THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 180a je 9$rafcjj. ESTABLISH El FEBRUARr 8, 1SI3. Vol. 7. Xo. 6-Enterea t Pittsburg PostofHce Ivcvember, is;, as eecond-class matter. nusrxESS orncc, Cor. SmlthOeld and Diamond Streets. News Eootns and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond fetrect. Sew Dispatch Building. FATEIJN ADVmTISIXQ OFFIfTR. ROOM Tli, TRIHUNF. IICII.DIXG. NEW YORK, where complete file of THE DlsrATClI can always le ieund. THE DISrATrn Hon sale at LEADIXO HOTELS throughout the United States, and at Brentano's, S Union Square, Xcw York, and 17 w enne de 1 Opera. fnrls. Franre. TEIUIS OF TIIE DISPATCH. rflFTAOE FRKF. IN" TnE UNITED STATIS. rn.T Dispatch. One Yew. I 8 00 D-nnr DisrATCH. Three Stpnths 2 00 Daily Dispatch. One .Month 70 Daily Dispatch:, including Sunday, lyear.. 10O0 Daily!) spatcii. Including Sunday, 3 m'ths. S50 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 month 90 SUNDAY DlFPA CH. One Year 2 50 AVlkkly Dispatch. One Year. 1 15 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 31 cents per week, or, Including fcunday Edition, at -Icints per week. Er.MITTAXCES SHOULD ONi.T BEMADE BY CHECK. MO.NLV OUDEli, Olt REGISTERED LETTER. POSTAGE-"nnday Issue and all triple number copies, re: single and double number copies. Ic. J'lTTsBUItG. WEDNESDAY. NOV. 16. 189Z. TWELVE PAGES THE ANTI-S3IOKE KEPORT. The report of the Committee of the En gineers Society on the smoke question, a summary of which appears in our local columns, is a carefully prepared and authoritative review of the whole subject which ought to prcduce material results. With its recommendation the movement for the reduction of thesmote nuisance to a minimum ought to go forward backed by good authority, and with a clearly de fined plan of action. The report shows that devices now in actual operation can abolish the greater part of the smoke now produced from steam boiler furnaces. It also states a fact new to most of the public, that steam jets for the consumption ot smoke in puddling and heating furnaces have been used in a rolling mill of this city for over a j ear with good results as to reduction of smoke and quality of product, and an actual economy in the cost of fuel The problem of decreasing smoke from soft coal in domestic use is not so easy, and the conclusion is that, except for the use of gas, or anthracite, or coke in domestic fires, the coal smoke there must be put up with. But the report shows conclusively that the great producers of the smoke that dnily hangs over the city can he improved so as to do away with most of the nirsance. With that fact placed beyond dispute the agitation for the abolition of smoke should be universally sustained and directed to material results. The plan of action outlined in the report should be urged forward. First, the most available anti-smoke organization should continue the campaign of education against smoke; second, the passage of a city ordi nance for the suppression of smoke from steam boilers, with a due recognition of the necessities of puddling and. heating furnaces; third, the provision of an in spection to see that new buildings are properly fitted up for the full combustion ot smoke. To this The Dispatch will add the suggestion that the same inspec tion should require the improvement of older plants within a fixed period. A campaign vigorously pushed on these lines will restore clear skies to Pittsburg within a twelvemonth. Such a boon will be worth millions of dollars annually to the city. PtATTS POST MORTEM KEPE5TTA2JCE. It seems that Mr. Piatt's charging of the defeat in 2fcw York to Mr. Chauncey M. Depew was more than the effort of humor that Mr. Depew affects to regard it He thinks that the people did not relish being instructed as to the manner in which they should cast their votes by the President of one of the richest and most powerful cor porations in the world. lie therefore thinks that the speeches of that witty railroad magnate might have been more useful to the Republican party if they had been built on the policy of golden silence. There may be some truth in this view; but whatever force there is in it must be regarded as ex post facto Wisdom. If Mr. Piatt has realized the danger of putting the Republican party before the people as the party of the corporations in time to correct that tendency his perception of the fact might have had some political value. But in order to accomplish that result more would have been required than the suppression of Mr. Depew. Mr. Piatt himself is the President of a corpor ation of considerable magnitude, and it is not understood that his corporation has lost any money through its President's ac tivity in politics. That men of the talents that secure leadership in corporation af fairs should also take prominence in poli tics is neither unnatural or undesirable. The way to absolve a party from the charge of subservience to corporate inter ests is to make its legislative principles and actions clearly in the interest of the public. If the Republican influence which Mr. Piatt controlled in Kew York had been rallied against corporate ag gressions on the public interest some things might have been very different than they are now. While corporate influence has not been much more dominant in Republican coun cils than in Democratic there hasbpen enough of it to make a reform desirable. But we fear Mr. Piatt's recognition of the fact cannot be credited even with the character of a death-bed repentance. It might perhaps be regarded as an illustra tion of the doctrine of repentance and reformation after death. THE PREJUDICE OF MOB LAW; A remarkable example of the prejudice which can govern popular ideas on the subject of criminal justice is afforded by an indignation meeting held in Merchant ville, New Jersey, the other day over the discharge of Lingo, who had .been accused of the murder of Mrs. Miller. The mur dered woman was found in a field, and in asmuch as Lingo was a negro of bad repu tation, and had been accused of previous crimes, the public mind jumped to the conclusion that he was the murderer in this case. After the trial had resulted in his discharge the people of Merchantville, by public assemblage, resolved that life is not safe while murderers like Lingo escaped punishment, and warned the acquitted man that if ho comes hack there he will be lynched. The stubbornness of the Merchantville idea, that because a negro bad a bad reputation and is therefore friendless, he must be adjudged guilty of any crime that is committed in his vicinity, is heightened by the fact that the testimony for the State not only failed to make out a case against Lingo, hut actually demonstrated his innocence. The witnesses for the prosecution testified that