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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
SUCRoWs LATEST STORY.
He Claims to be the Man Who Started
Around the World In a RowbOat.

He Claims to be the Mnn Who Started
Around the World In a Rowboat.
NEW YORK, May 20.-Madam lSucrow has
gone to Boston, where she has friends. Her
husband says he never told her he was baron.
He states that he is willing to take her back,
as he loves her, but that he viii not follow her.
In the course of an interview Major Sucrow
went into long and confidential relation Of
the peculiar circumstances which hedge him
in, and, in his mind, justify him in all that he
has told his wife and In all that he has done
that seemed erratic. He says In the first place
that his father. who is now 81 years of age, re-
fuses peremptorily to allow him to draw back
from a wager. Major Sucrov claims that this
wager was one entered into by himself and an
Englishman last year, just after the interna-
tional yacht race, and that the stakes were S25,-
900 against $4,000 that he (Sucrow) would not
90 around the world alone In boat in the next
five years 1t was to start from Bangor on this
journey that Major Sucrow says led him to the
erratic journey which so alarmed his wife.
1t will be remembered that some weeks ago
dispatch was printed announcing that man
calling himself Otto Fake but asserting that
this was only nom de row-boat," had arrived
as this Major Sucrow claims that he is the
same Otto Fake; that his boat is now lying at
a New York wharf, which one he refuses to
state: that it is n feet long: that 1t is called
the Uncle Sam, and that in it he must go as
far as New Orleans, there to embark in a
larger boat in which he must circumnavigate
the globe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

A VERY unique theory of production is
presented by the Grocery World. That
paper objects to the observance OF Arbor
Day, because there is general planting of
trees on that occasion. This results in a
large production of fruit, and the Grocery
World objects that there is already glut
of canned fruit in the market This effort
of logic permits us. to anticipate the day
when the press can reprove the reckless
habit of wearing clothes. Clothes even
tually become rags, rags become paper; and
the demoralizing effect of this habit will be
apparent when it results in the production
of an excessive supply of trade papers like
the Grocery World
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
THE CORRECT PRINCIPLE.

The communication in yesterdays DIS
PATCH concerning the grant of passenger
railway franchise in the streets deserves
public attention. The fact that the fran
chises already granted to electric and cable
railways, and those asked for by new pro-
jects, to say nothing of the old horse car
lines, occupy nearly all the available streets
for getting in or out of the business part of
the city, certainly requires the grave con-
sideration of the public.
We can hardly agree with our CORE
Epondent as to the good policy of selling
street franchises to the highest bidder,
either permanently or for term of years.
Whatever sum corporation may offer for
the privilege of running railroads through
the streets of OfPittsburg will be given for the
necessary and obvious purpose of getting
that sum back from the patrons of the road,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
sTFTED DOWN.

Once in a While.-Boy (reading history
Pa, are dishonest people still punished BY the
stocksY
Pa (who speculates a IittIe)-O Occasionally, my
son, occasionally, down on Wall street.
Not Saying Much.-Dude-That dog Of
mine Is dandy. You ought to see him some
times. weally-aw-I believe he has moro sense
than have.
old Crabtree-And that amt saying much,
either.
would-be purchaser-How much for this
picture?
Artist-The price Is l5. 900.
Why, man alivel you expect to be paid for your
work as II you had been dead four or i've hun
dred years.
An Offensive Word Boston Lady,
Bridget, wish you would refrain from using that
coarse and vulgar word pantry"
Brideet-Then what should say, mum2
Well, to refined ears, ''trousery,' is not nearly
so offensive.
Somewhat Mendacious. - Brown = Eli
Perkins is fearful liar. Everything he says is
false.
Robinson-That's nothing. know a New York
editor who is such liar that everything he is go
ing to say is a lie.
Didn't Want to be Conspicuous.-Briggs
Hello, Griggs, what is the matter with your
head? You are quite bald.
Griggs-well, am going to witness burlesque
this evening and having taken . seat in the front
row, and not caring to look conspicuous there,
have had my head shaved.
The Stupid Drummer.-Member OF firm
How do you like the looks Of the new drummerI
have engaged?
Partner-To tell the truth, he looks aHfal
stupid.
That's his strong point He has such stupid
look that the customers will give him orders ous
ofpure sympathy.
Friend-What's the matter? You look a.
If you were in n bad humor.
Chronic Kicker-I am in . bad humor' ana
have good cause for it.
What Is IL?
This morning something occurred 70 Worry me-
but was interrupted, and have not oeen aolq
ali day long to remember what 1t was
The Paragrapher's Pun-ishment,-Pro-
prIetor OF paper Ito manager)-I understand you
threw our paragrapher, Mr.. Phonyman, down.
stairs and injured his spine. What do you mean
BY treating members Of the STAFF with such rude
nesst
TIT managing editor did not reply, but merely
handed over a paragraph in Mr.. Phonymanis
handwriting. IL read:
,Tthat ales Porter. Ask the Butler"
ProErietor- four salary Is doubled. II he dies
from Is injuries shall offer Iou third interest,"
In the pPper. -.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
THE NEW GREELEY LETTERS.

