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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
A se.uuipeda,ian sentence.

From the New York Herald.l
Evarts is having a chat with Mr. Phelps. The
ex-Minister intends to reply as soon as the Sem
stor reaches the end Of his first sentence-if he
don't die of old age in the meantime.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
Emanuel Bird.

Emanuel Bird, manager of the Windsor Glass
House, in Homestead, died suddenly on Saturday
at his home at that place from heart failure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
Fooling a Britisher.


After the first act of the play that night we
sought neighboring cafe. man was trying
to take his companion home, and the compan-
ion did not waht to go, but he did want to Gre
ate disturbance. With rather extended
and varied experience in Washington the
scene was a unique one to me. Until that mo-
ment had not seen anything unquiet in any
public resort.
rs there going to be row?' asked the cap
tain
There may be the usual pistol shot or two"
answered the other man OF our party fhe
man who is making all the noise is dead shot,
and he always shoots at the cashier, near
whom he is now standing. But the cashier
doesn't mind. He knows him, and the moment
the revolver is produced he will knock the des-
perado's arm up and the bullet will go into the
ceiling. 1t is padded on purpose
Lets go out, then;I don't want 10 De rid-
died."
"Why leave" we both said in chorus. stay
and see the fun-we won't be hurt"
The Captain said he was much interested in
the play, so we with great show OF languor re-
gained the theater. The Captain was much
impressed, and finally said:
''Since I've been in your big country I've ung
learned a lot of what they told me OF 1t at
home. made up my mind recently that all
ruffianism was confined to the wild borders
but after tonight don't know what to think" !"
We were at the station and the midnight
train was about to start for New 4ork-when
we undeceiyed our gallant guest-when we told
him we had been ineulging In fairy tales.
Hands were clasped as the train began to
move, and the Captain said:
I'll forgive you for selling me SO well. l
ought TO have known it though; you Ameri-
cans are such 'chaffers.'" O'BRIEN-BAIN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
SO SHE CELEBRATED.
Mrs. schluchtuer Hoists a Flag When She
Haurs of Har RivaIs Guiridp

Hears of Her Rivals Suicide.
NEW YORK, February 2.-When Mrs. Chris
tine Schluchtner heard of the death OF Mrs
Thomas Schultz who committed suicide in
Brooklyn the other day, she hoisted flag in
her BROOKLYN residence.
Mrs. Schluchtner recently secured a limited
divorce in suit in which she made Mrs.
Schultz q correspondent. 1t was Joy at her late
the flag. The neighbors tried to-day to get the
police to pull down the flag, but they would not
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
WHAT RUM WILL DO.

A rare and pathetic case of
woman's devotion was seen at the
Auburn IN. " state prison week be-
fore last. a prisoner under 81 years
sentence for gouging out both his
wife's eyes, whom even the most
hardened criminals Stunned, was
taken sick with pneumonia. During
his illness delicate woman, led by a
child, CROPPED her way to the warden
and pleaded for an opportunity to
visit the man who had destroyed her
sight The child shrank in terror
from the criminal, but he broke down
completely at his wife's expression of
devotion HE is my husband and
love him. He was very kind to me
when he was SOBER" was what the
woman quietly said when a prison
official expressed his establishment at
her conduct. And yet there are tenn
perance men who want to license the
sale of rum, thus making it legaliz-
edand respectable business.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
As II SHALL WISH.

Another year, beloved. has just lapsed
Into the silence of the voiceless past;
Another birthday dawns, and this, perhaps.
BY earthly reckoning. may be your last.
Should this he so, and If l surely knew
That another twelvemonth should
stand
Alone and sorro wfuI. yet glad that you
Were safe and happy in the heavenly land;
How should prize the precious hours so few
In which our souls could sweet communion
takei
How welcome every burden borne for youl
How cheerful every service for your sakel
Within that golden time, how seIfshness
To loving sacrifice would yield the sway
My constant aim would be to help and bless,
And prayer for you my greatest joy each
day
But since. beloved. it doth not appear
Whether our pathways shortly shall divide,
Or whether, in Gods mercy, one more year
We shall in earthly feilo wship abide;
/ will begin. on this your birthday morn,
To serve and speak and sacrifice and pray
As / shall wish had when you gone
From empty arms and longing eyes away.
-GAdyauce-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
HIGH LICENSE CATECHISM.

