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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
THE HORRIBLE GALLoWs.

Four men were hanged in the Tombs pris-
on at New York yesterday. They were all
murderers of women and deserved their
fate if ever any criminals did. There does
not appear to have been a shadow of reason
why any one of them should have been al
lowed to pollute the earth with his presence
any longer. 1t was claimed for the man
GarOlin, whose blasphemy upou the scaffold
was in peculiar contrast to thequiet resigna-
tiOn of the other murderers, that he was in
sane, but it could only be proved that he
was a vicious, hard-drinking man. The
execution of these bloodthirsty wretches
shows that the law against murder is being en-
forced in New York, even if some other
laws are set at naught there.
While we thoroughly approve of the in
Fiction of the death penalty in these cases.
and trust that the example may prove in
tectious in our over-nerciful courts, we can
not indorse the mode of judicial killing
which has again been proven uncertain and
horribly cruel. The death of two of the
murderers by the hangman's moose was rem
dered slow and full of torture by the Gus
tomary miscalculation of the e1ecutioner.
Those who favor the new scheme of killing
murderers by electricity will not be slow to
point to the latest failure of the old process
1t is hard to believe that such distressing
and unnecessary horrors would attend an
execution by electricity. Certainly q more
reliable method than hanging with rope
ought to be found. and electricity is most
likely to be the executioner of the future
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
RE1NFoRcEMENTs TO POPULATION.

The discovery that the name "Carl Bax-
ter, colored, watchman," which appears in
the recently issued Minneapolis directory
was the name of very intelligent and
faithful watch dog in that city gives the
provocation for larger number of sarcasms
at the expense of the enterprising directory
COMPILER who furnished the basis for the
large estimate of population. in the North.
western Metropolis.
Of course, the addition of watch dogs to
the directory total will furnish material for
very liberal showing of population; but,
on the whole, we are inclined to support the
probability that this resident of Minneapo-
lis is as we'll entitled to q place in the di-
rectory as a large number of the bipeds
whose position in that publication is undis-
puted. We have no doubt that Mr.. Carl
Baxter is warmly attached to the interests
of that portion of Minneapolis from which
he draws his livelihood That he will zeal
ously resist the encroachments of any of the
St. Paul watch dogs may be taken for
granted, and should any of the CANNES OF
the sister city assert the superiority of their
pldcc Vi IcslucuCc Ofct 4hiuuSapolls we
have no doubt that Mr.. Baxter will fight as
stoutlY even as a Minneapolis editor.
Nevertheless, the new departure furnishes
a precedent for very wide possibilities in the
construction Of directories and the claim of
large populations. For example, Kentucky
could establish a very plausible claim both
for increase of population and improvement
in the general intelligence and education of
her citizens by including her thoroughbred
horses in her census and directory reports.
BY including hogs in.the directory, the old
rivalry between Chicago, Cincinnati and St.
Louis might be continued. New York
might make an addition by adding the four
footed donkeys to her directories of the four
hundred; and almost any city might do a
stroke of business in that line except Bos-
ton. So long as Boston makes the pugilists
her great representatives she must be de-
barred from putting any of the animals in
her directories-out of respect to the ami
mails
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24

exhibit, the instrument informed him. that
certain Partisan newspaper worthless had de-
manded money as the price of favorable
notice of the Presidents visit. The news
paper men referred TO threaten suit for
defamation of character.
The legal puzzle is stated to be whether
the proceedings should be for slander or for
libel. If the person who made the assertion
to the instrument should be sued for libel,
he might plead that he did not write the
words but spoke them, and that he did not
speak them to any person. If charged with
slander he might answer that he did not
utter the words to President Carnot, but
that the instrument did. While possibly
the graphophone might be imprisoned for
sIander, it would afford little satisfaction to
the person slandered.
These quiddities might present an OBJ
stacle to suits in Anglo-Saxon courts, where
hair-splitting is sometimes effective; but
supposing the slander to be conceded, the
French law has q habit Of going direct to
the point and the defamation of character
would probably be punished, leaving the
question whsther a graphophone record is
written or spoken to be determined accord
ing to individual tastes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
TERMS Of THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. SATURDAY, AUG. "a, 1855
THE JoHNsToWN MUDDLE.

