SECOND PART.
AC
Pamell and William O'Brien
Will Soon Talk Over the
Irish Situation
AT A MEETING IN PARIS
Mrs. O'Shea Leaves for There and is
Billed as a Prominent Factor
in the Conference.
SPECOLATIOH OH THE COURSE
IShe is Likely to Pursne in the Consultation
to be Held Between the Two
Irish Leaders.
KILKENNY ELECTION IS DOUBTFUL.
Host oT the EataiUm it Prtsent is Witl P&ratl, 1st
til Ottecne is Still in tjikneira
Qsmtity.
CXBIAEED VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISFATCH.1
LoxDOh-, Dec 20 Copyright. The
result of the Basset-Law election is practi
cally convincing proof that Parnell's action
has frightened some weak-kneed Liberals
into abstention from the polls, and has
driven many Liberal-Unionists back into
the Tory camp. That is the substance of
confidential reports received both at the
Tory and Liberal headquarters in London,
and among the conservative rank and file,
the opinion is emphatic and unanimous
that the government will be mad if it delays
a general election beyond next sprint:. Only
those on the spot can fairly estimate the
amount of harm done to the cause by the
recent deplorable events.
Discouragement in England and civil
war in Ireland will soon be followed by the
utter collapse of the plan ot campaign. The
tenants still in their holdings are making
terms with their landlords, and those who
were evicted, having been deprived or
threatened with deprivation of the weekly
pittance provided from the campaign treas
ury, have the prospect of starvation before
them.
ThePoorhoose Before Them.
Some may obtain reinstatement upon the
landlords' hard terms, but the majority will
have to enter the poorbouse. A collapse
will give immense encouragement to the
worst class of landlords and will disastrous
ly affect nine-tenths of the tenant farmers in
Ireland.
The chances at Kilkenny are uncertain to
an unusual degree. A correspondent, who
has done the whole campaign, says that at
the outset the odds seemed immeasurably in
favor of Hennessy, the solid backing of the
priests being a factor which put all the ad
vantages possessed by the other side into the
shade. Bat the lime-throwing incident has
been used with such dramatic effect by Par
nell that he has won hundreds over to his
side by personal sympathy alone. Parnell
certainly has the most enthusiasm when he
appears abroid. But whether this faithfully
reflects the voting opinion can only be
proved on Tuesday nest, when the poll is
declared. The correspondent, who is an
Impartial observer, believes at the present
moment that the favors are about equally
divided.
rigurlns on a Reconciliation.
Parnell maintains his old habit of secrecr
in reference to his movements. But assur
ances are given that after the declaration at
Kilkenny nest Tnesdav both sides will take
a breathing spell, and that Parnell will
proceed to Paris, where, without doubt, he
will confer with "William O'Brien. The ex
citement probably will cool down when Kil
kenny has snoken, and conciliatory words,
which would be scouted now, may be lis
tened to then. It is significant that Mrs.
O'Shea crossed the English Channel from
Dover to-day with the intention ot staying
for some time in Patis.
Just now all eves are turned to Pari",
where the nest scene in the drama is to be
played, with William O'Brien and Parnell
in the leading pans. Speculation is rife as
to whether the scenes Mrs. O'Shea will play
will be with the leading man or the would-be-in
- spite-of-everything-and -every body
leader; in other words whether she will try
to wheedle O'Brien and induce him to agree
to some compromise, under which it will be
possible for Parnell, at some future date,
and in the very near future, too, to resume
the leadershin ot the party, with a'lollowing
as undivided as before and a sway as abso
lute as was his when, eisrht years ago, the
O'Shea affair was a matter of common gossip
among the members of the party, but had
not yet been dragged into the hot glare of
public discussion through the open doors of
the divorce court.
Predictions of a Failure.
Many people have expressed the belief
that the above is Mrs. O'Shea's object in
braving the channel and going to Lutctia,
but it has been suggested in several quar
ters that the attempts at a compromise will
come to nothing, and that steps have already
been taken by the members'of the Irish party
to put O'Brien into possession of the full
facts of the case immediately on his arrival
in Europe.
Certain other people, of course, hint that
the reason for Mrs. O'Shea's visit to Paris
is not altogether unconnected with the fact
that Parnell will be there, and instead of a
siirring scene of woman's wit against the
would-be-destroyer of Parnell, there will be
nothing bat a simple meeting betwetn him
and Mrs. O'Shea. Wnichever way Mrs.
O'Shea may be introduced into the newest
Irish drama at this present juncture, it
might seem at first sight to be a ridiculous
thing for her to do anything which will
serve to mix herself up prominently with
the crisis which has come about indirectly
through her.
Aspiring to a Political Leadership.
There is no doubt among those who know
her best that she is a woman of the very
greatest ambition, who has taken as her
model the lives of those of her sex who have
been renowned for the influence which they
exerted on the political thought ot the day,
and as these friends know and have fre
quently said, her ambition takes the form
of playing a very prominent part and be
coming recognized as a leader in Irish and
English politics.
Besides this, the Queen's Proctor has had
all the evidenceand the documents connected
with the divorce case placed before him,
and he is at present engaged in instituting
inquiries, with a view to intervening before
the decree nisi is made absolute, and this
can only be done after the expiration of six
months from the granting of the divorce,
unless the Qneen's Proctor intervenes.
