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PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. SEPP. 2i 1S90.
THE CAR SHORTAGE.
The railroads of this region are unable to
meet the demand for cars. Nearly all our
industries are hampered and harassed by
lack of adequate transportation facilities.
For some time past this condition of affairs
has prevailed, and it is becoming more
acutely felt as the volume of trade
increases. The Dispatch describes to
day the evil effects of the car
famine upon one industry, the blast
furnaces. Owing to the shortage of cars
the furnacemen are unable to obtain proper
supplies of coke, and in some cases banking
up may be the costly result What is true
of the iumaces and their coke supplies
applies measurably to all our industries.
Pittsburg has always suffered more or less
in this tray. The railroads might find it
wise to adopt the plan suggested by
practical men to do away -with
the double-header system and make'
lighter trains. The rolling stock of the rail
roads ought to be increased. It has not
kepi pace with the growth of Pittsburg's
trade. The manufacturers are not the only
sufferers from the shortage of cars. Pro
duction in all lines is rendered irregular,
and Pittsburg is injured in more ways than
can be indicated.
ELECTED BY THE HOUSE.
The long deadlock on the Langston-Ven-able
contested election was broken yester
day when the Republican leaders got a
quorum from their own party. "When the
" idea was impressed upon the majority that
they, and not the Democrats, were responsi
ble for keeping enough members in the
House to do business, the call upon the Re
publicans to discharge their duties brought
in enough to do the business, which the
Hon. Joseph Cannon describes as "voting
like wooden men." With that sort of action
Mr. Tenable was unseated and Mr. Langs
ton was given bis seat.
Or the partisan squabbles which have
preceded that act of the House it is not
necessary to say much. It may be donbted
whether the Democrats would not have
been wiser to have kept their seats, and
placed the responsibility of turning out the
man who was really elected on the majority.
"While public business has been blocked by
the fight, it is not less a matter for public
notice that the important feature of this
contest is that the majority has unseated a
member of whose claim to aseat there was no
reasonable room for doubt. Full proof of
that is furnished by the declaration of Mr.
Cheadle, of whose straight-laced Repub
licanism there is no dispute, that the evi
dence in the case showed Tenable to have
been elected by a large majority, which hs
not been answered, and much less refuted.
When the party controlling the Houe
undertakes to turn out members whose
majority is counted by thousands, there is-
not much faith left in the stability and fair
ness of that body as a representative insti
tution. The Constitution provides that the
members of the House of Representatives
shall be elected by the people; and by virtue
of that provision it stands as the type and
bulwark of popular government. But such
cases as that decided yesterday locates the
electingpower in thehandsol the Committee
on Privilegesand Elections,and tends to make
the House the type and bulwark of govern
ment by partisanligarchy regardless of the
rights of the people.
Every such act to maintain a party in
power by denying the right of the people to
fair representation, must weaken it If the
Republican party meets defeat this year, or
in 1892, it will be due to just such acts of
reckless partisanship as that committed yes
terday. THE ERRORS OF THE CENSUS.
An interesting debate is going cm, in the
Uew York papers, as to the effective cause
of what is alleged to be inadequate enumer
ation of the population of that city by the
census machinery. There is not much dis
position on the part of Republican or
Democratic editors to dispute that the dis
closures of the vital statistics and the police
census, so far as it has gone, show that the
United States census was far from ade
quate. The exception is the undaunted
Press, which remains faithful to the cause
of its late editor, Mr. Porter, rather than to
the work of magnifying its own city.
As to the reason why the census fell so
far below the real population there is the
widest diversity of theories. The ultra
Democratic papers perceive in it a Repub
lican plot to rob that Democratic city of its
just representation, and indulge in partisan
denunciations accordingly. The Tribune
meets such charge with the not very com
plimentary explanation, to the local staff of
census enumerators, of incompetence or
.negligence on their part Tne civil service
reform press naturally accepts this theory,
and enlarges upon it, claiming the distribu
tion of the positions as a political favor
naturally put incompetent men at the work,
while, the award of the positions by an im
partial examination would have selected
competent ones. Lastly the Sun, with its
usual disposition to agree with none ot its
cotemporaries, turns its scorching rays upon
each of these theories, and finds none of
them worth acceptance.
It is the case that none of these hypotheses
to explain the shortage, in accordance with
preconceived ideas, will stand lull examina
tion. The Democratic bugaboo of a partisan
conspiracy has the superficial foundation of
the inadequate count in New York, and the
excessive countof Minneapolis and St Paul,
both Republican cities. But the latter
vagary has been shown to have been due to
the facilities with which the enumerators
were willing victims to the local disposition
for inflating the population of these cities;
and the recount has promptly corrected the
misplaced boom. If there were a conspiracy.
to diminish tne population of Democratic
districts and exaggerate the Republican
population, would these remarkable ratios
of growth shown by cities in the South have
been given, while Pittsburg and Allegheny
were reported so much below what they had
reason to expect? TheclvltserviceTeform
theory, while it looki cogent on the surface,
is shown to have a weak application in this
respect by two considerations. First, that
the necessary qualifications for a census
enumerator an unwearied pair of legs
and education enough to set down the
answers correctly are possessed by nearly
every man who can make himself strong
among the politicians; second, that enu
merators, being paid by the amount of work
they did, were not subject to the political
temptation to neglect it and rely on political
influence to draw salaries. The position
was not one that was in request among
politicians, being just the opposite of a
sinecure.
The real cause of the inadequacy cf the
census is stated by the Sun, as it was by
The Dispatch during the progress of the
work. It is in loading it down with the at
tempt to Collect statistical information
foreign to the proper scope of enumeration.
Tne famous investigation into private dis
eases and indebtedness could not be prop
erly made by those who were engaged in the
task of counting the population, and only
served to hamper and delay the work. The
original and main purpose of the census is
to obtain a correct enumeration of the pop
ulation for the purposes of apportionment
and taxation. If the Government wants in
formation as to the health, vital condition,
morals, or financial status of the people
those can be obtained, like manufacturing
and agricultural statistics, by separate in
quiries. If the census had been confined
simply to enumeration there is no doubt
that the work could have been thoroughly
done even by those in charge of it Bui
he long list of 30 distinct questions to be
filled out in the case of each individual
prejudiced a portion of the public against
giving the information, delayed the work of
enumerators, and made their task so nnre
munerative that it is little wonder they
should have left some of it undone, which
called for extra journeys over sparsely built
districts, or repeated calls on people who
conld not readily be founa at home.
The census of this year is not a glittering
Buccess; but its experience should be held
in recolleotion long enough to guard
against the repetition in 1900 of its error of
loading the census with irrelevant and im
pertinent inquiries.
THE TARIFF CONFERENCE.
The agreement of the tariff bill conference
committee, accepting the House schedule on
steel and iron, with the exception of a com
promise on steel plates and the Senate rate
on steel billets, shows satisfactory progress
in the work of giving final shape to the
measure and winding up the long struggle.
