Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1873, Page 2

History of - the Michigan Sonthorn & Lake Shorey-and -of the Chicago, Roclk Island & Pacilics 1,136 Miles of Road Controlled by the Former, and 819 Miles *: by the Latter: ‘Who Built Them---How They ! Were Built and Man- aged. Thoir Present Condition and Fu- ture Prospects. The two rallronds that havo tico. given to Ohlcago a statoly passongor dopot costing ono- . 4third of a million are ontitled to moro than ‘s pasking notico, for only companics ranking proportionatoly foromost could have requiro- ‘morit for nocommodations g0 grandly oxtensivo, With tho unparaloled progross of our city thoy havo always ‘kept oven paco. Like a fabled story, moro startling then tho most gilded xo- mance, ia-tho history of thoir.. wonderful growth. Brillinat’ sucoces always wine admira- tion, clonded and dark though tho. intormediate rocord may bo. ’ THE HISTORY OF THE LAKE BHORE RAILIOAD 16 ono of divoraified Intorost. It wos lnauguratod whon Chicago gave comparatively littlo cuconr- agomont to Eastorn lins, The famillar ery was, “Westward Lo!” Entorprisos that. prom- isod to opon up tho Crent Wost invited and' rocolved tho murplus dollors of tho Enstorn capitalists. Tho product of this polioy gbvo to na o suporabundanco of Wostorn railroads, and corresponding lack: of- mesns to roich the senboard, As yot wo have but threo direct Enstorn ronds, and of thom, in ‘businoss capinolty and results, tha Lnko Bhoro & Michigan Bouthein, in many ‘pusticulars, ranks foromost, Viowed iy tho moroly profitablo aspect, it sur- podscn all our railroads. Ity gross onrnings ox- Teod thoso of any other Obioago railroad by sov- aral millions. 5 This la tho rogult of o Tiboral polloy. Its man- ogora for the lnst half-dozon years have boon monof lorgo oxporionco, sngacions, ovor on tho slort for the “main chnnco,”. present or prospective. More partioulatly his this polloy provilod since tho conaoll flation of the Michigan Sonthorn with tho Lako: Bhoro Road. . Ench of thoso corporations was ront bofore thioy bocamo locked fu_an ingopara- lo ombraco, 'Thoy wero constructed in'dotache’ ments, without any definito intention of. bolng linked togothor, oledo was at_onco tho divid- ing lino and - tho junction .point. Eastward thorofrom four railronds formed tho connoction with Buffalo, Botweon Olovoland and”Tolado, tho raflrond having tho unitod names of tho two citios oxtendod 119 milos, Thonce oastward, tho Clovoland-& Ashtabula Raflrosd ran 95 miles to Erlo. Tho formor was controlled by tho Barnoys; of Now York ; tho Inttor by tho Stones, of Clova- land, In Mnroh, 1859, thoy united thoir intorests under tho congolidatod namo of the Lake Shoro Rullway Company. During tho soparate exist- onco Mr. A, B. Stono was the Prosidont and Manngor of tho Ashtabula Road, while Mr, Johu Nowoll, President of tho Tllinois Contral Railroad, tau tho Toledo Road for tho Barnoys aud the ublic. e TOE MIOHICAN ‘BOUTHERN. Moantimo tho Litchflolds, of Now York, had worked &, railroad through from Tolodo o Chi- cogo under tho stylo of tho Michigan South- ora_& Northorn Indisoa Railroad. It was in- tonded to bo a close compotitor of tho Michigan Central, With this objoot in viow & branch wos constructod_from Adrisn, Micl, -into Detrolt; but, as the Detroit cars hnd to awalt connootions at Adrinn, this route nover bocame a vory formid- ablo rival, Tho Michigan Central aliaya had tho advantage of closo conneotions with the Cana- dinn roilronds, oud thus skimniod off tho oream of tho bisinoss. During this formativo poriod Mr. L. L Bykes, Jr., was tho oxecutive ofticor, and Mr. H. H. Tortor tho Buporintondont of tho road. Doth thoso gontlomen long sinco sevored tho ‘connec- tion, and aro now aseociated with the Ohicago & Norflwostorn, tho formar as Vics Prosident, and both o Direclors, Buccecding theso came’ Mr. E. B. Phillips, who was Prosidont of the ‘rond up to tho tmo of tho consolidstion with the Lake Bhore, in May, 1800. Under his~ manago- mout tho rond sdvanced in populue. favor, | In conjunction with tho ook lefand Road 1t had givon Chicigo tha most imposing pnasenger do- ot on tho continent. _Btoadily its oarnings woro crensing. Alrosdy it hogou to expand and talo, in adjncont linos. _ Northward info _Michigan it reached through Kalamazao toward Grand Rap- ids ond Lovsing, for tho _Tomuners- tive trado of that prosporous region, and oustward it ambitiously contemplatod swallow- ing tho fomous Erie. Tho way for tho accom- plishmont of this procoss was_boing smoothly made whon the yonuger Vanderbilt party stopped In and defented tho plan, Aoy galnod postosion of s mjorty of tho took, and, ot tho May olection _of 1869, votod_them- eolyes into ofiico, and suthorizod tho coneolida- tion of tho Lako'Shoro with tho Michigan South- Quiotly om Roads, This grand coup d'etat gayo Hor, F. Clark the Prosidoncy and Augustus Bohell the Vico-Presidoncy. Displacing Mr, Phillips, they lothim down oasily into tho offico of General Mannger, Five montha' oxperionce_ of waning authority couvincod him of tho axpediency of ro- tiring from o position that was 1o longor agrac- ablo. Into his plage stoppod Mr. J. I, Doveroux, who, boing more n accord with the Clovoland interoat, rocoived unanimous support and on- coursgoment. Thoso changes nocessitated tho_romoval of tho genoral ofiicos o Clove- land, Gradually this was done, For a timo tho Goneral Buporintondont and Chief Maragor waro retainod in Ohicago, but, soon after Mr. Devor- eux's accossion, tho Goucral Suporintondent was enllod to Clovoland, and, upon Mr. Tatel's ro- tirmont from thot oftico’ and Alr. Paine's uo- cossion thoroto, tho Chiof Enginoor was algo lo- catod there, and inco that timo no gonoral ofi- cor bns boon stationod in this city. Itwas thiought by many that tho robuilding of 50 mag- alficont & possonger, dopol, coutaining s ouporb ofiicos, would havo tho offoot of drawing the gonoral oftices to Chicago; but tho fact that {lio Gomprny io now _oroslig & goner. ofllco Tullding in Cloveland must dissipate that expoo- tation, - CONROLIDATION. In August, 1809, tho 88 wmilcs of tho Buflilo & Eric Railroad were mnrgl:n'l into the Lake Byoro & Michigan Railway, making o _continuous il way of 510 milos Letweon Chicago and Bulfeo, Gathoring strenglh, tho Company thon branchd vut in other dircctions, took in soveral huuehcn‘ and stralghtonod somo portion of tho main line! Onomovo inoluded tho Ashtsbula Branch—38 milea; another, a lino from Adrain to Jackson, Mich,—46 miles—and still another connoote Adrion with Monroo, Mich,—33 milos. time, tho routo botwoon Chicngo and Toledo waw shorteucd by tho conatruction of tho Afr Lino from Eikhort to Tolodo—136 inilow; and Bandusky was tokon in by tho yanch lino' ox- fonding from Elyida, O, {o Mllibusg Junotion-. atrol fa deparateorganizatlon, but its capital stook | TockTsland aud tho The | ono Phuidonoy, this arrangomont will contiina ; 76}¢ milos, ‘Iho branch from ‘Loledo to {5 ownod by tho Luke Sliorg. Compavy, TWO GREAT RAILROADS. < out . |- displ Maan- | it COBT OF OONSTRUCTION AND RQUIEN(ENT, Tho ndvnntn;i‘unnn looation of tho Company's linos entoring Tolodo in enlncod by the rocont reliano of 180 aoros, whoraon o largo distribut- ing froight yard has boon arrangod, with o not- work of track ton miles In extont, upon which the throngh traine are mado up and run paat "To- - loto, thus groatly axpoulting businoss. o tho n!uglo itom .of : connlflle?luu,' tho Umpm‘n{ Inst yoar oxponded five and a halt millions, and, for ndditionnl oquipmont, . nearly_two millions moro. Nothing short of soventeon and one half m1ch Tavieh oxpordituros, ., . TIIE. RESULY U {8, o _mognificent railrond, superbly appointed, a orodit nliko to the country it traversos and tho atockholdors it onrices. = Thoy. oan _afford to ndsume grand undottnkings, natnt dro endl or partloulars portiona of tho ling,.but at evory ‘point whoro the Investment will pay. And, whon tho groat firo of Octobor, 1871, !wn{lt nwl‘l{ thoir $125,000 Intorost in _ tho Pasilo Tolel and tholr halt of tho magaificont 350,000 pastongor dopot, tito, Company