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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
CABS on A SUNDAY.

Consistency is a jewel, although Colonel
Shepard, the millionaire editor of New York,
does not seem to place high value upon it.
In the deyout endeavor to obtain the Worlds
Fair for New York Colonel Shepard with
DR.. Chauncey II. Depew and Mayor Grant
spent last Sunday in canvassing the Con-
gressmen in their homes at Washington. It
is said that these worthy apostles made it a
campaign of cabs, that is to say they rode
from house to house pleading their cause
with the Legislators. Colonel Shepard was
one of them. He, too, rode in q cab; he,
too, disturbed the devotions of the members
of Congress-and, to use phrase which he
viii appreciate fully, he broke the fourth
commandment
1t would be unrighteous and uneharitable
to single out Colonel Shepard for rebuke if
he had not persistently set himself up as q
model man, q religious man, an editor holier
than other editors, and the owner OF q paper
in which sporting and religious news were
happily blended Colonel Shepard stopped
the Fifth avenue stages from running on
Sunday because his respect for that day was
so great Does be adjust his views to the
occasion and the place? Tfit is immoral to
drive or ride in an omnibus in New York
on Sunday, is il not also sinful to ride about
in cab in Washington on that day? Per-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
BRAzIL,s INTERNAL DANGER.

Stories come from abroad that the Euro
pean powers are colloguing to take united
action unfavorable to the Brazilian Repub-
lie. The effort is reported to be to induce
England. as the chief naval power, to take
the initiative in actual hostilities, which it
is hoped would overthrow the present gov
eminent and restore the Empire. All OF
which Brazil need not fear in the slightest,
if her course is such as to demonstrate the
freedom of the people and the protection of
individual rights. Public opinion in Eu-
rope would no more permit an enterprise to
overthrow a true constitutional Republic in
Brazil than it would in the United States.
But if Brazil establishes trade monopolies,
rules by dictatorship and makes the guar
antees of liberty and property less clear
than under Dom Pedro. then European in
tervention might be possible. There is no
need for her to fear Europe, but she should
be on her guard against ruin from her own
faults
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
IT'S WORK NEARLY FINISHED.
The Pnn-Americnn Congress Prepared for
Early Adjournment.

The Pam American Congress Prepared for
Early Adjournment.
WAsHNGToN. February 25-The Interna-
tional American Conference will in day OF
two consider the date of its final adjournment.
Its work is in such forward state that it will
probably be able to close its sessions early in
April. A tour through the Southern States by
special train, resembling in details of manage
ment that through New England and the North
west, will Immediately follow the adjournment.
The conference is just now in q tangle over
the third resignation of its secretgry, Senior f..
g. Plerra. OF the Spanlsh-American CONNER
cial Union, of New York. Senior Pierra is a
pec1ally well Informed upon the character and
resources of the South American Republics,
and upon the necessity of hetter communica-
ton between them and the United States
Before the Secretary Of the Conference was
elected his salary was fixed at $500 month.
Senor Pierra's business interests In New York
are such that he has felt that he could not af-
ford to spend his time in Washington for such
remuneration and he has twice resigned Each
time, however, he has been induced to with
draw his resignation. Last week, however, he
resigned third time.
Yesterday he sent to the Conference letter
signed by a number of the delegates asking
him to withdraw his resignation and saying
that in view of the approaching end of the
conference, he wished to do So although he
would not accept cent of the insufficient SAL
ary allowed for his services. His letter was re-
ferred to the Executive Committee, where it
now lies side by side with his latest resignation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
IMMERSION AND THE LAW.

The introduction of the religious question
of baptism into the legal responsibility OF
the taller and Sheriff for a condemned Grim
inal is a singular feature of the case of the
msn now under sentence of death in the
Allegheny county Jail. He has asked for
the rite of baptism by immersion, and that
request has put the officers of the law into a
quandary. The religious sOlace asked by a
man under sentence Of death ought to be
granted him; and yet the Jail has no facili-
ties for immersion, and the law does not con-
template the removal of the criminal from
the Jail where he is to be executed. Since the
available rite of sprinkling will not give the
religious solace desired by the condemned
man, it is probable that if the case is laid be-
fore the court authority will be given for
taking him under guard to some church
where the ceremony can be performed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
LUTHERAN MISSIONS.
Conferences Of the Representatives Of the
Various EvangsIIcaI Church Boards.

