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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
THE LATEST ELECTROCUTIoN.

The action of the New York Legislature
in permitting the presence of reporters at
electrocutions is proper both because the
public have a right to know how the
sentence was carried out, and the publicity
given to the details of such events adds
immensely to their power as crime
preventers. While the witnesses
differed in their opinions they all
agreed that the execution yesterday
shows that progress has been made since
Kemmler suffered the electric death PEN
atty. While there should be no movement
to lessen the deterrent influence of capital
punishment, there should be no undue or
wanton cruelty in the process of "taking
Off" Death is so awesome at its kindliest
that its terrifying capabilities can be little
affected, whether it come in barbarous
form or with the latest scientific appli-
ances. On the other hand, if the public
were inclined to believe that needless
torture was inflicted on a criminal under
the supreme penalty of the law, there
would be an increased difficulty
in obtaining true verdict and
a great addition to the sentimental
sympathy for those under sentence, with a
consequent strengthening of the multitude
of mistaken petitioners. AS more executions
take place the process will no doubt be still
further improved, as increasing examples
will provide material for deducing the COM
parative action OF the current on subjects
OF varying physique and constitution.
One of the greatest advantages of cleo
trocution as compared to other systems of
execution is the removal of chances of
untoward incidents resulting from lack of
care, skill, or nerve on the part of the ex-
ecutioner. His personnel is more nearly
obliterated than in any other way of car
rying out the death penalty, and this is in
every way preferable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
Faith IN WORKS.

The report of some jubilant sentiments
entertained at Dolgeyille, n. Y, puts Mr..
Alfred Dodge, of that city, rather strongly
in evidence The inyidious outside press,
particularly Of the class which does not
hold with Dolge's political views, init
mates that he is fond of bringing himself
strongly to the front; in response to which
it NAV be said that if other manufacturers
put themselves forward in the same way
he does, society would be in much more
satisfactory state than at present.
Mr. Dodge, as could be inferred from
the name, is very prominent at Dodge
vile. In fact, Dolgeville is his creation.
But he departs from the custom of most
capitalists who own the town in which
his manufacturing establishment is located
by making it an especial ambition to
show what can be done in the
way of advancing the condition of
labor. Dodge has attained prominence
by his position on two points One was
his determination to give the policy of
profit-sharing full trial in his factory,
and the other was his earnest support of
the Mckinley bill The jubilant feelings
of Dolgeville are due to the fact that he
has backed up the first article of faith by
his works in distributing $4,000 as labOr's
share of the profits of his establishment,
making total of $4,000 so distributed up
to date, and has followed it up with a
similar naturalization of the second
article by announcing an increase of 10
per cent in the regular wages of his en-
ployes, which he says is due to the opera
ton of the Mckinley act
1t is not surprising that under these cir
cumstances the population of Dolgeville
who receive these additions to their in
come should indulge in jubilations. The
day may not be SO far distant when Mr.
Dolge's example will be universally recog-
nized as not only philanthropy, but the
truest business policy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
A BRUTAL KING.
Dahomey's Sovereign Still Takes Deiish
in Butcherinc Subjects

In Butchering Subjects.
The King of Dahomey continues to butcher
his prisoners and his subjects in royal
fashion. NJ. Lartigue, the French traveller,
gives fearful description of the Kings fes-
tivals. In front of his palace at Abomey he
has two great tanks to receive the blood of
his victims. Human sacrifices occur all the
year round, but when the memory OF King
Guezo is to be celebrated the slaughter is
dreadful.
On the Sd of August last. according to M.
Lartigue, the number o. killed was over
seven hundred. The 5th of August was the
great festival. and his Majesty himself took
q hand in the killing. He came to the place
of butchery in a carriage drawn by four line
horses and driven by four coachmen. These
coachmen were ordered to advance to the
centre of the place. They understood what
that meant. They walked slowly. Tears
were rolling down their checks. The
King arose, walked over to them, sabre in
hand, and decapitated them, one after the
other The bloody work was continued until
the 29th of August. Some of the blood Of
the victims was carried in buckets and
thrown upon the grave OF the departed
monarch. Women were also sacrificed, and
the King was finally satisfied. He is resting
now, but he will soon begin operations
again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
MERIWETHER's REVENGE.
How a Cute Yankee Traveller Got Even in
Europe.

