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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
WERE THEY FIXEDq

1t is a subject of conjecture what influence
swaYed the members of the Illinois Repub-
ican delegation in Congress in passing a
resolution calling on the Ways and Means
Committee to make all sugars below No. 16
Dutch standard free of duty in the tariff
bill about to be reported. They will claim
that it was the desire to relieve the con-
sumers of sugar from the burden of the
Sugar Trust; but the actual fact is that it
would have no such effect. Nine-tenths of
all the sugar used by consumers grades No.
16 or above, the grading being that of color.
On these grades the duties are prohibit1ve,
and operate for the protection of the trust.
If the higher duties were repealed, the
people could get the better grades of sugar
directly from foreign countries. The Iii
nois statesmen will have to amend their
resolution so as to include all sugars, unless
they wish to put themselves on record as in
favor of strangling the sugar growers and
supporting the Sugsr Trust by one and the
same measure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
THE CANAL PROJECT.

The first letter of special correspondent
investigating the subject of the trans-Alle-
gheny Canal, along the proposed route, is
published to-day. Its principal feature
tells, what would naturally be the case, that
the people along the line are warmly in
favor of the project
The well-known fact that water competi-
tion exertS very strong restraining effect
on railway rates is also brought out by the
experience of shippers on the upper Monon-
gahela. This has been illustrated many
times before; but it is an important factor in
this connection that in addition to the
freight which a canal could carry, its infu-
ence in cheapening railway charges would
make it good investment.
Of course the important points with re-
gard to this project, as in the case of the
Lake Erie Canal, are the engineering posi-
bilities of the country and the probable cost
of the work. Much light has already been
thrown on these points by the discussion
already had, and more is to be hoped for by
the study of the project along the various
routes suggested.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
LOSS FROM BAD ROADS.

The report of losses from bad roads comes
up with especial vigor from all parts of the
oil region. In the prosecution ofoil produc-
tion the reign of mud entails especial eI-
pense and probably doubles the cost of start
ing operations. The cause which doubles
the cost of taking supplies to the oil wells,
must also enhance that of bringing the pro-
ducts of farmers to market. With the pres
ent experience fresh in the minds of every
one who has had to drive into the country this
winter there would be no doubt of improved
road construction if action could be taken
at once. But. with everyone waiting on
State action-which cannot be had for a
year-there is danger that the severe lesson
of this winter may pass out Of mind, and the
whole subject be buried until the next open
season. 1t is one of our national vices to
make great fuss over evils when they are
felt and then to forget all about them before
they are remedied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
NOT SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES.

While the inception of the Carnegie
Library project in Pittsburg has created
some differences of opinion and raised some
knotty questions, it is not to be supposed
that the people in whose hands the interests
of the project and those of the public are
placed, will permit such differences to dam
age the project, or even to mitigate its use
fulness.
As to the constitutional objection con-
cerning the authority of the Board of
Trustees, which was brought out day before
yesterday, it is not likely to prove a serious
obstacle to the usefulness of that body. That
the Legislature could not create a body
superior to Councils with the power to levy
taxes and e1pend the money, is clear
enough. But no one proposes to give any
such status as that to the Board of Trustees.
1t has been clearly specified that Councils
are to levy whatever taxes are necessary,
and that the board will act by authority OF
Councils, just as every executive branch OF
the city government must do. With that
point clearly understood, and the institu-
tion operated for the benefit of the public,
there is no likelihood that the constitu-
tional question will present any serious
difficulties.
The question of a site is one which will
probably call for more discussion and will
not be so easily solved. The differences OF
views are in many respects radical; but it is
we'll to credit all who will have anything to
do with the discussion with a readiness to
listen to reason on all sides of the question,
and to locate the central library in the most
available and accessible site. 1t is not
singular, perhaps, that gentlemen residing
in the East End, should be impressed with
the advantages of their own section; nor on
the other hand is it strange that the repre-
sentatives of other sections should be restive
under what seems to them a tendency to
ignore the claims of such populous localities
as the Southside, Lawrenceville and the Old
City, to equal facilities in reaching that i'm
portant part of the institution. But the fact
that these differences have been raised in
the preliminary discussion. does not necessi-
tate the conclusion that the question will
be decided by any other criterion that that
of thorough investigation and full discus
sion on the relative merits of the sites that
are available.
There is certainly no need yet, for any of
the parties on either side to begin the enter
prise by quarreling over it, like children
with q new toy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.


