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MONDAY. APRIL 12. 11369.
Ws raterr on the inidde pages of this
morning's GeraTra. Second page :
Ephemeris, MiSeellaneous. Third and
Bizth pages: Commercial;Mer
eantae and River News, Markets, Imports.
Seventh page: A Night in a Storm; an
interesting story:
U. B. Borne at Fraakfort. 87@87*.
PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 5240153 f.
GOLD closed in New York Saturday
at. 138/.
Cortaamsa adjourned, on Saturday,
1, until December. The Senate remains in
Executive session, and is expected to act
upon the principal diplomatic' nomina
tions this week.
Tan last Illinois Legislature declared
the'right Of married women "to receive,
use and pupae's' their own earnings and
sue fbi the same in their own names, free
from the: interference of htu3bands or
creditors." -
IT is hinted that the Quaker proclivi
ties of the President's Indian policy were
suggested by Gen. McCLELLen, whose
profeund respect for , Quaker expedients
to keep the peace was uniformly display
ed on the Virxinlan Peninsula.
THE Pacific Railway controversy has
been adjusted, at least for the present.
Under the failure of the two roads to agree
. .upon some point for meeting, Congress
proceeded to fix that point at Ogden, and
ordered that , bonds should be withheld
:from each Company, for a sufficient mile
age on either side of that point to ensure
the completion' by each of a first-class
read. The two Companies then came to
an: immediate agreement as to the dia.
Tinted detaill—and will hereafter be allied
in the common cause against the Treasury.
WE Am occasionally struck by the tine
said solid sense evinced by that uncom
promisingly Democratic journal, the Phil
adelphia New,. It is really refreshing to
find one such journal in Pennsylvania,
which dares to speak the troth sometimes,
and which always knows how to do it
effectively. For example, it now says:
The Democratic party must be "recon
structed." or rather something else must
be substituted for it. The leaders sold
it out in New York; it was sold out many
*time before in Pennsylvinia, and will
be beaten again in this State in the cora
lug awns, if new men are not put for
wartto manage and direct it.
1 1 Cowen:Tam Is universally felt that the
FAeconstnacilon of Virginia, Texas and
311iidssippi will be completed, by their
xes a tive elections, at an early date, no
'der the law of last week, aid by the Con
gressional approval la December. Under
the power conferred upon the. Preaident,
each of their Constitutions will be sub
mitted to separate votes upon their contro
l'ejW seetions—the effect of which will be
to secure the adoption of the main body
of each instrument, by the respective
peoples, andihe transfer of all questions
eonceining disfranchisement to Congress
for a final settlement.
Ito oitosnuarrow has yet been effected
ill the Indiana Legislature, the newly
elected opposition members persisting in
their demand for inadmissible concessions
notthe "majority. The Democracy have
not been encouraged by the success of
their recent Appeal to the people. The
boltere have been re-elected by largely di
minished votes, in some cases being op
posed by independent candidates of their
min - put,. If our friends aro tenacious
of their position,'s second Democratic bolt
is improbable, 'and if attempted.Wbuld be
disastrous to them. The' people' won't
standA/PM , 1 38 , forever.
CUBA AND THEALAHA MX-CLAIMS.
The propositiori to .authorize the Presi
dent. to recognize the,belligerent rights of
the Ottbast:lasarifeataWM . at last
gleeeret..lCbrough a: thin and exhausted
!Ruse,. on Saturday morning. It was
. 0 14 0 Senate, a few moments
before theham:for adjournment—which
interval was 'improved by - Mr. WivioN,
lifter the fashion long ago set by "Hon
est" ionw Davis; he took the floor,
siieaking natll ihe session •was -legally
Earlier in the session; the Senate
"squelched" a similar reiolution from
the House. . We prefer to• believe thsclt
WoOld luttm done the same on Saturday,
but "General . Wuaon took the ellele 4
,and an equally effective , way of pu t t i ng
lir 4111011111 on this mischievous piece of
f011y... But, had the resolution gone to a
ypts mid toe Senatorial concurrence, we .
