway necessitated a
double track, and it had been laid from
Pittsburg to Wheeling Junction and from
Steubenville to Mingo all double, except
that on the bridge on the eastern end of the
line.
The building of the bridge was a big
undertaking, and it was not aided by Pitts
burg coal men, who once pushed their craft
through the lalse work and cleaned it out
as effectually as would a cyclone.
The bridge has seven open spans, each 231
feet long, and a channel span 312 feet long,
making the space between abutments 1,936
feet.
THAT INCLINE PARK.
Tho Superintendent Didn't Caro Much
to
Talk About It.
An interview was yesterday obtained
with the Superintendent of theMount Oliver
Incline about the public park which, it is
rumored, the incline company intend to
purchase and plant.
"The project wonld without the least
doubt pav the company and pay them
well, too," said the Superintendent. "The
park would be a nearer picnicking place
than Silver Lake Grove, and crowds would
visit it."
"Has the company any serious intention
of purchasing the ground spoken of?"
At this question the Superintendent be
came anything but loquacious. At last he
said: "Well.no such idea will be enter
tained this year anyhow. Next January
will be time enough to think about the pur-
tuaK, ii lucre is iu ue any. x tninK it likely
that the company may do as has been sug
gested." A MUSICAL W0XDER. ?
teaches a mortal to play such strains at please
H'ffiO'to'but are loo'muchfor mortals. Ernest
MeinricM uory in to-morrovft Dispatch.
PITTSBURG,
NEW ENGLAND INNS.
Reminiscences of Some of the Fa
mous Old Hostelries,
WHEREIN HISTORY WAS MADE.
Longfellow's Description of the Bed Horse
Inn Covers Many a
STABTER FOE AN AMERICAN HOTEL
ICOHRESPONDENCE Or THX DISPATCH .
Quebec, P. Q., September 6. I have
often wondered why the many old innsof
New England have not received the same
attention from American novelists that were
given those of old England by Scott,
Dickens and Thackeray. Some of the ten
dcrest memories cling about them. They
are rich in that sweet and unctuous life of
the remote stage-coaching, days, so rapidly
being forgotten. The grand and sturdy
half Puritan aristocracy of yore still gives
their crouching forms a certain stately air
and flavor. And much American history
is written beneath the cobwebs of their
faded ceilings and crumbling walls. One
visits them to-day and longs for some great
brained American to come and throw aside
the creaking shatters that the sun of genius
may flood in upon their dingy rooms until
it shall j-evive and preserve for Ameri
cans a tithe of the real romance every one
possesses.
But oca of all these- old New England
inns has been truly and properly preserved
in literature. That one least of all deserved
it for its inherent value to the writer, or
proper place as a relic of American social
antiquity. That the true and tender meas
ure of the master-singer, Longfellow, gave
this one ramshackle old roadside tavern
such universal American recognition is best
proot how half a hundred of its hale.
rugged fellows could be given literary res
toration which would end in preserving
them as loved shrines in travel, and still
richer Meccas in mind and heart.
OLD' SUDBURY INN.
For who, though he has never seen it,
does not know old Sudbury Inn, the Bed
Horse "Wayside Inn" of Longfellow's
most colorful and tuneful creation? But a
week ago it stood there in the first autumn
days, just as in years agone,
A kind of old H obgoblin Hall,
Now somewhat fallen to decay,
With weather stains upon the wall.
And stairways worn, and crazy doors,
And creaking and uneven floors.
And chimneys huge, and tiled and tall.
Deep silence reigned, save where a gnst
Went rushing down the country road.
And skeletons of leaves, and dust,
A moment quickened by its breath,
bhudaered and danced their dance of death,
And thmnrrh th fLnnlnnt nnlr, n'.phA.fi
Mysterious voices moaned and fled.
Get down your "Longfellow," and read
uveruii iuui sweet preiuae to "Males 01 a
Wayside Inn." Then close your eyes and
you will see in thought old Sudbury tavern
just as you would find it, if you came a
thousand miles to see it, while yoa thank
heaven for that one American man who
had both the patriotism and genius to paint
American pictures for endless keeping. '
WONDERPUIi CIDER FLIPS.