did" not, try t6 grub nlong -amid: tho ashos and ruins, bué immodintely cloatod thom away, - ond; * with . an -aldorit; that_ inspired enthusiasm in tho hoarls o our desponding oitizons, bogan tho. eroction of tho palatial _struoturo that is bolig publioly opounod amid tho jubilationa of tho continont upon whiok it stands, first among tho foramost. S TIE OFFICERS! i . . At tho,nunual olection hold lsst month, the old , officors of tho Company woro ro-clocted : 1loraco F, Olark, Prosidont; Augustus eholl, Vico-Prosident; J. H, Doveroux, Gonornl Man- agor; Chus. Paine, Gonoral Buporintendont, and .Chaa, Qolllus, Clief Engincor, Mr. Dovoreux was inducod to restgn his position to accopt tho Vico-Prosidenoy of tho Erle Railway—a bonua of $100,000 boing the attraction ; bat, tho current | bolfof is that, as such a movo was -intonded to link tho Atlantic & Great Wostern indissolubly - with - Erle, tho Jottor obuid not carry tho burdon, and the Arrangemont ! foll to tho ground. Consoquontly, Mr. Dovo- x&‘c;:lmmnln! at tho post Lo Lins 8o admirably TII¥, OIIOAO, ROOK ISLAND & PACIFIO BAILRQAD. ‘Tho contractors who builé tho railrond betiveen Ohieago and Rock Tsland got tholr start in Con- noctiont, A canal had boen cut'down thoe Con- naoticut Valloy Into Now Haven, but it was. not n succoss. Thia zeo dlispirited 'tho losing. pro- }:mwm that thoy offerod to soll out uheug. . . Farnum and his confreres ssw the chance, took it, and made monoy out of.it' by la; In[&n‘ railrond on_tho ‘dry biod of the cnmx. n this way thoy gninod posscssion -of & val- unblo propérty, with tho profits.of which thoy came Wost, and undortook to connoot Chicago with Rock fsland by rail. Inthosopionoer days, railroads wora not fo oasily bullt.” 5 o EARLY THISTORY, 3 ' Tho contractors had hot gouo far bofore thoy discovered it was casior for them to do tholr port than for tho stockholders to do thoirs. Thoy ha; Lowever, advanced too far to’ rotroat, so- they Ipug tho road through and took possossion. Mr. Farhum'becamo Prosident, and Mr. John I Tracy, who had displayed_ability and. sagacity l‘rr-:n".e_o@u{gg& porttogs’ ] g Jopviook milliont—lnat yoar's “onrnfuge=would admit of | ‘in n‘instmuflon. was made Superintondent of. the . YOB a oy 7 I Meantimo, John A. Dix, whio han probably fig- | ured in mord Btatos than ‘sny other mau, in nominal c.{muy, wns trying to push tho Missi sippt & Missourl Rallrond through from. Dav- enport to Council Blufla. Tho onco famous Dr. Durant was associatod with him, turned saide to war ‘:lpon Prosident Farnum, .of tho Rook Island Rond, Tho struggio was pro- tractod and bitter, until Farnum, woariod of the sirife, asked Lis oficiont ald to assumo tho quar- zol and sottle it. Rosolufoly Mr. Tracy sob about tho unwolcomo task, and by a scrics of stratogio movoments that baflled” Durant, won the gumo and was vested with tho Pronidoncy. The various mancuvors by which tho rosult was ascomplishod havo & picy flavor,” Tho confliot was o personal one, and of no public interest. i SUOCEEDING EVENTS : 210 atill frosh within tho romembrance of our readers, It wasno furthor back than the spring of 1806, whon two scparato factlons songht. to liold méstingy, transact. busiuoss, and_control thozopds; The Tracy wing woro rosolvod fo consolidate with the Lows road, and issue about six milons in bonds to cover {t; and tho rival interest woro oqually dotormined thoy. -should not. * The Court was callod upon to adjudicato the matter, and the ordor Issued in tho form of o prohibltory injunction, Dut tho ond was not ot. Tho ono party having rosorted to tho law, o otisor fook to the rond, and steamod away from station to station, alwoys boforo tho ¢ miniona of the low " could ovrinko thom. This running-ight was kept up until o truce a3 Arrangod ; and, a herotoforo, MIr. Tracy came t prooticall aligad, aud o his ok sinco boon o ) CONBOLIDATION, Boforo this coneolidation, the longth of - rond operated was 228 milos. This was Inclusivo_of tho Pooris & Burnu Valloy Railrond from Du- rdau Junotion to Pooria, 46 milos,. The amal- amation added: 810 milos across tho Stato of ows, giving . through line from Obicago to Omahs, 'and tho chungo of namo with tho sound- ing addition of Pacifio, indicated tho trade for which tho road was designod to compoto. * In or- der to ronch tho conl sogion, a branch was start- od from tho main linc, ot Wilton, 25 miles west of Davonport, and run 60 miles southwostward on the way.to Oskalooss. 'This, with tho bridg- ing of the Missiesippi (miles), gives tho600 milen ownad and lossod by tho Company, to which should bo added the 250 miles of tho ' Chicago & Bouthwestorn Ruilroad, oxtonding from Wash- ington, Jowa, to Leavonworth, Kan., and goyeu- ty-ning milos built in Yows during 1873, giving s Yand tofal of 019 milos oporatod by tho Rook floud Company. Comparativaly fow sallconds can mako such s favorablo showing ne did tho Rock Tslnd Inst yoar, Tho oporatiug oxponsos Woro s fraction over 48 por cent of tho gross carninge, aud tho lattor wera £5,000,707.8. TIIE TRADE AND TRACK. Situated jointly betweon tho Enstern and the far Wostorn roads, thio Rock Tulind s dopendont largoly upon them for ltuA%qu{nosu. If tho suow on tho Union_Paciflo blogkades that line, or tho Tastorn ‘ronds aro 8o gluttod with froight ns to bo unablo ‘to roceivo . the Rock Ta- Jand is the ono to ‘be corrospondingly | ¥ Squoozod” Dospito this apparont Srawback, ‘Ahorond is’ balng put in admurablo condition: Btool ralls aro bomig Inid upon' that portion of tho track subjectod to the hoaviest trafMlo. Over 100 milos havo alrondy boon Iald, aud the num- ber will approximato 200 bofor tho current: year rung out, A corrosponding improvomont hns_boon mude fn tho rosdbods by roducin ades, widoning cuts nnd embankments, an allasting with stono. Decause of this superior condition the Compeny passod through tho trying sovority of Inat wintor without Daving | thio misfortung to broak o einglo stool rail, A woro alao romarkably freo from mishaps on ac- count of dofoctive iron rails. 'LOSSES BY TILE ¥IRE, y Tho Gompany’s losses by tho great firo woro ory serious, and in many rospocts, incalculablo. Tho loss of proporty In and around thio splendid nanion dopot oxccedod $300,000, to which may bo added tho 100,500 invested in tho Pacifio Totol. In tho hope of ltimatoly rocovoring the latter itom, and at tho samo tima Inepiro faith in_tho stability of our xenovatod elky, tho Iigok Tiland Compady prompily joinod the Lk Shore Uos pany In socuring tho immodiato robuilding of the princely structuro, Simultoncously thoy unitod in tho roconstrction of tho unjon passen- ger houso that s, for tho nonco, a colisoum. COMPETITION VEILSUS COMBINATION. . With tho managomont of this groat railrond. thoro i 08 muh satisfaction as falla to tho lob of any corporation in thoss unpopular times. 3508 through somo of tha best towa in Illic mja and Tows, ond Los_tributary to it o richl duolivo torritory. Tho *pooling” of nil lwough business botwoen Clifeago and Omaha by Do throe trunk linos, whilo it dostroys com- potifon and tho “out " ratos incidont thoreto, rondurs tho businoss oquablo, Ho long as tho orthwestorn sro under same is truo _regarding tho 87 miles “of road | but, shwld the Clark intercst or whatever party from Whito Pigeon to Kalamazoo, and the 60 | may cottrol the Union Pacitio sccure cither ono miles from Jouesville, Miuh,, to Lonsing, In addition to tho forogowg, the Compauy loasos end opnrnu:u %‘fl ?‘l gm“p“ of éotrlxd ggun‘\lJnxrnos- ; {own, Pa., to OIl City, Pa., nud tho 58 miles from | to o tians, Thapids, Tor tho lntter tho Tk Bhoro Compnuy pays tho intorost on §103,~ and, Kalomazoo to Grand 800 of tho Compauy's stocks and bonds; Fon e B milon of sanm lino botwoon i Thoforogoiug cuumeration ropresents a m ‘of 1,135 wilos of Toad now owaod tud Company, ayhieh, . whon .comploted, will rouder the L Hhoro, practioally, o ‘doublo-traole . railroad be- tieen OYxlcngo and Buftalo. : C A ISROVEMNENTH, No railréid In tho country is moking groator lonsed by thoLoke Bhoro & Michigan Houthern Rallrond | many ruined ‘horo fa nl%o n_double track bo- o twoen Duffalo and Oloyoland—188 miles,—and 12 milos of Becond travk have boon lald botwoon Cleveland aud Tolodo, A second track is also boing Inid botyoen Elkhart, Ind., und Gl.klqu,'l?