Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1873, Page 2

2 Do —— THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER- 25, 1875. HAY-FEVER. IMore Lettors from Sufferers. Proposed Convention of Vietims of the Diseage, Suggestions as to the Causes and Cure. A Wrathy Sufferer, Sreneina, 1ll,, Sept, 92, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: Since my lottor in Tur TrmuNe rofor- ring to ** Iay-Fovor,” ‘lottors without numbor hiavo poured upon me from doctors in Chieago, iloctors out of Chicago, and dootors most ovory- whera; and, with onoor two oxceptions, thoro is not » pnrticle of sonse iu what thoy sry about this discase. Ono doctor in Ohicago Jirforms mo thnt ho has cured, aud ean euro, ** Ilay-Fovor;" oud that there are ngront many prominent citizens In that city whom ho hns cured, I don'’t believe ko ins cured a singlo case, for I know of n good maony quite prominent mon In that city who would pay handsomely for a remedy, Any man that lies much bas a fortune, for I know of no victim that would not pay liberally for n romedy of this most disiressing of all discases, Boforo doctors can provide o safe and suro remedy, they must learn why it is that this singular diecaso attacke only people who labor indoors; why it is thatit comes on invariubly on or about the 15th day of August, and stays until frost kills all vegotntion; why it fs that, in high latitudos, on high mountains, in the ox- tremo North or South, peoploe nover have it, If thereis not scionco onough among our | mediesl mon or institutions to fathom this mystery, whoro facts are eo easily atlainable year aftor year, thon Isny the practico of modi~ cino a8 p dotence is an unmitigated humbug. Tho trouble is, that our dootors don't act as though they thought thero was such a discase; and thouo who do bolieve it seom to take littlo or no interest in flading o romedy. I nm glad thera aro a fow oxcoptions to this rale, T know of ono or two physicinns who are and liave boen smd,\-lu{; for n_remedy, nud one of them, I am fully satisfied, is detormined- nover to give it up nutil ho has one. 1 bavo tried every known or heard-of preserip- tion, but with little or no relief. My proposition is t! If thero is not publia spirit, ond hopo of pecuniary rewnrd, togethor with prido in their profcssion, suflicient to in- duco tho modical fratornity to seck enrnestly for a remedy, that wa call a Convention noxt year of oll thosg aftlicted with “ 1Iny-Fover, " denounce the medical freulty as o humbug, and offer & Inrgo rewmd for & romedy. Lnm glad that my former letter has awnkonedn Tittlo interest on tho part of thesufferers from this disense and the medical profession; and Tug TnnuNE does not tiro of our lettors, and will kindiy consent to help o littlo, I boliove that, with agitation, o remedy will yet bo found, That tho dixenso is spreading quite rapidly, there can bo no question and it is the duty of all to help find a remedy, for they know not Low so00n thoy may bo victims, 4 Tho ** Grangers " noed not help, for they wero nover known to have it. It is only those who live off the farm that are afilicted. I mention this not ns a gonls,” but an a singulnr fact that may bo of servico to the medical profession in their eorls to seenro a remedy, A. A, TERRELL, A Theory of the Discase. Crows Pors, Ind,, Sept. 19, 1873, Ta the Fditor of Phe Chicago Tritune: Sr: I have read wilh poculinr intorest the recont communications in Lnr Trinuse upon the aubjoet of * Iay-Fever.” And yot, strange 88 it may seem, I nover had heard of tho digraso until this past summor, while on o visit to Utica, N. Y. My eduention in this respect may have beon neglectod, but I am very positive that my nasal seerotions bave, in the wmeantime, ab- rorbed a practieal knowledge of the disease, and furnished o now dewmounstration of the truth, “Where ignoranee is bliss, 'tis folly to bo wise,” T Lave just entered upon my * second torm,” during the Intter purt of August ; but it is ouly within a fow days that I liave come to n realiz- ing sense that this “‘ hend-cold,” which 1 know all the time was nof & hiend-cold in any ordinary seuse, and which was making me soy that © By By Add is Jike the bood,” and complain of a bad cold **id by dose,” and finally causing me to mako o desperate cifort to stcor clear of ems and ens ontirely ; and and that the nasal trouble [ lind ut this samo time Inst yenr, and which wus tren‘ed us o cntorrhal affection, ure iustances of #* Hay-Fover.” ‘Do tell mo,"I cried out the other day, in vain hopo of fluding some one as igtorant as I had been, **if you have ever heard of sucha thing ns ‘ Hay Fevor’? " ¢ Oh, yes 1" waumy friend's very cool roply ; “ my brother, near Richmond, in this Stato, hus had'it overy yeur for cighteen years, #o that it entirely unfits him for business after tho hayiog Huison comes on.™ Aud this is the prospect boforo your © Hay Fovor " correspoudonts ! No wonder wo cry out for help from the medical profession, and no wonder wa aro tempted to donounce the whole fratornity of M. D.g because no response comes back to us. 3 T o no hope for us but to appoint o *weok of prayer” tosecuroa visitation of this detest- nblo, this hariowing, wearing, terriblo disenso apon overy man and woman of the pill-porsun- sion. This will nrouse them to wvestigation, T feol quite sure of this, for it hns worked like mazic in sotting my brain to work, and I bolieve the result of it bas beeu to discover n theory, or rather to develop an already existing. shndow of o theory into somothing tangiblo, which I offer bero with the hope that it will bo mvestigated by those who PBHKGHS the koy to the troasures and mysterics of Lsculapiu, ‘I'ho discago has beon called by various names, nccording to _its supposed origin in_differout caser; 64 “Roso-Cold,” ¢ Ponch-Cold,” but more commonly ‘ Hay-Fever.” It hny beon protty generully conceded to Lo tho rosult of tho ])rcuunca of infinitely-minute particles of animal ifo,—~which is to kuy, 100rms,—in tho nasal pas- sugor. Mr. Bartlett, in lis recent comtmunica- tion to Tur Tumuxe, mentions a German uthority for this ihoory, and calls thoso worms by thoir per and classical namo of vibriones, or infusorin, but does not undertuko 'to show whonco thoy comg, what they are, or how thoy get into our nasnl passages, nor why thoy get into the nasal passages of the snme person, year nfter year, ab Lhe same season of tho year, for somothing like & quarter of ncentury, or until the disenso ro- ceives permunent relief from the application of drmp clay, six feat deop, Henry Ward Beechor i afilicted with this ds- onso, and enlly it ** Ponch-Cold,”, becuuse, as ho Lolieves, lio taok it from ripo peaches, Quory : Doos o take in these infunorin afresh overy year from penches? And, if peachea #O Abound in infukoria or vibriones, why docs any person escapo knufling them up their nosos from this lnseious fruit ? Othors put it under the name of * Rose-Cold;" and for similer reason, that the cuuso had ks origin in smelling roses, nud thus inhuling some- thing at onmity with the delicute litiing mein- brancs of tho noso, This, too, might woll bo subjeeted Lo the query of the formor paragraph ; and yot it is my beliof that each bolief s to the origin iu the voveral ewses is correct, That it is cuused by tho inhalation of thess particles of animal life iuto tho nontril neems plansible theory. Tiot uainvostigate it. What ave infusorin? They nve said to bo the in- visible particles of unimal lifo oxisting in liynlds 3~ su called becnuso thoy are infused into such liquid substances. Vibrionos, the plural of vibrio, is.n xmurlf-nyunnymmm torm, ond dovives thie namo from the vibrating or quivering nature of theso porticles of life, “Aud now, whevefore