MMMMMMMaMMMMMMgmgMgBMgBBttpggMtilMMiMargnEgyjaaaagqajaigjiBfll jtf'.WJfr -yj 12 . II pMMM1M I . I Pll HI I.IW Mllll Ml GREAT STORMS AHEAD Predicted by the Lonely Prophet of Beartown Mountain. HOW HE FORETELLS THE WEATHER lio Guesswork Employed by This On in Ills Calculations. DEEP SSOWS ASD KODGH WEATHER Great Babbixgioh; Mass., Dec. 17. Levi Beebe, of Beartown Monntain, in the southern part ol Berkshire county, is un doubtedly the most famous and the most ac curate weather prophet in Massachusetts or in Xew England. He is about C3 years of age, and has studied the weather for more than 30 years. He lives on a high hilltop which overlooks a, stretch of country reaching from Ver mont on the north to Connecticut on the south and from the Hudson valley to far beyond the Connecticut valley on the east. He owns more than 1,200 acres of land, and from a high mountain top back of his barns he has studied the currents of air, the cloud formations, the temperature and other phenomena relating to the weather, winter and summer, for more than 30 years. Sir. Bcebe is an exceedingly intelligent man. He has traveled considerably, and he spent bis younr manhood in New Yort in a publishing house. City lite, however, did not suit him. He longed for the country, and he came to this romantic and secluded spot almost two-score years ago. Mr. Beebe has reared here a family of more than or dinary intelligence. He has several charm ing daughters, nearly all of wbom have gone nwaynow, but he is"living at this time with one of his daughters in the home which he founded. LIKE A TATEIAECH OP OLD. He is a man who would attract attention anywhere. He is over six feet tall and wears long hair and whiskers which fall down upon his breast. Years have turned them to a silver gray and make him look like one of the patriarchs of old. A reporter has just come down from Bear town Mountain, where he visited this sage. The road to his place is up a steep hill more than three miles long. A part of his broad seres are in Great Barrington and a part in Lee Mr. Beebe owns a sawmill, and there he was found by the reporter superintending the sawing of some large pine logs. He greeted the reporter cordially and when told that his errand was to find out what tne weather was to be this winter, he shut the gate to his mill, sat down upon a large log end began to tilt freely on the chief topic of his life. "3Tour fame as a weather prophet, Mr. Beebe, is almost world wide, and I have been sent up here to ask you what kind of Vinteryou think we shall nave?" "I have been studying the air currents for some weeks," Mr. Beebe answered at once, "and have other data which I have been looking over caretullr, and I am con vinced that that this is to be a much colder winr than we had a year ago." "Why do you say that it will be much colder?" ' "Because the winds, clouds, temperature and other phenomena indicate it" rKEDICTIOKS TOUKDED ON FACTS. "Ion have a fine place hers to observe the weather." "Yes; there is no finer place in all New England, and I here have a 'better oppor tunity than others to study these things." "Some say, Mr. Beebe, that you weather prophets guess at the weather, and that sometimes they hit it and sometimes they don't" "Ye?, I know that. There is "Wiggins, of Canada, and others I could mention, who do some guessing, but I never guess. My pre dictions are founded on facts which I can demonstrate to any intelligent man." "Will vou cive me some of these facts?" "Well, look at those clouds up there. They are running from the soutwest They are in the middle current of the atmosphere, which is the one which commands the weather." "Wnat does the direction in which these clouds are running indicate?" "The direction indicates that it is to be 'warmer for the next few days. But tne clouds themselves must be taken into con sideration. If they are dark and thick that means one thing, probably a storm, but if they are thin and light, that means that the Storm will not come along for some time." "But, Mr. Beebe, you predict what the weather is to be lor three or more months ahead, do you not?" "Certainly I do. I study the middle current for days and weeks at a time. I ob serve the humidity of the atmosphere, the degrees of cold and heat, and many other things which I am unable to make one who is a novice in these matters clearly under stand." "What is the primary reason which makes you predict that the present winter is to be cold and severe?" "Well, in the first place the "wind has been coming from the West and North a great deal lately. Then the weather has been very changeable. There has been con siderable rain, and the snow comes on in a peculiar manner." SELHOSI MAKES A FAIXUBE. "Have you ever failed to make accurate predictions about the weather since you be gan to itudy the subject?" "Certainly I have. Every man makes mistakes sometimes, but I have struck it right three times out of four." "Did you write to the President of the Knickerbocker Ice Company Id New York last winter, stating that there would be no ice cut on the Hudson river during that win ter?" "Yes; I received a letter from the presi dent of that company asking me about the prospects of ice on the Hudson. I have a copy of the reply I sent him, which stated that no ice would be cut on that river dur ing the winter to amount to anything, and that the cntapany would better go to Maine, Canada or toiue up here to iSerksture county for the ice it they wanted to fill their houses. This letter was written about the 1st of De cember of last year, and my predictions proved to be true, as I had every reason to believe thev would be." "What do you think of the ice crop this Vinter?" "I think there will be ice enough on the Hudson so that the Knickerbocker Com pany will not need to come to Berkshire or go to any other place, except up and down the Hudson river, for their ice. It is a