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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
A PRAIsEwoRTHY PLAGIARISM.

The discovery is mad. by Republican
organ in Philadelphia that Governor Patti
sons inaugural adj ess reproduces in great
measure ideas of his inaugural of 1888. The
opposition paper brought out the fact with a
parade of headlines charging him with
plagiarism. The unique spectacle presented
by charging a man with plagiarlzing his
own ideas provokes another Republican
paper to make fun of the first, and intimate
that its discovery is of no Importance.
We must disagree with the latter view.
1t is an important thing that the Governor
stands just where he did eight years ago.
The point on which the charge is made
against him of sticking to his principles is
his declaration that the Constitution should
be enforced against the corporations. 1t is
information of decided importance to the
people that the Governor maintains his old
position intact. That is what the people
elected him for. They have appreciated
the fact that no intervening power
at Harrisburg has done anything to
assert the supremacy of the fundamental
law over the corporations. 1t may have
been feared that the changes in the Gov
ernor's cabinet might indicate a change in
his rigor and independence on this point 1t
is important and gratifying to learn that
the Governor reproduces his former attitude
on this point at the opening of his admins
tration.
If this is plagiarism, it is to be noted that
the policy of our Republican rulers in the
State is an equal plagiarism. They never
did anything before Pattison's first admin-
istration to make the corporations obey the
Constitution and respect public rights, and
they have done nothing since. The old
theory that whatever policy the corporations
may adopt is TO be accepted, no matter
whether it is in accordance with the law or
not, prevails now among the Republicans
who run State affairs to the same
extent that it did formerly. One is as
much plagiarism as the other; but there
is vast moral gulf between stereotyped
service to corporations and stereotyped as
sertion OF popular rights.
1t is to be hoped that Gov. Pattison will
90 on "plagiarizing" from his first admins
tration in every respect, with the exception
of getting to work to make the corporations
obey the Constitution little earlier. That
is what he is there for.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ALFRED MACE, a son of the retired English
pugilist, Jem Mace, is conducting a series of
gospel meetings in indianapolis.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, James R. Ran
dali and Richard Malcolm Johnston are to be
editors of the new Southern magazine, which it
is proposed to start in Atlanta.
MRS. ANNA C. FALL. whose husband is also
a lawyer, has been admitted to the bar of Bos-
ton, Mass. There are two other women law
yers in the city, Alice Parker and Leila Robin
son-Sawtelle.
BARON Won BLEICHRoEDER, the famous
banker of Berlin, has an income Of 2,52O 900
marks. He is thus the third man in the EN-
pire in point of wealth, Herr Krupp. the gun
maker, being the first.
ROBERT BUoHELL the new Mayor Of Ok
ford, England. lived for many years in America
and became in that time thoroughly Amer
icanized. For some time he resided in Terre
Haute, Ind, where he was successful in bust.
ness.
HERMAN HoLLERITH, the inventor of the
electrical tabulating- machine with which the
totals Of the census Of 1890 are being summed
up, is a statistician as well as an electrician,
and has made census work a special study for
several years.
GENERAL GEORGE WHICHcoTE who shares
with Lord Albemarle the honor of being all
that remains of Wellngton's army which
fought at Waterloo in June, 1915. has just com
pleted his 96th year at Meridew, Coventry,
England. where he has long resided.
DIR. ALBERT SHAW, associate editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune. is about to sever his con.
nection with that paper in order to assume the
editorship of the American edition of the Re-
vieu of Reuieaos edited in London by Mr.. w,
L. Stead, late OF the Pail Mail Gazette. This
is the publication backed by General Booth, of
the Salvation Army.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
A FANATICAL MURDER.

