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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
PlTTSBURG, SATURDAY, APR. 70, 1883.
TWELVE PAGES
YELLOW JACK AGAIN.

The winter in Florida and the South pretty
generally has been unusually wet, and the
comparatively few Northerners who ven
tured there report that the return of yellow
fever in the spring seemed to be widely
dreaded. Yesterday it was reported from
Richmond. Va, that news had reached there
to the effect that at least two deaths from
yellow fever had occurred at Jacksonville,
Fla, during the last two weeks, and that
Fernandina had also been visited by the
fearful plague. Naturally the people of
Florida are extremely averse to thereport of
the return of yellow fever becoming public,
and it is said that physicians are joining
with the business men to suppress all news
relating to this matter.
But if yellow jack is about to reappear,
or has indeed already made his appearance
again, efforts to keep the fact quiet can
hardly :sva1l for any length of time. Ill
news flies apace, and there are besides
many in the South whose duty it is to watch
for the return of the pest. DR.. Posey is
now travelling through Florida examining
the sanitary condition of the country for
the Federal Government, and if yellow
fever exists anywhere he will certainly re-
port the fact. And it is we'll he should.
No good purpose can be served by trying to
conceal the arrival of ferocious enemy.
The unfortunate inhabitants of Florida
themselves cannot hope to battle with the
fever successfully unaided by their fellow
countrymen. This was proven in last years
campaign.
We observe that DR.. Hamilton, Super
vising Surgeon General of the Hospital
Marine Service, fears that the provision of
the State law making it misdemeanor, the
punishment for which is heavy fine or i'm
prisonment, to report case of yellow fever
falsely or maliciously, will make the dis
covery of an outbreak of the fever difficult.
It will make doctors careful in diagnosis,
but it ought not to prevent any decent
man from reporting to the State health
officers according to law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
THE IGN0BLE FOUR HUNDRED.

BALTIMORE american: Mr.. McAllister's
position on the Centennial Committee just now
is that of floored manager.
NEW YORK World: There will be 400 yes
sells in the Centennial naval parade. The
number suggests that the vessels will be cod
fish boats.
WASHINGTON Post: Mr.. Ward McAllister
has retired from the chieftainship Of the "40C'
in the coming Centennial in New York, and
there is a hole in society big enough to throw a
load of hay through.
CHICAGO NeDs: Ward McAllister refers to
Fish, who had Ward removed from his orna-
mental position as manager of the Centennial
ball and banquet, as shat man." How wom-
anly and how crushing!
Boston Herald: 1t is now announced that
there is going to be plenty of accommodations
for strangers in New York on the 30th; that is.
if you dont't object to a paving stone for pill
low and the blue sky for a coverlid.
PROVIDENCE Journal: The wordy war
Z shich is being carried on in the New York pa
pers over the Centennial ball gives very strong
indication that one peculiarly foolish man has
been pushed off of the committee by others
who are equally silly.
WHEN can their glory fade?
o, the Swell Ball they made!
All the swim wondered.
Honor the dance they madei
Honor the Haut ton Brigade,
4 Creamy Four Hundred.
.-PhHddeEphtd Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
THE CATS MUST GO.

