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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

IT is proposed to erect 4 monument to the
distinguished formulator of the laws of storms,
Matthew Fontaine Maury. in Washington in
1892 >
THE widow of President James K. Polk re-
ceived many visitors her Seth birthday,
Wednesday last. Her mental vigor is remark
able.
MRS U. s. GRANT, who accompanied her
son, Minister Fred Grant, to Vienna, is home
sick, and she will soon return to this country,
and spend the coming winter in Washington.
EDWARD BELLAMY, author of "Looking
Backward" was born in Chicopee, Mass, in
1850, and still lives there. His father was a
clergyman and Bellamy has been journalist.
JUDGE E. r. HoAR. of Massachusetts,,
President Grants Attorney General, celebrat.
ed on Tuesday the fiftieth anniversary of his
admission to the bar and the fortieth annivers-
airy of his first taking a seat on the bench.
SEVENTEEN negro babies in Atlanta have
been christened Benjamin Harrison. The
Presidents Secretary has written letters to the
parents of the babes thanking them for the
compliment, and expressing kind wishes for the
welfare of the children.
JUSTICE MILLER, of Iowa, and Justice
Field, of California, are the two men now on
the Supreme Bench who owe their places to
President Lincoln. The other two whom he
appointed, David Davis and Noah II. Swayne,
are dead. Justice Miller is nearly rs years old.
WILLIAM E. HENLEY, who has won recog-
milton as a poet, was a laborer of dissipated
habits, it is stated, when an accident that
crushed both his legs laid him up at a hospital,
where he came under the influence of Robert
Louis Stevenson. He now ranks many of
the most brilliant English writers among his
friends.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
spRECKELs' VERBAL VIGoR.

1t is interesting to read in our Eastern
cotemporaries very outspoken interviews
with Mr.. Claus Spreckels, the great sugar
manufacturer. with regard to his business
policy, when he puts his new sugar refinery
in Philadelphia into active operation. Mr..
Spreckels declares that all reports of friendly
relations between himself and the Sugar
Trust are unqualified lies; that he is going
to fight the trust SO long as he lives; and
that the big refinery which he has built for
his sons will be managed by them in accord
ance with his business policy of eternal and
unyielding antagonIsm to the monopoly.
IfMr. Spreckels fulflls about twenty-five
per cent of his declarations the control of
the Sugar Trust is definitely terminated.
But the public, in view of the wide dis
crepaucy which frequently makes itself ap-
parent between promise and performance,
will await the actual ful6llment of his
declarations before banking very unreserv-
edly upon the promise OF beet sugar. Never
theless the most cynical view of Mr.. Spreck-
els declaration indicates that the Sugar
Trust has got to pay him for his alliance.
Thus it shows the weak point of the trust
in offering premium upon new re6neries
which are bound to come into existence SO
long as the combination policy sustains
prices at non-eompetitive level.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
WORSE THAN WE ARE.

The explosion of dynamite cartridge fac
tory at Antwerp, SO far as shown by the de-
tails received by cable, is, in addition to the
ruin which is wrought, decidedly subver-
sive of the general idea that the public safe
ty is more carefully protected abroad than
in this hasty nation. According to the re-
ports received by cable, this dangerous in.
dustry was located in a crowded quarter
near petroleum warehouses, where an explo'
sion must inevitably be attended by disas.
trous results. 1t is satisfactory to believe
that no city in this country would have per.
mitted such dangerous conditions to con.
tinue, to the natural climax of the destrue
ton of 200 lives and millions OF dollars
worth of property. We are bad enough
sometimes; but we have more regard for the
public safety than is shown by this disas.
ter to have existed among the conservative
Dutch
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
PITTsBURG, SATURDAY. SEP. =, 1889
TWELVE PAGES
THE LIBRARY CASE.

