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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1899.
et.EITWOOD, Janial4T 20, 1869,
WDIEETING OF (REPUBLI
CAN/ STATE CENTR L COMMITTEE.
—The Union
meet
Sta e Central Com
mittee will meet at HAHRISB RG on THUM
DAY,'THE FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, at
TWO o'clock P. M., for the purpose of fixing the
time and place of holding the next State Con
'rend,* and other apprOpriate business,
A Alp . attendance is earnestly, desired.
1 . GALUSHA A. GROW, ,, ~
• ' Chairman of Committee.
Gas. W. ilasiratstor, !Secretaries
, J. ii..ldcArsz.
PETROI ' XIIM at Antwerp, 58i@ SK
U. B. BONDS at Frankfort, 791@79i
GOLD closed yesterday in New York
at 136 i.
WE PRINT on the inside pages of
this morning's GAZETTE—Second page:
Poctry, "A Love Later," Ephemeris,
Fifty Years Ago, The Debts of the States.
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Third and Sixth pages: Financial, Com
mercial :Markets, Imports, - Diver News.
&month page: New Publications, Georgia
in the Senate.
AR IribifFECTUAL EFFORT was made
yesterday to have the 4100RHRAD Tariff
Bill considered in the House. - is not
probable that the Bill will be disposed of
at the present session.
MR. Joan §corr's credentials
in the United States Senate
State were presented yesterda •.
body. He will take his place o
of Idareh, at which time Mr.
Law's term of 'office will expire.
EXISTING laws are likely to
amended as to permit the Preside
move Cabinet officers at will du
recess, and to suspend other office
out giving specific reasons there
porting only the fact for the con
of the Senate
,
MR. HORATIO SErIiOUR will .e grati.
fled to learn that a redistributio . of the
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circulation of the National banks 's like.) ,
to be made among the several Sta es. If
he is ever to be a candidate again he will
not have any inegnality of privil • ges to
complain of.
Taz disturbances in Cuba are a
a very menacing type. While
snrgents seem to be holding thei own,
the Spanish and native loyalists , e bit
terly at variance, and on all side- there
are indications that the spirit of ferocity
inherent in the Spanish blood, may soon
break out_in fresh revolts.
PRESIDENT GARRETT, of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad,' testifies before the
Road Committee of the House that "it
makes little difference *hether bridges
across the Ohio are five hundred feet or
three hundred feet span, provided they
do not interfere with navigation." That's
an opinion as is an opinion!
REpunucell Senators have agreed, by
a vote of three to one, to take no further
action upon the nominations of the pres
ent Executive, except - in oases Where a
vacancy exists, and the public in rests
demand that it shall be immediately filled.
The public interests will be promoted by
an inflexible adherence to this decision.
TUE President indulges harmlessly his
Constitutional dislike for faithful and mer
itorious officials. lie goes through the
motions of removing them and designat
ing -their successors, but their tenure-of
office seems to be far better than his own.
They stick; he goes. The bitten victims
recover, and a dead dog exhibits the eh•
tire 'catastrophe. -
SHOULD success attend the present
movement of. the : stockholders of the
Cleveland
w and Mahoning Railroad Com
pany:to 'recover the . 6:intibl of this road,
.881o:felted from the lessees who have il
legally assigned it to the Erie clique, it
Will shut that clique out of Cleveland al
together,. while the C. and M. road will
doubtless gain the long desired access to
the Union Depot and connections. nt,t l / 1 4
point..
.
Tux li:wench Comurrsza of City
COunclls has 'materially cut down the
the sums tasked for as appropriations by
the various Committees for the ensuing
year. In the consideration of its report
to the city, assembly to-day, let the mem. ,
berg not forget that retrenchment is at all
dines in order, and that the people they
represent :are anxious that the . city get
through the year with as little expense as'
possible.
TEE irregularities of Georgia in oust
ing from the Legislature colored members
thereof, who were fairly entitled to seats,
having secured a majority of votes, at
tracted the attention of the House yester
day; and a resolution was passed instruct.
ing the Committee on Reconstruction to
report what action, if any, should he
taken respecting the representation of the
OFFICE: I
\ to a seat
r om this
to that
. the 4th
Buctu-
A bill is before the General Assembly at
Harrisburg to aid in establishing a line of
steam-ships between the porta of Phila
delphia ancrthose of Bremen and Ham
burg. The preamble recapitulates that
RIIGAR BROTHERS propose to establish
such a line for carrying freight and pas
sengers to and from Germany and Phila
delphia, that such a line would -mani
featly proinote interests of the Common
wealth, and that it is sound policy for the
State to encourage the projectors thereof
by a reasonable donation. The first sec
tion gives to RIMER BROTHERS five thou
sand dollars for every round trip, not ex
ceeding fifteen in number, to be made
during the term of one year, by vessels of
not less capacity than twelve hundred
tons. The second section provides that
the first four trips may be started directly
from New York to Bremen or Hamburg,
returning directly to Philadelphia.
