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SECOND PART.
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Mep.ling of American Branch of
the Society for Psychi
cal Research.
SOME RECENT PHENOMENA.
A Strange Case of Dual Personality
Reported by Prof, James.
MORE MOKEY FOR INVESTIGATION
Work of the Organization to be Conducted
on a larger Scale.
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS IX MPXOTISM
Boston, Dec. 4. A meeting of the Amer
ican branch of the Society for Psychical Re
search the first since last March was held
to-uight in the amphitheater of the Society
of Natural History. Tnose persons who at
tended expecting to see ghosts or to receive
a revelation of the occult phenomena ot
spirit land were disappointed. Neverthe
less, the session was of intense interest and
the audience was too large for the limits of
the Lai!, so that many ladies and gentlemen
had to stand alone the walls and in the
doorways and listen under discouraging cir
cumstances to tthat was said.
Prof. William Jones occupied the chair.
Alter the Secretary. Mr. Richard Hodgson,
had read the minutes of the March meeting.
Prof. James gave a suggestive little talk
about the doings of ihe society.
llouri-liLiic; State of the Society.
"We appear to have lost nothing," he
aid, "by bccomiti? merged in the English
society and parting with our own council.
Our membership is now 440, as compared
with S50 a year ago. The results of our
work were never more encouraging. Be
tween 4,000 and 5,000 answers have teen re
ceived to the hallucination circulars, of
which about one-tenth have been positively
in the affirmative. That is, we have now the
lecords of about 400 persons who have had
hallucinations, the circumstances of which
bear investigation and yield scientifically
valuable data. Our report upon this branch
of the work will be teady by nest summer.
"Not so many 'persons as formerly are now
joining the society through purely sensa
tional considerations. A deeper scientific
interest is manifest The members generally
realize that patience and time are required
in this department of research as well as iu
other branches of science, in order to secure
satisiactory results. "We mustmass together
a great number of cases before being able to
draw trustworthy deductions from them,
but these deductions are sure to follow, I
am confident, sooner or later.
"We nave suffered, however, from a cause
that produces trouble in every walk ot life.
1 mean the lack of funds. In many cases
the Secretary has been unable, for want ot
traveling expenses, to investigate reported
phenomena while they were red hot, and in
this way we have undoubtedly lost much
valuable information."
Prof. James Iniited Suggestions
of methods calculated to remedy this condi
tion of the treasury, and, after a brief dis
cussion, the secretary was instructed to send
circulars to all members of the American
branch, asking them whether or not thev
would be willing to par an annual fee of 55,
instead of S3 as at present.
This business concluded, Prof. James de
scribed a case of double personality of the
so-called ambulatory type, the investigation
of which he has just concluded.
The subject is a man, now about CO year?
of age, residing in a small place near Paw
tucket, It. I. This person was a carpenter
until 1857, when, by a strange visitation of
Providence, he was induced to adopt alto
gether difierent habits of life. He had been
an atheist. One day, while walking in the
open country, he thought he heard a voice,
saying:
'Go to the chapel, go to the chapel."
"To what chapel?" he inquired of his in
visible monitor.
"To the Christian chapel," was the reply.
Now the carpenter was en unfriendly
terms with the minister of the Christian
chapel, and he exclaimed aloud:
Blasphemy Promptly Rebuked.
"Before I go to that place I hope God
may strike me deaf, dumb and blind."
Instantly he fell to the earth, enveloped
in darkness and silence, and without the
power of speech.
The events which followed, as Prof. James
said in telling this part of thestory, were
such as seneraily occur in cases of the same
tort, which are frequent in religious history.
Suffice it to say that the events culminated
in the man's restoration to his senses, in his
conversion and in his adoption of the voca
tion oi an itinerant preacher.
For 30 years he followed this calling,
doing a great deal of missionary work, and
becoming well known over a farce area of
New York State and western New England.
Early in 1SS7 he had abandoned his
preaching, beins advanced in years and de
sirous ot living more quietly, and had taken
up again bis old trade oi carpentering. His
health was still good, and he worked 12 or 13
hours a day, in preference to 9 or 10.
In what follows it is well to remember
Prof. James assurance of his conviction
that the man in question is sincere, free
from deception, and a genuine subject of
Strange Psjchical Phenomena.
One day.while living at Greene, E. I., he
suddenly disappeared from home. Every
effort was made to find him, but to no avail.
He was completely lost.
Two months later, in Norristown, Pa., a
man named Brown, who kept a little candy
store, woke up in the middle of the night
and found himself in a strange place. His
bed was strange, the room in which he lay
was strange, and the shop into which be
groped his way was so unamiliar that he
became thoroughly alarmed. Fearing he
would be taken for a burglar, he cried for
help. The neighbors rushed out in the
night and discovered Brown, the candv
merchant, in an unaccountable state.
"Where am 1? Who am I? Who are
von?" he cried, in great perturbation.
They thought their neighbor must be sud
denly gone crazy. When told that his
name was Brown, he denied it, and gave as
his name that of the erstwhile preacher and
carpenter of Rhode Island.
A Physician's Experiment.
The Tillage doctor was called upon for
advice. He saw in the case something dif
ferent from ordinary mania, but still he
thought it was mania. However, he com
municated with Brown's alleged relatives in
Rhode Island, and, to be sure, Brown's as
sertions concerning himself were found to
be true .
But Brown now had no recollections of
his experience in the candy store, nor did
he know how he got there or how he left
Bhode Wand. .... .
Tyiie case became noised abroad, and was
HEGHOSTHUNTERS
investieated by a Philadelphia physician,
but with no results.
All that was known was that the man had
been away from home two months, six
weeks of which he had spent at Norristown,
bnt the remaining fortnight was a blank to
him and could be explained by nobody else.
Iu the course of time the circumstances
reached the notice of Prof. James. The
man was now again at home, peaceably pur
suing his trade of carpenter. The professor
visited him and found him to be a hard
headed, matter-of-fact Yankee. After con
siderable persuasion he was persuaded to
come to Cambridge and be hypnotized. The
professor thought that in a nypnotic trance
the man might remember his Brown experi
ence. And so he did.
This is the most valuable phase of the
phenonenon from a psychical point of view.
He was very readily hypnotized, and, as
soon as he passed into the trance, began to
talk of
Norristown and the Candy Store.
He also explained those two weeks that
had been up to this time a mystery to every
body. While prosaic enoueb, his account
was perfectly clrcumstatftial.
