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SAILORS SAW GHOSTS.
A Most Remarkable Run of Bad Luck for
the Craft and Her Crew.

A Most Remarkable Run of Bad Luck for
the Craft md Her Crew.
Philadelphia Record,
When the schooner George B. Mcfarland,
which was lost recently between Fernandina,
Fla, and this port, was launched a medium in
Portland, Me-, claimed that he had received a
communication from the other world an
nouncing that the restless spirit Of Captain
Kidd would take possession of the vessel. 1t
was further asserted by this medium that no
vessel of which the pIratical spirit assumed
command would ever be lucky. This prophecy
made a remarkable impression upon the su-
perstitious sailors, who for years have imag-
ined strange sights and sounds within and
about the vessel. The Mcfarland stuck on the
ways, and was never water. tight after she was
launched. Her first commander, Captain
Strong, gave her up after two or three voyages
as hopelessly unlucky vessel. Captain Strong's
brother then took command of the ship, and lost
money steadily for three voyages, when he
abandoned her in mid-ocean, the crew being
landed in Europe.
The Mcfarland was found adrift at sea by
a steamship and towed to European port,
where she was refitted and placed in charge of
a new master. Two days after she sailed from
squall and his leg was broken. A month ago
she was again abandoned at sea, and last week
she was met and set afire as dangerous dere-
Iict by the steamship Orinoco.
Sailors who shipped on the Mcfarland said
that ghostly carpenters haunted the vessel and
were always at work, the sound of their saving
and planning away down in the hold being heard
at night as they tried to cut the keel asun6er
and sink the ship. On many occasions the men
all rushed out of the forecastle shouting that
strange and unknown hands had thrust them
out Of their hunks; and they are said to have
shown bruises and cuts TO prove their stories.
On more than one occasion the entire crew Of
the schooner jumped overheard and swan
ashore, while the vessel was in port. to escape
n
minds pictured. There was always great di6i-
Guilty in securing crew for the vessel, as men
who served a single voyage and learned Of her
trim
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discussion at a Cabinet meeting in WASH
ington, we may be pardoned for devoting a
little space to the question here. 1t was Sec
retsry Rusk, the guardian angel Of the farmer
in fancy, and the boss patron of the Public
Printer in fact, who startled the President
and the attendant Cabinet Ministers with
the proposal that they should all take to
wearing flannel shirts. The Hon. Jerry
Rusk is the very man the flannel shirt
would pick out as its champion if it had a
voice. Stout, hearty and free perspirer,
the flannel shirt appears an absolute
necessity in his case. The whole Cabinet
ought to have fallen in with the proposal of
this able special pleader. 1t didn't, how
ever, and the reason why is not known.
Some say that two or three members of
the Cabinet were suspicious that Secretary
Rusk was trying to work off a job lot of
shop-worn shirts at the instance of the Post
master General. This was a very unfair
and silly suspicion. Mr.. Wanamaker
would only be too glad to give every one of
his colleagues in the Cabinet a flannel
shirt, even two such articles, we are sure.
Think of the advertisement to be obtained
from the transactioni Shirts similar to
those worn by President Harrison and all
mis- secretaries would not have to be sold at
great sacrifice, second counter, Broad
street entrance, only a few left. They
would sell at sight anywhere at fancy prices.
And they would be well worth the money,
too.
No; we think that the Cabinet would do
we'll to adopt the flannel shirt and such
other cool and comfortable garments as are
offered at once. A statesman is of no use
unless he keeps cool.
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PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES.

,,-
rkoF. ' MAnHN' % Annerst Oohege' mas
oeen LII 'ne sei'iee Vi 'na' insI'uIion iof "
years
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS TANNER has
returned to washington from an extended trip
West. He was at the Pension ONCE yesterday.
SARAH BERNHARDT has developed q great
liking for Americans. She seeks their society,
invites them to her entertainments, and openly
asserts that they are the wittiest people in the
world.
SECRETARY RusK is rapidly coming to the
front as the most popular Cabinet officer
among the Washington newspaper men. The
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CONFERENCE BETTER THAN CONFLICT

