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DISPATCH. tisaa: 1
THE PITTSBURG
SECOND PART.
PIITSBTTK&. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 189a
IH
The Eesignatioh of France's
President Expected at
Almost Any Hour.
M END TO THE SCANDALS
That Have Cropped Out Since the
Fanama Canal Crookedness
WAS SO THOROUGHLY UNCOVERED.
The Awful Feeling of Unrest in France
Crosses the Channel.
ENGLAND IN A HOST AXXIOUS HUHOE
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
liOXDOjr, Dec. 17. Copyright Again
the ever-threatening volcano upon which
the French Government rests seems to be
t the point of eruption. It would be as
easy to forecast the next outbreak of Vesu
vius ss to name the hour and the form oi
political revolution of which France is
daily in dread. It is safe to say only that
if it comes it will be a spectacle of Pom
peiian grandeur tor those at a sale distance.
The lall ot the Loubet Cabinet was not a
circumstance to dangers which are now
dimly seen and suspected. A week ago the
reorganized Cabinet seemed to be tempo
rarily safe. Perils which would have swept
not only the ministry, but President Carnot
iimseif from office if Loubet had still been
Premier have barely escaped in the seven
days interval.
The relentless march of events this week
has brought tbe country lace to face with
two startling features of the situation which
bode the direst evil, and which cannot be
longer ignored. One is the repeated asser
tion that a vast conspiracy exists, having
for its object the overthrow of the Republic,
and the otner is the rumor, vague but wide
spread, that President Carnot is implicated
in the Panama scandal.
Only a Vague Story About a Plot.
The London Times and other foreign
journals gave credence to the story ot a
plot against the Republic, but only within
a lew days have tbe French people given
serious consideration to the rumors. The
story is a vague one. The developments ot
the past month, it is represented, form a
portion of a plan prematurely executed for
the discrediting of tne present government
before the country. The enemies of the
Republic designed the culmination of their
conspiracy for just previous to the elections
next year. The Panama scandal was their
principal card, bnt not their only one.
The full extent of the Panama revela
tions, it is said, is hardly suspected yet.
When charges ot corruption first became
bruited about it was attempted to suppress
them temporarily by the very men who de
signed making more effective use of them
a few months hence. The question is
whether the execution of the plot against
the Government will be pushed on at once
or whether its culmination will be delayed
according to tne original plan.
A Desire for a Speedy Crisis.
The vote in the Chamber on Thursday,
when all the opponents of the Government
united against M. Bibot and came within a
h&irsbreath of overthrowing him,.iodicates
io many a desire lor an immediate crisis.
Indeed, many give to Bibot's startling
speech of warning oh that occasion all tbe
importance of words which saved the French
Bepublic from disaster. Unfortunately,
the salvation was only for the moment; the
danger is as great as ever. Loubet was able
to get substantial Government majorities
several times within a week of his downfall,
and it is only a week since Bibot secured an
overwhelming vote of confidence, so the es
cape of Thursday by no means signifies
safety.
It is impossible to estimate the effect
upon public sentiment, if the idea gains
genera! credence that there is a plot against
the Government behind the scandalous dis
closures in Panama affairs. The French
are not conservative, and there is no deny
ing the vast disgust and indignation which
recent revelations have aroused. It is un
doubtedly the majority opinion that the
present Government is corrupt, even in its
highest posts.
France, now as always, demands an at
tractive, bold personality to make the idea
of revolution tolerable. It is impossible
to guess the plans ot the alleged conspira
tors, but the indispensible leader is not in
sight.
Itibot Strong, bnt Carnot Wealc
The idea, discussed quite freely within a
day or two, that the Chamber's Panama
committee woild attempt a coup d'etat and
seize the Government in the capacity of a
committee of public safety, nardly seems
.feasible. President Carnot is a weak man,
and his opponents know it, but Bibot is not
weak, and revolutionists would have him to
deal with. Bibot is alreadv fearfully
handicapped. The loss of 31. Bouvier from
the Cabinet, although nothing is proved
against him, is a severe blow to the
ministry, aud not within a dar or two even
Camot's name is not above public assault
There has been no sound reason advanced
for the attack upon the President. The
lact that he was intimately associated with
prominent persons whom' the public be
lieves to be guilty is hardly sufficient
ground for suspicion. It is now generally
understood that Carnot was opposed to the
wholesale investigation and public exposure
of the Panama scandal, but in view of the
threatened revolutionary consequences of
that exposure it is conceivable that his
motives may have been pure. Carnot,
however, is a weak man, and weakness is a
crime in times like these.
