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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
VIEWS OF THE VERDICT.

PHILADELPHIA Record: The verdict Of the
Chicago jury in the Cronin case will be ap-
proved by the general public Judgment.
CINCINNATI Commercial Gazette: It Is a
discreditable performance, but the fault is in
the criminal law and Jury system, which pro-
tects bloody scoundrels as If they were the
most precious possession of the people.
on. CITY Derrick: If the persons charged
with the murder of Dr.. Cronin were guilty Of
that act, as declared by the jury, then no men
who were ever guilty of murder more richly
deserved the extreme penalty of the Law.
NEW YORK Herald: It is a compromise and
Disappointment It fails to mete out to the
assassins of DIR. Crcnin the penalty which
their diabolical crime merits and falls short of
that full justice which society has right to de-
mand.
CINCINNATI Enquirer; Is the result salts
factory? Probably so TO Lawyer Forrest and
his client; possibly not to anyone else. But
there is at least one point of general satisfac-
to be truly grateful for.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal: There are those
who will criticise the jury because they did not
consign the principal conspirators to the gal
lows instead Of sending them to prison for life.
that all the evidence was cireumstantial, It is
possible they would have done the same thing
under similar circumstances.
CLEVELAND Leader: The worst feature OF
the whole case is the fact that the result leaves
little ground for hope that the real authors of
the whole conspiracy, DR.. Cronin's deadly foes,
who we're willing to resort to the most dendish
methods in securing his removal" will ever be
brought to the scaffold, A sentence to the
penItentiary for life has no such terrors for
men like o'sullivan, Burke and Coughlin as
the death penalty.
PHmADELPHIA Times: That which is
chiefly to be regretted in connection with the
final outcome of this trial is that the real inst-
gators of the conspiracy to murder Dr.. Cronin
are probably still az large. The convicted men
we're doubtless the tools and agents of others
who so far have gone scot free. Full and CON-
plete justice will not be done until those who
the men convicted yesterday are rnn
down and visited with the punishment their
greater crime richly deserTes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
THE CANAL AND RAILROADS.

The first of series of articles on the in
vestigation of the canal project appears in
this issue. 1t is principally devoted to con-
sidering the difficulties which the commits
sion must study and which. it is thought,
must be overcome before the canal can be
regarded as practicable.
The two chief difficulties stated in the
article are first, the question of the crossing
of the canal by railroads, and second that of
meeting the exigencies that will arise
where portions of the canal route have
been occupied by railroads. The first is the
greatest difficulty; but it is by no means in
superable. 1t seems to be taken for granted,
that in all cases where the railroads cross
the canals they must be raised to a
height that will do away with the
necessity of swing-bridges. Yet this,
while an advantage where practica-
bic, is by no means a necessity. If
we are not mistaken all of the railroads
which this waterway would pass, have Stoth-
er points where they cross navigsble water
ways, built swing-bridges of their own
choice. This applies in the case of the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railroad only to its
connections. What the railroads build for
themselves, in crossing waterways, is good
enough for this waterway to build for the
railroads, where better cannot be provided.
With regard to the occupancy by railroads
of rights of way needed for the canal, that is
a very simple matter. Where such rights of
way are more essential to the canal than to
the railroad they cannot be condemned by the
power of eminent domain. No principle has
been better settled by State and United
States Supreme Courts, than that the power
of eminent domain, extends to the appropri-
alton of other highways where necessary
always, of course, upon due compensation.
Upon that principle, railroads have appro-
priated turnpikes and country roads for
their tracks: and they in turn are subject to
the same right if necessary for the compile
ton of work of such importance as this
canal.
The vital points to be determined by the
commission are, first the engineering prae-
ticability Of the canal, over the various
routes; and, second, an approximation of its
cost. With these two matters made clear the
further question, as to how it shall be paid
for will be State and national issue; and
the details of railroad crossings and rights
of way can be settled in accordance with
well-established principles.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18

matter centime to Brazil whether an auto
crat on the other side of big ocean recog-
niEes her or not.
We honestly believe that Brazil will sur
vive this awful blow at her new institutions.
1t is very discouraging, of course, to the en-
terprising journalists and others who have
steered Brazil through the greatest revolu-
tion OF modern times, to be denied the pat
ronizing nod of q tYrsnt whose life would
not be worth rushlight if he walked alone
and unguarded among his loving subjects.
The benison of such beautiful being as the
Gar of Russia is sadly needed at the bap-
tism of new Republic. Without it. how
ever, the United States of Brazil will sur
vive, we think, and their Republic will be
firmly established when the unnatural ex-
crescence Of an absolute monarchy has been
torn from the face of Europe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
SAVAGE CIVILIZATION.