At time when the Amalgamated Asso-
citation has the qualification of seeing its
scale so promptly and SO generally signed
by the principal mills of the district, it is to
be regretted that the situation at Home
stead looks like serious split The course
of the Carnegie firm in declaring the places
open to new corners, and treating negotiations
with the old hands as at an end, is one which
the public hoped would be avoided through
conference and compromise. Though the
situation seems decidedly strained just now
it is still to be hoped that the mutual in
terests of the parties may suggest some
basis of settlement other than lockout.
With the exception of the question at
Homestead, both labor and capital are to
be congratulated on the amicable and
speedy agreement arrived at in this district
as TO the basis of wages for the current year.
As to the Homestead matter, the point will
strikingly suggest itself whether more salts
factory results in the end might not be
reached by exhausting every means of
amicable and fair settlement with the old
employees before undertaking the difficult
task of securing and organizing a corps Of
new ones
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inevitable in secret societies like the Clan

inevitable in secret societies like the Clan
na-Gael.
If the funds of the latter organization
had been put into scme such investment as
this, it would certainly have done more for
the Irish race than it has in the hands OF
the grain gamblers. Some South Ameri-
can country rich in are but poor in
cash would have gladly yielded up stretch
of territory for q sum on which these funds
could have made the first payment. There
the Irish could have founded government
free from landlords and demonstrated their
ability to make themselves an independent
nation.
Such project would enable the expert
m ent to be tried under more favorable con-
dition than have prevailed in that other
Irish Republic known as New York City.
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PROPOSALS FOR STEEL
Pitfsburg Bids Too High, But VIII Have One
More Chupce To Win.

Pfttsburg Bids Too High, But VIII Have One
More Chance TO Win.
WAsHINGToN, July 9.-Secretary Tracy will
issue in a few days proposals for the purchase
of 66l tons of steel plates for use in the battle
ship Texas now being constructed at the Navy
Yard, Norfolk. These bids will be opened at
the Navy Department on September L. The
these plates are intended for use in the lower
manning Ais tons are for the lower and middle
layers of protective deck plating, and for the
upper and lower layers Of tops of redoubt and
protective side plating.
The delivery of these steel plates is to be
commenced within 30 days after the contract
is signed and completed within go days. All
bids for the supplying of these plates to the
Government must be accompanied by o certi-
fed check for one fifth the amount, which
will be beld as guarantee against the success
full bidder for the prompt delivery of the
plates after the contract is signed, within the
specified time. The successful bidder will be
compelled to deliver these plates at the Nor
folk Navy Yard free Of all expense to the Gov
ernmenr and at such points as the commandant
may decide.
Bids were opened at the Navy Department
this afternoon for the purchase of 428 tons of
steel plates for the belted cruiser Maine now
building at the navy yard, New York. There
were only two bids received-from the Linden
Steel Works and Carnegie, Phipps & Co., of
Pittsburg The bio of the Linden Company
$34, 1873 60, was the lower and the contract will
be awarded to them. The bid of Carnegie
Phipps Co. was $50, 294.
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ODD ITEMS FROM ABROAD.

A RUSSIAN nobleman has recently paid 200
roubles (S6O0) for pair of nightingales that
are said to render delightfully."- various national
melodies.
THE success Of the Wild West Snow in
Paris, far from decreasing, grows greater day
by day. Thousands are unable to obtain ad-
mission at the Sunday performances.
1T is now stated that Parisians will have
nearly everything in a ''bull fight" except the
death of the bull at the corridas about to take
place in the Plaza de Toros Of the exhibition.
The ring is in the Rue de la Federation, by the
Champs de Mars.
THE Municipal Council at Athens has deter
mined to erect in the middle of the principal
public square an exact reproduction of the
Eiffel tower, only with slightly diminished pro-
portions. There will be an electric light on
the summit somewhat after the fashion of our
statue of Liberty.
RARELY has the supply of strawberries been
SO abundant in Paris as at the present moment
The refreshing fraises are piled in colossal
heaps in the markets and in the shops of fruit
erers all over the city, and pottles of straw
berries are sold at such an infinitesimal rate
that the poorest of the working citizens in the
Faubourg st. Antoine can afford a dessert
almost as luscious as that of Dives and Cresus
in the Champs Elysees.
FREEDOM of the press is not as yet very
firmly established in Japan. A newspaper
called the 10nchikyok,Oai Zasshf, published an
illustration recently representing the promul-
CATION of the new constitution. In this picture
the imperial throne was occupied by skeleton.
The editor and two printers were forthwith ar
rested, and the former condemned to fine of
ESQ, with three years imprisonment. while the
latter were incarcerated for ten months with
ESQ to pay.
q
Nunez, in Senegal, is now in Paris with his
Queen and suite. Dlnah is 50 years old, tall
and intelligent. He wears white boubou, or
mantle, and velvet skullcap. The Queen is
almost girl, her name being Phillis. and her
age Is. She now wears simple colored petit
coat and q "caftan," but will probably return
to Rio Nunez in Partisan costume as since
her arrival she has evinced . womanly interest
in the wonderful millinery Of France. The
Kings suite numbers about Is persons, in
cluding the young princclings, who are with
the dusky sovereign as hostages.
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BRICKLAYER ODE TO GHOOLY
KHAN.

