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Bekjendtgiorelse

So HENHOLD til Anordning af
. lode August 1874, bejendtgj0res
herved, at jeg Days Dato har modtag-
ct Anmedelse ON, at Herr Justitsraad
L. FABER under 30te torrige Maan-
ed har udstedt Fuldmagt til Herr
Cand. Pharm. S. w. STEPHENS til
/ hans Frayarelse at handle som
Agent for "THE NORTHERN
ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LON
DON"
Frederiksted's PoIitikammer den 4de Mai
1892.
r. PETERSEN.
Translation
, 1892-05-18
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IOB pRIATlAL executed vt TINS once with ueatue,s
aud despatch
, 1892-05-18
Publication

%N PURSUANT to Ordinance Of
5 10Th August 1874, it is hereby
made known that today the follow
ing announcement has been made
to me, viz: that Councillor L. FABER
has on the 3Oth ult, issued power to
Cand. Pharm. S. w. STEPHENS to
act as Agent for THE NORTHERN
ASSURANCE LON
DON" during L. FABER'S absence.
Frederiksted's Police Office the 4th May
1892.
r. PETERSEN.
, 1892-05-18
Bekiendtgjorelse

r. FIT bekjendtgj0res at Reparti-
" tionen i Boet efter afgangne
Skomager PETER SCHUSTER og
tidligere abode Hustru Margreth
Ann Schuster vii blive fremlagt i
en- Skiftesamling, som afholdes her
paa Kontoret ONSDAGEN den 8de
Juni d. A. Eftermiddag Kl. 2, hvor-
efter Boet forventes sluttet.
Christiansteds Skifteret, St. Croix. den
12ds Mai 1892.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
r1TTsBuRG. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1892
PAGES
DEBATING FOR POSITION.

The debate in the English Parliament
so far may be described, according to in
dividual tastes, as "sparring for wind, Z"
''maneuvering for position" F" or trying to
get the weather gauge. The debates of
the minority Government allege that there
is nothing to do until the opposition de-
fines its policy; the Home Rulers take oc-
casion to assert that they are in opposi-
ton now, and will retain that traditional
position if the coming Liberal Cabinet
does not put Home Rule to the front first,
last and all the time Mr.. Gladstone very
forcibly yesterday declared that the peo-
pie having shown that they do not ap-
prove the policy of the Salisbury Cabinet,
the first thing is to form new Govern
ment in accordance with the popular will.
All of which means that the Liberals
are not ready to show their hands, and
that the Conservatives will try to make
them. The amendment to the address
will, 1t is clear, be debated on these lines
till the vote; and all the debate will have
little more effect on the vote than a debate
on the tariff in Congress. Mr.. Gladstone
will form ministry; and the conscious
ness that trouble will commence then is
undoubtedly the cause of reticence on the
part of the Liberal leaders now. The
Irish party's professions sound somewhat
exacting; and by their letter it indicates
that Mr.. Gladstone cannot 60 far without
another general election.
The Home Rulers have the right to
insist on a Home Rule measure; but in the
work of framing the bill they will have
the question presented to them whether it
is not wiser to take what can be passed
than to postpone the success. With the
possibility of control of Parliament that
can be secured by conservative and united
counsels, it is incumbent on the represent
atives of ireland to be sure that they do
not throw away the substance in grasping
at the shadow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
THE SMILING TIGER,