Two famous old Npw1 England inns, re
cently destroyed by fii e, and worthy to be
recalled, were the Hyde Tavern, of Revolu
tionary fame, near Norwich, Conn., and the
historic inn known as the Oxford House, at
Fryeburg, Me. The former was burned in
March of last year, and the latter, just a
month earlier. Hyde Tavern was one of
the most ancient and famous resorts in New
England, situated on the old post road to
Hartford, the road over which Lafayette
and his army passed; and in this old hos
telry Lafayette and his officers diued dur
ing the Bevolutionary War. It was a
typical old-fashioned New England tavern,
with a large green in front, surronnded by
gigantic elms, many of which were 100 feet
high. The straggling, one-story structure
had a low, sway-back, moss-covered roof
with huge eaves covering and projecting
over a wide veranda, extending the whole
length of the inn.
Washington and his officers, recognizing
its antiquity and fame, shortly after the
Bevolution visited the noble old tavern,
and ate, drank, danced, and held high car
nival within it. But the greatest fame en
joyed by the ancient hostelry was for its
wonderful cider "flips'." Every cood fellow
of olden and modern times irom Boston to
Albany, and from New York City to the
White Mountains, knew of, or was able to
boast of having partaken of, these. An
iron rod nearly three feet long was heated to
a white heat in the glowing coals of the fire
place, the latter so large that a whole bul
lock could have been "barbecued" within
it, and then plunged in flagons of cider and
drank off while still spattering and sizzling
from the heat.
PRIDE OF NEW ENGLAND.
The old Oxford House at Fryeburg. Me.,
was a huge rambling affair, big as a church,
covered with dormer windows, fronted with
huge two-Btory verandas, surrounded by
mammoth trees, and provided with number
less nooks, crannies, cupboards and delight
ful corners; in lact, a labarynth of quaint
ness and repose. It was the ancient great
stage-coach resort between Portland and the
White Mountains, and its wondrous good
cheer and bounteousness, as well as its re
markable housekeeper, Molly Brewster, a
direct descendent of Elder Brewster, of the
Mayflower, were the pride and boast of all
Northern New England.
Freyburg folk, however, set the greatest
store by the fact that the old Oxford House
was once the home of Daniel Webster. Just
87 years ago Webster became a principal of
the little Freyburg Academy, his stipend
permitting him to board, and in some de
gree of state, lor those times, at the then
ancient Oxford House. History is silent on
the subject, but "Webster's room at the tav
ern was so frequently perva'ded with the
lascinating odor of New .England rum, that
many other men of great brain and paunch
were attracted thither: and village Icends
have it that many a saturnalia was "held
within its barred windows and doors.
OLDEST BUILDING EXTANT.
In Springfield, Mass., are still standing
some very ancient New England inns, and
if I mistake not, one of these is the oldest
American building now extant originally
built for a public house. This old relic at
the corner of Dwieht and Sanford streets, is
now in the neighborhood of structures
nearly as woebegone as itself, but still
serves the general public as a laundry. Just
224 years ago the court licensed Nathaniel
Ely to keep an "ordinary,'' or "a house for
common cntertaynment, also for selling
wines and strong "liquors," and at the same
time released him from "travninir in
Town so long as he continues to keep ye
ordinary.'
A once famous hostelry, the Parsons
Tavern, of Springfield, though now in dis
grace and dilapidation, is still a picturesque
example of colonial architecture. It once
stood in pride and glory over against Court
Square; and James Monroe early in his
Presidency honored it as a guest. In those
days, and for half a century before, the
famous attractions of Parsons Tavern were
in that it stood in full view of Springfield's
whipping-post, and that its "flip" irons
were nearlv as long and hnge, and its
"cider-flips' Quite as enthralling ng thrum
of the noted Hyde Tavern at Norwich.
