Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 187 THE LAKE FRONT. @ serlons mintake. It Ia tho opinton, frooly oxprosued, of many lon g r:;nfil;&flz denlors aud progurlrwnm» that §800,000 is il that tho threo blocks nro worth at tho progént Hmo; nud it s nunccossnty to uny thint no suoh ;I;;Ié’cfll\l(l bo obtainod for them from nny othor o, ‘Thin i tho Ingt of the Take-Frant anastion for tho timo belng, 1f it shall over bo r?:vlvud. the initiative \'\-Xl havo to bo takon by the. city au- thoritios, Tho railroads will nover voluniarily ronew nogotintlons f tho olty, L or & direot purchaso from The R?jlronds Abandon the Project of Buying from " the City. The Burlington and Michigan Cen- tral Withdraw Their Share of the $200,000.; —_——— JOLIE! Afinirs of the Iron and Stocl Works- :nlvunmry oL Proporty—A Bad Shows I Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Jouaer, Aprit 2—H, E. Colling, of St. Louls, Mr. Parkor, of New York, and Dudley, of Boa- to, of tho Committeo appolnted at the mecting in Ohiengo vostorday to offect acompromiso withy the creditors of tho Jollet Iron and Stool Com- ’mny, mot in ihis city to-dny. Several of the argo foroign oreditors wore prosont, 'Tho ob- im of tho macting horo was to exnmine tho nventory of tho proporty, aud tho mooting was bLeld undor logk and_koy. Your correspondent, howover, hns been nblo to gather something from the .mooting, Tho Committoe is understood to bo of the opinion, after looking through tho as- wota of tho Compnny, that thoro is not onough rmlmtly to covor tho olaima of tho bondholders, This condition of nifnirs s oxcused by tho ox~ {ravagance and want of care in constructing tho works, It iy safd tliat tho worke have cost Bov- eral hundred thousaud dollars moro thon wos necossary. Tho situation is anything but en- couraging to our city, The trusi-deed held by tho bondholdets is an iron-clad arrangement, and covora every artlelo of property bold by the Company, Inasmuch as tho works are intho honds of tho bondholders, they will not bo likoly to relonso their hold until their claims aro entisflod. . And if tho pro- porty is computed to bo inadoquate to meoet the claims of the bondholdors, the situation is in- decd gloomy to our business mon, who are hold- ing $100,000 in duo bills of the Company. It the worst comos, tho loss will not only be to indlvid- ualg, but to the community at largo, for, as n condition of the Company's locating here, the city votod it $75,000, for which bonds have beon issued and aro now on the market. Thoir re- domption will bo a great burden o add to the individual loss, This burden will be lightencd, however, if the works sball be reoponed,whethor uuder tho old manngemont, or aftor thoy shall Lave pessed into now Dsnds, ' KEHOL'S GAS. It ¥Ylas Been Shut OIF by Gov. Beve ertdpreseVoto of tho Bill FPavsed by the Last Legisiature. Snecal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Brrivgrieny, 1L, April 2,—Kohoe's Gas bill, the passage of which surprisea every one, ro- coivad its quictas at the handa of Gov. Boveridge to-day. The foilowing is tho fuil toxt of the voto mossage: Wo Present Prospect that the Grand Union Depot ‘Will Be Built, A Radical Change in the Situation. No projaot ns ovor exoited more public con- carn in Olicago, nor undorgone more ehanges, than that conceived by the Illinois Contral, Michigan Contral, and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads, of buying the atrip of land on the lake ‘shoro, lying botwoen Randolph and Monroo streets, for dopot purposes. It was firat wantod soveral years ago, nod it has boon pori- odically rovived siuco thit timo with strong in- fluences in favor of it and obstinato rosistance toit. Nparly five yeara ngo AN ACT OF TUE LEGISLATURE ‘Was passed, known ns tho Lake Front bill, which authorizod- tho eity to soll tho throo blooks to the raflronds’ for tlic sum¥ of §800,000, and provided that tho monmoy shonld bo divided among the tho throo parks in tho Bouth, Wost, and North Divisions of .tho city. This Iaw encountored violent oppo- sition. Many persons bolloved that the propor- ty wilfich the railronds woro to acquire undor it was of greator valuo thon 8800,000, Othors op- poged thio travsfor, undor tho not of tho Legisla- ture, on nocount of the provision that the money should be divided among tho parks, holding that the money shonld go tothocity. Property-owns ors along tho lake shore, fronting this strip of ground, wore opposed to 1t for o varioty of fan- cifal reasons, Bll{lposing that the building of o dopot, or tho utilization of that ground for bus- Ineas ‘purposcs, would dopreciato, rathor than enhanco, the value of the property, besides spoil- iug & romantio view of tho lako, clouded with tue smoke from puflling locomotives. THE INJUNCTION, Opponents to the sala brought a pressure to hbear upon the Presldont to order the Attornoy- Genoral tosueout an Injunction, rostraining the city and all othior persons from solling or oc- gupying tho sirip of lnd_known as tho Lule Park. Judge Drammond sustainod the caudo of uction, andasn injunction was issued. At the samo timoho pomted out that tho railroads might proceed to condemn the Iand for depot purposes, Bubsequently tho act of the Logisla- ture was repealed, and with it the provision for dividing tho purchase monoy among the parks. THE FIRST PAYMENT, On tho st of June; 1809, Mr. J. AL Walker, roprosenting the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Tailrond, and two other gentlemen, roprosonting, respoctively, tho ' Tllinois Central and the Mich- igan Contral Railrond Companics, wenb to tho offico of Mr. Walter Kimball, the Comptroller of the Oty of Ohicago, and tondered him the sum of $200,000 as o first paymont of tho purchase- money. These gentiemon did not suppose, nor did tho railronds which they ropresonted, that Mr, Kimball wonld recsive the monoy on tho yu‘t of tho city. Much to their surpriso, he in- lormed thom that ho had takon logal advice i BTATE OF ILLINOI, ExroUTIVR DEPANTMERT, SrumvarizLp, 