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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
A NEW ATLANTIC CABLE
The Submarine Line Between Africa and
| South America.

South America.
New York SUM-
The cable that is to be laid between sene.
gal and Pernambuco has been shipped from
England, and Is now on its way to tho
African coast in the British steamship Sill.
vertown. 1t was constructed by the Tele-
graph Works Company, of London, and q
number OF recent inventions have been used
in Its construction. There have been many
improvements in cable-making since the
1irst Atlantic line was laid, "a years ago, by
Cyrus W. Field and his associates. The
cable to run between Senegal in Africa and
Pernambuco in Brazil was taken aboard
coiled up in three tanks and ready for pay
ing out at the bow end of the vessel, not at
the stern. as was formerly the custom.
The cable is of varying thicknesses, ranging
from N tons per knot to ~ tons. according
to the depth of the water in which it is to be
laid, while the shore ends weigh about Is
to be covered by a hut and left in charge OF
an electrical engineer who will be in COM
munication day and night with the cable
bearing ship. Signals will be exchanged
every nye minutes during the whole opera
tion OF laying the cable to Brazil. In the
deep sea the cable will be paid out at the
rapid rate of ten knots an hour, though large
allowance must be made for stoppuges
through impediments Thousand fathoms
deep According to the engineer in charge,
the line will be laid and the Silvertown back
III Lnsitnu DelOre the emu or the month OF
July. Aboard the steamer there is
large staff OF engineers and assistants, who
work in four-hour shifts and then have
eight hours OF. The strain upon them while
on duty is very severe.
The cable ITSELF which was made on the
Thames, is an interesting piece of work.
The communicating part is in the center,
and consists of number Of copper wires,
firmly embedded in gutta-percha, which is q
non-conductor. Round the gutta-percha, as
a protection from rocks and sea monsters,
is band of steel wires, covered with q
resinous coating to prevent corrosion- The
utmost care is taken to preserve the COM
plete continuity of the electrical circuit
cable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
THE WESTERN FLOODS.

The rise in the Mississippi this year is
exceptional in its character. In the first
place the floods have come definitely from
heavy rains in sections so distinctly local
that they call be characterized as cloud
bursts While the rain storms have been
general, the degrees to which the rivers
have been caused to rise to food level have
been noticeably confined to given localities
at different times
The usual course of a flood is to start
with high water in the upper streams, and
the rise being swelled by other branches
as it goes down the river reaches the flood
stage in due time. But the present floods
are singular in that the rains in one secti n
first produced Hood in the lower Missis-
sippi. Then the rains in the upper Mis-
souri, sent that stream to the danger point,
after which the upper Mississippi States
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

received their deluge, and the combined
discharge of the two streams bids fair to
aggravate the already fiood-swept condi-
ton of the lower Mississippi. During all
this time, although rains have been
frequent, the Ohio river has not exceeded
fair boating stage.
This remarkable result of unequal dis
tribution of rainfall chiefly serves to
demonstrate the difficulty OF fully guard
ing against overf1ows The levee system
as usual proves its ineficiency when sub
1ected to extraordinary demands. The
use of storage reservoirs to retard the out
flow would be Of more use; but it is hard
to see how, under rains that have con-
verted che whole Northwest into pond,
any storage capacity would not prove in
sufficient. The most salient moral to be
drawn from the Western deluge is the in
adequacy of the provisions of man against
the forces of nature.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
NAMES FREQUENTLY HEARD.

