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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 189a
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WAKEMAK'S TRAVELS.
AHeasant Trip From Palma to Malta
on a Maltese Brigantine.
A TiriCAL TUNISIAN HEKCHAKT.
Uarrelous'irominff Scene in the Beautiful
Harbor of Taletta,
SOME TEET PSETTI PEN PICTURES
rCOERESPOJTDKNCI OP THE DISPATCH.!
Valetta, Malta, Feb. ia The Xatin
races dwelling to the north of the Med
iterranean and all those of Oriental extrac
tion to the south and east, look upon the
English occupation of the island of Malta
and the two contiguous lesser islands of
Comino and Gozo in much the same spirit
as they regard the occupation of Gibraltar
by the English.
That is in an evil and Tenjreful spirit.
! The fact could hare had no clearer illustra
tion than in the sentiments expressed by
the Captain of the coaster upon which I
made my way from Majorca to Malta, and
! by the only other passenger besides myself
upon the odd little brieantine upon which
we sailed,
i My companion passenger came aboard at
j Tunis, where we touched to land Majorcan
t wine, making up our part cargo of wine for
j Malta with Tunisian hides and wheat in
j cnrious little brown sacks which were tied
J in the middle and stowed away in the hold
I criss-cross, as you would lay dumb-bells
each upon the other.
' Our crew comprised six half naked and
barefooted Maltese sailors, with cotton
trowsers, crimson scarfs certainly 30 feet
long wound about their waists, ugly sheath
knives in these, and no other clothing what
ever save tiny taseled caps resting jauntily
upon the crisp and curly hair of their hard
little heads. They were little, wiry fel
lows, the best sailors in the world, it is
said, with snapping, beady eyes, sharp, short
noses, thick lips, splendid teeth, and alto
gether as merry and snnny-natured a lot as
you could find sailing upon any sea.
A Family Like Ninepins.
The Captain was of Spanish extraction
and Maltese birth. He had been a fisher
man ot Valetta; had saved his money; had
cot an education at the free English schools
of Malta; and from the vocation of port
pilot had come to own the craft which he
commanded. In his little cabin were many
good books, both in Spanish and English,
and his surroundingsan his tiny sea home
were so pleasant, and certainly more evi
dent of education, refinement and good taste
than you will often find in cabins ot the
most pietentious American sailing vessels.
His wife, Teresa, and nine children, the
latter grading in size trom an infant in arms
to a lad of 11 as regularly as a set of ten
pins, and nearly as nake cooked for and
waited upon us, lending a hand at light sea
men's duties whenever required with won
derful agility, adding pleasantly to the pic
turesqueness of the every-dav life of the
tiny vessel, and providing those blessedest
of all sounds at sea, the voice of woman
and the prattle of children, ceaseless, tune
iul and winsome as ever make melodic the
sunniest home of city, hamlet or vale.
Not the least picturesque object on board
our brigantine was our other passenger, who
with the dried hides, which he resembled in
visage, had been taken on at Tunis. He
was a Tunisian merchant trading bettveen
Tunis and Malta. "SYe all treated him with
much consideration because his flowing
robes and white burnoose, which took up a
pood deal of room, gave this otherwise
measly looking man a most important ap
pearance, and, unconsciously, I presume,
because he owned the hides and wheat.
Then, too, he was very bland and agreeable,
a peculiarity of all Moslems when they are
found one mile away from home.
Tiie Mediterranean's Gammons.
Xou "11 notice this characteristic if you
"" travel much about the Mediterranean. In
their owu homes, streets and shops there
are no more imperiouslr grave, imperturb
able and Eodden humans than Turk, Arab
and Moor. But let them once turn their
faces toward Christian ports and profit, and
their manner and bearing at once change.
They seem to have suddenly become ready
greased with graciousness for all trade and
social exigencies. Their striking habila
ments no longer comport with their reputed
dignity of character. The bags on their
heads and their ample robes and sandals
suggest the harlequin. Neither Yankees
nor Hebrews are a match for them in the
subtle shufflings and diplomacies of trade.
In fact they are the "Oily Gammons" of
the Mediterranean.
In the long, languorous days and glowing
evenings of our lazy sailing they were both,
the Maltese captain and the Tunisian
merchant, more to me than weeks of desul
tory meetings of their kind in their own
lands. They were both intelligent com
panionable, and both spoke English fluent
ly. Their true feelings and opinions came
gradually and surely out of the confidential
companionship sea voyages universally
impel. They represented, in Heredity, edu
cation and feeling the implacable and end
less religious and race war between the peo
ple of the Crescent and the Cross. The fore
fathers of each had doubtless been slain de
fending the banners of one or the other.
