3&ft&fiH5H BgSgS&aSSfl VPK '?k- , ?ss5KS7 f3T9 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. THURSDAY, JUNE 3. 1892L BSSg?BsgsB igpairij. ESTABLISHED rEUUUAIlY 8, 1S4G Vol. 47. No. 116 rntered at Pittsburg Postoffice November, 1887, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EAm:RV ADVENTWN'J OFFICE, HOOM 7ft. TKim'ME BUIl.nrSU. XirW YORK, where com plete files of THE IHS-P TC1t can nlwavs be round. Foreign advertisers appreciate the ejnvroierice. Home advertisers and friends of THK DISPATCH. hlie In New York, are also made welcome. TREDISPATCHU re gnarly mi tale at Brentma'K. tl Vnhm Sgvart, .tew Tork, and 17 Am de COprra. Pant, Prince, .wfijpi anyone icfto has been disap pointed at a hotel new gtanil can obtain it. TERMS Or THE IJISPATCH. r06TAE TBEE IN Till UNITID STATES. TurLT Dispatch. One Year I 8 00 DAIlrDiFrATCH, Per Quarter ICO lUILTDlSPATrn. One Month 70 Dilt Dispatch. Including Sunday. I year.. 10 00 Baily DispATcn, including Sundav, Sm'ths. 2 40 DArLYllISPATCII. Including Sundae, lm'th.. 90 toxntT Dispatch. One Year SSO WiutLT Dispati h. One Year 1 15 I JScenls per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at Sf cents per week. rrrrsBi'ito. Thursday, juve x i&n. TWELVE PAGES NO UNIT K17I.K. The renewal of talk to the effect that an attempt will be made for the enforce ment of the unit rule, so far as the Penn sylvania delegation is concerned, warrants a plain word or two as to that course. If attempted it will be a display of political machinery that should not be permitted by the convention. The expectation that the rule, if et-tablished, will be operated in the interest of the Biaine movement makes no difference to any man with an honest conception of the rights of repre sentation. TnE DispATcn has clearly ex pressed its belief that, if Mr. Blninc's per sonal circumstances will permit, the pop ular demand for his nomination should be respected. But over and above any per sonal choice is the necessity of respecting the principle of houest and fair repre sentation by counting every vote in the convention as it is cast. Mr. Blaine can be nominated by the votes of delegates who favor him. If he could not, he should not be nominated at all. If there is a delegate from Pennsylvania who has been instructed for Harrison, or who prefers Harrison without instructions, he is entitled to have his vote counted for Harrison. To pervert his vote, because the majority of the delegation vote the other way, is simply taking away his repre sentative character. If it was a correct principle that the vote of any State should be cast as a unit, time and trouble could be saved by sending one man to Chicago to cast the vote of the State. The very nature of a delegate carries with it the right to exercise his choice. The unit rule is an old and familiar de vice of machine politics to keep the con trol in the hands of the prevailing element. Having been thorougly defeated a decade ago it should not be revived in this era of our politics. rKOIIlBITlO.N AND siN'cisRirr. The Prohibition State Convention was held at Scranton yesterday. However much one may differ from the platform of these good people, it is impossible to re frain from admiration of their sturdy sin cerity. They have the credit of being the only political party which directly tackles matters of social morality. No man can accuse them of keeping up their enthusiasm by a prospect of spoils to be divided. The comparative hopelessness of their struggle makes their continued perseverance the more creditable. It is to be regretted that men should be intemperate in any direction, but it is also a matter for congratulation that there are people to be found who try to improve the world rather than their own position by entering the political arena. The more people we have who show that ardent de sire to reform mankind which the Pro hibitionists sincerely profess, the sooner will the world be improved, though proba bly not just on the lines laid down by this somewhat intolerant body. THE SILVER BID. A pertinent reply to Senator Stewart's threat, in his interview in The Dispatch's Washington specials the other day, is made by the Chicago Tribune. The Sen ator threatened that if the Republican platform dees not contain a "liberal silver plank" half a dozen Republican States in the West will go over to the Democratic party; and if the Democratic party does not do the same they will be likely to seek the congenial companionship of the People's Party. The reply to this is the very cogent one that the Republican psrty is not going to let the tail wag the dog to the extent of stultifying it by a free coinage plank m favor of scaling down the unit of values 30 per cent; the Democratic party will make its most significant utterance by nominating Mr. Cleveland; while the People's Party, if it should succeed, would not bother itself about silver, but would turn out a full supply ot purely' fiat paper money to flood.the country-. As the carry ing of half a dozen States by this party would throw the election into the House and make Cleveland's election a moral certainty, it is hard to see exactly how the sliver mine owners would make much by their motion. Of course, Senator Stewart's idea of a "liberal silver plank" is one which will show liberality to the people with silver to sell. They had better cive up the idea that they can make merchandise of their votes in that style. The situation will not permit any party to take any other position than the restoration of silver by the coinage of a dollar equal in bullion value to that of gold Tin: difference in r,ovEi:njiESTs. The result of that gas fight in Cleveland presents an example which Pittsburg may do well to study. A year ago Cleveland turned things upside down in a municipal election, and the new city government proceeded to legislate in the interests of the people. We are not prepared to say that other points of attack micht not have been selected of as great importance to the people as the price ot gas. But that was the issue adopted by the Cleveland municipal reformers. They opened an in cisive warfare, and were met by all the familiar corporate tactics of delay and d fiance. After these had been exhausted the companies came down to a compro mise which fixes the price of gas at 80 cents, and in consideration of that ar rangement the gas companies pay the city a revenue of 550,000 per year on the present consumption, which will increase as tho consumption goes up. Asthis makes the net price of gas re ceived bv the Cleveland companies frac- WheB tion under 75 cents per thousand, the point will at once occur to every citizen that there is no reason why Pittsburg should pay more for gas than Cleveland, except m the conditions of municipal pol