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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
tFRoM THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL :,

In little fishing village off the coast of
Maine, many years ago, young girl was
seen coming out of the low, red house at the
end of the one and only street of hamlet.
There goes Babette to her boat" the
women said as she passed them-a tall, slight
girl, with her heavy, light hair in long
braids, and holding her head erect and not
ungraceful.
"she is not SO bad looking, Babette isn't"
said Sarah Howiston to her two neighbors,
who had dropped in for moments gossip
after their days work.
she amt ugly, nor she aint pretty; it
takes Nell Parker's black eyes and red
cheeks, to make real beauty" Hannah
Coomer said.
"Pretty is that pretty does, )" said the third,
rather sharply, "and Babette has the pretti-
est ways and the kindest heart of any girl
hereabouts."
"Yes, Babette is a good girl, fur all her
notions" assented Sarah. "But Jeanie
McNeal spoils her too much for poor folks;
she don't set her to hard work like the rest"
"And why should she," asked Babette's
companion. "when she isn't like US, an
never'll be? When she's o. different blood
and breedin' from US rough, fisher folk?
And when her body's CROWN so fast, an
she not over-strong, she oughtn't to be
worked to her grave. Jeanie McNeal's got
sense in that slow, Scotch head of hers"
A little pause fell on tie three women.
The mind of each went back to that day, so
memorable in the annals of this quiet,
monotonous life at Hollingshesd Point,
when in the midst of one of the most terri
BILE storms in their remembrance, there was
a vessel wrecked off their coast, and there
was washed ashore, lashed to a part of the
rigging, the form of beautiful woman, and
a baby not years old. The awe-struck
women did what they could. but they de-
clared that no human efforts could bring
back the dead to life-all but Jeanie Nc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
CONFIDENCE Is REvIvING.
Argentine Has n New Cabinet and All fs
Now Serene There.

BUENos AYREs, August 8.-Dr. Pelle-
grini, the new President, has appointed the
following Cabinet: General Roco, Interior;
Eduardo Costa, Foreign Affairs; Guterriez
Lastra, Education; General Levalle, War
and Navy, Viucente; Fidel Lopez, Finance.
Per ect harmony prevails in the new
Cabinet Saenz Pena has been elected
President OF the National Bank. The lead
ing citizens have waited upon President
Pellegrini. Confidence is reviving. Gold
is at 125. The banks are closed, but the
bourse will reopen shortly. Exchanges are
rising.
The election Of Pellegrini to the Presi-
dency has caused popular rejoicing. The
city is decorated and illuminated. A decree
just promulgated raises the state of siege
and declares the liberty Of the press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
A FAMILY OUTBREAK.
A Justice and His Wife Givs tho Gossips n
subj ret for Talk.

ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
MANSFIELD VALLEY, August 8.-A.
W. McMilleu, Justice OF the Peace OF this
town, has locked the doors on his wife.
Ellen H. McMillen, nee Callahan. To-day
be published notice that he would not be
further responsible for debts contracted by
her for her support. Mrs. McMillen
threatens to sue for assault and battery.
She has black eve which she says is a
present from her spouse. They have three
children, girl aud two boys, the eldest
being IL years. The Squire, who is 30
years old, has taken the two boys. His
wife let the Roman Catholic Church to GO
with him to the M. e. Church. The fracas
has set all the gossps to talking, and both
McMillens are bound to have it their way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
AN IMPORTED SERPENT.
Boa Constructor In n Log That Came
From san Domingo.

From san Domingo.
LOWELL, MASS, August S-This after
noon, rs an employe of the Merrimac
Croquet Company, at Ayres City, sawed
through large log Of lignum Vita, which
comes from San Domingo, hollow place
was discovered. He put in his hand aud
felt something move. He quickly withdrew
it and informed the foreman. The two pro-
cured pair of tongs, and pushing them in
discovered large snake, which their united
strength was unable to pull out.
A hook was then procured, and as the
head of the snake appeared the tones were
closed on it, crushing it. When the snake
was pulled out entire, it was found to be as
large as mans arm, and four or five feet
long. It is thought to be of the boa con-
strictor hind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09

