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and doubtless he said it in perfect good
faith-"We are willing to give monopoly
of the business of our town if they give us
in return fuel that doesn't cost more than
soft coal"
This measure of the duty of public body
is very common but none the less very short
sighted. Suppose that after such monop-
oily were granted, itshould be developed that
the supply of gas that could be brought to
Dayton were such as to make the price
under competition half the cost of coal.
Would not the excess charged under the
monopoly granted by the Council be an ex-
tortion from the public for which the short
sightedness of the public representatives
would be fully responsible?
On the other hand, suppose it to be true,
as claimed by the gas companies, that the
distance which the gas must be transported
requires price somewhat in excess of the
cost of coal, in order to yield any profit in
the business. Is it fair to deny those who
can afford to pay a little extra to be freed
from the smoke, ashes and labor of hand
ling the privilege of doing so? 1t is as much
an injustice to prevent the public the privi-
lege of paying an enhanced price for su-
perior article as to require it to pay more
than its true value, by the absence of COM
petition.
1t is evident that there is no infallible
test as to which of these suppositions is the
true one, other than the test of competition.
When municipal Councilmen become suff-
ciently enlightened to abjure the vice Of
granting monopolies, and to grant all fran
chises so as to protect and maintain compe-
tition in every service performed by these
franchises. they will do their duty as repre-
sentatiyes of the public,
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AN INEVITABLE RESULT.

The Canadian proposition to buy New
England is rejected by the New York Tele-
gram as inadmissable, because with Maine
theCanucks would acquire the magnetic
Secretary OF State, not to mention Messrs.
Hale, Frye, Boutelle and Thomas B. Reed;
with New Hampshire the irrepressible
William E. Chandler and the persevering
Blair; with Vermont, Senator George Ed
munds, and with Massachusetts, the only
Benjamin F. Butler that the world has ever
produced.
Yet this fact, that the scheme would re-
suit in the transfer of these indomitable
statesmen into Canadian citizens, is one of
its strongest recommendations to this coun-
try. Not that we wish to get rid of Messrs.
Blaine, Butler, Chandler, Edmunds, ct al.
Political life would be but desert without
even an oasis if these lively figures were
taken from u.s. and the output of political
jests would be woefully restricted for want
of material. But we could undergo that
privation for brief season in the pur-
suit of any well-defned object; and such an
object appears to the mind which looks
ahead and estimates the character and COM
parative energy OF the men and the country
which proposes to annex them.
Can anyone believe that if Blaine, But
Ter, Blair, Chandler, Edmunds, Boutelle
and Reed, not to speak of Hoar and Dawes,
united to accomplish any object they could
fail to secure it? A combination of the
magnetism of Blaine, the perseverance of
Blair, the energy of Chandler, the calm
GOODNESS of Edmunds and the dogged pug
nacity of Butler would be irresistible, par
ticularly when it came to capturing the
politics of Canada. We would give that
organization two years to take possession of
the Canadian Parliament and administra-
ton; and then is there any doubt what they
would do? Would Blaine, after nourish-
ing the Presidential fever for 20 years, be
content with Canada, when by stroke he
could extend his ambition over the united
area of both countries d? Would Blair rest
satisfied with passing educational bills for
the district north of the st. Lawrence when
the boundless continent might be his
Would Ben Butler rest content under bunt-
ing of English design and manufacture?
No, indeed. Give these ipdomitable men
two years to capture Canadian politics and
one to carry an application for admission to
the United States, and their work would be
done in time to bring Canada for the next
Presidential election.
A transfer which would convert Blaine,
Chandler and Butler into Canadians, means
the ultimate conversion of Canada into
States of the Union. 1t may be we'll to re-
member that fact, if Canada is so rash as
to propose to buy Northern New England
of us
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sBEPARp,s HIGH AMBITION.