The cut thus made on steel billets is a severe
one, but otherwise the agreement is very
satisfactory to the iron and steel interests.
So far, the work of the conference com
mittee on leading features ot the bill has re
sulted in about equal concessions. The
House conferees have accepted the Senate's
reciprocity amendment, and the Senate has
accepted the metal schedule passed by the
House, with the above exceptions. These
steps toward final agreement are such as
will meet with approval from "be majority
of the nation. The reciprocity proposition
was of such merit as to command general
approval. The preservation of the House
scbedule on iron and steel, while making
decided reductions in the duties, protects
those industries in which the purpose of
protection has not been defeated by trusts or
pools from injury by radical and sweeping
reductions.
The indication the agreement on these
points gives as to the sugar schedule is not
so satisfactory. There is fear that the House
conferees having carried their point on iron
and steel will be called upon to surrender
the sugar schedule. The state of affairs here
is very different The sugar refining in
dustry has, with few exceptions, banded
itself for the defeat of the legitimate object
of protection; and the leading independent
refiner, Mr. Claus Spreckels, has declared
that the protection afforded by the House
scbedule is ample. With the cheap raw
sugar furnishe'd by. the pending bill no pro
tection at all is needed by the sugar refiners.
The House conferees should fulfill the pledge
of Mr. McICiuley made on the floor of the
Honse, to insist up the lower duties estab
lished by the House bill.
A good way to complete the mutual con
cessions on the bill would be to agree to the
House provisions on sugar and the Senate
amendment on binding twine. Such agree
ment would be something in the line of ful
filling the professed opposition of the Re
publican party to the Trusts.
PROTECTION FOR STEEL BILLET.
It is to be hoped that Congress will give
heed to the protests of Pittsbnrg manufact
urers against the proposed tariff rates on
steel billets. Mr. B. F. Jones, in our col
umns to-day, states the case very plainly
Steel billets have never been properly pro
tected, and it is now proposed to rob them
of what little protection they have enjoyed.
The injustice of this discrimination against a
single product is patent, and the Republican
tariff conferees cannot afford to let it stand.
From our Washington correspondent we
learn that Colonel Bayne is trying to have
the unfair provisions changed. It is to be
hoped that with the greater part of the
schedules settled satisfactorily the effort to
round out the bill in this important feature
will be successful.
PROMISING BUDS.
This has been a very poor year for fruit,
but the political blossoms are showing pro
fusely on the Presidental Candidate shrub
bery. Reed and McKinley are blooming in
all the freshness and beauty of their first
formal introduction as ambitious aspirants.
Yet with the frosts of two winters still ahead,
it is too early for their followers to talk with
confidence.
But of the staying qualities of that hardy
quadrennial, James G. Blaine, there is no
such misgiving. If Blaine really means to
compete for the Republican nomination for
President in 1892, nobody has the least
doubt that, his health spared him, he
will be at or very near the top of the list
when the balloting begins.
Singular to note, the one name which is
seldom seriously discussed among the prob
abilities is that of Mr. Harrison.
PROVING THE ARMOR PLATES.
The test of the respective merits of armor
plates of foreign make against a gun of
American manufacture, is correctly con
sidered as yielding results of very great
importance. First, the power of the American-made
eight-inch gun and its projectiles
were satisfactorily demonstrated. This was
to be expected, as in the struggle between
armor and guns abroad, the latter have
usually come off victorious. It Is satis
factory to learn, however, that the perform
ance of .the heavy ordnance manufactured
in the United States shows it to be ally up
to guns of European make. The great
significance of the test was, of course, in Its
demonstration .of the superiority of the
steel plates used in the Freneh navy over
the compound armor, which is supposed to
protect a large majority of English battle
ships. The Cammell compound plates
were subjected to the same test as the French
steel plates. At the fourth shot the former
was completely wrecked, while the latter was
only cracked after five shots.
It may be doubted whether in some re
spects this test has not a more revoluti on
Ary result than the battle between the lioni
tor and the Merrimac That world-renowned
fight only destroyed the wooden navies, and
left the' respective power of naval arma
ments as they were until new navies were'
built But this test carries to England the
startling doubt whether her naval suprema
cy has not been lost by covering her ships
with worthless armor, while the smaller
French navy is protected by armor of un
undoubted superiority. That this conclu
sion will cause a panic in English navy
yards is beyond question, and it is likely to
produce a new demand on the long-suffering
British tax-payer tor the means to replate
the half-protected vessels fondly hoped to be
invulnerable.
The test is also truthfully said to show
that our naval constructors were right in
adopting the French tyie of steel plates
for battle-ships. But in that respect the
test cannot be regarded as complete uptil
American-made plates are subjected to the
same test as the French ones, in order to
know whether they stand the actual proof
of resisting powers as well as their foreign
models.
EMERY'S ANSWER.
The war in the Northwest continues. In
answer to an assertion from Bradford that
Republicans among the oil producers are
not antagonistic to Candidate Delamater,
ex-Senator Emery responds with the names
of 250 more or less prominent Republicans
who have signed a paper pledging them
selves to Pattison.
Evidently the contest for the Governorship
is arousing deep feeling in the oil regions.
Meanwhile the most important incident in
that quarter will be Emery's assumption of
the floor on Friday night By his success
or failure then must mainly be measured the
extent of his influence on the canvass.
DRINK AND GOOD ROADS.
Not much comfort can be obtained from a
perusal of this county's statistics of drunk
enness as they appear in our columns to
day. The worst feature of all is the increase
in the jail commitments, seventy-five per
cent of which may be ascribed to drunken
ness, since the, Brooks law went into effect
In the last two years more than nine thou
sand persons have been sent to the
county jail, and of these it is said
that nearly seven thousand were imprisoned
for offenses growing out of inebriety. The
growth of intemperance does not appear to
have been retarded by restrictive liquor leg
islation, but rather the contrary.
It is suggested that this army of prisoners
might have been employed to good advan
tage on the public roads. It would have
been healthier for them, no doubt, and the
community would have gained good roads
instead of nothing from the harvest of in
temperance. "In the political field," remarks the Phil
delphia Inquirer, "a He well stuck to is often
considered as good as the truth." Thus the
official Delamater organ explains its persist
ency in asserting that Governor Pattison it re
sponsible for the waste ot money in the extra
session of 1883, because the Leglslatureref used
to do its duty.
It is reported that Kilgore's feat in kick
ing open the door of the House of Representa
tives has placed him in the front rank as a can
didate for Senator from Texas. Some very
peculiar Senatorial qualifications have already
been developed, such as the possession of a big
hank account, but this will be the first time
that a man has been thought to show Sena
torial eligibility by his performance as a kicker.
