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I Common Sense Design for a Home to
Cost About $2,000.
rFEATURES THAT INSURE COMFORT
IHott to Finish and Decorate a Snuggery
Without Larish Expenditure.
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Strict common sense marks the style of
i design, and will suit those of our read-
Sera who prefer the solid and substantial.
above the more ornimental and ornate
5L"stvlesT)rcvalentin the oresent day. There
.is little if any attempt at outside ornamen-
f tation, all being plain, solid, and in good
, 'proportion; more after the English than the
iT modern Yankee school.
"The plan is of the simplest description,
almost sqnare with four good-sized rooms on
each floor, and every inch of space well
r Utilized. The house stands high, necessitat-
Ing six steps in reaching the main floor, so
allowing ample kitchen, and wash-ropm
Bpace, almost wholly above ground, (which
is in itself a good feature) besides ample
cellar-room.
Tbe framing should be solid and substan
tial, as the design indicates. All outside
finish, clapboards, excepting gable ends,
which are shingled. Tbe chimneys are
brick, above the base, which, when it shows
on the outside, is o rough stone. The cost
allows for pine finish all through the house
either painted or finished with shellack.
Tbe ball is an exception, and here oat: may
be used, and tbe dado is planned to run in
small panels folly six feet from the floor; no
decoration is allowed for, but the walls are
plastered ready to receive either paper or
paint, as the owner may require.
The small sketch of the sitting-room indi
cates the style of fitting and furnishing
called for by the solid and sub-
stantial exterior; plain, simple -and
homelike, yet substantial, withal, in
dicating solid comfort rather than
superficial show. AH colors should be quiet
and low-toned, greeting the eye with so.t
harmonies, rather than glaring contrast, as
the latter soon wears on the eye ond nerves,
ihich brings rest and comfort!
'" The parlor is not shown here, but a few
words may place it clearly beiore the reader.
This sbould be as the exterior suggests, sim
ple and refined in color and outline; the
woodwork is of pine, well-filled and painted
a quiet mahogany color Venetian red, a
little crimson lake and raw nmber will
bring about the required result; this, of
course, should be of oil color, and well
flatted.
For the wall space, an old and harmoni
ous combination might be obtained by the
ise of a "coppery" green, a mixture of raw 1
Sienna, yellow ochre, chrome green and
white; but for a really satisfactory result
the greatest care and judgment must be
used in the mixing, else the effect will be
raw and harsh. This combination should
be in distemper or water color lor soft effect
The carpet should be a dark tone, par
taking largely of brownish olive shades,
brightened by yellows and reds.
The draperies for doors and windows, if
atei, a deep warm old j,'old, relieved by
stripes or bands at the bottom of a deep
blue. This blue should not be pure, but
what painters call a "cut" blue.
For ceiling treatment, a delicate yet rather
decided tone of buff will give the necessary
"sunshine" to the scheme; the band next
tbe angle of the wall, a browner shade of the
same; divide this from the fisld of the ceil
ing with a narrow band of greenish or
peacock blue, not too dark and edged with
gold bronr.e.
A few continuous lines of gold bronz? to
form a panel tbe ceiling will complete a
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1,'J'. scheme of color simple in iiielf, with tho
added merit of not straining the purse-string
too severely.
Black walnut furniture with simple cov
ering may be used in the room, but mahog
any or cherry, either natural color or
deepened in tone, would be infinitely
better.
Too much care cannot be taken in the
mixing and applying of colors to home deco
ration. Kaw effects brought about by had,
judgment in the combination and mixing of
colors are always trying to the eye, and, it
may be said, the temper, as well, of the in
mates. For a sensitive eye and mind, es
pecially in a nervous person, are reaally af
fected by the color in their surroundings,
llestful and harmonious coloring is a balm
to the mind and senses, perhaps, too. with
out a direct knowledge of tbe influence
bronirht to bear at the time. This is evi
dent from the fact that the eye, a peculiarly
sensitive organ, acts directly upon the mind
without necessarily calling the reasoning
powers into play.
To return, in closing to the more practi
cal side of our subject the house the ques
tion of painting the exterior is one that
needs consideration from the many points
of view. The location has much to do with
this feature of decoration. It should not be
too conspicuous an object in the landscape;
paint in such quiet, low tones as the condi
tions require, but in all cases let your home
become a consecutive pan on t laauscape,
and seem to rest solidly on
mother earth,
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and not, like the mushroom, seem the crea
tion of a night
ABOUT TWEJ5TY THOUSAND CABS.
The Enormous Outpnt of tbe Frlck Colic
Worlu lor the Month of April.
Last month was another large one in the
coke business, the Frick Company turning
out the enormous amount of 360,000 tons.
This is equal to about 20,000 cars. The reports
for the month were completed yesterday by
the Frick Company. It shipped about
360,000 tons, which placed in cars amounted
to about 20,000. The coke was shipped to
Pittsburg and the west and went all over
the country. The amount of coke turned
out by the company was about three-fourths
of the total amount of the whole region.
