THE PITTSBURG-" DISPATCH . SJJNDAY, EEBRTJART , 8? 189L
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SUICIDED II PBiSO
A 14-TcartHd Russian Girl Who
Led a Riotous Hob in the
Streets of Odessa
ARRESTED AND DRIVES TO DEATH.
Secret of the Strong Opposition of Some
Americans to the McKinlej
Tariff Bill.
ENGLAND RECOVEKS FK03I ITS FANIC.
As Usfleuut
Experience ia
Ion.
i Cscntry Hotel is
Serpius Stepniak is a splendid conversa
tionalist, and he tells stories of cruelties to
political convicts to friends or chance ac
quaintances with eTideut pleasure.
While recitinc incidents that have come
under his personal observation or in which
he was nn actor his eves snap, and he seems
to he living the old life over again. A Dis
patch reporter had the pleasure of a long
conversation with this gentleman at the
Hotel Andcrton, and while hearing stories
of Iiauishment and death for political offenses,
profited hy Mr. fetepniat's knowledge of
1'ussia and the world in general.
One story especially illustrates the means
a Government will employ to keep itself at
the top, even by the punishment of children
too young to know oi an offense against the
nation.
"At Odessa in 1878," began Mr. Stepniak,
"a great riot was precipitated by the arrest
of Sergius ICoralsey for a political offense in
which the people were especially interested.
The police were unable to do anything with
the mob and it held full control for hours.
A Utile Girl Spurred Them On.
"A little girl named Gukorsky, yet under
33 years of age, seemed to be inspired by the
sights and ran hither and thither urging the
men to greater deeds of violence. "While on
the outskirts of the crowd she was seized by
our cf the gendarmes, but immediate'
mounted a hucc stone and made a speech to
the croud, calling them cowards if they did
not rescue her from the police. Men soon
surrounded the officers and beat them back,
carrying away iu triumph their little he
roine. "But the police knew her too we!l and not
long after she was arrested and sent to
prison. She bar! no trial, for in Kussia no
one gets a trial for a political offense. She
Tas taktn before au officer, but was not
ieua chance to ten ner story, one was
simply put in jail and could not even com
municate with any friends to tell them where
she was located.
"She was taken from one prison to an
other for two years, and at last in 18S1 she
was imprisoned in the miserable j.iil at
Krasnoiarsk. reeling that nothing could
le done tor her, she grew despondent and in
March of that year committed suicide, after
only havi:g reached her 14th year. A
child so young as she certainly could not
"wilfully break the laws and such cases as
these only drive Nihilists on.
Treatment or tho Hebrews.
"In Russia the Hebrews are discriminated
against. In 1884 Isaac Sklorsky purchased
a paper from another man and also received
two pamphlets, very harmless things, too.
The man informed on him and as he refused
to teil what had become of the two pamph
lets he was arrested. Later he was released
on bail, but :n 16&6 lie was re-arrested and
without a heariui; he was sent to Siberia.
At present he is at Srcdnekolquirk, one of
the worst places in Siberia.
"A prominent merchant at Itigo named
Liedor, a Hebrew, was very prosperous and
for many years lived happily with no
thought of trouble. In 18S4 he received a
letter lrcm a German sailor asking himto
come on ship board, the vessel then lying m
the harbor lie did so, supposing it was a
matter of business. The sailor asked him
to take charge of a package of pamphlets
which he was to deliver to another man, but
-who was not in the city at the time.
"laedor refused, ttiouch the sailor urged
that theie was no harm in it and that the re
quest had come from an old college mate.
Lienor went Home to his store and friends
and thought nothing more of the affair. In
38S3 the sailor was arrested and he told of
the transaction in the P.igo harbor.
1'rom a Honeymoon to Siberia.
"Liedor was called upon to explain his
part in the affair and told the above story.
The local poiice knew him personally and
were satisfitd that it was all right. The
renlral police were not satisfied, but did not
push the matter. Licdor was released.
"In 18ST he was married to a beautiful
young laiiy, and nis wedding was a grand
ofiair. But he was unomed to come under
the pale ol the iaw, and w hile yet ou his
honeymoon trip, was arrested by the central
police, and in two hours was off to Oriental
Siberia, wbithcr his friends know not. The
local police weie greatly surprised at the
move, but they dared say nothing, or thev
loo would have gotten intro trouble."
Mr. Stepniak told story alter story after
the style of those quoted above, and urged
that that is good argument for a man to be
come a Nihilist and combat against the prac
tices of such a government.
LITE ON THE KOAD.
A Railroad Agent's Kxpcrlence In a Country
Hotel in Iowa.
"Of all the bad country hotels I ever
slopped at," said a railroad freight agent at
the Anderson yesterday, "the worst one was
in Dyersville, an Iowa village. I arrived
in the town about midnight, and the watch
man of the sleeping hamlet met me at the
depot. I found out afterward that he stood
in with a German who ran a la-er beer
saloon. Iowa is supposed to be a Prohibi
tion State, but Dyersville is only one of the
many towns within its borders where grog
is sold Ireely over the counters in broad day
light. "The alleged hotel was not far from the
depot, and when we got there the proprietor
had retired. The watchman banged the
door and raised all the dogs in the neigh
borhood, who howled like so many demons.
Pretty soon the old Dutchman, in neglige
autre, witn a pine Knot in nis nana, opened
the door and I walked into -the barroom.
There was no register, but I wrote my name
on a slate which was lying on the counter.
It was a cold night, and the German
soon showed me to the tireless and cheerless
room. It was long enough to admit a six
foot bedstead and a few boards patched to
gether for a washstand. But the bed was
the createst siht. An old-fashioned
leather tick that had been in use since the
clays of the ark rested on the slats, and the
red clothing exhaled the vilest odors. It
irquired a ladder to get np on top of the
I sit, and after enduring the tortnre ten min
utes I got up and tramped the streets for the
b.clance of the night. I never want to see
that town aeain."
BUILLEES TO HEW tork.
Miners Leave for Columbus and Theatrical
Companies Light Out.
