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THE DAILY PICAYUNE NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1S9I. KicnoLsox as co proprietors. THE PICAYUNE Has tho Largest Circulation in the I SouthweatA- A TKBHt Or ST7BSCBIPTIO.lt A daily. A.A"A f' Twclvs tl Fix Months. VV T-res Month.

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1889. "A Proprietor Picayune. This Evening. Gxin o'ncxa Hodsb "Lots Find a War." Miss Kate Putnam. Robij-son's Dims Mcskc- Curio and Weather forecast for to-day For Western Florida, Alabama and Mississippi! Fair; slightly oooler; northweat-v erly wind.

A-; v. AA A For Louisiana. Eastern Texas and Arkansas: Generally' fair; warmer by Friday night; westerly While Queen Victoria is at Grasse tbe business residents of the town will be in clover. A A 'I'lie robbing of a cemetery always fills an Ohio community with gray apprehensions. A A' A--A American voter has a right to scratch his ticket whejn there is a personal itclt for office.

A'VA-A Tlie grammar school girl at the boarding-honse may be asked to parse tho butter but not toiinalysce it. It has been shown that barsting bub-tiles can be photographed. That is not important. All. who have speculated in mines.

know bow they look. "Is 'bursted good English," queries a covrespondenfc. No. Nor good Bust is' the word. JNew Yoik Continent-! It is enough, to make a mnn bust out laughing.

The Kansas City Times is still hopeful. It says: The present cheering outlook, is that if nothing happens before midsummer it bu.iliel of wheat will liu worth enough to purchase a peck of ice. A AA A Baby McKee has now advanced to the stage of wearing trousers. Tommy Russell, the best of all Little Lord I'auntloroys. has a mustache.

Harri-non, the boy preacher, has grown gray. Tho world do move. A MtvM. N. Forney has invented a safe depository in sleeping cars.

It consists of a semi-cylinder fastened under car window, and which can bo locked, into which passengers can put their pocketbooks. etc I It will be con venient for the robbers who hold up trains. They will find the plunder in place. "It takes too long to inter view each passenger for a pooketbook. The war on tights goes on.

The Minnesota bill making it a' misdemeanor for 'any female person to expose her "lower limbs" draped in tights has been introduced into-the Pennsylvania legislature, too. Perhaps it may strike Beacon Hill next. The cranks are not oil dead yet. Boston Herald-J If -As You Like It" is prohibited, "A Midsummer Night's must also he or-Liddon. Shakspeare is1 no thing without tights.

Good NeWs Wife What's all this fuss about silver I'm sure everybody wants money to be plenty. Husband-But making money abandant will make things dearer, lt willl Would making money scarce make things cheaper "Certainly." "What fools you won are Why doa't you make money so scarce that there! won't be any at all, because then we could get everything for nothing." 'i A So you think that it was hardly a just thing to do to eject the man who applauded' so': loiidiy in the Brooklyn Theatre Ahl but you -don't understand these matters. The man, no doubt, was overzealoas. It is all right to show your gratitude for 'a pass by applauding in moderation, but there's such a thing as overdoing it, and thus gi yourself away as a deadhead. You may not care, but the manager does.

Boston Transcript. Deadhead applause is better than none for the rising young actor. city of Lowell or any other municipality would be foolish in paying any sura of money, however email, company private citizens for, water rights. These citizens obtain control by legislative action, without any expense to them, but their ownership is usurpation of the people's rights. Heaven gave the people the water, and they alone should own it.

Lowell News. Of course; but people who do not fear heaven and only own their sh are of water, sell the right tof using all of it to other people. J. Seabrooke. De Wolf Hopper's able assistant as a comedian, is suffering severely, from an injured knee, which resulted from too much spright-linessinone of his dances.

'Manager Stevens, of the Hopper Company, thinks, however, that Mr. Seabrooke will be able to resume his place on the stage by the opening of the summer engagement at the Broad way. INew York Times. If Mr. Seabrooke is required to execute antics that endanger his limbs he should engage in a company that is a little less Hopper.

The Galena, with her machinery and equipment, cost originally about ind her repairs have made her total cost to date about $1000,000. but it would be a hardy mariner of a very ancient type who would say that the government ever had $1,000,000 worth of ship in the Galena. When one of these old political hulks, maintained for repairs and votes, goes ashore the country ouRht to be grateful. New; York The going ashore of a ship now and then must be expected while all the officers and men of the navy are so fond of going ashore. Baron Fava, the Italian minister at Washington, is one of the queer characters of the diplomatic corps, says the Philadelphia Times." He changes his hoarding place about twenty, times a year.

It is next to impossible to find Li in. He is so careless about his social engagements that on the occasion of a recent state dinner at the white house, at which ho was one of the invited guests, he kept the company waiting renrly 1 hour, and would not. have id 1 rpearance even then if he 1 1 sent for. It would seem 11 ttheLaron is not i 5 tie caj-itoL CHEMISTRY AND PUBLIC SANITATION A few days ago there was opened in this connection with and under the care and control of the Louisiana State Board of Health, a properly provided chemical laboratory under the direction of a competent analytical chemist. In the Picayune's advertising columns appears a notice published by authority of the.

