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PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1SS1.
MR. MEDKINOlLVUs' INDISCRETION.
Thecontroversj lictwccn Mr. Xledrin!
liaus of St Lows, and the Amalgamated
Association oier the importation of for
eign cvorkraen is resolved, b-Mr. Jv'iedring
BauV latest pronunciamento, into a con
troversy between that tjentleman and the
statutes of the United States. By making
this change m the situation Mr. Niednng
liaus will mcreas the measure he occu
pies in public attention; but will not en
hance his reputation for discretion or good
taste.
The attitude Mr. Xiedringhaus now as
sumes unless lie iswoefulh misquoted is
that he has a right to bring in tin plate
workers, notwithstanding the law as con
strued b the Treasury Department Such
an assertion indicates that he has found a
lawjer to give him an opinion to that
vffect, 'which, considering the facility of
legal talent in furnishing the opinions rich
clients desire, is a rather insecure founda
tion on which to engage in knocking
down the law of the United States.
It would be much more valuable advice
to Mr. Xiedniigliaus to inform him that the
contract lalwr law is a very stubborn fact
for a manufacturer to run up acaint, e en
when he occupies the advantage of a Con-j3-cs-ional
career. The probability is that
if the St Louis Congressman engages m
ibis set-to with the law lie w ill come out
of it not so self-confident as he now is, but
a great deal better informed.
THKTUPORTANCE OP FlTTaTtURG.
A v cry striking indication of the grow
ing importance of Pittsburgas a trade and
industrial ei nter is f urm-hed bj the list
sent from Iiamsbarg of the charters is
sued to corporations of other States wish
iag to establish brandies in this city. The
applications of a single day include six cor
jwrations, comprising a scale company, a
dyrvnute company, a contract and con
struction company, a fertilizer company
and two life insurance companies, whose
business requires the location of branches
in this State with headquaiters in this
ity. The rnov.ement may be in some
measure caused by the general disposition
to turn large prh ate firms into corpora
tioLS; but it is none the less an evidence of
the controlling magnitude of the business
which centers here and the trend of
capitrl from other localities to Pittsburg.
Souur and legitimate enterprises in
fccarch of reliable business will do well to
obsen e the example of these corporations
and "afce steps to share the prosperity of
Pittsburg.
HARDLY VALID.
There is room for a wide difference of
opinion as to the good taste of the relatives
of Mrs-Mary Hamilton Schujler, of Xew
York, In seeking to pre ent by injunction
the erection of her statue in the Woman's
Department of the World's Fair. The
ground on which this action was based is
that dunng life Mrs. Schuyler disliked all
notorictv, and would have shrunk from
the thought of such an exhibition.
lut this as an objection is singularly in
apposite. The modesty of people during
their lifetime is no reason why due honors
should not be paid their memory after
death, and there is a wide difference be
tween the erection of a statue to commem
orate the virtues of a worthy man or
women and the pushing of themselves into
undue prominence during their lives. Ac-cor-Cng
to this theory there would be an
objection to erecting impressive monu
ments over tht graves of our locdones
whom we would not willingly rank as
oilier than modest, while the idea points
clearh to tiie conclusion that statues must
not be erected sae to those who were
fond of notonetj and were willing to push
thcraseh cs into prominence.
It is not likely tins is the real ground of
objection. The probability is that the
Schujler family is acting under the im
pression that this statue will somehow con
nect the reputation of the deceased lady
with the advanced theories concerning
women; and that is an objection peculiarly
strong to that aristocratic circle. But
while the real objection might not hold
good in law it would have a good deal
more ahditj than the one assigned.
A IHCir IS MOST en ILIZED?
Ttecnt operations of American Indians
in real estate are ecitingthe comments of
the press, pitched in a rather critical tone.
Thus the tact tLat the Sissetons and Wah
poioiis are receiving 5213 for each man,
woman and child from the sale of their
lands, is considered worthy of slightly sar
castic note, although those tribes are out
done b the Cour d'Alenes, who get
$1,174 per capita fur lauds ceded.
It is true that these transactions, and
the distribution of the proceeds equally
among people who are from the nature of
the case ignorant and unsophisticated, is
such a departure from precedents obtain
ing among the w lulcs as to excite especial
wonder If the property to be bought
weic owned by an equal number of sim
ilarlj antutoredw lutes, the methods would
be extremely different The first step
would be a bear mo ement in real estate,
s-0 that gentlemen on the inside of the
transLCtion could buy up all claims to the
Jand at a song Then the plum would bo
plucked and the speculator would get the
2refits. The waj in which the sums paid
for these lands are recklessly cut up into
inconsiderable amounts, for every one
equally, instead of utilizing the opportu
nity to make a millionaire or two at the
cest, of the people, must be taken as a sure
sign of savagery. It w ould nev er be per
mitted in civilization.
Or, to suggest an awful doubt, is the
fact that the Indians divided honestly and
equally the proceeds of their common
property, a sign that the administration of
their affairs is civilized, while the white
method of letting some sharp speculator
gobble all the receipts is the contrary?
TE5 POET'S DEATH.
The nation is not often called to mourn
the loss of a citizen whose qualities made
his fame dearer to all Americans, or whose
literary work reflected more credit on the
nation abroad, than James Russell LowelL
The death of that typically American poet,
at an early hour j esterday morning, marks
the termination of a career which is a part
of American political and literary history.
Mr. Lowell first attracted the attention
of the American publie.as well as of a large
share of European opinion, by bis sarcastic,
rather than humorous, "Bigelow Papers."
In these poems, couched in the provincial
isms of the Yankee farmer, Mr. Lowell's
strong hatred of the injustice and crime of
slavery, and of the shams and cowardice
by which Northern politicians sought to
evade the issue, shone through every line.
Viewed merely in the literary aspect of
political satires, they will bear comparison
with any production of the sort in the lit
erature of the world, while in their effect
on public opinion during the struggle for
tho abolition of slavery, they were second
only, if. at all, to Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," which, though vastly be
low Lowell's work in literary qualities.ap
pealed to the sentiment of the reading
masses more successfully.
Of course the readers of Lowell know
that his poetic work went far bejond the
satirical vein which gave, him his. first
fame. His "Vision of Sir Launfal," which
has made his name equally famous in the
level of loftiest inspiration, is a typical
specimen of his serious work. The poet
who was capable of such productions
needed no other evidence to establish his
claim to greatness; but when he evinced
the scope that lies between the stinging
satiies of nosea Bigelow and the elevated
purity and lifelike word-painting of the
other poem, he was clearly entitled to the
rank conceded him, with Longfellow,
Whlttier and Bryant, as one of the four
great poets America has produced.
Mr. Lowell's fame will always be
founded on his poetic character. What
ever effect he produced in tho course of
events during his lifetime was by means
of his literary genius. His position in the
latter part of his life as a diplomatist was
little more than a result and recognition
of his work as a writer. As a diplomatist
he was estimable rather than famous. The
political differences of the period in which
he held office evoked some personal criti
cisms; but not even politics seriously weak
ened the hold w hich Low ell as a poet had
in the esteem of the world of English lit
erature. The death of Lowell leaves Wliittier as
the only one remaining of the four great
poets of this country during the last gener
ation. Emerson and Holmes, who might
be placed in that literery class, have shown
their greater qualities as prose writers.
The present generation has produced poets
of graceful and humorous qualities; but it
still remains to be proved that it contains
a successor who can "trail! the lofty
rhyme" with breadth and vigor of concep
tion that will rival the great versemakers
of the last generation.