I've read SO much of Ghooly Khan
As 1 the papers daily scan
For news, that fame of Sullivan
Eclipsed will be by Persian
Who never an AM m-er-i-can
Could bring to time, like Kil-li-an
Was brought by John, whose fist did fan
His face and ribs, while blood 1t ran
Beneath the sun, who fierce did tan
Their hides. Now ifin Te-he-ran
There lives an able royal Khan
Who thinks he is as good man
As John, why he can trv the plan
Within the ring and there he can
Resent the front this pinched and wan
Faced dirty, rude barbarian
Says he has had, as to his clan
He goes out Of the frying pan
To fire of wit when he began
His trunks to pack for land of Sam
Scrit lore, where. 'cross the watery span
He has to go in ship that bran
New, bears the smell OF Ghooly Khan
Unto his home In Te-he-ran.
A. MORTON.
rTTaprpd luIvo
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-10

In Mr.. W. b. Ballou's book, ga Ride
on Cyclone" the charge is made that three
men, prominent in politics and finance, are
behind an organized gang of salaried cattle
thieves, alleged to exist in the West. This
sounds like very serious charge. but as the
description OF the men indicates rather
plainly that their rank in politics and
finance was gained by the tactics of organ
ized robbery, the application Of the same
principles to the cattle business seems to be
no more than the product of deep respect
for consistency.
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FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

There Is nothing like being all broken up
to make man see the necessity Of mending his
ways burlington Free Press.
well" said Wright Field, as he took
his overcoat to the pawnbroker, ''here goes for
three balls and bati''- Yale Record
Jones-Going home on your vacation this
year. Smith?
Smith, affectionately-Guess so. Jones. It's the
only place 1 can go where don't have to pay
quadruple rates. Philadelphia Inquirer.
"I wish the night would hurry up so we
can send of our fireworks, ~ said Johnny.
ssWelI let's 90 out doors and play" said
Willie. THAT always makes the dark come quick
enough. ''-Chfcago Tribune.
The Two Babies-Mrs. Fangle-Baby
Mckee is grandchild Of the President. I believer
Mr.. Fange-Yes.
ident is Baby Anson?''--Eeao YORK Sun.
wibble-I wonder why ministers always
wear long tailed coatsY
wabble--If you were a country minister with
800 salary and large family you wouldn't ask
such . fool question as that.-Terrs Aaute Err
press.
He-what made you start so?
Shell didn't hear you coming. Twas wrapped
in thought.
He-Well, that ought to make a pretty comfort-
able costume these hot days.-Tsrre Hauts Ep-
press.
Knew What He Wanted-''Is there any,
thing can do for you?'' asked Mrs. Cumso, ten
derly. when her husband suffering from sea-
sickness. .sNhat do you want?',
.Iwant the earth, A" gasped Cumso, as he again
leaned over the rail.-HeD York S,la.
First Citizen-Why don't you get DR..
Brownstone for your SON? He must be . GOOD
physician, for he has large practice among the
-Four Hundred.
Second Citizen--O, he wouldn't do at all. I
want brain specialist.--Ssso York Weekly.
''The atmosphere of this car is oppressive,
Maria," complained Mr.. Billus. s'I'lI just 10 out
on the platform and get some fresh air."
And he went out met an old acquaintance, and
they sdjourned to the smoking car, where Mr..
Biius spent the next two hours in an atmosphere
of thick tobacco smoke and Russian emigrants.-
Chicago Tribune.
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MILLETS WIDOW.
She IL Not Destitute, but In Very Comfort.
able Circumstances.

