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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
PoLYGAMY STILL LIVES.

"The Territory of Utah is knocking al
the door of the Union and demanding
Statehood The demand should be granted
Thus saith the Boston Globe, and to show
cause for the assertion declares t'the Nor.
mons have abandoned polygamy, and
thus the only decent argument for keeping
out the most populous of the Territories is
no longer of any force"
The foregoing is an interesting specimen
of the false reasoning engendered by parti-
san desire. In its anxiety to secure some
more Democratic Senators, Representatives
and electoral votes, our cultured CO.
temporary takes the last public utterances
of the Mormon Church as truth,
and argues therefrom. 1t is not so very
long since that the Mormons did
publicly declare they would abandon
polygamy and live in conformity to the
laws of the land. But have they done so?
Promising and doing are two different
things, and while the Mormons promised
much they have as yet done little. Their
agents are still in various parts of this
country and Europe proselyting indus
triously, and always holding out the same
oldinducement- -polygamy-to prospective
converts. Proof of this is to be found in
the news almost any day in the week.
From time to time the papers are publish
ing accounts Of these agents in this
country, and one of the chief duties of the
Immigration Inspectors in the East is to
send back would-be Mormons. In the
light of these facts it does not seem that
polygamy has been abandoned.
Utah, as she has been and as she is to-
day, is disgrace to the rest of the country
Laws have been passed againsth her peculiar
institution, and have been enforced when
ever possible; but by 3 monstrous system
of perjury the evil is still kept in existence
And until polygamy is destroyed, root and
branch, the Territory will not be erected
into State. If our Democratic friends
wish to gain the increased representation,
let them direct their first efforts toward
making it possible by killing polygamy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
PARLIAMENT TO AID THE SEALS.

The news that the British Parliament
will pass measure prohibiting the killing
of seals in Bering Sea, until the vexed
question between this country and Eng.
land is settled, may be taken by some as
evidence of back down on the part of
Lord Salisbury. Others will see in it only
desire on his part to have the matter
finally decided. The step is undoubtedly
in that direction, but it is as yet impossible
to say that it is not also back down.
The only trouble is that it should have
been taken some time ago. 1t seems that
before the measure can pass Parliament,
much damage will be done, even If only
ordinary activity is used in pursuit of the
game; and when it is known that the news
will reach the fishing grounds at least
some days before the protective cruisers,
it will be seen that the prey will suffer
doubly.
1t is idle to speculate ON the effect of the
news on the relations between Canada and
England 1t will not likely precipitate
war even if it does not enhance the blue
nose opinion of Lord Salisbury. All that
is necessary is to know that, if the news
is true, the Bering Sea will be declared
closed for a. time at least, and that the
question of jurisdiction over it is in fair
way to settlement in Uncle Sans favor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

P. J, Ritter, of Laird & Co., Market
street. left last night for New York en- route
for HE Tss nosa Sy
gentleman Of 98 years Of age, and he at once
decided to visit him. He will be absent
about six weeks.
Captain W. B. Stout, the wellknown
foundryman and machinist of Connellsville,
went to Cleveland last night to visit his son,
who is leading man with the George A.
Baker Opera Company.
Mrs. Lena Carr, mother of Joseph and
George Carr, has just sailed for Muehlhausen,
Germany. She will spend several months
in Switzerland, returning home about the
1st of October.
John *. White, tannery owner and
Sweeney and wife, Of Wheeling, are guests
at the Monongahela.
The Duquesne's guests include G. A.
Egly, travelling agent for the Queen and
Crescent and b. A. Wintermitz, the New
Castle lawer.
Alumni of the 81 class of Washington
Jefferson College to the number of 40 held
last evening
General Shaner, of the United States
Army passed through the city yesterday.
on his way home from Washington to st.
Louis.
Messrs. G. W. Bray and J. Morgan Cole
man, GWO Iron manuIdCUuI6IS OF IOuQgS-
town, were ut the Hotel Duquesne yester-
day.
j. T. Leary and f. d. Casanave, superin-
tendent of Motive Power of the Western
Pennsylvania lines, are at the Anderson.
o. De Forest, son of the New York coal
and coke man, passed through on the linn
tied for Chicago last night
Thomas Pennard, Superintendent of Con-
stFuction of the Western Union offices, went
to Buffalo last night.
John B. Larkin, Charles r. McKenna
and ]. o. Brown returned from Harrisburg
yesterday morning.
Colonel NJ. A. Greer, of Altoona, and F.
A. Smythe, of Johnstown, are at the Seventh
Avenue.
James Lane, of Nashville, Tenn, is in
Pittsburg purchasing machinery for new
mill.
United States District Attorney Walter
Lyon returned from the East last night
j. S Coxey, the well-known horse owner,
of Massillon, O., is at the Anderson.
Colonel Carroll hampton, of Williams
port, is at the Hotel Anderson.
Rev. j. Meditation, of Strabane, ireland,
is At the Central Hotel.
James Dunlap, Of Meadville, is at the
Seventh Avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
IAwLEssNEss IN NEW ORLEANS