Imagine an American President sending
a message like that which Carnot tele
graphed to Jr. Tierard at Brussels on
"Wednesday: "If you do not accept the
Portfolio of France I shall resign to-morrow
morning."
C&rnot's Beslgnation Looked For.
There are constant rumors afloat to the
effect that Carnot will resign on account of
the manifold insinuations against him now
bruited about. It is the fashion for high
officials of France to resign when their
private character is assailed even by an
anonymous press, but such a sten by Carnot
just now would probably precipitate a
revolution.
Popular excitement Is at fever heat over
the arrests of. yesterday in the Panama
eases. It is not ton much to say that this
extreme step was taken as the only expe
dient that would save the Government and
the Bepublio itself! The rigorous severity
rhich accompanied tbe act was resorted to
lolely for the effect upon the public. The
Government is in absolute terror of "The
Thirty-three," as the Panama committee is
called", and it is designed to eclipse the
work of the committee in the public eye, if
possible, by a dramatic criminal prosecu
tion of tbe'distinguished prisoners yester
day consigned to cells. More victims or
defendants will probably be insisted upon
and provHed, ami. rumor already names
certain bankers of world-wide fame.
The Pjris correspondent of The Dis
patch telegraphs to-day that secret bnt
most vigorous preparations are being made
by the Government to guard against n
coup d'etat. The pi elects of nearly all
the provinces of France were summoned to
the MinItry:of the Interior yesterday and
to-day, and explicit instructions were given
for guidance in case of an uprising. It is
understood that the monarchical parties
ate most feared, but whether the Govern
ment has definite information about the
vast conspiracy which is so darkly hinted,
nobody can learn.
Hopes Raised High In Madrid.
A dispatch from Madrid says that tbe
friends of the Orleans family in Spain are
highly elated over the situation in France,
and that councils are being held there
from which important results are expected.
It is difficult to conceive how the Count of
Paris can in any way profit by tbe situation
as it exists to-day.
It is an hour of suspense in Paris. The
Cabinet and the Panama Committee have
each decided not to resign. The struggle of
Thursday is by both sides regarded a drawn
battle, but if it bad not been for the votes
of the Cabinet Ministers themselves, tbe
Government would have fallen. The Goifr
ernmeut has undoubtedly strengthened
itself for the time being by thje arrests. The
next move in tbe vast drama is awaited
with anxious apprehension.
The idea of great and mysterious in
fluences back of current events is taking
possession of the people, and the vague
suspicions to which it gives rise are foment
ing a most dangerous state of public
opinion. It seems hardly reasonable, bow
ever, to take so alarming a view of the situ
ation as does the London Turns. The Paris
correspondent of that paper to-day says:
"Lite in Paris at this moment is like being
on board ship in a frightful storm, when
each moment the vessel may be dashed on a
reef."
The same paper says editorially: 'It is
hardly possible to "exaggerate the gravity
of the present situation for the Bepublic
and lor France."
Serious Apprehension In England.
The general continental situation is be
ginning to excite serious apprehension in
England, where it would be difficult to cre
ate a popular war scare short of actual hos
tilities. "Wolf" has been cried too many
times for that. The rather alarmist utter
ances of .Mr. Balfour at Sheffield, the other
day, are, however, of considerable signifi
cance, albeit his evident desire to draw at
tention away from internal political issues
detracts somewhat from the weight of his
words. It would be folly, he said, to look
forward with confiJence" to an indefinite
future of Xuropean peace. "Our very
existence," he went on, "depends upon
our foreign policy, and upon those imperial
forces without which any foreign policy is
an absolute impossibility. Unless the
country not only recognizes the responsibil
itytwhich may at no distant date be thrown
on the Government of the day. but also
faces the fact that year by year the House
of Commons must keep up a critical obser
vation on onr means of defense which are
indistinguishable from our means of offense,
the time may come when the foreign minis
ter, auxious'to do his duty and to support
those great traditions and those vast inter
ests which are committed to his charge,
may find that through tbe inattention of
governments our means of defense have
been allowed to sink into such a condition
that it would be madness to attemp to sup
port by force tbe national interest com
mitted to him."
