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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
BUTLER AND PORTER.

WHEELING LnteILtgencer: Public sentiment
is likely to side with Porter as all the doubt is
in his favor. Cowards do not usually rise from
the lowest Office in the navy to become its high
est commander.
MINNEAPOLIS Journal; General Ben Butler
and Admiral Porter are displaying indications
of second childhood. Probably both of them
would resent the insinuation that they are too
old to fight with anything but their mouths
BROOKLYN Citizen: Butler is never more in
his element than when swashing about in bog
of abuse. He is the typical American Their
sites-a worthless fellow with foul tongue It
is unnecessary TO add that Admiral Porter
proves Butler to be rank liar.
TROY Times: Army and navy men Join Ad-
miral Porter in refuting Ben Buffers charge
that Mr.. Porter was guilty of cowardly be-
havior at the siege of New Orleans. Ben seems
to have stopped over again, without any reason
for it, in his usual reckless and rickety way.
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin: Admiral Porter
and General Butler are calling each other very
bad names. To bottle Porter is not new
business for Butler, but General Grant once
described General Butler as bottled up at
Dutch Gap and the Admiral may repeat the
process.
NEW YORK World: Benjamin F. Butler
failed to establish himself as military genius
during the war. Perhaps he can add to his
laurels by questioning the courage now of men
who served the cause of the union with fidelity
and whose records are not stained by deeds of
oppression, rapacity or greed.
ALBANY Express: 1t may be fun for the
squabbiers. but the people do not relish the
spectacle of these two veterans each doing his
utmost to smirch the others character and
reputation. Of course nobody thinks of be-
lieving Benny, but it is generally supposed that
the Admiral has good name to lose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
PRESIDENT ROBERTS SOUND SENSE

A good deal of instruction is to be OBJ
tanned by the public from President
Roberts recent testimony before the Senate
investigation upon the subject of railroad
pools. Mr.. Roberts had the frankness to
state the exact facts as to the actual result
of railroad pooling; and the consequence is
that he gave very different view of it from
that which other prominent advocates of
railway ideas presented to the committee.
Mr.. Roberts stated that the pools cost
great deal of money, and did not serve the
purpose that they were intended to serve
He recognized the fact that they had in
creased the construction of competing lines,
and also that there was nothing to enforce
the agreements which they set up to govern
the railroads. He stated in addition that
pooling tended to prevent the natural de-
velopment of the railroads, and that we'll
regulated and natural competition was far
more healthy than any kind of combina-
ton. While Mr.. Roberts has not yet ar
rived at the degree of enlightenment neces-
sary to recognize that the ruinous railway
wars are the natural outgrowth of the combi-
nation policy, he gave several solid facts to the
committee on which to base some very in
structive ideas on the subject of pooling.
This is exactly what the advocates of the
popular theories on the subject of railway
control have been urging for several years.
They have pointed out that the first success
of tine Trunk Line pool called into existence
three new trunk lines from Chicago to New
York; that the prevalence of railway wars
has been multiplied by high factor and
that in every respect the legitimate inter-
ests of solvent and well managed railroads
were damaged by pooling. 1t is only useful
to rescue heavily watered or dishonesty
handled railroad from the mistakes or ras-
cality of its management. Mr.. Roberts was
perfectly correct in showing the details in
which that much vaunted practice hampers
the legitimate operations of solidly y-capital-
lied and intelligently operated railroads.
Mr.. Roberts might also have stated, but
did not, that, so long as great railroad can
choke of competing lines, in disregard of
the laws and the Constitution it does not
need the services of pool.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
THE TROUBLES AT puauEsNE.

