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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
How Inconsi. tent Man L..

From the Baltimore Amerlcan.1
What an inconsistent creature is mani He Is
anxious for his friends to think great deal Of
him, and yet he wants them never to reflect on
him at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
DeInware's Peaches and Cream.

From the Chicago News.J
The Governor of Delaware owns $1,000 peach
trees and 200 COWS. His political success DEM
onstrates that the people of Delaware are in
ordinately fond of peaches and cream.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
Sanitary Precautions.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.I
The passage of the Chicago drainage bill and
the conclusion of the Carter divorce case are
the most important sanitary enactments of the
season.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
G. G. Jarrett.

Among the deaths yesterday was that ofG. q.
Jarrett, at Woodville, in his 6sth year. In the
days of the old National pike, the deceased kept
the celebrated Woodvhle Inn, which he opened
in 1882. He was well known BY travellers In those
days, and much respected. He leaves wife and
three children-two sons and one daughter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
Breaking Uu nm Abow,usb,s Practice.

Max Gaskolsky, a nashily dressed young man,
was sent to the Island to-day, because he
chirped and raised his hat to Lizzie Campbell
in the street last evening. Frank P. Little
was fined $40 for following Nellie HaVemeyer.
shop girl. this afternoon. His wife paid the
fine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
A STRANGE CLIFF DWELLER,

An Animal of Unknown Species With .
Fondness for Raw Pork.
PARIS, KY, May ga long, black animal
with small ears, large mouth and fat tail,
measuring from seven to eight feet in length,
has been seen several times on the banks of the
Licking river. near Lair's station, Kentucky
Central Railroad, recently. Forseveral months
it has been depredating among the pigs, lambs
and poultry in;that neighborhood, and day or
two ago a colored man was attracted Dy the
sQuealing of a pig in the bushes, and. repairing
thither, the strange animal dropped the pig
and plunged into the river and dived out OF
sight, and entered cavern in the cliff.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
A DAY In NEW YORK.
Thrown Finy Feet and Not Hurt.

NEW YORK, May ga coal train ran into
freight train on the Jersey Central Railroad
near Plainfeld this morning. A brakeman on
the coal train was thrown some 50 feet oyer-a a
fence, but was not injured The engineer was
slightly bruised. Fourteen coal dumps were
smashed to splihters, and hundreds Of tons Of
coal were scattered. The tracks were block
AIDED by the debris for several hours
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
A Warm Spring.

From the Norristown Herald.l
Speaking Of the weather, q warm spring NAV
be anticipated when a man sits on o hot fat
iron placed on chair by his wife.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

Ella wheeler WiIcOx's Eye Deal Marriage.
From the Baltimore Americana
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that wife should
be asked for with the eyes alone. She must
regard this kind Of marriage bargain as an
eye deal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

senator Thomas RvaDs
MoNTKEAI. May :. -senatOr Thomas Ryan died
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
Cider In the Campuiru,

Cider is a very considerable factor in the
campaign in the country districts, which have
all along been counted on as strong factor in
favor of the Prohibitionists. There is no
doubt that if there were no cider in Pennsyl-
vanla the prohibition vote would be larger.
The liquor men feel that they have the cities,
and that the cider question gives them aid in
the country that they wodld not otherwise
hava
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

This issue of THE DISPATCH contains
90 pages, made up of THREE PARTS.
Failure on the part of Carriers, Agents,
NewsdeaIers or NewsbOys TO supply pa
irons with a Complete Number should be
promptly reported to this ONCE,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
As to Carving the stnte.

The prohibition people, it may be said unof-
1cially, have no idea they can carry Allegheny
county. Their efforts will be none the weaker,
however, because of this. They realize that it
is only by keeping down the majorites in such
Reading, Erie. etc., that they can hope to carry
the State They talk hopefully of this latter
accomplishment, or at least make no admis-
sions They speak very hopefully of Western
Pennsylvania. Their adYices from Venango.
Warren, Beaver, Washington and other coun-
ties are rose tinted, and they expect the vote
of Erie county, outside the city of Erie, to
more than Offset the vote of the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
BoURBoEIsM IN GEORGIA.

