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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
BIack Goods Departmeut.

See the bargains we are offering in black
cashmere. 46 inches wide, at 60c and 65c per
yard. Only one case of each price.
MwFsu HUGUS & HACKE.
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PLANS OF THE FREE TRADERS.
They Will Establish Bureaus at New York
and Chicago.

CHICAGO, February 23.-The committee
Of nine appointed by the recent tariff re-
form convention has selected New York as
the headquarters Of the national organiza-
ton, elected David s. Wells President, and
appointed Everett P. W heeler, r. r.
Bowker and George Haven Putnam mem
bers of the Executive Committee. It was
to establish also a permanent bu-
reau at Chicago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

Eczema in ifs worst s'ases- A raw sore from
head to feet Hair gone. Doctors and
hospitals fail Tried everything. Cured
by the cuticurs Remedies for Sc.
am cured of 1oathsome disease, eczema,
in its worst stage. 1 tried different doctors
and been through the hospital. but all to no
purpose. The disease covered my whole body
from the top of my head to the soles of my
feet. My hair all came out, leaving me a com
plete raw sore. After trying everything I
heard of your CUTICURA REMEDIES and after
using three bottles of CUTICURA REsoLvENT.
with CUTICURA and CUTICURA SOAP, find
myself cured at the cost of about S. I would
not be without the CUTICURA REMEDIES in
my house. as find them useful in many cases.
and think they are the only skin and blood
medicine.
ISAAC II. GERMAN, Wurtsboro, NY,
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ISAAC H. GERMAN, wurtsbOrO, N. Y.
ECZEMA q YEARS CURED.

Two years ago was attacked with eczema
cannot tell you what suffered dare not
shave: had always shaved before. was the
most forlorn spectacle you ever saw. Charles
Kennedy, Of this place, showed me your pam
phlet on skin diseases and among them found
the description suitable to my case. I bought
the CUTIcURA REMEDIES, and took them ac-
cording to directions, and soon found myself
improving. took seven bottles, with the Gu
TICURA and SOAP, and the result is a perma-
nent cure. thought L would wait and see if
it would come back. but it has proved all you
said it would do. 1 feel like thanking you, but
words cannot do it; so will say, God bless you
and yours TH0S. L. GRAY,
.Leavertown, Morgan Co., o.
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ter than at the inn or tavern. Here nave
been housed the best wits and most noted
men; and here, on public occasions, in the
country, the whole neighborhood often as
sembles. The rooms are still pointed out to
you which noted men have occupied, for the
commonest inn boasts of its old-time celeb
rites, and the boniface in charge will tell
you, If you quiz him, how they acted and
what they said. Though the Astor House
nence it had generation and more ago, it is
still remembered that Webster, Clay and
Seward once habitually stopped there, and,
for that matter, dozens of others OF high
prominence in public life.
With the modern revolution in public
travel and the immensity of the modern
hostelry, it is somewhat doubtful if the once
familiar and easy genialty that used to
mark the old inn and taverus is not passing
away. A country tavern near which am
writing has not lost the tradition which in
forms us that John Quincy Adams once
stopped there; but how long will the i'm
mense m metropolitan caravansary note such
an event, where presidents, generals and
governors names are scrawled daily upon
its voluminous and rapidly filled register.
RoLLIcKING TIMES.
1t almost needs the old-time stage and
turnpike by which journeying was a leis-
urely matter, and the era when tavern
guests were small company, to develop
the best experience the tavern can give.
What blisslul times there must have been
at the Tabard Inn, Southwark, when the
Canterbury pilgrims set outi What rollick-
ing talk at the Mermaid Tavern with Ben
Jonson and his hearty boon com panions;
and how genial must have been the group
at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, as Longfel
lows genius has imagined it.
But these old taverns and the long suo-
cession of them have gone out. The old
time type is no more. In the country vii
lage, as in the metropolis-except, perhaps,
in few lar back places and in the South
the once cozy inn where guests loitered and
talked gossip is gone. Its successor is now a
hotel, at which guests do not get ac-
quainted, but merely touch and go. What
queer names they used to have for the old
time hostelryi In England they still sur
Yive somewhat, but here I think there are
very few lett. The old Elephant Tavern in
Putnam County, n. Y.-the locality where
the circus and show were first introduced
held its own to late date. 1t was fire.
quented by showmen, and the elephant over
the door has lasted longer than any old
time sign know of.
A hundred and seventy years ago someone
wrote of the queer tavern signs in England:
I'm amused at the signs
As pass through the town,
To see the old mixture
A Magpie and Crown:
The Whale and the Crow,
The Razor and Hen,
TheLeg and Seven Stars,
The Axe and the Bottle,
The Tun and the Lutte
The Eagle and Child,
orro1o md
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

