Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1872, Page 2

2 e THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, ELECTION RETURRS. THE GRAND RESULT. ‘BEPORTED MAJORITIES BY STATES. [Compared with the vote in 1663 and votes in Biate elections next preceding the Presidential of 1872.] 7T, PRESIDENT. “anoufias. = o ety S 50,000, divided among Charles O’Conor, Bour- boo-straight; James Black, Temperance ; Charles Francis Adams, Anti-Secret-Socioty ; and others. s . THE ELECTORAL YOTE. For Ulysses S. Grant, 29 States, For Horace Greeley, { Stat In coubt, Florid Total votes,..... ILLINOIS. OFFICIAL RETURS: FROM 74 COUNTIES. 1863, I 1872, PREGIDENT. || PRESIDENT. | GOVERNOR. 0 52 (52 152 o3 (=2 - Countier. 53 118Y |58 (159 |58 SETE (SR 0EE (s 4,734 iy L85 Chianpaiys Christian.. ik e gore O porme 1o BETEE o505 tom oMt neLs] S5 LERE £ s fik oy BLBEE Hrogom 4 Treasu; Atts. General Congress., Hell DE WTIT COUNTI-OFFICIAL, (575 Oglesby. Aw'y Gengzal. Congross.. Eenator. Trosurer. Aty Geaeral. = President Gorernor: Lt. Gorerior. ec. of Stato. Auditor:, Senator. . Barnes . Representativesl'rick..., Lare. oert Black L nck Secy. of State... Rummsi Auditor O'Har: Treasure tor Burke RepresentativesVirden. Gorernor ozrni Lieut.Governor. ileck Sec. of State.... Rum: Auditor, 0 Sonator. Luce, Represeataivds Jackéon Guvernor. Koerner Lt. Govgrnor.... Black.. . of State.... Rum at L. Brown, RepresentativesMeucham. utto, <. President. Governor . Governor.. Lient.Governor Sec. of State Forth 3 ROCE_1SLAND COUNTY—OFFICIAL. -Greeley...... L&~ Grant oe: Lippincott.. Rutz, aris.. Barrett, indp. D, Represeatatives; Hum 2, c ZERAEELEEE TEIEE L TBE GONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, FIFTH. (Candidates forCongrees: Liberal, James Ding- moor, of Sterling; Republican, Horatio C. Burchard, of Freeport: 1868 ———y 1872y ~CON( Seir. Grant. Greey. Grant: Dinge. Bureh; aoll.... e IR LT e Jo'DM’l\:l!-: P57 ee e g:.fi b 8,34 14,036 6,458 Candidates for Congress: Liberal, Gavion D. A. Parks, of Joliet; Republican, Franklin Cor- win, of Peru: ks, Corwin L 1,508 409 1,807 4,219 %% 810 3,83 Total. 8™ Bm Majorfies 5%9 EIGHTH. Candidates for Congress : Liberal, George O. Burmes, of Lacon; Hepublican, Greenbury L. TFort, of Lacon. -1668- 1872- ~CONGRES! Seym'r, Grant. ‘Gree'y. Grant, Barnes, Fort. 621 4% 1,213 671 1,%6 2,764 8,081 1,80 00 . % 8,561 951 Livingston. 3,133 8,448 3,110 Marspball, & i 1,624 ‘Woodford .. 2,216 1,863 1,545 Total. 470 13,094 Majori'es & 5,148 NINTH. Candidates for Congress: Liberal, Nicholas E. Worthington, of Peoria; Republican, Gran- ville Barrere, of Canton, Fulton County. 1863 1873—— ~CONGRES| Seym’r. Grant. Gree'y. Grant. Wor'tn, Har'r. Falton 59 3,704 3, 3,807 3,481 nas Te9 4El AW 423 1,26 61T Total....IL571 14,21 12,84 10,7 Majoriien 693 p e e AT WISCONSIN. Special Deepatch to The Chicago Tribune, MapisoN, Wis.,, Nov. 12.—The Jowrnal, to- night, gives the official voles from twelve coun- ties, and reports and estimates from the remain- der, and figures 19,000 majority for Grant in Wieconsin. ~ The Republicans will have thirty-~ seven or eight majority for United States Sena- tor on joint ballot. s ARIZONA, N&w Yorxk, Nov. 12.—A private telegram from San Diego, Cal., says: ** R. C. McCormick has been re-elected to Congress from Arizona, ‘without opposition.” —_— KANSAS, ArcergoN, Kan., Nov. 12.— Returns, official and reported, from all the counties in the State; except nine, make Grant's majority 80,485, Thoso yet to hear from are frontier, and all ara Republican. _Their vote will increase the ma- jority from 2,000 to 3,000. Only two of the Bixty-two counties in tho State give majorities for Greeley, and in these the Liberal majority is less than the Democratic majority two years ago. g KENTUCKY. LoutsviLLe, Ky., Nov. 12.—The Courier-Jour- nal bas official returns from eighty-three coun- ties in Kentucky, which give Greeley 86,684 votes; Grant, 75,875 ;~ O'Conor, 1,907. Greeley's ma- jority, 8,899, 'This leaves thirty counties to hear from, ‘which, with three or four exceptions, are in the mountain districts, and will doubtless re- duce Greeley’s majority to o small extent. b ARKANSAS, Lirrer Rock, Nov. 12.—Both political parties in this State continue to claim_the State. Ac- cording to tho official returns, Baxter is elected. Outeide polls wero held in & number of coun- tiee, and, counting these, Brooks is elected. Lol CALIFORNIA, Bax Fraxcisco, Nov. 12.—Grant's majority in thiscity, by the official canvass, is 605. e S s How the Crop Reports are Gathered by the Agricnitural Bureau. A statistical correspondent is selected from each county in the States, The nomination is made by ofticers of agricultural societies, by members of Congress, or by individuals of known character for judgment and integrity. The qualifications required are, large facilities for observation of growing crops, sound judg- ment in agricultural matiers, and prompt- pess in responding to circulars of in- quiry, both regular and special. The po- sition is honorary rather than remunerative, affording no temptation to mercenary unfitness, offering only co-operation of the department in local improvements, and such incidental favors, in ita documentary ‘and_other distributions, as may serve to indicate a just appreciation of the unselfish efforts of public-spirited farmers in the improvement of their respective neighbor- hoods. These deserving appointees continue faithfully, year after year, a Eorvice rendered more efiicient by repetitions of its perform- ance, and report, in the firat week of each month, with s uniformity and srompt‘neu scarcely equaled by = salarie agents under ~ compulsory rea-}snirsmenc of prompt correspondence, ‘They also respond willingly to systematic inquiry upon special topics for inves-~ tigation, as wages of farm labor, cost