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One Year 1 Tlie Daily Dispatch 1b delivered by carrier at Jlecnisperwcek, or. Including Sunday Edition, at V cent? per week. nTTBUHG. TCESDAT. JDLY M. 1892. TWELVE PAGES 1ET JUSTICE BE DEPAKTIAI. The particular development of the Homestead affair yesterday which will at tract most attention was the swearing out of warrants by Secretary iovejoy of the Carnegie Company against Burgess Mc Luckle, Hugh O'Donnell, Sylvester Critch low, Anthony Flaherty, Samuel Burkett, James Flanagan and Hugh Ross, leaders amonc the locked out men, directly charging them with murder. The victims named in the information are one of the Pmkerton force and a resident of Home stead who fell in the firing on the early morning of the 6th. That prosecutions of some sort would be undertaken was of course evident from the first. Where blood is shed in defiance of law there must be legal inquiry, and a clear adjustment of the responsibility as the facts may disclose it The supposition prevailed that the Coroner's investigation would, as usual In such cases, bring out the testimony and lay the basis for action by the county authorities. But for some reason this has dropped out of sight, and the Carnegie Company's officers yesterday took the initiative. Where lives or liberty of individuals are at stake it is not the custom to forejudge the results of proceedings in courts. The Homestead affray presents an instance of such grave concern, that the parties to it and the public are entitled to the facts under oath as to the part taken by accused and to an exposition .of the law from the Courts rather than from the press. It is in place, however, to note the probable de fense of the persons against whom the warrants are sworn. Some of them -at least will doubtless claim that they either did not do the shooting, or as in the case of O'Donnell and Burgess ITcLurkie and other members of the Advisory Committee that they were on the ground in a semi official capacity. Not improbably it may be set up that their purpose was to pre vent violence. How much legal force these points will carry in Court or what the farts are to give them color can only be known when the sworn evidence is heard. But it is also necessary to note that the Carnegie Company's officers and the mem bers of the Pmkerton force are them selves not wholly free from the possibility of being subjected to legal proceedings. From the day of the conflict to the pres ent moment, the Impartial public judg ment has been that they made at the least a serious and utterly inexcusable blunder in not placing the assertion of their legal rights in the hands of the regularly au thorized officials of the county, to be prosecuted in the due and orderly course of law. Instead they resorted to the de vice of organizing a private military force and proceeded literally with an army to battle. The wrong-doing of the locked out men in taking possession of the Car negie works, and in entering upon a bloody conflict is not defended or palliated In any quarter; but the full recognition of that and the prosecution of those con cerned, does not relieve the Company in the least from any moral or legal responsi bility its agents incurred on their own be half. It was held by the veteran criminal law yer General Butler whose knowledge of law is not to be lightly dismissed, how ever his views on other questions be criti cised that the Carnegie Company's agents were themselvesindictable precisely in the manner and form in which the leaders of the men are now prosecuted. Other law yers, also, have not hesitated to declare that legally the Pinkerton force and Its organizers and the men who met them in bloody conflict were in law all rioters to gether, and should be punished as such. The company's counsel hold that the com pany had the same right to bring armed forces to take possession of its property that a man would have had to defend his house; but there is widespread doubt about this view. Also the reliance placed upon the intimation that the Pinkerton force was in the nature of a posse comitatus may prove exceedingly shaky when it is tested in court The idea of a posse comitatus a force of the county supposed to be made up of citizens of the county does not harmonize very well with a regiment of mercenaries gathered from Philadelphia, Chicago, Cin cinnati and other points outside of the State, and stealthily armed for a secret ex pedition. The law, in asserting the ma jesty of its processes, neither contemplates resistance from citizens, nor ordinarily comes upon them like a thief in the night A single Sheriff's officer, armed with such a writ from the Court as the Philadelphia Ledger has pointed out might have been obtained under the act of 1836, for the es tablishment of the company in Its prop erty, would have succeeded where the Pinkerton expedition failed. ' Prosecutions under the law are neces sary for its vindication. It would havo been better if the county officials had investigated fully and then proceeded learlessly, In place of leaving it to one of U e combatants to start the proceedings. But, now that the law has gone into motion, let it not fail to be thorough; and il the Carnegie Company's agents have Mimed against it let them also answer. It Is as desirable to know the limits to the levying of private war by corporations as i: .3 to visit justice upon the most mis 'gn.ded, violent and dangerous of their an Agonists. HODGE AND THE HAYSEEDS. ' One of the striking features in the English elections was the important part pi. yed by the agricultural vote. While the farmers in this country are showing a dis position to flock by themselves in pol itics, the farm laborers in England turned the scales, and by giving their votes to the Liberals decided an election, which from the vote In the boroughs seemed to be doubtful,, into a decided gain for Sir. Gladstone. The decisive part taken by the agricul tural laborers in the campaign Is most testified to by the outbreak of sneers on the part of Tory organs and sympathizers like Mr. George W. Smalley at "Hodge," This is the counterpart of the custom of some people to talk of the Fanners' Alli ance movements as "hayseeds." It is in tended to decry the Intelligence of the class which has committed the offense of voting the wrong way in the opinion of the writers, but it is most significant as to the rank In Intelligence of the people who indulge in that class of talk. It is well to remember the rise of the working agriculturists In both nations