o. What is high license? A. 1t
is a law which for stipulated sum
mot less than $500 per annum) au-
thorizes the runscllcr to manufac-
ture drunkards.
.. What raw material does the
rumseller use in such a manufacture !?
A Boys.
o. Whose boys? A. Anybody's
boys-your neighbours or your own.
O. What benefit is to be derived
from a high license law? A. 1t will
elevate the business.
Q. What business? y. The bust
ness of making drunkards.
O How does it propose to do
this? A. BY shutting up the dead
falls and rendering the palace saloons
more attractive.
Q. What IS the difference between
a deadfall and a palace saloon? A.
A palace saloon is where the boys
take their lessons i'll crime; the dead
fall is where they graduate.
O Who are in favor of high license
laws? a. All the far-seeing rum
sellers, the whisky politicians, and
great many strong temperance
men" (?) including some pastors,
deacons, members of leading church
es, and some editors of newspapers,
Q. What IS the difference between
a prohibitionist and high licensist !?
A. a high licensist believes in put
ting whisky into a boy through a
$1,000 funnel, and then putting the
boy into the gutter; a prohibitionist
believes in putting the whisky into
the gutter and saving the boy
california Voice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18

This, for instance: Blessed (chink)
be the Gingle) man, that (clink, clink)
provideth (thump, silver dollar for
the sick (clink) and needy, Gingle.)
The Lord (rustle, rustic, that is, be-
lated notice of bean supper in the
vestry Wednesday evening, from
$50 till 100; all welcome, shall de-
liver Gingle) him in time (clink, clink)
of trouble If the deacon's boots
squeak and he has good idea of
time he can add to the service by
keeping step to the musical rhythm.
In the city, churches have gone one
step farther, and in place of the long
handled boxes, some have substitute
ed handsome baskets lined with satin
and pushes on which the ten dollar
gold piece of the ex-governor and the
10 cent piece of the plumbers little
boy fall with equal noise. Others
prefer a silver or handsomely carved
wooden plate with quilted lining
After all it is not so much the gift
or the receptacle as the spirit i'll which
it is given. E. p. Hadley in Green
field Gazette and Courier.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
RYEGATE,s REPORT FOR 1870.

Following is a copy of the town re-
port of 1910 signed by John Gamer
on, George Cowles and William Blair,
auditors. 1t may be interesting to
compare it with town reports of the
present time both in amount of bust
ness done and the fees and services OF
town officers.
THE auditors have settled with the
treasurer and find due from him 81
cents. They have also examined and
allowed the following claims: Town
clerks services 81. "a; DR.. Perry for
doctoring town paupers $16.35 ;
Ohm Cameron, services as lister, So :;
Thomas Nelson, same, 50; George
Cowles for making grand list So
John Hall, Overseer of poor, $23.O1 ;
Joseph Dickey, coat for w. Stewart,
So. so; Arch. Park, services as select
man, $1S.75; James Hall I'd, same,
$3.50; Lawson Bruce, same, $40 !;
Alex. Gibson. articles furnished Mrs.
Taylor 81 SO; auditors charges for
their own services, so cents each,
81 so; Amos Moves, services as lister,
50; total $1OO.64 To this sum is
added $3.50, estimated amount for
the support of poor and other claims
against the town."
Twenty-six glass blowers bound
for Pittsburg were held at the Boston
custom house Friday for violation OF
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
STEERING.

The subscriber is prepared to do all kinds
of Upholstering Work, Furniture Repairing
laying carpets, hanging window Shades,
picking hair Mattresses and general
Furniture Repairs. N. r. SWITSER
Opposite Presbyterian church, Eastern Ave
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
Gbe Californian.
EASTER.

Thank God for the dear ones safe today,
Safe at home on the happy shore,
Where the smile of the Father beams for aye.
And the shadow of pain shall fall no more.
Thank God for the hearts that have done
with sin,
For the eyes that shall never be blind with
tears,
Thank God for the beautiful entered in
To the perfect rest OF the deathless years
Thank God for the rift in the desolate grave
Ills the soldiers couch, not the captive's
prison
He haIIowed its portal. who died to save,
And we write DER its porch, The Lord is
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
EVOLUTION OF THE CONTRIBUTION
RON

