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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
CONSIDERED HIS HEIRS.
He Disposed of His Stock Before the Road
Killed Him.


New York Recorder.l
The road was uneven and there were nu-
merous sharp curves, and as the train was
running at high rate of speed it was any
thing but comfortable for the passengers.
Sometimes it actually seemed as though all
the wheels on one side Of the Pullman were
off the rail at once
This didn't serve to put any of the passen-
gers at ease, but it seemed to have a particu-
larry bad effect on little old fellow near
the middle of the car, says the Chicago
with every jerk of the car, and finally called
the porter to him.
How soon will we reach place where
can send dispatch? he asked.
"Bout ten minutes, sah," was the reply.
"Au right. Bring me telegraph blank"
1t was brought. and he hastily scribbled
the following message to New York broker:
"Sell all my stock in Y and z road at once
and at any price you can get"
You don't seem to have much confidence
in the road" said the man in the next seat,
who had read the dispatch over the little
mans shoulder.
~ haven't" was the terse reply
You don't think it has much of future,
my family"
"Your family" exclaimed the stranger.
what has your family got to do with it?''
ENC! oHillS, my lTlenu everything, eA-
planned the little man, "and if you were any
thing of a financier you'd see 1t. I've got to
ride 200 miles on this road yet, and how
would it look for my family to sue the road
for damages that, if secured, would practi-
cally come out of my estate? No sir; I'll
allow this dispatch 20 minutes to reach New
York, and I'll allow the broker % minutes
to dispose of the stock. II this blamed car
keeps the rails for 45 minutes more some
one else will be stuck for damages if climb
the golden stairs. And if she holds the rails
for the whole 200 miles can buy the stock
back If 1 want it and go back by another
road"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
P1TTsBURG, SATURDAY, AUGUST s, 1881.
POLITICIANS AND THE BLAINE BOOM.

The number of minor boomS and per-
Sonal testimonials which are daily being
affixed to the great big Blaine boom must
furnish a curious study to the observant
citizen. It is a fact that the present
Blaine boom is about the most spontane-
Gus and honest expression for public
man from the people that has been wit
messed in this country since the call in
1868 upon Grant to go to tine White House.
Blaine's views upon the tariff, upon for
eign trade, upon our relations with
other countries, have been so much
clearer and more comprehensive than
those of any other leader in
the Republican party, that recognition of
his superior ability has become general
and earnest both within and without his
party. But this was made manifest in the
press and among the people long before
the politicians took up his candidacy for
1892. In the present instance, while Cam
eron and Quay, Dudley and Clarkson are
credited in some quarters as the power be-
hind the throne which is obtaining the
daily expressions for Blaine, the real truth
is that these politicians are but following
the already well defined tide of public
opinion. They risk nothing in casting
their fortunes with popular movement
which, even if they were to ally them
selves with the administration, they
would be powerless to withstand 1t has
been a fOregone conclusion ever since
Blaine wrote his famous reciprocity letter
that, if alive and well, nothing could pre-
vent his being the Republican candidate
for President in 1892.
Under the circumstances the political !
leaders really need the Blaine boom very
much more than it needs them. The real
danger is that too many of them may at
tach themselves to it all at once. The
special and shining Endorsements, for in
stance of Chairman Quay, Chairman An
drews, of Pennsylvania, Colonel Dudley
and others tackled on by some conventions
10 expressions for Blaine, are no sort of
help to the latter.
The politicians are to he credited with
shrewd perception of the possible sources
of future benefits for themselves in launch
ing their boats promptly on what has all the
appearance of becoming a tidal wave; but
the movement of the mass of water does
not come from them. They merely float
upon the surface. 1t is the widespread |
and earnest feeling among the people |
that Blaine is by great odds the most ca
pable man in the party, or indeed in pub
lie life in this country to-day, which is
making the stir.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

