THE PITTSBURG JDISPATOH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 1893. WIjeBtgpfclj. ESTABLISHED TEBBDARY Vol. tl. No. lOi-Entcred at Pittsburg Postofflce November, JSS7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE, BOOM 76. TRIBUNE BUILDIN G, NEW YORK. where com plete flies of THE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of TTIE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made w eloome. THE DISPATCH Is regularly on sale at Bren tano's, 5 Union Panare. New Yorfc, and J7 Ave de I'Opera. raris. France, where anyone who has bsen disappointed at a hotel news stand can ob tain it. TEKM8 OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGK FKEE IN THE UXITEO STATES. DAItT Dispatch. One Year 18 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 1 00 Dailt Dispatch, OneMonth 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 yew.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday.Jm'ths. 2 50 Daily Dispatch, Including banday.l month SO SCXDAY DlTATCH. One Year J.'O WIKKLY Dispatch. One Year 115 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per week. riTT-RCHO. WEDNESDAY. AUOUST24. !-. TWELVE PAGES THE SIDEWALK COMPROMISE. The arrangement by which grocers throuahout the city are to be allowed to display fruits and vegetables on three feet of the sidewalk until October Is a conces sion which may be regarded with moderate approval. But with that concession made it is somewhat surprising to learn that an ordinance is to be introduced into Coun c Is giving the grocers more privileges. It certainly seem that the members of that very useful 'business ought to be sat isfied with the present arrangement. The purpose for which sidewalks are estab lished is very clear. They are made a part of the public highway for the passage of the pedestrian public. There is no color in law for the claim that they are to be used for the sale and display of any class of goods. If the exigencies of the grocery business induce the public to give up one-fourth to one-half of its passage way for the benefit of their purveyors that interest should certainly be satisfied with the concession. Besides which it is worth suggesting fhat such an ordinance might not be worth the trouble of passage. It has been de cided again and again that no legislative power can devote the public highway or any part of it to private business. Any grant in a street or on a roadway, canal or railroad, must have a public use to make it effective. Councils have no more au thority to grant the grocery trade perma nent privileges on the sidewalk than they have to let a rolling mill firm set up a train of rolls in H13 middle of Liberty street We do not think anyone desires to need lessly obstruct the commission merchants or grocers in the prosecution of their busi ness. But those interests should not, on the other hand, demand privileges which prevent the free use of the public high way. If their wagons found the roadways blockaded they would be very apt to pro test; and they should remember that the rights of pedestrians in the streets are Just as clear as those of vehicles. A GOOD TIME POK "VIGILANCE. A rumor appears in yesterday's dis patches that the 'cholera has reached Havre, Hamburg and other European ports, from which there is direct shipping to this country. As a consequence quar antine circles are duly excited, and the telegram says the officials are in hourly communication with President Harrison. Probably the rumor is premature, but it will do no hurt to have the quarantine of ficials put on the qui vive, unless the vigi lance so aroused is transient Nothing is more probable than that before the end of the season it will be wise to exercise a strict quarantine against all European ports. Such precautions may be incon venient in individual cases, but they may also be the means of keeping a disastrous epidemic out of the country. We do not think the time has come to expect a visitation of cholera in this coun try; but there is little question that the time is here to organize the most thorough precautions of sanitation and quarantine against it A COMBINATION'METHOD. A characteristic feature of the combi nation policy is presented by a news re port from Philadelphia that the Heading organization will this fall begin the ex portation of anthracite coal to England. The dispatch which makes this announce ment adds: "The advantage of working up this foreign market is not confined to money to be made directly from such sales. The scheme's great value is that it will, if successful, afford relief from any glut in the market here and will enable the coal combination to hold home prices stiff." It would not be unprecedented if such a course should be taken; nor does it require a prophet to foresee that if it Is done the coal will be sold for export cheaper than to American consumers. It Is not an un usual detail of the combination policy to find the same staple exported at a less price than it is sold for to domestic trade. This has been charged to the tariff; but it is really an unerring symptom of a com bination or monopoly which sustains arbi trary prices at home, but has to meet competition abroad. It has been a fea ture of the Standard Oil monopoly for years, and has appeared heretofore with a slightly changed form in the business of previous anthracite combinations. It will be a peculiar exhibition of the benevolent purposes of this combination that it will undertake to sell coal very cheaply to the foreigners in order to leave Itself free to squeeze domestic consumers. It could increase its domestic trade im mensely by reducing prices and rates to a legitimate margin of profit; but it prefers to let its surplus go to the foreigners even at a loss in order to get back tho loss with usury by charging American consumers double rates. When this takes place our esteemed Philadelphia cotemporaries will have a tough subject to wrestle with in explaining the illustration of the "equali zation" of prices which they declared to be the sole object of that renowned deal. A POSITIVE DISAVOWAL. The Advisory Committee at Homestead energetically denies that it has undertaken to place a boycott on the business of a dealer in meat, milk and ice who furnishes these necessaries to people working in the mills. Chairman Crawford, of the Com mittee, declares not only that they have done nothing of the sort, but that they are opposed to any such methods. This is gratifying. It shows not only respect for law but intelligence. The idea of boy cotting, and the co-ordinate one of a body of men undertaking to dictate whom a merchant shall sell to is distinctly un democratic and