This action has been taken in consequence
omig
COUNCIL
of Parnell's speech at Dublin and the Inter
view with him which was published.
There is good reason to believe that Par
nell made the statement leading to the be
lief that there was another side to the case,
with a view to forcing the Proctor to in
tervene. If the Proctor does take this
course, it will undoubtedly produce a great
sensation, as it is said to be a well known
tact that a great deal of evidence was sup
pressed at the trial.
SUFFERING IN ITALY.
WIDESPEEAD HISEBY IH AIL PAETS OF
TEAT FAIR COUNTBY.
Thousands of Men, Women and Children
Starving and Revolutionary' Agents at
Work Among Them The National
Treasury Depleted Bread or Lead De
manded. BT CABLE TO THE DISrATCn.1
London, Dec. 20. Englishmen are
groaning over a spell of wintry weather,
nnequaled in severity for nearly half a
century. Outdoor work has been greatly
impeded, and all over the conntry .frozen
streams have stopped the water mills. The
number of unemployed workmen has con-
sequently been largely augmented, and al
ready much distress prevails, necessitating
special measures for relief and a large ex
penditure of money by the poor law guar
dians. Here in London the distress has not
made itself very apparent, although it is
real enough. But the Socialist agitators
are endeavoring secretly to exploit the suf
ferincs of the Door Deonle. and trouble may
result. The weather has been extraordi- J
narily severe all oterEuror.
But by far the most distressful country at
the present moment 1 Italy. Slgnor Crispl
has been making fine speeches about the
glories of the triple alliance and the main
tenance of peace, to the accompaniment of
the cries and threats of starving workmen
in every Italian city. The trouble has been
accentuated, although not caused, by the
phenomenally hard winter. For months
not a day has passed without the failureol
ome bank or great commercial or industrial
firm. The customs, excise and railway re
ceipts have been steadily decreasing, work
shops closing and manutacturers reducing
the number of their workmen.
The National Exchequer, long em
barrassed, is getting into a desperate condi
tion, and the maximum tax endurance of
the people seems to have been reached. The
popnlar misery is widespread and terrible.
At Turin alone over 7,000 beads of families
are without work; at Milan,, 10,000; in
Home, 50,000. Men women- and children
are kuown to be starving in all those beauti
iul cities, and at Venice, Genoa, Brescia,
and elsewhere. The sufferers are
not in a mood to starve quietly. They de
mand bread or lead, and are pretty certain
to get the latter, tor revolutionary agents are
at work among them and seditious cries
have been heard at their meetings.
Frenchmen, with some reason, attribute
the Italian trouble to the vast and dispro
portionate naval and military burdens ac
cepted and borne as a condition of entry
into the Triple alliance; and Paris, there
fore, does not make even a pretense of sym
pathy with Borne.
THE COUNTESS ECLOPIS SEAS.
A Woman Who Played an Important Part
in the Alabama Affair.
TOT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
Lojtdoh, Dec. 20. There died this week
in Turin, at the age of 72, a lady to whom
the United States and England owes some
gratitude. She was the Countess Sclopis,
widow of one of the arbiters on the Alabama
claims; had lived for many years in Turin,
and her salon was a cosmopolitan rendez
vous of the artistic and literary celebrities
or Europe. Upon grand occasions the
guests were privileged to drink their tea
from a snperb silver service, to which an
interesting history is attached. When the
Alabama arbitration had been happily com
pleted, the British Government asked Count
Sclopis to send an account of his disburse
ments, the salary of his secretary, etc For
a reply, he took his wife to the British
Foreign Office and introduced her as his
secretary, and the best secretary iu the
world.
It transpired that the Countess copied all
the documents, correspondence, memoranda
and translations, used at the famous arbitra
tion, with her own hand and they formed
six large volumes. Soonn after her return
to Italy the Countess received a beautifully
and specially-designed silver tea service,
each piece bearing thii inscription: "To
the Secretary of Count of Schlopis, with the
thanks of the British Government."
LETTISH FUBIISHEBS AE0USED.
A Determined Fight to be Made Against
the Copyright Bill.
rBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
Losdon, Dec 20. British printers and
publishers are moving actively against the
new American copyright bill, and have
been promised the powerful help of the trade
unions. The fear is general that unless the
British Government takes exceptional meas
ures to protect its people the bulk of the
printing and publishing business will be
transferred to New YorK. The favorite
remedy suggested is to grant a British copy
right only to books printed in England, and
influential representations to this eflect have
this week been made to the Government and
favorably received. ,
Much bad language had been used by the
British newspapers in their criticisms of the
new bilL Eyen the grave .Lancet, the chief
organ of the medical profession, remarks to-
JUSTIN M'CABTHY, FROM THE LATEST PHOTOGRAPH.
THE PITTSBURG
day: "The Americans have long practiced
and reduced to a system the craft ol literary
piracy. The bill is the fetish of protection
under a new gnise, and no complaint need
be made if the gjft is accepted by us without
any feeling of good will."
FOR HOSPITALS ONLY.
AH IKTEEVEE-W BETWEEN PE0F. KOCH
AND 2HKISTEB PHELPS.
The Professor Says No Lymph Will be Given
to Private Parties, Because Its Use is Too
Dangerous Outside of Properly Con
ducted Hospitals.
