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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
FANcIEs OF FUNNY MEN.

When q man "gives himself away" he
naturally loses his self-possession.-L0s.
Don't be too severe on the man who scolds
his wife in public, Perhaps that is the only time
he dares do so--1srTs Haute Express.
The woman who declares that she
wouldn't marry the best man on earth often picks
out one OF the worst ones.-Tsrre Hauts Ezprsss.
Mrs. Smithington-Oh Mr.. Tibkin, you
are always 50 kind in coming to see me on.
Little Tibkin-Not at all; 1t is always pleasure.
Fun.
Some railroads advertise to carry passen-
gers ssthrough without change.n This viii be
gladsome information to tramps and other persons
financially short.-LVe.
George-Why so sad, Charles? Does not
Mildred return your lover
Charles-No. she only returns my letpers--
Munsey's Weekly.
"Are there any drawers in the Weather
Bureau. papag''
charts and drawers Of the long bow. ''-NesO YOrt
Sun.
"John. dear, doesn't it make you sad to
'swell NOT now; but 1t used to when Iwass
small boy, for then had to sweep them up. -
Neio York Sun.
Lawyer-Do you understand the nature
OF an oath, Madam?
witness-Well. l should say did. Ny husband
took OF the screens yesterday, and Is putting up
the stovepipes to-day Nea0 York Sun.
"The officeseekers have been pretty lively
during the present administration, - said smyt
TO Brown. EVERY one Of them has oeen s0i"<
like race horse.1
~ on refer, no doubt to the fact that ne was
trying for q place. ',-Merchdnt Travstsr.
: Rev Caller-Vour CONGREGATION seems to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
ACROSS THE WAY.

when dawn was lighting the rosy heaven,
At four in summer, in winter seven,
Ere Phebus glowed,
Or yet the city had turned in its bed,
There By the window with needle and thread,
She sat and sewed.
And as the hand so busily piled,
A baby boy played soft by her side
The whole day long;
And sgd and sweet in the evening mild
We're heard the voices ofmother and child
In gentle song.
Mid toll and trouble and dire despair.
The child's smile solaced the mothers care
Thro' dreary years:
For the little one had his fathers face
That faded away from her fond embrace
With burning tears.
But there came day when the song was still
And the needle stopped at the window sill,
For the babe was low;
And there came day when the boy was dead
And cold and pale In his little bed
Where the violets blow.
No longer the woman sits and sews,
No longer the tear OF sorrow flows
Or memories throng;
For the gentle tones Of mother and child
Are mingled again in the evening mid
In angel song.
-Dauid Graham AIDES IN Westsrn 6tor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
CHICAGO POSTAL FACILITIES.
An Increase In the Working Force There Is
ImpernrsveIy Necessary.

lucFeU6o
Impernrsveiy Necessary.
WASHINGTON, October 9.-The commissions
ers appointed by Postmaster General Wanna
maker about three months ago, to examine
and report upon the needs Of the postal service
at Chicago. have completed their labors and
submitted their report to MIR. Wanamaker.
They say:
We commenced the examination August 30
1889 and closed September 16, 1889. You placed
in our hands the urgent recommendation of Post
master Sexton for large increase OF the allow
ance for expenses for the Chicago postofice, and
for the appointment of 500 additional clerks and
carriers; also other papers relative to the postal
service at Chicago. Upon our arrival. we found
that the press of Chicago heartily supported these
recommendations, as being imperatiyely needed.
We were also advised by large delegations repre-
senting all branches OF trade and the principal
business interests Of the city that the present
postal facilities were utterly inadequate to meet
the increased and growing wants Of the business
Information furnished by the postmaster and the
business men, and after an exhaustive examtna-
ofiee and the ii sub-stations, we became fully
convinced that the postal service of Chicago Is,
aeeds aee nag % tb Deen Nr IN the
section. The public forbearance, considering the
cireun,stances, is a matter Of surprise; p
road. with seven large terminal depots, and about
50 way stations for the accommodation oftrains
of % different railway companies. 1t has one OF
the most complete systems of street railway in the
world, providing daily transportation for about
225, 600 people. 1t has magnificent public and pri-
yate buildings and large business blocks towering
to the skies. Some of these business houses have
from 200 to 2 SEQ occupants. The posto1ice Is To-
Gated in the Government building on Clark and
Dearborn streets, between Adams and Jackson
1t is 342 feet long 20 feet wide with interior
of the basement being occupied by the postofice.
The postal business has been carried on in this
building since April 29 1879. The gross postal re-
ceipts at the Chicago Postofhce during the fiscal
year ended June 30 1889, amounted TO g. 784, 3O2,
being anincrease of 1914 400, or 1877 per cent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

