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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
ALL THROUGH THE STATE.

The Heavenly Recruits" new denomina-
tion, are holding nightly services at Reading.
A LADY of Lehighton swallowed one of the
bones oi her nose which had become loosened.
JOHN GEORGE, of West Chester, has the
first sewing machine ever brought into this
country.
CoRRY claims to have valuable mineral
springs pfoperty. A water-cure establishment
is to be erected.
A CHESTER lady dresses her children in
their bathing suits and turns the hose on them
on her front lawn.
A REMOVE child was amusing itself with
rattlesnake. Its mother rescued the infant as
the reptile was about to spring.
1T is said that Colonel Dan Rice and former
partner, Patrick Rayon, have organized cir
Gus. which willtravel through the South.
The tenth annual reunion of the Soldiers
Orphans Sixteeners of Pennsylvania will be
held at Williamsport on August 19, 20 and 21.
THE Salvation Army and drum and fife
corps occupy parts of the same building at Al
lentown, and when both are in operation at
once the result is indescribable.
AT Centerville Dauphin county, lives mule
At years of age, which did service in both the
Mexican War and the Rebellion. and served in
both Confederate and Union ranks.
PETER M. EMERY, the oldest member of the
Patriotic Order of Sons of America, and who
for years has taken care Of the historic
grounds at Valley Forge, died recently.
THOMAS Nj. PHILLIPS who for many years
has had the position of Division Superintendent
of the Lehign and Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
having absolute charge Of q colleries in the Luz
zerne and Carbon region, has resigned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12

agricultural products from grain to wool
and hides, the purchase of all kinds of
supplies from drygoods to hardware
and agricultural implements. In perma-
nent competition with a system where each
department of this field of commerce falls
into the hands of men especially versed in
the market of each staple, the new organi-
cation is likely to prove jack of all trades
and master of none. Special qualities and
special knowledge are needed in each
branch of trade, and a system which under
takes to spread over the whole field of COM
merce will prove inert and expensive. In
addition, the competitive system of COM
meree rewards each man who discovers
way to cheaper its operations and Furnishes
each one who is negligent, inefficient or
dishonest. The new organization will be
at the mercy of the ineficiency or dis
honesty of any of its agents, and whenever
those qualities are developed the loss from
them will fall on the farmers.
There is no doubt that some of the abuses
of the present mercantile system willSbe
redressed by this plan of the alliance,
simply because it introduces new and
effective sort of competition. But as a
permanent method of exchanging the prod
ucts Of different industries the old system
will stand, because under unhampered COM
petition it must always seek the most eco
nomic methods of making that exchange.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
Kansas Farmers to Handle Their Ow
Grain and Live Stock.

Kansas Farmers to Handle Their Own
Grain and Live Stock.
TOPEKA, August 1.-The Farmers Alliance
of Kansas, which now numbers over 145 600
members, has organized a mercantile depart
ment and propose to handle their own grain
and live stock. They have appointed agents
who will handle their shipments in the markets
of Kansas City, Chicago and st. Louis, by
which transaction the farmer will save the COM
mission which he usually pays the middleman.
The scheme is organized on the most thorough
business principles and promises to revolution
ize the grain and live stock business in this
State. If the undertaking is successful more
than one-half of the corn. wheat, oats and
cattle which is shipped out of Kansas will be
taken out of the hands of the commission men
and local buyers throughout the State and sold
by the farmers themselves in the Eastern mar
kets.
The new organization is known as the Kansas
Alliance Exchange. 1t will not only sell the
products of the farm, but it will buy direct
from the manufacturer everything that the
farmer needs, for which cash will invariably be
paid. Although the Exchange has been in
operation less than three months it is already
doing very extensive business, the sales last
month amounting to more than $2O0, 900. 1t is
claimed that by buying direct from the manu-
facturer they are saving the farmers from to
so per cent 1t has already seriously injured
the business of some of the retail dealers in
counties where the Alliance has strong men,
bershIp. Dealers who are doing business in
agricultural communities and who depend
almost altogether on the farmer, find since the
Alliance has commenced buying and selling for
its members, that their trade has decreased
nearly so per cent and number have been
Obliged to 20 out of business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
UNIQUE STRIKE PHASES.