itics. If there is any difference it should ho in favor of Pittsburg. Gas coal should be cheaper by a liberal amount 'per ton and the process of manufacture and distri bution is no more costly. The difference between Pittsbunr's dollar rate and Cleve land's seventy-five cent rate represents the difference between a municipal gov ernment operated in the interest of the people and oue operated in the interest of favoied corporations. When Pittsburg wishes the work per formed in Cleveland to be done here, not only in relation to illuminating gas, but extended to telephones, transit lines and other public services, it can secure it by electing the kind of city government which Cleveland chose a year ago. AS TO liXAIKEN FRIENDS. It is one of the commonest assertions of those who seek a renomination for Mr. Harrison that the "real friends" of Mr. Blaine are openly against his being con sidered by the convention at Minneapolis. The other view of this Is of course that those who now urge his nomination are either his enemies or those of Mr. Harri son. Whitelaw Reid, Charles -Emory Smith and Secretary Stephen B. Elkins are pointed to as distinguished examples of old time friendship for the Secretary of State, who now say he will not enter the Presidental struggle. If these gentlemen are what they are de clared to be the closest and most potent of Mr. Blaine's friends a nd well wishers it is singular that their com bined influence has not been sufficient to obtain from Blaine a specific declara tion that under no circumstances will he head the ticket Messrs. Reid and Smith are more or less connected with the editor ial columns of two well-known newspa pers. Either of them would readily under stand the value of a Blaine refusal at this time from a journalistic point of view. As Mr. Harrison's field marshal, Mr. Elkins is peculiarly in shape to compre hend ho vW desirable such an utterance would be to the President. The truth of the matter is that Mr. Elkins is charced with sacrificing Mr. Blaine for Mr. Harrison in 1888; Mr. Reid has not recovered from the shock which was given him by Mr. Blaine's friends in the Senate when his French treaty was slaughtered, and besldes-he has ambitions of his own which an Eastern Presidental nomination would entirely destroy. As for Mr. Smith, he is keeping in line with those who be lieve in Harrison and his future ability to name ministers to Berlin, Paris and Lon don. Whatever may have been the origin of the present Blaine movement, it Is now backed by all true friends- of the man from Maine, whether they hold or have ever held office under tho present admin istration, and the gentlemen named do not seem to be among them. THE BUSINESS RETURN1. The report of the business tax returns for firms doing a business of $100,000 or more, published elsewhere, fully bears out the predictions already made in The Dis patch. The marked increase in the totals of these returns cannot be explained on the supposition of an enlarged liberality on the part ot the merchants of the city in reporting their business for taxation. It is the necessary inference from this in crease that the trade of Pittsburg con tinues to grow in the manner Indicated, bu. not so conclusively demonstrated by other returns. From the evidence of these returns, a3 well as the statistics of iron production for last year, we are led to the gratifying conclu sion that both our commercial and indus trial interests have proved themselves superior to the adverse influences which have been supposed to affect trade. Up to the present year our commercial and manufacturing operations have continued to expand notwithstanding the time has been generally regarded as one of liquida tion and shrinkage. If the same summary can be made of the present year's opera tions Pittsburg will take rank as a city whose business Interests rest upon so solid a foundation as to be able to resist the fluctuations and depressions which affect trade in other parts of the country. DIVIDING UP THE PLUNDER. The House of Representatives has done a little toward the policy of retrenchment by cutting down the sundry civil appro priation bill some 510,000,000 from the total of the previous Congress. Of course, the Republican organs which last week were arraigning the Democratic majority for its failure to redeem the pledge of retrenchment on the other bills, now cry out that it is crippling the Government by refusing to appropriate the necessary ex penses of carrying on the administration. The fact is that this, appropriation presents a remarkably good field for re trenchment It is one of the departments of expenditure which shows an immense Increase, inexplicable save on the score of extravagance from the scale of expenses a dozen years ago. Of course, the varied nature of its items includes cases where retrenchment is wise, and others where it is not. Whether the House has cut down the right ones may be i question to be decided from the details of the bill. But its record already is in keeping the extravagant, scale in appropriations which partake of the char acter of "pork." The Republican organs have strong ground for criticising the Democratic majority in the House, not for cutting down the sundry civil appropria tion, but for its prodigality in other ap propriations in which the members have an interest In the meantime the Senate has chival rously determined that it will take no un fair advantage of the House by presenting an example of retrenchment It is bent on showing that one party is just as bad as the other, and no worse. That reported 25 per cent cut in the river and harbor bill, which balanced so poorly as to actual figures, balances still worse when the com mittee is through with the bill. The House items were scaled the promised 25 per cent in the first instance, and then the members proceeded to restore the items in which thev or their constituents had an interest until the entire amount, less $50, 000, was restored to the bill. A better ex ample of the principle, of addition and division, on which appropriations are made, could hardly be asked for. It seems that the idea of economy and disinterestedness in the use of the public funds has been definitely abandoned as something too useless at this age to profess any respect for. If the people think differ ently, they have got to take a very positive way of expressing their opinion. TnE deep hold which civil service regu lations had upon the President three years and a half -ago peema weakening. One of the Chicago papers says: "John C. New, the chief manager of the Hairison forces, lost no time alter his arrival in the city yester day in conferrinT with the Federal officers here with a view to organizing them for Korl: at Minneapolis. Evory man