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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
A PERSISTENT ERROR.

It is a rather striking illustration Of the
persistency of error to find journal so
usually well-informed as the Philadelphia
Ledger, representing that there is something
akin to carrying Goals to Newcastle, in bring
ing pig iron from the South TO Pittsburg.
That newspapers which know little of Pitts
burg should think that there is something
revolutionary as to Pittsburg's supremacy,
in such an importation is not wonderful.
But when the esteemed Ledger intimates
that it is remarkable to bring pig iron to
Pittsburg "as iron was and is the bed rock,
as it were, of that city's business" it is
somewhat provoking.
For the information of all such cotempo-
raries it is well to enforce the lesson that it is
nothing at all out of the regular course of
business for Pittsburg to buy pig iron
wherever it can be found suitableto her pur-
poses. Iron is the bedrock of our business, as
the Ledger says, but it is the manufacture of
pig iron into the more highly finished forms.
While Allegheny county produces more pig
iron than any other county in the country,
the manufacture OF finished iron and steel is
so much more important that Pittsburg has
been buyer of pig iron for more than a
generation and has always bought more
metal than she has produced.
While the fact that Southern furnaces can
ship pig iron to Northern markets is, if es-
tablisbed, novel and gratifying demonstra-
tion of progress, there is nothing at all sin
gular in the fact that this city should buy
it. If the South can give Pittsburg an addi-
tion to its supply of pig iron at cheap prices,
SO much the better for Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13

most important. proposes that Congress
should assist with an appropriation the
formation of one or more battalions of
militia heavy artillery in every State
bordering upon the sea or great lakes.
1t Is probable that Mr.. Cutcheon's
bill will receive the most serious considera-
ton, because its aim is to answer two pur-
poses, to provide for the defense OF our
coasts, and to increase the efficiency of our
militia. Moreover the proposal to create a
sea-coast reserve does not involve SO great an
expenditure of money as do the other bills
before Congress. The bill to give the
militia a trip to the West and a few weeks
in camp with the regulars calls for an ap-
preparation in toto for the militia of one
million dollars This is an increase of six
hundred thousand dollars, and as the re-
turn promised through the bill is rather in
tangible, Congress is not likely to approve it.
1t is noteworthy fact for militia officers to
consider when preparing bills for Congress
in the interest of the body to which they be-
long, that it took nearly eighty years to in
crease the originalapproFriation of $500. OoOO
a year for the militia to 400, 900.
If more money is to be spent by Congress on
the militia Mr.. Cutcheon's proposal points
the best way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
STRENGTHENING THE MILITIA.

There is good deal of legislation before
Congress in the interest of the National
Guard of all the States. Not many of the
proposed laws will be seriously debated,
and only two, it would seem, stand any
chance of passage. One measure proposes
that Congress shall provide for transporting
to the summer encampments of regulars in
the West, detachments of militia officers
and men, not exceeding 5000 in the aggre-
gate who shall be mustered into the United
States service for forty days, the Government
giving them rations and pay. Another
measure proposes to raise to s., i, 900, 900 a year
the present annual appropriation of S4O0, 900
for supplying the militiawith arms and equip
ments. Another would make members of
the National Guard and graduates of schools
receiving military instruction the only
eligible candidates for Second Lieutenancies
in the army which may be open to civilians.
Mr.. Cutcheon's bill, which we deem the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
ST. PAT1ICK'S DAY PARADE.
Grand Marshal FalIon Announces His Ar.
rangements.


