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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-27

ORDERs'by mail for job printing promptly
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1892
TWELVE PAGES
PITTsBuRG AT CHICAGO.

1t is high time that Pittsourg should
look after its interests at the Worlds Fair
with greater energy than has been shown
hitherto Our city has more to gain than
any other in the State, or for that matter
in the country, by a befitting representa-
ton of its resources at Chicago. A policy
of apathy on the part of our business men
cannot but be neglect of opportunities
which the future would show to be dis
astrous alike for them and for Pittsburg.
Attention should be paid to the securing
of space and facilities without delay. If
the preposterous refusal to admit exhibits
of coal and oil be persisted in, strong
pressure must be brought to bear to re-
move it. The objection to these COM
modities as dirty and dangerous is simply
ridiculous for dust and disaster can be
avoided with ease by the adoption of
proper precautions. 1t might as well be
decided that no boilers should be allowed
Oh the Exposition grounds and no electric
lighting wires permitted in the buildings
for fear of explosion from the one and
electrocution from the other. But if our
miners, our oil men and our manufacturers
continue in their present attitude of short
sightedness as to their own interests and
lack of public spirited enterprise, we shall
cut poor figure at the Fair, which will
mean an irreparable loss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
AN oRAIoRICAL PHENOMENON.

Obituary poetry such as that made fa-
nous by our esteemed and ever-reliable
Philadelphia cotemporary presided over
by Mr.. George w. Childs is noted for be-
ing cast in the same molds. Obituary ora
tory is largely akin to it, in similarity of
thought and imagery, but case where it
ran from two speakers in identical Ian
guage and with exactly the same success
sion of ideas has not been noted until it
was presented in the House of Represen-
tatives last Saturday by those gifted ora
tors, the Hon. Timothy Campbell and the
Hon. James J. Belden, both of New York.
The occasion was the delivery of eulo-
gies to the memory of the deceased Gen.
eral Spinola. Among those who lent their
aid to honoring the record of the departed
were Messrs Campbell and Belden, each
of whom displayed their eloquence by
reading typewriter speeches. The Ian
guild attention which members generally
give to oratory of this character only
created the impression that there was a
little more of the ordinary sameness in
these speeches. But when the Record
came out the next day there was re-
markable example of simultaneousness of
cerebral origination.
Mr.. Campbell, who spoke first, Mr.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
SCANDAL AMONG METHoD1sTa
Jealousy Leads Clergyman to Send Letter
to Other MiniSterA

Jealousy Leads q Clergyman to Send Letters
to Other Ministers.
NEW YORK, March So.-The jealousy among
Methodist ministers of New York. which
made itself SO apparent just before the Gen
eral Methodist Conference in 1sss, has evil
IDENTIFY not disappeared, and some serious
charges are made against one Of the most
prominent Methodist clergymen in the city.
The accusations are that the Methodist
pastor, to injure one of his ellow-preachers
and to prevent him from being chosen as
delegate to be sent to the Omaha Confer
ence. resorted to anonymous letter writing
and was caught at it. At any rate, letters
rejecting in more ways than one upon the
reputation of one or more Methodist min
listers were circulated, and they caused such
q commotion that an Investigating commit
tee was appointed, and the result may be
that the resignation of a certain Methodist
minister will be asked for in the near future
The members of the Investigating Com
mittee, after thoroughly looking into the af-
fair, came to the conclusion that they were
justified in Suspectfng a Methodist minister
Of being the author of the anonymous let
ters. After reaching this conclusion they
hunted up several autograph letters Of the
suspected pastor, and the handwriting of the
anonymous letter-writer and that of this
clergyman were compared. The suspected
minister was called before the Investigating
Committee and he most emphaticaliy de-
MED that he had resorted to such base meth
DDS as were attributed to him. The commit
tee is not fully satisfied yet with what it has
learned, and no report has been made re-
garding the affair. The report, however, 1t
resentatives to the May Conference are Sc
lected, and the result may prove great sur
prise to New York Methodists and church
going people in general.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
aNARCHY's AGITATION,

