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Dailt DisrATCH, includes fcunday, 1 year. ,1)ailt Dispatch, Includlnc Sunday, Sm'ths Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, lm'th SCUPAT Dispatch, One Year Wxesxy DisrATCH. One Year :oo n 1000 in so :5o is Tbi Dailt DisrATCH is delivered by carrier! at "15 cents per week, or Including Monday edition, at K cents per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY, MAY. 7. 188L REVERSING THE RULE. The report that an American citizen was assailed by a mob ic Florence on Monday, . if verified, will pnt the boot on the other foot. It mar be well to await details before accepting the sensation, bnt it may be worth while to leflect on the fact that the inter national doctrines which have been ad vanced in the New Orleans case may be turned against us. For instance, if we are seeking to main tain the rights of American citizens to pro tection in Italy, we might not consider it a satisfactory reply to be told that unless the local courts saw fit to pnnish the rioters the Government could have nothing to do with it; or to have the previous record of the vic tim of the mob attacked; or to be met with a theory that if the Italian citizens are not protected by the law foreigners cannot ex pect to be. These are the ideas which have been urged on our own behalf; but perhaps they might not be found to suit our views if they are applied against us. "When we find that diplomatic theories will not work both ways, we may arrive at the conclusion that they are not exactly what they should be. IMPROVING THE OHIO. The location of dam No. 4 at Vanport, an nounced yesterday, is the one foreshadowed for some days. It is satisfactory to all par ties. Its most satisfactory aspect is the in dication of steady progress toward the goal of making the Ohio navigable 'during the summer and fall -.oaths, which are gener ally periods of suspended navigation for lack of water. With the dams at Vanport and Davis Island the worst of the interrup tions to navigation will be abated; and when the intermediate dams are completed the period of transportation on the upper Ohi 1 jill be creatly extended. The progress of im .(vice 0Qr internal water-ways goes on m.ie sl.wly than it should, but it is steadily working toward great results. LANCASTER'S DISGRACE. "The comments of the Lancaster papers on the judicial primaries show a general agree ment that bribery was rife in the contest ended last Saturday. While this assertion was only made by a Democratic paper there was hope that it might be exaggerated by par ty feeling, bnt when the same assertion prac tically is made by Republican organs of the couuty there does not seem to be much room left for doubt. The Lancaster Examiner says: It is safe to state several thousands were used to purchi.se the floating voters. The fact for the people to consider Is that corrup tion funds were actually used, and that the judicial ermine was exposed for barter im the political mart. With this agreement as to the actual presence of corruption in the selection of judicial candidates, the honest people of Lancaster should make it their bnsiness to see that both bribers and bribe-takers are brought to summary punishment. Although recent experience in Lawrence county is discourag ng as to its application, there is law to punish each offenses. If there are honest men enough in Lancaster to put .the politicians who give bribes into the peni tentiary there may be a hope of stopping the tide of corruption. If Lancaster has not enough honesty and vigor to punish the purchase of a judgeship it will be well to have the fact Known and to let that county be ranked among the dis graceful rather than creditable sections of the State. RELAXATION" AND SOCIALISM. Mr. Edward Bellamyin his latest effusion moves for a reform in sports. He does not think the present habit o! wasting effort in going to baseball games is the right way for men to get relaxation. "If instead of spend ing an afternoon batting a ball," lie says, "men would unite tq lay ont walks in a park, they might get exercise for a worthy end and cultivate friendly emotions." Which theory awakens the jeers of the New York Herald. Both Mr. Bellamy and the journal which scoffs at him betray a limited view of human nature. What the man wants for relaxation is a change. The man who works at sed entary occupations needs physical exercise; the muscular worker needs either amuse ment without exercise, or exercise that will call a new set of muscles into play. For the man who earns his living by work simi lar to that proposed by Mr. Bellamy, the proposition wcnld mean simply a prolonga tion of the hours of labor. On the other band, for some others the idea is not so ridiculous for a certain class. For men who spend their days in sedentary work, the labor ol making walks, planting trees, gar dening, or similar occupations as can be pursued in leisure hours, ought to be the best relaxation. That it is so can be testified by thousands of city clerks who find the keenest enjoyment in cultivatine suburban places where they have made their homes. But Mr. Bellamy shows an added ignor ance of human nature in supposing that men find a pleasure in such things when tbey are not doing it for themselves. That a lot of clerks should meet to do work in a public park would be simply spending their strength that others might enjoy the results. If Mr. Bellamy's socialist system should rely on tbe volunteer and playtime labor of the people for the making- of parks, that millennial dream will be likely to go with pathlesi jjarks. The enjoyment which a man will get out of such work as Mr. Bel lamy proposes must include as an essential condition a little property of his own; and a system which permits the individual no property at all will induce the majority of men to do no work at all if they can get along without it. This would hot quite rank Bellamy if it were not for a finishing touch which he him self supplies. The ideal relaxation for women, in his opinion, is the sewing circle. For a reformer who discards all rules either of logio or experience in bis social system for men, his relegation of women's leisure hours to the standard of a half century ago betrays Bellamy as a supererogatory donkey in tbe skn of a social lion. SUPREMACY OF MOB JLAW. The exhaustive report of the New Orleans Grand Jury in yesterday's Dispatch 'pre sents a remarkable and not encouraging picture of the painful working of the machinery of justice under the dictation of mob law. There was an expectation that the Grand Jury would" 'go through the motions of indicting some of the leaders of tbe mob; but it seems even that pretense of upholding the law was not to be permitted against the doctrine of the divine right of the mob. No one can say a word against the ex haustive efforts of the jury to establish a case of jury-bribing. Whatever is done in tbe direction of investigation leading to the punishment of those who engage in the cor ruption of justice is above-criticism. But there are some remarkable omissions in this exhaustive review of the case. One is tbe failure to attack and expose tbe influential officials whose tacit co-operation must have been necessary to carry out the alleged cor ruption. The other is the total absence of the fact that the people themselves are re sponsible when the courts become too cor rupt or weak to punish criminals. But when we come to the report of the Grand Jury on the acts of the mob that, having failed to demand a clean administra tion of justice, took the function of executing men by mob edict, we see the utter subserv ience of this finding to mob tyranny. The Grand Jury finds that eleven'persons were killed; but "the magnitude of this affair makes it difficult to fix the guilt upon any number of the participants." Consequently the Grand Jury does not consider itself justi fied in presenting indictments. Inasmuch as the mob proceedings were fully reported in the press, the only conclusion allowed from this deliverance is that the industry