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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIEs.

AT Mr.. Spurgeon's church, in London, on
recent Sunday earnest prayer was offered for
the conversion of the Prince of Wales Evi-
IDENTIFY the need of this conversion was deeply
felt by his audience, for chorus of "Amens''
broke forth from the Tabernacle worshipers.
THE following story is told of Sir James
Hannen: He was hearing a divorce case, in
which one of the witnesses, rather bumptious
parsonage, inquired with an air of one who is
putting poser, pray, my lord am to give
my evidence for nothing?" 81 think" replied
Sir James, 'that you will have to give it for
what it is worth"
at Browns Hotel, London. With him are Mrs
Cameron and their little girl The Senator
went over in the City of New York in company
with Senator John Sherman. The New York
Herald cable says: Senator Cameron could not
be induced to break through his long followed
practice of not talking politics for publication.
THE Shah will be in England during the
greater part of July, and Iis to occupy apart
ments in Buckingham Palace during his stay in
London. He is very costly guest for in 1873
his brief visit cost upward OF s2O000, of which
the Queen herself paid 9l20OO. There was
bill of fl 800 for cleaning and redecorating the
rooms in Buckingham Palace which were occu-
pied by the Shah. who, however is reported to
than he formerly was.
IT is related that when Prince Bismarck met
Samoan Commissioner Kasson he was struck
with the idea that he had met that gentleman
before. "Is my face familiar to your asked
Bismarck, with a puzzled expression on mis-
countenance. "Your features are known to
everybody in our country" said the courtly
Kasson. But the latter was not pleased to
think that Bismarck should have wholly for
gotten their meeting when Kasson was Minis
ter to Austria. ~
THERE is girl in New York City who con-
siders herself the fancee of little Josef Hof-
mann. When the prodigy was here this young
woman, then 10 years of age, wrote to him that
she was violently in love with hun, and If he
wanted her for a wife she would wait for him.
She directed that if he accepted the PROPOSE
ton he was to wears bunch Of violets in his
coat at the next matinee. Little Josef wore
the flowers and the young miss naturally feels
that she is betrothed to him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
UNRAvEL1NG THE CHICAGO MYSTERY.

Two arrests in the Cronin case bring it
somewhat out of the region of utter mystery
The reported Identification of the man Nc
Geehan as the party who established an
espionage upon Cronin is an important step
not to speak of the intimated evidence that
he was deputed instrument from Cronin s
enemies to effect a removal" Whenever,
heretofore, alleged secret tribunals con-
nected with the ultra-revolutionary factions
in the Irish movement have been spoken of
the public have taken their reported judg-
ment with many grains of allowance
O'Donovan Rosa and some of his associates
were for long while so liberal in their
thunders and so profuse of sentences, !"
which were never carried out, that the pub
lie paid little attention to such vaporings
Ii, however, the assassination of Cronin is
traced to the source now charged in Chicago,
it will produce sensation deeper than any
thing that has happened since the Anarch-
ist affair.
There is little doubt that all the facts will
be ascertained, and that the perpetrators of
the atrocity will be so dealt with as to
make the recurrence of such a case most un-
likely hereafter. By none is the tragedy
regarded with more horror than by the
friends of Irish home rule, whose champions
in England had just succeeded in refuting
clearly and completely the attempts of the
London Times to associate them with muir
derous outrages such as this.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
Serious Clerical Errors.