Plumb, of Kansas, evinced some talent In the
kicking line after election to the Senate; but
be does not kick to the bitter end that Kilgore
does. Still, it is doubtful whether Kilgore's
kicking abilities, unsupported by other quali
ties of statesmanship, will raise him to the
Senate. He bad better be content to stay and
do his kicking in the House.
Born, anger was well enough shown up
before; but when be puts himself in the posi
tion of asserting that a woman from whom he
acknowledges receivinc 600,000, gave it becauso
she was in love with him. he gives the finishing
touch to bis own repututlon as something which
it were base flattery to call a man.
The New York Press says that the pros
pects are getting better that the conference
committee will extend the benefits of free
sugar to the consumer as well as the Sugar
Trust It is to be hoped that the prognostication
ot onr cotemporary will prove correct; but it
is to be f earea that the strnggle of special inter
ests to get all they can out of the bill will result
in each taking all it wants, and the Sugar Trust
obtaining Its share of the grab.
IT the resort to striking is ever justifiable
it Is so In the Illinois, coal mines, where the
operators refuse to pay wages on a par with
their competitors. But the miners should be
certain that they can win before they call upon
each other to surrender the Blender wages they
are getting now.
Me. Chauncey M. Depew, in a recent
address, relcrred to reform as the "shibboleth
of fools." This will form a companion motto
to Senator Ingails' declaration that "the purifi
cation of politics Is an lrrldescent dream." Mr.
Depew may know what reform was in 1872,
when he tried to make a reputation In that
line, but of late years the principal quality
which he has exhibited lu connection with re
form is his ignorance of It
If the Republicans are going to resort to
photographic views ol the House In order to
shape public opinion on the merits of the two
parties, a picture of that row caused by Can
non's nnreportaDle language would doubtless
convey a great deal of instruction.
The Republicans in Ohio have declared
the policy of nominating string men to Con
gress, in response to the Democratic gerryman
der. The nomination ol Foster, of Fostoria, is
an example 6f the sort With the close affilia
tion of Foster to the Standard Oil barrels, he is
believed to be strong enough to carry anything,
according to the Ohio Ideas, illustrated by
Payne, Brice and himself.
With the House schedule on Iron and
steel adopted it is to bolhoped that the House
conferees will not make a trade of it by sur
rendering its provision of cheap sugar to the
consumer.
The failure of Lima oil speculation and
the closing of the two Ohio exchanges may be
explained by the fact that the public has had
experience enough to avoid dealing in a ma
nipulated staple. If the Pennsylvania producers
can establish competition In the transportation,
storage and refining of their product, the pub
lic may deem it safe to take an interest In the
market once more.
Canadian FUherlca'StatUtlcs.
Ottawa, Ont., September 23. The Fisher
ies Department has received statistics of the
salmon packed on the Frazer river .this season.
The total catch is 210,050 cases, or over 11,750,000
pounds, valued at 11,407.248. When the pack
on the Noas and Skenarvers' and of the coast
is added the total number, of cases wltVrcach
OUR SHORT STORIES. '
TRUE TO HIS PROFESSION.
IV there be a man that is absolutely true to
his professional faith it is the swamp doctor.
To him there is no such thing as advancement
in the science of medicine. "Doctorln' folks is
doctorln' folks." and that's all there is about
it He selected his model from that old class
of practitioners, now happily extinct In more
civilized communities, known as the bleeders.
To one of those old fellows the letting out of
blood was the letting in of life. '
Some time ago, a man while working at a
sawmill, had one of bis arms torn off. The
only physician near at band was an old swamp
doctor, who as a last chance was sent for.
When he arrived the unfortunate man was
rapidly bleeding to death. The doctor whipped
out his lancet
"What are going to dor' the owner of the
mill asked.
"Goin' to bleed him."
"Bleed him the dence. Don't you see he's
nearly bled to death now?"
"Oh. I can't help that My professional
honor is at stake, and I must bleed him."
"But he can't stand It The thing to do is to
stop bis bleeding." '
"Well, I'll stop the bleeding of the torn arm,
Dnt I'll let the blood out of the well one."
"You shall not"
"All right then, I'll not have anything to do
with the case. If medicine can't go its way in
this community without being trod on, w'y I
stand aside."
SCRAPPIN' IN THE KITCHEN.
1Tt's a scrappin' time I have it," said the
cook. "Here I've gouged the eyes out of
the potatoes, basted the meat snlit the head o
the cabbage, whipped the cream anil beat the
eggs, and now I've got to pitch in and do up
the preserves."
SHAKES.
'To shaking hands the candidate
Doth now himself betake
He later learns, alas! too late.
Who's given him the shake I
BESSY BLOSSOM'S BABV.
AToored near the muddy banks ot the old
Monongahela river the shanty boat "Bessy
Blossom" lay. Nothing strange about that, for
there are scores of them in the vicinity of
Pittsburg.
But this boat was an exception. It was clean,
well painted, pretty. Two rooms cheaply but
neatly furnished. Jim Bilson, aged 30. laborer,
was sole owner, if we except the natty little
woman ho called wife. That would be only
fair.
Somehow or other folks looked with interest
upon this little craft There were two children
on board, a boy and a girl. As the trains passed
they waved a little American flag, and the com
muters learned to look for them.
One morning the children were missing, and
upon the door of the shanty boat a piece of
black rag was banging, tied by a mite of white
muslin. The commuters all looked solemn
enough, and some of them decided to visit the
, bereaved family.
They did so. One by one some half dozen
men crossed the gang plank, knocked at the
door. The mother was out washing somewhere
in the city, and the two children hung with
tearful eyes over a little 'white box in the
corner.
What a pathetio sight Enough to move a
heart ot stone. Silently these strong men
stole npto the casket with solemn counte
nances, and were astonished to find the dead
body of a miniature sky terrier that bad wan
dered ashore in the night and devoured a Pitts
burg dog button.
During the mother's absence the youngsters
had draped the door.
Six strong men crossed hands upon the
muddy beach, and made a solemn compact
never to reveal to mortal man what they saw
on board the "Bessy Blossom."
As they pass her every morning they ex
change glances, bite their nether lips and are
silent ThatisalL
POLLY WAS PROFANE.
Aw Innocent green parrot with a yellow top
knot is enjoying the tine weather these
days, and keeps the neighborhood informed of
his linguistic talents from his cage in a third
story window on the Federal street hill, Alle
gheny. Two little clrls stopped to admire Polly the
other day. At that moment be had stopped
expressing his desire for crackers to remark in
an infantile tone, "O papal O papal O papal"
over and over again. One of the little girls
called up to him, "What do you want PollyT"
Polly answered in a gruff bass voice at once,
"Goto 1"
The little girls did not go to the torrid place
named by Folly, but they went away at once.
SHE SHOULD CHEER UP.