They typified Christian Europe pitted
against infidel Africa and Asia.
But all race aud religious hatred was
blent in a common hatred of the English
masters of Malta.
The Greed ot Gold In the Heart.
To reach the sentimental reason of this
I constantly espoused the English cause.
To the Maltese captain I pointed out his
own successful career, and reminded' him
delicately that he would have remained an
ignorant and impoverished fisherman but
for this very English rule which he re
sented. " ('Si, si, senor," he would sadly reply; "but
I would not have had the devil of greed set
to Work in my heart. I am now more hun
gry! for a great ship than I was at first for a
little felucca."
'Rnt has nnt thn rnnditinn nfrfint' r.n flftft
iellow countrymen of the islands been
vastly improved?"
it "My fellow countrymen grieve over the
passing away of the old things they loved
A little higher wall to one's patch of
ground, another room or two added to one's
home, a little more finery in one's ears or
on one's back, or a little more coin clink
ing between the fingers, do not make peasant
iolk better or happier. They cannot be
come like their masters. They learn only
to envy them and to be ashamed of them
selves and each other. I would give my
brigantine and all but but Teresa and the
ninas (children)," the captain, would con
clude with an indescribably pathetic and
loving gesture of protective fondness, which
included all the rompincr curlv heads nn
shipboard, "to live in a hut by the shore
and see the red-coati no more foreverl"
The grief of my Tunisian fellow.pasien
ger was of a difierent sort, though it was
none the less real and poignant; but it was
mitigated also by the fanatical belief that
tome time the Mussulman faith and folk
will prevail and rule all lands.
Frofit Under Piotu Pretense.
"Christian pillage and despoilation," he
would feelingly say, "have been the real
motive of every so-called holy crusade and
expedition against us whom you call in
fidels, but who alone worship the one true
God. The English have profited greatest
by conquest under cover ot pious pretense."
I called his attention to the fact that,
with the exception ot England' quasi oc
cupation of Egypt to secure payment of
moneys advanced by English capitalists in
connection with the Suez Canal scheme,
and the recent establishment ot a trading
post at Cape Juby, on the 'West Morocco
coast, Great Britain did not claim to pos
sess or hold a foot of soil to which any Mus
sulman race had the slightest possible
hereditary right.
"Ah, but GibralUrl Malta!"
This would be uttered ia passionate ex
clamation and with his face as hateful as a
fiend's.
"They were once ours, with Andulnz,
and gave us the empire of ail Africa and
supremacy upon the Mediterranean."
"Surely, but only through invasion and
butchery," I replied, harrying him a little.
"Simply for pillage the Berber invader,
Tarik, took Gibraltar and overran Southern
Spain in 711; with the same purpose your
Berber ancestors, in 798, took possession of
and held the Balearic Islands for 450 years;
and about 1,000 years ago you seized and
held Malta until the Normans dispossessed
you. Moslem rights were not deprived by
our expulsion from lands where you did
not belong."
Barbary Cat Into Pieces.
"But'our imperial Barbary is cut into
pieces. We are no more a mighty people.
Our temples aud our treasures are gone I"
he passionately retorted.
"So are your pirates and slaves;" I
persisted unfeelingly. "Those are the sort
of things civilization will never again
tolerate. It will never disturb an earnest
and zealous religion; but it will surely
eventually extirpate any religion or race
that deprives the lowliest of its followers
and people, men or women, of equal jus
tice." He would not dwell upon this implied
contrast between Christianity and Mo
hamedanism, but continually bewailed the
English possession of Gibraltar and Malta as
a menace to all Oriental supremacy, and the
direct cause, or permissible euse; of the
dismemberment and appropriation of
Northern Africa by Spain, Italy and
France. He admitted that its de
velopment especially in Tunis, Tripoli and
Algeria had been marvelous within the
last quarter of a century: that Gibraltar.
and Malta in the hands of the English
guaranteed permanent and peaceful trade
with all Mediterranean countries by the
neets ot the wnole worm; and even con
fessed that without this very English
tragetie supremaoy in the Mediterranean
his own safety with his hides and wheat, in
transit from Tunis to any neighboring port,
would be extremely problematic if not
altogether improbable.
In such unusual converse with these
strange folk the voyage from Palma to
Malta was passed. I was often able to lead
the momentary topic from Moors to Mal
tese, and thus secured much valuably in
formation concerning the real as well as the
sentimental condition of the latter.
Brethren to a Han.
