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THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Edward Pardridge a Balf Million
Ahead on One Day's Dealings
ON THE CHICAGO WHEAT EXCHANGE
He Bought Short and a Drop of Five Cents
Did the Eest for Him.
FIRES, FAILURES AND RAILROAD KEWS
Chicago, April 11. The world seems to
turn on its axis to-day lor the sole benefit of
one man Edward Pardridgc, of Chicago.
News worth to him hundreds of thousands
flashed in from London, from "Washington,
even from the far-away ports of the Black
Sea, and after a day of wild excitement on
"Change the famous plunger, impassive as
stone, stood on the floor of the Board of
Trade receiving the frantic congratulations
of his brokers, informing him that he was
richer by at least ?500,000, and that acting
for him they had pounded the price of
wheat 5 cents on every bushel. His ene
mies, who, it was said, had formed a sort of
combination a few days ago to compass his
ruin, were themselves" made heavy losers
and put to utter rout
Tlie scene during the latter part of the
session was the most excltins that has been
witnessed in many a day. From SSJiCc llav
wheat dropped lv nig lumps to SOXc, and
finallv closed at S0c. Tills i- Ce befor the
close Saturday nfclir. From the high point
to the low figure Pardrldse makes 3 cents
per bushel. it is supposed, out of his lO.OUO,
000 short line, or w hat amounts to a sain of
$500,000. Over and above this It Is estimated
lie netted considerable on trades on the
fluctuations. He was the heaviest buyerana
seller, and apparently must uavo made a
iot of money out of his scalping deals. Dur
ng the final moments the excitement was
at such a pitch that the spectators in the
callerles, Ioslns all control of their leellngs,
shouted with the brokers at every slump in
the market. The bears went wild over their
success, and the men who had It in for Pard
ridge, some oi them at least, joined in what
amounted to a genenl ovatiou to the bold
operator.
If anybody had been expecting Tardridge
to run in they were quickly undeceived, lor
on the contrary his biokers wero among the
most ageressive sellers i igh c from the start,
and kept on the selling side all day,
showing no fear even on somo of the wildest
bulges.
Pardridge personally was not present at
the critical time of the opening, and took no
part in the first hour's trading. It was said
he was waitiu? for the others to experiment
with the nervous fluctuations, and whiln his
opponents battled in the pit he satin his
office leading quotations. During the re
mainder of the day. however, and particu
larly at the close.'he was continuously in
view, life-sizo.
'How do you feel, Mr. Faidridget" asted a
reporter of that gentleman after the pande
monium at cue winuup.
"Lovely lovely," was the laughing an
swer, accompanied by a merry twinkle of
the eye, but that was all that cduldbegotten
out of him.
COLONEL JAMES' STEKE.
He Bad Hopes That His Suit Against J.
Henry Work Would Prove Such.
New Tokk, April 11 Justice Patterson, of
the Supreme Court, refused to-day to dis
miss the complaint in Colonel E. C James'
suit against J. Henry Work to recover $2CJ,
000, money invested and profits in and irom
contracts held by the firm of Grant & Ward.
Ex-Judge Amoux then mado his speech to
the Jury, declaring that Colonel James' suit
was in the nature of a "strike." He had
wnlted six years to think about the matter
and then brought suit in the hope that Work
would pay.
james was periectiv satisfied wltn 7 per
cent, and Jlr. Woi k did not intend to give
him any more. Mr. Work, Judge Davis said,
had not been guilty of fraud or misrepre
sentation, ne was Sccretarv of the Mexican
Railway, of which General Grant was Presi
dent. The General told him that the boys,
Grant and Ward, were getting along splen
didly, so well, indeed, that he baa $1,000,000
to his credit. Ex-Judge Davis said General
Grant was never aware ot any fraud.
DELAWAEE AND HTJDS0K STOCK
One Hundred Shares Each Purchased by
Tanderbllt, Depow and Twombley.
XewTork. April lL The 3H6ime to-morrow
will print the following: The transfer
books of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company were closed at noon Satur
day for the annual election on
May 10. Not many minutes before
they were closed three significant transfers
or stock were made. Through them Corne
lius Vanderbllt, Chauncey M. Depew and IF.
McK. Twombley were arci edited with 100
shares ol Delaware and Hudson stock each.
This amount is sufficient to qualify them for
places in the board of directors.
It does not seem possible, in view of the
position that these men occupy the
transfer of this stock was effected for stock
jobbery purposes, and it was apparently not
in pursuance of any plan to obtain control
of the system.
A NEW TIN PLATE C0MPAHY
With a Capital S.ock of 9300,000 Will
foon Begin Operations.
Coibeblaxd, Ma, April 11. Special
The Cumberland Steel and Tin Plato Com
pany was organized in Philadelphia on
Thursday last and elected tlin following
officers: J. AT. Humbird. of Cumberland,
President; H. S. Loucheim, of Philadelphia,
Trcasuier, and Thomas A. Hicks, of Phila
delphia, Secretary.