un-American. Beyond that it would be extremely futile fr men engaged at Homestead to tell a merchant that he must cut off his paying customers. It is no more than justice to give that body the benefit of their distinct and positive disavowal of any such foolish ness. FACTS AS ARGUMENTS. Jamestown is a thriving, rapidly-growing little place in the southwestern corner of New York State. Its prosperity is almost entirely and directly due to pro tected industries. The latest achievement of this center of American activity Is its provision of a site for a large manufactur ing firm emigrating from Huddersfield; Yorkshire, England. This firm has been employing twelve hundred operatives ,in the manufacture of worsteds, woolens, ladles' mantle cloths, rugs, shawl9, silk yarns and silk and mohair plushes. Pre vious to the passage of the McKinley bill according to one of the partners the concern was doing "a million dollars' worth of business a year" with this coun try and "making money freely." The two years immediately preceding th e pro tective bill were exceptionally good ones, and ninety per cent of the firm's commerce was with the United States. Directly after the bill came into action the whole of this trade was practically abolished. The partners saw the necessity of making a radical change to preserve their business. One of them came to this country and, after numerous inquiries, made an ar rangement to migrate from Huddersfield to Jamestown. A building is already in process of erection that will contain em ployment for four hundred operatives, and It is eventually to be added to until work will be found for more hands than were engaged at the English establish ment Among other facts learned by the inves tigator are many that have a very practical bearing on the issue of this campaign. He emphatically asserts that noth ing but a Protective policy, such as that now In vogue, could keep the standard of wages in his business from fifty to a hundred per cent higher here than it is in England. He maintains fur ther Uhat the cost of living differs very little for the operatives in the two coun tries, while the vastly superior comforts attainable here do far more than compen sate for such very slight excess as is to be found in the cost of rent in America. He says: "Free trade in this country, or a material reduction of the present tariff, is as sure to lower the rates of wages as the sun is to rise to-morrow." An industry of this kind is not carried across the seas some three thousand miles just for the fun of the thing. It is brought here because that is the only way in which the largest market in the world can be reached. Home ties are uprooted and old associa tions are disregarded because business success demands (hat they shall be. The transfer has not been undertaken without serious consideration as to the probabili ties of the elections in November, and a decision that victory for the anti-Protective policy is a practical impossibility. Such testimony as this and the shutting down and migration of Welsh tin plate mills Is especially valuable, because it comes from those who would seek if pos sible to bear witness for the other side. These are stern incontrovertible facts all arguing on behalf of the value of Protec tion. And it is such arguments as these, sent up and down the land and under stood of the people, which must insure a continuance of the patriotic policy of es tablishing and maintaining American in dustrial independence. THEIR OWN MEDICINE. It is learned from Ottawa that the news of the President's proclamation enforcing discrimination aeainst Canadian vessels in the Sault Ste. Marie was received "with surprise and indignation" at the Cana dian capital. Naturally, the individual who suffers from the action of the lex talionis is al ways surprised and indignant what is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander In the opinion of the gander. The President very wisely confined the retaliation to exactly the same sort of measures as those which Canada has been enforcing against us. He was not misled into dragging in the railway question for the benefit of the trunk lines. It is there fore very amusing to observe how the Canadian treaders or other people's toes cry out when their own - corns are scrunched. It is reported that some of the Cana dians are urging their government to build a canal at the Sault through Cana dian territory. That Canada has a per fect right to do. If she does it, it will only emphasize the necessity for the United States Government; on its side to build canals connecting the lakes with the rivers and with the ocean through its own territory. A QUESTIONABLE FAMINE. In connection with the railroad strike at Buffalo the Philadelphia Inquirer asserts: "If reports be true, there is more or less of a meat famine in nearly every town of interior Pennsylvania and New York," which Is stated to be caused by the block ade of the railroads at Buffalo through the strike. If such is the case it is a graver indict ment of our commercial system than of the Buffalo strikers. There are other methods of communication with Pennsyl vania and New York. If our commerce has not adaptability enough to seek to carry supplies over the routes that are open, its intelligence should be promptly set down among the mmus quantities. We have been under the impression that the Pennsylvania Railroad transports a con siderable amount of beef, live or dead, which ought to keep Pennsylvania and New York from starving for the present at least Moreover, the interior towns, where this1 famine is alleged to exist, ought to be most independent of the Western meat supplies. Everyone of them is surrounded by regions that should possess live stock enough to feed their people in an emergency. Are we to" under stand that the process of favoring Western shippers has been pushed to such an extent that agricultural Pennsylvania and New York have no longer any cattle to furnish meat to the interior towns? We suspect that this meat famine is a famine of the imagination and not of the stomach. x . The foundations of the Iron Hall may be all right, but there seems a good deal of.evi denee as to the rottenness of the higher members of Its tnperatrnctnre. Theee is a great deal, to be learnt as to the art of teaching:. sfcuf.the Allegheny county teachers realize it. FrvB employes of J. O. Smith, a con tractor rHrtford City. Ind.. were rooentlv killed In an accident at his glass works. J Four were married. And to each -of the widows Mr. Smith gave $1,000, besides pav ing all funeral expense and plaoing their names on the pay rolls, and this although the Coroner rendered a verdict