Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 13, 1873, Page 4

4 e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TRNMS OF GUDACNIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANGE), Datly 1 .00 | und 3 Rt S15.00] Wy : Parta ol tho samo rate, To provont delay nud mistakes, hio wure and givo Post 08 coaddross In full, Including Btato and County. Romittancon wny bo mado eithor Ly draft, oxpross, Post Oftico ordor, o in registorod lotore, ut nur rink. TENMA TO CITY AUDGCILBRIA, Dally, dolivorad, Sundny excoptod, % contr por wook, Datly, aslivered, Bunin; ided, 10 conts por weok. Addrass BUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madlron nud Donrborn-sta,. Chieago, Jil TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. RR'S THEATRE-~Madison stront, batweon Do Sinio: Enp:mmcntn( Charidtte Cushe man, °*'Uuy Manvering." *prosscs (¥'s THEATRI-Tandolph atroot, bo TGO Y e PA TSR qatot strosty botweon ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ialaled atreot, batween Mad. an o longon, Engagsmmant of R it 'an Winklo," MYERS' OPERA-HQUSE—Monroo stroot, hotweon Dearhorn and_ Stato. **Thomas Burlosquo Uonoerts.” Bitustrolsy and camicalitics. GLOBE THREATRE—Desplaiucs stroot, betwoon Mad. ! nd Washington. Kuogagomont of Little Nell. “Pidotia, tha Fiso Wait. oo QUEEN'S OIRCUS~Wabash avenuo, corner Adams stroot, Aftornoon and ovoning. INT! % EXPOSITION-Lake-Shors, foot of ARSI ononsof the Momphis uitorors. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSKUM-148 South Olark- st Belonco and Art, BUSINESS NOTICES, TWENTY: ENTS' WORTIL OF LYON'S IN. L Y Seaieay mlliom cackrochies and buRS. “Dgi 1T, MOTHERS, MRS, WINSLOW'S B D % AN dlionsu of Stiidzon, 1t & aafo and Biramodioiso: The Chicage Tribune, Monday Morning, October 13, 1873. Tho Hon. William B, Williams has boon nomi- nated for Congross by the Ropublicans of the Fifth Distiict of Michigan to succeod the Hon, W. D. Foster—if eloctod, The Cinclnnati Gazelte should remombor that varloty {8 the spico of lifo, To call tho Commer- cial man & blackmallor eleven timos in one arti- tle makos tho thing tedious. A dispatch from Clovelandintimates that notes of tho Lako Shoro Road, amounting to §200,000, given to the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company for rails, have gone to proteat, and that, unless ro- liof comes soon, mony of the manufacturors will bo obliged to close. — 1t is conceded by the Radicals in Virginia that t1z0 Conaervatives will carry the Siato at the en- suing election. Tho latter clnim a majority of from 80,000 to 50,000, wlxil? the Radicals bellove thas thoy can keep it down ‘lo about 10,000. Tho olection does not oceur until November. Tho Polaris invostigation on Saturday did not devolop snything of very special intorest. Capt. Buddington was the ouly witnoas undor oxamination, but, beyond his denial of tno charges that thero was ill-foeling botween him- golf and Capt. Hall, and that ho used intoxicat- ing liquors to such an oxtent a8 to unfit himself for duty, his testimony contained nothing of pnrlicxiht importanco. The examination will be resumed to-day. Tho Mexicsn Congress has made & number of radical reforma which have been formally de- creed, among them the soparation of Church and State ; froedom of religious opinion ; ree- oguition of marrisge as & civil contract; dis- possession of the property of religions institu- tions ; and the euppression of monastic ordets, Thoso roforms witl continue In force until the next rovolution, which may come ot sny time. Meanvwhile, in viow of ecclosinatical opposition to some of these mensures, the Jesuits have ‘been ordered to leave tho country. The employes of tho verious iron foundrios in Philadolphia aud vicinity have resolved to stand by tho strikersof the Sonthwatk foundry, swhoso cnep has alrondy beon fully stated in Tue TpinuxE, and to contributo s weekly stipend for tholr support, thus making it & test case, which will govern the action of others, The latest de- volopment is that of banks holding city funds, which refuso to pay the employos of the city their monthly salarics on checks drawn by the City Treasurer, thus compolling them to goon 4ho stroet and get them discounted. [ ——— A jory remarkeble statement comes from Washington [n & rathor roundsbout way, that Senator Conkling. of New York, will not sccopt tho Chiof-Justicesitip, oven if it is offored him, aslie has detormined to xotire to private life at the end of his Senatorial form. Satisfled with what fame he has achioved, he intonds to devote himsaolf to tho practice of law and make & fortune. As the authority for the statemont, however, is Senator Cameron, it is hardly safe to assume dofinitoly that Mr, Copkling's name is off the list of candidates. Two immense Antl-Monopoly meetings wera held on Saturday last in Jows, ono at Des Moines and the other at Mount Pleasant. The formeor was the largeat political gatheriug of the year, and was addressed by the Hon. J. G. Vale, tho Anti-Monopoly candidate for Governor, and tho Hon, Fred O'Dongell, of Dubuque ; aud the Iatter by speakors more directly connected with the Granger movement. A novel foature of the 1aiter meoting was the sppearauce of Miss Julia Garretson, s Henry County farmer’sdaughter,who Jarangued the large crowd in attendance. The topics dlsoussed at both mestings wore pertinont to tho fusncial xod railrond quostions of the day. Some fues Las been made concerning » dls patch published in our issuo of Friasy, from Galesburg, containing a fling at Mr. Colfax's @peech at tho Fair bold in thatcity. Wo have neceriained that the dispatchin question was ot sent by our rogular Galesburg corroepond- ent, butbys voluntcer. It was fuserted innd- vertontly by the night telograph oditor, Bome persons are very thin-pkinned when the word #Credit Mobilicr " ismontioned, and when such porsons happen to bo out of pubjic lifo, s Mr. Colfax now is, we desire to keop thelr pames out of print in that connection o far as thoy will sllow us to do so, For this reacon the dispateh Ju question would Liave beon oxcluded if it Lad ‘tosn oon by tho responsiblo editor. Very full details of theshooting of ex-Senator Pomeroy by M. ¥. Conway, formorly mom- bor of Congross from Kausss, will bo found slsowhore. Although tho Iatter fired three times, but ono of his shots took offcot, inflioting, bowever, ouly & flesh-wound, Alr, Pomeroy allegos ignoranco of sny trouble exieting between them, and states thet Lo has nover injured Mr, Conwny in any mauner. «The burden of the diets thus far