""" TS jrfiisnfCT-r' V ' -' THE PlTTSBURGr- DISPATCH, TUESDAY. ' PEBRTTART 16. - 1892. je Bigpaftfj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY, ; 1S1G Vol. 47. No. 8. Enteral .it rittsburg TostoElcB November, 1887, as srcond-rjass matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. F.ASTETSN" ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 78, TRIBUNK BUILDING. N KW YORK, where com plete fllesot THE DISPATCH can -d ays he found, roretfll advertisers appreciate the cnnveillriire. while in New York, arc nlo made welcome. THE DISPATCH isrcivlarly on ta'eat Brentnno's. f Union Square, Xrw Jbr. and J7 Af de VOpera. Pari. France, fftir anione irfto his been disap pointed at a hotel newt stand ran obtain it. TERMS Ol" Till: DISPATCH. POSTAGE FnEE IX THE UNITED STATES. nmi Dispatch. One Year I 8 f IKiLYDisrsrcn. Per Quarter -m Daily DrsP tTCH, One Month TO D U7.Y Disr itch. lncludine; Sunday, 1 year . 10 CO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 3m'ths. 2S0 Daily Dispatch. Including '-nnday. 1 m'th. 01 Scxpay Dispatch, one Y ar SM Weekly Dispatch. One Year 1 "" TnE Daily Dispatch 1 dclii erea !v carriers at 15 cent per week, or, Including sundaj Edition, at 10 cents per week. riTTSr.DKG. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 18 TWELVE PAGES TIIK TAXPAYr.KS TO DECinK. The agitation of the assessment and tax question should produce a larger and more discriminatinc vote for CouncUmen to-day than Js usually cast at city elec tions. White the assessments are yet to be revised for most of the wards, and can then be carried to court if they are still deemed inequitable or exaggerated, there Is no way, saving by the vote for Council men, to keep in check the tendency to ex travagant expenditures which exhibits Itself in the demands of the departments at City Hall. As to the point which has been made that the Councilmen to bo elected to-day do not vote upon this year's appropria tions, it should deter no one from voting solely for candidates pledged to keep down the expenses. A number of the sitting Councilmen who will vote on the appropriations for 1892 are candidates. The count of the ballots according to the position they have taken for or against an increase of expenses, will instruct them of the opinions Cf their constituents. Besides every Councilman elected to-day will vote on next year's appropriations and action is to be taken now if it is to prove effective in the future. In a number of the wards candidates are already formally pledged to reduce the millage as the aggregate of the assess ments may be increased. In some dis tricts this platform has been so popular that the regular party organizations have taken it up as well as the Citizens' candi dates. But it is the Citizens' candidates who for the most part are inspired by the movement to keep check on expenses, and in general it is the interest of the citizens to vote for Citizens' candidates. The ad ministration at City Hall has already a too large and unquestioning majority. Coun cilmen are wanted who will inquire into the details of appropriations, and form and express an Independent judgment free from official influence. For that reason especially, such members as Messrs. O'Donnell and Ferguson and other independents should be re-elected. If they are to be defeated by the votes of the constituents whose interests they have endeavored to serve, it is poor encourage ment for an independent course by others in Council. Jn several of the wards there is hardly a choice. But there are Citizens' and Dem ocratic candidates running in enough of them to give voters a chance to emphasize their opinions in a way not to be misunder stood. They have known ever since the Chiefs' estimates were presented that de mands for increased taxes are an issue at to-day's election. The "regulars" have the advantage of party organization and support of city employes, and will doubtless as usual carry the majority of Councils; but the Citizens and Democratic tickets could be put through in enough instances to warrant at least a vigorous and in creased minority to serve as a useful check n the power which the executive heads of the city gov ernment have accumulated and which needs a healthy and capable restraint The voters to-day have the matter in their own hands. A COMPARISON IN PROMPTITUDE. As an instance in refutation of some of the talk about the law's delays, the Kew Tork Sun cites the progress of justice in a murder case in that city. A murderer who committed the crime July 24, was convicted in December, and the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment February a. This record the Sun asserts to be a satisfactory example of "reasonable promptitude." Yet it is not so very long since a large portion of the American press, including, we believe, the brilliant cotemporary quoted, accused the Chilean courts of ex cessive and unreasonable delay in reach ing a judgment for offenses committed less thau three months before the com plaints were heard. If it is promptitude for the New Tork courts to reach a con viction five months after a crime in which the' circumstances were clear and only one defendant was on trial, on what theory is the charge of delay to be made good In a case where the circumstances were disputed, where there were several defendants, and in which sentence was passed a little over three months after the crime? Will the esteemed Sun recognize this as a case of making demands on our neigh bors which we would not consider justi fiable if applied to ourselves? Or is the difference to be taken as an involuntary tribute to the effect that the methods of Latin jurisprudence in vogue in Chile are much prompter than those of Anglo Sixon justice in this country? DEMOCRATIC POSSIBILITIES. The point toward which, as Tnn Dis patch said several months ago, the Demo cratic factious in New York were opening the way has been reached. At least that Is indicated by the New York World's double-leaded enumeration of candidates outside New York who. it declares, can be elected "on a tariff reform and honest money platform." The successes of the Hill faction in New York have killed off Cleveland, and the World by its recent support of that faction was consenting unto his death; while Hill by his later ex cesses has scaled his own doom as a Prcsi dental quantity. The World therefore correctly recognizes that a candidate must be sought outside of New York, and names nine gentlemen whom it deems eligible, as follows: Boies, of Iowa; Pattison, of Penn sylvania; Palmer and Fuller, of Illinois; Carlisle, of Kentucky; Gorman, of Mary land; Russell, of Massachusetts; Gray, of Indiana, and Abbett, of New Jersey. The astute William C. Whitney, with a barrel at his