Patrick Fallon, Grand Marshal of the st.
Patrick's Day American Board parade, has
made the following arrangements. The
order of march will be: Escort of police;
Grand Marshal and staff; First Battalion Hi
bernian Rifles, Major John Coyne commanding,
and Quartermaster John ]. O'Donnell acting
as Adiutant; Company A, of Irwin, Captain
Casteloe; Company A, of Scottdale. Captain
O'Neill; Company A, of Pittsburg, Captain
Moran; Company B, of Braddock, Captain
MCGOWAN; Company c. of East Liberty. Cap
Captain Roney. Carriage containing National
Director Cornelius Horgan, County Delegate
Joseph F. Scott County Secretary DR.. John
garrall Visiting delegations from the counties
of Mercer. Lawrence, Westmoreland, Fayette,
Beaver and Washington, Sallneville, o., and
other points. The A. o. II. of Allegheny
county in numerical order, from to 20. The
latter will be in command of the line aids an
nounced in these orders.
The appointments announced are as follows:
Donnelly; Chief Of Staff, Thomas Murray;
Adjutant General, Hugh ]. O'Donnell.
Staff-Philip Kelly, Denis Lyons, Morris
Kinney, Edward Burns. Frank Mentally, Neil
Crossan, E. F. O'Reilly, John Fay, Bernard
Duffy. Alderman P. ]. Donahoe, NJ. Fitzgerald,
William Scanlon, Owen Mckenna, John Will
son, P. H. Kelly, Timothy OConnor, James
OConnor, Patrick Conleyi Thomas Sherry.
Divine James OToole. John Flattery, Thomas
Carey, Bernard McGinnis, Timothy Loughrey,
John Kelly, N. J. Mcdonald, M. Snaughnessy,
John r. OMally, Michael Mccarthy, John
Connolly. Thomas Clifford. Bernard Rafferty,,
John A. Clark, I. Quinlan. John Lanahan,
Patrick Lamb, John Nolan. Edward Denny,
Edward Harmon, Peter Carlin, Martin Bren-
nan, John Madden. Thomas L. McNally James
Cain, George Cochran, John Hurley John Gro
gan, BARLEY Walsh, Patrick Ward, James
Durkan, Thomas Ryan, James Lawles, Daniel
John Dewan and Daniel A. Cregan.
Line Aids-John Brennan. William McGov-
ern, e. Scanlon, Peter Ward, Robert Connor.
James McCague, Thomas Conley, Arthur
Creegan, Con Shea, P. A. Richards. p Gill
leece, James Coan, H. Lynch. P. ]. Donnelly,
Peter Rocks, Michael Beane, NJ. Brady, d.
Mccarthy, p. Foley and John Madden.
The route of the parade was published in
The DISPATCH two weeks ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
THE STATE PRESS.

BRADFORD Era: Tne boom has struck
Bradford in great shape. Bill Larkins is going
to have his house painted.
CHESTER Evening News: 1t looks as if the
city might get left in the boomlet. But it is an
ill wind that does nobody good.
FRANKLIN NeUs: John Wait, of Oil City,
now owner of the famous Johnny Steele farm
at Housewife, says he intends drilling IL wells
on it this summer.
WILLIAMsPoRr Sun: With new railroads
direct to Binghamton and Elmira, and the Le-
high Valley extension. Williamsport will be a
town on which the flies must seek in vain to
cling
HARRISBURG Patriot: In the city of Pitts.
burg there are 800 "speak-easies." according to
the Chief of the Department Of Public Safety
The question is why are these 'speak-easies"
aloud?
PHILADELPHIA NeDs: When DIR. Hostet-
ter died he thought he knew who would get his
millions, but the contemplated legal move of
his sisters shows that it Is possible he was mis-
taken.
HARRISBURG Independent: The great
trouble with the political managers in the diff
ferent counties of the State is not to find can
didates for the places to be filed by election
this year, but places for the men who want to
be elected.
BRADFORD Star: There may be lots of fun
in a campaign of brass bands, public meetings,
platform oratory and resolutions but there is
danger that the men who SAY nothing and saw
wood" are generally the fellows who come mp
smiling with the delegates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
An Qhiectian To Idaho.

