davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The morning call., 1892-08-27

n; medium. &c: light 4I5c: COwhides. 4l4I9c
sated Rip &c: Sated Calf, &c; dry Hides usual
lion. &c: dry Klps. &C; dry Calf. sc; prime Goal
skins, SOG50e each; Kids, 5@lOc; Deerskins, good
23e: SheepsklnS, shearngs, lO@25e; short wool.
AOG1Oe: medium. 70490c: long wool. 90c1sI41
each. Culls OF ali kinds about is less.
TALLOW-So. l rendered 46ss1Ae: No. 2, SAG
S15c 2 10.
WOJL-We quote fall San Joaquin and South.
ern at S0Ilc e To- Spring Wool is quoted
follows: Southern and San Joaquin. years clips,
ll0l2l2c {. n; do seven months, l9e1l5c: Eastern
oregon, lS0I1c; Valley oregon, lssZlC 2 IL
The morning call., 1892-08-27
AUCTION SALES.
WILLIAM j. DlNGEE,
Real Estate Agent and General AuGt0nesrS,
460-462 9Th St, Oakland.
AUCTION SALES.

WENDELL EAsroN. GEO. W. rR1xk. eEo EAsroN
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
NOT BETTER FOR RUssIA.

When the Gar of Russia declared ayear
ago that there was no famine there the
assertion was generally looked upon as an
attempt to ignore a great disaster. That
there was actual famine in some provinces
is now beyond dispute; but what the
Autocrat probably meant is corroborated
from an unexpected source. The English
Consul at Kietf, in a report recently pre-
sented to Parliament, says the famine was
due to the failure of crops in certain dis
tricts, and that the transportation system
Of Russia made such breakdown that
while people were starving in some prov
inces immense quantities Of grain were
suffered to rot in the Caucasus.
While this new state of affairs gave'little
relief to the people who died of hunger
or famine fever, it permits the belief that
the Cars assertion was correct as state
ment that Russia had grain enough in her
borders to feed her people. But, with due
credit to His Muscovite Majesty's desire
for veracity, it is difficult to see how the
position of his Government is improved
by the amended statement Indeed,
it would have been more to
the credit of the imperial Government
had the former account been the true one.
No Government, however paternal, could
be expected to prevent universal disaster
to the crops; while the Russian Govern
ment, operating as it does the railway sys-
TEN, and exertfng paternal supervision
over the entire empire, must be held re-
sponsible for the failure to take food from
the provinces, where it was plenty, to
those where it was needed. Nomore re-
markable demonstration of the worthless
ness and utter inef1ciency of absolutism
could be imagined than the spectacle of
Russian subjects dying of famine in one
part of the empire and surplus food going
to waste in another.
1t will not take many more illustrations
of the sort to convince the Russian people
that Government which cannot fulfill the
functions it assumes is not worth enduring
any longer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
ONE WAY TO DO 1T.

1t is worthy of notice and commenda-
ton that the management of the Boston
Theater have made new, though it must
be confessed rather faint, attempt to abol-
ish the theater hat nuisance. Messrs.
Abbey, Schoefel and Grau print upon
their programmes request to the ladies
to ''aid in the work of hat reform" and
"wear small bonnet OF remove your large
hat during the performance.
Det US hope that the Boston ladies will
accord more favorable response to this
modest request than there is much reason
to expect The female mind in this mat
ter Of the theater hat has shown itself
superior alike to ridicule, reason, or good
manners. Perhaps it is consistent, since
female fashion pays.no regard to the per-
sonal comfort Of its deyotees who wear its
costumes, that lit should exhibit even a
calmer dlsregarF for the rights and COM
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07

fort cf those whom it debars from seeing
stage performance. But the combina-
ton of bad manners and insensibiiisy be-
trayed by feminine theater-goers in ignor-
ing all attempts to abolish the theater hat
proves that the only way to secure vol
untary movement of this sort among the
sex is to convince them that it is the fash
ion not to wear it.
Yet even in that phase the hopelessness
of attempting to. influence the average
feminine mind by argument is displayed
in the fact that really fashionable circles,
namely, the aristocratic people of Europe,
discarded the theater hat so long ago that
the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary. No woman with any pretensions
to fashion would ever appear in Euro
pear theater in an out door head-dress; yet
the women of America resist all appeals
to their courtesy in the matter of thsat
rlcal hats under the delusion that fashion
requires them to wear that obstructive
headgear. Under such circumstances the
managers who really desire to reform this
matter will simply have to enforce the
rule of foreign theaters-to admit no lady
to the auditorium with her hat on. After
brief struggle the theater which main-=
tanned that rule would become the most
popular and fashionable of its class,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
EXTRA SESSION TALK.