while it had a monopoly of the trade.
This represented burden on the people
while it lasted of little over $50, ,00O, 900 a
year. With that fact before us the thread
bare claim that trusts do not enhance
prices to the consumer is shown to be a
shallow fraud
As to the claim that there was ''exces-
sive competition" in sugar refining prior
to the organization of the trust, two facts
furnish complete reply: first, there was
not as much competition as there is since
its operations have had their full result;
second, the sugar industry prior to the
trust was well known to be a solvent and
prosperous interest. Its members, when
the market became overstocked and un-
profitable, had the same liberty as farmers
and iron manufacturers and the great mass
of the people of suspending operations or
seeking some less crowded field of indus
fry
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
VAN BUREN, ARK, August 4.
Talk About the Stars.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The astronomical article republished from
a metropolitan journal in last Mondays DIS
PATCH was so full of errors and mistate-
ments that cannot refrain from making G,
few corrections.
In one place in the article, it was stated
that Neptune was the only morning star at
the beginning of August. The truth is that
both Venus and Mars were morning stars at
that date. although tnelatter was too close
to the sun to be visible. In another place is
found the assertion that "Mars is no longer
an evening star, his appearance at that time
having ceased three days ago. =
Mars is not very bright planet just now but
may easily be seen shining in the southwest
ern sky at an altitude of 45 degrees above
the horizon" Three days after conjunc nction
with the sun to be seen at an altitude of 45
degrees, before sunrise, and in an opposite
quarGer of the sky! No one familiar with the
clocklike regularity of the motions of the
planets would have suspected one of them
being capable of such a meteoric motion as
that! 1t is also asserted that Neptune is at
present difficult to see with the naked eye,
whereas it is never visible without optical
here quoted: "As soon as the sun is
down and after Jupiter has made
most brilliant planet in the Western sky"
The absurdity of that statement is very ap-
parent to close observers of the sky. Jupiter
sunset, and Venus throughout the month
sets before the sun, and by the time Jupiter
appears above the Eastern horizon, Venus
is more than 15o below the Western.
The statement that Saturn may be seen
every night until September Is is also wrong,
as he is then in conjunction with the. sun
and becomes invisible three weeks previous
to that date.
The writer makes still another error when
he says that "Arcturus passes slightly nearer
the North Pole toward the close of the
month, and gains in brilliancy." Arcturus
is a fixed" star, and apparently. to the
naked eye, maintains the same distance
from the North Pole of the heavens, year
after year. The writer probably meant that,
a q given time each evening, the star Arc
turus is seen nearer the north point of the
horizon, and consequently at lower alti-
tude. Arcturus is not gaining in brilliancy,
as the writer AYERS
The article is closed with the statement
that "Canopus, one of the,biggest fixed stars,
shines brightly i'll the curly evening"" The
star Canopus is never visible in the latitude
of PIttsburg. To get view of that brilliant
star a Pittsburger would have to travel
south almost as far as New Orleans and
even there it cannot be seen at its best as it
eliminates at very low altitude. Only
south of the equator, where it describes q
long diurnal arc, and eliminates at a high
altitude, is Canopus seen in its brightest
aspect H. A. NJ. CROSS.
CoNNooUENEsSING, Pa August g.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
PETROLEUM FOR NAVAL FUEL.

The usefulness of petroleum for fuel for
steamships, and especially for war vessels,
is discussed in detail in an article else
where in this issue. The conclusion may
be summarized to the effect that at points
where the petroleum fuel can be stored
and delivered without too great differ
ence over the cost of coal, its superior con-
venience in handling, the greater amount
that can be stored in the same bulk and
the absence of smoke give it decided ad-
vantages. The facts stated have great
cogency, and since the greater share of the
cost of coal at distant stations lies in the
cost of its transportation thither, it seems
probable that the relatively smaller cost of
transporting petroleum would make its
comparative cost less, the further away
the station was. Should this fuel come
into general use for naval purposes, of
course the cheap Ohio oils would be drawn
up but the enlarged demand for that
product would have stimulating effect
on the market for Pennsylvania superior
product, by the relief from the competition
of Ohio oil,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
The Indian Schools Question.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In your issue July % your Washington
correspondent, Mr.. Lightner, in an article
on Commissioner Morgan, asserted that the
Catholic Indian Bureau was an expense to
the Interior Department., that the money in
tended for the education of the Indians was
applied to other purposes. The Wheeling
Lntelligencer published Mr.. Lightner's corre-
spondence and spoke in very high terms of
Mr.. L., and thus at least seemed to indorse
his assertion. Mr.. Morgan, as stated in the
New York World August l, '1s now satisfied
that the Catholic Mission Board Is not a
mere expensive middle man between the
Government and the Indian schools. He
finds that every dollar goes direct to the
schools, the expenses of the board being pro-
vided for by the denomination to which it
belongs, and is candid enough to officially so
state.h Will you correct Mr.. Lightner's
erroneous statement? This is important in
view of the wide circulation of your paper
and its influence. JUSTICE.
WHEELING, w. Va, August 6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
WHY HORSES GO LAME.
Coachman Gives Away Some of the Sc
crets of the Stable.