The New York Sun is publishing an ex-
tremely interesting series of Horace Greeley's
letters to Mr. Charles A. Dana. Their high
interest depends not alone op the revelation
they make of Mr.. Greeley's picturesque per-
sonality, but on the vivid picture they also
give of the political methods and manners
in vogue some thirty years ago. Mr.. Greeley
could not write a line of commonplace.
Each sentence of even those letters which
are mainly devoted to the routine of a news
papers management is instinct with the
writer's courageous and energetic spirit.
To-day great many of us are inclined to
regard the politicians and their practices
with great disfavor, and there. is no doubt a
good deal of foundation for such a view.
But perusal of this series of Mr.. Greeley 3
letters will speedily convince anyone that
politics and the men who deal in it have
improved immensely since the dark days of
1856. The arguments most popular with
the majority of the statesmen at Wash
ingtou at the time of the famous
Banks contest over the Speakership,
and during the succeeding, era in which
the rights and wrongs of Kansas played a
leading part, were the pistol and the club.
Mr.. Greeley draws the political landscape
in perfect perspective, as it appeared to his
sharp eyes, and he does not fail to show that
his tongue had attuned itself to the violent
tone Of the men about him.
But the redeeming quality of all his
writing, even in his angriest moods, that
surprising spirit of generosity which tenn
pered his acute sense of justice, clearly
shines in these letters and lends them a
unique charm. In short, the letters lead US
to admire Mr.. Greeley more, and the times
he lived in less, than we did before.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
THE DIRECT VOTE SYSTEM,

In the heat of the struggle for supremacy
among the prominent Republican workers
the details Of policy as to the operation of
the party machine, which are the ostensible
bone OF contention, have been pretty much
forgotten by both sides. Yet, to establish
the best method of getting fair expression
as to the candidates and measures from the
rank and file of the party, should be of
more importance than fighting to demon
strate whether Quay, Finn, Magee, Bayne
or somebody else is boss" The machin-
cry Of conventions and committees is get
ting to be very complicated arrangement,
undenisbly removing public interest farther
every year from the decision of party ques-
tions. The alternative known as the "Craw-
ford county system, Of direct popular vote
for candidates, was far from a shining sue
cess when tried many years ago in Pittsburg;
but it is due to say that the failure was
largely because no legal checks were set
upon the voting. There is now State law
furnishing fraud at primaries as vigorously
as at regular elections condition which
might well warrant a fresh experiment of
the Crawford county plan.
1t ispartly understood that Senator Qusy's
following favor this change, which, in the
perverse nature of things, will likely be its
least recommendation TO the other side. But
it might be just as good politics to consider
the question wholly on its merits. Besides
furnishing direct settlement of contests for
nominations, it would have the additional
advantage of giving the leaders themselves
q chance to get popular vote on their rival
pretensions whenever the spirit moved them.
In that way each might from time to time
get useful and instructive gauge of his
own waxing or waning popularity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

THE case of a Philadelphia physician
illustrates the very obliging disposition Of
the divorce laws of this country. He left
his first wife in New York, obtained a
divorce in Pennsylvania, and married
again; but his Pennsylvania divorce does
not hold good in New York. Consequently
the Philadelphia doctor is provided with a
legal wife both in New York and Pennsyl-
vania If this sort of thing is carried far
enough an enterprising man may yet be pro-
vided with home and better half in each
one of the sovereign states.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
In an Unnatural State.

