THE- PITTSBUEG DISPATCH, , THURSDAY, MARCH 31,' 1892.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1S92
TWELVE PAGES
riTTSBUKG AT CHICAGO.
It is high time that Pittsburg should
look after its interests at the World's Fair
with greater energy than has been shown
hitherto. Our city has more to train than
any other in the State, or for that matter
in the country, ly a befitting representa
tion of its resources at Chicago. A policy
of apathy on the part of our business men
cannot but be a neglect of opportunities
which the future would show to be dis
astrous alike for them and for Pittsburg.
Attention should be paid to the securing
of space and facilities without delay. If
the preposterous refusal to admit exhibits
of coal and oil be persisted in, strong
pressure mut be brought to bear to re
move it. The objection to these com
modities as dirty and dancerous is simply
ridiculous, for dust and disaster can be
avoided with ease by the adoption of
proper precautions. It might as well be
decided that no boilers should be allowed
on the Exposition grounds, and no electric
lighting wires permitted in the buildings
for fear of explosion from the one and
electrocution from the other. But if our
miners, our oil men and our manufacturers
continue in their present attitude of short
sightedness as to their own interests and
lack of public spirited enterprise, we shall
cut a poor figure at the Fair, which will
mean an irreparable loss.
CKISr'S QUESTIONABLE FIRMNESS.
A unique measure of the limitation of
partisanship is afforded by some com
ments of the Xew Tork World in connec
tion w ith the blocking of the silver bill.
Speaking of the bad policy proposed of
trying to force the bill to a vote by the
application of the rule of closure our New
Yonz cotemporary says: "Speaker Crisp
has risen to the level of the occasion and
will not consent to report any gag rule un
less Mr. Bland can present a petition for
such a rule signed by a majority of the
Democratic members."
This is more than amusing. The recog
nition of the lofty stand taken by Speaker
Crisp against "gag laws," except it should
be demanded by themajority of theDemo
crats, is something imposing. For a year
the unanimity of the Democratic thunder
acaiust gag rules established for the bene
fit of particular measures has been one of
the especial features of the situation.
The assurance that Speaker Crisp would
not display a personal and unconstrained
affection for that un-Democratic vice Is
one cf the most affecting testimonials of
the day. Xo, indeed; Speaker Crisp is
not the sort of man to throw overboard
his old parliamentary principles on any
less incentive than the demand of the ma
jority of his party. If the majority do
not wish it he will remain as firm as ada
m nt.
Of course this comment, and the situ
ation as well, carry the inference that, if
the majority had demanded it, Speaker
Crisp would have gracefully yielded.
Democratic denunciations of "gag law"
and of enactments passed by its aid were
very well as long as the Democrats were
in a minority. But when it is their party
measure that needs a gag law to help it
along "the conditions have changed," as
we understood Senator Allison to remark
in the last Congress.
We are unable to observe any especially
early Roman rectitude in Crisp's refusal
to report a gag rule when he is sustained
by the mpjority of his party; What this
nation is suffering for is a political leader
with backbone enough to refuse to do
what he considers wrong, even when a
majority of his party demands it
AN ILLUSTRATION OF COMBINATION.
The analysis of the price of anthracite
coal secured by the 3f e w Tork legislative in
vestigation gives a pretty cood idea of the
results of combination. The coal is stated
to have an average price at the mines of
SI S3 and at tidewater of 53 50 per ton,
Mhile the consumer usually pays 5 25.
This indicates clearly what the operators
get and what the railroads make; but there
seems to be some dispute as to what
wholesalers and retailers get. The mem
bers of those industries testify that their
joint profits do not exceed 40 cents per
ton, which leaves a margin of 51 35 to be
accounted for by a list of wharfage and
other charges, which has to be consider
ably extended to meet the occasion.
Tel in these figures there is a very de
cided indication of the effect of the com
bination that has held sway in the anthra
cite business for a generation. The
price of '$1 85 per ton at the mines,
considering the superior character of the
coal and the large royalties generally paid,
cannot be considered excessive. But from
that point the combination shows its work.
The devices for preventing competition
Jiom affecting freight charges which hav
been in operation for over tv enty years
holds the charge for transporting a ton of
coal at SI 65, while in this locality and
Ohio the railroads do a profitable traffic by
transporting coal a similar or greater dis
tance for half the rate. After that is done
the same cause produces a similar effect;
for, talk as the new combination may
about the abolition of the middleman, it is
well known that the policy has extended
over the charges for handling and dis
tributing the coal. If competition were
from the railroad policy of kc3ping up the
price anthracite could be distributed from
the shipper to the consumer at a cost of
75 cents per ton as well as it Is now done
uith bituminous coal.
There is no doubt that the devices for
restricting production and suppressing
competition In the anthracite trade have
raised prices at least SI 50 per ton above
the natural level How much more the
new combination will raise it the future
only can tell.
ASlHCHrs AGITATION.
The activity of the Parisian anarchists,
which has resulted in an equal activity on
the part of the government to suppress
them, contains a striking illustration of
the lack of logic which underlies the
policy of reforming society by blowing it
to pieces. While France is not to be
ranked as by any means presenting an ex
ample of ideal social democra cy.it is beyond
all dispute the governmentof all Europe
where there is most of popular freedom.
The ouly approach to a raison d'etre pos
sessed by anarchy is a protest against and
revenge for acts of outrageous and arbi
trary despotism. Tet the anarchists are
now taking advantage of the comparative
liberty of France, to make life insecure
in a Republic with more energy than they
attack the despotism of Russia or the
military empire of Germany.
This is a new proof of what has always
been pretty well understood, that the class
of Socialists which resort to assassination
are mainly swayed by the lunacy of kill
ing all who do not agree with thtm. . The
popular liberty which they would estab
lish is the liberty of accepting their doc
trines or being blown up. When this
craze appears as a reaction from the hor
rors of Russian state prisons we can feel a
sort of sympathy for it; -but when it mani
fests itself in attacking a government
which to some degree is based on the pop
ular will, it is something to be suppressed
just like the ravages of beasts of prey or
venomous serpents.