The company is incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey, and its main office will
he in that State, but its business ofiicp will
be hero. The Superintendent, J. E. Jones,
is a skilled worker in steel and tin plate.
The capital stock is $300,000, nearly all held
in Philadelphia.
The Standard's Itecapltahzatlon.
Albaxt, N. Y., April 1L A certificate of
the increase of capital or the Standard Oil
Company, of New York, from $5,000,000 to
$7,000,090 .was filed with the Secietary of
State to-day. The certificate shows that the
amount or capital at present actually paid
In is $5,000,000. and that the liabilities ol the
company amount to $1655,629. Another cer
tificate was filed showing that the number
of directors of tho company bad been in
creased to nine, but the names of the addi
tional directors aro not given.
Attorney General Hensel'n l-atest JIov?.
FHlLADELrBiA, April 1L Proceedings wero
begun this morning In Common Pleas Court
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
through Attorney General Hensel against
the Mutual Banking Surety Trust and Safe
Deposit Company, of this city. Applica
tions were also m-ide for the appointment
of a receiver to tako chargo of tho banking
company's business while the proceedings
were pending. The eourt took no action,
but fixed next Saturday lor a hearing of the
case.
The roughkeopsle Bridge Plan Deposits.
Philadephia, April 1L The deposits of
bonds under the roughkeopsie bridge plan
have been quite heavy sinco the committee
issued its announcement, and It Is believed
that nearly all of them will deposit their se
curities. It is said that the bonds which are
now bolng deposited will be used by tho pur
chasers under a foreclosure, and that the
committee will buy in tho nroperty and
turn it over to the Beading Eailroau Com
pauy. Creditors Left Out or; It.
Alliaxce, O., April 11. ISpeciaU A set
tlement agreeable to L. L. Lamborn, et al,
bankers, and Trustee Matthew Early was
effected here to-day, and property for the
past five years In litigation, valued at $70,000,
again reverts to Mr. Lamborn. Creditors
who thus far have received only 3 percent
of their claims are loud in their denuncia
tion of a compromise nhieh does not bene
fit them.
The Dubuqun Malting Company Organized.
DtracQCX, April 11 The Dubuque Malting
Company was organized to-day with a capi
tal of $150,000. It has secured a ten-years'
leaso of all the breweries in the city and will
double the present output of these concerns.
Nicholas Glab is President of the new
corporation.
rortlon ot an Iron Works Suspends.
PnccxixviiiE, Pa., April II. Notices were
put up in the Phoenix Iron Company's
works to-day that work wonld be suspended
in aU tho departm ents excepting shops Nos.
M
lands until Monday, IS. This susponsion
affects 1.C00 men.
ALLEGED MINE SALTIKG.
An English. Syndicate Got the Wont or It
In a Silver Deal.
Detroit, April 11. Several years ago an
English syndicate represented by Walter
McDermott purchased ,a group of silver
mines located at Falrplay, near Lead
ville. Col., known as the Mudsill
mines from Stewart A. VanDusen,
who acted as agent for Orrvllle A.
Vatrous, the owner. The price paid was
$110,000 in cash for a one-half interest and
was paid upon a renresentation of the valne
ot the ore as shown by samples of finely
divided "cement" silver. These samples
yielded an assav value of 34 ounces per ton.
Alter the money was paid the company com
menced operations, and, it is said, it was
found that the average yield was 2VJ ounces
per ton and no native silver could be found.
Two years ago the Mudsill Mining Com
pany filed a claim in the United States
Circuit Court in this city seeking to rescind
the sale which had been made to them on
the ground that the mine had been "salted."
To-day Judge Swan decided that the com
plainants had not made a sufficient showing
of any fraud on the part of the delendants
in "saltine" the mine as to entitle them to
recover. The case will be appealed to tuo
United States Court of Appeals.
SEEDING COSIES LATE.
The Ground Too Yt"et for Present Work and
Winter Wheat Bad.
St. Paul, April 1L The Minnesota bulletin
says: In the northwestern counties the
spring seeding will be done rather late. In
the central counties seeding is retarded, and
the northern has been delayed by the recent
rains. The southern counties are in a simi
lar condition.
At some places seeding is nnder way, but
in themajoiity of tho counties farmers aro
waiting tor the ground to dry. Some local
ities report winter wheat to be in poor con
dition. Recent rains have furnished suffi
cient moisture to insuie a good start for the
growing crops. In many places tho ground
is too wet for seeding.
aHners Without Work.
Palmer, Mich., April 11. Tho Volunteer
Mine has laid off 225 men for tho alleged
ieaon that there Is an immense amount of
oi e in the pile and little or no shipping de
mand. BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Aboct 200 electric bell wiremen went on
strike in New York yesterday for an increase
of wag".. They have been working for$l 50
and $2 50 a aav and they now demand a unl-
frtm-rt cfln cvf Jl
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While heretofore several million bushels
ot wheat nave Deen ready lor shipment irom
Detroit in tho spring, this year the oxpecta
tlons have not been realized, as the demand
for Michigan wheat has exceeded the sup
ply. The Eastern Window Glass Manufacturers,
it is reported, indorse the action of the
WotPrn Manufacturers Association, which,
in Chicago last week decided to shut down
all factories on May 31 and remain idle until
October 15.
