KfiBSSiZSP! THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. MONDAY, JUNE 6. 1892. Wlje m$mit g. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, ISM Vol. 47. No. 13). Entered at nttsburg Fostoffice November. 1SS7. as tecoml-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. rAm;nv AnvrnniNo "rrirn. room rs. TRIBUNE Bl'It.WNtt. N I".W YORK, where com plcte files of THE DISPATCH can alwavs he inund. Foreign advertlfers arnreclate tlie convenience. Home advertisers and friends of! UK DiSPATCH. it ulle In Xevi York, are alo made clcome. TnKlJISPATCIIU regtdarlltomtaJerit nrentnm'. tlTnion Kgvare, Xno ork, and V Ave itrPVprra. Pari, France, where anyone who hag been disap pointed at a hotel neics stand ear. obtain it. TERMS OF THE UISPATCIT. TOBTAGE TRUE IN THE UNITED STATES. rAnr Dispatch. One Year J R TO Dailt Dispatch. Per Quarter " CO Dailt DisrATcii. One Month 70 Dailt Dispatch. Including Sunday. I year.. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch, Including Snndav, Sm'tlis, IPO Daily DisrATcn. Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 Suxdat Dispatch. One Year IM "Weekly Dispatch. One Year J 25 The Daily DisrATCH 1 delivered by carriers at JScenlsptrvrcln or. Including Sunday Edition, at Itf cent pM" 'week. PrTTsBUKG. MONDAY. JUNE 6. ISM. TWELVE PAGES NOTICE TO AGENTS. THE DIsrATCn lia male arrangements for the most exclusive, as well as the most cxhanstltr, reports of the Republican Na tional Convention. Agents who have not nt In their orders for extras shotTd promptly notify the Business Office, as the demands already received are unprece dented. A NEW DISASTER, The calamity which visited the oil coun try cities yesterday morning proves that the horrors of flood and fire were not ex hausted by the Johnstown disaster. While the destruction of life and property does not appear to have been so cninhingly wholesale as in the case of the Conemaugh floods, the fearful combination of flood with fire was even more terrifying in its aspects. At Titusville, as at Johnstown, there was the original feature of a cloudburst "over the section drained by the stream passing through the city. Thebnrsting of a dam which added to the force of the car rent sweeping through the flooded sec tion was also a repetition on a somewhat smaller scale. But in the explosion of oil tanks at the height of the flood, and the conversion of that torrent into a sweeping stream of unquenchable fire, which was carried down to Oil City and repeated there its work of devastation, the oil region calamity presen's a horror which is unrivaled and peculiarly its own. The condition of the victims first called upon to struggle against the ravages of a flood and then overwhelmed by the awful doom of a torrent of burning oil beggars com mentary. It constitutes one of those dis asters before which humanity can only stand mute and awe-ftricken for a breath ing space before awakening to active sym pathy and relief for the survivors of the calamity. The special telegrams to Trra Dispatch give the public a full idea of the devasta tion which commenced about midnight and continued its work until late yester day. It shows an awful loss of life and a crushing destriu-tion of property. It is too soon to expect an accurate statement of the loss of life in Oil City, Titusville and the country along Oil creek. But the fact that an awful blow has been inflicted on that thriving dis'rict is fully reported in all its harrowing details. Of course, in the presence of such a dis aster the sjmpathy of the public will be as prompt and adequate as in the case of Johnstown. So large a sum will not be needed for relief, but the necessity for prompt aid is no less pressing. Pittsburg is too closeU connected with the stricken towns not to be switt with its helping hand to the sufferers who have been sud denly stricken by bereavement and the destruction of property. While the total sum required may not be so large as was raised for the Johnstown sufferers on the first news of that calamity, the organiza tiou of relief for the oil country towns must be not less prompt and energetic The lesson of such disasters as this, the appalling details of which are spread be fore our readers this morning, is the im pressive one that we can never foretell the quarter whence the agencies of death and destruction may come. That awful moral conveys more instruction than could be given in a volume of sermons. THE JIANUFACTCKERs' SCALE. In its local columns this morning Tire DiSPATCn publishes exclusively the lead ing points of the scale which has been drawn up by the iron manufacturers' com mittee for presentation to the Amalgam ated Association. The importance of the intelligence secured thus early will be made clear by an examination of the prop osition, showing a redaction averaging rbout 20 per cent on the important items, with special clauses in which even a greater reduction is asked. Th information is also to the effect that the manufacturers are fully deter mined to stand by this proposition; but past experience will dispose tho public to take this announcement of belligerent in tentions with a grain of salt No one doubts, of course, that the serious attempt to enforce such a reduction of wages must produce a long and stubborn conflict; but the fears of a stoppage of work in the mills will not be very active. Pittsburg has from past experience become accus tomed to hearing that the employers will take nothing but a ten or twenty per centreduction.and subsequently noting the unanimity with which those gentlemen, while vowing that -they would never con sent, did consent to the old scale, and made a very good year of it after all. There may be at present a little more than the usual disposition to try to force a reduction; but the month that is to intervene before the sett'ement of the question will probably convince all parties that tiie question can be settled harmon iously. There is one especial reason who both parties, and especially the manufacturers, will recognize that tho wagesscale cannot le made the subject of conflict this year. When the scale question comes up, the lines will just have been drawn for a National campaign in which the tariff will be the principal issue. No city In the country is more interested in the mainte nance of protection than Pittsburg, and no interest in the city has a more direct con cern in its success than the iron and steel interest The protection policy is avow edly based on the argument of upholding the wages of American labor; and it has been advocated through two campaigns ou the distinct pledge that the pref- ent - policy of legislation will maintain waees. If the iron