HENRY W. OLlfhh' vi fItIspurg, Is regis
80 80 "' 'A' 'N0 -io'oi' Avg" ioiA
COUNT flPEk, ior d Iong Iine S"eolsh Mln-
lster 10 England mas resigned MS post and re-
turned home.
JOHN b. CURTIS, OF Portland, Me-. is worth
sl,ooo'ooo tnsl ne mas made In 'ne manufacture
OF chewlng gum.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is slowly improv-
ing in health. and appears to have been more
seriously ill than the general public has known.
SIR DONALD SMITH, M. P. for Montreal,
Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, will
leave for England lmm medlately after the Cana
dian Parliament has adjourned.
BARON DE LA GRANGE,a French nobleman
now in Baltimore, has ordered lot of Ameri.
can corn.cob pipes to be sent as present to the
Comte Jean de hergorlay, IL hue Matignon,
Paris.
REV. DUNCAN MAoGREGoR, of Brooklyn,
delivered historical lecture at Sing Sing
Wednesday night on THE Grip of Great Men,
Mr.. Depew. by the way, has happily recovered
from his.
Mr.. HENRY WILLARD leaves Washington
for Minneapolis to-day to take the first steps
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
ESSENTIAL TUITION.

The erroneous impression that prevails
concerning the relations of college students
to the laws has been illustrated by the nu-
merous cases of lawless disorder reported
from various institutions of late. 1t is en-
phasized by the report that the students of
Kalamazoo College have struck, by a re-
fusal to attend the college, until those of
their number who were expelled for kidnap-
ing two of the faculty are reinstated.
The impression very plainly is that stu
dents are q privileged class who can violate
the laws and outrage the personal rights of
others with impunity. Ordinary young
men, if they attacked and imprisoned other
people, would be sent to the workhouse, if
not to the penitentiary. Yet our scholastic
youth have such an exalted idea of their
superiority to the laws that bind other men,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
ADULTERATIoN OF LIQUOR.

The statement of physician whose dec
laration will be found elsewhere, that there
is no such thing as pure liquor, either malt
or alcoholic, sold in this country. will be Of
great interest to good many people. The
steady drinkers may Re apt to respond that
if their liquors are not pure, they serve the
purpose of stimulation very completely; and
that class will probably continue to absorb
the liquors, adulteration and all. But the
venders, both wholesale and retail, are de-
cidedly called upon to take the floor, and
either show cause why they do not sell pure
liquor or prove that they do so.
We may not wholly indorse the opinion
OF the medical authority quoted, as to the
entire harmlessness Of pure liquor in other
days. The impression is that from the time
Of Holy Writ it caused contentiousness and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

IF the colored people were educated the
chances would be better that the races
would live together on better terms. Ignorance
and vice go hand in hand. Where there was
a community stepped in ignorance there was a
community stepped in crime. The terms were
correct advance. What a vicious colored man
in ignorance would do, an intelligent colored
man would scorn to be guilty of: and that was
not as true of white man. Education did not
consist simply in reading, writing and arthme-
of the intellectual man.
If there was any solution at all Of the prob
lem, it would have to come from the elevation
Of the colored race. If the South alone were
able and willing to try to educate the colored
race, the people of the North would not COM
plain; but if the South lacked either the desire
or the ability it was right and proper that the
North should come to its aid He had been
surprised to hear the Senator from Mississippi
(Mr. George) complain, the other day that de-
nunciations of the Southern people we're made
in the Senate day after day He (Mr. Teller)
had heard no such denunciations, He had no
more desire to denounce the people of Missis-
sippi than the people Of Massachusetts or of
Colorado.
They were his fellow countrymen: and, if
they were degraded he himself would be de.
graded in charging that upon them. There
never was a greater mistake than to suppose
that the North was hostile to the South.
The North was proud of the energy with
restore their fortunes, proud Of their courage
on the battle field. The North was willing that
the South should work out the problem itself.
if it could do it; but the North stood ready
with its money, its advice, and its assistance to
help the South.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
CONTESTING WITH BARONS
For the Possession of a Valuable Piece of
Chicago PROPERTY,

