Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — Page 2

Slje JemocraticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happenings of a Week, as Reported by Telegraph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc. jTHE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ♦talk of an extra session. Carlisle WaiitH One So. the Democrats Can Pass a Tariff Reform Bill. A Washington special to the Chicago Herald (Dem.) says: Speaker Carlisle is expected here soon, and it is believed his coming will be followed by the arrival of a number of prominent Democrats, who will confer with the President regarding the necessity of calling an extra session of Congress. Mr. Carlisle, it is said, favors an extra session, and will urge the President to call Congress together in October. ‘•Mr. Carlisle," said a friend of the Kentucky statesman, “is anxious to have the Democratic party pass a reform tariff bill before the next campaign. He thinks that if Congress does not meet before December the Republicans and other opponents of tariff reform may be able to delay matters by obstruction and prevent any legislation. Mr. Carlisle also believes that the rapidly increasing surplus in the Treasury is exceedingly dangerous, and may throw this country into a financial panic any day. lam informed that the President has intimated that he would call an extra session if the leaders of the opposing factions in the Democratic ranks •would meet and agree to pass some kind of a tariff bill before adjournment. I look for a compromise of some kind between the Randall and Carlisle men." JUDGE LYNCH'S COURT. Peter Betters Hanged in Ohio—“ Dago Joe” Taken from Officers in Mississippi and Suspended from a Tree. A Xenia (Ohio) telegram says that Peter Betters, colored, 35 years of age, formerly employed in Stinson Bros.’ livery stable, in Jamestown, was hanged by a mob. He was arrested on Sunday by Marshal Ballard, and placed in jail During the day the people of the village became very much excited. Sunday .night a mob invaded the town, attacked the city prison, broke in a window, and with a crowbar ‘pried open the cell in which Betters was confined. He was marched up the street about {half a mile to the Fair Grounds, where he was ■hanged to a tree which had been broken off isome feet from the ground in a recent storm, the top resting on the ground and forming an admirable gallows. It is supposed that the colored people did the hanging. The crime for which the scoundrel was strangled was a brutal assault upon Mrs. Martha Thomas, an aged colored woman. A desperado known as “Dago Joe” was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob near Austin, Mississippi. DROWNED. Four Victims Near Kalamazoo, Mich. A Kalamazoo (Mich.) special says: Four persons have been drowned in this section since Saturday morning—Samuel Wells, a boy, in Fenno’s Lake, Allegan County, while fishing; Frank Lee, aged 12, while bathing near Decatur; Willie Kellog, aged 16, while bathing in Horsey’s Lake, near Lawton; and Frank Morris, aged 45, in Pine Lake, near Plainwell. Morris was out boating with William Hubbard and fell overboard into three feet of water. Three bottles that had contained whisky led to the supposition that the men were drunk and unable to help each other or themselves. FIVE MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS. Terrible Result of an Accidental Dynamite Explosion in Tennessee. At South Pittsburg, a mining hamlet four miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., a horrible accident occurred Monday afternoon. While a chamber in the mine was crowded with workmen a box of dynamite in some mysterious manner was exploded, and five men were blown to atoms, while ten or twelve others were terribly injured. The Iron Workers. There is little prospect of an agreement between the iron manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association on the wage question at their approaching conference. The latter •will demand an increase in the pay of all skilled workmen averaging 11 per cent, while the employers, it is said, will refuse any advance upon last year’s scale. In the event of their failure to agree, the iron and steel workers throughout the country will go on strike. Russia in Asia. Str James Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, stated in the English House of Commons that the Russian railway toward Afghanistan was completed to within 125 miles of the frontier. He added that the rumor that the railway was completed to Sarrakhs, seventy-five miles from the frontier, was not confirmed. Big Failures in the Coffee Trade. The speculative boom in coffee culminated in a panic on the New York Coffee Exchange, on Monday, which carried down B. G. Arnold & Co. and Mackay & Small, two of the leading houses in the trade. The liabilities of the former are estimated at over $1,000,000, and of Mackay & Small at from $150,000 to $300,000. Many other failures are expected to follow. Telegraphic Sparks. An unprecedented wheat crop is predicted in Manitoba and the Northwest Territory. Stephen Poole (colored) shot his wife fatally at their home in Brooklyn, and then committed suicide. An assignment was made at New Orleans by Albert Cammack, of the firm of Renshaw, Cantmack & Co. He owes $67,000, and has but $562 in assets. James Buffum, a co-worker with Garrison and Phillips in the anti-slavery movement half a century ago, died at his home in Lynn, Nass., at the agetef 80,