IT would be interesting to have the es-
teemed press of the country agree whether
it is South Dakota that has adopted prohi-
bition and North Dakota that had adopted
high license, or vice versa. 1t hes been re-
ported both ways in about equal numbers.
Some pains should be taken to have the fact
settled whether that jollifcation that the
city of Pierre indulged in was just plain
everyday spree, or a sort of a wind-up in the
drinking line, before the citizens begin to
practice involuntary abstinence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
HE KNEW THE TOWN. +,
Why an Ex.showman Wouldn't Invest in
Bluff City Real Estate.

Why an Ex.showman Wouldn't Invest In
Bluff City Real Estate.
From the New York SUM-
81 tell you had a narrow escape from being
done for out there" he said on his return from
Kansas the other day.
Attempted murder?' was asked.
"Worse than that. was about to invest my
last dollar in vacant lots in a certain town,
when made discovery"
Titles defective?"
mo, the titles were all right but Recognized
the town and declared all business of. Fifteen
years ago the town was called Perkinsville
Now they are carrying it off as Bluff City.
struck 1t with q circus. / had a little game for
the public, you know, and in order to run 1t
had to stand in with the Mayor. was to give
MIN 10 per cent but when he found hac taken
In $50 he kicked. 1 tried to hold him, but it
was no use. He opened court on me, fined me
goo, and then gobbled on to the $50 on the ex-
cuse that he had let me of light"
but the town may be all right now."
That's 1t, you know: Same man is Mayor
hlled, and changed the name of the town on
purpose to catch some of us again. If I'd
bought those lots he'd have waited until the
money was paid and the deeds passed, and then
pulled me IN and yelled:
same man that beat the City Treasurer of
Topeka on the gold brick racket Bought seven
lots, eh? Iwant straight deeds to five for not
giving you up to justice, and while you are
about it you can throw in the other two as my
counsel fee for advising you how to get outof
the scrapep"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
SHOT FOR cHARIYARI.

In Iowa at least the custom in rural dis
tricts of giving q newly-wedded couple q
charivari has received painful blow. An
Iowa Judge has just annulled the convic-
ton of a man for shooting a member of q
charivari party which besieged his house on
his wedding night The gallant Iowans will
think twice henceforth before they go out
with tinpans and trumpets, bass drums and
dinner bells, flies and fire irons, to break the
nuptial slumbers of some unsuspecting
bride and bridegroom. Buekshot or bullet
is not what charivari musicians expect. but
what they are liable to get in view of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
MARRIED AMID ROSES.
The Goddard-scotr Wedding in the East
End Last Night.

The Goddard-Scott Wedding in the Eas
End Last Night.
A very private wedding was that of Miss
Maud Guthrie Scott and Mr.. George e. God
dard, which took place last evening at the resi-
dence of the brides parents Mr. and Mrs s. s.
Pinkerton, on Fifth avenue, East End. Only
the relatives of the contracting parties were
invited to be present. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Robert Grange, Of the Ascen-
sion Church, at $50 o'clock, in the quaint little
drawing room of the family mansion. which was
handsomely decorated with white tuberoses,
lilies of the valley and carnations. The bridal
party was unattended, save by Mr.. Fred God
dard master of ceremonies.
The bride was dressed in a sixteenth century
gown of old rose silk and rcseda crepe, trimmed
with exquisite gilt tracery. 1t was made demi
train in court style. The front of the skirt was
draped with reseda crepe and the bodice was
one of those indescribable ones. The crepe
was shirred in at the left shoulder and so ar
ranged that it formed V-shaped neck and a
pointed vest effect. Her only jewelry was a
diamonds and pearls, the groom's wedding
present. The ring used was a rare one, En-
glish style, heavy oval band, which, by touch
ing secret spring, separated, forming two
inscribed the initials of bride and groom and
the date of the marriage. The groom was in
the customary wedding attire.
After the @ ceremony the guests repaired to
appetizing repast. Miss Scott is the only child
of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton, petite brunette.
Mr. Goddard is of the Wholesale jewelry firm
of Goddard, Hill Co. The young people will
take short trip of three weeks and visit all
the leading cities of the United States. after
which they will be at home at the Monongahela,
having taken apartments there and furnished
them according to individual TASTE The house
was handsomely decorated with cut flowers
the drawing room in white, the library in pink,
the dining room in red and the reception hall
in yellow-all roses with the exception of some
carnations and lilies of the valley, used in the
& ]. B. Murdoch. From abroad to attend the
wedding, came Mrs. John Mattocks and
daughter, Miss Elizabeth, of Chicago, sister
and niece of Mrs. Pinkerton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
NOT YET MARRIED.

