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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
Honor Where Honor is Due.

From the Detroit Free Press.l
1t is claimed that Germany has more able
lnanciers than any other country in the world.
This is a rank injustice to Canada, which has q
galaxy of brilliant Napoleons quite beyond the
possibility of duplication.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
BALTIMORE TO THE FRONT.
The City on the Chesapeake TO Have n Big
Sugar Refinery.

sugar hennerys
BALTIMORE, April u.-There is every indica-
tion OF the establishment here of great sugar
refinery. 1t is based on anticipatlons Of Balti-
more support, inspired by hopes Of Baltimore
capital, engineered by Baltimore business men.
The fact that 100000 of the sl,O00,oO0 capital
stock proposed has already been subscribed,
and that at least Sl00 600 more has been prom
ised as soon as the project assumes definite
shape, practically insures the success Of the
enterprise.
Messrs Robert Garrett & Sons have sub
scribed $500 900. The building. machinery. etc.,
will cost about $500 900, which will leave s400000
for working capital
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
One in Law Now.

Miss Tillie c. Hughes was married to I. ].
Abel last night at the Arch Street M. E.
Church. Rev. W. n. Conners tied the knot
The happy young ouple went East to spend
their honeymoon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
Austrin,s Consul Arrives.

Thenew Austrian Consul, DR.. AntonVon Palit-
schek. arrived on board the steamship Elbe to-
day, and was received by the officers of the
consulate at the DOCK. Otto p Eberhard, now
chancellor to the consul, has been appointed
vice consul
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
A Fact Worth Remembering.

Perhaps if the ofice,seekers would let Presi-
dent Harrison alone they would advance their
prospects; because no President can confer
office after he has been talked to death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
Green Goods Victims, for Example.

From the Oil City BIizzard.1
The persons who would derive most benefit
from reading newspapers are the very ones who
do not read them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
DIr. q. 2. HoImes in Hard Luck.

From the Memphis Times.1
Mr.. l.. E. Holmes, of Nashville, is in our
midst for few days.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
Something to Bonst OF

From the Latrobe Advanced
Poker rooms, prize fights whisky joints, and
still some people think Latrobe isn't city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
A Blind veteran Ger, 81, 600 Back Pension.

WAsHINGToN, April 1.-THE Pension Office
to-day allowed claim of $4,000 for arrears of
pension to Philip Flood. The allowance was
made for blindness contracted in the service.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
Tbi, EdI,or Need, a GEOGRAPHY.

From the WIliamsport Gazette.l
All is serene on the Allegheny. Quay is at
Beaver and there is no door-bell to his resi-
dence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
Morton's Biz Hotel Not sold Yet.

The fate of the big hotel at Roekaway Beach
is still undecided. To-day Austin Corbin, as
agent for Levi P. Morton, withdrew the notice
of sale that he had posted few days ago. Mr..
Corbin says the sale has been indefnitelypost-
poned, as the parties who think of leasing the
hotel wish to make further examination Of
it. 1t is said that the Ocean Bay Society will
make another effo 1T to accomplish their plan
of establishing second Chautauqua at Rocka-
WaY,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12

IF the superb weather will last few
days longer we shall begin to believe that
there is such season as spring in America.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
wbs,s yoc,uc,.. Are Freouuept.

From the Alta California;
In the Indian Territory 16 Federal office
holders have been killed within year. The
earnest seekers who are looking for vacancies
are respectfully referred to this.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
A Woman Wants $3.50, 900 Damages.

Mrs. W. NJ. Reynolds has sued the London
Assurance Company for Sl5lO00 damages for
malicious arrest and prosecution, and for the
impairment of her health. Sometime ago the
summer home Of Dr. and Mrs. Reynolds, in
Flushing L. l., was burned, with all its con-
tents. After paying DR.. Reynolds the heavy
insurance on the furniture destroyed, the Lon
don Insurance Company got the idea that DR..
Reynolds and his wife were firebugs. and had
set fire to their house after removing all the
furniture on which insurance was subsequently
paid. The company had the Reynoldses ar
rested, and tried to prove its case in the courts
against DR.. Reynolds. 1t failed, and conse-
quently abandoned its case against Mrs. Rey-
nolds before she was brought to trial.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12

THE wife of great man is seldom able
or willing to serve her husband so nobly as
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
when MIS-. Tracy wa. Belle Of che BAN.

