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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26

rotten strap woIk tho verdigFis and
Hero is pile of war clubs, battle axes,
swords, cimeters, gauntiets and key Of the
sure copies of the originals. All of these
things are used in house decorations. They
are clustered in wall ornamentation; they
form part of the over door drapings; battle
axes and cimeters protude from medisval
portieres-and all paper.
With India SILK Alone.
Many people use lace curtains s4 their
windows with nothing in conjunction
Herewith, although a very little In
the way of over drapery will be an
Improvement We illustrate here an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26
A Tennis Suit of Serge.

Now that lawn tennis has become so popu-
lar in Piutsburg, the matter of costumes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26
A Place for the Bric-a-Brao.

The illustration we show represents the
application of an idea over mantel for q
doorway or window, with place for bric-a-
brac. 1t will be seen that this is de-
parture from the ordinary shelf, which
is better than nothing, and is relief,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26
Fabrics for the Beach.

Soft cotton cheviots entirely without
dressing are the wash fabrics most worn at
the seashore, as they have no starch to be
DESTROYED by the dampness. These woven
cottons, so pleasant to wear, are made up by
tailors in very pretty frocks for morning
wear, in stripes or crossbars of blue, pink or
black on white. They have usually shirt
waist, plated down with a slight fullness
into bodice or wide girdle that is part of
the skirt, being sometimes cut in one with
the skirt, in other cases sewed on as a Swiss
belt. The upper edge of the girdle or
bodice is scalloped or pointed, and bound
with braid; whalebones inside keep it in
shape. The skirt may be quite plain, or
else a colored border to match the stripe is
added, or piping cord is set in the hem. A
sailor collar and deep cuffs are made of the
plain material
other limp starchless fabric much worn at
the seashore by Parisiennes Closely
twilled stripes are woven in it, giving the
effect of satin stripes, and the designs are
japanese in white on pomegranate pink,
porcelain blue, or celadon grounds. Among
serviceable woolen dresses worn on the
beach are those of rough wiry serge, woven
in wide diagonals, in corn-fower blue-a
lighter, brighter shade than the regulation
navy blue of English serges. A new fancy
is to make this serge with a vest, or shirt
front, of much lighter blue cotton cheviot
gathered very full into q wide girdle. A
broad sailor collar and deep cuffs turned up
outside the serge sleeves are of the pale
blue cotton. A wide border of the cotton is
on the skirt, or else it has false hem piped
with the light blue Yellow is favorite
color, apparently at all the resorts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26

and the like. and really fine rockery, or
grotto, arranged in the foreground made an
effective and efficient entrance barrier. 4
dairy stall was something of an innovation,
and the dainty little hampers holding but
ter, eggs, and cream cheese, sold off very
rapidly. Fruit packed in decorative bas-
kets also turned an easy penny, and several
of them, for its presiding genius. A honey
stall had its headquarters in a tent simulat-
ing beehive, upon which was painted in
very free-hand design large bees.
In lieu of the perennial scrap basket, q
wishing well furnished a pretty substitute.
This was made BY sinking large washtub
into the earth about three feet, piling q
rim of stones which came up above the turf
perhaps Is inches, and which were moss
covered at the top. A well sweep was i'm
provised with pole and bucket, and Ii
brary stepladder, also moss covered, made
suitable post for the little girl who drew up
the bucket for you from the well for ''5
cents a time" This was arranged under
small circular tent open all around. The
ticket takers stood on either side of huge
floral screen, cleverly fashioned from two
or three fne-meshed discarded hammocks
These were stretched between poles, and,
having first been plentifully stuck full of
greens, were picked out with beautiful
roses, the fete having been arranged just
when these lovely flowers are in great pro-
fusion.
Two Seaside Costumes.
The costumes shown below are especially
designed by Rnper'S Bazar for seaside
wear and anything prettier and more appro-
pirate would be hard to conceive. The one
at the left is of pink striped white wool
1t is made with a plain skirt and jacket
bodice, the jacket opening on pleated
shirt front of white China silk, buttoned
with small gilt buttons The revers and
cuffs are faced with white silk The one at
the right is a white serge gown trimmed
with graduated disks formed of blue and
white braid. The disks extend across the
bottom of the front of the skirt and up the
wide pIeat on either side The skirt is quite
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26

wide, four yards and q half, and folded In
two deep pleats at either side of the front.
The jacket opens on a shirt front of the
same material, which is ornamented with
two gold studs, but is fastened on the left
side under the revers A pIeated basque is
added at the back of the jacket. The collar
and belt are braided.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-26
4 Toilet for the Race.