Are.Onder44Patt, the question would'
have been - dealt 'arab discreetly by the
AdndidstAtidit; We - bstegrua ides that
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the President would - be betrayed, by
the clamor of a half dozen promi
nent journalists in the leading Easterrr
cities, into the fatal mistake of
compromising our 'National diploniacy,
and the American interpretation of inter
national law; by any premature recogni
tion of the Cubadrebels. He knows that
the entire -American case against Eng
land, in the affair of the Alabama claims,.
hangs upon those precise considerations
which ithe House of Representatives
would now urge him to abandon. He is
aware of the universally prevalent belief
that the journals alluded to are heavily
subsidized, from the funds of the
wealthy insurgents, to swallow their
crw n uguments and jeremiads against
the unfriendly haste of England, and to
neutralize, in New York and Philadel
phia, the blunders of Earl' Russn!,..t., the
international honesty of Glasgo* and
Liverpool, and the morals of LAIRD, of
SEMMES, and of every blockade-runner,
or more than half pirate, who found legal
protection in that British policy which .
Mr. likrina inyokes us to adopt towards
Spain.
If the President were really unaware of
the absolute need for the greatest caution
in these premises, we should not hesitate
to implore him to take no such action,
against a power at peace with us, until
this country shall be fitly represented at
the English . Court; until our new
ter shall be fully instructed as to all
our claims for reparation from Great
Britain, for her unfriendly policy
and acts during our rebellion,—and
then, when our • Alabama case is cotn
pletely prepared, the only policy in
which the President can be justified, •to
wards Spain and her rebel province, will
be precisely that by which our own
claims against England must stand or
fall Oar Cuban policy must- be squared
by that which we are urging in London,
or the Alabama•case. will be itself ruined
altogether by this wretched schede of
West Indian filibustering.
We warn the Administration- and the
country not to be deceived for a moment
by the clamorous cry of half a dozen venal
newspapers. Let these shriek'in concert
for "Cuban freedom" as long, as loudly
and with as much ludicrous inconsistency
as they may severally be paid for from
Cuban funds. They may abuse their
own types and the credulity of their un•
reflecting readers, but
_they do not re
present the National intelligence and
honesty. The people sympathize with
struggling liberty everywhere, but it must
present clearer claims than these Cuban
insurgents have yet shown. That Spain
which followed the English lead, in giv
ing countenance to our own rebels, is not
the Spain which now resists the spoliation
of her most valuable dependency. The
revolution, which expelled Bourbonism
from her throne, wiped out every vindic
tive feeling from the American breast. If
any claims for reparation remain to ut
against the Spanish people, let us present
them in form and await their rejection,be
fore visiting upon a third-rate foreign pow
er the revenge which no "precedent" justi
fies in that cue. This would be vastly
more creditable to the American honor,
than to retire' from an unprofitable contest
with a first-rate power like Great Britnin,.
in order to rob Spain because she is really
powerless to resist ua. •
Our people cannot afford to give up the
Alabama claims, in the,intereat of Cu
ban recognition. That is the whole case,
and we believe that the Administration
so understands it. The rights of our cit
izens in Cuba are to be duly protected,
and the rights of Spain over her beautiful
but inquiet province will be faittifdlly
respected. Beyond these liMits, Amen•
can honor can never go ; if it falls short
of them, it will earn the derision of Chris
tendom; the only actual peril, to-day, is
that we may, thoughtlessly, or negligent
ly, drift away from the right , moorings,
and ,into the most unfortunate complies
none before we know it. '
NEXT OCTOBER.
It is proper to remind our friends,
throughout the - Commonwealth, that re
sults of the highest local consequence are
to be controlled by the next Autumn's
election. A Governor, a 1 3upreme Judge
and other officers are to be chosen, with
one-third of the Senate, and the entire
body of the Representative branch of the
Legislature. The Governor is to hold
his office for three years, an d
. the new Sen
ators will have the same term. The Rep
resentatives are chosen annually. Hold
ing the veto-power, 'the approval of, the
Executive is essential to , the validity of
all legislation. 'Hence, this . legislation,.
or the three years from and after Janu
ary next,.
,upork, all questions which are
likely to , array ,tie' People in 'political di
vislous, suuSt-be controlled by the politi
cal opinions of the new Executive,, and,
as ii . probable,' to a considerable extent,
by the Senators chosen In 1.869.
