fjt&is.-gfssC' MARY BANKS UNITED Large Amount of Important Business Transacted at the Clearing House Every Day. MANY CHECKS OX OTHER HOUSES Eeportcd Iveiy Jlorning from Different liaiiks, and All Settled Up Until the Following Day. HOW THE WHOLE TLAX IS OPERATED. Systematic Mle of Balancing Up Is Found to Siue Hours of Labor. Money with a business man is anything ihat.will pay debts. This is not the idea, however, of filthy lucre entertained by most people, nor even by all economists w ho have irritten bool:-. Only about one-twentieth of the business of a civilized country, or at leat one that calls itself civilized, is done in coin ami bank notes. The ret is in other forms of money. The first is pecunia aud the burr peeuliuin. Anything that does the "work of money i- money, no matterwhether cashiers' checks, drafts, bills ot exchange, or niortspies. All titles to property are money end the function of banking is to facilitate the exchange of these according to the necessities of those who have them and can thereby acquire credit. The epitome of banking is the Clearing House, which by its connection with all other clearing house, unites all the princi pal banks of a city, the country and the world into one lunk. Most banks in towns or cities in this country connect themselves in one or more other cities than Xcw York and theieby beconio a part of the clearing Jiouse system ot those cities; and each is connected with some New York bank, and thereby becomes a part of the Xew York Clearing House. The New York banks, through private bankers, branches of for 3gn tanking houses, connect with London, so tliat every bank of consequence is con nceu'd with all others of consequence throughout the civilized world, and at present and for a long time past, the final CWring House of the world is, and has Ijcen. iu Ijondon, though some people think it will some day be in Xew York. "Pie clearing house in secondary cities is generally carried on in one of its banks. In this city tiie Ilank of 1'ittsburg is the one chosen. In some cities banks deposit a small per centage of their capital, but this deposit tlocs not practically lessen the capi tal of the bank making it, for the reason that the deposit is counted as a part of the reserve of the bank making it, that the law requires it to keep. THE l'LAX IN" SJIALXEIi CITIES. At a fixed hour of each day in some cities messengers from all the associated banks meet at the. Clearing House, each having every check his bank has paid during the flay previous on any other bank in the city. With his checks each messenger presents a dealing House memorandum having the name of every bank printed on it, between debtor and creditor columns. Against the name of each bank in the debtor column lue messenger, Delore he leaves Ins own bank, enter the aggregate of all the checks Iim bank ha, la the package upon that lank and carefully foots up the debtor column. The footing shows the total of the cheeks his bank ha on all other city banks, or, in other wunis, on the Clearing House. Each messenger in succession calls off the total of the checks his bank has on eali ofthe other banks. As he calls them oil, each of the other messengers enters in the creditor coluran.against the bankroll ing, the total of the checks that bank has en his batik. The list having been com pleted, each mct-scnger adds up the creditor column. The dilier"iice between creditor and debtor columns of the Clearing House memorandum each messenger has thee, shows, the amount due the Clearing House (alithe other banks) from hisbank,or to his tank Irom the I'leanns House. Xext. each messenger calls off to the Clearing House clerk the totals of the debt or or on-ditor columns of his memorandum, which the clerk enters on his records. After each iaesenger receives and verities the cheeks each of the other banks has (.gainst his, -aea gives a check to, or re ceives a check from, the Clearine House as the lialance may appear, aud the day's work of the Clearing House is ended. Thi is the plan adopted in some small cities, where the business is not large. Iu thisciu. honoier, the messenger is simplv what the title implies, and he usually is one who is learning the banking business. There arc lit of tbriu. and also there are 19 clerics who make the tabulations. niYS WHO DO THE WORK. The man who bosj.es the job is John 51. Chaplin, Clearing House Manager. The hanks represented and the gentlemen who as clerks represent them arc: EAMCS. . CLFRKS. ISank t: Pittsbunr H. 1. Fleming Kxchansre National it.ink.vl'. II. Patterson 31er. and Man. Nat. Itinfc. (Jeor'o McMnrun Citizen's. National IS.tnk...Thos. 1". Keown Iron Cit National J!;uik..Mr. J-eanuui Mechanic's National 3!nnk..Toepli S.Iiollmnn Allegheny N'ntumr. IS.ink.Mni. -Montgomery ""irst National 'Sauk Thouw C. "nggs fsecond -Nations:! ISank. . ..I. M. 1 cunjr Third National lSiii'. C. F. "UeConibs Farmer'. Deposit Nat J. '.V. Fleming Cii.oh National "(.uik V. 1'. linker IVsople Nation:! I I!.mk crman National IS-mk. First Nat. ltank ot AUe- giicm . . Mtts. Nat. Kank Com- inercc J. llohncs A. ons FiedlVay .11. P. Kunicr . .W. Hoggs ..II. C. McOdowny Trndennion"- Nat. Bank.. Diamond National Hank .j.. a. lepers -Mr. Muter .K. V". jSelfour These banks the clearing house busi ness of oilier banks, city and suburban, the latter clearing through those named, several