Another murder has been added to the
long list in Allegheny county, evidently the
work of semi-lunatic The act, attributed
to religious fanaticism, and explained by the
murderer on the ground that he thought it
necessary to keep Satan out of the house.
hold, is likely to be considered by sane
people of superstitious inclination as
the work of Satan himself. 1twas miser-
ably cold-blooded crime, shooting woman
in the back And while the criminal will;
be given all the benefit of probable mental
unsoundness, his own admission that he
never did get along we'll with his wife will
have some weight in deciding the RESPONSE
bilify
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD.
A Work of Rescuing Thousands of Children

Work Of Rescuing Thousands of Children
From Abominably Inhuman Treatment.
A writer in the Wexford, Ireland, Inde-
pendent says: All are already aware that THE
Holy CHILDHOOD has for its object the sausom
and the Christian Catholic education of chill
dren born of infdel parents IN China and other
Pagan countries. In China vast number of
deformed children and of those belonging to
poor families are thrown upon the roads.
Every morning, especially at Pekin, the chill
dren who were exposed during the night are
gathered in the dust carts and thrown into q
ditch, where they are left uncovered, in the
hope that Mahometan when passing by may
take some of them away.
But before the carts arrive to remove them
from the roads, it too often happens that the
dogs and even the pigs which abound in the
streets of Chinese towns, devour these still liv-
ing children. In the city of Pekin alone, in the
course of three years. 9,7l2 infants were des-
tined for the sewers, and this without speaking
of those who had been crushed under the feet
of horses or mules, or OF those who were
stifled at their birth, or of those devoured Dy
dogs or of those whom the Mahometans bad
carried away. THE Holy Childhood" procures
for these little creatures the life of both soul
and body. Every year it baptizes on an average
more than 100000 children.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
HAVE WE A CITY CHARTER?

The development at the hearing Of the
test cases on the street acts of legal theory
that the entire city charter is unconstitu-
tional, is carrying the principle of test cases
to length which few people have contem-
plated. The idea of the pending cases was
that they were amicable suits designed to
let the public and the city know where they
stand, but if the stunning point raised yes
terday is sustained.by the courts. it will but
deepen the general impression that we do
not know where We are. and the bewildered
city official can but exclaim with Siluus,
"Call you this amicable?"
The discussion of this surprising legal
contingency, SO far as its legal aspects may
be reserved, to time when we are less pro-
foundly impressed with the heights and
depths of the possibilities that it opens be-
fore us-if, indeed. we do not leave that
branch of the subject, with fear and tremb-
ling, to the inscrutable DEGREES of the
Supreme Court. But the lay mind may
be pardoned if in view of the inroads which
legal talent has already made upon our
municipal status and the vista of nullifed
muuACipd1 lCSAcidbAOu WAASh sAAs stkihluR
and sensational view opens before us, it could
breathe faint wish that it were well out
of it Pittsburg has enjoyed more than the
usual adverse experience of getting its street
acts knocked into an inextricable junble
Ifit should be compelled to add to that ex-
perience the sensation of having its munich
pal charter wiped out, the community
would be justified in giving itself over to
the despair of the old woman in the nursery
rhyme, and, wondering if the city of Pitts
burg is really the city of Pittsburg at all, or
an overgrown agglomeration of unorganized
population.
Well, ii the worst come to the worst it will
vindicate the foresight of. The DISPATCH
in one particular. If the bench and bar
combined should reduce Pittsburg to the
legal status of township or two, it would
lend new and local value to the efforts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
OURS BY RIGHT.
The Petroleum Business Has Come Again
to Its Natural Center.