• First in political coniequence among
such questions, will be those which relate
to, the appoitionment among the counties
of the State, of our Congressional repre
sentation under the census of 1870. The
statistics of this census will be placed be
fore Congress in the winter of-'7O-'7l,
and the number of our Representatives
will be fixed at the eaillest possible day of
that sessions doubtless in season for ac
tion thereupon by our Legislature, at its
session, commencing is January, 1870.
Al the same sesshiri, the Cominoliweilth'is
also to - be redivided "Into legislative die
trktil/24 f0i , .. , kh0 - '4316410#01(0.#? *qui/
figgpientillirns, ;with noi'lesOluti twat
ittrivo memory 11sw Abitlyart. taint
'timber of tinlittei,
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tween those limits, is to be defined by the
same Legislature. The Congressional ap
portionment will hold for ten years, and
that of the Legislature -for seven years,
both from
This concurrent duty, of the two ap
portionments at the same session, cannot
again devolve upon the Legislature of
Pennsylvania until 1941. The Governor
and Senators chosen
_next October, hold-'
lug office for three years, will decisively
control the apportionment-polle.y of 1809 1
70. The same questions will be again pre
Rented,. but within narrower limits, in the
election for Representatives in October;
1870. While both elections are of sucli
consequence, the first, that of the next
autumn, is, for obvious reasons, the more
vitally' important.
. .. While the two apportionments can thus
fall together, at the same session. but once
I\
in eachlperiod of seventy years, they wi
come nearly together more frequently
The Goiernor and Senators chosen in
1899, thirty years hence, will act upon
each quesllon, but at different, sessions of
their three years' term. The same thing
* will hold flood of the same officials chosen
in 1908 and 1929. Thus we see that both
apportionments devolve imoii the same.
session-but once, and upon the same Gov
ernor and Senators but four times, in the
Seventy years' period.
Leaving the later dates to take dare of
themselves, let us say- one word respect
ing the canvass of next October. We
need not dwell on the very great import
ance of retaining the control of those re
sponsible duties, In the hands which
represent the settled opinions of the pop
ular majority in this Commonwealth.
What Might, and would, be attempted in
`the way of effectively disfranchi l sing pat
majority, by a Legislature in which acci
cient or neglect should present a Demo
cratic preponderance, we have already
good reason to know. They would so
gerrymander the apportionments as to
retain . 'the legislative control, and 'the
largest number of Congressmen, in the
face of popular majorities against them,
and these majorities would be powerless
to prevent the wrong. -
Our friends must theref?re perceive how
necessary it will be, not only to guard
the Senatorial elections of October,
watching the strong districts and vigor
ously
contestthe close ones, but also to
go into theneral canvass with the
strongest ticor State officers within the
selection of e Republican party. We
t e
have a seven years' war to fight next
autumn; unie we win that battle de
cisively, we a doomed to seven follow
ing years of uniform defeat, from which
no poprilar majorities, however decisive,
can afterwards redeem `the' Repub
lican organization. Beaten on the Gov
ernor and Senators, and especially on the
first, in October, no future reaction of
popular sentiment can help us; we shall
be bound, and past relief. With timely
prudence,—with personal concessions and
self-denials,--with fidelity to principles
alone,—without the sacrifice of higher
aims to private ambition, or to the jeal- '
mules of cabals; —with the Republican
party united, as it has been and ever should
be, upon the single principle of the
greatest good to the greatest number —a
principle as applicable to the discipline of a
party as to the policy of a Republic,—With
a bold avowal of tbs living doctrines of
progress ; —with candidates who can
stand upen the platform, and are
not to be , sacri fi ced . to personal
, ,
feelings beneath it or beside it,
—with a square and honest pull altogether,
we can do even better next Autumn than
we did under GRANT last November, se
curing a seven years' Republican suprem
acy in this great Commonwealth.
In this view we mull regard the Man,
or the men, no matter whom, who shall
carry personal ambitions or animosities
into the ensuing canvass, to the peril and
perhaps to theirreparable injury of the
party, as unworthy of Republican confi
dence, or even of the Republican name.
either now or hereafter.
THE PREROGATIVE OP MERCY.
GOverllOr GI AZT hatrvery properly ve
toed the bill passed last week, which as
smiled to authorize to Executive commu
.tation of the death penalty to a life-im
prisonment, on his discretion. The veto
, is strictly in consonance with the Con ;
stitution of Pennsylvania; indeed the
provisions of that instrument left no al
ternative for the ExeCutive consideration.
