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THURSDAY. MAY 12. 1832.
TWELVE PAGES
MIECMAX DJKvVITAKI! IT.
According to the joint significance of
various reports concerning the Presidental
situation, Senator John Sherman is to bo
made a candidate in spite of himself. It
is stated dpfinitely that the opposition to
Harrison has determined to concentrate
on Sherman. On the other hand, in a per
sonal interview the Senator himself de
clares that he is not a candidate. lis ex
pects Harrison to be nominated on the
first ballot; but interposes a saving clause
to the effect that if the President does not
carry the first ballot the outlook will be
exceedingly doubtful. For himself, how
ever, he does not consider that he is in the
field in any sense of the term.
This is couched in such terms that it can
hardly be regarded as a straddling of the
fence. The divergence between the Sena
tor's own view of the situation and that of
those who announce their intention to put
him in the field is marked but not inexpli
cable. Sherman is too old and practiced a
politician not to know the real basis of the
opposition, and, though Presidental ambi
tion may still slumber in his heart ready to
be aroused on due provocation, he is not
likely to be misled by any proposition to
use him as a figurehead for furthering ne
gotiations as to the disposition of the
spoils.
Harrison is not by any means an ideal
candidate; but, so long as the opposition
can only find available men who persist
ently decline their support, he is the only
one the Republicans can get
THE SHIP CANAL SURVEY.
The passage by the Senate yesterday of
Senator Quay's bill for a United States
survey of the Ohio river and Lake Erie
canal indicates that another step has been
taken toward an official presentation of
this great project to the Federal Govern
ment. The bill will now go to the House
in ample time to secure action on it be
fore the date set for adjournment
While this additional step from the re
port of the State Commission is slow
progress it indicates a steady movement
toward the ultimate. We have already
expressed our opinion of the error made
by the advocates of internal water trans
portation in not insisting on the priority
of the various works in the order of their
necessity. The deep water channel on
the lakes, where 15 feet of navigation al
ready exists, is not half as urgent as the
extension of the 15-foot system to connect
with the rivers and ocean. Tet the
former has by consent of the other in
terests already received an appropriation
while others much more important have
as yet only obtained a hearing as regards a
survey.
This is not necessarily a point which re
quires a conflict between the different in
terests, but it is pertinent as showing how
important it is for all who are interested
in the connection between the rivers and
the lakes, and the connection of Western
Pennsylvania's interests with lake navi
gation, to use every means of urging for
ward that magnificent project
AN ILLUSTRATION OF MOB LAW.
The stupid barbarity of mobs is signally
illustrated by that remarkable outbreak at
the town of Lodz, Poland. The disorder
commenced over a labor dispute. How
labor troubles could be connected with
race questions is not apparent at this dis
tance; but seemingly it is a popular law of
action in H'aic countries that almost any
thing is just cause lor attacking the He
brew. So the mob turned in and, without
any reference to the labor dispute, killed
ten Hebrew citizens and injured a hundred
others.
The savagery with which these brutal
mobs beat their victims to death is char
acteristic of nearly all mob outbreaks.
The unique idea of turning a labor out
break into a butchery is an extreme but
characteristic illustration of the utter lack
of reason, sense or humanity that governs
all appeals to this spirit. The Polish
rioters only show to Americans who are
prone to appeal to the riotous spirit what
the mob will do if the spirit of ignorant
lawlessness is allowed to prevail.
The lesson should not be lost. There is
nothing so stupid, so savage and so cow
ardly as a mob. Wherever it exists it is a
disgrace to civilization.
AX ABCSK AT THE REST.
The announcement by the Reading Rail
road of a reduction of ten per cent in
rates on coal to furnaces and manufactur
ers along its line is made much of by the
Philadelphia newspapers as disproving the
expectations of an advance in rates from
the deal. Considering that the price of
coal throughout various sections has al
ready, even at the season ot the year when
prices usually go down, been advanced
more than this decrease will amount to,
the action can hardly be considered a dis
proof of that charge,
It is) of course, a mitigation that the
iron interests in the anthracite region
which have for years been in a more or
less suspended state of animation on ac
count of excessive prices of fuel are to
be given a chance for their life. Such a
course might be regarded as a mere meas
ure of self-defense on the part of the coal
carriers for the preservation of their traf
fic; but as those corporations have not
heretofore perceived their interest in doing
this the present step represents an un
doubted improvement
Rut while the reduction itself is an
amelioration the method of doing it, and
the limitations put on it, represent a cor
porate abuse. It is the declaration of the
right of the carrier to control the "dispo
sition of a staple after it has been trans
ported an assertion never made except
where there is a corporate control ap
proximating a monopoly. The iron mill
or furnace man can get 10 per cent Off his
rates; the domestic consumer must pay in
full If a trunk line should undertake to
say that if flow is to be baked into
crackers or bread by large manufacturers
it should be transported at ten per cent
less than if it is to be sold to the people
to be baked in their homes it would raise
a storm that would very quickly abate the
abuse. If a river company should adopt
the position that it will tow bituminous
coal down the river at one rate for a roll
ing mill at Cincinnati, but would charge
ten per cent more if the coal is to be sold
for domestic use, it would simply be
laughed at The discrimination is wholly
without foundation in the substantial cir
cumstances affecting the transportation of
the freight
Yet the principle of impartiality is so
little understood among corporate circles
that our Philadelphia cotemporaries are
sounding the praises of tho corporate
policy which assumed for a common
carrier the direction of the use which shall
be made of the freight which it transports.
THE PAPAL POLICY.
