Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1873, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY. A TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1873 BOARD OF EDUCATION, . The Subject of Corporal Pun- ishment Discussed. A Rule to Abolish Defeated by Two Votos, The Majority Declare 1t Is Necessary - to Preservo -Disciplines In Cortain Cases, It Is o Comfort to Take & Pupil by tho Collar. Transfers and Appointmentse-- Miscellaneons Business, A regular mocting of the Board of Education was hold Inst ovoniug, Prosident King Iu the Chair., THE COUNTY RUPERINTENDENT OF BONOOLS, The School Agent presented the following vommunication : Ci110AG0, Dec, 10, 1873, Clarlen C, Chage, Sehool Agent Deatt Sti: 1 ‘find, from tho records n the onice, that thiero was apportioned to Townbip 3, Ttango 14, tho sum of $100,880.40 for tho year 1873, of which amount I find thut only $74,09193 lias boon pald, leav~ Iug a balanca due of &12,865,07, which Albert G.'Lane, my predoceasor, folls to turn over tome, _Youra truly, Gronax D, PLANT, Superintondent, Accompanying this was a letter from Mr. Lono, fn which he explains that thoe balance reforred to i8 in the Franklin Bauk, which has cepsed to exist. The funds are, therefore, for tho prosent, anavailable. On motion tho matter was roferred to a Spo- clal Committee of Five, composed of Iuspectors Runyan, Hambleton, Wolls, Olingor, and King. Tho resiguation of Mrs, 0. H, Johnson, of the Blue Tsland Avenue School, was presented and wacepted. CERTIFIOATES. The Committee on oxamination of Tenchors roported, recommending that partial certificates be awarded to Charlotte Kenyon, R. Louise Brinetl, Jennie M., Dowy, Alary H, Donn, Emoa Preston, -Annio Ityan, M. Emily Lynne, Hattio E. Herbort, Mary M. Sampson, Ida J. Cook, Alice C. Talbot, Lizzio Coffag, Rveline Gonell, Burtella G. Jacobs, Anna Murphy, Mary AL Nevwell. Tho report was concurred in. THANSFERS AND APTOINTMENTS, The followiug transfers woro roported: Elvira Bates, from the Clarke tothe Brown School; Hattio &, Brown, from the Clarke to tho Brown Mary F. Burbank, from the Brown to tho Walsh Stroot; and Louisa C. Sithn, trom the Peorin Struet to the Rolling Mills, ‘Cho samo Committeo reported the following appointmenta: Mary Moutuly to tho Franklin, Niun B, Smith to tho Franklin, Mary Mott to tho Qortago Grove, Fauny Day to tho Holden, Jessie DAE to tho Clarke, Minnie Tliroop to the Clarke, Abbie G, Baneroft to the Ifolden, Minnie Eliol to tho Pearson sireot, and Frankie Foster to tho Mitehell School. Tho following teachers were voted an increase of salary: Jiva Lonigo A, Randall, Miss Callie &, Johnron, and Migs Al Whippla, Mrs, Nellio M, Herdicke was elected Principal of tho public rehool on Harrison streot, near Weatern avenue. CONTORAL PUNISHMENT, TInapector Oleson, of the Committes to whom was reforred Mr. Richberg's resolution on varporal punishment in the schools, raported ns follows : Your Commlttee, to whom was roferred the resolu- tim of Mr, Tteillery, coutemplating the probibition of corporal punlshinent in the Achools of the city, beg Liave to report : {liot, with the exception of n fow deoluted - enses, corporal puniehment hus been prac- tealiy ubolished s thnt the Superintendent ha faithful- 1y Izbored t5 thut eud, that there Bhonld be none in onr #chools, aud his fustructios to the teachiers lisve been wifornily to thie etfect ; yet when it hos een found 1e sesuury 1o call @ cortif tencher fo an account for dutlicting corpornt l\;mlehmeuh Lo chietded himself, by sayfug that the Dourd had 10 role upon the subs Jiet, ” Your Comuittee belleva that Int this, s in other s thers, thero should be uo misunderstauding, and 7. tommend that tbe followlng be ndded toand be a Rast of tho rules of the Bourd : * Teachors shall i1t no caso inflict corporal punishe meat in the public schools of the City of Chicazo,” InoweLL OLESON, Jony C. Icnorna, JoEril 8, REYNOLDR, THE DEBATE. Considerable dobate followed the introduction of this report. ; Inepector Stone took the gronnd that, although fie bimself was one of the forcmost oppononts of vorporal )'muinhmuut intho schools, the pas- #ago of a rule to that offect wouldZgreatly iuter- fore with tho diwcipline of the schoold. Tho suterintendont Lad donoe his best to prevent the iutliction of corporal punishment, and the offact of this hnd bocn excellent. Iuspector Wolls purtially agreed with Mz, Stone. There were, lie swd, s great many boys who' conld wot he deutt with in ouy other way. Was more suspension a nulliciont punirliment for spitting in a toachor's fuaco? For his part, ho would like to take such v pupil by the collar rather suddenly and help bim out,. Exporimants had boen made in the past, and had slways tended to show that cor- poril punisiunent, while deplorable, was in- ablo, and ho, for his g tho rulo abolished, r. Ricbiberg opposed the preservation of the 1mlo on the books, and ita practical abolition by the Superintondont, sinco [t was ineuleating dis- houasty in the pumls, Siuce corporal punish- meunt had beon abolished in the American Navy the discipline of that branchof tho service hnd been greatly improved ; and, furthormore, cor) oral puuislinent was alweys udministerad in the acat of prssion, _ Tuspector Goggiu said that ho was no believer in the maxim that * Love conquers all things,” Ils believe that fear conquered a great muny things, His own porsounl obsorvation mmonyg tha achools led bim 10 bellove that, among the worst boys, who liad_supposed that the resolu- tion was possed abolishing corporal {nunluhn\om it had produced a very bateful effect. hoy bad grown riotous and insolont alroady, and defied tho tenchors. IIe wanted to kuow what effect suoral suasion would liwve upon tho littlo ruftians £rom 6 to 15 yours of uge,who were perpotually in the police conrt £ud similar publio institutions. Anto the particular cavo which had caused all tho troublo, the greatest outery had been raised in the Board, Tho whipped pupil was satisfied, Lis parents wera mora than satlsfied ; the pub- Tio wus satisflod ; ovorybody was satisfied, but " the Bonrd of Eduncation, For lue own part, he thoiighu it all nonsense, I:spector Hambleton sald an officiont teacher of cno of tho North Side schools, who had been there for yems, said that since tho excitemout ubont the Broomell easo one-third of her time was mow_ozoupled in keopiaz tho children quiet, - Tlo thought the numbor of suspensions that had beon necessitated uad greatly injured tho schools, In some of thera tho provoution of eorporal punishmoent had bee:1 most disnstrous ; the parents complained u? theie chnldron being sent homo, and desired tant they Lo punlshed. It would bo o nice thing to havoe tho nows heralded that corporsl punish- wment hud been abolishied, but ho could not but balizve that the evils that wonld follow would pready oxeoed tho good. 1o was uol wsurprised to find Mr.. Pickerd tako n different view of tho cago, Ilo wikhed to make the schools models. Everybody Lkuow that, by wieding ont the lower element, s higher le of children could bo obtuined, aud by this cheun o very fulr class of scholors might be al, But the Board lLad no such objuct in view; thelr's way wider, ‘he duty of the Board i to educato all tho children, not merely tho part, \\;aum object to citer children; tholr object was to troatall sli'to, not to throw tho naturally dopraved iuto tho streots by wusponsions, to lot them grow up thioves, murdorers, burglars, and the open ene- mles of socioty, Mr., Richberg—But they can como back again, Afy, Howmbloton—But they don't go back; in 5);4 past fow months dozens and dozens of chil- ro— My, Btone~—Yes, bundreds of dozens, you may [ ir. Dambloton—Aye, hundreds of dozons are belug ubsolutely thrown out of schaol to grow ap in this way, 31, Stone.