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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-15
Press Department Providence and
Stonington Steamship Company,
New York. Pier 30. Y. r.

General Passenger Agents Briggs and Bah
cock, of the Providence and Stonington Steam
boat Company, are greatly pleased over the
large passenger business now being done by
their company. The steamers in commission
for the season are the Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island, and Stonington. They are
models of shipbuilder's art elegance, comfort,
and safety being the prevailing features Tour
lists and tray elers and those in search of health
to the noted watering-places in New England,
which these boats make the only direct connec-
ton, will find the service of this line on a high
order. The cafe dining saloons and state-rooms
are elegantly furnished and decorated. There
are also set apart upon the Connecticut and
Massachusetts a section of state-rooms for ladies
who are travelling alone and who wish to be
very exclusive. The state-rooms are under the
supervision of a capable and experienced stew
ardess, who attends to the wants of the lady
passengers. Comfortable berths are furnished
TO tirst-class passengers free of charge A fea-
ture worthy of special mention is the grand
concerts, under the direction of Professor Don
mixer. These boats leave daily for Providence
Boston, Bar Harbor, Worcester, Watch Hull,
Narragansett Pier, from Pier 20, North River,
New York City, at 5 o'clock p NJ.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-15
THE WASHINGTON POST OFFICE.
1t Handles Matter that Ought to Yield an
hnnuaI Reyenue of Oyer So .OOO. 900.

1t Handles Matter that Ought to Yield an
annual Revenue of Over $2,OOO,O0O.
Some weeks ago the Postmaster General Or
dered that all mail matter received at the City
Post Office here should be carefully weighed
during the thirty days ending on June 4, for
the purpose of obtaining close estimate of the
actual amount of matter handled by the office.
There is vast amount of matter from the
Government Departments and from the Capitol
sent through the Washington Office on which
no postage is paid, and for which, consequently,
the Washington office gets no credit in the
revenue showing of the Office. Postmaster
Ross has prepared statement of the result of
the weighing ordered by the Postmaster General,
and has transmitted ii to him in the following
letter:
Hon. John Wanamaker, Postmaster General;
SIR: The report of the weighing of mails for
the thirty days ended June A. 1890, shows that
during that time 1872, 002 pounds of first-class
free matter were despatched, which would
amount to / ,464, ,624 pounds per annum.
This at 32c per 10. would bring to
this office an annual revenue off,. S46S 4SO 90
Add 50 per cent. the estimate of in
crease if each piece were weighed
and rated separately .:......::.:.; 1885, 100 90
During the same thirty days Official
printed matter, (reVenue stamps,
books, pamphlets &c,) amounted
to Oil 1861 lbs, which would amount
at Sc. per lb bto....,................. S7G,9O6 So
Add estimate as above, ii weighed
separately 10 per cent, making. $3.50 GO
Add registry fee on 2lS,20S official
pieces now registered free ....... 2l,S20 90
The total number of prepaid pieces
for same period amounted to3,733,-
3S7 postage on same Si2G)l.30,0
ga pieces and. ............ ...,. 5ll, SIS so
Making the grand total income of
the Office fora year, upon the basis
of the last Weighing ............ 81, ,l22, ,S72 10
The estimated amount of SSH, ,S15 as COM
pared with the cashiers report of the receipts
of this Office for the four quarters ended March
81, $780, S4l1 9S607, shows a considera Bile in
crease. Respectfully,
john w. Ross, Postmaster.
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train to and including the following Tuesday,
at rate of $ for the round trip.
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Why do l drink Tannhauser beer? Because
1t is the best in the market.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
PHILADELPHIA,s NEW MINT BILL.

There are many incidents which from day
to day exhibit picturesq uely the magnitude
of the growth of the country and of the
large cities One of these is the presenta-
tion of bill in Congress appropriating 81,
600, 900 for a new Mint building at Philadel-
phia. Every old citizen whose memory runs
back 80 years or so will remember how the
classic, and then commodious, edifce which
was built on the outskirts OF Philadelphia
for Mint was regarded as quite wonderful,
and far In advance Of any probable needs of
Uncle Sam for century to come. The site
was then almost in the fields. But for
long while past even the cellars have had to
be used for the actual work of coming, while
for miles around on every side there is
dense city, making an extension of the pres
ent site impossible.
The appropriation asked for on account
of the new Mint is, of course, one that Con-
gress should not, in fact cannot, hesitate
about. 1t is a necessary incident of the
national growth. The country does not re-
euire its employees to work in cellars, neither
does it wish them shat off from light and
air.
1t is to the interest of the Government as
we'll of the hundreds of employees engaged
in the Mint that the recommendations of
the present live and efficient Superinten-
dent, Colonel Bosbyshell, be acted upon
promptly and Mint building erected to
meet the requirements of 1890 in place of
making shift longer with what was phenom-
email in 1888, but is now more of an archi-
tectural curio than a fit place for the ma
tional business in hand. The bill should
pass
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
THE LOCAL FIELD.