While the question whether Platt and
Hill are placated may still agitate polit-
ical gossip, it is beyond dispute that the
Tammany branch of the Democracy is
fully in the saddle as to the campaign or
ganization. This is made evident by the
recent choice of Lieutenant Governor
Sheehan Of New York, the executive
officer of the Hill Tammany combination
for legislative matters, as Chairman of
the National Executive Committee.
1t is worth while to note that short
time ago the Mugwump organs who sup
port Cleveland made protest with regard
to the presence of Sheehan on the Ma
tional Committee in any capacity. The
effectiveness of the protest is illustrated
by the advancement of Sheehan to that
important position in the campaign. In
digesting this morsel of political crow the
New York Times and Post will have as
much trouble as their neighbor the Sun.
We see no other course open to them but
to fly like it to the solace of contemplating
the force bill and the ghost of Negro
Domination-witha large sized N D.
Sheehan in charge of the Executive
Committee is decided intimation that
Tammany, Hill and the spoils Democracy
are in charge The lady who smilingly
took rde on the back of the Tiger re-
turns to her usual quarters, and the smile
is on the face of the Tiger. Yet some
significance might be given to the fact
that the one national success won by De-
mocracy in thirty-two years was when the
element now running the machine was
distinctly retired to the rear
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
THE soFr-MoNEY PLANK.

Concerning Secretary Fosters speech 81
Vermillion, O., with regard to the mad
visibility of replacing the national bank
circulation by State bank notes the Phila-
delphia Record says:
The Secretary of the Treasury insists that
the national bank system as 1t exists IS iar
preferable to a revival of the State bank Is
Sues There is not the least doubt OF this.
A better system for securing note holders
against loss was never devised. But how
are the national banks to increase or con-
tinue their issues, with the national debt
steadily declining and with the growing
competition of Treasury certificates at the
rate OF $40 900, COO year? As an alternative
proposition to a revival of the State bank is
sues Secretary Foster mentions plan to
extend the $3.50 900, 900 of per cents Tor 80
years at per cent. as a permanent basis for
national bank circulation. While the Secre-
tary carefully refrains from commencing
this suggestion he thinks that it would be
better than a revival of the State bank sys-
tenn. But it admits of very grave doubt
whether large volume of the public debt
should be perpetuated for half a century
even for so excellent a system as that of the
national banks.
The admission that the national bank
system of circulation is the best, and the
statement that the Democracy do not at
tack that, but only seek something to re-
place it as its circulation is retired by the
extinction of bonds, only emphasizes the
Indictment against the Democratic policy.
That is that the Democratic platform Sc
lects the worst possible remedy for the
disappearance of national bank notes by
going back to the system it replaced, and
reviving the old irregular and unreliable
State bank circulation. There is more in
fiation and financial uncertainty In that
policy than in the greenback theory of is
suing notes directly without the interven-
ton of banks.
There were several other courses to be
proposed. One is that suggested by Sec
retary Foster, which is admissible. The
debt should not be perpetuated simply to
keep up national bank circulation, because
that would make it an unnecessary burden
on the public. There is also the plan of
issuing treasury notes direct, which, while
not advisable, would be better than wild
cat circulation. Neither of these PROPOSE
tions need be considered at length, how
ever, because the obvious policy is for
Congress to designate classes of securities
other than United States bonds which can
be used as basis for circulation. Munic-
ipal and railroad bonds could be accepted
under prescribed conditions so as to fur
nish complete security. Even land mort
cages with careful safeguards could be
made available consistently with stability.
But the Democracy with its usual
fatuity rejected all these ideas and de-
clared in favor of bank circulation with
out any security at all. The widest
dreams of the greenbackers never fofmu-
lated more egregious soft-money scheme
than this reactionary plank of the Demo-
cratic platform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
Obituary Notes.

