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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
BETTER COME TO PITTsBURG.

Tacoma, with the usual enthusiasm
which characterizes the far West, is. to the
front with a novel proposition. 1t wants
the next Democratic National Convention,
and is willing to pay for the railroad trans
portation of the delegates and all other ex-
penses.
But if the Democrats propose to tear
themselves away from the cities which
have of late years had the monopoly of ma
tional conventions, they had better come
to Pittsburg. Then they can feast their
eyes upon the thriving industries which
they so boldly assert are paralyzed by the
protective policy They will see thou
sands of busy workers, who dwell in COM
fort and enjoy life. To be sure, their par
tisanship may be weakened somewhat, but
the party's loss will be the country's gain.
Pittsburg will be a good spot for Re-
publican national convention, too. 1t Is
located near the actual, if not the
geographical center of the country. 1t is
the birthplace of the party, and the
brightest example of the prosperity at
tanned by the principles of the organiza-
ton. Then just think of the mighty yell
which would resound from river to river
when Blaine was nominated. We will go
Tacoma one better-let both national
conventions come to PittSburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
SOME PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL.

Major j. B. Mosby, DR.. A. W. Tenney
and George Cox, of Cincinnati, passed
through the city yesterday to New York to
press the Queen City's claims as place for
the next convention of the National Repub-
lican Committee.
Superintendent Olhauser, of the New
Jersey Central, occupied, with his family, q
private car at the Union depot last night.
He had been to Dubois and Titusville, and
leaves this morning for home.
Mrs. d. f. Dockstader and Miss Dock
stader, of Meadville, were at the Anderson
Yesterday, having come to town to see the
Exposition.
II. s. Moore, of Wilmington, Del, an
New Castle, were at the Duquesne yester-
day.
The east-bound limited was detained two
bonrs and a half by the connecting rod of
the engine breaking near Leetonia-
C. wiehelmann, of Lyons, France, and
Wicy am Earnshaw, of London, England, are
guests at the Duquesne.
George Westinghouse. Jr., arrived in
town yesterday from New York
J. Shaner and Mrs Shsner, of Penn ave-
nue. left for Boston yesterday.
Thomas Mccoy, of Fifth avenue, left for
California yesterday morning.
Joseph Horne and his son Durben have
returned from the seaside.
Buffalo last night
DR. Ballard, of Titusville, went to Phila>
delphia last night.
F.H. Buhl, of Sharon, was at the Ander-
son yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, it is feared, Will
have to undergo another operation.
REV. l. w. L. RoUNDTREE pastor OF
the colored NJ. E. Church, Bridgeton, n. j.,
is a candidate for the office of United States
Minister to Liberia.
THE man thought most likely to succeed
the present Lord Mayor of London is Alder
man David Evans, a manufacturer and a
Welshman, aged A years.
COLONEL JAMES FENNER LEE, Secre-
tary of the Unit ed States Legation to Brazil,
left Rio de Janeiro for Baltimore on the lst
of September on leave of absence for some
months.
JAMES B. HAMMOND, of typewriter
fame is frequently in Atlanta. He is small
man and frightfully tortured with neuralgia.
1t is impossible for him to sit still for five
minutes at time. For 20 years he has not
been out of pain.
MULLER URY has just painted a beauti-
full portrait of Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer.
Ury, it will be remembered, is the young
Swiss artist who painted the successful por-
trait of Mr. Depew which was. exhibited in
New York last winter.
The young lady to whom General E. Burd
Grubb. American Minister to Spain, is to be
married is Miss Violet Sopwith, daughter of
Hon. Thomas Sopwith, of Lisnore, Scotland.
She is u great friend of Miss Effie Grubh,who
is said to have been instrumental in bring
ing about the match.
MICHAEL DAvITT, wife and children,
have left San Francisco on their retnrn to
Ireland He will make a stop at Chicago on
the way. The main object of his visit to the
coast was to recuperate his strength, which
underwent q severe strain during recent
troubles in the old country.
JUDGE PRUDEN, of Ohio, who has been
making an extended tour Of Alaska, says
that he thinks the natives of that land are
of Chinese or japanese rather than of Indian
descent They have many of the pronounced
mental characteristics of the Mongolian
race, while they bear absolutely no resem-
blance to the typical Western Indian.
Mrs. BROWN POTTER seems to have had
some pleasant experiences in the course of
her professional travels. The Nizam of Hy-
derabad, she says, gave fete in her honor,
and she is also stated to have received as
presents from the Mikado (the real one-not
Gilbert and Sullivan'sl four dwarf trees
two oaks and two pines-the ages of which
were from tour to six centuries apiece.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
FARMERS REFUSED TO OBEY.

