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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
A CHARGE REFUTED.
Private Charitable Institutions Not
Mismanaged, as a Rule.
THE ALLEGATIONS OF REYBURN
Denied by Those Who Are in Position to
Have knowledge.
3. R. DONEHOOs VIGOROUS LANGUAGE

Many Pittsburg women who are inter-
ested in the various charitable institutions
about town are indignant at the thrust
which Congressman Reyburn, of Philadel-
phia, made at private charities the other
day. After investigating the Philadelphia
Asylum for the Blind, Mr.. Reyburn made
the remark:
1 am satisfied of one thing, as result of a
study into the management of charities and
that is that private charities do not accomplish
the humane objects for which they are de-
signed. regard them as practically fail ureS in
the work in view, because they are usually close
corporations and there is no opportunity to ex-
pose inhumanIties or negligence N their man
agement. They seem to be more for the enjoy
ment and benefit of ring than for the good of
suffering humanity. Public charities, on the
other hand, are subject to constant supervision
by the State and a vigilant watching by the
political party out of power. This sort of super
vision is bound to maintain excellent discipline,
as there would be party capital not to hayeitso
PITTsBURG SCANDALS.
'This may apply to Philadelphia's pri-
vate charities, but it certainly does not cover
Pittsburg," said one of the ladies yesterday.
She is directress of an Allegheny institu-
ton. "Why, sir, all the public investiga-
tions we have ever had were in the instltu-
tions under State control There was the
old House of Refuge scandal, the Dixmont
Insane Asylum charges and more recently
the Western Penitentiary probing. And
have you ever heard of scandal in a pri-
vate home around Pittsburgh"
Rev. E. r. Donehoo has had perhaps as
wide an acquaintance with the management
of charities as any person in Pittsburg. He
said: SIT is so very easy for Mr.. Reyburn
to say the things he does, but he cannot
prove them. In Allegheny county it is just
the opposite. There have been no scandals
in
THE PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS
here, nor are there any rings in control of
their management. If fanything wrong ever
does occur in them it would come out quicker
and easier than it would were they under
State control, for in State institutions all
officers are appointed by political favor, and
serve merely as a man does who works for
his salary. In the management of private
concerns there are higher motives. The
board of directors is usually composed of
men and women who are inde-
pendently rich and who on account of social
standing could not afford to wink at loose
ness on the part of paid officers. These lady
and gentlemen directors in every instance 1
know of are peculiarly fitted for exposing in
terror troubles.
CONCEALMENT IMPOSSIBLE.
"By no possible method could scandal be
concealed, and it would be possible to hide
such things in State institution where
rings exist. There Is no private institution
too small to escape the vigilance of the State
Board of Charities even il the philanthropic
managers would themselves conceal
trouh1es %
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
HE LACKED THE DUST.
A Drummer Who Lived Too High and
Couldn't Pay His Board Bill.

A story was circulated yesterday that a
real, live English lord found himself strand
ed at the Seventh Avenue Hotel, and the
irate proprietor had seized his traps for the
unpaid board bill. Such an event did hap
pen. but the principal was not an English
nobleman. He merely claimed that he rep
resented foreign house.
The young man was gay, played billiards
and pool excessively, and his actions in gen.
eral provoked suspicion. He has since man
aged to pay his bill, and his luggage was
duly delivered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
Dorriuaron Elected Electrician.

The County Commissioners met yesterday
afternoon to elect the employees for the
county buildings for the ensuing year. All
the old employees were reelected with the
exception OF the Chief Electrician. Mr.W.
S. Gordon had resigned and John Dorring-
ton was chosen to fill the vacancy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
TO BE AIRED IN COURT.

The Opponents of an Allegheny Improves
ment Hard at Work.
1t is said by the opponents of the Cali
fornia avenue, Allegheny, improvement
that every effort is being made by the pro-
moters of the scheme to have the matter
pushed to a successful issue before Mayor
elect Wyman takes his seat, as he and his
friends are rated with the opposition. The
remonstrants say the project would die were
it not that land Spectators want to bring
property into market.
The matter will be aired Ia court soon,
probably to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
So Much In Certnin.

