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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
The Commanders Rejoinder.

To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
Your issue of Saturday contains a copy of
the papers to a suit filed by a woman for dam.
ages for being put out of a public pail, held in
Imperial Hall, New Grant street, on the 18th of
last month, by certain gentlemen who, from
the allegations made, handled her very roughly,
insomuch that she was badly bruised, wounded,
etc. In justice to those persons, l ask you to
insert the following:
On the evening of the 18th of January last,
the members of Keystone Commandery No. /,
A. o. X. of NJ. C., had assembled with their
ladies and friends for an evenings enjoyment,
and the celebration of their anniversary
Quite an artistic invitation had been struck
off. There was a friendly contest between
Keystone and Holmes Commandery. of the
East End, after which Toerge's orchestra
furnished the music for dancing. The COM
mittee had gone to considerable expense to
make the affair as pleasant and as select as
possible, and 1t was not a public
ball or dance called a reception and
drill" Those present can testify as to
how well the committee had succeeded, and
not one person can be found who can answer
to having seen any such occurrence as de-
scribed in the paper filed. The woman did not
come and present al invitation in company
with her husband, but came u-naccompanied
and deliberately passed the doorkeeper. who
did not wish to use force to detain her. After
ward one member-not five or six-very quiet
ly and politely asked the woman and
her husband to step to the door,
and when outside the door they were
quietly told that the affair was private. No
one in the han knew anything of what had
taken place till Some time afterward. As to
our right to exclude persons from the society
of our wives and families the court will prob
ably decide.
This is only written to present a true state.
ment of the facts TO your readers. The gen.
tlemen whose names were mentioned are not
DULLES as the paper would indicate, but are
much esteemed and stand high in the COM
munity. MEMBE OF THE CoMMANDERY.
PITTsBURG, February 8.
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FASHIONABLE FANCIES.

MOUSSE, a kind of moss color, is seen in COM
binations on many tea gowns.
BEARSKINS are among the latest of fashion
able furs. As yet their popularity is limited.
WHITE cloth and velvet bridal gowns are
worn with fur trimmings by London women.
SHOES of white kid with chased metal heels
Of silver or gold tint are a pretty novelty for
the ball room.
A FAvoR1TE tea-gown combination is velvet
in two colors. as emerald-green and black or
coral-red and gray.
THICK-PLA.ED ruches of pinked silk, called
chicorees by the French, are made to trim the
bottom of the skirts of many dancing gowns.
CARNATIoN brooches are a new feature in
jewelry. Some are In pure, dull gold, while
othersAre enameled and powdered with dia-
monds
THREE very fashionable browns are cachou,
a bright yellowish shade, cordone, a leather
color, and tobac, or tabac d'Espagne, alight to-
bacco color.
CoRsAGEs of full-dress gowns are either cut
low all around, disclosing the shoulders, or are
made three-quarters high. Recamier berthas
are worn with the former.
A TASTY violin gown is made with a full
straight skirt, a loose round waist banded with
a sling sash of soft folds, and sleeves which are
loose puffs as far as the elbow.
The English mania for coin jewelry has
brought forth a gold-wire bracelet of three
strands, united here and there with little gold
balls, and having for a pendant a Roman coin.
ACCORDING to fashion authorities, the habit
of wearing removable trains is growing. They
are fastened to the waist by handsome clasps
and buckles, which are ornamental as well as
useful.
NEWLY imported ball toilets of tulle, in
pale champagne de vim, smoke gray, silver, and
apricot tints, are frightened by empire gar
lands of blush roses, scarlet peoples or Jacque
buds and leaves.
A BALL gown recently worn by a young girl
entering upon the second season was very SIM
pie but wholly charming. Both skirt and waist,
of delicate heliotrope faille franchise, were
gathered full into a band, from which the skirt
fell to the floor in straight, simple folds. The
waist, cut after the fashion of 40 years ago, ex-
posed the soft, round shoulders in its prim cir
Gle, and was finished by a full lace bertha
reaching almost to the waist line. Small puffs
OF the silk edged with lace were the only
sleeves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
A BUSY | NJ AHEAD.
Plenty Of Opportunity This Week for Con-
gressional Patriotic Oratory.