The mob that slew the Italians in the
Jail at New Orleans claims to have been
serving the cause of justice, but how great
an injury they did that cause is being
made plain daily. Popular confidence in
legal methods was dealt as deadly blow
as any the miserable followers of the
Malta received, and New Orleans is in
constant peril of a renewal of laWless
bloodshed, with or without a high-sound-
ing pTeteNt.
This is the penalty of once allowing mob
law to prevail Now it is the slow prog
ress in the prosecution Of the alleged Jury
bri5er5 that hot-headed citizens of New
Orleans seize upon as an excuse for
threats of violent action outside the
law; and, unhappily for the Cres-
cent City, 10 man of commanding
influence has as yet arisen to stem the
lawless tide. The newspapers of New
Orleans reflect this un-American spirit and
seem 10 be disposed to encourage it, which
is another regrettable feature of the situa-
tion there. 1t is all very well for the in
habit&nts to be resolved to destroy official
corruption in and about the courts, but the
constant reiteration of the cry that the
evils shall be destroyed by legal and judi
cial methods, if possible, but by other
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
LIGHT, LIVELY LINES.

t'See that fellow over there? He doesn't
know where he'll get his next NEAL
''You surprise me. He looks well to do.,'
''He Is; but he doesn't know whether III dine at
home or at the club. ''-Brooktyn Life.
Jack Hardup-Oh, Miss Ploutot may I
hope at all?
Miss Ploutot-No, Mr.. Hardup, this must 20 no
further, but will be sister to you.
Jack Hardup-Well, then, Miss Ploutot just
mind the old gentleman that I'm his son; I'm
afraid he might forget me In his will.Rdk Record.
Dieky (an 1S-year-old man of the world)-
Let me take you to the next dance. now do!
Nelly "a 17-year-old debutante)-6O and ask your
mamma, Dicky. don't want to take you into the
fast set without her permission.-htasey's Weekly.
Papa" inquired the editors only son,
''what do you call your Officer
We'll" was the reply, 1.-THE world calls an
EDITORS office the sanctum sanctorum, but
DON'T
.'Then, guess" and the boy thoughtful
for moment .'that mammals ONCE is spanctum
spanetorum, isn't it?''-H Washington Star.
A family on Fourteenth avenue is blessed
with olive branches eght-sevcn girls and one boy.
Recently new little girl arrived, and the eldest
daughter exclaimed, in tones of the deepest con-
eern: Another daughter 10 marry OF This Is
awful ~
When her father and mother were discussing the
all important question of the name for the midget
the eldest of the household heard from again.
II think, said she, emphatically, you had better
name her Amen ''-Detroit Tribune.
oh, to Think of Itl-The Joneses had q
dinner party last night, dear, and cook tells me
they had peas at 10 shillings pint. Think OF peas
at that price.
Just So my love; that's about all we can do. ~
Judy.
The following inscription has been dis
covered on tomb in an old churehyard:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Ram,
His SOULS in the bosom OF Abraham.
That's all very well for Jonathan Ram
But. say, how about poor Abraham
-Idotiche ReadschmL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
FIN AND SMOKE CONSUMPTION