to political Influence. When they can turn the scale of national elections, they consti-' tute a class that is not to be wiped out by Ill-tempered sneers. GUARDING AGAINST EPIDEMICS. It is gratifying to note that the health authorities on whose action depends the protection of this country againstgthe In troduction of foreign epidemics, are be coming aroused to the vital importance of the situation. The precautions taken by the Health Department of New York City are supplemented by a circular of the Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital service, for the strict enforcement at all ports of the federal law for the super vision of all foreign vessels arriving there. This is well as far as it goes; but it is certain that it cannot go so far as to give us an unnecessary assurance of safety. With the cholera in France, and the yel low fever in Mexico, every place where travelers can enter along our eastern and southern borders becomes a possible point of attack for these infections. The jeopardy to individual life and health, and the peril to commerce involved In a great epidemic, make it necessary to use the most constant and thorough vigilance against its spread. The adoption of the most careful quar antine, such as is promised by these offi cial movements is a primary and gratify ing work; but the full measure of protec tion will not be reached until every city, town and hamlet puts itself in a condition of spotless cleanliness in order to abolish all breeding-grounds for the seeds of dis ease. PRESERVE DISCIPLINE. The stabbing affair on Grant street yes terday morning furnishes a deplorable evidence that some of the members of the force maintained by the State to preserve order can conceive, under the influence of a debauch, most singular ideas of the license permitted to soldiers. Of course there is no reason to think that any considerable number of the State soldiery conceive that their uniform protects them in being drunk and disorderly, much less in stabbing those who interfere with them. But the fact that a non-commissioned officer of the force could first violate dis cipline by breaking guard and than pursue a spree to this criminal extent, with intox icated assertions of his immunity as a soldier of the Stite, presents even as an exception a view of the military character hardly less phenomenal than some of the violent acts of the strikers. The affair shows the necessity for the maintenance of strict discipline among the troops. The force has a delicate and diffi cult task to perform. The necessary impression of preserving order cannot be made if the members for the force break guard and indulge in disorder; while crim inal acts like that of yesterday will be destructive of the respect for their discip line, which is the first requisite for their effectiveness In maintaining order. The man who committed the offense of yesterday will of course be duly punished by the law. There Is the additional moral In the affair that all the force should strictly eschew the breaches of discipline and the dissipations which lead to such sad results. RAILROAD TIES AND FORESTRY. The announcement that the Pennsyl vania Railroad has decided to take up the metal ties in its track, and return to the use of wooden ties marks the end of an experiment of great Importance to the railway world and of no slight signifi cance to the iron interests. The exhaus tion of our timber lands and the increas ing price of wooden ties made railway managers anxious to find an acceptable substitute. At the same time the hope of an increased consumption of the product of our iron works on one hand, and the lessening of the drain on the forests on the other, predisposed everyone to'look with favor and hope to the experiment The decision against metal ties is how ever final, and it Is the more so that it is corroborated by the experience of Ger many. In that country the preservation of the forests, carried on in a way un known to this country, Increased the desire to find a substitute for wooden ties, the demand for which was in excess of the capacity of the German forests. But while Germany laid nearly all of her new track from 1878 to 1888 with, metal sleepers, since then only about twenty per cent of the new ties are of that kind. The same experience is met with all over the world except in India, where the ability of metal ties to resist the attacks of white ants, gives thenran advantage. The prospect that wooden ties must be relied on for the use of American railways gives additional force to the necessity of more scientific methods in the .treatment of our forests. There are immense tracts of land now practically useless' which if planted and properly treated by scientific forestry can bo made to yield a rich revenue in the next generation. To do so will require a sharp-reversal of-the Ameri can practice of wasting forests; but the experiment will be-well worth trying. THE IRRIGATION PROBLEM. Speaking of the showing by a recent census bulletin, that artificial Irrigation in the Western States cost an average of but four dollars an" acre while it enhances the value of land three times as much, the New York Commercial Advertiter declares that "it does not signify that the Govern ment ought to begin spending money for artificial irrigation." As .implying 'an as sertion that this Is a function entirely sep arate from the ranee of Government oper ations, the remark is to be dissented from. There are decided objections to the work being done directly by the Government prominent among which is that stated by our cotemporary that "appropriations wouldbe distributed not according to need but according to greed." But with these objections Iully weighed, there are con trolling reasons why the Government should either do the work, or secure its being done under the strictest supervision, so that private rights shall not be placed under corporate control. To start with tho vast bulk of the land to be raised by this means from the value of zero to that of arable land belongs to the Government It Is jrood policy for any, property owner to improve his prop erty. Next it is an axiom in democratic policy that the arable land shall be dis tributed as widely as possible among the 4 greatest number of cultivators. Beyond that the creation of an irrigation system involves the exercise of sovereign powers, which tho Government must either exert itself or delegate to those who build the water courses. It must not be forgotten that the power that might be exercised by a