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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. TUESDAY, SEP. 10, 1889
A HOPELESS TANGLE.

The letter of Governor Beaver, in answer
to the demand of the Pittsburg Relief Com
mittee for the refunding of the Sl25, ,O0O
which that body advanced to start the clean
ing up at Johnstown, amounts to denial
of his liability. The full text of the letter
may furnish more light on the subject when
it is placed before the public; but so far as
reports give any indication of Its contents,
its practical effect is to traverse and deny
the assertion that he agreed to refund the
money.
We do not suppose that anyone claims
that the Governor is individually and per-
sonally liable for the money advanced from
the Pittsburg relief fund. That in his Off
cial capacity he agreed to see the money re-
funded, was the public understanding, and
is the specific assertion of the Pittsburg
committee On the other hand, the Gov
ernor is understood to deny it. As far as
we can see, this makes further wrangling
prof, ass.
The afair is an unpleasant and appar-
emily irremediable one in which the cir
cumstanees are mightier than the men en-
gagged in it. The fact is, beyond question,
that the Governor has not got the money;
and therefore it is totally beyond his power
to comply with the request to pay it. On
the other hand the Pittsburg Committee
cannot properly close up its accounts with
out the money; but the well-known impossi-
bility to obtain blood from turnip makes
the obstacle as great for it as for the States
executive.
Possibly the best way is for the Pittsburg
Committee to turn over the claim to the
State Relief Commission to be preserved
there among the other monuments which 60
to prove that when State funds are needed
for State work, the proper way is to call
together the Constitutional appropriating
power.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE remains
in promising health.
Mr.. EDISON smokes great deal; the more
work he does, the more cigars he consumes.
THE woman's National Press Association in
tends to erect statue to Mrs. R. b. Hayes. in
Washington.
Mr.. R. ID. BLACKMoRE, the great novelist,
now devotes more attention to his market gar
den than to his pen.
PROF. GEORGE A. WENTWORTH, Chairman
of the Faculty, has been made Acting Principal
of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Mrs. HARRISON left Jenkintown for Wash
ington yesterday accompanied by her father,
Rev. DR.. Scott, and Postmaster General Wana-
maker.
On his fifty-eighth birthday anniversary. the
other day, Mr. Goschen received many gifts,
among them a large cartwheel, with the in.
scription: Don't tax me-"
AMONG the inscriptions in her album most
priced by Nine. Patti-Nicolini is this by the
elder Dumas: being man and Christian I
love to listen to your singing; but if were a
bird should die of envy"
Ex-ATroRNEY GENERAL GARLAND is
hunting at his hermitage at Hominy Hill, Ark.
He has been chasing deer and having good
time. He wrote the other day to friend to Say
that he mad Just killed fine buck.
THE railway postal clerks at New Orleans
presented Congressman Peters, Of Kansas. the
other day with handsome snakewood cane,
with gold crook in the shape of an eagles
head, whose eyes are rubies. The gift is intend
ed as grateful recognition of his efforts in be-
half of the service and its increased pay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
A PARADISE FOR FISHERMEN.
One Firm Alone Captures $4,000 Alaska
Salmon in n Month.

Vho rTm AiOne Cnptufes 0U,UUU Alaska
Salmon In n Month.
WASHINGTON, September 9-In accordance
with an act of Congress passed last session Col
onel Marshall Mcdonald, Fish Commissioner,
sent party this summer to Alaska to make
an investigation of the salmon rivers of that
territory, with view to prescribing regulations
for the protection of the fisheries. DIR. Tarl-
ton 81. Bean is in charge of the investigation,
and his first report, dated Karluk, Alaska,
August Il, has just been received by Colonel
Mcdonald. DR.. Bean says the Karluk is, accord.
ing to the statistics, the greatest salmon river
in Alaska. A falling off in the catch this year
is anticipated owing to everlasting and seining
at the mouth of the river, which makes the as
cent OF the fish to their spawning grounds a
matter of great difficulty except one day in
the week.
The river is full of young salmon and the
stream is broken by rocks into rapids and la
goons. But few enemies of the salmon, aside
from the fishers, are found-the salmon shark,
species OF porleagle, cormorants, gulls, scul-
pins, dolly vardens and steel heads. There are
six canning companies located at Karluk and
all the fishing is done along a little piece of
outside beach adjacent to the rivers mouth,
not exceeding half a mile in length, and in the
last two miles of the rivers course. Haul
seines are the main dependencies. Some of
the larger ones are l.500 feet long. The catch
" huSu uSt WAS 4ooVVV, oiS uIiu aione taxing
$4,000 Fishing continues all day and all night
as it is light enough to see plainly except from
1870 to l:30 A. NJ. From Friday midnight to
Saturday midnight the ascent of salmon is un-
obstructed.
The doctor says the sentiment of the fisher
men is in favor of obeying the law against OBJ
srructions. A trap placed in the river was
torn out by them just before the arrival of the
party, and the old Russian sapoa, formerly To-
Gated near the rapids, has been dismantled.
The number of fishermen employed at Karluk
is 400, all white. Six hundred Chinese are en-
ployed in the canneries. Mr.. Booth has sur
veyed the river three miles, but further pro-
gress cannot be made this year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10

