Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY URIBUNE: SATURDA Y, JUNE 21, 1873, e ————————————————— e i A" THE COURTS. The Loss of the Dotroit---Shipping TInsurance Trinl---Verdiot for 8,140, Tho Cily Scavenging Cnso---Judgo Will- jams Decides that the Board of Iealth’ Along hias tio Power - to Mako Contracts. Tax-Deed Injunctions Granted---A Sin- gular Will Business. James Leary Again in Trouble---In Bankruptey---Criminal Court News. In Judge Wood's room tho intoreating insur~ anco caso of Portor aud Fuller v. tho Mochanics and Tradors' Insuranco Company of Now York, was triod, Tho dofondsuts failed aignally to Bhow thnt nt the time plaiutiffa applied for tho chango in thelr insurauco cortificate thoy (plain- t11t8) wero awaro of the loss of the vossal. Tho trausnction 08 shown by the ovidence was simp- lythis: Mr. Porter chartorod of Ballontyne & Co., of Buy Oity, the bargo Huntor to bring n Tond of lumber from Bay City to Chicago. After Porter left Bay City Ballautyne & Co. got Por- tor's agont to changa tho cargo from tho Iuntor to the Dotroit. Tho firat intimation plaintiffs got of tho chango was tho ro- coipt, of o bill of Inding, on Bopt. 80, upon whieh thetr bookkeopor bad tho cortificate of in- surance enclogod in o lettor to B. K. Bruco, tho Tnsuranco'Agont, for the purposs of having it chnnged. Tho jury in tho caso brought in vordict in favor of plaiutiffa for 88,140,02 TUE OITY BOAVENGENING. Judgo Williams, yostordsy momning, dolivered & docision in the case of Cunuingham & Gray v. City of Chicugo, fn which plaintiffs, who wero voted tho ]|nb of tho city seavongoring from Mx 1, 1873, which voto was nftorwards roscinded, songlit to rostrain tho city from granting tho coutract Lo any ono elso, And any ono clsa from ncceptingit. Aftorroviowing thociroumatanoesof tho caso tho Court took up thaquostion of whether or not the Board Lind power to bind tho city. 1o docidod that its functions oro merely uxiliary, st financial vitality is dorived from the city, an it hne not tho powor of muintainivg 8 eoparato oxistonco. Tho next question was whotlior_tho Common Gouncil, having powar ko to do, hnd au~ thorized the Boardof Health to lot the work to biddors, This_tho Court docids had not douo. In couclusion the Court sai The complalnants baving in this caso, 80 far ne yob appeara from tho rocord, made an lLoneat bid, and each bid having Leon acceptod, and they, after notifl- Saltnn tharoof, hoving gouo on 1n good fuith and con- tracted n largd {ndubtodness with reforcuco to thelr on- ticipated excoution of tho contract, Xam loth to hold that thoy lisvoe uo remedy, Dut, belioving that tho Tioard of Hoalth worc ot autkiorized by the Common Coungil to lot this contract o complainants, or to any ana clse, and that {ho contract, oven If authorized by tho ordlnance, was incompleto until tho Common Council had mado tho necostary appropriatton for tha scavenger worlk, 1 cannot uvoid the conclusion that 1t i# o contract ultra vives, and thatit cannot b entorced by complainouts, cither st lowor in equity, If it slionld bosald thiat tho contract with the dofondant Bol, iy also invalld for the reaaona abovo stated, and therefore that tho complainants huva o right, ad tax- payern, to resort to court of cquity for an_{njunction 10 Toitrain the payments toBoll, it {a enougli at pros- cnt to nay that tho aliegstions of ihio bill aro not aufll- ctent to cntitlo complaimants to such o writ, na tax- payers ouly. ‘Thoy do not dfscloso tho extent” of their Intereat to shiow (hat thoy'can bo damnificd to nny ap— soclablo oxtent, Whothor with further and other al. tonn of laterest wpon {helr yatt, complatuants could restrain the city from making puyments upon n contract originnlly Invalld, bu upon tho_porfornianco of which the contractor Lad already enterad, ia a ques- {lon not now bafore me, and upon which I éxpress no opinion. Tho motfou for an injunction must bo duniod, TAX DEED INJUNCTIONS. James Norton files o bill in the Cirenit Oourt against William Kelsoy Read, Goorgo ltved, the THiinols Linnd and Loan Company, Joseph’ Pol- 1k, County Cterl of pnnlf County, and Q.}:a_qity %unulinn resraining " the " dofendauts, William i{olsoy Roed, Georgo Roed, aud tho Iilinois Land and Loan Company, from applyiug for or takiug any further nction'to obtain or procuro & tax deed of Lot 16, Block 16, Ogdon's Addition 1o Chicago, nnd restraining County Clork Pollal from issuing any tax deod to said William Kolsoy Tocd, George liced, or tho Illinois Laud and Lonn Company, or other halder of tax cortificate mnde by the City Collector on the 224 Juno, 1571, "Tho lot wns sold to matiefy o epecial assorsment for curbing, filling, and pav- ingg West Indiana streot from Desplaines to Rucker, which asgessment complainant alleges was illogal in soveral vital yespocts, Who smwount of assesumont was 3441, and W. Kolrey Reed wants doublo that sum to rolonsa complainaut. The snmo complrinant files snother bill ngaingt Johu T. Forsytho, County Clerk Pollak, uud the City of Chicago, for an injunction restraining Yorsythe from procuring aud Polluk and the city from issuing tex dec of Lot 14, Block 16, Ogden's Addition to Chi- cago, In all othor particulars this bill ro- somblos tho provious ono. In both casos in- junetions woro grantod by Judge Williams, Ly A PUETTY WILL JIUSINESS, John Joseph McNulty, & minor, files his bill in the Cireuit Court against Ann MeNulty, Com- pluinant nvors that on tho 18th August, 1871, one Johu McNulty died, loaving bohiud hin the cast-halfl of Lot 28, Block 16, School Scction Ad- dition lo Chicago; that thia proporty he bo- yueathed as n lifo interest Lo his widow, the do- fendant, and aftor her doath it was to go to his sminging son Owon, should Lo aver turn up alive, fuiling which the plainlif was to havo possos: sion that John MoNulty in his lifotino sas not on good torms with hia ‘wife's relations, would 0% hivo anything to_do withi them in any way, and often “stated that nono of his “wifc's rolations would ever ghare in lhis property ; that tho will leaving his_proporty as ebovo mentioned was duly admitted to prabate, aud, togothor with all othor papers connected witlh thomattor, woro dostroyad by tho groat firo; that the rolations of the wifo, who is now a bed- ridden woman of 70, have caused her to liave re- corded in Coolk Couty Court & protended copy of the will which gives to hor tho land in fee aimple, aud that thoy are endenvoring to make ber tranafor thom tho proporty ; to hinder which compluinaut ks obtained & wiit_of injunction, by which the old Indy in restruined_from making any conveyance of the land until tho whole mat- tor Lay hoen settled in n Court of chancery. HUIT FOR DAMAGES FOR NON-DELIVERY. D. Hermgun Lomer, ‘. W, Heunoman, and Alexguder bring a suit In the United States Cir- cuit Coust ngeinat dward, Joroph, Thomas, and Daniol Willetls, Complainautn aflogo thet on the 81xt May, 1872, they purchaeod from dofond- ants 200 crates of Edward Clarke's white granite croeneryware, ut tho rato of 8734 mer cont dis-' count from thio prico List, tho goods to ho ‘paid for in casli ou their arivalin Now York, and to Do rondy for shipment from the port of Livorpool in {ha month of August; that although n reason- ablo timo haa elapsed since, aud complainant Tave avor beon willing to roepive said grode and puy for them ut the prics aforosnid, yot tho do- “fendauta have not delivored tho sawmo, hut have failed wholly to do so, to the dumngo of plain- €iff of §2,600. This suit was originally com- menced in tho Circuit Court of Cook Connty, but is transforred_to the Uniled Btates Couris at tho raquest of dofandunts, who aro citizons of tho Blale of Now York, BUIT TO RELEASE A MORTOAGE. Jamen G, Gilbort, of the Town of Palntino, Cook County, fles'a bill in thio Bupetior Cour againgt 'Ihowas 0. and oloven other mombers of tlio Richnrds fanyly, Mary aud Goorgo Poppard, and Rollin 8. Willlmnuon, adminjstrator of the estato of tho lute 'fhomas Richards, {Jomplain- aut avors that, on the 23d duy of Seplumbor, 1871, ho owned Lots B, 6, aud 7, in Block 9, vil- Jago'of Palatine, Cook Connty, upon which o aoised o loun from Thomas Richards, since de- ccnsnd ; that ho gave Richardn o warrdntoo dood of mid pm}mrt}' 0 securo paid sgid loan, anud Richerds bound Nimsolf in tho ponal sum of 51,000 to reconvoy to complainant