with which that body sought to find proof of bribery was only exceeded by its industry in keeping away from any evidence as to tbe Readers of the mob, who arrogate to themselves the right of dealing out life and death regard leu of the decisions of law. The view thus presented of the adminis tration of New Orleans justice is almost hopeless. The machinery of the law pro duces an indictment of itself to the' effect that it is open to influences 01 corruption and unable to pinish the worst criminals. At the same time it furnishes internal evi dence of fear to condemn the rnle of mob law, and inability to stand sp for the doc trine that the people must maintain the efficacy and vigor of justice by putting it in the hands'of honest and fearless men. Upon this finding the conclusion is somewhat evi dent to people who have a preference for the protection of persons and property by a sys tem of law that New Orleans is a very eligible locality to stay away from. THE MONGOLIAN CONQUEST. M. Sbepard, the imaginative Frenchman who has produced his effort at a sensation by predicting that the next epoch of the world's history will be the conquest of the civilized world by the Chinese, bases bis prediction on a social law which is dis quieting, to say the least. This is that a period of universal peace is the necessary forerunner of great revulsions. The Gothic, "Vandal, Danish and Tartar invasions were preceded by peaceful eras. Consequently the present period of peace is the prelude to universal devastation, and as no other can be found to undertake the work of con quest and destruction our Freuch logician assigns that laborto the Chinese. The novel theory that peace contains the greatest peril of destruction by war includes its corollary that war has the best promise of peace. The disturbing logic of the French writer, fatal though it appears at first, brings its own cure. For if tbe present prevalence of peace indicates the imminence of war from Chinese invaders, when we are suffering from the invasion .ye must by the same logic see in our plundered cities and smoking homes the seeds ot peace. In the meantime, the fact that Europe is an armed camp, with the probability of breaking out into the flames of war at a moment's notice, would seem by tbe French logic to provide the best antidote, or counter-irritant at least, to the dangers of an invasion by tbe hordes of the Flowery Kingdom. The picture of the child-like and bland Mongolian, chiefly known to us by his docility in the purification of soiled linen and his aptitude for the acquisition ol wealth by saving of cents, breaking out into a career of conquest, and sallying forth to conquer the stubborn Anglo-Saxon, the scientifically warlike German, and the theatrically brave Frenchman, defies all commentary. To spend sarcasm on it would be like painting the lily. The mere state ment of the idea presents it in its most laughable light. Only one feature of mod ern times can support such a theory. That is that the rabbits have over-run Australia, but they did not do it by fighting for it, It is interesting to find the New York Press attacking the Michigan plan of electing Presidental electors by Congressional districts as 'a vicious violation of unwritten law." The idea tbat a matter fully defined by tbe pro visions of written law is f urtber subj ect to the unwritten is a novel Constitutional theory. The fact tbat this course is taken to secure a division of electoral votes In a single State shows tbat it is simply a case of taking nnfair partisan advantage. But, on the principle tbat those who appeal to equity must show clean bands, tbe esteemed Press should, before ar raigning tbe Democrats, .discover some other motive than partisan advantage for the crea tion of pocket-borough States by the last Con gress. The Nicaragua Canal Company did not get the loan proposed in Congress; bnt it is pushing work in a way which indicates either that the loan was not needed or that the com pany has a lively expectation of favors to come. The explanation of the grip in Chicago given by Colonel Elliott Tv Sbepard exhibits that gentleman in bis usual profundity. The reason why Chicago suffered from tbe grip, ac cording to that light of social morality, la that tbe World's Fair management has not yet de cided whether to close tbe Fair on Sundays or not. But tbis fails to properly explain why Pittsburg, where the Sunday law is enforced to tbe closing of the barber shops, bad the grip worse than Chicago. Tbe emment moral rea soner forgets tbe rnle of inductive reason, that a theory to explain established phenomena must agree with all of them. Notwithstanding assurances that the ballot reform bill would be' passed the consti tutional convention bill is taking priority in tbe Senate. If the House wishes to earn credit it can do so by squelching tbat little scheme. Some New York papers make a vigorous effort to swallow Mayor Grant's last natch of appointments with good grace. Hut tbe fact that two of the appointees a year ago "were rsm THE under Indictment for receiving "bribes necessi tates rather wry faces In some cases. As for the political influences which ellcted the Mayor, tbe appointment of bribe-takers to office is the legitimate sequence of the steady policy that the bribe-takers ot New York must not be convicted in the courts. If bribe-taking is Interfered with, what will become of New York's political Industries? , "Old Hutch" is now reported to have bat a paltry 500,000 left. This is considered hardlines fortlfe old man; bnt if any of the victims of bis former deals have as much left they can count themselves very lui ackr. 8 peaking of the proposition to erect a monument to the women of the Confederacy, the New Ylrk Evening Sun observes that sculptors can produce figures typical of Mod esty, Fortitude. Discretion, etc, "but when it comes to an effigy that shall stand for the American woman, wbat can yon do bnt erect a pedestal and tben leave it empty?" We do not suppose the Sun intended to suggest that tbe typical characteristic of tbe American woman Is emptiness; bnt ibe most innocent signlfi- cance of tbe remark seems to be that She is de cidedly airy. NEABIiT a million dollars' worth of prop erty converted into smoke here enforces the necessity of fire-proof construction with an emphasls-that cannot be doubted. Schuylkill county officers are bewail ing the advance of tbelr county to tbe class ex ceeding 150.000 population. Tbis requires all county o fflcers to be paid by salaries instead of fees, and results in a general reduction of official emoluments. This is the reverse of the operation which took place in Allegheny county when it went above tbe 600,000 line, and nearly doubled tbe salaries of its officials. Tbe promotion backward will not, however, create a dearth ot canaidates for public office in Schuylkill. Fnuixor no frnlt is an issue that for a few months may outweigh in .the minds of sensible people tbe question of baseball cham pionships. The Queen has agreed to devote 300,000 to the payment of tbe Prince of Wales' debts on tbe condition that His Boyal Highness shall not handle tbe money. This will cause rejoicing among the Prince's creditors; but Englishmen generally will have somj poignant reflections on tbe prospect of being rnled by a titular mon arch whose own mother will not trust him to pay bis debts. If the fruit crops get safely past this cold snap tbe conclnsion may be arrived at that they are frost-proof for the remainder ot the year. The Sugar Trust is doing its best to demonstrate that It can defy the law.undor Its new charter as arrogantly as under tbe old organization. But its power to put up prices is limited by the reduction of duty to a halt cent. If tbe trust continues its course of superiority to law it may wake up some morn ing and find even that duty taken away. Mabch weather in May continues to make tbe hope of a trait crop a case of hoping against hope. The delegates to the Machinists' Conven tion had an opportunity to inspect the works of Pittsburg, .No class of men could appreciate tbe characteristic sights of oar city better than these visitors, and there is every reason to hope tbat they appreciated Pittsburg as much as Plttsbnrg appreciates tbe presence of such qaiet and business-like guests. PEES0HAL POINTS. 