of fences, statistics of bee-keeping, and_any specialty de- manding a systomatic collection of facts from original sources. These men associate Wwith themaelves several assistants, representing dif- ferent sections of the county, thus constituting & county board of crop statistics. The inquiries are forwarded several weeks in advance, and copies are placed in thehands of theseassistants, in season to make the requisite observations, and correspond or confer with the principal, who is then ready to make = deliberato and trustworthy return, The tabulated returns for October, in answer to twenty-two separate inquiries, illus- trate the range of the monthly schedules, which vary constantly with the season. Thesereturns, coming, in throughout the first half of each month, many of the more distant requiring & period of ten days in the transmission by mail, are tabulated as received, the county percent- ages footed up, and the aggxegats divided by the number of counties. Then, a8 certaincoun- ties may produce of & given crop many times the amount grown in certain others, a compound calculation is made, involving the relative pro- duction of the counties, by which the first crude average ia corrected and the exact value of the entire returns expressed. It will be geen that the amount of labor involved in_ this workis berculean, fifty to one hundred calculations often being required to correct the average of & eingle crop in a single State. In addition to the tabulated returns, ‘‘remarks" illustrating the pe- culiarities of the local situation are made by each correspondent, which are_examined, condensed, some of tho more noticeable arranged for pub- licetion, and the remainder, in spirit, if not in substance, enter into the statistician’s sum- mary of the monthly crop returns. The returns are izbulated in figures. The unit in all com- parigons is 100, . e., 100 is the area of last year, if comparative acreage is sought; 100" is & healthy normal ‘‘ condition” of growth and vitality, which should insure, with & continu- ance of circumstances equally favorable, an average crop ; and 100 is au average yield, when the amount of production "is asked for. The inqui is also made, after the harvest is fully over, for the actual Jocal yield per acre in bushels of each crop. Germany has a eomewhat similar _plan, based upon psrcenlnlfa returned, and the English mode i8 eimply a collection of ‘miscellaneous reports couched in thelanguage of the individual report- ers, similar to the systematio collections at- tempted by newspapers in this country. These crop-reporta are made monthly during the grow- ing seagon. For eeveral years seven such re- ports, between April and November, bave been tabulated and published. e e = Trouble Among Yale Students. There is serious trouble among thoe Yale stu- dents. It appears that there is a very serious feeling, lmnn%the students against themembers of Scroll and Key and Skull and Bone Societies. The champion base ball flag has been missing for some time, and it has finally leaked out that the members of the Scroll and Key Society have, the other students say, atolen it_and locked 1t up in their hall among their trophies. This has exas- perated the rest of the college to such an extent, that they have taken to annoying the members of the society in every way possible on the nights of their meetings. Last week Thursday night, they streiched wires across the eidewalk an tried to trip tho members up 8s they left their Lall, and set off a bowl of Greek fire, which had the effect of frightening the society men great- ly. Thureday night the Key's men, a8 they are called, heard that thers was an attempt to be made to lock them in their hall, it being the occa~ sion of one of their annual festivities. They ap- plied to the police office for protection, and Officers Merwin and Dougherty were detailed 1o watch the buildiog till 2 o'clock and prevent any attempt. At the time of writing nothing bad been done. The students outeide the socie- :ly 8y that they will use every means to get the ag, which belongs to the bage ball club and not to the ecciety. The students were further ex- asperated by an article in the College Couranl, written, they eay, by a Skull and Bones mem> ber, in which Le speaka of the eociety men as the superiors of the rest of the college. Where the matter will end is not, known, but it ie cer- tain that the college world ontside theze two o~ cletiés are very greatly exasperated. —_— e T A Colorade Railroad. DENVER, Col,, Nov. 11.—Arapahoe County voted to-day to issue £200,000 in gunda in aid of the Denver, Georgetown & Utah Railroad Com- pany, three-foot gauge. The road is to run Irom Denver by Clear Creek Canon, and is tQ be completed to Georgetown within one year, THE HORSES. Favorable Reports From Botfi Public and Private Stables. The Disease Rapidly Disappearing--- The ‘Street Car Horses. It is probably safe to say that’ Chicago has passed the crisis of the horse epidemic, and is now in a fair way to recover her crippled equine facilities. The fair weather which has prevailed almost without exception since the disease made its appearance, has been of incalculable value to horse owners and to the entire community. Not for years at this season has Chicago experienced euch fayorable weather, and it really seems as though a kind and considerate Providenco was regulating atmospheric matters with especial reference to our particularneeds. The situation looked decidedly dubious yesterdsy morning, with the cold drizzling rain and a repidly lower- ing temperature, and many of those who had started their horees to work withdrew them to the barns at once. Soon after moon, however, the sky began to brighten, the rain ceased, and the sun came out onco more. The weather was colder than bofore, but so clear and bracing as