Of course the effort to suppress a politi
cal school which manifests itself by arson
will succeed. Every violent act arouses the
horror and indignation of the mass of people
and turns public sentiment against the
outlaws who perpetrate it But while
anarchy by its own character dooms itself
to defeat it is worth while to remember,
in this country as well as abroad, that the
only soil in which it can grow is where
acts of government or society inure to
the aggrandizement of a privileged few at
the disadvantage of the masses.
NOT THE BEST WAT.
New Tork State may keep the credit, or
ortherwise, of having been the first to
adopt electricity as a means of capital
puuishment But New Jersey distances
it at the Newark City Home in the use
of an electric current for corrective pur
poses. The details given in our special tele
gram will no doubt evoke some discussion.
Probably the shocking practice will meet
with opposition simply as a novelty. But
there is something to be said in its defense.
If there were no other method of dealing
with the instincts of refractory children
than through the fear of corporal punish
ment, the treatment in vogue in
New Jersey would appear satis
factory, since it causes a maximum
amount of terror without such long
continued results as may attend a
whipping. On the other hand, very little
is yet known of the effects which the
passage of an electric current has on the
human frame. And the adjustment of its
strength should not be left to any such
rule of thumb practice as appears in the
secret sessions of the culprit, the Superin
tendent and the village doctor.
But, to take a broader ground of objec
tion, the fact is that fear induced' by pain
or mystery Is not the right agent for deal
ing with the youthful criminal. Moral
suasion is the only means for obtaining
lasting reforms. Laughed at though it
has been, it can show better practical re
sults than any other system, where it has
been fairly tested by those fitted for its
exercise. Incidentally one wonders how
the inmate3 of such an institution have
knives wherewith to commit murderous J
assaults, and opportunities which permit
an indulgence in vice.
A POLICE COMPLAINT.
A case of that oft-reported but generally
very shadowy "interference with the ad
ministration of law" by the energy of re
porters Is published in the Washington
Post. The case is so typical of its class
that it is worth a moment's examination.
It is learned from the esteemed Post that
an "overzealous correspondent" why not
reporter is beyond us of one of the papers
of that city devoted his energies to fathom
ing the reticence of the officers concerning
a recent burglary. He succeeded in learn
ing the name of the suspected burglar and
also got hold of the fact that a warrant
was issued for the arrest of the suspect
Well pleased with his success.he published
the item. During the time between his
discovery and the appearance of the news
paper the warrant appears to have reposed
peacefully in the police station, for after
the news came out the burglar changed
his base and is now Dursulng the more
legitimate industry of catching fish in the
Chesapeake fleet
Of course, the policemen are very wroth,
and vociferate objurgatory quotations at
the way in which meddling reporters ham
per police work. The efforts of reporters
which make it necessary for officers to
arrest prisoners without delay is a sad dis
turbance of the reposeful privileges of the
latter profession. It is possible, however,
to advance the views that a police force
which, having a warrant and knowing
where their man is to be found, cannot
arrest him while a newspaper item is
written up, put into type, corrected, the
forms made up, the paper printed and dis
tributed by carriers a piocess of some
hours at the least deserves more direct
trouble from the newspapers than that
stated above. Thu necessity that the
police shall have something like the energy
of the reporters maybe hard on the police
but the publiccan stand it
AN ORATORICAL PHENOMENON.
Obituary poetry such as that made fa
mous by our esteemed and ever-reliable
Philadelphia cotemporary presided over
by Mr. George W. Childs is noted for be
ing cast in the same molds. Obituary ora
tory is largely akin to it, in similarity of
thought and imagery, but a case where it
ran from two speakers in identical lan
guage and with exactly the same succes
sion of ideas has not been noted until it
was presented in the House of Represen
tatives last Saturday by those gifted ora
tors, the Hon. Timothy Campbell and the
Hon. James J. Belden, both of New Tork.
The occasion was the delivery of eulo
gies to the memory of the deceased Gen
eral Spinola. Among those who lent their
aid to honoring the record of the departed
were Messrs. Campbell and Belden, each
of whom displayed their eloquence by
reading type-written speeches. The lan
guid attention which members generally
give to oratory of this character only
created the Impression that there was a
little more of the ordinary sameness in
these speeches. But when 'the Record
came out the next day there was-a re
markable example of simultaneousness of
cerebral origination.
Mr. Campbell, who spoke first, ;Mr.
Belden being at that time out of the
House, rose "to participate in these sad
services realizing the lack of ability on
my part to do justice jto the memory,
virtues and statesmanship of our deceased
friend and brother General Spinola."
There is nothing out of the usual run of
obituary eloquence in this, but when it is
noticed that later, when Mr. Belden made
his speech Mr. Campbell having In the.
meantime left, he also "rose to partici
pate" and kept on in the same way to
"the memory, virtues and statesmanship
of our deceased friend General Spinola,"
it' becomes rather interesting. This inter
est is heightened by the fact that the
second paragraph of both speakers pro
tests that "nothing but the love I have
for his'memory-" induced them to speak,
and that, with the exception of Mr. Camp
bell's eulogy of General Spinola's Dem
ocracy, which of course Mr. Belden, as a
stalwart Republican had to skip, these
striking parallels continue down to the
closing assertion that while General Spin
ola's mortal remains repose "in beloved
Greenwood his friends will ever' keep his
memory green.
This is a phenomenon to attract 'the at
tention of those psychologists who are
now giving their attention to Mark
Twain's remarkable coincidences. Is it
an example of simultaneous production
like the cotemporary inventions of the
telephone, the safety lamp and the elec
tric light? Or what influence is it which
leads these two statesmen to air their ideas
on the same day on the same subject
and with this striking correspondence of
language?
The Massachusetts State Board of Trade
lias adopted resolutions expressing the de
sirability for a new department to be knon n
as the "Department of Commerce and
Trade," with a new Cabinet Minister to rep
resent It. While this would he an unneces
sary multiplication of offices. It should be
borne In mind that the principal duty of
our consular service is to foster our com
merce. ' Any cheese-paring policy tending
to lessen the efficiency of this service Is the
falsest kind of economy, and will be disas
trous to the giowth of our foreign trade.
