Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-02
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

1HE cry OF the ponce, move on seems Y
have come to a standstill.
Two-CENT beer in Cincinnati will make tina
the Nihilistic center of the world.
HAS anyone noticed that the drunkard i
almost an unknown quantity on the streets?
HEADQUARTERS were taken up yesterday.il
the new Nineteenth ward S25, 600 police station
THAT grand jury in returning true bill mus
have refused to accept a IS William as bribe
c. H. KEMP, the proprietor of the Thompson
House at Kane, Pa, Is in the city VISITING
hotel men.
TwELvE-YEAR-oLD William Calvin, of Salts
burg, fell into the Dfonongahela yesterday anC
was drowned.
DoN CoRBETT, the young Clarion lawyer
and Charles johnson, of Foxburg, went through
to Washington, Pa, yesterday.
MAUDIE-You may be right; some unfortu
mates have long suspected that affection, anC
afectation mean the same thing.
THE meeting of the Ministerial Evangelical
alliance yesterday afternoon was postponed
for one month. 1t was moving day.
MIKE CONVEY, of Browns alley, Southslde
was held for court in s., 900 bail yesterday on &
charge of illegal liquor selling on Sunday.
IT does seem as if two virtues are sufficient
for this life if consistently adhered to-nevel
forgeta friend and never forgive an enemy.
EDISON may not believe it. butnine out oi
ten electric street lamps in the East End werC
actually blown out by the high wind of Sunday
night
CoNFIDENTIAL-M-r-tH HI-st-d-If you want
anything from the Republican party just ask
for il, and it's yours. Don't tell Quay.-B-r
H-r-i-s-n.
FOURTEEN new brick buildings to be occu
pied by different stores are to bel put up,betweer
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-ifth streets OF
Penn avenue.
A SOUTHERN man inquiries if the earth
really moves. If he saw some of the Northern
Office seekers moving both heaven and earth he
would think so.
THE members of the Birmingham Turn.
verein will celebrate their twenty-frst ami
versary this day week at their hall on Jane
street, Southside.
WILLIAM NJ. PRICE, ESQ, will address a
public mass meeting in the Eighth o. p.
Church, Pittsburg. Yam Braam and Locust
streets, this evening.
SAMUEL P. SHANE, General Freight Agent
of the New York, Lake Briesand Western road
at Cleveland, was in the city yesterday on bust
ness connected with his company.
COLONEL THOMAS E. WATT, District Pas.
senger Agent of the Pennsylvania railroad,
left last night for Philadelphia to attend the
meeting of Pennsylvania road passenger men.
RAIN nor muggy weather can squelch Pitts
burgers desire to see what is going on, and he
stood placidly about yesterday, along the only
place anything ever does go on, Fifth avenue.
CINCINNATI is making bid for popularity.
She proposes to increase her census and kill
that English beer syndicate at one and the
same time. Beer is selling there at cents a
glass.
A FASHION journal halls the departure of
bustles, stays and steel, and says the natural
woman is coming to the front. That's Just the
trouble, and the very reason they use the
hustle.
A BUTLER street cable car jumped over a
brick, off the track and on the cobble stones at
Thirty-fourth street yesterday morning, just to
furnish new way of delaying travel on the
Citizens line.
A NEW board of the Chamber of Commerce
met yesterday. A copy of THE DISPATCH
transportation was referred to committee for
action and report.
AT the Washington Inauguration Centennial
Committee meeting last night the Finance
Committee reported that a little over $500 has
been received. The balance of the committees
reported progress.
THE Shadyside Presbyterian Church will call
Rev. M. W. Jacobus. This may afford the ex-
ceptional instance wherein it is profitable to
He halls from Oxford, Pa.
TEN pit cars from Keeling's South Twelfth
street coal incline went on a bust" yesterday
morning. They got there. Obstructed by a
timely timber they were prevented from burst
ing more than themselves.
THEY probably call it planked shad because
you receive such a cold deal when you pay for
it-plank' down all you have and the spruce
cashier pines for more. In order to anticipate
nm rirrhf E(Nhacf,,r1%c
THE County Constitutional Amendment
Executive Committee of the county is arrang-
ing for volunteer lecture bureau, and Gowns
unable to pay will be lectured free of charge
Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster begins her tour in this city
May 10.
MUSICAL friends of the late Prof Prosser
are requested to meet at the Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church, Southside, this evening
at s o clock, to rehearse appropropriate music
for the funeral service to be held on Wednes-
day at 2:90 P. NJ, and bring their church tune
books and Gospel hymns with them.
BRYAN was fined S5 and costs for distributing
religious tracts in Allegheny. Mayor Pearson
imposed the fine, and John S. Slagle, of the
Arch Street First Presbyterian Church. also a
member of the Pen Investigating Board, was
the prosecutor. The charge was disorderly
conduct, and Bryan will appeal.
A sEMIMoNTHLY report of the Improve
ment of the Poor Association shows, besides
thousands of necessities given away, that !. III
persons were aided and 9S1 visits made. Many
children were placed in Sabbath and public
schools, and work secured for A persons, in
cluding nine permanent positions.
The work of the pupils Of the Pittsburg pub
lie schools prepared for the Paris Exposition.
in 16 handsomely bound volumes, was received
by Superintendent Lucky yesterday and was
forwarded to New York last night. 'The work
is the handsomest that will go from the United
States" said Superintendent Lucky.
A NEW Board of Managers of the Free Dis
pensary was chosen yesterday, as follows: L.
H. Harris, c. c. Baer, d. Herbert Hostetter.
G. F. Smith, Reuben Miller. F. Semple, VIM.
Thaw, ID. Leet Wilson, G. K. Stevenson, John
Dunlap, c. F. Wells, Col. ]. Collard, Dr. S. N.
Benham, DIR. A. Koenig, DR.. ]. A Lippencott,
DR.. ]. ]. Buchanan, VIM. o. H. Scully, ]. NJ.
Kennedy, W. E. Schmertz, James l. Buchanan.
HEAVY underwear is fated, better lay aside
the lot, Virgins says it will be warmer, saws in
fact it will be hot. This is cheerful news for
people, but he spoils it with the strain:
Warmer weather, but remember, slightly
mixed with chilling rain.' Thus it was in
ch1ldhood's hour, everything was bright and
gay. Virgins frowned, and then the weather
dampened us for all that day. There will be a
retribution, when we will rise in our might
paralyze deceitful Virgins. bury him clean out
Of sight
THE inside of many household was turned
outside in yesterday. Family skeletons were
dragged about and exposed to the rude public
gaze. Old dislnantled buggy bedsteads; dirty
ticking, In all its unclothed, pude nakedness.
as Rives would say; smashed mirrors that re-
fected nothing but upon the family peace; tin
pans with dents and furniture with accidents,
and above all, this havoc of home. a frantic,
dishevelled woman, with one eye on the piano
and another on her husband, two squares away
trying to look as if he didn't own the entire
outft-the whole, the sooner retired to private
life the better.
WORK HAS BEGUN.