who can he spared from the Federal Building will have to go to hurrah for the renominatlon." A member of Councils asserts that the aforesaid body has a conscience. He should be. called upon to define the location of a possession so Interesting, for the public are laboring under a delusion that It is con spicuous by Us absence. If there really be such an article, it must be very well con trolled or it would surely be discovered by its works. I a few days It is feared Mr. Harrison will go about with his hands in his pockets whistling "The Lettor That I Longed lor Never Came." The third smallpox patient was taken to the post house yesterday. They have all come from a neighborhood which is remark able for its crowded condition and its bad sewerage. Vaccination is an excellent pre ventive, but good drainage is of no less im portance and the matter should oe looked into and remedied. The Humane Society has decided that the checkiein Is an instrument of torture. But fashion is more powerful than the Hu mane Society. With regard to summer girls, It may be said that some are girls while many are only automatic dolls for the display or diverse costumes and the fracturing of the hearts of brainless males by movements of lips nnd eyelids closely simulating the natural ar ticle and well calculated to deceive the gullible Those seventy-two delegates from Syra cuse will probably find that tho convention wigwam at Chicago Is uncomlortably crowded. Minneapolis is beginning to receive its Republican visitors already. And Its capacity for entertainment will be tested to the full, while the capability of the dele gates to make a wise selection will be under going a similar ordeal during the next 10 days or so. Slavin was certainly out of shape after the fight, and he is probably light in attrib uting the fact to his bad form before the contest. Ip the Mayor's veto of the Exchange street railway ordinance be overridden by Common Council the salety of life and limb demands that an ordinance be passed pro viding a severe penalty for any pedestrian misguided enough to be found on Market stieet. Select Council appears to do whatever the traction companies choose. That is where the select part of it begins and ends. One of the most remarkable features of the Republican situation is the number of delegates who proiess ignorance or their own opinions, und say that they will wait until they reach Minneapolis belore know ing what to do. Local weather should be of a superior order now that the office for its manulucture has been moved to the new building. If prize-fighters must cripple one another they should devote their attention to the Jaws and right hand of their adversaries. A ringstcr who can neither talk nor write these days might Just aa well retire iroin business. Thebe is still enough religion In Franco to render mun sensitive enough to fight a duel about it. Now that naval officers are to make ex periments with carrier pigeons, we may ex pect to hear of a proposition to place the Agricultural Department under the Secre tary of the Navy. Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Alexander II. are both too stiff to keel over when they meet over at Kiel. While Tammany is permitted to secure votes by the more than shady naturalization practices in which It indulges American citizenship will be insulted and disgraced. The Grant monument fund has been raised at last, and now for the monument! Market reports are likely to state that money is plentiful during tlje campaign, though promissory notoi.aro likely to enter into a lively circulation at the same time. Ex-Senator Kutan is attacking political enemies root and branch. his The man who it continually making speeches from tho rear platform of railroad cars is liable to lose his balance and get shaken off Just when he least expects it. Kentucky's Democrats have a favorite son, and Watterson he is. There may be giants in New York, bat they fall before Pittsburg's ball players whenever they can muster up courage enough to stand their ground. NEWSY AN'D PERSONAL The family of Secretary Foster departed tor Europe yesterday on the City of Pat is. President Eliot, of Harvard, is get ting it right and lett for his ridiculous crit icism of our public schools. Ex-President Cleveland and his family left New York City yesterday for their summer residence at Buzzard's Bay, Muss. Friends of "Walt Whitman celebrated his 73d birthday in Philadelphia Tuesday night at a dinner, and organized the "Walt Whitman Reunion." Secretary Elkins has Issued a general order to tho army announcing tho retire ment oT Brigadier General D. S. Stanley and paying a high tribute to his military services. The statement which has been persist ently circulated to the effect that there is an engagement between Miss Harriet Blaine and Mr. Trnxton Bcale is absolutely with out foundation. Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, of Balti more, has lent hor valuable collection of ! etchings and photographs to tho authorities of Princeton College, to be exhibited there during commencement week. The President has directed the retire ment from active service on account of ill ness or Colonel William B. Remey, U. S. M. C, Judge Advocate of the Navy, and Lieu tenant S. C. Lemly is mentioned as his most likely successor. Secretary Tracy will be present at the graduation exercises of tbe Annapolis Naval Academy and award the diplomas. Bishop Charles Todd Quintal d, or Tenues teo, was chosen orator or the day by the Bojrd of Visitois. Mrs. Harrison's physician says that her lecovery was retarded somewhat by tho prevailing hot weather, and that she is" not improving as rapidly as was anticipated. He added that while she is still suffering lrnm nervous prostration there is leally nothing alarming in her condition. THE HISTORIC CONSTELLATION Will Carry European Art Treasures to and From tho World's Fair. Chicago, June L The Fine Art Depart ment or the World's Fair received official notification that Secictary Tracy had con sented to detail the United States lrigate Constellation to the seivice or the Fair. About September 1 the Constellation will sail for Europe. It will touch at Liverpool, Havre and Genoa, nntl will at these points take aboard the productions of American artists selected for display by tho Art Committee abroad. These productions will be brought to Dill caso at tho risk of tho National Government and without cost to tho owners. Alter the Fair thev will be returned to ports of original shipment, the Constellation being again de tailed to sue service. PAKNELL'S EBOIHEB AEEIV2& Be Says. Tlmt the People of Ireland Are on Els Sldt, of tho Issnes. . New York, June 1. Special. John H. Parjiell, brother of the late Charles Stewart Parncll, arrived