SEYTEirr & Bnos.' rolling mill at Seyfert,
Bei ks county, and Simon Se vfert's mill at
Gibraltar, employing 250 and 100 'hands re
spectively, will shut down this week in
definitely owing to the depression in tho
ii'on business.
Buator-s were current to-day of tho failure
of Bnrrowman, Phillips & Co., grain mer
chants of London, but tho failure has not
been officially announced. The firm's lia
bilities aie believed to bo small, affecting
American houses.
The Lehigh Iron Company, ot Allentown,
assigned yesterday to Marcus C. L. Kline.
Efforts arc being made to reorganize the
company and resume operations. Judg
ments aggregating over $50,000 were recently
filed against this company.
THE FIRE RECORD.
At Belding, Mich., fire destroyed tho hotel
and five business blocks, causing a loss of
$29,000, on which there was about half that
amount of insurance.
The frame house of John McShane, of
Boggs avenue, was destroyed by fire yester
day morning. A still alarm was sent in to
engine company No. 17.
FinE at Newport, K. L, destroyed the agri
cultural and hardware house of George A
Weaver yesterday morning, causing a loss
of $75,000. or which $27,000 is Insured.
NoTwrrasTAiTDixQ the arrest of two Bloom
boys in Detroit, who confessed to causing 21
incenaiary fires, such fires continue. Two
men weie arrested charged with causing a
fire Saturday.
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.
Jat Gould will probably purchase the
Pecos Valley Bailroad in New Mexico.
The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank has
filed a suit in the United States Circuit
Court for foreclosure of a mortgage of $100,
000 against the Iowa, Michigan and Dakota
Railroad, insolvent, and C. E. Braden as re
ceiver for the same. Bonds had been
issued and were protected by a ten year
mortgage Interest on this has not yet
been paid, hence the suit.
The trouble between the Grand Island
road and its employes has broken out afresh.
Tiio men have become dissatisfied with the
lecently arranged wage schedule and to-day
a now one was piesented to General Super
intendent McNeil Ho refused to consider
it. No Inrther action will bo taken until
General Manager Robinson arrives.
A Supremo Conrt Reversal.
Philadelphia, April 11. In the Supreme
Court to-day Judgment was reversed and
procedendo awarded in the case ot the city
ot Erio vs Elizabeth C." Bussell, owner of a
piece of land on Seventh street. It was an
appeal from the judgment of the Court of
Common Pleas of Erie county. The case
was appealed to decide the lrsality of the
collection of a lien filed for $285 3T. for pay
ment of the cost of a sewer constructed
along the lot.
A Man.
There is occasionally a man whose word is
as good as his bond, and whose bond is as
good as gold. Such a one is "W. L. Need
ham, a promiuent citizen and business man
of Orrsburg, Mo. Mr. Needham has been
selling Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
several years and recommends it to his cus
tomers because in his experience it has
proven to be the best for colds, croup and
whooping congh. He says, it is the most
popular medicine that he handles, and gives
the best satisfaction of any. Filty cent
bottles ior sale by druggists. TTSu
Excursion to At nshington and Norfolk.
A special excursion will leave B. & O. de
pot, l'ittsmirg, Pa., lor Washington and Nor
lolk, 8 a. sr. Tuesday, April 25. From Wash
ington, excursionists will go by boat down
the historic Potomac river and great Chesa
peake bay. ExemsionistR can visit Old
F,oint Comfort, Virginia Beach and Rich
mond. On Wednesday and Thursday a
limited number of choice lots in the great
city of Norfolk will be offered for sale at
very low prices. Fare round trip, only $11;
tickets good for ten days. For full informa
tion, aadress Sloan & Co., No. 127 Fourth
avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
Enstcr Novelties.
A wonderfnl collection just opened. Beau
tiful, lasting and inexpensive.
Bobekt L. McWattt & Co.,
Jewelers,
Tnsu 63 Fifth avenue.
Mothers, Would Ton Believe It?
Children's all-wool suits In nobby designs
will go at $2 60 this week only at Sailer &
Co.'s, cor. Smitlifield and Diamond streets.
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Wall Taper.
salo nnd great reduction in
G. C. Suidix, Limited,
403 Smitlifield street.
Removal
prices.
Yon Will Want
A new Easter scarf. Correct styles, lovely
silks. AVill Pbice, 47 Sixth street.
Lots at Aliqulppa average only $300. They
are a gilt-edge investment. Sale Thursday.
April 14.
Waltox's latest neckwear, all new novel
ties, at 50c
tus Littell's, 203 Smithfleld street.
Dox't miss the sale at Allquippa Thurs
day, April 14.
