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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH
T' SECOND PART.
PAGES 9 TO 12.
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SIGHS OFJEGLECT
In That Portion of the State Isolated
by the Bad Country
Boads and
LACK OP EAILWAY FACILITIES.
Untillea Farms and Deserted Hamlets
Along the Kemarkalle
South Penn Wreck.
A CHAKCE TO SECDEE CHEAP HOMES.
TlTil Impressions or a Carriagt Side Across the
Old Keystone,
twzxttzx roa the dispatch. !
The record of a drive across the southern
portion of our State, from Deer Park, Md.,
to Philadelphia, may possibly be of interest
to some of your readers who have been en
joying the clever letters from your "DIS
PATCH Expedition" in search of pood roads.
Being a resident of the ancient, honorable
and peaceful City of Brotherly Love, and
being required by business to cross the Alle
gheny Mountains a journey most unusual
for the ordinary Philadelphian, previous to
which he generally makes his will and says
a last goodby and finding myself iu the
beantitul valley of the Youghiogheny, at
the little village of Friendsville, Garrett
county, Sid., the chance arose to secure a
pair of young, sound, medium-sired horses;
the question, however, which at once sug
gested itself was, if bought, hovr are they to
be gotten home? "Why, drive them, of
course, suggested a friend; and so the deal
was made, and the horses bought.
A MODEL MARYLAND EOAD.
After four or five weeks of driving through
.Fayette and Somerset counties, Pa., and
Garrett county, Md., we my wife and I
started on a certain Monday to drive from
Deer Park, Md., to Philadelphia. Our out
fit consisted of the above mentioned horses, a
light buggy, rubber coats and a small bit of
luggage which contained achange of clothes.
"We started about 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
and, after a delightful drive on the smooth,
wide, well-kept highway, which leads from
Deer Park to Oakland, passed through
Mountain Late Park with its pretty little
cottages and handsome villas, reached Oak
land in the early evening in time for sup
per. And Just here let me say that the road
Irom Deer Park to Oakland is worthy of ex
amination and imitation by all the super
visors of the county roads of Pennsylvania.
Kelt morning, at an early hour, the
horses were brought around, and we started
for Manor Lands, Maryland, the present
terminus of the Confluence and Oakland
Railroad. The Maryland roads over which
we had to pass were in excellent condition.
The horses were ea?er to go; the air was
cool and bracing, and the views were ex
tensive and grand, so we had a most enjoya
ble morning. Alter a two hours drive we
parsed a mud flat, which at certain seasons
is covered with water, and is then known as
Lake Cleveland, called so because an ex
President of the United States fished there.
"What he caught has never been recorded.
Ihe views of the distant and near ranges
of mountains, the Hoop Pole .Ridge, Mea
dow mountains. Winding Gap, and Negro
mountains, were superb and were made more
than usually so by the clouds, which every
now and then would obscure the sun and
make great tbadows, which seemed to chase
each other from hill-top to hill-top and from
mountain-ridge to mountain-ridge,
SPLENDID SUMMEE SrOTS.
The road from Oakland to Manor Lands
is upon a high, narrow plateau, which lorms
the eastern water-shed of the Youghiogheny,
and is 2,600 leet above sea level, so that Ihe
views are extended, far-reaching and grand.
It was astonishing to me to see how little
this section of country was appreciated, and
how few had made it their summer home.
Perhaps it is because so little is known of it,
and so lew people realize the beauties which
are so near to the great and growing Iron
City.
Prom Manor Lands we went to Friends
ville. and from there to Selbeysport, Md.,
and then on to Somerfield, Pa., having
driven 32 miles. Iu going from Selbeys
port to Somerfield, along the Youghiogheny
river, we crossed the State line into Penn
sylvania, and although the road from
Friendsville to the State line was not the
best, as soon as we crossed into Pennsylva
nia it was simply execrable, and more than
once were the fence rails taken down by
some one to fill in the rnts and mud holes, so
that we could pass without upsetting the
carriage. At Somerfield we put up at the
comfortable country house kept by Mr.
"William Endsley and his kindly wife and
daughter. This old hotel is on the old Na
tional road, near where it crosses the
Yonghiogheny river on the old stone bridge
of three large arches. This famons bridge
was built in 1819, as solid and massive to
day as the day on which it was finished.
Mr. Endsley's ancestors owned and kept
a hotel before'him, and at this comfortable
house manv of the former statesmen and po
litical leaders of the country have taken
their meals or spent the night as they were
going from the South and "West to Wash
ington, or returning to their homes. For,
before the days of railroads, this old nation
al road was the great highway between the
East and "West, from Cumberland, Md., to
"Wheeling, "W. Va.
SOOTHERS' TIEE SAMENESS.
After spending a day or two at Somer
field, wnere everything was so pleasant and
homelike that we were loth to say good
bye, we started one morning about 8 o'clock
for Somerset, which is the county seat of
Somerset county. "We drove along
the national road to Addison, passed
the old-fashioned toll-gate, with its no
tices as to payment of toll, and
its requirements and restrictions, more
numerous than the moral law, and then
strnck off to the north, along the Turkey
Foot road, passing through Glade and one
or two other small villages, bad our dinner
at the town of Centerville, and proceeded to
Somerset, which we reached about 6 o'clock
in the evening. Here we found very com
fortable quarters at the Somerset House, and
then proceeded to take in the town. It is
curious how similar the plan of all the
county seats of the southern tier. counties
are. Somerset, Bedford, Chambersburg,
Gettysburg, Lancaster and York all seem to
have been plotted out on one general plan,
which consists of a large plateau in the
middle and four streets running out there
from. The town of Somerset is situated
upon a hill top. The Court House is easllv
visible for a number of miles around. The
streets are wide and the stores inviting, al
though not numerous. There are several
pretty residences which adjoin the Court
House, and the whole town looks comforta
ble and prosperous.
The next afternoon we started out for Bed
ford, over the famons Bedford and Somerset
nike. and drove about 12 miles tn n nlrt.
fashioned farm house owned by Mr. John J
Warner, a lormer member of the Legisla
ture. Mr. "Walker and his family were
most courteous in their attentions, and as
bountiful and generous as their well-filled
granary and well stocked larder would in
dicate they might be expected to be. Mr.