scoms o Indicate that Mr, Copway 18 woak iboth in mind and body, and was laboring under .an attaok of insanity wt the timo of the sitiny, TIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1873. cAaa i M AL bR ey AT TTITTATEN e 1 TR7E = 3 and this ploa will bo offered by hin counyol at tho prolimiuary examination, which takes place to-day. Mr. Conway himsolf hns mado no atatomont, undor the advico of his counncl, Tho lottor addressed to the Prosidont and Di- rectors of the Uulon Nationnl Bank by tho othor bonks and bankers of thin ity is n graceful ox- prossion of filondship and good-will, ns woll as of contldence in tho soundnoss and strength of the institution. It declaros tho bollof of the slguors that thoe Union DBanl enn reopon its doors with unimpaired capitnl, and ox- the hopo that it will not with- draw this capital from tho banking rosourcoes of tho olty. It was'statod in our columus yos- terday that tho Union Natfonal would probably roopon on Tucaday, the 14th. Wo uuderstand that the only obstacla in tho way of resuming ig a tochnical ono oroated by the National Cur- roncy act, which prosoribos o cortaiu formality to be followod in cages whero banks have gonoe into voluntary liquidation. Very likely this ob- staclo will bo romoved ta-day. Tho daily I-0. T. has boen greatly distrossed for a week past about Tne TRInUNE's position in roferonce to city politics, and has been taking on in a dismal way about “little printer's tickots,” and pimilar rubbish, It hne now dropped its favorite line of discourso and fallen foul of the Ropublican Contral Committes, whom it de- nounces as cowardly and treacherous for faillug to call a straight party convention. ¢ Dehind the Republican Contral Committeo,” it enys, # gtands the Ropublican party itself. Lot it aweep away the Commitiee and organizo for vie- tory ovor the various cliques and fagtions which now greodily contest the flold merely for tho spolls of office.” Tho I-0. U. is out of & job, snd it fancies that if a political fight wore got- ton up here on the issuo of colored rights, or tho punishment of red-handed robols, there would by some employment for it bofore cold wosther sots in. That isall it moana by ** swoop- ing away the Committoo,” The Chicago produco markets wero moderately activo on Baturday, but gonorally at n lower range of prices, owing to deprossing advices from other points, Mesa pork was quiot, and 1234@260 lower, at $14.62}@14.75 cash, and $12.75@12.873¢ soller Docembor. - Lard was quiet aud emslor, at73§@75c por Ib cash, and 7560 soller Docomber. Mleats wore dull and un- chiangod, at 78@724o for short ribs, 7}$@8o for short cloar, and 9@10c for sweet picked hams. Highwines were more active, sud 1o lower, at 0l per gallon. Lake froights wero moro active aud unchanged, at 7ige for corn to Buffalo. Flour was dull and unchanged. Whoat was moderataly active, but 13¢@20 lower, closing at $1.03 cash, and $1.02)§ sellor November. Corn waa active, and 3o lower, closing at 8630 casl, and 883¢c sollor November. Oats were active and firmor, closing at 823{c cash, and 823o soll- or Novembor. Ryo was quiot and firmor, clos- ing st 6Go. Barloy wasless active, but firm, closing at $1.36@1.87 for No. 2, and $1.10 for No. 8. Hogs were dull and stoady. Tho Evangelical Alliance has finally dissolved, and most of the European delegatos are now on their way home. Notwithstanding tho outward- 17 harmonious aspeot of its deliberations, it al- roudy bogine to appenr that thoro woro troubles undor the surfaco which msy yeb tend to much norimonious ecclosiastical wrangling - on teolnical pointe, One of these troubles has already developed itaelf in the form of & protest signod by soventy of the foroign delegates againet tho attitudo of tho Alliunce towards tho Roman Catholics, and now comes Bishop Tozer, recontly & missionary Bishop in Gentral Africa, who addrossos & lotter to DBishop Potter, of New York, inveighing against the Dean of Csnlorbury for partaking of communfon with Congre- gatignalists, Presbyteriaus, and othors outside the pale of the Church of England; tho rov- arend gautloman’s principal distress being the exampla c:. the Dean will induco many peaplo jn Eogland of the Established Churoh to stray away injo the fold of the Roman Cathoilg Church. MEMPHIS RELIEF, Ths ity of Momphis coatributed £86,000 to tho Chicago Roliof Fund after tho great fire two years ago. Tho day of our calamity is past. That of Momphls has come. Tho ravages, of yellow fovar in that city are appalling, Thoy are aluo continuous, sod demand continucus relief. TUpto the prosent time there hea boen only 85,000 to £6,000 raised haro to sustain tho efforts of tho noble men and women who, at tho hazard of their own lives, sre ptruggling with tho disease aud caring for $ho dosti- tute children whose parents have fallen boforoit, An impressioh hias prevailod thst the contribytions of money were already suffielent, This is a ead mistake, as the later dispatches from the strickon city show. The receut frost caugod no abatement of tho digsase, sud now tho Indian summer has set in, and the dopth-rato is inoreasing. ~yThe receipts at the Exposition this ovening will be given to the Memphis Fund, snd thero will also be an opportunity for those who have not hitherto contributed to add thoir donations 10 tho eucred causo of the suffering and bereavod. Let these bo an ovorwhelming concourse at the Exposition this evening. Lot our people roturn to Momphis the good offices sho bestowed upon us in the hour of our afljetion, Let the rosult of fhia might's work go forth ¢p ll tho country round about as an olcotrio thrill, awakening charitablo impulses in the remotest coruer of $ha Northwest, Nor should the work coaso with a single offort. Lot committees bo appointed to continue it as Jong ss tho disonso or its effects are visiblo. There is no dungor of dolug too mych. LOCATION OF THE REGPRDER'S OFFIOE, We heve uo intorest in any position thut tho Chicago Times may take in roferenco to tho pp- prorching municjpal elootion. We are willing that it shonld support tho Jlesing-O'Hara com- bination, it it sees fit to do o, aud we shall not inquire what price thoy pay forit, if thoy buy with their own monoy, Wehavo sn iutorest, how- evor, in the expendituro of tho public funds, aud wo object to an appropriation of money from tho County Treasury fo boapplied upon a coutract he- twoon the Healng party aud tho Times, The labor- or & worthy of his Lire, and If tho Hosiug olique intho Boszd of County Commisalouers regard the {ufluence of the Zjmes worth buying, lot thom raigo the necessary amoyub by private subsorip- tion, or by asseasiug tha saloons, or in any other logitunato way, Thoso who danco ahould pgy thofiddler, The County Gommissionora have no right to voto away $0,000 a year of public monoy for the noxt five years in order to msalst tho Heosing parfy to oulist the Times au ona of its auzillarles in the coming oampaiga, Three or four pf the locations offered wapld ba moro desirablo than tho Times building at the samo prico, and (hoy can bo Aocurod at about ono-hinlf tho eont. 