A comparison of the bill for the government
of cities of the third class. as approved by tie
Governor, with that agreed on by the confer
ence committee and to which the measure was
submitted for reconciliation of differences be.
tween the two houses, disclosed number of
grave errors made in the transcription OF the
bill. The thirty-fOurth paragraph of section z.
article s. which provides for the purchase Of
Glands and premises for public parks"
is rendered worthless by placing
the word ''or'' for "for" before public
parks" In section 7, article Z, which is in
tended to provide for the filling of vacancies in
the Office of Mayor by Councils pending an
election the word pending" is omitted, max
ing the section nonsensical. Further on. where
power is given to appoint some qualified per
SON to serve as Mayor until successor shall be
elected and qualified" according to law, the
words quoted are not in the bill as approved.
of the Indebtedness of cities of the third class
a paragraph which empowers cities at or before
the time Of authorizing the necessary loan ITO
provide for the collection of the annual tax
sufficient to pay the interest and also the prln-
cipal of the said loan within 30 years" is made
meaningless by the omission of the word PRO
vide" These are only few OF the errors
made in transcribing. Another blunder on the
municipal bill was made by the Legislature
One of the sections legislates out OF otfice
Mayors on the first Monday of April next sue
ceedtng the date of the first election held under
the act and another section provides that the
'sMayors now in office shall not have power to
make appointments given under the provisions
of this act before the first Monday OF April
naxtO
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
PROOFS OF LIFE or DEATH.
Virchow, Germany's Great SurEean, Dis
cusses the Cutting Up of Bishops Body.

VirchOw, Germany's Great SurRenn, Dis.
cusses the Cutting Up of Bishops Body.
In the New York Herald cable from Berlin,
Prof Rudolph Virchow. of the University
of Berlin, commenting upon Mind Reader
Bishops case, says:
"Even if it be admittedIthat Mr.. Bishop was
alive at the time his brain was removed the al
legation that he was conscious of what was be-
ing doneto him then is absurd. Consciousnessi is
function of the brain, the result of its activ-
ity. In order that this activity may continue it
is necessary to renew the supply of oxygen to
the brain, which can be supplied only by
means of the blood, and supply of oxygen to
the blood can be maintained only as long as
respiration,is continued. If the circulation of
the blood and respiration both cease the brain
IS necessarily deprived of the oxygen necessary
to the activity which alone produces conscious
ness. In that case decomposition would soon
setin, as the brain is one of those portions or
the body that most quickly deeompose:
"Our only means of knowing whether life
still exists in the human body are certain
actions We have no other means. There is
often positive proof that life is extinct. and,
on the other hand. no positive proof that shows
it to be still remaining if we except those ac-
tions that are unmIstakable. If respiration and
circulation are discontinued they never return
for the reason above stated. The signs that
show their presence may be So slight as to
escape the closest observation, but they are
there. Breathing still continues, although so
family as not to affect mote in the air near
the mouth.
1.-THE best tests as to whether life is departed
or not are the most powerful excitants-the
galvanic battery, for instance, one pole OF which
should be attached TO the diaphragm, the most
powerful muscle of respiration, and the other
to the medulla oblongata. which controls the
nerves descending from the head to the neck
and is the vital citadel of the body-the center
Of respiration and circulation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
,P1TTsBURG. TUESDAY. MAY 2s, 1889.
A PREMATURE BOOM.

The banquet 10 Mr.. Cleveland last even
ing can hardly be mistaken in its purpose.
While formal avowals either of policy or of
personal politics may have been carefully
avoided, the pointed honors paid to the ex-
President and the radiant generalities by
which the abstract Democratic doctrines
were upheld in the Presidents speech,
mean that Mr.. Cleveland is in training for
the race of 1892, and will be steadily
groomed for that event fro m now on.
1t is with regret that we notice this de-
termination, because we like Mr.. Cleve-
land. He is a creditable leader for the
Democracy. If elected he makes clean
administration, and though a little persist
ent in avowing civil service reform
principles which he permits his
subordinates to nullify he makes
about as good a Democratic can
didate as his party is likely to select.
Exactly because we should be pleased to see
him the Democratic candidate again, and
concede him creditable man to beat on a
free trade platform, we are sorry to see him
trotted out so prematurely. No candidate
of any party-and especially no Democratic
candidate-can stand being kept in training
for three years before the nomination. Til
den and Blaine each proved the truth Of
that rule, and Mr.. Cleveland is not likely
to make the exception.
If Mr.. Cleveland's friends wished to make
him real factor for 1892, they should have
kept him out of that fierce light which beats
upon a Presidential candi date for the next
two years and half
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
AT THE THEATERS.
The Little Tycoon Mt the Opera House and
My Partner ut Harris.