Conferences Of the Representatives Of the
Various Evangelical Church Boards.
A conference Of ministers Of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church was held yesterday after
noon and evening in Trinity Lutheran Church,
in Allegheny. At 2 o'clock the condition Of
home missions was discussed. Rev. W. ]. Hay
presided. Aid was asked 10 build new churches
at Sharpsburg and in Bloomfield. The Board
OF Church Extension will consider the re-
quests.
A children's meeting was held at o'clock.
and az 1;SO P. NJ. there was union service OF
the churches of the two cities. Rev. Charles
Reinwald conducted the devotions. Rev. A.
Stewart Hartmann, of Baltimore Secretary of
the Home Mission Board, addressed the assem-
bly, He said that there was greater calamity
daily occurring in America than the Johnstown
flood: the loss Of human souls. and that it was
necessary only to present the facts TO the peo-
pie. In the United States lOl missions of the
Lutheran Church receive $4,000 year from
the board, an average of SS46 to each mission.
Fifty more ought to be established. Mr.. Hart
mann appealed for more money.
Rev. H. n. Weber, Of York, Pa, Secretary of
the Board of Church Extension spoke Of his
work. He said that three out OF four German
immigrants we're Lutherans, and 10 of every 20
Scandinavians. and that the constant incoming
of those people taxed the heaviest energies Of
the board.
Rev. DR.. George SchoIl, of Baltimore, Secre-
tary of the Foreign Mission Board, spoke Of
the work in other lands, among the believers in
other religions. Fifty years ago there was not
a Lutheran minister in India. Now there are
S35 congregations, with IL 900 members. In
Africa 500 natives have been educated as Chris
tian missionaries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
HAZARDS OF LEeAL coNsrRUcrIoN

The decision of the Supreme Court, in re-
gard to the question of the titles to real es-
tate conveyed BY Mrs. Mcconnell, is
naturally a surprise to lawyers, and is cal
culated to deepen the feeling that the un-
certa1nties of life are nowhere more de-
cidedly illustrated than in the rulings of
the ultimate tribunal of this State.
We do not undertake to critieise the
opinions of that lofty body on legal points.
So far as the law is concerned it is enough
to point out that this complete reversal of
the almost unanimous views OF the lawyers
and lower courts, makes a reliance upon
law in such grave matter as the title to
real estate, little better than q stake
upon the dice. But habits of
legal construction, which produce
such uncertainties, warrant the inquiry
whether the need is not for less hair-split-
ting and more plain sense. We do not
think that men of average intelligence who
read the clauses of the Gross will, quoted
elsewhere, can have any doubt as to its pur-
pose. Yet 6 minor phrase, of debatable
purport, is made to overset that purpose and
invalidate the deeds which have been
granted without question heretofore.
In this particular case the matter can, we
presume, be righted without any very seri-
Gus complications. But it is worth while to
inquire whether the tendency to hair-split-
ting legal construction, which invests the
science of law with the hazards Of game of
chance, is for the public advantage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
ON THE WORLDS FAIR.

CINCINNATI Enquirer: What terribly big
head Chicago has this morning.
NEW YORK World: For Director General
of the fair in Chicago: Tom Platt, Of Oswego.
Well, why not?
NEW YORK Tribune: When the great big
boundless West undertakes to have anything
she is hard to beat.
CLEVELAND PLdiRdeoIer: Chicago gets
the Worlds Fair for 1892 and the Democracy
gets a frmer grip on New York State Tom
Platt did it.
CLEVELAND Leader: The interest felt in
this city yesterday over the selection Of the
Worlds Fair site was almost as great as if a
national convention were balloting for Presi-
dental candidate
PHILADELPHIA Times: It Is not yet sure
that the fair will be held in Chicago, as the
Senate may refuse to concur in the action of
the House. or those who are opposed to anv
fair at all may join forces with those who don't
want the fair he'd in Chicago and defeat the
whole scheme.
NEW YORK Press: New York certainly owes
a word of thanks to the Congressman from
other States who stood by rs throughout the
baIloting, because, unswayed by local or sec.
tional influences, they felt that this was the
greatest city in the New World, and that il
ought to have the fair. not SO much for its own
sake as for the fairs sake.
PHILADELPHIA Record: The majority in
Congress has decided to send the Worlds fair
to the wild and windy West. which remained
undiscovered for 200 years after Columbus set
eyes on America. This amounts to virtual
defeat Of the project in advance. Having put
the site ont Of sight. the next appropriate
move on the part OF the politicians who are
meddling in the business should be to prevent
any Federal recognition Of Columbus or bis
discoyerX
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
FEATURES OF TIE RELIEF REPORT.