tho land on tho payment of Lo loan; that Rickards diod bo- fove tho loan wau fully paid, and complainant drings tho prosopt suit to canne tho adminia- trator of tho oatate Lo fako from him pagment of the halanco of the loan and relonto the prnple, nfld\;na sgreed upon botween Giibert nnd Rich- aur D, JAMES LEARY AGAIN IN TROUBLE, Emily L. Ford filed hor bill in the Cirenit Ccurt yosterdny, against D. Jnmes Lonry, Bho Bvers tuit npod the plausiblo' ropranontations of the unctuous D. Jamen, sho lent ona Bonkiam tho wum of ¥5U0, for Y0 duys, morely taking Bon- hnm's note seourod by U, Jamoy' guarantce, Tho note was not paid, and the guaranteo proved to ‘be a vory poor one. In the hope of rogalning with aganuit with intent to kill one her mmmf’ onmElnlnmlh brings hor sult {n ag- | “n‘xxx;sn, nying hor damoges at tho sum of %) : _ OTIMINAL COUNT ITEME, I Jomoph Parlor was placed on h-hlnlx, ohargod: + 11, Bute toh, by strikiug hin on tho lond with n mallet, * Liftorta word madd to got tho prisonor to plead uilty and got pont down for a yoar, but Grooloy ind to mako his oration, which™ Mitlo rhotorieal offort developed some now faots, andcost tho prisoner throo yours' confinomont, which i o sorious matter with o man 63 yoare old. The Jury, aftor honring tho ovidonco, found tho pris- oner gullty, and fixed his torm of imprisonmont at throo yoars in tho Ponitontiary. Jamos” Thomson wak triod on a charge of stoaling a $560 wot of harnoss from G. 8: Whit- takor, found guilty, and sentenced to two yesrs and six months in tho Penitontiary, A fow minor onsos, possosaing no points of in- torost, wore disposed of. IN BANBNUPTOY, In tho mattor of Robort Wolf and Chnrlen Qoldstoln, bonkrupts, an ordor waa yostarday on- torad for thoir examfuntion botore Negiater Hib- bard, on tho 20th Inat. In the mattor of Issac AL Michsel and Samuol Qoldatoin, bankrupts, an order was entorod for tholr examination beforo Rogistor Hibbard on tho 24th inst. A potition In blmkn\gto was filed_by lon . Woodward, Ohaslon Sonbury, md Richard 7. Lowo, of Poeorls, ngainst onc John.J. Smith, potitionors’ claim consisting -of four.pnst duc promisgory notos of $100 onch, one of $100.46 2 nlso, an opon noccount of §220. Tho not of bankruptoy alloged is tho non-paymont of theso notes and book account, OOUNTY QOURT FTENS. Tho will of Robeces Mulford was proven, and, on the ronunciation of B, H. Mulford, Auna M. Gibbs was appointed administratrix undor an lp{ruvnd bond of £40,000. 'hio will of John Bartholmne was proven, nnd lottor tostnmontary wero grantod to Cathorine Bartholmae, under an approved bond of $27,000. Lottors of admiuistration woro granted in tho ostato of Ohristinn Bierl, undor an approved ‘bond of $14,000. Honry. Pfeol and Margavot Fermap woro yos- torday oxaminod Loforo Jurics and pronounced to bo insano, Jncob Fryo was appointed guardian of- Joln .'gryjounh 4l., minors, undor an approved bond of 2,400, o County Court will sdjourn to-day until tho 7th instaut. ¢ TIE COURTH COKDENBED. ..: - In Judgo Portor’s room, in tho caso of Joseph Maun v. Georgo Froeboth, en action for mo- Chanics' lion, o vordiot was ordored for plaintift for §916.81, " Tho caso of Joseph Whito v. Houry Loh&o, an fction in agsumpsit, went- by dofanit in favor of nlahltifl“ with lndgmmlt {for $278.12. Tho casa of Hirell Taylor v, Charles 8, Cloaver, su action in nssumpait, was tried bofore s jury, ‘who roturaed o vordict in favor of plaintiff for 207,85 damages, ''he caso of John Connolly v. Willinm Hearson, an action of trespass, was triod without & jury. The plaintift sought $10,000 dnmnqufl for an assault upon him by defendant, who sfashod him about tho legs with s pickax. The Court, after hearing the ovidence, docided in favor of tho plaintiff, nwarding bim $260 damnges, In Judgo Treo's room tho suit of Baldwin v. T. M. Bradloy, Shoriff, came up for trial. This is on_setion brought by plaindiff to replovin u quantity-of whisky rotained by tho Bheriff undor attachment, at the instanco of the . creditors of Tiornah & Bon. Baldwin claims tho right to tho 00ds ou the ground that Lo advanced money on ghem a8 n money-londor, Tho caso was cons tinuod until Mouday ovoning, Tn Judgo Murphy's soom tho caso of Prussing v. Moulding ot al. wns on trinl all day, . plintiit suing for tho performanco of & contract to do- Tivor half & million of brick, 'Tho jury rendorod o sealed vordict in the caso, which “will’ bo' read this morniug. ) 3 In tho United BStates Cirenit Conrt, John Gorlach boginssnit ngainst Otto Schouneman, in agsumpsit, laying hia damages at §5,000.. Com- Iningnt avers that on the 11th So{;tnmbor, 1873, 0 sold defendant the scow Bes Bird, togothor- with hor froighta thon ponding, for §4,3007 that defondant lias failad to phy tho sum, wheuco tho ‘prosont action. > John W. Willinms, of tho firm of J. W. Wil- liams & Qo;, applics in the Cirenit Court fora writ of atlachmont against W. IL Van Arman, who, he enys, owes him $1,270.25, aud is living at Mrssona Springs, Bt. Lawronco County, Now York Stato, ¢ Audrow and Petor Kline filo their petition in tho Buporior Court ngninst Isaao Freostono, Josoph E. Mors, and W, R. Wood, forame- chanic's lien of €240 upon buildings known s Noa, 84 pud 86 Bant Washington straot. ‘Theodora Petergon filos his petition in tho Suporior Court agninet Jano Huthorford, for 8 3,11!3,6)15'-“}1-"_'_'.,325}1 of 138 ou house kuown ns In Judgo Booth's room, the caso of Daniol Moran v. John Bruce was triod, in which plain- i unthb to recovor 81,000 damages for an ul- u{ma glander. Tho jury found for plaintift with 260 damuges. NEW SUITS, Tne Crnovre Count—T,448—Appeal, 7,449—James Norton v. Willlam Kelsoy Reed, Georgd Reod, tho IiH- noin Laud & Lown Counsty, Jogauls Pollaky Gounty Glerk of Gook County, nud tho ity of Obicago; bill for_injunction, 750—Appeal. 7.451—James Morton v, John Forastly, Gounty Clerk Pollak, and tho Gity of Ciileugo: Dl for iujunction, 7,452 10 7,461—Appeul, TA62—Gitay ¥riodrumy ot ul v diogh Tarncy © o= stnpslt, 8500, 7,463—Charlos Millor v, Frodorick Dotte cher s petition to supply record. 746—Wiiam V. Johuston v, Jobn W, MeLennan s rodockotod caso, 7,495—Joseph W, Williams et l. v. Win. IL, Von Arman § attuchment, $1,370.16, 7,4G6—Appeal, 7 467—Tteator o caee (Btirnt Jecord) 62} Mary W. Bridgman v, John Nicolsou et al, ; petition {0 eatabliah and confirm title 1o Lots 1 aud 2 N, % of Block 68, Bec. 7, 3, 14, Tire Burenton Covur—id,803—1ho Obicago Come sition Granito Company v. IL, I, Teaf ; assumpeit, 2,000, 43,804—Androw Klio of il v. Tsaso Dircow stone, Jokcph E, Mors, and W. R, Wood ; potition for mechnnies’ on, ~43,805—Willlam Smith ¥, 8, Wright, YPatrick Rourk et al, ; motlon to reslaro record, 43,808 —Thoodors Potoraon v, Jane Rutherford ; potition for ‘mechanics’ en, 43,807—Azariali . Palimor et al, v. Frma J. loolla’ & ‘aesumpslt, 49,808—Currio v, Edward ' Camplell; divoreo gu ouramd | of drugkennems " wid” cruolly, 43,800—Jumes O. Gitbert v, Thomna O, Richards ot'al ; bill, 43,810—Appoal, 43,811—Choster M. Smith v. Pullman Paluce-Car Compnny 3 treapass, $2,600. 43,813—Jamea MeKradley ot al, v, M. O, Viorco; peti- tion to restoro garnishico proceedings, 43,813—James Orow v, William McGuire; assumpsit, $310. 43,814— Richard Edwards v, Woodruff; assumpsit, '$500, 43,816—11, Jackman v. J. M., Stowa; nssumpsit, 3400, 43,820—8, A, Levy ot al, v. Lakesldo Frinting Conipany; sruabmont, $010.60, 4481, P, Tumay & 00, v, , L, Greono Leroy J, and ¢, agor ; sitachmant, $i62,01, ~43,818—Coorpe Budgwick v. kizea B. Lincola | confesslon of Judgwent, $1,675, A NOVEL POWER, o the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribine : B1a: Ihave boon shown the clements and drawings of an_ongine to bo propelled by the combluation of oxygen and hydrogon in prosenco of flame, produclog oxpansion, aud, of course, oxplosion, if not undor control. This power can bo gonorated at o trifling oxpense,—not to ox- oced one-fourth that of stonn, And, by saving the woight of fuel, and much of tho welght of machinory; with groatly incroassd sotivity of en- (,iuory, tho rosult Is a great gaiu, Tho momon- tum . ocquirable in~ this way is ho- Heved “to bo' such that = o . ship may cross the Atlantio in Lthroo days, or even in loués Limo. Tlio puddle appliatico fs aléo & novol- by simrly but etlsionl,_ 1 povor 1o sopii cablo oqually with stoam or water to any kind of machinory, ‘Cho inyentor is Fnrmq Gorman elmmial, J. Tbten, 1o hias apont the ant ton yoars of his comparative boy-life in study and oXporiment on this one themo. ‘I'io only opon question in the cnso, a6 I oo it, in whether ho, has suliciently abolute control of his fourful power; yet his rogulntors und snfoly-valves, it would soon, ought to bo adequate, J. A, Havvoon. 