The efforts to induce the farmer to hold
his wheat are, SO far, failure. The re-
port of the Treasury Department for
August shows an actual increase in eX-
ports of S1sOOO,OOO worth of breadstuffs
during that month-this in the face of the
repeated requests to hold for better prices.
In August an exhaustive address was for
warded to the farmers by the Alliance
leaders. This was given the widest pub
licity by the press, but the figures show
that it had no influence The farmers
were told to hold back their wheat, but
instead they held back other products.
The expectation of provisions fell off
81, ,262, 900, cattle and hogs S56S,00O, and
cotton S950,000.
1t is not believed that the farmers have
deliberately set aside the advice of their
leaders, but it is urged that they have
been too ready to part with their crops.
1t is even said that the rapid rise of wheat
in August was designed to induce the
farmers to sell. If so, it succeeded; for
the records show that many producers
were unable to stand idly by and see
wheat in demand at more than 81. Each
imagined OUIl6TS were uOIulIS udCh
and all fastened to dispose Of part of
their stock.
There is another reason that may ac-
count for the increased exports. The
crops are extraordinarily large. Farmers
generally have not a surplus of ready
money, and at the close of the harvest sea-
son they must liquidste Observation-Disclosures
before they are in condition to hold.
With an abundant crop they could afford
to dispose of portion and hold the re-
mainder
Now that this has been done the exports
for September are not expected to be so
large The leaders, alarmed by the large
sales, have issued another address. The
great danger, however, is that farmers
will hold too long, and that prices will go
so high that the poor in Europe cannot
afford to buy. There are other foods than
those produced from grain, and if grain is
made too expensive, the poor in Europe
will soon learn to get along with some
thing else
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
THE PENSION REPORT.

The report of General Raum shows that
there are now about 200, 900 persons on the
pension rolls, and that the total amount
paid out in the past fiscal year was over
Sis 900, 900, an increase of 1000, 600.
The nation must not and will not allow
the deserving to remain in need, but surely
the limit has nearly been reached. Ac-
cording to the generally-accepted idea
there were never more than half million
bayonets pointed toward the Southern
strongholds at any one time. But, not
withstanding the fact that many have
passed to their final rest, the list of pen
siOners is to-day larger than the army
muster ever was
No one realizes this better than the
genuine soldiers, and the strongest pro-
tests against the payments to undeserving
persons come from the veterans them
selves. 1t is a question whether all the
reckless generosity in the Pension Bureau,
to use mild phrase, went out with Cor
poral Tanner.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
THE CLUB CONVENTION.

