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THE HTVESTIGATIOrT HEEDED.
The question of that alleged procuration
of funds for the Eepublican municipal
campaign by holding out the induce
ment of licenses, came up again yesterday
in the License Court, by the preientation of
affidavits, denying all the charges, with a
request that the court fix a day for a hearing
of the question. On the other hand the de
nial was rebutted in the regular proceedings
of the license hearing by the discovery of
another applicant who testified that intima
tions had been made to him that his failure
to contribute might cost him his license.
Exactly what form of proceeding it is
proposed that this hearing, and that con
cerning the speak-easy, list shall take, is
not entirely clear. It is plain that neither
the presentation of ex parte affidavits, nor
the negative testimony of certain saloon
keepers, furnish the vindication that is
necessary to meet so grave a charge. The
matter should be brought into court in such
a form that the attendance and cross exami
nation of witnesses can be compelled; that
all misstatements in connection with the
matter shall be subjected to the penalties of
perjury, that the testimony of all parties
can be brought forward thoroughly and im
partially tested; and that the verdict shall
carry the weight either of authoritative vin
dication or a no less authoritative condem
nation. It has already been pointed out in these
columns that the speak-easy question can
easily be put in this shape, by prosecutions
for illicit liquor selling on the testimony of
the Police Department, It is not clear why
the assertions in the other matter do not
afford equal opportunity for investigating
the matter by the thorough method of crimi
nal prosecutions. One side or the other
must have committed perjury. If the
charges are true, some one has trenched
closely upon the laws against blackmailing,
or extortion of money. If they are false,
people on the other side have been guilty of
criminal slander. "With that variety to
choose from, it should not be difficult to take
a procedure which will ventilate the matter
in the most thorough way.
There is certainly every reason for the
public to insist, when the charges are practi
cally those of official blackmailing, that the
course shall be taken which shall either
most thoroughly disprove the charges or
most promptly impose the penalty of such
acts, if they are proved.
BITAL PENSION BILLS.
The passage of the dependent pension bill
by the Senate yesterday appears to introduce
a novel difference of opinion between the
two branches of Congress. The House has
already passed a service pension bill for sol
diers over 50 years of age, and the announce
ment was made that the Republicans in the
House will accept no dependent pension
measure. The divergence will probably
necessitate a compromise, unless it should
be harmonized by the passage of both meas
ures. The DisrATCir has heretofore said
that the conntrv will support Congress in
making provision for the veterans who have
attained old age and are unable to care for
themselves. The service pension schemes
are, on the contrary, rather too wholesale
in their character. It those who need aid
are provided for, the justice or urgency of
further pensions is nut evident.
THE AMENDED TABHT.
The new tariff bill, as reported to the full
Committee on "Ways and Means, yesterday,
is practically still in the shape that was re
ported in The Dispatch two weeks ago.
The iron, steel and sugar schedules are as
they were then. A few changes, such as
making the 1 cent duty on hides a 15 per
cent ad valorem duty, represent the sum
total of the alterations.
This being the outcome of the criticisms
and conferences of the past two weeks, it
may be taken for granted that the bill will
go to the House in the form reported else
where. "What it will be when the House
and Senate get through with it, is beyond
tbe power of prophecy.
As stated in these columns when the
nature of the bill was first made public.it
lias, as all tariff measures must have, both
its merits and demerits, but the former out
weigh the Utter.
CHEAP PBICES FOB C0NSPIBACY.
Exactly what the penalties prescribed by
law for criminal conspiracies are in New
York we are not informed, but those im
posed in the cases to which the attention of
the country has been called are calculated
to create the impression that the offense is
an elegant amusement in which the wcalthv
or influential can indulge themselves by
paring a moderate license. The fine of
$250, imposed on some Standard Oil mill
ionaires for a conspiracy to ruin and destroy
a rival estahlisment, was one case in point,
and the sentences in the Flack scandal look
very like another. Fines of 5500 each and
imprisonment from one to four months for
turning justice into a mockery, and using
its machinery to perpetrate fraud, are not
calculated to deter the repetition of such
crimes if any important end is to be gained.
Either the law on that subject needs over
hauling or the courts which impose these
sentences do.
A FEBSISTENT MISREPRESENTATION.
In an editorial paragraph, the Neit
York Tribune concerning the proposition
to impose especial restrictions on the Cana
dian railroads doing business in this coun
try, says of these corporations: "Since the
Inter-State Commerce Commission informed
Congress of the injustice done by providing
traffic rules for our own carriers which they,
with free access to American shippers, were
not bound to respect, they have kept a bevy
of lawyers and lobbyists at "Washington
seeking to prevent legislation."
"Whether the Canadian roads have kept a
lobby at "Washington we are not informed,
but the above statement repeats a misrepre
sentation which has been so persistently
kept up, and is at the same time so utterly
at variance with the facts, as to place all the
statements in connection with it under sus
picion. In exact opposition to the assertion
that the Canadian roads are not bound to
respect the Inter-State Commerce law, they
are subject to that law just as much as the
"United States railroads, and can be sub
jected to exactly the same penalties. This
is clearly stated in the law itself, and has,
in addition, been so declared in a ruling of
the Inter-State Commerce Commission.
It is true that none of these penalties have
been enforced against any of the Canadian
railroads; but will the Tribune point oat a
case in which they have been enforced
against the United States railroads?
MOVING 1
Even to a man who is not afraid of mud
and rain the weather yesterday was not
what might be called ideal for moving. But
in snite of all drawbacks the fact that a
large portion of the community "do move"
was demonstrated triumphantly yesterday.
Tne moving spectacle will be continued
to-day. If the weather does not change the
spectators will be moved also to tears.
Hardly a more painful sight than a grand
piano wallowing in a mudhole can be im
agined; unless it be the owner of the costly
instrument contemplating its destruction.
There are movers and movers. "We do not
speak of the case-hardened and muscular
beings of the baggage-smasher species, who
are the actual agents of the transfer of Lares
and Penates from one hearth to another.
They are cast in one mold, although it has
been noticed that some are worse than
others. But the principals in this transac
tion are naturally dissimlar in their be
havior under these trying circumstances.
Properly and generally speaking, man, the
animal coated and of bifuricated continua
tions, may be eliminated from the equation.
"When "moving" comes the head of the
household, real or nominal as the case may
be, the bead by courtesy, is made conscious
of his uselessness. If he stays he is sure to
be in the way. "Usually he goes to business
as usual, and reappears upon the threshold
of the new home after the earthquake has
occurred. But it is a day of triumph for the
housewife. The poignant pleasures of
spring house cleaning, of packing trunks tor
the mid-summer vacation, of wedding the
eldest girl, of burying several rich and ripe
relatives, are all compressed into the cli
mactic spasm of moving as it strikes the
average matron. Her position is that of a
martyr to duty, and no one who has but
stood upon the periphery of a moving will
begrudge her an iota of the credit she may
claim.
Bat if moving is under ordinary circum
stances an operation rather more disagreea
ble and dangerous than matrimony, how
much more so it must be when the floodgates
of heaven are opened and City Councils have
the paving of your street under considera
tion, and well under at that. The heart of
man shrinks appalled from the contempla
tion of such a catastrophe. Yet there are
people to whom not to have moved even
under the diluvian condition of yesterday
would have been a heartbreaking disap
pointment. The peripatetic inclinations of
manv human beings especially in
America are among the things nn
cxplainable. Families have been known,
we are seriously assured, when actual
transfer of the home was impossible, to load
their household effects upon wagons and
drive them around a block or two. In such
case the appetite for moving has become a
mania, of course.
