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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
THE TENNESSEE TROUBLE.

The condition of affairs in the Tennessee
mining regions is a grave indication of the
length to which the policy of force and the
principle that might makes right may
carry things The statement that an army
of miners armed with Winchester rifles
hold The mountain district, and are setting
the authorities at defiance, while the Ex-
eaCtiva of the State is trying to assemble
an armed force to suppress the insurrec-
ton, Is sufficient to demonstrate that some
thing very much like anarchy now reigns
in that region.
The trouble arose from the objections of
the miners to the employment of convcts
in the mining industry, While convict
mining camps are in most cases blots on
civilization, there was but one way for the
miners to remedy the matter in accordance
With the principles of popular government.
They did not choose to take that way but
resOrted TO force, with the result that
Tennessee is threatened with temporary
return of the experiences of civil war.
OF course this is extremely disagreeable
10 the South, and imposes on that State the
evident necessity of suppressing the out
break. But Southern opinion may well
ask itself whether it has not some re-
sponsibility Tor the extreme length to
which the defiance of law has been carried.
The legitimacy of the resort to mob law,
the practice Of lynehing and the theory
that might makes right, have had especial
vogue in the South for many years. If it
Is permissible to lynch one class of obnox-
ious people, and 10 subject another to mid
night whippingS, in violation to law, is not
the lesson clearly taught to the miners
that they have right to resist in arms the
introduction of convict labor among them?
1t is equally obvious and pertinent that
while the state Of warfare continues the
msurgent miners are likely to get no wages
and little food. Disorders which suspend
the law always inf1ict their greatest dis
asterS upon labor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
MISPLACED DENuNCIATIoNs.

The denunciation of the Ohio Demo-
cratic convention of the silver demonetiza-
ton act of 1873 is indorsed by Senator
Stewart, who declares that act to have
been 'the result of ignorance, fraud or
mistake" 9" The fact having been brought
out that Senator Stewart was participant
in the passage of the act, having given his
vote in favor of the demonetization, he
will doubtless explain his vote on the
ground of ignorance or mistake, and thus
avoid his self-brought Indictment Of
fraud
The truth is that the attacks free silver
men are making upon the act of 1873 are
wholly out of place, because the silver
question as it is presented now was not in
volved in the vote. At that time silver
had been demonetized by the course of
nature. Investigation will show, in addi-
ton to Senator Stewards vote, that the
reason why it was demonetized was that
under the existing ratio of coinage the
bullion value of the silver dollar was
greater than gold. Senator Stewart, as a
representative of the silver interests, could
vote for its demonetization because it was
not in coinage, because there was no de-
mand for its coinage, and because silver
producers could get more for their product
by selling it for use in the arts than by
having it coined.
It may have been a mistake, from the
silver advocates point of view, that when
the change in the relative values of gold and
silver brought the coinage value of the two
metals to parity there was no attempt to
remonetize silver. But that, like the act
of 1873, is wholly apart from the present
agitation for free silver. The only issue
at present is whether it is just to take Is
OF 20 per cent off the debts Of the debtor
class al the expense of their creditors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
A GREAT CONFEDERATE.

The gathering of ex-Confederates yes
terday at the unveiling OF the monument
to Stonewall jackson at Lexington, Va,
was marked demonstration of a Southern
sentiment, at which large share of the
North is inclined to look askance. Yet
when we reflect that it is merely senti-
ment in one form of which Northerners
can share, impartial minds can see that
the broadest and most national view
is that which sympathizes with the South
in honoring the lofty character and
brilliant military record of the hero,
while recognizing that the cause for which
he fought is deservedly and forever buried.
Thomas J. Jackson was, even more
than Lee, the leader of the war, whose
character elicted admiration and whose
military feats compelled applause from
both friend and foe. His earnest religious
character forced the respect even of those
who considered his devotion misplaced,
and his magnificent victories, won by
combination of genius for marching and
fighting, made admiration necessary from
the side to which his victories were disas-
tiers. Even those who fought against
Jackson can honor his memory as a
splendid example of the possibilities OF
American character; and it was in that
view that the presence of Union veterans,
who were welcomed at the celebration,
was entirely appropriate.
OF course at q gathering of that sort,
especially when the oft-defeated but
never-reconciled Jubal Early was promi-
nept, there may have been efforts to make
the ghost of the Lost Cause stalk. But
every one knows that if it had been posi-
BILE for the 10000 veterans to take the field
for the Confederacy again, with another
Jackson for a leader, not 300 Of them
would do it. They may cheer the memo
ries and cherish the sentiments of the
great war era, but all sections know
that this is a single nation, indissoluble
and more firmly united than ever because
of the war.
With that knowledge the honors to
Jackson are especially paid to the man
and not to the cause. In such commemo-
ration of the life of an earnest Christian
and great soldier the country can sympa-
thize and even join.
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Obituary Notes.