One of the remarkable features of the
New York Central Railroad strike is the
utter remoteness of the reasons for it which
are assigned respectively by the railroad
employees and the railroad managers. 1t is
generally the case in such struggles that
there is slight gulf between the statements
of the opposing parties, but it is somewhat
novel to find them making statements which
have no possible relation to each other.
The strikers say that the New York Central
managers are undertaking system Of ex-
pulsion from their employment of all
! men prominent in the knights of Labor.
The railroad managers say that in fighting
the strike they are defending their right to
promote subordinates according to merits
and not seniority. The strikers do not say
word about promotion and the railroad
officials do not mention discharges. 1t
might be supposed that this hiatus between
the statements would call attention to the
fact that there must be a misunderstanding
and would make a compromise easy in
which the managers should concede the
right of the men to belong to the K. of L.,
the managers to promote according to merit.
But as the strike appears to keep on with
growing bitterness, the opinion is suggested
that neither statement has that full and COM
plete quality of truth which is desirable in
all matters.
Another phase of this trouble is suggest
i've. The country is tolerably familiar with
that frequently repeated after-dinner speech
OF the genial Chauncey NJ. DepeE, Presi-
dent of the New York Central, in which he
tells how that corporation never has any
strikes, because hearing is always given to
the men when they want to state their griev-
ances, and they are always sent away satisfied.
The present situation has a ruinous effect
on that familiar and gratifying oratory.
The grievances that the men claim have
not been redressed; the much-advertised
hearing has been denied them, and the
siIvery-tongued President of the road, who
has often told how he keeps on good terms
with the men, is safely out of the conflict,
spending his leisure time in the capitals of
Europe.
So far the situation is not wholly credita-
BILE to the witty Depew. But there are
great possibilities for the situation secreted
in the womb of the future. Suppose that the
ambitious President of the New York
Central, with an eye on other presidencies,
should take the first ocean greyhound for
New York, should call the men before him
and by granting their demands establish
peace and exhibit himself as the friend of
labor, and the mediator between the Van
derbilt millions and the working masses?
In that case what an aureole would be
thrown about the possible candidacy of the
champion of labor, the representative of the
corporations and the friend of the granger!
1t is not certain that this will be the out
come of the strike, and it is not certain that
it will not. Our friend, DR.. Depew, was
not born yesterday, and the possibilities of
Presidential booms are past finding out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12

OUR sincere apologies are due to the
New York Journal OF Commerce for having
said that all the New York papers violated the
law about reports of the Kemmler execution,
The esteemed Journal of Commerce, which has
painstakingly preserved itself from any sus
picion of being newspaper, these many years,
simply published this statement: THE sentence
of the law in Murderer Kemmler's case has
been carried out, and he was electrocuted this
morning" The form of the Item was little
pleonastic, as the first clause renders the
second unnecessary. But the esteemed Journal
preserved the law, and 1t is to be hoped that its
next report of an execution will be reformed OF
its use of unnecessary verbiage
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
ELECTRIC CANAL BOATs.

The application of electricity to canal
boats is suggested by W. L. Adams. He
proposes to use an electric trolly to tow the
boats. If Mr.. Adams plans are feasible,
the problem of getting speed on canals is
solved. Labor as we'll as time will be saved,
and the electric current which hauls his
boat along at a round rate of speed
will cook the captains meals, warm his feet
and light his course over the raging main.
Water power for running the electric motors
could be obtained in many places, and Mr..
Adams estimates that the cost of hauling by
electricity would be very moderate. Now
that the people are beginning to realize the
value of canals improvements in the motive
power of canal boats are of the greatest i'm
Dortance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
THE MEANEsT MAN.
He Is an Unworthy Member Of the Honora-
BILE Guild.

