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STnANGERS.

ing on the lake last sunday He hired boat
aud anchored 1t under the spreading branches
OF n hig tree at Il narrow spot. The trip boats
passed by in regular procession and the others
got by us best they could. Ordinarily that
wasn't very well. one Of the striking peculiar
seemed to be loaded according to gender
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THE BOAT HOUSES.

first distinguish themselves by turning their
backs to tn ladies and sitting down facing tho
bow wrathy protest from the man in charge
reverses them. but doesn't relieve them OF
their uneasiness by any means. From the
time the boat is showed of until rs return they
indulge in a mighty tusslc with crabs md
other aquatic animals which bother amateur
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at the sight OF the water. and long to throw
themselves upon its placid bosom. They de-
posit 50 as guarantee that they will return
the boat and not drown. secure ticket. and
waltz out upon the float. 1t doesn't take a
close observer very long to find out that their
AQUATIC education has been neglected. They
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FROM THE EAST SIDE.

canopy is removed at dusk. and from an iron
rod in the stern red light swings. When
red snocks are reflected from all around. They
arc danger signals. and say as plain AS articu-
late sound: A." Danger, Keen on" The COM
from which the red light swings Is sacred. and
it. occupants ars seldom disturbed. But they
wouldn't caro- much even il they were. Should
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A FAMILY PARTY.

masculine in ono boat and feminine in another.
ever. where whole families were the occu-
pants little observation unfathomed the
mystery When the boats of the fem niue
gender began to display lUttering flags OF
truce the mystery was d mystery no longer
and when those in which t he masculine gender
predominated answered the signals in divers
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Sno o SaR. mat into by
mursy waters ~ into each othors eyes
I.ofo who ruT, at Hi-ht. belong. 10
before. and know every nook and crook
in tho lake. They need no boatmen. They are
girl 10 usually as handy with the oars as the
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If you want something more select. you can
hire a boat with a boatman TO row. or you can
still enjoy more sequcstored trip by rowing
yourself The last method is the favorite one
with the young people. The trip boats are
sort OF family affair.
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licked by the lar ping waters, are crowded also.
Those who are unable to row themselves get
lots OF comfort in watching others enjoy the
sport The best point Of view is the top Of tAS
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Gen. Peter S. Niche pronounced Mkey)
resembles the late President Garfield. lie
has q keen eye and great power OF eS-
PRESTON. He is Professor OF the Depart
ment, OF Natural and Experimental Philosophy
and the author OF valuable and scientific treat
ises on W6VO motion and on mechanics. He
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
MORE PAVING CONTRACTS
The Department of Awards to Meet ON Mon
Oman Rid.

The Department of Awards TO Meet ON Mon.
day TO Open Bids.
The Department of Awards will probably
meet on Monday to open bids for number
Of street Improvements, among which is the
repaving of Wylie avenue from Sixth ave-
nue. to Fulton street. The specifications
call for bids for both block stone and as
phalt, but which is to be selected is not
known. Other improvements in the list are
the grading, paving and curbing of Marga-
retta street from Negley to Highland ave-
nues; Lilac street from Westminster street
to Ellsworth avenue; Aiken avenue from
Pennsylvania Railroad to Liberty street;
also Calvin, Fifty-fourth, Boquet and Cal
well streets; sewers on Emily, Shlpton and
Summerlea streets. Booth & Finn, yester-
day, commenced on the grading, paving
and curbing of Aiken and Anderson ave-
nues, and will proceed at once with the i'm
provement of about dozen other streets in
the Shadyside district, the contracts for
which they received several months ago.
Six extra clerks, who have been employed
in the City Treasurer's Office during the
rush incident to the payment of business
and water taxes, we're taken from the pay
roll yesterday, and will have o vacation
until the LIST of September, when the second
installment OF city taxes will be received.
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A QUESTION AS TO STREETS.
Whether the City Has n Right TO Accept
Plans and Alls