13EAGO, Juuo 20, 1873, . JUDGE CRAIG. F Osurtaar, i, June 17, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune ; Bime: X am o subacribor to and regular roador of your paper, and havo road your editorialy in “ragard to tho election of Buprome Judge in tho Fifth Judicin] District of llinols, Iam acquaintod with Judge Lawrenoce, and hinvo for many yoars regarded him as on able, upright Judge. Iam nlso noquainted with A« M. Oraig, tho sucoossful candiduto in that Die- triot for Judgo of the.Buproma Court; Lecamo pequaluted with him when ho was s etudont at collogo, and havo known him woll up to the prosent timo ; and, thus Jnowing bim, I foel in duty bound to to say that hels an ablo Inwyor and o just man, aud & man who had uniform 1y had tho eymypathios and_confldonco of the poople whorever ke has lived and bocomo scquaintod. And am confdont that, whon you nnd the poople' of _ his Btate ° become mcquuinted with Judgo Orulg, and know his roal charactor aud ability, Jtwill not o, rogarded by yon or thom as o “ outrago " that tho pooplo of the Fifth Judioial Distrlot elootod him to the oflico of Judgo of tho Hupromo Court, Respoctfully yonrs, &o., I, G, Fenus, THE CITY'S HEALTH. A Trip. Through tho Fificonth and ’ Sixteenth Wards, The Noocessity for Sowerage ond Oleanliness Very Apparent, The Champlon Dirty Street of the Oity? 2y OHAPTER IV, No one thing is more dircotly rosponsible for inoronsing aud facilltating denth than noglootod stroots. It has boon shown by. tho difforent artfeles that havo alroady appoarsd in theso col- umny that tho largo doath rato.in tho Bixth Bovonth Eighth and Ninth Wards i attribo. tablo to tho filthy and unhealthy condition of somo portions of those wards, Children undor 6 yoara of ngo are moro suscoptiblo‘to. tho in- flusncoes of the measuro surrounding them than adults, and thoroforo tho death rate among clil- dren under that ago-in tho wards named, nod in tho Fiftconth Ward, o desoription of which will be givon in thia articlo, ias boon s unpre- codontedly large during 1872 as to mako tho in- fantilo mortality of this city largor than thnt of any other in tho United Btates. The following toblo shows the infantile mortality of this city during ench month of tho yoar 1872, N HE ! Wanh.ga‘a ; % i 3 3l 13 atf so| 9 1| 94|35 13| 10) 13| B 1 sl 1al ol "6l &l 10| 10 wf af 2| 3 7| 101 8| 14| 17| 1) 6| 14 40| w0l 17f 19| 13t 7| w9 2 a4 il o) 39 1) o ) o) 0 - pal &ol 2 @) 4| 131 10| 74] 56| 81 29| eat a4l 40] 49| 40| Baf 4| 111} 3a1| 4| 35 o) B1| ena: 80| £3] 3l 4of 33( 44| “ea| “83] 9] 24l 20] 24) 42 7t 13 7| s 8l 4t sif 11 4l 7 | 11 8 7| 24l 9| 11 11} Bal 23] eol 10! of 36) ata 1| 10| 18 1) "9( 17{ 4| 29| 1sl 1| of '8} 203 a6l 8 o 8| 6l 18} 23 4 8 4 3 &7 al 7 141 13 1l 180 s0l ot 11l 9 cal- 7| 179 4i) g3l ool el wn1y) 1011 100) 981 77| B2 €9 106y 13| 81 20| o1f 2t 29! “ey| 0f 8al 34| In: 21| 4ol 5| 18] 19| 16| 3} 7| e 74| 0] 14 of 91w 10| 31j 10 20| 9 2if 48l €7 29 21) 1] 13 28d 1 1| uf b3 ol iy mo 1 4 o 3 af 8 § 3 [278/311:052 30,200 4011104211162 515{300 285 Hospital aud publio nstitutlon: Total ‘undor 0 yars 1t will bo soon from (his 6xbibit tint the Bixth, Boventh, Lighth, Ninth, and Tiftcenth Wards show tho largost numbor of doaths, and, goner- ally spenking, thoro Is In thom tho lonst draiu- ngo, ond their soil ia lowor than other portions of the city. : Tho Fifteonth Ward, it will bo observed, had 1,000 donths of childron undor G yoars of ago, or nearly twico tho number of any other ward in tho city. This pre-ominonco should not bo on- tiroly attributod to the filthy condition of the stroots in that ward, elthough some of them aro all that can bo dosired in that respect. Tha ward 18 largor in territory and population then any other, but tho stroels aro not ts donsely popu- latod as aro somo districts in the Bovonth, Lighth, and Ninth Wards, the inhabitants boing spread over an inunonsa torritory, all of which is vory low and clayoy, sud which has bubt fow sowers, . o ward boundary commences at tho north brauch of the Chicago Rivor, runs west on Fourth streot as far a8 Ashland avonud, thonce north to Chicago avenue, thonco west to the ity lim- its, thence cast to tho river, thonco south along tLo rivor to tho placo of boginning. Bntering tho ward at tho corner of Fourth streot and tho Tiver, going west, tho first_stroot doserving oo cinl attontfon i8 North Greon, botweon Erio stroet and Chicago avenue. The inmatos of al- moat avery houso on this streot woro infoctod Dy tho smelipox during last.wintor, and thera aro still soveral tenoments docorated with yellow cards, Tho stroot in muny places is filled up to grade with rubbish sud fiith, swept off the paved streots of that neighborhood, whils . tho guttors aro brin-full of o binck, elimy substance, cov- orod with o groosy, bubbiing fifm, Phillip strect is an alley branching out from Greon straot, but s vory densoly ’populated. 'Thig atroot hos nnltllur oW ar agnttars, eud con. SOYUGLLLY puois OF Blognant and infooted wnter are standing undor tho Louses and in tho yards, Iu front of No. 265 North Groon streot is a small Inko of the most corrupt mattor imaginablo, in which old boots, cablngo loaves, animal rofuse, spoiled pork and beans, and other similar articlos aro boing cooked by the Liot sun. It is hardly necossary to mention, that a yollow eaxd botokens small-pox in that hotiso, Pratt streot, from Milwaukee ayonuo to Sanga- mon, sud Fay streot, botwcen Erio aud Pratt, muko about tho samo showing, To ontor Morgan street from Milwaukeo avenuoe is almost an impossibilily, on account of tho rubbish and munure piled up in immenso platoaus 1 the middio of tho rond, but chmbing the obstructions, and ontering that street, the wisdom of placing on obstruction there will be soon. Tho ditches on both sides of the street boil oud steam, and emit odors sulliciently strong {o Tob one's nasnl organ of its functions. Tho dendliness of tho poison arising from theso pools is attosted by the fact that, during lnst wintor, ninoty-five cases of emall-pox woro reported from this atroot at one time. Tifth gtroet, between tho river and Chicago avenus, is anothor. stroot the guttera of which wortld not suffor in tho least by boing cleansed. Goorgo stroet, wifich faces tho -Milwaulkeo Railrond track, i nlso blossed with guttors full of inky, bubbling flth,in which disonse and pestilonco aro brocdiug. i ] Carpeuter stroot, befwoen tho river and Ohi- eago avenuo, offors littlo choico during its entire longth; tho gutters aro moro than usunily filled up with o slimy substanco which, thetefore, omita s woro thun unpleasant odor, Fry stroot, botweon Rucker and Reuhen, and Ruclor straot, betwoon Chicago and the North- ‘westorn Railroad track, aro almort in every ra- anucl countorparts of the streots mentioned above. But all tho stroots above doecribed are a para- dise in cloanliness beside the cluster of stroots radiating from Milwankeo avenuo in o south- westorly diroction to Roubon stract, namely, Cornoll, Cornlin, Augusts, Lmma, and Fig. ‘What lovoly names for such abominable, flithy thoroughfares | 1t {s an insult to all tho Augus- {ny, Emmas, and Cornoling in tho city, Those five ntraots may snfely bo named the Five Points of Chicngo. Bauitary Policemnn Fiotsch cally thom * Dio mutters of manll‘—fmx,". becausoe herotho opidemic commoncod, and hardly s housa ceenped unscathod. Butering any ouoof thoso stroots dlui;‘nutillg odors ub once snlute the nos- trils, and througliont thoir ontiro longth pud- dlos filled with slimy putrofaction can be soen, As those stroots bave become tho mothors of small-pox, thoy mey also Locomo the mothers of cholora. Clicugo avenue in paved and sewered, and fna tolorably good condition, but many complaints aro honrd from poople living nloug tho thorough- fure, bocauso the senvenger comos nround vary soldom for tho slopy, somctimes not ealling in i woelk, In tho gutter in front of No. 423 was tho contonts of u barrol of wlops which hnd boen thore for threo mouths, tho beavonger refusing to tako it away bocauro it had beon upset into the guttor by komo mischiovous boys, + No, 807 Roulon stroot Is o largo pool of atagnant watos, beconso tho houso Is unconnoet- ed with the sower in the strcoet, Clarinda stroot, botwoen Loit and Rouben, I but an alloy in Width, but is ns Uty as uny of ith broador nelghbors., Division streat, botwaon Milwankeoavenue and Wood #trect, is Jinod with a small ercek on cithor sido, through which low nover-failing strenms of an inky liquid, and over which num- borless bridgos ara conneeting tho strost with tho housca. " In the spring this part of tho clty was ontirely undor walor, ovorilowing nlmont ovory bascimont, and leaving thom in o damp sud unhealthy condition, Anothor siroot which rooks with filth, and can bo vingled oub by tho all-pervading ' odor, i Bunwsu streot, fronting: the Milwnukoe Rail~ rond. 