A Notice Of the Beggs-Sproul NuptinIs il
Too Previous.
The following notice appeared in an evening
paper yesterday:
1t is now announced by the family Of Miss
Louise Beggs that her marriage to Mr.. Henry
Sproul the Fourth avenue broker, will take place
quietly in London to-day. Mir. and Mrs. Z. @.
Beggs, the BRIDES father and mother; Mrs.
Joseph Dilworth, Mrs. Beggs, mother; Miss
Louise Dilworth, daughter Of MI. George Dill
WORTH and Miss Margaret Darlington, daughter
of Mr.. Harry Darlington, will be present at the
ceremony.
Mr.. H. G. Beggs uncle of Miss Louise Beggs,
in conversation with DISPATCH reporter last
night, absolutely denied that any part of the
family had authorized the insertion Of the no.
tice. He said, however, that within the last
few days he had received a cablegram from his
brother stating that Mr.. b. Sproul and Miss
Beggs would probably be married when they
raached Paris.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
FORESTRY CONGRESS- DELEGATES.
The Persons Appointed by Gov. Beaver to
Attend the Annual Meeting.

Attend the Annual Meeting.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
HARRISBURG, October Ex-Governor Beaver
has appointed delegates as follows to the
Eighth annual meeting of the American For
estry Congress, to be held in Philadelphia from
October Is to October Is inclusive.
Hon. Washington Townsend, DIR. J. T. Roth
rock, Captain Charles W. Roberts, Westchester:
Evan T. Swayne, Kennett Square; Horace Beale
Parkersburg: Colonel George B. Wrestling Mt
Alto; Major j. e. Fuller. Pine Grove Furnace;
Jacob b. Cook, Altenwald; Hon. Edward Nc
Pherson, II. J. Stehly, Gettysburg; Prof. W.
Buckhout State College; Rev. samuel Golf
Wysox; Hon. John B. Packer Sunbury. Hon
John A. Woodward, Howard; Hon. Il
Hess, Hellertown; Watkin B. Powell snr,nS.
boro: Mrs. NJ. A. Heston, Newton; Mrs "A NJ
Holstein. Bridgeport: Mrs. X. j.. Edge. Hon N,
Meehan, GermantOwpp; rI Prof. Thomas C. Porter,
E. Coke Philadelphia; Samuel W. Pol
leroy, Troy; II. T. James, Franklin; Dr..
J. g.. Trexler. Kutztown; samuel Brugger,
Fleming; Graceanna Lewis, Hon. John Nj
Bromall, Media; Prof. s. r. Thompson, New
Whining on; William Hamilton, Hon. James L.
Graham, Allegheny: John 8. Scully, Pittsburg:
DR.. W. 8. Roland, York; Eastburn Reder New
Hope; Joel A. Herr, Cedar Springs.
John A. Gundy, Lewisburg, and Thomas ].
Edge. Secretary, Harrisburg, will represent
the State Board Of Agriculture.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
A CUBAN MAIDEN MARRIED.
Miss Pauline Onativia Becomes the Bride of
John Richard Townsend.
ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE p1spArcs

ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.,
NEW YORK, October 9.-The marriage of Mr..
John Richard Townsend, son of the late ].
Lawrence Townsend, of this city, and Miss
Pauline Onativia, a Cuban girl by birth, but
we'll known in New York society, was cele.
brated in the Church of the Heavenly Rest on
Fifth avenue at noon to-day. The bride en-
tered the church on the arm of her brother
Mr.. T. L. Onativia, who gave her away She
wore a gown of white silk and null with a
train of heavy corded silk. The corsage was
cut square at the neck, and CLEAN Of sun
shine which darted through the stained glass
windows of the church fell upon a magnifcent
necklace of sparkling diamonds which She
vore gift of the groom.
The bride has golden brown hair and blue
eyes and is petite and pretty. She wore a tulle
veil, held in place by diamond crescent. also
gift of the groom, and carried a bouquet of
white chrysanthemums. Mr.. and Mrs, Town
send will sail for Europe in the Etruria on Sat.
urday, to be gone few weeks. They received
many presents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
ELECTRICITY AND cAP1TALPUN1sHMEET

The decision OF New York court in favor
of the constitutionality of the law for the
execution of criminals by electricity, is not
particularly authoritative as regards the
standing of the court. 1t is made by a
county judge, and devotes most of its atten-
tion to the power of the court to set aside a
habeas corpus.
Nevertheless, the public common sense
can easily anticipate the affirmation of this
decision, if taken to the higher courts. To
allege that an instantaneous death by cleo
tricity, prescribed by law, is more cruel and
unusual than the comparatively slow and
generally brutal and bungling death by
hanging, and to assert that the legislative
power which prescribed one cannot amend
it by prescribing the other, is opposed to
common sense. That principle would simply
make it impossible for legislation to ever
make change in the methods of capital
punishment, simply on the dictum of those
who claim to know the unknowable.
As to the squabble between opposing cleo
tricalsystems, which has produced the greater
part of the fuss, it is equally discreditable
to both. In the presence of the infiction of
the death penalty by the law. the money
getting proclivities of the electric corpora
tions should cultivate the virtue of silence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
AFTER A SCORE OF YEARS
A Long Lost Son is Once More in His
Mothers Arms.

A Long Lost Son is Once More in His
Mothers Arms.
KANSAS CITY, October 9.-Nearly 20 years
ago A. NJ. Lytle, prescription clerk in Frank
Prices drug store on Union avenue. ran away
from his home in Woodbury., N. J., and shipped
as cabin boy on an East India merchantmen.
For many years he followed a seafaring life,
finally shipping. on tie steamship Valparaiso,
where, as a pupil of the ships surgeon, he
learned therdrug business. In the course of his
travels he has visited nearly every country in
the world. Finally he settled in Kansas City
and invested his savings in small property
here.
Last night Mrs. ]. R. Lytle, his aunt, went to
the drug store where the wanderer was en-
ployed to buy medicine. She recognized her
nephew in the drug clerk. Mutual explanations
followed. Lytle will return to his home and re-
ceive his share of the property Of his father,
who died short time ago. The search for the
missing boy had been prosecuted by his parents
with unfiagging zeal up to the time the father
died, and his last request was that the search
be not given up, and directed in his will that q
portion of his fortune Of $4,000 be expended in
continuing 1t,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

SOME one in the Office of Mr.. Chauncey
NJ. Depew, President of the New York Gem
tral Railroad, has permitted the publica-
ton of a number of applications for railroad
passes from Legislators, public characters
and newspaper men. Some of them are
very funny no doubt; but suppose the news
paper men and Legislators should take the
pains to publish the requests for favors that
come from the corporations? There are two
sides to the interchange of courtesies, and
one reason why public characters should
steer clear of the railroad pass business is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

THE humble but obnoxious jo-boat is
under warning to leave the premises.
Their room along the river banks Is prefera-
BILE to their company. If they will kindly
seek other climes, the gratitude Of the two
cities will accompany them as they float
down the beautiful river.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
STICK A NEEDLE IN MY CLIENT.
A Lawyers Novel Offer to. the Jury in a
Railroad Damage Suit.