AflBOWING INDUSTRY.
The remarkable expansion which has
taken place in the plate glass industry
during the past few years affords the subject
of an interesting article elsewhere. The
home production has more than doubled in
the past lew years, while the consumption
has increased over 50 per cent. The gratify
ing fact also appears that the entire increase
in consumption has been supplied by the
home industry.
There is no reason why the fear of over
production, which appears to be entertained
by some ot those connected with the indus
try,should occasion any serious forebodings.
The statistics show that the cheapening of
the price has daring the past four years in
creased consumption from 5,900,000 feet an
nually to 9,300,000. The full effect of
the reduction in cost is not jet
felt, "With the increase in building
operations going on everywhre, it
is quite certain that the consumption will
largely increase. It is also well known that
there is room for a further reduction of
prices, which will additionally stimulate
consumption. The evidence in the Ford
City and Pittsburg Plate Glass litigation
revealed the fact that a very large margin
of profits exists at present prices. That
the competition of new establishments will
reduce prices is more than probable; but
the increase in demand and the enlarged
use of plate glass at the reduced prices will
probably bring the compensation for that.
It will not be surprising to find even the
reported 15,000,000 feet of consumption
attained under full competition.
Capital is not generally invested in new
industries without thoroughly looking over
the ground; and it is not likely that those
who put their funds into plate glass estab
lishments in this vicinity, whether at Ford
City, Duquesne, Charleroi or Tarentum,
will find their judgment misplaced. They
may not get the big profits of past years;
but the production of a staple article like
plate glass will, with capable management,
be sure to yield legitimate profits, so long
as general business is prosperous.
TOO MUCH ENTERPRISE.
Enterprise is a capital thing in the news
paper business, and audacity in the pursuit
of legitimate news is a good quality in a
reporter. Bat enterprise and audacity may
be carried too far. The New York reporter
who hid himself in the jury room at the
close of the trial of ex-Sheriff Flack and his
fellow conspirators, was a trifle too enter
prising and audacious. He knows it know.
After spending 30 days in jail and paying
$250 fine, he will return to his profession
with a chastened spirit and a clearer con
ception of the line dividing legitimate from
illegitimate enterprise. As it was his silly
exploit jeopardized to some extent the result
of a trial which had been brought with
difficulty to a satisfactory conclusion.
In this case, too, there was no conceivable
benefit to the public to be gained by the
reporter's contempt ot court and breach of
the law. "What occurred in the jury room
the public had no right to know under any
circumstances. In reality the privacy of
jury deliberations is one of the most valua
THE
ble prerogatives the people possess. Every
one is concerned in keeping private the
vote in the jury room, and the reasons
actuating the jurors. So that while we are
sorry that the erring reporter must pay the
penalty, we cannot say that the penalty is
unreasonably heavy.
Tnn difficulties of an alleged Messiah are
manifold, but tho one which requires to be
most sternly pat down, is that of rivalry in
sacred representation. That is the inference
from the stern manner in which Schwelnfurtb.
of Illinois, suppressed an imaginative female
of his community who declared that she was
Ere. The head of tho community would hare
no tempter of Adam in his Paradise, and
sererely ordered Evo shipped back to Chicago.
The inference that Chicaco is where people go
when they are drlren out of Eden, is already
evoking a sarcastic tone in the Chicago press
toward Schwrinf urtu.
It seems as if the Allegheny postoffice
might be banded over from the outgoing to tho
incoming postmastor without getting into a
squabble fust like two railroad corporations
orer a disputed right of way.
A late discovery in physics is to the
effect that under certain conditions beams of
light pire forth sound, and that different col
ored rays of solar light give out different
sounds. This gives a scientific foundation to
the old theory about the music of the spheres,
and permits ns to recognize some reality in the
poetic reference of the Bible to the tune when
the morning stars sang together. It also may
establish a certain relation between tne operatic
stars and the lights of the solar system, with
the difference that, however the former may
color themselves they giro out just the same
sounds.
The need of a water supply may bring
a portion of Reserve township into tho city
of Allegheny. If the water is used to clean
out the gambling dens, tho change might provo
mutually advantageous
The respite of Smith, which was an
nounced from Harris burg yesterday, makes it
probable that before his six weeks' additional
lease of life has expired his sentence will be
commuted. It would certainly be discredit
able, when so many wanton murderers have
got off with terms of imprisonment, to hang
this man, whoso crime had as much provoca
tion as any that has been committed in this
county for years.
The city gets possession of its new park
to-day, by the removal of the tenants. Before
the close of the year It is hoped that Pitts
burg will have a pleasure ground worth going
to see.
Colonel. Elliott F. Shepaed is urg
ing New York to pitch in and have an exposi
tion of its own In 1892, now that Chicago has
left the field clear by fixing its fair for 1893.
This would be too much enterprise for New
York. The metropolis will have to content
itself with tho fact that it has a permanent ex
position of Sbepard as the champion example
of more varieties of foolishness than any other
man on record.
The fact that carpenters in Massachusetts
are striking for nine hours' work per diem is
an indication that Pittsburg need not fear
trouble on that score this year.
The steamer which deserts another ves
sel of a rival line, when the latter is in a sink
ing condition, does not present an example of
humanity that Is calculated to rouse the ap
proval of tho world. The White Star line will
lose a good deal more than the time tho
Adriatic gained by leaving the City of Paris
before the latter's safety was assured.
The whirligig of time brings ronnd its
revenges. Sherman has proved that he is more
than a match for Alger with the Diamond
Match Company behind him.
The Tory organ, the London Standard,
has just exhibited its characteristic ot con
servative slowness, by coming to the front with
an article in favor of loci tins the World's Fair
at Ne w York. Sometime or other the esteemed
Standard will make a bit by getting abreast of
the progress of events if it lives to see the
millennium.
Affidavits on that license question
and the speak-easy list are becoming almost as
plenty as the leaves In Vallambrosa; and they
are nearly as valuable.
Two students of Yale College have ap
parently been educated in the modern economic
theories of combination. They have leased all
the available tennis grounds in New Haven
and are going to make a neat sum by re letting
them. This may causo a racket, but the specu
lators are evidently not in the thing for a love
game.
"When horses are regularly purchased in
tho market for use as dog's meat, it is evident
that this horse market at least is going to the
dogs.
The shallowness of the idea of putting a
protective tariff on agricultural products in
this country is disclosed by the fact that there
is already a duty of 10 cents per bushel on corn.
If the duty were a dollar a bushel what differ
ence would it make In the price that tho farmer
gets for his corn?
If a vote had been taken yesterday on the
subject of changing moving day to May 1, it
would have been carried by a large majority.
Councils closed their term yesterday
with well-formed felicitations over the progress
of the city during the past year. May the in
coming body have tho same happy slate ot
affairs to rejoice over next year, with the ad
dition of a decreased tax rate.
Snows and mud kept up the character
of March for the most persistently disagree
able month ot the season, to the bitter end.
A duty of five cents per dozen on eggs
will be likely to provoke the jeers of the op
position to the effect that tho Republicans In
Congress are trying to protect the industry of
their only living ex-President
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Mary J. Holmes, the novelist, will spend
the summer in Alaska with her husband.