The report of the Pittsburg Relief Com
mission given to the public last week con-
tains some features that are worthy of more
comment than they have yet received. The
liberality and promptness of Pittsburg's aid
10 the destitute people of Johnstown, as set
forth by that report, are subjects of public
interest and local pride. But some especial
details of that charitable work may have
escaped attention.
One characteristics feature Of the spon-
taneousness of the relief is furnished by the
fact that in the first hour after subscriptions
were opened, without any previous effort to
work up public feeling, the money relief
came in at the rate of s., 600 per minute.
Within an hour on that Saturday afternoon,
the first day after the food, Pittsburg put up
S6O, 900; and the contribute were subse-
uuently swelled, as all know, to over thir-
teen times that sum.
Another fact which Pittsburg can con-
template with no little pride is that the
whole $500, 900 went into the Johustown re-
lief work without any drawback or diminu-
tiou. No part of itEas diverted to pay the
expenses of taking it to the stricken place
or of clerk hire in its distribution. All
these expenses and services were given with
out charge or met outside of the contribu-
tions, so that the entire fund was q clear
donation to the destitute and suffering.
Such record is one that our people may
well be glad to study. Whatever conserva-
tism Pittsburg may exhibit in other re-
spects, she is not a laggard when stricken
humanity calls for the aid of the charitable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
THE RAILROAD RuMoRs.

The rumors which have been flying about
railroad circles and have taken the form Of
several notvery harmonious publications con-
cerning the negotiations between the Bslti-
more and Ohio and Pittsburg and Western
Railroads, are far from definite. Whether
these companies are TO be consolidated, or
whether the one or the other is to absorb the
Western connection, known as the Chicago
and Akron, is not yet settled. But it will
be safe to take it for granted that there is at
least this foundation for all the talk, that
the two companies will form a traffic ar
rangement by which they can use each
others lines both for lake and through
business.
The best reason for this opinion is that the
interests of the two systems naturally har-
monize. The Pittsburg and Western fur
nishes the Baltimore and Ohio with the
most direct route to the lake and the short
est line from Chicago, not only to Pittsburg,
but to Baltimore. The Baltimore and Ohio
gives the Pittsburg and Western its only
outlet to the East. The two roads cannot
get along well without each other; while,
by working in harmony, they will create a
transportation system second only to the
Pennsylvania Railroad in strength and i'm
portance to Pittsburg.
With this powerful natural force impel-
ling the two companies to act together Pitts
burg can safely leave it to the future to de-
eide whether the union will be that of a
mere traffic agreement, or of consolidation
and purchase by one company of the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THE young King Of Spain is again indisposed.
IT is said that Jeffreys Lewis contemplates
writing memoirs of her experiences on and of
the stage.
LORD TENNYsoN and Mr.. Gladstone, who
are suffering from bronchial catarrh, are some
what better.
THE Queen has ordered Angel. the artist, to
paint her portrait for the Russian Regiment, Of
which she is honorary colonel.
THE ex-Emperor of Brazil, who was much
distressed by the death of his wife, has slowly
recovered from his domestic grief
GENERAL RUGER, interviewed in St Paul
about the Wild court-martial, says that the
man disobeyed proper legal order.
PRESIDENT CARNoT finds it impossible to
pardon the Duo d'Orleans as he intended, as a
Cabinet crisis would result from such action.
PRINCESS VICTORIA, the sister Of Emperor
William, will hereafter live most of the time
out of Germany, having an allowance of $4,000
year for that purpose from her brother.
THE last time Stanley lectured at Birming-
ham be received Is guineas for his fee. This
time the Birmingham lecture manager offers
800 guineas. and is afraid he can't get him at
that.
THE two Misses Pendleton, daughters of the
late NlnlsIeE W OoIlAHs pEOPOSS w Ismdlu III
London through the season. The health of
Miss Pendleton, which was seriously low when
she left Berlin, is much improved since her ar
rival here.
The wedding of Archduchess Valerie, of
Austria, with Archduke Franz Salvador, which
was postponed by the death Of Crown Prince
Rudolph, has now been definitely fixed for the
18th of August, the birthday of the Emperor,
x,iIl ha vnarc old on that dav
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, speaking at
Paddington, said he would give a general sup
port to the Government during the present
session of Parliament, but would reserve the
right of liberty of action on certain subjects.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
A LONG VOYAGE.
A Bottle That Had Been Travelling Over
FOuF Thousand Miles.