What is the matter with Washington,
D. C, when mows of the Government's de
cision about the New Orleans Italians comes
from Indianapolis?
If attention were directed to an insist
ence that hotel buildings should be made
fireproof as well as to the provision of
escapes and the Improvement of Are depart
ments, the lessening of disasters would very
soon demonstrate the truth that prevention
is better than cure.
If Allegheny has any further develop
ments of official malpractices to disclose, its
resources must be unrivaled by any city of
the same size.
BtmGLABS will soon be out of a job if
womanly pluck continues at Its present rate
of Increase. When women are prepared to
tackle Intruders armed with a revolver and
a razor, the latter may as well look for some
more, honest and less precarious employ
ment. The New York Sun says "that the Dem
ocratic party Is able to attend to Its own
business" and what will Editor Dana do
then?
The carefully arranged performance
which marked Mr. Mills' debut as a senator
yesterday is another indication that our
paid legislators regard the Senate and the
House as mainly useful for focussing indi
viduals prominently before the public
Commissioner Raum is in a fair way to
realize that "when explanations become
necessary they become impossible."
If Mr. Thurman be correct in his asser
tion that the "Ohio Democrats have no boss
and no machine," the party in that State Is
to be heartily congratulated on its freedom.
The statement ought to be true of every
State, county and city In the country.
Feidat will bo the beginning of unlucky
days lor dogo whose owners fall to provide
them with license plates.
The Weather Bureau has shown a great
lack of consideration for migratory families
by piophesylng wet weather for to-day. It
Is to be hoped that the prophecy will not be
marked by more "than the customaiy ac
curacy ot such emanations.
One swallow does not make a summer,
but the granting 01 liquor licenses proclaims
the advent of Spring.
Of course Egan is indignant that he
shonldbe nilxedup with the Harlowcharges.
He has quite enough to'do to account for his
own direct actions, not to mention his son's.
The Government ought to relieve him of the
Irksome responsibilities.
Pittsbuegers should sympathize with
the United Statcstroops in Texas. Theyare
moving.
Tin-mining promises to oust the manu
factuie of dtvorcesas the leading industry
of South Dakota. This will be a change for
the better, and will establish the State on a
sounder commercial basis. t
Democratic arguments in favor of the
wool bill may fitly be described as shoddy.
The statement in certain quarters that the
anti-Quay movement has been abandoned
should be understood as indicative of the
wishes of those making it rather than of
historical fact.
Braddock is giving signs of progress by
a fiequency of street railroad accidents.
FAVOBITES OF F0RTUXE.
Ms. George Parson Lathbop's forth
coining book of poems is to be called
"Dreams and Days."
It is estimated that Marcus Daly's losses
of colts at the Bitter Hoot Stock Farm this
season will aggregate $100,000.
rLixcj uhkisiiajs, 01 .uenraam, goes
about the streets of Copenhagen in a plug
hat, aud isujf even saluted by the people he
meets.
Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, has been
appointed a member of the Committee on
YVa & and Means in place ot Mr. McKenna of
California resigned.
Ex-Goverkor Claflin, of Massachu
setts, is a nell-pieserved, elderly gentleman,
with a face of strong intelligence and very
courteous manners.
Mus. Ella W. Peattie, who under the
title of "With Scrip and Staff" has written
for children a story of medireval flavor and
surpassing interest, is an Omaha newspaper
woman.
Dr. Sable, the Parisian surgeon who be
came famous 16 yearn ago by extracting n
fork from a man's stomach, is a Jolly, florid
faced old gentleman, who ranks among the
first ot his profession in .France.
Count von Eulenberg defines the sep
aration of the Imperial Chancellorship from
the Presidency -of the Prussian Ministry on
the ground that the buiden of the work of
the two posts was beyond the power of one
man.
Wireu it comes to a use of winged words
in the House of Representatives no other
member can excel Congressman Kayner, of
Maryland, in copiousness of verbiage. Ills
vocabulary is said to bo as exbaustles; as
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Alexis Tolstw, a brother of the novel
ist, Leo Tolstoi, has written a story which is
said to be as strong as those of the more fa
mous member of his family. It is called
"Prince Serebryanl," and a translation of it,
made by 'J. Curtain,' will soon be brought
from the press of Dodd & Mead.
OP NATIONAL IMPORT.
Blaine Besamei the Kelns In lbs Bering
Sea Blatter Important Decision Against
the WMtern Union Gratifying Smoke
less Powder Teats at Indian Head.
Washington, March 30. Secretary
Blaine has resumed the discharge of his
official duties and will conduct all further
negotiations on behalf of this Government
In the Bering Sea matter. General J. W.
Foster will continue, however, to assist in
the conduct of these negotiations as well as
others affecting the commercial interests of
the United States. The two gentlemen
named had a conference with the President
this morning in regard to the details of the
reply to he made to Lord Salisbury's roply
of the 26th instant, agreeing to a renewal of
last year's modus Vivendi under certain
conditions respecting indemnity. As has
been already stated) this Government hns
practically decided to accept these condi
tions, with certain restrictions, and it Is un
derstood that a letter prepared by.
Scretary Blaine was accepted at the
conference this morning as defining
the position or this Government on the sub
ject. These views will probably be com
municated to Sir Julian Panncefoto to-morrow,
and, as they call for no material chnnge
in the proposition of Lord Salisbury, it is ex
pected that an agreement on that point will
be reached In a short time. It is said that
no further action will be taken in regard to
the arbitration treaty until the arrange
ments (or the modus have been oompleted.
