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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
A JaII Bird Araiu in tbe ToiI..

John Gill, who has been making bad silver
dollars of and on for the last Is years, was up
in a Jersey City court for counterfeiting to-day.
Last fall New York was flooded with spurious
coin of the most clever manufacture. GIL was
arrested this morning on the charge of leading
the gang that put this bad money in circula-
tion. He was remanded to wait the arrival of
Secret Service agents, who have conclusive evil
dence against him. Gill has served two terms
in Sing Sing and one term in Auburn prison.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
The Power Behind the Throne.

From the Chicago Herald.I
Mr. Harrison was nearly an hour late at q
White House reception the other afternoon,
and the 200 or 3O0people in attendance were
unable to account for the unusual delay. 1t is
said to have been caused by Baby Mckee, who
had little crying spell, and would be consoled
by no one but his grandfather. If any one ex-
cept the President himself is running this ad-
ministration it is not Blaine; it is Baby
Mckee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
Evndsd the Laws Grnsp a Long Time.

Henry H. Marshall, formerly postmaster at
st. CLAIR, Schuylkill county, Pa, was arrested
in the Bowery for embezzling 81 500 from the
money order department of the ST. Clair post
office some time ago. The United States au-
thorities have been looking for him for a long
time. Marshall has been living in this city for
the last eight months under an assumed name.
He admitted his identity before United States
Commissioner Shields to-day, and was taken to
Philadelphia this afternoon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
MADE RICH BY MOLAssES.
How Colored Woman Paid for Farm
BY Selling Cakes,

Dy Selling CakeSs
ONANCoCK, VA, April 6.-Maria Bivins, a
well-known colored woman residing near this
town, is dead. She was So years old, and for
more than 30 years she has been engaged in
making and selling molasses cakes, from which
she accumulated Q comfortable little fortune,
Both she and her husband wereborn in slavery,
as were sever al Of their children. She had ac-
cumulated enough money before the war to
purchase the liberty of herself and husband,
and during the war she made enough money
out of the Federal soldiers quartered here to
purchase her children.
After the war she bought farm near this
town, on which she employed her husband,
paying him rs cents day during the spring and
summer months, and so cents during the win
ter. She used two barrels of flour every month
in the manufacture of cakes. always making
$500 cakes out of each barrel. During the
long period she was engaged in this business, it
was estimated she had made nearly 1000, 900 of
cakes. She was an honest, industrious woman,
and enjoyed the respect of all who knew her.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
TAR LOYAL LEGION IN LINE.
1t VIII Hold Its Sixth QuadrennIal Congress
During the Week.

CINCINNATI. April 6.-The sixth quadrennial
congress of the military order of TIE Loyal
Legion of the United States begins its session
here on Wednesday, April 10. 1t is composed
of the Commander in Chief, ex-President R. B.
Hayes; the Recorder in Chief Lieutenant Col
oDel John P. Nicholson, Of Philadelphia, and
three delegates from each of the eighteen State
communicates. AS the sixth annual dinner of
the members of the Congress will be guests OF
the Ohio Commandery
Members will be present from California,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, New York, Name,
Massachusetts,, Wisconsin. Illinois, Ohio,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Kansas Iowa, Colorado, Indiana and the Dis
tr1ct of Columbia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
A Whale Story With a Moral.

From the Chicago News.1
Washington has acquired a bottle-nosed por-
poise, called by courtesy whale, of which it is
very proud. Ithas been placed in the National
Museum for bottle-nosed politicians to stare at.
This singularly stupid beast came ashore on the
coast of New Jersey, so its melancholy fate will
not be very deeply regretted. Bottle noses and
stupidity are not to be tolerated when found
associating with each other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Rules Of Grace-A Lawyers' Club = MY
Censor-Cute ChIldren's Sayings.