The activity of the Partisan anarchists,
which has resulted in an equal activity on
the part of the government to suppress
them, contains striking illustration of
the lack of logic which underlies the
policy of reforming society by blowing it
to pieces. While France is not to be
ranked as by any means presenting an ex-
ample of ideal social democracy, it's beyond
all dispute the government of all Europe
where there is most of popular freedom.
The only approach to raison detre pos
sessed by anarchy is protest against and
revenge for acts of outrageous and arbi-
trary despotism. Yet the anarchists are
now taking advantage of the comparative
liberty of France, to make life insecure
in Republic with more energy than they
attack the despotism of Russia or the
military empire of Germany.
This is new proof of what has always
been pretty well understood, that the class
of Socialists which resort to assassination
are mainly swayed by the lunacy of kill
ing all who do not agree with them. The
popular liberty which they would estab-
lish is the liberty of accepting their doc
trines or being blown up. When this
craze appears as reaction from the hor-
rors of Russian state prisons we can feel
sort Of sympathy for it; but when it mani
tests itself in attacking a government
which to some degree is based on the pop
ular will, it is something to be suppressed
just like the ravages of beasts of prey or
venomous serpents
Of course the effort to suppress politi-
cal school which manifests itself by arson
will succeed. Every violent act arouses the
horror and indignation of the mass of people
and turns public sentiment against the
outlaws who perpetrate it. But while
anarchy by its own character dooms itself
to defeat it is worth while to remember,
in this country as well as abroad, that the
only soil in which it can grow is where
acts of government or society inure to
the aggrandizement of privileged few at
the disadvantage of the masses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
FAVORITES OF FORTUNE,

Mr.. GEORGE PARSON LATHROP'S forth
coming book of poems is to be called
'Dreams and Days"
IT is estimated that Marcus Daly's losses
of colts at the Bitter Root Stock Farm this
season will aggregate $1,000
KING CHRISTIAN, of Denmark, goes
about the streets of Copenhagen in a plug
hat, and isnx even saluted by the people he
meets.
MI. Hopkins. of Illinois, has been
appointed a member of the Committee on
Ways and Means in place OF MI. McKenna OF
California resigned.
Ex-Governor CLAFLIN, of Massachu-
setts, is well-preserved, elderly gentleman,
with face of strong Intelligence and yery
courteous manners.
Mrs. ELLA W. PEATTIE, who under the
title of "With Scrip and Staff' has written
for children q story of medieval flavor and
surprising interest, is an Omaha newspaper
woman.
DR. SABLE, the Pavisian surgeon who be-
came famous l6 years ago by extracting a
fork from mans stomach, is a jolly, florid-
faced old gentleman, who ranks among the
first OF his profession in France.
COUNT Won GUTENBERG defines the sep-
aration of the Imperial Chancellorship from
the Presidency of the Prussian Ministry on
the ground that the burden of the work of
the two posts was beyond the power of one
man.
WHEN it comes to use of winged words
in the House of Representatives no other
member can excel Congressman Rayner, of
Maryland, in copiousness of verbiage His
vocabulary is said to be as exhaustless as
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
ALEXIS ToLsToI, brother of the novel
tst, Leo Tolstoi. has written story which is
said to be as strong as those OF the more ia
nous member Of his family. 1t is called
"Prince serebryani," and a translation Of it,
made by j. Curtain, will soon be brought
from the press OF Dodd & Mead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
CRIsP'S QUESTIONABLE FIRMNESS.