AnxHriM's sale commences at 10 o'clock j
st sharp, April 14.
Easteb neckwear.
Uassach's, 30 Sixth etrcot.
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TOBACCO AND RUM
Push Great Britain's Bevenue Aove
Goschen's Clever Estimates
ENGLAND'S BIG DBINK BILLS
Far Greater Than Those of Bonnio Scat
land or Old Ireland.
THE WEED'S EETURNS THE EICHEST
London, April 11. Mr. Goscheu, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, presented the
budget in the House of Commons to-day.
There was a full attendance of members
and the scenes were very animated.
Mr. Goschen said that as a traveler in
ascending a hill frequently fancied that he
had reached the highest point only to find
it was not the top, so had been for the last
three weeks his experience with the finan
cial prosperity of the country. The esti
mates had been framed on the theory that the
top had been attained, yet a curve led onward
and upward. Good fortune again permit
ted him to submit a budget showing a sur
plus of 1,067,000. This was larecly due to
the expending departments, for it was not
to any extent due to an expansion of the
revenue. There had been times when he
had suffered great anxiety. During Janu
ary and February the prospect was not
bright, but during March it was better, and
this enabled him to submit a satisfactory
result.
A Surplus Above the Estimate.
In the last budget the estimate of expendi
tures was 99.264,000, the actual expendi
tures were 98,928,000, leaving a surplus ot
336,000. This was a remarkably small
difference-between tho estimate and actual
expenditures. The total estimates of ex-
penditure during the last three years was
CAUCIlUlbUtbCi 4.1IU VVttk JtUUillI 1 SWA-
jE2,0W,O0O. The total difference in tuo ex-
penditures was only 137,000. Tills state
ment was received with cheers. Analyzing
the revenue Mr. Goschen said that the cus
toms piodnced il9,736,000belng .36,000 abovo
tl'o sum calculated unon. It was not alcohol
that caused the increase this year, but.
tobacco. The revenue tax from tea was ex
ceedingly satisfactory, yielding jC34.000over
I the estimate. Tobacco producod .9 953,000.
being JM1S.O0O above the previous yeai-rAtt
tnis, Jttr. uoscnen aeciareu, proven mas
wages had not fallen and that there was
still widely diffused prosperityamong work
in zmen.
The excise revenue showed .5.3,000 over
the estimate. The increase in the consump
tion of home spirits was srreater in Eng
land than in Ireland or Scotland, being
6i per cent iu England against 13-5 in
Scotland and 1 per cent in Ireland. More
spirits were consumed than beer. Mr.
Goschen estimated tho revenue for the cur
rent financial year at jE90,477,00 and the
expenditures at 90,253,000, leaving a small
margin or 224,000. This will not allow a
remission of luxation with the exception of
a minor reduction in patent fees, absorbing
50,000 and the fixing of the duty on spark
ling wiuos from 2s 6d and Is per gallon to a
uniform rate o! 2s.
The Itiver of Prosperity Broad.
Mr. Goschen said ho held himself responsi
ble for the prudence of the estimates. The
mighty rlvor of national prosperity still re
mained broad, and he trusted that tho vari
ous water sheds of national wealth would
continue the stream undiminished in v61
ume. lChecrs.1 Mr. Goschen spoke for two
hours. He announced the resignation of
Mr. West, Chairman of the Inland Revenue
Board.
Mr. Gladstone suggested that the IIouso
follow the usual custom and avoid discus
sion of the budget until the day fixed for
its mature consideration. He hoped the
chance of duty on sparkling wines, while
benefiting some wine producing countries
would not involve trouDie on otnor coun
tries. He eulogized the services of Mr.
West The resolution concerning wines
was passed.
The pointless character of the budget
disappoints all parties. The conservatives
in the lobby did not attempt to disguise
their regret that Mr. Goschen had presented
a statement containing nothing that would
influence the nonular vote in the general
elections. The Liberals, who had expected
some coup to attract electors to the conser
vative side, were pleasantly surprised by
the harmless character of Goschen's state
ment. WILL B0I PAY THE NOTES.
Testimony Regarding the Huntington For
geries Being Prepared in Dresden.
Dresden, April 1L Mr. Hord, Mr. John
Huntington's son-in-law, who is now in this
city in connection with the alleged forging
of his father-in-laws indorsement to certain
notes, says that no matter what comes, Mr.
Huntington will not pay the forged notes.
Mr. Huntington, who has been ill at a pri
vate hospital here is much better. Ho had a
long consultation with Mr. Hord to-day. Mr.
Huntington thinks that the guilty parties,
knowing of his poor health, speculated upon
his early death concealing the forueries. Ho
and his wife are therefore roused against
the treacherous friend who has forged his
name, and will fight any suits brought o:i the
notes tn the bitter end.
Mr. Hord reasserts that not one genuine
Huntington indorsement is in circulation.
Affidavits to that effect are being prepared,
and thev will bo sworn to before Mr. Palmer,
the American Consul here, so that In the
event of Mr. Huntington's death his testi
mony against the genuineness of tho in
dorsements will still be available.
