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3USHWHACKITG GIRLS
Missouri Maidens Who Played Guer
rillas Darin? the War.
"JIE XOTED MAYFIELD SISTERS.
rulal Scenes of Blood and Carnage in
lVliich They Took Part.
lEAUTIFtl A5IAZ0XS IN llA$f FIGHTS
CmLMCOTHE, Ma, Sept. 13. Perhaps
he desperate nature of the Civil "War in
Missouri will never be correctly-understood
ave by the actual participants. It was bad
a begin with, and it grew worse all the way
lown to the close, two months after Lee
urrendered.
Plenty of men of Xorthern birth and
inengo wore the gray, and the guerrilla
ving, Charlie Quantrill, was an Ohio man,
om And reared. Some of the best blood
if the South was hottest for the Union, and
oath Carolinians Virginians and Missis
.lppians Jonpht to save it against Pennyl--anians,
Ohioans and Illinois men who tried
o destroy it
Tho pro-Confederates became the more
i.-n3prali7ed of the too parties; perhaps this
vas because, after Wilson's Creek and Lex
npton, their cause steadily lost, and the
inspects for its ultimate success daily
ined, and desperation comes oftencr than
esigna'ion from defeat, and madness, hot
as vitriol, frequently succeeds the coldest?
lrepair
AS HAD AS THEIE BROTHERS.
Women become as bad as their brothers.
Fmin the sewing ol bandages and the scrap
ng of lint came the molding of bullets, the
muggline of caps, the making of cartridges,
ind then hinir and spying and the luring
md betrayal of men to death. In the coun
rr it was" hard to find a woman, no matter
tow lair her face and refined her character.
a ho was really a non-combatant, and was
joJ jnilu of numerous acts of hostility.
Biding alone from Brunswick to Laclede,
n the summer of 1SG3, Lieutenant "William
Keve, of Danes county, a Union officer
n militia, drew bridle at a little cabin east
f Coaipton's Ferry, in Chariton county.
bright, cheery-faced little woman met
nm at the door, in one hand a butcher
vnife, in the other a whetstone, her face
ieam, her eyes aglow. "Hush," she said;
there's a rcb in the back room, sound
isleep. Go in, quick, and kill him! I
old him I was a good secesh, too," she
.ent on. "and he savs he is a bushwhacker
uid has been two nights without sleep, and
n I fed him and coaxed him to go to bed,
ind he lias beca'snoring for two-hours.
Hurry in don't mind the blood -on the
xd."
"And what were you going to do with
hat knife," asked the officer.
As soon as I got it sharp enough, she
dmly replied, "I was going to stick it
-hroagh his heart."
Think of that! And three years before
this little woman, into whom the spirit of
Jsel seemed to have entered, was a Sunday
hnol teacher, earnestly impressing upon
children the divine injunction "All things
hatsoever ye w ould that men should do
.into you do ye even so unto them."
The officer secured the bushwhacker's
mis, then the bushwhacker himself, and
"k lum to Laclede a prisoner, instead of
i tying him where he slept, to the manifest
iwappointment and sorrow ot the little
stcss, who petulantly said: "I have seen
"ls after they were dead, but I wanted to
oe oho killed"'"
SOME WOMEN SPIES.
TJterc were more rebel women spies than
men, and the were the shrewdest, the most
?, aKmsar.d the most unscrupulous. Some
ofthee underwent all borts of experiences
m their efforts to help the Southern cause.
nm of them risked not only their lives,
t their honr a c, and lost it, too, toss
ri it rfadly into t lie scale, believing that
'h end would justifv the means.
There was Anna Fickcl, of Lafayette, a
fur oung rebel girl, Mho made Quantnll's
'lurk silk flag from the skirt of her dress,
nnd supplied the guerrillas with so much
jinwdtr, shot and caps that Quantrill ougnt
ti liave made her his chief of ordnance. It
n Anna and a woman old enough to be
in r grandmothers ho compassed the murder
i two I'nion soldiirs in order to effect the
" lease of And Blunt, a guerrilla prisoner,
who was permitted to iiisit the grand
iiiitlier s liuiitje. Blunt escaped for the
1 1 me, but a few days later the Saline county
ni.luia came upon lnin, and beat out his
'rains with tobacco sticks. Miss Picket
m .is sent to Alton prison.
In 1864 nearly every Federal military
prison in the State had Confederate women
inmates Thej had been arrested for feed
iiiir guerrillas, giwng them information and
itanoe, spjing upon Union troops.
i nuns litters, sniueghnc ammunition and
i on arsis, and for other kinds of mischief
hi h certain rebel ladies delighted to per
il irate. Some of these were girls of 16 to
'then were women of 40 and 50. The
i oritr of these ladies were released after
ion imprisonments, butmanv were held to
In- dose of the war or banished from the
-tate. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of the
lames boys, was sent to Nebraska.
HOLD I'lhC MICHAELS.
In the latter part if the war so bad had
liunps becomethat least four score girls and
omn in Western and Southwestern Mis-
turi became suerrillas purely and simply,
a'i they were not so very pure or so very
Minple cither. There was Puss Michaels, a
"a coun'v jrirl.w ho was mortally wounded
a fight betw een a squad of Missouri guer-
' 'las and Fomc Kansas men, on the Marais
-t vfignesin the fall of 1863, after the
a reucc raid and massacre. She carried
to rnol vers, was dressed partly in male
; tire and di'-d with her boots on.
There were 20 or more girls and women
.i ith Quantrill and Bill Anderson at the
t-laughter of General Blunt's escort (05
i ien), at Baxter Springs, the week after
I -oss Michaels was killed. I have it from
r-n ex-gucrrilla, who was present, that half
i dozen of these bushwhacker belles took
art in the chase and massacre of Blunt's
i,ei
Ttt O NOTED SISTERS.
In lR04fulIva score of the rebel girls of
i-nion were riding with the guerrillas and
b -.'whackers. The most noted of these
ore the Mayfield sisters. Their mother
v.i- n widow, and they weie young widows.