Whether the City Has Right TO Accept
Plans and All.
A bill IN equity was filed yesterday by P.
Gallagher, Edward Powers and others against
Dixon, Woods & Co., asking for an injunction
to restrain them from laying railroad switch
on Jane street. Southside, between Thirtieth
and Thirty-frst streets. The plaintiffs are resi-
dents of the hillside above Jane street and
claim that the laying Of the switch will bar
their only way to and from their property.
Upon the argument before Judge Slagle, on
the motion for an Injunction W. J. Bremen,
Esq, attorney for the plaintiffs. said the de-
fendant did not have the right to lay the
SWITCH as the street was an unopened one. 1t
was laid out when In Ormsby borough, but was
never opened by the city. 1t developed, how
ever, that the motion to restrain was against
the wrong people, as the switch was being laid
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and
not by Dixon, Woods d Co.. and the railroad
company had obtained permission by an ord1-
nance of Councils.
Judge Slagle remarked that it was mistake
to call the street an unopened one. When the
city accepts plan of lots 1t accepts the streets
laid out in that plan, and it Is an unnecessary
expense to have the Board of Viewers go on
the premises and make a view. and assess the
etc. The point involved in this case Is, is the
city made responsible by reason Of accepting
the plan, for any accident that may occur on
the street before it has gone on it to make any
improvements Ii it is not responsible, not
having attempted any improvement; as in this
by ordinance or otherwise. the privilege of lay
ing tracks on the street, This was the point in
volved in the case, and he said he would take
the papers and give his decision later.
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Mr.. Rowser is q sbearman at the La Belle
Steel Works, and talks thus of Dr. Byers'
treatment of his case. II had been troubled
with catarrhal symptoms for i've years, but
paid little attention to it. as my general health
wasn't much affected until lately, when my right
ear began to trouble me. 1t became SO painful
and discharged so couldn't get any rest day
or night, and was all run down when called
on DR. Byers. After q careful examination he
said my ear trouble was the result Of catarrh
and gave me a treatment at once. I expert
enced an immediate relief and that night had
the first rest for quite awhile and continued to
improve right along until now, after three
months treatment have no pain in my ear.
am free from the annoying catarrhal symp-
toms and am my old self again In general
health. I feel that l cannot recommend DR..
Byers too highly to any of my friends who
may be troubled as / was"
CONTINUED SUCCESS OF HOME TREATMENT.
A patient at Scott Haven, Pa, writes:
"Please send me some more powders. Those
last powders you sent me improved the bowels
a great deal and don't like to run out OF
them. l feel great improvement of the ca
tarrh in my bead"
TREATMENT IS A MONTH, MEDICINE
INCLUDED.
Office Of DR.. Byers. No. al Penn avenue.
Established 1885 Specalties catarrh, all nerv-
Gus, skin and blood diseases; all chronic DIS
eases. He has devised an instrument by
which patients living at q distance can use his
"Antiseptic Spray Treatment" at home though
he advises weekly visits to his office for per-
sonal treatment when at all possible.
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only too evident, an witness the fatal results.
But Mrs. D. had not, and SO for the time
the mystery seemed only to deepen.
"By request, I had an enlarged copy ofthe
photograph made later on, and sent it to the
family. But now behold the strange evolu-
tion of events the optogram had appar-
emily served its sole and destined end. 1t
was no longer of any use, for, almost stimuli
taneously with the sending of its photo
graphed image, there appeared in the col
umns of the daily press long and sensa-
tional account of the murder from begin
ming to its recently discovered end. The
man had been found at last, but found
dead. A dagger in the heart told the
manner. And on his person was paper
containing virtual confession of the deed
and Of the motives impelling thereto. It
ran substantially as follows: An all but
white man was he; son of remarkably
beautiful, and, for slave, unusually refined
and intelligent octoroon, who had served at
one time as lady's maid to Judge Brainerd's
mother. Some domestic trouble occurring
in the family, she was, as direct result, sold
to parties resident in distant State, dying
there some years after, and, so her son
averred, of q broken heart. The writer
further declared, that he had sought the
Brainerd mansion with the express intention
OF Killing the Judge In his sleep. Clevarly
disguised, and by fraternizing with the SER
wants, he first made himself tolerably famil-
lar with the house plan, and especially with
the disposition of the sleeping rooms. Alb
senting himself then for a time SO as to
avert suspicion, he returned one dark,
stormy night, and made his way unobserved,
into what. he supposed, was the Judges own
private apartment He sees recumbent
form on the bed, and approaches with noise
less steps. The storm is at that moment at its
height. The sleeper, reused by the tumult
Of the elements-or. was 1t some
prescience of approaching danger i
stirs uneasily, as if on the point of
awakening. With bound the murderer
springs to his side, There is an upwsrd
gleam of steel-a swift downward stroke,
followed by groan. The warm blood
spurts upward as tine blade is withdrawn,
bathing the murderer's hands with its
crimson life flood. All is overl The man
turns to fee-when suddenly there comes q
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mo. 63l