Beblttj, Dec. 20. Prof. Kocb, on his
visit to William Walter Phelps, the Amer
ican Minister, at the Legation yesterday,
passed through the ante-room, which was
full of eager American doctors, who were
waiting to see the Minister with the hope of
seenring his good offices in securing for
them interviews with th world-renowned
bacteriologist. A long conversation took
place between the professor and Mr. Phelps,
who is worried by doctors and sick people
from America, who are determined to get
information regarding the great remedy from
headquarters.
In the course of his conversation, Prof.
Koch said that his decision to henceforth
give the lymph only to hospitals was due to
reports of fatal results that had followed its
use in private practice. He carefully added,
however, that he was not personally
cognizant of any death resulting from its ef
fects, but said he was convinced that the
lymph was too dangerous except whn used
under a constant watch by physicians. A
patient, he said, ought to be seen at least
every two hours.' Such care could only be
found in hospitals.,,
Prot. Koch still personally attends to the
production of the lymph, but he wants to
discontinue this labor id favor of the Gov
ernment. He thinks that ultimately its
manufacture should bo confined to the Gov
ernment To make the lymph, he says, re
quires both science and conscience.
He declares that it is useless for Ameri
can doctors to come to Berlin. The lymph
will be assigned to American hospitals thai
are properly vouched for. Sick Americans
should siay" at home. Berlin is already too
full of patients. He begged Mr. Phelps to
send nobody to him, as he Is too busy to see
anyone personally. He continues to . be
ardently pleased with the results of his dis
covery when properly applied. He declares
that he does not want to make money.
A GOOD WOMAN SEAS.
The Striking Contrast Between Her and
Another British Peeress.
IBT CABLE TO TITS DISPATCH.
LOUDON, Dec 20. The Duchess of
Northumberland, who died this week at the
age of 78, was born and remained all her life
a member of the Irvlngite, or Catholic
Apostolic Church. She was as charitable
as she was devout, and probably the British
peerage list never contained a name of a
better woman, for she gave not only money,
but personal service to the poor. The
average British peeress acts upon the
proverb that charity begins at home and
begins to be devout only at the approach of
old age. Upon the day theDucbess of North
umberland died, polite society in London
was eagerly reading a description of a
superb sealskin and fur robe made tor the
Dnke of Portland's wife at a cost of 1,000
guineas.
The sad case of Jane Collins, who died
from anthrax, caught from handling cow
hair, which she was employed to sort, ap
peared iu the newspapers, check by jowl
with the paragraph relating to the young
Duchess' robe, but did not attract half as
much attention.
DEFENDING THE FOG.
A Champion for the London Article Comes
to the Front.
rBT CABLE TO TIIXDISrATCB.
London, Dec 20. An enthusiastic
champion has at length been found for the
London fog, which heretofore has not had
a single friend, except a certain French
artist, who recently went into raptures oyer
the aid which it gave to artistic effect. Lon
don fog, it seems, consists largely of disin
fectapts, creosote, all the antiseptics of coal
tar, and free carbon in the form of soot.
"Very well," says our champion, "then
just think what the air of London, with its
millions of people, its steaming sewers, its
decaying vegetable and animal matter
would be on a calm day it it were not ior the
merciful intervention of smoke. Think of
its streets, a quagmire of rotting debris,
withont the sweetening influence of the gen
tle rain of soot."
RECEIVED WITH 'GLADNESS.
The Verdict Against Harry Marks Causes
Unbounded Joy.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, Dec. 20. The acquittal of But
terfield and the conviction, practically, of
Harry Marks may not have been strictly
warranted by the evidence, but it is highly
popular with the public The enemies of
Marks are innumerable, and his defeat was
received in the city with cheering and
shonting, waving of hats and much after
drinking of strong liquor.
The disclosures have rained his parlia
mentary chances. His power for good and
evil has been curtailed to an extent which
no longer makes him an important factor in
financial enterprises.
COUQHS axd Colds Those who are saffWin
from congbt, colds, sore throat, eto-.. snouia try
Brown's Bronchial Troches," .Sold only laboxea,
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY,
TIN PLATE PLANTS
To he Erected in America as Soon
as Machinery Can be Built,
BIG ORDERS PLACED IN THIS CITY,
A Welsh Manufacturer's Opinions of tbe
McKlnley Measure, 5
PITTSBURG HELPED BT CHEAP FUEL
Tlnplate manufacture is to become an
established industry In this country.
Somers Brothers, of Brooklyn; the Nor
tons,and tbe Chicago Tin Plate Oompany.of
Chicago, and the St. Louis Stamping Com
pany, have all contracted for tinplate-mak-ing
machinery. James E. Ingram and G.
"W. Snapp, of Mathai, Ingram & Co., of
Baltimore, were in town yesterday, and de
clared their intention of making their own
tin plate This firm is the largest maker of
tinplate goods in the United States, if not
in the world. It uses 200,000 boxes of tin
plate annually, which, at $6 per box, repre
sents a sum of $1,400,000 which will be ex
pended in Baltimore instead of passing into
English hands. Tbe firm proposes to make
its own steel, black and tin plate,and is con
vinced that tin plate can -be made here
cheaper than it can be imported.
J. H. Bogers, of Llanelly, Sonth Wales,
who is recognized as a leader in the tin
plate trade, in a recent address in Swansea
'discussed the probabilities of the article be
ing made in this country. The report ot his
speech, as published in a "Welsh newspaper,
is as follows:
Eflect of a Democratic Victory.
