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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
PROHIBITION in IOWA.
Senator Wilson Says it Has Made the
state Almost Crimeless.


WASHINGTON, February 14.-Mr. Wilson, of
Iowa. to-day addressed the Senate in support
of the bill relating to imported liquors, in
troduced by Mr.. Frye on the 2lst of December,
1887 reported back adversely from the Ju-
dietary Committee on the 10Th of March. 1888,
and then placed on the calendar. The bill
reads: THE consent of Congress is hereby
given that the laws of the several States re-
lating to the sale of distilled and fermented
liquors within the limits of each State. may
apply to such liquors when they have been i'm
ported, in the same manner as when they have
been manufactured in the United States"
Mr. Wilson dwelt at considerable length on
the beneficent effect of the anti-saloon law in
Iowa, quoting the opinion of Judges as to the
remarkable reduction of crime since the law
had gone into operation. He quoted one of
the Judges as saying in regard to his judicial
district: "In many of the counties the Jail is
almost an unnecessary building. In the last
three counties visited there was not an occu-
pant of the jail" He spoke of the illiteracy of
Iowa having been brought down to 10% per
cent, Iowa being thus placed, he said, "at the
head of the educational column, not only of
this country but of the world" Such a State
might hope fully to remove the district con-
struction which alone stood as one obstruction
in the way of the rightful exercise of her police
powers, by which removal she could success
fully suppress crime within her borders.
No action was taken on the bill, which still
remains on the calendar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
A PLEASANT VARIETY.
Guests of the Allegheny Commandery
Knights TempIar Enjoy IL.

Guests of the Allegheny Commandery
knights TempIar Enjoy IL.
The third entertainment of the Drill Corps
of the Allegheny Comrandery No. 35, Knights
Templar, held at Lafayette Hall last evening,
was very pleasing success.
The musical and literary selections. which
were rendered during the evening, made up a
programme that was not only artistic, but at
the same time amusing and entertaining.
While Prof. Byron W. King commanded the
attention of the audience with some clever
recitations, Miss Phillips delighted her listeners
by Asinging two capital songs. Miss kittie
Fullerton excited laughter by her funny
declamations, and Mr.. G. V. Lewis kept every
body roaring at his irresistible dialect imita-
tons, and the Misses Marshall charmed their
hearers with couple of very excellently exc
cuGed piano duets.
After the entertainment was over the guests
adjourned to the dining room of the hall, where
very tempting lunch had been prepared,
which was succeeded by dancing. the Great
Western Band furnishing music for the amuse-
meQt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

"GovERNoR HILL had nothing to say re-
garding his alleged 'snub' at the White
House." remarks the Chicago Herald
Hadn't he. indeed? Then there is misap-
prehension, as to that remark about Randall
as ''the greatest living Democrat being a
deadly stab by the snubbee into the snub-
ber's adipose tissue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

THE news that Perry Belmont is unable
to penetrate in to the circles of royalty in
Spain on account of the omission to notify the
Spanish Government OF the withdrawal of his
predecessor, according to etiquette, is firing
the Democratic heart. What are our boasted
liberties worth if the effete royalty of Spain
can keep Democratic millionaire at arms
length on such frivolous pretexts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

SENATOR PLUMB declares Indignantly
that the Creek lands might have been
bought several years ago for IS cents an
acre, if Mr. Cleveland had seen fit to respect
the will of Congress. The public may not
regard it as an objectionable fault that the
owners of the land should get something
nearer their value than that price, although
of course Senator Plumb and the land grab
bers will rage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

A YOUNG woman in Harrisburg is re-
ported to think that she is in Heaven. This
is taken as proof positive that she is out of
her senses, as she is still in Harrisburg
But it may be worth while to remember that
almost any change from the normal con-
ditions in Harrisburg would be likely to
appear a transition in the direction, at least,
of Paradise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
IT rs regarded by the Providence Journo

IT IS regarded by the Providence Journal
as subject for sarcasm that the President
elect can appoint Warner Miller to the de-
partment of pumpkin-seeds and crop re-
ports. But could not our esteemed CO.
temporary find some targets for its wit in
the Democratic party which enacted the
bill in order that Hon. Norman j. Colman
might have Cabinet position for two weeks
after lobbying for it, 10, these many years?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

Mr.. G1LLETTE's determination to drama
tie Robert Elsmere" without the consent
of the author is not very wise. There are
plenty of other subjects on which he can
exercise his talent. Let him dramatize
''The Descent of Man." We are sure that
Darwin will not otobiect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
Emperors Come High.

