Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1874, Page 2

2 THE CIIICAGO DAILY T RIBUNE. TITURSDA FEBRUARY 19, 1874 w—_‘—h——‘—-fi———.—_———m—% DOES THE EARTH MOVE ? The Foucault Pendulum Ex- periment. It WWill Bo Porformed Deforo tho Clicago Acadomy of Scionces To-Day. A’ Direcct Demonstration of an Important Fact, How It Is Done. This afternoon, at - half-past 3 o'clook, the’ mombers of tho Chicago Acadomy of Scionces will assemble in the Exposition Bullding to wit- ness the swing of the pondulum suspondod from tho south domo, which proves that the carth turns on lier nxis. ‘Tho fact that the earth turns around on a lina within itsolf, daily, as any ball will do whon sent spiuning through the air, hus beon genorally bo- lioved by soientific mon durlng not much more than two conturlos, Yot tho truth lins beon ac- copted during one docnde for overy single yonr that las olapsod efnce the first diroct proof of this important fact was furnished to tho inlinbe Hants of our planet, as the result of a Lappy ac- cidout, Wo must know moro of the * Lost Arta* than evon Wondall Phillips, bofore wo can determine tho exact percontages of philosophy and guess- work on which Pythagoras and Aristarchus ‘based thoir beliof that “tho world moves.” It is ovidont, holvover, that there was not enough of tho former elomont to commond it to the ap- proval of tho aucients; or Clandius Ptolemy, who las beon comparod with' Iiermes him- sell for wisdom, counld aever have ro- jocted i, and advocated the system of the wuniversa which beara lis namo, though wo have reason to beliove he was not tho ono who first taught it. Even tho gonius of & Tychio Braho, whoso obsorvations furnished the faots of, position from which Koplor deduced his colobratad laws, conld not comprohond the fact. It required tho telescopic evidence, turnished about the begiuniug of the soveuteonth contury, to onablo us to boliove that such o thing is ovon possible. Only when it was found that the sun and many other bodies are much Jarger than our earth, was it realized that to reject tho theory of tho earth's rotation as absurd, involved tho much greater absurdity of supposing that many millions of stars, oach larger than our earth, fly sround us overy twen- ty-four hours, in circles the circumferencds of which scom almost intinite. " ‘This argument, tho reductio ad absurdam, s tho logicians call it, was, till a very rocent dato, supposed to bo the most cogont ouo that could ‘o ndduced to prove the fact of the carth's diurnal rotation. Even in the present century ‘wo find Prof. Woodhouso, whoso Lnowledgo of physical astronomy entitles him to n 1auk not far below Laplaco aud Nowton, wroto that: “We must, howover, be content at present to taxo for granted the truth of the hypothesis of tho carth's rotatiou. If it continues to explain sim- ply and satisfactorily other astronomical pheno- mena than thoso slrendy noted, tho probability of its being a true Liypothesis will go on iucroas- ing. Woshall never, indeed, arrive at o time when wo ehall bo able to pronounce it absolutely proved to bo true. The naturoof tho subjoct excludes such a possibility.” A direet and unmistakable proof was, how- over, soon furnished. About tho middle of the pregent century, 3L Foucnult, of Paris, in TFrance, noticed tho deviation of a wolght sus- pended by o string from o high coiling, which bed been nccidentally #ot In motion. In tho epring of 1851, tho cientific world was clectri- fied by tho first oxhibition of the Foucault pendulum experiment, the weight being sugpended from the domo of the Pau- theon in DPoris, nearly 200 foet high The eoxperiment was woon repented in. manv ot the cities of Europo before admiring crowds of envants and others,in sovoral placesin tho liastern Biates of Americs, and at two or threo points 'in what was thon the Wast, Since that time, nowever, the experiment hns been noglected, though not forgotten by those who witneesed it. But it is just a8 nocessary that tho rising genoration ehould have ocular proof that iho world moves, a8 it was twenty-throo years ago, that many who are now passing into the sere and yellow leaf should then e convineed of tho fact. Boveral of tho present mombers of the Chi- cago Acadomy of Sciences witnessoed the experi- ment moro than a score of years ngo, when our city hiad barely pagsed the period of her infancy ; beiug thon 'about to make her firat connection with the East by rail. Some of those goutlemen bave, several timos in tho past, thought over the possibility of conducting it on a proper scalo here ; but o suitablo building was wanting, The shot-tower of E.W. Blatchford & Co., Is high cnough, but lacked the room neceseary to permit the publie to view the plienomenon. At last, the noblo Expoeition Building affords the long-wished-for epportunity of demonstrating to tho go-ahiead people of Chicago that all tho rest of the world is moving, a8 woll as thoy, It is no wonder that the Acndemy of Sciences, on the first suggestion, shonld decide to furnish & popular proof that thoe carth turns on its axis, The Directors of the Exposition Buitding wora kind enough to pluco tho struc- ture at tho disposal of tho Academy for the purpose ; the architect of tho building, Mr. Boyington, gave s portion of his valuable timo to direct the required romovel of obstacles in the way of tho swinging line ; and the genor- osity of Mr. Blatehford, in placing men and ma- torial at tho disposnl of tho Academy, onables that body to invite its friends to a free inspee- tion of the movement, It is hoped that an op- portunity will be given to all who wish to sco for themsclves, though all cannot view it at ono and tho samo timo. TIE TENDULUM. The apparatus is oxcecdingly simplo. It con- sists of o bull of lead, about 121 povnds in welght, susponded by o fine wire from tho domo of the building.. 1t is not connected with auy driving power, the only machinery at top bo- ing a wooden pulley, around which is wouud a small cord, that reaches noatly to the floor. By menns of this pulley tho wire can bo twisted so us to make tho ball turn round on its axis of wire, for (ho purpose of showing that such movement does not materislly affect tho dircction of the path traversed by the pon- dulum. ‘Tho entiro absenco of pivots aud the tonuily of the wire permit the ball to move with cqual frecdom between any two opposite points of the horizon, Theo distance from the point of suspension to tho cantro of tho Lall is about 120.6 foot. As tho times of vibration of any two pendulums, at the same place, aro proportionsl to the square roots of thoir lengths, and we Lknow that tho longth of =a pendulum which vibratos ouco ench second, ot Chicago, is about 89.1 inclics, it s onsy to caleulato that this pendulum will vie brato once in nabout 6,008, or make 6943 vibra- ions per ngur, Ad the longost swing of the pendulum only carries it 4 degreos 48 minutes from the porpendicular, the timos of vibration in nuy arcs'less than this are nearly equal; that iy, tho longost aund tho shortest vibrations aro performed in very nemly equal times, ‘Fo the uuder side of tho ball is atiached = naodlo point, which, st each vibraiion, euty through & ridge of fine sand, on & platform near tho floor. ‘This sand lies on ncirclo of ubout 114 iuchies in dimmotor ; and the marks made by tho noedle aro records of tho chango which tukos pinee in the direction of the bell with ‘reference toa line drawn in the plane of the horfzon, * TIHE EXPEMIMENT, s In the following disgiumi, Z represents the olut of susponston; 0, the point on the floor, directly widor 7 ; and, N, E, 8, W, approximnto- ly tho cardinal is tho contro: . e ] A~ <. g