Russell Sage, iniorsing the interstate CON-
merce law. 1t is true, as Mr.. Sage says,
that great good and lasting benefits will
flow from the use of ''tne power to enforce
upon the railroads a policy of common
sense and common honesty and obedience to
the law" Nevertheless such gift of the
Greeks, as the support of Mr. Russell Sage,
to a law which was intended to restrain the
aggressions OF his class, is likely to arouse a
fear that the law as he supports it, is not
the law that was enacted.
Such support of the enactment has more
concealed dangers about it than the opposi-
tion to the law which reverts to the old and
threadbare method of Misrepresentation.
An example of the latter class is afforded by
an editorial in the Washington Post, which
in quoting a deliverance from the Pacific
coast against the law and the competi-
ton of the Pacific railroads, says that
the Canada Pacific road sis not competitive,
because the Interstate commerce law forbids
American Pacific roads to compete with its
through rates unless they lower their local
rates to the same rate per ton per mile,
which for them would mean BANKRUPTCY"
1t does appear quite plainly whether this
remarkable statement is to be charged to the
Pacific coast assailants of the law, or to the
Post, which indorses them. In either case
it is completely exploded and threadbare
falsehood The law makes no such require
ment and assertions of that sort are only in
tended to create prejudice against it among
those who know nothing of its provisions.
Attacks upon the law which resort to
open and easily exposed misrepresentation
are little to be feared; but the support of
Mr.. Russell Sage, which implies its perver-
sion to corporate uses, involves dangerous
and unknown quantity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
THE GETTYSBURG CoMMEMORATIoN.

The veterans of Pennsylvania are assem-
bling at Gettysburg to dedicate the monu-
ments of the various regiments engaged in
that great and pivotal battle of the civil war.
The occasion will be an interesting one, both
as a reunion of the participants in one of the
most theatrical battles of history and as a
eommemoration of those who fell there. The
old soldiers of Pittsburg, and the long list
of Western Pennsylvania regiments whose
members have gone to the commemoration
show the more important representation
from our half of the State at the time that
the rebel armies were given their most vital
check. Gettysburg was one of the great bat
ties of the century; and the participants in
it do well to commemorate its mighty results
and to honor the memory of their comrades
who lost their lives on that field.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
A CRITIC OF PITTsBURG.

The report made by the Rev. j. o. S.
Huntington, the mission clergyman of New
York, concerning the condition of the
miners at Spring Valley. ILL.,, where he
has recently visited, will not be very pleas
ant to the Hon. W. L. Scott. He declares
that the condition of the miners in that cap
italist's mines is especially deplorable.
Epidemics are starting as the result of want
Mr.. Scott has ordered the mines closed down
indefinitely, "because," as Mr.. Huntington
says, "W. L. Scott insists on having inter-
est on 81. 900, 900 represented by 40, 900 acres
of coal rights, while he operates only few
hundred acres"
This is a very telling picture. 1t ex-
hibits an abnormal condition Of affairs and
would indicate that something was wrong
under any circumstances. But when it is
the case in the mines of an operator who
has made himself prominent in attacking
the relations of other employers to their
Iaborers, it is especially matter of public
criticism. Little more than a year ago Mr..
Scott made particular assault on Pitts
burg employers; and the nature of that as
ssult warrants a comparison between the
condition of Pittsburg labor and that Of
Mr.. Scott's workmen.
It is mild statement of the truth to say
that at no time have the working classes in
Pittsburg been IN danger of dying "of want
and diseases induced by insufficient nour-
ishment." Even at Mr.. Scott's mines, in
this section, where, at the time that Demo
cratic leader made his attack, he was
making mis- miners accept wages &c lower
than at neighboring mines, there was no
such a condition of want. 1t is the fayorite
policy of Mr.. Scott and his party to revile
Pittsburg; but if labor everywhere was as
we'll paid as it is here Mr.. Scott's millions
would not be so overshadowing as they seem
to be at Spring Valley, Ill.
The main trouble here, from Mr. Hunt
ington's statement, is that egregious capital
has control of the industry and holds the
miners down to starvation wages. This
might result without regard to the politics
of the capitalist; but the Illinois miners
have exceedingly i'll fortune in being in the
grasp of Democratic capitalist and pro-
fessional friend of the workman-for po-
liticaI revenue only.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
ONE WAY OF PAYING DEBTS.
How the State of Arknnsas Settled a Bin
for $4,000.