WILLIAM WHITE, Grand Secretary Of the Odd
Fellows of the United States. died of heart disease
ut Louisville Monday. He was rs years old.
WILLIAM H. -FAYMAN, who for more than q
dozen years managed the Grand Central Hotel in
New York, died In ShepherdstOwn, W. Va, July
81
CLARA MARGARET GRUBER, infant daughter of
John H. Gruber, sporting editor of the Post. died
yesterday. The little one was months old and
was very bright
JOHN B. CANTLIN, Chief Engineer of the Phila-
delphia Fire Department, died at his home Sunday.
He was made Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart
ment in February. 1879.
H. A. TERRY. manager of the Russell & Irwin
his hotel In Atlantic City of heart disease early
yesterday morning. Mr.. Terry was 81 years old.
JOHN VAUGHN CLARK, one of the most promi-
nent citizens of Chicago, and President of the
Hibernian Bank and father-in-law of Mayor WASH
burne died Monday morning of catarrhal gastritis,
JOHN v. CLARKE. President of the Hibernian
Bank, of Chic go, and the father-in-law Of Mayor
Hampstead Washburn, died early yesterday morn
ing. His illness was the result of surgical opera
tion.
MRS. MASON. the aged mother Of the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue died at her residence
in Washington Sunday. and her remains have been
removed to her former home, Grafton, W. Va,
for burial.
HON JOSEPH J. DAVIS died of paralysis on Sun
day night at his home in Louisburg. N. G. He
served many years in Congress, and since 1885 has
been Associate Justice Of the North Carolina Su-
preme Court His age was TO-
JOHN v. MOORE. OF the big cotton hrm Of Beck
ham Moore. Of New Orleans. whose failure for
Of organic troubles, whose fatal elimination was
hastened by his financial dinculties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
JoLLYIsMs FROM JUDGE.

Anrious mamma-Where is Miss Ethelr
Maid-You,n nnd her sitting on the sand st the
beach, ma am.
Anxious mammal hope she hasn't Ventured
into the surf? -.
Maid-No fear OF that, ma'am. She put on nsr
Sunday bathing suit.
Though much was said in his behalf,
BY graveyard poet shriven;
I doubt much If his epitaph
viii get him into heaven.
He lot New York)-Can get you some
refreshments?
She Cof Boston)-I don't think you can. saw
some college football men here this evening.
THE s. G.
In summer time the bitter tears
Adown our cheeks do trickle
Rec.use we find the charming dears
We love so much are nckle.
But when the world grows cold and dark,
With wintry skies above IL,
We do not mourn the quenched spark
In truth, we're darn glad of It.
Miss Flypp-I don't believe that woman
should marry her opposite.
Miss Triyvet-Don't you?
Miss Flypp-No. I don't. Do you suppose
coud be happy with man who possesses neither
beauty nor mental attainments?
Although it's all the rage Just now,
In getting in be humble;
You md, unless you know just how.
You're apt to take . tumble.
"There's my trainp' exclaimed the sub
urbanite AFTER swallowing mouthful Of hot conee.
s.Why you never catch the 7:1o James"
mo; but II start for It generally get the s:os
and don't want to be late this morninG." A14
moment later he wss running for dear lfs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
HALF DOLLARS FOR DOLLARS.

There is matter for admiration if not
amusement in the manner with which
Chicago rises to the occasion and proposes
to make the best of the Congressional aid
granted it on the principle of fifty per
cent compromise. The Inter- Ocean has
improved on Director General Davis idea
and proposes that the five million souvenir
half dollars given by the Government be
sold for a dollar apiece. Thus Chicago
will get its $4,000, 900, to say nothing of
the seignorage on the coinage
The idea is entirely in accord with the
spirit of Chicago in the Worlds Fair
matter. The call upon the people to come
to the front with their money in their
hands to exchange dollars for half dollars
is one Of the things that only the Chicago
mind can originate. OF course the uses
Of the half dollars so obtained will amply
compensate the five million people who
are expected to put up their dollars for
them. This will be unique to the degree
of an issue of 5000, 1000 of them. Holes
can be drilled in them with only small
percentage of loss considering the real
value of the metal, and in that shape they
can be used for babies to cut their teeth
on. The future citizen could no doubt
take great satisfaction in rejecting that
he had cut his teeth on thirty-ive cents
worth of Columbian silver, and the fond
parent. who paid dollar for that coin
could have the reflection that he had also
used them for cutting his eye teeth in a
metaphorical sense.
The Inter- Oceans plan has one defect
1t proposes that the sixty millions of the
American people be persuaded to give up
dollars for half dollars by this unique
exchange. The sale should be limited to
Chicago. That enterprising city now
claims 1,25O,Ooo population, and it only
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
A VETERANS GOLDEN WEDDING.
Pleasant Surprise by Post SS to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex. Gray.