U.
N ORDINANCE-Grantin unto the Jane
n Street Railway Company, Its successors,
lessees and assigns, the right to enter upon,
use and occupy certain streets and highways.
Section BE it ordained and enacted by the
city OF Pittsburg, in Select and Common Coun-
cils assembled. and 1t is hereby ordained and
enacted by the authority OF the same. That the
Jane street Railway Company its leSsees sue
cessors and assigns shall have the right. and is
hereby authorized TO enter upon the streets
and highways included within its route, to wit:
Beginning on Jane street at its intersection
with South Eighteenth street; thence along
Jane street to South Thirtleth: thence along
South Thirtieth street to Sarah street,
and thence along Sarah street east
erly to the city line, to construc1, maintain,
operate and use during the term named in its
charter, Its railway as aforementioned, with
double tracks or with single tracks, with ne
cessary sidings, turnouts and switches and to
use electricity as motive power and also to
erect, maintain, operate and use an overhead
or other electric system for the supply of motive
power and to erect, maintain and use in the
streets or highways before mentioned such
posts, poles or other supports said company
may deem convenient for the support or main-
tenance of such overhead system, under and
subject, however. to the provision of a general
ordinance entitled. "a general ordinance relar-
ing to the entry upon, over or under. or the use
or occupation of any street, lane or alley of
any part thereof for any purpose by passenger
or street railway companies, or by companies
operating passenger or street railways, and
providing reasonable regulations pertaining
lHeIeLO 1OE lie puDllC convenience anu 5a1eLy.
approved the 18th day of February A. D. 1890.
Section 2-That any ordinance or part of or
dinance conflicting with the provisions of this
ordinance be and the same Is hereby repealed
so far as the same affects this ordinance.
Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils
this 11th day of July. A. D. 1890.
II. P. FORD. President of Select Council,
Attest; GEO. BOOTH. Clerk of Select Count
Gil. 6. L. HOLIDAY. President Of Com
mon Council. Attest: E. ]. MARTIN, Clerk
of Common Council.
Mayors Office. July Is, 1890 Approvedl
H. l. GOURLEY. Mayor. Attest: ROBT.
OSTERMAIER, Mayors Clerk.
Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. Z, page 475
2lst day of July, A. d. 1890.
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NO SALE FOR AWHILE.
JUDGE sLAcLE ORDERS A POSTPONE
MENT OF THE TANNERY CASE.