Board of Health, which sets forth the following: The" public Is hereby notified that the chemical laboratory of the city of Jew 'Orleans and the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana is now open for the analysis of foods, drinks, drugs, at the request ot any citizen interested in regard 1 9. the purity of sucharUcie. As we understand it, this is a free service performed by the Board of Health in the interest of the health and sanitation of the people, nevertheless there must be Bome system and regulations for the conduct of the business, so as to attain the proper ends. Chemistry is used to-day very largely in commercial operations to determine the purity and the consequent valde of many articles of trade. We take it that this free service is not intended for commercial uses.

Persons are frequently desiring analyses and assays of minerals, ores, waters and the like so as to ascertain the degree of utility or value they may ave. It is much to be donbted if a free service ai the expense of the taxpayers is intended to subserve such uses. 'What does seem just and proper in the premises is that examinations and assays for commercial purposes might be made for fees, the money to go to the laboratory fund, but that analyses to determine the purity and wholespmeness of food products and preparations and examinations in judicial cases conducted by the State to ascertain the presence of poison used for criminal purposes should be made free. Care, too, should be taken to prevent parties not connected with the health department of the State and city from using these examinations for purposes of private revenge, by casting imputations of unwholesomeness upon the products and preparations of competitors in business. When complaint are made of the impurity of food offered or sold by any person in the city, the samples for analysis should be taken by sworn officers of the health department, under conditions which, while they shall insure the discovery and determination of the objectionable qualities, shall also present requisite security against deception and misrepresentation for malicious purposes.

The food products in the markets and in the stores, in the dairies and in the bakeries, should all be liable to examination, when thought desirable, and if the liquors sold in barrooms could be properly tested, and the selling of poisonous beverages be checked, a great step would be taken towards rectifying a colossal abuse. -V The laws provide penalties for selling some sorts of impure and unwholesome food and medical preparations. These laws "should now be actively put in operation, and the aid of this sanitary chemical service be made as efficient and useful as possible. In some of the States and cities of the Union public chemises have long been maintained, and it will not be out of place to suggest that correspondence be held with their authorities, and information concerning their; regulations in the premises obtained." We look for a large measure of public benefit to arise from this chemical service under direction of the health authorities. ENGLAND AND YENEZUELA.

i It is reported that a battle has taken place between the English and the Venezuelans on the frontier of British Guiana. There is an old-time dispute between the twq powers about the boundary line. A A When England' obtained possessions in Guiana from the Dutch by the treaty of London in 1814, the boundary line between Guiana and its western neighbor, now known as Venezuela, was the Essequibo Kiver. In 1841 the British planted, forts to the west of the river, which brought forth indignant protests from Venezuela. England answered that these forts did not mean a claim of dominion.

The claim, however, has been made, and Venezuela's offer to leave the question to arbitration was i' A A A r-Last year an English official posted formal announcements of British "domination in -the disputed territory and went so far as to arrest a Venezuelan officer and take him, to Guiana. The dispute grew fiercer until finally diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken off and at last they have come to blows." It is the old story of British greed imposing on the Such things could not be on this continent if some first-class power with a vigorous foreign policy, like Mexico or San Salvador, had proclaimed a Monroe doctrine, but so long as our own insufficient republio is the only cham- pion 01 the doctrine, the great powers of "Europe will do as they please in 1 It would 'not be surprising to hear at no distant date that England had taken possession of Venezuela and tne Colombian States, thus getting control over the Isthmus of Panama and the interoceanio canal route. Such an eventuality is by no means improbable. OUE WATERWAYS AS PROTECTION; AGAIN' ST HIGH, FREIGHTS. hen the craze for railroad building was at its height there was reason to believe that that- the competition among the railroads themselves wotald suffice to, keep freight charges exacted fromshippers at reasonable figures, the more particularly as the keen competition often resulted in an extensive paralleling of older roads by aspirants for- a share of their business.

Unfortunately, this system of active competition and paralleling of roads' has utterly failed, the profits not being sufficient to support all the roads competing. The result has been that the weaker roads have been gradually absorbed by the stronger, until it is now probable that before many years all serious competition will be eliminated. The- interstate commerce law promises permanent protection to competing markets and distributing against unjust discriminations in the matter of freight charges, whereby some points are given ah unfair advantage in the use of the common carriers of the country over others, but when the acute competition among the railroads disappears, as it will in time, there will be no protection against high freight charges except the competition the waterways of the country will offer to rail transportation. AA That the waterways are active and powerful competitors of the railways there can be no questipn, and as the volume of the domestic commerce increases, they promise to- become even more important as regulators of car- nage charges. The great 'lissisclrpi I dyer anl 1:3 tributaries aiToxd communication between nearly all the important points in the central portions of the country from the great lakes on the Norh to the Gulf on the South.

The navigation of the great lakes in connection with the canal systems also affords a most important water outlet for the cereals of the West to the Atlantic seaboard, and has always been a very important factor in regulating the freight charges on the same products by the rail routes with which the water route actively competes. A The sea routes along both coasts are also important factors in determining freight charges upon North and South traffio for the portions of. the country bordering upon the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, while the sea route in connection with the Mississippi River and tributaries forms an all-water transportation system from manufacturing points in the Cast to the more important sections in the interior of the country, whether in the South or West. Water transportation therefore promises to become in the future the all important regulator of freight the more especially as there is little danger of the (treat railroad syndicates securing an absolute monopoly of the water systems. Every effort should therefore be made to encourage and maintain the water lines of transportation, as well as to improve our navigable rivers.