The New York Commercial Aduertiser
pokes a little good natured fun at a
Massachusetts, man who has invented a
smoke consumer. According to our met
ropolitan cotemporary ga device that
would abolish smoke has been sought by
inventors with all the avidity and ap-
pGrently all the hopelessness that charac-
terized the search for the secret of per-
petual motion" The italics are ours, and
call attention to the fact thatit is sometimes
necessary to qualify statement even
when made in fun. From the word zap
parently'' we deduct that our cotemporary
is not altogether sure that it is taking an
unassailable position. Its caution is COM
mendable, or rather would be, if it were
not rule that sensible people do not talk
unless thoroughly acquainted with their
subject.
Leaving the Massachusetts, genius out of
the discussion altogether, it can be asked
if there is any connection between the
consumption of smoke and the secret of
perpetual motion. There does not seem
to be. The theory of smoke consumption
is thoroughly sensible one and has found
acceptance among the brightest minds in
the world, while the secret of perpetual
motion is, to say the least, hardly to be
dignified by mention in the same breath.
Pittsburg, as city, is so greatly inter
ested in the abolishment of smoke that
anything on the subject will receive atten-
ton. Good work in the right direction is
now doing much, and it is more than prob
able thai the New York journalist who
wrote the Commercial Adgertiser's humor-
Gus article may yet come here and see
what he calls ga smoke consumer that
consumes smoke"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

SIR JOHN MACDONALD is still suffering
from an attack of indigestion.
JAY GOULD will not take long cruise
on the Atlanta this year. So says son Ed
win.
porter that he has no fancy for further
Arctic exploration.
BULow gives up his plan to conduct a
spring season of concerts at Lisbon "on ac-
count of Ill health.'
q, D. TENNY, Of Concord, is to paint a
picture of Revolutionary General John
Stark for the State of New Hampshire from
such data as exist
M. CHAPU, the sculptor who died
recently, left unfinished statue of Byron
designed for the Greeks. 1t will be finished
by one of his pupils.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY has been in Ohio
founding woman suffrage associations, at
tending the State Suffrage Convention and
cheering the hearts of her followers to re-
newed efforts for the cause.
PROSPER L. SENAT, the Philadelphia
landscape painter, hasfeturned to the banks
of the Schuylkill after trip about the
Mediterranean, and exhibits over 100 oils and
water colors, souvenirs of his travels, at the
Art club.
JEAN JACQUES WEISS, the French
journalist who died last W Wednesday, was the
best known newspaper man in France.
Since the death of the famous Emile de
Girardin he was noted as the '.1rst journal
ist'' of his country.
MARIE WILT, the famous retired prima
donna, has been dismissed as completely
cured from the private asylum at FeldofT,
near Prague, and the free disposition over
her fortune of 100000 forms has been re-
stored to her.
SENATOR MCHALE, of Minnesota, the
author of the famous anti-tights bill, is out
in a letter in which he indignantly denies
that he is the laughing stock of his State.
On the contrary, he says he is just as popu-
lar with the people as he ever was, and a
little more so.
COUNT Won MoLTKE left number of
valuable MSS, which will be given to the
public before long. The old man used to
spend some of his leisure hours at Kreisau in
writing down "reminiscences of his long life
and character sketches of eminent men with
whom he had come In contact. The chief
literary work, however, which he has left
consists of number of historic and ethno-
graphic studies, that are said to be of great
value and importance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29

day. accompanied by. her mother, Mrs, s.
George Fairly, who VIII remain in the West
I until September.
Mas. TAYnAN, Of Union avenue, Allegheny,
sister-in-law, Mrs. j. W. Thompson, Of
| Helena, Mont. Her guest was thus given an
city, city. ~ - 'Hee''ns n0r n'eho' An 'n''
/ BTBos W. KrSa, Miss Carrie Tarrant and
the Alpine quartet were the leading attrnc-
tions at an entertainments given last stevening
| in the Fifth q. P. Church for the benefit OF
| the Sabbath school.
THE Iron City Band, ofthe West End, gave
q literary and musical Entertainment last
evening at Metropolitan HAL Hail and the pro-
ceeds were given to the widow of the late
George b Clinton.
TIE reception and tea given at the San
dusky Street Baptist Church last evening
States" as usual, carried on the honors of
the evening.
SISTER CArHARINE (Kate Drexel) left for her
new home In Philadelphia, taking with her
ID Sisters and Mother Inez. The latter win
shortly return to Pittsburg to continue her
work here
The Sons of Veterans met the old soldiers
of Post at Mansfield last night and came or
the Held winners to the extent of q beauti-
ful stand or colors presented them by their
sires.
AT O'CLOCK dinner, with q small number Of
guests, was presided over by Mrs. Joseph
Dflworth last evening at her charming home
on Bidwen street, Pittsburg.
A RECEPTION and concert was given by the
Ninth ward school, Allegheny, yesterday
afternoon which was greatly enjoyed by all
present.
THE Thursday Night Clubs reception at
Braun's Dancing Academy last evening
proved one OF the most pleasant given this
season.
MRS. JENNEr DUNN, Miss Annie Dunn and
Miss Ida Dunn, OF Sharpsburg, sailed on
Thursday, the 18th, for an extended trip to
Europe.
JOSEPH H GORDON, of the Pennsylvania
Company, and wife left last evening for a
two weeks trip through the West.
MRS. A. E. W. PAINTER was host last even
ing at charming luncheon at which ten Of
her friends were entertained
Mrs. WILLIAM HOLMES entertained dozen
Of her friends at dinner last evening at her
elegant residence.
1T is expected that 10000 persons will at
tend the Orangemen's picnic at Hutton July
u.
MISS HELEN WILLIAMS, of Richmond, Ind,
is visiting Mrs. E. H. Dermitt, East End.
MISS JOSIE MCCULLOUGH, of Cincinnati, is
visiting Mrs. James A. Henderson.
j. J. HOLMES CoMMANDERY, Company C, pic
nicked at Lake Grove yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
JUSTICE TO THE RED MAN.