back, as a harrhonizer of the New York factions, is left out in the cold. The list will have to be subject to revis ion before it can be regarded as cleariy eligible. It is a prominent fact that the Democracy have never elected a President who did not attract the independent vote. Talk of winning with Gorman or Abbett is therefore excluded, while Gray and Pal mer are even questionable in their attract ive powers for the voter who places char acter above party lines. Chief Justice Fuller has taken himself out of the list. So the eligibles simmer down to "Russell, P.rttison, Carlisle and Boies, with Gray and Palmer as possibilities, though not especially eligible. But the process of exclusion still goes on. An intelligent Democratic policy will seek for strength in the West, and Demo cratic tradition chooses men who give an assurance of ability to carry their own Slate, which must be pivotal. One consid eration operates neainst Russell and Patti son; the other, while in favor of Russell, is against Pattison and Carlisle. So that the fiV-1 outcome of considerations as to eligi bility picks out Boie, of Iowa, with the accuracy of the choice seriously disturbed by the doubt whether he can carry Iowa in a Presidental jcar, or New York either. Still, as the campaign will be fought out on theissue of the tariff, with silverasa side dish, it is not likely to make much differ ence which of these candidates is selected. With Gorman andAbbettscratchcd off the list, any of the names left will be very creditable for the Democracy to accept defeat under. DID QUAY SAY IT? An interview with Senator Quay has been published in Philadelphia in which the Senator is reported as saying that he would not have a Cullom delegation from Pennsylvania, but would have "a Quay delegation." This, to quote the interview, "will not necessarily be for or against any of the Presidental candidates, but I will be at the head of it and will look the ground over when we get there." In commenting upon this expression the Philadelphia Press quotes the sarcasm of the once-famous Senator Nye, that his experience at national conventions always was that he found there "the Pennsylvania delegation waiting to be seen." Our co temporary naturally and justly suppos ing this report to be authentic makes the prediction that the present intention is to adhere to the precedent, with the added embellishment that the dickering is to be done exclusively for the profit and benefit of Matthew Stanley Quay. This is a very prominent feature of the alleged declaration; and yet we should re gard another conclusion as more immedi ate from such a deliverance. It is that, if Senator Quay said anything of the sort, he must have lost his head at finding himself left at odds with the Administration and his expected sheet anchor carried away by the retirement of Blaine. The character either of Senator Quay or Pennsylvania politics does not permit much incredulity as to the intention to take a delegation to Minneapolis ior purposes of political mer chandise. But the advertisement of such an intention before a fifth of the delegates are chosen Is the best way to put him in peril of not having any goods to deliver. The public notification that the vote of Pennsylvania is to be handled for the glorification and advancement of Senator Quay is the sure way to unite the Admin istration Republicans on one side, the Sen ator's rivals in practical politics on another and all Republicans who may have a choice of their own on the third in the determi nation thatTennsylvania's delegation shall not be "a Quay delegation." At the time of his election Senator Quay had a reputation for perfection In Yon Moltke's art of holding his tongue in all the languages indigenous to our politics. There have been indications at times of his falling away from his old standard of gifted taciturnity. But we can hardly be lieve that he has yet reached the stage of fatuous garrulity which would defeat his own purposes by such a declaration as that SIGNIFICANT rOItGETFULNESS. The very outspoken comments over the remarkable omission of the two members of the Cabinet who spoke in Philadelphia at celebrations of the Lincoln anniversary have convinced one of the orators at least that an explanation is necessary. Both Attorney General Miller and Secretary Noble devoted their oratory to sound ing the praises of the Administra tion. Each took occasion to praise the work done by the head of every leading department, with the exception that each omitted any mention of Blaine's work. The storm this raised has brought Secre tary Noble to the front with the explana tion that, as his speech was extempore, the omission was an unintentional over sight This leaves to Attorney General Miller, whose praise of the Administration was so specific that he did not omit to sound the glories of his own department, the task of finding an excuse for the identical oversight in a speech prepared and put In type before its delivery. -That forgetful ness should attack two members of the Cabinet at the same time, whether then speeches are extempore or prepared, to the extent of forgetting the one Republi can whose leadership is unquestioned and whose policy has furnished salient quali ties of the Administration, is a little too strong for the average credulity of the American citizen. Even if there were ground for accepting the plea of forgetfulness, would it not be a remarkable illustration of the mental altitude of these members of the Cabinet that they are able to forget the services of the greatest and most famous of that body, not excluding its official head ? ANNIVERSARIES OF 1892. It is worthy of note, as the New York Tribune points out that this is to be a great year for the celebration of impor tant anniversaries. Besides that which suggests itself to every American, Spain celebrates the four hundredth anniversary of the reconquest of Grenada from the Moors. France celebrates the centennial of the proclamation of her first republic. Hungary her great victory over the Turks in 1592, Germany the foundation of the famous universities of Erfurt and Pader born in 1392 and 1592 respectively, Italy tho foundation of the University of Venice in 1592, England the great naval victory of Cape La Hogue in 1692, the passage of Wilb"rforce's measure in Par liament in 1792 for the gradual abolition of the slave trade, and the foundation of Lincoln Cathedral in 1092. In addition three of the minor royalties of Europe celebrate their golden weddings; the King and Queen of Greece celebrate their silver wedding; Francis Joseph of Austria com memorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of his coronation; and Prince Henry of Reuss announces a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the