The action of the Germans in Africa
in hanging Bushiri, the chief who has
been fighting them for some time past,
is not likely to impress the Africans with
the pacific advantages of civilized rule.
Whatever Bushiri's faults, and of course he
was little more than half civilized, it is GER
tain that he had a right in East Africa
sntedating that which Germany has taken
BY the strong hand. His mode of fighting in
defense of what he esteemed his rights will
doubtless be regarded by the majority of
Africans as fair as Germany's method of
burling globes of iron at defenseless vii
lagos. The German method of annexing
whole districts in Africa and killing those
who dispute the German authority, does not
seem to differ essentially from the Arab
method of conquest and burning. If civil
lized governments cannot carry the Justice
and mercy of civilization with them to
Africa they should keep out of that
continent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
PREMoEITIoEs OF DEATH.

1t is an odd story which Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker tells of his premonitlons of
the violent death of Mr.. franklin B.
not very definite. On the evening of Friday
Mr.. Wanamaker experienced a sense of un-
easiness and general distress, and at the same
time the fact that his old friend Mr.. Gowen
was about to visit Washington flashed across
his mind several times during the evening
This feeling of incomprehensible disquiet
weighed sufficiently with Mr.. Wanamaker
to keep him from fulfilling some social en-
gagements that night. The next morning
the same uneasy feeling reeurred to him,
once more linked with thoughts of Gowen.
At that time the latter was lying dead in his
room.
1t may have been only another of those
curious condolences which are only noticed
when the upshot is sensational. But it is
worth remarking how often in the case of
violent death the friends or relatives of the
victim have received mental warning of the
event. 1t is quite possible that man is not
yet fully acquainted with the extent and
powers Of his senses, and that there exist, be-
tween the units of the human race, ties and
means of communication of which we do not
dream in our philosophy. A level-headed,
substantial business man, of Mr.. Wana-
makers stamp, is not the sort of man to
fall victim to hysteria, or to allow his i'm
aginstion to lead him captive The subject
is profoundly interesting one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
THE RIGHT TO BOUNCE.
DR.. WOodburn Explains What Baptist
Practice Means.

DR.. WOOdbuFn Explains What Baptist
Practice Means.
The solid citizens belonging to the Ebenezer
Baptist Church again met yesterday in the spa
cious and pleasant apartments of A h. Clark,
in the Dispatch building The citizeness has
not yet made her appearance, which seems
somewhat strange in church trial. AS woman
generally monOpolizes to large degree church
business nowadays, it is whispered however
that she may play part in future proceedings
James Robson was the first witness ex-
amined yesterday. He said Mr.. Johnston was
excluded twice. Mr.. Robson went little
further than some of his brethren in stating
that the church was run under the authority of
theBible as well as that of Hiscock's Manual He
did not say that Isaac Morton, Wesley Johnston,
Ishan Carter, Barbour and Nelson Bryant
were notified to appear and stand trial, but was
confident they were notified. Mr.. Morton had
refused to turn in some books. Johnston had
said the pastor was preaching false doctrine.
Mr.. Carter refused to give up sham" deed
ana wanted the choir discharged and persons
put in he might choose.
Hiscock,s Manual was put in evidence and
labeled Exhibit No. g."
DR.. B. T. Woodburn was put on the stand
BE said the government of the Baptist Church
was independent or congregational. The
church is supreme, or it may receive or reject
the advice Of councils There is no Baptist
Church as a national affair. Each congrega-
ton is supreme in the direction of its own
affairs, though churches generally steer their
respective crafts by means of certain manuals
and laws. A council has the right to advise so
may an association and if Congregation re-
fuse to answer the helm the general body may
withdraw the right hand of fellowship. The
general idea is much the same as that of State
rights in political sense. Hiscock's Manual
is generally regarded as reliable authority, and
Hiscoek is an authority on the subject Of ex-
clusion: Dr.; Woodburn knew nothing specially
about the EbeneSer controversy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
sECTIoNALIsM ON THE RAMPAGE.

Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, is reported to
have declared that he will, to the best of his
ability, control his vote on the settlement of
the Worlds Fair site, by political motives.
81 shall moi" he said, "vote to locate the
Worlds Fair in any city of any State whose
representatives in Congress vote to pass
coercive election laws for the South"
In other words, Mr.. Oates, Of Alabama,
is going to prove his sectionalism by de-
Gliding q bipartisan Issue wholly BY
sectional and partisan criterion. We are
far from indorsing the coercion election
measure mooted in Congress; but TO tie the
vote on that question to theYote on purely
business issue. which should be decided
solely for the national credit is very stupid
and sectional line Of action. 1t is also ex-
eeedingly silly; because if the majority In
Congress are shown that Southern votes are
to be held over them as whip, in this man
ner, it will be certain to solidify the
majority from the North against any tyran-
nical use of the lOg-rolling practice.
Mr.. Oates seems disposed to engage in the
supererrogatory task of proving that the
blindest sectionalism in the country holds
sway over the Southern brigadiers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
socinI Chat.ar.

THERE will be q Christmas entertainment
for the children at Or. Meyers Eighth Street
Synagogue at 2 o'clock next Sunday afternoon
Loads of candy and other delights will be
served out to the urchins.
THE ladies of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. corner Wylie avenue and Congress
street. will hold fair and bazaar in the church
tomorrow and Friday evening. Byron King
will spout.
THERE will be Christmas entertainment at
the Ursuline Convent, at o'clock on the after
noon of Monday, December 2a Cards of invi-
tation have been issued.
THE Junta Club was entertained by Mr..
Joseph MCDOWELL last evening, and Rev.
George Hodges discoursed on Modern Papal
Rome"
The alumni of the Pittsburg High School
will enjoy their annual banquet at the Hotel
Schlosser oD the evening of Friday. January 8.
PARLoR musical was given at the Penn
sylvania Female College last evening, in which
local talent did themselves proud.
A BAZAAR and supper will be held this week
in Fifth United Presbyterian Church, Webster
avenue and Washington street.
MISS JOSIE MCDOWELL will entertain her
friends on the evening of December %.
THE grand organ recital at st. James
Church, Williamsburg, this evening.
THE Teaspoon Club was entertained last
evening by Miss Birdie Stoney.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
RUSSIA sEuBs BRAZIL.

Poor BRAZIL Here she has been to the ex-
pense of shipping her benevolent Emperor
and bis troublesome daughter and son-in-law
to Europe, and in other ways, happily not
bloody, put to a good deal Of trouble in
changing the Empire into Republic, when
down comes blackbird, no, we beg his I'm
perial Majesty's pardon, the Gar Of Russia
whe breaks of all diplomatic relations with
the Brazilian Minister and tells him that he
viii never recognize the present government
of Brazil. Was ever a young, blushing Re-
public 50 badly treated? Not given chance
to explain to his bomb-proof majesty that
dynamite and nihilism are explicitly
omitted from the new constitution. not
allowed even 10 suggest that it does not
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
A GOOD SIGN AT CITY HALL.

Both Messrs. Bigelow and Brown, Chiefs
respectively of the Public Works and Safety
Departments, are to be commended for the
promptness with which they disclaim pur-
pose attributed to them of asking for in
creased appropriations for city expenses
next year.
AIillage for taxes is so usually an affair of
annual arithmetical progression, that it is
gratifying to find couple of heads of de-
partments who are willing to recognize a
reasonable limit. 1t is cheerful, too, to find
them taking the initiative, in place of yield
ing reluctantly under fire Of adverse crit
ieism in or out of Councils.
Pittsburg is growing in size, population
and prosperity SO rapidly that there is per-
haps some temptation to the men who frame
estimates of expenditures to enlarge the
borders of their demands. For what is
clearly desirable extra" such as the i'm
provement of the new park, the public will
readily indorse a moderate allowance to
start the work on becoming scale; but as
for ordinary expenses the chiefs of depart
ments will greatly commend themselves to
the favor of taxpayers by limiting the ex-
penses to just what is actually needed for an
efficient and thorough administration.
There are laurels to be gained in city
government by the men who are willing to
conduct it on the principles which prevail
in private buiness. Whenever and where
ever such spirit is shown in Pittsburg it
will be applauded. In such moods Will be
received the novelty of an appropriation
ordinance which from the start proposes to
do business at the old stand without de-
manding enlarged allowances.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
An Old Programme Of Clara NTorrls-A
Small GIrI's Anatomical Lore-Dr. AveI-


