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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

The promise of disorders contained by
Ae dispatches about the Tennessee coal
trike Is reflected to a certain extent by
the local reports concerning the trouble at
jhe DuqUeSne works. Will ethese reports
may require verification, the allegations
are specific enough to call for a warning
mat order and Legal rights cannot be vio-
lated with impunity
The right of workingmcn to cease work
and TO act unitedly in maintenance of their
wages is a fundamental one, which is
balanced by the right of employers to re-
tain control of their property. If it be
true, as reported yesterday, that force of
the supporters of tile strike took possession
OF the DUquesne works, and notified the
men there that they must not work, they
lave placed themselves in opposition to
the law. We may hope that the facts are
not correctly reported; but there can be no
question rs 10 the principle
The best protection of the rights of
labor is in the faithful maintenance of
law. This is the lesson of history, and the
laboring men Of to-day should not forget it,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
A Point for the superstitious,

Tho deadly '13'' continues to devastate
this fair land, and there is no telling where
it will strike next. The last victim was
William Hanlon, the acrobat, who was killed
in Iowa last week by falling from trapeze.
says the New York Advertiser.
The man who works hand in hand with
the deadly "13," and is, perhaps, the worst
of the two, has found that on March 13, Han
Ion was at dinner where 13 guests partici-
pated This, of itself, was enough to mark
Mr., Hanlon as a doomed man, but in
addition to the fatal coincidence, he was the
thirteenth man to arrive. The host being
a kind, careful person, tried to find the
fourteenth man to- come in to break the
SPELL but of course, the hoodoo was not SO
easily chased away. A tramp could not
have been perSTndod to join the festal board
under such coz ions.
July Hanlon met his fate. Why he was
SPARED on the 18th of April and June is n
wonder, but that was simply whim of the
hoodoo.
The acrobat was buried from Thirteenth
street, in this city-that is to say, from East
Thirteenth street-and his burial lot in tine
cemetery is No. IL.
The man who goes hand in hand with the
deadly "l3'' has overlooked one important
fact in this case to wit, that in the name of
William Hanlon there are Ii letters This
would have killed him sooner or later with
out the dinner, though, of course, the din
ner helped the fatality along. Dinners
always do.
WHY does not star-eyed science find soma
way to vaccinate against these fatal figures?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
TERMS OF THY DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY, JULY q, 1871.
OK THE WRONG SIDE.

A very accurate measure of the situation
in Ohio was made by Governor Campbell's 8
remark, in explanation Of some planks in
the Ohio Democratic platform that do not
express his views His assertion was that
the contest is so clearly made on the tariff
line that every other issue will go to the
wall DOUBTLESS Governor Campbell
hopes he will win on the issue, but that
hope cannot be regarded as so well
founded
When the Democrats are fatuous enough
to insist on opposition to the principle of
full protection TO American industry they
are sure TO he beaten in States like Penn
sylvania and Ohio. 1t may yet be mat
ter to be settled as regards the nation at
large, but it is not likely that the Amer
lean people have yet reached the point
where they are ready to break down
domestic industry for the benefit of
foreigners. We commend the Governor
frankneSs and sincerity in recognizing the
tariff issue as so specifically made that it
can in no way be ohscured. That beingthe
case, the respective merits of the tariff
against free trade will make the Novem-
Der vote decisive in favor of the American
system.
THE DISPATCH has been frank in its
recognition of Governor Campbell'S merits
- favorable specimen of the newer class
Of executives like Cleveland and Pattison.
Put he has planted himself on the wrong
side of the tariff question, and will, of
course, have TO abide by the decision of
that issue
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

vania. Nearly three hundred miles of rail
way have been laid to build the great ditch.
Although the cost was heavy, 1t has been
provided by the public spirit of Man.
chester The recognition of its value to
the whole community was so general that
even the cotton spinners joined their en-
ployers in putting their money into the
enterprise. Finally the bonds necessary
to complete the work were guaranteed by
the city of Manchester. Thus the enter
prise is signal exponent of the valuation
which the chief manufacturing city of the
world places on water transportation.
If Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania
would take hold of their project in the way
Manchester has done, the canal would be
an assured thing during the present
decade. The supremacy of the iron, steel
and coal trade of the Western Hemisphere
should be inducement enough to do so.
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PADLoCKs ON HIS MEMORY,
How One of the Great Unspanked Enter
tanned Cable Car Passengers.