tiny principality over which he reigns. It thus appears that Europe will have plenty of celebrations" this year. But none of the events thus signalized faintly approximate that great discovery which is to bs commemorated by both the Spanish and tho American nations. Neither, it can also be said, do any of tho European celebrations present the unique feature imposed by our national exigencies with regard to the great anniversary which comes in 1892 of celebrating it in 1893. HARDLY CONCLUSIVE. One example of the logic used by Phila delphia newspapers in favor of the anthra cite coal consolidation against Mr. Cas satt's attack on its legality, is presented by the Philadelphia Times. That es teemed cotemponiry in the same article in which it asserts that the South Penn trans action "was not only a most strained eva sion of the fundamental law, but it was so clearly against public policy that there seemed to be but one reasonable judicial decision possible," presents the follow ing as a demonstration of the correctness of the Reading acquisitions: It is reasonable to assume that tho moat experienced and conservative Dankers of this country, who gave the needed financial aid to accomplish unitr In the coal produc ing and transporting interests of the State, took nothing for granted as to tho legality of their proceedings. This is exceedingly refreshing. The conservatism and experience of the bank ers acting in favor of unity in the anthra cite business being a guarantee of its' legality, what application are we to make of the fact that exactly the same bankers acted in the same capacity in the .South Penn deal? Is the guarantee of legality by their presence in the transaction to be held as vindicating that deal? It seems as if that must be the logic of the situation) even although the Times confirms the judi cial declarations to the contrary, since the same bankers conducted the negotiations subsequent to the decision which com pleted the evasion of Constitution and courts alike, and carried plutocratic au thority to the previously nnheard-of de gree of proclaiming that the construction of any more through railroads in Penn sylvania or New York without the per mission ot the Vanderbilts or the Penn sylvania interests should be prohibited by the banking interests. It is a fact of corporate history that ex actly these "experienced and conservative bankers" have been the most prominent apostles of the doctrine that in the pur suit of corporate purposes it is not worth while to pay the slightest attention either to the interests of the people, the enact ments of law or the decisions of the courts. Pomckmes throughout the country will do well to lay to heart the words of a Phila delphia Judge that "No policeman has a right to arrest a man who uses offensive lan guage to him. It is not a crime, and it is not punishable by law." While members of "the force" should remember this, private citizens should never forget that the use of offensive language to a policeman, or any fellow-being, is-a breach of good manners that is unbecoming to a gentleman. In an interesting editorial on "The Movements of the Stars" the Philadelphia Record dilates on the use and discoveries of the spectroscope, and expresses a wish that this instrument should be applied to a study of the sun, with a view to determin ing the nature of the phenomena Known as "spots." This is unworthy of our learned cotemporary, for it should know that the spectroscope has been used for this purpose during the last 21 years at least. The amounts of compensation claimed by the Baltimore men are outrageously ex tortionate, and should not receive the back ing ot the administration. There is no reason why the personal indemnification paid to the wounded men should exceed the amounts which wonld have to be paid by a railroad companv or other corporation for injuries sustained by their fault. Whatever may be woman's opinion of an association of women in California who have adopted a costume, including skirts which end three inches below tho knee, men will unite in thinking that this is an improvement on the trains which seek to do the street-clcaninc that should be attended to by broom brigades. Of Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, t is said that he believes in tho policy of his party, but he believes much more in the whole American peoplo of all parties. If this be true he is worthy of emulation and encouragement. This quality is the founda tion for statesmanship, and we want more of it. An increased and vigorous check on tha executive offices of the city government is needed in Councils. Citizens' candidates and independent members should be sup- ported. They have an up-hill fight against the "regulars," but the voters can elect them If they will. The science of electricity and magnetism has made enormous strides, but the vast fields remaining for the student's explora tions are indicated by tho contradictory opinions held by the learned of the causes and nature of auroral manifestations. Spring does not promise to be unusually early this year, but there is remarkable ac tivity In the green goods business. The dis honest take thoir own risks, but for those who combine Ignorance with cunning a word of warning is not out of place. IF such candidates as O'Donnell and Fer guson are defeated to-day through the activ ity of the City Hall administration and city employes, It will be poor encouragement for future independence in Councils. The tax payers arc to decide. ANEW Yoke paper remarks that Oscar Wilde was framed, in the prodigality of Na ture, to twang the lute string. As bearing out this view it is noticeable that he at tracted attention some timo ago by an arti cle on the liar. Mexico is much to be pitied. She is on tho eve of an election, which is almost syn onymous with a revolution, and the Louisi ana lottery is to make the unhappy country the-ccnter of its operations. Poor Mexico! Despite all exposes it will be long be fore the countless Counts of no account are at a discount with America's moneyed mar riageable maidens, who, while not countless, are unfashionable without a Count. The results of an evil example are shown by the capture of a circus endeavoring to smuggle itself across the Mexican boundary, as it was no doubt encouraged by Garza's success in avoiding capture. Spain needs education and enlighten ment above all things, and the Bishop of Cordova shows his knowledge of tho age by seeking to combat anarchism with educa tion societies for yt orkmen. Tins is the era ot advertisement; but the wholesale transportation of Congress to Chicago, at the expense of its citizens. Is tho most gigantic booming scheme on record. Chicago has learnt that