The movement made on behalf of the
Pittsburg Library Association, to intervene
in the sale of the Library Hall buildings,
raises complication of legal questions with
regard to the relative rights of the Library,
the Library Hall Company and the mort
gagee, which are outside of the province of
the press The determination of those rights
may be left to the courts, and cannct be de-
bated with much profit outside of the court
room.
1t is, however, pertinent matter of pub
lie discussion to say that any proper move
ment to save the property for the ends to
which it was created will be entitled to the
public sympathy. The work of putting up
the Library Hall, designated and under
stood as it was, to be for the benefit of the
library, was commendable one. That it
has been prevented by adverse conditions
from yielding any support to that public
work, has been a matter of regret
for which no one was to be held especially
responsible. But it would be especially un-
fortunate, Just at the time when the proper
ty has begun to yield revenue in excess of
the interest on the bonds, and to hold out a
prospect that it may fulfill the purposes de-
fined in its charter, to have those public
purposes defeated by the foreclosure of the
property.
If such a misfortune can be averted the
public will be glad to see it done. Proper
ties created for beneficial ends should, if
possible, be maintained strictly for their Or
iginal purposes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
A DIsCOURAGING STORY.

The story from Buffalo that Graham's re-
ported feat in going over Niagara Falls was
a complete sham, is of the sort that raises
the pathetic inquiry whether there is no
virtue extant even in the business of
tumbling down cataracts. To assert that
the ambition of being known as the cham
plon idiot of the country, betrayed an
aspiring soul to make sham tumble and to
be really launched in his barrel below the
falls, is to exalt Graham's good sense in one
respect; but it still leaves him in the atti-
tude of seeking bogus reputation of fool
ishness. OF course the answer is ready that
this story is the weak invention of some
rival who has only succeeded in abrading
himself against the rocks of the rapids.
Nevertheless the story must destroy the
public faith in human nature, and to ineul-
culate the most gloomy views of a world in
which even the falls Jumpers are alleged to
be bogus.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
NATIONAL WATER ROUTES.

The Endorsement of the project for a ship
canal from the upper Ohio to Lake Erie, to-
gether with similar Endorsement Of the
plan for freeing the Monongahela from tolls,
put the Water Ways Convention at Cincin-
natl in line with Pittsburg's vital enter
prises.
The Endorsement may be regarded as
somewhat detracted from by the fact that
the same body Endorsed the Hennepin Canal
project. But the fact is that the Hennepin
Canal, the improvement of the Mississippi
and the two Pittsburg projects are all
propositions of national scope and import
ance., By making common cause with each
other, and throwing off the incubus of mill
dam and frog pond appropriations, they can
place themselves on a basis to command
respect and attention.
A project which would create connected
circuit of water ways throughout the West
would be no mean one to lay before the next
Congress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
Is MORALITY SO AWFUL

In recent criticism on art, Philip Gil
bert Hamerton asserts that it is the extreme
energy and activity of their moral sense
that prevents the English from understand
ing art. They insist too much upon
vsracity, and count upon their industry and
consciousness as merits to be counted before
art itself. Mr.. Hamerton rightly says that
Mr.. Ruskin's teachings have encouraged
this subOrdInation of everything in art to
morality, and whether he is right in his
conclusions be certainly speaks truly when
he says that the English artists have a
healthy attachment for morality, while the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
EsOP AND THE BEASTS.

He sat am ong the woods; he heard
The sylvan merriment: he saw
The humors of the beast and bird,
The pranks of donkey and of daw,
And in the lion and the frog;
In all the tribes of swamp and den,
In deer and hare in stork and log,
Marked the similitudes of men.
''From these, Of these, " he cried, 1--WE come;
Our hearts and brains descend from theseP'
And lol the beasts no more were dumb,
But answered out Of brakes and trees.
And thus, perchance, their saying ran:>
NAY, not from us your folly springs.
y, deeply fallen race man,
Bewildered about empty things!
For we have neither hope nor dread,
We look not forward nor behind,
We lead the life our fathers led,
We live like clouds or streams or wind;
.'For we have neither doubt nor faith,
For we are neither bond nor free;
We hear the word that nature saith,
And nigh to natures heart are we.
"Behold, we neither laugh nor weep,
Are well content with everything;
But ye would fly that scarce can creep.
And ye would speak that scarce can sing.
Nay, were there cause for moan or mirth
'Tis we, not you, should sigh or scorn,
D, latest children of the earth.
Most childish children earth hath borne.n
They speak, but that mlsshapen slave
Told never of the thing he heard,
And unto men their portraits gave
In likenesses Of beast and bird.
AvAndrsw Lang
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