A MISSIHG WORD GHABITY
Suggested as a Means of Disposing of About
6300,000.
tBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Lokdcct, Dec. 17. It would be interest
ing to know to what length the "missing
word" craze would have gone bad it been
permitted unrestricted development
The law stepped ia this week, and
a police magistrate pronounced the
competitions illegal, and the publishers
who managed the great popular gambling
schemes were only too glad to obey without
appealing to a higher authority. In one
office alone Wagers "were being sent in at the
rate: of $175,000 per week, and 65 girls hadr
beeaemployed to open letters and discount
bndaorl4sonpott. .
The proprietor of that papTr naturally
declares that he is glad to have tbe compe
titions stopped. The law has, however, put
him in a serious dilemma. He asked per
mission to finish the competitions actually
begun, including the distribution of last
week's fund of $125,000 to winners in
sums of (85 each. The Government
forbade it, and ordered that ail the
money be deposited in the Bank of Eng
land pending decision whether it shall be
forfeited to the crown under the lotteries
act It is impossible to restore the money
to the original competitors, because all but
the winning coupons have been destroyed.
More than $300,000 now awaits disposal,
and the newspapers suggest the founding of
a "missiug word" charities of one sort or
another, as a memorial of the national follv.
CHARCEEY COURT A DISGRACE.
One of Its Bllscarrlages of Justice During
the Pass Week.
rBT CABLE TO THE OISrATcn.J
London, Dec 17. Another striking
instance of the miscarriage of justice
which has made tbe English Court of Chan
cery a crying disgrace to civilization, went
npon record this week. A thrifty me
chanic two or three years ago married a
young lady who was a ward in chancery.
Her little fortune amounted to ?2,000, dad
the costs of court in settling that sum upon
her, by the way, were $500.
A few months ago she became ill with
pulmonary affection, and her physician or
dered her to a warmer climate as the only
means of saving her life. Her husband
was poor and applied to the court for per
mission to use a portion of her funds for
the purpose of obeying the doctor's orders.
The court occupied six months in consider
ing the matter, and then denied the appli
cation and charged the dwindling estate
$400 for its judgment Meantime the poor
woman had died, as the doctors said she
would.
H0 STATUE OF DICKENS.
Why
lVondon Council Refused to Acpept
the Offer of an American.
IBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
LONDON, Dea 17. The London county
council has resolved that one of the death
bed wishes of Charles Dickens shall be re
spected. In his will Dickens expressed an
earnest hope that no statue of him would
be erected. He wrote: "I conjure
my friends on no account to make me the
subject of any monument, memorial or tes
timonial whatever. I rest my claims to the
remembrance ol my country upon toy pub
lished works, and to the remembrance of
my friends upon their experience of me."
When, therefore, an offer lrom Elwell,
an American sculptor, of a statue of the
great novelist, came before tha council this
week it was almost unanimously refused. .
TURNING ON UNCLE SAM.
Europe FrotesU Against the States Shutting
Out Immigration.
rBT CALLE TO THE DISrATCH. J
London, Dec 17 A Vienna dispatch
has it that the Cabinets of Europe are ar
ranging lor a united protest against the
threatened restrictions upon Immigration in
America.
The organ of the Austrian foreign office
recently argued that the applicstion of the
methods used in America against the
Chinese coolies to the case of Europeans
was unworthy of a civilised country like
tue States, and that tbe Insult involved in
shutting the door in the face of European
twijiuiH ,m tne uiurc gross oecause k
vias coupled with an invitation to visit the
Chicago Exhibition.