The early announcement that Arch
bishop Ireland's policy with the Faribault
and Stillwater schools was disapproved by
the Vatican is very decidedly corrected by
the text of the decision and the letter of
Cardinal Lcodochowsky transmitting it
The report of disapproval was doubtless
founded on the expression that such
provisions "cannot be approved directly
by the Holy See when they imply a de
parture to a certain extent from the gen
eral law." But when this withholding
of direct approval is only inferential, and
the direct decision is that the arrange
ment, "taking into consideration all the
circumstances, can be tolerated," the
effect of the judgment is more decidedly
favorable to Archbishop Ireland's liberal
policy on the subject of schools than
opposed to it There is some room for
doubt as to the application which this
decision will have to other parts of the
country. But, as the essential circum
stance in the Faribault and Stillwater
crses are reproduced in the vast majority
of the towns and cities of the United
States, it seems to open the way to a com
plete settlement of the issues supposed to
exist between the Catholic Church and
the secular school system.
Nearly simultaneous with this is the ap
pearance of a Papal brief enjoining the
prelates and ecclesiastics of the Catholic
Church in France to give a hearty support
to the Republic. The brief is not only a
heavy blow to the Royalist cause, which
has for nearly a century counted the
Church organization as one of its strong
est supports, but it corroborates emphati
cally the recent declarations of Archbishop
Ireland with regard to the broad and
liberal policy prevailing at Rome under
the present Pope. The two decisions
place the Church of Rome in a new atti
tude as regards its relations to the two
great republics. Toward one, where
Catholicism has been held to imply the
restoration of monarchy, it declares its
friendship and support; in the other,
where it has been supposed to regard with
disapproval the system of free schools un
dominated by ecclesiastical influences, it
puts itself in agreement with the entire
separation of secular and religious in
structions. In these deliverances the policy of Leo,
as outlined by Archbishop Ireland, shows
itself to be to put the Church in harmony
with popular government, the elevation of
the masses and the advancement of the
interests and intelligence of the common
people consistently with the maintenance
of property and religion. This is certainly
a wise and far-seeing course.
BETTER HEBE THAN ABROAD.
Extracts from the seventh annual re
port of the Department of Labor, as sent
to the President yesterday by Commission
er Carroll D. Wright, will be found else
where. The statistics given demonstrate
the advantages enjoyed by the laboring
classes of this country over those of
Europe.
Taking the cotton, woolen and glass in
dustries as those with regard to which
most information is given, the following
deductions may be drawn: In the cotton
industry a family in this country saves $17
a year as compared to $32 in France, $20
in Germany, 510 in Switzerland and 554 in
England. The larger amount in England
is to be accounted for by the fact that
the comforts of life are far superior
here to those of a similar family in the
older country. In woolen manufacturing
a family here saves far more than in
England, France or Germany, the ratio
being more than seven to one between the
United States and the most favorableof the
European manufacturers. In glass making
the annual balance is $126 for a family in
this country as compared to $41 in Eng
land, and $135 in Belgium, the slightly
better conditions in the last country being
due to the difference in the age of the in
dustry in the two 'countries and the lower
standard of comfort in Belgium.
American labor is in a good position and
it will constantly progress so long as home
industries are properly fostered.
AN INJURIOUS MISNOMER.
A communication elsewhere calls at
tention tj a matter which, if not corrected,
requires an explanation for the benefit of
the public. It is tho matter of public enter
tainments, such as balls and excursions,
which are advertised as "theatrical," but
are neither authorized nor patronized by
those who have the right to represent that
profession.
Such entertainments have been given
and are announced to take place in a
manner that creates the impression that
they are under the auspices and will be
attended by the members of the pro
fession in Pittsburg. They are frequently
attended by a class which make it neces
sary to have them conducted under police
surveillance, and naturally the nominal
connection of such affairs with the the
atrical interest confers no credit on the
latter. Such things are responsible for a
large share of the public belief in the im
morality of the stage.
In tins class of cases the injury inflicted
on the reputation of the profession is an
undeserved one. Responsible representa
tives of the theatrical interest in Pittsburg
repudiate the connection of their profes
sion with such affairs. The managers of
two theaters have forbidden their em
ployes to take part in them in any such
way as to connect therewith the names of
their theaters. This will stop the repre
sentation of this class of amusement as
"theatrical" for the future; but with re
gard to those already advertised as such it
is no more than just to call attention to
the fact that the use of the term is un
authorized and injurious.
Exactly what degree of repression
can be used with regard to social enter
tainments of this class may be an open
discussion; but it is a clear proposition
that the reputation of the stage should not
be compromised by an unauthorized con
nection with such affairs.
ON A GRAND SCALE.
The magnificent proportions which the
preparations for the Chicago World's
Fair are assuming is illustrated by a
table elsewhere showing the appro
priations made by foreign govern
ments and by States for exhibits. Par
tial lists of these appropriations have
heretofore been published, but tho com
plete list showing a total of appropria
tions by foreign governments of $5,249,000,
and of $2,410,000 by the various States,
gives an idea of the magnitude of the ex
hibits which could hardly be expressed in
any other shape. When we add the
$1,500,000 appropriation for the Govern
ment exhibit we see that the expenditure
in that line, wholly independent of the
work of building the department buildings
and preparing the ground on one hand,
and of the expenses of private exhibitors
on the other, amounts to $9,189,000.
It is plain that anything like a judicious
use of these funds, together with the ex
penditure on the same or larger scale in the
work of preparing tho grounds and main
buildings will make the Fair one of unex
ampled magnitude and attractiveness.
The fact also that these outside contribu
tions so nearly equal the investment which
Chicago has made in the enterprise might
make that city a little less bumptious as
to the terms on which she is to accept that
desired $5,000,000 additional from tho
United States Treasury.
Kaiser Wilhelm's emphatic and
pointed praise ana promotion of the piivate
who shot two citizens endeavoring to pass
him without the countersign while ho whs
standing sentry is likely enough to he one
more of the many despotic incentives he is
providing for a test of his soldiers' willing
ness to remember only him under all cir
cumstances, and to shoot their fellow coun
trymen as readily as tlioy would foreigners.
An anti-Harrison man is one who hates
the only present available aspirant, and
makes great efforts to secure the nomina
tion for men who deny that they are can
didates. Tiie best plan for keeping dogs out of the
catchers' clutches and the deadly pound is
to piovido the quadrupeds with licenses.