SENIOR ALcARoN, the Spanish author and poll
tician is dead.
JAMES B. RATION, President of the Commercial
Travellers Association of the State of New York
died In Syracuse Sunday night.
EDWARD TASCHEREAU, an attorney at law Of
Quebec died at the Roosevelt Hospital Monday
morning He was a brother of the Chief Justice
of Quebec and nephew of Cardinal Taschereau,
EDWIN LEE Brown died at his home in Chicago
Yesterday. He the first President of the ILL.,
nois Humane Society. and also at one time
President of the International Humane Associa-
ton.
REV. FATHER DANEHAUER died Sunday even
ing at the st. Clements College. Glen Mitchell,
nv the Redemptionist preparing school. He
was nastor of st. Mary's Church. Annapolis, Nd,
and an Instructor in the Redemptlonist Order.
SARAH DAVIS, at least lis years old, died Mon
day al indianapolis. She was born in Delaware
and said she was child when her master. named
Pheins returned from the and gave her his
knee buckles The death returns give her age as
ia years. For the last five years she almost
deprived of her faculties
MRS MARGARET B. MCCLURE, pioneer resi-
dent who has lived in McKeesport for so years,
died in the 7sd year Of her age at an early hour
Yesterday morning. The deceased was born In
Miffiin township, where Homestead is now located,
and was one Of the oldest members Of the First
.Presbyterian Church Of McKeesport.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

Miss Murphy's Novel Method of Putting
Fatima to Bed - Wolves Go Buffalo
Hunting-A Street Car Horse Never For
gets-M. Quad's Fable.
The hundreds of visitors who surrounded
the hippopotamus inclosure at the Central
Park menagerie yesterday evening about
| $50 o'clock were much interested, says the
| New York Sun, in the behavior OF Miss Muir
| ply, the mother hippopotamus.
The tender regard with which mothers of
| the human species treat their young differs
| in degree but not in kind, from the solici-
| tude that Miss Murphy has for her young
| daughter Fatima. At the rime mentioned
the family, having solaced themselves with
an abundant evening repast, had disposed
themselves as best suited their comfort
Miss Murphy was looking thoughtfully
out between the bars of her cage, Fatima
was poking her nose about in the remnants
of their meal and Caliph had resumed the
bath.
Then Miss Murphy apparently began to
grow uneasy. She walked up to Fatima
and, opening her mouth to its fullest ex-
tent enveloped her daughters head therein,
as though she would swallow it in one huge
gulp.
and several faint-hearted women cried out
in fright, but Fatima withdrew her head and
looked around on the throng with broad
smile, which seemed to say: "Never touched
me-"
Then Miss Murphy began to amble slowly
after her daughter. She followed her
clumsily about the cage, now and then rest
ing her huge chin on her back. After bear
ing the load for brief space, Fatima would
struggle out from beneath it and make for
the adjoining compartment. Thither Miss
Murphy, much slower in her movements
followed, and the performance was repeated,
whereupon Fatima adjourned to the first
compartment.
This was kept up for long time, the
daughter cleverly eluding the mother, who
pursued her stolidly from one cage to the
other and back again.
Finally the young one evidently became
tired for she dropped on some grass in
corner of the cage and fell fast asleep. Miss
Murphy plunged down by her side and
collapsed in sleep also. Keeper Holmes
subsequently said that this was the way
Miss Murphy had of putting her daughter
to bed.
Meanwhile, with the exception of the upper
part of his head Caliph was submerged in
the water, hence he viewed his family with
slowly blinking eyes, apparently consider
ing whether he should join them in their
nocturnal repose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
Never Forgot His Teachings.