that the deaths were due to an nnforseen and un avoidable accident. Employers of this stamp are worthy of all publio respect, and are little likely to be troubled by differ ences with their men while such a consider ate spirit is shown. Kaiser Wixheui has not time to re duce the length of service In his army. Of course peace preservation demands the pres ence of well trained veterans. Gladstone's Cabinet can rest seenre of quarters for the winter, as Parliament is not to meet till February. , A Chinese official is said to have been sent to this country for the purpose of fight ing: the exclusion bill In the couits. The measure is so loosely framed and ha "so many features or doubtful constitutionality; that the Celestials have some chance of up setting it. MoKinxet is In such great demand as a campaign orator that his work cannot fail to be remembered In bis favor four years from now. It is not the miners alone, but the law abiding citizens as well, that require guard ians in Tennessee. If there be any inhabitants on Mars they have probably had years enough of experi ence as a race to enable them to dispense with green goods dealers. But on this eai th the fools still survive in large numbers, and of course the knaves are here to fatten on them. Bbaddock citizens may be thankful for a threatened diphtheria epldomic if it re sult in a lasting reform of insanitary con ditions. Ocean greyhounds break one another's record without the assistance of pneumatic tires. These is no more reckless and disastrous" enemy to the cause of labor than the striker who Indulges in train wreoking, personal violence, destruction of property or other lawlessness In a pitiably misguided effort to enforce bis demands. Governor Botd, of Nebraska, having refused a lenominatton, His party's hopes must be buoyed up by another standard bearer. Man's main objection to woman's sus penders is that they do not suspend. From all accounts the New York militia men are making every use of their visit to Buffalo to get in as much bayonet practice as possible, and they find that tbelr argu ment Is pointed enough to secure a doubter's conviction where other efforts fall. " It is much to be regretted'that none of this year's national platforms contain a plank condemning the incendiary oil can evil. So the Pittsburg pedestrian is not to own the sidewalks after all. The Superintendent of the Lighthouse Board is tr lng to get someone to sum up the number meant by "some" 37 lights on the Sault Ste. Marie provided lor in the Sun dry Civil BilL Stevenson's record is giving him even more trouble than the pronunciation of his first name has given the public The Workhouse is apparently a delight ful place to escape from. If Cleveland would show one-tenth of the inclination to turnover a new leaf in his political beliefs that he does in his letter writing, there might be a hope for his re form. Editor Dana has completely supers seded Editor Watterson as the interpreter of the Democratic platform. A CAMPAIGN magnate for being magnetic. is all the better Victoria can never be in want of occu pation while she has grandchildren to marry off. Of all inveterate match-makers she seems to be the most enthusiastic COSMOPOLITAN CULLINGS. Prince Bismarck's favorite son is said not to be the elder. Count Herbert, but the youngor. Count William, who is President or the Council of Hanover. John A. Barnes, onr new Consul to Chemnitz, was graduated at Tjnlon College in 1861. He made a gallant record in the army. He has since been engaged in busi ness In Decatur, III. Horace Traubel, of Camdea, N. J., has appealed to the friends of the late Walt Whitman all over the world for a fund wherewith to preserve bis cottage as a me morial to the dead poet. Mbs. Coea E Thomas, of Hanover, Pa,, who is visiting her mother at Liberty, Md., is SO years or age, 55 .inches in height, 88 inches around the waist, and weighs bu,t 39 pounds. In all her actions and habits she is still a child. Beference has frequently been made of late to the rapid way in which the Prince of Wales was aging. Since the death of his son it has affected his appearance still more and robbed him of what had b een lef t of the once peculiarly healthful hue of his com plexion. Lord Eerschell, the new. Chancellor of Great Britain, and incumbent o' that of fice under Gladstone's last administration before this, is not directly descended from the great astronomers who bore that name, but Is of the same family. The Herschells are of German origin. Among 20 family portraits bequeathed to the English National Gallery by Marianne Augusta, Lady Hamilton, Is a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Lady Coot burn and her children and another of Mrs. Slddons, the name of the painter and the date 1773 in scribed on the hem of the actress' dress. General Beauregard passed through Tennessee. the other day en route to Yellow Sulphur Springs; and while he was in Bris tol. several men who served under him over SO years ago, at the time he fired on Fort Sumter, called to pav their respects. The General is now 65 years of age, but he is in fine condition physically. Miss Minna Gale, who has been well known for some years as the leading woman of tlie Booth and Barrett Company, is to be married to Archibald CushmanvHayes on Thursday evenlng.Septembor 8, at All Souls' Unitarian. Church, New York. Miss Gale does not intend to leave the stage, though she will act for only three months this season. When Thomas A. Edison1 was a poor, barefooted boy, he lived in Fore Gratiot, Mich. He rigged up, a telegraph line from his own house to a playmate's, who was not very skillful In receiving messages, and would therefor come out of doors and finish the conversation verbally. This was such a reflection on the young genius and his appa ratus that he would resent it vigorously. Always in Some Trouble. Washington SUr. """ There is no denying that the Queen of England hat a hard time. No sooner does the Prince of Wales give her a little rest than Gladstone proceeds to make things un comfortable. Goad Season for a Laugh. Chicago Msll.l A man in San Francisco is laughing him self slowly but surelytto death. He probably read General Field's prediction that the People's Party wonld carry fifteen states. Mew Definition of Sulky. Boston Herald. The sulky is so called because its occupant insists on having the seat all to himself. Hence sulky, obstinate. It-is a very inter esting etymological- evolution. A LOOK ABOUND. "It is true I bavebeen spoken to in regard-to going into a newspaper soheme," remarked Mayor Gourley, "but I have never had any Intention of going into such an enterprise." "I AM