Elegant novelties in spring and summer
fabrics, etamlnes. grenadines. hernanni,
serges, ETC., just opened this week.
MwFsu HUGUS 81 HACKE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
Carpets and Curtains

Are Groetzinger's specialties. Every grade
Of both lines for spring now open at 627 and
629 Penn avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

DABBs, the well known photographer,
has more orders for portraits than usual at
this time OF year, and it shows that his ex-
perience and talent are appreciated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

GOLD and silver-head canes and um-
brellas, fine artificial flowers and plants;
lowest prices at Hauch's, No. 295 Fifth ave.
wFSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

WILL remove my place of business to
the corner OF Smithfeld street and Seventh
avenue, Bissell block, on or about March l.
Previous to removal L will close out my
present stock at reduced prices.
WALTER ANDERSON,
Merchant Tailor,
Cor. Wood street and Sixth avenue
su Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

QApv,c Skin and Scalp preserved and
Absolutely pure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
BEAR SOLD HEREl


which provoked much comment. When a
traveller referred to the sign in Theodore
Hooks presence Hook wittily said: "He
spells the word quite correctly if he means
to apprise US that the article is of his own
Bruin." Pepys speaks in his diary of
"The Bear at the Bridge-Foot," which re-
tanned celebrity for centuries, and as long
ago as 1851 rhymester alludes thus to its
antiquity:
We came to the Bear, which we soon under
stood
Was the first house id Southwark built after
the food.
One of the reasons why conspicuous signs
and images were used or public houses was
to enable that large number OF the public
who could not read or write to find them
easily, and the fashion originated, too, be-
tore streets were numbered as they are now.
On the imprints of old books, for ease oil
direction to the bookstore, the almost in-
variable reference was found running as
follows: "At the Sign Of the Mermaid"
cat the Princes Arms" "At the Blue
Anchor etc., as the case might be. For
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

Young maiden if you'd boast those charms
That win lover to ones arms,
And that may never let him go,
Twill he through SOZODONT whose powers
Gives to the breath the halm of flowers,
And leaves the teeth as white as snow. wFSl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
ANCIENT SIGNS.

But this "odd mixture" was never mean.
ingless, though it would probably be diff
cult now to tell the connection OF many OF
them-as, for instance, the Razor and the
Hen. The Tun and the Lutte evidently had
reference to a combination of wine and
music and so was an appropriate symbol OF
hotel jollity. 1t is said the sign of the Leg
and Seven Stars "was merely an ortho-
graphical deviation from the League and
Seven Stars, or seven united provinces. e"
In Beloe's Anecdotes of this literature a
writer says: "I remember many years ago
passing through court in Rosemary lane,
where observed an ancient sign over the
door of an ale house which was called the
Four Alls. There was figure of king
and on label, Il rule ALL the figure of 4
priest, motto, i pray for all ; soldier, Il
fight tor all, and a yeoman, I pay for all. ,
About two years ago passed through the
same thoroughiare and looking up for my
curious sign was amazed to see a painted
board occupy its place, with the words in
scribed: THE Four Avis"
1t is said that checker board was once a
common tavern sign, and it may be traced
back as far as the davs OF Pompeii. The
game of checkers is also called draughts,
aud a wag once said, when an explanation of
this sign was called for, that it ought not to
be thought strange that draughts were ad-
vertised at an inn. In one OF the Roxburghe
Ballads the odd names OF London hostelries
which were best known in the reign OF
Charles IL, are humorously given, and
copy below few stanzas from it
The centric went to the "Kings Head"
The mobiles unto the 'CrOwne,"
The knightes went to the Golden Fleece"
And the ploughmen to the "Clowne-"
The elergie will dine at the "Mitre,"
The vintners at the Three Tunnes,"
The insurers to 1.-The Devil'' will goe,
And the friars TO THE Nunnes."
The Iadyes will dine at 'The Feathers"
"The Globe" no captaine will scorne,
The huntSmen will goe to The Greyhound"
below,
And some townesmen to 'The Horn"
AN ILLITERATE HOST
Other names mentioned in it were the
Dolphin, the Horse, the Cherry Tree, the Ak,
the Three Cups and the Flagon. The Goat
and CompaSses was queer tavern name,
which is borrowed from the saying that
"God encompasses u.s." The numerous
Bear taverns got their name from the old
time vulgar pleasure of bear-baiting, which
existed in England down to 1885, when it
was prohibited by legal enactment. When
the Puritans opposed this rude sport it was
said of them that they did it not so much
for pity OF the bear as for their dislike of
anything that gave people enjoyment. At
one of the Bear taverns an illiterate beer
selling boniface at Harrowgate wrote over
his door:
H-.-.---..----.-..-..-....
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

