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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
FACTS ANDF FIGURES.

THE bullion in the Bank of England in
creased Sl4, ,0OO, 900 last week.
THERE are $500 watches manufactured in
the United States daily, at cost of from So to
$500 each,
CAMEL coal has been discovered in mex
haustible quantities in Alaska. An analysis
made of it by Prof. Lowe developed the follow
ing: Carbon sc, hydrogen 7, ash 6, sulphur a
trace.
THE greatest emigration society at present is
the Argentine Republic. 1t will spend this
year S50O0,000 to bring immigrants from the
North of Europe alone. Ships from England,
Holland and France are taking them over in
thousands.
THE gold coin and bullion in the Treasury
amounts to 1896. 1906 silver dollars and bull
lon $685. 79l OS7; legal tenders, s44 436 O45 gold
certificates in circulation, sl2S, ,9l0; silver
certificates in circulation, s247, $685. 459; currency
certificates, Sl5,920,000.
ACCORDING to the report of the Commits
sioner of Agriculture for February, the farm
animals of the world are estimated as follows:
Horses CO. 455, ,504 cattle, 293 $50 34l; mules and
asses, 9,SSl,S22; sheep and lambs, 497, ,6I2;
swine, SO, ,eS7,9 ,973; goats, 29. lS6,9S4
THE nickel mines of France, Germany and
Wales yield but per cent of nickel, while
those of Pennsylvania, Nevada and Oregon
yield 20 per cent. The general opinion that
nickel is mineral mined, smelted and re-
duced from the ore like silver, is an erroneous
one. 1t is chemical element and is extracted
from arsenides, cobalt e::.d sulphides.
THE number of nouring Hills in England is
estimated at about 1000, with total capacity
of little more than 5l,000000 barrels per
annum. This is one.fourth larger than the re-
quirements of the country. The mills could
On
capacity il no -four were imported. But large
quantities are received from the United States
and some from Hungary and the production
of the home mills is not much more than half
of what it would be If there were no competi-
tion from abroad.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
AN ALDERMAN NOT GUILTY.
The Jury Says So, But His Friends vii
Hear From the Judge.

The Jury Says So, But His Friends Will
Hear From the Judge.
NEW YORK, March 15-District Attorney
Fellows finished his address to the jury this
morning in the case of Thomas B. Kerr,
charged with bribery. Judge Daniels then ad-
dressed them at some length, reviewing the
evidence and the law in the case. Judge
Daniels charge might be considered strong
one The question, he said, for the jury to de-
eide was did the Broadway Railroad Company
raise the money for legitimate uses in its
business, or was the money raised to corrupt
the Board of Aldermen, and if the latter was
the case what part, if any, did the defendant
play in it? When Judge Daniels concluded
his charge, the jury retired. The Judge in the
meantime placed. Kerr in the custody of his
counsel, an action said to be without a prece-
dent in such cases. The jury returned with a
verdict of not guilty q few minutes past
o'clock. They had been out since 2o'clock.
When the jurors had answered to their names
and the foreman announced that they found
Kerr not guilty, there was a wild scene. Hats
flew up and there were cheers in the room.
Judge Daniels was much angered. He directed
the court officers to arrest anyone participating
in the riotous proceeding, Mr.. Kerr's brother
Chauncey and friend were seized upon. The
Judge lectured them and told them to come
around at l0 o'clock tomorrow morning to re-
ceive their punishment Mr.. Kerr's counsel,
Colonel Ingersoll, pleaded for them, but in vain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