'This sirect is bud all through, but Iy {vvorntllu Iront of tho ronidonve of Juitico Vaub oud, < Alittle furthor on, through & fow moro Mihy stroots, aud over piles of manure, sud tho stront whioh doos more Lhan any othor townrds making the death-rate of the Tifleonth Ward o fme moneoly largn comos in view. Tho roportor stopped and 1skod for the name of this gatntlot of postilonco. “Fox place,” was tho auswor, It may bo an oxeollent plucs for foxos to roam, but & proper place to bo inhubited by humnn bo- fugs b cortainly 18 not, Pho streot from ono ond to tho other {8 o mass of filth, from a pas- sago through which & woll-regulated vehicla would nover rocover. ‘I'ho doop gutters are full of n slimy stow, of a pickly geay in color, and on its surfaco n" thick, groasy film, so that it hard) roflocts the noandsy sun, In the heat of w’ulnh it bolls aud | in somo otlor placo, Now, sir, bubblog, In this slimy putrofaction, dirty, pock- mnarkod urching wu{‘ trylng to tako n awim, Partioularly noticoablo smong tho filthy articlos covering tho stroots, was the immerfse numbor of old hoote'and shoos,! Whon apring came tho ontiro population muat hiave strippod themeelves . 0f theso nrticlos of wonr and thrown them on thio stroot, wlioro thoy still romain, No other ox- planation could bo glven. Tho lousos ara all rickety tonomonts, onch inhnbited by about ton familics, mostly Polanders, 'Tho ntract, tho gut~ ters, the inhiabitants,—ovorything in that stroot, noada olénning. :No wondor thiat almost ovary house_fs docorated with a yollow card, ug thoe following Insoription: SMALL-POX IEREL Aro You Vaccinated ¢ 'wo burial tool took theso notes. Putting on o stiff and sovero conntenanco, and Yiolding Wi porfumed handkorchiof to his noso, tho reportor marchod through this thoroughfara of donth, and soon after rovived himsolf with an immonso glass of diainfectant. Another stroot desorving ou(':‘l:ulnl notico, and tho fllthinesa of whioh has all the ingredionts to croato n firat-clnss pestilonco, 1s Blsmarok place, Bhould the great German statosman ever honr of thia desccration of his namo, it may involye the Unitod Biatos in a soriousintornational entangle- mont, and, to provent such calamity, tho stroot should immediately bo cleaned ana made worthy of tho illustriour namo it boara, Thoro aro numerous other flithy streots and plncos in this ward, but none of thom oan come up to the standard of Fu’i‘lflnco, which should Do awardod tho ohamplonship for supreme fllthi- noss, ‘Tho Bixteenth Ward siso shows alarge in- fantile mortality, but not anlo na largo na that of the wards horetofore doscribod. This ward is on the North Bido, and is mainly inhabitod by Gormane, It comprines all the territory nortl of North avenuo, and whilo tho onst half of tha ward is high and sandy and has coneidorablo soworngo, tho wost Lalf, along the river, is vory low aud olayoy and lhas' no soworago ‘whatevor. Oo\mn?uontlfl tho doaths arg moro numerous in - tho wost half of tho “ward, Mohawk - stroot, -from North avonuc to Linden street, is in n very bad con- dition, tho guttora on both sidels of tho strect being full of siagnant wator. - On Hurlbut “streot, in- front of B8t. Michael's Churab, in 8 large pool of stagnant water, the odor of which must bo vory uupleasant to tho numerous worshipers that como thoro to mass on Bundays, Willow stroet, botweon Newborry and Larrabeo, also noeds atiention, oA its %uuona aro full of & compound of rotton vegotables, oto,, which aro Droiling in tho hot sun. Tho wator-olosots of Newborry School aro mnnln? all over'the school-yard, poisoning the afr which the children attending school thero haveto brenthe. The Board of Education has beon notificd sovoral timos of this state of affalrs, but that sugust body has a8 yot done nothing, and probably will do nothing antil soveral of-tho childron. have died in conso- quonco of this most criminal carolossness. Immodintely west of the school-house,- on Nowborry strdot, is-a butchor-shop; iu front of which {s o doap “pool of stagnant water, whora plecos of putrid moat, rotton livers, eutrails, and other offal ‘are promiscuously swimming, and 2dd oonsidorablo to the . disngreeablo smell occa~ sloned by the ovorflowing “of the wator-olosots in tho soliool-yard, - : Willow stroot, af tho corner of Halsted, Is vory ’l'hyn cornor of Olybourn avenue’ and Sheffeld stroct is alwo in' o sad condition, sud neods the immodinto sation of tho Strect Inspector. Cly- bourn aveuuo, .from North -ayenue to Ogdon's Grove, has an.improvement in- the shiapo of wooden trenches- on each side of ‘tho streot, whichi, instead of running through the entira longth of tho street, and then into the catch- ‘basins, empty into ovory vacant lot _{n front of which the drain is not continued, o that wher- ovor thero is a vacant lot one may look for a pool of u!nglmntdpmrid wator. L Chicago should be tho healthicst ¢ity in tho world, and would bo with ‘an exact adminiatra- tion of tho laws, Had'tho laws boen progotly administorod, aud sowers been constructed in places whora thoy were most nooded, our stroots would not to-day tell such a story of {lith and neglect. Had publio health instoad of - private interosts beon consulted, it would not be neces- snry now to mako such an exhibit. But not alono tho authoritios axo to_ blamo,—tho paopla o . themsolvos aro in o gront measurd roaponsi for thia stato of afaira. Tho Hoalth Dopart- mont canot station an_oflicor beforo evory houto in tho city to seo tlint no wlops aro thrown into tho streot” and guttors. The poople them- solves, for their own sake, must stop this practise. A Chigag g i To the Editor of The Chicc T'ri LA o o ot bt tHlanaly tatorost, whicl you hiave manifosted in tho sanitary condition of our peoplo, especially of the poorer classos, T am omboldened to addross you in regard to this subjout. I live on Waluut Atraot. ‘Lo show tho criminal indifforonco of. tha city authoritios to thio Loalth of tho peopla living on that stroot, I will stato that loss than two wosks ago some tivo or thiosmop, by ordor, L provum, of tho t'porr- ors that bo," wore ongaged for a Littlo ovor a duy in cloaniug ou tho guttor o tho sonth sido of tht stroet. Instond of hauling away the accus mulated fllih which these man’ shovalod out of that guttor, it wns simply thrown upon the north eido of tho gutter, and thero if romains to this day . and Lour. And_ even boforo theso men had finished cloaning _tho guttor, tomo man _(au oflicinl,. I _supposo, camo along nnd hnd them go With him to worl do_you call such a misorablo job, s I havo just described, such -on oue o8 was and is domanded by the present oxigeney? ** Aul” it is said, whon we pooroer peoplo ask and beg tho authoritics to put tho Btroots upon which wo reside iu a proper condi- tion, ‘“thore in no mouey in the treasury.” When o sowor or somo sanitary work is even hinted at upon 4 thoroughfaro upon which some of our wealthy citizous resido, there nre always funds and willing minds for tho projoct, whit- ovor it may bo. Why is thia? = Ao nottho henlth aud’ life of a ,poor man as valuablo to Liimuol, to his family, aud to tho community, os tho lealth . and " lifo of a rich . man to bhimself, his family, nnd the commu- nily? Unless tho most active and .ef- ficient monswoes are at once takon and _ rigidly and iudustriously pros- ecuted by tho authoritios, hundrods oud thouu- ands of our poorer classes will bo swept from