It was a curious thing, too, to learn from
the Tunisian that the peasantry of Malta
were more Berber and Arab races than of J
ureek, Italian ana Spanish, lij ail affini
ties, save the one of religion, he claimed
them as brethren to a man. In their cus
toms, superstitions and many of their home
side ways, as well as in nearly all methods,
or rather want of method, in agriculture
they are, he claimed, precisely like the
Berber tribe farmers in the valleys behind
Tunis and Algiers. But more striking than
all else, in proof that the Maltese were his
kindred, was his claim which I have since
found to be true, that while nearly all spoke
a sort of English, Italian or Spanish patois,
every one could at any moment cross into
Northern Africa and converse with the na
tives in a measurably pure Arabic tongue.
THE STAES W MARCH.
Astronomical Spring Time Will Soon
Be in the Ascendency.
triangles or other geometrical figures, in
the immediate vicinity to aid one in finding
"Uranus, who moves so slowly that his gen
eral position for some time to come can
readily be ascertained.
THE KIDNAPERS BEHtXHOID.
SIZIS OP THE HEAVENLY BODIES.
Intensely Heated Tapora on the Visible Sur
face of the Sun.
THE HOYIXEXTS OF ILL THE PLANKTS
The sun enters the sign Aries on March
19 at 10 p. M., says the New York Times.
The vernal equinox then takes place, the
astronomical spring begins, and the days
and nights are equal all over the globe.
This last assertion must, however, be
taken with qualifications. Such would be
the case if it were not for refraction, which
lengthens the day from four to eight min
utes, at the expense of the night When
the sun's disk is really below the horizon,
to us it has the appearance of having risen,
sunrise being thus accelerated from two to
four minutes. The reverse takes place at
sunset, the snn being visible for a few min
utes after his disk is below the horizon.
Refraction, therefore, adds a few minutes
of precious sunlight to the short winter
days.
The visible surface of the snn is entirely
formed of intensely heated vapors, and one
might almost say that the sun spots, about
which so much has been said and written,
are holes by which we can look through the
brilliant surface to the interior and darker
parts. Sometimes the spots close up and
fresh ones open elsewhere. There have been
times wnen tne wnole snrtace ot tne sun
has been mottled over in this way, and most
wonderfully shaped structures have been
noticed. The enormous'group of sun spots
now visible measures many thousands' of
square miles, and the disturbe'd are abas been
unprecedented in extent, though perhaps
not in activity, for a number of years.
Phases of the March Moon.
The March phases of the moon begin with
the quartering ot the new moon that came
in yesterday, on the Cth; there is full moon
on the 13th, last quarter on the 21st, and
new moon on the -28th. This evening the
moon and Jupiter are in conjunction, and
on Tuesday Venus and the moon. To
morrow evening Luna will be midway be
tween the two planets, and, although the
fine tableau presented four "weeks ago will
not be equaled, still they will be well worth
looking at.
On the 4th Neptune and the moon will be
at their closest for the month, but neither
this meeting, nor that on the 1st day of
April, has any particular merit, as there are
more than three degrees of declination sep
arating the two.
On the 13th Saturn and the moon come
within a degree and a half of each other,
followed by Uranus on tne loth, which lat-
One Gets Four Tears and Weeps, While the
Other Two Are Unmoved
Bridgeport, March i. Special Judge
Hall, in Superior Court to-day, sentenced
Charles T. Waterbury, Samuel Sutherland
and John McCnnn the self-confessed kidnap
ers of 8-year-old Ward Waterbury, of 8tam :
ford. For Waterbury and Sutherland the
punishment was four years each in the State
prison, while the sentence of HcCann was
for two years, the minimum penalty. State
Attorney Fessenden has been considering
tne matter or granting extradition pa
to the New York authorities for thetrii
the rjrisons in that State.
He found that Sutherland, who was one of
.the promoters of the kidnaping plot, would
escape punishment if the requisition papers
from New York State were honored as lie
had not participated in the crime inside the
State only. As the sentence was pronounced
Waterbury covered his face and wept. The
others remained indifferent. The prisoners
all three pleaded guilty by the advice of
their counsel. Judge Lockwood.
pers
rial of
GOVERNOR CUBTIN'S relations to tin
coin by Colonel A. K. McClure in THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
A DAKOTA C0L0HISI MBglHG.
Mrs. Amy Gillie, of London, Disappears
After Getting; Her Divorce Papers.
