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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20
The Horrors at Close shave.
New York Tribune.


New York Tribune.
Let me have close shave" said
q new customer, as be settled back in
his chair and looked dreamily ut the
ceiling in i downtown barber shop.
I'D rather not said the aesthetic
barber, throwing the halr back from
his full, expansive brow and looking
sadly at the man in the char.
What ; that you saj: What's the
matter: Com, come, hurry up
No, no, ny good man, you do not
know what YOU are asking for. Do
you know what II close shave meansi
| never did until .ooheI at a face
the other day throu. h Il microscope
which h d beeu treated 10 this luxurl
Gus process. Why, the entire skin
resenbicd Il piece Of raw beei. 10
make The tace perfectly smooth te-
qulres not only the removal Of the
hair, but also portion Of the Gu icle,
and a close shave requires the re-
moyai Of "a laser Of Of skiv .all around
The blood vessels thus expos d are
not visible to tile naked eye, but un.
der the miscto.c pc each little quiy.
enng mouth Lolttlng minute blood
drop protests against such cruel treat.
ment. Tue nerve tips are also un~
covered, AMI tie pure. are left un.
protected, whi-h makes tie skin ten.
der aud unhealthy. Tnls sudden ex.
posare ot the inner layer Of the skin
renders a person. liable 10 haze colds,
hoarseues$ amt sore throat aud il il
only that the face aud meek ste pachy
degwatous-~"
Hold on. barber Mt another
wsrd ." * Iagiucd :Ae customer. 4
look Vi sadness hal come over his
face and he seemed t. bc mentally
cal uIatns the amount Of rp:dvrmIse
that had beeu sacrificed IN many
years Of elise shaves. Suddenly
jumping from his char he said with
deep feeling:
"l't never shave NJ in.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20

Gov. Church aud the Dakota
Legislature are now wagipg a bitter
war over the appointments of the
Territory. The Legislature being
Republican aud the Governor Dom ,.
cratic, ,.the former wishes 10 delay the
appointments until Mr.. HARRISON
names a new Chief Executive whc
will distribute tue Offices TO the elect
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20

A Dire at Grauitevillc, SC. y s.er.
day, destroyed III, warehouse Of the
Grauiteyihc Manufacturing Company
containing 23I6 bales Ut cotton. L3ss
81 900, 100, insurance $1,000. Tue
salvage cannot be estimated.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20

Tie consideration slown for 40
Others feelings by little three
year oII .uscd some amusement in
h1s family, wAv wpre surprised at the
tbougbtioIuevs Of cllId. After the
death Of hls grandfather the child was
warned net 10 mention his name 90
his gfaodm";her, SINCE By doing so
b. might add to her gticf. On une
ovclsj8n he was reproved br hi.
grandmother for djsobcjgcnce, aud ht
replied instantly: III am Il bad boy
| stan't go to heaven, where -.
then heTau~ed. struck with instant
litoughttnIne -, where that gentle
man Il" he continued in a satisti ID
tone, sure that be bad hurt no on,
ty the cateless mention nf his grand
fathers name. -~ Eps'ap .touruoI
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20
Keep the Congregation Awak,

Tie fret duty OF a preacher is 10
keep the congregation awake. In.
strnct the sexton 10 let in plenty Of
fresh air. Without air. without life.
Bteak out a few of those stained glass
windows aud admit the sunshine
Darkness always provokes a yawn.--
Clergyman IN 1T. Louis Republic.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20
A LARGE FAILURE.
WIND-UP OF THE OHIO AND
WESTERN COAL AND
IRON COMPANY. st..
Blaine and TsIkins Own Bonds.
Philadeiphia Times, rab i2ts.

