Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
A LOOK AROUND.

EVEN those who can hit them, and who
usually make good bags. complain OF the
bad woodcook shooting in this part OF the
country, The wet weather during the early
summer and spring scattered the birds
badly, and few of them have been reported.
or course just now they are moulting and
are in the corndelds or grain stubbles. Later
In the year, whom they will be on the hill
sides and on the edges of the woods, they
may show up in greater numbers.
IT has been q wonderfully good year for
the sporting and outing goods people. Hun
dreds OF fishing rods, thousands OF dollars
worth of reels, lines and tackle, as well as
outing costumes, tennis outfits, all sorts OF
bicycle rigs and other things affected by the
| people who are not or pretend they are not,
afraid of taking exercise in warm weather.
have been sold in immense quantities. Most
| OF those who deal in such things report it to
| be the best season known in years, and the
present hot weather will give an additional
impetus to their sales.
WHAT q lot of sickness there is in the
city, and especially among those who have
ever had touch of grip! 1t seems to be
an unusually unhealthy summer all around.
Down on Montour way. just off Sixth
avenue, back of the churches and Tariff
Club. there is a band which seems to think
it can knock Sunday afternoons into
smithereens without fear of the police.
Nearly every Sunday this band practices on
all sorts of pagan music, such as Boom De
Ay." 1t is close to several churches, and it
is source of much annoyance Is there no
police regulation to put a stop to this sort OF
nuisance?
The Y. M. R. 7. @, which being put into
the vernacular mea ms the Young Mems Re-
publican Tariff Club, is becoming sort of
local Tammany Hall. It has a membership
of several hundred, and among them are
nearly all the active and potent Republican
politicians of the cities and county. 1t is
here that many candidates. are Matched and
put through to a successful conclusion, and
others which have budded outside its limits
are chilled by early frosts. If the club pulls
together it means business, for it can take
an array Of wards and precincts to the polls
which Is next to impossible to overcome 1t
is more or less Magee club, but has among
its members a large number Of those Of dif-
ferent factions. Taken with its nefghbor. the
Americus Club, about all that amounts to
much in Republican working politics is
summed up.
ADJUTANT GENERAL GREENLAND was
in town yesterday with Gen. John A. Wylie.
The latter is about as fine looking a soldier
as one could desire. When he and General
Hastings were in full uniform and mounted
it was ten to one no civilians need apply for
recognition from the ladies who happened
to be along.
WHAT quoted yesterday from banker
In rd To hnr nd ha of
ing after its reputation as peaceful and
law-abiding city has brought out a number
OF similar expressions from other people.
1 trust the Chamber Of Commerce is not all
at the seashore or in the hills, and that it
will not allow too much time to pass with
out acting earnestly and practically on this
issue.
THERE used to always be war on the
border in the old days when Scotland had
lord of its own and England lay within
marrying range. Equally so is it to-day on the
Northern frontier of India and the Afghan
country, and ii young English officer
whom met recently is not an alarmist the
old mossy Eastern question will come up for
sharp answer soon. The Russians have
grown bolder with years of peace and the
Englishman says that in military circles in
India all the present troubles of the Ameer
are Que TO Cn0 prOVerDlal huSSldn lnGrlSuoS
among the tribesmen. Already there have
been encounters between bodies of Cossacks
and the Afghans not far from Herat and
it is not much more than year
since that arch-schemer, that boldest of
all Russian agents in the East, Colonel ALI
khonoff, was arrested by the English in
Cabul, disguised as q Mussleman dervish.
"Is Gladstone strong enough to handle such
an issue?" asked his countryman, who is a
stanch Liberal. From what hear at
home fear not OF course, I mean phys
ically. don't believe he could stand the
strain of great war, and it W ould be q risky
thing to put the reins in the hands of some
of the others must say that Salisbury has
held his own in India and has inspired a
feeling of confidence in his courage and
ability to hold his own against Russia. So
far as that goes, though, there is no great
Chancellor at the head Of foreign affairs in
Russia now. The Gear has taken much into
his own hands for several years, and the
generals run tho diplomatic end of affairs as
we'll as the military,
CONGRESS has adjourned, and the silver
men are in the bouillon. so to speak.