Yaicxtos, S. D., March A Mrs. Amy Gillig,
wife of Charles A. Glllig, President of Gil
lig's United States Exchange, London, is
missing, and her attorneys in Yankton and
London can get no trace of her. She ob
tained a divorce from her husband in No-
vemberand then went to New York to be
gone four weeks, leaving her lawyer a num
ber of registered letters, and anxious in
quiry is made for her from London.
She left money on deposit. Her household
furnituro and wearing apparel were also
here. She was accompanied by her child
and maid, the latter Intending to go back to
England. The last heard from her was De
cember L She wrote from New York re
questing her mall forwarded to the general
delivery, and stating she wonld return to
Yankton in a few days. Foul play is
feared.
A STRANGE DAMAGE SUIT.
The Number of a House the Cause or 'the
Trouble Another Action for False Ar
rest Court Proceedings Boiled Down.
Attorneys Whitesell & Sons yesterday filed
an odd suit The easels that of Prank B. and
Mary 8. Storey against C. B. Willey for
15,000 damages. The plaintiffs allege that
the defendant erected a house next to theirs,
No. 371 Bebecca street, Allegheny. K
gave the house the same number as theirs,
tind, it is alleged, rented it to questionable
tenants. Asa result the valne of their
property is depreciated and they want
damages.
Attorneys Whitesell & Sons yesterday
filed the suit of Ellis Merriman against
Joseph H. Brammer for $5,000 damages for
alleged false arrest The parties reside at
Glenfield. Merriman 'alleges that Brammer
had him arrested on a charge of stealing
some ducks. He tf&s tried and acquitted
and now wants damages.
a Kraft against James Irwin & Co. The
case was an action for damages for the
death of the plaintiff's husband, Jacob P.
Kraft He was a fireman in the employ of
the defendants, and was scalded and fatally
injured February 13, 1890, by the bursting
of a steam pipe.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
v HELD FOE C0UNTEBTEIIINO.
James Kinley, of Little Washington. Has a
Hearing Before the Commissioner.
James Kinley, who was arrested a short
time ago at Little Washington on a charge
of making counterfeit money, was held
under $1,000 bail for the May term of court
by Commissioner McCandless at a hearing
held yesterday afternoon. Kinley is a
brother-in-law of Henry E. Hart, who, with
his wife, were arrested about a month ago
at a nouse on Lacock street, Aiiegneny,
and held for court on the charge of passing
counterfeit dollars. Hart and his wife were
the only witnesses against Kinley. They
each testified that Kinley had made the
com in their house. The manufacture of
this was in last October. At the end of
that month Kinley left for Little 'Washing
ton. Upon this testimony the defendant was
held for court trial.
LENTEN thoughts by the Bev. George
Hodges in THE DISPATCH to-morrow.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
We arc at Malta, senor. Would you look ) ter is the nearest that the moon approaches
upon sleeping Valetta from the sea in the
early morning?"
Such was the cheery call of our Captain as
we approached the most famous island of
the Mediterranean. When I reached the
deck our craft lay a league distant from
port, almost imperceptibly moving toward
the white island and whiter city over a rip
pleless sea, with sails scarcely filled by the
faintest of breezes which merely whispered
of the morning; for the sun seemed to stand
a tremendous globe of crimson on the sea
horizon, away over there between Greece
and Crete.
My eyes never before beheld so tran
scendent and radiant a scene. The whole
bosom of the sea seemed envelotied in a
downy mantle of pearl, gold ana crimson,
which, lying low upon the water, showed
countless matchless changes of color, and
possessed the added marvelous effect of lift
ing all discernable objects to an unwonting
altitude.
Our brigantine, with other craft here and
there about us, appeared to ride upon an
opalescent, intangible yet palpable surface
of softly flaming cloud. Though Sicily lay
60 miles to the north, its shore-line, lifted
vertically, and not in mirage, showed
strangely near, with the huge cone of .Etna
like a spear-head of silver above.
A Beautifnl Pen Picture.
But where are the words with which to
paint foranother's seeing the island and its
ancient city of the Knights as they rose out
of the pulsing, throbbing tints of that
glorious morning witchery? If one could
dream that the gods had transformed the
sea into a bed of cameo rose, and, through
cycles of time, with their most cunning
artificers wrought it into miracles of filigree,
and then chiseled upon it a white relief of
the island's area, Tyjose wondrous design
had culminated in Outlines and detail of
massive grandeur and matchless simplicity
where the city of fortresses and palaces
stood, a vague hint of this morning scene
could come with the dreaming and seeming.