A unique measure of the limitation of
partisanship is afforded by some COM
ments of the New York World in connec
ton with the blocking of the silver bill.
Speaking of the bad policy proposed Of
trying to force the bill to vote by the
application of the rule of closure our New
York cotemporary says: Speaker Crisp
has risen to the level of the occasion and
will not consent to report any gag rule un-
less Mr.. Bland can present petition for
such a rule signed by a majority of the
Democratic members"
This is more than amusing. The recog-
milton of the lofty stand taken by Speaker
Crisp against 'fgag laws" except it should
be demanded by the majority of the Demo-
Gratis, is something imposing For year
the unanimity of the Democratic thunder
against gag rules established for the bene-
fit of particular measures has been one of
the especial features of the situation.
The assurance that Speaker Crisp would
not display personal and unconstrained
affection for that un-Democratic vice is
one OF the mos. affecting testimonials of
the day. No, indeed; Speaker Crisp is
not the sort of man to throw overheard
his old parliamentary principles on any
less incentive than the demand of the ma
jority Of his party. If the majority do
not wish it he will remain as firm as ada
mant
Of course this comment, and the situ-
alton as well, carry the inference that, if
the majority had demanded it, Speaker
Crisp would have gracefully yielded
Democratic denunciations of 'sgag law
and of enactments passed by its aid were
very well-as long as the Democrats were
in minority. But when it is their party
measure that needs a gag law to help it
along ''the conditions have changed as
We understood Senator Allison to remark
in the last Congress.
We are unable to observe any especially
early Roman rectitude in Crisp's refusal
to report gag rule when he is sustained
by the majority of his party: What this
nation is suffering for is political leader
with backbone enough to refuse TO do
what he considers wrong, even when a
majority Of his party demands it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
A POLICE COMPLAINT.

A case of that oft-reported but generally
very shadowy interference with the ad-
ministration of law" by the energy of re-
porters is published In the Washington
Post. The case is so typical of its class
that it is worth moments examination.
1t is learned from the esteemed Post that
an "overzealous correspondent why not
reporter is beyond us-of one of the papers
of that city devoted his energies to fathom-
ing the reticence of the officers concerning
a recent burglary He succeeded in learn
ing the name of the suspected burglar and
also got hold of the fact that a warrant
was issued for the arrest of the suspect.
Well pleased with his success, he published
the item. During the time between his
discovery and the appearance of the news
paper the warrant appears to have reposed
peacefully in the police station, for after
the news came out the burglar changed
his base and is now pursuing the more
legitimate industry of catching fish in the
Chesapeake feet.
Ofcourse, the policemen are very wroth,
and vociferate objurgatory quotations at
the way in which meddling reporters ham
per police work. The efforts of reporters
WHICH make it necessary for officers to
arrest prisoners without delay is sad dis
turbance Of the reposeful privileges of the
latter profession. 1t is possible, however,
to advance the views that a police force
which, having a warrant and knowing
where their man is to be found, cannot
arrest him while newspaper item is
written up, put into type, corrected, the
forms made up, the paper printed and dis
triouted by carriers-a process of some
hours at the least-deserves more direct
trouble from the newspapers than that
stated above. The necessity that the
police shall have something like the energy
of the reporters may be hard on the police
but the public can stand it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
JoKELETS FROM JUDGE.

s.Don't You think it is too bad that the
autbor should allow the hero to be murdered in the
last act?''
well, yes, my dear; it could have been ar
ranged more satisfactorily. He could have allowed
him to die natural death-say, early in the first
act"
You NAV in business have a friend who'd
sell you goods at cost,
He does just to please you, and, no matter what
he's lost,
He bows and scrapes and thanks you just other
people do;
But never for a moment would ne think of working
you.
"Have you read Torpid's last novel?"
''Wen. not exactly. I've sort of gathered it
''Does the plot thcken as he goes on?"
mo; but his style does.''
Bagley-Come, now; there's reason in all
things
Bailey-Then you don't know Mrs. Bailey.
"What is Cumso so jubilant about?"
asked Swayback as he entered the office. HAS
some one left him a fortune?''
NO, Z" replied Fangle. His office boy resigned
this morning.
Alas we're living in fiat
Whereer we hear some venders yell.
And all the day for this or that
Some fend or other pulls the bell.
No wonder. too. 80 sad we look,
For when our cares DO seem TO fade
Lo. we are harassed by the cook
And worried by the serving maid.
First burglar-I know a safe good TO,
81. Coo Let's crack IL tonight
Second burglar-Sure an it's not meslf as will bt
afther doin anythin of the koind until after Lent
We must denoy Ourselves now. sure"
Cousin Jack-i see that my old sweet
heart, Cora Flrty, Is just as much devotee o.
fashion as ever. iy -.
MABEL (who doesn't like her}-Yes, indeeds shs
has samples OF every gears new style Of engage.
ment rings ever since you went swayl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
THE POET OF NATURE.