tho faco of tho carth by that moust terriblo of all scourges—tho cholera, And who will be rosponsiblo? Cloarly, thoso who Lavo it in their power, aud upon whoun it is incumbent, to remody. the prosout -condition of things.in this city, 5 Xud I will toll our authoritios snother thiing, in conclusion, 'hat the people of Chicago sre in oarnost in {his mattor, nud thoy know exuotly ‘whoro to cast tho respousibility and blame if tho cholern scourgoes this city, and that it would- be well for thowm to lot politics, tho noxt Mnyunutly, ote., sovoroly nloue, and attend strictly to tho buslices with whioh they aro cherged.” If thy do not, thoy will find somo wlates ** smnshed ™ into o thonsand picces when they least expect it. Currosao, Junoe 20, 1873, ErsiLoN. s it S ST CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM, Treslident Grant's flolll—h;:;lolllicl\l frlondn, excopt, perhaps, in Loufsinng, bavo not been, Lo thiniks, well anouigh eared for, aud to provide ther with. Lurtha he 18 about to rotate twenty Consuls out of oftee,—Chicago Dribune, June10; - o the Editor of W'hg Chicago Tribune: S My attontlon was callod, In rending tho sbove paragraph, to asubject which I havonover soon discussed, and yet I think it forma o basiy for a truo Clvil-Sorvico Reform. No ono ques- tlous that tho leudiug cause of corruption in our politics arises from tho principlo, that “To tho viotor bolong tho spolls.” And it is the spoils, tha distribution of ofiico by tho party in powor, that 8o eorrupts onr oleotions. Now, take nway thoe dispoanl of pntronage aud oficos by our electod ofticinls, aud it appoara to mo you lay tho ax at the root of corruption. Iow Iy thisto bo offcctod 7 Zel there be no discharges from offico without @ just cause, ond thon only tlrough an Examining Board, or court if you ploase to call it, by charges made and sus- tained. Aud thon tho vacancios will not ocour whenevor o now oloction takes placo, I don't caro by whom the appointmonts to oflica are made,~—thongh, parhaps, it would bo woll to liavo Txamining Boards | but lob it bo undor- stood thut tho ollico can bo flled a8 long a8 tho Larty illing [t i anpablo, and_commits o aok derogatory to lxinflpumuou and youat onco os- tablih an esprit du corpn it Will work out n puritication of the Olil Sorvico much quicker, 0 my mind, than nn( othior way, Then I con< celya it would Lo woll to have the olicos graded, and tho ofticers take rank in ncoordance with such grades, and bo promoted ny vacuncies oo- our iu ranks abovo thom, a8 "in our army aud nayal sorvico, In the abova I concoive thoro ia n foundation for a truo Owvil-Borvice Reform ; aud, if thig ls 0, would it not bo well for our public minds to thluk moro of tho diemdssals than the appolnts monty, aud geo It they could not some to an onster solutlon of tho question, and establish a ‘TnyR Reyonx 7 LITERATURE. : Fho Atlantic Monthly Xor July, i W Eduonting o Wifo " is the alluring title of tho ahipter of nutoblography which Roliort Dalo | Owen givon ih tho “Atlantio for July. Tho auto- blographor, Mr. Owen, holds that ho owes to his, rendora‘ovory incldont of-interost and valuo that s his own torolato, aud hio has hinted withn charming confldence, at soveral of his youthful | attnohmonts. The love of which ho now tolls tho atory was a groat and ohivalrous passion, and has tho indescribablo charm of being ali truo. At tho ngo of 21, Robort fell in love with ** Jos- slo," 0 girl 10 yoars old, in the villnge-chool at Draxfleld. Hor fathor was n foroman of ono of thé fooma inhis fathor's mill, aud was but an ordinary charaoter 3 hor mothor was, in benuty, domennor, and tho excollont caro with which 6li0 ordored her humble housoliold, . quite aboye tho pooplo about her. Jesuio Is doseribod with tondor. enthusiagm. Hor complexion waa falr and of unrivalod purity ; hor faco n Jerfoot Groclan oval; tho eyoa deop Llio, and fillad with o donoing tght wheu sho smiled ; tho choatnut hair long and uilky, Every fustura was out with ‘tnguiar dglicacys thio ‘only’ doviations. from atriot rogularity botng, that the mouth was, in propor- tlon, & triflo Iargor than that of the Veriua of Milo, bnt thou the tooth, dazzling whito and porfect, atonod ; and that {hic nos was just a littlo bit whiat the Froncth onll yetrousso—thongh one need 1ot now Lnve recourso 1o Frouch; Tennysou has colned just tho word, To Jasalo, 8a to Lyneito, thg lines apply,— # And lightly waa hor slonder nosn Tip-tiltod lika tho potal of & fowar,” Only that, in Jessfo's caso, tho divergenco from tho clasalo lino waa no slight that tho ssmilo of ths flower petal docs not quite suit tho occaslon, Jouslo ondoared horsolf to all who know hor by. hor Bwootness and rofinomont. Sho was tnlton from tho villago sclicol by Robert's sister, Anno, who gave her private instruction in musio and othor branchos. Robert could not rofrain from attonding thoso lessons at every opportu-~ nity, slthough ho sedulously, for his own salio snd Jossic's, 6ot b sonl on any Words or look thnt might botray Lis fosling, o waa not Bo suce conafully secrotive as ho imaginod himsolt to bo, Anno discovered his secrot, and, Liko the good girl sho-was, promised to do all sho could to holp him, Bho got their fathor's consont to linyo Jesslo takon into the family as an adopted donghtor, and educated with tho other childeon. Tor two yoars this charming oxporiment went on, Robort nover awerving o momont in his de- votion to Jessio, and nover glving hor nny ron- &on for s momont to supposo that he carod for hor other than aa a sistor.. Tho rost of thia ten- der and end love idyll wo give in tho chasto worda with which Bir. Owen relatos it : ¢ T bind remained ot Braxfold, this novel oxport- mont of mine cauld have hind, 1 incling to beliovo, but ono traue, It waa otherwiso ordared, however, Th tho ‘winter of 16245, my fotlier purchascd villaga and a Jargo tract of Innid in Indiana, with what reault T shall atutebyand by ; aud in tho' sutumn of 1835, whon Josalo was littlo inora than 13 years old, I emigratod to thls country, I was soraly tompied, Voforo 1 Joft home, to tell iho girl how much I loved ier, and tnt T Xopod soma day, {f lio should over come t love and accept mo 88 Wusband, to make her my wife, But, whilo T waa romantio onlough in thoso days snd iater to do many foolish things, common sensn Auggostod that toa child such 8 _declaration was ll-judgod. and ont of placo, 8o I departed aud mado o slgn, With Anno, howover, T conforrad in ocrot 3 and she’ prom- ised 1, If I could not roturn in threo or four years, £0 come o tho United Blatea Loriclf and buing Jessid ‘with her, ¥ : Though it 15 anticlpating dates, Tmny an woll hero stato'tho ultimato Issuo of this opisode of my life, Two yoara Intor, namely, n the sumnner of 1837, lougiug to see Joaelo once mote, I joined anEnglish’ friend and recrosed tho Atinntlo. I found {ho young girl beau- tiful and fnteresting oven boyond my remembrance or expactation ; and, what moved mo sffll moro, shio ro- colved mo 86 cordinlly and with snch ovidont cmation; that—though I think I may say thnt T nve nover been gulllty of thio presumpiion of Imagining myaolf loved whon X was not—it did seem to mo tho chances woro falr that, {£ T remainod somo months and spoko out, #ho would not eay mo nay, Dut I determiriod first to make & confidlanto of my ‘mothor, in whoso good scnso and deop affcction for mio T placed fmplielt trunt, * My con,” slio said, “T snw, beforo you wont to Amorica, " that you loved this girl and’hind alrcady thought of her s o wife. Dut thoro ia much to bo taken into account In such o mattor,” “You would prefer to hava & dsughter-in-law from our own rauk i lifo 7" “1¢1 conld hvo cliosen, yo thnt & mufliclont objoction. My own good fathor worked bis way up from a position aa humblo; nud Jazale's appearunco and manners uro o lady-lko as it sho lind beon my own child.” i*But you ftg_objectious, doac mothier, Do ot withiold them from me, I entrent you,” # at Teast I should like 1o seo what will bo tho result, on her chnracter, of tho noxt thrco years, I kuow you, Robert; you liave a very high {deal of what a wifo ought to bo ! “unreasonably high, I am nfraid, . You thuink this girl porfect, but she is not, T sbould Jiko to Do suro that alio will grow up froa from undue lovo of ndmiration, sud, whut 1a.wore. important, pestoctly sincoro,” £ “ Not truthfal, mothpr” . 