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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
STATE POLITICAL NOTES.

HARRISBURG Patriot Dem.): The Phila-
delphia Press seems sorry because it called on
Candidate Delamater to answer Emery's
charges.
HARRISBURG Call (Rep.): Now If Quay
were only a candidate for something or other,
his majority in nPennslyvania, Judging from the
effect of Democratic mud-throwing in Maine
could not be expressed by less than six figures.
ERIF Dig, s,atoh (Rep.): After the November
election the Democrats in Pennsylvania will be
Kept busy explaining how the unexpected ab-
sence of Mr.. Wallace in Europe" prevented
him from making those able speeches that
might have elected Pattison.
WEST GROVE Independent Qnd.): If our
next Legislature will but solve the road ques-
ton their neglect of almost every other duty
can be pardoned. There is DO one subject that
concerns the great mass of the people more
directly than their means of commercial and
social intercourse.
BUTLER Democrat (Dem.): The movement
among Independent Republicans is gaining
ground at rapid rate in many sections. There
evidently are great many people in the
wealthy State of Pennsylvania who entertain
too high an estimate of independence to be
bossed about like cattle in the pen.
ALTOONA Times (Dem.): The Republican
Congressional conference of this district will
be held in Ebensburg on the 18th of September,
next Tuesday Mr.. Scull will come up smiling
for third term and will be antagonized by ].
D. Hicks and John Cessna. There is good
deal of power behind Scull, but it is questiona-
BILE If he will be able to secure another nomina-
ton, not even considering the subject of elec-
tion.
PHILADELPHIA Press (Rep): The Phila-
delphia Mugwumps. who call themselves "Lin-
coin Republicans" have adopted a title which
brings into bold relief the ragged edges of their
own political inconsistency. Lincoln was not
Mugwump, sore head, or a bolter. He took
his republicanism straight, and if ever he had
wearied of it he would have gone right over to
the Democracy instead of knitting the Repub-
can ticket in the back while still claiming to be
member of the Republican party.
PHILADELPHIA correspondence New York
Sun: During my 80 years. experience
in Pennsylvania politics have never known
the Democratic party to enter upon political
campaign for important State officers with such
promising prospects of success as in this con-
test which opene at Scranton with the nomin-
alton of Ex-Governor Pattisop, and have never
witnessed such an apparently studied effort to
turn seemingly assured victory into defeat as
that which has characterized the management
of the Democratic campaign in Pennsylvania
up to this hour.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
THE cHAUTAUQUAN MAID.
floss Up to Date.1
CHE had studied every 'ology-

floss Up to Date.1
CHE had studied every 'ology-
~ Ichthyology zoology,
Philology, geology, conchology and more;
Knew the bone of every mammal
From the mouse up to the camel.
And the molusks and crustaceans that crept on
every shore.
To think herup in history
Was not at all mystery;
She could name you any ruler from old England
to Sumatra.
1t would certainly amaze yuh
What she said about Aspasia,
And the little unsophlsticated maiden Cleopatra.
Size had studied Greek and Latin.
Hebrew, Sanscrit (please put that in),
Read Xenophon and Horace, OVID, Virgil and the
She didn't say: '1'n learn yuh,'
But teach you that Calphurnia
Sewed ffty-seven button holes in julius Cesar's
vest.
She loved to pull the petals
From flower. The baser metals
She dotted on their, study, and for nuggets she
would bone yuh.
She loved the dromedary,
And the docie cassowary
And the feathers of the emu she had stuck in her
shiffonier.
She could scan philacian meter
And she knew each Roman pretor;
And surprised me when she told the way the En-
pire came to fall
The Huns sneaked in the forum,
And the Romans tried to floor 'em,
But they Goth 'emselves in trouble, and, Of
course, got whipped by Gaul.
Bow HACNEY,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
BREAKFAST TABLE LAUGHS.