1L, April2. Sonate Bill No, 500—Tho abovo bill, enfitled #An Act inrelation o gas-companics,”fa filed in tho oifico of thio Socrotary of Bate, with my objections, na follows : First, tho main object of tho nct,’ conforring power upon’ thio Commoi Council of &'city to pass ordi- nances regulsting tho quality nnd prico of gas to bo furnished to ita cltizons, is not included 1n tho title, sud in, thorefore, vold by virtuo * of Beo, 13, Att, 4, of tho Constitution. Tho romoining art of tho act included in fhe title by and of taclf 16 no value. Second, tho act ia ouly applicabl toany clty of over 200,000 nbabitants, Tiio Conlitn- tlon does not, require’ tho_clgsification of citlea by populailon, and io rocogaizo such classitention iu cgioailon, an in the aboso bill, would snable tho Leg- iplaturo to'change or amend tlio charter of any city in tho State, in violtion of tho spirit of Soc, 23 Att, & aforcanid), prohibiting tho General Assembly pnssing Inywe changing or_amending tho cliartor of auy town, tho mattor, and hiad decided £0 tak tho monay. | Seaverteaty il - e Teasons T withholdmy up- Thoroupon he took tho packsges containing the (Signod) JonN L, BEVERIDAGE, Governor, 200,000 logal tender, placed thom in his asfo, and tendored o reco\Et which stipulated that tho city should not bo holdon for his nction, and that hig accoptanco of tho money should not projudice tho rights of thocity. Tho represcnt- ativos of the railronds declined this rocoipt, but loft the money in Mr. Kimball's hauds. .. FROM THAT TIMEON ' the various phages of tho lnke front transaction aro tolerably fawmllinr to the public, ‘Thecity re- fused to take the monoy which Mr. Kimball had raceived; tho railronds rofused to tako it back, Mr. Kimball then doposited it in the First Na- ‘ional Bank, whoro it remained until a fow days g0, when two-thirds of it woro withdrawn, be- tng the proportions paid by and belonging to. the Chieago, Durlington & _ Quinoy, md ‘the RMichigan Contral Railroads, It i6 3""notublo-faot,~ and “Tauch to - Mr. Kimball's aredit, thint this monoy was paid back in the solf-snme logal-tonder” notes, wrapped in the samo packngon a4 whon it was ‘doposited by him. It is supposed, novortholess, that Mr. Kimball has beon, to all intonts and ‘purposes, the pos~ tessor of.a capital of $200,000, and enjoyed the intorest thercon for more than four yoars and o half, since this sum could bo used by the bank I which it was doposited s a portion of its re- forve a8 woll a8 any other monoy on doposit. Whero are fow men who have bad the good for- tune to have $£200,000 thrust upon them, and Feen forced nolens volens to onjoy tho comfort- -l&lordinmmn which {ho intorest thereon would o, e : The bill, togothor with tho objections of the Governor, was filed in tho offico of tho Boore- tary of Btate. . BLOOMINGTON. A New LnweSchoolw-A Lady Candie date for o School Office--Personals Special Dispatch to The Chicugo Tribune. E=BrooxmgTow, Til,, April 2.—A dopartmont of law hos boon organized for the Illinois Wealoyau | University to open & spring-torm noxt Mouday ‘with a courso designed to prepero students for admission ‘ to tho highest Btato Court, Tho fooulty will embrace s numboer of ominont acholnts and lnwyers. Tho Rbv. Samuol Fal- lows, D. D., Presidont of the College, formerly Staté Suporintondent of Schools of Wisconsiu, will act 28 President, znd the Hon. RR. M. Ben- jomin 88 Dean ; and tho o, 0. T, Reoves and the Hon, Robort E. Willinns will ench ocoupy a . chuir and deliver locturcs. Misy Qoorgians Trotter, s highly estecomed Indy of this city, and ono Wwho, for muny years, lios boon an advocnto of woman's righits, nob only in thoory; but by example and practice, bo- ing business manager and partner in a flourish- ing lumbor-firm, has recoived and sccopted a call, signed by o large numbor of leading citizens, to become & candidnte for a momber of tho city Board of Education. Ionsmuch s in this city the school-interest is the most important branch of themunicipal businoes, this is a high compli- ment, Miss L'rotter is well fitted for the dutics, and will make a strong run. Capt, Joseph Denison roturned from Cedar Rapids to-day, whore ho las been visiting his brother, Maj. N. W. Denison, who wes accidont- ally shot Monday, aud reports that there isa bare possibility of saving his lifo. FIRES, THE RECENT ACTION of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Michigan Coutral Railronds scoms to have been taken witbout consultation, and certainly with- out co-operation, with the Iiinois Contral, Its eignificanco is this: Tho two railronds which luave withdrawn thoir money have certainly abandouced all purpose of enforcing tho terms of the contract under which it was ffrst paid, and likewise the purposo of furthior negotiations with tho eity for tho purchago of the land. They botiove that tho reprosoutatives of the city wers opposed to their having the land at tho rale of £300,000, and they sro Indisposed to pay mora, or to onforce in the courts any rights they may Lave acquired, ® " Thoro romning to tho railronda tho menns of socuring tho property indieatod in Judgo Drum- mond's opinion, viz <) CONDEMNATION, ‘Thoy might procoed under the act of tho Legialaturo by virtuo of which tho depot grounds Eust Bt, Louis wero condemuod some timo since; and it istho opinion of leading roal-ostute pieu’ that, if thoy should procoed to condemn, they would not have to pay #o much as, certainly not moro, than tho $800,000 whicli they offered t) pay the cityin cash, On tho other hand, thoy would have still to encounter the opposition of two or threo obstinate oppononts nwniug prop- ety which fronts on the lake-shore, and would yrobably Lo forced, in order to securo their vights, 10 go na Ligh au the United States Su- yreme Cowt. It is not probablo the railroads Vfltl undertake to do this, at least for tho pres- cnt, At Cohaoes, Ne Vo Conoxs, N, Y., April 2.—Tho Tivoll Knitting- Mills, owned by J. G. Roobs & Sous, was destroy- ed by fire this afternoon. Loss, $200,000 ; in- surance, $180,000. 