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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

Irish volubility when he felt sure of his
surroundings One of the most notable in
terviews ever had with President Arthur
was in the house of General Butler upon
Capitol Hill This house was then occupied
by the brilliant Senator Jones, of Nevada
When Garfield was shot down by Guiteau
MI. Arthur came on at once to Washington
and became the guest of Senator Jones.
The night following the assassination I
walked down from the White House with
DR.. Bliss, the chief physician in attendance
upon the wounded President ! had known
DR.. Bliss we'll for many years, and so I ven-
tured to secure his real opinion concerning
the probable outcome of the Presidents s
case. 'Tt is a fatal wound" said the doc
tor. "He cannot live. He has not one
chance even in thousand" The doctor
had sent out hopeful bulletins and always
talked encouragingly in response to all in
quiries made to him at the White House,
but in the confidence of a walk home to
gain little rest he expressed his real con-
viction. This positive opinion sent me off
at once to the residence of Senator Jones.
1t was nearly midnight when reached
the house. It was still lighted up, and
as the Senator was yet in his library
I was admitted at once. I told the
Senator what DR.. Bliss had said He at
once sent into another room back of the
drawing room to see if Mr.. Arthur had
retired. We found him sitting at an open
window looking out upon the city bathed in
soft July moonlight
He turned and Senator Jones told him
what Dr. Bliss had said. Mr. Arthur was
shocked. 1t was no pretence of distress, al
though the wounded President was no friend
of his The responsibility of the situation
weighed with crushing force upon Mr..
Arthur He felt in advance the savagery
of the abuse that would be heaped upon his
head as the member of the faction of his
party which had engaged in politi-
cal broil with the President and which had
led indirectly to his death. As he faced
the angry and trying future he broke down
completely and wept like q schoolboy. Such
paroxysm of grief upon the part of strong
man had never seen before. When left
the house Senator Jones was seated near the
weeping Vice President urging him to regain
his self-control. Yet this Senatorial friend,
who stood by Mr.. Arthur in this most try
ing OF times and who placed his home at his
disposal, was one of the first to be forgotten.
Influence counted for but little when once
Mr.. Arthur became President
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
AFTER GARFIELD WAS SHOT.

Scenes in the White House When the
Wounded President Was Brought In.
President Garfield was never very popular
with the correspondents. At the time of
the Credit Mobiller investigation he was so
attacked that for a long time thereafter he
fought rather shy of newspaper men. With
the exception of the one or two representa-
tives of the Ohio newspapers he rarely
spoke to a correspondent There was no
man more sensitive to criticism than Gar
field and no one who loved more to have the
praise of his friends than he. In the early
days of nv career at Washington was always
about the House of Representatives. and
naturally paid great attention to such q
striking character as Garfield.
Inever had anything more than casual
conversations with President Garfield dur
ing his career as a Congressman. The un-
usual experience i'll connection with this
President occurred July 2, 1881. was in
the White House when the assassinated
President was brought there. The White
House was closed Immediately after his ar
rival and sentries were placed about the
grounds. For some six hours was the ONLY
correspondent in the White House. So
great was the confusion and decentralization
of that day that my presence there was not
noted as anything unusual 1 was in the
Presidents bedroom, and was even per-
mitted to remain in the room where the first
Cabinet meeting was hastily convened for
the purpose OF listening to the reports of the
surgeons
"A Correspondents Rare Luck.
From Mr.. Blaine's own lips heard the
story of the assassination, for every one
will remember that it was he that stood at
the right of the President when Guiteau
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
GRANT DISLIKED SHERMAN.

How He Scored the Senator From Ohio and
Obi TO Milk and Water.
When General Grant became President of
the United States he continued to be sur
rounded BY the same class of men who had
served on his staff during Sthe war. They
had dealt very arbitrarily in war times with
the newspapers and their representatives,
and they still retained the habits acquired
in military censorship. The natural re-
suit was that through no fault of General
Grants the Washington correspondents
ceased to go to the White House. 1t was
currently reported that the General re-
garded the newspaper correspondents as
mischievous persons, and as a necessary
consequence there was bred throughout the
country in the newspaper press feeling of
hostility.
This feeling was made the basis of all
kinds of attacks upon General Grant No
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
GROVER CLEvELAND'S WAYS.
As Governor He Knew Nothing About the
Tariff, but He Learned Fas..