'Mrs. Gboteb Cleveland is still struggling with the conjugation of Freuch verbs. Whistleb, the artist, is now blamed with having given Oscar Wilde tbe idea that America was a conntry of fools. Mb. Dayitt's plan for removing from Ireland to California has provoked no end ot unsatisfied curiosity on the other side of the water. Dr. A. A. Miner, the zealous Boston Prohibitionist, has just completed his forty third year of service as pastor ot tbe Second Universalis! Church at the Hub. Miss Octatia Hill buys up a lot of London shanties every year, improves and cleanses them and lets them to picked tenants. This is her idea of practical reform. Die. Anna Kuhsciopf's "Monopoly of Man" has been published in four languages. The point scored by Dr. Anna is tbat man gets more than his share of tbe good things of life. Rev. William Neilson McVickab, D. D., for 13 years rector of the Church of tbe Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, bas been picked out by rumor for Phillips Brooks' successor in Boston, but be says that he knows nothing of it himself. The dangbter of Congressman Breckin ridge, wbo graduated with honors at Welles ley several years ago. has now taken up the stuay of law in ber father's office, having in the meantime taught geometry and algebra in a Washington school. Geoboe E. Spencer, the long time ago exploded Senator from Alabama, bas once more dropped upon his feet and rnns a silver mine and a cattle ranch, and will soon be in form to buy any impecunious State Legislature wbicb wants to. sand a solid man to Wash ington. Eev. Fatheb Doucet. S. J., who died lately at St. John's Colleee, Fordham, was one of tbe few men with whom Edgar Allen Poe was intimate. Father Doucet left a number of manuscript reminiscences of bis intercourse with Poe, and an effort is being made to have the college authorities allow them to be printed in book form. Alma Tatjema's studio is reached by a flight of golden stairs, the steps being entirely covered with plates ot polished brass. It is a great contrast to go from this room, so entirely Greek in its character, to tbe studio ot Mrs. Alma Tadema. which is a Dntcb interior, witb quaintly carved oak walls and little diamond paned windows brought from Holland. Senatob Geobge has the true look of a Mississippi roustabout in blsVourtb ot July clotbes. There is nothing of the dude about tbe big, hearty and careless man whose gar ments fit him as it he had been measured with a' two-foot rnle and tbe tailor had cnt them out with a cross-cut saw. Bnt his political enemies don't hold him as cheaply as tbey do more stylish men, and tbey have a wholesome dread of bis Incisive tongue and hard-shell commSn sense. ARRESTED FOB LIBEL. Dr. Hammond Brings a New York Corre spondent Into the Police Court. rrnoM a statt cobrxsfoxdeitt.i 'WABHlNGTOir, May a No -physician in the country has a finer business sense than ex-Surgeon General Hammond, wbo lives In a great house and conducts an immense sanitarium In tbe northern suburbs of this city. W. L. Crounz, of tbe New York World, the other day sent to bis paper a story tbat Hammond bad removed a little wen from tbe scalp ot Mrs. Senator Stanford and charged 5,000 for it. As professional custom prevents him from advertising himself legitimately, Br. Hammond seizes on this statement as tbe basis of a crim inal libel suit, and to-day swore oat a warrant for Crounz's arrest in tbe Police Court. A Dire Possibility. St. Paul Dispatch. If "old Hutch" were contemplating engaging himself in the theatrical business, one might think that his recent performances had a par pose: but it is just among tbe possibilities tbat, being too old to go on tbe stage, he Is con templating a lecture tour. As it Is never too late to mend, unless tbe garment you have is beyond tbe mendings so it is never too late to successfully humbug the publlo through a medium of what is known as tbe lecture. That device presents a sorer and a safr. If not a shorter, road to wealth than even speculating in corn. Baptized In Her Coffin. SFBlNOriEliD. O.. May a Another case of baptism In a coffin occurred here this morning. Elder Green immersed , Mrs, Alice 'Madison, who is dying with consumption, in a metallic cajtot, ZTf fr itt. rj5v M' - , ir (.fiArvHc-junzstur JTTT JUKG PlSfATOHf THE GRAND JURY'S FINDING. What American Editors Think or It A Variety of Opinions Some Praise, Some Blame and Some Bo Neither Clippings . From Southern1, Western and Eastern Newspapers. New Orleans States. The reports ot the grand jury "brings to light a number of startling facts, all, more or less, directly concerting tbe assassination pf tbe late Superintendent ot Police of this city, tbe miscarriage of justice in the prosecution of tbe murderers and the subsequent, lynching of tbe latter in the pariah prison. Naturally tbe grand jury could indict no one, or no number of those concerned In this bnsiness. "Tbe people,"- did it; and no grand jury could.deviseaway to in dict "the people." -""UsJ Will Be Approved by AIL New Orleans Times-Democrat. The grand jury has made the proper return in the parish prison lynching a return that will meet with the approval of the entire peo ple, not of New Orleans alone, but of tbe country. Tbe case bad, indeed, been tried by the press before the bar of public opinion and a verdict of not gnilty, finding of "Well done," had long since been returned as to the men whose act suppressed the Mafia, and gave a warning to tbe criminals of Europe that tbey would find no welcome in tbis conntry. Accepts the Declaration. New Orleans Picayune. We accept the declaration of tbe inability of the grand jury to get Information as to the participants in the storming of the parish prison. Donbtless there was a large sympathy In tbe community with the perpetrators after tbey were committed, bat sympathy atter the fact is not guilt and not participation. A Strong Case, But . Milwaukee Sentinel. Tbe presentation makes a ease of strong cir cumstantial evidence that the. talesmen were approached by friends and agents ot tbe ac cused Italians, and "the common conclusion will be tbat some of the jurors were bribed. The character of O'Malley. wbo was employed by the Italians. Is shown to be very bad, and if jurors were not bribed It was not his fault. But the report ot tbe grand jury would have relieved the pnblio cariosity outside of N ew Orleans if some conclusive evidence as to the connection of the Italians with tbe murder of Chief Hennessey had been given. The Grand Jury Stultified Itself. Minneapolis Tribune. By its unlawful and nnprecedented conrse, the grand jury has stultified Itself and pub lished to tbe world a declaration from the very fountain head ol justice that New Orleans is ruled by a detective, agency on the one side, or a mob on tbe other; tbat tbe very forms of law are disregarded by those whose sworn duty It Is to uphold its majesty tbe grand jurors them selves and tbat anarcbv reicns in New Or leans. The civilized world will regard tbis grand jury with little more respect than the petit nry who so foully acquitted. Hennessy'a murderers. Should Have Indicted the Leaders. Minneapolis Evening Journal. Public oplplon bas recognized the peculiar conditions at New Orleans which gave justifica tion to the shooting of the Italians. Bat pub lic opinion Will hardly Indorse the subsequent proceedings the omission of the erand jury to formally indict tbe leaders of tbe lynching party, or as many of the party as were known to have been participants. It would have been very much more to tbe credit of tbat com munity had tbis been done. A Saxon Judgment, Cincinnati Times-Star. 2 It is a Saxon judgment given in a Saxon spirit. Wo believe it will be the common opln. ion tbat, far from showing any crave weakness or defect in our social