private or corporate control of the artificial irrigation of any section would exceed that held by the railroads in the matter of transporta tion. The company which controlled the supply of water 'of any section and -had the power to punish its opponents or re ward its enemies, by withholding the water supply are discriminating in rates, would possess an absolutism hitherto unrivaled in this country. The problem of creating irrigation without creating this power, either in the hands of corporations or politicians, is yet unsolved. Our experi ence with the railways demonstrates that the delegation of such power to corpora tions is not sufficiently guarded by mere supervision. Our experience with poli ticians raises a reasonable doubt whether to keep the power In the hands of the Government would be much better. That a system of irrigation of the lands should be brought into existence is indis putable; that it should be securely guarded against undue control of the fortunes of those dependent on it, is no less plain. How to meet both these requirements is a problem the solution of which requires statesmanship. Editions de luxe of the Democratic platform, handsomely engrossed on parch ment and bound in white buckskin are to be presented to Cleveland and Stovcnson.by the committee notifying them of their nomi nations. The idea is a good one, but it would be better still if every member of the Demo cratic part- or at least every Congressional representative thereof conld be made to enrrave upon his heart the tenets adopted at Chicago and persuaded to act in accordance therewith in the Interest of party consist ency. Ix is sow universally recognized that the present English elections are only a pre liminary canter to the race which must take place in the near future, though its actual date cannot yet be named. Passengers aboard the Iron Queen on Snuday morning, who sleptin peaceful ignor ance of the fact that tbelr vessel was at the bottom of the river, were almost as fortunate as those travelers on the Chicago Limited Jim a week befoi e, whose slumbers were un broken by the derailing of four cars. Dark horses are making up for their want of success in securing Presidental nominations by coming to the front for im portant positions on campaign committees. When a Chinese general takes out his troops to lire volleys of blank cartridges to drive off demons supposed to carry pesti lence, one is reminded ot the regions in the United States where the same sort of thing is done to produce a rainfall. One wonders that the all powerful tele graph companies do not have the sun vacci nated, and put a stop to electric storms once for all. The national capital has at all times plenty of people whose experience, in me chanical politics enables them to know the wheels. Theie are additional opportunities Just now during the visit of the League of American Wheelmen. In accounting for the exportation of gold, it ahoaianoi"bei forgotten that the Keeley cure has opened up in Europe. Shade trees are a great boon. But their blessings are not thoroughly appreciated by the unwary pedestrian at night when his hat is knocked to the sidewalk and his face re ceives a cut from low lying branches. These is little to choose between rumors and facts for sensationalism in Venezuela. MASTERS OF MEN. Henby Ml Stanley's real name is John Rowlands. . Dona Isadora Cousino, of Chili, is said to be worth $200,000,000, and is the richest woman, and doubtless the richest person, in the world. M. De Giees, the Russian Foreign Min ister, who has been ill for a long time, but who it is thought was recovering, has suf fered a relapse and is obliged to keen to his bed. He is in Finland. K. C. Knight, the Philadelphia sugar refiner, who has been sick at his cottage at Cape May since April, took a turn for the worse last evening and his condition is more serious than at any time since he was taken 11L James G. Blaine, Whitelaw Beid and James W.Hu8tedare"DekeB,"ormembersof Delta Kappa EpsUon; Chauncey M. Depew belongs to'Pel Upsilon, the dearest foe of the Dekes; Adlia is Phi Delta Theta; William F. Vilas is Beta Theta jri. Of all the Confederate Brigadiers surviv ing and in publio life General Wnlthall, of .Mississippi, recently re-elected Senator, is said to be the most picturesque. He is tall and slender, with a mane of black hair that is striking in appearance. Generax George P. Ihrie, who will be tho general agent for the State of Wash ington at the World's Fair, was on Grant's staff during the war. He has since had an extensive experience as examiner of mines in the United States and Alaska. A cablegram has been received at the Mexican legation in Washington denying the report that Finance Minister Romero is dangerously ill in the City of Mexico. The cablegram states that Senor Romero was slightly Indisposed but expects to be at his department soon. Ktpxing will spend the entire summer in Samoa with Bobert Louis Stevenson, and expects to return to America in the autumn. It is bis Intention to spend tno fall in travel through the. country and next winter be will permanently settle in Hew York City, spending a part of the summer at the old home of .his wife and her family at Mont pelier. - " METHODS OF OLD HUT0H. The Ex-Wheat Plunger Employs Strange Ways In Banning; Eli Store. Nxw York, July 18. "Old Hutch" was foundyesterday sitting upon the stoop of tho shop on Pearl street that be engaged for a restaurant some time aso. He had turned aside to the business of dealing In second hand articles. One of his customers came along, and said she wanted two cans of sal mon. She was told to go In and look tor them, as they were somewhere on the shelf. Hutch remained outside. He Joined her finally, and being asked the price of the two cans said: "Well,! guess 80 cents." "But you only asked 25 the other day." ."Ob, well," said this most obliging pro prietor,. 