the connection between the infusoria aud hay, poachos, or roses ? Tiet us oo, T'o thoso of us with whom ngrienlture is chron- jo, orat least a hiereditary tain, the term * nr- Cocklos " or “*Poppor-Com," denoting a discaso in wheat, {8 not unknown, causing thoe infooted graing to hoconio darke green, and fiunlly black, rounded }iko small pepper-corny, Now, this din- easo I8 owing to the prosenco of vibrio triticl, ono of the infusoris family; and thoso natural philosophors who have hwnuhpéumd the subjoct lull us that the mimite_eggs of the vibrio find thoir way from diseased soed up through the uip to the flowers, thus infecting tho new orop. The disensed graing are flllod with @ White cottony substanco, whioh readil dissolves in wator, liborating the vibri- ones In grest numbors, In the investi- ation of this subject, Ifouslow ostimaten hnt o alnglo grain of disoased whoat containg 50,000 of the young infusorin, Whon the whoat Judriad, the’vibrio becomos dormant; but is said to rotnin {ta vitaltyin this condltion through o half-dozon fnm more, and is rondy to rovive when placed In a condition of molsturo. Now, if tho infusorin are presont in the sap ond grain of the whont, why not in the hny, the ponch, and tho roso? And, if wa minute v the ombryotio vibrio that 50000 of them may bo lodged in n dofoetive grain of wheal, why may they mot niko bo found In' porticles of ~molst’ atwoaphore, in which ~ condi- tlon they aro_inhaled into unfortunate and doomed noros 2 And, if thoy live in a dormant. stnto in the grain for slx or vovon yonrs, why not infor that, oneo brenthed into'the nasal pns- engos, they romaiu thore for many yenrs,—thug causing tho recurrenco of the diseaso by reviving into notivity at cortain wonsons of onch yoar ; and uot supposo that the samo persou inhalow tho vibrio “afresh at overy harvest-timo or at overy peach or roso-Rension. It may bo urged that, if the rocurronce of the disonge was owing to the continued presenco of tho infusorla, there would bo no cesaation in tho offoots of the discase, But it must bo re- membered that all insoct life is of short dura- ticn, Insects appenr nnd disappear st stated nnd rogular sendons, 8o the vibrlo has its sen- sons of vibrating, and wo have our sereons of snoczing—if that vibration chances to bo in the naanl prssages, And they continuo to vibrate, and wo continug to Ancozo, until tho nasal pose sages become discasod; & train of norrors on- BitCs, lnclu(!infi fovor and loss of appetite ; and wo aro the haploss victims of a disenso for which thero is no known remedy. ‘Wo aro fully sottled upon tho infusoria theory. Now lot tho dactors discover a poison for this minuto ingect-lifo, so that, whon harvest-time comen again, the insccts may ¥ wako up aud find themeolvos dond.” Reapectfuly, Mns. L. G. Beoerx, Suggestions as 10 'Trentmont. To the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribune : Bin: Inyonr {ssno of tho 18th, an articlo ap~ ‘ponrs under tho title of *“IIny-Fever.,” Ita au- thor complains that tho ** Medical faculty has as yot ronchod no roliablo cure for thia singuiar disonso,” If I rightly underatand its diagnosls, it 1a n species of catarrh, occurring annually, and cofncidont with tho timo of hay-making. Tor this rengon pun})ln hiavo xup{msod that the disenso was induced by the smell of new-mado hoy, Arothor disense of similar charactor, known a8 * Rose-Cold,” which never makes its appoaranco oxcopt *¢ when summer-roses bloom,"” i8 also n kind of aununl catarrh, and i supposed to be induced by tho fragranco of roses, In many ceses the recurrenco of the attack is ox- actly to the day and bour oach yoar, so that its victims can count upon its appearance to s cor- tainty. Any slight change of climate at that particular timo may provent tho yoarly attack altogetbier, . But tho queation is, whether it is not botter to allow tho discase to tako its courso, so that tho system may thoreby clear itsolf of tins su- porabundant niucus in tho way that soems to be indicated by tho sensous and by vogetation. 1f wo have a liard cold, wo are satisfled to lot Na- ture take its courso; and catarrh is nothing moroe than a bard cold in a chronic condition, Tts truo causo is chocked perspiration, and inno- ¢ion of tho nerves of the skin. A rocont medi- cal journal considers catarrh as an indication of some dorangomont of the spinal nerves, To traco the connoction botweon the apinal norves and the minuto ramufications of the nerves of tho skin, and flunlly the nerves of tho nasal mucug membrano, wonld require moro space than this articlo will pormit. Wero the nerves always on duty tho fluids of the systom would take their proper course, snd bo carried off through the pores of tho skin, which are greatly asgistod by the minuto norves surronndin them. Henco, & change of climate—or, possi~ bly, auy agreeable change of mental condition— may act sa o norve-stimulant, and assist Nature to do her work in the propor way. This mucus, not being carriod off, aceumulates supersbundantly in tho systens. The uasal " membrane must then do its work in earrying it off, This is eatarrh, Just at this sonson, at the close of a long summer, during wlich the system has been constantly in o relaxed state, tho mucus becomes groatly liborated. - In loss ob- atmato cases, it becomes liborated earlier in tho scnson, as early as tho time when roucs bloom. A snid hoforo, catarrh is nothing more than a hard cold assuming the chronis form, with the periodic conditions poculiar to all chronic disenses. Hay-making-time nnd May- rose-blooming nre the periodical crises of cortain constitutional conditions ; while other constitu- tional conditions nro one continunl obb and flow of catarrh periodicity. Auny sudden chango of tomperature, or other causo that checks tho perspiration, hielps, from timeto time, slightly to lncrouau the diseaso ; while auything that assists porspiration helps to cure it. The suggestions, then, which aro made by “B, N. B.." as to thoe ~ bonoficial effcets "of & good swent, and a plontiful drink of the tea made of Compo- sition, nre most sousiblo, and these miny, in some instances, wholly orndicate the disense, But, in most cases, it will require such a thor- ough and prolonged treatmont of this sort that tho pationt is apt to bocome discournged. Thoro is no question that proper attention paid to bathing will, iv time, be of the groatest service. Hot buths of water and salt-nnd-water, altornated, will greatly nssist Nature in keepin, tho pores ‘open. When taking o bath of hol water, tho patient should firet wash thoroughly in soda-water well warmed—commion washing goda, & tablespoouful to & pint of water. This is benefleial equally aftor the bath, Tho patient should remuin in the bath of warm water until the blood i thoroughly warmed, aud in s per- foct circulation as tho obstructed condition of the system will permit. ‘Then, on com- ing out, clonnso the skin ' thoroughly with more soda, bathe off rapidiy in cold water, and dry off fisst with a rough towe, passing the haund over evory portion of the_skin, in order to ascortain its porfoct dryness, DBy this process, & fino ronction 18 produced, which causos o pleas- ant glow, Then dress a littlo warmer than usual for & fow hours, and the patient is entiroly freo from any lisbility to take cold. Tho philosaphy of using soda is this: The pores ara_sometimes nearly hermetically sealed by a thick, tonacious mucus, which requires & powerful solvent. Plastors and warming lini- ments may bo applicd to tho spine,—tho lattor being thoroughly rubbed in by the warm haud, until’ the skin Lus absorbed ilve or six applicas tiona. Alwo, take cold or warm water (necording to the degreo of foverishness) in the haud, and gnufl it wp