or political system, the episode and Its outcome demonstrate tbe strength and efficacy of popular government in America. Justice Has Been Vindicated. New York Herald. That is tbe verdict of the grand jury which speaks for the people of New Orleans. It will be the verdict of the American people and of tbe civilized world wherever the facts are known. It is no time to sermonize abont mob violence. An uprising of tbe people is not an outbreak of a mob. It Is idle to moralize about law and justice taking their usual course. Tbe safety of the Community is the highest law, and when statutes and courts fail that bigber law reigns. The Mafia, instead of the com munity, is now terrorized. The lives of law abiding citizens are safer there. Justice bas been vindicated br tbe neonle. Tbe disease called for the cure. The end justifies tbe means. Merely an Apology. New Tork Post. This'ls not a legal document. It is an apology of a political committee for an act of. revolu tionary violence committed by the entire popu lation of a large city and expressed in the in flated rhetoric in which such manifestoes are usually oouchod. It is a confession by a com petent authority tbat the machinery of criminal justice bas completely broken down In the State of Louisiana and tbat crimes ol any magnitude have to be punished by a revolutionary tribunal. It holds out no promise of a better or more reeular administration of local justice, but it throws some ligbt on tbe working of the jury system In New Orleans wbicb tbe people of other cities and particularly those of Mew York, will do well to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest, for, as we remarked when tbe news of this tragedy first came, we are traveling fast along the shameful 'path which has ended In New Orleans in tbe erection of mob govern ment as a desperate necessity. New Orleans In Disgrace. New York Mall and Express. if the history of New Orleans since tbe war and up to tbe 14th of last Marcb bad been en tlrely unfamiliar to the people of this country, tbe voluminous and rhetorical presentment by the grand jury of that city, justifying the en forcement of lynch law on tbat memorable occasion, might be regarded witb more favor than can be accorded by the loyal and law abiding citizens of this country. Moreover. It has been due to lack of mnnicipal patriotism and to the neglect or Unwillingness of New Orleans officials to enforce tbe laws for the protection of lives and preservation of the peace that such a formidable gang of assassins as the Mafia should have been permitted to grow in power, to take effectual part in local politics and to become a terror t thousands of people. The Sicilians fonnd In Hew Orleans a congenial and home-like field for their opera tions. In a city where white men of anrno. sition have been allowed to commit murder witb Impuuitr, whenever tbe killing, occurred in a duel or off-handed way, tbe emigrants from Sicily felt encouraged to resume the homicidal careers for which they bad toleavetbeirnatlve land. Reflects Popular Sentiment. New York. Tribune. j A long presentment concerning tbe failure of justice in the Hennessey case and tbe lynchings which ensued was made by tbe grand jury in New Orleans yesterday. The practical outcome of their Investigation, which has occupied six weeks, is the indictment of six men. Including the mucb-talked-of Detective O'Malley, for tampering with tbe jurymon, and their refusal to Indict any one for their connection with tbe mob which broke into tbe prison and murdered tbe Italians. It is to be assumed, we suppose, tbat tbe grand jury's presentment on this head reflects popular sentiment in New Orleans. At all events, they find tbat the mob was a "spon taneous uprising of tbe people," and that, as tbe entire city and parish were involved, guilt cannot be attached to any Individuals. A Bad Matter Made Worse. New York World.! , Tbe grand jury in Now Orleans has reached a most lame and Impotent conclusion in failing to find any Indictments for tbe mob-murderers of March 14, because ' Jho act seemed to In volve tbe entire people ot the parish, so pro fuse is their sympathy and extended their con nections with the affair." Grand jurors are not called upon to consider sympathies, but acts. Tbe Inciters and leaders of the mob are known, and test cases should have been pre sented and tried. Tbe grand jury bas made a bad matter worse. It is Budlni's turn to in dnlge in tbe smile and the snoulder-sbrug sar castic New Orleans Again Disgraced. New York Press. The finding of the jnry is a justification of the action ot the citizens wbo took the law into their own hands, and no indlotments against any of tbe perpetrators of the lynch law mur ders are presented. Against this presentment all Christendom will cry ont. It is a mockery of iastice that snch conclusions should be reached y any jury of Intelligent men. It cannot be fully understood here, but is doubtless the re sult of ibe pressure ot local opinion on tbe minds of the Jurymen. It Is not founded on tbe law, or tbe facts, or equity, or fair play, or common sense, or common .honesty. New Orleans has long been disgraced by her.ln famous lottery. She was disgraced when the z$ T"Bw.iwwffflw'Hi 'i-yu v.rmiarT77Mv9 - ru-r un&iZEVh sztYviZiJUi . vi7'iw rnvr r ''.riu ,rijrjrn' THUKSDAX 'MA.X assassins of Chief Hennessey were not convict ed. She was disgraced wben the mob became murderers, and is now disgraced by bet grand jury's marvelous blindness. BOUGH Off MB. ISAACS. The Ex-Lord Mayor of London Charged With? Swindling Certain Investors. TBT DtrWtAP'S CABLE COMPART. 1 London, May 6. An extraordinary spectacle was witnessed 'aftbe meeting ot the share holders of the Hansard Publishing Union and Banking Company ,to-dy. Sir Henry Isaacs, late Lord Mayor, was violently hissed wben he took his seat In itbe chair. One of the share holders argse and addressed tbe meeting in tbe following remarkable language: "Brother dopes, 1 invested all my hard earned savings, tbe result of 80 years labor, and I induced a lady, witb wbom I am acquainted, to Invest 50 in this company on the strength of the fact tbat tbe Lord Mayor of London was its chairman." Here tbe speaker was Inter rupted by such a storm ot hisses tbatit was im possible for him to proceed for several mo menta. Wben quiet was restored tbe speaker continued: "While I bave a bit of furniture in my bonse or any clotbos on my back npon wblcb I can raise money I will pawn them to bring this rascal to justice who bas so deceived ns. Nearly 5,000,000 have been lost In tbis com pany, much of it having fallen on those who put all their small means Into tbe enterprise, and can therefore 111 afford to sustain the loss. Tbese people feel tbat Mr. Isaacs lent tbe influence ot bis name and position to tbe com pany to indnce them to come into it while it was in an unsatisfactory and unpromising financial condition. THE PBIHC2 OF WALES' DEBTS. Victoria Will Contribute Largely Toward Thelc Payment. fBT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMrAjnf. London, May a Tbe de facto if not do jure kingly duties of tbe Prince of Wales, con sequent upon the inertia, to 'call it by no harsher name, of bis royal mother, bas over whelmed bim with debts, winch he had not the resource of a civil list to discharge and which have weighed down his spirits of late and caused a depression ot manner and aspect generally observed and commented on. His troubles, however, are now In a'fair way of be ing removed, or at least mitigated, as re sources will shortly De forthcoming to liqui date, in part, tbe obligations that have ac cumulated around His Koyal Highness, and tbe necessity ot an application to Parliament on his behalf will be averted. It Is now arranged that Her Majesty the O.neen will contribute a. larA snm of raanev 'from ber private accumulations, amounting, it is saia. to several nunareas 01 thousands 01 pounds, toward defraying the Prince's debts. .The handling of tbe money, however, will be In tbe bands ot people to be appointed by the Queen, to