865,700 Cholera Deaths In Rnsila.
St. PETxnSBtTBO, Dec 17. Final official
statistics of the cholera epidemic in Bunia
have been iisned. According to these
figures, there have been 130,417 deaths from
European and 135,343 deaths from Asiatic
cholera since the outbreak of the disease In
the empire, making a total of 265,760
deaths. .
AMERICAN GOLD NEEDED
To Keep Up the Proper Style In the House
of Dufferin.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH
Losdon, Dec. 17. The Evening Nan
gently observed yesterday: "The forthcom
ing marriage of Lord Terence Blackwood to
Miss Florence Davis, of New York, though
in no sense a marriage of convenience,
will be useful to the house of
Dufferin from a money point of view.
Never very rich, Lord Dufferin has always
felt it his duty to devote the last farthing
of his diplomatic salary and allowances
to the purposes for which they
were granted those of representation
and though the offices which he
has held have been verv lucrative.
such as tbe Viceroyalty of India and the
Governor General of Canada and the am
bassadorships at Constantinople, St. Peters
burg and Borne, he has saved nothing. He
is a grand seigneur in his way, and, though
he receives 10,000 a year, with allowances,
as Ambassador to France, it is not likely
that be can put by any of this. He has an
estate in Ireland, but, as in the case of most
ot tbe great land owners of that island, he
is poor in respect of it
Lord Dufferin's experience is not ex
ceptional in tbe British diplomatic service.
Lord Augustus Loftus was a bankrupt, and
Earl Granville and Earl Lytton left their
families in very straitened circumstances.
The rich dowry of Miss Florence Davis
will not, under such circumstances, come
amiss to Lord Blackwood.
GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA.
Anarchists Abandon Tbelr Flans to Blow
Up All Ixmdon.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, Dec. 17. There it some reason
for believing that the Anarchists have
abandoned their intention to revenge the
action of the British Government in extra
diting Francois. They learned that the
police had gained more than an inkling ot
their plans, and it was further brought
home to them very clearly that such fool
hardy action would inevitably bring about
their complete expulsion from the only
European asylum left open to them. The
extensive preparations made by the police
indicated to the conspirators that they had
been betrayed, and, they had no means of
knowing how much they were compromised
by the secret information.
The fact remains that America is most of
all to be congratulated upon the failure to
blow up Loudon. If a single bomb
should be explodod in London the whole
demon horde would be driven to the United
States. Neither Belgium nor Switzerland
would tolerate them, aud they would have
no choice but to cross tbe ocean, if expelled
from England.
BULL FIGHTING STILL POPDLaB.
Some Figures on the Sport for the Fast Tear
In Spain.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, Dec 17. Judging by the fol
owing summary of the present year's bull
ring record in Spain, the sport is certainly
not failing in popularity. The" number of
first-class bull fights in important cities
has been 289, the bulls killed being
1,594. There have also been 307
fights of young bulls, -"novillos," in which
1,407 were slaughtered. Two men, pica
dors, were killed, and of tbe espadeas and
banderillos .16 were more or less seriously
'wounded. IneRchcoursB'froaikrto-'efghfI
duiis are aone io aeain,. dui recently, in.
Madrid a fight extended two days, in which'
i were finished off
Many of tbe enthusiasts judge the merit
of the fight by the number ot the horses
slain, and on some days 14 or even more are
gored to death by the long horns of the
Spanish bulls. The bull ring in Madrid
holds 15,000 spectators, who are still ap
parently delighted with the spectacle in
which blood flows plentifully and aged or
unsound horses are disemboweled on the
sandy arena.
B0UHD TO SAIL OH THURSDAY.
A Passenger on the Teutonic Fays
ally for His Passage.
Eov-
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, Dec 17. The Teutonic, whioh
Sailed from Queenstown Thursday, carried
a passenger who paid well for the privilege
of crossing on that particular ship. His
name is Pizo, and he missed the mail train
at Dublin Thursday morning. He paid
$250 for a special train, and traveled the 180
.miles in the Unprecedented time of 3 hours
and zu minute.
The Teutonic was slowly steaming out of
the harbor when he reached Queenstown.