'Whis conaldoration shonld bo onough of Itsolf, but thero Is anothor oqually forciblo. Tho Times buflding has bLoon roady for occupancy nonrly n yonr. During thai time it has boon advertised for rent ovory dny. Monn- whilo, buildlngs to the north, to the south, to thn onst, and to tho weat of it, whioh havo not had the boneflt of Incossant pufiing, hinve boon ronted, and the Times buildiug stauds ompty. 1t hns not aslnglo storo, oflico, or room ocoupied, though in n locality which 18 woll built up and Inrgoly tenanted by banks and oflices of all lunds. The surrounding bunildings are no botter than tho Times building, that they should rent readily, whilo it alono stands tonantloss, Tho roason s that tho Témes iaan indocent nowspapor, and its building is rogarded by the publio as thoy re- gard auy other office from which indecont pub- lications issuo. It lins a reputntion for indeconcy cooxtonsive with tho United Btates, It gains admittanco to very fow houseliolds, and no mod- oat womnn will open It a socond time, It is, porhaps, the ouly nowspaper in the United Btates which Les not o single friend in tho locality whoro it is publishied, not evon among ita own omployes. Now, after tho public have thus domonstratod and declared thelr avorsion to tho promiscs whore the Times Is printed, tho Board of County Commiesionors have no right, other things being equal, to foreo tho public to go thero to transact business. Btill loss have thoy the right to do so when othor quarters, more con- voniently located, and not the objects of popular avorsion, are offored at & lower prico, THE BOARD OF TAX-PLUNDERERS. Wo have recoived tho following lettor from n subsoriber in Champaign, INinols: To the Editor of the Chicago Tribune: In your commonts upon tho action of tho Board of Equatlzation and railroad-aid dobts, Sou seem to im- ply that the countlos and towns which owe these dobts hava naked or sought to push tho psymout off upon othier countica, Now tho fact {8 Juat tho reverso, Thoso counties and towns havo not mado themsolves hoard concorning thozo dobts, and what i to bo dono with them, This county owes no debt of that kind, but four of the townships owe sbout $200,000, The peoplo lero do uot ask Clicago oF othior counties to pay this debt, When tho propor time cotuos, thopeoplo of theso towns will decido for themsolves Liow to deal with the bondhaldors, Tho actlon ot Springlold was wholly ‘uncalled for, Wo havo no doubt that this is substantially truo. Wo havoe not nccused the peoplo of the counties and towns owing such debis with a de- sire to transfor the burden thoreof Lo the State. Wo havo accused the dishonest ring of bond- holders and speculators in and sbout Bpring- flold with a purpose to rob the Btato generally, in order to give to thoso bonda o value they are not entitled to, Thoro was no concoivablo ox- ouse for ralsing the asscesmont over that of 1872. It was just 08 ensy to raiso & tax of $2,000,000 on an nggrogate sssossmont of 600, 000,000 as it is to raise tho samio sum on an ag- scssmont of £1,200,000,000. That had been tho uniform polioy of the Btate for many yesrs. Dur- ing tho wholo timo the State waa laboring to pay oft its own dobt, tho ono-fourth or ono-fifth as- sossment was adhored to; no ono over thonght of doubling or trebling that assossment until there was o partial failure to pay interest on theso local aid bonds. Lottors from bondholdors * wanted to know " why tho intorest was not paid by ¢he Stale in accordance with the swin- dling advertisemonts, and the only answer that could be given was that the assossmont of 1872 was 80 low that it did not afford an opportunity to steal emough revenue to pay the interost, Then followed, chronologically, the order to raige the assceament. Tho nassessments for & numbor of years had beon ¢ $400}000,000 493,917,000 510,880,083 Tho State is now practically out of debt. The time had como when the rovenue to b raised for Stato indebtednoss was mercly nominal, yot in 1878 tho order was given to make tho assess- ment larger. It muy be eaid that the Rovenuo law required a full *cosh valuation.” The law of llinols had required that for forty years. A yoar ago, the Auditor, iu his roport, declared that the ** cash value of tho tuxable proporty in this Btate"” was not less than $2,600,000,000, So that, aftor all, the law is not yet complied with, and the proporty is not asseased at more than 60 por cont of its cash value. If it is lawful to sssess it ap 50 per cent, why mot at 25 or oven 20 por cent? Even the Board of Equalization yoted that tho assessment was but 70 por cont of the asscssment required by law, The difference, howover, was, that tho nsgessmont of 1872 would not pay the interest on tho railrond-nid bonds; but to increase that as- sesgment to thirteen hundred millions would not only pay that Intorest, but leavo & respectabla surplus to the credit of the bondholders in the Btate Trensury, The protext of complying with the law is literally *teo thin,” bacauso tho law Las niot boen complied with,—being short 50 per cent, according to tho Auditor, and $0 per cent, according to the Board of Equalization. But tho percentago needed to pay thoe intereat on the rallrond-aid bonds was calculated with sublime aceutacy. The organ of all ¢his high-hauded procoeding at Bpringfield has kept up & porpotual howl sbout taxing tho railroads. The Bosrd of Equaliza- tion, in fixing the valuo of the railroad property, taxod tho lands, the tics, iron, side-tracks, de- pots, buildings, cars, otc., and overy doscripiion of visible property, Itwas thon preposed to add 38,000,000 nioro for the gost of grading tho roadway. Tho Auditor gave as his opiniop that tho cost of grading could not be included in the yaluo of tho rond, but might be included in tha value of the aapjta) etock. The Board adopted thia plan, and forihwjth the Bpringfleld Journal, ontirely sllont respecting tho robbery committed in ald of the rpiiroad- aid bondholdors, hos boon making o groat outery oyer the