manufacturers wished to strike every tariff advocate dumb and paralyze the entire campaign for protection, they could not do so more effectually than by con fronting them during the campaign with the spectacle of an industry standing idle through til forcible attempt to reduce wages 20 per cent in a protected industry. It is quite possible and the fact should bothe subject of due consideration on both sides that the lower scales prevail ing in other districts and the inroad3 of steel upon wrought iron may make it advisable in the interest of both capital and labor to consent to a conservative re duction in some parts of the scale. But it is an imperative feature of the situation that any such step shall be made harmoni ously and as the result of mutual convic tion and concession. Neither side should undertake to force the other to its views, and neither side should refuse to give a fair hearing to the arguments and needs of the other. The fact is that neither the manufac turers, nor the ironworkers nor Pittsburg at large can afford to have a general strike this year. The necessity of avoiding such a conflict is so patent that we have full faith in a practical agreement as to wages a month hence. A FOREGONE CONCLUSION. The clash of contending political inter ests over the Presidental nomination reached a pronounced stage at Minne apolis yesterday. Its echoes will continue to resound until the convention gets down to the work of balloting. It is not haz ardous to predict that the first ballot will bring a complete and decided quietus to the conflict The feature of the situation yesterday was reported to be the generalship and stubbornness of the fight in favor of Har rison. With the army of office-holders disclosed by our special telegrams, it is not strange that there should be a trained force of wire-pullers working persistently against the popular tide in order to save their chief and their bread-and-butter. Nevertheless, beside the antecedent im probability of such influences being able to defeat an almost unanimous popular de mand like that for Blaine, there are un mistakable evidences that the Harrison contingenWs fighting for a cause already lost, and know it to be so. ' One of the most significant of these is the talk yesterday of a compromise candi date. A third man might be an agreeable compromise to the politicians, and under the, ciicumstances the President would doubtless be glad to see almost anyone nominated except Blaine. But the wishes of politicians are of little weight in this matter. It is the popular demand for the leadership of Mr. Blaine that alone gave force to the movement of the politicians for his nomination. Tho refusal to meet that demand would be little betterif made by the nomination of one man than by another. Viewed in the light of the wishes of the Republican masses, it is plain that the availability of other men sink into insig nificance beside the immense superiority of Blaine, If he could not be secured as a candidate Sherman or McKinley might be rated as a little better than Harrison; De pew or Alger as somewhat weaker. But the question being only whether the de sire of the people for Blaine's candidacy shall be satisfied or not, the talk of a com promise candidate is so futile as to be plainly a device of the Harrison forces to let themselves down easily. No such political finesse can succeed in checking the tide which is sweeping for ward to the nomination of the ex-Secretary of State. The nomination of Blaine probably on the first ballot is clearly shown, both bv the ceneral features of the situation and the estimates of reliable and impartial figures. MILLER'S CBANGB OF POSITION. It is noticeable that Mr. Warner Miller alters his declarations on the relation of the Nicaragua Canal Company to that Government subsidy in accordance with his locality. In an interview on the sub ject published in TnE Dispatch a week ago, Mr. Miller authorized the declaration that iiis company asks no aid whatever from the Government In h'.s speech be fore the Nicaragua Canal Convention at St Louis on Thursday.be stated that the company "Is not unwilling that it should receive Government aid." This absence of unwillingness to have the Government furnish the credit for the project is not unusual with projects of this sort, having been apparent to a large extent in the case of the subsidized rail roads, until the people developed a de rided unwillingness to have it go any further. The Nicaragua Canal Company's liberality in this respect is only remarka ble in the fact that it starts out on a larger scale than any previous project, and pos sesses the breadth of permitting the Gov ernment to indorse bonds to an amount 50 per cent greater than the engineer's esti mates of the cost of the work. While Mr. Miller's assurance does away with the fear that the effort to pass the subsidy bill might be blighted by a refusal from the company, we search the reports of Mr. Miller's speech in vain for any ex planation of what is to be done with the thirty or thirty-five millions of the loan in excess of the estimated cost PAtlPEK WEATHER PREDICTIONS. The met eorological bureau of the East Indian Government is asserted to be the most efficient institution bf its kind in the world. It is asserted to have made a striking success of forecasting the move ments of wind and water, and has thus become one of the greatest value to the people of the Oriental Empire. Comparisons are odious. We would not enlarge on this painful subject further than to point out the steps which are indi cated when Uncle Jerry Rusk's Repub lican weather bureau runs up against such an uncomfortable fact as this from an effete and subjugated realm. It seems in evitable that either the contract labor law must be repealea to permit the importation of some of the Hindoo forecasters, or else the Secretary of Agriculture should bo empowered to send his political appointees on a voyage to India to learn the art of foretelling what a trough of low barometric pressure will do in the line of rain or hot weather. Certainly if the pauper weather fore casters of India can give us a genuine and reliable article in the line of predictions, it is to be feared that the affection of tho nation for the Republican style of weather and weather prophecies will not outlast next November. The New York Sun sheds its rays on that escape or Hill from the Senate ohamber to the extent of denying that he came into physical collision with Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. "It Is a base and black hearted slander, gentlemen of the Jury," ex claimed the counsel for the deiense, "to assert that my client stole the spoons