About 30 local contractors and builders
Isft over the Baltimore and Ohio road last
evening in a Pullman drawing-room car for
.isewxorfc to attend the annual convention
which meets to-morrow. The car was stocked
rith plenty to cat and diiak. and Diviuoa
li
Passenger Agent Smith went with them to
see that they got through all right.
A special car containing 50 miners from
the coke country arrived here over the same
road about 9 o'clock last evening on the way
to the Columbus convention. They were
joined hereby 60 more men, and they left
at midnight on the Cincinnati theatrical ex
press. In the theatrical line this week the Balti
more and Ohio had the "Good Old Times"
compauy,23people,toKewyorK; the "Night
Owls," t. Philadelphia, and the Japanese
troupe from the "World's Museum, to Chi
cago, over the Pittsburg and Western.
Coming in was the "Crvstal Slipper" com
pany from Cincinnati in a special train;
James O'Neil and his plavers from "Wash
ington, and the City Club Vaudeville Com
pany from Philadelphia.
HAD AN AX TO GRIND.
Reason for Some of tho American Opposi
tion to the McKlnley BUI Money In
vested in Foreign Stills and Factories
Benefit of the Tariff.
"Much of the opposition to the McKin
ley bill was stirred up by Americans who
had invested capital in manufactures on
the other side," remarked a tailor yesterday.
"This is atleasttrueoftheclothingbusiness.
Within the past three years under the old
tariff laws a good deal ot home money has
been quietly put into foreign mills. Goods
were made by the ship load and sent direct
to America; certain styles and lines of arti
cles were turned out exclusively for this
country, ami were sold here, net one cents
worth going to the land in which the fac
tories were located. Shrewd men oc this
side took advantage of the low wages paid
to workmen in England, a.nd instead of in
vesting their money at home found it more
profitable to go abroad.
"It is time the price of woolen goods has
advanced, but it is only a question of time
until everything adjusts itself. The duties
on cotton goods are comparatively nothing,
so that the working classes are not affected.
It is the wealthy who wear silk underwear
and the finest clothing that have to pay a
little more for their suits, but they can
afford it, and the matter of a few dollars
with them is a mere trifle. The object cf
any tariff law should be to get the money
out of the hands of the rich and scattered
among the poorer people. To show
what the tariff has crone already, shortly
after the McEinley bill was passed, a cer
tain mill in New England doubled its
capacity, and commenced to turn
out a line of goods that
they couldn't make before. They employ a
number of extra men, and the firm has
orders ahead to keep the factory busy for a
year. Americans, instead of importing, are
buying from them, because they know that
the home product is as good as the foreign.
The rage lor imported goods, however, still
continues, and the firm simply changed the
style and label, and the customers are no
wiser. Those who won't put on anything
but silk underwear will not purcht.se it
unless they see Brussels stamped on it The
McKinley law is already showing its good
results by keeping the money in the country
and furnishing more and better employment
for workmen."
CONFIDENCE RESTORED
From the Panic Consequent on the Great
Baring Suspension England Investing
in Steel Plants in the Southern States
Ea-tern Capital Going South.
J. Davis Lewis, of this city, returned yes
terday from a four months' visit to England.
Mr. Lewis says that the financial atmos
phere has more than recovered from the
effects of the storm due to the Baring sus
pension. From what he learned of the con
dition of the firm's affairs, he understands
that the partners will have something left
after the liabilities are paid off
"The Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Union Banking Company," said Mr.
Lewis, "in addressing the stockholders at
the last meeting, relerred to what Mr. Lit
terdale, the Governor of the Bank of En
gland, had said to him in speaking of the
Baring affair. This was, in effect, that the
guarantors to the fund subscribed to assist
the firm through its difficulties, would not
be called upon tot one penny of the amount.
The London financial world has recovered
from the upset it received through the Bar
ing suspension, and the firm itself has re
gained all its old clientele, with the excep
tion ot the Russian account. Great credit
is gWen to Mr. Litterdale for his stand in
this matter. "When he called upon Lord
Salisbury and urged him to lend Govern
ment aid to the house, Salisbury replied
that it was not within the province of
Government to intenere in such mat
ters. Z 'Well, sir,' said Litterdale, rising,
'in that case I shall not be responsible
ior what may happen. Every bank in En
gland and in Europe may become involved."
This fiat statement rather startled Salisbury
and he entered at once into the subject.
Mr. Lewis says that there is a good deal of
English money being invested in this coun
try, and there is plenty more for such enter
prises as a careful investigation shows to be
reliable concerns. Englishmen go slow in
such matters and do not like to jump to
conclusions. Just at present arrangements
are being completed in London for the
erection of a blast furnace andasteel plant in
the South. The company has been lormed
and the capital subscribed. There will be
$15,000,000 put into it, principally English
money, but about 5500,000 is held in Boston.
WANTED A LAW HOUSE.
A Young Man at the Anderson Sets Will
iam Crosby Thinking.
"Is this a 'law house?" inquired a dapper
young man yesterday afternoon, stepping
up to Chief Clerk Crosby, at the Anderson
counter. He was neatly dressed in tweed,
and wore a traveling cap and a confident air,
the latter toned by a je ne sais quoi some
thing which suggested a youth of British
extraction or associations.
"Is this a 'law' house?" he repeated, as
Mr. Crosby concluded bis mental summing
up of his visitor.
"No, this is the Anderson," said Bill,
drylv.
"Ha! yes, but isn't it a 'law house,' a L.
A. W. house, you know? " reiterated the
youth.
"A law house," repeated Crosby. "Never
heard of such a thing. If you mean do we
conform to the law, we do. " What do you
want?"
"Oh. nothing! I thought I would ask,
you know, if this was a 'law house,' and
if our fellows are stopping here."
"Ii vou will take the trouble to say who
your fellows are, and who you are, and what
a 'law house is, we maytry to accommodate
you."