‘,1 o of " tho. threo linos bstwoon Ohioago snd But tho latter |- an Andopondent mdn to romaln_on tho brond- atigo, and; nlthough Mr. P. A. Hall -for n lon mo_ngnistod him in tho Sllpul‘inlonllbno!,‘ml Mr. E. IL, Johneon ran tho ongincering -dopart~ mont, Mr, Riddlo thought Lo conld do it him- “golf, and the prospact is that ho will bo allowed to do 1t as long nu ho willing, ——— A PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF THE SUNDAY- BEER MUDDLE, the Riltorof The Chichgo Tribuns s * . in : An artiolo appoared in your paper of yes- ny on tho Sunday-boor question, a8 you aro ploased to torm It, 5o full of. common sonse and, soudd adyico aa to gladden tho hoart of evory thidldng oitizon. , . . "Tho writor of this camb to Chicago in 1817, Qerman-born boy of about 19, and has been o aifont obuervor of mattora and things ovor sinco, thoroughly Amerlenn in'soutimont, nover mixing in politios,—proud, though, of his deacont. ‘Tho question of boor or no beor on' Bunday or on work-days has for yoars paet boen, and still is, n perfoot nightmaro to the responsiblo snd rospootablo portion of my countrymon. It over has sorved, and atill doos serve, to placo thom in o falo 1ight, and -has'bocomo as; dlsgusting to tliom aa to all othior classos of citizons. It ought to be suttled in o roasonable way, onco and for- evor. Bit Ohicago being & cosmopolitan oity, it can only bo succesafully -govorned by monsuros miftod to tho tastos, scttled labits, nnd preconceivod notions of all the differont clagsds of ita Inhabitants, by s govornmont of compromieos, of indulgenco” and toloration, so- voro and harsh only to oxtromisty, :You kindly fuvita proposals for o practicablo solution of prosont dilicultios. -Allaw. mo to. ‘moko ‘one. ’ : _Our Common Council s, by tho- clty ‘chartor, empowered to liconse, rogitlate, and rostrain the Bale of ardont spirits, alcobolic, vinous, and for-- ‘mioutod boyoragos, Yoursolf, tho Now York Na- tion iv o lato insuo, Gov. Dix in his loto voto-mos- sage, not to upeak of numorous-solontifio sud ‘'othior writors of note, draw a maiked huo of.dis- tinetlon botween tho ‘offocts. of wino, baor, alo, ‘cldor, &o., and tho properly so:callod ardont &pirs it 08 whisky, braudy, gin, &o. Now, then, it “the Tattor nof a8 irritants, promotors . of brawls,’ ‘and diaturbancos of tho publio peace, whilo. the formor act aa odatives and promoters. of harm- less convivinlity and soclability simply, docs it not follow as's natural conrequonco that the ealo of 1ho'ono class of boverages anght to bo_gov- corried by & sot of publio regulstions essontially iforing from tioso. opplicablo to. tho, othor class 2 ¥ w0 ;. Ought not, thon, the Commnion Gouncil to draw alino of domarkationsbotwoon, them, sud. soy, 21 You who sell tho most dangorous kind of 1g- uids shall' have the pxlvflequ to soll thom ; but | you must submit to » strlotor suporvision aud moro restruiut than tho venders of moro Linrni-' loss bovoragos, Yon must dosit ontirely, from'|: -solling your liquids on'the one day of tho vaok whon poople ere idle and most oxposed to temp- tation, Your beveragos act ag irritants, but ato | comparativoly harmloss whon tho toil and Lusi- noss of ovory-day lobor acts 08 o natural ro- straint upon ovil inclinations,—whan there i no; timo t0 got drunk ; thoroforo, you may soll on work-dsys, but not on Sunday. e Bat’ 'you who .-desite “to soll tho comparativoly .- larmless . bovorages, _sim- plo sodatives, promotors - of sociability and quiet enjoyment, yo will trust you farther. You may soll evory day of the weok, but ,you ‘must nlio, whilo your own tastes'and habits-aro gratifiad, rospeet Lho foelings of a largo clags- of our fallow-cltizens, who deom indecorous. what ‘0 you appoars-harmloss ; and you must, during tho fow houra. which thoy spond in_roliglous worship, show your willinitioss to do by othora a8 you yourself wish to e done.by; in” keeping yoir plocos closed,. . - Lot soparato lcerinos bo fesnod to oach claag —ong kind to vondora of beer, wino, &o.; i another kind to vendors of whisky, &c. Lot tho Kluu be oqual in amount; but high,—tho higher i bottor,—uo s to mako tho busincss rospoot- ablo, and {lia bottor controllublo. "Hie rospactablo and responsibio beor and wine slloz would rattios psy 91,000 lizono than 5603 and tho browor wil small number of cosh-paying oustomers, than bo obliged to soll on trust to o gront many who don't pay. Tho beer and wine sollor will be glad to got rid, by any docout pratoxt, of a clus of trangiout ciistomors, to satisfy wioso tastes Lio i3 now obliged to keop on barid tho flory stufl which Lo scorns -to drink himsolf, nnd ‘whoso rosonco only tonds to giva his houso a disordor- y - appoarance ; whilo bis noxt-door ueighbor, who denls oxclusivaly iu that commodity, will not grudgo Lim his Sunday oxtra goin if he finds customors sont round to himsolf constant- 1y on work-days. Lot the city suthoritica issuo. two kinds of liconscs, oqual in amount, €0 us to croata no {oplaualos, but as bigh 14 pousiblo, wo us o tl off the spongas aud lecchey who mako tho busi- nees disreputable, .ond allow ono. class, who ‘malko theirgroatast profit on Sundsy, to keop opon » limitod numbor of lionrs on that day ; whila tho othior class, who, in any ovent, do 1ot make much oxtra profit on Sunday, muat koop closod that day, Yos, lot oven tho formor class of li~ conscs bo Lighor in prico than tho lattor,—ona §000, tho otlior S300,—and all will bo sadisfac- Ty, Qlfioado, Junos, 1879, P e e HAUSHROOM HEDICOS. 1Y the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : 8in: Thero is nothing, I think, that strilces an obgorvant Englishman so etrongly, after & short residonce in this city, as tho vory cheap ostimation in which human lifo aud linfbs are hold. Ou the other side of tho Atlant{c, human Tifo especially is most carofully guarded ou tho thousand and ohe aveuués by which it can bo® |, and tho smallest {n tho Soventeonth, with an muchprofer o soll fo a | . |THE CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNI: WEDNESDAY, JUNE* 4; {1873, 1t any oo wil: go to tho troublo of loofnlg. bohind tho onrining in: those innocent-lookiiig, traib-stands aftor 10 or 11 o'olook p.m.; sea tho crowds of woll-drosed but blsaphomeus girls and Lalf-grown lonfors ; liston to tholr slaug, and unconth romarks; 'and--conrso -joken ;-noo tholr -carrying-on of shamoloss indoconoy, tho drinklng-of whisky (of courso. callod for undor. & .difforont namo), oto., oto., o musi be' convinced, if Lo in un‘.n»hyqaprlta, that it: would Lo far " battor to mllow publio dtlnking ealoons,to ho wida opon, thun to liow thoso dong of Immorality to do business allnight Tong ond Bundoyé, o T T happonod to. bo _out, aftor 11. o'clock ong night Jast waolt, aud was astoniphod to seo oll, thioso plucos enrrying on o most flourishing busl-s ndea, If nnr roAl and teue roform ju:moant, aud. Mayor Modill and Bnporintondent Washbura do in carnost moan. roform, thoso ought to bo tho firat plncos that should ‘ho' closod, nt lonkt aftor 11 p, m., and ospoolally on Suudnys, whon, 08 a 8 woll-kfiown fact, they have thol l{voliout tra- floin all tho branchon of thoir nofarious busi- nesA. . . JusTicE. Ci10aao0, June 2, 1878, —— i THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT. A'mocting of tlio’ County Commissioners was held yostordsy aftornoon, President Millor in thio. ohair. . Prosent, Commissioners Ashton, Jones, Iarrls, Lonorgan, Gollowsy, Olough, Russell, Boguo, Bingor, " % Lot~ 5 (REPORTS OF FEES. i Jacob Grose, Cireult Clork, raported that tho faos rocolvod by him during tho Iaat six montho _smounted to §21,241.02. Of . thht, hahad ox- ‘ponlled foratationory, clerk Liro, oto., 918.725.19, Tlo had rotained ‘on haud_to tho oredit ot tho Juuticos, witnesyos, ato., 9920.55, and had -tarn- od in &7,103.50. ¢ " v ) Th o Sherlff roportod that tho 808 rocived by himduring. tho .last six_wmonths .amountod :to 84,227.81, Thoro woro fues, ‘not patd, to tho ‘smount of §1,203,04; 7 Thora hnd beon oxponded for salary of Shorlil and Chiof Olerk, ntationory, &o:) 90,007.40, showing ou hond #200.95.". < R - MISCLLLANLOUS, - i ¢ [ Armétrong & Eggan, askod for au fnstalmont of | ;81,000 as Buperiutendonts of the w?rk .on thy Jail, q i A Ry 3 "*Plio, Committoo ‘on Publio Buildings: was' .aitthorizod to requost the City Boiler Inapootor to make an oxamination of tho bollors in tho various county bufldings, - os ‘Tho Diroctors of the Humano Bocloty for tho Provention of Ciuolty t0 Animols nsked tho Board to approprinto §3,000 for tho ouforoomont of tho Inw. It wna roforrod to the Financo, Committeo. 