The acquittal yesterday of Plenty.
| Horses, the slayer of Lieutenant Casey,
will strike most people as a fair verdict.
Plenty Horses when he shot the army Of
ficer was under the influence of the crazy
enthusiasm engendered by the ghost
dance, and the deed was no more treach-
erous than many other acts of combatants
on both sides. If war was not being
waged in the fullest sense of the word at
the time Lieutenant Casey met his death,
the conditions were practically the same
as they would have been in actual war
fare. The evidence of United States
army officers, and comrades of Casey's
showed that Plenty Horses was justi-
fied in believing that the United States
forces advancing upon Pine Ridge were
hostile, and that Lieutenant Casey in ap-
preaching the Indian camp laid himself
open to the suspicion of being spy. A
Sioux on the warpath could hardly be ex-
pected to deal gently with hostile soldier
who appeared to be accommodating the In
dian lines and, regrettable as the death Of
brave man like Lieutenant Casey must
always be, it would not have been consist
ent with justice to have hanged his slayer.
The decision of the court martial in
Plenty-Horses' favor ought to have good
effect upon the Sioux and disaffected In
dians generally, for it will show them in
the plainest possible way that the white
mans justice is dealt out with impartial
hand without respect to persons or tint of
skins. And in dealing with the red man
in the past the Caucasian has not been
conspicuously inclined to give him justice,
and much less to tincture that justice with
mercy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
ANUNsAyoRY RECORD.

When the Legislature that adjourned
sine die yesterday was chosen people who
took pains to analyze its composition did
not detect among the members much
material for craftsmanship. With mis-
givings they saw it assemble, with feelings
of relief they see it disband 1t had
glorious opportunities, but failed to grasp
them, and will go down into Legislative his
tory unhonored and unsung. The citizens
were free with suggestions from the start,
but all were ignored. Broken promises,
violated pledges, imperative substitutes,
mangled measures and veto-inviting enact
ments constitute the sum total of the work
accomplished.
A glance at few of the reeord-making
suggestions rendered by the people will con-
vince right-thinking citizens that this is
not too severe an arraignment The de-
mand for road law which would lift the
highways out of the mud was met by dis
torted enactment that invited veto.
From industrial centerS an appeal was
sent to forward the work of the Ship Canal
Commission by the passage of resolution
ordering the printing of its maps and report.
No more important matter was ever called
to the attention of any Legislature, but
this one lacked breadth enough to grasp
its grand scope and national bearing, and
it went by the board. Monopoly's rule
prevented an anti-discrimination enact
ment and kept the bill for reducing tele-
phone tolls from getting beyond the CON-
mittee room. After overcoming innumer-
able obstacles the ballot reform bill in de-
formed shape was passed Only the vehe-
ment protests Of the people put it in
shape fit for presentation to the Governor
and the Commonwealth.
At such a record the finger of scorn
points. Happily the tongue of scandal is
silenced. Corruption cannot be added to
the list of sins of omission and commission
which will be treasured up against the day
of reckoning. The imbecile actions at
tending the closing hours of the profitless
session were fitting finale. Cats and
owls introduced into the House may have
furnished amusement to the overworked
statesmen, and the fireerackers may have
served to keep them awake, but it will
hardly be claimed that they were neees-
sary. At least the amount of good done
during the session did not call for any such
wild celebration.
The statesman who set the hour for ad-
journment deserves the thanks of the
populace.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
A FEW STOLEN RHYMES