1t seems from q list of the applications
already filed for the fat things to be dis
pensed by the Harrison administration that
Colonel Elliot F. Shepard is not inspired
by any such modest ambition as will be salts
fed by the Italian mission. The extremely
good Colonel, has put in his bid for the En-
glish mission, regardless of any liens which
brother-in-law Chauncey NJ. Depew, or his
journalistic brother, Whitelaw Reid, may
have on the place. That the religious editor
is in earnest, can be fully proved by read
ing in the Mail and Express such modest
assertions as the following: "We believe
that no newspaper had larger share in the
election of Harrison and Morton than the
Mail and Express"
1t must impress the mind with disap-
pointed feeling, to discover that all the
piety paraded in this new organ of the
straitest sect of the Pharisees, has had
in view this high reward. Have all the
excerpts from Holy Writ been poured out
upon the public, only that their evangelical
selector might assume the function of pre-
senting worshiping Anglomaniacs to the
Queen and Tummy? Does the reward of
true religious labor lie in making speeches
to the nobility and aristocracy at public
dinners? Such questions as these are likely
to shake the public faith in that purely dis
interested religious spirit, which Colonel
Shepard has doubtless intended the public
to believe in as inspiring his remarkable
journalistic career.
We are fain to believe that the Colonel
proposes higher mission to himself He
has heard of the wickedness and laxity OF
morals which characterize English aristoc-
racy, and he wishes to go as an official repre-
sentative of American morality to convert
and reform the Britons. BY judiciously
hurting Scripture texts into his diplomatic
correspondence with Lord Salisbury, and
by threatening the British nobility with the
war of determination which he has hitherto
held in reserve for the South, he may lead
them to abjure their vices, and become a.
good even as himself-the pattern of good.
ness.
The appointment should be given tc
Colonel Shepard. We have the old oom.
modore Vanderbilt's authority as to the
large variety of fools which Colonel Shep
ard is able to be; and here is one depart
ment in which he has rs yet had no oppor
tunity to demonstrate how big fool he car
make of himself.
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A SWEET YOUNG HORSE THIEF.
A Yankee Woman Steals Rig and is Sent
To the County Jail.


FARMINGToN, ME-, March 10.-Mrs. ClaraM
Nye, only two years a bride, pert, pretty and
vivacious, was sent to jail here to-day for
stealing horse and wagon. The Prosecuting
Attorney told dramatic story to the court
that made everybody, even Clara herself,
laugh.
A Pennington citizen was aroused by accom-
motion in his barn. He hurried into his
clothes and rushed down. Just as he reached
the yard horse and wagon dashed by him.
He recognized the wagon as his own. Going to
the barn he found his horse safe. In a moment
he was on the animals back, dashing after the
thief with his shotgun in readiness. In the
stiffness Of the night he heard the team rattling
over the frozen icy road, up the river toward
Phillips He gained on it, and, when within
hailing distance, cried: 'Haltp'
A wild laugh came back. He fired his gun
into the air, but that produced no effect. Then
he spurred on his horse, meanwhile putting an
other charge in his gun. He expected tussel
with desperate horse thief Soon there came
q crash. The wagon had gone into the ditch
and turned over. With cooked weapon the
pursuing citizen advanced. He found pretty
young woman grinning at him. The young
woman had stolen another mans horse, and
then gone for his wagon. He patched up the
team and took her back to Pennington.
Clara said she had become tired of life in that
town and determined to seek adventures in
other parts of the world She evidently had
looked too long on the wine when it was red.
Her husband has not appeared on the scene as
yet. She pleaded guilty when arraigned.
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JAPANESE LULLABY.

Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings
Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;
Sleep to the singing ofthe mother-bird swinging
Swinging the nest where her little one lies.
Away out yonder see q star
Silvery star with tinkling songs;
To the soft dew falling hear it calling
Calling and tinkling the night along.
In through the window a moonbeam comes
Little gold moonbeam with misty wings:
All silently creeping, 1t asks: "ls he sleeping
Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings?''
Up from the sea there floats the sob
OF the waves that are breaking upon the shore,
As though they were groaning in anguish, and
moaning
BemoaniDg the ship that shall come no more.
But sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings
Little blue pigeon with mournful eyes;
Am not singing--see am swinging
Swinging the nest where my darling lies.
Eugene Field, In Chicago He1cs.
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THE TOwNSHEND OBsEOUIES
To be Held This Evening in the Riggs House
Parlors. Washington.