2 REPRESENTATIVE MANsUR, of Missouri,
on behalf of the minority of the Com
mittee on Territories, has filed a report pre-
senting the objections to the passing of the
bill for the admission of Idaho now pending
in the House. In part. the report says:
The precise point of difference between the
majority, and the minority is this: That the
majority assent to and approve of a provision
which deprives citizen Of the right of suffrage,
disqualifes him from holding Office and prevents
convicted Of such criminal conduct: while the
minority insist that no citizen. being otherwise
qualified, should be deprived of these rights and
privileges account of alleged crime, unless
he has been convicted OF such crime by some
court OF competent Jurisdiction, and where the
penalty for such crime, or part thereof,
Is such disqualification. The minority while
reprehending as much as any OF the majority can
reprehend. the offense of bigamy and polygamy,
respectfully submit to the house that man who
is accused of bigamy is as much entitled to trial
for that ofense as is a man who Is charged with
any other ofense, murder, arson. larceny, etc. !:
that man who is accused of belonging to an asso-
citation that encourages these otfenses entitled
to have a trial as to such accusation. A man who
is accused of aiding and abetting the offense of
bigamy and polygamy, ought to have the right to
have his guilt of that offense, If 1t is made
forms of law. We insist, therefore, that when
Idaho is admitted it shall not be with provision
in the Constitution which deprives citizen of the
right of suffrage of the right to serve on juries
and to hold Office, because of alleged crime of
which the party has not been convicted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
END UF TIPPECANOE.
Death of an Elephant of Tint Name nj the
Age of ia.

Death of an Elephant of Tint Name nj the
Age of ia.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TILE DIsPArcH.t
PHILADELPHIA, March 12-Tippecanoe.
one of the herd of elephants in the menagerie
of the Forepaugh circus, was found dead this
morning by his keeper, Tom Doyle. Doyle had
left the elephant last night apparently IN good
health He is the first elephant known
to have met with sudden death in this
country. Mr.. James E. Cooper. the present
proprietor of the show, presented the remains
of tho brute to the medico-chirurglcal college
through Dr. D. P. Keyser. and as Mr.. Cooper
was anxious to know the mysterious cause of
Tippecanoe's taking off, Prof. E. Laplace held
a post mortem examination on the huge body
in the presence of several medical students.
The professor made very surprising discovery
on opening the abdominal cavity. The heart
of the brute burst the opening made by the in
struments and caused the doctor to start In sur.
prise.
The heart was found to be highly infamed,
and so large that it could not be pressed into
washtub of the size usually used by house
Fairbanks scales was 102 pounds. All the
other organs of the animal were in perfectly
normal state, but the Inflammation of the big
heart coupled with evidence of pronounced
percarditis and a great amount of effusion,
showed drOpsy of the heart only too plainly.
The elephants skeleton will be articulated and
his hide stuffed and preserved IL the college,
Doctor Keyser places the age of the animal at
ia years. and says that. barring the affection
of the heart, he would have lived many years to
come probably
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
OPERA IN THE WEST.

Patti must have enjoyed her Western trip
immensely, although the grip is among the
mementoes she brings back with her. There
is a free, unkempt and tempestuous en-
thusiasm about the Western music-loving
public, and similar spirit inspires the crit
les there. After the perfunctory stopping of
adulatory perfumes which Patti expects and
gets in the effete East the rapturous snort
ings and cavortings of her Occidental admir-
ers must form q pleasant change for the
diva. Perhaps a week or two of serenade and
salute from the Western tomtom and conch
horns is as much as even retiring annual
like Patti can stand.
Our readers may be interested to know how
the appearance of Patti struck the good peo-
pie of Colorado's capital. Here are few
remarks selected by the Chicago Mail from
the musical criticisms in the Denver papers:
The ballot made great hit.
The girls all wanted to steal the cute little
Dago tenor.
The drinking scene made all the boys thirsty
The chorus looked like galaxy of peanut
stand queens.
The Salvation Army dresses worn by the
chorus were great
Johnny Black thought he was at ball game
and yelled when the cantatrice sang Home,
Sweet Home"
1t is not recorded that Patti sent for
Johnny Black after the performance and
imprinted chaste kiss of gratitude upon
his sunburnt brow. But no doubt she did,
and her customary reticence and innate
modesty prevented her from sending an ac-
count of the osculatory act to the discrimin-
ating critic who chronicled Johnny Black S
enthusiasm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
PLAYS To COME,