The British Minister has been officially in
formed of the ratification of the treaty, aud
has undoubtedly communicated the tact to
the home Government. In the meantime,
General Foster and hi? assistants are busily
engaged in the preliminary preparations of
the case of the United States for submission
to the arbitrator. The personnel or that
tribunal will not be announced for several
weeks. It is settled, how ever, that General
J. W. Foster will be the agent and Jntfre E.
J. Phelp", of Vermont, the leading counsel
in behalf of the United States. There will
be other counsel, but they have not as yet
been selected. Ex-Senator Spnoner. or Wis
consin, will probably be invited to act in
that capacity. It is stated on authority that
the two arbitrators on behalf of the United
States have not yet been chosen. The re.-
Sort that Austria or some other country had
een substituted for Italy as one of the
neutral countries to nominate an arbitrator
is officially denied.
Justice Beeweh, of the United States
Supreme Court, sitting as a Jndgeforthe
Circuit Court embracing the District ot
Nebraska, to-day rendered a decision in the
suit brought by the United States against
the Western Union Telegraph Company and
the Union Pacific Bail way Company, to have
declared illegal and annulled the contract
between the Western Union and the Union
Pacific, by which the former operates the
telegraph line of the railroad. Tiie decision
is In favor of the Unfted States, sets aside
the contract of 1881 between the two com
panies, and directs the Union Pacillc hence
lorth to operate its own telegraph line,
by Its own agents, and not through
the instrumentality of the Wes
tern Union. Judge Brewer, in his
opinion, says the telegraphic franchise
granted the railway company by the charter
acts was not the mere right to place a tele
graph wire along the railroad for its solo
use. A telegraph wii e is as much a part of
a railroad as depots or wrecking trains.
What as meant was a telegraph line for
public and commercial uses as independent
and complete in itself as though not built
along the railroad right of way or used at
all in connection with its operation. The
contract between the telegraph company
and the railroad, Justice Brewer says, oper
ates to transfer this telegraphic franchise to
the former, and ttas intended to make it the
exclusive beneficiary thereof. In accord
ance with its opinion, the Court directed
that an order be entered setting aside the
contract of 18S1, and putting an end to the
relations created by and subsisting under it
oeiween me two companies, wiin a manda
tory injunction upon the railway company
to hereafter, by its own agents and em
ployes, and not through the instrumentality
of the Western Union Telegraph Company,
exercise all the duties created by its tele
graphic franchises and directing the West
ern Union to vacate all the offices of the
railway company, with leave to the West
ern Union to apply for and have stated an
account between it and the railway com
pany as to the value of its property along
the line of the railroad and Jointly used by
the two companies, and for such other le
lief a9 equity and good conscience require.
Some very gratifying results have been
obtained with a hand-madsample of smoke
less powder at the paval ordnance proving
grounds at Indian Head. The tests with
the powdor made by the Ordnance Bu
reau chemists at Newport' have hitherto
been confined to small arras, including the
one, three and six-pound guns, and the four
inch rapid-fire gun, promising results hav
in gbeen obtained in all cases. With charges
about one-half those used with ordinary
powder the velocities were increased from
150 to 200 foot seconds, with no increase of
chamber pressure. The Naval Chief of
Ordnance at the time expressed the hope
that smokeless powder might come into ex
clusive use in all guns of six-inch caliber
and below it. The test which has Just taken
place was with a four-inch gun and with an
eight-inch gun. In the former a 33-pound
projectile was used, with a powder charge
of &K pounds. The velocity obtained was
2.1C0 seconds at a pressure of 14.6 tons. In
the case of the eight-inch gun an 80-pound
projectile was used, as is done in the foreign
services. The powder chargo was 16 pounds,
and there was developed n -velocity of 2,115
toot seconds and a pressure of 13.6 tons.
These results compare favorably with those
obtained abroad under much better con
ditions. This seems to settle the question,
if any ever existed, of the merit of tne naval
smokeless powder.
The President to-day sent to the Senate
the lollowlng nominations: Frank L.
Coombs, of California, to be Envoy Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
United States to Japan. To be Judges of
Probate in Utah Terntory: Edward B. Kirk
in Box Elder county; George W. Bartch in
Salt Lake county. r
One or more of the silver petitions are
still circulating in the House, but there does
not seem to be any probability that a suffi
cient number of signatures will be secured.
A number of membors havo asked for the
petition in the last day or two and have
signed it. These have been, as a"nile, men
whose districts are strongly pro-silver. Just
how many names have been secured is un
certain, reports differing greatly. A large
number of silver Democrats have assured
their anti-silver associates that they would
not agree to petition for a cloture rule, and
Mr. Tracey says the namber is so great as to
make a majority tor a rule impossible. The
anti-silver men say they have also received
sufficient assurances to make them confident
they could now Deat the bill on a direct vote.
The subject is now receiving the close, stu
dious, almost fearful attention of a few days
ago. and it is considered as practically set
tled. The report of the Committee on Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries recommending
the repeal of the mall subsidy act was sub
mitted to the House to-day by Mr. Enloe.
It takes the broad giouud of dissent from
tho policy of granting .subsidies to persons
engaged in any cliaracter of pursuits what
ever, whloh policy. It asserts, is robbery in
the teeth of the law. If the; principle of
subsidy Is light it should apply to all, and
the cotton plantor or the South has as much
right to a subsidy or bounty)' as the ship
owners, sugar planters and tree tappers who
now receive it. The views of the minority
are set lorth at length, aud aic, in substance
an argument in Javor of the letention of the
present law based upon flguies showing a
gicat imuetus ghen to ship building under
the new leglmc. Comment is mtde upon the
refusal of tho majority to hear any testi
mony or Investigate the worklna and bene
fits of the act. and it is maintained that if
we had pursued during the pasta like policy
of subsidy we would have had to-day the
grandest merchant marine In the world and
held the supremacy of the high sfens instead
Of having paid to England principally dur
ing the last 80 vears the enormous tribute of
over $3 003,000,000 for transporting fcur goods.
