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THE TBUST DEBATE.
The debate on Senator Sherman's bill
against trusts is one of the leading features
of this session. The discussion last Friday
was utilized by Senator Vest to mate an
utterly extraneous diversion into the tariff
dispnte. Yesterday's debate stuck a little
closer to the text.
Senator Sherman shows a sincere and
laudable desire to have Congress take such
action against the combinations as is in its
power, and while his measure has been
somewhat emasculated in deference to the
wishes of other Senators, it has a standing
as the bill which is most likely to pass.
Senator Beagan proposes a measure more
closely following the constitutional division
of the powers of the Federal and State legis
latures; while Senator Ingalls comes in with
an amendment which entirely diverts the
real purpose of the original bill by convert
ing it into a measure to tax deals in futures
nnd options.
The opponents of legislation against the
trusts resort to the untruthful and shallow
argument that it will break up the Farmers'
Alliances and Knights of Labor, and to as
sertions that the legislation would fail if
passed, on account ot their own rather hazy
constitutional objections. Their objection,
if it may be dignified by that name, is more
correct than the reason they urge. The
probability is that such legislation would
be nullified just as the present common-law
prohibition of trusts is, tor lack of enforce
ment It is a question whether that ab
solves Congress from its dnty of passing tbe
necessary legislation; but if it does it cer
tainly points out the necessity of stern
measures to secure that the laws shall be
enforced against great masses of capital, as
against humble and uninfiuential cKizens.
It will be interesting to wait and see
whethertbe Senate will succeed in muddling
this subject so as to prevent legislation. No
doubt tbe strongest influences can be
brought to bear in the Senate to secure that
end.
DAHGEE DOWN THE SIVEE.
The down-river towns seem fated to mis
fortune from floods this year. Already one
flood, which threatened danger at Cincinna
ti and Louisville, has passed on, burst the
levees on the lower Mississippi and over
flowed a vast extent of territory, in Arkan
sas and Louisiana. Now the high water of
the past three days which was within ordi
nary limits here, is to be added to a 54
leet river at Cincinnati; while at Louisville
the rise has already encroached on the busi
ness parts of the city. "With the high water
from Pennsylvania and "West Virginia
added to this flood it hardly is possible that
those cities and the lesser towns down the
river can escape another overwhelming in
undation. Pittsburg has so far been much
more fortunate than its down-river neigh
bors in escaping disastrous floods. If the
authorities succeed in arresting encroach
ments on the river banks here, that desira
ble immunity may be preserved.
AN ILLUSTRATION OF KOBLLIIY.
A beautiful illustration of the results of
marrying titles is presented by the arrest of
the Count di Montercoli in Philadelphia
yesterday. The international alliance, which
only a short time azo excited Pittsburg, has
developed to the point where this specimen
of the nobility engaged in tbe distribution
of a circular on the streets of Philadelphia
attacking the reputation of his wife.
It is not unsatisfactory to learn that this
operation of the principle of noblesse oblige
was ruthlessly broken up by the police, who
lodged his lordship in jail on a charge of
disturbing the peace. But that satisfaction
is allayed by the reflection that this exam
ple, added to the warnings furnished by the
case of the despicable Mandeville and the
bargaining Prince Murat, will have little
effect.
The feminine fools will go on marrying
titles under the impression that they are
gaining distinction; and the male idiots will
continue to treat the aristocratic flunkeys
under the delusion that they are drinking
with the lords themselves.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
The latest case of conscience money is re
ported from the East, where, although the
influence which impels men to repair deeds
ot dishonesty was rather leisurely in action,
it brought about its result after the fulness
of time. It is that of a man and woman
who failed to pay their fare on a railroad
train fifteen years ago. because the conduc
tor failed to ask it of them. The fare was
GO cents; but after carrying the burden on
their consciences for a decade and a half,
they could not stand it longer and forwarded
the sum, with the interest as they computed
it, amounting to SI Si.
The New Tork Tribune rightly says that
"there is no food lor pessimism and no sup
port for the doctrine of total depravity in
this incident" except in its infreqoency,
and especially in the one-sidedness which is
shown in the restitutions. If everyone who
omits to call the attention of a conductor to
the fact that they have not paid their
fare should restore the money; with
interest, after many years, it would
produce an increased demand for
the sale of ready reckoners. But that
aspect of the case is not so forcible as tbe
fact that what restitutions are made always
come from the popular side. The people
who get the better of corporations and the
Government treasury in small amounts
Eometintes make restitution; but the only
instance of restitution of the results of whole
sale dishonesty, was that famous coup of
Jay Gould's, in which he made more money
in speculating on his restitution than the
value of the property he gave up.
It is this phase of the question that we
would urge upon our corporate managers.
The fact that people send back small sums
as restitution shows that the principle of
honesty is not extinct. But if some of the
great operations by which millions have
been made dishonestly or illegally, should
produce proportionate cases of restitution,
the example would be more impressive. If
some one who has accrued millions by man
ipulations of watered stocks, or the enforce
ment of conspiracies against competition,
should restore that wealth to the public it
would show that conscience is not wholly
confined tn the people.
Let us hope that the examples of small
restitutions may spread so as to produce
great ones. It is well to be hopeful, even
where there is little ground for hope.
THE SDPEEME COTJBrs CHANGES.
The decision of the United States Supreme
Court, in the Minnesota railroad cases, marks
the progress which that body is forced to make
apparently in the interest of restricting State
action in the regulation of the railroads. In
the Granger cases this body held that the right
of a State to regulate railroad operations
not only covered traffic within the State,
but transportation originating or termin
ating there, in the absence of Congressional
regulation. In tbe later Illinois case, it
modified its previous ruling so as to exclude
the traffic passing over State lines, from
State regulation, but declared that the
power of the State was absolute over the
traffic wholly within its boundaries. Now it
overrules a State enactment because it con
siders that a law giving a commissioner
power to fix rates without appeal is bad
policy and does not sufficiently guard the
interests of the railroads.
As a question of legislative policy the
objections of the United States tribunal to
the Minnesota enactment may be indorsed;
but as a ground for the assertion of consti
tutional jurisdiction by the United States
courts it is rather remarkable. It is some
what ominous that this steady limitation of
a power of the State which has often been
asserted by that very tribunal, is made in
the interest of tbe corporations. The State
power of regulation, which was originally
declared to be sovereign, is now found to be
only that a State can regulate its railroads
provided its regulation does not take a form
which, in the opinion of the United States
Court, imposes such hardship on these
creatures of the State, as to amount to con
fiscation. It may be the misfortune of the Supreme
Court that it has never had the opportunity
to-denounce tbe effect of the nse of the sov
ereign power of the States, in creating rail
roads which when operated without regula
tion have often worked the confiscation of
the property of private citizens.
AX INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE.
The universal testimony, both of adminis
tration organs and of the opposition, is that
tbe new postal cards are about the poorest
specimens of their class ever furnished to
the Government. It only the Democratic
papers made the charge it might be re
garded as inspired by partisan prejudice.
But when it is supported by so steady a
Republican organ as the New York Press
with a comparison of the cards to blotting
paper, there is not much room for doubt
that the work is decidedly inferior.
It is a cogent fact that the contract for
the postal cards was awarded to a well
known New York politician, and there does
not seem to be much concealment about the
former fact that it was given as a reward
for political services. Of course, in that
case, the poor quality of the postal cards is
inevitable. It Mr. Daggett should give the
full worth ot the money that he gets for
his cards, in the quality of the cards, he
could not obtain any profit for his political
services. He would just get the ordinary
profit that the non-political contractor does,
and that any industrious and intelligent
man can make in business. That would
make tbe business of politics wholly un
profitable and sadly mar the working qual
ity of party machines.