SINCE the publication of his work, Leaves
Of Grass" in 1855. he has been regarded as
one of the brightest stars in our poetical
Minneapolis Times.
THE dilettante prettiness of most modern
poems was not to his taste. He struck his
Tyre with his fist at times instead of his
finger tips, bnt the music was resonant and
will reach posteity.-Ne,o York Herald.
WALT WH1rMAN's was homely yet low
able character. Within his heart there
dwelt a sturdy nobility that was ever assert
ing itself in his peculiar rhymes. His poetry
was a flexible index to his soul.-Grdnd
Rdpids Herald.
: UrrER1NG his message, convinced of his
vocation, aware and awake to his power, he
has never faltered. In obscurity and neg
lect, in poverty and persecution. he has con-
t1nued true to his own ideals and held stead
lily to his own conception OF his duty as the
chosen priest and poet of democracy.-Pha-
ddeiphia Press.
He was the most eccentric, the most vigor-
Gus, probably the most widely known and
discussed of the American writers OF the
age. His place in literature has been more
talked of and with less apparent likelihood
of an agreement in his own generation than
that ofany modern writer, not excepting
BrowninG.-BuDaio NeWs.
No poet ever wrote more individuality
into verse. 1t was native Yankeeism of q
decidedly Whitmanesque species that
sprang from his pen. But the inspiration.
aside from the revolutionary individuality of
the form, touched universal intuitions
which found echo in many tongues and
climes.-Minnedpo,is Tribune.
In his ritings he was hampered by no
poetic forms of rhythm or meter, but en-
bodied his spontaneous thoughts in the lam
guage they suggested to him. Many fine
sentiments were embodied even in his
Leaves Of Grass" though 1t transgressed
the sterner proprieties and approached q
forbidden realism.-Detrott Free Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
NOT THE BEST WAY,

New York State may keep the credit, OF
ortherwise, of having been the first to
adopt electricity as a means of capital
punishment But New Jersey distances
it at the Newark City Home in the use
of an electric current for corrective pur-
poses
The details given in our special tele-
gram will no doubt evoke some discussion.
Probably the shocking practice will meet
with opposition simply as novelty. But
there is something to be said in its defense.
If there were no other method of dealing
with the instincts of refractory children
than through the fear of corporal punish
ment, the treatment in vogue in
New Jersey would appear salts
factory, since it causes maximum
amount of terror without such long
continued results as may attend a
whipping. On the other hand, very little
is yet known of the effects which the
passage of an electric current has on the
human frame. And the adjustment of its
strength should not be left to any such
rule of thumb practice as appears in the
secret sessions of the culprit, the Superin-
tendent and the village doctor.
But, to take broader ground Of objec-
ton, the fact is that fear induced by pain
or mystery is not the right agent for deal
ing with the youthful criminal. Moral
suasion is the only means for obtaining
lasting reforms. Laughed at though it
has been, it can show better practical re-
suits than any other system, where it has
been fairly tested by those fitted for its
exercise. incidentally one wonders how
the inmates of such an institution have
knives wherewith to commit murderous
assaults, and opportunities which permit
an indulgence in vice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
AN ILLUSTRATION OF COMBINATION

The analysis of the price of anthracite
coal secured by the New York legislative in
vestigation gives pretty good idea of the
results of combination. The coal is stated
to have an average price at the mines of
81 S5 and at tidewater of So 50 per ton.
while the consumer usually pays S. %.
This indicates clearly what the operators
get and what the railroads make; but there
seems to be some dispute as to what
wholesalers and retailers get The MEM
bers of those industries testify that their
joint profits do not exceed 40 cents per
ton, which leaves margin of 81 35 to be
accounted for by list of wharfage and
other charges, which has to be consider
ably extended to meet the occasion
Yet in these figures there is very de-
cided indication OF the effect of the CON-
bination that has held sway in the anthra-
cite business for generation. The
price of 81 IS per ton at the mines,
considering the superior character of the
coal and the large royalties generally paid,
cannot be considered excessive But from
that point the combination shows its work.
The devices for preventing competition
from affecting freight charges which hav
been in operation for over twenty wears
holds the charge for transporting ton of
coal at 81 65, while in this locality and
Ohio the railroads do profitable traffic by
transporting coal a similar OF greater dis
tance for half the rate. After that is done
the same cause produces a similar effect;
for, talk as the new combination may
about the abolition Of the middleman, it is
well known that the policy has extended
over the charges for handling and dis
tributing the coal. If competition were
from tie railroad policy of keeping up the
price anthracite could be distributed from
The shipper to the consumer at a cost of
IS cents per ton as well as it is now done
with bitIminous coal
There is no doubt that the devices for
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
TouRGEE PREDICTS A RACE WAR