THERE is, unless we are much mistaken,
a much greater supply of cats than there is
a demand for them in this region. Probably
every individual residing within the city
limits of Pittsburg or Allegheny would
aver off-hand that the surplus of cats in his
vicinity is one of the factors in the question,
Is life worth living, as it presents itself to
him? And yet when we are revelling or
reviling, as the case may be, in the
midst of a superabundance of cats, there
are many places in Dakota where the
song of the nocturnal vocalist is sighed
for, but never heard.
This unequal distribution of the feline
race has attracted the attention of COM
mercial genius in Dubuque. He is now en-
gagged in buying cats, for which he pays
from 30 cents to 81 each, according to age
and size. He ships them to Dakota, where
he sells them for So each. They are in great
demand there, where they are wanted to de-
strov the mice which swarm by thousands
around the corn and wheat bins, doing great
damage. Thus far two carloads of cats have
been shipped from Dubuque, and another
load is being secured.
1t is true that Pittsburg is not as near
Dakota as in this case it would be conve-
nient for her to be, but she possesses such a
remarkable stock of cheap and yet comely
cats, we'll equipped for doing business with
mice or other vermin, that it seems pity
that she should not enter into competition
with Iowa points at once. The railroads,
perhaps, considering all the circumstances,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SECRETARY TRACY has returned to Wash
ington from Brooklyn.
MUNEMITsU MUTsU, Japanese Minister to
the United States, speaks six languages flu
entity.
THE late George W. Utermehle was the
owner of more real estate in the District of
Columbia than any other man. He paid taxes
on more than 500 houses.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY BACHELOR has ac-
cepted an invitation to attend the dinner to be
given by Mr.. Elliott F. Sheppard in honor of
Whitelaw Reid in New York this evening.
JOHN D. JENNINGS. the Chicago real estate
millionaire, who died few days ago, was
called the father of the 99-year lease sys-
TEN. His estate amounts to more than S50OO,-
000
SECRETARY WINDOWS daily lunch is a very
frugal meal, consisting only of a bowl of bread
and milk, but as consequence he has good
digestion and correspondingly equable tenn
per.
MRS. THOMAS A. SCOTT of Philadelphia,
has necklace of diamonds and pearls that is
valued at $780, 900. Her collection of emeralds
is one of the finest in the country, and the total
value of her gems is at least S500,OOO.
EDWARD BULwER DICKENS, the youngest
son of Charles Dickens, represents Protec-
JlOn QlSIricC IN the HarllamenG OIL New South
Wales. Twenty-eight years ago his illustrious
father said: Nothing under heaven could in
duce me to offer myself as a Parliamentary
candidate for any place under the sum-"
VICE ADMIRAL S. G. ROWAN, of the navy,
who recently took his place on the retired list,
is Sugars of age, but in fine physical condi-
ton. He was born in Ireland, but is accred-
tied to Ohio on the Naval Register He is a
man of splendid physique, much more than 6
feet in height, and broad and strong in proper
ton. His hair is white, his cheeks red, his
eyes bright, and as he strides along with the
springy step of a middle-aged man, men turn
and look at him in wonder.
BY the Hamilton turnpike. in Hamilton
county, Ohio, and on the way from College
HILL stands large sycamore tree that was
planted there in 1882 by Alice and Phoebe
Cary. They were then s and IL years old. and
coming home from school one day they saw
small tree farmer had grubbed and thrown
away IN the road. This they planted and cared
for as children will, and now the tree flour
ishes, and every one who passes by stops under
it for moments shade and whenever the
Cary sisters went to that part of the country
they paid visit to their tree.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
INHARMoNIoUs GREATNESS.

1t is with profound grief that we observe
tendency among the lights of the baseball
world, to indulge in personal alterations
only second to the bitterness which seems to
prevail among the great leaders OF fashion.
A discussion has arisen between Anson, of
the Chicago nine, and Kelly, the ten thou
sand-dollar beauty of Boston. The inter-
change of compliments between these great
men consists, first, of the allegation of Kelly
that Anson could not ''catcn little bit, not
even railroad train" To this fearful stab
Anson replies that when he saw Kelly last
it appeared that he "could not catch horse
car" This arraignment of the baseball
abilities of the great professionals and the
darlings of the bleaching board, indicates
the most strained relations. The enmity be-
tween Anson and Kelly appears likely to
become as terrible and world-famed as the
warfare between Fish and McAllister.
With the great men of baseball belittling
each other and the great men of fashion at
tacking each others gentility, what hope is
there for harmony among the lights of the
country? 1t seems desirable that the distin-
guished men of the land, the glasses of fash
ion and the molds of baseball form, should
set the example of mutual courtesy and ap-
probation.
But from these animadversions. it
really looks as if the only example of peace
fulness and mutual consideration among
the noted characters of the land must be
sought among the prize fighters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20