Bottle That Had Been Travelling Over
Four Thousand Miles.
From the Port-of-Spain Gazette.1
On the evening of the 24th instant, Mr.. Will
lam Jones, while walking on the beach Of the
Nariva Cocal, noticed bottle which had been
washed ashore by the waves. He opened it
and found it to contain scrap OF paper, which
he forwarded to the office of this paper. The
following was written in German on one side,
the other side having written across 1t the date
y September, 1882" and the signatures T.
Schlinger and Aust Lichmatrose:
The German bark Joseph Haydn. Captain
H. Phieger, from Bremen, finds itself to-day in
south latitude 70 3S and west longitude 10
4S, where the crew has thrown this bottle over
board on the Sedan-day, 1889. All on board
well. On the voyage from Singapore to Mar
seilles, September, 1889"
The writer or writers were evidently patri-
otic Germans, from the use OF the anniversary
of Sedan as date. They have, however, rem
dered greater service to science than to ma
tional feeling, as the point in the South At
lantlc where they threw the bottle was not far
westward from the Island Of Ascension. This
shows that the ocean current which bore it
along over well nigh 4, 900 miles in five months
and laid it gently with its message on our east
ern coast. must have travelled at the same rate
(1early 30 miles day. as the equatorial cur
rent flowing above the West Indies from the
Gulf of Mexico eastward to the Atlantic The
direction of the current from the South At
lantic which carried the bottle here was, there
fore, northwesterly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
INSTRUCTION FOR WEATHER PROPHETS.

We are pleased to observe tone of con-
servatism and reservation about the latest
efforts of the weather prophets. Hardly
could the oracles of Delphi more carefully
leave themselves loopholes to crawl out OF,
than do some of the modern prophets, who
assume to deduce from the laws that
govern the elements the events Of the future
One such cautious vaticinator has lately
brought himself before the public in the at
titude of hedging. "Intense cold coming
so late after an open winter" may do much
damage to vegetation. There is room to
fear that the phenomenal weather of the
past four months will be followed by a cap
ricious summer" All of which could have
been delivered by Captain John Bunsby
with equal point and clearness.
Such prophecies as these, together with
the reduction to absolute silence of large
number of weather cranks conveys the en-
couraging fact that even this class can learn
from experience. The past year has been g
terrible one for prophets who tried to
prophesy. Not single one of them dreamed
of coming within long range of the remark
able weather Of either the summer or the
winter. The fact has penetrated their
skulls and they are showing it by produc-
ing the class predictions which mean no
more than Oliver Ditson's old ruse of print
ing along the whole margin Of month in
his almanac: about this time expect
heavy showers" This ability to learn per-
mits rOseate views for the future. In time
the weather prophets may learn not to
prcphesy at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
TOO INFLATED FIGURES.