The Petroleum Business Has Come Again
to Its Natural Center.
Harrisburg CALI
Allegheny county. Pennsylvania, is forging
rapidly to the front as one of the greatest oil
producing counties in the State. Wildwood is
the name of the newest field. and its daily pro-
duction is constantly growing. from the number
of fresh wells that are being added to the list
Natural advantages made Pittsburg a leading
center for the opening and distribution of the
best illuminant God ever gave to man in 1861
and '65. but corporate and individual greed
since then directed the trade to Cleveland, O.,
and the city of New York.
In the early days of the business, territory in
close proximity and along Oil creek fed the re-
fneries. and the Smoky City was the busiest of
oil centers. New York City and Cleveland, by
the aid of corporate partiality and rank dis
elimination. drove the trade away. Nature has
again asserted itself, and in defiance of all the
injustice that has prevailed. Pitrsburg is again
favored by the golden-hued old dame knocking
at the commercial door. Will the latch string
be out? or will she get the cold shoulder? are
the inquiries that suggest themselves by the
favorable condition of things. There are
millions of dollars to be made or lost by the de-
cision of the enterprising people at the other
end of the State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
The Awful Immensity of Space Illustrated in
q Lecture.

The Awful Immensity of Space Illustrated in
. Lecture.
Sir Robert Ball, Astronomer Royal of Eng
land, recently delivered lecture on the sub
ject. 1.-THE Other Worlds in Star Land,n to a
juvenile audience in the theater of the Royal
Dublin Society. In the course of his address he
said: Were an electric wire wrapped seven or
eight times as a girdle around this globe, the
current would accomplish seven or eight
circuits In the interval between two ticks of the
pendulum of clock. But now let us suppose
that telegraphic system is about to be in.
stituted throughout the universe: let wires
radiate from this earth, not alone to America or
China, but let us imagine wire from the earth
TO the moon. from the earth to the sun, and
from the earth to some of the stars.
The moon is still so near us tEat the tele.
graphic message to our satellite would seem to
pass almost instantaneously; 1t would not re-
quire much more than a single second of time.
10 the sun, however, the delay would be some-
whatgreater; in fact, you would have to wait
nearly eight minutes. A message could not be
sent to the sun and an answer received back in
less than quarter of hour, in addition to de-
lays of the ordinary kind. But now suppose
that We are to send a message to one of the
nearest Of the stars
AS the telegraph clerk made the signal it
frightful pace of zoe, 600 miles second; but yet
such is the journey, that minutes and hours.
aye, and even days and weeks, will pass away,
and the message has not reached the goal. The
weeks rise into months, the months spread into
a year, but two years. nay, even three years,
will be necessary before that signal arrives at
It's destination. Such would be the problem of
telegraphing to the nearest star. But there are
stars In the sky to which the telegraph, travel
ing with this almost inconceivable speed, could
not convey Its message until after the lapse of
so years and of LOO years.
There are stars so distant that were a tele.
graphic message sent to them at the time when
William the Conqueror landed-S00 years ago
the message would not have yet arrived There
are stars SO distant that if the glad tidings of
that first Christmas at Bethlehem 1880 years
ago had been wired off at the time the message
would still be on its way. There are stars so
distant that had the first man that ever set
foot on this globe dispatched telegraphic
message to announce his advent, the intelIi-
gence would not have yet reached its destina-
tion. There are certainly stars shining in that
heaven above us SO distant that much-vaunted
telegram would require a million years to COM
municate with them. Do you hesitate to ac-
cept these facts that have described? Then
know that the astronomers on whose authority
they are based are those who have devoted
their lives to the study of the stars, and they
have only had one object in the pursuit they
have followed, and that is the discovery of the
truth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
SIR CUPID.

Sir Cupid once, as have heard,
Determined to discover
What kind of man q maid preferred
Selecting for lover.
So, putting on soldiers coat,
He talked Of martial glory;
And from the way he talked, they say,
She seemed to like-the storyi
Then, with smile sedate and grim,
He changed his style and station,
In shovel hat and CATERS trim,
He made his visitation.
He talked of this. discoursec on that,
or Palestine and Hermon:
And from the way he preached, they say,
She seemed to like-the sermon!
Then changed again, he came to her
A roaring. rattling salon
He cried, .'Yo no! love you so!''
And vowed he'd never fail her.
He talked of star and compass true,
The glories of the ocean,
And from the way he sang. they say,
She seemed to like-thc notion!
Then Cupid, puzzled in his mind,
Discarded his disguiscs:
ssThat you no preference seem to find,
My fancy much surprises"
sswhy so?n she cried. with roguish smile,
'swhy, prithee, why 80 stupidY
do not care what garb you wear.
So long as you are-Cupidr'
-Fredertck u. WeGthertey IN Temple Bar,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
THE SILVER POOL BUSINESS.