There are two very old New England inns
to which I make pilgrimages almost an
nually. One I visit because it does an
American good to olten see the snot whoro
on that shining olden day of April 19, 1776, 1
was
fired the shot heard round the world;
and the other, because one there gets tender-
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1889.
ly close to the spirit of the real Hawthorne
where were the cradling of his true selt and
the nurturing of his actual genius.
ALCOTT AND EMERSON.
The first is the famous Wright's Tavern, J
at concord. The little, low, bleak, turn Die
down structure, though in existence half a
century before monarchy went out and the
Benublic came in. is still the onlv public
house of the city which gave the world tbeJ
philosophies of Alcott and .Emerson, anew
early homes, as well as that of Hawthorne,
can be seen from the windows.
The second one of these inns no one seems
to know. It is the old Smith Tavern at
Baymond Village, Maine. Quaint and
sweet and prim, it is a wayside inn to-day
just as it was long before' the- Bevolution,
and inst as it stood, when for eitrht years,
'while "Nat Hathorn" lived at lovely, idyl-
no uingiey's, tne numan youth that ne was
daily prowled about the old tavern awaiting
the arrival ot the Portland stage, and then,
on the box with gaunt old Eliakim Max
field, the driver, with stage horn awoke the
echoes through the murmnring pines over
the quiet and shadowy road all the way (o
Badaux's Mill. '
Innumerable poems, comedies, tragedies
and romances could be written of the ancient
hostelries of Boston. In these and all other
New England inns of the pre-Bepublic era
the habitues were no less than gentlemen
who moved about in their bag-wigs, cocked
hats and small swords, such as we occasion
ally get a glimpse of nowadays in good old
English comedy.
THE GREEN DRAGON.
The most noted of them all was the Green
Dragon, in Union street. Probably the an
cient Marlboro was the most famous coach
ing station and staging headquarters. It was
a vast house with lofty and spacious rooms,
with wondrous balusters, wainscotting and
French oval mirrors, and a huge yard with
vasty depths of stables behind. Then there
was Cromwell's Head Tavern, on School
street, near "Washington, dating back to 1751,
where Lieutenant Colonel George Washing
ton lodged in 17BC when on a mission to
Governor Shirley. Of a later time was the
old "Ben Franklin" in Morton Place, with
its famous English Boniface, Thomas Mor
gan, where Couidock, Junius Brutus Booth,
the younger, John Brougham and Daven-
t"iuiUiiiiu nucrc various legal ana lit
erary lights knew their happiest hours in
Boston. There is still standing, I believe,
in Corn court, another noted old-time hos
telry, on whose site it is said the first house
of enteitainnient ever built in Boston once
stood. In its later delapidated days it has
been called ihe Hancock House. But little
over 100 years ago it wa3 known as the
Brasier Inn. In 1793 it housed for quite a
period the most brilliant and unscrupulous
intellectual rake Europe ever produced.
That one was Talleyrand. It was in the
Brasier Inn that he conjured those epistles
of diplomatio flattery which finally gave
him privilege to return to France and to his
Blimily dark career of intrigue and Mephis
tophelian triumph.
CHANCE FOR A NOVELIST,
Delicious indeed would be that well-told
tale which would construct a vigorous
American novel around any one of those
extinct old Boston hostelries of the colonial
and Bevolutionary periods, "The Blue
Anchor," the "Ship Tavern," or "Noah's
Ark," "The Lion," the "Lamb Tavern,"
which was the original of the old Adams
House of the present day, "The White
Horse," "The Golden Candlestick." "The
Elephant Tavern," "The Star Tavern,"
"The Key," "The Bunch of Grapes," or
even at the "Bestorator," opened in 1793 by
the famous French cook, Jean Bapiiste
Julieo, who originated the now universally
noted JuITerine soup. Then thereTwefe the
equally famous provincial inns, like the
old Wolfe Tavern of Newburyport, whose
olden sign now creaks in front of its
modern successor, the Merrimac House;
the ancient hostelry at lovely Bidge
field, Connecticut, in whose worm-eaten
sides the celebrated cannon ball is still Im
bedded, a savaee relic of the fight with the
British troops that day in theBevolntionary
War when General Wooster fell; on the
road from Springfield to Boston the Five
Mile House, the Ten Mile House, the old
Sedgwick at Shearer's corner, and that nest
of rest, the old Frink Tavern at Palmertown
still standing, where the redoubtable cook
"Betty" Hatch became as tamous for her
tempting and inimitable food as ever did
Jullen in Boston; the old Eagle Coffee
House, of Concord, N. H., where tEe annual
stage drivers' bails were the events of
Northern New England, and the still more
ancient Columbian Hotel of the same place,
where was born United States Senator
William E. Chandler, whose father was
once the Columbian s landlord.
