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Lawyer Ito female witness) s)-Win
you please tell this court and jury
what your age is?
Elderly Female-What's the use
They wouldn't believe me if / was to
tell them.-TerdS ,Siftings
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Meteorological Record at AshwOOd for
EahruarV.

| No OF days cloudy. .........,,.
! Prevailing Wind 4. NJ. North West.
| Prevailing Wind , p. NJ North West.
| Prevailing Wiud p. NJ. West.
| Robins first seen on 9th.
First croaking OF frogs or 9TH.
| Thunder storms on S, 8, 25th.
Snow, sleet and rain on 2Sth.
q. FOSTER WILLIAMS.
Voluntary Observer, U. 3. Signal Service.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

General Passenger Agent E. A. Ford, OF
the Pennsylvania Company, left for Cincin.
natl last evening to attend q meeting of the
Chioaoo-O Ohio roads. First Vice President
NcCrea started for st. Louis in his private
car.
@. A. Kimball, one of the owners of the
Union depot last evening, returning home
from Chicago. He said he found business
dull in the West. o. ..-
Ed. Watres, the representative of New
York varnish company, was on the limited
last evening bound for Chicago.
w. d. Clarke and H. E. May, of Toledo.
and FL. r. Moore and wife, OF Cleveland, are
registered at the DuqNesne.
W. Z. Good, of Philadelphia, and J. A.
Bealln, of New York, are stopping at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel
Colonel j. B. Finlay, of Kittanning, and
John F. Reed, of Lancaster, are at the Sew
enth Avenue Hotel.
Mrs. Benjamin Marks and family leave
this evening for the Catskill Mountains to
spend the summer.
Paul JONES' of Youngstown, and T. j.
Peter an Alabama iron man, are at the Mo-
nongahela House.
Major Patterson, of Kittanning Inspector
of the Second Brigade, went to Philadelphia
last evening. q e-
Among those who went East last evening
were c. {. Magee, w. S. Pier and Charles Nc
Kee. ,--'-.~' ''
Mrs. Ira Smith, of Allegheny, has Just re-
turned from trip through Scotland.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
WEALTHY, FAMOUS AND POPULAR.

DIR. BARBOUR nominated by the Ken
tucky Farmers Alliance for Governor, de-
clines to be candidate.
AMONG the founders of the new Univer-
sity Club is Boston are Phillips Brooks, Chief
Justice ld,Judge Lowell and Ex-Governor
CASTOR.
HENRY HART, one of New York's rail-
way and steamship magnates, is over 80, a
bachelor, of small stature, rugged build and
is as active as q man of 30. He is said to be
worth over $50,0O0,O0O.
NEXT to Senator Hoar, Senator Eyarts
has had more college titles conferred upon
him than any member of either house of the
last Congress. He has received degrees
from Harvard, Yale and Union colleges.
COUNT DOUGLAS member of the Ger
man Reichstag, who has become great fav-
orite with the Emperor, is a descendant of
the famous Scotch faani1y. He is now one of
the wealthiest land proprietors of Prussia
THE Metropolitan Michael of Servia has
given his consent TO the proposed marriage
of the ex-Kng Milan. It,is said that Milan
sent 49, 900 francs to thetailor of his mistress
after receiving the 100000 francs from the
State,
A YOUNG daughter of Joachim, the
famous violinist, recentlymade her debut as
an opera singer at Elberfeldt, and made
such a brilliant success that she was imme-
diately engaged for the winter season at the
Leipsic Opera House.
THE Servian boy King Alexander is a
sturdy lad Of IA, with keen eyes and an in
telleetual face, but he is as sef-willed and
stubborn as any royal child. He has been
well educated, and speaks German, French
and English in addition to his native tongue
THE Queen of Spain's reason for retard-
ing the completion of the palace which is
being built at San Sebastian has at last been
divulged. The palace is built privately by
the Queen, and it is in order to prevent over
drawing her bank account that she has de-
termined to have the building finished only
in the course ofnext year, when.she will be
able to pay the architects.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15