While Senator Cameron has not vet
thought worth while to reply to the accuse
tion of completely in the silver pool busi-
ness, the witness before the investigating
committee yesterday, David T. LittIer,
knocked the props from under the defense
which the Senator's friends seem disposed to
advance. 1t was claimed that Cameron
bought his silver after he had voted for free
coinage, not before, so that there need have
been no necessary relation between his vote
and his pocket. But witness Littler dis
poses of this plea by his testimony that he
purchased about S1o0, 900 worth of silver for
Senator Cameron before the bill passed the
Senate.
Whatever criticisms have been visited
upon Cameron for his acquiescence, if not
participation, in shsdy political transac-
tions in Pennsylvania, it was supposed
alike by his opponents and friends that he
was beyond the temptation of mixing his
finances with his votes. Until his own Yer-
sion of the silver business Is heard, those
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
AN OLD LAWSUIT.

A Litigation That Has Dragged Its Weary
Length for twenty-five Years.
NEW YORK, Jan. GA drunken engineer
on the steamer 81. S. Hogar, over 25 years ago,
precipitated lawsuit which is still in the
courts Think Of litigation quarter of
century old and still undecided. The interest
on the amount originally involved now
amounts to more than the principal, and the
costs must make very large figure.
Through the alleged drunkenness of the en-
gineer the steamer did not reach New Or
leans in 1865, in time to take cargo OF cotton
for which H b Cromwell & Co. had con-
tracted. The firm sued William 81. Slater and
the other owners of the steamer for the sum
advanced on the contract and for the loss in
profits by reason of the failure to get the cargo
The suit, which has been decided one way or
the other two or three times, is now engaging
the attention Of the United States Circuit
Court in this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
DOLLARS FOR TITLES.

Resentment may be felt against the ad-
vertisement of titled foreigner for an
American heiress. 1t is certainly anything
but noble ambition for scion of nobility
But a calm, unprejudiced consideration
of the subject is apt to dispel
the resentment and bring the blush
of shame. 1t is notorious fact that
American girls and the dollars of their dads
have been traded recklessly for European
titles, the counts not always being ''ot un-
tarnished reputation" There is about as
much to be ashamed of on one side as the
other in plain view of the case. The ad-
vertising counts brutal way of putting the
matter may possibly lead to some reform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

who cling to the belief that, ifnot brilliant
statesman, he was at least above suspicion of
gaining any private benefit from the meas
ures which came before him are entitled to
hold their judgment.
But at present the affair has sinister
aspect. 1t should help to kill the bill,
which is foolish and unpracticable at best.
1t must also compel Cameron to explain
whether it was through density or design he
became implicated in the commercial aspect
of this wild legislation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
When win the Wires Be Buried ?

"About year ago somebody in authority,
could 1t have been Mr.. BigelowT said Lib
erty street merchant yesterday, Announced
with solemnity that within year all the over
head wires should go under ground. l had
really forgotten all about the matter, although
the wires are so thick in front of my store that
the sunlight even finds 1t difficult to squeeze
through them, till a man with an axe came
around to-day and chopped down telegraph
pole which adorns the curb before my door.
Ahp said 1 to myself, the mills Of the gods
grind slow. but they are sure But 1 chuckIed
too soon. Presently in the place of the pole
cut down taller and q thicker one was set up
with more cross-bars than the former had.
Could there be more painfully convincing evil
dence that the telegraph company does not put
much faith in prophecies. official or otherwise,
of buried wires? The network of wires OBJ
structed the firemen great deal at the last
big fire on Liberty street, but If things go on as
they are going the fire department. won't be
able to get at the average downtown store or
warehouse at all when fire breaks out. Just
for fun I ask: When are the wires to be
buried?"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