And then the young man explained that
he was a wheelman from Boston, a member
of the Legion of American Wheelmen, that
his fellows were in the habit ot selecting a
hotel in each city as a rendezvous, and that
was the extent of his desire. And next the
young man registered, despite the Jact that
the Anderson was not a "law" house.
A NESVOUS THAVELES'S PLAINT.
He Objects to the Suggestive Signs Posted
Along liailroad Tracks.
"Why is it," asked a nervous traveler at
the Union depot yesterday, "that whenever
a train is running particularly fast on a
curve, themost prominent feature of the
landscape is an advertisement advising you
to go to Smith's for artifical limbs?"
The ticket seller gave, it up, and the
nervous traveler went out to get a compos
ing draught.
BELAXATI0J? FOE BUST MErT.
Chief Blgeloir Considers It a Duty
to
Applaud a Ball Player's Efforts.
"I like to watch a good game of base
ball," said Chief Bigelow yesterday, "and I
find it affords a bu6y man a healthful relax
ation. I don't know much about the game,
but when I see a player accept every oppor
tunity given him to help win the game, I
feel it a duty to make known my apprecia
tion of his efforts."
PEAISE AND ESTEEM.
Ei-Superinlendenl Hoffman 'Gets a
Gift From Duqnesne Employes.
KEW MODE OP CASTING IKGOTS.
Operators Going to Harrisburg to Oppose
the Liability Bill.
A LOCAL. HATTER'S TROUBLE SETTLED
J. L. Hoffman, late Superintendent of
the Duquesne Steel Mill, was presented
with a beautiful silver tea service last night
at Wilkinsburg by a committee represent
ing the employes of the mill in apprecia
tion ol the esteem in which he was held by
the men. Mr. J. W. Donbleday, Secretary
of the company, made the presenta
tion in a neat speech. He
was glad to bear testimony to
the kindly feeling which characterized the
relations between Mr. Hoffman and his co
workers, and was witness of the pleasure
with which the men took occasion to put
their appreciation of his efforts in their be
half in a tangible form.
Mr. Hoffman was taken quite by suprise
and hardly found words in which to ex
press his thanks. He said that he would
long remember his association with
the workers in the steel mill and could
heartily say that the men under his
control were true men in every sense of the
word. The company passed a pleasant even
ing in singing, and were treated to refresh
ments by their host.- The committee consist
ed of Messrs. Gray, McDonald, Davis. Saw
yer, Boulton, Folev, Korris, Livingood,
Uarr, Millslacle, Collier, Miller, Emmert,
Richardson, Nebinger, Evans and Beddow.
HO MOEE UJIS0UND INGOTS.
Jfew Method by Which Steel Can Be Cast
Without Cavities.
A very Ingenius device has been intro
duced that will prove of great value to
Pittsburg steel manufacturers. In the for
mation of cast steel ingots, especially those
containing a large proportion of carbon, it
is common for the shrinkage of the metal
when poured into the ingot mold, to form a
cavity or cavities in the upper end of the
ingot, and, if such cavity be exposed to the
atmosphere, its walls become speedily oxi
dized and in that condition are incapable of
welding closely together.
The new idea is to chill the top of the cast
ing and then turn the ingot upside down be
fore it is solidified. The cavity then forms
in the other end of the ingot, where its walls
are fully protected against the oxidizing in
fluences of the atmosphere. The molds are
arranged in such a manner that the cavity
is formed in a stud or projection atone end
of the ingot, in order to protect the metal
first poured in from hardening too rapidly a
cup of refractory material is placed in the
bottom of the molrt
EEEC1IITG HEW C0HVESTEBS.
Edgar Thomson Steel Works Closed Sown
for Extensive Repairs.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at
Braddock, was temporarily closed down
yesterday for repairs. The shutdown may
last a month. During that time three new
converters will be put in and a trestle will
be erected in the back of the mill to run the
hot metal into the converting department.
A new engine will also be placed to run
2fo. 2 rolls.
At the Homestead mills preparations -re
about complete to begin work ou the Gov
ernment's order for 6,000 tons of armor
plate, and that work will soon be com
menced. The total amount to be received
hv the firm for the work will be about
$3,500,000. A different method from that
employed at the Bethlehem Steel Works
will be adopted in getting out the order.
GETTING DOWH TO WOHK.
Several Labor Unions Indorse the Park
Memorial Scheme. '
There was a large attendance at the meet
inc of the Central Trades Council last night
The Executive Board recommended that ar
rangements be made with English and Ger
man speakers to address the Council on
labor topics, and, if possible, an open meet
ing will be held on Saturday, February 21,
to which everybody will be invited.
Several delegates reported that their
unions had endorsed the Schenlev Park me
morial project and it was decided to put the
movement in shape for action as soon as pos
sible. Structural Ironworkers Organize.
The structural ironworkers of the city
have been organized into a union nmlw tin
jurisdiction of the American Federation of
juaoor, ana may snortiy De connected with
the Building "Trades Council. The new
union was formed for the purpose of organ
izing all men engaged on structural work
on the various large buildings in the citv.
Trade Looking Brighter.
A local manufacturer said yesterday that
he thought the course of the retail market
which has been steadily downward for sev
eral weeks past, has struck bottom and that
in the near future there will be a revival.
When manufacturers begin to hold back
iron, there is an indication of hopes that
better times are ahead, and that is what
some of the local mills are doing.
For the Widows and Orphans.
A concert was given in Old CityHall last
night by the Old Plantation Jubilee
Sineers, of Boston, for the benefit of the
widows and orphans made bv the Mammoth
mine disaster. There was a fair audience I
present, and a splendid concert was given by
the colored folks. The lunds were turned
over to II. D. Lavton.
The Fight to Continue.
A pretty controversy has been started be
tween the operators and miners over the con
ditions surrounding the Monongahela
strike. Outside of the controversv there is
nothing new in the fight, except possibly
that each side has gained increased confi
dencel The men say the fight will be con
tinued. Gathering Glass Statistics.