thrmu:h one bt.nk. These 38 men, assisted b the manager, do in 20 minutes each dav whai would otherwise require the services of 200 men lor the greater part of the time gatherine in the checks. Banks which dear through other banks must put their checks into those the evening previous, or early in the morning of each day, in order to get through. The clearing house holds its short session between SISJO and 10 o'clock a. M. ISctuccn 11 and lli'O o'clock the hanks owing balances pay them and those to whom they are owed get them be tween 11 iW and 12 o'clock. Thus in j "ninnies (he hanking business of the citv and suburbs rali day, ranging from Jl'.OOO," 000 to W,ic)0,(i;io. according i the activity of trade, is settled, and mistakes are so rarely made that one not initiated is unable to comprehend how what appears at first eight a mass of complexity can be so speed ily straightened out. ursiNi:,s humaxded a niAN'on. The Pittsburg t'kariug House was es tablished in ISM, by which time the busi ness of the citj had"giown o that the olu system of each bank sending a messenger to every other bank, returning the checks on it and receiving its own and receiving or VSying the balance due. as the case might be, had grown too cumbrous You can see that it you g:ive a man a check on the Dia mond "S'aticnal Hank, for instance, and he deposited it to his credit in the Allcghenv National Bank, there must be "some method of settlement between these two banks This settlement is made in the Clearing House and is called a clear ing or iquarin)- of accounts. Each day each lank may receive for deposit thousands of such checks drawn on other city banks and each day there must be a reckonintr. j hen the 111 Clerks and 19 messengers Jmrc perforoed their functions the manager I makes a record of the statement of each. It the balance is against a bank it is a debtor bank and if in its favor it is a creditor bank aud this the manager specifies. Of course the gains and losses must exactly balance, so that the money paid into the Clearing House bydebtor banks is the exact amount paid out ngain to creditor banks. If there be a discrepancy it is an evidence that some clerk has made an error and when he is found, he is in some clearing houses fined for it. But errors arc remarkably few, some clerks having had clean sheets every day for ten years. BIO TRANSACTIONS QUICKTTSETTXED. They buckle down to business at the tap ot tliebell, and some 20 minutes later are on their wav to their respective banlcs. In this w ay ncarlv 52,000,000,000 worth of busi ness is straightened out in less than ten davs of ten hours each. All banks in the two cities and suburbs clear in the Pi ttsburg Clearing House ex cept the Dollar Savings Bank, which does not pav checks. But while the business done runs to near $1, 000,000,000 in checks, the balances are usually Suite small relatively, as there have been ays when S.1,000,000 in checks passed through and balances but a trifle over 5100, O00. The balances represent the actual cash, or money in the ordinary meaning, that passes, it is a mistake to suppose that the Clearing House ruins a man's oredit by throwing out his checks. It is generally the case that none but he and the bank interested know of it unless the matter be notorious and one that must come to light. All checks of city banks, centrally located, must be either paid or retnrncd by 1 o'clock, but some at a couple of miles distance are not paid or re turned uutil a later hour, and in the case of suburban banks the time is extended until the following day. Debtor banks pay their balances between 11 and 11:30 o'clock, and creditor banks get them between 11 and 11:30 A. M. There is very little of coin or bank notes used, as each bank would rather take a cashier's check than count its balance in cash, and these checks come back the next day and are tossed to and fro until thev reach their proper place. To be a little more exact about it, there are 59 in stitutions in Pittsburg, including some brokers as well as banks, that are repre sented in the Clearing House, nine in Alle gheny City, one in Sharpsburg, two national banks in Braddock, three in McKecsport and one in Sewicklcy. Mansfield is not represented. TIAD BUT rOTJn MANAGERS. During the 25 years of its existence the Pittsburg Clearing House has had but four managers, Itobert M. Ciist, George Von Bonnhorst, John Stewart and John M. Chaplin, the present incumbent. At pres ent John D. Scully, Cashier of the First National Bank, is President, and the man ager unites the duties of that office with those of Secrctaty. The habit of exactness can no where be more firmly fixed than br an apprenticeship in a banking house. If in the spring time or any other time a young man's thoughts "lightly turn to love" while he is in the banking business they must not turn that way during business hours, as even half cents count there and there is no 10 cents or three for a quarter about banking. It is re lated of a Pittsburg banker that tiring of banking he went into the retail grocery busi ness, once upon a time, having associated with him a practical grooer. They had plenty of money and expected to do'a big business, but after a short time the banker found it necessary to cease sell ing himself. Though a liberal man who wonld not have hesitated to give $1,000 to forward a benevolent