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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
EASILY TESTED.

In an article on the efforts of the Union
Pacific directors to provide against the
further increase of its debt to the Govern
ment, the Boston Herald makes the following
rather startling assertion: 1--WE venture to
say that to-day its directors wouldbe willing
to assume the responsibility of relieving the
United States Treasury from paying in the
future the interest on. the Union Pacific
bonds, but the Government will not permit
such action to be taken"
Such an extraordinary statement re-
quires some citations of authority to main
tain it, 1t is true that the Govern
ment has never permitted the Union
Pacific to pay the interest on the
bonds issued in Its aid; but we have never
heard that it refused to permit it. Both the
refusal and permission have, so far as the
public knows, been made unnecessary by the
fact that the Union Pacific has neglected to
send on the funds.
Against the Herdlds assertion, we will
venture the prediction, if the directors
of the Union Pacific will make tender of
the funds necessary to pay the interest on
its Government debt, or of security for the
payment of future interest, without any
drawbacks or reservations, that no official of
the United States Government will have
either the stupidity or the hardihood to reject
it. There is nothing in the laws governing
our administration to prevent taking what
ever can be got on a shaky debt whenever it
can be realized.
At all events the experiment is worth try
ing and the question can be. very easily
tested. If the Union Pacific directors are
ready to pay this interest as the Herald
claims, why not send on certified checks to
Washington for the next installment of in
terest on their subsidy?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Ii HUNG CHANG, the Premier of China, is
very seriously ill
CARDINAL GIBBONS will spend two weeks in
May at hot Springs, N. G.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN and his wife are guests
of the Queen at Windsor Castle.
PROF. ARMNIUs VAMBERY has obtained
permission to search for historical Hungarian
documents in the Sultan's library.
BELvA A. LOCKWOOD says: 1--WE will inaug-
urate woman as President 25 years hence"
Is it possible she is grooming as dark horse,
so to speak, for the campaign of 1887
IT is rumored in literary circles that Wm D.
Howells has been making close study of the
social phenomena presented by the Centennial
celebration for usefn forthcoming novel.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Commander in
Chief of the Mediterranean station, who re-
turned to England in consequence of prostra-
tion by fever, is making favorable progress to-
ward recovery.
THE New York World says: Among the State
Governors in the parade Governor Hill was
voted the most popular, Governor Bulkeley the
handsomest, Governor Biggs the most patri-
archal, Governor Ames the most indifferent,
Governor Gordon the most soldierly, Governor
Green the most carefully attired and Governor
Beaver the most observed.
THE King of Spain, Alfonso Ill, not yet
years old Is a rosy-cheeked, fair child of bright
disposition and more than ordinary quickness
and curiosity for his age. He has been taught
to give military salute, and his greatest de-
light is to witness the relief of the guard from
the palace windows at 10 in the morning Old
courtiers say he has strong likeness to the
Bourbon portraits in the Madrid Museum.
4
ington from New York, and was at the War
Department yesterday. Saturday morning he
will start on trip to the West, accompanied
by General Drum and Colonel Barr. The
military school at Leavenworth, Kan, will be
inspected, and the party will proceed to Den
yer, Cheyenne, Omaha, st. Paul and Chicago,
being Joined by General Schofield at the latter
place.
Now that the changing method" of treating
locomotor ataxia progressive paralysis) is be-
ginning to attract wide attention, there will,
doubtless, be many claimants for the credit of
its discovery. 1t is already made clear that DIR.
E. z. Banning, of Garfield, O., was practicing
and writing in favor of the method 80 or 40
years ago, and that therefore, it cannot prop
erly be ascriDed to the young Russian physician
who has been getting credit extensively for de-
vising it.
OAhL hOSA was LOU Inouest 10 SPEAK much
of his indefatigable labors, or to say anything
of certain good deeds he desired to hide under
bushel, such as the Parepa-Rosa scholarship
which he founded Is years since, as a tribute to
his wife's memory, in the Royal Academy of
Music at a cost of s., 1000; and the assistance he
rendered to the more modern Royal College.
He never went through the ordeal of benefit
or received a testimonial. Nine years ago he
married again, and the domestic happiness he
had so sadly missed returned once more to his
home,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
HERE'S TO NEW YORK!