Rules Of Grace-A lawyer Club - MY
Ccnsor-Cute Children's Sayings.
To SEVERAL correspondents the writer begs
to say that anonymous letters invariably 60 to
the waste basket unread and that the "Mail
Pouch" in an adjoining column, is always open
to such writers as append their names and ad-
dressest to their communications.
A WASHINGTON newspaper man writes me
that Colonel Richard J. Hinton, the Socialist
and journalist, has not been appointed to an
office in the Department of Agriculture as was
stated few days ago in this column, but to a
comfortable place in the Geological Bureau
He will have the pleasing task of looking after
irrigation, and his experience as an engineer at
one time in his life will come into service.
A CLUB of lawyers has been talked of several
times in the past. but it has never gos beyond
talk. A common fate of the lawyers enterprises
cynic might say But the need for club has
never been so great as it is to-day. And every
day, as Pittsburg grows nearer the metropoli-
tan the need for club will be felt by the barris
ters, Especially the younger men feel that
they could make good deal of use of good
club near the Court House.
The DuQuesne is too much an institution for
men of business and men of money to be at
tractive to the average lawyer. Besides the
$3.50 entrance fee is barrier to many who
would gladly pay fair sum for club privi-
leges. The Pittsburg Club is also out of the
question for reasons that are known to every
body, and the Press Club is hardly able to ac-
cept many more legal members.
What is wanted is club of hrst-class ar
rangements, located near the Court House, and
to which lawyers and secondarily professional
men shall be eligible. There is some talk of
club of this sort being organized.
xx*
WHEN it was showing on Friday evening
boy of about IA called at a house where
cousin Of his a young girl, was lying danger
ously i'll, and though he was covered with mud
and snow, wanted to go straight to the sick
room just as he was Naturally the mother of
the girl demurred; saying that with the snow
all over him his presence at the bedside of a
girl dangerously ill with pneumonia might be
fatal
The boy was very persistent. He had
piece of important news to tell his cousin, and
to tell her alone. After much cross-question-
ing he said: swell, l. was down at Jones and
while was there I heard DR.. B say cousin
Mary couldn't live, andI thought she ought to
know it at once. And want to tell her."
The news shocked the family enough, but
the lively young messenger of death was not
allowed to deliver the doctors decree. Hap
PLY, likewise, the patient is going to live.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
Intelligence That Travel. Quickly.

FTOM IIt bPIIHBIeIu IltpuDIlC.I
Scientists estimate that sit takes about two
hfths of a second to call TO mind the country
in which well-known town is situated, or the
language in which familiar author wrote. !"
1t takes the information that a man has been
appointed postmaster about the one-thous-
andth part of second to reach his brain-if
he has any, which isn't always certain,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

THE present grand jury is alleged to be
doing its best to live upto the record of its
predecessors in ignoring bills where the
evidence is clear. 1t remains to be seen
what measures of discipline the bench has
reserved for the present body.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
MAKING MEAL OF MONEY.
Silver Coin Gets in the Hopper and Stops n
Georgia MIL.

Georgia Mill.
ALBANY, GA, April Cover in Lee county
the other day, at Sam Hawkins mill, the
machinery suddenly stopped. Something had
fallen into the hopper and shut down the
whole concern. Warren Baxter, negro who
was attending to the corn grinding, put his
removed for the purpose and to his astonish-
ment found lot of silver coin, which had been
the cause of the trouble. There were some
five or six pieces ranging from dime to half
cover 1t, and could not imagine where 1t could
have come from.
When he went to depart he placed his hand
in his pocket and discovered that it was his
own money. While shoveling the corn in the
sacks 81 70 had fallen into it, and been ground
into unacceptable shape by the great stones.
He brought the mutilated pieces to towr, and
an enterprislng jeweler secured it for 80 cents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
A Natural Inference.

Glasgow (Ky.) Times.l Z - =
When $4,000 is offered and refused for a
single horse, there is prevalent opinion that
the man who wants to buy a couple Of large
sized iackasses need 90 no farther.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
The Drift Toward the Par,, Expo.