heard good story yesterday from one of
Atlanta's amateur race-horse enthusiasts,
writes an Atlanta Constitution reporter.
A young Atlanta lawyer has quite fine
trotter, which he bought recently from
Kentucky drover. 1t happened that the
drover bought the horse from Cincinnati
street car company. He had seen him trot
in the car, and knew him to be fast The
young Albanian who purchased him first
tried him out at the Piedmont track, and
found that he could go inside of three min
utes.
There is another young man here who has
a fast trotter and naturally each claimed
his horse to be the fastest. As consequence
there was bet, and the two young men
went out to Piedmont track one day last
week to have a mile race for $50 a side
The Cincinnati horse was sorrel, the
Georgia nag bay.
1t happened that one of the friends of the
owner of the bay knew of the past life of the
sorrel, and knowing him to be the faster of
the two decided to arrange a scheme to pro-
tect his friend.
After two or three attempts the racers
were given the go. The sorrel took the lead
and kept It half way around. Then the bay
pulled up under whip and both horses broke.
The bay lost by breaking, but the sorrel
quickly got down to action again, and came
the lead. They came within 40 yards of the
string, and it seemed a dead-open-and-shut
thing for the sorrel, but suddenly q gong
was heard to tap loudly right on the side Of
the track, and the sorreI stopped so suddenly
that he almost threw his driver from the
sullxy. The bay won the race
While the sorrel was fast he had not for
gotten his training as a street car horse and
the scheme of the friend of the bays owner
worked admirably.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
Wolves Buffalo Hunting.

A far Western taveler, writing in the New
York Ledger, gives the following account of
an attack by wolves on a buffalo, in the days
when both wolves and buffaloes swarmed on
the great Western plains.
During my travels in those regions,
have several times come across such gang
of these animals surrounding an old or
wounded bull, where it would seem from
Appearances that they had been for several
days in attendance, and at intervals des-
perately engaged in the effort to take his
life. But a short time since, as one of my
hunting companions and myself were re-
turning to our encampment with our horses
loaded with meat, we discovered at dis
tance huge bull encircled with gang of
white wolves. We rode up as near as we
could without driving them away and, being
within pistol shot, we had remarkably
good view, where l sat for a few moments
and made a sketch in my notebook, after
which we rode up and gave the signal for
the wolves to disperse-which they instantly
did, withdrawing themselves to the distance
of 90 or 80 rods: when we found, to our great
surprise, that the animal had made desper-
ate resistance until his eyes were entirely
torn out of his head, the gristle of his nose
was mostly gone, his tongue was half bitten
off, and the skin and flesh of his legs were
torn almost literally into strings.
"In this tattered and torn condition the
poor old veteran stood bracing up in the
hostilities for few minutes to enjoy d sort
ofparley, recovering strength and preparing
TO resume the attack In feW moments. In
this group were some reclining to gain
breath, while others were sneaking about
and licking their chops in anxiety for a re-
newal of the attack; and others, less lucky
had been crushed to death by the feet or
horns of the bull. L rode nearer to the pitia-
Bile object as he stood bleeding and
trembling before me- and said to him Now
is your time, old fellow, and You had better
be off ~ Though blind and nearly destroyed
there seemed evidently to be a recognition
of friend in me, as he Strengthened up and,
trembling with excitement, dashed off at
full speed upon the prairie. in q straight
line.
eve turned our horses and resumed our
march, and when we had advanced O mile or
more we looked back and on our left where
we saw again the ill-fated animal surrounded
by his tormentors to whose Unsuitable
voracity he unQuestionably soon fell
victim
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
GOOD WITH HIS DUKES.
General Miles Thumps the Officers of His
Staff in Glove Contests.