Justin McCarthy is making a close study
of the French Revolution with the view of
publishing a book thereon.
William O'Brien, tho Irish member of
Parliament, who is in Paris writing a novel,
will call his book "When We Wore Boys."
Gatarre, the great tenor, who died re
cently, loft an estate of 800,000. His nightly
salary for some tlmo had been 1,400, and ho
lived very modestly.
Stanley has written to King Leopold that
be will visit Brussels durinc the month of
April, and the authorities are preparing to give
him a grand reception.
The picture by Romney, which was sent to a
recent London exhibition by an old maid who
feared she was presumptuous in asking that it
be iusured for 2,600, "because it was an old
heirloom and much esteemed in the family,"
has just been sold, it Is said, for 40,000.
Ex-Kinq Milan of Servia is the most reck
less gambler now in Paris. He will bet on any
thing. If he is not in possession nf a pack of
cards he is glad to match coifsror make the
mostabsurd wager. Generally hois very lucky
and his winnings exceed his losses at the end
of the year.
The Guinness Trust, representing Sir Ed
ward Guinness, has. selected several sites in
London for the erection of dwellings for the
working classes, which are to differ from the
famous Feabody houses in that they will be let
only to the poorest class of laborers, and that
the rent will be almost nominal.
Robert Louts Stevenson, tho novelist,
has taken a great fancy to Samoa. He has
bought an estate of 400 acres on the hill near
Apia, where be intends to make bis home. He
was at Sydney when last heard from, and his
present intention is to visit Engnd during the
summer. He will be back in Samoa in Novem
ber, when he will give himself up to house
building and the completion of bis South Sea
novel, "The Wrecker." He contemplates
writing a history of Samoa.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Captain Watklns the Illslit Man for That
Maritime Emergency Ho is Known to
Dlnnr Pittsburgcrs News Tbnt Ought
Never to bo Bottled Up Cool Times for
Song Birds.
Tt did not surprlso anyone who knew Captain
Watkins, of tho City of Paris, to hear that
his coolness, In the presence of danger, had a
great effect in calming the passengers, and
averting a panic. He is a typical English
sailor of the best sort "Without a blusterinc
characteristic be is full of pluck and quiet de
termination. Just the sort of a roan for the
terrible emergency which ho had to face the
other day.
In figure ho is squarely built, his shoulders
heavy and his chest broad and deep. Not
much, it at all, above the middle height, he
gives one the impression of being a big man.
His hair and beard are red, and his cheeks
ruddy. In his behavior toward the passengers,
courteous, bat not to the extent that some less
ablo captains of trans-Atlantic liners are apt to
be. You won't find him everlastingly with the
pretty girls on the quarter-deck; though I have
seen him chat with a sea sick woman for half
an hour.
tthen I saw him last he was caDtain of the
City of New York, the twin sister ship of
the one ho now commands. During the second
voyage westward of tho City of Now York an
accident occurred to the machinery and com
pelled her to lie to for a day and night on the
southeastern edge of tho Newfoundland Banks.
That might not have been such a safe and pleas
ant experiment if there had been heavy weather
or fog. As it was the sea was calm as a mill
pond and the weather clear and sunuy, and all
wo had to crumble at was the delay. The dis
cipline in tho crew of Inman steamers is very
good as far as it came under my notice, and
this seems to have been borne out by the be
havior of the officers and men of the City of
Pans.
A rROPOS of tho alleged unwillinimess of tho
Inman officials at Qucenstown to give the
newspaper correspondents all the news of tho
disabled vessel, at their command, it would be a
sensible thing if it wero made a misdemeanor
punishable with fine or imprisonment to with
hold news where the public has such a clear and
incontestable right to know the facts. It isn't
as If this bottling np of bad news did anyono
any good in tho end. If there are compromis
ing circumstances in an accident by sea or land
they will be sure to come out, and the prolonga
tion of cruel suspense is useless and criminal.
There was a gross instance of this worse than
stupidity on tbe part of the Lake Shore Bail
road officials afterthe Bay Vicwaccident. The
Bailroad Commissioners of New York, it 13
comforting to note, told the railroad officials
that they did wrong to try to head off the re
porters. The public will sustain this view al
ways in the case of accidents on land or sea.
A gentleman, presumably a classmate of
Judgo Ewlng's, writes to say than an error
was mado in this column in the statement that
Judge Ewing was at Washington and Jefferson
College. Ho says "Judge Ewing was a gradu
ate of tbe old college, the famous college, viz:
Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., long before
the union of Washington and Jefferson Col
lege." The correction is cheerfully made, though
the point of the story was not the name of the
college, but the fact that Judge Ewing, after
a lapse of so many years could remember tho
names of all his classmates.
"The unfortunate robins, blue birds, virioles
and other harbingers of spring, who ar
rived In great numbers last week and tho week
before that, aro not having a halcyon time, but
they are farely vociferous all tho same.
When the snow was falling quite rapidly on
Sunday afternoon I beard robbins calling to
one anotber from fence to fence along astretch
of low land by the Ohio; and just after a freight
train had crashed and rumbled by a viriole
crossed the tracks singing with all his little
heart a gust of springtime music as sweet as
if sunshine and a balmy breeze had induced it.
A songbird might be pardoned for tacitunity in
the presence of a snowstorm and a freight
train.
Tho days now are getting long. It is light,
away from the city's shadows, till past 7 o'clock.
About that hour last night I saw two robins on
my lawn trying to spear worms through the
enow-sodden turf. They talked cheerfully, too.
as they hunted up a supper. I am afraid tbey
had more talk than worms, poor redbreasts.
STANDS IK THE FOREMOST BANK".
The Dispatch Elbows Its Way to tho Top
Notch of Journalism.
From the Parker City Phoenix, j
The past decade of Pittsburg has witnessed
an astonishing growth in its daily press. During
tbe past ten years tbe Dispatch Publishing
Company has not only maintained its lead, but
has shot far ahead of its cotemporanes. One
of the new features was its Sunday edition.
Although others were in tho field and supposed
tn be filling tne bill, the plucky proprietors of
The Dispatch elbowed its way in and stands
to-day in the foremost rank. Its Sunday circu
lation is claimed to be 50.000 copies. The
Daily Dispatch Is not content with its fast
growth or its present immense circulation, but
is preparing the way to eclipse all former
efforts, if possible. To accomplish its aim,
another powerful steam perfecting press is
being manufactured to enable the company to
turn out its edition for the early morning trains.
Besides adding new machinery for its mechani
cal department, the brainy feature of the bouse
will not be neglected. The editorial and re
portonal corps will be strengthened. The
Dispatch's growth is not yet attained.
AN 0BSTREPER00S PASTOR.
Ho Gain Admission to Church by Breaking
tn the Doors.
fSPKCIAL TELEGRAM TO TJtE DISPATCH. I
Washington, March 31. The Nazareth
Baptist Church, which has been closed for a
few days because the trustees did not believe
in the pastor, Bev. Richard Hatchett Mas
broken open yesterday morning by that gentle
man. He was determined to hold services and
about 10 JO o'clock he forced tho doors open.
He remained in doors all tho rest of tho day for
fear the trustees would again close tho doors
on him. It is probable suit will bo entered
against him, and an effort made to have him
vacate his charge.
