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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-10

country west Of the Mississippi to the United
States France owned it. but Napoleon,
fearing that England would take it, prac-
ticaliy made present to the United States
Tor he received only sl5, 900, 0O0-of Louis
lam, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas. Ne
braska. Iowa, Minnesota Colorado, Dakota,
Montana Wyoming and the Indian Terri
tory. Out Of the fire of the American revolu-
ton came this country east Of the Mississippi,
ont Of the European war came that west
Of the Mississippi River. The British En-
pire rose to its present cveItowering gran
deur through gunpowder plot, and Guy
Fawkes's conspiracy. and Northampton in
surrection, and Walter Raliegh's behsading.
and Bacor's bribery, and Cromweli's disso-
luton Of parliament, and the battles of Edge
Hill and Grautham, and Newberry. and
Marston Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar.
and Sedgemoor, and execution of Charles
the First, and London plague, and
London fire, and Londoz insur-
rectiou. and Ryehouse plot, and the vicissi-
fore it could become appropriate and beauti-
full residence for the human family had,
according 10 geology, TO be washed BY uni
We sal deluge. and seorched and made in
caidescent by universal fires, and pounded
by sedge-hammer OF icebergs, and wrenched
by earthquakes that split continents, and
shsiken by volcanoes that tossed mountains
anil passed through the catastrophes Of
Thousands OF years before Paradise became
pa siole and the groves could shake out their
gu'en banners and the first garden pour
its carnage OF color between the Gihon
ana the Hiddekei. Trouble a good
thing for the rocks. a good thing for
ma sons, as well as a good thiRg for in
driduals. SO when You push against me
with sharp interrogation point, Why do
tho good sufferl | open the dark saying on
harp and, though l can neither play an
orIan, or cornet, or hautboy, or bugle or
clar1onet. ] have taken some lessons on the
gospel harp, and if you would like to hear
md I viii play you these: Gan things work
TO .ether for good TO those who love God.n
Now no Christening for the present seemeth to
be Joyous, but grievous, nevertheless after
ward it yieldeth all possible fruits of
Righteousness unto them which are exer-
cisad thereby Weeping may en-
duae for a night but Joy cometh in
the morning. What a sweet thing is
halp, and / wonder not that in W ales, tine
ogntrY OF my ancestors, the harp has be-
co1ae the national instrument, and that they
hare festivals where great prizes are offered
in The competition between harp and karp;
or that weird Sebastian Erard was
niCst Of his time bent over this chorded
and vibrating triangle, and was not
satisfied until he had given it a com
pa IS OF six octaves from ( TO Z with all the
semi tones. or that when King Saul was de-
mented the son OF Jesse came before him
an putting his fingers among the charmed
strings Of the harp played the devil out OF
the crazed monarch. or that in heaven there 4
shall be harpers harping with their harps. |
So you viii not blame me for opening the /
dark saying on the gospel harp.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-10
DIAMOND VERA-GuRE

80 For three ieseks 7 teas sgrsr
Mn mgJrom a ssreTs cold IN head
REs6l and pafa in temples. AJ'c'
81 only sir applications Of Ely1
3 81 Gram Balm 7 tras reliered.
Ercry trace ornty cold Isas re
~ norsd.-Henry C. Clark, Nea
ia York Aprraiser's Office
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-10

The most GER
tain and safe
Pain REMEDY
in the world
that Instantly
stops the most
exorucf Eating
pains 1t is
truly the great
CONQUEROR
OF PAIN, and
/ mas done more
good than any
known remedy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
A QUESTION OF COST.

The expenditures for removing obstruc-
tions and cleaning up the debris at Johns
town up to Tuesday are reported at S172, 600.
OF course there is understood to be consid-
erable work yet ahead, but ii the State au-
thorities can complete the job short of
quarter of a million, candor will compel
those who thought the Governor unwise in
not calling an extra session of the Legisla-
ture to revise the opinion. The estimate
originally sent out was that 1000, 900
would be required. IT the State authorities
get through for one-quarter of that, raise
the money on their own responsibility, and
present satisfactory accounts of the expendi-
lures, they will be entitled to the frank ad
mission that their course was the wiser
one. OF course it is too early to judge yet.
1t will continue so until the final settlement
is had; but in the midst of the frequent and
continued criticism of the Governors ac-
tion respecting Johnstown, we cheerfully
note the returns so far as indicating that he
NAV have been better posted as to the actual
10 nsions of the task than some of those
" L0 differed from his views and his esti-
mates.
i the ultimate exhibit show the cost SO
very much less than the figures originally
spok-n of, the Governor will have credit for
On agreeable surprise-to be shared, of
coursl, by General Hastings, to whose con-
slant presence and vigorous oversight much
of the expedition in the labor will justly
have to be recognized as due.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
DEMOCRACY AND PLUTocRACY.