1'suit yourself." The next Customer was a young man. Hf explained that he wanted a pound, of can dles. "Don't sell 'em by tho pound in New York," said the proprietor, airily. "Sell 'em anyway you like but that." The young- man blushed furiously at his blunder, and "Old Hutch" gave a snort, but to atone for, the confusion he was manifestly causing his customer, lie began to offer the different articles In his stock at the most ruinous prices. For 25 cents he offered a gas stove, a looking glass and even a chair. Ho urged the acceptance of a dilapidated hair brush for S cents. He ottered a small secre tary, which he said was tho only thing he bad to write on, for $4. Soldiers to Be Frond Or. Baltimore American. Pennsylvania has a National Guard worthy of the name. So, too, has Maryland. A LOOK AROUND. TjNTTLyouget an Idea for yourself by personal Inspection you fail to comprehend how and where this big. sprawling city is reaching out and laying hands upon the countryside. About seven years ago busi ness took mo one afternoon to Knoxvllle. I found straggling sheep, scattering houses, and broad acre's of farm land, meadows, fields of grain and shady orchards. Yester day I went over the same ground and how changed it ul! was. There was a hilltop city of homes surrounded by farms and as settled and permanent as the First ward. Paved streets, electrio roads, stores, pretty brick residences and buildings for fac tories and other commercial purposes stretched away to the hill lines on the horizon. The swift-running cars hurry you to the Southside from the central city districts and you speed to the heights on an Incline shaped like a capital C an inno vation in inelines and a triumph of engi neering skill. The people were all stirred up and were hustling about the streets because of the inauguration of the new electrio lino, which ran its first cars yester day. This road is well equipped and con nects the various inclines which belong to the Birmingham railway system. It will do much to build up the outlying sections of Knoxvllle andMt Oliver. Theyare a lively, energetic, public-spirited people up. on the hills, and lc will not bo the fault of such men as James G. Grimes and John Moore if their portion of the city is not up to the march of events in the older and more pretentious portion of the City of Cinders. There is talk of parks, pleasure grounds nnd a sort of Tdxedo scheme in the neigh borhood of Knoxvllle, which will involve large Investments and bring about very de sirable extensions of existing conditions. A man of much common sense and free from political bias and who has recently re turned from an extended trip through the Western States rather encourages me in the belter that there will be strong1 Republican gains in the silver States, despite all that lias been said. He says that while the free silver ciaze has permeated even those Western States which are not directly interested through the output of bullion, there is general recognition of the fact that nothing is to be hoped for in that direction from Cleveland. Tho tariff is the next mat ter of discussion and it has been more con sidered and moie thought about since the adoption of the free trade plank in tho Chi cago convention than ever before. The West looks upon Harrison as being in many things a representative of Western ideas, while Cleveland is not regarded as in sympathy with such of the country as lies beyond the Mississippi In Philadelphia the other day I heard a rumor that itobert -Pltcalrn had refused an offer of the Vice Presidency of an Important Eastern railway company. I asked one of the officers ot the Pennsylvania Railroad Company if the report was true, and he said it was in part correct. "Pitcairn will never leave the Pennsylvania Railroad to enter the service of another company," said the official. "He is one of the most loyal and en thusiastic men in the company. He is not to be Judged by the Jingle of suoh titles as he holds under the Pennsylvania Railroad. He could bavehadabout anything he wanted for years. He has several times lefused the position of General Superintendent of the oompany and also that of General Manager. He has brought to the Pennsylvania Rail road more valuable tonnage than anyone of its officers. I refer to the coke trade which he took from the Baltimore nnd Ohio by the Southwest Pennsylvania branch, which he planned and put into operation. He is a very rich man, one of the richest who has any connection with the company, and his opinion or suggestions settle Pennsylvania Railroad affairs in tho western part of the State. There seems to.be little donbt that the local Democratic managers intend to enter Into a vigorous campaign in the Twenty first Congressional district against Hon. John Dalzcll. That gentleman Yhas, how ever, up to this time but little cause for fear. The attompt to persuade' President Weibe, of the Amalgamated Assoclation,'to run as a Domocratlc-Labor candidate has .undoubt-. edly failed, as that gentleman takes a sensible view of a political 'contest, and thinks that, like a boil; the best place to have' it is on some other man. Mr. Welhe was very strongly urged by 'the Democrats, but he would not consent. The attitude of the Democracy this year on tariff is not of a nature to strengthen any candidate against, such a tried and trusted protectionist ns Mr. Dalzcll. Of course, the Democrats here as elsewhere are seeking to make capital out of the labor complications, but it will not work where the mass of the voters are so conversant with tariff questions as they are in Pittsburg. The manner in which the National Guard of Pennsylvania has responded to the call of the Governor and the spirit shown by the men and officers since their encampment will have a most valuable effect upon pub lie sentiment in the future. There is not rnuoh toy soldier business about this year's work of the troops. Bankers, morcbants, lawyers and men of other professional and commercial pursuits men in some cases of great wealth and high social status do not hesitate to take upon themselves nil the un pleasant routine duties of a strictly regulat ed military encampment. Men who ordi narily live in luxury and highly cultivated comfort are called upon to take 21 hours straightaway guard duty in unhealthy and extremely uncomfortable locations with rough food and little or no shelter and the call has been cheerfully and thoroughly re sponded to. Such citizens as have Deen placed in positions of authority in the mili tia have shown the most commendable ap preciation of the duties voluntarily as sumed by thorn. People who have sneered at those who "play soldier" have been taught a wholesome lesson during the past week. "BUI" or John or Peter who was your Jolly associate a few days ago is no longer in a position to be Blapped on the back and made light of while on duty under direct orders. BUI and John and Peter are showing a marked disposition to do what they aie told without regard to previous as sociations ana the officers are giving their men good examples of submission to disci pline. "SViiiWAM Waldorf Astor and Lottie Collins, of ta-ra-boom-de-au fame, both re fused to remain dead in