cheaply as it once did. the railroad business
would be un profitable. tits one of the most
prominent examples of the bad faith which
sometimes governs these enterprises that
this canal, like many others, was permitted
to fail into the very control that was inter
ested in its extinction; and that thus the
destruction of all the Pennsylvania canals
has been secured.
That canals can still transport certain
classes of freight more cheaply than railways
do, is proved by the Erie Canal in New
York, which has been kept independent by
public opinion, and on which the tolls for
grain are about half those of the railways.
It is alleged that the transportation of coal
is different, one statement being that "the
mere digging of the coal out of the boats
costs as much as the whole railway
charges" With the river transportation of
coal in this section at fraction of the rail-
way charges, this allegation can be estimat-
ed at its proper value.
If we are not mistaken, the betrayal of
public interests by the extinction of the ca
nails, as routes for the transportation of slow
and heavy freights, is proved by one fact,
namely, that when anthracite coal was
mainly transported by canals, the charges
for carrying it were less than they are to-
day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
A ROMANTIC DIVORCE CASE.
A Husband Who Deserted His Bride Ate
Five Days of Welded Life.

Husband Who Deserted His Bride After
Five Days of Welded Life.
ST. LOUIS, April 19.-Judge Klein disposed
of a divorce case yesterday which had in it
some of the elements of romance with a vii
lain in the background. The title of the case
was Mary Martin versus Edward Martin. 1t
appears from the testimony that in the sum-
mer of 1887 Gen. John B. Henderson
and his wife visited the Adiron-
dacks, accompanied by Miss Maria Mu-
trieus. The latter became acquainted
II, 1887, at Racquet Lake, Hamilton county,
N. Y, he deserting her five days afterward and
never afterward putting in appearance.
The deposition of General Henderson was
read, in which he stated that he had known the
plaintiff fora number of years, she having been
in his employ, and that she was woman of ir-
reproachable character; that she married Mar
tin at his house, on Racquet Lake, and that
Martin took her to a hotel on the opposite side
of the lake, where the couple remained about
three days and then returned to his home,
when Martin disappeared.
Mrs. Henderson took the witness stand and
corroborated her husbands statements, adding,
however. some additional facts. She stated
was informed that shortly preceding her ar
rival Martin was on the eve of marrying
another woman, in fact the priest had arrived
and was about to perform the ceremony, when
someone called him ASIDE and informed him
that Martin had wife in st. Louis. The
priest then refused to proceed, and Martin left.
Mrs. Martin, who was represented by Governor
Charles 2. Johnson, was granted divorce and
restored to her former name.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
THE NEWS FROM LIMA,

1t would seem from the latest discoveries
of THE DIsPATCH's correspondent in the
Lima field that there can be no longer any
doubt as to the feasibility of refining the
Lima oil. There may be yet some delay
before the Standard Oil Company consents
to admit that it has such remarkably good
thing in the Lima field, but as to the oil
itself, unless appearances are altogether de-
ceptive, its enhanced value is established.
The proceedings of the Standard Oil Com
pany yesterday in Lima can only tend to
confirm this conclusion. Late last night
the conference between the Standard people
and the Trenton Rock Oil Company as to
the sale of the latter to the Standard was
still in session. with favorable conclusion
for the greater company in sight.
The Trenton Rock Oil Company owns
10, 900 acres of oil territory, of which 1000
acres have been developed. The DIS
PATCH has no interest whatever in the mat
ter beyond furnishing the news of this ex-
tremely important increase of the refnable
oil field, but it is idle to imagine that the
Standard is making purchase after purchase
of land on grand scale in the Lima region
without some very solid advantage in pros
pect. The news that THE DISPATCH has
given, probably anticipated by some days
or weeks the formal announcement of the
Standards acquisitions of territory in the
Lima field, and its possession of process to
refine the oil. This may not be agreeable
to the Standard, but the public as usual
will not be displeased to have been put in
possession of the facts at the earliest possi-
hle date
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
LYNcH1Ne AND THE COLOR LINE.