about tired out," remarked District Passenger Agent Watt, or the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, yesterday. "There has never been such a season for passenger trafflo in the history of tho road. We have carried at least 25 per cent more people than any summer before, and the season is not over by a month. We have taken in special excursions alone at least 5,000 people to the seashore, and onr picnic business to Idlewild has been over ICO.ono. All the railroads have done an enormous business." "Somewhat brighter for finished iron, but dull as ditch-water on furnace product, and everybody stocked up," is the way Horace D ravo, tho iron broker.gummarizes it. ' The Saturday half-holiday gives you a chance to notice the growth in population of tho towns and villages along the Penn sylvania Railroad, say from Huntingdon to Pittsburg. At every station you see great crowds of people with clean faces and wear ing good clothes. Many of them are city folk out for the day or country folk on their way to the citv. Despite strikes and lock outs Pennsylvania people seem to be con tented and prosperous and in n mood to take an afternoon's pleasuring. The result Is that all sorts of passenger trains are crowded, the aisles are full and platforms arejammed. "Is the present movement in Pittsburg realty a boom, a bubble or a boon?" said I to one of the threwdest of city real estate operators. "It is solid business growth," he repliod, a little hotly. "I hear a good deal of tilk about it be ing a boom and dire predictions are afloat as to the outcome, but It is all rot. That is the way they talkod 20 years ago when the town stood still and watched other places growing. I am in a position to Judje and I base my reasoning on good grounds. My experience is that from 80 to 90 per cent of the buying for the past four years has been with cash or resources equal to cash behind it. It has been done by those who wanted homes or place to do business in. There has been comparatively little mort gaging done, and much of what has been done was Dy people who could take care of all their property easily, but who had other things in which to use money at good ad vantage. "Boomers, as I take it, are fellows who go about with nothing and want to get something for it men who take ten-minute options on 50 acres and run around the cor ner to unload on somebody who has money. Now when you get right down to it you will find but very little of this. There are many classes of substantial purchasers. Some are those who buy lots to build themselves homes, some are those who buy to extend their present premises. Others are buying to open new streets and build new additions to old localities that have been settled for years. Senator FHnn and men of that kind, who have several millions in realty, are not boomers. They are builders and sellers in the most substan tial manner. I have been astonished to see so much ready monev at hand among the .poorer people, but It Is a fact that the tend ency it less every year toward leasing and more toward buying. If this is booming and bubbling, then I do not understand these terms and am willing to be corrected by wiser heads." The want of direct railroad communica tion with Bedford is a marvel, considering the big traffic to that place. No water lu the country is better thought of than Bedford water, while the situation of the springs is in the heart o'f the mott beantiful valley of the Alleghenies, with picturesque mountain, woodland and water scenery on every side. Bedford is only 100 miles from Pittsburg by the old pike. Yet it takes 230 miles or there abouts to reach it from Pittsburg by the Pennsylvania Railroad's only route, via Huntington and Bioad Top. The B. & O. route, though shorter, is not mnoh bettor in point of time. The South Penn road, which, with its $7,000,000 wOrth of work, in defiance of lawand Constitution, lies acomplete ruin, would nave brought Bedford and the sur rounding country within three hours of Pittsburg bv fast running trains. Even now, 27 miles of railroad If built direct from Johnstown wonld answer the same purpose; but in place of that 27 miles, the Plttsburger has to moke a circuit ofneaily 130 miles after passing Johnstown before getting to this famous and much fiequented old sum mer resort. It is not mnch wonder that the people in the neighborhood of Bedford still feel sore over the South Penn fiasco, and are clamorous for a branch to Johnstown. Walter. CHINESE WILL TEST TEE LAW. They Propose to Refuse to Take Out Cer tificates of Residence. Chicago, III., Aug. 23. Sam Moy, who is prominent In the Chinese colony In Chicago, surprised the Government officials by in forming them that orders had been received fiom China not to obey the law requiring Chinese residents to take out jcertificates of residence. He said the Government of China had sent one of its offlcialsto this country to fight the law in the couits. This Minister from the Chinese court was in Chicago a few days ago, he said, and had Informed him and others of the wishes of the Chinese Government. Tne repicsentative from the celestial empire had gone to Washington to sconre the best legal talent to be had and the law would be tested in the United States Supreme Coui r. A test case would be made of the arrest of some Chinamen in Detroit, where they wero held on the charge of i tolatlng the exclusion law passed by the present Congress. In this way the exclusion act and the provision compelling Chinamen to take out certificates of residence would be tested together. Until a decision was rendered, he said, no Chinaman in Chicago would take out a certificate. No officials In Washington are aware of the presence In this city, as reported In the Chicago dispatch, of a representative from the Chinese Government, who is to secure the best legal talent to test the exclusion act. Secretary John W. Foster and Attor ney General Miller had no Information on the subject, and the former said lie doubted the truth of tne leport. At the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Im probability of the proposed action at this time was pointed out from the fact that no test case under the law could possibly arise until the Sth ol May, 1893, as one year after the passage of the act is allowed Chinese residents in which to take out the certifi cates of residence required by the act. A HEW ZASIB0TJND BEC0ED. The City of New York Decreases the Time to Earopi by One Hoar and Mx MInntes, New York, Aug. 23 The Inman Line fur nishes the following: The steamship City of New York was reported passing Brow Head nt 1 p. k. to-dav and subsequently ar rived at Qneenstown, making the official time S davs. 19 hours 57 minute. The dally runs are 391, 167, 474, 46o, 475, 463, 76-total of 2,814 knots an aveiage of 2012 knots per hour. k This makes aiiew record, at it is the best time yet made to tbe east varrt. The best previous time is S days, 21 hours, 3 minutes, made by the steamer Teutonic In October. 