"Walker's reminiscences were exceedinglv
interesting, and his history of the famous
old
SOMERSET AND BEDFOBD PIKE
was most entertaining. Standing on his
porch, one could lei the windings of the
turnpiki for miles; and he informed us that
in olden times, the birds pf cattle, sheep
and hogs were in sicht of each other for
months at a time, making one continuous
train across the mountains, and that as many
as 10 or 15 stages, filled with passengers, in
addition to all the old Connestoga wagons
would pass daily. It seemed incredible, a
we recalled the broken down fenres and
dilapidated houses, and the vacant sheds,
and the roofless barns, that such a devasta
tion could be wrought in so brief a period:
a devastation caused by the march of prog
ress in other directions, and the hard and
severe struggles to obtain sustenance in the
sections deserted.
After a comfortable night Bpent at Mr.
"Walker's, we bade them all good-bye and
started, early in the morning, for Bedford
Springs. Our ride the previous day had
been beautifnl, but now it was grand. "We
seemed to be directly up among the well
wooded mountain peaks of the beautiful
Allegfaenies. and as we went winding down
from one level to another, all the way from
the top to the bottom, we had most beautiful
views ot the villages scattered here and there
in the plain. As we drew near them, how
ever, we would frequently find that they
were either half or wholly deserted, and on
inquiring the cause, we learned that in many
instances the cost of transportation and the
lack of a market for their commodities had
caused the inhabitants to give up and move
away.
THE SOUTH PENN "WRECK.
All along our drive from Somerset to Bed
ford we saw evidences of the vast work
which had been done upon the South Penn
sylvania Bailroad, and could not help bnt
think that if the millions sunk in useless
embankments and vast tunnels could only
be utilized, another large artery for the sup
ply of food and raw material would be added
to Pittsburg's already immense railroad
system.
Of all our trip, I think I may say, the
scenery all along the way from the top
of the mountains at "Walker's to our stop
ping point that evening at J. Mcllvaine s,
was the most beautifnl of our trip. "We
r) iiifH nt Hertford's famons Snnng House.
which is a beautiful spot, and thought if
the curative powers of the waters were one
half so beneficial and pleasant as the air, it
was truly the place for invalids.
The turnpike roads from Somerset io Bed
ford is almost abandoned, weeds springing
up in the middle of the pike, and no ap
parent care being taken whatever to keep it
in order, notwithstanding the fact that the
tolls were exorbitant. Away from the turn
pike the roads were simply fearful and dan
gerous. Leaving Bedford about 3 o'clock.we drove
on the pike from Bedford toward Chambers
burg, and here we found the road in as good
condition as any turnpike road could be ex
pected to be; and what a beautiful ride it is
all lovers of Bedford can testify. "We drove
about 1G miles that afternoon. The first six
along in the valley, and the last ten up the
hills and over the mountains again, until
evening time, when we came to the famous
old hostelry of J. Mcllvaine, which stands
at the fork of the roads leading to Harris
burg and McConnellsburg. This old hotel
contains 24 bedrooms, which are always
ready for guests, large dining rooms and
bitting rooms, and yet it is a rare thing for a
traveler to put up there over night. Travel
on this turnpike, from Everett all the way
to ConuellsviUe, has practically ceased, and
the turnpike leading to Harrisburg was
choked up with briers and weeds so lar as
could be seen that it would be dangerous to
use it,
LOUD CRIES FOR A RAILROAD.
Mine host, Mr. J. Mcllvaine, who has
passed his four score years, was genial, open
hearted and seemed to take the greatest in
terest in our trip across the State. He asked
us all manner of questions concerning Pitts
burg and the wonderlul developments in the
western part ot our Estate, and his one la
ment was, "Oh, if we only had a railroad.
If the SouthernPennsylvania Bailroad had
only been completed." "Why, for two
years," he said, "my house was filled with
engineers and draughtsmen who were work
ing upon the tnnnel just below here, which
is over two miles long, but now the work has
ceased, and the place is deserted." He took
me over his placR and pointed out where the
grading had been done, and showed me the
tunnel almost completed, and he lamedted
bitterly on account of the fate which had
lelt him high and dry in the mountains,
cut off from civilization.
Next morning we bade Mr. J. Mcllvaine
goodby, and started for Chambersburg;
passing through McConnellsburg, which is
one of the three county seats in our State
without railroad connections, and which is
perfectly described in Goldsmith's "De
serted Village."
As we drove through the main street we
saw the Court House, which was sadly in
need of paint, and the Court House yard
was filled with weeds, so that we could not
help thinking that a lively cemetery in the
vicinity of Pittsburg would be a more desira
ble place for habitation than McConnells
burg. "We drove through McCoonellsbnrg
and then over the hills on a first-rate turn
pike, which is kept in good condition, owing
to the large amount of drayage from Lou
den, which is the nearest railroad point.
RICH SOIL tJNTILLED.
On the top of the mountains, between Mc
Connellsburg and Louden, the scenery is
beautiful, and we stopped our horses"fre
qnently to admire it and to take great
draughts of the delicious cold water which
flows from the rocks. "We took our midday
meal at Louden. Then on to Chambersburg
which we passed about 6 o'clock, reaching
Fayetteville just as the sun was setting.
We should have liked to spend the night at
Chambersburg, but were eager to be at
Gettysburg on the morrow, and therelore
drove about Chambersburg, looked at the
different objects of interest, thought that the
rebels must have felt fortunate in being able
to overrun and sack such a rich and com
fortable section of country. Saw the office
of the famous Chambersburg Repository,
and then drove on.
At Fayetteville we stayed with Mr. Sam
Sherman. His was the only inviting house
in town, and he received us with open arms.
He informed us that he intended spending
the next day at Gettysburg, and if we de
sired, would act as our pilot around the bat
tle fields. His offer was too generous to he
refused, and so next morning found us up at
screech of dawn and with our horses soon
harnessed, we were speeding away to that
fatefnl and glorious battlefield. The drive
to Gettysburg was in many respects the
same as the day before. The people we met
seemed listless or indifferent. The gardens
were nezlected and three-fourths of the farm
ing lands were allowed to remain untilled.
There were a few cattle here and there in the
pasture fields, but the general condition
outside of the town and its immediate
vicinity was that of desolation.
A NATIONAL MEMORIAL PARK.