the negro seen near the scene of the murder was dressed in one manner, and other witnesses for the State testified to having seen Lingo elsewhere at nearly the same time dressed in entirely different clothes. The case for the State located Lingo at one point, and then proved by witnesses that he was seen going in an opposita direction from tha locality of the crime, so as to absolutely establish an alibi. The fact that the prosecuting witnesses actually proved the prisoner's innocence was so clear thut the Judge without hearing the defense directed the jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal Yet Merchantville holds indig nation meetings over the acquittal of a man after it has been proved that he did not commit the crime. It is appropriate that an indignation meeting of that sort shouldwind up with a threat of lynch law. The stupidity and prejudice which inspire the determination to hold a friendless man guilty, no matter whether he is proved Innocent or not, is the fundamental sentiment of lynch law. KEGOXATIOV, NOT PROHIBITION. The movement for a further restriction of immigration js reported to be assuming shape. The New York Chamber of Com meice has taken an ultra position by urg ing upon Congress the total exclusion of all immigrants. This is an illustration of the swing of the popular pendulum as far in the opposite direction as the point from which the oscillation started. There is abundant need for a strict regulation of immigration, but the total stoppage of all is exactly what this country does not want. This country has abundant room for the labor of intelligent, industrious and law abiding workmen whether of native or foreign birth. In the West vast areas capable of sustaining the population of almost any single nation of Europe are ready to be reclaimed and made fertile by the expenditure of labor in irrigation works and cultivation. In the South it is notorious that half the capabilities of the land are not developed. Even in the Northern States the rule of the agri cultural districts is that a close cultivation would double its productiveness. The industrial interests, too, are capable of an expansion which would employ a vast reinforcement of labor. These facts make the ante-election effort of the New York Herald in urging that workingmen's wages must be brought down by free trade in order to prevent the influx of British workmen one of the shallowest efforts of demagogy. This country wants intelligent and industrious labor and will continue to want it. Distributed among all departments of industry that class of immigration increases both pro duction and consumption and enlarges the wealth of the nation. But what we do not want is ignorance, thrittlcssness, criminal dispositions, an archy or diseases. The proportion of these qualities in the recent immigration shows the need for a regulation which takes into consideration the quality rather than either the quantity or the extraneous conditions of the immigrants. This country has had too much experience not to know that the industrious man who lands with two dollars and a determi nation to earn a living is of more valus to the nation than an importation of the vices of Europe backed by thousands of dollars. It is not well to throw aside all the principles which have made this country great Sober, industrious immigration has done too much for the nation to be subjected to a sweeping and undiscrimi natc prohibition. A SENSATIONAL SELECTION. New York has had some brilliant names in its list of United States Senators. From Rufus King to Roscoe Conkling there has rarely been a time when New York Sena tors have not held a leading position in that body by force of intellect, elevation of character or readiness of eloquence. The period exemplified by such Senators as Miller, Hiscock and Piatt marked a falling off from the level of Marcy, Seward and Kernan, which might be attributed to a scarcity of statesmanship. But the full depth of the decadence was not sounded until as a result of the free trade victory we are informed that the slated candidate of Hill, Sheehan and McLaughlin is Ed ward Murphy, a politician of Troy, who has won power and wealth by the organi zation of a city ring for the express pur pose of dealing in profitable railway fran chises. Abetter illustration of the results of ring politics could not be asked than that an alleged reform victory is to put into the seat of DeWitt Clinton, Van Buren and Conkling a Troy dealer in street rail way franchises as the chosen associate of David B. Hill. Pennsylvania has had some very pretty illustrations of the same class of politics, the last one being a prima facie case of a Senator who sells out his party's interest in the House of Represent atives in order to enrich his own following of State legislators. But we have this ex cuse: We have known nothing else for more than a generation. While New York was represented in the Senate by Seward, Kernan, Evarts and Conkling Pennsylva nia politics arrived at the conclusion that neither constitutional learning, legis lative knowledge nor forensic ability was as much to be desired as the ability to han dle the spoils. We do not know that the comparison is at all to the advantage of Pennsylvania; but the descent in New York from the spotless Francis Kernan as the last Democratic Senator to Murphy as the choice of Mr. Cleveland's recent supporters shows a more abrupt descent and marks the ultimate depth of the poli tics of plunder. It is by no means certain that it is not best that the fruits of ring politics should display themselves to the utmost as in this case. There is no better way to convince the people of the necessity for demanding that men of character and ability be put in high legislative positions. There is some talk to the effect that Bepresentatlve Holman will be deprived of his Chairmanship of the Committee on Ap propriations, even if Judge Crisp be re elected Speaker or the noxt Congress. Such a removal would call forth little regret from any thoughtful student of national affairs. Mr. Holman's mock economy, at its best,has been merely an irrational wholesale system of cheese-paring without any consideration of the comparative importance of the sub jects for appropriation. And, at his worst, the pettifogging statesman has shown a marked ability to compete with the most energetic of grabbers by relinquishing his indiscriminate pruning whenever an oppor tunity for log-rolling presented itselr. Now that a minister has retired from active service, giving as one reason for his withdrawal that tbo world has had enough preaching, it is time for deaf mutes to come to the front as expounders of the gospel. Pittsburg bai the finest system of rapid transit In the world. But a Plttsburgor cannot thoroughly appreciate the vast ad vantages of speedy locomotion until be has undergone a prolonged ctrarseof whetting bis appetite for the evAnlrrg meal by the arduous labor of his hobeward Journey, Nothing, sorely, can be more conducing to a healthy enjoyment ot wholesome victuals than to Journey home after a tired day on a car loaded, with two or tliree times the num ber ol passengers it can seat. And as if that were not enough, be is 'allowed to stand and hare his feet reduced to a Jelly -while his internal anatomy is treated as the egg heater treats an egg.