The toilet here shown should have been
worn al the Homewood races, for it is illus
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
HAS NO PROPERTY.

Young Blaine,s ImPecunfosity-Un
 able to Settle a Hill Against Him
 Tor Professional Services.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Dr. Frank c. Full. Ter recovered verdict of $329 against James G. Blaine, jr., in October, 1889, for professional services. Blaine did not pay and an order was procured for his eIamin- ation in supplementary proceedings. Blaine appeared before Justice Ingraham to-day and was taken into an empty court room and examined by Dr. Fuller's lawyer. He testified that besides wear ing apparel and few odds and ends of jewelry he has no property except two hundred and fifteen shares, face. value S5 each, of the Seamless Tube company of Boston. His father had given him one thousand dollars of the purchase price and has lien for that amount on the stock. He said he was willing to let Dr. Fuller have the stock subject to this lien. The watch he wore, he said, belonged to his father. Blaine admitted to the in- debtedness and said he would pay when he could. At present he is employed in the foreign freight department of the Pennsylvania railroad at Philadelphia at S60 per month.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
Religious Services.

UNITED CHURcH-Dr. T; T. Munger. pastor. Preaching at 10:3o a. m. Sunday school at 12 IS pm. I:P.s Q. E. will hold it's meeting in the chapel at 6:15 p.
 TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Dwight Place, corner George street)-Preaching at 10:30 m. and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor Rev. A. D. Vail, D. D. Sunday school at noon.
 DWIGHT PLACE CHuscH.-Preaching by the Rev. Dr. Beard of NewYork at 10:30 8. no Sunday school 1a m. Young peoples meeting 6:3o p. m. Sunday school Christmas service 7:S0 p.
 COLLEGE STREET CRURoH-Divine services with
 a sermon by the pastor, the Rev. William w Mo
 Lane, D. D., tomorrow at lo;So .. m; sunaeg sg school st 12 m. Young peoples meeting at 4:3o
 p. m.
 GRAND AVENUE CosGREaArIosAL CHURCH
 The pastor, J. Lee Mitchell; will preach at Io:So a. m. Christmas sermon, "The Babe Called Won
 derful;' 73o p. m., 1.-The Grippe" CHS, '. P. s. C.E.
 EAST PEARL STREET M. E. CHuRcn-H. D. io:So: Christmas praise service by the quartetie chorus and congregation at 7:3O. Epworth league at 6:.5.
 FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL Czuaos-Rsv. Melville B. Chapman, D. D., pastor. The pastor will preach morning and evening 1s m, Sunday school. 6:3o pm.. Christian Endeavor. 1:so r. m; subject, "Despondency: Its Cause and Cure You are cordially invited.
 DAVENPORT CHURCH Cwooster Squarel.-Rev. | I. O. Meserve, pastor.-Sermnn at lO;3o a. m Sunday school at noon. Y. P. S: c. E at 6:3o p m Third of the peoples services" at1:30; subject | civilian Cowper and His Hymns" You are in | vited. | GRACE N E. CHuRcH-Cold George street, | corner of Howard avenue and Portsea street Rev. James Coote, pastor. 1O:3O. preaching by Rev William Roberts. Sunday srhool al noon Il Y. P. S. c. E. at 6:l5 All are cordially invited HUMPHREY STREEr CosGREGATIoSAL CHURCH Humphrey street near Orange streetl Franl R. Luckey pastor. Public worship at i0:SO s ID | and 7:S0 p. m. Preaching by th- pastor at both | services. Sunday school at pm. Y. r. B. C. l. 6:l5 D. m. Seats free. Everybody welcome
 CHURCH or THE MESSIAH Gfrst UnivsrsAl al | iet) Orange street. above Em.-Rey. l. H Sauires pastor. sunday school at l2 o'clock l Preaching at I0:30 and 7:30 Subjects: Morning | .Johu Murray. the Apostle of Uniyersaltsn' l evening" ''The Change in Unirersalist Theology. The public cordially invited
 | FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Cwooster rlacel--Rsv | John H Mason, pastor. will preach at i0:So an' 7:30 Sunday school and young men Bible clAs | at noon. Y P. s c. E. at 6:3o- Subject Of eve 1 ming sermon: 1.-The Building Of a World V No | a .!Tb. Creation of Man" All seats free. Strsn
 gers and young men specially invited.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
ALUNATIc,s AWFUL ACT.