Averaging 35 cars to each train, it would
require 571 trains to transport it If
shipped out of the region, via the Pennsyl
vania Bailroad, two engines would be neces
sary to haul each train, and the coke would
require 1,142 engines to move it If the
cars were placed end to end, in one solid
train, they would make a train 132 miles
long. This would reach Irom Pittsburg 15
miles beyond Altoona. Divided into days,
it would make a daily train of five miles.
To make this coke'it required the enor
mous amount ot 15,120,000 bushes of coal.
It gave employment during the month to
over 9,500 men. To produce the coke the
men had to draw 100,000 ovens, and to ex
tinguish the ovens before the coke could be
drawn it required the use of 60,000,000 gal
lons of water.
This output has been beaten, and last
month was only a little above the average.
Do loa Knovr
That 51 25 will buy a pair of real soft glove
kid congress gaiters for ladies' wear, at
G. D. Simen's,
trs 78 Ohio st, Allegheny, Pa.
Thikk seriously while you read page 14,
Sunday Dispatch.
High grade India silks, choice novelty
desicus and colorings; best goods imported,
f 1, SI 25 and 51 50 per yd.
TTSSU HUGUS & HACKE.
The road to riches found ou page 14,
Sunday Dispatch.
2 Ely silk waists, choice colors, from $4 95
to $6 75; new jerseys and blouses at popular
prices. " Bosenbaum & Co.
WTllS f
iSo taxes uo interest
Sunday Dispatch.
See page 14,
THE
IN SUNNY PALERMO.
Pleasing Pictures of tho Most Attrac
tive of Sicilian Cities.
BIRTHPLACE OP PASTORAL POETS,
And the Home of the Most Beautiful
Women in AH Italy.
STEANGE LEGEND OP SANTA ROSALIA
fcOEnrsroKDiKCi or tub pisfatcr.1
Naples. Italy, April 20. Palermo, the
ancient Panoramus of the Phoenicians, with
its quarter million population of to-day.
seems to my eyes to be one ot the brightest
and most beautiful cities of Europe. One
gets away from laya and scoria in Palermo.
If hundreds of brigands are harbored in the
heights of Misilmeri, only (eight m ilesaway,
such barbarous dangers are shut from the
consciousness by the gayety and splendor of
tbe Sicilian capital. And here one is even
partially relieved of the presence of the
eternal s(one monuments and dead age re
mains which almost have the power to in
time render the European traveler possess
ing a student's mind a maundering senti
mentalist, a driveling idiot, or worse, a
classic pedant and cynic
Beautiful as is the winsome city itself, its
site is far more lovely and enchanting. At
the northeastern extremity of Sicily, huge
precipices throw protecting arms nearly
around Palermo on the north. These al
most mountainous heights to the right and
left descend to the sea in delicate lines and
with tints of rarest tone. Between the head
lands lies the deep and dreamful harbor.
Then, the city on a sently-rising plain. Be
hind this, encircled by a vast mountain
capped loop, shaped almost precisely like
the horseshoe arch of the Moors, stretches
far and far away that most famous of all
Italian valleys, Conca d' Oro, or the Valley
of the Golden Shell. It is a vast and mar
velously fertile plain, a glorious and never
failing garden, massed with the noblest
orange groves of the Mediterranean, with
olive plantations world-famous lor their
yield, with orchards of palms, almonds, fig
trees, even of dates, nf locust trees, and of
the strange nespole or medlars, whose fruit
is only eaten in a state of decay, and like
one vast Persian carpet of bloom inde
scribable roses, flowers, Judas trees,and rav
ishing flora in endless variety until, from
March to December, every zephyr floating
across it bears to remotest nook and cranny
of tbe charmed and charming city languor
ous perfumes in endless pulsings of odorous
change.
A SPLENDID CITY.
Palermo itself is bright, dainty, splendid,
in architecture, in promenade and garden,
in balcony, gallery, monument and fountain,
and in all the lightsomeuess of figure, habit
and expression which distinguish the more
southern of the Latin people, especially
when wedded with tbe exuberance and ela
tion which prosperity and pridel'ul con
sciousness in surroundings always entail.
Intersecting the city at right angles are two
maenihceot thoroughfares, tbe (Jorso Vit
torio Emanuele, a perfectly straight north
east and southwest street; and the Strada
Macqueda, running from the northwest to
the southeast in a straight line. The north
east terminal ot the Corso touches the
splendid bay; and at tbe intersection of the
two, the business, social and geographic cen
ter of the city, is a spacious octagonal, cir-cu-shaped
space known as the Quittro Can
t'ini. The facade of this comprises a mag
nificent series of piazzas adorned with
massive colonnades and superb statues.
Noble gates stand at the four terminals ot
the Corso and the Strada Macqueda, as well
as those ol many other important thorough
fares within the four very nearly equal
quarters thus formed, from any portion of
which divisions, the main arteries of the
city are easily reached.