akAAk oNh AbDhtkBi
Phiadelphia Times. reb, i2ts.
Ohio and Western Coal and Iron
Company filed an assignment in this
city to-day to James A. Hall without
preferences. The deed of assignment
conveys to the assignee all the lands,
furnaces, buildings and appurten-
ances Of the company, subject to a
mortgage TO the Boston Safe Deposit
aud Trust Company. Affixed to the
documents are the signatures OF
Chester Griswold, vice president,
and George q. Thomas, secretary,
John M. GiddeD, the president. was
# the firm of Gidden IL Curtis, of
Boston. who failed last week, and
their failure precipitated this assign.
meut. The OHIO and Western Com
pany il reorganization of the s and
ard Coal and Iron Company, which
was sold out under foreclosure in
1883 and was bid in by ID. N. STAN
ton, Thomas I. Mason AMI George
Chapman, who held 1t as trustees
pending the reorganization.
THE coMPANY's FINANCES.
This new company was incorporat.
cd under the laws vi this State Dc
toher 25, 1883. with a cu,ital stock
of S5,000,00J and bonded debt of
s3.500,00O. Bradstreet's reports of
April rs, 1887, said that the company
was mot understood 10 be earning its
interest account as yet and is being
carried along by those holding its
securities, which are largely owned
ty binks, savings banks and trust
companies. Its future depends on
the disposition OF its managers"
According TO the company's an.
uual report of January l6 the liahil-
tiles were s3,3O9, 900 Of which the
bonded debt was sz,399, 900 and 9th.
er debts, with collateral security,
s9l0,009- The assets consist of a.
0O0 acres Of coal land In the tIock>
Ing Valley valued at S400 or $500
per acre, about 800 h. usts, three
large stores, 400 railroad cars, four
miles vi track, three coal mines fully
iour furnaces and large
amount of miscellaneous equipments.
The directors Of the company are
John NJ. Gidden. George X. Chap
man, Joseph W. Swith, F. X. PEN
dleton, Chester Griswold, 5. L. Par
rish, o. ID Lombard. c. 5. Foote,
james A. Hall and Thomas Cochs
ran.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20

As n statesman capable Of holding
bis tongue Benjamin Harrison is The
great success of the day.-M T.
World, Ind Dem.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-20
EXCITEMENT IN OHIO.

A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio.
says the failure of Glidden & Curtiss,
Boston, Mass, and subsequent at
,aehmeut of the property OF the Ohio
and Western Coal Company has
created considerable excitement and
uneasiness In the Hooking Valley,
where the property of the company
is located. Saturday was pay day
with the Ohio and Western, but the
men received nothing. The shutting
down ot The Ohio and Western Coll
aud Iron Company will throw from
600 to 100 men out Of employment.
The eompauy's real estate amounts 10
about 3,iO0 acres, divided as follows:
Eight hundred in Perry, 600 in
Hooking and 2 900 in Athens county.
The bonded Indebtedness is $500,
900 and the issue Of stock S. ,00O,0 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
VITAL PRINCIPLE.

The leading commercial bodies of Phila-
delphia have brought up an issue with refer
ence etotransportation privileges to be granted
in large cities that involves a principle of
vital Importance to the whole nation The
Commercial, Maritime and Producers Ex-
changes of that city have united in asking
the Legislature to insist, in connection with
the proposed grant of $1,000 900 to aid in the
improvement of the Delaware river, upon
the construction of a railroad along the
river front, which shall be open to any rail-
way carrier that may reach it.
Such a recommendation commends it
self to any unprejudiced mind. The full
benefit of harbor improvement cannot be Sc
cured and such a provision would convert
every wharf into railway depot, and allow
the full benefit of all terminal facilities to
every carrier that reaches Philadelphia. 1t
is plain that such provision would not only
be great gain to the commerce of Philadel-
phia, but its advantages would be extended
to all railroads equally, and through them
to all shippers that may desire to ship
freight to that city.
But it is not necessary to stop there. The
advantage and justice of giving all carriers
equal access to the wharves being recog-
nized, the same principle should be extend
ed to all occupancy of public property by
railways in cities When a street is sur
rendered to the use of railway it should
be recognized that all railways that can
reach the city have an equal right to that
street, subject of course to equitable pay
ment for the use of the track. The funda-
mental character of public street is the
equal right of all persons to use it; and if
its use is given to one railway, it should be
given to all others that desire it. If that
principle is enforced it would place all rail
ways on an equal footing in reaching cities
and would preserve the streets of cities from
a universal gridIroning, by making single
belt line answer the purposes of all the
railway carriers doing business in given
city.
When this subject is properly appreciated
the principle will be recognized that all
railway lines traversing the streets and
docks of the city must be so far public as to
be open to the use of all railway carriers
that may wish to do business at that point.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
IT SHOOTS BOTH WAYS.