Secretary; Foster said this jafternoon
that he had furnished Mr. OwenL Superin
tendent of Immigration, with a copy or the
chaiges preferred against him by Assistant
Secretary Nettletou, aiul that hu would
await a reply before taking any. futther
action in the matter. Ho said thit these
charges were entirely outside of the. Investi
gation being made by the joint Con
gressional Committee, and thereiore would
be acted on by the department without re
gard to that Investigation. It Is learned
trom other sources that the President will
take no action in .the .controversy until
Secretary Foster has concluded his investi
gation of the trouble .. between tho two
officials. ,i
The sub-committee of the House Com
mittee on Manufactures, which is Investi
gating the sweating system, will hold ses
sions in'Chicago on" Monday and 'Tuesday
next, and Mr. Sherman Hoar, of Mas
sachusetts, Chairman of the commit
tee, is desirous that manufacturers wishing
to appear before the committee on thoe
days should communicate with him as soon
as possible.
After conference with the Postmaster
General and some of his assistants, in which
the law as applied to, the material facts In
the case were discussed, tho Attorney General-will
take an appeal from the judgments
recently rendered bv tho Court of Claims in
favor of letter carriers in several cases in
volving the construction of the ei-zht-honr
law ns applied to the work of these em
ployes. IN view of the danger, thought to be imr
minent, of a violent rush and possible blood
shed in connection with the opening to set
tlemen of the lands in Oklahoma, re
cently ceded to the Government by the
Cheyenne and Arapahoelndlnns, li conduct
ed under existing laws and rules, Represent
ative Funston, of Kansas, will soon Intro
duce In-the House a bill :providirrg for the
dlstriontltmortlielandby IoC " "
SCANDAL AMONG METHODISTS.
Jealousy Leads a Clergyman to Send Letters
to Other Ministers.
New Toek, March 80. The Jealouoy among
Methodist ministers of New Tork, which
made Itself so apparent Just before the Gen
eral Methodist Conference in 1883, has evi
dently not disappeared, and soma serious
charges are made against one of the most
prominent Methodist clergymen in the city.
The accusations are that the Methodist
pastor, to injure one of his fellow-preachers
and to prevent him from being chosen as a
delegate to be sent to the Omaha Confer
ence, resorted to anonymous letter writing
and was caught at it. At any rate, letters
reflecting In more ways than one upon the
reputation of one or more Methodist min
isters were circulated, and they caused such
a commotion that an investigating commit
tee was appointed, and the result may be
that the resignation of a certain Methodist
minister will be asked for in the near future.
The members of the Investigating Com
mittee, after thoroughly looking into the af
fair, came to the conclusion that thev were
Justified in suspecting a Methodist minister
of being the author of the anonymous let
ters. After reaching this conclusion they
hunted up several autograph letters of the
suspec:ed pastor, and the handwriting of the
anonymous letter-writer and that of this
clergyman were compared. The suspected
minister was called before the Investigating
Committee, and he most emphatically de
nied that he had resorted to such base meth
ods as were attributed to Cim. The commit
tee is not fully satisfied yet with what it has
learned, and no report has been made re
garding the'affair. The report, however, it
is said, will be made beforo the clerical rep
resentatives to the May Conference are se
lected, and the result may prove a great sur
prise to New York Methodists and church
going people in general.
IMAGINED HIMSELF JAY GOULD.
That Didn't Sn a Thrifty Crank From
Being Hauled Up for Larceny.
Philadelphia, March 80. Franklin Carson,
a shrewd-looking man, was to-day arraigned
on a charge of larceny preferred by his sis
ter. Franklin imagines that he Is Jay Gould,
and incarceration in the Norristown Insane
Asylum for some time did not cure him 'of
his weakness. Since he has been at large the
only thing he has speculated in is in pawn
tickets. He stole articles tromhis sister and
pawned them. Dr. Butcher, of the county
prison, testified that Franklin was insane.
"How about- Jay Gould?" inquired Judge
Arnold of Carson.
"Oh, they call me that because I have
sense enough to buy goods at auction cheap.
I don't know whether I'll ever be rich or
not. Jay Gould's alive yet, and I'm not a
dead man, either."
Carson was acquitted on the ground of
insanity, and he will be placed in the
Norristown Hospital.
T0UEGEE PREDICTS A EACE WAR,
Ha Cannot See How Any Colored Man Can
Sing America.
Chicago, Marcn SO. Albion W. Tourgee
predicts the greatest race war the world has
ever seen If the Government continues to
allow the whites to oppress the blacks. "I
cannot see," he said, "how any colored man
in these United States can sing 'America.' It
is no surprise to mc that those who assem
bled at Bethel Chnroh here the other night
refused to do it; the surprise is that they did
not refuse long ago.
"We are in the same position as that of a
man holding a torch over a powder maga
zine into which a spark Is likely to fall at
anv moment, and If we eo about with this
firebrand and the spark falls it will be no.
mere revolution we win nave to lace, xne
world has never experienced the horrors
that will result."
YOUNG JIM BLAINE'S LETTERS.
His Wife Prevailed tJpon by a Mutual
Friend to Withhold Them.
WASHtifaTojr, March SO. The Washington
gossips who have been waiting with eager
eyes for the publication threatened by Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr., of the letters of lier
husband, lively versions of which have al
ready been circulated heie, were disap
pointed to learn to-day, in what seemed to
be an authoritative way, that these letters
would probably never appear In print.
According to the explanations given, a
friend of Secretary Blaine said to be Secre
tary Elkins went to sec the triends of Mrs.
Blaine, Jr., in New York and arranged to re
ceive the letters, or at least to secure a
promise that they should not be published.
An Albino Eobin at Zanesville.
Zaxisville, March SO. Special. A robin
white as snow except a few colored feathers
on its back.is a Ireak of nature at Millwood, a
suburb of this city. It can be seen every
day, and has mated with a robin of ordinary
color. The citizens have taken the bird
under their protection, and w ill not allow it
to be killed, though they intend to closely
watch the results of the nesting. .
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
General Daniel Dnstln.
General Daniel Dustin, ot Chicago, As
sistant United States Treasurer, died In Car
thage, Mo., yesterday at the home of his danghter.