THE extra session is evidently Demo-
cratic ''extra."-New York Recorder.
To call an extra session Of Congress to re-
peal the Mckinley bill would be a super
extraordinary thing TO do.-GrGnd Rapids
Herald
THH danger to the country resulting from
the Mckinley law Is not so great as to war
rant the great expense involved in an extra
session Colorado Sun
BEYoRE an extra sessioNor Congress is de-
manded let US see what sort of wild meas
ures are introduced at the coming short
scssion.-Bossos TrdreVer.
AN extra session means extra pay and
extra mileage. Yet some people wonder why
the new hedged statesmen of the South and
West arc in favor of it.-Nelo YORK Press.
EXTRA session OF Congress talk, like con-
lectures on the subject of the late comet, is
involved in too much uncertainty to render
it reliable in any deyree.-HaTisburg Star.
ONE reason why Cleveland will not call an
extra session is the impression made on his
intellect by the New York statute punish
ing attempts to commit sufcide.-&. Paul
Pioneer Press.
In certain quarters there is a demand for
an extra session. But it Is not so strong or
sustained by such arguments that it will be
necessary to heed 1t. The necessity for an
extra session is not apparent.-BtL0dLo
EaQLi-er.
IT is not at all likely that President Cleve-
land will be moved to call an extra session
between March 4 and the first Monday OF
December, 1898, Dy newspaper interviews
with politicians either now or hereafter
Rochester linton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
PROMINENT AND POPULAR.

GENERAL CUsTER's father died re-
Gently, at the age of IS. He resided in Mich
igan.
IT is reported that Prince Albrecht has
resigned the Regency OF Brunswick, owing
to i'll health.
NINE DE LEssEPs, who ought to know,
claims that her husband, the great canal
man, is 81 years OF age.
OAKLEY RHINELAN DER, of New York,
is credited with owning the finest collection
of antique armor in this country.
Mrs. STEVENSON, mother. of the Vice
President-elect, is So years of age, and one
of the best authorities on the early history
of Kentucky.
WHEN the young King of Spain has
been bad boy he is taken to church instead
of being allowed to spend the Sunday in see
ing bull light.
DWIGHT L. MOODY, who has been
abroad, is expected back in Northfield this
week. Both the boys and girls of the
schools there are to give him concerted
welcome.
JUDGE SHEPERD, the newly appointed
Chief justices of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina, and said to be the youngest
that ever held that position, began business
D. G.
DoN CARLOS, the Spanish pretender, is
discontented with the Pope, owing to His
Holiness having again taken his old stand
agatnst marriage between Don Jaime, his
son, and Mercedes, the daughter of the
Queen Regent of Spain.
MISS KATHERINE TYN4N, who plays q
prominent part in Irish literature and pol
itics, is a general favorfte il Dublin. She is
engaged to be married. it j understood, to
member of Trinity College, but expects to
continue her literary WORT without abate-
ment.
EX-GOVERNOR GARC8LoS, of Maine,.
now sS years old, is q rather spry old gentle-
seen belinda spirited atfmaI in the streets
ofLewiston. sndhe hatdles the reins with
skill Twenty-tnree horses may be found in
bis stables.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
CARELESS AS TO DATES.

The necessity for little research in the
production of historical fables is pleas
antly illustrated by the story of the
pauper who died the other day at Lima.
O., claiming to be the son of the first
Napoleon. The story alleges as facts that
be was born in Paris in 1856; that he ac-
companied Napoleon TO Egypt in 1895;
that he was there captured by the Arabs,
and after living nomadic life of several
years came to this country, where he
seems to have spent the greater part of the
century without any exhibition of havi
Inherited the rising qualities of his al
legged parent
Besides the fact that this would make
the claimant log years old at the time of
his death; that it tai him on the Egypt
Ian campaign at q ,ender age of 10,
and then takes hLm trough a career
which would reno, tnJ tracing Of an IL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
FUNERAL OF JAY GOULD.
The Financial Kings Remains Placed In the
Costly Family NIausoleum.

