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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
ARGUMENTS FOR DIRECT VOTING

Answering the request of the mass meet
ing of Republican voters held in Allegheny
the week before, as well as the letter of
Colonel Stone, the Republican County Com
mittee yesterday ordered new primaries for
the Twenty-third Congressional district, to
be held September 6. That insures another
race for the coveted Congressional prize. It
also gives lots of time for candidates to can
vass.
But when the committee came to consider
the other unanimous request of the mass
meeting for a direct vote by the people in
place of a delegate convention, il did not
show like complaisance. Under the plea
that it would not do to have one set of rules
for Allegheny and another for the rest
of the county, the demand for the
Crawford system was set aside. OF course,
it may be urged that this matter can be con-
sidered by the new committee of nine which
was yesterday appointed to revise all the
rules; but if the popular interest already
awakened should happen to die out, the
chances are that the topic will be on the
shelf until some new complication arising
out of the delegate system, again brings it
forcibly to the front.
There can be no question of the greatly
preponderating wish Of the Allegheny co.
pie for direct voting. 1t is quite likely that
direct voting would be equally popular
through the whole county. Mr.. Long did
not much, if at all, over-state the case yester-
day against conventions when he told how
candidates every year are harassed and i'm
poverished in the attempts, first to secure
delegates to run, next to get them elected,
and finally to hold them together till the
conventions acted. A good deal has been
gained in having public attention so forcibly
directed to the subject; and the Committee
on Rules could do no wiser or more satisfac-
tory thing than recommend the change for
the whole county. Yet the signs OF yester-
days meeting are not particularly re-
assuring that they contemplate anything of
the kind.
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THE WAYS OF WOMAN FAIR.

Mrs. LEWIS DANIELS, of Vergennes VT,
has been granted a license as pilot on Lake
Champlain.
MISS A. AND MISS L. THORNTON, sisters, Of
Butte City, Mont, have each 81, 600 600, and yet
they are attending college in Philadelphia
A CLEVELAND lady who discovered thief
in her dining room helping himself to her silver
ware. promptly covered him with revolver
and turned him over to the police.
THE widow of Henry Draper continues his
scientific researches; on a mountain in far-of
Peru she maintains an observatory completely
furnished with telescopes and Photographic ap-
paratus and assistants.
MRS. HARRISON is said to be very fond of
the Bible, Washington Irving's works and the
poets of America. She prefers old books to
the current literature, and reads none Of the
new novels and very few periodicals.
MRS. D. P. BOWERS is studying the role of
Queen Catherine in Henry VIII.," which will
be one of the features of the Warde-Bowers
Company's repertoire next season. Henry
Will" will be very elaborately staged.
The Princess of Battenberg has managed to
bring about a quasi-reconciliation between the
Queen and her SON, Prince Alexander, who
fe1 into the deepest disgrace at the English
court when he Tilted Princess Victoria of Prus-
sia in order to contract a morganatic mar
riage.
MRS. HARRISON and the ladies of the Presi-
dents household will take formal possession of
their new colt age at Cape May next Tuesday.
1t is their intention to pass the summer there,
where the President will spend his leisure time
until the adjournment of Congress, when he
will join them for the season.
MRS. SENATOR WoLCoTT, the bride of the
Senatorial circle. held her second at home on
thursday afternoon in her pretty house on
connecticut avenue. Few of Washington's
fashionable residents have yet left the city,
owing partly TO the presence of Congress, and
large numbers of them took occasion to make
their wedding calls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
STATE POLITICAL NOTES.

CONGRESSMAN CULBERTsoN's vote on the
new pension bill is recorded in the affirmative
with la others.
THE fiend who delights in taking straw votes
is on his periodical rounds. Railroad officials
should squelch him.
THE political gauge in Pennsylvania this
year shows pressure of 5000 pounds to the
square inch.-AShiand Telegram.
HENRY GEORGES single tax idea is gaining
converts especially among the workingmen
and small property holders of the cities and
larger towns.
COLONEL LINTON and several of the Demo-
cratic State delegates from Cambria county,
who were instructed for Pattison, will resign,
because they are Wallace men.
THE Lancaster ITteliigencer kindly says that
Pattison would have made a better Governor il
he had more experience, and would make a
good one now if he could be elected, but it
adds: "His day is hardly now"
HENRY GEORGE has taken a hand in the
Pennsylvania campaign, and writes that the
Democrats should nominate Ex-Governor Pat
tison by all MEANS Colonel Scott. the hero of
Starvation Valley, seems to have summoned all
the heavy guns of the Cleveland Guard TO assist
him in his fight on ex-senator Wallace Wosh-
fnoton Post
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS,