wealth cannot replace culture, and she is wise ill netting all tho learned professors that her money can seduce from the East Totes should be cast as the result of con viction, and any voter influenced by other considerations sells bis birthright for a moss of pottage, LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS. The Canadian Commission A'cJourns With Nothing Satisfactory Attained Election or Senators by tho People Tho Treas ury Balance Still Further Cut Down. Washington, Feb. 15. Sir John Thompson, Hon. George E. Foster andllon. Mackenzie Howell, the Canadian Commis sioners, closed their negotiations with Sec retary Blaine and General John W. roster, rcjiicsen ting the United States, for recipro cal trade between tho two countries, this afternoon; and left hero this evening for tho Dominion capital. The State Department officials refused to make known the result of the conference, but it is believed that the visitom wero unsuccessful in their mission, principally because of their alleged falluie to satisfy the representatives of this Gov ernment that they were to conclude a com mercial treaty entirely independent of the diiection of Great Britain. The propo sition of the Canadians, it is under stood, was that a tieaty bo concluded on the following basis: First, a renewal of the reciprocity treaty of leM, with the modifications required by the alteied cir cumstances of both countries; second, arc consideration of the treaty of 1SS8, with respect to tho Atlantic fish eries, with tho aim of securing the free admission into tho United States markets of Canadian fishery p-oduots, In return for facilities to 'be granted United States fishermen to buy bait and supplies, and to tr.iiis-siilp their cargoes in Canada, all snoh privileges to bo mutual: thiid, the protection of mackerel and other fisheries on the Atlantic Ocenn and in tho inland waters also: fourth, the relaxation of the seaboard coasting laws of tho two countries and fixing tho coastinglawson inland waters dividing Canada from the United States; sixth, mutual snlvasc and saving of wrecked vessels: seventh, arranccments for settling the boundaries between Canada and Alaska. It is piobablo that the minutes of the con fei ence will ho made public by the Canadian commissioners when they reach Canada. Tnn Senate Committee on Territories listened again this morning to arguments by adherents of the bill to provide a local form of government for Utah and allow tho peo ple to elect their own officials. Mr. Kichards, of Ogden, who addressed the committee Saturday, spoke again this morniqg in favor of the bill, prefacing his remarks with an expression of regret for statements he had made last Saturdav, which ho said were made through inadveiteuco and without any intention of casting reflection upon Senators Ramsay and Paddock. (He had criticized their conduct as members of tho Utah Commission in appointing election officers ot the territory.) Mr. Kichards said he esteemed both ol them as honorable men who had conscientiously perforraed their official duties, and ho re gretted that their names had been used, and that an injustice had been done them. Mr. Richards quoted, during his lemarks. from the utterances of the President of the Mormon church to show that polygamy was permanently abandoned in good faith, and mat tne Mormons disclaim any ngnc to aic tate in political matters. ' A delegation' of representativeNewYork business men arrived in Washington this morning, to bringto the nttentionof the Con gress theneeds of the great cities of theUnited Statos, and of Sew York in particular, for better and moro speedy methods of trans leriing the enormous mass of mail matter to and Iro between central nostofflccs and remote sub-stations. The relative value of the pneumatic and electric systems in facilitating citjr mail distribution formed the subject of discussion, and finally tho del egation agreed to prepare a detailed scheme of a plan of transmission, witli estimate of cost, and the committee adjourned. Senator "White, of Louisiana, to-day Introduced a bill for the improvement of tho southwest pass of the Mississippi river by socuring a navigable depth of 21 feet of water through the pass within 10 months after tile passage of the bill. The work is to be done under certain conditions, by a Chi cago contractor. If the conditions pre scribed by tho Government are complied with the contractor is to be paid S8,000,000 for completing tho work, and is to be paid at the rate of $180,000 for each and every year that the depth of 30 feet of water is main tained for 20 years. The silver men have secured upward of 120 Democratic signatures to their petition asking that the Rules Committee bring in a special order for the silver bills. There are 233 Democrats in the House, so that the silverjnen have secured a majority. They say that they have received the assurances of the members of the Rules Committee that they would do what was shown to bo tho. will of a majority of the' Democrats in the House, but it," Is not likely that the com mittee will meet for soma days, as tho Speaker is sick and Mr. Catchings is absent from tho city. It is probable a special order on the tariff willbe brought in at practically the same time as the order relative to silver. The Bering Sea joint commission con tinned its sessions at the State Department, to-day, and mado considerable progress in its work. There were no new developments to-day in regard to the arbitration treaty or the modus Vivendi. On account of the continued indisposition of Chairman Hoar, of the Senate Commltteo on Judiciary, who is still confined to his room with an affection of the eyes, the mat ter of Judge Woods' confirmation was not considered at the meeting of tho committee this morning. It is not expected that Sena tor Hoar will be able to be out for somo days yet, and in tne meantime action on Judge Woods' nomination and the other judicial nominations will bo deferred until lie can be present. The Geary anti-Chin ese,bill to absolutely prohibit the coming of Chinese into the United States was to-day ordered favorably reported to tho House by a majority of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. Geary will make the majority report, and will be op- Sosed by a minority led by Mr. Hooker, of isslsslppL Messrs. Hitr, of Illinois, and Andrews, of Massachusetts, will also sign the minority report. Continued heavy expenditures have re duced the Treasury cash balance to $27,247, 500, of which $11,693 150 is in subsidiary coin and $108,733 is in minor coin. The amount on deposit in National hanks is $12,91S,7G0. . TnE House Committee on the Election of President and Vice President' and Repre sentatives in Congress to-day agreed to re