Their hut-bauds and two 'heir brothers,
Itnw and "Crack" Mayfield, desperate
bushwhackers, had been killed. Sally May
ticlJ. as she was best known, though her
r si n inn was McCoy, was a pretty loung
iiic.(i in the spring of lb64." She is
in-M a respected matron, a good Christian
v Ainiui, and not long since lned near her
old iionn. in boutheastern Vernon.
She joined the guerrillas in the spring of
IfM, becoming the wifeof Dave Majors, the
5 ader of a small band that operated in
.scutnwestcrn Missouri and Northwestern
Arkansas. She rode with her husband for
undred of miles, shared all his perils,
lirMnp, and privations, and was by his
si.'1.- wbeb he cot his deathwound. She had
rfanv a narrow escape from death. Her
jes1- was often pierced by bullets, and she
If ii'iws v h i! it is to ride hard, to fight hard,
w be hungry and tired and cold, to bivouac
V" the wet ground, and to undergo all the
ussifidi s of guerrilla life.
h. ohp occasion t-he and her husband and
his. band were going into camp for the
night on Cj nthia creek, in the southern
linrt of Virnoii county. The horses had
been unsaddled, Sally 'was spreading the
blankets for her and licr husband's bed; the
other members of the band were dressing a
loraged pig and preparing supper. Sud
iml a company ol K-.usas cavalry dashed
apon the camp, shouting and firing. Taken
unawares, the guerrillas fled, every man for
lumelf '1 he Kan-ans pursued them, hardlv
sionpingto loot the camp. Sally was back
in the brush, and was not seen. In a few
innutes all was quiet in the camp. The
li'irMS were all gone, the men all gone,
laint shouts came from the distance and
sundry pistol shots not louder than the tap
ping of a woodpecker.
A TERRIBLE SIGHT.
When darkness came, Sally stole out of
her i covert, taking with her her blankets
and her husband's pistols and saddle, and
improvised a shelter out oi some fence rails,
for a rain was coming. It would not do to
stir up the fire and cook supper, and she
lay down to rest, hungry ana anxious for
the safety of her husband and comrades.
Later in the night, attracted by the smell of
fresh meat, wild vermin came to feast on
the carcass of the pit;, and skunks and
opossums snarled and fought over it until
a wildcat came and drove them all away.
Kot 50 feet away lay Sally, a keen bowie
knife in her plump hand, to settle the
wildcat if he should attack her. She feared
to fire her revolver at h'm, least the report
should bring back the Kansas men, who
were as fierce as wildcats, and lor other
reasons more to be dreaded.
All the next day she hid in the brush,
from where she could watch the camp, hop
ing some of the boys would camp, but
toward evening, half famished from hunger
and thirst, she hid her weapons and equip
ments and made her way to a house two
miles distant, where the remnant of a fam
ily lived. Here the next dav she was joined
bv her husband and three of four of his men
w"ho somehow had picked up a horse apiece,
and soon they were on the warpath again.
That night as Sally and her husband were
sleeping on a broad, open prairie in Barton
county she suddenly awoke with an unac-
countabli sense of impending danger. She
had a task to induce her husband to move
camp, but they had not gotten half a mile
away when a" body of Union cavalry rode
over the ground they had just quittedl
Sally was a splendid horsewoman, and to
save a man's life at Port Scott she once
rode120 miles in 12 hours, across country,
leaping ravines, skurrying through wood
lands and half swimming creeks, without an
hour's rest or a wink of sleep.
A HAD GIRL GUERILLA.
Eliza McGovern, tall and finely formed,
was another girl guerrilla. Her husband
belonged to Livingston's band for a time,
but was killed in the fall of 1863. She was
captured the next dav in male attire. She
was taken to Springfield, but in a few days
contrived to escape, and mounting a sore-
backed cavalry horse which had bees turned
loose to die, she made her way over the spurs
of the Ozarks to her old haunts. A few
weeks later, with half a dozen male com
panions, she captured two furloughed Kan
sas soldiers on their way homo, and shot
tnem to death on the banks ol Spring river,
in Jasper county. She died in the summer
of 1864, in a guerrilla camp, near Mount
Vernon, with none but mrti about her, at a
time when she most needed the ministra
tions of her own sex.
Ben Broomfield, a tall, bronze-visaged
guerrilla, one of Bill Anderson's best or
worst men, threw his life away because his
sweetheart, a Lexington girl, beautiful as
"Edith of the swan's neck," had played
him false for another bushwhacker.
bill Anderson's sisters.
Bill Anderson's sisters werenotgucrrillas
outright, but they did what they could to
help their brothers. Bill and Jim, after they
girls were forced to leave their home, in
Lyon county, Kan., and took refuge in
Jackson county, Ma, after their brothers
killed Captain Beatty and burned his store.
On a A ery common charge against rebel
women in those days, "aiding bushwhack
ers," they were arrested and put in the
female prison at Kansas City. The build
ing in which they and others were confined
fell, and one of the Anderson girls was so
badly injured that she ultimately died.
Mrs. McCullough, another of the sisters,
who, a few years since, was living in Jack
son county, some miles back of Wellington,
was in the prisoa when it fell and was also
severely hurt,
.The names of other Missouri girls who
rode with the rebel knights of the black
flag might be mentioned if there were any
good reasons why they should be. Many a
guerrilla of the war, and many a "red leg"
and jay hawker, too, is now a useful and re
spected member of society. Many a woman,
who at one period, intoxicated by the smell
of gunpow der and crazed by sight of blood
and the other dreadful sights about her, did
unwomanly and even inhuman deeds, is
now an exemplary matron and aloving wife
and mother.
"- v,, u tut. duiiul: Ul J.UV.J. .l-UC
WHERE SMALL INVESTMENTS
Enrich. Lot Bayer Alonongahela
River
Towns Always In tbe Lead.