—There can bo no doubt about it, Four or five hundred chi'dren have been thrown ut of the uchools on the strocts. Thoy must b0 educatcd—who ia to dodt? ‘There must bea teform uchool for these children. ‘What wore they to do? It scumed to him that ovorfl(hhlg nnd’ beou obtained by the practical abollshment of corporal punishment, Why should this Bosard oatontatiously puss & rule, when for all thoy kuew thoy wmight be called upon to relnstate ierulo aftor & fow mouths’ trial 7 Inupeotor Reynolds sald that, as he had under- itood it, tho whole system was all wrong. It wust bo & wroug wyatem which threw 500 enlle dron on tho stroot In n fow montha, Tt wy wrong state ol things whon a tancher must nec- osaarily bo incompotent who lnflicted corporal punishment, TLet tho runle bo vgnml. and the reaponsibility rost with the Board. Tnspootor ltunyan sald it ho had s way, not a uinglo ohild shonld ba wspondad or oxpolted. Keop thom so lang an thelr parenty wouid sond thom, and whon overylhing had fafloed, ho holioved in corpotui punishmment, Lol tho teacher havo tho power to punisls (he ohildren, When n toncher nbused this, banish the toncher. o wonld sy that whon ‘n large numbor of wusponsions oc- currod in o school, it was sufllclont ovidonco that tho toucher was unflt for tho place. 'Llio mintier with Mr, Broomall wau that hie was unili for the placo. Lenco the Committeo lot him go. Moro ‘wns tho point 1 A fow Ymm ago o little v was smugglod—ayo, smugglod; ho knaw whnt ho WaR unqu—by & membor of the old Board, amugglod in and n cortifioato furnished I, ‘Whon sho got iuto trouble, tho Committes wero compulled to let Jor go. What were tho achools for? Wns it to let tho children ousponded for misconduct wander about tho utreots, stenling corn and conl, getting into all kinds of mischief, ruining thomselvos and each other? * And now it was proposed to build & llnfl for theso childrdn, aud keop them there tifl thoy enmo to time. Thero was nothing 80 alekening as our Jaily,—mandiin brites at the head, mawdlin britos at the heols,—littlo chil- dren sunlk in erime from being nllowed to wandor nt lnrgo in tho strosts. 1t was nonsense. Tho prous was howling for the abolilion of corporal punishmont, I the pross wes right, follow it ; £ 1t was wrong, It wasnonsovse o follow it, A voto wad takon on tho passage of tho rule, renulting yras—Blutinrdt, Oloson, Reynolds, Rciborg, aud 4—S5, Niya—Oalkins, Goggln, Hambleton, Olinger, Rune sui, Hlone, and Welliet. 1IN ‘Aud thio rulo was not adoptod, MU, The Commitioe on Musie u“mrtud. recom- ‘mouding the nppointment of au additional music teacher, making throe. Tho report was concurred in; and the Board adjourned. e e PERSONAL. A THE e17Y, Redpath's. Lyceum Burenu, of . Boslon, is'ar- rangiug o Western tour for the celebrated En- glish novolist, Wilkie Collins, and it is utonded that ho shall. appeay in this city enrly in Janu~ ory. He will tecite an original story entitled **The Dream Woman," UOTRL ABRIVALS. @rand Pacyfle—G. M. Gray, Montreal ; George Everett, Boston; William Carey, Salt Lake City; A. V. H. Carpentor, M. & St. P, Il. R.; T. O. Rowlnd, Cincinnati; Goorge 1. Ripley, New York; W. K. Jennings, Pittsburgh. . . . . Palmer House—William Mec- Croory, Prosidont A., Y, & P. . R, ; IL N. Titus, New York; Nelson Young, 8t. Louis; A. H. TRobb, Phl]ndu!'phh; L, D. Moody, Indlanapolis; Charles E. W. Romain, Guelph, Can, ... Sherman House—The on. E, 8. Bailey, Clin- ton, Tu.; Jdames A, Whittioy, Last Snginaw; O, Potorsen, Milwaukeo; - W. I, Jones, Salt Loke City; W. £, Watson, Vinton, Ia,; Henry8mythe, Philadelphin, CHICAGOANS ADROAD, The following isa list of the Chicagonns in Europe on tho 18th of December, aceording to the American Regis Paris—Mra. Goorgo W, Baine, James C. with, George Coruisli, John A, Cutler and family, Miss Annio E. Hobart, 8, I, Kerfoot and family, 5. W., Mra, and the Misses Iimball, Josoph Medill and family, Charles B. and Mrs, Pope, MMiss Nollie Pullman, Miss Stelln Reed, Martin and Mrs. Ryorson, Mrs. H, G, 8pufford, Donglus #. and 3lrs, Taylor, Misa Irono F, Waldron, Jobn C. White. Nii¢é—Richurd and Mrs, Gregg, Mrs. Philip and the Missos Wadsworth, Mrs. L. A. Laostmnu, Miss Carrio J. Fish, W, 8. and Mrs, Hall, W, aud Mrs. Hickling, Miss E. C. Kellogg, Charles B, and Mra, Munn and family, London —B. A, Cox, E, H. Gammon and family, Willinn Gammon, J. E, Jenkins, T, Miller, Miss Pnll- man, A. B. Pullman, B. Pullman, Mrs. J. 8. and Miea Olivo Sprogle, H. L. Sprogle. Pau—$ B,, Mrs., and Miss Howoes. IN GENERAL. Charles Lenox Remoud, once a well known anti-slavery agitator, is dead. An English Jenking tolle ue that Queen Vie- torin Loy o cask of freah sea water sant to her daily for her motning bath during Ler residence in London, William A, Wullace has resigned his Vice- Presidency of the Toxas Pacifie Railrond. and returned to his first aud carliost love, the man- sgement of Pennsylvania Demooratic potitics. TLast weck Bishop Niles, of the Episoopal Dio- ceso of Now Hampshire, was made an Americon citizen. Though residing in this country for {un(\l:y yoars, ho haa never before haoon naiural- zed. The Madisou (Wis,) Democrat is inclined to doubt the statement recently published in the Journai, that Prof. Buscom, of Williams Colloge, had accopted the Presidency of the Wisconsin State University. Wo have the very host of suthority for ropoating the statomont, and for maying furthor that Prof. Dascom will probably essume the dutios of his new position ut the ba- ginning of the nest collega-year. T'rof, Bascom 18 & strong man every way, and, while Williams can {ll afford to losas him, Madison hes good cauge to cougratulate hersslf in securing him,— Boston Journal, —_—— AMUSEMENTS, “'DAVID GanRICR." The publie have #0 long sssociated Mr, Sothern with his renownod caricature of Lord Dun- dreary, that they scarcely roflect that his per- formance of othor parts is as plessurable. David Garrick, however, which he will play noxt waoek 4 & picco of comedy neting almost without an cqual ou the stage, Tho play is not as fomiliar to the public as some of Robortson’s comedies, but in the hands of such an actor as Ir. Botbern, the public may look for something thoy never drenmed of in elegant comedy. Tho Now Yorls Zribune devotos considerable spaco to an_nnolyeis of the play, and eposks of Mr. Hothorn's acting as follow; Ar, Botheru's personation of Garrick I 8o completo s assumption and mudutennce of fdentily—so nym- metrieal I form, and so perfectly fufshod and | inbed u details—tunt only o dlspusicnato observer will percelve lte arl, 1t f4 aceuruiely draseed ; It 1s cleqint I maners it outvely nutural fu cairiage, aud u transitious of moud uud emotion ; it bleuds very Liappily thie tone of the mun of the world and the fone of the keholur ; and it 8 parmested with u native refluement of tante’ and feeling, such as appcrisins to & gentloman by nature, und oug whose mind hag beeu exalted und whose hieart Lus boen reiflously chastened by long communfon witli ideal beauty, and with {he sucred aplelt of pocticul nrt, Tt ort obvious merit 1a its fdelity to wituro n depicting (Do plcture of druukenuose, ~ Even through this phoso of offcunive and disgraceful physfeal