H. L. Ihmsen, of this city; James C.
Brittain, of Hartford, Coun.; Lucien Smith,
of St, Paul, Minn., Leonard Tilden, of
New Hamshire, and George Walters, of
Iowa, are in the cuyio gather statistics and
make a special report to the Government on
the glass industry.
Contract for a Furnace.
Riter & Conley, ot this city, have re
ceived the contract for the erection of a No.
2 Swede furnace for Richard Heckscher &
Sons, of Swedeland, Pa. The furnace will
be 15x50 feet, and the contract includes
all pipe connected with it.
Eastern Corkworkers Organize.
Hirry E. Sncidel, Secretary o D. A. 3.,
K. of L., received information from New
York yesterday to the effect that the cork
workers of that city have been organized into
the Knights, and that three new factories
will hereafter be knqwn as union shops.
Want to Be Select.
The hod carriers are considering the ad
visability of forming a national organiza
tion, and to exclnde from their numbers all
laborers and others who are not actually
engaged in the trade.
Three Score Tears Old.
- njjejjntendent Nicholjof the Pittsburg.
Bridge Works, was 60 years of age Friday.
In the evening he entertained his friends at
his residence on Forty-fifth street.
ABBITBATED THE MATTER
The K. ofl Withdraws Their Objections to
a Ijocal Ilatter.
The difficulty between the Knights of
Labor and a certain Smithfield street fur
nisher, which has existed for several weeks,
was satisfactorily settled yesterday. Themat
ter was referred to a board of arbitrators yes
terday.and a meeting was held, which lasted
the greater portion of the day. It resulted
in the arbitrators securing the furnisher s
signature to an agreement to give the prefer
ence to members of the K. of L. when em
ploving help.
This disposition of the case is a dual vic
tory for D. A. 3, which was not only fight
ing against the store, which they claimed to
be employing non-union men, but also
against the organization known as
the Retail Clerks Union, which was but re
cently organized. Master Workman
Evans, while not admitting that there is an
open fight against the union, was greatly
pleased at his victory and said that a few
more of the same kind wonld show where
theK. of L. stand.
THEY'HE GOING FOE PLEASURE.
Operators Sent to Harriiburg to Oppose
the Liability Measure. .
Roger Hartley, Thomas Wood and Alex
ander Dempster have been appointed a com
mittee to visit Harrisburg for the purpose
of opposing the bill providing for a tax of
1 cent a ton on coal mined.
One of these gcutlemen said yesterday
afternoon that he did not believe the bill
will pass, and if it does he is satisfied Gov
ernor Pattison will not approve it.
GOULD'S SOUTHERN TRIP.
Probability of It Ending by a Blending of
Interests Between the Baltimore and
Ohio, Richmond Terminal and Louis
ville and Xashville Boads.
Jay Gould's Southern trip, occurring
concurrently with the purchase of the Pitts
burg and Western road by the Baltimore
and Ohio people, is creating more than usual
interest in railroad circles. Gould is accom
panied by John H. Inman, President of the
Richmond Terminal system; Calvin S.
Brice, and President Norton, of the Louis
ville and Nashville road, and the object of
the trip is said to be for the purpose of
bringing about traffic arrangements between
the Baltimore and Ohio and the Richmond
Terminal.
The latter's only direct route from Wash
ington to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York is over the Pennsylvania road. The
Pennsylvania Railroad has alwavs derived
a large part of its revenue from the South,
and both the Piedmont air line and the
Atlantic coast line run over this system.
The Piedmont line is a part of the Terminal
system, which has been showing the Balti
more and Ohio more or less favor for some
time past.
Mr. Gould, not long ago, purchased a
large interest in the Richmond Terminal,
and the President of that system has for sev
eral years been trying to effect a deal with
the Baltimore and Ohio people. The latter
company lately surveyed a line from a
point in- the Metropolitan branch to Alex
andria, Va., with a view of building a road
to connect with the Richmond and Danville.
President Inman has admitted that
negotiations in this direction were pendiu?.
and Gould's interest in the Terminal, taken
in conjunction with it, would make it ap
pear as if a strong rival were looming up lor
a considerable share of the Pennsylvania
receipts. It is also rumored that these gen
tlemen are negotiating for the purchase of
the Louisville and Nashville. If this oc
curs the road will become a part of the
Richmond Terminal. Should both negotia
tions be accomplished the Pennsylvania
road would lose all the east-bound traffic of
the Louisville and Nashville from Cincin'
nati and the bulk of the Terminal business,
all of which is now bandied by the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
The Baltimore and Ohio people, as cus
tomary with them, preserve silence on all
these matters. President Roberts, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, is credited with
being uneasy at the prospect of the alliance,
and fears that the already well-known un
derstanding between the Richmond Ter
minal and the Baltimore and Ohio may be
strengthened to the disadvantage of" his
line.
EXTENDING HIS LINE.
More Kails Will Be Laid on the Cotton Belt
Route in the Spring.
F. W. Fordyce, President of the St. Luis,
Arkansas and Texas road, passed through
the city last evening, bound for New York.
Mr. Fordyce said his road was now 1,300
miles long, and in the spring extensions
would be made to Dallas and Ft. Worth.
At least 50 per cent of the road's traffic is
white pine lumber, which comes from Ar
kansas; 10 per cent is cotton and the bal
ance is general freight. Last year Mr. For
dyce says the cotton shipments amounted
to 300,000 Dale. He thinks the outlook tor
the railroad business is good, though the
freight moving in the Southwest at present
is licht.
Mr. Fordyce was born in Ohio, and went
to school in the early days at Uniontown.
It was before railroads were built, and he took
pleasure in telling how the boys used to go
home during their vacations on the rivers.
They went to Brownsville on the packets
and crossed over by stage to Uniontown, a
distance of 12 miles or more. About this
time the Pittsburg and Connellsville road
was built, and Mr. Fordyce said the school
boys decided to go home by rail. The river
captain declared he would carry them for
the railroad rate and give them their meals
in the bargain. The offer was accepted, but
the boat struck a sand bar and was held tor
three days. The captain, however, was
game and lived up to his part of the con
tract. THE ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT.