She IL Not Destitute, but In Very Comfort.
able Circumstances.
A correspondent of the New York Sun says:
In stating that the widow of the painter ]. f..
Millet is living in great poverty. your Paris cor
respondent gives currency to a belief which,
though quite generally prevalent. is 1 believe,
without foundation in fact. While in Barbizon.
in August last,I frequently met Nine. Millet
and the members Of her family. and if outward
and visible" signs may be taken as an indica-
tion of their condition, it would appear that
they were in very comfortable circumstances.
The Millet home. instead of being dilapi-
dated hovel. as many would have it, is one of
the most substantial in the little village, and
has about it every appearance Of comfort and
cheer. The fact that Nine. Millet retains in
her possession a number Of the drawings and
sketches of the painter of the "Angelus,"
which would doubtless realize a small fortune
If offered for sale, is sufficient proof that her
needs are not very pressing.
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AN EXPERIMENTAL REPUBLIC.

The proposal to purchase territory some
where for the establishment of an expert
mental Irish Republic, is novel one, and
Notwithstanding its unique features has prac-
tical features that cannot be sneered at. 1t
would give the Irish an opportunity to de-
monstrate their capacity for self govern
ment, and would permit the Irish cause
even its most extreme forms of organization
to escape from the abuses which seem to le
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INVOLVING BIG IRON MINES.
A S5,OOO,OOO Suit to Wind Up the Bessemer
Consolidated Company.

| Cous0hduted Company.
| Cleveland Plaindealer.l
The litigation begun In the Wisconsin courts
! for the winding up of the affairs of the Besse-
mer Consolidated Iron Company has now as
sumed definite shape. They involve IS, 0O0, 900
of mining property which has Jared badly since
the Gogebic troubles commenced. One suit
| was brought by Adolph Doctor on behalf of
himself and any of the other stockholders who
| may elect to come in against the Bessemer
Consolidated Iron Company, 8. Fl. Martin, E.
c. Hoffman, II. A. Bushra, r. NJ. Lee and s. H
Needs, for the appointment of receiver for
the company. Mr.. Doctor alleges that the
company was organized in 1887 with a capital
stock of ST. 500, 900 divided into rs 900 shares of
500 each, of which he owns Is shares On the
10th day Of June, 1883, he asserts, the company
became unable to meet certain liabilities and
had past due debts amounting to
100000, he Is informed. That on that
day the Board of Directors of the company;
E. w. Oglebay, who was President; ]. j. Gill,
Secretary; W. D. Rees and ]. W. Gill, met in
Cleveland and "contriving and intending to
wreck, ruin and utterly destroy said corpora
tion." resigned their positions and had elected
in their places five men who are said to be only
clerks. The new directors are the defendants
in the suit. The old directors it is asserted,
were large stockholders and men of money,
while the new men are not financially RESPONSE
BILE and are wholly unft and unqualified to
manage the affairs OF the corporation. It is
further alleged that prior to May /. 1883. the
then officers of the corporation issued certain
bonds secured by mortgages on all the property
OF the corporation, which were sold for the
sum of rs cents on the dollar. and for which
U.s., 800 in cash were received and s437, 700 were
allowed upon pretended debts:" that the Off
GERS OF the company also pledged $500, 600 worth
of bonds at so cents on the dollar for loan of
Sl5O.OOO, land that for all of said moneys so
ceived by said officers of said corporation said
officers have made no account whatever"
Since the resignation of its officers, Mr..
Doctor alleges the working of its mines has
ceased, attachments to the amount of $50 200
have been levied and there is danger OF the
loss of the entire property. He therefore prays
for an injunctional order restraining the de-
PENDANTS from selling or transferring the stock
and for the appointment of a receiver. The
second suit is brought in the interest of the
bondholders. The same allegations are made
and the appointment of a receiver is asked for.
1t is understood that similar suits have also
been brought in the Michigan courts. Both
cases in Wisconsin have been taken to the
Circuit Court for trial and set for Wednesday.
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SOME criticism has been made upon the
manner in which the President brings his
posteritv, the Hon. Baby Mckee, into
notice upon various public occasions.
Nevertheless, it is no more than fair to OBJ
serve that Baby Mckee is very inoffensive
parsonage. 1t is the Presidents fondness
for the other members of the family in his
official acts, that affords more room for crit
Lii
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PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY. JULY 10. 1859
THE ERA OF EXTENSION.

