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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
CONCERNING sharp remarks of Republi-

CONCERNING sharp remarks of Republi-
can newspapers about the necessity of re-
ducing the tariff on staples that are con-
trolled by trusts, the New York World says:
'The skies will fall and everybody can have
lark pies when Republican Congress shall
strike an effective blow at these tariff trusts
and monopolies." 1t also seems just to re-
mark that the public will be able to enjoy
the luxuries of cloud pudding and potied
larks when Democratic Congressman are
ready to strike off the sugar duties and hit a
death blow at the Whitney and Paine
Standard Oil Trust.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Beats Her Own Record One Hour.
What suyIiyan,, Friends Expeot.

The colossal benefit, which was to have helped
John L. Sullivan in a financial way, has been
indefinitely postponed. A large number of
tickets had been sold for the Academy of Mu-
sic. 1t is not known yet what will be done.
Editor Lumley, of the Illustrated Netos, said
to-day that the benefit would be given sooner
or later. Personally he knew nothing of the
arrangements. but he expected to see Sullivan
back in New York in a very short time. Like
most of the sporting men here, he thinks that
Sullivan will be let off with light fine, after
an immediate trial, or will be released at once.
under light bonds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

THE statement in city paper that
Sourhside business men are opposed to a
cable road because it will make it easy for
the people to come over to town to trade,
may state the private opinion of some of the
trade barnacles. But it seems that even
that class should know better than to fur
nish for publication such strong argument
for the mass of the people to favor the
proiaet
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
To POPULATE ALASKA.
A Scheme to Remove the Icelanders to the
Ynkon River.

WASHINGTON, August 2-Among persons Of
scientific turn Of mind a certain project of
international importance has been quietly dis
cussed. 1t IS nothing more nor less than the
transplanting of the entire population of Ice
land. rs, 900 souls, to the most habitable part of
Alaska. Many of them, it is said. are willing
to move away to more genial climate, or at
least to more fruitful territory. Their fdea is
not to go to region wholly different, where all
the conditions of life will be reversed, but to q
land nearly IN the altitude of Iceland.
The proposition is one of vast importance, as
it involves the removal of an entire people,
and. that an old, renowned and cultivated
people. 1t has behind it strong influence in
high quarters. Senator Platt of Connecticut,
it Is said to-day, has agreed to defray the ex-
penses of an Icelandic minister in making the
arrangements. The valuable wooded and fer
tile region on the great Yakon river is sug-
gested as the new habitat of the Icelanders
If the consent of the Parliament of Iceland
and the Danish Government can be obtained.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

ONE of the crying evils of the day is illus
trated by report, which comes from a
Michigan town, that drunken young ruff
fan who fred at a girl and struck boy by
mistake, will not be prosecuted, the boys
mother "having accepted pecuniary con-
sideration to refrain from prosecution" In
such case as that both parties to the trans
action ought to be prosecuted for compound
ing felony; and the public officers who fail
to institute such proceedings should be given
to understand that their official heads are in
danger.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

IT is now stated that Senator Evarts
wrote the draft for the constitution which
was presented to the North Dakota Consti-
tutional Convention, for fee OF $500. This
fact, as we'll as the study of the document,
has convinced the members of the North
Dakota Convention that the $500 was fur
nished by some other interest than that COM
posed of the people of the new State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Apo,her Chicago Novelty,

Mrs. Leslie Carter will not be the only "fem-
mime novelty from Chicago offered to tbeater-
goers next season. The latest aspirant to SEN
sational notcriety on the stage is Mrs. McCrea,
a daughter of Banker Smell, the Chicago mill
ionaire who was murdered by Tascort Mrs.
McCrea is said to be extremely handsome,
young and moneyed. She is the wife of rich
Stock Exchange man of Chicago. Mrs. McCrea
has been studying diligently for some time with
several dramatic coaches, and is said to have
very dramatic ideas. She wants manager.
and wants play. Among the managers with
whom Mrs. McCrea has been negotiating is ].
M. Hill, though it is said that nothing has been
settled between the two as yet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
PLUCK AND BRAINS COMBINED.
Interesting Personal History of a Well.
Known Piftsburg Man.