WASHINGTON, March 10-Religious serv-
ices will be held over the remains of the late
Representative Townshend Monday evening. at
7:30 o'clock, in the parlors of the Riggs House.
The Rev. Father Chapelle, D. D., of St. Mat
thew's church, and the Rev. Father Walter, of
st. Patrick's church, will officiate. At 8
o'clock Monday evening members of Congress,
citizens of Illinois now III Washington, and
other friends of Mr. Townshend will meet to
take appropriate action relative to the death
of the dead man, and to accompany his re-
mains to the station. The body will leave here
on the 11:l0 train over the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, and will be taken to the late home of
Mr.. Townshend in Shawneetown, Ill, by the
members of his family and the Congressional
committee appointed for the purpose. The
funeral and burial will take place at Shawnee
town Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Harrison sent a beautiful selection of
cut flowers, to-day. to Mrs. Townshend, accom-
panied by the following note, expressing her
sympathy and that of the President:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON.
DEAR MRS. TOWNHSEND-I was very much
shocked to hear of the sudden death of your hus-
band. Your griefis too sacred TO approach with
words. Accept these howers with my heartfelt
sympathy. The President desires to add his SYM
pathy with mine. Sincerely yours
CARRIE 5. HARRISON.
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A FAST OF % DAYS.
AForger who Became Stricken,
Tries to Sturve Himself.

ATLANTA. March l0.-For q days John l.
Adams has refused to taste food, and is now
unconscious from starvation and is likely to die
at any hour. The first IL days of his fast were
spent in Bibb county Jail. In the hope that his
mother might induce him to eat, he was taken
to his home, under guard, where he now is.
His mother fell on her knees and implored him
not to continue in his way.
mo. mother" said the son, 81 am atoning
for my sins by not eating 1 have misused
other peoples money. and in no other way can
/ atone but by offering myself as a sacrifice.
commit no sin by dying thus, but make myself
acceptable to the Lord"
He sent for the Episcopal clergyman and was
baptized. In his sleep he can be seen motion
ing as if taking food. He dreams that feast
is before him. When he occasionally awakes
and finds his mother there with the viands at
his lips he draws back and refuses to taste
them. Thus he has passed the time, growing
daily weaker and declaring that his life was
being offered as a sacrifice for his sins. The
forgerIes traced to him are for sums amount
ing to over $4,000. The affairs of his house are
in such a mixed condition that none of the
claimants will get any considerable amount
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
YESTERDAYS DISPATCH.
Brief Summary OF Leading Features Of the
Mammoth Double Number.

Brief Summary OF Leading Features Of the
Mammoth Double Number.
A novel reason for King Milan's abdication
Is given. He found that his hair was falling
out, and concluded that it was time for him to
quit the throne. The copper syndicate is drag
ging the great French financial institution, the
Compton d Ecompte, into bankruptcy. The
Duke Of Portland is in luck. Two of his horses
are prime favorites in Derby quotations. The
anniversary of the death of Emperor William
was celebrated with memorial services through
out Germany. The socialistic agitation causes
much anxiety in the German Empire. The
young Emperor is taking steps to strengthen
the navy. Two million Germans have left the
Vaterland for the United States since 1871.
The reported destruction of the United
States steamship Nipsic by the Germans is not
confirmed, and is generally discredited. Tne
recent discovery of rich gold fields in Lower
California is making that territory the Mecca
of fortune-hunters and the excitement recalls
the days of '49 on the Pacific slope. Congress
man Townshend, of Illinois, died at the age OF 49,
Moses Myers, who has acquaintances in Pitts
burg, was arrested in New York for robbing
the mails. Representative Burdick, of Mexican,
told THE DISPATCH correspondent his reasons
for opposing the general revenue bill. The
legislative and G. A. R. committees have de-
cided to prepare bill, putting the control OF
the soldiers orphansi schools in the hands of
a commission. Inspector Greer commends the
management of the McAlisteryille school,
Diphtheria is epidemic in portions of Venango
county.
III.
The dead are being removed from the Troy
Hill Cemetery, and the graveyard will shortly
be obliterated. Secretary Martin, of the Anal
gamated Association, is a candidate for the po-
sition of United States Labor Commissioner,
and is being strongly recommended. A special
article on natural gas meters contained much
to interest every householder. The Squirrel
Hill Electric Railroad Company held meet
ing, and, it is understood, will soon begin WORK
on the new line.
The American ball players had rough voy-
age from Paris to London. Extensive arrange
ments have been made for their formal recep-
tion to-day. The Prince OF Wales VIII witness
the first game to be played by them In England
Other sporting events, both OF local ana gem
eral interest, were treated OF at length. Ine
markets, editorials, the music world and otner
departments were as complete and compre-
hensive as usual.
III.
In the second Part additionai chapters VI
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AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE.