WASHINGTON, September 9.-Ex-Attorney
General Garland has been chasing deer and
having good time at Hominy Hill He wrote
the other day to friend 20 say that he had
just killed two fine bucks He explains also
his apparent disregard for the game laws. The
State of Arkansas owed him some 5000 for
legal services He put in bill for half that
amount and said he would call it square IL the
bill was paid as presented. At the last meeting
of the Legislature money should have been ap-
propriated to pay him. but unexpectedly the
bill was defeated. There was no dispute over
the indebtedness. but some OF the old Iegisla-
tors were simply opposed to paying The
reasons they gave for their opposition were
varied and eccentric.
One old fellow, wearing a choker collar and
full suit of black, said that during the last
campaign he had heard Garland tell stories
that were of color. and he did not think that
the State should vote money to q man who
would do such thing. Another man gave as
his reason for voting against the bill that the
ex-Attorney General played poker, and that to
pay him the money would be to encourage vice.
A friendly member ultimately suggested:
Garland is always here along during the
month of August and has to be going home
about the middle of September. If he does
chase deer with hounds he's mighty good
shot. propose that we Just change the law so
LIST of August instead of the lst of September.
That will allow him a month of shooting"
This proposition met with approval and the
game law was amended accordingly. All dur
ing last month Garland was Chasing deer
under the new law, and he says he is perfectly
satisfied with the settlement of his claim
against the State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
An Ancient Fnith Cure.

The belief in the elixir vite was not whit
more astonishing than the belief in the royal
touch for the Kings evil or scrofula- From
the time of Edward the Confessor to that Of
Queen Anne 1t was currently held in England
that scrofulous patients could be cured by the
touch of the monarch. Sovereign after
sovereign submitted to the public ceremony.
Not less than 100000 people were touched by
King Charles II. According TO eminent au-
thority none ever failed of recovering 'unless
their little faith starved their merit" an i'm
portant reservation. of course. Many who had
heen blind for weeks or months were restored
to sight at the first touch of the royal hand.
Physicians acknowledged its efficacy; Catholic
divines did not deny that the power had de-
scended to Protestant princes.
Then there was the weapon ointment, which
800 years ago excited the wondering credence
of Europe. This ointment was prepared in
various ways-sometimes of portions OF
mummy, sometimes of human blood, some
times of moss from the skull of thief or
pirate who had been hanged in chains. But its
popularity was that it was applied, not TO the
wound, which was merely cleansed and dressed,
but TO the weapon that had inflicted the
wound Even Lord Bacon speaks Of this ONT
ment as having the testimony of men of credit,
acknowledging, however. that he himself "as
yet is not fully inclined to believe II"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10

burglar risking his liberty to get bath is
as encouraging as it is novel. We do not
go SO far as to say that we desire visit from
any burglar, but If it is our fate to be SO
visited we sincerely hope that the burglar
will take a bath before invading our cham
Der. The thought of freshly-washed
burglar brings to mind the days when the
polite highwayman robbed his coach or
chaise in cooked hat, perriwig and frilled
shirt. A clean hand might make the
chloroformed handkerchief it held less OBJ
jectionable; an odor of Perrybinks' un-
paralleled soap-see that you get it-might
render the request to give up your money
or your life less terrible. Burglars will do
we'll to study these facts in the interest of
humanity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
PROGRESS OF THE COLORED RACE.
Interesting Remarks on the Subject by
Bishop Newman, of Omnhu.


CHICAGO September 9.-Bishop Newman, of
Omaha, addressed the Methodist ministers at
their meeting in the Methodist church block,
on>the subject of the race problem in the South
and the work of the Methodist Church In
solving 1t. The speaker told of his late trip
through the country and gave several graphic
illustrations of his experiences. Ignorance and
fanaticism we're to blame for much of the ILL
feeling, he said, but contrary to general belief,
the ignorance and fanaticisms were as much
on one side as the other. The colleges for the
colored people were doing wonderful amount
of good and prominent Southern sUatistfcian
admitted that there were now more iliterate
people among the whites than among the COL
ored people. This was largely due to the eff
forts of the Methodist Church in pushing
education among the negroes. Bishop New
man said:
called on the Governor of South Carolina and
first time that the Methodists were not working
for social equality for the negroes but for full
Ognition. He complained of the terrible strain of
the conflict engendered by the race prejudice.
told told him that he . had comparatively easy prob
we in the North have all Europe 1 would
rather thousand times be the Southerner and
have the race problem to grapple with than to
be here in Chicago and the North, and be con-
fronted by the vast hordes of ignorant unedu-
Gated foreigners, who are swarmlng over here to
hope 1t is not far distant when we stand up
and firmly say: .'No foreign-born citizen shall
henceforward have place in the legislative con-
duct Of this country.''
Bishop Newman's remarks were received
with applause. but were not discussed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
no REASON FOR UNEAsINEss.