move ment, he had his banking habit of business so firmly fixed that he persisted in exacting the exact cent from customers until lie drove awav a large portion of the trade, especially that of the ladies, the majority of whom'are not happy unless they feel that they have gotten at "least a ceutoutofa storekeeper. BOOMING A FEBRY. The Stobo Landslide Proves Not an HI Wind for Some People. If the Xeville Island Electric Railway boomers want to get stock taken In the road they had better strike in the "ever living "present." So great has been the detention of local travel at the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, since the Stobo landslide, that a number of people hove been driven to cross the Ohio river and take the iTt. Wavne "Railway to the city. A young man named I'etzer, whose home is at Stoops' Ferry, has taken up his abode in the city, as he says he cannot lose an hour a day waiting on trains. Ed Kennedy, of Coraopolis, has the advantage on the majority of Pittsburg passengers, having been a telegraph operator, and when he goes into the office in the morning and listens to the click of the wire he can soon find out how much the trains are behind, and if so much as to endanger his chance of getting to business on time, he takes the terry and comes up on the Fort Wayne Kailwav. Yesterday morning he had con siderable company on his Xorthside trip. The detention is like to have the effect of booming the business of the ferry company. A number of people, among tfiem S. B. Kennedy, who do business "in Allegheny, have decided that it will answer their pur pose btter to cross the Ohio below and come up the Ft. Wayne. The saving of fare on two street car lines will more than pay the toll on the ferry, and then they will be landed nearer their business. WELL W0KTH HIS HIEE. Mr. Mel lor States Ills Position In a Most Definite Manner. "Mr. C. C. "Hellor, the well-known organ ist, said yesterday that he wished his posi tion on the question ot organists and organ ists' salaries definitely understood. He added: "In my judgment there are several persons in our midst who, after proper study, would be able" to play all organ music in true organ style, but on account of the wretchedly low salaries paid here for such sen-ice, they would not be justified In devoting sufficient time and labor to attain that end. I think the work to be done at Carnegie Hall would be well worth at least double the (51,200) which it was stated would be paid. I consider it would be bet ter to bring a new man for the position, hut only one who had made the organ his special study and was competent to handle the instrument on the highest plane of organ playing. "While" it may be true, in a general sense, that a 'prophet is without honor in his own country,' yet 1 would be the last man to say that 'Pittsburg is not satisfied with home talent, no matter how good it may be, for I well know that our people do recognise, appreciate and reward talent and ability, regardless of where it is from home or for eign." THE GKEAT TALMAGE COMING. By a Lncky Stroke the Tress Club Secures lllm for hu liirly Ictnrc Up until late last evening it was quite un certain whether the famous Dr. Taltnagc would be heard in this city, as all the time lie can possibly devote to lecturing was taken up, with the exception of one date. The club secured an option on that, for a few hours. In the meantime the entertainment com mittee considered the matter, and finally de cided to take him, notwithstanding the ficurcs are hijih, but not near as high as offered by other cities. The lecture will be given in old City Hall, Tuesdav evening, September 8. Port Grape Wlno for tho Sick. "We can confidently recommend Speer's port grape wine, a superior article of wine, for the sick and debilitated. The vineyards and cellars are at Passaic, X. J." Medical jteview. jo nranuv is better than Sneer's "Climax" of 187G, THE I A STORM IN SIGHT. The Daughters of Liberty Expect a Lively Meeting This Week. IEAYIM TO-DAY FOE WATERBURY Local Delegates Will Support Their Na tional Councilor. MUCH LEGISLATION TO BE OFFERED The National Council of the Daughters of Liberty, an auxiliary to the Senior O. IT. A. 3L, will convene in Waterbury, Conn., on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day of next week. There will be about 200 delegates present, including probably 40 from -this city, and representing nearly 10,000 members. The Pittsburg delegation, headed by National Councilor J. W. "McClcary, Deputy Na tional Councilors W. B. Lowman, W. J. Young, C. B. Wylie, G. E. Kepple, Frank Thompson and other prominent members of the organization will leave this morning in a special car attached to the day express via the Pennsylvania Railway. It will be the fourteenth annual session and it promises to be the most important meeting ever held. There have been many exciting developments connected with the internal affairs of the organization during the past year, during which two factions have sprung up. The principal fight for the last six months has been between tho National Council and the Board of Officers over the refusal of charters to new councils, and this will probably be made the basis for a bitter struggle next week. The trouble is said to be ex ceedingly complicated, and the feeling so bitter that it will not be surprising if a complete division