from the Philadelphia I1mesJ
Robert Pitcairn. who is at the Bellevue, Illus
trates what brains, pluck and industry will do
in this country. Mr.. Pitcairn, who is now one
of the railroad magnates of the land. like his
friend, Andrew Carnegie, came to the United
States poor Scotch lad. His father obtained
employment in the Pennsylvania Railroad
shops at Altoona. There young Pitcairn was
taken into the office of Henry j. Lombard,
First General Superintendent OF the road, as
messenger, and while serving in that capacity
learned telegraphing, and became operator and
clerk. He gained the confidence of Mr..
Lombard, and, upon the transfer of the latter
to another post at Philadelphia, became as
sitant to Enoch Lewis, who was Lombards sue
cessor.
He subsequently became master of
transportation at Altoona, and when Andrew
Carnegie resigned the Superintendency OF the
Western Division along about 1860, Pitcairn
was appointed his successor. with headquar.
ters at Pittsburg. Later, upon the transfer of
the late j. McCreighton to the West Penn
Division, Pitcairn was made General Agent,
and he has since held both the offices of Super
intendent and General Agent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Not q Bad Idea.

From the Baltimore AmerlcanI
Chicago is not entirely bad. 1t frequently
furnishes new ideas that are worthy of adop-
tion. One Of these is the appointment of five
women to serve as sanitary police. They will
inspect factories and tenements, and their work
is expected to improve and protect the health
of working women.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Mrs. Agnes Young.

In the obituary column or THE DISPATCH is
notice Of the death OF Mrs. Agnes Young, at the
age of s. years, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
woolslayer, Of the Sixteenth ward Mrs. Young
had been resident of this city since 1877. In that
year she came with her husband James Young,
from Board Mills. County Down, Ireland, where
she was married in 1870. She was faithful help
meet to her life partner for upward OF half CEN
tury, and had been q widow tor nearly 20 years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

PITTsBURG extends its sincere sympa-
thies to Chicago. with the remark that
boiled and filtered water may be rather
fiat drink; but after you get used to it
you are ready to concede that it is much
better than diluted sewage or extract of
flood sufferer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Il. Nj. Nelson.

Mrs. Eliza III. Nelson, wife of Samuel d. Mel
son, died at her residence, Lexington avenue,
East End, last night. She was the mother of Mr..
4. q. Nelson, of the hardware firm of Hall & Nell
son, Mrs. r. q. MacGonigle and Mrs. DR.. j. 8:
Espv OF the East End, Inc funeral win be held
at the residence Sunday at 2:30 P. M The deceased
has been q resident of Pittsburg from her youth,
and was well known and respected by all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

The suggestion that Boulanger's political
career should be made the subject of bur-
lesque opera is impracticsble. The trouble
with Boulanger is that his reality beggars
burlesque. and renders imaginative sarcasm
wholly pointless by its own surprising
absurditv
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

THE extension of the park at the Hiland
reservoir is we'll worth the money that has
been expended on it. but it does not supply
the most urgent need for parks. Pittsburg
does not want park where rich people may
drive in their carriages SO much as one
where poor people who cannot otherwise get
fresh air and open views can 60 on foot or
in the street-cars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
THOUSANDS OF WIVES WANTED.
Washington Territory Sends a Novel Appeal
TO the Mayor of Boston.

to the Mayor of Boston.
BOSTON, August IA novel appeal for wives
was received to-day by Mayor Hart from W,
A. Wheelwright. Mayor of Tacoma. Washing
ton. The writer says that the Territory Of
Washington, and the city of Tacoma in partic-
ular, are filed with sober. Industrious and
enterprising men. mostly young, who are desi-
rouS of marrying.
The letter says that there are about ten men
to every woman in the Territory, and is fol-
lowed by a resolve that the Mayor and Com
Massachusetts to send all the women of mar
riageable age that can be spared to the Terri
tory and city, with view to making pleasant
the homes of thousands of ablebodied, indus
trious Young men, who would be glad to
marry" Another resolve is to the effect that
the proclamation be forwarded to the Mayor of
published broadcast throughout the State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

The energetic manner in which Boulanger
raises the cry of fraud over his recent defeat
In France, may be taken as proof corrobora-
tive of his intention to come over and
mingle in the politics of the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

ONE of the most pathetic features of the
race now going on between various cities
for the possession of the Worlds Fair of
1892, is presented by the frantic efforts
which the energetic St. Louis Post-Dispdtch
is making to get its city inside of the dis
tance post before the flag drops.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
THE BEST DRESSED LEGISLATOR.
He is From Allegheny City and Is Hon.
Charles w. Robson.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.I
c. W. Robson, member of the Legislature
for the First district of Allegheny county,
stopped in the city yesterday for brief period
on his way from Long Branch to Atlantic City
Mr.. Robson. who is accompanied by his sister,
is doing the seaside resorts. During his stay in
the city he called on Chairman Andrews, of the
Republican State Committee, and talked pleas
OF the next.
He was said to be the best dressed man on
Capitol Hill. and his costume yesterday justi-
fed his reputation. Hew blue tweed suit
the coat a sack, neat fitting and charmingly
cool looking. Necktie gloves and other acces-
sories were in entire harmony He left for the
seashore at 4 o'clock in the evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
An Anti. Prohibition Pool.

