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PITTSIiriH.. SjATURDAY. AUGUST 13. !c TWELVE PAGES A DEMOCRATIC bTlXI. HUNT. The disposition of the Democracy to adopt the methods of the late Samuel J. Tilden and seek for votes by methods that are sly and quiet is illustrated by the "still hunt" that is being worked in Wis consin and Illinois. In those States the Democracy, under the management of the sleek Senator Vilas, is not wasting its strength on tariff or financial discussion's. That able politician is making his strike on the school question, and carefully pro vided for it by a plank in the Democratic platform. It is to be remembered that the political revolution of two years ago, which ele vated the allegedly humorous Peck to political greatness, revolved around this issue. The Democracy of Wisconsin saw its opportunity by appealing to foreign born prejudices on the subject of schools, and secured possession of the State gov ernment by that means. From this over turn "Vilas got his Senatorial position; and he is working the same mine in the Prcsi dental year. This plan of campaign steers clear of vexatious wrangles in national issues, and appeals tub rosa to the foreign element with the promise that Democratic victory will give it its way with the schools. Perhaps this will win; and perhaps not If the people at large find out that the Democracy is trying to steal its way into power on the platform of enmity to the American school system, it may cost that party a good deal more than it comes to. THE ERIE CANAL'S CASE. The tendency to decry canals and the readiness of the railroad interests to use that tendency to the utmost is illustrated by the current talk about the Erie-Canal. It is pointed out that this sole re maining canal is doing less busi ness this year than usual; that its capacity is inadequate, and that canal boatmen are tying up because the business does not pay. Therefore a co temporary remarks: "It is evident the canal has been outstripped at last" The facts may be as stated. But one point is entirely overlooked which puts a different face on the matter as regards the conclusion. The Erie Canal is practically in the condition it was forty years ago. The railroads have increased their capacity and facilities in the same period by an im mense factor. There is a very good illus tration of the results of Government ownership which our friends, the Social its and People's party, wish to extend in the fact that the canal under State con trol has stood still while the railroads un der private enterprise have, gone ahead; but it does not impeach the efficacy of canals for transportation of the freights suited to them. Nothing is more easily demonstrated that if anything like the proportion of ex penditures which the railroads have de voted to increasing their facilities had been used in increasingthe capacity of the Erie Canal that water route would be to day the ruler of the situation on heavy and bulky freights. But the railroad in fluence has succeeded In keeping canal improvements stationary while desper ately fighting to Tceep down canal freights by cutting rates in two whenever the canal season opened. ,Even under these disad vantages the Erie Canal Is to-day carrying freights at 2 mills per ton-mile. If this can be done on an old-fashioned, inad equate canal what a triumph of cheap transportation could be afforded by a ship canal with the best facilities that can be afforded by modern engineering I THE TOBY TONE. The tone of tlie defeated Conservatives and leaders on the vote by which Mr. Gladstone comes into power indicates a large amount of virulence and a decided disposition to magnify the difficulties which will confront the Gladstone ad ministration. These difficulties are so manifest that they have been recognized all over the world since the result of the election was known. But the Tory dis position to enlarge upon them, while at the same time dwelling on the inconsistencies of the Liberal members, is pitched in a key of bitterness that is more petty than sarcastic. Thus the Times declares of the vote un seating Lord Salisbury: "It is a party victory won on party grounds and to be employed for party objects. '' What, pray, did Lord Salisbury's Cabinet depend on for support but party? There has been no more signal case of party discipline in English politics for years than the way the Tory members were marshaled to vote for whatever the Cabi net ordered. The party purposes even went so far as to talk of an alliance with the Home Rule leader who only a year before had been accused of treason and crime. The alliance was supposed to be possible only because exposures of his private life had separated him from the Liberals. Tory party purposes were ready to welcome Pamell when only a short time ago the Tory organs were accusing him of all the crimes in the calendar. And now a party victory for the other side is impeached as such. There is the same idea that things are very wrong when committed by the other side in Chamberlain's speech, so much praised by the Tories. Its burden was a mixture of taunt and incitement to the minor groups because they had not in Chamberlain's opinion enough pledges from Gladstone. The Welsh members were told that Welsh disestablishment was neither first nor second on the Liberal programme. The labor members were appealed to to demand priority for the eight-hour day. Mr. Redmond was taunted because he had no clearer information as to Gladstone's intentions. It might be supposed from this that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain claims a monopoly of holding his pet measures in abeyance for party purposes. Seven years ago Chamberlain was the champion of some rather radical measures. He even framed a Home Rule bill which went too far for Gladstone. Tetforsix years nothing has been heard of these bills of Chamber lain's, which were kept strictly in the background d urine the long period of Chamberlain's support of Lord Salis bury. It may be very wrong for the Liberals to do what Chamberlain has done; but the Liberals may be pardoned if they cannot see the wrong. There are undoubted (liffl.