The radical changes that have TAX
en- place in the construction of the
church contribution box are worthy
of somewhat extended notice. In
the primitive times of the church his
tory of this country no contributions
were taken up, but the support of
the minister and his family depended
upon the gifts of the people. Cord
wood, potatoes, squashes, pumpkins,
fresh pork, dried apples, etc, were
given in sufficient abundance to keep
the preacher from season to season,
and what he lacked in variety of
edibles he made up i'll the way by
which he was reverenced and Obeved
in spiritual matters, also in that he
could compel his listeners to sit for
two hours to listen to his sermons,
which used to be wholly dOctrinal.
AS the church advanced there grew
to be demands to which bucolic con-
tributions would not apply in settle
ment The subject of missionaries
and other needs brought about the
first change and it was voted to pass
the hat" The colonial hat was not
considered just the thing to collect
the funds and the brilliant idea that
the oId-fashioned warming pan
would do better originated with one
of the tithing men. With this he
could stand at the door of the square,
boX-like pews, and gather in all the
shekels with ease The coin dropping
into the brass warming pan some
what gagged the generosity of the
gIvcr, but as time advanced 1t was
considered a little noisy and an i'm
provement was demanded. The sup
ply was equal to the demand and a
corn pepper was introduced, and the
wire mesheS served to deaden the
sound, and this was used until art
demanded that something more es-
thetic be furnished so I'M its place APP
peared the long-handled, square
boxes with which the vigilant dea-
con could reach to the extreme end of
the pew. At first they were not lin
ed in any way and the dropping in
of an old copper cent, so far as sound
went, gave the donor credit for Il sill
yer dollar Shortly after the boxes
were lined with some soft material.
the MethOdists and Baptists gener-
ally using flannel and the Presbyte-
rians and Congregationalists prefer
ring velvet To the present day
these boxes are used extensively
throughout the country towns, and
as the ofertory is usually accompa-
MED by a selection by the quartet,
the accompaniment of jingling coin
adds greatly to the service.
There are several fine offertories
that are particularly effective if the
congregation can be depended on to
keep the jingle" sempre marcato.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18

HENRY G. MENACE, Secy and Treas.
DIRECTORS.
Thos. Lowry, Pres Minneapolis st. R'y Co.
w ID. Washburn, Pres. NJ. s. Ste. NJ. & a.
R'Y Co.
John s. Pillsbury, Chas. A PiIsbury &, Co.
Z. w. Herrick of Herrick Brothers.
A. ]. Dean, former Cashier Security Bank.
Loren Fletcher of L. Fletcher 81 Company.
Clinton Morrison, Pres. Farmers & Mechan-
les Savings Bank.
Geo. A Pillsbury of Chas. A. Pillsbury * Co.
c. H. Petit of Petit, Christian q Co.
Joseph Dean of Security Bank
H. E. Fletcher, Treas. Minneapolis * Pacific
Railway Company.
VIM. II. Eustis, Treas. North American Tele
graph Company.
Philip H. Neher of Neher & Carpenter, Troy.
New York.
L. F. Menage, President of Company.
Henry G. Menage, Sec. and Treas of Co.
Conservative Investments for sale, includ
ing per cent year bonds in denominations
$50. 500. $500 and $1,000. Short time col
lateral paper and First Mortgages city
property and Improved Farms.
Branches 40 Broadway, New York.
Drexel Building. Philadelphia, 80 Congress
St, Boston, Mass Stiff
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-18
THE IDEA.
Photographs Taken at Night

Instantaneous1y, right in your own home,
by your own freside and with your own sur
rounding, with little no inconvenience and
absolute safety Family groups, portraits OF
invalids and people unable to visit a studio a
speciality.
many other occasions where picture could
be obtained in other way. Even ma
chinery in motion can be taken.
Appointments and correspondence solicited
Our studio will be open Tuesday and Sat
urday eveningsfor making portraits with our
new and improved apparatus.
DICKERMAN & COOPER
9otfl Photographer Opp. Atheneum.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
lsUsrlNGs COURT.
The Business transacted There Yes.
Lerdny,