From the New York Tribune.1
The annual income of the young German
Emperor is estimated at 81, 100000. 1t is to be
hoped, for the sake of their own peace of
mind, that when the German people contem-
plate these figures they feel moved to exclaim
.philosophically, "Emperors come high, but we
must have them"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

The report which comes up from New
Orleans that Evangeline Rice and Adonis
Dixey lost IS, 600 at poker in that town
sounds stunning; but before taking stock in
it the public had better inquire how much
water there is in that $S,000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
TALK OF THE METROPOLIS.
Merely a Million Involved.

NEW YORK, February H-Carmon Parse
and the Freemasons Of the Jerusalem Lodge,
Plainield, are contesting the will of Mrs. Sarah
Margaret Latimer. who died two weeks ago.
Mrs. Latimer left an estate worth slOO0,OO0.
Mrs. Latimer originally made will in which
Mr.. Parse was made executor, and several
thousand dollars were bequeathed to Jerusa-
lem Lodge A few months after the execution
of this will Mr. Parse advised Mrs Latimer to
invest $4,000 in a certain copyright. She did it.
Mrs Latimer subsequently became convinced
that Mr.. Parse had induced her to make poor
investment She destroyed her old will and
made a new one in which she entirely ignored
Mr.. Parse and the Jerusalem Lodge. In the
present contest Mr.. Parse claims that the copy
right investment was better than Mrs. Latimer
supposed. and that her erroneous idea of its
value Influenced her unduly in the disposition
of her property The Jerusalem Lodge takes
the same ground
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

THE report that the firms who have spent
so much money to maintain their patents on
barbed wire are themselves infringing on a
French patent of 1865, is calculated to make
the business of patent litigation experience
another boom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
A Ball and n BANQUET.

The members of Pittsburg Council No. III,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ, celebrated the eighteenth ami
versary of the organization of their Council, in
Central Turner Hall, Forbes street, last night,
by giving a grand ball and banquet. There
were about go couples in the grand march, and
the entertainment furnished a few hours of
delightful pleasure to all present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
THE YORKTOWN IS ALL RIGHT.
Thorough Test Proves Her n Model of
Steadiness md Speed.

steadiness and speed.
PHILADELPHIA, February A.-The United
States steel gunboat Yorktown returned this
morning from her trial cruise down the Della
ware Bay and out into the ocean. Commodore
Fitzhugh spoke generally in high praise of the
craft. On Wednesday run was made straight
away out to sea, and in coming back the York
town made run of four hours with 40-knot
breeze dead-on and behaved admirably. Cap
tam Steel says she did not roll or pitch, and he
never had vessel that was more plumb or
steady.
In another four hours run she made an aver
age OF 1885 knots per hour, or about 20 miles,
thus proving her to be very fleet ocean craft
as well as q remarkably steady one. The en-
gines OF the Yorktown proved to be perfect
marvels for steadiness and power. Each engine
on regular test marked 15T revolutions min
ute. implying horse power far ahead of the
contract requirements but the exact sum of
which cannot be given for some days, or until
all the indicator cards can be computed and
differentiated. The ship was tried in every
conceivable way in river. bay and ocean, and
was particularly Unanswered by Captain Steel,
under the command of Commodore FitZhugh,
as if engaged in Battle. She answered every
movement OF the helm promptly, and moved
with most satisfactory celebrity, ali the time
steady and solid, SO that. guns might be used
with the very best effect in action.
One OF the marvels of these maneuvers was
the starting of the Yorktown ahead at full
speed and backing her at full speed. This feat
was accomplished in minute and 81 seconds,
an extraordinary result under any circum-
stances. While at sea the sails were tested,
and it was found that in this particular the
ship was as trim and complete as in any other.
The officers and crew, from the Commodore
down to the stokers, are loud in their praise of
the Yorktown, and they believe that she will
prove the pride of the new American navy, at
least until the mammoth cruisers. Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Newark shall come forth to
bear the American flag
Commodore Fitzhugh promptly announced
the general result to the Secretary of the
report will be entirely favorable and that the
gunboat Yorktown will be accepted and pre-
pared at once to receive her command.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
Found Floating and Frozen.