Piza hired a fast tug at the wharf and over
took the big liner, which stopped for him
just before reaching Boche's Point. His
lellow passengers received him with cheers.
Undertakers Quite Too Previons.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, Dec 17. There is no extremity
to which the English tradesman will not go
in these bard times, hence the frequent
newspaper complaint of late of the out
rageous practice of certain undertakers who
send insinuating circulars to families in
which there are cases of serious illness. In
two cases mentioned this week anticipatory
undertakers have been threatened with a
thrashing for their cold-blooded zeal.
A Warning to lVondon Newsies,
tBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, Dec 17. English justice
jealously protectseven the halfpennies in
the pockets of its citizens. Two newsbovs
who cried ''Dying Confession, of Mrs. May
brick" on the streets this week have been
committed for obtaining monsy by false
pretenses. Their explanation 'that they
mistook "condition" , for "confession" in
the headlines availed them nothing.
The place to bny fine diamonds, watches,
Jewelry, silverware, etc., s whero vou can
net tbe best selection and lowest prices, and
that Is at M. G. Cohen's, S8 Fifth uveuue.
Call and see tor jourself. Our goods and
prices win please.
THE OVERCOATS AND SUITS
We Sell at 83 and SIO Aro Just Proper
for a Christmas Present to Father or
Brother.
Nothlnsf would please half as much as a
good wurm overcoat or suit. All wool suits
for men nt $3 and $10 for holiday week.
Nice warm Ulsters nt 5 75, $8 and $10. Good
overcome at $3 and $10. Thousand to pick
from and prices especially low for holiday
week. P. C. C. C, coiner Grant and Dla-
mana streets, upen evenings.
Chairs, Couches, China
Closets, Desks
Tables,
And everything yon can think of. Onr ware
rooms not far from the central shopping
points. Take a look around, we may have
something to ploase you.
P. 0. ScnoiNEcc & boir,
711 Liberty street, opp. Wood.
CHRISTMAS.
Gloves, Gloves, Gloves. Gloves.
Mousquetaire. laced, button, all lengths,
all prices, all shades. Lodvbx,
Si Sixth street, directly opp. BIJon Theater
Tats week, a saving of S3 per cent nn our
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SILVER IS CHEAPER.
Sherman's Reason for Favorinq the
Repeal of the Act of 1890.
C0MIN& TO THE GOLD STANDARD.
Vigorous Language as to the Effect of the
Homestead Strike.
A TARIFF EEDUCTI0N SDRB TO COMB
tCORBESPONDEXCE OF THE riKPATflH. J
Washington, Dec ' 17. Senator Sher
man did not carry out some reports I bad
read that he avoided the topio of the elec
tion when I called on him for an interesting
hour last Thursday night. He is "not at
home" only when really not there, and
when engaged it is called by that name and
no other.
I observed a beautiful white house next
door to his and also next door to the un
changed house where Secretary Stanton
lived and died. It appeared to be of a pedi
mental center, with ajange of square bays
running almost to the sky line on one side,
and on the other a fine chimney 6f the same
Indiana Bedford stone rises like a shaft of
marble, while broad steps and balusters of
the same stone carry up to the central door.
An open recessed verandah is across the
middle at the third or fourth story.
"Do you expect to live there, Mr. Sher
man?" "I suppose I will, unless some one comes
along and gives me a good rent for it"
I referred to Spain, where I had been
since I last saw him, and told how the Bank
of Spain notes will not be changed by the
railway company for more than a few dol
lars of silver currency lowered.
An Uncertain Paper Currency.
"Ho worse distress can happen to any
people than to have a depreciated and un
certain paper currency, or variable standard
of value. Feeling that acutely I labored to
bring about specie payments when I was
Secretary of the Treasury, though many
good men thought I was inviting the ruin
of their investments. I was so settled in
the conviction that it would be best that I
felt almost angry with them."
"The silver conterence'has not come to
any conclusion at Brussels."
