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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Louyre-DressmRkins-Louvre,

A HOME on 81 capital. See page IA, to-
days Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

HERE is the place to put your money.
To-day's Dispatch, page IA.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

SAFE, sure and profitable. See page "a,
to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

HIGH. dry and healthy. Sec page "A, to
days Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

Visit our wareroom fitted up with the
latest styles in all the hard woods now fash
ionable. JAMES c. THOMPSON,
$40 Liberty avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

HOUSEHOLD goods packed for shipment,
HAuGH & KEENAN,, 1884 Water ut.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

HONEST honest honest See page Il, to-
days Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

STREETS graded, walks laid, trees plant
ed. See page IA, to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
Wood lIantels.

LOTS given away to builders. See page
IA, to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

HOUGH the Quanxa river
is navigable for small
steamers for a distance OF
200 miles from its mouth,
and though the Portu-
guese have possessed the
province of Angola for
four centuries, it was not
until quite recent years
that there has been any
navigation on this river.
At present one company
has the sole right to run
steamers on the river, and
four small steamboats, plv
between st. Paul de Loan
da and Dondo, where large
rocks in the rivers chan
mel bar the progress of all
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

sion when three natives who had stolen a
trunk from white man were being beaten
with bastlnado. The official who was on
hand to superintend the beating would re-
mark every now and then during the inflic-
tion of the punishment: You will steal
from a white man? You ought to know bet
ter. Steal from a white man, will you?"
These words were significant in that they
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04

Your money works while you sleep. See
page IA, to-day's Dispatch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
ON THE SERPA PINTO,
A Steamboat Ride Into the
Interior of Africa.
SHOTS AT HIPPOP0TAMI.
The City of DOndO and the Peculiar
tiles of the Natives.
SHOTS AT HIPPOPOTAMI.
FAILURES OF THE MISSIONARIES.

rcoRREsPoNDEEcK OF THK DIsrArCH.I
CAPE Town, s. AFRICA, March 81.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
YOUNG WOMEN ON THE

YOUNG WOMEN ON THE STAGE.
"What do you think of the stage as
place for young women?"
ST think" replied Lotta, "that there is
NO better field in the world for the young
woman, provided she possess talents and has
guardian to watch over her as balance
wheel. In this case the serpents that now
and then hang around the stage cannot
sting her, and she will find in her work
field for the development of all her faculties,
and one in which she may find both profit
and happiness. L presuppose, of course,
that the woman has talent"
here showed Lolita paragraph pretend
ing to give resume of her lovers and asked
her whether she was still among the ranks
of the single blessed and whether she in
tended to remain so. She raised her hand
as she replied and brought it down with en-
phasis, saying:
eyes, thank heavenl 1t is all that can
do TO manage myself with the aid of nv
mother, and 1 can see no reason why I
should undertake the management of hus-
band or accept C husband to let him manage
me. I am satisfied with my present con-
dition, and expect to continue in it.
SOMETHING ABOUT PATTI.
Speaking of Lotta's early career reminds
me of talk had at Washington with one
of PATHS first managers. This man is now
a little whlte-whiskered clerk in the Treas
ury Department. His name is widows
and he is the most noted chime-ringer of
America. Patti was 13 years old when she
starred the country in a concert troupe, with
Ole Bull, under him. She then got S1OO
week instead OF So, 900 night. under
stand that Patti will spend the summer
at her castle in Wales, and il
may be that she will devote her
time to writing her "reminiscences. Not
long ago Harpers Brothers offered her 81 900
letter for series to be used by them in
Harper's Weekly. Patti agreed to write
the articles, but she was not satisfied with
the way her manuscript was treated in New
York, and she threw up the contract. The
price had, think not, much to do with the
matter, as an article which would take
week or 30 to construct is bagatelIe at
81 900 to woman who can make 5000
every night she chooses to open her mouth.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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A FORTUNE FROM A QUARTER.