THERE is no truth in the report that Mrs
Harrison's condition is dangerous, and that
the family is in a state of alarm.
WHEN Steve Dorsey was student at
Oberlin College he used to earn few odd
dollars by whitewashing and painting
houses.
The President yesterday sent the follow
ing nomination to the Senate: Nathan A.
Morford, of Arizona, to be Secretary of
Arizona.
JOSEPH ARCH. the pioneer in the agri-
cultural laborers' movement in England. is
in very bad health. He is only 66, but is said
to be quite brOkenNd down.
JEAN DE REszKE was asked to sing at
the Paris Opera the other night and declined
because he was not paid s., 600. Before COM
ing here his price used to be $500 a night.
GENERAL N. P. BANKS gives good deal
ofattention to gardening in his old age.
Visitors to Waltham a few days ago saw
him in working clothes, busily planting po-
tatoes.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has accepted an
invitation to attend the New Hampshire
soldiers reunion at the Weirs this summer,
and General Sickles is also expected to be
present.
A NUMBER of distinguished men in New
York have been invited to attend the BAN
quet which is to be given in Philadelphia
next Wednesday evening in honor Of Minis
ter Charles Emory Smith.
CAPTAIN YoUNGHUsBAND, whose ad-
ventures with the Russians on the Pamirs
some months ago attracted so much atten-
tion, will return TO Cashmere as assistant to
the British Resident there.
CHARLES J. BAKER, of Baltimore, has
just presented to the American Bible Society
manuscript containing the whole Bible,
written in the Latin language. The volume
is a curious one, and it is supposed it was
written in the fourteenth century.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
A GOOD COMPROMISE.

Director General Davis, of the Chicago
Exposition, has proposed a compromise
on the subject of a Sunday opening which
ought to satisfy everyone. He suggests
that the Music Hall of the Exposition
shall on each Sunday be opened to reli-
gious services. There will be seating
capacity there for $4,000 people, many of
whom would not and some of whom
might not be able to attend the regular
churches of the city. The machinery
would not be run under this agreement,
and its noise would not therefore disturb
the audience. On the other hand, the art
galleries and other exhibits would be
open, and multitudes could visit them in
quiet and without any disturbance of Sab
bath order
This is very reasonable proposition,
and will doubtless solve the present dis
pute. 1t provides for religious services on
the grounds, with no more festive sur
roundings than are common to the sum-
mer religious resorts At the same time,
it permits the inspection of the Exposition
in way that can offend or disturb no one
else. Two classes will avail themselves of
this privilege One is composed of work.
men of Chicago who could not visit the
Exposition on week days without loss to
themselves; the other of visitors from
other places who must otherwise spend
the day roaming about the city and seeing
sights of no more instructive and elevated
character than they would see at the Ex-
position. Mr.. Davis plan is good COM
promise of the vexatious Sabbatarian dis
pute, and will satisfy all except the ex-
tremists on both sides.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
Obituary Notes.

HERR ELEIsT RETZow, member of the Ger
man Reichstag. died yesterday.
LOUIS NUMA BARAGNoN, the well-known advo-
cate ana member of the French Senate, is dead.
COUNT TELEKI. the Hungarian refugee. who
was prominently concerned in revolutionary move
ments in Span Austria and Italy. is dead at Lon-
don.
JOHANNA SULLIVAN. aged 100 years. died in Nj
agara Falls, N. Y. Thursday. She was born in
County Kerry Ireland. and had passed so years of
her life in Niagara Falls. She leaves great-grand-
children and several NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mrs. LOUISA GRAY KEENEN, one of the Oldest
residents Of Maine. died at her home in Bath on
May l6 aged l01 years. Her earliest recollections
were of Indians and bears. Her husband, Luther
151.. He grandfather was a soldier OF the Revolu-
tiOn.
MR.. JOHN H. MCCORMICK. one of the Oldest EN-
ployes in the bindery of the Government Printing
Office. Is dead. One of the incidents of Mr.. Nc
Cormick's early life. 20 which he frequently
ferred, was that he one OF the men who carried
President Lincoln from Ford's old theater on the
night of the assassination 10 the house opposite,
where the martyrci President brcaihci his last.
OLIVER ". LoNGAN quit his desk in the War
Department last Friday, ana on Wednesday he
died. he was native of Pennsylvania, stood high
in Masonry and the G. A. r.. and was ono Of the
veteran department clerks. Mr.. Longan Ind been
employed In the Adjuinnt General ofirc, and dur
ing past II years performed the duties OF Sccrc
,ary Board of Commissioners OF the soldiers
Home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
IDYLLIC HUMoREsOUEs.