IT is noted by the Philadelphis Press that
the recent sleet ana snow storm in New Eng
land. broke down the overhead wire system in
the cities of that section. Our cotsmporary
says: such an impressive lesson of the folly of
continuing the overhead wire system has not
been given in some time" We heartily indorse
our cotemporary's statement of the drawbacks
of the overhead system; but the statement of
fact just quoted is an error. Exactly such an
impressive lesson of this folly and danger was
given in Pittsburg during the storms of last
month
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

Mr.. SULLIVAN refuses to fight his brother
in the profession of bruising, Mr.. Slavin, and
declares, in addition, thar he has permanently
retired from fstic life, for the reason that
''there is too much money in the theatrical
business" This disposes of the bright hope
that Mr.. Sullivan SHE'D his caster into the dra-
matte arena for the purpose of elevating the
stage. AS to the box Office view OF theatrical
success it ought to penetrate Mr.. Sullivan's far
seeing interest that when he is no longer viewed
as possible defender of the slugging cham
pionship, the box office receipts dependent on
his histrionic attractions may fall off.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

THE promotion of Judge Acheson to be
Circuit Judge creates general satisfaction
among the members Of the bar. The Judges
fitness for the promotion is beyond dispute,
and there is the additional fact Of interest TO
our legal brethren that this appointment leaves
a vacancy on the district bench to be filled.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

IF the lawyers and the Supreme Court
pull together hard enough they may not only
succeed in depriving our city of street improve
ment laws and charters, but they may even Gre
ate narrowing doubt whether we. have got
straets
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

WHEN the Senate refuses an amendment
to the force bill to give both parties representa-
tion among the election supervisors it shows
the animus OF that remarkable measure, by
that action as clearly as by the unrepublican
provision making the principal office created
by the bill. life position.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

The House fixed up its rules SO as to
enable the Speaker to express his devout
gratitude that it was no longer deliberatlve
body; and the people subsequently gave the
Democratic party a larger majority than it
ever had in that body. The Republican leaders
in the Senate seem to be anxious to have the
process repeated in that branch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

IT was high time for that notable and
adventurous speculator of the lobby to come
forward and tell what he knew about that
silver pool. The committee seems to be strik-
ing what may be appropriately termed rich
lode in this silver business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
William Hooking.

PIEDMONT W. VA, Jan. %. William Hooking.
an old and highly-respected citizen of Piedmont,
died Tuesday and was buried at Frostburg to-day
MT. Hooking was one Of the Oldest mine superin.
tendents in the Georges creek coal regions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

AMONG all the influences which are
working in favor Of the new bill to regulate
pipe line charges it is satisfactory to learn that
the public's old friend, Hon. w. 81. Andrews,
is giving the measure the great advantage Of
his influence against it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24

WE obserVe that some OF our esteemed CO.
temporaries are giving space to extended
editorial comment on that story from North
Dakota, that the weather out there has been
luxuriating in an eighty degree temperature,
that spring flowers are blooming and that the
people have been putting on their summer
clothes. agitating palmleaf fans, and going on
picnics This shows an ignorance among the
commentators of the fact that Col. Pat Donan
is running fake foundry out in that booming,
but breezy State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
Too Much Excitement,

Philadelphia Times!1
Another impending disaster from the slow
was things are moving in Washington is that
the public mind will not have time to get fairly
uuieted down before the excitement and tur-
moil of the coming baseball season is upon it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Hon. David Emery,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrspA1cH.,
TrTusv1LLE, Jan. 23.-Hon. David Emery died
at his home in this city this afternoon. He was a
barge producer Of petroleum. was State Repre-
sentative in 1853, and formerly Mayor Of the city
He was a brother of Hon. Lewis Emery. who
stumped the State in the interest of Pattison The
city is in mourning.