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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26
Big Returns.

Knabe leads the world. Davis Bros.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09

The evidences which are reported in our
local columns of the demand for stores from
people outside of the city who wish to en-
gage in business here, is at once demons
tration of the increasing commercial i'm
portance of the city, and a corroboration
of what THE DISPATCH has often urged
concerning the wisdom of improving the
comparatively unused streets of the lower
part of the city.
During the past five years the residence
portions of the city have undergone rapid
growth; while there has been no cores
ponding extension of the business quarters
of the city. Improvements downtown have
been marked; but they have been more in
the line of replacing old business buildings
with new and imposing structures than of
extending the business area. With the ex-
ception of the growth OF business on Penn
avenue there is hardly street in the lower
part of the city now occupied by business
that was not so occupied ten years ago. The
result Is that the demand for stores cannot
be supplied and rents are reaching a
towering attitude.
This condition of things points to what
The DISPATCE has long urged, the i'm
provement of the sections Immediately ad-
jacent TO the business streets, so as to make
them eligible for trade. In the part of the
city below Market street, on First, Second
and Third avenues as far up as Ross. and
over nearly entire area of the Court House
hill there Is room for triplinp the DreSent
business facilities of the city. With streets
widened, grades cut down and pavements
modernized, the work of constructing stores
and Office buildings along thesestreets would
attain a mighty impetus.
The present demand for business property
and the high rents should stimulate activity
in this line. We hope to see even more
general Improvements during the next
season than during the last.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09

conflicts of thetrans-Mississippi roads which
fails to see that they were inspired by the
desire to serve some ulterior purpose of the
great railway manipulators. This in, one
form or another, is the genesis of all the
railway rate wars that have been waged
since the beginning of the pooling era. The
best demonstration of the fact is furnished
by the case of transportation systems cog
nate to the railways, where competition is
free and where rates are always kept steady
by the fact that there is no remedy for the
loss from rates below the cost of service,
while in manufacturing or commercial in
terests, where ever there is the possibility or
hope of establishing a monopoly, the device
of cut-throat prices is almost universal as
method of freezing out competition. Where
ever competition is hampered or unequaled
cut rate wars are inevitable: where it is free
and understandable they are unknown. In
the railway system, there is no cure for
such struggles between single and universal
transportation monopoly on the one hand,
or the establishment of unchecked and uni
versal competition in all departments of
railway traffic on the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
RAILROAD beds are full of sleepers.
BATTLE WITH A WOLF,
A Texan Lad Has a Severe Struggle Witt
One of the Animals.


A Texan Lad Has Severe Struggle With
One of the Animals.
HATH CITY. TEX, Dec. S.-Robert Liver
more, boy of 16 and the son of a widow lady
living on small farm few miles from town,
on the Brazos, was recently attacked by gray
wolf of the kind commonly known as a
''hulker," and only after fierce struggle sue
ceeded in killing the animal. which appeared
to be starving and was unusually ferocious.
Young Livermore, it appears. was looking for
stray horse on the bare strip lying along the
river known as Harker's Flats, and was armed
only with small riding whip of plated leather.
seeing some animal moving through the
grass at some distance from him, he
threw a stone at it, and the next mo-
ment the wolf sprang at his throat.
The attack was SO sudden that he lost his bal
ance and fell with it, but was up again instant
ly, and endeavoring to defend himself against
the furious creature, which was nearly as large
as himself. He met it as it few at him snarling,
and with its jaws swapping like castanets, with
the butt end of his whip. which he laid about
Its head and muzZle with such force as to break
the bone of the latter and to bring the blood in
such quantities that the ground about is CORY
with the marks of the battle, and to cover with
blood the boy himself. Crazed by the pain, the
wolf caught him by the left leg tearing the
clothing away and mangling the flesh, while
Livermore belabored him about the shoulders
and body with the whip, but without any effect
overlook him when at last he tried to break and
run. and throwing him down fixed its fangs in
his throat.
This, fortunately, was protected by thick
woolen scarf wrapped tightly about it. or in all
probability he would have been speedily killed.
He managed, however, to seize the wolf by the
neck and wrench its head away, and then.
grasping it with: both hands about the throat,
choked it till suffocated, and probably weak
ened by the blood it had lost, it fell away and
ran short distance, when Livermore. thinking
it worse hurt than it was, took after it and
began beating it with the whip, cutting it to
the bone IN many places. 1t would have at
| tackled him again, but the boy now on his
mettle. prevented it from doing this by his
activity in lodging it, ard meeting it at every
turn with a lash. AT last the wolf. springing at
him unexpectedly, caught his hand in its
mouth. biting it severely, until Livermore man-
aged to pry open its teeth with the stock of
his whip, and, catching it by the throat once
more, choked it to death. He was hurt good
deal himself, and for a time grave appre-
| tensions were entertained lest the creatures
bites result in lycanthrophy, but they are heal
| ing rapidly and he is again about
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
THE POOR FARM REQUIREMENTS.