He IL an Unworthy Member Of the Honora-
BILE Guild.
From the Kansas City star.l
The medal for the meanest man no longer be-
longs to the individual who turned brick in his
sidewalk to save laying new ones. At one of
the Kansas City hotels the other day pretty
little faxen-haired, blue-eyed baby girl was
playing with big Newfoundland dog about
the Office when she was induced TO quit her
romping and sit on the lap of fat commercial
traveller. The traveller amused the baby for
awhile by showing her his watch, key ring and
various trinkets; then seeing that the little one
was restless and wanted to 'det down." he
promised to let her go if she kissed him first.
His was not an attractive mouth and the child
strongly objected. As a'final inducement, after
much coaxing, the drummer went down in
his pocket and pulled out big shining silver
dollar and held 1t before the baby with the re-
mark: IF you give me q kiss you may have
this" Such glittering offer as this proved
too much, so up went the little mouth. with
lips puckered as though about to receive
dose of medicine, and 'smackp and all was
over.
'Now 100 div me the money" said the baby,
holding out both Of her chubby little hands to
receive it. The man put the dollar back in his
pocket, and instead fished out q copper cent
and gave 1t to the child with the remark:
Nov go and play with doggy"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.

The report of the receivers of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal, appointed in the
District of Columbia, puts. the status of
that property in very different light from
that presented by the Maryland people, who
are engaged in the work of handing it over
to the railroads. The railroad interest in
shutting off the outlet to a possible trans
Allegheny canal is so manifest that the
statements published in yesterdays DIS.
PATCH are very significant
These statements are made all the more
authoritative by the fact that they are sup
ported with the actual figures. These figures
show the cost of restoring the canal, and are
accompanied by joint letter of the leading
coal companies of the Cumberland region,
promising coal freights enough to ensure the
expenses of operation and the payment of
interest on the money necessary to reorganize
and restore the canal. In other words the
report fully demonstrates that the canal can
be restored with a guarantee of paying
business.
This fully sustains the position of The
DISPATCH that the canal can be kept in
operation and pay its way until the time
when it can be made the eastern outlet for
waterway connecting the Ohio river with
tide water. 1t shows that the movement to
transfer it to railway control is surrender
of public rights, and is inspired by the
corporate desire to strangle beyond hope of
revival. the project for waterway across
the Alleghenies. Maryland has been fully
committed to the railway policy; but there
is some slight mitigation in the knowledge
that representatives of other interests in the
canal management are putting the matter
in its true light
1t is to be hoped that this statement of
the facts may be check upon the Mary
land sale to the corporations; but that deal
has already developed such shameless
qualities that it is not probable that any
thing will stop it short of an appeal to the
United States courts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
TRAVEL WITH YOUR WIFE.
Otherwise You Cannot Recover for Lost Fe.
male Apparel and JeweIry.

Otherwise You Cannot Recover for Lost Fe-
male Apparel and JeweIry.
From the San Francisco Call.l
Some time ago man named Metz bought a
ticket at Kansas City for California. and after
checking his trunk there boarded the train.
Upon his arrival at Cation, Cal, he discovered
that his trunk had gone astray. He waited a
reasonable time for the railroad company to
produce the trunk, and failing to do So he put
In claim for $3.50 damages.
Over 5000 of this amount was for jewelry for
female wear, and the railroad claimed it was
not bound to pay for it. inasmuch as it was not
his personal baggage. Metz brought suit in
the Los Angeles County Court and recovered
Judgment for the full amount and the railroad
company appealed.
The Supreme Court. In deciding the case yes
terday, said the railroad company is obliged TO
pay only for the luggage of the claimant, and
luggage meant in law only such things as the
claimant needed for personal use on his travels.
Had Metz been travelling with his wife there
would be no question as to the railroad COM
pany's liability.
But Metz was single man, and travelling
alone. The articles of female jewelry in his
trunk could not. therefore, be regarded as lug
gage, and the railroad company need not pay
for them. The Court ordered the Judgment
reduced by the amount of the jewelry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