The commutation proposition was clearly
In contravention of the fundamental law
of the Commozwealtii, of which section
IX,' article 2, treating of the powers of
the Governor, reads as follows:
He shall have power to remit_ leas and
forfeitures, andirrant.reprieves and par
dons, except in cases of itnpeachment.
• Sebiiiin i tlll. of the same article says:
He 'shall take • care that the la* , be
faithfully executed.*
Sectional, of article IX,: the Declara
tion of Rights, asserts the "inviolable
and indefeasible right of the people to al
ter or reform their government, in such
manner as they may think proper."
• bection 24 of the same article;eiguard
ing against transgressions of the high
powers" which the 'Constitution. dele
gates, declares .that ,
this, . with the other
rights specified in :the, entire article,.
"shall forever rezailliatiolate;" fie "ei
cepted out of the general powers of gar-.
erument."
These citations embody the entire gin
damental : bearing 'on this question.
Their text andltenor ebiarly establish - 04 3
Invalhlity:,.e( . 44 , leoslation which
have violated his own official oath for
"the faithfill execution of the laws"—
first of which, and at the base of all valid
legislation, is the Constitution itself.
There is to-day—and it has been equal
ly true for the entire thirty years since the
adoption of the present Constitution—no
power, tither in the Legislature or in the
Governor, or in both departments con
jointly, authorizing the commutation of
one form of penisity, following eonvic
thin for offences, into any other form.
The Governor may remit a penalty alto
gether by his pardon; he may suspend its
execution by a rePrieve; he may-forgive
the crime, or may delay its punishment,but
cannot substitute one penalty fir another.
That is a power which the people of this
Coinmonwealth have never yet conferred
upon either Governor, Legislature, or '
both together, and which abides ,with the
people, until it may be expressly granted
by the proper change to be made in the
fundamental law. It was legally enough
that no power of commutation was given
by the section first cited. The maxim is
law, that the specified definition of any
function, right, or duty, excludes all
all other things not specified. The ex
pressed right to remit penalties, to grant
pardons and reprieves,is a legal prohibition
to exercise any rights or powers not there
in embraced. In that view, the cited
section as clearly prohibits the proposed
power of commutation, as it Maintains
the defined limits of the Executive prerog
ative. No power but that of the people can
give this right,—and that power can only
be executed in the proper channel of a Con
stitutional amendment.
This is no new question. It has been
alwiys a familiar one, not onjr to the
legal profession and- to the Executive
Chathber, but, to all' well-informed citi
zens. There' has been scarcely sryear,
since the date of this Constitution in 'BB,.
when there has not lain, rn some prison
of the Commonwealth, some miserable
offender, convicted and duly sentenced•to
death, whose case has addressed itself to
the Executive mercy as one not juitifyiug
that penalty, ydt not wholly deserving of
a free pardon. Under our laws, the
Courts declare the .death-penalty : the
Governor alone designates the day of its
execution. Hence, official clemency
might spare the life of thi) Offendez, not
with the pardon which he did not merit,
but in the simple omission to issue the
warrant for execution. And so, the
Wretched criminal might be left lan
guishing, •year after year, in his dungeon,
his life in one man's hand, judicially dead
already,' yet dying a daily death, until
released by pardon or by the common
fate of mortality. Such a criminal lives,
and has for eleven years, lived, in Hoye
mensing prison to•day. There is another
one there, if not lately deceased, who has
bean so confined for twenty years. The
HESTER Vetronar case has attracted the
attention of the whole:Christian world.
This condition of our criminal justice
presents an anomaly not more remarkable
than indefensible. Its amendment has
been frequently proposed, and often by
imperfect legialative methods, the latest
of which was vetoed last week. The
Constitution must be reformed; until then,
paxadozical as 'the remark may seem,
that instrument effectively confers upon
thp Executive a right, altogether uncon
stitutional as it is unknown to its text,
that of inflicting an impritionnient for
life. He luta this power 'already in legal
effect, and constitutionally exercises it;
the recent bill aimed at its specific legali
zation, and was therefore clearly uncon
stitutional
We thank Governor GEARY for his Ex
ecutive fidelity in this matter. 'We have
no desire to censure the humane prompt
lags which have led the Legislature to
overstep the coustitutional limits. Rather,
we shall rejoice if the people of Pennsyl
vania are at last to discover, as a result
of this discussion, the need for such a
change of our fundamental law' as shall
inimanely and wisely enlarge the Execu
tive prerogative, in the interests of j ustice
and of an enlightened humanity.
