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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

on the attention of the country until last
week. The practical demonstration of Ken
tuckv ethics to the effect that when one
gentleman pulls another's ear, 1T is the lat
ter's duty to make the first a target for short
range. Yet rather scattering pistol prac-
tice is a new revelation of the curious views
which may be entertained. of the logical
sequence of cause and effect
Northern theories would not naturally re-
gard the legitimate response for pulled
ear to be the violent impact of the fist of the
pullee upon the nose of the puller. In this
case the blood necessary to wash away dis
honor would flow freely; while the time
necessary to go and get popgun would not
be wasted. The Kentucky idea may be
more chivalrous; but it has the disadvantage
of exhausting the remedies and leaving
more serious pullings without any ade-
quate vengeance. Everybody will agree
that it must be more injurious
ones nose pulled than to have
the ea5 tweaked. Yet the Kentucky code
seems to leave no remedy adequate for the
greater wrong unless it is to bring out
shotgun. Again, the slang of the day
takes cognizance of an act known as pull
ing mans leg;" which as it touches that
most sensitive point of humanity, the pocket,
could hardly be defended by any less
weighty frearm than eight-inch artillery.
Leaving these interesting, but rather ab-
stract fields of speculation, permit us to
hope that the rampancv of Kentucky Gus
toms at Washington will stop at ear pulling
and pistol practice. The transplantation of
the rifle practice OF Breathitt county feud
to the porches of the Capitol, would he
wholly unjustifable, except as a resort for
breaking partisan deadlock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

The completion of the arrangements for
refundng the debt Of the Mercantile Library
Hall Company prevents the public discredit of
permitting property founded for public pur-
poses TO be sold out and the public interest in
it wiped out. The Library Association will
now be enabled to keep public library open
till Mr.. Carnegie's gift is put in actual opera
ton. When that time comes it is not hazard
Gus to predict that the present library Will have
its foundation in such shape as to either be-
come valuable part of the new institution or
to strike out new field of public usefulness
under an independent organization.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Inv Student Defended.


III G. T. had read the Constitution of the
United States and its amendments he would
not have waxed SO sarcastic at the expense of
"Law Student" who is certainly correct in
saying that "a child is a citizen if born in the
United States" The first section of the Four
teenth Amendment declares that ''all persons
born or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside" recent writer on the subject
saws: "All citizens are not necessarily entitled
to the exercise of the right of suffrage, for the
term Citizen in the constitutional sense of the
term. means one who owes the duty of alle-
glance and is entitled to the correlatve right of
protection and it therefore includes persons,
who by reason of sex or age, may not be quail
fled to ovote"-[Peterson's Federal Restraint on
State Action, p. 252I.
There is. moreover, a judicial decision in this
State which declares that, for the purpose of
voting a minor becomes of age on the day pre-
ceding the 2lst anniversary of his birth. So
that law student is backed by very respectable
authority. r.
PITTsBURG, March J..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
AN Eastern Republican organ saws: ssJ

AN Eastern Republican organ says: "Evi-
IDENTIFY the Alaska Commercial Company did
not have such pull on the United States
Government as the enemies of both have as
serted" Perhaps not; and again perhaps the
opposition may claim that the result shows not
that the Alaska Company's pulp was less. but
that the North American Company's pull. ex-
erted by Platt, Alger and D. o. Mills, was
greater. Still it is comforting to know, since
the decision is that the seal business must be
run by a monopoly, that the public agitation of
the matter will result in pull by the Govern
ment of from fifteen to twenty millions out of
the successful company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
ONE OF THE FINEST.
The Dispatch Holds n Position That II Sec
ond to None.

From the Jeffersonian Democrat.I
When speaking of the newspapers of Penn
sylyania one of the first referred to is THE
PITTsBURG DISPATCH. The paper has earned
a position that is second to none in the matter
of giving its readers all the news of the day in
the most readable form. 1t employs all the
ordinary agencies for gathering news. and be-
SIDE, has its own bureaus at all prominent
points, thus enabling it to always be at the
head of its competitors. The Sunday edition
is a most popular favorite with the masses. 1t
is monster magazine of the day in which the
choicest literary productions are found, as well
well as the latest news and other special feat
ures. THE DISPATCH is increasing its facili-
ties to meet the demand upon it. and WILL with
the introduction of new presses, etc., have
plant surpassed by few newspapers. 1t may
always be depended upon to keep abreast Of
the times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
SCRANTON'S FREE LIBRARY.
A Movement to Equip the Albright Memo.
rinI Institution.

