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The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-20
PENIS GROVE. N. j., SATURDAY. JULY 20. 1889

form of the train, saw two freight cars
rushing down upon them. The cars
had become detached at some colliery,
and were running wild down the heavy
grade. The mlnere shouted to their CON.
panions to Jump, which many of them
did, from the windows and platforms OF
the coaches, but the Runaway cars over
took the train before all were out, tele-
scoping the cars, with the above re-
suit. The tram contained 200 men.
who were returning to Shamokin from
Hickory Ridge Colliery after their
days work. A scene of great excite
ment prevailed. The list of injured is
incomplete. as a number of those who
were able to get away went Immediate
~ to their homes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
A FREE RIDE TO GETTYSBURG.
The Attorney Generals Opinion on Who Is
Entitled TO Ii.

Entitled TO Ii.
ESPECIAL rELEeRAM TO THE prsPArcH1
HARRISBURG, July 30.-The applications Of
soldiers for transportation to Gettysburg at the
time of the dedication of the monuments of
the organizations which participated in the
three days fight have become SO numerous
that Adjutant General Hastings found it neces-
sary to ask the Attorney General to interpret
one of the provisions of the law providing for
the disbursement Of $4,000 to convey soldiers
to the battle field and return them to their
homes The question was whether soldier,
formerly a member of a participating organi-
zation, but who had been discharged or dropped
from the rolls previous to the battle OF Gettys-
burg was entitled to free transportation.
Attorney General kirkpatrick has rendered
an opinion In which he holds that ito be en-
titled to Transportation his name must have
been on the rolls not only prior to but at tho
time of the battle of Gettysburg. The require
ments are that he must have been honorably
discharged and a resident of PENNSYLVANIA at
the date of the passage Of this act. his organ
ization must have taken part In the Dattle OF
Gettysburg on one or more OF the days upon
which it was fought, and his name must have
been on the rolls at the time of, as well as be-
fore the battle. All who had previously been
connected with such organization. but who had
been discharged, or whose names had been
dropped from the rolls prior to the battle, are
excluded equally with those who after the bat
tie became connected with the organization,
however honorably either class may have par
ticipated in the earlier or later achievements
of their regiment elsewhere"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
1NNoCUoUs BUT FOOLISH.

Two inclined plane companies on the
Southside get into a dispute over the title to
a piece of ground which each wishes to oc-
cupy with its structure. Both send forces of
men to take possession of the ground, and
this naturally leads to a collision between
the laborers. With more than the usual re-
spect for order in such cases. actual collision
is stopped by the employers. But the rival
forces occupy the disputed ground, and yes
terday the spectators were treated to the
edifying spectacle of one force of men shovel
ing dirt out of the hole which their employ
ers wish dug, while the other force as in
dustriously shoveled the dirt back into the
hole again.
If such acts of foolishness were committed
by two quarrelsome private individuals. it
would be easy to conclude that they were
exceptional illustrations of stupidity, and
the desire to take what is wanted without
waiting for legal adjustment of the dispute.
But when they are perpetrated by the great
est and most powerful corporations, which
owe their existence to the law, and are sup
posed to possess the highest intelligence in
their management, it is remarkable illus
tration of the stupidity of selfish bull-head-
edness in the very places it ought to be
absent The case which occurre yesterday
is not as aggravated as many others; but it
presents an aspect of Stiffness which, if the
sense of shame is not as proverbially absent
from the corporate character as the posses
sion of soul. ought to make both of the cor.
porations heartily ashamed of themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
IN DISTRIBUTE AND ACCOUNT.