"BLL" WINDOW was the first bill passed
under the new regime.
ONLY three new Congressman have been
taken in by bunko steerers as yet.
A NEW administration pudding, advertised
by an enterprising caterer, was found to be full
of plums.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is giving many people
the shake just at present-particularly the
Office seekers.
A RARE specimen of a Kings county man
who did not hope for an Office has been placed
in the National Museum.
THE Republican Senators do not feel it in
cumbent upon them to smoke Connecticut
cigars in order to encourage home industry.
ANXIOUS INoUIRER-No. the Marine Band
Is not seafaring organization. 1t only in
dulges in waves Of melody to enlivcn the ship of
state.
A DENTIST in Washington is showing the
strength of the false teeth that he makes by
biting of pieces of the monument and selling
them as mementoes. .
IT is the general opinion that General Har-
rison selected good stout timber for his Cabi-
net. There is great deal Of pine. however,
left among the politicians.
SOME paper, in joking way, bade the stran-
gers "beware the ides of March," and couple
of Texas men were seen with rifles hunting for
them on the Potomac fats.
A FLAGMAN on one of the railroad crossings
has resigned because some strangers took him
for an ofdcer Of the Signal Bureau and blamed
him for The recent inclement weather.
To a correspondent: You are mistaken in
thinking that the mutilated casts in the Cor.
coran Art Gallery are due to the vandalism of
visitors. The ravages are only those of time.
THE Hall of Representatives will not be sup
piled with cut-glass reiectors this season, The
Congressman object to have any reflection
whatsoever cast upon them.
A VISITOR from the East was told that there
were 5000 negroes in Washington, and he is
willing to swear that he saw them all twice
bers he met.
-NsD York -Epsntng Sun.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
She Has Pluck, If Not Talent.

Mrs. Langtry's illness is not of the advertise
ment kind. She was drawing large houses at
the Peoples Theater, with every prospect of
their continuing, when forced to stop playing.
Her original trouble was catarrhal affection,
which has necessItated the performance Of
painful operation involving the burning of the
diseased tissue of the nose with chronic acid.
In addition to this, she has tonsilities, the re-
suit Of cold caught while acting in Harlem.
The operation, which consisted of what is
termed the deviation Of the septeno, was per-
formed on Sunday, and the cheerful process of
burning the tissue with the acid has been GO
ing on since. That Mrs. Langtry, under these
circumstances was able to play on Monday
and Tuesday nights, shows that she has pluck,
if not dramatic talent. She hopes to be able
to keep her engagement in Philadelphia next
week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
CAUGHT ON THE GRIP LINE.

SHE sent her letter with penny stamp,
But not because she's a stingy lass;
She only knows that what she writes,
Should by no means be called frst-class.
TRAMP-Madam, this pie is tough.
Kind Lady-Why you unappreciatIve, impudent
mortal the recipe for that pie took the first prize
given by 'sThe Press'' of New York.
Tramp-I don't doubt it, madam don't doubt
it in the least. They are looking for a platform
for the Republican party for 1892 and this would
make good one; tough, pi(ous) and not too
short. g..
SUIToR-Mr Banks, I want to marry your
daughter Agnes. Hove her SO much, in fact she
is dear to my heart that life without her would
be simply torture.
Mr.. Banks-Take her. my boy, take her, and If
she ever ceases to be dear to your heart you can
rest assured she will always remain dear to your
pocket.
FUNNY MAE-Have you seen the phono-
graph? 1t is the greatest thing out. Why it is al
most human.
F. MS Friend-what can it do besides repeat?
F. Mt can appreciate joke. Yesterday
gave 1t one of my best. and instead OF repeating
what said it went hal ha! ha!
\. M.'sF.-Which shows it Is liable to go in
sane.
WIFE-My dear. here is letter for you post
marked New Orleans. didn't know you had
friends there.
Husband-I haven't, but still have been trying
every month to make one, but it's no go.
Wife-Who is itg
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Late Sottery.
A MAN got on a cable car,
And badly did he stand,
But when 1t started with jerk,
He on his back did land. q, S.S.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
CALLING ON HARRISON.
The Rush to See the New President Con-
tinues Unabated.

The Rush to See the New President Con-
tinues Unabated.
WASHINGTON, March 15-There was no per-
ceptible diminution in the number of the Pres
ident's visitors to-day. The rush began at 10
o'clock and continued till 1870, when the Cabi-
net assembled for its regular semi-weekly
meeting. The President received three dele
cations during the morning, one from Georgia
headed by General Longstreet, and another
from Virginia headed by Mr.. John s. Wise,
and the third from Washington headed by
General Creswell The latter urged the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Thomas A. Somerville, as
District Commissioner to succeed Mr.. Webb.
General Gof, of West Virginia, called DUR
ing the morning and had brief talk with the
President as did also Colonel Fred Grant
Among the other callers who succeeded in se-
curing an audience were Senator Spooner,
Mckinley, Morrow McKenna
and Thomas: A. M. Swope, of Kentucky; w.
T. Durbin. of Indiana; ]. F, Scanlan, of Chi
cago; General Swayne, of New York; John 8.
Wise, of Virginia, and John W. Linck, of In
diana.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
IT'S ENGLISH, YOU KNOW.

