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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-10-29

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stipulated.
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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-10-29

Trains Nos. 1, o 8, 0, 10. 10. IA, daily.
Nos. 3. 4, %, "a 80, Daily, except Sunday 81
daily except Monday
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-10-29

Fernandina and Jacksonville Branch
No go No 9 No. 5 No. 81
SABA 1902 Lv Jacksonville Ar S50a 6 90 p
10 O5a 600p Ar Fernandina Lv 715a 4 sop
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
coRNER1NG THE coRNERER.

When the professional bitter gets bitten
himself, or people who make business of
setting traps for others fall into the trap, it is
no more than human nature for the impair
tial observer to rejoice exceedingly. There
has been therefore much pleasure for the
people at large, in the news of last week
that in addition to the Sugar Trust being
nipped in its attempt to squeeze Claus
Spreckels. Hutchinson, the willy grain
gambler of Chicago, has been caught in a
corner on corn.
The details of the corn deal are exceed
ingly instructive as showing how the ele-
ment of pure gambling is mixed up with
the legitimate handling of grain staples.
Hutchinson, who does nothing,but bet on the
market, began betting on the long side of
the market some time ago; but prices stead
lily went down and he lost money until the
price had fallen from about sixty cents
TO about thirty cents. The idea that
the grain gamblers possess any especial
knowledge Of the causes which affect prices
is exploded by the fact that this leader in
the crowd, having lost money by buying
when corn was dear, tried to get it back by
selling short when the market was at the
bottom. The low prices at once checked re-
ceipts and stimulated demand, so that firm
which was buying all the corn it could get
for actual shipment, took all the futures as
well until it got the bettors at its mercy, and
has made them pay 25 or 30 cents a bushei
all around for their fun.
This little piece OF retribution, besides
proving the sureness of the mills of the
gods, demonstrates that the man who makes
his money by gambling in the staples of
commerce, is very likely to lose it that way.
The one sure road to wealth for those who
are unable to play with loaded dice is the
honest one, of giving value received for
every cent that is made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02

CERTAIN Pittsburg people managed to
gobble large share of the Johnstowu relief
funds in transit and great was the scandal"
The above statement from the editorial columns
of the Minneapolis Tribune. is an example of
the way in which wholly unfounded and ma
licious statements obtain circulation. AS the
nearest point to Johnstown and the first TO
reach it with relief, great many of the con-
tributions were sent to Pittsburg. Every dol
lar of those contributions together with the
hundreds of thousands added by Pittsburg
people were either applied directly to the re-
lief of the Johnstown sufferers or transferred
TO the State Relief Commission. The only dis
pute was with reference to the money spent In
removing the debris from the streets; and as
that ought to be paid by the State, it will be
seen that If the assertion just quoted is founded
on that dispute. it is a phenomenally un-
founded and wanton attack on Pittsburg's good
name
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02

IT is comforting to learn that the in
surance companies do not contemplate putting
up rates in Pittsburg on account of the Lynn,
Boston and Minneapolis fires. The fact is that
PIttsburg, both by good luck and good manage
ment, is relatively paying district for the
companies Despite the fact that the city
authorities have allowed frame buildings to go
up in the very heart of the city within few
years, and that the insurance interests seemed
singularly unmindful it is still true that Pitts
burg has of late enjoyed fortunate immunity
from destructive fires. The policy OF encour-
aging better construction and greater watch
fulness of buildings by light rates will be
found wiser in the long run than putting on, as
the old railroad phrase used to run, ''what the
traffic will bear" 1t is, we believe, an undis-
puted fact that so far as the local companies
are concerned they have mostly made money
on their Pittsburg risks, while several, if not
majority of them, have lost on their outside
agency business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
THE TERRAPIE TRADE.
The Principal Demand for the saVOry
saurian is in Washington.