The colonel left the lovely miss
He called that eve TO sec,
And as he went she cried, please kiss
The regiment for me-"
The tall giraffe with rapture giows
As he swallows his wisp of hay,
And he blesses his neck as down 1t goes,
For he tastes 1t all the way.
All! blissfull thrill
That through you goes
When you iud bill
In last years. clothes,
In tireiess whirl this earth Is found
Forever toward the morrow hummfAg;
The love that makes the werld 60 round
Must be the love Of what 10 comingl
The clerk who has been hired
Grows strange beyond doubt;
For when he has been fired
He says he is put out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
TIE CHILEAN MUDDLE.

The Itata affair is rapidly becoming
more of a farce as time passes. All sorts
of rumors are started, only to be exploded,
and the only reliable news is that the
Charleston is still chasing She has ar
rived at Callao, but more than that is not
known. 1t is surmised, however, that the
insurgent may yet allow the fugitive ves-
sci to be captured. This is cheering; but
as it is certain that nothing of the kind
will happen until after she has unloaded
her cargo, pleasure in the announcement
is somewhat tempered THE DISPATCH
some days ago predicted that some such
solution of the problem might be at
tempted, and pointed out that it probably
would not end the matter. 1t was not the
Itata that could do harm so much as it
was the arms she carried, and if Balma-
ceda's Government triumphs the capture
of an empty vessel may not be thought to
satisfy the outraged neutrality laws
1t would seem, then, that this country
must desire the insurgents to win, but is
taking a rather mderhand way of aiding
them Mexico is already giving them
secret help, if reports are to be believed,
and may even 90 so far as to give active
assistance. Should she do so, Balmaceda's s
fate is settled, as the insurgents would
greatly increase their resources and en-
large their sphere of active operations.
Lack Of aid has been the only thing that
prevented the insurgents winning long
ago, and with Mexico openly and the
United States secretly aiding them, they
are bound TO come out on top.
But the United States may not be Sc
cretly aiding them. We hope not The
question as to which party to the Chilean
war is in the right has notyet been settled,
ana while Balmaceda's s Government has a
representative at Washington need not be
settled by this country. Complete neu-
trality is the only position for the United
States, and complete neutrality means the
capture Of the Itata and her cargo.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
HOMES AT PRISON GATES.

A Scotch Lady Leaves $3.50, 900 to Estab-
Ish Them Here and in England.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, May 2s.-Ballington Booth, the
son of General Booth, is expected here from
England a week from next Saturday. Al
most Immediately after his return he and
Mrs. Booth will start on a 9o00-mile trip
through this country, in order to inspect the
various branches of the Salvation Army
Mrs. Booth said to-day that Scotch lady
named Mrs. Bell had bequeathed to the
established here and in England "prison gate
homes' near jails and prisons for the shelter
and welfare of discharged convicts.
Mrs. Booth said further that q number of
the ladies connected with the army are
living in single, uncarpeted rooms. They
circulate among the very poor and show
them that the persons who are trying to
scrub,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Eugene Ortolan.

Eugene Ortolan, French diplomatist and
musical composer, is dead in Paris. He composed
the oratorio ''Tobie;" the comic opera 'Lisette =,
represented at the Theater Lyrique in 1856; the
operette La Monte de Roseovo, ~ represented at
the Bouffes-Parisiens in 1857, and 'L'Urne, ~ with
a libretto by Octave Feuillet and Jules Barber,
which is to be PLAYED at the Opera Comique for the
first time, next season. He published in 1851
valuable work on international law, ''Des Moyens
d'Acquerir lie Domaine International" His
diplomatic career, aided by the influence of his
father the celebrated jurist, Elzear Ortolan was
begun as an attaehe of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and finished Minister Plenipotentiary,
He was an officer of the Legion of Honor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-29
1T WOULD SEEM STRANGE

To HAVE race week without a rainy day.
To HAVE May Festival that paid ex-
penses.
To HEAR soda water fountain sizzing on
Sunday.
To SEE woman pass a mirror without
glancing into it.
To HEAR the English language spoken by a
gang of railroad laborers.
To SEE the home ball team hold second
place for more than two days.
To SEE three ladies talking on the street
without blocking the pavement
To SEE all the City Hall officials sitting
down toa quiet little dinner together.
To SEE cornermen enforcing the ordinance
regulating the driving of vehicles in city
streets.