Mr. Rogers said the tariff bill, which they
so long dreaded, had now become a law, but
shortly after it was on the statute book an elec
tion took place, and tbe party which had op
posed this very bill obtained an enormous ma
jority. Cheers. This turn of events had
frightened tbe manufacturers on the other side
of the Atlantic from proceeding to carry ont
their extensive schemes of tin plate making.
Now, some of these schemes included the erec
tion ot works containing 0, SO, ana even 40
mills, bat, so far as he understood, these very
schemes were given up as soon as it was
seen that the people were not in favor of the
McKlnley bill. Applause. He bad very lit
tle doubt that If that election bad not resnlted
In such an overwhelming Democratic majority
they would soon be sending very few tin plates
from their country to America.
Tbe Americans bad other advantages over
the Welsh manufacturer besides the tariff: the
latter had to pay the carriage to Liverpool,
from there to New York, and to the various
towns In America where tin plates were used,
the expense averaging Is 6d per box. Coal was
cheap, too, in America. Notwithstanding the
higher rate ot wages, coal in tbe .Eastern States
conld be bought at half the price that was paid
hero. Be saw a coalpit at St. Louis where they
had only to go down CO feet to get to a seam of
beautiful bituminous coal, seven feet In thick
ness, and above it there was again a bard bed
of limestone, so that pillars conld be almost
dispensed with. At Chicago coal of an excel
lent bituminous nature conld be purchased at
63 per ton, and steam coal at 6s. At St. Louis
gas coal was delivered at 6s, and steam coal at
4s. At Pittsburg, again, small steam coal conld
be bought at Is per ton in the truck at tbe pit's
mouth, and bituminous coal for gas producers
at 3s per ton.
An Industry Which Will Gro-r.
Of course, all (his gave the Americans great
advantages, but there were also disadvantages.
In raising the duty on tin plates tbey had also
raised that on tin, so that what was given with
one hand, was taken away with the other.
There were other disadvantages which tended
to balance tbe advantages he had enumerated.
He had studied the rise of industries in the
Btates, and had found that they were always
gradual, viz: Button making, aheet-iron, steel
rails, and pig iron. "In no case had an industry
taken root and rapidly expanded. Each com
menced in a small way, and crew rapidly, and
Mr. Bogers gave expression to the belief that it
would be the same with tin plates. Two works
of four mills each, one at Pittsburg and the
other at St. Louis, were now being erected, and
that in a few months hence these would bo
making tin plates. The trade would, however,
grow but slowly, and it would probably
be 10, 20 or even SO years Defore the Americans
could make all they would need. Cheers,
America made almost everything else she
needed. Looking at the list of articles im
ported, they would find that tin plates were
out and out tbe largest Item. It would, bow
ever, take time before America would manu
facture her own, and during that period they
in this country would be able to open up new
markets applause supposing a period of 30
years was taken. N ow it ts found that the con
sumption of tin plates by the world increased
at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, not only
in America, but in the whole world; and it took
America ten years before she could make her
own tin plates. Welsh manufacturers ought to
be able to induce tbe remaining part of the
world to take tbe plates that now went to
America, If the means of production were not
Increased, he sincerely hoped that they would
be able to accomplish this. Hear, hear. Tbey
had now, therefore, nothing whatever to be
frightened at. Cheers. The greater danger
would be if Welsh capitalists and Welsh work
men went out to America with their experience
to help on tbe industry there. If they would
only have to face American capital and Ameri
can skill, the process would be a slow one.
Three Reasons for a Tln-Plnte Tariff;
While in America be received an introduc
tion to President Harrison, who received him
most cordially, aud introduced him to several
of his ministers. He visited Senator Sherman
at his house, and he was given three reasons
why the increased duty was placed on tin
plates, and he considered them the three best
ones he had heard. The first one was Sup
posing there was a European war, and suppos
ing Russia, and France joined together against
Germany and England, and that Russia and
France got command of the sea, and thns pre
vented England from shipping tin plates to
America; such a condition of things would
mean the absolute ruin of thS) canneries and
almost ruin of toe farmers who raised fruit and
those who reared cattle. Those Industries
would be at a standstill until the war would be
over. Again, supposing there was a general
strike or lock-out in the trade here, or if tbe
colliers struck or were locked out, the Ameri
can canneries would come to a standstill.
"Theso were the reasons," said Senator Sher
man, "which made us decide through thick or
thin to give onr country an opnortunlty to
make ber own tin plates."
Mr. Rogers added that he did not think
that America had much to fear from either of
these contingencies, but he felt bound to say
that they were better and moie statesmanlike
reasons than any he had seen given In the news
papers last autumn. Cheers. Continuing,
Mr. Rogers said he had pressed tho leaders of
tho Republicans to tell him whether they
thought the duty would be taken off tin plates,
and ihey replied that they would never do so,
but they conldu't answer for the Democratic
party. Perhaps the latter would adopt a sys
tem of reducing the duty every five years, as
tbe industry got better established. Conclud
ing. Mr. Rogers said he bad given them, in a
cursory manner, the opinions he held on the
McKlnley bill.