-and all -without any extra charge. "Wrm increased volume and proper pro visions against intermittency, it Is presum able that McKeesport would have less to complain of in its water supply that so often tails to supply. StrrrOETERS of Judge Kolb in Alabama will utterly stultify the chaises of illegal tampering with ballots, which they hurl at their opponents, by seeking other than legal remedies for the lawlessness complained of. Lawlessness can only be fought success fully by letral process. And an appeal to arms merely stigmatizes a political faction as an organization unable to prove its case, or afraid to attempt to. Anttheso unusual in the way of reports or symptoms of earthquake heard or felt during this week may be safely set down to the extensive ralnmaklng experiments In Texas. When the Weather Department onoe for all lelinquisiies the 1 utile attempt to please everyone all the time, there may he some chance of giving more satisfaction to the majority of iolkby providing the meteor ological conditions with some slight amount of stability. TnAT Chamber of Commerce banquet in New -iork last night must have been a regu lar lovo feast, with no distinction in dishes for victors or vanquished. Pernicious activity on the part of rail roads in producing wrecks may always be depended on to provldo the country with reading matter of interest when there is any kind of a lull in other quarters. Presi dents come and go, but wrecks go on for ever. PEKHArs phrenologists could throw some light on the past campaign by an examina tion of the bumps It developed. NOTwrrHSTANDiNG the result of the election Ohio means to have moie McKln leyism right away. One O. JIcKinley has been appointed State Secretary of the Farmers' Alliance. His lolationship to the Governor is not mentionod. Dr. Depew's elasticity as an after defeat orator will soon.iival his reputation for wit ticisms as an alter dinner speaker. Modern heresy seems mainly to consist in the possession of a courage sufficient to produce the expressions of a man's opinions on religion, when ho is in the minority of the. denomination be belongs to and does not wish to leave it. Defeated candidates for office may con sole themselves by the reflection that this is the season of falling stars. President-elect Cleveland will find more than enough inevitable difficulties be fore him without courting additional and unnecessary tiouble by calling an extra session ot Congress immediately upon his inauguration. On the whole the chrysanthemum is a very fair substitute for the departed last rose of summer. Murder and murderous assaults are growing painfully common aiound here, as In the rest ot the country. And some seri ous attempts to lessen the number of such outrages cannot be indefinitely postponed. FOLK TALKKD AI10DI At Jefferson's recent appearance in Bos ton the box office receipts weie $23,000, prob ably the largest on record for eight nignts' performances. Miss Eunice Rosa Davis, at Dedham, Mass, aged 92 years, Is claimed to be the only surviving membor of the Women's Anti Slavery Society. The Duke of Fife, son-in-law of the Prince or Wales, has iolned the committee of the proposed pan-Britannic and English Speaking Congress. Frederick EvANS,the pretended Prince of Teck, lias been sentenced to one year at hard labor. Tlio authorities say he is a knave as well as a fool. lie is ot American parentage. The President yesterday appointed David P. Thompson, of Oregon, to bo Minister to Turkey, and Edward C. Little.of Kansas, to be Agent and Consul General to Cairo, Egypt. The presence of Emperor Francis Joseph at the banquet given at Vienna to the Czare witch is much commented upon. His Majesty had not heretofore attended such a state function since 1SSJ. Captain MoNTEiL,the French explorer, will arrive shortly at Tripoli, after tiavers- ing the deceit of Sahara from Senegal by the way of Lake Tchad. Captain Montoil has been IS months making the journey. The correspondent of the Postal Parit heais that 31. Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is likely to replace M. Waddlngton as Ambassador at London. This change has long been the ardent ambition of M. Itibot's American wife. Ex-Senator William Mahone and Senators Matt S. Quay and Don Cameron, have gone to Sea Island, S. C, to spend sev eral days hunting and fishing, While at the island they will bo the guests of Senator Butoer, of South Carolina. William McKinley, Sr., father of Governor McKinley, celebrated his 83th birthday yesterday, surrounded by his fam ily and a party ot friends. Tho Governor and his wifo assisted at an Informal recep tion at the residence of his lather, receiving many callors, and left for Columbus last night. imilGEAIION KESTBICII0NS. Steerage Passengers Only to Be Hereafter Quarantined Twenty Days. Wabhiiigton, Nov. 15. A circular is Detng prepared at the Treasury Department, mak ing an important change in the present im migration policy of the department. It is in cflect that tho Presidents order of Septem ber 1, imposing a 20 days' quarantine on im migrants, is hereafter to be applied only to immigrants who como over in tho steerage. Hcretofoie all immigrants who were not booked and assembled at the port of depart ure prior to septemueriwere debarred from landing, rogurdless of whether they came in cabin or steerage. , The change is made in recognition or the fact that the onlr nresent dancer nr t.im in. traduction of cholera or other epidemic by Immigration Is iroin persons and baggage that have not been subjected to proper san itary regulations in transit. It is assumed that the Federal and local quarantines will be continued, and that the proposed addi tional detention or SO days will be Imnosed only whero the vessel pnd its passengers are not in perfect sanitary condition. BTJQAE MEM OUT OF POCKET. The Drouth in Hawaii and Low Prices Knock Ont a Dividend. Sajt Fbahcisco, Nov. 15. The annual meet ing of the stockholders or -tne Hawaiian Consolidated Sugar Company was held hero to-day. President John Spreckles made a report, in which he stated that the yield or sugar in the Hawaiian Islands during tho past year had been reduced owing to drouth to less than 8,000 