THE NEWFOUNDLAND DISPUTE. FISHED No sooner had Great Britain arved at a decision likely to finally settle the Bearing Sea difficulty by arbitration and been' relieved from the embarrassment of the annexation scare in Canada by the recent Conservative victory in the Dominion than another and far more serious "com plication turned up. We refer to the Newfoundland fisheries dispute. A The trouble in question has grown out of the claim of Franoe to certain exclusive fishing 'privileges on what is known as the French Coast, which privileges appear to have been secured to France by former treaties. These French claims the people of Newfoundland stoutly contest and threaten to disregard even if the Home Government should attempt to use force to coerce them into submission.

it appears that the British. Government has ignored all "protests of the colony, and has arranged, a modus Vivendi with" France by which the French demands are acceded to for the time, being, and the groundwork laid for a permanent arrangement of the difficulty on a basis which is not likely to prove in any sense satisfactory to the Newfoundlanders. This turn of affairs has very naturally raised quite a storm in the colony, and vigorous protests have been sent to London' while threats have been indulged in which in other days would have been looked upon, as high treason to the British crown. The people of Newfoundland threaten that if the claims of the French fishermen are allowed, they will' rebel and call upon the United States for protection, by applying for admission into the Union. Although the power of resistance of the colony need not of itself cause much uneasiness in London nevertheless it is apparent that the complication has occasioned the Home Government much embarrassment, because of the serious complications which an attempt to coerce Newfound-" land would give rise to.

While it is probable that the United States would not consent to take the part of Newfoundland in an armed attempt against Great Britain, that power would be nevertheless confronted by the dangerous task of having to coerce one of its pwn colonies. This might not prove eo momentous a matter in the case of Newfoundland, but it would certainly establish a dangerous precedent, calculated to alarm the other and more powerful of the British colonies. Should the British colonics all over the world be given good grounds for fearing that their wishes with regard to their relations foreign powers were to be systematically-disregarded by the Home Government, the dismemberment of the great Empire would only be a question of a short time. It is this possibility which makes the Newfoundland complication so RECIPROCAL DEMA NDS FOR PROTEC-A a A- TION. I A- In the matter of the pending controversy between Italy and the United States over the New Orleans affair, it has been conclusively shown that Italy can make no claims, either: upon the State of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans, but must deal directly with the Federal Government.

It has been also clearly established that the United States has no power to compel the State of Louisiana to pay any money, or to punish any person for the acts com- plained of by Italy AThis latter propos proposition is one which is giving a great deal of trouble to the politicians and theorists who wish to annihilate the sovereignty of the States and to condemn them to coercion by the Federal Government whenever it shall be so minded. But that stretch of power, that degree of centralization, has not yet been attained by the Washington authorities, and for the present they are powerless to compel Louisiana to do anything. A AAA A' A A'v-- In tgds connection comes up a phase of the case vrhich has not been heretofore much discussed. It is the obligation which the Federal Government owes to the States to protect their citizens against the importation of foreign criminals and i paupers with their methods and practices which are so dangerous life and' property and so subversive of American ipstitutions. The United States has in-vited and guaranteed protection to foreign immigrants, but isvnot the Government under equal obligations to protect the people of several States against the infestation and overrunning of their country by dangerous classes of foreigners The United States assumes all the responsibility for the admission of immigrants and makes all the laws and regulations in the premises.

If escaped convicts and fugitives from ju8tioe.are landed on our shores, whose is the fault? If the refuse of Italian and Sicilian cities are brought into this State and city and guaranteed the protection of the laws, who is responsible for Louisiana cannot keep' them' out. Some months ago, when a ship load of nearly 10C0 Italian immigrants was landed on our wharves, there were present at the ship's side oEicials of the Louisiana State Board of Health, members of the Citizens' Committee of safety and city officials, all supposed to be there to prevent the landing of improper persons, but even if they objected to- any of the immigrants, a matter of which we have no information, it ccrtaia tlaS tlcy were unable to prevent the admission of a single immigrant, although several who were not on the ship's-passeneer lists and were not discovered by the customs officials were, as we have good reason to believe, able to enter this city and to take up their abode here. They had escaped the vigilance pf the authorities at both ends of the voyage, and doubtless had the most urgent reasons for wishing to travel unknown and unheralded- We have, of course, no desire and no reason to complain of any official neglect of duty here, in the case.Tsut mention the matter to show that the people of Louisiana are not responsible for the bandits and murderers which the laws and treaties of the National Government turn loose upon them. In this connection we quote from a recent expression in the Baltimore Sun If the question comes before Congress, as In one shape or another it is likely to 00 me. the amendment of the immigration and naturalization laws should be one of the tlrttt matter to receive attention.

New Orleans ha a better right to be protected from ths MMa0a" than the members ot that society have to be protected from any form Of jUatiCe. It is the United States law that has alone made it easy for cutthroats and assassins to Hock to our shores. How can the Federal laws, with any sort of right, demand of, Louisiana protection for the dangerous, prpf essional criminals which have been so turned loose in the State? An Inflated Individual. A singular case occurred in the Gouvernenr Hospital at New York a lew days aro. A worxman named Paul Schonebeln, a very thin man.

weighing only 120 pounds, had a fall, which broke several ribs. One of the rib penetrated bis lung, lettlnjr th air into the tissues and causing the swelling. He beoame inflated from head to heels to such an extent that his own family did not know hlin. The injuries proved fatal. The Fight for the Chicago Mayoralty.