The determination of Mathai, Ingram &
Co. to make tin plate is a strong comment on
Mr. Bogers' views, since this firm was fore
most in petitioning Congress against the
inspiration of the increased duty.
PIANOS, 8105. OEGANS, SSO.
Low Prices. Easy Terms.
To close out during tbe holiday season
our entire stock of new and second-hand
pianos and organs, prices will be reduced
away down. A very fine upright piano,
beautiful walnut case, used only a short
time, for $250, worth double the amount
asked. A nearly new upright piano, $225,
worth originally $375; a gjjod piano for $165,
worth new $400,
A handsome organ for $50, arid other
pianos as low as $25, and organs as low as
$25. Stock includes Chickering & Bons,
Wheelnck, Lindeman, Stuyvesant, Stein
way, Knabe Bnd Hardman pianos, and
Palace, Bridgeport, Packard, Estey, Great
Western and Shoninger organs. Easy1 pay
ments arranged. Instruments can be selected
and set aside for the holidays. So you
should call early and get the choice. Open
in the evenings. Opn Christmas Day until
noon. Telephone No. 1201.
Henbicks Music Co., Liar,,
79 Filth avenue.
DECEMBER 21, 1890.
DON'T LIKE BLOCK STONE.
Thirty-Seven Property Holders' Beasons fox;
Protesting Against tho Report ot the
Viewers Repairing of Penn Avenue,
Prom rifth Avenue to City Line.
Knox & Eeed yesterday filed 37 appeals
from the assessments Of the Board of View
ers for the repairing of Penn avenue, from
Fifth avenue to the city line, in theTwenty
first and Twenty-second wards. The ordin
ance for the repaying was passed in
February, 1889. The city, it is claimed,
has not com plied with tbe terms
of the ordinance, as the repaying
has not been with asphaltum, but largely
with block stone, which Is contrary to the
ordinance and petition. In consequence
they assert that the assessments made by the
viewers are illegal and void. It is further
stated that the property holders are not
liable for the cost of repaying by reason of
the non-compliance of the city and
its agents with the terms of the
ordinance and petition, and further that the
city officials claim to be acting under the
act of May 1C. 1889. relative to streets and
sewers, which act does not apply to repay
ing, therefore their actions are Void.
The assessments lor the repaying of the
street amounted to about S60.000. Those ap
pealing were J. D. "Weeks, H. E. "Wain
wright, Charles Bradley, Margaret J. Mor
ris, Aaron French; G. B. Preston, Mrs. E.
J. Nashev, Caroline Hamilton, M. A. Pres
ton, M. K. Bolmann, "William P. Shinn, J.
T. McCance, J. H. Frederick, M. B. Laugh
lin, H. L. Book, 3. M. Schoonmaker, J. B.
Llovd& Co.. J. K. Cass, estate of O. V. Mc-
Kafg, Mrs. H. McClintock, A. Kellar, "W.
M. Imhon", Mrs. L. Bailey, J. P. Pear's
heirs, Bobert Bailey, M. A. Eea, George
Singer, Jr., H. G. Imhoff, E. M. O'Neill,
Point Breeze Presbyterian Church, Agnes
F. Schmidt, E. J. "Wilkins, Mrs. N. C.
Bradley, J. E. Schwartz, George "Westing
house, Jr., F. F. Bell and Thomas McNeil.
EIGHT YEARS IN THE PEN
Ii Judge White's Sentence on Eddie Myers
for the Slurder of His Aunt in McKees
port The Prisoner Baa Nothing What
ever to Say.
' Judge "White, who had heard the case of
James Eddie Myers for the murder of his
aunt, Miss Douglass, yesterday left the
Common Pleas Court, where he was hearing
cases, for the purpose of passing sentence on
him.
John S. Bobb, Esq., made a strong plea
for a new trial, which, after hearing, Judge
"White refused. A plea was then made for
mercy.
Judge "White said the trial had been full
and fair, and there could be no new trial,
and then he called Myers up for sentence.
The Judge then said that be was lully
convinced tbe prisoner had fired the sho't
that killed his aunt, although he thought
it was not murder in the first degree, for
lack of apparent motive. He would con
sider the jury's recommendation for mercy
because oi the prisoner's previous good
character, and for that reason he would not
impose the full penalty.
He then sentenced Myers to pay the costs
of the case and undergo imprisonment in the
penitentiary for a period of eight years and
three months. The prisoner made no sign
whatever, and was led to jail, to be later
transferred to the penitentiary.
INDIAN POTHS LOYAL.
Captain Pratt Takes Exception to Buffalo
Bill's Statement.
rSFEClAt. TXI.XO.BA2i TO THS DISPATCH
Carlisle, Dec. 20. Captain K. H.
Pratt, Superintendent of tbe Indian school,
takes exception to the statements of Buffalo
Bill to the effect that Buflalo Bill's Indians
have atrfceen loyal to the Government, while
many of the pupils ot the Carlisle school
are among the hoatiles. Captain Jf ratt said
that while he knows nothingas to the loyalty
of Buffalo Bill's Indians, he is sure the
pupils of the Carlisle school are loyal. He
is in almost daily communication with
former pupils now in the Far "West, and has
learned of but two young Two Strikes and
Arthur Raymond who have joined the
hostiles, and thev have only followed their
parents and lriends. Both are mere bovs.
who spent but three years at the Carlisle
school.