port a bill leaving the election ot Senators to the people and conferring exclusive power in the State Legislatures to fix the time, place and manner of holding such elections. KNOWN BY EVERYBODY. The widow of Senator Hearst carries a life insurance policy of $100,000. Major and Mrs. Tuttle have lived in the same house at Stratham, X. H., for 70 years. Baron Albert Rothschild has do nated $50,000 toward building a hospital for consumptives in Vienna. It is Baid that when Victorjen Sardou laughs he is the ugliest man in Paris. Per haps"he is tho original of the famous Sar donlc grin. Mr! Wil M. Grinnell, of New York, the new Third Assistant Secretary of State, reported tor duty at the Stato Department yesterday morning. When Tennyson is invited to read aloud from his works ho almost invariably picks out the "Ode on tho Death of the Duke of Wellington" first and then "Maud." Talcott Williams is said to be the American who uas most neaily approxi mated Sir Richard Burton's daring explora tions and scholastic researches among tho.l Arabs. Dr. Gatling, the gunmaker of America's Moscow, which is to say Hartfoid, is 72 yearsof age, but, like Ericsson, the older he grows the more interest lio takes in in ventions. - B.A. Donnelly, the new Commander of tho New Jersey Grand Army Department, entered the service as a private, was a pris oner at Ltbby and was discharged from the armv on account of "disabilities caused by wounds. MissMarsden, who has been striving to .better the condition of tho lepers in, Siberia, and is to present their cause to the Czarina, has traveled over 2,000 miles on horseback in prosecuting the work. Ward Can Fill the List. Chicago Tribune. New York's 100, in its entirety, still exists, though cat down in actual numbers to 150. Ward McAllister can swell onough to make up for the missing 250. . AMEKICA'S PBECI0US STONES. J. Plerpont Morgan Gives Ills Collection to a Jfew Tork Mnsenm. New York, Feb. 15. Special. J. Plerpont Morgan has presented to the American Museum of Natural History the Tiffany col lection of American precious stones, which is conceded to bo the finest of the kind in existence. It was among the attractions of the Paris Exposition, whero two gold medals were awarded to it. Among tho stono3 Is tho first sapphire found in tho United States. It was dlscov eicd in Franklin, Macon county, N. C. Other sapphires in the collection camo from tho same State and from Montana. Somo of the few diamonds werefoundin Amador county, Cal., North Carolina and Manchester, Va. The Virginia stone is the largest ever found In the United Slates. Topazes are plentiful, having been found in tho Chevenno Moun tains, Colorado, and In tho Bald Face Moun tain. One of thu sherry-colored topazes weighs three and a half ounces. Stony Point, N. C., rarnishes tue largest emerald. Colorado leads in ocryls, while there are uuny beautiful garnets from Vir ginia, Now Hampshire, Arizona and New Mexico. Heikimor county, N. Y., furnishes tho finest quartz crystals, one specimen woighing ten caiats and contaiuing 5C0 crys tals. Delaware county, Pa., gives to the collection some fine amethyst. Other specimens are jasper, moss titrates, fossil corals and amber. A gioup of fresh water peails li, n feature of the collection. There are 1,000 gems in all, and tho collection cost $20,000. Morns K. Jessup said to-day that the col lection will bo placed in the new building, and this will not bo opened to the public until the city votes the necessary appropri ation (or its completion and maintenance. Tho time, theiefoie.when he collection will bo made public will depend on tho city's generosity. CUPID 100 STB0HG POS MAHHA. A 17-Ycar-OId New Castle Hrlreu Tiles With Hor I.over and ISocomrs His Wife. Nkw Castle, Feb. 15. flpevial.1 Yesterday morning Miss.Florence Wcllendorf, aged 17, daughter of the lato Charles Wcllendorf and heiress to a fortune, left her home in West New Castle, ostensibly to go to chinch. She did not return, and an investigation dis closed that William McDermott, a law student with whom the young lady had kept company, was also missing. Mrs. Woi lendorf forba"do the law student from visit ing the house. Tho maternal order did.not stop the court ship, and the plot to elope as made Satur day evening. Miss Wellendorf dressed for church, kissed her mother goodby, and met her lover, who, with his sister and her hps band, were waiting for her in a close car nage at a covered bndgo nearbv. Tho party drove to Sliaion and-took a train for James town, N. Y., where the mariiage took placo to-day. 3Irs. Wellendorf says this evening that her daughter may como home, but she would never admit the husband to the house. f) ALGER'S BOOMLET. Tnn Alger barrel is said to be on the eve of fermentation. Omaha iror.'d (Dent.) The Alger boom is less than a day's ride duo north fiom Indianapolis, but the Haril son boom goes not forth to meet It. The Alger boom Is not "in it." St. Louis Globe Democrat (Hep.). The Tribune fcolleves that General Alger's record and repntntion aie sate in the hands of a Just and intelligent people, and itknows that they are beyond aspersion in point of fact. Detroit lYibune. Genekal Aloer is beginning to experience somo of the disadvantages of being a "favor ite son." His record, however, is doubtless proof against the impact of tho Dana torpe does." Minneapolis Journal Rep.). General Alqeii need not repine. His mili tary record may not be that of a daring lendor, but there can be no slur cast upon the great, shining and convincing qualities of his purse. Chicago Times (Dem.). It General Alger announces himself a can didate beforo the Minneapolis convention, Michigan will undoubtedly respond and support him until tho impossibility is prac tically demonstrated. Kalamaxto Telegraph tfJ.). The Alger boom does not seem to have "caught on" in Missouri. Tho Tribune had better repeat the warning to the President about using the patronage of his office to secure his renomination. Detroit Free Press .Dim.). The New York Sun evidently believes that Genprol Alger is tho most formidable candi date for the Republican Presidental nomi nation henco its toriiflc onslaught upon him. reported In our news columns to-day. Toledo Blade Rep.). EI-CHLOKIDE PATIEHTS MEET. S. E. Moor, of Pittsburg, PreMdes Over a World's Convention of Cnrrd Tipplers. DwianT, Ills., Feb. 15. Tho first world's convention of delegates from tho Bi-Chloride of Gold Clubs, composed of poisons who have been cured of liquor, opium and to bacco habits at the Keeley Sanitarium in this town, assembled here this afternoon. Delegates from IS States of the Union, Eng land and Scotland were present, and many more are expected. S. E. Mooie, of Pittsburg, occupied tho chair. The examination of