Some of our esteemed contemporaries
profess to discover new revelation, both
as 20 the importance of Mr.. Blaine in the
foreign policy of the Government and as
To- the time when the President expressed
a desire to put in his oar, in the last Cana
dian blue book. That report states that
the explanation of Mr. Blaine when he
postponed the conference on Canadian
reciprocity, from the 9th of April last to
October i. was that ''the President, who
is practically Prime Minister, was extreme
ly anxious to he in Washington during the
IrgotiatiOnS, and so forth.
There is no need of prolOnging the quo
tation. for it is not only not a new thing as
relates to the President and Secretary of
State, but the very language of the excuse
10y which the conference was put off last
April can be repeated from memory That
il indicated Mr. Blaine's pre-eminent influ-
cnce in shaping the reciprocity policy is
only what every one knew in the first
place. That it carries an inference of the
Presidential jealousy of Mr. Blaine's activ-
y and fame may be more open to dis
ute: but it is an inference on which every
ne made up his mind at the time
As a vindication Of the Secretary of
ne this construction of the Canadian re-
mt is unnecessary in the first place, and
-averal months behind date in the sec
q place There is much more signifi-
nee and novelty in the recent editorial
.jcEnces in Mr.. W. j. Arkell's illus
ted paper, in which Mr.. Blaine's pre-
nHcnce and ability in conducting the
Jg Department are referred to, for
uat they are, factors that are recognized
Z undisputed by the great mass of the
.."ic.
his manifestation on the part of one of
family organs is interesting, not as it
IS on Mr. Blaine, but as it bears on the
ans. Is the penitential process of
ling for those cartoons on Jealous
I and the chicken thief carried to this
18th? Or is AIr. W. J. Arkell carrying
the intimation of a recent interview
beginning the process vulgarly but de-
riptiyely called dumping the Harri-
uS2"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
BELIEVED IN SIGNS.

An Unfortunate Hoosier Who Allowed the
Zodiac to Control Him-A Pig and a
Farmer Humbled Lords Pride-Many
Interesting Short Stories.
There used to bea curious character named
Vellet down in Fulton county, Ind SAYS the
Chicago Herald. He was noted over his
whole section as the greatest eater and the
firmest believer in ''signs' that ever sat on
the banks of Eel river and angled for bass.
He planted his corn in the dark of the moon
and laid rail fence in the light. He sheared
his sheep when the sign was in the head,
and laid bare his own neck from the winters
growth of beard when the zodiac pointed to
Taurus. He shingled his barn in the moons
first quarter, and gathered his seed corn
when Cancer was king He wouldn't ride
behind horse that hadn't been broken in
the sign of the reins, and when Scorpio ruled
he considered secret safe. There was moth
ing on earth he didn't believe could be prop
erly done in the signs, and nothing that
didn't threaten destruction If the signs were
disregarded
He had a neighbor named Isaac Brown, q
great joker, who grew rich in spite of the
fact that he paid no more attention to the
s1gns which were so large part of Vellet's
economy, than he did to the color of the
clouds at midnight Finally Yellet died, as
eccentric men sometimes will, and the as
SCISSOR came around in the spring and missed
him.
wi hat was the matter with him?r asked
the official of Isaac Brown.
wv ell, you see" said the skepticaI farmer,
u come home one night along in December
and told him had next years almanac,
and it said q man didn't dast eat meat till
the sign of the virgin. And Vellet says,
says he to me: My Godi / can't go with
out meat till next September says he. And
III be darned if he didn't lay down and die
l feel mighty bad about it myself, for he
Always paid his debts in the sign of the
crab, and he owed me $1S."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, JUNE Is, 1891.
MIR. INGALLS,, sOMERsAULT.