The sum thus assigned to be appropria
ted is seventy-five thousand dollars; not a
vast sum in itself, nor in consideration of
the end to be secured, but of questiona
ble legality, and tending to embarrass the
General Fund, which is not working
easily at best. The Treasurer is using
half a million of moneys belonging to the
Sinking Fund to carry the General
Fund past its pinch, and this without au
thority of law, and upon his own respon
sibility. The Senate has been forced to
ask the Attorney General to communicate
his opinion whether the Act of February
23d, 1866, repealing all tax on real estate
for State purposes, is constitutional, so
far as it may be construed to repeal the tax
of one-half mill imposed by Act of 1861,
the proceeds of which were pledged to the
extinguishment * of the loan for arming
the State; and it is proposed to lay addi
tional taxes on certain companies enga
ged iirthe anthracite coal trade. Under
such circumstances ? it is reasonable to
presume that the Legislature will be care.
ful about entering upon appropriations
for new objects.
t be so
.t to re
ing the
s with-
or, re-
turence
ummg
I.e in-
The financial, measure which * Senator
Susnmen reported, a few days since,
from the proper Committee of that body,
and which was then noticed .at some
length in this journal, was taken up for
consideration on Wednesday, and advo
cated by that Senator with great l iorce.
A full synopsis of his speech . was printed
.by us yesterday,' iind we need not recnpit
nista the arguments and facia which he
combined in an exhaustive discussion
upon the merits of the proposition.
We need only repeat that this measure
seems to us the , most simple, direct and
fruitthl of
,good, promise, .among all the
plans Which hail been subidtted to the
public judgment. Mr. SnzinuAres re ;
mark,—that the only avenue to the public
° relief ]oath through a partial surrender of
individual opinions in a hearty general.
support of some-measure which shall offer
the largest meritorious, cialeti—specifles
truly the only condition upon which the
finances of nation" and of the. people
are to be guided out of existing embarrass
ments.. No proposition has been, or is
likely-to be; submitted which can be re
garded as entirely unexceptionable. We'
' l should only aim to • secure the greatest
good with the least amount of mischiev
ous empiricism. That is the utmost that
we can ever accomplish. In Melina sal:
ution of this critically perilous problem,
State in that branch of Congress. It re
mains to be seen whether any of the
constructed States may at will set aside
and openly violate the provisions of the
Reconstruction' solo, by denying represen
tion to large masses of citizens.
IN ADVOCATING a five years' term of
apprenticeship to trades the New York
State Workingmen's Association does
wisely. If such a system could be
adopted in all lines of trade there would
be fewer unskilled mechanics found In
departments of industry. As a general
thing, most trades are crippled with pcor
workingmen who ire tuteble to earn their
bread from want of ability to perform,
and who, in order to compensate for their
own inefficiency, demand high wages,
and by combinations level them4lies to
the same standing as skilled laborers, and
derive equal adiantages with the best.
The old system of long apprenticeship
was a good one, and the sooner it is re
turned to the better for the workmen
themselyes and, those who emploY labor.
MAYOR Birctsu will enter into office on
Monday' next. Elsewhere he announces
his police force. It will be observed that
many effic.ient officers of the old force
have been shelved to make room for new
candidates. In making his appointments,
however, the Mayor used much care, and
where the applicant was a Republican
and of good moral character and stand
ingin the community, he was given the
preference over a Democrat. We believe
the appointments will afford satiefaction
to the community. They ha l ve most all
served in the army and in recommends
tion of themselves presented honorable
discharge papers to the Mayor and Police
Committee, which proved arguments in
their favor which could not well be over
looked in the final disposition of their
In selecting Alderman JOSEPH A. Btrr-
LER as Chief-of-Police, the Mayor did a
wise thing, as ne better choicecould have
been made. He is a gentlemen of large
experience in police matters, of sound
judgment and practical ideas, and will
doubtless so discharge his duties as to
bring credit to the municipal administra.
tion about to be inaugurated.