-ulties in Gladstone's way, but, meas ured by the weakframe of mind displayed by his opponents, he ought to find 5-trength enough to overcome such winners. PENNSYLVANIA'S OIL EXHIBIT. Executive Commissioner Farquhar's latest contribution to the World's Fair literature is a circular addressed to oil producers and refiners of this State. He asks for suggestions and plans, that the work of preparing the exhibit may pro ceed without delay. It is satisfactory to find that an admirable site 150 feet by 250 feet has been granted for an exhibit which ouly a few months ago was in danger of being barred out as too dangerous to be admitted. There is a vast amount of capital invested hereabouts in this In dustry, and it is so distinctive a feature of Pennsylvania's commercial activity that its importance cannot be overestimated. A Pittsburg manufacturing firm has in dicated its enterprise by securing a large slice of the available space for a thorough display of various stastes in the process of drilling, and all apparatus connected with the industry. There still remains the necessity for producers and refiners to show specimens of their productions. A complete collection of samples of crude and refined oils and their products and bi-products, and of the various strata found in Pennsylvania's oil-fields should be secured. Methods of refining ought also to be displayed in order to make a complete exhibit of this Gigantic industry, that shall redound to the credit of this Common wealth. THE P. E. B.'S OPPORTUNITY. It is to be remembered that when the Reading deal was first made public the Pennsylvania Railroad officials took occa sion to declare their opposition to that violation of public policy. Mr. A. J. Cas satt was almost vociferous in protests against the formation of a combination to monopolize an article of general necessity. Mr. Roberts also, though in more guarded language, took occasion to express disap proval of the policy, and to intimate that the Pennsylvania Railroad could not fol low the plan of raising prices which would present the great corporations in the light of public enemies instead of public benefactors. To those who, with The Dispatch, welcomed these utterances as at least a profession of respect for public policy on the part of the greatest corporation of Pennsylvania, it is evident that the oppor tunity of the Pennsylvania Railroad is at hand. The work of the anthracite combination in putting up prices everywhere has reached the point where the Pennsylvania Railroad can place a check on the combination, earn public approval, prove its devotion to a right public policy and get a greater share of the business. This it can do by simply refusing to follow the Reading's policy of screwing up prices! It is true that the Pennsylvania Railroad is only rated as controlling 10 per cent of the anthracite business. But if it should take the bold stand of having the coal on its line sold at reasonable prices, 50c?l oo per ton less than the Reading's, it would speedily get fifteen, twenty or even thirty per cent of the business. Some ribald scoffers have intimated that the position of the Pennsylvania Railroad is sufficiently exposed by the presence of a representative of that road at the last meeting which put up prices. But this is plainly a case of the reckless subordinate. Mr. Depew and other corporate magnates have frequently bewailed their inability to restrain the reckless acts of subordin ates. The recklessness is generallymani fested in the cutting of rates; but this is plainly a case where the insubor dinate subordinate has shown his. contempt of orders by put ting up prices. It is impossible to think that he joined the squeeze with the consent of Mr. Roberts and Mr. Cassatt If that could be so the professions of rail way magnates would be rated as valueless as the pledges of a party platform. Never theless this is the time for the Pennsyl vania Raiiroad magnates to act They can make their pledges good by ordering their rates on coal to be kept down. While they are about it they should not omit to have a reduction made in the very lofty prices which Pittsburg has paid for that" smokeless but costly fuel these many years. A flush manufactory bavins: been trans ferred irom Huddersfleld, England, to Buffalo, N. Y.. on account of the McKlnley bill, it is apparent that the newly formed fur trust will have at least one competitor, and the Protective forces one more argu ment on the advantages of their patriotic policy. Cur directories must be supplemented with a list of visitors to Atlantic City to have any approach to completeness at this season. News of an uprising among Arab slave dealers in an attempt to drive the white men out of Central Africa indicates that Europeans must really have been making some effort to suppress the slave trade, in cidentally to dividing up the country and exploiting its wealth. Cleveland's lieutenants have about as much difficulty in squat ing Hill as math ematicians find In squaring the circle. As the difficulties involved in the Chair manship of the Democratic National Com mittee show themselves more clearly every day, Harrlty gets the busier in futile ef forts to overcome thorn and clings the closer to the Secretaryship of State of Pennsyl vania. Cleveland had better beware or he will he penitent later on for the undue use he Is making of his pen. It is a self-evident truth, but none the less well worth remembering, that the dan ger from Anarchists decreases In proportion to the watchfulness exercised on their movements by the police. Clandestine marriages and elopements are almost as common as railroad fatalities these days. Probably Salisbury's welcome at Os borne was warmer and more sympathetic than Gladstone's will be, bnt the latter will no doubt enjoy the return Journey more than his retiring rival. It must have been a very easy matter to break a champagne bottle on the Marble head. The New York World says that "The Democrats of the House did their Dest." No one will deny at that rate that they are more to be pitied than blamed, and less to be trusted than either. Breathing and working were easier yesterday than they have been lately. That Twenty-first Congressional district Bopubllcac conference must be enjoying Itself, or It would sui ely have found some key to the deadlock before now. About the safest way to use cucumbers is to abstain from eating them. These is still enough doubt as to the outcome or the Venezuelan revolution to afford an excuse lor more of that fighting of which the people seem so fond. INTERNATIONAL INNINGS. G. P. K. James began novel writing at 17 with a series of stories called a "String of Pearls." y Dreiier, the Vienna brewer, is reputed to be worth over $40,000,000, to which the jrofltH of his breweries add $3,000,000 a year. , JOHN G.