The meeting of the County Republican
Committee yesterday brought out some
points OF almost as decided interest in local
politics as the Americus Clubs many
coursed boom did with reference to the cam
paign of 1892. The change In the date of
the primaries and the relation of the census
enumerators thereto were the subject of
sharp remarks, but the change was agreed
upon by dint of superior strength, or the
general sympathy for these practical though
not prominent politicians, the enumerators.
The agreement to the new basis of represen-
tation in the Twenty-fourth district was also
important. This arrangement, which ap-
portions delegates by the ratio of the vote,
will do away with the deadlocks that have
been a peculiar feature of Pennsylvania
politics under the antiquated conferee sys-
tenn, and should have been made long ago.
With these preliminarles disposed Of, fun
may now commence all along the line.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
STATE POLITICS.

THE Titusville american Cftize,, hoists the
name of Robert z. Partison for Governor at
the head of its editorial page.
ALTOONA Tribune: We are glad to see that
Chairman Andrews has invited the members of
the Republican State Committee to study the
subject of ballot reform, and that the next
State Convention Is likely to declare in its
favor.
NoRRIsrowN Herald: Il Is often alleged
that the party In power in any particular State
is opposed to ballot reform. This does not
apply to Pennsylvania Republicans. The
State Committee indorses the bill which New
York Democrats reject, and it will become a
law next winter. without doubt.
MEADvILLE Messenger: There will be a not
contest in Erie county for delegates to the
State Convention, and 1t Is probable that some
Doodle will be distributed. The friends of
Stone are determined to break the Delamater
slate arranged by Andrews. But the Crawford
county bosses declare that Erie is fixed"
PHILADELPHIA Press: The Democratic
State Executive Committee will meet at Har-
risburg on April 80, when the time for the State
Convention will be fixed. There Is a good deal
of Democratic sentiment in favor of holding
the convention very soon after the Republican
nominations are made, and as no special time
is required for the notice, it is probable that
some day early in july will be named.
OIL CITY Derrick: Emery is doing no harm
to anybody except himself. by circulating the
expurgated revised and interlined edition OF
his speech made at Bradford. Republicans
know him and his motives. The Democrats
are mad because he made his fight on Della
mater alone. and does not come outlike Charles
S. Wolfe did in 1882. against 'the whole ma
chine" Politically he is neither hsh. flesh nor
good red herring.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
"REMINISCENCES OF GRANT.

The "reminiscences of General Grant
which appear elsewhere in this issue are full
of interest in connection with the anniver-
sary of yesterday, and the observances
which honor the day.
The statement that General Grant refused
an offer of million dollars, to permit his
name to be used as the President of Mexican
mining company, confirms what the public
have long believed, that General Grant was
personally above the receipt of wealth from
questionable sources. That his implicit
trust in unworthy friends led to such en-
barrassing complications as the Grant &
Ward failure the whole world knows; but it
is no less true that he was the victim in all
such cases and, in the instance referred to,
suffered the entire loss of his fortune. This
statement that he refused million dollars
for the use of his name shows one of the
many cases in which he might have received
great wealth had not his scrupulous honor
interfered.
The quality of warm and somewhat
stubborn friendship is shown in the story
that he sent a telegram urging the re-elec-
tion of Senators Conkling and Plat, in the
contest on their famous resignation. That
General Grant was a warm friend of Conk-
ling is well known; but we may be per-
mitted to doubt whether this tele-
gram would have had the effect Of
changing the result, if it had reached
its address. 1t might have been
thought then, as it may still be held with
out disrespect to Grant, that people who
were on the ground in that famous fight,
were as well able to judge of its merits as
General Grant in Mexico. 1t is not neces-
sary to reopen the discussion of that
famous quarrel for the control of the spoils
to recognize that Grants view of the matter
was inspired by personal friendship rather
than by an impartial view of the situation.
One phase of the statement. however calls
for statement from some one else. 1t is
stated that leading capitalists controlling
the telegraph communication between Mex
leo and the United States stopped General
Grants cipher dispatches because they were
supposed to relate to business. This amounts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
prevented by fair compromise. EV
effort should be made to do it now.
Every
THE MODERN INQUIRY.