The work of connecting the suburbs Of
Pittsburg with the central part of the city
by cable roads and electric lines. is rising to
the dimensions of a boom. Besides the
Squirrel Hill, Pleasant Valley and Central
Traction lines, now under coD struction, the
recently announced projects comprise q
Southside cable line, electric road down the
Brighton turnpike, and one connecting
Williamsburg with the city by the route of
the Morningside read and Stanton avenue.
Six years ago The DISPATCH pointed
out the success of motor roads in other cities,
and their adaptability to Pittsburg. The
benefit Of bringing the open country within
half an hour of the center OF the city was
shown, and the prosecution of such enter
prise was urged. Although Pittsburg has
shown its customary deliberation in adopt
ing new ideas, the outcome is at last justi-
flying the views which this paper urged, be-
fore single cable company was formed.
One of the advantages which will result
from the multiplication of transit is the i'm
mense addition of territory available Tor
residences. There are indications of the
opinion that these new projects will enable
distant suburbs to realize city prices for
their land. That they will enhance the
market value of land which has heretofore
been available only for market gardening is
a matter of course; but it should be remem-
bered that when all these lines are COM
pleted the supply of quarter-acre lots within
40 minutes OF the Postoffice will be practi-
cally unlimited, and the public will have
the right to expect from these extensions
the legitimate result of cheap houses.
The new projects will make fair returns
both in traffic and the enhancement of prop
erty, but it is well to remember that extrava-
gance in expectations may defeat the pur-
pose of the new lines, and that the surest
way of earning success is to cheaper both
the cost of homes and the cost of transit to
the public.
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THE news that Lord Randolph Churchill
will stand as a candidate for member ol
Parliament from Central Birmingham, and
that Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain is conse-
quently sharpening his knife, promises
lively times in English politics. There ia
hardly room for both Chamberlain and
Churchill in all England, and when ii
comes to putting them in the same city, a
game of stabbing in the back becomes inc
vitahle
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AFTER all the talk of the officials Of Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Alabama and even Texas,
with regard to the sternness with which they
were going to suppress the prize fighters, the
outcome indicates that the only danger the
pugilists underwent was that of beinglodged
in Jail if they failed to fight.
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AND now we hear a report that the Eng
lish Trust people are trying to get possession
of the restaurants of this country. The
English are behind the time. A trust COM
bination got possession of the restaurants
long ago in the persons of the cooks and
walters
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A SUMNER WEDDING.
The Marriage of Edward g. Giles and
Miss Rose Dunlevy.

Miss Rose Dunlevy.
Edward 8. Giles, business manager of the
Catholic, and Miss Rose A. Dunlevy were mar
ried in st. Paups Cathedral at $50 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. The bride is the oldest
daughter of Mr.. jeremiah Dunlevy, of Walker
& Dunlevy Bros. The sbridemaids were Miss
Mary Mccullough, her cousin, and MISS Mary
Dunlevy, her sister. The ushers were Frank
Pollock. Charles Mentally, Frank Neeb and
Freeman Brady. Joseph McCombs and Paul
Dunlevy were the best men.
The bride was dressed in heavy silk. finished
in an elaborate train, a veil of extreme length,
and, minglng in the folds of the veil, an orange
blossom wreath. The bridemaids wore surah,
made very simple. and carried pink roses. Rev.
Fathers Wall, Healy and Murphy officiated.
For the nuptials 200 invitations had been
issued, but at the festivities at the house only
the immediate relatives of the Dunlevy and
Giles families were present.
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DEATHS OF A DAY.
Morris King Graham.
PIrrsBURG. July Q.

Morris King Graham died yesterday after q sick
ness of but a few days. He was the oldest son of
the County Recorder. He went to Ohio to spend a
part OF his vacation with relatives, and while
there was taken with typhoid fever OF the most
malignant form. He came homo on Friday. He
was pupil IN the Allegheny, Righ School. was ac-
tive among the young workers at the First Chris
tian Church, Allegheny, and had large acquaint-
ance in both cities.