But the moral is not the less obvious for
these controlling considerations. When
Government work is awarded as a return
for political services, the quality of the
work done for the people is certain to suffer.
The chief of the Chinook Indians in
Vancouver, recently gave a "potlatch," or In
dian feast, at nhich it is the custom to distri
bute gifts. The chief, who bears the attractive
name of Snakes, declared that he was one big
chief and Queen Victoria -was another, and
ordered $100 sent to his colleague of Balmoral.
The example will doubtless impress upon our
political chiefs the propriety of turning the
feasts of political clubs into potlatches, at
which tho other fellows shall contribute tbe
Gifts.
The proposition for a conference of the
monarebs in the Triple Alliance is a practical
invitation to 'William II, to assnre bis allies
that be is not going to throw them overboard.
Perhaps the young Emperor will decline to
recognize any complimentary phases in such
an invitation.
"With the petroleum market below 85c
yesterday, it seems to be demonstrated that the
time when it is for the interest of the Standard
to squeeze outsido refineries by putting up tbe
prico of crude is over for the present.
There hardly seems to be an industry in
which the demand for an eight-hour day -would
cause less dispnte than in that of coal mining.
The bulk of the work being paid for by the
bushel or ton, the miners can easily get shorter
or longer hours as they choose. But tbe ques
tion will be whether the men will themselves
agree to the reduction of their earning". There
is an Impression that tbe miners do not get any
too large earnings from ten hours' work.
The pleasantest way to foster Guberna
torial booms, both in this city and New York,
seems to be that of giving banquets for them.
But it is not certain that it is tbe surest method
to reach the persimmon. The time has not yet
arrived when feast-givers can eat their way
into office.
The way in which the Filth Avenue
Traction road is putting on new trains of cable
cars to meet its traffic indicates that it can
contemplate the prospect of competition with
out feeling much alarmed over it.
The country will be shocked and sur
prised to hear the report that P. T. Barnum
has been refused permission to erect the tents
for his big show within the limits of New York
City. It is to be hoped that the assertion will
be corrected. Otherwise the politicians of
New York will set themselves down as having
lost all touch with tbe great American institu
tions that have commanded the admiration of
the effete monarchies.
Now it is stated positively that the Penn
sylvania Railroad will equip all its passenger
cars for steam beating by next winter. The
satisfactory nature of this information would
be more unalloyed if a similar announcement
bad not been made about a year ago this time
Sixce they are having so much trouble
in finding a place to land immigrants in New
York, why not solve the difficulty by not land
ing any immigrants at allT
The spectacle of an Alderman, who is
under conv.ction for the abuse of his judicial
Dowers, continuing bis functions, was embel
lished yesterday, by a physician's certificate,
that tbe same Alderman is too sick to testify
before the License Court, sworn to before tbe
Alderman himself. It is bard to see bow this
luminary of local justice could assume any
more characters unless be bad been bis own
physician.
The example of Tarenlum appears to
suggest to nearly every present or prospective
town in Western Pennsylvania that it would
be a nice thing to be a county seat. The public
surveyor who can lay out counties for every
thriving town, will be the coming man.
Let us hope that the pension business
will stop short of civing a pension to everyone
who stayed away from tho war.
Mr. Ives' testimony as to the large sums
of money which he paid for special privileges
in Ludlow street jail opens up an interesting
question for the public to consider when tho
present investigation is concluded. After tbe
punishment of official rascals is secured, it
would be interesting to inquire bow bankrupt
prisoners are able to pay prices for living that
uould reduce tbe average honest man to pen
ury. A Cleveland Police Judge has ruled
that Sunday shaving is a work of necessity.
Yet Pittsburg has got along without it for
several years, and has not jet experienced any
very deleterious consequences from its absence.
THE old proverb may be varied so as to
declare that if good New Yorkers do not die,
tbey can go to Chicago in ItSS.
That wind storm in South Carolina came
just in time to permit Wiggins to claim it as a
verification for bis prediction of a storm tbat
was to sweep the whole Atlantic coast. It is
bad weather for Wiggins when be cannot find a
storm in some section of the world to verify
his predictions for another section.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Lawben ck Barrett is at Nice. He writes
to frieuds in this country that he is greatly im
proved in health.
The Sultan of Turkey has been advised by
bis physicians to take more exercise. He is
growing very fleshy.
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts will pay
$12,500 for the use of Lord Spencer's London
bouse during the season.
Helex Allinqiiaji, widow of William Al
lingbam, the poet, has received a great compli
ment. She is the first of her sex to be elected
a member of the English Boyal Society of
Painters in Water Colors.
All Fiance is laughing over the following
announcement that lately appeared in one of
tbe journals: "il. Ernst Zola, inventor of tbe
spring handcuffs, notifies his customers tbat
he has nothing in common with his namesake,
Emil Zola, writer."
Not many men can boast of having had tbreo
Emperors as godfathers for three of their sons.
There is a brawny smith in the little town of
Bradenburg who has ten sons. Emperor Will
iam L was godlather to the seventh boy. Em
peror Frederick to his eighth, and the present
Emperor to his ninth.
J. White is tbe name of the most successful
and enthusiastic sportsman in Australia. He
owns a large number ot magnificent race
horses. For the first time in history he is going
to try to carry ofi the blue ribbon of the
English turf with Australian blood. He has
two horses in England, Kirkham and Narellan,
in training for the Derby.
TlIE Queen of England is about to leavo
Windsor for Aix-les-Bains, where she will re
main three weeks. Her carriages horses, ser
vants, furniture, heavy baggage and even her
little chaise and favorito donkey have already
arrived at tbe famous French watering place.
She will stay at the Villa Mottet, which has
been re-christened the Villa Victoria, and it
has been put in readiness for her arrival.
A MURDERED WOMAN'S GHOST.
Some Denizens of Rending Now Believe in
In the Snprrnutural.
ISPEC1AL TELEGRAM TO TOE DISPATCn.l
Reading, Pa., March 24. A month ago
Henry Lebo, of this city, murdered his wife
and then committed suicide. Since then the
honse where the affair took place has been the
scene of what many believe to be supernatural
manifestations. Mrs. William Ruppert, a
reputable woman residing there, is one of
many who profess to have seen tbe apparition.
Sbo said: "I was in bed when I was awakened
by loud groans. I thoncht that some of my
sons were sick. 1 investigated and found tbat
they were sound asleep. Tbe groans continued
and I looked out of the window and there was a
sight that froze my blood. I looked down on
tbe very spot where Lebo shot bis wife. There
truly I saw the figure of a headless woman, and
I believe tbat it was a visitation from the other
world."
A dozen people corroborate Mrs. Rnppert's
story of tbe ghost. Lebo was burled in Alsace
Church cemetery on the outskirts of this city,
while his murdered -wife is interred 13 miles
away. The sexton of Alsace cemetery tells a
weird story. He says that almost every night
he hears the shrill cries of a woman's voice
crying: "Oh Harry, Oh Harry." Some of the
superstitious lot holders in Alsace cemetery
want Lebo's body removed.
An Inexpert nnd Luckless Gambler.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Prince Hatzfeldt, who not long ago married
tbe daughter of an American millionaire, seems
to have developed into one of the most inexpett
and luckless gamblers in all Paris. He takes
his reverses calmly, however, consoling himself
possibly with the reflection that it is some other
fellow's money tbat he is losing.
A FINE COUNTERFEIT DIME.
It Is of tbe Vintage of lbS7, nnd Calculated
lo Deceive.
ISFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TBI DISPATCH.".