Early this morning two boatmen found a
yawl drifting across the bay near the Narrows.
On the bottom of the yawl lay a coatless and
hatless man, frozen tight in the ice which had
accumulated in the boat He was taken ashore
and thawed out. His hands and feet were
badly frozen. He said he went on a spree in
Brooklyn last night but had no idea of how he
got into the middle of the bay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

The river wall and park, as a means of
bcautifying the lower part of the city, will
meet long-felt want. 1t would be difficult
to name anything that the district adjacent
to the Point needs more than considerable
addition to its negative stock of beauty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
An Insane Deserted woman's Act.

Mrs. Sophie Buck threw her 4months-old
child out of third-story window, this morn
ing. The baby landed on heap of small wood
and scrap iron in the court. Its cries brought
the neighbors to its rescue. A slight scalp
wound and a scratch or two on the back were
the child's only injuries. Mrs. Buck was taken
to an asylum. Her husbands desertion made
her insane,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
A Children's Party.

A very pleasant chiidren's party was given
Yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mr..
sullivan Johnson, on Western avenue, Alle-
gheny Over 100 invitations were issued and
about so persons were present. Prof. Tony
White entertained the children with delight
ful ssPunch and Judy'' show,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
The Canfata of Judith.

The Cantata of Judith" was rendered last
evening at Masonic Hall, Allegheny, under the
direction of the author and composer, Mr.. E.
". Hoelsche A large audience was present.
The proceeds are for the benefit of the Young
Peoples Christian Leagues syndicate fund.
The entertainment will be repeated this even
inc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
FOR THE DAY NURSERY.
The Ladies' Will Give Dinner and Bazaar
for Its Reusfif.

The Ladies' Will Give n Dinner and Bazaar
for Its Benefit.
A number of ladies met in the Eighth Street
Reformed Presbyterian Church yesterday and
completed arrangements for dinner and
bazaar, to be given in Old City Hall on Wash
ington's Birthday for the benefit of the Allie
gheny Day Nursery.
The dinner will be given at noon, and in the
evening the bazaar will take place. There will
be a chocolataire drill, and music furnished for
a promenade by Prof. Zitterbart. 4 number
of booths will be handsomely fitted up and the
ladies in charge will be attired in pretty cos
tunes. I
Last year the Day Nursery cared for 1,052
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
Four Murdsrers IN he Tried.

Four indicted murderers were brought TO the
bar in Court of General Sessions to-day. John
Flynn, the youngest prisoner, is rs years old.
He cut his father in the arm with penknife,
and the old man bled to DEATH John Burke
stabbed Michael Moore in the stomach at
christening party. Moore died. Daniel Sulli-
van kicked Frederick Michael to death during
apolitical discussion two days before election.
Lizzie Hughes, gray-haired and wrinkled, threw
her roommate, Annie Fox, down a flight of
stone steps, fracturing her skull Three of the
murderers will be tried Immediately. The
fourth trial was fixed for next week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
ST. Valentines Day PLAYED Ont,

According to the postal officials, the memory
of st. Valentine was but little honored to-day.
Six years ago double the average daily amount
of mail matter vas handled in the postOffice on
st. Valentines Day. Extra men were employed
to distribute it, Since then there has been a
big decrease every year. The mails were hard
ly any larger than on other days.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
A SewickIey Entertainment.