on the White Star steam ship Tentonic yesterday. Although there was a big demonstration in Cork last neck by way of farewell to Mr. Pnrnell, tn which tho Mayor, the Hoard of Aldermen and more than 25.CO0 people took part, no one in this city Seemed to bo aware of his coming, and tticiowasno ono to meet him at the dock. Mr. Parnell's face bears a strong resem blance to that of his famous brother, and he has tho same clear, keen eyes and looks' at you with the same expression- in them. He has black hair, a long blondo mustache and a chin beard. He has come hero to look after his fruit farms in Georgia and Alabama and will le main until August 1. When he letums he will make thi-experiment of taking a ship load of peaches and other fruits to Liver pool. He will start for Atlanta to-day. Ills mother, Mrs. Delia Parnell, will probably arrive on Saturday bringing with her her grand-daughter. Miss Dickinson. Mrs. Par nell has, won one of her suits against the Stewarts for the recovery of her property in Wicklow; nnd another suit is to he tried next September. She will return to Ireland to be present at the trial of the second suit. Mr. Pnrnell Bald it wus possible, but hardly probable, that he would be present at tho Redmond meetings in this city. The Par nclllte party, he said, was expecting great things from Redmond's visit. "The people of Iieland are on our side," he added, "and tho Hcnlyttes aie the only obstruction in the way or harmony and home rule. The whole country seems to be more prosperous than for some years past. In the political world everything seems to be going our way and I think victory for us is not lar oil." MIDY MOEQAN'S WOEK ENDED. Death of the Most Remarkable Newsppor Woman of thr World. NewYohk, June L Special. Miss Midy Morgan, who was in more vavs than one, the most remarkable newspaper woman in the world.died to-day in St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City; of dropsy. She had been ailing two months and she had been confined to her bed in the hospital about a fortnight. She was nearly 64 years old. For 23 years she was the "livo stock" reporter of tho Times. It was often said that she was the best Judge of cattle in tho East. She was born in Cork on November 22, 1823. Hor father was a country 'squiie, who died when she was a young woman, and sho took personal supervision of tho farm. The mother went to Rome with Midy, at that time was a very handsome girl, and ahold rider. She one day secured an introduction to the King. Not long after that visit the Kins appointed her to go to England and Ireland and purchase stock. The commis sion was so satisfactorily executed that the Kins presented her with a gold watch, on the case of which was his monogram in dia monds. 8he came to New York, and after much difficulty and hardship got the position on the Timet which she held to the day of her death. She Increased her staff or.papers bv the Bridgeport "-turn, the Rural jVeu, Yorker, Tun. Field and Farm, lharth and Home, the Horseman, Freedeis' (jazcte and other papers. THE HAEBOR BILL IN A FIX. Its Friends Becoming Anxious as to its Ultimate Fate In the llirase. WAsmicoTOX, D. C, June 1. The friends of the "Riverand Harbor" bill aro becoming somewhat anxious as to its ultimate fate. At present it stands upon the calendar with the Senate amendments pending. Should it ngain, as according to the rules It must do, run the gauntlet of the committee of the whole, the time of its final passage would he wholly problematical, as every amend ment would be subject to further amend ment, end its enemies could take advantage of the present depleted condition or the House to postpone its passage indefinitely. Confronted with this condition, the ad vocates of the measuro have decided to ask the House to suspend the rules on Monday next in order to non-concur in the Senate amendments and to agiee to a conference. As this motion will require a two-thlid vote, the Committee on Rivers and Harbors is using means to make sure that every friend of the bill shall be present upon that day. EXPEBIMEKTIflG WITH PIGEONS. Their Value as Messengers From Ships at Se to He Tested. PHiLADFXFnii, Juno 1. Special. The United States practice ship Constellation leaves Annapolis, Md., for the summer cruise on the 6th instant and expects to carry a number of homing pigeons to ascer tain their usefulness as bearers of messages to shore from vessels cruising along the coast. Prof. H. Marion, of the NnvaJ Academy, writing Irom the "office of the Messenger Pigeon Seivice," says: "We would like to have a few good birds that will home in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Kcvport, Newark, New York, Providence. Fall River and Boston for liberating fiom the ship when in the vicinity of the home. Anvone willing to loan Dirds for this purpose should send them to reach Captain C. M. Chester. United States ship Constellation, Annapolis, Md., bcfoie next Monday. It is proposed to es tablish a loft on board the Constellation, the birds to be used fiom the land and in communicating with tho vessel." CONSULS' SALARIES BEbUCED. Changes Made tn tho Dlp'omatlc Service by the Appropriation Bill. Washington, D. C, June 1. The "Diplo matic and Consular" appropriation bill was to-day reported to tho Senate irom the Com mittee on Appropriations. As it camo from the House the bill carried an appropriation of $1,47,245. and this amount has been in creased $231,800 by the committee, making a total of $l,710,045-being$j;i,120moro than the appropriation lor the curient year and $123, 421 less than the estimates. The missions to Columbia and Ecuador nnd Peru and Bolivia, which weie consoli dated by the House.are restored to their pres ent status, as weie also the missions to Vene zuela and Guatemala and Honduras. The salaries of the Consuls General at London, Paris, Havanaand Rio Janeiro weie redneed from $6,000 to $5,000 each by the House, but were restored by the committee, as were also the salaries of ! Consuls reduced and 11 omitted by the House bill. AFPBOVED BY BUSINESS MEN. Hawaiian Indorse Their Government's Action In Arresting Revolutionists. Bostox, June 1. Special Last night the following telegram was received from Jos. C. Carter, of Honolulu, manager of the branch house there of Charles Brewer & Co., Boston, and brother of the late Hawaiian Minister at Washington: "Honolulu, May 24, via San Francisco, Slay 31. Everything quite here. Accept no nhirmin newsnaner accounts. V. Y. Ash- foid, R. Y. Wilcox and 20 o:hcrs arrested for trca-on. Picliminarv hearing on 26 wai rants issued by Judge Dole of the Supreme Bench on a full knowledge or facts. No ex- I (JllUlllVllb aiUUUj lli.l;o. A4,w Jk.lUlilO, ucneiai anu tne jiarsuai aie connaeut or convictions. Fifty other wni