She-When Miss Hopkins told you 1t was
her birthday were you sincere when you wished
her many returns of the day3
He-Yes; l earnestly desired that some of the
past ones might come back to her aEain.-Puck.
The hand that rocks the cradle
Ofthis present age speak
Is not the same as formerly,
But gets much per week.
-SeD York Herald.
The Sword Swallower-Great Scott! This
won,tdo! There are 13 of US sitting down to din
ner
are only 12 You've miscounted the two-headed
girl.-Chica1o Tribune
Lord Noodleby-I came heah to study
your customs and mammals, Miss HIcory, and /
must confess I'm verwy much disappointed.
Miss HicOry-Naturally. We are hardly old
enough to have manors and our tariff is not
calculated to please foreigners.-Rarper's Ba.ar.
He had studied all his lifetime in a yery
patient way,
He had searched through human wisdom till his
hair thin and grav.
And vet each day he finds himself uneauaI to the
task
OF answering the questions that his little children
ask Washington Star.
''What We want, )" said the well-known
publisher, ''is man to make maps for history Of
Africa that we are about to publish
Il thlnk am just Ine man you want. - said the
applicant with broad smile. For several wears
! have been a designer in a cloakhouse. ',-Coak
ReUfeI1.
'Love laughs at locksmiths, +" she said to
him encouragingly.
Yes darling, 1 know he replied sadly. ..ou,
not at No. IL boots. detroit Free Prsss
His necktie is work of art,
Its pattern makes the tears start.
His trousers bear wondrous crease
And on his face shines perfect peace.
Colorado Sun.
Friend-What did he say to you when hs
proposed to you?
Miss Ro1-He said life without me meant moth
ing.
Friend-He was sincere in that. That, iuss
what his possessions amount eo.-Neo York Psss,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
NOT ENOUGH TO FIGHT OVER

The announcement that MI. Frank
Willing Leach is to be Secretary of the
State Committee, without regard to the
Republican organization or of the candi-
dates, indicates that the programme of
Senator Quay with regard to State man.
agement is to be carried out in its unim-
portant as well as its important details.
No one, except possibly Mr.. Leach him
self, would rank that gentleman as an i'm
portant detail; but the practical announce
ment that Senator Quay's personal selec-
tions must be carried out in all their mi
nutia, and that his personal encourage
must keep hold of the lever of the polit-
ical machine has no slight degree of sig
nificance.
1t is certainly pertinent to remark that
this extreme declaration of personal con-
troll may have unsatisfactory results.
Practically the same thing appeared in the
State campaign of 1890; and everyone is
aware what the result was. 1t is true that
MIR. Leach will be much less important
person, except in his own estimation, in
this campaign than Mr.. Delamater was in
the campaign of 1890. A national cleo
ton, too, is likely to keep dissatisfied
voters inside the party lines. But, after
allowing for all these things, it is still
very grave question whether the popu-
larity of the Republican organization can
be maintained by forcing upon it person
who combines to unique degree the
representation of Senator Quay's personal
control with large amount of general
Consciousness.
At the same time we hardly consider
Mr.. Willing Leach important enough to
make fight over. But If he is made an
issue he will be elevated several degrees
above his proper place in politics. No,
there is not enough of Leach to fight
about
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

roborate each other is calculated to arouse
queries. If the reduction in the bill is
only 100000 the inquiry becomes per-
tinent where are the three millions more
that should appear on the twenty-five per
cent? And, if there are 100000 of re-
duction, why does not the total of the bill
come down s., 600, 600? In addition to the
importance of spending the peoples
money economically and wisely, the moral
and scientific value of having the figures
balance correctly should not be forgotten.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
DISCREPANCY IN THE FIGURES