A specimen of widely prevalent, if not
predominant, class of opinion is furnished
by the complaint of a Democratic organ
concerning another Democratic papers
criticism of the election of Calvin s. Brice
to the position of National Democratic
Chairman as an evidence of the plutocratic
influences which are to be found in the
Democratic as we'll as in the Republican Or
ganization. The complaining organ takes
the ground that to criticise whatever its
party may do is fractions. if not presump-
tuous. After the Democratic committee has
elected Chairman, according to this view,
it is not consistent with the duty of Demo-
cratic newspaper to say anything about the
fact that the big bank account of the Chair
man furnished his chief recommendation for
the position.
This is the stereotyped view in the organ
type of journalism. Those who think the
official action of a party is the ultimate
measure of what is right or wrong for all
who belong to that party are impervious to
argument over the question. Nevertheless,
the great mass of people, even among those
who are accustomed to regulate their po-
litical actions by mere partisanship, will
have a good deal more faith in the express
sions of the journal which is outspoken
enough to point out false tendencies in its
own party than in the paper which follows
the stereotyped rule of the great majority of
party organs in swearing blindly to what
ever the party may do.
As to this particular case, there is no
doubt that the outspoken Democratic paper
is correct. The Democratic party claims in
its platforms to be opposed to the plutocratic
tendencies of the day, and when it puts into
leading position q man whose only recon-
mendation in politics Is his superabundance
of money, and whose financial greatness has
been created by the practice of the worst
corporate abuses, it is both just and peril
nent in a public point of view to point out
the fact that it is not true to its professions,
and that 1t is abandoning the principles
which form its greatest claim upon the pub
lie support.
Both the criticism and the complaint will,
however, have decided public use in call
ing the attention of the people to the fact
that as long as blind partisanship forms the
leading political motive, and big bank
accounts are the principal factors in politi-
cal campaigns. one party organization will
be just about as susceptible to the influences
of plutocracy as another.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
ARKANSAS BLACK SPOT.

The New York World, which cannot be
accused by anyone of being addicted to the
bloody shirt, has recently sent careful in
vestigator to Arkansas to report on the con-
dition Of things in connection with the as
sassination of John NJ. Clayton. His report
is practical arraignment of the civilization
of Arkansas. 1t shows that political
murder having been committed in the first
place, the people OF that State have made
themselves, morally at least, accessories after
the fact. Instead of uniting to secure the
detection and punishment of the assassins,
there is greater disposition to shield them
from discovery. Detectives in disguise
seeking to trace up the crime have been
warned to leave as soon as their errand was
suspected; and after the lapse of nearly q
year, it is certain that the murderers will
not be punished.
This is strong corroboration from an i'm
partial source of the charges which Repub-
lican papers have made in connection with
the Clayton affair. But the case does not
contain any especial political capital. The
Republicans long ago abandoned the idea
that the General Government could exercise
permanent supervision over tine detection
and punishment of capital crimes in the
States; and with Republican administra-
ton in power, it is powerless to take any
steps for the punishment of Clayton's mur-
derers. The most salient lesson from the
impartial statement of the facts concerning
that crime is that emigrants who wish to
settle in locality where their political free
dom viii be respected, and their lives pro-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

their physical and moral degradation. It is
vicious economy for anyone, no matter how
poor, 10 live in a tenement, however low the
rent, where the health of father, mother or
child is injured. disease is contracted and
morals are lost"
This is undoubtedly the correct view; but
still it fails to afford perfect solution of the
problem. Although the removal of the
conditions which make tenements the nurs-
cry of physical and moral vice may create
new class of inhabitants for the improved
houses, the class which can afford to pay for
the old tenements and nothing better, must
still find its habitation somewhere. A few
of the people whose means will only afford
the pittance required to pay for shelter in
the rookeries may be reformed by the re-
form of the tenement, but the vast majority
of them will simply change their place of
location. So long as there are people who
can only afford to pay for the worst tene-
ment, so long the tenements themselves will
exist, however vigorously the reform of their
conditions may be pushed. 1t is the class
whose means can only pay for the tenement
that create those rookeries, and not the tene-
ments that create the class.
The work of pushing the reform of the
tenement is a great one, but it is necessary
to perceive that it is not and cannot be COM
plete until we remove the causes that crowd
our cities with underpaid laborers, and
reform the conditions that create the demand
for the tenement houses and must have
them in one locality or another.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
MRS. TYLER DEAD.
Another Lady of the White House Enters
the Dark Valley.