the nose; apply soda- water and alum, in a weak solution, once a day, in this manuer alternntoly. Nusal syringes and other instrumonts Lavabeen in- vouted for applying washos to relieve entarrh : but suiftling from the hinnd in the moat simple, most nntural, and loss likely to iujure the naeal membranes than any other method, Physicians aro making prescriptions for nnsal waslies, und new remedies aro being put in the market for this purpose. It would be woll to hava thess luttor thoroughly tested by analyais and by use, a8 some of theni may bo of tho greatest possiblo benofit—whilo if tlicy are not 8o, thoy are vory injurious. The medical profossion is doing & rout doal for the removal of all chronic disenscs, ut thore ja also required a constant attontion to tho laws of hoalth ; without this, the most skillful physician can do nothing. Txiuly yours, Cut0AGo, Sopt. 29, 1870, e THE CARRIAGE-TUNNELS. To the Editor of the Chicayo T'ribune: S ; Thoteare many things in this oity that ovinco a great amount of spirit, and call for the highest culogiums of our city authoritios ; but, whilst this ia tho case, it in an acknowlodged fact thint gome things alko exist which call as loudl, for blame and “censure, Amongst tho latter know of uone that domands tho immodisto at- tention of our suthorities more than tho lighting of the LuSalle and Washington stroots car- ringe-tunnols, I anm cortain I shall bo borno out by wmany whe, like mysclf, aro in tho linbit of driving through thoso tunnels almost duily, whon I assert thut the present modo of lighting them is unsufliciont und highly dangerous, I havo myself seen aceidents oceur that might huve proved fatal had it uot beon that the horsos rrovm\ quiot, Hincothis ennnot bo guarantoed n any caso, I think it ncods littlo argument to convinco the parties having control in this mat- ter that somo stops should Lo taken to provido a bottor light, ‘Tho noconsity for this will be in- cronsod ns tho wintor season approaches, I hnvo n somoewhut lively apprecintion of threadin, my way through theso tunnels lust winter, and sincorely truat that, before the coming ono sety in, somothing will o done to_onablo the public to pass through In pafoty, DAILY TRAVELER. 1110400, Bep ) 187 —_— The Duke of BEdinburgh's Cnke, From the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian, ‘Wo are informed that Mr, John_ Roatron, of tho Bolton & Bouthport Railway Refreahmont Rooms, baw boen intrusted with ~the making of the brido-cado whick It to grace the royul breake fast-tuble on tho occasion of tho murrikgo of the Duke of Balnburgh with tho only daughtor of the Emporor of Rusain. Tho cako towors to & befght of sovon foot slx Inches, and woighy up- ward of 200 pounds, It is in six tlers, and ro- sorables tho famous porcolain tower of Nankin, Tho cake iy covored with a frotwork of flowers and shoells of snow-white purity, while I!;rncu- full; dupnu(un[f'.flmu & vage of oxquisite dosign ue;tho sumnit I & profusion of orange-blossoms, otd, . WISCONSIN. Tho Incyenso in GrainFreights---1 Pemon~ stration of {ho Power of {ho Press, Injunction Against the M. & St. P. R. R. Bridge Near LaCrosse. The Wisconsin ‘Central Railway and Iis Land-Grant---Politicnl Matters, From Our Oten Correspondent, MAbisoN, Wis., Sopt. 22, 1873, THE POWENR OF TIIE PUDLIO PRESS, and ite valuo a8 an oxponent of public opinion, Ling baon atrlkingly demonstrated in this Btate during tho Inat fortnight. Two wocka ago, in- formntion was recaived bhoro thnt, at the bohest of the controlling Enstern Diroctors of the lead- ing railroads in this Stato, & vory considerablo incrense in tho rate of grain-froights had beon dotormined on, and was soon to tako effect ; also, that somo nt lonst of the Wentorn mau- agors anw tho folly of it just at this timo, with & viow to tho future; though, as thero was o vast amount of grain, more than ail therailronds could earry, to go forward, producers woro for the presont at their morcy. immodiatoly entored a vigorons protest againat such exaction and oppression. Tie TRIDUNE wos promptly informed of what was contemplated, and tho attontion of thoso intorestod called to tho dangor of such a policy, which would bo ro- gardod by tho poople, already ripo for war on the railroads, as throwing down tho gauntlot for a combat for which, deapite the array of wealth and influonco on tho other side, they had great advantages in the power given by numbers and byour State Conatitution, giving the Legislature control of ali charters oxcopt thoro of banks, The statoment of such o proposed increase was at first recelved with entire incredulity, it scom- ng impossible that thoso having the control of railronds could bo so infatuated. Bungling at- tempts wero mnde by tho Milwaukeo News, on belialf of tho Milwaukeo & St. Paul Railrond Company, to explain away tha roports, and to show that the incrense was very trifling; that paper reitorating sevoral times TIE ARSUBD STATENENT that tho only increaso in Wisconsin was on west- ern-bound grain, so as to provent its going down tho river. Attempts werc made by oflicers of tho Company in other quarters to show that tho in- crense was very trifling. Those outgivings wore soon Blhown, by official orders and the mew freight-tarift seut out to differont stations, to be palpable misropresontations, and only nggravatod the offonso in the eyes of the poople. The 8t. Paul Press, which got its firat nows of the proposed raise in [freights, as did many others, from ''ne TrinuNE dispatch, henco “took no stock in the aesortion™ of & contem- plated raiso, rogarding it * unconscionable that railrond-ownors should kill the gooso that lays the golden ogg, and arouso & ** power lable to bocome obatreperous at the drop of tho bat” by any such actton, The editors of that paper, a dav or two later, found your correspondont was bot ter posted than thoy supposed, and, improv- ing the opportunity for interviewing afforded Dby tho presence of Milwaukes & 8t. Paul Rail- road Goneral :\lunainr 8, 8, Morrill, and othor railroad oficlale in the city, learned that thore lind been A COMDINATION FORMED for an increaso of freights between the Bilwau- kee & 8t, Paul, Chicago & Northwestorn, Wino- na & 8t, Paul, and Weat Wisconsin Railwaya. Mr. Morrill biuntly nesigned as the reason for tho raise by his Company that they wanted to ‘malko more monoy, and elaimed that last year it did not esmrn monoy enough to pay 7 por cont interest on thio cost of construetion ignoring tho fact that, on nccount of the partia failure of tho crops in the Northwaost lnst year, grein shipments were light, Ho eaid his Com- pany would probably adiioro to their raised rates of from 1 cout n hundred in this longi- tudo to 5 centa at Bt Daul, and the other roads ought to stick to tho in- creaso, and not fly the track, DBy this interviow, and & comparative statomont from the old and now foight tariffs by the Milwaukeo 1Visconsin, facts and figuren wore bronght befors the peo- ple. ‘I'he pross of the States hiave SOUNDED THE ALARM. (thongh it is notoworthy ns showing the controll- fug intluence of tho Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- road Corporation over the Democracy of thia Stato, that very few Democratic papors have spoken, and most indignantly protested against this greivous burden, whioh will amount to con- siderably over $1,000,000 on the farmers of Wis- consin, Northorn Iowa, and Minueeota; and given omplatic warning that the people will take their revenge for tho oxtortion. Tho Rail- road Companies have beon threatened with the ostablishment of a Railrosd Commission with oxtonsivo powers, & pro-ratn tariff, and an in- erenso of railrond liconso. Tho pooplo aro eallod on to seo to it that mon pledged to such