The Principal Demand for the saVOry
saurian is in Washington.
From the Savannah News.J
The principal demand for terrapin comes
from the national capital when Congress is in
session. although there is fair demand
from New York and Baltimore. The
Bostonian finds less costly food in
baked beans and the Philadelphian
contents himself with more frugal fare than
the Georgia terrapin. In New York. even,
when rich men dine, the terrapin is a favorite
dish, and dinner is not considered complete
among statesmen at Washington without the
terrapin. A chef who understands how to
properly serve the esculent sauriau will COM
mand as high salary as the Congressman who
foots the bill for the dinner.
A reporter visited the terrapin pens at Thun-
derbolt yesterday. and found about 1000 at A.
PfaH's place, and from 1000 to 2, 500 at Henry
Ambos' place. They are kept in Enclosures
built for the purpose, and are fed on shrimp
and fish, AT present there is no demand for
terrapin, but the dealers keep them in stock, and
have boats and men engaged in terrapin fish,
ing The price of terrapin is high, owing to their
scarcity. They are worth all the way from SIS
to SIS per dozen, and the demand always ex-
ceeds the supply. They are, strange to say
sold by measurement. A terrapin measuring
5H inches or less is not sold as one terrapin but
three of that size are sold for two. Two ter
rapin measuring over 512 inches would sell for
three.
Thunderbols is the terrapin headquarters.
The animals are brought there in fishing sloops,
and command as high as Sl2 to Sl5 Dozen de-
livered there. They are shipped in barrels to
the North in this season. They are easily kept
in confinement, and in the sheds where they
are kept they are let run on the ground floor.
Plenty of water is furnished them. They are
fed like hogs in pen, and soon learn to know
when the feeder is about. After a short con-
fnement they will come at call for food.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
HIGH PRICED LEGAL SERVICES

The investigation of the New York dock
scandals has revealed a new and lucrative
method of earning fat fees. The legal light
who developed the novel way of bleeding
his clients is Colonel John O'Byrne. the
New York politician, and the plum which
he poeketed was 900, placed in his hands
by the oystermen Of New York to secure
favorable legislation for them, with regard
to their use Of the docks
Colonel o'Byrne testified that this money
was given to him for legal services; and the
fact appears that he put the money in his
pocket and used none of it at ALBANY.
Some people appear to think that this was
not quite fair of him; but a moments re-
Election will show that the legal service
which he rendered to the oystermen was to
prevent them from spending money to cor
ruDt legislation. That service is better
worth SIS, 900 than a great deal of the work
for which the learned profession is wont to
collect big fees.
1t is painful to observe, however, that
with this high ground to stand on, Colonel
O'Byrne, upon indications that further de-
tails with regard to the money we're to be
asked for, removed himself from the ipcou-
venient probing by retiring into the wilds of
New Jersey.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. MONDAY, DEC. 2 IS8a.
al SUDDEN REFORM.

A singular feature of yesterday was the
prevalence of good order in the localities of
the city that usually afford greater share
of the arrests for disorderly and criminal
proceedings. Up to late hour neither the
Point, Old avenue nor the Yellow Row had
yielded a single arrest, and the hope was
bright that they would all get through the
Sabbath with blank record.
The cause of this astonishing reformation
is so far purely matter of conjecture.
Whether the speak-easies have been terror
lied into good behavior, or the cold weather
kept people within doors, or the usual
reTelers had spent all their money on
Thanksgiving are matters of DISPUTE. The
one certain fact is that the localities whose
names are synonymous with disorder
ly behavior put on an orderly disposition
yesterday, and the police are troubled with
fears that the millennium is approaching.
Whatever the cause of this sudden good
conduct may be, it is public duty to dis
cover it beyond power of dispute and keep
it in force all the time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02