to be advantageous rather than disastrous to our equine patients. If tho present fine weather continues, it is probable that in four days we ehall seo tho streets once more wearing their wonted aspect of bustle and activity. Throughout the whole city & vastly im- proved state of health among the horses was re- ported. At Parmelee's stable they were getting along finely, with no dissbled ones excepting & few whose necks and chests bad been severely Dblistered 'for curative purposes. Out of 150 horses in the barn, 100 were being worked on the omnibuses and baggago wn§ons, r. Parme- lee having resumed the transfer of passengers from the depota to the hotels, though he has not yot been able to call at thehotola for passengers, but hopes to do 5o in o day or two. Among his stock is a fine, large six-year-old mare of half Norman blood, which hes been worked uninter- ruptedly ever since the epizootic arrived, often doing double service on the baggage wagons. She has hed the disease with the others, but, being unusually hearty and sound in all respects, with no_weak spots to give way, she has stoo the strain throughout, and is now in first-rate condition. g The horses of tho South Side Railway Com- pany are improying rnsid.ly. No new cages of disease appeared yesterdsy, The experiment of exercising the animals has proved beneficial, the horaes appearing muchbetter after having made a trip or two up and down Btate street. Great caro was taken of them, and they were not driven too fast. Aseoon as taken in the barn they were rubbed down and blanketed. When offéred foed they eat heartily. Twenty-five oars were running on Tnesday, and it was the inten- tion to double the number yesterday. The threatening aspect of the weathor, however, in-" duced the Superintendent to change his pro- grammo, and the cars started early in the ‘morning were called in. Nearly all the horses aro in good condition, although many still havo the symptoms of the epizootic. Very few are believed to be dnngcmmfly il ‘The West Side Lomin.ny have been unable to run any cars yet. Their animals, whilo in a better condition than a few days ago, are not ablo to work. There are meny afiicted with the malignant type of the disease, but it is believed but & small proportion will die. The Superin- tendent bas no idea when travel will bo re- sumed. y T+wo horses belonging to the Fire Department are dengerously ill, and not expected to live twelve hours. The other nags are better, and will have fully recovered in a week or g0, unless s material change in the weather aggravates their complaint. Forty horzes died of the disease on Tuesdey, and about thirty-five yesterday. B e A N THE MANAGEMENT OF FIRES. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bre: In your pzpor of the 11th insi., ot the close of an article on the ‘ Construction of Buildings in Large Cities,” you remark that “They manage these things better in France.’ They certainly do, and there are many things' we have got to learn from that country; but my object at present is not 8o much to call atten~ tion to the superior construction of buildings in Franco a8 to the French method or managing fires. We have imported from France the Mansard roof, and we are, year after year, adding to the height of our buildings ; and oc- casionally we are reminded, by a destructive fire, that our appliances for fighting it are useless when it breaks out in the roof of alofty build- ing. Then the newspapers break out into de- nanciation of theseroofs,—a favorite expression is to call them * lumber-yards ;” but, still, peo- ple will build them, and it is doubtful whether any such epithets will drive them out of use. The Mansard is recognized as having merits, and probably will continue {o be used until some- thing better is devised. Itis a prevalent impression in this country that our fire apparatus is as near perfection as it is permitted to mortals to achieve; and, when & fire occurs that is uncontrollable by our ma- chines, we are ready to cast the blame on any- thing rather than on them, or on our system of managing fires. It is aleo commonly supposed that owing to tho solidity of the buildings in France, fires are almost unknown, or, if they do occur, it is_impossible for them to extend {rom one building to another. This is true in part, but it is also true that, when fires occur in tall buildings surmounted by Mansard roofs, they are subdued by the Iire Department. The Paris Tire Department is but moderately supplied with engines for throwing water, but has a full supply of aflmmma of its own, the ‘principalarticies of which areladders, axes, knot- ted ropes, and iron bars. A municipal ordinance obliges every building tohave iron hooks insert- ed in its walls at specified intervals from top to bottom, and similar hooks are inserted in the slope of the roof. The fircman-is always & soldier who has served his seven years in the army, and he.is also an expert nest. He is well paid, and poeitions in the Fire Department are much sought after. by ex-soldiers ; but none are accepted except those who can pass_the requisite examination respecting their agility, courage, and sobriety. The principle upon which they fight fire is to attack it with the ax and throw the burning mg-~ terisl out of the building, and, when it is in the street, the engines extinguish the fire, and carts load up the "wood and carryit off. All this is done with a rapidity and a’perfection of disci~ pline which aroprfectly astonishing. If tho fra breaks out in one of the u&)per stories of abuild- ing, then the hooks and knotted ropes come into play. The fireman throws his rope overone of the hooks, and immediately climbs upit, carry- ing on his shoulder one end of a light ladder, which he suspends to the hook. A comraderuns up thie ladder, carrying another one with bim. In