The fashion of keeping jester to enter
tain court went ont when the fool lawyer began
to pratice in it.-Tezas Sistings.
Mr.. Gladstone believes in bringing up
children without restraint II restraint is
English for s'rod,'' we are with him by q large
maiority.-BOston Transcript.
More, Perhaps.-Mrs. Fangle (reading)-
The Sultan of Turkey maintains 4z4 carriages.
FangIe-That mus be as many the Emperor
Of Coachin' China keeps.-Ne1o York Sun.
Wife (who never lets her husband forget
that she is doing the nousework)-My poor hands
have been working ever since I've been married.
Husband-I know your Door tongue has
Epoch.
Mumley-The proprietor of this ready
made clothing store is a law breaker.
Dumley-How do you make that out?
Mumley-Why, isn't he a r-htter?-Neto
York Sun.
Tried in the Balance.-Subscriber-
1 don't see anything funny about your Jokes.
Paragrapher-You don't? l want you to under
stand, sir. that those jokes convuIsed thousands
with laughter before you were born.-Neio York
Sun.
Enamored swain-For you, darling, II
wad lay me doom and dee.''
Practical maIden--That sort of thing is clear out
of date, Willie. What girl wants nowadays Is
Terre Hdute Express.
AT the Standardization, those are
stylish people.
Tom--I know them well; called on them every
night for two months in the city.
Jack--But they seem to avoid you?
Tom-Yes; they haven't paid up yetl--7frns.
Visitor Cat insane asylum)-Who is that
hne-looking man making stars, crosses and things
out of letters?
Attendant-Oh, he was the editor of children's
column In some paper. One week he lost the
answers to the puzzles and tried to solve them
himself. Aunsey's Weekly.
81 love you, Emeline, with all the fervor
at my command" he said, they strolled OUT
East avenue. Eyes. George" she replied, u
know it, and yet would that you had told me OF
your love In some other terms. have been loveo
with fervor, OF so many times, and do want tnis
match to amount TO something. --KoeAsstsr
Budget.
Had Seen Smaller.-Miss Hauteur Tex
hiblting diminutive spaniel)-This is one Of the
smallest dogs living. See, can hold him In the
palm OF my hand.
Bigsby-That Is nothing.
Miss Hauteur-Have you ever seen smaller
one?
Yes, indeed. I've seen many dog that could
be put on scent.-Ns,o York sun.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Rural Visitors In Plenty-An Echo OF Dress
Reform-Cool DIR. B.

Reform-Cool DIR. B..
The country excursionists are really showing
greater eagerness than the dwe1lers in the two
cities to see the Exposition. Yesterday after
noon, though there were not very many people
in the Exposition, almost all who were there
hailed from rural parts. A rather startling re-
minder OF the presence Of one countryman inn
pressed me with this fact. ! was standing well
out Of the way of passers-by, as thought, in
the aisle. and lost in admiration at the speed
with which some men were unpacI1ing cases Of
candy, when sharp-pointed body penetrated
my back. 1t was only an amiable farmers UNI
brella carried at right angles under the arm as
the owner opened his mouth and shut up his
senses.
WHEN Manager Wilt went back of the stage
to apologize to Mrs. Jenness Miller for the un-
intentional presence of Mr.. Voeghrlin, the
scene painter, and his assistant on the lofty
painting bridge above the stage during the
very secret section Of her address, he found
the lady in the best of humor.
She accepted his apology with smile, and
added: There was nothing that man might
not see without any fuss being made about it
but 1 was bound to protest against the
presence OF men or my own sex would not
credit me with bit of modesty."
The modesty and refinement of Mrs. Miller
are established in the spirit and form Of her
lecture. Her return to PIttsburg is one Of the
pleasant certainties Of the season.
rx&
"SoME men are possessed of amazing cool
ness as well as courage" said a New York at
torney to me yesterday. ST had a very striking
instance of such combination brought before
me few weeks ago. With some ladies ana
certain DIR. B, who is well-known every
where as very clever surgeon and ana tomist.
went to see Booths Baby at the Ma Olson
Square Theater- 1t was raining a little when
we came out of the theater and we all got into
hack and drove over to DeImonico's to supper.
When we got out DR.. B asked the hackman
how much the fare was, and he said, Two
dollars The doctor looked little vexed and
offered the driver dollar, which he refused to
take.
"All right said DR.. B., wait a moment,
and he accompanied US into the dining room
and saw that we were seated before he returned
to the hackman. followed him. He offered
the jehu dollar again, but he refused it, ask
ing surlily for 81. With that DIR. B., who is a
small man. seized the hackman, big hulking
fellow, by the throat with one hand and ground
his clenched fist into his, the hackman's. face.
The hackman was completely mastered in a
moment and yelled like spanked child. The
doctor released his victim, gave him the dollar,
pulled down his right coat sleeve, which had
rucked up, and taking my arm walked into Del
monicO's. When we rejoinei the ladies a few
seconds later, DIR. BIS face was as placid and
angelic as a babys. There was not tremor in
his face or sign Of excitement in his manner.
do not wonder that he has won fame as sur
geon. He has the nerve to do anything he
wants to without mourning the least agitation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
THE WRONG PRISONER RELEASED.
A Comedy of Errors That Kept an Innocent
Man In Jail,