New York Sunni
"Do you believe that money talks. as the
old proverb says?"
81 never heard money talk but I've trav-
eled with it and found it to be mighty good
company"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
CHIEF BROWN MAY INVESTIGATE,
But He Thinks Best TO Wait Until License
ia

But He Thinks Best TO Whit Until License
Court is Over.
Chief Brown, of the Department of Public
Safety, yesterday said regarding the alleged
$500 demand on speak-easy proprietors by S.
Bing and some of the police inspectors.
that it was simply a matter of veracity be-
tween Mr.. Schmid and Mr.. Bing and the
police officials.
He would consider the matter of investi-
eating after all the wards in the city had
been heard in the License Court. He said
that Inspector McKelvey offered to make an
affidavit that he and Mr.. Bing did not visit
Schmid's place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
ANOTHER MERRY SLASH.
The Denver Rate From Pittsburg Is Now
Down to S27.

The passenger rate war in the West con-
tinues to grow interesting. The Pennsylva-
mia Company yesterday issued circular an
nouncing that, beginning April 1, the first
class Denver rate would be S27 and the sec
ond-class one S23. The present frstclass
rate is $50, and the Missouri Pacific is re-
sponslble for the cut of So. The original
Denver rate from Pittsburg before the war
began was S42 65.
1t was rumored yesterday that if the Mis-
souri, Pacific persisted in this last reduction
the Pennsylvania Company intended to
boycott them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
For Taking Another Mans Letter.

Daniel Cornish was brought from Titus
vile yesterday for trial in the United States
Court. He is charged with having taken a
letter belonging to another man from the
Tryonville Postofice. He was committed
for trial
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
To.Day's Trial List.

Criminal Court-Surety and Desertion Cases
Commonwealth vs. Frank Morris. George
Dills, Harvey McElhaney, John H. Adler,
Gottlieb Hutfnagle. Willis Kilgore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
A GOOD-SlZED WARRANT.
Tho Sum of s124,775 Paid BY the City a
Interest on Bonds.

The City Controller yesterday drew a
warrant for S124,7 30 In favor of Town.
send, Wheelen & Co., of Philadelphia, as
interest due them on Pittsburg bonds, as
follows: SCI, $50 on water loan bonds, 1885,
S23, ,2OS so on exchange water loans, S., ,592
on municipal consolidated, $500 on fire
department. $1,000 on refunded city hall,
S40O on funded debt, S125 on refunded
Fifth Avenue Market House, $4,000 on
coupon loan account.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29

WILL PRICE opens this week the most
exquisite line of fine 81 80 scarfs ever shown
in this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
Trustees, Charles Kuster, Fred Wolfe, Adolf

An application was also filed for charter
for the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburg.
Inc y trustees are: NJ. Ki5ker, Paul "masGr, Mn.b,
Glass, Fanny Lowry, R. L. Written.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
FOR GERMANY'S VETERANS,
An Organization Of Those Who Served In
the Army and Navy.

An application was filed yesterday for a
charter for the German Guards Association,
composed of men who have served in the
German army and navy. The officers are:
President, DR.. Theo. Schneider; Vice Presi-
dent, DR.. Jacob Allennis; Secretary, Henry
Wessling; Corresponding Secretary, Christ
ian Krameri Treasurer, Ludwig Enzien;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29

Tho Ace of Clubs.
See announcement in advertisement on
Page 8 OF this issue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29

The last man of the day was George Mertz,
who applies for No. 90 South Twelfth street,
at the corner of Sarah. He has not been
doing anything for two years, while his wife
has been keeping boarders. He said: 1.-THE
most have been doing is doctoring. 1 only
got out of sick bed last Monday"
Rev. Father Devlin, pastor of the Holy
Cross Church on the Southside, it was
stated yesterday, had Endorsed the papers of
a Carson street applicant. This is not true,
Father Devlin says; he did not indorse any
one. His well-known temperance proclivi-
ties are sufficient denial of the statement
% The court has now set two weeks, and has
heard 636 applications Six applicants have
failed to appear, two because of death.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
Origin of the Word "Chestnut. -

