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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-11
TIE OPENING APPARENTLY HEAVY.


The selling for London account and the I'M
preston that there would be further orders Of
gold for export this morning, which was fully
Justified by the event. gave n heavy appearance
TO the opening. The concessions In the ective
stocks. however, were In oil cases insignificant,
and even after the announcement OF the gold
engagements there was no real weakness In me
list. The stubborn resistance 20 the realiza-
tiOns and the efforts 20 force decline gradually
developed positively strong tone, and In the
afternoon increased animation was accompanied
by a general upward movement all along the
line, in which even Northern Pacific preferred
was one of the most prominent stocks.
SMALL FINAL LOSSES.
The afternoon advance was followed by yigor-
Gus attack upon tho list, which In some cases,
and especially in Burlington and hoch Island.
wiped out most Of the former Improvement IL
was an organized attempt to take advantage OF
the gold shipments and In measure WIS sue
cessful AZ the lnal changes In the list Sre gene
rally small fractional losses from last night =
figures. The market finally closed quiet and
fairly steady at Insignificant changes from first
prices. Tho only change OF Importance was a
net advance Of l1s per cent In Atchison the
salos Of listed stocks aggregated $4,000 shares
and OF unlisted 10000 shares.
MONEY AND EXCHANGE
Erening.-Exchange quiet and steady at ASIA
4SD. Commercial bills, 4S6a4S1lR. Money easy
az 3l6a4, closing offered at 2le sub-'reasury
balances - Coin. sl43, sA2,000: currency,
81, lgI. 900. Governments dull but firm; per
cents, l22is; AIS, l02. State bonds duh but
steady 10 trm.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-11
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

CONS OF CONFEDERATE VETE-
- RAMS r. E. LEE CAMP, No. by the
unanimous vote Of X. f. Lee Camp you are IN
yited az an escort in paying the last SAD tribute
OF respect 20 their deceased Past Commander
General j. X. COOKE. You will meet promptly
in front Of Lee Camp Hall THIS Saturday EVE
MING AT 4 o'clock. A full attendance Ii earnest
ly requested.
Past officers are cordially invited.
BY order Of W. ID. COURTNEY,
an111t Captain Commanding
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-11
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.
A yRTI IN 1901

OFFERINGS.
WHRAr.--57S bushels.
CORN, 30 bushels.
OArs.-1 900 bushels.
PEAs.-22 bushels.
MILL-0PFAL-l5 tons.
SALES.
WHEAT.-7S bushels
CORN.-630 bushels.
QUOTATIONS..
WHEAT LongberTy, sL10as1.f6 Mixed,
5l.IOas1.lJ. shortDerry, e1.10a$1.i5.
CoRs.--.White. S0aSic. Mixed, 7Sa79c.
OArs---No. 2, 59a60c. Rejected, 45a55c. Win
ter for seed, 60a63c.
RYE.-95c.as1.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
Obituary Notes.

RICHARD S. NEwCoMBE, the well-known lawyer.
died last evening at New York.
WILLIAM N. wEEDEN, the man who developed
the Waterbury watch, is dead at New Bedford,
Mass.
GEORGE HOFFMAN, director of the Valley Ma.
tional Bank at Lebanon, Pa. died Friday in his
Slst year. He was very wealthy.
SIR CHARLES FORSTER Bart, member of Parlia-
ment for Walsall, died yesterday at London. He
was horn in 1915 and had sat for Wasall since 1852
In politics he was Liberal in favor of home rule
MRS. ]. b. KEPPLE, sister-in-law of George E.
Kenple of THE DISPATCH writing force, died yes
terlay at her home in Sarversville, Butler county,
aged % years. she had been Ill about three
months.
REV. FsEBIUs HERSHEY, of Mannheim, Pa, died
NAV % in Liberia, where he working as a mis-
sionary. Word of his death reached his home Fri
day Mr.. Hershey was 81 years old, and had been
in Africa only year. He was the author of many
religious tracts.
CIRr1s II. WELLS, an old-time journalist and
nromipeut Democratic politician. of Springfield
Mass died suddenly at Deerfield Saturday, where
he mad gone in hopes of regaining his health. He
was an editor on tue Springdeld Gnton away back
In the days when L.; II. Taylor held the position Of
editor In CHIEF. Mehtai lroaoie over cancer
caused his death.
JOHN T. STEVENS, aged 80 years, one of the best
known telegraph operators In the country, and AS
socfated Press operator in the Evening Reporter
ofi,e Woonsocket, died suddenly at his home in
that cty Yesterday of heart failure. During Presi-
dent Arthur's administration he was for "a time
doorkeeper of the press gallery OF the National
House OF Repre- sentatlVes.
JUpGE HIRAM CLARK, well-known retired
lawyer and local historian of jamestown, n. "
died at the Pilgrim House in Provincetown Satur-
day night aged IS years. He was Judge for
MANY wears during the Vigilance Committees rule
in 40 in San Francisco. He had practiced in Vir-
ginia CITY Toledo. Lockport, Utica. He
SVashington correspondent OF California papers
wears u, and for six years London correspondent
of the New York Express and AHn Californian He
was u son of Lot 9. Clark, OF Niagara bridge fame
and an early New York politician.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
MIR. M,GUTREs STATEMENT.