terprises on scale so extensive and TO employ
labor-saving machinery SO largely that the cost
of MISUNDERSTANDING the cost of transpor-
tation to markets-has been enormously, al
most Incredibly, reduced within the last 20
years.
This deliverance proves that the trust
organ, and not the clergyman, is the one
that needs to know what it is talking about
The benefits of the massing of capital in
cheapening the cost of production and trans
portation, although it is often cited to de-
fend the trusts, has no eogency for three
reasons. First, the corporation laws of the
country afford abundant opportunity for
the concentration of capital necessary to
perform any industrial operation, and no
one objects to the Incorporation of either
SIS, 600, 900 honest and unwatered capital
to build railroad or SIS. 900 to build fac
tory. Second, no trust puts any new capi-
tai into an industrial enterprise, but only
combines the capital already existing for
purpose of preventing competition and ex-
acting arbitrary profits. Third, except for
the illegltimate profits secured by the sus-
pension of competition the trust organlza-
tion produces no saving, but on the contra
ry, takes away the penalty of waste, negli-
gence and recklessness, as has already been
shown by recent disclosures.
The clergyman was exactly right in his
declaration. The device of trusts is solely
for the purpose oflevying undue profits. To
the exact extenttha they exceed what would
be obtained under legitimate competition,
these profits are taken from the returns that
should 60 to the common workers. The
force OF this fact is shown by the return of
the trust advocates to the cheap misrepre-
sentation which has been abundantlY dis
proved by the history of the trusts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
HALCYON DAYS.

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.I
whenever the rain 'gainst the window is splash
ing,
when roadways are rivers and fat lies the
grain,
And out of the gray clouds the lightning is fash
ing
dream O'er the days of my girIhoOd again.
The old gabled house, on which time had left
OF MOSES and nchens; the steps where we
played,
Where clustered at even the dear missing faces,
And mothers fond glances SO lovingly strayed.
Full well remember the strange, childish
Which peOpled dark corners with fAiry-fOlk
queer
In the mOuse-haunted garret, the cobweb-draped
garrett
What wonderful treasures to childhood SO dearl
The weather-stained barn, where, with wild shout
and laughter.
We scra1n 1nbled in search OF well-hidden store
Of eggs, orIye took from an O'er-hanginR rafter
A grand fixing leap to the straw on the hoor;-
The COOL crel my spring house where mingled the
meter
OF waters tSat rIppled, and MidNs-tOuched
Such rollsl smooth and golden, and cream-neVer
sweeteri-
Vanished visions, for which in rain I must
yearn.
The meadow, where nodded the sweet-scented
clover,
Smiling all the day long at the iuttering bees;
The brook In the orchard which, dimpled all over,
Sang melodies low to the listening trees
Thus memory's pictures unfeld in prorusion
Bright scenes from those Ralcyon days hold
dear.
'Tls sweet to forget present care and confusion
When beautiful visions Of childhood appear.
EMMA III. FIRTH.
TITUsvnLE, November 2s, 1sss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
F1RE-PRooF CONGREGATIONS.

1t can hardly have escaped the attention
of the reader of newspapers that the rate Of
mortality among so-called fre-proof build
ings has been very large for the past week.
The Lynn fire may not have destroyed the
existence and reputation of any fre-proof
structures; but in the Boston fire, many
structures built after the experience of the
great fire of 1872, and fondly supposed to be
able to resist confagrations, went down be-
fore the flames with scarcely less trouble
than the old fire traps. This experience was
added to by the fatal destruction of the
Minneapolis Tribune building which was
OF recent construction and was claimed to be
of the most improved character.
These events might almost be held to
Justify the opinion that the alleged fire.
proof structures are just the opposite. OF
course they should not diminish the effort to
erect buildings that will resist fire, nor do
they show that the present e-proofbuildings
are not better than the ordinary ones But
a fair deduction from them is that the art
of fre-proof construction has not yet met
with complete success, and that it will not
DO to place implicit reliance In the safety
even of the most improved buildings. The
same lesson was taught in the Chicago and
Boston fires of seventeen years ago. Sand
stone, limestone and granite, though able
to resist ordinary fires, melted away, while
brick, though somewhat better, was not
thoroughly ire-proof
1t is doubtful whether any building ma
terial is sufficient to Withstand the fierce as
saults of great confagrations, unless it be
fire brick with which our furnaces are lined.
The availability of that material for build
ing is so questionable as to suggest another
precaution by separating buildings more,
and increasing our open spaces. More ad-
vantages than that of safety from fire might
be secured if all our great blocks stood in
spaces of their own. That idea involves SO
radical change in present methods that no
one in this generation need expect to see it
realized.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
The Prince of Planets.