So, mountains encircle and protect in the
rear; a vast and fruitlul valley of bloom and
perfume stretches lrom the city's gates; then
the bright and beautiful city descends gent
ly to a noble harbor side; and, is if to per
fect the loveliness of the entire scene, art in
the splendid Marina the most gigantic and
massive sea drive and promenade possessed
by any European city to the right, and na
ture in the precipitous cliffs called Monte
Pellegrino, to the left, join in forming at
once the most beautiful and glorious harbor
entrance to be found ou iny Europeau
shores. No wonder the Palermitans are
proud of their Marina, or thai Sicily, the
birthplace of pastoral poetry, should lorget
the mountain sides, valleys, streams, herds
and shepherds, in singing songs to this most
beautiful and deliriously dangerous spot for
the human heart in all Italy.
A BEAUTIFUL LEGEND.
The lecend ot Santa Itosalia is very dear
to the Palermitans. Descended from Charle
magne, she was born in 1130, and though
reared in the utmost refinement and luxury,
she fled Irom her father's house to the neigh
boring mountains at the ago of 12 to begin a
life ot devotion and penance. At last she
sought a cavern in Monte Pellegrino where
she died unknown and alone. During the
terrible Sicilian plague of 1624, wheu all
efforts to diminish its ravages had proven
unavailing, a certain lowly Palermitan, a
soapmaker named Bonelli, in desperate dis
traction and to escape the horrors ot disease
and death aronnd him, and especially to be
moan the loss of his own wife, wandered out
upon the mountains. The vision of a beau
ti ul vigin appeared to him. Leading him
to a cavern the virgin told him it was her
grotto, aiid that she was the devotee, Rosalia.
Tne blunt and honest fellow, with his
own sorrows uppermost in his mind, in
quired why bad she abandoned her country
to such dire afflictions. It was then re
vealed to him that this had so far been the
will of heaven; but that as soon as the re
mains ol her body, which had previously
been discovered and placed in charge of the
Archbishop, had been carried through tho
city the plague would cease; closing the
revelation with the assurance that in lour
days Bonelli would be with her in paradise.
The latter made con'cjsion to the Capuchins;
the relics of Kosalia were followed in
splendid procession through the city by the
Senate, clergy and people; from that
moment the plague began to diminish;
the . soapmaker followed Kosalia to
para'dise on the fourth day alter haying
seen the clorious vision; a magnificent
yearly festival celebrating the deliver
ance, is annually held between the
11th and 15th of July, when an effigy of
Itosalia is drawn through the principal
streets ou a.tiiuuiphal car, 100 leet long; 20
wide and 50 to 75 feet high, by from 80 to
100 caparisoned mules, the effigy being in
silver upon a dome supported by colossal
figures of apostles and saints, below which
are masses of roses and trees of artificial co
ral; and the grotto thus miraculously dis
covered, which has become a famous Sicil
ian shrine, is adorned by "a statue of the
adored saint by the sculptor Gregorio Ledes
cbi, clothed with a robe of solid gold, and
another gigantic statue inmarble stands
near the grotto on the brink of a mighty
precipice. To this figure of Santa Kosalia
the devout mariner and fisherman always
turn for protection against the dread evils of
the mighty sea.
CUKTOUS STEEET SCENES.
The architecture as well as tbe dialect of
Sicily is a mixture of Greek, Arabic, Nor
man and Spanish. Nowhere else is this
more noticeable than in Palmcro, whose
streets disclose most curious composite of
structures, though the effect is always ex
tremely bright and interesting, if never
artistically wholly satisfying; while with
the people who are seen upon them there are
striking gayety and jauntiness 'as universal
characteristics of the lowly, blended with
astoqishing elegance on the part of the pos
sessors of wealth and tbe nobility in general.
The latter class form a monstrous, undue
proportion of the population; and, as in the
gay Cuban capital where the bpamsh saying,
"The father a grocer; the son a gentleman;
the yraudiou a beggar;" so tersely expresses
the rapid changes ot condition, , on account
PITTSBUEG- DISPATOH,
of the wild extravagances of metropolitan
life, the entire nobility and aristocracy of
Sicily, rich or beggared, seem housed within
Palmero's' walls. "While the shops and
cafes are very beautirul, the street facades
above present a grotesque commingling of
sunken galleries like cloisters, colon
naded fronts of the most classic severity
and projecting balconies as graceful and
delicate as may anywhere be lound in
Southern Spain.
At all hours of tbe day the streets, which
for the most part are exceedingly narrow,
swarm with priests, officers, nobles and pic.
turesque mountaineers, with every manner
of the lowly city folk of the south; while
carpenters, tailors, coopers, cobblers, lock
smiths, and tbe various petty artisans, un
concerned for the comfort of pedestrians,
pursue their several vocations with delight
ful conscious importance entirely outside
their shop doors, gossiping, whistling and
singing, adding much to the .picturesque
confusion of tbe thoroughfares. Indeed in
no other part of the world have I come upon
'such melodious activities. Everybody
hums, whistles or sings as he labors; and
not infrequently is the passer halted and en
thralled by the delicious abandon with
which some laborer, unconscious o.' his owu
melodic power, pours forth untrained but
perfect notes rising as clear and loud above
the distracting sounds of the street as the
lark's song above the chirpings about farm
house and meadow.