lit tle early yet to predict with any degree of certaiuty, but I have every reason to believe that ice will be plentiful all through New England and New York State this winter." "What have you to say about the depth of the snow this "winter?" "I think there will be no lack of snow cfter January. I think that it will be much deeper than usual, not only in this part of the'.State, but down Boston way as well, and all along the seashore. There will, ac cording to my observations, be good sleigh ing around Boston for a longer period than lias been enjoyed before in several years." PBEDICTED THE GEEAT BLIZZAED. "Did you not predict the great blizzard of two years ago in March?" "Yes. I told the public many weeks be fore it took place that it was coming at the time it did come. I knew it from the signs of the atmosphere and the peculiar direc tion and force ol the wind all through the Vinter. "Have you ever had any correspondence with Wiggins, the great Canadian weather prophet?" "Wiggins is not a very great weather prophet. The fact is that I told him of the last storm which was to take place on the Atlantic coast this year, and then he ap piopnated it to lumtelf and made the pre diction as if it were his own." "Then you knew that the storm was coming, and told it to others?" "Yes, I told my friends here in Berkshire pbout its coming a long while before it took place, and I was amazed that Wiggins should appropriate the prediction to him self when I saw an account of it iu the papers." "Are we to expect a blizzard this win ter?" "I do not predict that there will be one as severe as the one in March two years ago, but we shall have all the wind that we want before the snow goes off in the spring." "Will there be any trouble with the ship ping on the Atlantic this winter?" "Yes; there will be more trouble than the oldest sailors have any idea of. The waves will rush upon the coast of the Atlantic much higher than they did last winter. You will hear before spring of several great disasters on the Atlantic." LIYELY TIMES TO COME. "How will it be in Boston harbor and that vicinity?" "It will be exceedingly rough weather during the next two or three months. Of course Boston harbor is comparatively safe, but take it along the coast and especially in New York harbor, there will be lively times." "Are you preparing a book for publica tion on the weather?" "I have been at work on a book of this character for some years, and I hope to have it published during my lifetime, although I am getting to be a pretty old man. When the work is published I think it will open the eyes of the people, especially of those who think that I guess at the weather." "Then there is no guesswork on vour part, Mr. Beebe?" "Not a bit of guesswork My predictions are all based on scientific principles. I know what I talk about. The weather is as much of a science as anything else. I have been at work at this most fascinating sub ject so long that I find that men can make as many discoveries in weather as they can in any of the other phenomena of nature," "Have you not had correspondence with General Greely about the weather?" "Yes, I have corresponded with him somewhat and with his predecessor, bnt these men have not learned the principles of the weather that they should know in order to stand at the head of the Weather Bureau." "Have you not found that they were often wrong in their predictions?" - "Most certainly. I have often smiled to see what the weather bureau predicted for the coming 24 hours, when I knew that the predictions were all wrong. The men who have charge of the weather bureau seem to depend on the lower currents next the earth, which have nothing to do with storms. These lower currents eddy about in all sorts of ways, according to the sur face of the ground and to other conditions. The middle enrrent, just above this lower one, in which the clouds move, is the one which governs the weather, as I have said before." "What has electricity to do with the weather?" ELECTRICITY THE FBIMABT CAUSE. "Electricity! Now yau have struck the keynote to the whole subject Electricity has more to do with storms than any other element in nature. Water, which is heavier than air, never would ascend were it not for electricity. The electric currents com mand the storms." "Do you think the science of electricity in nature is well understood?" "By no means. There are men who are cetting some little knowledge of the science at this late day. I have had cousiderable correspondence with Edison on this subject, and I am convinced that he knows more about tbi phenomena than any other man in the country." "What has been the nature of your cor respondence with him?" "My correspondence with him has been not so much on the effect of electricity upon the weather as in reference to its other powers. I know that heat and light depend upon electricity, and I urprised Mr. Edison atom time by writing him that if all the machinery in the world was run by electric force it would not reduce (he heat one one thousandth of a degree or the light cither." Mr. Beebe then went into quite a long discussion in reference to electric currents as well as air currents, and showed that he had made some original investigations, es pecially in regard to thunder storms. Mr. Beebe said that he was one of the first men in the country to announce that electricity would burn. When he wrote electricians that electricity would burn they doubted it He replied that he noticed that electricity from the clouds burned up his father's barn mighty quick. Mr. Beebe said that it would be warm for the next few days, and that he should not be surprised if the snow in Berkshire all disappeared for a time, bnt it would come on again before very long. TTELL VEESED IK OTHEB SCIENCES. He said that of "all the men who had stud ied the weather, LaPlace was the only man that be knew ot who had made