rants are in the hands of the Marshal. Our citizens general ly approve of the action of the Govern ment." A GOVEENOE TIED THE KNOT. The Daughter of Ex-t. S. Treasurer Hus ton Weds :i Honsicr Editor. CoitrfERsviLLE, Ixd., June 1. Elm Farm, the beautiful country residence of Hon. James X. Huston, ex-Treasurer of tho Uuitftd States, was the scene of a brilliant gathering to-day, the occasion being th? wedding of the ex-Treasurer's accomplished daughter, Ellen Carlisle Huston, and How aid M. Gordon, editor of the Coniiersville Times. The officiating clergyman was Rev. Ira J. Chase, Governor of Indiana. Mr. and Mis. Gordon leeeived over 100 artistic and costly Iirescnts. The gilt of President and Mrs. larrison wns a large tolld silver iiuit dish, elegantly engraved. Big Increase of Pension Appropriations. Wasuikotos, D. C, June I. The Senato Appiopriatious Committee has completed the "Annual Pension" appropriation hill, and will probably report it to the Senate to morrow. The bill carries a total appropria tion of $146,350,000 being about $J00,000 less than the estimates and a little over SlIjOOO,' 000 more than the House bill. The incieaso Is tor army and navy pensions and rent. Millions Fatd Oat to Sugar Growers. -Wasbixqtos, D. C, June 1 The Commis sioner of Internal Revenue reports the Sayment To date of. 2,616 claims for sugar onnty amounting to $7,271,093. leaving un settled 615 claims Involving, ?V,6S1. THE SOCIAL WORLD. Pleasures of the Outing Season FeopI Preparing to Flit The Small Talk of the Tloadolrs nnd Aynnue Mansions. Ellwood was the objective point of many pleasure seekers on Decoration Day, the'greater rart of them arriving at Hotel Oliver on Saturday evening. Sightseeing was indulned in and Glen Park particularly delighted the adventurous explorers. A few of the names registered were: Charles L. Taylor and wife. Miss Lizzie Tnvlor, a B. McLean nnd wife, L. C Phipps.O. P. Palmer, George F. McLean, Mrs. H. K. Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Osten, William H. Havs. Miss Blanche Sweet, Miss Ella Crosbv, Miss Effle Irwin, Miss Mary Dilworth, Miss Vir ginia Brigham, Miss Marr Holland, Miss Elizabeth Johnston, Miss Clara Nogly, Mr. Gross McConnell. Glen Park was the great attraction. Toerge's Band furnished music for the dancers. There is a beautiful little fentence In a report of the Committee on Ways and Means at Washington, which prospective tourists abroad would do well to frame and hang on the lids of their trunks. It is one of those things which viewed in any way does not lose its charms and'it runs as follows: "The committee fail to see nnv good reason why there should be an exemption fiom taxation upon wearing apparel and personal effects of those of our own citizens, whose pe cuniary circumstances are such as to enable them to Journey in foreign lands, and there purchase their supply of the above mentioned articles at prices not enhanced by a tariff tax." Quoting from an appeal sent out by a committee, representing the Allegheny General Hospital, the circular ooritalns the following: The Ladies' Society of the Allo-ghonj- General Hospital has undertaken tho furnishing of the building added to the hos pital. The new part contains three wards and Beveral private room. The society has aUo put in another elevator costing $1,375. The money received Irom the Captain Gray estate has been used toward paying the indebtedness on the building. Contribu tions of monev, bedding, table linen, towel ing and of any kind will be thanktully re ceived by the committee, composed of "Mrs. M. B. Riddle, 287 Ridge avenuei Mrs. Albert A. Horno, 39 Beech street: Miss M. B. Park, 215 North avenue; Mrs. R. n. Bogsis, 186 Xorth avenue; Mrs. Jane T. Patterson, 2S1 Western avenue. From 3 to 10 on Friday apublio 1 eception will beheld. , To relieve Mrs. D. P. Black, of The Boulevard, from the good-natured "chaff ing" of her friends, Thk Dispatch social paragrapher calls attention to the fact that Mrs. Black is not the originator of lemon trees, as they grow for bazaars, nor will the fitst one of the species be seen at Point Breeze Church tinder the lady's particular charge. The lemon tree 01 the prize pack age Irult variety has been in existence more years than even the oldest inhabitants could keep "tub" on, and, therefore, though Mrs. Black appreciates the enormous intellect lequired to concoct such a tree, she prelers to wear only rightfully won laurels and not those belonging to somo other head. Friday night the Art Society will hold its 179th reception in tho Pittsburg Club Theater, thus bringing to a fitting close what Is considered tho most progressive season yet experienced. Miss Kaderly, Miss Jfewcomb and Mr. Webster will contribute to the music of tho evening, and at a later hour all the plans in detail of the Carnegie Library buildings will be presented for inspection. All of which promises that the closing of the society lor the season though bringing its legrets, will be done in an exceedingly pleasant manner. Miss Katharine Eugenie Perrine, daughter ot Thomas Perrine, Esq.,of Forbes street, will be married on Tuesday evening, June 14, to Samuel McElroy Nease, the cer emony taking place in the Oakland Meth odist Episcopal Church at 8 o'clock. A re ception lollows at Mr. Pcrrlne's house in or nes street, miss Perrine was a school or Design gill and both popular and pretty. Mr. Theodore Hostetter Is contem plating either erecting or purchasing a resi dence at Jamestown, R. I., to which Mrs. Hostetter and he will retire for a summer sojourn. Last year Mrs. I). H. Hostetter and her daughter, Mrs. De Fuy, spent the warm weather at Jamestown, which is one with Newport, and the ladies reported them selves so well pleased tnut the resulris the k permanent resort for the Hostetter fam ily. ; - Social Chttter. TnE Washington City girls have a novel method now of presenting their shoulders to the public. When decollete with a V shape or round bodice, thoy throw back the elbows, keeping them very close to tho body. They say (those who have observed), that the effect on the nape ot the neck la bewitch ing. A Berlin drag, capable of holding 11 per sons, will he added this week to the already numerous traps belonging the the Schenley Riding Academy. Fromadescriptiongiveu, its appearance doubtlers will fill all good coaching people with envy to possess it, or at least to share It. Several trips are being planned against its arrival. BEETHOvtK'8 MaSs in G was given iast night in Calvary Church, attracting a large gathering of people from nil parts of the city. The organist of Calvary, Mi'. Carl Bet ter, under whoso direction the mass was presented, added more luster to his aheady shining musical reputation. Thk Woman's Guild of Trinity Church will