DEATHS OP A DAI.
Vlco Admiral xteplirn C. Rovrnn.
Washington; March 31. Vice Admiral Stephen
C. Kowan, United Stales Navy (retired) died here
at 1 o'clockthis morning of Hrlght's disease, aged
85 vears. Admiral Kowan was born in Ireland, and
came to this country In the early part of the cen
turv. He was appointea to Annapolis Naval
Academy from Ohio In ISM. and had a record of 60
years In the service of the United States. He was
one of the most gallant naval officers In the late
war. His last service was as Chairman of the
Lighthouse Hoard. He leaves one son. Lieutenant
Kowan, who will arrive here to-night.
William Andrews.
Mr. William Andrews, father of J. 1 Andiows,
Superintendent of the Bureau of Iliehways and
Sewers, and of Samuel Andrews. Principal of the
Howard schools, died SunUay morning, aged 84
years. Mr. Andrews was the oldost male resident
of Koblnson township. He was born near Cole
raine, Ireland, In 1806. and came to America in
1821. Early In life he was a railroad contractor.
He finally settled on a line farm In Robinson
township, ahe funeral will take place to-day, at
1 P. M.
James Closson.
Yesterday morning one of the oldest passenger
conductors on the Pennsylvania Railroad, James
8. Closson, died at his home In Dallas station. He
had been for 30 years conductor with the road and
dies regretted "by thousands with whom he came
In business contact, and upon whom his courteous
manners and obliging dlsnosltlonrinadc a favor
able Impression. He died of erysipelas, and
leaves a wife and six children, two of whom are
adults.
Capinln W. J. Means.
Captain V. J. Means, one of tho old-time river
pilots, who has been piloting from Pittsburg to
Louisville all his life nearly, and was for vears on
tbe steamer Rescue, died at his home In SlcKees-
Fiort yesterday morning of typhoid fever. His
aneral will take place Wednesday morning.
airs. Cnlherina Schnlder.
Cathenna Schnlder, the mother or Lieutenant
George Schnlder, died yesterday. Mrs. Schnider
was 73 years old. She was a most estimablo lady
and her friends will miss her sweet presence. She
will be burled to-day from her son's home on
laylor street.
B. 31. Price.
II. M. Price, freight acent at UufTalo for the
Western ew York and Pennsylvania road, died
suddenly yesterday. Mr. Price formerly repre
sented the road here, and he (Is well known In
rittsburg.
TUESDAT, APEIL 1,
DKDJIS AND DRAMA.
The Drummer Boy Agnln Greenroom Fan
The Widow Bcdott nnd Other Plays.
It was ugly weather last night; snow, rain and
a raw wind. But if it had rained icebergs and
tanks the Bijou Theater would have been full
last night You cannot keep the public away
when the "Drummer Boy; or. The Battlefield of
Shilob," Is given by gifted amateurs under the
supervision of General Alex Hays Post 3, G. A.
R,, for the benefit of the Widows and Orphans'
Fund. So last night the theater was packed
upstairs and downstairs, and people were
standing three deep at the back of tbe parquet
The audience was rewarded with a capital, per
formance of the stirring old -war drama.' The
following is the complete cast:
Mart Howard J. Milton Hays
1'armer Howard (his original ,, . ,,.
character) .... " A- Joncs
Harry Howard, the Drummer Boy. Jimraie Craven
Major Kutledge 1). Ashworth
Frank Kutlcdg6 F.A. Urundy
Farmer Elliot L. L. Buchanan
'Jom billot Charles A. try
i attic bchn.it John L. Brown
WIHbmltli Edward F. Fisher
u5oomi)0..!?!r.f..Vif.""!?er!: lLeon J-Long
Mrs. Farmer Howard..'.'. .MIs's Mamie Sawyer
Mrs. Mart Howard Miss rdltli A. Atkinson
juss Jennie Howard Miss Lulu Bell urcutt
Mrs. Major Hutledgc Miss Louise Dannenfcls
Mrs. larmcrtlllot Miss Harriet Eichmlller
u. S. ARMY omCEES.
Major General, commanding) tr ,,,,-
Union forces . . - u- Bnidv
Chief of staff Jos. Kuntz
Commodore w. F. bperr
Assistant Adjutant General John F. Hunter
Brigadier General Geo. W. Bowers
Chief or staff. Geo. It.lajlor
Colonel Robinson W. J. Hamilton
Recruiting Ofilcer, Captain Company 1. J.E Over
Captain Company B Ihoj. E. Cunningham
J,ow prisoner Harry Mgble
CONFEDERATES.
Lieutenant Gencraljohnson Geo. W. Perkins
Chief of staff Allen C'onlell
Lieutenant and Ald-de-Camp Harry Nlgble
General Clicathain Joseph Iirson
Chief oi Staff George V. Morton
Lieutenant and Ald-de-C'amp.... L. L. Buchanan
Captain Company G Harry Khultz
Captain Company H Jos. T. Ferguson
Assisted by Captain George IE. Taylor's and
Captain Harry Schmidt's companies A and B,
Fourteenth Kcclmcnt, S. G. P.
Naturally, tho Mart Howard of Mr. J. Mil
ton Hays, and tho Uncle Joe of Mr. Leon J.
Long stood out with remarkable prominence.
Mr. Hays' impersonation abounded in strength,
and the broad humor of Lonney Long's old
darkej was very enjoyable. Mr. Long sung
several songs with good effect, and that which
went to tho tune of Gus Williams "Oh! What
Beautiful Language," tickled the audience im
mensely, especially the allusions to the license
question which It contained. Many others in
the cast distinguished themselves, and particu
larly Miss Mamie Sawyer in the role of Mrs.
Howard The realistic military features of
the play were admirably cared for by the
National Guardsmen in tbe cast. The per
formance as a whole is well worth seeing, aside
from the excellent purpose for which it is
given.
Grand Opera House.
After getting in the way of that "cyclone of
mirth and music," as the programme so truth
fully calls "Greenroom Fan," the question
spontaneously arises: When was Bronson How
are guilty of writing it? Still, it is late in the
day to ask about tbe origin of a play that has
been a popular success tor heaven knows how
many years, and it is not worth while to be
labor anybody for an answer. We may mildly
wonder how Miss Nellie McHenry can stand it,
and lee it go at that.
"Greenroom Fun" was played at the Grand
Opera House last night before a large
audience. It was tho benefit of
tbe Grand Opera Houso employes and
tbey can be congratulated upon its success.
Miss McHenry shone in her original way in the
role of Miss Kittle Plumpet and Indian
Princess. She has not lost any of her spon
taneous gayety, and she dances and sings with
her old-time enthusiasm. Mr. AV. II. Lytell, as
Booth HcForrest, tho tragedian, who under
takes to train the amateurs in an Indian melo
drama, got a good deal of fan out of the part.
The performance of the Church ballet was also
laughable, and the situations and incidents ot
the play itself compelled hilarity. But of the
company, excepting tbe two principals, the less
said the better. The audience accepted their
singing and acting in a most generous manner.
Hnrry WilHamV Academy.