TWO MORE ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.
The .Bombs to Have Been Used in
tho
Madrid Affair Analyzed.
MADRin, April 11. An analysis has been
made of the bombs found in the possession
of Kcan Maife Dolboche and Manuel
Ferrclra, the self-proclaimed Anarchists
who wero arrested on Monday last in tho
building in which the Cortes meets, tho
object of their presence there being pre
sumably to blow up that building. Tho ex
perts who examined the bombs have re
ported that the explosive mixture in them
consisted of English gunpowder and chlorato
ofpotassium.
The repoit orthe experts states that If the
bombs had been exploded in a confined
place they would have wrought enormous
damage. Two more Anarchists who were
denounced by Munoso yesterday have been
arrested at Bens. Munosc intormed tho
Judge to-day that Delhoche and Ferrel'-a
were chosen by lot at a meeting of Anar
chists held near Madrid to blow up the
Chamber of Deputies.
A BIG DEMONSTRATION
FroinUrd London by .England's Great
Army of Unemployed Workingmen.
Losdos, April 11. John Moore Packer ad
dressed a meeting of unemployed working
men at Tower Hill to-day. He promised to
inaugurate an agitation such as has never
before been seen in London. He said among
other things that everybody remembered
the workingmen's Tratalgar Square agita
tion, but the proposed movement in
tho interest of the unemployed would
far surpass that. Unless relief was
afforded the unemployed thousands of
men would riso up and demand work.
Another speaker c.aid that when the un
employed marched iu thousands through
the West End of London demanding work
or bread the people became trlghtenod and
opened a relief fund. He trusted that be
fore the end of the month such largo pro
cessions would be held as would open tho
eyes of the authorities) to the necessities ot
the unemployed, and oblige them to open
relief works.
England Not After Sin Qnentin.
Loxdom, April 1L Mr. J. W. Lowthor, Par
liamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office,
replying to questions in the House of Com
mons, declared that the statement that Eng
land was scheming tojsecure the harbor of
Sail Quentin In' Lower California as a coaling
station under the cloak of the Mexican In
ternational Company was untrue.
Horse Guardsmen Turn Thieves.
Lonoos, April 11. Robert Simpiin and
Bowlaud Jones, lioy.il Horse Guardsnjen,
woie lemanded in tho Bow Street Fcslico
Court to-day on the charge of stealing rings,
bank notes and surgical instruments, valued
at 8J, from Philip S. Blair, an American
residing In Montagu street.
Iondon Bond Robbers Convicted.
LosDOif, April 11 Tho case known as "TJie
Great Bond Bobbery" wliiclhas been before
the courts for a year, was, 'brought to an end
jJjiLglik
ft-',a.-.iaBl3
b2&ii-?v.tsdi5isii .".
to-day by the conviction of the defendants,
Walter Selwyn, a stock broker, and Freder
ick Peach, on the charge of conspiring to
defraud John Willis Sears out of the sum of
390. Selwyn was sentenced to five years
penal servitude and Peach to fourteen
months' imprisonment at bard labor.
TEN VILLAGES BUENED,
Five Peoplo Are Dead and Many Thou
sands Homeless in Hungary;
Tibhsa, April 1L Ten villages in Hun
gary have been burned. Tho spieadof the.
flames was assisted by dry and windy
weathor. Large stores of corn and many
head of cattle have been bnrned. Five per
sons wero killed and thousands aro homo
less. Throe English Army Officers Drowned.
London, April 11. A boat contalnlng'slz
army engineers was citpsized at Gravesond
to-day and three of the occupants drowned.
The others swam ashore.
tittle Cablegrams.
Viesita is troubled with numerous incen
diary fires, thought to be for the purpose of
robbery.
Ex-Maitaqeb Kichakds, of tho Deposit
Bank at Sidnev, N. S. W., was sentenced to
lour years' imprisonment for declaring false
balances.
A cokn dealer at Taganrog, Russia, a sea
port town on tho north shore of the Sea of
Azof has been sentenced to a month's im
prisonment for selling to the etarvina peas
ants corn with which earth had been mixed.
Aleamso fioumanlan organ, tho Ronuxnul,
says rumors are current, that Roumanian
circles anticipate the abdication of the King
of Roumania in favor of the Clown Prince.
No confirmation of tho rumor is obtainable.
The Memorial Diplomatique, Paris, affects
to know that the English Government has
changed its opinion, and is now ready to co
operato ith other powers in a conference
to begin international action against An
archists. The British authorities have anplied for a
warrant against Dceminsr, the murderer, so
that he may be brought to England and
prosecuted for tne Rain Hill crimes, in case
the prosecution in Australia should result
in failure to convict.
The French Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote of 314 to 177. has adonted the credit of 3.-
, -- -.-, - ,-
V,w0 francs for operations in Dahomey.
Several members advocated an expedition
iuto the Interior and a thorough punishing
of the Dahonieyan.