E e Tho ball is drawn auide towards tho north, and hold in tbo position, N, bya throad, attached to n pog in tho board inclosure which provonts tho courso of tho ball from cing affocted by currents of air within the building, This thrond s burned naunder, aliowing tho ball to ewing, Yrco from nuy sido {mpuleo that might be communicated to it if ro- lonsed from thoband, Tho ballswings to 8, and tuen roturns nenarly to the startivg placo ; but cuts tho ring é; littlo tg tho dastward of tho point N, tho nest ewing it cuts tho riug a little to tho woest of H; and thenm roturns to @ poiut onstward of thnt touched ou its first return to the nurik sido of the ring, 'This doviation i progressive, and amounts to about ouo-thirtioth part of an incl at cach rotwrn, Its charactor is. roprosented in' tho dingram, *though tho deyin- tion i not so great as thore shown, ‘I'ho ball swings from N'toS; Stoa; a tob; bio dj dtoc; etor; ftoh;k tok; ktom;m top; ptor; »to u; uto vy v to z; atc., until tho pendulum coases to swing. ‘I'hore is, however, a tendency in tho ball to de- sgeribo n portion of an elliptic curvo, alteruating on tho two sidos of tho central point, C, insten of a straight lino in the plune of the horizon. 'Pho reasons for this fact are perhaps & little too abstrusely mathematical for the geueral reader. In one hour the devintion smounts to very nearly 10inches ou each sido of the ring, which is cqual to an nnFlo of 10 degroes 2 minutes at the contre, 0. Tho pondulum seoms to turn rouud aftor the sun, from enst, by south, to west ; that being tho direction iu which tho hauds of o wateh move, with roferonce to an obsorver. And this tendency of tho pendulumis o porsistout that it is not evon altored by tivist ing the wiro from above, which causes the ball Lo turn rouud on its axiy, in vithor direction, as iudicatod by the stripo of paint on ono sido of the ball. TILE CAUSE OF TIIIS MOVEMENT. ‘Wo can oxplain this phenomenon in no other way than by supposing that tho appuront falling buck of the bull on the circlo is ouly rolative. Tho ball touds to travol always in the same plane, and tho earth's surface movos undor it. 1'ho principles on swhich the experimont turns wero onuncinted by Bir tsuac Nowton: that a munss of mattor bas no inherent power to chunge its coudition, aud that sction sud reaction ure cqual. Mouco, whethor at rest or in motion, u mags must always contivue in the same stato, unless that stato bo clunged by some oxtorior force. A . necessary consequenco of the law is, that, if tho mans of matter be in motion it will continuully move in the same di- rection, unless tho direction bo changed by somo asterior force, Now, if this be really a law of mattor, then it is equally applicable to a grain of sand, u8 to o world or & universe. And accord- ingly wo find that it oporatos equatly upon tho bof}- of lond r8 upon tho whols mamss of our earth, though the one contaius u littlo moro thun 112,000,000,00,000,000,000,000 times ns much matter us the vthor, T'he mutual actraction botween tho ecarth and tho ball js sntisticd only when the distanco be- tween them is the leust possible. Whis occurs when tho suspending wire is porpendicular to the planc of the borizon. 1f thie ball bo drawn ou ono sido, to tho distauce of 1y feot from the porpendiculac, " it- i {on nbout 5 Iuchos furthor from tho carth than whon at rolative rest. Ilemco, when the -ball is set frea by tho burning of the thread it moves toward the perpondicular. Duriug that full iv bas aequired o volocity which would tarry it to oxnotly the same distauce on the other sidn of tho porpendicular;. if there were no resistance by the atmosphere, and no friction at tho point of suspensiou—because action and ro- uction are equul. Arrived at the samo altitude from which it sturted, it again describes o similar are; and the movemout is ropoated, again and sgain. If there were no ntmosplerio rosistanco, oud no friction, this movemont would bo repoat- ed forever, and we should bave a geuuine caso of perpetual motion, But wo caunot outiroly oliminato theso offects, though we may reduce them to u verysmall quantity, Iouce the movos mont of the ball iy continually rotarded ; and onchy uwin(.i is less than the preceding one, by a very small quantity. The consequenco is thint in o fow hours tho ball comes to a state of rost, with tho suspouding wire perpendicular to the plaue of the Liorizon, Tho last-nomed fact gives us tha roason why & high building, Jike the Bxposition structuro, is necesesry to the success of the oxporimont, The longor the penduluw, the groater js tho longth of time that it will swing before* coming to a stato of rost. Tho ratio of the rotarding forco to tho total moving forco in each swing is really groater in n short pendulum then in a long one. Heuco the longost pendulum will swing tho greatost numbor of times, bosides occupying tho groatest time in cach Bwing, or vlhmt{ou. In addition to all this, & long pendulum will make loug oxcursions on each side of tho perpendicu- Iar, cuabling us to noto with considorable accurn- cy anyapparont departuro from thoe plane of its imtial movemont, It iu truo that a short pendulum, porhaps of ouly o fow inches in length, will-continue to swing for hours and days in succession, whon tho rotardation i compousated b¥ tho driving- power of clock-work,” But this “componsating forco is necessarily applicd in the same plane ng reforred to the meridian, nnd, therefore, doos not ]ml'mit o doviation from thut plane, Our pendu- um must kave no extraneous sustaining force, ‘und must be oqually froe to move in any dirce- :}iox; from a perpendicular to the plane of tho orizon. £t mny bo objected that the earth cannot move without carrying the ball atong with it, Truo; the point of suspension, and the cirele on tho floor, are carried eastward, but the differont parts of the circle do nob move with equal velocities, Every point on the earth's surinco is carried around onco in 23h G6m 4.095, oy referred to tho stavs, Ionce, a point on the oquator iy carricd round ab tho rate of nearly 25,000 milos in 24 hours, and tho vyelocity di- minishes (with tho cowino of the Intitudo) to uothiug at tho pole. The following table shows tho enslward volocity in yards in ono solur sec- ond, of & point af the sen lovel, for difforent lutitudes : Lat, Lat, Yards=la, 03 33 412.6 108 449 22 452 we 502 27,0 432 559 2.4 102 63 2548 412 4 709 1746 420 78,5 o B8, The latitude of the Exposition Buildiug is about 41 deg, 63 min, Ilonce, & point one de- gree southward travols 6.0 yards por sccond more, and a point one degree northward travels 5.9 yards per socond less than tho pluco whoro tho pondutum'swings, A degroo or the mori- dian on tho sen lovel in this lnlitudo is 181,401,3 ardy 3 80 that the deviation por socond s 6,9 n 191,461,2, or 1 in 20604, which is squal to an angle of 10.0884 seconds por second, or 10 min, 8 oo, 8 per minuto, or 10 dog. 2 min. 18 soo. per hour. ‘This is oqual to neatly 10 inches por hour on the oirgumference of n circle of 67 inchey radig, In that timo tho ball will have roturiied 694,83 times to oach wido of the l'lll[i,'g giving a dovintion of one-thurtioth ineh for ‘each’ rotun, or & dovintton of ono ingh in 40 doublo vibrations, L It Iy evident (hat if the pondulum oxpori- mout were porformed in u corresponding southorn Intitude, the south part of the ring, haing newrost tho polo, would truvel moro uluwi‘y than the’contre, O and N, bolug nonrest to tho equatar, would bo oarried vound more rapidl than O, Honco the pondutum would fall bacl Drom south toward tho esst, aud fiom norih towerd the west; its movonont bolng in the ro- vorso diroolon