And on this morning as we slowly glided
into the eastern of the two ports, and the
ideal gradually resolved into the real, the
mind, following the imagery of the cameo,
its setting, and those who wrousrht. lovriin
linger on the thought that those who had
built had left their miracle of labor silent
and still, as a ghostly and stately housing
for all who came. Utter silence brooded
over the vast bleached battlements. Es
carpments, terraces, bastions, entablatures
and huge flat roofs were lifeless and stilL
The shipping was flagless, apparently
crewless, and still as though graven
from onyx into the picture. Not
an oar stirred the mirroring , harbor. Not'
more still or pregnant with mystery is the
Lybian Sphinx than was every strange ob
ject upon which the eye might rest Not a
thing having life stirred or was visible, save
when our craft swung around and tugged
gently at her anchor, the rays of the sun,
shooting over Vittoriosa's ramparts, struck
like golden spears upon St Elmo's bastions.
They routed a myriad drowsy jackdaws,
which rose in flocks and hoarsely screamed.
This was our only welcome to Malta and
impregnable "Valletta.
Edgar L. "SYakeman.
From the Press.
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uable goods in stock, to order a supply at
once from their wholesale druggists, or ad
dress the proprietors as above. The Drug
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Capital, $100,000. Surplus, $75,000.
Deposits of $1 and upward received and
interest allowed at 4 per cent - its
Special values to-day in ladies' gloves
also new novelties shown to-day.
Jos. Hornb & Ca'S
Penn Avenue Stores.
The secret of good bread lies in using
Minnehaha flour and trood -veuML and in
baking long and thoroughly, so that every
yeast germ escapes. iha
any ot tne planets. Mars turn comes on
tne zist, tne day ot the quartering of the
waning moon; Jupiter again on the 27th,
Mercury on the 29th, and Venus closes the
monthly list'by being honored with a sec
ond visit t
Though the moon is so close to us when
its distance is compared with that of other
objects in space, vet when we express its
distance in ordinary units it is a very long
way off about 240,000 miles; a length nearly
as great as that of all the railways in the
world put together. If you were to wrap a
thread ten times around the equator of the
earth, it would be long enough to stretch
from the earth to the moon.
How Cities Wonld Look Up There.
Suppose that there was a mighty city like
this metropolis on the moon, with huge
buildings and teeming thousands of people,
fine parks and great rivers. Of all these
things, our unaided eye would show us
hardly anvthing. Suppose that we made a
tiny model of our surroundings, so that the
streets, the bridge, the buildings, the ele
vated roads and so forth were in their true
proportions. If this miniature city were so
small that it could stand on a postage stamp
and it were put on the other side of the
table or on the other side of the room or the
other side of the street, the most prominent
structure would have ceased to be distin
guishable; but yet the distance is not nearly
great enough. We should have to put our
little model fully half a mile away before
it would be in the right position to illustrate
the appearance of a lunar metropolis to the
unaided vision.
Venus is evening star. The queen of the
stars is, during the month, peerless among
tne planetary jamuy. one is growing
larger and increasing in brilliancy, being
now only about one-fourth the size that she
will be in July. She is also getting further
and further away from the sun, toward the
point of greatest easterly elongation, which
will be reached toward "the close of April.
As her backward journey toward the sun
will occupy her fully two months, we shall
have her presence ss evening star until
summer has well begun. The rapid move
ment that she is making to the northward
will lengthen her stay above the horizon
and give us a fine opportunity to observe
her.
Who could imagine when he saw Jupiter
and Venus so close together as they were
during their conjunction that the giant
planet was so very much larger than his
cnarming mater i we tace v enus to De a
ball of about one inch in diameter, then we
shall in that ratio have to consider Jupiter
the size of a pumpkin. The distance sepsu
rating the two may be somewhat better im
pressed upon our minds by comparison
with known points about the city.
Saturn Once More Is Prominent.
Had it not been for the greater interest
that the two planets already mentioned
have recently attracted, the place of honor
for the month should, perhaps, have been
assigned to Saturn for, while Jupiter fades
from sight, Saturn once more becomes
prominentas he is in opposition on the
16th, or at a distance of 180 from the sun,
and changes from a morning to an evening
tar. If not as brilliant in the east in the
early evening as Venus is in the west, he
has the advantage over his fair rival of
being visible long after she has sunk below
the western horizon.
His rings are now in a far better position
for our observation than thev were, and to
those who have access to a telescope a study
of those wonderful circles and outer circles
might, in view of the present discussions
that are taking place, be of considerable in
terest for the purpose of discovering anv
possible accompanying fringes.