The London Chronicle's correspondent in
the Kussian famine districts writes that he
saw Count Tolstoi's daughter open In a
single (lav letters containing checks amount
ing to 3,009 roubles. Most of tho letters were
from America and England.
The Bombay Gazette yesterday published
a transaction of a State paper that the
Ameer of Afghanistan has addressed to the
"Noble Chlels of Afghanistan." He strong
ly advises them not to trust Bussia, and to
continue friendly relations with England.
The two notorious criminals, Frederick
Pemberton Peach, and Walter Selyn, alias
Lord Fairfax, alias Captian Selyn, and also
known as Archibald Herbert Melville, wero
to-day convicted and sentenced for their
part lor tho extraordinary robbery of $30,000
in Turkish bonds in 1890.
Deemiho, the Melbourne murderer, passes
most of his time in writing his defence. His
counsel, Mr. Lyle, declines to see Deeming
alone lest he be suspected of prompting the
u.u.ucii.1 ,u iciu iimuutso. -ul. Ajyixj im
poses to apply ior a postponement of the
trial on the ground that the present public
excitement would prejudice a fair trial.
DISCUSSING THE GUARD.
Adjutant General Greenland Meets With
the Second Brigade Commandants
Tactics and Other Subjects DUcnssed
An Informal Meeting of the Brigade
Board Held.
Adjutant General Greenland yesterday
met tho various commandants of the Second
Brigade at the Seventh Avenue. Among
those present were General Wiley, Colonels
Hawkins, Smith and Burchfield, Lieutenant
Colonels Butledge and Glen, Captain Jones,
Sheridan Troop, and Captain Hunt. Battery
B. The purpose of the meeting, the Adn
tant General explained, was to discuss the
National Guard and receive suggestions.
The subject of brigade or regimental
camps lor this year was thoroughly dis
cussed. General Wiley was iu lavor or a
brigade camp and others were In favor of
regimental. The question was discussed at
some length, with the result hanging llrthe
balance. Those in favorof regimental camp
will probably oome out on top, as the ques
tion ol expense will figure materially this
year in order to make a good showing at the
World's Fair next vear.
The new tactics were discussed. The chief
question was whether the battalions should
be commanded bv the Lieutenant Colonel
and Major or the Major and Senior Captain.
All the CoIoneU were in favor of the latter
planand advanced the argument that if the
Colonel should happen to be absent the
Senior Captain would not be able to as
sume command, not having the experi
ence. Another inattor discussed was
the taking of raw recruits to tho World's
Fair. General Greenland expressed himself
as being decidedly against company com
manders picking up men Just to fill out their
companies for a trip, and was sustained by
all present. Colonel Hawkins suggested
that recruiting be stopped irom the first of
next December and no one be permitted to
take the trip who had not been regularly en
listed within the specified time. The Ad
jutant General seem-, to think favorably of
the plan and will probably issue an order to
that eflVct at an early date.
General Wiley created a slight sensation
by announcing that he had filled the exist
ing vacancies on his staff and reauested
that an informal meeting of the brigade
board be held in order that, the gentlemen
might bo examined. They were W. J. Singer,
of Bellefonte, to be Brigade Commissary,
and J. J. Miller, of Pittsburg, Judge Advo
cate, with tho rank of Major. Major Singer
was Biigade Commissary Sergeant under
Major Curtin, and succeeds him in that
position. Major Miller is a prominent at
lornoy of the Allegheny county bar, and
succeeds Major Braden, formerly of Green
ville. The;ai)pointment6 were lavorably rec
ommended by the board.
Tho luatterot sluitt'lng out tho recruit
who only enlists lor the pleasure trip and
then.lalls to report for drills and other duty
meets wltn general approval. "Iu fact,11
said one officer, 'tliero are a certain class of
people who have a flight knowledge ot mil
itary u-ages who never care to attend
to drills, etc., but when if. trip is pro
posed you will always find the various cap
tains besieged with applicants to be taken
along. This, to a considerable extent, has
been donoln thepast,but the present admin
istration has concluded to shut them
out." This meets the hearty approval of
the majority of tho company1 commandants,
and if the present systemof quarterly re
turns Is kept up it will be verv easy to de
tect a Captain who does not follow out the
Older.
OVER one hundred rooms rented in last
week's DISPATCU. Watch the Wednes
day, Saturday and Sunday To Let "Rooms"
in the Cent-a-Word advertising columns.
The Latest Ont.
To-day we will sell a few hundred of tho
now wood brown suits for men (they are the
craze in the East) at $6.80 and $7.50, These
suits come iu the plain browns or the fancy
blocks and are made in single breasted
round cut sacks, 'single breasted straight
cut sacks or double breasted sacks. Theso
suits arc the latest novelty for men and
.make tho most t-erviceablo business suit you
could buv. Wood blown suits such as these
sell at $15 to $13 everywhere, bnt we will sell
a few hundred just to introduco themat$C80
and $7 50. Come and take your choice.