to that in tho Northorn Homlu~ points on tho ring, of which O+ ‘phoro, 1f tho pondulum oxporitnont woro porformed at tho equator, Lhere would bo no deviation ; be- causo the polnts N, O, aud 8, In the ciralo, would all bo earrled onstward, with' tho samo volocity. At tho pole, the point O would be nt relative rost, and N and 8 porforin n rovolution sround it onee in 24 houra 123 hours 50mn, 48.), n8 ro- forrod to the stavs, Mbneo the anglo of dovia- tion would bo oqual to tho angle of rotation, or 10 dogroes per -hour. At the oquator, the sino of tho Iatitude is nothing ; ot fhe nolo Lhosine of the Iatitudo i 1 ot Chiongo thoslno of thoe Intitudo is 0,6074, or o vory litle moro than 3¢, aud the hourly do. vintlon of 10 dogrees, {5 to l.fmhom]y rotation of 16 degrees, na 2 to 8, Bimilarly at_any placo on tho earth's surfnoo, If the angla throijgh which the earth rotatos in n given time ho multiplied into tho sino of tho Iatitude, tho product will bo tho anglo of deviation in the samo intorval of timo, —_— THE UNIVERSITY FIGHT. Has tlic Standard Been Impar- tinl In 1t? W. W. Evarts, Jr., Says It Mos Not and Hos Dealt Unfairly By Jiis Fathor. Ontoaco, Feb, 18, 1874, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bimm: Itis with oxtrome regrot that I foolcom- polled to ask a furthor henring in your columns in s.controversy in which I hava beon led by cire cumstances rather than inclination to partici- pato, > . The partisnn course of tho Standard, however, has forced the nocessity upon mo, and raquired mo to choose botwoon silenco while my fathor wag bolng misquoted, minroprosented, and ag. porsed in the denominational pross, or to sool in tho columns of the public journals that juse tlco that has boon donied by tho organ of tho Baptist body. Why & course 8o unusual and o manifostly unjust ne tho ingertion of ono sido of & contro- vorsy and tho exclusion of tho othex, hns beon resorted to, is difficult to dotermine., The seou- lar press Lins acted with greater fairnoss than this, In somo instances both sides have beon granted a hearing, in othors both havo beon ruled out. I can only nccount for it upon the hypothesis that * Ho that doothx evil lateth the light, nolthor cometh to tho light lost his decds should Do roproved.” I noticod, indeed with regrot, in tho lotter of the Executive Gommitteo, to which tho signaturo of tuo editor of the Standard wos afiixed, that the nuthors of theso injurious chargos had no claim_‘'to bo honrd at the bar of public opinion,” but I folt at tho samo timo that n theory 80 much at varianco with tho priuciples of our Rtopublican institutions, aud the spirit of our Christinn faith, could not conpluluut? bo ro- duced to practice by an American editor in charge of a Baptist papor. An injurions charge ofton proves o truthful charge, and, in this caso, the cditor of tho Slandard ovidently feols that tho groater tho truth, tho groater tho libol. Of tho exclusion from its columns by tho Standard of the statement mado by Dr.” Everts' to his church, no complaint was in_tho flrst instanco made. It wns undarstood to o tho dasire of its conductors to avoid unnccossary referonce to n vory painful subjoct. The Exeoutive Committes, howover, saw fit to roply to that statement, and whilo the lattor had boen suppressed; _tho roply to it was publidhed. sAs Dr, Everts had committed himself to ellonco, and as tho reY‘Xy of tho Committoe was gonerally vogarded as baing ns much an sttnck upon him as adofense of Dr. Burroughs, I decmed ita duty incumbent on mo to respond, No cuo could question my righs to do so, for tho reputation of my father is au denr to mo as that of Dr. Bur- roughs can possibly be to the cditor of tho Standard, ¥ 3 A copy of my communication was offered to tho denominatioual organ, und its publication roquested, 'Tho justico of the demand was fraukly ndmitted, ineortion promisod, nnd tho typo was astually set up. ‘This determination to reuder tardy justico by presonting both sides whs short-lived, and, aftor o weok’s delay, the announcement renched mo that the commuui- cation was to be suppressod. Stung with tho injustico and bad faith of this procceding, I addressod to tho cditor of the Standard a roquest that I should bo heard at least in tho vindieation of Dr. Everts . from tho injury sought to bo inflicted upon him by tho Exccutive Committes of tho Board of Trustees, and to that request, also, a refusal hos been returned. Tho statemont has been mndoe that tho privilege of a hearing would be extenided to my father, over his own rignataro, This, bo it obyorved, was not. the origingl agrea- mont, and was not mado until it was known that Dr, Everts hiad withdrawn from the controversy, Howoever, this offer was diotatorial in tho limita- tions, and especially unfair, a8 it domanded while Dr, Burroughs was allowod to appear by proxy that my fathor should appear in porson, This action furnishes conclusive proof that n disposition oxisls on the part of tho Slandard to do my father wrong, and a dotormination also to porsist in that wrong. 1t wus possible to show friondship for Dr. Burroughs without avincing such animosity for Dr, Everta, I asked, in my last communication to the Standard : First—That it sbould at loast bo stated that answer bad been mado to the lettor of tho Com- mittee. 'Fhe simplo announcemont of thia fact would have led all to undoratand that the reasou why the latter remninod unanswored in the Standard was not becsuso it was rogarded as un- angwerable. Second—That tho circumstancos under which tho statoment of Dr. Lvorts waa drawn from him should aleo be cloarly set forth. It was not by way of attack upon Dr, Burroughs, put in his own dofense, thoLxecutive Committee, or a part of it, scokinug to injure him inconnection with his own people, addressed o lottor to the Deacons of This church charging him with lmvln;i slanderod Dr. Burroughs, Kolf-preservation is tho first instinet in human nature. It bocame a duty forced upon him to state his accusation and the avidenco on which it rosted, This announce- mont would haveled the uunre}udlcnd to inquire whothor Dr. Everts, instond of por: Burroughs, was not himself the victim of per- secntion, Third—That thefactshould boannounced that, whilo Dr, Eyerts bad mado tho chargo and still maintainoed it, © of thelooscst busmoss manage- ment, porilous to nuK groat finsucial ontorpriso," in conuection with tho affairs of tho Chicago University under the admiuistrstion of Dr, Bur- ronghs, that ho has also in the most emphatic Innguage aflirmed that * no chargo of dofalca- tion was ovor mado ;" that ho had not aspersed tho moral reputation or Obristinu charnctor of that gentleman, 'This would have lod the readors of the Standard to dotermino for them- solves whethor the Execuiive Committoo had properly construad tho laugungo of Dr, Evert when thoy asgert thnt **it has been usually undorstood s a charge of dofalcation,” or “whant is equivalont to it;” that “tho natural interprotation of the Innguago would Joad une to supposo that in other words o was a dofaultor,” "I'he Inuguage usod in the statement is so plain that the wayfuring mnu, though a fool, noed not orr therein, This flagrant misropresentation might bave induced somo to_ask whother Dr. Burroughs or Dr. Evorts had boon mosf sub- Jjocted 1o slandor, Fourth—'"That it shonld be plainly atated that tho chorges made by Dr. Iivorts in relation to the mismauagomont of the financinl affaivs of tho Ohlengo University, and Dr, Burroughe' ro- sponeibility thorofor,” did mot originate with him, and is corroborated by many witnosses, of men who Iabored uutiringly in’the intorest of tho Univorsity for yoars, who kuow yhereof