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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Colonel Dudiey score, = Point.

The Supreme Court to-day denied the appli-
cation of the Evening Post to strike out the
complaint of Colonel w. w. Dudley in the
famous ''Blocks-of-hve" libel suit Lawrence
Godkin, counsel for the Post made this appli-
cation some days ago. because Colonel Dudley,
when examined before commission In Wash
ington, some weeks ago, declined to answer
questions a. to the authenticity of the letters
upon which the Indiana authorities sought to
indict him. In denying the motion Judge
Beach said the argument that the questions
upon the subject of handwriting which Colonel
Dudley refused to answer were relevant, could
not be true, as at the time of the examination
there was no such issue. The erefusal of thePosrs
counsel to permit the letter produced before
the Commissioner to be annexed to and re-
turned with the commission disposes of the
point of handwriting, because without the
document, all evidence regarding IL would be
stricken out. The Post published the letter,
which materially differed from the one before
the Commissioner. Even If substantially SINH
lar. the letter could only be admissible under
a plea for mitigation Of damages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

PERHAPS ''no importance is attached to
that Lima oil story on the exchanges, as
some of the reports allege, but we notice
that prices have taken tumble of about 6
cents since it was made public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
MIlwnukee Aequi.itiyenes.

From the Chicago News.J
A Milwaukee man fell into river and was
nearly drowned, but when he had been pulled
ashore it was found that he had caught fish
in his mouth, A man with such a talent for
acquiring things ought to scrapeup big for
tune in short order.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

IT is reassuring to learn that one man in
the Pennsylvania Legislature is able to deny
the charge that he went to the depot to see
Senator Quay. The others are discreetly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

CINcISNATL April 1s-B. Cavagana, widely
known to all business men of Cincinnati, died last
night, aged 60. He has lived in Cincinnati go
years and nearly all of that time was in business
at the same place, on Fifth street, near Walnut.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

OTTAWA. ILL.,, April Is.--Mrs. W. h. L. Wal
lace, the widow of General W. H. l.. Wallace
who was killed at Shiloh, and the eldest daughter
of the late Judge 7. Lyle Dickey died at her resi-
dence in this city last night from paralysis, after
an illness of several months. She will be buried
O'Clock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
LiberuIOGer.

East Palestine Reveilie.f
The fishing season is open and several parties
have already gono out. The editor of this
paper would like to go on one expedition, and
If some one viii fnd the conveyance he viii
try to furnish bait,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

BoULANGER has been elected few times
more in France; but since he elected himself
to go to Belgium he does not seem likely to
overturn any governments by the multi
plicity of his electoral victories.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

In the hands of Mayors as entirely indie
pendent as Grant and Gleason the ak is
mlghtier than the letter-writing pen of the
predecessor of one of them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
An Rdrnr AIIeu Poe Relic Sold.

Edgar Allen Poe's cottage and grounds at
Fordham were sold this noon, at the real
estate exchange, to William Fearing Gill. for
s. 487 so. The building is irregular In plan, the
dimensions being approximately 20 and 30 feet.
It is solidly built and In good repair. Poe first
occupied the house in the summer of 1876. His
wife Virginia died there some ten months
later. In the small sitting room of the Ford
ham cottage Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" "The
Bells" and 'Literati of New York"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Anxiou. % Henr somelhinr.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.1
Just ask Governor Hill or General Palmer
whatthe wild waves are saying about Grover
Cleveland and 1892 They both have their ears
to the ground
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
We Knew n AIIAlnna

From the Chicago Times.l
President Harrison, we are proud to say, is
keeping the ablest of us editors at home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

AGRICULTURAL activities have already
commenced on the Oklahoma border. The
boomers are raising Cain very industri-
nnslv -.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
A Bride Suicide. Becau.. of Jealousy.

Mrs Elsie Kavanagh, of Newark, q bride of
six weeks, swallowed two doses of paris green
to-day. She will probably die before morning.
Mrs. Kavanagh has quarreled with her hus-
band ever since she married him. She thought
he firted with Newark shop girls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Mr.. FrIeud wand, 70 ee, ou,.

The lawyer Of Mrs Olive E Friend, of Elec-
trio sugar fame, asked the Recorder to-day to
reduce her bail. which Is $1,000 He said that
Mrs. Friend had lost her health In the Tombs
already, and was growing worse daily. The Re-
corder consented to think about it, and took
the papers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
CURIOUS EASTER CUSTOMS.

