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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
PRESSING A LEADING PROBLEM.

Stimulated by frequent reports of the
enormous and steadily growing trade of
Great Britain, Germany and France with
Central and South America, some of the
leading business men in the East are at last
moving in the matter. One of the largest con-
Germs in the export and trading line at New
York is now sending circulars over the
country showing what opportunities for ex-
tension of business the United States is
losing. A sufficient summary is en-
bodied in the single statement that of $780,
100000 of goods now annually imported by
Central and South America, the United
States, with all the natural advantages of
situation on its side, contributes but 10 per
cent, while Europe, at a distance, fur
nishes9O
The first request is steamship line to do
the carrying business regularly and adequate
ly. 1t has already been several times stated
in The DISPATCH, as showing the condi-
ton of things, that if a merchant or manu-
facturer of Buenos Ayres wants to 90 to
New York, or a New Yorker to Buenos
Ayres, it is now necessary to take passage
regular steamer communication between the
Northern and Southern parts of our conti-
nent. That an American line of vessels
would immensely encourage trade and
swiftly become selfsupporting is no longer
seriously doubted. At first government as
sistance would be required. The usual fur
ious howls against subsidy might then be
heard from chronic objectors, as though be-
cause subsidies have been dishonesty, cor
ruptIy and extravagantly applied by Con-
gress in the past they should now forever be
withheld from enterprises, however merit
orious or pressing. But the overwhelming
business sense of the country will uphold
President Harrison's declaration in favor of
just such encouragement for this foreign
trade.
This is indeed one of the great business
problems for the present administration.
No section has deeper interest in its solu.
ton than this place, which stands at the
very headquarters of continuous and open
lines of navigation to the new territory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
SPRING SUNSHINE.

WASHINGTON Critic: An open question
Where's the corkscrewH
BALTIMORE american: Will the 800 follow
Ward McAllister's lead and resign, too?
HUTCHINSON Ne1Us: Pocket ballots, like
pocket gophers, are apt to be undermining.
ARKANSAS Democrat: The average United
States Senator is a poor match for man with
a big newspaper.
:, ATLANTA Constitution: The freedom of
Edinburgh has been rendered to Mr. Parnell;
but what he'wants is the freedom of his native
country.
UTICA Observer: There seems to be an i'm
preston in New York that George Washington
was the Father of only 400 of his Oountrymen.
BALTIMORE american: A whale from At
lantic City is to be sent to Washington. It will
not be lonely Washington just now is full of
walls. y
LOUISVILLE Courier Journal: Mr. Harrison
has gracefully punctuated the name of Post
master Orlando B. Happy by placing the comma
after Orlando.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger: Prof. Barnard,
when little short, just goes out and finds a
comet, and with it 500. The big Lick tele-
scope places him beyond competition, so to
speak, from other astronomers, but his activity
in this field will overstock the market and quo
tations on comets will inevitably drop.
WASHINGTON Post: We have no ulterior
purpose in stepping out before this great
American people in the posture of an alarmist
but we can't help thinking what dreadful
thing it would be if somebody should happen
to find the United States Senate in secret ses-
sion some day. and slip up and bolt the doors
on the outside.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
HALsTEAD's INNINGS NOW.

Senator Payne took occasion to say to a
reporter yesterday that if Editor Halstead
were again nominated for the German mis-
sion, the Senate would again reject him.
There is just little bit of reason not to be
too sure of this. While the Senators have
been having their fun at the expense of
Halstead, that part of the performance is
now over, and Halstead is having his turn
at the expense of the Senators. Already
his inquiry into their political antecedents
has been such as neither to elevate the dis
senting members in public esteem, nor to
make them feel particularly pleased with
the outcome of their oficious revenge for
his previous criticisms of the manner of
Senator Payne's election.
Senator Payne may feel temporarily graft
fed, since he chose to regard the affair as
his personal fight; but some of his colleagues
are likely before long to wish that the fluent
Field Marshal were at Berlin, or Halifax,
or any other considerable distance, in place
Of Cincinnati. In making the affair per-
sonal, they undertook an irritating con-
tract. Their opportunity to humIliate Hal
stead is passed. His ways and means for
retaliation continue to his hand from day
to day. 1t is petty piece of business by
(which the country is neither edited nor I'M
proved, but before the end comes the Sen
ators will, if we mistake not, have received
sharp and valuable instruction from it.
1t is Mr.. Halstead's innings from now on.
The Senators finished at their single play
with the rejection bat. The rejected editor,
without doubt, will give them frequent
opportunities for extraordinary fielding.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
PENNSYLVANIA PECULIARITIES.