We reached Gettysburg about 11 o'clock,
and Mr. Sherman pointed ont the famous
spots,"Eound Hill,""Devil's Den," "where
Reynolds fell;" and we could see for our
selves, from the almost numberless shafts
and memorials in marble, which dot the
whole country for miles, where, and how
the famous battle was fought and won. And
right here, let me say, that there is a solemn
obligation on our National Government to
appropriate a large enough sum of money to
Enrchase the whole area over which the
attle was fought and to make it a great
National memorial park. "We found Get
tysburg so filled with veterans, who had
come to attend a reunion, that it was im
possible to obtain any lodeinc. or Quarters
.or even a meal, and so after driving around
(the town we took the turnpike to York, and
stopped for dinner at the comfortable house
of Mr. Leith, where we were most hos
pitably treated, and, although his people
were all in excitement ana desirous of going
to Gettysburg, they gave us the best the
house could afford. Such was our ex
perience on our whole trip, and anyone de
siring to drive across the State I am con
fident will secure the same hospitable treat
ment from the people all along the route.
From Gettysburg to York everything
seemed to improve. The country was better
tilled. The barns were in better condition
and the fences were well kept, and pros
perity instead of adversity seemed to rule.
We passed large tobacco warehouses and
great barns bursting with hay and straw,
and on all sides we could see evidences of
comfort and success. We drove into York
in time for supper, and found it the most
bustling little place we had met with on our
whole trip. Everything seemed to be on
the go, and I am confident that there is more
life and bustle in York in proportion to the
number ot its inhabitants than there Is in
any other city or town in our State, except
Pittsburg.
THE STATE'S GARDEN SPOT.
We left about 8 o'clock next morning for
Lancaster. Our drive was through the gar
den spot of our State. We would leave one
well-stocked and well-kept farm tor another,
and that was our experience all the way to
Wrightsville, where we crossed the Sus
quehanna on the old covered bridge, which
is a mile and a quarter long, used by both
railroad, wagons and foot passengers. We
waited until the tram came across, men
were given.the signal to enter, and driving
one horse on one side of the track and the
other between the tracks, and one wheel on
one side of the track, and one wheel be
tween them, we crossed in about 12 min
utes. But one could not help feeling nerv
ous, for if an engine had entered the bridge
at either end, it would have been extremely
disagreeable; but there are signal boxes.and
they do not allow a train to enter the bridge
while any carriages are upon it.
We passed through Columbia, and then
continued our drive to Lancaster over the
fine broad turnpike and through the finest
farming land iu the world. We reached
Lancaster about 2 r. H. Lancaster iu many
respects is like New York, although a great
jealousy exists between them. Lancaster is
now, owing to its great railway facilities,
excelling its busy little rival.
From Lancaster the turnpike leads along
and so crosses and recrosses the famous
Pennsylvania Bailroad, upon which every
body rides Irom Philadelphia to Pittsburg,
that the description of the country would be
but a recital of what one can readily see
from the train, so the record of our drive
will end at this point.
PLEASANT AND INSTRUCTIVE.
The horses reached home in excellent con
dition, and we lelt we had not only bad a
most delightful trip, but that the six days
spent in travel had been most profitably
employed, and we had learned more of the
geography of our State, and the habits of
onr people, than could have been learned in
50 trips across the Alleghenies iu a parlor
car or in a sleeper. Why more people do
not take such trips is a mystery. The ex
pense is inconsiderable, and the incidents
are delightful, and the memories most
agreeable. In such a trip, one gets among
people, away from all the sameness of city
life and city customs, among people who
live natural lives, among the woods; the
majority of those you meet being true and
simple hearted, always ready with a hearty
welcome.
The trip left three very vivid impressions
on our minds. First That it was a vital
necessity for the future development of the
southern portion of our State, that there
should be better roads and better communi
cations. Second That with all possible speed the
present owners of the Pennsylvania Southern
Bailroad, whoever they may be, should com
plete said road from Pittsburg to Harris
burg. Third That there was a great opportunity
for the people in comfortable circumstances
to buy large tracts of land and old farms in
the southern counties of our State for a few
dollars an acre and make them their summer
homes. The inhabitants themselves are
too poor at present to build the
roads necessary for the proper de
velopment of the country, and until
the Pennsylvania Sonthern Bailroad is
completed there is little hope of its being
done. Upon the completion of that road,
however, there will be large numbers of
people seek that section of country for
country residences. The lands will then ap
preciate in value, the roads put in excel
lent condition, and the present inhabitants
brought out of their distressed condition
into prosperity, and there would be no
longer any need of deserting their ancestral
homes, as over one-half of them have been
doing for the past 22 years.
If this letter shall be the means of induc
ing one party to drive across the State and
experience the same pleasures that we ex
perienced, I shall feel that it has not been
written in vain. J. B. H,
Philadelphia, June 18.
NOT ALL ENGLISH.
THE BIQ DEALS IN CHICAGO BACKED BY
YANKEE GOLD.
Fork Packers and Brewers Merely Invite
BrltUh Capital to Share In Their Proflu
The Controlling Interest Retained by
Americans Millions Involved.
nrxcixi tsxbobax to tux sisra.Tcs.1
Chicago, June 20. The deal by whieh
the great pork packing establishments,
known as the Chicago Packing and Pro
vision Company, and H. Botsford & Co.,
passed into the ownership of the City of
London Contract Company, is Dot by any
means the transfer of another American in
dustry to a British syndicate. It is simply
part of a scheme by which British capital is
to be admitted to an ownership of a part ot the
stock of a new corporation by which the
plants of this great concern in Chicago and
Nebraska are to be operated. The balance
of the stock will be owned in America.
Just what proportion of the whole shall
remain on this side of the ocean will be de
termined by the bidding when the stock and
hnnds are put on the market. The stock and
bonds amounting to perhaps 55,000,000 in
all will be placed simultaneously on the
London and Chicago markets.
This is precisely the programme which
was followed in the case ol the City of Chi
cago Brewery and Malting Company, which
about a week ago started upon its carreer as
the corporation operating five of the largest
and most profitable Chicago breweries and
malt houses. In that case the capital stock
of the new company was made $6,250,000
and 6 per cent bonds were issued to the
amount of. 53,000,000; making a total of
$9,250,000 securities, all of which were
placed upon the London and Chicago mar
kets for popular subscription at the same
time. The subscriptions in Chicago alone
amounted to $ 17,000,000, and those in Lon
don were considerably less, so that ten
American capitalists retained a controlling
interest.
MUST BE POOS KABKSMEH.
Two Prominent Citizens Empty Tbelr
RetoirerB Wllhont Any Seriona Injnry.
rBFKCUI. TELEOBAM TO TUB DISrJLTCII.I
Columbia, S. C, June 20. Dr. William
Weston Bay and Mr. Frank: H. Weston
fought a duel at arm's length in the center
of the principal street in Columbia at 6
this afternoon. They are two as prominent
young men as there are in this section. Dr.