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Adolph Reich, who murdered his wife, was sentenced by Recorder Smyth, of New York, to be hanged Friday, July 29. A motion for a new trial was denied. At Troy, N. Y, Michael Kennedy has brought suit against Michael Casey, John Clifford, and others, charging them with conspiracy because they would not work with him. AU are carpenters, but Kennedy is a Knight of Labor, while the others are members of the Carpenters’ Union, which does not affiliate with the Knights. Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. J. Astor, and D. Willis James, the banker, have each subscribed $100,003 to the fund for the erection of a great Episcopal cathedral in New York. Rev. E. Walpole Warren, of London, has accepted the call to the Holy Trinity Church, New York City, better known as Dr. Stephen Tyng’s church. Mr. Warren is a son of Samuel Warren, author of “Ten Thousand a Year. ” He is a “low church” man. The Grant Monument Association, of which ex-Gov. Cornell is Chairman, has issued a circular inviting designs for a monument or memorial building to be erected at the tomb in Riverside Park. A jury composed of eminent architects and artists wiU select the best design submitted. Serious rioting occurred at Oakridge Park, near Jersey City, on Sunday afternoon. An anarchist picnic, for the benefit of the Chicago anarchists, at which Herr Most was presetot, was being held in the part Several persons were hurt

THE WESTERN STATES.

By the “lottery” plan, Dr. O. P. Wolcott, an aged and well-known citizen of Milwaukee, was swindled out of $6,575 by confidence sharpers, who made their escape. « Wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes of Michigan are making rapid growth, the late rains having been very beneficial. Mrs. Alrert Brooks, of Tuscola County, Mich., went to Denver last fall to take possession of a legacy valued at SBO,OOO and mysteriously disappeared. Officers have been hunting for her since, but without result Last week her husband received, a letter from her saying that she had been kidnaped and was still held prisoner by a gang of men who bad already secured $20,000 of her money and want the balance. A Tucson (Arizona) dispatch says: “The hostile Apaches are supposed to be in the east end of the Santa Catalina Mountains, as their signal smoke has been distinctly seen. Troops of cavalry are operating in that locality. Over one hundred fighting bucks are out, all well armed. Of San Carlo and Pinal Apaches tribes nearly all are old scouts. Eskimidzines, Chief of the Avarapia Apaches, said Thursday there would be a big Indian war. He said more than four hundred warriors would soon be in the field, all with good guns and plenty of ammunition. Nearly all of Eskiminzine’s young bucks have joined the hostiles. It is said the leader of the Apaches is a graduate of Hampton Indian school, who came back two years ago. People are in a great state of alarm, as they know the fighting qualities of the Indians now. out All of the mountains have been fired. The Indians say this was done to stop troops from using the heliograph signal-flash. Troops are active in the field, and official dispatches are flying thick and fast” An Evansville (Ind.) special says that the village of St Joseph, about nine miles north of that city, was excited Sunday morning by what was at first supposed to be an earthquake. A short, whip-liko sound was heard, accompanied by a slight tremor of the earth. An aerolite of enormous dimensions had fallen in the vicinity. It was soon located in a small piece of woods, where it was found, having imbedded itself in the earth to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet In descending it had crushed an immense tree, and had made a hole in the earth of about thirty feet in circumference. A vast amount of earth had caved in upon it, rendering it impossible to reach without great labor. Several fragments of stone were picked up about the place having a strong smell of sulphur. It is estimated that the stone weighs very nearly two lons.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A tank of gasoline exploded at Chattanooga, Tenn., and spread •with great rapidity to the grocery store of J. Moering and the Morgan House, a three-story frame building. The occupants barely escaped with their lives. Henry Iler and Peake, firemen, were buried in a mass of debris by a falling wall. Iler was killed and Peake so badly burned and bruised that he will die. Humphrey Reeves, manager of the Standard Gas Machine and Economizer Company, was blown out of the building, across the street, with his clothes ablaz He threw himself into the gutter and extinguished the fire, but not until he was horribly burned. James Reynolds and W. D. Miller, of Washington, D. C., two white men. and a negro named Peter Jones were also terribly burned. Several firemen were slightly injured and some overcome by heat The financial loss is about $9,000, partly insured. The celebration of tho Confederate Memorial Association was held at Staunton, Va., Thursday. Governor Lee introduced the Federal General, W. W. Averill, of New York, and the latter made an eloquent address. “Of all the triumphs” he had ever witnessed “this victory of'peace to-day is the proulest and most satisfactory.” At A A. Delong’s place, near Lexington, Ky., a fine Shetland pony deliberately hung itself with a rope swing in the yarl