Unlike tbe custom in Spain and some
Italian provinces, where women are treated
as persons requiring never-ending sur
veillance, in Sicily, and particularly in
Palermo, no hatetul restrictions of this na
ture seem to be required. "Women are seen
in the streets, shops and cafes as tree from
any restraint, and universally treated with
as much respect and consideration, as in
America. Indeed, if there is a difference it
is in favor of the Sicilian man, whose
courtesy and chivalry are astounding and
endless.
CHARMING SICILIAN WOMEN.
This gives the traveler most gratifying op
portunity for the study of Italian women in
Sicily; and I most unhesitatingly pronounce
these of Palermo more vivacious than
French women, more beautiiul than
the best examples of Spanish female
loveliuess; and more graceful and al
together sparkling and charming than
any I have elsewhere seen. My own ob
servation disclosed a singular condition of
contrasts. It would seem that the aristo
cratic women of Palermo possess all tbe
beauty to be found among the women of the
city; tho lemales among the lowly being a
sad lot of mournful-fuced, slow-paced, idle
scrags. The reverse is usually true, as the
painters will tell you, in Mediterranean
countries. On the other hand, the male
members of the nobility and aristocracy, and
even the clergy, who as a class are usually
men of fine stature and bearing, are a most
insignificant lot of swarthy skin-and-bone
felldws, '"chicken-breasted" or humped,
with cadaverous laces, claw-like hands, and
limbs that would discredit the skeleton de
partment of a well-ordered anatomical mu
seum. A singular contrast to these are the
men among the lowly excepting the fisher
men, who seem to be as skinny a set as the
nobility whose forms and bearing illustrate
the real aristocracy in which nature often
molds her least-iavored creations. They are
perfect in form, straight, lithe, beaming
with good nature, and in all but dress and
environment, seem prototypes ot the real
cavaliers that romance and chivalry picture
to us as having existed "in days of old when
knights were bold, and barons held their
sway."
But if the sunny days In Palermo are full
of light, beauty and picturesqueness, the
nights bring with them the real splendor
and luxuriousness of this matchless city of
the South. There is music everywhere. In
a thousand half lighted balconies are groups
of men and women chatting in low, musical
tones or listening to tbe sweet notes ol man
dolin or guitar; in countless entrades backed
by courts filled with rich lights, plants,
flowers and quaint corridors in an almost
Oriental perspective, are families with
Iriends seated half out upon the street, and
among tbem somewhere is music of voice or
instrument, and here, there and everywhere,
upon tbe housetops,
IN LUXUEIOU3 GAItDENS
are merry crowds singing, playing, dancing.
Melody in word, laugh and sonc. and from
musical instrument of every kind nothing
lond and sonorous, but everything sort and
dreamful pulses in harmonious chords
above and over and through the sbundful
streets. You may be alone and not of it, but
it is all-compassing and it possesses vou.
You know it not, yet it has the loving
familiarity of the universal voice of mirth
and music. It is in a strange tongue, yet it
is as plain to you as tbe unthought joy of
blessed childhood. Then, from the half
seen, wholly lelt scenes of melodious mirth,
look upon the splendid nightly carnival
pouring out of the Corso into the glorious
Marina. Fully 10,000 equipages, filled with
richly attired and merry occupants, may be
seen. Three times that number of pedes
trians look down trom the upper Marina.
Military bands discourse the sensuous airs
of Italy. In this conconrse ot per
haps 50,000 souls rudeness and clamor
are unknown. Every frequenter of
the Marina only intensifies the everywhere
mani est chivalrous courtesy and considera
tion so distinguishing this great out-door re
ception room of a great city. It is not until
after midnight that the crowds seem to di
minish; lor it Is made a sort of social obliga
tion upon every gentleman and lady of the
city to be present at some time during the
evening. Then from midnight on, by an
unwritten law, another sort of life has the
right ol way. It is an intense life, over
which Italians have few agonized philoso
phies: but it h as much apart ot this South
ern life and clime as that strange brown
flower of the South, which only exhales
odor from its drooping loliage by starlight,
is an enchanting and sensuous type of a
clime and nature that in no hour cease their
warm and glowing activities.
A FAMOUS OLD MONASTERY.
Of the hundreds of religious edifices of
great age and exceeding interest in and
about Palermo, the sti anger will linger
loosest at the church and monastery of San
to Spirito, famous as the scene of the sad
tragedy of the Sicilian Vespers, on March
30, 1282, and its Campo Sinto for the lowly
dead, where there are 365 stone pits, cov
ered with stone slabs, into one ot which the
dead of a single day of the year are cast with"!
consuming quicslime, to remain undis
turbed until the same day of the succeeding
year; the huge convent of San Martina and
Cathedral of Monreale, built by "William
II, to outrival the greatest religious edfices
of Northern Europe; the Itoyal Chapel,
with its marvelous mosaics, finished in 1132;
the interesting Saracenic relics of La Cuba
and La Zisa; and the magnificent Cathedral
(II Duomo) with its mighty sarcophagi
where repose the ashes "of the. royal
Normans, King Koger I., his daugh
ter, Constant!.!, and Emperor Fred
erick II.; but the most weird and
unearthly fascination will be felt in the
crypts of the convent of the Cappuccini,
where oyer 8,000 bodies are disposed in the
eternal sleep in a manner which ought to
bring eternal sleeplessness to the living.