'Thoe knitting-mill of Gregory & Hiller was partially burned, Loss unknown. Fully ivsured. One thousand workmon aro thrown out of employment. At Elazelton, Pa, Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago Tribune, WiniesparE, Pa., April 2.—A apocial tole- gram’ from Hazelton to Tue 'TRINUNE corre- &nondont at Willcubarre snys o firo broke out at Lielf post 8 last night in the stables nt Laurel Hill Slope, bolonging to A. Parker & Co. 'Who firomen wero thore promptly, but were unablo to subduo the flames, and the stables were eutirely dostroyed aud twenty mules burnod to doath. The fire wns not subdued until 8 o'olock this morning, he loss is said to bo $4,000. Tho origin of the fire 18 unknown, but us a strike lins boon in progrosa it i possibly the worlk of iucendiaries. WIAT THE OUTCOME WILL BE is not easy to sce af tho present time. It is cer- tain that tho prospeet of providing dopot-ground clsowhoro has beon considered by tho officers of tho Ohicogo, Durlinglon & Quiney Railroad. “hey will nat likoly locale_thefr passengor de- {vm on tho presout” grounds at Canaland Six- eouth streats for two reasons ;: First, bocauso tho location is too romote from the contre of the city for o passonger dopot; and, socond, bo- vauso they have not room ouough thoro-for hoth {reight und passongoer business, ‘Uwo propositions havo been mude to them : Onobytha Pittsburgh & Yort Wayno, and tho othor by the Michigan Southern, to run trains into their dopots, In caso of tho acceptunce of the formor, the Buwlington & Quincy wanld run their passongor- traing to the cornor of Madison aud Canal stroeta; in case of tho secoptanco of the Inttor, they would run them into J'm depot at Van Bu~ ren atroct and Pacific avouue, Tt Las boen further contemplated by the 0, B. & Q. people to buy a atrip of ground for thom- selyos noar tho coutro of tho ity Thoy beliova that this can bo doue, sinco the Baltimore & Ohio Railrond has purchasod a strip of ground ubout 1,600 feet in longth, nud 300 feot in width, bouveen Madison and Van Buren, and Murket stroot and the river, But tho rolations betwoon the Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy and the Michigan Central Rallroads are uo intimato that thoy will resort to separate depots only whon compelled to, & At all ovonts, the withdrawal of the monoy which hoa remained in tho houds of Mr, Walter Kimball ko long, or rather two-thirda of it, indi- cates that tho railroads have decided to proffer 1o more nogotiations with the city. TUE RFFECT of the failure on tho part of tho railroads to se-, cure the property in quostion hes beon very dif- ferent from what tho property-ownors on Michi- an avenue who opposed tho travefer thought t would bo, Tlo railroads believe that if they had beon pormitted ta procoed jmunedlately to eroct o depot costing $1,600,000 or $2,000,000, the property fronting on ' Miohi- gan avenuo would now be much more valnable than it was boforo: As it is, overy one knows that it lsnot worth more than two-thirds of what it was bofore the fire; and, if the rocent forced snlo of Mr, Heammon's property can bo taken a4 & oritorian, iy not worth ed'muoh as that. - 3 Lo olty offiolals, too, have undoubtedly made At Luncastor, Ky. LoUIsvILLE, Ky., April 2.—The Courier-dJour- nal has a revort of » destructive fire in Lan- caster, Gorrard Connty, Ky., yestordsy, which destroyed eloven buildings, including the De- posit Bank, Lancaster News oftice, and sevornl stores and dwelling houscs. The fire atarted in Bailey's storo, und soon progressed boyond cone trol. " Loss over £00,000. REL1GIOUS. Northoern Indiann Methodist Confox= cnces Spiecial Dispatch to The Chicaco Tribune, v, Wi, Tady April 2.—To-dny's procead- inga of tho Northorn Indiana Methadist Confor- enco wera very intorosting. The Judiciary Com- mittea took up, but_mado no disposition of, the cago of the Itev. W. K. Kobuck, chargod with conduct unbecoming a Christinu ministor, Anapponl from Ft. Wayno Colloge for tho Conferonce to assume & $3,000 debt was recoived and laid over for considoration, Tho call of dix- tricts showed that most of tho churches wera gaining in mombership ; but tho collootiona ro- portod for misuious and conference cluhnunta wore so small in proportion to the agsessments astocall forth a sovoro robuke from l!iulmfi Tostor, Tho ministers nscribed the —sma! smounts to the panic and the partial failure of the cropa, TR G MICHIGAN STATE TREASURY. Speetal Dispatch to T'ha Chicaqo T'ridune. LANBING, Mich,, April 2,—Tho followiug {s tho Btato Troasuror's statoment for the past montiit Balanco Fob, 28, 1674, 1$1,163,510.61 Reculpts for March, . 181,502.04 1,205,016,85 8 8245695 ‘Dalance March 81, 1674, 1§1,212,668.90 % BALTIMORE LIVE-STOCK- MARKET. BacTiuons, Apstl 2.—CaTTii—Lower; vory beat on sale, 01{@7)5c; firat quality, 51 @) 0§ mediumor gond e qunllty, € @oxe. " Recuipls, o0, Hales, "Hogs—Falr demand: shade lo 10 £ m;.f.m; i@ for l:}llorus' rwd;:l', LT it - Bang) e mand § - Vo for wi d )40 08 shoared | recelpts, l,ré}/." Y- e FOREIGN. Latest Report of the Situa- tion Before Bilbao. A Four Days’ Truce Agroed Upon by tho Contestants, . SPAIN. TLownow, Aprll 3.—Authentie ndvices to April 1, from the seono of tho swar before Bilbao show that tho Ropublican troops have taken no posi- -tion hold by tho Oarlists sinco March 26, A thrae days' armistico, in which Dilbno was not inoinded, had beon agreed upon for tho burial of tho dond. In tho moantime tho bombardmont of tho city continues. Gon., Caballora Derodon, with 5,000 mon, is advanoing by forced marches to tho assiatanco of Marahal Sorrano,) ———e FRANCE, 4 New Yonr, April 9,—The London Telegraph of tho 16th says: *'Tho composition of t[:u newly-appointed Committeo of the Fronch Na- tional Asgombly to report_on a bill rpmlom;hxg till tho ond of tho yoar the powers of the pros- ont Municipal Qouncils, Las produced a gront improssfon in political circlos, it being tanta- mount to a Goveramont+defont. 