"You ask me for my favorite characters.
I have SO many that can hardly say which
1 like the best. / am perhaps best known
as The Mdrehioness, TopSy, Sam Willough-
By, Musette, Bob aud Zip, and as to The
Little Detective have played it season
alter season and year after year until L am
really ashamed to show my face in it upon the
stage again. That play has always been a
great hit and it has brought me in no end of
money. We paid just % cents for it, the
cost of the book from which it was adapted
to me. and we have made thousands upon
thousands out of il"
"How about your future? 1t has been re-
ported that you will soon retire from the
stage"
''There is no truth in any such report"
replied Lolita, emphatically. 81 expect to
have three new plays next year and Mr..
Ford, of Baltimore, will be my manager.
These PLAYS are now being written for me
and l expect to spend next summer by the
sea at Nantasket studying them. Two of
the plays are adaptations from the French
and the German and the other is an Ameri-
can play written for me by Mr.. Kidder, the
man who wrote "A Poor Relation tor Sol
Smith Russell. This play is entitled Mis-
chief, the German has the name of Doctor
Lop and it is the translation of German
comedy fitted for me. The French play is
entitled 'Flourette.'
As to retiring from the stage, when get
ready to go I will not make a great fuss
about it. I don't believe in making a fare
well tour again and again. I want to keep
before the public as long as the public wants
me, and when 1 do take notion to retire it
may be that will change my mind after 1
have had few mouths vacation and want to
60 back again. The report of my retirement
probably came from the fact that 1 had set
aside this winter as vacation. find nv
life upon the stage, as much as love it, an
unnatural one, and the atmosphere is differ
ent from that OF real life. During these
periods of rest, v hich take, 1 am able to
get acquainted with my audiences, and be-
Heve that act all the better for them"
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Arnold wrote for the press until within
four weeks o. his all too sudden cutting
down. AS his bosom friend and admirer
has said of him, 'To the end of his life he
worked with the pen, incurring the perils,
bearing the sorrows. surmounting the OBJ
stacles and enjoying the pleasures of the
noble and fascinating profession of letters. I"
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
MT. Grady's First Speech.

It as in 1877 that he made his first appearance as speaker. His lecture that year, entitled 'sPatchwork Pal ace." showed his fancy and talent as talker as well as writer. Then came his speeches in the Prohibition contest in 1885. His New England banquet address in December, 1886, was his first distinctive political speech. It stamped him as an eloquent orator and made him National fame. His oration at the Augusta Exposition on Thanks giving Day last year was perfect eff fort, and his Dallas address in October was fearless and manly analysis of the race problem. It was this subject, classified and digested, that made up his Boston address, where last week he completed his fame and met his death. His address last year at the University of Virginia was model of its kind.-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
ESTIMATE OF CEREALS.
Important Statement Issued by the Depart
 ment of Agriculture.