As Governor He Knew Nothing About the
Tariff; but He Learned FAST.
I had the first notable interview with
Grover Cleveland as q Presidential candi-
date 1t was nine months before the Nation
al Democratic Convention was held. At
the time of my visit to Albany to see him
his name had only been casually mentioned
among many others. arrived at the Gov
ernor's Office in the neighborhood of 10
o'clock one morning. I offered to send in
card, but the messenger at the door said it
was needless, because anyone that had any
business with the Governor was at full lib
erty to walk into the large room and say
what he had to say in his turn No one was
turned away.
found Governor Cleveland. fortunately,
slone, with the exception of his secretary,
Colonel Dan Lamont, who was at little
desk behind him. Cleveland's manner
rather suggested at this time the offhand
brusque style of the captain Of man-of-
war. He called out to me in loud, rotund
tones In . sort Of, an "Ahoy there r. way.
to give an account Of myself I did so by
telling him from what port had started
and the object of my call upon him. shall
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
than 20 many department clerka
Blaine's Visit to His Successful Rival

During the campaign that preceded bis
election had travelled exclusively with the
Republican candidate, Mr.. Blaine. Soon
after Mr.. Cleveland's Inauguration Mr..
Blaine came to Washington to reside.
asked him one day if he had ever met Mr..
Cleveland.
'No," he said, ''but intend to call upon
him. have asked Secretary Lamar to ar
range an appointment, but he has certainly
forgotten it" e,',.-.' -e''
Then, to my surprise, Mr.. Blaine asked
me to call at the White House to make the
arrangement My call and request made a
small sensation. Mr.. Blaine's politeness
was appreciated in its true spirit by Mr..
Cleveland. An appointment was made for
o'clock in the afternoon the following day.
The interview passed off pleasantly. Mr..
Blaine said afterward that the conversation
was confined absolutely to commonplace
topics. He observed the etiquette of CALL.
ing upon high official by permitting him
to lead and control the conversation.
1t is the only instance ever heard Of
where the defeated candidate tor the Presi-
dency has paid call of absolute ceremony
upon the successful candidate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
MACHINE-MADE WINE.
The Paris Chamber of Commerce Sits
Down on ALI Manipulation.
TAKING PHOTOS FROM A BALLOON.
Tincture Of Iron Is Q Sure Cure for the
Slight Hemorrhage&
NEW TREATMENT FOR CoyyULsIoNs

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH,1
The drinkers of French wines in this
country who eschew the sweet and heavy
vintages OF our home production, as well ss
the California winners whose machine
made wines by chemical miracle become
five years old within ten days from the
press, will be interested in areport recently
made by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.
The question whether it was permissible to
use the salts of strontirm to precipitate the
excess of plaster added to wine BY winners
was referred by the Academy to a COM
mittee of eminent savants, who reported
that for above 80 years the employment Of
plaster in the manipulation of wines has
been general throughout the south Of
France. A recent law has decreed that the
maximum quantity of sulphate of potassium
per litre in merchantable wines shall be two
grams and therefore the wine trade de-
mands method for reducing the quantity
of sulphate in wines on hand to the legal
limit. A problem has arisen, too, as to
how the pernicious effects of one chemical
can be neutralized by the introduction Of
another without breaking the law.
The committee came to the conclusion
loose with the health of the public by this
introduction of foreign elements into their
wines. They considered that, as wine is -
natural product, the addition of any chemi-
cal substance whatever should be looked
upon as a falsifcation, more especially
when the purpose of the substance added is
to mask the real character of the wine and
deceive the purchaser as to the real nature
OF the merchandise he purchases. Their re-
port, in fact, brings wines within the range
of the law made for the prevention of adul-
teration of edibles and drinkables They
define clearly the point where wine ceases
to be natural product and becomes o
chemical fabrication, and they emphasize
the fact that it is to the inter-
est of no one, either among the vint-
ners or among the merchants, to furnish
ground for proclaiming to the world that
French wines are artificial products made,
not by winners, but by chemists. The
Academy is enjoined to inform the Chamber
of Commerce that it declines to approve Of
the employment of salt of strontium for
deplastering wines and reprobates such
practices. For this "deplastering, for the
purpose of reducing the contents of the wine
in potassium sulphate to the legal limit,
not only are the chloride, nitrate and car
Donate of baryta commonly used, but also
the tartrate. acetate and phosphate. M.
Quontin, who submitted the result of o
study of deplastered wines to the Academy,
bore witness to the fact that the deplaster-
ing of wines by means of the salts of baryta
was not merely method of Justification of
q common alimentary substance, but real,
wholesale manufacture of poisona
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