a thorouh lv scientific investigation of the subject He was very tamiliar with LaPIace's works, as he is also with those of Huxley, Darwin, Tyndall and the other great scientists of the world. No man can talk with Mr. Beebe an hour or more without beinz convinced that he is a remarkable man, and while he has con fined his observations especially to the weather for the past 30 years, yet he has not neglected other sciences. It is somewhat amazing that a man of his intelligence wonld be contented on the top of Bear town Mountain, one of the bleakest and wildest places in Berkshire county or in the whole State, where the snow falls heavily in winter and the wind blows with great veloc ity. Mr. Beebe said that he had more letters than he could answer from people all over the country, and some from Europe in refer ence to the weather. He said that some great scientist in India, whose name he could not remember, had recently written to him, to know of his method of predicting the weath er for three or four months at a time. How this man should know of his existence was a great puzzle to him. False Witnesses. There are knaves now and then met with who represent certain local bitters and poisonous stimuli as Identical with or possessing proper ties akin to those ol Hostetters Stomach Bit ters. These scamps only succeed In foisting their trashy compounds upon people unac quainted with the genuine article, which is as inuth tlielr opposite asd3y is to night. Ask aud taLe no substitute lor the grand remedy for malaria, dyspepsia, constipation, rheuma tism and kidney trouble. For Christmas. Pendants being Bhown by Hardy & Hayes, Jewelers: A most beautiful crescent. A very unique chrysoberyl pearl and diamond one odd design. Very dainty and tasty painted portraits. An exquisite emerald and diamond star. 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The best ?15 and upward a complete line, Jos. Hobne & Co., P09-621 Penn avenue,- . STILL ANOTHER PLAfl For the Improvement of the Missis sippi and Its Branches. THE PROPOSED MOVABLE DAMS Declared Not to be as Practicable as the Permanent Affairs. MOD OP THE MISSOURI RESPONSIBLE To the Editor of The Dispatch:. The Dispatch invites criticism or the articles now being published on the snbject of river improvement, but intimates to the critics tne advisability of waiting until the author has completed his task, before com. ing to the attack. This course may be the best if only the general conclusions of the writer of the series of articles in question are expected to come into review, but there is no harm done, I think, in taking notice of some of the writer's premises already advanced. Thns, for instance, in his third paper he says: "It is obvious that a system of per manent dams could be only a temporary ex pedient, however great their first cost might be, since the quantity of detritus washed into the river would be beyond the power of man to dredge out, and they would speedily fill and become shallow lagoons, prolifio sources of disease and useless either for storing flood waters er for navigation." A CALL TOE EVIDENCE. The writer would confer a benefit on the plodding members of the engineering pro fession by proving that permanent dams in our navigable rivers do fill np, and become prolifio sources of disease. Such is not the case with the oldest dams we have right in the old muddy silt-bearing Monongahela river, nor with the dams on any other large streams so far improved in the 'West On the Monongahela the great freshets are in creased in height only a few inches by the existence of the dams, and accordingly their flood currents being inappreciably reduced in velocity, no increase in the deposits ex cepting immediately at the dam is observed. Therelore, as they do not become shallow lagoons, we may dismiss the statement con cerning this healthfulness if happily it could be proved that shallow lagoons per se are breeders of disease. We must remember, also, that the same actual quantity of water will continue to flow whether the dams be come filled up or not. On the score of expense, adjustable dams of any considerable height will greatly ex ceed in cost those of a permanent form; the difference being as three to one, comparing at least French adjustable dams with our common type of crib structure. No matter what the mechanism may be the great cost of an adjustable dam will likely be in the preparation of its foundation which must be absolutely impervious to the effects of un dermining, no strengthening deposits being permitted above them, as in the case of per manent dams. , These are perhaps small matters in the estimation of the writer a mere trifling with details which have at best only an in cidental bearing on bis main proposition, viz.: The draining of the Mississippi Valley and making it healthful, while at the same time taking care of floods and improving navigation. A LACE OF FUNDS. Thanks to CaDtam 'Bads, the attention of the people of this country has been so directed to the problem of Mississippi river improve ment that the characteristics of the great river are understood, so that there is a sub stantial agreement as to what is required in the premises the chief difficulty in the way Is the lack of appropriations to do the work as effectually as the engineers wonld desire. The great problem confronting Bads was the means to be pursued in preventing de posits of mud in the river (or shoals) and removing them when they appeared. In his "Jetty System Explained," one of his early pamphlets, he remarks: "As rapidly as the engineer strives to deepen the Missis sippi without proportionally contracting it, and thus enlarges it beyond the capacity which these natural forces give it, just so rapidly will the current be slacked by the enlargement and the de posit dropped there and thus lessen it again. And as fast as he may contract it just as fast