0f the fifteon membora oight bolong to the Left, and aro op- posod to tho bill as an oncroachmont on the rights of eleotion. : J —— INDIA. Loxpon, April 2.—A spocinl from India says that incondlary fires are alarmingly froquent in the noighborhiood of Scatamow, in tho Gwalior dictrict. Two largo villages were entirely do~ stroyed. From Nopaul large numbors of the In- Dabitants are emigrating, in consoquonce of tho famine, : —— e, GREAT BRITAIN. L:lnmml, April 2,—The Duke of Dovonshire is lond. The Bank of England announced to-day that no chango was mado in its rate of discount, CASUALTIES. Panic in'aSchool-Ilouse at Middleton, Wise Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Manison, Wis., April 2.—This city was full of rumors yostorday in rogard to s dismstor at a schoolexhibition Taosday night at Middleton, govon miles wost of horo, but nothing reliable could bo obtained. TFull particulars show that a tho cloge of the oxhibition given in the sccond story of the school-house, in a room crowded with poople, a keroseno lamp was knocked down and broken, and tho oil took fire, causing muck alarm and confusjon, in the midst of which four or fiva othor lawps woro knocked overand broken, spronding tho ilamos and producing frantlo fear, induced by which the people jumped out of tha windows to the ioy ground, seventoon fook bolow, or rushod to the narrow and orooked staircaso, whoro thoy wore jammed togother so ns to bo unablo to move cithor way until the mnsa was loosened by main forco from bolow. The pame wasfrightful, thougha fow courageous peoploof both sexes provented its leading to greater horrors. A large numbor were hart, Bomo twonty-five badly. " The following woro se- vorely, though none, it is hoped, worofatally. in- ured : Misa Mnry Brion, sorjously hurt by Dleing trampled upon, producing concussion of tho Dbrain. She I8 now conscious and impmvingg‘ Miss Nebraska Parmonter—Spino seripus}y in- jured in jumping from tho window. Mra. Ben? Seohustor and her daughter, 7 years old—Limbs badly burned. AMrs. Poter Schustor—Injurod by breathing tho hentod air, H, L. Hydo, of tho school land offlco, had the fibula bono of tholeg bLroken. e thinksle will resume his duties in tho offico in a fow duya. R. Green’s hund was burned in resouing . Schustor.- Miss Eliga Clark was seriously injured in tho chest by being trampled upon. % Fatal Accident to o Mlember of o Hunt« ing Party. Special Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune. Quiney, 11l., April 2.—James Grabam, o well- known and bighly-rospected citizon of 'Quinoy, accidentally shot himself this morning and died almost immediately from ‘tho offect of the wound. Tho decensed and some other gontle- mon bad boen to Lima Lake gunving, aud wore roturning down the river on a wood boat. Whon about a mile above tho bridge, at 8 o'olock in the morning, the bont snagged, and tho man incharge called out that she was sinking, Tho hunting atty who wore roused from slogp wWero propar- ing to take to o slaff alongside, and as Grabsm was attempting to put alonded gun in the' bot- tom of the skiff, tho’ hammer ecaught on the seat and fired tho gun, dischiarging tho contents into his right leg nbove the knee. ~ Tho main ar- tory was sovored, and the unfortunate man died bofore reaching the shoro. - - BN Snecial Dispatch 2 Chicigo Tribune, McGneaon, Ia.,. April 2, —Jolin, Trovell, o young man residing nosr Lima Springs, In., was on Wednosdsy killed- by - being thrown from a wagon, POLITICAL. Mmilywaukee Politics. Speciat Dispatch to. Lhe Chicugo L'ribune, * MinwAUkeE, - April - 2.—Tho Hon. Edwaxd O'Neil, formorly’ Mayor, was the’ unanimous choico of the Reform Ward Dolegation Conven- tion, this aftornoon; for Mayor. Although ho 1ind proviously declined the nomination, yet, in congideration of the circumstancos, Col. Jacobs liaving declined, and tho nomination being unan- imous, hosaid ho conld not rofuse. Ho called on tho party to return tho entiro Roform tickot. Thia accoptanca is joyfnlly rocoived by tho Re- formers, My, O'Neil being looked on as tho strongost men in the party, Tho Convention paesed resolutions ap) mvln& the principles of the Reform party of tho Btate, and denouncing the policy, adopted by tho Grant lenders in this olaction, of nominating soscalled Reform candi- dates in order to defeat tho Reform majority in Milwaukao, 'Fhe Massachusotts Senatorshipe Svectal Dispateh_to The Chicago Tribtene, ‘WA mvaroN, D. C., April 2.—Dispatches and lotters Liavo boen rocelved_horo from Massachu- setts indicatine that tho Legielature will con- tinuo to voto daily for Senator, but that thore ia no likolihood of arriving at a choice, Itis stated that thero is an oxpectation, if not o tacit un- dorstanding, that no cholco will bo. made by the Leglslature, and _that that body witl adjourn lonving vacAnt the unoxpired torm of Senstor Bumner. As the vacanoy occurred while the Loglelature wag in sesrion, tho Gov- ernor can have no chunce to appoint a succossor, a8 would have Dbeop his duty in tho ovent of tho donth of Mr. Sumner during the vaca- tion of tho Legislature. If the abovo oxpectation . shall bo reslized, It 8 prodictod that tho livelicst and hottest personal political contost ever known in Masaachusotts will ento this summor, s thore will bainyolvod uot ouly the Govornorship ‘but a new Legla- Taturo, which will havo to eloct o United Btates Beuater for the long torm—six yonrs from tho 4th of noxt March, Ihode Jsiand Eloction, Provipeno, R..L, April 2.