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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-08-13

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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-08-13

az was troubled with Catarrh for over two
years. l tried various remedies and was
treated by number of physicians, but re-
ceivcd no benefit until began to take Ayers
Sarsaparla. \ few bottles of this medicine
cured me" Jesse NJ. Boggs, Holmau's Mills,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-08-13
Ladies' Hair Work.

February 10, 1SS9-y.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-08-13

'.HACKMETACK." lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price % and 80 cents. Sold by c.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

DR.. CHARCoT, the famous French doctor, IL
opposed to the admission of women to his pro
| fession.
THE Emperor of China has 80 physicians and
surgeons in his household. Notwithstanding
which he is frequently i'll.
Mr.. GLADSTONE lunched in Jupiter's Tenn
pie at Pompeii on Tuesday. While in the his
tor1c town the Homeric scholar witnessed an
interesting excavation.
NJ. JACQUES, who is opposing General Bou.
LANCER in the Parliamentary contest in the De.
partment of the Seine, is a rich distiller, but
politically he is comparatively unknown.
THE Rev. Mother Mary Aloysius O'Connell
has just died in her 73d year, in the ST. Bede's
Convent of Mercy, Sunderland, England. She
came from Cork in lS43. at the foundation of
the convent and continued in charge until her
death. She was cousin of the great Daniel
O'Connell,
A WASHINGTON man, Major ]. h. Slime, is
making a collection of branches from trees that
grew on the great battlefelds of the late war.
He has just received from Virginia friend
pieces of pine from Charlottesville, cedar from
Slaughter's Mountain and from Hancock s
winter quarters in lS69-&
CHIEF among Boston's capitalists is Mont
gomery Sears, whose vast holdings Of valua-
BILE real estate give him claim to be called
the Astor of the modern Athens. He inher-
tied $1,000, 900 a few years ago from his father,
Joshua Sears who came to Boston without a
penny and established small grocery business.
JAY GOULD has been ordered to the South
by his physician, DR.. John P. Mum. Prepara-
tions have been in progress for the trip for
some little time and start will be made almost
Immediately. His younger children will ac-
company him as far as the White Sulphur
Springs, in Virginia. While no great peril
threatens Mr.. Goulds life, his physician will
insist on an extended tour through the semi
fror1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
PARTIsANsHIp AND NEW STATES.

The bill which the House has passed for
the admission of new States, while it has
been held up as an indication of readiness
to perform long-delsyed act of justice to
the Territories that were qualified for State
hood, is in reality reassertion of the old
platform Of the Democrats, that they will
not aid in the admission of new States un.
less they can get something out of it for
themselves
Briefly stated, the bill offers to the Senate
the proposal that South Dakota, with per-
manent and growing population of over
350, 900, can come into the Union if she is
yoked with Montana, which has a popula-
tiOn of 100000, largely of the mining class,
which the example of Nevada shows is not
to be depended on. These are for immediate
admission, while for the future, Washing
ton with 100000 and North Dakota with
go, 900, must be saddled with New Mexico,
which has 175, 900, three-fifths of which is
of the Mexican and halfbreed stamp that is
wholly unfit for citizenship. Such propo-
sition, which can only delay the admission
of the Republican Territories six months,
reveals partisanship in its most impotent
form.
1t is pity that the Democrats could not
have shown, in the last session that they will
control the House, enough ability to rise to
the level Of craftsmanship and offer meas
ure presenting the standards Of population,
wealth and enlightenment which should
admit any State to the Union.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
THE NEW WASHBURN.