spite of obituaries by cable, but Queen Anne and a number of others of note are supposed to -De perma nently done for, which provents any en couragement of a belief that a new order of mortal things has arisen. A bright young lady, who has moved from this city to Philadelphia to reside, in a recent letter to a friend in Pittsburg said: "Not until you reach Philadelphia and try to be somebody can you appreciate the hopelessness of having had no grandfather. It is a state which breeds despair, for no amonnt of endeavor can efface it, as the Phliadelphlaus are not charitable enough to permit you to try to be a grandfather, upon whom somebody in the future can depend in confidence and trust." Walter. President Harrison's Vacation. Washinoton, July 18. The President and Private Secretary Halford arrived intiie efty this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, from Cape May. In case Congress does not adjourn be fore the end of next week the President will make another visit to Cape May next Sunday, but in case Congress shall decide to adjourn early next week, he will omit the Cape May trip, nnd will go instead to Loon Lake, In the Adirondacks, where ho will re main during the remainder of the summer. As he goes for rest and vacation he will transact such business while away as cannot be deferred until his return to the capital. A New Title lor AdluL Chicago Inter-Ocean. An Eastern newspaper asks, "Where did Stevenson get his title of General?" It was granted him in the great battle in which ho presented in baskets the heads of some 45, 000 fourth-class postmasters to the civil service reformers or Cleveland's adminis tration. As Cleveland himself was in com. maud, tho real title is -Assistant General Btevenson. BROWNING'S WORE DISCUSSED. Cnnntanquans listen to Praises of Tbelr Favorite Author From Prof. Seaman. Chautauqua, N. Y., July 18. .Special This week opened with the most promising university extension courses so far offered and certainly one of the best of the season. Prof. O. Seaman read a paper on Robert Browning. Prof. Seaman has made a special study of thi3 great favorite of Chautau quans and pleased them more than anyone they had heard on the snbjoct. This afternoon Prof. Seaman told Chau tauquans of the university extension work in England. There the work is done for the benefit of much tho same class as in this country, the artisans, men employed bv day, etc. It is a much better work there than in America, as popular education U not carried, out to so great an extent there. .Pror. Mcses Colt Tyler began his lecture course to-day on the literature bearing on the American Revolution. His lect ure was Introductory, but was de cidedly Interesting, discussing every form of literary work at that time. Prof. Tyler called the pamphlet "the an cestor of the American newspaper, which, like all good ancestors, died, leaving the work to the more 10 oust youngster." This evening Mr. Goodyear gave his Illustrated lecture on "Roman Architecture." Chau tauqua is so well filled that it isaheady necessary to go early to the amphitheater when there is a good programme offered to be sure of a seat. The amphitheater is said to have a seating capacity of over 5,000. TJHCLE SAM'S HEW NAYS-. It Will Comprise 45 Teasels, 304 Gnns and 11,004 Officers and Men. WAsnmoTOir, July 18. Senator Chandler to-day gave tho following statement of the list of vessels for the proposed new navy: In Class 1 there are (0 be six donble-tnrrcted harbor defense vessels the Puritan, Mlantono moli, Amphltrlte. Monadnock. Terror and Mon terey, with a total equipment of 30 guns, 73 officers and 633 seamen. Class I-Three armored cruisers the Maine, New York, and a vessel of the New York type, under tho act of 1893. with an equipment of 46 guns, CO offiVers, l.TJS seamen and 116 marines. Class 3 One vessel, the No. 1 harbor defense ram. with 8 officers and 84 seamen. Class 4 Five armored battle ships the Texas, Massachusetts. Indiana, Oregon, and the vessel authorized by the act of 1803. with 72 guns, 103 officers. 1,763 seamen and 180 marines. Class 5 Thirteen protected crnlscrs-the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta. Newark. Charleston, Baltimore. San Franclcco, Philadelphia. Cincinnati. Raleigh, and cruisers Mos. 6, 12 and 13: equipped with 136 gnns, 55.! officers, 3.7SS seamen and.450 ii'arlnes. Class 6 Three cruisers Nos. 9. 10 and II: equipped with 30 gnns, 48 officers, 631 seameu and 76 marines. Class 7 -Six gunboats the Yorktown, Concord, Bennington. Petrel, No. 5 anu No. 6; equipped with 38 gnns. 75 officers, 855 seamen and 84 marines. Class 8 (special class) Five vessels the Dolphin, Bancroft, Vetuvlus. dynamite cruiser No. 2, and torpedo cruiser, with an equipment of S guns, 36 officers, 440 seamen and 6 marines. Class 9 Three torpedo boats the Stiletto. Cash ing and toroedo No. 2: enulniied with 7 officers and Co Bcauicu, This approximates the new naw. with a total of 43 vessels, 364 guns, 683 officers. 9,500 seamen and 911 marines. A BULL AGAINST CLAMS. The Strange Bet Entered Into Between Two Congressmen. WAsniifOTOir, July IS. Ludicrous bets are frequently made by Congressmen during the dog days, when business Is dull and the House is filled with malarial microbes. Dur ing the winter such wagers would scarcely be entertained, but the heat of summer works singular effects. The bet said to have been made yesterday between Mr. Babbitt; of Wisconsin, a farmer, and Mr. Page, of Rhode Island, is entitled to a place at the head of the calendar. Both ai e Democrats. During a lull in the proceedings yesterday they began to discuss tho Presidental outlook. Mr. Babbitt was talking confidently aoout the Democratic party's chances of carrying Illinois and Wis consin. Mr. Page, who used to talk in the same strain about "Little Rhody," but lias learned the value of conservatism, was inclined to disagree with Mr. Babbitt. This was the Wistonsin man's opportunity. Bristling up, he said: "I'll Just bet yon a short-horned bull against a carload or Rhode Island clams that Cleveland carries both States." Mr. Pago accepted the wager. OPIUM BETWEEN THE EGOS. An Ingenious Smuggling Scheme Practloed by a Buffalo Man. f. . Bottfalo, n. J., July 18. William Watts, a , well-known produce dealer ' in the market, who brings most of his goods from. Canada, was arrested this afternoon by the United States officials on a charge of smuggling oplnm. He had been under suspicion some time an d had been watched. The officials learned that he was in the habit of bringing