This, in q word, is the philosophy Of a
drunk, or rather the very first stage of one. A
man is put, artifcially, in the condition which
should be natural to him. His spirits are high,
circulation quick, and nerves and muscles
tense. In word, he feels as does person in
perfect health, but instead Of this condition
being the result of natural laws, he has induced
an artificial state Of things by powerful stim-
ulant, and when the effect is absorbed by the
system--when the fuel is burned up--the man
enters into a state of collapse and feels infn-
itely worse than ever. It is popular express
will cure consumption. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Whisky has no cura-
tive properties whatever. 1t simply arrests the
process of decay in the lungs and gives nature
o chance to assert herself"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
Nnt Entirely In rha Navy.

General BENJAMIN F Tracy. Secretary Of the
Navy, was in the Brooklyn City Court this
morning, to show why the Atlantic avenue
street railway should not pay Thomas Holmes
$4,000 for the loss of aleg. Two years ago
Holmes accidentally fell on the railway track
before a car and was run over. He was badly
bruised and his left leg was completely crushed.
He sued the railway company and got verdict
for sl4, 800 which was set aside. In second
suit the jury disagreed General Tracy is trying
to make the third suit still more unsatisfactory
to Holmes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
FOUR WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD.

A Clergyman starves Himself to Death.
Believing 1t His Duty to Do So.
SALEM, ORE, May 20-Rev. ]. W. Harris a
Congregational minister, died at his home Fri
day evening, having abstained from food four
weeks When first taken i'll he declared that
God had ordained he should die, and he would
not attempt to frustrate heavens decree by
trying to sustain a life whose sands were run.
On all other subjects his mind remained re.
markahly clear until the time of his death, but
he positively refused food. and his physicians
assert that his DEATH If not absolutely Caused.
was hastened by starvation.
He was born in Cornwall, England, April 25.
1881; came TO America when II years old. edu.
Gated himself at Beloit Wis, and began work
in the ministry in 1850
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
A SHOW FOR CHICAGO HOGS.

An Investigation to be Held Into Railroad
Freight Discrimination.
CHICAGO, May 20-The Interstate Com
merce Commission has fixed next Monday as
the time for hearing the case Of the Chicago
Board of Trade against the Western railroads,
in which the latter are accused of discrimin-
ating against Chicago in the relative adjust
ment of rates on live hogs and packing house
products from Missouri river points. The pro-
posed change in these rates will be strongly
opposed by the Associated Packers of Iowa,
Omaha and Kansas City.
The legal representatives of the Board of
Trade in this controversy are Judge Smith and
j, A. Monroe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

IN VIEW of the disposition of numerous
New York cotemporaries to urge that the
Worlds Fair of 1892 shall be located in
that city, it is pertinent to specify the con-
ditions upon which the proposition can be
entertained. When the New Yorkers, in
structed by recent experience, have killed
off the leaders of the -Four Hundred and sent
the New York Legislature and the New
York Board of Aldermen to the stake then
the rest of the country will concede it to be
possible to creditably hold the great expo
sition of the next decade in the metropolis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
The Dangerous Period.