maessures aro elected to tho Legislaturo; and somo papers oven call for an oxtra sossion of the Legislaturs to apply s remody, and deviso moans for the protection of tho poople forthwith, A8 A TESULT of this exproesion of popular feoling, the rise on tho Milwaukeo & St. Paul Rond is considerably lesa than_ origiually proposed, as whispored to mnke good tho oxcossive cost, for a construction ring's benofit, of tho Milwaukee & Bt. Paul Rail- rond's new line from Milwaukeo to Chicagos Gonoral Matngor Towe *riscs to oxplain " that the Ohicago & Northwestorn Railway had not Taisod frefghts on any of ita old lines, but has fixed them from 1 to § conts higher on it ex- ponsivo oxtomsion from here to Winonn, aud that thero is no increaso of local ratos on the Winona & 8t, Poter Ruilroad, oporated by this Company; the West Wisconsin managers su- nounce fhat they will not incrense thelr tarifr; sud an authorized statoment is made that tho Bhoboygau & Fond du Lac Company never pro- posed any such increawo. Thus the people are saved & lnr;iu amount of monoy which would have been tilchied from their pockets but for the protoats of the pross. News was received here, lata Saturday ni(]vbt that tho Milwaukeo & 8t Paul Company had boen enjoined from prosecuting its onterprise, in defianco of Congress and of tho Biato of Wie- cousgin, of ERECTING A BRIDGE above the City of LaCroneo at a point detriment- al to the interosts of nuvigation, In the United Btates Court at LaCrostio, on Saturdny, aftor longthy argument by couusol,—hy Unitod Statos Attorney Webb, Asuistant-Attorhoy MoKinnoy, and Judge IL, 8. Orton for the ll:]{uncfiml, and b{ DMeusra, Ol‘ufiflry & Pinney and J. W, Cary, altornoys for tho Company ngainst,—Judgos Drummond and llopking granted an_injunction ngaingt tho Milwaukeo & Bt, Paul Railroad Com- nuy building & Lridgo at the point thoy had so- ooted, on tho ground that Congross had given the Bocrotary of War plenary power to flx tho .site, in tho oxorciso of which, after examination by ongineors, ho has disapproved the sito chosen by the Raliroad Company and selectod anothor, 'I'his doclsion ano lively entisfaction at La Crosse, and will do 8o generally throughout the Biate; and is o strong Indorsement of the position taken by Gov. Waaliburn this spring, THE WISCONAIN CENTTIAL BAILWAY COMPANY has beon playing adespicablo trick in a ronowed audoavor to fint its land without building the roads required. A stipulation was enterod into botwoen tho Governor and tho oficors of the Company, that, if ho wounld give u cortificato that thoy woro entitled to half the lands on two Heotions of rond constructed this aprixu,v. thoy would not apply for more unless decided on- titlod to it by tho Bupromo Court, Congross, or other'compotont authority, 'aking advantago in the phrasocology which mada the stipulation miean loss than overy one understood it to mean, tho Company has prooured from Cirenit Judge Cato s writ of mandamus dirceling tho Governar to issue o certitieato for all tho Tand, on the ground that, 04 5 moro ministorial ofticer, he hn«l no discretion, 'I'ho case will bo appoaled to the Buprome Court ; so this little gamo will not win just now. Iho Ntopublican Btate Committoo and candi- dates have hold o meeting here, and resolved on AN ACTIVE UANVASS, boginning with Ootober, Noitlior of our Bon- ators is likoly to bo called into tho fleld; but thero will ba no doficlency of good spenkors, and countios will be thoroughly organized. I'Lus, ke betohon bl g A Noww Itom Newly Troated. Fyom the Cynthiana (Kv.) Democrat, A man named Roborls and o man named Carlisle had o disagreomont, and Roberts swore ho would shoot Carlisle, aud started for his Louso to wet his shotgun, Qarlislo followed, Tho State Journat hore’ . wretchod belngdok(ronu thatitho was to bo shot to Do oh hand to witness the fun, When Rohorta renched his houso and brought forth his trusty fowling-pleco, ho found it_empty, but ho pro- cooded to romody that, and waa vigoroualy pour- ing down it No. 1 buckshot, when Carlislo nr- ived at tho seone. Toeling o ddop . poraonal intorest In tho proceedingy, Mr. Carlislo aslad Mr. Roborts If Lio was loading that gun to khaot him. Robarts, ny beenmo a Linntlomml of frank- uosk, roplied tfint anch wan bla objact, but onli- Ing Carlinlos nitention to tho Incomplofonous of hig pmvnl utions, requented him to beweated anJd mako himwolf at homo whilo hio finished ramming homo his. wadsand put caps on hisgun, Caxlisle, being providod with s six-shootor, whioh ho wns forehanded enough to kuur londed, declinod to wait, and in a momont floborts, with his half- londed gun, was a dond man, This circumatanco oconrred in Arkansas, | HOMES FOR WORKING-GIRLS. More Discussion of the SoWing-ves Ilousework Questions TIE HARDANIPA OF OUSETYORK, To the Editor of Tho Chicago Tribune: Btn: The lottor of * Patorfamilias,” in your yostordsy's {ssuo, on this sub- Ject, ‘whila it is full of sound common-sensa viows, still doos not rench all the vital points in tho subject, and I pray him to boar with mo whilo I point out one or two ho soems to hiave loat sight of. The majority of girls profor to work as clorks, Howing-girls, ato., oto., and thore must bo somo rongon for it 3 for, capriclous and whimsical s the sox aro (I eay it in all rovoronco), thoy aro, When thoy roally esrnestly do or think of anything, protty generally in the right; and hence, ‘I eay, if thoy so almost unanimously ovado household work as a means of subsistonco, oven though they thoreby curtail their emolu- ments, thero must be, and is, somo good renson forit. Ono ronson isthis: Domestic work is, omphatically, drudgery. I donot menn to say that it s oithor menial or degrading in tho monse “ Patorfamilina™ wuses thoso terms, though whether it is not somowhat demoralizlug is perhaps anothor question ; but it is nono the less drudgory. Ispenk advisedly, for, malo biped ss I am, I know whoroof I apoalc, ‘When I firat camo to this city, a poor man, my wifo was taken siok, and I was out of work, ditto 08 to funds; so I had to pull off my coat and roll up my sleoves, and pitch right into it. Lot Patorfamiling,” for throo consccutive months, do all the work of a house, however small; lot him bake, and coolt, and sorub, and clean stoves, aud bhaul coal and water, and empty nshes an slops, and scour pots, and clean windows, and chop kindhug, and do _thoroughly aud well all the minutim:of tho work. aud theu he will know what drudgery it {s. IIo will know how it will demoralize his clothos, his Eumon,—yol, him- solf,” ** Matorfamiling " may do hor housework ; but doos she do it all? Does sho ever got about b conts’ worth of pol-black on the ond of her noso, or & daub of grease in auy unuouml{ Bpat ? Aro hor hands grimed from morn till night with stove-polish, coal-dust, nehes, ditt? Lot thoso only speak that Anotw whoro the shoo pinches, But, under sny olroumstauces, * Paier- familiss” is wrong, inssmuch a8 he allows his Lhead ooly. to sponk, but his heart says nary word, Granted that girls may bo physically ablo to- do domestio Work, aro we, thorofore, to force them to it ngainat their iclinations ? I am physically ablo to enrry & hod, but I'd rathor earn loss money at my desk, becauso it is more congenial to my tostes; and it would scom to mo momewhat tyrannical to ny, Inasmuch as_you lad rather not carry the hod, by which you ecan enrn _ more monoy, you Bhoil have no belp in following” the dictates of yourin- clination, be they over go logitimate, I am not xurpriacd that womon do not like houschold- work, because not ouly is it protty severe lnbor and dirty worl, but every womau is not adapted toit; nay, Iwill go further and say that fow women can do _housebold-work. 1low maw married womon