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A Washington dispatch says that the United States Treasurer has prepared a statement in regard to the circulating medium which shows that the total circulation—coin and currency— May 21, 1887, was $1,297,256,563, being a net increase of $58,566,545 as compared with the circulation May 31, 1886. The increase by items was as follows: Gold coin, $16,879,944; standard silver dollars, $2,463,364; subsidiary silver, $2,346,842; gold certificates, $10,843,952; silver certificates, $49,956,199; United

States notes, $4,521,722; total, $87,009,043. This amount wm reduced to $58,566,545 by a decrease of $28,442,498 in the circulation of national bank notes. The principal portion of the increase, nearly $34,000,000, was in paper currency and coin of denominations of S2O and under. For the purpose of carrying out the act of Congress making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia, the following regulations have been issued by the War Department: The Adjutant General of the army shall annually, on or before July lof each year, report to the War Department the number of regularly enlisted, organized, and uniformed active militia in each State and Territory, and this report will be tne basis of the action to be taken for the ensuing year. Requisitions for any or all of the public property provided for in this act will be made by the Governor of the several States and Territories on the War Department. The 5400,000 appropriated in the act will be distributed as follows:

Alabama.s9,2l6' Arkansas6,4sll California 7,373 C010rad02,764 Connecticuts,s29l Delaware 2,764 Florida3,6B6 Georgiall,os9 111in0i520,276 Indianal3,B24, 10wa11,9811 Kansas 8,294' Kentuckyll,9Bl Louisiana 7.373 Maine 5,529 Maryland 7,373 Massachusetts... .12,903 Michiganll,9Bl Minnesota 6,451 Mississippi 8,2.44 Missouril4,746 Nebraska 468 Nevada 2,764! New Hampshire.. 3,686 i

During the last fiscal year the customs collections upon imports from Canada aggregated $8,214,438.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Harrisburg Aug. 17. The Republican State Central Committee of lowa, at a meeting in Des Moines on T uesday decided to hold the Republican State Convention, in that city, Aug. 25. The ticket to be nominated will consist of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Superintendent of Instruction, and one Justice of the Supreme Court. Prohibition leaders from New York and adjoining States were in conference in New York City on Tuesday. Dr .J. P. Fitzgerald presided at the opening session, and addresses were made by the Hon. J. B. Finch and others on the Sunday law. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the murder of Editor GambriU, of Mississippi Among those present were exGov. John P. St John, of Kansas; the Hon. C. S. Wolfe, of Pennsylvania; Coh Davis, of Kentucky; J. H. Hector, of Washington: and J. Lou Beauchamp, of Ohio. The constitutional prohibitory amendment was defeated Wednesday, in the lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature, by a vote of 13d to 74, not the necessary two-thirds for the measure. A joint legislative convention was held at Concord, N. H., for the choice of State officers, the following being elected: Secretary of State, A. B. Thompson, of Concord; State Treasurer, Solon A. Carter, of Concord; State Printer, John B. Clark, of Manchester; Commissary General, A. 8. Twitchel', of Gorham. Tennesse will vote on a prohibition amendment to the State constitution in September. The campaign has already opened, and promises to be closely contested.

THE RAILROADS.

A controlling interest of the common stock of the Dayton and Michgan Railway has been sold by tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton directory to David Sinton and Thomas J. Emery for $1,000,000. According to Land Commissioner Sparks, the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad received under former administrations of the Land Office patents for 209,000 acres more than it was entitled to under its land grants. A suit for restitution is pending. The Pacific Railroad Commission, says a Washington special, has received from the Commissioner of the General Land Office a report showing, in tabular form, the amounts of land granted to, selected by, and patented to the several Pacific railroads. This statement shows that the Central Pacific Railroad had a grant of nearly 8,090,000 acres, of which it has received patents for 1,040,210 acres, and has yet to select 6,413,712 acres; the Union Pacific was granted 11,309,844 acres, and has yet to select 3,147,682; the Kansas Pacific had an original grant of 6,009,000 acres, of which but 1,788,255 acres has been selected. The remaining roads—the Central Branch of the Union Pacific and Western Pacific, and the Sioux City Pacific—have made selections amounting to upward of 715,000 acres, for nearly all of which patents have been received.

