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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
Welded WHILE THE STORM RACED.
Marriage Under Unusual Circumstances
at Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept 15.-While the winds
and waves were battling fiercest on Tuesday
along tine shore a rather remarkable wedding
took place here. The ceremony was performed
by Mayor Hoffman, and the groom was John
]. Kersey, wealthy gentleman residing at
Miss May H Kirby the sister of the proprietor
of the Margate Hotel. where the sister has
always acted as housekeeper for the brother
MI kersey has been spending the greater part
of the summer at the Margate, and it was there
that he met and wooed his bride.
The couple were to have taken the o'clock
train for Philadelphia ON their way to Balti-
more for their wedding trip, but at that time
the train service was cut of, and they were
compelled to spend their honeymoon at the
wave-swept shore. When telegraph service
was re-established between Atlantic City and
the rest of the world, Mr.. Kersey received
news of the death Of near relative. Mrs. Mary
Jacob Jones, of Bridgeport, Montgomery
county The wedding trip has been postponed
indefinitely
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
Every Puff Worth a Dollar.

'Such severe discipline makes the railroad
management strain every nerve TO keep to
schedule time. Every puff of the locomotive
Is worth dollar. The wheels must whizz over
the track at flying speed if necessary. Where
there has been delay it must be made up, and
90 or 20 miles an hour is sometimes made by the
mail train with price on its head. There is a
story-it may be fction-that a railroad COM
pany once altered the time-piece to escape q
fine. The temptation to such plan is GER
tainly great; for what with all the efficiency of
railroad service in this country, yearly fines
run sometimes mountains high"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

THE adoption of the Australian system of
voting in Minnesota is reported to work
very satisfactorily. But that is no evidence
that it would meet requirements in New
York and Pennsylvania. The object of
holding elections in New York, Philadel-
phia and Pittsburg are understood to be
entirely distinct from those which prevail in
Minnesota,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
TWO FINE MONUMENTS.
Statues of Gen. Mcclellan and Emmn Alb.
bott's Husband Both by EIlicott.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, September l5.-Mr. Henry
J. Ellicott, chief of the model room of the
office of the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury, has just completed the final details
of contract to construct the equestrian
statue of General Mcclellan, which is to be
erected in the city of Philadelphia, and is to
cost $4,000. Mr.. Ellicott has also been en-
gagged by Miss Emma Abbott the prima donna
to construct monument to her late husband
Mr.. Wetherell, which is to cost $4,000. Miss
Abbott is endeavoring to prevail upon the
friends of her husband to consent to the re-
moval of his remains from the suburb OF Bos-
ton, where they are inferred, to Greenwood
Cemetery, and if SO the handsome monument
will be erected in that fashionable burying
ground.
under the terms of his engagement as chief of
the model room he may design and take charge
of outside work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

THE report that the reclaiming of the
Everglades of Florida will give the nation
a sugar producing district that will smash
the Sugar Trust, is pleasant reading. But
what is the security that the eminent capi-
talists, with Hon. w. L. Scott at their head,
who are draining that section, will not,
when they get their lands in operation, COM
bine with the Sugar Trust and squeeze some
additional millions out of the long-sufering
people,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

COULD there be any more striking evi-
dence of the pettiness of what is called
craftsmanship in Europe than Bismarck's
desire to have Louis Kossuth driven, in old
age, out the home which he has occupied in
Italy for years past?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

PERHAPS the reason why the New York
millionaires do not put up their money for
the Worlds Fair is their dissatisfaction at
not getting what they regard as their due
share of Senator ingalls, S42,OOO,OOO per
second increase of the national wealth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

THE funeral of Captain James Rees, yes
terday afternoon, appropriately observed the
end OF life that had been long and
creditably identified with Pittsburg COM
merce and industries. One by one the old
leaders of our city's activities are passing
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

The Chief of the Chicago fire department
recently read paper at public meeting
criticising the use of unlined, knit and
woven hose. The spread of the dress reform
movement is encouraging.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
THE CORPSE AROSE AND TALKED.