1891. Tbe best previous time eastward made by the City of Now York is 5 days. 22 hours, SOmlnntes, in September,' 1891. The City of Paris holds the record for westbound voy ages 6 days, 15 hours, S3 minutes made in July, 1892. TJNEABTHED A HAMMOTH. A Huge Skeleton Found in the Haw In- dlan Reservation. Guthrie, O. T., Aug. 23 While a number of workmen were getting timber on the Kaw Indian reservation north of here they un earthed the bones of some mammoth ani mal. A tusk was found that was 5 feet in length and the largest end was over 3 feet lu circumference. The bone from the knee to the hip Joint was over 5 feet in length, and in tbe center was 23 inches in circumference. Across the haunches tho bones wore over 5 feet and the j I1U9KDIOUTM tlCDl 111 JBIJKtll. AUG BilOlO ton will probably be exhibited at the World's Fair. An Undisputed Fact, Cleveland Leader.) With ail their claiming we believe the .Democrats still concede that Harrison will carry Pennsylvania, ANOTHER SPOT ON MAES. Professor Hall Studies a White Appearance on th North Pole. Washwotoit, Aug. 23. Observations of Mars continue to be made every clear night by the astronomers at the Naval Observa tory In this city, the Industry of Professor Asaph Hall in this direction being zealously emulated by tho other officials at this insti tution. With reference to the results of bis more recent observations. Professor Hall said to-day that the evening of August 18 was, for this latitude, one of the best tor ob servations duringvthe present opposition of Mars, tho atmospheric condition being par ticularly favorable. For a short time, when near the meridian, the linage of Mars was very good, and during an examination of his surface throuzh the great telescope there appeared at the north pole a wide, whlto spot, similar in character to the one hereto fore seen under minute examination at the south pole. According to Prof. Hall's observations the white spot at the north po'e of Mnrs is fainter and not so well defined at the one at the sonth pole, yet the outlines of the former and its white color were distinctly seen. At piesent the new white snot is partly hidden. owing to the position of the planer. Con tinued close observations of this white spot at tho north pole will be made in the same manner and for the same purposes which have governed the examinations of the white spot at the south pole, the theory being that If the newie discovered white spot is snow, influenced and modified as tho other or south spot appears to be, verifica tion of data relating to tne length of Martian days and other Important matters of in terest to astronomers can l made. On the evening of the 18 h Prof. Hall was particularly minute in Inn examinations relative to the theory of bchlaparelti that the surface of Mars was crossed and re crossed with double lines or "canals" at practically mathematical distances and directions, and while the atmospheric con ditions were particularly fpvorablo, and single lilies wore verv well seen, no double lines could be made out. In conseanenco, therefore, of such favorable opportunities for seeing the double lines, the belief on tho part of astionomers at the Naval Observa tory, that none but single lines crossing the lace of Mars exists, grows stionger. & NEW LEGAL BTJLIHG In the Case of the AIIxed-TJp Condition of AfUlrs In the Mrmphls Postofflce. Washikgtoit, Aug. 23. In response to a re quest therefor by the Postmaster General, Attorney General Miller has given an opin ion in the case of James Hill, postmaster at Vicksburs, Miss. The facts in the case are as follows: Under date of June 2, 1891, Mr. Hill was commissioned as postmaster at Vicksburg, his commission, under the pro visions of the statute, to continue until the next session of the Senate and no longer. After the assembling of Congress in Decem ber, 1891, the nomination or Mr. Hill was duly sent to the Senate for consideration by that body. The Senate, however, ad journed without taking any action thereon. Mr. Hill's commission has therefor expired by limitation of the law, thus reatlng a vacancy in the office. Upon this statement of facts the Postmaster General requested an opinion as follows: First The postofflce at Vicksburg having become vacated, as stated, will the responsi bility of the sureties on the official bond of Mr. Hill continue for 60 days under the pro visions of section 3,836, K. a., provided the vacancy Is not supplied during that time? Second, can the sureties law fully psiume possession of the postofflce and government property therein, and depute one of their number or another person as acting post master to perform the duties of the office until a successor is appointed and takes pos slonT Attorney General Miller answers both of the questions in the affirmative. It is stated at tne postofflce department that there have been a number ot cases similar to this, and in each Instance an appointment has always been made within a dav or two after the adjournment of the Senate, or an inspectorof the denartment has been placed in charge of the office. There Is, however, a Judicial opinion rendered in each case. The opinion Is regarded as important, as being contrary to the views heretofore entertained by Postmaster Generals during the past 20 years or more. RETALIATION IS RIGIIT. Iir future treaties with Canada this coun try should damand hostages as a means ot enforcing its rights. Philadelphia Jnquirer. Canada will get a taste of retaliation, and it will take some of the starch out of her abounding impertinence. Baltimore Amer ican. President Hakiuson's talk to Canada has tbe right ring. s Tbe tone is emphatic. Tbe Canadians, of course, will understand that tne President means business New York Ad vertiser. Canada reads over that retaliation proc lamation sorrowfully and longs for four years more of cThomas ,F. Bayard in the American State Department. Cleveland Le'ider. The President is right, and the American people will sustain him in refusing to coun tenance any longer the insincere and dilly dallying policy of the Government at Otta wa. Washington Post. Iris to be hoped there maybe some ex planation of Canada's course in this matter which is moie consistent with her decency and dignity than the obvious one; but it is not easy to Imagine what her explanation can be. Detroit Free Press. The