WASHINGTON, February 3.-Senators expect
this to be a busy week. Tomorrow the APP
preparations Committee will report the Legis-
lative, executive and judicial appropriation
bill, and it will be called up for consideration
on Tuesday. The naval bill will be acted upon
by the committee as soon as received from the
House, and will probably be reported to the
Senate by tie end of the week, if indeed it be
not passed by that time. When the appropria-
ton bills are out of the way Mr.. Hale will call
up his census bill. Tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock the Pacific Railroad funding bill comes
MP as unfinished business, and several speeches
are expected on it, but no definite action.
There are several other measures pending, in
Guiding Mr.. Sherman's antitrust bill, which
are likely to be called up during the week as
opportunity offers, but upon which, according
to the present outlook, no decisive action seems
probable. Under the resolution introduced by
Senator Salisbury, and referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, that committee
may be expected, after its meeting Wednes-
day, to report in some form a declaration Of
its idea of what is necessary and right to be
done by the United States to maintain the
dignity of the Government and to fulfill its
obligations under the treaty with Samoa.
Should this come in it will doubtless lead to a
debate OF some length, probably in secret
session.
From present appearances, the weeks bust
ness in the House will be made up of patriotic
oratory and routine hard work-the former to
be called forth by the Edmunds Panama Canal
resolution, and the latter occasioned by the
necessity of disposing of the remaining appro-
priation bills. Monday will afford individual
members one of their last opportunities during
this Congress to secure the passage of measures
under a suspension of the rules, and the
Speaker has been fairly besieged by Represen-
tatives who have abandoned hope of getting
their bills before the House in any other man.
confident that he will be able to secure recog-
milton to move the passage of the bill to pen
sion the widow of the late General Sheridan.
Mr.. Blanchard also is hopeful of his ability to
rescue the river and harbor bill from its pres
ent perilous situation and get it before the
House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
RAILROAD WAGES REDUCED.
Prospect Of a Strike on the Buffalo, Roches-
ter and Pittsburg.

BUFFALO, February 3.-There is much dis.
satisfaction among the freight crews of the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad, in
GLIDING engineers and tiremen, IN consequence
of a heavy cut in wages. Brakemen are re-
duced from 81 So to 81 "; engineers
40 cents; firemen, 20 cents, and
conductors from rs to 95 cents a day. This is
equivalent to an average reduction of from SIT
to S25 all around. Four crews quit here to-day,
and were discharged, and it is understood that
two crews were discharged at Bradford for re-
fusing to work. This reduction applies all
along the line.
All the brotherhoods on the Bradford,
Buffalo and Pittsburg divisions have grievance
committees except the brakemen on the
Buffalo division, which. it is said, have been too
hasty. 1t is probable that committees will wait
on the general superintendent Monday or Tues
day. If they get no satisfaction, they will 90
before General Manager Baldwin at Rochester.
and If with no better success, a general strike
is likely to follow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

policy of multiplying institutions of that
kind, with power to any person to start one,
would be likely to produce, in the end, any
thing but a boom for the savings bank bust
ness. 70
The proposition to let any fifteen incor-
porators start a bank of discount and de-
post, to handle the money of business men
without any capital, would be instantly re-
jected with jeers. Why such an absence of
a guarantee for the safety of the working
mans savings should be more satisfactory
we wholly fail to see. If any people wish
to start a savings bank let them get together
a substantial paid-up capital as a guarantee
of good faith-just as large number of
very solvent and satisfactory savings banks
are already doing in this State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
Our Neighbor, the Moon.

The moon presents the following phases:
First quarter. February Z, P. M.
Full moon, February Is, P. NJ.
Last quarter, February o, IF. M.
The moon is farthest from the earth on the
9th, when her apparent diameter is 2y SG";
nearest on the oath, when her apparentdiameter
is 32' 23". She reaches her greatest altitude,
10 49,. on the 18th; her least, 90 %, on the 25th.
TIL moon is in conjunction with Mars on the
I'd, at $40 P. NJ, Mars being 80 81 north; with
Venus on the Sd, at 243 P. NJ, Venus being 50
NJ, Neptune being 90 81 north: with Saturn on
the l4tn, at 1856 P. M, Saturn being 10 05 south;
with Uranus on the 10Th, at 2:26 P. M, Uranus
being 40 5S' south; with Jupiter on the 24th, at s
P. M, Jupiter beng 10 IL south; and with Mer.
curry on the 9th, at 8 P. NJ, Mercury being 40ly
north. BERT V. LUTY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
OUR MAIL POUCH.
A Voice From the Lone Star State,
tho Editor of The nfsDatch.