Another first-class vaudeville entertainment
is being given at this bouse this week. The
Elliott "Jolly Voyagers" put up a good show,
and no mistake. The programme opens with
O'Brien and Alexander, who have a great deal
of trouble with a trunk; tbe Elliotts follow in
their umrycio tournament: James A. Bais
ley in banjo playing and juggling Is next, and
Walton and Edwards are then seen for the first
time in five years. Houri and Lunadi in a
clover hat-tbrowing act, with two well-trained
dogs, and then MiS3 Dot Pullman evolntes on
ber globe in a puzzling and mysterious manner.
Baby Erma Onlhann, 4 years old, sings and
dances prettily, the Elliotts again show their
agility on the wheels Johnson and Mack, the
popular Irish comedians, do a neat turn, and
Culbane and Emerson's sketch, "A Bluff at
Acting," is very funny. Golden and Quigg fol
low, and a roaring farce, "Out of Sight," winds
up a great show.
Harris Theater.
The play of ''Widow Bedott" is quite as ludi
crous witb Harry La Marr in the title role as it
ever was with Nell Burges3. Two fair-sized
audiences yesterday laughed heartily over the
funny widow's mishaps. A number of special
ties aro introduced by tho company, several of
them very good. Miss Vivle Nobriga's singing
and dancing are quite clever, Miss Edith Rus
sell's act is also good, and the "Widow Bedott
Quartet ' sing some very pretty selections. J.
ll Lee's singing and sand jigs are also worthy
ot mention. Master Harne. a boy soprano,
was encored at each performance. Louis
Peters' Elder Shadrach Sniffles is not so bad,
but Gus Daly's Josiah Crane has not a single
redccmine quality. It is not even mediocre
"houso play." The rest of the company fill
tneir parts no more.
Theatrical Notes.
The extraordinary attraction at tho World's
Museum, Allegheny, yesterday was the gorilla
which recently distinguished himself in the
prize ring. Ihero are many other curiosities,
and a fall fledged variety show beside.
"Spider and the Fly" puzzles will be pre
sented to the first 500 purchasers of seats for
tbe play of that name, which will bo given at
the Bijou noxt week.
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.
Senator Hearst has been in the Senato
two years and has made two speeches, and he is
always ready to second a motion to adjourn.
Our colored readers will learn with dismav
that the melon growers of the South are deilslng
means whereby the fruit will be so distributed
that the market will not be glutted.
Maryland's defaulting Treasurer was not
a poker player, but he had a good many friends
who dla play.
The lion and lamb story won't go down any
more. March came In like a roaring Hon, and
went out like the fiery, untamed beast that Cum
mlpgs tells about centuries ago.
A golden opportunity is open for American
lady millionaires. Prince Albert Victor, a son of
the Prince of Wales, Is sklrmisning around for a
wife with a well-filled purse. Ihc old man has no
objections to the youngster taking a foreigner.
BUT three days remain for cashiers to skip
to Canada. Procrastination is tbe thief of time,
and If you Intend going, now Is the accepted
time.
The Louisiana Lattery Company offers to
pay that State JoC0,000 per year taxes. As Hint
amount is about one-half the profits each month,
the company's liberality Is something unparalleled
In the history of frauds.
It has been noted that the record of the Cro
nln murder trial covers 6,000 printed pages, and
Senator Blair was not the compiler, cither.
The ladles denounce the work of the Houso
Committee In restoring the duty on Paris white
and whiting,
A Nfw York woman has lived nine years on
whisky punches. This wc believe beats the Hon.
John L. Sullivan's record.
David Dudley Field says popular govern
ment has outlived Itself. David, my boy, your
medicines have In all probability been mild dur
ing your absence.
Secretary Tracy is advertising for 80.000
pounds of navy tobacco. Ibe Secretary must
have a host of friends, indeed, and they are prob
ably all going a fishing when the spring time
comes, gentle Annie.
Clvlllzillon nnd Clinmpacnc.
From the Baltimore Herald. J
Emm Pasha, it seems, is determ'ned not to
visit Europe, but will return to tbe Upner Nile
and the equatorial provinces. He has found
tbe Balconies of civilization a little too high for
him and champagne to tread together in safety
1890.
CONGRESSMEN REJOICE.
Representatives Will Heceive Salaries
Embezzled by Sllcolt Obteryntorles
Kicking; for Solar Time Cattle to Be
Bcmovrd From Indian Lnodn.
rrnoK a statt coerispojtdent.i
TTTashington, March 31. Representative
Crain, the brilliant young member of the
House ot Representatives, has the distinction
of starting the rolling of tho ball which will
gather for them the losses of all the members
by tbe robbery of Cashier Silcott, of the office
of tbe Sergeant at Arms of the House, not
withstanding the profound views of some of the
ablest lawyers of the House that the Sergant
at Arms is not a disbursing officer of the Gov
ernment, but a mere agent of the members of
the House.
Mr. Crain promptly filed his claim for reim
bursement in tho Court of Cla'ms. having faith
that tho Imposing array of claimants, if noth
ing more, would Induce the Court of Claims to
interpret the law liberally in their favor. That
be was not mistaken in bis analysis of human
nature on that distinguished bench was shown
by a decision rendered in his favor this morn
ing. A mountain of other claims were scaled
and passed to reach this case and it received a
prompt decision. All of the members, by this
opinion of Judge Davis, will be able to speedily
get their money, which many thought and still
think was legally lost, and a way will now
probably bo found to eetfrom the vaults of the
Treasury nearly fsO.000. taken from tho safe of
the Sergeant at Arms and deposited for safe
keeping, but which, once in, seemed destined
to stay unless it were decided that tbe Sergeant
at Arms is a disbursing officer. Under this de
cision, moreover, the bondsmen of Sergeant
at Arms Lecdom can be proceeded against and
made to disgorge the amount of their security.
A Pirn for Time.
("Irievous complaints have Deen received
from various observatories throughout
the country against the Naval Observatory on
account of the latter giving tbe daily solar
time to the Western Union Telegraph, which,
in turn, furnishes it for consideration to watch
makers and others wanting exact time, thus
taking the business and its profits from the
complaining observatories.
An attache of the Naval ODservatory to-day
explained the matter as follows: "This fight
has been brewing for some time, and will prob
ably cause quite a row before it is concluded.
Tbe observatory has for 20 years past civen tho
time signals to anvone who had a wire running
to the mam clock. The Western Union Com
pany is tbe only one that has a wire now, and
it accordingly has a monopoly of the service,
but simply because tbey are the sole possessors
of a wire. The same thing would be given to
anyone else. '1 he observatory derives no bene
fit whatever from the connection with tbe
company, and simply follows an established
custom. The trouble 13 that the Western
Union has made a combination with a com
pany, and is virtually freezing out the small
observatories that derive considerable income
by time services. Tho howl is from them."
Indians Cannot Learo Their Lands.
The Corrmissioner of Indian Affairs, in ac
cordance with instructions of the Sec
retary of tbe Interior, has issued a notice to
all whom it may concern, whethor white men
orjlndians, that all cattle and other live stock
held on any Indian land in tbe Indian Terri
tory, under any pretended contract or other
arrangement with tho Indians for the nsand
occupation of any part or portion of an; Indian
lands for grazing purposes, must be reuioYcd
therefrom not later than October 1, 1890, and so
much sooner as any special circumstances af
fecting said lands or concerning any ot said
cattle may make such removal necessary. This
notice is based upon an opinion of the Attor
ney General, who has held that in tbe absence
of some law therefor, derived from either a
treaty or statutory provision, Indian tribes can
not lease their reservations.