I have seen (not on Wabash or Michigan avenues, but in o momowhat humbler u{:haro) who do their houschold work, it is true, but only after & fashion; I could lay my hand on at lonst half-a-dozen of my own femnlo ncquaintauces in this city who are botches at housework, and would do themselves more credit at some other more congenial employment. As a rulo, a good dressmakor or eeamstross is & bad houselzocper, or & good housekeeper is & bad hand at making her own dresses ; for thare is no erfection on enrth, and even the ladios—God Fies tiiom —ean't do overything well. Againy very fow womon aro physically capable of doing houschold work. I ell in the wholo iedical profossion to benr mo witness that the most fruitful sourco of uteriue disoaso in unmarried gitls of unex- coptionable character is the soverity of house- hold-labor. The lifting of (to them) henvy weights, bauling coul “and water up and down slnirs (and thisis & city of stairs), and othor worls, I have not now spaco to particularize, do originato physical difticultics which aro fully de- volopsd in’ cuse of marriage nnd mater- nity, And, in the cae of married women who do tholr houschold-work, show ma ono sound, heslthy mothor, and I will show you twenty, uusound, weakly women, who drag palufally through the daily drudgory of their housework. | Givo tho working-gitls homes, and help thom to follow tlieir instinets; instincts which are amenable to no rule of reason or logic, but which are none the less divinely-implanted, and aro vory raroly at fanlt, Yours rspectfully, Cuicaao, Bept, 22, 1873, BeNEDICT. TNE LOW WAGES OF SHOP-GIRLS, Tothe Editor of The Chicaga Tribune : Str: Ihavo read with intorest tho diecussion going on in your columus on homos for working- girly, Now, I submic whother tho sewiug and shop- girls thomaelves aro not tho oues who are to Dlawo for their low wages, for tho renson that they over crowd thoso flelds of employment. The furnishing of board at nominal cost would not cure the evil, but rathor aggravato it. Hun- drods of girls, it seoms, aro willing to work for “wages barely sufliciont to support exist- once.”" Lot this cost of uuwzort be reduced, and they will work at wages still more reduced, and the boss tailor or milliner reaps the benetit. Girls,it dcoms, now work for 37 por_ ook, whon' thelr ‘Hving costs. €6.50." Furnishi theso fikls with living for $8.50 Ycr weel, and they will work for the same employors for &4 por wook, rathor than bu discharged, If thoy would not, n plonty of other girls would bo found to do it, it thoy could got their board and lodging at thoso charitablo homes, It scoms to mo that this projeot, like the tariff, while it pur- ports to benetit the Enor omploye, wonld only nt nlut inure to the benofit of the grasping om- ployer. : PP sorry that “Bdgardus” was 6o awitt to answor for the girls, that they could not stand house-drudgery, &o. I wanted to Lear from tho girls thomselves their ronsons in answer to “Paterfamiling,” Thero are plonty of them abla to sponk for themselves. Lot us hoar from them, Avema. Croaao, Sopt, 22, 1873, DUBINEHS VA, MAGNANIMITY--ASPIRATIONS FOR TUE * urouzn, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: “ Edgardus,” in to-day's paper, points out some things which * Paterfamilias” and “ Humamty" scom to forget. As tho said * Datorfamilina” hos so offectually answerod him, in advanco, in tho eama issue, I will not nt~ tompt an improvomont. But I wish to call # 1idgardus'" attention to the fact that, in a former article of his, Lo accused **Patorfamilas * of spoaking from tho hoad and not from the hoart, and would caution him against los- ing all monso of tho presence of that groat hydraulio, blood-lifting force with- in his own broast. * llumanity,” like most business men, conducts his busineas in strict accordanco with tho necessitios of the samo, and payn snch wagon as the wsupply and damand require him and all othors in lrkn busi- ness t0 !my, aud “ Edgardug'" ¢ magnanimity * dooa not onter into the problem; and it is de- oidedly * unmanly " for him to cast rofloctions upon * Humanity," whon Le tells the girl who comes to Lis shop for work that all his line of business will allow bim to pay her s o net sum, over bonrd, oo, of B0 conts per wook, Dut, if sho will go to his homo and aselat Mrae, ** Humanity" do lior housoworl, he will pay Ler §8 per wne{, and give hor her honrd, "I'ho growing curso of thoocountry ia the teaoh~ ing that any labor which does not admit of woar- ing nice clothes all the time s degrading ; aud that all who aspire to that position are {mbued with the love for tha “ Highor," the ¢ Noblo," and tho ' Moro Heautiful.” Ionco, our young mon aeplro to be bankers or something akin o it, and our girls to bo copylsts and clorky., It was vorv kind of #COarrio " to hiolo hernesdv . sjptor, for sho waa ovidontly derorving ; and to her **A friond in need was & friond indecd.” I have moon instances whero holp and assistanco have beon tho ntnrl[mi:pnlul toa succernful lifo; naud, on the othor hand, I hnve reou many Iustancos whero assistanco has foldod the hunds and put to donth the firo of onorgy within tho nman sonl, I vepeat: Took well hefaro you Tenp. Cuttcaao, Bopt. 41, 1975, - IluMaNiTY. TROUBLES OF THE RETAIL GROCERS. To the Flitor of The Chieago Tribune Bm: The retail grocory trade ‘of Ohicago liavo run into s ruinous and dangorous system of earrylng [t on. Boolng this, and being n ro- tnfl grocor mysolf, T axproga myself in the hopos of drawing ont othor opinfons upon the matier,— mon that havo bod more exporionco in the busi- ness than mysolf. Ifind, upon looking through the commorcial roports, that tho ralail grocors of Chicago aro tho poorost, and have tho smallest amount of credit of any class of businoss men in tho eity; and T know, from four yoars' oxporienco, that thoy work the hardost, oxeopting the butchors; they aro tho greatest public slaves in businesa, Aud why isitso ? In thefivst placo,thoy aroso anx~ fous to nooure trado that thoy will do almost any- thing to gob 1t Thoy will trust partios tuat they know comparativoly little about, who run, say, r monthly account which nmounts, in or~ dinary familios, to from $20 to $30. Thoy pay the first mouth’s bill, aud probably the second, Theo third they fail to pay in full. The fourth they fall to pay altogethor. The grocor lots them hnve goods along fu the hopo that they will pay in tho moantimo ; but, inatoad of that, Lo hoars thoy hinve loft for parts unknown, and loft both the grocor and the butcher in the lurch to tho tunc of, by average, about £40. 'This is no aingular atfuir; it occurs protty much overy day, nng find from my own experionce, and what I havo gleaned from the many grocers Lhavo talkod with. Auother class I may horo montlon, that beat on o smollor and more timid sealo,—a pooror clasy, or at lonst a less cheoky ono. Thoy commence by paying cash, aud aro good customers for a timo. Thoy somo timo run short, and ask if Mr. Grocer will not trust thom until tho next timo they aro iny and, of course, if hois doing n credit “business, he will, That is all right, Thoy pay ; but it {4 ono point gained, 'The next 1a to ruu along nbout o wock, and ask him if ho would not just as goon trust thom until Saturday night o8 not, a8 they thon got their pay. He ngain assonts, TMJ pay tho firat Saturdny, and I:robnbly tho sccond, third, but the fourth thoy oave o balance,and the fifth failto pny any- thing; make oxcuscs,—change pinco of businoss, nud do nob get paid until such o timo, and cannot pay you; gobt ashamed, g0 _to somo other grocory and provision shop, and pay out the money you- ought to got, in or- dor to bit anathor denlor. I might go on through the routine of board- ing-houaos, ono-horso hotals, ote., in the samo strain ; but it is unnoceseary, as tho point I am coming at is the folly of grocors and provision- denlers trusting privato families of auy kind or doseription. 