These bodies are practically embalmed, or
mummified, and many, habited in tbe cloth
ing of their mortal days, are stood, or fas
tened or hunga in niches in upright pos
tures, in which they sway, teeming to
writhe in horrible facial contortions for the
entertainment of the onlooker.
Every possible age, every manner of dress,
every conceivable posture is discernable.
The theory upou which this ghastly show
house is conducted is that it is a good thing
for the living to commune with the dead.
Perhaps it is not a bad idea, but. it would
take a healthy American some time to get
used to it; and as our steamer sped towarj
Naples, I was glad that the brightness and
beauty of Palermo, "la felice," were rich
enough in memories of delight to hide the
Capuchin Catacombs as gladsoxaely as a
sweet June day will efface a hatelnl dream.
Edgab L. "Waxeman.
Don't run the risk of your cold getting
well of itself you may thereby drift into a
condition favorable to the development of
some latent tendency, which mny give you
years of trouble. Better cure your cold at
once with the help ol Dr. D. Jayne's Ex
pectorant, a good healing medicine for all
.coughs, sore lungs and throats.
8ATTJBD AZf MAT 3;
A STOBf -OF CRUELTY
Thafis Fortunately Almost Without
a Parallel in This Section.
A "WOMAN NINETY YEARS OP AGE
Says Her Daughter and Son-ln-Lair Treated
Her in a Shameful Way.
THE CASE IS BEIHG INVESTIGATED
General Agent O'Brien, of the Humane
Society, yesterday investigated a complaint
alleging cruelty to a 90-year-old woman of
Turtle Creek, but who formerly uvea at
Moss Side station, on the Pennsylvania
Bailroad. Ann Curry, who lived until
"Wednesday of last week with her daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. "William Barr,
about half a mile from Moss Side station, is
the alleged victim of cruelty at the hands "of
her daughter and tbe latter's husband,
during the last four years. No
intimation that the old lady was
not considerately treated ever reached the
ears of any person outside of .the house in
which she lived until last "Wednesday, when
she was found wandering about Moss Side
station. She was found by persons who
knew her and offered to assist her in getting
back to her daughter's house, but this the
old woman refused, saying that she had left
there that night and would never go back.
She has several relatives in Turtle Creek,
and, as she is almost totally deaf and par
tially blind, she was put on board a train
and sent to a niece at Turtle Creek.
The persons who had thus become ac
quainted with the situation at the house of
the Barrs reported the matter to the Hu
mane Society. Agent O'Brien went yester
day to Turtle Creek, where he obtained the
old lady's story, and later made an informa
tion against Mr. and Mrs. Barr before
'Squire Holtzman, charging them with as
sault and battery.
THE OLD LADY'S STOBY.
The old lady told Agent O'Brien that she
was born in 1801, in "Wilkins township, and
was the eldest of a familv of elirht children.
"When quite young she became the mother
ot a girl baby, who Is now Mrs. Barr, and
one of her alleged tormentors. Barr is her
second husband, and worked on her moth
er's farm during the lifetime of her first bus
band, Keynolds. Soon after Beynolds'
death she became Mrs. Barr, and according
to the old woman's story her troubles dated
from her daughter's second marriage, as
narr wok possession of the little rarm and
assumed control of its management
As she was advancing in years, however,
she did pot object, as it was a relief from a
good deal of hard work. It was not long,
though, she states, until her new son-in-law
told her to withdraw $500 and interest for a
long time, from the hands of 'Squire Hamil
ton, now of MrKeesport, and let bim invest
it in a little home. That amount, with the
money derived from a sale of stock, etc..
would be sufficient, he told her, and after no
small hesitation, she agreed to turn the
money over to him, though with misgivings.
The money, she charges, was paid for a
little place, but it was bought in the name
of her son-in-law, as she subsequently be
came aware. He has always refused, she
says, to allow her to see the deed.
EATINO "WITH A COESET-STEEL.
From that time forward, the old lady
states, her treatment was not of the best, but
did not until about four years ago become
brutal. About that time she says that she
was put into an upstairs room, where
she has lived ever since until
last "Wednesday. She was not
permitted to eat at the table
with tbe family or even to go downstairs.
Her food, which she states, was almost al
ways Scanty, was bronght up to her, but in
variably without knife, fork or spoon. The
only article sbe has had to assist her in eat
ing is a curious One, and was taken charge
of by Agent O'Brien. It is one-half ol a
corset steel, well worn at one end, showing
that it has had considerable use as a knile
and spoon.
She says that to prevent her from commu
nicating with anyone the windows of her
room were nailed. No fire was provided
during the cold weather, and to make her
still more uncomfortable her own good bed
was taken away and replaced by another
that was of little account. She made her
escape on "Wednesday night of last week,
after she had been beaten about the head
and face by her daughter and son-in-law
The Barrs are well-known people, and the'
case is one of absorbing interest to the resi
dents of the locality in which they live. A
hearing will be held before Justice Holtz
man next Thursday.