The action of the Relief Commission at
Johnstown to-day will be watched with in
terest. Treasurer Thompson is on record
through The DISPATCH as favoring an i'm
mediate distribution of the money on hand.
Public opinion is with him. There is no
reason, good, bad or Indifferent, that can be
urged why the survivors should not now
get every unexpended penny that remains
of the money contributed for them. Our
special reporter on Monday told of the vast
lot of work yet to be done at Johnstown. To
move along at all, the people should, as
quickly as may be, get the handling of the
money.
Another duty rests on the commission.
A detailed statement of expenditures
should forthwith be ordered. Only gen.
eral statement has so far been sent out,
and that a bungling and disputed one,
which the members of the commission were
kept busy for a week afterward explaining,
or denying, or trying to reconcile with
previous semi-official and unofficial decia-
rations. 1t is not necessary to lay stress
upon the sharp criticisms of the commission,
TO see the propriety of the simple and usual
business procedure of filing an itemized ac-
count for the information of all the parties
in interest. Governor Beaver has written
voluminously. eloquently, in. the North
american ReUielc as to how and where the
money came from to the help of Johnstown.
Secretary Kramer's statistical exhibit OF
how, to whom, and for what it has been
paid out will be fully as interesting-in-
deed, at this time rather more so.
The apparent Indifference of the COM
mission as a body to the urgent requests for
distribution, and to the suggestions hitherto
OF detailed statements, requires that both
points be pressed keenly on their attention
to-day. The Governor and the commission
have perhaps been somewhat too sharply
censured as to a few particulars of their
official inaction; but if they continue to
ignore reasonable and inevitable business
propositions they must look for plain talk.
To wrap themselves in the mantle of
offended dignity, and to scorn to take the
ordinary and simple course of paying out
at once the money where it is needed, and
of giving the public and the sufferers an
| itemized statement of their expenditures, is
to put themselves quite unnecessarily in an
ambiguous and rather ridiculous position.
But the advice of the Pittsburg members,
who are very close to Johnstown, and who
are best posted on the situation, will doubt
less prevail. We hope, at least, for salts
factory results from to-day's session.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
A QUESTIONABLE SEIZURE.

1t seems that the assertion of the claim OF
the United States to all the seals in the
Behring Sea has taken the form of another
seizure of an English sealing vessel After
the denial OF this claim by England, its
forcible assertion in this way is likely to
put the British lions back up. That might
be endured if our position was a tenable
one; but when on one coast we are disputing
with England over her too rigid assertion of
exclusive ownership of the fisheries within
three miles of the shore, it is hardly wise TO
claim the exclusive ownership of an ocean
half as large as the North Atlantic and sew
eral times the size of the Gulf of Newfound-
land. 1t is especially unwise to seize vessels
after it has been proved by previous cases
that the Government will have to back down
and let them 60 again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY. JULY 81, lsSa
A PUBLIC DUTY.

The testimony of the baby farming case
before one of our local courts presents con-
siderable amount of conflicting allegations.
1t is likely to strike the impartial mind that
skim milk diluted with water is not exactly
the nourishment necessary to make babies
grow and thrive; and the results OF the
experiment show no reason for changing that
view.
The case of the woman who is charged
with administering this excessively econom-
ical diet to the infants left in her charge
NAV be left to the courts. Without preju-
dicing her case, it is to be remarked that
the allegations show the necessity that the
organizations which place the orphan or
deserted infants in charge of nurses shall
exercise strict supervision as to their care.
There does not seem to have been much su-
pervision in this case; and if there has been
neglect the absence of this oversight is
largely responsible for it.
The children of this generation are the
men and women of the next. There is no
palmer duty than to provide nurture and
training for those that are left without the
natural care of their parents. This duty
should not be carelessly and blindly left to
irresponsible hirelings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
NOT LIKELY TO SUCCEED.

The appearance of a report that the
Wheeling nail manufacturers are organiz-
ing corporation which is to play the part
of trust for that industry, calls for the re-
mark that nail manufacturers generally
have had experience enough to fight shy of
any such concerns. Previous attempts to
establish combinations intended to maintain
the price of nails have demonstrated their
futility; and that consideration is peculiarly
applicable when the present trouble with
the whole nail industry is the competition
of wire nails. In addition, the manufac-
turers are not likely to forget the signif-
canoe of recent declarations by the most
ultra-protectionist journals that the mo-
nopolizing of an industry by at-ust combi-
nation will be good reason for taking away
the duties on its products.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
THE POINT OF CONTRAST.