An Old Programme Of Clara Morris-A
Small GirPs Anatomical Lore-Dr. AveI-
Ing's New Venture.
WHEN Clara Morris was playing here last
week the veteran actor, ]. 81. howe, showed
me programme which possesses q good deal
of interest to theater goers. Il is programme
of the old Academy of Music. on Bank street.
Cleveland, and bears the date of June II, 1858.
John Ellsler was manager then. The attrac-
tion was "Jane Eyre" with Miss Fanny B.
Price in the title role. Down at the very end
of the drdmGtis person9 is found Miss Clara
Morris name. She played the small part OF
Lady Georgidnd CzGrens What rise she has
had since. Nearly all the rest of the cast, ac-
cording to Mr. Rowe, are dead OF retired from
the stage. Mr.. Rowe says that even in those
days, when Miss Morris was unknown outside
of Cleveland he has seen stars like Mrs. d. P.
Bowers, Jean Hosmer, Fanny Price. Helen
Western, ETC., work for all they were worth to
keep Miss Morris from walking away with the
whole performance. But Mr.. Rowe added
pathetically: salaries those days were wearyP'
A SMALL girl fell and broke her arm two or
three weeks ago. The fracture was reduced
and all vert well, the little mite proving her.
self heroine under the pain. And what pain
a broken arm can givei
But the tiresome part of the business, the
growing together of the fractured parts, has
tried her patience sorely. The other day the
family doctor explained to the little patient that
the pain she suffered came from the knitting of
the bone.
wish it would stop, for can feel the needles
sticking into me-"
PERHAPS some of nv readers remember Dr.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
AGAINST THE CHANGE.
Furniture Dealers Object to People Moving
on May 1.

Furniture Dealers Object to People Moving
on May 1.
A meeting of the members of the Pittsburg
and Allegheny Furniture Exchange was held
last evening in the Office of Captain A. ]. Logan
on Third avenue. The object was to protest
against the proposed change of moving day
from April to May 1. After considerable dis
cussion on the matter eommitte consisting of
Eli Edmundson. Philip Eichenlaub and Captain
Logan was appointed to draft resolutions
against the change. The committee will report
at meeting to be held Friday evening at the
same place.
Nearly every furniture and household utensil
dealer in the two cities is opposed to the
change. They say that if the change is made
they will lose thousands of dollars. Captain
Logan stated that his whole seasons business
is now done in ten weeks. At present custom
ers go out of the store on account of the sales
men being unable to wait upon them. In sell
ing furniture, bedding. ETC., it takes several
hours and many times half day to make a
SALE II people move on May the busy season
will be compressed into six weeks. It was the
unanimous sentiment of the meeting that the
change is being agitated by real estate men
who. it is said, would gain another month by
the change.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
TERMS OF THE DIsPATCa.
PETTY PARTISANsHIP.

The snap judgment which the opposing
parties In the House have been getting on
each other for the past two days affords an
illustration of the results which are sure to
follow when psrtisanship is placed above
public interest
In the disposition to fight for partisan ad-
vantage both sides appear to be equally
matched, except that the responsibility Is on
the Republican side for failing to provide
rules under which the House should act
Even if amendment of the rules is needed,
the committee should have reported the
general rules for action until the amend.
ments could be perfected. In addition to
that the Speaker, who should in his action
be non-partisan, whatever he may be in his
counsel, is conceded to have primed his de-
cisiOns for the purpose of getting ahead of
the Democrats.
So far as the snap game has gone the two
parties are about even; but, as the public
business stands still, it is the country which
suffers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
AUDACIFY In ADVERTISING.
Why a Mexican Journal Wants the Pam
American Congress TO Adjourn.