will the current be increased and the consequent scour enlarge it again by deep ening it." Nothing is simpler and truer in state ment than these words of Eads, and it is curious that, while the facts were before known, no one belore him seized upon them as fundamental maxims upou which to de velop a practical theory ot river improve ment The Mississippi Biver Commission is now at work with its leeves-matresses, etc., working at least in accordance witb the DrinciDles first recognized by Eadi. though. perhaps, not with the vim he would impart to the operations. one of the propositions. But now arises one who proposes to go vastly farther than the commission or Eads would have dared recommend. He pro poses to sink the surface of the Mississippi by lowering its bed so that the lagoons or bayous can be drained out Jnst how much deeper he proposes to make its bed has not yet been stated, but this deepening is one of his propositions already divulged. Of course his readers will expect to see the figures in his final estimate. The writer knows, as a matter of course, that if the bed of the Mis sissippi is materially lowered he must keep on lowering the beds of its navigable tribu taries, else a jumping off place; or a series of locks to overcome the inevitable fall will be required, and he does provide for lower ing the bed of the Ohio. It was the opinion ot Lyell and other geologists at one time, that the entire valley proper of the Mississippi river below Cairo for hundreds of feet in depth was all alluvial material brought down by the river itself, or in other words that the river flowed in a trench of its own making. It is doubtless the correct idea so far as the top dressing of the region is concerned, .borings lor the Fort St Phillip Canal project aud artesian wells elsewhere in the lower delta, however, seem to indicate that not all the hundreds of feet of sedimentary material are of fresh water origin, and the opinion is now held that certain clay veins beneath are of marine origin. Some of these clay veins are tough and not easily eroded, though the bottom of the Mississippi is now below the level of some of them. LOWEBINQ THE BED. The writer proposes, as I understand him, to lower the river bed and this, according to Eads, could only be done by confining the stream to narrower limits to rest finally on one of those good, hard, tough clay veins, which, it is hoped, exist all the way up to Cairo. In conjunction with this work of deepening he proposes to straighten the river by cutting through a number of its bends. I trust he will think about the con sequence of shortening the river, viz., in crease of its rate of descent and consequent increase of velocity. Suppose the river bed is deepened, say 30 feet, and one would think this not to be too much for the purpose of reclaiming all the back swamp lands, and this continued for say 500 miles, and three-quarters of a mile wide, the excavation would amount to about 12,000,000,000 cubio yards. The Mississippi annually transports' to the Gulf about 111, 000,000 cubic yards, so that at its presentrate of moving such material it would require abont 100 years to do the work here assigned it. As permanent as Eads considered his jetties to be, his successors would be called upon to materially lengthen them if any such deepening of the entire bed of the Mississippi and cutting through its bends were seriously contemplated. THE NATURAL AGENCIES. Nor could'such a work be done by natural agency unless the entire river was simnl taneously confined to the reauIreJOlmlt. for the reason that if began at a certain poiny THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, THTJBSPAY, DECEMBER above the material taken up would be dropped the moment the current was re duced to the normal mud-bearing power of the river. The Mississippi is generally charged with as much mud as it can trans port; hence, if we charge it with more, we must continue to maintain the velocity it re quired when it picked up its additional load. He might, it is true, begin the work at the lower end and move his traveling dams np as occasion demanded. Be this as it may, without doubt the writer contemplates re quirements far, very fir, in excess of those which the boldest engineers have yet asked the Father of Waters to perform for the benefit of commerce and the reclamation of lands subject to overflow. As for drain ing the lagoons, the plodders are only too glad too have them to' help hold the waters of overflow. Captain Cowdon's plan for re lieving the floods oi the lower Mississippi by emptying Bed river through the Cal casien into the gulf would seem to offer greater inducements than that proposed, but even Cowdon finds few supporters to-day. Eeturning to the Ohio, where we in Pitts burg are most concerned, he proposes by confining the current to cause it also to wear out a deeper course, eto. In some places this project is practicable on the Ohio, but where for several consecutive miles, as at the Louisville falls and Letarto falls, it flows over solid rock and in other places over stretches of rough rocks and great boulders pushed up by ancient ice gorges, as at Beaver shoals, for instance, the plan would not work. Such places might be im proved by blasting or powerful dredges (and many a chain has been broken on dredges in doing this work in places on the Ohio). As for holding flood waters in the present prisons of tho Ohio by means of any kind of dams, that seems to be impracticable. I constructed diagrams of the Ohio after the great flood of 1884, employing daily records of many places on the river (or two weeks before and two weeks following the flood, and the diagrams clearly showed that ( the river was half full, or half way up to the top of its banks, before the rains came which produced the final catastrophe. In that case the dams would have proved only an additional detriment