How One of the Great Unspanked Enter
tanned Cable Car Passengers.
He is a very bright little boy, but unlike
young Rudyard Kipling, he has no idea that
he knows it all, and asks questions that
would worry a philosopher to answer Yes
terday he accompanied his mama from his
East End home to the city, via the Fifth
avenue cable line. After being informed
that there was no man under the car pull
ing the rope,' and given various other addi-
tions o his store of knowledge his mama be-
came tired and refused to answer questions.
whats the use of telling you," said the
good lady, "you don't remember any way
What | say goes in one ear and out the
other.'
As she delivered herself of this reasoning
the car stopped and several Italians board.
ed it. One of them wore earrings that
looked very much like small padlocks.
THAT man must be like me-" said the little
boy, as he eyed the Italians closely.
"Why?" asked his mama.
"Why, what they told him went in one ear
and out the other, until they had to put pad
locks on to keep it in. Won't you get me
little paddock for my memory, mama?"
By unanimous consent of the carload of
pilgrims that boy was declared the greatest
OF the great unspanked.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
YENEZuFLA,s OBJECTION.

The vote of the Venezuelan Congress
against reciprocity with the United States
is accompanied by statement of reasons,
the most salient feature of which is the in
comprehenSibility of its logic. This may
not be as much the fault of the logic as OF
the fact that the real reason for the re-
lection of the treaty is one, which the
legislators of Venezuela are not prepared
to avow
The root of the matter lies in the fact
that Venezuela presents an aggravated
case of spoils politics. The President and
Congress, elected biennally, are dependent
on each other, and the governmental Of
fees, to degree far surprising the eX-
periences of this country, are filled up
with the members of the Congressional
families. As this army of place-holders is
maintained by the import and export
duties, the members of Congress have been
quick to perceive that to cut off by a
treaty both export and import duties
would necessitate the reduction of official
salaries, if not the discharge of many of
their friends in Office. The logic in this
case is much more direct than in the Con-
gressional explanation published yester-
day; and it proved entirely convincing to
the Venezuelan Congressman.
VeneZuela's commercial condition is a
peculiar one to the Anglo-Saxon view
The phenomenon of a retail price sfOr
potatoes of &c per pound standing un-
changed for ten or twelve years, as stated
in an article elsewhere in this issue,
is sufficiently Illustrative of that fact; but
it is surpassed by the fact that the price
for onions, established when they were an
imported staple, continues unchanged
now that they are largely produced in that
country. That there is dissatisfaction
with these commercial as well as political
conditions is quite natural.
The real reason for the rejection of reci-
procity is that it threatens to cut down the
patronage of Congressman. Legislators
who refuse to permit the use of the elec-
tric light because it will interfere with a
gas monopoly in which they are interested,
and which sells gas at SO per thousand,
are not likely to ineOmmode their office
holding relatives for the sake of the eX-
tension of commerce. But they afford an
impressive example of what spoils politics
can develop into.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
NINE OF THE UPPER TEN.