Dr. Osborne, of Homestead, purchased a
lot about a year ago in that oorough for
51,400, and "was ofTcred recently $2,000 for
it. The same lot, it may be added, changed
hands two years before at about one-half
the purchase price of ayear ago. As shown
by statistics published a few days ago, the
rate of increase in values has been equally
as great in other Monongahela river towns,
among them Braddock, McKeesport, Du
quesne and Charleroi, There has been no
failure and no retrogression on the Monon
gahela; small investors in the valley have
m numberless instances gathered in a year
larger proms on one or two lots tnan tne
total of their wages during the sarre period.
No other district presents equal induce
ments or stronger guarantees to lot buyers.
Blaine's location is in the midst of these
progressive towns, which accounts for the
eagerness of all clisses to visit and buy in
the plan. Saturday's last free excursion,
by rail and-water, promises to be a notable
event.
Exposition Church Organs at KleDer &
Bro.'s, COO Wood Street.
After examining the church organs shown
at the Exposition just call and see the
church organs at JXleber & Bro.'s private
exposition, 506 Wood street, and you'll be
astonished to find that the Klebers will sell
yon a Vocalion organ for $800 which far sur
passes any at the Exposition for 52,500.
And the same is true of their pianos and
small musical goods, all of which are sold at
much lower prices than the "exposed"
goods at the great show. Klebers' private
musical exposition at 506 Wood street
throws in the shade anything seen at the
downtown show.
To Call Attention.
The attention of "lot buyers" is called to
an advertisement in our columns to-day of
the sale of a portion of the well-known
Eians farm, located in the center of Mc
Keesport. The remarkable growth of this
city, the rapid advances and active demand
for property in it, together with the loca
tion of this plan of lots, would indicate that
thes lots will meet with a ready sale. This
sale is worthy of the attention of those who
contemplate investing money in real estate.
A Complete Line of Hisses' and Children's
Jackets
For fall and winter wear. Misses' ulsters,
w ith coaching capes, in all the new cloths.
Children's long coats in soft, warm cloths,
plain and fur trimmed.
First short coats in soft cashmeres, warmly
lined and nicely trimmed. All now ready
in the children's department.
Jos. Horne&Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
TrotecUon.
The ordinary safe does not offer the pro
tection you should have for valuables or
papers. You can have that protection in
the safe deposit -vaults of the Farmers' De
posit National Bank, 00 Fourth avenue.
Boxes rented at 53 and upward. MVTP
THE PEOPLE'S STORE-riFTH ATENUE.
Millinery Opening To-Day.
Our first grand display of fall and winter
millinery commences to-day. Call and see
it Campbell & Dick.
A jacket bargain 100 cheviot reefers,
with best astrakhan, full rolling shawl col
lars, 510. Compare with any from anywhere
at?13. Borgs & Buhl.
Porter is a refreshing drink and bene
ficial nhen properly made. Send a trial
order to Iron City Brewery. Telephone
1186.
THE OIL SITUATION.
it
Is Certainly Perplexing As
Stands at the Present Time.
It
TRANSFER THE PROBLEM STILL.
Predictions As to the Probable longevity
of the McDonald Pool.
EEPORTS FE01T ALL THE OIL FIELDS
The question as to whether the patrons of
the Southwest Pipe Line Company shall
allow their oil to be run into the National
Transit lines has not yet been settled. At
the meeting Monday night they came to no
definite conclusions. The chances are, how
ever, that they will submit to its
being done. There was a report in circula
tion yesterday that the producers had passed
a resolution to refuse to sign the paper
authorizing the Southwest people to run
Southwest oil into the National Transit
lines. This was denied on every side. Al
though the operators who were present
at the meeting refused to say
just what action had been taken. They said
that no such resolution had been passed.
In talking on the subject last evening, one
of the well-known operators said: "What
alternative have we if we do not submit to
the Southwest Pipe Line Company's re
quest? They say they are pressed
tor
tankage and simply ask to
transfer the surplus oil to the National
Transit. If we refuse, and the surplus goes
to waste, who is to blame but the producers
themselves? We, as an organization, have
no tankage, and very little as individuals.
Suppose in order to protect our interests as
well as their own they should use
the tanks of some other pipe line company
could we censure them. There are always
two sides to every question and my idea is
to look carefully at both sides of the fence
before yon take the final leap.
Talk I Still Cheap.
Talk is cheap now, as it always was, and
there is just as much of itin the present era
as there was 20 years ago. But talking will
not keep our oil in tanks where there are
none. For my part I am willing to let the
Southwest Pipe Line Company use any
tanks they please whether they belong to
them or to the Mikado of Japan,
Oil will not spoil by storing it in
any kind of a receptacle which will hold it.
As for. the matter of orders which the Na
tional Transit Company will ask from the
producer who has Southwest oil in the latter
concern's lines, I can easily account
for it. The National Transit only
wishes to keep track of the Southwest
oil which it receives or delivers. It is do
ing this simply as a matter of business. If
you get an order from the South Pipe Line
Company on the National Transit Company
to give you 5,000 barrels of Southwest oil
I have not the slightest doubt
but that the National Transit
Company will give you the grade
of oil for which vour order calls. Producers
pretend to be scared and to believe that this
is one of the Standard's tricks, but if it is it
is improbable on the face of it. If
it should turn out that the producers
are being fooled it will be one of the slick
est schemes which the great oil company
has yet put into execution.
Have 2?o Seaboard Lino.
If the producers had a seaboard pipe line
of their own and sufficient tankage to take
care of the oil now being produced, the sit
uation would bo entirely different.