The Financial Kings Remains Placed In the
Costly Family NIausoleum.
NEW YoRK, Dec. CAT 10 O'Clock this morn
ing the heavy oaken door OF the Gould man.
sion swung open and Dr. Paxton, accom-
panied by Chancellor MacCracken, stepped
upon tire porch moment later the under
taker and his men brought the casket con-
taing the remains of Jay Gould from the
house and lifted it into the hearse. Drs.
Paxton and MacCracken entered the first
carriage which moved to the front of the
hearse. In the second, George Gould and
wife, Harold and Miss Helen Gould were
seated. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin g ould and
their brother, Howard, entered the next
vehicle in the procession. The other carri-
ages were occupied by friends OF tho de-
ceased and his family. As the carriages
moved away the thronf on the street dis
perSed, and i'll less thdn half an hour the
street had resumed its accustomed appear
ance
As soon as the casket was placed in the
oak case at Woodlawn cemetery, Chan
cellor MacCracken read the commital serv-
ice of the Episcopal Church. The service
was concluded with a simple invocation for
"dtvtne strength for the afflicted ones"
The simple service over, the undertaker's
assistants hermetically sealed the lead cas-
ket. and then, after the oaken cover had
been securely fastened, the remains were
carried into the mausoeum by four of the
undertakers assistants. The case was
rolled into the crypt just opposite that of
MIR. Gould's wife,
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DIED TO ESCAPE A CANCER.

A Wealthy Titusville Merchant Commits
Suicide In His Own Parlor.
T1rUsvILLE. Dec. 6. 6.-[Speci1Ll = Lehman
U!man, the leading drygoods merchant here,
and one of the wealthiest business men of
this section, committed suicide in the parlor
of his home early this morning. His wife
discovered his dead body when she came
down to breakfast. He had shot himself
through the right temple with pistol, and
was lying on the sofa, with n pool or blood
from the wound slowly spreading over the
carpet.
Cancerous affections which Dr. Lincoln,
of New York, had assured him were incura-
able, probably prompted the self-murder.
Ulman came from Germany 26 years ago,
and the beginning of his mercantile career
in this country was as pack peddler. His
life was heavily insured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
CIVIL SERVICE REBORN.

The extracts from the ninth annual re-
port of the Civil Service Commission, as
published elsewhere in this issue, indicate
that it is doing good work. The efficiency
Of the Commission within its all too lin
tied range is strong argument for ex-
tending its field of usefulness. It is satis-
factory to note the reported decrease in
the practice of assessing Government en-
ployes for campaign purposes. And the
proposition to make solicitation for parti-
san funds from such sources in any place
a penal offense deserves support, as we'll
calculated to aid effectually in suppress
ing the evil The request for a rapid
extension of the classified service, and
Encouragement to reduce the number of
excepted offices, ought to be satisfied with
out delay.
Civil service reform in which competi-
tive examinations and promotion by merit
tend to dispIace the spoils system by busi-
ness. principles cannot be too much en-
couraged OF too widely extended. Amer
lea is proud of the common sense and
business instincts of its citizens, and yet
they permit the National Government to
be managed by methods which, adapted
to private enterprise, would result In
certain reduction of profits and probable
consummation of ruin.
There is little to hope from the Demo
cratic party, flushed with victory and
pledged to the spoils system, in the way
OF civil service reform legislation. But in
his handling of Federal patronage Mr..
Cleveland will have grand opportunity
to demonstrate his sincerity in advocating
such reform that, properly made use of,
cannot fail to be a useful example to his
successors and demonstration of its ad-
vantages to the nation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
PEARY AND HEILPRIN.