Having conceived a notiou that some
trouble was in store for him at home, he got
on a horse car one day aDd rode to Paw
tucket, proceeded thence to New York,
stopped one night at the Grand Union
Hotel, went on to Philadelphia, 'put up a
couple of nights at a hotel, and then took a
room at a boarding house. The location of
this house he gave as 1115 Filbert street.
While there, seeing an advertisement of a
small business for sale in Norristown, he
went to that place, which he had never vis
ited before, and set himself up in trade.
Such was his story when he was in the
hypnotic state, and in that state he could
remember nothing of his former or normal
condition. On the other hand, while in
his waking state, he had no recollection of
his Brown experience subsequent to his
boarding the horse car to ride to Pawtucket,
nor could he tell why he started on this trip.,
nis Brown personality was, as Prof.
James put it, a weak, insipid, diluted 'ex
tract of his normal personality. In the twb
states he was two entirely different men.
He was hypnotized many times, And at
tempts were made by all sorts of artifices to
effect at least a partial fusion of his Brown
condition and his normal condition, but
these efforts were quite unsuccessful. The
only result was that his hypnotic memory
grew more and more feeble, until finally he
could recollect only the barest outlines of
his Brown experience.
Not a Freak of the Imagination.
His statements concerning that experience
were, of course, verified as far as possible.
It was not until last week, however, that
the boarding house at 1115 Filbert street
was found to have existed otherwise than in
his imagination. When Prof. James
wrenched his hypnotic narrative from him
that house had been torn down and replacad
by a mercantile establishment, and all traces
of its former occunants were lost. And only
a few daysago did Prof. James received word
that they had been discovered.
The' perfectly remembered the man, with
the circumstances ot his arrival at their
house and his departure to go into business
at Norristown.
This example of dual personality Prof.
James pronounced as one of the, most com
plete on record. He will describe it in de
tail in the next volume of proceedings of
the Society for Psychical Research.
The exercises last night were concluded
with the reading, by Secretary Hodgson, of
a report of some sittings with Mrs. Piper in
England, by Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F. K. S.
Mrs. Piper has returned from England,
but, being in ill health, is not now giving
seances.
POLITICS AND BUSINESS.
FLORENCE DEEGAN SHOWS HOW
EFFECTS THE OTHER.
ONE
The Iron Industries God in rittshnrg
Trouble Experienced in Securing Struc
tural Iron to Finish Up Contracts Sol
diers Take the Place of Strikers.
Florence Deegan, general manager for J.
P. Witherow & Co., is one who studies how
the politics of a country affects its business
and trade. At the present time, he states,
the iron industry is good in Pittsburg, and
he finds it a difficult matter to get materials
to finish his firm's contracts. He has the
greatest trouble in securing structural iron.
When asked yesterday what bad been the effect
of the McKiniey bill np to date, he said:
'"It is too soon to say. I am a tariff man, and
I know in the end it will act for the best inter
ests of the people. The elections have knocked
out the tin plate industry. It will take at
least a year and a half to build a plant, and no
man with money and sense would think of in
vesting his capital in a business which may be
ruined in four years by the Democrats.
There is one thing that people should re
member, and that is the basis of value is the
wages paid to workmen. If you reduce a labor
er's earnings, the Interest on money, incomes
and the price of real estate comes down with it,
so that it is better for both capitalist and la
borer that the latter is well paid. The tariff is
designed to accomplish this end. and it has
done it. Indeed, the good wages paid In Amer
ica have had the effect to keep them un
in foreign countries. The American tariff,
therefore, has been not only a national,
but an International blessine. We talk about
shipping our goods tree lo South America.
Do jou think for one minnte that France, Ger
many and England woulu give up then: mar
kets m these countries? Kather than do that,
they would cut the wages of their men one
half, and what good would it do us? In for
eign conntries the men can't tie up capital as
they do here, by striking. They keep standing
armies there to keep men in line.
"Witness the recent threatened lockout in
London of the gas men, when the indications
were cood that three-fourths of the city would be
in darkness. The owners notihed the Govern
ment, and they sent a regiment of soldiers in
undress uniform to shovel the coal and make
the gas needed. There was no gas strike, but
in America things aro not regulated in that
way."
INGENUITY NEAB BY.
Patents Granted to Persons In Ohio, Penn
sylvania and West Virginia.
The following patents were issued to
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and
West Virginia inventors lor the week end
ing December 2, as furnished by O. D.
Levis, patent attorney, 131 Fifth avenue,
Pittsburg:
W. i Banta, Sprincfield. O., electric wire
coupling; Frank Barnhart, Warren, Pa., tap
ping machine: J. H. Burkholder, Ridgeville, O.,
corn cutter: il. F. Carroll, Hillsborongh, O.,
vehicle spring; J. W. Culmer, New Briehton,
Pa., gas producer; C. R. Doellenbatch. Alle
gheny, air brake; W. A. Dunlap, Pittsburg, rail
way torpedo; C. N. Dutton. Pittsburg, fluid; S.
D. Engie, Hazleton, Pa., air gun; T.
F. Gray. Monroeville, O., grain scales;
J. B. Harvey, Steamburg, O., extension ladder;
Gabriel Konigsburg, Wapakoneta, O., wheel
barrow; R.K. Lewis. Union City. Pa., tailor's
measure: W. S. LoveU, Charleston, W. Va.,
animal trap; W. S. Paterson. Allegheny, brush
holder for electric motors or dynamos: A. L.
Pitney. Pittsburg. Ore extinguisher; George
Keiseck, Allegheny safetydevice for mills; H.
B. Shellengrr, RochestsV. Pa., panoramic
opera; G. S. Smith, Dnshore Pa., boiler due
cleaner; J. M. Teller, Minerra, O.. nut lock; G.
S. Trumbore, Pittsbure. cuspidor lifter; Frank
Carev. Tuukbannock, Pa., steam engine; C. E.
Denison, JefTersonville, O., sawmill dog; H. A.
Holibaugh, Marlborough, O., fence.
STBANGE MUSCULAE CONTRACTIONS.
They Are Severe Enough to Break the
Bones of a Eentncky Lady.
Lexington, Ky., Dec. 4. While sitting
talking with her children at her home in
Paris, Ky., abont noon yesterday, Mrs. J.
Harry Brent felt the muscles of her right
leg suddenly and violently contract, and as
she screamed with pain the bone of her
thigh broke just below the hip joint.
A physician was summoned, but before be
could do anything to relieve his ratient her
left leg broke in the same manner. Her
sufferings are inteuse and ber death is hourly
expected. It is thought by her physicians
that she it a victim of muscular rheumatism.
THE PITTSBURR DISPATCH.
PITTSBURG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1890. '
FIRST IN AMERICA.