A statement made by Mr.. P. ]. Mcclure,
of the Carpenters Brotherhood with ref
erence to the recent carpenters strike in
this city, appears elsewhere in this issue.
As an explanation of Mr.. McGuire's
course, it is interesting; but it is doubtful
whether it will have good effect as prov
ing the wisdom of that course, or as allay-
ing the soreness of the recent strikers.
Mr.. McGuire's first statement makes the
| point which was mooted in the columns of
THE DISPATCH, that the strike was not in
accordance with the rules of the United
Brotherhood and consequently was not
entitled to aid. Further Mr. MCGUIRE as
serts that the appeal of Union go to the
General Executive Board was sustained
and the organizations in this city were so
notified. But Mr.. Mcclure states that the
sympathy felt for the strikers in their gal
liant though unauthorized contest was such
that he gave them the moral support of
his position and financial aid was furn-
ished the strikers from time to time to a
total of $4,000
Right here is where Mr. McGuire's
statement of actions is inconsistent with his
otdOoH0uI VI principles. 1He rules Ol
national labor organization, if they have
any value at all, should be maintained,
and those intended to prevent the calam-
ity of injudicious or unauthorized strikes
have the same Importance as any others.
According to Mr.. McGuire's statement the
men who directed strike were violating
the rules of the order. The men who did
not wish to strike were the faithful men,
bers. Under these circumstances upon
what logic Mr.. Mcclure and the Executive
Board deemed themselves justified in
spending funds for the aid of those who
violated the rules, and in using their
moral influence against those who were
acting in accordance with the rules in
keeping at work, it is difficult to see.
No doubt Mr.. McGuires sympathy for
the men had reasonable foundation, as
was the case with that share of the public,
whose sympathies were on that side. But,
if rules for the prevention of injudicious
strikes are not upheld by the officers Of
the organization, of what use are they?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
WHAT THE CANAL Will Rp1Sc

The successful voyage of that new vessel
from Duluth to Liverpool has caused quite
a stir in shipping circles. New York Jour-
mails claim that the freight could have been
transported by way of New York in less
Iimc and at lower charges. Whether this
' Is true or not, the cost and time spent in a
pioneer trip does not argue that when the
same method of transportation is utilized
on a large scale a great economy will not
he effected
The essential fact is that a vessel of new
tvPe, capable Of ocean as well as inland
navigation, with a large freight capacity
and OF sufficiently light draft to pass
through the Canadian canals, has opened
the water route from the center of the
american Continent to the ocean ports of
the world. This fact has a peculiar bear
Ing on the transportation policy of West
ga Pennsylvania. The vessel which made
tie voyage Is the newest form of
lake carrier 1t is especially adapted
10 the transportation of coal and
0g5 in large bulk. II has passed
through artificial water ways of less depth
tlan the proposed Ohio River and Lake
Erie Canal Its voyage thus demonstrates
That, with that water route opened, Pitts
burg can be placed in communication, not
only with all the lake ports, but with the
entire traffic of the world over the ocean
routes.
The same whale-backed steamer which
passed through the Welland Canal can
bring cargOes Of ore to Pittsburg and take
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
AN ALLEGED GoRMAN BOOM.