The selection of Washburn by the Re
publican caucus on the United States Sena-
torship from Minnesota, and this time the
Millionaire Washburn, affords ground for
some curious speculations, in view of the
previous announcement that Ignatius Don
nelly and the Farmers Alliance would be
able to control the election. 1t hardly
seems that the leader of the millers' COM
bination to make wheat cheap and -four
dear would be persona grata to the Farmers
Alliance; while Donnelly's famous express
sion of opinion concerning the predestin-
alton of the Washburns for Congressional
positions, while it will not bear publication,
is calculated to create the opinion that the
cipher discoverer would not rally to the sup
port of the new representative of money in
the Upper House. Has Washburn devel-
oped cipher in the Senatorial canvass that
convinces Donnelly, or beats him? Or is
more music still to be heard from Minnesota,
with the granger element interposing its
veto on the further reinforcement of the
money-bag contingent in the Senate?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
THE PEOPLE ON PROHIBITION,

The commencement of a series of articles
giving the local views of the various eoun-
ties in the State on the question of prohibi-
tion, appears in another column. The view
of Washington county is presented in this
article, and it is hardly necessary to state
that the Washingtonians are true to their
name in being strongly in favor of the pro-
hibition amendment. That tendency of
opinion may be regarded as typical of a
leading class in the rural districts of West
ern Pennsylvania, though it may we'll be
doubted if it is as strong anywhere in the
State as it is in Washington county. THE
DISPATCH will continue its researches into
the opinion of the State until all sections of
the Commonwealth are heard from, and our
readers will have very good chance to
learn how the verdict of the people will be
given on the question next June.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, JAN. q, 1889.
THE VANDERBILT PURCHASE.

The announcement that the entire Hos
letter interest in the stock of the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad has been closed out
to the Vanderbilts is the new point in the
business movements of the day which will
set Pittsburg on the Qui vive this morning.
Speculation as to what it means will vary
widely, and it will probably remain moth
ing but speculation until the future develops
the Vanderbilt policy in this section.
We are inclined to augur favorably from
this increase of the Vanderbilt interest in
Pittsburg's railroad. The old fear that the
Vanderbilts would repeat the South Penn
operation and turn over the property to
Pennsylvania Railroad control, has been
allayed by the policy of the present genera
tion of Vanderbilts. They have completed
the Beech Greek road and made it a profit
able investment. They profess readiness
to do their share to carry out the South
Penn enterprise in good faith to their
partners in the project
In connection with these facts this addi-
tional investment in the road which will be
connecting link in the new through line,
may be regarded as evidence that the Van
derbilts are in the Pittsburg railroad bust
ness to stay, if not to expand.
1t is quite possible to deduce from this
purchase the expectation of prompt COM
pletion of the South Penn or of connecting
road between the Beech Creek road and the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie, or possibly both.
But it may be wiser to let the future show
what will be done in that direction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
THE WAY TO DEAL WITH IT.

The people of New Hampshire seem to
have no trouble in solving the White Cap
question. That is the fair conclusion from
the report of what one village has done upon
the appearance of that epidemic.
Some one in that vicinity conceived the
idea that it would be very nice to frighten
the public by the anonymous letters with
which this class of law breakers threaten
people under pretense of regulating public
morals Their career had not gone beyond
the distribution of the letters, however, be-
fore some sharp detective work was done,
and 13 persons were lodged in Jail under ar
rest for conspiracy. By the time they have
served term in the workhouse, it is safe to
say they will be cured of all tendencies to-
ward nightriding and whipping women.
Governor Foraker, and all advocates of
the policy of making agreements with ire
spectacle citizens" who adopt the tactics of
organized rufianism, will please take notice
that the way to deal with White Caplsm, is
to have vigorous system of laws and en-
force it without fear or favor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
wanted, the excuses for it would be far more

wanted, the excuses for it would be far more
plentiful than the money.
The great recommendation to such a meas
ure would be that it would put the exercise
of suffrage in its proper light, that of duty,
and would remove the error that it is priv
ilege. The great majority of the women
who are asking for suffrage consider it in
the latter light, and many of them say that
they are not certain that they would vote,
but they want the right if they should
choose to exercise it. We have too many
voters of that sort already. The men of in
telligence and culture who fail to perform
their duty, and SO leave elections to the con-
troll of the ignorant and vicious, would be
informed by law of this sort that they
must do their duty in voting just as they
must in paying taxes.
The weak point of such a law is that
afforded by the question whether it would
be enforced. Would the influential and
wealthy citizen who stays away from the
polls be punished, or would the law, as so
many of our statutes do, fall promptly to
the status of dead letter?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
SCOTT NOT OUT Of POLITICS.
The Story That He is Has a Somewhat
Antique Flavor.