Another Trial Made of the Mammoth I'm
ported Locomotive.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
ALTOONA, March 15-The Webb Compound
English locomotive, better known to the AL
toona machinists as "Jack the Ripper" made
another trial trip this afternoon. The Webb,
pushed by TWO Pennsylvania locomotives,
hauled mail as far as Gallitzin. The new en-
gine will be given two daily trial trips up the
mountain for the next week.
1tis believed by old engineers that it will be
a failure on a curved track but that it will in
time be placed on the New York division,
where 1t Is believed it will be a success as far
as speed is concerned No test of speed has
yet been attempted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
somebody's Darling Is Lost.

The following letter has been received at the
Coroner's Office from Miss Jessie Bennett, of
Kansas City. NO.:
City Coroner, New York City:
SIR-Has there passed through your hands or
the morgue a woman of about 25 or % years (looks
much younger) very small and pretty both in
form and features, with dark blue eyes, brown,
silky hair-not much Of fit-and small hands and
feet size Of shoe about ~ 81 very tasty in dress
and clean in person; teeth pretty. and kept in
good shape, some Of the front (upper) filled with
gold; hair worn in curled bangs in 'front.' rolled
back front, perhaps curled all over head. She
may be dressed in black. Always very dressy and
stylish. nyou have seen person corresponding
to the above described please letme know at once.
This will be done.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
Andrew Carnegie to the Rescue.

Andrew Carnegie announced to-day that he
would make up what was lacking if the stock
for the proposed music hall at Seventh avenue,
Fifty-s1xth and Fifty-seventh streets, wasn't
all subscribed, SO that there is not much doubt
of the undertaking being carried out. One
effect of this will doubtless be the collapse Of
the project to build big combination amuse-
ment structure on the site Of the Madison
Square Garden, as there is not patronage
enough inNewYork for two music halls of such
size. Mr.. Carnegie subscribed for 1000 shares
of the stock Of the combination concerns
company, conditional upon the rest being sub
scribed when the time for settlement came.
The condition was not fulfilled. He initiated
the rival venture.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
CLIPPED BITS OF WIT.

Logic Below Stairs.-''See how dusty
these chairs are, Mary!''
''Sure mum, it's because nobody's sot into ,em
the day.-Judge.
A Big Thing.-Wild Western Tourist
(travellng in England)-I say. conduc,, what's
that big establishments there2
.Guard-Wlndsor Cawstle, sir.
W. W. T.-By thunder! 1t beats our soap fac
tory In Kansas City all to bIazes-for To-day.
NO INSULT INTENDED.
"Shut your mouth and look pleasant!" she
heard him say;
For wonder 1t did not surprise her;
She was having her picture taken that day
The photographer thus did advise her.
Saving Wear and Tear.-Miss slimdiet-
A new boarder came while you were out-s young
lady.
Mrs. slimdiet Cboarding-hOuse keeper)-1s she
pretty9
''Awfully.''
'swell. yut an extra strip Of rag carpet In front
Of her mirror. ''-Phftadetphfa Record.
Thoroughly Posted.-Cigar Dealer-Yes,I I
want boy here. Have you had any experienceY
Youthful Applicant-Lots.
suppose should mix up the price marks in
these boxes could you tell the good cigars from
the bad ones?'
easy enough.n
'Srhe wurst cigars is in the boxes wot's got the
purtiest pictur's. ."-Nso York Weekly.
An Investigating Mind.-Mrs. Hsyseed
(at big city hotel)-They is swfully attentive Al
this tavern, amt they?
Mr.. Hayseed-Yes, stree; they're bound to give
us the worth of our money, guess. Them errand
boys has been in dozen times In the last halK
hour to see If we wanted anything. What are you
workin' at there, Mariar?
Mrs. Hayseed-I've been tryin' fer the last hal(
hour ter what this button In the wall Is for.
--Pttt1detphtd Record.
ENGLISH AS SHE GREAUx.
A hunter, brave, of the Esquimaux
She meets, and her fond affection geaux
To this unique lover, the Eskimau.
For whenever he enters her hut sneau,
Though fearless and feet, most gracefully leau
He bends, and on his knees doth geau-
And again at departure he does just seau--
.Sueh real alteration for me, you kaeau.n
He lIkens her unto the gentle reau
A compliment new, for each other beau
Has Iikened her eyes unto the sleau.
How could she TO lover like this say neau2
She couldn' aud didn't; tut ali her beaux
In the land or the free got surplus OF s.neaux,,
When she went TO dwell with the Esquimaux-
-Jadge
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16