The expected trouble, predicted as the re-
suit of the irregular manner in which Gov
ernor Beaver insisted on raising the
funds for the States work at Johnstown,
opens out into something decidedly like q
bitter fight over the refunding of the ad-
vance which the Pittsburg Relief Committee
made on that work before the State took
charge.
The understanding was plainly an
nounced at the time to be that this money
should be refunded out of the million dol
lars that the Governor was represented to
command. The money was advanced to
meet pressing emergency, but its return to
the relief fund was insisted upon, not only
by the PIttsburg committee. but by the con-
tributoIs to that fund from other cities.
The PittsbUrg influence urged strongly that
the Legislature should be called together
in order that the money could be refunded
and the credit of the State pledged by COM
petent authority. This was overruled by
Governor Beaver, and matters are drifting
into decidedly unpleasant muddle as the
result.
The Governor was criticised for his mac
tion at first; but he bids fair to earn more
severe criticism by his subsequent action.
He represented that he had s., ,000, 900 if
necessary to do the work; and in the end it
turns out that he had but $500, 900 and the
work is not completed. He agreed that the
Pittsburg fund should be reimbursed for the
advance that it had made to do the work
that belonged to the State; and the Pitts
burg fund must now wait on the uncertain
ties of q Legislature that Is not to meet for a
year and half. 1t almost seems as if the
Governor had tried to demonstrate that he
estimated himself more correctly than the
public did, and to prove that his early inac-
tion would have been better for the Johns
town relief work than his later activity.
After this it is to be hoped that public
men will profit by the lesson that the way
to do necessary work by the State is to call
the appropriating and legislative power to-
gether and to have the State pledge itself in
the constitutional and regular way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
A STRANGE CELEBRATION.
Mexicans Commemorate the Anniversary o.
the Torture Of the Emperor.

HAeAASahs NemhiCmVruto tuc VI
the Torture Of the Emperor.
MEXICO, August S3.-At the statue OF
Cuauhtemoc in the Paso de la Reforma this
morning one Of the strangest celebrations tha
it Is possible to zee in this city. took place un-
der the direction of the Municipal Council. It
was the 36Sth anniversary Of the torture Of
Cuauhtemoc by the Spanish conquerors, who
hoped to make the last Aztec Emperor divulgo
the hiding place of the treasure Of the Empire.
On the north and south sides of the statue
two perfect Aztec temples had been erected,
and at o'clock, before one of the largest con-
courses of people ever gathered In the paso.
President Dtaz xnd four members of his Cabi-
net arranged to enter the southern edifiee to
quarter of a mile along the route the President
traversed before entering the temple the broad
avenue was lined with soldiers two deep.
There were IL bands present. and civic societies
and deputations without number from suburban
towns. The exercises consisted of addresses,
music and reading Of poems One of the
orators was Governor Prospero Casavantes, of
Tlaxcala, who delivered q speech In the nasual
or Aztec language.
At the conclusion of the municipal pro-
gramme President Diaz placed q wreath of
roses upon the statue. This was the signal for
others to do So and the base was within ten
the varied flowers of the valley and a value in
the United States of thousands of dollars.
Natives dressed in the attire of Aztecs danced
about the monument, and the Indians, who
were present In thousands. played upon strange
instruments and kept up the festivals of three
centuries ago, reminding one OF the feast of
flowers" 80 beautifully described by Prescott.
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WANTED A GHOST ARRESTED.
Singular Request Made by n Brooklyl
Woman at n Police Station.

