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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-21
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EoR SALE or TO RENT.

One Of the best farms in town, 225
acres, within quarter of a mile of
Randolph Center village, only IL
miles from the dailroad.
A. A. ATWOOD, w. Randolph, tfb
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
CORPORATE DISORDERS.

The disposition Of corporations, where
their material interests are in conflict, to
levy petty warfare and indulge, by means
of hired agents, in disorderly conduct. re-
ceived an illustration in this city few days
ago, and manifested itself in a still more
significant shape in Philadelphia on SUM-
day. The disorderly corporations were no
less important ones than the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. Between them both they managed
to present a fine example of disregard for
legal proceedings and disrespect for law and
order.
One railroad wished to lay a switch to con-
meet its tracks with certain manufacturing
establishments, and the other railroad did
not wish 10 have it do so. Accordingly,
while the workmen OF one corporation were
absent force employed by the other ap-
peared on the ground, tore up the track and
built board fence across it. The employees
of the opposing company then appeared
upon the ground and attempted to restore
the destroyed work This, of course, led to
blows, and small riot went in operation
very promptly, which was only quelled by
the appearance of a squad of police, who
succeeded in enforcingsa cessation of hos
tilities.
1t would have been very easy for the dis
putting corporations to have determined
their legal rights by an appeal to the courts,
or by reference to an impartial lawyer. In
fact there is little reason to doubt that each
corporation knew its legal rights, and if it
had not been for the desire of one or both to
prevent the other from fair opportunity to
compete for the freight of the manufactur-
ing establishments, it would have been very
easy for them to have compromised their dis
pute without the necessity of either litiga-
tion or disorderly conduct. But the corpo-
rate policy is to seize whatever is wanted by
the strong hand, without regard either to
natural justice or legal actions. The result
is that they hire men to indulge in disorder
and resort to violence.
Yet, when these same employees, in dis
pute which affects their own vital interest in
the matter of wages, apply the lesson which
the corporations have taught them and re-
sort to force in support of their claim, the
corporate magnates who ordered this viola
ton Of good order will be vociferous in pro-
claiming their conviction of the necessity of
enforcing the laws and preventing all dis
orderly proceedings. Is it the corporate
theory that breaches of the peace of which
they are the victims, are the only disorders
which the law should stop?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
DEALING IN LARGE SUMS.

The latest trade report is to the effect that
the Sugar Trust has entered into a negotia-
tion with European syndicate to buy up
and control the sugar plantations of the en-
tire world. One hundred million dollars is
the amount stated as required for this pleas
ant little scheme; and when it is carried
out the consumers of the world will have to
pay prices that will yield big return on
that very neat investment.
Let us see. A hundred millions needed
for this scheme, as much more for the project
of buying the wheat crop of Dakota and
Minnesota, and smaller sums for the pur-
chase of various manufacturing enter
prises are likely to place the total invest
ments for syndicate schemes that are pend
ing for immediate action, at $250. .000, 900 in
cash. The reports have failed to state
where the people who have this supply of
funds ready for the enterprises of monopoly
have got it deposited.
1t would be much easier than furnishing
this sum of money, to float $3.50, ,000, 900 OF
paper securities at whatever they will bring
under the pretense that they are to repre-
sent the profits of monopoly. But recent
events show that even that game can be
worn gauzy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
The Ocean Record Again Broken.
THE TWINE TRUST SAFE.
No Chance of Running a Competition In the
Minnesota Penitentiary.