of the order takes place in Waterbury. EXPLANATION OF THE TBOTJBIiE. The existing trouble is beet explained by the following interview secured last night from a member of the senior order. Said he: "Our trouble dates back about a year or more It is really a fight between the senior and junior orders of American Mechanics. Pre vious to the Pittsburg session, two years ago, our order was controlled entirely by the seniors, who composed nearly four-fifths of the male portion of the membership. The Pittsburg session proved a boom for the or ganization and during the year fol lowing it, the junior members in the D. of L. increased from about 200 to over 800 and the membership in Pennsyl vania increased from a little over a thousand to nearly 4,000, or more than half the total membership of the organization at that time. "At the Pittsburg session, for the first time in the liistory of the order, a junior was elected to an office in the national council. Last year in Salem, Mass., he was elevated to the highest office within the gift of the organization. He was the only Junior on the Board of Officers, composed of seven members. The others seemed to grow jeal ous of the progress of the order in the West, and a coldness soon sprung up between them. The board endeavored to restrict the National Councilor's authority, and the latter being of a characteristic Pittsburg temper, resented the dictation. CAPPING OP THIS CIjIMAX. "There came a case at Steubenville, O., about the first of the year that capped the climax. One council had been organized in Steubenville early last November. Abont the holidavs a second was organized. Mem bers of the first sent in a protest against instituting a new council, as they claimed it would injure their organization. The National Councillor went to Steubenville, made a personal investigation and found that in a city of 14,000 inhabitants, when four or, five councils of the Mechanics are supported there was no good reason why two councils of the D. of L. should not exist and decided to issue a charter. In the meantime letters were writ ten to the members of the national Board, who ordered Mr. .McCleary to wfth hold a charter from the new council. This he refused to do and the council was insti tuted. The Board held a meeting and re fused to recognize the new council, aud issued an circular in which they said that they would refuse to grant charters to such applicants as were entirely composed of junior members. SEAT OF AMi THE TKOOTLE. "This is the seat of the trouble, which has spread all over the organization. Charters have been refused to about a dozen councils and at least 20 additional ones are nearly ready for institution, but have not made application for char ters simply because the organizers were advised that they would not be issued. The trouble has created a bitter feeling in the West against the National Board. The seniors and juniors are united in the fight, because we feel that only the prejudice of the boaid lias prevented a won derful growth of the order in the West. Our people will go to the session pledged to work together to reverse the action of the board, and we will have the support of not only our Western people, but many of the good-thinking members of the East as well." There is another action of the Board of Officers that has been grating on the sensibilities of the junior members. At the last meeting of the National Council of the Jr. O. U. A. M. in Cleveland, a reso lution was passed indorsing the principles of the D. ot L. and making it compulsory upon subordinate councils of the juniors to furnish upon application the financial standing ot members applying for member ship in the D. of L., and although there was no reference made in the resolution to the D. of L. as a side degree of the Jr. O. U. A. M. a recent circular sent to the subordinate councils of the D of L. by the National Board, charges the Juniors with trying to "steal" the organization. IMPORTANT WORK TO 1)0. There is considerable important legisla tion to be passed upon in Waterburv. A meeting ot local representatives was Lcld a few evenings ago wnere a number of changes in the constitution and laws of the order were suggested and referred to a committee to have formulated and presented to the Na tional Council. The West will also make an effort to se cure some of the officers in the National Council. By an established custom the National Vice Councilor is elected altern ately from the Eastern and Western districts. Last yenr S. It. Stevens, of Massachusetts, was given that position and will succeed J. W. McCleary, of this city, this year as National Councilor. Deputy National Councilor G. E. Kepper goei to Waterbury as a Western candidate without formidable opposition for National Vice Councilor. Cnarles T. AV. Cooper, of Pittsburg, and C. B. Wylie, of Ohio, are candidates for National Secretary against the present incumbent, W. O. Staple, of New Haven, Conn. As the West desires to have but one candidate for each office, at straw vote will be taken on the train to-day to endorse one of the two for Secretary, both having agreed that the one receiving the lowest vote shall withdraw. After the session the Pittsburg delegates will take a trip to Coney Island aud other summer resorts. Wants the Abuso Stopped. A complaint was received at the Hnmane Society office