CELEsT1NE, beautiful crystalline mineral
used in making fire works. is found in the rocks
of Bellwood, Blair county.
BARBER STEDGE was voted Turkish smok-
ing pipe feet long and wholly of glass as the
homeliest man at Bradford entertainment.
A DEN of polecats was found under a culvert
in Heathville, Jefferson county, and the
officers got dynamite and blew up the whole
business.
JACOB SLANGENwAITE, hunting near Mon
louisville, shot an English heron, the irstone
ever seen there. 1t was feet tall, and the
thick feathers were of a blush tint.
Mr.. RHODES of Elk county, felt an unusual
glow in his hip, and, looking down, found that
his pocket was thing Of the past, an excursion
train cinder having softly nestled in it.
A LITTLE boy. too young to know where he
lived, tearfully told a Norristown officer that
his name was Charles Wright and that he was
out hunting meat for his dog. He had the
meat clutched tightly in his fist as he was led
home.
E. B. MILLIGAN, Of Westmoreland county.
caught young crow last summer, which be-
came tame In September it left for the South.
A week or so ago it came back as tame as be-
fore, few down OF tree. and did its best to
talk.
The prisoners in Smethport jail a few days
since, as q joke, told one Of their number, ]. W.
Snyder, Of Bradford, that he had swallowed q
deadly poison The fright so slekened him that
the jailer believes he would have died If he had
not been assured that the fluid was harmless
AN absent-minded Williamsport man in want
of smoke, finding the pavement too wet to
light match on, drew a silver dollar from his
pocket, used it for the purpose, then threw it
away and put the burnt match in his pocket
He rose with the lark next morning to hunt
the coin, but some early bird had been ahead
Of him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
THEY WANT TO.FLY.
HOosier Immigrants Ready to Start for
Oklahoma by Balloon.

H0osier Immigrants Ready to Start for
Oklahoma by Balloon.
TOPEKA, April 6-Among the many people
awaiting the signal to enter the Oklahoma
country are four Hoosiers, who are encamped
near Antelope Hills They have a balloon in
which upon the day of promise they will ascend
in the morning, drift in mtdair until noon, the
designated hour for the opening of the Terri
tory, and then descend, hours in advance of
even the fastest teams.
The members of the State Board of Railroad
Assessors, just returned from trip through
Oklahoma, report army officers as saying that
thousands of boomers are still concealed In the
brush and that if the whole United States army
was there it could not drive them out Names
are taken, but nine out of ten are fictitious
Captain Woodson and Lieutenant Carson are in
receipt of tefegrams daily to hire horses have
them saddled and Dridled and in waiting on the
arrival of trains at Oklahoma City, April %, at
noon. The object is to mount at once and by
fleet steeds distance rival boomers on foot and
capture choice claims.
State officials anticipate trouble and say the
country will be an Ell Dorado for good land
office lawyers. The excitement is increasing
daily and all Southern Kansas is ablaze. The
assessors think that Oklahoma is not what it
has been painted. The soil is red and the land
is good chiefly for hay and cotton. Oklahoma
was surveyed some years ago, but the corners
are nearly all obliterated now.
Settlers taking claims will find it difficult to
describe the same when they go to the land
office to make filing, and this will give rise to
1nnumerable contests. More will grow out of
the filings by boomers; who stayed in the coun-
try against the Presidents orders, and will
come out of the timber April % and file any
way. Contests settled at first by Winchesters
viii afterNard have to be settled again in the
courts. The outlook for the country and all
the boomers Is not Arcadian by any means.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
sTANLEY,s FINAL RnnTE

The news that Stanley and Emin Bey
have already been heard of, on their way to
the Zanzibar coast, is not wholly corrobor-
ated. 1ntimations were previously heard
that Stanley would take that route on his
final movement from the Nyanza; but except
for the devastation caused by the Arab slave
traders between the Congo and Nyanza, it
is hard to see why it would not be easier to
move Emin's force by the Congo, where
1t could be transported for the greater
part of their journey by steamers. There
are ], 200 miles of land marching from the
Nyanza to Zanzibar; and it may be remem-
bered that in making that march the Anglo
American expedition very nearly came to
grief. Whatever reasons may have de-
termined the selection of the Zanzibar route
If it has been taken. it will permit Stanley
to rescue his own reseuer, or discover his
own discoverer, the bicvcler, Stevens.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
LITTLE PI.EAsANTRIEs.

