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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
HARDLY CONCLUSIVE

One example of the logic used by Phila-
delphia newspapers in favor of the anthra-
cite coal consolidation against Mr.. Cas-
salts attack on its legality, is presented
by the Philadelphia Times. That es-
teemed contemporary in the same article in
which it asserts that the South Penn trans
action "was not only most strained eva
sion of the fundamental law, but it was SO
clearly against public policy that there
seemed to be but one reasonable judicial
decision possible" presents the follow
ing as demonstration of the correctness
Of the Reading acquisitions:
1t is reasonable to assume that the most
experienced and conservative bankers of
this country, who gave the needed financial
aid to accomplish unity in the coal produc-
ing and transporting interests of the State,
took nothing for granted as to the legality
of their proceedings.
This is exceedingly refreshing. The
conservatism and experience of the bank
ers acting in favor of unity in the anthra-
cite business being guarantee of its
legality, what application are we to make
OF the fact that exactly the same bankers
acted in the same capacity in the South
Penn deal? Is the guarantee of legality
by their presence in the transaction to be
held as vindicating that deal? 1t seems as
If that must be the logic of the situation,
even although the Times confirms the judi
cial declarations to the contrary, since the
same bankers conducted the negotiations
subsequent to the decision which COM
pleted the evasion of Constitution and
courts alike, and carried plutocratic au-
thority to the previously unheard-of de-
gree of proclaiming that the construction
of any more through railroads in Penn
sylvania or New York without the per-
mission OF the Vanderbilts or the Penn
sylvania interests should be prohibited by
the banking interests.
1t is fact of corporate history that ex-
actly these experienced and conservative
bankers" have been the most prominent
apostles of the doctrine that in the pur-
suit of corporate purposes it is not worth
while to pay the slightest attention either
to the interests of the people, the enact
ments of law or the decisions of the
courts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
KNOWN BY EVERYBODY.

THE widow of Senator Hearst carries a
life insurance policy of 100000.
MAJOR AND Mrs. FUTILE have lived in
the same house at Stratham, n. H., for 10
years. .r
BARON ALBERT RoTHSCHILD has do
mated s50,OeO toward building hospital for
consumpt1ves in Vienna.
IT is said that when Victorien Sardou
laughs he is the ugliest man in Paris. Per-
haps he is the original of the famous Sar
donic grin.
MR. VIM M. GRINNELL, of New York,
the new Third Assistant Secretary of State,
reported tor duty at the State Department
yesterday morning.
WHEN Tennyson is invited to read aloud
from his works he almost invariably picks
out the "Ode on the Death of the Duke of
Wellington" first and then Maud"
TALcoTT WILLIAMS is said to be the
American who has most nearly approx
mated Sir Richard Burton's daring explora-
tions and scholastic researches among the
Arabs.
DIR. GATLING, the gunmaker of Americas s
Moscow, which is to say Hartford, is ~
years of age, but, like Ericsson, the older
he grows the more interest he takes in in
ventions.
R.A. DoNNELLY, the new Commander of
the New Jersey Grand Army Department,
entered the service as private, was pris-
oner ut Libby and was discharged from the
army OH account OF disabilities caused by
wounds.
Miss MARsDEN, who has been striving to
better the condition of the lepers in, Siberia,
and is to present their cause to the Czarina,
has travelled over 1000 miles on horseback in
prosecuting the work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
AMERICAS PRECIOUS STONES.
j. Pierpont Morgan Gives His Collection to
81 New York Museum.