Pleasant Surprise by Post ss to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex. Gray.
The was last evening q unique golden we'd
ding celebration in the rooms of Post ss G.
A. R. on Saudusky street, Allegheny. The
principals in the celebration were Alexan-
der Gray and his wife, Of No. % Orchard
street. Mr.. Gray is a member Of the post
and a pleasant surprise was arranged for
him and his estimable lady. At about 1880
O'Clock a carriage called for them at their
home and they were told that a few Of
their friends wished to see them at the
post headquarters. 1t was with difficulty
but he finally consented, and he and his
wife were driven to Sandusky street. When
they entered tho post room they found
about a hundred members of the post and of
the ladies' auxiliary. A great table occupied
the room, and it was laden with good things
to eat and magnificent bouquets Of flowers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray were led to seats on the
Stewart of the post presided over the cere-
monies. There was singing by two
gFanddaSghters of .,,5fs.. the aged ID, couple:
Ella Irwin, recitations BY Miss Maggie
Stewart and Evans j. Paulin and instru-
mental music by Miss McAfoos. Mrs Eliz-
made
to Mrs. Gray a pair of gold-rimmed eye
glasses. Past Commander Samuel Scott
presented to Mr.. Gray an ebony gold-headed
cane. The ladies OF the Auxiliary Corps
having adopted q new badge, one of the new
emblems, in gold was presented by Com
mander Stewart to Chaplain Mrs. Jones'
Supper was then served.
Mr.. Jones was born, on February L. 1876
and his wife, whose maiden name was Miss
Eleanor McGowan, was born in 1925. They
were married at Peters Creek 80 years ago
yesterday, And have lived nearly all the
time since in Allegheny. MI. Jones was an
ak maker, and is yet man OF robust health.
He served during the Civil War in Company
B, of the One Hundred and Twenty-third
Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the same
time he had Two sons and two sOns-in-aw
in the SERVICE Robert and John A. Gray,
ex-Mayor Thomas McGraw and George L.
Irwin. There are living seven children and
II grandchildren, nearly all OF whom were
present last evening
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10

higher rates for work done in this way
than would secure the same work by reg.
ular hiring, the loss would fall only on the
district. So long as the State offers a
stated sum per mile for roads with a pre-
scribed thickness of macadam and grav-
eled surface, the local districts can be left
to work out the problem of creating those
highways in their own way.
The great need is to impress on the agri-
cultural mind the heavy loss the farmers
are suffering by bad roads. Such fact
as that the earning power of every horse
in the country will be increased $15 annu-
ally by good roads ought to bring strong
light to conservative farmers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
ROADS AND FARMERS.

Two points on the subject of road i'm
provement recently brought up are worthy
of note. The first is an estimate from the
State of Tennessee that the bad roads of
that Commonwealth inflict an annual loss
of 100000. The estimate to that effect
is made in a memorial of the Memphis
Board of Trade to the Tennessee Legis-
lature. 1t is based on such facts as that
the hauling to the single market of
Knoxville costs million and quarter
dollars more each year, and the statement
of the State Commissioner of Agriculture
that the working capacity of each horse
in the State is lessened S15 by the same
cause. Those figures are applicable to
each State in the Union. Placed side by
side with them the objections to State
levy of million or two to remedy the
evil is seen to be the worst economy.
In the same connection it is pertinent to
notice widely quoted assertion of Gem
eral Beaver that the fundamental defect
of the law of Pennsylvania is that it per.
mits the taxpayer to work out his road
taxes. 1t is necessary to differ with the
Governor on that point. The fundamental
defect lies far deeper than that 1t is in
permitting system of patchwork by
which roads are merely leveled up for the
summer without any attempt at creating
permanent roadway. If the State offered
aid to every county, township or road dis
trict which built a permanent and durable
roadway there would be an attempt to
cure the fundamental defect whether the
road was built by working out taxes or by
hired labor.
There is no question that great deal of
inefficient work is done by farmers in
working out their taxes But the same
fault can be found with hired gangs of
street cleaners. When the work of road
improvement is commenced in earnest it
will be found that honest work can be
secured and at the same time farmers can
be given the privilege of paying their
taxes in labor if they prefer. This can be
effected by the simple device of paying for
work by the quantity. Farmers with
teams can be paid by the cubic yards of
stone hauled; those without by the cubic
yards of stone broken or gravel spread.
Even If local supervisors should give
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
A BUGABOO LAID,