M. Coquelin, the actor, his son and 13 mem
bers of his troupe, sailed for Europe to-day on
the steamship La Bourgogne. General Will
lam B. Franklin sand Somerville B. Tuck,
United States Commissioners, who will have
general supervision of the American depart
ment at the Paris Exposition, and Prof. Spen-
Ger E. Newberry, of Cornell Univers lty, in
charge of the American Mining and Forestry
department at the exposition. also sailed for
Paris to-day. La Bourgogne carried a eonsign-
ment of exhibits for the exposition
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
Thirteen Weeks on Strike,

The thirteenth week of the Higgins Carpet
Company strike closed to-day. Both sides are
apparently as firm as when the lockout began.
A week ago about 500 of the strikers found
work in other mills, and since then about 100
have found employment. A big entertainment
for the benefit Of the strikers will be given by
40 artists at the Star Theater on Easter Sun
daY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
Attempting Impos.ibIlirIe..

From the New York Tribune1
The Delaware law makers are considering
bill to prevent runaway matches. The measure
may pass, but love in Delaware, as elsewhere.
viii continue to laugh at locksmiths to euchre
stern parents and to get around legal enact
ments
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
The Need Of the Times.

From the 81. PAuI GIobe.
Homes for old soldiers are all right and re-
reats for inebriates are useful but the great
need of the time is an asylum for disappointed
office seekers. But then there couldn't be
room for half the Republican party.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

WHEN friend Of mine moved into a new
house last week he found some parts of the
ceiling in the dining room to be in need of re-
pair. New plaster was put into blemished por-
tions of the ceiling, and when it dried of
course the renovated spots were very white by
contrast. A little girl in the family strongly
objected to the peculiar appearance of the
ceiling. The glaring white patches frightened
her.
of, and the small girl, throwing herself into
the third person after the fashion of a child
who wants to lend dignity to remark, said
yesterday: "Frances doesn't mind the plaster
now, but she's little bit bashfulF'
HEPBURN JOHNS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
The Milk In the Coconnut.
Mr.. Quay's Problem.

One very interesting point to remember Is
that Matthew Stanley Quay's power in Penn
sylyania politics has been shown at its full. Its
retention is now the particular thing to occupy
his mind, and it is mind that has worked on
seemingly greater problems. SIMPSON.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
MY CENSOR.

MI SENSOh.
She's censor as she sits
At my elbow in rocker;
And my pencil as 1t fits
Trembles lest word should shock her.
For she's told me once or twice
With precision monumental:
'sDo, no matter what the price,
Do be gentle!"
'But it's easier, my dear,
To be cold and very cutting"
1reply, but she'll not hear
Says she's had enough of but-ing.
'tEasy, sir?'' she says again,
ITO break glass, but ohl you'll rue It'll
For you'll easier damage do
Than undo it,
So promised to obey
Once before fancy she did
But-well, that was yesterday,
Perjury in love's conceded
To the woman. I'm not sad
All life's pleasures haven't missed me
You'n concur, sir. when add:
That she kissed mel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
sprinR styles in the Buckexe stnte.

From the Akron Telegram.1
The new spring hat is on deck. It looks as if
it might have been modelled after the race
track at Fountain Park, with the Old Forge
district converted into flower garden
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

IT is with pleasure that the public is
enabled to notice the exceptional fact that
the State has at last won one tax suit against
a railroad corporation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

WITH yellow fever epidemic raging in
Brazil, the nomination of Minister to Rio
Janeiro assumes to Senator BERTHE Adams
the aspect of a gift of the Greeks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
Cold Comforr for Consumers.

From the Boston Herald
The biggest thing on ice this summer will
probably be the price of it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

BoULANGER still cherishes the project
of overturning the French Government
nom the secure but somewhat distant stand
point of Belgium.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

APRIL showers may bring May flowers; but
April snowstorms are too apt to blossom into
pneumonia and rheumatism.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
What RouI.na.r shonlh no.