thoy sponk—men whoso standing fn tho Christinn world is without ropronel, and’whose veraoity no ono ¢an question, This fuct, lnid Leforo tho ronders of Lhe Standard, ought to haye induced oven tho prejudiced to adunt that there wero possibly two sides to the question, instead of one, as thus far prosonted to tho BLaptist publio through tho dolumus of that journal, Fifth—That it should Lo aunounced that Dr. Everts unoquivocally disolnimed any feoling of mnlico to nuy ono in the promises; that what he had snid or done was not out of enmity for Dr, Dwroughs, but love for the Uniyersity; that the incapnblo divaction of it nffairs hnd, In his view of tho case, caused the institution to Jan- guigh in the past, and, if porpotuated, might prove its ruin in the future. T'his uunounce« mout, in connection with what he hag himself dono for it In the past, would hayoe inclined somo to tho boliof that ho soeks not the ruln, but the prospority, of the University—that he fu not ity uuumy. but one of its truest frionds, Sizh—That it should bo alated that the Exee. utive Commitieo, in oxensing thomsolves and frionds from all rosponsibility for the coutro- vorsy, wore betrayed into an announcomont in- conslstont with the facts, ‘Tholr Atatement iy 3 “ {4 alforda #omo roliof toknow that this prosont communication ks tho first publioc notico which cither the Board, or tho Committeo, or any ono speaking fu bolwlt of oither, or tho Inte Prosi- dout of the University, or suy oue us promuted porsceufing Dr., by l{{{n‘.' hina takon of tho allogations to thoir dls- credit,” It {a diffionlt to undorstand how such a stato- ment could bo ndvanced, D'rior to the appenr- anco of tho lottor from which thin absiract in takon, the question had boon frooly dlscussed bn tho public pross by thoso who clalined to bo the friouds of Dr, Burroughs, They wroto at lenat in lis intorest, and they wore suroly not tho frionds of Dr. Liverta, ’i:ho quostion had beon commented upon, In no uncortain tono, in tho, donominational preas of this and other cities, by thoso whoso friendshlp for Dr. Burroughs and conngotion with the Univorsity were woll undor- stood, while Dr, Burroughs himaelf nppoared in tho daily pross,:over bis own eiguature. ‘Those nro facts which no ono can controvert, and srhich tho.Standard should not have sought to conoeal. Thelr publication, however, might hinvo led to tho inquiry whothor Dr. Iivorts is tho only.ono who troubloth Isrnol, Lastly—L callod .upon the Standard to stato that nll that Dr, Evorta doslres is, that the ques- tions iu controyersy bo subjeoted to an impar- tia! snd ofloiont juvestigation ; that the promise od history bo propetl; arded; that non-par- tisans only bo unungody ?:lln compllntion that the Yuhfle suspend their judgmont on tho casn ‘until possossed of all tho facts, Whon this shall bo accomplished Lo asks that 5 decision unin- fluencod by friendship™ and unbinsed by proju- dico bo awarded in accordance with justice and tho truth, Trom such deefaion Lo fools that ho will not noad to shrink vor desiro to appeal. Theso, Mr. Editor, are the facts which I have called upon tho Standard to sprend boforo its readors in roply o tho partisan attacks which havo appoarad in ity columns, but without suc- cees, aud I, thereforo, ask, through tho medinm of your journal, most respectfully but earncatly to ontor my proloxc against tho whola course of tho Standard in tho Univorsity controvorsy. Tirst—1 protest that, as a guardian of denom- inational truats, ns a watchman upon the tower, it lias railed to inquire intoand expose tho wenk- ness of tho administration of the University, uuder which it has languished and alroady lost linlt tho margin of its original promiso, } (Second—I ~ protest that whilo unfavorable judgmonts of the qualifications of the officor Placod at tho head of the University haye boen shared from tho first by it foundors, by its bost studonts, by the strongost of tho faculty, by the mopt. oulightoned frionds of cducation I tho DBaptist donomination, nulery cduoatioual ex- perts gonerally, tho Standard has porsistontly covered these judgmonts from the public viey, nud croatod by its silenco or ovasive statemonts tho impresgion that Dr. Burrouglhs was goneral- Iy supported by compatont judges, and lils conn tl‘;u!mncoln offico objected {o only by n disaffoct- od fow, . Third—T protest sgainat the Invidious si- Ience and evasivo statoments continued for yoars on questions aifecting the very life of tho insti- tution, by means of which distrust and proju- dico inve been awakened agninst the most onr- nest and successful worker's for tho University, f aud ngainat tho recent course of the Standard in oponing ita columna to the most slandorous imputations upon personal charactor atd con- duct, whilo refusing to tho party agarioved a liearing savo on terms which no honorablo man ean accopt, Fourth—TI protest againet tho courso pursued by the editor of the Standard, aflor secking for yoars the romoval of the Inte Presidont of tho University by various private means, a3 por- eonal appeals, conferences with® othors, -aud pledgingthe accomplishment of such removal, if precedod by the withdrawal of Dr, BEverts from the Board, in now oxhibitiug o want of frankness by preséuting Dr.'Burroughs ss s compotont oflicer, but much-perscouted man. Fipth—I protest furthor and moro purticularly that the Standard, while knowing of the porver- sion of tho funds of tho Greek Chair from the purposes of its donors, did not raiso its voico against that dishonorablo breach of trust, nor has its editor, #o far a8 kuown, rebuked it in thoe Bourd, or proposed any measures for repaiving tho miury dono to tho credit of tho finauces of tho institution. Sizlh—I protest, while knowing or haying cor- tain means of knowing the history of tho land- seheme for the benofit of tho Univorgity, that tho Standurd las falled fo give honor whero honor was duo, and has pormittod false histories, doing tho groatost injustico to tho wuthors of that schemo, to appear without robuke or effort to soo justice done. . Seventh—I protest that, whilo the pastor of the Tirat Baptist Clurch has been arraignod asn slandarer in the nomo of the Board of tho Uni- versity, tho editor of the Standard, knowing tho To88 hlauut(cn of thocharge, not only did not re- uko this extraordinary and dangorous asgumnp- tion of the powers of n Board of forty by four or five partisaus, put did Limsolf sign that charge, such action being an unwarranted and arrogant ox- ereigo of power, caloulated to promotoe discord in tho Churchand in the denomination, and in-- tondod as a diversion from tho merits of the Uni- versity controversy, tho Standard failedin ity duly when is_failed in nx{)rnsaing its storn ond un- qualified disapproval of this procoeding. T write theso protests with profound grief but with sincoro couviction of their truth, and of tho injustico to individuals, to tho University, to the ‘donomination, and to the publi, inflicted by the undue partiusuship of the Standard in this un- fortunate strife. W. W. Events, Jr, g FARM-LIFE, Prarmsz Hoye, Fob, 11, 1674, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: Pleaso ullow a farmer's wifo to ask the man “that would rather work for a dollar n day in the city, and live off of that, than live in the country,” if hio was ever renllyin tho country? 