EXTERNAL COMMERCE.
FINANCIA"L RELIEF.
BURG €-GAS:.
Prn
that statesmen will deserve moat highly
from his countrymen, not who shall de
vise the completest method for their res
cue from all the mischiefs which afflict
their financial existence, but who shall be
Most prompt and hearty in sacrificing his
own personal pride or opinion for the
common good. Such are the really hero
ic offerings of patriotism, and' none the
less personally heroic because involving
intangible opinions rather than some
visible and material form of self-abnega
tion. We are not quite sure that we
have Senators or Representatives who
may prove themselves capable of the lof
tier view. But let us hope !
Senator MowroNsontinues the discus-
probably replying with objections
to the bill. If so, we are quite sure that
these will be ingeniously taken, and
at least creditable to his intellectual ca-•
pacity.
THE REGISTRY OE' CIT I LOTS.
We have considered, with some degree
of care, the proposition now pending be
fore the Councils for an Act of General
Assembly attaching to the office of Chief
Engineer a bureau in which a sort of
record shall be made and kept of all lots
of land situated within the boundaries of
the city; and cannot approve of it. We
have not space to-dafin which to give
all the reasons which lead us to that con
clusion, nor is it necessary we should,
because the members of Councils -will,
each for himself, give the project a thor
ough sifting before ,recording his vote
upon it. But we will state, some of the
more prominent reasons which influence
our judgment.
1. It will cost a good deal of money to
carry the plan into effect. A set of books
sufficient to hold descriptions of all the
lots as they now stand in the hands of the
owners or claimants, and the expense of
reducing fall the descriptions to record;
will cost at least $25,000. The City En
gineer has enough to , do without attempt
ing to do this large job with his own
' hands; and if he should attempt it he
would utterly fail. As an inevitable re
sult he would be compelled to employ a
corps of scribes, who would be engaged
for a long time before the record could be
regarded as written up.
2. It N 4 I continue to cost a good deal
to keep e record. All transfers of
property 1 ust be noted, and in so full a
manner mit° render the notation definite
and available. The cost will be per
petual.
3. Such a record as is proposed will be
of no practical account. It is not con
templated by the proposed Act that the,
Engineer shall ascertain the actual titles
to each piece of property and record it;
but that every owner, or pretended
owner shall hand in to him for inscrip
tion upon the records a description of such
lot or lots as he claims. The same loose
ness is observable in the provision for re
cording Sheriff's deeds. Everybody I
knows that , a Sheriff's deed does
not convey an absolute title, but
only such title as the defendant in the
particular writ upon which sale is made
happens to haVe in the property. If a
man should be really interested to trace
the title to a piece of land he would not
find anything reliable in the proposed re
cord; but world still be compelled to go
to the county offices, and make search the
same as if no record whatever existed in
the Engineer's cffice.
4. The penalties annexed to failures in
complying with the requirements of the
bill are so alight, 'that it may fairly be
thought doubtful whether, 'after the novel
ty was over, persons; engaged in large
transactions, would pay any attention to
them.
5. A measure which would be chiefly
valuable in increasing the emoluments of
the City Engineer, and furnishing employ
meat to a number of Clerks, is one of at'
least doubtful expediency, and may better
be dropped than put to the test of actual
experiment.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAG p.
To some points made by us, a day or
two ago, in fayor of Universal Suffrage,
the Post rejoins :
"Observation and reason teach that the
blacks are of a different race—that they
are inferior to the white—that they are
endued with repugnant ' properties,
which forbids social intercourse—that
they will never : lb° treated by the whites
RS equals—OW laws separating them
from the whites are impressed by the
Creator upon their mental and physical
constitutions, and 'that' to overlook these
laws, and obstinately violate them, must
necessarily bring their penalties .apon
the white race—degradation, civil coin
motions and all the evils growing out of
wanton breacheS of palpable divine or
dinances."
kidtit the Democratidatand-point this
doubtless, seems, to be profound and con
cluSive, but as we do not occupy that
stand-point, it so happens that we view
the whole subject in a very different
light. , . '
1.