Washington Items.
• The attacks on "'President Grant in
pana's NeW York paper are understood
to proceed from the coldness which his
applications for office were treated.
There has not yet been any movement
by Secretary Fisk - to take up the Consul
ate; over all of which there is a great
contest, and ten applications for every
Pte•
GovernoiOurtin has been agreed upon
in Cabinet meeting for the mission to St.
Petersburg.
A delegation from the Philadelphia
Union League is here, pressing George
H. Boker -for the to Spain.
It is noir =definitely settled that Hon.
J.'Lathrop_Motley will go to England,
Curtin to Hossis, and 'Shticks to Mexido.
Governor Geary is pressing - LOuis W.
Hall for a resident mission With all his
166 0' Watts Will be relieved
from , Unix: Mr. Sanford will' stay*
Brussels, Mr. D udley 'as Consnl-at Liver
pool, and,Mr. Marsh as Minister to Italy.
John Hicknian's name was presented to
day fdi a'oreign appointment.
The position of the Administration
upon the Cuban question was, again the
subject of Cabinet consultation on Elattir
.4lay, and the position assumed by Secre
tary' Fish, that this Government roust
maintain for itself the policy it exacted of
foreign,powenk during, the 'late war, re
gardWg belligerent rights, was fully ap
proved. There will, therefore, be noth
ing done by the Government looking to
the Cuban insurgents. Every American
citizen hoWever, who has been arrested
in Onlia; will be protected by this Gov
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ernment:
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—AI Cincinnati, yesterday, Richard
Hall stabbed West Granger, so that his
bowels protruded. Granger will die.
—The' returns of incomes in Cincin
nati for 1888 show gains or 4'40,000 in the
First and 4'30,000 in the Shcond District.
—One hundred and forty Siivedish emi
grants passed through Concord, N. H.,
last .week, many of them destined for
Salt Lake City.
=—The missing banker, F. G. Jewett, of
Skaneatles, New York, has turned up in
Canada. How he reached there is not
stated. His funds were all right.
—The coroner's jury in the Twitchell
case returned a verdict that he came to
his death fro*l poison supplied to de
ceased by some person unknown.
—Herman Evans was shot in Cincin-
mitt, yesterday, probably fatally, by his
brother-in-law, Chumley, a young mau.
The affair grew out of a family diniculty.
—At Scranton, Pa., Saturday, the old
Slocum House , built in 1805, and the first
frame dwelling erected within the pres
ent city limits, was partially destroyed
by fire.
—Mary Breen was so badly burned at
;Cincinnati, yesterday, that ehe will not
live. Her clothing caught from cinders
falling through a iloorinto a cellar where
'she was: ,
—A collision occurred on the Central
Railroad, near Indianapolis, Indiana, on
Saturday evening, between a freight and
wood train. The engineer of the freight
train, Peter Yarborough, was instantly
killed.
—The Cincinnati Chamber of Com-.
merne have passed a resolution to unite
with the New Orleans Chamber of Com
merce in a petition to Congress to pro
vide navigation for the largest vesaeb3
from New Orleans to the Gulf.
.Brevet Lieut. Col. F. M. Faßet,
Fourth United States Artillery, commit
ted suicide on Friday evening last, at
Fort McHenry, Md., by shooting him
self with a pistol. He had been several
weeks confined to his bed by illness.
—Saturday evening a woman named
Maria Thorber fell throush the hatchway
of the office of the Evening Post, at Chi
cago, to the basement, a distance of fifty
feet, and was terribly mangled. She can
Scarcely survive.
-A salute of fifty guns was fired on
Saturday evening from Federal Hill,
near Baltimore, by the German Catho
lics, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary
of the priesthood of Pope . Pius IX. Fes
tivals were held on Sunday in all the
Catholic churches in commemoration of
thit event.
—The Coroner of Cincinnati yesterday
held three inquests, one on the body of
a male child drowned in the canal,
another on Charles Robbins, an aged
mechanic out of employment, found
dead in bed, poisoned by Pans green,
and last on the body of Andrew . Ent
wille, killed by falling from the third
story of a house.