Mr.. Joseph Jefferson some tune ago
gave this as the origin of the word
chestnut I'm an old melodrama by
William Dillon, called The Broken
Sword, are two parts-Count Xavier
and his servant Pablo. The Count is
sort Of Munchausen, fond of telling
stories OF his exploits. He tells one:
Once I entered the forests of Galloway
when suddenly from the boughs of
cork tree Chestnut, Count inter-
rupted Pablo. Cork tree,' said the
Count. "A chestnut reiterated Pablo;
i should know as we'll as you, for
have heard you tell the story twenty
seven times The late William War
rem, who had played Pablo often, was at
mems dinner once, when a gentleman
told story whose age and originality
were far beyond any doubt. Chestnut :
murmured Warren; i should know as
well as you, for have heard you tell it
twenty-seven times The guests took
up the expression, and from that" says
Mr.. Jefferson, 81 believe the expression
really comes. IN. Y. Sun.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THERE is no sort of question as to the
bill refunding the direct tax, which has
passed the United States Senate, passing
the House. Tennessee will get about $780,
900 under it.
A LARGE crowd of indignant citizens o.
Oklahoma City on the night of the 2Sth
pulled down the house of lot jumper on
Main street and burned the wreck. There
is the most intense excitement. and If the
military does not interfere blood is sure to
be shed.
The little village of Sumach, Ga, is ex-
cited over the fact that Mrs. James A. Bry-
ant has given birth to three well-developed
boy babies, two of whom weighed seven
and one-half pounds each and the other
seven pounds. The mother and the trio of
babes are doing well.
THE executive committee of the State
Press Association met at Little Rock on
the 9th and decided to hold the next meet
ing at Hot Springs, beginning June IL.
JIM STARR, husband of the famous Belle
Star and noted desperate, died in Jail at
Fort Smith, Ark, on the 9th.
A ROBBERS cave has been discovered in
Flint district of the Cherokee Nation. 1t
was we'll stocked with a large amount of
plunder, the proceeds of numerous recent
robberies. Gordon Sanford and Lewis Mad
dox, respected white men, were captured
by concealed watchers on entering.
TYPHOID FEVER is raging at Morganfeld,
KY, with awful results. 1t originated near
Waverly, KY. Fifteen persons have died
and fifty are now sick, fully one-half of
whom will die. Adults invariably are at
tackled.
ABOUT 500 North Carolina emigrants ar
rived at Vicksburg, Miss, on the Goth.
Seventy seven left by rail for Port Gibson
and Natchez. The remainder took passage
on the steamer Pargoud for points in Texas
and Concordia parish.
The President on the 25th commuted to
Imprisonment the sentence of Charles H.
Billiard, of Arkansas, who was to be
hanged. He also denied pardons to H. A.
fairfield, of North Carolina, sentenced to
one year for counterfeiting, and George
Tobler, of Arkansas, sentenced to be hanged.
j. B. HAWKINS, Judge of the County
Court of Cannon county. Tenn, Alb tW.
4 lAl0ss al dtVoA AOy, duo W LIZ X1CAAouous O
pensioner, have been arrested on the charge
of forging pension papers and collecting
money on the same from the State. The
amount involved is about s., 900.
FRANK ROGERS, a 14-year- old son of An
drew Rogers of Cleveland, Tenn, died
very suddenly on the Goth. He woke up
his brother, with whom he was sleeping,
and said he wanted to get up and go to his
mother down stairs. Before lamp could
be lit he fell back on the bed dead. 1t was
pronounced rheumatism of the heart,
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
GOING MAD FROM WANT.
The Terrible Straits to Which Hundreds
of People are Being Driven in South Da-
kota-No Feed for Stock and Thousands
Must Die.