Coachman Gives Away Some of the Sc
crets of the Stable.
Chicago Tribune.I
A coachman who is up to the tricks Of
his trade says that there are more ways
than one for an honest coachman to make
living.
"Of course" he explained, mo boss is
goin' to buy horse without consulting his
coachman. If he does, that horse will go
lame, sure"
"How's that?"
'1t'll go lame, sure, and the boss'Il have to
sell it for what he can get, and lucky If he
can get half the price. Then he won't try to
cheat an honest coachman out of his COM
mission. Not the second time, seer"
Thereupon the honest coachman explained
why a 'boss" who buys horse without con-
sulting the autocrat of his stables is sure to
have a lame animal on his hands.
'It's this way" he remarked, "any honest
man as respects himself will pull a hair out
of that horses tail and thread it in q needle.
Then he'll lift up that front leg of that horse
and 'hunch up in his fingers the skin be-
tween the outer and middle tendons, see /?
Shove the needle through, cut of the hair at
each end, and let down the foot. There's
nothing to see, is there2"
Suppose not"
"Well, that horsell go lame in 20 min
uteS"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
OF MORE Or LESS PROMINENCE.

THE poor old Austrian Kaiser, who has
taken little interest in life since Crown
Prince Rudolph's death, has become devotee
of planchette.
MONA CAIRD's Romance of the Moors''
is the first English novel to be copyrighted
in this country under the new law. Mona
cared enough about it to take the trouble to
secure protection; and she got it.
THE wife of Senator-elect Hansbrough, of
North Dakota, had almost recovered from
her recent serious and prolonged illness a
fortnight ago when she went out for O drive
and had q relapse. Her life is now despaired
of.
Miss MOLLY JAMES, who has Just been
married at Memphis to a Mr.. Villoue, is q
niece of G. P. r. James, whose SOLITARY
horsemsn' is as famous on the land as the
'long, low, rakish-looking craft" is in sea
tales.
GENERAL JOHN EATON, at one time
United States Commissioner of Education,
and latterly President of Marietta College,
Ohio, has resigned the latter post in order
to devote his time to educational lecturing
and writing.
BoULANGER stalks about the streets of
Brussels, remote, unfriendly, melancholy,
slow" There is not much about the former
days. His figure has proved to be too small
for the trappings of greatness.
The trustees of the Western Minnesota
Seminary have been petitioned to change
the name of that institution so as toperpetu-
ate that of General Harrison's late Secretary
of the Treasury. "Windom Institute" is
what 1t is proposed to call the school.
JAMES LANE ALLEN, the Kentucky
writer Is a tall and slender man, with
grave face. He can tell story at a dinner
table as we'll as in q printed volume. He
looks somewhat like the typical pedagogue,
and in tact began his career as a teacher
SIG. CRIsPI is declared to have a passion
for the nightingale's song, which he loses no
opportunity of hearing. Word was brought
him recently that particularly melodious
nightingale was warbling in the ruins of the
Coliseum, and the story goes that Crispi
came near being shot by sentry that night
as he was making his way to a point of
vantage near by.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
SHORT SERMON IN FIGURES.
How the Mckinley Bill Acted in Regard to
the Sugar Market.