terdNy.
The case of the Central Park Land
company VS.. the Roanoke Street rail
way, an action for damages, was set
for Thursday, December 18th.
The suit of Bette d. Mauck vs..
the Norfolk and Western railroad
company, claim for the killing of a
COW valued at $40, was tried by jury
and verdict rendered for defendant.
In the case of j. r. Hockaday, trus-
tee, VS.. Rogers & Huger, covenant,
defendants demurred to declaration
and the case was continued generally.
The case of Shields Ray vs. the
Norfolk and Western railroad COM
company, an action for damages, was
continued for defendant.
In the case of R. P. Bayley & Co.,
VS. William Donaldson, an action of
assumpsit, judgment was rendered
for plaintiff.
The cases set for trial today are as fol-
lows w. j. Carper, administrator for
Red Moore, deceased, VS.. the Norfolk
and Western railroad company, suit
for SO, 600 damages. Moore was killed
at Bluefeld June 18th, 1888; r. H. Day
vs.. Norman, Myers and others, an
issue out of cha merry. Lucas &
Fields VS.. n. NJ. Partee and others, an
action of assumpsit.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
ADJUSTMENTS.
Ricc's Beautiful Evangeline to Hold
the Boards Tonight.


Tonight at the Roanoke opera
house will be presented deservedly
popular and highly entertaining play,
the name of which has grown thor
oughly familiar to the American the
atre-going public. From the Rich
mond Dispatch of last Saturday we
clip the following estimate of the play
and the performance: Last night
the ever popular Evangelne was
presented at the theatre before a large
audience. This well-known eItrava-
CANA, so brimful with fun, so rich
with comedy, was never put on in bet
ter style. Mr.. James s. Maffit, the
original Lone Fisherman, played that
part, as he has played it for eight
years, very cleverly. Mr.. George s.
Fortesaue, as Catherine, and MIR.
DAILY, as LIE Blanc, were very comlcal
and kept the house in a roar. Miss
Yolande Wallace gave charming rem
dition of the title role, and Miss Mae
Branson made very dashing Gabriel.
The company is strong and the figur-
antes are unusually pretty. The cos
tuning is beautiful. The effect of the
tableau1 that intersperse every act
was much heightened by the calcium
light The Dispatch is high enough
authority to justify the belief that a
packed house will greet Rice's Be'uti-
full Evangeline tonight in this city.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
Do WE NEED A HOSPITAL
observer" Advances Some ArSu
Iments in the Affirmative

..Observer'' Advances Some ArSu-
Iments in the Affirmative.
To the TIMES.
There is a power in facts. There is
pathos, too, in them that at times
should arouse us to unusual exertion
and sacrifice. Here are some of the
facts and more can be given
Not long since a clerk in Salem
avenue store was taken sick with
pneumonia and carried to his hotel,
where every attention they could give
was given. One day, however, in his
delirium he rose from his bed, left his
room in his underclothes, and in these
walked up and down the cold, damp
hallway, and was then carried back to
his room to die. Would this ever
have been permitted had this young
man been in hospital and under the
care of a trained nurse?
A young man at the mahcine works
was taken sick At his boarding place
the only attention he could receive at
night was from his companions, men
who labored hard all day. 1t was
hardly to be expected that these men
should sit up all night. One night
the physician left positive orders that
he should not be permitted in
his delirium to rise from his bed. In
the night his companions went to
sleep, and later the poor fellow was
missed from his bed, and was found
out in another part of the house
bleeding from hemorrhage. He was
carried back to his bed to die. Would
this have happened had he been in
hospital and under the care OF a
trained nurse?
Do we not remember the SAD
circumstances attending the last
illness of one of our prominent and
popular citizens, himself a home
less man, but able to have
his own attendant, who was, how
ever, not nurse but a servant
only. and how, in his delerium, he
put the servant out OF the room ana
locked himself within. Would that
ever have been permitted had ne
been under the care of a trained
nurse? Do you need more facts! is
not the question to be asked this:
Who will be the next victim? Post,
pone the matter for six months and
the victims will be ready. -.
Can our city afford to relegate this
matter of caring, in sickness, for her
population of homeless men, to poor
widows and others, proprietors of our
boarding-houses, struggling for a liy-
ing. and who have these placed on
their hands, when the city should ex-
tend to them it's fostering care?
What are all other interests conf
pared with human life? In the name
of these thousands of homeless men
plead with our council to pass this or
dinance, and, with our citizens, to
vote the appropriation.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
railroads.&c..
COLONEL FRIES TALKS ABOUT
THE ROANOKE & SOUTHERN.
HE INTERVIEWS THE PRESIDENT.
Thirty Miles of the Road Nearly Com
pieted-Thc Conditions Under
which il VIII be Built
to This City.

