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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-21

Country hams at
Choates.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-21
Coats Spool Thread.

Sets Cheap at I. J. Well
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-21

Comfortable rooms TO rent cheap
ell arranged for housekeeping APP
ly at this Office.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
WHEN TROUBLE SHOULD BEGIN

A decidedly unique theory of the consid-
erations which should prevail in electing
national Legislators, is advanced by the
Providence Journal, which says: ''The
election of Field Marshal Halstead to the
United States Senate would infuse into that
dignifed body as troublesome an element as
the late Mr. Riddleberger, without the ex-
euse Of inebriety."
The idea that the public must abstain
from infusing into the Senate troublesome
element, depends for its validity upon the
interests that would be troubled. The theory
that the dignifed body must be held sacred
as a place where the wicked cease from
troubling, is fattering to it; but it has not
always proved tenable. For instance, it
was considered in the ante-bellum days that
q decidedly troublesome element was in
fused into the United States Senate by
the election of Abolitionists like Wade and
Sumner. Still it would be difficult to con-
vince the public at this day that the
trouble thus brought about in the Senate
was entirely due to the wickedness of the
Northern people in sending such agitating
elements there.
If Mr.. Halstead's election would trouble
any legitimate interests which have Just
claim upon the respect of the public, there
may be some cogency to the argument. If
it troubles only those who have been ready
to suppress investigation into notorious
charges of political corruption, it may be
well that trouble should commence at once.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
ONCE FAMOUS, NOW UNKNOWN.
A Novelist of the Last Generation Who is
Not known To-day.

n NoVeHes Oh tue Last oeueralon W no u
Not Known To-day.
From the Atlanta Constitution.1
A correspondent of New York paper asks
where he can obtain George Lppard's works
He has looked far and wide, and has failed to
find them. And yet only yesterday, SO to
speak, George Lppard was famous. In the
last generation he was one of the most popular
American novelists. He wrote book after
book, and everybody read them and eagerly
called for more. OF all the sensational and
lurid story writer's that this country has pro-
duced he was easily the first. His Imagination
was boundless and riotous. His style was
blood-curdling.
Lippard leaped into the monday blaze of no.
toriety at once, and became as popular in his
day as Rider Haggard is in ours. He was no
penny s-liner from the slums. no dime novelist,
no hack writer for the blood and thunder
weeklies. He was master of the mysteries of
sensational storytelling. and he wrote good
English. Daniel Webster was certainly man
of good literary Judgment. II he could fnd
Lippard's romances fascinating 1t is fair to sup
pose they had merit. The great statesman was
pronounced him q man Of genius, and predicted
enduring fame tor his works.
But where are these once popular novels to-
day, and who knows anything about their au-
thor1 Even in New York, city full of book
stores. one has to appeal to the newspapers to
Lippard will befall many man who is now
working like slave to win fame and fortune.
To-day mans name is ringing through the
land; tomorrow it will be remembered by
few, and day after tomorrow men will write to
the newspapers asking whether the man really
lived or was only myth. Such is fame in W
cases out of 100. But men will long for 1t, hight
for it and die for it to the end of the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
A spEcULAToR's ADVENTURE.
Tho True Story of Little johnny Dorian, q
Railroad Train and n Penny.