0 ought to como together, and baye s mutual understanding aud operate to- gothor in those mattors; soll exclusively for cash, It would bo botter, not only for us, but for the consumers also, as they would buy only just what they could afford, and wo could afford to Aol much cheaper. We could thon dispenso with & bookkeoper ; and wo could give cuatom-~ ors the bonofit of the interest on onr money that we have outstauding each month in open accounts. 'The good-paying enstomors wonld not have thon to be taxed to make the average percontngo for the bad-paying, which is tho case in tho credit-system. All would then ehure alike. We would then boable to buy our goods at a much less fl%'uro, 08 wo couldat all times take advantago of cash-lota of goods, Desides, it would strengthen our cradit 28 nbody in tho commoercial wotld. By trusting, lnrger rotailora are at tho loss of the interest of their money, aud tho risk of los- ing mora or less, Small dealors Liave atill more to contond with. Thoy start with small capital, and obtain smail linos of crodit from tho jobbor ond wholesaler. They keop doing for o time what thoy imiagine & good business; but, after yuuning o~ brief poriod Ionger, they flud they have trusted out all their capital, havo nothing to fall back upon, and can- not earry on longor, for tha renson fhat thoy canuot realizo on opon accounts thoy linve out, A8 it iy (m{manlhla torun a rotnil business aud collect at the time specified, In doing a cnsh- business, the small denlor hus some chance to oporito with the largor, s, just as soon as ho solls his goods, Lo gots his money, and can buy agnin; bat, 1 trustivg, ho caunot, and the lnreur denler is not nny tho bettor off. ‘Wo may ask, Why in the werld do we trust ? There is no renson why, only our own auxiety to do business aud grasp at trade. Mechunics con just as well pay as tlmi; go, and be nbead o much ; whereas, when they got trusted, they are just#o much Lobind, aud, if suy wisfortune happens to thom, fho provisiou-donlers, in mnuy cases, ato justso much out. Businiess~ men can, in overy instance, pay ns they go, and would if the rotailers mado up their minds to tho fact. Somo may say, Why don't you striko out and sell for cashi exclusively ? I must say that I bave not goh the nerve to do it, I cannot stand by aud see my good customers walk over to iy noighbor just for the 1eason that I will gut ufifnmmodntu thom with a littlo credit, aud 0 will, Another thing I may hore montion is the fact of our opeuing and closing, Wo open in the morning at 5,80, nnd closo at from 9 to 10 o'clock. p.m. If we hold anuuderstanding amoung us that weo would open, say, nt 7 o'clock and closo ot 8 or 7, the ssmo as othor people do, how much bolter it would bo for us. {Wo would havo just as much trade, and havo rest and rocroation, as othor people lave thom. As long as we are in trade, we aro cottainly public servants ; but, whon we come to mnke oursolves public slaves, wo aro cortainly degrading ourselves as & class, Lot the grocers and butchers think theso mat- tors over, and lot us lave Homio of thoir viows, Lot 110 one think ho ia bottor than his noighbor, or that ho ia doing a_bottor businoss, and need not bother about cash or crodit. What we want to ostablish is the system of selling goods at rotail for casli only, and mako ourselves freemon instead of slavon. R, Hayrros, Citoaao, Sept, 23, 1873, Two Men Shot—One Instantly Killed and the Other Mortally Wounded. Urom the DeeMowes (la.) llcgister, Sept, 18, A lotter from Indinnoln states that n double murdor had been commitied near Rod Rock, Ma- rion County, Monday Iast. Tha circomstancos, na rolnted by our communication, nro as followa: Ouo Harry Williams, who lives about four miles from Bandgville, Warron County, had beon to Monroe to soll a load of whent. Returning through Tted Rock ho was tuera joined by a man named Willinm Enchlor, who rodo withj him to tho residenco of ono John Kouton. There liad proviously beon bad fooling botween Williams and the other two, arising from dorogatory ro- marks that they had made concorning his wife, ono, if not both of them, having stated that she was oncionta when Luchler murried her, On the way from Rod Rock, Williaws and Euchlor tnlked ovor the mattor, and on arriving at Kea- ton's hiouso Williams called him to the door and domnuded that Lo should retract what ho lad said. Koaton declined to do so, and Williams commenced to reach for his rovolver. Koaton, who was standing fu the door, noticed the action and roached up with both handa over the door to tako down tho rifle, romarking: *1f that's your gowo, L can shoot too,” Willlnms fired while Koaton was yot speaking, tho ball pnnsinfi thvough K.'s moutls withoit dravwing blgod, m broaking bis nock, o droppod dead. Tuchlor, meanwhilo, had left the wagon, and wns trying to hido bohind a fonvo, Aw soon as Willjama had shot Koaton, ho turned snd flred at Buchler, I'ho ball struek him in the thigh, inficting o wound that must prove fatul, Lonving his viotims whore they fell, Williams drovo rapidly nway on the Indianola roud, Ina short time the neighbiorhood whore the tragedy ocourred was aroused, and nnmm[: party wenb iu pursnit. When near Plonsantvillo Willisuig was sighted by hiy pursuers, but at tho same time they were scon by lhm, and, leuvln': his toaw in tho rond, lio escaped into a corn-flold, Biuco that timo nothing bus boon seon of him, ——— Everott W, Moore, &t Dotroit Commniis= wston=-Morchant, Commits Suicido by Sept, 3, Nothing has transplred in this city of late onusing more sadnond amongs busines mon gon- orally, and in many socinl circles, than tho death by sulcido on Baturday evening of Everott W, Moore, of the wall-known commisslon firn of Moora & Co,, Non, 7 and 9 Woodward avenue. Trom tho position in whioh tho body was found, and from its surroundings, it “would goomn _ thut the docoasod, aflor asconding to & hay loft, fastoned tho door with & lay fork; romoved hlu coat, hat, searf, and collar, and first attemptod suicido by hanging with & small rope, which broko, tho pleces Lolng found at bis foet, e thon prooured a atrap froma harness, buckled it around a rafter, got upon & oliaix. nlacod hik nank in thenooso of the utrav, and stoppod off, That hé dled with soarcoly s atrigglo is apparont from the fact that ono foot still routod npon tho upright ohalr, whilo tho othor foot touched the bay. ‘Tho cruso of this nct of sell-destruation is yot n mnttor of doubt, though financial ombar- rasement i8 gonerally nraigned as tho motive, Unon_removing lin seart, unon whiol wan & dismond_pin, M. Moore pincod it in the bienst {ruckol of his cont. In his pockot wns found a otter nddressed to his wife. 1t 1 supposod that thin lettor statea tho cause for the nor, but its contents have nut beon made public. ‘Tho Coronnr's jury did not seck to loarn ita contonts, doeming it a mattor not rur‘uh’lng an nvostiga- tion at their hands, thoy being eslled upon to | docide in what manuor tho decensed came to his doatls, In pursunnce with this bolief thoy ro-- turned & vordict ‘of ''suicido,” to which thoy subsoquently appended ** whilst Inboring under a tomporary fit of Insanity," Tho decensed camo to this clty soveral yoars sinco from Contral Now York, and waa at ono timo donnactod with tho Fres Press editorial «etaffl, Proforring s more notive lifo, howaver, ho ongagod in morcantilo mfluhu bnlu% for Bomo timo & membor of tho of . J. Hay- wood & Co. Bubsoquontly he and n cousin, Charles H, Moore, embarked 1n the commission business undor tho firm namo