NEW YORK, Feb 15.-[SpecidL1 II. Pierpont
Morgan has presented to the American
Museum of Natural History the Tiffany col
lection of American precious stones, which
is conceded to be the finest of the kind in
existence. 1t was among the attractions OF
the Paris Exposition, where two gold medals
were awarded to it.
Among the stones is the first sapphire
found in the United States. 1t was discov-
cred in Franklin, Macon county, n. C. Other
sapphires in the collection came from the
same State and from Montana. Some of the
few diamonds were found in Amador county,
CAL, North Carolina and Manchester, Va.
The Virginia stone is the largest ever found
in the United States. Topazes are plentiful,
having been found in the Cheyenne Noun
tains, Colorado, and in the Bald Face Noun
tain. One of the sherry-colored topazes
weighs three and half ounces.
Stony Point, n. c., furnishes the largest
emeraldS. Colorado leads in Deryls, while
there are many beautiful garnets from Yir-
gina, New Hampshire, Arizona and New
Mexico. Herkimer county, n. Y, furnishes
weighing ten carats and containing $50 crys-
tails. Delaware county, Pa. gives to the
collection some fine amethyst.
Other specimens are jasper, moss agates,
fossil corals and amber. A group of fresh
water pearls is feature of the collection.
There are 600 gems in all and the collection
cost $40, 900.
Morris h, Jessup said to-day that the col
lection will be placed in the new building,
and this will not be opened to the public.
until the city votes the necessary appropri-
alton for its completion and maintenance.
be made public will depend on the city's
penerOSity
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

The very outspollen comments over the
remarkable omission of the two members
of the Cabinet who spoke in Philadelphia
at celebrations of the Lincoln anniversary
have convinced one of the orators at least
that an explanation is necessary. Both
Attorney General Miller and Secretary
Noble devoted their oratory to sound
ing the praises of the Administra-
ton. Each took occasion to praise the
work done by the head of every leading
department, with the exception that each
omitted any mention of Biaine's work.
The storm this raised has brought Secre-
tary Noble to the front with the explana-
ton that, as his speech was extempore,
the omission was an unintentional over
sight
This leaves to Attorney General Miller,
whose praise of the Administration was
so specific that he did not omit to sound
the glories of his own department, the
task of finding an excuse for the identical
oversight in speech prepared and put in
type before its delivery. That forgetful-
ness should attack two members of the
Cabinet at the same time, whether their
speeches are extempore or prepared, to
the extent of forgetting the one Republi-
can whose leadership is unquestoned and
whose policy has furnished salient quail
ties of the Administration, is little too
strong for the average credulity of the
American citizen.
Even if there were ground for accepting
the plea of forgetfulness, would it not be
a remarkable illustration of the mental
altitude of these members of the Cabinet
that they are able to forget the services of
the greatest and most famous of that
body, not excluding its official head?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
PITTsBUrG. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY Io.
TWELVE PAGES
THE TANPAYERs TO DECIDE.

The agitation of the assessment ana TAX
question should produce a larger and
more discriminating vote for Counclmen
to-day than is usually cast at city cleo
tons. While the assessments are yet TO
be revised for most of the wards, and can
then be carried to court if they are still
deemed inequitable or exaggerated, there
Is no way, saving by the vote for Council
men, to keep in check the tendency to eX-
travagant expenditures which exhibits
Itself in the demands of the departments
at City Hall.
As to the point which has been made
that the Councilmen to be elected to-day
do not vote upon this years appropria-
tions, it should deter no one from voting
solely for candidates pledged to keep
down the expenses. A number OF the
sitting Councilmen who will vote on the
appropriations for 1892 are candidates.
The count of the ballots according to the
position they have taken for or against an
increase of expenses, will instruct them of
the opinions Of their constituents. Besides
every Councilman elected to-day will vote
on next years appropriations-and action
is to be taken now if it is to prove effective
in the future.
In number Of the wards candidates
are already formally pledged to reduce
the millage as the aggregate of the assess
ments may be increased. In some dis
tricts this platform has been so popular
that the regular party organizations have
taken it up as well as the Citizens candi-
dates. But it is the Citizens candidates
who for the most part are inspired by the
movement to keep check on expenses, and
in general it is the interest of the citizens
to vote for Citizens candidates. The ad-
ministration at City Hall has already too
large and unquestioning majority. Coun-
cilmen are wanted who will inquire into
the details of appropriations, and form
and express an independent judgment
free from official influence. For that
reason especially, such members as
Messrs. O'Donnell and Ferguson and
other Independents should be reelected.
If they are to be defeated by the votes Of
the constituents whose interests they have
endeavored to serve, it is poor encourage
ment for an independent course by others
in Council
In several of the wards there is hardly
choice. But there are Citizens and Dem
ocratic candidates running in enough of
them to give voters a chance to emphasize
their opinions in a way not to be misunder-
stood. They have known ever since the
Chiefs estimates were presented that de-
mands for increased taxes are an issue at
to-day's election.
The regulars" have the advantage of
party organization and support of city
employees, and will doubtless as usual
carry the majority of Councils; but the
Citizens and Democratic tickets could be
putthrough in enough instances to warrant
atleast vigorous and increased minority to
serve as a useful check ON the power
which the executive heads of the city gov
eminent have accumulated-and which
needs healthy and capable restraint.
The voters to-day have the matter in
their own hands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
the tiny principality over which he