Two Men Shot and . Woman Forced
 to Jump from a WindOw-One Man
 Killed and the other wounded-Sui-
 eide of the Murderer.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-Michael Harvey, aaged thirty ty-four, who had been for the last year an inmate of the Flatbush Luna. tic asylum, was discharged from the asy- lum December 6 as cured. He went to the house of his sister, Mrs. Catharine Duffy, at No. 1S3 Van Dyke street, Brooklyn. Mrs. Duffy occupied the rooms on the sec ond floor and had couple of persons boarding with her. When the family had finished dinner to-day they sat around the table conversing pleasantly. Beside liar vey there were in the room John Connaugh- ton, Samuel Dickerson, Mrs Mary Dicker- son and Mrs. Duffy. MT. Duffy was absent. The men were smoking. Harvey and Con- naughton were particularly merry. Sud denly Harvey jumped up from the table.
 Excuse me moment" he said. He went into his bedroom and procured big British bulldog revolver. He said noth- ing, but took aim at Connaughton and fired. Connaughton fell dead upon the floor. The bullet had passed through his head. "Murderl" shrieked the two wo- men. Dickerson for moment sat motion less, apparently paralyzed with fright. Bang, again went the revolver. The bull let passed through Dickerson's right arm. Mrs. Duffy then raised the window and jumped out. She landed in 8 heap on the pavement below with a broken leg and contusions of the side, but her injuries are not dangerous. Dickerson at once ran to the window and leaped after Mrs. Duffy. He thus saved his life. Mrs. Dickerson made a rush for the door in order to get down the stairs, and as she did so Harvey fired. The bullet penetrated her right hand. Harvey then placed the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and pulled the trigger, killing himself instantly. A great crowd collected in front of the house and police soon arrived. The bodies of Har- vey and Connoughton were found in rooms adjoining each other. There was blood spattered about and chairs and crockery were lying in confusion on the floor.
 Dickerson and Mrs. Duffy were unable to rise from the ground and were taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Connaugh- ton leaves widow and two children, who are in England. Harvey was unmarried. During the past three days Harvey had shown signs of insanity again and his sis ter and her husband were afraid of him. They had taken steps to have him returned to the asylum. He seems to have become aware of their intentions
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.

The Holiday Trade in Full Blast Encouraging Reports from Most All the Large Trade Centers.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says in part: As the end of the year approaches general trade slackens and there is perhaps not more than the usual disposition to defer large transactions until after stock taking and the holidays. The holiday trade is now in full blast and throughout the coun- try is quite large. It is satisfactory to see that from nearly all points the reports which note the inactivity usual at this season also observe prevalent and strong belief that the business of the coming sea- son will be unusually large and profitable. Boston reports a fair trade in merchan- | disc for the season, with especial activity l in holiday goods.
 At Philadelphia reports are less encour- aging and dry goods inactive. At Baltimore manufactures are active | and at Pittsburg iron seems little stiffer and an advance in window glass is ex- | pected.
 At Cleveland retail trade is good and the l iron business shows indications of i'm provement.
 At Cincinnati general trade is very fair.
 At Detroit trade is fair for the season and equal to last years.
 At Chicago general trade is trife mar rower for the week, but with good pros l poets. Collections are unusually large and money is in good demand.
 At Milwaukee heavy coal and stove failure caused some excitement, but the fjobbers report better trade than ayear ago.
 At St. Louis much strength is shown particularly in groceries, shoes, oil and drugs and the holiday trade is large.
 At St. Paul trade is brisk.
 At Minneapolis the grain and flour move ment greatly exceeds last years.
 At Duluth the lumber cut for the yeal has been $40, 100000 feet, and jobbini trade is active; and at Omaha trade is fail and money easy.
 At Denver trade is good, but at Kansa City only fair for the season, the ca, famine checking the grain movement.
 At Little Rock trade is only fair, but a New Orleans receipts for cotton and suga are larger; the demand for sugar good s and for rice moderate, and money is il active demand at full rates.
 At Savannah trade is light and interio reports are notfavorable. At Jacksonville trade is fair and th 1 movement of oranges unusually large. The iron trade shows greater strengt U and larger sales of pig iron than for lon
 time, but extraordinary weakness is see $ in some finished products, plates are ul }. settled, structural iron weak and wrougi IS pipe demoralized.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
THE EMPEROR REJOICES