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

Boot and shoe workers from all parts of the country have been in seesion at Brooklyn trying to perfect an organizat.oa strong enough to enable them to control their own affairs independent of the Knights of Labor. The Amalgamated Assoc ation of Iron and Steel Workers met in convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., Tuesday. There were 180 delegates present. The International Typographical Union has been in session at Buffalo. William Aimison, of Nashville, wai re-elected President Twelve hundred carpenters at Toronto struck for higher wages on Monday. Both union and non-union men are among the strikers.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A Berlin dispatch says: “An explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coal pit at Gelsenkirchen, in Westphalia. Ihe bodies of forlyone persons killed by the explosion have been recovered, and twelve more are»believed to be dead. Reports from the flooded districts in Hungary show that despair and distress is everywhere prevalent, and the homes of those who have fled to escape the floods have been pillaged by night marauders, and the people intent on saving their lives and stopping the overflow of the waters are powerless to prevent the removal of their property. The towns Of Mako and Vasarhly are in imminent danger of being inundated. The dykes are

(New Jerseysß,294 New Y0rk33,179 North Carolina... 10,138 0hi0.21,198 lOregon 2,764 Pennsylvania.... .27,649 Rhode 151and3,686 South Carolina... 8,294 .Tennesseell,os9 .Texasll,9Bl Vermont"... 3,686 'Virginiall,os9 West Virginia.... 5,529 .Wisconsinlo,l3B Alaska 2,764 Arizona 2,764 'Dakota 2,764 Idaho 2,764 New Mexico 2,764 Montana 2,764 (Utah 2,764 .Washington 2,764 IWyoming2,764 |Dist. of Columbia. 5,529

giving way. The despair of the people is so great that several have committed suicide and many people have gone insane. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that severe shocks of earthquake have occurred at Vernome, in Turkestan. The town was almost entirely destroyed. One hundred and twenty persons were killed and 125 injured. Among the injured was General Ariede, the Governor of the province of Semiretchinsk. Shocks continue to be felt at intervals. The inhabitants of the town are panic-stricken and have fled for safety to the open country. In the English House of Commons on Friday Lord Salisbury presented the Egyptian convention. England is to evacuate Egypt in three years, and the right to appoint English officers to command the native army ceat e i at the end of five years. England retains the right to send troops to Egypt in the eyent of external or internal disorders. The convention is not to be valid unless ratified by the powers. Bulgaria is infested with bands of real live brigands.