Important Statement Issued by the Depart
 ment of Agriculture.
 The December report of the department of agriculture contains detailed statement of the estimates of principal cereals by states, including area. product and value. The re- ported area of corn, 7S, S,319 ,651 acres, repre- sents an increase of ? 1-2 per cent. over the acreage of 1888. The wheat acreage, 38, 123, ! S59 acres, is 1-10 per cent. greater than the aggregate for 1888. The revision of acreage gives a smaller area in Iowa, Nebraska, Ore gon and Washington, and larger breadth in Kansas and Dakota.
 Dairying and meat production have for years been encroaching on the eastern side of the great spring wheat belt, as former rc breadth of wheat in Kansas, Illinois and other states occurring from year to year are the result of variable meteorological condi- tions. Economic considerations, especially changes in market value, also affect peculiarly the distribution of wheat. The acreage of oats is placed at 27 ,462, ,316 acres, an increase of less that per cent. The yield per acre of corn is very nearly 27 bushels, or lilo bush els less than the product of 1879, and is the largest rate of yield since 1880. The product, as estimated, is 3. 112 1902 1000 bushels.
 The largest yields are west of the Missis- sippi, Iowa taking first rank in the aggregate produced and yield per acre = 349, ,366, ,O00 bushels. 39.5 per acre. The yield per acre of wheat is nearly 12.9 bushels, or one-tenth of bushel greater than the November average of yield per acre. The variation from the current expectation of the last six months is not over per cent. The total product, as estimated, is 490,560,O00 bushels. The pro- duct of oats is 751 ,515, ,000 bushels at the rate all cereals is about 3450, 100000, or at least 53 bushels Der acre.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Speaker Reed said the other day that Con- gress ought to adjourn by July 1.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has ap- pointed John Farley keeper of the Deer Island lighthouse station, and Ethan Allen third assistant keeper light station at Cape Ann, both in Massachusetts, and Walter Deliver first assistant keeper at Mt. Desert, Me-, light station.
 For American Vessels.
 Senator Frye has introduced bill sTo promote the postal and commercial interests of the United States" It authorizes the Postmaster General to enter into contract for term of years not less than five nor between the ports of the United States and foreign ports in iron and steel American owned and built steamships.
 It further provides that all steamships here after built for this purpose shall be con- structed on models and according to plans and specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy, to be especially adapted to con version for use as transports or cruisers in event of war.
 That each of these ships shall take an American born boy as cadet or apprentice for each 1000 gross-register tons and one for each majority fraction, who shall be ranked as petty officer, trained as sailor and re- ceive reasonable pay for his services.
 Senator Frye also introduces bill "for the encouragement of commerce, the protection of navigation and the improvement of the merchant marine in the foreign trade."
 It provides that all vessels. sail or steam, engaged in the foreign carrying trade shall receive bounty of one-third of one mill per ton of gross register measurement for each mile navigated.
 Further, that these vessels shall carry ap- prentices, train them, etc., and, as an addi- tional inducement, such vessels shall be re- lieved from all tonnage duties.
 The rearranging of the stars in the nation- al banner made necessary by the addition of four new States is engaging the attention of both the Navy and War Departments. A retaries Proctor and Tracy to confer upon this matter, and also to recommend uniform ity in national salutes.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
PERSONAL.

Only few days ago the Marquis de Caux was taking his usual siesta at the Parisian cafe of which he is an old habitue. He al- ways dressed panglaise, and had his clothes his appearance during the afternoon at the English Jockey Club at Paris to play game of whist. Lately he has complained that the ''Russian influenza" had him in it's grip; a day or two later the complaint developed into bronchitis, and the first husband of having been divorced from the famous singer in 1877.
 7 It is stated that Mir. Parnell was engaged to Capt. O'Shea's sister, who died four years ago.
 Belfast's (Me.) infant prodigy is Raymond Sherman, son of Elmer Sherman. He is only two years old, but there is no part of a mill driven by water wheel but that he can name and specify it's use. He takes to water wheels and their parts, and can tell how a wheel is made, all about the case, the shoots, face-wheel, pinion, shaftings, pulleys, belts, saws, etc., and point them all out. Ask him what kind of a "crank' he is, and he will quickly reply, IA water wheel crank" Y Emperor William has presented Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood with a sword, studded with diamonds, as souvenir of the Emperors visit to Aldershot last summer.
 Among the passengers arriving in New York on the steamship Celtic, lately, from Liverpool, was ''Max O'Rell,'' the French satirist and humorist, who is about to deliver series of lectures in this country.
 Senator Hoar has had touch of the grippe.
 The Grady monument fund now amounts to SIS, 5,0O0.
 Ex-Gov. Frederick Smyth of Manchester has been chosen President of the Northern New Hampshire Telegraph Company.
 Hon. SewaIl w. Abbott of Wolfboro', who has been appointed Judge of Probate for Car. roll county, N. H., was born in Tuftonboro' that State, on April Il, 1859. He was edu. cated at Colby University and at the Chicago Law College.
 As the widow of a Mexican war veteran Mrs. Jefferson Davis is said to be eligible fol pension if she desires to ask for it.
 Mayor Winslow of Worcester was arrested by City Marshal Washburn on Friday, Jan 4, and taken to the Central Police Station where he was greeted by fifty policemen and presented an ebony cane, with a massive crooked head of solid gold.
 sSThe Czar refuses his consent to the mar riage of the Czarow to Princess Manguerit, of Germany, unless she conforms to tht Greek Church. The Empress of Germany 1 forbids her sister to be baptized in the Greet faith. and the Czarowitz, deeply moved by l love, insists on the marriage.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
SUMMONED BY DEATH.