—To oflicial couut of votos for tho Augemblymen iu this city oloots aix, and finds ny choico for seven, including a Senator, Another ecloction will be hold on the 10th, ————meee LEGAL INTELLIGENOD. Spocinl Tevin of the McLean County ©ircuit Courts Special Dispatoh to The Chicaao Tridune, Brooumaron, 1., April 3,—~JudgeTipton has ordored s epecial term of tho court in thiscoun- ty, at which will bo tried tho following cases : T'he Malone murder-saso, Monday, May4; the socond trial of tho Marlatt murdor-case, Mon- day, Moy 11 ; two eases, in wlich tho parties are charged with proouring abortion, from Tord County on change of veuue, Monday, May 18, Many other cases of minor importuuce will alea bo tried Guring tho torm, Judge Tipton holds court in Ford County noxt woek. s WISCONSIN ITEMS. * Spectad Disvatah to The Chicago Tribune, Manmsor, Wis,, April 2—T'ho apring torm of the Btato Univorkity opons favorably. - Tho now Presidont, Prof, John DBasoom, from Willams' Oollege, hns arrived, sud to-day is mooting largo numbor of studonts and o ons, making vorv fayorable impreealon. ¥ 'i'hm aro savasal ohangos in minor places 8 nhmllt tiio Capitol with the bogiuning of the month. Thore bave beon no nllpolnlmnn(s yot of Uni- vorulty Rogents, or of tho Btate Bonrd of Ohntl- tios, THE ROCK ISLAND CANAL, Pros Dixox, T, March 20, 1874, To the Dditor of The Chicago Triltine ; Sm: Iam glnd to notico, by your papor of Triday last, that you have given tho Wisconaln objoctors o broadside. Tho facts mio, tho roal ont in the monl with thom is a dowaright oppo- nition to tho old schome. Wisconsln as o Stato 18 n unit for tho wator-routo vin Green Bay,—not to bo monttoned in the same day with ours. No slnok-wator river navigation, especially in o fro- zon country ko this, Hablo to acros of oo and floods, and, in summor, shifting sand-bars, ola,, oto., {8 to bo comparad to a canal across a lovel Btato. \ Bat to the roal question: Thoy ostenslbly ob- joot to our gohomo becauso it takes wator out of Rock Rivor, and provents its botng mado navig- nble from Dixon to its mouth. But is this ao ? Lot ua seo?. In. 1800, Maj, Worrell, under the direction of tho Genoral Govornment, mado n survoy of Rock Itiver. At a Transportation Con~ vontion held at Rock Island, tho enmo yoar, Mr, Worroll distinctly stntod that the scheme to ex- tond' tho Iilincia & Michigan Canal noross our State to Rock Island, with o navigablo feedor from tho Summit to Dixon, on Rock River, was ot incompatiblo with the Rock River improvo- mont, but nn auxilinry to it ; that thoro was suf- ficiont wator for both; that the water used for o canal (in whiok thoro was no ourront) was very iuconsidorable; and that tho intoresta of the oitios, villages, and farms north of Dixon, up to tha source of the Rock River, would hovoe a com- poting outlot, by thia canal; south of Dixon, to tho Mississippi River. As to the question of wator-power intorests, Mr. Worrell stated that, unless tho locksge on the main canal was nalmost incessant, thoso intorests would not bo materinlly damaged. In both of theso con- clusions, Maj.-Gen. Wilson and Col, Hodnutt, dlsflngfifl!he engineors, who wore in attondanco upou this Convention, agroed. Binco thon, Mr. Low, undor tho diroction of Unclo Sam, has made another survey. To tho_foasibility of n commorcial canal a8 surveyod by him, I eall your spacial attontion. It was the awful ship- ¢anni that Mayor Ilonry, of Storling, vonted his wrath upon und aroused Whiteside with; but, a8 it is not boforo tho paoplo or Congross, lot him rage, Lowell soys that boats fitted for Loko Michigan nre not suited for the Mississippl Tivor, sud por contrn. Why, thon, mnke & ship- ennal 7 In his cstimato of o commercial canal, ho gives tho figurcs on this wnmr—uupr]y ques- tion ; aud, it ngrecnblo, X hope you will give us an editorial or twoon thoe whole quostion, In the publishod intorviow of n newspaper roport~ or with Col., Utley, thoro was omitted tho amount of cubic focl por socond ip Rock River, which you will find in Low's report. Tako from 9,445 cubto feot per sacond, found in Rock River at low-water stage, the amount roquired for tho conal, minug what Buroan Oreck will supply, and you will seo how Dbasoloss aro tho fears of the Storlingites. The aky is bright. _Tho wators of Lake Michi- n and the Uppor Miselssippi aro destined to 0 conncctod by s water-channol across our Stato. Naturo has preparod, in part, tho way. He s not only a hiero. but a bonsfactor, who hastons tho duz. I send you _ the momorial of our Legislature, that of Tows, also the roport of your Board of Trade, on this subjeot, and ask, Usn the question of cheap transportation be more honorably or offeotually solved than by building this link, right In the very highway of empire and commorcoJ? o Con SrERLING, Til., March 80, 1674, To the Editor of The Chicugo I'ribune: 18 : The writer was not presont at the Canal ‘Convention in Rock Tsland; but, from what I learn from all parties, it reflosts but veory little cradit upon its projectors. It was to be sup- posed that froo spooch would at loast bo tolerat- od, and that any opposition to the cannl would be accorded a foir and honorable heoring. Tn this, however, we wero at fault, Everstbing was * cut and driod” beforchand and an evi- dent understanding hod that any attompt to di- vort attention from tho pot scheme of a canal from Hennopin to Rock Island, with & feedor fcom Dixon, should be gagged down at ol hoz- ords, At nll ovonts, U8 wus juot wheb was dono ; snd, had it not beon for tho porsiat- onco of thosa opposad to that schemo, aud tho fact that oven tho frionda of tho canal bacamo alnrmed aud ashamed of tuo indocent treatmont thoy had beon guilty of, the oppostion would never hava been permittod to be hoard. Your correapondent “ A," writing from Rock Tsland, evidontly fools uneasy under theirrecord, ond nziumgm to contraat tho sclflelncss of Stor- ling with the magnanimity of our sister city of Dixon, in thia : that tho lnttor city is willing to Do sacrificad for the public Fuod. ‘while Storling would live for self. Peoplo who havo lived in Dixon the longost will bo surprisod to Jlearn how self-nacrificing they renlly are; but most €onplo will believe thnt thoy aro just as selfish, in all that pertaing to their renl or imagined interosts, as Sterling or any other place where human natute rules, It is o well-known fact, thit, in ordor to have s foedor for o canal, takon from Rock River at Dixon, thore must first be built a good, substan- tinldam ; and whoever builds the canal must, of necoesity, build