P. C. C C Clothiers, cor. Grant and Dia
mond strect'j.
Nol-man Stallion at Auction.
Imported stallion Courageous, recorded in
volumes or tho French Draught Horse Am
sociation jlif Ills., will be sold at Arnhclm's
sale Thursday, April 14. Guarantee given
day of salt;.
Easter L;nons.
We liave just opened a fresh importation
of beautiful hemstitched cloths and nap
kins. Prices extremelv low.
Jos. Horse & Co. '8
Penn Avenue Stores.
SI Opens a Bank Account.
The Peoplo'a Savings Bank will cheerfully
receive deposits lroni the above amount up.
Commence now and lay up something for a
rainy day. TT3
Easter Gowns.
Lovely spring novelties Just received.
TAncELs & Joses, 29 Filth av.
Three trains leave tho P. & L. E. station
on Thursday, April 14, for the Aliqulppa
tale.
Easteb neckwear.
- Hamjaoh's, 30 Sixth street.
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HINTS OF BIG BRIBES
In Connection With the Way in
Whjch Corporations Manago
DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA MATTERS.
Street Railways and Gas Companies Get
Everything .They Want,
ETEM TO EXECUTIVE APPB0BAT1M
ISPECIAI, TELEGHAFlIlC LETTER. (
BmjEAu o The Dispatch, I
Washiwotow, D. C. April 11.
For many years there has been no great
scandal in Congress involving direct cbarges
of bribery among'members, but it is, never
theless, a fact that legislation year after
year shows an exceedingly curious state 'of
affairs in regard to the treatment of cor
porations which- might fairly excite the
suspicion of the public that all Congress
men are not interested in the cause of the
dear people as deeply as one would think
from the very public-spirited ring of their
speeches.
An illustration of this was seen to-day.
It was "District day" in the House, and
nearly the whole afternoon was devoted to
consideration of a resolution extending the
time in which the Metropolitan Street Kail
road Company may change their motive
power to something else than the wretched,
over-worked horses, which, with the over
worked drivers and conductors, earn mag
nificent dividends for stockholders who do
not work at all.
Hard Work to Get Rapid Transit.
Two years ago a law was enacted provid
ing that the two great street car companies,
the Washington and Georgetown and tho
Metropolitan, both immensely profitable,
should dispense with horses and employ
some of tho modern motors which similar
companies in other cities had voluntarily
adopted. Congress acred only under stress
of great popular comolalnt, and then in tho
tendorest manner possible.
Nearly two years were given the compa
nies in which to mafeo the change. Now,
when the time has almost expired, the
Washington and Georgetown, which owns
tno great -ennsyivania avenne line, ana
which has been preparing for the cable
system, asks for an extension of six months,
and the Metropolitan, owing an equally ex
tensive system, taking in F. street, asks for
a year, alleging that it has been experimen
ting with storage batteries, but is not yet
ready to run tho risk of making the change,
as the independent batteries are not yet
perfected this, in the face of the fact that
the Eckington line has been running the
storage battery cars for moro than a year,
and with entire satisfaction.
The sollcitudo of Congressmen for tho in
terests of the Metropolitan line, in tnelr
speeches to-day was. to put it as mildly as
possible, very peculiar. Several statesmen,
if they wero not known to be honest to ex
cess, might havo been charged, Judging
from their own speeches, with being re
tained attorneys or this wealthy company.
Many Difficulties to Overcome.
One gentleman explained, with great
elaboration, that It was impossible for the
company to Introduce the cable system on
its roads, on account of the sharp curves
and tho crowded condition or the streets;
that the law prohibited overhead wires,
and that the storage battery system, as yet
imperfect, was the only lecomse. He ad
mitted, alter some sharp questioning, that
the cable system was feasible, but could
only De operated at a loss.
More than one member exhibited similar
solicitude, and these aiguments brought out
the witty O'Nell, of f-t. Louis, who, with
withering sarcasm, desired to know whether
it was thebusinessofmembersin legislating
for the benefit of the public to consider
whether a corporation worth millions ot
dollars would make more or less profit from
certain changes which ought to have been
made voluntarily years ago.
After much discussion, in which nearlv
every speaKer snoweu a tenaernessm regard
tcthe wants of the company that was almost
pathetic, the resolution granting an exten
sion for a year was adopted, with an amend
ment cruelly providing that if there weie no
seat provided for the passenger no rare
should be charged, which, of course, will be
a dead letter. " To soften tho apparent
asperity of this amendment, another amend
ment was adopted granting the corapanv
tho nrivilegQ of using overhead wires, and
one limiting the extension of time to six
months was promptly defeated.