The report that st. Louis manufacturer
of flint glass has suspended operations be-
cause the business did not pay him to con-
tinue in operation, reveals the natural work.
ing of legitimate competition. The superior
advantages of factories using natural gas
fuel enable the latter to sell their product
at profit. at prices which represent loss
to him. The consequence is that the public
get the benefit of the competition that is
made possible by new discoveries, while the
badly located factories have no choice except
to go out of business.
This points out the vital difference be-
tween competition and the trust combina-
tions. In both cases, where there is an ex-
cess of production, the least favorably
located plants must shut down. But in one
case the owners Of the badly located or i'm
proyidently managed concerns have to bear
the penalty themselves; in the other the
plan of the trusts, of paying such concerns
for yemaining idle, imposes the cost of the
idleness upon the public. One is public
justice, the other is public extortion. One
secures to the public the benefit of improve
ments and cheapness in production; and the
other seeks to prevent any such benefits
from reaching the ordinary consumers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
THE sTAY-AT-HOMEs,

For the thousands who manage to get
away to the seashore or mountain for a
week or two of the hottest summer weather,
the dog days have no special terror. Getting
ready, the excursionists bear the sultriness
in cheerful expectation of their trip. Recol-
lections of the refreshing novelty and change
sustain them on their return. But for the
tens of thousands who cannot get away,
even for twenty-four hours, from the hot
city, the physical discomforts of midsummer
are serious.
Is nothing owing to these? The question
had better be pondered in respect to the
park prospects now again before the public
Pittsburg cannot afford to be a mean city to
its working people. They are the bone and
sinew of the place. With the means now in
view of quickly getting from every part of
the town to one, two or three central areas,
there is no longer an excuse for putting the
park question behind US as wholly an i'm
possible, superhuous or extravagant thing.
There should be parks, and quickly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
FORAKER A SURE WINNER.
Ex.speaker Keifer Tells n Few Things
About Ohio Politics.

About Ohio Politics.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.l
New YORK, July S0-Ex-Speaker ]. Warren
Keifer of Ohio, was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
to-day. AS to politics and the coming election
he said that Governor Foraker would be elected
by 10000 or 25, 600 majority and sddedc
"It is an of year ard the voters will not all
turn out, except in close districts. However,
the Democrats have no chance whatever and
they seem to realize it. / do not believe they
will make a strong effort. Dissatisfaction in
the Republican ranksf There is none what
ever. Senator John Sherman's letter clearly
shows that he is for the ticket and his followers
will be in line, too. OF course there VIII be
few malcontents.
ga great many Ohio people think that IL
Governor Foraker Is elected by very large
majority it will put him in line for the Presl-
dency in 1897. Do you think sor'
mo one knows what the political wheel OF
fortune will turn for us in 1892. do not mean
to say that Governor Foraker will be less
prominent than he is now. We all know that =
Presidential boom is not perennial boom, but
often a thing of mushroom growth. Therefore
it Is difficult to tell who will be in the public
eye in 1892 Naturally Ohio cannot be easily
knocked out Of the bright galaxy OF Presl'
dental possibilities"
"Who will succeed Senator Paynef"
1--WE have three candidates, Messrs. Butter
worth, Foster and Mckinley, either OF whom
would make a good Senator. But they are not
making any fiQht to elect q Legislature that
will support them. You see, we are modest in
Ohio in such matters, and we believe that the
Legislature should first be elected before the
canvass begins for the Senatorship. Congress
man Mckinley may be elected Speaker. which
would eliminate him from the race and narrow
it down to a fight between Ex-Governor Foster
and Congressman Ben Butterworth. Our next
Senator will be a Republican, am sure"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
OATS WILL BE PLENTY.
II VIII be the Largest Crop Ever Harvested
In the Country.

