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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
WHAT EDITORS WRITE ABOUT.

| PHILADELPHIA Press: Talk Is cheap. That
is why the Democratic obstructionists in Con-
| gress are treating themselves so lavishly.
NEW YORK World: The Republicans Of the
House have seated one contestant after two
months wrangle. At this rate how long will
| it take them to muster in their remaining seat
| beggars2
ST. LOUIS Post Dispatch: Panic is az de
structiye of life as fire or food. If Mrs. Tracy
had waited few seconds her life would have
been saved by the fremen. The prime condl-
tion Of self-preserYation in danger is presence
Of mind.
PHILADELPHIA Record: The vote in the
New York Presoytery was two to one in favor
of a revision of the Confession of Faith. The
tendency of this great church is unmistakably
-oward a softening of the rigidity OF its
creed. Possibly the movement may end in a
new schism.
NEW YORK Telegram: The Pullman car
porters are organizing to secure relief from the
deductions made from their salaries for loss of
linen and other articles. The general impress
sion Of the travelling public is that the COM
bination might easily solve the difficulty by
buying out the company
New YORK Tribune: The first notable diplo-
matic triumph Of the Harrison administration
has been consummated. The Samoan treaty
negotiated at Berlin last summer byrepresenta-
tives of Great Britain, Germany and the United
States was ratified by the Senate yesterday with
only II dissenting votes.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger: Governor Camp
bell. of Ohio, is doubly fortunate politician.
He has clean record, and has been accused Of
being corruptiOnist Any politician may have
clean record, but he never gets chance to
prove IL until he is denounced as o thief, for
with politicians the ordinary rule OF law that
every man is innocent until he is proved guilty
Is reversed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
TO REGULATE THE TELEGRAPH.
SENATE Bill Giving the Interstate Con


Senate Bill Giving the Interstate Com
merce Commission Control.
WASHINGTON, February 5.-Senator CulIom
to-day reported favorably from the Committee
on Commerce, Senator Spooner's bill to regu-
late interstate commerce as carried on by teIe-
graph companies. The bill provides that it
shall be unlawful to make unreasonable
charges for the service, to give any unreasonable
preference or advantage to any person or firm:
to enter into any pool for the division of re-
ceipts; to give any rebate or reduction in price
to any person, firm or corporation not given to
other. 1t is further provided that every tele-
graph company shall publish its rules from
time to time to the commission hereinafter
schedule of rates. Failure to perform any of
pany liable to the person injured thereby for
the full amount of damages sustained. together
with costs and attorneys fee.
Persons claiming 10 be damaged may make
complaint to the commission hereinafter pro-
vided for. or may sue in the United States
Court Any officer Of a telegraph company
violating the provisions of the act, or who will
ingly suffers or permits any violation shall be
decided guilty of q misdemeanor, and upon con-
vIction in District Court of the United States
be subject to fine not exceeding 5000 for
each offense. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission, created by the act OF February 4, 1887,
is given jurisdiction over telegraph companies
aud the business transacted thereby, and au-
thorized to enforce the provisions OF the act.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
ARE THE HENS CoNTUMELIousi

A writer in the Agriculturist is respon-
sible for the somewhat startling statement
that "tbe vast majority of hens refuse to sit
in time to supply most remunerative de-
mand." Why do the hens decline to meet
legitimate demand for spring chickens?
Is 1t an assured fact that they are SO stub
born? These are two questions which our
agricultural cotemporary does not answer,
but contents itself with stating the fact and
falling back upon the incubator. 1t is vain
for unlearned laymen to step in where poul-
try specialists fear to tread. We are averse
to believing that our hens, be they stately
long-limbed Brahmas, dashing black Span
iards, fluffy Cochin Chinss modest brown
LeghOrns or cheeky game fowls, are banded
together in an effort to contest the rigid laws
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
OUs MAIL POUCa.
Braddock schoo, Directors.