THE lifting out of DalzeI has been long an
ticipated. For weeks it has been agreed
that he would not reach the target at
which he was aiming. Dalzell is not sub
servient to Quay, and the Republican who
does not bend his knee to the Beaver states
man is out.-Harrisbtrg Patriot.
THE dearest lover of the party or the most
earnest advocate of concord will not deny
that the fight has created great dissatisfac-
tion in almost every party of the State. Mr..
Robinson is not the choice of the party, but
of Ehe League. Had the mushroom clubs
been admitted, Mr.. Dalzell would probably
have been the choice of the convention
McKeesport Herald.
THE momentous issue that for so many
months has distracted the Republican party
in Pennsylvania-who shall march at the
head of the torchlight processions-was set
tied Yesterday ut Scranton. The honor was
awarded to Senator and Congressman Jack
Robinson. Dalzell was elected to march at
the tail, unless he shall prefer to head a
procession of his Philadelphia Times.
The bitter contest for the Presidency of
the League of Republican clubs, which has
been waged for months past, eliminated
Yesterday at Scranton in the triumph of the
Robinson faction and the selection of their
leader to sit in the high place of honor. The
victory was decisive so 1ar as the votes
could 60 and the manner in which the re-
suit was received by the defeated faction,
whose chieftain moved that the choice be
made unanimous was strictly in line with
the prefunctory methods of harmony which
obtain at such gatherings Philadelphia
Record.
The prearranged programme was carried
out yesterday ut Scranton with scarcely
hitch and Mr.. Quay's choice of League
President was ratified by complaisant con-
yention. To do this it was necessary to add
wrong to wrong, to stif1e the growth of the
League, to pervert it from its purpose, to
exclude larger and betterbody of clubs than
those who arrogated to themselves all the
rights and functions Of the State League,
and finally to place at the nominal head of
the Republican organizations of the State
man notoriously unfit for and undeserving
of what would normally be a signal honor
Philadelphia Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
BELIEVE IN ONLY ONE CURE,

1t was not to be expected that any cure
for drunkenness would meet with Opposi-
ton at-the hands Of the prohibitionists,
yet DR.. Keeley's bi-chloride of gold process
has met such fate. Miss Frances Willard
expresses the opinion that the newspapers
are extolling the cure for the purpose of
belittling or hindering the prohibition
movement At Evanston, ILL.,, on Sunday
last Rev. II. A. Delano and Mrs. G. II.
Zimmerman addressed a meeting of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Both held that the Kelley cure was merely
an ''unimportant incident -
Would it not be well to disregard such
sentiments and investigate the cure?
There are million excessive drinkers in
this country who have not been reached
by moral or legal influences. Is no effort
TO be made to cure them of the disease, for
drunkenness is now conceded TO be dis
ease?
John F. Mines (Felix Oldboy), of liter
airy fame, testifies in the last number of
the North american ReCie1n, that he and
$50 others had been cured up 10 August
q, and all speak enthusiastically Of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
JOKELETs FROM JUDGE.

Healthy Wilyum-I hear our friends, de
brakemen, hez struck.
Weary Walkers-wot hez dey struck fer?
Healthy wIlyum-Dey's struck fer shorter hours.
Weary WaIkers-Well, 1 alters did think 60 min
utes wuz too long fer one hours work.
oh, when will my heart find cure for the
smart
That Cupid has left with his mischevous dart2
For my pretty typewriter has said she will be
simple amanuensister to me.
toThis is a terrible warning to you, young
man, said old Mr.. Peterson to his wayward
nephew. who recently returned from voyage on
merchantmen.
what is?'' asked the nephew.
''Why, young Baggs became intoxicated last
rIgl't and fell into the river. He never came up ae
aN.''
is that so? Why didn't he jettison his load?''
The lover who lost her by being a slow body.
Who imagined that nothing their passion could
squelch;
It's easy for him to proclaim her nobody
The moment that she's Mrs. Somebody Else
sTs Mrs van Perkins de Swell here?"
asked the newly-arrived spirit.
mo- replied ST. Peter. ''She arrived just In
time to see her seamstress enter. and sne lett In
huff
An Irishman who was shingling barn
got too near the edge and rolled of and fell to the
ground. ,,x.,
''Oi wuz list out o. nails
New Clerk Ito old clerk)-Didn't you
tell me time went on in this establishment during
vacatiOnp
Old Clerk-Yes.
New CIerk-Wen. they've dOcked me for the two
weeks / WIS away.
Old Clerk-That'S all right dion say tnat
salaries went on, did l?
To write us his very first opera
The composer must write many more,
For that one can be never completed
Until he produces score @. B.
Stranger Gin Stamford, Conn. Twill you
oblige me with the time, sir?
Native-Cert'n'ly. produces clam from his
vest pocket.) It's just three.
stranger-HOw can you tell by that?
Natve-I dug him at O'Clock yesterday: an
they begin ter change like in jest IS hours.
Mrs. Scadds-Daughter, girl should,
never throw herself at a young man.
Miss Scadds-Why, mamma?
Mrs. Scadds-Because girls are usually very inse-
curate in their aim.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The West End water Supply.