New York, March 24. There is a new coun
terfeit ten cent piece In circulation which so
closely resembles tbe genuine com that it can
be easily passed off upon the unsuspecting. It
differs from the usual counterfeit in that a
genuine silver plating covers tho Oerman sil
ver which forms the body of the coin. This
gives it a "ring" very nearly like that of cood
money, and also does away with the greasy feel
ing by which most counterfeits can be detected.
The coin bears the date of 1SS7.
Special Officer J. P. Brooks, of the Secret
Service Bureau, says ho thinks it is struck upon
a screw press and milled afterward, while tbe
genuine coin is milled at the same time that it
is struck. Tbe milling Is not so deep upon the
counterfeit and tbe edges are much sharper
than tbose of a good ten-cent piece. It is
thought tbat there are not very many of the
spurious coins in circulation, as the secret ser
vice men only learned of their existence three
days ago.
Honght a Battlefield.
Winchester, Va., March 24. The Grand
Army of the Republic to-day bought a tract of
land comprising the Cedar Creek battle ground.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Henrr Williams.
Henry Williams died at his home in the borough
of Bellevne. Mr. Williams was born in Baltimore
in the year 1812, but removed to Allegheny at the
age ot 23. He was engaged In the grocery busi
ness on Kobinson street. In the First ward, Alle
gheny, for a score of years, and was very
popular. In 1667 be removed to Bellevue
borough, where be continued his mercantile
pursuits, until a couple of years since, when fall
ing health compelled him to relinquish business.
He has been for over 50 years a member of the
Methodist l'rotestant Church, holding always an
official position. He was a Sabbath school super
intendent until physically disabled, and was
known and admired by the young people as one of
their best friends.
Mrs. fllnssle C. Blair.
Mrs. Maggie C. Blair, for a long time a copyist
in the Recorder's office, died Sunday evening at
the home of her parent's at Wllmerdlng. Mrs.
Blair resigned her place in the Recorder's office
about a rear ago, owing to railing health. She
was an actic worker In the nlghth U. 1". Church,
a teacher in the Sabbath school Tor nine years,
and was identified with a number of charitable
societies. The funeral services will be held in the
Eighth church this afternoon at 2 o'clock She was
the widow of Oliver P. Blair.
William Yoans.
William Young, head bookkeeper at S. S. Mar
vin & Co.'s factory, died at bis borne on South
Thirteenth street Sunday. He was a son of Hugh
Young, one of the oldest residents of tbe South
side. He bad been suffering for IS months with
consumption, which caused bis death.
lion. J. :. Fnrlovr.
BOSTOX, March 14 The Hon. J. S. Karlow,
l'rtsldcntof the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleve
land Kallroad. died suddenly, at his residence In
Newton, this morning.
Rodriguez Bnez.
Havana, 31arch 21. Rodriguez Baez, Portu
guese Consul here, is dead
THE CRITIC'S REVIEW.
A Firing; Trip Through Europe An Editor's
Visit to Blnrnoy Castle Knrnl becnes
In Erin Slrnnco Stories of Hill nnd
Porest.
tiriiEX that good ship, tho City of Berlin,
making her first Atlantic journey, touched
at Queenstown on the 21th of May, 1875, two
men got off whose trunks were filled with large
blank note-books. They went first to Blarney
Castle, and parted there to pursue different
courses. One visited Naples as the southern
most point and Munich as the easternmost.
The other visiting both Naples and Munich,
pushed on to the Golden Horn, and thence into
many other regions less trodden by summer
tourists.
Whether these two fellow.travelers made
themselves acquainted each with the other wo
know not. Of any such acquaintance there is
no record. We associate the two by reason of
those trunks-full of large blank note-books.
When they reached tho harbor of Now York
again after their extended tours, the blank
note-books were all written up. For these two
sight-seers were of the sort whom Robert Burns
toon pains to point out to his countrymen with
words of warning.
A chlel's amang ye takln' notes
An' faith, he'll prcnt It.
The "it," the reader will remember, was any
possible hole which any neglectful Scotchman
might have in tbe elbow of bis coat. These two
kind obseners, however, were not bent upon
any such ungraciois errand. They wanted to
see as many pleasant things as they could.
They did see a great many pleascnt things, and
a great many interesting places, and best of all
they have taken a great many other people
along with them in the pleasant ana interesting
descriptions which they wrote.
Qne of the two passengers was Dr. Henry M.
Field, whose delightful series of books of
travel, beginning with "From the Lakes of Kil
larney to the Goldon Horn," everybody knows
about. The other was Mr. Francis C. Sessions,
of Columbus, O., Presldentof the Ohio Archajo
loglcal and Historical Society, whose handsome
volume. On the Wing Tlirough Jiurope, lies on
Tne Critic's table. Messrs. Welch, Fracker &
Co., whose publication of Lote's "Through Mo
rocco," we were able to say some commendatory
things a few weeks ago, have their names on the
title pace of Mr. Sessions' book. This is the
third edition, and is set out with quite a num
ber of good pictures by E. W. Deming.
It w ould be manifestly unfair to make a com-
Sanson, in a literary way, between
r. Field's book and Mr. Sessions',
for Dr. Field is a professional literary
man, while Mr. Sessions is a good, practical
and thouchtful American citizen, with a sharp
eye for things worth seeing, and a concise, ser
viceable way of wntingthem up.who evidently
without thought of book-making, is writing let
ters to bis town paper. Dr. Field's books are
naturally better written. But that does not
make Mr. Sessions' lettersat all less interesting
or less worth reading. In fact, this third edi
tion is a fair testimony to tbe enjoyment which
this little book has already given.
It is always of value, however, to notice how
people see and what they see. For the eye sees
what it brings of seeing. What we are we see.
Tbe old story of bow the bishop looked up in
the moon and saw in its markings the twin
spires of a cathedral, while the lovers looked
up and saw two happy young people standing
up to be married, is true in some way every
day. Here are our two travelers at Blarney
nastier wnat oo tney see7
JSJ just here let us bring in still another
witness. Here is another visitor to
Blarney Castle, Killarney. This is Mr. Curtis
Guild, ol the Boston Commercial Bulle
tin, whose Over the Ocean (Lee & Sheppard,
J. R. Weldin tCo.) is just out in a new edi
tion. A parson, an editor and a merchant
stand under the walls and climb the heights of
Blarney Castle what do they see?
Mr. Guild, with whom we will begin, tells us
bow he got to Blarney Castle. He has an edi
tor's eye for tbe things which people really
want to know. He went out, he says, in a
jaunting-car. And a jaunting-car he describes
as being hung on springs, having comfortable
cushions and room for four passengers, the
four sitting back to back and facing the sides.
There is a good road, he tells us smooth, hard
and well kept, with brown, ivy-clad stone walls
on either side.and the River Lee running in and
out along the valley below. He notices the
flowers. and what they are.and tells what birds he
sees. He observes how the miserable, patched
cabins ot tbe peasantry contrast with the
splendid entrances to tbe estates of tbe landed
aristocracy. Blarney Castle be considers a
pretty good specimen of a ruin, having ivy in
side and out, and coming up to one's expecta
tions. Ho gives somo dates and facts about it
out of his guide book. The Blarney stone, he
says, is about two feet below the summit
of tbe tower, and is held in its place by
Iron stanchions. One must lie at full length
and reach over, with a friend holding one's teot,
in order to kiss it. The editor, thinking proba
bly that this came in the line of his business,
performed the difficult feat, took a look at the
surrounding country, gave tho old woman who
keeps the tower a bit of silver, got back into
his jaunting-car and tattled off.
Dr. Field comes next. He is a bit more sen
timental than tbe editor, beginning with a two
line quotation of poetry about tho month of
May.