"As explained it is a powerful stimulant.
1t accelerates the action of the heart, and this
effect Of quickened blood movement-this new
rushing of the life fluid in veins through which
before it crawled in slow, sluggish, heavy
fashion-makes the man feel young, light buoy
ant, active and strong In word, his feeling
is one of perfect health. In Imagination he
is young man again. The troubles of to-day
are for the time forgotten nor does he bor-
row them in advance Of the morrow
which is sure to bring its own. And
this period, my hoy, is the only one
of imaginative happiness connected with a
drunk. If man stops here his sailing is COM
paratively smooth; if his recuperative powers
are good he will feel all right when he wakes
up; but if not his path will be strewn with
powders, so to speak. Let him keep it up be-
yond this exhilarating point and hell will be
paradise compared to his physical condition
before he gets through with his fun. Every
drink will make it harder for him to overcome
its final effect, for it has helped paralyze the
efforts nature will always make to assert her
self.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

HON. A. S. HEWITT recently told Lon
don interviewer that there are better things
in this country than holding Office. Mr..
Hewitt could make his opinion more effect
i've by teaching it in Washington than in
London. That is, he might do SO, if there
was any hope that anybody in Washington
would believe him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

The way in which the petroleum market
persistently does not go up to the pointwhere
the Producers Association could get out even
on-the stock, which was to pay the profits Of
the shutdown, is one of the most instructive
evidences of the guilelessness of the Stand
ard in engineering that pretty little deal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

AFTER the Standard has swallowed the
Indiana oil field, the story comes that
Rockefeller is going to give three million
dollars for Baptist theological seminary in
Chicago. If Ifanother big field of production
could be found for him to freeze to, he
might devote an equal percentage of profit
to religious institution even in St. Louis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

THE most hopeful aspect of Mr.. james
Gordon Benefits trip to Khartoum to visit
the Mahdi is the chance that it gives for
promotion among the men in the Herald
Office, and the probability that, if they get
promotion, they will not be disturbed by
further shakeups.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
On the Ont. wI,h His Church.

Samuel b. Wilson and the Methodist Church,
of Lambertville, are out Mr. Wilson was a
most active member of the church. mp to a
short time ago. when the votes of his fellow
church members made him an excise commits
sioner When the Methodists elected Mr..
Wilson. they thought that he was Prohibi-
ZIONIST, like the rest Of them. He was not, how
ever. He believed in limited license, and
showed it at the excise boards first meeting
by voting to grant five licenses to Lambertville
liquor dealers. The elders reported Mr.. Wilson
to the pastor. the pastor reported him to the
presiding elder, and the presiding elder ordered
the church to try Mr.. Wilson at once and to
expel him if he had voted as was rumored. The
trial will take place this week. Mr.. Wilson
acknowledges that he voted for limited Ii
cense.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

of partisanship in the spoils is very much
,encroached upon by such actions.
The removal is certainly warning to all
who desire the fruits of Office. They must
not only be very respectful to the father
in-law of the administration, but they must
look out for the other end of the family and
take care how they snap their fingers in a
light and irreverent manner at the Hon.
Baby Mckee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

WITH Stevens, of the New York World,
rescuing Stanley and james Gordon Ben.
nett rescuing General Gordon the role
which is assigned to Uncle Dana, of the
New York Sun, seems to be to lie low and
do nothing until it becomes necessary to
rescue both Of his esteemed cotemporaries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
Academy of Music.

The Academy of Music offered as its farewell
bill for the season Lilly Clay's Burlesque Com
pany. The ability of this company to stand
well before the public is undisputed. 1t is ex-
ceptionally strong in its understandings. The
young women who pleased a large house last
and some pretty voices. It is the sort of enter.
tainment suited to the heated term now upon
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

Rosa De Luce and William L. Valley agreed
months ago to marry each other. Recently
Rosa has discovered that William was jealous
and exacting. and high strung generally, and
decided that she could never marry him. and
last night. while they walked in the parks, she
told him so. William knocked her down and
kicked her nine times. This morning he was
sent to the island for three months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

The strikes and rumors Of strikes which
are filling the air still permit the hope that
BY the time the scales must be decided on
both masters and men will conclude that COM
promise is better than conflict.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
FUNERAL OF IRVING BISHOP.
The Remains of the Mind Reader Laid to
Rest by His Friends.

