Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-16
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

has made his mark.
CAN ball player in new spring suit be said
to have his plain clothes onf
THE country roads are drying up. but the
country legislator goes on forever.
Wanted professional courtesy looks more
like an envious professional course see.''
THAT woman who refuses to give up her
young son certainly has her husband by his
heir
ANDREW FULTON left for Seattle in response
to telegram from the manager OF his cattle
ranch.
POPULAR Prohibition song-"Why Not"
whine Not'-"Wine Not" You takes your
choice.
W. 81. SNYDER, of Newark. Superintendent
of the United States Express. is at the Monon-
gahela-
A GERMAN named Gerner fell from fruit
tree in the East End, which he was trimming,
and was badly hurt
QUEER coincidence-When the leaves are
budding for the summer the sweet buds are
leaving for the summer.
THE Allegheny Poor Board only expended
SIS S33 40 last year, instead of Sl55 SSS 49.
ported yesterday morning.
LEE PATRICK, a brakeman on the p, V. &
c., had an arm amputated by an engine in the
Southside yards yesterday.
man. is the fellow who is opposed to a new ex-
tradition treaty with Canada
ENTERTAINING Billy Florence was in the
city yesterday. He has a bad cold. but thinks
he can make Pittsburg laugh once more.
ANTHONY BURNS, of Irwin. claims to have
been knocked down and robbed at 1o'clock
yesterday morning on Jumonville street.
SEVERAL more anxious aspirants left for
Washington last night to see the President.
One thoughtful man was provided with a tele-
scope.
robbed at an early hour yesterday morning.
About $40 in cash and some postage stamps
were taken.
PATRICK MCGOWAN, sick and uncared for,
was found in a shanty boat at the foot of South
Twenty-sixth street and taken to the Homeo-
pathic Hospital
THE members of the famous old Sixty-second
Regiment will meet in Old City Hall this even
ing, and complete arrangements for the dedl-
cation OF the monument at Gettysburg.
DETECTIVE MURPHY, of Allegheny, has
gone to Canada to bring back Al6rich, the man
wanted here for buncoing John K Lemon.
The extradition papers have been issued.
A BIG landslide on the Panhandle Thursday
night, near Temperanceville, delayed the
through express over an hour. The night
watchman discovered it in time to avert a dis
aster.
JULIAN FIERsT, barber on Wylie avenue,
| thinks r. Richardson burglarized his place,
| but another man got there Fierst for the de-
| fendant is now in jail on another charge Of
burglary.
THE Department of Awards gave the Phila-
deIphia Company the contract for furnishing
| fuel for the new garbage furnace for S3, 600
Both branches Of Council will meet Monday in
| special session.
u TNa-
Retter he is negotiating with Madame Materna
| Fisher. He is also corresponding with Rosa
Papier, who will probably come. She will make
| a beautiful Papier mache.
YOUNG Ben Richards, colored man, has
| been in California for a year, but returned a
day or so ago. One of John Gripp's constables
extended him the freedom of the jail in the
| shape of a warrant Name Taylor charges him
with stealing some household goods.
| JACKsoN-The disappointed office seeker
| who attempted to pull President Jackson's
| nose is dead. There are some still living, how
ever. who attempted to pull his leg. (Rey for
| those who never use slang-The New Diction-
| airy says pulling leg means to impose upon)
| A9-YEAR-oLD daughter, of George Mason,
of Natrona, was crossing the West Penn Rail-
road tracks at that place yesterday morning,
| when she was knocked down by a train and
| both of her feet were cut on. The child was at
once removed to the Allegheny General Hos
| pital.
THERE was beautiful halo around the full
moon last night, and according to an old-time
| legend the three twinkling stars within the
| circle mean Just SO many days of rain Wig
| gins says the weather Will remain fair, and it
now lies between Virgins and the moon, prob
| ably both.
ARTHURs McCAULEY, JR and ST., living
near Haysville, took a drive yesterday with
disastrous results. The restive horse ran away,
| and each gentleman had his right arm broken.
| They were game, however, and captured the
horse and drove to Woods Run to get the
| bones reset.
AT the wedding of Miss Jennie Jordan to
| Mr.. Andrew W. Heron, on Heron Hill,
| Thursday. the family must have been packed
| like herriu in box. There were present nine
Mrs. Heron, eight Messrs. Heron and six
| Misses Heron, and the clergyman who per-
| formed the ceremony was the Rev. Charles
| Heron.
AMONG the business men who have already
signed for private boxes for the May Musical
are A. F. Heating, Robert Pitcairn, s. s. Mar
| vim, Aaron French, w. B. Lupton, Joe T.
| Speer Carl Retter, Josiah Cohen, John w.
| Black, Percy f. Smith and s. Hamilton.
| The complete programme will be announced
shortly.
| CAPTAIN WILLIAM REED, of Central sta
] ton, favorite with the newspaper boys, yes
terday completed his forty third year on the
| police force, and all wish him many more of
| the same. He is supposed to be the oldest in
| point of service in the United States, and can
| tell tales of old times calculated to make the
youngsters hair curl
CORRECT that item, sure" said Henry
| Rupp, as he sauntered into this Office last
| evening. what itemT' was asked. "Why
the one about my embezzlement" Then the
editor asked: 'Well, what's wrong with the
item?" and the reply was: 81 didn't 60 to jail;
/ bee took the place of the jay right away, and
| the latter took its fight.