The fact is thor havo neither of
these necessary reauisltes in the tjIdo line
business, and therefore are not able to make
any kind of a light. There are plenty of
oia-time ana experienced operators wno
predict, with a good show of success, that
tbe, bottom will drop out of the
McDonald field within the next
90 days, at least, and then
there will be a rapid rise in the market It
is a noticeable fact, however, that these
same men who are predicting such a sudden
advance in prices are not buying any of the
55-cent oil which is now to be had. Granted
that the market may advance be
fore 90 days, that does not change
the present condition of affairs. The situa
tion as it stands now is to be looked in the
face,and the problem met and solved. Some
of the oil companies which are supposed to
be identified with the Standard are the
biggest producers in the field, and they
certainly are not making any more
money than the independent companies and
firms. It would be very foolish indeed for
the producers to allow themselves to be
lieve that they were to be tricked by let
ting their oil go into the National Transit
lines, and thus clog up the lines Irom their
own wells."
Well News Yesterday.
McDojtald There was scarcely
change in the causes of the wells of
any
this
neld yesterday except at tne JUevcy .No. 1
of Guckert & Steel. It was drilled for a
few minutes late Monday night, and
its production immediately increased
from 75 to 210 barrels an hour. It was pro
ducing at the latter rate yesterday after
noon. Their No. 2 on the Mevey, is down
900 feet; No. 3, GOO, and No. 4 is down
about 250 feet Gartland & Hay's No. 1 on the
Miller fann is making about 100 barrels an
hour. Their Nos. 3, 4 and 5 on the same farm
are each down about 1,200 feet, and their
Nos. 6, 7 and 8 are from 300 to 600 feet deep.
Another good well was added to the long
list in this field yesterday. Kelly, Mayer
& Co.'s venture on the Dr. Cook lot in the
southwestern edge of the borough and
about 800 feet southwest of the
TJ. P. church lot well was drilled into the
sand yesterday morning and is making
from 25 to 30 barrels an, hour. It is due
northwest of the Wheeling Gas Company's
Cook lot well about 500 feet At last ac
counts the well of Clark & Bannister
on the Sauters property; McGee
Brothers, on the Smith lot; and
Boland & Co. on the McLain lot were still
shut down on top of the fifth sand for lack
of sufficient tankage before drilling in. The
Devonian Company's No, 2 on the Fogall
farm; their No. 1 on the Elliott farm; and
their No. 2 on. the J. H. Eobb are
within a few days of the last sand
Guffey, Murphy and the Fisher Oil Com
pany's No. 2, on the Elliott farm, was re
ported to have been burned yesterday by
striking a pocket of gas. They have started
to drill at their No. 2, on the Baldwin farm,
and at their No. 1 on the Hutchinson farm.
They have arig up for No. 3, on the Wal
lace farm, and for IS o. 2, on the Morgan.
George S. Martin & Co.'s No. 1 on the
Heiser lot is down 1,700 feet, and their No.
1 on the Druart property is drilling at 1,250
feet The phenomenal production of the
wells in this and the territory in the
northeast is a constant source of
speculation. The first question is,
"How long will these big wells hold up to
their present standard?" and the next:
"What will the second crop of wells be
like those that are completed within the
next 15 days?" It is scarcely necessary to
say that a well which averages 100 barrels
an hour for 30 or 60 days or rather
which will yield 72,000 barrels in the first
instance and 144,000 in the second, will
drain a vast amount of rock, and the com
pleted well, which is within 20 rods of it,
after 30 or 60 days is liable to be little better
than a duster. It is not unlikely that the
tricks of Cherry Grove will be repeated in
many holes.
The Pay Not Reached.
McCuedy The late reports from Hoff
man & Co.'s well, on the Moore farm, last
night were to the effect that it had a fair
showing of oil in the fifth sand and ex
pected to get the pay early this morning.
The Fisher Oil Company's No. 1,
on the McMichael farm, is making
from 30 to 35 barrels an
hour. Their No. 2. on the same farm is 250
feet deep, and tbey arc rigging up at No. 3.
Will De a Light Well.
Canxojtsbubb The No. 1 well of tho
Fisher Oil Company, on the Wilson farm is
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
just being completed and will be a small
producer from the Gautz sand.
In Butler County.
ZELiENOrLE The Stauffer No.
1 of Guckert & Company
has been shot and is good for 20 barrels an
hour. They are building a rig for No. 2 on
the same farm. Their No. 1 on the Eich
oltz was tubed yesterday and is expected to
make a 150-barrel pumper.
Mubrinsville Snee & Co. have started
a well on the Kellarman farm, and Lydecker
& Co. are down 400 feet on the 'Squire
Murrin property.
Jeffebson Cesteb Gibson & Gabey
are reported to have struck a lOCbarrel well
near this place, and just north of the old
development. It is a genuine surprise to
the oil trade in this region.
In an Old Field.
Wildwood Guckert, Steel & Co. ore
drilling a wildcat well on the Pierce farm, a
mile and a half northwest of developments.
They are down 1,200 feet.
Down the Ohio.
Moon The Harvey Oil Company is drill
ing at 1,000 feet in their McFadden No. 1.
Their Linton No. 2 is reported in and a fair
produoef. Operations have about ceased in I
tnis neld.
Southeastern Ohio.
St. Mabv's, O. The Mars Oil Company
has at last succeeded in completing its well
on the Stearns lease, and known as the State
land. The derrick, shed and engine house
are supported on huge posts. A substantial
and water-tight board wall is built around
the derrick and filled in with earth
to prevent the oil from getting
into the water. The rig is located in about
four feet of water and about 450 feet south
of the north bank ot the artificial lake This
venture is the first of the kind ever made in
the Ohio field, and a very costly one. The
well was drilled to the pay and shot with a
showing for one of the best producers in the
St. Mary's field. The rig was tightly
boarded up before the well was shot, and
the operation proved a success. There is not
the least shadow of a doubt but that the
territory underlying the lake is the most
valuable for petroleum of any portion of
this field. It drilling will be permitted in
the lake, then operations will revive here,
for it has decreased wonderfully during the
past month. Just on the north edge of the
lake are numerous large producers, and tho
various operators are anxiously awaiting the
opportunity to erect rigs in the lake and
operate as the Mars Oil Company has.