1 should suppose, from tho way he goes on, that hio was noever whero he could get pure air and God's freo sunshine! IHe says: ' Why ig it that farmers, ns o closs, don't live as woll as other people ?” Let him prave that they do not livo oven botter than most other clagses, and we will give up. They can have the best tho world affords, and they do have il, and enjoy it. And it is not dribbled out in such particles that ono acarcely dare touch it, it looks so delicate, As for tho stinginess of farmers, ig thore any class of poople in the world as hospitable and free-henrt- od? And, ns for goiug away from & farmer's tablo hungry, and * mad enough to dovour auy- thing,” wo will allow the mad part, but the hun~ gry scoms doubtful. But, if the much-abused man, that despises farmors so much, solected o monn, stingy man to work for, whoso fault is 16?7 Must tho whole class be muligned forit? A man [8 known by the company bo keeps; and a good, faithful workman can always fiud worl in goody rospoctablo familios, where ho will be cronted as one of the family, if ho conduets him- solt ns ho sbould, 1f thero aro fow farmora in tho West that know what » good piecs of fresh Dbeof or mutton is, how much to bo pitied are thoko poor fellows who work for a dollur o duy, and nover got anything but tho stalo meats sold n the city-markets. Tho idea that farmors never havo vegotables, aud do not know the value of them, is too ab- surd to montion, After cighteon years' ex- poricuco on o farm, and with & lost of hired mon about us during the timo, we.have never beon able to flud tho badly-treated mon thnt wero required to worls from daylight until dark, and then do the choros. Iustead, thoy genorally tako the liborty to sit on the porch and smoke their pipo or chow their eud, while the farmor's family must do the milking and other chores ; and, in tho muruqu thoy mmst be ealled oneo or twico, or they would not appear until broakfast ‘was rondy, For my part, I am convinced that hired help, 08 o gonorul thing throughout tho country, arg troated bottor than they trent their employors, Aud, if they behuve like white mon, they will be tronted ne much, Dut such men as our city friond appesrs to be I would adviso to still cling to their dons in tho city, for tho country was not croated plonsant opough for thom, but must bo wado so for them. Why Lave not men amition onough to muke: s homo for themselves ; and then “thoy can mnke it just as plonsant aw thoy plonso 7 With willing hands, a clcorful Leart, aud clear conscionco, o man may make a porfoet parndiso of o home in » short time, on theso broad pruirios ; and, though over #0 hum- blo, it is dear to us bocsusoe it i ours ; wo mado it ourselves, with our own hands, ' Another thing our friond montions that sooms to bo quite a mistako : Ho says thut hirod men seldom ot & chunco to go to churel, oven on Buuday, or to cultivate theiv minds, ‘1 would ask him why they do not, Tlhoy havo tho day to thom- Holves,—tho most of is ut least, I can tell yon why: Beocouso thoy profer to snond tho day in amusoniont or idloness, 1f mon will try to help thomuolves, they will soon fiud hands reudy to givo thom a lift, and nowhero on oarth is hiolp wore willlugly givon than nmong faraors 1y —_—— A Georgin School-Tenéhor. A Qoorgla lottor in the Now York Sun says: “ Col, D, B, Grolm, of Lemporance, ‘Tolfair Cm\ut{ in this State, is probably tho most ro- markublo sebool-touchor i tho world, - 1fe was admitted to tho Bar as o lawyor in in 1834, Boon aftor o was strioken down with acute rhouma- tism, 1lio then booamo {mrnlyzud. his wholo body being helploss, exeopt his hands aud arma up to tho olbows, For a long timo ho has taught £chool whilo lying on his back. iy school is in o flourishing condition, and ho Iy making monoy, Many distinguishod porsons have graduntod from Qol, Grabam’s echoul, Tha Uolonel was nuvor muursled, e i3 nbout 04 yours old,” THE LAKE TRAGEDY, Invesfigptions of the Coroner’s Jury. The Childron Unquestionably Suffo- cated by Coal Gas, . A Verdict to That Effcct Ron- dered. : Tho Ooronor's fnquost into the myatorlona Thompeon case way resumed yostorday morning In tho Town Iall of Lako, but was not as largely attonded as tho first day, for the gonoral opinion socmed to bo tho nd donthis of Joaungtto, Will- fam, nud James ‘fhompson woro caused by ag- plyxis, and not rocolved at the handsof auy poraon or porsons, as was.frst thoughs, Tho jury, as ompannoled by Doputy-Coroner Pligrim, answored to thoir names, but ns ono of thom, John Pligrim, was on tho bail of tho nurse Busannah Bohrous, Coroner Stophons kindly consented to roliovo Mr. Pilgrim from what might prove to bo an unplonsant situation, and pormittod him to rotiro from tho jury and in his placo swore in Mathow Flommiug, Ksq, ELLEN GIBLONS, Tho, first witnces oxaminod wae Mrs, Ellon Qibbone, who testifiad ns follows: I reside on ‘Lrumbull stroot, near Bissol avenuo; have not beon porsonnlly acquainted with the Thompson family; novor saw Mrs, Thompeon boforo Sate urdsy, Fob. 14; havo seon Mr. Thompson twico bofore, whon ho called to soe my husband on somo mattor of business; hiave often noticed tho childron at piny and going to achool ; cannot say when I Inst 8aw any momber of the family; Bat- urday morning, shortly aftor 9, Mrs. Godfroy came to my houso and told mo that Mrs, Thomp- son was dylng, and that Ettio was dead, I wout directly ovor to Mr. Thompson'a with Lior, and, entoring tho houso, first discovered tho littlo girl Ettio,. Iying doad on the floor. She was lying on hor face, over tho threshold of tho door botween the parlor and Mrs, Thomp- son's bad-room, I then pushed into Mrs. Thompson's room, and found hor on the bed, in Ler night-dross, with hor shoes on, sud lying partly off tho bed. Spoko to lior, but sho could not auswor. Sont out for somo whisky, and gave it to Lior. She drank it, and gave evidences of being very cold and in great pain. Ior tooth chattered and lor limbs and body wero vory cold. 8ho asked mo for somg tep, which I had mnde, and gave to hor. It scomed to make hor moro comfortablo. Itook up a pillow to put under bor head, when I found Jimmy lying near hor quite doud, and Wallis at the foot of the bod, breathing with grout difiioulty, Mrs, Godfroy coming in, I said that tho living should firsb bae cared for, and told ber to raiso Willie from the bod and_take_him into tho noxt room. T'his sho etartod to do, but, being very much frightened, nearly fainted, and could not raiso him up, then picked Lim up, and took him into tho mnext room, and wo rubbed his limbs, which wora vory cold, with whisky and gave hima cupof hot ton, which ho drank ongerly, ho could not spesl, whon wa spoke to him, but by rubbing wo goon of him quite warm. [Mrs, Gibbons hero, a8 12 Mry, Godfroy aftorwards, reflected on tho maodical treatmont rocoived by Willio, but- their cengnro was altorwards closely shown to bo un- just, as Dr. Boan did all that professional skill and_unromitting attention could do for both the boy and Mrs, Thompson.] ‘Thero was 1o fire at alkin tho house, but soon aftor going into the housdo I saw Mrs, Belirons, the mitko, pouring something that looked lilke dirty water from o pan into. s bowl containing something that looked liko tou or coffee, She Bnid it was for Mrs, 'Thompson, and I told her sho_should not givo id to hor. Whon I entored tho houso I did not smell any gas or anything at all unpleasant. Passing the house Friday, 1 no- ticed that the ourtains of tho two front windows woro down, which w3 nn ubusual thing, for Mre. Thompson was & good housokeoper and I always noticed tho house looked cheorful and neat, In roply to quostiona by tho jury, she said i Tho pan of water was ou tho parlor stovo, and tho top of tho stove, containiug n oup, was placed on the floor near the stove. “Am not sure swhut wus in the bowl, but thought it was'tea or coffge. Willio's mouth was surrounded by a raised crust or blister of o light color, which I first mistook for