of Mooro & Co. Mr, Moore was 38 yonrs of ago, and lonvos & wifo and ono child, THE RAILROAD PROBLEM, Lettor from Josinh Quincy. Ta tha Iilitor of the New York Graphio.: Tostox, Sopt, 11, 1878,—In your favor of the 8th fust, you call iy atioution to cortain articlos in the Daily Graphic, uugg;uutlng tho purchaso of tho Erio Railway by tho State of Now York, As sbecncoe from the cltybas proventodmyseoing. tho papors to which you alludo, I can only state my viows on the general question. I have for many yoars beon of opinion that thoso immonse powers, 80 ossontinl to tho woll-being of the community, should bo managed by tho paople for the poople, Bix yonrs ngo I potitioned the Logiulaturo of Massnchuselts to avail itaolf of " its resorved right to purchaso tho Boston & Worcostor and Westorn Railroads by prying tho shureholdors tho euma thoy hedt originally paid, with interost at 10 por cont’ (de- ductiug dividends) from tha timo of paymont,. In my argumont I show that their joint cost would amount to loss than 815,500,000, aud that,- by making the y]mrchnuu, tho "State would pro- vido for paying the intercst on its dobt, and at the samo time reduce tho cost of trausportation to its citizons,—the truth of all of which has beon proved by experionce. TI'he whole rallrond intereat opposcd mo, and, by retaining the ablost Inwyers and using its vast influence, prevented my success. But many who wore fuduced to opposo & potition which was sustained by tho signutures of morchants reprosonting 250,000,~ 000 havo sinco coufossed that they mado o grent mistako, The position held by Massachusetts in olation to hor railroads is moro favorable than that oc- cupied by most of her sistor Statos, Bosidoes the Iiownr of purchasing thom at o fixed prico, sho has resorved the right * to'alter, amend, or ro- ponl” thoir clartors. Sho has also forbidden any incroase of stock without specinl permission of tho Leglslaturo, This has pravented * water- ing,” oxcopt in a singlo cose. Tho Directors of the Westorn Railroad potitioned the Legislature for loave to inoronso thoir capital stock, “in ordor” (sm they stated in their report to the slinrehiolders in 1867) *‘ Lo provide funda for tho completion of the second track,” nte. As soon s the Logislaturo ndjourned, ' they divided it, a8 watered stocl, ' among themselves and thoir sharcholdors, aud in thoir next annual roport state that ‘it was the mtention of the Directors from the first to issuo to the atockholders, at an early day, the unrestricted twenty thousand shares,” "This nc~ Uon, by arousing public attoution, produced soma bonoficial results, Our Logislature imme- diately passed a law subjecting any Dircctor who thereaftor shoutd.vote for such an issuo, to in- dictment &nd a heavy fino, and doolarod that the stock g0 issuod shiould bo ontiroly valuoloss, This was uot all, Praviously, whenover new stock wag created, it was jsaued to tho share- holdors at par, making essontially a dividend of tho difference betwoon Imr and the market prico to tho sharcholders, 'I'his, in case of this rond, amounted to about BD‘Fnr cent, and, as they had the right to add 35,000,000 to their capital, was m fact adividond of £2,600,000, Our Legisluture passod aJaw roquiring that all addi- tional shares, when it was necessary to jssuo tliem, shiould be sold at public auction, and that no moro shonld be issued than were suficiont to meet tho smount required for actuel oxpondi- taro, This rolieves the public from paying 10 por cent for tho bonefit of stockholders on more jslmhmu than are necessary for the required obe oct, T'o atnte my views concisely : If I woro a citl- zen of New Yorlk, I should "advoeate for that State wlhut our Board of Railroad Commissiouers ndvise for Maneachusetts, ** tho regulation of all railroads through the State ownorship of one.” Josiam QurNoy, e N b i Mir. 0'Clarence’s New Pants, From the Danbury News, Mr. O'Clarenco 1’“”““56 & new pair of pants Baturday. Whon ho gnt homo his wife was mix- ing bread. Sho wiped hor hands on her apron and made o caroful oxamination of the pants. TFirst sho pluched one log of them and asked him what ho puid for them, aud then pinched the othor snd asked him if ho didn't thinl it waa too much. Aftor that sho stood off aways so she could got a look at tho fit, 80 as to form- o right opinion of it. Then sho uskod himif ho couldn't draw thom up highor, as thoy touched the floor. He snid ho couldu’t without splitting himself in two, which thero appoared no urgent no- cessity for his doiug. Sho pinched them again, uklufiup his log and eYIng it thought- fully, while he clutchad tho table with his hand and hopped around ou the other log to reat him- solf, Sho was not quite confident that thoy wero not all cotton—those clothing peaple do lio so—but she was not quito sure. Howover, she could tell bottor at tho window, and drow him ovor thero, totho lmminoutdm%ur of flgping lum over and hmukir:F lis spine. Bhe rubbed thom again, and turned np tho log, 80 08 to sos the othey side, and all the while her mind gathered doubts and forobodings. If ho hiad only said ha was go- ing to buy pair of pants, sho would havo wont with him horself and picked them out,” But tailors know thit & man cannot toll one kind of cloth from anothor, and will put oft anything on him. Then sho abruptly drc]swpad hig leg, nnd went back to the door aud called Mra. Mugent, Mis, Mugent camo in, aud bnin.;imdo acquaint- | ed with tho particulars pinohed Mr, O'Clarouce’s legs hersolf, and asked him why be didu’t buy thoe cloth and have his pants ‘mado at home. Mr, O'Clarence didn't like the bothor, and Mra, 0'Olarence oxplained that he always would have | his own way. Mra. Mugent said an uncle of Mr. Mugent, who lived in Bridgepost, got a pair of all woul pants last April for &5, aud you (Mr, aud rs. O'Claronca) would have thought they cost ton dollars if & cont; tho cloth was just as fine and firm ag anything could ba, Mr, Mugent would somotimoes got the impression that ho, must have his pants roady made, but he always fiot cheated, Bho was positive thoro was not a. it of wool in theso pants, and if they were Mr, Mugent's sho would haye thom taken back, That is oxnctly what Mra, O'Claronco thought, and in spito of Mr. O'Claronce's Pmkantufions ho took thom back and got another pair. Tho other pair was a little too short in ene leg, and pinched hia stomach, but there was wool in them, Mrs, Mugent arid. ————— Feroism, From tho Providence (R, 1) Journal, Sept. 32, Cliarles 11, Roscoo, an engineer on the Provi- denco & Springfield Railrond, fa entitled to the crodit of porforming a gonorous and daring foat which fow would havo attempted, and fower still, perhaps, would have boon ablo successfully ta complote, On Friday evening, Mr. James Biack, of Pasoong, accompaniod by two other mon aud s son, went in & boat upon the roservoir, fish- —_— : mony waa porformed, and tho couplo wore d o]nmi ‘‘man aud wife.” As thoy pwum nhuu’b" doj mtlml;!, tho Justico, who had nmover soen a “ bill of divorco,” and hoving s sirong desire ta bohold tho document, thought this an excollont opportunity to satiafy hin ourlosity, e, thoras foro, rald to the lady, ‘' Tave you tho bill with you?" “Oh yes,” sho ropliod, "“Tavo you an objections to allowing mo to sea tho hill? ™ gald our filend, ' Nono whatover,” she roplied, step- plug to tho door and calling 1o s littlo hoy uome 8 or 4 yonra of ago, shio sald, * Iare, BIlI, come horo quick, horo tsa gontloman thnt wikhes tn seo you," 'Tho gontleman wilted.