give a reception to Mrs. Altreu Arundel at the icctoiy,7iLtncolnavenuo, Allegheny, on Monday evening, fiom 5 to 9 o'clock. A geneial invitation is exteuded to the 0011 gt egation. Mb. akd Mbs. Thomas GiLLEariEand family, and Miss Gillespie, of Thomas street, Tne Boulevard, sail on the City of New York on June 14 lor Europe. They contemplate re maining abroad a twelvemonth. Mr. Thomas L. Clarke nnd his brother, Louis, are at present in Florida, planning the selection 01 a spot and the erection ot a country house for the family. Mr. Oester ling, the architect, is with them. Jaxk Meade Welch lectured yesterday morning on Alexander Hamilton belore the Daughters of the Revolution and their friends at Miss Denny's house, Penn avenue. Mrs. Howard Mortos, of Denniston ave nue, has been deprived of an expected charming visitor. Miss HUl, of Wnslnugton City, by the young lady's serious illness. Mr. Cuaklks Moon and Miss Louise Holmes wore married in St. Peter's Lhurch jeaterday evening, the Rev. Mr. Mcliay pre siding. The Magee-Hcberton nuptials were cele brated last night in Bridgetown, X. J. The Bethesda Home anniversary will be held this aiternoon. THE AXTI-SXAPPERS, Mr. Hill's Presidential chances are nil, but, if anything could possibly help them, it would be by making a martyr of Jim. Philadelphia Ledger. Tuf Sjracuse Convention is entitled to pass into history as a particularly good ex amplo of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. .Voc York Tribune. There was much to provoke yesterday's action on the part of the Syracuse Conven tion, but it was bad. politics all the same. Hill was beaten without a contesting dele gation. Phi'adelphia Timet. Not since the days of the Van Biren bolt oflS43 has there been n more open Demo cratic revolt in this State, and the situation is one which must piovc most gratifying to tho Republicans yew York Adver iic: The convention assemblage at Syracuse yesteiday is doomed to exercise: repellant Influence on Democratic minds. It is funda mentally wrong 111 that it places the candi date above the party. Brooklyn Citizen. Thouoh long engaged in endeavoring to disorganize and distract tho Democracy, these Mugwumps are now sounding the depths of politic.il folly beyond thomeasuie ment ot any gauge ot vacuity yet discovered. -Veu York pun. The managers of the Syracuse assemblage were appaiently so elated at finding them selves In a convention which they could con trol that they lost sight of everything ex cept a temporary elevation of themselves. Xcw York World. Responsibility for tho'existence of n con testing delegation rests 011 the managers of that midwinter madness. Tiio duty of de ciding a situation thus mado in this State wllf devolve on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Brooklyn Fugle. The convention prepaied tho way not for division, but for nnlon.by giving expression to the actual sentiments of the Democrats of the State, and securing for them a repre sentation which they were in danger of hot having in tbe National Convention. New York Timtt. . . T - BET. DE. PABXHTJBST 07? FOB ETJEOPE. Vet 1Y111 Add to His Knowledge or Tics by Personal Observation. New York, June L Special The Rev. Dr. Charles II. Parkhursr, pastor of the Madison Square Probyterfan Chureh, and proprietor of the "Circus" enterprise left on tho 'Germanlo to-day for his regular annual four .months' vacation In Europe. He will return by the same steamer on Sep tember 23. As he stood on the promenade deck of tne Germanic bidding several friends farewell he looked in the best of health and spirits. Indeed, he admitted that his health was excellent, but gave as his ex cuso for His departure at the ' very crisis of the circus movement the "fact'that he was very tired. Ha said that in former years 'he had cut himself off .entirely from his .work during the whole period of his vacation, but this year he would depart from his rule and keep himself accurately informed of the doings of the Society for the Suppression of Vice; of which he is the pi fine moving spirit. From Liverpool he will go to Lon don, and thence direct to Vcsiy, where, he has "always spent his vacations. Then he will settle down and rest and enjov the scenery. In the early part of September he wilt go to Paris and make lnvnstigatlons of the police system and tho social evil. From Paris he will go to Loudon and add still further to his knowledge of vice from per sonal observation. NEW TALE INSTBTJCTOKS. Eight ot Them Appointed to fill Vacan cies Made by the Chicago Draft. New Have, Coxk., June L Eight new in structors were chosen for Yale to-dav at the roaular moeting of the Yale corporation. President Harper has caused a large num ber of.vacuncies by inducing several Yale men to go to Chicago, and with one excep tion all theVacant chairs were'fliled to-day. W. L. Phelps, at present instructor in Harvard, was elected instructor in English licoraturo. Jules Luqulon, of the Massachu setts Instttuto or Technology, was ap pointed to sneceed Prof. Enapp as professor of modern languages. Pi of. E. W. scripture, of Clark University, was riven chaige of the now department of physiolog ical psychology. Prof. H. L. Williams, of Cornell, was selected as successor to Prof. J. D. Dana. C L. Brownson, of Brooklvn, was chosen tntor in Greek and Latin. Har rison W. Lindsley, or Now Haven, was ap pointed instructor in perspective in art at the Art School. E. C. Beecher was ap pointed assistant professor o paleontology. Guy V. Thompson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., wa elected tutor to the freshman class in Latin. Prof. F. K. Saunders was made as sistant prolessor of Biblical literature. CHABLEY FAIB AFTEB HIS F0BTTJNE. Tbe Executors Refuse to Give It and the Courts Have Been Appealed To. San Fraxcisco, June 1. Charles Fair, who invested $33,000 last week in choice racing stock, applied to-day for $.)CO00O, which, under-his mother's 'will, was left to him in case of the death of his brother. When young "Jimmy" Fair died several months ago Charley decided that he wanted his brother's share Immediately. The executor opposed this, declaring he could not get the money till he was 3-" years old, which was the age at which Jimmy would have re ceived it. In court Exeoutor Drv has declared that Mrs. Fair's estate was worth $M0,0ii0. but as a large part is in bonds It will be difficult to realize the money. The caso has been sub mitted in briers. It is the opinion of the best lawyers that the young man will get the money. WHISKY IBU3TEES BOUND OVEB. They Are Sent to Jail to Awiie Trial In tho United States Court. Cleveland, June 1. Wan en II. Corning and Julius French, memheis of the Whisky Trust, indicted by the United States grand Jury in Boston, were given a hearing