credentials was the first business in order. Ex-Senator Fair Slakes His Will. San Fbak Cisco, Feb. 1. Ex-Senator James C. Fair to-day made a will bequeathing $500-, 0C0 to charity. Two hundred thousand goes to the Catholic Orphan Asylum in memory of his late wife; $200,000 to the Protestant Orphan Asylum of tills city, and $100,000 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. AsUgly as He Feols. Chicago New. In tho published portraits of the inflnenza microbe it is easy to detect the main features of a criminal and degraded nature. The microbe is as ugly as he feels. DEATHS HERE AIQ ELSEWHERE. Rev. Charles Elliott, Blbliologist. Eev. Charles Elliott, D. D., LL.D., Pro fessor of Hebrew at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., died snddenly Sundav morning of rheumatism fol lowing an attack of grip. He was widely known as a writer on Biblical subjects and as an In structor, lie was born in bcottand In 1815. and tame to this country, and was graduated at La fayette In 1S40. He taught !n universities at Xenla. O.. and at Pittsburg until 1349, when ho became professor at Miami University, Oxford, O. In 1853 he was elected profrsor of nibllcal litera ture and exegesis in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Chicago, and remained thereuntil 1882. when he went to Lafayette College. Dr. Elliott was a writer of treatises on Biblical subjects, pub lished here and In bcotland. Harold N. McDonald, Freedom. Harold N. McDonald, of Freedom, died yesterday morning of tuberculosis, aged 23 years. Though young, he had been one of the most active business men in this valley, and at the time of his death was Superlutindent or the Atlatic Dynamite Company's Pittsburg branch. He was also for SCmc lime pruiuiuviiii i-uuii;ku whu mc j.auiu A Kand Powder Company. He was for some ) cars connected with J. W. Calder In the mercantile business in Rochester, and later with Karcher In the (louring business. He was a brother of Dr. Frank McDonald, ot Plttshnrg. He leaves a wile, to whom lie was married ten months ago. The Inventor of Terrorite. Dimetri Mindcleff, a Kussian, and the in ventor of terrorite, an explosive more powerful than dynamite. Is dead. As a chemist Mlndelen had more than a national reputation, and several of his Important inventions have been patented, among thein being a new mctho i for the reduction of cobalt and nickel ores and the destruction of phylloxera by means of pj rollgncoas acid. Obituary Notes. Mk. CAnn. founder or the New York Union Steamship Line. Is dead in Hamburg. Da. WiLHELMjuxKEn, the well-known African traveler and naturalist, is dead In St. Petersburg. Sister Maby Kociius died yesterday morning at fct. Joseph's Catholic Hospital, Lancaster, with which she was connected. Colonel E. F. Dkake, of St. Paul, died at Coronado Beech, Cal., whither he haa gone for his health. Ho was a native of Ohio. Fbluekick Ofpebmann, Jr., a millionaire brewer of New York City, a leading Democrat and a well-known sporting man, died Sunday morning of heart failure. JPDQE HEBY OSCAB, Beattt. father of Chief Justice Bcatty, of California, died at San Fran cisco, bunday. aged W years. He hasbeen Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court. How. Milton L. Mobbill, recently Mayor of Nauvoo, and a prominent attorney, died at Nauvoo, 111., Sunday, aged 71. Mr. Morrill was a brother of the late Governor L. L. Morrill, or Maine, and was a member of the Legislature of Illluols for several terms. 0 W. H. Dtrxx, of 503 Larimer avenue. East End, died at his residence at noou on Monday, after a brief illness. He leaves a wife and 'son. The de ceased was a brother-in-law of hev. A. H. Sillier, formerly of this. city, now, In, fct. Louis, also of Sev. J. H. Miller, of Allegheny. J FESTIVITY'S CENTER Moves Across the Blver and Located at the East End A Prominent Society Dress maker Makes Herself Consplcuons by Tier Absence Social Chatter. People who think about society matters and tbey often are worth thinning about will notice the topographical changes in en terments this winter from that of past years. It used to bo Allegheny or nowhere. The East End then went across the river for big house affairs or to the clubs; and when at homo wns content with little dinners and tea parties. This winter it Is tho East End or nowhere in tho matter, of large house functions. Probably the change may be ac counted for in the residences, truly noble In size and appointments, that arc rising np with so much frequence all over the suburbs. With a few exceptions the houses in Pittsburg are. more modern ir the term tc correct in speaking of the difference be tween a house or 1SS0 and one of 1E93; more suitable for tho dimensions needed in the fashionable crnsh of society. As tho house party grows in size, the more Allegheny comes to the club and the larger grow the residences .being built each year in Pitts burg. It is said that Kew York society leaders of the mail persuasion are conserving their energies for tho introduction of niVunnsna! sort of a ball room debutante. They have their pet brands of wines, and then they tack up in a nonchalant, do bnslncs-4 every timo sort of a fashion. All this lor a con- Lsideration that is something more than a oagatenc, since introducing liquor is a more profitable business than introducing girls. It's an ill Madame Hudson that blows nobobygood, to adapt a felicitous saying to the occasion. This refers to certain people who have dresses in their wardrobes made by the little French woman that are still unpaid for; for that there nro such this pen is willing to swear to, having keen, known and even talked with them. Why the Madame should take French leave thoir.'h. to be sure, that is the only kind of leave she could take is a mystery one is piopared rather to enjoy than to lathom. Never be foro in the histors-of drci-smakcrs have they been known to run away from their own bilK Who ever heard of a lnantuamaker committinx suicide because she has sent a big bill to a customer! Wo have licai d, though, of customers who committed iiicideupon leceivingthcirbilN. Think of Rosina okes in "My Milliner's Bill!" Mrs. Menydrtw's dressmaker didn't vanish at sight of the consequences of Mrs. Merrydrew's education in dress. Not by jCJ5 shoilidn't! Instead, she firmly sat down, in tho lull consciousness of her virtue as a maker of dicsses and bills, and wrote out tho account with her own hand, and, possibly, too, dropped the missive into the lost through the vehicle or that same fair land. Madame Hnds-n vas priviliged to mil away from debt she owed, fiom her fiance, Irom her cab, even, but never from the debts that were owing toiler. It is hor one weak point, the bit of gllttortbat Is not gold. Think of the trait of