Grand Army Men Meet to Preparo for the
Occasion Bo3'er for Commander.
The commanders and delegates from the
Grand Army posts of Allegheny county as
sembled in the Common Council chamber,
this city, last night to arrange for transpor
tation to the State Encampment at Altoona
on the 24th and 25thof the month. W. J.
Patterson, of 157, was chosen Chairman, and
A. P. Burchfield, of 162, Secretary. Com
rades Lambert, of 3, Jones, ol 151, and
Sample, of 128, were appointed a Committee
on Transportation. The time of departure
for Altoona was fixed for 4:30 r. M.
The delegation unanimously voted to sup
port George K. Bozer, of 58, Harrisbarg,
for department commander. Commander
Lambie, ol 3, was selected to submit Bozer's
nomination at the encampment. W. J.
Patterson was unanimously nominated for
a member of the department council of
administration. Comrade Bengough made
an address in favor of holding a joint
meeting of all posts in the country to cele
brate the anniversary of the organization of
the order. Representatives of the posts
will meet next Saturday in CityHall to
consider the proposal.
A PLEASANT EEMEMBBAHCE.
General Agent Lawrenco Presented With a
Gold Watch.
H. J. Lawrence, the new General Agent
of the Lake Shore road, was remembered
yesterday by his old comrades in the Balti
more and Ohio freight office,, where he for
merly worked. Mr. Lawrence was called
in and presented with a fine gold watch as a
mai. vi tueir esteem. a.ne present was I
whollv nnexnected. bnt !t i mnr.fi ann- I
ciated by him. ' ' j
Mr. Lawrence is an old freight man, aadj
is jexjrjpj)Dnronx.thje,raUroad boys.
NOT JODGES ENOUGH.
The Bar Association Kecomraends the
Creation of a New Court,
BECAUSE OP PRESSURE OP WilT
Due to Licensing Being Added to the Duties
of the Bench.
ADDRESS TO LAWYERS BY A PRL'ACHER
At the meeting of the Bar Association
yesterday resolutions were passed declaring
the number of judges insufficient; that an
other court should be formed, and that the
President of the association should appoint
a committee to see to the proper legislation.
Rev. Dr. Purves made an interesting ad
dress on the "Relations of the Church to the
Law."
The matter in connection with the jury
commission bill that of selecting and draw
ing jurors was referred to the Legislative
Committee. Nominations of officers to be
elected at the Match meeting were made.
The names suggested were: President, S.
A. McClung; Vice President, M. A. Wood
ward, Josiah Cohen; Secretary, E. Y. Breck;
Treasurer, W. S. Pier; Executive Commit
tee (five to elect), Louis McMullen, E. W.
Smith, J. A. Evans, J. D. Shaeffer, E. Z.
Smith, W. A. Boothe, S. U. Trent, F. C,
McGirr, A. Y. Smith, W. K. Shiras, W.
L. Chalfant and E. E. Cotton.
Action Taken on New Members.
A. M. Neeper was elected a member of
the association. The Executive Committee
reported favorably on the names of Thomas
H. Douglass, R. B. Loory. Hon. J. W.
Over and J. C. Boyer. The names of A.
Lee Webb, Robert H. Douglass, S. Newton
Petrie, W. L. Bird and A. L. Pearson were
proposed for membership. The President
of the association was authorized to appoint
a committee to consider the advisabilitv of
celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the
association, which occurs on February 2a.
The appointment will, presumably, be made
to-morrow. A resolution was passed re
questing the Governor to reappoint S. C.
Luty court interpreter. The Committee on
Resolutions offered the following:
Wiikbgas, There has been no Increase in
the number of Jndges in the Courts of Com
mon Pleas of Allegheny county since the year
A D. 1871, during which period tho population
of tho county has more than doubled, and the
volume of legal business has very largely in
creased; and.
Whereas, The holding of the Liquor License
Conrthasbecn recently added to the duties ot
the Judges, occupying the time of two judges
for almost two months each year, thus Interfer
ine; with tho regular buslnes of the Criminal
Cocrt, and causing delay in the trial of Impris
oned defendants and also seriously delavlDg
the civil business of tho Common Pleas
Courts:
Resolved. That the number of the Judges of
of the Courts of Common Fleas of Allegheny
county ought to be increased.
Resolved, That it is tho judgment of this
association that the need can best be supplied
by tho establishment of a separate and distinct
court, to be designated as Court of Common
Pleas No, 3. .
Resolved, That a committee be appointed by
the President of this association for the pur
pose of nrgiug the passace by the General" As
sembly of the necessary legislation.
The resolutions were adopted. The com
mittee will be appointed to-morrow.
An Address Made by Br. Forvcs.
After the transaction of considerable rou
tine business, Rev. George T. Purves, D.
D., w"ho had been invited to make an ad
dress before the association, was intro
duced. The reverend gentleman selected as
his subject "The Influence ot Early Chris
tianity Upon Law." The address was quite
lengthy and very interesting. He said that
law and theology had a common purpose,
as they both scrutinize the motives which
govern conduct; they both study the rela
tion of the individual to society; they are
both interested in the development of
liberty and in the wise establishment of
social order. The speaker detailed the
early conflict between law and church gov
ernment from the days of the early Christian
church to the age of Constautine; the re
strictions imposed on the Christian church
in the days of the Coesars; spoke of the Ro
man laws and the position in society of the
Christian church. The uninterrupted con
flict between the law and church gov
ernment was traced down to the time when
the famous edict of Milan was proclaimed.
From that date the speaker said the church
and the laws of different nations became re
conciled and the aims of each were merged
into that of the other.
The address was warmly applauded, and
a resolution of thanks to Dr. Purves was
passed.
DEATH OF A MEXICAN VETEBAN.
John Mnrphy, a, Well-known Resident of
the Hill, Succumbs to Fneumonla.
John Murphy, one of the best known
residents of the Hill, died yesterday of
pneumonia at his residence in the Eleventh
ward. Mr. Murphy was in his 70th year.