SATISFACTORILY SETTLED.
The differences between the manufact
urers and the Flint Glass Workers have
been settled and the men w ill go back to
work as soon as the factories are ready to
reopen. The principal difference between
the men and the manufacturers was with
regard to half an liour of labor, which the
men did not tliiuk they should be com
pelled to perform. Conference commit
tees argued long over these thirty minutes
and then a compromise was effected,
the manufacturers agreeing to a re
duction of fifteen minutes and the men
concluding it was better to work a quarter
of an hour longer than to stand out There
were between eight and nine thousand
men affected by this compromise, and they
are to be congratulated upon the peaceful
settlement of a much vexed question. It
is to be hoped that the difficulties stand
ing between the other glass workers and
the manufacturers will experience as satis
factory a termination.
TRUTHS FROSI BI'KINLEY.
The outlook for the Democratic party in
Ohio is not encouraging, and before the
campaign is oerGoernor Campbell will
wish he were out of the race. This year
there are several national questions to
face and Campbell's personalities will not
be aided by calamities such as happened
two j ears ago. Major McKinley is telling
some great truths to thousands of
people which will take all the wind
out of the Democratic sails. He
addressed ten thousand people at
Bowling Green yesterday and gave sev
eral unanswerable reasons why the tariff
of the Republican party as represented by
his bill was doing an inestimable amount
of good for the farmer and manufacturer.
For illustrations he recited the case of
two farmers, one a Canadian and the
other an American, who disposed of their
wheat at Buffalo, the Canadian taking
home but 80 cents while the American
carried away 100 cents. The other case
was that of a captain who carried rails to
Toledo and admitted, that if it were not
for the tariff he could make 2 cents more
on his wares. The duty in each of these
Instances came out of the foreigners'
pockets. With such unanswerable argu
ments as these and many others that are
being made, the Democrats will find that
it is not eery cloud that has a sdver lin
ing. PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH.
The campaign against the lottery in
Louisiana has already exemplified the
truth of a long-standing assertion of TnE
Disi'ATcn. That is, that when the South
erners are left to divide on new issues,
without the red rag of the war questions
shaken in their faces, they will prove
amenable to the influences of civilized
politics. The proof to which we refer is
the declaration by Judge McClegg, one of
the anti-lottery leaders, made to suppress
the too radical methods proposed by some
of the anti-lottery campaigners, as fol
lows: Wo lire all in favor of ridding the State of
this lottery incubus, but It is not to bo
wrought by insulting friends or shooting
neighbors for an honest difference of opin
ion. Blood and slaughter never reach vital
principles. We can put down tho Hessians
and tho boodlers in our midst by the only
legitimate means that is left to us, the bal
lot. This is sound doctrine, and it is to be
hoped that the anti-lottery reformers will
pay heed to it But Judge McClegg, like
ever one else who pays any attention to the
subject, must perceive that the abandon
ment attempts to carry elections by the
shotgun policy will bo'mado much more
difficult on account of the resort to that
policy in the past What is true now was
true when White Leagues and Kuklux at
tempted to rule elections in the South.
Blood and slaughter did not reach vital
principles then any more than at present,
and the condemnation of any attempt to
resort to them now carries with it the con
demnation of the same resort fifteen or
twenty years ago.
It is clear that tho South is steadily
growing upward toward civilized politics.
When It reaches complete growth it will
perceive that its political methods, handed
down from the twin rello of barbarism,
were distinctly of the uncivilized class.
Tun death of Mr. George Jones, of the
New York Times, removes aflguro which
has been prominent In journalism for many
years. Although Mr. Jones w as associated
as business manager with HonryJ. Ray
mond in tho control of the Times, his
supremacy in that paper did not begin until
Raymond's death. Under Mr. Jones' direc
tion the journal gained in vigor what it may
have lost in polish. Among tho notable
Journalistic features were the exposures of
tho Tweed ring, which losulted in tho over
throw of that gang; the assault on Tllden for
non-payment of his income tax in lS76;and
the bolt from Blaine in ISSt which was fol
low ed by the election of Cleveland and the
permanent enrollment of tho Times in the
ranks of independent and free-trade
Democracy. Mr, Jones has had a notable
carter, and presented a striking example of
the class of modern Journalists whose salient
characteristics are vigor and energy, rather
than cultuao and finish.
There is a consistent, though not alto
gether discreet-fidelity to the methods of the
Democratic organs in tho latest editorial
effort of the Ruflalo Courier. That intelli
gent cotemporary when political matters
are not involv cd charges the recent rise in
the mercury to the McKinley bill.
"It is quile plain," remarks the New
York Advertiser, "that Messrs. Quay and
Cameron are arranging to deliver the State
of Pennsylvania to Mr. Blaine. That news
paper revolution in Pittsburg last week was
significant." Theieis only one error in tho
esteemed Advertiser's diagnosis, and that is
fatal to its theory. Thero has been no news
paper revolution in Wttsburg. The Dis
rATcn has been voicing tho popular enthu
siasm for Blaine theso many months, and
Messrs. Quay, Cameron and other highly
prized coteniporaries have subsequently
discovered it is timo for them to get on
board the train.
"Peck's Bad Boy hasn't said anything
funny since ho was elected Governor of
Wisconsin," remarked the New York Press.
When did he say anything funny before he
was elected Governor? His abstinence
from humor is strictly according to prece
dent. The remark is tersely made by the New
York Sun that there is "about as much de
mand for the renomination of the Hon. Bon
Jamin Harrison as there was in August, 1879,
for tho renomination of Rutherford B.
Hayes." In this editorial chunk of solid
fact the Sun makes a perilously narrow
escape from tho fatal admission that Ruth
erford B. Hayes sorved a term as President
in the VYliite House.
It is now intimated that the regular poli
ticians will not offer any objections to a
corner of the w heat market by the Farmers'
Alliance, if tho Alliance will on its side; put
itself under bonds not to corner tho vote
market this fall.
The German talk about a policy which
shall produce the commercial isolation of
tho United States does not sound very ter
rific in vlow of tho lact, that If Europe does
not get our surplus food products her popu
lation would bo in danger of lamine. If the
German policy was successful it might
isolate a European nation or two, but could
not isolate the United States.
It is now reported that Governor-Senator
Hill is getting ready to boom William C.
Whitney for the Presidental nomination.
Xot that the Governor loves Whitney more,
but ho loves Cleveland a good deal less.
ELiAifDDEJfNisisthetitleofMr.Ingalls
new lecture, or as some carping critics would
put it, the new title for his old lecture As
the latter appellation refers evidently to
the autobiographical portion of the effort,
the w hole title raises a mild wonder whether
the Senator is going to repeat the Rilcy-Nyo
experiment by forming a partnership with
Eli Perkins.
With the Marquis de Lenville formally
declared a bankrupt no one can dispute bis
eligibility for a plate on tho bargain counter
opened for tho patronage of American heir
esses. The hot period in New York was season
ably improved by the Post, of that city, in
offering tho public some "Very Cold
Facts." JThe faots may ha e boen frigid, but
the only theory by which they can be
deemed so is that the esteemed Tost ab-,
sorbed considerable specific heat, or, in less
cientifio language, got quite hot in oftering
them.
The discovery of a large cave in Ohio in
dicates nature's piovision for tho wants of
three out of the four politicil parties in
Ohio, after the November election.
The interesting news comes from abroad
that Dr. Dcpew recently stood on Mais Hill
and drew deep draughtsof oratorical inspira
tion from the locality. Tho information con
tains a promise of future rhetorical pleas
ures, if Dr. Talmago does not get out an in
junction against Dr. Depew for infringement
of tho former's patent.
