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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
THE DEMOCRATIC GATHERING.

The meeting of the State League of
Democratic clubs in Pittsburg to-day is
the balancing event to the recent lively
gathering at Scranton of the similar or
CARNATIONS on the Republican side. The
meeting OF the Democratic clubs promises
TO represent large constituency of active
political organizations; but it will lack the
exciting features of the convention at
Scranton, for the reason that there is
decidedly united feeling as to all i'm
portant steps to be taken. Of course there
are Republican critics to assert that if the
harmony that will control the action of
the convention requires the destination of
a capital letter it is the same letter that
begins the name of Governor Pattison's
very active Secretary of State. 1t is never
theless true that the Democratic organiza-
tiOns are pulling together with good will,
and are in fighting trim. Their success of
styear justifies their present good feeling,
and the present aspect of State politics
inspires them with the ambition to repeat
the record.
The political clubs are strong element
of the present era of politics, and the
representatives of the Democratic organi-
cations will be pleasant guests even for
strong Republican city like Pittsburg.
The visitors are assured hearty welcome.
What they will see here should open their
eyes to the benefits of protective policy.
Here the fruits of the tariff furnish an
object lesson that shows the fallacy of
following false lights from outside the
Commonwealth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
The Question Is Whether the Bargain
Would Be Profitable.

Would Be Profitable.
San Francisco Chronicle.l
A dispatch from Washington says that
many rumors are in circulation in the
neighborhood of the State Department on
the subject of Hawaiian annexation, There
are those who look with apprehension upon
the concentration of British strength on the
American continent, and more conspicu-
ously of late in the vicinity of the Hawaiian
Islands. 1t is believed that Great Britain
has designs upon the Hawaiian Kingdom,
and that the present sovereign, Queen
Liliuokalani, is decidedly amenable to Brit
ish influence.
Such is the tenor of the dispatch, and 1t
bears intrinsic evidence of having been con-
cocted in washington for a purpose The
plan evidently is to stir up the question of
annexation, so as to induce the United
States to take some definite steps toward
bringing Hawaii under the American flag.
To effect this the danger of annexation by
England is suggested, it being apparent that
this would arouse American entiment and
lead to the expression of opinion that If the
Hawaiian Islands are to be annexed at all 1t
must be by the United States.
The English press has expressed itself
quite recently on this subject. One of the
leading journals of London poOh-pOohed the
whole subject of annexation, saying that
while 1t did not admit the validity or force
of the Monroe doctrine to the extent claimed
by the United States, it did concede its ap-
phcability in the case of the Hawaiian
islands. 1t may be surmised very easily
that the underlying idea in this annexation
talk is the cents bounty on an annual sugar
crop of something like 24O,0O0,00O pounds.
1t may be that the islands are worth that
premium, or 1t may be that the price is
excessive; but in either event If the United
States wants Hawaii she must get it upon
full and clear understanding and on her own
motion, and not be driven into it by a scare
of British annexation. We could probably
secure the islands with very little trouble,
but the question is whether the bargain
would be Il profitable one for us. 1t certainly
would be for the Hawaiian sugar planters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
SOME PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL.

George NJ. Pullman was on the limited
last evening for Chicago. He said the new
double -decked street car which his company
has been working upon will be exhibited in
Chicago to-day. 1t will also be fully de-
scribed at the convention of street railway
men, which will meet here this month.
Bishop c. s. Fowler, of San Francisco,
was ut the Monongahela yesterday. He left
in the afternoon for Un1ontown. A number
OF ministers left during the day to attend
the annual session of the Pittsburg Confer
ence of the NJ. E. Church, which opens to-
day.
John Ogelive, of Savannah, Ga, is at the
Anderson. He is interested in the South
Florida Land Improvement Company.
L. w. Bigham left YESTERDAY for ALBANY
where he Will be married this afternoon II
Miss Blanche L. Brainard of that city.
Bishop Foss, of the Methodist Church
passed through yesterday from Iowa, where
he has been holding conferences.
w. R. Kimball, of Cincinnati. who is
building the electric road at Beaver Falls, is
at the Anderson.
Judge Reed, who went TO New York from
Williamsport, is expected to arrive in town
this morning.
Cook Bausman, of the Union National
Bank, left last evening ON visit to friends
in Texas.
DIR. J. c. Barr and wife, of Mars station,
are visiting friends in the East End
Frank b. Won Siclen, of the Scientific
american, is at the Duquesne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Aur, of Paris, France,
are guests at the Duquesne
james Duneannon returned Yesterday
from visit to Ireland.
j; T; Muirhead, of London, England, is
at the Duquesne.
W. L. Mellon went to New York last
night.
Robert Pitcairn went East last night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
TRADE AND MONEY.
The Country Is Growing Richer in Gold
With Every Incoming Steamer.