over the Passage of the New Conn
 mercial Treaty Won Caprtva
 Praised by the Kaiser.
 BERLIN, Dec. 1S.-Emperor William, while at banquet this evening at Fellow, received despatch stating that the reich stag had passed the new commercial treaty. The emperor thereupon informed the con- pany of the news. He said "This satis- factory result is due to the devoted labor of the chancellor, simple, honest Prus- sian general. In two years he has sue ceeded in becoming conversant with and mastering problems of extreme difficulty. With rare political insight he has at the right moment saved the fatherland from evil consequences. It is only natural that in order that the whole people might reaI the advantage of their achievements. The conclusion of the treaties, said the emperor, was for posterity. It was one o1 | the most vital events in the history of the | reichstag. The large majority by which these treaties were adopted shows that the | reichstag had recognized the far seeing DO litical vision of this man and had associ ated itself with him. It had by SO acting suspicious and difficulties the chan
 cellor and his own advisers had more
 within many quarters they had succeeded
 in guiding the fatherland into new paths
 'I am convinced,' continued the emperor
 ''that not only the fatherland but tn
 millions of subjects of the other countrie
 united with us in the customs league, will
 sooner ar later bless this day. I ask yor 1 to drink to the health of General Coun l von Caprivi-er lebe hoch."
 | The emperor's speech was received witl
 loud and continued cheering.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19

who first clear their land of all timber large enough for frewood before offering it for sale too often still own proftless places, while their neighbors who plant trees, clear away rubbish and assist nature, dispose of theirs at a good profit. These lessons are not altogether lost in the local ities where they occur.
 When, as a people, we become familiar with the best that has been done with ground and trees and water, and our taste is equal to our zeal, we can accomplish things that men have not yet seen the equal of, and with the wealth of material now available can excel in our trying, but exuberant climates all the earth has had to boast of. While, in horticultural speci- mems and the production of gorgeous flowers we now lead the world, we must yet become imbued with the broad princi- ples of the art of landscape gardening, practice them to conjunction with our neighbors, cease devoting much time and energy to petty work and temporary de- tails, to attain the highest possibilities, and then will our people live surrounded by parks and gardens from ocean to ocean.
 Durham Mason Dead.
 MIDDLETowN, Dec. 1S.-Frank K. Fin ley, a prominent Durham citizen and a Free Mason, died this morning of the grip.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
LANDSCAPE HARDENING.
Its Probabilities Viewed From a Bus-
 iness standpoint.


 From the Engineering Magazine.l
 We must become preservers as well as cnators. Long aftet the early settlement of most parts of our country, the inhabi- tants supposed themselves surrounded with such a superabundance of sylvan beauty and charms of hill and shore, that they regarded their remorseless destruo- ton with indifference. This trait of char acter is too common even now, and want of care will still cause us the loss of much that could easily be saved. Much is being done by societies and individuals to stay the destroyers, but it is difficult to accom- plish good on land whose owners are in- | different or aid in its spoliation. The \ value of these things is well understood by many @ landlord who builds his great summer hotel where the charms Of nature | and the gardeners art do more to dispe that ennui so fatal to the success Of pleasure resort than mere artificial amuse mepts. As a rule, hotels established II picturesque localities with tastefully kep orounds meet with success, even if dith cult to reach, but without these condition
 the chances are against them. Land where the roads have been planted wit , shade trees, though in the aggregate the i make many thousands of miles, are din , cult to purchase even now except at e, traysgant prices. Those men nowadsy
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
PANIC AMONG TAXPAYERS.
Women and 1en Tranapled Upon i
 a Crush at the Cincinnati Court