mike sum tbat none of it may be diverted from its legitimate purpose. FIGHTING IT OUT IN NEW YOBK. Each. Chilean Faction Depending Upon a New York Hop.se for Sinews. New York; May a Judging from certain developments and rumors, the actual seat of the Chilean war is located in this city. It is claimed tbat two prominent commercitl bouses, both having very large interests in Chile, are furnishing arms, ammunition, and money to the two factions the Government or Balma cedas forces, and to the revolutionists. Tbe houses mentioned are opposed to each other Commercially, and each Is doing Its utmost to have tbe faction it supports win. News was received by one of the firms yester day, from its agents in Buenos Ayres, tbat its competitor bad sent, aid to Balmacedas forces; tbat the firm bad shipped, 350 cases of rifles and 750,000 pounds of ammunition on tbe Brazil mall steamships Vigilance and Advance, from this port to Santos. There tbe munition was transferred to another steamer and taken to Montevideo. Tbe prize contended for is valuable Government concessions. DEATHS OP A DAY. Br. Abraham Coles. Dr. Abraham Coles, one of the oldest and most eminent physicians in New Jersey, and a very wealthy land owner, died In Monterey. Cxi., bnnday, and lnlormatlon of bis death was re ceived on JMondav by his brother-in-law, Warren Ackerman, of Scotch Plains, N. J, Hewasanaccom pllshedclasslcal scholar. He wrote more In verse than in prose. Among his works are a metrical version of the Psalms of David translated from the Hebrew, in 1847 he published his original version and translation of "Dies Irae," and 12 years later be published It In a book with 12 ver sions by others, under tbe title of'DIesIiae in 'thirteen Original Versions.1 Later he wrote and delivered before the New Jersey Medical So ciety a poem called "IHe Microcosm." He pub lished the life of Christ In verso under the title of Vine Evangel," and In 1831hepnt forth a new volume of his poems. His Latin hymns appeared inl6W. his "Light of the World'! In 1884. and his versified edition of the Psalms of David in 1839. Sister rulalla. Siste&Fulnlla, for 40 years anunatMoant de Chantal, near Wheeling, died Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock. Sister Fulalla was Julia Pearce, born in Gloucester, Mass., 72 years ago. Her parents were Unitarian, and in this faith she was raised, bnt ben: on Investigating for herself, determined to accept the Catholic faith. In 1S44 sbe entered the convent at Georgetown, D. C In 1B52 sbe be came one of the sisters at Mount de Chantal, where she devoted herself to the work of educa tion and the building up of the Institution. She gave instructions In tbe classics and In music, bbc was thoroughly versed in history, both ancient and modern. She was an ardent advocate of the cause or Ireland, whose sad history she knew page by nage, and In otherways she liked to talk politics with a well-informed man. She was an ardent ltepubllcan and a staunch protection ist. Of late years she has been an invalid ana un able to continue her life work. Hov. Dr. J. M. Trimble Eev. Dr. J. M. Trimble, one of the most distinguished Methodist divines of the country, died to-nl bt at Columbus, aged 81. He was born in Kentucky, and was a son of Governor Allen Trimble. He had been elected to the general conlerence or the church every four years since 1841, and bad been a member of tbe General Mis sionary Committee sluce 1868. Ex-Councilman P. J. White. Patrick J. White, a prominent Repub lican politician of the Filth ward, and an ex- Councllman, died on Tuesday at his residence, 19 Webster avenue. He was 44 years old, and for 17 years kept a saloon. Mr. White had many friends, and was of a genial, whole-souled disposition. His funeral will take place to-day. Obituary Notes. ila. L'xtib S. Clinger, wbo died at Conestoga Center, l'a., Monday,' was the oldest practicing physician In Cnester county. He was 84. Captin John Gorp, a prominent citizen of East Brady,Pa,, died unexpectedly Tuesday night of grip, while visiting In Newcastle, ac companied by his wife. Majob 'George Fiklet, of Easton, Pa., died Monday, In his 76th year. During the late.war be was Captain oran emergency company. ' For 45 years be was President of the Humane JTlre Com paii. KEV. LIJAH GAylord. a well-known preacher of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, who had lived in Syracuse since 1872, is dead In Syracuse. He was born In Connection!, and was 92 years old on March 13. HisetW. Wertz. a wealthy and leading citi zen of Canton, died yesterday morning, aged 59 vears. He was for years the proprietor of tbe Wertz Carriage Manufacturing Company, one of the largest In the Western States. CHARLES A. MOEKIS died Monday in Brooklyn, In his .4tli year. Louis Morris and Itobcrt Morris, his great-grandfather and great-granduncle,were signers or the Declaration of Independence. He was one of the oldest piano manufacturer la tbe United States. .Flora Mybhs Pubcxll, once a leading actress In tbe stock days and later a star In "Oliver Twist" and other melodramas, died recently In Kochester, N. Y. Sbe was the wire of Allan W. PurLell, formerly a manager, and now paymaster of the Bocbcster Kallway Company. Frederick j, Frklisohctsen died Tuesday night at Barltan, N. J. Mr. Frellnghuysen was a well-known lawyer and a cousin of tbe late Fred erick T. Frellnghuysen, Secretary of State. He held tho position or burrogate of Somerset county, N. J., lor two terms, and was also County Super intendent of Schools. captain W. H. Harrington, a well-known lawyer of Boston, died Sunday. In bis 4itb year. He entered the army when only a boy, and at the closeof the war he was 18, coming out or service with the rank or Captain. Unrlnc a portion of the time he was under GeneraMianks in tbe Ked river campaign, and won bis promotion by valor and hard righting. Captain Hamilton died at Apia, Sam 03, March 22 last. On the occasion of tbe wreck of the Amer ican fleet In 1S89 be showed the greatest kindness and hospitality to the American oCJcers. Here covered and buried In his garden the body of Paymaster Armes. of the Vandalla, and threw open his bouse to the survivors. He was born in New London, Conn., and bad lived at Apia up ward of 30 years. Certainly ot Course. Philadelphia Times. Tbere are over 60,000,000 of bonnets In this country, and there isn't a living woman who couldn't pick out ber own beau dress from the pile, even If tbey were stored in a dark room and she was blind-lolded. So It Seems. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Alexander T. Stewart left millions, not only of money bat apparently ot heirs. agapa ?n 891H . .,j v ,1- ,FR0M CURB AND CORRIDOR. The Picturesque Side of the Big Fire One of. Its Lessons A Great Hunter Is Oddly Allied The Grip's Reappearance An Odd to Hay. The scene when the Seventh street fire was at its height, viewed from tbe north side of the Allegheny, was beautiful and terrible in a wonderful degree. The sky was cloudy and carried the reflection of the intensely white flames fbr miles around. The lower part ot Pittsburg could be as plainly seen as by day, and yon could read a newspaper on tbe north end of the Sixth street bridge witbout strain ing' your eyes. When Christ Church spire caught, and tho jets of flame circled about it, above tbe waves of fire in tbe crater formed by the tottering walls of tbe cold storage build Inc the climax was reached. Since tbe nlgbt wben the flagstaff and barp on tbe top of the Hamilton building blazed for a moment before it fell, meteor-like, into the abyss ot smoke and flame, no such picturefhas fire painted in Pittsburg The heat from the barninc butter and oils was so intense tbat it could be felt as far away as tho middle span of tbe Sixth street bridge, and tbe glare was so brilliant tbat spec tators a block distant could not gaze steadily at tbe scene for more tbau a fow seconds. An other feature upon wblcb Chief Evans and his gallant men congratulated themselves ye-ter-day was tbat the falling walls injured no one. The