A delegation of Indian boys belonging to
the Carlisle school waited upon Captain
Pratt yesterday and asked permission to use
their earnings in going home to induce their
relatives and friends to remain true to the
Government.
A CAB HEATER EXPLODES.
An Exciting Scene on Board a' Chicago and
Grand Trunk Train.
Battle Cheek, Mich., Dec. 20. As
a passenger train, "Westbound on the Chi
cago and Grand Trunk, pulled into Nichols
this morning a Baker heater in the first
class coach exploded, filling the car with
gas and burning coal. Two women jumped
out of the windows and were severely cut.
The windows were quickly broken out.
This saved the passengers from suffocation.
The woodwork and scats In several parts of
the coach caught fire, and before they were
extinguished badly damaged the car and
bnrned several passengers. A number of
passengers were either severely burned or
lost their hand baggage in tbe flames.
FOUED A RELATIVE.
Sirs. Foster, of Homewood, Takes Charge of
Margaret Downlng's Body.
Mrs. Mary Foster, of Homewood, came
to Chief Elliot's office yesterday and asked
for the remains of Margaret Downing, who
died at the Poor ( Farm on Friday. Mrs.
Foster said she was a distant relative of the
deceased and wanted to give the remains a
proper burial.
The chief hurried to see what disposition
had been made of the body, and found it
hadjbeen. given to the Anatomical Society.
It was finally secured, however, and turned
over to Mrs. Foster.
Special for the Holidays.
$27 SO -WOETH GIVEN AWAY FOB $10.
Alfred Speer, President of the Speer N.
J. "Wine Co., of Passaic, N. J., the oldest
wine grower in this country, nnd who
shipped wines to San Francisco and Sacra
mento 31 years ago, before California wines
were known, offers an assorted case of choice
old wines worth $11 20 for $5, or a larger
case containing 30 bottles assorted, of 12
varieties of wines, worth $27 30, for $10.
This offer is only made during the holidays,
and only one case to a family. The sacrifice
of these goods so far below cost is made to
introduce to appreciative parties the fine
character of his wines. Goods will be
shipped from the store, 28 College Place,
New York City, upon receipt of price. Cir
culars giving descriptive list of wines, with
prices, will be mailed on request by postal
card. su
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Three grand special bargain days and holi
day sale of finest clothing at. the P. C. O. O.
Clothing gelling at prices you would think
was impossible. When you buy from us
you have a pick of the finest stock in Pitts
burg. P. O. O. 0., PlXTSBtJEO COMBnrATION
Clothing Company, corner Grant and
Diamond streets.opposite the Conrt House.
Open every night until 830.
What Mrs. Harrison Beads.
Bead 25 cents to the Ladies' Home Magg.
cine, 1013 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.,
and tbey will send the magazine for a whole
year and a premium worth nearly $2
monthly. It is the most wonderful offer yet
made.
ISPATCH
K0UGH ON THE GAME.
Fears Expressed That Many Quail
and Other Birds Perished
DURING THE RECENT BIG STORM.
Many
Hunters Were Driven In by the
Deepness of the Snow.
COMPARISOSS WITH. F0RMEK ST0EMS
The news brought in as to the depth ot the
blanket during the snow storm of the past
week was as various as were the stories of
rebel destitution during the Civil "War told
by "reliable contrabands." Mr. J. B.
Grimes stated that it was 18 inches on ML
Oliver, at least he judged so from the fact
that there were 13 inches of snow on the top
of a pump stock, aud he reasoned that nearly
50 per cent failed to get a lodgment.
'Squire Boffel said he measured it in
his front yard on ML "Washington
and found 18 inches where there was no
drift. On the other hand. Mr. "Web. Mur
ray states that there was only ten inches in
Knoxville, and Commissioner JIcKee stated
that it measured but ten inches at Oakdale
during the forenoon. All agreed, however,
that had the fall been dry it would have
made at least two feet.
Many hunters were driven in, among them
Mr.
oamuel ohaner. who bad cone down
into the edges of Ohio to shoot rabbits. It is
feared that auail were killed bv the 10.000.
or will be, should there be a freeze, as tbey
huddle down under drifts for warmth.
Should there be no dry snow, however, this
danger is mnch lessened, for Tuesday's in
stallment would not drift much.
Mr. H. S. Stewart walked in from the
Arbnckle wells, back of Chartiers, over tbe
road on which young Caughey was killed
last Friday night, and by the time he
reached Duff's station was so nearly ex
hausted that he feared to come to the mouth
ot the creek. He fell so often that had it
not been for tbe soft covering on the road he
thinks he would have been killed.
Snows Common Tears Ago.
The change that has come over tbe coun
try in the matter of weather is such that
young people can scarce conceive that such
scow falls as that of last week were common
40 years ago in this latitude and altitude,
when a winter was considered remarkably
open if it did not give six weeks of good
sleighing. But the most remarkable winter
ever kuown in this section was that of
1835-6. The summer of 1854 was tbe dryest
to date in our history, and that of
1855 the wettest, and in tbe fall
of the latter year weather prophets said
there would not likely be any snow of
consequence. But notwithstanding goose
bone, corn husk, muskrat house and other
infallible signs to the contrary, the beauti
ful began to descend early in tbe fall, and
more or less fell every day for 68 days, with
just sufficient moisture to make it pack
solidly. It was supposed that altogether
there was a fall of 10 or 12 feet unpacked
snow, for in March the depth in the pine
woods, where blasts never caused drifts, was
56 inches packed so solidly that it required
considerable weight to drive a spade into it.