The Centennial celebration of President
George Washington's Inauguration is now
thing of the past. 1t must be said that
New York City has covered herself with
glory in honoring the nations hero and the
nations past. The multitudes that have
f1ocked to the Empire citvfrom the neither
most corners of this great country have
learned perhaps, as in no other
way they could have learned, what
great city the New York of 1889 is. The
claim ofaNew York to be considered the
metropolis of the country has for once been
properly supported by metropolitan well
come and generous reception of her in
Vulnerable guests. From this time forth
New York City's name will be in better
odor. All the States have Joined to pro-
mote the glory of New York; national
event has been celebrated so as to reflect the
most honor upon locality.
In all this season of parades, speechifying
and feasting the untoward accidents have
been very few. A million strangers have
enjoyed the hospitality of New York to the
full The ball is not pretty thing to
talk about, but then no great festival can
escape some drawbacks. Altogether Pitts
burg can congratulate New York heartily
on the success of her festival and wish her
many glorious returns of the day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03

portiOnless young person il she had per-
mitted Plttsburg to know of her existence
before she took to the bicycling track and
the wilds OF Nebraska. Plenty of young
men in Pittsburg would have gladly in
dulged her fad for bicycles and caramels,
and attended to her fifteen hundred thou
sand dollar estate into the bargain if she
had but breathed a word Of her desires
when dallying with the elite of these parts.
1t is never safe to speak for the elite, but
we think we can safely say that if it had
even known Miss McCsry when she was at
home it would never have let her run away,
extremely fast young woman as her mana
ger, the Senator, says she is--on bicycle.
But Birdie, or Augustine, is lucky in
having such modest, truthful man as Sem
ator Morgan for a manager. Her fortune is
never likely to grow less in his hands, and
if she goes further west her standing among
Pittsburg's elite is likely to become more
circumstantially astonishing. Pittsburg
will try to get along without her prize
heiress for few more moons.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
HARD NAMES FOB CIDER.

Cider came il for sharp criticism at q
temperance meeting in Baltimore yester-
day. The members Of the Maryland State
Temperance Alliance passed resolution
asking the Legislature to bring cider within
the category of strong drinks. This motion
was not adopted without considerable dis.
cussion. The delegates from Baltimore did
not join in the denunciation of cider. They
said they knew cider pretty intimately and
the remembrance Of the drink thrilled their
souls gently, but pleasantly. Cider, to
them, was q palatable and harmless liquid.
But there was an expert on the ground
who arose to combat the Baltimorean con-
tentions with the shot of his own expert
ence. He was certain Rev. G. q. Fitz-
gerald. Disguised-we trust not in drink
he had gone, he said, into the places
where they sold the insidious juice of the
apple and perceived its effect upon the men
who swallowed it. Of the two, he thought,
cider was worse than whisky. Mr.. Fitz-
gerald denounced cider without mercy, and
the motion to prevent the establishment of
cider clubs in local option counties by in
GLIDING cider among prohibited strong
drinks was carried.
Maybe the cider side issue is yet to come
in for full consideration in this State before
the people vote on the prohibition amend
ment At present the impression to be
gathered is that the status of cider is not
clearly determined.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
BACK TO BUSINESS.


More Life nc the Departments az Washing
ton Since the Cenfennial-Wby 50 Many
Changes Were Made 10 tho Railway
Mail service-A Man with Money Miss
ins-Other Capital Gossip.
WASHINGTON, May a. General superintend-
ent Bell, of the railway mail service, was ques-
toned to-day as to the number Of changes
which were made in that service between
March 4 and May /, when the civil service law
was extended to it. He replied that he did not
know the exact number. but a good many
changes had been made--in fact, he had made
change wherever he could improve the
service by doing So He added: I'm the making
OF appointments in the railway mail service
since became its general superintendent has
been. as far as possible, to weed out incompe-
tents and probationers, and of the first consid-
GRAFTON to bring back those whose records in
dicated proficiency and who were removed
mainly because they were Republicans. think
30 per cent Of the appointments that have
been made comprise the class mentioned, and
OF the remainder. the aim has been to select
from those who have been recommended such
as are the most likely to become capable clerks
after serving the usual probationary term. AS
q body the old men seeking restoration we're
found to have high records and while they
may not at the commencement of their restored
service be as proficient as they were when they
left, it win require but short time TO recover
their old rating as good and fair clerks. After
carefully reviewing the force in connection
with the Division Superintendent, feel con-
fident that the service has, because of changes,
been materially strengthened, and while
should have been glad to have had more time
in which to bring back more of the old high
class men, have no doubt but that which has
been done in the past few weeks will speedily
ada to the efficiency of the railway mail ser
vice"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS.