In the Country
CHICAGO, July 3O-The following will appear
in this weeks issue of the Farmers Review:
According to the statistics furnished by our
crop correspondents, the oat crop of the pres
ent season will be the largest ever harvested ia
the United States, but the yield will not be as
heavy as at first anticipated, owing to the ex-
cessIvely wet weather and frequent wind
storms that have lodged and rusted the straw
on many fields. A larger acreage was sown to
oats In Illinois than in any other State, and her
crop will, therefore, be larger than that Of any
other State. Considering the average yield per
acre and the condition at harvesting time,
Iowa and Wisconsin take the lead. Indiana
will do almost as well. The crop will be
heavy one all over the country save in Dakota,
where, as has previously been reported, oats
are almost total failure owing to drouth:
We summarize our reports as follows: Aver
age condition at harves; time-Illino1s, % In
diana lOl; Ohio SO; Missouri, 96; Kentucky, 90;
Iowa. I04; Kansas. 90; Nebraska, 81; Michigan,
100: Wisconsin, 107; Minnesota, 81: Dakota, AZ.
On this basis we estimate the crop as follows:
bushels; bushels; total. iss.ioi. SO bushels. Indiana,
acreage LOST 0S3; estimated yield, "a bushels;
total S6 96O, 7l2 bushels; Ohio, acreage l4l 607;
estimated yield. sS bushels; total, 94t87a OBJ
yield, Is bushels; total l3024 500 bushels; Mis-
souri,, acreage, l426, ,sS7; @ estimated i'm yield,
yield, 40 bushels; total, lO5. O4O bushels;
Kansas, acreage, 1885, ,3S8; estimated yield, 80
bushels; total. 65, ,659, sN bushels. Nebraska.
acreage, l, los. .910: estimated yield, Is bushels
total, 30965, ,4S0 bushels. Michigan, acreage,
827, ,346; estimated yield, 36 bushels; total, ~
7S4 $50 bushels Wisconsin. acreage, l4S3, 1876
estimated yield, AZ bushels; total, 81 3l9, 432
bushels. Minnesota, acreage, l,5T,7 ,756; esti
mated yield, % bushels; total. 49, 443 800 bushels
Dakota acreage, l2076 6SS; estimated yield,
bushels; total. s Ass, sl6 bushels.
Total yield for the above named States. 6O6
672 $50 bushels Assuming that the yield in
or 1855 4s7 900 bushels, the total oat crop OF the
United States will be about 1853 l60, 432 bushels,
or a gain of 81, AS 900 bushels over the oat crop
of 1883
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
THE JOYS OF PRIVATE LIFE.

A brief paragraph recently published the
vacation programme of ex-President Cleve-
land. He is going on a yachting trip for
two weeks in August, and afterward will
seek seclusion in the Adirondacks with his
charming wife. Last year similar an
nouncement would have been deemed of the
greatest importance, and had the "man of
destiny" come out of last years fray
victorious he would not have been allowed
to take his summer pleasuring without
abundance of publicity. But an ex-Presi-
dent is not generally annoyed by the solic-
itude of the public.
Mr.. Cleveland may have taken his defeat
to heart at the time, and he may sometimes
permit himself to sigh when the heading of
his letter paper, or some Other circumstance,
reminds him that he no longer resides in
the White House; but he is too sensible a
man, we imagine, not to appreciate the COM
pensations of private life. A vacation to
him now may mean time of rest and rec
reation such as cannot come to the Presi-
dent in Office. Personal friends he still
has, but time-serving fatterers and persist
ent office seekers no longer press upon him.
He can yacht, fish or swap stories with the
faithful Dan Lamont to his hearts content,
without a thought about the fishery ques-
ton or the Samoan treaty, or any other
momentous affair of State.
There is only one circumstance that may
mar Mr.. Cleveland's holiday. He still has
hopes of q return to public life in 1892. But
he should lay these by till the summer
is over. 1t will spoil the favor of the salt
sea breeze, take the snap out OF the fishing,
and blemish the lovely landscapes of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
TIE BIBLE As A GUIDE BOOK.
How IL Aided M. NaviIIe In His Exploration
of Ancient Egypt.