to the tiny principality over which he
reigns.
1t thus appears that Europe will have
plenty of celebrations this year But
none of the events thus signalized family
approximate that great discovery which is
to be commemorated by both the Spanish
and the American nations. Neither it
can also be said, do any of the European
celebrations present the unique feature
imposed by our national exigencies with
regard to the great anniversary which
comes in 1892 of celebrating it in 1898.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
Obituary Notes.

MR. CARR. founder of the New York Union
Steamship Line. is dead in Hamburg.
DIR, WILHELM JUNKER, the well-known African
traveller and naturalist, is dead in St. Petersburg.
SISTER MARY RoCHUs died yesterday morning
at St, Joseph's Catholic Hospital, Lancaster, with
which she was connected
COLONEL E. F. DRAKE, of st. Paul. died at
Coronado Beech, CAL, whittier he haa gone for
his health He was native of Ohio.
FREDERICK OPPERMANN. Jr., a millionaire
brewer of New York City, a leading Democrat and
a well-known sporting man, died Sunday morning
of heart failure.
JUDGE HENRY OSCAR BEATTY, father Of Chief
Justice Beatty, of California, died at San Fran
CISCO sunday, aged 80 years. He has been Chief
Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
HON MILTON L. MORRILL,, recently Mayor of
Nauvoo, and a prominent attorney, died at
Nauvoo, ILL.,, Sunday. aged II. Mr.. Morrill,
brother of the late Governor l.. l.. Morrill,, of
Maine and a member OF the Legislature of
Illinois for several terms.
W. H. DUNN, of sos Larimer avenue, East End,
died at his residence at noon Monday, after
brief Illness He leaves a wife and son. The de-
ceased was brothcr-in-law of Kew. A.. H. Miller,
formerly of this city. now in st. Louis also Of
Rev. J. H. Miller, Of Allegheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

Carlisle, of Kentucky; German, of Mary
land; Russell, of Massachusetts; Gray, of
Indiana, and Albeit, of New Jersey. The
astute William c. Whitney, with barrel
at his back. as harrhonizer of the New
York factions, is left out in the cold.
The list will have to be subject to revis-
ion before it can be regarded as clearly
eligible. 1t is prominent fact that the
Democracy have never elected President
who did not attract the Independent vote.
Talk Of winning with German or Albeit
is therefore excluded, while Gray and Pal
mer are even questionable in their attract
i've powers for the voter who places char
acter above party lines. Chief Justice
Fuller has taken himself out of the list.
So the eligibles simmer down to Russell,
Pattison, Carlisle and Boies, with Gray
and Palmer as possibilities, though not
especially eligible
But the process Of exclusion still goes
on. An intelligent Democratic policy will
seek for strength in the West, and Demo-
cratic tradition chooses men who give an
assurance of ability to carry their own
State, which must be pivotal. One consid-
Grafton operates against Russell and Patti
son; the other, while in favor of Russell, is
against Pattison and Carlisle. So that the
fSl outcome of considerations as to eligi-
bility picks out Boies, of Iowa, with the
accuracy of the choice seriously disturbed
by the doubt whether he can carry Iowa
in Presidential year, or New York either.
Still, as the campaign will be fought out
on the issue Of the tariff, with silver as a side
dish, it is not likely to make much differ
ence which of these candidates is selected.
With German and Albeit scratched off the
list, any of the names left will be very
creditable for the Democracy to accept
defeat under
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
RHYNkLED RHYMELETs.
Mr.. Morris Parke-Are you in this RAJ