To the Editor Of The Dispatch;
There appeared in your paper recently q
letter in regard to the water supply in the
west End, commonly known as Temper
ancevflle. The writer of this letter should
go into the dime novel business, as evil
oently his imaginative powers are devel-
oped very fully and no doubt he could create
works OF fiction that would pay handsomely.
While his imagination has been actively at
work he has allowed his eyes to close ana
his senses to become blinded to many ex-
cellent features of the water now supplied
TO that section of the city. When ne says
that the water which is supplied IS more
mud than water" he states what Is not
fact and thereby brings discredit on all the
statements made in his letter.
would suggest that your correspondents
and myself draw a sample of water from q
hydrant in the Thomas Wightman Co.
glass house and submit it to you or any
disinterested party for inspection and see
whether there is the least particle OF
mud In it or not. The Monongahela
Water Company some time ago decided TO
lay an eight-inch pipe on Steuben street and
will commence work on the same as soon as
the pipe can be brought forward. In this
connection attention is called to the enor-
nous waste of water ON West Carson and
Main streets. 1t is the intention of the
water company to discontinue supply 20
all parties who are known to waste water Dy
letting hydrants run constantly. There is a
fire plug on West Carson street, near the
Point bridge, where people of The neighbor-
hood draw their water supply in broad day
light. 1t is contrary to city ordinance for
private individuals to meddle with or open
fire plug ut anv time. Yet the people there
have not the fear of the law before their
eyes. or course, they pay no water rent
and do not mean to pay any as they have no
water pipe connections to their premises.
The economical use of water in every dis.
trict of the Southside is a question in which
the people themselves should be deeply IN
terested: thereby the quality of the water
can be still further improved, as the ap-
paratus now In use in the basins for purify
ing will have longer time to treat the water.
Much has been done during the past ls
months by the water company to meet the
rapid development of the territory through
which its pipes are laid. Very few people In
the city realize how rapidly the Southstde
and West End have been growing during the
past few years MARTIN PREMIER,
General Manager, for the Monongahela
Water Company.
P1TTsBURG, September "a.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25

cure. There is nothing antagonistic be-
tween the two methods of curing the dis
ease-Miss Willard's and DR.. Kelley.
Miss Willard was never more mistaken
in her life than to charge that the cure is
bolstered by the press'to belittle the pro-
hibition cause. All who.leave, Dwight are
practical prohibitionists. They neither
drink nor do they encourage drinking. 1t
is fact that prohibition has never pro-
hibited in cities of any notable popula-:
ton. If the bi-chloride of gold process will'
remove the demand for liquor, why should
not Miss Willard and other reformers
urge its adoption and endeavor to cure
where they cannot succeed by means Of
prohibitory laws OF moral suasion9 II the
testimony of those who have been cured Is
to be believed, then the Kelley cure, the
church and the temperance society should
ioin issues and work together
If the prohibitionists take any other
stand. they declare for methods in place
of results; and indicate that they wish to-
continue to have something to reform,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
PAULINE's MADAME FAvART.
A Bright Performance of offenbach's Little
Opera Comique.


What was Miss Pauline Hall or her man
ager thinking of when she opened with ia
Belle Helene?" Last night she gave Offen-
bach's pretty little opera couique, Madame
Fayart," with twice as much go and finish.
and it suited her and the company generally
n great deal better than Ga Belle Helene"
"NIadame Fnvart" contains a great deal of
very tuneful music, some of which rises to
brilliancy. 1t has moreover a real story
worth the following, and several we'll
drawn characters-most unusual things in
comic operas. Last night Miss Pauline Hall
showed great improvement over any
previous work of hers as an actress, and was
In better voice than on Monday night. She
nuts lots OF vigor into her delineation of the
attractive heroine, and her little touches of
comedy were capital. We really did not
know that Miss Hall could be SO kittenish,
Miss Homie Weldon sang the first song
in the second act prettily and
did fairly we'll with the numbers which fell
tie Suzd,ine's lot. Mr.. George c. Boniface's
lack of voice hampered him, but he was
frequently funny as Charles FuUdrt. The ex-
tre,nely small voice of Mr.. Miller was not
although he sang the interpolated song.
mTis Known Alone to Me-" in act 2, with
feeling and earned an encore. The Md,olis
de P0nsdbIe is delicious character, q tooth
less old French roue. all smirks bows and
scented handkerchief, but Mr.. Blaisdell did
not mrasp the part Miss Rosa Cooke was, of
course, comic as the hostess of the inn. The
chorus Mt times sang well and sometimes
without spirit. Taking it as a whole, the
performance was bright and pleasant, and
wortha hundred of la Belle Helene" The
scenery especially the interior in the Sec
ond act, which showed some of Manager
Davis fiie stage fittings, furniture and brio
a-brac, was very good.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
Welded IN FRANCE.
Mrs. James Brown Potter's Sister Married
to NJ. Rene RaouI Duval.
[BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH,