The answer to the question how to get
rich furnished by number of well-known
millionaires. and published in this issue of
The DISPATCH, shows rather strong in
dorsement of the practice of putting savings
out at interest or in the savings band.
Barnum. Enoch Pratt and Claus Spreckels
all recommend that method of laying up
money on earth, while Roswell P. Flower
and Ben Butler indorse investments in real
estate, C. A. Pillsbury urges fidelity to en-
ployers and Henry Clews suggests the
obvious method of buying stocks cheap and
selling them dear, which operation, whether
successful or not, is likely to bring water to
Mr.. Clews' wheel.
The advice given by the majority of these
gentlemen is excellent as pointing out the
course by which young and industrious men
can, with tolerable security, lay up a COM
Portable provision for the future. That is a
Legitimate and praiseworthy ambition, and
it young man saves his money and puts it
out at interest, or into real estate, he will
have a fair chance of satisfying that
moderate desire. But this advice does not open
VIZ "oy w SiSob sOibuASsJ nhiSh oiC ehS
somewhat misplaced object of the general
inquiry. If the answers OF these gentlemen
have been perfectly frank on that point, Mr..
Spreckels might suggest that he had found
getting Congress to throw off the duty on his
imports of sugar, while other people had to
pay full duty, very successful means of
establishing great fortune. Mr.. Barnum
might suggest the judicious mixture Of
Jenny Lind and woolly horses in the show
business goes a long way; while Mr.. Clews
might disclose the fact that getting on the
inside with the parties who float watered
stocks and bonds is more apt to produce
great wealth than playing the lamb on the
outside by paying both brokers' commits
sions and manipulators' profits.
The inquiry how to get rich is so general
a subject of investigation that it is time to
suggest a change. Let us rather turn the
inquiry to the means by which men can be
useful citizens, honorable men and lead in
dustrious and upright lives which shall
leave the world little better for having ex-
isted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
to a very decided call upon some of the tele-
graph capitalists to take the floor.
A SEVERE LESSON.

The reports leave little doubt that large
share of the plantations in the Atchafalaya,
Bayou Teche and other districts in Louisi-
ana are totally submerged by the break in
the Mississippi levees. This affords most
overwhelming practical commentary on the
attitude OF the people who so angrily de-
nounced the predictions of such flood a
month ago, from the high water then in the
upper rivers.
The wrath that was felt over this pre-
diction is closely related to the course which
has been noticed at other points, of sup
pressing all mention of yellow fever cases.
The idea that there is any danger might
"hurt business" and therefore any talk
of such things must be choked of. The re-
suit of that policy inevitably is that pre-
cautions are neglected. and that the Fl nal
loss is hundred-fold what might have oc-
Cured if the warnings had been taken for
what they were worth, and the precautions
indicated by the danger had been faithfully
observed.
1t may now occur to the ouisiana people
that thoseNwho make public the warnings of
such dangers as they are now struggling
against are not to be classed unqualifedly
as public enemies. As they have had that
lesson so crushingly forced upon them the
charity Of the country should be prompt to
relieve the pressing needs which they must
be enduring at present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
PERSONAL POINTS.

GENERAL EARLY has been the chief con
| tributor to the Lee monument fund at Rich
| mond Va.
THE Prince Of Wales is an expert type
| writer and his dozen secretaries have all been
| supplied with machines.
THE Hon. A. w. Tenney will, on Wednes-
day evening next, give reception at his Brook
lyn residence in honor Of Mr.. Murat Halstead.
IT is recorded that at Atlantic City on SUM-
day last Mrs. Grover Cleveland went to church.
joined in the singing, and paid close attention
to the sermon.
DIR. JOSEPH JONES, of New Orleans. is col
lecting material for Confederate medical and
surgical history of the war. 1t will be collec-
tion of hospital records.
Ex-EMPKRoR Dom PEDRO is writing for
German scientific journal a valuable paper
upon the language of the Tupi race, the princI-
pal Indian tribe of Brazil.
RIDER HAGGARD contemplates an early
visit to the Rocky Mountains with view to
writing a story based upon certain prehistoric
ruins which are said to exist there.
IN prominent bookstore at Hartford, Conn.,,
one may see a sign: BIBLES, Prayer Books,
Hymnals-sl;' and close by another: "Orations
and After-Dinner Speeches of Chauncey NJ.
Depew-S2 SO.
THOMAS A. EDISON recently visited West
ern city and remained there a week under an
assumed name without having his identity
discovered. He was hiding his light under a
bushel. as it were.
MARY ANDERSON has written to a friend In
Louisville confirming the report of her engage
ment to marry young Mr.. Navarro, and she
adds that she will never accept another
theatrical engagement while she lives.
MRS. JAMES A. GARFIELD and Mr.. and Mrs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
IT SHOULD BE SETTLED.