NINE. DE LEssEPs is regarded as one of the
most devout women in Paris.
EX-CoNGREssNIAN CANNON has recently
purchased three newspapers in the district
he formerly represented.
Hon. JOHN T. ABBOTT, United States
Minister to Colombia, now at his home in
Keene, n. H., on leave, will sail for South
America next Tuesday.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS and Miss Winnie
Davis, who are soon to go to Narragansett
Pier, will be the guests of Mr.. Hayes and
family at ST. Elmo cottage.
ROBERT BONNER has never raced horse
for money or won dollar on a track in
his life, yet there has not been q time in %
years when he has not owned the best
trotting stock in America.
THE estate of the late Senator Hearst has
been inventoried at 49, 100000, which is all in
possession of his widow. The San Francisco
Examiner belongs to his son, William r.
Hearst, and is said to be a paying property
NINE LEON BERTEAUx, the French sculp
tress, is one of the most ardent champions
given up to the welfare of the female art
world in Paris. The Union of Women Paint
ers and Sculptors, in Paris, owes its existence
and prosperity to her efforts.
ATHE dowager countess of Shrewsbury is
one of the most prominent philanthropists
in England She has spent most of her time
and money in improving the condition of
the poor on her estate and has established
several lodging houses and "convalescent
homes for the INDECENT and sick
PROF. GEoRGEI. LITTLE, of Bowdoin Col
lege, has a copy of Horace used by the poet
Longfellow when a student at that institu-
ton. The book has Mr.. Longfellow's sigma
ture on the first leaf, and opposite to it that
of Prof. Calvin E. Stowe. The interesting
relic is carefully preserved in a glass case.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21


other evening, says the Chicago Times. The
Colonel is lawyer and politician, and
what he doesn't know about Kansas nobody
does.
'Do you know" he asked, "what we call
the Farmers Alliance people out there?"
Nobody seemed to.
"Well, we call 'em 'calamityites, said
the Colonel, cor more frequently, for short,
'calams' We do this because thev are al
ways predicting some sort of catastrophe
for the agricultural element, and, like wan
dering and pessimistic Jeremiah, they go up
and down and round and about the length
and breadth of the land with wailings and
weepings and metaphorical sackcloth and
ashes, trying to convince people that
plaques worse than the locusts Of Egypt are
being designed by the two great political
parties for the sole and especial undoing of
the farmers. Calamityites are mighty dole
full and bothersome people, and nobody pays
much attention to them any more. No, it is
not true that the brains of Kansas are con-
tinually bent upon the question of how to
hibition notwithstan ding"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
ANOTHER DIsAPPEARANCE

The fatality which sometimes presides
over the disappearance of public docu-
mentS highly disagreeable to certain inter-
eStS has been noted in these columns be-
lore. 1t is interesting to the student of
these phenomena to learn that the disap-
pearing qualities Of corporation tax bills
and reports Of trust Investigations have
developed themselves in the report and
testimony of the commission that investi-
gated the causes Of the Sioux outbreak.
The press dispatch which reports this
mysterious disappearance of documents
from the tailboard of wagon credits the
Sioux with stealing them 1t is possible
fhat the untutored mind of the poor In
dian feared that the ljtera scriptG meant a
cutting down of his ratiuns, ana stole them
l. prevent that calamity. But such a
theory is good deal like crediting the
ant-monopUliats with buying up and sup
pressing the reports of investigating COM
nitteeS that have ventilated the Trusts.
1t is worth while to remember that there
are interests about the Sioux reservation
directly interested in the suppression of
the report When it is declared that the
documents cannot be replaced, it seems
quite as possible that the interests which
have been concerned in plundering the
Sioux got them removed from the rear of
tie wagon where the commission oblig-
iuEly placed them than that the Indians
Performed the act of gratuitouSly stealing
What they did not know how to use.
On the whole, this dissOlving view of the
Sioux investigation furnishes a stronger
Presumption Of the rascality of the Indian
ring than OF the general cussedness of the
Indians.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
THE EXAMPLE OF MANCHESTER,

Another announcement of the progress
O. the Manchester ship canal, and the
preparations that city is making for the
extension Of her shipping facilities by that
route, gives demonstration by compar-
is0n Of the importance of the Western
Pennsylvania project in the same line.
The purpose Of the English work is to
turn the manufacturing city into a sea-
port; that Of our project is to bring lake
transportation to the doors of the manu-
Featuring center of the United States. The
English canal, requiring greater depth
j1r the accommodation of ocean vessels. is
more expensive in proportion to its length;
The greater length Of the Ohio river and
Lake EIic project will render il work of
nearly equal magnitude. The shipments
on Manchester are of a character which
can bear the charges of railway transporta-
ton; in the movements of coal ore. iron
aud steel from Pittsburg the freight
charges are vital element. Every phase
O. the comparison shows that the Ohio
River and Lake Erie canal is equal in i'm
porfance and even more requisite with an
eve to future trade developments, by com
parison with that which Manchester is
just bringing to completion.
Ia that view the work Manchester is
doing has especial application as an ex-
ample 20 PittsbuTg and Western Pennsyl-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
THE FARMERS AND THEIR WHEAT.