refusal to tax tho railreads on tho $38,000,000 oxpended jn digging down hills and filling up valloys, Tho attompt to divert at- tontion from the bondholdors' grab by calling sttontion to tho untaxed culvorts of the rail- roads fs eltogethor too thin, Al tho noise made about the Board vf Equalization refusing to tax tho railroads is nonsonse_ it I8 & more attempt to divert attontion from the fact that tho poople of Ulinols genorslly, and especially those coun- tlos not owing any railrpad-aid debt, aro to be taxed to puy the $1,100,000 annuel interost on theso bonds, aud furnish a Jarge surplus to tho crodit of tho bondholders, Nothing has ocourred in this Stalo sluco tho collapes of oredit in 1837-'41 that is 6o well eal- oulnted to dntmy confidence in the municipal soouritlos of this Stato es tbia actlon, The towns, countles, oto,, owing theuo debts pro noti- fled to lovy no tax to pay tho intercst thoreon, 08 tho assessmont of 1873 haa boon arranged so that all the monoy ngeded for that purpose can bo filohod from the other countiea which owe no wuch debt, Chicago alono paying mnearly oue- fousth of the gmonat, But thaso other countios will pay no such tax,—thoy will submit to no auch Imposltio SPEQIE PAYMENTS, ‘Washington dispatches state that Presidont Grant would liko to say somothing in his forth- coming mosango in favor of a resumption of specio paymonts, but that he Is restrained by a colobrated apothiogm of Mr. Boutwoll's on tho subjoct of * growing up to spocio paymonts.” The tendency of things just now ia to grow doton to spocio payments, But for tho fact that tho Governmons is lssuing now groenbacks out of what 18 called by courtosy * tho $44,000,000 reserve,” wo should be growing down to apoole paymonts much fastor thsn wo aro, Tt is not to be oxpootod that tho President will Liavo any cloar ideas of his own on this vastly important subjact, but it ho will coaso leaning on Boutwoll, Jay Gooke, Henry Olows, and the othor suspenders of political cconomy, he may derlve somo from oxternal sources, Tho coun- try is gotting in o vory good position to resume Bpoclo paymonts, Greenbaoks aro now at par with silvor comn, and, it they romain so for any considorablo time, silver will pass into circula- tion, and thoroby add some $30,000,000 to the available ourroncy of the country, It ia to bo hopod that this result may come nbout—if for no othor roason, in or~ dor to silonco thosa who are always asking “YWhoro is tho specio to como from?" The oatimated amount of gold and silver coin 1 the world is about $10,000,000,000. It is also 4 ostimated " that nny nation can have as much of this coin as it can pay for, It is likewise be- lioved that if tho Logal-Tondor act woro ropoalod, oxcopt na to past contracts aud obligations, thoe oxisting stock of gold in tho country would bs sufficiont to maintain specio paymonts upon, The larger transactions of commoreo requiro no gold oxcopt to settlo balances, since the ox- changos offget onch other, The whoat pays fortho cloth, and vice versa, As to small transactions, tho poople are €0 accustomod to bank notes that thoy would probably prefor them for pocket money if assured that they woro convertible into gold: Henco there would bo very little gold wanted—ss little in proportion as in Can- ada, whero a specio bneis ia successfully main- tained on a vory small reserve of coin. Ono gront advantago of speclo paymenta would bo the rosulting olastioity of tho currcmoy. At present our currency is & certain fixed quantity, no more and no less—whoroby it happens that whon the timo comes for moving the crops, and large smounts of ocurronoy are 'wanted, there is o sudden constriction at all the money contres. 1f wo could draw upon tho money of the world at such times, of which thoro is practically an inexhaustiblo supply, no euch constriction could oceur, for wo should at onco obtain all that our products could pay for, and that would bo precisely the amount wanted. Tho Prosident's latost preferonces (which have not, however, taken the form of rocom- mendations) are stated as follows : 1. Authority to reissuo tho $44,000,000 ro- serve, 2. A froo banking law, 8. Repeal of the clauso roquiring a reservo for the protection of depositors, s percentage of the othor reservo to bo in gold, and increased in regular ratio until tho whole roserve is gold, 4. Prohibition of intorest on deposits. 5. Establishmont of & post-ofico banlk, pay- ment of 4 per cent to dopositors, and conversion of doposits cither into outstanding United Btates ‘bonds or new 43 per cent bonds, robiring an equal number of those oustanding. As rogards tho first, it sppesrs that tho #$:44,000,000 reservo " is now in process of ree issuo, about $3,000,000 baving slrendy gone forth. 1f there is now no suthorty for isauing thom, it follows that tho Juw has bpon violated. It moy be added that the issuo of more green- backs is not in the diroction of specio resump- tion, but the reverse., Tho socond, third, and fourth propositions aro, in our view, unobjec- tionable, and tho fifth incomprehensible. The object of depositors in puttiog their money into & bank, whother they receive Interest or uot, is to get it out again when they want it. To con- vort the deposita into bonda is to take porma- nent poesesgion of the depositors’ money, unless reconversion of the bonds into currency is al- lowed, The lattor measure would give olasticity to tho cutrency, but wonld be needless for that purposs if specie payments wero restored. THE GILMAN OREDIT MOBILIER, Tue Tribune bos already given some promi- nouce to the suit brought before Judge Tipton, of Bloomington, by a stgckholder of tho Gil- man, Clinton & Springfleld Railroad againat the Diroctors of the Company, asking the Court to enjoin the lattor. from loasing the road to tho Pennsylvanis Company, snd setting up extortion and fraud in tho construction contracts of & ro- markablo likoness to the Credit-Mobilier systom under which the Union Pacific was built, The answor of the Directors makos a genoral denial of the charges of extortion sud fraud, and then proceeds to mokg what looks like a gen- oral ooufossion of sll tho cireymstaricos upon which thoso ohargea aro based. Thoy claim that they have mpdo no exorbifant profits on tho construction “of tho Foad, and profous to believe that there is nothing ime moral or yplawful [n what is commonly known a8 the Credit-Mobilier system, thus imitating still furtlior tho policy of Mr, Oakos Ames and some of bis boldor assogintes who had the temer- ity aud foresightnot to deny