The action of the joint committee of the
Legislature and Grand Army, in recon-
mending that the syndicate soldiers or
phans' schools be disbanded and the children
placed in church homes as temporary
measure, and eventually as far as possible
in private homes, is a recognition of
principle which has long been urged in
these columns. The recognition is some
what tardy, it is true, but it is none the less
important.
The principle is that funds assigned to
charity must not be placed in the hands of
money-making administrators. Every dollar
that the State devoted to the care of the
soldiers orphans ought to have been sacred
to their maintenance and nurture. The mo-
ment the possibility was allowed of making
money out of this fund, that moment the
gate was opened to abuses and dishonesty.
Notwithstanding the elaborate efforts in the
direction of whitewashing the syndicate
schools, the truth of this appears in the re-
suits. The provision of $3.50 year for
children over 10 years old and of $115 for
those under that age, is not more than is
needed to give them frst-class care and edu-
cation. If any portion of that fund is di-
verted to the pockets of political spectators,
they must lose portion of the care to which
they are entitled. The fact that large
share of that fund has been taken as profits,
renders inevitable such tales of insufficient
food, clothing and buildings as have been
constantly coming to the surface in connec-
ton with these institutions.
The decision of the joint committee in
sures the termination of this wrong in con-
nection with the soldiers orphans. 1t is to
be hoped that in future public charities the
lesson may be borne in mind that charity
and speculation are irreconcilable and must
be kept strictly separate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
BLAINE WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The Alleged Kansas City Abductors Cap
tured MT Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 1O.-George Henney and
wife, who abducted little Lucy Spellman, of
Kansas City, on February 26, were arrested in
Chicago to-day. The case was first published as
episode likely to give rise to an international
question between the English Government and
the new administration at Washington.
Henney and his wife are English subjects,
and it was thought they left Kansas City for
the old country with the child. thinking that if
they could place the ocean between it and its
mother they were safe. The Henneys, how
ever, deny any intention either of abducting the
child or going to England, The baby had been
left in their care, and they took it along be-.
cause they thought no one else wanted it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11

IT seems that the Inauguration ball was
success to the extent of leaving surplus of
$25, 900 in the hands of the committee;
and like the usual surplus it causes much
discussion as to what shall be done with it.
If it should occur to the committee to dis
tribute it among poor people, who are in need
of food and fuel, they would have the salts
faction of knowing that the ball did some
practical good after all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11

ONE of the features at the White House
appears to displease the Democratic Rochester
Union and Observer, which asserts that
"Since the Secretaryship of W. K. Rogers
there has been nothing so insuferable in
the White House as Russell Harrison's
smirk." But the assertion is erroneous. To
the great mass of visitors at the White House
q very much more unpleasant thing would
be Russell Harrison's frown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
THE WASHINGTON EAR.
A Disease That Is Snid TO be Caused by
Asphalt Dust.