sucn teaching, borne of us may begin to buy dresses witli the expectation that when the bill mounts up to a good sum, our dressmaker will run away from it. Several society women havebeen victims of erroneous assertions in the papers con cerning luncheons and other like affairs which were said to be given by them. In consequence they have been losing friends, rather say- tho good will of acquaintances, who supposed themselves slishted at not being asked to an event which, in fact.ncver took place at all. People seem to bo so skeptical in theory about newspapers and. credulous in fact. Besides they ought to be a little more willing at times to aid in ob taining the veracity of an item which, right or wrong, will get into the papers somehow. At its next reception, that of Thursday evening, the Art Society will turn its atten tion to home matters, that attention taking tho ioim of an exhibition of 75 new pictures, and sketches by Pittsburg artists. Secre tary fccovel makes the following official an nouncement: The exhiuition will be open to the pnblic for view on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, from 10 a. si. to 10 r. jr., except on Friday evening, when a meeting of tho Academy or Science and Art is to bo held. After the evening of the reception the dif ferent pictures will be for ale, at prices which may bo ascertained from tho custo dian. The Art Society cordially invites all who are interested to attend thj public ex hibition. Amonc the exhibitor: are: F J. Bnssman, Annie W. Henderson, George Hetzel, Clar ence M. Johns, A. F. King. E. A. Poole, II. S. Stevenson, Olive Turney, D. B. Wnlklev and Joseph R. Woodwellen t Social Chatter. Miss Stewakt, of Ridge avenne, has issued invitations lor a german on Tuesday, 23d in stant. The Rev. William F. Cowden united the fortunes of Mis Louther and Frederick J. Irwin yesterday in Allegheny. The Epworth League, of the Wilkinsburg Methodist Church, will hold a social this evening in Ralston's Hull. Readings and music will make up tho programme. On Friday next a concert will be given at the residence of Mr. E. J. Lloyd, of Wilkins burg, under the auspices of the Dorcas so ciety, of the Presbyterian chdrch of Edge woodvillo. Invitations will be issued early this week for the entertainment to be given by the Daughters ot the Revolution at Mrs. Robert McKnight's house in Western avenue, from S to C o'clock, on Friday evening. Next week a Mardi Gras dance will bo git en in the Pittsburg Club Theater under the Datronage of Mrs. William N. Frew, Mrs. Ilarmar S Dennv, Mrs. Alexander Langhlin. Jr., Mrs. Wynn R. Sewell, Mrs. F. B. Nimick and Mrs. W. R. Blair. The fashionable event of to-night will be the presentation of "Orange Blosoms" by the Tuesday Night Club In the Pittsburg Club Theater. The affair is of unusual note, as it is the first performance the clnb has oeen aoie to give tnis season. TnE young ladles of the Alhambra Cotill ion Club gave a leap year party at the Mo nonvahela Honso last evening. They brought the gentlemen to the hotel in car riages, furnished them r. fine supper and gave the boys a number of valuablo pointers Shout how to entertain in style. Pbepabations are soing on briskly for the Japanese tea and nazar to be given by tho Moore Band, of Wilkinsburg, in tho Presbv teiian Church of that place on Thursday and Friday evenings, tho 25th and 2Cth insts. The proceeds will be divided be tweon tho church debt fund and that for the education of two proteges of the band. A concebt is to be given in the Wilkins burg Opera House on the 2Cth inst. under the auspices of the Yonng People's society of tho Second U. P. Church, the pastor of which is the Eev. J. R. Burnett, one of the seven young-men suspended last spring by the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The proceeds of tho concert will go toward the building fund for a new cnurcn. There's No Monopoly in It. Washington Star. One great beauty about the Presidental candidacy business Is the utter absence of any tendency to monopoly. THE JSLECKICAL DEATH. The new system is not only moro humane than hanging it is more decent. New York Herald. Repobts indicate that tho convict put to death recently was tortured barbarously. So far, therefore, the open evidence is against the electrical method. iVew York Press. It may be that this method of "legal kill ing" is better than hanging. But, some time, the whole civilized world will follow the example of Michigan and abolish capi tal punishment. Grand Rapids Herald. It is evident that the execution of the death penalty by this means will not have reached the highest stage of perfection conceivable until a second application of the current shall not bo found necessary. Philadelphia Record. Bo far as actual physica suffering to the condemned meg is concerned, this is proba bly more human than any other method ex cept in, the garrote, the guillotine being quite out of the question for American com munities. iVVur York Timet. The execution of Mcllvalne, on the report ing of which no embargo was laid, was per formed expeditiously, and proved once more the superiority of the new method to the old, with its frequent blunders and re volting sights. New York Tribune. The eletroclsion (with apologies to tho Greeks) of Mcllvalne at Sing Sing recently was conducted according to the best meth ods dictated by scientific- investigation un trammeled by precedent. Yet it was a bru tal, revolting murder. The rope has worked 'em off much neater. SLLouis Chronicle. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. s A Philadelphia physician carrief purse mado of tanned human bide. . The Italians invented the term inflne in the seventeenth century, and attribnr tho disease to tho influence of cert planets. Epypt is the only country mentionee the Bible where shaving was practiced: all other countries at that time such an would have beon considered ignominious A Philadelphia policeman has an ab clock built in his club, which enables hlrr nap comfortably and-yetmako prompto nectlons with the patrol box at which he ports. Until the age of bronze arriyed, ht of various sorts furnished material fo largo precentaeo of tho hook made, a hard wood, sharpened, was much ployed. A Cherryfield girl, living two rai from school'uas not been absent or tai for a day durinir an attendance of three a a half years. The distance traveled in t timo strings out 3,M0 miles. .' In portions of South America cho late is used as currency, as also are coc nuts and eggs. Corn Is still used fom si ilar purpose In some parts of Norway, opium Is in parts of China. In Germany all the mice quit a hoi when tho family living in it is threaten with extinction: bat whether the desertt are tho souls of its former