The effect of this notice, in conjunction with
the President's proclamation of February 17,
1890, will be tbe removal of all cattle from every
part of tbe Indian Territory by October 1 next,
whether on unexpired leases or not. The In
dian agent3 located within the Territory are
instructed to see that this notice is observed
and enforced.
Liquor for tbe Soldiers.
The House to-day, in Committee of the
Whole, discussed tbe army appropriation
bill. After unimportant action, tbe committee
rose and reported tbe bill to tho House. Tbe
action of the committee in adopting an amend
ment providing that no intoxicating liquors
shall be sold to enlisted men at any canteen,
was reversed by tbe House, and the amendment
was defeated: yeas, 52: nays, 135.
Mr. Fickler, of South Daxota, offered an
amendment providing that no article, the sale
of which is prohibited by State or Territorial
law, shall be sold or offered for sale at any can
teen within such State or Territory. The
amendment was rejected yeas 72. nays 97 and
the bill was passed.
Nominations nnd Conflrmallons.
President Harrison to-day sent to the
Senate tho following nominations: Alton
Algier, of Georgia, to be Consul of tho United
States at Bheims; Frank D. Allen, of Massa
chusetts, to be United States Attorney for tho
district of Massachusetts; Frank Buchanan, of
Missouri, to be United States Marshal for East
ern district of Missouri: C. D. Clark, of Wy
oming, to bo Associate J ustice of tbe Supreme
Court of the Territory of Wyoming.
Tbe Senate confirmed John F. Selby, United
States Attorney, tor the district of North
Dakota.
McCalla May bo Conrtmnrllnlcd.
"The record of the proceedings in tbe Court
of Inquiry in tho case of CommanderMc
Calla and other officers of the United States
steamship Enterprise was received at the Navy
Department to-day.
While it is Impossible at this writing to state
positively the findings of the court, the im
pression is general that Commander McCalla
and several other officers will be court
martialed. Afraid of the Buzz Saw.
From the Baltimore Herald.
The Mc Kmley tariff bill looks so much like a
political bu zz saw that both parties are afraid
to touch it
MINISTERS BECOME EXCITED
la Arcnlns the Question of Excluding tho
Chinese.
t SPECIAL TZLEOUAM TO TrtE niSPATCII.I
Boston, March 31. At a meeting of minis
ters to-day the Bev. Judson Smith, D. D., Sec
retary of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Mission", read a letter from the
Hon. John O. Foster, of Washington, calling
attention to the Chinese enumeration bill,
which has already passed tho House and which is
before the Senate for consideration. Dr. Smith
then moved the adoption of resolutions
protesting against the proposed legislation "as
an unrighteous violation of the existing treaty
with China, as a wanton disregard of the wel
f ire and safety of our faithful and devoted
missionaries now ut work In China, and as in
jurious alike to tho business interests and tbe
good name of nur nation." Tho Massachusetts
benators and Representatives are requested to
do their utmost to prevent tbe enactment of
tho proposed law.
Hardly had Dr. Smith finished reading the
resolutions before the Ber. Jesse ll. Jones, of
Abington, sprang to his feet and vigorously
protested against the resolutions. As a Chris
tian minister and a Knight of Labor be declared
that tbe Chinese were a pestiferous force, and
ought to be excluded from this country ns a
protection to tbe American people. This
soccch set the august body by tbe
ears and half a dozen rose to reply
to the sentiment expressed by the Abington
brother. The Rev. William E. Grlffls. D. D .
warmly seconded tbe resolution and declared
that the United States had no more right to ex
elude theCnincse than any other foreigners.
"Wo have already broken our treaties with
them," he said. "Tbe situation is already
serious for our merchants and uiUsionaries in
China, and the passage of the proposed bill will
only add fuel to tho flame of hatred already
kindled."
The Rev. H. H. Beach, a Chinese missionary,
said: "I do not realize how any Christian min
ister can wish such a bill as this to pass. Thank
God, in China the Confucian religions are su
perior to those religions which we possess If
this bill Is a specimen of it"
The resolutions were adopted, in spite of a
vigorous "no" from the Rev. Mr. Jones.
RESOLUTIONS OP RESPECT.
The Bar Association Expresses Its Sorrow
Over Chnrles E. Clark's Death.
Tbe members of the Allegheny County Bar
met yesterday afternoon in the rooms of tbe
Bar Association, to take action on tho death of
Charles E. Clark, Esq , the young attorney who
died at his home in Beaver, last Friday. Judgo
Stowe presided. Messrs. T. B. Alcorn, J. T.
McCrecry, J. S. Ferguson, H. S. Floyd, J. S.
Young and W. D. Moore, the committee on
resolutions, submitted appropriate resolutions
on the death of tho young man, ho was cut off
in tbe beginning of "hat promised to be a
brilliant career.
The resolutions were adopted, and remarks
were made by Judge Stowe and A. M. Watson.
Mr. Clark was hut 22 years of age, and was ad
mitted to the bar last September.
AFTER THE PRESIDENT.
Colonel Ecbols Expects the Executive and
Cabinet at Ibe Scotch-Irish Congress
Arrangements for a Mammoth Affair
Belnc Rapidly Made.
Colonel John W. Echols, the hustling Secre
tary of the local committee of tbe forthcoming
Scotch-Irish congress to be held in tbis city on
May 2D, 30. 31 and June L departs to-morrow
for Washington, where he will try to capture
Presidont Harrison and his entire Cabinet as
stellar attractions of the event From un
official sources it is learned that there is a very
good prospect of his mission being successful.
The leading member of both branches of Con
gress will also be invited and many will come.
This, in addition to the Governors of 12 States,
attended by glittering retinues, will make the
occasion memorable.
Colonel Echols will meet Dr. Mackintosh, of
the national committee on the Congress, at
Philadelphia, and will also be joined bv one of
Pittsburg's mot eminent men in Washington,
whose good offices will be exercised with tbe
Executive. Having secured such attendance
as may be possible. Colonel Echols will make
arrangements for special transportation from
Washington. Should the plans now formed be
successful, there will be a grand parade of tho
Congress and Governors of States to meet the
Washington party and welcome it to Pittsburg.
Present indications areforoneof the greatest
gatherings of modem times, and the smooth
ness of every essential detail of the Congress
will bo guaranteed by the manacement of the
Pittsburg committee, of which Rev. I. N. Hays
Js chairman and Colonel J. W. Echols secretary.
Machinery Hall, of the Exposition building',
will bo transformed into an immense audi
torium, seating 5.000 people. There was a meet
ing of those intercs'cd yesterday, at i o'clock,
at the hall, to Inspect and approve of the plans
or Architect Bailev. Colonel Echols. W. A.
Herron and Rev. I. N. Hays represented tbe
Scotch-Inh Congress; Controller E. S. Morrow
represented the International Sabbath School
Convention: Manager Johnston represented the
Exposition Society, and Mr.Lane,of New York,
theEdouard Strauss Orchestra, which organi
zation will perform on tbe two days and mati
nee prior to the congress. Mr. liallej's plans
were warmly approved, and the contract for
their execution will be immediately let to a
responsible bidder.
Tbe entrances to the bal 1 will bo on either
side of the stage, which will occupy the end of
the building toward the main ball, and at the
main entrance to tbegrnunds. There will be two
spacious foyersat cither side of tho statre, within
the building. The stage proper will beS0x20feet.