_lf it follows necessarily from.thesa
periority,of the white race over the black
one, that the latter are entitled to ZIO po
litical rights, it follows Just as inevitably
that those whites who fall below the aver
.age of thek fellows, are, in consequence
of their deficiencies, divested of all politei
Ica! attributes. • Nay;stitat duly tlui wipe-
Dior few among thewhites can rightfully,
exercise political - authority. This is 'Sub
stantially the ground that the actual laid
ers of the Democratic 'party, all over the
countr3, have taken. We are acquainted
with '"u good many of theta intimately,
and, know that at bottom , they are then
archists.
2.
`ire' laveheard itsaidbefore that the
blacks "are endowed with' repugnant
propertiek which make it uncomfortable
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15
for whites to come in contact with them;
but we do not believe the argument has
the slightest basis of fact to support it. In
the days of slayery, all over the, Southern
States, the whites and blacks were
brought into the closest contact. The
Houses of opulent whites were constantly
filled with blacks, not upon' compulsion,
lint from choice. So long as the blacks
were near the whites , as Menials, no of
fensive odor was perceived to exhale from
them It was only when 'the right of
fiTed in was asserted for them, that an
tinw oleßome smell was said to be emit
ted
them. So, now, in all the cities
oft North, the most fragile and semi;
live emocratic beauty has not the slight-
Cet objection to being waited upon in the
delis to offices of her. parlor or bed
ei ber by a negro, girl or woman; nor
),
does the most effeminate democratic ex.
i •
quie reluctate at employing a black
diveor body servant. Social contact is
not objected to, but the idea of caste, as
demOcrats hold it, is affronted by the
assertion of political equality between all
races.
But, we must go a step farther. 13,c ,
consulting the returns of the census of
I'lo6o, or of any other decade, it will be
fdund that many thousands of mulattoes
ex i
sted in the Southern States. Consult
ing the election retie s from those States,
it!will be found that e number of Dem
ocratic voters in each has almost exactly
corresponded to th number of half
breeds. Now, we do not insist that there
Isla connection betw en these two facts.
We simply affirm tha it is singular, if not
significant: Moreove , the Republicans
can prove an alai. I those times, they
were not ia.the South rn States even as
aiip et-baggers. The Democrats had all
po l wer, political and s cial, in their hands,
andi they managed if of to hang, at least
t
toj tar and feather an 'send away every
Republican who yen ed into that sec
ticin. We respectfull submit, hcfwever, l
that this commingling pf colors, and on
sollarge a scale, did not occur without
mach "social inters urge." The Post
cla t ims to know all bout "mental and
physical constitutions," and other laws of
the Creator designed especially to "sepa
rate" whites from the blacks; but somehow
1
or other those laws seem to have been most
effactually defied. Now, we know that
anybody can brqak a moral law, which
is iiimplji. a rule of conduct; but natural
la are not so easily infracted. If the
Pot thiaks differently, we shall be pleased
to lee it try its hand in attempting to get
the better of the law, of gravitation, and
predict that, upon trial, instead of break
ingthe law, it will get broken itself.
31 We not only confess but proclaim
that many black men are ignorant and
vicious. So are not afew white ones.
Thdusands of whites are found to be so
barhiful to society, that they are locked
1.
up in prisons. Every year numbers of
-then are made to dangle from the gal
lowa-tree as the best deliverance the com
1.
munity can have of them. If we are to ac
ceptlf the Poat's theory that the whites on
the average know more an the negroes,
thenlwe do not see how to escape the 'con
clusion, that bad whites, of whom there
are I plenty, are worse than the blacks
know how to be.
4. In China the yellow race pretend to
lookkvith contempt upon the white race.
The Whites are nothing but "outside bar.
barians." Until lately,,at least, the Chi-
nese have as complacently indulged in
this ! delusion, as the Democrats of the
United States have hugged the impression
that they were superior to the negroes.
Self-deceptions of.this sort cannot be un
veilea and overcome by argument, but
must lbe left to those slow but sure dim
chan ! ments which Time brings about.
Doubtless, some whites are mentally and
morally superior to some blacks. But
the inverse of the proposition is just as
true. Even the Post, with all its ac-
know?edged ability and uprightness, will
hardly boast that in these prime particu
lars it surpasses Mr. FREDERICK DOUG-
EEO
5. The proper way is to judge men, — not
by the color of their eyes, hat tor skin,
but by their mental endowments and
moral conduct. On the whole, it must
I n
be co ceded that the blacks are not as
richly endowed by Nature as the whites.
Each face has had substantially the same
time and opportunity for developing civ
ilization. The white race has wrought
out the highest civilization ever attained,
and is likely to maintain its supremacy.