The Mars Oil Company is spudding on its
No. 2 on the Steams lease in the lake and
located about 200 feet southwest of No. 1.
The steam to run the tools in these wells is
furnished from the bank of the reservoir,
passing through a line running northwest
and southeast a distance of nearly L700
feet. The steam box is set upon piles.
Most of the filling in around rig No. 1 was
taken across this steam line on wheelbar
rows, which makes the cost of the well so
heavy.
Yesterday's Iocal Features.
There was considerable trading, the bulk
of it In Oil City, at a higher range of prices.
The close was Arm and o better than the
openinc- Cash oil opened at LB, highest 57,
lowest $5, closo 56. October opened at
5 highest 8 low est tt, close 66. Re
fined was unchanged. Dally average runs,
69,319,- daily average shipments, 0,274.
Oil Crnr, Sept. 15. National Transit cer
tificates opened at 56c; highest, 67Kc; low
est, 5c; closed, 560. Sales, 369,000barrels;
clearances, 163 000 barrels; shipments, 121,863
barrels; runs. 110,719 barrels.
Bradford, Sept. 15. National Transit 'cer
tificates opened nt 56c; closed at 56c;
highest, 57c; lowest, 5J-JiO. Clearances, 32,
000 barrels.
Cleveland, Sept. 15 Petroleum quiet; S.
W. 11, 6Kc: 71 gasoline, 7c; 86 gasoline,
10c; 63 naphtha, 6Kc
Sew York, Sept. 15 Petroleum opened
strong and advanced 192c in the early trad
ing; then declined 2c; afterward rallied a
and closed steady; Pennsylvania oil: Spot,
ipenme.
5534c; highest, 57c; lowest, 55Kc;
closing, 57c;
re: uctooer option, opening, oojsc:
highest, 5Se; lowest, 55c: closing, 56110.
Lima oil, no sales. Total sales, 213,000 bar
rels. An Old Estate-Sob-Dlvidod.
It may interest those intending to buy
lots in the Evans Estato plan, McKeesport, ,
to know, that this property has been owned
by the Evans family for over 80 years.
That it is now offered for sale by the execu
tor, to close the estate. Speculators' profits
have for this reason not been added and
this accounts for the extremely low prices
asked. Easy terms and low rate- of interest.
Attend the sale, and see ,for yourself that
these are facts. The opening sale is on
Saturday next.
Just From California Direct.
We put on sale to-day a large shipment
of genuine California mission blankets, in
12-4's and 13-4's made of finest fleece wool,
with blue, pink and red borders, made by
the celebrated San Jose wool mills. These
goods can only be bought at Jps. Home &
Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores.
Protection.
The ordinary safe does not offer tho pro
tection you should have for valuates or
papers. You can have that protection in
the safe deposit vaults ot the Farmers' De
posit National Bank, 66 Fourth avenue.
Boxes rented at $5 and upward. Mwr
SEW FUR TRIMMINGS.
All That Is Most Fashionable Now on
-Display.
Including beaver, bear, block lynx, mink,
otter, seal and royal ermine, and as well all
the more moderate-priced furs, as thibet,
angora, nutria, oppossum, mufflong, etc
These all come in pipings and in edgings of
all widths from one to six inches. Prices
the lowest possible.
Jos. Horse & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
A Good Investment.
The attention of those who wish to invest
in real estate is called to the sale of lots ad
vertised by us to-day of a part of the Evans
estate in McKeesport. This valuable tract
of land being in its original owners' hands
not subject to speculators' advances in
value, will no doubt be sold so that pur
chasers will get it at ground floor prices and
reap the benefit of the advance in value
sure to follow. The opening day of sole is
Saturday next. William M. Bell, of Mc
Keesport, is the agent.
Protection.
The ordinary safe does not offer the pro
tection you should have for valuables or
papers. You can have that protection in
the sate deposit vaults of the'Farmers' De
posit National Bank, GG Fourth avenue.
Boxes rented at f 5 and upward. mot
California Mission Blankets,
Made by the celebrated San Jose woolen
mills, are the best high class blankets in the
market. Can be only had at
Jos. Hokne&Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
The People's Store Firth Avenue.
The newest Parisian novelties in millin
ery. See the display at our grand opening
to-day, to-morrow and Friday.
CAMPBELIi & DlCIJ.
SIO Chamber Suits Chamber Suits S05O,
At Berger's, Liberty and Sixth avenue.
B. Jfc B.
Bargain Jacket table to-day 51 00 each
ond 5 2 50. Who ever heard of such prices
for good jackets? Must have room for tho
'new ones. Come soon for these.
BOGGS &BU3IL.
POKTER is a refreshing drink and bene
ficial when properly made. Send a trial
order to Iron City Brewery. Telephone
1180. '
Beer is the unrivaled .beverage of all
classes. The Iron City Brewing Co.'s
"Pilsner" brand is of superior quality.
Best dealers keep it. Telephone 1186.
83,50 Extension Tables Extension Tables
ySOO.OO,
At Berger's, Liberty and Sixth avenue.
SUIT OYER A SHAYE.
Politics and Lather Didn't Mix in a
Connecticut Barber Shop.
THE DEMOCRATIC RAZOR WIELDER
Cleared but One Side of His Bepuulican
Customer's Bongh Face.
HEiS ASSESSED TWO DOLLABS DAMAGES
fSPECIAL TELEORAK TO TOT DISPATCH. 1
HXBTFOBD.-Sept. 15. The ancient town
ofWindsorls excited because of the trial
to-day of the famous Havens-Dibble breach
of contract case. Elijah Havens is the
oracle of Windsor. On Saturday night, a
month ago, Havens entered Dibble's shop
to get shaved. He had not been shaved for
two weeks because of a, protraoted fishing
trip, so there was a two weeks' beard on hi3
face.
Havens is a Bepublican and Dibble is a
Democrat, and a political dispute was soon
on. Dibble had shaved one side of Haven's
face when Havens called him "a darned
fool."