artists outfit strange sights for to paint.
blood will tel, Jean said to her brother,
alter one of these outings. And she told
him the girls story as she had learned il
from old Jeanie. ''She loves Burns, and
she is lady down to her very finger tips"
she said in conclusion. Her brother
laughed: "At your old tricks, Jean, seeing
princess in every peasant" be said.
The long summer passed-pleasantly to
Jean, who welcomed the quiet and novel
change after her busy, gay lie in the city;
proftably to the artist, who had already
made name in his own city and hoped Tor
greater things; but to Babette it had been a
season OF wonderment and delight, of en-
chantment and iairyland. The books she
mad read, the things she had heard, and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
Charity on Change.

, NEW YORK, August S.-An auction sale
on the Produce Exchange OF the new bale
of Texas cotton, donated by the planters for
the benefit of the Houston Orphan Asylum,
OF Texas, thought $3.50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
Pfsburg s. Lake Erie z. r. Excursion TO
Niagara Falls, Toronto and the Thousand
Islands. Tuesday, August -

Niagara Falls and return. ...S z 90
Toronto and return. n............... s 90
Alexandria Bay aud return. ........ 12 90
Lake Chautauqua and return. ....... 5 90
Tickets good for return any time within
10 days. Parlor car to Buffalo on the A.
NJ. train. Sleeping car to Buffalo on the
9:45 P. NJ. train. Pullman car to Lakewood
and jamestown on the 2:35 P. NJ. train.
Tbssu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
CT POPULAR INTEREST.

ST. PAUL Globe: Missouri intends to send
q regiment of colonies to the Worlds Fair,
and compete with Kentucky.
PHILADELPHIA Times: Sullivan knocked
Kilrain out in Mississippi and the Mississippi
law has knocked him in-the Jail.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: Tom Plat tndig-
nanJly denies that he has bought any real
estate in Chicago. Then they ought to give
him some.
NEW YORK Tribune: 1.-THE fair is not for
Chicago alone" says Chicago paper. You
should have thought of that awhile ago. Come,
now, put upI Stop begging and put up!
PHILADELPHIA Record: Like the sturdy
German that he is Prince Bismarck set an ex-
ample to all his fellow subjects by marching to
the polls the other day and casting his ballot in
accordance with his opinions.
PHILA DELPHIA InQuirer:' Considering the
humdrnm nature Of the proceedings in the
Senate most OF the time. it is remarkable that
SO many men should wish to go to that BODY
who can easily afford to stay away
PHILADELPHIA Press: New York proposes
to spend about S2.U00000 annually for sew eral
years to come in paving its streets, and if the
work is well done it will not only benefit that
city, but will serve as an example to other
cities that stand in need of similar improve-
men5s.
NEW YORK World: Among Zadkieps pre-
dictiOn5 for February was the following: "The
Comte de Paris will suffer from the opposition
of Saturn to the place of the sun at his birth"
This was fine astrological shot But the fact
is that the Comte is suffering from the oppo-
sition Of the French people to his SON in his
freshness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CANAL.

The contest in Maryland which is to de-
eide whether the last link of possible
trans-Allegheny canal, shall be preserved
or not, has reached an interesting stage, as
is shown by our special telegram.
The railroad effort to gobble the canal by
means of that corporate agency, the Mary
land Legislature, was on the point of sue
cuss. But the courts of Maryland. which
the railroads have apparently neglected to
acquire, step in with the appointment
OF receivers and an order to re-
port on the possibility OF restoring
the usefulness and traffic of the canal. This
has given a slight check to the railroad
operation through the Legislature; but there
is yet possible contest as to whether the
Legislature will be most powerful in ad-
vancing the interests of the railroads or the
courts in protecting the interests of the
people.
Pittsburg, to which this struggle means
the destruction or preservation of a future
water route to the ocean, will watch with
great interest for the decision whether the
corporate edIcts or the welfare of the people
will prove to have the greatest weight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
STATE TARIFF REFORM LEAGUE.
Letter From Grover Cleveland Read Be-
fore the Indianapoli. Convention.