A sair With Thousands In it Pat on Again
More Suits for Damages FiIed-An In
junction Brought Against the Wrong
Parties.
Judge Slagle yesterday heard the argu-
ments in the equity case of G. Mardorf
against the Acme Tanning Company. Mar
dorf was a stakeholder in the company, and
applied to Common Pleas Court No. 2 for
the appointment OF receiver to wind mp
the affairs of the tannery. After his petit
tion had been filed the secretary Of the COM
pany, acting under orders from the direc-
tors, gave judgment notes to A. Quicken
hemer d Brothers, also stockholders in the
company, for xl5O, ,000 and placed the matter In
the hands of the sheriff, who ordered sale Of
the effects of the tannery company.
Mardorf now applies to the Court of Equity
to have the sale stopped, and asks that the
Judgment be opened SO that he can be ad-
mitted; J, 8. Ferguson, err attorney +. for the
last and the Court set yesterday to hear the
arguments. Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Fergu-
son stated the case as above. and Sol Schoyer,
Esq, made the answer for the defendants.
The company was organized In 1884, Mr..
Schoyer said, with cash capital of $50, 1000 and
shortly after sold property worth S2l 600
making the capital stock $40, 600. c. Mardorf
was elected first President of the company, and
through his neglect and incompetency, it is
alleged, the company became insolvent and
another President was elected In January last
A. Guckenheimer loaned the company $4,000
cash and guaranteed other debts, in all amount
ing to SIS, 600, which is the total Indebtedness
of the tannery. The company owns SlSl.O53 "a
worth of property, but the real assets amount
to only S137 1S9 20. rendering the company IN
solvent. The tannery is located at Acmetonia,
about "a miles from Allegheny, on the West
Penn Railroad. 1t is denied that the Judg-
ment notes were given to A. Guckenheimer q
Brothers because Mardorf had applied for the
appointment of a receiver, but because the
Guckenheimers pressed their debt. Mardorf
was present when the judgment notes were
given, MIR Schoyer stated, but this Is denied by
Mr.. Ferguson, and the vote of stock at the
time resulted 2, 500 shares In favor Of the judg-
ment and 700 against.
In regard to the alleged attempt to make
fraudulent sale of the tannery to the Gucken-
heimers MrSchoyer stated shat the directors OF
the tanning company requested the Gucken-
heimers to guarantee that if they would offer
the tannery for sale they "a. Guckenheimer q
Bros.) would bid the property up to sl63,000,
which is the amount of the liabilities OF the
tannery, but no objection was made to other
parties bidding higher. The tannery people al
iege that c. Mardorf has instituted these pro-
ceedings to injure and delay the tannery COM
pany.
Judge Slagle issued an order to stay the sale
of the tannery until he can confer with the
Judge of the Court OF Common Pleas No. 2 In
regard to the matter of appointing a receiver
for the tannery which Mardorf applied for in
that court
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for all the facts and theories that / had ever
heard or read of, connected with somewhat
similar cases. My mind made up, turned
again and said, as gently as could, and
hoping to change the current of her thoughts:
"'I promise you my final opinion, Madam,
as to the boys eyes. I regret to say that /
still deem his case an utterly hopeless one.
But there is popularity about the eyes
themselves, that leads me to think that we
NAV, perhaps, through them, be able to
render his family an important service
"She looked her puzzled inquiry, but said
nothing, listening only with gradually in
creasing interest ana attention as l went on.
"T will give you ood,reasons for the hope
that is in me, as you shall presently see
You have, presume, heard of natural
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS? Well, as you
know, upon the retinal membrane of the
eve images of what we see are being con-
stantly reflected as in a mirror, with this
difference, that they are in reverse. Like
the reflections in q mirror, they are OF
transient nature, constantly coming and 60
iup-eyanescent But given peculiar cir
cumstances, such, for instance, as would
result in permanently fixing" any one i'm
age upon this retinal background, we would
then have natural photograph, or opto-
gram of the object seen. Such circum-
stances are thought to be present during the
last feeting glance of dying person, and
in fact several such retinal impressions
have already been discovered and made use
of. Now, il we photograph this optogram
Immediately after death, and throw its en-
larged copy upon magic lantern screen,
we will of course be able to see, and perhaps
recognize, that which was last seen by the
person deceased
s'Mrs. D. here broke in with the exclama-
ton: But you forgetl My sister has now
trueP said 1. But if you will remember
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rNo. 64.I