the surgeons, under the direction of Dr.
Bliss, who had been summoned to the sta
| tion, made the first examination. The Cab
met Ministers met in his library and there
received reports nearly every moment Of
the Presidents condition. I was permitted
to remain, and, while the physician in
charge was very careful in all that he said,
it was plain to be inferred that he thought
the President had received fatal wound.
One of the most thrilling incidents of the
day was the arrival of the wife OF the Pres
ident She had left Washington in advance
of the President and came back upon a
special train. The President was shot ut
o'clock and his wife arrived at in the
afternoon. The engine of the special broke
down on its way, and only happy fortune
saved the train from wreck. From the
station she came in close carriage rs fast
as two horses could be driven. This car
riage entered the rear gate of the priTste
Part of the grounds some quarter of mile
distant from the White House. The house
was then filed with officials, surgeons and
newspaper correspondents who all stood
uncovered as the carriage dashed up to the
steps, where Mrs Rockwell, a pale-faced,
delicate woman, with snowy white hair,
stood ready to receive the tottering, half.
fainting Mrs. Garfield
The Execution Of Guiteau.
Several weeks after that I witnessed the
execution of Guiteau, the assassin. It was
the second execution had ever witnessed,
and I hope that il will be the last. His
death was a most revolving one and the ele-
ment of human sympathy was lacking
throughout He was tho only prisoner
ever executed in Washington who had not
made some friends among the attendants
during his last days. Among the 200 or 300
persons who had assembled to witness his
execution not one exhibited any emotion of
sympathy. Every one felt that the sooner
he was executed and out of sight the bet
ter it would be for the human race. There
was something contamina.ing and vile about
the very atmosphere of the man; one could
not look on him long without feeling de-
graded
One of the peculiar incidents of the exc
cution, and one which was mentioned in
none of the reports Of that time, was the
presence there of distinguished naval Off
Ger in . cell directly overlooking the scat
fold. He had come on specially from Bos-
ton to attend the execution, and had a
special cell where he could with powerful
glass study at his leisure every shade of
agony of the forYorn wretch on the scaffold
He was what the French would call an am
ateur of executions He told me that this
was the two hundred and seventy fifth exc
cution he had witnessed and he never
missed one within $50 miles He said:
'fYou have no idea what splendid shock it
is to your nervea really call it . nerve
bath. I"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
RecounoItering By Photograph.

Much attention is paid, by the superin.
tendents of English military schools and
colleges to instruction in photography,
which is likely to take very prominent
part in the reconnaissance of the future.
The position and appearance of forts can
often be admirably shown BY means of pho
tographs, and engagements will frequently
bring out a surprising amount of detail.
The use of balloons in war affords another
opportunity of using photography in recon-
noissance. Several attempts have been
made from time to time to develop balloon
photography, and special cameras have
been devised for the purpose. 1t is pro-
posed that balloon photography should be
used in sieges by the besiegers One plan
is to start a small balloon, loaded with
camera, to windward of the fortress, the
plates being exposed by means of clock
work arrangement or a slow match. These,
of course, are adjusted to the time which
would elapse before the balloon will reach
the point or points where the exposures are
to be made. The gas escapes, and the bal
loon descends on the further side of the
fortress. within the besiegers' lines
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
Automatic Call and Writing Bsx.