""The autumn's drama now la staged,
In scenes of gold and red;
The summer girl who's not engaged
Ho longer hopes to wedl
HIS FIRST AND LAST CIGAR.
The squatter who had "jist drapped in ter ax
fur er leetlepjnanerfac chawin' terbaccer"
watched the boys as they lit their cigars, but
declined to smoke one. He produced a clay
pipe, filled it with "sto' tobaccer" given him by
one of the crowd. After lighting his pipe and
smoking silently for a few minutes he began.
"Hit's mighty nigh thirty yeer sence 1 rid
ther mall Pom Petervllle ter tber P'int. I was
on'yerboy 'bout twelve yeer ol' an' I dldn'
bave as much s'ence as er spring chicken. I'd
git inter ther P'int at night an' stay twell nex'
day. Onst I was tbar jist afo' Chris'mus. I
was er standin' in front uv er stable whar I kep
raer'ponv. Fo' boys 'bout mer size come er
long. They axed me whar I come fom
an' whut I was er doln'. I tol' 'em.
All uv 'em was er smokln' uv seegyars
an' one of 'em he lowed ter me,
s'se, 'Does you smokef An' I said, s'l, 'Yes. I
smoke, bnt I hain't got nary er pipe.' Then he
says ter one them yother boys, s'se, 'Dick, give
'im one er them Ieetle red seegyars uv your'n.'
Dick says, s'se, 'All right,' an' he handed hit
ter me an' 'lowed, 'Hit won't draw good at fust
but Boon as hit gins to sizzle, hit'U be bully.'
He fetched hit with the fire-end uv his seegyar,
an' I put hit in mer mouth. Hit wouldn't
draw, no matter how hard I nulled. Bimeby
bit started to sizzle. Dick says, s'se, 'Pull
bard, greeney,' an' I pulled a heap. Jis' then
hit 'sploded, and I dropped, skeered mighty
nigh plnm ter death. The boys they runned off
er laughln. but 1 was too skeered ter do any
thin' but holler, an' you bet I hollered. A man
run up an' says he, 'Whar yer hart?1 I told
'im 'bout the seegyar I smoked, an' be bust out
er laughln'. too, and' says, s'se, 'W'y, yer dang
fool, hit was er fire-cracker yer smoked 'stid
er or seegyar.' Sence 'en I hain't smoked
nntbin' bat er clay pipe, an' I don' trus' nary
soul ter fill hit but me."
CHICAGO ALL RIGHT.
The National Commission Approve the New
felto nod Praise Chicago.
Chicago. September 23. The South Park
Commissioners this morning formally passed
an ordinance granting Washington Park for
the use of the World's Fair. This was formally
accepted In tnrn by the local board of direct
ors, and at once eot to the National Commis
sion, but that body had taken a recess until the
arternoon.
The National Committee to-day adopted reso
lutions reciting the fact that reports had been
sent out to foreign papers, giving the erroneous
impression that Chicago was not the popular
choice for the World's Fair site, and signifying
the entire approval of the commission with all
that had been done. The resolutions, which will
be sent to the principal foreign cities, state that
the prospects for a successful International ex
position are as bright as could be desired.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
IHr. Will am Reed.
The venerable Captain William Eeed, of the
Central Station, the oldest police officer- In active
service In the United States, sufferedasad bereav
mens last nlRht In the death of his esteemed wife.
Mrs, Beed had been 111 lor some tlnte. land was 09
years or aire: Captain Heed has the heartfelt
sympathy of his very many friends.
Mrs. Mary Ann Jenklason.
Mrs. Mary Ann Jenklnsou died yesterday at the
residence of her son In Bellcvne at the age ot 78
years. Mrs. Jenklnson Is the mother of K. ft W.
Jenklnson, the well-known wholesale tobacco and
clvar dealers. The funeral will occnr to-morrow
i at 11 A.M.
Mrs. Lonlsn Hobble
Mrs. Louisa Hebblr, nee Kosellcb, wiro of Geo.
Hebblg, died yesterday at her home on Fourth
street Beltihoover borough, at the aire of 62 years.
The funeral takes place on Thursday at Z r. M.,
from the late-residence of the deceased.
HARBOR RESTRICTIONS REMOVED
To Giro Chicago Store (-pace for the
Columbian Exposition.
Washington, September 23. Acting Secre
tary Grant of the War Department, has ad
dressed a letter to Hon. Benjamin Butterworth,
the Becretary of the World's Columbian Expo
sition Directory, in reply to his communications
and telegrams, and those from the President
and Vice President and other members of the
directory and citizens of Chicago, in reference
to the use of the Chicago Lake Front for the
purpose of the Columbian Exposition. Mr.
Grant says the department has arrived at the
1 ollowinc conclusion:
The old haroor line 2,000 feet Inside of the
west wall of the breakwater is re-established
and extended south. The restrictions hereto
fore existing between the prolongation of the
center of Monroe street and Park Row, inside
of the harbor line, are removed upon the condi
tion that the Illinois Central Railroad Company
consent to the provisions of the act or the
State of Illinois, approved August 5, 1890. and
the ordinance ot the city of Chicago adopted
September 15. 1890, and release all claims to
land between the points named and east of
their right of way.
Acting Secretary Grant. In announcing this
conclusion of the department, says it may be
proper to state that the view of the depart
ment has been tbat all the waters included in
vhat is known as the outer harbor of Chicago
by reasons of the acts of Congress and the
building of the breakwaters aud other acts of
the government were within control of the
w ar department, and that It bas been the duty
of the department to protect the harbor for
the purpose of navigation and commerce. And
the act of September 19. 1S90, clearly places it
under the control of the department
It is now proposed, he says, to devote a large
space inside the harbor line to the purposes of
the Columbian exposition in the interest of
commerce. It is urged that the exposition will
result In the increase of navigation ard com
merce, and more than compensate for the space
that might be used forpiers and wharves. The
department, he says, is Inclined to take this
view. In removing the restrictions from the
locality above named, it is not intended to In
terfere with, or affect any private right, ripa
rian or otherwise.
WITH SPEECHES AND SONGS
The Fourth Anniversary of tho Connty
Bcmocrncy Is Celebrated.
The Tooms of the County Democracy conld
not hold the crowd that gathered last night to
celebrate the fourth anniversary of the organ
ization of the association. The old war horses
and stand-bys of the Democracy were out in
f nil force to do honor to the event and they
did it in true Democratic Jacksonian style.
William J. Brennen, Esq., occupied the chair
and made the opening address. "Billy" is a
candidate for Congress and pnt oat his best
foot first His speech was characteristic of the
well known attorney and referred to the good
work being done for the party by the associa
tion. Everything was informal and there was
no set programme. The Idea was to have a
good time and anybody that wanted somebody
else to do something had only to say so, and the
somebody else had to get up and do it. The
Hooper Bros., with their mandolins, rendered
some fine music and showed by their efforts
that tbeywere artists worthy of merit and
praise. The Major Sellers Quartet sane several
songs and were followed by William Finnerty,
the well-known soloist, L. Loughrey, 'Squire
Boyle and others also contributed to the enter
tainment About 11 o'clock members of Tony
Pastor's company and thelnnes Band appeared
and rendered vocal and instrumental music
An appetizing lunch wound up the celebration.