Old English Belief Regarding Eggs-Quaint
and Beautiful Ceremonies Among the
Germans and Italians-Origin of the
Practice of Painting Egg shells.
Whence came the Easter eggs9 Well. it is
not easy to say precisely, for some sort of
feast of the eggs of which the display in shop
windows this year is the lineal descendant
seems to have existed about as long as the bust
ness record of the hen itself, but our observ-
ance, of course. comes directly from England,
along with the Easter bonnet
At Easter let your clothes be new,
Or else be sure you will It rue,
says the old English couplet in aIlusion to the
common belief tnst failure to wear new clothes
on the day bought is>bad luck But the Easter
egg is in way older than anything English,
and much older than Christianity. Hebrews
have the egg in their Passover to symbolic the
bird Ziz. 1t is said that the Egyptians used it
away in the dusty past to represent the renoya-
tion of mankind after the deluge, and one
learned pundit says that the custom of making
presents of eggs at Easter can be traced up to
the theology and philosophy of the Fersians,
Ganls, Greeks, Romans and SO on, among all of
whom an egg was an emblem of the universe;
but no matter about that.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
superstitiou. About Esa..

The Easter egg itself has occupied large
place in the greatest of Christian church festi-
walls in Europe, and England and the ContiDent
yet have many curious customs connected
with it as well as some superstitions. Because
it contained the mysterious germ of future life
the egg was naturally given special signih-
cance in connection with the Feast Of the Resur-
rection, but its prominence in popular way
was no doubt largely due to material causes.
Eggs were sometimes forbidden during Lent,
and a literal feast of them would be natural at
Easter, and then it is to be remembered that
just at this season eggs are especially plenty
and free use of them for food and presents
comes easily. So the staining of the shells red
is said to typify the blood OF Christ, but 1t is
possible that this was an afterthought, sug-
gested by the coloring of the presents to make
them more acceptable. But in any case the
church regarded the egg seriously, for the rit-
ual Of Paul the Fifth for use in Great Britain
had this:
Bless, Lordl we beseech Thee. this Thy Great
ure OF eggs that 1t may be a wholesome suste-
nance to Thy faithful servants eating it In thank
mlness to Thee, on account OF the resurrection OF
the Lord.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
HOW BE LOVED LYDIA.

HOW he LOVED LYDIA.
When he was young and soft Of heart,
With Lydia he fell in love.
He loved her beauty and her art;
But Lydia he never told,
He was not bold.
When he grew up to mans estate
With Lydia he stayed in love,
Bought bouquets at wholesale rate
For her, his hearts delight
Aye, every night.
Still when he came to middle age
He loved fair Lydia no less.
Bis life was but single page
Writ DER and o'er with LIS
And nothing else.
But Time, alas. was not so kind
To him as to fair Lydia
fact you'd better bear in mind
Life's short, so says the song,
But art is longl
And on the tombstone DER his head
The legend runs: "Fair Lydia come
To charm my eye when you are deadr'
In the parquet III sit
Some call it pit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Prospects In Oklahema-Lydia's sIlentLove
Two Hearts Unitod-NhifT. of I,Iauor.

Two Hearts UHitod-WhifIs of Liquor.
A LETTER from Mr. Lydick, the young Pitts
burg attorney who, with friend. started for
Oklahoma week or two ago. was shown TO me
yesterday. Mr.. Lydick describes the scene on
the borders of Oklahoma very brightly, and
seems to be cheerful, because there is pros
pect Of considerable bloodshed and litigation.
Says he: Il hope to be able to attend to the
litigation and abstain from bloodshed on my
own part"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
NEW YORK NEWS NOTES.
Tim Campbell Make. a saueal.

NEW York. April la.--Ex-c Congressman Tim
othy J. Campbell has sued John E Brodsky,
Johnny o. Brien's lieutenant in the notorious
Eighth district. for sS,l00 The papers we're
served late last night. Mr. Campbell contracted
with Mr.. Brodsky few days before the No
vember election for enough votes to return
him to Congress. The consideration was the
$500 which Mr.. Campbell now wishes to get
back. Mr.. Brodsky failed to deliver the goods
on election day. Mr.. Campbell's tickets were
not even punched by the Brodsky workers in
the Eighth, he claims, and John Henry McCar-
thy, Tammanys candidate for Congress, got a
tremendous majority. The opinion Of the boys
in the Eighth is strong against Mr.. Campbelrs
case, because he 'squeals on being steered
against brace game"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19
Sale of Secretary Tracy's Stud.