the oharges brought ugaluet hem boforo the Congrossionsl Tnyesti- gating Gommittee, Tho defon man suit sot up that it hps beon & gommon pfne- ticon Illinols (and thoy might have added in most othor Statea of tho Union) for Divectors to wmake contracts on tho part of the Company for thejr own benofit, to issue thewmsolves the wmnfority of thp stack fn order to rotaiu tho managowent, aud fo pay themsolves tho contract profits with the bonds subsoribed by tho townships and countios along the line. They woro ovidently fearful, howover, that Judgo Tip- ton would not rogard this pllogation of a com- mon practico 4 A Justification of Jta lgwyfulnoss, or thoy would not have bosn 80 anxious to secure the ohango of vonuo vhich was donled them. According to tho tuewer of Mesers. Melvin, Warner, ang Fullor, thoy lot tho conatruction contracts to thu Mtorgin lwp\tovnmnt Company, and ono of thom nt lmat had an iptorest in tho coutractp, ‘Ihoy sdnit also that all vere Inture ostod in the DBarolay Coal Company, which obtained what soyunted to-an oxclusive priviloge. It was provided that the roductions mado to the Barolay Coal Qompany for the trans. portation of their corl were to be collooted from tho consigneos, but ot for the benefit of the Ttuilroad Company. Tlego colleotions were to be pald over to tho " Baalay Coal Company, com- posed chiefly of tho me who controlled the mane agomeont of the Gilmm Railroad, and who fixed tho tosmna of the controt. Mossrs, Molvin, Ware | I 1 nor, and Fuller can 00 nothing wrong In thin | procooding, which meroly . uses tho property ot tho stockholdora of the rond for the bonoflt of & corporatlon of which the Directors of tho road ara chiot ownors. Nolthor could the gentle- men intoreatod in the Wyoming Conl Company, who likewlso controlled the management of tho Unlon Paciflo, sso anything wrong in o similar proceoding. Noithor could Mr, Grogory Bmith discover onyihlag that was nob lawrul and right in stacting o factory for on- gines and cars with tho monoy of tho Vermont Contral, aud thon ronting thoso cara to the ‘Vormont Contral at a price which compelled tho ‘Vormont Contral stockholdors to lose monoy in oporating thelr rond. It i just posslble that the courts, whon thoy got o fair aight at theso transactions, will viow thom difforently. Tho Directors of the Gilman, Olinton & Bpringflold Railroad likowiso admit a disposal of tho rosourcos of the Company substantinlly as charged in tho bill, Thelr account stands in this ways POR DUTLDING 111 MILES OF ROAD, Btock..... Toladoisinsse oors crvierens e EITLO0 Thoy deny that the road only cost $1,600,000, 28 charged in the bill, but fail to give tho exact cost, as thoy might have done with all the figures in thelr possession, or even to mako an approxi- mato eatimate, Thoy also olaim that $1,400,000 of stook issuod to tho BMorgan Improvomont Company has no valus, though thoy probably dld not prosent the oaso in this light to the coun- tios and towna which subscribed for that stock and {ssuod bonds to the amount of about $000,~ 000 to aid in its construction. Thoy admit that this smount of stock was issuod in or- dor to give tho Morgan Improvemont Company the control of the managoment. If the munici- palitics that subscribod $600,000 toward this stock are now porsuaded bythe mon who induced thom to do it that it s not worth snything, and. nover waa worth anything, is it not a very sorious tomptation held.out to theso municipalitica to ropudiato their bonds for tho want of consid- oration? Estimating thecapital stock, the firat-mortgage bonds, tho sccond-mortgagé bonds, aud the: credit account claimed by the construction ring st thoirpar valuo, tho Gilmen, Olinton & Spring- flold Railrond has cost 51,700 a milo, or within $3,000 of the averago cost por milo of all tho railroads in the country, including all the Credit Mobiliors that have ever been organized, all the waterod stock that has ever beon fsaued, and atl the railroad swindles that have over boen por- potrated. Yot thiero is probably no stretch of rallrosd in tho countryof aqual lougth that could have beon built at a loss cost than the Gilman, Olinton & 8pringflold, which was through a por- feclly lovel country. The Directors olamm that thoy sold their bonds at & large sacrifice. For inatanco, they claim that some of tho municipal bonds woro eold as low as 80 conts on the dollar, 1t is cortainly vory romarkablo that county and town bonds of as rich a Btate as Illinois should havo to bo sold at any such sacrifico as thia, If true, the circumstanco shows that the construc~ tion ring must have been under some urgent nocossity for disposing of thom immoedintely, and at what they could got, perhaps in order to raiso the money to go on with tho work of construction. This does not look ®g though the Morgan Improvomont Gompany had a cash capital of §590000, Mr. Thomas A. Scott, 1t seoms, holds thp full amount (81,000,- 000) of socond-mortgage bonds, issued without suthority of law, and hence, probably, the rea gon why the Pennsylvanin Company was willing to {ako & losso providing for their payment. THE INTERNATIONAL PATENT CONGRESS. The firat of the serica of International Con- greasoa in Vionua, for the adoption of more of- feotive moasures for the protection of patents, closod its soaslon on tho 8th ult. It was not, aa.| hind heen oxpected, s moeting of Govornment officials, fnasmuch 88 the Austrian Government failod to send a representative. Tho other Gove emmonts, therofore, decided to take no official part, and the meeting resolved iteelf into an in- formal one, The action of tho Congresa is summed up in the resolutions which wero adopt- od, '~ These rosolutions declare, lh"st, that the protection of inventiona should be guaran- tood by the Isws of all eivilized na~ tions, tndor tho condition of the complote publication of the ssme,—s proposition which Dardly needs disonssion in view of theadvantagos it would confer upon inventors, and tho prac- tical ald it would rondor to tho diffusion of knowledge. Tho Congress furthormore rocom- mended tho following aa bases for a patent law: Only the inventor himself or big logal reprosen- 1ativo should be entitled to a patent, and the fact that tho inyentor {s a foroignor should not ‘ox- clude him from the right. Tho patent itsqlf should be grantod for & term of fiftpen yoars, with the privilege of Qi'lteuglog for the samo timo under oortaln circumatances. Blm\ilf tancously with tho jssuo of the patent, & complate publication of tho samo to be mudo, Tho oxpenses should be reduced a8 