Back of the platform, rlini In tiers, will be
spaces for singers, etc The Great Western
Band will be beneath tbe stage level. Tbe first
parqnet will extend clear across the building,
andoOfeet from the stage line. There will be
two steps, each 1 inches high, and the second
parqnet will be 30 feet deep, upon that level.
The balcony will then commence, and will rise
by the grade of 3 inches in every S2. for 200 feet,
to tbe end of tho building toward Fifth street
The contract will bo pushed and everything
will be constructed in a thoroughly substantial
manner.
An official communication was received yes
terday by Colonel Echols from Governor Camp
bell, of Ohio, stating that he would attend the
congress with his entire staff. Tbe Ohio party
will dedicate the Garfield monument at Cleve
land on Decoration Hay. and come straight to
Pittsburg. Governors Beaver, of Pennsyl
vania ; Taylor, of Tennessee; Gordon, of Geor
gia, and one other have promised to be present
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has nearly made up bis
mind to be one of the Pittsburg speakers, as
per a letter received yesterday. He is warmly
interested in the event, and will give his per
sonal services In certain directions.
The Executive Committee has inst received
information that Air. Alexander Montgomery,
of San Francisco, Vice President for his Stato
in the Scotch Irish Society of America, will be
present at the approaching congress. Mr.
Montgomery will be rtmombered as the philan
thropic millionaire who recentlvgave $200,000
to the Presbyterian Theological Institute at
San Francisco.
Colonel Ecbol3 has transferred his office to
the third floor or The Dispatch business
office, on Diamond street, where be will be
henceforth found.
Kind Words fenfuclent.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal. J
The citizens of Louisville appreciate fully the
offers of assistance coming from all sections of
the country, and wish to express their grati
tude fur these kind manifestations of sym
pathy in the day of disaster. Bat it Is only
fair to sav that our resources are ample, and
that tbe first call upon the charitable people
of our own city has not yet boen exhausted,
and will not be. While the ruin wrought by
the tornado Is unusual, serious and deadly, the
situation does not justify either a call npon the
benevolence of distant sections or of our own
State, and until tbe citizens of Louisville have
tbemselves done all that is in their power to do,
it is not just to our friends that wc should ac
cept anything but kind words.
SABBATH SCHOOL WORKERS.
Thcr Have nn Enthusiastic Inslltnto at the
East Liberty Church.
The Sabbatn School Institute of the Presby
tery of Pittsburg was commenced yesterday
afternoon In tbe East Liberty Presbyterian
Church. There were about 200 Sunday school
children present as delegates. Tho services
wero conducted by Dr. T. D. Davis, Superin
tendent, assisted by Mrs. Kumler, of the East
Liberty Church, and corsisted in representing
by a practical demonstration how to conduct a
Sunday school. Tbe lesson of March 23 was re
viewed, to test the memory of the children, and
various other exercises were made in deport
ment, prayer and singing in unison.
The "question box" was then opened, but
contained only a few questions pertaining to
tbe regulation ot children.
At iJO o'clock a business meeting of the
teachers was held. The election of officers of
the Sabbath School Association resulted as fol
lows: President, W.C.Lilley; Vice Presidents,
W. K. Jennings, Rev. J.I'.Paiterson,i3ecretary,
Dr. J. L Ferson; Treasurer. Willis A. Booth;
Executive Committee. W. K. Jenninzs. J. T.
Divis, Rev. J. M. -Mercer, Rer. C. B. Hatch,
W. A. Booth. W. C. Liliev, C. L. Rose. Rer. R.
8. Holmes, Rev. B. P. 'Miller and Dr. J. L.
Ferson.
It was decided by the Executive Committee
to sanction district conventions in the ten Sab
bath school districts as often as may be neces
sary to promote district work.
Iu the evening the Rev. David Kennedy gave
an address on "A Better Conception of a Teach
er's Work." W. K. Jennings, Esq., made a few
remarks on "How Can We Aid the Inter
national Sabbath School Convention."
X-
Able to Copo Willi the Calamity.
From the Philadelphia inquirer.!
Tbo city ot Louisville, with characteristic
bravery and independence, announces that she
Is able to cope with thv calamity which has
fallen upon ber. Bnt this need not prevent the
benevolent from extending help to those who
have suffered in other parts of the West
When full reports of the damage by the storm
shall havo been furnished it will undoubtedly
be found that for many people who nave lost
their all there Is no provision available.
A NOYEIi QUESTION IUISED.
Court to Decide Whether Electric Light Is
a Mnnafactnred Article.
.SrECIAL TELIOEAM TO TBE DISrATCIT.1
Harbisburo. March 3L Two cases were
argued before Judges Simontonand McPher
son to determine whether electricity or electric
light is a manufactured article. The Brush
Electric Light Company and Philadelphia
Electric Lighting Company refused to pay the
tax levied against them because they are man
ufacturing companies. The Commonwealth
thinks differently, and has asked the Court to
decide tho matter in dispute.
Among the other cases argued were those of
the 8tate against the New York. Lake Erie
and Western Bailroad Company, New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad Company, and
Tioga Railroad Company, which required the
Court to decide whether, when one railroad
hasirackago rights over a portion of tho line
of another railroad company, the amount
which it pajs for the privilege is to bo treated
as "rental" or 'tolls." If rental, the receipts
are not taxable; but if tolls, tbe Attorney Gen
oral contends that thev are taxable. The ques
tion of inter State Commerce also arises as tbe
tracks are used mainly for transportation into
other States. Court reserved its opinion.
SOCIAL. CHATTER.
THIS evening the ladies of tbe Idlewood M.
P. Church will give a supper ana musical and
literary entertainment for the benefit of the
church, assisted by Prof. Jones and Prof. Grif
fiths, of this city. An excellent pro;rammo has
been prepared, and an enjoyable time Is ex
pected. Kaufmaun Rros. and Gnsky have
rendered valuable assistance in offering as a
prize a handsome snit to the boy and girl selling
tbe most tickets.
AT the regular meeting of the Womans' Club
to-day "Columbus" and "The Artists of Spain"
will be discussed after papers bearing upon the
two subjects arc read.
Invitations are out for the marriage of
Miss Emma Taylor to Mr. Joseph Williams. Jr.,
to take place on Thursday evening, April 10, at
7 o'clock, at the Baena Vista Street M. E.
Church, Allegheny.
CURIOUS COUDENSATirm
A buzzard with a bell fastened around
its neck has been flopping around in the neigh
borhood of Cedar Creek, Ga.
The biggest schoolboy in Bhode Island
is believed to be William Davis, of Westerly
who is 13 years old and weighs 2S7 pounds.
The people were charged JM0 or
street car tickets for tbe use of United States
Senators during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1S69.
The Italian aster, Succi, who is said
to have abstained from food for over 160 days
is tbe attraction to the medical authorities m
London now.
At Albany Friday, a white man gave a
negro woman a baby about 2 years old to hold
for a few moments, but at last accounts had
not called for it
A bear was recentlv killed in Ashland,
Wash., that weighed 600 pounds. He had killed
four bead of stock in one place and camped
there until he had devoured them.
While plowing in a field in Georgia a
nest of hornets was unearthed by the plow.