and maintain o boetter water- powor than will over bo crosted by private entor- yrige. ‘This fact our Dixon friends well kuow ; henco they can afford to ba magnanimous | Now, if you want to sco that others aro as solf-sacrificing ns Dixon, just sy to Storling and Rock Falls, ** e will start our canal just above your dam, and will build and maintain & fine water-power a8 at Moline ;” and you will sce that we, too, have got to that stato of human perfoction #o finely ascribed to our Dixon {rionds, aud are quito willing to be sacrificed for tho pullio good. I'he’ friends of this canal-scheme, whoreby Tack River is to bo robbed of its water, may just a8 woll understand firat as lnat, that self-prosorv- ation is the fivst instinct of all animatod lifo; and that the poople of thin county will nover tamely subinit to bo robled of o right that is oldar than tho Govornment itself ; aund that is, to have Rock Rlivor, with all of its bonefits, flow thirough her borders. & Tor myself, ILoavonever Lad any foars that tho wheals of time were to bo rolled back a hun- dred years, in order to oxplode ngain tho -oft- ropeatod folly, that cannls cannot bo mado avail~ able, ns a goneral rulo, for cornmorclal purposes ; Dbut, 80 long as politiciens aro nxious to ride publio rontiment_ for their own ends, and towns aro socking their own fancied olevation at the oxranao of their hard-working and economizing nelglbors, it stands s in hand to sorvo a timoly notico that, when \n wrong eo foarful is perpe- tratod, whatover thero is loft of us wiil bo thoro to witnoss it. . ‘The men engaged in this warfaro upon our in- tereats must know that it tnlkios far less effort to defont such & measure thau it does to carry if, ond that it will bo a long timo befora the Con- rews of the United Btates will rob the people of this county, not only ot their hard oarnings, but of a boon that God placed within our bordors. .We ask to be permittod to enjoy tho fruits of our own labor unmolestod, snd we pledgo the poople of Illinois that we will pot attempt or sanction a robbery of our neighbor's earnings to eurich oursolves. Very respectfully yours, A, A. Ferpewn, e GRAND RAPIDS. Location of the Government Build- inge. Special Dispatoh to 7he Chicago Tribune, Quasp Rarog, Mich,, April 2.—Privato ad- vices to your raporter from & porsou ot Wash- ington in"n position to know, placesit boyond o doubt that the location for the Governmont building to bo erooted in this_ city has beoh deolded wpor_nt tho Treasury Dopartment, al- though not officlally aunouncod, The ground to bo taken lios on the wost sido of Divislon stroot, from Lyon to Pearl atroots, nobwithstanding the sovoral awnora of rent estata theroon had alroedy apponled from tho awards of the Jury of Oom- gflua!nnurs, ~excopting one owner, " a s, Rath- un, ot PENNSYLVANIA. Conviction Under the Liguor Law. PHILADELPUTA, Do, April 2.—In tho Coust of Quarter Beuslony to-day, tho flrar conviotion.was bad undar tho Bunday Liquor law. A ualoon- keopor was convioted on the toatimony of a woman who teatificd that, in hops that sho coutd provent dofondant from Aullmf liquor to her Tsband, sho wont to dofendanf’s Lavern on Sun- her mother was siok, day, March 17, and said aud bought - halt o szhm of whisky, and then in pursuauco with her original duulgu .o prossouted Lihm. Defondant admitted tho sale, but_ snid it was for medicinal purpoacs, Tho' Judge hold that a tavorn-kooper bad no right to sell liguor on Bunday, & au spoilieoary, Beptanco deferred, 5 EAST ST. LOUIS. The Ilinois & St. Louis Bridgo—Nn~ tionnl Stock Ynrdw—Puacking — Tho CahokinCommons nud gourt of ikece ord Acts—Entublishing n Grade. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, 0 East 87, Lours, Iii,, March 20, 1874, This city of 10,000 iuhabitants, tho castorn branoh of tho # Futuro Groat,” ato,, and which has for #o long & timo beon a by-word, beon ‘lnughed at and derlded for ovon making any pretonsions to lift itself out of tho ‘‘alongh of dospond,” is now going to mako & bold nnd rapld strido townrds progross and groatness, and hopes oro long to gain a placo in tho catimation of othe or olties, not only in Illinols, but in othorStatos TIE TLLINOIS & BT, LOUIS BRIDGE 18 now noaring complation, and it is given out that, by the 18t of July, trains will bo ready to cross ovor, Tho work fs progrossing rapidly, sevoral liundrod mon bolng ongngod upon this structuro and its appronches. It is boing con- stryotod do that oll tho railronds (fourtcon in number) terminating at Enst 8t. Louls can, with vory little expongo, chiange their tracks sud run traine across without any delay or interruption to travol 3 and this will Do o groat ohange from having to be carted over on the forry-bonts and thumped around in old Iumboring omnlbuses, na tho custom lina beon in tho past. Accoss will be onsy for all kinds of vohicles in erogsing upon the bridge, as amplo provision iy mado for the wagon-roads, two in number going onch way,—ono for henvy nnd ono for light wagons,—which will accommodato all travel of this charactor ; aud the nfipxmmhou loading from tho difforent streots Will bo gradual aud without sny duenr. The Wigging Forry Company, which has the monopoly of the forry-businoss’ at this polnt, will still continuo tho transfor-busincss; sud it issaid that many tonms, especially thoso that aro_hoavily laden, will patronizo the forries in preferenca to _tho bridgo, espeolally where the toswms havo to doliver or lnul goods from noar tho lovee on tho wost sido. A charter has beon gecired and & company or- gonizod for tho purposo of running & Btreat-car lino_ neross the bridge ; and it is proposed to ex- tond it through this city to tho NATIONAL BTOOK-YATIDS, which are located just outside tho city-limits on tho enst, and whore tho tide of travol and busi- nees I8 now sotting in so rapidly. T'ho. business at theso yards, commencing loss than a yoar ago with small proportions, i8 now immense. Tgu oflicos in tho Bxchange Building, about 100 in number, are sll