—The latest advices of the Gold Hill fire,
in Nevada, state the smoke had consid
erably' decreased. Some steam was N
etting from the crevices where the shafts
were closed, leading to the belief that the
mines were filling with steam and that
the flames would be eventually thus
smothered. As long as there is any evi
dence of tire, the process of injecting
steam will be continued.
,--Chris. Hogan and Charles Reilly, in
the United States secret service, were
arrested at Cincinnati on Saturday, on
the information of a German engraver,
who says they employed him in Feb
ruary to make what he now believes a
counterfeit tobacco brand. He says that
flkan lately threatened his life when he
refused to give up the brand. Warrants
are out for three other parties.
—The trouble among the Catholics at
Auburn, New York, connected with the
Church of the Holy Family, seems to
have ended,and Rev. Martin KaVanah,the
priest appointed by Bishop McQuade to
supercede Father O'Flaherty, said Mass
at Church yesterday. Arrangements
were made by the city authorities to pre
serve orderin case any disturbance
should be attempted.
—A.dvices faom Port Ellis state that on
the 6th, a party of ten Indians stole cat
tle and horses from a ranch on Dey
Creek. A party of fifteen or twenty citi
zens, and four mounted soldiers from
Fcirt Ellis, pursued;overtook and killed
nine of them. Private Corbley was
killed, and two soldiers and one citizen
wounded. 'lt is reported that the Crow
Indians have burned their treaty with
the goVerflMent, and will go on the war
.
-The Overland Mail Company are now
carrying mails between the ends of the
Union' and. Central Pacific roads, a dis
tance of one hundred and ten miles. All
delayed mails are carried across Steptoe
Swamp and anon reach their destination
The Central Pacific road on Saturday
commended transporting mails to the six.
hundred and fifteenth mile
. post. Only
fifty-two miles of track remain to be laid
to complete the Pacific railroad.
,The following deeds were filed of
record before H. Snlvely, Esq., Recorder
April 10, 1869:
August Ammon to Maddalena Armbnu der, April
I. 1860; lot on Mary street, Emit Blrsolugham
38by 00 feet.—
Edward J. Bubb to Andrew McCready. February
20..1860• lot on Harrisou street, Lawrenceville
17feet 8 inches by 100 feet • 4775
,tames Sterrett to /tabard Carroll. May 21, PM;
lotf on Fountain street, Reserve ton nahlp, 35 by
t i S
N. Nommerrllte and. B. B. Blsekstuelt to, Nic ol
Sommerville, March 21. ,I 849; lot of ground in
Second ward, Anew Guy, containing 1 sere' and
3 perches Nominal.
John Donaghy to Joseph B. Keating, Ma ett
• 1869; lot on - Denniron avenue, pittautirgh. 24 Ity
120 foet goo
Aaiun Relneman to John Roaska, November 18.
1865; lot ou Buchanan street, Seventh ward, At
leiheny, 121 by 1120 feet
John Davis to Agnes Cocaine, March 1, 81; tot
on Railroad street, hest Birmingham. ft by 80
feet. with buildings, ' 63,21
Joseph S. Morrison to. Leopo l d Herbert, Oc.ober
6, 18611; two lots in ReierVe townstito. eget 23
oy 122 rem - • 81,000
Mathias Voertly to to , Wm. and John Sch ll eper,
_March 17. 1889;,lot Rosary° township, 44 try .
20 feet
Peter Pfeifer to Adam - Pfelfer,'April 3, IMO; lot
on Spring _Garden road, Seventh wrrd.
;thew, 24 by 100 feet' 42,000'
Clara Stockton to Addlso.t. 4.l.lStock ten
and Other heirs of Davld'Cl. Stockton,' Month 311,
181; lot on Beaver street and Stockton avenue,
ll n ward, Allegheny. Vby 140,t......413.000
James A. Dick 1 0 Gad H. Tower Mgreh 26,1889;
lot In East Liberty, 30 by 120 efeett also lot ad
• Joining . 10 by 120 feet, with buildings ' 47,300
Dal' H. • Tower to..Tbds. Ewing and Wm. ,
• Young ki ach 23. .186* lots above,dem:grd
.... 000
*mentors of Abraham ' Patterson. deceased. to
John, F. and JaillM.Vltteher,•Augnat gh 18112;
let on ranter street, Third ward, Alleeny
20 by 6S feet. with buildings 11.600
Samuel 0 ardent , ' heirs to Henry Walton, Au a.