POLITICAL PRISONERS IN ENGLAND.
A Resolution of Inquiry Regarding Ameri
cana Deprived of Liberty.
WASHINGTON Septembor 23. Representa
tive Scranton, of Pennsylvania, in the House
to-day presented for conference to the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, the following pream
ble and resolution:
Whereas. Harsh and brutal treatment of po
litical prlsloners Is now universally condemned
by all civilized nations, and even from England
remonstrances bave been addressed to the Rus
sian Government on behair of Kusslan subjects
Incarcerated for political reasons: and.
Whereas, Several American citizens (Dr. Galla
gher, W. Kent J. Wilson, T. Whitehead and
others), are now undergoing Imprisonment In
England for political oflen.es against that coun
try, and are, according to even official reports
and admissions, being treated, with exceptional
and unjustifiable severity; therefore.
Besofved, That tbis House respectfully and
earnestly request the Preslnent to cause Inquiry
to be made, an far as practicable. Into the condi
tion and cases of the prisoners, and should the re
ports referred to prove correct, then to endeavor
to f care for them numane and decent treatment,
pending efforts on their behalf which, it Is antici
pated, will prove that they have not been fairly
or legally convicted of the offense as charged
against them, and are, therefore, entitled to re
lief. HOT A GREAT TRAVELER.
An Elk Connty Man Who Never Journeyed
Over Six Mile.
rSVXCTAti TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. I
Wrr-cox, September 23. This county of Elk
has a curiosity in tho shape of one J. G. An
derson, of Glen Hazel. Although he has lived
on bis farm, near this place, for 80 years, and
within one mile of three railroads for 12 years,
neither he nor any of his family have ever rid
den on the cars.
The greatest distance he has ever been away
from home has been to this place, a distance of
six miles, with a horse and wagon.
CANDIDATES FOB CONGRATULATION!
Two Prominent Young People Quietly Mar
ried Last Night.
A pretty but quiet little wedding took place
In St. Peter's Chnrcb. last night, about 7
o'cloek. Rev. Mr. Mackey officiating. The con
tracting parties were Miss Alice V. Connor,
sister of J. C. Connor, department operator of
the First police district, and James H. Sbep
pard, a brother of ex-City Clerk George Shep
pard. Shortly before 8 o'clock the bride and groom
left for the West on their bridal tour. On their
return they will reside In Pittsburg.
HO YANKEE NEED APPLY.
An American Denied Permission to Fish In
Canadian Waters.
OTTAWA, Peptember 25. The Minister of
Marine and Fisheries has had under considera
tion the application of Captain Whltelaw, a
United States citizen, asking permission to
catch whales in the Gulf of Georgia.
As the Captain proposed to do his whaling In
American bottom, the Minister would not
allow a precedent to be created, and permis
sion was refused.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
The late Rev. E. P. Roe will be honored with
a monument at the hands of his townsmen at
Cornwall, S. Y.
Steps are being taken in Troy to erect a
monument to to the memory of Miss Emma
Willard, who did so much tor the hlgrer edu
cation of women.
' THE Duchess d'Uzes, who-furnished Bou
langer with his money, is the owner of the
Veuve Cliquot champagne business, which she
inherited from her mother.
John H. Littlefield. who lectured last
season on "Personal Recollections of Abraham
Lincoln" in nearly every Northern State, Is
now in greater demand than ever.
PASTEUR Is a small, solidly built man, vory
pale and rather sickly in appearance. He
limps when he walks. His taco shows In every
lineament a high order of Intellect,
DOUGLAS Bladen, tho Australian poet Is
spending the present month in Nepigon, Oot
Next month he will visit Montreal and Boston,
in which latter city he has many admirers.
AT his beautiful home In Germantown the
late William Brockle dispensed a cordial and
lavish hospitality. Nearly every person of any
distinction who visited. Philadelphia found In
Mr. Brockle a warm friend ana thoughtful
host (
GskebAL MERWIN and Jndge Morns, the
opposing candidates for Governor in Connecti
cut, are so irretrievably and entirely bald that
their heads shine' like a couple of aro lamps.
And yet each of these gentlemen is after the
other's scalp.
THK Rev. Royal H. Pallman, who is running
for Congress on the Republican ticket in tlfc
Third district ot Maryland, explains his posi
tion by remarking that be 1s trying to elevate
politics, and that he Is doing only what every
Christian should do.
Rev. Dr. MEBEnrrH, who, next to Dr. Tal
mage, preaches to the largest andiences In
Brooklyn, was a sailor boy. It was in that
capacity tbat he first arrived in San Francisco,
where he remained some time, and then went
to Boston to study for the ministry.
ALT. the printing of the Hampton Instituto
of Virginia, and much of it Is of a very artlstlo
character, is done by the negro and Indian
students of the college. The Indian boys in
particular learn the art readily and take much
interest in turning; out ornamental work.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
If everybody was honest we would not have
to carry night keys.
"In the midst of life we are In death." This
was forcibly brought to mind by an incident
yesterday. I saw a grave-faced, spectacled
man patiently scanning the files of The Dis
patch. Curious to know his object, I kept an
ere on the columns sought He was poring
over the obituaries, making careful notes on a
pad, and seemed to be gloating over that whioh
brought sorrow to others. He spoke not
neither aid he sigh. Slowly, but surely, he
tiansferred the names of the deceased to his
note book, the list lengthening with every pen
cil stroke. What did be want who was he
why did he seek the record of the dead in the
land of the livingT Can you guess? No.
Well, Til tell you. He was a tombstone maker
the man who carves deep epitaphs into the
headpieces; who polishes long shafts of
granite for the rich, and rubs rough
edges off mean slabs for the .poor; who
grows fat on green graves in all communities
that patronize fashionable cemeteries. What
was he oing? Well, ho was taking down the
names and address of the dead to guide bim
aright in drumming up business among the
living. He may call in person or send his pros
pectus or agent to see you you who bave lost
someone whose memory must be perpetuated
by a name, a text, a line, a verse, a word or a
cold, cold stone. A growsome task, to be sure,
but a profitable ono withal. So I left him fill
ing out his pad name, age, abiding place when
living with DeathI Each pencil stroke
brought him nearer his own tombstone, but be
could not see it in the Then while so busy with
the Now. He was grubbing for gold in the
grave.
Too much sympathy acts like a poultice on a
healing wound. It keeps the spot sore.
The acts of Congress are supposed to be
laws. They have mainly been lawless this
session, nowever.