The Country Is Growing Richer in Gold
With Every Incoming Steamer.
New York Press.l
that the amount of gold in transit from
Europe to the United States on Saturday
night was in the neighborhood of $4,000, ,OOO
The prediction of Mr.. Robert Giffen, the
British statiStician, that before $50 COO 900 in
bullion was sent to this country both the
Bank of England and the Bank of France
would raise their rates of discount and check
the movement is discredited by financial
authorities everywhere. As the Press on
last Thursday pointed out, Europe is de-
pendent upon our breadstuffs to avert
famine this year. 1t must have our cereals
to live. And it will have to pay for them in
cash if we want cash. Raising the rate of
discount would not alter this fact. 1t would
only make the operation of purchasing more
costly to Europeans.
Mr. GifTen's other prophecy, that this
country has become overloaded with paper
currency to such an extent that q great
financial crash is inevitable, is simply
ridiculous. The tremendous gold exports of
last spring did not impair public confidence
in gold all notes payable i'll that metal. Now
that the specie tide is coming in instead of
going out, and the country is becoming
richer in gold every week, it is the height
OF absurdfty to suppose that Americans are
going to distrust the currency OF whose
ability they had no doubts when almost
every departing steamship was lessening
the amount of gold in the country. With the
biggest harvest on record and an imperative
foreign demand for all the food we can
spare Americans can afford to laugh ut
calamity shriekers, whether they are in
Kansas or London.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
NAMES OFTEN PUBLISHED.

LESS then score of Russian scholars, it
is asserted, can tranolate Count Tolstoi's
dramatic language directly from the origi-
nal into English.
MEIssoNIER was to have painted one of
the frescoes Of the Pantheon, but he died be-
fore he had finished his sketch. Detaille,
Cagln or Constant will take his place.
QUEEN V1cToRIA's gift to France will
be fine portrait of herself in gorgeous
frame, upon which will be blended the arms
OF England and France, and other emblems
OF the Queens respect for the Republic.
QUEEN CHRISTINA, of Spain, is persist
emily carrying out, to the intense disgust OF
her household, the reforms which the late
Duke of Aosta when King attempted to IN
troduce-reforms by which the viands and
wines coming from the royal table are re-
tanned instead of becoming the perquisites
of servants, as was formerly the case.
The Princess Ludwig, of Bavaria gave
birth few days ago to her thirteenth Child.
Twelve of her children are living. The
Princess is the daughter of Duke Ferdinand,
OF Modena, and an Archduches of Austria.
She was born in 1S49 and was married in 1868.
No other royal Princess in Europe is the
mother of so many children as this popular
Bavarian lady.
ARIZONA has a woman mining expert in
the person of Miss Nellie eastman, young
Miss in her early twenties. She came to
Tucson from Kansas nine years ago, and
then, working with her brother in the mines,
she became wonderfully expert in judging
ore. 1t is said her Judgment is so good that
the Oldest and most experienced experts are
Influenced by it.
AN American dentist by the name of
Young has played a prominent role in con-
nection with the recent differences between
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania and her hus-
band. 1t appears that he has formed
part of the royal household for several
years and that his influence on the i'm
pressionable Carmen Sylvia" was almost as
great as that of Miss Vacaresco or of Mr.
Scheffer, her Majesty's Alsantian private
secretary.
THE future Empress Eugenie was just 26
years of age when Napoleon III, fell in love
with her at ball. He had heard of her
magnificent physique through the rumors Of
her appearance when dragged in flowing
draperies from little lake into which she
had fallen on her mothers estate in Malaga.
From a pale, thin, shy girl she suddenly
blossomed out into a dazzling beauty.
Eugenie and Queen Victoria are warm per-
sonal friends now.
MUCH to the distress of Lord and Lady
Salisbury, their relative, the Earl of Gallo
way, has returned to England, and it has
been somewhat pointedly announced that
he has mot reaped much advantage" from
his trip abroad. This means trat he is still
as crazy as he was before ho left. Indeed,
he is scarcely responsible for his actions,
having repeatedly got himself into the most
horrible scrapes. from which he has been
extricated only with the utmost difficulty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
RUSSIA WANTS TO BORROW.
II She Gets the Money She VIII Be Able to
Keep Nations Quiet.
Chicago Tribune.1