BOSTON is excited over the charge that it has
street railway boodlers in the Legislature, and
make as much fuss over the matter as though such
thing was new to Bostonians.
THE editor of the Somerset Democrat was
absent in Philadelphia last week, and the devil ~
assisted by the COMPS, got out the paper. The
issue was an improvement over former numbers.
THE Hallettsville NeU Era Is out for Cleve-
land and Hogg for the head Of the Democratic
ticket in 1892 The editor of that sheet Is chock
full of sarcasm.
THE managers of the Louisiana lottery have
secured first blood and first knock down, and In
all probability they will continue to suck the
blood Of the nation at the old stand in New Or
leans.
The wicked flea has got In his work early in
the campaign this year. When one little, innocent
hea can knock out an En- glishman, what sad havoc
a real, live American bedbug would raise with q
regiment of English soldiers.
RUMoRs of plots to assassipate the Gar are
published with the same regularity as the reports
sign. Both events seem destined to be indefinitely
postponed.
BY the decision of the Armstrong County
Court oeomargarine has received a boost, and in
stead OF selling it real butter, dealers will here
brother,
IT is rumored that Patti has lost her voice.
The divine should at advertise for its return
ana she will find THE DISPATCH is one Of the best
mediums in the United States and part of Europe.
NOBODY seems to know or care who Senator
Cameron prefers among the aspirants for the
Gubernatorial nomination. Politics seem to be
all out of joint in the grand old Commonwealth
THE Washington correspondent of the New
York Nail and Express is going to Europe on q
secret mission for Colonel Shepard which is to be
carefully guarded. We ought not give the secret
away but the fact is he is going in search OF
PATHS lost voice.
EVERY Democratic State Convention held SO
far this year has shown a decided preference for
Grover Cleveland for President. He has there
fore, big advantage over his Republican COM
petitor. as he will have longer time to mingIe
with the farmer. This is not square deal.
THE Indianapolis Journal bemoans the fact
that Senator VOORHEES, pays as for suit of
clothes, which, it says is three times much as
the average Hoosier farmer generally pays.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
RFThe BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE DIS
PATCH has been removed TO Corner Of
Smth6eld and Diamond Streets.
AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.

The course adopted for the settlement of
at McKeesport, by which the matter has
been perfectly adjusted, is a unique one,
and presents strong and satisfactory con-
trast to the course of many employers in
holding down wages. A large concern
which tells Its employees that if any one is
paying higher wages it will give them an
advance and, leaves the investigation to
them, not only justifes their confidence in
its fairness, but shows decided confidence in
sheir justice. When the Committee of the
Employees comes back and reports that they
find but one establishment paying higher
wages, and in that case only a slight excess
in some departments, the confidence on both
sides is vindicated.
This is certainly great advance over the
old state of affairs in which the sole argu-
ment ofthe workfngmen was strike and the
ultimate reason OF the employers was a
lockout. 1t is customary for the press of
other cities to regard Pittsburg as a place
where such conflicts are constantly going on.
But the fact is, that long experience has
made Pittsburg the one place in all the
country where wages questions are most
Rmicably settled. 1t is not common to
settle them with quite so much mutual con-
fdence as was shown at the National Tube
Works, but we have clearly arrived at the
point where both sides recognize the value
of mutual concessions and compromise.
We have every reason to think that the
iron scale to be settled on the 1st of the
month, will be decided in as amicable and
reasonable a manner as that at the Tube
Works.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

The case is reported from williamsburg,
in this State, of merchant who made SO much
money by selling goods at war prices that he
could not bear to reduce prices when they
went down, and consequently shut up his
store. At his death the store has been opened
and full stock of goods found there, covered
with mold and dust The public may thank its
lucky stars that this merchant was not more
modern in his ideas. In that case he would
have got up mercantile combination and pro.
tected the public against the great misfortune
Of getting its goods too cheaply.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
LABOR'S IDEAS.