A cotempokaby criticises The Dis
patch's telegraphic news because of its
diversity. Tho public is well aware of the
fact that Tub Dispatch is not a partisan
organ, and does not reject or color tho views
of its correspondents to suit nny class, fac
tion or party. Those who read The DisrATcn
get all kinds of political news and views
from whatever reliable source obtainable.
HENRY "Watterson's self-assumed om
niscience of what is lor the good or the Dem
ocratic party is only equaled by his
nblquity in giving it utterance.
Rapid transit facilities in this city are
apt to provide gi eat advantages for leaving
the world in a hurry.
Sherman mast be getting about tired of
public interference. Within a few months
he has been both retired to private life and
made a Presidental candidate without any
consideration lor his own opinions on the
matter in cither case.
Russell, Harrison's indiscretions ate
becoming so inconvenient lor his father
that his fitness to succeed Egan in Chile
should be seriously considered.
With lour brand new police magistrates,
Allegheny atTairs ought to be kept straight
for a time.
"Watterson's remarks about that letter
of withdrawal to be expected from Cleveland
make it appear that the Colonel is anxious
to ascertain in what decree Grover is amen
able to tho processor hypnotic suggestion.
Dare trimmings at the bottom of skirts
are stylish Just now. No PittsDurg lady
need bo out of this fashion after walking
two blocks.
The Woman's Relief Corps is indulging
In some piquant icsolutions at Piqua, Ohio.
Free coinage schemers are outdone by a
tidal w avc reported from Uruguay as having
deposited on the beach many coins ot the
Spanish era. Here is money from a watery
transaction without loss to anyone ut all.
From the number ot sores in party or
ganizations it may bo presumed that heelers
will find plenty of employment In this year's
campaign.
To speak colloquially, this city has been
socked with Eureka half hose.
Pittsbubo manufacturers postponing
applications for space at the World's Fair
much longerwill arrive. Just in time to be too
late to secure privileges previously engaged
by persons of more push.
After a day of public celebration, the
Foresters got down to .routine business
yesterday. In fact, they ocg.in sawing wood.
It is not always easy to draw the line be
tween perjury and inucuracy.
That alleged $5,000,000 addition to the
city's bonded debt is likely to be indefinitely
postponed until such time as it is round that
unnecessary debts form a remunerative
source of income.
The weather was just good enough to
en.ible Boston to bent us yesterday. Our
nine plays surest when thero is no game.
Political wire pullets do not fear the
Presidental lightning.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
The President, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Dim
mick and W. Parker will leave Washington
to-day for Virginia Beach, Va.
The King of Roumania, although over
shadow cd by the brilliant personality of his
literary wife, Carmen Sylva, is one of tho
most interesting monarchs in Europe.
During his stay in Memphis James
Whitcomb Kilcy was entertained by the
Woman's CI ah, and a local paper says tho
poet "played the lion with a raro grace."
Governor Fifer, of Illinois, is fond of
a good ctear, but to prevent his liking for
tobacco from getting the upper hand of him
he abstains from the weed lor one week in
every four.
Hon. William T. Harris, United States
Commissioner of Education.hasbeen elected
to a lectureship before the University Ex
tension Seminary which opens in September
In Philadelphia.
Gladstone's good health is ascribed to
his magnificent capacity for going to sleep,
and this capacity was undoubtedly devel
oped by continued listening to debates in
the House ot Commons.
The Russian artist Morosow is one of the
most striking personalities in St. Petersburg.
He is an intimate Iriend ot the Tolstoi family
and spends some weeks every year In tho
great writer's country home.
The new Earl of Stamford, whose prede
cessor in tho earldom married a pretty South
African negress, visited the United States
about three years ago. He was known then
as William Grey. He is 42 years old.
SlGNOR CrispI, the great Italian states
man, is one of the most hot-tempered public,
men on the Continent. Absofute, irascible,
and intolerant of opposition, oven old age
has not softened the fire of his character.
Beatrice Vehon, the 6lnger who re
cently achieved at tho Royal Court Theater
in Stockholm what is described as "the
greatest triumph sinco the days of Christine
Nilsson," is a Chicago gill, the child ot
French parents.
TALK OP THE TIMES.
Whitelaw Reid has cpmehome from
the banks of the Seine, Charles Emory Smith
has said, "adieu to St. 'Petersburg," John
Jariett has given up his fat placo at Bir
mingham and John C New has left tho Lon
don Consulate. They will all, resume. their
former avocations. And despite all this
there is still some talk of opposition to the
renominatlon of Harrison! .
Water in stocks is b'ad'enough, but it Is
worso in financial institutions, as is appar
ent from tho fact that tho Mississippi river
has been breaking its banks this week.
He was a quiet looking elderly man in a
pastoral sort of black broadcloth suit and a
felt hat n 1th a broad brim, such as are worn
by "colonels" and "majors." Next to him in
the enrsat two young men who wore tolling
stories about personal oxperiences-on the
road. One of them related with much gusto
an encounter which ho had recently had
with a desperato Western man, the weapons
being cards. The game was poker, tho
special occasion was that old familiar
"big jack pot" which so ofton figures
In prolane history nnd two principals wero
each armed with straight flushes. "It was a
dollar limit game," remarked tho young
man, "and we bet 67 times nnd then I called
him. no had a sequence flush, queen high,
and I had ono king high. You should have
heard him swear." I noticed that the old
man listened with great attention to the
story, and nt its conclusion he exclaimed
with much candid astonishment, "You
calld him!" The youngster blushed and
acknowledged his guilt. "Well! well!" said
tho old nun, sheking his head, "tho-o times
is snttenly not what they u'en tnbbo. You
see, I cum from Tennessee, and we ain't up
to this wav er doin' things. Why, I'm
plavln' a hand vit thet wuz dealt to my pap
in ''57. Him -an ole Jedge Dubbin, of Mur
freesboro, they et into u game one night In
September, ot '57, and they bet an' bet an'
bet. An' when they run outer cash, they
bet mules an' then horses, an' then niggers,
an' at las' they tuk to bettm' acres of Ian',
an' then they inn outer everything an'
it was agreed thet the loin's sbud be put in
sealed envellup an' marked un' kept in the
vault of the bank till both on 'em got more
stuff. Well, it went on that a way off an' on
till tho war cum and the ole Jedge has died
and pop was killed at Seven Pines, an' then
young Jim Dubbin ho tuk his ole man's
J dace an' I trik dad's. Well, gon'elmen. we're
1st bettin' yit whenever we git tho cash and
there atn't no signs or quitting,' but I wud
snttinly like to see them han's of pop's an'
ole Jedge Dubbin's afore I die," and he
sighed a long sigh of patient resignation
while the two youngsters nnd the other men
in the smoking compartment regarded him
as ono worthy of veneration, even if it was
only as a liar.