Women and Men Trampled Upon in
 a Crush at the Cincinnati Court
 House.
 CINCINNATI, Dec. 1S.-To-day was the second day for receiving taxes at the county treasurer's office on the delayed duplicates. Early this morning throng of taxpayers assembled at the courthouse and was constantly augmented, the crowd finally numbering fully 5000. Itwas gen. erally supposed that after tomorrow a penalty of five per cent. would be added to the taxes of those who had failed to pay at that time.
 Finally SO great became the pressure in the treasurer's office and the corridors outside that panic prevailed and terri ble scene ensued. Men began pushing and struggling to get forward, and the crush became 90 great that all the glass compartments were broken down and the crowd surged in all parts of the room. Several women who were in the crush re- ceived painful injuries. Six of them fell in faint, and were trampled upon by the surging mass. A man named Frederick Miller had his legs broken in the crush, and at least fifty men were badly bruised and wounded.
 Finally County Commissioner Staley managed to be heard. and announced that an extension of one month would be made and the panic subsided.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.


 Admiral Walkers squadron, the Chi cago, Atlanta and Bennington, arrived at Saint Lucia, W. l., yesterday morning, en route to Montevideo.
 A violent earthquake, followed by a general undulatory movement of the earth, occurred yesterday at Corleton, Sicily. Also one at Harrisburg, Pa.
 Anton Rubenstein, the Russia pianist, has accepted an offer of e25, ,000 for se- ries of fifty concerts to be given in the United States in 1893.
 Judge Newman has sentenced Eugene McNally to five years in the Wisconsin state prison for robbing the Northern Pacific express at Abbottsford of $10,000 last May.
 Isaac B. Sawtelle, the murderer, was vis- ited at the prison yesterday by his mother and his counsel, James A. Eagerly of Great Falls, who took their final leave of the con- demned man.
 Emperor William has made Chancellor von Caprivi a count as & reward for his efforts in the successful establishment of the commercial treaties recently concluded between Germany and several other coun- tries.
 News received from Crested Butte states that the strikers there indulged very freely last night, and acted recklessly and boast fully, declaring they would blow up the houses in which live the Austrian strikers who returned to work in the mines yester day.
 An explosion of an old missire blast oc- cured in the Busk tunnel on the Colorado Midland railroad late last night, causing the instant death of one man, another dy- ing shortly afterwards and third is fa- tally injured.
 An officer of a Cossack regiment, nov ing in fashionable society at St. Peters burg. learned that his wife was unfaithful to him, returned home suddenly from the theater last night, and finding his wife in her lover's arms, shot her dead. He then escaped.
 The British steamer Spring Hill, which arrived at Swansea yesterday from Caen, reports that she collided with schooner Gladys, off Hartland Point at the entrance of the Bristol channel. The schooner was cut in two and three of her crew of seven persons were drowned.
 IHo lfedSuIs ue Ittneue uaS SoinP Plcseu the purchase of silver for the current month. The amount offered for sale was 1 .0S3, ,000 ounces, and the amount pur- chased 779, ,000 ounces, as follows: 94, 900 ounces at so. 9560; 6S5,000 ounces at 80 9570. The purchase of silver will be resumed on Monday, January 4. Lochiel Loriman Grahame, formerly a colonel in the United States army, was yesterday sentenced in the Clerkenwell sessions to three years penal servitude for passing 8 worthless check for twenty five pounds. It is reported that Grahame has committed extensive frauds in various | European capitals. He was at one time 1 attached to the American consulate in London.
 After protracted debate the German | Austrian Hungarian treaty passed it's third reading by vote of 243 to 4S. The | house afterward adopted the German ! Italian and the German Belgian treaties. \ After the three treaties had been finally | adopted the reichstag adjourned. It will not reassemble again until after the Christ mas holidays.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-19
THE PLATT DIVORCE CASE.

The Jury Finds Mrs. Platt Not Guilty
 of Improper Relations With Martin
 B. Waller.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-The jury in the divorce suit brought by William H. Platt against his wife Minnie in the Brooklyn court, brought in sealed verdict this morning in favor of Mrs. Platt. To the question asked them as to whether the lady lad been guilty of any improper con- duct with the alleged correspondent, Mar tin B. Waller, on any of the dates set forth in the complaint, they promptly answered in the negative. The case had attracted considerable attention from the fact that the correspondent is the son of ex-Gov- ernor Waller of Connecticut and from the nature of the testimony given by witnesses for the plaintiff.