policy in diplomatic appointments has been
for number of years the choice of incum-
bents for the mission at Rome. 1t seems to
have become a superstition in the State De-
partment that the Minister to Rome should
be a man of unusual distinction in the
fields of learning, great scholar, or book
worm at least. Mr.. Marsh, great scholar
of Vermont, was the first of the class to fill
the post. Then the millionaire novelist and
dilettante, W. W. Astor, and by Mr..
Cleveland's appointment, Judge Stallo, of
Cincinnati, successively employed their
large minds in keeping Uncle Sam in har-
mony with the powers of the Quirinal.
In adverting to Judge Stallo's perform
ance of the functions of his Office the New
York Sun says that: "The immense learn
ing of Judge Stallo, especially upon every
subject connected with the intricate and
multifarious annals of Italy gave him a
consideration in official circles. at Rome
which few foreigners have ever attained"
Perhaps so. But why it is necessary for
the United States to have a novelist, a
scholar of supreme distinction, or an
amiable being who is well-posted on the
Intricate and multifarious annals" of the
country at Rome, at a very considerable ex-
pense, too, to the nation, is not clear.
Scholars and literary men may gravitate
naturally and properly to Rome at their
own expense; but if Minister is to be of
any earthly good to the people whom he rep
resents he should be practical man of
business, with his eyes open for the COM
mercial interests and political advantage of
his employers.
President Harrison perhaps had this truth
in mind when he appointed Governor Por-
ter, of Indiana, Minister at Rome.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16

The Fall River strikers have shown their
desire to insure good order and strengthen
their cause by passing resolutions to boycott
the saloons. The action is commendable;
but it may be instructive for the strikers to
reflect how much better they would have
been able to stand the drain of strike if
they had adopted the same resolution two
or three years ago-and kept it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Jaspor DIarkIc Thompson.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-The community was
shocked this evening by the news of the death of
Jasper Markle Thompson at his farm near here.
He was taken sick with pneumonia while on a
southern trip aud at once started homeward. He
arrived at noon to-day, lust six hours before his
death. He was born IN Kentucky In 1872 and his
wife and four children survive hun. MIR. Thomp-
son was widely known and has host Of friends
in Pittsburg. with MANY Of whom he was ass0ci-
ated in industrial enterprises. He was President
Of the First National Bank, Of this place, aud
largely interested in coal and iron works in Ala
barna and this county, He served two terms as
internal revenue collector under President Lin
coin, was elected to the State Legislature from
this county in 1873 and was director Of the Vest
ern Theological Seminary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
DIPLOMATIC HuMRua.

The humor of our diplomatic service is
rich and delightful. Nobody who looks for
fun in it will be disappointed. 1t is just as
well that this is so, for what earthly use the
diplomatic service is to the United States,
except to be laughed at, nobody seems to
know.
One of the comical features of public
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16

ONE of the oft-repeated interviews by
which the beauties of the railroad pool are
preached, appears in another column. 1t
first claims that, under the pool, rates were
never cut, and then proceeds to say that
the shippers used to make contracts relying
on the rebates or secret cuts made by the
railroads in their favor. The beauties of a
system in which there were no cuts, except
the secret ones given to the fellows on the
inside, are so manifest that further COM
ment is unnecessary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The German NAVY.

To the Editor ohThe Dispatch:
had discussion with a friend about the
German navy. He claims it is the weakest Of
any of the great European powers. Is he
right? INQUIRER.
PrTTsBURG, March l5
IYour friend is right. The Emperor's feet Is
composed of 105 vessels, carrying sos guns.
But only q of his men-of-war are ironclads, and
not half of the ironclads are of modern build
or capable of either sailing rapidly or under
taking long voyages. 1t is also worth noting
that of the total number named (l05), nearly
half are incapacitated for foreign or ocean SER
vice. and are really schoolboats and revenue
cuttersy The fact is Germany's diminutiVe
seaboard has led to grave neglect of its navy,
which the Teutonic colonization policy OF re-
cent years has only in part served to remedy1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
From the Chicago Nevs.I

From the Chicago News.I
The following recommendations for Consul
lar appointments are respectfully submitted to
the Secretary of State:
Greece-Mr. Frye, of Maine.
Cognac-Mr. Riddleberger of Virginia.
Cologne-Mr. Rosewater, of Omaha.
Faro-Mr. Lucky, Of Indiana.
Canary-Mr. Singer, of New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
Something About Flags.