Railroad Train and n Penny.
NEW YoRK. August 4-Little Johnny Dorian,
who lives at Riverside. N. J., yesterday owned
q new straw hat, dime and penny, worn by
current use to silvery brightness. He tied the
hat to a coat button. because a light breeze
was ruffiing the surface Of the Passaic river
and went down TO the Erie Railroad to watch
the trains passing. He had not wholly decided
what use to make of the dime, but he knew
very well how to put the cent where it would
do the most good. He was acquainted with
boy who was willing to pay 2 cents for the coin
If it was fattened under the wheels of train
Of cars. and JOHNNY, who is only years OF age
but has the fnanciering spirit Of Jay Gould
cent per cent profit.
He reached spot where there was nobody
to interfere with his speculation. An after
noon train on its way to Jersey City and not
high speed. Hastily selecting q coin he placed
it on the rail. The train was very close 70 the
spot where he was standing when he discovered
that he had made a blunder. The penny was
avoidable that the dime was in front of the
locomotive.
Johnny rushed forward. It was an awfully
dangerous thing to do, but he was not boy to
hesitate when 10 cents were at stake. An In
cautious step prostrated him, and the wind
from the whirling train tore his hat from Its
fastening. carried it under the wheels and 1t
was seen no more. His head could not have
been more than IL inches from the cars as they
swept past The dime was not found. 1t had
either been ground out of recognition-or it had
stuck fast to one of the wheels.
$50 you lost 10 cents and your hat by your
follyT" said friend of the boys father when
he heard the story later in the day.
"Oh, no." replied Johnny, weeping. II only
lost cents and the hat. / fiattened the penny
under the next train and sold 1t for cents"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
A PLEASANT ALTERNATIVE.

The argument which General Crook is
said to have placed before the Sioux Indi-
ans to induce them to sign the treaty for the
sale of their lands may have been a cogent
one; but il does not strike the impartial OBJ
server as very creditable to the Govern
ment. 1t was that if they did not sign the
treaty, the land would be taken from them
anyway on worse terms. That class of per-
suasion is rather uncomfortably close to CO.
ercion. If some power should inform a
Pittsburg property owner that if he did not
accept stated offer for his land he would
have it taken away from him by perversion
of the law, the property owner might be
convinced, if he thought the power to per-
petrate that injustice really existed. But it
would be hard to convince him that the act
does not amount to a robbery; and those un-
tutored Sioux Indians may be just ignorant
enough to conceive the same idea in their
rase
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
SHARPLY POINTED SHAFTS.

BOSTON Post: No one has right to complain
when whipped cream turns sour.
DETROIT Journal: II the Beer Trust includes
the sleeping-car porter it will make the inves-
tors rich.
BALTIMORE American: The royal grant de-
bate has gone ali to pieces BY the way, they
are guinea pieces.
B1NGHAMPToN Republican: A man lost
81 900 in less than one minute the other day.
Cause, heart disease.
JAMESTOWN Journal: A citizen who has
Ibeen run into by Safety bicycle says it hurts
lust as much as the old kind.
\ OswEeo Palladium: II is said that ITO be
sAber is to be happy" and yet we know men
who are happiest when not sober.
BUFFALO Courier: A new play in London is
called "A Headless Man." Tho hero is prob
ably Democratic ex-postmaster.
OHERRY CREEK NesDs: This is the season of
thelyear when man comes to the front and
say4 that no weather can ever be too cold for
himl
O1IL CITY Derrick: The hen is rather silly
old timing on general principles, but who ever
hearp Of her scratching up Congressional gar
den seeds!
Ro1NE Sentinel: The scheme to choose the
fI-lily as the national flower will be opposed
BY the usual number Of croakers-from hly
pondA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
VIEWS ON CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Mayor Pearson has given to The DIS
PATCH some interesting and pertinent views
on the subject of city Improvements, in con-
nection with an impending veto of an ordi-
nance providing for an asphalt block pave
ment on Federal street at the Diamond.
The subject of city improvements is live
one, and the Mayors views bid fair to make
an issue in Allegheny CITY affairs, so that
his deliverance on the subject is worth read
ing.
The Mayor takes broad and undoubtedly
correct views on city improvements, in the
abstract. He is right in saying that i'm
provements, such as are contemplated in
Allegheny, are among the best investments
that can be made with the peoples mouey,
so that the people get first-class work in re-
turn for the expenditure. He is also
clearly right in the position that if the city
has surplus power for the furnishing of
electric light it is cheaper for the city to
furnish it than to put the contract in the
hands of a company which must charge for
the extra power required
But when it comes to the practical ques-
ton what street improvements will yield
the best return for the peoples money the
Mayor develops some positive opinions that
are not SO indisputable. He puts all asphalt
pavements under tie ban, and declares that
Allegheny must be paved exclusively with
block stone. The Mayor may be right, but
in view of the fact that cities where full
test of Belgian block has been made are
discarding Belgian block, there is room for
disputing that decision.
The DISPATCH thinks that for ordinary
street traffic, the silence, smoothness, saving
of wear and tear upon vehicles, and the
convenience of repairs, we'll laid asphalt
pavement is the most economical in the long
run. Whether the asphalt block pavement
possesses the full complement of these quail
ties we do not know. Being a new inven-
ton it has not been fully tested; and it
would be hard to select a better place for
the necessary test than the square of Fed
eral street, between Ohio and South Dia-
mond, which it is proposed to pave with
that material.
Possibly the importance OF making such
test may induce the asphalt block COM
pany to put down its pavement free of
charge to demonstrate Its qualities. 1t GER
tainly would seem important to both the
public and the company, to prove what the
new pavement can do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05