Woman Prepared for the Grave While
In n Trance.
BUFFALO, September 16-Mrs. William
Diemens, of Wilson, in Niagara county, appar-
emily died Thursday night of a low fever. The
body was prepared for the grave, and the next
morning her relatives gathered about her bed
and discussed the advisability of sending mes
sengers to notify her friends of her death. In
the midst of their talk the supposed corpse
arose and said that she would act as messenger.
Her relatives ran from the room, but return
ing found her not only alive, but In fair way
to complete recovery. She explained that,
though in a trance she had from the first
realized all that had gone on around her.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

York the special organ of the railway inter-
ests of the country. That may increase the
value of the journal in question as an organ.
1t has not for some time had any value as q
newspaper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
A Bosu. shoo,Ine Story.

From the Chicago Tribune.1
Esteemed Southern exchanges should not
believe all the stories that are printed about the
carnival of crime" in the North. The late
reports concerning the unprovoked shooting
of Niagara Falls are generally discredited by
the best informed Northern papers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
Still Able TO Kick.

From the New York Herald.i
Prohibition is dead. they say. Well, as for
the two fore legs we can't say; but as to the two
hind legs, you had better keep clear of them
for some time to come.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

THERE is much more hope of the salts
factory arbitration of Mr.. Meningitis
claim for work at Johnstown than there
seems to be for that neat sum claimed by
the Pittsburg Relief Committee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.

THE meanest man in Ohio lives at Newton
Falls. His wife tumbled into the Mahoning
and on being rescued a four-pound bass was
found entangled in her dress improver When
her husband found this out he wanted to set
her again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

SOME of the most decided aid that is Civ.
en- TO Field Marshal Halstead's political
aspirations is furnished unwittingly by the
people who are trying to serve out the
Standard Oil Company's spite under cover
of the name Of John A. Logan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
An Approximate Emblem.

From the Detroit Free Press;
Hayti is to have a new national flag and
wants ideas and suggestions. While this is
our busy day, we would suggest two tomcats
hanging over clothes line on a yaller back
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

Mr.. C. P. HUNTINGTON is reported to
have adopted the determination that he will
make the newspaper which he owns in New
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

CHINESE boycotts may be a little more
incomprehensible than the ordinary kind;
but both are equally opposed to the princi-
pie of individual liberty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
Eusier Said Than Done.

From the New York Tribune.l
1t wouldn't be a bad idea to put a strait
Jacket around "old oceans gray and melancholy
,;efI1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
WHY THE MAILS RUSH.
Delays That Cost the Railroad Companies
Large sums-stops Paid for ut the Rate
of SIS an Hour-The Pay for Service

Delays That Cost the Railroad Companies
Large sums-stops Paid for ut the Rate
of S55 an Hour-The Pay for Service
on Fast Trains.
Delayed mail trains cost the Pennsylvania
Railroad S150O00 year.
THE letter carrier may fiirt with his servant
girl friends or kill time as he tramps his daily
rounds with the mail pouch" said an official to a
Philadelphia Record reporter, "but the railroad
companies that hurry Uncle Sans letter bags
at lightning speed from ocean to ocean and
lake to gulf. must run their trains sharp to
schedule time or pay damages for delay.
THE public does not know it. but the Penn
sylvania Railroad and every other line in the
country-fOr practically all are to some extent
servants of the Postofice Department-pays q
nne for all its shortcomings in the mail service.
Postal freight Is, of course, charged to the
Government, but there have been years in
which the Postmaster has subtracted as much
as 100000 from the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's bill because the bags of letters have
been delivered at their destination late. They
are stern task-masters those officials in the big
granite buildings at the Capital.
superintendent ]. Lowrie Bell arranges all
railroad contracts for carrying the mails. The
transportation companies are paid according to
the average weight of the mail they carry and
the distance it is conveyed. For example, the
mail that passes over the Pennsylvania Rail-
road from Philadelphia to New York Is weighed
some day during the year, and the amount
multiplied by the distance to New YORK gives
an aggregate by which compensation may be
adjusted. And in proportion to the payment
Ior service SO are the fines for delay.
Ironclad Contracts.
Agents of the Government record every
lateness in mail trains the country over and
send this intelligence to Washington. In due
time the railroad companies receive an official
communication levying punishment in the
shape of heavy fines. The various trains that
have been late are enumerated, and we at once
communicate with our various Division Super
intendents and find the cause of delay. Often
times it may have been the railroad company's
fault, and we own up. but if our roadway was
washed by storm, or Providence in some other
fashion blocked the way, we file an affidavit to
that effect at Washington and ask tor remis-
sion of the penalty.
'The Pennsylvania Railroad Company did
not pay for the countless delays resulting from
the Johnstown fiood, nor will it be out of pocket
for the recent stoppage of Atlantic City's mails.
And" continued the railroad man, there are
other delays which, as common sense dictates,
we should not be held responsible for, but there
is wide margin for the play of caprice on the
part of the Postmaster General and his asso-
GATES.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
Abundance of Good Timber Here.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania can offer the President one Of
any number of good soldiers with high ad-
ministrative ability If he wants a Pension Com
missioner from this State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