Europe.
WASHINGTON Feb. S.-The story of Mr.. Lee
Meriwether's recent experience with the
customs officials at Smyrna, who threw
him into prison because he tried to
enter the country without proper papers
and had no money with which to bribe
them, has been published. He has presented
his case to the authorities at Washington.
1t will be surprising if bIr. Meriwether does
not get even with the officials in one way or
another. He will be remembered as the
young man who wrote 4 book on how to
travel in Europe on so cents day.
One day in Switzerland. during that eco
nomical trip, he went into q restaurant and
asked for glass of cold milk. The waiter
brought him milk that was boiling hot, and
when Meriwether arose to go, refusing to
pay for what he had not ordered, the menial
seized his hat and gave it to the pro-
prietor. Meriwether appealed to the local
magistrate and also to a lawyer and found
that they would do nothing to help him. He
returned to the restaurant and paid the pro-
prietor tor the milk, remarking as he did so
that he paid the money not for the milk but
for the information that it was impossible to
get justice In that town for impositions prac-
ticed upon strangers. A few GAYS later Meri-
wether crossed the frontier into Germany,
whore he lost no time in preparing nice
box full of Sawdust which he sent back TO
the proprietor of the restaurant. He did
not pay the express charges, which
amounted to 81 40. In the box was note
saying: "ThiS is to remind you of the man
whose hat you Stole.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
FROM 81. LOUIS TO EUROPE.

The whaleback May Be Utilized to Garry
Grain Without Breaking Bulk.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. ga scheme is on foot
which may result in the shipment of grain
from this city direct to Europe without
transhipment. The success OF the new
steamers, known as the awhalebacks," in
making the voyage from Duluth to Liver
nool has attracted the attention both of
local exporters and Eastern capitalists, and
it is believed that vessels of this class can
be sent to Europe by way OF Mississippi
river and the Gulf of Mexico.
A representative of an Eastern syndicate
has been in the city in consultation with the
grain exporters, s,theGovernment engineers in
Charge of the Mississippi river Improvement
and men familiar with the river, with a view
of putting the plan into operation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
A PIONEER sH1PBUILDER GONE
Death in New Orleans OF Captain Johr
Hughes, Man With a History.

Death in New Orleans OF Captain John
Hughes, Man With History.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb s.-[Special. l-Captain
John Hughes, the pioneer shipbuilder of
New Orleans, died here last night, 81 years
ofage. He was born in New York in 1906,
and came to New Orleans in 1876, when he
went into the shipbuilding business. He es-
tablished himself in Alaiers, opposite New
Orleans, and was largely instrumental in
building up that town. He built the first
dock there, and did larye business, both in
docking and building vessels. He was
elected to the Legislature in 1858
and tried in several other important
Offices He built the Confederate ram
Manassas, which was burned when Farra-
quits fleet passed the fort, and number of
other vessels for the defense of New Or
leans, and retained 80 the time of his death
a large amount of Confederate bonds in pay
ment for these vessels, the bonds being the
first ever issued by the Confederate States
His docks were sunk in the capture of the
city by Farragut, for which claim of $2bO,-
600 against the United States Government is
still being pressed.
After the capture of New Orleans Captain
Hughes went to Georgia. where he had
charge of the iron works of the Confederate
Government. He returned to New Orleans
after the war, and went to work again and
acquired q large fortune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
RUSSIAN WILD HOGS.
One of the Rare Beasts Killed After a Long
and Hard Chase.