occupied by live-stock mon swho ropresent firma in Eastorn cities,.and who also havo their branches 1 Kansns and Loxns; and overy day oporators and buyers are presont from oll parts of tho country, These yards propose to handle most of the stock coming to thig-markot ; ond, a8 goon ns_tho bridge is completed, the tronsfor of stock across tho river will bo no trouble, as arrangements have already boon mado with the dilforent railronds whereby this dificulty will then be obviated. . PAOKING, One firm at the Natioual Yards (a branch of a Obicago houso) Lavo killed and packed 70,000 hogs the prosent scason ; and uow are sluugh- tering and I;::ckiug cattlo ot tho rate of 60 head por day, which arc uhipped in rofrigerator-cars to different points in tho Enat, 0 packing- houso of this firm, which was orected last sum- mor at o cost of 810,000, s enid to bo inforior to none in tho Wost in ita capacity and improve- monts, being espablaof killing 4,000 hogs por day. Ground bas been purchased ndjoining thoso yards by Quincy nnd Ciucinnati partios, who proposo to erect pacling-houses the coming gummoer, to bo ready for businesa noxt winter. DILLS PASSED BY TIE LEGISLATURE. ‘Tho bill known a8 the Cahokia Commona bill, which has boen. before the Logislatura for two or throo sossions, hus pssed and beon signod Dby the Govornor. 'Pheso commono consist of 0,000 nores_of land just south of and adjoinin, East Bt. Louls, fronting on tho Missiesippi River, directly opposito St. Louis, and extend down the river for eix milos, and aro about ono milo in dopth., This land ‘was ouce an old Fronch cloim, tho titlo of which hng boon in dispute for years; but, by tho passage of this bill, & good titlo can-now o given to purchasors, —thhus oponing up a graud fold for improvement to tlue city, and giviu% Ler tho opportunity to oxtond the limita in that direction whenever it becomes praoticable. Another important bill, that of the Court of Record, more properly known s tho !* Bast 8t. Louis Gity Court bill,"—which passed tho Logis- Iaturo only on Inst Wodnosday, will give to this, and perhaps two other cities in the State, a court lu whicl il canes cyu bo tried, oxcopt troason aud murder. THE GRADE QUESTION, 3 Tor the last three yonrs tho quostion of estab- Tishing o grade for this city had boen under dis- cyssion by our City Council, and various at- npts have beon made to prss an ordinance to this offect ; butso far thoy have failed, Atthe last session of tho Council it was decided to gub- mit Sthe Zquestion to a vate of tho poopla ot tho noXe municipsl election, April 7, 1874, Three grade systems will bo voted upon. The only ono that will bo offective in its rosults, and bo asuro protoction for the future from Tighewater, is tho * Ligh grado * (clevating tho ontire territory of tho city to and above the lovel of high-water mark of 1844). Such is the opinion of practieal nud_sciontifio engincors ; aud, if this fimde ig established, then, Linst St. Louis, with hor peculiar and favorablo location, with ller prosent ndvantagos and future pro pocts, can take rank eido by side with hor sister citios ; and thoro i no reason why she should not, at some day not far distant, bocomo the socond city of the great Suckor Stato, Erra Oaom A‘SCENE IN GREENWOOD. Mow & Lady Carricd ¥ler Foint at o Funoral Irss Xishop's Anxioty About Rer Husband’s BurialePlace, From the New York World, March 28, . Nathaniol C. Bishop, ono of tho purties to tho fawous Bishop divorce suit thut bas figured be- fore courts nnd juries for many years, was buried Thuraday afteragon in Greonwood Come- tory, M, Bishop died at his rosidence in West Forty-fourth atraet on Monday morning, aged 78 yoors., Bofore Lis doath ho exprossed & wish that his wifo shonld not bo permitted to enter tho room in which lio lay dead, or to participato in nny way in tho funeral corcmonics. - rangomonts were mado by the fathor-in-law of liis daughtor by his firat wife for the burial of the body, aud ho promised to pay tho nec ofsary oxpongos of the funoral, na litigation had scarly swallowed up the largo private for- tune that Mr. Bishop hnd whon ho rotired from notive busincess years ago. An intimation was rocolved Tuoesday that tho wife desired to have the control of tho funoral arraugemonts. She lind alrendy ondeavored to outor the room in which the body lay, but tho landlady of the liouso resisted hior pftempt, in cecordauco with tho dying wish of Mr, Bishop. Yinding that she was baulked in the attempt to sco the Lody of her doad husband sho determined to exorcito ox- clusivo control ovor the arraugements for the funeral. 8ho roquosted that tho funoral take placa fu Mr. Tyng's Church of tho Holy Trinity, on Madison avenue and TYorty-soventh street, whoro she and Mr. Bishop bad for the introduc- tory yoars of their matriod lifo attended with ro- ligious rogularity. No objeotion was oferad to this, and tho day snd time of the funeral was arranged for Thureday at 1 o'clock. At that hour tho body arrived at tho church eud the Rov. Dr. Tyng bogan the Iuneral sorvico, There wug only nbout n dozon porsons in tho church, but the wife was not of the nuwber, Whils the ser- vicos wero 1n progrees an unoxpeeted intorrup-, tion took piice. W'he Bon of My, Bishop, & yonug mun about 19 yoars of asgo, who is also n son of tho dead man, cutored tho church and on Dehalf of hia mother requosted that the service be discontinued, but thig the undertalier knew it waa impossivle to do, and so told the young mun., Tho lattor kept quict until the gorvico was ovor, aud sottlod bimsclf in a pew ut tho rear of tho church, Thu sorvicos ouded, tho caskot was opaned and tho frionds wore allowed to tuke flunl.look at the faco of tho dead. No objeotion was made to this Pmcndm‘a natil the cutkot had boon closed again, I'lioyoungman then aroso, however, ond requosted tho undertalor to socure the body there until his mothor gave or- ders for {ts ramoval. Ilor dosiro wis to bive o private burial, hosaid, on the morrow. Tho un- dertaker, who had been