Governor Richardson, of South Carolina,
has recently taken an action which, though
rather unique in itself, goes far toward ab-
solving his administration of the charge
OF unfairly treating the negro. Two negroes
having been convicted of lynching a white
man, were sentenced to be hanged. They
were the first colored men convicted OF
lynching, and the Governor granted them
full pardon, declaring that he would not
allow them to be hanged so long as white
men are never punished for the same crime.
This certainly is justice to the negro, and
no less creditable from the fact that it is a
radical departure from the old Southern
idea that the same law cannot apply equally
to white men and negroes. If one class can
not be punished for lynching, perhaps it is
Just that the other class shall not be. But
would it not be more likely to contribute to
public safety and respect for law in South
Carolina, if the authorities and people
would assert the determination that all
lynchers, whether white or colored, shall be
hanged for murder, without regard to color,
race or previous condition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
A BONNER WITH A HISTORY.
Ninety Years Old, Married 8 Times, and
the Father of % Children.

Ninety Years Old, Married Times, and
the Father of 81 Children.
DENIsoN, TEX, April l9.-Jeremiah Cough
Ian, aged 80 years, arrived in the city last
night from Arkansas. Coughlan in en- route to
the Oklahoma country. He is well preserved
and in the possession of all his faculties
Coughlan has been married nine times and
has a progeny of q children, all of
whom he says are alive and in good
health. He is accompanied by four sons. John,
the eldest being 81 years of age. Coughlan
carries with him a Kentucky squirrel rife
which has been in his possession for over 40
years. He said: my eyesight is as good as
ever and last spring I killed a wild turkey
gobbler in Beach river at distance of 40
yards"
Coughlan was for number of years on the
waters of the Missouri river in the service of
the Northwest Fur Company. He was a COM
panion of Daniel Boone, the renowned patri-
arch of Kentucky. He trapped in the Black
Hills and for number of years followed the
fluctuations of savage life, being member of
the Arickara tribe. He remembers very well
lin Beckwith, who was chief of the Crow
nation and the hero of frontier romance.
Coughlan was. also soldier under General
Kearney, and made the trip with him across
the plains to California.
In 1850 he was captured by war party of
Ogallalla Sioux near Fort Laramie adopted
into the tribe and married the daughter of the
chief. He was present at North Platte, Neb.
when General Sherman made his famous trip
with the Sioux. Coughlan left the frontier
and moved to Arkansas at the outbreak of
the great civil war, but did not participate in
it. He says that he feels that he is good for
in Oklahoma. Coughlan is of Scottish-Irish
rarentage..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
Nerves in Jelly Fish,

The little fresh water polyp is so Indifferent
to mutilaticn that it may be chopped into
dozen pieces, and yet each fragment will grow
into an animal capable, in its turn, of being
almost indefinitely divided. The sea anemone
has some vestiges of nerves, or at least of scat
tered nerve cells But though the same has
been claimed for the jelly fish, it is only an
acute psychologist, armed with the finest appli-
ances of the instrument maker, who can affirm
his belief in the existence of these elementary
representatives of organs all too active in the
higher creation. 1t seems vain to seek for even
these traces of nerves among the sponges and
hosts of minute forms which the unscientifc
lump under the name of animalcules. Yet
sible. A little extra light or heat the slightest
touch, the observation of the sun by passing
cloud, and these morsels of animated jelly
shrink into formless protest against the an
noyance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
IRELANp,s GOOD FORTUNE.