Mars is morning star. Rising some ionr
or five hours ahead of the sun, he gradually
widens the interval separating the two, and
on the 29th is in quadrature, or 90 away
from the sun. His size and brilliancy are
both perceptibly increasing, and in mid
summer his ruddy disk will be one of the
most conspicuous of the heavenly bodies.
Mercury Too Close to the Sun.
Mercury is far too near Jhe sun for us to
see him, as he is in superior onjunction with
that luminary on the 6th, emerging there
from to encounter Jupiter some six days
later, as the latter is about to be enfolded in
Old Sol's warm embrace. Mercury revolves
in a path which lies inside that of Venus,
and it js, therefore, nearer to the sun. In
deed, it is generally so close to the sun that
it cannot De seen at aU Like every other
planet, Mercury is lighted by the sun's rays,
and shows phases in the telescope just as
the moon does. Though so hard to find,
Mercury was discovered so long ago that all
authentic record is lost of who the discov
erer was.
Uranus is in the constellation of the Vir-
in about 2 south of Spica, which is a
right, first magnitude star, the most bril
liant of the group. Uranus is in conjunc
tion with the moon on the 16th, the two be
ing only about a diameter of the moon
apart, so that one can. form nn that night a
fairly good idea of the planet's whereabouts,
the latter being to the southward. Then, if
one looks sftont four diameters ot the moon
to the northward he can see Snica. With
The latest gold excitement is at La
Junta, Col.
Milwaukee Democrats aro booming Sen
ator Plumb for the Presidency.
The Baltimore Methodist Conference is
aeainst the admission of women delegates
37 to 133.
The first of the trials at Springfield, Kan.,
of the murderers of Sheriff Dunn has ended
in acquittal.
The Nebraska Supremo Court has de
cided that pencil marks on Australian bal
lots are legal.
Bev. J. M. Laird has been suspended
from the Methodist ministry at Gillespie,
lit, lor blackmail.
Leopold Hartman, wanted in New York
for defrauding creditors, has been arrested
and held at Liverpool.
Seven Conservatives and two Liberals
have been elected to Parliament in the
province of Quebec without opposition.
The Halske Electric Company, the
largest in the world, will locate in Chicago
and operate branches throughout the State.
At a meotins of the Memphis Citv Coun
cil Thursday flight, a resolution was unani
mously adopted inviting Senator Hill to
visit Memphis on his Southern tour.
Chicagoans are still speculating over the
mysterious purchase of "L" road property.
The latest rumor is that a mammoth retail
drygoods bouse will arise on the site.
Charles N. Ayers. of Detroit, who was
shot by his wile Wednesday, died in the
hospital Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Ayers is
prostrated in her cell in the Central station.
Joseph Bork, one of the largest and best
known real estate dealers in Buffalo, N. Y.,
is financially embarrassed, and a number of
suits for foreclosure of mortgages have been
begun.
Residents of Nogales, Ariz.,and settlers
in the vicinity have organized a protective
association to ngnc tne Cameron grant trtie,
whloh embraces about 25,000 acres on the
American side of the line, including the
town of Nogales.
. Judge Otis, at St Paul, has heard argu
ments in a suit to test the power of the State
Oil Inspector and the liabilities of persons
and companies dealing In illuminating oil.
The Standard Oil Company is directly inter
ested. A decision wilfsoon be announced.
K. J. Drohan, a habitual criminal, and
George E. Wells, alias Williams, who were
serving sentences, escaped from the State
prison at Charleston, Mass., yesterday morn
ing. They sawed through some bars with a
saw made from a clock spring.
Dr. Nathaniel Ware Hawes. Indicted at
Boston for alleged tampering with grand
J orymen. appeared with counsel of his own
accord before the United States Court yes
terday. He was arratened. pleaded not
guilty and was held in $5,000, which was at
once furnished.
The German steamer California, from
Hamburg, which arrived at New.York yester
day, will De detained at quarantine. She has
a case of smallpox among her steerage
passengers; also a case of measles arid one
of scarlet fever. Her passengers will all be
vaccinated and sent to Hoffman Island for
observation.
Balph R. Chandler, the absconding
cashier of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway, at West Detroit, Mich.,
who was arrested in Cludad Juare, Mexico,
has been set at liberty after serving the
regular 72 hours required by the Mexican
laws, during which time he must be proved
guilty of the crime charged.
In the New York Assembly yesterday
the 11a nor dealers' excise bill was favorably
reported, cut so amended that it is a com
promise between those favoring the original
bill and those who opposed it. A bill was also
favorably reported, making it unlawful for
any person or persons to enter into any
agreement whereby the price or sale of
goods or merchandise shall be limited, fixed
or regulated.