From the Steubenville Herald.l
Boulanger is in Belgium considering what he
will do next He had better behave himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

APRIL makes faint attempt to supply
the leonine characteristics in which the
lamb-hke March was lacking.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

Voluntary contributors should Keep copies of
articles. II compensation is desired the price
expected must be named The courtesy of re-
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tChen stamps for that purpose are enclosed bat
the Editor of THE DISPATCH Uiu under no
circumstances be responsible for the care Of aG1l-
solicited manuscripts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
The Bone of Contention.

Mr.. Magee's principal weakness lay in the
fact that the measure he advocated was not
one in any degree calculated to arouse popular
enthusiasm, while on the other hand it gave
the opposition an opportunity to make great
many representations that were not lost sight
of in the circular distributed among the mem
bers by ex-Speaker Long But the merits and
demerits of the bill were almost entirely lost
sight of early in the fight. The measure was
merely an excuse for a trial of political
strength. >The result is before the public in
the vote on Mr. Graham's motion to in
definitely postpone consideration Of Mr.. Laf-
ferty's resolution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-17
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Oct. 14-Flour-Firm as recently
quoted. Wheat-Strong and higher; 500 for seller
October; S25 for seller December; S59s for seller
May. Corn-Easy; 307s for seller October; 3114
for seller November; 3314 for seller May. Oats
Steady: 1Sz tor seller October 1888 for seller No
vember; 221s for seller May. Rye-41A for seller
October. Barley-No trading. Prime timothy
No trading. Flax seed Is for seller cash; 1.3s
for seller May. Whisky-1.02. Pork-Easy;
1918 for seller October; 9321a for seller January.
Lard-Steady COTS for seller October; 5.S71a for
seller January. Shoulders 4.25G4.50; short clear,
55O@5 62l short ribs, $50 for seller cash Butter
Steady; creamery, 1908; dairy, 1920. Cheese
Easier; full cream chedders, 91z0924: flats, 924G
10; young Americas, 10000. Eggs-Firm; fresh,
1S019 Hides = Weak; heavy and light green
salted 42l; sailed bull, AZ green sailed calf 518
dry salted, 6: dry calf, 596; deacons, each, 20
Tallow-Weak; No. 1, solid packed, 4: No. 2, 31z
cake, Al.
CHICAGO, Oct. IA The Drovers' Journal re
ports: Cattle-Receipts $1,000; steady for good
lower for others; choice TO extra beeves, 1900
40: steers, 2S004.40 soockers and feeders, 1.75G
$50: cows, bulls and mixed, 1.00G.2 60; Texas cat
tie, 2.0O03 .25; western rangers, 1.7503.75. Hogs
Receipts, 10000; steady; light, strong; mixed
40oa4 40; heavy, 3.95943O; light, 4.Oo5460 skips
3.59@4.10. Sheep-Receipts, 10000; steady FOL
good, others weaker; natives 3.0004.75; western
3.5o@4.10; Texans, 3O0@4.1O; lambs, lower; 4ooQ
565
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-17
DECIDED AGAINST THE ROAD.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Makes an Important Decision.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-The interstate
commerce commission made decisions in
the cases of Leonard and Chappelle against
the Chicago & Alton railroad. The com
plainants were formerly allowed to ship
live cattle in carloads from Mount Leon
ard, Mo-, to Chicago at the rate of $50 per
car and load twenty head into each car.
In January the complainant was inform
ed that the rate would be "a
cents per 100 pounds for carload
of not less than twenty thousand
pounds, and any excess over that number
of pounds to the car will be charged for at
the same rate. The commission decided
that this was not unlawful, and being
more in proportion to the service rendered
it, prima facie, more just and reasonable
than the practice that is supplanted. Upon
the hearing it was shown by the state law
or the rulings of the state commissions
that shippers of cattle in Kansas or Mis-
souri, to points within the state had a
right to load car without
regard to weight at a stated price
per car. 1t was said therule was the same
in other states and the commission urged
to conform thereto. The commission
holds such state action is not reason for
adopting a like rule in inter state traffic If
that course was found not to be most just
and polite The state action will always
be treated with the highest Difference and
respect, but cannot be allowed to control
matters within federal jurisdiction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-17
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Rev. Dewitt Talmage is to take trip to
the Holy Land
Edison, the inventor, is theosophist in
his religious views.
A son of De Quincy is sergeant-at-arms
in the New Zealand parliament
A marble statue of the princess of Wales
by French sculptor is to be executed for
erection at Copenhagen.
JEFF Davis, Roger @. Mills, Addison
Commack and Judge Terry were all born
in the same county of Kentucky.
1t is stated that the estate of the late S.
S. Cox will net only about $4,000
Emperor William of Germany sub
scribed 10000 francs to thesfund for the
relief of the sufferers by the explosion and
fire at Antwerp.
Henry Watterson is totally blind in one
eye and is able to see only dimly with the
other. When he writes he bends his head
so.low that his nose almost touches the
paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-17
DISTURBING EMERSON'S TOMB
The Great Philosophers Skull Taken
From the Casket.
Gentlemen Discover the Opening While
Attending a Funeral.
A Watch Was at Once Put Over Mr.
EmersOn's Grave.