Chicago Times.1
"Did you know that General Miles, who
from his Pullman building eyrie commands
the division Of the Missouri of the armies of
the United States, is an athlete?" asked
certain youth of swelling biceps and broad
shoulders in a cafe the other evening.
mo. 1 thought that the General was lit
tie too old for that sort of thing
"Not bit of it. The old war-horse is as
agile and quick as many younger man and
he's about as handy with his hands as any
of 'em of his size. He's in practice, too, al
most in trai ming. l see him at the Athe-
n4um gymnasium almost every day with
the soft gloves on and he's q pretty hard Gus
toner to tackle, should imagine, though
never boxed with him myself. The General
usually drops in accom- panied by Captain
Marion P. Maus, one of his aids-de camp,
gets rid of his superhuous raiment, dons the
pillows, and takes about half an hour of it.
Captain Maus is usually the victim. The
Captain is rather the dude of the headquar-
ters staff, wears bang, and all that, and is a
good-looking fellow and a good fellow. He
ge at him he has his hands full. 1 don't
wonder that the division of the Missouri is
well-behaved, orderly and obedient body.
The General could knock discipline into
half his men, taking them one at time, II
he so chose. He's the sort of an officer to be
in command, he is. He can inspire respect
in the good Old-fashioned way in which the
chiefs and leaders first won their positions,
when humanity was younger, and bayonet
tactics weren't as essential as a knowledge
of how to use natures weapon"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
WHAT DID THEY JEER AT?

An alderman Of New York bearing the
TeUtonic name of Flegenheimer has
evoked the jeerS of the metropolis by
going ahead of his time. BE has recently
given his consideration to blockades of the
New York streets, caused by the conflict
ing and tangled streams Of vehicles, and
embodied the result of his reflections in
tolerably simple proposition. 1t was that
alternate streets should be designated for
yehicl les moving up town and those going
down. Vehicles on each street could thus
be kept moving in the same direction and
the great cause of blockade avoided.
il is a sign rather of the grade of intelli-
geLce which politics brings to bear in city
matters that this proposition only elected
jcerS from the Board of Aldermen, and
the New York Tribune considers it appro-
PIRATE to remark that Mr. Alderman
Flegenheimer will carry to his dying day
the conviction that he is an unappreciated
man This might be probable if it were
Eot for the greater probability that the
worthy TeutOn will live to see his simple
and sensible proposition adopted The
same idea, on a lesser scale, set in opera
ton by the laying Of street Car tracks,
which create two separate streams of
vehicle traffic. has worked well in Pitts
burg. in New York, where the greater
volume Of traffic requires the separation
to be more complete, there is no doubt
that the designation Of different streets
for traffic moving in different directions
would prove upon experiment to be very
useful
OF course, however, any new idea cal
Culated to subserve only the public con-
venience is received by the average mu-
nicipal politician and political organ as a
butt for jeerS. But that is not SO much
the fault of the new idea, as Of the nature
Of politicians.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
CHEAP SLEEPER RATES.
In New York the Price of Berth Is to Be
Eighty Centa.

NEW YORK, July 21.-There is law en-
crossed on the statute books of this State
which has been permitted to lie dormant,
and the corporations at whom it was ex-
pressly aimed have been breaking the law
almost hourly since its adoption.
Section Al, article O. chapter 565, Laws of
New York, 1890, page 1906 reads as follows:
"Any patentee of sleeping car or his legal
representative may place his car upon any
railroad with the assent of the corporation
owning or operating such road, and may
charge for the use of the same, in all cases,
to each passenger occupying 1t, 40 cents,
which shall entitle the passenger to the use
OF berth for 100 miles, and at the rate of
3 mills for every additional mile; but in no
case shall the charge exceed 80 cents. The
railroad corporation permitting the use of
any such car shall be liable for damages for
injuries received therein to the same extent
as if received in its own car, and it shall
keep sufficient first-cla5s cars of other kinds
for the convenient use of passengers not
wishing to use sleeping car. Every per
son using sleeping car shall be furnished
with a ticket, having plainly written or
printed thereon, sleeping car and no rail-
road corporation shall be interested in the
additional sum paid for the use of berths in
sleeping cars run upon it's road"
Railroad men say that under these condi-
tions the business will be killed, as it is i'm
possible to furnish sleepers at that price.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
SHE PAID HER FARE.
The Conductor Missed Her but the Small
Boy Called Him Down.