The corn was springing fresh and green,
The lark sang foud and high.
Ho notices tbe white and greon of the haw
thorn in the hedeerows. The jaunting car he
leaves to the reader's imagination. Blarney
Castle must have been a lordly castle in its days
of pride, he thinks. He regrets the ugly holes
which Cromwell knocked in its sides. He de
lights in tbe ivy. "We all climbed to the top."
ho says, "where bangs in air, fastened by iron
clamps in its place, the famous Blarney stone,
which is said to Impart to whoever kisses it tho
gift of eloquence which will make one success
ful in lovo and in life." He does not venture,
however, to kiss it. Dr. Shaff,who is in the party,
pokes it with bis stick, thinking perhaps to get
some Inspiration from even such a long distant
touch. They descend and find another Blarney
stono lying on the ground which several of tho
party enthusiastically kiss, "not to catch any
mysterious virtue from the stone, but tho fla
vor of tbonsands of fair lips that had kissed it
before." Then the parson goes off into a dis
sertation upon castles and what exceedingly
uncomfortable places they must have been to
live In, and he congratulates himself that one
fortunate individual with whom bo is pretty
well acquainted owns a little cottage among
the Berkshire Hills of New England which has
more comfort in it in a day than any "haughty
baron" passing his existence in "gloomy
grandeur" and "buried in sepulchr.il
gloom," could have in 1)0 years.
And then there is a disconrsive comment
upon the Irish beggars and their blessings,
quoting, among others, this one: "May ye ride
in a fine carriage, and the mud of your wheels
splash the face of your inimies" then with a
quick turn "though I know ye haven't any!"
tvtr. Sessions describes a jaunting-car, ex.
plaining that what we call coaches they
call cars on the other side, and vice versa, and
adding that a jaunting-car would make people
stare if it were driven through the streets of
Columbus. Blarney Castlo is a "grand old
ruin," and is "said to have been originally the
home of the royal McCarthys.'" This fact,
which escaped our other two observers, may,
perhaps, indicate thatMr. Sessions has political
aspirations and is looklnc after Irish votes. The
Blarney stone bangs near tbe top of tho south
ern wall, and "only fools." Mr. Sessions quotes
approvingly, "only fools risk their necks in
trjing to kiss it." Mr. Scs-ions further in
forms us that a bright English girl at the hotel
told him that it would do Just as well to kiss
somebody who had kissed it which she had
not It was a holiday in Blarney, somebody of
high degree having a wedding in his family.
There is a dinner free to all. and music by "the
Dutch band from Cork." Then Mr. Sessions
visits the Cork County Annual Fair, and tells
the prico of cattle. He notes that "farm
laborers and men who hire out get $2 50 a week
and board themselves."
Any ono of these three books offer attrac
tions to that largo number of unfortunato
people who journey to Europe only in an easy
chair with their leet on the fender.
Afloat in the Forest (Worthington Co.; J. R.
" Weldin A Co.) is Captain Mayne Reid's
favorite boys' book in cheap form a good book
to reprint. iJotfierma', a Story of Lost Identity,
(The American News Company) is by Louis
Reeves Harrison. A strange story, well written.
Plain Tales From the Hills (Frank F. Lovell &
Co.) is made up of S9 stories by Rudegard Kip
ling. Tho "Hills" are in India. These brief
stories take the reader into an unfamiliar at
mosphere. "Lispotb." the first one. Is well
told, simple and strops. Trollopc's Dilemma
(Rand, McNally & Co.) is by St. Aubyn. Trol
lope's dilemma is solved at Cambridge Uni-ver-itv.
and comes out all right. Master of His
Fate (Frank F. Lovell & Co.) is a queer case,
turning upon hypnotism, and ending a little
like "Dr. Jkeylf and Mr. Hyde." All these
books are In paper covers.
Tbe ProgrculTo Club.
The Progressive Club of the Southside met
last night I: was expected that they would
elect delegates to tho Working Girls' Conven
tion to be held shortly in New York, but this
was postponed. It has not been decided yet
whether a representative will be sent or not.
A Benefit Entertainment.
Tbe Southside Turners gave an entertain
ment in the hall last night for the benefit of
Prof. George Pflsterer, their turning teacher.
The Odd Fellows' Liedertafel, the singing so
ciety, and tbe Mt. Oliver Maennerchor took
part.
FIHAF0RF, AHOY!
Gilbert nnd Sulllvnn' Opera Revived In
Good Earnest Twelve Temptation! nt
the Uljon Under tbe Lash Tho Academy
Attraction.
H. M. S. Pinafore sailed into tbe Grand
Opera House last nlgbt with all sails set, yards
manned and colors flying, and the cheers which
greetod the gallant ship showed tbat her popu
larity is as great as over, and the new crew as
able as any that has gono before to handle
her. In plain English, Gilbert and Sulli
van's comic opera "H. M. S. Pin
afore" was splendidly performed, in a
setting of exquisite and extraordinary beauty,
and enthusiastically received by a large
audience. It may be said without fear of con
tradiction tbat takinc the performance by the
Duff Company as a whole, "'Pinafore" has
never been interpreted better, here or any
where else. In saying this wo have in our
memory the best renderings by American and
English companies including tbat which
under the personal direction of author and com
poser produced the opera in London. There may
bo individual parts which arc not equal in in
terpretation to those of preceding organiza
tions, but we repeat and with emphasis, that
as a whole "Pinafore" was never better sung,
acted and stagea than It was last night. If in
one par.icular more than another this pro
duction excels it is in the work of the chorus.
Grand opera seldom has been able to command
the services of such a chorus, in which
the individual voices are so fresh
and so cultivated, the blending and balancing
so nice! harmonious, nnd of which tbe volume
is so magnificently sonorous. This is dealing in
laudatory superlatives we know, but when a
really good thing comes to a Pittsburg theater
and this desert has few oase we deem it only
just to our readers to let them know it in plain
and unmistakable terms. The possibility and
advisability, from a financial as well
as an artistic standpoint, of such
a revival oi Gilbert and Sullivan's
operas have' been repeatedly urged In these
columns. Mr. Duff is the Hist man to make
the experiment, and he makes it on such an
imposing scale that he cannot but command
success. He is to bo congratulated upon pos
sessing the requisite sense and nerve fur such
a project.
It is rather lato in the day to rehearse tho
peculiar qualities which from the start mado
"Pinafore" a phenomenal success in this
country and across the sea. Every Bchoolboy,
or more certainly every schoolboys father and
mother, to say nothing of his sisters and his
cousins and bis aunts, knowsmost of the words
and all tho airs in "Pinafore" by heart. Per
haps, then, it is best to say that in this pre
sentation the lines and the music of "Pinafore"
are given in full, from the craccful opening
bars of tbe overture to tho olla podrida
ensemble with which the opera closes. The or
chestra, led by Mr. Julian Edwards, gave a
strong, tasteful and sympathetic rendering of
tho score, which contains a multitude of gems
and not a bar of commonplace music.
The cast is, to begin with, well balanced and
on a bigh plane. Merely for the sake of mak
ing our meaning clear, we may say that the
company which appeared hero recently in
"The Gondoliers" was well balanced, but on a
low plane. "The Gondoliers," had it been sung
by Mr. Duff's company, would have made a
great bit surely. Dlgby Bell has a distinct
affinity for such comedy as the Right Hon'ble
Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., is desiened to
afford. His dignity and his gold-braided coat
are equally stiff. When bo unbends at all it is
with conscious condescension. The barbed
shafts of Gilbert's wit all went borne from
Mr. Bell's bow. It is again to Mr.