1 do nat say that; though, whon she first camo to us, T Aometimen thotight it. Sheis vory anxlous to ‘ploaso, nud occanlonally eaya tings rathor beoause who thinka they will o agreeablo than bocause thoy squaro with e conviotions, T should like 8 more carnest and downright oharnctor in your wife.” 4 You wish mo to givo her up 7" “No; sho bus many oxcellont qualitios ; she bnaso affactionate s heart, and such winning ways, that thera 18 110t 010 of ua 510 can Lilp loviug hor, But I Aave somolliing to nsk of you, for your snke, dear ltobert, not for mino, ‘Thin girl T only 15, n child wHil; and you bavo to return with your father very sgon to America, Do not commit yoursolf; you ought not to marry iy ono youngor thun 18 or 19, Tet tliren years pass,” Tl tako s much pas with Jessie, meanwhilo as it gho wore already my daughter; and T will ropor 10 you fuitfully tho result. Come’back when thrco yeara aro passed ; and, I T am thon aliva aud you stiil ‘wlsh to morry hr, I will not ssy & word, ‘oxoopt to wish you Lotk il tho happiuess this world éan aiford,” The fears Toso to her eyea s who ndded, fu a lower tono, 1 only sk for.delay ; it may bo th last roquest Tehall evor miako of you,” 1 havo nover mado up my mind, sinco, whether I aid right or wrong. But my mother was Ju_very fecblo howth ot tho timo, and I folt no ussuranco thit X aliould over soe lior agnin, us, indeed, T never did, - I¢ sho had objectod to Josslo bocausa of her lowly birth, i€ shie lad spoken harahly of her, 41 o hud to1d mo she would nover consent” to recoiva Dior sa o duughior-in-law, I sliould havo sought to 11~ wago tho girl, young s shie wa, then and there, But all” Ao sald Wan 80 roanonable, and tho unfitriess of marriage bofore threo yoars so apparent, that T Liesi tatod us she went on, Tor teara, ot thio Inat, decldud tho matter, T gavo hor tho prowmfac ahe wished, My word thus pledged, I felt thiat I must Laston my doparture for Lotdon, when we wera to crabark, Tlio dy beforo I sot uail, 'T asked Josnio 1f sho wold not 1ilio to visit hor parants Iu tho villago ; and. when shio assented, I proposed that wo should tiko n eirouitous ronto through tho Braxfield woods, tho last tlno,%a it ‘proved, that I over saw thom, On 1o occasion {n my lifo have I suffered from o struggle botwean duty and Inclination =4 T did during thot walk, A8 wo passed, doop fu tha woodk, o Tur butI do mot think o sun, tha rippling wators of fhio Clyde, 1 proposed 10 Josate thiat wo should blt awhilo,. ta res aud tallr, | What wo satd and how lon we rormajuied thoro I cane nottell, . All I remermbor iw, focling ot Inat. that, 1 wo ent théro half au hour louger, I should bredkc tho solemn prowfso I kind mado to’ my mothor.. 8o wo rose, went o, half in silenco, o tha vilingo, whoro wo soparatod,—and droam and tamptation wors ovor | Erg (lio 'throo years of probation Lud passed, Anno ind died, und Jesslo had marricd o moat aminbla and ontimablé young mon, i ensy circinutancon,—Lad marrisd before I know, ovon, thut s hud boe sought in marrige, Moro than thirty yoars passod aftor that walk throtigh the woodod braca " of Bruxflold bofore T s Josnlo ngan, It was {u eotland wo mot, both married porsons, X found her In lier own handsome.house, fu o hosutiful oltuation, surrounded by overy comfort. aud somo hix- uriea, 6o far as T could learn, whe liad 80 Lorno. hor solf through 1ife aa o securo the esteom nud lova from & cultivalad olrclo of acqualutances, Just ot firet I could searcely recognizo, in tho come- Iy mntrom, tho Josslo of my youtly il b smiled, ut wo wok twicoor thrico, and tafked over the olden timey vary quiolly st Owit, During my lsat viil T awkod hor 1€ ho had over known thut T loved lior aud thot 1had wishod to muko Ler my wife, 8ho sald it T soveral thnes ocourred to hior as posatble, oven beforo T left Braxfleld, tho first tuo, for Auiories ; that shio liad folt Auro o 1t during tho woodiand walk ond especially whilo wo Bat togethor f1i that secluded 3pol, with o bisds ouly for wituessos but when T 1 doparted to anotor Liomisphore with no promiso of roturn, snd without docluring myeclf, sho lind felt 8Uro it wak becatiso of her humblo porenitage, and. 4o had given up ull idea that slio_could ovor bo fuy wifo, “hon, with a frankness which oven 8s a child sho tind always sliown toward me, sho addod {Lat klioxever could Leli e when shy firat lovad mo; and that if, during thut Lnat walk, Thod asked her'to becomo my botrothed, eho woull buvesald yes with her wholo beart aud'oul, Who tears stood in Lor oyos asshie mado thia avowal; and sho followed ft up by ssyiug, 4“7 winhed to mee you onco, and ta tell you this.” But T know you will foel it to bo_tho bost that wo shiould nat sco "each othor, nor wrile to eich othor, auy more, 1101 hior slio was wiso and striolly conform to lur wishies; thinking &t Lust 80 for Doth Gur awken, o oven s oceasional cxchingo of Iottos whiel, hioughout ous thiely veurs’ uoveracs, Tud hoon kopt up at Joug Intorvaly, hes ceaned front that day, - And 0w, when wore than anofher decado Lins passod, T am unicortain whothor dowsio f etiil 1m tlile land of tho living, or has gouo-boforo to anothr, whero many dear frlonds who have boen lifo-long apart will fliid no causo for furthor soparation, In * A Roman Ioliday," I, James, Jr.,, notes the loswoning gayoty of the ton days of tho Noman Gurnival, ‘Now that Italy is mado, ho Biys, tho Carnival is unmado, and the fashion of publio rovolry has fallon awfully out of stop. Two mnew eeriul storion succeed Ilawoll'a ! Chonco Acquaintauco,” whioh came to its end lnst month, Hjalmar ll‘nr(h Doyeson com= mences a Norso romance, “ Guunnar,” tho opon= ing chaptors of which have allthe peouliar fragrance of the birch-olnd bills of Norway, and the grotesque oharm of tholr mystorious iuhab- itants, J, W, Dolorost, who wrote “IKato Boauwont " for the roadors of tho Atlantio a yoar good, nnd that T would 3t "1 Migs goat, whonee, through tho follago, glittered, in tho aut- v;u, b‘?glnn anow story, entltlod * Honest " inan ano.! . Among: tho n|nrlo atorios, Albort Wobstor'ai nnlge's Glovo" hag-great morit, Thosa! who fraquent tho mngazinos do not ofton got s bettdr ontertainmont, 5 l - T¢anols Parkman gives nnothor of hia stndies of Joauit hiatory in early American nnnals, In “Early Cavadian Miracloa and Martyrs,” in which ho goes aa far baok as the Sulpitinu mira- olo by- wfilnh Madomoisollo Mance, in- 105—,- oured hior paralyzod arm by touching the leadon cagket in whioh reatod tho romalus of Olier, tho foundor of 8t. Sulploo, Jamon Parton portrays” the Presidantial cloc- tlon of 1800, in which Jofforson was a candidato, and in_which, Mr. Porton says, - the Compaignt Linr who has since assumed so overshadowing a rolo in our golltlcnl contests, firat tried his un- practicod talents, 2 In “An Old English Home," Mrs. Lynn Lin- ton draws an ongoging pioturd of ono of the most boantiful "homes in England,—Lowor EnllnPwn Park, ¥or n thoussnd yoars it has beon in the posesaton of ono family,—tho Bhir- loy, anciently the Bnsunalo family; and “Xt is one of thouo places for which wo havo no par- ollol in Amerlcs, booause wo have no ancostral lomas belonging for many gonerations to o' Ioisura class,—no old * pleanaunces * which the - love of bonuty and tho epirié of consarvanco havo united to form and maintamn for hundreds of yonrs, Bot in the midst of venorable tross— notably somo old howthorns—that aro’ as snored as tho family plate and_plotures, sud tho removal of which, 80 long na they will stand 1 right, nothing but the severcstnood would justi- fy,—with many stretchos of that soft, rich grass which is mado only by conatant years of closo mowing,—the honso Jooks out on o & Bcono of oaco nnd” lovolinoss and trimmed luxuriance, lll‘a lika of which no country save England onn show, 4 ho pootry of the numbor In as good as Eflen Torry, G. P. Lathrop, Celis Thaxtor, and Whit- tlor ‘can mako it; and readors of the Atlantio know how good that ia. ‘ The PopularScience Monthly for Yuly. Johin Btuart_Mill holds thoe placa of honor in tho Zopular Sefence Monthly for July. Therols o vory fino portrait of him, and with it are given in full, or slightly .abridged, tho most valuable of the momorial artloloa published by tho Lon- don Ezamincr. His oducation vod marriago aro writton of by H. R. Fox