The Democrat.
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 18V0.
THE Coopersburg Sentinel gives utter
ance to this sensible declaration : " The
prosperity of a town is not gauged by the
wealth of its inhabitants, but by the uni
formity with which they pull together
when any important undertak'ng is to be
accomplished. A man with a thousand
dollars at his command and a love for his
town in heart, can do more for the up
building of it than the millionaire who
locks up his capital and snaps his fingers
at home progress."
SENATOR INOAI.LS, in a recent interview
whose authenticity has not been denied by
him, is reported as saying : " The Deca
logue and the Golden Rule have no place
in a political campaign. The object is
success." And again, " The purification
of politics is an irridescent dieam.'
These opinions are doubtlcsss held in se
cret and practised more or less openly by
all professional politicians, but not many
of them haye cynical frankness to avow
them in these plain terms. The purifica
tion of politics will doubtless continue to
be "an irridescent dream" so long as
Christian citizens help to elevate to posi
tions of power and honor men who do not
scruple to declare that the Decalogue and
the Golden Rule have no place in politics.
STATISTICS may be manipulated to prove
almost anything, but the figures lately
published regarding the Pasteur treat
ment of hydrophobia seem to be con
clusive as to the value of the discovery.
Between January 1, 1886, and December
81, 1889, there were 7,893 persons, bitten
by dogs supposed to be mad, treated at
the Pasteur Institute. Of these fifty
three died. Physicians are said to be
unanimous in placing the percentage of
deaths from such bites, where there is no
precautionary tieatnent, at not less than
15.90 per cent. That is to say, of these,
7,893 persons treated, 1,265 might reason
ably have been expected to die without
'he treatment. The great disproportion
between the expected deaths and the real
is seeming proof that the treatment was
efficacious, and that the value of the dis
covery made by M. Pasteur is very great,
A saving of 1,200 lives a year is certainly
no small achivement for a single man.
The extension of the treatment would
doubtless reduce the deaths in the world
from hydrophobiia to an inconsiderable
number.
PEOPLE must learn, if in no other way
than by experience. The thoughtful people
of the country, except those having a
pecuniary interest in the success of the
matter, have always been opposed to the
bounty system. The system is simply
this : Before the Government can pay
anyone a bounty it must first raise the
money by taxing the people. Thus the
system is virtually taking money from all
the people and giving it to one part of the
people that part may prosper. But why
give to a pal tof the people? What oue
part is more deserving than the other
parts? Why not give to all ? Take from
all and give to all—less the cost of collect
ing and disbursing—would according to
the theory of the bountyists be making
our nation prosperous. Did brainless
stupidity or subsidized private interest
ever attempt to insult the intelligence of
an enlightened people with a more absurd
measure ? Yet it is likely that the Amer
ican people will be obliged to have a trial
at lifting themselves up by their boot
straps in order to see the iniquity and ut
ter inefficiency of the bouuty system.
THE statistical report of the American
Iron anil Steel Association for 1880 shows
that 1889 was a prosperous year for iron
and steel manufacturers on both sides of
the Atlantic, and that the world's pro
duction of pig iron and steel in that year
was much larger than in any preceding
year. The present year has opened favor
ably for the iron and steel Industries of
the United States, Great Britain, and some
other countries as far as prices are con
cerned, and consumption of iron and
steel is still very active. The report con
tains tables showine the production of
iron ore, coal, pig iron, and steel by all
countries, from which it appears that the
United States now produces 28 per cent,
of all the iron ore that is mined 20 per
of all the coal, 30 per cent, ot all the pig
iron, anil 32 per cent, of all the steel that
is manufactured. The world's annual
production of iron ore is placed at 53,289,-
000 tons ; of coal 462,000,000 tons; of pig
iron, 24,869,000 tons ; of steel, 10,513,000
tans. The world's production of pig
iron has increased 76 per cent, since 1878,
and its production of steel has increased
in the same period 248 per cent., the
figures for 1878 being respectively 14,-
117,000 and 3,021,000 tons-
WILT HE EXPLAIN ?
The impression has got out that Mr.