from the dinner-table of the prosecuting witness. We will conclusively demonstrate to you by the evidence for the defeuso that be took them from the sideboard." At all events the ante-convention ex perience has demonstrated that both Mr. Blaine and Mr. Harrison can write exceed ingly terse and pregnant letters when the occasion calls for that style of literature. The esteemed Washington Ist, in its ad vocacy of the Czar's causo, Insists that It knows asyet nothing detrimental to the governmental system which prevails in Russia. Probably tho Pott regards the sys tem of "administrative exile," or sending people to Siberia without trial for the crime of advocating reforms is not detrimental to the system. Thnt it is decidedly detrimental to the exiles is of course ontside the line of view taken by Russophltcs from diplomatic motive?. When' the enterprising train-robber suc ceeds in getting away with $50,000 at a hanl, despite the burning of much innocuous powder by the trainmen, the train-robbery Industry is on the eve of a boom. There is a conflict of statement as to whether the New York Grant Monument fund of $350,000 was' completed on Memorial Day or not. It is certain, however, that it was so nearly made up that active progress can be made toward doing the ork. Bnt It can hardly escape mention that the fund has undergone a decided shrinkage from the million dollars promised when its loca tion at Riverside was secured. Amid the political turmoil are heard notes from tho East Indicating tho revival of that pprennint dispute whether the Norwood or the Vamoose is tho fastest yacht. THEicojnt manifestations of wind and water in the West levive the theory about such things being duo to deforestation. But since the sections where floods and cyclones have raged this year wci'e deforested so long that the memory or man runneth not to the contrary, the question remains an open one whether tho cyclones are duo to de forestation or the deforestations due to cyclbnes. Kecent experiences in the West modify Horace Greeley's proverbial advice to "Go West, young man, and blow up with the country." A Boston newspaper man, concerning his experiences in New York, says that ne found tho elevated trainmen as polite as any one else in New York. Which New Yorkers are turning over in tlieir minds with a tendency toward the dawning perception that it is by no means complimentary to Now York courtesy. The dark horses are keeping shadier than ever this year. In fact it is not con sidered worth while to put them in training. Hon. John K. Fellows classifies the members of the Syracuse. Convention as "ex-offlce holders." The Congressman be ing a somewhat persistent office holder him self, the anti-snappers havb tho ndvantage over him of hiving reformed, oven if they did so involuntarily. PERSONS KX0WX TO FAME. Oscar Wilde is about to revisit this country. Mr. Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, has taken a cottage at New port. Senator Proctor, of Vermont, has been rusticating In tho Adirondacks the past week. Tiiojias A. Edison says that hebecame deaf as tho result of a playful porter lifting him by the ears from a railroad train. This was when Thomas was a newsboy. JonxTtEDMOND, who is coming to New York to deliver an address in behalf of tho Parnellito party, embarked on the Etruria at Quecnstown yesterday. The wife of Secretary Elkins has founded and endowed n home for poor children at Deer Park, Md., having become deeply Im pressed with tho need of snch an institution. General Grubb has shaved off his mel lifluous and expansive whiskers, thiough which the breezes of heaven used to mur mur street sounds of comlort to bis kindly soul. Miss Frances E. Willard, the tem perance lelonner, is about to learn to ride a bicycle. She has had some experience with a triccle, and now sho will use a modern "safety." D. G. Ramsay, Grand Chief of the Order of RaiHoad Telegrapheis, controls 17,000 men and is only 27 year ofase. Ho lives in East St. Louis and has served in tho Illinois Legislature. Mr. T. jEFrERSON Colidge, the new United States Minister to France, arrived in Paris yesterday, lie was met at the railway station by the staff of the Legation and u number of prominent men. John Philip Sotjsa, who has brought the United States Marine Band at 'Washing ton to snch famous proficiency, is going to leave the Government service, having con tracted with a Chicago syndicate to organize a military band for that city. Prof. David Swing, Chicago's famous preacher, was at college in Ohio with Benja min Han ison and Whitelaw Reid. Miami University was their alma mater. Hewa3 born in Cincinnati and spent his youth, with our other great men, "on a farm." THE FIGHT OP COLORED POSTS. Commander In Chlr-f Palmer Suspends a Jnnlor Vice Commander. ALBAyr, June 5. Captain John Palmer, Commander in Chief of the G. A. R., yester day issued a snecial order, which shows that lie is determined the colored posts in the Department of Louisiana shall be recog nized by tho posts composed of- white com rades. He says: "The Junior Vice Commander of tho De partments of Louisiana and Mississippi having refused to be governed by the action of the twontt -fifth National Encampment of Detroit, and having failed to comply with orders fiom these headquarters to recognize tho colored posts, it becomes the duty ot the Commander in Chief to suspend him. which is hereby done. Comrade A. 8. Badger, a past commnnder of that department, will at once assume command as Commander pro tempore; recognize the colored posts, and proceed in accordance with the rules and regulations governing tho G. A. R." Ve& HAEBIS0H GSTTIHG B3TTEB. When She I Knnoved She Won't Be Taken to tho Sashure. Washixgtox, Juno 5. "Mrs. Harrison con tinues to improve," was tho assurance given to a reporter by Dr. Gardiner, her physician, to-niabt. Her'chlef trouble at this time is insomnia, superceded by nervous prostra tion, and this is being gradually overcome. NoatranKcments have yet been made for her removal. When she is removed It will be to some Inland place, whero they will be no danger of a recurrence of the bronchial tioubles which would bo sure to reappear v cro sho removod to the seashore. DAMASCUS SILKS FOB THE FAIB. A Wealthy Arab'an Lauds at New York on Ills Way to the Windy City. Nxw York, June 5. Among the immi grants who arrived at Ellis Island to-day was an Arab, Joseph Akaioiee, who had on his person $10,000 in crisp $100 bills. He said his lather Is a largo silk merchant In Damascus, and his purpose in coming to this country is to make arrangements for a display or his father's goods at the World's Fair in Chicago. All Night for the Dark