He went through the Mexican campaign
with the Second Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and acquitted himself bravely and with
honor. For many years he followed the
river, but of late advancing age has kept
him ashore.
He leaves three sons, James, John and
Frank, all well-known young men. The
funeral will take place at 8:30 a. m. to
morrow. Do You Eat?
The old saying is, money talks. Well,
I'll give vou a pointer, the following prices
will talk. Talk? Yes, more than that
They will make von jolly, laugh and grow
fat.
Business is business, and quantity
makes all the difference in the world in.
buying goods. In have bought right, aud I
am going to give you all a benefit.
All orders of ten ($10) dollars and up
ward I will give you the benefit of the fol
lowing: LOOK AT THESE PRICES:
Every article bought in my store not
proving satisfactory can be returned, and I
will cheerfully refund your money. All
goods guaranteed No. 1. Send for Febru
ary price list Order now or you will miss
these bargains:
1 can blackberries $ 5
1 cau string beans G
1 can peas 6
1 can solid packed tomatoes 6
1 can pumpnin 7
1 can genuine sugar corn 7
1 can best Lima beans 8
1 gallon New Orleans molasses 30
3 cans red salmon 25
9 lbs,white clover honey 1 00
15 lbs California dried grapes 1 00
7 lbs choice evaporated apples 1 00
12 lbs sun dried apples 1 00
4 lbs chewing tobacco 1 00
lgallon glass oil can, tin-covered 20
331b3 Butler co. buckwheat 1 00
3 lbs evaporated raspberries 1 00
4 lbs Weyman's tobacco 1 00
5 lbs tea (in all varieties) I 00
7 lb J roasted coffee (fresh ground) 1 00
50 bars pood family soap 100
Large family scale's 1 95
10-ft kit mackerel 1 00
9 cans fresh mackerel...! 1 00
1 sack family Amber flour 1 15
lsacK high grade Minnesota flour 1 45
1 bbl hteh grade Minnesota flour 0 1)5
30 bars (5 cents size) soap. 1 00
15 lb3 boneless codfish 1 00
New codfish, per lb (whole) 5
Sugar cured ham, per lb 10
Sugar cured shoulder, per ft 7
4 lbs dried corn 25
1 clothes horse (4 wings; 6 feet) 85
6-foot step ladder, complete 98
7 Ibsdessicatedcocoanut 1 00
5 fts evaporated peaches 1 00
1 packace Johnny cake flour 7
Delivered to all parts of two cities. To
parties living outside of the city will prepav
freight on all orders of flO and upward'.
Send for price list.
jAijES J. Weldoit,
No. 201 Market street,
-Corner Second aYSflue Pittsburg,.
DR. S. LUMRTWIAN
Gives a Timely Lecture.orrthe Cli
matic Diseases of Winter.
Colds and How to Trevent Them Coughs,
Their Core and Prevention.
Startlinc Mortal' Statistics Caused by Ca
tarrhal Diseases.
How Catarrh Is Caused, How Prevented,-
HowHCared.
In perhaps no other particular are the
masses of the people so recklessly neglectful
of their own interests as in the matter ol
catching cold. Not only do the great ma
jority fail to properly provide themselves
with sufficiently warm clothimr, but when a
slight cough or hawking or ruuning at the
nose warns them that a cold has been con
tracted little or no attention is paid to it.
There are, comparatively, so few people who
reiard a cold as of sufficient consequence to
require prompt and efficient medicinal treat
ment, that not only is the death rate of
the Northern States increased one-half
thereby, but our land is swarming with in
valids and half-sick people as a direct con
sequence of neglected colds.
It would seem that the love of life and
the delights of perfect health would be
sufficient inducements to any one to care
fully guard them without any warnings or
argument from the medical profession.
Who has not seen the victim of consump
tion struggling for life in the fatal grasp of
its last sjages? The unnatural brightness
nf their glassy, anxious eyes, the hectic
flush of their shrunken checks, the dilated
nostrils and deep, sepulchral voice, the
panting breath and fluttering heart, the
lrightfuliy emaciated form, the hopefulness
of the patient and the hopelessness of the
attendants all make a pathetic picture
which is far too common.
It is my positive conviction, based on
many years' experience and extended ob
servation, that nine cases out cf ten as above
described can be traced with certainty to a
neglected cold. A slight cough, a little
hoarseness, or only a sore throat, was the be
ginning, which, being neglected, led to an
end so disastrous than no pen cau eive it
adequate description.
Less terrible, but more numerous, are
cases of chronic bronchitis an incessant
cough, sometimes drv and rasnins. and
again loose, with abundant expectoration.
These people spend a large p3rt of their vi
tality in coughing, hawking and spitting,
which disturbs their sleep, deranges their
appetite, and makes them extremely dis
agreeable to everyone. Thpre is a raw,
smarty feeling in the throat and bronchial
tubes, pain and soreness in the chest, all of
which does not always prevent one irom go
ing about the usual business, but makes life
scarcely worth living, in which every day is
a weary round of disagreeable experiences.
This condition, too, is simply aud only the
result of a neglected cold, which the proper
treatment would have removed.
But by far the most numerous and most
completely wretched victims of the folly of
neglected colds are those who have chronic
catarrh in some of its many forms.
Chronic catarrh is so undoubtedly and di
rectly the result of an ordinary cold that it
would be quite correct to call chronic
catarrh a settled (orold) cold. At least
one-fourth ol the inhabitants north of 40th
degree of latitude are more or less afflicted
with catarrh in some f. rm. To say that this
vast multitude of people are miserable is to
give only a mild statcmeut of the case. I
am in receipt daily of over 50 letters from
people afflicted with catarrh, and the wretch
edness of these people, as described by their
letters, would fill a large volume. Catarrh
of the head, nose, throat, bronchial tubes,
lungs, stomach, bowels, kidneys, bladder,
womb and urethra, with all the concomit
ant and resulting disturbances of the func
tions ot the body, such as dizziness, deaf
ness, roaring in the head, loss of memory,
specks before the eyes, loss of taste and
smell, sore throat, cough, dyspepsia, diar
rhoea or consumption, weakness, pain in the
back, female weakness, "Bright's disease"
and diabetes, coustitute a list of ills that
ought to furnish an effectual lesson to all
who are yet in health.