Minnesota Penifentiary.
ST. PAUL, August 1a-As a possible solution
of the problem of utilizing convict labor to the
best advantage the last Legislature appointed
a committee to investigate as to the practical
bility of introducing the manufacture Of twine
in the Saltwater Penitentiary. Itwas then sug-
gested that IL this could be successfully accom-
plished all the twlne required by the agricul-
tural interests in the State could be supplied
at moderate cost and thus emancipate the
farmers from the clutches Of twIne combina-
tions and trusts. Edwin Dunn and +. W.Tem-
pie, of the Board of Managers OF the prison,
were appointed as the committee, and pro-
ceeded East to investigate. After visiting CHI
cago. Cincinnati, New York and other points
and interviewing a number of twine manufac-
turers and dealers they have returned and re-
ported adversely to the proposal.
The reasons on which the report Is founded
for one year sufficient to keep IS men employed
would amount to 8, ,245, 900. 1t Is pointed out
that the cost of binding twine to the manufac.
turer is from IL to Is cents per pound, of which
not more than to 3 cents Is for labor and
mower the balance being consumed by cost of
material These figures are for the manufac-
ture of MANILA or sisal twine, hemp twine be-
ing still more costly. In the second place the
work is chiefly performed by women and chill
dren, and it is argued that convict could not
successfully compete with this. Thirdly. a
twine manufactory requires too much room.
Fourthly owing to the material used being
chiefly derived from foreign sources, the prices
fiuctuate considerably, and the committee does
not think that such q large share Of the States s
funds should be invested in anything specuia-
tive and uncertain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
RATHER TOO PRIVATE-

The tumble in Sugar Trust shares which
took place on Monday, was based upon an
item of Stock Exchange gossip to the effect
that an injunction had been applied for to
prevent the payment of the coming diyi-
dend by the Trust. One story had it that
the receiver of the North River Refining
Company, appointed by Judge Barrett,
who has decided against the legality of the
trust, was the applicant for the dividend in
the interest of that company; but another
undercurrent of gossip was to the effect that
the trust itself had applied for the injunc-
tion in order to keep its funds on hand for
fight that is expected to come up when
Claus Spreckels gets his big competing
sugar refinery in operation. Either report
is equally uncomfortable for the holders of
trust certificates. The public are begin
ming to see the truth of Mr.. Blaine's asser-
tions that trusts are private affairs, and to
conclude that their management is alto
gether too much private affair for the well
fare of the common investor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14

1T is presented as an evidence of coming
success in the arrangement to start the
Worlds Fair agitation in New York, that
the Finance Committee, whose duty it will
be to raise the necessary funds, is made up
Of the millionaires, from Cornelius Wander
bilt and Jay Gould down to Brice, Rocka-
feiler and Ogden Mills. But the trouble
with putting New York mIllionaires on
committees of this sort, as illustrated in the
matter of the Grant monument, is that the
miilionaires are apt to think that their SER
vices on the committee absolve them from
service on the subscription lists. New York
should understand that the true way to get
success for her Worlds Fair is to appoint
tho Vanderbilts, Goulds and their associates
to prominent positions on the list of gentle
men who have pledged themselves to furnish
large amounts of the necessary funds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
BASEBALL AND POOL SELLING,

The fact that the selling of pools on base
ball games has become quite the rage in
Boston, where total of 500, 900 per day is
reported to change hands on those events, is
referred to by the New York Herald as some
thing that should be stopped. 1t will be
difficult to prevent the pool sellers from
taking anything as the subject on which
they offer an opportunity for the people
to gamble so long as the pool rooms
are allowed to be open. But the Her.
aid is undoubtedly right in the position
that the baseball business should be sepa-
rated as widely as possible from the business
of gambling upon it. The connection of
baseball with the pool rooms has always
proved demoralizing and discreditable.
Only few years ago the prevalence of the
gambling business in the baseball interest,
brought it to condition of utter disrepute
which very nearly took away all public in
terest in the game. This is one of the ten
denotes of professionalism which baseball
managers have recently tried to guard
against They cannot act more wisely than
by preserving wide and clear line of de-
marcation between their organization and
the business of betting on their games.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

LEO Kill, although IS years old, works
harder than any European sovereign. He rises
between and 5 in summer, and between S and
6 in winter.
TENNYsoN and Swinburne write wretched
hands, The laureate's chirography is large
and uneven, wolfe Swinburne's looks like the
work of a school boy
BAYARp TAYLOR was ambitious to be known
as poet, but his misfortune was to be known
as a traveler-one who succeeded in seeing
Europe with little money. He complained that
''the chief merits accorded him were, not pas
sion and Imagination, but strong legs and
economical habits"
A SPECIAL passport such as are issued to
distinguished citizens intending to 60 abroad,
was signed at the State Department yesterday
for Senator Evarts, of New York The Senator
will visit Europe. it is said to consult special
lists on the continent about his eyes. whose con-
dition is such as to give him much concern.
EX-GOVERNOR ALoNzo B. CORNELL, Of
New York, and Governor ]. B. Foraker, Of
Ohio, arrived in Buffalo Monday evening and
spent few hours very>pleasantly as the guests
of Mr. Henry M. Watson. A few Buffalo gen.
tlemen were invited to meet them at dinner.
Mr.. Foraker took the midnight train for the
West.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIcH's dainty little
poem, "Baby Bell, " was refused by the hntck-
erbocker Magazine and other periodicals, and
was finally published in the New York Journal
of Commerce, a strange place for the publica-
tion of such poem. The poet was paid IS for
it. He has since received as much as 81, 200 for
a short poem, not SO long and not SO good as
"Baby Bell" Such Is fame.
SPEAKING of the author of "Robert
Elsmere," correspondent says: I'm private
conversation Mrs. Ward can be either gay and
humorous-and richly so-or impressive and
refreshing. Her power of conversation ex-
tends over many topics. She has essentially
an aesthetic rather than a philosophical or sci
entihc mode of looking at everything, and, I
fancy, would be liable to apply standards Of
taste where more syllogistic logicians would in
sIst upon colder methods Of investigation.
Mrs Ward is pungent, brilliant and witty"
GENERAL GRANT was receiving $500 year
for keeping the books of a tan yard when the
Civil War broke out He started for Washing
ton to offer his services to the War Depart
ment and his application for commission was
thrown into the waste basket. He hung
around, however until. to get rid of him, he
was sent West with a commission As Colonel Of
volunteers He was In the way out there and
President Lincoln had signed his recall, but be-
fore he could be found, Vicksburg had sur
rendered. After that he was in a position to
dictate, and he did
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
GOLD IN TIE MOUNTAIN.
Lost Treasure Recovered From Hiding
Place Among the Rocks.

Lost Treasure Recovered From a Hiding-
Place Among the Rocks.
NEwBURG, N. Y, August 13 - Auntie
Havens, who resides on the Shawangunk
Mountain. back of the little hamlet of New
Vernon, is ono of the old fashioned people who
have no faith in banks. She was for many
years housekeeper for the late Colonel Hopper
but after his death she did not care to live in
the old house alone and removed to the home
of an old friend in the valley below.
One of the first thoughts Auntie Havens had
when preparing TO leave the old house was that
she had hidden 81 200 in gold some time ago in
the rocks on the mountain side, and she rested
securein the opinion that it was safe in the bosom
of old Mother Earth. But she finally concluded
to start out and find her hoardings, not having
the slightest doubt that she could walk directly
to the rock at whose base 1t was. But in this
idea the old lady was mistaken. She diligently
searched the mountain side, going first to one
huge boulder and then TO another, only to meet
with repeated disappointment Finally Auntie
Havens confided in some boys in :he neighbor-
hood and enlisted them in the search in the
hope that younger and sharper eyes might fnd
the landmark that she seemed to have Tor
gotten.
The boys, directed by the old lady, searched
long and diligently, and at last Johnny Hobart.
the bright son OF Hannibal Hamlin Hobart,
tance from where the search was being prose-
cuted, but Auptie Havens assured him it was
no use, for it could not be there, but must be
near the spot where they were standing. The
boy however, skipped away, and in a short
time delighted and astonished the old lady by
crying out "Pye found it, Auntier' and sure
enough there beneath the stones and dirt, at
the base of great rock. lay Auntie Havens'
wealth-S2, 200 in bright gold pieces. The joy of
Auntie Havens knew no bounds and her pleas
ure and appreciation took practical form, Tor
her first act was to take from the bag of money
ten $40 gold pieces, which she handed to bright
little Johnny Hobart, who was as proud OF his
newly acquired wealth as the aged lady was
happy in the recovery Of her little fortune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
BULLETS FROM BATTLE FIELDS.
Regular Traffic In Them ut IN Alexandria
Junk Shop.