Carter -arrlsori was not Mb Mayoralty right in Chicago- He said was not lo it, and nobody eould know better. Ho publicly declared that be could not and would not be nominated for the Mayoralty of Chicago; that be done with politics. But his righteous soul was vexed by the sad spectacle of his beloved city in the hands of a corrupt ring; the eity tor which be bad done so much, and for which he is so fond of telling how much he has done, and be has decided at last, reluctantly, to make another sacrifice and do some more for her, if she will let him. And so there are two rlrat-clasa Demoo ratio nominees is the field, both claiming to be "the Democratic nominee. and Vashburns and the Bepublieans think that they see their chance to scoop the lection tor themselves.

The Four Hundred Author. Ward McAllister, it appears, does not find authorship all plain satling. To the surprise ot myself and my friend, be says. am unable to find out from my publishers. Casaell A Co how "Society As Have Found It" is taklna? with the public and bow many cople have been or are likely to be sold.

They say it is the custom ot ths trade. My contract with them provides that I am to have IS cents on every copy of the book sold at the retail price up to the twentieth thousand and after that 30 cents a eopy, A statement of the number sold is to be made every six months, or In August and February of each year, and as the book was not published until last October must wait until next August for a statement and four months longer before I get any money. It seems that authors aire completely at the mercy ot publishers, and it does not strike me as business-like or fair, although customary. Fraternal Sympathy. It Is very pleasing tonotloe the general expression ot sympathy; and kindly offers ot help that were called out by the disaster that befell St.

Paul's congregation In the burning of their handsome church. Before thq ruins had ceased smoking nine of the-prominent religious societies of the city had offered their sympathy and tendered the use of tbolr buildings to the unfortunate congregation. Dr. Palmer's Presbyterian church, the Coliseum: Baptist church, the Felicity street Methodist church South, the eburoh of the Annunciation. Trinity church.

Trinity chapel and Christ church were all offered for tne use of St. Paul's congregation at any hours that did not conflict with the regular services held in them, while Tempi Sinai and the Ames Methodist Episcopal ohuroh were unconditionally offered for use at any time on Sunday or week day. The latter offer the congregation of Bt Paul's decided to accept, but with the stipulation, reluctantly, acceded to on the part of the Methodist congregation, that the former skould pay a rental for the use ot it. The offer of Temple Sinai is specially notable and marks a liberality on the part of the Jewish brethren much appreciated by the recipients and admirable in practice. as are all the other evidences of enlightened fraternal feeling, a Ingersoll and the Players.

"Vldette, writing from Sew 23. says: Colonel Bob Ingersoll spoke on Shakspeare at the Broadway Theatre last night In aid of the Press Club, and pre luded bis address as follows My heart tells me that on ths threshold ot what I have to say I should allude to that great actor who has Just fallen Into the sleep we call death. Lawrence Barrett was my friend, and aa Interpreter of Shakspeare, to whose creations he gave flesh and blood. He began at ths foundations ot his profession and rose until be stood next to bis friend, next to one who is regarded as ths greatest tragedian' of our time, next to dwin Booth. His life was a suooesa because he honored himself by adding glory to the stage.

He never sought for gain by pandering to the thoughtless, ignorant or base. He presented the drama in its highest and most serious form, shunning the questionable, the vulgar and impure, and giving the Intellectual, ths pathetic, the manly and the tragic. He did not stoop to conquer, be soared. He was fitted for the stage. He had a thought ful face, a vibrant voioe and to pose of chivalry.

Beside, he bad patience, industry, courage and the genius of success. He was a graceful and striking Bassanlo, a thoughtful Hamlet, an intense Othello, a marvelous Harebell, and the best Cassius of bis century. In the drama of life we are all actors and no one knows his part. No prompter's voioe la heard and none knows what the next scene is to be. Will the curtain rise on another stage! Reason says "Perhaps." H6pe whispers "yes." I bid farewell to my friend.

I admired the actor and loved the man. Colonel Ingersoll eschews Bacon abruptly as the author of Bhakspeare's play. No great play ha been written, he say, since Bhakspeare's time. The author of Macbeth" was clean and wholesome to the core. He never inade a married woman's lover Jealous of her husband.

He was not like the co-called realists ot the present day. who hide a lack ot genius behind a pretended love of truth. Bacon never laid' claim to any of Sliaka-pe are's dramas. Even if play writing was disreputable, the corrupt judge whose ermine wa torn from him might have endured the disgrace of the authorship of "Hamlet." Judgiug from his ackuowl-edged poetry it likely that he would have left the marvelous children of his brain at Bhakspeare's door and kept his deformed offspring at home 1 "When two men ride a horse one must ride behind," and this, by the way, is a chunk of practical wisdom which two politicians in New York Btata would do well to ponder over. La lies tae Angostura when tA-7 -el low Sfiri'i'd.

It tr r. vnn 1 u. 1 r.ii. Major Charles R. Benton Dead.

Major Charles It. Benton passed away yesterday after a painful illness ot three months. Death came as a relief to the old soldier, and that thought consoled the tender watchers around his bedside' Major Benton was born in New York city in 1833, and was a son of Dr. Benton, the famous New York physician or that day. The youth was well educated and expressing a desire to adopt the naval profession, was sent to the Annapolis Aeouemy, where he graduated.