People who howl for a higher education
should study in balloons.
Congress and baseball will stop about the
same time. Good things seldom come in pairs,
but when they do we appreciate them.
A Baltimore street preacher says the Devil
gets aronnd jnst before election time. He will
probably travel over Pennsylvania in a barrel
this year.
Murders are committed in cold blood dur
ing heated arguments.
The campaign orators are doing the speak
ing this time, but the people who finger the
ballots are doing the thinking.
The Count of Paris will not be disputed.
The wind may be tempered to the shorn
lamb, but bow about the bald-headed man.
Now let the sound of hammers drown all the
discord In Chicago. When actual work begins
on the fair buildings people will begin to save
np their small change in order to help foot the
bills.
The college football crack is a bigger man
than the college President
Artists agree that the Sheriff of Allegheny
county conld have hung the paintings at the
Exposition a good deal better than the hang
man to whom the disposition thereof was in
trusted. People who talk about Pittsburg being
dirty and sooty nowadays must look at It
through a glass or several glasses.
The big men who were entertained by skele
tons at the Wbitechapel Club, Chicago, the
other night probably saw snakes before the
night was over. The club keeps them on tap In
the sideboard.
Chicago's hindsight is better than its fore
sight after all.
lv yon want to see a fine-looking, well-fed,
contented, jolly, broad-browed body of big men
take a peep into the hall where the German
Catholic Congress sits.
The McKinley tariff bill will make mighty
interesting reading in Europe.
Those who chew the cud of contentment In
stead of the weed need not carry a tooth brush
In their waistcoat pocket.
A sweet-faced girl may have a sour temper.
BASEBALL players are not the most con
tented fellows on earth, even if they are always
re-signed.
A boy babe left in a doorway is certainly a
step-son.
The bondless and uninsured married man
who travels without an accident insurance
ticket in his trousers pockets nowadays Is
heartless Indeed. Besides, the paper will
identify you.
Girls who use arsenic wafers make pale
angels.
The man who prays loudest and longest
usually has something on his conscience.
People who swim in the glided ripples of the
social stream are just as liable to sink as those
who paddle along in the free baths patronized
by the masses. Both will clutch at the same
straw, too.
The clerks at political headquarters are busy
"shoving the queer" now. The voters can't be
queered tbis time, though.
Kittenish girls are liable to become real
old cats.
The man who stands npon truth cannot be
knocked down by a lie.
When Delamater's record Is held against
the Emery wheel at Bradford next Friday, its
polish will probably be dimmed instead of
brightened.
The pirates of the rail should be treated like
the pirates of the sea.
SPANlsn dancers are now the metropolitan
rage. They are an improvement on the Gaiety
skirters, as they use eyes and arms instead of
the lower limbs to please the scanty-haired.
A dog always has a tail to tell when it de
sires to express satisfaction.
A pack of cards is no longer "the Devil's
book." The reprints of the French and Rus
sian novelists and the intenso realism of some
English-writing romancers can give the paste
boards.a "pat?' hand and win cutfor Satan every
time.
The old adage about whistling girls and
crowing liens has been ruthlessly shattered by
the successes of the tuneful females or the
period. Of course they are not dead yet and
anything is liable to happen before they pucker
their rosy lips for the last time.
They have colored lights In the House now.
Willie Winkle.
Ex-Pre1dent Tlnyei Addresses Boldiers.
Warren, O., September 23. The dedication
of tbe soldiers' monnment brought a large
crowd to the city to-day. Ex-President Hayes
delivered the address, speaking interestlcgly 30
minutes on the general topic of tbe war. There
was an imposlug parade of the G. A. R, and
civic societies.
AN AUTUMN SONG.
All the summer's worn and old;
The sun has ceased a-woolng It
Trees are drooping blood and gold
Blood for mnrder of the right
And gold to bide It out o'slght;
Bnt for all they are so bold
I think they'll rail for doing It
Jill the careful sun is cold.
Till the watching stars for dread
Go out and cease to lighten It,
Crnel earth drlnks'np the red,
Wrung by last of greedy gain
From the broken sweater's pain,
From the dying and the dead,
Till never moon may whiten It
With her sliver pity shed.
Ye who tread a golden way
With hearts or others paving It
Hark! the autumn voices say:
'The yellow leaves lie ankle deep,
But through them still the crimson peep.
Buddy drops to stain tbe day. .
Do after rain-drops. laving It,
Wash the purple from the clay.1
-Xtna P. Layard, in Harper's Magaiin for
October,
SOME Ljy TOPICS ,
To be Ysted on at the Exposition An Im
portant Prize Essay ContesL
Tbe Exposition has entered upon its fourth
week. Since the opening day, visitors have
bad an opportunity to vote npon a variety of
popular topics, and thousands have taken ad
vantage of The Dispatch Poll Book to ex
press their viewsnbereon pro and con. This
popnlarmode ot ganging public opinion will
be pursued by The Dispatch until the close
of tbe big show. To-day visitors are requested
to cast their ballets and make such remarks
as they see fit on tbe following topic:
Should tbe Granting of Liquor Licenses be
Placed in the Hands of a Commission? Open
to Lady and Gentlemen Voteis.
Vote Aye or Nay on the foregoing at Dis
patch Headquarters, Brunswick-Balke-Col-leuder
Billiard Company's Space, Exhibition
Building.
On account of the bulk and variety of the
competitions for the. Prizes offered by The
Dispatch for the best essay on the measures
to be taken to promote the growth and prosper
ity of Pittsbnrg, The Dispatch has decided
not to detract from their Importance by another
essay contest until after the pending awards
bave been made and the competitions pub
lished. Tbe topic Is of vital importance, and
he public must be given opportunity to digest
the views of tbe writers without being tnrned
In other and lesser channels.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.
A Large Concourse of ministers, bnt a
(Scarcity of Chickens.
rSFZCIAI. TILEOBAM TO TUB DISrATCO.1
Cochkanton, September 23. The thirty
third annual session of the First Synod of the
West of the United Presbyterian Church met
in the United Presbyterian Church at 730 this
evening.
The session was called to order by the Read
ing Moderator, Rev. Mr. Graham, of Allegheny
Presbytery, who preached the sermon, and
opened tbe Synod with prayer. Tbe six pres
byteries constituting this Synod are Allegheny,
Beaver Valley, Butler, Cleveland, Lake and
Mercer. The Stated Clerk. Rev. H. H. Hervy.
of Hartstown. called the roll of ministers and
elders, about 180 answering to their names.
Rev. L. McCompbell, of Butler Presbytery, was
elected moderator for tbe ensuing year.
The Board of the Theological Seminary, of
Allegheny, will report to-morrow, when a pro
fessor of church history will be elected and
other business transacted. In tbe evening
there will be a conference of yonng people's
meeting, opened by Prof. J. B. McClelland, of
Grove City. The good people of tbe town have
made ample arrangements for tne entertain
ment of tbe visiting ministers and elders, bat
no chickens have been shipped to market this
week.