A WILDCAT and two bears haunt Jacks
Mountain in the vicinity of Belleville, Mifiin
county.
FORTY thousand pounds Of maple sugar were
shipped from Berlin, Somerset county, one day
last week, netting the farmers over 5000.
A BLOOMFIELD man who ate 20 boiled eggs
for breakfast, Easter Sunday, is discounted by
the Meadville man who ate So fried eggs for
dinner the same day.
A JEFFERSON county sugar tree, tapped by
Mr.. Plffer, of Paradise, flowed steady stream
for "a hours, producing 20 gallons Of sap
through one spile.
NEWTON WINTERS, of Tioga county, has a
one-eyed hen. 1t would not be much Of curl
osity, however, were it not for the fact that it
walks sideways all the time, following It's good
eye.
LIGHTNING is messenger of woe to a fam
ily who live in the mountains OF Cambria
county. 1t always strikes the house or near it
when any of the family are about to die. Sew
eral days ago it tore tree which stood near
the house into shreds and the day after the
mother of the family died.
LIEUTENANT DAVID SwYERs, a veteran
aged S., died at his home in Milesburg. recently.
At the battle of Poe river, May 10, 1854, he bore
the colors of Governor Beaver regiment, when
his cap was shot of, then his knapsack. then
his canteen, then his blouse was riddled, and
finally bullet struck him in the left breast.
At the battle of Gravel Run he was shot in the
left knee. coming out at the thigh Sunday.
April IA, he coughed up piece of bone which
had been imbedded in his luugs for Is years,
when he was first wounded.
Mr.. HARRY HALLErr. while the tubing was
being drawn from a well near Franklin, last
week, was very seriously injured. The drawing
was done by horse power. The clamps slipped
while the men were unscrewing the joints above
ground, and the whole string Of tubing. weigh
ing over ton. dropped to the bottom. The
jerk threw the horses back with terrible force
The singletrees broke, one Of them striking
Mr.. Hallett and throwing him over the team
One leg and one arm were broken and he is
badly injured internally. Nh. Hallett is 81 years
old,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
A DIFFICULT CoNUNDRUM.

"Where was Chicago 100 years ago?" asks
the Tribune of that city, andadds foot note
to the query declaring: can answer to this
is expected from numerous loathsome and
green-eyed cotemporaries. As the closing
expression is that used in Chicago journal
ism for esteemed contemporaries, we reply
that the question though it is not easily
answered, still is an impressive one. 1t is
calculated to fill the mind with grave
thoughts, not unmi1ed with envy, to reflect
upon the answer most would make, that a
century ago Chicago was nowhere. But even
thatsolution would appear to be barred by the
rule of e1 nihiIo. The question is delicate
and difficult one. It would be less difficult,
though perhaps not less delicate, to tell our
esteemed Chicago cotemporaries where the
majority of their city will be 100 years in
Tho futuro
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
WHAT WILD WITS ARE SAYING.