JAMES N. ROGER, of Lebanon, has a pear
tree which has borne large crop this summer,
and is again in full bloom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

AN Ohio man has written Jay Gould a beg
ging letter every day for the last 40 days, and
in his last he announced that he had purchased
$40 worth of stationery and calculated to keep
turning the crank until he got some response,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

A BICYCLE which can be made into a quad
ricycle, and can be used by either man or
woman. has been invented by a Lancaster
genius.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
DAILY D1sPArcH, One Year s 90
DAILY DISPATCH, Per Quarter................ 2 90
DAILY DISPATCH One Month ................. 20
DAILY DISPATCH, including Sunday, year. 10 90
DAILY DIsPATCH. including Sunday, SIN tbs. 50
DAILY DISPATCH, including Sunday, month 90
SUNDAY DISPATCH, One Year ......,.......... 50
WEEKLY DISPATCH One Year ................ Is
THE DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers at
J5cents per week, or including Sunday edition, at
2ocents per week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

SEVEN pounds and three ounces Of bass
hooked itself on the fishing line of Lewis Nc
Closkey at Norristown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16

SEVERAL hundred yellow jackets having
located in the lock tenders horn at the Little
Dam, Reading, some vicious young men asked
their acquaintances to go to the house, knock
upon it. and give their opinion Of the peculiar
noise they would hear. Messrs. H. Nerder, @.
Troxel c. Hester. w. Humbert and several
others who did SO were badly srung as result
SIX different couples were applicants for the
leading part at the proposed wedding at the
Doylestown fair. Two have been selected and
will divide the honors and gifts.
A WHEELING girl Of 18 has received nu-
merous proposals Of marriage. The last was
from man So years old who is paralytic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-16


The umbrella in the twentieth century will
be the symbol of these selfish days we live in
with which every man shields his own head
and lets the drippings drop down his neighbors
back. The chambered nautilus, though
would be truer symbol, at least if 1t is true as
the poets have written about it. that it builds
each year new room in its shell, and each
room wider than the last. With all our short.
comings, we are doing that. Things are not as
they should be, and the millennium is still a
good way off, but we are citing nearer to it
all the time.
see that they had a nautilus to crown the
birthday cake at Beverly Farm the other day
when DR.. Holmes passed the eightieth mile
stone. And they had silver loving cup tn
give him. DR.. Holmes has now these manv
years been inspiring people to build more
stately mansions for their souls. and this very
largely by the contagon of his own kindly. low.
ing. sympathe tic spirit. We will all have that
spirit in the TWEEN ntieth century.
DR.. Holmes has probably got more out of his
so years than Methusalah got out of bis
800 (Was that the number?), becanso
life to-day has so much more of internSt
in it than it had in that very young time. anJ
because DR.. Holmes is SO much more interestoS
in life than we have any reason to thinl-
Methusalah was. 1t is helpful to read any
thing which he writes, if only for the sake of
catching his bright, interested way of LOOKING
at things.
So
Mr.. Andrew Long, in a paper under the curi-
ously chosen title of American Drollsn calls
DIR. Holmes ''the master Of them ALL" Mr. Lon,r
has a large measure of this same charmino
way Of looking at things, and this same de.
Eghtful fashion of helping us to see through
his eyes. His Lost Leaders is a gathering to.
gether of brief papers from the Daily Netcs
He doesn't mean'by a "lost leader" what Mr..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-09