A PATIENT IN NEW HAVEN TREATED
WITH THE KOCH LYMPH,
Which. Came Direct From the Discoverer
Great Interest Manifested in the Ex
periment hy Medical Men No State
ment Tet Made of the Result.
I6FEC1XL TIL EOn AM TO THE DISFJLTCH.l
New Haven, Dec 4. Koch's lymph has
arrived in New Haven. A small amount in
a glass bottle, inclosed in wood, reached
Prof. Russell Chittenden, head of the Yale
biological laboratory, this afternoon. He
obtained it from a medical friend in Heidel
berg, where Prof. Chittenden spent two
years in study. A few hours after its re
ceipt in New Haven, Dr. J. P. O. Foster,
to whom Prof. Chittenden, not being a
medical man, intrusted it for experimental
use, injected a small dose with a hyper
dermic Byringe below the shoulder blade of
a patient. The reaction noted in cases
abroad was speedily observed.
It is believed this is the first injection of
the lymph in America, and the widest inter
est in the result is felt here among medical
men. There is no possible question as to the
genuineness of the lvmph. It is a clear,
perfectly transparent liquid, dark brown in
color. Three decigrams only were sent to
Prof. Chittenden, and this will be no more
than enough to treat the case omvhich in
jection was made to-day and two others ar
ranged for. These will be treated to-morrow.
Prof. Chittenden and Drs. Francis Bacon
and Barstow, of Flushing, L. I., were pres
ent to-day at the time ot injection. The
amount used was one-half of a milligram
and the reaction was very slight, as Dr. Fos
ter intentionally used halt the minimum
dose recommended by Dr. Koch for adults.
Of the two cases to be treated to-morrow one
is of lupus, a patient furnished by Dr. Ba
con, the leading surgeon of Connecticut, and
a second of tubercular laryngitis, a patient
of Dr. Henry L. Swain, specialist. It is be
lieved these three cases will fairly illustrate
the workings of the Ivmpb.
Dr. Foster said to-night that he was
wholly unprepared to make any statement as
to the'results of the treatment, as his time
since the reception of the lymph was wholly
occupied in arranging for the treatment of
the cases.
DETEBjnNED TO DIE.
A Man Intent on Suicide Tries Poison,
Shears, Shotgun and Hatchet.
Baeaboo, III., Dec 4. Peter Held, of
the town of Honey Creek, Sauk county,
took a sensational method of committing
suicide, in which he'finally succeeded. Sat
urday afternoon he compounded a dose of
Paris green and rat poison, enough to kill
half a dozen men, and swallowed it. He
then took a pair of shears and stabbed him
self in the abdomen, but, finding that the
stabbing only increased his agonies, took
down his shotgun, and, pointing the muzzle
at his head, pulled the trigger, but was
again unsuccessful in ending his existence,
the charge of shot going too high and only
causing several scalp wounds and a copious
flow of blood.
Then Held seized a hatchet and began
striking at his head with it. At this point
his brother-in-law and a neighbor arrived
and pnt a sfop to his efforts at self-destruction.
Everything possible was done to save
him, but he died Sunday morning.
QUIETING FABMEES FEABS.
World's Fair People Request Fanners' Alli
ance to Take Action.
Chicago, Dec. 4. After consultation
with Colonel McKenzie, Commissioner
Hirst, Mr. Hnrt and Director General
Davis bit upon a plan to quiet" the fears of I
the farmers that their agricultural exhibits
would not be accepted. The following tele
gram was sent to the Farmers' Mutual
Benefit Association Convention now in ses
sion at Ocala, Fla.:
President Farmers1 Alliance, Ocala, Fla.:
I respectfully suggest that your Association,
in national convention assembled, make some
deliverance as to the propriety of action by the
several States represented in your body look
ing to a complete exhibit of the agricultural
resources thereof at the World's Columbian
Exposition. Ample provision in the matter of
classification and allotment of space will be
made for this most interesting and important
feature. Yours respectfully,
George it. Davis.
ACCIDENT TO THE BELLE JTG0WAN.
She Is Sank, hut Pumped Out Other Chat of
the Kier Front.
There was considerable excitement rifo on
the wharf yesterday over the reported sink
ing of the Bells HcGowan at Freedom late
the nigbt before. About 2:30 P. 31. it was
learned that no one had been hnrt, and that the
boat bad been pumped out and would soon be
on her nay to port. She ran her nose foul of
some rocks which knocked a bie hole iu her
hull, but the damage was not so greai as flist
reported. She is owned by W. W. O'Neill.
There was little doing o'n the rivers yester
day. The water was too low for a coal stage,
but the operators had hopes that it wonid rise
sufficiently in a couple or days. The gauge last
night showed 9 feet 4 inches and rising a little.
There has been five inches of snow in the Allc
ghenies. and if the weather comes on warm it
will melt and of conrse raise the water.
There is now little coal in the harbor.
Towboats Little Dick and Frank Beaver left
for the Beaver yesterday.
DISASTER TO A VILLAGE.
Principal Buildings in Brookvllle, Kan.,
Destroyed hy Fire.
Sauna, Kan., Dec. 4. Reports from
Brookvllle, this county, say nearly the
whole town was ablaze to-dav. The fire
started early this forenoon, and one business
block and the. Central Hotel were consumed.
There was no way to extinguish the fire, ex
cept by buckets. A strong wind was blow
ing. At 1 P. M. the fire was extinguished. The
loss, in addition to the buildings above re
ported, inclndes the Bank of Brookville and
three dwelling houses, which are completely
destroyed.
BLOWS AND A SLTTNG SHOT.
Disgraceful Scene in the Senate of Okla
homa Territory.
Gutheie. O. T., Dec. 4. This morning
immediately after prayer by the chaplain
Senator Brown called Frank Green, editor
of the Capital, to task about a criticism in
his paper concerning the bill for the pur
pose of providing for the burial of Union
soldiers.
Blows followed when Green jerked from
his pocket a slung shot. No serious dam
age was done, as the men were separated.
Talk of a duel is to be heard on all sides.
A TERRIBLE FATE.
Senator Turpie'g Aged Mother Burned to
Death In Her Boom.
Delphi, Ind., Dec 4. Senator Turpie's
mother met with a horrible fate to-day. She
was over 00 years of age and had been left
alone in her room. When her attendant re
turned, the aged lady was found dead on the
floor near the fireplace with nearly all her
clothing burned away.
She has resided with the Senator's
younger brother Robert, near this city, for
the past 25 years.
Plnngcdlnto tholtlvcr.
Montreal, Dec. 4. The mistake of a
switchman plunged the engine of the West
ern express on the Grand Trunk Railroad
into the river at Lachine 'this morning.