Horses. Cleveland Leader.! It's all night with the dark horses in the Republican party for this year. Some of them may still be heard of in a feeble way, but Blaine and Harrison aro really tho only men In the race. A Beautiful Characteristic of Loyally. Chicago Mail.: The energy which candidates display in the attempt to get a chance to serve their country Is a beautiful characteristic of loyalty to our American institutions. WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT. IWRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.! Midway between Christopher Colum bus and Benjamin Harrison came Cotton Mather. Two hundred years ago to-day poor Bridget Bishop, accused of witchcraft, con demned by the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and sentenced to be executed on June 10, was counting the last hours of her life. For rour months, from the beginning of June on toward tho end of September, all New Eng land was in a state of excitement, and wretched people, victims part of malice, part of mischief, and part of imagination were being pnt to death. Some say that the number execntod ran up into the hundreds. At Inst came a revulsion of feeling; public opinion, which had favored execution and believed in the testimony of those who de clared themselves bewitched, now turned into another direction. On September 22, occurcd the last exocution. In January, 1C93. tho Superior Court refused tne witness of the bewitched. In May there was a gen oral opening of Jail doors, and tho panic was ended. It Is curious to look back into those old days, and to remember what thoughts filled the minds of our forefathers in the heat of that frantic summer. Just two centuries ago. Wo Are n Sanoratitlous Fnmll-. WitciicraptIr implanted in the futile soil of human nature. Wo are 200 years older than tho men and women of oldS.ilem, and ought to have more understanding than they had. Yet almost every day there is some item in the newspapers about belief in witches. This person and that believe them selves nnder the spell of some diabolical in liuoncc. Dr. Buckley says that at this pres ent day two-thirds of the inhabitants of tho United States believe in witchcraft. We are able to testify to the astonishing number of people who seem unable to trust to the law of cause and effect. That a look at the moon over tho left shoulder will pro duce a series of misfortunes; that to begin an undertaking on Friday means tho end ing of it in disaster; that if thirteen people sit down to a dinner table one will die, ou account or that unlucky party, within a year; these common superstitions show how narrow is the gulf which parts us fiom our kinsmen, the savages and pagans. I ventnro to say that nine inhabitants of Pittsburg out of ten, having to go back for some for gotten article alter they have started on an errand, do o with a reluctance which is not altogether physical. Ey a certain instinct they think of the association of such a re turn with tho advent of bad luck. Wo are not many of us in position to cast stones at the scared citizens of Salem. Cotton Mather and Illslh-ory. At Salem, however, this superstitious dread of the unseen and readiness to bellcvo anything about the unknown, this instinc tivo propensity to see strango obiccts in tho dark, and to make ghosts ont of posts, this was emphasized by the unfortunate theories of two conscientious parsons, and by tho unfortunate tendency of all theorizers to maintain their theories, onco formed, even in the face of facts. Ono of thee men with a theory was Rev. Cotton Mather. Cotton Mather's theory was that thi3 now continent was tho special habitation of the devil and his angels. The devil had long maintained undisputed sway upon these shoies, the dark-taccd Indians being his servants, until tho landing of tho Pilgrim fathers. Thou tho fl,'ht bogan. All the disasters which befell tho settlors, tho severity of the winter, the visitation of dis ease, the failure of crops, the hostility of savages, the appearance of heresy all these wero attributed by Cotton Mather and his friends to the dliect and malignant interpo sition of the devil. The Puritans wanted to set up a kingdom of God over on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, and the devil, that ancient monopolist, o.ijectod. Cotton Mather stood for orthodoxy and for the supreme authority or tho churffh in tho realm. He was a Puritan of the Puri tans. But in his day the new movement was beginning which continues on into our own day, and only last week stirred the great Presbyterian Assemblyat Portland the set ting of traditionalism into the background, the testing of even tho most venerable of formularies with tho intent of holding fast only tho good. Year by 3-ear that inevitable progress, which no man nor company of men can stop, that progress into light, goes on. There are always those who cry out that the old is better and object to change. But tho new comes, nevertheless. And even the church grows. Old Nick Blade the Scapegoat. In Mather's day that perennial fight was on, and Mather was on the side of tho past, Andjust before the troubles came at Salem there was a new governor nppointed, one Sir William Phlpps, who was one of Mather's disciples. It looked as if the old orthodoxy was going to win. Mather was grateful to the bottom of his honest heart. And he vowed that ho would do whatever difficult service tho good Lord might please to lay upon him. And then the dovil came and provided immediate and arduous occupation for .Mas ter Mather. Dismayed, so Mather thought, at this last triumph of the godly, the arch fiend mustered UU forces and fell upon this oyhodoxNcw England bvway of Salem. 