Strangers passing through the forests near
Cherrytree the next summer thought the
loggers had erected scaffolds on which to
stand when cutting trees. Qnail, rabbits
and even sqnirrels were almost all killed off
on the mountain ridges, the quail on ac
count of their propensity to huddle under
brush and behind fences where tbe drifts
caught them, or foxes, skunks and other
vermin devonred them, and squirrels and
rabbits because the work of digging through
the drifts to the grouad for food was too
great for their strength.
How Babbits ZJved.
Babbits fared better than squirrels,for the
former could live on the bark of young
trees, and they could scarce be blamed for
gnawing young fruit trees that winter. The
quail were so nearly exterminated that the
cheery call of "Bob "White" was rarely
heard during the next three summers. The
ruffled grouse, usually called pheasant, did
not suffer much, as It is a strong bird that
can fight its way out of a snow drift, and
lives mainly on buds in the winter time.
Tuesday's experience, which was worse
that in 1885, being more sudden, is enough
to dampen the enthusiasm of those who sigh
for old-time winters and yet want to live in
cities. The modern city, with its instan
taneous communication with the rest of the
world; its electric lights and electric rail
ways, the wires of ail strung on poles; with
its ten to twelve -story buildings
and several other modern improvements
too numerous to mention, is in poor shape to
meet au old-fashioned winter or a modern
blizzard, and many city people themselves
are nowadays unfit to cope with them. How
skeptical would people beyond the 60's have
been if told that a strong man in the prime
of life, like Boscoe Conkling, had met his
death facing a blizzard in New York Cityl
They might have credited the story had the
scene been laid in a Western prairie, but
not in a city, least of all the metropolis of
the country, where shelter could have been
reached within ten feet
A Tough Experience.
The writer and a brother in the winter of
1855-6 were caught in a drift in a lonely
road in the Alleghenles, and their horse
sank with the cutter so that he could not be
gotten either back or forward. They broke
through the snow three-quarters of a mile,
got a couple of shovels and dug a
passage for the horse over a quarter
of a mile, returned the shovels, drove four
miles through primeval forest to a country
tavern, got their mail and some groceries,
took a stiff slug of mountain dew, procured
a pint for fuel on the way back, drove home
nine miles, pnt their horse into the stable
aud fed him, ate a hearty supper and went
to bed. We got up refreshed the next
morning, and never experienced the
slightest symptoms of a cold, though the
thermometer was but 12 above zero, and
there was a stiff gale blowing.
Such a blizzard as that of Tuesday is
the strongest kind of au argument for the
burying of all kinds of electric wires, and
a telegraph operator states that they are
just as easily repaired when out of order,
buried as when strung on poles. Few people
know how many of the latter are rotten
until a strain like that of last week is put
on them.
As late as 1860, all the poles and wires in
Pittsburg, when a four-story house was con
sidered a tall one, were very little in the
way in a storm like yesterday's, hut before
five years more pass electricity will be tbe
power used to do a large part in the work of
every household, and unless the wires are
buried before that time it will become
dangerous to live in large towns.
A Pointer.
Go to Gallinger's jewelry store, 1200 Penn
avenue, and see his stock before purchasing
your holiday gifts elsewhere.
Kemamber the address, 1200 Penn avenue.
Finest line of music-boxek in the citv.
Casey's "Excelsiob" Bye still leads as
the purest and best old rye whisky iu Pitts
burg. Price per fnll quart, $1.25; cases
containing one dozen bottles, $13.50.
T. D. Casey & Co.,
wsu 971 Liberty street, cor. of Tenth.
DRESS good bargains, extreme novelty
cheviot plaids and stripes reduced from
$1 0 and $2 00 to $1 00 a yard.
ttssu Huous & Hacks.
Boys' silver watches $8, $10, $12, at
Hauch's, No. 295 Fifth avenue.
HAVE you seen tbe sterling silver hat
brush Durbin & MeWatty sell for $57
MR. PARNELL IN
His Country Residence in County Wicklow and His Hunting
Lodge in the Mountains.
TROPHIES THAT HANG
iddresses With. Which the Man of the Day Has Been Honored Baring His Long- Career
A Tribute to His Mother The Uncrowned King Not the Strong Man of Old but
Still EguaL to Joj3 of the Moors His Guns and Fishing Tackle and the Grouse Hd
Loves to Shoot His Eemarkahle Admission Before the Forgeries Commission Be
latlng to the Foster Coercion Act of 18S1.
rWBITTEN FOB TIIK,DISFATCH.J
Charles S. Parnell is beyond question the
man most in the forefront of affairs to-day.
His name ha3 been in men's mouths for
years, though his presence was seldom
vouchsafed. Now, when that influence
whicb he has wielded with such despotism
is in danger, he has shown something of the
man who testified before tbe Forgeries Com
mission that on one occasion at least he was
endeavoring to mislead the House of
Commons by boastfully exaggerated state
ments. This incident occurred during his cross
examination relative to the Foster coercion
THE HAIL
act of 1881. During the debate the Gov
ernment contended that the agrariin crimes
aud outrages then prevalent throughout Ire
land were committed by secret societies,
which were in sympathy and supported by
the Land League. Parnell testified before
the commission that in his opinion all crimes
in 1879, 1880 and 1831 were due to the exist
ence of secret societies, and that he had
always held that opinion.