At the recent meeting of the Victoria 1nsti-
ture in London NJ. Navllle gave an account OF
his explorations in Egypt and the remarkable
discoveries made there. He commenced by
quoting the prophecy Of Ezekiel against Egypt,
because It contained the names of the leading
buried cities, the recovery Of the records OF
which he is so desirous TO obtain; and here we
may be permitted to digress for a moment to
call attention to the fact that the autheress OF
the last published work in regard to the East
declares that this prophecy had not been full
filed according to the prophets words.
Strange that the greatest and most successful
Egyptian explorer of modern times should
go to this very phophecy for light to enable
him to find that which others had failed to dis
covert Taxing the last city named, he de-
scribed now he found Pibsseth-Bubastis, how
each days excavating work brought him new
relics, new inscriptions; how he found Harnesses
IL, in the nineteenth dynasty, had, as usual,
blooted out the name OF previous Pharaohs,
and put his name on everything, even on the
statue of q Pharaoh of the fourth dynasty; and
how by careful comparison, aided by the fact
that Rameses II. had not been quite thorough
in his appropriations, he had discovered which
Pharaoh of the fourth dynasty the statue rep
resented.
He came to the conclusion that Bubastis was
founded at least as early as in the reign OF
Cheops between whom and Pepi, OF whose in
fuence there were traces, 300 years intervened,
500 years after there was a transformation of the
city in the twelfth dynasty; in the fourteenth
dynasty there was the invasion OF the Hyksos or
Shepherds. who, from the statues Of great
beauty found, and from other evidences, must
have been highly cultivated people, who. he
considered, must have come from Mesopotamia-
DIR. Virchow considered that their monuments
represented Tufanians, and Prof. Flower con-
sidered them to represent people of Turanian
or Mongoloid type, but that did not mean IT. that
the population itself was Turanian. Thelr
worship and language was of Semitic type,
put the statues of their kings showed that
they were not Semites.
M. Nayille added: at was then what it is
now; and I believe that the conquest Of Egypt
by the Hyksos is not unlike what would happen
at the present day if the population of Meso-
would have masses in great majority OF
Semitic race, speaking a Semitic language
having Semitic religion, and being under the
command of Turks, who are not Semites but
Turanians."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

DIR. THOMAS WATERMAN, an eminent Bos-
ton surgeon and physician, is said to be the
most skillful ventriloquist in that city.
In the portrait which Sir John Millais is now
painting Mr.. Gladstone is repres ented sitting,
with his little grandson standing by his knee.
1T is feared in Berlin that DR.. Zinrgrah, the
African explorer, who has undertaken an
expedition into the interior of CAMERON, has
perished, as no news of him has been received
for several months.
SECRETARY BLAINE is renovating and re-
furnishing the billiard room IN his home at
Bar Harbor, preparatory to the arrival OF
President Harrison. The latter has of late be-
come an enthusiastic player and displays con-
self is also fair player.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, the once
famous author Of "Proverbial Philosophy" is
still alive. He lives In handsome country
house in England. He bears a striking resem-
blance to Longfellow in his old age. TuPper
does not agree with his old school fellow, Glad
stone, on the question Of home rule.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is said to be the most su-
perstitious man who ever occupied the White
House. He never began an important letter
or document on a Friday, and when fishing
never places his left hand before his right in
holding the rod. If he does, he says he might
as well go home, as no fish will bite that day.
PROFESSOR EDWARD P. CRowELL, of Am
herst College, dean of the faculty and profess
sor of Latin language and literature. is stone
blind. He is about so years old and had per-
feet eyesight until five years ago, when he lost
his sight by sickness. A strange species of in
aammation which the doctors did not under
stand and we're powerless to check attacked
Professor Crowelrs eyes and ruined them both.
SECRETARY RUsK has a rival as the jehu OF
the Cabinet in the person Of the Attorney Gen.
eral. When the President decided last Sun
day, as the day was fine, that he wanted to go
to Oakland to church, Attorney General Miller
offered to drive him. together with Secretary
Window and Senator Davis, over the six miles
of mountain roads. His offer was accepted
and he drove the White House bays and sur