walls fell Suddenly, and to the spectators wbo were denied a clear view of Seventh street it seemed impossible tbat the firemen could have escaped, and a groan Ot horror went Up a groan tbat carried a cbill to the heart. The conflagration would not have been stayed at tbe church and college it tbe wind had been more westerly, for tben the flames would bave easily leapt tbe narrow bounds of Eichth street and seized upon tbe temptingly wide windows ot tbe lofty Arbuthnot building, from wbicb again it is easy to be seen tbe tire might bave crossed Penn avenue and fonnd rich food on all sides. Another fortunate thing was tbe audience at tbe Bijou Theater was out before the fire began and at the Duquesne Theater tbe play had just ended. A Lesson of tho Fire. "Surely no better argument for the nnion of Pittsburg and Allegheny bas been advanced than tbat which tbe big fire lastnight Indirectly furnished," said a Pittsburg fire Insurance man yesterday. "It tbe two cities had been under one government at leas: two fire com panies from Allegheny would have reinforced tbe Plttsbnrg contingent on the first alarm, and every engine in Allegheny could have been massed upon tbe scene at least half an hour before the most remote of the Pittsburg en cines tbe East Enders were able to get in. It is to De supposed that the Allegheny fire department wonld come to Pittsburg's aid in a desperate emergency, and Pittsburg would do the same under like circumstances, but the real need Is of speedy concentration of forces to combat the fire in its first stages, befors it becomes unmanageable. An Allegheny eneine did good service at the Hamilton. building fire, but as I have said, under tbe existing division of what is really one city into two parts adds greatly to the danger of both sections fn the face of a larce fire like Tuesday night's." Ilanter and Taxidermist. "I have never known a man wbo enjoyed life so mucb as a hunter I met out in Colorado some yoars ago." said Charles Clavering, of Denver, to me iu the Hotel Anderson lobby yesterday. "He was a Fennsvlranian, by the way; came from Center county, I think, where bis parents mast have beea well-to-do people, for they'd given him a college education. When I met him in Summit connty, Colorado, he was in partnership with a taxidermist, and their method of business was to go out and shoot as many elk, bear and other game mar ketable for their skins and tben return to town, preparo the skins and ship them East, where tbey always found a ready sale. The curious feature of the alliance was tbat tbe hnnter, whose name was William son, followed the life he did oat of a pure love for nature and had no interest in the ontcome of tho taxidermist's operations. Williamson was a dead sbot;never missed anythlngbe aimed at, in fact. One day when I was with the party he shot four bears before breakfast think of it! He came upon the bears sporting enamute in a creek. Two of the grizzlies were fall grown, and,these and two cnbs be killed in four shots while two escaped. Tbat was the sort of shot he was!" La Grippe Again. A doctor witb a wide practice In both cities said to me yesterday: "The extraordinary change in the temperature wbicn began on Sunday bas brought back la grippe to some ex tent, and retarded tbe recovery of the hundreds who suffered earlier in the winter. Tbere is reason to bono tbat tbe weather will change for tbe warmer before the disease gets a good hold of the community again. And IbeUeva that the cold weather we are having is not half as productive of sickness as a spell of rain and raw winds wonld be." May, Oat of Sorts. There was month of flowers A man y years ago When poets sang of bowers, lint now tbey sing of snow. Tbere was a month when Cupid, In very slight attire, -JTI ew 'round be 's not so stupid To-day to leave the fire. Our grandpapas remember A time to conjare with: When May was not December And spring was not a myth. SAINTS AND SINNEE8. Mr. Stoddart's Triumph In a Now Bat Bather Tedious Flay. A criticism upon "Saints and Sinners" the play performed by the Madison Square Theater Company last night at the Duquesne Theater resolves itself inevitably into a testi monial of unadulterated praise to tbe genius of Mr. Stoddart., wbo plays tbe very lovable hero of the piece. Mr. Stoddart Improved la?t night upon the admirable embodiment of a benevolent old man wnich he cave us on Tues day in "A Pair of Spectacles." The old Bap tist minister iu "Saints and SinSers" is the only strongly and truly drawn character in tbe play, and doubtless without Mr. Stoddart's supreme art it wonld not be half as attractive as It is. The play It self Is dreadfully slow and draggy, and could be with advantage shorn ot three or four long scenes. Mr. Palmer's company does not shine in ic as a whole. Mr. Holland is lost in a small part, and Mr. Barrymore played with such evi dent carelessness and lack ot thongbt tnat he marred the performance. Several of tbe smaller characters were nicely played. The audience gave Mr. Stoddart and Miss Maud Harrison' tbelatter's work was excellent all the ap plause they could have asked. PLAYS TO COME. Madame Janatjsohek's performances al ways command tbe attention of the great body of theater-goers, and her coming engagement at tbe Grand Opera Honsa promises to be a week of most attrative and Interesting per formances. On Monday night tbe famous actress will play Qusen Best in a translation of "Graf Essex," by Heinncb Lanbeone of the best plays of its class on the German stage. Janauscbek will play Queen Bets, in which she bas won new honors this season, and tbe work will be seen for tbe first time in tbis city under tbe title of "jSssex: or, tbe Queen's Favorite." THAT representative American comedienne, Mrs. John Drew, comes to the Duquesne Thea ter nextweek with a supporting company, in cluding a half a dozen gTeat names, to present Sheridan's superb old comedy, "The School for Scandal." Mrs. Drew was last seen here as Mrs. Malaprop with Jefferson and Florence. Her assumption of so different a character as Lady Teazle will offer ber admirers and the admirers' of legitimate comedy properly pro duced an opportunity of witnessing tbe won derful versatility of a true pnplt of the old stock days. The Cnai let Surface of the cast will be Mr, Eben PlymDton, an excellent actor, and tbe rest ot tbe cast is correspond ingly good. The sale of scats begins this morn ing. Charles T. Ellis, the young German dialect comedian, will appear for tbe first time at the Bijou Theater next week. This gentle man has been before the public as a star for tbe past four years and his success bas been something remarkable. From the first his fame has been in the ascendant and be has made hosts of friends wherever his sweet and sympa thetic voice is beard. It is possessed ot rare sweetness, and ail bis songs being of his own composition tbey are properly adapted to bis voice. His play of "Casper the Yodler". bas stood tbe tost of four seasons, wbicb, in Itself, is a guarantee of its appreciation by tbe public. His supporting company n said to be excellent and tbe play is mounted with scenery expressly painted for tbe production. Both Are Costly. Toledo Blade. The oyster girl has given way to the ice-crtMtm ljpn so'di&i wobiaD fancies. The Bethanr Home Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary To-Day, The fifth birthday anniversary of Bethany Home will be celebrated to-day. The Home, as is well known, was established by Miss Mary Moorhead. as a result of a mar veloas personal faith cure, and from its inception bas made marked progress. It now controls a dally Bible scbool, 'three mis sions me urant, xtescue ana renn incline and bas two foreign, besides five city mission aries, xne iereign missionaries, Jllsa Liucy Dunn and Miss Robertson, are in Jerusalem, and are meeting witb wonderful success. Tbe celebration to-day will consist of the regular Thursday meetings, afternoon and evening, at tbe Home. No programme, bas been arranged, as outlining anything before band Is never done in connection