A bather enrious reason is given by a
western newspaper man as the true reason
for the recent resurrection of the Blaine
boom. He says that the Secretary of State
wasextiemolynnxtous to have his son-in-law,
Colonel Coppinger, given a Brigadier
Generalship In the army.. He is reported to
have assured the Colonel that the appoint
ment would be made, relying upon "friend
El kins" to make it all right with the Presi
dent. When the time came the President
flatly refused to mako the promotion. This
in connection with the refusal or Harrison
to appoint Walker Blaine Solicitor of tho
State Department added to Mrs. Blaine's
well-known anxiety to have her husband ac
cept the nomination, are the canses at work
for the new deal, Blaine's appearance at
the cil ens with the bag or peanuts and the
talk or the corridors at Washington as to
the Secretary's intentions.
The driver of a sewing machine wagon
who seemed to be at raid he wonld miss an
important engagement in some distant part
of the city, tried to bring my mundane af
falrs to an abrupt conclusion at a street
ciosslng yesteiday. As he disappeared
nround a corner I noticed the word "Singer"
in large gilt letters on the tailboard of his
waon. Singularly enough to that tailboard
there hangs a tale, suggested by tho name
thereon. Away uack in tne busy years De
fore the war, tnere was a Pittsburg theatri
cal singer named Mutphy, a man with a re
markably sweet voice and decided aptness
for Irish cdmedyand Irish melodies. He
made a name for himself which has greatly
benefited a subsequent generation of Mur-
fihys of histi ionic and musical tendencies. Ho
eft tho stage for a time to enter business
lire here in a picture store. One day thero
entered unto him a J.anky, man, of marked
appearance nnd striking attire, accompanied
by a woman in a purple velvet dres, to
which clung several children or various
sizes. The man introduced hlinsolrns being
a strolling actor, out of work, hard up and
seeking help from ono whom he had heard
of as being connected with tho stage. Mr.
Murphy was a warm-hearted man, and
promptly secured lodgings and food for tho
visitors, and afterward aided them in giving
readings and dramatic entertainments.
The actor incidentally announced to Mur
phy that his nauio was Singer. He
showed a great fondness for mechanics
and after earning somo little money by his
entertainments, he tlttet up a workshopand
began to dabble in various experiments.
Finally he rigged upa machine v. filch would
cutout circular pieco-. of wood. This ma
chine was finally fixed up with a movable
table, which allowed letters with curved
smfaces'ti) be cut out at will. Singer used
this machine to make tall wooden sign let
ters, which were glided nnd fastened on a
painted board. The first sign of this kind
made was bought by Paulson, tho hatter.
Other merchants followed suit and Singet
was busy lor quite a while turning out signs.
From this machine came the first idea of
the sowing machine. Singer woiked at it
some while in Pittsburg, but finally left for
New York, whero his work was perfected.
Alterward, as a rewaid for his kindness.
Murphy was offered the airency for the
Singer machine for tho entire West, but
Murphy said he did not care for mercantile
ventures, and he declined an opportunity to
make many millions or dollars.
The death of John W. Breckenridge, son
or Buchanan's Vice President, recalls to mo
an incident in his life of which I was a
spectator. In 1878 I was doing somo work on
the Press, in Philadelphia, and ono day I
was told to go to the office of Mr. Fornoy. I
found him busy, and while I awaited his
leisure two gentlemen camo in. One of them
was etout and short, tho other tall and
handsome and aristocratic. The short man
was warmly gieeted by Mr. Forney, and
then followed an introduction Of the other.
"Forney," said the short man, "your posi
tion in politics and on the war was so pro
nounced that 1 feel you will take an interest
in the son of an old adversary: I want you
to get him something to do in connection
with tho Exposition. Will you do it?" "I
will, and do it gladly, it I can," was the
quick reply. A general conversation lol
lowod for a few moments, and then tho
visitors withdrew, Alio short man was
Adolph Borie, then Secretary of the Navy in
Grant's Cabinet, and the tall one was John
W. Breckenridge, whose father was one of
John W. Forney's bitterest enemies in pub
lic and political life. P. L. W.
A. K0ST EEMAKKAELE COMET.
It 'Was Never Here lielore and Never Can
Come Hmck Again.
Rochester, N. Y., May 11. Prof. Swift was
shown a dispatch fioin Prof. Barnard this
morning and said: "It Is coriect, and this
comet is tho largest that has been visible in
the Northern Hemisphere since the great
comet of lbfSaud the first one since then
that could be photographed. The rapid
changes that havo taken place in the tails
make it the mest remarkable comet that has
ever appeared.
"As Jar as now known this comet appears
to be hypeibollc. It never was here before
and never can be again. Assuming that it
cime Irom the neatest sun It must have
been on the road about eight million years
in order to have ai rived at its present posi
tion at this time."
DlUUtbUlAG I'ltOGHESSION.
Ten sturdy aspirants standing In line.
Hill froze himself out, and then there were nine.
Nine or them hustled hard, early and late.
Blair's bourn was nipped In the bud, then there
were eight.
Eight men fought to reach the White House
heaven.
Gray dropped out of sight, and that left seven.
Seven of them stood in an awkward fix,
Blaine smothered Lincoln, and then there were
six.