Tho T.arscat Viulely lb llio City.
That is what we justly claim for our mil
linery department. See the beautiful new
shapes of hats and bonnets opened this
week. Eosenbaum & Co.
WFSSU
Be one of the people,
day Dispatch.
See page 14, Sua-
Dbapery nets, 45 in. wide, in plain,
striped and figured new designs, from 85c a
yd. upward. Huous & Hacke.
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AT ONCE IH SHEFFIELD, ALA.
TEN
ii00 TO
mm to our mm sale of gity lots i
!IP0R?Af.T POSKTS ABOUT
SHEFFIELD, ALA.
5 sYcars Old.
5 Blast Furnaces.
5 Railroads (3 completed and two
bulldiuRr.)
5 Thousand People.
5 Millions of Capital Invested in
Shefflcld. ,
5 Millions additional Capital In
vested in Enterprises tlie Out
growth of Sheffield.
Arrangements will be made to
secure reduced rates of railroad
fare for all parties attending the
sale and where practicable, ex
cursion trains will be run.
After the Public Sale, the Com
pany will advance prices to not
less than, xo per cent above the
averasre pricenatwhlchllke prop
erty similarly situated was sold at
Public Sale. ,
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ofe The F
houses are needed, and can be advantageously rented as soon as completed. This is the principal reason for the Public Sale and to en
courage parties to erect dwellings for rent upon lots they may purchase The Sheffield .Land, Inox and Coal Company will GUflMHTht
to purchasers who will, within six months, erect dwellings (costing say from price of lot to double the price) efgutptir CBntJBT annum upon
cost of lot and improvements (oyer and above taxes, insurance, repairs "and rsal estate agent's conmlsslon) for a ;p'dof fy"
completion of houses, ft ; OHAiOERS.Vice-Presldeiii and Hanagsr.SHEFFiELD JAND. IRON & COAL CO., SHEFFIELD, AlA
1890.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Yan Phon Lee, Yale graduate, has started
a paper lor Chinese Sunday school scholars.
It is reported that General Bonlanger will
roturn to France on Sunday and demand a new
trial.
President approved act authorizing the
construction of a bridge across Brazos liver,
Texas.
The Republicans of the Fifth Congressional
district of Illinois nominated A. J. Hopkins, of
Kane county. v
Tbe British steamers Saltwtelr and Mt. Oli
vet collided in the Mediterranean at Gibraltar, l
81DK1UK luo lauer.
M.iM. Holmes, of Seattle, was elected De
partment Commander G. A. B., ot Wasblnaton
Tcrritoiy, yesterday.
At West Bovlston. Mass., Baptist church
and Catholic church and parsonage burned to
the ground yesterday.
Augustus Camobell, colored porter at Ger-'
man-American Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., under ar
rest on a charge of stealing 200.
' Arbitration In the question arising from
tbe seizure of the Delagoa Bay Railway is advo
cated by the Portuguese Government
A commissary ot police was shot and killed
yesterday by a Russian Jew, whose premises he
was searching for seditious documents.
Tbe City Democratic Committee, of St
Paul, Is prosecuting Ave Republicans for sign
ing affidavits of alleged Illegal registration.
Tbe American ship Cora, from New Orleans
on March 10, for St. Potersourg. ashore at tbe
Skaw, has been floated. Sbe is badly damaged.
The hteamer Puritan, from Chicago to St.
Joseph, Mich., caught fire through the explo
sion of an oil lamp, bnt, after a bard fight of
some eight hour, reached her destination safe
ly. She carried 40 passengers and 23 officers and
crew.
A BIO DIVTDEirD DECLARED.
What the Charleroi Land Company
Has
Done In n Frw Month.
A few days ago tbe Charleroi Land Com
pany declared a dividend of 64.6 per cent on
a capital stock of (250,000. The salesot lots
up to May 1 amount to $340,000. Of this
sum $176,003 has been paid in cash. Of the
dividend 24.6 per cent was carried to tbe
credit of tbe stockholders, to pay the bal
ance due on the stock.
Manager Alexander will leave for Phila
delphia to-night, to hurry up the Pennsyl
vania road in building the station.
THE BEST -S F0R
TIME S J RAILROAD
tflm
4f
The DUEBER
WATCH CASE f CANTN'
MFQ. CO.. ) 0M-
fe22-23-B
B. SIEDLE & SONS,
54 FIFTH AVENUE,
Are agents for Dneber-Hampden
Watches, and carry a complete line
in stock.
mh29-28-3
FULL VALUEFOfi THE MONEY
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Choicest, Purest, Best.
InstantaneoTis wita Boiling Water or Mitt.
U. 8. Depot, 3S Morcer St-Kiw Yoar.
At retail by all leading grocers and drngjiita,
GEO. K. STEVENSON fc CO., IMPORTERS
OC23-50-WS
TLOOKER'S COCOA
For sale wholesale and retail by
JAMES LOCKHART,
103 Federal Street.
no6-6S--WS
Allegheny, Pa.