While it was thought a week ago, that
the impending railroad strike was very close
to a settlement, the week has closed with
the dispute unsettled, and the prospect of a
satisfactory adjustment more remote than at
the beginning. That progress in the wrong
direction can hardly fail to create the public
opinion that an mistaken spirit has inter-
tervened to delay the proper adjustment of
the matter. Such view is likely to be
strengthened by the reported remark of one
railroad official, that if the men 'tintend to
strike would like to see them do it and
have it over" 1t is to be hoped that the re-
port of this remark is incorrect. Plttsburg
knows too we'll the loss and danger of a
strike, and especially the perils of railroad
strike, to indorse any spirit on either side
which does not use all means of honorable
and fair Cancellation to- avert it A
week ago it looked as il the strike could be
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
THE ITALIAN FASTER.
Witnesses Say He Comes Ont of II In Better
Condition Than Tnnuer,


Condition Than Tanner.
rBY CABLE TO THE DIsPArcu.1
LONDON, April 26-Giovanni Succi, the little
Italian who has been fasting for 10 days at the
Aquarium. took his first meal, consisting of a
spoonful OF bouillon, this afternoon in the
presence of a great crowd of spectators. He
was not a pleasing spectacle, although his
physical condition is wonderful, in view
Of the circumstance that he has subsisted en-
tirely upon water for 40 days. He has been very
carefully watched night and day by two COM
mittees of physicians from Westminster Hos
pital. who positive that he has consumed
nothing but water during the 40 days with the
exception Of little elixir containing no nutri-
menr TO allay abdominal pains. Succi
has lost 30 pounds during his fast,
but though the skin upon his forehead
is like wrinkled parchment and his cheeks fall
between his high eheekbones and lower jaw.
and the lines OF his face are drawn down and
haggard. be walks firmly and has muscular
grip as strong as it was six weeks ago. At the
conclusion of the fast his temperature was
normal at 97.6o Fahrenheit, pulse $50, respira-
tion lSo and lung capacity ], 400 cubic cent?
meters. His weight was SO pounds ounces,
the loss since the day before being II ounces.
He has maintained almost evenly from the
first TO last his normal temperature. The tenn
perature of bis body at starting. on the l7th of
March. was 1856 degrees FahrenheIt; it was re-
duced to 98 degrees at the end of that month
after which it remained about g7.4 degrees. His
pulse began at 81 fell on the second day to 78
rose on the third to 81 and fell to 50 on the 10th
OF March. Since then it has oscillated between
So and ", the lowest, 81 being registered on the
Goth. His muscular grip began at 40 and ends
at 81 kilogrammes. and in the interval
has oscllated between 46 and 49, His
lung capacity began at 1000 cubic centimeters,
and in week had dropped to ], $50. His height
before the fast was feet inches; it is now 5
feet inches, a loss of l inch, due mainly to the
shrinkage Of the cartilages between the verte-
brae. The people who saw DR.. Tanner at the
conclusion of his 40 days fast say that Succi
has come out of the test in 100 per cent better
condition than the American faster. The
Italian has tasted several times for 20 or 30
days, but never before for SO long as 40 days.
He has drank between pint and a pint and
half Of water per day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.

THE President has attached his name to the
Worlds Fair bill. Chicago will now proceed with
the circus.
JOE JEFFERSON says if he were placed in
the center of Boston and had a compass large
enough he would draw circle including an area
of four miles, and say that within that circle
there is more intelligence, refinement and culture
than in any other similar area in the United
States" Joe made the above statement before he
visited Pittsburg,
THERE are at the present time 13 men who
are skirmshing for the gubernatorial nomination
Of Texas. Owing to I3 being an unlucky number,
Il of them are going to &c. left
In Isabella county, Mich, chicken that had
seen 16 winters and as many summers pass over
its head. killed and sent 10 Detroit as
s'srringer.'' gentleman who tackled piece Of
1t claimed that it was tough.
A NEW paper has been started in Indianap-
oils called the Rams Horn. If there is anything
in name it will certainly be crooked affair.
Mr.. PETER JACKSON accepts the offer to
meet John l.. Sullivan in San Francisco. If the
two pugnacious gentlemen will only pummel
themselves so that they will and home in a hos
pital for indefinite period, handsome purse
will no doubt be promptly raised by a generous
people.
ALL the world seems to be on q strike or in
striking humor, Word comes from Paris that the
gravedigsers are threatening to strike on the
long hours they are compelled 70 put in. It's
grave subject.
BISMARCK will go to Vienna about May 1 to
take sulphur baths. Mr.. Ingersoll will take his
sulphur baths later on.
The New York State prisons have only 46
cells unoccupied. but 1T Will not be many DAYS be-
fore they filled II justice Is meted out to her
aldermen, deputy sheriffs and other evil doers,
GEORGE W. PECK has frstciass chance for
a suit for damages. Lloydis London Weekly Netos
says that MIR. Peck, the well-known newspaper
writer and humorist. has been elected Mayor of
Salt Lake City. What the humorist has done to
deserve this is past finding out.