6lx of them strove as hard as they could strive,
Callom gave himself away; that left live.
Five men all offered then barrels galore,
Whitney's boom was burst, and then there were
lour.
All four were Just as busy as a bee,
McKlnley backed Harrison, hat left three.
Three of them stayed and did what they could do.
Boles failed to catch the hoys, that left but two.
Conventions soon decided. whom they'd run.
Then came the election and all was done.
r. t.
CHEERS FOB SUSAN B. AHIHOHY..
The Women's Clnb Convention In Chicago
Begins In Earnest.
Chicago, May 11. Tho Federation of
Women's Clubs Is holding its first conven
tion. A glance at the animated scene was
cnongh to dispel any antiquated idea that
the brainy women and dainty raiment
are things apart. Massachusetts was so In
terested. in the convention that it sent a
special train composed of Pullmans loaded
down with delegates. When the assembly
wa called to order there was but ono man
seated on the floor, and that was Dr. Brown,
the husband of tho President. Dr. Sarah
Hallott Stevenson, President of the Chicago
AVomen's Clnb, mado a witty address of wel
come She said: "We havo with ns a dele
gate at large, representing all clubs for
women everywhere. She has, perhaps, dono
moro clubbing and boqfj clubbed more than
any other woman in the world Susan B.
An tli on v, whose head has grown .stronger
as the knocks hnve irrown harder." The
f mention of Mis Anthony's name called for
an outnrcaK ot applause wnicn woura not do
stilled until Mls Anthony had risen from her
seat on the stage and bowed and smiled ncr
thanks.
Dr. Stevenson then called attontion to the
fact that there is no provision made for the
representation or the working women In the
clubs' meetings; deplored tho fact and re
minded the members present of the oppor
tunity they had In their grasp to rectify this
omission. Applause. President Brown
made a brier nduiess or thanks on behalf ot
tho Federation, and then the minutes and
report of the Recording Secretary, Mrs. J.
C. Croley (Jennie June), were read by that
ladv, and Mrs. Charlotte M.Smith, the Treas
urer, made her report, showing that tho
Federation is free from debt.
Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown, tho Presi
dent, followed with her biennial address. In
two years, she said, the clubs in the Federa
tion have Increased from 50 to 185,withn total
membership or about 20,000 bright, culti
vated, and many or them distinguished
women. After a leeess, tho various State
delegations mado their reports through
their various chairmen. To-night a recep
tion to the delegates, tendered by the
Woman's.Club ot Chicago, was given in the
clubrooms at the Art Institute building.
HO CLASS CAN RULE.
The Vital Problems That Confront the
Statesmen of To-D ly.
New Castle, May 12. Special. Mr.
Thomas W. Phillips, tho nominee for Con
gress in the Twonty-flfth district, in his ad
dress of acceptance, touched upon some
vital topics. Among other things he said:
"Did any one class establish this Govern
ment in eight years of war? Did any ono
class save It in four years of rebellion? If
not, no one class can, no ono class dare
usurp tho prerogative of all and rule it now.
No ono class can ever govern unless it be
by despotic rule. But the people
should see too It that the most capa
ble and the best be selected from the
various classes, so that they may legislate
wisely and well for the greatest good of all.
No one principle is broad enough, no one
class is great enough to govern 65,000,000 of
sovereign people whose rights are equal.
But in looking oyer the whole field I will
name two classes and only two now whose
interests are so great and calling so import
ant to all as to require careful consideration
and prompt action In our legislative bodies,
in State nnd nation. These are the agricul
tural and laboring classes. To tho first we
owe our sustenance; everything we eat and
wear comes from the soil. Notonly Just but
tho most liberal legislation is due the farmer.
"The discovery or steam power and mod
ern invention lias concentrated capital on
the one hand and labor on tho other in such
gigantic proportions in tho last SO years as
to mark a new era and is without precedent
in human history. These new conditions
must be met and readjusted. Billions of
capital and millions of laborers havo met.
Representatives of each ate discussing or
parleying. Shall it be a treaty or a battle?
It will require the wisest heads and tho best
hearts or both contending forces together
with our greatest statesmen to adjust this
mhrhty problem on better principles of jus
tice and right than now prevail."
OTJR MAIL POUCH.
A Misused Title.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
As a member of the theatrical colony of
this city, 1 take this means of correcting a
publio misrepresentation of the profession."
Entertainments have recently been an
nounced as "theatrical shadow dances" and
"theatrical excursions" which are patron
ized by mixed classes, and Inflict great in
Jury on tho theatrical profession by the mis
use or the name. They aie not authorized
by any person or standing in connection
with the Pittsburg theaters or those who cct
upon the stage. Such things, without nny
fault on tjjepait or the reputable members
or the profession, increase tho belief in im
moral influences of the theaters.
Two or the leading managers of theoity
theaters have ordered that none of their em-
riloyes are to have any connection with suoh
affairs. This course adopted Dy tho man
agers generally will stop the misuse of the
name in the tuture. In the meantime the
public should know that the use of the term
"theatrical" in connection with question
able balls and excursions has no better
authority than that of persons who hold ex
tremely subordinate positions in connection
with some of the theaters. Theatrical.
Pittsbcro, May lL
A EEPIILE IN A GA8PIPE.
An Ohio Town Pruduoss the First Good
Snake Yarn of the Season.
Tiffiit, May 11. A queer freak of nature
was discovered by J. W. Yochem, a well
known business man or this city, a row days
ago. Mr. Yochem and several ladies wero in
the woods ndjacent to the city, gathering
wild flowers, when one of the ladies became
frightened at a small snake. Mr. Yochem
piocured a club, and struck tho reptile, and,
was surprised to hear the blowaccompanied
by a metallic sound, and the snake appeared
to pay no attention to the club with which
he was belabored. Finally a well-ditected
blow crushed its head.
It was then discovered that two-thirds of
the snake's length was incased in a section
of gaspipo one inch In diameter. The snake
was i teet and 10 inches ill length, and had
evidently crawied into the pipe when it was
quite small and tailed to extricate itself. The
Ironclad reptile is on exhibition nt Mr.