over about $3,000 worth of opium each trip. His scheme was ingenious. He lined tho bottom of his wagon with eggs and in the center put a quantity of opium. The bottom layer of the egg crates was usuaUy filled with onlum. Watts made about $3 a can on the stuff. He bought it in Canada lor $5 a can and sold it lor $8. There are a dozen Chinamen im plicated in the smuggling scheme and they will be arrested to-morrow. The Canadian end of the gang will also be taken in to-morrow. DRAWBACKS TO DONNELLY. Ignatius Donxzllt Is now a candidate and the spir.lt of Shakespeare is assured a period of unbroken celestial enjoyment so far as Ignatius is concerned. Detroit Free .Pro. Thb People's party of Minnesota has nominated Ignatius Donnelly for Governor; and that is piobably the easiest way it could have found to act the fool. St. Zouit Globe-Democrat. IorfATius Doxxeixt, who is the People's party candidate for Governor in Minnesota, is liable to get hold of another cipher unless a Demociatic fusion furnishes the units. St. Lows Republic With Ignatius Donnelly in the field as a candidate for Governor, Minnesota hopes to cut some figure in the canvass. If Donnelly's defeat will bring about that desirable re sult there is every likelihood of theearly vin dication of William Shakespeare. Brooklyn Eagle. The nomination of Ignatius Donnelly for Governor of Minnesota by the People's party of that 8tate, insures to the voters of that organization an interesting and picturesque candidate, who will lead them to defeat without half trying. Philadelphia Inquirer. Iovattcs DoircreixT, patentee and sole proprietor of a Baconian cipher, has been nominated by the People's party for Gover nor of Minnesota. The nomination will make the Baconian sigh for election, but this is one of the few things that he cannot prove by his key to Shakespeare. Philadel phia Ledger. . The character of the People's party Is once more illustratod by the nomination for Governor ot Minnesota of that con scienceless humbug, Ignatius Donnelly. This slippery demagogue has boxed tho whole compass of political parties, and a party of which he can so easily make him self the leader must Indeed be made up of the greenest Ignoramuses of the back woods. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It Fared the Country. Philadelphia Press. The Republicans took the lead and forced the fight against free silver in the Uonse on Wednesday. It is as true now as it was 30 years ago that the Republican party stands between tho nation nnd Democracy and disaster. DEATHS 11EKE AND ELSEWHEEE. Mrs. I.enh Tapper. Mrs. Leah Tupper, wife of the late Dr. Arelieleans Tupper. died at her home In Corning, N'. Y., Saturday. She was 92 years of age. She Is the mother of 11. S. Tupper, the prominent oil broker of superior avenue, Allegheny. O'lttnary Notrs. Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress, died at PlttsOeld, Mass.. at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. General James A. Cdn.iingham, soperlnten deutofthe Soldiers1 Home In Massachusetts, died 8una v at 'the Home In Chelsea. He was 83 years old. He served In the war in the Thirty-second Massachusetts regiment. Mbs. AKXA .F., wife or Rev. W. L. Hayden, late of BeHefonte, Pa.,dledat Watseka.111., on the 14th lust., of flurons consumption. The Interment was at Alliance. O.. on gamrdav. Mrs. Hayden was well-known In Western Pennsylvania, where she lived for several years. SOCIETY IN JULY. A Very Handsome Turnout Several En gagements Announced Departing for Pleasure Besorts Society's Walkings Up and Down and Goings to and Fro. One of the smartest and most correct turnouts in PIttsbnrg is owned by Mr. IL C. Bughman, who almost every evening may be seen with Mrs. Bughman and his pretty daughters driving in the park andalong East End streets. It is a natty Kensington cart, and Mr. Bughman is to be much commended for setting his foot npon the rage for yellow gearing by adopting in its place a bottle green color, which Is also that of the body or the cart, tho entire effect being of much greater elegance. This is humr on four wheels and the scats are reversible, so that rou may sit back to back or all facing the torses, according to pleasure The team of horses is greatly admired even by a tyro In horse flesh; the beautiful bayand the brown cob forming a combination worthy of n, gentleman of the correct tastes which Mr. Bughman its well known to possess. The family, it is said, will not leave Pitts burg this summer, but devote themselves to driving, but, after all. who would leave Pittsburg if they lived among trees and grnss and flowers, and in so lovely a spot as do the Bughmans? The engagement ot Miss Louise Green, of which I gave a hint in this column ashort time ago, not being in a position to do more, has Just been made public, probably by the young lady's friends, since she is now and has been for several months visiting in Toronto, Canada. Miss Green belongs to one of the best old Dominion families, of the type which cling fondly to their English characteristics, resulting in so manv people in Canada becoming more English than the English themselves, and astonishing these Inst very much always with their loyalty. To describe Miss Green, therefore, as a thorough English girl would convey a more truthful nnd telling picture. She is attract ive rather than pretty; in fact, handsome is her description, and is noted in the sot in which she moved in Pittsburg for her thorough knowledge and appreciation of the piano, which she plays very finely. Mr. Arthur B. Wigley, her fiancee, is also a partner in business with Mr. Walter Green, his betrothed's brother. He is a man of wealth and business and social standing. Mr. Wlaley has been mairied before, and is said to bo connected, though in a distnnt man ner, with the fnmily into which ho is going to marry. Misi Emily Green, an older sister of Mr. Wigley's fiancee, Is summering with a young brother In Prince Edward's Island, and in the autumn intends to follow nn older brother to Washington State, to pre side at the head of his bachelor establish ment. The engagement is announced of Miss Annetta Bunting, a daughter of W. E. Bunt ing, Esq., of Ben Venue Place and J. W. Daugherty, of Jcannette, Pa. The engagement is announced of Mr. Eugene Connelly and Miss Minnie Leonard, of Oakland. As a newspaper man Mr. Con nelly has got beyond the stage of showing promlso, for ho has already performed much clever work in tho Pittsburg newspaper world and bids fair to rapidly gain dis tinction. Miss