The time of the Iowa State Temperance
Alliance was taken up Thursday with the
discussion of a solution to the effect that the
members of the alliance unite to immediate
ly organize a separate party it the Gatch
bill, now before the Legislature, is passed by
the Assembly. The resolution was looked
upon as an effort to intimidate Republican
members, and was strongly opposed by
many able men in the alliance. The final
Vote was S3 for and 32 against.
Another Action for Divorce.
Attorney J. M Cook yesterday filed the
divorce case of Emma J. Tucker, by her
next friend, James Whyle, against Samuel
H. Tucker. They were married September
7. 1862, and it is alleged he deserted her
February 4, 1885.
A Verdict for the Defendant.
A verdict for the defendant was taken by
Briefs of the Courts.
A petition was filed yesterday asking for
a decree for the dissolution of the Cranberry
Oil Company, Limited.-
Tmjury is out in the suit of the Combina
tion Engine Company against E. and W. J.
McMasters, an action on a contract.
In the suit of C. Easthope against the
Purity Milk Company, an action on a con
tract, a verdict was given for $892 60 for the
plaintiff.
lie the suit of Douthett & Lovell against H.
M. Dunlap, an action on a contract, a verdict
was given yesterday for $821 60 -for the
plaintiffs.
D. Cabteb yesterday received a'verdlct lor
$25 in his suit against Jack Haggerty for
injuries alleged to have been inflicted by
Haggerty in an assault on Carter.
Pare Bros. & Co. yesterday entered suit
against the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company
for $349 61, the value of goods alleged to have
been shipped over the defendant's line and
which never reached their destination.
A viBBioT for the defendant was given
yesterday in the case of H. A Brlggs against
A. Beineman, a suit for damages for injury
to property caused by alleged negligence on
the part ot the defendant in making' exca
vations on the adjoining property.
The March term of the United States Dis
trict and Circuit courts will open Monday at
Scranton. The Judges and court officials
will leave for that place to-day. There are
from 40 to 50 cases to be tried In the District
Court and six cases in the Circuit court.
Tfis viewers appointed to assess damages
in the case of Bobert Woodside vs the bor
ough of Wilkinsburg yesterday made an
award to the plaintiff of $133 60. The bor
ough, it was claimed, changed the grade of
a street without consent of the necessary
portion of the property holders.
Jonir B. Hakbisox, assignee of Peter
Belsick, filed a bill yesterday in the United
State's District Court against George Beisick,
alleging that since OctoDer 5, 1883, he col
lected rents for a house in the Fourth ward,
Allegheny, in which" Peter Belsick held an
interest, and that the defendant failed to
ray the portion belonging to Peter Belsick.
The plaintiff asks for an account.
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SPECIAL PRICES FOR SATURDAY.
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agreement yesterday in the suit of Annie l morrow.
A DANCE that is like a dream is part of
the Feast ot the Dead in Japan. Bead Lmf
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IN WINTER
Remnants of Fancy China
Silks, former price, i;
special price (a yard),
Ladies' 4-Button Kid Gloves,
new goods, all sizes, all
colors, former price, 75c;
special price,
Swiss H. S. Flouncings, 45
inches wide, former price,
50CJ special price,
Ladies' 'Spun Silk Vests, in
black, cream, pink, salmon
and heliotrope, former
price $1.25; special price,
Ladies' Spun Silk Hose, in
plain and ribbed.black and
fancy.former price, $1.50,
special price,
Ladies' Fast Black Hose of
the celebrated "Onyx" and
"Hermsdorf dyes, former
price, 25 c; special price, ,
Antique Lace Tidies, 18
inches square, former price,
40c; special price,
Fine Muslin Chemise, em
broidered back and front,
former price, $1; special
price,
55
85c
$1.15
I9C
25c
75c
Infants' Short Cambric Dress,
embroidered yoke, former ft i if
price,i.5o;specialprice, $lslw
Stamped Linen Table Cloths,
42 inches square, former
price, $1.25; special price,
85'
$1.50
75'
elegant
PREPARE FOR
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Guaranteed Purely Vegetable and Harmless.
Wonderful Spring Medicine
The Great Strengthener of the Nerves.
The Best Blood Tonic and Invigorator In the World.
The Finest of all Stomach Medicines.
Sure Restorer from Weakness.
Perfect Regulator of Liver and Boweis.
Are you nervous, restless, irritable?
Use Dr. Greene's Nervnrs.