Chicago Tribune.1
Russia wants to borrow money, and the
French, it is said, have agreed to lend it.
The amount of the loan is problematical.
According to one statement the sum to be
received will be about $50, 600 600 net, the face
of the loan being nearly s59,O00.OOO. Another
story makes the loan S96 500, ,0OO. on which ss2,-
600 COO will be realized. In either case the
money is to be borrowed at 81 to IS, with in
terest at 8 per cent, Il large consideration to
be paid for the use of the money, which is
talked about by some people as if it were
wanted "to preserve the peace of Europe"
If Russia gets the money that country will
be able to keep the rest of the nations quiet
for quite little while, provided they con-
sent to remain peaceable.
If they will not consent, but insist on bor-
rowing money for the purpose of preserv-
ing the said peace on their own account, the
result may be different Apparently some
of them are SO much impressed with a sense
of the value of peace that they are de-
termined to have it, though at the cost of
fighting to secure it. At this distance it is
not easy to say which of the great powers is
most anxious for peace at that price, but it
would seem to be Russia, with France to
help her in the laudable effort. 1t is thought
that the terms of the loan, by which Russia
is to gain possession of large part OF the
piled with by France without causing any
financial trouble in that country, though
the result may be depression in some other
lands where apprehension is felt in regard
to the kind of peace to be secured by the
use of the money!.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
THE IMPERIAL nEcIpRoc1rr IDEA.

A communication elsewhere in this
issue takes exception to recent editorial
comments of TUE DISPATCH with regard
to the movement in Great Britain for an
imperial reciprocity. In way that shows
careful study of the question our con-
tributor discusses the whole matter, and
makes the conclusion appear very strong
that there is little likelihood of the forma-
ton of such zollverein as is included in
most of the schemes for federation of the
British colonies
THE DISPATCH will take less exception
to the views of its correspondent than he
does to its previous expression. 1t is
more than probable his view of the situa-
ton is correct and that both the interests
and the political opinions of England will
prove an obstacle to the project. The
proposition was referred to simply as a
feature of the situation which gains the
support of an element in British politics
and which is of interest to the United
States. We can hardly assent to our cor
respondents idea that this is giving too
much dignity to what he styles ''mere
vaporing;" and yet we can agree to the
general drift of his very interesting and
thorough review of the influences bearing
on that question.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
Social Chatter.

Ara meeting of large number of the
young people of St. Johns X. c. Church,
Thfrtv-secOnd street, a literary society was
organized and the following officers elected:
Rev. Father Keating, President; David FINN,
Vice President and Manager; Miss Mollie
ODonnell, Secretary; Rev. Father NC Mcheever,
treasurer. After the usual routine business
was transacted an enjoyable entertainments
was given by several of the members: John
). Miller, one of them, who has lately been
admitted to the bar, made short speech.
BELLEVUE is falling into line with other
enterprising towns, and will hold series OF
entertainments on the Y. NJ. c. A plan, this
winter, in their new school hall, Whlch Will
be fitted up with stage, opera chairs and
other conveniences The young men OF the
borough are engineering the scheme, ana IL
is having the support of the best people In
the place.
Miss GRACE BAMvoERT HENDERSON, Of Ere
mont street. Allegheny, has returned to AL
legheny College, Meadville. Miss Henderson
intends to take the classical course, and Will
graduate this year.
Miss MARIA PARLoA, the famous authority
on cooking. is the guest of Mrs. James Cay
ley, of Braddock. Miss Parloa gave the first
of series of lectures yesterday in Odeon
Hall, Braddock.
noon by Mrs. F. GemTnil, of Park Place, Will
kinsburg. in honor of her guest, Miss Mary
Foster, of Tarentum.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the Nor
r1s Social OF Wylie avenue, for a series OF
dances to be given during the winter.
Rev. J. F. CORE, pastor of the NJ. l.. Church,
at Williamsburg, leaves to-day to attend the
Methodist Conference at UniOnLOwn-
THE German Ladies' Society, of wilkins
burg, will give a social this evening in the
Rohrman building on Penn avenue.
THE annual reception and contribution
for the Children's Temporary Home, Wash
ington, is set for October 10.
THE Swedish male sextette gave q con-
cert last evening in Old City Hall. Another
will be given this evening.
THE marriage of Miss Elizabeth Reymer to
Mr.. Robert D. Totten is announced to take
place shortly.
Miss MAGGIE MCCORMICK and Adam Schaf-
fer, of the West End, will be married this
evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
sPANISH-AMERICAN OUTBREAKS.