An Irish whisky trust been formed.
How long will It last? is now the Irish question
Nslo York World.
A Boston paper speaks about a vacancy
in the Senate, but does not give the Senator's
name.-AHRssy's Weekly
The smile is the same in all languages.-
on City Derrick. In certain sections Of Kentucky
# is interpreted "whisky straight. ,'-Hassr
Ocean.
How long will our American girls con-
tinue to count on counts who don't count? There
is q countless list Of dupes already. York
Evenfn0 World.
1t Was Not There.-"Can you tell me
where 1 can find 'Rienzi's Address ?'' asked q
young lady Of clerk in Brooklyn bookstore
''Have you looked in the directoryg'' he replied.
-Hdrper's Bdzdr.
Bella-Don't look like perfect fright
in my new sacque, though?
Clara (Gbsent mindedly)-Yes.
Bena-fou mean thingl I'll never speak to You
again as long as L Ilive.-Burtington Free Press
1t Depended on His InAuenee.-Ardent
suttor ito Kansas young woman(-Miss Oracle,
may hope that
Miss Oracle candidate for Alderman)-Mr.
Cnugwater, before proceeding any further viii
you please tell me how many votes you control in
the Second ward?-Chicd0o Tribune.
He Had Watched His Parent.-Bobby
(whose father is a groeer)-Look, pa, what got
for my birthdays regular little grocery store.
His Father undulgently)-Oh, yes; that's very
nice.
Bobby--Ain't, IL thought Little places for coFse
and sugar and spice, and-I say, though, pa there
amt no sand drawer.-Harpsr's Bdzar.
Consolation for Missionaries.-Mr. Jason
"A nice fool you made of yourself at that soeiable
last night
Mrs. Jason-Me9 How?
Mr.. Jason-Yes, you. Telling Mrs. Chally that
her baby looked good enough to eat
Mrs. Jason-Well. what's the matter with that2
Mr.. Jason-Oh, nothing, only you know that
they start as missionaries to the Cannibal Islands
next week.-Terrs Hdute Express.
Conclusive Proof-Carboy-Mr. Pines.
believe there is gas escaping In my house. What
shall I do to prove 1t?
Pipes (the plumber)-Why don't you take n
match and test the joints.
Carboy Tin alarm)-But 1t might explode, and
blow me upl
Pipes (cooly)-well, you wouIdn,t want any
better proof than that would. youS--DroEfs
1aGastns..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
HONORING THE DEAD JUSTICE
The United States Bar Pays Tribute 70
Stanley Matthews, Memory

The United States Bar Pays Tribute to
Stanley Matthew'S Memory.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The meeting of the
Bar of the United States Supreme Court to-day
to take action upon the death of the late Mr..
Justice Stanley Matthews, was interfered with
by probably the worst storm of the season, and
and in consequences the attendance was small.
Among those present were Senators Edmunds
and Evarts, ex-senator Mcdonald, General K.
D. Mussey, Ex-Governor Hoadley, ex-Solicitor
General Goode, Solicitor General jerks, Assist
ant Attorney General Maury. J. A. ]. Cress-
well, w. @. P. Breckenridge, George Ticknor
Curtis, W. s. Flippen, William Pinkney
Whyte, Judge Stevenson Burke and j. w.
Ashton.
Senator Evarts, Chairman of the preliminary
meeting held few days ago, called the meet
ing to order, and Senator Edmunds on the
committee appointed at that time, submitted
the following resolutions for consideration:
Resolved. That the Bar of the supreme
cease Of the late Mr.. Justice Matthew's, whereby
the country has lost an always patriotic and re,
spectea citizen M SEs Rs eminent in his p9De Snd
ers. conspicuous as an example of the best rela-
tions of our profession with the administration of
justice, and the court itself a member fitted by
character, temperament, learning and industry
10 the place he held in the highest Judicial
tribunal OF great nation. His name is rightly
enrolled among those honored by their country
men.
Resolved, That the Bar presents to the family of
the departed Justice its sincere sympathy and
coincidence in their bereavement
Resolved, That the Attorney General be re-
quested to present these resolutions to the Court
for such consideration as may be fit.
Resolved, that the Chairman be requested to
transmit copy hereof to Mrs. Matthews.
Senator Edmunds spoke at some length in
supporting motion to adopt these resolutions.
He paid glowing tribute to the dead Justices
conduct in his political, professional and pri-
yate life. Addresses were also made NV ex-
Governor Hoadly, General r. D. Mussey. W.
d. Flippen, W. G. Breckinridge ex-senator
Mcdonald and Senator Evarts The resolu-
tions were adopted and the meeting adjourned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
OUR TWO OPINIONS.