The Terrible Straits to Which Hundreds
of People are Being Driven in South Da-
kota-No Feed for Stock and Thousands
Must Die.
CHICAGO, Jan. GA special from
Huron, S. d., to the Tribune says:
There are hundreds of people sitting
in the farm houses on these snow-cov-
cred plains, going mad from want :
The .Tribune's correspondent visited
many farmers near Huron and reports
that there is a pressing need for relief,
as starvation is staring hundreds OF
poor in the face One farmer, who ex-
pressed the belief that he was much
better off than many others, said: I'VE
have something to eat-hominy and
little pork. 1t won't last long, and we
have to be careful of the coal. But tn,
worst is the stock. We have not got a
thing to feed the horses and cattle.
Can't sell them; can't feed them. Stock
is going to die by the thousands unless
we get something for them to eat We
won't have horses to plow with in the
spring, and no seed to SOW, tell you il
goes against the grain to see dumb
creatures suffer-"
Another one said: do you know the
only help we have had is from the rail
road-the Northwestern? They have
brought coal to US for 50 ton, free OF
freight, and have done it all winter.
Even at that price we have to econo-
mize coal. l tell you, if it had not been
for the railway company thousands OF
people would have frozen to death last
week when the thermometer went down
TO 40 degrees below zero"
J. S. Oliver, superintendent OF the
Dakota Central division of the Chicago
& Northern railway at Huron, said
THAT is all true that you have heard
People are undoubtedly suffering fol
necessaries, but this road will see tha'
no one freezes. 1t is to the interest O
the company that the people stay
here. They are brave and t6el
present condition is no fanit Q
their own"
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate, on the 22d, the bill provid-
ing for a census of farm mortgages was fur
ther discussed and referred. number of
bills on the culendar were passed. Febru-
airy was agreed upon as the day for taking
up the Blair Educational bill after which
consideration of the calendar was resumed.
I'm the House the Oklahoma Town Site
Entry bill was passed, and the bill for the
erection of three United States peniten-
tiaries, one to the north and another to the
south of the thirty ninth degree of north
latitude and east of the Rocky mountains.
ard one to the west of the Rocky mountains
was considered in committee Of the whole.
In the Senate, on the 23d, after the routine
business of the morning had been disposed
of, Mr.. ingalls, called up the bill to Assist
the Emigration of People of Color from the
Southern States, and asked that it be read
at length by the clerk, after which he delv-
cred a long speech in opposition to the
measure, which was listened to with intense
interest by crowded floor and galleries.
In the House, after the passage of some reso-
lutions, several bills were reported from
committees, ordered printed and recommit-
ted, after which the House went into COM
mittee of the whole on the Customs Admin
istrative bill
THE Senate as not in session on the 24th.
- In the House the only important mat
ter considered was the Customs Administra-
tive BILL the pending amendment being that
requiring goods about the payment of the
duty on which there is any controversy to re-
main in the custody of the Government
pending settlement, which was finally de-
feated.
The Senate was not in session on the 25th
49,. In the House, Immediately after the read
ing of the Journal. the Customs Admnistra-
tive bill was taken up in committee of the
whole. Amendments offered by Messrs
Bland and Breckenridge were lost. Mr.. Nc
kinley offered an additional section relat-
ing to the withdrawal of bonded goods
which was adopted. After several other
amendments had been offered and rejected
the committee arose and reported the bill
to the House, when it was passed. February
Is was assigned for eulogies to the memory
of the late Representative r. w. Townshend
of Illinois.
IN the Senate, on the 27th, the resolution
concerning the maltreament of Henry j.
Taunce, at Aberdeen, Miss, the roofer who
cut down the effigy of Secretary Proctor and
was beaten and driven out of town for so
doing, was taken up, and Mr.. Walthall de-
livered a speech in opposition to it's adop-
ton; being followed by Senators Chandler,
ingalls, and Hoar in favor of the resolution
~. In the House bills were introduced ap-
propriating 50 100000 for post office at Chi
cago; repeating the cotton tax; to pension
widows and orphans of persons killed fol
political reasons since the close of the war:
and a resolution congratulating the people
of Brazil on the assumption of self govern
ment A bill amending the Tariff act OF
1888 was passed. The bill approprating ST.
100000 for the erection of three nited States
prisons was passed.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
HUNTSVILLE. ALA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, $780,


that hundreds of people were sitting in
farm houses on the snow-covered plains
of South Dakota going mad from want
and starvation.
AT Olean, n. ", an explosion of nat
ural gas, on the night Of the Goth, in one
of Root & Keating's tannery houses,
shook the entire city. The house was
badly wrecked and several Italians were
injured.
On the 27th load of cinders was
thrown into the Conemaugh river at a
point where the Cambria Iron Company
is building a dump, and an explosion
followed that shook the entire city of
Johnstown and startled the people
Hot cinders were thrown a great dis
tance and several small fires resulted.
Buildings were shaken, windows broken
and several narrow escapes from death
occurred.
On the morning of the 27th George
Miller, lodger at the Barrett House,
New York, was found dead in his room
from asphyxiation. Two gas burners
were found turned on full force and not
lighted.
On the 9th the schooner G. c. Kelly,
from Boston, went ashore at Tusket n
5. Three of her crew were drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THERE was report in New York
City, on the Gath, that firm in Buenos
Ayres had failed for $4,000, 600
AT Johnstown, N. Y, petroleum has
been struck at depth of 915 feet
THE British Admiralty has ordered a
re-survey of the channel in the Medi-
terranean where Her Majesty's ship Sui
tan became stranded.
IT is said that the Austro- Hungarian
Railway Company is about to issue three
per cent. debentures to the amount Of
500, 900, 900.
The Netherlands Government is med
itating a considerable increase Of it's
army, and two new French regiments
have been stationed at ST. Etienne
A SWISS Catholic congress will shortly
be convened at Freiburg, the first con
ference of the kind ever held in Switzer
land.
INVESTIGATION disclOses that seventy
seven per cent of the inmates of the
foundling hospitals in Russia die in in
fancy and another eleven per cent. be-
fore they arrive at the age of twenty
one. The institutions, it is said, are to
be reformed.
A NUMBER of Russians travelling
through Roumania ostensibly as ped
dlers, have been arrested for melting
the Roumania peasantry against the
government. The number of Russian
spies infesting the Balkan states has
increased of late, and their presence is
causing great deal of uneasiness to
the various Balkan governments.
On the 27th the English syndicate
which has been negotiating with local
breweries at Cleveland, o., made a con-
tract for the purchase of the Schlather
Brewing Companys interest for S1,375,
900; the Gehring brewery for $1,000, 900,
and the Stopped brewery for $2S5, 600.
Securities will be placed on the market
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