Bourno: W. T, Thorn- ton doscribes his carcor in tho Indis Houso 3 Horbort Sponcer leaves his intollootual achiayo- monts, which are so widely admitted snd prals- od, to portray somo of tliose romarkablo mani- fostations of. his high moral qualities which, in their nature, could be kuown only to thoso whoso porsonnl relations with him called thom forth. His botanical studles are skotched by Henry Trimen ; his place as a eritio_by W, Minto; hia work in philosophy by J, H. La\;‘y; hig work in political economy lfi'l Prof. .J, B, Calrnes, who arys that, though Mill wag not tho first to treat g;; tical acononiy a8 o scionco, he was tho firat onforco the losson, that, just becauso it isn solenco, its conclusions carry with them no obligatory force with roference to Luman con- duct. “In tho writing of the ecouomists who proceded Mill,” hoanys, “itis yory gonorally assumod that to ‘prove that a cortain coursa of oconduct tonds to the most rapid incronso of -wealth euflices to entail upon all who ncoopt tha argument tho obl(%ufiun of adopting the courso which leads to ‘this rosult. Mill absolutely ro- pudiated this Inforouco, aud, while neeapting o theorotio conclusfon, hold himeolf por- feotly free to adopt in practico whatovor courdo bo preforrod. It was not for political ‘oconomy or for any sclouco’ to say what are tho ends most worthy of boing pursued by human lirings ; the task of acionce is comploto whou it shows ua tho moans by which tho onds may bo attalned ; but it is for each individual man to docide how for tho end is desirablo at tho cost of which its attalument involves, In & word, tho scioncos should bo our sorvants, and not our mastors. 'I'hia was & losson which Mill was the firat to enforco, and by onforcing which Lo may Lo snid to have umnncxpntud cconomists from tho thraldom of thoir own toaching. Itisin no slight degroo, through tho conatant recognition of it truth, that ho has been enablod to divest of ro- pulkivoncas ovon tho most abstraot speculations, and to impart & glow of human intorest to all that ho has touched.” Prof. Fawcott estimatos his influence at tho Universities ; and W. A. Huntor, his position as n Yhilosnphnx‘. . A vor ticeablo articlo is “'rho Physiology of Dentl,” translated from the Fronch of Fer- nand Papillon by A. R. MacDonough, to whom Amorican renders aro indebted for so many op- In(hmu ond finoly-finished " translations, 1& Papilion groups togather tho rosults of the in- vostigntions of Bichat and his succossors in showiug the order in which the various func- tiona of tho body yicld their vitality at the call of the destroyer, and discloses in the ordor aud oporation the activities which thoso rosoarches have shown to be at work in tho corpso. ‘Thoso who have followed the relontless en~ cronchmonts which psychologlets of tho latest school are making on tho domain of tho goul and mind will be interosted in Dr. Willlam B. Car- pentor’s * Horoditary Transmisslon of Acquired Pycical Habite.” "Dr. Carpentor holds that ‘moutal activity of evon tho most elomentary kind can bo shown to b dopondent upon tho phiysical chm\‘i;r:u kopt up by thecirculation of oxygenatod blood through the brain, and that just as'dircct- ly and immodiatoly* 88 tho dependence -of tho cloctric activity of & galvanic battory upon the annlogaus changes taking placa botweon its mot- als and its oxciting liquids, In-other words, thought 1s tho product of cliemical chango.’ Moro marvalous etill, and appalling to those wio cling to the godlilio ideal of human intelligenco, it o shown that cortain phasos of meni disease, likothe loss of power to romember datos and names, aro due to somo dofectivo in- tuition of somo organ or othor of tho brain. Noxt to tho political Ling, Morbort Sponcar pita tho thoological bins a3 a disturbor of scieutifia habits of sociological thought and research, This porvorting bins conalsts not_alono of thio soota- ¥ian profudicos and antipathios like those wiicly rondor bigotod Roman Catholics and bigoted Trotostants’ unabla to form tomperato o' juat Judgments in each othor's work in sacioty, pat or prosent, but as woll of tho irrational sltopti~ cism and iconoclasm which is contont to destroy and ovorturn without rebuilding, and causes ol unsciontifio - misintorprotations as tho denial g0 oftou hoard that s roligious dystem ia & nor- mial and esgontial faotar in ovory hoaltby so- cioty. ; Tn * Vonua on tho Snn's Face,” R. A. Proctor gives tho history of tho former transits of Venus noross tho sun's face, Tho first occnsion on which tho planot of Lovo was seon in that flory ombraco wes Dec, 4, 1680 ; but it was nob until 1769, whon Capt, Cook mnde Lis famous oxpodi- tionin the Endeavor, that auy satisfactory ob- servations woro mado. - 16 wna watchiod in’ that yoar from seventy-four dilforont station, and on tho'osults thon obiained Ia asod thejoaloulation still usod in our astronomical toxt-books of tho distanco of tho sun from tho earth. Tho othor artlels of tho number are: * How tho Soa-Dopths Aro Explored” (Illustratod); “ Naturo aud Origin of tho Drifc-Doposita of tho Northwost"—II, by N. I, Winchell ; * Do- meatlo Ticonomy o ‘Tl "~If, by Oapt. Dong- lns Galton; *Tho Longovity of "roes,” by Lliss Lowis (Illustrated); ~*Early Hindoo Binthomntics,” by Prof. Tdward 8, Holden; “ Evolution 'of the Mind,” by Dr. 0. B. Rad- cliffo; ““Iu Quoat of tho Palo;” Goography in Schoola—Sciontific Education in tho Far Wost ;" Litorary Notices, c ¥nrper’s Magazine for Fuly, “Tho OId Stagor ™ recalls, in Harper's Maga- zine for July, some amusing anecdotes iliug~ trative of the artful dodges with which public men of Lis day—and It ia nob likoly that thoso of to-dsy aro moro . son- siblo—sought to cenvoy tho impression that thowr carefully-incubated orations were tho ra- sult of momontary inspiration. Even so strong o man as Daniel Wobater was wonk enough to throw a veil over tho thoroughnoss of his properations, - and Lo was- fond of rvoforring to Lis mustorly reply to Huynog a8 an umopromeditated and un- studied offort. When “tho Old Man Tloquont” was Iu Congross, Mr, Evans, of Maino, made -a torriblo oratorical on- slaught upon him.. Adems was oxpected by avory one to reply in s own domoliehing stylo, Months passed, but no word of retort wna-heard. At tho oxpirstion of movoral months, Evans confossed to a friond tlat ho was not sorry ‘“tho ol man had not come at him," but added: “IMad he attackod mo, you would havohoard one of the most brilliant extemporaneous offorts over do- livorod In this IIO\IBB‘ which 1 have been prepar- ing for four mon This is not tho only In- stanco {n which oxtomporancous offorts wero carefully proparod, Ogden Hoffman told tlio old mombor of Congress that he watched his oppor- tunity for a wholo yoar to attaok Mr. Cambro- long, ono of his colloaguas from Now York, At fast the opportunity narrived, and Iofr- mun gesailod Cambrolong in 6 mastorly epooch whioh elootrified tho Iouso, bub whioh Hoffman had _preparod with tho groatost care, aud which to the wmewmbers appoared to be wholly an oxtemporanoous offort, Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, a brilliant oft-hand sponker, and a man of fluo genuis, aought to unito the ropute~ tkiu of agay rako with thatof a brilliant and ‘TéAdy orntor. In truth, he always prepnred hime solf sodulously when tliera was oppottunity, Hin wéaknoss was tha naffcetntion of concealing lin industry. Ho would absont himsolt from tho np- itol for dnys, Tonding hin friands to supposo thnt - hio was plungod Inio » Brobigreginn dobauch, ‘whilo o was renlly doveling ovory hiour o rond~ ing sud study. After- gotting * thoronghi crammed and armed at overy point, To wonls como. into tho onso looking oxhausted and higgard, giving color. to tha notion thnt hio had boan on frolic, and, watohing his dpportunity, would pour forth the fruitsof his study lun slraln of off-hand, atriking eloqnenca that liardly ovor failed to nstoniak hin hoarors, And the ro- mark waa ofton hoard, * What a brilliant man | What oonld he not acoomplish if ho waa indus- " trious and regular in his habits 1" Thomas W, Knox'a pnPnr on ' Ninsslan Policy in Asia” {a interosting for its information con< coming tho history of the encronchmonts which Tusaia has 60 long beon making toward Khiva. Khiva is tho ouly one of those poworful Khinn-~ atos—of which the other