To the Editor OF The Disoatch:
Several communications have appeared re-
Gently anent the public school question and
the election of school directors for Braddock.
The public school question is one in which all
well-meaning citizens are alike interested.
Thereupon let US put away all selfish. Jealous
and narroy-minded denomInational feeling.
Let us first inquire if candidates for School
Directors are competent, able and enthusiastic
supporters and believers in our public school
system, and then, if it incidentally happens
that they are Methodists, Catholics or Presby-
terians in religious belief, give them credit for
their honest convictions and extend to them as
citizens that charity and right guaranteed TO
all by the Constitution.
The doors of our public schools not only in
Braddock, but throughout the land, stand wide
open for the education, not only of all Chris
tendon but all heathendom who may see ft to
come in. Let US elect to the office Of school
Director only such men as are interested in
universal education. Let our first question be,
Is the candidate tit and proper man or woman
for the office? Not what denomination or
church does he belong to. Let us be sure he IS
man Of broad and charitable views and be-
lever in the system, not DarroW-minded
4he School Board and the schools and not a
hindrance or figure head. Let him be a man
whom the citizens of his ward want for the
place.
Let the candidate be such man, and when
elected, either in Braddock or elsewhere, the
people who elect him or any such man, will
always be proud of their choice and the public
schools will have most able guardians
OBSERVER.
Eabruarv
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
THINK NOT.

Think not that every wind which blows
An omen brings to you;
Each fleetIng cloud to be replaced
By one Of darker hue.
Think not that every wave that rolls
A tidal wave will be,
To bear away all in Its course
Fulfilling destiny.
Think not the sunshine's brightest beam
Obliquely across your way,
That they may make more bounteous
Another's brilliant day.
Think not. II feet should stray aside
In paths not wont to roam,
That meier again they should frequent
The purer haunts of home.
Think not ifhand By anger driven
A cruel blow should deal,
However tender they become
The breach can never heal,
Think not If lips unguardedly
False words address TO you,
That doubts must ever linger near,
When every word be true.
Think not that hearts have all grown cold,
Ifyou cannot discern
The blood which pulsates to and fro,
And love which brightly burn.
Think not this life is but dream
Which soon will fee away,
And find within this world . tomb 81.
Forever and for aye.
LtttfaD RtiisS Retster in Atlanta Constitutions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
SOCIAL CHATTER.
Number of Pleasant Entertainments Yes
Terdny, and More Coming.

Number of Pleasant Entertainments Yes
Ierdny, and More Coming.
Mr.. G. Blair Painter dispensed hospitality to
eight friends in the ladies' restaurant Of the
Duquesne Club house yesterday. delightful
luncneon was served and enjoyed.
A musical will be given this evening at the
Knoxville NJ. E. Church by the pupils of the
Curry Conservatory under the management Of
Prof. Simon Bissell.
Mrs Alice Mccullough, of this city, and Miss
Stella Duffy. of the East End, are spending q
few weeks in Washington, D. @.
A complimentary entertainment under the
order of the Golden Cham was given last even
ing at Old City Hall.
Mrs. Harry C. Milholland, of College avenue,
East End, will entertain the Waverly Euchre
Club this evening.
Colonel A. 9. Morgan and Mrs. Morgan, as
sisted by the Misses Morgan, will receive
friends tonight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
THE MISSISSIPPI IDEA.

The Mississippi plan of settling the negro
question, which is presented by legislator
of that State in the shape of resolution
asking for the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment, is characterized bv the PhiIa-
delphia Ledger as an outbreak of the periodi-
cal insanity of the South upon the negro
question. 1t is so, and yet has one element
in it that comes nearer to fairness than any
other plan which the Southern negropho-
bists have presented. The Southern idea
generally is to gain the benefit of the repre-
sentation of the colored people in Congress
by letting them have the right of franchise
in law, but forbidding them to exercise it.
This plan would disfranchise the blacks and
would, under the Fourteenth Amendment,
reduce the representation of the South in
Congress and the Electoral College.
But the inducement that is held out by
the Mississippi idea for favorable considera-
tion by the North is, as the Ledger saws, even
more unique and ridiculous. This is the
promise that if the Fifteenth Amendment is
repealed the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Amendments ''shall be most freely and ab-
SOlutely obeyed." The idea of promising
that upon certain conditions the people will
obey the supreme law of the land is one
that could only come from Mississippi. The
value Of such promise is exemplifed BY
the fact that it has already been made with
regard to all the amendments, including the
Fifteenth. 1t was done by the Southern
States when their State governments were
reconstructed; and it has been declared by
the Democratic representatives. of the South
in Congress time and again that the South
accepts all the amendments in their en-
tirety.
If the first promise did not bind the
South what value would the second have?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