NOW Carter Harrison indulges in tho iri
descent dream that he has pnrifled tho poli
tics of Chicago.
"THE idea of exhibiting n modern cruiser
and an old lino buttle hip .it the World's
Fair is a good one," sajs tho Now York
World. That is, it would bo a good one if any
way could be discovered of getting them to
Chicago without breaking up tho treaty
with England and tho bottom of tho Wel
land Canal.
NAMES WHICH OFTEB' APPEAR.
The Empress Fredericka of Germany is
Colonel of tho Second Guard Huzzars of
Berlin.
General Gbosvenor will sail for home
September 20, and w ill take part in the Ohio
campaign.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett has
been living very quietly In London all sum
mer at a beautiful home in South Kensing
ton. Kudyard KirniNo's uncle, the Rev.
F. AV. Macdonald, a theological piofcssor
from Birmingham, Eng.. w us in Chicago the
other daj .
Not only was the late Comtesse de Cham
brun a great patron of music and art, but
her husband, w ho has been blind for tho lat
fi e j cars, is also.
Senator Squire, of Olympia, Washing
ton, v, ill probably accept tho Chinese Mis
sion tendered him by President Hiirlson.
Mr. Frederick K. Rindge, of Cam
bridge, Muss., has v, ithin the last three j ears
gi en to charitable, religious mid municipal
institutions more than $3,000,030. He inher
ited his monev.
Mmk. Blavatsky, the great priestess of
Theosophy, weighed 100 pounds at the time
of her death. She was so ponderous that slin
could not sit in an ordinary armchair, and
she was fond of speaking of herself as "the
old hippopotamus '"
feTliE grave of Colonel John Dandridge,
father of Martha Washington, has been dis
covered in the long-neglected old St.
George's churchsardat Fredeiicksburg, Ya.
The tombstone was sunk into the earth and
was found bj digging.
Timothy HorKi:s, the adopted son of
the late Mrs. Hopkins Scarles, has arrived in
San Francisco fiom Japan. He will not
state w hcther he intends to contest the w ill
of Mrs. Searles, which left all of her vast
estate to her husband.
Now that ex-Governor Gray of Indiana
has begun to loom up as a candidate for the
Presidental nomination, his son Pierre has
taken charge of his literary bureau, and
already there is a lmtiul of nowspaper clip
pings favoring tho hoosier aspirant ready to
be pasted up in tho scrapbook.
ONE MORE GREAT POET GONE.
Junes Russell Lowell, Diplomat and Au
thor of the Bigelow Papers, Diet at His
. Cambridge Home A Long, Painful Ill
ness Ends in a Peaeof nl Sleep.
Boston, Aug. 12. At an early hour this
morning, at his home in Cambridge, James
Bussell Lowell, diplomat and man of letters,
breathed his last. An old enemy of his, the
gout, had afllcted Mr. Lowell almost con
stantly of lato and that, solatlca, hemorr
hages, and latterly a severe typo of liver
disease, in turn affected him. Mr. Lowell's
health has been impaired ever sinco his re
turn to this country in 1SS5, after concluding
his diplomatic service eight years three
j ears at Madrid and five at the Court of St.
James. The death of his wife in the midst
of his social and diplomatic success in Lon
don as the lcprcscntatlve of this country,
had an untoward effect upon his health,
which was then becoming broken.
When he returned to his home at Cam
brmge, that Elmwood so full of history, and
where with brief intervals, he spent the
whole '1 years of his life, his wife's death
weighed heavilv upon his mind. Even then
he w as beginlng to fail visibly In a physical
waj', and went into society little, preferring
to enjoy quietly tho companionship of his
books, and gradually dropping into the re
cluse life ofa semi invalid. He was forbidden
to take the long walks which he so much en
Joyed, whioh yieldedsuch abundant fruit in
his works and later driving even was pro
hibited. The Story of His Last Illness.
Tho poet was taken sick about flvo wooks
ago. About two weeks or moro ago he be
came delirious, and up to Monday ho recov
ered consciousness only at brief intervals,
hen ho gave members of his family signs
of recognition.
He seemod to think he was far away from
home and appeared to long to get back to
Elmwood and his family. At times, too, he
fancied he was entertaining royal visitors.
Though unquestionably tho pain was very
great, ho made no complaint. Last Sunday
he seemed better, and the delirium left him.
On Monday he appeared brighter than at
any time during his long illness. Up to that
time the room had been cool, but then he
began to show the effect of the heat.
On Monday, when the nurses changed the
bedding, he suffored intensely when moved,
and finally said: "Oh, why don't you let mo
die." These words were his last. He seemed
to lose heart, and gradually his life faded
away. He continued in a comatose condi
tion until -.15 o'clock this morning, when
tho last spark of life went out. Beside him
in ins last momonts were tne sinter oi ins
first wife, his daughter, Mrs. Burnett, and
her husband, the ex-Congressman, as well as
the nurses and the servants of the house
hold, to whom he had always been so kind
that a strong attachment had sprung up.
His East Hour on Earth.
His body lies in his own sleeping apart
ment, where the last hours of his life were
spent. The nurse who watched over him
during his illness is still at the house. She
waspresont at his bedsido from tho time
when he became unconscious Monday even
ing, until he died, early this morning, except
for an absence of a few minutes. His death
waspeaceful. Although it was known he
could not live much longer, his death was,
nevertheless, rather unexpected.
Late Monday afternoon, altera few hours
of brightness, he began to wander again and
w hntcver he said, after that time was aim
less. In a few hours he became unconscious
and ho ncverregalned his mind. The transi
tion from sleep to death was so easy that for
a few moments nobody in the room ob
served that he had ceased to breathe. His
eyes were closed and they never opened.
Ho passed away with only a heavy bigh to
indicate the separation of the great soul
from tho worn-out body.
A Quiet, Uneventful Life.
Mr. Lowell's life at Elmwood was almost
deoid of events. One or two friends
dropped in, his studies w ero pursued when
ever possible, and his geniality and light
ness of spirit, even when suffering, was re
markable. A complete revision of his
works in prose and verse was undertaken
and completed, a task of itself of consider
able magnitude, and which undoubtedly
ina-lo a decided strain upon his impaiied
vitality. He also wrote a charming intro
duction to Isaak Walton's works, and con
tributed a fewpieces of vorse to the Atlantic
Mrs. Burnett, his only child, w as W ith him
constantly. She was his only near relath e,
except a brother, Robert, whoso where
abouts aie uncertain.
James Russell Lowell w as born in Cam
budge, Mass., February22, 1819, graduated at
Harvard University in 1&J8 and studied law,
but never practiced. Ho commenced au
thorship before leaving college by tho pub
lication of a class poem. A volume of mis
cellaneous poems, entitled "A Year's Life,"
appeared in 1811; a new collection contain
ing a "Legend of Brittany," "Prometheus,"
and others, in 1844; "Conversations on Some
of the Old Poets," containing u series of
well-studied criticisms, both in piosoand
v erse, giving indications of Mr. Lowell's in
terest m the various political and philan
thioplc questions of tne day, and of his at
tachment to those principles of w hich he
has since been the champion, in 1815; a third
collection of poems, and "The Vision of fair
Launfal," lounded on a legend of the Search
lor tho San Graal, in 1848, "A Fable for
Critics," in which hosatirically passed in le
view tho literati of the United States, and
his most remarkable work, "Tho Biirelow
Pupors," a collection of humorous poems on
political subjects, written in the Yankee
dialect, in 1848. "Fireside Trav els," includ
ing grapic papers on uamunage in oia times,
and the second series of the "Bigelow
Papers," appeared in 1881. In lbfcO he pub
lished "Under the Willows," and other
poems; and near the close of tho same year,
"Tho Cathedral," an epic poem: in 1870, a
collected volume of essays, entitled "Among
My Books," and in 1871, "My Mudy Win
dows." Literary Honors Thrust Upon Him.