last week that two drivers for the Eureka Ice Company were abusing their horses in the early hours of the morning. An effort was made to secure the names of the drivers but this was unsuccessful. Sec retary Davidson has written to the members of the firm notifying them of lli2 complain and asking them to look into it. PITTSBURG DISPATCH. ANOTHER MERRY WAR. McKeo'a Itocks People Can't Agree as to Borough Projects and lines What They Now Find to Tall Out About Their Troubles Being Alreil. There is another merry war brewing at McKee's Eocks. It is over the borough question again, though the complexion of the fight has been changed somewhat. In the next contest some of the people who were in favor ot the borough last spring will be found fighting it this time. John Schmid yesterday thus specified the cause of opposition: "It is said that in order to placate some people who fought the proposition last win ter, it is now proposed to draw a line here and there, so as to leave out some influen tial kiekers, and thus deprive them of their fangs, in a measure, at least. It is charged that one of these men thus favored is David Shaw, of Anderson, Du Puy & Co., and that the line proposed to be drawn is more crooked than a Merino ram's horn, as crooked, in fact, as that crooked stick which wa3 s0 crooked that it couldn't lie still, and yet, withal, it contains several large bodies of vacant land, which fact was used to help kill last win ter's project," Some of those who were once in favor, but are now opposed, say they will with draw their opposition if a mixture of com mon sense and honesty is combined in the bonndarv line. Thev sutrsrest that it should start near Duffy's sta'tion, on the Pittsburg, Charleston and" Youghiogheny Bailwav, and run a direct line to the river, taking in the present populated district and some that in the course of events will be soon. There is also a fight on hand regarding a borough proposed to be made on the Steu benville pike between the Thirty-sixth ward and Crafton, on the Panhandle Rail way. The opponents of the measure say, the lines are being run to accommodate James Friend and Albert Wettengail. K. H. Itobinson is apparently making the heaviest fight against it, not onlv by word of mouth, but by canvassing the district and securing remonstrances. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bail way Company, is erecting additional shops at McKee's Bocks, and it is said it will give employment to a considerable number of men- Some say 300, and others put it at a somewhat lower hgnre, but it is agreed that the addition to the population is an additional argument in favor of a borough, as the need of It will thereby be increased. Some say that the Books pays more than its share of the township taxes, while others point to the streets of New Jerusalem smoothness and ask if McKee's Bocks isn't getting the bulk of improve ments made. DEVLIN WINS HIS CASE. Difficulty Between Ticket Agents Settled After an Hour's Trial. The case of Charles Devlin versus W. P. Cooley, an action to recover $131 50 alleged to be due the plaintiff as the result of a busi ness transaction, was tried before Alderman Gripp yesterday afternoon. Judgment given for the plaintiff. Devlin is a Liberty street ticket agent and Cooley is traveling passenger agent for the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City railroad. The story of the case as told at the trial was to the effect that a few months ago a party of sixteen people from Clearfield county wanted to go to Olympia, Washing ton. Devlin and Cooley succeeded in makingj arrangments to furnish the party transportation, but when they came to get the tickets to go through to Olympia they could not be had. Other ar rangements were made by which tickets were purchased to San Francisco on the agreement that they would allow each mem ber of the party a rebate on their tickets amounting to $10 50, providing they could make a trade at Chicago with the Western road and return the unused portions of the tickets. As Cooley did not have the money to pay the rebates when the party arrived at Chi- cago, it was borrowed from Devlin and paid at the proper time. As the money had been paid Devlin had to account to the railroad for.LThn ramital xtni-k of the mmmnr.1. - nnn. the full tickets, and would thereby bo" OUtpIt wo!d St be nrnetienl' for tWrerelvr ik the money he advanced on the rebate. 11. 1.-A- 1 The case took up over an hour's time, and the defendant tried to gain his point by pleading that the money had not been paid by Devlin personally, but by his business partner. The plaintiff's attorney, hewever, made a motion "to make the silent partner a plaintiff to the suit also, and 'Squire Gripp allowed the motion. It is probable that the case will be appealed. DO YOU EAT? That Yon Do Goes Without Argument, Don't waste your valuable time talking about hard times. That's what makes times hard. Get up and hustle! There Is no more glorious way to make a dollar than to save it Don't patronize a dealer who complains of hard times and bad collections. He will be sure to stick you to make times easy. But only for himself his customer is not in it. Satisfy yourself by a trial order. Every article must be first-class. If not your money will be refunded. I will give with all orders of 510 and upward the benefit of the following prices: 25 cans sardines, in oil $1 00 .25 Ibswhite coffee sugar 1 00 21J lbs granulated sugar 1 00 4 sacks good grade family flour 4 90 4 sacks best Minnesota flour 5 80 20 lbs California grapes 1 00 30-lb pail apple butter. 