Bell's advantage that his voice, in spite
of years of ill treatment, has not entirely disap
peared. There is plenty of force and expres
sion in Mr. Mark Smith's Captain Corcoran,
and his "Wnat, Never?" solo shone conspicu
ously against the riUi backgrjund furnished
by the chorus. Mr. Bassett's tenor is round
and mellow, and ho sang with great spirit and
care the many lovely numbers which fall to tho
share of Jlalph Jlackstraw.
The good looks and erect figure of Mr. W. H.
Clark wore not to be rei-ognized in the re
pulsive make-up of Dick Deadeye, but there
was no mistaking the deep rich tones of his
robust bass. .Mr. uiarK snone particularly in
tho duo with Captain Corcoran "Sing heyl
the gallant captain and the tar" which was
encored with enthusiasm. He gave tho partan
eccentric and clever rendering. No one won
tho audience more completely than Mr. Mc
Laughlin in tho role of Bill Bobstay. He sang
'He is an Englishman" with wonderful effect
that tho grand singing of the chorus height
ened. Wo have taken tho namc3 as they come on
tho programme or we should have mentioned
Miss Lily Post's delightful rendering of Jose
phine. In a dress of truly stunning crimson
the skirts accordion pattern shelooked charm
ing enough to turn tbe heads of a whole navy.
She sang with admirable taste and spirit;
catching tho full merriment of tho charac
ter and never letting it drop for an in
stant. The Little Buttercup of Miss
Grace Atherton was thoroughly acceptable.
She possesses a remarkablysweetand powerful
contralto. The other members of the cast were
perfect in their work. As we have said, the
chorus did splendid work. It numbers some 70
voices, and includes a number of pretty girls.
The scene, tbe deck of the Pinafore in
Portsmouth harbor, was presented with ex
traordinary reality. Tne sea all about
the ship was crowded with men-of-war.
riding at anchor. By skillful mechanism the
motion of the ocean was simulated, and tho
heave and swell were like enough to nature to
make a sensitive mortal qualmish. The firing
of salutes from the fleet on the First Lord's
arrival was managed with great ingenuity.
When the night came on m the second act, the
presence of a full moon and the twinkling
lights on ship and shore made a still more ro
mantic picture. It is certain that "Pinafore"
never was set with such fidelity to nature be
fore. miou Thcntor.
Standing room was at a premium at theBijou
Theater last evening to witness tho presentation
of the spectacular play of "The Twelve Tempta
tions." Of the play or plot there is but little to
say, but of the specialties much more could be
said than our limited space permits. The
grotesque quadrille burlesque by tho famous
four Savamllas was superb, and elicited rounds
of applause, as did also the Little Lord Faunt
Icroi s. Tho specialties presented by Miss Jessie
West could have been dispensed with
without injuring the play in tbe least. The
ballet of Terra Coita. introducing the live
cockatoo', was well received, and was one of
tbe principal features of the entertainment.
In tho third act, tho marvelous gymnasts, the
Doans, introduced specialties that are seldom
seen. The scenic effects tbrougnout are grand,
while tho ballets are entirely new and at
tractive. The gorgeous ballet of nations Intro
ducing the four new States was excellent and
was applauded time and again. The brilliant
transformation to the home of tho Sea Queen
has been seldom equaled on a Pittsburg stage.
Harry Wllllnma' Academy.
The Bennett brothers, whose remarkable
rifle and pistol shooting was a feature of the
Barnum circus last season, have gathered to
gether a number of vaudeville stars, and
will fill Manager Williams' theater at each
performance this week. Beside the famous
shots, Sheridan and Flynn (the men who wrote
McGmty") are with tho combination. The
Zig-Zag lady quartet Is a "corker." Sheffer
and Blakely's act Is a well-known one, and ai
was catches on in good shape. Maggie Cliue,
"Mary Ann Kehoo." never fails to be warmly
welcomed in Pittsburg. Cain and Loreno do a
neat turn, and Miss Lottie Gilson is "just a
little" too cunning for any competitor in her
line. Turner and Russell's act is an excellent
one, and C. W. Littlefleld, Matt Farnow and
Dixon and Lacy complete a first-class variety
show.
Harris' Theater.
Another exciting melodrama drew large
audiences to this bouse yesterday. Thcro are
no particularly strong points about "Under tho
Lash," but it is about equal to the average play
of its kind. The cast or characters is fair, not
to say good. Walter 8. Sanford, a young actor
of the N. 8. Wood type, appears as the hero,
W. A. Morarlty.tho Gentlemanly villain, David
Roche the villlalnous villain, who can be
bribed for a few hundred dollars to do any
thing less than murder, and the Irish police
man and negro comedian are there, too. Leona
Bland is a vivacious little soubrette and Miss
Annie Russell, as the blind heroine, showed
her ability to enact a very trying role. Tbe two
acting dogs are not the least capable members
of tbe caste.
The Musenms.
Tho presence of Maggie, the midget, and her
interesting offspring, together with many other
curiosities and a play ot some merit, kept the
World's Museum crowded yesterday.
A large programme of curiosities and. a good
variety performance were the sterling attrac
tions at tho Casino Museum yesterday.
AN EDDCAT0K MOTES UP.
Prof. John Collins Called to Take Charge
of the Beaver Schools.
SPECIAL TELXGBAU TO TIIE DISPATCII.1
Mansfield, Pa., March 24. Prof, John Col
lins, who bad held the superintendency of the
Mifflin township schools for three years past,
and whose term will expire in a few days, has
accepted the position of Principal of the
Beaver (Pa.) Schools.
Tbe Beaver schools employ 30 teachers, over
some 20 in Mifflin township, and Prof. Collins
will instrnct in tbe higher branches. He is now
recognized as one of tbe foremost educators in
the State. The compensation of his aaw posi
tion Is slid to be very flattering.
SENATORS AT STAKE.
Two Reports Diode on tho Montana Con
tested Election Case The Committee
Divided Upon strict Foreign Lines.
ittashinoton, March 21. The report ot tbe
majority of the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections upon the Montana
election case was submitted to-day by Air.
Hoar. The majority report gives at the outset
the circumstances surrounding the election of
Messrs. Sannders and Powers by tbe Iron Hall,
or Republican Legislature, composed of half
tbe members of the Senate and tbe Republican
Representatives claiming to be elected; and of
Messrs. Maginniss and Clark by the court
bouse Legislature, composed of half of the
Senate and Democratic Representatives claim
ing to be elected.
None of the Senators had their election called
in question, but there were two sets of five
Representatives from Silver Bow county
claiming to be elected. One of these set,
elected with 23 other Republicans, and eight
Senators voted for Saunders and Powers; the
other set, with 21 other Democrats and eight
Senators, voted for Magiunis and Clark.
The case therefore turned upon tbe question
which of these two sets of five persons was en
titled to sit m the House of Representatives
from Silver Bow county. It is not claimed tbat
there was any adjudication of the House itself
affirming or denying such title. To determine
this question, the report says, the committee
havo been led to consider three others, which.
in their judgment, disposes of thewboie case.
Tbe Questions nt liisoe.
piRST Which or the two sets or groups of
five members claiming to sit for the county
of Silver Bow bad credentials from the officer
or board entitled to canvass the vote and de
clare the result?
Third If one group of five had tho lawful
credentials, hut the other group were In fact
elected, which was legally entitled to sit in the
House at its original organization and take
Eartinnll subsequent proceedings until tha
ouso itself had adjudicated their title, there
being in existence two bodies, each claiming to
be the true House.
Third Is there evidence which warrants the
Senate in finding that the persons who bad tbe
credentials were not in fact duly elected?