Bay is a practicing physician and of excel
lent family. Weston is of the highest
social standing, and is the law partner of
J. Q, Marshall, Secretary of State, and is
one of the city magistrates. The young
men are first cousins, but recently had a
misunderstanding at some personal matter.
The feeling grew bitter, and this evening
they met in front of the City Hall.
They drew self-cocking revolvers and ex
changed ibots, then walking into the mid
dle of the street each seized the other by the
arm and banged away until both weapons
were empty. Dr. Bay was shot in the
temple and Watson was shot through the
left Wast and in the thigh near the groin.
The wounds are not dangerous. The cloth
ing oi both men were scorched by fire frcm
the powder.
PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1890.
THE PASSIONSSPIEL
Graphic Account of the Opening Per
formance at Ober-Ammergan.
THE EELIGI0US .FEELING INTENSE.
Eealism That Carries the Auditors Back to
the Time ot Christ
CBITICS PfiAISE THE PEEF0BMANCE
The S.OOOJor 6,000 pilgrims, of all classes
and all nationalities, crowded into the cot
tages of the Ober-Ammergau peasantry were
awakened on Whit-Monday, at 5 o'clock in
the morning, by the firing of a gun on the
hill side. The hum of many voices told
that the villagers were hastening to church
before the great event of the day. It is nec
essary to call this preliminary service to
mind, says n writer in the London Ulust rated
News, for only by fully comprehending the
intense religious earnestness of the people
can one adequately realize the wonderlul
success of the Passion -play. .Every garden
and meadow has its Feld-Christ, which tells
of the sufferings and death of Jesus; every
roadside, its Gnaden-Kappelle. And thus
it is that during the performance the peas
ant spectators are bathed in tears some of
them sobbing as if their hearts would
break; while that portion of the audience
which occupies the more costly seats En
glish, American and Germans for the most
part remains, certainly not unmoved, but
comparatively unaffected by the terrible
of which it is a witness.
Long before 8 the immense wooden struc
ture is crowded with its 4,000 ticket holders,
while at least 2,000 will have to wait for to-
Judas (Johatin Zwtnk),
morrow's performance. In front of us is a
large stage open to the sky, behind is a
smaller stage, before which hang a curtain.
On the right is the house of Annas, the
high priest; on the left the house of Pilate.
To this must be added and it is an impos
ing feature throughout a background of
green hills and blue skv, the singing of
birds, the sights and sounds of rnral nature.
Next to the stage is the orchestra, composed
entirely of peasants, whom we had several
times seen playing iu the streets, and on
Sunday in tne cnurcn. nan tne tneater
that part nearest the stage is roofless; and
this is occupied by the holders of cheap tick
ets, the practice of ordinary theaters being
thus reversed. The 10 shilling, 8 shilling,
and 6 shilling sheets are thus a long way
from the stage; and those who wish to be
disillusioned a little those who would fain
to be sure that the hands ot the Christus are
not actually pierced by nails will brave
the discomforts of rain or sun, and select the
exposed places near the orchestra.
IMPRESSIVE TABLEAUX.
But the booming once again of a cannon
tells us that the play is about to begin.
From the wings on either side a number of
men and women, beautifully clothed iu
classic drapery, come forward and form a
single file across the stage. The leader, or
"choragus," exhorts to a devout contempla
tion of the scenes to follow, and a recogni
tion of the salvation of the world through
Christ's sacrifice. Then the chorus divides
in the middle and falls back on either side,
while the curtain rises on the first of the
many beautiful tableaux. Before each .of
the 17 acts of the drama there are one or
more of these tableaux, for the most part,
representing scenes from Hebrew history.'
The idea whfch it is sought to impress upon
the audience is that all the great events of
the Old Testament are but a prophecy and a
forecasting of the events ot the New
Thus, the falling of manna from Heaven is
typical of the bread and wine of the Last
Supper; the rejection of Vashti and eleva
tion of Esther by Ahasuerus is typical of the
rejection, by the Almighty, of the Jews and
the acceptance of the Gentiles. The slaying
ot Abel by his brother, the sacrifice of Isaac
and the affliction ot Job are all meant to sug
gest obvious parallels in the life of Christ.
John Peter Rendl).
None the less impressive are the songs in
which the chorus elncidate the storv. Doubt
less there would be applause, and even en
cores, were it not that the whole audience,
educated and uneducated alike, are, almost
from the very first, seized with the sense that
they are assisting at the most impressive re
ligious ceremony it was ever their lot to wit
ness. The music is, for the most part, the
composition of an Ober-Ammergau organist,
one Jobanu Dedler, who lived at the begin
ning of the century, and there is bnt one
opinion among the visitors here as to its re
markable attractiveness.
PERFECT IN EVERT DETAIL.
And as for the tableaux! For the three
or four minutes before the enrtain drops
one's eyes are completely absorbed in their
contemplation. Now it is the fall of manna,
now the rejection of Vashti, now the'sale of
Joseph into Egypt in all alike the
harmony of color, the grouping of the
figures, the every detail is perfect.
It is not easy to believe that this por
tion of the Passlontsplel at least ever
reached so splendid a point of art n in the
present year. In the first place, there has
been a much more lavish expenditure upon
costumes and scenery than heretofore, and,
in the second, the arrangements have been
in the hands of Obermaschinenmeister
Lautenshlager, the stage-manager oi the
Munich Court Theatre and Opera House.
Yet when all this Is said, it remains a won
derful thing that dresses and stage manage
ment can do io much with such material.
XT&i "? $St J
Here among the children bearing palm
branches, or taking some other part in the
scenes, are the little urchins to whom an
hour before we have given a few pfennige to
show us our war. What can it be but the
principle of heredity whieh makes them act
so well, and which produces in them the
very embodiment of gracefulness!
Bnt we must leave this quite subsidiary
part of the great drama, although it is one
which would alone make Ober-Ammergau
worth a visit during the present year, and
Jfary, the Mother of Jesus.
turn to the great tragedy "itself. I opens
with the entry of Christ into Jerusalem, to
the sonnd of rejoicing and singing of hosan
nas. Men, women and children crowd the
busy thoroughfare, and in the center, riding
upon an ass, comes he who from the first
moment to the last is the object of the de
voutest interest, the tenderest sympathy
the Christus of Joseph Maier. Across the
inner stage and out into the open wends the
procession, and everyone is held spellbound.