The outbreak in Guatemala, which was
only prevented from becoming success
full revolution by the superior military
forces at the command of President Baril-
las, is another emphatic indication of the
spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction per-
vading the Spanish-American republics.
Of course, it is more than possible that
many of the outbreaks of which we hear
almost with every new phase of the moon
from one of our Southern neighbors or an
other are due to the volatile and ignorant
character of the populace, worked upon
by interested and ambitious demagogues.
But it is also the fact that the pretext for
these outbreaks is very generally fur
nished by the fact that the executive heads
of these Governments are rarely able to
draw the necessary distinction between a
constitutional President and a dictator
This is the fact in Guatemala. as it was in
Chile Even in Brazil there is little doubt
that Da Fonseca holds more arbitrary
power than was claimed by Dom Pedro.
The nature and results of the Spanish
American theories of executive functions
is seen in the fact that Bogran, Barillas,
BarriOs and many others, while presiding
over comparatively poor governments,
have accrued immense fortunes, invested
for their own safety in countries where the
exigencies of revolution cannot reach
These facts give especial point to the
cries which the Guatemalan mob raised
against dictatorship and the plunder of
the public treasury. This especial out
break seems to have been put down, but a
system of politics under which there is
reason for popular faith in such indict-
ments must always stand on an insecure
foundation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30

Philadelphia North American, Rep.l
There is no doubt of the constitutional
right of the Governor to assemble the Sem
ate in extra session for such q purpose as
that which he declares to be the object of
the convening which he has commanded by
the proclamation published. Nor is there
anything to be gained by treating his ac-
tion as merely one of the political
maneuvers of n heated canvass. 1t is that,
of course, and the Democratic officials now
in office at Harrisburg are determined to
avail themselves of every avenue of hope on
which they fancy they may find progress to-
ward the defeat of the Republican ticket
1t is just as true, however, that the Repub-
licans of Pennsylvania have no greater
sympathy with official misdoing than their
adversaries, while it by no means tol-
lows that this extra session of the Senate
will discover any greater evidences of NAL
administration thun have already been
made public. We should join with hearty
accord in approving any possible form of in
quiry that may be honestly conducted with
a view of obtaining the truth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
LONG EXPECTED DAY.

Patience and perseverance bring us to
the fruition of effort in the fulness of time,
but sometimes it is a very long time
Eighteen years ago the work of provid-
ing Pittsburg with a postofice building
commensurate to its business was begun.
The work has gone on since then, some
times at an imperceptible rate of progress.
Lustres of years have passed one after the
other; the men who were young then now
begin to recognize their advancing years;
but the work of urging on the new post
Office was always with us. BUTT has been
kept up, not always with eminent success
or edifying patience. Yet it has proceeded
until to-day the postOf1ce force will oc-
cupy its quarters in the new building.
1t will be difficult for the public mind
to realize that this work, which seemed
coexistent with the course of time, is
ended at last. The grasping of that idea
will be equally difficult with hardship to
the average Pittsburger of thinking or
speaking of the postofice as located any,
where else than at the corner of Smithfield
street and Fifth avenue. But after the
public has become accustomed to the new
and enlarged accommodations for its
postal business in the new building, it will
perceive that the new postotfice is repre-
sentative of the new era, while the old and
dingy quarters are typical of a past stage
in Pittsburg development.
The rapidity of Pittsburg's growth as
well as the everlasting slowness of govern
ment building operations are reflected in
the fact that the new building, planned
dozen years ago to meet Pittsburg's re-
quirements for generation to come, is so
inadequate to the present needs that it
has to have an addition built onto it be-
fore it is finished.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30