| How the Mckinley Bill Acted in Regard to
the Sugar Market
New York Press.l
The contest between Mr. Claus Spreckels
| and the sugar trust has emphasized the ben
efits that the people of the United States
enjoy from the free sugar clause of the Nc
Kinley bill. Granulated sugar is selling to-
day from the Spreckels refineries ut cents
per pound, with per cent off for cash, max
ing the price really 3.92 cents. The trust has
closely followed the Spreckels price. In Au-
gust, 1882 granulated sugar was selling at s1%
cents. When the Mckinley bill went into
effect it was selling at 81 cents.
For the fiscal year ending June 80, 1890, we
imported nearly 5000 900, 900 pounds of sugar.
The difference of 2h cents in price repre-
sents yearly saving to the American peo-
pie of SIS O,OOO
Every housekeeper in America saves a
small part of this enormous sum. The tariff
on sugar was purely a revenue tariff. 1t
was levied not for protection, but for in
come. The Republican party promised to
reduce the surplus revenue, and its greatest
cut was made on this prime necessity of life.
The sugar trust, as well as every Demo
cratic organ in the country, opposed it. The
Mills bill, as passed by the Democratic
House of Representatives, retained the high
tariff on sugar. Ask your Democratic neigh
Dor which party he now thinks was right
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
EvARTS' READY RETORT.
How He Got Ahead of Senator Hoar, Who
Thought Him Slow.

How He Got Ahead of Senator Hoar, Who
Thought Him Slow.
New York Commercial Advertiser
Senator William Maxwell Evarts is known
in Washington as being the most dilatory
man in Congress, and many amusing
instances have occurred through his habit
of procrastination. Long after the Christmas
recess last winter no meeting of the Senate
Committee on Library, Of which he was
Chairman, had been called, which fact
caused considerable surprise among the
other members of the committee.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, was one
Of them, and while he was sitting on sofa
in the cloakroom one day conversing with
Senator Frye, of Maine, along walked Mr.
Evarts in deep thought, with bowed head
and hands clasped behind his back. Said
Senator Hoar:
"Evarts, 1 wish that when you do call
meeting of the Library Committee that you
would have the extreme kindness to notify
my executors of the fact.
Senator Evarts just stopped in his walk
long enough on hearing this to say in his
dryest tones:
senator Hoar, allow me to assure you
that nothing would afford me greater
pleasure
1t is needless to state that Senator Hoar
did not again remind Mr.. Evarts of his
neglect to order meeting of the Senate
Committee on Library.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT EPIDEMIC.

The open switch was the cause of the
collision which occurred to the New York
and Chicago limited yesterday morning
Two lives paid the penalty of that care
lrSSnesS, and the only wonder is, from
speed Of the train and the force of the
shock that the slaughter was not more
wholesale. At nearly the same hour the
veStibule train on the Wabash road ran
into heavy freight, with an equally provi-
dental escape from general destruction
Of life.
The Fort Wayne collision appears from
The accounts to have been of the kind to
he charged to the carelessness of an en-
ploye. The responsibility for the western
accident is not SO easily settled. But it is
plain that such accidents can not occur
without negligence somewhere; and the
higher up the responsibility is located the
more grave is the negligence. The cpl
demic of railway accidents really signi-
iieS an epidemic Of carelessness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

legitimate. In the vast majority of such
cases they are direct evasions or nullifica-
tions of the theory, and generally of the let
ter of the law. Itis also the fact that nearly
every great fortune created within the
present generation owes its start or its
augmentation to some such violations of
Justice, honesty and law. If Senator
Ingalls, and the Tribune really wished in
formation on these points, they would find
little difficulty in obtaining evidence Of
the rule of special privileges and favorit-
ism by which the fortunes of the day are
made
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
1t Was Maj. William Croghan.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Was there Colonel or Captain William
Croghan connected with the carly history
of Pittsburg? II so, was he an officer In the
"War of the Rebellion?" In what regiment
did he serve, ETC.? VETERAN.
NEW CASTLE, August4. 4.
1.-THE gentleman evidently referred to was
Major William Crogham, native of ireland,
who came to this country when quite young.
He settled in Virginia. In 1776 he was
captain in Fourth regiment of the Virginia
line and was later promoted to major. He
came to Fort Pitt on July 8, 1882. In 17s4 he
moved to kentuckv.l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