And yet nothing is unfamiliar. It is as if a
picture' of one of the crreat masters had
stepped from the canvas. This, indeed, it
is which makes the thing so endnrable nay
fascinating. All the leading personages in
thedrama are clothed in the costumes with
which the great Italian painters have famil
iarized ns. At a glance one can tell that
this is Peter, or John, or Judas, and so with
the other characters.
TEW WEAK SPOTS.
It is unnecessary to recapiralate a play
which has been made familiar by a thousand
descriptions, every detail of which is so well
known, and of which, indeed, the best text
book is the New Testament. It sufficeth to
say that there are only two points in the
tragedy at which we are awakened to the
fact that we are in the nineteenth century,
and not at the beginning of the Christian
era. One is when Christ is driving the
dealers out of the temple and overthrowing
the tables of the money changers, and the
other when the Boman soldiers break the
bones of the two thieves. There is nothing
in Salsenberger's drama to lead up to the
earlier scene, and so to impress one with the
grandeurot Christ's protest against irrever
ence and greed. And with the thieves one
somehow receives an impression of unreality.
But of unreality elsewhere there is none.
We see Christ in Bethany, iu Gethsemane,
before Annas and Caiaphas, before Pilate
and Serod, and only in one scene could we
conceive the great Teacher of Galilee
otherwise than Maier has represented
Him. Yet it is a mistake to speak
of Maier as a great actor. Flnnger,
who was Maier's predecessor, could, no
doubt, be so described. Maier looks the
part of the suffering Jesus, but in the one
scene in which acting is required we do not
get it. Surely not even Jesus went through
the agony of that bitter struggle in Geth
semane in a manner so passive as Maier ex
hibits. His life-long occupation of carving
crucifixes has made Maier familiar with all
aspects of physical suffering and resignation,
bnt of the more complex emotions oi spirit
ual torture he can know nothing. But in
the later scene, where resignation and en
durance only are required, the part is per
fectly portrayed. We see Hies before the
sympathetic Pilate and before the scoffing
Serod; we witness the mockery of the sol
diers and the crowning with thorns; we see
Him on the way to Golgotha, and finally on
the cross.
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INDESCRIBABLE REALISM.
All is painfully, indescribably real. The
crucifixion scene, at least, will remain
among the imperishable memories of all
who have witnessed it, and -will serve to
bring home to the least devout-minded, as
nothing else could, some comprehension of
the deeper meaning of the Christian faith.
For 25 minutes Christ is upon the cross, the
blood streaming Irom His forehead, hands
aDd feet, a soldier pierces His side, the last
words are uttered, and life seems to be ex
tinct. After some discussion, Joseph of
Arimathea begs the body, and the disciples,
with Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother
of Jesus, bear it tway to burial. The next
scene gives us the Besurreciion, and the
final scene not the least powerful and effect
ive in this year's performance the Ascen
sion. ' If it be said that the much-praised per
formance of Joseph Maier is here and there
a little inadequate, the same can hardly be
said of any other leading actor. The next
most difficult part to play is that of Judas,
which Lechner filled so effectively. Johann
Zwiak, the new Judas, is, perhaps, equally
successful. Now and again he is a trifle
stagy, but on the whole the character of
Judas, with its impulsive treachery, its greed
and its remorse, are finely portrayed. The
poorer and less educated part of the andience
laugh once or twice at Judas, and nowhere
else iu the play. This has been thought to
imply an adverse criticism on the actor, who
is said at the rehearsal to have overdone his
part. I conversed afterward with some of
the peasant audience, and I found that they
laughed at tltreachery of Judas to avoid
weeping at thelufferings of Christ. Judas.
it mnst be observed, is the second hero of the
tragedy: he is to it what Satan is to the
"Paradise Lost" Without him, moreover,
there would be nothing to relieve the uni
versal gloom; and, so, to the Bavarian peas
antry he takes the place which lAiajer and
his attendant imps took in the earlier form
of the"Passionsspiel."
ROSA LANG'S TRIUMPH.
The John of Peter Rendl, the Peter of
Jacob Eett, the Pilate of Thomas Rendl,
and the Caiaohas of Burgermeister Lang
cannot be too highly praised. Excepting
John, who is a good-looking youth of 19, all
these men have taken the same parts in the
last decade. But there is one performer in
the play to which more unqualified praise
can be given than to any other. It is Frau
lein Rosa Lang, whose impersonation
of the Virgin Mary was pronounced
by common consent the triumph of the
whole day's performance. We see the
mother's joy and pride in her son, her
sorrow at parting, her sympathy with Him
in affliction, her supreme agony at the foot
of the cross. Nowhere is there a word over
charged, strained, or affected. Never before
has a woman borne away any of the honor
pertaining to these Ammergau perform
ances. The first place to-day, however,
must be given to Bosa Lang.
Yet when, from the Christus himself to
the veriest child in his train, there is so per
fect ana artistic a rendering or a great world
tragedy, it seems gratuitous to praise or
blame. "The most wonderful thing I have
ever seen" was the verdict of one of the vis
itors to he "Passion Play" of 1880. I am
fully convinced that this judgment will be
indorsed by 99 out of every 100 visitors to
the performance of the present year.
lrft Money From HI Trunk.
Michael Bodmerwas committed to jail
yesterday for a hearing to'-day, before Al
derman Beilly, on a charge of larceny.
Frank Hornman, of Four Mile Ban is the
prosecutor, And alleges that Bodmer stole
$51 iu none from Hornmia'a trunk.
OF &REAT INTEREST
Will he Next Week's International
Sunday School Convention.
OVER ONE THOUSAND DELEGATES
Expected, From All Parts of This Country
and From Europe.
HOW THE MOVEMENT WAS ORGANIZED
The Sixth International Sunday School
Convention of North America will convene
in this city, in Mechanical Hall, Duquesne
way, on Tuesday morning next, and will
hold morning, afternoon and evening ses
sions for four days. It will be a great event.
The convention will be composed of author
ized delegates from the several States of the
Union and from the British province. There
will be also commissioners from various for
eign countries. The whole number of-dele-gates
entitled to sit as members of the con
vention is 1,500. Not over 1,200 are expect
ed to be present
Among the many prominent Sunday school
workers and chnrchmen who will attend
some of the most widely famed are: Senator
A. H. Colqnitt, of Georgia; Bishop John H.
Vincent, of New York, the founder of the
Chautauqua Assembly; B. F. Jacobs, of
Chicago; Bev. Dr. A. F. Schauffer, of New
York; Bev. Dr. J. A, Worden, of
New York; Hon. S. H. Blake, of
Ontario. Most of the leaders will deliver
their addresses at the evening sessions.
which will make those sessions the most in
teresting, while they are the most convenient
for the general public. Among the com
missioners who will attend from foreign
lands there will be one from India, who is
now in New York, and one from Egypt, at
present visiting friends in Sewickley.