fore tine IndianapoIi. Convention.
1NDIANAPoLIs, March 4-The State Tariff
Reform League met in Masonic Hall tonight
with 300 delegates present. The meeting will
continue through tomorrow. Judge D. P.
Baldwin, of Logansport, a leading Republican
presided. Speeches were made by ]. BOYD
Winchester. of Kentucky: Thomas g. Shear
man, of New York; c. S. Darrow, of Chicago.
and others. The following letter from ex-
President Cleveland was read
NEW YORK. February Is, 1890.
Edgar A. Brown, ESQ.,:
My DEAR SIR-Though my letters to Demo ocrat-
ic and Tariff Reform Assemblages have lately been
very frequent, cannot deny your request 10 say
who will meet at the First Annual Convention of
the Indiana Tariff Reform League the
1h With OF the Ma6en p am wbc TeFy much pleased
seems TO be organized. 1t conveys suggestion of
practical work in the field of information and
l2htenment This, If persistently carried out, can
not fail of success. Of course we do not approach
the American people. assuming that they are ig-
hsy are 1s busP and o 5
ect the study of public questions In the engross-
ment of their daily aVocations. thev too ready
to rely upon the Judgment and ayOwed principles
of the party with which they have AFFILIATED as
guides to their political actions. In this way they
have become slow to examine for themselves the
questions of tariff reform. If in the lights of
sonabe and simple arguments, and of such OBJ
ject lessons as are being constantly placed before
them our people can be induced to investigate the
subjects, there need be no fear to their conclu
sion.
The Democratic party, as the party of the peo-
public good, and pledged to the interests of all
their countrymen instead of the furtherance Of
the interests of the few who seek to pervert gov
ernmental powers for their enrichment, was never
nearer to it's fundamental principles than was it
in It's contests for tariff reform. 1t certainly adds
to the satisfaction with which we labor in this
cause to be assured that In our efforts not only
serve our party but all the people of the land.
Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
CAPTAIN McALLA INDICATED,

An officer Of the United States man of war
Enterprise has come to the rescue of Cap
tain McCalla, who has been charged with
cutting down sailors, bullying officers, and
playing tyrant in dozen ways upon sea
and shore. The vindication of Captain
McCalla by his chivalrous subordinate is
completely singular if not singularlv COM
plete He tells US that Captain McCalIa
did more to raise the standard of American
seamanship than any man who has been
abroad. He did this by practically forcing
himself on the people over there. He
dined with Queen Victoria at Osborne, with
the Gar of Russia al st. Petersburg, with
Emperor William at Berlin. At the naval
review at Cronstadt, in which the fleets of
Germany and Russia participated he made
the Enterprise one of the reviewing party,
and took the head of the line. In conclu-
sion the Captains advocate says: eve
had a third rate tub, but Captain McCalla
succeeded in making those people on the
other side understand that this was quite a
country over on this side of the herring
pond"
what his friend says be correct, he showed
the Old World what remarkable curiosities
sometimes obtain high rank in the United
States Navy. We think after this mastery
defense that Captain McCalla need say
nothing more in his own behalf 1t would
be superfuous After such stupendous
services to his country Captain McCalla
might have chopped up a half dozen able
seamenswith an ak; hanged all his officers at
the yard arm and blown up the Enterprise
in mid ocean with perfect propriety.
The latest news of the gallant captain
confirms US in the belief that he is too
great, too unique man to be allowed to
waste his energies upon war vessel. Mr..
P. I. Barnum would give a big price for
him. Captain McCalla captured Bermuda,
which is strongly fortified, in an hour or
two and carried off a gigantic ransom of
champagne under his belt. Secretary
Tracy will see his way, we trust, to giving
Captain McCalla a wider field to operate in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
PITrsBURG. WEDNESDAY,. MAR. 8. ls
A POT AND KETTLE DEBATE.