They immediately pounced upon tbe animal
and stung bim to death before be could be re
moved. Jacob Eimmei, a farmer of Orwigs
bnrg. Pa has bad a piece of wood an inch
long and half an inch wide taken f iom his arm.
It was a splinter from a gun which exploded in
his hands 32 years vgo.
There is in the vicinity of Thomasville,
In South Georgia, a negro preacher who con
tinues sermons in defense of Judas Iscarlot.
He is attracting much attention and many
negroes go oat to hear him.
A Chinese gardener near Tucson, Ariz.,
bad a row recently with one of his countrymen.
On Wednesday morning last he went to feed
his pigs and found 31 dead in one pen. He says
bis enemies poisoned them to get revenge.
The London Lancet furnishes this list of
football casualties from all over the world
during the last season: Deaths, II: fractures
of legs, 15; of arms, 4; ot collar bones. 11; seri
ous injuries to spine, 5; to nose, 1; to knee, l:to
ankle, I; to cheek, I.
The rash to the gold fields in the
Transvaal region has been unprecedented in
history. In three years 150,000.000 of English
money have been Invested tthere. Cities have
sprung up where in 1S6S only grass could be
found and no habitation.
On Bloomfield avenue. Newark, an
electric railroad car received a discharge of
lightning from an overhead wire. The two In
candescent lamps in tbe car were burned out.
but no other damage was done. Tbe occupants
of the car wero scared out of a year or two's
life.
Pleasantville, N. J., has a citizen with
25 fingers and toes. Some of them had to be
cat off because they restricted his freodom of
action. The freak in this case appears to be a
family one, bis father and his brothers and
sisters having had seven toes each on the left
foot
The huntsmen of Southern Oregon are
engaged in the wanton slaughter of deer. It Is
said that in the vicinity of Kerbyville, Jo
sephine county, the skinned carcasses of deer
are sometimes so thick in the county roads
that teams are compelled to stop while the
driver pulls them aside.
Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washington,
never freezes, although in latitude 45 north.
The reason given i3 that it is so deep and the
warm water always rises from the bottom to
supplant the cold, which goes down to warm
itself. The Indians fish In the lake at all sea
suns and use salmon eges for bait
In a prehistoric cemetery lately uncov
ered near Montpelier, in the South ot France,
among other things found and reported to tbe
Paris Academy were two sknlls, evidently
belonging; to the Aryan race, and some human
bones that, judged from tbeir proportions,
must have belouged to a man at least ten feet
in height
Tbe negro who preached in an Augusta
church recently whilo asleep, has many
peculiarities. The morning Sews has already
alluded to his intelligent sermons while he is
asleep, though while ho is awake he is very
illiterate. His sole diet is eggs or fishes and he
never drinks water, whisky or coffee, only a tea
made of pine bark.
At Visalia, Cal., every d ly alter each
recess a battalion of chickens, led on by one or
two haughty chanticleers, makes a raid on tbo
public school grounds as soon as tbe pupils are
summoned to their respective rooms. Tbey
find pretty good picking there after about 450
urchins with pronounced appetites and well
filled dmnerbaskets.
F. H. Orvis, of the "Windsor Hotel, has
in his possession a couple of teeth belonging to
some extinct animal of tbe cretaceous period.
Tbe teeth are gigantic in size, one of them
weighing 17 pounds and tbe other 8 pounds.
These teeth were found near Peace river on
the property of the G. W. Scott Manufactur
ing Company, ot Atlanta
In 1871 a man living at Porterville,
Cal., set a slip of Ivy at one end of his store.
To-day it covers the whole building and has
climbed upon a large oak tree. The first occu
pants were a pair of mountain linnets, who
were not dlsturbe I. and their descendants still
breed there in immense numbers. They sing as
well as tbe German canaries.
The village of Dafia, on the island of
Lesbos, has a oman said to be 135 years old,
w ho still has the complete use of all her senses.
The same island contains three other inhabit
ants who are said to havo passed their hun
dredth Birthday Ismail Apa, 110 years o'd;
Khali Apa, in his I19th year, nnd Ascbik Baba.
aged 115. All three of these centineruns, it is
said, earn their living by daily work.
A Boston gentleman, to test his dog'a
understanding, read aloud to him from the
newspipei an article to the effect that our
worthy legislators had abandoned tho attempt
to muzzle the dogs. Thereupon thejoy of tho
St. Bernard knew no pounds. Ho barked,
leaped into the air. ran around the room, and
even became so excited that he ran np and
down stairs until restrained by force.
A man named Juan Yaca died at Lone
Pine. Ar.z. About 16 years ago a deputy
sheriff was murdered In Kern county. Recently
the murderer was discovered and arrested.
Vact was the only eye-witness to the killing;
his testimony was not taken, and now it may
not bo possible to convict the accused. Vaca
lived witb an Irdian woman: after his death
she said, "I heap sorry: cry like h II."
The negroes in Liberty county, where
so many "false Chnsti" held forth last sum
mer, have not quie ert clown as much as
everybody Is led to believe. There some crazy
spirits among them wh" are daily looking for
tho coming Messiah, and anyone could lead
them on anotber pilgrimage. Some of them
burn fires of nights to light the way of the
expected Savior, should his advent be at
night.
FOll ALL FOOLS' DAY.
Husband I really believe that njy rheu
matism has entirely disappeared.
OAlfc Well, I hope it will not stay away for
good, as then wcwtil have to buy a barometer to
find out when It Is going to rain. 2 exas Sitinge.
Will-Power I have cured myself of
smoking. Major.
Major Domo Bow did von do It?
o. Hi-rower Bought a box of country cigars.
Harper's haiar.
"They have a pair of pants in the Patent
Office at Washington."
'Pair of what?' ' asked tLe purls t.
"Pants."
'What unheard bit of Invention is a pair of
pants?" Uurper's Bazar.
Taking a Deep Interest in Him Dr.
Fllle You've been working like a hero, doctor,
to save young Starvely's life. And he as poor as
Job's turkey, too!
Dr. Hackem That's Just It. He owes na S75
already on my bllL and If he dies I won't net a
cent Harper's Eazar.
Johnny Jly book, pa, says that honejty
Is the best policy. Is that true, pa?
Mnnnlbags Yes, my son; If there hadn't been
honest people In the world, how do you suppose
I should ever have been able to get ahead as I
have? Yes. my son, honesty is a great help to a
man, a great help. Boston Transcript.
Colonel Yerger What's the matter with
yon? Your clothes are all torn and your face Is all
scarred up. ,
Sam Johnslng Muffin', boss, nuflln' waff
speakin'or. 1 Jus' had a little chat wld my fast
and only lab, what I met for de fust time since" 1
married Swayback I.ucy.-T&m Siftiagt.
Portly Individual What is a lair cigar
worth per tbonsand?
Dealer About (75.
"What 1 1 1"
"Beg pardon. Colonel. I didn't recognize you
at first About 7 SO. How are you making It In
your canvas for Alderman?" Chicago TriDunt.
Ready to Proceed to Business. Man with
blank book (lo large, cross-eyed woman at door)
1 am the census later. I wish to tee the bead of
the family.
Voice from Inside the room H'm, Il'm. Ahem!
Large cross-eyed woman (peremptorily to owner
of voice) Keep that cradle going, James! (To
census uker)-Oo ahead with your questions, sir.
Chicago Trioune.