For the Possession of n Valuable Piece of
Chicago Property.
CHICAGO, March H-Judge Collins is hear
ing suit in which the city Of Chicago is trying
to foreclose mortgage executed in lS4S on
property on South Water street. now valued at
upward of s200.0O0 In 1S4s the property was
owned by the city. by which it was sold to
Orrington Lunt, Of Evanston. Mr.. Lunt paid
some cash and gave his notes for the balance
and executed a mortgage on the land. The
mortgage provided that the city would never
demand the principal SO long as the interest
was paid Interest was paid by Mr.. Lunt up to
1876, when he ceased paying. and sold the prop
erty to Purinton Scranton, ship chambers,
who mortgaged it to Abraham Bigelow. One of
Mr.. Bigelow's daughters married Joseph De
Haven, and in time the mortgage to Bigelow
was foreclosed. and the property came into the
hands of Mrs. De Hayen's two daughters, who
married the Barons Won Campo and Won Alten,
and reside in Berlin. Baroness Won Alten sold
her interest to Frank L. Stevens, but Baroness
Won Campo holds hers.
In some way the city lost track Of the mort
gage. 1t was supposed it was burned in the great
fire, but within the last two years it was found,
and, payments of interest having ceased in 1873,
the city is now insisting on foreclosure. Law
yers representing Baronesses Won Campo and
Alten and Mr.. Stevens are lighting the attempt,
and some knotty points of law are raised. The
attorneys claim that the city is barred by the
seven-year statute of limitation, the present
owners having paid taxes and acquired posses
sion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
TESSA'S SONG.

When merry maiden marrIes,
Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries;
Every sound becomes song,
All is right and nothing's wrongl
From to-day and ever after
Let our tears be tears of laughter.
Every sigh that finds 8 vent
Be sigh of sweet content!
When you marry merry maiden
Then the air with love is laden;
Every flower is rose,
Every goose becomes a swan,
Every kind OF trouble goes
Where the last years SHOWS have gone!
Sunlight takes the place of shade
When you marry merry maid!
When merry maiden marrtes
Sorrow goes and pleasure tarrieS;
Every sound becomes song,
All is right and nothing's wrong.
Gnawing care and aching sorrow,
Get ye gone until tomorrow;
Jealousles in grim array
Ye are things of yesterday!
When you marry merry maiden
Then the air with joy is laden,
ALL the corners ofthe earth
Ring with music sweetly played,
Worry is melodious mirth,
Grief is Joy in masqueradel
Sullen night is laughing day
All the year is merry Mayl
From "The GondoEfers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
THE HARMONIOUS DAY,
A Southern Senator Compliments q NORTH
ern for His Moderate Force in Discuss.
ing the Negro Question-The Blair Bill.

Ing the Negro Question-The Blair Bill.
w AsHINGToN. March 14-In the Senate to-
day Mr.. Teller. referring to reconstruction
measures, declared that he had been one of
those who had advocated the extension of
suffrage to the colored people; and he had no
apologies to make for it; Dor was he willing to
admit ION the contrary, he denied) that 1t was
mistake or blunder. 1t had always been a
fundamental principle with him that all men
in a country must stand on the same political
plane IL there was to be harmony and a homo
geneous condition of affairs. He admitted to
the fullest extent the difficulties that sur
rounded the question. He admitted the diff
Guilty OF the two races inharmonious nom
Homogeneous, living together in equality.
But he did not admit that the problemiwas so
great as that 1t might not be solved; because,
if he did, he should despair of the Republic.
II the Southern people and the negro could not
live together in state of political equality and
political harmony there was an end of republi-
can Government in one-third, at least, of the
area of the United States. He had no eye to
the solution of the problem. but he believed
(as Mr. George had said the other day) that
education might, in some respect help to solve
it. Therefore. he had. steadily. on all occasions
voted for the Blair bill and for any measure
that might help to solve the question. 1t was
not q political question in the sense of party
question: but 1t was the greatest political ques-
tion lin the proper sense Of the word) ever pre-
sented for consideration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.