Secretary Tracy's family will not leave
Brooklyn for Washington until next fall. The
plain brown stone house In which they have
lived many years has been advertised for sale.
The family consists Of Mrs. Tracy. a-son, two
daughters and a granddaughter. The eldest
daughter, Mrs. Emma Wilmerding is q widow
and the society member of the family. Her
first social triumph was scored here at the time
of the visit Of the Grandduke Alexis, of Rus
sia, when she was about Is years old. While
the country was laughing at the attempts Of
American women to entertain the Prince, Miss
Emma Tracy carried off all the honors. At a
ball given by the Admiral at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard she first met the Prince and won
the envy of all the other girls in her set.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13
noRRILTON ALAw.ABIDING TOWN.
Thriving ana Orderly Town Its
Churches and schools.

Morrilton is the county seat of Conway
County, and Is prohibition town. IL has
five churches, all largely attended and a
school with nearly 800 enrolled pupils. A
half mile from town is well ordered Catho-
lie convent, where young ladies are educated.
II has a population OF $500 people, and fifty
seven business houses, bank and an opera.
house which is literally patronized at regular
intervals. It, citizens will compare fayora-
bly, in point Of culture, refinement and re-
spcctability with those of any town Of equal
size in the Union Not drop of LIQUOR Is
sold there aud q drunken man or a street
brnwl is a rare occurrence. Life, liberty and
property are ~ safe there rs in any town i'm
Massachusetts or Illinois. The people are
industrious, frugal and thriving Eighteen
III puSand bales OF cotton are sold there am
nually and investments in buildings on the
main street OF the town pay q revenue OF -
per cent. annually all Of which are not
sympidinatic of towns where violence stalks
abroad as the Claytons would have the world
believe. But | must push on TO other mat
tiers.
THE Much ABUSED SHERIFF SHELBY.
Ever since the tragic death Of John N. Clay
ton at Plummcrvillc, VI. D. shelby. sheriff Of
Conway County, has been the target uf abuse
and harsh criticism from the public press of
the country, Democratic aud Republican
alike. lie has even been stabbed In the
house Of his friends and denounced as n
coward 10y the st. Louis R,pubHc and charged
with knowing who tlayton's assassin i aud
refusing Ia arrest him.
! called upon sheriff shelby and found
him Ia bc q man VI giant frame. standing
something like six feet In his stockings lie
j. about thirty-cight years of age, with
brown hair and mOusiachc. aud face that
bctuys no line ol coWariicc or weakness of
amy sort In fact, II ! were inclined Ia
brand him a coward | should consider 10
wise 10 follow the example OF other news.
paper writers, aud go Ia some distant
pointnn do II. sheriff Shelby was born I'm
Madison County, Miss, % place where they
do not often turn out coWnrs. | had quite
q long talk with him and did not find linn
inclined Ia conceal anything lie started
thy saving: II these gentlemen 90 dis
lance, who nrc 80 severe in their iuir-
mcut oi my conduct and who declare
~ rrcklc,sly that ! ought a. arrest the as
,1r,In, will point him ont Ia me. or indicate
where hc may hc found, III take him or r.
sign my office. have followed every Glow
aud exhausted every resource, but without
practical result | have not given up the
chase and will not Tut ~ a. the identity at
the assassin or his whereabouts I ana COM
plCtcly ut sea- In response To- my request
Tor brief history Of his official conduct in
the case, Ia said:
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13
Interview With the Much Abused
Sheriff of Conway County.
Narrative OF His Efforts to Trace
the Clayton Assassins.
Difficulties in the Way of Detecting
the Guilty Parties.
The Scene of the Tragedy and Its Pecu.
liar Surroundings-Th Town OF
Plummerville and It's Charac-
teristics-Theory Current
In Conway County.