A rather unique feature of the Southern
race question is presented by the attitude
recently taken by State Senator Gibbs of
Georgia, to the effect that, on behalf of the
South, he wishes to drive the negro out.
This Southern statesman is evidently of the
most Bourbon type. Emancipation has
ruined the negroes, according to his view,
and there is not room enough in the South
for the negro and the Yankee"
Yet it is a singular feature of Southern
legislation that the first step which Senator
Gibbs would take to carry out his darling
idea of removing from his sight the hateful
spectacle of free negroes, is the repeal of
the remarkable law which forbids emigra-
tion agents from operating in the State.
The legislation of Georgia has been so
decidedly in favor of keeping the negroes
there to supply labor that the remarkable
step of forbidding any man to come there
and offer them inducements to settle in the
West or North has been enacted into law.
This is exactly the same in effect as
if Pennsylvania legislation should for
bid any attempts in this State to
interest either Pennsylvania capital or
labor in the iron industries of the
South. Such legislation is illiberal and
sectional, wherever it appears; but it is
singular feature that the proposition to re-
peal it is inspired bv an even more illiberal
and reactionary hatred of the labor which
under freedom has doubled the productive
capacity of the South.
When one element of Southern opinion
declares that the negroes must not leave the
South if they wish to, and the other de-
clares that they have got to go whether they
wish or not, the practical result is likely to
be that they are free to go or stay as they
please. But the justice of that conclusion
is not to be credited to either element of the
dominant race, as far as can be perceived at
present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
NEW YORK sYILoGIsMs.

The wrestle into which New York has
been plunged by the report of its Commit
tee on Site, that a portion of Central Park
will be needed for the Worlds Fair, is
unique. The residents along the park are
mortified that their darling pleasure ground
should be desecrated by an Exposition, and
appeal earnestly to the State law torbidding
the use of that ground for such purposes.
The dispute reduces the Worlds Fair bust
hess in New York to very nearly the follow
ing syllogism: The fair cannot be held in New
York without using Central Park; Central
Park cannot be used for the Worlds Fair;
therefore, the Worlds Fair cannot be held
in New York. The conclusion agrees ex-
actly with that drawn from similar sylloi
gism touching the impossibility of holding
a Worlds Fair without money and also the
inability to raise money for it in New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
IT Is THE UMPIRFs TURN.

The baseball umpire is aroused. Even
the worm will turn some day if trodden
upon with persistency and heavy shoe,
and the umpire has this disposition also.
He has been trodden under foot long enough
this season-under shoes with spikes in
them. The playful Anson has sworn at
him; the cultured Kelly has put out his
jaw and his jeers upon him, and every player
in the diamond has upon occasion thrown
kick or a curse at him. The home plate
has received gentler usage than the umpire.
So long as the end of the season was afar
off the umpire swallowed the insults, curbed
his anger and boarded his resentment Now
it is in sight he has grown several inches,
his chest bulges out and he stands in awe of
no man. He calls balls and strikes without
calculating the cost. To this pitcher he says
"play ballp' and the pitcher plays
ball; and to that catcher he says ''go
to p and he goes to without a murmur, for
they both know that the umpire has his
fighting clothes on and will fine their salaries
into nothingness at the smallest show of in
Managers are no longer
autocrats, captains are of no more account
than the small boy hanging to the cross
arm of a telegraph pole outside the fence.
Captain Hanlon, OF the Pittsburg Beauties,
knows this now. Other captains will know it.
The umpire has many scores to settle,
but from the way he has begun it looks as
if the game would be several hundreds to
nothing in his favor before the season
closes. We are with the umpire every time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
THE LEAST DESIRABLE PLAN.

The conclusion which the administration
has reached of building in the navy yards
the 3,000-ton cruisers on which Congress put
a limit of cost so low that the contractors
will not take the job, is not likely to prove
an improvement on the previous state of af-
fairs. Building vessels in the navy yards
has generally proved good thing for polit-
lcal workers; bur in the way of turning out
frst-class vessels such work has always been
more expensive, less prompt and generally
inferior to that done by private firms. The
Secretary of the Navy had the very obvious
course open to him when he found he could
not let the contracts at the limit fixed by
Congress of letting Congress decide
whether it would increase the amount or
not. The plan, which is said to have been
chosen will probably make the cost exceed
the legal limit give inferior work and re-
suit in more than the usual jobbery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, SEP. %, 1889.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

The first returns from the French elections
of yesterday look as if Boulanger might be
restored to leading position in French
politics. The number OF districts, however,
in which the result is finally ascertained is
SO few that, even more than in an election
in our own country, it is necessary, for cor
rect conclusion, to await the final returns.
The election OF Boulanger himself from
the Montmartre district has much the same
significance as the election of a leading
Democratic Congressman from Kentucky,
or Of Hon. W. D. Kelley from Philadelphia.
1t was Boulanger's stronghold; and in the
other Partisan districts a considerable
strength for the Boulsngist candidates was
to be expected. The vote shown for him in
Paris is not surprising, nor does it give him
any decisive victory. 1t will depend on the
other parts of France to show whether the
fugitive hero will be restored to his pedestal.
The indications, from the large number
of districts in which second ballots are nee
essary, is that while Boulanger is not by
any means sweeping everything before him,
he is not so entirely squeIched as was ex-
pected by his opponents. If neither party
wins decisive victory, the possibility that
the contest may be indefinitely extended,
affords the rest of the world promise of
prolonged amusement in studying the
eccentricities of French politics.
One point deserves to be set down to the
credit of the French people. The elections
passed off quietly and with good order. That
would be nothing unusual for this country;
but it shows decided progress by tae French
in the art of selfgovernment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
DECENT TREATMENT WILL PAY Us