1 1368; lot on Boner street, Eighteenth: waa i
_Pittsburgh, 98 by 100 feet
`James McDermott to George M. D. /Cook, April
10, 1889; lot on Islam:llene, Allegberly, 13 hy 131
N.
1. 4,38
J. N. Coot:meta Henry Bier, May 15, 1888; l 4
tono
Pist e and Walnut streets..Pittaburgh, 49 by so
feet. With lillildißKS in.sro
Ephraim Spahr to William D. Eby, Jnly6, er:
lilton Begley avenue, 60 by 187 feet ;Atm
John Koppits to Jacob slitter, March 26, ' 1889; lot
mu. Mary street. Eist olriningliam, 23 by 188 feet
•
Bellaire Patterson to Ones: Ninuhatioar, April
IMO; tract Or hind in, Peebles towni nip. con •
tailing:a acres, with buildings cute
George B McCready to Xier,.P.,ster 1 Kier,
Mitten 17. .1. tact o; laud wßeun tornship,
• containing Weep. MO
Nicholas Seibert to Jouti Hrst. ' March 43, UM:
lot la Tem prirapacrlile, !8 by 129
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Yebrairr 4,, Ma' "lot oh ' Pei tier aerate ', Kish
to •ntntsirtil'lllitstiergbi
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BRIEF TELEatuts.
Real Estate Transfers.
THE SOUTH;
"'Tam number of voters in Montgomery
county, Tennessee, is estimated at 3.100.
Of this numb,er 763 are white, and 2,377
colored.
Jona; B. KtNo, of Madison county,'
Kentucky, was recently killed by his son
because he would not divide his estate -
with him.
FORTY Swiss families, supposed to pos
sess $l,OOO apiece on an average, are
about to settle in Grundy county, Ten
nessee. They will engage in agricultural
pursuits, and have already begun to ar
rive at their new home.
WOLVES are committing many ravages
in the northern part of Anite county,
Mississippi. A number of sheep and
hogs have been killed• already. The 4
wolves have been forced to take to the
hills in search of food, in consequence of
the continued high waters in the Missis
sippi swamps.
A NEcuto was drowned by a catfish in
Lake Concordia, Louisiana, opposite
Natchez, a few- days since. The negro
was trying to haul the catfish out, but the
the, fish hauled him in, and he was
drowned before assistance could be ren
dered.
CoPPEn onn of great richness is being
found in Rowan county, North Carolina.
Specimens have been taken to !Weigh,
which contain forty-five per cent. of pure
metal.
IT is said that Adjutant and Inspector-
General F. S. Moses, Jr., has gone. to
New Haven, Connecticut, for the pur
pose of purchasing two thousand Spring
field rifles for the militia of Charleston.
South Carolina.
Tax Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald says :
"We still- continue to hear the most en
couraging news in regard to the growing
wheat crop in this county. An unusual
quantity was. sown, and it has passed
through the winter without injury. It is
thick upon the ground and of fine color.
With a favorable season from now until
harvest, the yield will equal, if it does not
surpass the famous crop of 1855."
Tax New Iberia (La.) Times of the 26th
nit. says: After all the fears entertained,
we are going to have a good fruit season.
Peaches are already as large as bird's
eggs, and figs, plums, oranges, etc., prom
ise as well.
TEE Charleston (S. C.) News says that
city is now feeling the healthy influence
of the profitable cotton crop of the year,
which gave the producer the means of
paying off-a load of old debts and left him
with some money in' hand for the Om
chase of the comforts as well as the ne
cessaries of life.
Tim Lexington Statesman says : "We
learn that friends of John C. Breckinridge
are raising a fund for the purpose of piir
chasing and presenting to him a resi
dence in this city."
Tan Crown Princess Victoria, of Prus
sia, had recentlys long conversation with
some American ladies in Berlin on her
favorite subject—the employment of wo
men in fields which are now closed to
them. In the course of the conversation
the Crown Princes inquired with evident
interest about the progress of the female
suffrage movement in the United States.