There is an especial interest in the method
used by the New York World to reply to
what it scents as partisan sneer at politi-
cal opponents" in General Harrison's in
augural. In reply to the Presidents refer
ence to political reform, the World points
out that the Australian ballot reform bill
was opposed by Republican votes in the
Indiana and Maine Legislatures, which it
conceives to prove Republican hostility to
any effective law for throwing effective safe
guards about the ballet-box and the elector."
The direct inference that, in the Worlds
opinion, opposition to ballot reform bills
indicates adherence to the system of frauds
in election, is perhaps legitimate, but it
should be applied to both parties. This
view is strengthened by the assertion that
'as an honest man himself, President Har-
rison ought to know and TO admit that the
honest men of both parties are equally in
terested in reform of the election laws"
This leads to the inevitable deduction that
those in both parties who are opposed to such
a reform are not honest men.
We have no disposition to criticise the
premises, but it is necessary to urge upon
the World the importance of using its
usual outspokenness in making the appli-
cation. The most prominent example of
opposition to such legislation is afforded by
one David B. Hill who, as Governor of
New York, vetoed an electoral reform bill ,and
was thereafter renominated and reelected
by the Democracy of New York. As this
question was made an issue in the canvass
it is somewhat difficult to see how the allie
cation of dishonesty, made by the World,
can be diverted from Governor Hill and his
supporters, among which, if we are not very
much mistaken, was the esteemed World
itself
Our valuable cotemporary's logic is
effective, but is very dangerous at the
breech. 1t afixes to Governor Hill and his
supporters, by well-qualifed judge, the
undoubted characteristic of dishonesty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12

as it now exists, stands in great need of a
general overhauling, The policy pursued
while Mr.. Dickinson was at the head of the
department. of turning out experienced men
to make places for party favorites and
political workers, was one not calculated to
add to or improve the efficiency of the
service.
The railway mail service seems to have
suffered most, and that branch is the one
where inexperience or Incompetence can
least be tolerated. The public is patient
and uncomplaining as to the manner in
which the agents of the Government in gen.
eral perform their outside duties, but when
letters are delayed, lost, or go astray, the ef-
feet is so damaging to their interests that
business men have right to protest. The
postal service ought to be administered
without regard to partisanship, but with
special care to secure efficiency and prompt
ness IN the discharge of duty, If Mr..
Wanamaker can remedy the mistakes of his
predecessor and make the mail service what
it should be, he will win the lasting graft
tude both of Democrats and Republicans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
P1TTsBURG, TUESDAY, MAR. II, 1Ssa
GOVERNOR BEAVER AND A BILL.

A little cloud of mystery which, has
gradually gathered around Governor Beaver
and his attitude toward the general revenue
bill, has been nicely riven by THE DIS
PATcH's Harrisburg correspondent. The
latter interviewed the Governor of the Com
monwealth yesterday, and obtained from
him an explanation that is timely and ne
assuring, and which will be found elsewhere
in this issue.
The assertion has been often made of late
that Governor Beaver, for reasons of his
own, wished the Legislature to pass the
general revenue bill as it stands to-day.
This Governor Beaver now denies fatty,
and in a general way expresses his lack of
interest in the character of legislation until
it comes before him for official action. At
the same time, while he processes to know
nothing in particular about the general
revenue bills merits or dement's, he does
not abstain from pointing out that
the deficiency in the revenue
caused by the abolition of the tax on the
gross receipts of the corporations, and the
possible diminuti0n ofrevenue by the pas
sage VI Tue prOulDll4on dueuuAAeut OuSuG "
be provided for. Further than this Gov
ernor Beavers remarks are strictly non
committal
As the debate on the general revenue bill
will commence tonight this information
may be profitable TO the Legislators. The
bill demands careful discussion and re-
vision in several respects, and too much
light cannot be shed upon it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
ANOTHER FORM OF rHE DANGER.