The local committee of arrangements are
preparing to furnish lodgings and meals for
the delegates free of any expense to them.
The delegates will be'lodeed at private
houses, as far as that is possible, and there
they will be given bed and breakfast. Thus
far such accommodations have been secured
for only 550 persons, but the committee on
entertainments believes that it will find
places for all by Monday evening.
NOT LARGE ENOUGH.
Dinner and supper will be served at the
Exposition. It is intended to feed 2,000
there at each meal. For such a number of
people the cafe will not be sufficiently large.
Half of the area between the main Exposi
tion building and Mechanical Hall ill be
roofed over, and tables placed there. Meals
will be furnished to only those who wear
badges. To delegates these badges will be
given tree of charge. Any other person at
tending tne convention may obtain a badge
by the payment of $2. This will entitle him
to eight meals, and is intended for visitors
from outside of the city.
All this, of course, will cost money. The
whole expense of running the convention
and entertaining the delegates will be about
$5,000. The Executive Committee has re
ceived (2,817 by subscription, and more is
sorely needed.
The entrances to Mechanical Hall will be
so arranged that delegates will not be sub
ject to the pressure ot great crowds in try
ing to get into the building. The two doors
at the western end will be for delegates and
reporters, while the doors on the south side
and east end will be for the general pnblic
Seats will be reserved for all the delegates,
and there will be other reserved seats for
the Sunday sohool teachers of Allegheny
county. Each Sunday school in the city is
entitled to as many reserved seat tickets as
it has delegates in a county Sunday sohool
convention; that is, to 1 ticket for each 100
members. A school having an attendance
of 175 will receive two tickets for each
session. Ministers will also be given re
seived seats. Persons admitted on these
tickets will not be delegates nor entitled to
any voice in the convention.
ONLY THREE DELEGATES.
Allegheny county will have only three
delegates. Tne delegates are allotted to the
different States and the rate of four times
the electoral vote. Pennsylvania is entitled
to 120 delegates.
Many of the delegates will arrive on Mon
day, and on that evening an informal meet
ing will be held in Mechanical Hall. Short
speeches will be made by good talkers.
The morning sessions will begin at 9:30
o'clock, the atternoon sessions at 1:30 o'clock
and the evening sessions at 7:30 o'clock.
The morning sessions will be opened with
prayer. On the first day, after the dele
gates are enrolled and committees are ap
pointed, the list of States, Territories and
provinces will be called and from each a
report will be made of the progress of the
Sunday school work.. This will be con
tinued in the afternoon and the convention
will then elect its officers for the next three
years.
Tuesday evening Governor Beaver, for
Pennsylvania, and H. Kirk Porter, for
Pittsburg, will deliver speeches of welcome,
to which the responses will be spoken by
Hon. S. H. Blake, of Ontario, and Senator
A. H. Colquitt, of Georgia.
Wednesday forenoon the convention will
hear reports from its committees and from
the Statistical Secretary and Treasurer. In
the afternoon B. W. Smith, ot Minnesota,
will read a report of the work of the
World's Sunday School Convention held in
London last year. Bev. Dr. Warren Ban
dolpb, of Bhode Island, will make there
port of the Lesson Committee.and there will'
be addresses by Bev. Dr. A. E. Dunning, of
Massachusetts; Bev. Dr. M. D. Hodge, of
Virginia, and Bev. Dr. John Potts, of On
tario. In the evening the commissioners
irom loreign lanas win oe lormally re
ceived and there will be speeches by Bishop
Vincent and Bev. Dr. M. B. Wharton, ot
Alabama.
AW INTERESTING- PROGRAMME.
Thursday morning will be devoted to com
mittee reports and miscellaneous business.
In the atternoon primary unions will be dis
cussed by Mrs. W. F. Crafts, of New York,
primary teachings by Miss Luoy Wheelock
and Miss Annie Harlow, ot Massachusetts,
and primary visitation by Miss Mabel Hall.
of Illinois. Addresses will be delivered in
the evening on the following topics: "Sys
tematic Bible Study," Prof. W. H. Harper,
of Connecticut; "City Mission Work," Bev.
Dr. A. F. Schaufiler, of New York; "Work
in Foreign Lands," B. F. Jacobs, of Illinois.
On the morning of the fourth day, Friday,
more reports will be presented and discussed,
and the time and place for holding the next
World's Convention will be decided. At
the afternoon session W. H. Hamill,
of Illinois, will discuss normal school
work; Marion Lawrence, of Ohio,
school work, and W. A. Duncan,
ot New York, home work. At the last
evening session addresses on Sunday school
work in general will be delivered by a num
ber of speakers, Bev. Dr. J. A. Worden
speaking first. Foreign missions will be
disenssed. The programme is a long one
and the time will be fully occupied during
the four days.
This is the sixth international convention,
one being held every three years. The
conventions grew ont of national meetings,
begun in 1832, and the national meetings
out of the American Sunday School Union.
HISTORY OP THE MOVEMENT.
In May, 1832, a number of Sunday sohool
workers, who were attending a meeting of
the Presbyterian General Assembly and the
anniversary of the American Sunday School
Union, in Philadelphia, got togetherand
decided to Issue a call for a national Sunday
school convention, to be held in the fall of
that year in New York. A circular, asking
answers to 78 questions touching Sunday
school work, was sent out and awakened
interest in the proposed meeting. At this
first convention there were nearly 250
delegates, representing 15 States. Since that
time national conventions have been held
annually in the large cities of the country.
In 1875 the international movement began,
delegates being received from Canada and
other British provinces ot North America.
1 he delegates represent all Evangelical
Protestant churches. The first international
convention met in Baltimore dnring the
second week of May, 1875. There were 463
delegates who represented 66,871 Snnday
schools, with an enrollment of 6,543,708
scholars and teachers. In 1878 the second
convention met in Atlanta, and others have
been held in Toronto in 1881, in Louisville
in 1884, and in Chicago iu 1887. At the
Chicago convention the delegates reported,
for the United States, 99,860 Sunday schools
with 9,156,727 scholars and teachers; and
for the British provinces 6,322 schools and
489,206 scholars and teachers.