Some one in Washington-presumabl
connected with the Senate Committee on
Commerce-stands in need of little ele-
mentary instruction in arithmetic. The
report given out the other dav with re.
gard to the retrenchment made by the
committee in the River and Harbor Ap-
preparation bill shows that the person
who made the statements and gave the
figures has not yet mastered the art of
making the two agree.
The statement was that the committee
had made a general reduction of 25 per
cent IN the appropriations. This would
have been well if the fatal tendency to 90
on and give figures had not triumphed
Thus the statement was made that the
bill as first reported appropriated S21, ,346,-
975, and that the reduction made by the
committee, on the principle of reducing
all the items 25 per cent, cut it down ST.
OSS,75O This left the appropriations in
the bill, it was further stated, at
the total of S20, 0,3s1, 1868. Anyone
with a pencil and paper can figure
out that S2,0S3,75O is not % per cent
Of the original total, but is less than 10
per cent. Beyond the fact that the reduc-
zion falls three million dollars short of
that promised by the 25 per cent horizon
tai reduction, it is but a step to the discov-
cry that if the sum stated as the reduction
is subtracted from the original appropria-
ton it would make the reduced total over
a million dollars less than the present
amount as stated
As the principle of horizontal reduction
cuts down works Of national importance
just as much as the horSe-pond and log
ging stream Jobs, Improvements for which
there is a pressing need being stinted
equally with these which could be saved for
the future, this failure of the figures to cor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
THE MYSTERY OF ELECTRICITY,
How 1t Was StriklngIy Suggested Upon
the Dissectinc Table

How 1t Was StriklngIy Suggested Upon
the Dissectins Table.
NEW YORK, May 2O-One of the doctors
who assisted in the autopsy of Tice, who
was executed by electricity yesterday, says
that the mystery of the electric current was
never SO strikingly suggested as it was upon
the dissecting table. Sixteen thousand
volts of an alternative current of electricity
had been sent through the condemned mans
body in three separate charges. 1t had on
the instant killed the man, and yet there
was not the slightest internal indication in
any of the organs of the body of such tre-
mendous force. There were no LESSONS, no
cIots nothing to show that the mans body
had been the conductor for a current terrific
enough in a seconds time to kill him. The
microscope may reveal some changes in the
blood. although the surgeon Is doubtful
whether that will be the case or not.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Mrs. Eliza Robson.

Mrs. Eliza Robson. aged sc years, died
at 9:16 O'Clock last night at the home of her niece
Mrs. Robert Lucas, at Avalon station on the Fort
Wayne Railroad. Mrs. Robson spent nearly all
her long life In Allegheny county. From carly
girhood she had been prominently identified with
the Methodist Church, and she was well known as
al estimable lady. She was the widow of Robert
history and was in business Liberty street from
1885 until his death in 1869. Mrs. Robson was up
until the end remarkably healthy woman. and
while old age disabled her she suffered pain and
death came to her in the form of restfuI sleep.
She leaves two children. the Rev. Mrs Davis, and
Quincy A. RobisDn, the tobacco and oil man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

1T is reported of Senator Hill that at
Charlotte, n. c., yesterday he delivered an
address of patriotic character, devoid OF
political bias" This is departure so start
ling as to be almost incredible. and one can
not avoid wondering who wrote it for him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
Mrs. Margaret NJ. Pullman, Artist.

Mrs. Margaret Macdonald Pullman died
at the residence of her father-in-law, Rev. Royal
H. Pullman in Baltimore Thursday. She was the
wife of Mrs. George Ii. Pullman. of Chicago. Mrs.
Pullman was a native of Logansport. Ind. She
was an artist of national repute. and up to one
year ago President of the Palette Club. Of
Chicago. She had been selected 4 member of
the special committee art affairs connected with
the Columbian Exposition at Chicago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
OUR OLD FRIEND BACK AGAIN.
The Sea Serpent Romancer Begins His wo

The Sea Serpent Romancer Begins BIS Work
Thus Early in the Season.
CLEVELAND, May 20.-Two fishermen near
Oak Harbor, o., declare they saw a veritable
sea serpent in Lake Erie Monday evening,
May IL. 1t was seen at two different times,
and is described as 25 feet long and foot
and q half in diameter in the thickest part
of the body.
peared to be several large fins or f1ippers
about five feet from the head. Its color was
black. mottled with brown spots, and as it
moved through the water its tail lashed the
water into foam.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
A LITTLE GIRL MAIL THIEF
Confesses Her Misdceds, Shielding He
Father, the Village Postmaster.