1 90 5 cans California cherries 1 00 5 cans California peaches 1 00 5 cans California apricots 1 00 5 lbs tea (in all varieties) 1 00 3 lbs 50c tea (all varieties) 1 00 25 Ills broken rire 100 8 lbs best California prunes 1 00 15 lbs good raiins 1 00 7 lbs roasted coffee (fresh ground) 1 00 4 lbs chewing tobneco 1 00 4 lbs Wey man's tobacco 1 00 8 lbs white clover honey (strained).... 1 00 50 liars lamily soap l 00 Large family scales 1 95 30 bars soap (5 cents size) 1 00 8 lbs dessicated cocoanut 1 00 10-lb kit mackerel 95 10-lb kit lake herring. 59 3 cans table peaches (yellow) 25 2 lbs white clover honev (in comb) 25 C-foot step ladder, complete 1 clothes horse (4 wing's, C feet) 1 gallon New Orleans molasses 2-lb can best baking powder in United States for Goods delivered to all narts of two cities. To parties living out of the city will prepay freight on all orders of ?10 and" upward. Send for August price list. Jas! J. Weldow, No. 201 Market street, cor. Second avenne, Pittsburg. lost Excursion to Atlantic City. The Baltimore and Ohio Eailroad will run the last special excursion to At lantic City Thursday next, August 27. Bate, $10 round trip; tickets good for ten days, and good to stop at Washington City returning. Trains leave at 8:15 A. ar.and" 9:20 r. si., with parlor cars on day train and sleeping cars on night train. Want Advertisements One cent per word in The Dispatch now. Pilsner Beer tho Best. Pilsner leads, and whv shouldn't it? It is a perfect beer, pure and healthy. Try it and you will drink no other. The Iron City Brewing Co. make it. Telephone 1180. For Sale Advertisements, Other than real estate, One cent per word In The Dispatch hereafter. Laroe consignments of fine furniture at auction bv Henrv Auction Co. at new store, 24 and 20 "Ninth street. See ud.- SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, STUCK ON THE STAGE. That's the Complaint Mrs. McMeal Makes Against Her Husband. HE SAYS SHE IS EXTRAVAGANT. The Divorce Mill Keeps -Up a Good Grind for Warm Weather. YESTERDAY U THE C0UXTY COURTS A hearing was had hefore Judge Collier yesterday in the desertion case of Mrs. Mc Meal against her husband, II. McMeal, of the firm of Bigley & Co., coal dealers. The couple lived on Mt. Washington. McMeal is a partner in the coal business with Ed Murphy, son of Francis Murphy, the tem perance lecturer. Mrs. McMeal, who is young and good looking, stated that her husband was given to running around after theatrical companies, and would bring home broken-down actors and make her cook for them. He is now mnna ger of the New York Bijou Company, which is playing in Ohio towns. He compelled ber to go on the stage, and she was the star of the troupe, under the stage name of "Es telle." Her health finally broke down, and she was compelled to leave the stage. He then deserted her, and neglected to provide lor her and her child. McMeal, who appeared a well-dressed young man of about 27 years, denied the charge of neglect. He said he did not com pel his wife to go on the stage; she went willingly. They could not get along, and quarreled, but he was willing to support her. He asserted that her extravagance had reduced his circumstances and he was now in debt. Judge Collier, after hearing the state ments of fhe parties, ordered McMeal to pay 525 a month for the support of his wife and child, and give bond in the sum of $500 to secure the same. UNHAPPILY MATED. Three Now Divorce Suits Entered antl Com missioners Appointed in Others. Three new suits for divorce were entered yesterday. Attorney J. H. Porte filed the suit of Julia C. Frank by her next friand F. V. McMuIlen against William Frank. The couple were married in Connellsville May 7, 1883. He deserted her December 20, 1882, and came to Pittsburg. She fol lowed him and found he had gone, she knew not where, with another woman. Mr. Porte also entered the suit of Henry J. Barker against Helen E. "Barker. They were married January 30, 1889. It is alleged that she deserted him September 0, 1889. F. Thomas, Esq., filed the suit of Maggie A. Weber, by her next friend G. JL Walker, against Albert Weber. Thev were married December 2G, 1880. She charges that he beat and abused hei , and finally de serted her March 7, 1889. Divorces were granted in the cases of Therese Sheets against Samuel Sheets, and Elizabeth Collman against John Collman. Desertion was the allegation. W. H. Ellis was appointed commissioner in the divorce case of Catharine Burkhardt against Frank Burkhardt. H. S. Floyd was appointed in the case of Mary Schmidt against John Schmidt. AN ATTACHMENT ISSUED Against the ITnglicB and Gavrthrop Co., for Contempt of Court. Attorney C. C. Dickey yesterday pre sented in Common Pleas No.l,the petition of S. M. Hamrail, receiver of the Hughes and Gawthrop Company,asking forpennission to sell the electric plant and other assets of the company. He stated that the liabilities are $82,840 65, and the assets $43,591 33. 1 .