Joseph Binse, the engineer, is supposed to
nave pcea urowsso.
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RIDING ON THE WAVE.
Two Western Men Who Show Up in
the Political Whirl', and Will
PROBABLY LAND IN THE SENATE.
Ambitions of Vilas and Dickinson, of Cleve
land's Cabinet.
JACK E0BINS0N TALKS OF CAMERON
ISrECIAI. TIXEOItAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Washington, Dec. 4. Anions the first
Democratic fruits of the late election, ap
pear the names of two of President Cleve
land's Cabinet lieutenants. Ex-Postmaster
General and ex-Secretary of the Interior,
William F. "Vilas has been practically
elected to the United States Senate in Wis
consin, and ex-Postmaster General Don
Dickinson is morally sure to succeed Sena
ator Stockbridge from Michigan in 1893.
IT. F. Tilas.
These two prominent men were Mr. Cleve
land's ablest Cabinet ministers, both as pol
iticians and administrative officials. Being
younger by many years than the rest of the
Cabinet, with the single exception of Secre
tary Whitney, and representing as they did
the" great West, with all its possibilities of
Democratic gains, they rose rapidly to great
power. The, first popular reaction from the
Democratic defeat of 1888 brings them for
ward aeain into the white light. No wave
recedes from the shore but to pause and ad
vance again.
INTO PROMINENCE AGAIN.
After their letirement by a great popular
verdict, Colontl Vilas and Mr. Dickinson
come riding toward their former eminence
on the very crest of the ground swell. The
Wisconsin election is immediately conclu
sive. Colonel Vilas will be elected by the
Legislature irtst chosen, when it meets in
January. He will take his seat March 4 if
there is a called session of the Senate or an
extra session of Congress.
Of courser, there is opposition to him in his
own party. The old wheelhorses who have
battled until they, were weary do not ac
quiesce instanter in his claim to the Senator
ship after making the campaign almost his
own single-handed fight. They favor some
one of themselves for Senator.
So it is that John Mitchell, the multi
millionaire Congressman-elect from Mil
waukee, Gen. Edward S. Bragg, who loved
Cleveland for the enemies he had made,
Nick Pratt, the veteran Democratic State
Chairman, ex-Congressman Gil Wooderd,
and several others are supposed to he ready
for an anti-Vilas combination. Yet keen
observers in both parties concede Vilas'
election.
t A GREEN MOUNTAIN HOT.
The coming Senator from the Badger
State is a notable man. In his State and in
theJSorthwest he has been Jcnowiuis one of
the dozen foremost lawyers in the West. He
was born in Vermont in 1840, and at 11 was
taken by his parents to Madison, the pretty
capital of the State. His father. Judge
Vilas, was a member of the Vermont Legis
lature and a prominent citizen before bis re
moval to Wisconsin, his home during the
years of his greatest activity and influence.
Secretary Vilas graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin,amemberof the classof
'58. In 18C0 he returned from Albany Law
School to practice in Madison, Wis., bis
home.
He went to the war as a Captain in the
Twenty-third Wisconsin Infantry and rose
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was
President of the Chicago Convention in
1884, and made the notification speech to
Governor Cleveland soon after. He entered
the Cleveland Cabinet as Postmaster Gen
eral, and when Mr. Lamar was named for
the Supreme bench Colonel Vilas was sim
ultaneously nominated for Secretary of the
Interior.
rather ambitious.
All his life Colouel Vilas has assumed
that he was sooner or later to rise to emin
ence in political lire. From earliest boy
hood his ambition betrayed itself. His
manner has always shown the stagey con
sciousness of the part he was playing. His
vigorous athletic frame he squared up as it
he were a feudal king or a knight of the
middle ages. His speech, even in conver
sation, is ever rotund and propulsive; his
words are coated wjth a slow and studied
mouthing. On the stage he wduld have
restored in splendid imitation the dramatic
style of Edwin Forrest.
Colonel Vilas is a good jurv lawyer. He
is also a skillful special pleader. His an
nual retainers from several powerful corpor
ations give him a large and reliable income.
He is rich both by inheritance and his own
earning;. His wife is a charming little
lady, whose return to Washington will be
the signal for a genuine rejoicing through
out society circles.
Don Dickinson was President Cleveland's
youngest Cabinet adviser. He is a man
noted for bis discernment, discretion and
energy. He was born at Auburn, N. Y., in
1842. His father, Asa Dickinson, was a
distant relative of Dan S. Dickinson, but
belonged to the Massachusetts Dickinsons.
He went to Michigan when Don was a small
bov and became one of the wheelhorses of
the Democratic party there. The son was.
educated at the State University at Ann
Arbor, graduating in 1866.
ALSO A LA-WTEB.
Three years later he received his diploma
from the law school and began to practice.
At first he had a desk in his older brother's
office. When the latter, already a rich man,
went to New York to accept large retainer
from one of the largest drygoods firms there,
be gave his business to Don. The firm is
now Dickinson, Hosmer & Thurber, and the
senior partner is said to have an income, all
told, of over 540,000 a year. A
large part of this comes from his
collection bureau, which he runs inde
pendently of the firm. He hires two or
three good lawyers and a good corps of
clerks, and pushes the business with an en
ergetic hand. He is famous for promptness,
and never stops when he gets after a debtor
j oyer the cash to his client Six ability aa
until he collects his judgment ana lianas
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Don Dickinson.
an administrative officer quickly displayed
itself in Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet. He man
aged with consummate skill to reconcile the
varying doctrines of civil service reform
and that the victor must have his spoils,
and contributed thereby a great deal to the
popularity of his chief in the rank and file
of the party.
The Michigan Legislature is Demcoratic,
and a majority ot the hold-over Senators are
Democrats. A scheme for redistricting the
State so as tie the Republican farming
counties up with the Democratic cities is
already on foot, and good judgesof political
consequences declare that nothing can pre
vent Don Dickinson's succeding Senator
Stockbridge except his own death or posi
tive refusal to go to the Senate.
JACK ROBINSON TALKS.
CAMERON IS NOT POPULAR, BUT WILL BE
ELECTED.
Not a Good Time Now to Arouse Any
More Factional Differences Conferences
of the Quay Hustlers Being Held at the
National Capital.
.SPECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Washington, Dec. 4. The managers of
the late Bepublican campaign in Pennsyl
vania havj been holding a series of confer
ences in Washington during the uast few
days. Chairman Andrews has been the
guest of Senator Quiy, and Colonel John
Morrison, candidate lor re-eleetion ,as chief
clerk of the lower branch of the State Legis
lature, Assemblyman Bider, of Philadel
phia, and State Senator Robinson are among
the condoling friends who have come.here to
talk matters over. Senator Quay has not
been in Pennsylvania since he left there
immediately after the political "catalysm,"
as Senator Ingalls calls it, of November, and
sought temporary exile in Florada. His
friends have, therefore, during the past
month been entirely adrift. It is his intention
now, however, to run over to Philadelphia,
and possibly to Pittsburg, where ques'tions
of legislative organization and party recon
struction will be talked over, and the party
in the Keystone commonwealth put in shape
for future emergencies.
The probable re-election of Senator Cam
eron is giving the Bepublicans more con
cern than they care to admit. State Senator
Robinson, who will represent tbecounties of
Chester and Delaware in the Fifty-second
Congress, speaking of the Cameron case,
said: "We thought that the re-election of
Senator Cameron would not reflect the
wishes of the people.and that those who may
vote for him in the Legislature will doubt
less hear from their constituents in the
future. There exists a very decided oppo
sition to Mr. Cameron, but alter conferring
with politicians from many parts ot the
State we have concluded that we were too
badly defeated at the polls to stir up fac
tional strife in the party over the Senator
ship. Cameron, therefore, is likely to be
elected, not for any services'he has rendered
or honor he has conferred upon the State,
but simply as the beneficiary of political
conditions as we find them after a serious
defeat, and when no one is in the humor to
embark in any controversies, even the
United States Senatorship."
P0STMASTEES APPOINTED.
Pennsylvania Gets One Among a list of
Names Sent to the Senate.
Washington, Dec. 4. The President
sent to the Senate to-day the following nom
inations: Postmasters: California E. M. Bennett,
Paso Kobless; Mrs. S. L. Drake, Colusa.
Colorado Nels Kellerup, Blackhawk.
Iowa John Bush, Knoxville; J.W. Stocker,
Liogan. Kansas Fred Krueger, Hays
Citv ; J. W. Graves, Norton.
Mate C. -D. Wood, Winthrop.
Minnesota Samuel Owens, Tower.
Michigan James Brooks, St. Joseph.
Nebraska J. M. itttchpatrick, Hebron.
New York A. H. Weed, Ticonderoga.
Ohio W. B. Gamble, Akron. Pennsyl
vania T. C. Manger, Forest City. South
Carolina J. G. Gattling, Darling Court
House. Texas C. M. Norton, Cilvert; E.
A. Tussell, Paris. Vermont Will Rob
erts, Fair Haven. Wisconsin O. P. Sten
erson, Menomonie. West Virginia D. W.
Weaver, Ronceverte. Also a number of
postmasters commissioned during the recess
of the Senate.
The President reappointed Joseph T. Ja
cobs, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a member ot the
Board of Indian Commissioners,
INCEEASING THEIR PENSIONS.
An Important Bill Introduced in the Senate
by Senator Quay.
Washington, Dec. 4. Senator Quay
has introduced a bill granting to all persons
whose names are now on the pension list, or
may be hereafter placed on it, who have
lost both eyes or both feet, or who are other
wise totally disabled, a pension of $100 a
month.
Also, to all persons who have lost an arm
at the shoulder joint, or a leg at the hip
joint, a pension of SG0 a month, and to those
who have lost an arm below the elbow, or a
leg below the knee, $55 a month. Those who
have lost a hand or foot,- or have been totally
disabled in the same, are to be entitled to
$50 a month.
The bill provides, further, that persons
who have contracted two or more disabilities
shall receive a sum per month equal to the
total of rates for all the disabilities men
tioned. Vaux Concludes Not to Contest.
Washington, Dec. 4. As the result of
the conlerence Representative Vaux held
with the Democratic leaders, Mills, McMil
lan and Breckinridge, -he has concluded to
abandon his contest with McAleer, member
elect from Randall's old district. The pol
icy of the Democrats in the next House will
be to discourage contests.
Must Pay a Duty or S1G.SOO.
Washington, December 4. Assistant
Secretary Spaulding, of the Treasury De
partment, has rendered a decision holding
that the bondsmen of the importers of
Millet's "The Angelus" are liable for ?16,
500 duty on the famous painting.
SENSATIONAL DISCOVERIES
At a Meeting of Freight Agents Called to
Adjust Grain Kates.
Kansas City, Dec. 3. Sensational dis
coveries were made to-day at the session of
the TransMissouri Freight Association.
The grain dealers of Kansas City had made
application for readjustment of alleged dis
crimination of rates. The Missouri Pacific
displayed extensive bills forged by certain
grain dealers and representatives 01 three of
the Western lines as, to market rebates on
shipments in transit, which appear large
eno'ugh to make a very great reduction in
the freight rates.
The names ot the roads and oi the grain
dealers implicated are not given. The ap
plication for a readjustment in "rates and
the granting of reconsignment privileges
was not acted upon.
7IATUEAL GAS FOB CHICAGO.
The Council Committee Comes to Time hy
Reporting the Ordinance.
Chicago, Dec 4. The City Council
Committee on Gas, Oil and Electrio Lights
to-day decided to report favorably an ordi
nance authorizing the Chicago Fnel Gas
Company to lay mains in Chicaeo.
This corporation, it is claimed, is backed
by the Standard Oil Company, and controls
the Indiana natural gas fields, and proposes
to introduce natural ' eat into the city for
- 1 .both fuel and UlttmiBatinK purpose
ANOTHER DAT PUT IN
On the Appeal of the United States
From the Appropriation
MADE BY THE BOARD OP VIEWERS
For the Purchase of Lock Ko. 7 From the
Navigation Company.
THE NEWS OF ONE DAI IN THE COURTS
The question of the value of the Monon
gahela Navigation Company's franchise,
which was argued Wednesday, was decided
yesterday by Judge Acheson. His Honor
did not feel disposed to declare the section
of the act of Congress referred to as uncon
stitutional, and he would continue to hear
testimony on the actual value of the prop
erty in question, leaving the case to go to
the Snpreme Court, as it probably would,
without incumbrance.
Colonel T. P. Roberts was recalled, and
explained the figures submitted on Tuesday.
Colonel Roberts explained that the company
having done the work itself, saved fully
$11,000 or $12,000 by reason of its extensive
plant and facilities, and it was therefore
done considerably cheaper than it could be
done by contractors.
Jacob Wamwrighf, who was engineer and
contractor for Lock No. 8, had inspected
Lock and Dam No. t. He stated that he
would not undertake to build the lock and
dam for the fignre named as its cost. Wit
ness thought the dam was better and more
valuable to-day than when it was built.