HARDWOOD PARK, N. Y, Feb. s.-After q
five lays chase over the hills and through
the the forests of Sullivan county, Lew
Boyd ran down and killed one of the Rus
sian wild hogs recently started by him and
Charles Stearns, OF Oakland Valley week be-
fore last. Stearns succeeded in killing one of
the animals. Boyd next day started in on
the trail o: the other and kept on it until he
bagged his game. He tramped more than
100 miles before he brought the wild hog
down, at a spot within two miles of the
place he started in on the trail. While fol-
lowing the wild hog he shot wildcat and a
fox and wounded a big bear that crossed his
path
The wild hog weighed 800 pounds, and was
sold to Ernest Wolner, OF Port Jervis. The
one Charles Stearns killed weighed 225
pounds. The first one of these rare animals
killed was shot in OctoDer, 1890. by County
Judge Crane, of Port Jervis. None of the
three we're more than two years old, show
ing that they had all been born in the
woods. These hogs are the wild hogs of
Northern Russia, from which the bristles of
commerce are obtained. They are silver
cray, and built for strength and swiftness.
They have a fleece of soft wool next their
skin, and are covered with bristles. The
skin is dark, like venison, and tastes more
like that meat than like pork.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

THE report of the commission which
went to Europe to investigate immigration
is on the whole satisfactory. The two most
serious aspects oftle matter are the number
OF paper immigrants whom we may expect
from Russian intolerance, and the quantity
of ex-convicts who are encouraged and
helped to come here by the British Govern
ment With regard TO the former it is only
fair to say that, while poor, this class of
immigrants is on the whole able, Industrious
and thrifty, and is likely to make good citi-
zens. As for the latter England should be
notified that rubbish may not be shot here.
The suggestion that steamship companies
be held responsible for the return of unde-
sirable persons is the best yet made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
NO FEAR FOR THE SOUTH,

It is well to remember that accounts
concerning the depression of whole Sec
ton are eligible subjects for large percent
ages of discount if we wish to arrive at the
truth. The recent reports which represent
the entire South as trembling on the brink
of bankruptcy and ruin because it cannot
get as much as might be wished for its
cotton, is an eminent example of that class.
1t is not much over a year since the
press was filled full of similar and even
more hyperbolical statements OF disaster
with regard to the Western States. The
entire corn and wheat raising population
was represented IS bankrupt; and one
highly impressive correspondent went so
far as to predict for the fertile State of
Kansas the fate of becoming a desert.
That calamity being temporarily averted,
the Southern calamity of being too pro-
ductive occupies the public mind with
equal prominence.
1t is not hazardous to predict that the
allegations concerning the South will be
found upon examination to be largely ex-
aggerated. The South is at present suf-
fering from the disappointment of re-
ceiYing the net price of cents per pound
for cotton crop on which it expected to
realize cents. This is enough to make
any section feel poor, and those planters
who have formed their liabilities and eX-
penses on the 8 cent scale are liable to
feel the pinch as severely as the iron in
terests of Pittsburg did when the price of
bar iron went down from the 2Ac level to
the 1s1c basis. But that this will impose
universal bankruptcy on the South or
cause the abandonment of cotton planting
is supererogatory nonsense.
If the production of cotton has expanded
to such volume as to make the price I'M
profitable it will restrict itself The South
is fertile enough to yield other crops. But
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
PRINCETON'S EATING CLUB.
Bad Board the Outside Leads to Co
Operative Housekeeping.

PRINCETON. N. j., Feb. s.-[SpectaL 1.-The
University Eating Club was organized at a
mass meeting of the college held this even
ing. Joseph NJ. Huston, '92, who has been
the chief organizer of the club said Prof
Lfbbey had offered the use of the large hall
in the University building for $500 year,
which is acceptable. A head steward at
$1,000 year, a cook at 5000 two assistants at
$3.50 each, five kitchen girls and a man for
general work will be appointed at total
expense of $1,000. The estimated expense
for rent, coal, ice and some general matters
are 81 900 year. Tables will be supplied for
800 student. the price OF board being "A per
week. After paying all expenses the officers
of the club expect to have $24, 400 a year to
supply food.
They promise the students better board
than is supplied by the boarding house mis-
tresses for So a week. The latter are charged
with Fleeing the students. The numerous
complaints of poor meat, milk and butter
supplied at most of the clubs were the direct
causes of the present movement. Huston
said that all the officers from the President
down, except the marketing and house COM
mittees of three men each to be appointed,
would have to pay the full price for board.
These committees together with those
students who conducted clubs which will
join the new organization will get free
board.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
EMMA AgB0TTS ASHES
Quietly Placed In the Grand Monument to
Her Memory.