DOES not the esteemed Philadelphia
Press need to be warned of the virtue of dis
cretion when it declares that the phrase
that "'speaker Reed has brought his party
to the edge of a volcano is round and
sonorous, but it is full of sound and fury signi-
flying nothing" This assertion opens up the
way for instruction to the Republican organ
that the phrase is a quotation from James G.
Blaine. and was used with regard TO exactly the
same action which Speaker Reed has taken. Is
it the correct thing for paper to tell the states
man who has just given its editor a foreign
mission, that his words are full of sound and
fury signifying nothing"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
SAMOA STILL NOT SETTLED.
The Ratification Of the Treaty Does Not End
the TrOubIe.

WASHINGTON, February Sin the executive
session Of the Senate this afternoon the mat
ter of Samoan treaty came up again. Mr..
Edmunds introduced resolution yesterday
formally declaring it to be the understanding
of the Senate that the rights of the United
States to the harbor of Pago Pago ceded by
Samoa in the treaty of 1875 were not disturbed
by the Berlin treaty of 1889. This resolution
was discussed for an hour or more this after
noon, friends of the treaty arguing that it was
unnecessary, and that its passage would serve
only to complicate matters.
The vote on motion to lay the resolution on
the table disclosed the fact that no quorum
was present, and the Senate then adjourned.
the resolution on the table. A motion maze
Yesterday to reconsider the vote by which the
treaty was ratified was not acted upon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

IT is encouraging to find Republican
organ advising that If the majority in the
House should decline to unseat Democrats in
''at least half the cases" they would gain in
public appreciation" This is good ceal like
the old colonial magistrates idea of deciding
the cases by the number of witnesses each side
presented. But 1t affords the hope that in time
to come one may recognize the principle of de-
clining to unseat anyone till the right of the
contestant to the seat is proved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

Mr.. THOMAS A. EDIsoN'S remark that
the existence of an intelligent creator can tai
most be proved by chemistry" has not yet pro-
duced an exception from Colonel 1ngersolL
Doubtless, however, the pagan orator will at
once appeal from chemistry to logic, and decide
the matter by his own logic
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

NIAGARA is soon to be harnessed to the
work of electricity, it is announced. This will,
of course. remove all danger from the attempt
of cranks to swim that raging stream. AS soon
as Niagara becomes an electrical motor, any
amount of expert testimony can be produced
to show that it is perfectly harmless.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

IN nominating SO good man. as Judge
Bailey, and in indorsing two such men as Nor
row and Denniston, the Pittsburg Democracy
show that they can make the recognition Of
first class officials rise above partisanshlp. The
meat of the matter lies in the fact that by dis
regarding party lines, as concerns the two
latter names they do not weaken party
c+r
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
p. #. CInrke.

PF. Clarke, one of the oldest citizens of ALLIE
gheny City, died yesterday at his home No. So
Robinson street. He had been in good health all
his life, and on Saturday was taken i'll. His con-
ditIon grew worse and worse until yesterday
morning. when he expired.
Mr.. Clarke was Y years of age, and for q years
he had been trusted employe ofGrogan Mertz,
friend of Rev. Father MOlllnger, of Troy HILL and
was a prominent member of st. Peters Pro-
Cathedral He has resided in Allegheny for the
mast 40 years,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Annie Z, Kerr.