'Alem witchcraft began. To Cotton Mathor it was the work of Sitan. Sn It was. But not quite as Mather thought. The other man with a theory, though his theory was as tnlly mistaken, was nearer to tho source of the calamity. This was the Rev. Mr. Parris, Stephen Par ris, minister to tho church in Salem. somo Method In IIM Majlc. Mr. Parris had formerly lived in the West Indies, and had brought with him, upon his return, some negro slaves. These datkcomplexioned people made friends with the children of tho neighborhood, and wero soon found to bo the most interesting story tellers. At ghost stories they weie past masters. They had, too, a little stock of magic, knew how to tell fortunes, wero ac quainted wit h charms; and they filled tho dreams of their young listeners with' tho mysterious terrors of necromancy. There wero 13 In this company an unlucky num ber beside th e blacks. Tho youngest, a daughter of Mr. Tarris, was 9 years old. Three married women wero at the other end of tho line. There was a girl of 11 and another of 12; and the others, tno of them servants, were between 17 and 20. These superstitious and hysterical girls, shudder ing in the dark at the recital of giewsome chost stories, trying tho dread virtues of amulets, getting acquainted, as they thought, with the Prince of the Power of tho Air, persuaded themselves that they wore being tormented by witches, and proceeded to name the witches. Cur iously enough, though not unnaturally, tho persons named wero those against whom tnis circle of magicians had some personal grudge. Thus it was started. And Stephen Parris, being himself persuaded that there was some truth in this diabolical matter, and having publically committed himself to the theory, thereafter felt himself bound in consistency to prove his point, and by his questions and suggestions oven convinced some of them that their lies wera true as gospel. Ye; they wero bewitched. Tne Black Man had them in the books. They Rad hut Did Not Understand. Then it spread, as delusion will. It got its rootsdown intotho superstitious sub soil of our human nature of which we are all conscious, and &rew like the mustard treoo. Scripture. People went back to tho old Blblo and found there that mention was made of witches. And they held, in those days, as some, it seems, hold still, that peimciuus anu uniuuiiuuu tuuur iu which the Bible lends no countenance, that the men who wrote it; knew all things infallibly. If they believed iu witches, there must be witches. There were witches then, and plainly enough they were at their devilish work In Salem; and "thou shale not suffer a witch to live!'' so the miserable tiagedy began. Natural superstition, tho diseased imagina tion of a dozen foolish women, the ghost stoiles of three negro slaves, the blunder ing theories of two overconsistent parsons, and a mistaken way of reading Holy Scrip ture, took the lives of numbers of good, harmless, pious and Christian people in Salem and its neighborhood, daring that latal summer. The truth is that some people will believe anything. And where witoheraftIsb",ieved in, there will infallibly be witches nowhere else. The only remedy is good, hard-headed, sensible incrednlity. They brought a witch onco to William Penn, and he said, "Art thou a witch? Dost thou ride upon a broom stick?" "Yes," she said. "Oh, well," he an swered, "I find no harm in that. There is no law against riding oa broomsticks." And he sent liar away. If the judges of tho Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1G92 at Salem had had that sturdy sense, Salem witchcraft would never have needed a historian. CONVENTION NEWS. Tho Dispatch Will, ns Usual, Have the Best and Brightest Reports. The Dispatcu, which was tho first upon the field of Presidental action at Minneapolis, will continue to furnish the most elaborate, diversified and non-partisan reports of tho work and gossip prior to and during tho Re publican National Convention. Besides assigning tho best reporters on our stair to look after the local end of the proceedings, The Dispatch has secured Mr. George Alfred Towjtsexd ("Gath") to sketch the features of each day's doings un til the close of the convention. In addition. The Dispatch: will be served by a special .staff composed of the best writers on the leading jour nals of tho country. Ey this co-operative arrangement The DiSPATcn will secure all the inside and outsldo information, which will bo carried quickly over its leased wires and given to the public at tho earliest hour every morning. The DisrATCH also has at its command the elaborate reports of the Associated Press, which has made extensive preparations for covering tho routine work of the great gath ering. Patrons of TnE Dispatch will get every thing from all sides and in good shape. A MEXICAN EXPOSITION. It Will Bs Pormainnlly Established In New York City. New York Sun. It is a most excellent idea which has been taken ufS in Mexico, and in tho carrying out of which the Mexican Government has promised its assistance, the idea of estab lishlnir in Now York City a permanent Mexican Exposition, through which the natural and rrtillcial productions of onr sister Republic shall be brought within the knowledge of tho peoplo of the Uuitod States. It Is a big idea, pleasing to contemplate. Its execution, would certainly be advan tageous to both countries. It has taken the fancy of President Diaz, and we have not a doubt that it will touch the mind of the peo ple of the Empire State, which in a very tew years will have a population as great as that of the Mexican Republic. Mexico, tnat rich and beautiful country, lms natural products that would be u-eful to us, about ,which wo know very little; she manufactures not a fow articles that aro novor seen here, though they would add to the variety of things in our markets: she has skilful artisans whose fabrications we are unfamiliar with: sho hns even a school of art, which has recently been brought to the notice of the woild by a competent critic; she can uive us knowled-re that wo ought to possess, and we trust she will not take offence whou wo say that sho mightperbapsacquito somoknowiedao here that would not be disadvantageous to hor. We are, therefore, well pleased with tho prosppcts of the establishment of a perma nent Mrxican Exposition in this city of New York. We should like to see it orencut next year by the President of tho Mexican Ke- Bublic and the Democratic Piesident of the nited States. We are also pleased to know that similar undertakings have been projcctoJ by enter prisinsr parties in other Spanish-American Republics, even In Argentina, Peru and Colombia. Wo giro encouragement to every one of them. HLLE, BOSHEUR'S MENAGERIE. She Bas a Big Collection of Faithful Ani mal Companions. Birmingham Times.l In the park and grounds of. tho chatean of Rosa Bonhcur aro to be lound tho animals which the artist uses ns models. Mile. Bonheur has possessed dogs of all kinus. Shu has kept sheep and goats, also cows from Brittany, Auvergne, Scot land, and of tho St. Giron's breed; lions, too, nnd boars, rare birds, deer a marmot (bought out of pity from a poor Italian at Nice), gazelles, nnd an elk. Of all these animals few now remain, except a family of chamois, which occupy tho grass plot lying between the chateau and the park. One of tho chamois has a habit of leaping over the high, lnclosure which shuts them in, and alter being chased round tho grounds for sevoral hours by the doas doubtless having had enough or such exer cisethe agile creature returns to the ln closure with the same ease as it had left It. Mile. Bonheur's principal recreation con sists of drives and walks in the neighbor