The replies to the questions of the State
Bureau of Statistics as to child labor, and
the legislation needed for improving the
condition of workingmen, show wide
variety of views. The fact that one sugges-
ton is the repeal of all tariff laws and an
other the enactment of 'good stiff tariff on
all articles that can be produced in Amer
ica," indicates the multitude OF counsel that
is likely to be elected by inquiries of this
sort.
The predominance of opinion among the
workingmen in favor of restricting child
labor and providing for the education of all
children before they are allowed to work,
shows that sound views are prevalent on
this point. however difficult they may be of
realization.
Among the other replies there are one or
two that are out of the common run,
and put in terse form-striking
lessons of social wisdom. Enforce
what laws we have now and they
will remedy the complaints of many wage
workers" says one; and the same vital truth
is put more tersely by another; 1--WE don't
want more laws, but we do want more jus
tice." Two others come close to the root Of
social troubles as follows: employers
should set the example of doing as they
would be done by, and that would do away
with the feeling of discomfort that is born of
being despised, and causes employees to act
dishonesty" Again in the same vein: "I
know of nothing which causes so much ILL
feeling between employers and employed,
as the indifference the former show when
work is scarce"
While the exact conclusion from these re-
plies is not very clear, an inquiry Is not
wasted which produces from the laboring
classes such clear statements of social truths.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CAPTAIN c. c. DRURY, of Her Majesty's ship
Bellerophon, is in New York City.
GOVERNOR HILL will go to Indiana to attend
the unveiling of the Hendricks statue on
JulyL
THE Crown Prince of Russia will travel
around the world in Russian ironclad, at
tended by two other warships.
FRANK A. DENNIsoN. colored, of Texas, is
valedictorian of the graduating class Of the
Union College of Law, Chicago.
The Duke of Connaught has donated .
Queens color as a prize to be competed for an
nually by the Cadet Corps of Montreal.
LORD RosEBERY purchased from Mr.. Ten
MEL and gave to Prince Bismarck the original
drawing of the great Punch cartoon. Drop
ping the Pilot"
BELMONT COLLEGE, formerly Farmers Col
Iege. at College Hill, O., has conferred the
degree of Ii. u. on Murat Halstead, of Gin
cinnati and Brooklyn.
THE death Of Prof John F. Emerson, Of
Brooklyn, leaves only one surviving member of
Dartmouth's class of 1926 Mr.. M. w. Fletcher,
farmer, of Wayne, Ill.
DR.. D. HAYES AGNEw, of Philadelphia,
thinks the climatic changes which are taking
place will in time bring the fora and animals
of the tropics to flourish in this locality.
ANDREW PENNY, the SILVER King of Bolivia.
has recently died. He led an adv enturous life
and when in reduced circumstances invested,
along with French Count in an abandoned
mine in the Oruro silver district in Bolivia. A
further development proved the mine to be ex-
ceedingly rich in ore, and from it he has had an
income for some time estimated at fl 900 a
week.
HUBERT HERKoMER, the lately elected
Royal Academician, whose picture, the Last
Muster" has made hiln famous, was at one
time an "Ohio boy" although born in Bavaria.
HIS parents brought him to Ohio when he was
years old but they were not successful there,
and returned later to England. There he was
naturalized and went to Munich. From Munich
he returned again to England, where he began
to make comic cartoons
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
A TOUCHING STORY.

Postal Clerk, Returning From Pitfsburg
To New York, Relates II.
Says writer IN the New York Star: "I was
talking with postal clerk yesterday who had
just returned from Pittsburg. and he told me
a touching story which came to light in that
city. blank envelope was found in the mail
and it was opened to ascertain the address of
the sender. There was none and the only sig-
nature was From your brother WILL The
letter went on to state that the writer had
pawned his coat to raise SIC, which was in
closed, to send to his sister, who was starving.
The letter stated that he hoped the money
would relieve her distress"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

to larger degree than any other class of in
debtedness, the creation of new wealth, and
an increase in their volume really means an
enlargement of the effort of the masses to
build homes for themselves. In that view
the recent increase in the number of build
ing associations and the volume of their
operations is gratifying exhibit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
THE TOPICAL TALKER.