A Movement to Equip the Albright Memo.
rial Institution.
SCRANTON, March 2-The people of Scran-
ton have taken hold of the equipment of the
Albright Memorial Library with an earnestness
that promises fund of at least $4,000. This
gift which is provided by the children of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Albright as a free public
library, contemplates the transfer to the city of
the homestead property of the family, which
will be replaced during this year by Joseph
Albright Jr.. of Buffalo, with suitable build
ing costing $4,000.
Saturday night public meeting was held,
MevIl Dewey, Librarian OF the State of New
York; Ex-Judge Alfred Hand, Colonel II. M.
Boies, Hon. T. V. Powderly and John E. Bar
rett, editor of the TRUTH being the speakers.
Subscriptions to the equipment fund were
made at the close of the meeting amounting to
Sl0,S0O. which, with pledges secured by Board
of Trade committee, make the total sum raised
for the purchase of books over $4,000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Uranus and Neptune.

Uranus is evening star. rising about $50 in
the evening. He is in Virgo, about 50 east of
Spica, in R. A. 13 hours 3S minutes, dec. 9 o 34
south. Neptune is evening star. He is in the
constellation Taurus, about half way between
the Pleiades and Hyades. He cannot be seen
with the naked eye, but may be easily found
with good telescope mounted with circles
from the following position: r. A. hours 60
minutes, dec. 1So 81 north.
BERT. E. V. LUTY.
AIIEGHENY March l.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you kindly inform me through your col.
umns: l. The size of the stage in the Academy
of Music, Philadelphia. 2. The size and cost
of the front curtain in the Bijou Theater. Pitts
burg 3. The size of the Bijou stage. P. D.
LEECHBURG, March l.
IWe have not measured the theater stages,
nor examined the curtain bills The managers
might tell you'll
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
THE experience which the Central Ira

The experience which the Central Trac-
tion Company is now experiencing with broken
grips and attempts OF too ambitious gripmen to
run from one cable to the other without throw
ing off their grips, is probably no more than a
severe case of the troubles which every new
transit company meets when it goes into opera
tion. But the rule should be- when accidents
of that sort occur, that will delay traffic for
hours, to announce the fact and give passengers
the privilege of walking home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
BORN BLIND.
A Simple Remedy That Often Will Prevent
This Misfortune.

Simple Remedy That Often VIII Prevent
This Misfortune.
From the London Figaro.i
1t is distressing to learn that out of the 1000
persons blind from their birth in this country,
who owe their loss of sight to Inflammation of
the eyes, at least twothirds might now have
been in the enjoyment of their sight but for
the ignorance OF neglect of their earliest guar
dians. 1t seems that the remedies for the in
fantile inflammation which causes blindness
are both many and simple. Thus it cannot be
too widely made known that the eyes of a
newly born child, if infamed, should be washed
with pure warm water, and that then a single
drop of 2 per cent solution of nitrate of silver
should be instilled into each with drop tube
In Germany midwives are enjoined to adopt
the above remedial treatment, unde: oath, and
since this has been done the decrease in the
number of blind children has been most ap-
preciablc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

THE Sultan of Zanzibar has released
some prisoners who have been shut up for
eighteen years without trial. The example is
commended to the Gar of Russia; but it may
be hoped that neither monarch will go to the
length in the other direction exemplified by
New York justice of not shutting up notorious
offenders at all, and then letting them go
without either tria. or Imprisonment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
The Suns Face Little spotted,

F ROM what the writer has been able to see of
the sun, despite the cloudy weather that
has prevailed lately, there are no large spots on
the disk of his solar majesty at present. This
is somewhat unusual, as the period of greatest
solar activity is approaching. The time of
maximum sunspots comes every II years. and
Will com e in 1893. About this time the sun
seems to be very active. while midway between
these maxima the sun may be without any
spots at all for many days. The period seems
to correspond with that of greatest and least
electrical disturbance on the earth, poiE ting
to connection between the two
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
No Facilities for Immersion.

From the Akron RepubI1can.I
A Pennsylvania man convicted of murder
and sentenced to be hanged. insists on INNER
sion before his execution. AS the Sheriff has
no warrant to remove his prisoner from the
iail and no facilities for immersion in the Jail,
he is in a quandary. Such scrupulousness on
the part of murderer is rare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Tho Pic in the Army.

From the New York Telegram.l
The mother of soldier who died during the
war from eating a pie is to receive pension.
This will meet the approval of all veterans who
remember the dangers that encompassed them
after payday, when the sutler opened his
stores The total mortality from pies during
the war has never been estimated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

EMIN PAsHA's declination of the Gov
ernorship of Suakim, is held to be an expression
OF his determination to return to Wadelai
But since his last experience at Wadelai was
that of prisoner, it is question how he can
fnd any way to get to that remote locality with
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

IT is an amusing instance of the old pot
and kettle controversy, to find New York pa
per accusing Chicago of "squabblng already
over the Worlds Fair. Since New York fell to
sQuabbling before it got the fair. and lost it
thereby, the accusation from that source gives
new proof that the mote in a neighbours eye is
a great deal bigger than the beam in your own
eve
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

THE official wrath of Russia beca se Aus
tria has helped Bulgaria to pay off its debt to
the Gar, is the latest example of demanding
the payment of a debt under the belief that it
cannot be paid and then getting angry because
it is discharged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
PLENTY OF OFFICE SEEKERS.
Mnny Citizens of Reading Willing to Give
Up Permanent Positions.