Rest by His Friends.
NEW YORK, May 20-Over 200 people visited
the undertaking establishment to-day and
viewed the remains of Washington Irving
Bishop, the mind reader. Scattered on and
around the casket were many floral tributes
The casket shortly after o'clock was placed In
a hearse and taken to the Hoffman House,
where the mother, widow, friends and pail
bearers of the deceased entered carriages, and
were driven to Grace Church.
At the church large crowd awaited the ar.
rival of the cortege, and a force of police was
stationed in front of the edifice to preserve
order. The Rev. Drs Huntington and Bottome
conducted the services, and the body was taken
to Greenwood Cemetery for interment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

AUTHENTIC information is to the effect
that Fannie Davenport has been getting
married some more. Pools can now be sold
as to whether the divorce case will come
around in 1890 or 1891.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
II Ought to Be.

From the New York World.l
1t is now certain that ex-Secretary Bayard Is
to be married. It is to be hoped that his do
mestic administration will be more of a success
than his foreign policy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
won,t Sail Under the English Flag.

Patrick Egan. United States Minister to
Chilli, arrived in New York to-day, and is stop
ping at the Gilsey House, where he received
many friends. He will pay a flying visit to
Washington before leaving for Chilli. He has
delayed his departure from San Francisco in
order that he might secure berth in steamer
not carrying the English flag.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

AN account of Lord Lonsdale's recent
Arctic trip tells how he literally played the
devil in order to frighten the thievish
natives. But it entirely fails to explain the
reason why he did the same act before he
went to the Arctic regions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

PITTsBURG will tonight have an oppor-
tunity of seeing what organized public
spirit can do in the way of producing .
Music Festival and an Exposition building.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
The Advent Of the silly Season.

From the Philadelphia Rec0rd.I
Evidences of the advent-early this year-of
the silly season are accumulating. Here, for
instance, is q report from Laurens county,
Georgia, of the existence Of a well from which
the owner Is accustomed to draw up pure
spirits of turpentine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
AN INFANT AT %.
Sad Case Of Wheeling Woman, Who Can
Neither Walk Nor Speak.

: WHEELING, May 20-Womanhood's matur-
ity Of years has come to Ella Miller. but has
brought her little else than the melancholy re-
Election that she is a grown woman. And yet
the average woman of % Is a creature Of
sprightliness, feeling, vitality and hope. With
perhaps single exception these are lost to Ella
Miller.
She can neither talk nor walk, and passes her
time, helpless rs ap infant, in the swinging en-
brace Of q CRADLE Her life has been one Of
affiiction, and thus exiled from the world, she
IL still child, and has AL the sympathy she
merits By her peculiarly distressing condition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

The deadly ice cream can improves the
season early by sickening over hundred
people, who rashly partook Office cream alta
Connecticut church festival
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
POISONED BY HIS OWN BITE,
An Ohio Man Suffering from Cancer Broas NJ
on Accidentally.

NEW PHILADELPHIA, O.. May 2O.-Freder.
ick Kiuzel, saloonist of this place, has gone
to Rome, N. Y, for treatment for cancer ON
tho lip, brought on in singular manner. IA
short time ago, while at the dinner table, he bit
his lip.
!, A decayed tooth poisoned the flesh, resulting
in cancer in Its worst form, The growth con.
tinued and the pain was almost unbearable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

IT remains to be settled whether more
fighting is to be done over the results Of the
recent primaries than over the primaries
themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21
IN CLEVELAND.

Miss Jennie B. Kennedy is Married 10 Jo-
seph Boriand.
Miss Jennie B. Kennedy, formerly of Pitts
burg, now of Cleveland, was married there yes
terday to Joseph Borland, Of Philadelphia,
Pittshurg boy. The marriage took place at the
residence of Sam P. Shane.
The young couple went East last evening,
and will make their home in the Quaker City.
The knot was tied by Rev. Carlos Chester.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-21

WHEN coal begins to displace gas in the
factories our natural gas companies shonld
ponder the significance of the change.