A Widowed Canary Finds Her Voice In a
| Wonderful Way-Lace Pins Arc Cupid's
Thorns-CrippIest TO Order-Bad Weather
for Bnngs-BouiIlou Mistaken for Coffee
-Stnr Gazing,
| THE other day in the fulness of years
canary belonging to Mr.. Nd" OF Ale
| gheny, fell OFF his perch and decentiy gave up
| the ghost. His death, though sudden, was
| not unexpected. For ten years or more he had
poured out his little heart in song, and when at
last he lay upon the floor Of his cage a cold,
dunn b corpse, nobody was very much surprised
but his mate, a youthful bird, who for year or
two, had shared his Joys and cares. his hemp,
rape, canary seed and cage. she was very
much astonished. Sitting on the mldole Pelch
she regard ed the limp body OF her loro ior
hours with a troubled mien. she mao never
been in the presence of death before, and eVi-
IDENTIFY her emotions were strong anu connict
ing.
But the result of the shock to her 1eeings
was very strange. In common with most canary
birds of her sex she had been prior to this
catastrophe but poor singer. Nature is most
generous to the male canary; she gives 10 MIN
the gaudiest feathers and the sweetest song
The widowed bird in this case had really never
sung at all, while her mate had been famous
vocalist. But of sudden, as she sat observing
his dead body, she burst into wonderful
melody; roulades and runs welled from ner
full throat, and she ran on from cascade TO
cascade, like mountain spring whose waters
pent up these many years at last find an outlet
and fly on crystal feet from CT az to crag,
waking light and music where shadow and
silence reigned before. Still more wonderful.
the little cantatrice revived the song of her
dead mate; it was his trils and his rich melody
which rang again through the house. 1t seemed
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allow is F1ipper doing in the Far Westf' I
asked Pittsburger who has just re-
turned from the Pacific coast.
"Splendidly," was the reply. mot only pay
ing his old debts but contracting new ones right
and 1eftg'
a the banquet which the doctors enjoyed
last week little incident took place which
indicates that at least one of the medical
brethren in this State is not over-skilful in
diagnosis.
Bouillon was served early in the game, and
after a common custom. in ordinary cups. An
elderly gentleman of rural characteristics, after
looking askance at his cup for half minute
or SO. asked a newspaperman sitting opposite
to be kind enough to pass the sugar. Having
helped himself to sugar-and there being no
cream in sight-he raised the cup to his lips
1t is hardly surprising that he set the cup down
suddenly and made wry face Then he called
to a waiter and said quietly but with an in
jured expression: "Be good enough to get me
decent cup of coffee-this Is abominabler'
COME people say that riding backwards in the
cars makes them sick. 1t is rather singu.
lar that in England the seats in the railroad
coaches which are most in demand are those
which do not face the engine The advantage
the cinders and smoke striFes the Englisnman
forciby, and he generally tries to get his back
to the engine. Here the travellers mind is bent
the other way-if he considers it at all.
In these hot days. when it is absolutely neces-
sary to have the car windows open, it would be
great deal more comfortable for travellers if
the seats were reversed. This is heretical doc
trine 1 know, but my experience is that it Is
the only way to make even short journey in
IT,
cars OF course there are screens and projecting
devices especially designed to ward off the in
rushing wind, dust and cinders from the tray
eler's face.
On the Fort Wayne Railroad small num-
ber of converts to the riding backwards,
plan are daily enjoying their trips to and from
the city, while the balance of their feIlow-pas-
sengers are grumbling as usual about open
windows, cranks. dust and what not. AS to
the inevitable sickness said to follow the re-
verse position, believe in most cases that the
disposition if it exists may be overcome after
a little endurance.
HE WORKED HARD.
They sat upon q doorway once,
To watch the evening star
She said: How bright and fair 1t is!i'
He said: 20 yes, you are!''
A silence fell upon them then:
The night was still and fine.
II wish that star were mine, {" she said,
He said: ''Would you were minel''
The star sank down into the West
As stars are wont 10 do;
She said; ''The brightest stars declinel,,
He said: my love, do you?',
The moon arose-the moon was old
To them her smile was new
'1he dew is falling, sir, ~ she said
And then he got his due.
HEPBURN JOHNS,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
Time for Congress TO Take Hand.