tons, and that owing to the removal or the tariff on sugar a low range or prices had prevailed, the average being $53 net per ton as against an average or $70 the preceding year. The loss of income during the past year was not less than $:86,O0O. Payments of div idends had not only been impossible, but the company had been obliged to borrow $800,000 to enable them to carry on the work or savimr the growing crop. There remains about $1,000 of this loan in the treasury, but it will' all be exhausted in harvesting the crop of 1S92, whioh, aooording to the latest report, had been already reduced by 8,000 tons owin g to drouth. THE ATMS OF SOCIALISM Set Forth in the Iteport of That Party In Germany Secession of the Beds a Good Riddance Against Oaths Some Politi cal Victories." Berlin, Nov. J5, At the Social Con gress to-day.HerrSlnger.who was yesterday unanimously selected President of the party, referred to tho rapid progress of the party. Ilerr Siuger welcomed the iorelzn delegates, and.concluded bl9 speech by call ing for three cheers for international so cialism, which were given. Ilerr Fisher, tho secretary, in his report stated that the work done- since the last meeting had enlarged thenctive propaganda of the party, Ilerr Fisher's report covered the en til o history of tho organization. The secession of the so-called "Independents" from the main body or the party, although severely critized as disloyal, was briefly dis missed as, on the whole, a satisfactory rid dance rather than a regretable loss. The report proceeded to deal with the at titude of tho Social Democratic party toward the judicial oath, a question which has given rise to very great controversy. As is well known the party programme does not recognize tho relislous validity or the oath, and this has been used against the Social D-'mocrats to charge them with ap proving perjury. "Not only." said the le port, "has thii charge been brought against the party from tho National Liberal side, where an unbiased verdict is not, perhaps, to be expected, but also by judges and bar listers in the law courts, whore a less preju diced Judgment might have been looked for. Against Oaths and Perjury Both. "The party has never &crupled to ac knowledge that it is opposed to a religious sanction, but to speak the truth before a tribunal is the duty of sfinan and a citizen; and though the refusal of a witnoss to take tho oath is justifiable, lying is not and can not be justified. "Under the present social system, the oath is part audpaicel of Judicial procedure, and if a whole political party is baselessty accused from the judgment scat of favoring perjury, it is equivalent to placing it bpyond the pale ot the law. It is naturally the party's duty to protest against such arbi trary censuie, and the party will uphold Its rights in spite of bench and bar." After touching shoitly on the subjectof this year's festival, the report proceeded to speak of the relations existing between Ger man, Austrian and Fiencli Social Democrats. Though the social movements in Ueimany and Austria are much more intimately con nected than in Germany and France, the presence of a French representative at Halle and that of Ilerr Liobknecht at Marseilles proved the solidarity of the international bond. tS "The Cnauvinists on both sides may be eager for war, but the working classes, the Jiioneers of true culture and civilization, oin hands across the frontier in their united opposition to the only enemy they acknowledge capital." The Political Victories of Socialism. The results of bye-elections are quoted which have taken place during the past year, both for tho Imperial Diet and for other German .Legislatures, as well as for tho Municipal Council of Berlin. In Saxony, notably, four Parliamentary seats have been won, with an increase in the aggregate Socialist vote fiom 15,000 to 34,000. The party possesses, altogether, 70 organs in the picss, of which 22 are political dailies. The subsidies granted to some of these form, however, a considerable item in the expen ditme, amounting to nearly 66,000'mnrks, which is attributed pnrtly to the existing depression of trade and partly to the ex cessive zeal of enthusiasts who found nows pupsrs in the belief that- once started they can live on air, and when nndeceived by ex perience have to tail back upon the party funds. The central organ, the Yonoarts, is held up as a bright example of political, combined with financial success. For the financial year from October 1, 1891, to September 20, 1K2, the Vorwarts can show a balance in its favor of 39,500 marks, and a circulation of nbout 37,000. The book trade for tho dissem ination ot party literature is, also, stated to be gro ing apace. The Martyrs of tho Party. The report closed with a grim and sug gestive list of the Judicial sentences passed during the last.12 months upon members of the party. Tho terms or, imprisonment enumerated amount to more thnn 117 years, and tho fines to a total of 20,503 marks. Last year these totals were 89 .years and 18,300 marks respectively. These penalties, it ,was contended, have helped - tho cause rather than otherwise, as they have mado it plain that Social Democrats are not treatod on the same looting as other citizens. "However heavy the cost may be, the movemnet w ill not deviate a hair's breadth from tho path which leads to its appointed goal; and when one (alls, another will take his place and fill up the solid ranks of the army of labor. The leaders of the uarty have already led their enthusiastic and self-sacrificing followers to victory, and they will do so again and again in the future until the last and final goal Is reached." This is, probably, the most pregnant pass age in tne report. Itis the confession and sanction ol tne faith which lives in the ho ci.il democracy of Germany, and which ren ders it a force to be reckoned with to-day, and still more in the future. Among the motions to be discussed, is one compelling tho loaders who sit in the ImDerial Diet to resign their seats every two years in order to take the opinion of constituents upontheiraction as legislators. The lelatlons of the central organization to tho more moderate, section under Ilerr von Vol 1 mar's leadership In Bavaria will also bo discussed. MOURNING FOB BlEEBIED. Death of Delia Loughlin, Once One of the "Worst of the Slummers. New York, Nov. 15 There is mourning in the "Door of Hope" Mission, over tho death of Delia Loughlin, a young woman who, un til she was rescued by Jlrs. Whlttenmore from the slums in May, 1691, was known in 31ulberry Bend as the worst drinker, fighter and opium smoker in the district. She was called "Bluebird" and after she wns con veited and became a remarkably efficient missionary herself, she kept and was proud o