tho meantime, the first fireman has thrown his rope over_another hook, and is prepared to climb up it with tho end of the eecond ladder. ‘This operation is repeated as often as neceseary, snd, in lees time than it takes to write this de- sgcription, they will mount to the top of the tallest building. The firemen run up these lad- ders with their axes, enter the winSOw of the story where the fire is, and one party hacks and” ‘hews, while = _another throws the burning wood into_ the _strest. If there seems be danger ~that the fire may cut off their retreat by the ladders, then one member of the party lays an iron-bar across a window of every story of the building, 8o that, if worst comes to Wworat, the fireman may pass his rope around it, slide down to tho story below, draw his rope after him, repeat the process, a thus escape. Of course, it somotimes happens that the fire bas made such headway before the firmen arrive that all'hope of saving the building is past, and the only thing to be done 118 o prevent its spreading to the adjacent build- ings. .Thisis accomplished bymounting to the tops of tha threatened buildyjngs, and cutting away everything combustible, and throwing it into the street, whence it is speedily carted away. To demoligh g Mangard roof under theso circumetances is biit the work of & few minutes 1o these expert and ¢ourageous men. The Parig Fire Department would consider iteelf disgraced if it permitted a fire to communicate from roof to roof of tall buildings, as recently happened in Boston, and as we havo seen happen in Chicago over and over again. Persons who witnessed the Lurning of the Drake and Farwell buildings on Wabash avenue, two years zgo, will remember how utterly useless our Fire Department wero on ihat occasion ; and spectators, who had witness- ed the efficiency of the French firemen under similar circumstances, were very free in_their comments on the folly of allowing those build- ings to burn up. The whole trouble was, that our firemen did not know what to do with & fire that was beyond the reach of their’ stream of water ; and they have not learned yet. The Paris firemen go through their exercises every day. Persons who have lived in Paris, "in the noighborhood of tho Luxombourg, Ml remember to have seen them practising their manceuvres on a lofty wooden structure, much resembling . the derricks used in erecting our sbuildings. Besides the operations I have de- cribed, they go through a number of others which have reference to @nv‘mE life from burn- ing buildings, and saving themselves from dangerous situations ; but all their faculties are kept 1n use, and the corps is maintained in the highest possiblo stete of efiiciency.. No bet. ter evidence of their efficiency can be desired than the labors chaygedormedm saving Parig from the dotermined efforts of the Com- munists to destroy it by fire. The Paris fire- man should be awsrded his full share of credit for what he did at that time. When the Hotel de Ville was burnt,—an enormousstructure, that would cover nt least three blocks of the Ciiy of Chicago, with the intervening streets,—the heroic efforts of the firemen prevented the fire from spreading to any of the neighboring build- ings ; and, all tho while, fighting was going on in the streets around them. Tt is perfectly plain that the Mansard roof bas token up its permanent residence in country; and, while we welcome the conveniences it brings wus. we are unpre- pared tor its dangers. The Frenchmen utterly reject the idea of combatting fire with water alone ; and, as we have adopted one of their styles of building, we shall probatly have to go to them to learn how to put out the fircs that occur in those buildings. There is no danger that our steam firo engines will not find plenty todoalso. There will lways be somewhers, even in our best-built cities, & quarter given up to wooden buildings, shich will furnish constant materials for firo, and whero the engines will find frequent opportunities for practice,—that is, wunless = we, some day exccute the fire-ordinances which already exist on paper. But, for the protection of our valusble structures, many stories high, and thickly crowded together, something like the French system is indispensable. If a fire should bresk out to-morrow in the roof of the Pacific Hotel, the Sherman House, or ony other of our tall buildings, not all tho steam fire engines in the city, with all the ** Babcock extinguishers on wheels " with which the Mayor proposes to rein- force them, could save the building from de- struction. There would be much running to and fro, and torrents of water would be-thrown into the air to no purpose, and we should seo the building burnup in_ spite of them all, aud perhaps spread destruction all around it. They manage this thing bettor in Frauce. R. Cr1cAGO, Nov, 13, 1872 —_—— MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. A Grand “Rush” Between the - % XLits” and “DMedics.” From Our Oun Correspondent. ANK ARvOR, Mich.,, Nov. 17, 1872, Last Baturdey occurred the largest and most exciting *rush ” known in the history of the University. The annual “rushes” of Yale and other Eastern Colleges, between Sophomores and Freshmen, have been celcbrated in prose and verse for many years. The Sophomores of Michigan University have never been backward in introducing Freshmen to Colloge customs and, during thoe last six weeks, various earnest, but friendly, encounters have taken place be- tween them. Last Saturday, however, wit- nessed & *“ rush ” differing from the historic one in many particulars. Instead of being between two classes, it was between two departments,— between the Medical and Literary Departments. From timo immemorial, thers has been & glight disagreement between the two Depart- ments. Tho Medics ” have looked with manly scorn on the