Woman at a Police Station.
BROOKLYN, August 2s.-On Wednesday Mrs
Gustave Engle, Of $50 Maujer street, rushed
wildly into the Sixth precinct station house and
told Sergeant Kitzer that she wanted an officer
sent around to her house to arrest the ghost Of
her husband. The sergeant finally got her
calmed down sufficiently to relate the follow
ing story: Il was engaged in my household
duties, when man entered and spoke TO me.
turned and screamed. The man was my hus-
band, who committed suicide last June" The
ex-corpse took chair and looked admiringly
around the room. "Why are You herer Mrs
Engle cried. Il buried you two months ago.
For heavens sake, get out of here" Engle
smilingly declined to leave, and his wife rushed
station that the police could do nothing for her.
that they could not arrest her husband for his
apparent resurrection.
Itappears that .the ghost" disappeared from
his home on June "a, leaving his wife and four
children behind. Previous to his disappear
ance he had been out of work for sometime,
and had been feeling despondent On June 30
the body of q drowned man was found>in New
town creek. The remains were removed to the
morgue, and Mrs. Engle sent for TO identify
the corpse. She was sure it was the body OF
her husband. An inquest was held and YER
dict of suicide rendered The bereaved
At the time Engle disappeared his life was in
sured in the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany for $3.50, which was promptly paid to the
widow. Mrs. Engle is still undecided whether
to receive her husband back with open arms or
not
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nestle duties. and yet going to the poles
and voting scrupulously for honest men in
high positions with the result of abolishing
the practice of deals in polls and the pur-
chase of votes. This is an evident recon-
mendation to the Mugwumpian class; but
does anybody suppose that the politicians
will permit such violent assault on all
their vested interests as to let an element
into politics which will thus ruthlessly
abolish all the methods by which politics OF
the present day are characterized? This
exposure of the result of female suffrage
will secure its exclusion from the older
States so long as the political machine has
the power and instinct of self-preservation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THOMAS Drawer PEACOCK. the poet of the
West, is young man full of enthusiasm. He
has large dark eyes, which seem to be looking
into the future as far as possible.
JOHN n. INMAN, the cotton king Of New
York, came out of the Cor federate army a
ragged. penniless boy, and reached New York
1866. with a few dollars in his pocket and no
friends. He is now worth $l0.0O0.00o
ERNEST RENAN, the author Of the "Life of
Jesus" is small man, thick set and clumsy,
and he looks as If he liked the good things of
this earth. His face is round, and would be
coarse were it not for the noble brow and fine
eyes.
MARX TWAIN asks from $500 to 81, 900 for
story or sketch and he gets what he asks.
Frank StOckton's price for 1000 words is $3.50.
T. B. Aldrich charges $500 for few verses.
Richard NJ Johnston received $500 for a story
recently published in Harper's Magazine.
MISS KATE FIELD, SO tar from regretting
her want Of personal beauty. has sublime
contempt for a woman whose only recommends
tion is pretty face. Certainly, the most
brilliant women have not been the most beauti-
full: Madame De Stael, Lady Morgan, George
Eliot for instance.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE once Wis
tied Edinburgh. where she was invited to din
ner by William Chambers. the dull but pompous
puDlsner OF CHdn0eTS JouTn0t, OF winch ne
was excessively vain. Mrs. Stowe accidentally
mentioned that she believed he published
journal OF some kind. but she really forgot its
name. Mr.. Chambers was speechless with
astonishment
WILLIAM M. EvARrs is described as tail,
slender, lantern-jawed, lean and somewhat
awkward. He dresses slovenly with a collar
rolled, not turned, over his neckoloth. But, Ia
spite Of all these personal disadvantages, no
Senator is listened to with more attention. In
fact he Is one of the few speakers whose elo-
quence recalls the palmy days of the Senate.
when Clay. Webster, Calhoun, Benton were
the leaders Of their parties.
EDWARD l. BURLINeAME. the editor Of
Scribner's Magazine, is unknown in literature.
He is the son of Anson Burlingame, who, after
acting IS United States Minister to China, re-
turned to this country as Chinese Minister to
the United States. The son Is man about 45
years old. He wears long beard. and has
soft, insinuating manners. His voice and Ian
guage are carefully studied. He was the liter.
ary adviser Of the Scribner Publishing House
before the magazine was started.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.

On the farm Of Charles Jones, In German
township, Fayette county, is an apple tree
which measures inches above the ground, IL
feet II inches in circumference; feet from
the ground, the smallest place in the tree, it
measured 10 feet inches in circumference
The first limb on the tree measured 8 feet 5
inches in circumference. The land upon
which the tree stands was patented to Michael
Franks in 17S4, and the tree was probably plant
ed by him. 1t is vigorous still. and yearly bears
apples, which are not, however. Of desirable
variety.
MEYERspALE Commercial: 10000 trout were
put into Laurel Hill creek last week by James
Long. of Pittsburg. About one-hfth of
them are Loeb Leven, Scotland, trout, the
first of the species ever put in Pennsylvania
stream.
A MONKEY at the Philadelphia Zoo tore the
blue tulle of a lady's hat, wrapped in around
its stomach as q sash, and tnen sat posing
languidly upon its perch, unconscious OF the
ridiculous figure.
A PASSENGER on palace car running ont
Of Columbus was getting off at station on
crutches, forgetting his wooden leg. when a
thoughtful porter chased him with the limb,
and earned piece Of silver.
ISAAC GARMAN, of Greble, Lebanon coun-
ty, while cutting an old stump, found among
the rotten wood aud earth $50 in gold and sill
YER coin.
LEADING physician Of Columbia, while
hunting plover near Mount Joy couple Of days
since, put down mis- gun to pick his teeth and
in the act 1t was accidently discharged, blow
ing the rim on his hat and tintin@ his brow
with powder.
AN Ohio man makes his living by causing the
arrest Of peddlers who can show no license
When he Is arrested in turn, in the hope OF
compelling him to refund. ne takes the bensnt
Of the insolvency law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
HIS MAJESTY EDISON.
How n Partisan Contemporary Speaks of