froth, aud I thought at once that Lio ind boon poikoned. Whon I first ontored tho houso I sent for a physiciau and policeman, Tho firat porson 1 mot iu tho hiouso was tho nurso, Mrs, Bohrens, who, I thought, was either drunlc orerazy, I asked for what shie had boon doing to the childron. Shomadeno roply, but_ouly looked queerly and grinned. Ettio was stuf and cold, and her anklo turnedina very crampod powition, Tho littlo girl was lying ncross tho {hrnahhum of the door, Ikuow that no fire had boon mado in either stove that morning. Saw 0 nigns in tho houso of suyone’s baving - beon sick, ‘Tho houec looked ns usual. Whon I first ontored the houso the baby bad _already boen takon onro of by Mrs. Godfrey. Do not thinlk there was any coal in cithor stove. MRY, ANN GODFREY, . Mrs, Qibbons baving told all sho know, Mra, Anu Godfroy, the next-door neighbor of the Thompsons, was called, and testifiod as foilows : T live on_‘rumbull atrect, botweon Wallaco stroot and Bissoll avonuo. I am noxt-door neighbor to the ‘‘ompsons, and was in the hobit of visiting tho Thompsons at lenst onco every day, Iwont to the house Thursday last and found Mrs. ‘Thompson in bed, the nurso froning, tho two boys playing about, and Nottie sitting down, complaining of having the hondnche, Ars, Thompson told mo that Nettio was quite un- well. It was thon about a quarior of 6 in the evening. I romnined in tho houso about twenty minttos, and spont most of the time in DMrs, Thompson’s bodroom. All seemed lively and Lappy but Nottie. Thore was a very largs firo in the parlor stove, and tho hiouso was very warm, ) Betweon 8 and 4 o'clock Friday afternoon I wout to the sido door and rapped, but hoard no rosponso, I tried tho front door with the same sucpess, and thon won to Mrs, Bakor's, o noigh- bor and intimate friend of Mrs, Thompson, and told hor I conld not gotin. She said the nurse ywas changing Mrs. Thompson’s dress, and that way the reason no one anewerod the kuocking, I then went homo, and did not again try to got in DMru, Thompson's house, Both curtaing wore down il day Friday, Since Mra. Thompson's confino- ment ono of them has beon kept consiautly down. . Saturday morning I wont over to tho houso about 9 o’clock, aud agnin rapped at the site- door. After waiting ton or fifteen minutes, the nurdo camo to the door and opened it. Sho looked queerly and seomod drunk, I was groatly frightoucd, und sald to hiory *What in the nauio of God is, the matter #” Bho angworod throe times, ‘'Baby dead.,” .Bhe looked black in the face, and I ab once msus- coted aomauunfi to be wrong. Then Mrs. Thompson callod out from her room, * Mra, Godfroy, bring mo o drink of water,” I started for her room with the water, when I discoversd Nottio lymng on tho tloor, dead, I took up her left hand and found it was cold and.rigid, Sho was Iyiug aoross tho throshhold of' the door, with lior feet in the parlor and hor head iu hor mother's room. I beeame very much scared, and ran ever to Mrd, Gibbong', and told her that Nottio was dead, 8ho immedistely went in with mo and wont to Mra, Thompson's room. We found the babo waedgoed botwoen tho bedetoad ond n ohair placed against tho bod to pravont its rolling off, I put my haud on DMra, ‘Thompsow's arm, Bho &nid .it hurt Lier, and told me to send tho nurso away and call her husband. 8ho snid tho nurso was drunk, and had fallen on the children in the night, and had made them ery out, aud would give them no wator. I dotectod no smell of cosl-gus or apy- thing of tho kind in tho houso. Iwas vory much frightoned by what Leaw. I can not sy when I saw Mr, Thompson lnst, > Mrs, Thompson told moe Thursday that she did not expoct Mr. Thompson would'bo homo that night. 1 did not notico tho stoves purticularly, Haw no proparations for getting supper on Thurday oveniug, I did not notico any orust or blister on Witlie's mouth, PATIIOK GILLONS, Patrick Qibbons testifiod us follows: Iam 12 oars of ago; I live on Trumbull stroet, noar Walinco; have known the Thompson hmi‘ly for five months ; I lnow all tho ohlldren, wnd took them millc; bovo taken milk to thom for Sve months; I usually took it botwoon 8 and 0 o'vluck in tho morumg; the nurso went for the milk Thursday, Friday morning I took milk to thio houso about 9 o'clock, but couldn't get in ; I ruppod ut the shed door flrst, and then wout to t{m frant door, but couldn't got in ; heard uo one stirring iusido; I did not look in tho wine dow, but took the milk homo and wout to sohuol, About 8 or 0 o'clock Baturday mornin my ‘sister took tho milk, but ocould ol L &db in, Lttio wonb o school with mo; bub was not thoro that week. My slstor Is 14 yoars old, I'ho Thompsons huve sont after milk beforo, Il DEAN, Dr. L. O, Boan testiflod as follows 1 T am a rogular practiclng physician, and resldo at tho corner of Forty-third and Ialstod atrooty, Sat- urday morning, ahout {1 o'elock, Ofticor Bwoonsy callod mo, snying that thero wore two chil~ dron dond at ‘Mrs, Thompson's, and wishing me to fo‘tlmro immedintoly. I wont, and found the girl Ettlo lying on tlio floor dend ; passod through tho room into the kitchen whoro I unw 4 lady holding a boy np{)nrumly in' the Ilnst agonios of dissolution, "Ie was l.u'r.mthlng1 la- boriously, and sppeared na though ho bad heen stranglod, ' My firat improssion was _that it was polson, and I"gave him an ometic, hn{xlngto nako him vomlt up tho poison, Tho ckild, how- over, could not swallow. I thon wont iuto tho bodroom to sco the mothor; found hor cold and distrossed ; sho rocognized mo and said; * My alifldron aro sick, I wish you would heip thom,” Ioxamined hor, and* found sho was vory cold nnd much prostrated ; gavo hor utimulants and ordored hot ten for her, A dead boy Iny besido hor, Mra, Godfroy, who was lolding the baby, nskod mo wWhat sho should do with'it. I told hor to take it homo, wash It, and olenn it up gon- orally, it having bean sadly noglectod. Inn short timo Mrs, Godfroy sont for me, and snid that tho child was in such o condition that sha did not daro to touch it. Tho baby's body was Yory red and peculiar-looking. ‘The marka on tho body wora mde by boing prossod againat tho bed and chair, 1t had the appenrance of hav- ing sufferod from oxposurs, and wed cry- ing., I told tho Indy to nurso, clean, and foed It. I oseslsted Dr. Honrotin at the post-mortem examination. I think that asphyxia was tho causo of death ; thiuk tho baby was ™ covered up by the bodclothes, and so encaped injury. Troquontly childron stand suf- facation botter than adults, In roply to qnestious by Dr. Honrotin, ho sald: A porson’ on tho floor svould stand it better than ong on the bed. ‘Tho boy, Willio, scomed to act a8 if under tho influonce of » polson that acted on tho lungs. All poisons, asarulo, oceasion some disordor intho alimentary canal, unless thoy are gaseous. Tho Jmpllu of tho child’s oyes woro dilated. I did not_suspect » nar- cotio. Had n.pillow or hand boen pressed upon the child’s mouth, it would have rocovered whon the prossuro was removed. Marks made from such causcs aftor death are bluo, I have not tho lenst iden that tho child was tamperod with, Thero wero no marks of violonco whntover. All anto-mortom marks turn Dbluo after death. I found no such marks on any of the Thompson chitdren, I examinad the room and the stove, and think, if the ventilation was bad, tho inmates would bo suffacated. Tho nurso and the woman (Mrs, Thompson),being on their feot, would be less liabla to be poisoned than the ohildren lying down, I haye heard and rend that people undor such conditions often losie tho power of volition. Tho mother and nurge weroe suffering in the same way and showod tho same symptoms