Mr.. Morris Parke-Are you in this race,
Sambo?
Sanfbo-wad race, sab? -
Mr., Morris Parke (wittily)-The human race!
sambo-Ya-as. sab; I'e de dark hoss, sah.-Puck.
The politicians who are wise
Observe in times like these
That they had better dot their 'i's"
And cross their absentees.
-Wdshiagton Stnr.
Jones-I saw conjuror last night who
could give you two different kinds Of drink out of
the same bottle.
Brown-That's nothing. my boy. We've q gro
Ger in our street who sell you three different
kinds of tea out of the same box.-Spdrks.
Cholly-I feel howwibly disgwsced.
Jack-what's the matter2
Cholly-Why. my man actwally intends to nav
WV girl that's been out to service!-Nec Iors
Herald.
He carries himself in the kind Of way
That only soldier can; a
Yet after ALL you would hardly say
He's military man.
But an apple he takes with an absent air
AS past a stand he goes,
And at once you feel you are ready TO swear
He's a copper IN citizens clothes.
-Ns,o York Press.
sWill you have piece of bresd?" asked
mamma.
''Yes'm, and want piece with ribs to IT, an
swered John, who was fond of the crust OF breAd.
-Hdrper's To,ng People,.
Bicycle Dealer-This machine will be bet
ter for your boy than pony. 1t doesn eat any
thing
Frugal parent mot entirely convineed).fo n
won't eat anything. but I'm afraid u sve INC
boy thunderin' big appetite-Chfcd0o 1'''fne'
If had but the needful cash
An ulster new TO buy.
tell you what I'D cut a dasn
And be exceeding spry.
But. ali! 'tis not the dash that's cut
,TisI --Heto York Herald.
Excited Old Gentleman-Didnt you say,
when bought these socks, that you'd guarantees
them fast color9
Affable Clerk-we guarantee everything.
Excited Old Gentleman-Well. sir, wore them
one day, and they made my feet so black it is i'm
possible to get 1t of.
Affable Clerk (triumphantIy)- don't sea
what YOU want of any faster color than that
Smith, Gray Co.'s Monthly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
CUPID TOO STRONG FOB MAMMA.
4 17-Year- Old New Castle Heiress Flies
With Her Lover and Becomes His Wife.

4 17-Year- Old New Castle Heiress Flies
With Her Lover and Becomes His Wife.
NEW CASTLE, Feb ID Special. yesterday
morning Miss Florence Wellendorf, aged II.
daughter of the late Charles Wellendorf and
heiress to fortune, left her home in West
New Castle, ostensiby to go to church. She
did not return, and an investigation dis
closed that William McDermott, q law
student with whom the young lady had
kept company, was also missing. Mrs. Wei
lendorf forbade the law student from visit
ing the house.
The maternal order did. not stop the court
ship, and the plot to elope was made Satur-
day evening. Miss Wellendorf dressed for
church, kissed her mother goodby, and met
her lover, who, with his sister and her hps-
band, were waiting for her i'll q close car
rlage at a covered bridge nearby. The party
drove ro Sharon andktook a train for James
town, n. Y, whore the marriage took place
to-day. Mrs. Wellendorf says this evening
that her daughter may come home, but she
would never admit the husband to the
house.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

SPRING does not promise to be unusually
early this year. but there is remarkable ac-
tivity in the green goods business. The dis
honest take their own risks, but for those
who combine ignorance with cunning
word of warning is not out of place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

THE amounts of compensation claimed by
the Baltimore men are outrageousiy e1-
tortionate, and should not receive the back
ing Of the administration. There is no
reason why the personal indemnification
paid to the wounded men should exceed the
amounts which would have to be paid by a
railroad COMPANY or other corporation for
sustained by their fault.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
There's No Monopoly in 1t.

Washington Star.
One great beauty about the Presidential
candidacy business is the utter absence of
any tendency to monopoly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

AN increased and vigorous check on the
executive offices of the city government is
needed in Councils. Citizens candidates
and independents members should be sup
ported. They have an uphill fight against
the regulars" but the voters can elect them
il they will.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Rev. Charles Elliott, Bibliologist.