The NewYork Retail Grocers' Mon had us annual
picnic and summemghts festival yesterday a suffers
Park Onc-hundred anfiWenty scyenth-st and Second
ave. About 300 people were present The company
mainly composed of persons engaged directly or in
directly in the wholesale ana retail gracery trade about
New or.. ana ia addition there delegates from
various large baking establishments. each delegation
being accompanied 10y bras, band. Thurbcr Why
land & CO., employees came out Ia force and (, re-
quilrd a tally no coach and a drag TO carry them 10
She park. The entertainment comprised shooting aud
bowling competitions, the first przo In each contest
being gold medal; dancing In the large ballroom
stationed In different paris OF tho grounds. one
pleasant feature Of the festival that fans work
tIlbuied among the women WHO entered tho grounds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-09
CLOSE OF THE DEACONESS CONVENTION.
A CONFERENCE IN THORNLEY, CfApEfs-AD-
REssEs BY THE DELEGATES

OlefsoNIo D1 Illl4 Df-l-fBNlfa>.
Ocean Grove, y. J.. Aug oSpccab.-The second
day Of the deaconess convention brought good
attendance at the auditorium. Major Cole and tie
blind singer added much t. the interest. Mrs Anna
Kent of Bradley Beach, read the report Of tie ToY
Home
conference was held in Thornley, Chapel. comi
posed Of delegates appointed by the annual conferences
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Among those
present the Rev. Morris d. g. Crawford. Of New
York: the Rev. Or. Harris of Philadelphia; the Rev.
Dr. Kcrwan. of Baltimore; the Rev. DR.. A. J.. Brcs,
of Elizabeth, y. j. the Rev. DR.. Weakley and James
Gamble. Of Cincinnati the Rev. DE- Louis Nippert II
Newport Ky; @. c. Robinson Of Detroit; Mr., and
Mrs f. W. KrkOG, ". L. and Mrs. Blackstone, OF
Chicago; the Rev. j. s. Myer superintendent Of tbs
Chicago DeacOncss Home: the Rev Henry Wheeler, OF
Philadelphia Mrs. f. Butterheld and Mrs. /. V. Dicks
inson. OF Chicago Mrs. c. Rogers. Of Ann Arbor.
Mich; Miss Layton, superintendent Of the New-York
Deaconess Home: Mrs. waldron, Editor Of The
Heather Women's Fnend,7 Boston; Mrs. Adermans
of Hyde Park Mass. Mrs. f. Holding OF Chicago and
Dr. Lucy Ryder Niger, principal OF the Associate Trans
Ing School, Chicago.
The conference adopted plan Of organization and
a plan of study. Or. Crawford is the president.
The Rev. Or. Louis Nippert spoke on Deac0nesses
I'm the Methodist Episcopal Church In Germany The
German deacOnesseS were organized by flledner,
a Lutheran pastor, at Kaserwe:th There ara
thirty homes in Germany and two in switzeriand.
A Hamburg resident raised 10000 marks (@l60OO 20
found a home In that city. =,
Miss NJ E. Layton gave account of the wof&
of the Deaconess Home and Training school Oh uie
Methodist Episcopal Church In New-forh ivy Az
No 941 West Fourteen th-st III Is DONG gran" ""A
among the poor and degraded.
This afternoon W. T.. Blackstone Of Chicago pro-
sided The Rev. Morris D. C. Crawford said that the
deaconesses are as surely I'm the succession as mo
Gcsrons or bishops. lie took the ground thai ths
la "a willing to DO fOf Inc NdNEntH
as for the -,
Mrs Margaret Bottome. Of NewYork, made an
add,pss on The sisters Of the People" sac SAD
thar The deaconesscs were the happlest people she
saw i'm London. Bishop John F.. Hurst spohe oa
(. Tho New place for NOman's Work In the ihuNh'
This closed the first dcaconess convention ever heli'
1t was a great success.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-09
SWITCHING FROM CUBA INTO FLORIDA.
A CHARGE persons AND GOODS ARE