CHICAGO, September GA comedy of errors
has been enacted at the county jail for the last
six weeks, but the plot was so involved that it
did not become known until the last act was
played in Judge Tuthill's court yesterday after
noon. In the latter part of July two men, each
bearing the name of John Conley, were impris-
oned in the Jail, one charged with larceny and
the other with assault. The July grand jury
heard the evidence in both cases and returned
an Indictment for the assault and mo bill" in
the other case. An order was sent to the Jail
for the discharge of the John Conley held for
larceny, but in mistake his namesake was given
his liberty, and John Conley, who was not
guilty Of larceny, was lodged and boarded at
the expense of the county for six weeks longer
than he was entitled to be.
The mistake was not discovered until the as
sault case was called in Judge Tuthilps court,
and States Attorney Elliott sent over to the jail
for the defendant. The prosecuting witness In
the case was watchman at the Lake Shore
yards. AS soon as the prisoner was brought
into the court the witness exclaimed: "Why,
that is not the man!' After little investiga-
tion the facts related were brought out and
Conley was discharged. He did not appear at
all grieved over his false Imprisonment. A
capias was issued for the other Conley who had
protted by the mistaken identity
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
QUAY FOR PRESIDENT.
The New Democratic Paper of Washington
Suggests Him for That Position.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
WASHINGTON, September 6.-The first mum.
ber of the new Democratic weekly, the Nation.
al Democrat, made its appearance to-day under
auspices very favorable for its brilliant success
Mr.. Edmund Hudson, late of the Capital, and
correspondent of the Boston Herald, and Mr..
Fred Perry Powers, one of the ablest of Wash
ington correspondents, are the leading proprie-
tors and editorial writers. The project has re-
ceiyed the most earnest encouragement from
eminent Democrats in every part of the coun-
try. The new weekly Is large eight-page pa
per and very neatly printed.
The initial number contains long editorial
article on Senator Quay as a Presidential can
didate, criticising some of his methods, but
giving him credit for great sagacity, and sug-
costing that the Republicans might as well en-
body the President and the President maker in
one person.
The article closes with the assumption that
with Quay in the Presidency that Office would
at least be relieved Of cant and hypocrisy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
A REMINDER OF SLAVERY DAYS.
An Aged Colored Woman Meets Her Former
Mistress After Many Years.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
WASHINGTON, September 6-The village. of
Anacostia, across the Eastern Branch, which
is chiefly distinguished as the home of Fred
erick Douglass has Just furnished a pathetic
little incident recalling the days of slavery.
Mrs. Susan Bryan, of Prince Georges county,
Nd, aged 50 years, came into possession by in
heritance when young woman of large
number of slaves, among whom was one named
Caroline Henson, now So years of age, who had
been reared from childhood by Miss Julia Ian
ham, also of Prince Georges county, and often
as a child played with her later owner. Caro-
lines husband was owned by neighbor
planter and relative, DIR. Edward Bryan. who
in 1885 moved with his family and effects to
Mississippi
The two slaves were given the privilege to go
or stay, but the attachment for the master be-
ing stronger than that for husband or wife, the
husband followed his master to Mississippi, and
was long since buried near him at Vicksburg,
while Caroline remained in Maryland. About
40:years ago she was given her liberty, and dur
all the intervening years had not met Mrs.
Bryan, nor did either know the other was living
till few days ago, when Caroline learned that
Mrs. Bryan was visiting relatives here, and
passing the house recognized her face at the
window.
On being ushered into the presence of her
former mistress, the two aged women gave vent
to their feelings and wept freely in their en-
braces, and together they traversed in memory
the family events for three-quarters of GEN.
turv,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