WHERE HISTORY -WAS MADE.
But there was a host of hem. There
were hundreds upon hundreds of city hostel
ries and wayside inns in which much ot the
history of our country was formulated, and
whose olden guests and activities nursed
the later grand development of hall a conti
nent Looking much backward is not good; and
our later-day strifes and lives present in
finite excellence above those of tne dim old
days. But what old England was in mother
hood to New England, the latter has been
to all our fair land; and it is a sweet and
kindly thing to hold with prizing to the
memory mosses of these quaint old enter
tainment manses of the New England city
street and leafy country road.
Edgar L. Wakeman.
A MIMiESOTA SENSATION.
Two
rromlnent Citizens Arrested for Im
proper Use of tho Mali.
St. Paul, September 13. The little town
of Kasson, Dodge county, was thrown into a
state of wild excitement yesterday over the
arrest of August F. Anderson and H. D.
Austin, two of its most prominent citizens.
The arrest was made by Deputy Marshal
"Jack" Campbell, who brought the'prison
crs to St. Paul. The charge against Messrs.
Anderson and Austin is violation of the
postal laws by sending improper letters
through the mails.
For some time past a number of highly
respected ladies and gentlemen in Kassou
have been receiving anonymous letters
through the mail. These letters attacked
the characters of the pjrties addressed. It
is said that Austin has admitted that he
wrote some of the letters, and strong evi
dence against Anderson has been brought
to light.
ONE MAL EFFORT.
Two Camp Meetings to be Held to Ualse
Aloncy far Flemon'n Defense.
There is to be a last attempt to raise money
sufficient to pay for Flemon's defense. Two
big camp meetings are to be held for this
purpose, one to-morrow, the other on the
22d instant The locality of the meetings
will be McKee's Grove and Wilkinsburg.
Bev. Cresar A. Taylor, who lately delivered
a lecture on racial characteristics in Alle
gheny, will deliver next Sundayasomewhat
original discourse on "Death in the Pot."
The oration is said to forcibly recall itider
Haggard.
Bev. E. F. Flemon himself will preach,
and Bt. Bev. S. T. Jones, Bishop of the A.
M.'E. Church, will also treat the audience
to a discourse. Bevs. I. Holliday and C.
W. Clinton, as well as the far-famed Broad
ax Smith, will likewise take part in the ex
ercises. The committee expect to clear a
good deal of gate money.
Dissolved Partnership.
The firm of Howard & Long, city con
tractors, dissolved partnership yesterday,
and the latter assigned over all interest in
city contracts to his late partner at the Con
troller's office yesterday afternoon.
dUEEXS IN EXILE. Ze?ecZZ
teillintercst all readers of Tub Dispatch to
morrow Willi an article under Jhu head. t, ,
ALL ABOUT MARRYING
Should Local Preachers he Granted
the Sacred Authority?
PRIMITIVE DOMINIES DISCUSS IT.
No Drinking or the Sale of Intoxicants
Will la Permitted.
THE ARTICLES OP FAITH PRESENTED
Tho. consideration of the rules of disci
pline was continued at the General Confer
ence of the Primitive Methodists in the"
Holmes Street Church yesterday.
The most important subject that came up
was a rule allowing local preachers to
marry people, They have never had this
power, and the rule was -opposed by
many members of th conference. Bev.