the title. Sue was a young woman of strong person ality and great natutal eloquence, and the lecordsof tho city missions show that she converted more t.ian 103 men and women in the year that she was able to go about and lectuie. The frighttul dissipation she had indulged in brought on hasty consumption and she had been at death's door tor tho last six months. Many ot her old acquaintances went to the Door of Hope to seo nor yester day and her white collln was coveicu with the flowers they brought. THE CONNECTICUT MUDDLES. Republicans Kill a Besolution Introduced by Themselves for a Change. Hartford, Nov. 15. Both Senate and House wero in session to-day. John P.Healey said that on May 8 he bad Introduced a reso lution relating to a change In the Constitu tion regarding the election of State officers. That resolution had been referred to the House Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, and the committee has not yet reported. He moved that the committee be dis charged iroin further consideration of the resolution. S. O, Griswold, or Windsor, muveu lu cauie me motion, xnu motion to table was carried by 112 to 90, the Repub licans voting in the affirmative and the Dem ocrats In thejiegative. CLUBS FOB THE D0CI0E5. Philadelphia Physicians Start a Movement for Social Organization. Philadelphia, Nov. 15. A proposition was made at a banquet here to-night, attended by u large number of medical men, that will probnbly result in adding to the list of permanent protessional organizations of the city, a medicaltclnb, the first of its kind in this country, where physicians may gather for social purposes. The proposition was reoelved with marked enthusiasm by the assembled physicians, and a great impetus was Kiven the project in the remarks that lollowed. A Question of Slzo. Philadelphia Times. 1 The difforence between an ordinary death and its possibilities in a football game is that' where in the former one may die by Inches in the latter it comes by the foot. - -Adlal, Get Tour Ax. Beehetter Democrat. I Adlal's fingers must already be itching to get hold of the ax. ItU a.magnlflcort field for eunage whioh confronts him. SEWICKLEY'S AMATEUR SEASON Begins TVIth an Amusing Performance of an Kntirely New Comedy. Tho Sewickley Valley Club gave their first performance of the season at their theater in Sewickley last night. The play was an entire novelty, "Mrs. Pendleton's Four-ln. Hand," a dramatization or Miss Atherton's clever little story by H. Sylvester Scovel. The cast was as follows:" Mrs. Pendleton, Miss Mackintosh; Mits Decker, Miss Anderson; John Severance, Dr. Navlon Clarence Trent. Mr. Scott: Norton Roswell, Mr. Pearson; Teddy Dedham, Mr. Hutchinson. The theater was filled to the last seat. The first act revealed Mrs. Pendleton and Miss Decker in a pro longed tete-a-tete. The lormeriecelves four proposals of marriage, and decides to disci pline all four, whom she suspects of a a profane plot to plague her. The dialogue and soliloquy In which this pleasing plan is outlined are over long, and for that reason JIlss Mackintosh and Miss Anderson did well to sustain the interest as well as they did. The second act showed the four-in-hand re ceiving their letters of seeming acceptance irom Mrs. Pendleton, and the reading of the same identical letter by each man caused lots or laujihter. As the chappie with tho big cane Mr. Hutohlnson was especially funny. In the third act tho fun grew faster, and both Miss Mackin tosh and Miss Anderson did some clever acting. Mis. Mackintosh's simulation of neuralgia produced roars of laughter. Tho successive visit!, of the expectant lovers were all amusing, the quiet distnlty of Mr. Nay lor and the subdued uir of Mr. Scott con trasting with the lively gait or the others. Mr. Pearson's ardent wooing and Mr. Hutch inson's boyish warmth particularly evoked applause. The ladies iccelved a curtain call after this act, and plenty of bouquets. The mixture of rings and love suits made the last act even brighter than its prede cessor. The company was also at its best. Miss Mackintosh looked charming in a cos tume of white, and MIs Audeison made a most agieeable hostess. Small thinking rarts were capitally filled by Messrs. Harry -Diauuii anu vuver o. iticnaruson. The scenory was unusuallv nrettv. tho room in the Newport cottage being a de lightfully sunny arrangement in blue and white, with water color flower studies upon the walls. The credit for these pretty ef fects and Indeed the completeness of the production belongs to the committee com posed as lollows: Miss Anderson. Mrs. T. S. Burrows, Mrs George Bose, F. E. Richard son and Logan McPheison. After the play there was dancing as usual to the music of Toerge's Orchestra. POTTEB GOES TO ITALY. A Leading Phlladelphlan Appointed Minis ter by the President. Washington, D. C, Nov. 15. The Presi dent to-day appointed William Potter Min ister to Italy. He was born In 1S52 and is a son of Thomas Potter, founder of the pres ent large oil cloth manufactory of Thomas Potter's Sons A Co., In Philadelphia. With his brother, Colonel Thomas Potter, Jr., ho succeeded to tho management of the busi ness on his father's death. Mr. Potter is one of the most Influential young Republicans of Philadelphia. He is Secretary and Direc tor of the Union League Club. In 1S90 Mr. Pottsr went abroad as a mem ber ot the Commission to investigate the feasibility of the proDOsed ocean nostofflces. He discharged his dutl03 so accerjtably that he was appointed a delegate to the fourth International Postal Congress at Vienna tn 1S91. In this capacity he was clothed with plenipotentiary powers and signed the dos tal agreement which went into effect Octo ber 1, 1S32. Mr. Potter is alsoamemberof the Republican Advisory Committees of both x'luladcliihiaand Ponnsvlvania, which per formed valuable service during tho cam paign. GROVER'd POSITION 18 RIGHT. No 1'residkxt ever culled an extra session of Congress without wishing he did not have to do so or regretting that be had done so. Brooklyn Eagle. Let us have no extra session. Give all the time and thought to such modifications of the McKinley bill as are needed, and "go slow." Aew York Herald. TnE necessity of calling Congress together In extra session to revise tho tariff has been urged. The Democrats will do no such thing. They will go about this difficult task with deliberation. Philadelphia Re ord. Extra sessions of Congress are memorable in our political history chiefly for the dis asters tbey entailed upon the administra tions that called them, and Mr. Cleveland is not likely to err In that line. Philadelphia Times. There will not be any special session of Congress following close upon the Inaugura tion of Mr. Cleveland. That gentleman still has his head, although some