He came here about a week ago for the benefit of
his health, but Instead of Improving he rapidly
grew worse. His remains will ne shipped to hyca
inore. Ills., where he resided for OTer 2i years
prior to his aDpolntment by Harrison two years
aco. He lived for Tears In California, and
there sat as a member of the Legislature
when it was admitted to the Union. He removed
to Illinois in 1856, and at the outbreak of the war
Joined the Federal army, serving under Colonel
Farnsworth as captain. He was tor bravery pro
moted to the rank of major, and raised a regiment
of Illinois infantry. Near Atlanta he farther dis
tinguished himself and was made brigadier gen
eral, and was a companion with Harrison there
after. This friendship continued and led to his ap
pointment at the Chicago Sub-Treasury.
Obituary Notes.
Haii'iiy S. Peileb, ex-Borough Surveyor of
Johnstown, Is dead.
Sir William Bowman B iiit. SI. D., the distin
guished ophthalmic surgeon, of London, is dead.
Marshall G. Kzxsey a member of the Lower
Hoube of the Legislature, died Tuesday at Phila
delphia, aged 39 years.
L. E. FjtANCIS. the apostle of Swelnfurth, the
Illinois Messiah, died at his home at Richmond,
Ky., early yesterday morning.
Edwix B. Taylor, a well-known traveling
man representing Simon Baers' Sons, of Wheeling,
died at Parkersbnrg yesterday of typhoid fever.
Max Phillips, one of the best known musicians
In St. Louis, died in that city Monday night as the
result of injuries self inflicted. He was a compser
of some note in the West.
M. it. Levelle, one of the most prominent at
torneys of the Schuylkill county courts, died at his
home at Ashlaud. yesterday morning. He had a
wide reputation as a criminal pie-ider.
MISS NELLIE Weddell, or West Newton, died
Tucsdav night at the age of 81. Dec eased was born
and lived in that section all her lire. She was a
sister of (1. W. Weddell, one 01 the oldest and best
known residents of Versailles township.
Kev. David HorKlxs, a noted "Welsh divine,
who was ordained into the ministry 40 years ago
and has held many appointments throughout Ohio
ai A Pennsylvania, died at his residcuce near
Youngstowu yesterday, aged 63. He was a 111111
liter ot the old Puritan style.
Mrs. Clark, widow of the founder of Tomb
stone. Ariz., died at the Providence Hospital la
Washington Monday. She came to Washington
from tan Francisco a month ago with her daugh
ter. Just out or school. After awdars' sight
seeing she was taken 111, and grew constantly
worse until she died.
William Frederick Wallett, the oldest
and most famous clown in England, has Just died
at the age of 81. He had been before the nubile
been called The Queen's Jester." gaining the
title from Hie date, of his performance before Vic
toria, at her request.
M. Lauwebs, the French baritone singer. Is
dead in Paris, aged 48. -Ho was a Belgian by birth,
and began his career as a pianist. He went on ..the
operatic stage at the Lyriqde and from there mi
grated to the Opera Comlque and the Chatelet, be
coming famous at the lytter house. He baa several
times visited America professionally.
THE EASTER BONNET.
Phantasies in Flowers, Feathers, Kibbons
and Lace Few Vivid Descriptions
"With Fries Mirks Attached A Good
Old Custom What Society Is Doing.
The Easter bonnet ! Ah ! that's the sub
ject that finds place in minds great and
small, and pertaining to people of both
sexes who pay any attention to the changing
seasons and the fashions that go with them.
Prepare to plunge your manly hands deep
into the innermost recesses of your pockets,
oh, fathers and husbands of Pittsburg maids
and matrons, for your hour is at hand.
Groan not, but come to the front with un
clouded brow and as smilinga lip as you can
produce under the circumstances.
The bright spring weather that has graced
Pittsburg on one or two days this week, to
gether with the spring openings, has been
the means of filling the streets and stores
with humanity of all grades and conditions.
It is a great season for, milliners and dry
gpodVpeople, yrljose,sb6w .windows In gala
atjire attract Irresistibly the attention of
each passerby.
In one store may be seen a lovely waxen
lady, all smiles and blushes, whose business
it is to exhibit to an admiring public a
wonderful creation of the milliner's art
perched upon her dainty golden brown
eurls. It is a toque bonnet, made entirely
of violets, shading from deepest purple to
heaven's own blue.
A Bunch of Violets.
A few blades of yellow-green grass,
knotted among some tall, nodding violets,
do duty for a crown, while the brim is of
the same tiny flower. It is held on the head
by means of a band of narrow yellow-green
velvet ribbon, passing under the chin and
fastening at the back of the bonnet with a
Jewel pin of violets, AJIittle tag pinned on
the back proclaims the price to be 112.
Designers seem to have gone to the fields
for their ideas In Easter bonnets this year.
All the dainty small flowers are brought
into use. Buttercups and bluebottles nod
to each other across a small expanse of
green and yellow wlieat. on top of broad
brlmmcd, fancy straw braid hats. Starry
eyed forget-me-nots, nestled among grasses,
compose lovely evenins bonnets.
A pretty shell-shaped bonnet has a brim of
pale pink rose leaves, while chrysanthe
mums of the same shade, and some'heavlly
meshed cream lace lorm the crown. The
price of this is $7.
There has been some talk of the possibility
of buying Easter bonnets at as low aprlco
as $2. A milliner remarked yesterday that
a flower could hardly be obtained for that
sum, and that the lowest llgnre possible for
an Easter bonnet this year would be $:. So,
if any hopeful maiden has been thinking of
buying an Easter bonnet, ready made, for
$3, she will most likely be disappointed.
You may pay as high as $50 for your Easter
bonnet it yon desire.
A pretty idea in bonnets this season U to
make them of gray crppe, with ribbon and
laces of the same general hne, but in differ
ent tones, relieved by a few sprays of
mlnonettc. With the bonnet is used a gray
silk parasol.
Soma of the Latest Styles.
An Alpine hat, in light brown, is peculiar
and distinctive. It will be admired by
ladies who like pronounced styles. One has
a deep band of velvet around the crown
with a Prince of Wales feather, in a lighter
shade of brown, waving toward the front.