The continuance of the labor troubles at
Duquesne, and the appointment of fresh
deputies by the Sheriff with. the avowal
that he is going to preserve order there if he
has to keep thousand men on the ground,
attracts new attention. It warrants the
repetition of what The DISPATCH has said
heretofore Individual rights and the su-
premacy of law must be maintained, and
the strikers will only ALLEVIATE the support
that is most valuable to them by ignoring
that fact.
For q time after the case was last before
the Court, the strikers showed disposition
to respect the legal rights of their antagon-
lists. But of late, unless they are misrepre-
sented by their own friends, they have for
gotten their duty to obey the law. The de-
struction of supplies going to the men en-
ployed by the workers in the mill has been
heralded as q victory for the strikers; and
threats of force have been resumed. All
this is fatal error. So long as the men
obey the law they have the sympathy of the
public. When they place themselves in
antag0nism to the law they deprive them
selves of all right to public sympathy.
In addition TO this, the semi-civilized
nature of such a trial of strength for the
settlement of wages questions is rapidly be-
coming evident from the fact that this
strike will not have to last much longer be-
fore it will cost both parties as much as the
amount of wages which is in dispute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12

folly to blame for it. But when Mr.. Bellew
in his own statement convicts himself of the
injury inflicted on the stage and the vio-
lence wrought on Shakespearean drama, by
assuming the responsibility for Mrs. Pot
ter's Cleopatra, he virtually pleads guilty
to the crime of dramatic murder in the
first degree. In contrast to the folly of
Mr. Bellew's other victims, it is necessary to
point out that the stage and Shakespeare
were, in this case, entirely innocent of any
wrong-doing. So far as Mrs Potter is con-
cerned, also, it seems necessary to acquit
her Ofany such mental capacity with regard
to the rules of dramatic art as would make
her capableofresponsibility. Mr.. BeIlew thus
being solely responsible for that extraordi-
nary production known as Mrs. Potter's
Cleopatra, he has heavy charge to answer
before the outraged theater-going public.
In other words, Mr.. Kyrle Bellew con-
yicts himself of having smirched the stage
aboutas much as he has smirched any private
reputation which has become entangled
with his. As to Mr.. Bellows own rep
utation, it seems by his own story to have
been fully earned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

GENERAL SIMON CAMERON is reported
better, and no serious consequences are an
ticipated.
1T is probable that the Rev. DR.. Leonard, of
st. Johns Church, Washington, D. c., will be
elected Bishop of Ohio next week.
THE baby King of Spain is going to the Paris
Exposition in June He will be the youngest
monarch who ever visited that city.
JACOB H GALLINGER will enter the lists
against Hon. William E. Chandler for the po-
sition of Senator from New Hampshire.
GOVERNOR GORDON, of Georgia, who fought
like tiger to establish the Southern Con-
federacy, pays public compliment to Ruther-
ford B, Hayes. He says justice has not been
done to the ex-President by either party.
MRS ROSCOE CoNKLING owns necklace de-
signed by Napoleon L It is very exquisite in
workmanship, the enameling being famous for
its brilliancy. He personally supervised its
manufacture. After his death it was said to
have found its way to this country, where it
was purchased by Mr.. Conkling.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, is to be rendered
a complimentary dinner on his SEVENTEEN
birthday, which occurs on the S1st of May.
Among those who are expected to be present
are Colonel Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain,
Felix l. Oswald, E G. Steadman and humber
OF OLnor Q1SIlnRulsueU ueu. "A pOem Will Oe
read from Whittier especially for the occasion,
and letters are expected from Tennyson and
other well known poets.
EDWARD EGGLEsToN, the author, now re-
siding in New York, is amember of the Gen.
tuary and Authors Clubs, and is always con-
spicuous figure, with his long, luxuriant hair
and beard, which are very dark, but are just
beginning to turn gray. He is said to wear
his hair longer than any man in Christendom.
and Henry Ward Beecher, forgetting mis-
name for a moment. once called to him in
prayer meeting, "Come up here, you shaggy
manr' And Mr.. Eggleston responded to the
call.
RIDER HAGGARD, the novelist, will visit
Persia and surrounding countries unattended.
he is an experienced traveller, and is used to
the ways of the Orient. When he starts of on
an expedition like the one he now contemplates
he always buys a small dog to accompany him.
This is the only weapon he takes with him.
He claims that the carrying Of firearms is apt
to awaken hostility among strangers. He de-
votes his attention to winning the affection of
his dog, and says that faithful canine COM
panion is the best thing man can have for a
long Journey.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
BELLEv,s WORST oFFENsE