Leontrd is a very attractive young lady and much interested in things musical. Social Chatter. Ma. asd Mas. Gzoroe P. Hamilton have each chosen his or her favorite mode of Teaching Deer Park, which is to be their place of sojourn for some weeks. Mrs. Ham ilton will go by train to-day and Mr. Hamil ton, who disdains iron steeds for Arab steeds, or what is still moie reliable, Mrs. Hamilton's horse "Timothy" will set ont In a day or so in his road cart. It is a natty little four-wheeler, and sure to do good exe cution on the rood. Miss Flokesce O. Sullivan, a yonng lady who received a good deal of the public's ot tention, at the time she returned from Paris, having given up her intention to devote herself by vow to the work of the Catholic Church, is a familiar figure on horseback these davB. She, with her mother and sisters ride almost continually, and are be coming noted for their skillfalness and grace. Mr. Herbert Smith, manager of the Riding Academy, for a Canadian has proved him self a most patriotic American, as Battery IS was accommodated by him to the number of IS horses. There is not known to be any national comollmentarv lecoenition that might be made, but it seems as if Mr. Smith mightnow be made an American citizen and "no questions asked." Let us hope they are not enjoying mal do mer, but among the Plttsburgers on, the lirenst of the Atlantic at nrcsentnre: Mr. and Mrs. D. Leet Wilson, Mr. David S. -Wilson, Miss-Susan Is. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J.. G. Pontefiactand Miss Pontetract, and Mr. nnd Mrs. Prank H. Brush and Mrs. William Brush. Booms have been engaged at tho Argyle, Atlantic City, against the arrival early next week of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Denniston, of Ben Ten no Place, nnd Miss Elizabeth Snowden Robb, of Allegheny, who is a cousin of Mrs. Denniston. The young daughters of Mr. Schmidt, owner of the Schmidt building, are enthusi asts in mastering the science of horseman ship. Though only beginners, they display much cleve rness. A siiix party of Ben Venue people, com posed of Mrs. John T. Nevln. Mrs. Hawes and her nephew, Master Edward Tassey, of Sherman, Tex., will leave Wednesday for Block Island. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. McMurtrt and their family are at the Mountain House in Cresson. Mr. Cuarles McMurtry's arrival with a band some saddle horse has given riding an im petus. Ma. axd Mrs. Jon W. Black, of Lincoln avenue. Ease End, and their ianilly have chosen Lakewood as ttoeirplacn of residence for the summer, and left for it a few days ago. The Rev. Alfred Arnndel was in New York last week to welcome his sister on her ai rival from England, by steamer Adriatic. The Theodore Hostetters and a retinue of riiuo servants have gone to Jamestown, R. I., to live for the summer. Yonno Mr. George Bughman, who sailed from New York, was expected to land in England yesterday. Dr. Andrew Flxhino, of Allegheny, sailed yesterday by steamship Kaiser Wilhelm for Southampton. Miss Ausje Vas KntE will spend the sum mer at a watering place. Shu left town a lew days ago. The family of Mrs. John W. Daws, of Neville street, will spend the summer at At lantic City. THEFresliAir fund contributed 80 people Sesterday to the country, as it is found at akland. Miss Mart Moorheac, of Pittsburg, ar rived on Saturday from Europe. Mr. McKenzie and a party will have a coaching party this week. The Philharmonic Society will go to camp at Somerset on August 2. A CELESTIAL FOSSE GAME. New York Chinamen fond of the Mellcan Man's Way of Gambling. Xew York, July 13. Some of the celestials of lower Mott street have abandoned tbelr favorite "fan-tan" for the games of the "Melican man." Captain Warts, of the Elizabeth street squad, heard yesterday of tho charge, and decided to raid the gam blers. With a squad of patrolmen, he Invaded last night the building at 4 Doyers street and surprised a round dozen Chinese shoot ing craps. The gambling was going on in the apartments or Jim Slick, who, with the players, was arrested. Word that the police were making war on tbe gamblers soon spread through China town, and in a Jiffy the other crap-shooting establishments were shut up. Quong Pang, who was running a came at 55 Park street, paid no heed to the warning, however, and was greatly surprised when a sqnad of blue coats appeared in his place. Theie was a heavy game of draw nokor going on. but the Chinese managed to' grab the money. Fang and eight players were arrested. HISS WILLAED'S ULTIMATUM. The Distinguished Reformer Talis Why She Stopped Active Work. Chicaoo, July 18. Miss Frances E. WUlard has the following notice sent out for publi cation regarding her inability to appear on the platform in the coming campaign: It Is Just to Miss Frances E. WUlard that her friends shonld know the reason why she Is not as active In platform work as she has been for the last 20 years. Some months ago her mother, known and revered by temperance people throughout the country for remarkable character and talent, which hare heen delineated with so much affection by her daughter In alt her books and speeches, be gan to fail In health. Mine. WUlard will be 83 years. If she lives till next January. Iter own premonitions are thai her lire win not beofmnch longer duration, and, while she suffers no pain, she Is greatly prostrated and wholly wlthont appe tite or physical tone. In her growing weakness, she who has always been so self-poised as to have won 'from white rlbboners the name of "Saint Courageous." clings to her onlr remaining child more strongly than ever, and feels that It H not safe fpr her to bo absent from home long at a tune. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Cyrus "W. Field's life was insured for $250,000. The coffee palaces of Melbourne ari said to be the finest in the world. St Joseph, Mich., shipped 22,000 bush els of strawberries one day last week. Two pieces of gold and a cartridge hall were found insido a duck at Blakely.Gs,, recently. Saratoga, Kan., has a ?30,000 opera house, Dnt only the music of insects Is ever heard there. In 1889 Kansas had a wheat acrea;e or less than 2.000.000 acres. This year she is said to have 1,000,000 acres. A street car line is now being bnilt ia Tasbkend, the capital 01 Russian Turkestan, by a French company. The mercury is reported to have rejrls. tered 106 in the shade at Frinesville, Ore, nearly every day last week. All the pawnshops iu Moscow, Russia, owned by Hebrews, will bo closed this month, by order of the Government. Bichmond, Ind., has an organization known as the "1827 Society," composed en tirely of. persons born in 1327. Telephones in service in the United States number'nearlv 512.500, and the total length of line i3 over 250,000 mUes. Sewell county, Kan., has an ox which measures 14 feet In lencth, is 6 feet high and, when fat, weighs 4,500 pounds. The Christian Endeavor Societies claim at present a total of 1.370,200 members, and they are covering the entire world. The largest floating elevator in the world was launched on January 14, 1S02, In Brooklyn. Its tower rises 74 feet above its deck. The most expensive Legislature in the world is that of France, which costs annu ally $3,600,000. The Italian Parliament cost $430,000 a year. A man with a mind for statistics has computed that over 65,000,000,000,000.000 of people have lived on the earth since the be ginning of time. A general census of Costa Eica recently completed shows a population of 213,205. San .lose is the most populous provinoe with 76,713 inhabitants. Old-shoe throwing is done for many purposes. In Ireland the election of a per son to almost any office Is concluded by throwing an old shoe over bis bead. There are many superstitions about funerals. Few people like to cross them in the streets, and men and women apparently sensible stand and wait to let them pass. The largest child in Connecticut for her years is reDUted to be the six-year-old daughter of J. L. numphry, of Torrington. She weighs 125 pounds, and is gaining fast. Aprettyfeature of a late weddingparty at a country seat on the Hudson river was the dancing of a Virginia reel on thelannby the bride and groom, bridemaids and ushers. M. Dameny has taken successive pho tographs of the lips of a speaker, so that on arranging them a deaf mute able to read from the motion of the lips can understand them. The School Board of St Paul, Minn., has abolished the distinction of sex in the matter of salaries, and will hereafter pay women the same as men for doing the same work. The natives of Vera Cruz do a large trado in fireflies, which they catch by wav ing a blazing coal at the end of a stick. The Insects fly toward the light and are captured in nets. The Chinese value a pair of old boots which have been worn by an upright magis trate, and the custom of wishing a friend a "happy foot," is still observed all through Europe. The railroad which is at some time or other to traverse tho African continent ha3 been opened as far as a point near Cazengo, 110 miles from the starting point, St. Paul Jo Loanda. People's fingers, cut from the hands of the dead, are sometimes carried as amnlets by the ignorant and superstitions. Dried lizaras sewn up in leatner serve tae same purpose. Orie of the big insurance companies in Xew York pays tho manager of its-woman's bureau for Ihe-PaciflC coast nnd'Hawalian Islands $10,000 a year, and she is a woman from Ohio. ' In the mythology of Enrope horses were regarded as luck -bringers, and super stition once supposed that a horse's hoof placed under the bed would cure certain complaints. Sensible and practical people will often take particular pains to skim off a patch of bubbles that has risen to the top ot their tea, because someone has said it is a "sure sign of money." The Emperor of Chins? does not stir much in wet weather. This is due in part to the fact that it take ten men to carry bis umbrella, and It is difficult to get them away from the fantan table all at once. The next highteit price ever paid for a horse in the United States was the J100.009 given by Charles Reed in the Falrview farm, Tenn., for the great stallion St. Blaise at a sale in Xew York City in October, 139L Miss Nina Cromwell, of Detroit, is the fortunate ownor of a Bible that was onca owned Dy her ancester, Oliver Cromwell. It is known to be more than 300 years old, and it is valued by bibliomaniacs ac $1,000. There are at present In the Gobelin's manufacture two large State carpets valued at $50,000 and $40,000 respectively at lea3t. They were made during theemplre.one being ordered Dy the Italian Government and the other being intended for the palace of Fontainebleau. The famous termites, commonly called "white ants," although thoy belong to the order of the dragon fly, infest Ceylon iu countless swarms, devouring every thing eatable, and even gutting the timbers of dwelling honses so that the latter are reduced to mere shells. 1TJGIIT INTO FCNXYDOJT. Strawber Do you expect to be married In a dress suit? singeriy Ifl can get home from the ofaee first. My room mate Is going to be married the same night. Sea lark Herald. "How many hoars a day do you work?" asked one of the relatives of a government ap pointee. "Houahsl" the yonng man echoed in dismay. "Gweat Heavens, man. do you think I dwlve a stweet car?" WathlngUm Star. "Where are you going my pretty maid?" To buy me a bathing suit, sir." she said. Can I carry It for you, my pretty maldf " 1 '"Twill fit in my glove, kind sir, " she said. I Brooklyn Eagle. 1 Conductor I don't wish to alarm yon un- ) necessarily, madam, but If you are notacens- tomedto the promlscnons shooting of revolvers v perhaps you had better go forward Into the bag gage ' Wildly Nervous Passenger What is it. con ductor? Are we going to be robbed? Conductor No. ma'am. Two men are about totakeastraw vote of the car. Chicago Tribune. Vacation time has come at last, For Sol begins to glow; All business aside is cast And off we go.' Ont In the verdant meads to-day. Where balmy Is the air. You find the barber cutting hay Instead of hair. Sao XorkFretm. Bobbie I guess that political, meeting papa went to last night was a real circus. Mamma-Why, dear? Bobble 'Cause papa said before they left they gave three cheers and a tiger. Chicago Inter' Ocean. j She bought some gowns, expecting that In Enrope she would roam: But when her hnsband paid for them They had to stay at home. Detroit Free Prat. "Billy," remarked the old gentleman ruefully, as he brought In the remains of the weeklvwash, 'I guess we wUl have to name the goat Time. " "Why, father?" asked Billy. "Because Time, you know, my son, devonrs all things." Baltimore Soot. "Hullo, Dudley! "What in the world have you got yourself rigged un with that ridicu lous Swiss mountaineer's suit and alpenstock for?" O. that's all right. My wife wants to go to Switzerland this summer and climb Mount Blanc and she sends me oat every day to walk op a north side aUey for practice. Qreat scheme tsu'lltT' Chicago Sewe-Becord,
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