Father, the Village Postmaster.
PARKERsBURG, May 2O-[Specia'. l-some
time ago w. S. Hammacher and wife, the
former being postmaster at Diego, were ar
rested for robbing the mails. The trial has
just closed in the United States Court. The
evidence for the United States all in,
and it looked bad Tor Hammacher, when his
little daughter came into cour,, and con-
tessed in childish language that she was the
guilty one who had opened the letters.
She said she saw a letter addressed TO the
First Assistant Postmaster General at
Washington, and thought it was being sent
by some one to injure her father. She
thought she would open it and tell her
father. The Judge fined her $50
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

PRESIDENTIAL aspirants should follow
John L. Sullivan's example, and procure a
medical certificate of physical soundness
before going further with their arduous
undertaking. II they can discover anyone
competent to certify their mental and
moral sanity as well, they would no doubt
find those documents equally useful.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
A BETTER NAME WANTED.
Our Young Peoples Convention at East
Liyerpool Down to Rusiness

! EAST LIVERPOOL, o., May 20.-[SpccfaL J.
"Our Young Peoples" Convention spent the
greater part of the day wrangling over a
change of name for the national organiza
tion, and the matter is as yet undecided.
The debate was participated in by Rev. Mr..
gheny: Rev. Hugh Kennedy, OF Sharpsburg,
Pa, and Rev. d. F. McGill, of Allegheny,
among others.
The following officers were to-day elected
and installed for the ensuing year, Chair
man, j. Campbell White, of New York City;
Secretary, Miss Jenneatte Dickson, of
Canonsburg, Pa: Press Secretary, Charles F.
Wishart OF Monmouth, ILL.,; Treasurer, John
McCabe, of Omaha.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

THE season is not yet far enough adj
vanced for sunstrokes. But medical opir-
ions suggest that similar effects may be
produced by working in an over-heated
bakery If desired.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

IF the Exchange street railway franchise
result in stirring up citizens to q proper de-
Tense of their rights, it may prove of great
public benefit after all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

CHIEF ELLIoT's remarks on the number
of European born applicants for public as
sistance, and the scarcity of Chinese
paupers, are well worthy of note in con-
sidering the immigration restriction ques-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
still on Their Metal.
Toledo Blade.l

Toledo Bade.I
Mr.. Springer will now attack the tariff
metal schedule. But he will find the Repub-
licans of the Senate still on their metal
against 1t. r...
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

AMERICAN pork is now admitted into
every port in the world, and it is good deal
less expensive than the Congressional pork
let into every possible bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
IT is reported that the notorious Londor

IT IS reported That the notorious London
Pelican sporting club premises are to become
the property of the Salvation Army for use
as a refuge. This would indeed be change
from one extreme to the other. The Sal
vationists should find many fit objects for
their efforts among the members of the
club.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
Can Now Take Care of Itself.

st. Louis Kepublic.l
The Mississippi river has water enough in
It now to float all the navies in the world. 1t
cnn tako care of itself without the aid OF
Congross until the Great Steel Industries
Job 10 disposed of.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
TWENTY IDOLS 600 YEARS OLD
Discovered by Governor Prince Among the
Aztec Ruins of New Mexico

SANTA FE., N. NJ May 2O.-In excavating
some ancient Aztec ruins in the direction of
Chaco Canon, G ov ernor Prince has unearthed
20 stone idols OF different type from any
be ore discovered.
They are circular varying from to Is
incnes i'll diameter, the upper haI contain
ing a deep, carved faca and the lower half
rudimentary arms in relief. The idols arc
believed to be ut least 600 years old.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

THE disaster at NIauritius is a terrible
one But that is no reason for calling a
cyclone an earthquake as does q cotempo-
rary, '.H'>--'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

UNLESS the weather or some similar
trif1e be allowed to interpose, it is now Ger.
tain that there Will be a hanging in Allie
gheny county on the oath instant
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
savors of Offensive Partisanship.

Chicago Times.1
The way in which the Missouri river is cut
ting land Off the Democratic States of Ne.
braska and Iowa and. depositing it On the
doubtful Kansas shore savors OF offensive
partisanship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTOR GRIER
thinks that Senator Rutan is acting very
disagreeably.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

SPRING is a delightful season, but the
father OF rivers and his children are in
dulging in too much springtide
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

THE Market Street Railway would be
incomplete without loop round Diamond
square.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21

A BAD habit has been broken, for Pitts
burg has won bail games two days in sue
ceSsiOn