Thereupon Dibble ordered Havens to
leave the shop, nor would the barber finish
shaving him. After hard words Havens
left the shop, threatening a suit fo breach
of contract, and he was as good as his word,
for on last Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Mc
Carthy, of Windsor Locks attached the
property of Dibble for 100. The trial was
held this morning. It was a memorable
trial. All Windsor turned out. Farmers
drove into town, accompanied by wrinkled
wives and rosy-cheeked daughters. Tho
trial was set for 9:30 o'clock, but long be
fore that hour you couldn't get within a
stone's throw of Justice George Albee's
door.
A CLAMOEOUS CEOWD.
When court was opened a hundred or
more people clamored for admittance before
the Justice's office. Justice Albee is an
obliging man. He arose and said: "Gentle
men and ladies, my court, I see, is much too
small to accommodate all the people who
desire to attend this trial. If arrangemenfs
can be made we will adjourn to the base
ment of the Town Hall."
Arrangements were made and the trial
proceeded under the Town HalL Andrew
S. Gates appeared for Havens, assisted by
Charles K. Burnham. Mr. Gates is clerk
of the House of Bepresentatives and Mr.
Burnham is a recent graduate of the Yale
law school John P. Healy looked after
Dibble's interests. Mr. Healy is a Demo
cratic Eepresentatlve of the town of Wind
sor Locks. Tho selection of Justice George
Albee to try the case was a wise one, for
Solomon was no more just than he. Mr.
Albee is station agent, telegraph operator
and newspaper correspondent.
When court convened there was a sensa
tion right off There had been all the
morning anxious inquiries for the plaintiff
Havens and his lawyer had assured the in
quirers that he would reach town on the
9:38 train ftom Hartford, and he did.
AN ASTONISHING PACE.
A few days after the alleged breach of
contract he left town, presumably to visit
his brethren in Southampton, so no one in
Windsor had seen hiiu recently. When he
came into court, bowed to the Justice,
shook hands with his lawyers and glared at
the defendant there were loud murmurs of
astonishment. It was his face. On the
right side was a four weeks' beard; on his
left one of six weeks' growth. Mr. Gates
arose and addressed the court.
"Your Honor," he said, "I intend to sub
mit to you a prima facie case. This is an
action for breach of contract, and we ask
damages of the defendant in the sum of 5100.
He deserves more, far more, but the law
gives a Justice jurisdiction only over cases
involving 5100 in damages or less, and my
client shrinks from the publicity of appear
ing in a higher court. The breach of con
tract is plain. My client entered the de
fendant's shop end seated himself in a chair.
The defendant adiusted towels about his
neck, lathered his face and began to shavo
him. Having done this my client claims
"that he entered upon an implied contract to
finish the job. In this I think your Honor
will agree.
THE DBOKEN CONTRACT.
"But he did not finish it. On the con
trary, owing to a political dispute, the de
fendant ceased shaving him when only half
his beard had been put onYshaving paper.
He ordered him from the shop. My client
remonstrated, but the defendant was obdur
ate, and, after waiting ten minutes for the
defendant to complete his contract, left the
shop only to be jeered at by small boys who
saw mm wiin smootn ngnt cneeK and bris
tling left. These facts I mean to prove, and
then I will ask for damages in the sum
named."
The Bepublicans among tho spectators
began to applaud, but Justice Albee threat
ened to clear the court if silence was not
preserved. When Lawyer Healy arose no
sounds were heard. Lawyer Healy'a re
marks were brief. "We mean to show,
your Honor," he said, "that my client had
ample excuse for not finishing the job. I
mean to show that he was grossly insulted,
and that when Havens sat in the chair that
he, too, entered upon an implied contract
to conduct himself properly, and that it
was the plaintiff and not the defendant who
was first guilty of breach of contract,"
A VERDICT TOR HAVENS.
The testimony for the prosecution was
tnen neara. nan a dozen people testified
that they saw Havens leave the shop half
shaved; others swore that small boys jeered
at him as he walked the street. Then
Havens took the stand. He acknowledged,
on cross-examination that he had called
Dibble a "fool," but said that the epithet
was provoked by Dibble's calling Governor
Bulkeley a "vulgar money-lender to the
State to further his political ambitions."
The defense had only three witnesses, two
of whom testified to the language nsed bj
Havens as he was being shaved.
Justice Albee reflected and then summed
up the case. "My mind is clear," he said,
"thatDibble was guilty of a breach of con-
4aif in r.t fini.lii.l. tliA .!... HS" . . ! J
,a.i u uu uuiDUiujj mc BUUVC. J3Xy 11UUU
is equally clear that he had great provoca
tion in not doing so. But, while this is
true, I doubt if he was right in subjecting
the plaintifl to public ridicule. It would
have been better to have finished shaving
him, and then met him in a meadow some
where. I do not see how I can do other
than find for the plaintiff, for there was a
breach of contract, but I will make the dam
ages nominal, for I don't blame the defend
ant. I therefore award damages of 52 and
order the defendant to pay the costs."
A Handsome Work.
The fall catalogue of John R. & A. Mur
doch, the -well-known florists, C08 Smith
field street, has just been issued from the
press of Percy 1 Smith, 53 and 55 Virgin
alley. Like all the rest of the work that
comes from Mr. Smith's establishment, the
catalogue is a model of neatness and typo
graphical beauty. It contains 30 pages and
cover, is profusely illustrated, and will be
of interest and value to all interested in
trees, bulbs or flowers. The work was
turned out on very short notice, and is a
sample of what can be done in a thoroughly
equipped printing establishment. Mr.
Smith's superb Cottrell presses are tho
finest that are made, and his facilities for
doing good work are unsurpassed anywhere
in the State. .
FREE TRAXSS
To Blaine, on tho Slonongaliela.