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

The Youngstown (Ohio) jury in the murder tnal of Ebenezer Stanyard, for the killing of Alice Hancox on March 4, came in with a verdict of guilty in the first degree. The plea of the defense was insanity. The June returns of the Department of Agriculture show a reduction of nearly 2 per cent in the area of ■winter wheat, and an increase of about 6 per cent in spring wheat The total wheat acreage is 37,000,000 acres. The general average condition of spring wheat is 87..3, and of winter wheat 84.9. The average condition of other leading crops is: Rye, 88.9; barley, 87: cotton, 86.9 A dependent pension bill, which has been drafted by a committee of the Grand Army of the Republic, is being submitted to the various “posts” of that body. If it receives the approval of the organization, of which there is little doubt, its passage will be urged upon the next Congress. It proposes a very comprehensive system of service pensions. The number of commercial failures for the week in the United States and Canada was 173, against 209 for tho same week last year. R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of the trade outlook, say: But for labor contests and excessive speculation the outlook would be entirely satisfactory. Crop prospects and the financial situation have both improved during the last week. But the effect of important strikes is felt more seriously every week. How great a disturbance of trade and production may result from a single strike is forcibly illustrated by the returns of iron furnaces, the Iron Age making the weekly output June 1 about 37,675 tons, or 27 per cent, less than May 1, while Pittsburgh statistics forwarded by correspondents moke the decrease 36,653 tons. Either statement represents a remarkable decline in output—ranging from $600,000 to $700,000, in the value of the weekly production—and to this must be added the dearease in many important branches of manufacture which depend for material upon furnaces now idle. In spite ot the great decline in production, prices of iron have been weaker during the last week, heavy sales of Southern iron having been made in Eastern markets. Wheat speculations seem weaker, though prices, after rising to nearly $1 for No. 2 red, have not quite declined to last week’s level. Crop reports from all directions are favorable, and the accumulation of 2,800 cars about Chicago, still loaded, because wheat room is scarce in elevators, gives point to the observation that a great quantity of wheat seems to be left in the farmers’ hands. Money is reported in good supply at all points and collections everywhere are good or fair, with improvement in some localities. Southern reports show natural dullness in trade, but confidence in an early and prosperous fall business. From Northwestern points great activity is everywhere reported, with especial mention of the stimulating influence of rapid railway building. The Des Moines Grand Army Post has adopted resolutions declaring that the Grand Army never will, with the post’s consent, invite President Cleveland to attend a national encampment, and bitterly denouncing the President’s veto of the pension claims. Gen. W. T. Sherman has written a letter to Grand Army men in St. Louis expressing the belief that the Grand Army veterans will not so far forget themselves as to insult the President; expressing the hope that Mr. Cleveland will attend the parade in St. Louis next September, and declaring that he will, in that event, stand at the President’s side or march in the columns before him. The residence of James Edwards, near Winnipeg, was destroyed by fire, three of his children being burned to death.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattles 4.25 @ 5.50 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 White96%@ .97 No. 2 Red9B .99 Corn—No 247%@ .48% Oats—White .38 ss .42 ” Pork—New Mess 16.00 & 16.50 CHICAGO. Cattle—Cloice to I rime Steers 4.75 Medium 4.00 & 4.50 Common 3.50 ® 4.00 Hogs—Shipping 4.75 & 5.25 Flour—Winter Wheat 4.25 & 4.75 Wheat —No. 2 Spring 92 & .92% Corn—No. 2 37%@ .38 ~ Oats—No. 225 & .26 Butter—Choice Creameryl6 .17 Fine Dairyl2 & .14 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddars. .08 @ .08% Full Cream, new s .08% Eggs—Fresh.... 13 @ .14 Potatoes—Choice, new 95 @ I.OJ Pork—Mess 2175 (3 22.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 83 & .84 Corn—No. 3.......37 @ .38 Oats —No. 2 White 30 @ .31 Rye—No. IJ. .57 & .58 Pork—Mess 13.75 a 14,25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2....83 & .83% Corn—Mixed 3B @ .39 Oats—Mixed 27 @ .27% Pork—New Mess 14.75 @15.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 289 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 .39 @ ■ .40 Oats 26 @ .27 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.25 @ 4.25 Sheep.... 3.50 & 4.75 Wheat—Michigan Red 80 m .89% Corn—No. 239% « .40 ’ Oats—White 33 .31 CINCINNATI. Wheat-No. 2 Red 88 @ .88% Corn—No. 41 <a; .41% Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 ~ Pork—Mess 15.00 @15.50 Live Hogs 4.50 @5.25 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 White92%@ .93% Corn-zNo 2 Yellow . Cattle 4.00 5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattll 3.50 @4.75 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.25 Sheep 2.00 @ 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Redßs% -s .86 Corn—No. 2...36%(5 .37 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 27 @ .28 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 4.75 @ 5.25 < Fair. 4.50 @ 5.00 Common 4.25 @ 4.75 Hogs 5.00 @5.50 Sheep 3.75 0 4.25

THE BASE-BALL RECORD.

Chicago’s Splendid Work—Beginning to Flay Ball in Earnest How the Teams Stand in the Pennant Race —Gossip of the Game Everywhere. [CHICAGO COEBESPONDENCE.J Since the date of my last letter the Chicago team has made a spurt in its race for the pennant that has aroused the hopes of its admirers in this city, and the interest ot lovers of the game throughout the country. The good work began, as I stated last, week, at Philadelphia, when we took twogames of the series from the Philadelphia, lads. It was continued at Boston, when after a close fight in the opening game of the series, we beat Mike Kelly and his braves the following day, and but for rain would probably have taken two games of the series there instead of one. At New York the following week, we took two* games out of three from the Giants upon the latter’s own stamping grounds, and then we surprised the world by going to Detroit, and beating the heavy hitters of the Leaguetwo straight games with such scores as 4 to 2 and 2to 1. That is ball-playing good, enough to suit any one. * Should New York continue to play the> game it is now playing and Chicago continue to improve as it has improved during; the past two weeks, we may anticipate a. great crowd for the two games scheduled for July 4 upon the Chicago grounds. The record of the League clubs, up to date, shows Boston and Detroit have tied for first place, and the positions of the remaining clubs may be seen from the following table of games lost and won: THE LEAGUE.