Yochem's place of business, and isattracting
considerable attention.
Hunting for Dark Horses.
Chicago Mall.
As convention day approaches tho need
for a dark horse in both parties grows more
urgont.
The Cry That Is Universal.
Omaha World Herald.
Something will certainly have to be done
about the weather.
DEATHS I1EUE AND ELSEWHERE.
Jnlin H. Koblnson.
John B. Bobinson came from Florida
Saturday to his home In Talbot county. Mil. He
was then a very sick man, and die I 'f ues lay. aje 1
82 years. He was for many rears a cons plcuous
figure in large business and financial, operations In
this country and Mexico. "Long John" Robinson
was well known on Wall street. He was born In
Kentucky. Ills first business venture of import
ance was the construction or the first railroad built
In Ohio, that from Columbus to MnJusky. Dur
ing the Civil War Mr. Koblnson wi nt to Mexico
ami developed a sliver inlue. which paid 12 per cent
n month for seeral years to Its J.w York stock
holders. Mr. ltobliiMm later got possession or
other mln s In Chihuahua. B 'sides the properties
namc', Mr. Robinson had large possessions lu New
"V ork and Florida ami lu Mar) laud.
Obituary Notes.
Hox. R. P. CARHAnT, Collector of Customs of
Portlaud, Ore., died yesterday morning or Ilrlght's
disease. He was a Thirty-third degree Mason.
Mks. E. J. Loxgexecker, wife or a prominent
grocer at McKeespart, and only married about a
year, filed ) esterday morning after an illness of
about two weeks.
Mas. 1'atkick Bo it an. for the past years Ja
resident of HeckscherWlle. Pa., died Friday at
the age oria years. She was born In Kilkenny
county, Ireland.
HON". Geouoe Washixgtox Warren, a well
known Boston morchant, is dead, aged 79 years.
He was a descendant of General Joseph Warren,
who fell at Bunker Hill.
Kiv. SIoxboe P. Sanders, pastor of tho
Limited Brethren Church at Marietta. Pa., died
Tuesday of pneumonia. Mr. Sanders was IS years
old. and was horn In Lebanon county.
Mrs. A. K. SrOFFORD. wire of the Librarian of
Congress, died at Washington early yesterday
riornliig. of pneumonia, after a week's Illness.
She was a native or Massachusetts, bat has lived In
Washington since 18G2.
Mrs. James W. Schumacher, daughter of
General V. E. Spinner, late Treasurer of the
United Sta'es, and wire or the I'resldent of the
First National Bank of Jacksonville. Fla., died In
that city Tuesday, She was 49 years old.
A TEA FOR CHARITY.
A Laudable Moro Mads by Some of Alle
gheny's Society Glrl-The Crumrlne
Patterson Nuptials at "Washlneton
Mozart Concerts Cammcaoa To-Nlght
General Society Gossip.
The Pittsburg branch of the Vassar
Students' Art Society will givo a tea Satur
day afternoon from 3 to 6,nt the residence
of-Miss Ewing, 15 Lincoln avenue, Alle
gheny. The society is trying to raise enough
money to educate a girl, and the tea Is to be
glvenin the hope of bringing the fund for
this laudable purpose to the required sum.
Tickets for the tea aro 50 cents each. Cakes,
candy nnd flowers will be sold, all themoney
taken to be placed to the credit or the fnnd
for the benefit of tho fortunate girl who is
to be given a chanco toacqnlre a good edu
cation. There aro a number of ladies in the
society, all or whom are working very hard
in the cause, and it is sincerely to be hoped
that tho entertainment tho day after to
morrow will enable them to put their gener
ous purpose into execution without delay.
The marriage of Mips Crumriue, daughter
of Mr. Bovd C. Crnmrine. of Washington,
Pa., to Mr. J. P. Patterson, took place last
evening at tho bride's home. The bride
looked lovely in white silk. She carried
lilies of the valley and maidenhair ferns.
The parlors in which tho ceremony took
place were tastefully arranged with loose
lerns, under tho direction or John B, & A.
Murdoch, of Pittsburg.
Social Chatter.
The concert to be given in Old City Hall,
the 4th or June, by tho Cambrian Choral
Union, is for the purpose of raising money
to send 300 Pittsburg siu'ers to take part In
a contest at the World's Fair fora handsome
prize. Vocalists from all parts of tho world
will compete.
Mes. Hakhy Sprodl gave a supper to a
select party at the Dnquesne Club last even
ing. Covers were laid for ten. The floral
decorations wero very beautiful. The cen
ter piece was or soring flowers. Corsage
bonqnets were provided, all of American
beauty roses.
Miss S. D. Dalzeix, of Lincoln avenue.
East End, gave a luncheon yesterday after
noon at the Dnquesne Club to about It
guests. The corsage bouquets were or pink
sweet peas, while the table decorations were
Laing, Baronoss Rothschildand PaulNeyron
roses.
Miss Jclia IIarpeh and Miss Blanche Bee
son, of Washington avenue, Allegheny, left
this morning for an extended trip down the
Ohio in the boat of which Miss Harper's
father is captain. They will stop for several
days at Cincinnati and Louisville.
At noon to-day Miss Lida K.- Way, of New
Lisbon, will become the bride or Mr. Ira C.
Bean, teller or the Farmers' Deposit Na
tional Bank of this city. A special train will
carry the Pittsburg guests to New Lisbon.
The Mozart Clnb rehearsed "ZIon" last
evening nt their rooms. It is" to be given at
Old City Hall to-morrow evening. The May
Festival will commence to-night.
This evening the Sewlckloy Dramatic
Club will givo "In Honor Bound" and "Sugar
and Cream," in Choral Hall.
The first at home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
G. Paulson will be held to-day.
ONE FAMILY TO A HOUSE.
Perils of Eire Lie In Llvin- In the
Con-
Bested Districts or a City.
Boston Herald.