Quietly Placed In the Grand Monument to
Her Memory.
GLOUCESTER, MASS, Feb. s-[Specidl ALI
that was mortal of Emma Abbott, the
famous songstress. was laid in it's final rest
ing place to-day. The only person in
Gloucester outside M. L. WethereIl, brother
of Eugene, Miss Abbott's husband. who
learned of the affair, were group OF actors
now playing at the Gloucester Opera House.
AS hack rumbled up one of the avenues
of the cemetery three gentlemen, the exc
cutors of Miss Abbotts will alighted one
carrying brown paper package about 10
inches square. This contained the ashes of
Emma Abbott as they were received from
the crematory. The ashes of the renowned
singer as she was cremated in her famous
81, 900 dress are in bulk, about quart. They
are sealed up in a square copper urn.
Mr. Reinhalter, the Secretary or partner
of the contractors of the monument,
took the box and placed it in the
receptacle. There was no prayer no
word, and the spectators did not even
remove their hats 1t was climax OF SIM
pIicity and in complete accord with Miss
Abbotts wishes. The heavy cover of the
receptacle was put in position and the whole
covered with broken stones and cement,
preparatory to the placing of the great stone
above it, which will form the floor of the
monument canopy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
DRIFTING wITTICIsMs

Eminent Specialist-Yes, madame, your
husband is suffering from temporary ALTERATION.
due to overwork. The form of his mania il quite
common. -7r
Wife-Yes; he insists that he is millionaire.
Eminent Specialist-And wants to pay me 500 for
my advice. Wen have TO humor him, you know.
Hdrper's Bdzdr.
Here rests in peace child of fstei,
Don't idly pass him, stranger. Ts
in life one day he tried to skate
Too near the sign marked Danger. y
Judge.
Charlie-Edith Grigson is nice girl but
her father is regular old pirate. - =
Chappie-A pirate? How do you make that outr
CharIie-Well. know from experience that he Is
q free booter.-Snlith, Gray & Co. $ HoTthty. AZ
''You have been losing flesh lately,
haven't you?'
'.Yes; I've been shaving myself. "-lN,o TOrs
Dispatch.
'Tell me, darling, why love youT"
Warbled hIatel soft and low;
And answered my dear charmer, ~
.'We're not married yet, you know"
Smith, Gray Co. g Aortatv.
Intelligent Foreigner-Does thesuState
build those magnificent bouevards? ,tl3a
Chicago Man-No, sir! We do 1t oursetves3s
sswonderfull And who are the ldlots Lnst cut
them all to pieces by driving over them Win pug
gies that have tires only an incn wlde on tne
wheels?''
..Er-we are. .,,-chfcago Tribune. - TsGI
"Old Rowley was a stingy man
.sYes: they saw he died so as not to have TO pay
his doctors bill ''-J1id2e.
They sit beside the stove and giggle,
And every little while -. ..---
He steals kiss from her tnat ecnoes.
For almost half mile
-Eeeo FORK Ress1d.
ssMy dear" said fond mother to her boy,
..why DO you not play with the little Jones boy?''
..oh, he's horrid. He says bad, naughty wsrds,
Just like papa" - p5-t2sse
Reform win begin at home in the family.-zsras
Svtines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
BUTLER,s BOOK ONLY LOANED.
No One Can Pay For Copy Except For
His Own Use.