Parsou-Don't YOU know 1t is very wrong
of you to publish advertisements for liquor deal.
ers In your paper!
Editor-Perbaps 1t is; but don't know how
can manage to pay the bills they have against me
unless let them take them out in advertisements
Chatter.
"You ought to have seen Peterby eat at
worth Of stuff"
''Yes, and then kicked because he had to buy
% present.-Nelo York Weekly.
Applicant Ito proprietor of great news
paper)-Have you a vacancy on your staff, sirr''
Proprietor-I need circulstion-afidavis editor,
but don't know that you would suit.
81 think would. have been census
enumerator at Minneapolis"
.sTbe place is yours. ''-.Aunsey's Weekly.
CIarkson-well, got discharged to-day
Father-Why, thought that you and Saunders
got along irst-rate.
Clarkson-well, we have until to-day, when
Saunders gave me bill against Tom Hendricks
and told me not to come back to the Office without
the money. You know Tom.-Neu0 York Weekly.
Miss Bleecher (of New York)-I see that
there is proposition to put duty on beans.
Miss Emerson (or Boston)-A duty on beans al.
ready exists.
Miss B.-Indeedl What is it?
Miss E-To bake them to delicious brown.
West Shore.
Mrs. Baldhede-Why, Thomas. declared
There are lot of fine hairs on top OF your head.
You are getting a second growth of hair. never
noticed 1t and you didn't say anything about 1t.
Baldhede (sadly)-No, Matilda. l wanted to
give them a chance to grow.-West Shore.
Ethel (who is studying addition )-Mam-
ma, why do they say the 1.-TWO bears'' Of mar
rage?
Mamma-why my dear, the two bears OF mar
rags are bear and forbear.
Ethel-Well, mama.a, don't bear and fourbear
make i've bears?-- Vest Shore.
The public-Who writes your society
jokes?
Editor-A man who was brought up in the
back woods and wouldn't know folding doors
from athree-volume novel, or an evening dress
from tennis blazer.
The public-Who writes your s'siKteri' and gem
eraI ''pop-the-questlon'' jokes?
Editor--A meek. bashful. little man, VINO
couldn't summon mp the nerve 70 propose to .
blooming widow, even II she looked on him IS her
last chanee.-Chatter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
ALL THROUGH THE STATE.

CANADA thistles have secured a hrm foot
hold in the streets of Lancaster.
A LINESvILLE, Crawford county, farmer
raised 81 lambs this summer from seven ewes.
IT has cost Crawford county s6000OO during
the past 25 years for the support of the poor.
THE firemen will meet in State convention at
Chester on the 18th. They will parade over an
eiEht-mile route.
A CLINTON county judge has instructed re-
nortefs not to mention his name in their papers
under any circumstances.
AN eagle with bell around its neck fire.
uuents Lebanon county. 1t probably looking
for the long-lost sea serpent.
THE newspaper men of Chester threw dull
caro- and grinding toll to the winds long enough
on Th ursday to enjoy feast
Two Crawford county farmers who never
subscribed for a newspaper have been taken
into camp by couple of swindlers.
SEVERAL Couneautville people have re-
ceiyed checks in payment for the right of way
for the canal railroad through their land
CITIZENS of Reading stoned to death sup
posed mad dog. Many valuable dogs were
bitten before the stones got in their work.
THE Pittsburg Exposition is in at least one
resnect yery different from the ordinary
mustard plaster The longer it lasts the better
it draws.
A oNE-LEGGED veteran of the war was
robbed of his valise at Lancaster on Thursday,
containing new suit of clothes, four shirts,
suspenders, neckties, etc.
ELLIE M. DE TURK, aged years, climbed
upon the wall at the side OF the schoolhouse.
at Reading, and becoming dizzy. she fell to othe
ground, striking upon her head. sne was aoie
to walk to her home. but in lew minutes
afterward she suddenly expired.
The Warren county fair was billed for Its
ann ual exhibition last week at Warren. but
owing to too much rain 1t didn't take place,
and as consequence there is very mad lot
of directors and exhibitors. Warren is not
such a dry county as some people think.
BERKs COUNTY is numerically the strongest
component of the old Pennsylvania Synod Of
the Lutheran Church. II has lsOOO communi-
eants. 600 of whom are at Reading. North
ampton comes next with I2-5O0 members. 2,z5o
of whom live in the Bethlehems and 2lOo at
Easton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
AN OLD MINERS DISCOVERY.
He Believes He Has struck u streak of Pay
Dirt on His Farm.