"If Greedy had one he'd be all right"
eft he had what?''
"a trustworthy corn and little instinct. ~
.yeD York Sun.
81 see there has been a great gale in Penn
sylyania q cyclone in Iowa, blizzard in Dakota
and heavy winds in New York."
ssYep-and Chicago is in Illinois. ''-Puck.
Sunfower Pete-Mistah Wattahs, diiiu
say wuZ bow-legged?
thoughtful James-No, sahl 1 sed yo' couldn's
cotch er blind pig in er white alley.
Sunnower Pete-I 'cept yo' pology.-PhiL1deE-
phi1 Record.
HMrs. Brown-Johnnie broke a pane of
glass but as he told me about it at once gave him
an apple.
Mrs. Cowbigger-That will teach him great
lesson.
Mrs. Brown-I'm afraid not. As soon as he had
eaten the apple he went and broke another win
dow.-Epoch.
"Well, my dear madam. and how are you
to-dayP''
40, doctor. have terrible pains all over my
whole body, and it seems impossible to breathei
or course, 1 can't sleep at all, and I haven't
particle of Appellee
''But otherwise you feel all right, don't you?',-
FTtegsnde Biatter.
First Manager-Ponson and 1 are going
to put on an opera next season. He is now busy
selecting the scenery and I'm securing the girls
for the ballet.
Second Manager-Whom have you secured tho
hbretto and the music from?
First Manager-U, we haven't decided on thai
yet.-Neao York Sun.
A PRONOUNCED DIFFERENCE.
When gentle woman meets grim grief,
And for her woes sees norelief
Nor aught her aching heart to cheer,
She browns her sorrow in a tear
But man, when every sky is lowering,
Nor deigns to clear for all his gIowering,
How fees he then from hateful carer
He browns his sorrow in q tear.
-Tsrre HGuts Brprsss.
WEIRD TALE.
A fellow who swallowed drachm
Of poison grew cold as clachm,
And when somebody said
1T don't believe he is daid,
The corpse quickly shouted, 'I achmp'
And since then they saw that his ghost
Each night walks around his bed phost
And It scares all the folks,
Who arn't used to such joIks
Clear out of their senses almhost.
Chicago Herald
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

THE Indictment of two of the officers of
the defunct Lawrence Bank for receiving q
deposit knowing the bank to be insolvent,
which was returned by the grand jury yester-
day. will result in an interesting trial. 1t will
be the first case under that law; and the ques-
ton as to the enforcement will make it well
worth watching.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

that they strike against the very mild PEN
alties that are imposed upon them for their
lawlessness.
Evidently the tuition most needed in
many colleges is the lesson of obedience to
law. If any college cannot enforce that
lesson, the best thing that can be done with
it is to let it stand empty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
A Flag Presentation.

In the West End Rink last evening Pride of
Welcome Co unciI, Daughters of Liberty, pre-
sented an elegant Bible and silk flag to We'll
come Council No. l34, Jr. o. U. A. NJ. The
meeting W an open one, the rink being
crowded. Speeches were made by prominent
members of both orders, interspersed with
patriotic music.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
Funeral of Avery Z. Coulson.

The funeral Of Avery r. Coulsou. II years OF
age, took place in Oakland Cemetery yesterday.
He was the only son of Mrs. Cora Coulson, nee
Kendall, and nephew of Detective Sol Coul-
son. His mother has one daughter left, and
the loss of the youth, who was well-known as a
dutious and affectionate son, is keenly felt both
by his parents and his late school COM
panions, who will long remember his pleasant
presence among them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
Columbia Iron Workers. Demands.