of his adherents seem to have lost theirs. Ifeio York It cordtr. No extra session or Congress will be called. Mr. Cleveland understands the situation well enough to know that it would be peril ous to his party to start In at the earliest practicable moment in changing the present law. St. Louis Globe Democrat. The people do not want a tinkering with certain paragraphs atone session, with other changes at the next. Nor do they want snch a revision as must be made in the haste and hurry of an extra session of a new Congress, if a general revision be undertaken at such a session. New York Times. "No! No! No extra session I" This seemr to be the culminating voice or those Journals, political leaders and business men seem ingly reflecting the Dost publlo sentiment. "Nol No! No extra scsslonl" This will be a good marching refrain for the inaugural procession. PhUadelphii Telegraph. In the ordinary course of legislation the winter session of this Congress would do little more than make the annual appropria tions. It would be a wasteof tlmo foreither the Senate or the House to try to pass a single strictly political bill one on which party lines would be drawn. It would be the firing of blank cartridges. Chicigo Inter Ocean. May Bcsnlt In Murder. Chicago News Record. A Pennsylvania lady lays claim to glory on the ground that she his made a pumpkin pie in four minutes. The real test will come when sho tries to induce somebody to eat it within four days. Get to "Work. Baltimore Amerlcan.1 Talk down politics and talk up business. DEATHS Hi-KE AND ELSEWHERE. Captain John C. Owens, Moonshiner. An interesting chapter in the history of Kentucky moonahlners" cloieci with tin- death by pneumonia of Captain John Owens, at Bnfkes vllle, Ky. To Owens, more than to any other per son, the Federal Government can attribute the Der- istent opposition with which the revenue officers hare met in the nast veara in Southern Kentuckv. The outlaw cams to Kentucky from Virginia in tin earlv '50'd, but never showed a disposition to violate the law In any particular until after the war. He had reduced illicit distilling to a science. During his career lie received 41 bullet wounds. George Boss. George Boss, father-in-law of Thomas Henderson, manager of Shoenberger's Mills, died yesterday in ttieSsth year of his age. The funeral will take place to-morrow at 2r.it. from his late residence at Logan's Ferry fetation on the Alle gheny Valley ltiliroad. John Hoey. John Hoey, for man y years President ot the Adams Express Company, and founder of Hollywood, at Long lirancli, who had been lying ill at Deliuonlco's. New York, for several weeks, died at 10 o'clock Monday ulglit. Obituary Notes. Count Ducross, Councilor of State under the French Empire, is dead at Cnlln. Fiance. W. T. Miller, stationed at Denver as director or the WeathesCrup Bureau ofColorado, died yes terday murulngufconsum,. lion. Lemon B. Hkbieon, sou of. S. M. and Xmma Hebron, of Marlou station, died Friday afternoon or typhoid fever, contracted at the Homestead mills. General Yamada, a member of the Japanese Privy Council, died yesterday. He was a promi nent Royalist, and took a leading part In the Restoration War or 1337. Carson RETsoLns, second son of Frcf. P. B. Reynolds, or the West Virginia University, (lied at Morgantown Moudar. Rheumatic affections with fever causvd bis death. Joseph II. 3IACK, the theatrical manager, died at Hewitt, . .1.. Monday morning. He was about years or age. lie was bom In the West, and began his professional life with James Coupcr1s clrcu. He also manaced showa tor J. H. Haverly, Jjarry Mluer, Robert L, Downing and others. Aim am Ulaix, a negro barber, died at Johns town yesterday. He was 83 years old, and'was the first colored man who ever nerve a as a J uror In the United States Court, having been summoned In that capacity soon after the enactment of legisla tion whioh secured to his race political and civil sjsallty with the whites. A CHURCH WEDDING. Marriage of Miss Mary Q. IUIey and Charles B. Ithodes Tea In Allegheny A "White "Wedding Tea Party for an Orphan Asylum Society Gossip. Last evening the nuptials of Miss Mary Quarters Riley and Mr. Charles B. Bhodes took place in the Third Presbyterian Church In the presence, of a large number of friends of the couple. Re7. Dr. Cowan performed the ceremony. The attendants were Miss Edith Golden, of Kit tanning, and 31 r. George P. Rhodes, a brother of the groom. The bride wqre a white crystal silk gown and carried white roses. The maid of honor wore pink crepe and carried roses or the same hne. The ushers wero Slessrs. Harry G. Duff. Edward Rlnehart, Fred Egbert, Frank Sloctim, John L. Boyd and James D. Bhodes. The wedding was a very pretty one, and the bride and groom did the uncon ventional act of going straight from the church to their own house, at 311 Elysian avenue. East End. The bridegroom had the homo all ready for the reception of his bride, and it is indeed a dainty one. The celebration of the fifth anniversary of the wedding or Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Hostetter, that was originally set for the 15th inst., but was postponed on account of lire. Edmund Rnssell's lecture Monday, has been definitely fixed for November 80. This is oxpected to be one of t.ie moit enjoyable, as well as recherche, events of the social season. Mrs. S. J. Logan, of Janesville, "Wis., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Eliza McCand less, in this city, and will probably spend the winter here. Mrs. Logan was formerly a resident of Pittsburg. This evening the one hundred and eighty third reception of the Art Sooiety is to be held in the societv's rooms, and" Mr. win. Viam J. Henderson, a former Pittshurcer. will talk to the society about "The Begin nings of Modern Music." To-morrow even ing the one hundred and eightv-fourth re ception will be held, his subject being "The Spirit of Music" Mr. Henderson Is music critic or the New York Times, and is recog nized as one of tho foremost writers and lecturers of the country on matters relat ing to music. At the Sixth TJ. P. Church, Collins ave nue. East End, Friday evening, "The Fes tival of Mondamen" is to be represented under the auspices of the Young Ladies' Missionary Society. There will be a social in connection with the entertainment. There was a large company at tea at the residence of Mrs. M. B. Riddle, Riage ave nue, Allegheny, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Riddle is a charming hostess, and under stands the art or making nor friends thor oughly at home In her house. She had a special opportunity of doing so yesterday, the occasion being one in which the sweet spirit ot charity was prevalent, and which was, therefore, calculated to bring gentle souls easily