before I'nited States Commissioner Williams this afternoon and wero bound over to the United States Court of Massachusetts, and in deiault of bait were committed Jo Jail. Unltod States District Attorney Brins made made an application for their removal to Boslcn. This was resisted by Attorney Elihn Root, of New York, who, with Jndge Williamson.of this city, und Judge Thatcher, of New York, appeared tor the prisoners. Pending the continuance of the imminent and decision by the Judge, an arrangement wns made whereby the Jail penalty was omitted. , SOKE INTXB-STATB AMENITIES. The City of Philadelphia Presents the Ken tucky Cnntmonwralth Two Pictures. LExntQTOJr. Kr., June I. The Centennial ceremonies, in the way of presenting pictures or Independence Hall. Liberty and Carpenter's U.tll to the State 01 Kentucky by the city of Philadelphia, attracted a crowd or at least 20,000 strangers. The Statures were cxiiibiteu on a platform, near reokenridge statue, on Chcapside. Hon. Hampton L. Car-on, the eloquent young lawyer of Philadelphia, made the presentation speech, which was responded to by Governor John Youn.r Brown. C611 gres'sman W. C P. Breckenridge spoke on Kentucky history. Business of every de scription was virtually suspended during tho day. DEATHS HEEE AND ELSEWHERE. William Voegtiln, Scenic Painter. William Voegtlin, who has heen for many years one of the best-known scene-painters In tills country, died in Boston Sunday from pneumonia. He was 50 years old. He wns btg-n In ltasie. Switzer land, and came to this country with his father. nho was also a scene-painter, about 40 years ago. He hai been at work among the theaters all over the country ever slace that time Oue of the most notable of his works was the scenery for t le famous production of "The Rlack Croofe." at Nlhlo's Uar den. Mr. Voegtiln was known as an extremely rapid painter, and It is relate! that on one occa sion, when ho made the scenery for an elaborate production of '.Faust," the hrocken scene, the magnlneeiice of which had been extenfcivt-ly ad vertised, was scarcely more than half finished when the curtain rose for the first act. But It wag finished by 41ie time It was wanted, though It wag ellll wet. Mr. Voegtlln's last work wasiloiieal ihe Globe Theatsr, Uostou, whither he went a few weeks asro. He leaves a son, Arthur Voegtiln. who Is the scenic artist of tho Madlsou Square Theater, ew York. John F. Baseman, T5r.. Author. John Frelinghuysen Hageman, Sr., a prominent lawyer and citizen of Princeton. N. J., died Monday evening at the age of 76. Mr Haire man was a graduate of Rutgers College and a class mate of Chief Justice Bradley. He was a prolific writer Among other works he was author of The History ofPrhiceton and Her Institutions, published In two octavo volumes, and 'Privileged Communications.'' a law work. During the late war he was editor and chief of the Princeton atiindrirti. At the time of his death he was en gaged In writing a book entitled "l he Civil Law of the Sabbath." Mr. Hageman has for many years been a member of the Hoard of Trustees 01 Princeton Theological Seminary. Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Astronomer. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, known through out the country for his original work in the field ot astronomical photography, died 3Ionday last at 'tranquility, N J. Mr Rutherlurd began his experiments with solar and slellir plates more than 30 years ago. In left he perfictea a new pho tographing telescope whereby he was enahlod to Hat the Instrument for seeing nr for photographing without removing the seeing object glass, Thit telescope, with most of the iustrdiucnts In Ids ob servatory, h" gave to Columbia t'ollee In 133. Mr. Kutiierfiird alo gave ah hi best negatives to Columbia in lg90. Obllnary Notes. D. W. Bkkjamix, the millionaire lumberman. died on Decoration Day after an llluess of six Miss Cora Kllis. a daughter of the proprietor of the Lllls Hotel, Braddock, died yesterday morn ing of consumption, phe was aged iO jears. AncinaALr ScijLixc. one of the most promi nent lawvers in Marrland. died Tuesday. He uas stricken with paraljsU on Sunday and never recovered. , Seiiastiax Shotek. an active Republican and forrnmy years' connected with tho Cumberland Vallej ltallroad Cumiianr. died yesterday in Sblppcnsburg. Pa., ageJ w years. THOMAS O. HrnLBUT. a well-known paper man nfactuier andpresldent of the Htirlbut Paper Com pany, died suddenly at his home hi south Lee. Mass., Monday nlgl.1. He came of a family which has been connected with the making of wrltlug paper for many years. AKX BkuxdIge. a colored woman, died at Brownsville ycsterilav. She figured Dromlnently In the" AV est murder trial, slw was arrested with West, who was convicted and executed a year ago for the murder or the Crouch family. Ann liruu dage was acquitted owing to lack ot evidence. Jonathan Suii.RiFr.a leading farmer of Mifflin township, Cumberland county, was found dead In a field liear'liis home yesterday. He was thinning tree tops and Is believed to have been stricken with heart ilisea-e ami fallen to the ground. TI10 Coroner considers the case auspicious, and will Investigate. Dr. Diciil, n prominent physician of Fayette county, dled'at Ids home at Lelsenrlng Monday night of pneumonia. He went to Fayette county six Tears ago as the physician of the Counellsvllle Coal and Coke Company, and had acted lu that capacity ever since. Tne remains will betaken to Ailent"wn. CDRIODS CONDENSATIONS. TJntil two years ago there was not a newspaper in Persia. The new British coinage will bear the Queen's head without the crown. A 14-vear-old boy killed 18 large rattle snakes recently, near Eugene. Ore. A meteor weighine 5)f pounds crashed t'irongb the house of a Chicagoan last Fri day. In Tokio there are more than 800 public bathhouses In which a bath may be had for 1 cent. Two hundred women are employed by Edison in working at the more delicate details of his electrical inventions. It is stated in a fashionable London Journal that 1,OCO,000 bonnets were sold In the British metropolis during one week re cently. Lightning flashed into an Eastern Penn sylvania coal mine the other day and shocked a man who was 1,200 feet below the surface. Fonr families of Penobscot Indians lived last winter in a board shantv at Caps Elizabeth and earned together $110 a month at basket making. A West Philadelphia clergyman re cently received an envelope containing an old-fashioned copper penny as his fee for performing a wedding ceremony. In Balakanr, near Bakn, the center ot the Russian petroleum industry, is witnessed, the anomaly of the water used for the steam boilers in tho several establishments costing more than the luel. The increase oi population in France during the last five years has amounted to only one-lmlf of 1 percent. The ponulation of tho great cities is increasing and that of the rural districts decreasing. A deposit of $20 made in the Newbury port Institution for Savings tn 13-20 now calls for interest amounting toiS05. No one has overclaimed the original deposit and no ad dition has over been made to it. Tbe age of the "youngest Confederate 1 soldier" has now been reduced to 11 years, ' as D. B. Freeman, of Carterville, Ga., says that he enlisted in the Sixth Georgia Cav alry when he reached that age. The oldest hotel in Switzerland, and probably the oldest in tho world, is the notel of the Three Kings, at Basle. Among its guests in 10.26 were the Empsror Conrad II., his son, Henry III. and Rudolph, the last King of Burgundy. A man named Cowles living in Beloit, VTl3 gave his wife on the occasion of her 87th birthday, some months ago, a coffin tlj.