This int would seem to be conclusive as
1
to average mental power. But superior'.
I
ty, whether mental or physical, gives its
possesjor no right to despotize in any de
gree, Over those individuals, classes or
races to whim Nature has iproved more
niggardly. The strong clearly ought to
hold their strength in la : . measure for
the iseieflt , of the weak. Th : t is what the
idea of genuine Democracy implies.
I .. AYLIRIT_AgIGA. ING.
If the country ahaltrioni continue to
.aeffer.tinder .the eyil .effeo of an irre
deemaileami depreciatedpapercurrency,
it will not be for the wantof abundant
suggestions for our relief. We have plans
by the score, -from hicCuLLocu, Mon-
SIEIRRULN, LYNCII, GREELEY, GAR
FIELD, Rll4 the rest, each one of which
offered as the infallible panacea for all
our financial ills. Were all these plans
equally, meritorious, the country, more
blessedin brains than in cash, would be
dreadfully . embarrassed by the variety of
riclics. But, It' itt painftd e 'y true that
all these schemes,i—includingas well such
as are abovesPecificOy amid as,others,
whose authors, like proptieisi,are not hon
ored Where they ale
.known—combine
with their respective merits such fatal de=
fects, in principle or in detail, as to prom
ise no practiCal relief for our suffering
land. It is, therefore, with unmingied
joy that we can now congratulate 6n
,
gress, the financial world and the coun
try at large, upon a new prospect for our
speedy and effectual relief from all theSe
embarrassments. "E. EVANS, Esq, of
the firm of ErAss, KILLHASTER a; CO.,
Importers. Tonawanda, New York,"
has found, at last, the philosopher's stone,
which is to transmute our base rags into
precious gold, and, in a pamphlet, which
modestly announces its ¶uthorship as
above, points out to statesmen, secreta
nes and bankers, the press and the
people, the simple and easy method of its
use. We may expect to see the Tona
wanda plan adopted at once; no doubt it
will encounter the same narrow-minded
jealousy which has already-led - Basal-
Burt, GARFIELD and others to affect in
difference to the meritorious schemeswith
which a dozen pamphleteers have bom
barded the Capitol, but we have implicit
faith in the power of truth, and must not
doubt that E. EYANB., Importer, &c., is to
be honored in history as the Financial Sa
viour of his country.
—ln the meantime, where is Tona
wanda f
Pan,. Snanrceres latest dispatch, to
Gem BILERMAN, sums up the results of
his campaign on the Plains in this effec•
ive statement:
"I can assure the General that he need
not expect a continuance of murders and
robberies from the Indians in my depart
ment hereatter, if one can judge from the
demoralization which this winter's cam
palgn has produced among them."
THE COURTS.
U.S. District Courtlitidge McCandless.
Tixtrusnsv, January 28.—The case of
the United States vs. Samuel Di!linger,
reported yesterday, was concluded. The
jury found a verdict of guilty and the
Court Sentenced the prisoner to pay a
nominal fine and the costs ofproseantion.
On motion of United States Attorney
Carnaham, John G. Bryant, Req. of
Pittsburgh, was duly qualified and ad
mitted to prectice in this Court.
The case of George Barnes, indicted for
stealing a box containing United States
mail, was next taken up. The defendant
was arrested on a' charge of stealing a
box, containing mail matter, from a pos-
Aid car which had just arrived at the
Union Depot. The case is still on trial.
Messrs. Swartzwelder and Linn appeared
for the defendant, and District Attorney
Carnahan for the United States.
District Court-4udge Hampton.
THURSDAY, January 28.—The case of
Smith vs. The Youghiogheny Iron and
Coal Company, previously reported, was.
submitted to the jury at eleven o'clock,
A. 11., and having no other case ready,
the Court adjourned.
Following is the trial list for to-day :
81. Risher ct Wilson vs. Boreland et.
al.
83. Roberts vs. G. W. McGaw .t Son.
120. Owners towboat "Neville" vs. Ed
gerton.
128. Rurnpfl vs. Vichenstein.
132. Ackley, trustee, vs. R. H. Mar
133. Same vs. Same
134. Wagner vs. Jones dr Laughlin.
135. Brookville Bank vs. Heilbruner
Common Pleas—Judge Sterrett.
WEDNESDAY, January 28.—The case
of Fleming at Co., vs. Daniel Bushwell.
A6tion to recover en oil contracts. The
jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs in
the sum of #8,043 93,
Sebastian Bald vs. Michael Frocher.