The new ordinance introduced for the
purchase of Poor Farm is doubtless
framed with sincere purpose to avoid some
of the rocks and shoals encountered by the
first purchase. But it contains prominent
features which are by no means founded on
the real necessities of the institution, and
will hardly commend the provision to the
public approval.
The first of these is the requirement that
the land purchased shall be not less than
800 acres. This is based on the idea that it
is necessary to employ the occupants of the
city poorhouse at farming work. There is
no real necessity that the Department of
Charities shall go into farming on the grand
scale; and, it they were, the primary busi-
ness principles would veto the enterprise of
engaging In the raising of agricultural prod
ucts on lands costing from $500 to $500 an
acre, while the same products are sold on
Liberty at prices representing an investment
of S25 to $50 an acre.
The requirement that the property shall
be located on navigable stream Is appar-
emily survival of the times when the rivers
had to be depended on for transportation,
and when, of course, this req uirement was a
useful one. So far as its practical effect is
concerned it would have shut out the last
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
MIR. CLEvELAND's FAIR GIFT.
The Letter the Ex-President Wrote With an
Enclosure for Charity,

The Letter the Ex-President Wrote With an
Enclosure for Charity.
NoRRIsTowN, PA. Dec. S.-When the ladies
were arranging for the charity hospital bazaar,
which is IN successful operation here this
week, they sent to President and Mrs. Harrison
and ex-President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland
hand painted ornaments together with brief
letter stating the work in which the ladies are
so successfully laboring but making no request
that the article should be purchased or a con-
tributlon returned. Ex-President Cleveland
sent the following letter:
SIG MADISON AVENUE, Nov. 25.
DEAR MISS REX-Mrs. Cleveland has re-
ferred your letter of the Goth inst to me for dis
posal. I shall be very frank with you. Appli-
cation for pecuniary aid comes to US daily and
hourly from all quarters and in behalf of every
charitable object. 1t is impossible for us to re-
spond favorably to all, and to Judge of their
relative merits satisfactorily is beyond human
ability. Our perplexity is increased when artl-
cles are sent to us with the applicants expecta-
ton of our purchasing them without giving us
the least hint of the value fixed upon them by
those who put them in our hands.
You have sent Mrs. Cleveland very pretty
piece of work. the value of which we cannot
guess; but from the terms of your letter we are
led to think you expect the measure of our aid
to be the good work you have in hand, to be
regulated in the same way by the value we fix
upon the article you sent. DO you think that is
fair?
We have considered that we can contribute
S. toward furnishing your Charity Hospital,
and that amount l gladly inclOse. We will
work you sent Mrs. Cleveland, with the request
that you sell it for the benefit of the cause.
Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
A DELIBERATIvE BODY.