cxjierlence, bowever, u wubtlo quulity of fueness wteals out fo viuw, Almost ull the phenomenn of intoxlention uro proscut—tho loquacity, tho restless rapidity of movement, the fluceidity’ of mmscuilar life, tho lmbecilo merrhiant, tho odd nimbloncss of ludicrous fanoy, thy oxeesa of causcless mirth, the disposition to chuff, {he incon- sequent arrangoment of idean und actions, aud the grudually growing fll-temper which s uo frequently tho crowniug concomitunt of inoliioty, Yet, uudor uud through oll, theo iy o delfcate quuliiy of clur- aeter which §s nover lost und whicl ever varles, Tho intoxfcation fa tlat of a geutlentan, Withoot tils nd- mixable quatity of finences,—thin inhorent refiuement of pursonality und puetry of soul,—tho character wonld slnk {0 tho commonplace, the {ull would bo bombastic, aud the experienco wonld b3 witly, With thin o Ut bauls, r, Sothern's Duvid Garglek s pleturesque, noble, wnd lovable, Me mu§ not ut all’ Uko the David Garrick of istory: ho certainly does not look Hko him, nad, 6 we huvo tntimisted, tho play culls for uo effect to produce bis sctunl semblance’ but he fa tho lteral tuliliment of s high deal of gontloman nud ortist, who, u vircimntances of great delleacy, exacting 1o tho sterneut moral muture” nud tho keeneat fonso of rectitude, shows Limself capable cf that sclf-renun- ciation anid steadfast adhorenco o duty which consti- tuto tho Lighest korolem, In pathios Ay, Sothern s uot gw stroug us e 8 i hwinor, Not that bo feels less, Lecause lio hus glvon less caro to the cultivution of tho faculties thut give espression to feeling, Vet thero ls u touchiug fervor coupled with u muiily - plicity in Liv uttorunce of Garrick's avoveul sud wdvico 10 Ada Ingnt, in the closing Acone, thiat show him fully equal to tue occasion, In just sento of ita elcments of morat dignity und blighted uffectiou, if not in the capaclty 1o give it tho wost sympathetio {nterpre- tatlon, UQOLELY'S THEATRE, *The Geneva Cross" iy stlll running at oo~ loy's, and still contivuca to draw well. 'Phero (s not s hiteh in the performunce, und, to use o storootyped but deseriptive phraso, it runs like clock-worle, Tho intriusle merit of tha plece alone would commend it to the publie, but, with the additional advantnges of good ucting aud unoqualed mountivg, ho must ho o tusttdious nudiior who can leave tho thoatrs without hay~ ing passed a pleasaut, na woll as an improving, oveuing. Tity MINSTRELS are doing & capital business, Thelr rocoipts for the pant weals, and tho two nights of the present one, hinve boou unusially large. 'l‘hornutommu, which §a glven In white, with Billy Rlve as Pan- {aloon, and the other members of the company equelly offcctivo parts, 18 rccolved nightly with whotits of laughtor, There will be & Now Yoar's matinee to-iaorrow THE UNEMPLOYED. Scenes at Hendquarters Yes- terday. Distribution of Tickets Furnished by the Relief Societys Tho Committee Doclines to Allow Ro- portors at Their Mecting. Tho scenes which a reporter witnessed during yostorday forenoon at 139 Weat Polk streot, the headquarters of tho workingmen, gave evidenco that tho late conforence between tho city au- thoritios, tho Worlingmon's Committeo, and tho oftlcors of tho Roliol Socioty is, a8 yet, do- void of auy heneficial reslta, The fivat oxpori- nient of the Relief Soclety, in inviting all the, neody mombers of the working clasy to apply in pargon At their oflico on LoBalle streat, has demonstrated thoe unwis- dom of person in authority making hasty prom- ises In times of excitemont, with the view of allnylng angry passious for the time boing, with- out first inquiring iuto the practicability of such promines and tho rosults growing out of them. Tho Relief Socioty, os the workingmen undor- stood it during the lato conferonce, substantial- ly lssied an fnvitation to all tho needy mombers of the Workingmen's Association to call at tho Boclely's oflico for . rolief, where their wauts would bo attended to. One single day's trinl, however, proved the impracticability of that invitation, for the needy camo in smch crowds that the potico hiad to bo enlled upon In ordor to cloar the prowmises,—an unfortunato circumstanco, ealeulated to Incronze tho bitter feolings on the part of tho working- mon against the Reliof Society, THE ISSUE OF TIORETH. Iu order to rectify this orror,—onoof the hond and not of tho honrt,—the Socloty invoked the aid of somo of thoe leading spirits of the working- men, to whom tickets were given, on the back of which they ‘wera to note down the namo, occupation, residence, and wants of each married applicant, Those tickots aro to bo roturned to thio Superintond- ont of tho Roliel Socioty, who in turn sends, ny s00n 88 ponsiblo, n vistior to the plices desig- nated, in ordar to look into tho special merits of the case. , Y RUSH FOR TIHEM. ‘Chio now of this now progrummo uprond likg wild-fire, and, long before the ticket ngents of tho Rolief Soclety had made their appouranco, tho hendquarters at139 West Polk streot wero crowdod to suffocation with expectant recolvors. The crowd, cousisting mostly of Bohemians and Low Duteh, with a fuir aprinkling of Germang, Swoden, and Irish, be- boved very orderly, and npmnmf to wear a more Joyons countonanco thau for many dusu pust. 1o tiekotn which Lhoy expected to receive woro iooked upon us the panacon for all thoir pnst troubles and prosent miliugs. Thoso intrustod with tho writing down of the names on the tickots hnd, howovor, the greatest difficulty in inducing the crowd to ghvo tham omongh of elbow room to begin their laliors. 'The owner of tho bullding, fearing that the My-supported floor of the headquarters would give way under the welght of auch n vast cm\\'d.cximsluh\md in vain. His throats that ho wonld heve tho building cloured by main force remained unhceded, for ihe very simple roason that tho mujority of tho crowd did not nuderatand what ho was snyiui: to them in English, Aftor conmdornble parloging, pushing, aud swearing, the ticket agouls sue- coedod i obtaining room enough for their table, nud they commenced at onco taking down the names of the applicants, GENERAT, ODSERYATIONS, I'ha rosult of tho day's vork was that over 500 applicants for nid had ther names roported and. piven in to the Telief Socioty. In some inslances, where tho urgen- oy of tho @ease demanded immediate rolief, the visitors of the Roliof Soclety calted ab once aud afforded ft. There is no doubt that thero is much sufl'udnfi among the workin, clagges, but not balf of thove lounging nbont tho workingmeon's headquarters have tho appes- ance of half-etarved individuals, or even of por- sons in distross, Ono stont liishman with o pipe in his mouth, when esked by one of tho tickot ngonls to muko room for thie table where Lo could writo his name down, answored with an oath, tolling him that he was ns bad as that Hoffman who wanted to ride to_tho Legislaturg on tho backs of the workingmen, *'and we' will clean this mceting out." Anothor caso of great distress was that of a German whose sppoarance did not betray immodiato starvation, or even indigenes, who uppliod for o ticket. Tho reporter, noticing his zontael sppearnnce, asked him whethoer ho way n want, **Ob, no,”seys ho, ‘“‘butI must make a show of Guiugin want, as thicso follows,” ointing to the crowd, ** will ot follow my lead Pf they notice that I am bettor off. than them- solves,” Saying this, ho turned to the crowd advising them to bave their nomes inscribed, a4 it wonld amount to nothing unylow, and