Our New York special correspondence
gives a very interesting conversation be-
tween Nj. Charles A. Dana and Mr.. Scott
Ray, OF Indiana, in which the name of
German was brought out as prospective
candidate for the Presidency. 1t seems
that these two Democrats, inspired by one
common thought, namely, the wish of
finding a man to beat Cleveland, after
mutual deliberatiOn settled on German as
the coming man. At the same time it is
intimated that the brilliant and erratic
Watterson is not unfavorably disposed
toward the Maryland Senator. On this
rather insecure foundation the German
boom is to be built, provided it does not
fall to pieces before the first story is
erected
Al Of which is very interesting as illus
trating the desperate determination of a
certain element in the Democratic
party to stick to the Bourbon and spoils
lines in their nomination The fear
lest their party may be swelled by
accesSiOns from the reform element, in
yited there by nomination that rises
above machine politics, is a singular char
acteristic of Democracy; but it has more
than once been the salvation of the Re
puhlicanS. 1t is evident that if the coun-
SelS of the Hon. Charles A. Dana and the
Hon. Scott Ray can rescue the Democratic
party from the peril of putting up strong
candidate, they will do so.
Ifamore offensive candidate than David
Bennett Hill could be chosen by the Dem
ocTats, Arthur P. German is the man.
The first is chiefly characterized by a
friendship for Tammany; the last is the
recognized head of a political machine
even more corrupt and unscrupulous. Hill
has been Shifty and demagogic in his ut
JeranceS upon public issues; German has
been convicted Of absolute untruth, in his
speeches in the Senate on behalf of the
spoils system.
If the German boom should attain any
respectable proportions, which is fortu-
nately improbable, it would place high
premium on the Republican nomination,
and come very close to Offeringa guarantee
of Republican success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
THE SPEECH REMAINS.

Nh. John Russell Young registered in
| yesterdays DISPATCH his recollections of
the first Gettysburg dedication at which
Mr.. Lincoln's famous eulogy was deliv-
cred. Mr.. Young thinks that short speech
has been elevated to undue Importance,
and states at length his reasons for think
ing so.
These reasons are more weighty in
classifying Mr.. Young's judgment than
Mr.. Lincoln's Grafton. He does not re-
member any particular applause; he con-
sidered Mr.. Lincoln's delivery ungraceful :;
and he was disappointed, because the
speech was not given to the reporters in
the first place, and because it occupied
only three or four minutes in the next
place In these allegations there is moth
ing new. The speech was anything but
one calculated to raise hurrahs; Mr.. Lin
coins personality was never supposed to
be over-abOunding with graces, and the
brevity of the speech has long been recog-
nized as adding to its force.
Mr.. Young does not question the existing
version of the speech, and that leaves its
standing untouched. The words them
selves remain to show that they contain an
elevation of patriotic thought that is the
more impressive for their simplicity and
terSeneSS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
NOT NAMES ENOUGH.
Street Car Horses Now Have Numbers
Branded ON Their Hoofs.

New York Advertiser.1
A young man who has inst written sue
cessful play was leaning on his cane in COM
pany with an actor-an English importation
watching the passing show on the Broad
way side of the Morton House yesterday,
when, after a silence of several minutes, the
playwright said:
"Do you see anything peculiar about the
Broadway car horses?''
"Nay, nay! Would'st try to guy me?" said
the actor
"Look n. theirh hoofs and tell me if they are
not branded
porter, who was standing near enough to
hear the conversation, did the same, and
discovered No. 369 on the forward left
foot on one of the horses. The figures were
about half an inch long, and had evidently
been just burned into the hoof
Superintendent Newell, of the Broadway
line, who was seen at his Office in the barns
at tlftleth street and Seventh avenue later
question concerning the branding OF the
hoofs OF the horses: "Yes we have been do
ing this for some time now. The idea oc-
CURED to me several years ago, and we find
"What was your object in branding them?"
simply TO keep track of what each horse
was doing. We keep the accounts of each
horse now the same as we do of any man in
our employ. 1t benefits US in q thousand
ways. We know just how many days horse
works, how many days it has been sick, and,
m short, everything 1t does. 1t enables US
to keep such a minute knowledge of their
work that we know just what condition they
are In, and If they are not all right we keep
them in the barn"
Couldn't you do that if you gave them
names instead of numberS?'
eve have 1900 horses in our employ" was
the reply, 'and there Is q limit to names, un-
less you go back into ancient history"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
sINECURE DIRECToRsHIPs.