As to the first question, which had the law
ful credentials, the committee show that A. F.
Bray. P. R. Dotman, F. H. Hoffman, J. H.
Monteath and William Thompson presented
credentials from tho State Canvassing Board
of their right to sit as members from Silver
Bow county; they took part In the organization
of the Iron Hall (or Republican) House of
Representatives and remained members of that
body until after Messrs. Saunders and Power
were elected Senators.
The Democratic Credentials.
'TTjOMAS F. Codrtnet, A. H. Day. A. M.
Dussealt. Job W. Gilllgan and Joseph
Hogan held certificates of election from the
Clerk of Silver Bow county, took part In the
organization of the Court House (or Demo
cratic) House of Representatives and re
mained members until alter the election of
Messrs. Maginiss and Clark. After reviewing
antecedent legislation upon the subject of tbe
election, including tbe enabling act of Congress,
tbe ordinances passed by the Constitutional
Convention and the provisions of the old Terri
torial laws, the majority conclude that the Ter
ritorial law providing that the County Clerk
shall issue certificates of election to Repre
sentatives in the Legislature was superseded
by the ordinance of the Constitutional Conven
tion which imposed that duty on the State
Board of Canvassers, and hold that "Bray and
his four associates who went to tbe Iron Hall
with the certificates of the State Board that
they wero duly elected from Silver Bow had
the lawful credentials."
Upon the question of quorum, which has
been raised in connection with the case, tbe
committee hero say: "It will appear that It Is
unnecessary to decide this question for the
purposes of tbe present case. We believe, for
reasons hereafter stated, that the certificates
of tho State Board declared tbe true choice ot
the people, as expressed by a majority of the
votes actually and lawfully cast. But, as tbe
matter has been discussed, it is proper to say
tbat we are unable to see any distinction in
principle between the causo of a person claim
ing title to a seat in an assembly whose title is
disputed by some other body, and an assembly
whose character is undisputed. But wo think
tho credentials of tbe five Republican members
from Silver Bow are fully supported by the
facts of the election as they are disclosed to us
by the admissions of both sides, and by the un
disputed and uncontrolled evidence taken in
judicial proceedings taken in Montana and laid
before ns by Messrs. Clark and Maginnls."
The Hoard In Qneatlon.
'T'iie whole inquiry turns upon the honesty
and fairness of tho election board at pre
cinct 31, Sliver Bow county. The proceed
ings in relation to tho canvassing of there
turns of tbat precinct, a camp on the line of tho
Butte and Gallatin road, are set forth in detail,
from which the majority conclude tbat tho
State Board of Canvassers did their duty as re
quired by law But they also think that the
election held atprecinct34,was intact irregular,
illegal and fraudulent, and that this appears
from tbe records and from the undisputed facts
furnished by Messrs. Maginniss and Clark.
The whole history shows, the majority say,
that tbe proceedings at precinct 34 bad no rela
tion whatever to the real will of duly qualified
voters, but was fictitious, pretended and with
out validity, either in form or substtnee. The
copy of tbe poll list before tbe committee shows
that the 174 voters ot precinct 34 voted in al
phabetical order. This seems to the majority
conclusive evidence that the whole proceeding
was manufactured.
"We have also," the majority say, "the ex
tremely suspicious and unusual circumstance
that while there were 25 different officers voted
for and also a vote for or against the constitu
tion, everyone of the 174 persons voted for
everyone of the officers and for or against the
constitution. We have tho further remarkable
and suspicions circumstance that while the pro
posed constitution was supported by both
parties in Montana, tne vote against the con
stitution was the same, within one, as the Re
publican vote on tbe offices when tbe vote was
on the party lines.
A Singular Fcnlure.
tt is also singular, and to us incredible, that
while there were in the county of Sil
ver Bow about7,000 votes so evenly divided be
tween the two political parties that in tbe case
of every one of the candidates a change of less
than 80 votes would have changed the majority
from one sldo to the other, the voters of this
new community at precinct 34, who must have
assembled from various parts ot the county,
whose names as tbey appear upon tbe poll list
indicate their descent from various nationali
ties, should have been divided in any fair elec
tion between tbe two political parties in the
proportion of 171 to 3."
The majority further say that the canvass of
the votes of tho precinct was not public within
the meaning of the law: that 4S unnaturalized
aliens voted at the precinct, -U more than
enough to have changed tho result iu all tho
disputed cases, even if all tbe Republican votes
cast at both precincts were cast by these un
naturalized aliens.
In conclusion the majority diseussesl proposi
tions or suggestions that were made. One
is tbat tbe Governor having failed to recognize
the Legislature. It had no legal existence, and
tbcreiore could not elect Senators. This tbe
majority dismiss as ingenious, but without
foundation, and opposed to the plain constitu
tional rights of the Legislature. The other is
that the committee should refer the case back
to the people of Montana in orderto teach them
a needed lesson. Tbe majority say that tbey
do not deem it to be in their power to deprive
any State of its rightful representation in the
Senate or to bar outright fully elected Senators
in order to teach lessons to any persons, or to
indicate their displeasure at certain modes of
procedure.
As to the effect of this course, if it should be
pursued, the majority say it would, in tbeir
ouinion. bo diametrically opposed to tbat
sought by really offering a premium on lawless
ness. The Oilier Hide.
TrB. Gray presented the report of the
minority. It sets forth the real state of
facts to be as follows: Tbat the true Legisla
ture of Montana consisted of tbe Senate and
House, which met at tbe Couit House in
Helena, that 8 of tho Senators and 29 members
of tho House of Representatives held a joint,
convention for the election of United States
Senators, in which a majority of all the mem
bers elected to tho Legislature appeared and
acted on the 7th day of January. 18SK). The
members of this convention chose Messrs. Clark
and Maginnis to be United States Senators
from the State of Montana, and the Governor,
who recognized both tbe House and Senate
which composed this joint convention, certified,
regularly and in due form that these two gen
tlemen were chosen as Senators by the Legis
lature of tbe State.
The adverse claimants, Messrs. Saunders and
Power, prreend to have been elected by a joint
convention held in what was known as the
"Iron Hall" on the 1st day of January. 1890.
But neither tbe House nor the members
thereof which acted in this joint convention
were ever recognized by the Governor, nor was
their pretended election as Senators ever certi
fied to by that officer.
The evidenco proves also tbat five persons
who acted as members of the House of Repre
sentatives in the Iron Hall convention were
not elected by tbe people of Silver Bow county,
whom they claimed to represent, as members
of tbe House. They only had certificates of
election. Tbe five members really elected by
the people of Silver Bow county, holding cer
tificates ot election also, sat and voted in the
Legislature which met at the court house. The
United States Senate. In such cases where the
Legislature has not determined for itself who
are tbe members of tbe body as to seats tbat
are questioned, has always passed over any
mere question of certificates and ascertained
who were actually elected. This was done In
the "Sykes vs Spencer" case from tho State or
Alabama,
Tbe ropulnr Choice.
'There is no trouble In deciding in this case
tbat the representatives from Sliver Bow
county who voted for Messrs. Clark and Ma
ginnis were actually elected by the people.
Tbe returns from the whole county made by
the Clerk under the law on the 31st of October.