-Whittier writes in abold, dash ing, but irregular and uneven style, as differ en t as you can imagine from the plain, pre cise, unassuming Quaker that ho is. Mes. P. "V. M. Rice-Raymond, Director of the Oratorio Society, in Lincoln, Nob., Is belleve'd to be the first woman In this coun try to direct an oratoiio with orchestra. Richaed Strauss, the young composer and conductor, is convalescent at his home in Beichenhall, Upper Bavaria. His opera "Guntrain" is now under way and he is said to have finished the first act. The late Dr. Francis T. Ingalls, the ex Senator's brother, was a man of fine appear ance, of polished and winning manners, a brilliant scliolar.anil widely traveled as well as widely read. He lived anddiedabachelor. Archbishop Galimberti," the Papal Nuncio at Vienna, who is to be made Car dinal In September, is tnore of a diplomat and a politician than a priest and his advice will stiengthen the counsels of the Vatican. M. Eugene Rekillotjt, the well-known Egyptologist, Is on the point of publishing the oration of Hyperines against Athen ennes, which he was lortunate enough to discover in a papyrus manuscript offered to him for sale nearly four years ago and ac quired by the Louvre. Joseph Senior, whose death occurred recently, was famous in England tor the verses be wrote while tolling at his forgo as a cutterln Sheffield. He published ljs poetry under the title or "Smithy Rhymes and Stithy Chimes," and the book had a large sale. Marquis Guiccioli, the new Italian Ambassador at Berlin, is a grand-nephew of the beautiful Countess Gniccioli, whom Byron loved and who proved to be thn last of the English bard's romantic conquests. The Marquis 'was formerly Mayor of Rome, and is said to have inherited a fair share of bis great-aunt's good looks. OIL AT THE WOKLD'S FAIB. What Pittsburg Interests Are Dolce; and Are Expected to Do. Habbisburq, Aug. 12. Executive Commis sioner Farquhar has sent a circular letter to the oil producers ot Pennsylvania regarding the exhibit of the petroleum industry at the World's Fair. The letter is as follows: An admirable site has been granted PcnnsTl van'a for Its oU exhibit, 150x150 feet, adjolniug Machinery Hall. The Oil Well Supply Company.' of Pittsburg, propose occupying ICOxlso feet of this pace. They will erect an iron building for the machinery, and will drill several deep wells, keep ing their well-drilling apparatus running through out the Expositlou. It is proposed to erect an oil building in the form of a tank, not less than I5u feet In diameter and SO feet high, with flats top. with platforms inside, to show the products of oil, unit In the center refining apparatus. The Oil Well Supply Company will show the process of drilling for. and elevating the oil. Now. we must arrange to take it from them and complete the work. Please give me your ideas and say what yon can do to assist. e must arrange to have an oil refining plant. What do yon propose to exhibit in this way ofoll or oil product-.? Petroleum If Pennsylvania's great unique, distinctive industry, and it Is of Saramount importance to the reputation of our tate that It has a prominent place. A Crisis Is Approaching. Chicago Mall. It is said now that Australian politics has developed a Jerry Simpson In the Austral Continent. And people claim that the mil lennium is not far away. Thn Modern Invincible. New York Recorder. I General J. S. Clarkson, in command of the Republican campaign clnbs, will have the biggest army ever enrolled. Enlist for the 80-day campaign. Much Ado About Nothing." Washington Post. The total of the. appropriations tends to impair Mr. Bolman's reputation as a watch dog. Perhaps Mr. Eolman barked harder than he bit. Why Tumminy Is Mot in Una. New Tork Recorder. Tammany is doing its best, bnt to ask it to make a man with Irish blood in his veins vote the British ticket Is asking the impossible. ACROSS THE CONTINENT. Pugex Sound is full of pretty marine pictures. Along its picturesque shores na ture In its virginity still holds sway. The water trip from Seattle southward to Taco nutls one of the most charming on the con tinent, if not in the world. The rail route between these rival cities traverses a grow ing, newish region, where pioneerlife is seen brushing up against an older agricul tural development, making a contrast both entertaining and instructive. My route homeward took me to Portland, the pride of Oregon and the rival of 'Frisco for metro politan honors on the Pacific coast. If yon nre tond of canned salmon keep away from its big canneries. If you want to see a sight you'll never forget visit the Chinese manned fish-mangling establishments there. Perhaps you'll still eat the Ted-fleshed dainties and perhaps not. Bnt there's big money in this food industry, and that's what they're after in Portland as well as in the other crowded communities of the civilized world. To catch a glimpse of the continent lower down I returned over the Union Pacific. From Portland this line hngs the magnificent Columbia, broad, deep, fish filled. On its green shores fine frnits flourish to add to the profits fionr goodly crops of hops and cereals. The cherries and peaches of this favored valley aie simply large, meaty and luscious, connoisseurs pronouncing them the Dost in the land. Signs of settlement are frequent along the well watered and densely wooded regions, and there are ''evidences of thrift and contentment on all