fesses its previous belief that the Mills bill
should have made greater reductions in the
sugar duties. 1t justi6es its support of the
measure and irs attack upon the Republi-
cans who opposed it, by the assertion: "As
the tariff tax was piled up by compromises
between sections, so must it be removed"
1t is true that all tariff legislation has to
partake of the nature of compromise, but q
compromise which legislates entirely in
favor OF one section and against another, is
the kind of compromise that does not war;
rant any very respectful treatment. If the
Mills bill had represented an honest policy
of reducing the high protective tariff on all
articles alike, it would at least have COM
manded the respect due to sincere attempt
to'put in force an even policy of tariff reduc-
ton. But compromise which consists of
65 per cent tariff on sugar and 100 per cent
tariff on rice as against 40 per cent tariff on
steel rails, and no per cent at all on lumber
and wool. can only be correctly described by
the name of sectional legislation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
SURPRISING TRAIN ROBBERY,

A train robbery on the Wabash Railway,
tust this side of Kansas City, night before
last, succeeded to the extent of cleaning out
the passengers of one sleeping car, when
plucky conductor concluded to try the ex-
pertinent of hitting the robbers over the
heads with his lantern. Not liking such
rude treatment the robbers fired couple
of ineffective shots and took to their heels.
This looks like reductio ad GbSErdun1 of
Missouri train robbery. After a single man
has put the robbers to flight with lantern,
there is no reason tor anyone to be robbed
with more spunk in him than a moderately
independent sheep. There was reason to
think the same thing before, but it is now
plainly demonstrated.
The evident decadence of train robbery in
Missouri may explain the anxiety of
Missouri officials to infuse some stamina
into the industry by securing the pardon Of
the Youngers, from Minnesota.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
THE MONETARY SITUATION.
An Important Immediate Factor In the
Stock Market.

An Important Immediate Factor In the
Stock Market.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArCH.I
NEW YORK, August 4-Henry Clews & Co.
will say tomorrow: Manipulation has served to
prevent the market from yielding to depress-
ing influences. There has been no change what
ever in the railroad situation; Western mana
gers are still insisting that the situation in their
district Is more than serious; the Interstate
Railway Association remains in crippled con-
dition by the withdrawal of the Alton; conf
dence has received somewhat of blow by
large failures in the dry goods and boot and
shoe trades and the prospects of the money
market continue in uncertain shape. Added
to these Influences there was lack of buying
orders for stocks. and the bears displayed re-
newed activity, Reading and Lead Trust being
their principal objects Of attack.
In spite of these conditions. prices were fire.
quently strong; notably under the lead of
Chesapeake and Ohio and the "Big Four" Sc
curities, both of which received support from
Vanderbilt Morgan sources. The most i'm
portant immediate factor in the stock market
is the monetary situation. The bank reserves
are low; and the autumn demands, which are
expected to be larger than usual. are yet to be
met. Reliance Is very generally placed upon
the Treasury to relieve any urgent str1ngency,
and with good reason; yet it should be remem-
bered that the national surplus on August
was only S65 900. or So 800 900 less than
month ago, and s4l .000, 900 less than year ago;
SO the Treasury has already afforded more re-
lief than is generally appreciated. Had it not
been for this fact, or that Treasury payments
from one source or another were unusually
henvy during July, the bank reserves would be
even lower than at present. Secretary Win
dom is purchasing fair amounts OF as, OF
is not likely to increase the price unless
obliged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
THE WORKERS SIDE,