On last Saturday TnE APPEAL IN harmony
with it, policy OF fair play published reply
to the Clayton letter from the pen Of W. l.
Showers, the cashier Of the Bank Of Morril.
ton, gentleman of high character nnd un-
impcachablc vcrcity. The contents Of that
letter arr familiar 10 the readers Of Tm Ar.
rE,i, aud are a complete vindication Of the
people Of Morrilton from the stigma sought
10 be put upon them by the Clayton letter
but In order TO meet the charge that the
Showers letter was written by one who had
personal interest In rcfuting the allegations
Of the Clayton manifesto TnE ArrEtL sent a
member 81 its own sulI 10 Morrilton 10 make
a full investigation OF the facts from an un.
biased standpoint His report is herewith
1ubnitte,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

over one of his eyes, inflicted nv n small
puck SHOT clearly the work OF boy with
niger shooter" DIR. Adams was sent for
anu made careful examination. He
found no fracture or abrasion Of the skull
ana the ball inapprcciably tlattcncd at one
end lie reports that Mr. BENJAMIN laughed
and lokcd about the occurrence, and said
nothing about his beard having been
plucked out by the handful. DIR. Adams
saw no evidence Of such violence and de.
tected no symptoms of extraordinary agita-
ton. Mr.. Benjamin returned to Little Rock
That night by the return train. Detective
NildS, who had walked to the next station,
was also aboard. A few weeks aitcrward
Mr. benjamin died in Little Rock, as his
physicians report of heart lesion" As
sudden and unusual excitement and extreme
agitation are dangerous to sufferers from
heart disease is IL not fair 10 presume that
II the Morrilton incident had caused his
death he would have died instantly? and not
Tour weeks after rs claimed by the Claytous.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

each separate allegation. This II is very evil
dent he took no pains TO do, or relied upon
information furnished him by irresponsible
parties
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

The Story Refuted by Republican
Witnesses of Prominence.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

development boo this country Ono hunlui
vrlfI of national lIfr hls Increased our pop.
uHl.uu from IOIIu1 a. WWluN one
hundred years moro Hui .t will hr quad
mplri when che population now Jess
iLau seventeen i1 thr SQUARE mite. shalt
ruull chat ui france 81 - tp the square
mile. art Belgium 90. Hg % shall hr0lUaU
We can produce everything aud more iu1.
from lH iceberg 10 % pllm then $50 flu 100.
pTutImHfH thH ..InilIiiUH ui Amer
In Che wooded luult now covering
tbfru fourth. ui the south. will within len
,rHr. kr 10 great squire of revenue lu iIn
Northwest there u hut thirty years sup.
bis uf pine A. un Investment ihH low
rrirr uI your pine lands Will prove NOSE ~.
muruui.,p tHtu almost my Uihr" The
,puus mon Ul Tee South IfH WluIlpiiuF %
pm.. ..H Intelligence that should make The
mHr H other SECTIONS proud ol them. |
look forward To- the time when this section
Continued -" Fourth rage.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

Continued -" Fourth rage.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

There Were No Loaded Guns In the
Courthouse, as Alleged.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

on the pafi Of the people r.Iling POO VIC W
entity 0f The clubhouse lu1 u.mn'r "l lhc
party ondenyOriug 10 huI Hr.p ab"ut
O'Clock .n The morning. 1. man VINO nan
died the old TUBA w ~, band d'''9 "iainE
music Tor the dancers Ua' n.''.'l WIN
twenty .bOrso.p0Ncr luHfs l'N' "N ~
principal claiin 10 expcru. .NN '.. i'"F
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13
BOTTOM FACTS.
The Clayton Letter Again Reviewed.
This Time an Appeal Reporter
Tackles the Document.
The Slanderous Charges Against
the People of Morrilton.
Interviews With Intelligent and
Reliable Eye witnesses.
Tho Misstatements of the Clayton
Letter Exposed.
There Were No Loaded Guns In the
Courthouse, as Alleged.
The Story Refuted by Republican
Witnesses of Prominence.