American Congress TO Adjourn.
From the F1nancier, City Of Mexieo.l
Recently, when the Pan-Americau delegates,
United States, reached Philadelphia, they were
shop flor this announcement no charge will be
madel Mr.. Wanamaker was there to receive
his guests 1--we wonder he did not sell them at
least paper of pinsl. and caused them to be
presented with IAN elegantly bound and en-
bossed souvenir in the shape Of book con-
tanning q triumph of advertising audacity.
Postmasters General are not expected .'to
drum up trade'' for their private mercantile
establishments.
But our story would not be complete did we
fail to mention the fact that Mr.. W. E. Curtis,
the authorized agent of the Department of
State OF Washington, who accompanied the
Pan-Amerlcan victims on their tour through
the manufacturing districts, has recently given
to frm OF winesellers letter affirming that
the unhappy delegates on their tour drank only
California wine p Oh, mighty spirit of the
immortal Barnuml How these poor Pan-Amer-
leans were utilized. exploited, and humbuggedi
Next we shall learn that the soap used to shave
these guileless Latin Americans was the Yankee
shaving soap, 15 cents = cake: that their shoes
have been blacked with Mason's lustrous pol
ish, and that they clean their teeth with Mr..
Lyons tooth tabletsl
Perhaps before they return to their distant
homes the great Jay Gould will sell them ele-
vated railway shares and Mr.. Rockefeller per-
suade them TO try . little hier in Standard OIL
or the gigantic trusts will induce them to take
shares on behalf of their respective Govern.
ments. A prompt adjournment will save these
imperiled men from the wiles of the insidiOus
Wanamakers California wine merchants, tooth
powder men, shaving soap makers, etc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
PARNELL IN THE FIELD.

Mr.. Parnell, in his Nottingham speech,
yesterday, made rather fine grist of the
Tory position and, especially, reduced to
nothingness the story that he was broken
down and in hiding. His speech is full Of
the ring and vigor OF his old days; and it is
clear that ParnelI is at the head of the Irish
parry as actively as ever. The review of the
atumpt of the Tory Government to make
coercion grateful by some half-hearted at
tempts at conciliation, and of the disgrace
full outcome of the 'Parnellism and crime"
1orgeries, together with his clear statement
OF the platform of Irish reforms carried out
by an Irish Government sets the issue forth.
Parneu is in the fight to stay, and his ulti-
mate victory is only question of time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-18
TAILORS' SUITS MUST SUIT.
A Judge Rules Tint II There is No Fit
There Should be No Pay.

Judge Rules Tint II There is No Fit
There Should be No Pay.
BOSTON, December H.-An important deeis-
ion was made by Judge Emmons in the East
Boston District Court to-day, in an action
brought against clothing company by Bord-
man Hall for the recovery of the price paid for
a custom-made coat and vest, which the PLAIN
tiff alleges did not fit him. From the testi.
mony it appears that the plaintiff ordered
coat and vest to be made for Kim of an author
lied salesman at the store, and deposit was
made when the order was given4I Plaintiff re-
ceived his clothes in due time when he paid
for them in full On trying them on he found
that they did not ut, and returned them to the
makers, asking them to refund the money he
had paid for them. This the defendants re-
fused to do, but offered to alter the clothes so
that they would fiS or else make the plaintiff
another coat and vest. The plaintiff would NOT
accept the offer, saying that he had no more
time to be experimented upon.
Counsel for the plaintiff claimed that when
the latter left the order for the clothes it was
with the understanding that they were to prove
satisfactory, and that the defendant had re-
ceived his part of the bargain, while plaintiff
had got no return. In rendering his decision
Judge Emmons said he thought that when a
tailor made any article of clothing for a person
it was generally understood that it was 20 be
good Mt. The tailor could have had the Gus
toner try on the clothing as many times as he
chose in order to have it right, but as soon as
an end. In view of this fact he said he would
have to decide in favor of the plaintiff for re-
covery in full Of the money paid the defendant
on the clothes