Major Benton and Admiral Walker were messmates on board the United States ship Portsmouth. Captain Thomas A. Dornln, and remained firm friends through life. JVhen the White Squadron was here Major Benton arose from hi sick bed to visit Ms former fellow-sailor, and the trip was the last he ever made. A' Before the war Major Benton had cast his lot with Louisiana and followed her standard into the Confederacy.

He left here as first lieutenant In ths First Louisiana Regiment, Regular Infantry, and served with distinction. His valor and military skill marked him for promotion, and he was made major of artillery, acting on the staff of General John B. Magruder. The latter placed him In command of the artillery and defenses of Galveston, where be served with credit until the surrender to General Gordon Granger, in 1865. A After the war he settled down in New Orleans, married Miss Beynolds, a daughter of Mr.

H. W. Reynolds, a prominent citizen, and leaves her a widow with five children. Major Beaton occupied several commercial positions, but was ot too generous a nature to acouniulate wealth. He Was a man of broad culture and simple heart, gentle and brave, magnetic in the, quality of attracting friends, and gave the same loyal, whole-souled devotion in return.

He was a member of the Army of Tennessee and the Masonic fraternity and both bodies will assiss in -the sad ceremony of consigning the remains to the all-encompassing mother A A War Bounties for Michigan Vets. A Lansing, March 26. A good many Michigan soldiers received war bounties from the state. A good many others did not. fceveral legislatures have talked in a desultory way about equalizing the thing sua naying an tne veterans morally entitled to bounties.

It remained for the present legislature, however, to set about the matter in earliest. A communication wa recently sent to Attorney General Kllis asking that if. in his opiLiun. the state could issue more bonds tor the purpose of paying bounties. The attorney general replies that the state can still issue bonds to the amount of that amount of the total fesue of bonds authorized in war times having never been issued, aud in addition the state can devote to the payment of bounties the 5oo.uuo which it will soon derive iro the Seueral goverument as its share of the lreot tax levied during the war and now about to be refunded.

This course will probably be adouted and over a million dol lars be distributed amoug the veterans wbov voiuniecreu eariy in tue war ana received nothiug from the state, while those enlisting in 1604 were paid- liberal bounties. Tin Plate. Works About to be nau-: guratod. AA St. Lours, March 28.

The St Louis Stamping Company, of which fex-Congress-xuau Neidringuau. of this eity, is president, has inaugurated actual wrs ot erecting the first tin plate works in this country, near the present rolling mills of the stamping company, at North Main and Angeirodt streets. The main building is to be 100 by 160 feet in dimension, and- there will also be a number of outbuildings. The stamping company is turning out tin plate now in a small way, hut it is expected that when the new works are completed it will put on the market between too and 600 box per day, and the capacity will be increased a the demand requires. The iron now used by this 00 tup any in the manufacture of tin plate comes from Chattanooga, but it is proposed to establish a mammoth steel mill and iron foundry just north ot the new town of Madison, founded by the Meroliauts' Bridge Compauy.

I Will of the Late Secretary "Wlndom. -Ntw Yokk, March 36. Testimony to prove the will ot the late Secretary Windoia was taken to-day by Geo. W. Adding to as commissioner.

The after providing for funeral expenses aud other incidentals, gives to his wife, Uen x. Wiudoin, "to whose love I am indebted for the happiness that has blessed my life, and to whose prudence and wise counsel 1 owe much of the measure of prosperity I have eujoyed," the family residence and household lurniture. In lieu of dower, one-third of all property left after paying debts of the deceased is conveyed to Mrs. Wiudoui. wuo lit named as sole executrix.

The balance of the estate is bequeathed to the children Wm. llen li. and Florence B. Wlndoni subject to three years sole control of their mother. Session of the Kxecutivo Committee of the National Editorial Association.

St. Louis, March 26. The executive committee ot the National iiklltorial Association is in session at the ooutbern Hotel here to-day. The secretary reported that the railroad companies had all agreed to furnish members of the association transportation to and fromAhe national convention at bt Paul, next July 14 to 18 inclusive, aud take their pay In advertising. Special trains will be run from Chicago and St.

Louis. The Hotel Ryan has beeu engaged as headquarters of the exeoutive committee. The meeting will be for four days. After the convention adjourns the members will be given three excursions, one to Lux-luth and a trip on the lakes, one to Xacoiua and Seattle and the third to bun Francisoo. A Farmer's Alliance Treasurer Duped.

ST. Louis, March 26. A special to the Republic from Fayettevllle, AiJc, state that Caotaln W. D. Dowell, a well-to-do farmer aud state treasurer of the 1 arniers' Alliance of Arkansas, was buncoed out of tsuto this morning by three sharpers.

It was the same old gag. Captain Uowell loaned one of the men the money witU which to cover a wager on a game Ot 'cards made by an apparont stranger. The stranger didn't finish the game, but put the money in a valise, drew a pistol as though he was going to shoot and departed. Two ot tne men were captured and gave their names aa Dr. Howard and Judge Baker, of fcpriugheld, ftlo.

Texas Cattle Men Excited. St. Louis. March 35. Dispatches itom the northern border of Texas say that no small amount of excitement among cattle men has been caused by the announcement that Government Agent Miles ms aent marshal to the Osage nation in the Indian territory to notify stock men that they will not allow cattle to go into that reservation.