RIMPLES, blackheads, chapped, rough, red
! I'M and oily skin prevented by CUTICURA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
SALT RHEUM 4 YEARS CURED.

I have suffered greatly with eczema or salt
rheum for four years. with sores all over my
body. I procured three bottles CUTIcURA Re-
SOLVENT, one box of CUTICURA, and a cake OF
CUTICURA SOAP, and they have healed my
sores entirely. / think it the best medicine I
have ever used, and feel very thankful to you
for the good it has done me.
Mrs. ALEX McDOUGAL,
kirkland, Carleton Co., N. B
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
QUEER IRISH FOLK
Who Stick to the Mother Tongue and
DeteSt the Queens English.
BOW THEY LOVE SUNG AND STORY.
The Rough COnnemara Coast and the
Mystic Isles of Saints.
QUAINT CUBAN CUSTOMS RECALLED

rcoRREsPoNDENcE OF THE DIsPATcH.I
CLoGHMoRE, IRELAND, February IL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
ANCIENT HOSTELRIES.
The Tavern and Its Lore Quantity
Described by Joel Benton.
CURIOUS OLD-TIME SlGNBOARDS.
The Notices, Traditions and Frequenters of
Famous Inns.
SOME WITTY AND ILLITERATE HOSTS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. l

'OW spurs the lated
traveller apace
To gain the timely inn.
Shakespeare.
There are no haunts
where human fellow
ship abounds around
which more interest
inp associations clns-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
HOW TO READ BOOKS.
The Power of Book and Candle to EY-
orcise Our Evil Spirits.
ICE CREAM AND CAKE LITERATURE
Reading as an Opportunity for Entering
Good Society.
SELECTING HEALTHY MIND FOOD
ICE CREAM AND CAKE LITERATURE
SELECTING HEALTHY MIND FOOD
WRITTEN FOR THE DrsrA1tH.1

HE Christian religion
is an everyday re-
ligion. 1t is quite as
true on Monday as it
is on Sunday, and
touches us just as
closely on the one day
as on the other. You
cannot lock it up be-
hind the doors of an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
WITHOUT AMBITION.

Most Of them show no ambition to rise, to
better themselves, to acquire property. They
live as their fathers lived, from hand to
mouth. With enough bacon and hominy
to satisfy hunger, with shanty to shelter
them, and little money occasionally to
gladden. their souls with the cup that cheers
and lightens the soul of man, they are there
withal content. They are as jolly, ire
sponsible and happy-go-lucky as though
they had mint of money to draw from, and
a whole health board to look after them
physically. They work through the week,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

an occasional text tor every pulpit and O
theme for every political stump-is GER
tainly most difficult one, and one too,
which the South should be left to solve as
best it may. 1t is very easy in the North
to fippantly affirm that the majority must
rule, but when one comes South and takes
the measure OF that majority, and contem-
plates its makeup, the question assumes a
very different aspect. When the sovereigns
OF the country, as made so by the Constitu-
tion, come under consideration as living in
shanties that in the North would hardly be
considered fit to shelter a mule-in condi-
ton of dirt, shiftlessness and immortality
that seem to mark an lncapacity for decent
civilization. and when it is considered that
these are made the tools of tricky poll
ticians to further the ends of rapacity and
selfshness, it is little wonder that the INTEL
ligent minority take measures to nullify
the powers of this great mass of illiterate
voters.
1t is easy to aver that the Constitution
must be respected, that the law must be
enforced, that the black man must be pro-
tected in his right of supremacy in the South,
and all that sort of thing, but when white
men, either North or South, submit to be
sat down upon by 20 per cent of illiteracy,
it must be- evident that the resources of
hook and crook are wholly exhausted.
White men. either North or South, would no
more stand African supremacy than would
the people OF Cali ornIa submit to be held
subject to the Chinese. Whatever the
negroes may become in the future, through
the forces of education and civilization, it
is manifestly true that by large majority
they are untitled to exercise the privilege of
the suffrage at present
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-04-25
THE MONONGAHELA.
It is Feared She Was Caught in the Sa-
I#' moan Hurricane.