READING, March S.-Mayor-elect Merritt,
after the election left for Old Point Comfort,
Va, to take rest and avoid the first rush of
applicants for offices that he will have to fill
under the new municipal bill. During his abb
sence hundreds of petitions have been crcu-
lated by applicants for positions, and when he
comes back in a few days he will be over
whelmed with Office seekers.
In spite of the fact that all of our industries
are running full and employment is plenty
there are more aspirantS for offices than ever
and hundreds seem to be willing to give up per-
manent situations which afford them good
wages to accept an Office that will at best be but
temporary and pay them no more than they
are now receiving. Mr. Merritt has given no
intimation as vet as to whom he will appoint TO
the various offices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

From the New York Herald.I

From the New I Ork HeraId.I
The Chairman of the mass meeting at Cooper
Union, held for the purpose of denouncing the
Gar. was a Mr.. Stoletchnikoff. If that name
ever explodes under the Cars windows Alex
ander will think he has suddenly become an
astronomer, and that all the consultations
in space are busy throwing asteroids at him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Ex.Goyernor James Edward Eng,isb,

NEW HAVEN, CONN, March 2.-Ex-Governor
James Edward English, died at his residence in
this city to-day. He contracted cold early this
week, which developed rapidly into pneumonia.
He was 6S years of age, and leaves a widow and
one son. At the time of his death he president
or director in several of the strongest local banks
and a number of manufacturing concerns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
force enough to sustain him when he gets
there.

BoULANGER's telegram of thanks to
Constans for the latter's retirement from the
French Cabinet is based on the broad ground
that everyone who opposes the Carnot Govern
ment is an ally of Boulanger. 1t thus appears
that Boulanger is still laboring under the
delusion that he is alive issue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Write to the CONGRESSMAN.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can you inform me as to the time when ap-
plication can be made to 60 on examination
for admittance to West Point from this dis
trict? l noticed in one of the morning papers
that our Congressman had vacancy TO fill.
PITTSBURG, March ]. READER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Sir Edward Baines,

LONDON, March 1.-The death is announced of
Sir Edward Baiues, proprietor of the Leeds Mer-
curry, of the most influential Liberal organs in
the North of England. He was born in 1S0O was
member of Parliament for Leeds from ls5g TO 1874,
and was knighted in 1880: He was the author Of a
number of works bearing upon the Industrial
progress and commerce of the nation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING
To Fix a Dato for Holding Republican
Primary Elections.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.i
FRANKLIN, Pa. March 2.-E. w. Smiley,
ESQ. Chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee, returned from attending a meeting of
the chairmen of the Republican county COM
mittees of Venango, Mexican and Warren
counties. held in Warren Saturday. The meet
ing was for the purpose of fixing date for
holding the Republican primary elections in the
several counties of the Twenty.seventh Con-
gressional district as required by the rules
Saturday, May TO- was the date selected. 1t is
safe to say that every county in the district will
send delegates to the Republican State Con-
vention instructed for Senator Delamater for
Governor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

Fr0m the Boston HeraId.I
Mr.. Taylor, of Gananoque, the Canadian
member of Parliament who has issued proc
lamation of retaliation on his own hook against
the people of the United States, seems to have
an abnormal development about the cheek
He probably belongs to the famous tailors of
Tooley street, who always signed themselves:
1--WE, the People"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
At Least $4,000.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you kindly inform me through your paper
what saloonkeeper's bondsmen must be
worth under the Brooks law? @.
PITTSBURG, March /.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
PLANTING WHITE FISH.
One Hundred Thousand Fry Sent to the
Small Lakes in the Mountains.

fEPEC1AL
ERIE. March 2-The State Commissioners are
planting the TO- 0O00 900 white fish which being
hatched in the Erie hatchery. The Commits
sioners will make a trial of raising white fish
in the inland lakes of the State. One hundred
thousand fry have been sent to the small lakes
in the mountains in the vicinity OF Scranton,
Pa.
The Erie hatchery will be devoted this spring
to the hatching of wall-eyed and blue pike, for
the stocking of the waters of the interior of the
State. The roe will be obtained at Sandusky
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Duty ON Cnffea Imposed,

SAN SALVADOR, March 2-Congress has
issued a decree that from the 26th ult. a duty of
81 per quihtal be imposed on all coffee exported
during one year, the proceeds to be used in the
reconstruction of the National Palace.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

BIsMARCK's determination to retain office
on account of the Socialist success in Germany,
is probably based on the philosophy that if a
man aids his employer to Sit on the safety valve
they are both bound to rise together
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

CINCINNATI got one of its biennial doses
of superabundant cold water last week. The
result is that Cincinnati used other fluids in the
intervals between the floods. The Paris of
America knows when it has enough-water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
EAR-PuIL1NG AND PISTOL PRACTICE.