Rev. Charles Elliott, D. D., LID, Pro-
fessor of Hebrew at Lafayette College, Easton Pa,
died Suddenly Sunday morning of rheumatism fol-
lowing an attack of grip. He was widely known
as a writer on Biblical subjects and as an in
structor. He was born in Scotland In 1916, and
came to this country, and graduated at La
fayette in 1910. He taught IN universities at Xena
o. and at Pittsburg until 1349, when he became
professor at Miami University, Oxford, o. In
1883 he was elected professor of Biblical Htera-
ture and exegesis in the Presbyte Theological
Seminary, Chicago. and remained there until 1882.
when he went to Lafayette College. DIR. Elliott
was writer of treatses Biblical subjects, pub
lshed here and in Scotland.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

IN an interesting editorial on ''The
Movements of the Stars the Philadelphia
Record dilates on the use and discoveries of
the spectroscope. and expresses wish that
this instrument should be applied to a
study of the sun, with view to uetermin-
ing the nature of the phenomena known as
spots" This is unworthy of our learned
contemporary, for it should know that the
spectroscope has been used for this purpose
during the last 2l years at least.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
Harold n. Mcdonald, Freedom.

yesterday morning of tuberculosis, aged % years.
Though young, he had been one of the most active
business men in this valley and at the time of his
death was Superintendent of the Atlatic Dynamite
Com pany's Pittsburg branch. He was also for
some time prominently connected with the Latin
& Rand Powder Company. He was for some years
connected with j. W. Calder in the mercantile
business in Rochester and later with Karcher in
the Touring business. He was brother of DIR.
Frank Mcdonald, OF Pittsburg. He leaves wife,
to whom he was married ten months ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
As Ugly as He Fecls.

Chicago News.]
In the published portraits of the influenza
microbe it is easy to detect the main features
of criminal and degraded nature. The
microbe is as ugly as he feels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

POLICEMEN throughout the country will
do well to lay to heart the words of Phila-
delphia judge that "No policeman has a
right to arrest a man who uses offensive Ian
guage to him. 1t is not crime, and it is not
punishable by law" While members OF
''the force" should remember this private
citizens should never forget that the use of
offensive language to policeman, or any
fellow-being, is a breach of good manners
that is unbecoming to gentleman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

The science of electricity and magnetism
has made enormous strides, but the vast
fields remaining for the Students explora-
tions are indicated by the contradictory
opinions held by the learned of the causes
and nature of auroral manifestations
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

If such candidates as O'Donnell and Fer
guson are defeated to-day through the activ-
ity of the City Hall administration and city
employees, it will be poor encouragement for
future independence in Councils. The tax
payers are to decide.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

A NEW YORK paper remarks that Oscar
Wilde was framed, in the prodigality of Ma
ture, to twang the lutte string. As bearing
out this view it is noticeable that he at
tracted attention some time ago by an arti-
Gle on the liar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

WHATEvER may be woman's opinion of
an association of women in California who
have adopted costume, including skirts
which end three inches below the knee,
men will unite in thinking that this is an
Improvement on the trains which seek to do
the STRENGTHENING that should be attended
to by broom brigades.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
B1-CHLORIDE PATIENTS MEET
S. E. Moor, of Pittsburg, Presides Over

s. e. Moor, of Pittsburg, Presides Over q
Worlds Convention of Cured Tipplers.
DWIGHT, Ills, Feb. 15.-The first worlds
convention of delegates from the Bi-Chloride
of Gold Clubs, composed of persons who
have been cured of liquor, opium and to-
bacco habits at the Kelley Sanitarium in
this town, assembled here this afternoon.
Delegates from Is States of the Union, Eng
land and Scotland were present, and many
more are expected.
S. L. Moore, of Pfttsburg, occupied the
chair. The examination of credentials was
the first business in order.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16
The Inventor of Terrorite.

Dimetri Mindeleff, Russian, and the in
yentor Of terrorite, explosive more powerful
than dynamite, is dead. As chemist n1indelef
had more than a national reputation and several
of his important inventions have been patented,
among them being new methoI for the reduction
of cobalt and nickel and the destruction of
pbylloxera by means of pyrogneous acid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

MEXICO is much to be pitied. She Is on
the eve of an election, which is almost syn
onymous with a revolution, and the Louisi-
ana lottery is to make the unhappy country
the center of its operations. Poor Mexico!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16

OF Governor Russell, of Massachusetts,,
is said that he believes in the policy of
his party, but he believes much more in the
whole American people of all parties. If
this be true he is worthy of emulation and
encouragement. This quality is the founda-
tion for craftsmanship, and we want more
Of