The information that the series of Peo.
pies party meetings soon to be held in
Kansas will be illumined by the appear,
auce of the Hon John James ingalls,, as a
full tiedged adherent of the new party is
sensational, but not altogether surprising.
II simply affords evidence that the gifted
gentleman, who was one of the great guns
az the last Republican campaign, has
OILY required seven months to discover
what principles are required by the ma
iogity of she Kansas people, and to pro-
vide himself with full suit of new prin-
C.pleS to order.
The spectacle Of Mr.. ingalls, denounc-
in- the evils of the legislation which he
helped to inflict on the agricultural inter-
es.-. will be instructive Mr. Ingalls,
camminatory powers are notably fluent;
and as the zeal of new converts is proven
lHal we may Justly expect some of the
greatest efforts of J. J. ingalls, career, in
this exposure of J. J. ingalls, acts as a
Republican leader All of which will be
especially profitable as an Illumination of
tue supple qualities of j. ]. ingalls, politi-
cal principles.
We are glad that Mr.. ingalls, has come
10 realizing conviction of the utter un-
warthineSS of his former alleged eonvie-
tionS. His Somersault should give our Re
publican friends whO last fall claimed
that whatever he said on the subject of
politics was law and gospel for the latitude
OF Pennsylvania, food for profitable and
silent reflection
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
TIN PLATE FoOLISHNEsS.

The tin-plate controversy some time ago
reached the point of lunacy on both sides.
But the most violent manifestation of the
mental alienation which it has produced is
exhibited by the New York Press in a re-
cent issue. A member of Pittsburg firm
which deals in tin plate, and which is toler-
ably well-known to be composed of gentle
men who are prominent for their support
of the protective policy, was so indiscreet
the other day as to give utterance to his
doubt that the tin-plate tariff has brought
an adequate manufacturing industry into
existence, full l-grown as Minerva sprang
from Jove's head We say that. he was
indiScreet, for while no one can fear that
the firm of James B. Scott & Co. can be
put in the prejudicial attitude of a lot of
horrid free traders, it was injudicious to
afford further fuel to the extreme heat
which has been generated on both sides.
The necessary result makes itself apparent
when the New York Press denounces the
offending individual as ''an importer of tin
plate" which, of course, from the Press
view places him in the category of aban-
doned and pernicieus individuals.
Such manifestations indicate the need of
infusing little reason into the tariff con-
trOversy. 1t is not an impeachment of the
tariff that it has not brought a complete
manufacturing industry into existence
within few months after it has gone into
effect; nor is it reasonable to indulge in
whole denupciatiOn of : business men, who
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
FULL EXPLANATIONS NEEDED

The decision of the administration that
to permit the appearance of Mr.. Lacy, the
Controller of the Currency, before the
committee investigating the Philadelphia
bank failures, might be bad precedent, is
an unfortunate one. On the surface it
would appear that the only case in which
such precedent could be bad one
would be where the administration has
something to cover up with reference to
its supervision of the national banks. But
as this is matter in which the whole na-
ton is interested there never ought to be
anything to cover up. As the administra-
ton is practically on trial with reference
to the energy and impartiality of its ma
tional bank supervision, the refusal to Law
the whole subject open to investigation
really constitutes the bad precedent
In the same connection the intimation
that General A. B. Nettleton, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, was borrower
in the Spring Garden National Bank, and
that official answer to the charge, are per-
tinent. The General denies that he was
borrower, or that he attempted to exercise
any influence with regard to the appoint
ment of receiver. But he saws that sit
is probable that certain accommodation
notes on which l am responsible are in
that institution. If So l am simply among
the losers by the banks failure, which |
regret" This is an explanation of the
sort that requires further explanation.
Mr.. Wanamaker's statement furnished a
prtnaG .fdcle explanation of his connection
with the smash, which, until some direct
testimony contradicting it is produced,
must be accepted as satisfactory. But
General Nettleton's statement needs
further explanation to make it cohesive.
What is the essential difference between a
borrower and person who is responsible
for the payment of paper held by bank !?
And how can the person who has to pay
lose by its failure? The creditors of a
bank are likely to lose; but debtor cannot
be made to pay more on account of the
failure, unless be expected to make the
bank carry him indefinitely,
Certainly the Philadelphia wrecks re-
quire clear and full explanations on the
part of all persons connected with the ad-
ministration; and that is what some of the
officials do not seem inclined to give.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
GOVERNOR AND CONSTITUTION.