with tbe Home. Tbe meetings are expected to be largely attended and fnll ot interest. Tbey will be conducted by Mr. Morrow. THEErcnot borne qn Stockton avenue has assumed its annual lonesome summer expres sion, and drawn blinds and closed doors tell ot the family's departure for their lovely coun try residence at Verona. Mr. and Mrs. Brunot, with tbelr niece. Miss Mary Hogg, and servants left Tuesday afternoon for tbat place, where It is boped the delicate bealtb of the couple will be greatly restored br tbe fresh alrand charm ing surroundings. Their departure for the country this season Is much earlier than usual owing to tbe indisposition of both. Reckonin o proportionately on tbe Interest that one bride gives to a dinner party or social event, a dinner to be given to-day by Mrs. B. D. Smith, of Ingram station, should be tbe most interesting affair ever given in this vicinity, as no less than ten brides are to be present. It is to be a pink dinner, and will withont doubt harmonize beautifully with tbe rosy atmosphere in which of course each of the lovely brides are existing at tbe present time. An Alumni Association of the University of Michigan Is about to be formed in tbis city. It is the intention to effect tbe organization, and enlist as members not only the residents of Pittsburg and vicinity, who are graduates, but all those In Western Pennsylvania. A meeting will be beld at tbe parlors of tbe Duquesne Hotel on May 15 at 1-20 P. Jf. John A. Murphy is Chairman of tbe Committee on Organization, and H. D. King. Esq., Secretary. Coscoedia signified harmonious union and amicable agreement In a double sense last evening. The clnb bearing that name gave its parlors for the first union meetintr of tbe Board of Trustees and the Auxiliary Ladios Associa tion of tbejBasky Orphan Asylum. Tbe ob ject of tbe meeting was to decide upon tbe famishment ot tbe borne and complete arrange ments for the opening. Miss Mabt Cualfant, in view of ner ap Broaching nuptials, has resigned her office as Treasurer ot the Woman's Industrial Ex change, and likewise retired from the Board of Directors. Her position will be filled the coming year by Mrs. Kate Dickson, who was elected at the last meeting of the board. Social Chatter. Miss Olive Ball, an elocutionist, will give an entertainment at Lawson's Hall, Craf ton, to-morrow evening. Sbe will be assisted byber instructor, Byron W. King, and her sister, Katherine Ball. Mb. and Mrs. Lissteld, of South Twentieth street, celebrated their silver wedding last evening. Owing to tbe large num ber of guests the use of Vowreck's Hall was secured. Don Cablos Coebett, a very elegant gentleman, with a Spanish name and a Clarion county borne is in tbe city renewing college days acquaintances. Miss Graham, of North avenue, will tender a reception to-morrow evening to Rev. and Mrs. Satchel, tbe new pastor of the North Avenue M. E. Church. Mrs. C. L. Noble, of Washington tbe lesser. In visiting in the city, a guest of ber sister.Miss Fairchild. Mrs. A G. Graf and daughter. Miss Agnes, of Sharon, are spending a few days in the city. A chuecii social will be given in the Me Clure Avenue M. E. Church to-morrow even ing. The Colored Orphans' Home will hold its annual reception Wednesday, May 20. The reception at the Home for tbe Incura bles is this afternoon. THE VISIT POSTPONED. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris Unable to Go to Washington Jost Yet. FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! Washington, May a Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris telegraphs from New York to friends in tbis city tbat she is obliged to postpone her visit for the presont. Mrs. Grant has been ill during the past week and is not sufficiently re covered to make the journey practicable at this time. Tbelr friends bere are greatly disap pointed, as quite a number ot entertainments had been devised In their bonor, which in each case wonld bave been divested of all formality and wonld have beeD, In fact, gatherings of only their oldest acquaintances. Mrs-Sartoris keeps up a regular correspondence witb ber fnends in this city, and those of them who bave not had the pleasure of visiting ber at ber English borne were especially aaxioas to see both herself and her children. Mrs. Sartoris bas a beautiful estate near Southampton, given ber by ber father-in-law. Her children are thoroughly English in appear ance and accent. She particularly wishes dur ing her present short stay in America to have tbe children see Washington and all tbe places in it associated with her own youth. A HEW BBIDGE FOE ST. I0UIS. Jay Gould and a Syndicate Said to Be Back of the .Enterprise. St. Louis, May ft An Important deal bas just been closed, which guarantees, to St Loai3 the building of a third bridge across the Missis sippi river. The franchise for its construction is a perpetual charter granted 20 years ago by Congres3 to the Carondolct and St. Louii Bridge Association, providing for a high truss bridge across the Mississippi at Carondolet, six miles below Eads' bridge. Tbecbarterand entire caoltal stock of the above company bas been transferred to a syn dicate, of wblcb Jay Gould is said to be a mem ber, and work on the structure will be pusbed as rapidly as possible. The capital is 51,000,000. And Chaos "Will Ensue. Baltimore American. J If Bismarck once more gets bis Iron finger Into tbe government pie, and be and his former pupil meet on a question of differing policies, the favorite old problem of tbe result of an ir resistible force coming in contact with an im movable body will be one of tbe biggest attrac tions ot tbe Reichstag. PEOPLE WHO C0SLE AND 00. Sir Gny Hecker left for Chicago yester day. James B. Scott bas returned from Phila delphia. J. B. Bartlett, advance for Qilmore's Band, Is in tbe city. J.J. Spearman, the Sharon furnace owner, Is at tbe Seventh Avenue Hotel. Ex-Postmaster Larkin is back from Har risburg. Hi3 man was appointed. John Bradley, a son of the Prothonotary, has gone to Colorado for his health. . Dr. John Hall, of New York, was ex pected to arrive in the city last evening on a late train. W. W. Picking, Traveling Passenger Agent ot the Baltimore and Ohio road at Som erset, is in tbo city. C. D. Rhodes, an irou agent of Sharon, and W. W. Smith, of Washington, are at the Moaongabela House. Among those who went to New Tork last evening were George Westingtjouse, Jr., and Colonel Levi Greene. B. Fritsch, of St, Louis, and H. A. Pen rose, of New York, a crack rifleman, are stop ping at tbe Duquesne. James C. Purdy, an old Plttsbnrg news paper man. was In the city last evening. He now lives in New Jersey. E. M. Hukill, tbe oil man, and Mr. Bishop, of tbe National Tube Works, left for New York laEt evening. W. A Lynch, a prominent lawyer of Can ton, and James Braddock, of Mt. Pleasant, are registered at the Anderson. C. L. Davis, the actor, registered at the Auderson yesterday. He Is pleased with the progress made on his new theater. Henry M. Wilson, of Frauklin, Pa., ol tbe firm of Bayne. Wilson & Pratt, general agents ot the Parrcr&Tuft engine and boiler, is quartered at tbe Monongabela House. C. V. Sales and wife, of Detroit, regis tered at tbe Monongahela House last evening. Mrs. Sales is tbe daughter of Dr. Balloway. of Louisville, and she was married Monday even ing. Tbe young couple art on their bridal J. tour. JkuMateW) CUBI0DS CONDENSATIONS. A horned rabDit is the cariosity of the day at Akron, O. The Pennsylvania Railroad system em ploys 7.671 engineers. A Montreal Judge bas decided that a hotel cook is not a domestic servant. A Missouri newspaper recently pub lished an editorial on "TheBedbug In Politics." Hay 33 years old has been found in Wetmore and is said to be well preserved, bnght and sweet. A resident of Parkers' Ford, Pa., is sala to bave a ring dove which is 21 years old, and has been in one cage all its life. There are now 19,373 newspapers of dif ferent classes in the United State and Canada, a net gain of 1,613 over last year's record. A Liberty county, Ga., man