"I doubt if it can. Mr. Cannon, an in
telligent delegate lrom this country to it,
telegraphed me yesterday to inquire
whether the bill of Senator" Hill to repeal
what is called the Sherman act will be
passed, as had been reported there. I an
swered him that Congress nould take no
action before that convention concluded
its deliberations. But lam in favor mvself
of repealing the act of 1890. The fact is
that silver is going the way of other metals,
probably such as nickel" and copper find
iron. The methods now used to cheapen
the production of silver diminish its value
as a standard of coin, such as it had when it
represented a large percentage of labor. We
had copper once for coin, but its fall in
value was inevitable upon the cheapening
of its production and the quantity pro
duced. .Nickel, once a la 3U cents a pound,
has fallen to SO cents. Pig iron is worth
about $13 a ton, and steel rails, once a $100,
are now $30 a ton, or near a cent and a half
a pound. Kails, perfect nails at that.
superior to nails of other times, are but $2
a keg.
The World Inclines to Gold.
"The falling off of the cost oi production
in the other metals used for coinage has
produced a momentary appreciation of gold.
I think we will not be able to sustain -ourselves
against the financial attitude of the
commercial world, which Is inclined toward
the gold standard more rajther than less.
Europe is too closely connected with us to
allow us to be above her opinion."
"Will not the effect be to depreciate our
silver notes?"
"No. I took care in forming that act to
limit tbe issue of the silver notes to the
gold value of the silver bullion when pur
chased. All we could lose would be the de
preciation of the price ot silver below that
gold value at which we purchased the
bullion."
"Mr. Alfred Bothschild speaks of a prob
able panio to follow the cessation of the
purchase of "silver bv our Government"
1 think not We have $1,500,000,000 of
different sorts of currency, ample for all
uses, especially when we consider how
modern business usages have made a cur
rency for themselves. All but 2 per cent
of the business of Hew York is done in
checks, vast as that business is. The course
of events I apprehend will bring us the gold
standard like other countries,
Faying Off the Greenbacks.
"Suppose our people should become
alarmed and present the greenbacks for re
demption. We might pay them off a good
while in gold, or we miht finally say, 'We
will pay you in silver, but .we reserve what
gold-we have left and do not mean to pay it
out' In that way the public would be con
vinced that the two metals had a real differ
ence of value, and the extreme point of
divergence would be marked in the price of
each. Out of some $500,000,000 ot silver
the Government owns it has not been able
to force into circulation more than 57,000,
000 of silver dollars. The Bland bill pro
vided for the coinage of silver in the pro
portion of 16 to 1, not regarding the gold
value of the silver. Having given the ex
periment a full trial of purchasing silver at
the gold quotations for it, I think we need
go no further with it"
"Do you not consider that four years
will bring about a natural solution oi the
silver question?" ,
"It ought to. The 'President-elect is not
with the South and the silver States upon
that subject. They have long anted some
expansion in the South which shall pay
their bills and debts more easily, and
favored silver as one of the ways of attain
ing that end."
Manufacturers Must Pay Iiess Wages.
"Do vou think the Democrats will change
the tariff?"
"Yes, I think they will cnt it down.
While there are elements among them, in
the South as well as West and Horth, who
are opposed to it, it is the disposition of
Mr. Cleveland and of tbe support he re
ceived to reduce the protective tarifE Our
manufacturers will have to cut close to sus
tain themselves against Europe They will
have to pay less wages. The mill opera
tives, the labor which defeated us this vear
will be the sufferers by it, and they "will
come back to us again."
"I understand that the labor organiza
tions defeated the Bepublicans in Ohio?"
"rthlnkthevdidit When I left Ohio
just after the elcction.it was supposed we
had .the State by 25,000 majority. The
farmers stood by us. But losses in Cincin
nati, in Cleveland, 2,500 in Tolelo, losses in
Columbus and in Dayton tend to show that
we had been cut by organized labor. Which
had resented what they regarded as the harsh
and unjust proceedings ot Mr. Carnegie."
'Hie Pennsylvania strikes, then, were
felt In Ohio?"