The Wall street theory of the duties of
directors is presented in the financial cor
uspondence from New York in connec-
ION with the wrecking of the American
Loan and Trust Company 1t is, briefly,
10 exercise good judgment in the selection
If President and then to turn over the en-
tire management to him, with the possible
aid Cf an advisory committee
There Is no doubt that this is the Wall
street practice as it is in the case of too
many corporations outside of Wall street.
But it Is not the correct practice, nor is it
the theory on which corporate organiza-
ton is planned If the President, or anv
single executive officer is to have uncon-
JIolled management, without any checks
or safeguards, the stockholders can elect
the President and get along without any
directors. The correspondence asserts
That the directors are put on for the pur-
pose Of humhugging the public. But that
Very assertion admits that the theory of
corporate organization holds out the prom
i>e Of stability by the supervision of the
directors, and where the promise is broken
the duty Of the directors is unfulfilIed
the directors shall personally watch every
petty transaction or know of every detail
OF the business as soon as it is transacted.
No sensible person has ever required that
of them. But il is no less certain that the
sole purpose OF their existence is 20 exer-
else that general supervision upon the bus
iness Of the corporation which the stock
holders cannot give. The utter perversity
OF tie Wall street view is sufficiently
shown by The idea presented in the CORE
spondeucC, that the stockholders should
keep themselves informed Of the corpora
ton 5 affairs, while the directors created to
dc that work are TO do nothing.
On the whole, the theory of managing
corporations elueidated by this Wall street
authority is calculated to make investors
who are particular about the security of
then Investments very shy of that class of
corporations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.

Wemyss Henderson left for New York
last night. He was pleased at the reception
given the inaugural performance of the
series of summer opera ut the Duquesne. He
thinks that in view of the lack of amuse-
ment at this time of the year. the enterprise
of the Duquesne management will be appre-
ciated.
Henry Aiken, the well-known mechanical
engineer, left for the East last night. Mr..
Aiken said that the plant he is constructing
for the Pennsylvania Steel Company at
Sparrow Point, Md, will be in operation
next month.
James Thompson, the popular chef of
the Anderson, left on vacation last night.
He will make n round of the Eastern cities,
taking in New York, Saratoga and Long
Branch.
John A. Logan, of Youngstown, son of
the late General Logan, and u son-in-liw of
Chauncey Andrews, arrived with q party
last night.
Peter G. Hughes, of the Philadelphia
Times, and Mrs. Hughes, are at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel. They will return this
morning.
Robert T. Rainey, Assistant Auditor of
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., left on a trip west
ward last night
James S. Henry, tine well-known news
paper man, is in town visiting friends.
Prof. Addison Ballard, of Lafayette Col
lege. is guest at the Duquesne.
Captain w. w. O'Neill left for south
western points last night.
J.P Witherow went to New York last
night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
FIGS ARD THISTLES.
Epigrammatic Bits of Moralizing From the
Rams Horn.

Epigrammatic Bits of Moralizing From the
Rams Horn.
Death never stops for hot weather.
People never become any better than they
want to be.
He is not much of man who isn't a hero
to somebody.
People who work for the devil never get
any vacation.
No man is ever alone. When God isn't
with him the devil rs.
The only weak people are those who are
not sure that they are right.
The man who is ruled by his feelings will
always travel in a zig-zag course.
There are people who get credit for being
good, simply because they have poor health.
There is no sweeter music in heaven than
the song that goes up from O grateful heart.
1t is better to kill snake in an awkward
and clumsy manner than not to kill it at all.
The house of a good man may be torn
down, but the man himself will live ON for
ever.
Looking for flowers without thorns is one
of the best ways in this world of fooling your
time away.
A great many people who profess to have
religion do not show it by the way they treat
their horses.
1t may be that sometimes God wants to
show the world that you have light by put
ting you in the dark
Every man has something to do with max
ing public sentiment, and public sentiment
is the power that gives to government its
life.
Whenever the devil wants to perform
piece of extraordinary meanness he puts on
his Sunday clothes and assumes very SOL
emn look.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
CHESTNUTs IN COURT.
Manager Sued for Refusing to Pay for
Bundle of Stale Jokes.