As Hdrper's Weekly remarks, the cause of
Ireland never looked so bright as it does to-
day. Partly owing to the indiscretions of
few hot-headed leaders, but much more
largely because of the persistent misrepre-
sentations and deliberate lying of so-called
respectable newspapers, the real aspirations
of the Irish nation have been hidden from
the sight of the English people until now.
The efforts of Messrs. Gladstone and Par
nell to bring the English voters to a sober
consideration of Ireland's claims have at
last been crowned with success.
The innate sense of fair play, the exist
ence of which some had begun to doubt,
has been allowed to emerge in the English
character. 1t was asserted vigorously at
the recent Rochester election, where the Tory
phalanx of Kent was broken for the first
time in many years. There is every reason
to believe that until Salisbury is forced to
appeal to the country in general election,
these forcible and adverse comments upon
his policy will continue to be evoked at the
bye elections.
1t is really wonderful that the Tory
Ministry has not succumbed before this.
Salisbury's idea seems now to be to hang on
to the reins of government and trust to luck
to bring him some relief. This would not
be so bad policy if the Irish party had not
so patient and astute leader as Mr.. Par
nell. 1t would be easy now for careless
leader of the Home Rulers to provoke the
race jealousy in the English heart which
has so long stood in the way of Ireland hap
piness and freedom. But Mr.. Parnell stand
ing side by side with Gladstone, with the
banner of grand cause above them, can
not afford to wait the opportunity which
must come at latest in three years. time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
BRAIN POWER IN PLANTS.

Renson and Instinct in the Vegetable King
dOm-ClOse Similarity Between Certain
Fauna and Flora-IrritabiIity of Orchids
Plants That Move md Think.
From the London Standard
Science has of late years revealed SO many
animal characteristics possessed by the vege-
table kingdom, that when writer in the cur
rent number of the National ReUtet0 claims
for plants certain amount of brain power, the
world will scarcely be surprised. In the higher
animals there is, as we all know, central
brain, from which diverge nerves for the per-
formance of special functions. Some of these
subserve the purpose of sight, others enable
the muscles to move the limbs, and a third
series aid in the all-important process of diges-
tion. In like manner, the brain itself is divided
into regions, each of which is now known to
have an exclusive use. But when we descend
to the humber creatures-to the worms, snails
and so forth-there is no regular brain, though
the ''ganglia," or collocations of nerve matter,
scattered throughout their bodies seem to serve
much the same purpose as the brain in verte-
brates Finally, when we reach the lowest
OF all the recognized members of the animal
kingdom, we fail to discover either brain or
nerves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
MID PLEASURES AND PALACES.
William X. Vanderbilt TO Spend Million on
n Southern Home, Sweet Home.

RALEIGH, NC, April 19.-Informatio which
appears to be positive has been received to the
effect that William X. Vanderbilt will build
near Asheville the most magnificent private
residence in the South, and that it will stand in
truly royal domain. Some months ago he be-
gan the purchase of property near Asheville on
the French-Broad and Swannano rivers. He
secured an eminence on which to build, which
overlooks the lovely valleys Of the French
Broad and Swaunano rivers, and from which
there is a view in all directions for miles.
He has added to the original purchase until
he now owns 4,C0O acres, which cost him from
$50 to 500 per acre, extending along the road
toward HendeTSonville on one side and en-
bracng the valley of French-Broad for quite
distance on the other. His architect has conf
pleted design for grand mansion. 1t is to
be 800 feet III length, with gorgeous parlors and
reception rooms, conservatories, ball rooms
and fountains-in short all comforts and aD-
pointments to be had by the expenditure Of
Sl,00S000 the amount decided upon.
He is now negotiating for an additional $50
acres, for which he will be required to pay
100000. The price of the property has advanced
800 per cent within the past 100 days.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-20
Plants With Brain Power,

1t is the same with many plants. They are
amazingly irritable as everyone knows who
has seen sensitive plant fold up its pinnules
on being disturbed and a still more remarkable
instance can be observed at times in tropical
forests where carpet of these weeds will be-
come recumbent before the tread of the ad-
vancing pedestrian, the irritability being trans
mitted by sympathy from plant to plant Yet
40 one has ever yet affected to have seen in
these plants even the trace of anything which
could be called a nervous system. far less
brain. But brain, Mr.. Arthur Smith, the
sist that they possess For, though there is no
sign of that aggregation of matter which is
known as such, the curious phenomena-the
almost intelligence which many species Of
plants display to an even greater extent than
the lower forms of life-indicate o something
which is akin to brain power