A Fat Thing.-Mrs. Ward-Where is
your husband working now?
Mrs. Precinct-He amt working. he has got
an office in the city government--BostoR Courier.
As an illustration of the progress and GO
aheadativeness of our country, it may be mem
toned that the '17-year locust which appeared
only twice in "a years half century ago, now
visits us annually-Norrtstoton Herald.
Bessie--What's the matter in the sitting
room, onmy?
Tommy-Oh, the usual contest between pa and
ton Free Press.
Mrs. Rogers-No one seemed to feel any
worse at Mr.. Bigriche's funeral to-day than Ds.
Pi1ler.
Mr.. Rosers-He must certainly have felt bad.
He had been treating BigrIche for two years at .
a CALL Minneapolis Tribune.
When Greek Meets Greek.-Miss Gush-
ington Ito societyIpet Of 1913, apropos Of sociery
net of ,Ss,s9)- On Mr. Filters did you heart fhat9
How clever he is! So much taste. hasn't her
Mr.. Piitters-Yes. madam; and It's all 50 badi-
HGrper's BdzGr.
Home Missionary-Do you believe your
prayers are answered, Uncle 'Rastus?
Uncle 'Rastus-'Pends altogether on de prayer.
When prays de Lord to send me turkey IL
don't come. but when prays de Lord to send ne
after turkey, gently gifts it before midnight
Omaha World.
Enjoying himself-Young man docking
over hotel register)-I see that Joshua CrnWhsn,
Of Crawhshyille, is stopping here. Where can
ind himY He's an uncle OF mine.
Clerk-I think you VIII find him in the elevators
he's been riding up and down al the forenoon
Harpsr's Bazaar
The Smasher's Fate.-First Baggage
Smasher-say, Jake, I'm thinkin' it 'ud oe money
In our pockets II we'd begin bandlin' TunAs
more kearful.
Jake Why wud it2
Because the more we smash 'em the oigger anu
stronger and heavier they make EN- I've s.ruck
three this mornin' made out o. reg lar ooiier Hon'
Me backs most broke.-Ess0 YORK Hsskty.
Charlotte, my dear, how is it hnd you
weepingg Have you bad news from your nus
band2,' ssOhl worse than thatl MY Arthur
writes me from Carlsbad that he would die Win
ardent longing for me were It not that ne could
gaze aFectionately ut my picture andeover It with
q thousand kisses every day. That Is really
very nice Of him: and pray Is it that you are cry
ing for? 1 would give anything to have such .
poeticand tenderly loving husband as you have!''
sskh! YES. my Arthur Is very poetlcal, but let me
tell you that Just to try him. slipped my mothers
photo into his trxyeling-bag instead Of my own
before be started. ''-Fgtsgspds Batter
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
PITTsBURG, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1889.
AN ASYLUM ATROCITY

Chicago has an unpleasant task before
her and one which must be attended to. It
is the investigation of the horrible charges
leveled at the Jefferson County Asylum.
In that institution recently patient named
Robert Burns died, and great mass of evil
dence exists to show that he was killed by
the barbarous cruelty Of three of the asylum
keepers. Yesterday at the inquest news
paper reporter, who had obtained admission
to the asylum under the pretense of lunacy,
but really to obtain for his paper true ac-
count of the managen ent of the asylum,
gave most damaging testimony. He told at
great length horrible story of the repeated
acts of brutality by which the man Burns
was reduced in ten days from a state of
robust physical health to that of sallow,
hollow-eyed lunacy, and finally brought to
death itself,
This recital, painful as it is, should be
read, because it reveals condition of affairs
which is only too likely to exist in similar
institutions nearer home, unless the ex-
ecutive officers are not only honest and hu-
name, but also careful to see that their sub
ordinstes possess these qualities also. The
incompetency of the Superintendent of the
Jefferson Asylum seems to be established by
his ridiculous assertion of the reporters in
durable insanity, and it is impossible to ac-
quit him of responsibility for the death of
the unhappy Burns, when such steady and
concerted course of cruelty is shown to have
been followed by no less than three keepers.
Doubtless Chicago will see to it that all the
guilty escape.
To the mind of man no cruelty seems SO
devilish as that inflicted on lunatics or
idiots. The poor creatures whose heaven
born reason has fed, whose very souls seem
to have deserted them, need our pity, our
protection, most of all. The prosecutors and
murderers of the insane should meet with
punishment at once swift and most severe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
FUNERAL OF DIR. BARNARD.
Remains offhe Eminent Educator Followed
TO Their Resting Place.