Mrs. Annie 4. Kerr. widow of the late Rev.
David X. Kerr, d. D., formerly editor of the
United Presbyterian, died at Green Cove Springs,
Fla, on Tuesday, aged 6s years. She had been
in the South since the middle OF December in
company with her son, W. N. Kerr of Murdock
Kerr & Co., of this city, who went to Florida for
his health. Mrs. Kerr was the daughter of Judge
Warden, well known in the Pittsburg of early
days. and was also a sister of W illiam Warden of
the Standard OIL COMPANY. She was well known
as an active worker in church and charity circles
and her associates will feel her loss keenly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

THE railroad wreck is industrious in this
vicinity at present; but, SO far, its destructive
tendencies have been confined to the smashing
OF freight cars. The sacrifice of human life
will be spared probably till passenger train is
caught in one Of the wrecks, and the car stove
gets in its deadly work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

ONE of the remarkable features of the
times is found in the fact that while all the
papers of every class and stripe in Philadel-
phia unite in demanding the passage Of the
terminal and belt line ordinances, the Coun-
ellis of that city calmly shelve those public meas
ures 1t looks as if some power in Philadel-
phia's government is willing to let the public
say what 1t will SO long as it owns the Council
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
DETAINED BY THE TRAGEDY.

Tho HnrrisOns Were to Have Attended n
Wedding at Harrisburg.
= TsPEcIAL. TELEcRAM TO EHE DIsrArcHI
HARRISBURG, February 6-Walter James
Bradshaw, of Helena, Mont. and Miss Eliza
beth Reilly were married in the Market Square
Presbyterian Church this. evening by Rev.
George B. Stewart, the pastor, in the presence
of a brilliant assemblage. But for the terrible
misfortune which befell Secretary Tracy and
family, President and Mrs Harrison. Mrs Nc
Kee and Mr.. and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison,
who we're intimate friends of the Bradshaws of
Indianapolis, would have witnessed the mar
riage ceremony.
Miss Reilly assisted Mrs. Harrison in several
social entertainments at indianapolis last
winter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

The pugnacity of the Portuguese people
may be measured by the fact that mob
destroyed circus in Lisbon the other night.
The mob fury which expends itself upon cir
Gus is not likely to prove very destructive to an
iron-clad feet; but we may believe that if the
Portuguese had tackled fully developed,
triple aggregation, four ringed American cir
Gus, the circus would have captured all Portu-
gal and made a show of it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

held by a tariff of IS per cent. This shows the
error Of the Records declaration not long ago
that the sugar duties must not be repealed. be-
cause it is revenue tariff and does not protect
anything. We are glad to perceive that our
cotemporary is learning the error of its ways.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

THE ex porte allegations made by the appli-
cants for receiver in the proceedings con-
cerning the insolvency of the Spaulding Iron
Company, are replied to by the answer of the
managers of the company, given elsewhere.
OF course this reply is an eT pdrte one also; but
the interesting way in which the respondents
counter upon the plaintiffs shows that in
matter of that sort there are two sides to the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
AN ICEBERG OVER A MILE LONG.
Smoke Rose From 1t So Tint 1t Looked
Like Ship Aiire.


,sPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
PHILADELPHIA, February 6-Captain
Bocquet commanding the Atlantic transport
steamship Maine, which arrived here Yesterday
from London and Swansea reports having
passed huge iceberg, X miles long and $50
feet high. The sight of such an unusually
large berg was at once reported to the hydro
graphic office and practical seamen refused to
believe that such monster existed in these
latitudes. Captain Bocquet says that It was
seen just fiVe days ago. in latitude 43o 19, longi
tude 4So 5r. The atmosphere was rendered al
most unbearably cold in the vicinity although
the sun wasVeryhigh and warm, it being nearly
noon when it was sighted
"Asman might go to sea for hundreds Of
years and never behold such a sight as this
was" said Captain Bocquet. "When first seen
the steam was rising from it in such volumes
as to make it look like a ship afire. The Maine
had the usual experience Of Western bound
steamships, hurricane after hurricane retard,
ing her speed"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

THE application of a rural postmaster for
a license, which will be passed upon at the
coming license court, calls attention to the very
salutary regulation of the United States postal
service that the postal business and the liquor
business must be kept entirely separate. The
postmaster who does not wish to give up his
postoffice had better restrain his ambition for a
liquor license.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

The suit which tells Of the transactions
of two plaTe glass companies, involving stock
transfers of 81, 100000 in par value, and which
were worth premium of SS5 per share gives a
very striking evidence of the prosperity of an
industry which. only few years ago, was new
thing in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
ALWAYS IN THE LEAD.
The Dispatch Newspaper That Completely
Fills the Bill.