The last census is discovered on careful
examination to allay the bugaboo of negro
multiplication and the NEGRO DONNA
tion," which, with the disturbing emphasis
of capital letters, is largely employed by
an esteemed Democratic cotemporary as
a campaign scare. A recent bulletin from
the Census Bureau sets forth the fact that
the white race is growing more rapidly
than the black.
1t is explained that the census of 1870
was so inefflciently taken in the South
that the thorough census of 1880 produced
an apparent excess in the growth of the
black population. But in the last census
this erroneous showing is corrected. The
negroes form 30.7 per cent of the popula-
ton in the Southern States, and l. A per
cent in the rest of the country. The
growth of the white population during
the past decade was 26.7 per cent, while
the colored rate of increase was only half
as large, being 1876 per cent.
This will reassure those who have been
affrighted by the bogie of an overwhelm-
ing increase of the negroes until their
grandchildren should be swallowed up
by the dark-hued masses. That is, it will
do so until it enters into the minds of
some of them to question whether Mr..
Porter's census-takers may not have been
as inefficient in counting the colored
population as were those of 1870. Such a
hypothesis would fully account for the
change and leave us as much In doubt as
ever as to the actual natural increase of
the two races.
1t would be an Illustration of the irony
of fate to have to explain an apparent
preponderance of colored increase in
1900, on the ground that the census of
1890, like that of 1870, did not get all the
Southern negroes who should have been
counted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10

would take four dollars from each inhab'
liant to make this sale great success.
BY this means Chicago would do some
thing toward redeeming her original
pledges in the matter of raising money for
the Fair, and might in addition set the
example for grand coup in the future.
Her next attack on Congress might get
81, 500, 600 in silver quarters, and by selling
them at dollar apiece the profits would
be much larger
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.

THE Monetary Commission appointed By
the President could not be surpassed in this
or any other country.-Ne,0 York Commercial
Advertiser.
THE monetary conference will attract at
tention to monetary questions and educate
public opinion. 1t may suggest a plan from
which a later conference will extract prac-
tical results.-Bdtin1ore Sun.
THE five men appointed to represent this
country at the conference are well known
students Of financial problems and will at
tack an unsatisfactory question with ability
If not with assurance OF success.-Bu1uo En-
Qtfirer.
GEOGRAPHICAL sections. political opinions
and business interests have received careful
consideration at the hands of President Har-
rison in the appointment. The commission
is one that will command respect at home
and abroad.-Neto York Tribune.
IL the conference does nothing to help
forward the solution Of the silver problem
it will at least show that the Republican Ad-
ministration which called it into being did
its own part toward bringing the solution
about-&. Louis Globe Democrat.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed five ex-
perienced and well informed men to repre-
sent the United States at the approaching
International Monetary Conference. A COM
mission better fitted for the duties imposed
could not have been chosen.-Brookiyn Eagle.
THE International Commission appointed
by President Harrison are very happily
chosen. While they represent different politf-
cal parties and different phases of the silver
question, they are all able advocates OF
American ideas and Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
ALL shades Of intelligent opinion on ques-
of f7pop nd e.
presented in the members of the Interna-
tional Monetary Conference. Whatever may
be the outcome, the distinctively American
side of the currency question is certain to be
clearly and cogently set forth in the pro-
ceedinga-Ph Phkkddekrhfd Record.