THE week now closing has been filled by
Emma Abbott at the New Park Theater, Phil
adelphia with surprising success. The opening
opera there as here was "Ernani." The theater
was packed. The Ledger says: miss Abbott
and her strong company met with an ovation
The house was packed to the doors and the
audience grew enthusiastic as the merits of the
performance were manifest" The Times says:
"The report that came in advance that Miss
Abbott is in better voice than ever proved true.
The warmth of her greeting attended her tri-
umphantly to the end Of the opera. The com
pany is one of unusual merit In the matter of
costume Italian opera has never been better,
and seldom as beautifully, presented in this
city. Miss Abbott's costumes are superb, and
all of the companys picturesque and in good
taste. The only drawback" adds the Times
sis that the orchestra was too strong for the
theater." The Inquirer says: THE company
is worthy of high praise. There is a large
chorus and it is notably rich in male voices.
The audience was lavish In its applause and
even the opening chorus had to be repeated"
All accounts confirm the claim that Emma
Abbott is to-day producing the best perform
auces of her career and is being rewarded with
more success with the public than ever. The
sale for the Abbott season at the Bijou Theater
will begin this morning.
SARDoU's famous drama, 1.-THE Exiles." is
to be the attraction at the Grand Opera House
next week. The scene is laid in Russia and the
plot deals, of course, with heroic but reckless
patriots and with cruel and desporic police.
There are five acts illustrated by nine tableaus,
which will exhibit everything from fete in
the imperial palace to raging confagration,
and again to Siberian wastes of snow with rein
deer and dog teams to give them life. There
will be a special matinee on st. Patrick's Day.
The sale of seats begins at the box office this
morning.
CHARLES READE's "Merry Masks and
Faces" delightful comedy of the old school.
night. Miss Coghlan appearing in her cele-
brated characterization of Peg Wo1lngtoD.
1t is play that combines comedy with pathos
in delightful proportion. Miss Coghlan intro
duces the king George Minuet" and famous
"Irsh jig"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mr.. R, OsGooD Is returning to this coun-
try for brief visit.
MRS. HARRISON is devoting much of her
time Just now to painting and to French itera-
tnre.
SENATOR BROWN is regaining his health. and
expects to return to Washington by the end of
this month.
A SON Of the late Mormon leader, Brigham
Young. it is stated, is Colonel in the United
States Army.
THERE is no one in Parliament who can yawn
SO earnestly.so deliberately and 80 prodigiously
as Mr.. Gladstone.
PRESIDENT LUsK, of Bellevue Medical
School, told ia graduates on Monday that he
hoped they would escape the familiar appella-
tion DOC"
SENATOR VANCE says that North Carolina
produced more gold prior to the discovery OF
the gold mines in California, than all other
States put together.
DIR. ELIZABETH G. MALLIsoN, graduate
ClS77) of the Womens Medical College of Phil
adeIphia has been made assistant at the Insane
Hospital In st. Peters, MINI.
JOHN DILLON, NJ. P, the Irish agitator, has
arrived at Denver after his Australian trip. He
said it had been very successful, Sl50,0Oo having
been contributed to the home rule cause.
SENATOR SHERMAN has sold the stanton
house, a few doors from his own residence, in
Washington. He had only bought and held it
to save it from being used as boarding house
SECRETARY TRACY is already tired of hotel
life, and has about concluded arrangements for
leasing a house on Q street. Washington, into
which he will shortly move, with Mrs. and Miss
Wilmerding.
ExCHANcELLoR RUNYoN. of New Jersey,
,ybo commanded the first brigade of troops
that left that State at the outbreak Of the war,
was mustered in as member of the Lincoln
Post of the G. A. R.. at Trenton, this week.
THE recent death of Samuel B. Washburn
leaves William u. Washburn the only survivor
of seven brothers who grew up on their fathers
farm in Mvermore, Me-. and made the family
name known throughout the country. VIM d.
washburn is one OF the United States Senators
from Minnesota.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
The Regular Southern Dispute.