sides. After leaving the Columbia the Union Pacific cuts across a corner of Oregon and runs diagonally through southern Idaho, following the Snake river valley fqr many miles. Before reaching Ogden, Utah, several hours are spent spinning through Cash Valley, where a Gentile can see plain pioofs of Mormon push and enterprise. Hereon a level plnin.under high mountains, magnificently tilled and judiciously irri gated stretches yield bountifully. Cozy homes in tree-shaded corners near the foot-hills give evidence of prosperity. Long stretches of sago-covered sand at intervals between the green and the golden fields demonstrate the life-giving powers of the waters and the richness of that dead-looking, ash-appcarlng soli. Cash Valley is well named, Judging from the rich bnrdens that were waving and ripening on its bosom a few weeks ago. Ogden was suffering from sunstroke on the morning of my arrival. The ther mometers signaled 96 In the shade, and I was glad when the long and heavy train began to climb up the steep giade Into cooler, dryer atmosphere. They told me times were rather hard In Ogden, with money at 10 per cent at the lowest, and gilt-edged security at that. At the foot of the moun tains over which the Overland Flyer of the Union Pacific must climb belore Denver is reached a London and Liverpool fruit ex- picss was side-tracked. Large streamors designated this latest rail 'enterprise, which, though It bo freight, has right of way ahead of some expresses. It camo puffing up hill closo behind, winding in and out of the cuts and defiles at highest speed. A few miles from the summit the feed pipe of one of the locomotives hauling the flyer collapsed, and then the nearness of the rail companion was appreciated. It gave us a push to the top of the mountain, whore behind a single engine we ran down into Wyoming's sandy, bunch-grassed, yellow-flowered plain. Through long cheerless wastes, past patches of parched grazing lands, the swift train sped over a level and cloe-tied road bed into a land of wind-turned sand hills, barren but fantastic, ileie, like on the roadway further north, the shapes and the colois compelled the eye to gaze and the thoughts to wander in an uninhabited fairy land. At one point a promontory was lounded which upheld a reddish castle shaped formation. To carry nature's de ception further a flagstaff had been planted on a tuiret fashioned by the winds. There it stood like an ancient fortress guaiding a steel tracked gate way. For, hours the train sped through these, enchanting .but desolate, dunes of shifting, variegated sand. There was no life, and In the pictures wrought by the imagination there was no death either. Long before reaching Denvecthe mall-carrying coaches were uncoupled and attached to a speedy locomotive. These were sent on ahead with their secret and silent mes sengers. Thus the malls make the over land journey quicker than the tourist. "Yes, California gold will soon have to be mined in her orange groves and vine yards," said a sombreroed, wiry six-footer who had boarded the train in Idaho. "The gold production of California Is falling off fast. tMontana, Idaho, Colorado and Utah must soon be relied on. And much of the gold, too, must come from the silver to be mined in these mineral bearing spots. I have been prospecting for eight years in Idaho, and I believe it will soon add largely to the nation's store of the yellow metal. Some rich placer prospects nre now being developed there, and in one place the samples yield over $2 per cubic yard, or about $1,000,000 peracre. I, as you see, am a sick man. The salt meats and the canned stuff I have lived on so long have completely upset me, and I'm going to the hot springs to get boiled out. I sold half a gold location the other day to see me through. When I get fixed up I'm going back to Idaho and de velop some claims in a mountain whose quartz leads carry the same" shaped gold as that In the rich placers far below. Yes, I've driven in the stakes anil have the mineral in place. See hr-ie!" And the sick but con fident gold hunter opened a well-worn valise and fondled some rich specimens of free gold. I saw him nfterward in Denver, and the result or the assay had almost made him feel like a well man. Geo. A. Madden. FROM SCYLliA TO" CHAEIBDIS, The pardon of Colonel II. Clay King seems to show that hanging in high life is played out in Tennessee. Boston Herald. Mb. H. Clay Kino is one of the few men who may congratulate themselves on get ting into the penitentiary- Washington Star. Would Governor Buchanan have pardoned the murderer King, if he had been a poor and oDscmo man? This pardon is a disgrace to Tennessee. iVeto Yak bun. Colonkl Kiho's crime was a common mur der, and he should have been treated as a common murderer. In a little while there will be a movement started for his pardon. Indianapolis Journal. In commuting the sentence of Colonel Henry Clay King to imprisonment for life Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has abused executive power and made a mock ery or justice. Philadelphia Record. IirolQXATioir is hot against the Governor, but indignation instead of King will soon die, and King ere long probably will be set free to be killed by some friend or relative of Poston, his victim. Detroit Journal. CoLoaxL H. Clay Kino will not be hanged to-morrow, because his sentence has been commuted to "imprisonment for life." Wonder that means in the case of so influ ential a politician as ColonelKingt Buffalo Express. The commutation of the murderer's sen tence on the sole ground of his social promi nence casts a slur upon the name of Tennes see which years will .not efface and whose deplorable results cannot be overestimated. Baltimore News. . The commutation of the punishment of Colonel H. Clay King may have been well enough on the theory that hang!' g does not prevent murder, but it is a poor piece of business on the theory that it is wrong to hang a Colonel because it hurts bis feelings and the feelings of -his .family. BLLoutt Re public. The Governor of Tennessee has commuted the death sentence of Colonel H. Clay King, who cruelly