He Cannot See How Any Colored Man Can
Sing America.
CHICAGO, March 3O.-Albion W. Tourgee
predicts the greatest race war the world has
ever seen II the Government continues to
allow the whites to Cypress the blacks. II
in these United States can sing America It
is no surprise to me that those who assem-.
bfed at Bethel Church here the other night
refused to do it: the surprise is that they did
not refuse long ago.
1--WE are in the same position as that Of q
man holding q torch over powder maga-
zine into which spark IS likely to fall at
any moment. and II we go about with this
flrebrand and the spark falls it will be no.
mere revolution we will have to face. The
world has never experienced the horrors
that will result"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31

OF course Egan is indignant that he
should be mixed up with the Harlow charges.
He has quite enough to'do to account for his
own direct actions, not to mention his sons.
The Government ought to relieve him of the
irksome responsibilities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31

Belden being at that time out of the
House, rose Ito participate in these sad
services realizing the lack of ability on
nv part to do justice ITO the memory,
virtues and craftsmanship of our deceased
friend and brother General Spinola. I"
There is nothing out of the usual run of
obituary eloQuence in this, but when it is
noticed that later, when Mr.. Belden made
his speech-Mr. Campbell having in the
meantime left, he also "rose to partici-
pate" and kept on in the same way to
''the memory, virtues and craftsmanship
of our deceased friend General Spinola,"
it becomes rather interesting. This inter-
est is heightened by the fact that the
second paragraph of both speakers pro-
tests that nothing but the love l have
for his memory induced them to speak,
and that, with the exception of Mr.. Camp
bells eulogy of General Spinola's Dem
ocracy, which of course Mr.. Belden, as a
stalwart Republican had to skip, these
striking parallels continue down to the
closing assertion that while General Spin
ola's mortal remains repose Gin beloved
Greenwood his friends will ever keep his
memory green"
This is phenomenon to attract the at
tention of those psychologists who are
now giving their attention to Mark
Twain's remarkable condolences. Is it
an example of simultaneous production
like the cotemporary inventions of the
telephone, the safety lamp and the cleo
tric light? Or. what influence is it which
leads these two statesmen to air their ideas
on the same day on the same subject
and with this striking correspondence of
lanQuape2
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31

If Mr.. Thurman be correct in his asser-
tion that the "Ohio Democrats have no boss
and no machine" The party in that State IS
to be heartily congratulated on its freedom.
Tie statement ought to be true of every
State, county and city in the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
IMAGINED HIMSELF JAY GOULD.
That Didn't Save Thrifty Crank Fror
Being Hauled Up for Larceny

That Didn't Save a Thrifty Crank From
Being Hauled Up for Larceny.
PHILADELPHIA, March 30.-Franklin Carson,
shire wd-looking man, was to-day arraigned
on a charge of larceny preferred by his SIS
ter. Franklin imagines that he is Jay Gould,
and iEcarcera tion in the Norristown Insane
Asylum for some time did not cure him of
hts weakness. Since he has been at large the
only thing he has speculated in is in pawn
tickets. He stole articles from his sister and
pawned them. Dr. Butcher. of the county
prison, testified that franklin was insane.
"How about Jay GOuld?" inquired Judge
Arnold Of Carson.
"Oh, they call me that because I have
sense enough to buy goods at auction cheap.
l don't know whether I'll ever be rich or
not. jay Gould's alive yet, and I'm not a
dead man, either"
Carson was acquitted on the ground of
insanity, and he will be placed in the
Norristown Hospital.