A Voice From the Lone Star State.
To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Through the kindness of Steubenville friends,
w have been permitted to read q copy Of the
Sunday edition of THE DISPATCH of January
20, containing a "reminiscences of Edgeworth
Seminary at B~raddock's Field. 1 feel as though
I must express the great pleasure it has af-
forded our aunt, Miss Julia Boggs. also the
children and grandchildren of our mother; for in
that galaxy of names enrolled as former pupils
at the seminary there shone out zone bright,
particular star" which has ever been the pilot
star of our lives, and though three years have
flown by since that star has set, we know it has
risen on another shore. where its beams are
still shining in a clearer, holier light.
Lilly Boggsi The name a very synonym of
all that is pure and sweet and true. When
sons and daughters, in childhood clustered
about her knee, we never wearied listening TO
the stories of her girlhood days, until the
names of "Braddock.p Mother Oliver"
Aunt Could" 'Smithy,'' 'Sissy Jane" and
many others became household words in our
home. Mother Diver surely wears many
stars in her crown-that grand, queenly
woman who trained and educated our mother,
aunts and 80 many other noble. fine women,
though she was something of a stickler on the
subject of blood and family. 1 insist that when
the 'Boggs girls" were placed, young and
mOtnerleSs, In mOtner DIVERS care ner material
was most exquisite from which to ehisel out
noble womeni Our mother ever cherished the
sweetest memories of Braddock, teachers,
schoolmates; also of her childhood's home,
dear old Pittsburg." Among some few relics
of those days we prize a picture of the semi
nary. just as it looked in olden time; also two
letters, yellow with age, written to mother
after leaving school. Those letters are from
"Smithy."
1 wonder, if any of the Braddock girls who
may be living, should they chance to peruse
these lines, would they like to know, after leav-
ing school at Braddock, their friend and school,
mate, Lilly Boggs, lived in st. Louis awhile
with her aunt, Mrs. Dent? There she met and
married DR.. Graham, a highly respected and
honored citizen and physician of that city, then
came to Texas, where the reared a large family
of children. who rise up and call them
blessed:' and though father and mother have
entered into rest, the Influence of such lives
will not be lost, but will be fragrant for genera
lions to come. Pardon me for trespassing on
your time and space, but a Southern woman
only wished to lay one flower on the ruins of
dear old Braddock, which sheltered our sweet
mother in her girlhood days. The instructions
she received there are still living on and on,
and will to the end of time. "'She being dead
yet speaketh." ELLEN GRAHAM,
AUSTIN. TEX. January 80.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
NO HOPE FOR THE BREECHEs.

Every now and then some daring revolu-
Zionist in society starts out to curtail the
clawhammer coat and abbreviate the
trousers which civilized man universally re-
CARDS as full dress. THE DISPATCH noted
the other day the latest insurrection of this
sort. A party of young men in New York
have organized to popularize knee-breeches
and sack coats as a substitute for the con-
ventional garments of evening dress. At
tired in satin knee-breeches and short coats
these ~sanguine reformers attended a fashion
able reception. Their garb naturally caused
a sensation, but we understand that the in
novation evoked more jeers than cheers.
1t is said that experiments of a like
nature are to be made in other society cen
tiers, in Baltimore. Washington, Philadel-
phia and Boston, and some of our cotempo-
raries are sanguine enough to assert that
the reform deserves serious consideration.
There is one obstacle, however, which
must forever block the return to knee
breeches. Trousers cover a multitude of
shortcomings. Knee breeches make dis
cIoSuieS tHo' ofeH shiiiAui Pouuins anu CHI
bellishment cannot conceal. The fact that
symmetrical limbs are not possessed by a
majority of the men of to-day makes it easy
to predict the failure of any attempt to re-
turn to knee breeches. The beautiful, per-
haps, suffers by the continuance of our
present fashion Of full dress, but it is not
clear that any other mode would prove more
convenient. Full dress is the modern form
of the feathers and war paint which the saw
age delighted in. To most men Of serious
intentions in life full dress is an unalloyed
nuisance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