The Little Tycoon Mt the Opera House and
My Partner Mt Harris.
A large audience at the Grand Opera House
last night showed all the old time appreciation
of that distinctively American comic
operatic potentate, "The Little Tycoon"
The swinging melodies, the graceful
rythms of both its vocal and terpsi-
chorean features the delicious humor, the
tasteful combinations of colors in the costumes
of the piece were all accentuated last night by
the best efforts of the strongest company that
has ever presented it in Pittsburg. There is no
change in the opera, in either Hbretto or score
The improvements are altogether in the COM
pany. Beside stronger chorus, the principals
are generally better than they were the last
time we saw the Tycoon" R. g. Graham as
General Rnicker6oc was the original in the
part and is again giving us his quaint concep-
tion of a very quaint character. ]. Aldrich
Libby is manly and tuneful ALvt1 Barry, and
Harry Skinner does all that is possible with
RotiLS Ready. Catherine Linyard is pleasing
as VtoLet. She is pretty girl with very
sweet voice. Mamie Cerbi is cute DoIIte Dim
pie and Hattie Arnold is by far the best Miss
Hurricane yet seen or heard. All the we'll
known airs were rapturously received last even
ing, particularly Love Comes Like Summer
Sigh" "The Fatal Step'' and when 1 Was a
Boy" The opera is well mounted, the scenery
being none the worse for wear, and the cos
TUNES bright and fresh.
At Harris Theater the week opened with
two large audiences both very evidently more
than pleased with the performances An ex-
cellent company is giving BARLEY Campbelrs
great play, my Partner" 1t is a return en-
gagement, so little remains to be said. Be-
sides. each role is SO acceptably filed that it
would be hard, indeed, to single out any for
particular menHon. Few better renditions of
this beautiful American drama have ever been
Gleater combination
Such praise though apparently strong, is
nevertheless deserved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28

The Governor to-day signed q bills in all,
three being of local and unimportant charac-
ter. He has yet to dispose of about IS, Of
which the most important are the general rev.
enue general appropriation and judicial salary
bills
In breathing legal life into a number Of
bills to-day the Governor did not forget his
pet institution, the Pennsylvania State College,
to which $l24, 500 are appropriated by "a bill ap-
proved to-day.
Among the bills signed to-day were the fol-
lowing: Making an appropriation to the
Western Penitentiary for improve
ments, $4,000; Pennsylvania State College,
near Bellefonte, Sl24, 500; for erection
of tishways and Matching houses, 81, 900; to re-
imburse the Orphans Home at Loysville, Perry
county, S2l, 900; to pay mortgages on the West
ern Pennsylvania Hospital. Pittsburg. S6l, ,753;
Morganza Reform School, S45, ,9iS 50; a collection
of birds and animals to be mounted and dis
played in the State Library, So, 600. The Gov
ernor also approved Laffertys bill repeating
the act prescribing the manner in which Coun-
ellis of cities other than those of the first class
may pass ordinances authorizing the grading or
paving Of avenues, streets or alleys, approved
MAY l. 1876
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
THE LIGHT BRIGADE FAR SURPASSED.
A Comparison of European and Our Own
Soldiers Fighting.

A Comparison of European and Our Own
Soldiers Fighting.
From the National Tribune.I
We cannot forbear one more comparison
with European standards to show how much
bloodier was the fighting of our own soldiers.
The charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava
stands out in the history of all European wars
as the most murderous loss ever sustained by a
single organization in battle. 1t has been sung
about. painted in pictures. and made the sub
ject Of countless pieces of mastery word-paint-
ing.
What are the exact igures3 1t started upon
the charge with 673 men, and lost lib killed and
134 wounded; total 247, or 36.7 per cent of its
number. This was its first and only battle.
After that it rested on its laurels. There were
scores of regiments in our army which lost
more heavily than this in single engagements,
after having suffered severely before, and
which went on to other battles, where they
suffered still more.
Take, for example, the First Minnesota,
which, after having fought valiantly at the
first Bull Run on the Peninsula, at the second
Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chan
cellorsville, found itself at Gettysburg with
the l,080 men it started out with reduced to 262.
At a critical point in the battle Hancock found
it necessary to sacrifice 1t to gain few min
overwhelming mass of the enemy and capture
their colors, which it did. though almost anni-
hilated. 1t lost IS men killed or mortally
wounded, and 149 wounded-224 in all, or 50 per
cent! This did not stop its fighting either, for
it lost in nearly every battle the Army OF the
Potomac fought afterward. The Light Brig
AIDES loss in killed was 1853 per cent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
JOB FOR CONGRESS,