Bateman thought it sacrilegious to say that
a man who has been called to the ministry
hall not have the power to perform all of
the ministerial functions as given in the
New Testament. Bev. McGreaham thought
that such a rule, if adopted, would destroy
the bond of the ministry ordination.
Before the discussion on the subject be
came heated it was referred to a committee,
composed of Bevs. Bateman, Humphries
and McGreaham, for modification:
me time of the afternoon session was
taken up by the consideration of the rules
governing missionary regulations. No im
portant changes were made from the rules
now iu force.
The principal points passed upon and
adopted thus far by the conference are as fol
lows:First. ThePrimitive Methodist Church
is a community of Protestant Christians
united for mutual help in the perfection of
Christian character; for promoting vital
Christianity in the earth and aiding in ex
tending the kingdom of Christ throughout
the world.
THE BIBLE AS A RULE OF FAITH.
Second We take the Bible as the only
true rule of faith and practice, as being the
inspired word of God, and hold its declara
tions final, and that it teaches the following
doctrines: The existence of a true God, viz:
Father, Son and Holy Ghost; the divinity
of Jesus Christ; the holiness of Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden; the fall of man;
the redemption of the race by our Lord
Jesus Christ; the necessity of repentance, in
cluding godly sorrow for sin and reforma
tion of life; the sanctification by faith of all
who repent; regeneration witnessed by the
Holy Spirit; sanctification by the Holy
Spirit producing holiness of heart and life;
the resurrection of the dead, and conscious
future existence of all men; the general
judgment and eternal rewards and punish
ments. All men have equal rights to pri
vate judgment in matters of religion, but no
one is allowed to teach or hold doctrines in
our church contrary to those above named.
Ithas been determined to subject the
ministers at each annual conference to an
examination of character, religious teach
ing, mental and physical capacity and the
general success of his work.
AQAINSXCHE USE,OF LIQUORS.
TheruieF'governing members of the
church were amended so as to prohibit the
use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage, as
well as the bnying, selling or leasing nron-
erty for the sale of intoxicants, or indorsing
applicants for license.
The following resolution was adopted: Be
lieving, as we do, that growth in grace is greatly
promoted by attendance on class, we earnestly
and affectionately request our members to at
tend as often as possible.
The powers of the annnal conferences were
restricted to administrative functions, and
their legislative powers were transferred to
the General Conference.
The basis of representation to the annual
conferences was made one lay delegate for
each station having 100 members orless, and
for each additional 100 or half thereof one
additional delegate.
The conference will adjourn at noon to
dajr and the delegates will spend the re
mainder of the day in a steamboat ride and
a visit to the Exposition.
The members of the Conference will occu
py the following pulpits to-morrow:
St. Paul's M. E. Church, Liberty avenue and
Cedar street, morning, Kev. A. Humphries, of
Tamaqua; evening, Kev. E. Humphries, of
Brooklyn, Manager of the Primitive Methodist
Publishing House and associate editor of the
Mecord and Messenger.
Mlllvale M. E. Church, morning. Bey. E.
Humphries; evening, Bev. S. B. Uhubb, of
Wilkesbarre.
Fortieth Street M. E. Church, evening, Bev.
J. Ralph, of Plattosville. Wis.
AlcCandlcss Street M. E. Church, moraine,
F. 11. Bateman, of Lowell, Mass.: evenlne. Rev.
J. Hardcastle, of Dodgeville, Wis.
Forty-third Street Presbyterian Church,
morning, Bev. H. J. C. Bond, of Mineral Point,
Wis., associate editor of the Record and Mes
senger; evening, Bev. J. A. Mcareaham. M.A..
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
CONCESSIONS GRANTED.
A New Schedule Wns Givcu tho Men on the
Citizens' Traction Itoad.
The employes of the Citizens' Traction
Company did not attain the object they re
cently agitated, viz.: The payment of extra
money for extra trips, but they nevertheless
gained an important concession frem the
company.