SENATOR RUTAN's statement Of the po-
sition of the charter legislation, as affecting
the interests of Allegheny, shows the citi-
zens of that city who are not content with
the pending bill the pressing necessity that
they should either fish or cut bait.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

WHEN those resolutions of the Kansas
Legislature ~denouncing Clayton's assasslna-
ton, moves the Chicago Heraldto break out
with the declaration: $50 much falsehood,
SO much cheap cunning, so much shameless
subserviency to party, SO much disloyalty to
liberty, has proceeded from no other State," "
it is a sign that the Bourbon end of the US
ually esteemed Herald has still got the up
per hand. Sometimes that bright journal
permits some rays of political intelligence to
permeate through its columns, after the
election is over.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

SENATOR SABIN's visit to indianapolis
was intended, it is reported. to assure the
President that Notwithstanding the absurd
action of the Minnesota Legislature in
~electing some one else to the Senate, that
State is still open in the person of its retir-
ing Senator to offers of patronage. No ad-
verse action of a State Legislature can
dampen the ardor of Sabins patriotism
so long as there is a Presidentelect to
tantle
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
MUsHET. VA, February /.
An Interesting Question.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
If Harrison and Morton should both die be-
fore the 4th of March next, who would become
President on March 4, and how long would he
serve? H.. P.
REYNoLDsvILLE, Pa, February2
1.-THE Constitution and existing AVIS regard
ing Presidential succession apparently do not
provide for such a contingency
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
JOINED BY HER son.
Russell Harrison Arrives nt the New York
Hotel Patronized by His Mother.

NEW YORK, February 3.-Russell Harrison
arrived at the Gilsey House this afternoon, at
4:3O o'clock. Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Mckee
had left the hotel at 2 O'Clock and lunched at
the residence of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid. III son
and brother followed them when he learned
where they had gone.
At the Gilsey House it was said that Mrs.
Harrison would probably leave for home
tomorrow evening or Tuesday morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

WE do not think that there is anything
in the report that the railway Presidents
will hold another meeting this week and
commission to run their combination as a
guarantee of good faith. That can hardly
be looked for much sooner than week after
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
EATING HIS WAY OUT OF JAIL.
Editor Hoffer's Life of Luxury In Prison at
Mrs. Stoner's Expense.

LANCASTER, Pa, February 3.-Editor ]. E,
Hofer, of Mount Joy, who went to jail last
Saturday for go days because he would not pay
$500 damages awarded for writing a libelous ar
ticle about Mrs. Laura K. Stoner, is contented
in his new quarters. The law gives to him the
privilege of the prison corridor and yard. He
boards at the j%ailor's table, has a room in the
keepers apartments, and that official is bound
under the Law to give him anything to eat he
now orders. His appetite has wonderfully in
creased since he was incarcerated, and his fire..
quent demands for oysters, terrapin and other
delicacies keep the Warden busy. He is IN
der no expense, as the plaintiff must pay for his
maintenance.
The Prison Inspectors at their meeting on
Monday will fix the amount Of board to be
paid, and the bill for the last week and every
week hereafter will be presented to Mrs.
Stoner. Should she default in payment Hotter
will at once be released from prison on the mo-
ton of his counsel. Mrs. Stoner has no means
beyond what she earns as a seamstress, and
those in a position to know assert that she will
get tired of paying for Hoffer's maintenance,
which will give him his liberty at an early day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
Mars and Jupiter.