The Lieutenant Emphatically Denies That
They Have Fallen Out.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26-At a meeting of
the Academy of Natural Sciences tonight n
letter was read from Lieutenant Peary re-
garding the reported quarrels and unfriend-
illness between Prof Heilprin and himself
He says:
81 desire to say in justice to both OF us
that our relations are the most friendly.
and that the reports printed are without my
SAN ction and totally untrue and unfounded.
have the highest respect for Prof. He'll
p rim, who, by his ability and learning, con-
tributed greatly to the success Of the expe-
dftiOn.n ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
MIR. CURRIFs METAPHORS.

Mr. Bertram Currie, one of the English
delegates to the Brussels Monetary Con-
ference, is pleased to disapprove of the
course of the United States Reports
credit him with making savage attack
OF "American selfishness" in the matter
of silver, to have protested against making
Europe "a scapegoat for the Yankees, :"
and to have Joined with this telling and
original reference to pulling chestnuts
out of the fire"
All of which is typically charming as
coming from Bank Of England director.
The Threadneedle street point of view is
evidently that some one must purchase
silver, and that for anyone else to do it
but the United States would be establish
ing a scapegoat; while fer the United
States to suggest that the division urged
by RothschiIds, of half as much silver
being purchased by the rest of the world
as the United States is to purchase, is de-
cidedly jug-handled and gross example
of American selfishness. The sug-
gestion that the United States
must not object to be the scape-
goat or to pulling $4,000, 900 of
silver chestnuts annually out of the fire,
is of course not selfshness. 1t is simply
the typical British attitude-an important
difference in terms, if not in the actual
fact.
1t begins to look as if it might be in
structive to Mr. Currie and his confreres
if the United States should stop silver pur-
chases, put its stock of silver on the
market, and draw on the world at large
for the increase of its gold reserve. Our
English friends might then be able to
locate the scapegoat more accurately
during their search for some one to pull,
not the chestnuts, but themselves out of
the fire.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
ANIMATION RECRUITS.
More Canadian Newspapers Join the Move
for Political Union.

Ior fontlcal union.
OTTAWA, ONT, Dec. 6.-[SpectdL livery
day adds new names to the list OF the Cana
dian press who call for a change in the poll
tical condition OF the Dominion. A plague
could not have made greater havoc upon
the population than the inroads the demand
for Independence or Political Union has
made into the ranks OF the ultra-loyal Cana
diaus.
The Algoma Herald in speaking OF the
depopuation OF Canada, said: "There are
over 100000 native Canadians In the United
States, an increase of 81 per cent in the
number OF Canadians living in the United
states in 10 years, while the population OF
Canada in the same period only increased II
per cent. This is the net result Of 10 years
experience of Tory and monopolist rule in
Canada. What sense is there in spending
public money upon efforts to bring immt-
grants from Europe into Canada? More
people emigrated from Canada in the past
10 years than there are Inhabitants In that
vast portion OF the Dominion west OF Lake
superior, and our rulers propose to continu ue
the policy which Is driving Canadians out
or their native land at the rate OF 10000
year anu to waste some more millions upon
q worthless Immigration service"
The Algoma Pioneer, in discussing the SIT
uatfon, says: "fhe time has come for think
ing men to speak, and probe the canker
which Is sapping the strength and jeopardiz-
ing the life OF the Dominion. No one can
oeny the face that strong current is annu-
ally carrying thousands of Canadians to the
United States; Sentimentalists say they
will all come back again in the event of
trouble between the coun tries, but has the
republic given US any evidence OF It's desire
to slay the goose thatlays such golden eggs2
Nay. They make, seek to make, our politi-
cal relations unsteady and uncomfortable,
but the day for trouble, fighting trouble,
VIII never come. In the meantime every
city, town and hamlet in anada has sent
the bloom OF its youth and enterprise to the
United states. We may extract all the COM
fort possible by thinking that our sons and
daughters will retain an abiding affection
for the land of their birth, but experience
tells US that tney are really actiE AGENTS in
drawing others after them. Our children
people the States, Americans control our
rich nickel deposits and pineries and sweep
our great fisheries. The wealth OF our nat
ural products Is being utilized for the bene-
fit OF American manufactures, while Cana
dian enterprise in sawmlls, minerals and
fisheries shivers US If smitten with the
a0ue.n
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MR. BLAINE Is MUCH BETTER.
His Friends Expect Him to Be in his Usual
Health Soon.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. -[Spectai. J. Repre-
sentative Hit, of Illinois, last night enter
tained several members of the family OF
Hon. James G. Blaine. Speaking Of Mr..
Blaine's condition. Mr.. Hit said to-day: IL
am glad to say that the e1-Secretary has
improved very wonderfully in health. He
gers around the house, and yesterday he
went out for O drive. He is so much better
that he is saying his old bright things in his
old bright way.
Tho fact OF the matter is that he has
been dreadfully cut up over the death OF his
boy Emmons. That explains his recent
gloominess and sadness Coming so soon
after the death OF his eldest son Walker, the
blow was naturally very severe one. /
hope to see Mr.. Blaine restored to his usual
vigor in q very short time"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07