Lawyers Novel Offer to- the Jury In a
Railroad Damage Suit.
From the Phfladelphia Press.l
IF any of you gentlemen of the Jury have q
needle about you" said Lawyer Horace Hep
burn in Judge AIlison's court yesterday, ''you
may stick it in my clients left side or arm"
Perhaps none of the jury mad needle, for not
one Of them accepted the lawyers offer.
Harry link was on the witness stand in his
suit for damages against the city, and he had
just testified that ASA result of injuries re-
ceiVed his health was broken down and his left
side was paralyzed and without feeling, 80 that
he had frequently found it a painless operation
TO stick needles and pins into his flesh.
The accident, because of which Mr.. link sues
the city, happened on November 26 1857. He
was driving on the bridge across the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad tracks at Thirty
first street and Girard avenue, when his horses
became frightened at a train, swerved to the
side against the railings and crashed through
them, dragging the wagon and Mr.. link over,
all falling down to the railroad tracks over 20
feet below. The wagon was destroyed, the
horse was killed and Mr.. link permanently in
jured as described by him on the witness
stand.
The evidence for the plaintiff had not been
concluded when court adjourned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
$4,000 FOR A SMALL PAINTING.
A Costly Landscape Now on Exhibition in
the Corcorun Gallery,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
WASHINGTON, October 9.-The great sl5OOO
landscape by Theodore Rousseau, bought for
the sum mentioned at the Secretan sale in Paris
for the Corcoran Gallery, is now on private en-.
hlbition in the trustees room of the gallery. IL
is not large canvas, being only about 20x30
inches, and it has been given wide frame and
spacious shadow box that its dwarfing by other
large pictures may be avoided as far as possible.
The picture represents farm house and sur.
roundings in the forest at Fontainbleau. Large
trees in the foreground inteflace their branches
all in deep shadow around and over the farm
which is in a broad and mellow sunlight in the
middle distance.
The entire value Of the picture is in its Rem
brandt effect of light and shadow, but with All
its beauty, it is not great picture and except
that for the reason that good examples Of
Rousseau's work are rarely to be had at apv
price, the figure paid for it would be unpardon
able. The Corot landscape, purchased several
years ago at the Morgan sale in New York for
q similar sum, Is an immeasurably truer work
of art,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

MONTANA might have been admitted
long ago if the Democratic party had known
she would vote that way" says the Phila-
delphia Inquirer. Perhaps SO. But con-
sidering that the Republican element in
Congress objected to Montana for some years
before its admission may it not be possible
that, if the Republican party had known
that Montana would vote that way, she
would not have got in at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

THAT report of Henry Wizards scheme
to extend the Northern Pacific Railroad to
New York in one direction and to Alaska
in the other does not lack boldness; but it
falls short of complete conception. A
scheme of that sort cannot be considered to
have achieved its full Development If it stops
short of the North Pole on the one side or
of the equator on the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
Burned Bank Note, Found.
TRI-sTATE TRIPLES.

A DUCK got into queer fix near Rochester,
Pa, the other day The ducks Of that place
eat the acorns which are scattered over the
ground under the oak trees. and this particular
duck ate SO many that when the owner returned
from work in the evening it was lying pros
trate. unable to walk or squak. He looked
into the mouth and saw that its throat was
clogged with acorns. He tried to drive them
off and nearly half peck Of acorns fell out Of
its body.
WHILE digging potatoes, 8. 81. Calfe, Of
Erwinna, Pa, found Colonial copper dated
l722
A LADY who fell asleep on an Allentown
street car on. Saturday was carried around the
line three times before awaking.
AUSTIN COLE and family have arrived at
WeatherIy, Pa, after driving from Paw-Paw,
Ill, making the ], lou miles in IS days.
AN electric car company in Erie details an
extra man on each car on market days to help
ladies on and OF with their baskets.
AN Ohio father sent note to the county
Judge, forbidding him to issue marriage
license to his daughter. It had no effect, for
the .,girl'' went there herself and swore she was
35 years of age
THOMAS WIGG, of Wood county, w. Va,
picked an apple the other day which had the
figures .slSe0 on its side, as plain as If they had
been printed. Wigg thinks it is = warning that
he win die next year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

The general estimate Of that electric light
decision is that it permits anyone to manu-
facture electric lights. This Will suit the
public, as probably terminating the era of
paying seventy-fve cents for lamp that
can be manufactured for quarter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

The resumption of business by the Nc
Clellandtown gang should induce the farm
ers OF Fayette to provide themselves with
hair-trigger guns, and to be ready for the
location of a lead mine in the body of any
of the desperadoes, at short notice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

THE City Council of New Orleans has re-
quested the Mayor to shut up the gambling
iens Of that city. If the request includes the
wholesale gambling shop known as the
Louisiana Lottery the rest of the country
will join heartily in the petition.