and in most cowardly fashion murdered another citizen of eqnal promi nence. It is very difficult to hang a red handed murderer in Tennessee when he happens to be what they call in those parts a gentleman. Chicago Timet. KILO CIRCUS AT CHAUTAUQUA, One or the Best Exhibitions of Physical Culture Ever Given. Chautauqua, X. T., Aug. 12. Special Chautauqua's chief event to-day was a mild sort of a circus. It was one of the best ex hibitions of the art of physical culture ever given. This was "the last day of school," and ended in the pupils showing a part of what they had learned. It took over two hours. From children S years old to young ladles and gentlemen wai the range, and every sort of gymnastics was shown. All the work was, first class. It began with a grand entry, and closed with a prize high Jumping contest fiora a springboard, in ,wblch three men were tied for the honor, Dr. Boyce, Mr. Butterworth and Mr. Shear man, nt 8 reet. "There were also exhibitions of Swedish gymnastics, delsartlsm and fenc ing. There were two bouts with the foils, the first between two gentlemen and the second between Miss Dr. Foster, or the Chi cago University, and Miss Bender, of St. Louis. Both the ladies showed themselves quite adepts in the art, and though Dr. Fos ter made the most points. Miss Bender need not feel discouraged. Dr. Foster Is one of those women who are always expected to do well, and her friends never think of compli menting her. There were numerous lectures to-day, but it was too cool for anything so qniet, and by far the greatest crowd saw the gymnastics. "The City of Chicago" was the subject of an illustrated lectuie. Columbus seems to crowd into everything. Miss Jane Mead Welsh lectured this morning on "The Man of the Period," and people were surprised when they arrived at the hall to hear Chris topher Columbus talked about. ,The Girls' Club held its closing meeting this morning, and after a very pleasant hour, bade Its leader, Miss Mary Mather, coodby. Stand ing in a circle and clasping each other's hands the members sang "God be with you till we meet again." The season has been one of great pleasure and profit. Mis Mather holds a large place in the affec tions of the girls, and they look forward to meeting her again with pleasure. Theie was a boat i ace this evening between a crew of six young Indies from the Gym and four young gentlemen. The start was at the gymnasium and,. closo at the dock. The boys won without much trouble. EVN ENGLAND SEES IT. The American Farmer Benefited by Com bined Protection and Reciprocity. London Illustrated News. The Farmers' Alliance and Labor party, although ambitious to play the role of a third party holding the balance fairly be tween its two gigantic rivals, is, even at this ear.y stage, threatened with disintegration In Kansas to say nothing of other 8tates. The truth is that the McKlnley bill has cut the ground from undor the feet of the Farm ers' Alliance. Prior to that bill the agricul tural interests throughout the country, wore discontented and justly so. They perceived that under a recline of protection the agricul turists were denied the advantages secured to tne manufacturing interests. The Mc Klnley bill benefited the agriculturists by protective duties, which gave American agriculturists the monopoly of the Ameri can market, and, secondly, by opening up new markets for American food supplies under the reciprocity clauses of the new tariff. The real grievances under which the agriculturists groaned having been in a great degree removed, the raison d'etre of the Farmers' Alliance party no longer ex ists. It Is possible that this pat ty may drag on a painful existence as an organization of "cranks," but all that was good and vital In it has withdrawn. DENVEE'S HUGE TASK IS BONE. The City Entertains a Number of Strangers Equaling Its Own Popalatlon. Denver. Aug. 12. The Knights are leaving town rapidly, some to go home and others to make tours or the State. There are enough remaining, however, to make the cltv ex tremely lively. It is estimated that 105,500 visitors were in Denver lrom outside during the week. There were probably 30,000 or 40, 000 Stato residents in town. During the week V Denver took care of a crowd of poople equal to its own population, uvor suu.uuu nieces or baggage were handled and as many pack ages. The Pullman coaches handled 600 cars. The Knights Templar Grand Encampment finished the work of the Twenty-fifth Tri ennial Conclave and adjourned to-clav alter having installed the newly-elected officers. Grand. Master McCurdy made tne fpllowlng additional appointments: Sir Iter. Joseph McGrath, D. D.; Illinois, Prelate; Sir William H. Mellish, Ohio, Grand Standard Bearer; Sir George Cooner. Tennessee, Grand Sword Bearer: Sir H. M. Orahoo I, Colorado, Grand Warden; Sir John A. Sloan, Missouri, Grand Captain of the Guard. CBESPO STILL VICTORIOUS. Ttarrancas, In Venezuela, Is Taken After Two Bloody Battles. Trinidad, W. I., Aug. 12. Barrancas, on the Orinoco, was captured by the Govern ment troops after a desperate light Wednes day. During the engagement General Val dez, in command of legalists, received a mortal wound. The Crespists retired In good order and wore reorganized by General Dnchurne. They advanced on Barrancas this morning and took the town by assault. The fighting was of the most bloodthirsty character and the opposing t loops were fre quently engaged band to hnml, using ma chete and bayonet and their rifles as clubs. The losses on both sides woie heavy, but the exact number killed and wounded is not known yet. A legalist force, estimated at 4.000 men of nil aims, is advancing rapidly on Ciudad, Bolivar and Solidad, and another bloody fight is expected at any time. A RESULT OF THE L0ITEEY LAW. Postofflce Revenues at New Orleans Cat Down 8103,000 Per Annum. New Orleans, Aug. 12. The strict enforce ment of the anti-lottery law and tho conse quent exclusion of lottery matter from the mails has l educed tho revenues of the post office $103,000 per annum. Last month the leceipts from money or ders, postal notes, etc, fell materially be low the amount of the