An entertainment was given at the Sewickley
Opera House, last night, for the benefit of the
local public school library. Some good local
talent participated, with outside performers.
The attendance was very good.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

WASHINGTON, February IA reunion of
the paymasters of the army who served during
the War of the Rebellion will be held here at
the Ebbitt House on March 5. The address of
the Secretary is Colonel Thomas HI. Gardner,
No. 1006 + street, northwest, Washington, d. G.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

Mrs w. H. House, of Center avenue, gave
progressive euchre party yesterday afternoon.
The affair was very pleasant, and continued
from until o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs James NJ. Kinney entertained
the Shadyslde Euchre Club at their residence,
on South Hiland avenue, East End, last
evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

NEW YORK, February 14-Justice O'Brien,
in the Supreme Court to-day, denied without
comment the motion made on behalf of Henry
s. Ives and George II. Stayner for a change of
venue in the big suit brought against them by
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

IT is comforting to know that after some
months of researches into cotemporary Irish
history, the Parnell Commission has at last
gotwithin sight of the alleged Parnell letters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
Rev. w. s. Campbell.
AeC's We So OhhupDcils
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.

BELLkIRE, February 4.-Rev. W. s. Campbell
pastor of the Episcopal Church here and at Mar
tins Ferry died this evening of dropsy aged IS
years. The remains will be taken to his parents'
home in Virginia for interment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

The finding in the police case has gen.
eral resemblance to the Scotch verdict of
"not proven" but the assailants of the police
insinuate something about a change of
venue
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
PITTsBURG, FRIDAY, FEB. 15. 1889.
TO AGENTS.

Agents wishing extras to their orders for
Saturday, Sunday and Mondays DISPATCH,
will have to order specially what they want not
later than to-day
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
POSTAGE STAMP FAMINE.
Time Lock Safe in the Baltimore ONCE
Will Not Open.

BALTIMORE, February 14-Baltimore mar
rowly escaped famine of postage stamps, as
the combination lock on the stamp safe in the
postoffice refused to work properly yesterday
morning An expert was at work all last night
and to-day on the safe, but it withstood every
effort made to open it. and it is probable that
the front plates of the door will have to be re-
moved, which will take weeks work. Cashier
Nicodemus went to Washington this morning
and brought over supply of stamps
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
A Pointer for Poets.

From the New York Evening SUM-
A well-known English poet has mind reader
who sits opposite him and takes down his
poems in shorthand as he thinks them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
william l,uebbe.

one of the members of the well-known firm of
Luebbe Bros, died at the home of his parents,
Spring Hill, Allegheny, at 1C:U5 o'clock last night
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
New Bank for New Orleans.

WASHINGTON, February l4-The Controller
of the Currency to-day authorized the Amer
lean National Bank of New Orleans. La, to be-
gin business with a capital of s2OO,000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
AN AFTERNOON RECEPTION.
Mrs. Thomas Blair Welcomed TO Her Future
Home In This City.

The ladies of the East Liberty Valley turned
out yesterday afternoon to attend the recep-
tion of Mrs. Harvey Childs, Jr., of Shadyside.
The gathering was given in honor of Mrs.
Thomas S. Blair, nee Miss Emma Parker, of
Chicago. The latter, it will be remembered,
was married January Is to Thomas s. Blair, the
young business man of this city.
The young couple have just returned from
their wedding trip, and the reception was given
to welcome the bride to her future home on
Western avenue, Allegheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
Ex.Prcmier Cotegipe.

RIO JANERIo. February l4.-Baron de Cotegipe,
recently Prime Minister of Brazil, is dead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
FILLED WITH FIREARMS.
The Carondelet Sails for Hayti With Aid
for Hippolyte.