To the Editor of The Dispatch;
l. When was our present flag adopted, the
''Stars and StripesT' 2 What flag did Wash
ington fight under? JAMES.
BEAVER March Il
ION January Is, 1874. Before that time, how
ever, on June IA, lit, Congress had ordered
that the flag be 'I3 stripes, alternate red and
white, that the Union be 13 stars, white in
blue field" 2 Washington's flag, first raised
at Cambridge on January 2, 1776, was of red
and white stripes, with the crosses Of st.
George and st. Andrew on a blue field for its
union. Later he used the flag authorized by
Congress.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16

THE announcement that Jay Gould has
made his medical attendant one of the di-
rectors of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
creates a special wonder whether he intends
to give his corporations course of treat
ment for dropsy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
P1TTsBURG, SATURDAY, MAR. ls. 1889.
THE LOGIC OF REPRESSION.


The French Government seems to be
drifting into the adoption of the Tory idea
that the best way to silence inconvenient and
annoying discussion is to prosecute their op-
ponents and throw them into prison.
There is, no doubt, good deal of humbug
about the Patriotic League, the orators of
which are prosecuted by the French Gov
eminent. That organization is simply a
principal part of tbe Boulanger ma
chine The French Government also
has the excuse that in French politics an
tagonistic oratory is much more likely to lead
to revolutionary outbreaks than in British
politics. Nevertheless. the prosecution of
the Boulangist Deputies has the same es-
sential basis as the imprisonment of the
Nationalist members of Parliament. 1t is
the attempt to use the arm of the law 10
suppress hostile criticism.
1t hardly ought to be necessary at this
stage of civilization to argue that such at
tempts are inconsistent with the principles
of representative government. There could
hardly be a more remarkable evidence of
the ease with which people. turn back to
medieval ideas than these examples of two
Governments supposed to stand on repre-
sentative principles resorting to imprison-
ment as a reply to hostile arguments. That
France, where such means of repressing
violent opposition are comparatively recent,
should do it, is less remarkable than its use
in English politics, where the principles of
free speech were supposed to be bred in the
bone of the whole country. In either coun-
try it is an anachronism and anomaly.
OF course, such methods can only weaken
the Government that resorts to them. The
party in power that cannot meet argument
with argument, and reserve force only to be
opposed to force, deserves the downfall
which it is surely preparing for ITSELF
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16

ALTHOUGH the Senate did not get its bill
passed for an indefinite extension of the
Pacific Railway Indebtedness, its members
do not lose sight of those corporations. The
Senate committee will take six weeks
tour over the lines, and will not be less dis
posed when it gets back to fix things up as
the corporations wish. But the tour will be
very pleasant to the dignifed statesmen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
Ha. the Opposite Effect.


From the New 7 Ork Sun.I
The offer by the State of Maine of bounty
of 10 cents for dead crow will greatly stimu-
late crow farming down East, and it is proba-
BILE that the State Treasuryw will be made leaner
than the leanest old crow that ever cawed
sarcasm at an indignant boy looking for him
with gun. In fact the way to increase the
rusty tribe of the crows is to set price upon
their heads.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
Miss Cameron's Coming Wedding.

Special Telegram to The DIspatch.
HARRISBURG, March Ex-senator and Mrs.
Cameron have sent out invitations for the
wedding reception of their daughter, Mar
garetta, who is to be married to Mr.. Clark, the
son of the rich thread manufacturer, on the
2Sth instant. The marriage at the residence of
Senator Cameron. at State and Front streets,
will be followed by reception from 1880 to
230 P, NJ,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16

WITH New York in possession of the
Navy Department, the Assistant Secretary
ship of the State Department, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and Assistant Sec
retary Of the Interior, it looks as if consola-
ton might be found for the failure of the
Big -Four to make the Cabinet positions 90
around.