Iii 135 he succeeded Longfellow as Profes
sor of Languages and Belle Lottres in Har
vard College. The degree of LL.D. w as con
ferred upon him in 1874, by the English Uni
versity of Cambridge From 1857 to ls(B he
was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and he
had pro iously been connected editorially
oi otherwise with the Pioneer, a magazine of
high character, tho Anti Slatcry Standard,
Putnam, Monthly, and lrom 1S(J3 to 1872 w as
editor of the 2'orth American lieiiew. Ho was
also a lecturer before the Lowell Institute in
Boston, on the Butish poets.
Toward the cloo of ls74 Mr. Lowell was
offered the post of Mimstei to Russii, whit.li
he declined, but in 1377 he nccopted that of
Minister to Spain, fi om which he was trans
ferred, in January, 1880, to that of Minister
to Great Britain. On tiio change of adminis
tration, in 1885, he reigned his position and
returned to the United States. The speeches
which he delivered In this country w ere re
published in 1887, under tho title of "Democ
racy and Other Addresses."
Tnough a life-long Republican, Mr. Lowell
suoponted the candidacy or Mr. Cle eland
lor lc-electlon to the Presidency in 18S8.
Durimr tho slavery agitation, rjrior to the
Civil AVar, he was a prominent advocate of
abolition, and was equally outspokou in
more lecent yeai sin urging tho reform of
the chilseivioe.
Tho funeral will be held Friday at noon in
Applcton chapel, Cambridge. Itis piobable
that tho Bishop elect, Phillips Brooks, will
officiate.
OUENAVT IN CHINA.
Admiral Belknap Loudly Praised by Euro
pean Residents for His Promptness.
San Francisco, Aug. 12. Dr. Gra att, of
the United States Naval Hospital at Yoko
homi, anlvcd hero j esterday. He states
thatjustbeforo leaving Chinese waters the
Palos, obedient to ordeis, proceeded up the
Yang-tse-Kiang to Wuhu. The United States
steamer Alert remained at Shaughut
The correspondent of the Amoy limes
says tho promptness of tho Ameiican Ad
miial, George E. Belknap, m the late emer
gency, was the subject of much favorable
comment on the part of the whito residents
ofMianghau The Admiral, while in Japan,
cabled two men-of-war of hissquadion to
pioceed immediately to the scene ol action.
The v essels w ere on their w ay ovei 12 hours
belorc the news of the A uhu massacre
reached ShanghaL It wns stated July 1 that
Admiral Belknap cabled for 1H o more lneu-ot-war,
and had been assured by return
messages that additional lorces would bo
dispatched to Asiatic waters.
IE0N FBEIGHT BATES.
Charges Advance From Pittsburg and
Some Ohio Points Westward.
Chicaoo, Aiur. 12. A resolution adopted by
tho Central Traffic Association March 11,
provided that the special iron tariffs which
became effective Match 30 would not extend
bejond August 8L 189L Chairman Blanchard
has just Issued a circular naming the rates
on pig iron and kindred articles that w 111 go
into effect September L
From Buffalo and Pittsburg tho rate will
be $2 5'J per ton to Chicago and $3 to East
St. Loin. From Mahoning Valley, she
nango, Hocking V.tlley and common points
the rate w ill be $2 20 to Chicago and $2 SO to
East at. Louis. Tno rates from other points
w Ul be correspondingly advanced.
MAHY C0RQBESSES HELD.
Over a Dozen Different Keliclous Denomi
nations Have Distinct Meetings.
SPECIAL TKLrTGltAM TO TIIE DISPATCH.
CnACTAUQUA, Aug. 12. The featuie of to
day was tho denominational congresses par
ticipated in by over a dozen different denom
inations, each in its own building. The idea
ii that once in a while, even at Chautauqua,
it is a good thing to "break ranks" and each
household of faith look after the things that
pertain to its immediate welfare. Conse
quently the afternoon public exercises wero
suspended and the regiment of Chautauqua
believers separated into companies. Ter
rible thunder storms have visited this sec
tion within the past few days and several
very narrow escapes are reported.
Chautauqua Lake is ono of the most beau
tiful sheets of water in the United States,
and its quiet suraco is most Inviting to
pleasure parties for rowing, sailing, and
vachtlng, Dut it is a very treacherous lake,
too, and sudden squalls will sometimes rush
out of tho West, Jeopardizing many a small
boat, and endangering tho lives of its occu
pants. Yesterday Just such a storm swept
over the lake, and pleasure parties from
rhmitnuaua. as well as other oolnts dowrn
the lake, made a very narrow escape from
death. The small boats wero driven to the
East coast of tho lako, and several wero al
most swamped before they reached tho
shore. Tho suspense of the relatives and
friends of the shipwrecked people can be
better imagined than described.
The cottage holders held their annual
meeting yesterday, and re-elected the fol
lowing named trustees, whose terms had ex
pired: R. A. Millor, F. H. Root, William
Thomas, N. I. Kubenkiui, f. G. Williams
and E. M. Hukill. The board numbers 24 and
six places are filled each year. Secretary
Duncan read his annual report, which set
forth that during tho year tho funded debt
of tho assembly has been reduced about
$10,000 During the past seven years the re
duction has averaged $10,000 por year until
the total indebtedness December 1, 1800, was
only $20,450. In addition to this, $112,32( have
in that time been spent in permanent im
piovcments. Secretary Duncan says: "Not a single
complaint of disorder was made dining tho
season of 1890. When you remember that at
least 75,000 visitors from various parts of the
country wero present during the summer
without a single arrest or complaint being
made, you will agree that the order on the
grounds was remarkable. The attendance
last summer was larger than ev er before, tho
total ticket receipts being $50,000, as against
$42,000 in 1839 and $40,000 in lfc83."
DEATHS HEBE A5S ELSEWHEEE.
Editor George Jones.
George Jones, editor of the New York
Times, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at Port
land Sprlng9, Me, The story of George Jones' life
Is the story of the founding and building up of the
New York Times. Although Mr. Jones had reached
the age of 40 when he Joined Henry J. Raymond in
establishing the paper, and had already made this
way to success and a competence In other business
enterprises, his earliest Inclinations had brought
him into the field of New York Journalism, and
his return to it as the founder and publisher of the
Times vrns but the fulfillment of his jouthful ambi
tion. Being left an orphan at the age of IS years
he began actlre life as a clerk In a country store.
During boyhood Mr. Jones and Horace Greeley
were pla mates together. It was In the business
office of Horace Greeley's Tribune that Mr. Jones
became first connected with Journalism. Ills
friLiidshm with Uenrr J. Raymond, beirlnnlnir
while the one was employed in the business office
and the other in the editor's room of the Tribune.
was destined speedily to ripen into Intimacy, confi
dence and mutual respect, and later to bring them
Into business partnership In the founding and man
agement of the Timet. Upon the death of Mr.