26-inch Gloria Cloth Umbrel
las, steel rods, paragon
frame, natural handles
former price, $2.00;
special price,
Gentlemen's fine Suspenders,
nothing handsomer in the'
city, former price, 1.25;
special price,
Ladies' Gloria Cloth Umbrel
las, fine gilt handles, former
price, $2.00; special E
price, 31. 0U
Good Steel Scissors, former
price, 35c; special price,
LAST, BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST, WE OFFER
A BEAUTIFUL BABY CARRIAGE, (M Q
Upholstered in Plush, Fine Satin Parasol, Silk Lace, Wood ) I j
or Wire Wheels, former price, $ 20; special price, V I U
20'
Dore's Bible Gallery, 100 su
perb illustrations, large
quarto, handsomely bound,
former price,i. 25; special
price,
Ladies' 8-Button Suede Mos
quetaires in tans and
browns, former price, $1;
special price,
Gentlemen's Japanese Silk
Handkerchiefs, colored
borders,hemstitched,former
price, 50c; special price,
Ladies' Swiss Ribbed Lisle
Vests, in white and cream,
former price, 63c; special
price,
Misses' Black Silk Plated
Hcse, all sizes from 6 to
8j4 former price, 85c;
special price,
Misses' Ribbed Elack Cottdn
Hose, absolutely stainless
black, former price, 25c;
special price,
Ladies' Muslin Skirt, trim
med with wide Torchon
Lace, former price;
2.50; special price,
Infants' Flannel Sacques,
beautifully embroidered,
lormer price, $2.50
special price,
Stamped Linen Splashers, 20
by 30 inches, former price,
38c; special price,
Gentlemen's Fancy Night
Shirts, brand new goods,
very stylish, regular price,
$1.25; this day,
Gentlemen's Fine Kid Gloves,
newest shades,
quality, lormer price.
1.50; special price,
Ladies' Fine Steel Chate
laine, former price, $1.00;
special price,
Ladies' Leather Shopping Bag,
silver-trimmed, outside
pocket, former price, 1.25;
special price,
58c
68c
25c
44c
58c
I9C
$1.75
s,
1,
$1.50
20c
85c
$1.25
65c
75'
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C, Clothiers.
A good line of men's cassi
mere and cheviot suits, also
neat mixtures, at... $
An elegant line of fancy
worsted, plain black chev
iots and cassimere men's
suits at...!
Boys' all wool pants at
Boys' mixed cassimere pants
at
Boys' short pants suits at.... 1
Boys' short pants suits at. . . .
Hen's single vests, broken
from suits (coats and pants
sold) at
Boys' long pants suits.
Special Saturday prices only. .
P. O. C. C Clothiers, corner Grant and
Diamond streets.
24 and 39
22 and 1 33
1 80
65 and 99
3 95
BiSque op Beep herbs and aromatics
regulates the liver, tones the stomach.
these to help, one eta eeleot other stars, in i Askjour grocer for-it.
Special OITerlncs In the For Department.
Very low prices now on,
Military capes
In sealskin,
In mink,
In astrakhan,
In Siberian bearer.
Shoulder capes
In sealskin, '
In mink,
In marten,
In Persian lamb.
Jos. Hoeke & Ca's -Penn
Avenue Stores.
Do you get nervous easily,
row your nerve e
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Does your heart palpitate, do
wi uiiius vremoiee
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Do you pass sleepless nights,
wake tired mornings?
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Have you strange, faint feel
ings, toss 0 memory?
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Do you feel blue, have sense
0 anxiety, foreboding?
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WHATEVER. Any drnfgist who says other-,
wise is gnllty of malicious falsehood and crimi
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lead to his detection and prosecution to the extent
1 tne law.
- Are you weak, tired, without
ambition, or energy?
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Is your blood poor, your vi
tality J,oio"i
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Are you bloodless, thin, and
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Do you have headache, dizzi
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Do you have dyspepsia, indi
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Are you bilious, your kidneys
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ty-Dr. Greene, or 35 West 14th St.,
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cure of all forms of nervous and chronic diseases
can be consulted FREE OP CHARGE, personally
or by letter. Sufferers at a distance should send
description of their cases by mall. Srnd for
symptom Hank.
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It won't cost you anything for us to put you in the way of saving
ONE-FOURTH to ONE-THIRD ON YOUR CLOTHING.
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1175. One genuine Diamond Pendant, "Fleur-de-Lis," encrnsted with pearls, original cost,
70: now only M5. OneKonaine Diamond Stud, weight iy carats, -original cost, $450; now
only $303. One genuine Diamond 3tnd, weight 1JX carats, original cost, $185; now only $115.
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