The cattle men have leased large tracts ot grazing lauds in the Osage country at a heavy expense, and for the last two weeics a small estimate places the number of cattle shipped there at bead. No one seems to M-uow why the government has taken this action, and the cattle men are at a loss as to what disposition to make of their large hero, purchased with a view of grazing on these lands until fall. Tbo Grip In Chicago. Chicago, March 26. Because of the grip, which prevails to an alarming exteut here, the death rate is increasing, aud the undertakers and coffin manufacturers have all they can do to keep up with the rush of business.

The department of health Was Lno tilled ot tso4 deaths within the city limits last week, 'mat is aoout 100 more tnan uur-ing any one week of tue grip epidemic a year ago. But this week's mortality will disclose a worse condition ot the pubiio health if the second half correspond with the first half of the week's death roll. A Paradise for Tramps. Long Island, March 26. During the past ten months uoou tramps have louud a harbor ot refuge in the town hall here.

The grand jury hnd that the county allows SO cents a night lor lodging mill feeding each tramp and that this has beeu made a big source of proiit, trumps remaining for weeks at a time. Out of tne ccuw, it 1 alleged, the janitor received 15 ceut for bread aud oollee, the Verseer of the poor cents uud the town 10 cents. It is said that the Janitor made li cents dear on each tramp. Funeral of Actor John A. Ilackay.

New York, March 23. The funeral of Jonu A. Mackay, tue actor, took place this afternoon lroiu feu Agues Kotuau CatUoiie Ch.ircu, in Brooklyn, aud was largely at-tcuded by members tue profession. The pallbearers were from the Turnover Ciub, tlie Actors' Fund, tue Aiokicij.u and Five A's Clubs. 'i'De interment was in the cemetery of the Holy Cross Flatbusu.

A Peculiar Case of Crip. Lima, Ohio, 23. tae eeveral hundred caes of la grippe iiere that of iuins Curint iDa is peculiar, the was tnKefi wi.ii tjo ciese f.i'.'Diijy, and in tun YP hi a ju'iit Lt of t- 1 l.ii 1 1 fc. ''O i i PEHS0XAL AXD GEXEHAL XOTES. Sarah Bernhardt is to piny "Fedora, at Palmer's Theatre, March30 for the beneflt of the New York Pasteur Institute.

Baron Von Rothschild has purchased ths villa used by Gambetta's father in Nice. It Is said that the baron intends to put lt up aa an asylum for the poor. ponder Pratt, minister to Persia, now displaced, is a bachelor of 35. He is tall and slim, with regular features and a Vandyke beard. His salary was S3500, but bis opportunities great.

A Mr. Cvrter. the Hawaiian minister to the United States, and bis wife make their approaching journey to the Sandwich islands by way of Seattle, where they have a son established in business, with two sisters to keep house for him. Prof. Charles A.

Young thinks the most wonderful fact in astronomy is that "the great Lick telosoe reveals about stars, and that ccry one ot them is a sun. theoretically and by analogy giving light and heat to his planets. The czarowltz of Russia, who is making a tour of the world, is expected to reach San Francisco In about a week. Russia's treatment ot the Jews leads that class of people In California to regard with indignation any scheme or official honors to Xtu grand duke upon his arrival. A religious revival is in progress in Algiers at the Methodist Episcopal church (South), with Rev.

J. G. 81bley, of Summit, conducting the services. There will be preaching every night until Tuesday, the 3lst inst, at 7:30 o'clock, The pubiio is invited to attend the meetings. Waterloo veterans seem to be more numerous outside of the British kingdom than in it.

France boasts a dozen, Germany twice as many more and Belgium two. One of the Belgians is Chevalier George d'Epi-nois, who now. at the age of 07, is burgomaster of the villago of Epinois les Einche. M. Diebler, the French executioner, bad his son with him giving him an object lesson, as it ven-tt the execution of Eyrand.

This repulsive office remained In one family, the Sansons, for seven generations, and perhaps Diebler would like to found a dynasty in hi house- He is said to hare made a fortune of 600,000 francs by his virtuosity on the guillotine. -a A'! A'. Montgomery Advertiser, March 25: Dr. J. Batchclor, of New Orleans, who has.

been spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. 8. II. Hutchings. left for Washington last night, to be with General Albert Pike in his last hours.

It is feared that the veteran lawyer, solder, poet and Mason will pass away before his friend can reaoh bltn. A The St Paul's church servloes for Good Friday and Easter day will be held In Ames' Charles and Calliope streets, as follows: Good Friday 1 a. morning prayer and sermon; 8 p. evening prayer. Easter day 7:30 a.

holy communion; .9:30 a. m. Sunday eohool 11 a. morning prayer, sermon and holy communion; 7 p. Sunday school celebration.

A full attendance is desired. -r After' fighting, near Bull Run one day in 1865 General Dl Cesnola had an evening meal ot macaroni in his tent, and invited Generals Stahl. Franz Sigel and Carl Schurs to share It with bim. At the conclusion of the repast be said he would give them all a genuine Italian dinner when they met in New York again. The quartet recently met for the first time since then, and the dinner is to be given.

Dr. J. Holland, who has been elected chancellor of the Western Pennsylvania University, has been pastor of the Bellefleld Presbyterian church of Pltt9burg for seventeen years. He has been abroad as a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian conferenoe in Edinburgh and to the Evangelical Alliance in Basle. Biological researches is his special hobby, and his collection of the lepl-doptera ot North America is one of the most perfect in existence.

By direction of the acting secretary of war Brigadier General Greely, chief signal officer, will proceed to the following-named points for the purpose of Inspecting the signal service stations thereat, and on the completion of that duty will return from the point last named to his station in Washington Louisville, Si. Louis. Galveston, Ban Antonio and El Paso, Santa Fe, N. Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, CaL; Tatoosh island. Portland, Oregon; Fort Bismarck, via Jamestown, N.

St. Paul, and Milwaukee, Wis. -A "If housekeepers would take a hint from hotels," says a hotel man. "they would have less trouble. with servants.

Hotel men have no trouble in getting all the help they want, though they offer only moderate wages." The difference Is sot so much in the work as in the In a private house a girl's labors are from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, and more too. And if she happens to get through her work and ventures to sit down her mistress is apt to object. In a hotel a girl has certain well-defined duties to perform, and after they are performed, as a rule. her. time, is her own.

If some such arrangement could be recognised in private houses the servant problem would be much simplified." In the Picayune's report of the ceremonies of laying the corner-stone for the new Masonic Temple on Wednesday, it was noted that when the rain threatened to interrupt the proceedings that Mrs. David BidwelL proprietor of the Academy of Music, kindly extended an Invitation to the Masons to accept the use of her theatre. They availed themselves of this offer, and the oration was spoken in the Academy of Music, opposite the Masonic lot. Concerning this prompt and courteous act on the part of Mrs. Bldwell, "A Vis ting Member" writes to the Picaynne to say: "The late David Bldwell was a Mason of the highest standing, and the tendering of the Academy of Muslo to the Masons, free of charge, by his widow, Mrs.

David Idwel, was an act of courtesy that the Masons of this city and state will not soon forget, and merits for. her the shelf -rr t-- tia most noble order." Atlanta Constitution A school teacher in Floyd county had a novel experience with one of his pupils recently. Here is his story "I tried, notloagago, to Impress upou my pupils the necessity of acquiring knowledge. must make yourself familiar with books. I said; in fact, you must swallow Of course, I spoke figuratively; but that night the father ot one of my pupils called to see me in great he.

gasped, 'have done swallowed a book an' I'm feared he gwine choke to death 1 Yo better come 'n fish it out o' him! went in -a hurry. Tom, a poor fellow too Ignorant to be anything but a literal soul, had chewed up and swallowed part of a Webster's primary dictionary. I sent for a doctor, aud lt required two hours of his most skillful work to save Tom's life Since then I have been very careful not to speak figuratively when.advlsingmy pupils to acquire Captain James F. Pender grast has died of paralysis at the age of 71, at his residence in Elizabeth, N. J.

Captain Pcndergast was-bom at Hayre-d -Grace, and after graduating from the Georgetown University be engaged in the shjpping business in Baltimore with his father, Captain Charles Fcndergaec, of the navy. Upon the death of his father he weut to New York, where in lsso be formed the shipping form of Pendergast Brothers fc Co. At that time lie wr.s reckoned among the largest shipowners. Among the clippers he built for the Rio trade were the J. L.

Pendergast, P. C. Warwick, Leila aud N. B. Palmer.

He had also a line ot steamers running between Baltimore and among them the Cumberland, John Gibson and fctar of the Ha wis a member of the Chamber of Commerce and an intimate friend of Governor Morgan. Ilis first wife, Adelaide Lynch, of Syracuse, N. died in S59, The second, a.Idlds ViIsoa of Baltimore, survives with nine i' Urea. He will be taken to the Lonnw i-rao cemetery, in Baltimore liiirldL CmIA's Hotel arrivali: lA.ry J. I'ox, Lrry lioast C'ia A 3 A 5, Cl! T.

J. i 1 daughter, Louisiana; L. Miller, Alabama: Robert F. Miss Jennie Cook. -Daisy Cloud, Mississippi; A consin; L.

g. Perkins, Nelson, wire and child, ChI--7 Hotel VonCerbank arrivals -Chicago, A. A. Robert. A A.

Carothers, Louisville, Ky A Birmingham, J. E7 F. Morgan. Roanoke Cowan. Chicago, HL; A.

Venule M- Levy, Houston, B. Davis Carl Bawo, Paul A. Straub, Alex. Moody and wife, Chicago, V' Mayer, Canton. Mis c.

iLr A. Teutsch, Bayou Sara, La Kroeger, Cincinnati, Ohio; G. Covely, New York; 8. JdL' ville. J.

E. Hewitt, Mansiiel mund Barry, M. Washir Frank B.Rae, Detroit, A ler, Baltimore. J. W.

Eenne gan; E. M. Russell. St. Louis, j-.

Rathols, Liinon, Costa Rica; r. j' son, London, England; T. H.f A wife, Llmon. Costa Rica. Arrivals at the Battle House, James G.

Green, Mississippi c. L. bell, W. Gridley, E. M.

Wriabt D. W. Clark and wire. New To Lewi and wife, Chicago; H. heimer, Atlanta G.

Burnh apolla F. Vance, F. W. Vance, as. O.

Hoyte and wife. Miss York; 8. D. Hicks and wife. Eo-S.

Turner, Nashville; L. b. Eau and wife, Mrs. E. W.

Baumpsr Miller, Toledo. Ohio J. 8. Haie' A L. A.

Bell. Selma; 8. N. Jenkins, G. 8.