From the PhiladelphIa Ledger.1
A Pennsylvania judge has allowed jury to
decide whether a defendant charged with SELL
ing liquor without a license sold the liquor in
original packages as received from another
State. The jury found in the dealers favor on
the general charge, but convicted him of SELL
ing to Incorporate persons. 1t is time for Con-
gress to set this original package business right
by SO regulating Interstate commerce as to de-
clare that liquor comes under the police power
of State the moments it reaches the dealer
to whom it has been consigned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
TWO COLD FACTS.

How The Dispatch Astonished n Rural
Editor Who Is Obsrrvnnt and TruthfuI.
THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH OF Sunday aston
ished US by breaking out in this way:
"One of the neatest, newsiest, best printed
and best looking weekly papers received at
this Office is the Bedford Gazette. 1t is a credit
to the community"
AS THE DISPATCH is itself conceded to be
one of the ablest newspapers in this country,
the value of the foregoing cordial commenda-
tion will be understood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
GRANT AND LEE.
Movement to Erect statues at Cumberland
Gsnp.


Gap.
The following correspondence has taken
place between Governor Campbell. of Ohio,
and some Kentucky gentlemen:
MIDDLEsBoRoUGH. KY, June ia. 1890.
10 Governor James f. Campbell:
movement tnaugurated here last week to erect
by popular subscriptions at Cumberland Gap COL
ossal equestrian statues OF Generals Grant and
Lee, the former looking south, the latter looking
north, extending hands to each other. has taken
country by storm, and 49, 600 already subscribed.
VIII you coo perate with us in the noble enter
prise? ALEXANDER A. ARrHUR.
JOHN n. BROOKS,
Committee, Middles borough, KY.
COLUMBUS, o., June 13. 1890.
Hon. Alexander A. Arthur and John NJ. Brooks
Mtddlesborough, KY:
will, with great pleasure, cooperate TO ths
extent Of my ability in extending the already
widespread desire for the erection of the eques-
trian statues Of Grant and Lee at Cumberland
Gap. JAMES e. CAMPBELL,
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THE DISPATCH FOR THE SUMMER

Persons leaving the City for the summer can
hare THE DISPATCH forwarded 6y earliest
mail TO any address at the rate of 30 cents per
nloTlth. or 81 80 for three months, Sunday edi-
tiOn included. Daily edition only. zoe per
month, 81 for three months. The address may
be changed as desired, If care be taken in all
cases 10 mention both old and qetC address.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
A STRANGE STORY.
The Result of nm Electric Bolt at New
Hone.

The Result of nm Electric Bolt at New
Hope.
TRENTON, N. J.. June IA strange story
from New Hope. Pa, small town few miles
above here, on the opposite bank of the Della
ware. was told by member of the Union Paper
Company OF that place. Lightning struck
their works yesterday. George Pidcock. an
employe, was standing on large cylinder at
the time, and to the great amuss-
ment of Edward McCune. another
employe, he began to jump up and down
and dance about in a very grotesuue
manner. He then suddenly ,nade a dash
through q door to the open air.. McCune
Iaugned heartily at what he thought was
Innny prank. and attempted to follow. but TO
ms CONSERVATION, found h9 could not move a
llmn. The shock had rendered one man crazy
and Daralyzed the other
Both were removed to their homes. McCune,
VINO was paralyzed, had recovered partly. with
Ihe exception of a severe pain in the head.
W%nhe % fldcock was still in a precarious con-
gitloD. After the men had been removed to
tneir homes the mill was found to be on fire in
shocked,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

SIXTEEN hundred Americans sailed
away from New York on the European steam.
ers yesterday, and the same steamers had
brought about twice as many Europeans to this
country. The exchange is not generally con-
sidered satisfactory one; but considering
that large share of the Americans who left
the country have made SO much money that
they are no longer of any use, it is not certain
that we are getting the worst of the swap.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

The blindness of the distribution of acci
dents is shown by the fact that those six stu
dents of Oberlin College who did nothing more
obnoxious than haul around the college nine
got severely hurt by the band wagon; while the
Harvard hoodlums have not got single one Of
the broken bones which they SO sorely need
Surely fate should be more discriminating