Her Royal Highness said she was in fa
vor of the movement, and had as yet
seen nothing to convince her that it was
wrong: - This will be good news to Clara
Mundt, . Kme. Amely Boite, and the
other: leading advocates of female suf
frage in Germany.
TRUSSES AND HERNIA.
The ,sad and depiorable conoltlon,of mine who
are afflicted with heenta or rupture or theheiw
els, calls loudly for loom - efficient and unmistak
able remedy that will not only le every case give'
ef f icient relief, but in many cue es effecia radical
and thorough cure. Theie cases of hernia have
become so frequent, that It Is computed that one-.
sixth of the male population are said to be
troubled, In some way or another, with this ter
rible s'lment; and In aery many eases. do not
know where to apply for an appropriate remedy.
oftentimes not knowing whether an appliance is
really needed or not; and If it should be needed,
they often do' mitt know where or to wnom they
'Should make application The world Is tall of
Trusses for the retention and cure of this lamen
table evil, oftentimes an incontestable proof of
their total and inadequate illness to relieve the
sufferer. This need not be; Dr. Keiser, at its
sew medletnettore, Nci. 167 Liberty street,..la
abundantly is : applied with every appliance,lneed
hal to the retention sad relief of this terrible
aditetion, so that. every one can be proterlY
fitted at a moderate cost., with the full assurance
that the appliance is the heat that the mechanical
department of 'surgery can 'fiord. The Doctor
blue pursued the investigation of bends with
more than ordinary care for over thirty years,
'so that the afflicted can place implicit re
liance on his skill and integrity with the.full se
eurauce that they will not only get the best tram,
suitable to tne case, but likewise a thoronsh and
efficient knowledge of Its proper application.
There are many persons who not only.sacrifise
their health, but even theft lives, fur want of a
proper truss. or a truss properly applied. Stria.
gulated and Irreducible rupture, 13 a far mare
commont aliment now than in formeryears; and
may we notpetly arrive at the conclusion, that
its frequency is often occasioned by the neglect
and carelessness of the sufferers themselves. No
on.e.wouid be regarded as sate or excusable who
would'go for a yhule winter without the proper
clothing to shield them irom.ihe Inclemency of
the weather, but, at the same time, it is thought
alight affair to suffer for years with a proteustan
that not only subjects the person tq lliconVent
ence, but even places Ore itself In' Jeopardy.
These of our readers who may be unfortunate to
need - appllances of this 'kind 'canniat act mere
wisely than to cut this advertisenient "out and
. pieservels, so as to enable, them to retain the
place where such Important prestavers of life and
health are to be procured.
DB.' NEYSICIPS. Nif,W , KEDICINA .STO2,
NO. IOT feliPtliTY STBFET, TWO D 04.108
FNOM °LAIL . CONSULTATION,ROOM„
No, UOPR~TNI STREET, from 10 , Ae li. until
'WOMAN AiND I MME NEEDS.
Subject by the ldW at neinre- to many physical
afttictlons ff&M‘fliiali mast Is exempt, , woman is -
peculiarly entitled to the.best efforts of
erbium ether , behalf. ger &Majority of ;the all
meats, to which her
HOSTETTER'S STOMAOH-EITTERd ara warm
ty, recommended en Abe authority of , wivea,
mothers and nurses, Whoitave tested their genial
tonic, and ; regulating prcsiertiee, and "know
whereof they apeaktli and also with the satia
tion of able physitlans, who have ;administered
Om pi eustration to their female pattenta v in ob.
stmate cue. °gip:int:Ronal derangement. with
, the happiest , results. Almost all female coni-
Pleints of speelal character am complicated with •
Mental gloom and despondency, and the, gentle
and lasting.exhilarating affect& of this whetecome
medicated stimulant adapts admirably for eases
Ot t this . complex nature.. As a rem dy for , tee
.hyk•terts and mental halluelnatinns which some.
.tlmel mark both . the earlier and the laser crisis
la the life of a woman, lilies no equal in the rep.
„nrtory of the healing art,. and as a means. of ve.
Having the hitusimand either uppleasantfeelings
;10114k P l i c ed e inuulillitY, it It equally efloaclons.•
Aurcleg mothereahmlinq It Amt .
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