The Companies Get All They Want.
now the Senate and the President will
look upon such legislation no one can fore
see. The influence of these corporations
has usually been omnipotent among the old
corporation lawyers who compose a large ma
jority of the Senate, and when bills grant-'
mg eniargea powers to sucn oouies nave
passed botli Houses of Congress and gone to
the Executive they have encountered no ob
struction, ft may be inferred, therefore,
that these companies will get just what
thoy want. The broken-down horses will be
Woiked to the last day of the limit, over
head wires will mar the beautiful streets,
and the scandalous crowding of cars will
notecase for a day. Between 8 and 10 in the
morning and 4 and C in the afternoon the
cars are jammed to their utmost capaoitv
and the horses treated In tho most cruel
manner; and Congressmen, at tho behest of
the comnany, meekly grant a year moro for
the continuance of all these abuses.
Millions havo been made by a few men out
of charters which cost them nothing and the
most shameful disregard of the comfort and
interests of the public has been constantly
snown. vompiaints nave Deen sneereu at.
"Investigations" of abuses have been had
time and again in Congress, but without re
sult. The companies havo seemed to have
an all powerful grip on nearly every Con
gressman who takes a hand in District mat
ters, and tho same phenomena are exhibited
In the treatment or all questions which con
cern the great local corporations. If there
has been no corruption there aro certainly
plenty of signs to tho contrary.
Ycarafteryearattcmpts havo been made
to compel tho steam railroads entering the
city to chango routes and grades sons not to
endanger llio and ruin nroperty. Not only
has nothing been done, but the roads have
actually gon eon appropriating public streets
and reservations without any color of law.
Tho onlv bill that has been perfected look
ing to the changes was drafted by an attor
ney of one of the roads, and tho almost
frantic advocacy of that bill by certain mom
bers came within an aco of bringing out a
scandal that would have rung throughout
tho country.
A Similar Affair Recalled.
A few years ago certain members started a
crusade against the Washington Gas Light
Company, one of the most profitable corpor
ations of its kind in tho world, which then
charged the outrageous price or $1 75 net per
1,000 leet It was shown by expert evidence
that the gas could be furnished at an im
mense profit for $1 or less per 1,000 feet, but
the Investigating Committee accepted a vol
untary reduction by the company of 25 cents
per 1,000 feet. Citizens now' pay $1 50 per
1,000 feet for very indifferent gas, the com-
any was as suddenly silenced ns though it
lad died, and not a Congressional voice has
ever since been raised in criticism of the gas
company. What influence It is that secures
such sympathetic consideration in Congress
for thee corporations which are roDbing
nnd snubbing this public to a degree hargly
tolerated iir any other city is a mvstery
which may not be solved, but it is one
.which Is of close and vital Interest to the
peoplo of every Congressional district in
the whole, country.
The perlormances at which I have scarcely
more than hinted would hardly be possible
in an atmosphere of strictly honest legisla
tion. They are much discussed In a quiet
way. Just now. The performance of to-day
has moused a criticism among the peoplo
and those Congressmen not Immediately in
terested, which may yot cause a number of
very prominent ears to tingle unpleasantly.
Naturally, criticism is concentrated on tho
committee having these matters In chargo,
but the large majority given almost invar
iably in favor of anytuini that la demanded
by the cornorations, shows that the influ
ences at work extend oeyond tho committeo.
Confirmation Salts for ITaster.
The be3t materials, newest styles and low
est prices this week at Sailer & Co.'s, cor.
Smithfleld and Diamond streets. ttssu
Do Kot ITorset
To see our Easter neckwear. Most beautiful
line. Will Pbice, 47 Sixth street.
You oan save $50 If wantlnjr a norse by at
tending Anihelm's sale, Thursday, April 14.
TVuite and fancy vests for Easter.
Hahkach's, 30 Sixth street.
The riace to Bnv
Tour Easter scarf. . " " Wiii Price,
47 Sixth street.
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BITTER TRUTH.
But Many Men Are Just Such Fools.
A sad story that of Henry C. Atno. A man
of high ambitions, he had worked and strug
gled incessantly for riches. Just as success
crownedhls efforts he fell dead, struck down
by nerve and brain prostration from over
strain and overwork, in his drawing room,
amid his magnificent surroundings. He never
lived to enjoy tho fruits of hU excesslvo
overwork.
So it is with thousands. They work, using
up their nerve force until they find them
selves excessively nervous, powers of mind
and thought weakened, nerves unstrung and
unsteady, nights sleepless and nnrefreshlng.
bodies tired and exhausted. There will orten
be confused mlud, dim vision, loss of
memory, dull feeling head, dizziness, des
pondency, strange sensations, trembling on
excitement, feeling of anxiety, poor blood,
malaria, indigestion, bowels constipated,
liver and kidneys out of order. The after
effects of the Grip also tend to weaken and
prostrate the nerves, and the weakened and
shattered nervous systems left in the train of
this disease are alarmingly numerous.
If you hate the above symptoms you aro In a
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weakness of Spring Debility makes you
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oinpletely broken down in health,
and suffered from extreme exhaustion and
could not rest day or night. I had rheuma
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disease. I had to give up work. After con
sulting and treating with several eminent
physicians with no benefit, I at last tried Dr.
Greene's Nervnra. I ao now well, having
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left me.
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I Manning St., Medford, Mass."
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