CONCORD, Mass, Oct. 14.-Yesterday
afternoon, while attending burial al
Sleepy Hollow cemetery here, two gen
tlemen of Concord discovered that the
grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson had been
disturbed. The authorities were
notified, and found that the grave had
been opened during Saturday night. ex-
posing the casket. Whether the remains
have been taken or not is not known at
present, as the authorities are waiting the
return of DIR. Edward Emerson, the phil
osopher' 5 son, who has been telegraphed
for. A watch was at once placed at the
grave, but the general opinion here is that
the miscreants accompished..the object and
secured at least the skull, which was prob
ably what they were after. There is great
Indignation here.
The body of Mr.. Emerson was laid in
the grave on April 80, 1882. The casket
was of the ordinary kind, heavily bound
and sealed. No attempt was ever made
to guard the body. as it was not suspected
that there was any design to desecrate it.
The grave of Mr.. Emerson is close to that
of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The family have been satisfied that the
body has not been disturbed and wish no
further investigation. A heavy masonry
tomb will be constructed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-17
WENT FOR WHISKY.
John L. Sullivan Without a Dollar and
Heavily in Debt.

New YORK, Oct. 14-Another fortune
has slipped through the fingers of John L..
Sullivan like water. The $50, ZOO which
he received as a reward for his victory
over Kilrain is gone and Sullivan, with
thousands Of dollars of debts on his hands
is dependent once more on his friends for
enough to get drink All he wants now
is a chance to make another pile, and with
the usual string of good resolutions he has
started in once more to push
his way to luxury. When the
articles of the Kilrain fight were signed in
get there, but his training expenses were
paid by his hackers. When the fight was
over he left New Orleans with S4,800. At
Nashville he was arrested, and it took So
800 to free him, 50, 500 going to lawyers
who talked wisely. and 81, 100 to court Off
cials and the boy who did the real work.
Chicago's great spree cost him $500, of
nearly $500 of which his pocket was picked.
When the stake money was received by
him here, John L. began the princely act
again. 1t is commonly supposed that
money, but Charley Johnson and Jim
w dhGly 1ctIlCu W pICoCIlu 111lII VIII oA1C4A
winnings on the stake. Jim Willett, how
ever, did give his $4,000 stake and win
nings, thus making Sullivan,s receipts
from the stakes only $4,000. The cham
pion established himself at the Vanderbilt
house with eleven retainers, all of whose
expenses he paid, and nothing was too
good for them. Sullivan was then arrested
by Gov. Lowry's minions and accompanied
chosen few, returned to his old battle
ground, paying all the expenses of the
trip. He returned to the Vanderbilt and
enjoyed the same high living. He then
went to Boston with $4,000, all that re-
manned of his small fortune. AS soon as
he reached the Hub creditors presented
their bills, but John L. could not pay al
and wanted to have more fun. The rest
of MS money went at Crescent Beach, and
Sullivan now owes over $4,000 to hote
keepers, wine men, clothiers, and sport
ing friends. yet within six years he ha:
made from benefits and fights nearly $3.50,
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