Dirt on His FARM
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIspAfeH.1
SCoTTDALE, September 12-Jeremiah Stauf-
fer has again commenced work in his mine in
which he thinks minerals are to be found in
abundance. The alleged mine is situated about
five miles from this place, and is said by diff
ferent persons conversant with the facts to
abound in rich minerals of various descrip-
tions. Stauffer, who is an old California miner.
while digging around his ore mines the other
day, unearthed rock which glittered with
some sort OF minerals. He telegraphed for
geologist named Richard Stanton, who arrived
yesterday and made a thorough examination
of the rock. In an explanation. Stanton says
that the rock contains the ingredients of gold
and silver, and he is fully convinced that the
mine, if thoroughly probed, will be productive
of valuable minerals. He says the rock is of
the same vein which reaches into the gold
mines of North Carolina.
Mr.. Stauffer asserts that he will work the
mine thoroughly, and to that end a number of
men have been set to work. GeologisJ Stanton
says he is satisfied there will be encouraging
results, and will remain to superintend the
work. Stauffer's late find has rather excited
the community. He has declined several good
offers for his farm. and has determined to test
the hills at any cost
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

Mr.. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw boldly states
that he will not permit his Presidential pros
poets to sway his action as President Of the
New York Central That was the conclusion
from the very deliberate way in which he
journeyed toward home, when by fastening he
could have settled the strike in accordance
with his avowed principles. But there have
been times when his cultivation of the Gran
gers, and his declarations that no railroad ought
to discharge its men for belonging to labor
organization, indicated that he was moved by
Presidential aspirations. Possibly Chauncey
has arrived at the just conclusion that he has
not got any Presidential prospects.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
PuzZIED THE LAWYERS.

GIT was a wise suggestion to pay a bounty to
the maple sugar men," said a well-known
steamboat Captain to knot of old time
friends in the lobby of the Monongahela house
yesterday; "for if there is one thing more than
another that has been subjected to wholesale
aduIteratioD, this pure saccharine product Of
nature is that thing. The man. that will fur
nish a jug of the delicious stuff they used to
boil in the camps along the Ohio river back in
the 40s is entitled to the biggest kind of a
bounty"
fright you are, Captain" spoke up one of
the company whose remembrances of the
primitive days of buckwheat fapjacks and
maple syrup were SO viyidly recalled by the old
steamboat-man's remarks.
speaking of maple SYRUP" resumed the
Captain, reminds me of the time when steam.
boating was in its experimental stages. and be-
fore railroads were SO plentiful as now. In
those days we would round in and lie at the
bank for as much as three hours at time to
wood up or take on freight. On one occasion
we landed at town couple of hundred miles
below Pittsburg during court week and, as
was the custom. went up the bank where
group of lawyers and judges and Others drawn
there by the term of court were sitting
after adjournment enjoying the breeze from
the river and talking in good old neighborly
dls
Among the group was an old fellow who ap-
peared TO be one of the unique and interesting
characters of the town. After contemplating
our boat for few minutes lull in the CONVEX
sation ensued, and the old gentleman ventured
to break the silence by saying: Gentlemen,
you see that 'ere maple grove acrost yonder?
Wal there's about $50 trees in thet orchard and
every one of 'em is good for thousand
gallons of water in a season. Now, 1 cak'late
it takes seven gallons o. water for a good pound
o sugar. On them conditions how much sugar
you reckon the owner o. thet grove made last
year, which was an uncommon good year for
the sap? The guesses were varied and numer-
Gus, ranging from 100 to 100000 pounds, but the
old man shook his head as the answers were
announced. One of the company finally made
bold to say he gave it up and appealed to the
Querist himself for information.
Not dad hinged pound-the scoundre was
too lazy to tap the trees" said the old man
nonchalantly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

The discovery of school principal in
Connecticut that he could not adhere to con-
tract that he had made with young lady. as a
teacher, because she is too homely, opens up
serious social question. AS beauty has long
been deemed an essential quality for successful
marriage. and as the pretty typewrters are
crowding out the plain ones, this indication
that comeliness is a necessary qualification for
teaching leads up to the conclusion that the
only thing that can be don. with homely girls
is to adopt the Chinese method and drown
them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
To-DAYs s VOTING TOPIC.