Sinco the road was put in operation the
running schedule has been so constructed
that many of the men were unable to get in
more than one or two trips per diem, the re
sulting compensation being very small, as a
matter of course. This matter was
the burden of the song they recently
sang, and the men held their
position against an uneven schednle with
great tenacity. At one time i strike was
threatened, but wiser heads among the
workmen represented that there are around
and about Pittsburg enough gnpmen to min
six cable lines. A great number of changes
have taken effect within a year or so, and
the ex-gripmen would be only too happy to
find places created for them by a strike; so
none took place.
The company, however, met the men half
way and obviated further trouble br adopt
ing the same schedule as that used by the
Fifth Avenue Traction Company. The new
schedule has been in operation for several
days, and has given satisfaction all the way
around.
NOTHING DONE IET. '
Attorney Snlllvnn Is Looking Into George
Jones' Case.
, Attorney Charles A. Sullivan, who has
the case of George Jones, the man who
claims to have been defrauded out of some
money by his relatives, stated yesterday
that, as yet, he has done nothing in the
case. Mr. Sullivan states that he has not
yet had time to properly investigate the
case, but that he will look into the matter,
and by next week be able to determine just
what steps to take.
Huntingdon to Lrctnre.
An effort is being made by the Window
Glassworfcers'Association to have Bev. J.O.
S. Huntingdon, of New York, the well
known labor speaker, come to this city and
deliver a lecture to the wage workers of
this vicinity. '
SPORTSMAN'S SPOIL.
In an tnier-
estinti errttalm
in to-morrovfs Dispatch M. C. Williams telts
noweathered and furred trophies are pre-
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As soon as Mary Armstrong reached the
hospital, the trooper who had accompanied
her took her to tho surgeon's quarters. The
officer, on hearing that a lady wished to
speak to him, at once came out.
"I am Mary Armstrong," the girl said as
she slipped down Irom the'horse. "I think
my father is here, wounded. He came Up
in the wagons the day before yesterday, I
believe."
"Oh, yes, he is here, Miss Armstrong. I
had him put in one of the officers' wards
that is otherwise empty at present.'
"How is he, doctor?" ..
"Well, I am sorry to say that just at pres
ent he Is very ill. The wounds are not, I
hope, likely to prove fatal, though undoubt
edly they are very serious; bat he is in a
state of high fever in fact, he is delirious,
principally, I think, owing to his anxiety
about you, at least so I- gathered from the
officer who brought him in, for he was
already delirious when he arrived here."
"I can go tp him, I hope?"
"Certainly you can, Miss Armstrong.
Your presence is likely to soothe him. The
ward will be entirely at your disposal. I
congratulate you most heartily upon get
ting out of the hands of the Kaffirs. Mr.
Nolan told us of the gallant attempt which
a sergeant of the Cape Mounted Rifles was
going to make to rescue you, but I don't
think that anyone thought he had the
shadow of a chance o! success."
"He succeeded, Doctor, as you see; but he
was wounded to-day just as we were insight
nf the town. They are bringing him here.
Will you kindly let me know when he
comes in and how he is?"
"I will let you know at once, Miss Arm
strong; and now I will take you to your
father."
One of the hospital orderlies was standing
by the bedside of Mr. Armstrong as his
daughter and the surgeon entered. The pa
tient was talking loudly.
"1 tell you I will go." They have carried
off Mary. I saw them do it and could not
help her, but I will go now."
MISS ARMSTRONG'S VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL.
Mary walked to the bedside and bent
down and kissed her father.
"I am here, father, by your side. I have
got away from them, and here I am to nurse
you."
The patient ceased talking and a quieter
expression came over his face. Mary took
his hand in hers and quietly stroked it.
"That's right, Mary."he murmured; "are
the bars of tne cattle kraal up? See that
all the shutters are closed, we cannot be too
careful, you know."
"I will see to it all. father." she said.
cbeerlully; "now try to go to sleep."
A few more words passed from the
wounded man's lips, and then he lay quiet
with closed eyes.,
"Ihat is excellent, Miss Armstrong," the
surgeon said; "the consciousness that you
are with him has, you see, soothed him at
once. If he moves, get him to drink: a little
of this lemonade, and I will send you in
some medicine for him shortly."