PRESBYTERIANS AT REDSTONE.
Proceedlnes of the Presbytery The Greens-
barff Difficulty Comes Up.
rSFZCIAL TELXGRAX TO TOB CISFATCH.1
Dottbab. Beptember 23. The Presbytery of
Redstone met in tbe Presbyterian church at
Dunbar at 2 F. M. to-day. The Presbytery was
opened by a sermon by retiring Moderator Rev.
W. A. Edle. This Presbytery was preceded by
a religious conference. The Presbytery wag
organized by electing Rev. 3. R. Donehoo, of
Mt. Pleasant chnrcb, as Moderator. Reports of
the several boards ot the church were heard
this evening.
Tne difficulty in tbe Greensburg chnreh was
brought up, and its consideration fixed for to
morrow. A LONG TIME IK SETTLING IT.
The Senate Finally Slakes a Favorable Be
poit on an Enily Nomination.
Washington, September 23. The execu
tive session of the Senate to-day was confinel
to the consideration ot the nomination of
George B. Maney, of Tennessee, to be Minister
to Uraeuay and Paraguay. After a fnll dis
cussion the favorable report of tbe Committee
on Foreign Relations was concurred in on a
yea and nay vote by two-thirds of tbe Senators
present
The nomination of Mr. Maney was one of tbe
first sent to the (Senate at this session of Con
gress, bnt it has been held up until now by
charges made against bim relating to bis per
sonal hablta.
TO RECEIVE DR. FA1RBAIRN.
A Reception Under tho Anplcei of tbe
Presbyterian Union.
The Presbyterian Union has arranged for a
reception to be tendered to President Fair
bairn, of Oxford College, England, on Monday,
the 29th inst., in tne First Presbyterian
Church.
Addresses of welcome will bo delivered by
Drs. Jeffers and Pnrves. The members of tbe
Union, with their wives and friends will attend
the reception. .
EXPLORATION OF ALASKA.
Favorable Report on a BUI Slaking; Appro
priation far the Parpoe.
Washington, September 23. Representa
tive Rockwell, of Massachusetts, to-day re
ported favorably from tbe Committee on Mili
tary Affairs a snbstitute bill making an appro
priation of 8100,000 to enable tbe Secretary of
War to cause an exploration and survey of the
interior of Alaska to be made by such force of
officers and enlisted men ot the army as he
may deem available.
A Horning Question.
From the Norrlstown Herald.
The Pittsburg Dispatch observes that "if
Satan was married he wonld have to stick
closer to home." Do you think she could
make it any hotter for bim?
STATE POLITICAL NOTES.
New Castle News (Rep.): We believe
,n mtnfatftr In New Castle and nearlv avapv
one in Lawrence county is against the Mc
Dowell nomination.
Vunes AHrror (Ren.1: The Noves clan
gathers in new recruits every day, and tbe fol
lowing in tbe district is a vase one; one mat
will lead him to victory.
WTT.T.r-A-wupmiT Hun (Dem.l: It is sought to
show tbat Mr. Scott Is responsible for Paul
son's nomination, as yuay is ior Aeiamaters.
This will not do. Mr. Pattison was the choice
of the party by a large majority.
Reading Times (Rep.): Senator Delamater
madpamost favorable impression upon the
nanni. nf Rartra rnuntv. wherever be met them.
His reception in Reading will be remembered
with pleasure by all wno witnesseu u.
Meadville Gazette (Rep.): Senator Quay
i,,. ., mK an effort at oratory. His
speeches have been mostly of the kind tbat re
sembles the smokeless powuer auu .us noise
less bullet and whose effect is most apparent
where it hits.
Habbisbtjbg Telegraph (Rep.): Chairman
ira. ia eitfini, nn n'niEThts devising wavs and
. ... A i -n rfpnrv Geortre and his fren
U1CU3IU AWbV . - w
trade ideas from being Injected into the Penn
sylvania canvass. George is lairiyacning to
stump tbe State for Pattison.
Tj.mrnrri Telraram (Ind.1: Your Uuberna.
torial candidates bave been among you, you
bave seen and neara weiu uu jour uuty is
clear. It Is to go to the polls on the 4th of No
..., , arf nprfnrm that dntv of whfnh It
has been written "To speak his mind is every
free man's right.
T.ii,-Mnnir Tribune (ReD.); Lewis Emerr
announce that be will deliver a public speech
against Delamater, anu ooumr "uu says us
will run Independent for Senator In the Forty
.....j Hiii,ir The. difference between them
and Kilgore, the Texan, Is that he wanted to
get ont of the House; mey juck Because mey
can't get in.
D.nimvlFmiMfMn (Ren.1: There will
be regret at least in Pennsylvania, lhat Gen
eral Hastings was not eieciea Aiirecior uenerai
nr tti. f-niioafrn World's Fair. Altboueh he
came within a few votes of election, inasmuch
as the people or Chicago wameo. a unicaga
man. It Is perhaps best tbat they bad their own
way and secured Mr. Davis.
Philadelphia iVetM (Dem.): If the bogus
4.iii..ui,tinA "slated to meet in thUcltv
ttis week, is not a Quay scheme, it looks might
ily like It T.P.Rynder. the Pittsburg man
who has handled tbe affair, bus called a meet
ing of the Union Labor state vommittee to
"nominate a Bute ticket." This meeting will be
tho "convention," and tbe only purposj of this
will be to swing; votes of the workingmen from
Pattison.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Twenty carloads of rasins left Fresno,
Cal., Sunday, for the East
A Georgia woman is the mother of 26
children, all of whom are alive.
A banter at Columbus. Ga., resulted in
two men swapping their artificial legs.
An editos of a Georgia newspaper has
been presented with a six-pound potato.
A Chicago janitor is in the habit of
ridding by electrocntion the building be serve
ot rats.
If all wife beaters were treated like one
In Augusta, Me., wife-beating would probably
die ont. He was fined S1S2 7a
California prunes have become so pop
ular in tbis country that It is said the French,
are beginning to put np their prunes In tha
California style. ,
An optie nerve belonging to Mrs. "Wm1.
Bailey, of Port Huron. Mich., went back on her
the other day. It left her sightless in one eye
and never hurt a bit.
A Brooklyn woman, Mrs. Augusta Ek
blom, who Is seeking a divorce from her hus
band, has been roamed three times within
year. Twoot her husbands died soon after
marriage.
A kitten in Hood River, Ore., caught a
lizard, out will never catch another. The rep
tile, in attempting to escape, ran down Its
enemy's throat where it lodged, with fatal re
sult to tbe cat
A boy was recently discovered in Mid
land connty, Mich., near Pleasant Valley,
whose body is covered with scales marked
similar to that of a mud turtle. He bas been
coopered and will be pnt upon exhibition.