Concerning a rumor "that the Governor
rs not decided to approve the resolution
submit the calling Of the constitutional
invention" the Philadelphia North Amer
rU says: "More than indecision ought to
true. The resolution should he vetoed -
His declaration from a rather ultra-Re-
1iican organ on what was one of the
ading acts Of the Republican Legisla-
lie, is a strong evidence of the UnwOrthi-
.'sS of the constitutional convention prop
-.-ion. The Governor is certainly justi-
~ in considering the proposition care
liy. But apart from the almost gro
que features Of the measure before him
.c Governor viii do well to veto for it two
aD0rtant and controlling reasons.
The first is that the present Constitution
.s an excellent one to stand by 1t is mod
aru in its provisions, the work of some of
She greatest minds the State had at its dis
rosItion twenty years ago, and it is char
JcteTiStic for the restraints which it i'm
noses on the corporations and the poll
loians. No man who investigates the
,laracter Of the legislators who passed
r'is resolution can doubt that very slight
excuse has been utilized by them for the
purpose Of removing those restraints by
q convention packed to suit their purposes
fhc Governor earned his strength with the
eupie by his vigOr in enforcing the Con-
si.ut.On. He can maintain that character
~ taking his stand for the maintenance
and preservation of that instrument in its
integrity.
The other great reason is that conven-
ton is not the proper way of placing be-
fore the people the question of such
changes as may be deemed advisable. No
one claims that the Constitution is abso-
lHtely perfect. There doubtless are some
details in which it might be improved.
But every such proposition to alter the
fundamental law of the land, seventeen
years after its adoption by the people,
should be submitted separately, to be de-
cIaed upon its own merits If the needed
changes are mingled with lot of jobs,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
WOMEN AND CIGARS,
Old and Young Have Taken to the Weed In
New York.

Old and Young Have Taken to the Weed in
New York.
New York telegram
1t is not novel sight to see the old apple
women on South street or West street smok-
ing q short clay pipe but when a woman
walks along Park row in broad daylight,
putting on big cigar, it is likely to cause peo-
pie to turn around and stare. Such was the
case Yesterday afternoon. The woman was
neither young, good looking nor well
dressed. She was over 40 years of age, but
she carried herself with a swagger Of an
Eastside tough. Entering a cigar store in
Park row, just below Pearl street, she laid a
scent piece on the counter and asked for "a
strong cigar"
'tShall 1 wrap It in paper?'' asked the clerk.
"No, you WON'T wrap it in paper; just hand
it out here" and, picking up the cigar. the
woman who talked and walked as if she was
SOBER put one end of the weed into her
mouth and lighted the other end. Then she
turned into the Park row again and walked
up as far as Mulberry street. On her journey
the smoking woman encountered two police
men. An indignant and shocked citizen
asked one of the policemen why he did not
arrest the woman, and the bluecoat replied
that the woman had as much right to smoke
In the street as any man, and as long as she
did not do anything disorderly he had no
right to take her in.
go into any of the back rooms attached
to the saloons around here, !" said the police
women, old and young, smoking cigars.
Women of that class used to be great fends
at cigarettes, but they seem to be taking to
cigars now"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
A Card From Mr.. Eshelman,
To the Editor of The Dispatch:

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In THE DISPATCH of the 18th you print a
special from Columbus dated June II, being
an interview with Allen W. Thurman on the
subject of the Ohio Goyernorship and United
States Senatorship. In this interview he is
reported as saying:
If the Democrats elect the Legislature who will
be their choice to succeed Senator Sherman?
Congressman Joseph Fl. Cultivate would fill
the bin and the eyes and hearts of the Democracy
to a dot. If Lawrence Neal had kept out of the
Mclean wrecking crew, he would have had a
chance, but he Is not possibility, now. 1 see Il
Wayne county Neal organ nominates, in q long
editorial John r. Mclean. Eshelman, the editor
of the paper Is former resident of Meals town
ChillicOthe, but whether there is umblical cord
between Meals candidacy for Governor and this
Judge.
Will you allow me to state the fact that
there is no Meal organ" in Wayne county.
Two years ago l championed the nomina-
tiOn of Hon. James E. Campbell for Govern
or, and am now championing his renomi-
nation.
1t is true advocate the sending of John
r. Mclean to the United States Senate.
do this on my own responsibility-at no
mans instance or suggestion.
As editor of the Ohio Statesman l helped
elect Hon. Allen G. Thurman to the United
States Senate. As member of the Ohio
in January, 1874. As delegate to the st.
Louis convention in 1883, L voted for the
nomination of Mr.. Thurman for Vice Presi-
dent. am now and always have been his
fast friend; but that has nothing to do with
my support of John L. Mclean for the
United States Senate. L. B. EsHEIMAN.
WOOSTER. o., June l3
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
All in the Family.