Us two wuz boys when we fell out
Nigh to the age Nv my youngest now;
Don't rec'lect what 'twuz about,
Some small difference, I'll allow.
Lived next neighbors twenty years,
A-hatin' each other, me md Jim
He havin' his opinyin Nv me
md havin' my opinyln NV him.
Grew up together md wouldn't speak,
Courted sisters, md marr'd 'em, too;
Tended same meetin' house oncet week,
A-hstin' each other, through md through
But when Abe Linkern asked the West
F'r soldiers we answered-me md Jim
He havin' his opinyin uvme
md havin' my opinyin NV himI
But down in Tennessee one night
Tner wuz sound nv frin' fur away,
md the sergeant allowed ther'd be fight
With the johnnie Rebs some time nex' day;
md as wuz thinkin' nv Lizzie md home
Jim stood afore me, long md slim
He havin' his opinyin NV me
md havin' my opinyin NV himi
Seemed like we knew there wuz goin' to be
Serious trouble FIR me md him
Us two shuck hands, did Jim md me,
But never word from me or JimL
he went his way md 1 went mine,
md into the battle's roar went we
Ihavin' my opinyin nv Jim
md he havin' his opinyin nv met
Jim never come back from the war again,
But haint forgot that last, last night
When, waitin' far orders, US two men
Made up md shuck hands, afore the fight;
md, after it ALL it's soothin' to know
That here be md yonder's Jim
He havin' his opinyin NV me
md havin' my opinyin up himl
Chicago Neps.
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if such rule is enforced. many babies in
the city have got to perish for lack of sus-
tenance in order that the association may
screw an extra cent or two per gallon out of
the trade. Either by its own showing the
association is adopting the selfish and
illegal tactics of the trusts, or if the de-
deficiency can be made good from other
quarters its claim of controlling the supply
is nnfounded.
We have no doubt that by legitimate
trade methods the association could lessen
the cost of distributing milk to the con-
sumers, and thus secure an advantage TO
the farmers. But when it opens its career
by attempting to create an artificial famine,
it puts itself in an attitude which invites
and deserves public opprobrium.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
APretty German Bride in Jail.

wilhelmina Krings, 10 wears old, made big
stir at Castle Garden last August, because she
was considered the prettiest German girl who
had ever come over in the steerage. Three
weeks ago she married John Dejon. prosper
Gus baker. To-day she is in jail. Sixty-nye
pairs of trousers are the cause of her trouble.
Four weeks ago she agreed with clothing
house to have the trousers done in three weeks,
but the excitement Of fortnight's couHtship
and marriage and incipient housekeeping led
her TO neglect the trousers and to forget to tell
the firm for which she worked that she had
moved her home to Dejon's bakery. The
clothiers thought she wanted to steal their
trousers, and had her arrested. Mr.. Dejon has
fingered around the police station almost con-
stantly during the 16 hours of her incarcera-
tion, and the whole Dejon family are threaten
ing the brides employers with legal proceed
ings for false arrest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

The report that Robert Lincoln has &C.
cepted the English mission, because he has
in view the Presidential nomination in 1892,
does not seem to be very well-founded.
Others beside Robert Lincoln may be
thinking of the Presidential nomination in
1892; but going abroad to get it has not
proved successful operation, even when
tried by men of heavier metal than the
estimable son of the War President. ,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

HICKS, of Oshkosh, Wis, who has been
confirmed Minister to Peru, thinks that the
rejection of Murat Halstead by the Senate
was perfectly right and proper, because
Halstead is so outrageously outspoken in
his newspaper. Mr.. Hicks being news
paper man also, who was struck by the acci-
dent of nomination, and was confirmed
apparently on the ground that he never said
or did anything in his newspaper. is natur-
ally under the impression that whatever the
Senate does is right. But could there be
any more severe epitaph on this session of
the Senate than that it confirmed Hicks and
rejected Halstead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