The testimony of that noted theatrical
masher and idol of silly women, Mr. Kyrle
Bellew, In the scandalous divorce case now
going on in Chicago, is Justly held up as a
warning to any woman who seeks to offer
homage at the shrine of some theatrical
object of their transient affections. The
warning is certainly shown to have been a
needed one. Several women whose connec-
ton with Mr.. Bellew cannot but be damag-
ing to theirreputation, were exposed BY his
evidence; and the only thing that rescued
others from the result Of their folly was the
merclful interposition of the Court in ex-
cluding all mention of their names as for
eign to the case on trial.
While this feature Of Mr.. Bellows testi-
mony cannot but be destructive Of his pop
ular1ty among the female worshipers Of
masculine and made-up beauty on the
stage, another point was brought out in his
disposition which should create disapproval
among the whole of the American people.
Mr.. Bellew testified that he taught Mrs.
Potter the part of Cleopatra which she has
recently presented. The damage to private
reputation which Mr.. Bellows disclosures
produce is certainly blameworthy; but
there is compensatory thought that those
who are the most damaged have their own
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS.

FRE-FIsHING for catfish is picturesque
recreation along Chester county streams these
nights.
Stone Church, Lehigh county, was stung by
bees the other day and was dead in 20 minutes.
JAMES B. MURPHY, of Philadelphia, an in
mate of the Soldiers and Sailors Home at
Erie, has built tugboat 25 inches long. which
Is perfect in model.
HARRY. an old horse at Linden Hail. Lititz,
unmindful of his 25 years, attempted to gambol
the other day. and slipped and fell and broke
his back. He was shot.
AN Erie paper says that by the use of natural
gas clay for bricks can be taken from the hill
side, run through machine, driedand stacked
in "a hours. The old way took week.
AS soon as the Burgess of Miners Mills had
married couple the groom was missing, but
returned directly with quart of peanuts. A
trail of shells up North Main street indicated
the direction of the wedding tour.
Two Newberry young ladies, who are sisters,
were informed that lemon juice will remove
freckles. They applied it literally. The juice
took the freckles of, and the skin too, and the
girls now 90 around with their heads swathed
in bandages.
CHARLES REILLY, a veteran hunter of Pike
county, killed three bears on Thursday. He
was armed only with an az, when q big bear
and two well-grown cubs attacked him. He
had nearly all his clothes torn of, but came out
victorious, though covered with scratches and
blood. The old bear weighed 400 and the cubs
200 pounds each.
AN Erie man named Harty. arrested for hav-
ing struck his sister-in-IaW has been fined 25
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
THE MINE EXPLOSION

The explosion of gas in coal mine of this
vicinity by which four miners lost their
lives yesterday is a new enforcement of the
old lesson of constant vigilance against such
disasters. The statement of the case indi-
Gates relaxation of the vigilance which
long experience has shown to be necessary.
The statement that the flow of natural gas
which in coal mines is simply fire damp
was used in the mine for light and fuel, and
that it was permitted to go out by mistake
and then ignited by the miners, establishes
a prinld .tacie case of neglect. With the
flow of gas known and utilized, the utmost
precautions were required; while the state
ment indicates rather that the usual precau-
tions were lacking. The unfavorable aspect
may be somewhat mitigated if the mine was
not, as appears TO be the case, in operation
at the time; but in any shape it emphasizes
the need Of never-ending precautions against
this constant and fatal danger.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
AN INTERSTATE CAPITAL.