1t is Feared She Was Caught in the Sa-
I#' moan Hurricane.
WASHINGTON, April GA good deal of
anxiety has found expression in Washington
because neither Admiral Kimberly's report
from Samoa under date of March 81, nor
Lieut.. Wilson'S telegram from Auckland
under date of April 16 made any mention of
the United States steamship Monongahela,
which sailed from San Francisco February
Is with supplies for the Samoan feet, and
some fear has been felt that she may have
been lost at sea in the same storm that
wrecked the vessels in the harbor of Apia.
As the Monohgahela is sailing vessel and
was heavily loaded, she could not, under the
most favorable circumstances, have reached
the Samoan Islands much before March 80,
the date of which the Alemeda started for
San Francisco with the last news that has
been received from the island, and on the
date of the storm she was probably 1000
miles from Apia, and she undoubtedly en-
countered some of the very severe weather,
which probably did considerable damage to
her, and which may have driven her far out
of her course. There will be, however, no
reason to believe that she has been lost until
later advices are received from Apia
Lieut.. Wilson's silence need cause no anxi-
ETY., for, although he would probably have
mentioned the arrival of the Monongahela
if he had known of it, there is no reason to
believe that he heard from Apia for at least
three weeks before the date of his telegram
from Auckland. The store ship Monongahela
is one of the old sailing ships of the navy, a
vessel of Z, 100 tons displacement and bark
rugged. For several years she has been sta
toned down at Callao as store ship for the
Pacific squadron, but last year she was sent
up to the Mare Island navy yard for repair
with the intention of again sending her
south.
When the Samoan troubles broke out and
it was learned that the United States had no
coal supply at Apia, orders were issued to
send the Monongahela to the islands with
supplies of coal and material for the Pacific
squadron gathered there. The following are
her officers: Commander George c. Win
gate, commanding; Lieut. Commander
William G. Gibson, Lieut.. T. Dix Bellies,
Lieut. Gunior grade) Abraham F. Culver,
Passed Assistant Surgeon Willard H. Craw-
ford and Passed Assistant Paymaster Arthur
Peterson.
The Monongahela is the vessel that was
carried inland on the coast of Chill by tidal
wave, but again floated and put in service.
She is staunch, sound vessel and if we'll
handled there is no reason why she could not
lay show to" in theo open sea in perfect
safety, ~
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-04-25
Wonderful sights at Purcell.

PURCELL, L T., April 22.-Sunday here
was lovely, but there was no suggestion of
Easter in the street scenes. From the hill
overlooking the beautiful valley of the Can
adian soft-toned bell called those religi-
ously inclined to worship in the Catholic
mission of st. Augustine.
In the town itself there are two insignifi-
cant church structures, but they are not
centers of attraction. The public square
contained large .assemblage, and by 10
o'clock the throng had swelled to such an
extent that passage was exceedingly diff
cult. Several prominent men were induced
to mount the improvised platform and
harangue the crowd on the great issue of the
day.
Judge Green, of Kentucky, the only man
in town who wears "store clothes" and
silk hat, spoke for half hour. The people
wanted light on the town site, school laws
and other questions connected with the
opening of Oklahoma, and he dispensed it
with apparent knowledge of the situation.
The judge is charged by many with being
mixed in uptown schemes. He and others
were surprised to discover in the morning
placards were posted about town bearing
this inscription regarding the late order
made at the regular meeting of the Okla
homa legion:
RESOLVED, That we again pledge our
selves to protect our brother members in
their long-respected rights on selected claims,
and that all town-site sharks and claim
jumpers shall be dealt with in summary
manner. OKLAHOMA LEGION
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-04-25
Hospital Remedies.