The effect which the speech of Senator
Gray, of Delaware, on the domiciliary pro-
vision of the Federal elections bill has had
in producing an admission of the necessity
of changing at least that feature, eyokes
variation of Speaker Reeds famous e1-
preston of gratitude, in the shape of
thanks that the Senate is still deliberative
body. The bill was passed through the
House, like a good many other partisan
measures. with hardly pretense of careful
debate concerning its provisions. But the
beginning of actual debate in the Senate has
already produced the declaration from GER
tain Republican Senators that they will not
vote for the bill in its present shape, and the
admission, even from such q supporter OF
the bill as Senator Hoar, that this feature
must be amended or stricken out.
The provision in question is declared by
the New York Times to be one of the least
Objectionable in the bill, being, indeed, in
that journals opinion, necessary feature
in the supervision of registration. This
may be true with regard to the
powers ostensibly granted to United States
officers; but it so probably opens the way to
great abuses that the Senatorial supporters
of the measure, with the solitary ex ception
of Senator Edmunds, have nothing to say
In Its defense. The section permits the
United States officers in charge OF the regis
tration to call at the houses of the registered
voters and there institute official inquiries
as to the voters residence and eligibility.
IL = la Cfo4o r.,
visions are granted under the State registry
laws; but in such cases the fact that the re-
sponsibility of the officials making the in
quiry goes directly back to the people of
that locality, is one of the best safeguards
against abuse of the powers. Under the
props I'd national legislation the officials
would be responsible only to the admins
tration at Washington, and the prospect of
a check or redress for any abuse of their
powers would be very slight.
An obvious possibility of such an en-
actment is that it would permit the agents
of the party in power to make house-to-
house canvass of any district at the Govern
ment's expense, with practically no restraint
as to the means which might be used to
influence voters. 1t would permit the rep
resentatives of party to ascertain the polit-
ical status of the registered voters and to
either exclude or retain their names accord
ingly. Hardly any measure could be more
susceptible of converting the machinery of
elections into an engine of political control
than this one of domiciliary visits would be,
with a very slight stretch of its provisions.
The deiiberativ4 character OF the Senate
has been instrumental in demonstrating the
dangerous character of this provision. II
the debate continues as it has begun it may
produce such a radical reform as Is ex-
pressed by the proverbial cutting off the tail
of the dog behind the ears, or in more par
limentary language, striking out all after
the enacting clause.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
THE INDIAN QUESTION.

NEW YORK B-orld: The Indians are tired of
broken treaties They are hungry on account
of insufficient rations.
NEW YORK Herald: Now, there are two
sides to every question, and the red man has a
ripbt to put his case before the public. He
saws he has great grievances. Before you kill
him let him be heard.
CLEVELAND Leader: Their dislodgement by
force would give the United States army the
bloodiest work which it has had to do since
Custer fell, and thousands of lives on both
sides might be sacrificed.
DENVER Republican: The discussion of the
Indian question which is now going on in the
United States Senate will not be without good
results. if it shall open the eyes of the men,
bers of Congress to the fact that the Govern
ment has never dealt with the Indian problem
in the way it should have done.
OMAHA World. Herald: Most people disap-
prove of the Indians. But while these persons
NAV not care to relieve the Indian for his own
sake, will they not feel the responsibility of
this country toward this deposed race? Is not
every true patriot anxious that there shall not
be another blot on the national 'scutcheon?
NEW YORK Tribune: At the earliest prac-
ticable moment the leaders OF this disturbance
should be arrested and punished. and the
Indians generally should be disarmed. Every
true friend of Indian reform and Indian pro-
gress will sustain the Government III its we'll
directed effort TO check this disturbance and to
keep in the excellent path that has lately been
marked out for the education and employment
of the race,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
Notes of the stage.