Very properly the Exposition Society de-
cided yesterday to invite the Governors of
Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland to
assist with Governor Beaver, of Pennsyl-
vania, at the exercises of the May Musical
Festival As a delightful prelude to the
greater event of next fall-the opening of
the Exposition itself-the Festival has a
special interest beside what Justly attaches
to it because of the musical programme
Large sections of the neighboring States are
concerned in Pittsburg's growth. Its situa-
tion, its prominence as manufacturing
and mercantile center, its substantial re-
sources, make it sort of interstate indus
trial market and capital-a fact which is
not lost sight of in the mere distinctions of
political names and boundary lines.
The Governors will all be welcome. They
will hear rare music splendidly rendered,
and they will see the most thriving and
promising city on the continent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
A PERIOD OF ExHAusr1Na WORK.


The hot spell will not be esteemed un-
timely by the President and his Cabinet,
nor by those of the Senators and Congress
men who do not inwardly delight in the
dispensation of the ''bon-bons" of Office, if
it drive superfuous situation seekers out of
the capital, to their homes, to the sea shore,
to the green lanes and dusty roads of the
country-anywhere, in short, only be it that
they cease from troubling and sink to rest.
In these post-inauguration days when the
Government of the country is being trans
formed into an Intelligence and employ
ment" office on huge scale, the anxieties
and the worry of the heads of the admins
tration and of the Senators and Representa-
tives in adjudicating and pushing claims of
all sorts, so many of which are destined to
prove hopeless must make an enormous
strain upon even their physical energies.
How many of them would not wish from
the bottom oftheir hearts that the standard
which Washington set up of considering
only the public service, and not at all per-
sonal favor or prejudices or pressure from
abroad, had to this day been followed.
None quicker than these officials would, if
they spoke their thoughts, testify with
Bishop Potter, that the Jacksonian motto
of spOils following victory involved a per-
rennial afiiction.
The position of President Harrison is un-
enviable in the midst of this terrific pressure
for place. 1t is not enough that with his
advisers he has to undergo endless solicita-
tiOn and challenges to pass upon conflicting
claims; but because of failure to perform a
new miracle of loaves and fishes, and make
every Office answer for two, three or a dozen
applicants, he will have to hear it additi-
tionally proclaimed in many quarters with
glee or resentment he may not be able to
share, that his appointments and refusals
aremeanttorecognize this factionor to rebuke
that. Considering that from New York to
Podunk every election district has its con-
flcting faction. its Cromwells, its village
Hampdens, and fighting leaders who may
occasionally be inglorious, but are seldom
mute, it is easy to reflect what charming
time of it the President must consider him
self as having, il, looking over the express
sions through the country which follow his
appointments, he is to consider himself as
not only having settled between the rival
claimants for Office, but equally and finally
in every instance as to everything that may
come between their respective supporters.
To the country or to the personal fortunes
of the administration even, it matters little
who fills Office, so long as it is honestly and
capably filed. 1t is the graver question of
legislation and business policy which would
constitute mainly the cares of the real
statesmen if they had their choice. But for
the present the distribution of the Offices
has the boards; and though it is the task in
which the general public take the least per-
manent interest, it is the one assuredly
which is most wearing on the very best ma
terial in the Cabinet and in Congress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
Charged with Desertion.