more younthful Lits ; ” and history relates that they wera in the habit of breaking up by force the anciont custom of “burning Physics” by tho Junior class. The ¢ Lits,” in turn, have looked upon them as social outlaws, mere bone-cutters, without wit, or worth, or manners. The football ground being in close vicinity to the Medical building, on several oc- casions of late frolicsome ‘‘Medics” . have joined in the game while on their way to lec- tures, and once ortwice carried the ball with them into the lecture-room, leaving the * Lits™ momning without. Last Eriday afternoon, s number of ‘‘ Medics dFll ed football with the *Lits,” and were badly defeated by their more ?ractized and :fii.le opponents. An extempore “rush ” closed the game, in which reither side goined any material advantage. The slumber- ing lion in the breasts of the ‘‘Medics” wag aroused. The next morning, they resolved, in a meeting of their Department, to show the im- pertinent “Lite™ their proper place, and to rush” them all off from the Campus, without any ado, that same afternoon. Alas forthe plans of man, how they are frustrated! Full threa hours 'that afterncon, & bloodless war was Tought, when the last sanguine **Medic” was gently tossed over the fence by the triumphant “ Lits,"—a case of poetic justice. At the commencement there scemed to be but little doubt of tho issue. The ‘“‘Medics” were out in full force; the * Lits,” with the excep- tion of the Freshmen and Sophomoreg, who ex- pected to play football, were not all present, and those of the Juniors and “Seniors who were there came merely as spec- tators of the same. After a couple of games of football, the “Medics,” at a_signal, commenced to wrestle with every ““Lit” inreach. For a timo, everything wentmerryas » marriage- bell for the “‘Medics ;” but the bystanding up- per-classmen, sceing their own classmates i the crowd, tore off coat and vest, and, leaving jewel- ry and canes in the hands of nentral friends, plunged in with the ardor of former days. The war cries of * Here Lit !" Here Medic !” “Go it, Medic !” ““Go in Lii !” were heard on_every side. Presently, a well-matched “Lit” and % Medic” would be seen struggling for the mast- ery, and then the cry of “ Form a ning !” would rise ; and, locking arms, those nearest the con- testants would endeavor to keep back the surg- ing crowd until one should throw the other. The friends of the victorious hero would then rush forward to elevate him above the crowd, when the other side would make & similar rush to pull him down. The unfortunate victor would thus become the focus of the efforts of some fifty or moro struggling and perspiring beings. Sooner or later, down he would come, mora ex- hausted by the attention of his friends than by his single contest. Another and another rinj Was formed, containing Eometimes sever couples struggling atonce. Frequently, the vic- torious one would raise his fallen foe, and, ghaking him by the hand, in token of good wil, seek other prey. And in the mi(d)st 'Was many & noble deed, and many a base, And chance, and craft, and strength in single fights, And ever and unon, with host to host, Bhocks, At length, a large ring was made by ccmmon consent, and two self-appointed masters of cere- monies brought out their pets, Fortune was fickle, although she secmed at last to smile most decidedly on the camse of the *‘Lits.” One “ Medic,” of a short and golid build, had fre- quently called for some ** Lit ” of his own stature to comeforth. He objectedto all who responded asnot falfilling his requirement, until one Senior was procuced who, if anything, was slighter thai Medic.” After some twisting and turuing, the #Lit" Janded him on his back twice. Then, to vary the porformance, a ** Madic” and “Lit" tried the country style of boxing, by knocking off the cap. A skilful boxer in the Junior class, unused- to that mode of boxing, came off second-bost with an active *‘Medic but, on a pair of boxinfifilovea being intro- duced, astonished not only the *¢Medic,” bub even his own friends, by a display of skill and science quite beautiful to witness. Others !:lxol,l_ put on the gloves ; but uniformly the * Medics faredill. Their antagonists were lighter and quicker, snd showed-tue superiority of skill over mere muscle, s Both sides being now rested, the ring was broken, and the “rush” commenced over, With even greater energy than before. In tho rugh,” if anywhere, it was expected that the Medics’ would conquer. ‘The average age of the mexug unquestionably several years greater than that of the “Liits,” and they are larger and heavier, Nevertheless, unused to the business, f-h%fl Btrength was mot_rightly - directed ; whilo the “Lits," acting a8 by ono mind, pushed in_one direction. Westward !” cried the ¢ Medicc s “ Eastward!” responded tho “Lits.” It was now growing late, and numbers, Woary of the work, left the ground, The “Lits” had suc- ceeded in nearing tho east fonce, and all stray “Dedics ” were lifted over the fence, willy~ nilly. £ The victorious * Lits ” thon marched in pro- cession down town, leaving fragments of shirts 28 banners, and singing songs of triumph. The ¢ Medics " acknowledge the defeat, but declare that they will have another * rush ™ soon. ‘Altogether, it was the largest “rush” that ever was seen here. There were upward of 600 men on the field, exclusive of spectatora. EVANSTON. Town Trustess’ Monthly Meeting-- Petition Against the Admis- sion of a Railroad. A New and Novel Way to Prevent the Escape ‘of Prisoners--Protecs tion Against Fire. The monthly meeting of the Town Trustees wes held Tuesdsy night in the Town Hall, Pres- ident C. J. Gilbert in the chair. The Trustees present were, C. F. Gray, D. H. Wheeler, Am- brose Foster, J. H. Kedzie, and C. J. Gilbort. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approyed. A potition for two additional lamps on Forest avenue was granted, and a like Petition for two lamps on the corners of Judson and Davis streets was refersed to the Commit- tee on Streets. ’ Apetition was read from the owners and dwellers on Sherman nveuue, praying tho Board of Trustees to ‘decide adversely to the petition of the Chicago & Evanston Railroad Company for the right of entry into the village on.Sher- man avenue. It was objected to by the petition- 18 on substantially the same grounds that the citizens® resolution set forth. It was signed by E. Heskin, Philo Judson, Earl Powers, Merril Ledd, and sbove fifty others. It was received and placed on file. The propriety of an additional policeman was roferred to President Gilbert and Street Com- missioner Foster, with power to act.- The above Committee were also authorized to ropair the jail, which the last prisoner had de- molished, 2nd it was thought best to muke pris- oners go barefoot, and thus prevent them from kicking through the walls, A petition was received from the Evanston College for Ladics. nsking that the restrictions under which they received their title to the block on which their new building is being erected, be removed, es they have complied with them, aud that thoy Le given an nurestricted titlo to thie same. Tho Board declined to act until consultation might bo bad with their attorney. A petition, signed by niuety-three citizens, asking that & fire-engino of the Bubeock, Gard- nor, or some othor muke, should bo purchused, was received and placed on file. After cousiderable discussion, the whole sub- ject was Teferred to President Gilbert, C. I. G'ff’ and J. H. Kedzie, with power to act. lessrs. Kedzie und Wheeler, aud Hugh A. ‘White, the attorueys of the Board, were ap- pointed to revise the village ordinance under the new law. The proposition of the Trustees of the Li- brary Association to donate their library to the town, to be un_ by the latter s a free library, received no decisive action. The Library Trus- tees are willing to carry it on for the remainder of the year, paying the remuiuing expenses. The Attorney of the Board, Hugh A. White, wes iu- Btructed to draw up a fire ordinance prohibiting’ the erection of wooden buildings in an area ex- tending 150 feet on either side of Davis street, from Hinman avenue to Maple street; after Which the Board adjourned to meet in oné wek. THE PHILOSOPLICAL ASSOCIATION. Thbe Rev. Dr. R. W. Patterson, of Chicago, at the special request of this Association, resd bis essay on the ** Progress of Thought " before the members of the Association and the people of Evanston, in the Methodist Church, atthat place, last Tuesday evening. It is substantiully the same discourse that the Doctor delivered before fl:ezunmni of Lane Theological Sewninary,May 9, 72, At the-close of the oxercises at the church the members of the Association, with their ladies, adjourned to the residence of their President, Professor Oliver Marcy, where they pussed the Temaining portio of the evening in sociul en- joyment. An elegant collation had been pre- pared, and the material wauts of the guests were looked after by the Professor’s amiable daughter, who actod as hostess iu the abueuce of her mother. The gathering disperzed at a late hour, well satisfied with the literary and social pleasures of the evening. A B ————— PERSONAL. Beory Ward Beecher baptized cighteen in- fants on Sunday. —The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute will visit the United States next summoer. —Elihu B. Washburne, now visiting in Dixon, 1., will il for Europe in about three weeks. ZJudge R. P. Marvin, of New York, and Judge Marvin, late of Florida, have gone sbroad together. ~_William Muirhead, the well-known ship- ‘builder on the Miramichi, will shortly be ele- vated dto tlie Canadian Senate, vice Mitchell, re- signed. !E-Profesaor ‘Warren Leverstt, whoee death oc~ curred at his residence in Upper Alton, I1l., Jast Thureday, was well known 'to every graduate and student of Shurtleff College. —~Colonel Robert H. Cowan, formerly Presi- dent of the Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad, and one of the most prominent citi- zens of North Carolins, died on the 11th. —James Russell Lowell, whose picturesque management of verse i3 known to and appre- ciated by all lovers of poetry, is wintering among the students of the Latin Quarter, in Paris. —Charlotte Cushman has a colored woman servant who has been in her service over thirty years, and has crossed the Atlantic with her fourtcen times. She regards her more as a friend than as a servant. —A. L. Pritchard, President of the Bank of ‘Watertown, Wis., refires from tho Secretaryship and Treasurership of the Chicago & Northwest- ern Railway Company,—positions he has held for somo years past. —Bishop Whittingham, of Baltimore, who at- tonded tho 01d Catholio cooference in Culugne, is impressed with the importance of the move- ment, and regards the prospect as very encour- aging toward the accomplishment of the object for which the Congress was convened. —The late Charles Folsom, who died at Cam- bridge, Mass., the 7th, wag in early life connect- ed with the United States Navy, and 80 came to be the instructor of Admiral Farragut. e was for some yeara Librarian of Harvard University, and later of tho Boston Athenmum; and aftor Lis withdrawal from the Athenzum Mr. Fulsom gave some years to the revision of tho latest editions of * Worcester's Dictionary.” —Mesers. John A. Binghaw, Jere. M. Wileon, Milo Goodrich, and Charles A. Eldridge, of the Houso Judiciary Committee, in Congress. huve gone to Leavenworth to_prosecute their investi- %nfions looking to the impeschment of Judge elahey, of the United States Listrict Court, ‘who is accused of such babitual drunkenness ag to be incapable of trustwuithy