that the only remedy would ba 'to wet fie to the whole pack (sippschaft). Neatly ol apewers to the qua tion of * How loug aro youmout of work ? were of such n unture as to convov tha ides that work iu Chicego must have been vory scures for the lnst yonr, aud the priuted guestion on the ticket of “What do you nced iaost?" was, strango to sy, invariably answored with “ money.” A COMMITTER MEETING wag to liavo tnken place in tho oveningat 139 Dolk strost, hut wheu the reportor visited that blace only « fow stragglers from tho immediate neighborhood were found outsido dikeussing tho relativo merits of Hoffman, tho Chicago Z'imes, and {IMcAuliff, the champion workman of Chicago. T'ho Committee, for some ranson or othor, Lud chunged their baso.of operation by going to No, 68 fi'mfl. Lake street, thore to con- sult upon their fulnro stratogicnl movements, A littlo aftor 8 o'clock the merabers of the Com- mitteo, with MeAuliff, Kiings, olo., as leaders, went into a gort of atar-chamiber meeting, polilo« Iy excluding the reproseuintives of the pross, giviug them to undexstand that after the shamo- ful trontment of Kliugs on the part of tho Slaats-Zeitung, thoy conld not consent to having newspaper men present at their meotings, ‘Lhey would not even allow thom to remain with- iu the Luilding, and said that, i’ they could not get them to leava by fair meaus, they would nave toresort to thoir fiste, XR KTRIKEA ‘THE KEY-NOTE. BuntiNaTox, Win,, Dec, 29, 1875, Tu the Editor of The Uhicayo Lribune : fin: Thin uprising of the workiugmen of Chicago causes ono to look out for waysand means whereby to cure (Lo ovil stato of affairs, When vuo roflcets that all kinds of work is bettor paid here thau in Enrope, that provisions nara chespor horo than there, nnd that even sueh clothing oy is neoded by the working-olass con 1o hiad hore s ronsonably ag in the old country, the question presents itself to tho reflocting mind, How can the workingman of the Old ‘World maintain himeolt? From o Jato statement of Louis Schade, of Washington, it rppears that the Government rovenue on malt liquors smonuts to $53,209,971, and 89,324,037 on formenied liquors, ‘It also placen tho total production of beor in the United Stutos ot 8,000,908 barrola. It is patont to overy one who 1 more or less familinr with beer- drinking that the prico of o glss of beor iy 5 cents, Now, if wo tako theso willious of bur- rels and subdivida thom into half-pints, multi- plied by five, thoy will produce tho sum of 320, fidl),(]m]. This immense sum 1a an additional tux upon tho German-Awerican rnnlnu of our peoplo. We should not begrudge ho working mun bis beor, We must, howover, duriug these extruordinury thmes doviee somo neaus to rewedy this ovil, Now, if the prico of hoor should be redaced trom 5 conts to 434 conts por glaan it would oveu then yield o fair profit to tho brewers und tho suloon-kisopers. It1s, thore- fore, the duty of the Gorman workingmon to press the reduction of boor upon its producoys, and opposo the furonds of thess monopolists liko thous of the railronds, and thus save to tho Ger- man population of this country an over-taxation of #114,500,000, J. Juoken, 11UW DUILDING 18 COXDUCTED, To the Kditor of T'ho Chicayo Tribune : fi: Tho lubor question fu, I know full well, o knotty ono; yot I propose, as o mochunio, to uatie oo ortwo of tha knots, There are thrae parties that I ahall spesk of, v{z.l [:Lm capitaliot, tho contractor, and the em- oyod, b Tho capltalist secks to * put his money whore 1t will do the mont goud ;' congequently It drifts into real eutnto and improvemonts, Iuving wo- elded Lo build, Liw firat step i to got an architee. twul ostimato, Thon bo gots s many blds us ho can halow that cstimute, and ofton gets ono wo mueh lowoer thau the architect gave that hie foely greatly encournged to eommence nt ouce, for ho snys to himaclf, "*I'have made a good bargain,” The successful bidder, now that ho has secured the contract, finds, upon a wore cavoful cale oulation, tuat to get through wsafely he musk fmy oloso, sud must. mausge iy Inbor close, too. Tho result Is, that a grado of matorinl hnrdly flt for n decant. barn La Lought, amdd made to do duty for first-class lumber; and the capitalist, aftor all his shrowdnoss, fs do- cidedly taken ‘I by being the first to given premitim for rascnfity, by lotting his work at a figurs which he know war_ below a remunerative price, ! Now comen tho mochanical part, tractory if o hires the mon by the day, tolls them t{mos aro hard, work iy acarce, and {hat ho ean't afford to pay good wagos, but will lgl‘m 3 Jow flgure (in' polnt of fact, uxceedingly low figuro), and “that they can go to work it~ they waut to, and_accept thoir pay evary two woeks, Beoing no nltornative, thay agroe to do so ; for a0 thoy not ontof work, and are not their necessitics urging thom to necent # Worle commencos, and the two weoks soon flit by, nud the contractor, with the blandest of emiles, says, **Loys, 1 lave n big job on hand, it ia trito; but, before I ean ot iy money on it, I must got it inelosed, and hion X'ean got a cortiticato, and_make u draw, and mako it all right; but, as I have a littlo mnnu{ 0f my own, Ieou give you 10 aplece," (and this where $24 was promised, forIwin trontlng of n caso whero but 52 per day In paid), "Lhe noxt two weolks is but o, ropitition of the first two weoks, with perhaps o varlation of %5 | 1038, or, what i8 not nncommon, the men do nok recoivo o cont. Aud o it goes, week in und woek out, until the building is inclosed. Then it in *Iurrah, boys! 1 have got n cortifleats, You slull have plonty of money now.” And away goes the contractor in a groat hurry, hut ho don't como back in & harry. l'el'hn[)m ho will pat in nn appearance next day, but he doesn't sy n word nhout moncy, Svme ono, maore hold thon tho rast, auks ahont his poy. The answor is, “Tho owner is out of town," ‘The contractor, in this Insiance, is not Lhe losor; but tho lnbaring man and the eapitalist are both losors, ‘Fho Inboring man loses by the increased prico ho hing to pay for his subsistence,—the diffor- enco boing great hobwean cash and credit, and still groater Lotweon seleotion and ** Hobson's cholco,"—just what his creditor Lns £o soll (poor or otherwise), or nothing. U0 loss of the capitaliat comes iu tho way or carelesn works, born of doforred payments fof sorvices rendored. Agoin; ecclesiantical bodlos are many timen witliont soula ; for the managers, who look nftor tho construction of tho largo, fine edifices dedi- cated to God, live on the fat of tho land; while those who do their labor, at tho expenso of The con- hoalth, strongth, and ounorgy, can acarcely get onough = to keop soul oud hody togethor. Yes, professing Christinns will build ehurehos, and sing, ** Gtlory to God in the highest, peaco and good will to men,” and never for o momont have ono thought that the man who are toihug day aftor day to rear them & beautiful odiflcs uro in actual want of the necessitios of life. Somoe mny think this an overdrawn pieturo; but, if it wore prudeut to do 0, I could nawe a church in the City of Chi- cago, now about fiulshied, that had not poid tho contracting carpenter, un to u week or ton days 150, & cent tor all ho had causcd to be donewpon it; and tho mon, aw n cousequence, ware nil workiug ou deforred payments, which, like hops doferred, mako tho heart sick, Nu\v,mf remedy is : Do not uttempt tobuitd ex- copt you know thal you ean audwill huy s you go, Aliio, huve n fair understanding