See the great safe works in course of con
struction at tho booming new town; exam
ine the magnificent machinery for its
equipment now on the ground; inspect the
unequaled site of Blaine and the cheapest
ana most promising lots in the market. JFor
transportations, mans. etc.. call on
Chables Somebs & Co.,
d 129 Fourth avenue.
16, 1891
W0SE OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY.
President Eaton Says He Has Fifty-Nine
Agents on Doty.
Yesterday was the first time for some
months that the attendance at the Humana
Society meeting was at all encouraging.
There was a large number of persons present
and the meeting was quite interesting.
President Eaton addressed the meeting,
taking the society's work as a subject. He
said that there arc at present 69 agents of
the society scattered over Western Pennsyl
vania in as many towns. One year ago the
society had 15 agents, and during the last
ten months President Eaton has visited 45
towns to appoint agents. President Eaton
also reported that he had been distributing
large amounts of humane litterature.
Preparations are also being made by the
society to send their representative to the
meeting of the American Humane Associa
tion at Denver, Col., on October 8.
Secretary Davidson reported that the
Humane Society is guardian of a fine,
healthy boy, aged 5 years, for which he
wishes to secure-a home.
The following contributions were re
ported: Mrs. Lucy C. Carnegie, 5100; cash,
(B. M.) 55; cash, 52; H. M. Carry, 55; Mrs.
Judge Stowe, 55; Mrs. A. Havokotte, 51;
and fines from 'Squire Hyndman, 510.
Coque Feather Collarettes.
In this extremely popular article we are
just now offering a large lot, imported by
ourselves, in all colors, at 52, which would
ordinarily sell for $4. Buy at once.
Jos. Horne & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
The People's Store Fifth Avenue.
Don't forget our grand opening of fall
millinery to-day, to-morrow and Friday.
Campbell) & Dick.
Ale finds great favor as a pleasant bever
age with many people. Try Iron City
Brewing Co.'s ale. Telephone 1186.
Tho People's Store Fifth Avenue.
To get an idea of the new styles visit our
grand opening of fall millinery to-day, to
morrow and Friday.
Campbell & Dick.
B. &B.
Given away nearly 75 jackets on middle
counter, cloak room 51 to 52 60 each. Did
you ever hear of such ridiculous prices for
jackets? Boggs & Buhl.
Feather collarettes, our own importa
tion, first quality would ordinarily sell for
54 our pnoe, 52 each.
JOS. HORNE & CO.'S
Penn Avenue Stores,
Beer is the unrivaled beverage of all
classes. The Iron ' City Brewing Ca's
"Pilsner" brand is of superior quality.
Best dealers keep it. Telephone 1166.
His Experience-at the Electropathic In
stitute, 507 Penn Ave;
"I have been a terrible sufferer, as have
many others, from the after effects of la
grippe, but my case took a different turn
from that of any other that I have heard of."
The speaker was Mr. Thomas F. Robinson,
the well-known boat builder of this city,
who lives on Lafayette street, Hozelwood,
Twenty-third ward, ol this city.
Thomas F. Sobinson, Lafayette ttreet, Hazel
wood, r
"After I began to recover from the disease
I was attacked with facial neuralgia, and
have suffered since such tortures as man sel
dom suffers from pain, continuous and al
most crazing, in my face and head. I was
also afflicted with lumbago, accompanied by
its usual terrible pains and aches.
"The constant strain upon me finally re
sulted in complete nervous prostration ond
insomnia, or sleeplessness, that nearly set
me crazy.
"The pains in my head were so severe and
continuous that I could neither eat nor sleep
and frequently became so bad as to inteifere
with me following my occupation. I suffered
intense pains from the slightest jar or shock
and could not, for this reason, use the street
cars at all.
"It was in this condition that I was in
duced to apply to the physicians of the
Electropathic Institute, at No. 50Z. Penn
avenue, this city. They examined me, and
nfter a talk with them I placed myself in
their hands for treatment, I was under
treatment less than a week when I began to
grow better, and the decided curative effects
of their method became manifest, and I am
now completely cured.
"I cannot speak too highly of the physi
cians of the Pittsburg Electropathic Insti
tute and their strictly scientific methods of
curing diseases, and I want to say that all of
their patients with whom I came in contact
were greatly pleased with the rapid cures
being made in their cases."
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507 PENN AVE., PITTSBURG, PA.
(Do not mistake the number.)
The physicians In charge of this Institute
are registered and qualified physician!).
They receive and successfully treat all
patient!) suffering from chronic ailments:
B211V0USDISEASES, BLOOD DISEASES,
. RHEUMATISM,
paralysis, neuralgia, scrofula and catabbii,
and all diseases of the Eye and Ear.
LIS
diagnosis .freo.
Ladies will find a trained femalo assistant
in charge of their special department.
Oflice hours: !) a. m. to U m., 1 to 5 p. if., 7 to
8 JO f. it. Sunday: 10 a. m. to I p. sc
iselrf-wssu
STEAMERS AND EXCUBSIONS:
CUNARD LINE-NEW YORK AND LIVER
POOL VIA QUEEN STOWN-From JPIer 40.
North rlrer: Fast express mail service. Galll.
September IS, 3P. Jr.; Umbria, September 19.6 a.m.;
bervla, September 28. 11 M.: Bothnia, beptember 30,3
P. M. : Etrurla. October 3. 6:30 A. II.; Anranla, Oc
tober 10, 10 A. M.; GalUa, October M. !P..: Urn
bria. October 17. 8:30 A. M. Cablmussaice $60 ami
upward: "will not carry steerage; according to loca
tion; intermediate, 3i. Steerage tickets to ami
from all parts of Europe at vtry low rates. For
freight an Jpassago apply to the company's office,
4 Bowling Gfrren. New York. Vernon 11. Brown &
Co., J. J. MCCORMICK, CS3 aud 401 SmlthHeld
street, Pittsburg. se!4-p
-T7"H1TE STAE.LINE ,
I T For Qneenstown and Liverpool.
noyal and United States Mall steamers.