--.. run the plant in the interest of the creditors and he desired to sell it. The court issued a rule on the company to show cause why their effects should not be sold. Another petition of Mr. Hamil's was also filed. It stated that E. B. Gawthrop and C C. Hughes, of the company, have taken possession of the electric plant at Blairsville and refuse to give it up to the receiver. An attachment to bring them into court for contempt was asked for. Judge Stowe issued a rule for them to show cause why they should not be attached for contempt in taking possession of property in tne custouy oi tne court. SUIT ON A FBOIESTED MOTE. The First National Bank of Wrlghtsvllle Wants to Get 85,000. Attorneys Miller & McBride yesterday entered suit in behalf of the First National Bank of Wrightsville, Pa., against A. Nimick, J. S. Slagle and G. P. McBride, doing business as Nimick & Co., to recover $5,000. The amount claimed is on a bill of exchange given by the Fairchance Furnace Company, April 10, 1891. It was delivered to the defendants, who, in the course of business, gave it to the plaintiffs and became responsible for its payment. It fell due August 17, but was not paid, and the suit was entered to re cover the amount, with protest fees. Adopted a Foundling. Judge Collier yesterday made a decree allowing William Cline to adopt a year-old baby. The child, when new-bom, was found in a basket by a policeman. It w.-vs turned over to the Department of Charities and given to Cline and his wife to raise. They now desire to adopt it. Auditor for I. D. KIsher. J. 11. Stiller yesterday was appointed auditor to report a schedule of distribution of tho balance in the hands of the assfeneo ofI.D. Kisher. ME GEM OF THE MOSONGAHELA. Free Trains Every Day to tho New Town of Blaine, Departing from and arriving at the pas Benger depot of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bailroad, end of the Smithfield street bridge, as follows (citv time): Depart, 7:45 A. M., arrive, 2:20 v. 51. Depart, 12:05 p. M., arrive; 5:05 P. M. Also, Saturday evon ing train, leaving at 5 o'clock, visitors re turning to the Union depot at 10:35 p. si., via the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Bailroad. No Sunday free transportation. Call at our office for tickets to the new town, and get maps, price lists, etc., before starting. Chahles Someks & Co., 129 Fourth avenue. SI We Slcnn Business SI. A dozen fine cabinets $1, or a large pic ture for framing $1, or a life-size crayon portrait $3, during, this week only. This means the good work or no delivery. Come early and bring baby to Javexs & Co.'s, 77 Fifth avenue. Over Mellor & Hoene's music store To Let Booms. One cent per word in The Dispatch to-day. ILast Excnrsion to Atlantic City. The B. & O. K. K. will run the last spe cial excursiou to Atlantic City Thursday next, August 27. Bate $10 the round trip; tickets good for 10 days, and good to stop at Washington City "returning. Trains leave at 8:15 A. M. and 9:20 v. M., with par lor cars on day train and sleeping cars on night train. Want Advertisements One cent per word in The Dispatch now. C ? ' 1891. MTIONiLEuDiCE. Mrs. Mary Roberts' Notable Testimony. PROOF UPON PROOF Of tho Superior Skill of the Physi cians of the Electropathic Insti tute at 507 Penn Avenue. "I was in a very serious condition when I went to see the physicians of the Electro pathic Institute at 507 Penn avenue," said Mrs. Eobcrts. Iliad had nervous prostration and heart trouble for a long time. I had been under the care of various physicians, but none of them seemed to understand my case, and I kept growing worse all the time. Now all is changed, my trouble has entirely disappeared, and I owe it to the treatment received at the hands of these physicians." The lady speaking was Mrs. Mary Eob erts, of No. 274t Oakley alley. "As I said," continued Mrs. Roberts, "I had nervous prostration and symptoms of apoplexy. Three of my brothers were para lyzed, and I feared very much that I would be a victim of the same trouble. My heart was very weak, and I was afraid of heart failure. I was sick all the time; never felt what I could call real well. I had no appe tite, and was so terribly nervous that 1 could not sleep. My whole system seemed to bo rundown, and I lost in weight steadily. I thought I never Vould get well. "I was advised to go to the physicians of the Electropathic Institute. I called on them and placed myself under their care. "The very first treatment gave me relief. I continued to improve, and now all my trouble has disappeared, and I am enjoying the best of health. I will gladly recom mend the physicians of the Electropathic Institute, and feel sure that all who go to them will obtain great benefit from their treatment." A BBAKEMAN'S STORY. Mr. Thomas McGreevcy, of Port Perry, . Gives Some Interesting Evidence. Mr. Thomas McGrcevy, a well-known railroad brakeman residing at Port Perry, in speaking of his successful treatment with the physicians of the Electropathic Insti tute, said: "I have had catarrh and catarrhal deaf ness also. The discharges from my ears were large and most distress ing, and my ears presented a very unsightly and unpleasant appearance. My nead ached nearly all of the time, the disease had so affected my stomach as to seri ously impair my digestion, and my nervons system was ajmost mined. I Thomas iTcOrcerey, Port Ferry, Pa. almost despaired of ever being any better, when my attention was attracted to the Electropathic Institute of 507 Penn avenue, Pittsburg, and its method of