1t is announced from Washington, on the
authority of the usual allegedly reliable
Congressman, that the President will make
clean sweep of the offices about the ides of
July, and that he will convene Congress in
October in order to get the tariff question
settled. On the first point Of policy The
DIsPATcH's opinion is well known. OF the
second, it can say that any step to get the
tariff question out of the way should be ap-
proved.
Each party has now had its whack at the
tariff, with the net result that, after two
years, we are just where we started. The
Democrats took hold of it with grand
flourish of trumpets, and seven months of
labor on their part did not even produce a
mouse. The Republican Senate undertook
the task more modestly and accomplished
no more imposing results. Two years Of
talk have been indulged in and the surplus
piles up, only checked by the expansion of
the appropriations.
If the President succeeds in getting Con-
gress to dispose of this question next winter
it will be plume in the cap of the admins
tration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
For Equitable Taxation,

The Governor also approved the concurrent
resolution authorizing the appointment Of a
commission to devise more equitable system
of taxation than that which, according to the
Governor, discriminates in favor Of corpora
tions, in not taxing their real and personal
property to a sufficient extent for local pur-
poses. In this resolution, proposed by
Senator Delamater, the County Commission
ers are authorized to select one of
the members and the State Grange another
member. As the Go Iernor recognized the
principle of making appointments to commits
sions outside of himself and the Legislature, to
preserve his consistency he was obliged to ap-
general appropriation bill by an item Of SIC, 600
This is the popular amount revenue commits
sions generally expend in their futile efforts to
improve the revenue system of the State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
TWO UNPLEASANT SIGNS.

Two stories are cropping out from the
New York and Illinois Legislatures which
are calculated to strengthen the decidedly
unfavorable opinion already existing of the
State lawgivers. From Albany it is asserted
that several members who soA themselves
for stated sums are now very much put cut
because, though they delitered the goods,
the consideration is not paid to them. This
exhibits total want Of conscience on the
part of vote buyers. The Idea that man
who distributes bribes could be so hardened
and reckless as to cheat poor, innocent
statesman out of the price Of his vote is a
novel and painful revelation to these New
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
IT'S BACKBONE GONE.

1t is noted that the copper mining COM
panies of this country, although recently
beaten by the collapse of the French copper
syndicate, have formed another combination
fixing a stated price below which they agree
not to sell. They retain their wonted oppo-
sition to the laws of trade, and as the St.
Louis Post Dispatch says, "are entitled to
no sympathy, therefore, if they bring about
another collapse" They were entitled to no
sympathy in the first place, as whatever loss
they suffered from the French fasco was the
legitimate result of the conspiracy into
which they were led by their greed.
But it is worth while noticing that though
experience does not make them abandon the
combination policy, it has taught them
something. They have learned to fix the
arbitrary price for their copper at a very
modest figure, and the demonstration just
given them that those who stick to the
agreement most faithfully will be the heav-
lest losers, will make them very prompt to
utilize every chance to make sales by lower
ing prices. Though the copper companies
NAV not have discernment enough to per-
ceive the fact, their recent experience makes
all agreements to suppress competition
little less valuable than the blank paper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS.