"The action of the Carnegie firm seems
without excuse. With the greatest iron
mill, I suppose, in the United States, said
to have made a vast profit the year before,
they aroused into hostility the combined
labor of the country to save some $22,000,
not by a reduction of tbe general list from
any real necessity, but striking at nearly
every influential labor foreman and expert
in a most senseless way. The echo came
from our manufacturing centers in Onlo.
We could not anticipate it Fortunately,
the Democrats did not Both sides were In
the dark."
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field by the labor vote and opposition to his
competitor."
"Do you consider President Harrison's
renomination a wise one?"
"Yes. I think he was the logical candi
date. He acquitted himself well in his
speeches, often having a happy phrase. In
personal contact he does not take hold so
well. Perhaps his Cabinet was not more
personally influential. Many thought it
was a mistake not to have TenomiDated
Morton. Mr. Beid's nomination I think
also affected adversely the labor organiza
tions." "Yon were 'fortunate, Mr. Sherman, in
Hot heading the ticket this year?"
"O, yes, the result would have been the
same, no doubt My year should have been
in 1880."
"It is thought by some that Cleveland
will come bact here a good deal of a par
tisan?" "I don't believe it. Cleveland inclines
to free trade. But he is not with a large
portion ot his party in Congress on in
flation, or sliver, or the civil service. I feel
relieved that the pressure for place will not
fall upon us for four years, as I understand
it will be great pressure."
"How much longer do you sit in the
Senate?"
"Seven years. I shall not' enter on my
next term till next year. I have been well
sustained each time my election has been
made an issue."
How an Ex-President Should Elve.
T spoke of the hale appearance of Presi
dent Hayes at the Colnmbian celebration,
12.years after he retired.
"lbere is a man who lives, I think, as a
retired President with much satisfaction
and good sense. He has a comfortable, un
ostentatious place in the country, by a
town. He is worth, perhaps, $400,000. He
has a family, a library, health. He worries
about nothing. I think he is a good ex
ample of how-to live alter a retirement from
high public omoes."t
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in. CHHIS'I'JIAS PLUM PUDDmG AND THE ANCESTRAL VISION.
Some remarks upon Mr. Cleveland in
cluded the idea that he might have the
power to have a compromise administration
and create a new party out of parts of the
other two.
"Hof" said the Senator decidedly, "this
country cannot afford more than two par
ties." As I came awav, I took a closer look at
Senator Sherman's new house, the last that
is being erected by the old Bepublican
regime, except that of Senator Proctor. His
present house John Sherman bought during
the war when his hotel keeper at Wi Hard's
refused to board himself and wife during
the session of Congress for the entire Sena
torial pay of the Ohio Senator a reason,
one would think, for the back pay legisla
tion about 1871, which suspended many a
public career. .
Invested Heavily In Washington.
Mr. Sherman went out and bought a
house, and his inquiries into the subject of
real estate led him and his brother, the
General, to buy a tract of ground near the
old Columbian University. He has prob
ably his principal interest now in Washing
ton real estate. After living about 30 years
in the same block, he has put up there a
dwelling in the place ot a small cabin which
occupied the site.
The new house may be 35 or 40 feet wide
It will long be pointed, out as the last
material work of the restorer of specie pay
ments and longest Senator in continuous
record at the period of completing the fabric
of the nation.
He succeeded Senator Chase, went out
only to be Secretary of the Treasury, and
represents nearly 40 years of his party and
Ohio'in Washington. Thirty-five years ago
he was a candidate for Speaker ot Congress,
when Cleveland and Harrison were not of
legal age.
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Brooklyn Women Taking Up the Crusade
Against Bad Manners.
The women of Brooklyn are taking up
the crusade against spitting that has been
in existence in Pittsburg for the last year
or two. The principal thing that seems
to trouble the ladies of Brooklyn is
how the signs forbidding the filthy habit
shall he worded. One lady said that they
should say, "Expectoration is prohibited."
Another that "Men must not spit on the
floor" would be effective, while still an
other opined that the word "centlemen"
should be used instead of "men."
The woman who declared that the sort of
people who spit on the floors of cars and
other public places do not care whether
they are called "men" or "gentlemen," is a
sensible creature. We have a good many
such "men" in Pittsburg, and the efforts
of the lalie3 who have attacked the abuse
do not seem to have been as effective as
might be desired.