S Btttr than Tea and Coffeo forth Narves.g
Van Houtek's Cocoa
i'largest Sale in the World"!
S Ask your Grocerfor 1 1, take no other. 62
&
OEiPVi&n xs
lb,. dutch iso
COCOA H
II is a splendid opportunity lo buy lots and put up houses to rent ; the investment will pay from
TO TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT ON YOUR MONEY.
sx
Sheffield Land, Iron & Coal Company of m.
CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000.
Assets Exceeding $5,000,600.
At the Head of Deep Water Navigation on the Tennessee
River, and being on the line of the Louisville and Nashville
Railway system, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
system and the terminal of the Birmingham, Sheffield and Ten
nessee River Railway
GOSVaraSANDS THE
SITUATION.
Situated on a broad plateau extending south from the bluffs
at at the bank of the river it is fully one hundred feet
ABOVE All POSSIBLE DANGER OF OVERFLOW,
.
wim
ff 1
si i
fStf&jfiz
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Presents in the most elegant form
THE LAXATIVE AND NUTRIT10U8 JUICE
cr THB
FIGS OF CALIFORNIA,
Conjbined with the medicinal
virtues of plants known to be
most beneficial to the human
system, forming an agreeable
and effective laxative to perma
nently cure Habitual Consti
pation, and the many ills de
pending on a weak or inactive
condition of the ,
KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS.
Itis themostexcellentremedy known to
CLEANSE WE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY
"When one is Bilious or Constipated
SO THAT
PURE BLOOD, REFRESHING 8LEEP,
HEALTH and 8TRENQTH
NATURALLY FOLLOVf.
Every one is using it and all are
delighted with it
ASK YOUR ORUQOIST FOR
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY NEW YORK. B. K
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OFFICIAL-PITTSnUKG.
OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER. (
JlrNICIPAI. ItALU MlTnFIET,D STREET.
fOTICE IS HEHEUY GIVEN Til AT ALL
JLl owners, (whether residents or nun-residents
of the city ot i'ittsliurf ) ot drays, carta,
wagons, carriages, bupgiM. etc., to pay their li
cense at this office forthwith.
All license, not paid on or before the first
Monday In. March, 1SS0, will be placed in tbe
lirnla nt nnllpn nflitora far rnartnn B11K1.pt
to a collection fee of 50 cent.
And all persons neslec'ing to pay on or be
fore first Monday In May. 18U0, will be subject
to a penalty double the amount o' the license
to be recovered before the proper legal author
ity or saiu city.
Tho old metal plate of last year mast be re
turned at the time licensee aro taken oat. or 33
cents additional will be charged on the license.
Rates of license: Each one-horse vehicle,
tO CO; each two-horse veliicje, $10 00; each four
horse vehicle. S12 00; each four-horse hack,
!15 00; omnibuse and timber wheel", drawn by
two horses. S100O; one extra doll-ir will be
charged for cacti additional horse used m
above specified vehicles.
J. F. DEtfISTO".
City Treasurer.
fe.K-.S-D
EALED PROPOSALS Wit,!, HE RE
CEIVED at tlic fllce of the Citv Con
trolled until SATURDAY, May 10, 1890. at 2
p. 31., fur the repairing and remodeling of
No. 1 engine house.
Plans and specifications can be seen at the
office of F. J. 0terllrg, Eq.. Architect, No.
il Fifth avenue. Pittsburg. Pa.
Bond in double tbe amount of bid mast ac
company each prouosal: said bond to bo exe
cuted before tbe Mayor or Cit Clerk.
Tbe Department of Awards reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
J. O. BROWN.
Chief Department Public Safety.
Pittsburg. April 28, 1800. ap29-23
VT OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
.IN report of Viewers on the grading, paving
and cnrblng nf Allen street, from Washington
avenue to Lillian street, has been approved by
appeal is filed m the Court of Common Pleas
within ten (10) days from date.
K M. BIGELOW,
Chief of Department of Public Work".
PlTTSBDRQ, Mav 1, 1800. myl-9!
waJiiK, aaf
MilHiS Hi ibtO
'KjAfr yo xs-
7$5Er3ili'
.,1-heir works, especially ij
TMfffl.lE3j -SRH1
l rhey use
vv7;m(2lSKu
Iris ecsoud c&Ke oj-scouring
soojp used fora..! cleaning
purposes. A grocers-keep ih
S.
vQU
COPVB10MT
LOVE'S LABORS LOST
works herself to death In the effort. II the house does not Iook as bright as a pin, sho
gets tho blame II things are upturned while house-cleaning goes en why blame her
again. One remedy is within her reach. II she uses SAPOLIO everything will look
clean, and the reign of house-cleaning disorder will be quickly over.
Wednesday, Tticrsday & Friday, May 7tb, 8tii and 9tfi.
BATE OF TAXATION VCT $I0 assessed valuation, State 40 cents ; County 30 cents ;
City 50 cents. Manufacturing plants exempt from city taxes until February 1899.