Asphalt Dust.
From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
With the march of modern improvements
and the growth of luxury, diseases and their
names increase and humanity suffers from a
score of polysyllabic ailments now that our
grandfathers never heard of. The latest is the
washington ear" and such name is provo
cation to all the jokers and seoffers who know
what extraordinary things the Washington ear
does manage to gather in, and the Washington
tongue thereafter spreads. A friend of mine
was taken with sudden and frightful pain in
the ear after long drive on a windy day in an
open carriage. Mindful of Roscoe Conkling's
sufferings and untimey end, she sent at once
for the best aurist in the city, and after the
first look he said:
"Oh. it is nothing but the Washington ear.
1t is an Inflammation caused by the dust from
these asphalt pavements. The dust is very
poisonous to the ear, and l have innumerable
cases of it. One or two patients who have OBJ
stinately refused to wear cotton in their ears
on windy and dusty days have lost their ear
drums by following infiammations."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
A Good. Natured Crush.

The inaugural ball was unique in the tran
guilty, and perfect good nature that seemed
to prevade the enormous crowd upon the floor.
There was no alteration and no discussion of
unpleasant warmth during the entire evening.
1t is extraordinary that in SO enormous gath
ering there should have been no unpleasant
dispute. There has seldom been an inaugural
ball that was not marred by at least one fist
fight. The gathering is always of a miscellan-
eous character, and with more than II 600 peo-
pie constantly jostling against one another it
would seem almost I'M possible that perfect har-
mony should prevail among them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11

THE economical measure adopted by the
Western Union Telegraph, in reducing the
pay of its messenger boys from two cents
per message to one cent and two mills, is an
indication that whatever may be done with
the water in the stock of that corporation, it
is considered the right thing to fill up the
boys with plenty of water-and, little
broad
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11

Mr.. GRANT ALIENS argument in the
North american ReUiew, that the most in
telligent animals, such as monkeys, ele-
plants and parrots, are those which have a
grasping organ, comes just in time for the
politicians to prove that they have high
order of intelligence by grasping anything
that they can get hold of.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
Alien Soldier Voters.

To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
First-Had. an alien while serving in the
Union army during the late war the right to
voter Second-After serving his term of en-
listment had he to take out naturalization
papers, or did his discharge papers answer that
purpose. NATURALI3ED AMERICAN.
TURTLE CREEK, March 9.
lin 1852 an act was passed which provided
that anyialien who had enlisted in the regular or
volunteer service and been honorably dis
charged could upon proof Of one years resi-
dence in the country, be naturalized without
any previous declaration of intention. This Is
the only information we have upon the sub
ject.]
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A GENTLEMEN'S MEETING.
Some Difficulty Experienced in Finding n
Suitable Chairman,


Suitable Chairman.
CHICAGO, March 10.-A call issued yesterday
by President Marvin Hughitt, as Chairman of
the late ''gentlemens" meeting for another
meeting of gentlemen" at 1.-The Rookery," in
this city next Tuesday. Mr.. Hughitt says
full attendance is required, but gives no init
nation whatever of the subject to come up for
consideration. The object of the meeting, it is
assumed, is to hear the report of the special
committee, which went TO New York week
ago to secure the service of the Interstate
Commerce Commissioner A. F. Walker as
Chairman of the Executive Board of the
Interstate Gentlemen's Association"
According to information derived, it is
asserted, from one of the gentlemen" the
committee has been privately Informed by Mr..
Walker that he would accept the position un-
der certain conditions. These conditions were
such as the committee could not grant without
consulting the presidents of all the roads ill.,
terested, and hence the meeting for next Tues
DAY was called to find out whether Mr.. Walk
er's terms were acceptable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Chnrlcs GaGe Blair.

Mr.. and Mrs. James G.. Blair have just suffered
sad loss in the death OF their little son, Charles
Gage Blair. The little fellow was just about
year DID, and was most interesting and bright.
MIR. Blair is city editor of the Post, and he and
his estimabIe wife have the sincere sympathy of
their many friends both in and outside Of his pro-
fession. The funeral will take place this morning
at the residence, No. rs Grantham street, Ale-
Qheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-11
Presidents Who Were Senators.

To the Editor Of The D1spatch:
Please inform me whether Harrison is the
first President who has been United States
Senator. L. L.
MCKEEsPoRT, March9 9.
HE is not. James Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Andrew jackson, Martin Van Buren,,
William n. Harrison, John Tyler, Franklin
Pierce and James Buchanan all served in the
Senate before their election to the Presidency.l