as tho children, [Dr, Stephons here stated that the red and distorted appenranco of the nurse was vory like that of men who have boen suffocated by coko or oharcoal fumoa), Tho women did” not seom tobe drunk, but poisoned by the gas. I uoticod that the dampor in tho pipe way 80 turned across that it would throw out tho gas, I do not know whothor the top wad off or not. I thinl the nurse was so nf- fectod by the gas that sho bumped hor forohend ond foll down. Inasmall houss like that, tho air would change very quickly., Mus. Gudl‘my was 80 torrified on first entering, that she might not liave noticod tho gns. Aftor dohiberation, I oamo to tho conclusion that they wore all suf- foring from tho same causo. Mrs. Thompson suid that when sho found that the nurse was 10 strangoly affocted and could do nothing, she hoord thio childron crying and got up to holp thom, but fainted awny, I think the polsonous gas cnused the frigidity in tho lmba of the suf- forora, It iu impossibio to toll the exaot timo of their death, for the eldest hn{ was a8 cold a8 n dend {:’umun yot Lo was still alive, aud must Lave been dying for o long timo, Tho rigidity of.n person dying from clarcoal fumes is very slight. Whon the Doctor had finished lns tostimony, & recess was takon, nnd tho reporters, the Coroner, nud Dr. Hounrotin, at the invitation of] Mr. ‘l'ucker,of tho Travsit Houso, wont ovor to the hotel aud partook of s very substantial and en- joyable dioner. That yery important affair being attendod to, tho inquost bogan again, JOIN MITCHELL, It having beon stated to tho Corouer that ong John Mitchell, s milkman, residing on Halsted #treot, was in possession of some vory important I.mathnonyl ho was summoned, and testitled as follows: “'X amn milkman,and live nt 1792 South Halsted streof. I have boon in the habit of taking milk evory evouing and teft millc there last Thursday ovon\nfi. A womnu came to the door aud got the mitk, I did not notics hor particularly, and could not toll her if I should soo hor, It'was about G whon 1 loft tho milk thero. I kunow Mrs, Thompson, andit was not she who gotthomilk. Iias thore again Friday ovoning at the same hour, and was told by the samo woman that no milk was wanteds Tho housa was dark, and there wag no light In it. Whon the door was opened hot ain rushed out, and tho house smelt hot, "Tho woman seomed to act as usnal, but I could not see her distinctly, it wasd so dark. Usually I heard and saw tho children whon I went to tho hl?“fl?' but Iridey ovening noue of thom wero about, to tho Thompuons, MR, THOMPEON, » 3r. David Thompson, the father of the chil- dran, being duly sworn, tostifiod ay follows: I reside on Forty-third stroct, botwweon Wallace stroot and Bissell ayenuo. Ilust saw my chil- dron Wodneaday ovening. I am working in the foundry_of Elmes & Drackott, uonr tho cornor of Blue Island avouue and Twonty-gecond street. Thureday night was the ficat I have passed; away from home for g long tlmoe. The throo childron who were suffacated were namod Jeaunetio, Willinm, and James. My rosson for staying away from homo was that it was too far "to ‘go from my work to my home, and I was making arrangomonts to board with & follow workman, Tho firat knowledge I liad of my boreavomont wus Saturday noon, swhon Mrs, Godtrey camo to tho foundry and told mo all. ‘Wheon I loft home, Iloft half a pint of bourbon whisky and a bottla of wine In " the house. It wag bought for my wife and the watchers nb night, Saturday, whon I roturned home, the whisky aud wine wore all gone. Thore was no poison in tho Liouse to my knowledge. Some- times the\parlor stove gavo forth gas, but nover to be very troublosome, When tho ges oscaped I wasobliged toopon the outordoeorgand turn off tho damper, I got milk from both Mitchell and the Loy Gibbons, I have conversed with my wifo concerning tho events of Thursday and Friduy. 8ha is not c&!\itu cloar on them all, but knows nothing of tho douth of our childroa, THE NURSE, When M. Thompson had flnlshod ‘his teati- mony, the jury went to tho residenca of tho nurso, Susanuah Bobronsy, as sho was too lll to leavo hor bed, Iler tostimony was as follows : 1 live at No. 019 Burnside street. IInvo beon attending Mrs, Thompson since herconfinement. Am Buro that Thompson was at home Tucsdny night, but cannot swoar positively that he way nt homo Wednesdny. I do vot recollect tho milk- man coming cither evening ; all tho milk that I know of was brouglit by tho boy hotween 11 and 12 o'clock Tuesday nighit. Mrs, Thompson told mo to got on a cheir and turn off the damper, ay the room was too hot, and also to taka the top of tho stove off and put ou a tin-pau full of water witha bowl of gruel iu it, g0 as to keep the latter warm during the night, I did so and lay down neor Mra, Thompson, About an hour later, I got up to give some hive syrup and {,:ooau Igmndu to tho smnllest boy, as he had a cold. then faiuted, and Mrs, 'J.‘hnmEuun got Il(l) aud bathed my head. I felt g if(l had fainted, . After ro- covoring *I lay down by the childron, who woro on_anotber bed, — This oc- curred durlnF Friday night, I rose again about 9:30 o'clook Saturday morning, a8 near 08 I can rocollact, but was so woul that I foll and could not get back to bod, Mrs, Thompson then told mo to'opon the door as she henrd rapping, and thought some orb was there, I iried to do 0 but could not stand, aud thorefore crawled along the wall to the door. I folt wild, aud would ngt havo Leon able toturn the domper in the morning, and, indood, never-thought of it. Tho flro was all out when I gotup in tho morning, Oun Iridey I attended to my bousowork; I got dinner, which was composed of ton and toast, Mrs, Thompson oud wmyseclf are Romsn Catholies, and had no meat, When I 'gotup Baturday morning I saw tho glrl lying across tho throshold, bLotween thq bod-room aud sitting room, but wes o woak that I could not help mysolf, aud ald tiot know the girl was dead. ‘l'ho womun who oame in in the mornh:lx was tho ono who drow my atteution to tho ohild being dead, On FridayI went acrosa thostroat for some wator, and got it at & pump near & ealoon; I also gok sumo rain-water I'riday, somo in, o tub and somo.lu & burrel, The ourtaius wero olosod a4 Mru, Thompeon sald tho light was too strong. Afterward they Wwore rafued, Idid not lock the doors ot all. It was very warm Friday night whon Ishut the dumpor, The childron were quict all lln{. ‘Ihis i all X know, ‘I'ho jury folt sntisflod with the above explana- tion of Mis, Bohrons and having no mare quos- tious to ask hor, loft and went back to the Town all, whoro thoy listened to tho following tostl- wony of Dr, I Wonvotin Jr, County Physioiau : “ DIt HENROMIN, I have mndo & post-mortam oxamination of the ‘hompson children, .with the, following. rae ults In tho case of tho boy Jiwmmie, I could l find no marks of violouco whatsoevor, cithor nround tho nook or ovor tho body, ‘I'hoe fonturcs woro pnrl.