The bright but not very profound New
York Telegram is pleased with the re-
| ported proposition that the whcat-raisers
of this country shall hold back their wheat
| from market in order to force higher
| prices. 1t says the farmers have the per-
feet right to hold their wheat until it will
realize the best prices, that the outlook is
favorable for higher prices, and that the
farmers will be wise to take this method
of securing the better prices that are sure
to come Beyond that it asserts, with
more fairness than grammar:
1t is not the Northwestern farmers who
can be rightfully charged with gambling.
They are, on the contrary, to be credited
with taking the steps prompted by ordinary
business prudence to protect themselves
from the familiar Vaccinations of the grain
gamblers, who are trying to beat down the
prices of wheat in a year when all the world
must bid for our surplus and when we will
have handsome surplus to sell.
All these propositions are true enough,
but the trouble is that they do not fit the
case. 1t is perfectly legitimate for any
man, whether purchaser or producer, to
hold whatever he owns, until he thinks he
can get the best price for it. 1t is entirely
another thing for him to call upon all own
ers of such property to withhold them
from market, in order to produce an arti-
fetal scarcity. The man who says, 'Wheat
is sure to be higher. | will hold mine,
and let others sell until the market natu-
rally rises" is exercising a legitimate
right, although he is incurring a business
hazard. The one who says, 81 will neither
sell my wheat nor let anyone else sell his,
until the necessities of the consumers
force big advance, is conspiring against
public policy.
The proposition reported to have been
made-and which we are glad to see de-
MED by an official of the Alliance-was of
the latter sort. The fact that it proposed to
copy the illegitimate and oppressive acts
of the trusts is not less remarkable than
its utter impOssibility in the case of the
farmers. The trusts are able to take
such methods of producing artificial
scarcity only by monopoly. To imagine
that millions of producers can unite in
policy, which those combinations can sue
ceed in only when all of few competitors
are united in close corporation, is simple
idiocy.
1t is all right to advise the farmers to
hold back their wheat on the individual
account, although the person giving that
advice would incur grave responsibility
if he should guarantee the event. But
public policy demands that each farmer
shall be left at liberty to sell his wheat
whenever his circumstances or his iudg-
ment dictate; and the state of the case
makes it certain that this will be done.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and some
| of his staff will be at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel tomorrow. They are coming to at
tend the fetu champetre of the Randall Club
Six rooms have been engaged for the party.
Joshua Rhodes and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
Clark, four members of the Singer family
and DR.. E. S. Smith and wife, formed party
who started for Europe last evening. They
will sail tomorrow on the City of Paris.
Jacob Ritchter and wife, of East street,
Allegheny, who have been Sojourning at At
lantic City the past few weeks returned last
night. Mr. Richter went to the sea shore in
search OF health.
Charles Howells, claim agent for the
Baltimore and Ohio road, started for Europe
last evening with one of the professors from
the Washington and Jefferson College
Rev. Father Albert, Director of the SchoI-
assume the dictatorship of the Benedictine
College at Peru, Ill.
G. S. Saunders, colored bank clerk from
Denver was on the limited last evening
going home. he says he formerly lived in
PittSburg.
c. Selden, Superintendent of the B. & o.
telegraph system, and Ross Reynolds, Of
Kittanning, areamong the guests at the An
derson.
Judge Harry White, of Indiana, and
Lyman Nichols, of Washington, are among
the arrivals at tn Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Abner A. Wilson, wealthy merchant of
Lincoln, Neb., was visiting friends here yes
terday. He leftxPfttsburg ten years ago.
A. Victorino, of the Wateryliet Arsenal
West Troy. and W. Fl. Pratt, of Mt. Vernon,
are registered at rthe Duquesne.
Joseph BollmaB, of the Mechanics Ma
tional Bank, is spending his vacation in
New York and at The Seashore.
r. c. Hall, of Titusville, and A. L. Dun
bar, of Meadville, are stopping at the Mo-
nongahela House.
w. L. Bowlus, commercial agent for the
Wabash, is in the ciGy. Mr.. Bowlus lives in
Cleveland.
G. r. Hubbard and j. w. Collins, two
Wheeling iron men, ,were in the city yester-
day.
Constable Connolly, of Alderman Dono-
vans office, has gone to Ireland on a visit.
Hugo Rosenberg and wife have started on
a tour of the northern lakes and Canada
Prof Charles j. Smith is home from a
trip TO Lake George and Saratoga.
John III. Rieketson came in from New
York on the limited last evening.
Mrs. John Oakley returned yesterday
from trip to Atlantic City.
J. c. Mcconnell and wife left for Thou
sand Islands last evening.
Rev. Mr.. Satchell and wife left for Phila-
dephia last evening.
j. C. Kurtz, ConneLlsville storekeeper,
is at the Schlosser.
j. H. Sawhill has gone to Denver.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
RARE COIN OF THE SOUTH.