EX-GOVERNOR PATTIsoN and ex-Speaker
Carlisle are to address mass meeting at Beth
lehem, Pa, on September s.
SIxTY-FIvE years ago Emmons Rudge was
arrested in Hartford. Conn. for selling ice, as
the doctors of the city had decided that it was
unhealthy to use it.
DIR. SBLAH MERRILL, of Andover, Mass, is
giving series of lectures on Palestine at
Round Lake, N. Y. He was United States
Consul at Jerusalem from 1882 to 1886.
JOHN F. PLUMMER, of New York. who failed
March 10 last for nearly 81 000 000 is now it is
said, in tho employ of syndicate of capitalists
operating railroads in the far Northwest.
Mr.. JOHN H. sTAR1N, of New York, gave
his twelfth annual excursion on Friday to the
families of the members of the police and fire
departments. It was enjoyed by about 5000
persons.
COLONEL ]. F. BATES, Superintendent Of
the free delivery system of the Postofhce De-
partment, is in Norfolk for the purpose of pro-
viding largely increased facilities for the serv-
ice of that city.
JOHN M. STEADMAN. of Brockport. N. Y,
who was a graduate of Cornell University two
years ago, has accepted an appointment as
biologist in the Agricultural Department. He
is "a years old.
SOLONEL LILLIAN LOVE, VI
recently came across mound containing In
dian bones near Sandy Hill, Dorchester county,
Md, and has notified the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition of his discovery.
MISS STAFFORD, an old lady Of Cottage City,
Martha's Vineyard, who has in her possession
the first flag of Stars and Stripes (given to
Paul Jones) ever raised in America, will take
the emblem to Boston, where it will be seen in
the Grand Army OF the Republic parade next
Tuesday.
THE Church Progress Catholic weekly
published in st. Louis, intimates that petit
tion will shortly be forwarded to the Pope,
praying that the red hat of q cardinal be be-
slowed upon the venerable Archbishop Ken
rick, whose golden jubilee will occur Novem-
her 90 1891
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
SHAKING HANDS,

1t is pleasant weather for almost any sort
of exercise, and Mr.. Delamater, if he comes
here, will enjoy shaking hands with his
friends we do not doubt Mr.. Seymour L..
Rau, Secretary of the State Republican
Committee, says Mr.. Delamater has shaken
hands to good effect in the East, and pro-
poses to touch as many Pittsburg palms
as he can this week. But it is
painful 10 learn that Mr.. Delamater's
handicraft will not include the inditing Of
an answer to Senator Emery's charges
The demolition of Blankenburg's epistle
was another little treat we had been led to
believe this week had in store for us. But
the handshaking, it is said, will take up all
Mr.. Delamater's time. In such delight
fully cool weather. when the political world
is so terribly dull, Mr.. Delamaier might
stretch dignifed silence to the splitting
point and take his pen in hand. That let
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
STOLEN wITTICIsMs.

"will YOU love me when I'm old?" sang
maiden of uncertain age.
''Will I?'' murmured a crusty old bachelor
'Do I2'' you mean Washington Star.
Mamma, you haven't given me any
dimes and nickels, ~ complained Jimmy Shattuck,
after the physician had gone.
"What do you mean, Jimmy?' asked Mrs.
Shattuck, in surprise.
''Why, the doctor said 1 needed q little
change. ''-Chieago Inter Ocean.
Friend-I suppose you grieve very much
over the death of your husband?
Mrs Snooks-Indeed do. If Ihad utilized he
fore he died the tears I've shed since he died ia
have dozen more dresses than I've got now
SVtin0s-
A.-You should marry. Woman exerts q
refining influence on man, What you need ia a
wife.
B-Are you married.
80, yes: I've been married 20 vears.u
''Wby haven't you and your wife been living to-
gether all these yearsY''-SVtinqs.
Judge Peterby-Where is your son now?
Colonel Yerger-He IS with silverstone.
'Isn't that the merchant who has failed several
times and been burnt out u time or sop,
'Ies, that's the man. 1 want my son to get .
practical business education. ''-Siftings.
Husband-I see that the manager of the
American News Company in New York has been
arrested for selling harmful books
Nife-Ot course you will bring copies with YOU
when you come home to-night--SomsruilLe Jour
nat.
Il assure you, Judge, that my physician
is responsible for my being thief
do you mean to say he hypnotized you and
compelled you TO commit a crime?''
II won't say that, but do know that he ordered
me to take something before going TO bed. ~
NeIo York Herald.
OBI, PAINFUL THOUGHT.
In the clty's giddy whirl,
BY and by,
Will appear the summer girl;
Buther eye
At thedude win eoldly stare
Who has paidthose bills OF fare
Oh, 50 high. Utica dsrGid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
THE NEW READING POLICY.