The census bulletin which gives tho
statistics as to the number of families living
In different cities of the United States shows
that there are nearly fonr families, on the
average, in every dwelling house in New
York, while In Philadelphia the rule is,
almost uniformly, that thero is a separate
dwelling for each family. If the average be
taken as five persons in each family, tho
average number or Individuals living in
every dwelling house in New York is 20.
Therdeath rate for New York is 23.C6, and
that in Philadelphia is 22.6.
, The figures show that the mortality is very
nearly the same in the two cities, and the
arrests in proportion to the population vary
'butlittle. The point where the disparity is
greatest is in the excess of tho families over
tho dwellings in which they live. Even In
Brooklyn there are over two families for
every bouse, and in Chicago the-proportion'
is not much less. From those statistics it.
will be seen that the odds aro great against
living in tho congested districts, and-that'
the perils or our civilization He very largely
in methods or life wliicn are destructive to
tho integrity of the family.
BLAINE'S TEIBDTE TO BEID.
The President Accepts Whltelaw's Hesita
tion Only With Bgret.
Washisotox, May 11 Secretary Blaine, in
replying to the letter of Hon. Whitelaw
Bcld, tendering his resignation as Minister
to France, says: .
"I am directed to say that the President
accepts your resignation with regret, nnd
only in deference to your expressed wishes.
Your record us Minister has been conspicu
ously satisfactory. You havo labored with
zeal and discretion in tho discharge or the
delicate duties confided to you, and your
earnest efforts have met with a success that
entitles you alike to the commendation and
sincere thanks of the Government you bavo
so Intelligently and faithlully served.
"I beg to add an expression of my own
high appreciation or your conduct in the
accomplishment or your responsible mis
sion, and my sincere pleasure that our per-3
sonal relations have been so unvaryingly
cordial. In returning to your home and to
the pursuits or private lire, you carry with
you the esteem of those who have been
brought Into association with yon in tho
common purpose or subserving the public
interests, as well as their regret at tho
severance or that association."
SETTLED WITH HIS CONSCIENCE
An Anonymous Writer to Mr. Wanamaker
Pays a Debt of 817,500.
Washikotojt, May 11. Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker has received an nnsigned
and undated letter containing $1,000. In his
letter the writer says: "This is tho balance
of interest I owe or tho sum I took from tho
Government in ISCy I have now paid, prin
cipal and interest, in all $17,500. No man has
suffered more for his crime than I have, and
I now pray the Lord's forgiveness for my
sin."
Mr. Wanamaker has turned tho imoimt
into the Treasury, to the credit of the con
science fund.
Gradually Overcomlne Uls Misgivings.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Cleveland is still struggling manfully
to overcome his reluctance to enter the
Presidental race again. Ho Is gradually
getting the better of his misgivings.
TOTfD AWAY THE M0XET. '
With the river and harbor bill passed, tho
"billion-dollar" campaign epithet will be
sent to the political garret. 2,'ew York iVew.
The Congressmen who voted for the
thieving river and harbor bill yesterday, re
gardless or politics, "all Had some of the
pork." I'ew York Advertiser.
So ose of tho heaviest river and harbor
appropriations ever known has passed the
House, and tho fraud of Democratic sham
economy has passed away, let ns hope for
ever. Cleveland Leader.
Salt river has been left out of the calcu
lations of the Democratic river and harbor
spendthrifts, and yet that is the stream
where they will need very deep water next
lall. Kew York Recorder.
Uros the qnostion or extravagance, there
fore, the Billion Dollar Democrats have re
duced the people to a mere choice between
evils in electing the next Congress. The
latest looters of tho Treasury are apt to be
tho ones to suffer most in such a choice.
Kew York World.
The river and harbor bill Just passed
creates a Government liability of $43,000,000.
A $20,000,000 fiver and harbor bill, passed by
a Kepublican Congress, created a torrlflc
howl in tho Democratic camp a few years
ago. Now they doable It and say nothing.
There's economy and consistency for you.
Toledo Blade.
It is humiliating to Democrats all over
the country to have the Democratic House,
which, it. was hoped, Wonld make a record
In sharp contrast, with that of the Billion
Congress, pass a river nnd harbor bill which
appropriates directly about $21,000,000, and
'by providing for the berinniiiif. of great
works commits the country to the ultimate
expenditure of about $26,000,000 more. Buf
falo Oaurier.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The actual output of phosphates la
Florida is now over 200,000 tons.
There are about 525 species of spiders at
present known in the British Isles.
There is a heifer at English, Ind.,wh!ch
has given birth to five calves within IX
months.
Cast iron melts and flows like water
when snbjected to a degree of beat greater
than 2,788.
The Pike's Peak telephone line is said
to bo eclipsed in altitude by a line that
crosses the Andes, on the Trans-Andeaa
Bailroad, at an elevation of about 16,500 feet
above sea level.
According to the If ew York State Board
of Health there has been In that State 35,193
deaths within the past three months, and,
that the present epidemic of grippe has al
ready caused 10,000 deaths.
Tt is not surprising that in the Connecti
cut town of Tariffville nearly all the peopla
are belleVers in a high tariff. Some English
freetraders, who recentlv settled in Tariff
ville, have become Tariffltes.
Selectman S. Byron Brownson, of
Ansonia, Conn., has two remarkable eggs.
One measures 7 inches around tho longest
way and the other 1 inches. Both wera
laid by the same hen on the same day.
The latest novelty in yacht building
will be an aluminum vessel of 32 feot la
length, which Mr. Wells, of Lelth, has re
ceived orders to build. The bont will not be
painted, but polished when necessary.
Dynamite has been superseded in
Sweden forblastingphrposes. Electric wires
are Introduced in the rock and then beared.
The sndden beating of the rock rends it in
pieces, qnletly and effectively, without peril
to human life.
Every year 1,500 to 2.000 Portuguese
men and women are landed in Boston and
New Bedford, and there is a large colony
of Portuguese in California, snpportinj
nnmerous churches, besides a literary.revie w
and a weekly paper.