From the Chicago News.I
There is a certain deep pool in a stream near
Boonton, N. j., from the bottom of which wells
up food of natural champagne. 1t is not sur
prising therefore. that General Fisk has about
concluded that the Prohibition party cannot
hope to carry the State very soon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
How TO Get a Complete Record.

From the New York Tribune.j
An earnest seeker after truth inquiries Of a
cotemporary: "Will you please tell me how to
trace up family history" Perhaps as good a
way as any is to get one Of the family whose
history YOU wish to trace up to run for Office in
q close district.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
A Mother's Awful Mistake.

Mrs. John Eastman unintentionally poisoned
her 5year-old daughter to-day by giving her
carbolic acid instead of liquid opiate. The
child died within an hour. Mrs. Eastman's dis
tress may make her insane.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

THE illness of Manager Phillips. of the
Allegheny Baseball Club, like SO many
similar seizures, is an impressive warning
against the dangers of overwork and worry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
LOADED HIS GUN WITH WATER.

The Leader of n German Band Adopts n
Peculiar Method of Suicide.
NEW YORK, August 2-Gottlieb Helms, of So
Avenue A, killed himself last night at his home
by shooting himself with a shotgun. He was
the leader of a curbstone German band and had
been drinking lately.
After loading the gun he filed the barrel
with water, put the muzzle to his head, and
pushed the trigger with his toe. His head was
almost blown off. This is said to be an old
fashioned German way of committing suicide.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
A Missouri Marvel.

From the Kansas City Star.i
An apple tree at Carrollton contains bios
SONS, green apples and ripe fruit. There is
also something growing on one of the top
branches that looks like an apple dumping.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
The Report Not Credited.

From the Washington Post.]
The report that ''the Chicago Anarchists are
still at work" would have more influence on
the public mind if it were not SO generally
understood that a Chicago Anarchist never is
and never was either still or at work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Usiua Up the Tall Timber.

From the Ohio state Journal.1
From the amount of timber used in the con-
struction of La Tosca parasols and dudes
canes this season, it looks as If the forests of
the country would be denuded sooner than
anticipated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
An once Tint Sought the Man.

EOU buc NSn 1ONA A1CralOsi
A great monument to the memory of the May
flower pilgrims was dedicated at Plymouth.
But if William Bradford, who was elected
Governor by the colonists 81 times. should come
to life again, what chance would he have to get
a public Office? Just think 1t over.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Gearaa H. Jameson.

WASHINGTON, August 2.-George H. Jameson,
good writer and popular newspaper man, died
In this city carly this morning. He was 30 years
old and is well-known in the West and in Wash.
tngton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
A New Figure of speech.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.I
The Chicago News usually knows as much
about Ohio politics as a speckied pup does
about parallax.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Know. wha. He. Talking About.

From the Providence Journal.l
Chairman Jones' remark that "the Green
back party is unanimous" brings the comfort
ing assurance that the gentleman knows his
own mind. te1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

phere wherever the imaginative reporters
most do ~congregate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Truth In Few Words.

From the Oil City Bhzzard.I
Many men are honored who deserve but to be
kicked. \
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

Some weeks ago the baseball nine of the
American Actors Amateur Athletic Associa-
tion was crushingly defeated by the baseball
nine of the Middletown State Insane Asylum,
The score was 20 to s. To-day the actors nine.
with their manager, Digby Bell, and some 80
prominent professionals. went down to Middle
town to get revenge, and they got it. They
beat the six lunatics and three attendants who
played ball for the asylum by a score of II to 2.
During the game numerous pretty tents were
spread out on the lawn for the use of patients,
and they were filled mostly by the female wards
and their attendants, while the men lounged
about in the same way as the ordinary baseball
enthusiasts do. In fact, they were a great deal
more self-possessed than the cranks at the Polo
grounds. The players were attired in neat blue
uniforms, and did no more shouting or srumb-
ling than rational ball players. DR.. Tascott, of
the asylum, thinks he has discovered a new
cure in baseball for certain kinds of lunacy.
He says: "You can scarcely realize the benefit
that the sport yields. not only to the players,
but to the other patients. 1t furnishes them
with beneficial, healthful excitement. Two
of the players are victims of melancholia, and
there are large number who scarcely speak a
word during the week until they come out to
game. Then they are full of healthy interest"
Bents Her Own Record One Hour.
The steamship Augusta Victoria, of the
Hamburg line, has again broken the eastward
record from New York to The Needles. A
cablegram to the packet line states that the
Augusta reached Southampton at 1:30 A. M to-
day, Greenwich time. As the time between
The Needles and Southampton is one hour and
a half, she must have passed the latter at II
o'clock, midnight The Augusta left Sandy
Hook bar at P. NJ. last Thursday. Her whole
time, therefore, between Sandy Hook and The
Needles, making Eastern time correspond with
Western reckoning, is seven days, two hours.
The previous record made by herself, was seven
days, three hours. She, therefore, breaks her
own record by one hour.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
The Aragram of Galileo.

Venus is morning star. but waning, though
she is still quite bright. and rises several hours
before the sun. Her apparent diameter is Il"
and the phase is gibbous. The phase of Venus
was one of the first discoveries of the newly in
vented telescope in the hands of Galileo. Copper
nicus had predicted in advancing his theory
of the solar system that if Venus and Mercury
could be clearly seen .hey would show phases
like the moon. Calico found this was the
case with Venus. but, fearing that someone
else might claim prior discovery If he made
his observation known Immediately, and de-
sirous of gaining time for further research, he
announced his discovery in the form of an
anagram, which he could transpose at some
Immature me jam JrustrG teguntur o. g.:
These unripe things are now vainly gathered
by me-" A few months after he transposed
it into its true form, Cynthtde fgurGs
denlutdtur mater anlorun: THE mother of
loves initiates the phases of Chnthia," Cynthia
being another name for Diana, who represented
the moon. And though for nearly three CEN
turies since then telescopes have been pointed
at Venus, scarcely anything more has been dis
covered on that planet which to the naked eve
is the most beautiful and interesting of all.
The planet is supposed to be encircled by a
dense layer of cloud. which hides the true sur.
face from us, and forms q brilliant reflector for
the SUMS light.
Aug. 5..5h.5sm. 20 o5N 2:O1 A. N. 9:2l A. N.
Aug. 18Th .33m. 200 3SN 2:i9 A. M. s:a A. NJ.
Mars is still far away from us, on the other
side of the sun, and will not be visible for some
time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
Phases of Planets.

Mercury is morning star in the beginning of
the month, but passes from the western to the
eastern side of the sun on the 7th. This is
called superior conjunction" and makes Mer-
curry an evening star. When he passes from
the eastern to the western side of the sun this
passage is called "nferior conjunction in the
sun; in the latter he is almost directly between
the sun and us.
Mercury will not be visible to the unassisted
eye this month, as he will not get far enough
with good telescope in the daytime If the tel
escope be mounted with graduated circles on
the polar and declination axes and the position
of the planet be known. His apparent diam
eter is 81.
R.A. Dec. Rises. Tran. Sets.
Aug. s. sh 5sm. 19o OH N. sos A NJ. o:ls Pm. 1880
Aug IS. 10h. IAN. l2o 49, N 6tl0 Am. 0:G P. NJ. 745
Aug. 25. llh. 19m. SO 06 n 7:02 I:23 M. 744
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

Luna does nothing unusual for this month.
She occults a few stars and is in conjunction
with planets as follows: With Jupiter on the
7th, at 3:l5 P. M, Jupiter being few minutes
south of the moons edge: with Neptune on the
18th, at IL P. M, Neptune being 20 north; with
Venus on the 22d, at P. M, Venus being 20
south; with Saturn on the 25th, at 3 P. NJ, Sat
urn being % south: with Mercury on the 9th,
at P. M. Mercury being 50 south; with Uranus
on the 18th, at p. NJ, Uranus being 80 south.
About midnight on the 18th the moon will pass
through the group of stars known as the
Hyades, in the constellation Taurus, and will
hide from view two stars. One, of the fourth
magnitude, will be concealed from view for
about half an hour, and the other, of the fifth,
for about an hour.
The moon is nearest the earth on the 9th.
when her apparent diameter will be 33' 05":
farthest on the 2lst her apparent diameter
then being 2y 3f. She presents the following
phases:
First quarter. r................August 4, 6:N P. N.
Full moon. August H. 9:43 A. M.
Last quarter.... August Is 362 p. M.
AnWuY mn Hnn