a Bundle of Stale Jokes.
The dull decorum which usually reigns in
English courts was the other day broken by
the amusing case of Guy Fawkes, NJ. p
says an English paper of recent date. Mr..
Wilton Jones, a dramatic author had fur
nished a play of that name to Mr.. Arthur
Roberts, the famous comedian. Mr.. Roberts
refused to pay the price he had offered
originally, saying that the piece contained
too many chestnuts to suit his taste. In
court he produced a long and imposing
array of witnesses and "comic specialists" !"
who testified that M house would stand the
inordinate amount of chestnuts with which
the piece was replete. All the jokes were
rehearsed in court and found lamentably
wanting.
Several of the scenes were borrowed from
other plays, and a switchback railroad had
been taken bodily from somebody else's
piece and thrust violently into "Guy
Fawkes, NJ. P.' Many actors testified that
they themselves had long ago acted scenes
out of Guy Fawkes, NJ p" as scenes from
entirely different pieces. The British pub
lie, they said would not have a heap of
chestnuts palmed on to them as brand new
matter. After very humorous trial, it
was finally decided that Mr.. Roberts should
pay the amount he had originally offered.
1t was solemnly decreed that chestnuts
must be paid for at the same rate as original
matter, If contracted for,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
WILL IL BE ENFORCEne

The circular issued by the Department
of Justice to the United States District
Attorneys with regard to the enforcement
of the antitrust statute is jeered at by the
New York Times, on account of its phrase
Ology. There is more food for sarcasm in
the fact that the sworn officials of the law
have to be directed by the Attorney Gen.
eral to perform their duties. But, as the
phraseology of the Attorney Generals cir
cular asserts that 'it is the duty of the law
officers of the Government, as doubt not
it will be their pleasure, to do everything
possible within the law to suppress them,
and to punish the wrong-doers, it ought
| to meet the appreciation of every one who
wishes to see the trusts suppressed Lam
guage conveying such meaning may be
novel in official circles, but it's eminently
correct, and would be pleasing even if ab-
S0lutely ungrammatical.
If these instructions are carried out in
good faith by the enforcement of the law,
there is no doubt that the end of the great
combinations is close at hand. The law
applies only to combinations to control
interstate traffic; but trust which con-
fines its operations TO single State will be
of very limited power to oppress consum-
ers. Under the law every person engaged
in these monopolies is subject to fine and
imprisonment The property of the trusts
can be seized by officers of the govern
ment while in transportation from State to
State; and any person injured by them can
sue for triple damages. If these provis-
ions are put into force not single trust or
monopoly can continue to do business
within the United States.
But have the law officers of the govern
ment the stamina to put this law into
active operation against the great Million
aires, even when they are instructed to by
the Attorney General? The trust money
kings evidently do not think so: and it re-
mains to be proved that they are mistaken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27
SINGLED FROM THE CROWD.

RUDYARD KIPLING has begun the use
Of the typewriter.
THE oldest banker in the world is lady
deborah Powers, aged &c. senior partner OF
ID. Power & Sons, Lausenberg.
EMPRESS FREDERICK is fascinated by
the genius of II. Rider Haggard and by way
of returning the compliment he has dedi-
Gated his last book to her.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS is said to be the
fastest speaker in the world. Verbatim re-
porters who timed him found that he speaks
ON an average of 2l2 words q minute. Stam-
mering in his youth is accountable for his
remarkable haste in speech.
THE late Mr.. W. H. Gladstone had a
marked talent for music. He was profoundly
versed in the theory of the art, and well ac-
quainted with the works of its great masters,
his musical taste was critical and exacting,
and he played admirably on the organ.
THERE is said to be no truth in the re-
port that Mrs. Frances Hogdson Burnett is
to return to America. She cannot bear the
thought of life in her old home without her
idolized elder son. She is at present living
u very quiet and secluded life near London.
WITH Jay Gould sick with the neuralgia,
c. p. Huntington out of sorts with malaria
and rheumatism, and John d. Rockefeller
under treatment for nervous prostration, it
is not to be marveled at that Wall street
men ask, care our great financiers breaking
DOWN.
NJ. SARCEY, French journalist, has a
novel way of gaining news. He has elegant
apartments, rich cigarettes and choice alb
sinthe. Paris gossips and men of promi-
nence enjoy his hospitality and unburden
secrets and matters of interest. These he
makes subjects for the bright comments
over his signature which grace the Partisan
press.
SHORTLY before the New Orleans killing,
Lieutenant Lucien Young, of the Navy, was
stationed in Washington, and one day he
had business with the Italian Minister. The
Minister treated him rudely and the Ken
tuckian, growing indignant, took up the
papers about which he had gone to the Le-
CATION and flung them full in the Minister'S
face. The Baron complained.to the State
Department, but after a full investigation
the Lieutenant was sustained by both Secre-
tary Blaine and Secretary Tracy.