Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-27
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

THE spring crocuS was treated ratner coolly
last night.
JOHN sHoUP was probably fatally burned at
Painters mill.
DETECTIVE FURLoNG, Of the Missouri Pa
cific, is in town.
TAKING NO CHANcEs-The minister at his
own church fair.
THE only man known who can beat time is
the orchestra leader.
THERE were "a deaths in the city last week.
Pneumonia carried off IA.
HALF the world doesn't know how the other
half lives, and doesn't care.
THE Board of Viewers opened several new
streets in the Thirty-frst ward.
THE Chinaman, Gold Lippe, was held for
court on the charge of burglary.
THE child of Annie Whelan, of Hoboken,
was buried by the Charity department.
DR.. S. c. BAKER, manager of the Altoona
Iron Works, is at the Seventh Avenue.
MRS. PARSONS again screams Revolution"
Let her be silent and her wish is answered.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the or
ganizarion of Councils on next Wednesday.
SWANSON, who cut his throat at the peniten-
tlary yesterday, is reported to be mending.
STILL there's Moore to follow has be-
come favorite song at amendment meetings.
Mr.. CARNEGIE will be in town on Saturday,
and will very likely inspect the new Allegheny
library building.
THE streets fairly team" with life. Prob.
ably at no time has this busy city seen such
activity in the vehicle line.
PoST 157, G. A. R., will give a campfire
Thursday night. Post 8. 6. A. R., will make a
fraternal visit in uniform.
LUCY Dyes, club steward and hospital
steward are about the same, except that one is
before and the other after taking.
ALLEGHENY-Yes, there is big difference
between ION trainp and zen traine," though
you may be blown up in either case.
JOHN SHAY and Robert Lutz will have a
hearing before Justice Gripp on the charge OF
taking SIS from their boarding boss.
THE fact that a lovely girl once rejected
George Washington for a richer man need not
be held up as horrible example. George is
dead.
ARBoR DAY two weeks from to-day, and
thousands of good little Sunday school chill.
dren will resolve to plant trees they will never
plant
A ooZY. neighborly quarrel on the Southside
resulted in the locking up of Mrs. Mary Linn,
charged by Mrs. Ellen Tracy with disorderly
conduct.
JUST $780, 900 is in a name for johnson City
East Tennessee, and Andrew Carnegie prom.
ises Sl00,00 library if its name is changed to
Carnegie
F. A. DEAN, General Freight agent OF the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad. with his
family left yesterday for three-weeks trip to
New Orleans.
ANTHONY LATLEY swore yesterday that G.
L. Beck kept ferocious dog. Beck will ap
pear before Alderman Jones to-day and reply
to the charge.
MARY C.-"His Art Was True to Polr
probably cannot be purchased in this city
though second editions are quite numerous
$50 the Vokes say"
EDUCATION is compilation of other peo
ple's neutrality-suspicious., of ones own
The man with both and the man with neither
are equally fortunate.
CLUBS for women are growing in popularity
but somehow they fall fat here where the clut
odor of cigars and wine is not associated with a
Pittsburger's idea of woman.
A WESTERN town reported an Unprecedented
real estate boom when seven cemetery lots al
sold in one day. Red Handed Mike arrived il
the burg at about the same time.
APRoPos of the short poem craze, and thu
new Government building, this might bt
timely:
Done,
1891.
ROBERT L. HERDMAN, late Treasurer o.
Iron Molders' Union No. 243, will have a hear
ing Saturday on the charge of embezzling S26
in dues collected. on the charge of Martir
Bettner.
A HOTEL clerk in Buffalo walked the town
to find change for a Russian rouble. Finally
to be on the safe side, he gave the Count 50 fol
it, and has pawned his diamond to make up tht
81 Is loss.
A MAN named Dickson was at the Mayor
Office yesterday asking for the release of twt
female inmates of Morganza as he is con
vinced that the testimoney he gave agains
them was false.
THE Marquis of Queensberry will certainl,
lecture, not on the prize ring, but on matri
mony and divorce. Chicago rises 20 remark
What's the difference, except that one is rop'
and the other gold?"
gheny yesterday, looking for his wife. H,
claims that she left home several days ago, ant
is slightly demented. Chief KIrschler instruct
ed the police to look for the woman.
SEVERAL Allegheny Council committees me
last night and approved the monthly bills ant
pay rolls. The last meeting of the presen
Councils will be held tomorrow evening t,
wind up the business of the fiscal year.
A LARGER crowd than usual made nigh
hideous in front of the Salvation Army bar
racks on Sarah street. last night, and it wa
impossible for the meeting to proceed. Tw,
young fellows, Dosch and Good. were arrested
THE 7-year-old daughter of D. McGlinchey
at the corner of Washington street and Bed
ford avenue, was knocked down by horse a
the corner of Washington street and Wyli
avenue yesterday morning and was injured in
| ternally.
CHARLES MCKELvEY, of 206 Fulton, ALLIE
gheny, WI was assaulted by Michael Sheehai
| last Sunday week, will likely die. Sheehal
| struck him blow on the head, knocking hin
to the ground. The assailant is now in jai
| awaiting hearing.
GEORGE JACOBS, the only eye witness t.
the Farmer Wall murder. Il years ago, died a
the Allegheny General Hospital Pneumoni
caused his DEATH and he will be buried at tn
| expense of the city to-day. He was a clock
maker. and was about 81 years of age.
THE weather will continue fair, says WIG
gins, in his guess, with rising winds, and tenn
| perature little more or less The gentleman
is very kind, to give himself away. but if it,
more or if it's less, he wisely does not say. Th
| giddy girl may go to school, the fashionable cir
to shopping the sober girl can go to church
the hired girl to mopping. The dude cal
| smoke his cigarette or wrestle with his cane
for willy Virgins says there is no fear of sud
den ram.