From the Bedford Inluirer.l
THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH is wonderful
newspaper Its Sunday edition has attained a
bona fide circulation of over $4,000. With the
new year comes new features. The daily issue
of THE DISPATCH. which has ever maintained
the lead, will continue to offer the best things
going in the news line. Its reliable market re-
ports vast newsgetting machinery (including
leased wires to all the principal points, with
bureaus In the chief cities), and its earn
est, progressive and independent policy have
earned for it a national reputation and made it
a household word in Western Pennsylvania and
Eastern Ohio.
enjoyed by THE DISPATCH for producing a
progressive nineteenth century newspaper will
be added to.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
Better Than BuIIdOzing.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.l
England has pretty good case as against
Portugal in claims upon African territory, and
the news that the Government is willing to sub
NIT its case to the arbitration Of the powers Of
Europe is, therefore, probably true. It would
be much more graceful way to obtain control
of the desirable parts Of East Africa by COM
mon consent than by 'bulldozing" such an in
ferior power as Portugal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
He Didn't Pull.

From the Detroit Free Press.1
The Denver dentist who advertised Teeth
Pulled Without Pain" refused to pull! tooth
for young man who entered his office the
other day and said if he was hurt he'd slam
bang six bullets into the dentist. He ex-
planned that "Without Pain" meant that man
might live through it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
re. Mcclure.

GREENvnLE, February 5.-R. Q. Mcclure, ex-
Sheriff of Mercer county, died to-day, aged 81
wars. His funeral will be conducted by the q.
A. Il. Post Of which he was prominent mem
ber.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
In Favor of subsidies.

WASHINGTON, February 5.-Ex-Representa.
tive FELTON,, of California. to-day made an
argument before the House Committee on the
Merchant Marine and the Fisheries in behalf
of the bill granting subsidies to American
vessels engaged in the foreign trade Mr..
FELTON, represented the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce, and his argument was an in
dorsement of the Farnuhar bill
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
PoIiric. at the stn,s Cnniinl.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1spArcH

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.l
HARRISBURG, February 5-The Dauphin
County Democratic Committee to-day elected
Naudain Hamilton, President of Common
Council of this city, chairman in place of Wal.
lace Dewitt, who declined to serve any longer
County Commissioner George W. Cunkle and
Il. Wells Buser, until recently postmaster at
Hummelstown, were elected Secretaries and
Select Councilman W. L. Gorges was chosen
Traasurnr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

"THE Republican press is still making
faces at Cleveland for 1892" remarks the Ph1la-
delphia Times. This is new and unexpected
intimation that the brilliant New York Sun is
a Renublican paper
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
Mrs. Jaus Walker.

The death of Mrs. Jane Walker is announced,
having taken place yesterday at the home of her
son, Alexander Walker, No. Y Craig street. Allie
Rheny Mrs Walker was 81 years of age at the
time Of her death and was the mother of chill
dren and had 50 grandchildren and great-grand-
children. She was born near Belfast, County
Down, ireland. She cane to this country in 1869
and had always enjoyed good health.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
Our First .Judae'. Picture.

A handsome portrait of Hon. William Wal
lace, Allegheny county's first Judge, was hung
in the law library yesterday. He occupied the
bench from October o lTS8 until August II,
1871. The picture is the gift Of George Wal
lace, Beltzhoover, grandson Of the Judge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06
BRAppocK, February 5.
AQuesIIon of Law.

To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Would you kindly inform me through the
columns of your valuable paper whether or not
Judge of elections" having become ineligi-
BILE to serve on account of a nomination to-
city office. has the right to appoint his success
sor, or whether the duty devolVes upon the
majority Inspector My Interpretation Of
"Purdon's Digest is that the latter does the
appointing. Am right or wrong?
D. II. WIEGMANN.
PITTSBURG February 4