BY CABLE TO THE DiSPATCH,1
PARIS, Sept 24-The marriage of Miss
Jennie Urquhart, the second daughter of
Colonel and Mrs. David Urquhart, of New
Orleans, to NJ. Rene Raoul Duval took place
to-day in the church of Letoile. The bride
was conducted to the altar by her father,
followed by the bridegroom with his mother
Mrs. Urquhart walked with NJ. Raoul Duval
father of the bridegroom, and Mrs. James
Brown Potter, sister of Miss Urquhart, was
escorted by NJ. Leon Say, uncle and also
witness for the bridegroom. Miss Urquhart's
witnesses we're her uncle and brosher, Mr..
Robert McLane and Mr.. David Urquhart, Jr.
The large bridal procession which fol-
lowed were members of the Raoul Duval
family and immediate relatives and friends
creation of ivory satin and lace, wearing no
veil over her face. This,as well as the other
wedding garments, were gifts from Mrs.
Potter. The bridegroom's present was a
necklace of pearls; from the Prince of Wales
was q diamond brooch, and from the father
of NJ. Rene Raoul Duval is country place
fully equipped in the Touraine of France.
The Princess HATFIELD nee Huntington, an
intimate friend of the bride, and who, II Is
said, made the match, gave q magnificent
carriage and pair. After a reception at the
residence of the bridegroom's parents the
couple left for Mariel to remain during the
hunting season.
Tuesday Colonel and Mrs. Urquhart held
marriage contract reception since there was
no dot given, which is the usual French Gus
tom. The marriage is considered love
affair, although they had only known each
other few months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-25
RECIPROCITY WITH MEXICO.
The Imports Have Not Been Decreased by
the Mckinley Bill.

American Economlst.1
Despite the croaking of free traders, who
declared at the outset that the Mckinley
tariff would virtually destroy the trade be-
tween Mexico and the United States, and
who continue to assert the same thing, that
trade continues steadily to increase. In the
six months ended December 81, 1880 Mexico
exported TO the United States merchandise,
not including gold or silver-bearing ores, or
silver lead ore, to the amount of So l54, l20, or
at the rate OF $l6,90s, ,4O per annum; i'll the
year ended June 90 1890, the exports of mer-
chandise, excluding the ores mentioned
above, to this country amounted to 81, 500,
900. These figures indicate gain on mer-
chandise alone of 81, sos, 600 for the year ended
June 30. 1891; q nd their significance is in
creased by the fact that the total exports Of
merchandise from Mexico to all countries in
last six months of 1890 decreased $476, ,O5j, as
compared with the last six months of 1885,
indicating a decrease of 1862, 1l2 for the year
ended June 30, 1891. In the last six months
of 1890 the total exports of precious metals
from Mexico, including coin and bullion, Is
well rs the ores mentioned before, amounted
to 22,043,653, of which the United States re-
ceived $l3, ,243343.
The foregoing figures conclusively show
that the 'odious Mckinley tariff has not
prevented an increase of imports from Mex
leo. Mexico is angry because we have in
creased the rates OF duty on her products,
and will not only refuse to buy from us, but
Will retaliate by raising her duties, solemnly
declared the free trade prophets. Let the
facts answer.