Hon. Charles M. Sumner Dies Friday
 Night, At His Home.
 District Attorney Charles M. Sumner, who has been confined to his home for many weeks with blood poisoning resulting from a severe case ot tonsilitis died Friday night.
 It will be remembered that Judge Sumner was appointed district attorney while he was away in Europe this summer. The appoint ment was made to complete the unexpired term of Hosea Kingman, who had been put on the metropolitan sewerage commission.
 Harvey H. Pratt had been acting as assist ant district attorney with MT. Kingman, and was a strong competitor for the place, but Judge Sumner got it. About 10 days after election, however, the new-made district at torney was taken sick while engaged in the Superior Court at Plymouth.
 MT. Pratt was chosen to represent him temporarily in Norfolk county, and Benja- min w. Harris of East Bridgewater in Plymouth county. His illness at first was supposed to be only temporary, as he had before been troubled with tonslitis, and though very i'll at times, had always made rapid recovery. This time, however, the disease fingered, at least, in it's after effects, and the absorption of pus into his system laid the foundation for his death.
 Judge Sumner leaves widow and one child.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08

Antone Fratus of Provincetown, Mass, selected his pillow as safe place for keeping money and there deposited $500 in an enve- lope. His 2-year-old child found the enve- into the fire. There was $29O in bills, which were destroyed. and BIO gold piece was found in the ashes. Tiddeman Hull of Jamestown, R. l., S1 years old, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in an outDuilding.
 Some Yale alumni propose that the new gymnasium be the Richards Gymnasium,' after the popular professor who, as one puts it, ''by his intelligent interest,"" has done much to raise college athletics above profes- sionalism, and by his indefatigable work has helped to provide the New Haven university | States.
 It is expected that it will cost Portsmouth, | N. H., the present year about $20OO to furnish | text books under the new law free to the pupils of it's public schools.
 The streets of Rockville, Conn.,, are lighted by electricity for the first time. There are "A | lights in operation.
 William l.. Strickland, claiming to be from | New York, was arrested at Chester, Nt., re- gently for attempting to pass bogus checks on J. B. Pollard and G. F. Hadley, mer- | chants.
 A house on Pumpkin Knob Island, Port land (Me.) Harbor, owned by William F Preble, and used by him as a summer resi- dence, has been ransacked by thieves since il was closed for the winter.
 An old man, living in Centre Haverhill, N. H., brutally beat his grandson to death, Jan. 4. and fatally stabbed his small grand daughter.
 The annual banquet of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange occurred Jan. 4.
 Two firemen bravely rescued 8 woman from burning building on Harrison avenue, Boston, Jan. 4.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
CANADIANS IN NEW ENGLAND.
They Want Their Own Language, and Col
 sideration in the Church.

They Want Their Own Language, and Con-
 sideration in the Church.
 The Ligue des Patriotes of Fall River, Mass, are firm in their decision to preserve the Canadian language in New England and assert their right to a consideration in the church itself as French Canadians. They recently were addressed by Hon. H. A. Dubuke, ex-Representative in the State Legislature, member of the School Con- mittee and one of the leading Canadians of New England. In the course of his address he said: of this resolution of the Baltimore Catholic Congress means that the French Canadians are to be denied the right to organize themselves into societies for mutual relief, self-improvement and the use of the French language among themselves, then we object to that resolution.
 s'French Canadians are first of all loyal to the Republic. They are not worse citizens because they speak the language of Lafayette as well as Washington. Who can object to our knowing two languages instead of one? This resolution appears to be another at tempt to strike at our separate church and social organizations: We have already been denied the right to have our own church and pastors, and if we understand the meaning of this resolution, we are to be denied the right to organize our societies as heretofore. We propose to maintain our societies in the future as we have done in the past, notwith- standing the Baltimore resolutions.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
Cane Cod Cranherrfea.