To the Editor OF Inc Dl5patcn:
At "a meeting of the employees of the Colum-
bia Iron and Steel Company held at the rink
on Sunday, the 18th inst, the undersigned were
authorized to ask you to please insert the fol-
lowing correction to a statement in reference
to our demands that appeared in The DIS
PATCH on Thursday of last week. Your cor
respondent must have been misinformed. The
meeting at which proposed changes in the next
scale were to be considered. was not held until
Sunday, March g. and although none but en-
ployes were allowed to attend. secrecy in refer
ence to its proceedings was not aimed at
Following are the demands tina. are made on
the different departments: On the soaking
pits, the ingot inspector to receive IS cents and
the soakers SO cents per ton: on the blooming
mill, the blower to receive 20 cents and the
roll shfter 5S cents per ton; on the l6-inch mill,
the boss hooker to receive A cents, four as
sistant hookers IS cents, and the two roughers
80 cents per 100 tons; the millwrights to receive
rs cents per 100 sets for changing rolls.
These demands. if acceded to, will only
bring the wages up to what they were prior to
July i, 1889.
DAVID SMITH,
VIM. JONES'
JOHN MORE,
UNIoNTowN, March l3. Committee,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

SOME one has evolved a personal item
with regard to Ward McAllister to the effect
that he is "a descendant on his mothers side of
Charlotte Corday." Considering the averments
of history concerning Charlotte c orday. this is
about as covert an attack pon her reputation
as corresponding reports about the descend
ants of George Washington" are upon the vir-
tue of the Father of His Country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

THE question whether the Allegheny
Valley road shall be sold OF not is not so much
of an issue as whether it shall be sold under
such circumstances as to secure competition in
bidding. The sale has been foregone con.
clusion ever since the road went into the hands
of receivers. 1t might be remarked further
that the company had not owned itself for a
good many years before that.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

A VERY short list OF remonstrances
against the applicants for licenses cannot be
taken as proving that every one agrees to the
issuing of the licenses. But it does indicate
that the opposition to licenses will be pre-
sented in court and make things additionally
lively for the applicants as well as the ] d dges
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
Tho Denn's Annual Meeting.

The Dean Literary Society, of the Pittsburg
High School, held their nineteenth annual en-
tertainment in the school building last night
After an opening prayer by Rev. ]. f. Patter-
son programme of exercises. including decla-
nations, essays and orations, was rendered.
There was also debate on a question of great
moment and society paper entitled Dean
Furies" was read.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
A CHICAGO MANS LUCK.
He Falls Heir TO an Estate Worth S1O,.
100000.

BUTTE, MONT. March 14-A wealthy and
prominent citizen of this place, Judge Andrew
]. Davis, has left an estate worth sl0.0O0.o0O to
Chicago heirs. 1t was said that his brother
John A. Davis, was with him at the time of his
death. Since then reporters have been inter-
viewing all of the Davises mentioned in the
Chicago directory with view to finding the
lucky man.
This morning it was ascertained that the par.
ticular and fortunate Mr.. Davis was resident
of Chicago some eight years ago. He has a
Edwin is about 25 years of age, a clerk for a
firm Of coal dealers, and in very moderate cir
cumstances.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

trouble. But what liquor is used should be
pure; and, since we are informed that it is
not, the only remedy seems to be that every
man who has any respect for his internal
organs must pass an act Of prohibition for
himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Henry Meckelbufg q,

Henry Meckelburg, member OF Encampment
No. i. Union Veteran Legion, died at his home,
z724 Liberty avenue yesterday and will be buried
by the encampment tomorrow. This is the fifth
member of the organization that has died since
Friday of last week. MIR. Meckelburg, who died
Yesterday, had an honorable war record, serving
as one of the Lieutenants in the Seventy fourth
Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

THE Mayor of Spartansburg, S. c., re-
Gently proved the cowardly nature of mobs by
holding at bay and finally dispensing gang Of
lynchers who were determine to hang a man
accused of murder. When the mob fed the
Mayor took possession of and spiked cannon
they left behind them. Officers of the law like
Mayor Henneman, of Spartansburg. would be
valuable everywhere, if it were not too millenial
a thing to hope that they could be universally
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15

WHAT Only LOO bills on the House
calendar up to datel AS this is not quite 81
bills to each of the s25 members. it is clear shat
some of our legislators are failing to live up to
that measure of statesm anship which judges a
man by the number of bills he introduces.