Raymond Mr. Jones became the responsible head
of thejournal. A complete history of Mr. Jones'
management of tno paper during the three years
following Mr. Raymonn's death would of neces
sity Include a history of the Tweed ring, broken
and ov erthron n by the Times,
Miss Jessie RIchey.
Miss Jessie Bichey, a sister of Clyde
RIchey, the j oung member of Company E, who
v, as drowned at Camp Kensington Saturday even
ing, died Monday night of a broken heart at
Franklin. Her remains were placed n the
same grave that contained those of her lored
brother. Unon receiving the news of her brother's
death the young lady fainted away, and had only
been conscious at short Intervals up to the time of
her death The mother Is also very ill at their
pretty little country residence, some miles from
Franklin, and It Is feared by her phvslclans that
she will not long survive the deaths of her children
The family Is well known and highly respected, and
the funerals of Clyde and Jessie were the largest
ever known in the country.
Editor Emmet L. Ross.
Emmet L. Boss, editor of the Canton,
Miss., Picket, died Wrednesday of poison from the
bite of a spider. He was 53 years old and a native
of New Orleans. Reserved in the war In various
commands, and was seriously wounded In front of
Atlanta wniie acting as Lieutenant oi inefjirnE
eenth Louisiana. He had been prominent In Mis
sissippi polities and Journalism since the wir. He
wrote a popular war poem entitled "The Socks
That Baby Wore." At the time of hts death he
was a nominee of the State benateon the Demo
cratic ticket, and events were shaping to make him
the successor of General Charles E. llooker In Con
gres. Colonel G. A. Wood.
Colonel G. A. Wood died at Chattanooga,
Tuesday of a complication of diseases. Colonel
Wood ted. In the battle of Mission Ridge, tho Fed
eral brigade composed of the Fifteenth Indiana,
his own regiment, Fifty-seventli and Fort -seventh
Indiana, Nlnet) -second Ohio and Fifty
fourth Illinois. ex-Governor Foraker being under
his command with three companies of the
Fifteenth Indiana. Colonel W ood led the after
battle at night, when several pieces of artillery
were recaptured from the enemv. Sheridan, in his
memoirs, graphlcallj describes this after-battle,
and at the time recommended Colonel W ood for
promotion. The deceased had practiced law In
N asln Me since the war.
Sister Mary Louisa O'Donoghue.
Sister Mary Louisa O'Donoghue, who
died Monday in the Frederick City (Md.) Convent
of the Visitation, aged 60 ) cars and 11 months, was
burled yesterday, after a mass of requiem, within
the con ent walls, sister Mary Louisa was for
nierl) a resident of Georgetown, D. C, and was a
sister-in-law ol the late John Murphy, the well
known publisher of Baltimore, bhe entered the
1 rederlck Convent In 18A and was the directress
16 j ears and Mother Superior three years, bhe was
one of the best-know n educators In the counlr .
She died of consumption.
Jacob C lVard, Artist.
Jacob C. Ward died at Bloomfield, N. J.,
Monda, at the age of 81 years. He removed flora
Jersey City, where he was bom, to Bloomfield
about SO years ago. lie was an artKt.anil.it the
age of 25 wxs a uircetorlu the old Academy of Art,
inew ork. In 15W he painted the Ihsulews of
the upper Mississippi rh er, on board the first (,o
eiumt ut boat that made the trip from bt. Louis to
St. 1'iul. In 184 he went on a sketching tour tu
bouth America. He also did a good deal of w ork
lor magazines.
Obituary Notes.
"JoirvEsrr, one or the original projectors of the
South Pennsylvania Rvliroad, died In Ilarrisburg
yesterdaj, aged 81 years,
MISS RUTH HA1.I.O vr, for 15 years matron of the
State Prison at Tn nton, died Monday very sud
denly. She was 4J years old
RiCHArD Colgate, who wis named as Judge by
the Mount Union Republicans Saturday night, died
early Mondav morning. He was 72 years old.
"Bill GekmA'VM," the well-known scoutand
guide, who led a p trty , Including Rufus Hatch and
Lord Uedley, through the Yellowstone region in
1983, died athls huuic In Newark Tuesday morning.
HkmiV McDanol ds, who ten years ago was the
prominent figure In cw Jersej politics, died at
Passaic Tuesday . He w as an ex-Surrogate of his
city, and was appointed Internal Revenue Collector
bj President t? rant.
A. W. Hamky. Commaudcr of the Merlden
(Conn.) PobVNo Si, G. A R , who was compelled
by IUihss to remain behind after the recent visit of
that post to Or nut H iplds. dk d at his rooms at the
Morton Iloure there last night.
jAMrs A. Hovky, a patent solicitor of consloV
eriblc prominence, died at Tucson, Arlr., Sunday,
August?. In the national campaign of 1872 he was
a Presidental Elector on the Liberal lti publican
ticket, and was sub-eip itly appointed an assistant
examiner lu the Patent office.
C'lIutLtsJ. bTfcl'Hi'J.silledln theelt; of Jlexlto
Sunday. He and his brother laid out Pelham
Minor. He hail traveled extensively through
South Anicrlc i, Cuba and Central America, and at
the time or his death was collecting material for an
Illustrated work on Central America.
Miltox Bainfokd, a comedian well known
throughout the country, died In Philadelphia bun
day, aged bl. He was a native of England, and
came to this country to loin tlic compair) of his
uncle, the famous W. E. llurton. He lias since
played In most or the leading stock companion
HUGH P. McElkone, or the J-reeman's Journal,
died j esterday at his home In Jvew York, a'tter a
lingering Illness He w as 33 years old. He was at
one time editor of the Vattwlle Mirror, of Balti
more and latterlr was connected with the Irish.
VurUl, writing principally on Catholic suujtcts.
IltMiY 11. Graves, a prominent Democratic
politician of Connecticut, died at Litchfield Mon
day night. He was clerk of the State senate In
18o6. He was formerly a Whig, but bolted and as
sisted In the election of Buciianan to the Presi
dency lie was a pronounced Union man during
the war.
Rhoda Smith, famUlarly known as "Aunt
Rhoda, " Is dead at snow 11111, Md, Aunt Itlioda
was born on March 3D, -1790, aund up to within a
few weeks of her death assisted her granddaughter
in all thehou-ehold duties pertaining to a large
faml!) . Her eyesight was well prcscrv ed, and sue
could see to thread her needle.
CH uilfs Dav is, husband of the latcMrs. Mary
Wllklus, the actress, died a few days ago In Aus
tin, III., aged 73. Ho came to this eountrj with
his wire from England In 1371, In the A adham
Compauy, of which Mr. Davis wns business man
ager; Mrs'. W llklns subsequently Joined the Union
Siuare Company, In which she made her memor
able bit as Jluther Frochara lu "The Two Orphans,"
CUR MAIL POUCH.
St. Winifred's WelL
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What and where is St. Winifred's wollt
Thomas Hog eel v.
PiTTBBuno, August 12.
One of tho most copious springs in Great
Britain 1b the famed St. Winifred's well,
near tho town of Holywell, in Flintshire.
Tho well is an oblong equate, about 12 feot
by 7, and its water, say the people of the
district, has never been known to freeze.
This latter assertion may bo true, as besides
containing a fair percentage of mineral
matters that lower its freezing point, the
well is lnsldo a beautiful chapel, which was
ereoted over it by Queen Margaret, the
mother of Henry VII. Tho water thrown
up is not less than 84 hogsheads every
minute, and tho quantity appears to vary
very little either in drought or after tho
harvest rain, showing doubtless that its
primitive sources are numerous and widely
distributed. St. Winifred's bas been the
object of many pilgrimages.