2 - ! It wos doclded, on Mr. Clough's motion, that gorj& }lln no formal laying of the cornor-atono of ‘tho {ail, 4 . . “Ihio Boord adjourncd. s i AT MUNICIPAL: MORTALITY. - Tho rogilar wookly roport of the Sanitary St-, ‘perintondent, road nt tho meetiug of tho Board of Ioalth yestorday, showod that thore wore 180 - doaths and 16 still-births during tho wook end- ing May 81, Tho donths compriscd 82 malos ‘and 67 fomalos, Thoro was'n -dooroass. of G in ~tho death rate compared with tho previous weok = Tho mortality by wards shoywod an ‘iricronso in. tho Fifth, Ninth, Elovently, Fourtoonth, Fif- teonth and Sixtoouth Wards... Tho Jargeat num- bor of denths ocourred in the Sixteontli Ward, cronso of publio institutiony and omigrants, - Thirty-throo casos of small-pox nnd yarlolold woro roportod during tho wook. Thoro was o decided dtoronss “in tho numbor .of infooted lionses, During” ‘tho gsmo orlod in 1372, 98 Liad boon roported, lia gront Riux of ‘omiprants ot this timo i tho. saain. sourco from whioneo th casos originato, Tharo was o ulight docrongo in tho numbor of dentla by smallpox, comparod with Inat woel. Tho oxtongion of tho sowarago aystom . to corlain lo~ cnlitios wns an absoluto ncosslty,” Thoro wora tnces in tho oity whore, without drainago, noth- ngg could be dono inthe way of ennitury fm- provomont. S - Tho Yoport of Dr. John Rold, Henlth Officor, showod that 783 noticos to nbate nuikancos hud Doen sorved during the wool ending Mny 81, and thot 632 bad boon abatod. ‘ho Eewor noticos worved numbored 164, and the sower connectious mado, 82, - - - v Tho Toard adopted the following rexolution: Resolved, That thia Donrd regerdu tho clesnusing of thio Bouth Tranch o nanitary necussity, and tho soonor atopa aro taken with thal end in view this bottor, el JUDICIAL ELECTION RETURNS. Only o fow of tho poll-books of tho county towna wore roturncd to tho County Clerk, yos- tordny, and os the onvelopos fu which thoy wore inclosed wero sonled, it was Impossiblo to got tho numbor of votes cast for tho candidatos for Cir- cuit Judge. It can be mafoly stated, howover, thot at lenst 1,000 will bo addod to Judge Booth's majority. Bubjoincd nre tho votos in some of thé towns : ORLAND. Willinms, 92; Rogors, 82; Bootl, 92; Farwoll, 82; Truo, 13 ; Ashton, 19. g LEYDEN, * Willlams, 405 Rogors, 405 Farwell, 40; Treo, 40; Ashton, 40, ! = JOMET. am: OALDMET, Tirst Procinct.—VWillinms, 46; TFarwoll, 40; Troo, 46; Booth, 8; Ashton, 98. " - % TAKE VIEW,. 0 e . Farwell, 103; Willinms, 103; “Troo, 103; Rogors, 1085 Booth, 87 Ashton, 16. . WORTIL. Booth roccived a small majority. Ty sesailed ; but bero thoue avenuos scem to bo, if not ‘totally neglocted, at lonstmost negligontly watched.. I will ‘ssy nothing of tho carrying of deadly weapons by oven tho merost boys. Tho othor day, & “mad dog" ran abort caroor on Wentworth ayenue. A policoman snapped.s re- volvor that would not do its work (how ig it that polico, rovolvors will miss, and ronghs’ ditto \nover. 'do?), aud the scenc was endoed by a bo; producing @ &mm and ghooting tho auimal] saw, but kaid-and ehall say nothing ; but this is .a digroasion, * Thotra aro othor things by which Tifo aud limb are ondangored, and that, tog, in & | way that roquires tho anout unceasing vigilanco to prevont. * A quostion that T ofton ask myself is, "“Whenco camo all tho doctors, and What | do they do fora living ?" ‘Thoy, many of thom, &oom, like nmshrooms, to spring up in & night (i. 0., if mushrooms do spring up fn o night, as according to popular thoory). Lo-day tlioy aro dry-goods clorks, copyists, what not.™ To-mor- row fhoy haug out u shinglo, ond call thomaolves Doctor.” X lknow porsonally two instances, in this samo elty, of partion now prac- tising as physiclans and surgeons who lave had n0 moro professiounl instruction than such as ‘may bo picked up in o fow, & very fow loctures ; mon who caunot ovon writo a common note STBILLUTICALLY OT COFTUUTIY, BUT 40 WHULL T wuuld Tot iutrusk tho aro of my dogs who bavo, to my cortain knowlodgo, irroparal l{ iujired one. unfortunato woman, in & difiloull_confinomont, through shiner ignorance aud carclossnosa coms bined; and of whom I hoar that sovorsl othior porsona huvo boou more or. loss injured by thoir ‘want of professional kuowlodge. Who is it that glven thoso mon the diplomas undor which thoy practlco, certifyiug that -they are competout to oty physiolzng? OF Liwvo thoy any diplomas atall?. Could I or you, wero wo #o miuded, haog ont our shinglo and eall ournclves Doctor, and 1o ouo sy us noy? Io thoro na way to pro- vont men from practieing the noblo sclenco of modicino, unloss duly qualified by compotont authority? Poor, ignorant emigrants como ovor hore, and are quacked by theso mushroom mu(l{cosl until what with them, and with incom- potont 1 druggsluta™ (save tho mark!), ona won. ovs that any of them are developed into citizens Omahs, ‘tho “pooling” oporation ~would not Inst ‘Jongor than the timo roquired Drouk 4L up, that oyon n much eiortor ronte to Took Ialand iwould bo cetablisod via tho Northwoutorn to Storling, and thonco by the Rockford & Rock Island Road. 0 ‘olodo | Tho menipulations of the loading oporators in and Adrian, -The Compauy pays §300,000 yoarly & o' tho rio & Kelumazoo Railrond Conpauy. longe stooka often dofont tho hopes and oxpectationn of vordant residonts along tho lines ; and thoso intorentod in ook Island Lave had froquont oausa for rogvat. It was on tho day marked in m i0d gtook-spoculator’s colondar a8 Black Fridny,” that Rook lslnd {luotuated boyond tho roach of thosn who touch only the safost investmonts, Thoannual clection ocours this weols, 'Thore h? no probability of any immedinte change. Tho maungemont s belioved .to bo satls- - !Iymlb)’,' to" tho stockholders, It Tracy's . pot projoct, -and into it ho dhrowa tho onor and wagacity. for ‘Whioh ho is romarkablo, The sctual operation ho is M. efforts to porfeot It aquipmont and road-bed by | ‘ebtrusts to Mr, Hugh Riddlo, who porforma tho $ho introduction of & ool railg, thoir substitution Sor iyon, bytuntinl atructures of stone and iron, Jort by ok ahiout 350 milas of ‘stool’ ral Liave boen laid, and it iu the polioy of tho ‘Com. 8 far g practicablo and 88 rapidly as tho )x‘n‘:: ¢ roquiros ’rouomd, to substituto. stool for triplo- duties of Vi ce-Pronidont, Gonoern] Bupor- and tho ro}::na(uiguuld Dridges and oul- | fntendont, and Ohlof Enginoor—a triflo more thnu any othor rosldont raflway officlal assume, } but thocondition of tho rnmlylndluntos Tia abil: ty o run tho thrao offlccs muccossfully, Ho oamo from the Erlo Road whon Jay Gtould aud Jamos Fisk, Jr,, made It uncomfortable for atall, In Hogland theso things are watched with sorupulous caro; hero, aro l.huL wt%m stall? Rospectfull; Gutoauo, 3 o 3, 1814, kil THE ITALIAN SALOONS. To tha Editor of The Chicago Tvibune : ‘Bin: Whilo reading Mr, T, W, Enton's ossny on tho Gorman movemont in Tur BuNpay Time oaie, it oeurred to mo that, If ho is right in hig assuniption that most orlmos nro committod on wool-daya (or rathor nights) botwoon 11 p. m, and G . m., and from Baturday night ot 14 o'clock to Monday morning at 6 o'clock ; snd if o moans really truo roform, it would be just ny nocoseary to oloso up the Italian saloons, aud all houses of aselgnation and prostitution, at the sama hourof tho night, and ovor Bunday, Thero is no doubt that thoso, from thooutsido, 8o inno- contly-sppenting