The intimation that the dealers in milk
who make a regular business of supplying
milk to customers on Sunday, as well as
other days, are alarmed lest Judge Stoves
ruling on the milk-shake case should inter-
fere With their business, does not, on in
vestigation, amount to much. There is no
reason why any man who attempts to con-
form to the common-sense Interpretation of
the law should be uneasy about its inter
ference. The delivery of milk which is made
legal by the law conveys a distinct meaning
to all who take the trouble to consider it in
connection with the methods of that trade,
1t refers to the delivery of the regular daily
supply of milk at the houses of customers
a function of the business wholly distinct
from keeping open places where milk is sold
to transient customers. There has been no
recent judicial assertion of this construc-
tion, but it is safe to credit the courts with
the ability and disposition to construe the
law by the light of common sense.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10

THE esteemed New York World inter-
poses objections to the breaking of bottle
of cha mpagne under the auspices of Mr..
Wanamaker, at the launch OF the cruiser
Philadelphia. This is professedly on the
ground of Mr.. Wanamaker's temperance
principles; but the most evident ground of
the Worlds objections is the belief of our
esteemed contemporary, that champagne
should not be allowed to encroach upon
what it considers the exclusive and sole
function of water, namely, the purposes of
navigation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
Other Universal Pnnaceas.

The same idea reproduced itself later in the
so-called sympathetic powders, which were
simply powdered blue vitriol and were applied
not to the wound, but to the blood-stained gar
ment of the injured party. These powders
were tried with marvellous success by Sir
Kenelm Digby in the presence of King James
l. of England. and performed many miraculous
cures in France and Italy.
The extraordinary virtues of tar water were
next exploited by the famous Bishop Berkely.
of whom DR.. Holmes says that he held
two very odd opinions, ''that tar water
was everything and that the whole material
universe was nothing" The bishops recipe
consisted simply in stirring quart of tar in
gallon of water, leaving it 48 hours and pouring
off the clear water. This was the universal
panacea which he recommended for all dis
eases.
Cure after cure was in fact reported. and the
good bishop was raised to the eleventh heaven
when one day he received letter stating that
a sailor had fallen and broken his leg, and had
cured the fracture instantaneously by an ap-
plication of melted tar. The next post, how
ever, disabused his mind. The wag who had
written the first letter now wrote second,
saying that he had forgotten to state that the
patients leg was wooden one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
at present:

Thus, it is shown, the advance in the
course of the past three months has been
81 4o@2 90 per ton on pig iron; So 90 steel
rails, and three dollars per ton on bar iron
The advance in coke bears the largest per-
centage to the old prices but is the least ab-
solute advance. In the comparison of abso-
lutte gain about one-ffth of the advance in
pig iron is appropriated by the advance in
coke; the entire advance in steel rails is
taken up by the advance in pig; and two
thirds of the gain in bar iron is balanced in
the same way.
These are not boom prices by any means.
They are below the average prices for 1888;
and could stand still further increase be-
fore reaching a stage where imitation is
threatened. But the large increase of out
put which is certain with very slight en-
hancement of prices over the present level,
will prevent any such advance as is likely
to contain the dangers of a reaction.
The satisfactory feature of the present ad-
vance is the fact that if the iron trade could
make itself whole on the prices prevailing
three months ago, it must be enjoying very
comfortable margins on the conservative ad-
vance that has since taken place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
Grand Opera House.

A dictionary givesas the meaning of the word
bric-a-brac, collection Of objects having a
certain interest or value from their rarity. an
tlquity, or the like, and the derivation of the
word shows that it means literally things COL
lected by hook or by crook. As to
the definition of "Bric-a-Brac," the farce
comedy which made good many people laugh
very often and heartily last night at the Opera
House we cannot speak SO strictly by the card.
The materials out of which it is formed were
certainly gathered by hook OF by crook from
all sorts of plays and places. There is nothing
very valuable in it. on the ground of rarity,
but there is good deal which is old enough to
be valuable on the ground Of antiquity.
The fact is that Mr. Tanehills "Bric-a-Brac"
is not very great shakes even as a farce COM
edy.a and yet is funny enough, and presented
strongly enough to make audiences laugh and
for its owners good sum of money. The farce
is ofa rushing, rattling order. The company is
strong in comedy, in voices, and, on the femi-
nine side, wonderfully comely. You can GER
talny find beauty to suit your particular taste
with bevy of beauties before you.
'Hic-a-Brac" received the stamp of popular
approval beyond doubt The laughter was so
incesant that no less than three persons were
carried out of the theater in hilarious Mysteries.