into accord. Besides tha tea, that was well made and daintily served, there was a flower booth of white, sort ma terial in the parlor, and cakes and ice oream in the dining room. The proceeds of the en tertainment were for a j'oung girl whom it is intended to place in the Home for Incura bles, and for which a cei tain sum is required. It is thought nearl r the whole amount was raised yesterday, ll not quite. The following ladles worked in various capacities at the tea: Refreshments, Mrs. Judge Braden, Mrs. Frisbee, Mrs. Suydam anu airs, (vooanurn; nowers, Mrs. w. p. DeArmlt, Miss Margaret Park, Miss Sarah Blssell and Miss Long; home-made cakes, Mrs. Aloert Home, Mrs. John Slagle, Mrs M. S. Kinney, Mrs. J. W. Robinson and Miss Mitchell; candy, Mrs. John Myler, Mrs. Rlggs, Mrs. Jasper Porter and Mrs. T. M. Morrow. The general managers were Mrs. M. B. Riddle, Mrs. J. T. Patterson and Mrs. B. H. Boggs. Miss Minnie B. Snead and Mr. Charles E. Hertel were married last evening at the residence pt the bride's mothor, Knoll street, Allegheny. Eev. Mr. Holmes, of the Arch Street M. E. Church, performed the ceremony In the presence of a number or f i lends and relatives of the young couple. Flowers In prolusion graced the wedding, and the bride and her maids looked lovely in their marvelous cieations of the dress maker's art. Tho bride and groom have gono to Chicaco for a bridal trip. They will live in Allegheny upon their return. The Church of the Good Shepherd was occupied by a large assemblage at noon yes terday. The occasion was the marriage of Miss Lido J. Harris, daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Abrams Harris, to Mr. William D.Mills, ot London, Ontario. It was a white wedding In every sense or the word. The dross or the Drlde was or white crystal silk,lace-trlmmed, and rendered brilliant by a magnificent dia mond pendant at the throat. An artistically draped white veil covered tho whole cos tume. The maid of honor was Miss Jessie W. Harris.a sister of the brlde.and the other attendants wore two cousins or the bride. Miss Edna Mcllwaine, of Chicago, and Miss Fanny Owens, both of whom wore In white uowns, cut In the empiro mode. Mr. David Mills, the groom's brother, was best man, and two brothers of tho brido urted as ush ers Messrs. James and Will Harris. The rector of the church performed the cere mony. After n breakfast at the residence of the bride's parents in Hazelwood, Mr. und Mrs. Mills departed on their journey to thoir future home in London, Canada. THIS evening the tea party in behalf of St. Paul's Orphan Asylum will be opened in Larayette Hall. Elaborate preparations have been made to render this one or the most notable entertainments that has been held yet. Everyone knows that the tea parties or St. Paul's Asylum are always suc cessful. The ladies in charge always work hard berorebnnd, as well as during the affair, and what they do not know abont making it a success is not worth knowing. The popularity of the canso, as well as the actual pleasure derived from being present at the party, is always enough to insure a very large attendance, and it is certain that the capacity of Lafayette Hall will be tested this evening. A PLEASING entertainment in the form of a Columbian celebration was given by the yoang ladies of St. Ursuline'.s Academy last evening. Iwasa five-act drama, deal ing with the enterprise of Colnmbus in leaving his native country to try and dis cover America, and introduced most of tho characters associated with that event, in cluding Columbus himself, Isabella, Ferdi nand, etc All the characters were repre sented by tho young lady pupils or tho academy, and most or thorn displayed a gicat deal or dramatic ability. The celebration of the nuptials of Miss Mamie Shane, daughter or Mr. and Mrn Georse Shane, or West Braddock, to Mr. Da vl.l Wooding, son or the lato Thomas Wood ing, or North Braddock, was a social event of unusual intere-t at Br&ddock last even ing. The ceremony was performed at the house of the brido ut 7 o'clock by the Rav Dr. J. B. Dickey, pastor of the First Presby terian Church, of xlraddock. About 100 guests witnessed tho happy event. The parlors where the service was performed were ele gantly decorated. The balde and brldemald carried chrvsanthemums. A wedding sup per lollowed, and then the bridul party left on a wedding trip East. Both are young people well known in that place. Social Chatter. The second entertainment in the free couiseortho Carnegie Fiee Library Asso ciation, being given at Braddock this sea son through Mr. Carnegie, will take piaco this evening in the First M. E. Church at that place. It will bo a lecture by George Thomas Dowling, entitled "Clambering Up or the Force That Will Win." The bazar given under the auspices or the ladles of tho Filth IT. P. Church opened last evening. There was a very large attendance and tbo general opinion wai expressed that tho ladles had made very creditable arrange ments. The bazar will bo continued to-day, to-morrow and Friday. Miss Minnie Dunn, or No. 427 Carson street, has returned rrora a tour through Europe. She has visited many friends and relatives in Ireland and England, and has had a de lighted trip. Sue has been gono several months. ' Miss Edith Ross and the Glasgow Church choir will sing at the Scottish concert In Carneme Hall to-night, to assist in raisinir r funds tor the Barns monument in Pitts burg. The annual meeting of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Chtircn is to be held this evening. Thero will be a banquet as well as a business meeting. Tns Jones-D.tlzell wedding Is to placo to-night. take By Force of Habit, Detroit Journal.! A Phlladelphia-man has a collection of 100 corkscrews. He must have been brought, up on the bottle. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Colnmbus discovered turtle lonp. The city of London coven 687 iquarl miles. Most papers in Germany m Owned and edited by Hebrews. The drama was in,trodnced Into Bom B. C. zei to allay a plague. A full-grown elephant Is capable of carrying a load of two tons. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon wera terraces planted with trees. The St Louis new water tower li laid to be the highest in the world. An electric cigar-lighter and an electrlj refrigerator are two late inventions. The first advertisement in a refrularly printed newspaper was inserted la 1618. The saloons of London, If set side by side, would reach a distance of 73 miles. Flowing water has been struck- mi Helena, Montana, at a depth of 1,024 feet. Most of the Eoman wines were pre. pared by boiling and nearly resembled our cordials. Europe has 0,000 match factories, and they yearly produce matches valued at $50,000,000. There are 72 places called St. Etienn in France, and 30 towns called Washington in America, The Kittitas Valley Canal, in "Wash ington, will be 82 miles long and irrigate 120,000 acres. Pearls worth 50,000 were in three years' time, durinir the last century, taken from mnssels in the Tay, Scotland. The long-talked-of hot water fountains have been at last placed In tho different wards of Faris, and are meeting with de served success. In 1670 the actresses always came be fore tho scenes when not needed on tha stage, and flirted with their acquaintances In the audience. A resident of Jacksonville, Fla., claims to hare a raco horse foaled in Xorth Carolina in 1885, and, if nlive, it will be run at the forthcoming race in that city. On a clear night a red light can be een at a greater distance, it is said, than a whlta light, while on a dark night, it is claimed, the result is Jnst the reverse. In suburban districts where the roads aro good it is not remarkable to see children going to school on bicycles; girls as well as boys, though not nearly so many ot them. Maraschino is distilled from cherries, the frnit and seeds being crushed together. The most delicate is made from a blaok Dal matian cherry, very bitter and unpalatable. In 1697 the English had potatoes, tulip roots, radishes, pumpkins, artichokes, cole wort, cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, asparagus, onions, lettuce and cre;s. The most famous wooden bridge was built at Scnaffhausen In 1757, by Gruben mnnn,an illiterate carpenter. It had two wooden arches with spans of 193 and 172 feet respectively. In India and South America there Is a snvill tree known as the "sorrowful tree," which bears xweet-scented flowers that "bloom only in the night time and fall off at the break of day." According to Scandinavin legends the swallow hovered over the cross, sineingt "Svala! Svnla!" (Cheer up! Cheer up!) "and hence it receives the name of svala, or swallow, "the bird of consolation." A gymnastic society was lately sup pressed by the City Council or Vienna for adopting the colors of the German Empire for its own and passing a resolution to ad mit no foreigners except Germans to mem bership. A gold throne, of the value of 52,500, 000, is to bo presented to the Pope by tha united subscriptions of all tho Boman Cath olic cathedrals in the world. It Is toba iriven to His Holiness on the occasion of hit Episcopal Jubilee. The best example of a stone bridge ia the United States is the high bridge of tha Crnton aqueduct. Its length is 1,160 feet, the top ot the parapet HS feet above high .water; there are 15 arches, eight of which nave an su-ioot span. The early Christians, to manifest their dislike of pagan vanity, in the effeminacy of long and curling hair and carefully cul tivated beards, shaved their faces and kept their hair cropped close. In the time of Tertnlllan this was the mark of tha Chris tian. A successful trial was made on the Eria Canal, at Lockport, Is". Y., a lew days ago of a full-sized canal boat equipped with two re volving portable wheels running like over shot water wheels in air-tlzht recessos cut in from the bottom of the boat, a little for ward of the stern. It is claimed that the first pig iron in this country was successfully made at Cole brookdale. this State, about 1725. The old mansion, built in 1730 by the iron master, Thomas Potts, is still standing in an excel lent state of preservation on what is now known as the Gable farm, of 108 acres. Of the 110,000 species of flowering plants upon this globe the total number of those utilized by man to any considerable extent, either for food or In the arts, does not quite reach 1 percent. When the flow erless plants are taken Into consideration the percen tatre becomos very much smaller. The Dnc de Mornv, distinguished as u amateur photographer, has given to the French War Office a process by which paper of any kind or thickness can receive a photographic print. Efcihtv impressions can be made in a minnto at a trifling ex pense. Soldiers' certificates of service and character will bear the owner's portrait. French chemists have demonstrated that it is possible to produce heat without fire, and the discovery is to be utilized on the railways and street cars of the country. The device consists simply of a block of ncetatoof soda, which is plunged into hot water. As it solidifies after the immersion it gives forth as much heat as a coal fire for the space of five or six hours. A shrewd scheme to make tardy sub scribers pay up has been invented by an American editor. Whenever a delinquent subscriber is mentioned in his paper, the name is inverted. Here Is an exampl't ..teuof uqof and his wife are spending a tew days in Chicago." As all the readers know what this means, the shamed subscriber hastens to have his name appear right slda up. Adjourning a prayer meeting in order that the brethren and sisters might witness apolitical torchlight parade was an actual occurrence in a New Jersey town recently. It was the regular prayer night, and the meeting had convened, but when the band played and the great hosts were beard ap Droaching the love ofpulltics cot the better or religion, and the church was vacated ia short order. ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE. HI ASKED HEB FOB A IHnrBBS, BXWABx! She was a simple telephone girl, In the court she gave him such a whirl. She knew her biz. It was in a breach of promise case, Ou the stand she showed her tear stained fM While she told the Jury everything. And proved he bad given her a ring. IT WASN'T A MINSTBIL SHOW. It was the first game of football she had ever seen. He had told her the names of the dif ferent positions, and when they lined up she ex claimed: Oh. what a lovely middleman the Beds havel and Jist then the end man gave his op ponent such a rap that you could hear his bones rattle all over the field. AT NEW BAVIN. ""What made that youth so angry?" lasted him It he went to school hero." "Well, why should that have made Mm fly off the baudle?" "I ought to have aald college, I suppose." AN ADJUJE DI3PKOVEN. "One half of the world does not knoir what the other half is doing." thoughtfully re marked Bottles That saying won't go in this country " a little." said Dock. Why?" Because the Democratic half win know fall well that the other half la hunting a Job," AT TBI THIATIB DO0S. What alls that fellow standing near, See how he rumes and fretsr Hr"s with his girl and has forgot Hla theater tickets. OaBCK t I aaflaffliaiiiMajjgawBmntinrarTgWBWTw.'li TMlMBJMSJp Irewll gre.ifanagttfesar...i.... ..- a-sj&i -Lwr ia. . ' uiirifnwiMtmmifiJvUiMtk i TTlld TMirxf -TfaiMHfMH l Am--Kjl MA1IOiJcmSmomltiT v MbtiMt IiJJJJJJJJJJJJJJBJSJJJJjsaMsaMsaiaMsaBaetlaS'a ga Jjs r .j&Hsawa
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