with your cou- tractor that the mon employed to do his and your work shall got the full value ot their lnbor n wages evory Snturday night. If this were dono you might guarantes thut tho majority of tho meehanics—those who do not visit wsaloons daily—will not bo smang those who ask for ns- sistance, oxcopt dienster or misfortunes that are common to all ehould overtke thom. ' To smm up tho whole thing in s nutsbell Give o living prico to the contractor, and let the contractor give o living prico, and Pmmptly, to thoso ho employs, aud, my word for it, you won't find the need of contributing so largely to Re- liof and Aid Boeietics. Ravexswoob, 11, R L, g e PRESENTATION TO A, C. BOTKIN, The gentlemen conunected with the local aud editorinl departments of tho Z%mes chose last ovouing, the termination of RMr, A, C. Botkin's counection with that paper, to testify the re- gerd in which he was held by all his associntes. The nows editor’s room was about filled at 10 o'clock, soveral persons belng there prewent, ‘whon Mr. Botkin was lod in_and suddonly con- fronted. A stranger coming in in thin way would linvo folt oxcnsablo alarm ot the array of faces, but Mr, Botkin know them oll, and his demeiuor gave ovidence of his conrngo, Placod an ouo sud of the room, Mr, Dotkin listened to a very ploagant ancech -from’ Alr, Franc Wilkie, who deplored the oxcellence of Mr. Botkin's character in few gonoral words, and specifica the peculiav delinquoncies (us they are rogardod from a Times staudpoint) in his morels after which ho exprossod his sincere sorrow of losing no gonial o companion, sud, spenking for the remainder of tho Torco, resured Mr. Botkiu that his goodness whilo assoclated with them would never be forgotton, To thie the audience very hearlily responded, aud assured Mr, Botkin of their regret at losing him, nfr. Willie then rominded Mr. Hotkin that in Milwaukeo, his caste would be lost foraver if, afterfour years connoction with the aes, he roturned with no botter watch than the silver ono be brought from that city, Tho hoys genorally had recoguized this, nud had thought proper to save his roputa- tion by progenting him with n gold ono. Nr, Botkin ou recoiving a superh time-pleca with ‘o propor chain, was actunlly snrprised, There are roasons why bs should hiave been, e wns taken aback, and the reply he made was earnest and fooling. To the 1riondliness and abillty of those with whom he had for the past four years boen associated, he owed, ho #nid, all Lo know of journalism, and tho donors might feol assnred that he would never forget that through their uniform willingness to aid him, Lo was going buck to the paper he loft to jolu tho 7'mes forco ot & anlary three times ns largo as-that which he had left. Ile thauked his old associated, aud bado theia o formal farawell, Altor partaking of rofresbinonts, the Times forca wont to work, untisflod thut thelr nows- paper brathern can sympathize with them in re- gretting Mr. Dotkin's doparture from the Journalistic eircle of whick ho is so bright an oruament. e e ANNOUNCEMENTS. Mr. Moody's new church, on tho corner of Chicago avonuo pud TLaSalle straet, will be opened this evening for a watch-meotiug servico, A specinl praise-meotiug will be held at noon to-day, nt tho Noonday Eu‘lycr-meoflng room, in tho Methodist Chureh Block, corner of Clarkand Washington utreots. ‘Thore will bo u service aud a short addross, ap- propriate to the close of tho your, at Trinity THE PRISON BATH. Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury. Everyhody Whitewashed aud Nobody to Blame, ‘The Decision in the Interest of the Penitentiary, An Absurd and Disgraceful Document. Spesial Dispatch ta Tha Chicago Tribune, oLt Doo. 20,~The Coroner's jury which hau for soveral daya boon invoestigating tho causo ot couvict Williams' donth met at the Courte Honsoat 10 o'clack this morning. 'Two of tho Ponitontiary Commissfoners and tho Warden Woro praxont, as 1o tho attornoya of the prison authoritien, tho Hon. Honry Snapp and Egbort Phelps, ‘Tho assombling of the jury waa for the purpose of making up a verdict based on the ovi- denco, It was rather singular, then, and almost without procedent, that the ATTORNEYS SHOULD BE PRESENT and allowed to mako lengthy argumonts in the intorest of their clients, tho prison authoritios, The poople, who instigated tho investigation, wero withont counsel, In fact, counsel upon eithor sido was out of placo, and ought to have been probibited,—that fo, it the objeot of tha in- vestigation was to got at tho true morits, with- o‘nt foax or favor, of the caso under considera- tlon, TIE ARGUMENTS, Mr. Phelps, employed by Dr. Mason, in his argnment was quite vehoment, Ho took occa- sion to say, among othor things, that Dr. Ba- con’s testimony bofore the jury was falso and projudicod, and that he doliberately sworo to a lio, Ho denounced the Chicago Times roporter, who was here somo timo since and wroto the affair up, as o “unprincipled and shirte less follow, and unworthy public ro- spect.” Ho was oxcoedivgly bitter toward the Times, considering Lo {8 its local repro- wontative in this city, Mr. Snapp, in the em- ploy of tho prison folks, also, was very suroastic toward that journal beeause of the position it has token in this mattor. Io called it a ¢ guorrilln in journallsm,” and, after reading from it somo strictures upon tho question undor consideration, exprossod the opinion that ‘¢ it ought to be supprossed ' for its indecency and wonioral disrogard of tratl, sud that the propor’ sphero of tho writor of a cortain editorial artiolo in thut paper was inside. the Penitontiory walls, He then suid ‘tho Times had takon the position it had becauso Duck- master, its candidato, was defented ns Warden. His lnummfin thiroughout was more forciblo than elogant, aud, whilo his udjectives and logic wero self-ovidont, thoir application to the question wero considerod nbont s near in place as ho himsolf was in trying to porsuade and mislead s Coronor's Jury, Tho argumonts oceupied the entire forenoon, whon the jury adjourncd, to 1moet ngain av 2 o'clock, 2 THL VERDICT, T'he jury met promptly ut 2 o'elock, After bo- ing in sossion about two hours, it rendered the following verdict through its foremau, 8. W. Sunn: ey tho undurigned irors, suumioncd und swar, Diove held o Coroner's Inquest on thy remnulns of the couviet Honry Witllame, n the City of Jollet, ou the 26th, 27th, 4t and 30UK of Decombor, do find ss fol- Towe, to-wit : ‘That the deceased's name was Henvy Willismne, Thot he wus about 26 years of age, Plistst the time of death on tho 19th of Decembier, 1833, u conviet i the IMlinols State Penitentiary, 'Chat he had been veecived ateuid Peniteutiary ou or ahout Nov, 21, 187, from Mudison County, Illlnols, uhd hud " been convicted of iho crimo of horso-stealing, nndsentonced for four years to eaid Penitentinry, —And we furthor find that ho eame to his death Dee, 12, 185, the remoto cotse of his death being heurt discasv, und tho immediate cnuso 4 ruptureof the heart, caused eithor by n violont phiyeical steuggle or the shock while receiving a cold baib, ov from the effects of both, fu said Penitentiary, under the order nnd by tho direction of Cuply 4. 