1t is pleasant to learn from the London
financial market that "hopefulness about
Argentines sustains the general tone" 1t is
always gratifying to hear that hope is gild-
ing an otherwise dark horizon. But the in
formation that Londoners can discover any
thing hopeful in the Argentine imitation in
dicates that Lombard street must have an
element of tie sanguine character of our
own Thomas V. Cooper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

IT must be remarked that when General
Veazey, the late commander of the G. A. R.,
said in his address concerning pensions, that
eff the present enactment is not the wisest,
it is liberal" he came close to damning the
party from which he has received very
good Office with the faintest of praise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
Brown is elected Governor of Kent

BROWN is elected Governor of Kentucky,
and Brown is going to be the next Governor
of Maryland. Also Bill Brown and Jones
who pays the freight are rising lights in the
Democratic politics of New York. II this
thing goes much further the Smith family
will have to take possession of the Repub-
lican party and run opposition in sheer self
Justification.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

THE pointed suggestion of the Washing
ton Post that some one should arrange a reci-
procity treaty between Governor Campbell,
of Ohio, and the Democratic platform of
that State, carries with it the pertinence of
the same effort including the establishments
of cordial relations between the Republican
legislators of Pennsylvania and the Repub-
lican platform of this State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

THE New York World which shares with
some of the X. of L. leaders the work OF
booming the Constitutional Convention, says
the convention proposition was supported
by the Democrats and opposed by the Re-
publican managers. At the same time the
K. of L. leaders declare they are going to
support the Republicans because the latter
gave them the convention. There seems to
be necessity for the supporters of the con-
vention to arrange little more harmony in
their alleged statements of fact.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
Wants Paw Twice a Month.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Please explain the semi-weeklv pay bill
When does it go into effect? JUSTICE.
RoUsEvILLE, Pa, August 6.
There is no such law. The Legislature
passed semi-monthly pay law, and it has
gone into effect. 1t is not being enforced,
but many firms have observed its provisions
since its enactment1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
THE RUSSIANS AND THE FRENCH.
Many Rumors Are Flying Around About
Their Friendship.

PARIS, Aug. 7.-Rumors concerning the re-
suits of the recent visit Of the French feet
to Cronstadt, and close friendship between
France and Russia, continue to be circulated
in all classes of society. and there is much
conjecture as TO what the outcome of the
conferences between the representatio of
the two nations will be.
lie Pdtr to-day publishes an article which,
If true, will put an end to all conjecture.
That paper says that Baron Mohrenheim
the Russian Ambassador to France has re-
cetved cipher dispatch from the Russian
Foreign Minister announcing that a treaty
of alliance between Russia and T rance has
been signed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
Wants to Go to Africa.

10 the Editor OF The Dispatch:
Having noticed in your paper the an
nouncement of an African exploring expe-
dition write you for further information.
Where does the expedition start from and
what length OF time does it require? What
salary do they pay? w..
BEELEvERNoN, Pa, August 6.
1.-THE expedition is to start from Tunis No
salaries are paid, but on the contrary a man
must pay s43 q week to be allowed to go
along. 1t is evidently a money making
scheme.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

IT is said the Tilden heirs>have effected a
compromise by which the fund intended for
a library will be handed over somewhat
diminished though not so much SO as it
would have been by litigation. The fact and
the statement afford a striking commentary
on the uncertainties of will-making and the
certainty with which litigation will eat up
the funds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

The final conclusion of the Finance Com
mittee that something had better be done to
meet the payments for street Improvement
is a commendable perception of the situation
that was manifest some months ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
No, Not q Great Deal.

Pawtucket Times.
Last Sunday the New York papers printed
an advertisement of Brooklyn firm offer
ing gray wool blankets, weighing four
pounds, at 81. The duty on those blankets
is 81 90. Does this look as though the tariff
is tax?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08

INGALLS, says that he has not brains
enough to be a millionaire. This may be
true; but if anyone else should intimate that
Ingalls, has less brains than Elliot F. Shep-
ard, for example, there would be bitter back