The Marshland stud Of Secretary Tracy was
closed out at auction to-day. ADbie, l2year-
old bay mare, sold for s5,sO0 Loretta brought
5000; Cavalier. 81, ,5Oo Blush, daughter Of Ken
lucky Wilkes. s2.lOo; wanatab. 5000: Delta,
s4, 900; Audaeity, 8year-old hlly, $1,000
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19


Two old ladies have lived with friend of
mine in the East for many years. They are,
taken singly and apart, charming old ladies.
Together they are not so lovely, for regret to
say that they fight. They are both related by
blood to my friend, and he has generously
placed his house in New York at their disposal
as home.
A day or two ago my friend was here, and I
asked him how his two old aunts were getting
along.
"Beautifullyr' he replied. "They never have
any spats now. The peace and quiet of the
house now is almost alarming"
"How did you effect this revolution?"
"Well went to Aunt A. and told her that
hoped that she would be patient and forbear-
ing toward Aunt B, as Aunt BIS mind was fail
ing fast, that her age was making her childish
and so on. Aunt A. promised to be very in
dulgent to poor Aunt B.. and she kept her
word. Then went to Aunt B. and told her
that she must really be gentle and considerate
toward Aunt A, because she was growing
senile and didn't know what she said or did
half the time. Aunt B. agreed with alacrity
and has been mindful Of her promise. Conse-
quence is the two old ladies are in an ideal
state of content and harmony all the time.
Each imagines thar she is the keeper of the
other"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-19

A MAN Of singularly sleepy appearance came
in from rather remote corner of Allegheny
county during the recent license court hearings
to consult well-known attorney Of this city.
he had had license and wanted it renewed.
The lawyer asked the saloon keeper few
questions as to the way he had conducted his
house, whether he had broken the license law
in any particular, and wound up with the ques-
tion; Have you ever sold to minors ?"
"Yes," replied the liquor man, complacently.
rs it generally known that you have sold to
minors 2"
FAX dere amt nobody but miners most
at come to my plaeer'
"Do you know what mean by minors Y'
asked the beWildered attorney.
''Men as works at der mines, in coorsep'
Ax#
THE worthy Economics do not mean to come
into collision with the liquor laws, If they can
help it. They have locked up their cellars in
Economy until the State shall have decided for
or against prohibition. The wine made by the
Economics is highly valued by those who know
its sterling qualities and purity for the use of
invalids, and several persons who have made
the journey to Economy lately to get some of
it have come back empty-handed.
The cellars are even closed to the Economics
themselves. Mr.. Henrici's orders are that no
wine shall be sold or given away until after the
June election.
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-30

ONE OF JoHNSTowS'S PRINCIPAL STREETS.
tho youngest, years old, remained, and the
mother hesitated long. But the water con-
tinued 10 rise till there was barely breathing
space between it and the ceiling; a few min
utes more and escape would be impossible SO,
BeSsie, the darling, was fastened TO a brood
plank and blessed and kissed and started
Il loved them al - said the mother. ''bu,
had two kisses for Bessie. for she was Toms
fsvorite and wGs such good child She Put
her arms around my neck and So, -
know you said God would take care of me
always, mamma-win he take care OF me
nowP
II told her he would and she need not fear,
and then she was carried away. I'm not
afraid, mamma she called out. and / heard
her, although could not see her-and that's
all, except that the roof was torn OF and
tioated off on it, and some Italians saved me
at Kernville, sixteen miles from here"
And the childrenrn was asked.
1--WE have found two of them dead-Bessis
and George-and there is not a mark on Bes-
sizes face, and oh, ! am so .iredl They're al
gone, every one-eight OF them, and am
going home TO Virginia, after all these years,
TO rest and try 70 think
Many columns might be filed with &C
counts of remarkable escapes Michael Rom
esen- after beng twscs struck BY tifahssE and
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-30
Especial Correspondence