A black lace bat, flat and plain as to brim,
has attached to it something new in the way
of a veil that is a continuation of the laco
that composes the crown. This comes over
trom the right side of the hat and lostenx to
the left. A large bow of black velvet ribbon
is erect upon the front of the crown and is
held in place by Jeweled butterflies of gold
and let. This hat will cost the happy pos
sessor 315.
The hats this summer will not run to ex
tremes in either size or shape. There will
bo designs to suit every face, aud women
will not be obliged in any case to wear one
particular shape to keep in laslilon. whether
the shape Is becoming to them or not. Theie
will be turbans, bonnets with ties and with
out, and large and small hats of different
shapes that can be twisted aud turned to
suit the caprice of tne it carer.
When the woman has arranged about her
spring bonnet she will naturally wonder
what Is to be worn as a wrap. Capes will
take the lead this spring. Tne Louis XIV.
cape will be the thing this spring, while ror
summer wear a short cape, reaching to the
waist back and front, of black lace, will bo
en regie. This cape is considered by con
noisseurs the must graceful summer gar
ment a lady can wear.
Ladies who have been proposing mar
riage to their various masculine mends this
year may be glad to know that they have
good ancient authority for their actions.
The custom of ladies proposing in leap-year
is supposed to have had its origin in a
statute by the Scottish Parliament in the
yearlSSS. The statute ordains that a lady
may propose to "the man she Uses," and
that If he refuses her he must pay "ane
hundredity pundis." There is a chance for
the man to escape, however. Irhe can make
it appear that he is already engaged when
the lady asks him to take her for better and
worse, then he shall be free and the lady
must look further. This seems Inst, be
cause it does not free the man unless he has
alreaQy lowered his lance to some fair lady,
and does not recognize his right to remain
a bachelor.
An interesting fact is that there will not
be any change in the shape and material of
ladles' and children's shoes this season. The
plain black kid, that has been popular nl
ways, will continue to be worn. The pointed
toe will be worn more than the "common
sense." The latter style will always And
favor in the eyes of a goodly portion ot sen
sible femininity.
A conceet by the Glee and Mandolin
Clubs or tho Western University of Penn
sylvania will be given to-morrow evening at
Dilworth Hall, Pennsylvania College for
Women.
Miss Nina Mahaffey has issued cards
for a party in commemoration of her birth
day at her home, in Edgewoodville, to-morrow
evening.
A number of young folks of Wilkins
bnrg are rehearsing for a concert to be
given in Wllmerding early in April.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel "Wertheimer
have issued invitations to the wedding of
their daughter, Birdie, to Abraham L. Banh,
which will take place on Wednesday even
ing, April 6, at the Eighth Street Temple.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cimiotti, of 353
Collins avenue, East End, will celebrate the
twenty-flth anniversary of their wedding
Wednesday evening, April 6. A large num
ber or invitations have been Issued.
THE POET OP NATURE.
SiitcE the publication of his work, "Leaves
of Grass," In 1855. he has been regarded as
one of the brightest stars in our poetical
firmament. Minneapolis Times.
The dilettante prettlness of most modern
poems was not to his t.iste. Ho struck his
lyre with his fist at times instead of his
finger tip, bnt the music was resonant and
will reach posterity. Sew Tin k Herald.
Walt Whitman's was a homely yet lov
able character. Within his heart there
dwelt a sturdy nobility that was ever assert
ing itself in his peculiar rhymes. His poetry
was a flexible index to his soul. Grand
Rapids Herald.
Uttering his message, convinced of hi?
vocation, aware and an ake to his power, he
has never faltered. In obscurity and neg
lect, in poverty and persecution, ho has con
tinued true to his own ideals and' held stead
ily to his own conception of his duty as the
chosen priest aud poet of democracy. Phil
adelphia Press.
He was the most eccentric, themost vigor
ous, probably the most widely known and
disenssed of the American writers of tho
age. His place in literature has been more
talked of and with less apparent likelihood
of an agreement in his own generation than
that ofany modern writer, not excepting
Browning. Buffalo News.
No poot ever wrote more individuality
into verse. It was native Yankeeism of a
decidedly Whitmanesque species that
sprang from his pen. But the inspiration,
aside irom the revolutionary individality of
tho form, touched universal intuitions
which found echo in many tongues and
climes. Minneapolis Tribune.
In his w ritingi ho was hampered by no
poetic forms of rhythm or meter, bnt em
bodied his spontaneous thoughts in the lan
guage they suggested to him. Many fine
sentiments were erarjouiea even in his
"Leayes or Grass," tuough it transgressed
the sterner proprieties and approached a
forblddon realism. Detroit Free Press.
CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS. -
Baby Alfonso is on the new Spanish
postage stamp.
A monster resembling a gorilla is said
to be terrorizing the people of Brownsville,
Ky-
A crow with only one-leg, and upon that,
leg only one toe. was a curiosity shot recent
ly at Lenoir, N. C.
When the men and women of the East
Indies want to wash thoir hands they squeeze
the juice of a lemon over them briskly in
water until they are clean.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
over 15,000 minister', H 003 local preachers.
100,000 official members, and 300;000 Sunday
school officers and teachers.
The Prohibitionists in Maryland for
some extraordinary reason have adopted as
their banner a picture of Washington sur
rounded by the Stars ana Stripes.
The latest substitute for glass is a kind
of dry, flexible collodion. It resists the ac
tion of salts, alkalies and dilute acids, and is
Inodorous and transparent. Its chief use is
likely to be in photography.
In German literary publications dur
ing 1891 theology h eld the fim place. Out of
18,875 literary prodnctlons, 1,763 belonged to
the province of theology and 1,731 to litera
ture proper (novels, poems, dramas.)
In Bio de Janeiro the camellia is used
in a magnificent way at all the fetes. The
walls of the halls where entertainments are
held are covered with sprays containing
three camellias and their polished foliage.
There is said to be a negro, 65 years old,
living near Rutledge, Ga., that bears a re
markaDle resemblance to a sheep. His skin
is black, but bis head, face and the rest of
his body are covered with long, thick, white
wool.