President has turned the first screw in the retallative policy against Canada. It Is not likely that she will desire the dose re peated many times. She will soon discover that this Is a game that two can play at, and may soon conclude to behave herself Toledo Commercial. President Harrison's proclamation of commercial retaliation against Canada fur nishes another illustration, of which the country has already had a number, of the strong regard for American Interests which characterizes this administration. Indian apolis Journal. It is to be hoped that a return to reason will be one of the early events in Canada, and that a conciliatory policy may be main tained which will not be all conciliation on the part of the United States and all impu dence on the part of the doughty British dominion to tbe north. Chicago Matt. For the interests of all concerned it is to be hoped that the Dominion authorities will at once consent to wipe out tbe unjust dis criminating tolls upon vessels carrying freight to ports of the United States. An agreement to do this would no doubt be promptly met by the revocation of the Pres ident's proclamation. Buffalo Inquirer. Working on the same Lines. Baltimore American. The summer girl and the fisherman will botbjudge the season by tbelr catch. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Hon. Edward Bermudez. Edward Bermudez, late Chief Justice of Louisiana, died In New Orleans Monday, aged 60. He came of one of the most distinguished Creole families In Louisiana, his father. Jnachln Bermu dez. belne District Judre there In ante-bellum d-i. Edward Bermudez held the office of District Attor ney for some year, bnt resigned on account of large private practice. In 1830 he was appointed Chief Justice of Louisiana, which position he held until a few months ago. Judge Bermudez has been for years a sufferer from heart disease. He was advised by his phrslctin to Have I. and pent a large portion or his time In France, where lie was well known to the bar of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux, Obltnary Notes. E. Louis Lows. ex-Governor of Maryland, died yesterday at his home In Brooklyn. Marshal DeodobesaFoxseca, the first Presi dent of the Republic of Brazil, Is desd. ' Ex-Uovkbsob Mtbon H. ('LARK died yester day morning In Canandalgua, N. Y. Me was the last Wnlg noml luted aud the first Republican elected in the country. Looii Post, a vetenn or the War of 1811, died at San Diego, CaL, on Sunday, aged 97. For many years he practiced medicine In New York and Chicago. He went to San Diego 23 years ago. Kate Fellowes. the English actress. Is dead, after a long Illness. She retired from the stage on her marriage to Mr. George Way, of London, and hsd since become noted for her cnarltr to tbe the atrical guild. Mrs. Elizabeth Brecutel, owner or the Biechtel, and for 30 years an esteemed resident of Masslllon. (.. died yesterday afternoon, aged 70 yiars. She leaves a family of four daughters and lour sons, all of whom are at present In Masslllon. x-Coujty Commissioner Jeremiah R. Gul DIV died vesterday at his residence near New Ber luivllleaeedTi) rears. He was one of the wealthi linvllleaged Toreln, est citizens in the eastern section of Berks county, and a director of the N atlonal Bank of Boyertown from the time of it organization, IS years ago. JACOB Hxrbine, a prominent farmer of Exeter township, Pa died of a complication of diseases, aged M years. He wis a lane land owner, a Director of the Penn National Bank of Readlnr, Treasurer of tbe Berks County Fire Insurance Company and an officer and director In numerous other organizations. A SEASONABLE BLOSSOM, I the Late Summer Bride, Who Is Now Cheerfully Glinting Forth Blow stairs la Being Imbued With Upstairs Airs Gossip From Here, There and Every where. The cessation in the matrimonial world "ceased" last night with Miss Elizabeth Frew's wedding in the Oakland M. K. Church, to Mr. William PhilllDS, of the East End. Like all early autumn weddings, the nuptial was marked by extreme unostenta tlon; the bride being unattended, and the groom likewise. Invitations hadbeen rather sparsely extended, and altogether a notice able pleasing simplicity was suggested. The bride was attired In a pretty whlto gown, and made a most attractive appearance in the rather severe nature of the weddingpro ceaslon of ushers. Mrs. Frew's house on Forbes street was the scene of a reception after the ceremony, which was performed at 8 o'clock by the pas tor of the church. Only the relatives were pi esent, and they drove to the house at once after the marriage, and tbere congratula tions fell thick and fast on tho newly mar ried pair until thev withdrew and left to take an Eastern train. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips will live on Forbes street in the old residence of the Phillips family, charmingly situated in one of tne most agreeable spots in tbe East End. A returned European traveler, Dr. J. M. Stevenson, was visiting on Monday in the East End, where, until recently, he possessed one of tho most lucrative and fashionable practices of any Pittsburg physician. Last autumn he gave up his profession owing to his health, and left In May with Dr. Roger William' for the Continent where he has been traveling since. Dr. Stevenson has a pronounced penchant for fanoy stock, and owns two farms in Westmoreland county, on which he keeps a lot of finely bred cattle and horses. He reached the farm where he lives last week, going there directly upon arriving in America. He has regained his health. Dr. Williams, his companion, has not returned home, and is not expected for some weeks. One of the most curious effects ot tbe summer season is the dearth it has caused of servant girls. An East End woman has been searching In vain for the past eight weeks without obtaining either a good, bad or indifferent specimen of a domestic. Dar ing this time she advertised on several oc casions in five English and two German daily papers, besides visiting all the intelli gence offices in Pittsburg. Not a single ap plicant turned up until this week, when she bad five aspirant for her housework, all of whom had mst returned from a vacation in the country. Some of the girls are so thrifty that they can affoid to remain all summer away on a holiday. Others prefer to work in a change of scene, and seek farmhouse labor for the pleasure of the country surroundings, and are quite willing to relinquish the comforts of a sub urban'Pittsburg home to indulge in tbe pre vailing craze of being out of town in tbe summer. One insertion of an advertisement in The Dispatch last spring elicited 18 re plies, which stands out