Harrison in a course of an interview with
the Honorable Senator from Pennsylvs nia,
Matthew S. Quay, the other day, express
ed himself as disappointed that the latter
gentleman was making no defense against
the recent attacks on his int< grity by the
Hew York] World and other responsible
metropolitan journals. Mr. Harrison
thinks that the failure to answer the
Charges is working harm to his parly,
Owing to the fact that Mr. Quay, as Chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee is in a position that brings him
into intimate relationship with the Presi
dent himself and other men whose names
must, if the party is to succeed, remain
clear of any such [alliances. And now af
ter this gentle yet plain hint from the
Chief Executive, what is Mr. Quay go
ing to do about it ?
SOLDIERS' ORPHANS IN REVOLT.
Defying; Gov. Reaver and Other State Offi
cers, and Running Things Themselves.
The scholars In the Soldiers' Orphan
School at White Hall, a State institution,
have for sometime past been in open re
volt, and have not only defied the schoo'
authorities, but the State officers as well,
from Gov. Beaver down to State Inspector
Grier. When the famous investigation of
the soldiers' orphans' schaols of the State
was made during Gov. Pattison's admin
istration, the White Hall school was about
the only one where abuses were not
found. It was a model school. It was
run on contract with the State by Capt.
Moore. A year ago the State itself took
charge of the White Hall school. Capt.
Moore resigned. Since then, owing to in
competent or weak management, the
school has been growing lux in discipline.
On the Ist of January last, Capt. Finley I.
Thomas became manager of, the school,
lie was unable to control the boys in the
institution, and made J. W. Kline prin
cipal of the school. Kline tried his hand
at running the institution. The boys ob
jected to Kline and made it uncomfortable
for him in many ways, and one day last
month they broke out in open revolt.
Among the soldiers' orphans attending
the school are a number of girls. A boy
pupil named Charles Wolfe fell in love
with one of the girls. On the 23d of April
Principal Kline had occasion to punish
this girl. That aroused young Wolfe, and
he showed his opinion of the principal by
making a round of the school room and
smasning the slates and tearing up the
books. Principal Kline seized Wolfe
while he was engaged in this work, and
Wolfe promptly knocked Kline down.
Then Captain Thomas interposed his au
thority, but Wolfe drew a knife on him
and the captain retired. He had Wolfe
arrested and lodged in jail at Carlisle.
Wolfe got bail on Monday last and had
Principal Kline arrested for assault and
battery, and Kline had to give bail.
Following Wolfe's arrest the boys in
the school revolted, under the leadership
of pupils Krause, Kuntz, Page and Myers.
The school was a daily pandmonium un
til Wednesday of last week, when the
managers, finding that they could not con
trol the school, sent for aid to Harrisburg.
Secretary of Internal Affairs Stewart and
Captain George C. Boyer, members of the
Soldiers' Orphans' State Commission,
answered the summons. They cornered
the four ringleaders in the revolt, and,
being unable to bring them to terms, had
them placed in durance in one of the
rooms. This restored quiet for a day.
l'hen a new leader arose in the person of
Jim Leippy, a 15-year-old scholar. The
first demonstration was made last Thurs
day, when the school was called together
for evening prayer. Captain Thomas be
gan his prayer, when his scholars, both
boys aud girls, began to stamp their feet,
give cat-calls and make other noisy dem
onstrations. The exercises had to be
closed. Captain Thomas ordered the girls
to their rooms.
While the girls were going out the boys
began to bombard the manager and teach
ers with ink bottles, slates, and books.
One teacher was badly cut in the temple
by an ink bottle. The riot was finally
quelled and the boys left the room. One
of the teachers was waylaid by Leippy
and other scholars and beaten into insen
sibility. The entire force of teachers and
helpers succeeded in making Leippy and
three other boys prisoners, and locked
them up. From the room where he was
confined Leippy continually shouted
orders to the scholars on the outside for
them to carry out in acts of violence and
diaorder, which they promptly and per
sistently did.
This state of affairs continued until re
cently, when Gov., Beaver was sent for
He came to White Hall, accompanied by
States Commissioner Boyer. He had the
riugleadcrs in the trouble brought before
him, but they were as defiant and impu
dent and boisterous to the Governor as
they had been to the management of the
school, and he could do nothing with
them. They said Ihey they had no fault
to find with their food or clothing or
treame 11, but wanted more liberty. The
Governor, being unable to bring the boys
under discipline, he telegraphed for State
Inspector Grier. The Inspector reached
there on Sunday, and, after arguing and
pleading with the obstreperous ringlead
ers all day. had to give up and acknowl
edge that he could not cope with them in
that way, and declared that they must be
brought to terms by stiingent measures.
They were placed in solitary confinement
on bread and water. Leippy was willing
to surrender, and the rest also gave in.
They have been released, and matters are
now quiet. The State Commissioner will
take measures to have a change made in
the management of the school that will
restore the old discipline.
New Y. ILI'TuTTa* Morrellville.
Miss K. Foster, ol New Alexandria, or
ganized a promising Y. W. 0. T. U., at
Morrellville, April2sth, with the following
officers: President, Miss Etta Palmer ;
Vice President, Mrs. Rev. E. W. Rishel;
Secretary, Miss Lizzie Hill; Treasurer,
Miss Sadie Killen.
The first regular meeting was held
Tuesday evening May (ith, at the home of
Miss Maggie Cusic, Mrs. S. C. Tumor,
County Superintendent of "Y" work,
was present with words of advice and en
couragement.
The next regular meeting will be held
at the home of Miss Lizzie Hill, on Fair,
field avenue, May 20th. All young people
arc cordially invited.
Education does not seem to make peo
ple any the less superstitious. About
fifteen hundred different kinds of dream
books are in the market, and all of them
find buyers.
QUAY WILL NOT RETIRE.
A ovement to Dinplace Him as Chairman
of the National Committee.
WASHINGTON, May 11.— Politicians in
Washington arc still indulging in a great
deal of talk on the subject of the probable
retirement of Mr. Quay from the Chair
manship of the National Republican Com
mittee. Mr. Quay's friends say that he
has no thought of resigning. It is true,
notwithstanding, that there is a lively
movement on foot, inaugurated by the
men wlio'do not admire his methods, to
secure his removal. Mr. Quay is well
aware of this antagonism, and has said to
his intimate friends that he does not pro
pose to retire under (ire. It is possible
that if his colleagues on the committee
and other Republicans had not made a
personal fight upon him he would have
withdrawn from the management of party
affairs, but under the present circum
stances it is believed by well-informed
Republicans that he does not intend to
retire.
Senator Quay returned from Florida on
Wednesday and is looking morevigortous
than he has at any time for the past six
months. He privately says to his friends
that he is in very good shape to make a
fight on any one who wishes to criricise
his conduct as Chairman of the Com
mittee. The fight of the Republicans is
being made against the so-called combin
ation of Quay, Clarkson, and Dudley.
Their methods of managing matters are
not pleasing to other members of the
committee, who complain that they are
entirely ignored in the management of
party affairs. Some members of the com
mittee do not hesitate" to express their
dissatisfaction with Chairman Quay's
management whenever they have an op
portunity. It is'not likely that they ex.
pect to secure Mr. Quay's removal, but
they desire to place on record their
dissent from the manner in which he is
conducting the affairs of the committee. !
No well informed persons expect that he
will be deposed, but he will be informed
that he cannot longer ride rough shod
over the members of his own party.
Mr. Clarkson, the First Assistant Post
master-General, is spoken of as chairman
of the committee in case Mr. Quay decidis
that circumstances demand his retire
ment. Mr. Clarkson intends to leave the
Postoffioe department next month in any
event. He has always felt that he was a
little too big to be made First Assistant,
and that the proper place for him was the
Postmaster-Generalship. This was the
common understanding when be accepted
the appointment that Mr. Wanamakcr
would retire in a few months and make
way for the First Assistant. Mr. Wana
maker, however, has become so enamored
of public life and the allurements of
Washington society that he has never
shown any disposition to lay down the
burdens of his office. Mr. Clarkson has
decapitated all the Democratic fourth
class postmasters throughout the country,
and therefore finds his occupation practi
cally gone. He does not wish to remain
in the office as a figurehead, and so he is
going to retire. Whether he wi'l be se
lected to take charge of the Republican
National Committee depends upon the
amount of dissatisfaction with Mr. Quay's
management. Mr. Clarkson's friends say
that when he retires from official life he
will take up the management of a Repub
lican daily newspaper in the east, in which
it is understood that General Russell,
Alexander Alger, and] other Republicans
of prominence will own considerable
stock.
All the Same to Him.
One day, in the years gone by, when I
was on the editorial staff of a struggling
Denver daily, a man came tramping up
stairs with a copy of our last issue in his
hand and said:
"Gentlemen, I want to know who writ
this piece about me."
It was an item copied from a San Fran
cisco paper in regard to the hanging of a
man named Tom Smith by a vigilance
committee, and the editor looked it over
and replied:
" That wasn't writ about you. It is
about a Tom Smith who was hanged in
California."
" That's me. I'm Tom Smith."
" But you are not that Tom Smith. It
tells here how he was cut down and
buried." •
" Makes no difference to me. I'm Tom
Smith, and it is all a lie about my being
hanged," growled the visitor.
" Can't there be any other Tom Smith
besides you ?" demanded the editor.
" Never heard of any. That was writ
to slur mo.",
" You are mistaken, man. Can't you
see that we copied it from a San Fran
cisco paper ?"
" Well, that's all the same to me. The
idea was to ruin my reputation in this
town, and I've come up to lick both of
you."
He was proceeding to do it when a lame
compositor came in and shot him through
the left leg, but even after that he chewed
the old man's ear to a pulp and broke two
of my fingers.
All Esnay on Editors.
From the Williamsport Breakfast Table.
An editor is a man. He can bare more
ridicule than any other man, alive or
dead, and they never die in a lunatic
asylum. They often die in poverty as
well as in jail. There are many kinds of
editors—rich, poor, handsome, homely,
good, bad, shrewd, ignorant, civilized,
semi-civilized, barbaric, lying, snake,
city, managing, telegraphic, financial and
many other kinds. Then there is the
fighting editor. Many good citizens go
to him to have their hair combed. They
generally got it and then sue the editor
for libel and pay the costs.
THE AMERICAN LIFE SUSPENDS.
How the Financial Committee Ruined the
Company By Its Acts.
PHILADELPHIA, May 11.— The American
Life Insurance Company yesterday sus
pended in accordance with the writ of quo
warranto issued yesterday at Harrisburg
by Attorney General Klikpatrick, set vice
of which upon the officers of the company
was by mail. The writ was issued at the
instance of Insurance Commissioner
Forster upon information of the unsound
condition of tne company resulting from
an examination of its affairs by Mr. George
Tompkins, who was employed by the
Commlsioner for that purpose.
Although the dcors of the company's
offices were open to-day as usual, no busi
ness wa9 transacted. The only occupa
tion of the clerks was the telling to the
many callers that the company has sus
pended operations until the argument at
Harrisburg upon the writ, on the 19th
inst. When premiums were tendered by
policy holders the money was not taken.
The whole business of the company has
been, it wa9 stated to-day, under the con
trol of the Finance Committee of the
Board, but the Finance Committee was
composed of President Macfarlanc, of the
American Life, and President Pfeiffer
and Cashier Dungan, of the broken Bank
of America, and all of them were the
creatures of George F. Work.
Outside of those named the Board of
Directors was composed of very respect
able citizens who had a very slight inter
est in the Company, and who allowed the
U9e of their names and sanctioned every
thing the Finance Committee did. The
work of this Finance Committee during
the three years that the Macfarlane crowd
have had control of the Company has beeij
to strip the Company of all its first-class
securities and fill its vaults with stocks
and bonds of wildcat concerns chiefly or
ganized and owned by the same crowd,
and which never had any financial stand
ing-
The Insurance Commissioner has not
yet got through with his work of exam
iuation, but he has gone far enough to be
able to report to the Attorney General
that the concern has been fraudulently
conducted.
EXPLOSION IN A POWDER MILL, ,
One Man Killed and UIUMM Broken for
Miles Around.
CARBOXDALE, Pa,, May 11.—The Corn
ing mill of the Consumers' Powder Com
pany, near Peekville, blew up yesterday
with terrific force, wrecking the building
and killing an employe, Wi'llam Millett.
Tiic building was one of ten mills, and
the escape of many other men from the
fate of Millett is remarkable. The Corn
ing m 11 was ■ a large building strongly
built, because it was tlie most dangerous
one of the lot. It was in this department
that the powder was ground into different
sizes, and it is believed that the accident
was caused by the trietion of tin ma
chinery generating heat and lighting the
powder.
Millett was blown through the ronf,
fully a hundred feet into the air, and
when he fell to the ground a mass of de
bris covered him. His skull was crushed,
his throat was frightful.y toiu and liis
bones and flesh were otherwise broken
and bruised. He was a single man, 30
years of age. The explosion was heard
for many miles. Window glass in Peek
ville, Jessup and Wiuton was shattered,
and the concussion knocked dishes off
mauy shelves. The adjoining buildings
of the powder company were greatly
damaged, foundations were blown loose,
machinery was wrecked, buildings
shattered and the works generally demor
alized.
Persons who saw the explosion esti
mate the height at which some of the
fragments were hurled at nearly a
thousand feet. Many of tlie nieces went
out of sight. The loss to the company is
#25,000. In the expHded department
three men were emyloyed, but at the time
of the disaster they happened to be else
where. Only a short distance away were
standing Henry Belin, the bcif.nton
millionaire, President of the Company,
and other officials who were there in
specting the works. Had they been a
few feet nearer they might have been
killed by flying fiagments.
He Also Had Rules.
He had opened a restaurant in Buffalo,
and after two or three weeks he called at
a bank to get the cash on a small check
received from some one in Philadelphia.
" Have to be identified, sir," said the
teller as he shoved it back.
" But I am Blank of the new restaurant
around the corner."
" Must be identified."
" This is payable to me or order, and
I've endorsed it," protested the restau
ranter.
" Can't help it, sir. Rules of tlie
bank."
The man went out and brought some
one back to identify him, and the money
was handed oyer. Three days later the
teller dropped in for lunch at the new
restaurant. He had taken a seat and given
his order, when the proprietor approached
him and said:
" Have to be identified, sir."
"How! "What?"
" Have to be identified before you can
get anything here, sir."
" Identified? "1 don't understand you,'
protested the teller.
" Plain as day, sir. Rule of the house
that all bank officials have to be identified'
Better go out and find some responsible
party who knows you."
" Hanged if 1 do ! " growled the teller
and he reached for his hat and coat and
banged the door hard as he went out.
Both branches of the City Council me 1
last evening in their respective rooms.
President Donaldson occupied the cbatr
in the Common Council and President
Yeagley in the Select Council.
IN THE COMMON COUNCIL.
After some minor business had been at
tended to, Mr. Matthews presented from
a citizen of the Ninth ward a petition,
asking leave to use lot at corner of Hayncs
and Centre streets. Reported favorably
by committee.
Permission was given Wm. Tross to tap
the sewer of H. Lever good, leading into
the public sewer on Napoleon street, on
payment of proper frontage.
The ordinance in regard to obstruction
of sidewalks by merchants and others was
amended and passed two readings.
An ordinance prohibiting the posting of
bills on any public building, ielegraph |
electric light or telephone poles, and pro
viding for the punishment of violation of
said ordinance, passed two readings.
An ordinance providing for a temporary
municipal building for holding the Mayor's
court, city prisons, etc., passed two read
ings.
An ordinance prescribing the amount of
license to' be paid by shows, plays or ex
hibitions with in the city passed third read
ing.
An ordinance known as the building
permit ordinance passed third reading.
The Committee on City Property re
commended, if Select Council concur,
that two small Barnes safes be purchased
according to the recommendation of the
City Coutroller.
The resolution from Select Council in
regard to the lighting of the Twelfth
ward was concurred in.
An ordinance relating to the city prison
and the keeper thereof passed two read
ings.
The ordinance presenting the manner
in which accounts and claims shall be
presented for payment was acted upon.
Adjourned to meet on Monday evening
at 7:30 o'clock.
IN THE SELECT CNUNOIL.
The Committee on Rivers report on the
matter re-referred to them at a previous
meeting of Council. The report included
the two following self-explanatory letters.
JOHNSTOWN, PA., May 6.185)0.
.Mr. John Full oil. General Manager.
DF.AK SIR : We will agree to build the single
track railroad bridge across the conemaugh at
Woodvale, good and substantial, suitable for the
purpose for the sum of si,ooo,
We have the timber here In our yard and could
erect It in a very short time.
Respectfully Submitted,
HOOVER, HCUHES & C'o>
JOHNSTOWN. May a, 1800.
.1 U'.carulrr Kennedy, Esq., Johnstown , Pa.
DEAR SIH : I enclose you proposition from
Messrs. Hoover, Hughes & CO., for tho construc
tion of a bridge over the conemaugh river, so
as to make an embankment at the east end of
Woodvale. This proposition leaves open the
way for the laying of a track. All that the
Cambria Iron company will require Is for the
City to pay for the labor of laying down the
track, and will not charge It for any material.
The added condition Is that If a ilood spould In
jure the bridge the city would be charged for
the repairing of It.
It would be well to have this work done In the
dry portion of the year so as to avoid the risks
of Hoods as much as possible.
Very Kespectfully,
JNO. FULTON, General Manager.
Mr. Bairy ir.troilncecl an ordinance, a
supplement to the license tux ordinance.
Passed two readings.
Mr. Brixner introduced an ordinance
creutiug a Board of lleal'li. Passed two
readings.
Mr. Kennedy introduced a resolution
granting a permit to John Tross to tap
the Nepoleon si reel sewer.
Mr. Barry offered a resolution to pro
vide lights for I he Twelfth ward. Referred
to Committee on Water and Lights.
An ordinance providing for the opening
of streets and digging into the same,
passed third reading
An ordinance relating to shows and ex
hibitions and requiring a license for the
same passed third reading.
Mr. O'Shea moved an amendment to
section eleven or the nuisance ordinance,
providing tlmt no slaughter house shall
be permitted or erected within one hun
dred feet of any residence.
The ordinance prohibiting the postvig
of bills ou the public buildings, telegraph,
telephone and electric light poles passed
third reading.
The building permit ordinance passed
third reading.
The ordinance in relation to building
the city prison, room for Mayor's court,
etc, passed third reading.
Dog registration ordinance referred to
Committee on Police, in conjunction with
the City Solicitor.
Adjourned to meet on Monday evening
at 7:30.
A Roinatlc Marriage.
Hlairsville Enterprise.
Miss Emma Sensabaugb, some years ago
a resident of Blairsville and a graduate
of the Blairsville Seminary class of 1871,
was married a short time ago to Alexander
Ransome, a full blooded Mohawk Indian.
Miss Sensabaugb has been for a long
time engaged in teaching the English
branches to the Indian boys in the Edu
cational Home in Philadelphia, in which
Ransome has been a pupil for about five
years. He is said to he a fine looking
young man of 27 years of age. He learned
the trade of harness making while in the
institution, and is employed in a shop in
the city. The bride and groom have gone
to housekeeping in a modest way on New
street. We wish them all joy.
The new street railway has reached tie
upper end of Morris street, and it looks
as if both tracks were to be laid on that
street. One ot the overhead wires was
put in place on that street yesterday.
Subscribe for the Democrat.
CELLAR DOORS AND AWNINGS. '
As They are Usually Constructed They a e
Nuisances and Should Receive the Atg
tentlon of Councils.
The large projecting and overhanging
awning that comes within six feet of the
sidewalk should bo abolished. On wet
days or to ladies with parasols there is no
greater humbug or annoyance than the
awning that catches the umbrella or the
parasol. To say nothing of the irritation
of temper and consequent dangerous ten.
dcncy toward profanity—in the case of
the male sex—they offer serious obstruc
tion to passing crowds at such times and
help to blockade the sidewalks. No awn
ing should be allowed to come within nine
feet of the pavement. It is to be hoped
that enough members of Council will see
the propriety of the proper restriction of
these nuisanees to have the necessary leg
islation enacted to banish them. '
One more thing needs consideration,
and that is the projecting cellar door, or
the cellar door with projecting hinges.
Who, in walking along our streets, hasn't
struck them, and who does'nt want to see
them go ? Banish them also.
An ordinance should be passed requir
ing property owners to construct cellar
doors no part of which when closed shall
net be flush with tho sidewalk. And the
sooner such an ordinance is passed the
better it will be for the city.
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WON A FORTUNE AND A HRIDE.
Fulfilment of an Ergageinent That Has
Lasteil for Nineteen Years.
NORWICH, May 11.—The porch of an
old-fashi incd farm h mse in the neigh
boring town of Otselic was recently the
scene of the fulfilment of one of the long
est marriage engagements on record.
Nineteen years ago Miss Delia Newtop,
then 17 years of age, lived with her par
ents in the house. In a neighboring farm
house lived Arthur R. Tucker, who had
just attained his majority. The pair had
been playmates and were lovers. The
young man was poor, and lie decided to
go to Virginia and seek his fortune, and
when he had acquired it return and claim
the girl as his wife. The lovers parted at
the porch of the old farm house, he giving
and she accepting a plain gold ring as a
mutual pledge of enduring affection and
constancy.
The young man settled in Richmond,
and buckled bravely to work. But fate
was cruel, and for many long years sick
ness and other misfortunes interposed a
bar to the nuptials. At last his luck
changed, and he struck a high tide of
prosperity. Then he hastened back to
Chenango county to claim the betrothed
who fcr nineteen years had faithfully
awaited his coming. They were united in
wedlock by the Rev. J. A. Packard in lie
porch of the old farm house where they
had parted, the well-worn betrothal ring
serving as a marriage ring.
AMERICAN STEEL.
Interesting Statistics Concerning Last
Year's Productions.
The total pig iron production in the
United States in 1880 was 8,516,070 tons,
against 7,268,507 in 1888; of Bessemer
steel ingots, 3,281,820 tons, or 400,000 tons
more than for the preceding year; of rolled
iron, 2,576,127 tons, or 200,000 more thaii
in 1887, and of rolled steel, except rails,
1,584,364 toos, or 380,000 tons more than
ever before.
In view of the fact that some years ago
it was prophesied that Chicago would be
come the center of the steel-making busi
ness of this country, it is interesting to note
a few comparative statistics. The pro
duction of pig iron in Allegheny county
for 1889 was 1,293,435 tons, or more than
twice the product of 601,035 tons in tho
entire State of Illnois. The total of rolled
irou produced in that county was 638,450
tons, or live times the product of 126,283
tons in Illinois. The total production of
ail kinds of steel was 1,105,573
tons, against 601,172 tons in Il
linois. Chicago can do some things on a
great scale, but as a steel-maker she falls
behind the Pennsylvania town known as
Pittsburgh.
THE NEW H. & O. SCHEDULE.
The Changes Tliac Went Into Effect Tester
day on That Road—The Sunday Trains.
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A new schedule went into effect yester
day on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Among other changes is a Sunday train,
arriying here at 7.55 A. M. and 6.15 p. M.,
and leaving at 8.30 A. M. and 6.30 p. M.
On secular days the train will arrive at
this city at 7.25 A. M. and 1.30 p. M., and
leave at 7.45 A. M. and 2 p. M The
marked changes are the Sunday train and
the departure of the week-day train for
the South one hour earlier than formerly.
Quay and His Protege.
WASHINGTON, May 13. G. W. Dela- i
mater, who aspires to be Governor of
Pennsylvania, is among the arrivals in
town last night. He registered at the
Arlington, but went at once to the resi
dence of Quay, and was closeted with the
Boss for more than two hours. The sub
ject of discussion was the bitter factional
fight now in progress in the Republican
party in Pennsylvania. Delamater is be
ing bard pressed at home and but a few
more weeks remain of tho canvass for the
nomination. He will probably return
home to-morrow, and Boss Quay is
booked for a visit to the State on Friday.
The Boss, by the way, is in poor health.
He looks wretched, and is arranging, it is
said, for another fishing trip.
Sunday Excursions on the B. & O.
The management of the Baltimore &
Ohio, believing that many people in this
city and vicinity would take advantage of
such opportunity, has decided to sell ex
cursion tickets to and from Johnstown at
one fare for the round trip.