Col. F. H. Fries. of Winston, N c.,
president of the Virginia and North
Carolina Construction company, ar
rived in the city yesterday Oh the 3
o'clock train from Lynchburg; and is
stopping at Hotel Roanoke.
The object of his visit was to confer
with Messrs. Trout, Stewart and
Jamison of the Roanoke and South
ern road and the Construction COM
pany in regard to the building of the
road. In the evening he had an in
terview with these gentlemen, and
later said to TIMES representative:
1--WE are now working on the second
section of the thirty miles of the road
from Winston, and will probably get
it all completed in month or two.
The distance from here to Martins
vile is about sixty miles, and the
railroad company, feeling that
the amount already subscribed is
not sufficient to construct the
road, decided at its last meeting
that 100000 more would be ne"es'
sary, and it is for that reason
that this amount is asked Of the city.
1t has been stated by some that we
would build the road anyhow, and
that the city for this reason ought
not to subscribe any more money.
Under the present circumstances,
however, we could not afford to do so
without additional aid.
Franklin county claims that 1T is
too poor to give us any money. but
the people have signified willing
ness to exempt the road from county
taxation, and a petition to that effect
will be sent to the legislature now in
session in Richmond.
The 100000 appropriation by
Roanoke and the exemption OF its
stock, etc from taxation by Franklin
county are the two conditions on
which the road will be completed to
this city.
Some objection has been raised to
the city appropriating 800, 600 more
on the ground that the code OF the
state provides that no corporation
shall subscribe more than one-fifth of
the stock of any railroad or similar
enterprise, but Colonel Fries does not
think this objection amounts to any
as the capital stock and subscriptions
to the road will amount to at least
81 100000. Colonel Fries will remain
i'll the city today"
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
large Investments,

ColonelS. II. Dunstan say the CAPT.
talists with whom he journeyed home
have invested at least a million of dol
lars in industries and mineral lands in
Alabama and Tennessee. The rolling
mill and furnace at Florence, Ala,
cost them 100000 100000 for the
rolling mill and 100000 for the fur
mace. The cost for making iron is
verv much less in the South than in
Pennsylvania. Mr.. A. 8. Patterson of
that state, made money out Of his Pu-
laski furnace at $3.50 ton when his
own Pennsylvania furnace had to be
shut down.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
MAYORS / ;ounr.
The Cases Tried Befo re Our City Mag.
istrate Yesterday.

iStrate Yesterday.
Mayor Carr had an unusually busy
day yesterday; but disposed of the
cases which came before him with his
accustomed dispatch and impartiality.
Following is list of the cases tried in
the morning:
Charles Cannon, colored, was fined
$l5 for keeping q disorderly house.
He will also be arrested on the charge
of swearing falsely. The mayor asked
him on the witness stand if he did not
offer to sell Frances Isbell, colored,
fifteen dressed fowls last Friday morn
ing, and he said he did not, whereas,
Frances and another colored woman
swore positively that he did. The
owner of these chickens has not yet
been heard from, but an calculation of
the problem might be effected.if such
were the case Charley has already
served term in the penltentiary for
his felonious tendencies.
Laura Tinsley, q lewd colorede fe-
male, was fined So for strolling the
streets at unseemly hours.
Samuel Meerman, colored indi-
vidual without any visable means OF
support, was arraigned before the
mayor yesterday, and it being proven
beyond dispute that he was a va
grant he was ordered to leave the city
in thirty minutes.
Joe Barnett INDUCED in the luxury
of a plain drunk and had to pay g.
fine of SIS for his over-indulgence in
the stuff that kills.
Joe Johnson rode his horse faster
than the city ordinance permits on
the public streets and was fined So for
his equestrian exercise.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-12-10
s,nreme Court Decision.

All of the judges of the supreme
court of appeals were upon the
bench Thursday and the following
opinions were rendered.
Tyler, receiver, against Lucado's ad-
ministrator. From the circuit court
of Botetonrt county. Reversed, Judge
Lewis delivering the opinion.
In this case an acting track walker
instead of walking his beat, got upon
a locomotive, which was slowly pass
ing over portion of the Shenandoah
road which he had reported safe. He
had no authority to get upon the en-.
CINE and it was expressly against
orders. The engine plunged into q
washout and he lost his life. Held
that he could not recover.