A very interesting discussion is going on
before committee of the Massachusetts
Legislature with regard to the danger from
overhead wires as means of furnishing
power to electric street cars. The repre-
sentation of the danger from so heavily
charged wires is of course met by testimony
on the part of the companies, that they are
not so dangerous as is supposed, but the evil
dence of their safety is. by no means COD
vincing. Another disadvantage has recent
ly been experienced in Cleveland where
along the line of a road operated BY over
head wires the telephones have become al
most useless from the,induction of the more
powerful current.
1t certainly does not seem proper that
after such convincing proofs of the danger
of electric light wires have been given that
the public'should be exposed either to that
danger or to the one which comes from the
more powerful current required to move
street cars. 1t is all the more wanton to do
it when the danger is so easily avoided.
The same underground conduit that affords
accommodation to the electric railway
wires could be used for the electric light
current; while separate conduit can be
supplied for telephone and telegraph wires.
This may cost more than the pole system, it
is true, but beside the enhanced safety the
cost is infnitessimal. The platform should
be made universal that electric railway
wires, like all other electric wires, must go
underground.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
Too Much of a Good Thing.

1t would seem that the weather of the
Fourth, and the experiences of that time, en-
dured by those who are capable of influencing
legislation, must result in the change of the
day of the installation of the President and
Vice President. And it seems to me- more
over, that the handshaking and other kinds of
persecution to which President Harrison has
been compelled to submit since his election,
and more especially since his Inauguration
must bring about a revolution of public senti-
ment with regard to these performances.
1t has become not only an abuse Of decency,
but an actual menace to the health and life of
the President and his wife, or the lady who
takes charge of the household of the Presi-
dent and SO is forced to pose as 'the first lady
of the land" as though there could be, any
first lady where one is as good as another
Mrs. Cleveland was young and strong but
even she was completely worn out at times
with the siege of a great reception, and on the
occasion of the last public affair of that kind
previous to the change, Mr.. Cleveland was
forced to order the doors closed before the
mob had half been filed through the mansion.
l call it "mob," because those upon whom
the doors were closed indulged in very un-
seemly conduct, and at one time it looked as
though the discomfort might develop into o
small riot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES.

THE Shah will be domiciled at Stafford
House when he visits London.
A FINE statue of the late Bishop Rappe is
soon to be unveiled at Cleveland.
AMONG the curiosities of the Queens rail-
way journeys has the time tables supplied to
Her Majesty. these being printed in violet ink
on handmade paper with gilt edges. They
contain the exact times of the stoppages at
all points, and give other information of in
terest.
CARDINAL MANNING will celebrate the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his Episcopal con-
secration on June s, 1890 A fund is being
raised as a testimonial to nay off the $50, 900
debt on his cathedral so that the building may
be consecrated on or before his own anni-
versary.
THE Prince of Wales has perhaps the finest
railway coach in Europe. The Southeastern
built it, and it contains seven rooms, there
being study, little library. couple of bed
rooms dressing room and bathroom. The
bedroom is most luxuriously furnished in old
gold silk, being lighted by electricity, and the
pannelling is beautifully painted. The Prince
uses his carriage for all his journeys.
RECENTLY the Prince of Wales made his
first appearance in the gambling rooms at
Monte Carlo since his arrival on the Riviera.
Very little notice was taken of his Royal High
ness by anybody there, few people recognizing
him, or if they did, not being sufficiently i'm
pressed by his personality to look at him sec
ond time. He patronized the roulette tables In
preference to the more select Trente-et-Quar-
ante, where most of the English statesmen
have been disporting themselves for the last
month The Prince stood at the end of the
table and every now and then gave the croupier
a, a,l00-franc piece to put down for him on
batch of numbers. But every time he stalred
his "a they we're remorselessly raked in, to the
very evident modification of the royal punter.
who played losing game extremely badly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
Plenty of Visitors.