'NELIIE BLY'S" actual time in MAX
ing the circuit of the world, as COM
puted by three official time-takers and
verified by the New York Worlds an
nouncement, was - days, hours and
II minutes.
THE London Times condemns the En-
glish merchants at Lisbon who appealed
to Mr.. Gladstone to use his influence for
arbitration and peace, and says they are
towards who prefer their pocket-books
to patriotism.
Miss BIsLAND, the Cosmopolitan Mag
azine's round d-the-world traveller, who
started on the same day with Nellie Bly,,
is passenger on the steamship Bothnia,
which sailed from Queenstown for New
York on the 18th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany de-
votes several hours each day to the
practice of fencing.
On the afternoon of the 25th Mrs.
Harrison gave her first public reception
merously attended.
HERR KNOTHE, German cloth-maker
at Tomazow, Russian Poland, has failed,
his embarrassments being caused by the
withdrawal of Russian trade and the
enormous export duty imposed upon his
products. His liabilities will aggregate
500, 900 roubles.
CENSUS SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has
appointed Miss Phoebe Couzins, the we'll
known woman lawyer of St Louis, chief
special agent in charge of the statistics
of recorded indebtedness in that city.
On the 27th the State Department was
informed that United States Minister
Palmer was sick with the dengue fever,
which is prevalent in Spain. The dis
ease is of very malignant character,
and the death rate at Madrid, Barcelona
and Seville is stated to exceed that
caused by cholera when that disease is
epidemic.
AT meeting of the House committee
on civil-service on the 27th the charges
made against the commission by Rep
resentative Ewart of North Carolina,
were taken up, and the committee de-
cided by unanimous vote to grant Mr..
Ewart's request for thorough investi-
cation.
SURPRISE and dissatisfaction was ex-
pressed at the British Legation in Wash
ington over the premature publication
of the Anglo-American extradition
treaty.
The funeral of Adam Forepaugh, the
Snowman, occurred on the 27th from his
late residence in Philadelphia. The in
terment was at the Laurel Hill Gene
terY.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01

'hAi-oFFIcIAL figures show that, al
iuougn the United States has been gain
11 i45 tapluly on England in pig-iron pro-
Gu,Ion Io03 England is still slightly in the
,,au' o seven years ago the margin of
vA'eSS @ OF Great Britain in this particular
,Sao u%S ABOUT a hundred per cent, while in
s. ,.Y' y was less than ten per cent. The
i-VSPectS are that in 1890 the race will
IA, 4 g'oSe, while in 1891 the United States
VIII undoubtedly be ahead.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
"a. In a Lookipx-GIass.,, ;,

''Do you know" said Algernon, ''your
face reminds me of mirror, for l can
see nothing in it but the truth"
''Oh," said Gertrude, II thought you
were going to say that when you looked
in my face you expected to see your
own"
''Eh?" said Algernon, and then
great light came into his eyes and be
Tied: "If you would be my owni"
II will" said Gertis.--Puck
Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
A Honeymoon Interrupted.

E. c. Day, of Pennsylvania, was mar.
ried recently at Henderson, n. c., to a
lady from Mississippi, who had adver-
tised for a husband, the two having
agreed to meet there. 1t was brief
courtship, and the honeymoon has come
to a startling end. Day went over
Oxford. and has been arrested there
a charge Of forgery committed at Clark.
Vile Va