Jacdson. L. F. Holt, LltcA Smith, E. Farnsworth, AlaAuia Whitney.

Illinois; Lee Liberman. P. H- Haughton, New York; Hi; -1 Bt. Louis. A Sensational Testimony of a Kansas Citt.

March a to tho titar froin Topeka. Kan t-W. Henthorn, a newspaper rr a senaation before the CoiA mite explosion investigation this morning. He testifled tarn -of the explosion he- was city Winueld Telegram, and in a -with the editor and owner of was decided that the Repu' should be charged with tuo i explos'on. He wrote cago Times, the St.

Louis Ko; Kansas City Times the cii appeared in these papers in jo charging the Republican part plosion. He said that Ue iiai lion whatever on which to aud that nis dispatches were r. dation. The dispatches were co: union labor and throughout the 6tate and Tho Wrecked StrathiiirV-, Noefolk, Va, March 2C A Elizabeth, N. says: Lieuteru'u-pf the lifo saving service, wreck of the British steamer reports the following second officer; George giuipt-en.

i Albert oeauiau, aud bell, fireman. The reason a.Mn. survivors for the wreck was the i. take observations. The men i-thoroughly exhausted from ex-are unable to travel and are in dition.

Dr. Howard Crosby Sin" New York, March 27. Atl morning Dr. Howard Crosby critical condition. Xl.fclD.

CONOTCIt AtrKatcher, i 1891, In the 64th year of lus CONNliK, a native of Artaius i for the past forty -n ve years a t. ana. COYLE At her lnts rr. nty-thirrt street. New Yo 2Iaroh leal, ilrs.

tu year. BPEJTCEH In this city, rt 8 Thmsilay, March 2i. DU5.N', widow of years, a native of county 1 pii The friends and acqtiaintacr. a are respectfully invited to which Will take place at 4 o'clm Afternoon, from her late i First, between Liberty and New York papers pleato r- CTJLLEN ThttrK.iv, p. JflCiiAi i- years, a native of ny.

Ireland, and a resiueiit pastforty years. The friends and acqnaict and Gritlin families are rer-: t. l. attend the funeral, i t. (Friday) Evening at 4 late resilience ot the dectas: between Montegutanil BIAKCA NT) Tliurs-li! v.

12:30 o'cloi p. umi t. CAIhD, a naur of i ce. Friends andacquiiinUiices cand, GL A. Blancand, i 1 lies are "respecti oily invitwi to i aU which will take place I at 3:30 o'clock precisely from I corner Danphine and EffWLET Oil 1 at 8:50 o'clock iirs.

i. LEY, relict of the late t. ley, native Natchez, i. 3 mouths. The friends and i Sorht, Peres and Earuett ber of Syracnse Lodge No.

Co. 1C. i spectfully lnvitod to sTtcnrt will take place Friday ITorni: o'clock, from her lute los ii. street, between Annuuci.itii;i Natchez, Miss- Chicago, Tex, and Cincinnati papers 5 9C WITG-E?" On WeaiTA'--. LKXA ii late Lhiart Witgen, aged cj JLmen.

rrusaia. The friends and acqnuintanrr 3 and those of the Geo. St) mann families are tend the funeral, which 1 1 March 27, at 11:30 o'clock a. 11, I. residence, No.

87 Gasquet slret POTE-Inthi ciy. on T1-" -1891, at p. iilovr 1 1 SOYE, nee Marie TJr.su'o 1 paty, 81 years and ruo: i. eoa, isis ot Cuba. Her friend and relatives are i tend her funeral Friday at 4 oV i 1 No.

25 North Earn part trecL jjS.BT7BEE On Thnrs la-', it a. Hi Uc r.111 juax. of Widow JJarta a-i months, a native of tuis city. The friends and 3 tf and also the officers and meuihci of va Benevolent Association, are vited to atteud the funeral, tvhich place on Friday Evening, Siarch -T. o'clock, from his mother's rrai 110 Louisiana avenue, between C-.

Laurel street. Birmingham, and Francs 1 co- -HALLMINEBVA BENEVOi-- CIATION, New Orleans, March -7, I officers and Burial Committee Uon are hereby notified to assen.tle at in full uniform, this day at 3 30 p. m. the pun'ose of paying the last sai spect to our deceased brother iu LABUP.RE. The funeral will 1 Ms late reeirtenoe, 110 IouiHian- Laurel street, at 4:30 p.

m. By CHAS. C. PIl'E 1 JAS. H.BEGG3, BecordiDg -1-.

BENTON At 8:15 o'clock ft. 181. Major CHAELEM K. h't i years, native of Sew York and city for past thirty year. Funeral will take place from 1-s dence.

No. 193 Harmony street, tL.s at 3 o'clock. Friends of the f.imJ;-. II. V.

Reynolds, members of tae ternity, Benevolent Association Ar: nessee and Confederate Vetenms -attend. AK.MY OF members of this association, are requested to attend the fuaor.de-' CUAS. E. EEXTOX Firnt (Infantry) aud Captain of from his late residence, No. 10S This (Friday) Afternoon at 3 o'cioc -JOS.

D. TAl'LO--- NICHOLAS CUNY. BecoriLiiJ i Aftarth Picayune Counting -c Funeral Notices will be receive 1 1 rooms, second floor, or in ths Tr: partment, fourth floor, till -o'clock every T. i -irtos r.i-y-ji 1 f' j.t.. r.

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