The Correct Version of the Treat
mont OF M. w. Benjamin.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-13

Why He Was Handled Roughly by
an Infuriated Populace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-15

Here are forty seven officials receiving
salaries amounting to SOS $3.50 a year. Add
to this the salaries of the three Portland in
ternal revenue officials and we get a grand
total of so, ,430 year paid out iu that single
city for official salaries. This is frenty
thousand dollars more fhda all the SALARIES
Of those thirty -serea first STATE offeers emu
merated by the B,ddeford Journal pgt to-
oether. and a number of thousand dollars
more than the entire remuneration paid ont
BY the State annually to its officials. And all
this magnificent patronage is located in one
city and in . county which in addition to
these remunerative Federal offices has had
during the past fifteen years, q larger
proportion than any other Of the fifty
eizht leading State offices. We do not
begrudse Cumberland its good fortune, how
ever. We have no doubt it has filled all
these offices in an efficient and sat sfactory
manner. The county of Kennebec, which
has done so much to secure them. 10 10
at all jealous of its more fortunate neigh
bor II does seem, however, as if the city
of Portland, which contains more thdR a
third of all the custom house ard inter
nal revenue officials of Maine, receiving an
nually 10. 600, to be distributed through the
local channels of trade, and which has held
Q very generous share of the best State Offices
besides, should be content 10 let the good old
county of Kennebec retain the State capital
which it has guarded so we'll for more thar
sixty years, without question and without
cavii.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-15
CONDENSED DEsPArcHEs.

The whites in Wayne Co., N. c., are up in
arms to prevent the negro exodus whieh b
threatens.
The Ameer Of Afghanistan has recently
behesded 800 persons.
Land slides in Switzerland are doing much
damage.
Ice is twelve inches thick on the Hudson.
Commo lore Geo. f. Belknap is appointed
to fill the place of Rea1 Admiral Chandler
who died Sunday.
Prominent labor leader met at Philadel-
phis Thursday.
In is reported that the confidential clerk of
M. c. Foster & Son, Waterville has skipped
with $500.
There vas triple burglary At Waldoboro
Wednesday night and several hundred dollars
stolen.
There was conference Of colored men
held in Indianapolis and formulated An ad
dress to Harrison.
Fire in the Calumet copper mine increases.
The Senate committee report in favor of
permitting Indians to lease certain land.
Grave frauds have been discovered in
Nebraska Indian training school.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-15

A summary, therefore, of the fifty EIGHT
leading State Offices during the past fifteen
years show the following distribution;
Cumberland, l5l; kennebec, l37; Penob-
scot, 1874; Oxford. As; Androscoggin, 81
Knox, 33 Washington, 32; Somerset, 81 +;
Waldo, "a; Piscataquis, 22; Franklin, q
Aroostook, II; Hancock, l5 Sagadahoc, IL /;
York, 8; Lincoln, I.
But in the discussion of the official patron
age of Maine. Federal as well as State Off
ces must be cons tered, for in securing those
offices vote in one county counts quite as
much as vote in any other. glance At
the government blue book for 1888. which
is the latest we have at hand. shows the Fed
eral custom offices in Maine to be jistrlb lbuted
as follows:
Cumberland, II; Washington, "a; Han
cock, IS; Penobscot, l2; Lincoln. IL;
Waldo, 10; Sagadshoc, s, AroOstook, 7 :;
York. 8.
Thee seven internal revenue offices of the
State were divided as follows:
Cumberland, 8; Penobscot, Q; Andros-
coggin. l; kennebec, /.
1t will thus be seen that under the last
Republican administration kennebec county,
which gave the largest Republican majority
of any county in the State in 1880, received
only one of the one hundred and forty nine
custom house and internal revenue positions
which were held by the Republicans of
Maine as a result of that election. We
have yet to hear, hosever. of one word of
complaint either from the people or the Re-
publican papers of this country. In con-
sidering the State Offices the more valuable
Federal offices are too often overlooked.
The following list of the officers of the
Portland custom house and the salaries paid
them will ahnu fhIa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-15
Press Comments.