The information from New York City
that train of palace cars, got up for the
travelling purposes of one of the branches of
the Vanderbilt race, left that city con its
way to Oregon, Alaska and intermediate
points of interest" is calculated to create
an especial wonder as to the route by which
the palace cars will reach Alaska. If it has
been discovered that cars can be taken
where no tracks have been laid, new and
unsuspected advance has been made in the
science of transportation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
DEATHS OF A DAY.
James 1. Christie.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-James /. Christie, act
ing assistant doorkeeper Of the Senate, died at
6:45 O'Clock this morning, at his residence in this
city. His death adds another name to the long
list OF victims of inauguration weather, for his
friends say that from the cold contracted during
the open air ceremonies of that day he never fully
recovered, and in his weakened state succumbed
to the bad weather and hard work which charac
terfzed the last week or the Senate proceedinQs
He was in attendance upon the Senate when it ad-
Ing at all we'll and took to his bed on the follow
ing day suffering from q congestion of the lungs
which, being complicated with weakness of the
heart led to his death this morning, His brother
Frank Christie had been summoned by telegraph
from Dover, N. H., and arrived here Thursday
He was born in May. 1872 in Dover, N. H., and
coming to washington % years ago was ap-
pointed page In the Senate, and has remained on
the floor In various capacities ever since.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

Mr.. BRADLEY. of Kentucky, has been
figuring on the cost of living and the price
of house rent in Corea, and decided that he
cannot accept the Corean mission. Never
theless, Mr.. Bradley need not be cast down.
he can rest content with the fame of being
the Kentucky Republican who has refused
an appointment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
THE SNAKE LIAR WAKES UP,
md Relates Story That Would Make


And Relates n Story That Would Make
Muuchausen Blush.
ALBANY, GA, April 6.-Two young men
drove out to pond upon the farm of Major
W. P. Burks, near Albany, the other day. They
had gone on fishing frolic To their aston
ishment they found the pond alive with mocca-
sins. They were sporting in the water and
running in and out upon the banks, In the
spring their fancy had doubtless turned to
thoughts of love, for they were apparently
mating. They all were in pairs. Those that
they supposed to be of the masculine gender
were small, saucy looking black fellows.
was great serpent as large as mans arm and
nearly feet long. These were spotted or
striped with black similar to the markings
upon rattlesnake.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

1T Is reported from West Virginia that
the Governor of that State was recently
kicked out of a grocery store. 1t should be
certified that this is only the de Jaeto Gov
ernor. If all the Governors, claiming to be
the real article, were kicked out of grocery
stores, there would be large demand for a
force of grocery clerks in that State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
GOSSIP OF THE METROPOLIS.
MIR. Grover Cleveland's Return.

INEW YORK BUREAU sPECIALs.J
NEW YORK, April IA little knot Of friends
welcomed Mr.. Grover Cleveland as he stepped
alone from the Pullman car "Wanderer, in
Jersey City, at $50 O'Clock this morning. Mrs.
Cleveland was not one Of them. Mr.. Cleve-
lands partner, Mr.. Stetson, accompanied him
to the Victoria Hotel and took breakfast with
him. Shortly after breakfast Mr.. Cleveland
went to his office. where he worked hard all the
morning, declining to see reporters. Ex-Secre-
taries Bayard. Dickinson and Villas; who left
Jacksonville with Mr.. Cleveland last Thursday,
bade him goodbye in Washington last mid
night. Mr.. Cleveland is somewhat browner
and a bit less corpulent than when he began
fishing some days ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07
PROPOSED RATLRoAp REeULATroN

1t is important that Mr.. Wherry, though
representing an entirely different class and
section, makes, practically, the same charges
and complaints against the Pennsylvania
Railroad that Mr.. Carnegie does. Possibly
some of the grangers who have been urging
the Dressed Beef bill may find in the fact
that it costs $40 per car more to ship cattle
from Cumberland County to Philadelphia,
than from Iowa, good explanation of their
lack of prosperity.
Mr. Wherry has attained the remarkable
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-07

HON. CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw is said to
have formed strong friendship for the
mummy of Rameses II. This must be be-
cause the mummy is such a good listener;
and although it may be lacking in the
qualities of applause" and Laughter, ="
the obliging reporter can supply those
necessities.