The discussion of the contested election
case, in the House yesterday, spread nearly
over the entire field of political charges and
counter-charges. Intimidation in Arkansas,
the CLAYTON murder, loaded ballot boxes,
and the Dudley blocks-of-fve business were
all brought upon one side or the other. The
public has reason to express gratitude that,
with this range once taken, it did not drag
in the Ohio ballot-box torgeries to boot.
But what is the appositeness of fighting
over all these issues? 1t ie pleasant for the
nation to be assured by Mr.. Cheadle that
Dudley is innocent, and by Mr.. Breckin-
ridge that he is slandered man, although
both gentlemen have omitted to claim op-
portunities to demonstrate their purity be-
fore competent tribunals. But do our Con-
gressional friends imagine that it justiies
the stealing of an election in Arkansas to
say that Dudley was the agent of buying
one in Indiana? Or, per contra, does tha
assertion that Dudley is noble man prove
that the Arkansas Democrats are black
hearted villains? The sole question before
contestants was fairly elected, and that is
the question which seems TO have occupied
the least share of the attention of the
House.
Our legislators are in need of learning
that intelligent political discussion should
rise to higher level than the recrimina-
tions of the pot and kettle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
SCHOOLS AND SAVINGS BANKS.

Interviews with some of the gentlemen
connected with our schools, on the plan of
establishing penny savings banks in con-
nection with the public schools, appear else
where in this issue. OF course the tendency
is for the opinion to range from support of
the idea through the non-committal, to the
adverse.
No one will question the advantage of
offering opportunity and inducements to
children for saving. But beside the prac-
teal difficulties, there is a question whether
the function OF the school system is to take
charge of such a system. The work is
monetary rather than educational; and it is
a somewhat cogent point that the schools
have all they can do to make their educa-
tional work reach the entire population of
school age.
In addition, the fact that the first tenta-
tive experiment of savings bank run by
governmental agencies reached disastrous
termination in the case of the Freedmen's
Savings Bank, will be likely to make this
country slow to adopt any modification of
that idea
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
POPULARITY VERSUS DELEGATES

The appearance of Major Montooth, Pills
bury's gallant and popular candidate for
Governor, is reported to have won many
warm supporters at meeting of the Union
Veteran League at Altoona. 1t is not sur
prising that the Majors engaging presence
and winning eloquence should capture the
hearts of his old comrades. Nevertheless
his popularity is in danger of being classi-
fed with the warm affection of the Johns
town people for General Hastings. They
win the hearts Of the people; but the fates
which preside over the issues of political
conventions seem to have decreed that Della
mater shall win most of the delegates. The
attitude of the supporters of the latter can
didate might well be the philosophical one
that they care not who gets the receptions at
Johnstown,Nor receives the plaudits of the
veterans at Altoona, so that their man gets
the delegates from the hands OF the county
committees.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
REPUBLICAN CLUBS IN NASHVILLE.

The convention of Republican clubs at
Nashville, which opened yesterday, is con-
elusive evidence that the world moves
Thirty years ago the attempt to hold Re-
publican convention in that city would have
produced wholesale riot and murder; while
now the people OF Nashville welcome their
visitors without regard to partisan feelings
The progress from later stage OF sectional
differences is shown by the practical recog-
milton on the part of the Republican leaders
that Southern opinion is far more tolerant
of Republican doctrines than it formerly
was. The utterances in the convention have,
of course, the usual stress of party feeling;
but the practical effect of such a meeting in
the South must be to bring the North and
South more closely together and 10 ex-
tinguish the old misunderstanding upon
which sectional issues are wholly founded.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
7 N the light of the times and with the know
development of business since Colonel Mer
ritt's surveys were made 10 years ago, an esti
mate of S5O,OOO,OOO would probably be demanded
BETTING on Elections.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The inquiry made in SATURDAYS DISPATCH
as to whether citizen can be denied his right
to vote as penalty for betting on the result Of
an election is an old question and is additional
evidence of the tardy manner in which men
learn their rights, and proves also how few of
them read and understand the Constitution.
1t is proof, too, that few comprehend the diff
ference between the character of the Constitu-
ton and statutory law. If your correspondent
will turn to Art. VIII of the Constitution
and read the first section thereof he will know
who can vote at elections and on what condi-
tions. These qualifications being fixed and de-
fined by the Constitution, they cannot possibly
be changed, modified, enlarged or abridged by
any legislative action-any statute law. No
power on EARTH except the citizen himself by
his own neglect to comply with the require
mentS of the organic law, can possibly deprive
him of the right of suffrage. 1t makes no diff
ference what, or how many, acts of the Legis-
lature he may violate. He may be thief. a
murderer, perjurer, OF what he may, but If he
meets the requirements of the Constitution in
every particular as to the subject of suffrage
and can get to the polls on election day. no man
dare deny his right to vote.
To pass n law forbidding and Furnishing bet
ting on elections horse races or on the result of
any contest is 4 prerogative OF the General
Assembly, hut it possesses no authority to
designate as a penalty for such betting, the
forfeiture of a constitutional right. On our
statute books we find two such acts-one in re-
gard to betting on elections, and the other for
desertlon from the army-but our Supreme
Court has declared them unconstitutional and
void for the reason already stated. II.
NEW BRIGHTON, March 3.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
IMPORTED ODDITIES.