"WHY THEY COME HERE.
Last year, when some of the officers of the
International Sunday School Union were
crossing the sea, in the steamer Bothnia, to
attend the World's Convention, they dis
cussed the best place of meeting this year.
They concluded to hold the convention in
this city, because tbey believed that there
was a lack of interest in Snnday school
work in Western Pennsylvania. On the
floor of the World's Convention this city
was credited with only 73 Sunday schools
and 8,000 teachers and pupils,and it was said:
"There are either no Sunday school workers
in Western Pennsylvania, or the people
there take no interest in the work, and tor
that reason the convention will goto Pitts
burg and stir up an interest in the cause."
Snnday school workers here say the figures
given are badly misleading; that in Alle
gheny county there are 295 Sunday schools
which have over 70,000 pupils and teachers.
Nevertheless, they welcome the interna
tional convention.
The Sunday school, as an institution, is
venerable. The Pres&iferfan. Banner, of
this city, gives the following interesting
historical account of
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
"According to Tertulliau, Sunday schools
were established for catechumens, that is
for children and others needing elementary
instruction in the Christian religion, as
early as A. D. 180; and they flourished until
the sixth century. Luther opened Sunday
schools in Wittenberg in 1527, for the bene
fit of children who could not attend the
week-day schools. John Knox started Sun
day schools in Scotland in 1560; and in 1580
Archbishop Borromeo, of Milan, established
them throughout his diocese. About the
same time such schools were opened in
France and the Netherlands. In the sev
enteenth century the clergy at stated times
in some of the parishes of England cate
chised the children, and Joseph Alieine,
author of the 'Alarm,' began a Sunday
school in 1668.
"In Boxbury, Mass., there was a Sunday
school in 1674, and there was one in Ply
mouth, Mass., in 1680. Ludwig Hacker
opened a school of this character at Ephrata,
Lancaster connty, Pa., about 1740, which
continued until the building was taken for
a hospital during the war of the Revolution.
The modern Sunday school is generally ad
mitted to date from 1781, when Bobert
Baikes gathered on the Lord's Day poor
children from the streets of Gloucester, En
gland, and paid teachers a shilling each lor
the instruction given on that day. The
children were brought together at 10 A. ax.,
and were taught two hours; then there was a
recess tor an hour, when they were taken to
church. At the close of that service tbey
repeated the catechism until 5 p. M. Mr.
Baikes published an account of his work in
1783, which led to the establishment of
similar schools in the principal towns of
England.
IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.
Scotland had Sunday schools in 1782, and
Ireland in 1783. The London Sunday
School Society was formed in 1785, and in
16 years spent $16,000 in this work. The
change from paid to volnnteer teachers is
said to have been made bv the Methodists
at Bolton, Ed eland, in 1786, and the Lon
don Sunday School Union was organized in
1803, to encourage voluntary teaching.
In 1786, Bishop Asbury Methodist
Episcopal organized a Sunday school in
Hanover county, Va.; and in 1790 Bishop
White Episcopal formed one in Phila
delphia. The Methodist Episcopal Con
ference at Charleston, S. C, in
1790, resolved to establish Sunday
schools for whites and blacks.
Katy Ferguson, a poor negro woman, is
credited with opening a Sunday school in
New York in 1793; and Mrs. Isabella
Graham and her daughter, Mrs. Divie
Bethune, who had seen the English Snnday
schools, opened one in their own house, in
that city, in 1801. Samuel Slater, a manu
facturer in Pawtucket, B. I., established a
Sunday school for the benefit of his opera
tives in 1797. The earlv Presbyterian min
isters of Western Pennsylvania had catechet
ical classes which met on the Lord's Day
and at other times; and a Sunday school was
opened in Pittsburg, then a small place, in
1809."
A CHARGE OF FRAUD.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE NEW YORK
CUSTOM HOUSE.
DIserlmlnntion la Favor of tbe Sugar Trnit
Spreckrld Enter a. Complaint and De
mands an Investigation The Appeal to
Secretary Wladom.
I6PECI.II. TXLZ.OB.UI TO TUB BISFATCH.1
Philadelphia, June 20. Clans
Spreckels, the sugar refiner, through his
attorney, W. Ford Thomas, has made
formal complaint to Secretary of Treasury
Windom that the New York Custom House
has been discriminating in its
polariscopic tests of imported Ger
man beet sugars in favor of
the Sugar Trust, and against the Philadel
phia refiner, and to his detriment of over
$10,000 on each cargo he imports. In his
letter to Secretary Windom, Mr. Thomas
says, among other things, that the
Spreckels firm is confronted with what is
a formidable competition in the form of
a trust, and the principal place of its busi
ness is in New York. The trnst makes
large importations of raw sugar from Ger
many, in the process of manufacture in sac
charine richness, and in an honest classifica
tion, there should be no difference between
the sugar imported Irom Uermauy.
The letter then goes into details about the
polariscopic degrees recorded in the daily
classifications of sugars at the port of New
York, all indicating a great difference be
tween the New York test and the Philadel
phia tests. It continues:
If the New York tests are correct, the sugar
being of tbe same character, then we have paid
many thousands of dollars wbicb the national
Treasury Is not entitled to: but If the rates of
duty Imposed npon us at this port are correct.
we bave not only nad tne
com
Sugar blned power and capital of tbe
Irust to contend witb, but we hare
bad the strong arm of the subordinate of&cers
of tbe customs at the port of New York, as
sisting our competitors with all their official
might.
The letter, which is very lengthy, con
cludes with a demand for an immediate in
vestigation. Mr. Spreckels is in California,
out jur. xuuuiita bam bu-uay;
"Since April we have imported 15 cargoes
of German beet root sugar, averaging about
30,000 bags, or 6,600,000 pounds each. The
cargoes would average a polariscopic
test of 95 degrees, which carries a
rate of 2.20 cents per pound. So the
duty on one cargo amounts to $145,200. At
New York the same sugar has been
tested at 91, on which the tariff
rate is 2.04 cents, or $134,640 on a
cargo of 30,000 bags. The difference
between two tests amounts to $10,560 on one
cargo, which, multiplied by 15, our imports
in three months represents quite a fortune
in itself. These have been our imports re
cently, bnt we will double them from this
on."
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Prospects in All Lines of Trade
Are Very Flattering.
A BUSINESS BOOM IS EXPECTED.
Demand for Iron Products Increasing and
Prices Harden.