Jupiter, the prince of planets, will soon be
seen no more in the evening skies. He gets
nearer and nearer the sun, on the 3lst setting
at 5:47 p NJ, only three-quarters of an hour
after the sun. His apparent diameter is 81"
and he is in the constellation Saggitarius
Saturn is morning star, but is rapidly getting
into good position for observation in the even
ing. On the first of the month he rises at II:6
P. NJ, and rises about four minutes earlier each
succeeding evening. SO that by the end of the
month he rises about 9:l5 P. NJ. The planet re-
mains almost stationary, varying in position
only few minutes OF arc during the entire
month. His right ascension is Ion. 25m., and
his declinatlon 11o 36' north. He is in the con-
stellatiOn Leo, about 80 east of Regulus.
The rings of Saturn were ''open'i widest In
1885, i. e., in that year the plane of the rings
made the greatest angle with the line of sight.
Since them as the planet has been moving on
in his orbit, the angle has been getting less
until in the present month it is only 50. 1t will
decrease until it is below zero, or in other
words, instead of seeing the side of the rings as
we do now, the edge only can be seen, and as the
rings are not over 100 miles thick, it will re-
quire a very powerful telescope to see anything
at all of them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
MR.. REEDS NOMINATION.

PHILADELPHIA Press: Mr.. Reeds nomina-
tion will be cordially accepted in the House
and heartily approved by the country.
NEW YORK World: Taking all things into
consideration Mr.. Reed was undoubtedly the
best candidate named for the speakership.
New YORK Press: The recognized Repub-
lican leader on the floor has been chosen to
preside over the deliberations of the Fifty-frst
Congress- without in the least degree detraot-
ing from his able competitors. Mr.. Reed will
make model presiding officer.
PHILADELPHIA Record: In selecting Rep
resentatiYe Reed. of Maine, and Edward ].
Mcpherson of Pennsylvania, as caucus nomi-
nees respectively for Speaker and Clerk of the
House Of Representatives, the Republican
members of Congress have put their best party
foot forward.
NEW YORK Sun: The nomination of the
Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed for Speaker was
the natural and logical thing for the Repub-
licans to do. He has been the recognized
leader of his side of the House, and there was
no good reason why he should cease to lead
when his party is in power. He has the brains,
he has the sano, and he has the practice, too,
and his partisanship is equal to any demands
that may be made upon it even in the vigorous
and hurly-burly kind of session which seeEs to
be in prospect.
PHILADELPHIA Times; Reeds accession to
the chair Of the House means party progress.
He is clear-headed and bold leader. He un-
derstands that the world moves, and as new
occasions are created he accepts the new duties
which ever attend them. He is a protectionist
but lie will not sacrifice both protection and
the party by blind adherence TO inexcusable
war taxes in time of peace. Taken all in all,
the selection of Reed was the wisest move that
could have been made to meet the peculiar
complications now about to confront the party
Of power.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
PRODIGIOUS RAW OYSTERS.
Some of Them So Vast That No Man Could
Take n Whole One.