"How are the wounds, doctor?"
'Oh, I think the wounds will do " the
surgeon replied; "so tar as I can tell, the
assegai has just missed the top of the lung
by a hair's breadth. Two inches lower
and it would have been fatal. As for the
wounds iu the legs, I don't anticipate much
trouble with them. They have missed both
bones and arteries, and are really nothing
but flesh wounds, and after the active,
healthy life your lather has been living, I
do not think we need be uneasy about
them."
In half an hour the surgeon looked in
again.
"Sergeant Blunt has arrived," he said.
"Yon can set your mind at ease about him;
it is a nasty gasb, but of no real importance
whatever. I have drawn the edges together
and sewn them up; he is quite in good
spirits, and laughed and said that a wound
in the back: could scarcely be called an
honorable scar. I can assure you that in
ten days or so he will be about again."
"Would you mind telling him," Mary
asked, "that I would come to see him at
once but my father is holding my hand so
tight thatM could not draw it away without
rousing him?"
"I will tell him," the surgeon said. "Ob,
here is the orderly with your medicine as
well as your father's.''
The orderly broucht in a tray with a bowl
of beef tea and a glass of wine. "You will
take both these, if you please, Miss Arm
strong, and I will have the otller bed placed
by the side of your father, so that yon can
lie down with him holding your hand.
You are looking terribly pale and tired, and
I do not want you on my hands too."
The tray was placed upon the table with
in Mary's reach, and the surgeon stood by
and saw that she drank the wine and beef
tea. He and the orderly then moved the
other couch to the side of Mr. Armstrong's
bed, and arranged it so that Mary could
lie down with her hand still in her father's.
"Now," he said, "I recommend you to go
off to sleep soon. I am happy to say that
your father is sleeping naturally, and it
may be hours before he wakes. When he
does so, be will be sure to move and wake
yon, aud the sight of you will, if he is sen
sible, as I expect he will be, go a long way
toward his cure."
Captain Twentyman, when he returned in
the afternoon from a reconnaisance that he
had been making with a portion oi the
troops, called at once to see Bonald, but was
told that he was sound asleep, and so left
word that he would come again in the morn
ing. The news of Sergeant Blunt desperate
attempt to rescue three white' womeu who
had been carried off by the Kaffirs, had.
when reported by Lieutenant Nolan,, been
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.Every one admitted that it was abroach of
discipline thus to leave the party of which
he was in command when Upon special
service, but uo one seemed to have seriously
blamed him for this. Admiration for the
daring action and regret for the lose of so
brave a soldier, for none thought there was
the slightest chance of ever seeing" him
Again, overpowered all other feelings. Mr.
Nolan stated that the sergeant bad
told him that one of the theree
women was the daughter of the
wounded man he had brought in with
him, and that he had known her and her
father before, and it was generally agreed
that there must have been something
more than mere acquaintance in the case to
induce the Sergeant to undertake tncTi a des
perate enterprise. Great interest was there
fore excited when upon the return of Lien
tenant Daniels' party it became known that
he had fallen in with Sergeant Blunt and a
young lady, and that the Sergeant was se
verely wounded. All sorts of questions were
asked the Lieutenant
"Ten to one she's pretty, Daniels," a
young subaltern said.
"She is pretty, Mellor; as pretty a girl as
Xhave seen in the colony, though, of course,
she is looking utterly worn out, and no won
der. But she's more than pretty she i a
lady if ever I saw one."
"He is a gentleman," another officer, who
had just come up, said. "I have just been
talking to Nolan, and he tells me that Ser
geant Blunt spoke of her as a lady, and said
that her father had served in the army and
fought as a young ensign at Waterloo.
"Mr. Armstrong is a gentleman," Lieu
tenant Daniels said." He had a farm on the
Kabousie river, that is where Blnnt got to
know him. He had the reputation of being
a wealthy man. Blunt was in command of
a party who came up and saved them when
they were attacked by the Kaffirs on Christ
mas day. So this is the second time he has
rescued the young lady."