VoLAPUK is now II years old, and it is as
serted that 5000, 600 persons able to use it.
OYSTER suppers after the theater have just
been int1 oduced as feature of French social
life, and are said to be popular.
THE sale of Intoxicating liquors has been
forbidden at the restaurants attached to the
railroad stations in Victoria, Australia. The
railroads are State institutions.
THREE children in the Sheffield Workhouse
were done to death few days ago by the medi-
cal officer, who careessly wrote a prescription
for 20 grains of Dover's powder in ten packets
instead of for ten grains in 20 packets.
IT is alleged that the Turkish man-of-war
Erzegroul, bearing decoration for the Mikado
of Japan, is detained at Singapore because her
Captain has no money enough to pay the port
charges or to buy coal with which to continue
the journey.
SIR HENRY PARKES, tho political leader of
Australia, owns a sixpence which was the first
money he ever earned. He stepped ashore
penuiless and friendess at Sydney half a
century ago. and got the sixpence for holding
horse in front of tavern while the owner
went inside to get drink.
THE Sanitary Commission at Constantinople
relieves the fears of those who have waited for
an epidemic of cholera to follow the grip by
announcing that the recent alleged discovery
OF the disease IN an epluemlc form IN MeSopo-
tamia is unfounded and that there is no trace
of disease anywhere in the Turkish Empire.
CLoT BEY, the founder of modern medicine
In Egypt, says that it requires as much surgery
to kill one Egyptian as seven Europeans, and
thers is no doubt that Egyptians bear surgical
operations with extraordinary pluck and sue
cess. A man in a native hospital who las had
his thigh amputated at o'clock is sitting up
and quite lively at 6.
A PRINTERS error has been detected in the
last issue of the Bible from the Cambridge
Press. In Isaiah. Xviii, Is the word ''founda-
tion" is begun with an r." instead of an Il"
The mistake was discovered by young son of
the Rev. DR.. l.. Adler, who has received the
standing reward Of guinea offered for the de.
lection of such an error.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-05
NEW WORKS. JEWEL.

New York did not get the Worlds Fair
but it has many unique spectacles which
y i'll astound the great army of visitors from
abroad in 1892 or 1898. They do not
startle Americans very much now; we have
become used to them. Among these exhi-
bitions of an extraordinary character is
the most corrupt and depraved city govern
ment in the world. New York may be too
modest to acknowledge the accuracy of this
statement; New York is notoriously modest.
The latest view of Gotham's government
is given to the world through the enterprise
of the New York Herald 1t exhibits with
the minuteness of a photograph the system
in vogue at the Ludlow street jail, place
where fraudulent debtors and witnesses are
lodged and prisoners of a certain sort
are held for trial. The jailors are to a GER
tain extent unlike any that this country has
ever known. For bribes of a sufficient size
by no means small-they have been ac-
customed to allow the prisoners liberty to
come and go as they pleased, to play poker,
within the reasonable limit of two and half
dollars, to drink and to do anything, in short,
they please. From Warden Heating down
to the meanest turnkey the jail officials have
regarded their charges as a source of rev.
enue-that and little else. Poor men were
strictly locked up, in their cells, and treated
with grim severity. Rich men, so long as
their money lasted, had nothing to complain
OF, but their good times ceased when their
purses ran dry. A Herald reporter enjoyed
the freedom of the Jail for several days and