Therefore when. On the 2sth Of April, 1883,
was landed at the port Of Durham. along
with miscellaneous cargo Of Yankee
notions" parafIine and gasoline, / was re-
oeived with much Of the polite curiosity
which the wild man Of Boruso- awakeos in
the breast of the intelligent patron Of the
Bowery dime museum.
The citizens were solicitous 10 know IL !
carried gun, or tai bowie knife concealed
In my boot.
Perhaps might be dynauiter.
Or a White Cap.
Probabiy was an escaped convict; A-zls-i-
Gals never came to Natal.
Were the red Indians really redi
Had ] ever been iynchedI
Or scalpedi
did ! ever shoot q buffalo!
Buffalo Bill Was our most tinguished cit
i1en, was he no;i
Who Was ?. T BA-nuni
What sort Of gaze vas BASEBALL
Had ever experienced tarTing and festh-
eringi
MOI How strange. fox an American
Meeting disappointment a. al these points
Of interrogation, they fell back upon u.
conventional English ouarcpsioncf e. Amer
lean. and considered re @crteS Al ny
stories were plausible lies, though nothing
Is impossible 20 tie Yankees" Thea they
fell 70 a critical analysis OF nv American
accent which afordssi them rzncc srarse-
msaf AID gave lie Unlimited pisasure-when
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-30

rogue De VINO can
escape such universal scrutiny. In short.
this case seems 10 prove that on the whoIs
publicity is best AT any rate secrecy Of ths
European kind cannot DO maintained In
America, and an 'army Of reporters,' the
hackneyed phrase, Is but q moderate state
ment OF the number of journalists now striv-
ing to discover something new In the cronin
case.
The three men first indicted are three char
actors In their way; Woodruff Is phenors-
email liar and Coughlin the most cautious OF
prisoners, being himself detective, bat thu
center Of interest Is r. o. Sullivan, tho leo
man. Around him the Gordon OF evidence "a
drawn tho closest, and each new discovery
adds TO il. His leo house Is but q few yards
from tho isolated cottage In which the muir
der was done and his residence near by; he
had engaged DR.. Cronin TO attend 20 any Of
his employees who should DO injured, and the
messenger 20 the doctor displayed Sullivans
card as his voucher. lie Is known 10 have
been rather intimate with tho man who rent
ed tho cottage, and 10 was an avowed enemy
of the murdered man
Woodruff Il tho champion corfezsor. "Hs
has confessed 20 every crime Of noto for the
past seven years, except the murder Of Smell
and throwing the HayInarkot bomb" say
the authorities; yet they have succeeded In
confirming enough OF his story 20 prove that
he did aid in concealing DR.. Cronins corpsa
Dan Coughlin obstinAtely refuses TO talk, yet
the evidence against him u increasing.
The furniture in the murdcrerS' cottage
was sold by A. IL Revel & co. on the 18Th
Of February To a man who gave tho name u
j. B. SiuionA He also bought the trunk Ia
which the corpse was taken away. The firm
gave u good description Of him, and many
thousand eyes were soon watching for him.
Dan Coughlin engaged the white horse, which
figures 50 largely ia the investigation. at
Dinan's livery stable, and The unknown man
who drove il awny Is also well described and
eagerly looked for. These two arc tho "un-
knowns" Of tbs plot, and cTery descrtptaoa
of them is eagerly scanned Pczc1 artists
have cxhauxted their inventive pOwsT1 i.
drawing portraits by description and submit
ing them 20 the witnesses for Identification,
but thus far no great s1cceas II reported In
this imaginative portrait painting Tia
house Ia which the murder Was committed
q ,s72 Ashland avenues belongs to an aged
Swedish couple named Carlson, and they and
their son remember many details q Tbs men
who rented IL Such are the ''cls~x."
Tie police have heated stth certainty sfs
entire route purpaed By the wagon carrying
ths corpse, from tina uIardsrers cottage up
20 the point ca the lake Ebo-o where ,hs
criminals were alarmed by tho Lake police.
thence down 70 tbs saver catch basin vhsre tAs
CORPSE was hiddsa, tbeEcs 70 the point ubers
tie trunk O. would nc. 80 in:o tho basin.
was thrown cut. and theoos by vsri0us
wfndings 70 Dinan's stahiA DR.. Cronia's
private papers have bsen Examined and In
them are many letters Containing threats
against his LIE n Is also prvTsd that 10
was Ia dread q aszasuznA:son-
Every detail Il ths affair Ia now dernoo-
stra,od. only tho actors reuzain 70 - akscov-
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-30