The State Capital. State House, and all
thereunto belonging, still have their r o.
al lress at Augusta, no matter what Portland
may say. The Committee on State Capital
visited Portland last week to look at the site
to be given the State by that unseli.h city
and t, look over the ground, generally. It
- happeued that mi )rity Of the commit.
tee have been in favs'r of moving the capitiI
,e Portland from the first, and their report
may perhaps te in favor of the Forest City
Their report. however, will not materially
affect the mij jority of the legislature which
is undoubtedly opposed to any change in the
capital at present.
IT WILL BE Coon WHILE
Aaterville Seotinel
II will be a gooi while before Augusta will
lose the capital and much longer before it il
taken from the kennebec, the great central
river of the 5 ate.
The rRASsPoRrATioS QUEsrIoS
Bath Times
The Oxford Democrx, makes the novel
suggestion as to the removal Of the capital,
that in these days of railroads and teie-
graphs, the question OF osrxphicsl posi-.
tion is treatei as of comparatively little i'm.
porance.r Indeed. DIes the Maine Cen
tral carry = passenger from pre,que Isle 70
Portland At the same "a as from that poin,
to B4n.or or Augus.s7 A1d in computing
the mileage of members. will IL cost ths
State no more TO convey the mt tmoer from
MadAraska TO Portland than to Augus,a
The geographical position" certainly il
worthy Ct cons aion in making up tn,
mileage account. If from no other standpoint
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-15

Imufasee Commissioner. Mr.. Peaks, of
Dover. and Land Agent Packard, Of BlAn-
chArd. Mr.. Peaks successor Vas elected
in 1852. and he drops out of the Josysai7s .
figures With that year. Mr.. Packard is eon-
tinued through So and -, when he. too,
drops OUT, and Piseataquis is left without
representation during the years 's5. Sc. 81 4.
IS and SO, and Mr.. Packard is for this
period put down As . kenusbec county
man and thus made TO count ire there ia
the Journals totals Yet Mr.. Packard has
never held even an official residence in this
county. His family has alsays resided in
Blanchard since his appointment He votes
there, pays taxes there, and hat time he puts
in At Augusta he boards At hotel. But uot-
~ithstalding these facts, in the preparation
of his Indictment against kenne bee county
the Journal stAtisticiln counts him for nve
the nine years of his Official life kennebee
county man, In the came way Mr.. c.
B. Lskin, who came to the Insane Asylum
from his home in Stetson. and for several
years performed the duties of treasurer and
steward Of that Institution, and Who left the
county Immediately al the elise Of his Official
connection there, 10 credited to
kennebec. The came is true
of State Librarian Hobbs, Who came
to his Official position at the State House
from his home in Paris. Oxford county; of
General Harris. Who vas appointed to his
present position from East M4chias, in Wash |
ington county, aad of = number of others. |
None Of these men were appointed to official
life from this county. yet they are put dow
by the Journal mathe matician - kennebec |
county mn!
IL this method Of procedure honorable? |
Is it decent? Is it calculated TO promote the |
interests and harmony Of the Republican par
ty, which the Journal claims To support
We certainly think not.
At the close of its remarkable table of sta
tistcs the Journal vaguely remarks that "a
Of the remaining twenty minor
places of honor and profit would show q still
more startling contrast" Let us see if this
10 80. There remain the following twenty
'ne offices of 'honor and profit" not emu
nerated by the Journal:
Reporter of Decisions, Labor Commits
'ioner, Secretary State Boari of Health,
Pension Agent, Commissioner of Seashore
Fisheries. Commissioners of Harbor and
Tidal Waters, Cattle Commissioners, In
'pectors of Steamboats,, Clerks in Secretary
If States Office, Clerks in State Treasury
)fice. Clerk in Superintendent of Schools
Jtiice, Clerk in Adiutant Generals Office.
The official records show these Offices to
lave been distributed as follows during the
'sst fifteen years: