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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
THE DEMAND OF DISCIPLINE.

The statements which are made on behalf
of Mr.. Ellis 81. Roberts, in accepting the
position of sub-Treasurer at New York, in
dicate the growth of an unwritten constitu-
ton governing the duty of political leaders
to take offices. 1t was the Hon. William
Lawrence, of Ohio, we believe, who once
developed the theory, in connection with an
antediluvian salary grab. that as the Con-
stitution says that Congressman shall re-
ceiye" the compensation fixed by law, they
have no option, and if they refuse to take
their share of big salary they would vio-
late the Constitution. Some unwritten en-
actment of the same tenor seems to have
prevailed in Mr.. Roberts case. The place
of s., 900 year could not lure him from his
rural grandeur as Utica editor; but Presi-
dent Harrison insisted that the Republican
party owed the appointment to Mr.. Roberts,
and therefore party discipline required him
to take the tOlerably well-paid place he did
not want This is singular example of
the way in which the love of party con-
straineth us.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
RESUMPTION OF THE RIVER MINES.

The resumption of the majority of the
river mines, a little over week after the
shutdown which was so impressively an
nounced, will be likely to create the i'm
preston that the declaration of an indefinite
stoppage, until wages were reduced or the
market improved, required a considerable
saline seasoning. 1t seems by the commen-
tary of events to have rested on the basis of
a customary shutdown until the empty craft
got back and there was another opportunity
for shipments Whether this is the true ex-
PLANTATION or not, we congratulate both the
operators and miners upon the practical
evidence that there is still little margin
for shipping coal, and that work can be
found for the miners on their present basis
for wages. Whether steadier work might
not be secured by slight reduction is a
question for the operators and miners to de-
termine between themselves. But that the
above conclusion is justified by the resump-
tion is proved by the well known fact that
the operators do not, as a rule, ship coal
merely for amusement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
RouLANGER,s LAST MOVE.

General Boulanger has been told to leave
Belgium, it is said. General Boulanger
probably did not expect to stay in Brussels
for any length of time. He will, it is said,
go to England and console himself with the
salt air and expensive hotels of Brighton.
There will be no objection to his presence
there. so long as the ''Boulanger March" is
played in the slow time and minor key
which has characterized it lately.
An absurd report has appeared to the
effect that some Englishmen objected to
Boulanger's being allowed to take refuge,in
England, and would petition the Goyern-
ment to put their objection into execution.
In the first place it is very improbable that
any Englishmen of importance entertain
such remarkable hostility to General
Boulanger, and, in the second, it would be
against all precedent for the English Gov
ernment to forbid the refugee to land in
England. The case of johann Most, who
was imprisoned for publicly expressing
sympathy with the assassins of Emperor
Alexander of Russia in his London paper,
has not the remotest bearing upon the
question of General Boulanger's right to
stay at his pleasure in an English hotel.
The charges against General Boulanger
are entirely political, and as far as the
French Ministry has revealed them, do not
amount to much anyhow, considering the
normal characteristics of French politics.
His worst ofense seems to have lain in his
successful flight. The leader of the anti
Boulsngist party, and motive member of the
present Ministry, was in favor of removing
the "man on horseback" from the public's
view by measures more or less desperate.
The proposed victim did not see the utility
of permitting his enemies to experiment
with him as they pleased, and quietly fed.
Lord Salisbury might be glad to close the
doors in the highly-advertised Frenchman's IS
face, if he could do so with safety to himself.
But he cannot. Boulanger will be heartily
welcomed by the Brighton hotelkeepers,
and the South Coast railways will doubtless
soon be running excursion trains to accom-
modate the crowds eager to see the blue-eyed
hero and bogy of France.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
FIGHTING FOR A FORTUNE.
A Somewhat Peculiar Will Case to Come
Into the Courts.

NEW YORK, April S.-A warm contest will be
waged over the S5O0000 estate of Thomas ].
Monroe, the "Harlem hermit" who lived in
seclusion many years up town. Mr.. Monroe
was originally Jacobs" His father made a
fortune in the clothing business, which was in
herited by three sons, William II. Jacobs,
James NJ. Monroe and Thomas ]. Monroe. The
Monroes acquired their present names by the
act of the Court of Common Pleas. On Janu-
ary q, 1889, the alleged will of Thomas ]. Mon
roe was offered for probate. 1t bore the date
of March % 1888, and was apparently re-exe-
cuted June l. The subscribing witnesses were
Erastus F. Brown and Edward K Brown, and
the instrument seems to have been written by
the testator himself. 1t provided that three
fourths of the income Of his estate should be
given to his wife and one-fourth to George @.
Grennel. the survivor to have the principal.
Mrs. Monroe died July /, 1883. while the tes-
tator did not die until January l9, 1889. The
value of the estate is admitted by Grennell to
be S225,000 although some estimate 1t as high
as $500 600. Mr.. Grennell is said to be stranger
to the relatives of Monroe. His name was
originally Larry Bensen. Mr.. Jacobs says that
the first intimation he had that his brother was
i'll was in a call from Grennelrs attorney. who
informed him of his brothers death. Undue
influence is the ground for contest. The con-
test will be tried before Porter V. Ransom, as
siStant to the Surrogate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
LIE PAUYRE BOULANGER.

MINNEAPOLIS Tribune: Drop nickel in
the slot and hear Boulanger blow.
BUFFALO Times: Boulanger is living ex-
empllfication of the old adage that discretion
is the better part of valor.
NASHVILLE american: Boulanger should
come to America and lecture. Then he could
go back and buy the French Republic and do
what he pleased with it.
RICHMOND Dispatch: The truth of the
matter seems to be that Boulanger is trying to
work q big advertising "fake" in the interest of
Boulanger.
CLEVELAND Leader: 1t begins to look as if
the movement in behalf of Boulanger has
fizzled out. If such be the case it will be
blessing to France.
CHICAGO Inter- Ocean: If Boulanger should
ask vote of confidence from the American
people just now he would be invited to stay in
Belgium and let France saw her own wood
CHATTANOOGA Times: Boulanger is still
over in Brussels comforting with squad of his
satellites and promulgating manifestoes to fire
across the line. If the French cannot get rid
of this small nuisance then certainly they are
not fit for self-government
PETERSBURG Ilde1 appeal: Boulanger,
the hero without battle, hunting a throne
with brass band and torchlight procession
while the French Government goes into hys-
terics, is a theme more worthy OF Kepler's
pencil than of the serious comment 1t has
evoked in high editorial quarters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
CENTENNIAL sNOBBERY.
A Wenrisome Exhibition of the Follies of
shOddy AristOcracy.

ShOddy AristOcracy.
From the Boston Globe
We now see every ambitious clique in the
kingdom of social shoddy and aristocratic
aspirations in New York chaing and pickering
in jealous rivalry as to who shall sit highest on
the roost for public inspection as the procession
goes by, and who shall cut the biggest and most
gaudy figure at the centennial ball. Modestly
beginning with committee of the New York
Historical Society, the arrangements had not
gone far before the Chamber of Commerce
wanted hand In the proceedings. 1t was soon
found that the famous first 4O0' had deter
mined to saddle the ceremonies with rare ex-
clusiveness. This stirred up the diamond
studded political snoddy in the Albany Assem-
bly,. Having pacified Albany, other ''sassiety"
claimants for chief honorS put on their paint
ing is settled yet, except that the expenses of
tie job are SO enormous that the longer the
purse the greater will be the family and social
layout of centennial honors on April 30.
The result of all this wearisome exhibition OF
snobbery is that people of modesty and true
roic past in the quiet of their homes, while
shoddy will swell and puff itself in the grand
parade, glorify itself in print, and perchance
score point in the ''sassiety" game.
The solid structure of American society, in
its better sense, still rests upon groundwork
of sober thought and patriotic appreciation of
all that is noble in the past as well as in the
present. If we were to believe that the exalted
virtues and heroic careers of Washington, JEFF
terson and Franklin had left nothing better to
perpetuate them than the snobbery exhibited
in this noisy scramble for places at the coming
centennial show in New York, the prospect OF
perpetuating republic based on the glorious
idea of equality would be indeed dark.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

has his mail delivered to him several times
day, while the countryman is compelled
to 90 a great many miles for his mail, and
is fortunate if he gets it once week. These
considerations lead the Constitution to de-
clare:
1t cannot be denied that the postal service,
as it is now conducted, cenfers privileges on
one class of citizens that it does not confer on
another. The mail facilities of the people of a
small town are not to be compared with those
of the people of city, and yet there is no rea-
son why the Government should accommodate
one at the expense of another.
This is, perhaps, natural view for a rep
resentative of the agricultural interests to
take; but there is boomerang in 1t. For
although the mail facilities of the country
district are necessarily far less complete
than those of the cities, if the account is
drawn between them as separate classes, it
will be found that the postal system gives
mail facilities to the country people at the
expense of the city people. In other words,
the large receipts of city postoffices not only
pay the expenses of their increased facilities,
but yield material balance toward bearing
the cost of the ordinary facilities in country
districts where the receipts do not meet ex-
penses.
This has been demonstrated in two ways.
In the first place city delivery systems have
prospered and made money by delivering
letters in cities at the regular postage
charges, until the Government interfered
with the business as an encroachment on
the governmental monopoly. In the next
place, the showing of the largest postofice
of the country gives the exact figures. The
excess of receipts over expenditures at the
New York Postofice in 1888 was 1921, 900,
or about half the gross receipts. This bal
ance, with similar contributions in smaller
amounts from other cities, is used in paying
the expenses of country mail service where
the receipts do not balance The expendi-
lures.
The city people can well afford to pay the
slight contribution made upon them to keep
up good mail service to all parts of the
country. But if instead of viewing the pos
tai system as whole, the idea of setting
the interests of one class against the other
were to prevail, the inevitable result of our
cotemporary's principle would be the lower
ing of postage in the cities and raising it in
the country districts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
ODD ITEMS FROM FOREIGN SHORES.

DR. TERBY, OF Louvain, an astronomer, an.
nounces the appearance of a white region on
Saturn's ring. opposite shadow globe"
THE Lord Mayor of London has raised a
fund of s5 900 to pay the expenses of a dele
cation of English workingmen at the Paris Ex-
position.
THE Paris Exposition will open on Mays. A
series Of grand fetes has been arranged to
last all through the summer. The Exposi-
tion will end in September with the award of
prizes.
ONE-THIRTIETH of the whole population of
Iceland emigrated last year. moved, it is said,
by the unpopularity of the Danish Government
and the Establishments of Canadian emigration
agents.
ENGLISH public opinion is scan1alized by
the proposal to build dead house, to re-
ceive the overflow from Westminster Abbey.
1t is urged that there is still room enough
in the Abbey for monuments to all the
really great men that are likely to die for some
time.
HENRY IRVING is said to pay a liberal an
nuity to Lewis, the adapter of 1.-THE Bells"
although not under any legal obligation. Lewis
never made success of any play but that one,
and is now best known at the bars of public
houses, being described as "a curious survival
of intellectual distinction mingled with a gen.
orally dissipated air."
NJ. DECK, the new head of the Sevres china
works, has had the trade mark of the establish
ment registered. Heretofore Sevres' ware has
had a different stamp under every different
Government, and none of them have been pro-
tected against forgery, which is said to have re-
suited in the turning ont of a large amount of
alleged Sevres that never was within sight of
the factory.
A COLLECTION of photographs of snow
scenes taken by Donkin. the celebrated noun
tain climber, is being exhibited in London,
and is creating much interest, which the
climber cannot enjoy. He and an English
companion are supposed to be lying in q
crevasse somewhere in the Caucasus, no trace
of them having been found since they started
out to ascend one Of the loftiest peaks.
A PORTRAIT of Anthony Payne, the Cornish
giant, painted for Charles II. in 1880. which has
just been acquired by the Royal Institution at
Cornwall, was once the property Of Lord Tenn
pie, and after many Vcissitudes passed into the
hands Of farmer, from whom it was pur-
chased by Gilbert, the historian, for SO.
At the latter's death. it was sold to dealer
for $40, and In few weeks was resold for
$4,000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

THE circular of an Eastern brokerage
firm to the stockholders of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, urging
them to send in their proxies for an election
which shall make change of management
in the interest of the protection of the stock
holders, is made somewhat remarkable from
the fact that this firm is closely allied with
Jay Gould. The idea of putting Jay Gould
in the charge of railroad for the protection
of the stockholders is either gigantic joke
or is intended as the most cutting sarcasm
upon the former management of the COM
pany,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

IN referring to the visits of the Secretary
of the Navy to the League Island Navy
Yard at Philadelphia, the Record of that
city describes the place as covered with
rotting timbers, rusty and grass-grown rail-
way tracks, disordered material, ramshackly
storehouses, vessels bilged and sunken, and
other obstreperous indications of neglect
and decay" 1t then goes on to refer to ga
continuation of the reforms begun by Sec
retary whitney," 1t seems as if four years
of reform under Secretary Whitney ought
to have ameliorated some of the conditions
which are described by his party organ at
the end of his term.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
AT THE THEATERS.
Jim the Penman, Minnie Madden and Other
Theatrical Attractions.


When Sir Charles Young's drama, 'Jim the
Penman," was here last year it was pronounced
generally the best modern work seen upon the
stage. 1t was then acted by asuperb company
headed by Miss Ada Dyas, one of the best
actresses in America This year Jim the
Penman" is given by company even better
than the first, but Miss Dyas is not at It's
head. Miss Brooklyn has been supplied to NIL
Miss Dyas' place.
There is no occasion now for a recital of the
plot, and the wonderful dramatic effects OF
"Jim the Penman." 1t is still a marvelously
interesting play; impeIled by motive that is
nationally outside the possible, but by the
authors and actors rare art brought DacK
within the possible to all appearances Inc
play was very nicely staged; the drawing room
scenery did not look like buffers pantry in
bad repair, but conveyed full impression OF
the rich setting of life in aristocratic English
circles. So perfect performance is hardly
ever youchsafed to Pittsburg audiences
Miss Brooklyn is a woman of considerable
facial beauty and figure which is seldom 10
be seen except In the masterpieces of sculpture.
she @ + als0 an actress OF large PSweh1s th
character OF Nina RGLSton is easily recognized.
and very few women on the stage to-day could
interpret the nice work it involves with greater
skill and discernment than Miss Brooklyn
showed last night. 1t was in all its chapters,
from the subdued passages to the awful climax
of the letter scene, remarkably fine piece OF
acting.
Some may like Miss Brooklyn better than
Miss Dyas-she has physical charms which the
latter had not As far as our opinion goes the
wonderful easy grace and poise of Miss Dyas,
her revelatlon OF varying emotions without ap-
parent effort, and her personality, made her
performance as Nina RdLston distinctly supe-
rior to Miss Brooklyn's, very good as the lat
ter's is
Mr.. Whiting peated his admirable work as
Jim the Pennldn, and the detective of Mr.. W.
]. Ferguson is as finished and ingenious char
acter as ever. The changes in the cast all
seem to be for the better. Mr.. Harry Eytinge
gives Jewish color to the Baron HdrtIeLd,
the rascally confederate of RdLston, and makes
him intensely offensive without the least exag
geration. In fact, this character in Mr..
Eytinge's hands is a gem, Mr. Hardy Vernon
makes very acceptable Lord Drelipcoltrt.
and the Louis PeTclUdL of Mr.. Clarence Handy
side is fully up to the requirements. The rest
of the company cannot be caviled at.
The audience was large and received the play
with generous applause.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
A BURGLARY COMPANY,

A rather stunning example of the lengths
to which corporate undertakings can be
carried is furnished by the announcement
that, under the laws of Connecticut, the
Hartford. Burglary Company is to be
started. This title is not intended to ad-
vertise a wholesale departure in the
burgling business. On the contrary, its
purpose is to insure policy holders against
burglary and to secure the. arrest of the
burglars. Whether that protection might
not be aided by an entente cordidle between
the company and the burglars. like that
between Donald Bean Lean and Fergus
MacIvor, may provoke discussion in the
future.
BUTT can hardly fail to impress itself on
the minds of the majority that they already
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

Mr.. AINswoRTH, of the New York As
sembly, recently declared on the floor of
that body that he would vote against the
New York bill because the papers of New
York were in favor of it. Since the papers
of the metropolis have been pitching into
Mr.. Ainsworth for the energetic way in
which he did not investigate the ceiling
iobbery, he has come to the obvious con-
clusion that it is his policy to copper the
New York press or everything.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
A SQUARE MILE OF sOYEREIGNs.
What IL Cost to Supply Great Britain With
Drink for a Yenr.

From the Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle
Yet another curious calculation based on the
nations annual expenditure in drink. Last
years drink bill, as taken from Parliamentary
returns, was sl24.6l1, 49, This amount, it is
stated, would give s3 rs. per head to the esti-
mated population of the nation, and E16 15s-
for each average family. Its weight in SOW
ereigns would be 976 tons, while it would cover
a space Of 62S acres with sovereigns laid edge
to edge. If the coins were placed face to face
they would reach 1l515 miles, or make golden
cord reaching from Carlisle to Liverpool or
Manchester. Placed edge to edge they would
extend distance of / 40 miles,
To count these coins at one sovereign per
second would take four years, less fortnight.
For each letter in the Bible the amount last
year expended in liquor is set down at f34 18s.
9d. 1t is added that about 2,377, ,736 acres of
land in the United Kingdom are estimated to
be devoted to the production of the raw ma
terial used for brewing and distilling. This is
exclusive of the $1,000 acres used for hop
growing, or nearly one-nineteenth of the acre
age of the land under cultivation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

A CHARACTERISTIC of New York relig-
ious observance is displayed by the an
in the fashion columns of the
Tribune, that "the Lenten season drags
along with an all. pervading listless-
ness" 1t may seem peculiar to some that
a devotional season should be characterized
BY listlessness; but after all it may be no
more than natural when the devotion is of
the fashionable kind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

belong to an organization, to which they
have contributed considerable payments,
for purposes very similar to this. IT the
purposes of Government do not include the
protection of the people against burglary
and other crimes, and the arrest of the crimi-
mails, it is getting high time to inquire what
we really do pay taxes for.
When the corporations begin to discharge
the functions of Government it is getting
to be high time to decide whether they shall
run the Government or the Government
run them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
a LITTLE NEW YORK TALK.
Hilton. Grip on Mrs. Stewart.

NEW YORK, April Sin the Stewart will
case to-day Mrs. Helen d. Brown told what
Mrs. Stewart did not know about art The
first time Mrs. Stewart saw George B. Buffers
"Rose Of Capri" she said she supposed it was
nice picture. but she could not understand
why George had not put better gown on the
girl" Mrs. Brown explained that the girl was
a fisbermaiden, and Mrs. Stewart said "Oh."
Mrs. Stewart often complained she was ''sick
and tired of pictures, but had to buy them be-
cause the Judge (Hilton) wanted her to-"
Thomas Hope, formerly of the upholstery de-
partment in Stewards store, related how Judge
Hilton charged Mrs. Stewart SIS yard for
goods inventoried at sl1 a yard, and s160 for a
curtain worth but S75.