has found oysters growing at tbe bottom of his 60-foot well, and actually has some of the shells to show his neighbors. A cow being driven through tbe streets of Hannibal, Mo., charged on a red coat hang ing on a post, entangled ber horns in it, gave a bellow and dropped dead, A scientist of Tennessee thinks that the Gulf stream every day,passes through thou sands of miles of subterranean channel that is surrounded by a living fire. Keene, N. H., is meditating on the cheek of a resident who is receiving outdoor relief from tbe town and wbo paid a tax of S9 the other day on bis three dogs. The people of Starlight, Grundy county, Mo., complain that the man wbo carries tbe mail to that town puts young pigs, etc In the ponch along with the love letters, etc A tramp stole a razor and opened np a shop In a box car near the fire-brick works at Mexico, Mo. He shaved 23 men In half a day, pocketed 52 SO and again took to the road. Between January 1 and April 1 of this year 1,783 bodies hare been cremated in 17 cites Eighteen Bcrllners bave been cremated tbis year and the Berlin Society for Cremation; bas increased its membership to 1,100. A benevolent Atchison, Kan., woman keeps a bar ot soap on a board near a creek that runs through the town for tbe use of tramps, and a number of them may be seen at that place every day washing themselves. A Eonesdale, Pa., lady has a fall set of carpenter's tools, which sbe nses with remark able skill in making useful and ornamental ar ticles for her home, a fell set of chairs being among tbe productions of her me chanical gen ius, The champion wrestler with the English, language is employed as a newspaper corre spondent at Franklin. Pa. In writing an ac count of tbe work of an incendiary, he says; "This 3-o'clock-ln-the-morning Are has given superstitious people here a cold chill." A new gppliance weighing only a few pounds enables cloth dealers and others to measure fabrics while rolling or blocking them. The cloth passes over and under a set of four rollers, tbe last of which actuates a counter which tells the number of yards paid out. A Florida paper tbat ought to know says that there are over S3 varieties of sweet oranges, not to mention the "natural stock," which is the larger and handsomer fruit than tbe sweet orange, and it is excellent for orangeade and marmalade, but, being very sour, is seldom shipped North. At Gooseberry ravine, Nevada county. Rat, some bays recently fonnd four pieces of float quartz containing gold to the value of $8, 813. $23 and J33 respectively. Prospectors have been thick in tbe ravine ever since, and last week one of tbem found a ledge which Is be lieved to be tbe source ot the float. At a pigeon shoot near Newark, N. J., on Saturday, a pointer dog owned by a resident ot Harrisburg, Pa., caught a wounded bird by springing into tbe air after it. The bird was six feet above tbe ground wben tbe dog's jaws closed on it, and the old trap shooters entered in tbe sweepstake shoots said tbat It was tbe finest catch ever seen. Near Leavenworth, Kan., a farmer bad his entire farm gradually washed away by the Mhsourl river some years ago. Soon atter the river began to deposit rich soil along tbe banks where the farm once was. and recently the owner went to tho Connty Clerk and nad bis farm, which was much larger than before, replaced on the tax record. In excavating at Nimroud a number of drains were found covered over witb pointed and elliptical arches, each layer being built slanting so that it rested on tbe one imme diately beneath ic Tbis method of building readers a timber center or scaffolding unnec essary to support the stones Until the keystone Is in place. Experiments with this plan are now in progress in this country. In South America there is a species of fly tbat lays Its eggs In tbe body of man, and large-sized larvx or incipient insects are fre quently taken out from Under tbe hnman skin. This flv is supposed to lay its eec while the vic tim is in bathing, as any part ot the body is at tacked. Very often some of tbe Southern na tives aro fairly alive witb larva;, wbicb, if left to themselves, will at last become free from tbeir confines and develop into true dlpteras. A boy and an enormous eagle bad an exciting tussle near .Alpena. Mich., the other day. Tbe boy bad been disturbing tbe bird's nest, and, after several big swoops, the bird dropped almost upon the boy. He crabbed the bird by tbe toot, and for several yards he wa3 carried ten feet above the ground. He then managed to get hold of one ot the bird's wings, and the two fell to tbe gronnd, tbe boy banging to his prey. Tbe bird measures seven feet be tween the tips of tbe win-s. On Saturday a workman, while ex cavating for a levee near Skelton, Ind, un earthed a mammoth foot, supposed to be of the ostrich species. Ibe leg was disconnected at the knee joint. The leg from the knee down was intact. .This relic was found abont eight feet below the surface of tbe ground. Tbe en tire length of tbe limb from tbe joint to the end of the middle toe is 6 feet 9 inches; the length of tbe toes are respectively?, 7 and 6 inches eacb. It Is thoroughly petrified and heavy as rock. Aurora, III, bas a curiosity in tbe shape of a man wbo keeps a Bnbnrban grocery on Blackbawk street, and until last night bad not been down town or two blocks from his store In 23 years. The Isst time he ventured down town was when be went to tbe polls in November, 1864. and cast a vote for Abraham Lincoln. Sunday niebt be went to an electric car witb a friend, and stepped on board to ride a block and see bow they went. Tbe car started and went so rapidly that tbe veteran found himself down town for tbe first time since tbe war be fore he realized wbat was taking place. In tbe last two years local lobs term ea bagged in their doep-water traps in Fisher's Island Sound not less than fivo or six indigo lobsters, which are so rare that it is not known tbat more than two of tbe kind, had ever been taken in tbo world before. In tbe same tune two blue lobsters were caught by Maine fisher men. Blue lobsters are as 'blue as tbe summer sky, and extremely beautiful. One more blue lobster has been cangbt tbis season, and one day tbis week a fisherman got a still more curi ous lobster, a perfect albino one, in Fisher's Island Sound. Tbe albino is almost as white as milk, even to tbo end ot its claws, and it bas a sort of a spintnelle expression, bat its eyes are pink. It is believed to be-tbe only albino lobster tbat was ever taken. AS YOB TJKE IT. "Now, boys," said the Sunday scbool superintendent, 'what shall I tell yoa about this mornlns?" De slucgln match 'tween David 'n' Gerlierl" cried the infant class. Judge. Poet (to bis practical friend) Is there anything more beautiful than to see those, maznl flcent swans float npon the late'a silver surface? How 1 would love to belike tnemt "What! Go around with one's stomach on that cold water all tho day I Not for me, thank you." r-SUegende flatter. "I gather," said the Boston lady, "from the conversation of my nephew, tbat firemen are In the habit of using rubber hose at tbelr labors." eies." "XhtX, I presume. Is to that they won't get their feet wet;' and the Boston lady returned to her book with an air of entire satisfaction over having solved a difficult problem." Washington Jfost. "She bas given np spiritualism since she carried Farrar.' ' "Because be objected to It, I suppose?" "Yes; for whenever sbe went to table-rappln Farrar began to get messages from bis first wife." -Life. There is no solitude so miserable as tbat of the man alone In a nolsv city, unless it be tbat , of a man alone witb a noisy baby. Btmira UascCe, In the New England Conference (Method .. m m,T w A1r tlA flnArln ft dl.hntj wht(h h wished to close and settled the bash of the discos-; sion by saying: "Aot an anirel in heaven, notieu eldar. not a bishop yea, sir. not .even an ei bas anything; new to say oa tlhs subject.1 LouiiviUt It esternSecoraer. Hi fljtsi??i , m.M i2l at JZ&
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