—Anoka (dMinn.) Republica MINING MATTERS. Shipments of Xron Orc from the Up, per Peninsulne 3 From the Marquelte Mining Journal, Sept, 13, . The following is o statemont of tha shipmenta of fron oro aud pig-iron from Marquetto thus far this genson : Gharnplon, Lake Angelino Washington Edwarda, MeCombrr, Winthirop, ‘Ropublic. Alvion, oystos Blionnugo ol Bancroft furnaco.. Graco furnace.... Collins furnace, Iron Cliff furnaco, M. & P, rolling mill,,, Total.... ivesivsigamnsnaces 10,708 Total 010 A0 PIGTON. s euversssessrenseser 39,407 Btatomont of shipments from the port of L'Anse up to and including Sopt. 10, Tor3 s Spurr Mountat fchigammi, Tothlouereininsinsnnnrinsinoseiriosnneneins 61,251 "The following 18 & statemont of tho shipmonts of iron oro and pig-iron rom tho port of Ese annaba, up to, aud fncluding, tho 111k doy of Sop- 21,780 2 INON ORE. Oross tona, rich Toling-Mill.. o0 Hovwoll Hoppock, Total iron ore.......... - TIG-IRON oncer. 0 - Deor Luk i) Escanaba f K Total pig-fron.. [ Total oro and pig-iron..... — e NEWS PARAGRAPHS. Laborers nro so searco av St. Paul that cone tractors are obliged to sond to Chieago for thom, —T'he artificinl butter madoe in Now York ia becoming very popular, and the producers huva Dbeon 8o suceessful that thoy announce a quare torly dividond to stockholdors. A mnnufuctory isgoon to bo established at Now Havon, ~—A 10-year-old Frénch girl hurned hor fath« or's liouso bocauso ho had whipped hor for not knowing her catechism, —The City of Davenport, according to'tha ing. "The night was dark, foggy, avd rainy; tho boat was overturned, and the occupants thrown into the water, One man swam for, and reached tha shore for aid; Mr, Diack and his son wore drowned ; the fourth roruou clung to the Loat, a half milo from shore, for two and a half Thours, shouting for help. No ouo dared brave tha darkness and dumfl" of tho hour, At last, Mr, Roscoo honrd of the casualty, and seizing & luntern, hurried to tho scono, Realizing the urgoncy of tho case, Lo sprang into the wator and swam to the boat, and found tho surviver Dadly bruisod, and unabla oithor to keep on_top of the Lout, or to swin ashore, After s short rost, Roscoo swam back towing tho boat, and man, and, as it turned out, tho stone by which tho boat had boon anchored. Ife thought it a heavy drag at the timo, but it lightoned more than ono hoart, his own includod, e i An Unexpocted Bill, i A few days sinco & woll-drossod couple, In the swimo of life. stoppod at a hotel In & nelghbor., lug town, and, sonding for o Justico of the Yonce, informed that funotlonary that the: wished to bo married, Tho Justive said, All right,” and inquired thoir namos, Aftor belug tn%d. it struok him that ho had poerformod the gama sorvico for the Iady some years bafore, Upon inquiring if such was not the case, the lady enid sho had been merried previously,' ¢ Iayo you a bill from your former huabaud 7" askod Mr. Justico, ‘“Yos," she replied, *I havoa bill" ‘Lhia bolne satisfactory, tha paras Stato consus, taken last spring, had incrensod only 512 sinco 1870, V'hie consus of Itock Islund ;hfi\;u an increaso, duriug the samo time, of AT, s —In tho midst of Epiacopal services at Omaha on Sunday evening last, n live coon ontered tha oycu door and mado for tho altar and tha lo- dics in a way tho lattor dospised. They screamed, aud “atood upon the wents until tho little quadruped, with a penitentiary tail, wag oxpolled. —Thirty-ono of thirty-six_rebellions studenta of tho Mankato (Minn) Normal School have boen expelled thorefrom, —At a_camp-mesting at Middletown, Laka County, Cal., a lady, undor great oxcitoment, and while shouting and clapplitg hor hauds, do- clared sbo wanted to dio thon aud there, ~Hor wish was granted, for sho almost’ instautly foll beclr, and died in & fow minutes. The excito. l;muut was moro than her delicate frame could oar, —A corrospondent of tho Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that tho Maine Contral charges $4.80 per ton for freight from Lowiston to Lis- bon, 7 miles, and that teams are now haule ing freight botweon tho two places for §2.60 per ton, and whon o team hns a load both ways only 3 por ton is charged. ‘The writer is aleo informed that ono of the Lis~ ‘bon manufacturors gots his cotton warps in Mus« sachusotts, bocauso he has cheapor froights from Boston to Lisbon than from Lewiston to Lisbon, —Bou Grogory, whilom of Williamsport, hag romoved to Indianapolis, Al our citizons wha know Bon know him as a gonius. When about to bogin moving he snid: — * Hore, I lave two wagous and two toams. My goods will hove ta Do hauled to the dopot herd, aud from tho dopot &t Indianopolis. T gucss the best plan is to hnul thom cloar turough.” So he loaded his wagons with his houschold goods, stnrted them overs land, aud he himsolf faok the traiu for tho Capia tal—Lafayelle (Ind.) Journal. ~—The extensive tract of land for tho new Lako Shoro & Miohigan Southern Railrond shops, near Iuelid, is being rapidly cleared off and lovoled for the commoncetnont of the ercction of tha buildings, A large force of men is omployed in performing the work,— Cleveland Herald. —The Keokuk Northern Line is doing an im- meonse business from Mioncsotn ports in tho transportation of grain inbulk, Itis ntated they aro handting 800,000 bushels of wheat daily, which is takon to Stillwater from bolow und thora loaded on the cars for Duluth, —A graceless 20-year old son of Mr. Gatos, of Wallingford, Conn., by forged ordors on_tho Meriden Savings Bank and the Townsend Suve ings Bank, of Now ITaven, drow all his fathor's Tifa-loug savings, somo $1,100, and lins decampe od, Mr. Gatos i blind and unable to work for tho support of his fmmlfy. % —Wagner, the Islo of Shoals murdoror, dug ont of his cell on Iridey night and obiuined an ontranco iuto tho coll of John Curtis, of Bididos ford, Once thero ho went to work on the lock, sprang back the bolt aud stopped out into the corridor, aud thencoe to o cell ocenpied by threa women, where ho oporated on tho lock and walkod in, closing tho door after him, 1fo re« muined thero until 6 o'clock in_ the morning, when tho jailor found that tho door had boen tampered with, and inquired tho reason of the women, They denied all knowledge of tho af- fair, and oventually Waguor was found still in il d —Jamos Iigh, of Southorn Illinols, has a stock of pot smakes, which includes one rattlesnake, & bull-snako, a copporlicad, n cottommonth moceasin, n rattloanake's pilot, o thunder-snnko and some two orthreo other vaviatics, Jim in attontivo to his pots, and can bo seon duily witlh one or two about Lis neolk, & fow in his hat, and the reat.in his bosom, going to the river to water thom. Ilo takes pne at & time and holds it by the tafl while it drinks, and then returns it to either his bosom or hat. ——A morchant's clork In Londo, aftor fileli ing thousands of pounds from his employer, con~ feusod to his sweothonrt that ho had obiajued it by dint of forging his father's name, and thon, oxhibiting & bottlo, declared ' ho would poison himsolf unless sho would wmury him. Blio bolioved all he told her, and did not hositate to share tho epoil. 1o stained his faco brown to roprosent a sunburnt warrior, squandered his cash on jewelry, wore sllver spurs and ologant attire, deckod out his bride in splondid finery, and adorned her wilh gold aud procious stones worth £1,600, o i8 now in jail. That's all. —A Dotroit lady named Mra, Francia arrived home from Ohicago yosterday miorning with a (ear old baby as & prosont for her husbunds | While waiting in the Chieago dopot for tho traln to start, & young lady came in with the child in her arma, and asked Mrs, Franois to hold 1 a momant whilo sho wont to the ticket ofiico, Ad sho did not roturn, tho baby wus hrought alon to Dotrolt, and Mra, Franola will adopt it note was found pinned to the ohild's ndercloths ing saking strangors to bo good to it for tha ;: 0 of & Loart-braken woman,—Delroit Fret ress,