The recent remark of a missionary re-
turned from China upon the possibility that
the Chinese, after organizing a navy, will
develop such power as to attack the
United States, calls forth an argument from
the New York Tribune to show the utter
hopelessness of any attempts to make China
a great military power. The argument is
hardly needed. The unwieldy nature of
the great Empire, its conflicting elements
of population, and above all the utter
incapacity of her people for developing the
military spirit, make it as unlikely that
China will seek to conquer this country, as
that Egypt in its decadence should have at
tempted to subjugate the military Persians.
But that does not at all diminish the
Stiffness of unnecessarily and wantonly de-
ranging our relations with China. The
reasons for cultivating friendly feeling with
that empire are not military but CONNER
cial. There is an immense and almost in
exhaustible field for American enterprise
there, II our national policy can ever be
made to look beyond the object of carrying
the next election. The opening of China
by railroads and telegraphs, the markets
that could be obtained there for our manu-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.


THE German Emperor has given his portrait
to LORD Salisbury.
THE equestrian statue of General Robert E.
Lee will be unveiled at Richmond, Va, on De-
cember s.
MILAN OBRENovITcH says that he left Ser
via in order to teach his beloved people how
crown may be laid aside without repining.
MINISTER REID has met with great social
success in Paris. He has SO many invitations
that he is able to accept but few of them. He
and Consul General Rathbone have become
great chums, and Mr.. Reid will greatly regret
the Californian's departure from France.
WHEN Frank Hiscock was at school," says
veteran story-teller at Syracuse, "he trusted
everybody, and the boys were always playing
practical jokes on him. But he is changed since
then, ratherI He used to be considered homely,
too. but he outgrew that before it got a good
hold on him."
Miss WANAMAKER, who is now visiting the
Harrisons at Deer Park, Is a tall, 1.-THE young
woman, who looks as though she could fence,
row or WELD a racquet She is rather hand
some, and her face indicates perfect health
She is clever and witty and is a great reader.
Mrs. Harrison has taken a great fancy to her
and is anxious to have her with her as much as
possible. Miss Wanamaker is not fond of gen.
eral society, but likes to meet people of INTEL
lect, and can hold her own in conversation with
the cleverest men and women in Washington
society
THREE big ships the Umbria, Alaska and La
Gascogne, brought to New York yesterday
l,254 cabin passengers, mostly American tour
lists. Ada Rehan, the actress, arrived on the
Umbria- Also ]. Macdonald Cameron, men,
Der of Parliament; ex-Secretary of War w.
c. Endicott who has been visiting his son-in-
law, Joseph Chamberlain, and F. w. Rine-
lander. On the Alaska were Cyrus W. Field
and Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Van Rensselaer,; Will
lam Ludwig, formerly of the American Opera
Company; Nine. Adelaide Mueller, Miss Annie
Layton, and Mr.. Henry Beaumont Singer.
ENGLISH noblemen are beginning to invest
largely In real estate in Australia. The Duke
of Manchester, who has paid many visits to the
antipodes. first set the example, which has
been promptly followed by Lord Rosebery and
Lord Brassey. Lord Carnarvon, too, owns city
property in Melbourne and has an estate in
Western Australia. But long ago Lord Sher-
brooke, then Mr.. Robert Lowe, barrister-at-
law at Sydney, had purchased landed property
in New South Wales, some of which he still
holds. When the gold fever broke out how
ever, his agent, thinking it presaged the ruin
of the colony, put the larger portion on the
market, when it was sold at a sacrifice. Had |
Lord Sherbrooke retained it. he would now be |
numbered among the Australian millionaries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
AS COLLEGE GIRL AGAIN.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland's Pleasant Remind
ers of School Days.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland's Pleasant Remind.
ers of School Days.
BUFFALO, September 22-Mrs. Grover Cleve-
lands friends have done all they could to make
her stay in her girlhood's home pleasant one
Every day has been marked by dinner, a
lunch, or an entertainment of some sort since
her arrival. Prominent among these was re-
union of Wells College women given by Grace
Carew Sheldon in honor of Mrs. Cleveland on
Wednesday.
The occasion was first cousin to the frolic
held in the now burned precincts in and near
Goose Alley" The same old pasteboard
placard, marked Positively Engaged" hung
on the door, the crackers went round in paper
bags, the pickles were present in large num-
bers as of yore, and the same shoal of sardines
hoated in the cans and waited to be eaten with
the fingers. The women, or girls, as they in
variably called themselves, were in harmony
with the occasion, and although, as one re-
marked. they were better fed in these days
than in those gone by" the lunch disappeared
with the old-time rapidity
As sauce "reminiscences we're served, one
guest telling of the night when she fried oysters
with fork over the gas jet in her room and
another bringing to mind the olives which
would always roll on the floor, but which were
invariably picked up and devoured. Mrs
Cleveland was disposed to discuss the serious
side of school matters, and the question of
raising money for the new building Has pre-
sented. She said:
"I am told that if the present plans for the
building are carried out we shall have the
handsomest college building in America. Isn't
that something worth working for? think
you ladies In Buffalo ought to raise 81 600 of
the $1,000 we are trying to make up in the
Eastern association
On Monday night Mrs. Cleveland will return
to New York, where she will Immediately go
about the settling of her new house at SIG Mad
ison avenue. While in this city she has done
good deal of shopping. and old chairs, draper
les. china and the like have been sent by her
from here for the New York home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
GAMBLING FOR REVENUE ONLY.