to the river. PACT AND THEOET. Charles Ellet, when he proposed to re strain the floods in the Ohio, was com pletely upset when his theories were ap plied to the facts. Well do I recollect that in one place were he proposed a dam 100 feet high across the Allegheny Valley, near Olean, N. Y., where the facts were that even a dam 67 feet high wonld have caused the waters to overflow into Lake Ontario. That, of course, would have been a good thing. The floods nowadays come at auy time. The greatest known in the Mononga hela Valley came in July, 1888, followed by another in August preferred to Eads interest in the mud de posits of the Mississippi. It was my good fortune two years before Eads began to work np his subjeot,to report upon the Missouri river. I visited the region where the mud came from, made a number of interesting calculations as to its quantity happening to agree tolerably well with the figures of mud found in the Mississippi, and very modestly proposed that by protecting the banks of the Missouri from caving in. the entire evil caused by its mnd on the rivers below to the gnlf would be cured. And I maintain yet that the Mississippi channels can be deepened by clearing its largest mud contributor of its deposit For if the stream is loaded with mud from above, it can pick up no additional load on its way, unless its velocity be increased. This is the Eads doc trine exactly and I commend it to the writer for his consideration. The Mississippi will certainly deepen its bed if we can keep out the Missouri mnd. Why not, then, go to the source of the disease and treat it? Keystone. PIttsbubo, December 17. You abb Invited to call on any drug gist for a free sample bottle of Kemp's Bal sam, the best cough cure. Large bottles 50c and 51. TThsn Trunks Filled With Silver. What a noble girt for Xmas. This is car rying ont an old English idea to fit the honse well with Sterling silver for. the table. This would make a gift that would be an heirloom in the family for generations. If you think of the above, call on Hardy & Hayes and see the notable collection tbey show, from $20 to $500. A beautiful trunk: can be fitted up for $150, making a moderate priced and very handsome gift at Habdt & Hates', Jewelers, Silversmiths and Art Dealers, 629 Smithfieid street "Store open every evening until Christ mas." ITS If Ton Are in a Quandary And unable to make up your mind what to buy for your musical friend, the display and variety of musical goods in the show win dow of Geo. Kappel, 77 Fifth avenue, might suggest something and help you to decide. Better still, come right inside and look around and we will take pleasure in showing you our large and complete stock of holidav goods. Geo. Kappkl, Thsn 77 Fifth avenue. Blnslc Teachers And others who buy sheet music, muBio books, instruments, etc, will save money and learn something interesting by sending a postal card asking for our large 40-page catalogue free, containing out rates on all musical goods. Addfcess Will L. Thomp son & Co., No. 2S9 Wabash ave., Chicago, 111. R tts Holiday Excursions via the Pennsylvania Lines. Excursion tickets will be sold at reduced rates at all ticket stations of the Pennsylva nia Lines west of Pittsburg on December 24, 25 and 31, 1890, and January 1, 1891. Tickets will be good returning until Janu ary C, inclusive. 'WThsu Bargains In Garters. SPure silk garters that sold for 52 75, re duced to 75c each. Two hundred pairs all colors, center table. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s, Penn Avenue Stores. B.&B. "The new umbrella, "Beau Brummel," received to-day a decided novelty and just in time for the holidays. Bogqs & Buhl. Beautiful Christmas presents In um brellas, parasols, toilet aud shaving sets. Store crowded at Arthur, Schondelmyer & Co.'s, 68 aud 70 Ohio streetAllegheny. TT3 Aee you thirsty? Iron City Brewing Co.'s cream ale or rack ale quench thirst pleasantly. All bars. Oub holiday dress patterns, put up in boxes for Christmas presents, make the neatest, handiest and cheapest way to buy dress goods prices $2 SO to $3 each a special lot at $6, worth $12. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s, Penn Avenue Stores. Retail Department Open, ready tor bnainess. Reymeb & Bros., 508-510-512 Wood street Alaska seal capes, the very best quali ties at $50 each; same grades elsewhere $70 and $75. HUQU3 &HACKE. 2TSSU A Special Offer. High grade Alaska seal cloaks at $150. Bibeb & Easion. heal estate savings bank, ixdx. 401 Smithfieid Street, Cor. Fourth Avenue. Capital, $100,000. Surplus, $69,000. Deposits of $1 and upward received and interest allowed at 4 per cent tts Finding one afternoon each week for the sale of diamonds not sufficient to supply the demand, I have decided to devote the hour between 3 and 4 P. SI., daily, for the sale of diamonds at auction at 533 Smithfieid Street, JURYMEN MUST WORK Jadge Stowe Proposes to Stop the Practice of the Dodgers. APBAID OP HIS BRIDE'S EEC0ED. Final Distribution of llis3 Holmes' Estate Among Charities. ALL THE NEWS OP THE C0DNTT COURTS The usually calm and pleasant manner of Judge Stowe, who is presiding over Crimi nal Court, was slightly ruffled yesterday over the defaulting actions of several jurors. About 4 o'clock a jury was called and only eight members could be obtained. Judge Stowe then demanded from the clerk the names of those who failed to answer, saying at the same time that he understood that certain jurors made a habit of answer ing the roll call in the morning and then quietly slipping away without doing any duty. This he characterized as an injustice that he proposed to stop it he had to resort to severe measures. His Honor then handed down the names of William Hasley, G. M. Buck, Edward Gallagher, Patrick Allen and Jacob Mensinger, and ordered that their names be stricken off the pay roll for the day. HE HAD A STOBY TO TELL. William