A serious epidemic has broken out
among the horses around Davison. Mich. The
animals are affected with swelling of the
nostrils and lungs, and they froth at the mouth.
Death happens seemingly from strangulation.
Herbert A. Clark, of Chaplin, Conn.,
fell in love with a woman who wonld not listen
to his declarations. He then pestered her with
anonvmnus letters, writing as many as 150. He
has finally been arrested, and a commission has
adjudged him insane.
A citizen of Summit, Ga., was awakened
one night by a racket In tbe smoke honse. Ha
took a light ana went to see what It was. and to
his surprise be found tbe would-be Intruder a
"slick tail possum" in a piece of old stove pipe,
where he bad crawled for concealment
C. Goodrum.of Athens, Ga.,has invented
an improvement on the telephone, which. It is
claimed, would revolutionize telephonic com
munication. It is now announced that tbo
Bell Telephone Company is fighting tbe grant
ing of a patent by the authorities at Washing
ton. Patrick J. Hauler, a convict in tha
State prison at Boston, bas had 40 days of soil
tary confinement for threatening to kill ex
District Attorney Ives, of Salem, who has re
cently been sentenced for embezzlement The
confinement was the longest in the history of
the prison.
A strange story has just been pub
lished in Germany on the strength of a letter
from an eye witness, now dead, to the effect
that General Abel Douay. wbo fell at the bat
tle of Worth, was really shot by an officer in a
Tnrco Regiment who was furious at Douay'sj
order of retreat
A minister from Africa, Rev. Leonidag
Tnnrkeisen, Is lecturing to colored people in
Georgia on tne advantages which Africa holds
out to tbem and urging their emigration. Ha
has arranged for an expedition for Africa
November 15, and expects to carry about 2,000
negroes with bim.
Any patriotic aud nnsoohisticated
couple tbat will stand np in cotton bagging in
the fair grounds of tbe Piedmont Exposition,
at Atlanta, during Alliance week, and there bo
wedded for better or worse, will receive $100.
The second couple that fancies tbis sort of a
wedding will get 30.
Some sly rogue, who ha'd learned tha
exact location of tbe boxes and barrels in a
store at Woodstock, Ga., crawled under tbe
store and bored auger holes through the floor
into tbe coffee and sugar barrels and then, by
holding a sack under them, succeeded in get
ting a supply of these articles.
A man who spent ten months in South
Carolina, where divorces are never granted,
made a record of 5i0;separations, many of tbem
witb a murder as the result, and several hun
dred cass where husband and wife have lived
together foryears wltbbnt speaking: HesayS
that divorce would have been a godsend in
every case.
A Michigan woman whose husband
went ont to chop and didn't return at night
dreamed tbat she saw a tree fall upon and
crush bim. She pot assistance to look for him.
and he was found crushed. It wasn't under a
tree, however, but on tho public highway,
where he got drunk, lay down and let a load of
hay roll over him.
The Senate bas passed the House bill to
discontinue the coinage of tbe SI and S3 gold
pieces and the 3-cent silver pieces. They will
presently drop into the cabinets of coin col
lectors or follow the trade dollar bark to tho
mint The 20-ccnt piece, silver half dimo and
2-cent copper piece might follow them into re
tirement and not be greatly missed.
The negroes in the neighborhood of
Cohutta. In Whitfield county, are excited over
what they claim to be a case of conjnring.
Lizzie Clark, a negro girl, has been acting
strangely for several da vs. Last week she be
gan to bark like a dog. bray like a jack and im
itate snakes. Tbe darkies declare tbe girl has
been conjured, and say that just under her
skin are scorpions, which rnn when touched.
While fishing for crcvalle at Titusville,
Fla., a man hooked a specimen of this game?
flh. and in its rapacity mijudged the location
of bis throat and allowed the bait hook and
Una to slip ont throngb bis gills, when tbe bait
was instantly seized by another hnngry
crevalle, wbo was firmlv booked in tbe month.
Both of the fl'b. which were beauties, and
weighed abont six pouuds each, were landed.
A young Eastern tenderfoot, who is now
in the State of Washington, writes thus to a
friend:." What do you think of trees 630 feet
bight They are to be found in the unsurveyed
townships near the foot of Monnt Tacoma. and
what Is more, I have seen them and made an
inatramMtal measurement with tbat resnlt-
Tbere are lots of trees in that locality whoso
foliage is so far above tbe ground that It is Im
possible to tell to what family they belong ex
cent by the bark-. Very few people know or
aream oi iue iniujcini.ji wu .u.wd.fe.wn.u.
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.
"Here, fork over that watch I" said the
road agent as be slipped the traveler's roll of
hills Into his pocket, "aad be quick about It."
Great Caesarl" expostulated the tourist "you
wouldn't take a man's time and money too, would
yon?" Washington Star.
A somewhat adventurous spirit having
risen la tbe British army from tbe ranks to tha
post of major was asked on his return from tho
Asiatic climes If he had ever been bastinadoed.
"I have. Indeed, . was the reply Just as It was
expected to be.
"And was It really very palnfuL Major?" was
asked.
"It was, madam. Upon my sole it was."
Jiarper't Magazine.
Hankerson "John, did yon Ice two doxen
bottles of champagne, as I tola yon?"
The Butler "A o. sorr. The Icebox wasn't Bis
enough for more than twlnty."
Hankerson "What hare yon done with the
rest?"
The Butler "I set the cook and the maids a-fan-nla'
'em. ton."-Uarper't Magazine.
Benevolent but Near-sighted Employer
Patrick, what's that under your eoatf
Fat (who I working- the growler) I'm sorry to
say It 19 a can, sir.
Employer-Geat heavens. Patrick? Slopwork
and go straight to the hospital. From Muntcy'l
Weetly.
"What do you think of my poem?"
"Which one?"
"The Ode to Besant ' '
It's fine- The wayyou rhyme Besant with
pleasant' and decent' and Mecant' shows that
yonr muse is a very liberal-minded young per
son." from Lift.
Drowning Man Help! I'm drowning!
Stranger (on bank, hastily divesting himself of
bis clothes) Horrible I Can yon swim? .
Drowning-man (rlslnir to the surfaces and for
the last time Of coarse! Bat don't yoa see that
notice on the bridzei "Swimming- strictly forbid
dea berer" From Chatter.
Lawyer Hubble Tbe Fifth National has
failed, and I've been victimized!
Old Fobbs Keallyl The news most have quits,
upset yoa.
Lawyer Hubble No, I was not upset; bat I lost
my balance. From Racket.
THE NEW ANTJ THE OLD.
When first McGlnnis swung his club,
I And started on bis beat
He wanted to arrest each man
He saw npon the street
Bat now. when several months have pissed, v
Observant people vow
He'll travel several blocks around
A place where there's a row.
Washington Put