ALEXANDRIA. VA, August 13.-A quarter
of a century has elapsed since the. war, yet
many of the farmers of Virginia are still real
izing from Yankee lead and brass quite a
revenue. 1t Is the children of these farmers
living nearest the great battle fields that
bring to light most of the buried relies of the
cruel past Their tiny fingers, sometimes in
play, again with the hope of adding to the
family Golfers unearth pounds of lead
In strolling through this historic town the
writer came across a veritable old curiosity
shop down by the wharf. 1t is>kept by an old
junk dealer, who, yielding to a desire for a
glimpse at the latest curiosity, brought to light
q big box which had just arrived from the
fusion, were bullets, musket balls, old pieces of
brass, epaulettes sword hilts, buckles and but
tons, all battered and bruised and corroded by
the earth in which they had been buried for 50
many years. This box, the dealer said, would
weigh about $50 pounds, and was but one of
many that he was constantly receiving.
From the midst Of the debris a button was
fshed out, upon which was inscribed the arms
of Vermont (Freedom and Unity, showing
that they must have belonged to some member
of the first militia that was mustered into
by the United States. These war relics come
from the battlefelds Manassas, Culpepper,
Fredericksburg and the Valley of Virginia.
and are sold simply for their value in old lead
and brass. Occasionally an invoice of shells
arrives which throws the down town inhab-
itants into a state Of CONSERVATION. Not so
very long ago quite a batch OF these wicked
looking things were promptly hustled out of
town by command of the Mayor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
FOREIGNERS AND AMERICANS.

The movement of the Italians of New
York City to prepare for political duties, by
taking out their papers of citizenship,is ap-
proved by ourbrilliant contemporary, the New
York Sun; but that journal makes peril
nent point by telling them that "They must,
however, 60 into politics here not as Ital-
ians, but as Americans, not as body of
voters apart from other citizens, but as one OF
the constituent and intermingling elements
of the great American, Republican Demo-
cratic community"
This is very cogent advice for the Ital-
JAMS, and it might pertinently be e1-
tended so as to include all other ma
tionalities. The policy of this coun-
try in allowing immigration from other
parts Of the world looks to the assimilation
of the immigrants, and their conversion
into American citizens. It is not for
the preservation of conflicting nation
alities and the continuance of international
jealOusies and factions. The maintenance
of German, Irish, Italian, Polish or any
other foreign interests in American politics
is opposed to the purposes Of naturalization.
The ttansfer.of foreign political issues and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
TIME FOR REFLECTION.

The probability that long and bitterly
contested strike in the window glass indus
try will commence on September 1, is made
prominent by the failure of the manufac-
turers and men to agree upon the scale at
their conference yesterday.
The determination to disagree is said tc
be final. but there are still two weeks and a
half In which both sides may take time to
think better of it. Statements of the ina
biIity of the employers to pay the wages de-
manded and of the amount of money which
the employees have in their treasury, are as
abundant as blackberries; but in the next
20 days one side should reflect whether it is
not better to make a compromise than to
stand idle, and the other whether the money
that is in the treasury might not be better
invested than in supporting universal stag
nation.
Compromise is always better than conflict
in industrial matters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
A GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEM.