Judge Acheson wanted to know the actual
amount for which Mr. Wainwright would
undertake to build the lock and dam. Wit
ness, after considerable figuring, stated that
he wonld not undertake it for less than
$198,688, and this only included the actual
work done by the contractor, and was ex
clusive of dredging and other work done by
the company.
inn company has an offer.
Mr. Shiras made an offer for the company.
He stated that the stock of the Monongahela
Navigation Company is divided into 32,639
shares, at the par valne of $50 a share, upon
which annual dividends of 12 per cent have
been paid. The actual tolls of the company
amount to $240,000 per annum. The actual
tolls of lock No. 7 amount to $2,800 a year,
with prospect of a very large increase within
the next few years. The stock of the com
pany has now a value abroad of $100, and
the total property of tne company amounts
to $4,000,000. It should also be taken into
consideration that the Monongahela river
was not a navigable stream to any extent
until the navigation company put in the
improvements.
District Attorney Lyon objected to the
point abont the river not being navigable,
until the improvements were made.
Captain Cowan was put on. the stand to
show that the river was not navigable. Wit
ness stated that be was in the employ of the
navigation company for many years and
lives at Lock No. 4. He remembered the
river before the construction of the dams.
The river was never navigable, except dur
ing a flood. It was a rare thing to see a
steamboat up the river, and people would
crowd down to the wharf to see one. In
those days keelboats were used almost alto
gether. The keelboat was something like a
canal boat, and had to be pulled by horses.
On cross examination the wituess stated
that prior to 1884, and'the building of Lock
No..7, no boats ran regularly abovt Browns
ville: Mr. Shiras renewed his offer of the points
mentioned above. District Attorney Lyon
entered a general objection, which was sus
tained by the court, and exceptions taken by
Mr. Shiras for the appellees, and tbi's
closed this side of the case.
colonel Merrill's opinion.
District Attorney Ivou stated that he
would make no formal opening, as the court
was familiar with thecase. ColonelWilliam
E. Merrill was then called to the stand. He
stated that he was Lieutenant Colonel of
the United States Engineer Corps, and had
charge oi the work on the Ohio and Monon
gahela rivers sinoe 1870. He designed and
built lock and dam No. 8, and has under his
charge at present ten dams, and has designs
lor two more. jso. 8 aam, which was opened
for navigation about one year ago, is about
three miles above No. 7. Witness had seen
lock No. 7 every year, and also saw it during
the course of its construction. Witness
then examined the estimate of the cost of
No. 7, and said he thought it was a fair
price for it. Some figures, he thought, were
very high and others low. A fair price for
the dam was what it cost, notwithstanding
the deterioration of time, its life having
been lessened by six years of service. Dams
do not improve with age, because the timber
must in time decay. The settlement of filth
above a dam also has a bad effect on it. The
lock wall of the dam is in a very bad con
dition, and must be torn down and rebuilt.
The cement in it was bad and is use
less. It causes an internal swelling
in the walls, and while it does
not seriously affect the condition of the lock,
it is an unfortunate state of affairs. Wit
ness did not think it would cost more to
build a lock now than it did in 1884. He
thought more money was paid for the lock
than it was actually worth when it was built,
and it is worth considerably less now than
when it was built, the reason being that it
would cost at least $20,000 to put the wall
into proper condition.
On cross-examination witness stated that
the cement used was Buffalo cement. His
examination of the lock was while on a
steamboat and going through it. The wit
ness stated that 50 years ago the question of
draining the Monongahela river was one of
serious doubt, but experience has taught
that the work is not very difficult
The case will go on, and will likely be
finished to-day.
AFTEE A SETTLEMENT.
Louis Sloeser Thinks His Partners
Have
Done Him Up.
A bill in equity was filed yesterday by
Louis Moeser against L. D. Strauss and L.
L. Satler. Moeser stated, that on March 8
he went into partnership with Strauss and
Satler, in the lumber business. The firm
was known as the Pittsburg Lumber Com
pany. The defendants represented to Moeser
that the net assets of the business were
$26,406, and be paid 13,203 for his interest.
Each partner was to receive one-third the
profits, and Strauss and.Satler, in addition.
51,500 a year salary. Six per cent of
the profits were to.be drawn out.and the bal
ance added to the capital. Moeser states that
he has become dissatisfield with the actions
of his partners. He alleges that the balance
sheet, based on which he bought his interest,
misrepresented the condition of the firm.
The books, he claims, have been mutilated
by pases being torn out, and the capital of
the firm has been diverted and invested in
real estate, in the individual names of the
defendants. They have obtained more
money than their due proportion, and the
bank accounts have been mainly kept iu the
names of Strauss s saner, ana not la the
firm name.
Moeser asks that the partnership be an
nulled, an account taken, and a receiver
appointed. In the meantime, he asks for
an injunction to restrain the defendants
from collecting money due the firm, or dis
posing of its assets.
Suit on an Insurance Policy.
The suit oi Lenora S. Hamill against the
Supreme Council of the Boyal Arcanum is
on trial before JudgoEwing This suit ii
to recover on a policy on the life of Mrs.
Ham ill's husband, who was a member of
the council in Sbarpsburg. The insurance
was refused, it was stated, because Haznill
at the time of his death had' been suspended
for non-payment of dues.
T0VGE ON TRANSGRESSORS.
They Find Their Way a Hani One Through
the Criminal Conrt.
In the Criminal Court, yesterday, Joseph
Snyder and Arnold Keller were acquitted
of assault and battery on Daniel and Jacob
Dougherty. Louis Weber was convicted of
an offense against morality on information
of Maggie Lauer. Paul Ambro pleaded
guilty to felonious assault and battery on
John Zooko. He was sent one year to the
workhouse. A. S. Gray pleaded guilty to
the larceny of a coat and was sentenced
20 days to the workhouse. Samuel French
was convicted of selling liquor without a
license and on Sunday, on informatiou of
Inspector McAleese. Owen Quinney pleaded
guilty to selling liquor without a license
and on Sunday. He was fined $550
and sent five months to the workhouse. E.
B. Price was convicted of a serious offense,
on information ot Mary Price, his step
daughter. The parties are colored.
The jury is ont in the case of Norris
White, tried for the larceny ot some scrap
iron,
THE GRAND JUEY GRIND.
A Large Snmlicr of True Bills Found and
Some Ignored.
The grand jury yesterday returned the
following true bills:
M. Bell, John Boyle, Magglo Diamond. Cath
arine Frommer, Edgar Gillmore. Henry Hun
german, Mary Hnngerman, Alex.Loefler, Sam
ncl Marfco-ritz, assault and battery: Philip
Steiner, W. J. JlcDonough, P. F. Mangan. E.