The report that General Mahone's plan for
the settlement of the Virginia State debt,
which is an issue in the State canvass, is the
establishment of lottery, out of the profits
OF which the bankrupt State will be restored
to solvency, should be interesting to the ad-
ministration. If frank and open policy
were adopted, we should think faro bank
run by the State or a detail of Virginia
experts to play poker with the bondholders
would be prompter and on the whole prefer
able. Perhaps, however, the necessity of
giving the outside players a square deal in
those games would detract from tine large
sum which is required for the payments of
coupons and matured bonds. Still, what
ever the most available form of gambling for
steady revenue, ,it might be expected tnat the
President and Mr.. Wanamaker would feel
that they ought to be consulted in its selec-
ton before they furnish the Office holders,
whose patronage is to be used in its behalf.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
ODD ITEMS FROM ABROAD.

AN English plasterer has been staggered
with a fortune of fl.40O,0OO, left to him by a
clergyman who emigrated and prospered in
Sydney.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE attempts to be the
pioneer in a reform of portentous difficulty.
He wants to abolish the chimney pot hat for
use in London.
THE smokeless powder that Austria is using
makes such fearful smell that it will have to
be abandoned. At a recent practice shoot sew
eral men tainted from it.
A YOUNG woman of Southport puts the
most deliberate method of suicide on record
She walked into the water and sat down. At
ter while she lay down, and the tide rose and
carried her OFF.
THE Bishop of Worcester lately attempted to
prevent clergyman of his parish from speak
ing at a Baptist chapel, but the clergyman
spoke for all that, and the situation excltes
considerable interest.
THE Afghan Ameers method of vengeance
on his rebel prisoners is pretty highly devel-
oped. One batch. numbering 300, were put to
death three day. One of the trio was always
hanged dressed In yellow and green, another
was dressed In black and blown from gun,
and the third was dressed in red and cut up
with sword.
A PAMPHLET, thought to be from high
sources, has just been published in Berlin say
ing that the reasons which prevented Germany
during the days of Emperor William from
bringing matters to a crisis between Russia
and France on one side and the Triple Alliance
on the other have now disappeared, and a. pre-
cipitation Of the contest may be looked for at
any moment.
FRENCH woman invented one of the most
original methods Of dealing with a refractory
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23

factures, and the products that could be
brought back in return, are prizes well
worth decently courteous treatment of the
Chinese Government. Other nations can
see the importance of conciliating China;
while our nation, which is most advanta-
geously situated for that trade and once
held great share of it, is now throwing
away her chances.
1t is not necessary for us to throw open
our gates to Chinese immigration. That
matter can be properly regulated by the
treaties which China is willing to make
But it will be worth our while to use de-
cent decorum toward the Chinese Govern
ment in securing such treaties. 1t is neces-
sary to remark that such decorum was en-
tirely lacking in the proceedings of last
year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-23
PRESIDENT BARNARD's WILL.
Valuable Bequesfs TO the College Over
Which He Presided Nlnny Years.

ESPECIAL rLLEGRAM TO TIE DrsPArcH.I
NEW YORK. September N.-Surrogate Ran
som has admitted to probate the viii of Fred
erick A. P. Barnard, President of Columbia
College, executed January Is, 1885. DR.. Barnard
gives his microscopical apparatus to his wife
during her life, and at her death 1t goes to the
trustees of Columbia College for use in the
physical department. All Of the books his
wife does not care for are to be sent to the
librarian of the college. He bequeaths his gold
Rees, for his work in meteorological reform.
The residue of his estate will be held by the
executors in trust for his wife, who is to re-
death small bequests will be made to nephews
and servants and the remainder bequeathed to
Columbia College. OF this fund left to the
college $4,000 is to be used for the foundation
Scientific Research"