A PhiladelphiaH Turned Ont Dies for the
Confederacy, but Never Delivered Them
Eighty Five Coins Made-A Variety of
Short Sketches.
The commission which has just completed
the counting of superintendent Bosbyshell's
millions In the Mint in this city in examining
the curious coins in the Mint museum came
across l-cent piece with a rare history, saws
the Philadelphia Record. 1t is coin struck
from the only complete dies made for the
coming of money tor the late Confederate
Government, and these dies were made in
Philadelphia in 1851.
Investigation discloses the fact that the
only part of these dies is in the possession of
j. Calvin Randall, the coin collector of this
city. There were only S6 pieces struck from
the dies, after which they were defaced.
The story of this coin is quite interesting
The dies were made by n MI. Lovett in Phila-
delphia, who says that they were ordered in
1861 from the South, and were to be for l-cent
After manufacturing the dies he was not
able to get them out of the city, and, be-
striking Oft II nickel pieces. No one except
himself knew of the existence of either dies
or coins until 1873, when Mr. Randall and
John W. Haseltine discovered their ex-
istence by accident.
Mr. Lovett had been carrying one of the
pieces as a pocket piece, and one evening. by
an oversight, paSSou III III restaurant. me
proprietor, knowing MI. Haseltine as a col
lector, sent the piece to him: The latter,
recognizing the head of Liberty as Mr.
Lovett's work, succeeded jointly with Mr..
Randall in negotiating the purchase of the
dies.
The two gentlemen then agreed to strike
off 55 pieces in copper, II in silver and in
the dies and held the struck coins for sale to
collectors. The following is description of
the coin:
Obvorse, 1861; head of Liberty. inscription,
"Confederate states of American reverse,
wreath of ears of corn and wheat, with
cotton bale at the bottom in the center the
words 81 Cent" The restrikes were struck
by Peter L. Krider, No. 6lS Chestnut street.
This was the only coinage ever contem-
plated by direct authority of the Confeder-
ate Government, and the original nickel
pennies and the restruck pieces are now
very valuable. In 1874, when Messrs. Ran
dali and Haseltine offered them for sale to
Sl5 for the silver, 81 for the copper and 500 for
the nickel coins, they having bought from
Loyett what he had left of the last struck in
1861. The coins are now very rare and are
worth a great deal more than the prices
asked in 1874.
during the war was half dollar. This was
coined at the United States Mint at New Or
leans in 1861, and for it's diverse the United
States die for the half dollar was used, being
seated figure of Liberty that still appears
on our coins. For the reverse q die was cut,
whose design consisted of q shield sur
mounted by liberty cap, and surrounded
legend was Confederate States of America
Half Dol.n A number of these were after
ward restruck, and the die destroyed. Single
pieces have been sold for S25.