Pnllman Can Tie a Knight.
To the Editor of The Dispatch!
Please inform mo through your paper if it
is a. violation of tho Constitution of the
United States for George Pullman, of Pull
man, 111., to hold the title of Knight, con
ferred on him by the King of Italy, and still
bo considered a loyal citizen of the United
States? Ksiohthood.
Pittsburg, August 12.
So long as Mr. Pullman is a private citi
zen there is nothing to prevent his holding
the title of knighthood, but the Constitution,
section viil. of article 1. provides that "no
person holding an office of profit or trust
under them (tho United States) shall, with
out tho consent of Congress, accept of any
proont, emolntion, office or titlo of any
kind whatsoever from any king, prlnco or
foreign State"
His Character Can Bo Shown.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
If a man has committed an offense against
the Commonwealth, has been convicted and
has served the punishment therefor, can or
has anybody tho right of bringing his
former offense up against him nt anytime
thereafter? Locis Urbix.
PITT3BDRO, -August Ik
The fact that a man has been convicted
of an offense is often urged against him in
courts, either to show his previous charac
ter or as an element of a case in which he is
a defendant. In somo states, if prior con
viction can be shown, the defendant is liable
to double the punishment allowed under the
law for the first offense. There is nothingin
"the law preventing tho mention of the con
viction of a person.
The First World's Fair.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In what year was the first World's Fair
held, and when will be the next be opened.
Homestead, August 12, F. H.
Tho first "World's Fair" was held in New
York in 1853 by a company formed in ISM.
The next World's Fair will bo held in
Chicago in 1893. It was to have been held in
1S92 to commerato tho four hundredth an
niversary of the disoovoryof America, but
after a piolonged debate in Congress it w as
decided that 1893 would be the better year
for those intending to prepare exhibits.
The Pronunciation of Pompeii.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please publish the correct pronunciation
of the word "Pompeii." L. G.
Pittsbtjro, August 12.
The word was pronounced by the Greeks
as if it were spelled "Pom-pay-yi," the "i" in
the last syllable having the short sound as
in "it," and the second syllable was ac
cented. The Assignment of a Judgment.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Can a judgment note held by a person be
sold to another person, tho note being in
dorfced. II. Wilsoji.
PlTTSBBRO, AugU3t 12.
A Judgment note can be sold like other
property, but the Sale must be real, for ac
tual value.
NEXT -WEEK AT THE THEATEBS.
Limited Mall at the DHou and the Dnquesne
Will Be Closed.
The salo of seats for Elmer E. Yance'
realistic railroad play, "The Limited Mail,"
will begin at the Bijou boT ofilce this morn
ing, and pattons of this popular house are
promised something quite out of the or
dinary, a full train of vestlbuled Pullman
cars 200 feet long and 11 feet high dashing
across tho stage, in six seconds. A complete
sawmill in operation, a thrilling wreck
sceno and a wonderful telegraph andelcc
tiical display nie amon the novelties
promised.
Next week tho Duquesno will be closed.
The summer opera season ends on Saturday
night, as the company will leave for Omaha.
Munager Jonks is making arrangements to
have the stars of the Gurrow Opera Compauy
sing tho gems from the operas In their repei
toire while on the select boat excursion
Tuesday evening. On AugustM the Cleve
land minstrels will open a supplementary
season at the Duqucsne.
The attraction for next week at the
Academy of Music will be George 11. Tur
nci's English Specialty and llurlesquo Com
pauy. The house has been doing a ery fair
business this week m spite of tho hot
weather.
Pompeii's fall again to-night nt .Recreation
Park. Portraits of May or Gourley and Gov
ernor Pattison will be show n to night.
THE njTTJEE OF THE STEIP.
Prospect That the Cherokees Will Soon
Sell the Coveted Eand.
Arkansas City, Kax., Aug. 12. C. A. Fargo,
one of the new Senators of the Cherokee
nation and a man of much influence, say s
ho will introduce a bill as soon us the Choio
kee Council convenes in November, to sell
the Cherokee strip and immediately div ide
the proceeds among the people ol tho na
tion. It is said a large number of the othermem
bcrs of the Council have already piomised
to support this measure.
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Blaine is gaining in health faster, if
that bo possible, thin Cleveland is losing in
political prestige. Peoria Transcript.
TUB safest promise that a Kepublican
politician can make at the present time is
that his State will vole for Blaine at the next
National Convention. St. Louis Olobe-Demo-crat.
The Democrats of Kentucky rolled up a
majority of pietty good dimensions, hut
Major McKinley 'a majority in Ohio will be
se eral sizes larger. Rochester Democrat and
Herald.
CHURCH HOWE, a Hepublican leader in
Nebraska for 21 odd years, says Nebra-Va is
a Blaine State lint, hist and always, and that
if Harrison is icnomiiiated ho will bo buried
out of slht in Nebraska.
The McKinley tariff law has now been in
operation for ten months, nnd thcro can bo
no doubt that if tho people wero to vote
upon it to-moriow they would indorse it by
a largo majority. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
I. M. Wl-sTON", ex-Chairman of the
Michigan Democratic Stato Central Com
mittee says the "Democrats and Farmers'
Alliance people in Michigan seem to under
stand each other very well. All the Demo
crats aro for Cleveland and the Republicans
for Blaine. That is about tho way tho talk
runs."
TllK llepublicans can afford to view the
situation vv ith serene content. With a popu
lar candidate and a common-sense Repub
lican platform, wo can rarry the Stato
against any candidate the Democrats can
name, and us a pure matter of sentiment
we'd rather lick Hill, just to make up for the
defeats ho has given us in tho past, than any
othet candidate who could be named.
Brooklyn Times
The Spokane, Wash., Spokesman, in a
recent editorial says the McKinley bill "has
incrcascu the tariff on nearly every thins
tho farmers prodi.ee, thus protecting them
fiom foreign competition, especially Cana
dian, and it has low erod the duty on numer
ous things they use. This is what the Mc
Kinley bill has uono for the farmor in gen
eral tonus. Tho result has been thdt im
ports in agricultural pioducts hnve fallen
off enormously sluce the passage of the
bill."
SOCIAL AHD MUSICAL.
Thousands of People at the Park Concert
A Big- Allegheny Weddlnff.
The fifth free concert arranged by tho
TYers took place in tho Allegheny Parks last
evening. Messrs. Kanfmann boro the ex
pense last night, and somo 10,000 people en
joyed tho music. Tho Grand Army Band
played, and tho Kappeler septet furnished
some excellent vocal music. Tho entertain
ment was a creditable ono throughout.
Tho weather was threatening all tho even
ing, but it could not prevent tho concert.
The Y. W. C.T. V. ofwTlklnsburg take flow
ers and fruit every week to West Penn Hos
pital. Tho basket that they took last even
ing was very beautiful, and tbo contents
gavo comfort to many a poor sufferer toss
ing on an uneny tied. Tho young women
work very hard to do their nart in this di
rection, and the greatest credit Is duo them
for what they accomplish.
The Ludwig-Reeg wedding will take place
in Allegheny to-night. The rooms in which
theywillbo married will ba magnificently
decorated with cat flowers and evergreens,
and it is expected that tho display will bo
something notable even for this part of tho
country, where tho florists generally do
their best to make their art memorable.
THE UNION PACIFIC'S DEBT.
A Scheme Adopted for the Eventual Pay
ment of Floating Obligations.