The movement of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad to build an independent
line TO its own terminals in New York is
correctly spoken of by the Philadelphia
Record as a legitimate movement, 1t is
certainly that; and it is further significant
as an indication that the new management
of the Reading has burst the combination
bonds that have hampered it for the past
few years. and is embarking on policy of
strengthening itself by xtending its con-
nectons.
An obvious part of such a policy would
be the extension of its western connections
to Pittsburg. There are more ways of doing
this than over the detunct South Penn
route; but if the Baer syndicate should turn
out to be really working in the interest of
the Reading it would occupy position of
peculiar strength and could make the con-
nection an ensured success. Whatever
foundation there is for the belief that the
Pennsylvania Railroad has got its grip on the
strangled enterprise, that control is too much
in conflict with the Constitution and the
courts, to have good fighting qualities. A
struggle in the courts which would bring
out the fact that the Pennsylvania Railroad
is nullifying the law might cost 1t great
deal more than is involved in the effort to
choke off an independent line through
Pennsylvania.
1t would be a satisfactory outcome of the
reverses, defeats and rumors about the
South Penn, if the Reading should turn out
to have control of the route, and should
adopt the policy of finishing it. But disap-
pointment has so long been the sole function
of that enterprise that the public will not
expect anything more of it than can be
demonstrated to actual vision.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
MRS. LIvERMOREs BELIEF
That Hereafter Resurrections From the
Dead Will Become More Frequent.

That Hereafter Resurrections From the
Dead Will Become More Frequent.
WEIRs, N. H, August n.-Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore gave utterance to these strange
words at Unlversalist gathering on the camp
meeting grounds yesterday:
1--WE believe that Jesus Christ rose from the
dead. We believe that since then men have
risen from the dead, and that hereafter resur-
rections will come more frequently. In our
belief, the time will come when it Will be a
common thing for a person to say that he has
seen such q one who has been dead perhaps 90
years. In that time the earth will see visions
not now dreamed of, when the veil that separ-
ates US from the spiritual world will be from
time to time removed and allow us glimpses of
spiritual things. Nature gives US no function
without an opportunity to use it. We have the
strong inspiration after another life-that func-
tion which refuses to believe that death is the
end. Now, there must be logically something
behind the grave to meet the craving inspira-
tion of the soul. The prophecy which God has
placed in our souls will by-and-by be met with
complete fuifilment."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
INVITATIONS OF JOBBERY.
The Reason for Selecting jackson Park for
the Worlds Fair.


the Worlds Fair.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAToH.i
CHICAGO, August 1.-THE directors of the
Worlds Fair are practically unanimous in
favor of change from Jackson to Washington
Park. A large part of Jackson Park is unim-
proved and very swampy and it was the inten-
tion to excavate an artificial lake, and use the
land thus obtained to fill up the site tor the
fair. The fair directors find this would be SO
expensive as to be impracticable. The WASH
ington Park Commissioners are opposed to the
change on account of the injury to the grounds.
as it could not be brought to its condition
again for years. They say legal questions pre-
vent its use for other than park purposes.
If this change is made it will put an end to
the dual site. as there are no means of COM
munication between Lake Front Park and
Washington Park. Washington Park is
reached only by a cable line. If it should be
chosen, the Illinois Central and other COM
panies would lose rich harvest Several real
estate syndicates have banked on the Jackson
Park site and have bought acres of real estate
there.
When the Jackson Park site was first recon-
mended the opinion was expressed that the
real object was to enable certain holders of
jackson Park real estate to unload. In view
of the present change it looks as if that opinion
was more nearly correct than might at first
aDDear.