Stafford, a five-foot colored man, appeared before the bar aud pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault and bat tery on Annie Robinson, a colored woman. The woman was backed up by several wit nesses, who testified that Stafford knocked Mrs. Bobinson down and then jumped on her face, abusing her in a brutal manner. When the defendant was asked for his Bide of the story he proceeded to deliver quite a lengthy speech, in which he stated he had been engaged to marry Mrs. Bobin son, bnt on the advice of her son broke off the engagement, because the boy told him that his mother had been married four times and would make matters very hot for him. JUDGE STOWE ENDED THE ARGUMENT. The defendant denied positively jumping on the woman's face, and was preparing to go into an argument of the matter when Judge Stowe interrupted and said he thought about six months in the workhonse would do Mr. Stafford good. The prisoner was then led back to the box. George Mutzo, tried for felonious assault and battery on Andrew Shedlok, was found not guilty. The jury is out in the case of George F. Alstadt, charged with felonious assault and battery on Albert Sunsbury. John Golden was acquitted of a charge of keeping a ferocious dog, preferred by John Morley. John G. Foster pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery, and was fined $1 and costs. ' FOB CHARITY'S SAKE. Final Distribution of the Estate of Miss Jane Holmes. ' In the Orphans' Court yesterday a decree of distribution of the balance of the estate of the late Jane Holmes, in the hands of the executors, was made. Those receiving bequests under the dis tribution are the Protestant Orphan Asy lum of Pittsburg and Allegheny, $6,250; West Penn Hospital, $500; Home for Aged Protestant Women, $6,250; Home for Aged Protestants, $6,250; Home for Colored Children, $2,500; Church Home Associa tion, $2,500; Homeopathic Hospital, $2,500; Home for Incurables, $12,500; Pittsburg Free Dispensary, $2,500; West Penn Insti tution for Deaf and Dumb, $6,250; Domestic and Foreign Missions, P. E. Church, $2,500; Home for the Friendless, $12,500; Pittsburg Hospital for Children, $5,000; West Penn Institute for the Blind, $5,000. A balance of $6,496 10 is left in the hands of the execu tors for distribution on the further order of court The total amount was $81,496 10. BICHABDS0H IK BEQUEST. The Ohio Authorities "Want Him, and Thero Are Charges Fending Here. The hearing in the habeas corpus case to secure the release of Bobert Bichardson, the boy wanted in Ohio, was resnmed yesterday before Judge Ewing. W. D. Moore, Esq., the boy's attorney, did not appear. Inspector McAleese and Sheriff Crilly, of Licking county, O., were present, and gave the court the papers in the case. Sheriff Crilly bad a request from the Governor of Ohio for the prisoner, and stated that he wanted to take him back. After some preliminaries Judge Ewing remanded the prisoner until Friday to give the Sheriff an opportunitv to get th'e requisi tion papers approved by Governor Beaver. In the meantime Judge Ewing directed Cleric Armstrong to look up the record in the Criminal Court in the cases against Bichardson, in one of which, for burglary, sentence was suspended, and in the other, larceny, the boy is under bail for trial. THE GBAND JOEY'S BUSY DAY. A Number of Indictment Sustained While Quite a Few Are Ignored. The Grand Jury yesterday returned the following true bills: Mary Burke, selling liquor without license and on Sunday; Robert Brown, lelonious assault aud bat tery; Charles Coleman, pointing fire arms; George Daughcrty, larceny and receiving stolen goods; John J. Fisher, embezzlement; Charles Gardner and Curtis Hessner, assault and battery; Charles Rosenthal, assault and battery; Edwin L. Luess, mis demeanor. The following bills were ignored: Will iam L. Brown, John Cline, John Jonlouf, George Kennedy, Fred Myers, Thomas Robertson, O. S. Richards, assanlt and battery; Mary Ann Ford, perjury; G. W. Coywood, false pretense; John Cline, Curtis Hessner, Patrick McGann, larceny and re ceiving stolen goods; Charles Lenk, selling liquor on Sunday. EIGHTS LIKE A VETERAN. A Lady Member of a G. A. K. Circle Snes for Heavy Damages. Miss Nannie Litz yesterday filed a suit for $2,000 damages against Bessie Atkinson, Mrs. Mary Sauppe and Mrs. Margaret Dougherty. The plaintiff olaims that the defendants are members of General Griffin Circle, G. A. B., and that they conspired to injure her and circulated false stories about her and preferred false charges against her, having her expelled from the organization. SEVERING MARRIAGE TIES. Six Unhappy Couples Obtain Freedom on, tho Ground of Desertion. In Common Pleas Court No. 2 yesterday six divorces were granted. They were in the cases of Lillie I. Alexander against James W. Alexander, Jacob W. Diehl against Annie E. O. Diehl, Julia Winters against Henry Winters, Laura Bees against John Bees, Abble Dnpell against Frank D.npell and Henry J. Bartley against Martha L. Bartley. Desertion was the allegation in all the cases. HAD H0H0B3 THRTJ8T UPON HIM. D. I Gillespie Wants to he Relieved From a ro<ion He Did No t Seek. ; D.L. Gillespie yesterday filed a petition asking to be -relierecUas auignee-of Ji.pJ 18, 1890. Strouss, L.L. Satler and Louis Moeser,com prising the Pittsburg Lumber Company. Mr. Gillespie stated that he did not know that be had been selected as assignee until the deed of assignment had been recorded, and he could not attend to the duties with out prejudice to his own affairs. FIGHTIHG TO SAVE KTIICT. The Convicted Murderer of Mrs. Rndert Appeals to the Supreme Court. An appeal to the Supreme Court was taken yesterday in the case of Alex Killen, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. Budert at Tarentum. A certificate of the appeal was sent to Governor Beaver, who has the record of the case in his hands for the issuing of a