1/ Hall, Doputy Warden, and then Arting Warden of safd Yenitoutlary, und also In the prescuce of D, C, Sleoper, Assistaut Loputy Warden, And we further flud tuat kaid order for sald Lath wus givon by Dr, D, H, Muson, prison physieinn, And we furthed find that #nid Muson received bis orders to bathe prisoncrs from the Commizsionexs of raid lustitution as u remedy in his discretion, and that the bath was to be cpplied only in folgned nickncss, felgued inssnity, or masturbation, And we further fiud that said Dr, Mason used ordi- Dury enre in his exsmination of said Willlame npon the complalut as stated by naid decensed. Aud in do fermining that sald Willlans wos iiot mick, but that_he fofgned sickness to avold work, aud that Dr, Masen hud uuthority from fnld Comfaisofoners In this case to order tho deceased bathed 3 and we fur- ther find, in couformity to sald order, ofllcers Hall aml Sleeper took ealil conviet {0 the batk-house and commenced adwimstering satd bath, sud {hot sald conviet then and there resfsted to 1ho extent of hiv abilty, but vras ovartatuo nnd thoroughly batiied, aud, on belng faken out of sald bath, sudacnly died, And we further fiud tout the last fwo times thot thods- cented was put into tho bath it was ns o punisiment for dofiaut und stubborn - conduct, refusing to dress himself when ordored, ho then having the plysieal ubility, it uot tho inclination, so to do,” Aund we further find'that oficers Hall and Sleoper admins- tered waid lost two baths with ordinury care ; snd the fact that deceaged had heart disease wis thon unkuown o thew, And hud he, the said Williwiox, been healthy, 4 thes supposed, 1o particular harm would Luvo resulted o hini, "Aud we forther find that, by the written vules of the Connnlésioners, tho' “bath puulshmeut” wno then aboliwhed, 'But wo find thst Tall oud Sleeper wors ucling upon or- dow from iolr suporioy, und wors not crim- inally guilty by punishiug tho deceased, observing or- dinary carg, even though technically in ¥lolation of tha rules Of said Penlientlary, And wo further fiud that the order to bathe, ns given o Dr, Hlason by the Com- missioners, and 48 by hi_communieated to 1Tall and Blooper, was uot explicitly aud definitely expressed, and we can readily gee how It was to somo axtont min understoad by said Hallaud Slecper, aud {n this case acted on by them 5 hut we tind no criminal ncgligence in such misnuderstunding, Aud wo furtlier ind thas thie oficers of the Penitenliury uro hummane, capable, and eficlent, aud that the present diseipline of the s stitution {a most excellont, I'ho jury Liad two vordicts befora it for consid- eration, one propared by Col. Rowett, nnd the ather by 5. W. Munn. Tl latter was adogted, s above, with but little objection, ‘Tins onds tho r}ummnn for the presont. Tho investigation will huve one good effact, if no ether—the aboti- tion of tho buth in the privna, Tho Ponitentiary authorities aud thoir {riends are no little olated over the verdict. —_—— Chapel, corner of T'wenty-sixth street and Michi- gan avenue, at 11 o'clock Lo-night. ‘Thero will bo Watch-night wervices this even- ing, cowmencing at 9:90, at tho Larrabee Stroot Mission, No. 216 Larraboo etroat. A nuwmber of good speckora will deliver short nddresses. Roligious sorvices nppropriato to Watch-night will be held at Urinity Methodist Episcopal Church, on Indisna avenus, near ‘'wenty-fourth streot, at 9 o’clock this evening, Tho Rev. 1T, M. Eddy, D. D., will deliver the discourse, Tho congrugation of the Park Avenue Motho- dist Churely, corner of* Robay atreet and Park avenuo, will hold n watch-meoting this evoning, commencing at 8 o'clock. Tho oxorcison will in- elndo u praiso sorvice, sormou, couforeice-most- ing, ond the traditionu! ** praying tho old yoar out and the new year in,” 'Fhio members of Cosmopolitan Lodge No, 6, Knights of Pythins, are requested to be prompt- ly ou Liand at thoir Onstle flall, corner of La- alle and Adams streats, this eveuniug, at 7:00 0 'clock, for the clection of ofiicers for the ensu- Ing torm, Special Dispateh to The Chivago T'ribune, BpniNorFIELY, 11, Dee, 00,—At & mcoting of $ho Directors of tho Springflold Savings Bauk, Lield this sfternoon, 8, H. Melvin, tho Prosident of the Buuls, tendored his rosiguation, In conse- ({uunco of a press of othor buamess to which he desired to devote bis uttention, Tho Diractors, in a weries of resolutions, commended him for the houost, upright, aud faithful dwscherge of lis daties us Prosident. The fon, Virgil Hick- ox, of this city, was elacted to fill the vacanuy, IIin woll-known fluancial standing and ebility will give chavacter to the ingtitution. 'T'he rosig- nation of John 8, Bradford, one of the Direstors, was roceived, and ex-Gov, John M. Palmer was elected to his veeancy, No othor changes wero wede iu tho managomont, At a meeting of tho hnwanoand public spirited citizons of thia city, beld this afteynoon at the oftico,of Col, Harlow, Scointary of Hinto, o com- ploto arganization for the purpoess of patrolling tho city to secl out the neady and suferiny was offeoted, A soup-liouse iy to ba establishe at oo couveniont place, und all cases of des- titution are to be Prumplf\' reliovod. ‘Iho Beorotary of State issuod licenge to the Rotailers’ Protootive & Colloctiug Bureau, of “A VAY OUT.” To the Editor of The Chicaav Tribune: 8in: Tho letter of Mr. Lewis H. Davis in to- day’s issuo of Tux Truxe bas my attention. Tho suggestions coutained In that letter, with modifications, are excollant. The principal change in his plau I would snggest would bo to soll thal part of the Lake-front south of Har- rigon stroot to the Railway Companics; north of Hurrison stroet, as far as Jackson street, re- servo for the Court-House and other public bulldings ; the remainder of the property north of Juckson street might Lo disposed of in lots, and sold to private individuals, in the same man- ner #s Mr, Davis nuggosts that the presont Uourt-Ilouse Bquare bo sold. T'he Lako-front is unquestionably the most available place the city can now command for Court-House purposes. One of the most serions objections to tho location of the old Court-louse wns tho noige and coufusion caused by the travel u[mu the stroets, This was #o groat as to serlously disturb the businoss of the Courts. As the question of golling a portion of the Luke-front to the Rallway Companios is now being discussed, I bog tosuggest if it is not time to coneider tho propriety of pormitting the wholo Lake-front to bo obstructed bv ruilway tracks, Wo aro not bulll\h:‘; a oity tor tho pres- ent, but for the future, and wo all expect that the timo will come whon lurfiu docks will line the Loko-front, aud I should think it dosirable to Lave free nccoss to thom from the central por- tion of the city, without hoving the rights of Railway Companios or their tracks to hinder froo passaga to auch docks, OBSERVER, Quioado, Dec, 80, 1874, i S — THE POLARIS SURVIVORS, New Your, Dee, 30.—A fow membors of tho Polurls erew mat tn-nlplht aud signed » momorial to Cougress auking additional compensation bo- cungo of the juubility of most of them to pain a livelihood in consequonce of the hardships en- dured in the employwmont of the Govornment, —— e THE CLINTON BRIDGE. Dusuque, Ia,, Doo, 80,—Petitious are in cire culation through Northoern Iov:a nsling Congross Chiergo ; capital, $10,000, LEGAL TENDERS, WaamyoroN, D, U, Deo, 80,—~Outstanding logai tendocs, 6876,245,702, to oxitend to the Clinton bridgo the law an- thoriziug tho couatruction of bridges ncross _the Miusisuippl River, aud throwlng them opon to all rallronds wishing to use thua a8 postal reutes by the pagmont, of tolls, 'Tho Clinton bridge’ was built before tho enactrmont of this law, and tho Northwostorn Railrond hinving lonsed Jt re- fuses atlier ronds nccoss to it. Congremn is ouked to compol thom Lo do it. Detition wero also in circnintion hes i} By sireula n horo against the roponl of the A REFORMED EPISCOPALIAN. 