How n Pnrisian Cotemperary Speaks of
the Great Inventor.
From the New York Tribune.l
Ia Majestic Edison" 1t is in this fashion,
and with large. black capitals. that the Paris
Figaro announces the arrival of Edison at the
Exposition. Figaro is right The young
American is q king in the world of invention,
and his doings are vastly better worth three
columns of description than the comIngs and
goings of some well-descended stupidity, who
was kind enough to give himself the trouble to
be born. IS the other Figaro says in the play.
Edison has won his empire by force OF his
genius, and without the aid of a scientific edu-
cation or anY Of the advantages so often en-
joyed by even poor lads in this age. The ex-
trainboy and telegraph operator deserves all
the honors Paris can give him. All hail to His
Majesty Edisonl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
ENCYCLOPEDIA IGNORANCE.

In the remarkable address of Prof. ]. p.
Mahaffey, of Trinity College, Dublin, de-
livered at Chautauqua recently, the follow
ing declaration appears to support his be-
lief that this country is all wrong and that
Tory ideas are the only correct ones:
In the preamble Of your great Declaration of
Rights appears, I believe, the stateme mt that
all men are equal in the sight Of God. That
statement was borrowed, not from the Script
ures, but from the speculations Of the French
revolutionists, whose opinions on the subject
were, to my mind, of very small value.
Inasmuch as the Declaration of Inde-
pendence asserts not that all men are equal
in the sight of God, but that all men are
created equal; and, as that declaration was
made thirteen years before the States G en-
eral was summoned by Louis XIV, and
sixteen years before the French Revolution
assumed its outspoken form, the historical,
as well as the social, ideas of Prof. Mahaffey
appear to be somewhat nebulous. Beyond
that, if there is anything which plainly ap-
pears in the teachings of the New Testament,
it is the equality of all men in the sight of
the Master. who chose fishermen and peas
ants to be the apostles of the religion which
gave new light to the world. The deduc-
tion is rather plain. to adopt the style of ex-
preston for which Prof. Mahafey's country.
men are notable, that while he knows moth
ing at all of the doctrines Of popular govern
ment and their history, be knows still less
of the doctrines of the Christian religion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
QUEER CHINESE LOTTERY.
Novel Plan Of Betting on Winning Candidates
In Examination.

In ExRmfnati0ns
from the London Times.l
The most famous of the many lotteries in
China at the present time is that known as the
Weising. 1t is of recent origin, Is most popu-
lar in Southern China and among the Can
tonese, and is briefly described by the Consul
at Canton in his last report on the trade of that
place. After describing the great college es-
tablishment by the Viceroy for the encourage
ment Of the study of native literature, with its
100 acres Of ground in the city, surrounded by
h1gn walls and moat, Its Lecture rooms, resi-
donces and endowments, Mr.. Alabaster OBJ
serves that although Canton is not literary
city, there is no want of opportunities of educa-
tion. Colleges abound, and any boy who shows
ability has no difficulty In obtaining teaching
and support as long as there is hope Of success
In the examinations, which in China take the
place Of the race course elsewhere.
Gambling, in the shape of lotteries on the sue
cessful candidates, is licensed, and in place of
putting money on the Derby the Cantonese
satisfy their taste for speculation by backing
favorite students. The lists of those entering
are published, and the man who can prick on
the list of entries the greatest number Of sue
cessful scholars wins the lottery. Men ruin
themselves buying lottery tickets; tickets are
forged or stolen: promising students are
hocussed or bribed not to put out their powers;
examiners are, 1T is limited, exposed to serious
temptations; but as racing encourages the breed
the pursuit of learning and furnishes the local
government with considerable revenue in the
amount given for the monopoly Of carrying it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
FUNNY MKN's FANCIEs.

