Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

The white cap" outrage at Hurley
VILE. Sullivan county. N Y, has been settled
by each of the six participants paying hosSsn
Vernoy. the victim, 500.
Seventeen hundred of the Sioux are
members Of the Episcopal Church, and Bap-
tists Catholics and Congregationalists are also
well represented among them.
Three of the richest women in Philadel-
phia are Mrs. Thomas A Scotr. with s.. OOo.OOo,
Mrs. Joseph Harrisons with g, 00o 0U0, and Mrs.
Baldwin, who has fortune Of s20O0,O0o
There are now a number Of places in
New York where they will mend your shoes
while you wait. At one of them soling and
heelng is done in 20 minutes, and heeling in
minutes.
AN interesting sight in some Of the
cemeteries Of Kansas is the pine-board adver-
tisements of undertakes and tombstone man
ufacturers tackled up ON trees by snterprising
advertisers.
In the search for phosphates, many dis.
coveries have been made which have added
materially to the wealth Of fair Florida. bus
probably the most interesting one Is the ind Of
deposit Of genuine meerschaum.
Near Camilla. Ga, there is Justice Of
the Peace who uses the oath to witnesses as fol-
lows: The evidence you shall give In this case
shall be the truth. the whole truth, and nothing
God"
Last week the skeleton of . boy was
found tied by the wrists to tree in = wood
close to Beaver Hills, near Fort Saskatchewan,
and il is believed he was offered as a sacrifice
by the Indians last hunting season to secure
good fortune.
David Moss, Jasper county. Mo-,
farmer, aged 65 years, the father of % children.
eloped with Bertha Williams, aged only ID
w married
the Indian Territory. Moss is worth S2o,OOO ana
has buried two wives.
The Biddeford City Missionary has
made arrangements to run a wood yard this
winter. so that applicants for charity may have
chance to earn their bread before they eat IL
This action will discourage applications from
those who should not be helped, while it will
help the worthy.
Almost every Southern city but Louis
vile has Confederate monument. But the
Women's Confederate Monument Association
of Kentucky has by no means been idle, for
about 5000 is collected for the corner stone,
and the question now is shall the memorial
be monument or arch.
An art building to cost 81 200, 900 is to
be one of the attractions of the Worlds Fair at
Chicago. The Exposition gives s70O.O and
the Commercial Club and Art Institute are to
raise $500, 900 more. After the Fair closes the
building is to be turned over to the city and be
used for an art institute.
"A cabIegram of over !, 300 words which
passed through New York from Lima to Lon
don one night recently, over the lines Of the
Western Union Company, cost pretty penny to
transmit, the rate being over s2 a word. This
would represent an outlay of over 81 800, nd i9
probably the largest toll paid by an individual
or company outside of newspaper corporations.
DIR. Tremblay, of Windsor Mills, Que
bee, on Saturday last. in the dark took a dose
of poison in mistake for a preparation for
asthma, from which he suffered. He tried
every means to counteract the poison, but failed,
after which he went to a priest made his con-
fessioD, received the sacrament made his w1l
and then went home and died in great agony In
the presence of his young wife and three chill
dren.
The older artists Of London complain
that the young men of the profession no longer
wear big soft felt hats and dine on chops and
porter. They even desecrate the smoking con-
certs at the MeistersInger's Club by appearing
in evening dress. Instead of shaping each
other on the back and calling each other Tom,
Dick or Harry. they have become ceremonious
TO the point OF using the last name with
Mister prefxed.
Some miles from Athens, Ga, q Sc
eluded locality almost entirely clothed with
luxuriant vegetation, is quaint stone. It Is
shaped with a contour strikIngly similar to the
human head, and was evidently the work Of
ments. In almost illegible characters is this
strange inscription: Il. o. s. l759 A Brave."'
Evidently some redskin warrior who has gone
10 his happy hunting grounds lies buried there.
Mr.. James W. Corbin, of Griffin, Ca,
has an abiding faith in the ultimate redemption
of Confederate money. On Tuesday he sold
four pigs to a neighbor for s., 900 each, in Con-
federate money. thereby adding $4,000 to the
immense amount he has thus accumulated
since the war. Mr.. Corbin has large pond on
his place, well stocked with fish, and he issues
permits to anyone to fish day for SIS in this
currency He probably has q larger amount of
Confederate currency than any man in the
South.
Joe Lewis, a negro living on Dan Har-
rison's place, near Montezuma, Ga, decided to
have some fun Christmas Day. He put on an
ugly false face, poked hish into the door for
the purpose of soaring his wife and children.
She gathered the little ones around her and be-
gan TO scream with fear. His son, a boy II
years of age held cap pistol in his hand. de-
termined TO protect his mother and little
brothers and sisters, threw 1t with the force OF
Goliath and struck his father on the head.
He fell and could not speak for nearly two
hours.
There is more quiet benevolence In New
York than people generally realize. Many rich
people make it a practice to give away certain
sums of money every year, and they watch the
papers carefully SO as TO bestow the charity to
the best effect. A roll of honor might easily
be made of these cheerful givers but in all
likelihood they would resent 1t with very real
and sincere feeling of indignation if their
names were published. In every newspaper
Office. hospital and charitable organization in
the city their names are known and their con-
tributions counted upon whenever their atten-
tion is called TO worthy charity.
The Presidents of all the railroads, the
Presidents of all the express companies and Of
great insurance companies, and all other men
Influential in the business world, all have
satcheIful Of prettily-engraved cards. They are
the annual passes which enttle them to travel
on every road in the country gratis. These
passes cUme from all parts Of the country, and
the filling out of the list takes the time of one
clerk one month before the beginning OF every
year. The big companies send out no less than
a wagonload annually. II should be added
that the Western Union issues quite as many.
The railroad passes permit free travel, the ex-
press passes the sending of free packages, and
the telegraph passes permit the sending of free
messages no matter where the holder may be
IN the United States. The designs on the
passes are sometimes very pretty. and the col
lection this year, asj seen in a railroad Presi-
dents office the other day. is curiously beau
tiful one of the lithographic art. The most
nnioue and expressive is a card sent out by Mr..
Jobn Hoey of the Adams Express Company.
On the face delicately engraved is a skull, and
above it in fine Letters are the words Dead