NEW YORK, February l4-The steamer Car
ondelet sailed this afternoon for Samana. 1t
was authentically stated during the day that
1873 cases of rifles, shells and ammunition.
brought here by the Red Star steamer West,
ernland from Antwerp on Wednesday, had
been placed on board of the Carondelet in the
early hours of the morning.
1t was announced officially to-day that Henry
Kunhardt, the Haytian Consul at Boston, has
been removed by President Legitime
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15

THAT valued policy bill rises again in the
Legislature to plague the insurance COM
panies
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
DUTY OF EATING.
An English Writer Claims That Distnsfe for
Food is a Phase of Barbarism-Conxing

An English Writer Claims Thaf Distnste ior
Food is Phase of notwithstanding
the Appetite-The Affectation Of Under
Eafina-Fasting Too Long and Then Emf
ing Too Much n Great Mistake.
From the London Standard
The Duty of Eating is the moral OF dis
course which one of our medical cotemporarles
addresses this week to the conscience of the
abstemious. 1t is impossible to dispute the ex-
istence of the evil at which the physician
preacher points tile finger of blame. There is
in these days deplorable lapse from the
healthy standard of rude appetite. MANY
people," as the writer remarks only too truly,
do not know what it is to have keen relish
for food" Women. it is notorious, are the
worst and most persistent offenders A cup OF
tea and a morsel of toast in the morning, a roll
and butter at noon, and the merest affectat1on
of interest in soup, entree, and joint at dinner,
make up the dietary of many ladies who pre-
tend to fashion and feeling. 1t is only sweets
and these not always-that kindle anything
like earIestness and enthusiasm. We hardly
needed professional admonition to make 1t
plain that this shirking of honest fare is un-
wise The novelty lies in the severity with
which the doctor dons the gown Of the moralist
and proclaims that under eating is wrong.
without sufficient food" we are told, neither
man nor woman can be happy or well" and as
it is an obvious duty to enjoy life and do ones
share in the worlds work, it follows that we
are under the most solemn obligation to take
an adequate amount of nourishment Our
teacher, however, it must be owned, takes up
his parable against the prevailing tendency to
meager diet in the kindliest and most helpful
spirit. He will not hear of the doctrine of in
eradicable depravity. Those who err may
work out their own reformation. and that with
out the slightest consciousness of painful
effort.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1889-12-18
. DAVIS FIRST MARRIAGE.
He Married Daughter of Gen. Zach
ary Taylor, in Louisville...The
Bride of q Year.

ltspbtNNlIt
The first marriage of Jefferson Davis
took place near Louisville, and, conse-
quently, "reminiscences concerning it
possess distinct local interest. The
statement frequently published that Mr..
Davis eloped with Miss Sarah, daughter
of Gen. Zachary Taylor, is untrue, and
has been frequently refuted. There
was neither an elopement nor clandes-
tine union. A Memphis lady, grand
daughter of Hancock Taylor, and
whose mother attended the marriage of
Mr.. Davis, states that Zachary Taylor,
then commanding one of the North
western posts, wrote his brother Han
cock that if it was still the wish of his
daughter Sarah--who was ut the time
visiting her family in Kentucky-to
marry Mr.. Davis he withdrew his oh
icctions, and wished his brother to act
for him in the matter. Hancock Tay-
Tor went TO Louisville with Mr. Davis
and secured the license, and the cere-
mony was performed at one of the fam
lily homes near Louisville. Miss Mil
bred Taylor, who afterward married
son of Supreme Judge John Mclean,
of Cincinnati, and who still lives in
Ohio, was the only bridesmaid; her
brother Lewis was her attendant; they
were first cousins of the bride and chill
dren of Hancock Taylor. It is said TO
have been a sad wedding, from the
fact that the immediate family of the
bride were absent, and herself remark
eel that she did not expect to live to re-
turn to Kentucky, though no reason
was given for the presentment. 1t was
during the summer, but the bridal par
ty went Immediately to Mr.. Davis
plantation, near Vicksburg, where in
less than year the Young wife died,
leaving no children.