LaRue. A. Breigel. aggravated assault and bat
tery; Lewis Banr, Harry Brackenridge. Fannie
Campbell, William Jones, Harry Reustock, II.
Ulricb, larceny; Harry Brackenridge. horse
stealinc; Thomas Chapman, embezzlement:
Leopold Geisler, larceny by balleer David
Joint, Daniel Fitzpatrick, larceny from the per
son; Andrew McCune, keeping a ferocious dog;
Kate Cary, selling liquor without a license and
on election clay; Kate Fox, selling liquor with
out a license.
The following bills were ignored:
William Doyle, forgery; P. L. Knnz, larceny
by bailee; J. Margulas. assanlt and battery with
intent to commit a worse crime: Jonn Mehring,
mayhem; David McCrae. larceny; Bobert
Sweeney, assault and battery; Edward Toiever,
felonious assault and battery.
To-Day Trial Lists.
Common Pleas No. 1 Mcllvain vs Alter:
McJnnkin vs Equitable Gas Company; Arn
hcim Live Stock Company vs Davis et al;
Fidelity Title and Trmt Company vs Peoples
Gas Company; Grant vs Carnegie, Phipps &
Company; Uerberlch vs Kbacb et al; First Na
tional Bank vs Cnmmer & Son; Herron vs
Cummer & Sons.
Common Plea No. 2 Baer & Gazzam vs
National Wrapping Company: O'Brien vs East
End Electric Light Company; Sorg, executor,
vs Matbes et al.; Herron & Co. vs Vale: Quslich
vs Pittsburg Incline Company.
Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Walter
Burns, John Brittinger, H. J. McElroy. T. S.
Hauft, William Keyser, L. B. Schaffer. C. F.
Cooper, Richard Hynes, Robert Miller alias
Peters, James Martin, John McMahon. Bridget
McLaughlin (2), C. L. Fredericks (2), Charles
Kalne. Peter Dabr, H. Obershelman, Patrick
Sullivan.
Minor Matters in a Legal Way.
The ejectment suit of A. Remiman against
Mary Hoelscher is yet on trial before Judge
Magee.
A verdict for the plaintiff was given yester
day in the ejectment suit of B. Coursin against
John Shrader.
A divorce was granted yesterday in the
case of A. J.McKean against Ida M. McKean.
Desertion was alleged.
The testimony taken in the dlvorco suit of
Thomas Aiken against Hannah R. Aiken was
filed yesterday. Infidelity was the allegation
made in the case.
Matthew- Bircs yesterday- entered jinlt
against John Gardner for tf,000 damages. Birch
alleged that Gardner had betrayed his 17-year-old
daughter Maria.
B. Volke and W. E. Harrison yesterday
were appointed appraisers of the effects of
Johnston & O'kod, of McKeesport, who made
an assignment for the benefit of creditors.
The suit of Philip Gugel, administrator of
Adam Shearer, against the Miller Forge Com
pany, for damages for injuries received by
Shearer while at work In the defendants' foun
dry, is on trial.
A seed of assignment for the benefit of
creditors, from L. Neuman, the gentlemen's
furnishing goods dealer of Main street. Brad
dock, to Eleazer Fink, was filed in the Record
er's ufflce yesterday.
Charles Meese yesterday received a ver
dict for JJ.595 41. in his suit against the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Com
pany, an action for damages for a right of way
taken through his property.
The suit of Harry Rech against Brath and
& Flinn is on trial. Rech was passing a place
where some of tho defendant's employes were
testinsra gas pipe, when the cap flew o3 the
end of the pipe, striking Rech and injuring him
severely. ,
T,TTE THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.
Central Arizona Cracked Tip to he a Land of
Milk and Honey.
The valleys of Southern and Central Ari
zona are superior in fertile qualities to the
historic Valley of the Nile, says ex-Gev-ernor
Louis Wolfley, of Arizona, in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. Wherever irriga
tion is practiced along the Salt, Gila and
Santa Cruz rivers anything grown in a tem
perate or semi-tropical clime may be pro
duced. As a fast-growing region this part
of Arizona is in many respects better than
Southern California. Fruit culture is just
beginning to receive general attention in
these valleys, and it will not be long until
the Eastern markets will be supplied with
the extraordinary products of Arizona. No
spot on earth is better adapted to the culture
of the grape, and the yield of the fig orchards
is phenomenal.
The magnificence of the fir tree growth
draws one away from all surrounding thrift.
Prunes, apricots, oranges, lemons, limes and
olives grow to perfection, and in a few years
the supply from this region will be fully as
abundant as from the neighboring orchards
of Southern California, There is indeed
scarcely a product of the soil known to civ
ilized mau that will not grow in these irri
gated valleys of Arizona, and, while the
Territory is blessed with a climate of per
petual summer, its people can enjoy all of
the staples of colder latitudes. vEvery va
riety of shrub or flower that adds beauty to
the home and garden grows in tropical lux
uriance. Arizona is destined to be the home of a
great agricultural population, and when its
system of irrigation is thoroughly devel
oped there will be no more profitable and
pleasant region in which to liae. r.ums
along the rivers and in the valleys of Ari
zona indicate that it was once thickly peo
pled, and that agriculture was successfully
practiced te a great extent. When the sys
tem that made it rich in frnitfulness cen
turies ago is again restored, as it will be in
a few short years, then will Arizona bloom
as a rose.
GLUCOSE GOES NOW.
All the Prejudice Against It Has at Last
Disappeared.
The prejudice against glucose has about
worn itself out, says the St. Lonis Globe
Democrat. As is now generally known,
glucose is made from corn, and cannot help
hnt ha wholesome when well made. The
manufacture is entirely confined to the West,
and abont 1,000,000 pounds a day are turned
out.
At first it had to be.delivered in disguise,
and candy-makers especially were particu
lar about this. Now the verv best candies
are made out of glucose, and no secret is
made of the fact There are over20 glucose
factories within 24 hours' ride oi St. Louis,
snd the increased protection given them by
the tariff bill will probably result in several
more being estaoiisnea
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PAGES 9 TO 10.
GOY. TILLMAN TALKS.
In His Inangm-al Aldres3 He Reviews
the Race Question.
ALL MEN AEE K0T CREATED EQUAL.
The Whites Are and Will Remain Masters
of the Snnny South.