Germanic, Sept. 16, 5 a ml
Germanic Oct. 14. 11 a m
Teutonic, Oct.3. 8:30 a m
Britannic, Oct. Z8, 10 a m
;n:uiunic,Dep.j,'j:.iu a m
Jlrltannic, Sept. 30, 5 a in
Majestic. Oct. 7,8:30 a m
From White Star dock, foot of West Tenth
street.
Second cabin on these steamers. Saloon
rates, $30 and upwards. Second cabin 733 and
$40. Eic urslon tickets on favoralilo terms.
Sreerago from or to old country, $20.
White I itar drafts payable on demand in
all the ;:rino!pal banks throughout Great
BritaIn.jfApply to JOHN J.MoCOBMICK,639
and 401 SlnlthflMrt Pltfiahnr. flr H. MA1T
LAND KERSEY, General Agent, 29 Broad-
1 wy,flew j org. seiiro
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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2F Why shouldn't shoes be cheap now? with leather 15 per cent lower
than ever before and 17 immense shoe firms failing, involving over $ 10,000,
000 during 189 1. We don't have to pay so much.
Laird's Cash Purchase.
. Special $100,000 Sale
Elegant Footwear!
20 to 40 per cent below-regular prices.
EVERY PAIR WARRANTED PERFECT.
S2.90-SPEGAL
$2.18, $2.48 AND $3.90.
i, 200-pair Gents' Elegant Fine Calf Lace and Congress, tip or plain,
single or double soles; elegantly fitted; latest style; sizes and half sizes; all
widths. Your choice only $2 90, regular prices 4 00 to $5 00.
1,850 pair Gents' Genuine Kangaroo Lace and Congress; new goods;
latest styles; perfect fitting, very choice, only $2 90 a pair, worth $5 a pair
regular.
900 pair Gents' Fine Patent Leather-Shoes at $2 90, 3 90 and 4 90 a
pair, worth regular 5, $6 and $7 a pair.
1,640 pair Gents' Fine Calf, Dongola and Kangaroo Shoes, tipped or
plain, single or double soles; very latest styles: perfect fitting; all seamless
and silk stitched. Only $2 18 and $2 48 a pair for choice, worth at least
$i& pair more than we ask for them.
$2M-8pecM For Ladies-$2.90.
$2.18, $2.48 AND-$3.90.
Every pair warranted perfect. .
1,500 pair Ladies' Finest French Kid and Dongola Button Boots, flexible
soles; hand sewed and welted; tipped or plain; common sense or opera
lasts; full sizes and half sizes; widths from AAA to EE; perfect fitting;
very Jatest styles; worth regularly S4 to $5, now selling at $2 90.
1,700 pair Ladies' Fine Dongola Kid Button Boots; full sizes and half
sizes; widths from AA to EE; common-,sense and opera lasts; silk stitched,
flexible and very fine; perfect fitting; worth anywhere $3 to $4, your
choice $2 18 and $2 48.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' SHOES!
SUMMER STOCK AT BARGAIN PRICES.
Lightweight Rubbers and Gunf Boots.
LAIRD'S SHOE STORES
406, 408 and 410 J BARGAINS 1 433 Wood St.
Market St. LB0TH STORES J Entire New Stock.
WHOLESALE
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Mosaic pattern of Brnssels Carpet Is one of the really 'Tiew things" forhomeadomment
that Is worthy of your Inspection. Keech has a tine line of these beautiful carpet), the
figures being exact reproductions of ancient Egyptian, Grecian and Roman Mosalo pat
terns. The dosltrns are as beautiful an the? are varied, and colorings are of rare beauty.
DON'T MISS SEEING THEM THIS WEEK.
FOLDING
Of every style and price. The largest and
HOU5EiruK.Kism.xus or every Kind
OB CBEDIT.
EIEECH
923, 925, 927 PENN AYE., - NEAR NINTH STREET.
OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS.
STEAMEBS AND EXCURSIONS.
ANCHOR LINE.
"Steamer Leave New Yorlc Every Saturday
For Glasgow via Londonderry.
Bates for Saloon Passage VO and npward, according
to accommodation and location of room.
Second Cabin. $30 Steerage. 119.
MEDITERRANEANMLRVICE-NewYorktoGlb-
raltar and Naples. Steamship Victoria, Monday,
beptember 28, 3 P. M.
Cabin passage, lit) to siw.
Passengers booked at through rates to or from any
city lu Oreat Britain or on the Continent.
Drafts on London Sold at Lowest Bates.
Book of Information, tours and sailing lists fur
nished on nppllcitlon to agents.
HENDERSON BROTHERS, 7 BowUng Green. N.
Y., or J. MCCORMICK, U39 and 401 Smlthfleld St.;
A. D. SCORER A SON. 41 Smlthfleld St.. Tltts
burg; F. M. SE1IPLE. 110 Federal St.. Allegheny.
ALLAN LINE
KOYALMAXX. STEAMSHIP
Glasgow to Philadelphia,
VIA DERBY and GALWAY. Tlio most direct
route from Scotland and North and Middle of Ire
land. ACCOMMODATIONS UNSURPASSED.
Intermediate, S30. Steerage. 13.
CTHTrl SERVICE OF
,.J?, J AJLVIvAJV LLXB
LINE. ( STEAMSHIPS.
NEW YORK AND GLASGOW,
via Londonderry, every Fortnight.
Sept. , State of NeTada, 2 r. M.
Oct. 1, State of Nebraska, 8:30 A. M.
Oct. U. State or California. 1 P. M.
CABIN, t35and upward. Return 83 and upward.
Steerage, 13.
Apply to J. J. McCOBMlCK. est Bmlthfleld street.
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FOR MEN-$2.90.
AND RETAIL.
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best - selected stock ever placed on exhibition.
one-iourtn cneaper nere tnan eisewnere.
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It. Thousands In Pittsburg and Western
Pennsylvania testify that Ta-va-zon Lunar
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