Another Lady of ,he White House Enters
the Dark Valley.
RICHMOND, VA. July l0.-Mrs. ex-President
John Tyler died at the Exchange Hotel this
evening from a congestive chill. Mrs. Tyler
had only been at the hotel since Sunday even
ing, having come from a visit to her
son, Lyon c. Tyler, at Williams
burg, and was to have left here Monday
on a visit to another son, on the James river
but, feeling unwell, she kept her room. Tues
day at IL o'clock she was taken with chill
Medical skill proved of no avail, and she died
at Sis o'clock this afternoon. Mrs Tyler leaves
four childrenILyon G Tyler, President of
c. Tyler. who lives in Charles City county, Vir-
ginia: DIR. Lacklan Tyler of Washington City
and Mrs. VIM. Fills, of Montgomery county.
Tyler, tenth President of the United States,
was born on Gardeners Island. near East
Hampton, N. Y, in 1922 She was educated in
short time spent in travel through Europe, she
came to Washington with her father In 1874
A few weeks after their arrival they
accepted an invitation from President
TYLER to attend a pleasure excursion down the
river on the war steamer Princeton. The fes-
tiyities on this occasion were sadly marred by
the explosion of a gcn on the vessel, causing
GARDENERS father. His body was taken
to the White House and Miss Gar
diner was thrown q great deal into the
society Of the President. President Ty,er's
first wife had died shortly after he entered the
White House, and the President paid Miss
Gardiner marked attention, which resulted in
their marriage in New York City, June %, 1874.
For the succeeding eight months of President
Tyler's term she presided over the White
House with tact. grace and dignity. After the
4th of March. 1s45, Mrs. Tyler retired with her
husband to the secluslon of their country place.
.sSberwood Forest" on the banks of the James
river, Virginia. She remained in Virginia until
after the Civil War, her husband having died
about the beginning of the strife. and then
went to reside at her mothers residence on
Castleton Hill, Staten Island. After several
years residence there she removed to Rich
mond. Va, where she died. Mrs. Tyler was
Roman Catholic In religion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
SO 1T is SAID.

BULwRR wrote his finest novel in full dress.
LUTHER, when studying, always had his dog
at his feet.
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teryals of madness.
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~ his Natural History
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
PERSONAL POINTS.

MRS JAMES A. GARFIELD. widow Of the
late President, is making preparations to spend
next winter in Washington.
PRINCE BISMARCK and Count Won Moltke
have become honorary members of the COM
mittee for the institution of Beethoven
House at Bonn. Herr Joachim is honorary
President of it
F. H. WINSTON, Of Chicago. who served as
United States Minister to Persia, thinks there
are only about dozen Persians in this country,
and a like number OF Americans in Persia,
mostly missionaries.
SIR JULIAN PAUNoEFoTE the British Min
lister, was one of the guests present at the COM
mencement Of the Georgetown Convent-one
of the historic schools Of the country, where
General Scott's daughters, Mrs. Harriet Lane
johnson, Mrs. Fred Grant and many women Of
national distinction, were educated.
WILLIAM HAYDEN EDWARDS, who has been
appointed Consul General at Berlin, was per-
sonal friend of the Grant family, having been
reared with them ir Brown county. He was at
one time engaged to marry Nellie Grant, now
Mrs. Sartoris, but the cause of their broken
engagement has never been known, but the
romance Of it has made Edwards a bachelor.
THE Oldest printer in California is Jose de Ia
Rosa, who now lives at San Diego. He will be
100 years of age next January. He was sent by
General Santa Anna to Alta California in
1888, to publish newspaper, and selected Mon
terey for the place Of publication. He has
wonderful memory. and is in control of all his
faculties. He ia said to have in manuscript
life of Santa Anna and q history of California
from 1880 to 1880. He spends most Of his time
at present smoking cigarettes and conversing
upon the interesting episodes of his long and
adventurous life.
Mr. j. R. WERNER, who used to be an officer
~ @Na G%,< xrylo he nxvfo
tied Tippoo lib that African magnate was al
ways very polite. But" says Mr.. Werner,
"from the first moment of seeing him felt a
certain dstrust of him. which have never got
over. One thing noticed in particular-noth-
ing escaped his quick restless eyes. and was
very much amused when. q few days later at
Yambuya camp. he sent an interpreter to me
with q request that would come and see HIM,
found that all he wanted to know was the
meaning of the numbers and designs on the
brass buttons of two Belgian officers who were
In uniform"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
THE BROOKLYN DISASTER.