A great convenience to the public has
been instituted by the postofice authorities
of London, England, in the introduction Of
an automatic call and writing box, which il
is proposed to erect at railway stations and
in other public places in London. The box
is worked on the penny-in-the-slot princl-
pie. After dropping in the coin, drawer
can be pulled ous containing a stout, white
card for writing purposes and two envelopes
one to cover the message and the other to
contain the messengers fee. At the same
time sliding writing desk becomes fixed in
front of the box, and simultaneously bell
is rung at the nearest postoffice and an ex-
press messenger is dispatched to the su-
tomato box.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
THE WRINKLE OF GRAPE
It 10 Effected BY Twisting Both the War
and the W eft Threads.


Crspe isa fabric of silk, cotton or wool,
with wrinkled surface. Crepon is the
French name for thick Grape, but popu-
larly this season it is any fabric with an
uneven surface at all suggestive of Grape,
whether woven like Grape or in plaits
thrown up by dropping certain weft
threads on the under side at definite inter-
walls, after the jacquard manner, and tight
eniug them by twisting.
The wrinkle of Grape is produced by
making the weft, and sometimes the warp
also, of twisted threads alternate threads
or groups twisted in the reverse direction.
The threads SO arranged are woven loose,
that Is with space between them, and when
the fabric is completed they untvist, each
in its own direction, which gives uniform
irregularity. Twisting both warp and W eft
makes the most perfect Grape. If the weft
only is twisted, and the warp straight, the
weft threads will push up and down the
warp, making less durable fabric When
the twist is in the weft only there is elastic
ity across the goods, and when twisted both
ways it is elastic one way.
The result of this weaving is a charming
surface of broken lights and Shadows
surface that reflects less light than if
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
A Simple Cure for ConyuIsions,

DR.. Leopold Roheim has published his
experience in the cure of commissions He
states that in cases where every remedy
ordinarily prescribed for the affection has
proved of no avail, he has effected q prompt
cure by compressing the right carotid.
After constant compression for some time
of the carotid the commissions were sud-
denly arrested, the patient would recover
normal respiration and would soon feel
well. A recurrence of the symptoms was
met by repetition of the treatment DR..
Roheim considers the rationale of the treat
ment to be that by COMPRISING the carotid
and at the same time, necessarily, the SYM
pathetic nerve fbers, which closely follow
the course of the artery, the excitabilisy of
the brain is allayed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
A CHEMISTS Artificial, MIX.

The chief difference between cows milk
and mothers milk consists in the propor-
tions of the protein constituents, the albu-
casein in the former. A German chemist
has rectiied this divergence by adding to
cows milk albumin in such a condition %
motto be readily coagulated This is effected
BY heating albumin from vegetable or anil
NAL sources to temperature of 150 degrees
G., whereby 1t is hque6id and does Nd
coaeulate on standing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
ROCK FOB MILLsT0NEA
Tho Pennsylvania and Ohio Supplies For
roerIv Came From France.

Tho Pennsyivanla and Ohio Supplies For
merly Came From France.
All the miilstones used in the United
States formerly came from France. where
they were made Of a silicious rock found in
great blocks near Paris. The stone is.
mostly quartz, but has regular cellular
structure, is extremely hard and compact,
and of all shades of color, from q whitish
gray to dark blue.
A number of years ago, however, an e1-
cellent substitute was found in America, in
the buhr-stone of Northwest Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio. Where millstones are
employed ct all this is now the favorite
rock, and it answers the purpose so we'll
that there is no need Of any miller going
abroad for his millstones.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

he reached this part of the story,
and said: "Young man, you
have been putting in milk and water
here" ard with that he began to rewrite
this portion of his conversation and wrote
in with his own hands his former express
sions of opinion concerning the Ohio Sena-
tor. still have this revised manuscript
and prize it most highly among my auto
graph notes of public men.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

fired the fatal shot. Upor such an occasion
it was the very climax of good fortune that
was enabled to be in such position where
could learn from first hands the true story
of the terrible incident of this most e1-
traordinary day.
The President was borne upon litter to
the White House. The first shock of the
wound had passed; he was conscious and
his face showed little trace of the agony
he suffered He looked up pluckily at
the group Of attendants and servants
near the door as he arrived and
waved his hand to them as he was
carried, through and up the private entrance
into the living rooms at the south part of
the house. He was carried into the large
bedroom opening out Of the library. There
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
PRESIDENT ,ARTHUR'S TIMIDITY

