Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-14
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Tersely Treated.
THE hotels are filling up.
THE gay spring drummer is in town.
A MIsNoMER-Black whitewashers.
GOOD thing to keep-A stiff upper lip.
BISHOP VINCENT went to Cincinnati last
night.
w. E. ScHMERTz went to New York last
night.
HUGO BLANC, the noted chemist, left for
Harrisburg last night.
1T seems the only thing those alleged train
robbers stole was ride.
No. 252S Carson street has been officially con-
demned, and must come down.
J. L. MCDOWELL. the Sharon banker, was
at the Seventh Avenue yesterday.
CROSSING sweepers could earn many an hon.
est penny from the thankful pedestrian.
Mrs. B. RIDDLE, poor and a widow, was
helped to Altoona by the authorities yester-
day.
LorTIE MCDONALD is held in $500 bail for
court on charge of keeping a disorderiy
house.
FARE Miss" said the polite conductor. and
then wondered why the girl blushed so furi-
ously.
CONGRESSMAN OSCAR L. JACKSON, of New
Castle, took breakfast at the Monongahela yes
terday.
LUCKY McKEowN' has struck big we'll
with the usual ensuing paralysis in the Oil Ex-
change.
SUPERINTENDENT PATTON, of the B. & O.,
saws the new depot will be finished when the
flowers bloom in the spring.
THE city tax mill is in operation. and money
is being received from all wards but six, and
books from these will be ready to-day.
PRIMARY scholars, varying in age from 6 to
II, are preparing to send samples of their work
work to the Paris Exposition.
STOCKHOLDERS of the Central Traction do
not think it significant that the contractors are
to break ground. Monday, April l.
A NEW Council OF the Daughters of Liberty
will be organized in Allegheny, and in all prob
ability the Sons of Liberty will follow.
FAREWELL SKIDMoRE will have a hearing
to-day charged with kissing Laura Shepard, of
Allegheny. He says he only kissed her fare
well.
Mrs. FERDINAND l. ADAMS a daughter of
Mr.. G. B. Perkins. the detective agent ar
rived in this city yesterday on visit from In
dianapolis.
THE grip on one Of the Butler street cars
broke yesterday morning in front of the Penn
avenue power house and delayed travel again
for two hours.
THE wife of E. Conners, who was sentenced
yesterday, tainted and went into Mysteries in
| the court room.
THE true homeliness of Pittsburg streets is
now fully exposed, and the contrast of muddy,
dirty filthy roads with the handsome buildings
| is something startling.
For February the reports of the Meat and
| Milk Inspector show merchandise valued at
| SS92 so, besides los head OF hogs and head OF
cattle, were condemned.
ror;od will
now intervene, during which man insists
upon taking off his spring underclothing and
| his wife insists that he shan't.
REVIVAL meetings at the Mt. Washington
Presbyterian Church are still very successful
| The Rev. E S. Farrand is assisted by Chess
Birch, the musical evangelist
/ YOUNG ABE COHEN will have a hearing to-
day, charged with striking Mrs. Lewis, of Tun-
| mel street. Abe boards with her, and will ex-
plain the alleged salt and batter.
In suit for attorneys fees, the jury found
for the defendant The supposition is that
| after the attorney was through with him, the
defendant was the only thing they could find.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE. the colored member
from Mississippi, says Harrison is a nice man,
and will be friend to the colore5 people. The
| Senator delivered lecture in Canton yester-
day.
THE virtue of well-organized, strenuous
1
Enders who carried unsightly electric light
poles to the other side of the street, where the
company allowed them to remain.
THE collector for the police and f1remen's
| gymnasium-who was thought by T. P. Hersh.
berger, of the West End to be acting without
| authority-proyes to be all right, and any
money given him goes to the proper person.
POPULAR Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. ]. Florence
will be rendered a,testimonial Friday night by
a theater party of members of the Mystic
| Shrine, and a banquet will follow at the Du.
| quesne. Billy was the founder of this order in
| America.
REV. A H. NoRcRoss, D. D., President of
the Pittsburg Female College, left Tuesday
| night for Florida and De Funiak Springs,
where he is to lecture and preach during the
session of the Southern Chautauqua, now in
session at that place.
| PRESIDENT WEIHE went to Washington
| last night, presumably to boom Martin as Com
missioner of Labor. This item. with a change
| of names and purposes, appears simultaneously
| in every paper in the country, and the focus of
| all is the new President.
BARRY WALTHowER, a boy aged Is years,
| living near McKeesport, went to the Allegheny
General Hospital yesterday to be treated for
what he supposed was sprained ankle. The
doctors discovered that gangrene had Set in,
| and amputaJed his foot
FRANK NEAL is to be tried on the charge of
stealing a billy-goat, sort of kidnapping
affair evidently, though Neal expects to show
testimony in rebuttaL A value of 81 25 is
| placed on the William goat, and everybody is
| wondering what the 81 represents. The Is scents
are easily explained.
THERE were 3l3 deaths in the city in Febru
airy, just IL more than during the same time
last year, and exactly the number in 1885. 1t is
strange that in the Bureau of Health report, a
gruesOme array of>93 figures indicating deaths
| diseases etc., the mystic and imagined lucky
| No, is only mentioned three times,