service. Dela- hay’s son-In-law, Osborn, is the Governor-elect of Kansas, and has boen influentisl, Lithorto, 1o keeping tho Judgo 1n his place, st e GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Flaraafter the worst yon can_wish your cnemy will be, that somebudy’ may put & Mausard 200f’ on him. . ; “An'carthqnake was experienced at Socorro, New MexicS, abont two weeks ago. Y —Copper ore has been dincogered in Dodge County, Wis., in quautities largoe enough to create an excitement. —The receut trial of Bre. Emma Lloyd, of ZLeosburg, Va., for poisoning ber little girl, cost §3,700. And she was not convicted then. —The numerous incondiary fires at New Haven, Ct., have led' Mayor Lewis to propose that the city offer a reward of $500 for the detce- tion of JuL incendiaries, and $1,000 fur those who shall set fire to auy building in future. —There aro five Eeparate orgauizations at Cambridge, England, for promoling the sduca- tion of women, and all of ‘them are thriving. Ope of them isa leading library, managed by Miss J. Kenuedy; another is a series of classcs by correspondence, arranged by Mrs. Puelo. ‘The college for women, of which Mies A.J. Cleugh is the principal, is rapidly filling up. —The Marseiiles quult srorks, near Rock lsland, may suffer some by the Bostou fire. Mr. Little say8 they had 1,300 quilts in the house of Gruss, Daniels & Co., on Devoushire street, ons of the firat points destroyed. The velue of the quilts is about $5,000. 1ir. Little’s partner, Mr. A. H. Stanton, of the Hampshire Manufacturing Com- pany, Huntington, Mass., now on & visit here, also hud 4,000 Marseilles quilts, and about 170,~ 000 yarde of woollens, in the same boumse. The total value is about $60,000.—¢ock Island Argus. —The Woman's Congress at Darmstadt bas Ppagsed a resolution thanking the Imperial Gov- erument for the assistance rendered to the woman's cauee by encouraging the employment of women in the postzl and telegraph service. 1t was furthermore resolved to form an inter- national essociation for the advocacy of womau'a rights, 2 standing committee for which was forthwith elected. Princess Louise, of Hesse, Das been golicited to act as patroness. Disses Carpenter, Wiftaworth, Hill and Meriweather are appointed corresponding members of the com- mittee. 3 —John R. Conklin died at Mt. Morris, N. Y., af8wv days ngo, aged 65 years. Hiscaso wasa singular one : Twenty-threo years ago the past 2 3 00! ® ¥ gy summer, deceased was repairing fences on the edge of Owasco Lake, and accidentally struclk ‘his thumb with the hammer, and it is supposed he hit the nerve; he_immediately went to the Inke and washed it, and thonght nothing more of it for several days, when he felt a fingah:i in his hand and arm, which finally Lecame p: al cd, and, during the next eight years it E;n: y spread over his whole body, rendering _per= feetly helpless, and for the past fifteen years he was unable to move only as he was helped. —_—— SHOCKING SUICIDE. Poison, Agonizing Pain, Matrimonial TMystery and Death. Pitisburgh (Nov.T) Cdrfin?(;sdenw of the New York eral Barney Hargrave, a sober, indnstrious youn fellow of about 23 years of ags, prsilt i 4 cide, this afternoon, by swallowing a large quan- tity of sulphuric acid.” Tho deccased was mar« ried bat o few deys ago to a young, comely girl, who has not yet reached her ‘majority, anl the couple had abont complated their arrangements to enterupon the practical sea of life by going to. housckeeping. The young bride had hardly an opportunity to appear in_her nuptial robes ero shois called upon to follow, in weeds of monrning, a husband of four days to the tomb. Young Hargrave was cmployed in the pietnre-frame manufacturing establishment of W. W. Barker, on Fifth av- enue, and was ever considered by his employer ono of the most reliable and clever young men in he house. This morning he was at work, as usual, and appeered cheerfal, a8 was his wont. Shorily befors 11 o'clock, the proprietor, desiring to speak to him, sounded tie pipe that connocts the store-room with the manufactory. No reply came, and an errand~ boy was despatched to learn the cause. Har- grave was found lying on the floor, suffering the greatest agony. ile was asked what' ailed hi wwhen he pointed to an empty bottle of sulphuria acid, and fecbly replied that was the canse of it. The acid is uacd in a diluted form for cleaning glass, and the suicide had taken upward of two ouaces of the pure drug. Medical men wera instantly summoned, but. the ugnfienh refused, under any circumstances, to allow a stomach- pnm}) to be used, nor would he consentto swallow any of the antidote the physicians endeavored to administer. He was removed to the private sleeping apartment in an adjoinin Lailding, where his young wife, his mother, an eister soon gathered, and at his bedside pre= sented = most distressing and sorrowful scene. . They could onlycontemplate his terrible phya- ical euffering, powerlass to do anything for hia relief, whilo their mental agony was too great " and overpowering to find expression in tears or sobs. It was almost as painful to contemplate the silent, mute grief of the "bride as to witness the euffering of the bridegroom. aj'l’hu man lingered till about 8 o'clock, when he ed. "The facts developed at the Coroner’s inquest read like a romance, but they are obtained from such sonrces as place them reliablybeyond ques- tion. It appears Hargrave had been for o long time keeping company with & respectable young Indy, 2 resident of the First Ward, and they were at one time engaged to be married. About & yesr 2go, for ome reasons now known only to the young lady snd her mother, the engagement Wwas broken off. While ha wes ~ keeping company with her who so recently became his wife, he was frequently in tho receipt of notes from the girl whom he bed disappoiuted