much a8 pos- gible, snd, to make it cosy for an inventor who has to abandon his pptant, p sliding doale of gosty Is recommouded, Tho establishment ja elso recommendod ¢ & Woll orgauizod Patout 0 ffice, whoro Information of oveiy’ kInd portsining to patents may bo obtained, snd of Ingll rules by which the juvoutor can allow tho use of his in- vention $o all rospoctablo applicants for & fixed componsation. The Jsst and one of the most important recommendations i py fol- jowa: #Tho nop-application of an’invenion i3 ono country shall pot involvo the forfeiture of tho patent, if tho patonted invention has been carriod into pructice at all, snd if it hoa beon rendored profitsble to the inhebitants of such country to purchaso and make use of that invention. Inall other respects, and particu- Jarly 88 rogaxda proceodings in the granting of patouts, the Gongresn vofora to the English, Amorican, and Bolgian patont lawp, §nd to the draft of o patent lnw propared for Germany by the Booloty of Amorican Engineers," To corry out tho rocommondations embodied in those rewolutions, & permancnt Excoutive Committee has boon sppojated, This Commit- too hay detormined to go to work dotiyely pyd onergotically, and, inetead of swaiting tho slow growth of publio opinion, has ‘resolved o gome wengg to Influenco tho Europoan Govornments directly, '#hy Austrians—whio, by the way, are roprosonted a8 atosljng Amggfl'? invene tiona by wholessle from the Exposition— bpve woted In & vory illiboral manner towgrds the Congross, although tho Baron Bobwarz-Bonborn, fho Piguidont of the Exposition, was DProsidont of fho Gone gress, and tho Committee, thorefors, do uot pro- pose to waste any time in dealing with tho Auee trian authorities, but will go to Betlin and en- doavor to induco tho Prusalan Govarument o P como to an understanding with Groat Britain and tho Unitod Staton, which will compol Austria and tho other Buropoan Powora to adopt tho ssmo practico, The action of tho Congross and tho Committeo soems to promiso at Inat full protec- tion to inventors, both at home and abrosd, and to put an end to the practico of stealing tho pro- ducts of honorablo and naeful Iabor. — The Emperor of Giormany recontly Igsued an odiot in his role of King of Prussia, whioh s {n- torosting from tho fact that in it hio announcos hia title hencoforth to bo aa follows: *Wo, ‘William, by tho graco of God King of Prussin, Margravo of Brandonburg, Burggrave of Nurom- ‘borg, Count of Hohonzollorn, Boveroign and Buprome Duke of Bilosis, as likewlso of the County Glatz, Grand Duke of the Nother Rhino and Poson, Duke of Baxonin, Westphalis, and Eugorn, of Pomeranis, Luonnoburg, Holatoln, and Bchloswig ; of Magdeburg, Bremon, Gold- orn, Klovo, Juelich, and Borg; saalso of the Wonda and Kassubesj of Krossen, Lanen- burg, and ‘Mocklenburg; Landgrave of Hossen and Thueringon; Margrave of tho Upper and Nothor-Lausitz ; Princo of Oranls ; Princa of Ruogon, of East Frieeland, of Pador- born, and Pyrmont; of Hallerstadt, Mucnstor, Mindes, Osnabrucok, and Hildesheim; of Vor- don, Kaunin, Fulds, Nassau, and Moors ; Prince- 1y Count of Honnoberg; Count of the Mark and of Ravonsburg; of Hohonstoln, Teiklonburg, and Lingon; of Mansfold, Sigmaringon, and Voringon; and Lord st Frankfort.” And this ien't all of his name oither. His Imporial title is of nbout equal length,—tho two combined boing sovoral foot long. — Astronomical, The two brightest plancts in the solar system are now very neatly in line with the carth. Thoir nearcst appronch occura to-morrow, when they will bo apparently separated by only 21 minutes of are, or about two-thirds tho apparont diame- tor of the full moon, Thoy aro visible in the oarly norniug, rising more than two houra be- foro tho sun, and tho view with tho naked eyo will well ropay our late-slesping resders forrising s littlo earlior than usual. Vonus is tho most northiorly of the two, Both are visiblo at the snmo timo in the teloscopo if tho magnilying powor of tho eye-picce used ba not too high. _ - NOTES AND OPINION. The monopolists of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania are watching tho elections in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota with more esgornoas than th-?' ever watched tho re- sulc of & Prosidential clootion, sand they are gonding money by hundreds of thousands “to in- fluonce tho elections hero—why ? To save tho Integrity—tho unbrokon phalaox of the Repub- licau party. * Lst thad party succood with its usual mojorities, and the monopolista are all right sgain for the noxt haif dozon years to como, *“The anti-monopoly Lubbub,” they will gay, ‘hos boon a mere puif of wind."—Oltawa (i) Free Trader. —Thero is a. class of good-moahiug Republi- cans who continue to sk, *‘ why don't the farm- ora tako possossion of tho Ropublican ma- chinery instesd of mcting outeide of it, beer in _tho County of Kondall, In tho oities and many of the countios of this and other Btates such a thing would bo entiroly out of the ques- tion, henco nothing bettor ‘would result than purifyiug the party in’ spots, which woul of no availl, The iustinct of the pooplo, oy should not stop to reason, tolls thom they must 2ll act alike, and help to bring about gencral re- sults.— Yorkville (1il.) News. 1 —Voters of Bureau Couaty, will you continuo to be deceived aud mislod by this dozon of poli- ticiane, whoso wholo study aud ambition is to get office and bleed tho peoglo? How long will the Eoopln submit to bo bamboozled and led around y this clique of profossional polivical tricksters, who care about a8 much for tho wolfaro of the roaplu a8 tho wolf doos for tho wolfaro of tho amp P—Princeton (1) Tribune. —You are tired of tlip vve mau and the one ?m’ rule. Wl you put your tough hands to ho wheel now, or must you wait until tho ovonts of o fow more yours shall show you why you uu%m to have acted now ?