(cull\rlfl Illncld and ragular, the chil- dron sootaing to bo in n sloep, ‘I rigldity was novor very much pronoundod, After tha” first fow incisions, tho Lissnes woro noticed to bo une- usnnlly red. Tho plenral surface of tho lungs wng in somo: places of & eearlot eolor and in others somowhat paler, thongh still rod, and the samo color was noticonblo all ' through the lung whon lald opon.. Only a small, portion near tho back was of n dark color, fhoe_atomach did not coutain more than threo drachma of liquid and alio prosented tho pinlc apposranco, Whon opened, thero was not tho least slgn of orosion, congeation, or inflamma~ tion, The intostines of tho samo color wora quito ompty, oxcopt a very small amount in . the lowor bowold, 'ho hoart contnined noithor clot nor liquid bload, whilo the liver, brain, kiduoys, and sploon wore porfoctly normal througlmut, though tho blood in'them was somowhat darker than is customary, Inthe girl, tho right side of tho honrt gon~ tainod nbout six drachims of liquid blood, which probably goos to show that aho diod a little later than Jamoy, whilo, in tho boy William, the heart on both sldos contained clots of darker blooud, owing to tho protracted agony whioh he sufterod, I'ha eauso of death, in my opluion, was the in- h:flmun of noxions gases emanating from tho stovo, i A very small proportion of. carbonio oxido in tho nir of thoroom becomos dangorous, Tho women in tho room being, Jolder and strongor, rocoverod, though both wore véry much affected, andarg atill siok, It {s an undoubted fact, ad- mitted h{ ll authoritios, that o low or imperfect combustion.ig most favorable to tho produation of this zas, nnd that it operntea powerfully op tho body. As rogards tho escapo of the baby, it Lina hoon noticed that infants respire foul nir frequently: without being.as much afected as adults, An instance came undor my notico lately in a fire on South Clark streot, whore a boy 4 years old_was anffocnted, the mother on the ¥ergo of doath for wovoral days, whilo the baby lying in tho snmo bod as tho othor two waa not: in the lenat affectod, I think carbonio oxido more particularly produced the donth, bocauso of the roduess of tho blood, moro strikingly seon in the first- two that diod; thisrednossboing by all suthoritios acknowi- odgod ra characteristio of death by that of gas, The absence, also, of any nlfinu thot might and .would havo boen produced by othoer poisons ‘malkes the evidonco Lo ma conclisive, When tho Doctor had fiuished his tostimony, Dr. Boan stated that he fully concurred with Dr, IHourotin in his viows, and thought that uns doublodly that was tho truo solution of the wholo affair, Tho jury, seoming to agreo with the Doctor, with but little discussion, returncd THE FOLLOWING VENDICT: , Stato of Illinols, Cook County, s, : An inquisition was taken for the people of the State of Tilinois, ot Forly-third street, between Wallaco stroot and Dissol avenue, In the Town of Lako, fu sald County of Cook, ou the 16th aud 18th days of Februa~ ¥, A, D, 1874, bufore me, Jolin Btophend, Coroner in and for paid countyg upon view of the bodiea of, Ja. nette Thompson, Willlam Thompson, and James T'hompeon, then and thoro lying dead, upon tho oaths of twelve good and lawful mon of the said county, who being duly sworn fo inguire on tho park of the In.'oplo of . tho Stato Tllinols, into all tho clrcumstances attending 'the death of tho #ald Janetts Thompson, Willasm Thompson, and Jntnos Thompson, aud by whom tho 8amio \as pros duced ; and in what maunor, and whon and whoro the enid Janette Thompson, Willinm Thompaon, and James ‘Thompeon came to thelr death, do say, upon thelr . oatlis, ns_nforosald, that tho said Janette Thompson, ‘William Thompson, sud James Thompron, nn\v‘lyluz dend on Forty-third atrect, in the Town of Luko, County of Gook, and Btato of Iilinols, camo to thelr Zenth on or about the night of Fev, 13, 1874, *from polsoning by noxious gases emanating from a badly vontilated stove. ) A —_— & DETROIT, " A Caso of Discipline Boforo the Board of ‘Trade == Allcged Mixing of Wheat. Special Dispateh ta The Chicago Tribune, Deruorr, Mich., Feb. 17.—A svecial commit. tec of the Board of Trade appointed to invosti- gate soveral alleged irrogularitios in the mixing of an inferior grnde of wheat with n better quality ~ reported to-day, cloars, ing all tho acenmed oxcept Albert Botsford, of the firm of B, & A, Botsfosd, The Committoo chnrgos him with having effected arrangomonts to ship mixed whont from Chicago over the Cone tral Railroad to Dotroit, to be sold here. Thoy nlso assort that tho wheat was brought. diroct to this® city over tho air-line of tho Centrnl Road, and that' Mr, Bottslord procured from Thomns Hoops, an officer of the Central Rond in Chicago, bills of shipmont showing that tho grain camo to Dotroit direct from Dooatur,- They nleo charge him with testifying beforo tho Committoo that the grain was purchased in Deecatur, notwithetanding he knew it to bo tho fact that the wheat was not pur- ochased thero. They, thorefore, recommond that Lio bo susponded for three months. Mr. Botsford praceeded to piteh into the mome bors of tho Committeo personaily. Hesaid that whon tho Committee nccusod him of ob- teining ‘wheat, fo tho pumoss of dclruudiug any one, they lied, and intimated that ho coul prove it. 0 olaimed bo had done nothing wrong, and that no proof could be produced to substantinte tho charges made by tho Com.* mitteo. ‘I'he report will be finally considered Iriday. P S English Promicrs. In viow of tho change of Ministry in England,. ihe following list of romiers, from 1714, will be of mterést : : g Datey o a; tnent, Robert Walpolo. Ozlx.mnll,o,ml'Tnll Jaines Stanhop oril 10, 1717 Earl of Sunderland, nrch 10, 1718 sir_Robort Walpolo.. Farl of Wiimington, Henry Pelham, .; Duka of Noy <Aprll 20, 1720 Marquis of Rockingham, Duke of Grafton, Willlam itt, Henry Addington, Willim Pitt. Goorgo Conning, Viscount Goderich. , Earl of Dorby. Viscount Pal Earl Bussel Earl of Derby. Tenjnmin Disrae Willlain Ewart Gladstono, The Iigher Education of Womeon. ‘I'he causo of tho highor oducation of women, and of Woman's Rights gonorally, seoms to be nuking very rapid progress in the Colony of Vies torin. 'I'hg' Umiversity of Molbourne has opeuncd its degroos to Iadios, aud, writing on the subjoct on Dee, 5, tho correspondent of the London Times soys e “At a meoting of tho Bonato, it was agreod that tho regulations permitted women to attend Icotures aud to pass_tho examinations, and, on tho motion of Prof, Wilson, it was rosolved that ‘tho Council should grant to such fomules ny bavo fatteined a proflciency equal to that at- tained by Dachelors of Arts'and Masters of Arts cortificatos thoreof, uud also throw open to thom tho pecunisry prizos of tho University.' At tho lost matriculation oxamination two young ladies * woro the only ,coudidates ~wha passed with credit, Thero are 890 on- trios for this month’s matriculation, 95 b women, Tho Univorsity bulldings are too sma! for this incronse fu numbers, and' tho oxaminae tious huvo beon held for tho- first time in the Town Hall. * 1t is not only in the Univorsity thut women's intelloctual capacities aro recognizod.. The Unitarians of Nelbourno havo appointed a 1ady as their minister, For sometuno thoy have boen without any recognized torchor, and per-+ sous nominally Dolongiug to the donomiuation accasionally forced their way into the pulpit to promulgate poouliar and extravagant views, to the great sunoyance of the congregation, * To nvoifi theso seandals, & Miss Turnor was induced to ofticiate tomporarily; and, oftor a fow months® exporienco, she has boen formally inducted to tho churoh, Sho conducts the sorvice wilhoud any ambarrassmont, aud Lior sermons_are carae fully propared ossays, quiotly dolivored,” L ————— ! Romnrkadle fncidont, Krom the Gatlatin Tenneascean, From a private lotter recontly rocoived from Mizsoutl, wo loarn the following remarkablo in- cident ; Bomo four yoears siuce a young man wau arrosted in Palwyra for deliberately murdore ing & young lndy to whom he was paying sui bacansoe sha rojooted him. DBall wan rofusei and lio was imprisonod in the county jail, ' From some causo or othor his trial had boen continued from timo to time until about thrao weoks sinco, whon It camo off. Btrango to say, whon the jury announced their verdiot, gnilty, the youug waa droppod doad uyou Lho ot r