are those imposed by the laws under which
the Union Pacific received its land grant
and subsidy, to ensure its performance of
the contract with the Government
The Government Directors were also
officers created to ensure that it should be
managed to the same end. The principle
of selection and the construction of their
duties, evolved by those gentlemen, have
resulted in the corporation doing as it
pleaseS. A correlative result is that legal
restraints upon that corporation and even
more in the case of the Central Pacific,
have been treated as dead letters. The
effort of the present Government Directors,
in declaring the hampering effects of legal
provisions that have never been obeyed, is
a Joke of the first water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
PATTISON'S PROCLAMATION.
Pointed Opinions From Outside Sources as
Well as Those Within the State Lines
Partisan. Bias Governs Many of the

Well as Those Within the State Lines
Partisan Bias Governs Many of the
Comments.
New York Advertiser. Ind
Pennsylvania has ceased to be a Paradise
for boodleps. There is q decided tendency
over there to make the way of the trans
gressor hard and uncomfortable: nor has
this tendency manifested itself too soon.
Pennsylvania has been plucked and plumb
cred as few other States have. and it is time
the honest people of the State were having
their innings. The bank revelations have
smirched many persons in high places and
apparently the truth is not vet all revealed.
The Governor certainly is justified in this
course by the character of the correspond
ence which passed between John Bardsley
ana the Auditor-General,a and has been made
public during tie past few davs. This COR
respondence indicated that the public funds
were being iuggied with in an extraordinary
fashion. Bardsley is paying the penalty for
his part of the performance, and the busi-
ness of the extra session of the Senate will
part in the stealings.
Auditor General McCamant and State
Treasurer Boyer have enjoyed the conf
dence of the people of the State to an un-
usual degree; but, for that matter, so did
John Bardsley. If they are guilty of any
wrongdoing the people should know 1t. The
time seems TO have come for the punish
ment of faithless public servants in Penn
sylvania, and no guilty man should be al
lowed to escape, even if the jails have to be
enlarged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-30
RHYNKLED RHYMLETS.

Restaurant-keeper-It poured torrents
midday.
His Wife-I suppose 1t affected trade somewhat?
ACKNOWLEDGMENT did worse. 1t compelleS
me to lunch with the customers.-H1rper's B1zGr
'Two hearts that beat as one
A heavy step-a scare
And when her pa arrived
One heart alone was there
-AtJrnta Constellation.
"Can Won help me?'' said the tramp, ad
dressing the DOCTOR who was riding past.
PERHAPS can, - said the doctor, humorously
I'm a physician. What's your trouble?''
II think, sir, need little change most" HI
got it.-Ne1o York Press.
ST. I,ouis Girl-These flannel shirts ar,
for my brother, and hope they are all right.
CIerk-They are the best quality, miss, but the:
may shrink some
st. Louis Girl-Sbrink. Mhat does that mean!-
CIottier and Ftupisiter.
The parsOn thus the lesson brings
Ofprogress TO his son and heir,
s'No lowiy aims your mind should share,
Reach ever after higher things
And when there1t the youth elate
Did seek the jam on top shelf hid,
The clerical adviser did
His epidermis Ia ;erate.
-Boston Courier Journal.
"Have they discovered yet why the water
of Lake Ho2atcong have subsidized so much?''
..Yes; there prohibition camp meeting NJ
near the inlet. .''-JldJe.
As the couple sat by the parlor fire
Through the early hours of the winter night
1t OFTEN aroused her fathers ire
As he thought of the waste of fuel and light.
Now thoughts of the waste as the hour grows late
No longer torture the parents soul;
The summer spoon by the garden gate
Needs neither kerosene. gas nor coal
-Denuer Ssen.
Somebody had half MIXED that COW
came into the house.
We'll. do hope they didn't get the cream half,'
said his wife.-AaIpsr's Bazdr