—2Meclenry County (dtl.) Anti-Monopolist. ~Tho protousb that the Repnblican party will ald the Roform movement is too bald, “That gmy perpotrated the wrongs cowmplained of,-— opt up o bigh protective tariff; inaugurated the system of land donations; made tho infumous Crodit Mobiller; instituted the salary-grab; winked at corruption; shielded known dishonost oflicials; profited by the remorseless groed of monopolists, and failod uysr{itimn to lift, even with the tip of their Aogers, tho hoeavy burdens imposod by the monopolista, How, then, csn tho pooplo expeot roliof from tho parcy which imposed the wrongs and mads money by them ? —Riinois State Kegister, At tho next HState oloction in Illinois tho Topublican picty, rolying upou tho invincibility of thelr 60,000 majority, led by Logaun, Oglesby, and othnr'snnry-snbbnru, will spit upon the farmers' move aud put in nomination mon of their own party predolictions, . . . Tho farmors can never accomplish any good or make thoir power felt by boiug blindly lod by doma~ gogues, or ‘designing men. It will require the ubited offorts of every anti-monopolist in tho nation to destroy the monstor monopoliea and corrupt rings that are backed up by the prodent Aduinltra fon,— Cumberland County (Iil.) Dem- ocrat. —Evory intorost of the farmora and laboring- men is contered upon thoir wuccess tiua full and noxt at the ballot-box, Thoir love of inde- pondont manhood ; their love of homo, luuilf &nd frionds; thoir lovo of everything thoy hold sncred ought to unite thom 18 one manin tho confliot with tho monopolists.—Paxton - (1l.) Journal, - —As proof of the mighty roform now sweop- ingin * tidal waves™ ovor the country, we call especial sttentiun to the fact that !* one-term mon " aro all the demand. 0ld l]flny haoks aud professional placo-buntors * and office-holders must go down_before the triumphsl march of reform, embodied in one-torm ** anti-monopoly,” end no oftice-holding or office-seeking doma- gogue noed npply."— Henry (Ii.) Republican, —Not 20 per cont of tho vofinz popuiatios of Kane County wiil be influenoed by-politics ; this £all tho poople will gonerally voto for tho bost candidates ju the field. If ‘the farmera are ju: dicious in tholr salcctions’ thoy ‘will mm:f tho boards this fall as bandsomoly aa thoy did last epring.—Eigin (11.)" Advocate. 2L =T Farmors' tioket of Jo Daviess County will bo elooted by & majority oxcooding 500.— Freeport (11L) Bullelin, - * RS —Right s’ pssoriing itsclf. We predict that the farmors vl lf,-pln slmost An nubroken victory in Qyntral Itlinols, fu tho spproachiug elaption, Tayloputite (JIl) fieyublwan,‘ el N ~Horoabouts the bal) s rollivg beautifully. Everywhera throughous the Disiyct, aud, We might add, all over outhern Tllinofs, all i woll, No reyolution ever made sush_progross as thst inauguiatad by the farmers, In tho fow ehort wontha ‘L’” m,m;\gamunb_hnu___lglenu on foat, wondors have hoah wupked. Wiy paitlclans stand aghas at tha spectucle, snd samble st the sure and corlain duom that AWalfi tuow.—ad. Vernon &I 11.) Free Press, ; ~Tho ticket placed inn nomination by the Farm- pra' ‘Convontiog, biold 'in this city on the 20th ult,, ‘ia very popular throughout the county. Tho oppoponts of brpaniged moneyed moopo- lies aggm to bo fully srgused und organized, . . . This stuie of things the peapla ara do- tormined to rectify, and thoy havo opme to tho conclusion to mako thoir voies teil in the right dirootion,—Olney (Il.) Times, ~Tho campaign in thly county is progressing vory qulotly, Instond of tho boisterous, orazy outhuslasm'manifgated last yoar, we havo a calm but opriest “discudsion of the {yanau, not of the cnudidutes, for, wg can frankly siy; the qandi- datos aro’ all ’gaod men, Z (’gy'u?g fif;m‘u. ple involved that our peopla aro djwgyssing in groups hore end thero, whethor men shoule stiol by the old parties. . . , Tho dofeat of the ]?nn?em' tioket, while it could not crash out tho “just” csuno vhich it - Teproscnts, would stronpthiey tha pnemy for the time, and o much longpr delay reliof ‘from th¥ oppreasion which it 15 wought ta obiain, form will not i bréngnt 2"‘)50“" by the party in w\ver,—‘}’amm (fll.) imes. —Tho Farmers' moyoment is now ablo for the firat timo to provont its roform mensuros to the peaplb of Oliyton County in thelr’ proper light, withont rogard ta ‘athor political organizatious, Ite frionds will'await (he"fssud” of this oloction to ace I our pooplo desiro offielal purity.~Core respondent of Centralia Demoorat, - ¥ —Wo Liear asuorted that the movemont of the Iarppss {u rorpowfllblo for tho provailng pauio iu finauela] clrclog. If so, it ought to toach the railroad Jords and monopoly maguates that it is duugerous Lo disrogard tho ressounblo domaudas ¢ olsaa whono industry {9 the basls of cani- tal and all groat ontorprises,—Carlinville (1) Democrat. —A fo« rallrond bubblos wore pricked lately. The consequenco is wide-spread ruin and dlsag- tor. Tho ond is not yot renched; wa aro but at tho heginning of tho trial. Lot thom all bo auppreasod ; lot the knavos who stolo the public landn for profossed tailivny 'uses be brought down,—lot thom all broak and slay broken, It will be n gomwml to tho poople’ when tho last laud-grabber of this class goes into bankruptoy. —MoLean County (Iil.) Anti-Monopolist. —I# it not rich reading now, toroad the views of distinguished bankors, published over a yenr 8go, a8 indead 1k is to 800 tho mighty rovolution in public sentimont, ¢ Tho mills of tho gods grind slowly,” but they Ffl"d fino onongh tosuit old Moneybngs at_this time., 'The hnukum pay doarly for tholr mistaken selflshnoss and are the firat victims of last fall's error, Who will ba noxt ?—AMatloon (1ll.) Comniercial. —Again wo doclaro that othor reform or rov- olution must como. Tho sufforing .in the Iarga oities In consequence of ' tho financon of thio country will rmpnrn tho way for a workingmon's robollion sgainst tho prosent wgnoy despotism that is storving them into redutance, Thoro will bo destitution and starvation among tho oor, and ,ruin awmong businees men, till ho vory instinct of self-preservation wiil drive tho o})prasnud olnssos into radical moasures for relief. The farmors will, to somae extent, feol tho oEprcsalou 3 but they caunot bo starvod or brought to sctinl want. Thoy ara comparatively Indopendont. Thoy are not the slaves, but only the I;Malvn subjeots of tho monoy god, . . Wo aro now compelled to suffer tho ovila that inevitably flow from a monoy power loglslation, whicl protacts capi= tal aud robs labor.—Aforrison (Ill.?lmlemdenl. ‘Wo call on tho publio to noto thisfact t With- [n a yoar those Administration papera will charge tho whole bauk systom on to the Domooracy, sud inslet that Radicalism is not rosponsiblo for it._ Just now they do not discorn how near tho bubble s to the bureting point. And yottho ll:lésl;bllfi:n glrlt uiu w}xolh x’u‘u“l"m?slfi}o for tho and alf the mischlot that will grow o of it.—8t. Paul Pioncer. gromens THE SHOOTING OF POMEROY. Conway to Be Examined Tosmorrow —When n Plen of insanity Will bo Lntered in Hiv Behnlf — Pomeroy Asserts_Kis Innoconce of Al Wrong. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘WasmnoToy, D, 0., Oct, 12.