Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-01
HITLER AND THITHER.
Movements of Pitsburgers and Others of
Wide Acqunintance.

Wide Acquaintance.
james Crawford, of Emsworth, reports
that his strawberry vines have done something
this season which is unprecedented. namely,
they have produced a second crop. The vines
have recently put outnew blossoms, and yester-
day Mr.. Crawford gathered all the berries he
needed for home use. He got from seven to
ten quarts of delicious fruit. and agoodly guam
tity besides almost ripe. Gathering strawber-
ries at the close of September is something new
under the sun in this neighborhood. Mr.. Craw-
ford says that he has not in all former expert
ence known anything of the kind, and that all
his neighbors express surprise. The present
season has made record for peculiarity in
agricultural lines.
Samuel NJ. Brinton, .Ir., of Stewart sta
tion, in Patton township, is out as a candidate
for the House of Representatives from the
Eighth Legislative district. He is the owner
of large tract of land in that township and
has a cattle ranch in the West. The former
Representative, Mr.. Samuel E. Stewart will
not be a candidate for reelection, as he will
oppose Mr.. William Finn for the Senate.
Other legislative candidates in that district are
James MCDOWELL, of Williamsburg; Samuel E.
Carouthers of McKeesport. and Calvin Jones,
of McKeesport.
MIR. and Mrs. Sol Schover, Jr., returned
from four months visit to Europe, on Satur-
day morning. The bronzed face of the able
lawyer is the image of health. While in
Europe Mr.. Schoyer visited Stratford-on-the-
Avon and shed tear over the grave of the i'm
mortal bard. Much of the four months was
spent on the continent at the Paris Exposition,
| in the lowlands of Holland and Belgium, on
the mountains of Switzerland and among the
delightful watering places and springs of Ger
many. Verify his trip abroad has improved
his health very much.
Rev. William Paxton, d. D., arrived
in the city last night from Philadelphia to
oficiate this afternoon at the late William N.
Darlington's funeral. DR.. Paxton was the pas
tor Of Jay Gould's church in New York before
taking his present position ON the faculty of
| Princeton College. He is an old-time Pits
burg clergyman, and Is related by marriage to
the O'Haras and Dennys. He was cousin of
Mr. Darlington.
General Sherman passed through the
city yesterday morning, en- route from Cincin-
matt to New York. He had nothing to say.
Lieutenant Fitch and his wife met him at the
depot.
Captain Calhoun, of the steamer Katie
Stockdale, who has been spending the dry sea-
son at his home at Georgetown, Pa, is in the
city. He is on the qui vive for rise in the
river.
John j. Burke, ex-Stenographer of the
Department of Public Safety, returned yester-
day from his seasons stay at Atlantic City.
w. j. Reed, of the Controllers Office,
has accepted the position of manager of the
Pittsburg Glass and Novelty Company.
&C. H.Knapp, Assistant General Freight
Agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road at Chicago, is in the city.
Miss Jennie Abbott, of 72 Page street,
Allegheny, has returned after prolonged alb
sence.
Dick Quay came home from Philadel-
phia yesterday to attend the old mans birthday
parity.