In Peru the cotton plant rises to tho
distinction of a tree, instead of the compara
tively diminutive shrub which stows in this
country. The tree commences bearing when
it is- 2 years old, and it continues to bear
for 10 or SO years.
A quarter of a century ago camellias
were worn in ladies' hair to the exclusion of
all other flowers. Baskets of camellias and
violets were selected for New Year gifts;
bridal bouquets wore then made of six
camellias and maidenhair fern.
During Queen "Victoria's reign there
have been only three vacancies in which the
Queen did not personally receive the insig
nia of tho deceased knight. When a for
eign sovereign dies who is a Knight of the
Garter hi1! insignia comes back directly to
the Lord Chamberlain through the Foreign
Office.
At the present time the whole number
of double stars known and recorded by as
tronomers is something over 10,000, far ex
ceeding tho number of stars visible to the
naked eyo In the entire firmament (about
C.00U), and others aro being frequently ds
coveiedby the great telescopes nowin ex
istence. A wild woman was captured recently in
the woods near St. Hedwig, Tex., where sha
has been living for the past six years. In
all that time she has never slept under a
roof, and her dress was made of reeds and
leaves. She lived for the most part on
pecan nuts. She was sent to an insane
asylum.
The alleged connection between Gypsies
and the nails used in the crucifixion has
frequently been referred to. It is said that
the tinkers aro descendants of the one .who
made the naili tor the cross, and are con
demned to wander continually without rest.
This tradition is very common in the High
lands of Scotland.
The Chinese do almost everything
opposite to the way of doing it in this coun
try, and, instead of using a pen, they write,
or rather paint, their words with a brush.
They attach gieat importance to an elegant
handwriting, and a clever writer or.as they
say, a "clever brush" is considered worthy
of their admiration.
An ancient method of taking caribou
hy the Esquimaux was by means of pitfalls
dug in the snow along the banks of rivers,
where the snow lodges In Immense quanti
ties, and v4ierever there is a sloping place
down which the reindeer can travel.- The
pits were covered with thin slabs of snow
strong enough to hold their shape, bnt if
trod upon by the animal it was Immediately
precipitated into tne cavity.
The great high bridge of the Southern
Pacific Bailroaa is said to be the third high
est bridge in the world, and is, by several
feet, the highest in this country. It is 2.IS0
feet in length and 323 feet above the surface
of the stream. It has 18 spans, nearly all of
which are Iron-plate girders, alternately 35
teet and 05 feet in length. In the center,
directly above the bed of the river, is a
cantilever span 185 feet in length.
The Russian crown and other insignia
known as "the crown Jewels," are valued at
$11,000,000. The crown itself is worth $C,C00,
000. It in adorned with hundreds of dia
monds. Besides the diamonds there are set
around the rim 54 splendid pearls, each with
out a flaw, a ruby of extraordinary size and
Deanty being set as a .centerpiece. The
crown was made by Panzle, a Geneva jew
eler, and was first worn by Catherine the
Great.
Queen Victoria's State team of cream
colored horses havo a history. The present
stock are intelligent, gentle beasts, fond of
being noticed by strangers. The cream-colored
horses were brouzbt over from Hanover
originally by George L, aud from that time,
with the exception of the period between
1803 anc1 1313, when Napoleon I. was in pos
session ,of Hanover, until 1837 they were
regularly supplied frdni the Electoral stud
at Hariover.
The Celebration of marriage, partly in
churches and partly outside them, was first
ordered by Pope Innocent III. In 1199. All
the ancient missals direct that toward the
conclusion of the service the parties "shall
enter the church as lar as the step of the
altar." Thegreater portion of the ceremony
was thus performed in the south porch, still
often called In country districts the "wed
ding door." It was only in tile reign of
Edward VI. that the whole of the ceremony
was allowed tojbe performed In the middle
of the church.
The literal meaning of the word toilette,
is a diminutive of toile, a small covering of
linen thrown overa dressing table; butit wasT
reserved for the decorators of the .reign of
Louis XV. to discriminate between the
giand and the little toilette. The latter was
a very simple arrangement indeed, a. plain
wooden altar with unadorned white napery
and a looking glas3, at which the celebrants
were onlv the ladv's maid and the hair
dresser. The grand toilette was a much
more splendid affair. The table was laden
with coffers of jewels, glove boxes, powder
boxes, leceptacles lor paint, patches, poma
tum and scented waters; and finally with the
dressing case, the furniture of which: was
often ot gold or silver handsomely chased.
JOKELETS FKOM JUDGE.
"Don't you think it is too bad that tho
author should allow tne hero to be murdered in the
last act?"
Well, yes, my dear; It rould have been ar
ranged more satisfactorily. He could have allowed
him to die a natural death say, early In the first
act."
You may in business have a friend who'd
sell ) ou goods at cost.
He does so Just to please you, and, no matter what
he's lost.
He bows and scrapes and thanks you Just as other
people do;
Bnt never for a moment wouloThe think of working
you.
"Have you read Torpid's last novel?"
"Well, not exactly. I've sort of gathered it
in."
'Does the plot thicken as he goes on!"
'No; but his style does."
Bagley Come, now; there's reason in all
things."
Bailey Then you don't know Mr3. Bailey.
"What is Cumso so jubilant about?"
asked Swaybackashe entered the office. "Has
some one left him a fortune?"
"No, " replied Fangle. "His office boy resigned
this morning."
Alas! we're living in a flat
Where'er we hear some venders yell,
And all the day for this or that
Some fiend or other pulls the bed.
No wonder, too, so sad we look.
For when our cares do seem to fade
Lo! we are harassed by the cook
And worried by the serving maid.
First burglar I know a safe good foi
P.C00 .Let's crack 1. to-night.
Second bnrslar Sure an' It's notmesIhTas wlllbt
afthcr doln nnythin'of the kolnd until after Lent,
We mast denoy oursllves now. sure."
Cousin Jack I see that my old gweefc
heart, Cora Flirty, Is Just as much a devotee
fashion as ever. .
Maoel (who doesn't like her Tes, Indeed f shs
has samples of every year's new style of engage
meat rings ever since you went away I
j,jmii m