'Thoe Reve Thomas Mekaddon, of Uolo- rivdo, Will Join in the Movement 1Bo= gun by Bishop Camminn, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tritwne, Dexver, Col,, Dec, #80.—Quite n furors hns beon ocensioned hore among the Episcopalians (hrough the disaffaction of one of thelr most prominent clorgymen, aud tho supporad contem- plated doparture of soveral othera to the Ie- formed Movomont of Diwhop Cummins, On Sunday laat, Rev. Thomea McFaddon, the pastor of 8t. Johus' Cunureh, at Littlston, loeated abont twolvo milea from this city, nunounced to -his congrogation from the pulpit that ho fully in- dorsed the roform movement, and that hereafter Lo wonld conduot tho servicos of his church in aceordauce therowlth, Upon this bocoming known here, the Rev. A, 11, Moore, iu theabsence of thoe Bishop-olect, who has not yot renchod the Territory, tolegraphiod to tho Rav. Btophen T'yng, of New Youlr, Secre- targ of ko Homo Missfonary Sosioty, not to sond any further aid to Mel'adden, as ho had withdrawn from the lleld, “Mooro will oudenvor to close tho doors of the Littleton Ohnrchugainst McF'addon, and an fmportaut meoting in boing hold thero thin evening, As both Rtoformors and the regulun Iy elaim to the churel prop- erty, vowa intorcstiug douousmonts aro ex- pected, und {6 18 thought that o shuyp and pro- tracted contest will take placo between the two factions of the Church, OPEKA, KAN. I'he Rusiness Outlooks=Providing for the Poore.The Pounicroy=Yorik Bribu ery Trial, * Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, TorerA, Kan,, Dec. 80.—The lending mor- chants of tho city oxpress themsolves bLighly satisfled with tho business done by thom during theso hard times, and it 1s likely to romain good through the wintor. In fact, the hard times ara not folt very soriously in this vicinity. Thero seoms to bo nearly the same amonnt of monecy In cirenlation as bofors the panie, if one can judge from the volume of business dono. Yot ull avoll unnecessary expenso. A mooting of citizons was hold at the Mayor's oflico Jast ovening, for the purpose of multing arraugoments for an ontortainmont for tho ben- efit of tho poor of thin city. 1t was docided to ive a concert and ball 'on Thursday ovoning, an. 8. The members of the Womon's Christinn Association meet to-morrow afternoon with muny others for the purpoee of making atill fur- ther srrangements, ‘The trint of ox-Senator Pomieroy, known as Tomeroy and York bribory trial, is net for Mon- day, Jan. b, it baviug boen postponed to that time on nccount of many withossos boing absont at the time it shonld have been tried, when the Coutt firat opened. DUBUQUE. Movement to Sccur re Nlolding of the Next State Fair m that City, Special Dispatehto The Chicayn Tribune, Dunuque, Ia., Dee. 30.—Efforts ure mnking hiere to acenre the holding of the State Fair at thin place the noxt three years. An nsgociation has boen formed for tho purposo of raising tho necessary means, and seventy-two acres of ground, known as the Driving Yark, have been purchased for fair grounds, if the Stato Fair should be held here. A mesting of the citizens was hold ut the Court-Houso to- night for the purpose of dovising wuys and 0 Beeure tho objeed desirod. Speeches o by a Inrge number of citizens, and n wero commities was appomtod to raise funds for the purposo of crecting buildings for the necommo- dation of exhibitors in case it is decided to hiold tho faiv in lllhmgily. The grounds already purchnsed cost $1, A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY. A Husbanad Shoots imselt, Thinking that fle Mtas IKilled Iy Wik, Frows-the New York Sun, Dey, 27, Jumes Gallagher and bis wifa Elizaboth occu- pied ro0ms on'an npper floor of tho tonomont 0 Pearl sureet, Brooklyn, Gullughor worked in the whito laad works, and was &n accnsional drinker, His wife drank to cxcess, and pawned clothing for liquor. Ou Christmas morning Gal- Ingher begged of Lier not. to drink on that day, nnd added thet he had au appointment to go shooting with Iriends, but should rotur to sup- porand paes the ovening with her. o thon gevo her and the two children trifling Christmas prosonts, furnishad money for the Christmus | supper, and sallied forth with his riflo, 1In the evening lio returned and fouud the fire out, the children crying, and hiswife gone. With an oath he throw the rille to the floor, and startod for the Fifth Ward groggeries. Hin wife's dissolute habits and nuconcern for her littlo ones bad tronblod him often. He eecinn nover to have forgotten the wants of the boy and girl, Gand 8 yoars old, aud tho neighbors suy that he has often been seen erying over thom on his return to a chectless home, weop- ing childron, and o helpless woman uprawling on tha floor. Toward midnight Guallagher retwrned bowil- dered with drink, His vifo was_lying uncon~ scious on the threshold, Maddened by tho sight and the liquor, he seized her hond and shonldors, lifted lor up, and throw her over tho haluster of tho stairway, She struck the tloor 12 feot helow, and uttered ong piercing shiriek, “The hotiso was speedily in n commotion, and the ‘inmatos earried tho woman back to her door, “ Gallngher! Gallagher!" thoy shouted. “To h— with yon alll" wan tho angry ro- sponso, “Go away from my door and leaye mo alou ‘'hay told him Lo had killed his wifo, and ho, in voturn, ordered them uf, this timo adding o threat that he should shoot anybody who at- tempted to enter. ‘Whils the group were discussing pians of ac- tion, tha sharp roport of tho ritlo rang throngh the houwe. 'The police were summoned, and, whilo they poundad the door, Gallagher's voico was ogain_heard, threntoning to shoot whoover ontored. Tho door was thon buttered down. ‘The man was stratohed on the tloor; his little boy was erying aver him, and o clasped tho littla fih‘l to bis breast, Her dress was stained with her fathor's life-blood. He had shot him- #elf in the abdomen, and he died within fifteen minutes. The boy, a bright lttle fellow, told Capt. Bourno that, as his father entored, $10 loadad hig Lnfield rifto, kissed Dboth Lis children soveral times, and bado them bo good and never diink, Then he pulled off onoof his shoes, and his atocking ; ho placed tho stock against the stove, and with one hand held the umzzle to tho pit of his stomach ; with his too ho pulled tho trigger back, aud the oxplosion followed. v Your oficors took the corpao to the police sta- tion on a stretchar ; four moroe followed with tho inauimate form of tho intoxicatod wife, Yester- doy morning the Captain said to the Coroner: “The woman is dend druuk; sho docen't know auything about it," oA . THE DETROIT PARK QUESTION. Special Dispatoh to The Clicago Lribune. GnaNp Ramips, Mich., Deo, 30,—The op- pouents of tho park job iu Delroit have hoped s u lost vosult, that Attornoy-General Dall would cull for an injunction rostrainiug the Mayor from {ssuing the purk bonds, but Ball’s law-partuer at this city Les information from Lim that Lo doos not {ntend to mtorfere. e m THE COAL SUPPLY. Speciul Dispateh to The Chicago Thibune, Prmivapcrenia, Deo, 80,—It is sunouncod that all the mines worked Ly the Philudelpbia uud Ttouding Coal and Iron Comnpeny have suspended for the balauco of the i;a“' and the presnmp- tion is that 8 lerge number of others will do the eame, u8 tho ordora on hand are genorally supplied, — CHICAGO EVENING BOARD. Evesiva Boanp, Omu.