inhabitant, merelv ordinary house sprites, see doubtful. -- In Algeria there is a small river whi is really and 'truly writing- ink. T streams one strongly impregnated wi iron, tho other, flowing through tho pt moss, contains a solution organic acid a when they unite they form a river of ink. In only one case out of 15 are both ej in goodcondit'on. In seven cases out every ten peoplo possess ono eve which stronger tlmn the othor. In two case ont five, patients are affocted with ustUmati NcarlvSJper cent possess an imperfect preciation or colors. Considerable excitement prevails amo both the colored and white people in t vicinity or Trenton, Ga. By reliable w ne--.es tho - testifying showed that Ro Moore, colored, who was lunged in Trent Jail last May, had been seen walking ti streets as if he had never been hanged. One peculiar trait of persons who a blind is that there are scarcely any smoke among them. Soldiers and sailors wno In their sight while In action sometimes co tinue to smoke lor a short time nrt that great calamity overtakes thorn, bu as a rule, they soon give np the habit alt ge ther. There is in Missouri a lake, perched t top of a mountain, its surface from 50 to 1 feet below the level of the earth surroun Jng it fed by no snrface stream, nntonchi bv the wind, dead as the Sea o Sodom. Th is no point or equal altitude from whit water could flow within hundreds of mile and yet it has a periodical rise Of 30 feet over. The planet, as the storehouse of materi for every construction, natural or hum yields a certain number of elements. Abo Bt may bo accepted as the number hitln-r discovered, and theo certainlv are all th: are of any mass or quantity. "Out of the for strnctural or ubrkini nso onlyaboi one-lonrth are employed either by nature c by man. A most remarkable full was recent! captured in a net off tho Ardglnss ecus County Down. It weighed throe-quarters a pound, and had a head similar to that of pike. From the gills to the tail on oach sld there vi as a bright blue band; and ni onnd ti head and shoulders there wns a network i deep blue llneo, which gave the fish a vci comical, unnatural aspect. At Dueretaro, near Mexico, soap is tl cnrreiicy ot tho place, and a Ieial tender tt payment of debts. The cakes aro about tt size of the familiar brown Windsor, and ai each worth about 3 farthlnirs. Each cake stamped with the namo oft Do town in whic it is current, and tint bf tho person autho ized to manufacture and ntter it. Son money of one town is not current In anotho A French lady recently died in Xonlo nt a very old age. She was known In societ by the nickname of "Madame Miss" on mi count of.her mania. In her will she b qneathed 8,000,000 francs to the explorer w! wonld penetrate the wilds of Airica fnrthe than any explorer has hitherto don. U may take with him a company of 500-mei but must bring half of this number back t civilization. a In Surrey county, If. C., there is mountain whose outline displays a strlktn likeness to the Sphinx of Egypt. It is in th northwestern part of the Stato, jnst east o the Blue Ridge range, and lies prono npo the Piedmont plains. At a distinco of tej miles the figure is tho exact counterpart c that ot a eigantic Hon, its body at righ angles to the precipitous ridge, and wit head reared aloft as if in the act of rising. The Chinese, who, in very early ages had attained to some degiee of understand ing in the elementary principles of scienc and their applications, possessed also a coir Iiaratively advanced amount of knowledg n the manufacture and use of steel. Of It origin among them we have no account; bn it is quite conceivable that it discover: preceded that of tho lodestone. which, nnde the name of Tche chy (directing stone), wa in use among them tully 2600 B. C. When Mr. David Lindsay returnee from his expedition across a part of the An: tralian desert a while ago, he said the whol. of that almost waterless country was Inhab ited by natives who get their water supplj by draining the roots of the malleo tree which yield quantities of pure water. ThL tree, absorbing moisture from the air, re tains it in considerable qnantitles in it! roots and thus makes it possible to live in at and region, which would otherwise be unln habitable. The following advertisement appearec in tho New York Oaztlte of September i, 1732 Must arrived from Great Britain, and are to be Sold on board the Ship Alice and Eliza beth, Capt. Paine Commander, several ltkelj Welch and English Servant Men, most o: them Tradesmen. Whoever inclines to pur chase any bf them may agree with said Com maucier, or Mr. Thomas Noble, Merchant, at Mr. Hazard's, in New York: where also is tc be sold several NegroGlrls and a Negro Boy, and likewise good Cheshire cheese." KHYSKLED khymelets. Mr. Morris Parke Are yon in this race, Sambo? Sanfto Wad race, sah? Mr. Morris Parke (wittily) The human race! Sambo Ya-as, sah; 1'e ae dark hois, sah. Puct. The politicians who are wise ' Observe in times lite these That they had better dot their Ts" And cross their absentees. Washington Star. Jones I saw s conjuror last night- who could give you two different kinds of drink out of the same bottle. Brown That's nothing, my boy. We've a gro cer la our street who can sell yon three different kinds of tea out of the same box. Sparks. Cholly I feel howwibly disgwaced. Jack What's the matters Cholly Why. my man actwally intends to maw wy aglrl that's been out to service! Seta Tart Herald. He carries himself in the kind of way That only a soldier can : - Yet after aU. you would hardly say He's a military man. i But an apple he takes with an absent air. As past a stand he goes. And at once you feel you are readv to swear He's a copper in citizen's clothes. yew Tork Prtss. "Will you have a piece of bread?" asked mamma. "Yera, and I want a piece with ribs to it,' an swered John, who was fond of the crust of bread. Harper's Tovng Peoplz. Bicycle Dealer This machine will be bet ter for your boy than a pony. It doesn't eat any thing." - ,. Frugal parent (not entirely mTlncen-So i won't eat anything, but I'm afraid Itllp? "e boy a thunderm1 big appetlte-CAtaww Iritome. If I had but the needful cash ;, An ulster new to buy. I tell you what, I'd cut a dash And be exceeding spry. Bat, ah I 'tis not the dash that's eut 'TIsI. -Sew Tork Herald,,' Excited Old Gentleman Didn't yon say, when I bought these .ocas, that you'd mtutn themjast color? - ' Affable CIcrk-We guarantee everything.- -t Excited Old Gentleman-WelL sir, I wore thein one day. and they made my feet soblackit is Im possible to get it off. . " - Affable Clerk (trinmphantlT).-WeU, I diratt se what you want of any faster color, UttaithC 1 Smlth,Graj & Co.' Monthly.
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