Henry A. Pond, of Bristol, has been
visited by many farmers who desired to seo
his twin calves. They wero born of a Jersey
mother, and while ono Is a very diminutive
specimen of the Jersey breed, the other is a
monstrously large full-marked Holstcin.
A daughter that was bora to Mr. and
Sirs. Edward Morse, of Shclton, recently,
has more relatives than the average baby.
She lias two grandmothers,, three great
grnndmothers, eleven greatuncles and
aurits, andsixgreat-greatnnclcs and auuts.
Complaint is made at the present high
price of camphor gnm. While a few years
ago tho gum sold for 19 to 23 oents a ponnd,
it now sells from 53 to 75 cents. This rise in
price is due to the use of camphor gnm in
the manuracturo of smokeless powder in
both Europe and America.
Becent tests made under the auspices of
the Boyal Philosophical Society with a single
barley stalk unfolded wonders which but
few have ever thought oven possible. By
steeping and watering that one plant with
saltpeter dissolved in rain water they man
aged to prodnce 219 stalks and over 13,000
grains.
It is an interesting fact that out of 1G
cities of over 200,000 population In the United
States, U, or over 87 per cent, are nsing the
electric railway system or equipping roads
with the system. And out of 42 cities with
populations ranging from 200,000 to 50,000
all but ono are using the electric railway
system.
An important article of trade in Mo
rocco is loaf sugar, which is in general de
mand for presents. Every person approach
ing a superior whose favor or good will it Is
desired to monitiate is bonnd tobrlnc a irift.
Ho cannot appear empty handed, and the
form that is most commonly taken by the
gift is loaf sugar.
Hugh Farrell, who is not a very large
man, attempted to drink 23 quarts of milk
on a wager, in Middletown. He had ten.
hours to do it in, but arter drinking 13 quarts
he thought ho bad made a custard nt him
self and gave it up. He was able to go to
work the next morning, although he tried to
find a way out of doing so.
A Derby, Conn., woman, whose word
is not to be doubted, tells the oddest hen
story ot the season. She put 13 eggs under
h?r hen nnd.qbtained 16 fine chicks. In tho
nest, besides, were two eges tiiat .wera not
hatched, and two more in .vhicii dead chicks
wore found.. Tho problem has been given, to
the local school children to'solve.
The works of a distinguished Japanesa
painter are on exhibition in London, and
aro greatly admired. His name is Watanebo
Seftei, and he is a native or Tokio. Some of
his paintings have already been exhibited
In Paris and praised by the French critics.
It was he who, five years ago, painted tho
ceiling panels for the imperial palace in
Toklo.
The Ainos of Japan bnrn their dead
and place tho ashes in a prayer house next
to their dwelling. The prayer house is mado
of deals, and is generally more than two
feet high, and in it the ancestral tablet is
placed. Tills tablet consists ot a long up
right plank, cut slanting! v at the upper end
and tied around witli six ioops. At the foot
lies a fish and two tobacco leaves.
The population of the city of Borne,
which, by the census of 18SI, was 273,000, is
now over 500,000, bavin? nearly doubled
within the past ten yeare. Since the city be
came the capital or united Italy thousands
of new edifices hare been built, and it has
been greatly changed otherwi-o. The seven
hills themselves are undergoing a process of
leveling and the valleys are being filled in.
A committee has been formed in Ham
burg, including Prof. Nenmayer, Director of
the Marine Observatory, and several leading
merchants, with a view to sending ont an
expedition to the Antarctic Ocean. It-is to
proceed first to the soathern extremity of
South America, and there and elsewhere
will make :i systematic scries or magnetic,
meteorological and zoological investiga
tions. A Swiss chemist has, it is said, not only
discovered how to dispose of ordinary coal
smoke, but how to turn it into a highly prof
itable commodity. The statement is that by
burning 125 tons or coal, at a cost or $153, and
making full use or it for steam raising pnr
poses. lie can at tho same time secure, by a
simple process he has invented, four ton of
sulphate of ammonia from the smoke pro
duced bv the coal.' The money value of this
will be J.'JO.
Playing jokes on newly married couples
is a favorite pastime with bucolic Ridge
fielders. Whenayoung pair from that town
left the train at South Norfolk, Conn., last
we-k they wero horrified to find several
white ribbon bows attached to the top or
their trunk, an old shoe on each handle, and
across one end a placard on which was
painted two heart transuxed wicn a SKewer.
"e are one."
groom swore.
The bride cried and the
JOKELLTS Fr.03I JUDGE.
Lonely Walker I'd like to have my life.
insured. ...
Agent Well, there's the tontine ten-year plan,
mutual beneflt. old-time life, and
Lonely -Valner-WeII. Isn't there a plan by
which I could get 15 cents to-day In advance-on
account?
"It is said that chess was played 150
years before Christ," observed the deliberate
P "It must be older, "replied the impatient one,
i for I've been waiting since ISO B. C. for yon to
make a move."
"Wandering "William 'Sense my presump
tion, ma'am. In arskin' yon ef you have 'any of
vour home-male bread I'vejieard so much about?
Mrs. Tlddlewlnk Yon dear man! of conrse I
have, and coffee and meat aud cake. too. Come
rlgtitlu.
"It I had my choice of hymns in church I
woula always select No. 1517, with the first and
last stanias omitted."
How many stanzas are there altogether?"
Two."
Howe'er backward the business season,
It sorely to reason stands.
The undertaker has never
His goods thrown back on his hands.
-G. B.
Dronkley You're a Harvard man, aren't
you?
Brimmer Yes.
Dronkley What is your secret society?
Brimmer The "Hall Fellow" poker clnb ha
been since I was married.
Fussy I can't see why yon women wear
such long, trailing skirts.
Mrs. Fussy To have something to occupy our
hands with, of course. Why do you carry a walk
ing slick when you're not lame?
A martyr to duty beneath this stone lies,
A loving young husband who ate his wife's pies.
"Sire," said the VUier humbly, "a sub
ject desires to seo yon."
"Did he cover my raise!" asked the Caliph
dreamily.