treatment. "I called on the- physicians in charge and they made an electncnl diagnosis of my case, discovered the true" nature of the disease and pronounced it curable. The re sult has verified their verdict. I am cured. My catarrh, my deafness and the discharges from my ears arc thoroughly cured. My general health is better than it has been for years, and mv exhausted nervous system has been completely built up. I cannot too highly recommend the physicians of the Electropathic Institute for their skill and science, their perfect and varied electric appliances and their intelligent use of them, as shown in my desperate case'." This young man is, as has been said, very favorably known in the village of Port Perry, and his rapid and complete recovery from an apparently incurable disease of years standing hasiven great surprise as well as much pleasure to his numerous friends there. A GREAT SINGER'S ATJNT. Remarkablo Kecoerr of an Aged Relative or the Great Evangelist, Ira Sankey, De scribed by Herself. "1 suffered constant andunremittingpains for years. Consulted and was treated by different doctors, in vain. Tried the elec trical treatment as administered by the physicians of the Electropathic Institute, 507 Penn avenue, and, as a result, my trouble has dist ppeared," snid Mrs. 3f. A. Sankey, aunt of tho rcat evangelist, Ira Sankey, re- siaing at iu jLacocK street, Aiiegneny. Jfrj. it. A. Sankey, 115 Lacockttreet, Allegheny. "My throat was the part most affected. I suffered terrible pains, both sharp and dull. It felt as thouzh a, baud of iron wns tightly bound around It. I could scarcely spoafc without the effort causing me pain. To swallow caused me great suffering, and tho lood 1 attempted to swallow would nearly choke mo. Tho act of chewing my food was attended with almost unbearable pain. "I had some ol the best physicians in tho two cities attending me, yet they all were in doubts as to my true ailment. They did everything in their power yet 1 steadily grew worse and worse. Together with tho above trouble, I suffered greatly from neu ralgic pains, supplemented by nervous pros tration, until I became so bad that I sliarod the belief of my friends that I would never regain my health. "1 at last decided to seek tho assistance of tho nil V4icinni of the Eloctt opathic Institute at 507 l'enn ayenu'c, to olloviate, if possible, my sufferinK.'. "Their ilrst treatment wns followed by marked improvement, and In a short tinio mv pains, aches and ailment disappeared. is If by magic. Although W years old, 1 am en joying :i good health to-day as ever beforo in mv life." Electroptiiic IMiti, 507 PENN AVE., PITTSBURG, PA. (Do not mistake the number.) The physicians in.charge of this Institute are registehed akd qualified physicians. They receive and successfully treat all patients sullcriiift from chronio ailments: KEUVOUS niSEABES, BLOOD DISEASES, RHEUMATISM, paralysis, neuralgia, scrofula nnd catarbh, and all diseases of tho Eye and Ear. Operations In electrical surgory performed by the cousultingphyslciansoftho Institute. Varicocele, Hydiocelo and Heminorholds successfully-treated. Consultation and diagnosis free. Ladies will And n trained female assistant in charge of theirspecial department. Othco hours: 9 a. m. to 12 t., 2 to 6 p. if., 7 to 8:30r. jl Sunday:. 10 a. m. to r. u. UU23-WS3U CHOICE KENSINGTON, THE COIN -OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY. ONLY IB MILES THIS ITEBESTS EMBODY! BECAUSE EVERY HUMAN BEINa IS INTERESTED IN IMPROVING HIS CONDITION. Do you know what it means to own property within 40. minutes' ride of Pittsburg? It means HEALTH, WEALTH and PROSPERITY. Have you money laid away? Are you looking for' an in vestment ? Then you are interested in LOTS at It will pay any citizen of this crowded city just to take a run out to KENSINGTON and see what a beautiful place it is. Every courtesy is shown visitors by representatives of the company on the ground, and information cheerfully given on the subject of HOUSES and BUILDING LOTS. BUYERS DF LOTS BHETHE BENEFIT DF CUT IMPB0MNT5. WIDE, GRADED STBEETS, PURE SPRING WATER PIPED THRDDGH THE STBEETS DF THE CITY, PDSTQFFIGE AND TELEGRAPH OFFICES. Sites have been selected for Churches of five different de- nominations, with the following manufactories now being con? structed, viz: ALUMINUM WORKS, GLASS FACTORIES, STEEL WORKS, -;- , TUBE WORKS, - ' STOVE FOUNDRIES, FLOUR MILLS and PLANING MILLS, Which will give employment to a large number of men, and who will live at KENSINGTON. It gives the new city a' basis of solid prosperity. NO SUCH , OPPORTUNITY Has ever been offered since real estate assumed the basis of all security. IT IS SAFER to place your money in a LOT in-this new city than to have it tied up in a bank, where it pays-but little interest and you have to take the risk of its safety. DO YOU OWN A HOMEP If not, NOW is the time to BUY A LOT, and there is.-no-lr cation more adapted as to healthfulness and permanentnvork-thaa Titles guaranteed by Fidelity Title and Trust Companyof Pittsburg, Pa. SALESMEN ALWAYS ON THE GROUND. For further information about CALL AT OFFICE OF Bnrrell ImproTBHient Coipy, g6 Fourth Ave., nS-20 3 PItOPEUTTES. THE- FROM PITTSBlIflG. 10 Pittsburg, Pa. '' T 3 v if 11 ir ' iirrif5aa "' I SE -U Jl Mil g L -, ' ' ' ' ' lr J '& si
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