strongly in contrast with the experience in advertising mention ed in a foregoing part of this article. The marriage of Miss Busha and Sir. C. Stanley Tolley, correspondingclerk of tho People's National Bank, will be celebrated this evening, tbe nuptial being a home one and.taking place in the bride's home, Bay ard street, Allegheny. The bridal gown will be a picturesque creation of white crepe, lace and ribbons, and tbe bride's favorite flower, a white rose, will form the sole blossoms of the boquet. Tbe Rev. Mr. Wltherspoon has been chosen as officiating clergyman. Another of yesterday's nuptials was the ceremony which united Miss Otllla M. Beck to Mr. HamUton Sheppard, whloh was sol emnized at Mr. Theodore Beck's house, 230 South Pacific avenue. East End. Tne mar riage took place In the parlors at 8 o'clock, with the Bev. David Gaessleasthe presiding divine. The brida was attended by Miss Molllo A. Knoll. The bridal gown was a cream colored India, and the bouquet which the bride carried was com- fiosed of white roses. Miss Knoll wore Ight blue crepe, and carried a handsome bunch or pink roses. The house was ar langed with flowers in a manner befitting the pretty ceremony. Mr. Robert Ross acted as groomsman. The brute and bride groom left last night for the North; their in tention being to make a tour of tho prin cipal Canadian resorts and those of tho Great Lakes. Mr. Sheppard is a well-known young Dnsiness man. Mist Sophia Kennan is to join her sister, Miss Sallio, and Miss Ida Smith in their con templated winter stay in Paris, sailing for there in tbe Friesland on September 7. Miss Kennan will prosecute ber studies In the French language, of which already she has a very good mastery; for, though not generally known, several translations of merit have come trom her pen. Tbe young ladles will not return to America until tbe spring of 1S93. Mr. Thomas Gillespie's family are at this time in Switzerland, with the exception of Miss Gillespie, who is traveling in Ireland and expects to sail from Queenstown on the Servia September 17. Health was the mov ing principle of Mr. Gillespie's trip, and it will be pleasant reading for his friends to learn that already he has been greatly bene fited. Fart of a Pitttbnrg party which left for Block Island, about August 1, will leave there to-day and arrive in Pittsburg on Saturday. Among this contingent are Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and family, Dr. and Mrs. Frank Slocum, Mr and Mrs Berger and Miss McCance. Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Black, of the Boulevard, arrived home last week, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Stanton, of Stanton avenue, the remaining couple in the party have gone off on a tete a tete Jour ney, which will land them In Pittsburg the middle of September. The leading social event of the season, at Massillon, was the marriage at noon, yes terday, of Mr. W. R. Malone, principal of tbe Masslllon High School, at Salt Lake City, to Miss Nellie, eldest daughter of H. A. Wil liams, ex-President of the Massillon Bridge Company. Tbe ceremony took place at the home of tbe bride's parents on East Main street, tbe Rev. A. It. Chapman, of the First M. E. Church, officiating. The wedded cou ple lett this evening on a several weeks' trip to Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Col orado Springs, and other cities, after which they will make their home in Salt Lake City. Social Chatter. A boat excursion up the Monongahela river to Elizabeth Is the agreeable girt of Captain Gould, of the J. M. Gusky to the Society for the Improvement of tbe Poor. Six hundred people, under its care, will make the trip on Friday. Mrs. Margaret Youno, mother-in-law of Mr. Ernest Heinrichs, formerly a well known newspaper man, is Vere from Eng land visiting Mr. and Mrs.Heinrichs at their pretty suburban home in Hazelwood. The Rev. DeWitt Bemhav, pastor of Point Breeze Presbyterian Church, is resting from his clerical duties at Block Island. Rev Robert Meech, rector of Christ Epis copal Cbuich is out of town on a visit to New York City. Dr. William H. Daly, contemplates six weeks' shooting in the West in the autumn. ITJHNED 0V2E 10 ECONOMISTS. Closing Days of the Chautauqaj Assemb'y Cloe at riand. Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 23 Special. At 11 o'clock this morning Tel Sono, a high-bred Japanese lady, well known as a reformer and writer, lectured on "Japanese Customs." She is 17 years old but does not look' more than 30. Slie wore a very neat native cos tume. Her lecture, given in a very quaint style of English, was quite Interesting. At 10 o'clock Mr. Flagler gave a recital of Wag nerian mnslc. At 3 o'clock Mr. Edward T. Lee, clerk of the Senate Committee on Emi gration save a very interesting lecture on "The House at Work.'' The many years Mr. Lee has spent In Washington have given him ample opportnnity for observation, and he gave his audience the benofit of his knowl edge in a very entertaining way. The closing days of the assembly are to be given up to the American Economic Asso ciation, which holds its annual session in the Amphltheater.continulng trom this evening to Friday. The association is composed of several hundred Economists of the first rank, and tbelr work here will interest a great number of Chautauquans. The President Is Francis A. Walker, LL. D.: Vice Presidents, Charles F. Dunbar. LL. D.: William W. Fal woll, LL. D., and Cnrrol D. Wright, A. M.; Secretary, Richard T. Ely, Ph. D.; Treas urer, Frederick B. Hawley, A. B. This oven ing an address was made by Dr. FalwelL The opening speech was In the nature of an Introduction of the work and aims of the society to the people of Chnntauqua. Tho number of hla auditors Indicates that the meetings of the association will be attended by a great many Chautauquans. i CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Uncle Sam has 8,955,812 dwellings. A man in Vermont has an aluminms ' nose. The Isle of Guernsey exacts a tax from all aliens. One thousand American misses us studying art in Paris. The University of Pennsylvania has established a hospital forsick dogs. Sparks from amber and other electrical snbstances were mentioned by Pliny, A. D. 70. In France 8,079 patents were granted for electrical improvements during the past year. A mill owner in Alabama only allows Independent Democrats to fish in his mill pond. i A clock that can talk has been in vented by a watchmaker in Geneva,Swltxer land. The city 'of Aden, in Arabia, has been visited by rain but twice in the last 29 years. Xenophon is supposed to have finished the "Retreat ol tbe Thousand" at about the age or SO. Nearly