\un; 1L, Deo, 80—9 p. m,—Halos at tho Evoning Loard, 500 brls mess pork, seller February, $14.70; 100 tes red tlckot lard, cash, B3gc’; 2 cars groen hams, 10- Ib avorage, at BY{( e i KANSAS CITY LIVE-STOCK MARKET. Suectal Dispateh to Phe Chicuyo Tribune, Kanaas 01Ty, Mo, Dec, H0—CATTLE—ONerings vory light ; momtly wtock cattle s trausuctionn gt ; prices steudy on ull gradcs ; & shude botter on butehs €1 nud alippors’ stock, Bales of Toxan stock wteers 41 $18.00 per hoad, Hoas—Tecelnts 2,500 @AT5; packers Lolding or The otf, but sellors urgent for tock wold 18 muu{ of Lght 100 battaz, ulnm' . " THE REVENUE FRAUD. xamination of the Books of Jordan, Marsh & Co, A Clerk of the Firm Playing a Double Role. Special Dinpateh to The Chicago Tribune, Tosroy, Mase., Dee, 30,~'To-day the oxamina- ton of tho books and papors of Mossra. Jordan, Marsh & Co. was fairly hoguu, tho greater part of Mouday having boen absorbod in arrauging the documents for Inspection in dotail Iu the order of the specitications, The ropresentatives of the firm are allowed nccoss to the books in tho posscssion of the dotestives, no arrange- mont whoreby thoy may be cxamined nt tho #ulesroom having been sffoctod, Judgo Loweli has raled that the investigation shall bo con- fined to the spncifis charges made In the compluint und the cases mentloned in the aflidavit. This will provont the ofticors from muking out n cane of wnch mngni~ tudo ns they elnim theirability to do 1f they wora allowed to go over the whole range of the trans- uctions of the flrm. THE CHARGLS, #ot forth in the complnint of Special Agont Binghnm, rpacify the various atenmers in which the goods were™ imported, the dacew of tho sey- oral lmportations, tluo clags of gonds, and the nunibors and marks of tho cases. “Tho firsl coge ‘mentioned yolates to o quantity of dreus goods, importod March 15, 1809, nnd tho chargen aro bronght down to the 2d of Octobor Inst, whon one enuo of goods was importod in tho stenmor Olympus, in which it is nlleged that tho customn chargea were not added to the in- volce, Tho roport thnt . §. Jnckeon, tho clerk who biad exclueive charge of tho importations, is the informer, through a brothor in the service of the Government in New York, is donied by'ons of the dotectivey, who claims that much of his INFORMATION OAME FROM ABIOAD, though he ndmits aid from within tho establish mont, The membors of tho firm have dofinite opinions on the subjact, to which they do not dosiro to givo publicity. 'This clerk left tho firm's gervico this morning, and has boen scon ahout the Court-Hlouss since. For tho presont no stops will bo taken in the matter further than tocomplote the investigation now in progress. Should the facta warraut, suits will bo prossed by the Government, but ok provious to the torum which begins on the third Tuesdny in March. [0 the Associated Press.] New Yonx, Dee, §0.—A dispateh from Boston Bays: ‘A couplo of yoars ago throo of the lead- ing hnpm‘kin% liouses in New York discovered that Jordan, Marsh & Co. wore selling a certain class of goods at 18 por cont lower than_they could possibly bo purchased in Europo and im- ported into this country, This fact was reported to tho proper oflicors, and n closo fwatch was kept upon their oflumfiuuu ub this port. At sbout tho timo tho firm was suspectod it took into_its employ » young man named T. 8. Jackson, who " was immedintely installed a8 the = Custom-House clark of tho estnblishment, and the books of tha foreign importation depnrtmont were placed en- tirely under his control.” Jackson admits, ne- cording to the dispaleh, that, during tue two yoars in which he las beon employed by the firm, hobasut tho same timo drawn a hand- roma sulary as o socrot-sorvice officor of the “rennury Depurtmont, In soyon eases Jroksou asgerts that thore i indisputablo evideuce of the gullt of the firm, aud the fines imposod upon their conviction will not Lo less thau $1,600,000, and it is possiblo thut this amount wny bo in- cronsed in consequence of tho dovelopmonts from the iuvestigation that is now in progresa. i by LAWRENCE, KAN. The Pork-Puacking Senson «=Stock Yarm Linportation=-The Indinns on, tho Border Well Disposed, Speeial Dispateh to The Chicagn Tribune, LawngNce, Kau, Dee, 30.—The pork-pecking sonson is neerly over, and, 28 good hogs hocomo searcor, pricos have somewhat advanced, $4.60 @5.00 boing paid for fivst-class hogs, Mosers. Ridenaur & Baker have alraady panked this sea- £on 16,000 hogs, other firms somo 7,000, making the total number of hogs packed in Lawrenca about 22,000, 'The pork-packing business has been the means of distribut~ ing & luge amount of monoy throngh out the connty, and iu & grent messire relieved tho distress among the producing classes, brought about by the financiul dopressiou, Mr. Bon Fakers has added to his stock farm in this city five fiue thoronghbred stallions frowa Rhode Island. Those horses cost an npgregato of £25,000, and will add materially to the attrac- tivoness of this colebrated tud farm, The club room of the Anti-Monopoly Club wns filled last evening, to honr un address” from tho Hon, Warren Ciigso, of 5t, Louis, on tho subjeet of ‘ Roform in Govarnment,” Indian Agent Hong roports the Tndiaus quies on tho border. Hlo sy that_sines the suspon- sion of the military order, the Comauches aro bringing in a1l the horses thoy hava stolon from Toxus the past year. 'Ihe raport that the bridges that wore burned on last Saturday ou tho Kaneny Facific Rnilrond wern tired by the Indians haa proved to be withont foundation, —__KEARNEY'S BUCHU. FEARNEY'S EXTRACT BUCHU, Tho only known romedy for Bright’'s Disease, And a Positivo Remedy for STRICTURES, DIABETES, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DEBILITY, DROPSY, Non-Rolontion or Incontinence of Urlae, Lrritation, lo. turuaation ur Ulcoration of tho BLADDER AND KIDNEYS, Spormatorrhoa, Louccarrhan or Whites, Diseasos of the Prostate Gland, STONE IN THE BLADDER, Calcnlus Gravel or Rrickdust Doposit, and Mucus, or Milky Discharges, KEARNEY’S EXTRACT BUCHTUTU Posltively and permanontly curos all Disoasos or Atteo tions of th BLADDER, KIDNEYS, and DROPSICAL SWELLINGS, Iexistloyg fu Mon, Women, and Children, NO MATTER WHAT THE AGE. Price, #1 por Bottle, or Slx Bottlos for 86, sl Deot, No. 104 Duane-t, New York..2 Bold by Druggiata Evorywhero, = | & SON and VAN SCHAAOK, ST .} Wholesaly Aouts, Unlycgo, i MISCELLANEOUS, Illinois St. Andrew’s Society. INOTICH. ‘The Officera and Mambors of this Sacloty are cordiall; 135, BURNITANM NSO e j ot ofterlag tukew at $405° Invitod to vislt tho Dreaidont, at ‘i3, roxldooo, No. woatylitheut., on Now Your's Doy, to tako snull from the Buciuty's mull, und yuots atlicr rufraghinont k3 may be ¥ Grovo eare to uonty e, agreoabla, * Cattawe tlience cast to No, &3, U HERTEY, nt Miaol deav's Boclots. A7 AN IR, } invo houn aumployad Ly Mossrs, 'Waflt, (riwrold & Go., of Now York, holditg a sveondury posifton in' their Not tiou Department for tho pavl. fivo Soars, hat will by opos far an engageiont wit uny Notbon Dupartmout or Housy in Chicako from this dato, Roforauvus, uhavs: uumed temy | &ddraus MORTON D, BOGUR vara Toltt, Gite- wold & C . PROFESSIONAL o trontmout af disoniie af tun g0 ! i i DR, J, B, W tends sxclusivol) aud Ear, and La Ettabithud A DISSOLUTION NOTICE. DISSOLUTION. ‘We, tho undersigned, bavo this day dissolved partner: slip, 8, L, Fosso assumlog all Uabllities, and will collest all outstanding debta, M. L, FOsS8E, G 4, DAL