The Conductor Missed Her but the Small
Boy Called Him Down.
bright East End small boy made trip to
the city yesterday and as result the Fifth
avenue cable company is just cents ahead,
over and above the fare paid by the young
ster. He is very observant boy and took
great interest in the conductors occasional
trips through the car to collect fare At
Oakland a very large lady boarded the car
and sat down next to the boy. She imme-
diately took ticket from her purse, but for
some unaccountable reason the conductor
missed her. He passed and repassed her
several times, but did not demand her fare.
Each time he passed the boy would eye the
conductor and then the lady. AS there
seemed to be no inclination on the part of
the conductor to collect tine fare the large
lady, concluding she had free ride, nerv-
ously and cautiously replaced her ticket in
her purse. This was too much for the boy
and the next time the conductor came along
he exclaimed:
''You didn't get her money, Mister. 1
don't see how you missed her. She's the
fattest lady on the car. Anybody could see
her."
This complimentary allusion to the lady's
avoirdupois caused blush to play across
quickly produced ticket, while all the
people in the car laughed at her discom-
future. The boy would prove a first-class
spotter and should be given an annual pass
for his thoughtful regard for the company's
in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
A Rat in a Fable.

A householder who had been greatly an
noyed by rats in his cellar brought home q
trap and set it where he thought it would do
the most good, writes NJ Quad in the Chicago
Tribune. Next day he was made glad by find
ing that he had caught a very large rat. He
was about to put the captive to death, when
the rat protested
. ''This is by no means fair and just I en-
tered this trap to prove my confidence in
your integrity. No one could be more sur
prised than I was when 1 found myself
prisoner"
After due reflection the householder liber-
ated the rat, but only to find, two OF three
days later that the number had greatly in
creased and that his stores were fast being
carried away by wholesale. Catching sight
of his former prisoner, he said:
"You depended on my integrity and l re-
stored your liberty"
Exactly"
81 depended on your integrity and you
have wrought still further damage to my
property"
"0h, but you must understand, my dear
sir, that a rat in trap is heap different
from rat at liberty"
Morai-You'n see it whenever Judge sus-
pends sentence on a bad man who has prom
ised to reform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
THE WIFE OF OLE BULL.
She Attracts Much Attention at the Coliseum
in Minneapolis.

in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Tribune.l
As Miss Aagot Lunde came forward to sing
her solo at the Coliseum last evening there
was just behind her a slender woman at
tired in black, with dark hair and a face
deeply lined, though not old. A storm of ap-
plause burst forth. Aagot Lunde bowed, the
woman in black was arranging some music
on the rack Of the piano at which she had
seated herself and acknowledged the demon
stration by slight inclination of the head,
her face being only partially turned toward
the audience. But, though she chose to pre-
tend that Miss Lunde was the person being
complmented, most of the applause was
brought forth by her own appearance, for
she was Mrs. Ole Bull, widow of the world
renowned violinist.
Mrs. Bull is an American by birth and met
her future husband at her home near Madi-
son, Wis, while he was on a Western concert
tour. Their marriage was most happy one,
one daughter being born them. Since her
husbands death Mrs Bull has resided part
of the time with her father at Cambridge,
Mass, and has spent several years on her
estate in Norway. Her daughter Olea is a
devoted student of the violin and has already
manifested remarkable proficiency.
The selection sung by Miss Lunde last
evening, the accompaniment to which was
played by Mrs. Bull, was "Saeterjuntens
Sondag," (Chalet girls Sunday, compost
tion OF the famous viOliniSt.