A 1WISISS IN BTJ3SIA.
Houses Blown Down and Many Persons
Killed and Injured.
St. Petersburg, Dec 17. A severe
tornado passed over Orel to-day. Hot
much damage was done in the town proper,
but in several ot the suburbs houses were
blown down and trees uprooted.
The damage was particularly severe at
Tazern, where many persons were caught
under the falling buildings and killed.
Dlvely for Judge Dean's Shoes.
Harrisburo, Dec 17. A petition
signed by over 4,000 citizens of St Clair
county, asking for the reappointment of A.
Y. Dively, of Altoona, as president judge
to succeed Hon. John Dean, of Hollidays-
.burg, Supreme, Judge-elect, was presented
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Physicians Start a Fund for a Bronze
Monument in Washington
AT A- COST OF 07ER 50,000.
Dime Banks to Be Distributed Among th
Children of the Land.
SIYEN BT THE LOCAL EOCIETl
A fund has been started to build a monu
ment in Washington, D. C, in honor of
Samuel Hahnemann. The preliminary cir
culars to the physicians were sent out last
week by Dr. J. H. McClelland, who is
chairman of the committee in charge. This
committee was appointed at a recent meet
ing of the American Institute of Homeo
pathy in Washington, where tbe resolution
that a national monument to Hahnemann
be erected was adopted. The committee
in laying its plans before the public, says ia
its circular:
Tho Columbian year 13 counted a moss
auspicious time to enter upon the project of.
raisin;; a monument to this veritable Colum
bus of medical discovery, andtnecommlttea
feels confident that tbe profession and tho
people will join with enthusiasm In doing
honor to the man whose learning and genius
brought about tbe greatest ra ormatlon In
tne Malory or medical science, oy tbe dis
covery or a rational theory of druz action.
The plans look to the erection of a beroie
statue in bronze upon a granite pedestal; a
grand work of arc which will make neces
sary a fund of from $30 0CO to $73,000. For
such a monument there will be no difficulty
In securing a most elegible site on one of tn
public squares ac tbe nation's capital
It is expected that not only those who
follow homeopathy will subscribe to this
monument fnnd, as it is not to be consid
ered as a monument of the school, but
rather as that of one of the world's great
reformers. That he is so held by the world's
great minds, eveu in the medical profession
of the opposite school, is evidenced in tha
words of John Syre Bristowe, M. D., m his
annual address as President of the British
Medical Association:
That be bad learning and ability and the
power of reasoning. Is abundantly clear. Ho
aaw through tbe prevalent therapentla
absurdities and impostures or the day: ha
lambed to scorn the complicated and loath
some nostrums wnicu, even at mac time,
disgraced tbo pharmacopoeias: and he ex
posed with no little skill and success tba
emptiness, and worthlessness of most of tlia
therapeutical systems which thenand there
torore prevailed.
The myriads of children whose lives have
been saved and who have been benefited by
tbe discovery of the new school will also bs
called upon to contribute toward the fund.
About 10,000 banks in the shape of cylin
ders, which will hold 50 dimes, will ba
made especially for distribution throughout
the United States, and the children will bs
asked to put their spare dimes in it for tha
purpose of honoring Hahnemann. Each
doctor in the country will be supplied with
a subscription blank on which he can ob
tain tbe signatures of his patients. These
will all be returned to the committee next
May, who will present their report to tha
institute.
J. Q. A. Warde, one of tha most cele
brated sculptors in the country, will proba
bly be given the woik. The statue will ba
designed alter that of Schiller at Frank-iort-on-lhe-Main,
Germany. A committee
is now at work in Washington procuring a
suitable site.
There are evidences of intense interest in
the movement, several thousands of dollars!
having been already subscribed. The Alle
gheny County Homeopathic Medical So
ciety subscribed $500 at its last meeting.
Harrison's Wyoming Plurality 828.
CnnXENNE, Wto., Dec 17. Following
is theyoto of Wyoming: Harrison, 8,3761
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