Boston, Feb. S.7kSpectaL. 1-General Butler
does not intend that his book shall find a
place on the shelves of any public library,
nor that it shall be turned into a chrome for
any cheap magazine, as he says. He also
adds:
'There is set of rascals in the drygoods
trade who would pay the subscription price
and then sell at half price, taking care to
sell enough drygoods to some unfortunate
woman to make themselves whole. People
say, when a man buys a book, can't he do
with it us he pleases?' Yes, but we don't sell
it to him. We require every person who
buys q book to sign contract that it is for
his own use, and that otherwise the title
reverts. No book can be lawfully bought
save through an authorized agent, and the
authorized agent cannot sell it lawfully save
to those who sign this contract, guarantee
ing that it is for their personal use"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

WISE men searching after truth are ac-
customed to find it in unexpected places.
The truth of this is instanced when Ward
McAllister, the prince of foolish affectation
and artificiality, states that society" needs
more simplicity. But simplicity must not
be cultivated as fashionable virtue, or it is
like to become the hollowest sham of all. 1t
must be encouraged in home and family as
one of the nations greatest wants, and then
even society will become leavened by its
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

The order issued to conductors on the
Panhandle Railroad, that in calling out the
next place at which the train stops
they shall inform passengers on which side
they can alight i'll safety, should extend to
all roads without delay. 1t is simple
measure, and will enhance the safety of
passengers, providing the information be
given with moro distinctness than charac-
terizes the announcement of the names of
many stations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

THE special delivery stamp is an institu-
tion OF great convenience. One drawback
to it is the absence of the particular kind of
stamp ana the distance from a postoffice
on many occasions when it would othera ise
De used. The proposition that ten cents
worth OF ordinary stamps, placed on an en-
velope clearly marked for special delivery,
should take the place OF the special issue is
q wise and useful one, and should meet with
the support which is necessary to make it
law
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

people in this city who know how to talk.
The only difficulty is to get them to talk on
subjects outside the narrow limits of their
own business and lives. Pittsburg is noted
for its business successes. The secret of
these is concentration of effort and thought
on one aim, and 1t is hard to have that with
out seriously limiting the interests Of e1-
istence
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

FROM the number of papers which claim
the credit of foretel1ing Blaine's letter it is
difficult to believe that there was any doubt
about the matter-yet there was great deal
of uncertainty in many misguided quarters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

WOMAN in America is justly considered
to have reached further stage of emanci-
patton than she enjoys in England. She has
greater opportunities for business occupa-
tion, and that is II o doubt the reason why we
have not vet heard of woman in this coun-
try who can shoe horses as well as any man,
although there is such q one in an English
village whose husband is a blacksmith.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

THE destructive and fatal fire at the
Hotel Royal is likely to make things un-
pleasantly hot for New York's Superinten-
dent of Buildings, as there is evidence of
gross neglect of duty on his part in permit
ting such death trap to remain unaltered.
Serious catastrophes of this kind are potent
warnings to citizens to trust their interests
to competent and honest officials rather
than to men of political power.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

so long as people eat bread and wear
shirts, so long there is no fear that the
farmers of both the West and South will
be unable to find market for their pro-
d1ofc
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

Is it too much to hope that one result of
indigestion in high places may be to accent
uate the necessity for a change in the ma
tional Observation-Disclosures and
hasty eating?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
She May Buy Us.

Detroit Free Press.1
An English syndicate has bought the cot
ton presses of New Orleans. The English
are not in q position to conquer us, but they
may buy US If this thing keeps on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

BARBARoUS Russia is in sore straits, and
the progress of humanity is great when its
sufferers are relieved by gifts from the
Treasury of so small and uncivilized u coun-
try as Bokhara
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

THERE will no doubt be an enormous
amount of postal business transacted at the
Worlds Fair, and the Department is wise in
taking early measures for the establishment
of an Office competent to cope with it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

THOSE who believe that Mr.. Holman is
actuated solely by the force of honest con-
victions would do their fellows service by
subscribing a fund to provide him with an
economic education
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
women in council at Kansas Citv. q

KANSAS Cry, Feb. s.-The Inter State
Women's Conference opened a three days.
session this evening. Among notable women
present are Miss Florence Belgarine, of Lon
don, England; Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell,
of New York; Mrs. +. D. Newby and Mrs
Noble Prentiss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09

PERSONS visiting New York as strangers
will do well to make inquiries before choos-
ing their hotel, as the Hotel Royal is said to
have been only one of 25 that should be con-
demned.