. 1t is no new thing to hear that there are
thousands upon thousands of men in the far
Western States who want wives and cannot
get them for the simple reason that there
are not nearly enough women in those re-
gions to go around. Equally familiar is the
statement that many of the Eastern States,
and notably those of New England, possess
a superabundsnce of spinsters who would
marry if they could. The Mayor of Ia
coma, Wash, puts one side of the case
strongly in the following appeal which he
recently sent to the Mayor Of Boston:
Send us your girls, thousands of girls. We
have thousands of young men wanting wives
who cannot go East to find and court them.
Send all chat will come. We guarantee hus.
bands. Please publish this for three weeks or
a month.
Other appeals of like nature have
reached the East lately. In the very nature
of things such appeals are not likely to be
answered seriously by many women; Ger
tainly by no desirable women. General
proposals of marriage at wholesale cannot
avail with intelligent and good women.
Perhaps, nay, very probably. there are
many spinsters in New England who would
gladly marry any decent man, but very few
of them indeed would be willing to cross
the continent to the matrimonial altar un-
invited by their husbands-to-be. The femi-
nine nature, the traditions of the sex, and
the customs of society forbid woman to
seek marriage openly and directly.
But any subterfuge or pretense will serve
to cover husband hunting. There must be
an excuse of some sort, however, though it
matters not how thin it be. All the congre-
cations of the sexes, at dances, balls, the
theater, the lecture room. by the sea, on the
mountains, even in the churches, are in part
at least opportunities of which women cheer
fully avail themselves to hunt a husband.
And the world approves. But neither
women nor the world would sanction the
direct search for husband which the West
ern men wish the Eastern women to make.
Consequently it is plain that all that is
needed to bring these lonely bachelors and
lovelorn spinsters together is an excuse for
meeting. We suggest that the Western
men should invite the fair ones from the
East to gigantic reception, without allud-
ing to the matrimonial question at all. To
conceal the real issue further it might be
we'll to add in the invitation that a tour
through a part of the West would follow
the reception, We will wage a good deal
that most of the invitations would be ac-
cepted. and that moreover not single
woman would return. If she ever did re-
turn she would not be single.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
THAT BURNING In EFFIGY.
Mr.. Clarkson Says No Action Will be Taken
by the PostofIice Department.

Mr.. Clarkson Says No Action Will be Taken
by the Postonice Departments.
WASHINGTON, August 1a-A reporter called
on Acting Postmaster General Clarkson to-day
for information in regard to the appointment
OF negro clerk by the new postmaster at At
lanta, Ga, General Lewis, which resulted In
much excitement and the burning in efigy Of
Republican of the State. General Clarkson
said: THE story, as it was printed in the At
lanta papers and sent North, was to the effect
that Postmaster Lewis had appointed negro
clerk and assigned him to duty at the same desk
with young white woman. The real facts,
however, are these; After General Lewis was
appointed as postmaster one of the registry
clerks resigned. The postmaster then appoiat-
head of the civil service list of eligibles as he
was compelled by the law to do. He was
assigned to work in the registry division, not in
another.
This young lady and her father, who was
superintendent of the Registry Division and
had the assignment Of the clerks, both re-
pointed to place in the office, and not because
an attempt had been made to place negro at
the same desk with the young lady. From
this grew all the trouble in Atlanta There
were five negro clerks In the Atlanta postofice
under the Democratic postmaster, and for SIX
years young white lady has been at the stamp
window selling stamps TO all people, black and
white.
There is nothing in the matter for the De-
partment to act upon, and there is nothing in
the action of Postmaster Lewis to be criticised
by fair-minded people. Instead of doing any
thing violently against the Southern prejudice
toward negroes, the postmaster sought in
making the appointment to obviate any ground
for objection on account of such prejudice. In
the postal service we find many of our efficient
men are among the colored men. We have
probably hundreds of them in the service alto;
gether, and they make good average record"