The abuse is increasing with the increase of
the vast crowds who now make Washington the
Mecca of the year. Every month the number
of visitors increases, and it will soon come to
pass. if the custom be not abolished, that the
President and his family will be able to do
nothing but attend to the demands of the
thousands of curious who merely burn to say
when they go home that they have seen and
shaken hands with the President and ''the first
lady of the land" Their entire time will be
occupied in this manner, to say nothing of the
dangers arising from the physical strain.
Already President Harrison has been forced
to abandon the hand-wringing part of the Gus
tom, to great extent, and at this some grieve
and some curse. Some of the scenes are lu-
dicrously pathetic. One old Republican has
attended the receptions every day this week
without having had chance to shake the hand
of Mr.. Harrison, and when asked to-day if he
had any special business with the President he
answered in tremulous tone that he Just
wanted to touch the hand of Republican
President before he died. But vast majority
of those who make up the crowds who seem to
want to wiring the life and strength out of Mr..
and Mrs. Harrison. are merely curious and
thoughtless, and desire to only tell their friends
at home that they have touched the coats or
the paws of some of the social and political
lions of the day.
The abuse is about to correct itself, however
and the prospects are that very soon Pres
ident will attract as little attention in his COM
ing and going. and at his residence, as the
kings and queens of the East. 1t is remark
able fact that the President of the French Re-
public can drive along the Champs Elysees
King Humbert and his wife through the Corso
and among the crowds on the Pincian Hill
King William down the Linden and about the
public drives of the Thiergarten, and the Prince
of Wales and his wife up Piccadilly and along
the royal drive in Hyde Park, without attract
ing half the attention that is excited when the
President of the United States drives the
length of Pennsylvania avenue. and little Gu
riosity to see them is manifested at any time,
except on the occasion of royal fete, or show
of some kind and then the foremost of the
curious crowds are usually visiting Americans.
F. w 7.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-12
THE SPECULATIVE DANGER.

The representation which has been made
in some quarters that the new scheme of is
suing pig iron storage certificates fore
shadows the establishment of a monopoly
in that industry has little foundation in the
fact; but the much more intelligent fear is
that it will convert that staple into foot
ball of speculation and thus dangerously in
terfere with the legitimate movements of
the business
Parallels to the methods of dealing pro-
posed for the pig iron industry are 20 be
found in the grain and petroleum trades.
The custom of storing grain and dealing in
the certificates is a generation old; but no
one has ever yet been able to monopolize
the business. On the other hand, the same
custom in the petroleum trade has been ac-
companied by the establishment of the
Standard Oil supremacy; but that the GER
tifcate system was an incident and not cause
of the monopoly, is shown by the fact that
the certificate dealings were only in crude
petroleum, while the Standards monopoly
was Of the refining trade, and has mainly
affected the crude interest by presenting but
a single purchaser for actual use in the
crude market.
On the other hand there is no question
that speculation which is facilitated by the
certificate system has been greatly to the
disadvantage of legitimate business in those
staples. No more decided example of the
fact is required than the history of the grain
trade for the past two years. Corners have
been formed which artifcially enhanced
the price of the staple-at once checking
expectation and stimulating shipments
from the producers. When the corner is
over the excessive stocks brought into mar
ket have depressed the price as factitiously
as it was previously advanced. When the
same features are accompanied ,'as in the Pc
troleum trade, by the presence of a power in
the market which is able to govern these
fluctuations to suit its selfish ends there is
little reason for wonder that the general in
terest is demoralized and unprosperous.
1t is solid truth, as asserted by the New
York Tribune: ''It is the history of specula-
ton that it has always caused, in the long
run, wider and more disastrous fluctuations
in prices than have occurred in articles not
speculative in character" No better evil
dence could be asked than the fact that
while the speculative articles have under
gone yearly, during the past half dozen
years, fluctuations of 25 70 so per cent, the
iron trade has not known an extreme fuctu-
alton of 8 per cent. That interest should be
slow to exchange its present stability and
conservatism for system which contains
the possibility of such business gambling as
has been common in grain stocks and pc
troleum.