three-fourths of the fires in the United States last year was the result of the upsetingor explosion of lamps. The people of the United States read and snpport as many newspapers as Eng land, France ana Germany combined. A Kansas newspaper man wrote a com mnnlcation to a rival editor calling him an ass, and then signed it "Yours rraternally." A recent report shows that of 100,174 regular soldiers in the British army serv ing at home, but 12,893 are natives of Ire land. ' A tulip show has been held annually at the Orange Tree Inn, Butley, a small village near Macclesfield, England, for the past 87 years. A number of Brooklyn's wealthy men have raised a fund to build a church in New York where services will be held for deaf mutes. An eminent scientist has discovered that in sbape and general appearance tbs head of a Turk is most like the head of an American. The weeds on the monitor Monadnock, which vessel has been lying for some time past at ths Mare Island dockyard, were found tbe other day to be from 3 to 12 Inches long. Numerous experiments to determine L the best lire-resisting materials for the con struction or doors, proved that wood cov ered with tin resisted the fire better than an Iron door. The seasons nominally and according to the calendar begin as follows: Spring, March 20, at 3 a. jr. ; summer, June 22, 11 p. x. autumn, September 23, 2 r. M.; winter, De cember 21, 8 A. M. An Indiana stone quarry company is having a life size figure of an elephant chis eled out of a solid block of stone. It will be 11 feet high and weigh 30 tons. It is designed for the World's Fair. The latest form of steamship propeller is an English invention. It is designed so that when in motion there is no weight of water on the blades on the rise and tall of the pro peller, due to the pitching of the vessel. An ingenious Frenchman has invented a contrivance for removing the hair by ma chinery. It is said that it operates with as great precision as Dr. Gulllo tin's, and does not remove so muoh of the man with tne hair. Three Roman graves were found by workmen near Hagneau. in Alsace.Germany, a short time ago. In good condition. Each grave contained a Kcman warrior's skele ton, bis arms, armor and many Boman coins. At Colmar a lawyer bequeathed the sum or 100,000 francs to the madhouse in that locality. "I earned this money," said he in his will, "from those who spent their life time in lawsuits. This legacy Is only a restitution." The oldest armchair in the world is the throne once used br Queen Hntafu, who flourished in Egypt 1600 B. C. It is made of ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hardened with age as to appear to be carved from, black marble. Photography has determined the cause of the recent glacial avalanche In the Alps. It was hydraulic pressure beneath and be hind the glacier, produced by masses of ice falling into connecting water above and at a considerable distance. It is not generally known that an orange bit in the exact center by a rifle ball will vanish at once from sight. Such, how. ever, Is the fact. Shooting it through the center, scatters it in such infinitesimal pieces that It is at once lost to sight. Oregon was a name formerly given to an imaginary river of the West. Carver, an American traveler, mentions It in 1763. In describing the river he evidently confound ed it with the Missouri, but the name was finally applied to the present State of that name. Perfectly preserved salt fish, probably 10 000 years old, are found In Nevada, Utah and Arizona, where salt strata are often struck in making excavations 100 yards be neath the surface These flsh resemble the pike and plcKerel. and are wholly unlike the living flsh found in the same region. At tbe recent conversazione of the Royal Society, Dr. Gill projected on the screen a photographic star map, containing' the images of abont 43 000 stars. As every star is a sun, we may infer therefrom some thing concerning the immensity of the scale on which tbe university is established. It is estimated that in the United States the annual expenditure for publio charitable institutions is fully 1125,000,000 and not less than $300,000,000 is invested In buildings and equipments for carrying on the work of these institutions. In this esti mate no account is taken of penitentiaries and Jails. A woman recently made her two hun dred and forty-eighth appearance in a Lon don Police Conrr, accused of being drunk and incapable. She pleaded that she had found it a long time between drinks, having come out of prison on the previous day after a month's confinement. The magistrate took the same view and discharged her. The best boxwood comes irom the Cau casus, hitherto Turkish territory, but taken by Bussia. Since 1372 some or the forests have been closed and others denuded of the tree. At tbat time (1872), In Persia, a wood was discovered similar to tne Turkish or Abaslan boxwood, and as much as 8,000 tons have, in some years, been imported from that country. JLTGHTS INTO rVWYDOM. "Witkins My brother used your medicine two years ago and since then he has used no otber. Dr. Quack Ah I cured Immediately, I presume? Witkins No, he died. Baltimore Sews. Don't fib if you have been a slob And sat down into the pie : Becasse you have an endless Job To prove an alibi. Aew York Sun, "I don't see how a woman can marry a man." remarked Miss Fifty. Well, there's really nothing else to marry," replied Miss Flypp. -Detroit tree Press HA VETO TBTt WITH BIXSELT. The humorist waded into the sea In a bathing suit that was like a sack. And beyond the line of the breakers he Lay lazily floating upon his back. And he said to himself, with a smile. "'Tls plain Tnat honest labor's a thing tbat tells; For an honest Uvlng I've racked mr brain. And here I am 'mong the heavy swells.'' Then after a pause he was heard to say. 'I have lived since youth in one habitation, Bnt It really appears to me to-day That I'm one of the floating population." Hao York Pnst. "What's the mattah. Chappie?" said ChoUy. "You've been keeping to yourself a gweat deaL" l'vebeenglTingmythnetosherry cobblers. " "Learning to make them?" "No. Learning to dwlnk them." Washingto Star. The lobster salad said to the cream: " 'Twas ns that Shakespeare said of! "You are such stuff withont a donbt That dreams are often made of.' " Brooklyn Eagle. "Ah, me valet tells me I'm going to a wedding to-morrow. Miss Van Pelfs to be mar ried to some fellah, you know, bat I calui't think of his confounded name." "Why. old man. you're to marry her yourseir." By Jove, so I in. What a memory you've got." Chicago tfcwi. t 't -
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