Antique Flavor.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, January 2O-The Herald, a
Sunday morning Democratic newspaper of this
city, has the following this morning: "The cor
respondents who predicted that Hon. William
L. Scott was about to retire from politics will be
surprised to learn that he was elected last week
a member of the Democratic State Committee
of Pennsylvania. Also. that instead of aban-
doning the tariff reform, that committee have
passed resolutions favoring it. That
Mr.. Scott will not retire from pol
itics have from very intimate
political friend of the member from Erie. Just
such talk was heard about Mr.. Scott in 1877,
and it grew out of Mr.. Scott's disgust at the
abandonment of the constitutional method of
settling the disputed Presidential election. He
was then in favor of seating Tilden, and because
it was not done some people said at the time
that he would give up politics. Again, in 1880.
an attempt was made to shelve him. After
fight and a compromise at the State Conven-
ton at Harrisburg he was sent as Delegate at
Large to Cincinnati, the representative of the
III den-Randall combination. After the nomi-
nation of Hancock, an attempt was made to
force him to withdraw from the position of
member of the National Committee, and to
substitute Wallace in his place. This he de-
cined to do, and then, after the Hancock cam
paign, it was said that he was out of politics.
"Once more, in 1884. when Wallace was put
to the front, ostensibly as the Pennsylvania
leader, Mr.. Scott took vigorous part in the
campaign. contributing more money, it is said,
than anyone else, and doing great deal of
hard work. And now the same story Is going
the rounds, equally devoid of truth, that Mr..
Scott will go out of politics because Mr.. Cleve-
land failed of election on the tariff reform
issue I predict said my informant that Mr.:
Scott will be on hand at the next National
Democratic Convention and play his part in it.
His health is not so infrm as some Of his
enemies say it is-in fact, all he needs is such
rest as he can take whenever he feels SO dis
posed He is not at all disheartened by the
result of the campaign, which he doesn't con-
tariff reform issue,'"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
HAVE WE GOT TO FIGHT.

The intelligence from Samoa, which was
published in yesterdays issue of DISPATCH,
indicates that the nation is confronted with
graver crisis than it has known in its
foreign relations since the days of the Civil
War. 1t is doubtful whether even the Vir-
ginius dispute or any international ques-
tion since the days of the Trent capture,
equaled in gravity of consequences the in
suit which the United States is reported to
have received at Samoa.
Unless the report is wholly and Intentional
ly exaggerated, the German forces at Samoa
have not only disregarded the treaty be-
tween the three civilized Powers, but have
insulted, fred upon and destroyed property
under the protection of the United States
flag. 1t might be hoped that the re-
port was untrue, if it were not
that the ruling powers Of Germany have
lately taken no pains to conceal their con-
tempt for Government which makes so
little preparation for war as ours does.
The administration by ordering all avail
able vessels on the Pacific coast to proceed
at once to Samoa, indicates the possession
of official intelligence that conveys grave
news.
OF course if we submit to open insult such
as this we only invite further aggressions
from a republic-hating Government like
Germany. 1t is a very different matter to
deal with than that of Hayti. Our knowl-
edge of this difference, and the close ap-
proach to pusillanimity, which has marked
our conduct in the Samoan difficulty has
probably gone far to create the idea among
the Germans that we will accept almost any
outrage meekly. 1t is time to correct that
notion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
COMPULSORY SUFFRAGE

Governor Hills recommendations for bal
lot reform have provoked a good deal ol
sarcasm which is not unjustifable, in view
of the source from which they come. 1t is
justice, however, to recognize that he made a
novel and pertinent suggestion in recon-
mending an enactment for compulsory vot-
ing.
This is presented as means of removing q
cause for large amount of corruption.
With q fine imposed upon every elector who
fails to vote, unless prevented by sickness
or unavoidable absence from his place of
residence, the excuse for raising large sums
Of money "to get out the vote" would, it is
argued, be taken away. We doubt whether
that argument is well-founded. There are
plenty of other excuses for raising big cam
paign funds; and when the money was
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21