That story of big combination of capi-
tai to start refneries at Lima, o., and fight
the Standard would be very satisfactory if it
were not characterized by one very common
fault That is the size Of its reporte d capi-
tai, which is altogether excessive for two
reasons.
The first is its resemblance to the capital
which the imaginative reporter of imagina-
ry combinations generally assigns. Fifty
millions of capital is an imposing sum; and
it is very easy to assign it to a new enter
prise on paper. But it is not so easy to get
it together in actual business, that so much
capital is likely to spring into the petroleum
arena and take every one by surprise in this
manner.
The next objection is the practical Ger
tainty that if there is an organization with
fifty millions of alleged capital going into
competition with the Standard, about forty
millions of its capital is water. Now
watered capital is not the right foundation
on which to commence sharp competition.
That force always squeezes the water out of
capital and permits earnings only on actual
investments. To try to get profit on this
capital would imply combination and an
eventual joining Of hands with the Stand
ard on such terms as could be made.
If any corporation wishes to compete
with Standard on business principles it
doesn't need 100000 capital to do it
with. One-ffth of that sum judiciously
handled would make competitor that the
Standard would have some difficulty in
overthrowing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
TO PROVOKE A SMILE.

The Old Familiar Towel. - Foreman
What's all that racket over there; somebody pied
o fOrm7
No, sir: the towel fell on the floor; that's all.-
Boston Herald.
Police Csptain-what did you let the fell
low run away from you for?
New Oficer-Faith sor, he ran 50 fast he got OUT
side the limits Of the law before eud catch 'im.
BfH0hGmt0n Republican.
A Well-Planned Plot. : Stranger-How
was 1t possible for the villains to kidnap their prey
in the very heart or great eityg
Citizen-Easy enough. 1t was done right next
door to police station. Chicago Times.
In the English Literature Class.-Msbel
-Hogg wrote pastoral poetry about lambs and
sheep.
Young Miss wagg-And Lamb got even with
him by writing an essay on ''Roast Pig. g.''-Har-
per's Bdzdr.
The Great FiVe.-Miss ADO you enjoy
LIE. as a ruler
Miss B.-I haven't Time to enjoy anything.
Miss A.-Oh, 1 should JHd0s that you had.
Then they both Ptck-ered up their lips ana
laughed. This conversation took place on the bess
Shore Of America. = West Shore.
Would-be Tenant-So, this is the house
that is advertised for rent?
Janitor-Yes, boss.
In the advertisement Il reads tnat mere Is run
ming water. Where is it2
Down on de fust floor de water runs down da
walls, hits 90 damp.-Teras STRINGS.
It Was Needed.-"Where is the drawing
roomY,, asked Mrs. strukoyle, as she looked over
the architects plans.
~ thought perhaps the mont and back parlor1
would obviate-n =
s.No indeed; we must have draWlng room. FOR
nv daughter is determined TO be an artist. -
Harper's Bdzdr.
Quick Work.-"And to think" said he
as he pressed her little hand. TO think that
never saw you before to-night.n
at is sudden, - she answered, 'sbut then,
.sYes. y he said, impulsively. 1T h the old old
story-the old, old story oflove ct hrst sight,
..And added to that, - she EurKIed, sny being
widow. ,'-BostoB Courier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
CANAL STOCK AWAY DOWN.
The Panama Ditch. Costing $3.50, ,O0O,O
Only Three-T -Tenths Done.

The Panama Ditch, Costing S25O,O0O,OOO
Only Three-Tenths Done.
From the New York Times.l
In the last two weeks the price of Panama
Canal shares (par value Sl0O) on the Paris
Bourse has fallen from SIS to less than So.
The correspondent of the GaWlois. who ap-
pears to have sent his dispatches just before
the commissioners sailed from this port, says
that seven-tenths of the work remain to be
done, and that the part of the ditch
already made sis beginning to fill
with sand" The estimate of the quantity of
work remaining should affect the correspond
ents other estimate of the possible cost of a
canal with two locks, which is Sl40, 100000 The
two cannot be reconciled, for the company
spent about $3.50, ,0O9.00G uDon the work already
done, incurring obligations exceeding S400, 000,-
600 for the same, and if this sum suficed for
only three-tenths of the work the remainder
would consume more than $500, 600, OOO, instead
of S140, 100000.
There will be great deal more sand-or
mud-in the unfinished ditch than the corre-
spondent Of the Gdulots saw few weeks ago,
when the people of France contribute money
enough for the remaining ''seVen-tenths" of the
canal