hood of her chateau, which is situated be tween the Seine nnd the torest: she has a gieat choice of scen ery, which is always charming, thongl), of course, differing in its special loim of beauty according to the season. When Rosa Bonheur goes out walking she is always accompanied by her dogs, which jealously guard her; and sometimes she" taxes with her a monkey, which is permitted to run about at will. It disports itself by climbing the trees nnd balancing itself on their branches, or by running after nnd playing with tho dogs, taking caie, however, never to stray far from its mistress, on to whose shoulder it occasionally leaps in order to escape a foe or receive a caress. GERMANY JEALOUS OF ENGLAND. Conflicting Interests -of the Two Powers Both In Cgnndi and Samoa. Berlin, Juno 5. Since the publication of tho English "Blue Book" on matters in Uganda, German comments on the alleged outrages committed by Captain Lugard are less bitter. The Germans now admit that judgment should be suspended until Cap tain Lugard's report has been received. The Vlssuche Zeitung and other German Eapors icier with muignacion to itooeru ouis Stevenson's Samoa letter, attributing the trouble in Samoa, a-i they do that in Uganda, to a desire on the part of England to destroy by indirect means Gorman In fluence. Thn fusion In Kansas Completn. Kassas CiTif, June 5 The terms of the ngiccmeut looking to a fusion of the Democratic" and Peoples' party in Kansas wero made public to-day. They piovide that the Demociats be given tho candidates in two of seven Con gressional disCricts, the Congressman at at large, the Atturnry General and Judge ot Supreme Com ts. All other nominations on the Congressional slate and electoral ticket were conceded to the Peop.c's party. DL'ATHS HKKK AM) LhsEiYHERE. Samuel M. Wilsou, San Francisco. Samuel M. Wilson, one of the most dis tinguished members or tne legal profession In San Francisco, died Saturday morning lrom heart failure. He w.15 a native of StcubeuvlSle. bom 33 cursago. He leave a widow, who Is a uaugl.ter of Cong; esra.-.n John bcott. Hie lirsl ltepressntv tlve to Congiess lrom Missouri, iour suns, all well-Known in proiesslor.al elrcies, survive the deceased. Ills estate Is valued at over Jl, 1X0,000. Obituary Note. CAPTAIX RICHARD F. DODOE. OT-CollCCtor or the Port of Salem, died In Kostun Frlda J'. John II. Taggart, of jnjsnrt' lnur.day Times, Philadelphia, died Saturday evening, aged Tt 3 ears. f D. D. T. MOORE, formerly Mayor of Rochester, N. Y.. and well Known as editor and proprietor formany years or Moore' Rural Xew-1'ur'ccr, Gled In New York Friday, fiom paralysis. Edmund D. Bakthe, eaitor of the Plymouth (l'a.) AYar, died Saturday. He was a son or Gen eral P. V, Haithe, a prominent citizen lu Ills day. The deceased served during the war In the Twenty six 111 Regiment, P. V., with distinction. (.Sxor.GE It. UIlLL, New England commercial traveler for John Wythe & Urn., Philadelphia, died in New Haven, Conn.. Saturday of pneu monia. He was one of the hest known and most popular commercial travelers 111 the country. Gcstave Huitscil, 55 years old, the first violin of tho Broadway Theater orchestra. New York, died Saturday. Before coming to tills country lie had been the leader of the orchestras at many of the prominent theaters in Stockholm, Sweden. Lindsay Hukst, a comedian, died Saturday at his home of typhoid fever, after an Illness of two weeks. 3Ir. Hurst was a member of the "Imagi nation" Company. He was 39 years old, and hail been on the stage since he was 20, being at various limes In the support of W. J. Plorence,,Nat Goodwin and Harry Lacy. MR. BLAINE'S RETIREMENT. Blaine Honorable and Conscientious. New York Advertiser (lad).). Mr. Blaine's attitude has bo?n that of an honorable, conscientious man. He did not seek the Presidency, and he has not been a candidate, in the sense of seeking, since he wrote his letter of declination in February. The situation having changed, and the party through its representatives, having shown a decided disposition to place him at the front in tho piosent campaign, he had noth ing to do bet tacitly consent. To remain longer in the Cabinet was embarrassing, and Mr. Blaine has simplified matters by man fully resigning. HU action forced as it was by the bitterlv hostile followers of Mr. Har risonwill bring to him the active snpport nnd sympathy of thousands who were yes terday lukewarm. It is a notice served upon tho representatives of the Eepnblican party in Minneapolis thnt he is ready and willing to accept a nomination if conferred. We regard this resignation as the one thing necessary to inspire the men who aro assem bled to choose a leader for the Republican party. It is a message of defiance to Harri son and his supporter. Let Minneapolis read it in its true signiflcancn and the prob lem Is solved. It will be Blaine. It In a Declaration of tfar. N. Y. World (Dem.). There can be but one interpretation of Mr. Blaine's move. It Is a declaration of war. It teaia up the Febrnary letter. It an nounces Mr. Blaine as a candidate against Mr. Harrison for the nomination at Minne apolis. It converts the "Blaine Boom" from a mere spnrt of cnthusinsm on the part of possibly indiscrete friends into a Titanic strugglo for the nomination. What the out come will be it would be hard to predict. Mr. Blaine ii undoubtedly tho choice of a great majority of hi party. But Mr. Harri son is Intrenched in possession. The dele gates havo been elected with tho under standing that Blaine "was ont of it." There are many Harrison men in tho convention, therefore, who wonld not be there it tho present situation had been forseen. Thn Greatest Am-rican Citizen. Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.). The resignation of Secretary Blaino from President Harrison's Cabinet removes the last vestige of a donbt that ho Is a candi date for the nomination. He is a candidate, and it is not improbable that he will be the nominee of the convention boforo this week closes. Tho reports from Minneapolis in dicate a state of enthusiasm unparalleled. Mr. Blaine Is to day the foremost American citizen. He has the hearts of the people as few men have had since Washington. Tho enthusiasm for him is not even bounded by party linos. His work In Congress and In the Cabinet has stamped him ns the greatest American citizen of his times. His policy of reciprocity has marked him thn foremost statesman of his times. Every good Amer ican citizen rejoices that the nation has hxd the services ot the atilcst man, and thne will be Democrats by the tens of thousands to vote for him this fall in the not improb able event of his nomination. Mr. Biaiue has taken a dignified course in leaving the Cabinet. Increases Th-ir R-sponsibllllles. New York Press, (Rep.). Mr. Blaine's resignation from President Harrison's Cabinet yesterday increases tho gravo responsibility or the Republican rep resentatives at Minneapolis. The situation which confronts them demands the exercise of prudence and firmness. Moderation in speech and action is essential. Tlisre is no occasion for unfriendly strife. The result to bo attained is not the triumph of any man. It is the triumph of Republican prin ciples. Mr. Blaine's past services, imgmil cent us they have been, do not entitle him to the nomination unless in thoserious judg ment of the convention he is the strongest candidate tho party can name. Ho 'Will Accept the Candidacy. New York Times (Mug.). The cold curtness of the letters in which James G. Milne's resignation of the office of Secretary of Stato was offesji and ac cepted yesterday is more significant than nny language of explanation conld possibly have been. In fact the circumstances ad mitted of nothingbut the lmldost formality. Of course the meaning will be caught at once from one ond of the country to the other, and it will strike the seething throng at Minneapolis with electrical emphasis, as it was intended to do. This coup of Mr. Biaiue means that ho hns convinced him self, or has been convinced by other", that bis health has been sufficiently restored to Justify htm in reaching once more for the golden crown that he has twico affected to put away. It is his way of announcing that if his supporters at the National Convention are disposed to put him in nomination for the Presidency, and are able to accomplish It, he will not say them nay, and he will ac cept the candidacy. A Masterstroke by a Master. Philadelphia Record (Dem.). Mr. Blaine's latest' characteristic proceed ing, although sudden, was not entirely unexpected.- The dramatic element of his na ture, often remarked by both friends and fees during the earlior period of his career, is still strong within him, although tem pered by life's vicissitudes. He loves to lead, to create, to take the Initiative: and he knows his public and his personal follow ing as well as any actor on the boards. For the time Mr. Harrison hns disappeared, and Mr. Blaine flllf tho public eye. During the two critical days preceding the assembling of tho Minneapolis fonvention his abrupt abandonment of official station will be everywhere a leading topic of discussion. It was a masterstroke by a master in the art of political maneuvering. Will Cnt a Figure Faetlonally. Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem.). Tho resignation of James G. Blaine yester day from tho office of Secretary of Siate is likely to cut a very important figure faction ally, nis resignation isjustwhat it was meant it should be a notice to his friends that he is a candidate for tho Prosldental nominntion.and not only is willing to accept that nomination but that he actually wants it. Krmove thn Brightest Star. Cleveland World (Rep.). Mr. Blaine's retirement removes from tho Cabinot the brightest Secretary of State since Alexander Hamilton. President liar- risen will find the selection of the great Secretary's successor as perplexing a prob lem as ho has thus far encountered. A FLAK OF C0MPK0MIS2 Proposed hy John Dillon to Lessen the Tension IlPtwsen Irlh Factions. Loxdon, June. 5. A meeting of the National League was hp.ld at Bradford to-day, at which John Dillon delivered an address. Mr. Dillon said that as all hope of affecting a reunion of tho Irish factions before the elections hnd been abandoned, it had been proposed that aboaid of arbitration be established, con sisiins of men like Archbishop Croke. the Lord Mayor 01 Dublin nnd some influential Americans, who uo'ild bo glad to come to England for that purpose, to asper taiu the rel.itive strength of the two tac tions in each Irish constituency. The plan was that the two delegates of each party should be oxamined, nnd the Ic Carthyites would not contest any district whero tho Parnellites had a falechanceof winning. In this wav thev would nrnid con tests Mint were likely to hnvojterrlblK re sults in the present state of party toiling. 77V THE FEEHCH PBE8IDEHX AT TfANCY. Itusslan Flags Visible, but No Anti-German Demonstration". IrJi Nasct, June 5. President Cnrnot arrived hero to-day to attend the gymnastic fetes, and was enthusiastically reco'.yed. Russian flags have a prominent place in the decora tions of tho town, but no anti-German in scriptions are visible. The review to-day was marred by niln. At Bar-le-Due the President was waited upon by the Bishop, who in n speech de clared himself and ail the priests in his dio cese loyal adherents of the Republican form of government. The President, replying, said he believed all the cleigy shared the sentiments expressed by the B.shop, and acceptod the Republican government. Depw as Blaine's Successor. New York Adve rUser. Mr. Dopew wonld make an able successor of Mr. Blaine; but, can be afford to give up the Presidency of the New York Central Railway, n ith its salary of $50,000 a year, for a mere Cabinet place, even though it be the Piemlershlpt CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. 'The Eussians invented wood paving for streets. The bicycle was invented by a German baron 60 years ago, and was first called a treslna. One of the employes of a St Louii brewery is said to receive 50 glasses of beet as his daily allowance. Sing Sing Prison, in New ToTk, hai five lawyers among its tenants. They wera all tent there recently Tt Is estimated tfittthere are less than 10 000 paupers In thHanese empire, with its population of 237,0QB0. Gladstone, a fawn rabbit, was sold in England recently for $130. Its ears aro 2 inches in length and 7 inches in width. According to a computation recently published in a financial Journal, the percent agn of net dividends returned to the stock holders of street railways in the United States is three times as great as that of steam railways. Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or Ireland by birth, marriage or creation, are free from arrest or imprisonment on civil process; and in the event of a peeres3 being charged with a criminal offense she would be tried by the House or Lords. The vaults of the Sub-Treasury in San Francisco are Deing fitted with wires for protection from thieves. The wires are to be between every two rows of bricks, and any attempt to interfeie vith the cement or bricks will disturb an electric circuit and sound a wanting. The sailing ship llaria Kickmers, re cently launched at tho Russell yards at Port Glasgow, Scotland, is claimed to be the largest sailing ship in the world. She is 875 feet lonsr, with a breadth of beam of 3 feet, draws 25 feet of water, and her net tonnago is 3,322 leet. SheisbulltofsteeL A naturalist S3ys the sacred scarab, or beetle, of Egypt,- was the "tumble-bug," which forms a ball for laying its eggs In. Two individuals, male and female, always roll the ball together, and they do this merely for the nurnose of convevincr it to a sate place and hiding it. Eats are natives of Asia and their raids westward belong to comparatively modern times. The black rat first came from Asia to Europe in tho sixteenth century along with the plague ana was first known as the "graveyard specter," because he preyed on the flesh of those who died during that awful visitation. The Parish Prison of Xew Orleans, the scene of the late Italian lynching, and ono of the oldest In the country, was pnt up at anction recently and the highest bid was only $7,500. The prison is after the Spanisii type, four stories hiirh and covers an entire square. .More than 100 persons have been hanged in It. Some unique features were introduced at a wedding in Wisconsin recently. Besides the maids of honor, best man, lour brides maids and four nshers, one lady acted the part of Queen Venus dressed In classic robe, with a ieweiod crown on her head. Her part was to bring the minister from some hidden retreat. During the trial of a liquor case in Portland, Me., a few days ago the courtroom looked like the storehouse of a wholesale liquor dealer. The aisle in front of the Jur wa lull of ton-gallon kegs, five-gallon kes, domijnlins, jugs, beer cmes and bottles, while on the tables were measures, bottles of wine, boxes of corks, corkskrews, tags ior jugs, etc. Men have various wbvb of carrying money. Butcnots. grocers and bakers carry it in a big crumple.d wad. Bankers carry it; in nice clean bill?, laid at full length la a morocco pocket-book. Brokers alwsya fold their bills twice. The young business! man carries his money in his vest pockety while the sporting man carries it In hi trousers pocket. Farmers and drovers carry' tneir money m their inside vest pocket. JIayalipnram, India, is graced with seven of the most remarkable temples in the world, each of these unique temples of worsiiip having been fashioned from solid granite boulders. The "Hevasa-Goda-CIa," the l:.rest of the seven, is three and one half stories high; its outlines resemble thoso of an Atlantic steamship. The Inside of the bonlder has been chisletl away until the walls do not exceed eight laches In thiok ness. The Eev. Mr. Moore of Boston has in his posse-Mion a diarv kept by his grear-great--randlnther In 1BS3 at which time the latter began his 60 years' labor as a minister In Portland, Me. The old-time parson records in tho diary that on one Sunday his opening prayer lasted an hour and a quarter, and hej remarks that he w "wonderfully sustained throushout." And In those days it was the custom for tho congregation to stand during prayer. An examination of recent university catalogues shows that practically every civ ilized nation in the world is represented by students now in America. In a single great institution, the University of Pennsylvania, there are students from 28 foreign countries. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology alone shows students or IS nationalities; 17 aro represented in the University of Califor nia. 15 in both Harvard and Yale, 14 at Cor nell and Michigan, 10 at Princeton, 9 at Le high and 2 each in Brown and Wesleyan. There was considerable nervousness among tho population of Oartcrvillo, Mo. some weeks ago, besides a marked increaso in the attendance at church and Sunday school, because in a zinc mine thore the ore, at depth of only 85 leer, was so hot that it could not be handled without heavy gloves. A few days ago one of the State geologist made some investigations and reported that the groat heat was caused by the decomposi tion of pyrito, and not necessarily Decause o. anj- proximity to Pluto's domains. Sinca then tho attendance at the revival services has lallen off. Portland, Ore., newspapers were re cently trapped Into a bit of free, realistic" advertising. The story goes that a mar, with his face covered with blood and screaming murder, dashed from a cigar storo into one of tho principal streets, fol lowed by another yelling lldly and brand ishing a hntchet. The thief had snatched from the pursuer's mouth a fine cigar upon boing told by too cigar dealer that It win the last one of a certain brand he had in stock. This act made the man furious and he lollowed and shot the thief. Tho next day the scheme was made known before a magistrate, when the victim testified that ho had bribed a doctor to say he was fatally wounded. All the papers gave prominent space to the supposed latal affray and pub lished the name of the brand cf cigars. SMILES FROM EXCHANGES. Doctor "What vou need, dear madame, is Just a little change: you are nervous. Mrs. Offbase Now. when you tell my husband. pray mate hlra understand that the most of the change can be ia tens and twenties. Chicago Inter Ocean. The summer's with us once again, Of that would you have proof? Just read about the silly men Who sleep upon the roof. . Sew Tori Evening Sm. "Gone forever!" he sighad, laying down Ms last coin, a 10 gold piece. There goes my only eagle, -wings and all I" "Yes " said the business-like man who had called, 'as lie handed over a receipted document, butyoucanuetptte bill, you know." VMcagv Tribune. "What's this, Jenkins? I'm surprised that you'i c actually adopted the sash after all your jibes about sashes aud the dudes who wore them lstieason. Are youyoursetf actually becomings dude?" "Hadtodolt. old hoy, in self defense. Mywifs always Is fully abreast or the fashions, and I'll hanged If I can keep a pair of suspenders now days. Chicago JSaiL "Woman is strange And waywanf, we find; She's subject to change. Seldom knows her own mind. She has power to attract. She has power to repel: And this Is. In fact. Why wc love her so well. X T. Prr. Jess Do you like the song, "Bread and1 Cheese and Kisses?" Jack Yes, It Is rather pretty. Jess I don't Uke bread and cheese, do yonl Seto Xork Herald. He Will you be mine? She Yes, until we are married. Thenyoa'iIM mine. IniOanipolii Journal, The Anson colts are fleet and sure, And lack's high waves they are tossed on. But "Uncle" trembles In his boots As they trot, trot, trot to Boston. Chicago Berali. Aunt Jemima What's them air stuns in yer wtnderr Jeweler-Quart r. Aunt Jemima Come, naow; yer tryln terfool me. They ain't half a pint on '.-!'' TVetklu.
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