WE are panied to observe that the esteemed
New York Press, in publishing communi-
cation with reference to the Hamilton-Burr
duel, states IN its headline that it is from
zone of George Washington's descendants"
1t being a part of the history of this country
that the Father of his country had no other
children than the grateful nation, little
more accuracy is desirable in speaking of
the descendants of his brothers and cousins.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

The official Turkish statement Of the
troubles in Crete attributes them all to the
bloodthlrsty and disorderly character of the
Christians of that island, who wantcnly
attack peaceable and unofending Mussul-
men, and get themselves killed in order to
bring the Turkish Government into dis
repute: which begins to look asif the Cretan
Christians were of very much the same
suicidal and incomprehensible character as
the Southern negroes, according to the White
Leaguers' views.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
Flowers on Fla Trees.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In an item credited to a California paper, and
recently published in THE DISPATCH, the
statement was made that the fig is utterly un-
like any other fruit, in that it has no blossom.
This statement is incorrect. The receptacle Of
the flower, which is the apex of the flower
stalk, from which the organs of the flower
grow, or into which they are inserted in the
fig extends over and around the flowers which
are almost inclosed within it. If the light and
air fail to reach the flowers they would not
come to perfection, and the fruit would in turn
be imperfect The fact alone that figs contain
seeds would assure US they have blossoms Of
some kind.
A better description than have given of a
fig blossom l quote from Gray's Botany:
FLOWERS of both kinds mixed, lining the in
side of fleshy receptacle, or hollow flower
stalk, which ripens into what seems berry.
The receptacle of a strawberry is convex, of a
fig concave. In the former we have the seeds
on the outside; in the latter on the inside"
e. L. HOLMAN.
AIIEGHENy Snnte,nhar
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

IT IS interesting to learn from cores
pondents that New York's District Attorney,
Mr.. Fellows, recently won immense ap-
plause by his clever conduct of sham pros
ecution at fashionable gathering at one Of
the hotels at Richfeld Springs. This must
be an agreeable variety for District Attor-
ney Fellows. His last appearance in the
role of sham prosecutor has won anything
but applause from the spectators and COM
mentators upon his official achievements.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
disadvantages of practical politics, it i.
worth while to live in free country.

IT is rather interesting to find some of
our esteemed contemporaries taking the
position that the stock operating firm that
went into bankruptcy in New York this
week, deserves little sympathy because it
was on the short side of the market. There
being no especial reason why people have
not as good right to bet that stocks will go
down as to, bet that they will 60 up, a
logical view of the case would be to assert
the absence of ground for sympathy because
the firm under consideration did nothing
but bet on the market, whichever way it
went
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
Huppy i'm Wedlock,

Mr.. Robert G. Carothers and Miss Maggie j.
Mckee were united in marriage at o'clock
on Thursday evening. at the residence
of the brides mother. on Heron Hill.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
R. A. HILL formerly of the Seventh Pres
byterian Church. But a few relatives and
friends Of the principals we're present, and i'm
mediately after the wedding supper the couple
repaired to their handsomely furnished future
home on Webster avenue extension.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

The new Constitution Of North Dakota
declares logrolling in Legislatures to be
bribery. This is not bad definition; but
until the Constitution makers solve the
problem of Furnishing both the logrolling
and bribery, when they are committed by
influential people, the abolition of the evil
will be as far off as ever.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

THE weather seems to have spite against
the Exposition. Its persistent attack upon
the Music Festival has been renewed at the
opening of the present show. But we do
not think that the bad weather, can last
all the while that the Exposition will be
onan