—Tho proliminary trinl of Martin F. Qonway, for ehooting ex-Sen~ ator Pomoroy, will take place in the Police Court in this city to-morrow, Tho District Attorney haa notifled Mr. Pomeroy that his presonco and tostimony will Lo required. Conway was ro- Ioaged from custody on bail in the sum of $10,000. By tho odvies of hils counsel, he is roticont, and avoids the subject of tha recont unploasantnors, althongh ho secoms to Isbor under considerable mental oxcitemont. ALLEGED INSANITY OF GONWAY. @ An effort will bo made to prove that ho ig in- #sae, and & motion by his counsol will bo sube mitted to sond bim to tho ineane ssylum. It will moat probably be a diffioult matter to prova that bo is mnssno, yot in tho attompt it will bo mnde apperont ‘that there is a dogroo of method in his madness. Abundonce of ovie donce of his numorous eccentricities can caslly bo produced, somo of which will dispol any doubt that may exist as to tho dis- endod condition of his inind. Exhibitions of meutal derangomont have been from time to timo obsorved in him. He is physically and montally wesk, and the lattor wonknosa hng doubtless & gaod dosl to do with tho state of mind in which ho wns yestordoy whon Lo ate tempted to take the lifo a{ Mr, Pomeroy, POMERQY EXPLAINS, . The lattor stated to-night that ho had never knowingly injured Conway in any way whatover, but, on ths ‘othor hand, ho aided lim in times of distress snd nood. Mr. Pomeroy saysho did not know until to-day that Conway had proviously throat- onod violenco towards him, aud, even if ho had known it, he would not liave crodited Conway with suftfclent courage to attack or shoot at any= body, Pomeroy enyait was tho firat shot whioh struck him, and that each of the othors were fired at random, his aseailant oxhibiting & good deal of excitement, norvousness, and indos cision aftor ho hnd once discharged his rovolver. The ball struck in such 8 way ag to canso wonder that it did not pones trato the ontire body of Mr. Pomeroy, whorons it svlponrs ouly to have made an indentation and slightly cut the skin, lenving some discoloration of flesh in tho vicinity of tho wound. THE OIARGE OF NUINING CONWAY. Conway's statoment that Pomoroy has ruined him {8 accounted for by Mr. Pomoroy in thia way: Some timo aftor Mra, Conway had beon employed in the Treasury Departinent, he mot Pomeroy and asked the latter to bave hor removed from tho position she occupled, in order that ho (Conway) might b ablo to get n place in the Department, s thero ia in existence a rulo which provents tho employ- ment_of more than one member of o family, ‘This Pomoroy declined to do. Conway, also, at one time, wanted Pomoroy to assist him in pro= curing & divorce from his wife, and, being ques« tioned, e stated that he could make no charga sgalust ber, but ho would confoss corisin thinga if sho would instituto sult for divorce. Ho stated that if ho were rolieved from the present wifo, ho could marry anothor lady who posacssed somothing of a fortuno. Mr. Pomo- Toy saya he has novor met Mrs, Conway oxcopt in’his own parlor in this city, and in the houso in which she lived in Kaneas; nud that ho bos soveral lottors which wero sent to his wife, re- quealm%the latter to intorcedo with her hus- bond in her bobalf, ropresouting her dostitute and dopendont condition, and asking bis influ- ence in tho proourcment of a position in ono of tho Governmount Dopartments, ¢ A STARTLING RUNAWAY, A Team of Xlilorscs, und n Carrifge Containing the Driver, Run into tha River at Wells Streot Krldge. Nortk Wolls strect, from North avenuo to tha bridge, was considerably excited about 6 o'clock last evening by & runaway, which ouded fa thd horses end carriage of Mr. Louis Boldon» wick befng procipitated into the river from thio north abutment of tho Wolls streot bridgo. Tho' driver was roscued fn' g drowning condition, The horaes and carrlagd wont down, and were wnot rocovered. ‘Lho horsos started to run on North avenue, neat Woells streat, and soon got beyoud ihe driver's control, He, however, held on' to the liucs, and endeavored to turn the frautio bonsts on to the sidownlk., Ie was unsucceessful. As he noared tho Walls street bridge he was horrified at sces ing; tho bridgo swung opon, and, altbough death ntured the'drivor In the faco, he did not leave tho toam 1o tho fate that awaited thow, Whon the horeos bad ronched the edge of -the abutment thoy turned aside’of thelr own decord, As they whoeled around, two of the wheols of the car« riage ran off, and ono of the horsos making 4 misstép, tho velicle, tho hoisos, aud tho driver woere oll precipitated into tho water immodiately. - They nfpmgmd but oped st tho kurface of pho "waler after the Dad disappeared the first time,” Tho ' drivoy {umpnd out of the carrisgo as it was falling, and, y swimmning, kopt himuealf gt the surfaco of thy water until be was yosgued. " 8ome mombers of the fumily of Ar, [oldenwigl nurrowly escape bolng i the cartisge, Thoy had hoon visiting on North avenue, aud intended to ride home in hiole carine= Wnit, tho lorscs boing very fracs thelr caftimge, lpruou belng ¥ ] tiong, thoy rofused to ride LOWLTL thew, and Fode Liome iy gy emuibu, HE WAS MISTAKEN, At sbout 8 o'cloolt Inst ovoning, Pinkorton watchman fn the Hibernigu Bank, at the coruor of Lako gnd Clark streots, thought he heprit n suapleious sound in one of the yacont rooms ovop tho bank, Ifo ran out and rapped for pollco man. Offlcer Martin O'Conuers quickly re- sponded, The not drow & lurgo crowd, to mauy of which tho excited watchmnn couveyed tha startling intolligence that burglars wore at worls i uildlug. Aa invos iggution, howevor, 6d "that” he tvps gn‘sn_\knn. “I'hs watolman wa thought vory jnjudicious, snd wnyorthy of a place oit Pinkotou's fore, dischargod, and waa foribiwith A Tranenction'in Furs, firn Qhio paper rcl}nmu tkmc, (:huur, uduv(l;ntann pilrs , & yoyng boy residing in Wood County zouk qu?npk'cntu'in, ‘lrm#\\fixlch thp prigina) tail of the cat had boon removed gud & mink'y tall nicely sewed ou instead, aud sold it to ncere tamn bu{or of furs not mauy miles away from Grand Raplids for 81,25, It'was doneas & prace ctical joko j but the boy kopt the money, grow to bo a prosperous business mau, joined a cluneh, byt bjs consoionce upbraided him so muok that & few days aga-tho ox«fyrdeslor received a nots inclosing -£8,70, principal and- iutorost. Thl Joke is now un the fur-doaler, au ho pnt th? ocate bkin among a lot of mink-skine, and. sold it fo1 93, As heosunot now find the purohasor, he proposea to -contribute the money o some be navaleut purpose, ~