The Kentucky method of ear pulling has
heretofore made itself prominent at the Ma
tional Capitol; but the Kentucky response
of shooting the puller, had not forced itself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Curious Spring Novelty,

From the Washington Star.1
A Senate secret with a hermetical seal on it
would be curious spring novelty in the north
wing of the Capitol.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

THE leonine qualities OF March's en-
trance promise return to mild spring weather
when this month goes outfit weather proverbs
are more to be relied upon than weather
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

THE press correspondents of Washington
do not hold executive sessions to prevent the
Senate from learning the secrets of their busi-
ness. Perhaps the Senators might learn some
thing from that fact
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

From the New York Herald.J
81 am melting. dearest, melting" is senti-
ment which the lover and the iceman now hear
with varying emotions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

10 the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will J. C. P. please explain why a youth be-
tween the ages of Is and q is subjected to mill
tary duties if he is not citizen until 81 years of
age? e. X.
PITTsBURG, March /.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Thomas Coleman.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
WHEELING, March 2.-Tnomas Coleman, the
Oldest resident of Jackson county, died at his
home near Ravenswood to-day, at the age of SO.
BE was born at Is'tart Falls, Va, July %, 1901.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
A CouyaIescent Rumor.

From the Washington Post.1
The rumored retirement of Assistant Post
master General Clarkson is again copvalescent.
But the chances are that it will be fiat on its
back in day or SO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

KENTUCKY ear-pulling and Kentucky
pistol practice both appear TO be marked by
indiscriminate and superfiuous qualities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

VI uCiup. GIG CCpdiulcu
told the story of peasant life which George
Sands set down in her novel, The BagpiperS.
Roberts Bros: II. Watts & Co.. 81 50.) At
least that was the way of it according to George
Sands own account in her dedicatory letter to
Eugene Lambert 1t was nearly forty years
ago that that fortunate young gentleman re-
marked in the very days when George Sand
was writing this story of 1.-THE Bagpipers"-
"Bye the bye, it Will soon be ten years since
came here, intending to spend month.
must be thinking of leaving" He found that
the country and George Sand were unfiaggingly
interesting, and several generations of inter
ested readers have agreed with him. The list
of George Sands books would rival, it is said
Homer's famous catalogue of ships. Some of
them are not worth reading. Some of them
ere worth reading a good many times over.
"The Bagplpers' is one of the good ones.
The people in the "The Bagpipers' are peas
ant people. The translation misses, as any
translation must, much which adds pleasure to
the original expression. There is pretty
heroine and two heroes. misunderstanding
arises, doubts and misgivings chase each other
across the pages; one of the heroes loses faith
for little while in the heroine; the other, who
shows the constancy of his love by his constancy
of confidence wins his appropriate reward.
This volume of George Sand is uniform with
the other which Messrs. Roberts Bros. have
published, and also with their handsome set of
Balzac.
uNIY name is Christopher orchardson. of
Sunbury, in Middlese1, and I have
passed through a bitter trouble, which will
try to describe somehow, both for my wife's
sake and my own, as well as to set us straight
again in the opinion of our neighbors, which 1
have always valued highly, though some
times unable to show it. 1t has
not been in my power always to
do the thing that was wisest, and whenever
this is brought up against me. can make no
answer-only to beg those who love blame to
look at themselves, which will make their eyes
grow kinder, before they begin to be turned on
me-" In this winning and naive style begins
Mr.. Blackmore's Kit and Kitty. (Harper &
Bros: ]. R. Weldin & Coz And the same
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-06-04
The following quotations are the
buying prices;
NOTICE..

PURSUANT to a decree Of the Chanccry Court
] for tlOunt County Tennessee. rendered at the
April Term 1890, will sell to the highest bidder
al the Court House door IN Maryville, Tennessee
on the 18th day of July, 1890, tract Of land stu
ated in District number II, Blount County, Ten:
nessee, containing 200 acres, more or less, and
adjoining the lands Of Clinton Millsaps, being
Grant No. s27S, and on the waters OF Chewee
Creek and fully described by plat recorded on
page 767 Of the Chancery Court record;
twelve months in bal of the equity Of redemp-
ton, in the case Of H. A. Newberry and g, W.
Newberry Va. Henry c, Quiet ct ais the purchas-
er to give note with good security, bearing inter-
said land for payment Of the purchase money.
This 18th day of May, 1890,
J.A. GREER, C. & M.
BY W. C. CHuMLEA. Dept c. l. NJ.