New York, Aug. 12 Tho obstacles in tho
way of carrying out the plan to form a syn
dicate to carry the floating debt of tho
Union Pacific Company are said to have
caused a chango in tho scheme laid out by
tho directors. It was reported to-day that
tho proposed syndicato arrangement had
been abandoned nnd a new plan drawn up,
something similar to the scheme adopted by
the Atchison Company two years ago, by
n hich tho large creditors of the company
agree to extend their maturing obligations
for periods of from two to three years, the
eventual puvmont being guaranteed by a
new syndic ite, which will Include several
directors of the company.
Indefinite reports concerning the new ar
rangement were in circulation before the
opening of the Stock Exchange, and caused
an immense number of buying orders to bo
plated on the stock. The trading in the
stock was v ry heavy, the siies in the first
hour amounting to over 31,000 shares.
LIGHTEB CRTJISEKS HEEDED.
The White Squadron to Ascend tho Missis
sippi Next Winter.
Bab Harbor, 3Ie., Aug. 12. Secretary
Tracy, in conversation yesterday, said ho
was planning to have the White Squadron
visit the Gulf States this fall and winter,
and, if possible, send them up the Missis
sippi as rar as Vick-burg. The vessels will
rpnmln 1mm n vnAlrlnnirrtr
"I shall," said the Secretary, "recommend"
to congress mis winter anu urge upon tne
members an appropriation for the construc
tion of some lighter draft vessels for patrol
and police duty, to be used In such cases as
the Bering Sea case and similar situations.
We very much need such vessels at the pres
ent time at tho China station, and several of
tho vessels in the Bering Sea have been
ordered to proceed, as soon as they can be
spared, to China to protect American inter
ests there."
Select Knights of America.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.J
Erie, Aug. 12. The Grand Session of the
Select Knights of America to-day mado an
entire revision of the ritualistic work of the
order. The parade to-day was a grand suc
cess, 100 men Dclng in line. Tho entire grand
body will to-night attend a grand lawn fete
under the auspices of Sheridan Commandery
Knights of the Golden Eagle. Tho meeting
adjourned to meet at Conneaut Lake,
August, 1892.
PEOPLE WHO COME AHD GO.
Ex-Adjutant General Jlugh A. Axline,
of Columbus, O , was in the city yesterday
on private business, but took occasion to re
mark that the campaign there would prove
the hottest the Buckeye State ever had.
Evciy doubtful inch of ground will be
fought o er, but he. of course, says Major
McKinley has the advantage.
Hev. Dr. W. F. Brown and wife, of
Canonsburg, ai rived home yesterday after
several mouths in Europe. They visited aU
the leading countries and expressed them
selves as greatly pleased with their visit.
In England they were tho guests of Mrs.
Henry Phipps, and met many people of
note.
C. T. Simpson, of London, England, is at
the Dnquesnc, but resisted all attempts at
interviewing. He say Bhe knows tho Mc
Kinley bill has operated against British
manufacturers, but as ho is not interested
he has paid little attention to it.
Misses Elizabeth Dnnwoody, of Western
avenue, and Grace Dirllng, of Ridge avenue,
Allegheny, w ill leave this morning for a va
cation of a month, during which they will
v isit the principal Eastern cities and water
ing places.
Sirs. 31. Avers, of AVilkinshurg, organist
of St. James' P. E. Church, Penn avenue, left
y esterday on the steamer Adam Jacobs, ac
companied by several lady friends, to spend
a few weeks on tho Cheat river.
Division Superintendend Holbrook, of
the Baltimore nnd Ohio, returned j esterday
from Mackinac, where he spent a few days
with his wife, who is summering at that
pleasant resort.
John Is'. Lane,a retired banker of Belle
fonte, Pa., accompanied by his family, was
at the achlosser last evening. They were en
route to Yalley Camp, where thoy will spend
a lew w eek.
John Jenkins, of Greeny ille, Pla,, who
is at the Anderson, says Pittsburg weather
beats Florida for heat. He spent yesterday
looking lor fine bieees to cool himself off.
W. T. Lindsey, clerk of the United
States District Court, returned yesterday
from Washington, Pa , where he attended
tho luncral of, Mrs. General John Hall.
Mrs. A. H. Weaver, of Bradford, is visit
ing herliusband, who is employ cd as a gen
eral salesman for Bovard k Seyfang. she
is accompanied by her sons.
C. A. Wil'on, Chief Engineer of the
Wheeling nod Lako Erie, with headquarters
at Toledo, and his assistant, J. 31. Lcsslck,
nre -it the Anderson.
W. IJ. Kimball, the Cincinnati represen
tative of the Thomson-Houston Company,
is in tho city stopping at the Hotel An
derson. Clerk Sarber, of the Hotel Duquesne,
left yesterday for a ten days' vacation,
which he will spend at New Bedford.
Captain Joseph Chester, U". S. A., who
has been in attendance at the State camp, is
at the Monongahela House.
Win. H. Guy and J. A. Ferguson, of
Coraopolis, j esterday packed their gripsacks
for a tiip to Atlantic City.
Bishop Brown, the w ell-known A. Ml
K. clergyman, left j esterday for his home in
Washington, D. C.
Ev-Mavor Peterson, of Allegheny, left
yesterday to pilot a party- of friends on a
trip to tho hikes. .
W. E. Porter, a leading Springfield,
Muss , business man, is stopping at tho Hotel
Andotson.
George B. Hoyt, a prominent attorney of
W asliuigtoii, D. C, is slopping at the Du
quesno. F. Van Vechten and wife, of Chicago,
mention,; the guests of the seventh Ave
nue. S. H. Church, of the 1, C, C, & St. L..
returned 1 ist cv ening from a westerntrip.
.John I. Cochrane, druggist, of Apollo,
was in the city on business yesterday.
Thomas S. Blair, tho well-known Tyrone
lawjer, is a guest at the Duquesne.
G. AV. Sill, an oil producer of Warren, is
stopping at the achlosser.
Dr. Powell and family, of Clev eland, are
at the Morning uhela.
Col. J. M. Guiley went cast last e cuing
on business.
Joseph I. Weeks wenl;to JS'ew York last
evening.
ANOTHER REGIMENTAL BEUNI0N.
The 12Gtli Pennsylvania Volunteers Enjoy
y imr Themselves nt Mr. Alto.
SPECIAL Tt.LI.01UH TO TIIE DlfcrATCII.I
CitASiBERSBLitu, Aug. 12. Tho, annual re
union of the One Hundred and Twenty -sixth
Regiment, Pennsylvania A olunteers, was
held at Mt. Alto Park to-day, and attracted
a crowd of sev eral hundred visitors. There
w as a large gathering of v eterans, 700 in ull,
many of them coming from distant ptrts of
tuu St ite. Eurnt companies or tne regiment
were lecruitcd in Franklin county and tho
remaining tw o in Junltta.
This afternoon stirring addresses were de
livered by Judge Harry White, of Indiana,
and Genera! It. M. Henderson, of Carlisle.
To-nightacampllrcis bc-liur hold, at which
speeches w eru made by Judge John Stcwai t,
ex-Judge D. W. Rowe, T. 31. Muhon, Hey. Dr.
J. A. Crawford and others.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Earls? are dying off at the rate of 20 per
annum.
There are 19 varieties of wild fruits
growing in Montana,
Alaska contains six volcanos which are)
in constant eruption.
Beefsteak and black coffee are said to
have reduced a lady of 132 pounds to 110.
Chinese truck farmers at Oregon City
hlro men for their work at 30 cents a day.