Mars, the warrior, is now far away and Of lit.
tie interest. He is in the constellation Aqua.
RUS, about half way between the southern side
of the square of Pegasus and Fomalhaut, the
brightest star in the Southern Fish. and of the
first magnitude. He is to be looked for below
Venus, from 30 to l5o away. He sets about $50,
the time varying but little during the month.
His apparent diameter is 81.
Jupiter is about 23o south of the equinoctial,
and not far FROM the sun, so that he rises not
long before him In the morning, and far to the
south, so that in northern latitudes he is in too
unfavorable a position for making good obser-
vationS upon him or his attendant satellites.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

discovered that the railways wage their wars
by violating the Interstate law.
But they fail to go beyond that to the obvi-
Gus point of making the railroads obey the
law by enforcing its penalties for disobedi-
ence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

The report that the House Democrats will
present a compromise tariff bill, indicates
that they are beginning to perceive the
uncomfortable position in which they will
place themselves if they do not take some
steps to secure tariff reduction. But they
are too late. If they had perceived the
necessity of compromise tariff some time
last year, things might have been different
now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

The departure of John L. Sullivan to
Canada, to ~oficiate as referee in a prize
fight, creates the impression that the con-
test is to be fought out with Simpsons
weapon. John is an expert on scientific
fighting with the jaw bone.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
Enriching the South.

From the st. Paul Globe.i
Strawberries from the South are now in the
Eastern markets, selling at from 81 to 81 a
quart. A good deal has been said about North
ern capital going South. This shows why some
of it takes that route. If the crop holds out
that ought to be the heavy financial part of the
country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
Uranus.

Uranus may be found by means of the first
magnitude star Spica, the brightest in the con-
stellation Virgo, the Virgin. This star rises
about lilo P. M. on the 9th, and four minutes
earlier each succeeding day, and is on the
meridian at ABS A. M, on the same date. Uranus
is to be looked for 90 4V north of this star, and
about half a degree east of it. He presents
the appearance of a star of the sixth magni-
tude, just barely visible to the naked eye, but q
careful scrutiny with q two or three inch tele-
scope will reveal the fact that, unlike a fixed
star, he has a well defined disk. His apparent
diameter is 3".S.
X. A. Declinatlon. Transits. Rises.
Feb. 5 zee. 18Th 22m 70 ST. south 4:39 A. NJ. I1:06 P. NJ.
Feb, Is ...13h 2lm 70 5Y south $3.50 A. NJ. 1929 P, M,
Feb. Is a.. 13h lin 70 4E south 3l5 A. NJ. 9;45 2. NJ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
Bayard Might Listen.

From the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
The American Peace Society is protesting
theoretically against the talk about additional
Notifications for the country's harbors. The
only place in this country in which the Peace
Society could get a hearing Tor their notions at
this moment is the State Department at Wash
ington.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

THE New York reporters are already grid
ing themselves up for the race as to which
shall first get hold of Mr.. Phelps, when he
arrives at that city, and obtain from him
his first impressions of the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
Saturn and Its Rings,

Saturn is the most interesting of all the plan
cts to the astronomer at present. He rises
about the time the sun sets, and is in good po-
sition for observation two or three hours after
rising. He will be in opposition to the sun on
the 4th, i. e., he will be 1909 from the sun, bear
ing the same relative position to him as the
moon does when full, so that the present month
is the most favorable for a study of his wonder
full rings, his belts and his satellites. The rings
are still well open, l. e.. their plane is consider
ably inclined to the line of sight, although they
have been closing up for several years, owing
to the revolution of Saturn in his orbit around
the sun, which is accomplished in 29H of our
years. They will continue to close up until
1892, when we shall see only their edge.
Saturn is in the constellation Leo, nearly 15o
northwest from its leading brilliant, Regulus,
which is situated at the end of the well-known
sickle. His apparent diameter is 49,; the
longer axis of the ring is 1877, the shorter,
24v.
r. A. Declination. Transits. Rises.
Feb. 5....Sh l9m 16o So north 0:S7 A. NJ. 500 P. M.
Feb. Is. oh lem 10 0f north II 80 P. NJ. 4:46 P. M.
Feb. Is. Oh I'm ITO % north II :OS P, NJ, 4:O2 p. NJ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04

WASHINGTON, February Authorization
was received here this evening that Mrs. Ma.
tilda Griswold F~relinghuysen, widow of the
late ex-Secretary of State. Frederick T. FIRE.
linghuysen, died to-day at Newark, NJ j.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-04
No Such Word,
To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:

Is there is such a word as ''exe'' in our Ian
guage? 1 think it is an old Cornish word signl-
flying axle. T. NJ. b.
BRADDoCK, February2
lit is merely a corruption Of axle, and not q
proper world