How many lives are ruined, how many
homes made unhappy, by catarrhal dis
eases, no man can number, and the whole
trouble results from a foolish or willful neg
lect of common colds. While those reme
dies, properly used, will cure the great ma
jority of cases of chronic catarrh, chronic
bronchitis, and consumption (in its first
stages), yet as a preventive of these diseases
they are of still greater value. I do not
hesitate to guarantee that everyone who
uses Pe-ru-na at the beginning of a cold will
quickly recover, and the cold leave no trace
of damage to the system.
For a number of years my professional
dnties have compelled me to be much on the
road, traveling long distances by rail night
and day, exposed to all kinds of vicissitudes,
sleeping and eating in different hotels con
tinually, and through it all I have preserved
myself from any derangement of body re
sulting from catching cold. This could not
have been doue without Pe-ru-na. At
the slightest evidence of a cold
a few doses of Pc-ru-na invariablv
checked it. If I found myself hawking or
frequently blowing my nose, instead of let
ting it go, as the average man would do, I
always took Pe-ru na for a few days, and at
no time in my extensive travels have I
been obliged to stop a day on account of my
health.
What Pe-ru-na has done for me it will do
for every other person, and the bad results
of catching cold could in this way be re
duced to the merest fraction of their present
damage. No family or person should neglect
to keep Pe-ru-na constantly on,hand during
the cold months, and at the first appearance
ot a cold the remedy should be taken until
the symptom disappears. If this were done
niuety-uine out of every hundred of the vast
multitude of this class of chrouic invalids
would be preserved in perfect health.
Next to keeping well is getting well.
Those who, by neglect in the past have
brought upon themselves some chronic
catarrhal derangement, will find in Pe-ru-na
a remedy of more intrinsic worth than all
other catarrh remedies combined. Usually
it is only necessary to take Pc-ru-na for any
and every catarrhal disease as directed
on the label of the bottle; but, in order
to meet all possible complications and
emergencies in the cure aud prevention
of catarrh, colds, coughs, bronchitis, con
sumption, etc., a pamphlet of 32 pages
(The Family Physician No. 2), containing
my lectures, which gives in detail complete
Instructions for the use of these remedies in
this class of disorders has been prepared.
This pamphlet is sent free to any address by
The Peruna Medicine Company, of Colum
bus, O. By following the directions con
tained in this pamphlet everv person and
household can be thoroughly protected from
the baneful consequences ot our Northern
climate. Exactly what to do in every phase
of the climatic disease of winter is plainly
written out. The rapid demand for these
pamphlets from all parts of the United
States encourages me to hope that a portion
at least of the innumerable host of catarrhal
and kindred diseases will be saved from
lives of lingering disease and hopeless de
rangements. Letters of inquiry answered free.
Can you tell the best beers from others?
If so, you will certainly drink Pilsner and
lager ot the Iron City Brewery.
Houses Are Scarce This Year.
Home hunters may save perplexity, time
and car fare by consulting the special to
lets to-morrow." Thursdays and Mondays
are special rent days.
Call and examine ourtstock of furniture;
it will pay you. As our immense clearance
sale will last 15 days more, it will pay you
to purchase at once.
Michigan FnRNmTRE Co.,
437 Smithfield st
Are Ton a Judge
Of fine beer. If so, no doubt ynu know the
best comes from the Iron City Brewery.
Houses Are Scarce This Tear.
Home hunters may save perolexitv. time
and car fare by consulting tne special to
lets to-morrow. Thursdays and Mondays I
JLftie UtfojaJ jrenjLdjjs,7' -
TOAirairiT nf the sixth waed.
Democrats Expected to Indorse Nomina
tions aiade By the Itepnbllcans.
"There are great gobs of peace in the
Sixth ward," said Phillip Flinn yesterday.
"The Republicans will hold a meeting on
Tuesday evening to nominate School Direc
tors and ward officers, aud we expect that
the ticket will be indorsed by the Demo
crats." "Consequently, there is mourning among
the heelers, who are only happy when pol
itics wax warm."
O. D. Levis, Tatent Solicitor,
of No. 131 Fifth avenue, furnishes us the
following list of new patents just isued.
John Stedhan, Rochester, motorj Frank
Monroe, Pittsburg, Pa..nipple valve; Harry
Etbcridgc, Pitlsburg, Pa., autographic tele
graph; William A. McCool, Beaver Falls,
Pa., machine for straightening or polish
ing metal plates; J. T. Rowly, Johnstown,
Pa.. machine for sloping iron and steel axles.
United States and all foreign patents ou
tlined. Established in the patent business
for over 20 years. (Exclusively.)
Tour Privilege and Doty
Is fo secure some of the bargaius at Thomp
son's New York Grocery.
10 fts granulated sugar ?1 00
Extra sugar-cured hams, per lb 9
Extra susar-cured shoulders, per ft. 7
16 fts California raisins 1 00
14 fts Valencia raisins. 1 CO
G fts c va porated apricots 1 00
54 fts California peache 1 00
Pineground pepper, per ft 12J
Choice Orleaus molasses, per gallon 33
Choice Honey Drip syruns, per gal. 33
15 fts granulated sal soda 25
50 bars good scrubbing soap 1 00
30 bars white floatinc soap 100
5 bottles English pickles 1 00
16 fts dried lima beans 100
12 fts cream cheese 1 00
12 cans good tomatoes 90
12 cans good sugar corn 85
5J fts large lump starch 25
12 cans good peas 75
12 cans good string beans 75
12 cans golden pnmpkin 90
California peaches, per can 20
Cal iforn ia pears, per can 20
California "apricots, per cau 18
California white cherries, per can.. 20
California black heart cherries, per
cai 20
California white grapes, percan.... 15
California egg plums, percan 15
California green gage plums, per
can is
35-lb pails apple butter. 2 00
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities. To those living out of the city we
will prepay freight on all orders of 810 and
upward to any station or lauding within 100
miles of Pittsburg. Send for price list
M. R. TrioMPSox,
301 Market street and G9 Third avenue, op
posite Gusy's.