The following is from tha verbatim re
port: The Attorney General Now, Mr. Parnell. I
will read the extract to you from your speech
delivered in the House of Commons on tbe
Pamell at 19.
7th day of Jannary. 1SS1: "Secret conspiracies
do not now exist in Ireland." Do you remem
ber using theso words?
I remember the speech perfectly.
Do you remember the words, and did you be
lieve tbem to be true when you said them?
I cannot say withont reading the context
what my view was In uriring that argument. It
Is possible I was endeavoring to mislead the
House on that occasion.
What do you mean by "misleading the
House?"
My reason for urging that argument was to
cat the ground from under the argument of
the Government in support of that bilL
Do you mean, Mr. Parnell, by using state
ments false in fact, and contrary to the opinion
you have sworn to to-day you hold?
I mean that It was a boastful and exaggerated
TF7ier ParnelX Was t9.
statement, designed to mislead tbe Honse as to
the greater or lesser existence of secret socie
ties in Ireland.
Do you remember using these words? Did
you believo them to be true when you uttered
tbem?
I cannot exactly remember.
Mr. Parnell. you havo used the words "mis
lead the House." Have you ever directly or
Indirectly till this moment withdrawn that
statement?
I should think that I nover thought of tbe
statement from tuit time to now or ever bad it
brousht under my notice.
Sid you or did you not Intend to misstate a
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Parwett at 9 Fears.
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' PAGES 9 TO, 16.
HOME AND FIELD.
ON AVONDALE'S WALLS.
fact when you made that statement to the
House?
It is very possible I did.
Deliberately?
Deliberately; quite possible.
You wished to mislead the House?
Undoubtedly.
Yon made a statement and thereon based an
argument, knowing your statement to be un
true? Knowing my statement to be, at all events, a
boastful exaggeration.
A gross exaggeration?
Very likely a gross exaggeration.
For the present I shall not discuss the
sayings or doings of a man so mnch akin
to Napoleon, but you may be interested in a
description of Avondale, his home in tha
County Wicklow, and of Augh-a-varagh,
AfljietaaH
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Avondale.
his lodge in the mountains, where he goes
every year for the game shooting along with
such intimate friends as W.J. Corbett. John
and William Bedmond and J. J. O'Kelly.
Avondale, the country seat of the 'un
crowned King of Ireland, is a grand old
house, some 100 feet long by 50 in
width, fronttBg boldly from 100 yards ia
AT AYOSDALE.
air upon the rippling Avon, on iu way to
meet a sister stream half a mile below, at;
the spot celebrated by Tom Moore as "Then
Meeting of the Waters."
On the other side of the room the door!
opens from a portico into a grand hall,
which extends the full width of the drawing;'
room, say 35 feet square, and running up to
a height of the second story of the housa
without a break. In each side of the ball
and fronting the entrance a broad expanse
rises to where a recessed balcony or lobby
gives entrance to the sleeping rooms.
Here are hung manv trophies, tha hngey
antlers of the Irish elk over nine feet in
spread, on either side stags of tine; beneath
them a pair of snow shoes, an Indian shield.
some wampum worK ana other savago
trifles, while two old jousting- lances are
crossed over the inlaid sideboard, on which
are framed and illuminated addresses just
given by Wexford and Waterford when
they hailed Charles Stewart Parnell and ad
mitted him to the freedom of their boroughs.
To the right 13 an address given by emi
grants from the County Wicklow resident
in New York, and under the sideboard is
an old irou cuirass, blazoned in faint colors
with a boar's head, the family crest, and
dented here and there by strikes and
thrusts of fighting long since forgotten. In
the center oi the hall is an old billiard table,
which serves as the grand Like-all for every
thing. Guns, fishing rods, creels, hats,
rugs, greatcoats, anything you please, find
room lor bestowing there.
One the left hand side an upright clock
occupies a niche, and lramed addresses from
the men of Meatb, the Cork Election Com
mittee of 1880 and the distinguished New
The Uncrowned King at H5.
Yorsers who greeted tha uncrowned King
of Ireland on bis visit in the same year dec
orate tbe walls. On the other side is a large)
open fireplace for wood, above which is a
fine engraving of Grattan debating for tha
"Union in the Irish House of Commons,
flanked by addresses from tbe guardians of
"Wexford Union, tha Ancient Orders of
Eoresters and the resolution passed by tha
Common Council of Chicago, when Parnell
and Dillon visited that city.
Tbe architecture and decorations ot till
hall are singularly handsome, and when is
old days the youth and beauty of the lovell'
est county in tbe Green Isle were gathered
feasting and dancing, while the music float
ed lorth from the upper gallery, it mast
have been a gay scene. Of late the master1
is seldom there; there is no fun or frolic ia
Irish air these times, but the great hall ia
noble and impressive, waiting: for better"
tiroes in the near com ins of great changes.
The door to the Ielt of tha billiard tabla
opens into the drawing room, which Is 4
large as the hall, but only one story high
as Mr. Parnell's bedroom is above. In tha
bow of the three windows is an antique par'--
ceiain dowi in wnicn many generations rom
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