What are they? The growth of intelligence
in medical matters has given rise to demand
for a class of genuine, reliable medicines.
The opportunity of the ignorant quack, who
grew rich curing everything out of single
bottle has passed. To supply satisfactorily
this demand this list of remedies has been
created. They are the favorite prescriptions
of the most famous medical practitioners of
the day, gathered from the hospitals of Lon
don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Prescriptions
which cost the patients of these specialists
from $25 to 500; are here offered, prepared
and ready for use, at the nominal price of
One Dollar Each. Not one of them is cure
all; each one has only the reasonable power
of curing single disease and each one keeps
its contract. Sufferers from Catarrh, Dis
eased Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, Consump-
ton, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Liver and
Kidney Complaints, Fever and Ague, Neural
gia. Female Weakness, Leucorrhoea, or Merry
ous Debility, should send stamp for descrip-
tive catalogue to Hospital Remedy Co., No.
30313 West King ST., Toronto, Canada. If
your druggist does not keep these remedies re-
NIT price and we will send direct free of duty.
dec 81 'S8 1-yr
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-04-25
Ire IraIh.
THIS WAS THE FIRST TRAIN
The Causes of Death.

Our readers are doubtless all familiar
with the Robinson poisoning cases,
which have recently come to light in
Somerville, Mass, a suburb of Boston.
1t seems that eight deaths have oc-
CURED from arsenical poisoning, seven
in one family, and within five years.
1t is doubtful if the murderers would
have been brought to justice had not an
organization in which the victims were
insured began an Investigation as to
why so. many persons had suddenly
died in one family.
But the sensation from q medical
point of view connected with the case,
took place in Boston at recent meet
ing of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal
Society, when il was stated by DIR. Holt
that there was general ignorance of the
symptoms of arsenical poisoning and
because ofsuch ignorance the Robinson
poisoning cases had gone on without
arousing the suspicion ofmedical men.
The Robson cases were all treated by
regular physicians, with correct diplo-
mas, men supposed to know what they
were doctoring for, and to know the
effect of drugs in certain diseases. Yet
In the five deaths from arsenical poison
ing of which we speak, certificates of
death were given for pneumonia, ty-
phoid fever, meningitis, bowel disease,
and Bright's disease.
Such commentary on the general
ignorance of the medical profession,
made by one of its own number, we be-
lieve to be without a parallel.
Is it any wonder that patients are
loosing faith in their doctors? Here
were five able-bodied people slowly
poisoned with arsenic before their very
eyes, and yet these very wise medical
men were doctoring them for pneu.
monia, typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel
disease and Bright's disease.
In the very same manner thousands
of patients are being treated this day
for pneumonia, heart trouble, dropsy,
incipient consumption, etc., when these
are but symptoms of advanced kidney
disease, which is but another name for
Bright's disease. The doctors do not
strike at the seat of the disease-the
kidneys, and if they did nine times out
of ten they would fail-as they are on
record as saying they cannot cure
Bright's disease of the kidneys. Rather
than use Warmers Safe Cure, a we'll
known specific for this and all other
forms of kidney disease they would let
their patients die. and then give death
certificate that death was caused by
pericarditis, apoplexy, phthisis or car
diac affection.
Is this not the honest truth? Do YOU
not know in your own personal history
very many instances where physicians
doctored the wrong disease, and caused
untold suffering, and many times,
death? Which leads us to remark that
very much can be learned by one's-seli
by CAREFUL observation, and that the
doctors are very far from having mo.
nopoly of the knowledge of medicine OIL
disease.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-04-25
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY

Frank Ha n cock Takes the Life of His
Four Children and Then Hangs Him
self-Domestic Trouble the Cause
oft All.
ADDISON, N. ", April 20.-Frank
Hancock, employed as a fireman in the
mill of Waite & Atwell at Blue Run,
Pa, was found dead this morning be-
tween end o'clock, having hanged
himselfin the bedroom ofa shanty he
occupied. In a bed in the same room
lay the bodies of his four children, two
with their throats cut, the other two
stabbed to the heart. The oldest was
10 years and the youngest 4. A butcher
knife was used in killing the children.
1t was then stuck in the floor to serve
as prop to keep the door open. After
numbering his children Hancock threw
a rope over one of the rafters of the
shanty, stepped upon the box and kick
ing it away swung himself off. Domes-
tic trouble was undoubtedly the cause
of the tragedy.