SECOND MIDWINTER EXCURSION TO
WASHINGTON CITT,
V1.11J.&O.K.R.,
On Thursdav. February 12. Rate, $9 the
round trip. Tickets good for ten days and
valid for trip to Baltimore. Trains leave
Pittsburg at 7:25 A. M. and 920 P. at Pull
man parlor cars on day train and sleeping
cars on night train.
How to Loosen and Relieve a Cold.
No one afflicted with a throat or lung
trouble can use Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy without a beneficial effect It will
loosen and relieve a severe cold in less time
than any other treatment. There is no
danger in giving it to children, as it con
tains no injurious substance. It will pre
vent croup if used as soon as the child be
comes hoarse. 50 cent bottles. For sale by
druggists. -wsu
Building and Loan Association.
February series now open; dues 60c per
share each month. Earnings last year, over
18 per cent. Paid np stock bearing interest
from day of issue. For particulars address
E. L. Hawley, General Agent, 606 Penn
building, city.
More Pilrner beer is sold each year by
the Iron City Brewins: Company. Order by
mail or telephone 1186.
Houses Are Scarco This Tear.
Home hunters may save perplexity, time
and car fare by consulting the special to
lets to-morrow. Thursdays and Mondays
are special rent days.
VALENTINE
TO
Our Patrons.
JACKSON'S.
rOr VW-fT,
This is as good a way
as any of sending our
Valentine. The letter car
rier will thank us for re
sorting to this method,
and you are certain to re
ceive it at the risdit time.
Our Valentine will con
vey the good feelings
for our friends and custo
mers. Jackson's are man
ufacturing Spring Cloth
ing, and every garment
now in stock must be sold
to make room for spring
goods, so the hatchet falls
and $20 Suits go for $15;
$18 Suits go for $12, and
$15 Suits go for $10.
The reductions in our
Overcoat department we
will not mention, as there
are many skeptical peo
ple. For fear you'll not
believe it, come at once
and satisfy yourself.
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Star Goroer.
Je8-ws3u
NEW APVERTLSK.MF.N'rS.
ANEW METHOD
oir
Americanizing Encjclopffidias,
TheUsa of Scissors Plays an Im
portant Part Plain Talk by
the Henry G. Allen Com'y.
OVER $30(nN PRIZES!
First We will give a $j$ set
of Encyclopaedia Britannica,
30 volumes, which includes the
five volumes of American Sup
plement, the 30 volumes bound
in full Library, or one-half Rus
sia Leather, to any person
proving by comparison with
the imp or ted Britannica thatour
Reprint is not an exact repro
duction of the latest edition,
the oth.
Second We will give a $60
set of Encyclopaedia Britan
nica, 30 volumes, to any person
proving that there is any Re
print of' the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, other than that
published by the Henry G. Al
len Company.
Third We will give a S45 set
of Encycloptedia Britannica,3o
volumes, to any person proving
that the work published by a
Chicago publishing house,
and called the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, is a reprint of the
Britannica.
Fourth Another S45 set of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 30
volumes, to any person prov
ing that the work with the se
ductive title, "The American
ized" Encyclopredia Britannica
is the Britannica.
To judge from the elaborate
use of ink and paper in behalf
of the last-named work, by
one of the Pittsburg papers,
some may think that their only
aim is to prove a beacon to an
unsuspecting public. Is it pos-
sible that neither the paper nor
the publishers of the "New
Americanized" Encyclopaedia
Britannica knew that the Brit
annica had already been Amer
icanized by eminent American
writers; and so ably done, too,
that the five 5 volumes of the
American Supplement to the
Britannica, treating matters of
vital importance to Americans,
bringing the work down to re
cent date, giving biographies
of eminent living persons,called
forth commendation from the
press of Europe as well as that
of our own country!
An exhaustive Encyclopaedia
dialogue, in the paper referred
to on the 6th inst, gives a talk
between a prospective buyer of
this mutilated Chicago edition,
and a representative of the
publishers of the same, in
which the representative as
serts that TJlyssus S. Grant is
not mentioned in the Britan
nica; that it says not a word
about Sherman, Hancock,
Blaine nor Harrison, though
our supplement mentions
Harrison and states that he is
the twenty-first President of the
United States!
He continues with Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Julian Ward
Howe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Charles Stewart Parnell nor
Bismarck, nor Jefferson Davis;
and we presume if the deluded
prospective buyer had not
called, "Hold," the obliging
representative would have still
been naming eminent persons
omitted from the Britannica.
We will give $100 to any
Pittsburg benevolent institution
if there is a single one of the
above named persons omitted
from our work.
In the dialogue referred to,
replying to the inquisitor's
query, if the Britannica says
anything about anybody? the
smooth representative answers,
"Oh, yes; it contains some of
the most magnificent biog
raphies that were ever written;
McCauley's life of Johnson, for
example." But even that mag
nificent eulogy could not escape
tne pruning process employed
to reduce the work to 10 vol
umes. This was done by omit
ting from many articles in the
Britannica, paragraph after
paragraph, and giving the bal
ance of the article vetbatim.
For the benefit of the public
we would ask this Chicago pub
lishing concern to inform the
public who are .the writers or
contributors to this wonder
ful "Americanized Britannica" .
that is being foisted upon the
attention of our interested citi
zens. In all candor the Henry
G. Allen Co. will say to those
contemplating buying the En
cyclopaedia Britannica, "Look
before you leap. Examine both
before you buy."
One of the Chicago editions
is fatally mutilated, and the
other , well, it is a nonde
script. There is but one reprint of
the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
and that one is published by
m HENRI G. ALLEfl CO, M Tort
BRANCH OFFICE,
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