The statement of their case by the glass
workers at Jeannette, who, it is reported,
are to be sent back as imported laborers,
certainly suggests some points worth consid-
Grafton. In the first place they point out
that if their case has been decided it has
been decided without giving them hear
ing. 1t is not in accord with Anglo-Saxon
ideas of Justice to condemn a man unhesrd;
and men of this class are hardly to be sent
out of the country on secret and extra
judicial proceedings. Beyond that, the fact
remains that the lawis of character which,
in its application, is excluding intelligent
and needed labor while letting in the cheap
and undesirable class by thousands. A
very little experience of this class with the
law will go a long way toward demonstrat-
ing its uselessness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

BOSTON proposes to erect statues of heroic
size in bronze to the memory of Admiral Far.
ragut and Generals Grant and Sheridan, the
last mentioned to be equestrian.
Miss ETHEL NJ. MACKENZIE, daughter of
Sir Morrell Mackenzie, has taken up journalism
as profession or pastime. She has begun by
playing the role of correspondent to American
newspapers.
SOMEBODY asked Miss Susan B. Anthony re-
Gently if it did not tire her TO shake SO many
hands at the various receptions given to her.
"Yes, it does tire me-" she replied. quickly
'but not SO much as 1t did 20 years ago to stand
alone with no hands to shake"
WHITELAw REID, American Minister to
France, could read French when he left this
country but his conversational ability in the
polite tongue was limited. Now, however. he
can speak French fuently. He had sufficient
knowledge of the structure Of the language to
take the best advantage of his few months in
Partisan drawing rooms.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, the poet, is building
a new house at Hull, Mass, on the site Of the
one formerly occupied by him. That was said
to be nearly 200 years old, and Mr.. O'Reilly,
who has love of the old-fashioned, chung to it
until it nearly crumbled away beneath his feet.
The new house is built of Quincy granite, with
picturesque tower on the water side. An old
cannon, the rel1c Oh Wreck OH huil, ID oue u
the features of the grounds
BISHOP STARKEY, of the diocese OF Newark,
N. J., bears a noticeable likeness to the Hon.
William M. Evarts. He is younger man,
however being just 65. Bishop Starkey is tall,
with slightly rounded shoulders, produced by
much study. His face is clean shaven and his
features regular Before he took orders Bishop
Starkey was a civil engineer, and gave promise
of being a very successful one, but he felt
called to the ministry, and laid down the chain
for the pulpit -----'
THE house occupied by Minister Whitelaw
Reid in Paris was originally the home of the
Count de Grammont. When Mr.. Reid took the
house the large entrance hall was filled with
Egyptian antiquities, principally mummies.
The effect of these latter was exceedingly de-
pressing, SO that Mr.. REID had them all packed
away, and the walls that had been lined with
departed Phsraohs were hung with brocatelle
of a crimson ground, and figured with design
in deep yellow.
THE country home Of Mr.. Charles A. Dana
is an island. called Dosoris. on the north shore
of Long Island. The island consists Of 45 acres
under high state of cultivation, being one i'm
mense garden. The pasture and forage lands
are on the mainland. A sea wall, over which
hang festoons Of vines, runs around the entire
island. The house is an old one, but it is large
and comfortable, and surrounded by vine-cov-
cred piazzas. A perfect lawn in front runs
down to the sound, glimpses of which are to be
caught between the trees.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
PITTsBURG, MONDAY. AUG. s, 1889.
HARMLESS SEIZURE.