THE last stroke of policy on the part of
the young German Emperor is to dismiss all
the French cooks in the Imperial employ
and to substitute for them native Germans.
Possibly this may be explained on the
ground Of an indigenous taste for saur kraut
and wurst; but it looks like the outbreak
of spirit which may vet forbid tailors and
modistes from using French chalk in mark
ing out their patterns. With the imperious
masters of Germany putting both France
and the United States under the ban, the
two great republics may take the notion of
presenting their claims to respect in joint
form.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
SENATORIAL AMUSEMENT.
Eight Divorce Cases for Canadian Senators
TO Deal With.

OTTAWA, January 2O-The hoary-headed old
Senators of the Dominion Senate have rich
feast in store for them during the coming
session Of Parliament, which meets here on the
3lst instant. They will have eight divorce cases
to deal with. and if there is any one part of his
legislative duties that Dominion Sena-
tor enjoys more than another it is the Divorce
Committee. Every divorce case has first to 20
through the Senate, the only legislation which
is initiated in that chamber. After it passes
the Senate it goes to the House of Commons in
the form of bill, and, if passed there, it
becomes law on receiving the signature of the
GOvernor-G General.
There are several which might be called
toney cases to come up this session, re-
dundant with spicy evidence, in which the old
Senators revel. l say old, because the average
age of a Canadian Senator is 65, while several
of them will never see 80 again. The Middleton
case, In which the nephew of General Sir
Frederick Middleton is suing for divorce from
his naughty wife for running away with bank
clerk, will rank among the pithiest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
A NEW BUSINESS.
Insurance Companies Taking Charge of the
Shipment of Money.

Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, January 20.-A new business
enterprise has been disclosed to your CORE
spondent. The insurance companies, it seems,
have taken away from the express companies
of recent days much of their business in trans
porting money. The Postofice Department
will take money in small sums only for trans
mission through the mails. and even then it is
accepted through the owners risk. The ex-
press companies transport money in any
quantity, and assume all risks of loss. Now
the insurance companies have stepped in and
undertaken to insure those who ship money bv
mail against all loss by theft or otherwise, and
they do it for about one-half the sum which
the express companies charge.
There are disadvantages connected with the
new system. The money to be shipped must be
counted by notary public who seals the en-
velope. and sees that 1t is posted. The assur-
ance OF this notary, made under oath, is the
warrant of the insurance company for enter.
ing the amount on their open policy as a regu-
lar risk. Then, in case of loss, there is the
usual insurance delay of 30 to 80 days before
the amount is made good. Still the new sys-
TEN has proved sufficiently popular to take
from the express companies about one-half of
their business in the transportation of money.
Hereafter the willy road agent will not pay so
much attention as heretofore to the express
car, and he will betray livelier interest in the
car that carries the mail.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Oufrages In Samoa.

To the Editor of the Dispateh:
As an American citizen 1 respectfully ask
your kind permission to express my opinion
about this outrageous Samoa insult. Don't let
Us be bluffed by that much overrated and ar
rogant German statesman who has been made
famous by a victorious army, and whose men,
tai capacities are not above those OF our es-
teemed Ben Butler, whose image he very
nearly represents. We must recollect that
Germany played the bluff game on Spain only
a few years ago, trying to annex the Caroline
group. SPAIN however, showed night ana Bis
marck wandered, disgraced, to Rome, oegg1n
the Pope to arbitrate. Let 1t be remembered
that our Minister. A. A. Sargent, was grossly
insulted at the Court of Berlin five years ago.
The Deutsche IdgebldIt called him toelpel,
railroad swindler, etc., because Sargent dared
to defend the American flag and American IN
terests in general. A high tariff is put on our
products such as petroleum and cereals, and
everything American Is smitten and talked
down whenever slight occasion is offered.
Our navy Is weak, but five times stronger
than that of Spain, and sufficiently strong TO
drive German commerce off the ocean in less
than year. The loss of commerce would cost
Germany at least 00O 900 900 of marks annually.
We need not fear that German force will
bard few Insignificant ports, inflicting dam
ages of a few millions of dollars to our own
citizens; but, In any event, it is better for the
United States to pay few millions indemnity
to its own citizens than to be the target of in
suits from an insolvent foreign nation.
A CITIZEN.
ALLEGHENY, January 49,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21