Hens are kept busy finding the means for
moving their crops.-Teras SVrfngs.
Not every bridge contractor would like to
be tried by jury of his piers.--Tsras SVtfngs.
A Live Link.-Tramp-Can get bite
Of sausage or suthinr
Lady OF the House-You can; here Towser.-
Time.
The New West.-Usher Cat reception in
Chicago, as Mr.. Foot and daughters enter)--Mr.
Foot and the Misses Feetl
And yet they say chicaxo has no culture.-
Puck.
Visits OF Ceremony.-A gentleman, with
his card case in hand, rings the bell.
'.Are Mr.. and Mrs. B. at home?''
ssYes. sir.''
every well; then III call again. ',--yudoe
speaking of cowards," said Cally to
Daily, 'q never yet saw man wholly without
courage"
al have"
ssWho was hep,
The husband Of the landlady OF my boarding
house. ''-Eoston Courier.
A Smart Answer Turneth Away Cash.
Customer--How do you sell sugar this morning,
Mr.. Scalesg
Grocer--By the pound. SIR. same as always.
Customer--well, as I want two pounds this
morning, guess IN 20 across the way to Mr..
Counters Judge.
muOge-NOW, CuJOf JOkc Ju5b ds well
when It is at my own expense as when It's on some
other fellow.
Yabsley-It's different, though. with . Drink,
isn't 1t, Nudge?
Then Nudge got mad, and wouldn't speak for
over 20 minutes.-Terre Haute Express.
Her Idea OF Chautauqua.-Mr. McSwat
(unpacking baggage at summer csmpmeeting
grounds)-Lobelia, my dear, I:don't see anything
OF the fishing outfit.
Mrs. Mcswat-I had 70 leave 1t out at the last
moment, Billiger, to make room for the hymn
books.
Mr.. Mcswat goes out behind the tent and COM
ofs depraved wording. Chicago Tribune.
MORNING.
Atmorn when heecy vapors rise,
The hillsides brown ascending,
And flowers fush't with richest dyes
Are TO the breezes bending;
Before the matutinal meal,
When we in bed are lying,
How nice It Is the scent to feel
oftoothsome fritters fryingl
-BostOn Courier.
COLONEL VICTORIA.
The Colonel of the First Dragons,
The pride OF Hohenxollern's house,
Would fall In half q dozen swoons
1fshe but saw a tiny mouse
Imagine, then, the Colonei's fear
II foemen. whirling high their hats.
Should charge SO near that she could hear
The dreadful battls-cry OF 'Ratsr'
-Hashfagfos Pes&
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
Nearly Craxed BY Desertiou.

Mrs. Emma Riviero, with her four little girls,
deserted Mr.. Riviero three years ago to live
with the Rev. T. Edward Falconer, a street
preacher here. Rev, Falconer three days ago,
threatened to desert her If she would not re-
lieve him of supporting her three children by
sending them to an orphans home. She re-
fused and he left her penniless. She begged
enough money to get drunk with, went to the
corner on which he was preaching and tried to
hit him. She was sent to the Island this morn
ing. and her children were Given into the care
of q charitable society.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24

WE are panied to observe the denial of
that story that New York's committee OF
twenty-six miIlionaires, whose united wealth
is stated at five hundred million dollars,
had raised s., 600 at their first meeting with
regard to the Centennial. When it was per-
mitted to suppose the statement true, there
was hope that New York would be able to
raise the necessary funds to get ready for the
fifth Columbian Centennial in 1892. But
now that hope is dashed to the ground by
the discovery that, according to the usual
precedent of the New York millionsires,
the committee didn't put up cent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
Sew Up the Hip Pocket.

From the Mobile Register.I
That man is a man of honor Is shown by his
life, by his actions, by the evidence he gives of
character and principle-not by his willingness
to make an animated target of himself on any
and every occasion. OF course, there are q
number Of really honorable men in the South
and West who are ready to use the pistol If
they think they are insulted, but this class will
grow less as the years roll on. As the South
and West grow older the influence of the modes
of thought and habits Of those who first set
tied them will greatly decrease.