NEXT Monday evening, at the Duquesne
Theater, that merry little coincidence Rosina
Vokes, will begin a weeks engagement, and, as
is her usual custom, will present three separate
and distinct plays at each performance. The
programme for the week will be as follows:
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights and
Saturday matinee, "A Game of Cards" THE
Circus Rider" and "a Double Lesson" new;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Percy
Pendragon," MY Milliner B1ll' and the
'Rough Diamond" Miss Vokes brings with
her most excellent company being headed by
that versatile character actor, Felix Morriss.
YESTERDAY was the first day for the ad-
vance sale of seats for the Stanley lecture.
The net receipts up until last night were over
81, 900. This is altogether unprecedented for a
lyceum attraction. 1t is tt ought that the en-
tire house will be sold by Thursday. Single
admission and platform seats will be on sale
this morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
Grand Opera House,

Last nights entertainment at the Grand
Opera House was a triumph of minstrelsy W.
S. Cleveland's Consolidated Minstrels proved
even better than was expected. Almost every
seat in the house was occupied. Each act was
we'll received and encores were as numerous as
the numbers on the programme.
A series of exclamations of surprise and ad-
miration were given at the first glimpse Of the
tapestrIed palace of Mephistos. The curtain
was of heavy lowered silk and rich plush,
while the delicately tinted drapings of the in
terror produced most charming eff ect. As
for the costumes they were wonders in them.
selves, and the richness of mirth was in keep
ing with the surroundings, The show was good
from beginning to end, and with few excep-
tions the old-time chestnuts which grow on
burnt cork were minus quantity.
In the opening Fred NJ. Winans won the first
encore on his solo, "a Son of the Desert Am
l." His form won for him admiration when
he stepped to the front, and the numerous calls
for him left no doubt as to the richness of his
vocal powers.
Billy Emerson was as rich as ever in his imi-
tations. Hughey Dougherty was received, as
usual, with encore after encore, and there was
not one that he did not deserve. Luke School
craft was even funnier than ever and Barney
Fagan has not lost whit of his ability to
please an audience.
Barney Fagan's creations. 'The Alpjne
Mountaineers" and the Phantom Cuirassiersn
were wonders in themselves. The dance of the
Alpine guides and maidens was grace itself,
but the greatest was the appearance of the
"Phantom Cuirassiers." The house was dark
ened and now and then in the flashes of light
could be seen the bright uniforms of the cuiras-
siers and their flashing swords against the
wall of black. When the lights were turned on
the scene was one that would have done honor
to Kiralfy. Each man was type of perfection
and each movement was performed in perfect
harmony. Then all was darkened again and by
some remarkable electric effect each sword
seemed to strike fire as the cuirassiers fenced.
Fields and Hanson were deservedly popular
in their instrumental comedy. The closing act
was a fitting finale to such an entertainment
The acrobatic feats of the Craggs family were
something out Of the ordinary and their
tumbling has never been surpassed on any
stage in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
PROMINENT PERSONALS.

AMONG StanIey's hearers in Toronto was
John Livingstone, brother of DR.. Livingstone.
in seeking for whom the explorer began his
African career.
CHAUNCEY F. BLACK, the recent Demo
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of
this State, proposes to re-enter Washington
journalism, and will take charge OF the bureau
of the New York World.
'IK MARVEL" has been compelled to resort
to his left hand for writing purposes owing to
his crippled right arm. and the authors letters
to his friends are all the production of the
hitherto unused member for literary purposes.
AN illustrated catalogue of the Duke of Cum
berIand's magnificent collections of art treas
ures has Just been printed at Vienna for private
circulation only 1t is a huge folio volume, and
contains l5O illustrations. The Duke possesses
one of the largest and finest collections of gold
and silver plate and jewels in the world.
NATHANIEL PAGE, of Washington, widely
known as financier. and who has just returned
from two months trip to London and Berlin,
where he went to interest some foreign syndI-
Gates in American enterprises. states that the
biggest Americans, as Englishmen estimate
them, are James G. Blaine and Grover Cleve-
land. Each is recognized as the foremost
champion of his cause"
AT the last commencement of the Royal Uni
versity of Dublin nine clever Irish girls took
the degree OF B. A. One, Miss Maud Joynt, re-
ceived her NJ. A. with highest honors in modern
literature, while one more. a potential Portia,
pretty and wise, by name and title Miss Frances
Helena Gray wears her Ii. d. with becoming
dignity. In the examination papers the women
students ranked above the men.
DISPATCH from Berlin brings the intelii-
gence of the death, at the age Of So years, of
Heinrich Berghaus, the eminent geographer.
He was born at Cleves, in Prussia, and educated
at Munster He is specially noted for his mag
nificent physical atlas, of which an English
| edition was published by Alexander Keith
| Johnston in Edinburgh. and which is the finest
| work of the kind extant. Besides this the
| aliases and charts of Berghaus have been in
| Vulnerable, and it would be impossible to over
| estimate his importance TO the subject of geog-
| raphy physical and political, and to ethnog-
raphy, in which sciences his authority has been
| absolute and unimpugnable.
| PRINCESS WILHELMINA has been proclaimed d
| Queen of the Netherlands and is the youngest
| living sovereign except Alphonso Kill, King
| of Spain. The little Queen is pretty and in
| telligent child of 10. who has been brought up
with almost Spartan rigor by her conscientious
J mother. On one occasion when the two were
| driving together the horses took fright, ran
| away and broke the carriage. AS soon as
| another could be procured Queen Emma re-
| sumed her drive with the same horses. When
| a Notwithstanding ventured to remon-
strate less the Princess should be frightened,
her mother replied: "a future Queen must
not know the meaning of fear. 1t is for that
reason that we 90 on.''
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-09
THE HUMOROUS CORNER.