Ot.I
IN ORDINANCE-GRANT UNTO
n the Greenfield Avenue Railway Company,
IIs successors, lessees and assigns the right TO
enter upon, use and occupy certain streets and
highways.
Section I-Be it ordained and enacted by the
city of Pitttsburg, in SelecI and Common
Councils assembled, and it is hereby ordained
and enacted by the authority of the same,
That the Greenfield Avenue Railway Company,
its lessees successors and assigns shall have the
right and is hereby authorized to enter upon
Greenfield avenue, between Second avenue and
Lytle avenue, to construct maintain, operate
and use during the term named in its charter
its railway with double tracks or with single
tracks, with the necessary sidings, turnoutS
and switches, and TO use electricity as a
motive power, and also to erect, main
tain, operate and use an overhead or
other electric system for the supply
of motive power, and to erect. maintain and
use in the streets or highways before men
toned such posts, poles or other supports as
said Company NAV deem convenient Tor the
support or maintenance Of such overhead sys-
tenn provided, however, that whenever the
the said railroad company sh III pave be-
tween its tracks and lines OF tracks and one
foot outside thereof with tne same material
with which the remaining part OF said avenue
is payed in all other respects the said company
shall be subject to the provisions OF general
ordinance entitled, "a general ordinance re-
Satinsr to the entry upon. over and under or
.ha I,ss or occupation of any street. lane or
aIIav or apy part thereof, Tor any purpose, by
nassancer or street railway companies, or by
romnanies operating passenger street railways,
I'D proyIding reasonable regulations pertain
inS thereto for the public convenience and
ss55ety' approved the 25th day of February, A.
ID. 1890
ordinance conflicting with the provisions of
1bis ordinance be and the same is hereby
repealed so far as the same affects this ordi-
nance.
ordained and enacted into law in Councils
this Ilth day of July, A. d. 1890.
ri. P. FORD, President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. BOOTH, Clerk of Select Council.
GEO. L HOLIDAY, President of Common
Council. Attest: E, ]. MARTIN, Clerk Of
Common Council. -.
Mayors Office, July is, 1890 Approved:
II: !. GOU OUHLEI, Mayor. Attest: ROBT.
OSTERMAIER, Mayors Clerk.
Recorded in Ordinance Book, vol. Z, page 477,
22d day of July, A d. 1890
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THEY'RE WILLING TO SETTLE,

But Claim 1t Should be on Different Basis
From That Demanded.
j. W. Moore & Co., in answer to the suit
entered against them by the Chicago Fur
mace Company, deny that they are indebted
on account of default in furnishing coke in
August, 1889. as there was q strike at that
time, and there was an express agree
ment that they should not be held
liable under such contingency. tits further
affirmed that after defendants sold their
works to H. G. Frick and there was delay
in shipping on the contract from September
to II, and defendants admit owing S4n3 20
for this default. Moore & Co, argue to re-
fund extra charges, amounting to Sc, 515 33,
with interest, which plaintiff admits owing
to defendants.
A similar answer is filed to similar suit
entered by Brown, Bonnell & Co. and admit
Indebtedness of S2215 "a.
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binding glare of lightning, accompanied by
a heavy crash Of thunder; and, ah heavens,
in that passing flash he sees, by the side OF
the murdered man the upturned, terror
stricken, staring eyes of a woman | and he
sees also, that the man he has just slain is
not the man he sought. Dazed, horror
struck, he goes as he came, unobserved, all
traces covered by the storm.
'1t did not need the final proofs adduced
by the writer as to his identity. This all
but white man, and would-be avenger of his
mothers honor, was Judge Brainerd's s
natural son. And it was, beyond a matter
of doubt, vivid likeness existing between
mother and child, that had brought such
instant conviction and fatal result to the
heart and brain of the unhappy man The
dead had been avenged indeed.
MARK z, GRIswoLD.
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NTHARIAN ACKERMAN and George Altmater,
on trial for burglary. were acquitted yesterday.
GEORGE R., Ida E, and James A. Edmund
son, for use of Mary Young, yesterday entered
Judgment and issued an execution against
John NJ. Edmundson for 81, 3s9.0S. ]. s. Rob
inson, guardian of George R., Ida E.. and
against John NJ. Edmundson, A. B. Young and
+. Sinft for Sll ,SS9.0S.
MRS. MYRTLE BOWMAN yesterday entered
suit against the P. & W. Railroad Company for
$500 damages. She states that on November q,
1889 she shipped her household goods from
Detroit to Allegheny, via the l. 8.
& M. S. and P. & w. railroads.
She inquired frequently every week
at the depot in Allegheny, and until June, 1890,
was told that they had not arrived. She finally
learned that they came on December 6, and
For the delay and for damage to the goods she
asks $500 damages.