The seizure of the Canadian sealing vessel
in Behring's Sea has been resolved into a
joke on the administration and the revenue
service, by the appearance of the seized
vessel, safe and sound, in the Canadian port
of Victoria In other words, the United
States vessel put a single man on board the
prize and the crew of the latter concluded
that as they wished to come home they might
as well do 1t.
OF course, this does not relieve the
seizure, from the international question Of
our right 10 search and seize vessels on
Behring Sea. That was raised by the cap
ture of the vessel, and if the obstinate Cana
dians refused to stay captured that is their
own fault. Nevertheless, the administra-
tion is at liberty to plead, if England should
raise a row, that its seizures are not serious
enough to hurt anything.
The enforcement of the mare cldus1nl idea
in Behring Sea does not bid fair to prove
much more vital than French duel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
THE HONEYMOONERS HOTEL.
A House to be Erected For Loving Couples
Alone.

House to be Erected For Loving Couples
Alone.
From the London Figaro.i
1 am awaiting further particulars of that
Honeymooners' Hotel, which, according to a
circumstsntial correspondent, is to be built on
the South Devonshire coast for the special and,
if possible, sole use of newly married couples
on their wedding trips. That the surroundings
of the establishment are to be made as idyllic
and fairylike as possible need scarcely be said.
Romantic arbors In shady corners, gushing
streamlets, secluded sylvan nooks are to be
provided ad lib, while, with the aid of science,
every night will be moonlight one and every
day one of seeming bright and warm sunshine.
The prospectus is even said to hint at the pres
ence of mechanical nightingales, which, shanks
to persistently winding up, will warble on livery
suitable tree.
The decorations, artistic and otherwise, of
the hotel are of course, to be all in character,
though must admit that question whether
the proposed transformation of the ordinary
weakened hotel walters and the somewhat TOO
substantial chambermaIds Of the provinces into
attendant Ganymedes and Hebes as artistic in
their poses as they classical in their attire,
will really be an advisable step to take. The
laying on Vf Eolian harps and other mysterious
music in every apartment is another detail open
to criticism. But there is nothing like actual
experience after all, and shall be curious to
hear more about the Honeymooners' Hotel
when it has been opened for business for few
weeks
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05
REMARKABLE WILL POWER.
Instances That Show tho Hold Some Have
on Life.


on Life.
From the Boston Gazette.l
Three stories were told over after-dinner ci-
gars the other day, showing the power of mans
will. One was of young officer in the English
army who was peculiarly stubborn and irasci-
BILE. He had been confined to his bed after a
severe attack of the heart and was unable to
move. His physician asked one of his fellow
officers to warn him that he would never get
out of bed again, that he might arrange his
affairs before death. When the sick man was
told what the doctor had said he arose in bed
excitedly and said: 81 will never get up again,
eh? will walk to the doctor myself and show
him." He jumped to the floor, walked across
the room and fell dead.
The other was about Sheriff out West,
who, when arresting q man, was stabbed
through the heart He seized the man by the
shoulders, after the blade had struck him,
pressed him tc the ground. drew his revolver
and deliberately thrutting 1t down the strug-
Cling prisoners throat pulled the trigger at the
instant he himself died.
The third story was regarding another ofhcer
who was hunting down a thief The man
thought he had given his pursuer the slip, but
Just as he entered one door of q railroad car
the officer appeared in the other. The thief
instantly fired, the bullet penetrating his pur-
suer's brain. The officer, however, returned
the shot, bringing his man to the ground. He
then dragged himself along the aisle of the car.
firing as he crawled, until his revolver was
empty. He was dead when he was picked up
q second after he ceased to shoot