A CHARGE THAT PERSONS AND GOODS ARE
BROUGHT ILLEGALLY INTO THE STATE.
Washington. Aug. s.-Dr. Hamilton, surgeon-General
of the Marine Hospital Service is in receipt Of letter
dated Pensacola Fla, August ., from Sewall e. Cobb,
eX Mayor of the city in which the latter says in part
Ii seemed as though the State Board of Health had
ample authority to prevent communication with law
breaking people, especially by Imagine my sur
prise 10 learn this first day of August. 1889. that
there is 10 defence protection
tempted against the thousand and
smugglers coming from Cuba with aguardiente,
textile fabrics. bedbugs and such diseases constant
state of filth, animal and vegetable, engenders. In
every hour Of the day some person or persons could
be caught smuggling if proper effort male. The
United states Customs Department should prevent IT,
but they virtually have but tub for 600 miles OF
coast and she Of such draft be- compelled to keep
a gunshOt away from nine out of ten of the localities
used by the snugglers. When they sec the smoke of
steamer in the distance they virtuousy fish for
groupers. When the danger is past they in and
see their friends.
You will say this IS all talk. No. ! saw some Of
It I'm March in the neighborhood of Tampa. and within
a week Of my friends. sailing up the coast. saw
five vessels grown so bold to fish within two 10
four miles of the coast. TO be hardly when
night came One Of them landed his cargo at Cedar
Keys without entry. Another bold enough TO
run in ard anchor behind Ancotc Keys, then pro
cecdcd toward Cedar Keys and was seized by the
cutter within four miles Of the land
fishing probably 10000 pounds on board.
and had also lots of Florida watermelons on board.
Not one of the latter could be caught in deep water7
The writer says that the state Board of Health has
been useless, and asks DR.. Hamilton if he cannot
do something in the matter lie adds that a small
sailing vessel, armed with a crow of ten men in
thirty days Will rid the place Of these smuggcrs
and if a reward were offered for the ,smlggle,rs
seized and vessels captured, safety would soon be
assured. lie says that he has full proof Of these
facts and has heard parties boast of smuggling per
sons into Florida without health certificates from
Spanish authority. The price received was 500 each
for wenty-One persons, and all was accomplished in
twenty four hours. The communication has been
ferral to the secretary of the Treasury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-09
JONATHAN BOURNE.

New Bedford Mass. Aug. 9.-Jonathan Bourne died
last night from a paraytic STROKE received about a
fortnight ago at the age Of sevcnty-ceht years In
early lfp he conducted successful grocery business.
and then became largely interested in whaling lie
held some political offices, and was active In the man
agcment of several corporations. lie was the orig
nat0r Of tho Bourne cotton mill. I'm Tivcrton. r. l.,
where plan Of giving tho operatives share OF the
profits IS now being tried. Mr.. Bourne was liberal
giver TO such objects commended themselves to his
Judgment. He gave numerous and considerable gifts
IN tho tovn ~ Hournp on his last birthday he
distributed half million dollars among his children.
and his private bencfactiOnS were many. lie eNer-
ci.cd a large political influence a Republican I'm the
ISt Congressional District. or seven children hYc
snrNNa him,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-09

the day when there shall he established National Burs
or Department Of Education with member OF the Cab-
net at Its head.
short speeches made by Adjutant General
Penheld, Major Bennett, Colonel Van Pctien and
Others. In the evening an illustrated lecture on
100 battles Of the Civll War was given by T. Ds
Quincy Tullcy. Of Cleveland.
The W. {. T. L. School Of Methods Is now in session.
MIS- Mary T. Burt, of Ncw-York, Is president. Brief
papers and familiar talks take the place Of stated
lectures. Among those present were Ada Vice. oi
New-fork; Mrs. ". J. Weaver Of Batavia Mrs. Emily
burgess OF Highlands; Mrs. J. II. Bidwell. Of Hart
iQrd MIS-. ). II. Gray. OF Albany: Mrs Frances H.,
nan OF PaIjsbtlg; and Miss Florence \. Myers. Of
New YORK Yesterday afternoon Mrs Burgess spoke
on Peace and Arbitration Mss Florence A. Myers
presented pettion FOR signatures ppe>tins against
the US OF Ilor at military and naval stations. to Us
presented TO Congress. In the evening Mrs, Emily +!
Mclaughlin, Of Boston. addressed an audience OF 1000
on the temperance issue. The work today was con-
Quoted by Mrs Burgess. Miss Myers Miss Devol Ada
Vele and Mrs. c. j. Jump.