This is an action to recover on a book ac
count for beer./ Jury out.
TRIA4TIST FOR TO-DAY.
September List.
No. 119. Chesnut Hill Iron Co. vs.
Painter. ,
October List.
No. 8. Relbble vs. Snyder et al.
No. 9. Ssultz vs. Salle. •
No: 10. Dorschell vs. Kloggle;
No. 12. Malin ez Co. vs Malin (it Ham
mett.
No. 13. MoKingly vs. McCombs.
No. 18. Friend vs. Schmidt.
No. 21. Buckler vs. McLaughlin.
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Oyer and Termluer--Jud gee Sterett and
Mellon,
TEturisoay, January 28.—The Court
of Oyer and Terzniner opened at ten
o'clock yesterday morning, 'when the
case of the Commonwealth vs. George
Brawdy, indicted for manslaughter was
called up for trial, and the defendant
plead not guilty.
The defendant George Brawdy was a
driver on car No. 2 of the Pittsburgh and
Birmingham Paasenger Railway, and on
Saturday, November 14th, the car which
the defendant was driving run over Ben
jamin Davis, a child two and a half years
old, son of, Mr. William Davis, residing
on Carson street, Birmingham,
inflicting
injuries which caused its death.. It a
pears that on the , day named the child .
with several other children_ were play
ing on Carson street, in front of his fath
er's residence, and when the oar which
was descending the hill into “Smoky .
Hollow" approached near them the child
attempted, to run across the street in,
front of the horsis, one of 'which struck
it, knocked it down, and before the car
could be checked it rtin upon the leg Of
thachild, Indicting the injury from which
the child died on the following Monday,
Coroner Clawson held an inquest on
the day following the death of the child,
and from the testimony elicited he
deemed it ills duty * weans° the arrest of.
Brawdy, - the defen'dantotgainst whom an
indictment for manelaughter was found
by the Grunt Jury.
The commonwealth was represented
bY District Attorney Pearson,and Messrs.
T. B. Hamilton and. M. B. Acheson ap
peared for the defense.
A - number , of tvitnesses were:examined
on the part of the commonwealth, the
Principal, testbnony, however, was that
of R. 11 tirkpatrlck, Esq., who testified
that be_Wati coli the front platform of the
car at thetitne Of the accident, and that
he saw the child in the street some dis
tance in advance of the car, and when
they had arrived within about thirty or
forty feet of the child he called the atten
tion of the driver to the child and re.
quested him to stop the car,'but be made
no effort to do so. He called the driver's
attention the second time, but he made
no effort to stop the car until the child
was knocked down. •
The thrjOry of the defense was that.the
defendant need toroprif caution and' en
deayOred to atop the oar before the child
was injurred, but was unable to do so. A
number of witnesses were called to es
tablish this theory.
- - - - - -
The case was argued by Mr. Acheson
for the prisoner, and by District Attor
ney Pearson for the Commod wealth.
After the charge of the Court the case
was submitted to the jury, when Court
adjourned.
SENTENCED BY THE JURY
The jury in the case of John Hilde
brand who was tried on an indictment
for perjury, the facts of which we pub
lished yesterday, returned a verdict of
not guilty, and directed that the defen
dant pay the costs.
Road Commissioner for Outer Wards,
To Crry COUNCILMEN' : • Understandl
lug that you are about to appoint a Roae
CoMmissioner to take charge . and over
sight of all the roads in the new war,
of the city, I would ask you, what . ;
your first duty to these districts in 3 -1
ingyour. selection ?
Will you select a man merely be.
he is holiest?
Will yen select a man because -
aged ? : -
Suppose you were about to bui; '
house, or to lay out your groands • •
walks and roads, would you select
who has never had any experi ,
in that line of business? Or would
look around, as every wise man is b
to do, and eroluire who in the city is
capable and honest ?
It appears to my mind that if this • '
done, that some such a man as Mr
Sheppard, a resident ofe 14th in
whose life long businesshas been
learning and in building of roads.
Gentlemen, we want you to be hone.
public servants. Do for your. constitn
ants as you would do for yourselves. Se•
lect the most capable man you; can find
for the position. . ARGUS.
January 29, 1889.
Pure Water.