Take Whole One.
A New Zealand letter to the New York Times.
descriptive of the South Pacific pearl and shell
fisheries says: Besides the iridescent Innings
of their shells these oysters offer good promises
to the seeker for pearls. In favorable situa-
tions-as in the branches of clean-growing
coral and where there is little or no sand to dis
turb them-they often attain prod1gious size
not infrequently measuring yard in the dia-
meter of their open valves. Sometimes dozen
of these are linked together, and, if they con-
tain pearls, are sure to have the largest in size
shapeliest in form, and purest in lustre. The
oysters which produce the greatest number of
pearls, however, are thick, stunted and de-
formed, which seems to indicate that the for
nation of pearls is due to some disease in the
animal. Strangely enough, however. the finest
pearls are often found in the healthiest oysters
'tIn former times when trading began first to
be practiced with the natives many very large
pearls we're secured which the savages had
found and placed ih their temples-not from
any notion of their value but because it was
their habit to place the largest of everything
whether cocoanut crab, oyster or what not
before their gods The seductions of beads, rum
and red ealie6 led to these things being with
drawn from the place where they had lain for
generations and given to the traders-fOolish
people, who regarded them as having value
AS for pearl shell, the natives were than de-
lighted to give half ton of II for single TOM
ahewk. and some groups, like Paumotus have
exported as much as 600 tons year the last
quarter of a century, representing q value in
Europe of over So, 600 000"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SENAToR-ELECT PIERCE. of North Dakota,
is the author of several novels,
KALAKAUA, King of the Sandwich Islands,
recently celebrated his ffty-third birthday.
q. Mr. JOHN B. ALLEN, of Washington, will
be- it is said, the youngestlooking man in the
Senate
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL, the new Chief Ex-
ecutive of Ohio, is said to be an inveterate
smoker.
SENATOR QUAY's only recreation lies in
novel-reading. He is very fond of Fielding.
Dickens, Bulwer and Thackeray.
PHILIP ARMOUR, the rich Chicago pork
packer, began his fortune in California, where
he went with the Argonauts to find gold.
]. R. BURTON, of Abilene, Kan, who aspires
to succeed Ingalls, in the Senate, is the best
dressed man in his State and has been called
the Berry Wall of the West"
Two autograph letters of Talleyrand have
just been sold in Paris. They were written to
lady, the first on the death of her husband:
"Dear Madam: Alas! Your devoted Talley-
rand" and the second on her re-marriage:
Dear Madam: Bravo! Your devoted Talley-
rand"
THE late Martin Farquhar Tupper once
made lecture tour of the United States He
met many prominent Americans. among them
Daniel Webster, of whom he recently said: "I
remember Daniel Webster in 1S5l-a colossal,
unhappy, feeble-framed, dark-angellooking
sort of man, with a depth for good and evil in
his eye unfathomable."
ABOUT the best friend that the present EN-
peror William has is Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, of
New York. Mr.. Bigelow was a schoolmate of
his majesty and is his ardent admirer. When
the Emperor went to Greece to marry his sister
to the Duke of Sparta, he could not be happy
unless Mr.. Bigelow went with him. SO Mr.. Bige-
low went and had good time until he was
taken down with an illness at Athens. It was
severe while it lasted, but he was able to join
his family in Paris at the end of a few weeks
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-02
Urauus and Neutuue.

Uranus at his best IS just visible to the unas-
sisted eye. He Is now morning star, rising
about 3 A. NJ. on the first of the month and
about A. N. on the 3lst. His right ascension
is Is b SO M and his declnation 90 2G south.
He may be found about 30 east and IOo north Of
Spica, in the constellation Virgo. He may be
confounded with sixth magnitude star which
is about degree north of the planet, but a
good sized telescope, magnifying say 150 dame
ters will readily show his planetary disc, alto
gether different from fixed star in appear
ance. His apparent diameter 81 g multiplied
by $50 gives 81 as his diameter in q telescope of
such magnifying power, or nearly one-third
of the moons diameter.
Neptune is evening star, crossing the merid-
ian at IL p N. on the 1lth and Mt 10 P. NJ. on the
28th. He is in the constellation Taurus, mid
way between the Hyades and Pleiades, in right
ascension 4h 3 III and declination 1872 north.
The moon gets full OH the 7th. Luna is y very
steady citizen, rarely getting full more than
once month, although frequently staying out
till morning. The moon is new again on the
morning of the 2Sd. BERT Z. V. LUTY.