fruit-stands, with thoir ico. croo siouny mhd moals of all hours,” and W adios’ 5lnlng-pnrlaru up-atairs,” and VIadios’ and gonts' rofrosmont-rooms,” ara ton timnas wordo, in producing erimos and ruining moral and funocent gixls and boys, mon aud womon, thay the publio driuking-saloons, A ProvIso. Williamg, 111; Troo;110; Booth, 110; Far- wall, 111; Rogors, 1113 Aehiton, L~ DREMNFN. i Willims, 40 ; Troo, 404 Togers, 46; Farwall, 40; Booth, 8; ‘Asbton, 30. ‘ : PALOB. & Williams, 23 Troo, 23; Rogors, 22; Farwell, 23: Dooth, 22, - - Tho roturns Will probably not bo caunvassed for o wools or ton duyu. 5 < ——— * SECTIONAL ANIMOSITY, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bin: God bless Pz Trunoxe for ifs editorisl artiolo in st Hunday's oditlon” on * Sectionsl Animosity,”" Tt shows forth thoso grontost of all Christian virtues,—moroy and humanity. An outatretohed hand to n fallon foo i tlio truo.sol- dler's doctring, avon though that hand Do oitte- strotobod but -to strow .a fow. poor, withoring flowers upon tho grave of an unknown fooman. - Harmloss, indood, lios tho poor woldier now, lonoly arong trangors,—nono tho loss a sol- dior for being'n Robel.: Tow oxprossivo mush, havo boon tho muto ‘apposl of thnt namoloss grovo ot Calvary for oaly o fow fowors among. 4ha man; o 1 o nnannant'a tor & Tidio whlfer” YFobol "or “Uiklon, 1. teas Amorican soldier, and, a8 _such, worthy of auy’ stool In Christondom. ' Only fow littlo-flowors, ' and yot tho intonsity of ¢ M.'s" loyalty bogrudgod him " this. Al honor to Tz Tumuxe for tho rebuko givon whore it was so justly morlted! ‘Who I um, it mattors, not; only this: I have oon SoLpIen, Cit10Aq0, Juno 2, 1873, ' (Mr. Chosers Firmncos in 1868, To tho I2ditor of the New York Y'ribunc: —+ % i Tu your commonts on tho connoction of Chiof Justice Ohaso with tho Democratic Convention of 1808, ono fact {s omittod which, In’ justico to his momory, ought to be known. The Con- vantion, 16 Will bo romomborad, ndopted its plat~" form before i)rounar.\lug to tho nomination of tho cnndidato. Into that platform waa incorporated the woll-known' greonback proposition of Ar. Pondleton. Tho - platforns, s .adopted, was transemitted DLy & friond o B Chase. By _tho flrst rofurn mail eamo o lottor from him to the writer hereof, Inclosing anothor, to ha read (o the Convontion in cuse o his nomination. IIo look especial pains that it should como to hand promptly. ‘Fha Jottor was short and emphatic, rofusing'fo bind himselt to tho greonhack rosolution, and it was in tha Con- yontlon boforo tho nomination was' made, rondy to bo produced if the choico foll upon him, T rolation to this matter ho atood ready to have hils namo, on_roconsidoration, rojootod, rather than commit himsolf to s doctrino Which Tio considor- .| ‘truth in thio Atory thal for gorjnintlf thnk funkistoro o loftthin dodn “try for Thuropoho hirael enld o dould. ot live on what ko “wa pnid for tom, und fnt Lo wag {n.-auch atraitonod- circumafancos that ha could not afford to live in Now York at all, hut -had-boon-compolled-to-take & amall heuso on tho oulekirts -of tho Vlllnqu of Morrlatown, Nast .wonld.bo vory mnoh l»unnml it thoro wore nny Lt ho hias o nlary of $15,000 s yoar. It #coms 6 mo, howover, that the nowh-" apor talk abont Naat's privato- or busioss nf- olrs i8 dooidedly impoertinont. o is - shrewd peaon, vory praotical fn hin woys, and has novor nl!gmll any ansialanco from thopublio or any offico |, from Gon. Grant, whom ho cortainly did nomo- thiing-to oloot,. .I.know thet tho dally ploture Rn‘mrlmm, tho @raphio, would bo gled to got 0ld of Naat. i .3 B T'FE " TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. ‘A Momorial to Congronn, b the Senate and Iouss of Represcntatives of the' 10hsted States : . , oltlzons of {he Boveral -would nost respoctfully prosont this momorial ¢ - Dyring tho_wintor mionths, for “yoars past, thoro hos boon o pressing want of incroase tennaportution facilitics from tho Wost to the' s¢abord, Tho railrond companios have boon un- ablo to rocoive and ‘transport all tho property offored thom, and thelr inability to maot tho do- mauds upon ', thom for transportation has in- ducod them to oxact exorbitant rates of froight, with results allko damaging and disastrous to tho agricultural, munufaaturing, and businoss | intorasts of tho ontiro country,. Tho immenso clovators (and grain warohbueos of Ohi- cago .havo . boon, (in _mid-winter) fiiled. to overflowlng, ‘dompelling thom partially :fo puspond businoss, so that tho railroads bring- ing grain from tho Wost to Chicago hava boon un- 1 ble to unlond tholr énrs, and consequontly thoy hnvo boon nbUgnd to refuso tmnsgfirlnllflnm tholr patrons. T'he warehousca. in this country ‘becoming full, farmers have, in many instancos, boon unablw o find s markot - for thoir grain, ‘This wintor froight-ombargo Lns also provonted tho Western pork-packors and -provision-deslera from rei con. millions of "dollars’ worth of proport; ‘wantod in Europoan mazkots, ho im- selbillty-of .nflppxna. d.property whon roady for markot hina reaultod in sovero stringency L monoy-mattors, doradging sud damaging busi- nosh, and causing fnancial failures., Vo would, sleo, Tespootfully rémind your bonorable bodies of tho rapld inoreaso 'of- population and of tho nErxnulmml growth and ‘industrinl pursuits of tho vast-torritory . (moro thian 600,000 squaro miles) botwoon Lakos Michigan and Superior and . tho westorn boundary lino of - Nebrasks, which, to a vory gront oxtont, ia tributary to Chileago In sl busineas-mattors, and throigh which city the ‘major portion of tho; surplus produots of thnt soction of tho gountry must paes during the soason of suspended navigation of the lakes and xivers, to ronch tho groat markots of tho Atlan- tio'Btates and Europo. Wo have obsorved with plossure tho soveral propositiona for enlarged +and:, ndditional -water-facilities betweon tho Tast'and West to mutually ‘benefit -tho- pro- ducors and conpumors of our produco. ‘Wo aro convinood "that water-routos, ‘howover improved and onlargod, will not fully answor tho urposo dosirad, ospocially in this northorn Iati- , tude, whoro:lako, river, and canal ‘navigation ig’ sumponiled fof mdre than ono-third of tho yoar, which turns tho ontiro transit-busliess.on to the prosont railroad-lidcs, groatly overtaxing their rolling-stoclk, at wintor-rates of ‘freight ; tho'of=" feck olwh!u(\,'ns has, been shown, is to cheok rain-shipmonta to tho Last, theroby flling tho nmenso warehouses in Lako Michigan ports -at . long-storage ratos with grain at low pricos. Tho farmors who can hold their .corn-crop until tho Tioxt spring can.storo it at home for bottor rates atthooponing of nayigation; butthosowhocannot . do 80 must often sacrifico thoir beat intcrost to moot current expenses and paymonts, while, at the samo timo, tho-consumor at the Enst {u obliged to pnx pngtc_l out of proportion with thoso recelved by tho producor, becauso tho resont fncilitios for tranaporting proparty are [nadoquato to movo all that s prehsing forward, and likowiso insufficlont to mova tho quantity domandod by tho wants of the Enst. What wo uoad, and st kiyo, s it sppours. | to ws, to afford Rmpnr reliof to all intorosts, fs s double-traclk rafirond botweon Chicago and Now Yorlk to bo worked \pxaluaively in tho tonnago- Dbusiness, at slow spocd and at chenp rates. This rond, worlkodat about-sevon miles to tho hour, would carry from Chicogo to New York, evory your, & tonnogo equal to 450,000,000 Dbushals of ' whoat, and refurn ns many tons to Chicago, In case Qougrass is not propored to ordor tha construction of such a highway 88 & natlonal publio. work, w6 humbly proy your hon= orablo bodios to grant s ohartor for tho con struction of such road, with judicious and proper restrictions a8 to cnylnlnl-xtock, toll-rates, Epoed of trains, and impartinlity in thio recoption snd transportation of froight,” ".