Returning leIsurely they again reached Mat
amoras. The two officers dropped into public
house to refresh themselves, and there received
a shock that was little less demoralizing than
that which they had given to the men OF Maxi
milan. Throwing back their heads to toss of
glasses of sguardiente, their cups were arrested
midway to their lips. There on the wall before
them was placard describing the two gentle
men, and offering large reward for their APP
prehension, dead or alive, for the crime of
having deserted from the army of the United
States. They were recognized by the keeper
of the house, who had been in the States and
could speak English, and this worthy informed
them that many citizens of the town were on
the lookout for them for the purpose of getting
the reward, and that If it we're known they were
within reach they would be certainly captured
and perhaps killed.
"Even while they were speaking a leading man
OF the place entered the room and began to scan
them keenly. Porter coolly eyed him in turn,
introduced himself and Sedgwick by fictitious
names, and begged the Mexican to do them the
honor to take drink with them. He accepted.
but did not cease his Suspicious glances, and the
landlord warned them in English that it was
evident to him their identity was known to the
Mexican, and that they had better fly for their
lives They lost no time in acting on his sug-
gestion, when the Mexican left their company,
as 1t atterward appeared, with the purpose Of
securing assistance to place them under arrest.
1t was but few moments after they had start
ed hurriedly on the road to overtal1e their
troops when they found they were pursued.
They took to their heels ingloriously, crowd
of eager Mexicans uncomfortably close on the
Scent but they managed to reach their COM
mands and there dcfied their pursuers by train
ing Calling gun upon them, and informing
they did not Immediately make tracks for the
town.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
Death Of a Man with a Career.

Mike Henry died in the Flatbush Insane
Asylum late last night He had been one of
the most prominent figures in Brooklyn sport
ing life for 30 years. He made his debut among
sporting men as director Of the old Atlantic
Baseball Club, which played on the site Of the
new Brooklyn City Hall. He seconded and
backed Sam Collyer in his famous fight with
Johnny McGlade, at Wilkesbarre. He trained
Johnny Dwyer for his fight with Jimmy FL
lott, and coached Madame Anderson in her
great walk at Mozart Garden. when she accom-
plished 1000 miles in 1000 hours. He had had
all sorts of hairbreadth escapes from death be-
fore he was shut up in the asylum. He was
shot twice. stabbed once, and had his throat cut
almost from ear to ear by a crazy 'lOngshore-
mar. He was political worker Of influence,
and for some time member OF the General
Democratic Committee. he started in life
without cent got 100000 in some mysterious
fashion, and lost it all as mysteriously as he got
it. About every man in Brooklyn knew him as
"Gallus Mike" He was taken to the asylum
just one year ago to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
CAPTURED BY THE TRUSTS.

The majority Beport of the. New York
Assembly Committee that has been investi-
eating trusts, reveals the fine italian hand
of some of the trust attorneys. 1t goes over
the usual stereotyped arguments of the de-
structive nature of competition and the ne
cessity of certain degree of combination,
which the trust managers have been preach
ing upon all occasions when they find it
necessary to defend their eonspiracies
All of which is unadulterated nonsense.
Free and natural competition is not de-
structiYe. Competition, in the retail trades,
in the raising of agricultural products, in
the mining Of bituminous coal and in a
thousand other branches Of universal nature,
has goneswithout the slightest restriction
fol years and has worked no destruction
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
4 FAST NAIL SERVICE.
To bo Put on Between the Pacific Coast and
the East To. Day.

To bo Put on Between the Pacific Coast and
the East To-D Day.
CHICAGO, May 1l.-C Commencing Sunday, the
Southern and Union Pacific Railroads will put
on two extra trains, one vestbound and the
other eastbound, both Of them being limited
In addition to these, the roads running between
Chicago and the Missouri river will have short
ened up the time on their Eastern trans so
that after May II mails dispatched from Cali.
fornia, Nevada Utah, Oregon, Washington,
idaho, part OF Montana, Colorado Wyoming
and part of Nebraska for Chicago, New York
City, New England and Pennsylvania will be
delivered in Chicago o hours and 70 minutes
earlier than at present New York will be
reached 20 hours earlier than formerly and Bos-
ton 81 hours and thirtyfiye minutes earlier, with
a corresponding gain for all New England
points, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The postal cars will leave on the fast train
leaving San Francisco at $50 P. NJ, arrive in
Chicago at ll:59 A. M. of the fifth day, and in
New York at 7:S0 P. NJ and in Boston at 1870
p. N. of the sixth day, making gain of one
business day between Boston and San Fran
cisco. The change will compel the exployes of
the postOfice here to work all day Sunday, and
will greatly increase the labor of the carriers,
but the public will be benefited by the
change,