Sites for approved manufacturing plants donated. ETSI7 dwelling in bheffield is
:A n von l.nrcrw nronortion bv mnrp tbnn one family. Hundreds of dwelline
OFFIClAIr-nTTSBTJKO.
Pittsbttbo, April 23, 1390.
"VTOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed proposals will be received at the office
j)f City Controller until SATUKDAY, the W
lnir. viz:
S REPAVING.
Edmond street,
Taylor street.
Fourth avenne.
Fifth avenue.
Seventeenth street.
Haddocks alley.
Frankstown avenue.
Tunnel street.
Elliorth avenue.
Stdiiton avenue.
North Hlebland avenue.
Forbes street.
Wabash avenue.
GRADING, f AVING AND COBBING.
Omega street, from Keiter street to St.
Andrews street.
Lawn street, from Hamlet street to a point
466 feet westwardly.
Home street, from Butler street to Plainer
Street.
Tioga street, from Homewood avenue to city
line.
Melwood street, from Thirty-third street to
Denny's line.
Jninonvllle street, from Fifth avenue to
Forbes street.
Howe street, from Aiken street to Ivy street.
il owe street, irom mgniana avenue to Dei
mston avenue.
Sheridan street, from Stanton avenue to
Fenn avenae.
Sheridan street, from Ellsworth avenue to
Prnn avenue.
Aiken avenne, from Filth avenue to Ells
worth avenue.
WiUnot street, from Boquzt to Wilmot street
bridge.
Bertha street, from Grandview avenae to
Virginia avenae.
Madison street, from Thirty-third street to
Jefferson street.
Copeland street, from Ellsworth avenue to
Walnnt street.
Adler street, from Highland avenae to Shady
avenue.
Frankstown avenue, from Fifth avenue to
Homewood avenue.
Barton street, from Fifth avenue to Forbes
street.
Baum street, from Highland avenue to Mel
lo'i's line.
Railroad street, from Twenty-first street to
Twenry.fonrth street.
Linden street, from Penn avenae to Brace
and Hallcr's line.
Broad street, from lilghland avenae to
Collins avenne.
PAVING AND CURBING.
Fifty-second street, from Dresden alley to
Duncan street.
Corday alley, from Cedar street to Edmond
street.
Basin alley, from Washington street to Elm
street.
Holmes street, from Stanton avenue to Mo
Candless street.
Kent alley, trom Fifty-second street to Stan
ton atenue.
Walhngford street, from Neville street to
Barton street.
Ambcrson avenae, from Fifth avenue to
Pennsylvania Railroad.
GRADING AND PAVING.
Sapphire alley, lrom Isabella street to Mi
nerva street.
Fox street, from South Twenty-Urst street to
Sontn Twenty-second Street.
Mjhogany alley, from Essex alley to Laurel
street.
Twemy-secnnd street, from Railroad street
to a point 230 feet north.
Tho pavinc of the above named streets to be
either with block stone, vulcanite, asphalt, ir
regular block stone or cobble stone, and bids
will be received for each kind of pavement.
Macadamizing Emily street, from Craft
avenue to Halket street.
SEWERS.
Madison avenne, from Jefferson street to
Herron avenue. 15 and 13-inch pipe.
Susquehanna street, from Novelty street to
Murtland street. 15-inch pipe.
BOAKDWALK.
Holt. Sumner and Barry streets, from Ster
ling utreet to Josephine street.
Plans and specifications can be seen and.
blanks for bidding can be obtained at this
ofSre.
E.ich proposal mast be accompanied by a
bond, with two sureties, probated before the
Mayor or City Clerk.
The Department of Awards reserves tho
right to reject any or all bids.
E. M. BIGELOW,
Chief of Department of Public Works.
ap23-92
"VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
Ll reports of viewers on the construction of
sewers on Harvard street, from Ncgley avenue
to Euclid street; Center avenue, from College
avenue to Gr.iham street; Conrad street, from
Penn avenue to Liberty avenue, and Butler
street extension ana private properties, from
Shakespeare street to Fifth avenue and Butler
street extension, have been approved by Coun
cils, which action will be final unless an appeal
is filed in the Court of Common Pleas within
ten (10) days from date.
E. M. BIGELOW,
Chief of Depirtment of Public Works.
Pittsburg, May L 1S90. myl-M
drow haar in l-he Iighhof-
on P (p U :
by many a woman who strives
to please her household and
TERMS OF SALE:.
One-fourth cashi one-fourth in
one year ; one-fourth in two years
one-fourth In three years, with
interest at 8 per cent on deferred
payments; or the notes for defer
red payments may, at the option
of the purchaser be settled within
thirty days of date of purchase by
one-third cash and two-thirds
sto cfc of the company at par.
Twenty-Qve per cent of the srross
receiptsof the sale will be applied
toward the construction of a xoo
ton rolling mill, therefore largely
increasing the value of every foot
of Sheffield realty.
All company property will be
withdrawn from sale for ten days
previous to public sale and for not
less than thirty days after the sale.
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