* Tho charter to require tho Company (to whom it may bo granted) to raceivo and transport over its lino “with rossousblo dispatch, aund at prosaribod moximum and uniform ratos of , all cars ,(whother londed or ompty) | correspondivg. in gaugo and coustruotion with {ts own, or of a corlain spaci- flod standard of conatruction. The chartor, alao, to require of the Company comploto and full re- spousibility in tho oaro and delivery of all prop~ whioh it recoivo. *‘Chio chiartor, also, fo re- uiro tho Cnmpull{l to_mako aunual roports to tho Bocrotary of tho Intorior of nll its opora- tlons, (ucluding detailod statomonts of its capi- tnl-stock paid in, ite roceipts and oxponditures, and such othor fnformation as mny bo roquired Ly tho said Bocrotary of the Interior; and tha ovornmont, by order of the sald Secrotary, or Dby voto of Congross, t6 hove at- any timo tho right to investigato all the. affairs of aaid Com- pany, for the purposo’ of:veritying sald roports or for other purposes. . In the establishmont of rates of toll for ttans- portation, tho Company .£o bo allowed to oxact only 8o mhuch & will, in the judgmont of it managers, spproved by tho Sodrotary of tho In- torior, produce s not rovenuo of nof oxceeding 12 por cont por sunum on the notual cost of tho rond and u%:!pmont;mld no dividends to bo mado oxcecding 12 por cont per annum,—nny sur- plas oarnings over tho amount 8o divided boing ~ |- boing considored n. matior..of any momont as Carried to n purplus account which shall bo ap- plied to fuburo dividouds, and - corresponding abatoments mado in tho traflla ratos. : A LEGISLATIVE ADJOURNMENT. = Dlagraceful Scenos, ~ Albany, '(May 80) Cnrr';npzv'xdznna of the New York The legialativé gang of roformors aro packing up and slonring out. X sfppogo overybody ought to foel thgukful enougli for thnt ono faol to causo thom to pbatain. from all furthor com- plaint, - But tho olosinf Weones of this comedy ‘of logislation woro such g fitting commontary ou | tho wholo piece that thoy 'shonld bo partlally doneribed at loast, -, Tho Logialaturo adjonrnod | ab 4 o'clock this morning, having boon in almost constant ‘session for the' Inat sixteen hours, When thio two Housos mot for tho Insb timo at 7 o'olock in tho oveuing thoro woro still throo vory " important ‘bills to o dispasod 1of, namoly, the Supply bill, tho Industrial {13xhiibition Dill, and tho Dill or’concurront roso-, \lutions containig tho proposod amondmonts to {{ha Qanatitntion. Thoro wara also. about fork bills of Tess Important romaining £0 b6 prsacd upon by tho Assombly. It appeared thint nowly nll the littlo Jobs had boon p“{: through, for thiy 'was & Togislaturo which would not_hotitato ‘to ut hrougly o fob at any timo of dag o wight. 0 the mombors, whon thoy canio togothor in tho ovoning, had ovérylling of fmporianeo off their Tinde, the smondmonts to;the. Constitution not b comparod with thie amallest bUIL {n which thero s o good monoy fob. Tito_mombors,. thoro- i{oro, hogan almost immodiately to turn the "Asgombly Chamber iulo a bedlam. - The; hagiss Ty slgly bluwing o U Botiy. wileh i thoy. hnd surroptitionsly brought into .tha ! clioniber, and from fhat oy bogan to throw pu- | por_ balls at ech othor from ouo'sido of tho oude to the other. The Bpeaker Tabored in |, vain to restore ordor, and throatened to oall out the namo of any momborwho was dotected in violating tho rules of ordor, *Thia actod as o chock only for & fow minutes or so, and thon the untamod ‘Toformors got worso than ovor, Tho tin ‘whistlos woro blowitig In all parts of tho houto, largo wads of papor. saturatoed with wa- tor wore thrown at mowbers' hoads, and ocoa- slounlly ouo of tho hoayy documont-ilics, weigh- ing twenty pounds, would bo socn flying noross £ho ohumber, biinglug up agaluat tha shouldors of somo unsupocting pérson, fuirly kuocking Lim off hig piny. A sill hat placed in & conspic~ wous place on o doulk would not lnst two min- utos, At lnst the Sponker rapped more furious- Iy than over, and directod the Borgoaut-at- Iru\u to “arrest any porson found blowing ed uusound B. New Youk, May 16, 1879, 5 Nnste - - New York Correspondence of the Cincinnati: Commer- elal, Tho atorlos which aro going the rounds about tho povorty of the carloaturisl Nast have hnd a sort of somi-offioinl contradiction from the Har- pore. It appoars by thin that ho recolved large pricea” o s 14 itfoal cnricnturos, and that {t s & Tiarper's Weekly which bad tho oredit of originall brluglng him fnto nutico, aud which placed. hKn in tho enviabloe position ho now oe- Suplos,” Lcan't loll wint prices Nast gob for bly extraordinary carioaturcsj but I do kuow a tin horn.” This only mudo tho mombors laugh, and although thoy eyed tho oflicors of tho Ilouso o littlo moro ologoly thoy were soon joiu-. Ing inat a worso rato than ever. Tinally tho EPenkur, in rappiug on the desk so hard, hroke hfs gravel, tho hoad of it flylug oft upon tho floor. During all this thne tlie Olerk.was rond- ingout billvand passiy thom all by bimsolt, not a sluglo membor vot! mi]au thom, tho Olork ufmply marking overy mombor as voting in the afiirmativo. And horo justice should bo dono tho Bpoaker for tho watch ho kopt sololy and alono over tho bills thit wore ulhE; rushed through, for whenovor a bill of doubtful char- ector Waa takon up Lo would command the louso |, - yrooke . 1lo ‘alfant ot lonst Tong. ondrgh |far thetn! hohr the Olork rond tho titlaof thiq bill. “If>the. Bpenltor-got really angry, ns ‘o often did, he would rigo, and o fow' raps moro Violont than usunl would bring tho Iouso to order, -cautlonlng -.thom - that no husinesa_would bo. teansaoted until Fufleut ordor waa roatorod, * All would thon bo silont for a moment, but 88 soon as tho Olork hnd spokon tho first_word again a saqund lko tho ylnE groan of & gamascook- would como from- the roar of tho chamber. Hdmetimen tho atillness would be Lroken by a Ligh, shiatp nolo, iminodlatoly follayed by e, other just two. ootavos fower. At huch times: t}io Bpoakor himsolf,.althouy h,bulflu& over with rngo, was ofton obligod to langh a0g it down £50m alioor oxhaustion. . ... i - A\Vhilu thoso soonos woro onncting In tho As- _8dmbly Chamber the Bonators -up-stalrs woro béginning to fool bogish also. Liout.~Gov. Tobiugon_having rotirod, Sonator Woodln was lazlngm;?mshlont ro tom. In tho midst of tlo ‘oyening gossion Mr. Woodin vaontod his obinir as lf:_:mnldln(; officor, ‘and jok- ingly nsked 'Mr. -Dovelin to Al ° it Mr. Dovolin - doolining, - Bishop Caroy, tho woll-known lobbyist, who' was standing noar, voluntoorod to preside, and ho sotually took the ohair of lhq;ms!dont of tho Benato, nnd was allowod to romain iu It about two min~ ujen, whon ono of the bonntorscamo to his sonsea :ml domanded that the lobbylst bo compolled to cato. i oy ) % oll this tmo s conforonce committso wore out dol{borating on tho Bupply bill; tho point of differonce boing as to whothor tho mp- Bmprhfiun for the Timira Refonmatory ahomd 0 allowod. - Tt wos noarly midnight whon ro- ported, and then thng disagroed. Anothor coms itteo wag appointed, which raported af nbout 8 o'clook in tha morning, their doclsion_boing to strrko out the Elmira approprintion. - Tlo con-" stitutional amendments \ora actod on about 2 u.m., both Housos u%rgning to abide by tho amondmonta as made by the Constitutional’ Com- miaslon aa rogards tho "oxcluding :of tho Black Tiivor Oanal fromh tho list of - oanala to 'bo' pro- -sorvod fn tho hands of tho Biate. - + ;Tho scono from this time on grow from to ‘yorso, and whon, t Balf-past § . . the As- ‘sombly took a rodoss for 1 0. purgoso St boldin .the oustomary mook sceston, thoro waa littlo Lit- arity loft, it liaving beon a1l 'oxpondedin thorog- ular gession. Tho Sponker vacated hissont, and: Mr. Plorson was carried up from tho floor to spporsedo bim, Tho sceno that followed’ this was simply brutal. Thore was not tho lenst dis- ploy of any wit, but the mool session was much moro orderly than tha rogular evening sosslon, The heavy document files wore thrown ab:ut . with more forco, and that was all. Many an in- dividual will enrry home a scar on his hoad oy tho result of belng in this moleo. i ‘A MINNESOTA CYCLONE. A Livoly Visitatlon From tho Storme ‘King--Housocs, Fonces, and Animals © ,on the Wing. 3 From the St. Cloud (Atin.) Journal, - On