DECREASE 15 THE WEEK'S F1ILUEE8
rsrzrxu. tzlxobjlm to thx prarxTCH.'
New Yobk, June 20. Special telegramj
to Bradstreet'i do not indicate any note
worthy change in the movement of general
trade within a week. There is reported a
very general and reasonable activity; bnt at
such points as Omaha, Kansas City and
New Orleans the distribution of staples Is
not equal to anticipations. St. Louis. Chi
cago and St. Panl make the most favorable
trade reports, while Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Boston and Philadelphia report moderate
activityonly. California's wheat crop pros
pects were never better, and reports as to
the condition of growing wheat east of tha
Rockies are less bullish than recently.
Hogs are at lowest prices for the year at
Western cities and cattle are declining in
price as well. Pork and lard, too, are
lower.
Doubts regarding action on the silver
question and the continuance of gold ship
ments have increased the disposition of bulls
to liquidate and opened the way to bearish
attacks on stock prices, although share
speculation has been on the whole very
dull. Bank clearings at 51 cities for the six
days ending June 19 were $1,158,645,929, a
gain over tbe like week last year of 3.2 per
cent. New York city's clearings, which
constitute 61.3 per cent of the grand total,
are less than those for the like period last
year by nearly 1.7 per cent.
IKON 'WILL ADVANCE.
Despite the extraordinary productive
capacity of the furnaces and mills of the
country and the extraordinary output of
iron and steel, there seems to be a general
belief amoni; buyers that prices will harden
somewhat during the summer months. The
evidence of such a tendency, the existence
of which many doubt, is the unnsual num
ber ot large purchases of material, such as
wrought iron pipe, steel rails, structural
material, sheet iron and crude iron of all
kinds. It is not nnusnal for consumers to
make heavy purchases during June for the
requirements of tbe third quarter of the
year. Fewer buyers have done so this sea
son than usual, but the few who have been
baying have bought quite liberally.
Takings of raw suzar are more restricted
and prices are off3-16c. Refined, too, is
yc lower. Coffee shows a fractional decline
in speculative lines, and is in a less active
movement for consumption at a loss of 2-5c
More favorable reports as to the condition
of the domestic wheat crop, the presence of
30,000,000 or more bushels of wheat in the
country in excess of the quantity held one
year ago, heavy stocks afloat and generally
fair wheat crop prospects abroad, combine
to depress wheat prices, and quota
tions are off G2c per bushel. Indian
corn too is e lower, while oats on bet
ter export demand are fractionally higher.
INCREASE IN BAILBOAD EARNINGS.
Net railway earnings for April continues
the previous good reports, except in a few
instances. The total earnings of 96 com
panies' for April show a total of $14,066,110,
a gain over April last year of 14.9 pejf ,,
cent. Every group except the granger
shows gains. The latter presents a loss of
over 5 per cent in net, while gaining over 9
per cent in gross. Expenditures for better
ments have reduced net earnings of many
companies heavily. For the first four
months of this year the net earnings of 95
roads aggregate $50,951,304, a gain over '89
of 10.4 per cent. Every group but one, the
Pacific, shows increases.
Drygoods are in fair demand from whole
salers. Jobbers at New York report trade
quiet Agents report a good demand for
fall wear of dress goods. The New England
jobbing trade is active. Prices are un
changed. Cotton goods are very firm. Cot'on
is c lower on less favorable cables and
liquidating bv long holders. yCrop prospects
are good. Uncertainty as regards silver
legislation strengthens next crop deliveries.
Wool prices at the seaboard are barely
maintained on a slow demand.
Business failures reported to Bradstreet'i
number 144 in the United States this week,
against 149 last week and 234 this week last
year. Canada had 18 this week, against 18
last week. The total number of failures in
the United States January 1 to date is 5,235,
against 5,674 in a like portion of 1889.
CONFIDENCE EENEWED.
E. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade
says: Another week has brought still bet
ter crop prospects, a continued increase in
the volume of business, more definite assur
ances of the passage of the tarift bill, with
its essential features unchanged, and there
fore more confidence in these industries
which loos: for help irom the measure. On
the other hand, the passage of a free silver
coinage bill in the Senate has raised some
doubt whether the two houses may no
finally disagree. Expectations based on cu.
rency expansion are tnerefore a little le'
confident. But the money markets wbi
easily everywhere, and the continned ex
ports of gold as yet cause neitner disturbance
or apprehension.
BUSINESS AT TRADE CENTERS.
Reports from all parts of the conntrv con
tinue encouraging. Seasonable goods are its
better demand with the warm weati -r. At
Boston boots and shoes and leather sell freely
at firm prices; sales of wool have been 2,000,
000 pounds, with slight concessions to buy
ers; drygoods are quiet, and woolens partic
ularly dull. Philadelphia has a very
healthy trade in leather and boots and shoes,
with quite a retail "boom." Chicago has
receipts exceeding last year in grain, meats,
hides and wool and larger sales of drygoods;
the fall clothing trade opens well, and the
shoe trade is excellent, and in gen
eral the prospect is good y for mora
than the usual fall trade. "'St. Louis
reports trade of large volume in nearly
all lines with prospects of improving.
Milwaukee finds the best of crop weather
helping trade, and at Omaha business
is active. Speedy settlement of strikes at
Denver is expected and business Is good,
but at Detroit strikes still curtail local
trade and wool moves slowly. Pittsburg
notes some sagging in the iron and steel
market-and window glass works have elosed
for the season, bnt flint glass is active.
Other Western and Southern reports are of
the same general tenor. Better weather and
brighter crop prospects stimulate trade in all
directions and collections are good.
FOREIGN TBADE IMPEOTINO.
The state of foreign trade is fair for the
season. Exports of breadstuffs, provisions,
cotton, petroleum and cattle for May
amounted to $36,412,874, or 5 per cent mora
than last year, in spite of a great decrease
in cotton, all other items gaining. For
three weeks of June exports from New York
show a decrease compared with last year of
2.8 per cent, and meanwhile imports being
temporarily swelled by prospects of higher
duties, exceed last years by 20.6 per cent.
Wheat has declined l for tbe week, with
no change in corn, ana with pork 25 cents
per barrel lower. The alleged market for
coffee is unchanged, and oil is a shads
higher, witb butter and eggs, but sugar has
declined an eighth for raw and refined.
Hni Two Years to Serve,
William Plow was brought to the Biver
side Penitentiary yesterday from Fayette
county. Ha is sentenced to serve two years
for larceny.
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