■2 ~1? o - & I Clubs - £ Os 5 3 2 5 9 Detroit.... 11 1 4 5 2 2 621 Boston 2..1 1 5 3 2 5 321 New York 2 2... 3 3 1 4 3 18Philadelphia 4 3.. 2 2 2 316 Pittsburgh 1 1 1 1.. 3 1 4 12. Chicago 3 1 2 2.... 1 4 13 Washington 1.. 5 .. .. 3.. 110* Indianapolis 1 I|.. 2 2 1.. 7 Games lost. 9!10|14|15 15 15|16 24 ..

The Association race shows St. Louis tobe still further in the lead this week than ever—Von der Ahe’s men seenfing to Leeway out of their class this season as in. seasons past. The fight still continues closeand bitter between Cincinnati, Athletics* Louisville and Baltimore, with the chances at present in favor of Baltimore. Cleveland has finally yielded last place to theMets, and it is hoped that the struggle for tail-end honors between these two crack organizations is now ended: Following is the record:

ASSOCIATION. d . . . . « St « ri 3 2,- •’S''?’ Clubs. p i ? S § g, » 3111 5 2 § £ 21’3 § 5 5-® a. x a om a < o 3 ® St Louis— 8246444 32 Brooklyn 1— 2 3 2 1 3 4 16. Cincinnati 2 2 3 1.. 7 318 Baltimore 1 6 2 6 2 421 Louisville 1342 532 20Athletic 1 2 4 1 4 3 419 Cleveland 1 1.. I'l 4 8 Metropolitan ..11. 2.. 2 6 Games lost s|lß 2o!13 18 17 24 25 ..

SENSATIONAL BUMOBS. It seems too bad that some one can not arise in the arena of base-ball journalism, who can successfully call down the sensationalist? Is it fair that just in the middleof the season, with pennant races going on all around us, we should have our nerves; unstrung and our attention distracted from the real work of the clubs by senseless rumors of trouble in the Pittsburg camp; the intended purchase by Von der Ahe of Simmons and Sharsig’s snap at Philadelphia; the probable transfer of the Detroit club to Brooklyn; the predicted sale of the Wolverines’ best talent to Harry Wright; the. consolidation of the League and Association, and the hundred and one other foolish stories thst might be pardoned during the winter season, when the boys cannot play ball, but which are just at this time an outrage upon a long-sutfering and patient public? The management of the Pittsburg club has been kept busy indeed denying the rumors of internal discord and dissatisfaction in its ranks. But, then, did ever any young club, particularly a club that starts out to play such pretty ball as Pittsburgh has played, enter a race under new colors that some one or more long-eared, surly, jealous and vengeful set of ignoramuses did not put in their blades with a view to making mischief? They can not help it, poor things. Nature has constructed them that way, and if a man can control his sense of righteous indignation far enough to refrain from using them as a plug for a coal hole, perhaps the next best thing he can do is to extend to them his stock of pity and sympathy, rather than his anger. It is said that several players in the Pittsburgh club are angry at Manager Phillips for suspending Pitcher Morris upon a charge of intemperance, and that they are ugly upon, the field as a result of this bad feeling. From good authority I learn that this is not so. The Pittsburg players know that. Morris broke his contract by drinking, and are with Manager Phillips in his action against Morris. If Morris was drunk the proper thing to do was to discipline him,, and no one who has had anything to do with boozing ball players will" gainsay me in this. If there is any one thing on earth to rile the temper and "test the patience of a ball club manager, it is a capable ball player who will insist upon impairing his usefulness to his team by sucking the topend of a whisky bottle whenever he gets a chance, or by behaving as that beauty, Tony Mullane, has behaved at Cincinnati. Now, they are a pretty brace of ducks, aren’t they? Can’t straighten up and attend to a business for which they are handsomely remunerated for just a few short months in the year, without making monkeys of themselves. Why, if there is any one thing that the thousands upon thousands of base-ball lovers in this country admire, it is a player who starts in like a 1 man at the outset of tho season and playa ball until the season ends. We have got ». few of that stripe in the Chicago club.