1889. and made by the canvassing Board and
the Clerk on the 7th of November, 18S9. both
show very clearly that these persons were
elected, and tbat the five persons who acted in
the Iron Hall legislature as representatives
were not elected by tbe people of Silver Bow
county. The Territorial Board of Canvassers
on the 4th day of November, 1889, Issued cer
tificates to the five persons not elected by
throwing out the votes of precinct Ho. J4 in
said comity, which had given a large majority
to the Democratic candidates for Representa
tives, who voted for Messrs. Clark and Ma
ginnis. . t
This act was done without any right or au
thority on their part to do tbe same. They bad
tho full returns of the true vote of that county
Defore them. Without any cause orreason
whatever, this board being wholly Republican,
and anxious to serve their party in what they
thought was a great emergency, refused to
count or canvass the real vote of the people of
Silver Row county, and certified to tho election
of five persons not chosen by the people, in the
hope and with the expectation tbat these spuri
ous representatives mmht in some way vote
for partisans of tbeir own political faith as can
didates for the United States Senate.
The majority report was signed by all the Re
publican memDers of the committee, and the
minority report by all the Democratic mem
bers, including Mr. Turple, who was reported
to have declared bis intention of making a re
port recommending that the case be referred
back to the people of Montana for settlement.
IN PAYOR OP PEACE.
The Methodist Conference Enters a Protest
Against Military Preparations.
ISrXCIAL TELXORAM TO THE DISPATCn.1
Carlisle, Pa., March 24. The sixth day of
tbe Central Methodist Conference opened with
devotional services, led by Rev. J. B. Mann, of
Newberry, Pa. Presiding Elder Hamlin re
ported an appeal, brought up from Altoona's
quarterly conference, in reference to a woman
who bad been elected delegate to represent the
classes in the conference. He bad decided
that she was eligible, and Bishop Foster, who
presided to-day, sustained bis decision. A dis
cussion arose over the choice of the place of
meeting of next year's conference. Three
places. Mount Carmel, Sunbury and York,
were named. The vote was 51 for Mount Car
mel. 91 for Sunbury and a few for York. Dr.
A. B. Leonard, ot tbe Missionary Society, made
a strong appeal in favor of missions, and Dr.
Von Metre, of the Woman's College. Balti
more, made an address in the interest of that
institution. Dr. W. W. Evans, of Carlisle,
spoke in behalf of the new Methodist Episco
pal Church tbat is bcins built, and asked for
help. Dr. Gray, of Willlamsport, and Presid
siding Elder Donahue spoke for it, and sub
scriptions amounting to 2,200 wero made.
The renorts of the Conference Committee
wero read and adopted, and the special com
mittee on the communication from tbe Peace
Society of Philadelphia recomroneded a resolu
tion declaring for a peace policy in our civil
government and protesting against enlarging
our coast defenses or building more war ships.
The resolution was adopted. In tbe executive
sessions tbe following were admitted on trial:
G.M. Glenn, J. 3L Glover, W. J. Sheaffer. H.
Trevorton, F. W. Leidy. W. E. L. Eslinger, A.
L. Miller, J. U. Deibcl, G. S. Comp, G. E.
Smith and R. M. Snyder. S. L. Vought, an
elder from the Evangelical Association, was
also admitted on trial. The relation of J. F.
Pennington was charged to effective. This
evening tbe meeting was for the benefit of the
veterans of the conference. To-morrow the
conference will adjourn.
A VALUABLE NEWSPAPEE.
The Dlspntch Pronounced tbe Most Influen
tial of Pennsylvania Journals.
From tbe Koanoke (Va.) Times.
Perhaps the most influential paper printed In
Pennsylvania Is The FmsBURO Dispatch.
Its daily issue is a clearly written, impartial
compendium of current events, and it may
always be depended upon. It has every facility
for news gathering that tho century has pro
duced, and its wonuerful presses are only
equaled by a few metropolitan dailies.
The Sunday edition, a mammoth 20-pago
issue, is a magazine of the choicest productions
of the best known writers. lis special features
are not surpassed by those of any journal pub
lished. The journal is especially valuable to
the people of this section whose interests are
now and will in future be almo.t identical with
tboso of Pennsylvania.
SCHOFIELD'S FIRST OFFICIAL ACT.
General Crook' Successor Issues an Order
Relntlve to Court Martinis.
CHICAGO, March 24. At the army headquar
ters to-day General Williams is in acting com
mand as Adjutant General of the division. He
is in direct communication with his superior.
General Scbofleld. Captains Roberts, Randall
and Kennon accompanied tbe remains yester
day. The first general order received and issued
at headquarters since General CrooV's death is
tho following:
Washington. D. a, March n. idw.
By direction of the Secretary of War It Is or
dered that hereafter commanding officers at posts
where general court martials are conrened shall,
at the request of any prisoner who Is to be ar
raigned, detail a suitable officer of tbe command
as counsel to defend such prisoner.
If there be no such officer available at the post
the fact will be reported to the appointing author
ity for action. Br command of
Majob, General SciiOFlELD.
Seven Old-Timer-.
rSPXCIAL TELEOnAM TU THE niSPATCTLt
Kingwood, W. Va., March 24. There are
seven residents of this town audits immediato
vicinity over 80 years of age. Tbe oldest resi
dent Is Henry Hardesty, who has passed his
90th birthday. Peter Metheny is 86, Mary
Titchenell is 88, and Judith Titchenell, Mrs.
Harnett and Mrs. Elenore Stirling are each 83
years of age. Newton McGee is the youngest
of the old people, his age being 81 years.
ADMINISTRATION TOURISTS
Mnrchlnn Turonah Georgln and Ibe Battle
fields ot the Soatb.
ATLANTA, GA.. March 24. Mrs. Harrison
and party reached here this afternoon. Tbey
came in at the East Tennessee depot on the
edge of the town, so were met by only a small
delegation, including Mayor Glenn, ex-Governor
Bullock and others of prominence. The
members ot tbe party entered carriages and
were driven to Governor Bullock's home, where
they were entertained at luncheon. After
luncheon they were taken to see tho slrhts of
Atlanta. ThiseieningatOo'clocka reception
was tendered them at tbe Capitol City Club.
To-morrow tbe party will go to Chattanooga
to look over the battlefields of Cbickamauga,
Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge.
Honor for Rev. J. 31. DpfT.
SPECIAL TELXGBAU TO THE DISPATCII.1
Mansfield. Pa., March 21. Rev. Joseph
M. Duff, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Cburch of this place, has bad the degree of
doctor of philosophy conferred on bim bv the
Western Theological Seminary. Rev. Duff is of
one of the old-time Scutch-Irish families, who
have lived here for a century or moie.
BARTHOLDl'S STATUE SAYED.
The Congressional Committee Fnvors Ellis
Island for an Immigration Station.
New York, March 24. The entire Congres
sional Immigration Committee, except Sen
ators Hale and McPherson, mado a tour of In
spection to tbe various islands ln the Bay of
New York this morning. They first went to
Ellis Isle, then to Fedloe's, then to Governor's
Island. At each place the proposed sites for
an emigrant landing depot were inspected.
At Governor's Island the committee held a
secret session and adopted resolutions favoring
the immediate placing in control of Federal
authority all matters relating to Castle Garden,
and recommending tbe retention of the pres
ent force of officials. The committee left for
Washington at 3:30. Ellis Island is tbe most
favored by the committee as a place for the
depot
A PRIEST FOR 42 YEAR8.
Tho Dying Bishop O'Connor Won't be Able to
Celebrate tbe Event To-Day.
Bishop O'Connor, who is lying In a critical
condition at the Mercy Hospital, will complete
to-day his forty-second year as a priest Sev
eral telegrams suitable to the occasion were re-
ceived at the hospital yesterday, and more are
expected to-day. It Is possible, if the prelate's
condition will warrant, tbat some observance
of tbe occasion will be he at the hospital this
morning.
CUKI0US CONDKKSATI0KSL
In a churchyard, not far from Dawson,
Ga., Is a thorny rose bush which was planted in
1800.