two are Bokbara and Rhokhan—which has not beon brought, by in- trigus and foreo, futo aubjection to tho Rushinn . Bonr, Mr, Knox conslders its conquost cottain, and belleves that thon Ruesln will en Afghanistan, and push her sovoreigaty, within cwuutz-nvn yoars, up to tho vory frontior of Dritish Indla, oro sho wiil stop, ‘for sho hns no wish for a war with England.” Tho Khivaus, hesays, *havoall the sppliances of torture knowa to snciont or modern timan,Tho bura cohumoration of thom, with the briofost descrij tlon, would caure the most stolcal of readers {: shivor with horror. Humanity will bo greatly bonefited by Russin’s absorption of Khiva, Tho Crogcont must give way to the Cross, and tho m"o? taught by tho Nazareno must bo* substi- tut hfgr du":.h o{:ult{ Iniujoincd !ll:y him _who preached deaf unbolievors, and” sproad Ll Teliglon with firo and sword,? -0 g Bonson J. -Lossing beging a new sorios of il« lustrated articlos, ontitled ** Bigners of the Deo~ laration of Indopondonca.” Tho objoct of tha para ia stated in tho opening paragraph, It ns: ‘“We aro oll famillar with the signatures of tho mon who rubscribod thelr names to the Doclaration of Indopendence, but few of us know how thoy wrote in tho toxt of lottors or other wrmngl, or .thoir methods of cxpression in opistlen. Mo roveal their stylo of poenman= ship, and modos of kome of them in {ho oxpros- slon of thoir thoughts in lottors, 1a tho chiof oh< oct of theso papors” Tho first paper” hoa wonty-thrco ao-simllo sniograph. Emilio Castelar contributes the seventh of his spors on “Tho Ropublican Movement ~in Zurope.” It ronds much more like the work of an clegant scholar and studious publioiat than of a slatosman or mon-vorsed in affairs, - Tho {llustrated articles aro: Jack Ashoro,”. which dopicts the dangers which throaton sefe men on land ; “ National Standard and Eme bloms," romarkable for its omission of tha nationnl colora of nearly every peoplo of impor tanco; “ Bicily and the Sicilians;” and * Gon, Bhorman in Xurope and tho Iast,” ono of the slovenliost and least intereating of.rocont itinoraries, Tho Catholic World for Inly., -Awrlter 'in the Catholio World for July roe viows tho monsuros which, at Bismerok's gug- gostion, have boon taken in Prussis o rondjust the rolations of tho Btato with tho Roman Catli- otio Church, Within two Fears of tho establishe mont of tho German Empire thoso plans of tha Obancellor baye lind thelr consummation : ourlo Josatts, the vanguard of tho Glurel, aro driven b} For couspiriug ngalnst 5 N B ™ piring ngolust the Empiro, 0 other orders nre drison out for th roasons, ond with tha ke proofs of guitt, . o e ‘Tho universitics aro placed fu tho bands of fnfidols, Tho scliools aro taken from tho hands of religlous, and placed altogethor in tho iandu of tho State, ‘Thie nolomnization (1) of marriago 18 placed in tho cclestaatical sominarios ora suppressed, or tosinatioal students are for tho futuro to boedue cated nnd appolnted by tho Stato, Catholica must not subsoribo money to build colleges of thoir own ; if they do, thoso collegoa will liko all flia oftiers, ba appropriatod by tho State, “I'io Blshops, the divinely appolutod successars of the Aposties, ato only allowed to Lold offico at thia will of tho Slate. e o who dizoboys 13 doposod from offico by tho Stato, Tho Church is o thi to. Tho human cons aclonce 18 & thin It haa no rights, no thoughts, 1o feolings, no desire, that are not aheo= lntely controlled by tho Stato, * for'n tho kingdom of this world, tho tato has dominton and precedeuco.” Thero 18 tho whola doctrino out, plain and undise faed, Those last words aro tukon from the spoech clivored by Princo Bismarck {0 tho Houss of Peors In tho dobnte of March 10 on the question under conside eration, . Tho bill prohibiting the croation of new somi- narlos, grest or small, oxcites tho cspacial wrath of tho writor. -Its framers, he -oxolaims, gaid: '‘ We have banishod the Jesuits; wo bava Danished raligious saciatios of ovory desoription 5 wo havo nbolishod tho . sacrament of morriago; wo lave banished religion from the mohools; wo mow procesd to abolieh oclosiastical seminarios altdgothor ; that is to say, wo abolish tho-priosthood, wa abolish God a4 far ns Germany fa concornod, and men shall worship u and us_only—tho sus rome power.” But Rome—though nover befora id the whole world so threaten hor oxistence — stands never ™oro unit. od, “The Btate in Gormany banishes tho Josuita, and tnkes infldols to its bosom; in Bpain, it banishes tho Jesuits, and finds in tholr placo tho. Descamisados; in Switzerland, 16 ejects Mermillod, and ombraces Loyson; in Ttaly, it imprisons the Pope, and yelcomes Viotor Emanucl or Garibeldi: Non hune sed Barrabam! Meanwhile, the Catholic world spoaks out, and from the cnds of tho enrth comos Dback tho protest echood from point to point, and gathering voluno as it goos: Wo protest’ as men, wo protost ag froa Citizons, wo protest n Christians. Tho second part of ** Jerome Savonarola ” ia given. Thero aro articles on “Philosophical Tor« miunology,” ¢ Civilization,” ‘¢ Brittany, Its Pao- ple aud” Poems,” * Nocossily versus Art,” and other topica of Catholic intorest. _———— The Now Wisconsin Land-Grant Come f pany. Fram the Milwaukee News, June 20, . Wo aunouriced, last wook, thut leading capital- ists and railrond tnon wero in consultation upon tho subjoct of forming & railroad company ta build a railroad on the Bt, Croix land-grant lines, ns fixed by the act of tho- last Logislaturs, con- forring the grant on’ tho-St. Panl Company. Theso lines of railroad are the remaining ime portant links needed to completa tho Wiscon: ;iin systom, and aro, in genoral torms, a4 fol- lowa : 5 Tirst—From - polnt opposite Red Wing northward to Proscott and Mudson (40 miles), and thoneo to Superior (140 milon), and from a poiut on tho Hudsan & Suporior litlo to Bayflold (70 miles) ; fotal, 250 miles,. 3 Second—A Tino up the Chippews Valloy to Eay Olaire and_Chippowa Talls (70 miles), with a Dranch to Menomoneo (20 milés) ; total, 90 miles. Third—TFrom Monros to Shullsburg, 40 milcs, Tlho total number of miles which the Company will build is 830, The Chippowa Valloy lines and tho Monroo & Shullsburg lines, with a portion of the Suporior lincs, will bo at anco, on_tbair complation, valuable lines of roud, and will pay tho interest on tho moncy that it will cost to build thom, #iThe ofticors and Directors of tho now company aro tho solid men, priucipally, of tho sections of couutry immediatoly-interested’ in the constrne. tion of tho lines of railrond mentioned, and the now company will bo supported by tho united woalth of the lumbor rogions of tho northwost and the mining rogions of tha southwost parts of tho State. Thonominal capital of tho company i8 820,000, Tho stockholders possoss tho means, themeolves, to build evory miloof tho roa named in tho act of tho Logislature. Thoy are, of courto, ready Lo givo suy roasounbla security which the Govornor may demand for the proso. cution of the worls. —_———— «Tho Botter Opinion? Concorning .. Mr.Xtocchors From the New York Cur(eip;mdmu Dufulo Commers ol " Tho bettor opinion among *lovers of good mon " I, that Mr, Decchor will como out of tho ordeanl elear and:clenn, 8o faras criminal conduct is concernod, but by uo monus cloar of ‘indiscre- tlon (rathor pnssive than positive on his puit) snch o8 almost suroly %lvnu occasion in o world liko'this for tho making and bolioving of tho rosaost oharges, Tho foudling folly of aome of \[r, Bocchor's fomalo adorers, unopposed by a compensation of wisdom on hié part, hns much to answor for of all this misory and shame. Tie uncharitablo and umcomprehonding world with= out cannot undorptand certain grades of loving familiarity, bowever lunocont’in fach, or any other thoory than that of oriminal Intimacy. Many womon, it iy cortain, have beon madly in loya with Mr. Becchor, - 1 know of -one, Many others havo lavished upon him tho foudeat idol atry, a8 o sort of god; ongor to kiss tho hom ot his garmont; and whon fuvored with actual in~ timaoy, wo sl know what uuoh wowmen will do, “Thara {a somo foundation for tho story that Mr. Beochor hud made & confossion and asked fors ivouoss, A friond of mino has socn the lotter, ut there was nothing of a eriminul uature cons fosod ; only just such Indisoretions as I have indicated,