or who had di:s&paimed him. Tho contents of these notes he did not reveal, except so far as to confide to her who had his confidence that the tenor of them was invoking curges upon his head. The day previous to his wedding, he received & note from this girl, the conteuts of which were similar to others; butin it the writer demanded s meeting, which he re- fused to grant. He told his expectant bride of this .lotter, and, spesking generally of its contents, treated it 28 o matter of no moment, and lmghingly threw the epistle in the fire, After his marriage the discarded girl continued her correspondence, and this morning Hargrave received a fresh note, which upon opening and perusing, made Lim pale and nervons. He went up stairk aud penned the following note, which was found on the floor after his removal and death : AxxiE: Yean'thelpit; Ismmad. OGod, forgive me, for I can’t live to be pointed at. She has cursed e, and it strikes me to the heart. O, my Lead swims £ ‘This note evidently was intended for his wife, whose namo is as addressed. He refers to the girl who had cursed him, meaning the party to whom he had been engaged previous to fls mare riege with the girl he left a widow. Thore is something deep and damnably dark in the matter. It seerns almost impoasible that young Hurgrave could have contemplated taking hiy life before thismorning. He madehis arrange- ments for housekeeping with theair of acontent- appy men and husband who knewno care and auticipated no sorrow in the fature, and in a moment he commits an act which takes his lifa zod leaves others years of grief and misery. Just previous to his last breath, Father Grace, of the Catholic Church, asked him before his ife if she (his wife) had anything to do with death, when he replied ‘“ No,” that he loved he{ dearly, and regretted death only for hem pate. e MIr. Greeley’s Emancipation. From the New York Tridbune. There has been no time until now, within the last twelve years, when the Tribunewas not sup= posed to keop, for the benefit of the idle and in- capable, o sort of Federal employment sgency, established to get places under Government for those who were indisposed to work for their live ing. Any man who had ever voted the Republie can ticket believed that it was the duty and tha privilege of the editor of this papen 0 et him 8 place in the Cuse tom House. Every red-nosed politician who had eheated at the caucus and fought at tha polls looked to the editor of the Tribune to sccure Lis appointment as Gauger, or 88 Army Chaplain, or as Minister to France. Every cam= Ppaign orator camo upon us after the battle was over for a recommendation as Secretary of the Treasury or the loan of half a dollar. If one of our party had an interest pending at Washing- ton, the editor of the Zribune was telegraphed in frantic haste {o come to the Capitol, save thia bill, crush that one, promote one project or sto) another. e was to be everybody’s frisnd, wit! nothing to do but to take care of other folks® business, sign papers, write letters, and aslk favors for them, and to got mo thauks for it either. Four-nifths of these people were senf away witbout what they wanted, only to be- come straightway abusive enemiea;—it was the worry of life to try to gratify one domand in & dozen for the other filth. . "'he man with £wo wooden legs congratulated Dimclf that he could nover be tronbled with cold fcet. It is & source of profonnd atisfaction to us that office-scckers will keep aloof from & defeated candidate who has not influenca enough at Washington or Albany to get & sweep= et appointed under the Sergeant-at-Arms, ora deputy-sub-aegistant temporary clerk in the paste-pot section of the foiding room. At last we shall be let alone to mind our own affairs, and manage our own newspaper, without being called aside every hour to help lazy peopla ~hom we don't lmow, and to spend our strength in efforts that only benefit people who don't deserve assistance. At least we shall keep cur office clear of blatherskites and political beggara, and go about our daily work with the sxtisfaction of knowing that not the most cred~ ulous of place-hunters will suspect us of having any credit with the appointing powers. Thatia one of the results of Tuendsy's election fox which we own oursalves profoundly gratefal. _— Mrs. Fair Wants Xer Pistols From the Sun_ Francisco Post, Nov. 4. The Cleck of the Fiftecnth District Court on Satnrdny received a note from Laura D. Fair, intimating that the playihing with which A, P, Crittendoun lost bis life, aud which was nsed ag evideuce against ber, be returned to her, asit was ber property. The Clerk was in 5 quandaryy e kizew nut howtto act in the matter, and final- Iy cousultsd Judgo Dwinells, who in tarm salted the Diatrict Attorney's advice in the mat- ter. The latter gentlewan said he knew of na valid_reason why it shonld be retained from My Fair's possession. When she was informed of tho cucumlocution necessary to obtain her own property she waxed wrothy, and marveled 2t ths amouut of confabbing thut little mementa cansed. She will probubly get the pistol to-day. Who is to be the next victim of ewmotional ine sunity? T California Ktems. Bax Fravcisco, Nov. 12.—The stezmer Aris 7003, {rom Panama, i3 eight days overdue sl San Diego. 1In view of the Boston disaster, the Fire Coms missioners of the city nsk 20,000 feet of hose and W0 now steamers. Arrived to-day, the Dritish ship Amints, in 143 daya from Liverpool. Ground was broken yesterday at San Diego or the railroad to San Barnino. There was a grand celebration of the event. It iss beeu raming bard since midnight, and the prospects are good for & fine season. il e R R Gale. 3 PaTERSON, N. Y., Nov. 12.—A fierce gals has been raging over Paterson and vicinity all this evening, and is doing considerable damage to property.