A mute at the Flint (Mich.) Institution,
has issued a challenge to fight any other muta
in the United States.
The Shah oi Persia has commissioned
bis Ambassador at Berlin, to engage engineers
and workmen to go to Persia to put up gas
works In the larger cities.
It is estimated that only 13 per cent of
the population ot Russia can read and write.
Tbe number of primary schools is 33,000 for the
, population of over 100,000,000.
Alexander Shaw has been sentenced to
six months' imprisonment at Montreal for
stealing S24.00O. He was formerly a society
leader in the land of tbe boodler.
Fishermen say that Rush lake in Mont
morency county, Mich., has been overstocked
with white fish by the Fish Commission, and
that they are starving to death by scores.
Mrs. Harriet E. AVright, of Oneida, N.
Y., is the proud possessor of a butter ladle be
longing to her great-grandmother. This old
ladle is 110 yeurs old, and is a rare curiosity.
Mrs. G. "W. McGinnis. of Alpbarett.i,
Ga., has a breed of chickens that she says will
othernsfxSim?ths ln ,he rear; they fast tho
Ss'they w-ere beafoere? '" at ihe end ttb U"
Two eagles were seen fighting in a nine
veLm b, of Mn J- B" Williams, near
Eastville, Va. One of them struck the other
hei'mTnSe'lyr " "M in tw0an1
A herd of deer roamed through the de
serted streets of Downlevllle daring the lato
snowstorm. No one injured the poor animals,
but they were allowed to eat whatever was
thrown from the cabins.
Sam Bailey, of Nashville, Mich., came
across three rats in the road some time ago
and all ot them had hold of a straw traveling
along. On closer investigation he found that
the two outside rats were leading the center
one, which was blind.
At a recent banquet at San Francisco
of the Undertakers' Association the menus
were printed on cardboard cut in the shape of
a coffin, and among tbe dishes were chicken
dressed a la shroud, smelts on stretcher and
stewed tomatoes a la gnppe.
A Belgian has lately invented a musical
shirt, on the cuffs of which fragments of a
score are printed, so that if the instrumentalist
be a flutist, harpist or cornetist, he has big
entire part under his eye. and need not carry
any further music about with him.
Two English army officers were recently
killed while following the hounds, both being
thrown by their horses refusing to jump a
high fence, and both had their necks broken.
In speaking of the accident an English paper
says: "They cast qnite'a gloom over the meet,"
An English electrician has invented a
material tbat be calls alterlon for the preven
tion of corrosion in engine boilers. Tbe in
terior of the boiler Is coated with the prepara
tion, and from time to time electrical currents
aro sent through it. It has been pronounced a
decided success by machine experts.
Mrs. Divens, of Lee county, Ga.t has an
old negro woman who does not know thtt she
i3 free. When freedom dawned upon tha
negroes, and they all started to leave, this one,
who is deaf and cannot talk well, conld not ba
made to understand it, and she has not found it
out to this day, and is still living on the old
plantation.
Judge Frierson committed suicide at
Alalia, Hillsborough county, Fla. His wife
had been washing tbat morning and be had
helped her. While she was outside he went
into the bous and sat down on the bed. tied a
string to the trigger of a gun, and then tba
other end of a strinc to one of his toes, and by
this means blew his bead off.
Thesingularspectacleof a man walking
along the street eating greenbacks was pre
sented ln Duluth, Minn., the other afternoon.
Ho swallowed S48 in fives, twos and ones, when
he was caught by the police and taken to tha
station bouse. A searcu revealed JC07 between
his inside shirt and skin. He suffers from tha
hallucination that people are trying to steal his
money.
On Tuesday three women and a small
boy started to drive to Marysvllle, CoL, in a
spring wagon. When a mile or sa from town
their team stuck fast. The women jumped out
and were held as If In a vise. A tramD offered
to help the women and be got mired, and then
th9 unhappy folks were forced to stay tbreg
hours tn the mud belore anyone could dig them
out.
The man who runs the passenger eleva
tor in tbe St. Louis Custom House is General
J. II. Coate-s, who won bis wav from tbe station
ot private to that of Brevet Brigadier General
during tbe Civil War. It is statrd tbat his
salary has been cut down from $720 to S600 a
year, and the official who did it was formerly
tho captain in one of the regiments under his
command.
An amusing incident comes from Ham
ilton, Canada. It appears tbat the location of
the wires tbat wero originally put Into the base
ment walls of tho City Hall, connecting with
the switch board in tbe upper ball, has been
lost, through some carelessness during the
building operations, and cannot now be found
without ripping up the marble pavement and
mutilating tbe walls, and even then tbe search
might prove fruitless.
Christmas Mrs. Judge E. F. Lawson, of
AVaynesboro, Ga., was presented with a case of
champagne, and It was carefully stowed away.
A few days ago Mrs. Lawson opened the case
and out jumped several mice, fat and sleek.
One by one she drew out tbe bottles of spark
ling fluid, until to her surpnse three empty
bottles were found, tbe sealing having been
taken off and a nice little bole made in every
cork and the cbamnagno gone.
As locomotive Nj. 120 was going along
the Grand Trunk Railway one day last week,
Levi A. Noye, engineer, a dove flying across
tho track was struck by tho locomotive, and
tbe force ot the blow was sufficient to break
the glass of the headlight, with which the bird
came m contact, letting it into the lantern,
where it remained until tbe engine was stabled
at Gorbam. N. H.. when it was taken out un
injured and carried to the home of one of tha
men employed about the yard.
During the late war R. D Cole, Jr., of
Newnan, Ga., secreted a box of silver between
the ceiling and roof of the residence then oc
cupied bv the family. After the war the box
could not be found, though diligent search was
mads for It. A few days since Mr. Cole was
making some repairs nn the old house, and had
occasion to tear away some of the interior
frame work. As he removed one of the lower
partition boards a silver coin fell out, and
upon looking further Mr. Cole was rewarded
by finding every dollar of the long lost money.
SPRING SUNSHINE.
The man who gets up and talks like a
book is too easily read. Sew Orleans Picayune.
There is always one nave in a church that
no ministerial eloquence can convert. Xonkert
Qazttte.
There are some men to whom a loss of
their reputations would mean mighty good lock.
Washington Post.
Tbe easiest money to spend, and the hard
est money to save, is tbat which we have not yet
earned. Stw York Ledger.
A man is like-a chicken; he will leave a
plate of meat to run after another chicken with
bone In Its mouth. Atchison Globe.
The good are said to be happy; bnt it ia
probably not because they spend their time think
ing how much better they are than tbe rest of
humanity. Boston Transcript.
The spring bonnet is expensive
It's high beyond a doubt.
But Isn't it a very little thlnr
To make sucn talk about.
Philadelphia Timu.
It all depends. It may be nice
For a maid to be kind and true.
But then it scarce matters so mucn.nnless
She's inclined that way with you.
Philadelphia Times.
"Whatkindofa memory have you?"
"Bad very bad."
In what particular?"
'it remembers things that were better forgot,
ten." Chicago Times.
The Spring said to the Sumuer,
.Perhaps I'll come yonr way
And ask yoa to a sleigh ride
Some sunny August day.
-Philadelphia Timu.
Miss Tardy has sued Dr. Early for breach
of promise of marriage. Sna probably think
that it is better late than never, and be has donbt-t
less come to tne conclusion that be was too previ
ona.' Boston Post.
"Why, Clara, you look radiant I "WhaK
has happened?"
"I've Just received an invitation to a wed-t
ding."
"Well, there's nothing particular ln that to lo
in to raptures over."
"les, but It happens to be my own," and shs
showed the new engagement Ilag.Fhiladtlptia
Times.
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