salaries In thn de partment. The result has been that Post master Eaton has received Instructions from the Postmaster General to reduce the salaries of all clerks in that division. .S DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. filrs. Snsan J. Shannon. Mrs. Snsan J. Shannon, wife of J5r. Sam uel F. Shannon, of Denver, died at her parents' home. In Sewlckley, yesterday morning. Mrs. Shannon was taken sick about four months ago at her home in Denver. When she realized that her ailment baflled the physicians she expressed a de sire to come to the nome or her cMldliood. where fiarents. sisters and brothers administered nitn oWnc; hands to all her wants. bhe was the daughter or 11. I. Murdoch, of the United Presby terian, and leaves two children. Sirs. Lafayette liackns, Columbus. Mrs. Lafayette Backus, of Columbus, died aU Old Point Comfort Wednesday. Mrs. Backus was rich and devoted all her time to charity. 11 or maiden name was Harriet Denlg. She was the youngest or the ten children ot Mr. ami Mrs. George Denlg, and went to Columbus In 1S4I with her parents, bhe was born In McConnellsburg. I'a., in 1832. Mrs. Backus married Laiarette Backus In 1816. Three children were born to them, all of whom are living. Obitnury Notes. Scteiuan Pacha, Governor of Bagdad, Is dead. George Du Hamel, Commissioner of Crown Lands In the Mercier Government, Is dead at Montreal, Joseph i, Soloiion, one or the proprietors of the lilngnam House in Philadelphia, died Thurs day lrom cancer of the stomach. He was S3 years old. Pbof. David B. Bill, song writer and cam paign poet, died at Cumberland. B. I.. Thursday. lie was 51 years old. He was born in Eastern Con necticut, and served through tho Civil War. William H. Pattee, aged 63. a veteran marine artist, died Wednesday at Bath, Me. -For 40 years he had been a leading draughtsman. He had made models of 700 steamers and vessels. Benjamin G, Clabke, of New York, Is dead In Antwerp, Belgium. Mr. Clarke was President of the Thomas Iron Companv and a member of the Board of Directors of the JJelaware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. Hugh Kiddle, Chairman of tbt Executive Com mittee of the Chicago, Bock Island and Paclao Hallway Company, and ex-President uf that cor poration, died Thursday night at his home of heart disease. He wasexactly 70 years orsge. Rev. Dr. P. s. Davis, or Chambershurg, a lead ing minister of the Reformed Church, aged 63 years, died at Cincinnati Thursday. He was the son of Ellas P. Davis, a member of Congress, and was Editor of the Reformed Messenger at Philadel phia. Mas. Mat Wallace, wife of George W. La more,' died at ber borne la New Castle yesterday evening, aged 27 years. The deceased was a daughter or the Ute Dr. James J. Wallace and was the only sister or William U. Wallace. Lawrence county's Republican nominee for law Judge. WHILE YOU BREAKFAST Ton Can Bead What Tour Friends Are Do 'lng la and Ont or Town Donald Mltohell in a Pittsburg Garden 1 Plttsbnrger on Metropolitan Street Car Manners. Invitations were received to-day ior a reception to be given by Mr. ana Mrs. W. A. Bunting, of Ben Venue Place, in honor of their daughter, who was married on Thurs day to Mr. S. Clark Dangherty, of Jeannette. The reception will be given August 19, which will be the date of the return of Mr. and Mrs. ngherty from their wedding trip. Perhaps it is not generally known in Pittsburg that it was Donald Mitchell, the essayist and writer of Action, who laid out the beautiful lawn and grounds surrounding Mr. Charles J. Clarke's house on Forbes street, Oakland. Apart from this there is an intrinsic interest; for Mr. Mitchell, who, they say, is as good a landscape gar dener as a story teller, has done his work well; and many andible comments and com plimentary remarks can be heard about it frdm the varions passersby. Thanks to Mr. Clarke's low fence, a full view may be had of the entire gronnds; and certainly the pub lic's appreciation should be an exceeding re ward tor the owner's generosity in sharing his pleasures. Perhaps members of the Caledonian Society in Pittsburg will be glad to have the opportunity of lending a helping hand to the last of Robert Burns' diicct posterity. Mr. Robert Burns Hutchinson, who is now in Chicago, fell a victim of footpads some time ago, and is now lying In a semi-unconscious stato at his home, where there is a wife and infant son, who have nothing to support them since his exertions in their bebalt have ceased. Mr. Hutchinson was an invalid in hi native country of Scotland, and a short whiio ago sought America's kinder climate, only to fall into a worse fate. Friends are stirring a little in his behalf in Scotland, and one who takes a leading interest is Mr. John Mulr, editor of the Annual Burns Chronicle, of Abbottsford Place, Glasgow. A laby, just home from New York, is eagerly upholding the merits of her native Pittsburg. New Tork gentlemen, according to her assertion, are not gentlemen at all, and especially not in the street cars. Here she gives a rub to the cars, which might go to school in Pittsburg and learn something to thoir advantage. It is not so much that men will not rive no their seats to a lady standing In a New York car as that they will not in the least discommode themselves, by crowding a little, to accommodate her with a seat also. Nevertheless some taps are told of almost exaggerated politeness that might be termed chivalrous kindness on the part of New York workingmen. One young man seeing a lady separated from her friend who sat at his side, folded ud the paper he was reading, got together his belongings and insisted upon an ex change of seats. All of which, moie than a nice instinct to be kind to a woman, showed that this yonng man understood the depri vations undergone by a female tongue when another familiar one wa3 separated by the breadth of a street car. Social Chatter. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Galleuek, of McKee place, Oakland, with their young son and nurse, are at homo again, after paying a visit of some duration to Mrs. Gaflehor's father. Dr. Potter, of Frederictown, O. Mrs. Galleher Is related to Bliss Mattie D. Fergu son, the popular young actress, well known in Pittsburg first, as the leading woman in Mr. Scanlan's company and afterward in a coqnettisli soubrette role in "Mr. Wilkin son's Widows" company. Miss Blanche IIazlett, of Oakland, left last night for Philadelphia, where she will be the .guest of Miss Nellie McGIynn, a young lady known In Pittsburg through the many visits she has paid here. Miss II az lett will proceed to Atlantic Citv on Mon day with her father, Mr. John Hazlett, of tho Leader, who expects to join his danghter in Philadelphia on Sunday. Their head quarters will be at Congress Hall. Mas. Looan, of Parnassus, and Mrs. Hill, wife of the Rev. Mr. Hill, of the Parnassus Presbyterian Chnich, aie Joint tenants of a pretty Chautauqua cottage, where they are spending the summer. Mrs. Logan has Masters John and William Wilson, ber young nephews, nnd sons of the treasurer of the Chnniauqua Lake Ice Company, visiting at her cottage. Uncle" Sav has been disseminating Infor mation at regularly recurring intervals con cornins the whereabouts of Mr. A. B. Wig ley and his biide, who was Miss Louise Greene, formerly of Pittsburg. Their very last lialtin mace was tne Cataract House. jNiagara Falls. The bridal peiogrinatinns Will UUb 1VUU fclJUUl JIUU1QHBLU UU .IX CCUICIU- ber 1. ' Williah Roskbkuo, Esq., of tbe Bank of Pittsburg, is out of town enjoying a tonr or the Eastern cities and several of the fashion able watering places. He had contemplated a European tour, but Anally decided not to cross the ocean until 1S93, and in thelhean timo become better acquainted than ever with his own native sod. The Guvasuta family, with Mr. George F. Denniston, of Ben Venne Place, returned home on Wednesday from Atlantic City. The following remaining members of the party, Mr. Denniston, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Amnion, Miss Robb and Miss Edith Dennis ton intend to icmain until later in the season. Miss Eliset Grfj is home from Lake wood, where she had been tne guest of her aunt, Mrs. Thomas GratT, who has a cottage there, and. as a hostess, is one of Pittsburg's most popular women at the resort. Miss Graff remains a few days in Sewicklevand then intends to go on (o the mountains. A Yoirxo ndy from Pittsburg, a missionary in Japan, writes from that country of the wonderful interest being taken about our coming election. There seems to be a lean ing toward President Harrison, in spite Of Mr. Cleveland's great baby Ruth, whose fame has crossed the sea to Toklo. Mas. Youno, of Parnassus, formerly Mrs. John MarConnell, wife of the KeWMr. Mnc Connell, pastor of the Lawrenceville Pres byterian Church, has the Rev. Mr. Shields, her father, and her brother visiting with her at the present time. Mrs. Frederick G. Frickb has returned from New York, where she spent a few davs of last week, with her sister, Mrs. D. P. Black, then on her way with a party to Block Island. Mrs. Black is expected home some time next week. Mrs. CnRiSTOFBFa L. Maofe, Mrs. Joshua Rhodes and the Misses Rhodes nre a party of l'ittscurgcrs now at tne TiiornayKe, Jamestown, R. I., where they will be Joined by the men of their respective families some time next week. Mr. Herbert W. Smith Is "keeping house" for the D. Herbert Uostetter family, during their aDsence In Newport, and busily en gages himself these warm days, in an en deavor to occupy the house from cellar to garret. A toitr among friends at Oil Cliy, Tltus ville and thesurronndin: country side occu pied the early part of the summer lor Miss Emily Fox, or Oakland, who returned to town a few days ago. Miss Annie Lawman, of Ben Venue Place, is visiting in the mountains, and Mrs. Law man is making a short stav in Sewlckley; so that tbe bouse, on Maria Poe avenue, is tem porarily closed. Mrs. Soribner and her danghter, Miss Jen nie Scrlbner, of the American House, Pitts burg, aie at their country house in Brook ville, Jefferson county, this State. Mrs. W. A. Maole, of Emllv nnd Halket streets, Oakland, Is with her mother at an Eastern Pennsylvania lake resort, where Mr". Leeper owns a cottage. Miss Maud WoOD,of McKeesport, retnrnod home yesterday Irom a visit to Miss Laura Hnrrell, a charming young lady of McKee Place, Oakland Mrs. J. P. Andrews, of Dinwiddle street, has gone to Atlantic City tospend tbe re mainder of tbe summer. Mr. Edward Nisbett, of Millvale avenue, is away on a Ashing excursion with a club of young men friends. Other holiday seekers bonnd for Atlantic City to-day are Dr. and Mrs. Jennings, of Oakland. Mr. and MR3.W. S. ARTEBand their family, of Marchand street, East End. are out of tonn. Miss Annie Spier, of Millvale avenue. Ben Venue Place, is visiting friends in Balti more. Mr. Johnston, of Ben Venueplace, and bis two young sons are sojourning at Niagara Falls. Miss Adelaide Mellier Nevtn, of the Leader, will leave this evening for the sea side. Mrs. Thomas Winans and a party of 18 will leave (or Atlantic City to-day. Mr. Palmer, of South Highland avenue, Is spending the vacation In tbe East. Mas. Cacilia Erenslsr, of Lawrenceville, will go to-day to Atlantic City. Mr. Ludwio Geosse Is home from a short vacation In New York. Mb. Thomas J. Exenan, Jr., is visiting; At lantio City. Another Feather In His Cap. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. .Canada has backed down. Another, diplo matic victory for the Harrison administration! CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. New York has 4,000 Indians. Coal sold for $9 a ton in Hartford ii 1828. Twenty-eight thousand patents wei granted last year. Elizabeth, N. J., has now one saloo for every 110 persons there. The game of backgammon was inveate Dy Palamedes, a Greek, about 1224. According to Indian tradition Baddh began his revelations at the age of 35. Six million dollars are invested in th manufacture ot dynamite in the Unitet States. A man in Indiana has a plan for revo lutionizing naval warfare by building India rubber ships. Kentucky's name is derived fron Eentuckee, an Indian name, meaning "thi head of a river." Of 200,000 women working at 100 differ ent trades in New York City 137,000 suppor their husbands. The "Marco Bozzaris," the poem bj by which Halleck is best known, appeared when he was 37. Mississippi is from the Indian Meesyee dee, meaning not the "father of waters," bu "the great water." The Krupp works of Essen contain 5.642 furnaces. These consume 1,666 tons ol coal and coke dally. The Church of "the Pilgrims in Brook, lvn is reported to have a piece of the Ply mouth Bock in its wall. The color of the shark's eg? is black, of leathery texture, thin, tough and in form similar to a handbarrow. The art of stereotyping was invented by a Frenchman. Didot, in 1733, and was first bronght to America in 1813. The tallest chimney in the world is at Fort Dundas, Scotland. It la 451 feet to its cope stone from tho ground. , A Paris physician is authority for th statement that 10 people are annually pre pared for burial while still alive. The latest "true story" is that a bolt of lightning drew all the nails from a man's shoes In a Connecticut town without hurt ing him. The spe?d of the fastest railway is not much more than half that of the golden eairle's flight. The bird often covers 140 miles an hour. The Greek Government has voted the sum of 300,000 drachms to be expended oa the reproduction of antique works of art for the World's Fair. A letter addressed "Charles Smith, K. Pan," didn't bother the Boston postmaster a little bit. He sent it right onto its desti nation. Cape Ann. The cocoon of a well fed silkworm, it is said, will often yield a thread 1,000 yards long, and one has been produced which con tained I.CDj yards. Ducks fly at a speed of SO miles an hour, and with the wind, when it is brisk, thevhave been known to attain a velocity of 2 miles a minute. Colorado is named for the Bio Colorado. The name is of Spanish origin, and means "ruddy" or "red," referring to the color of the water of that river. Mineralogists now exploring Northern Thibet claim to have discovered valuable mines of gold and many varieties of the richest precious stones. A hunting Horn in Limoges enamel, made In 1530, and which is believed to have formerly belonged to norace Walpole, was -sold recently for 6,300 guineas. ' The silver dollars of 1704, 1838, 18JJ9, 1851 and 1852 are worth $25 each, while that of 1853 is valued at $15. Silver half dollars tot 1796 and 1797 are worth $25 each. A nephew of Percy Bysshe Shelley, thp novelist and poet, Is reported to live in Brunswick, Ga, He celebrated his 100th. birthday anniversary on Friday. A tree near Jackson, Miss., died about a month after a crowd had nsed it for lynch ing pnrposes. and the people are gravely theorizing the why and wherefore. An impulsive Chilean has been sen tenced to 90 days' imprisonment for kissing a. voung woman, in the Eiaza of Valparaiso without first obtaining her'consenC A will recently probated in the Surro gate's court at Albany contains this clause: "To mv son Simeon I give the sum of 50 cents for the trouble he has taken to ill treat me." A New Yorker has made a clock from 34,000 pieces of wood, comprising over 300 varieties. For 15 years he has had sailors bringing nim rare woods from every quarter of tbe globe. Appropos of the alleged discovery of Noah's ark on the top of Mount Ararat, it is reported that Colonel Ealazko, a Knssian engineer, who made tho ascent in 1850, found no ark there. One of tbe men who rode through the terrible charge at Balaklva without paying his life as the forfeit is Thomas Morley, who is employed in the War Department at Washington. The Grand Trunk Bailway men are all being vaccinated at tbe company's expense, against the possible spread or disease con tracted from the hordes of emigrants which tho company handles. William Brooks, a Laguna Beach, CaL, lad, is 7 years old and weighs 96 rounds. It is claimed that he can pick up a 50-pound sack of flour in each hnnd and tip over a barrel of sugar with one band. Warrenton county, Ga., ha? quite a curiosity In the shape of a watermelon vine. When the plant came up it bid fair to bring forth an abundant yield, bnt instead of growing melons It due forth a luxuriant growth of flowers. A gold Vermont dubloon is worth $200, and a Vermont silver half dollar will fetch $100. The Massachusetts cent of 1783 is val ued at $10. Washington silver pieces ot 1793, bearing the but and name of G. Washing ton, will retell soo earn. The Glasgow Herald makes the graceful acknowledgment at the head of its column of humor that "fully one-haK the humorous sayings we hear come from America, and of the other half fully 50 per cent should be ac credited to that country." Wonderful men of memory were Picus of Miranaola, Scaliger, Anglos Polltlanus, Petrarca and Thomas of Aquino, of whom Kant said that they carried with them as material for scientific exploits, a cargo of books which 100 camels could not transport. PIROUETTES FROM rCCK. "I can't work without inspiration," said the Poet. -And L" observed the Undertaker, "am qnite as badly off. I cannot work without expiration." Elder Berry Joblots mortified his wife ' terribly at church yesterday. Mrs. Berry-How wai that? Elder Berrr He aiked the usher to pnt Mradow for a call at 12:30. A NICE SUMMER BESOBT. On Greenland's icy mountains, That'a where I want to be. , This weather, when the mercury Abides at ninety-three. For some sweet maiden Eskimo I'd swap Bess. ell or Cora, And at her dadilv's Igloo gate We'd study the Aurora. Von Schribel I just wish to leave thoja few short atorles with the editor. What is cnato marj? I've never done any work for the papers before. , ... Office Boy-Well, lt' the general cuitom to leave 'em. an' then come back In a day or two aa get 'em. A LESSON pr GEOOBAPrrr. "How far is it around the world?" In girlish Innocence asked he. Ah. I will measure It," said be. "iryou'U permit me, love, to see." Then when his strong right arm he'd place. Around her waist so small and trim. He found it wasn't very far For she was all the world to him. "Dyspepsia has made old Washington Pye the most uncomfortable impossible man to get along with that I ever saw." Is that so?" 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