From the horror of some people over a re-
cent event in Brooklyn it almost appears
that shadow has been cast upon the title
of Mr.. Harrison as President of these United
States. A irightful doubt appears to have
been thrown upon this matter by the extraor-
binary behavior of the officer in charge of
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The President
of the United States and commander in chief
of the army AMI navy-that is, Benjamin
Harrison--was on board the United States
steamer Dispatch, bound up the sound. The
big blue flag which denotes the Presidents
presence hung from the peak, tafrail, jib
boom, or some other appropriate part of
the vessel, as the Dispatch steamed by the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. The only man who
saw it was a new watchman. The big blue
flag caught his eye and he ran with COM
mendable swiftness to the commander of the
yard. The latter knew the President was
passing, and ordered the salute of 81 guns
to be fired, although the Dispatch was then
out of sight. But after one gun had been
fired he ordered the gunners to stop firing!
What did he mean? He did not blow out
his brains with blunderbuss; he did not
order every tenth man in the yard to be shot;
in fact, he did nothing heroic to expiate. the
awful ofense. Then he deliberately al
lowed common sense to interfere with the
strict letter of naval etiquette. When one
gun had been fred he ordered the salute
stopped, because the ship Dispatch had
passed. We suppose he will be court
martialee and condemned to live in Brook
lyn forever.
In the meanwhile. if Benjamin Harrison
can travel between Brooklyn and New York
without being saluted at least dozen times,
it is worthy of mention that it will result in
q considerable economy of gunpowder and
noise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
BOBBY PORTER IsSr SLOW.
The Superintendent of the Census win Ap-
point His Own Clerks.

The Superintendent of the Census win Ap-
point His Own Clerks.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, July lO.-It looks very much as
IL Robert p. Porter. the Superintendent of the
Census, has beaten the Civil Service Commits
sion In the contest between them for the privi-
lege of appointing the army Of clerks that will
be employed in the work of ascertaining the
results Of the tenth census. The struggle be-
tween Porter. backed by the Secretary of the
Interior, First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson and other anti Mugwumps on the one
hand and the Civil Service Commissioners on
the other has been going on all summer. Por-
ter contended that there was nothing In the
law organizing the Census Bureau giving con-
troll of the appointments to the Civil Service
Commissioners, and he did not mean to let
them have them. The patronage he claimed
for himself. He said that the work of collect
ter. and as he was to be responsible for the
work he desired to name his own men.
The President found himself between the
two horns of q dilemma in settling the matter.
He desired to admit the justice of the claims
setup by superintendent Porter and his friends,
and yet he felt that his repeated profession of
civil service reform demanded that he should
put as many Government employees as possible
under the protection of competitive examina-
tion. His friends, the Civil Service Commits
sioners, are becoming rapacious. Having
swallowed up the 5000 employees of the Rail-
way Mail service, their appetite wouldn't be ap-
peased until the census employees were given
them also. But they have been disappointed.
a sort Of compromise. fhe census clerks will
be named by the Secretary of the Interior on
the Recommendation of Mr.. Porter, of course.
and appointed after being subjected to an ex-
animation held by the men whom Mr.. Porter
shall select for the work. This is just what the
Superintendent wants. Under this arrange
ment he will not only have the privilege of
w
possess the qualifications necessary for the
proper performance of their duties. Among
department people here who fully appreciate
the difficulty of getting competent clerks for
technical work general satsfactionis is expressed
at the arrangements made for the appointment
of the census force.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
JAMES NEELY'S STRANGE REQUEST.
A Republican Ex- -Sfate Chairman Gets the
Bulk of His Estate.

Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
PHILADELPHIA. July 10-Colonel Frank G.
Hooten. of Westchester, at one time Chairman
has received, according to the terms of a will
just filed in the Register of Wills office, leg
acy of about 10000 from the estate of James
Neely, who died week ago at Fifteenth and
Spring Garden streets. Nicely was not a rela-
tive of Colonel Hooten and the friendship
between the two men had existed short time.
but when Nicely made Colonel Hooten his
executor he willed to him the bulk of his large
estate. The singular disposition of the estate
has caused considerable talk. Small legacies
were left to the Episcopal Church in West
chester and to the Westchester Library, and
acquaintance received 81 500.
The history of the young man was as singular
as the disposition of his estate. He was the
son of Robert Nicely, of Westchester. Robert
Nicely was director Of the National Bank Of
Chester County. He had devoted his whole life
to the accumulation of wealth. He amassed q
fortune of more than sl50,000. Upon Robert
Neely's death this estate went to his son James,
who entered upon possession last year. The
father had married since the death of his first
wife. the mother of James, and his last wife
had entered into an ante-nuptial agreement by
which she promised not to apply for or to ac-
cept any part of the estate. After Robert
Neely's death his widow charged that her sig
nature to the agreement had been obtained by
fraud, and suit was entered in the courts, which
has not yet been determined. Young James
Neely, after coming into possession of his
fathers estate. entered upon a career which so
rapidly reduced the property that upon his
death not much more than S75. 900 was left, and
father SO many years to amass, went to
stranger.