"Do YOU understand that Bronson has
finally decided to enter the state Of matrimonyg"
s.Yes. L think so; at least he told me he was
going to Utah. ''-BrooktyH Eagle.
sfThere is one respect in which the topper
and the total abstainer are exactly alike, p" said
Slatrack.
..And that is what?'' queried MugRly.
s!They neither OF 'em smile when they are ont
of spirits. ''-Nel0 York Herald.
The Brooklyn street car drivers threaten
to strike IL not allowed to sit down during por-
tions of thei- trips. The trouble is one Of long
standing philadelphia Ledger.
After 1000 years OF repose the mummies
of Egypt are being ground up into paint and pos
sibly are now painting towns red. It's always the
way. Your quiet fellows the worst when they
do break Philadelphia Times.
Judge Gufy-And what have you been
doing?
Weary ywraggles-Nothing, yer honorI
Judge Gufy-Thirty days for vagrancy. Nexti
boston TraVetLer.
A maiden becoming passe
For a wealthy young broker did le
But he countered her scheme
And frustrated her dreme
And her hearts on the market to-ds,
-BrookLyB Ed0Ls.
s'I think there ought to be more protec.
tion on dogs to the extent Of that Of muzzin', at
least.''
s.Might ask why Mr.. Staylate?''
'Because when 1 LEFT last night that pup Of
yours seemed to regard me free raw materIal.'i
Philadelphia Times.
First Anarchist-Ah, we will be avenged
on the police at last!
Second Anarchist-What have you done, jacob
mi?
First Anarchist-I have trailed them for hours.
have worked dynamite bomb into the tall
pocket of every mani
Second Anarchist-They won't go of. fool!
First Anarchist-Ah, but 1 have strewn the
pavement with banana peell-FeIo York Sun.
Miss Alt is said that that old bachelor,
SinGletax, great beau in his day. He could
have married the richest girl in New FORK.
Miss B.-Why didn't he?
Well, he didn't take fortune at the food. that's
all.
He looks old enough to have taken it before the
nood.-TsraS Sifttn0s.
THE TOUGH LINEMAN.
The crowd appalled,, in mute suspense,
Gazed at the lineman, who. suspended,
Hung o'er the multitude so dense
All fancied that his race was ended
But when they took him down
These words the victim softly said,
dispose it's dark all over town.
But can't help it!'' 'sAren't you deadr'
They cried amazed-''Praised be the godsl"
''Oh, no, - said he. '.I'm pretty tough;
They don't make volts and ohms enough
To kill me-I've sold lightning rods!''
-Esto YORK. Herald,