"I hope Mr. Armstrong isn't going to be
a stern father and spoil the whole romance
of the business," yonng Mellor laughed.
"One of your troopers, Daniels, however
brave a fellow, can hardly be considered as
a good match for an heiress."
"Blunt is as much a gentleman as I am,"
Lieutenant Daniels said quietly. "I know
nothing whatever of his history or what his
real name is, for I expect that Blunt Is only
a nom de guerre, but I do know that he is a
gentleman, and I am sure that he has served '
as an officer. More than that I do not want
to know, unless he chooses to tell me him
self. I snppose he got into some scrape or
other at home; but I wouldn't mind making
a heavy bet that, whatever it was, it was
nothing dishonorable."
"But, how did he get her away from the
Kaffirs? It seems almost an impossibility.
I asked the head man of the Fingoes, who
was with him," the Lieutenant said, "but he
had already got three parts drunk, so I did
not get much out of him; but as far as I
could make out, they carried her off from
Macomo's kraal in the heart of the Ama
tolas." "Oh, come now, that seems altogether
absurd," two or three of the officers standing
round said, and Mellor laughed, "Orpheus
going down to fetch Eurydice back from
Hades had an easy task of it in compari
son." "I am glad to see -that yon have not for
gotten yonr classical learning, Mellor," one
of the older officers said; "but certainly ot
the two I would rather undertake the task
of Orpheus, who was pretty decently
treated after all, than go to Macomo's
kraal to fetch back a lady love. Well, I
suppose we shall hear about it to-morrow,
but I can hardly believe this story to be
true. The natives are such liars that
there's no believing what they say."
The next morning, alter breakfast,
Captain Twentyman and Lieutenant Dan
iels walked across to the Hospital. They
first saw the surgeon.
"Well, doctor, how is my seTgeant?"
"On the high way to recovery," the sur
geon said, cheeriully. "Of course, the
wonnd will he a fortnight, perhaps three
weeks, before it is healed up sufficiently for
him to return to duty, but otherwise theitfu
nothing the matter with him. A long
night's rest nas pulled him ronnd completely.
He is a little weak from loss of blood: but
there is no harm in that. There Is, I think, no
fear whatever of fever or other complications.
It is simply a question of the wound hoallng
up."
"And the colonist Armstrong his name Is, I
think, whose daughter was carried away how
Is ho going on?"
"Much better. "Hfs daughter's presence at
once calmed his delirium, and this morning,
when be woke after a good night's sleeo, he was
conscious, and will now, I think, do well. He
is very weak, but that does not matter, and he
is perfectly content, lviuc there holding ht
daughter's hand. He has asked no questions
as to bow she got back again, and, ot course, I
have told her not to allude to the Bubject, and
to check him at once If he does. Tho poor girl
looks all the better for her night's rest. She
was a wan-looking creature when she arrived
yesterday morning, but Is 60 per cent better
already, and with another day or two's rest,
and the comfort of seeing her father going on
well, sho will soon get her color and tone back
again."
-I snppose wo can go up and see Blunt, and
hear about his adventures."
-Oh, yes, talking will do him no harm. I
willcouic with you, fori was too busy this
morning, when I went my rounds, to have any
conversation with him exceptas to his wound."
'My inquiries are partly personal and partly
official." Captain Twentyman said. "-Colonel
Somerset asked me this mornmc to see Blnnt,
and gather any Information as to the Kaffirs'
Sositionsthat might be useful. I went jester
ay evening to question the Fingo head man
who went with him, hat he and all his men
were as drnnk as pigs. I hear that when they
first arrived they said they had carried the girl
off from Macomo's kraal, but of course thera
must be some mistake; they never could have
ventured into tho heart of the Amatolas and
come out alive."
The three ufilcers proceeded together to the
ward In which Ronald was lying.
"WelL sergeant, how do jon feel yourself f
Captain Twentyman arted.
"Oh. I am all right, sir," Bonald answered,
cheerfully. "My back smarts a bit, -of euarsa
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