-tt he had made himself. Sho died on Sit urday and was buried in tne gift with which her husband provided her. An expert rifle shot is attracting much attemion by his feat of shooting a glass ball from his own head. The trick is performed by shootimr at tho trigger of a rifle held In a frame, with the muzzle sluhted at a glass ball dancling by :i string directly over the marksman's head. The oldest of the Dutch journals haa passed Its two hundred and twenty-sixth an niversary, and the publisher has issued to his subscribers copies of the first number of that Journal as it appeared on Januarys, 1656. It Is said that the earlier copies of this paper were carefully consulted by Macaulay in preparing his celebrated hUtory. Few of the fruit-eating public are aware of the source of supply of what are calletl Malaga, or white grapes. From a little vil-i ligo in Spain, called Almeria. situated! directly on the Mediterranean Sea. about 150 miles east of Gibraltar, are shipped an nually, from Angnst 25 to November 1, be tween 500,000 nnd DJO.OOO barrels of grapes. Norfolk has a crop which is worth mil lions of dollars annually peanuts. The street-corner Italian who empties a pint In your overcoat pocket, and the Parisian fruit merchant who weighs you out a quarter of a kilogram of the homelv nuts, get them from here, for this is the only peanut market in tlu-world. Smyrna has its figs. Barbaryits dates, Bordeaux its grapes and Xorfolk its peanuts. Caviare, which is made from the egg of the sturgeon, is an important articlo of exportation for many cities of Russia and Astrakhan, and principally Taganrok. The annual amo.mt is estimated at 40,000 ponds (one pond is 25 poflrtds). Tho greater part goes to Turkey, Greece, Italy and Germany, very little to England, and still less, to France. The fisheries are situated at the) mouth of the Volga. A woman residing near Thorn Creek, , Wash., sowed the seed from one head of bar-' loy four years ago. She harvested the crop with a pair of shears and sowed the amount! received the next year, again harvesting it) with her shears. The third cropherfather cut with a jrrass scythe, getting enough barley from this crop to sow 40 acres last spring, which averaged 40 bushels to the acre when threshed, making a total yield of 1.600 bushols from one head of barley in four years. Not long ago, while a gentleman was out hunting he found four young foxes. Three he took home witli him alive and gave them to a cat that had recently had a litter or kittens. Tho cat received them very kindly. She also adopted a mouse which she will not allow to get out of hei sight. It is a romarkablu sL'ht to wit ness the cat lying in her bed with one kit ten, three voumr foxes and a mouse, as happy as though she was the real mother of tuemaii. An interesting discovery has been made in a deep railway cutting at Andresy, near Paris, France, where tho workmen ran upon a huge Merovingian cemetery of the six teenth century. As many as 600 tombs have already been uncovered, yielding a hitherto unheard-of mnss of carved sarcophagi, knives, spears, vases, ornaments and pot tery cf unique shapes and styles of decora tion. It is recalled now that the tiny hamlet of Andresy, in the generations succeeding tho introduction of Christianity, was an im portant misionary center. An English journal has been compiling some stories, almost incredible, that illus trate the tremendous power exerted by waves. It says that on tho shores of tho Shetland Islands it is not nt all unusual for gneiss bowlders weighing upward of threo tons to be moved 300 feet in a sinzle night. At Bishop's Bock, Enmand, an iron column 23 !ert lomrand weiihinz 6,000 pounds part of a lighthouse being erected on the rock, and which had heen chained by means of evebolts to two heavy bowlders was moved 20 feet in one nlihtand deposited upon a pro jecting rock 11 feet and 10 inches higher than its original position. PABAGKAPHS OF 11C3IOH. Customer I'm a delegate to the Chicago convention, and I guess I'll go lu new clothes. What 'd 1 better get? Tailor Oh. get a conventional black suit. Smith, Gray Co.'t Monthly. "Mother, may I go out to shop?" "Yon may. my darling daughter; But keep away from the restaurant And the drTgoodssoda water." Xeio York Herald. Mrs. Stings Last nfcht you came horns with a story of sitting up with a lick friend. Now what excuse have you this time? Mr. Stings To-nlgnt. my love, we (l.ic) all gath ered (blc) round bis beer. Chicago Inter-Ocean, Ot all sad things by tongue or pen How sad It Is to And. When you have paid a two hours' call That tie wa3 up behind. VMliier and FurnUher, "Simon! Simon! There are burglars in the house!" "That's all right. Mary. I made an assignment of everything to-day for tie benefit of the cred itors I" Chicago Sacs llecord. She flew to meet him with outstretched arms. And vowed she loved him to death: But, coldly he turned away from her charms. For there was oulon on ner breath. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Nellie "What's your favorite instrument, Daisy?" Daisy The mandolin. Nellle-Of course you prefer anything that has man about it. Dttruit JWe Prett. "Where's Satan this morning?" asked Mace hlavtlll of the head Imp. "He's gone down to the City Hall to fix one of the Inspectors. " said the imp. "You see ourplaco hasn't any lire escapes, and It might get us Into trouble." Xeu York Herald. She wears a pretty long trail to hergown; 'Tis a style that can't be defended. And I'm willing to aid In crying it down. Hut 'till, I must say, sbe looks splendid. Sb Tor Prtst. Scads Tou say he left no moneyl Baggs No. Tou see he lost his health getting wealthy, and then lost his wealth trying to ft healthy. Smith. Tray 4 Co.'t itonthbl. ' . . " " ' -r r if tMJLgaAafciiilti-ti "k.rir"flfr'
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