The Cape Cod cranberry crop for the year 1889 has been in excess of any season for the past eight years. The total shipments from stations on the Cape division of the Old Col ony railroad, exclusive of Middleboro, foot up 9O, ,305 barrels, with an estimate of 1775 barrels not shipped up to Dec. 1. Hundreds of barrels of fruit were destroyed by the fire worm. A new and unexpected disaster to the industry was the hail storm of July IT, by which, according to the estimates of well informed parties, 10000 barrels of growing fruit and acres of vines were destroyed in the Carver and Wareham bogs. But for this casualty the crop would considerably exceed 100, ,O00 barrels.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
LABOR NOTES.

7 MT. Powderly advocates the extension of the Australian ballot system.
 The Typographical Union has declared the strike of the Daily Gazette, Nashua, N. H., of.
 / The Daily Telegraph Company, Nashua, N. H., has raised the wages of every employe 10 per cent.
 EN The striking Belgian miners are starving, land bread riot is threatened. The shop Keepers refuse to give the men further credit. The governor has advised the government to interfere.
 What does this unreasonable weather DOT tend? Apple trees are budding, dandelions blossoming, grasshoppers jumping, honey bees flying and matrons eloping.. Has old Blizzard gone on strike! Is the North Wind disgusted with American civilization and the coal monopolies? Has Jack Frost more pity for the poor than our billionaires have? Or is it all a sham and fraud "a | combination of Nature with Old Hutch to Kill | the winter wheat and advance the price of l bread?
 | City Solicitor Warwick of Philadelphia has officially decided that the cight-hour law is applicable to the departments under the control of the city government. To the city bureaus, particularly those of gas, highway and water, this decision is all important one, and will have great bearing on their future is that it has been upon the statute books without being enforced for twenty-one years, having been enacted at the Legislative ses. sion of 1868.
 The union intends to submit the following schedule of wages to the Committee of Ship. | Owners and the Mercantile Exchange: Fol l able-bodied seamen on steamers, $50 pei month; for able-bcdied seamen on sailing vessels, $35; for machinery greasers, $50 for tiremen, $45; for coal passers, $35 These rates of wages it is claimed are already being paid by the Savannah and Pacific Mai Lines. The union wants to ameliorate the con dition of it's members without recourse tt strikes, if possible; but should the ship own. CTS refuse to accede to the demands of thu union, big strike of sailors, longshoremen and fremen is threatened in this city. Ls On Jan. 13 the sailors, longshoremen ant A other dock laborers will have great demon stration in New York, Jersey City and Hobo 4ken.
 | The promise of the American Federation t, bring John Burns, the noted English labo
 advocate, to America during the coming winter, is becoming question of much inter est to the labor people of Boston and vicinity The expectation that MT. Burus, who played such an important part in the great London dock strike, will advise the workers O
 America to enforce the eight-hour work da,
 has awakened renewed interest in the eight
 hour movement, and the various trade
 unions connected with the federation are be
 ginning to prepare for great eight-hou
 agitation upon the arrival of MT. Burns il
 New England.
 The Belgium Government has stopped tn Evaporation of coal on account of the miners strike. The action has been criticised as pre- kmature,
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-08
Last Letter of II. w. Booth.

The Dispatch of Richmond, Va., publishes letter written by J. Wilkes Booth on the day he assassinated President Lincoln. It's publication is said to have been suppressed by the government in 1865. In his opening he foreshadows the terrible deed which he accomplished, when he says, "Right or wrong, God judge, not man, for be my motive good or bad, of one thing am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North. I love peace more than life." He then discuss es secession and, singularly enough, the race problem, which is now confronting the coun- try. He says: "This country was formed for the white man, not for the black" He concludes Ca Confederate doing duty on his own responsibility"