JOHN RUPP, of ShiIemanstown, near Carlisle,
has grown dandelion plant 20 inches across,
which has been photographed as phenome-
non. 1t might De remarked that this Ia dandy
lying.
CAPTAIN W. II. BOYD was in Williamsport
the other day wearing an unprecedented hat.
His favorite dog died short time ago, and he
had his hair woven into felt, from which the
hat was made.
A CHESTER young man took party ofladies
into an ice cream parIor, ordered dollars
worth of the luxury, and was startled to dnd at
the cashiers desk that in all his pockets he had
but 80 cents. His whispered offer of his watch
as collateral was rejected aloud. A hasty sub
scripton of 20 cents by his fair friends relieved
his embarrassment.
WILLIAM BAIR, an inmate of the York
County Almshouse, broke his leg some four
months ago. The fracture was improperly set,
and six weeks ago DR.. Bacon broke the limb
again and reset it. A few days ago the patient
went out too soon, and falling broke the leg a
third time. Amputation was resorted to yes
terday, but the man is likely to die.
YOUNG folks were skylarking at the house
of Mr.. Fink, at Jason, near Altoona, a couple
of nights since, and one Of the young ladies
chased young man with glass of water. He
shut door behind him, leaving her in dark
neck fearfully. The young man held the door
shut, thinking she was still pursuing In the
meantime she was bleeding profusely.
AS THE last jury in Erie was discharged, and
filed down the Court House stairway the ju-
rors, including some musical men, struck up
"Auld Lang Syne'' in chorus. The Court sat
and listened to the melody, and the court crier.
catching the spirit of the moment joined in the
refrain: The Court waited for the final note,
and then adjourned. What startling effect
the court crier's voice must have made.
HENRY WHITNEY,a "a tramp, the top Of whose
skull was lately knocked of by Nickel Plate
locomotive, is lying in the Erie County Aims.
house with a eked BRAIN" and may live. The
denuded brain, the physical workings of which
can be plainly seeA, is kept from exposure by
an artificial covering. This is about the only
way in which the workings Of the brains of q
great many persona could be seen, that Il, II
they work at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28

York Legislators of the depravity of human
nature.
From Illinois it is said that the State
Senate proved the one that was easiest to fix
for the defeat of the antitrust bill. which
wouldt have made it very unpleasant for
trade combinations in that important State.
Fifty thousand dollars is the sum named
that was required to secure the shelving of
the bill-which provokes an interesting
speculation as to the cost of that majority
report in favor of trusts by the New York
investigating committee.
The latter report certainly designates the
Illinois antitrust bill as good oneto pass
for the suppression of combinations; and
both together indicate the probable necessity
of getting a new breed of State Legislators
before such laws can be secured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
BOTH BUSINESS AND PLEASURE.
Movements and Work of Supreme Cou
Justices for the Summer.

Movements and Work of Supreme Court
Justices for the Summer.
WASHINGTON, May $50 far as can be as
certained at present the movement of the sew
eral Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States will be as follows:
Chief Justice Fuller has already been on his
circuit having had court at Charleston, S. g.,
when the Supreme Court adjourned for the
summer recess The Chief Justice will go to
Chicago this week on private business prlnci-
pally, but while there will take charge of a few
cases for Justice Harlan, with whom he will ex-
change duties to some extent this summer.
Mr.. Justice Miller will probably not visit his
circuit this year. As he attended to its busi-
ness with great regularity for many years, the
docket does not now demand his attention
Justice Miller will spend the summer at Warm
Springs, Va. Mr.. Justice Field will start for
his circuit on the Pacific coast early in June.
Mr.. Justice Bradley has already visited his cir
cult PENNSYLVANIA this recess, and NAV, 90
there again before October.
Mr.. Justice Harlan, in pursuance of his ar
rangements with Chief Justice Fuller. for a
partial exchange of labors, has had court in
West Virginia. The Supreme Court has as
signed to Justice Harlan, in addition to his own
district, the Ohio district, pending the vacancy
existing there. 1t is not known that any neces-
sity exists for his presence on the Illinois cir
cult, and if he visits it this summer he will not
go before July. On the 9th of June, the JUS
tice will attend the marriage of his son, the
Rev. Richard Harlan, of New York City.
As is already known Mr.. Justice Gray will
be married early in June to the daughter of
the late Associate Justice Matthews in this
city. The business on his circuit is in such
condition that his presence can be spared, and
Justice Blatchford and Mr.. Justice Lamar
have already departed for their respective cir
cults but their movements subsequent to the
discharge of their duties there is not known.