THE recent touch of blizzard in the
Northwest does not seem to have had vital
ity enough to reach this section. The ther-
mometer went down to 36 degrees below
zero at Winnipeg, which was sufficient to
raise general hope of an ice crop in the
Northern tier of States. Probably yester-
days snow storm was the southern edge of
that cold wave; but SO far at least, the stock
of gelidity in the latitude of Pittsburg has
not been increased.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
Titled Personages.

To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
What is duke or duchess, a count or
countess? G. P. NJ.
P1TTsBURG, January 10.
lin Great Britain the word duke is a title Of
nobility next below that of Prince In some
countries the title belongs only to princes or
soyereigns of State. A duchess is the consort
of duke The term count is about equivalent
to the English earl, which signifies nobleman
of the third rank. After the Conquest English
earls were called counts, and had the govern
ment of a shire or county. At the present time
it is merely hereditary title, generally at
tached to the possession of certain estates and
neither sovereignty nor Jurisdiction goes with
it. In England the wife of an earl is termed a
countess.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
FUNNY NEWS FANCIES,

An unsuitable efgure-Salesman--''T There's
very handsome carpet, sir; only q rs per yard" ("
Customer-"Can't say that like the hgure.n
(which figure, sir?''
"Why, 81 Is. 75.''-Yonksrs Statesman.
Hatred Overcome by Sympathy-Winks-
$50 you married a divorced woman whose hus-
band is still living. Don't you hate him?',
Jinks-'Well, felt that way at first, but now
I'm beginning to sort o. sympathize with him. ~
Philadelphia Record. :
Doctor-"What your husband needs
Madam, is change of scene"
Mrs. De Temper-''Do you think he should 60
of for his health2''
''wen, it doesn't matter which goes-you or
he. e."-Phiiddstphfd Record.
They Often Are.-Mrs. Muggins (reading)
-"Every man gets the wife that heaven intended
for him.
then that men punished in this world for their
sins. r-NeO York Weekly.
A Husband to be Avoided-Mrs. Gabb-
al see mind reader Bishops wife wants . d.
vorce.''
Mrs. Gabb-''No wonder. 1t must be perfectly
awful to be married to q man who can read your
mind. .'-PhiLadetphta Record.
Pater Familias (interrupting)-You girls
should fix your minds on something higher than
dress.
Mary Ann-That is what we have, pa. We have
got our minds fixed now on q couple Of lovely
high hats down at Mrs. Feather millinery rooms,
Yankee Blade.
Lawyer-And so you really think, Bobby,
Of becoming lawyer when you grow upY
Bobby-Yes, sir; my Uncle James thinksI ought
to be lawyer.
s'Does he, indeed? And why does your Uncle
James think so-because you are bright and
smart?''
'.No, SIR; because ask so many fool questions.',
-Tsrds Siftfngs.
A Misunderstanding (proud Of
his progress in Latin)-'.Pop, what's the Latin
for people?''
p Father-'T don't know"
Bobby Qoudly)-"Populi.'
Father (iercely)-''What do you mean, you
young scamp? Lie, do I? BY the piper, lad, I've
half 4 notion to baste you.'-Etnoh ohampt0n Re
puoiicaa-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
Two such alternatives constitute the condi
ton known as q dilemma.

PRESIDENT ADAMS, of the Union Pacific
Railroad, leaves the country in doubt in
his letter accepting Mr.. Bromley's resigna-
tion, whether he means to abandon the work
OF securing compromise of that corpora
tions debt with the Government, or whether
he thinks it can be secured without effort
from the next Congress.