Among the exiles in Siberia are 45 com-
Sosltors who wero sent there for working on
ihlllst papers.
iM. Grebault, a French Egyptologist, is
busy opening lbO sarcophagi recently dis
covered at Thebes.
A new mineral has been discovered in
Texas which is said to be seven times
stronger than any other when mado into
wire.
Arctums is B50.000 times as Iare as the
sun and 11,500,000 times as far away from the
sun as the earth. Its diameter Is 70,000,000
miles.
The pilgrimages to Canterbury, which.
Chancer has immortalized in verse and
which have been discontinued for so many
centuries, are being rovived.
It is estimated that each year in New
York City 3,000 women find themselves
stranded, not only homeless, penniless and
without work, but unable to work.
A Parisian electrician has succeeded ia
forcing violets by the aid of his battery, and,
recently sent a bunch of these fledglings,
only four hours old, to the Empress Eugene.
There is a boy in St, Clair county, I1L,
whose hair curls just three days before a
storm. He is" called the "Boy Barometer"
and is in constant demand by the surround
ing population.
Herring and smelt have been so thick
in the Del Norte, Cal., bay this week that a
boy walked across at tbo mouth of the Elk
river on top of the Ash, barely wetting tha
tops of his shoes.
A curious fact in the early history
of pins is that when they were first sold in,
"open shop" thore was such a great demand
for them that a code was passed permitting;
their sale only on two days in tho year tha
1st and 2d of January.
A statistician has computed that a man
might add $500 a year to his income by fay
ing the clippings of his hair every timo it is
cut and having it manufactured into soft
pillows, mattresses, etc. No hair is so soft
as that of human beings.
Railway statistics show that the Amer
ican takes 27 railway trips a year, tho En
glishman 19, the Belgian 11, the Frenchman,
tho German, Swede, Norwegian and tha
Spaniards each, while the Turk, the Swiss
and Italian take but 1 each.
A recent outbreak of smallpox in Aar-
hus, Denmark, went unheeded by tho local
physicians, who failed to recognize the true
character of the disease until three persona
lay desperately ill, ono in a restaurant
where a lot of soldiers from the garrison ata
thoir meals.
In Australia there is manufactured a
hat which irf said to resemble tho panama
hat very closely. It is made from the unex
panded leaves of a native plant, which ara
immersed in boiling water, and then dried.
The rlher obtained by this treatment Is
plaited as in South America.
Banning explorers have found a mighty
mass of moving ice in a deep canyon on
Gray baclc Mountain, Cal. The formation is
about 23 feet thick and CO feet wide. Im
mense rocks have been pushed from their
beds by the moving of the great ice mass
and Ho on top of it. San does not reach tho
ice more than one hour a day.
An Amager (Denmark) fanner, going
to town with his load of cabbages, ran into a
troop of mounted artillery marching out to
drill, and scattered panic in the ranks. Tha
war horses ran away, leaving tho guns in tho
road, and one of the artillerymen, who fell
off, was dragged along by the stirrups. The
farmer, who was as badly scared as the rest,
was made prisoner ana fined.
One of the earliest and most annoying of
insects is that midnight marauder, the bed
bug. An English naturalist has discovered
proof3 that this domestic pest was quite
common in the armies of tho world at least
120 years before the Christian era, and that
he was ever a sea rover, as tho fleets of that
day had their timbers stocked with this
breed of nocturnal prowlers.
It is estimated that the British mines
will be exhausted in less than 600 to 800 years.
It isfurther,calculated that, drawing upon
only one of her fields, the Westphalia, Ger
many will not exhaust that before the end
of the twenty-seventh century, but that by
the beginning of the year 3000 the big coal
fields of Bavaria and Aachen and the Siles
ian districts will be entirely used up.
One of the mot amusing of Democratic
blunders was thatA made by the Tcnncssco
Legislature. It passed an election law re
quiring registration and secret ballot, and
making it applicable to counties of 20,000
voting population, instead of thoso hiving
n total population of that number. There
is no county in the state which has 5O;00O
voters, and hence the law is a dead letter.
Leavenworth is excited over the ap
proach of tho first Chinese wedding in Kan
sas. The bride Miss Young Lee bas been
a teacher in the Chinese schools at San
Francisco. She arrived in Leavenworth the
other day wearing a yellow China silk dres
mado in the latest mode, and is sild to bo
pretty and intelligent. She is going to
marry Joe Lee, a Ianndrymnn employed at
the post, and she is already.! favorite with
tne omcers.
There is a vast bed of pure rock salt in
the Colorado Desert, and the Southern
Tacifle Railway, in laying thoir tracks to tho
(alt mines, crossed a point where for 3,1)00
feet they were obliged to mike a fill and
ballast tho track with betutlful lumps of
pure salt cry stals. Millions of grasshoppers
and legions of giant centlpeds fell into this
salt when it was in a liquid state, and now,
after hiving reposed there for thousands of
years, are found perfectly preserved.
A curious and interesting calculation
has been made by Prof. Rogers, of Washing
ton, D. C, on the dynamic power of coal.
According to the professor, a single pound
of good steam coal has within it dynamic
power equivalent to tho work of oiio man
for ono day. Three tons of the same coal
represont a man's labor for a period of 20
j ears, and one square mile ofa seam of coal,
hiving a depth of four feet only, represents
as much work as 1,000,000 men can perform
in 20 years.
In digging out the colossal statue of
Barneses II. 9 feet and i inches of consoli
dated Nile mud had to be removed before
the platform was reached. This platfo rm
was laid 1,381 years before Christ, in tha
reign of Kameses. Hence, 3Jf inches of this
consolidated mud represents a century,
there having lapsed S,115 years since then.
Under the plattorm a depth of JO feet of
Nile mud had to bo penetrated before sandy
soil was reached, and, according to this, 10,
O'O more yenrs must have elapsed. Pieces of
potterv wero found there that show tho
Egvptmnsto have possessed euough civili
zation to form and bake vessels of clay 13 000
years ago.
KHVJIES AND KHIXKEES.
The trouble with a. hot spell is that the
public takes all the Initiation and the thermometer
all the degrees. Washington Afur.
"Where are you going, my pretty maid?"
"I'm f-olng to draw, kind sir," she said.
"Dut you haTe no pencil or parti" cried lie.
"Yet I'll draw attention, tee-hee! smiled she.
Chicago (Jlobs.
Exasperated Fruit Dealer These peaches
hare an unhealthy look, have tliey? What's tho
matter with 'em, sir?
Customer The baskets you dress tliem In are too
tightly laced, sir. Good-day. Chicaau Tribune.
They were making lemonade, and ths
prettiest girl of the party asked:
"Where is Jacz L ' I want him to help us."
"Why do you want him?" aiked her friend.
Because," was the artless answer, "lie such
a good squeezer!" Detroit Free Prtss.
He gaily set forth with an outfit of nerve.
And a trust In his cheek broid and brawny;
A a warning to ll. way Ida epitaph serve:
Rcquiescatln Mulllgatawney."
ashinoton Star.
Madge This summer resort reminds ma
of what the professor said of the primary geological
formations.
Evelyn-How's that, dear?
Madge It contains no trace of man. Life.
A burglar alarm is a thing that pays;
But then, you know, it will work both nays.
Of couree It may give a warning toytfU.
But then It alarms the burglar too.
Judge.
AVifc John, I think I sejt a man going
through the pockets of your trousers!
Husband Go to s'cep; It's only the landlord,
saving me the trouble of paying at the office,
BTwtijn Sagls-
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