legitimate parentage wel-nigh impossi-
bic, there are other obstacles to belief
presented in the story. There is some
doubt as to the exact birth of Napoleon
l., but the best authority would make
him 16 at the birth of his alleged son.
More than that this story implies
his residence at Paris in the years 1885 and
1876, while the fact is that in the former
year he was sent to his regiment at
Valence
The yarn is not important enough to
warrant much pains in its examination.
But the illustration of the necessity of
more care in the construction of historical
fables is worth bearing in mind by the
next experimenter in that field.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
william a. Allen, Charters.

The circumstances surrounding the death
of William H. Allen. of Charters, on the Plttsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad. OF consumption. were
peculiarly sad. Mr.. Allen was bachelor. aged
about 30, and had been engaged to be married to
Miss Burkhart, . well-known young lady residing
with friends at West CHARTERS, but whose home Is
in Ohio The i'll health of the prospective groom
caused the marriage to he deferred, ana on Satur-
day the death Of Mr. Alien occurred. VIII Allen
was worth considerable money. His fathers
family were old residents and well connected. Will
was engaged from time to time In various enter
prfses lie latterly had been in the livery business
with good success. He sold It to John Yunker and
some Pittshurg men two weeks ago. His worldly
OOO to SIS, 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
John A. McAuley.

John A. McAuley, father of John T.
McAuiey. Councilman from the First ward, Alle-
gheny. died at his late residence, No. 353 Kebecca
street, yesterday at $3.50 P. NJ, OF pleurisy. Nr.
came to this country when quite young. He was
one of the pioneer draymen In this section having
started in with the Standard Oil Company when
in It's infancy, with whom he remained until the
time Of his death. Mr. McAuley was one OF the
last 10 abandon the old style dray once so common
daughters and one son, John I. McAuley. who
represents tine First ward in Common Council.
The arrangements for the funeral have not yet
been COMPLETED.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07

Now that the Presidents message has
been received Congress can devote itself to
business without further delay. There is an
opportunity for patriotic and bipartisan
action in this session. which it is safe to
assume will be largely neglected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07

Two Philadelphia newspaper men are in
Pittsburg investigating the economic meth
DDS which gave the county its moneys
worth with promptness in the erection of
the court house. They ought to be able to
produce an interesting companion volume
to "The old story OF Philadelphia's new
city hall-still unfinished after twenty years
of building and the expenditure OF sl6,OOO,-
O0O" These be depths of municipal misman-
agement to which Pittsburg must never be
allowed to sink.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07

LADIES who have not been selected as
models for statues at the Worlds Fair will
doubtless find a source of consolation in the
thought that a figure with sixty-eight points
OF symmetry would be far too angular 20 be
pleasing. Fine points are all very well in
their way, but the human form can very
well dispense with them and still be grace
full in its curves and movements.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07
FROST.

There's frost In the air. The snownakes surge:
The earth In shroud they fold;
The winds are chanting the old years dirge,
And nature turns hfeless and cod.
There's frost In my heart, for joy Is dead,
And the chilling blasts of care
Enshroud my soul; whence hope has fed,
And leave me alone with despair.
-Milton Goldsmfth IN Philadelphia Ledger.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-07

nothing to do with what am saying be-
cause the attempt was unsuccessful. This
man was arrested and put in Jail. He gave
an assumed name. and am credibly in
formed that lie has been rewarded by being
promoted and put in q higher and more lu-
crative position on account of his pernicious
activity in the last canvass.
The resolution went over without action
till tomorrow