DUTIES TOWARD THE INFERIOR RACE
Columbia, S. C, Dec 4. Governor
elect 15. C. Tillman, who was elected on tbs
reform ticket composed of the Farmers' Al
liance and other Democrats who wanted a
change ot government, was inaugurated to
day in front of the State House at 1 o'clock,
in the presence of a large crowd from all
parts of the State. In his inaugural ad
dress he referred with pleasure to the na
tional victory of the Democratic party, and
in regard to the election in his own State
said :
In unr own State of South Carolina the vic
tory of Democracy ana white supremacy over
mongrelism and civilization over barbarism has
been most complete, and it is gratifying to note
the fact that this was attended by a political
phenomenon which was a surprise to all of us
our colored fellow citizens absolutely refused
to be led to the polls by their bosses.
COOD FEELIXG.
The opportunity of having their votes freely
cast and honestly counted, which it has been
claimed 13 denied negroes, caused scarcely a
ripple of excitement, and the consequence is
that to-day there is little prejudice and mora
kindly feeling between '.he white men and the
black men in South Carolina than has existed
at any time ince 1868. When it is clearly
shown that a majority ot nur colored voters are
no longer imbued nun Republican ideas, the
vexed negro problem will be settled, and the
fear of a return of negro domination will haunt
ns no more.
Can I not appeal to the magnanimity of the
dominant race? Can I not pledge in your be
half that we white men of South Carolina stand
ready and willing to listen kindly to all reason
able complaints, to grant all just rights and
safe privileges 10 these colored people that
they shall have equal protection under the law
and a guarantee of fair treatmentat our hands?
That the colored people have grievances it is
idle to deny. That the niemorv of the wrongs
and insults heaued by the whites upon the
blacks during eizbt years' rule has provo&ed
retaliation and often iojnstice. is true.
LYUCII LAW DENOUNCED.
It was natural and inevitable, but we owe it
to ourselves as Christian people: we owe it to
tho good name of our State, which has been
blackened thereby, and its prosperity retarded,
that these things should be stopped.
We whites have absolute control of the State
Government, and we intend 10 retain it. The
intelligent exercise of the right of suffrage, at
once the highest privilege and most jacred
dnty of the citizen, is as yet beyond tho capac
ity of the vast majority of colored men. Wo
deny that "all men arc created equal." It is
not trne now, and it was not when Jefferson
wrote it. But we cannot deny that it is our ,
duty as the governing power iu South Caroli J
to insure to every individual, black and whit?,'
the "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness."
With all the machinery of the law in our
hands, with every department of the Govern
ment executive, legislative and judicial
held by white men, with white juries, white so
licitors, white Sheriffs, it is simply infamous
that resort should be had to lynch law, .and
that prisoners should be murdered because the
people have grown weary of the law's delay
and of its efficient administration.
DRASTIC REMEDY PROPOSED.
Negroes have nearly always been the victims,
and the confession is a blot on our civilization.
Let ns see to it that the finger of scorn be no
more pointed at our State by reason of this
deplorable condition of affairs. Let punish
ment for crime, by whomsoover committed, be
prompt and impartial, and. with the reaoval of
tUu causa.Ihe eHect ill dftappeac Aiidaia
last desperate remedy, to be used only when
others fall, grant to the Executive the power
of absolute removal of any Sheriff who xails
to prevent any such act of violenco in his
connty after tho law has taken control of a
prisoner. 1 have thought it wise to speak in
emphatic terms on this subject, because every
Carolinian worthy ot the name most long to
see tbetime when the law shall assert itself,
when our people will not be divided into hostile
political camps.
SCHOOLS FOR WHITES AND BLACKS.
The address then calls for improvement of
free school facilities; the formation of school
districts having an area of not less than 16
square miles nor more than 36, and the
establishment therein of two schools, one for
colored and one for white people, and an in
crease of the poll tax devoted to school pur
poses from SI to S3; demands that the State
shall, in combination with other Southern
States, arrange for the compilation of school
books, to be sold at a minimum cost, and for
bids the use of any others; demands the abo
lition ot the State University and the
establishment of a college instead; indicates
a desire to abolish the Citadel Academy;
calls for indnstrial schools lor girls; de
mands a constitutional convention, regard
less ot what may be its cost; demands a sur
vey of the phosphate beds and the sale of
the territory at auction to the highest bid
ders. In alluding to the State debt, he suggests
that State banks be required to deposit with
the State Treasurer State bonds to the
'amount of the average deposits held by
them tor the State; that every State bank be
required to invest at least 20 per cent of its
capital in State bonds, and that all insur
ance companies doinc business in the State
be required to deposit with the State Treas
urer $25,000,000 in South Carolina bonds.
HEED FOE MOEE BAPID TEAN3IT.
Trainmen Go to Sleep While Waiting for the
Track to be Cleared.
One might imagine to hear the complaints
made of inability to get into the city from the
lower Sontbside. say trom points between 11c
Kee's Rocks and PhlHipsburg. that an electrio
railway wonid ba built within 60 days, bus
many of the middle-aged are skeptical never
theless, and say they expect to Ola this side of
Canaan.
Two gentlemen, oae of them named McCabs
and the other a civil engineer whose name can
not at present be recalled, relate a strange
case of detention. The story is that they took
an early train the other morning ana when they"
came near Davis Island It slowed npandtrav
eledalonsratanout threo miles an hour for a
long time. Then it stopped dead, and it was
found that a Irelgnt train was in 100 way. j.aa
moved up slowly for a time and the passenger
train followed suit, but both finally stopped
and then tho two gentlemen referred
to got ont and took; an excursion np
the track until they found the source
of the trouble. They found that the
engineer :of the forward train had fallen
asleep, but had arranged to be awakened as
soon as orders came to move. He was standing;
awaiting them. The flagmen were out the re
quired distance to prevent accidents, and it was
stated that this suspension had been in foroa
four or five hours, the trainmen being unable)
to move until they got orders. It was further
stated that they had been on dnty so long that
they conld not keep awake except when In ac
tive motion. ....
It is said that there has been so much kick
ing on account of detention at the Coraopoils
station that the floors have been kicked
through and that even the roaches have de
serted the station. The effect of the con
tinued attempt to do a four-track business on
two-track road is not any more of a success"
than it was a year ago.
New Bridge Across the Monongahela.
A charter has been granted to five stock
holders of the Second Avenue Electric road
for a bridge across the Monongahela river,
near Glenwood. Ihe company intends
building the road to Homestead, and the
new bridge is a part of the plans. It is ex
pected that work will be commenced in tha
spring.
Break of an Incline Cable.
There was a wreck at Cliff Mine on the
Montour Railway, on Wednesday evening,
in which a number of cars were smashed,
and coal was scattered promiscuously over
considerable country. It was caused bv tha
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