Iat Thurday aftornoon o Boutbwest wind, akindof tornado, ewoph through ‘s stHp of country horabouts, to {ho.damago, of whateyer Iy In ta path, A'ono-atory liouss on tho-farm of Mr. Jaos Diggorstal, about slx miloa. oast of hero, in Bhorburno County, was complately Nothing was loft but tho lower floor. Toards and stndding wore carriod by the torna- | do a distanao of thirty Tods, while tho roof was whirlod and oarriod an equal distance on tho “baok track. ‘Tho houso was ocouyiied by Mr. Thomas Haigh, who was knacked dawn by & fall- ing timbor, and his-wifo was- soratobed & littlo, - His wagon was carrlod twonty rods and dropped with n brokon pxlo. A log fifteon feat long was moved twico its longth,* Tho storm-spirit, In & jouing way, soized a orock of eggs sitting on & sliolf in thie house, carried it n dozon yards, and dopositad it neatly on the ground without broaks fug oo ogg. : i Half tho planks wore wronchod from tho bridgo acros3 Elk Rivor, nosr Mr. Blggoratatf's placo, ) * T hiouso of J. _G. Oater, - about - two miles southwest of Mr, Diggoratail’s, was damaged gomowhat. -Abnggy bslonging to Sonator Bur- bnuls, whioh happotied to bo thoro, was turned ovor'and ovor and ovor, until tliere was not wueh loft to turn agaln.. On tho 8t Francis; 0. F. Googo's houso wos unroofed, and Mrs, Tushton's_house wos dam- ged. - " Domolishod fences and mprooted treos, for o wi:i‘l:: af 20 rody, marked course tho gtorm ' nd tokon. © ‘ At Poynosvyillo, in thia. county, an enormous barn polonging 'ta O, Helmer was ripped o éblecua, and tho roof was takon from his Liouso. oma af tho furniture was found ‘& mile away, Othor buildings wero, unroofed. Tho track of tho storm was only & féw rods wide, . Wo have hoard of no one being moro th u]lfihfly Injured, t Maino Prairio, Eik, Lnke, and olsowhera Inrgo bail stonos foll. In this city thoro was & honvy dash of rain, accompauled by wind, fc fow minutes, .~ K 1 : From tho St Cloud (sftnn.) Prete, On Thursday tho, seyerest rain and wind storm of the season ocourred, - Near Itasce two houses woro complotely- domolislied, oleven telegraph polos twisted out of the' ground, snd ono argo onk troe torn up by tho roots. Mr. Theodors Buok's house, near Zion, in this: county, was Dlown down and the contouts . scnttored aoross, tho'prairio. Hlis-wagon was broken into small* iocos. A log. somo threo feet in diamotor and |. on foot long wag moved about fitty yards, " At Mr. 0. Hollmer's placo, n short ‘distanco from Br. Buok’s, the *wind was_furious, ; His hous;- Disckemith'shop, barn, and .smoke-house wora blown down to the grotind. Tho barn wns 40260 feot. His wagon-box was takon o distunce of forty ncros. His loss in ostimated at 81,000, Mr. Jamos Biggoratail’s Liouse, six or soven miles oast of thin olty on tho Ell Ifiver, was do- slroyed by the hurricane. \ From the Wright County (Minn.) Times, A torrifio tornado, .accompanied by hail and rain, passed oyor tha country o fow milos north | of Olenrwator on Thursday of last wook. It was from 40 £o 60 rods wide, and toro_to f{ragmonts noarly eyerything in its course, Housos, barns, foncos, and trees wor blown down and aeattorod in ovory dircotfon. o far a8 wo have lcard no lives were lost, and no ono was ; seriously!in- urcd. *.Somo of the Lail-stones are said to have een 04 1argo a8 gooso cggs.- In Santiago, Blor-- burno Cowity, oak troes & foot in dinmator Woro brokon off and carried moro than fifty rods: Bearcoly & whole board was loft of & houso and granary bolonging to Mr, O, I Bomo of his boe-hivea wore found sixt; stands A cow was takon upand carriod . oighty rods and dropped in & plowed fold without boing matorlally injired. A now {ramo_houso, 14x33, with an ‘“ell " 14x18, bolonging to Mrs. Rushton, & widow, was torn to piocos, only ono sldo_an one end boing left ntnnd.lng. Hor farniturg was Dadly brokeu up and a portrait of hor twin boys, whicl cost §300, was destroyed. "Tho dwelling of Mr. Thompson was unroofed and a iouko be- !zungiug to's Bwede named Andorson .was torn oy, s 5 : . "Tho courso of“the tornado “waa® from cnst to woat, Whore'it struck the- ground or whoro, it left it wp havo'not learned, aud the full cxtent. of tho damage hus not yot beon ascortainod, :On tho.samo day a'storm of similar charactor vimted tho noighborhood of Dayton, dolug _con- slderablo demdgo: At Anokn u watar-spout was formed in the Nississippi, and” travolo u{l tho rivor a distanco of & mile nud’ o Lalf. If was cono-shapod and biad tho appearanco of o fog or smoko, and o dark cloud Lung- dircotly ovor it. It appearod to travel at tho rato of ten or twolve milos an bour, 0% ot oy NEWS PARAGRAPHS. “Fifty now locomotives have-boon ordered for thio Like Shoro Tond, , ., , Y —A Judgo.at Naloigh was guilty of borrowlng | a chow- of tobceo of ‘s prisoner and ‘thon sond- ing him up forthroo years. 7 ~Tho Aprehos rocontly stampoded o party of-| Mothodist preachorson circuit, sud now do heir sealplg in clawhammor conts. 1 —A Cairo’ pound-keoper has rosigned-becauso ‘tha.Comuon. Counsil’ mudo o fuss.about.his ‘Wrlting *¢ 1on,” bofora his namo. "¢ - ‘—SHome women insist upon riding ih tho smok- ing-cars recontly put upon’tho Third avenueline in Now York, in epito of the remonstrances of conductors, ' Soveral eldorly dames, in the fruit aud confactionory businoss, ‘wmoko thoir own plpos with oujoyinont, Y, —1t i now thio fashion in Paris, at recoptions, for ladies to elt in tho middlo of .a room, back to Uack, on v largo ottoman, aud on sofas’ ugaiust the walla ; tho gontlonion stand and walk around - the boo-livo, “Of course, no position can bo, moro offootivo for the display of dross. —Josoph Townsend, agod 19, living at Princo- ton, Miun,, tonsod his invalid sister Aabol, aged 10, by tlvowing grains of corn ather. Hho' flung n Inrgo pair of shonra at hor brother, which | struck him {u tho'lofe bronat, nnntrnllu‘?' his’| hoart, causing instant death. Theo girl is almost dorangod with griof, < ~-It {8 now underatood that the New York Contral Railrond Company has' doclded upon n-| routo sorous tha City of Nooheater for its now doublo track for froight traing, and that {s by an” olovatad bridge or troatlo-work, running mnorth of and nearly parallol with {ha rrnsnu direct Buffalo liuc, Thoso tracks will be on an iron trostlo abovo tho stroats, and out of the way of all dangor to tho publio, ~~01 s Momphis bollo it I3 snld that *words rods from their [ timub fhom ior ipe, Goorge. ] onali Instinat with a noparato 1ifo.arid oxprosslon of thoir own, aud miglt al- wiost be lkonod to beos loaving tho calyx of o flowor, onoli chargod with ita burden of pollon ;‘l‘fll l::!;;a—:ml}:u a;:dbuwonmnna." T'ho roportor who- _to-bo_ exounsd, had n cholora anro i Momphis, fgEtiny e —A man who will tako n nowepaper forr or flva yonea, and thon rofuso to pay for i, should Lo: “gin Ll nmne witican v and ond 1 ith & g; and ut an o {n tho middloi—Aft- Giload (Ohio) Tteg- sloy:-~The editor who will sond Lis ‘papor ‘to ‘man four or fivo yoara without gotting his pay fof it, shiould Logi his namo with an # and ond it with an 4, and put two o'sin tho middio.—Lima D oy, U borry. ki i im Onraoy, tho cranberry. king of Wisconsin, nvi Tiwursdey fust aloand & Dargata. with. T 1, Dinicle, wliotaby the - suw and grist mil ‘snd Whtor-powor of {ho Initer, at Auroraville, wera tranaforrod to Oaroy Bros., of Borlin, Tho boyn buy the &mnuxty for tho sako of - tho water to flood. thalr extonsive ‘oranborry marsh. They mtv can control tho swaters of Willow Oreol, Ani uso thom g thoy plonso, Thoy pald Afr, Danioln 810,000 for tho proporty, * - Mo 2 +—Tho plate-ginss works at New Alban; ., ropontly made fous gluss Hals forn oo eris stooploof a aliaral.in Columbug, O., esch o which Is_sovon feot in dismotor and half an inch thick, “and tho numerals aro_ona foo, in longth, ‘Thoy wera oast in tho rough in New Albany, and . thon sont to Olnofnnati, whora they worn gronnd by man-power, ‘thoro boing 1o glass-grindin, ninchine Iarga ongugh £0 00 It, Thone ato anld to bo the largost dlals In tho United Btates, —Tho Puluski. (Tonn.) Oitizen tella this little talo, which rofioots gront oredit upon fho Ingoe nuity of somobody s * Oharlos T. Robinkon, of Gilos Cotinty, killod & chickon enako which maage ufed sovon ‘footin longth, Ho fonnd it i a erok of tho . fonco, halt of s body belng on oithor sido, ‘On oxhmination it davoloped that tho enako hind swallowed a rabit hoforo it had sttompted to ornl thiough tho cracls and that after itsbody waa half through it caught and ewallowod anothor rabit, thus baving n rabit on enich sido of the fonco. 