He Would Never Talk to the Newspaper
Men for Publication.
President Chester A Arthur was very
reserved and timid in the presence of news
paper men. think he was more sensitive
to criticism than any President who was
ever in the White House. I saw him fire.
quently during the first year of his success
sion to Garfield. When once assured that
he was not the subject of public interview
he would talk very freely. He had the true
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
GREAT MEN At EASE.
Pen Pictures of Six Presidents
When the Public Eye
Was Off Them.
GRANT SLAPS SHERMAN.
Puts in Denunciation His interviewer
Was Afraid to Use.
AN AWKWARD VISIT TO HAYES.
Cleveland Knew Nothing About the Tariff
While Governor.
rp uInprcnv re uunu lprcrn M.r
GRANT SLAPS SHERMAN.
AN AWKWARD VISIT TO HAYES.
Cleveland Knew Nothing About the Tariff
While Governor.
NR HARRISON Is A HUCH-ABUSED MAN


WRITTEN FOR THE prsrArcH.l
In the following 1 have given . few of
the striking experiences of long career as
a newspaper correspondent They serve to
give an insight into the characters of the
last six Presidents:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

We pack ana store furniture; sfean, dry
warehouse; charges reasonable.
HAuoH q KEENAN,, IS Water street.
-f WUu .
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

BEs1DEs killing reaches and bedbugs in.
seantly Bugine Is one OF the most powerful
dtsinfectants known and IS worth its weight
in gold for this purpose alone. 25 cents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17

FgRHIruRx, china, ornaments and pictures
packed, hauled, stored and shipped.
HAUaH & KEENAN,, IS Water streek
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
A Correspondents Rare Luck.

From Mr.. Blaine's own lips heard the
story of the assassination, for every one
will remember that it was he that stood at
the right of the President when Guiteau
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-03
A TENNESSEAN In. TEXAS.
Extracts From a Letter That
Will Interest the Reader.
Capt. Frank M. Duffy, Who is Now Lo
Gated at Velasco, Furnishes the
Leaf Chronicle With
Newsy Letter.
To The Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle:

To The Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle
l have met with many Tennessee
ans here-Cdpt. Bruce Phillips, of
the 18th Tennessee; John S. Bart
lett, whose home was IN Robertson
county; DIR. r. r. Porter, formerly
of Giles county, aud many others
Capt. Phillips has been assessor of
Brazoria county and is now one of
the leading land agents, being thor.
oughly familiar with every locality,
timber, creek and prairie in the
county. Bartlett is druggist and
DR.. Porter is practicing his profess
sion. y l spent few days re.
Gently at Columbia, the first capitol
of Texas, located on the west bank of
the Brazos at the terminus of the top
road which leads to Houston. /
went out about mile and halt to
"West Columbia" to see the old "capi.
tol' building. 1T is almost in ruins
Originally it was a frame building
of three or four small rooms with
brick chimneys and brick cistern
near by. pushed opened the front
door and stood in the room where
walls once echoed the voices of Mi
rebean b. Lamar, Gen. Sam Hous-
ton, Albert Sydney Johnson and
others whose fame is identified with
the history of Texas. Stephen F.
Austin was there, too, but he is bet
ter remembered as the recipient of
800 leagues "a, 428 acres each) of land
than because of his exploits in the
war of independence. Pity there
was no photograph in those old days,
or we might have heard Lamar or
Houston address the assembled rep.
resentatives. Texas has gone
through many vicissitudes-first,
province of Mexico, then republic,
then a State in the United States,
then conquered province, then 'sre-
constructed" and "Shermanized" and
now again coming to the front as the
greatest State on the continent
great in acres, greatin railroads, and
soon to be great in commercial con-
nections through deep water ports on
the gulf.