EDITORS GAzsprE : Statements are
afloat, apparently well founded, that ef
forts hive been made at different times,
by different persons, to connect their- ,
cess pools with sewers emptying into the
Allegheny river, above the. Water
Works,
which nuisances hive been
abated by theprompt and - energetic ao
tion of the officers of the Board Of Health,
except in one instance, the.case of a
member of the Board of Health, the.t
officers of which body know it, but have'
not abated it, as they have in the instanc
of parties who have no seats in thi
Board, and therefore no vote in the
lection of those officers.
The Councils meet to-day, and as a
have the power to investigate and to
testimony under oath, it Might b
good idea to appoint a committee to
amine this and some other matters t
might turn up. I have no doubt so
of the more resent members of
Board of Health might thus find th
have not been posted b y their official
all, things. PURE IWATE',
—ln the City Court at Lonisyille,
terday, Captain Shunck, of the Meat
Alice Dean, was fined one hundred di,,
lam for putting off a pauper at the city
wharf,-brAught from Cincinnati.
DR. SARGENT'S BACKACHE PILLS.
The most efficient DIURETIC, for treatment of
all complaints resulting from weakness and de
ringement of the Kidneys. such as pains snit
weakness In the Back or Loins; (}race!, Dropsy,
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of • the Kidneys, dec., Sce. DR. SARGENT'S
BACKACHE PILLS can be used with perfect
safety in all cases In children a s well as adult,.
Upwards of thirty-seven years' experience
proven this medicine to be the most nnttorr
efficient Diuretic ever discovered, beside!'
n the form of sugar coated Pale, inaklni
easy to take, and not being a purgative,
aterferes with the regtilar discharge of
These, pills can be had at wholesale and
from the Proprietor
GEORGE A. KELLEY,
Wholesale Druggist,
OORIER OP WOOD STREET AND BEOOND
AVENUE, PITTSBURGH;
and from all Druggists and Dialers inMedleine
50 cents tov box
WHAT ARE YOU TAKING!
•
Probably two-thirds of the adult population of
the United States Indulge, more or lese, in bar
room stimulants. Rot alcoholic beverages anc-.;
habitually imbibed by thousands of people in tr
winter months to "keep out the cold." The
coholic material of all these drinia Is more i
less pottonoue, and tendered all ti.e more de'
eterlous in consequence of being taken warm.
Avoid these dangerous e‘cltementS. Shun, •
you would shun the 'deadliest drug, all t•r o .
4/Motu/ante. -They paralyze the digestion, c'
Bret the liver. distort the natural ac'ion of
kidneys, irritate tne bowels, shatterthe neri
and impair the rea , on.
The operation of HOSTETTER'S STOMA
BIT TENS is dtsmetrically opposite to t:
They spur no organ into unnatural aetivity;
they tone and regulate all. it the digeEtioll
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If the nerves are tremulous, they are strength
ened. If the mind la clouded, the BITTERS tend
to dieper e the gloom.
These are the effects of the great :VEOEYABLX
TONIC AND C BECTIVN, which for twenty years
has teen a staple medicine In this country, and
the demand for which steadily increases in all
parts of the Western Hemisphere, -
It is not offered as &beverage, b u t ae a medicine;
nor will It ever be used to satisfy &craving for i
alcoholic stimulants, because Its effect Is to cheek, •
not to create. a raise appetite for excitants. The
champions of temperanos will do well to mark
this peculiarity, and to .eco mend it as the only
sage preparation containing alcohol, that can be
used or mt dielnol purposes
THE SOUND OF T:131,1 NGS,
One 02 the most accurate ays of determining
whether the lugs arc In a healtty or diseased con
dition,tls by means oflistening to the respiration.
To those experienotd In this practice it becomes
as plain an incest to the State of the inngs, and Is
as well known to the operator as are tbe Voices of
his most intimate acquaintances. The belief that
long standing cough., and diseases of the lungs
upon which they are dependent, are Incurable.
are Dist becoming obsolete. One great adyantaye
to be gained from tida advance in medical
edge is tt e earner application of those.
come afflicted With those diseases to sot
competent to afford relief. The error wb
taken hold of the public mind in regar -
curability of conaumption, or rather non-c
lty, is fast becoming obliterated, and it,
that it should be so, not that persons shot
thatsaiutary fear which would make tit
fora timely remedy, but that all might i
ced to rise remedies while there is any h•ip
the delay In these cues that dile us
Prehension and alarm, for if every o
make timely application of DR. El
LUNG CIIRE In the beginning of a cold ;' " s
few eases would go so far as to beconie t
ble.
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