I thought how / could .'get evenr on rneir
couutrymen when returned to New York.
During the four months Of ny residence in
Durham did not meet another American,
and therefore took upon myself the response
bility of attempting to prove to this mis-
guided people that not all Americans come
up to The Police Gazette standard; that even
Yankees can be modest, mild hammered, in
offensive and law abiding when they try. /
fatter myself that succeeded fairly well,
from the opinion generally evoked that
yankees are not such bad lot as we sup
posedn And so, though bent on different
object, accomplished missionary work in
Africa after all
But could never quite dissipate the suspi-
cion that there was something very mysteri-
GUS about this wandering printer, who had
travelled II 600 miles in a mere freak
must say, in Justice to my Durham friends,
that, when they discovered was not loaded,
! was treated with the most unvarying kind
ness and courtesy, and that they will always
command my sincere respect and esteem They
have an abiding faith in the brotherhood Of
the English speaking race, though they very
naturally maintain that its better elements
exist only on the eastern side Of the Atlantic.
Just as Americans arrogate the possession OF
all the nobler attributes Of humanity TO in
habitants of the western hemisphere.
July rolls around just as regularly in
Natal, where it means nothing, as it does in
America, where it means everything But
how different from the traditional occasion
of patriotic picnicking, beer and buncombe,
fun and fireworks, to which we are accu--
toned at homo is this peaceful midwinter
day in Southeast Africa. No booming Of
cannons, no din of horns or popping of fire
crackers, no smell Of powder and fumes Of
bottled enthusiasm, but the glorious African
sun beats down from q cloudless, azure sky,
warm and genial as candidates smile, and
the balmy zephyrs from the Indian ocean are
laden with the subtle perfume Of orange and
mangrove blossoms, and the spicy incense OF
numberless plants as strange as they are de-
Gghtful to northern sense.
On this particular Independence day, in
the year OF our Lord 1888, set forth from
my lodgings in Orange Grove, Smith street,
with the patriotic determination TO celebrate
the GLORIOUS Fourth" in true Yankee style.
But my ardor was somewhat cooled when
Wichita eagle., 1889-06-30
TILE RrINED DAM


clinging for their lives. The car was rolled
over and over, and the men stuck to it with
the energy born of desperation, clutching
wildly at the air, but soon their geSticulations
grew weaker and then they sank. AS dark
ness settled down and enveloped everything
Scheerer and the young ladies saw I'M
earthly glare upon the flood from the burning
wreck at the bridge. To the best of Scheerer's
belief the flood lasted forty minutes in its
greatest fury.
Nothing is moro surprising than the calm
way in which the survivors talk of their losses
and SORROWS As q rule their eyes are dry
and their tones low, and they gaze upon the
ruins and talk of their dead with sort OF
paSsionless apathy. The occasion is too great
for tears. All those people have looked death
clos y in the face for hours, and no doubt
they all feel as does one who expressed 1t thus:
Il don't seem 20 feel any call to take on about
anything; feel Just like we had ali been dead
and buried, and done with this world, all wa
Johnstown folks, and these few of Us was
just allowed to come back and look around
awhile" That man voiced the feelings OF
many thousands. Many months must pass
before they will renew their energy in this
worlds affairs and many hundreds Of them
can never again be as they were
Consider, as one instance only little sad
der than the average, the case of Mrs. Fem,
wife Of an engineer, and the sole survivor OF
a family of nine. Many years ago the in
dustrioas and Intelligent young Fem brought
his wife from the valley of Virginia and To-
Gated in Johnstown. They had seven chill
dren and a comfortable, happy home life. \
few minutes before the food came Mr.. Fem
started to the butchers shop and disappeared
forever. Driven to the upper room by the
food the mother prayed and encouraged the
children. The water rose TO their chins tho
smallest children being lifted on the highest
articles.
Mamma" said the Oldest, girl, wouldn't
it be better to go outside and die in the open
airr'
YES, dear" was he reply; well make
raft and al go together"
Opening the window she caught floating
plank and on it placed the Oldest child; there
was kiss and God bless you" and it
floated away into the darkness. And so with
the next and the next, the fond mother cheer
ing the children and launching them on the
food with good-bys AND kisses. AT last only