THE educational bill was then taken up and
MIR. George addressed the Senate in ad-
vocacy of it. Mr.. Hoar asked Mr.. George what
| his plan was as to the colored people of the
South; and whether it embraced the protection
and security or their right to vote, without in
reference by force or fraud. and their right to
fair administration of justice? MIR. George
asserted that there was no distinction in the
administration of justice in Mississippi except
that the black man had, both in the jury box
and on the bench, a leniency accorded to him
which was not accorded to the white man. He
said that no black man was tried before jury
on which there were no black men, except oc-
casionally, when a black prisoner expressed to
his counsel his wish to be tried by white
jury. What right, he asked, had the Senator
from Massachusetts to impute. by his question,
that there was difference made in the admin
istration of Justice in the State of Mississippi,
between white and black. He deplored this
and he deplored the bloodshed which was oc-
casionally the result of race conflicts, but he
asked whether there were no mobs in Cali
fornia and other Western States, where con-
fiicts were excited by the presence OF the mild
Mongolian. The Senator from Massachusetts,
expected millennium in the South with all its
troubles but he would never get it. He prayed
that there would be too much virtue and wis
dom in the American people not to allow time
and opportunity and Just means without i'm
pertinent interference) to settle the gravest
problem that was ever presented to the human
mind. Mr.. Hoar said that the Senator from
Mississippi had talked about almost everything
else but had not answered the simple ques-
tion which he (Mr. Hoar) had put to him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
THE WORK OF BRAINY MEN.
List of Recent Inventions for Which Patents
Have Been Issued.

List of Recent Inventions for Which Patents
Have Been Issued.
List of United States patents issued to West.
ern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Vir.
ginia inventors for the week ending March Ii,
1890. List furnished by o. d. Lewis, Patent Law
YER l3l Fifth avenue, Pittsburg.
Henry Aiken, Homestead, metallurgical plant;
Harrison NJ. Bell and W. Armstrong. Martins
burg W. Va, railway car heater; William L..
Clouse. Tifin, wire nail machine; Okey Il. Cole,
Parkersburg, governor; William 81. Cooper, Allie
gheny, apparatus for casting steel; Charles b.
Dudley, Altoona. valve; William ). Essick. Boy
er's Ford. Pa, open crate and heater; Katherine
Z. Gunkle, Frazer, Pa, jar; George M. Jones,
Greensburg, pipe hanger; Frederick Melber, Ross,
Pa, construction of towers or bridges; Thomas
Midgley, Beaver Falls, wire mat; Stephen and W.
Moltrup, Beaver Falls, die and die holder for
drawing steel rods; Arthur D. Moxham, Johns
town, rail chair for street railways; Augustus w
Newell. Bradford, oil or gas well packer; Joseph
+. Ordwer McKeesport, tag: Amos b. Palmer,
Port Allegheny, saw tooth: Elisha g. Patterson,
Titusville, railway rail; Mason u Pratt, Johns
town, cable railway crossing; Charles ID. Scott,
Garland, Pa, log car; Edward Scott, Pittsburg,
steam engine; Egbert z. Shelter, Renfrew, Pa,
apparatus for generating and burning gaseous
fuel in furnaces; David Y. Wilson, Gum Tree,
Pa, car coupling; Fernando b. Smith. Canton,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
Private DnIzeIps Great Victory.

DaiZch
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
1 was right and the press, with the exception
of THE DISPATCH, as well as the departments
and Congress, were all wrong. The following
from the Third Auditors office of the Treasury
Department. Washington, under date of March
Z, $780, should settle it:
Private Dalzel Caldwell, o.:
DEAR SIR-In answer to your inquiry Of the
30th you are respectfully Informed that your
allowance for extra duty pay (sS8) has been certi-
fed to Congress, and draft will be promptly for
warded you soon as the appropriation is made.
which Will certainly be within very few days.
Yours,
W. H HART, Auditor.
THE DISPATCH knew this from the start.
Harris predecessor, Day, scoffed and rallied at
my statements, proclaimed me fraud and a
fool, and denied all these claims. Will the
press make this cruel wrong on me- right?
One million similar claims awaited this action
to settle. After l made the discovery Of the
existence of these small claims last year, and
gave it to the veterans through THE DIS
PATCH, the '1scooped" newspapers and the de-
partments at Washington contradicted my
Statements saying they were absurd and un-
true saying no such claims existed. Now see
how the tables are turned. and am completely
vindicated. Theyare paying these claims right
along every day, for extra duty, furlough and
travel pay. PRIVATE DALZELL.
CALDWELL. O.. March II.