General John B. Dennis, Chief Clerk in the
Internal Revenue Office, was one of the first
to enlist in the famous Sixth Massachusetts,
says the Omaha World Herald. Behind the
well-developed form of Dennis stood a slen-
der young man whose hands seemed to be
itching for the clutch of the patriotic mus
ket. As the long line of volunteers. each
enlisting by turn, surged, General Dennis
fell back and stepped squarely on the toe of
the young man behind him.
II beg your pardon, sir" exclaimed Gen
eral Dennis.
That's all right-it's all in the family
now" replied the young man, as he rubbed
his injured foot.
'That's pretty good, ;" said Dennis with a
smile. SIT is all in the family now, sure
enough. My name is John B. Dennis. What's
your name!''
"My name is Church Howe, sir, and
hope I'll know John B. Dennis better" re-
piled the young man, as the two grasped
hands.
The wish was fulfilled at Baltimore, when
the famous "Sixth Massachusetts faced the
storm Of stones and missiles in the big riot
Dennis and Howe marched shoulder to
shoulder. And now, when the statesman
from Nehama and the courteous veteran of
the Revenue Department meet there is some
good old-fashioned hand shaking done.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
THE CONTROLLERS EXPLANATION.

The administration seems to have
reached the very just conclusion that its
position with reference to the Philadelphia
bank failures requires an explanation. 1t
has been little slow in perceiving the i'm
portaht fact that its supervision of the
national banking system is one of the mat
tiers for which it is accountable to the pub
lie. The statement of Mr.. Lacy, therefore,
which appears in our telegraphic columns,
is practical acknowledgement of this
accountability, and as such is an improve
ment on the previous attitude of the official
concerned in the financial administration.
But as an explanation which leaves the
course of the Controller in satisfactory
light, the statement is not all that fancy
could paint it. The first fact brought out
leaves that gentleman in the position of an
official who does not realize the response
bility of his position. 1t is asserted that he
was first informed of the shortage of $780,
600 by the Bank Examiner, Mr.. Drew, two
weeks after Mr.. Drew had learned of it;
that it was then disclosed that criminal
means had been used to cover up the
shortage; that one of the participants in
the cooking of accounts was then in con-
troll of the bank; and that the Bank Ex-
aminer had known of all this from Jan
uary 9 to January 26 without informing
the Controller, who could be reached in
four hours by mail and fifteen minutes by
telegraph.
This statement, if true, puts both the
Controller and the Examiner in a very
peculiar light. An examiner who makes
such discovery and does not inform his
superior taaStdnter is guilty of malfeasance
in office A Controller who, when he
learns that his subordinate has failed to
inform him of such violation of the law,
does not Immediately remove him from
the scene of action, is in the most charit-
able point of view to be set down as non
cOmp0S noeRtSs
When this statement is supplemented
by theory that it is permissible to the
Controller to ignore criminal acts in the
management of bank, in order to avert
an aggravation of monetary panic, the
further details of the explanation become
unimportant. 1t is not the duty of the
Controller to avert monetary panics, ex-
cept as he does it by rigid insistence
upon the management of the banks in ac-
cordanee with the national banking law.
This statement discloses an utter failure
of the Controller to realize his duty in
maintaining and enforcing the law.
The deliberations of the administration
in this matter seem to have led to the con-
clusion that the best that can be done is
to enter a plea of utter incompetence on
the part of the Controller of the Cur
rency. But for the protection of the pub
lie in the supervision of the national
banks, such incompetency is little better
than rascality.