The People Who Visit the Exposition Asked
to Ballot on Electrocution.
For the closing day of the big show this week
THE DISPATCH has chosen an interesting topic
for the suffrages of the visitors. The Poll BOOK
will be open all day and evening, and all who
visit the Exposition can vote for or against this
question:
Should Electrocution be Substituted for
Hanging in Pennsylvania? Open to Lady
and Gentlemen Voters.
The Topical Ballots for the opening days next
week, together with big Prize Essay an
nouncement, will be published in the Sunday
issue of THE DISPATCH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
A SNAKE IN HER SHOE.
An Es timnbs Old Lady Bitten on Her
Thumb by a Huge Comprehend.

An Es timnbIe Old Lady Bitten on Her
Thumb by Huge Copperhead.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAToH.i
PA RKERsBURG, W. VA. September IA
queer and probably fatal accident happened at
Central Tuesday. Mrs. Ann Clemens, an old
lady about 70 years of age, got out Df her bed in
the morning and began to put on her shoes
Just as she was in the act of pulling on the first
one big copperhead snake, which had taken
up its lodging in the shoe, shot its head out and
bit the old lady on the thumb of the right
hand.
Her arm and hand began to swell rapidly, and
she suffered intense pain. Medical aid WITS
called in and every possible remedy applied to
prevent serious results. Mrs. Clemens is still
alive but her friends entertain slight hopes of
her recovery How the reptile got into the
house is mystery. The old ladyis well known
anu ssy sympatSy is felt for her i6 her great sui
fering.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
USED TO THEM.

USED TO THEM,
THE thoughtful foreigner laid down the news
paper he was reading and looked out at
the cultivated farms and green meadows
through which the vestiblue train was speed
ing at the rate of 40 miles an hour.
1T has always seemed the strangest thing in
the world to me-" ne observed, that in a
country SO highly civilized as yours. and so full
of resources and expedients, some way has not
been found of preventing the frightful train
robberies we read of SO frequently. Why is
itT'
81 suppose it is because we are so accustomed
to them that they don't seem frightful to u.s."
replied the American traveller as he turned
asid a moment to hand the colored porter half
dollar for blacking his boots
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

NOTING the fact that the New Workers
have at last adopted plan for the Grant
monument. a Baltimore paper remarks: ''But
the funds for building the monument are still
non est f1ventus." This shows the need of in
struotion in Baltimore to the effect that what
ever the force and cogency of a statement, the
use of classical term, does not, even as much
as in the vernacular. permit the rules of gram
mer to be wholly ignored.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

The story that Emery is to secure the ar
rest of Delamater on criminal charges just be-
fore the election is the purest campaign rot. 1t
is intended to cover the fact that Delamater
has not secured the arrest of Emery. which he
had the best chance in the world to do. But
Delamater seems to be aware of the fact that
Emery is loaded.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
MRETING OF METHODIsTs.

One Hundred Ministers Attend the Ohio
Conference at MT. CORY.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
FINDLAY, September 15.-The Ohio confer
ence Of the Methodist Protestant Church
began its annual session at Mt. CORY, this
county, this morning with about 100 ministers
and lay delegates in attendance, representing
every section of the State.
To-day the work was largely Of preliminary
character The conference will be in session
until next Wednesday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Rev. Jeremiah Fl. Johnston.

TsPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.f
WASHINGTON, Pa, September s.-,The Rev
jeremiah II. Johnston. ID. D., died at his resi-
dence on Wade avenue tonight at 1880 O'Clock.
after a prolonged illness. He leaves wife and
two adult children to mourn their loss.
Rev. Mr.. Johnston was born near Mercervile
Pa, March q, 1885. He graduated from Westmin-
ster College in 1859. and was licensed to preach
Twenty years ago he was ordained by the
CHARTERS Presbytery. to the pastorafe of
the United Presbyterian Church at this Mace.
since that time he has been a faithful and
efficient pastor, and up to few weeks of
his demise, although hardly able to
stand he was to be found at the post OF duty
He was one of the most popular ministers in the
Presbytery, and made friends with all whom he
came In contact with. During the latter part of
his lite he spent most of his time in writing maga-
zine articles on United Presbytery theology lie
death most keenly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
A Water Gas Conundrum.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
After water gas goes through cupola, then
through brick checker work, does it go back to
water afterward or is it fixed gas?
SUBSCRIBER.
PITTsBURG, September II
1.-THE water gas does not go back to water
after passing through the brick checker work;
but it becomes, not fixed gas" but semi
fixed gas, for as a matter of fact, the naphtha
which is involved in the process, is liable, when
the gas is cool, to condense in the piDes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