NEW YORK, May 2-The funeral Of the late
DR.. F. A B. Barnard, ex-President of Columbia
College. took place at st. Thomas Church this
morning. The church was crowded. Bishop
Potter officiated, assisted by the Rev. DR..
Brown, Rev. Morgan Dix, Rev. DIR. Storr, Rev.
DR.. Satterlee and Rev. Cornelius Dufie, chap
lain of Columbia College, The pallbearers
were Rev. DR.. John Hall, chancellor Of the
University of the City of New York; President
Alexander 8. Webb, of the College of the City
of New York; Rev. DR.. E A. Hoffman. dean
of the General Theological Seminary; Presi-
Timothy Dwight, of Yale College; President
Francis Patton, of Princeton; President Pot
ter, of Hobart College; Rev. DR.. Howard
Crosby, Stephen T. Nash, w. c. Shermerhorn
and Hamilton Fish.
Among those present were delegation of 25
from the Union League and from the Century
Club and the Academy of Sciences. the
Meteorological Society and the Americas Insti-
tute of Civics. The students OF Colum bia Col
lege attended in . body, to the number of $50.
There were also present 45 members of the
Faculty, the % trustees of the college and
large number of the college alumni. Others
present were Justice Strong, of the United
States Supreme Court; General Sherman, Rev.
DIR. Storrs, John Jay. Rev. DR.. Theodore Cuyler,
Seth Low. ex-Judge Noah Davis and Rev. I.
Dewitt Talmage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
THREE FALSEHOODs.

Liars, domesi lie and foreign, have been
having quite boom during the last forty
eight hours. The largest fabrication, though
it must be said that it lacked originality, for
its lines were nodded upon an exploded
canard of recent date from the same country,
may be termed, for convenience, the Mexi-
can lie. 1t told of terrible riot in Laluz,
Mexico, in which two hundred and fifty per-
sons, who were attempting to rescue some
priests imprisoned in a jail, were killed.
The details of the slaughter were given in
picturesque style, and the whole story bore
a very impressive air of verisimilitude. A
brief telegram, to be found elsewhere in this
issue, explains that the report is tissue of
bald lies, woven around an everyday occur
renee in Mexican city, the murder of one
man.
A great deal of astonishment and alarm
was caused yesterday by statement ema-
mating from Baltimore to the effect that yell
low fever had broken out among the crew
of the steamer Weser, of the North German
Lloyd Company, then on her way to Bre-
men. 1t was said that many of the crew
had died of the fever. A cablegram was re-
ceiYed by the steamship company yester-
day afternoon which read as follows:
The steamer weser passed Dover at 6 o'clock
this morning. All well No truth in report
that yellow fever is on board the ship.
Thus lie number two is nailed. The last
large lie Of this series is involved in the ex-
hibition in the Centennial parade in New
York of a dilapidated old carriage as
General Washington's. The vehicle turns
out to be an antique duplicate of no partic-
ular interest.
1t is not easy to explain how truth has
come to such bad usage at time when we
are celebrating the memory of man who,
at least in his boyhood, never told lie.
Perhaps, as majority of the lies in this
case are of foreign origin, it is dispensa-
tion OF Providence to make, by contrast, the
veracity of Washington's people appear
noteworthy still.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
WHOLESALE APPROPRIATION.
One Suburban Town Captures All of the
Property of Another.

One SuburDan t0Wn captures All oil the
Property of Another.
CHICAGO, May 2-The town of Maplewood
is one of those recently annexed to Chicago.
Yesterday Chief of Police Hubbard went out
there to take formal possession Of the place,
and put it in charge Of city police officers. He
found the Town Hall, where the village police
and fire departments had made their head
quarters. literally robbed OF everything. One
chemical fire engine and all the appurtenances
of the Office, even to the cuspidores and the
coal, as well as the shed that covered it, were
gone. The Captain of the police of the town of
Jefferson had come in the night, after the an
nexation, and carted everything up to Elmira
Books, records and everything were gone.
The people of Maplewood had purchased the
fire engine and paid for the building, and
they feel like mobbing the town of Jefferson
police. Superintendent Hubbard took Trus-
tee Nolan and the two jefferson policemen be-
fore the City Law Department and related the
facts. Assistant Corporation Counsel Knight
at once wrote an order to the Jefferson town
authorities commanding them to return ali
that had been taken out of Maplewood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
Foul Play Alone is Feared.

The Navy Department has been officially In
formed by the commanding officer of the
Essex that Assistant Paymaster Henry W.
Smith went ashore on the 18th ult.. with the
intention to return next day and has not since
been heard from. He had 81 ZOO belonging to
the Government in his possession. The COM
mandant at the New York Navy Yard has been
instructed to notify the police authorities and
take steps to discover his whereabouts. Mr..
Smith was man of high standing in the navy,
owns house in this city, and at the Navy De-
partment it is generally believed that he has
been foully dealt with.