'Tho crnok was 8o small thint tho rabits .could not get throvgh, and tho consoquonoe was tht ho sunke was hitched. 1t weo kllod o thig attuation” . ‘emps glvos somo dotail relative 8o bwo ploluren by Murillo latoly dostroyod ] thio, Grotto ‘of Doillohom, noar Jorusalom tlirongh- tho dissonsions of tho opposing. #cots of thonkn: “Thoy woro,” enys tho journ) two voritablo chefs d'muvro, which, * having boon sont out at tho vory poriod whon thoy wors .oxcouted, have J»robnhl nover beon engraved, Ono raprosonted tho ¢ Nativity,' and tho othor tho * Adoration of tho Mgl -Thoso wo paint foge; plasod fu tho oratory, 1ind boun remarkably Jell prosoryad, owing {0 tho.earo which bad boon taken to covor thom with glass to protect thom from tho smoko of tho torchos and taporn.” i—Honrl Doloscluzo Lo a column lottor In tho Now York Herald about tho chula of M. Thiors, Wo rofim_t to have to record . that Hourl por- mita_himselt: to allude to the ox-President of tho Tronoh Ropublic, s oo, & salte littlo trick- stor,” who, after having " butchorod Parig, dis- .armod the Natlonal -Guard, bamboozied tho rovincon, filod o ofloss” with £ molorato” -fncos, and in overy possiblo way betrayod 4o Tronoh opublicans ko, the haeis of Ta Monnrobists, ns now boon kicked down tho +stops with 08 little coremony as a valet who, hay- ing served a dirty purpose ior hig'master, and, prosuming upon it, 18 pitckied_out of doora withh | Beorn and contempt.”, Tt must bo romombored ‘it Honrl Tooks at pofsons and evonts from tha communard pojut of view, and through the red- dest,of upootaclcs. i —Tolctlo Is tu Lisve n publio ibrary. —A Wost Chastor fif‘?" Indy wrote Lior will on o slato, and it has boon admittad to probato, ~—Tbo dorman-spoaking Catholics Lvo raisad gor €600,000 for o Cathollo dully papor in Now ork. - - & —Bomo tinlknown person s given Union Col- Iogo 850,000, . Th Gollogo will ‘ecapt. th. g, though anonymous. | —Tho Ohicago, Rook Taland & Pacifio Rallroad Company, ia laying a second track on its road . from Rock Totand oast to Colons, twelva miles :—A burber in Washington, who waa shaving a° man_who rofusod to ontor into convareation yith im, dropped dead, it i supposod, from oBpair. . . —A gentloman who was present at the opon- thg of “tho Vionna Exhibition, has sabiraed 1o Boston. Ho asys tho American dopartmont was Bimply disgracoful. ; T it at ‘work on’tho Wise Flve bundrod men aré consin Oentral northwost of Btevens Point. A 1arge force is also at work on the Ashland end. —Goorgo . Rounds, & boy of 18, haas rooowe crod §5,000 damagos fn’_a suit againat tho Dola- waro, Luockaivannal & Wostorn Railroad Come pany; tried at Chionango, . - o wifo of D. T. Gearhatt, tho dotaulting nud absconded Oherakea (Towa) 'County Treas- ntor, Lias hooormo Inawno fram tho trauble whidh Lins como upon her, Lo g —Rovoking liconses of those violating tho law th!bifing tho solling of liquor to miuors ls now 0 ordor of the d% in Milwaukeo. ~The Mayorof Philadelphia has detormined that tho'clty ‘ordinsnco I!mhlhlflng he ‘sale of oysters during tho months of June, July, and August shell bo strictly-enforced.. —A chap given to statistics ostimated that over 8,000 tacs wore frozon during' tho past win- | for, by young ladies keoping Hiolx boua inger- ing at tho gaio; instond of"king thom into tho - partor, —A man in, Bnulmnto.l who was ‘on trial for posaing 6 countorfeit bill, was discharged be- ‘causo some one stolo tho:bill from the Juatice in the court-room. Thou they said thore was no ovidouco to hold him. i) —Marathon County is tholargest in Wiscoosin, 1t 18 100 miles in length and fifty-four wide, and containg ninoty-soveén townships and 4,000,000 acrés of ‘laud, - Not ovor 50,000 " aeres nuder cul- tivation. The soil isrich and water-power abune dant, and minorals and quartz rock oxists, —Tho Indiana State Sunday.School Unjon wi hold its annual meoting at Anderson on 'the 3d, 4th, and 6th {nst. —Tho Nobrasks State Fair will bo hold at Lin- coln ;Heptomber 1-to, 6, 1878. - Among tho pro- miums offered aro the following : “Bixteen pre- miums of 40 scros esch, first-olass Nebraska lnnds, will ba given for néwspapor artiolos writ- ton and publirhodin_any nowspaper or newspa- pors in tho world, citlier 18 oditorinls or commu- nications, betweon the 1st day of April and the Iok dny or “Bopiomber, 1870: Bubject: No- braskn—Hor - Natural ~ Advanfoges ‘nod Ro- sources,’ ” x y —Tho absnrd ramor of the prevalonce of chol- ora in Now Orloans has given riso to many news- cupor articles nnd any amount ot»frig{’n in tho Western citios, Tho report was probably made by some_chronio croaker, who, with tho rest of his clasg, do” an’ incaloulable amount of injury’ and creato an unnooesanry apprehiension nt thin eonson of the year.—New Orleans Picayune, May 2. . o g I —Prot, Tyndall comen it strong whon he illg- tratod tho aluo of s singlo pojate by angposlng that all tho othor potatoos wore dostoyed, 'Tho ono would ‘contain’ the germ - for' stocking tho whole world, Its compounded product in ton years would oqual _$10,000,000,000,—in’ vaiuo worth moro than all Londou and Naw York. . —The murderer Lusfguani, Istoly hung {1 Now reoy, had gomo native wit, if ho did part his hair 10 the middlo. Just before Lo was lod out to oxecution, one of the priosts said: I would willingly bo In your placa; you will bo In henven boon,” "+ Well, tako my placo,” said the pris~ oner, “I will got undor.thg bod."” —The Hoosnoe tunnel contractors haye roport- od totho Massachueotta Legislaturo that the metual longth of . Loring now to do through solid roclt s sbout 1,720 feot, whioh thoy are shorton- ing up ot tho rato of - apout.300 fact por month, oy oxfoct o bo gntiroly throngh the moun: tain by tho 16th of “Novembor next, aftor which dato somo gix months will b requirad ta'put the tunnel in working ordor for rogular trains. —Horo io g matrimonial oxporionco : Abont forty years ago, & man who thon resided in Bhaftabury, Vt., marriod,’ snd’ attor living with hia wifo threo yoars, thoy portod,, - 1Tg thew mar- riod o Manchoutor Jndy, and thoy went Wost, Thoy raised o family of toight ‘children; and tho wito died, ‘Ho then returncd to Shattsbury, and took West with him anothor wifo. Thon sho dicd, and ho now ninrrios'the Woman from whom ho partod thirty-soyon yenrango, -, I —~A suicido "way' recofitly committed in Parig ywhich' was attended with-more than tho ordinary consoquences, ‘The body of ‘6 man was found in tho Bola’de Boulogno shat :through tho head, I was aftorward disoovered that tho man had iboon sorvané to M. Rodrigues, a woll-known stock-broker, and_that Lo . had . anrounced to & follow-sorvaut. his intontion to commit sui- cido, Whou M. Rodriguos waes. made ac- Aquainted with his valot's doath, tho shook was ‘50 groat Lo foll down in o flt of apoplesy, fron {whjch hia novor rocovorod, dying a fow hours af- torivard, - 7 '—According to a Tioridon lettor, *diamondsare more common in private socloty h\su they ever have boen, Many lndios aro crazy about them. ‘Lot thom got an many as they can, somo night or ‘other thoy moet withl a* dowager who ‘oclipses thom; and thelr Lappluess is gono, A 1ady of ‘rank who had o goos colleation, and who does not ofton leave many ot homo, was ssked the \other day the ‘nctual coat of thoso than npon hor porson. Blio replied with porfeot truth and much complaleanco, ~ 'Tlhey cost rathor more than 430,000, ¢Ah I'anid 1 nobloman who was pros- .opt, ¢ Lady Conts' colleotion are worth nearor balf & million.” From that gallery one woman, b )ng»t,t xfi;m. sy tdmu—::lxmml, A tlrhmd who was by told mo she turned very pale, aud Hiought s would taiger 07 TS wud bo vy,