The failure of the potato crop in Ireland,
together with the shortage of wheat in this
country, foreshadows terrible year for the
people of that country. God save the Irish
people, If he cannot save Ireland.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Mrs. Harrison Jones.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPA1

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
ALLIANCE, September 12.-The wife of the
Rev. Harrison Jones, chaplain OF President Gar
fields regiment, died this morning at the age of
"a wears. She was married in 1886. and has lived
with her husband, who survives her, for over 54
years Mrs Jones was quiet and unassumingin in
manner but was woman of remarkable force of
Character. Besides her husband. seven children
are left TO m ourn her loss. She very well and
fayorably known, and there is great sorrow e0-
pressed at her death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Missionaries Meet,

rspEo1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPATcH.I
FINDLAY September 1.-THE annual con.
vention of the Christian Missionary Society of
Ohio met In this city to-day. and will remain in
session over Sunday. Every county in the State
Is repI esented by delegates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Joseph Bel,

CINCINNATI, September 12.-Joseph Bell, aged
~, died to-day suddenly of apoplexy. He was dis
ing the first to take a steamboat across the Gulf
Of Mexico. He introduced steamers in the rivers
of Mexico, His father was an English lieutenant
who. in the war of 1872 espoused the American
side and was made drill master TO the troops at Ft
washington, in this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
JOY IN THE COTTON FIELDS.
Fine Prospects for a sple ndid Crop In Ten-
nessee and Alabama.

nessee and Alabama.
NASHVILLE, September l2-Captain Han
cock, a cotton merchant, returned from a ten
days trip through the cotton counties of Mid
die Tennessee and Alabama. Mr.. Hancock
said to-day that he had never seen better pros
poets for a large yield than at present The
planters are jubilant over it. Cotton is very
fine, and with favorable weather and late
frost the yield will be exceptionally large The
averages are larger than for several years past.
The cotton merchants here report larger sales
for bagging and ties tor the past few days than
for the same period in several years. This is
an indication of a very large crop.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
A CYCLONE From KANSAS.

T ooK out for orat'ry tonight,
Il For words that burn and thoughts that
blister.
The tigers tail curls up with fright
When this bold elephants the twister:
And many cheek already burns and tingles
Anticipating slaps from Mr.. Ingalls,.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Wbot Josiah Proposes TO Do,

To the Editor of The Dispatch
Please do me the justice to correct mistake of
your reporter in yesterdays Issue wherein he
says that II intend to destroy the Christian
Church wherever found" 1t is mistake. for
L never said so. nor do now say so. Nearly all
nv people are Christians. There were IA Of US
in ail-8 brothers and sisters. did say and
do say now that / mean to lock the orthodox
hell and throw the key into the sea Of oblivion.
JOSIAH KING WILSON.
PITTsBURG, September L.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

ONE hundred and thirty millions in
crease in the ordinary appropriations since 1880
make 1t no wonder that the surplus is losing
xuairhf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

The Republican managers and organs
are now vigorously engaged in the effort to dis
count Emery's campaign ammunition and TO
suppress Kennedys.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Beaver Did, Not Pattison.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
A says Pattison vetoed the Mercy Hospital
appropriation bill and B says Beaver Decide.
ALLEGHENY, September Il J. II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
WiIIinm BrocI.,e.

PHrLApxLPHIA, September H. = William
Brockie. President Of the Maritime Exchange,
and well known in shipping and mercantile cir
cles in this city, dropped dead on Chestnut street
this morning from heart disease.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Who Cnn 7. ii Hims

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you please tell me what States and Terri
tories have no pharmacy law? READER.
P1TTsBURG, September II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
Our Mary Not Dead.

Our Mary Not Uend.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please answer the following to decide
wager: Is Mary Anderson, the actress. dead3
If so, when and where did she die? Rather, is
she not lately married and living abroad?
A DAILY READER.
PITTsBURG, September12
[She is married to Mr.. Nevarro, and is now
living abroadl.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13
IT MUST BE FATIGuINGI

THIS man on silver speech relies;
On silence that man stands;
But Delamater thinks 1t wise
To keep on shaking hands.