death warrant To-Day's Andlt List Estate of John Dietz, Arthur Hobson, Grizella Swan, O. F.Willlson. George K. White, C. Faulkner, James K. Crow, Annie Marker, Harrison Hnltz, Laura Ewing, Gerhard Btratman, Joseph Chadwick, Gottleib Pfeifler, Nancy McConnlck, Mason Jasper, Margaret White, Mary E. Hein. Brutus .Lloyd, Andrew W. Boyd, Accountant Rosina Dietz. James A. Sholes. John Swan. Elizabeth Willlson. "Win. Reaetal. Olive Geyer. Mary E. Crow. Charles Merker. David Bigg s. D. K. Ewlne. James Stratman. K. and J. S. Chadwick. Jacob Pieiffer. F. H. Stevenson. J. J. Flannery. Wm. White, Jr. P. B. Keilly. W. 8. Jones. It M. Blackburn. To-Day's Trial lists. Common Fleas No. I Van Voorhis vs Pitts burg Southern Coal Company; McKay vs Gudmlskyetal; Doyle vs Heineretal; Evans, guardian, vs Kilgore; Gallon & Co. vs Hcppley & Son; Goff vs Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company: Reese vs Clark: Roseferzet uxvs City of Pittsburg: Thompson vs City of Pitts burg; Gombox et ux vs Bonyasz. Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Andy Buta John alias Mike Butas, Paul Selleck, Jacob Collenins, Joseph McConnlck, Stella Mc Cormlck. Alonzo Ajnett, Elizabeth Barns, James McCord. 'Wlllaim J. and Harry King, John Thompson, Joseph M.Robinson. Wesley Greer, Rebecca Hoyt, L. Bretbauer, JohnBnto, Ralph Getty, Samuel 'O. Dewoody alias Evans, Anna James, James P. Morrison, Annie Smith, F. W.Miller, Dr. G. Tell (2), George Zimmer man, Henry Meyer. LITTLE LEQAL BBIEFS. Alex C. King, for use of Sarah King, ad ministratrix, yesterday revived a judgment against Katharine R. Negley for 513,170. In the suit of Rebecca, Davidson and others against the city of Pittsburg, an appeal from the assessment for the grading of Grazier street the jury disagreed yesterday and was discharged. This will necessitate a second trial of the case. W. A. Thompson, yesterday, received a vir diet for 31,350 in bis suit against the Imperial Coal Company for damages for Injuries to his farming land caused by the defendants' mining operations on the farm. A QUESTION WELL ANSWERED. In What Respect is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Better Than Any 'Other? We "Will Tell Ton. It is the only remedy that will liquefy the tough, tenacious mucus incident to colds, and render it easy to expectorate. It is the only remedy that will cause the expulsion of mucus from the air cells of the lungs. It is the only remedy that will counteract the effect of a severe cold and greatly miti gate, if not effectually enre, the cold within one day's time. To dp this it must be used as soon as the first symptoms of the cold appear. It will cure a severe cold in less time than any other treatment It is the only remedy that will prevent cronp. It is the only remedy that has cured thou sands of cases of croup without a single fail ure. It is the only remedy that will prevent all dangerous consequences from whooping cough. It is pleasant and safe to take. There is not the least danger in giving it to children in large and frequent doses which are al ways required in cases of croup and some times for whooping cough. It is put up in large bottles for the price. Many persons who have used it for years and know from experience its true value. say that a 50-cent bottle of Chamberlain's Co'ugh Remedy will go further toward curing severe colds, and do more real good than a dollar bottle of any other cough med icine they have ever used. Thsn Natural Gas Cut Glass. Everybody says that we have the largest and best collection in town, and everybody is surprised at our assortment. You are in vited to come in and see it The largest bowls and the largest collection of bowls we can show you. Then our assortment of tumblers, wines, clarets, goblets, and so many other things in our famous natural gas cut glass is complete, at Habdt & Hates', Jewelers, Silversmiths and Art Dealers, 529 Smithfieid street. "Store open every evening until Christ mas." TTS Jnst In Time for Christmas. Our last importation of table linens for this season. Beautiful satin-finished, double damask cloths and napkins, In the celebrated "Dum fermline" make. Matched sets, cloths and napkins, from $6 50 to $21. Jos. Hobne & Co., 609-621 Penn Avenue. Extra Grades Fine Umbrellas. 28-inch gloria covers with choice natural sticcs and metals, $1 50, $1 65, $1 85. 28-inch silk umbrellas with silver monnt ings, $2 75 and $3 25. 23-inch extra grade silk covers in extra fine handles, walrns, horn, hammered metals, etc., $5 50, $fi, $7 50. Make your selection early to get choice handles. Bibeb & Easton. With fine well-stocked warerooms, com prising a complete assortment of foreign and domestic wines and liquors of the best brands known to the trade, the house of T. D. Casey Si Co. offers to its holiday patrons an opportunity of purchasing genuine pure' liquors at a moderate price. Call at 971 Libertystreet aud examine the stock, wsu B.&B. Men's gloves: "Dent's walking gloves, $1 50. $2 00; Fisk, Clark & Flagg's gloves, $2 00. A great chance to bny choice goods lor your gentlemen friends. Bogqs & Buhl. See Oar 85 Umbrellas. Thousands of them, fine Windsor silk, for ladies and gentlemen; every imaginable shape of handle, in ivory, horn, bone, nat ural wood, silver deposit, oxidized silver, etc., etc. The biggest lots and best values ever offered. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s, Penn Avenue Stores. Black goods our splendid line's of novelties and staples, all at reduced prices during this month. tissu Htjous & Hacke. Alleoiiknt ladies, you are invited to Inspect the Christmas display of blankets, comforts and quilts at Arthur, Schondel myer Ss Co.'s,' 68 and 70 Ohio street, Alle gheny. TTS Retail Department Open, ready for business. Betmee & BEOS., 508-510-512 Wood street PABisj-obes and combination patterns; splendid assortments and extraordinary values. $12 50 to $30 now for patterns that formerly were $18 to $50. itssu Huons & Hacke. Handsome Christmas Present Pickerings will give a handsome $3 plush album as a Christmas gift on all sales of $10 or over for a period pf tea dsjioajy. jixhsj NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. AT M'CLOY'S Customers are not enticed into buying goods by being offered Five and Ten-Cent Toys gratis with everv purchase. We give something to our patrons that every man, woman and child can make good use of, and that is a HANDSOME RE DUCTION on prices. We wish to make known to those who intend REMEM BERING their mothers, sisters, brothers, sweethearts, etc., between now and Xmas that we may just have the line of goods vou perhaps would want to see before selecting your presents. Oar Five-Story Building is packed from cellar to attic with Fine Holiday Goods suitable for both young and old. We have the best selected goods in our line to be seen anvwhere. We will astonish people on and after TTJESD AT, DECEMBER 16, with our extraordinary bargains. Drop around. Goods will be cheerfully shown whether you intend purchas ing or not Below are some of our Bargains that may interest you. If you cannot make use of these prices yourself, please tell some of your friends about them. Bear in mind, these prices do not go into effect before Tuesday, December 16, and to con tinue on np to Xmas eve if we are not cleaned out: When you are in ask to see Our 60c Toilet Case, worth $1. Our $1 Toilet Case, worth 52. Our $1 50 Toilet Case, worth $3. Our 75c Shaving Set, worth $1 50. (Consisting of razor, mug and brush.) Our $1 Shaving Set beats them all. We also have finer cases in proportion. Our 75c Odor Case (plush with two bottles cologne). Our 35c brass Smoker's Set (three parts). Our 75c plush Collar and Cuff Box. Our $1 genuine all-leather combined Col lar and Cuff Box. Also a number of other styles at equally low prices. Onr 35c Whisk Broom and Oxidized Holder. Our $1 Whisk Broom and Oxidized Holder. Here is where we do ourselves proud, and that is on JUVENILE BOOKS. All the following books are handsomely illustrated and well bound. Ask to see our 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25c books. Don't forget to look at our 50c and $1 Mo rocco Leather Bible. Also our $1 50 and $3 75 FAMILY BIBLE. Take notice to our 75c and $3 50 plush Paper Boxes, containing 24 sheets of paper and 24 envelopes. STATIDNEE, DIAMOND AND SMTTHFIELD STBEETa P. S. If you know what the tumbling of stocks is that's what this means. del5-152-MTUTh 01811 AND COMPANY Are cordially invited to call at once and examine our massive display of Holiday Gifts. We can show you gifts suitable for the old and yonng, and at the very lowest prices. Onr line of watches is unexcelled by any hocse in this city. Diamonds in enormous quantities,and Rings, Eardrops, Lace Pins, CbaiDS. Bracelets, Charms, Silverware of every description, Clocks and Bronzes, at unheard-of low figures. Remember the name and numbers. :e: simiit, FIVE STORES X2V ONE. 932 and 934 Liberty St and 703, 705 and 707 Smithfieid. deU-ThSq LAIRD'S GRAND DISPLAY THE UNIVERSAL ATTRACTION. CHRISTMAS SLIPPERS, Unparalleled Bargain Sale. THE MOST SUPERB, EXTENSIVE AND AT TRACTIVE ASSORTMENT EVER SHOWN IN PITTSBURG. Elegant Embroidered Slippers. 1,800 pairs, at 50o, 65c, 76o, 81, 81 25 and 81 50. All the newest and pretty patterns. Choice Leather Slippers, 1,600 pairs at 75c, 81, 81 25, 81 50 and 82. Patent Calf, Ooze Calf, Goat, Dongola. 'Fine Alligator Slippers, 1,200 pairs, at 81 25, 81 50, 82 82 50 and 83. Black, Maroon, Tan, Russian; all colors. Every Style, Every Size, Every Price. All can be suited. None need go away disappointed. We have not time nor space to mention our immense stock of Boots and Shoes and Rubber Foot Wear, but if you invest one dollar or upwards it will pay you to visit Laird's. W. M . L A I R D, 406, 408, 410 ) Eetail f NEW RETAIL, MARKET STREET. J Stores, 433 WOOD ST. Wholesale Store, 515 Wood Street. "DEALERS ARE CORDIALLY SOLICITED TO LOOK THROUGH "OUR IMMENSE WHOLE SALE STOCK OR ORDER BY MAIL. QUANTITY AND SIZES TO SUIT AT LOWEST PRICES TO CASH OR 30-DAY BUYERS. Stores Open Every Evening Till Christmas. rOFf ICE OUTFITTERS. We have the neatest line of Picture) Frames ever shown in this city. Ask to see onr 20c brass frames, full size. Ask to see our 35c silver frames, full size. We have a choice line of Lap Writing Tablets; prices range from 10c to $1. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. We have almost bnilt up 'our reputation on the line of Photograph Albnms we al ways have. The price is the only cheap tbing about them. Ask to see those we are selling for 50, 60, 75c, $1, $1 50 and $1 75. Also the higher priced. We have a $5 al bum, what we call the D. L. Album. "She is a daisy." We also have quite a nice line of Autograph Albums. While strolling through our stores glance at our 25 and 50c Inkstands. The following articles will be fonnd at our place in endless variety: Black Boards, Album Easels, Games for Children, Chess and Cheokers, Magic Lanterns, ABC Blocks, Toy Books. Bee our Kindergarten Mechanical Speller. Half of onr second floor is being devoted to Xmas Cards. 25c will buy a package containing 20 fine embossed Xmas Cards. No stairs to climb to reach our upper floors. Take elevator. Our force of salesmen and salesladies is extra large now. Yon will find them all to be courteous, affable and willing to accom modate your wants in every possible way. Remember the special reduction sale be gins Tuesday, December 16. del3-Trssu U.S. DOCUMENT FILES Furnish the best system known for VOUCHERS AND FOLDED PAPERS. "We furnish also METAL ROLLER BOOK-SHELVES. If too bare an office or a ranis to furnish, don't fan to call on or address OFFICE SPECIALTY CO., , u 105, XMiaATenuoWeaj Wood.) itPl Vs 4
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