proviously warned that if e oboyed any oxder from tho’ lady ho must look to her for hLis fees, told the gon that if his mother would doposit $100 within one hour’s time he (the undertaler) would deluy tho funeral for o private burial, All this timo Mrs, Bisho) romatued in the streot, and tho Lour passed, but no monoy was brought forward as a do- posit. The undertaker then determiued to carry out the fumoral, os it had been delayed long enough, and was about to lwce the cofin iu tho heurse, when Brs. ishop poromptorily forbude its removal, The undertaker wus nonplussed, as was nlso tho clorgyman, and likowise tlo persons prescnt, o detormined at last to submit to hor wishea, when he remomborod aw ordinanco of the Loard-of Heoalth, which forbado him to keop a body moro than four days attor death without obtaining & n‘unlnl pormlt for that purposo, The Hergaunt of Polloo from the sub-provinet st the Graud Contral Dopot ndvised that a tolograph bo sont to tho Board of Moalth for advico. Thin sug- gostion was adopted, nnd whilo awsiting aun nnswor Mrs, Bishop at lnst consented to tho ro- moval of the bodyif sho and her son could bo glven a carriago for thoir oxclusive une, 'Those prosont agreed at last to submit to hor domaud, up tho dolay had boon provoking, besides dostroy- ing all tho solomnity of thooccaslon. The cortogo thonlofttho churoh, It consistod of throo earriagos and the hoarso, Whon the funoral brought up at Groenwood tho wifo got ont and stood at the gato and orderad that tho body bo deposited in tho receiving vault, DBut Mr, Blaliop ownod & family plot in which his first wifo wan buried, and the gravo lind beon alroady dug_ for tho xe- coption of his remaings, so the undoertaker po- litoly informed tho lady ot the fact, but M, Dishop was obatinate, ~ The body way then car~ riod to tho gravo, but Mrs, Biskiop positively ro- fusod to have tho undertakor bury it. Tho un. dortakor was onco moro in s quandary. And whon at Inst tho undortaker tried to forco a burisl. Mre, Bishop oxclaimed vehomontly that sho would flxmp into the gravo and obligo them to put Mr. Bishop's body on top of her. The spectators wore torrified at hor vehemenco, bub woro not propared to #ce hor sult the notion to the word. Novertholoss, she jumped into tho gravo forthwith. The sensation was intoneifled by tho wild oxclamations which Mra. Bishop made that tho lndios prosent wero *im- propor women,” *lhad poisoned hor husband,” and wishaed to got him ' out of thoir way.” Monn- whilo tho son liad boon unr.lonvnrlnfi to onlint the favor of tho comotory superintondont to grant him o dny's timo to obtain tha nocossary funds by which tho foo for o recelving-vault could be ob- tained. Tho scono at tho grave of Mr. Dishop Lrought tho suporintondont to & reluctant con- gont fo the agreemont, and_the body was placod in tho rocoiving-vault, much to tho roliof ‘of tho spoctators. It was only thon that the lady jumped out of tho grave. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Mullott Is not worth a million. He would hard- Iy fotch thiat, . —The Worcester Spy u‘:fs that, n a Senator, Boutwell has provoed a sad feilure, —J. Q. Howard, ox-Collector of Keokuk Coun- ty, Towa, is defaultor to the smount of 6,700, —Tonnyson, poot laureate, hasn'’t as yot writ ton 5 poom_on tho Pullman' cars, Jataly intro- ducod into England, ~Tho Brandon sW{n.) Times says that tho Ripon Commonweallh haa boen bought by Gon, Bramon of Dartford. Q —Tho Eplscopal residonce of the Bishop of Towa, at Daveupore, iy completed, at. a cost of $20,000, all of which is paid. —Under tho lmguluo of aolotter from Mayor Ludington, tho 8t. Pul Raiload Compony, through tho Hon, Alox, Mitcholl and Mr. Russoll Bago, hns rather tardily promised to pay the bonds givon by the City of ‘Milwaukeo to the Ln Crogeo Railrond, for which tha 8t, Paul Company ia liablo,—Milwaukee Sentinel. . —Tho genoral offices of tho Indisnapolis, Bloomington & Westorn Rallroad were quiotly romoved from Urbana, I, to Indianzpolis on lant Monday night., The officos of the General Froighf and Passengor Agonts were romoved & yoer ago. Tho localald voted by Urbaun was Knrfly baged on tho location thero of theso of- cos. —Tho North Adams (Mass.) Transcript lolls of n yonng lady thoro who was troubled with n goro tonguo, and consulted a physician, who at onco pronouncod it o cnso of suuburn. The voluble Iady was chagrined, and there were evi- dent and immodiate symptoms thot the tongue W8 growing worse. X —Lester Soymour, an adventuror, who recent~ Iy wont to Pittafield, Moss., ond ongaged Mre, cott-Siddons to lfilvu o reading éhors, pnid that lady with o worthless chock for 8250, pockoted tha entiro roceipts (sbout 3600) nnd fled, leaving othor bills to tho amouut of several hundre dollars. Mrs, 8iddons_being under engagoment to tho Boston Lecturo Buresu, tho 9260 loss falls on them. —Isanc Hinckloy, Prosident of the Philadel- phis, Wilmington & Baltimoro Railroad Com- fimuy, is hero [Washington] for tho Eurpnau of nforming the Postmaster-Genernl that, unless the Governmens shull give assuranco looking to thio paymont of sums domandod for wso of post- al cars, his Company will withdraw thom at onco and subscituto box-cars for tho mails, This ia in accordanco with a resolution of tho Company passod on Wodnosday.—* Perley,” fo Hoslon Journal. —A citizen of Litorberry, whose namo sas givon to us as Higgine, was o irritated over tho fact that & young man of tho. neighborliood had muried his danghtor, in spito of him aud againat hia will, that, ajday or two since, ho mot him the firat timo since tho \mdlflnfi. sud proceeded to express his indignation by o pistol-shot, or moybe two. ‘I'heobject of dislika mado himsolf searce, and thoroby escapod furthior bodily harm than o very bad scare.—Jacksonville (i) Journal. —Wo liave it upon what should bo reliable authority that an eldorly young mun of Bloom- ticld latoly wrote to an Eastorn firm for * a sure mothod of gaining tho love, confidonce, and os~ toom of suy ono you_please,” Ho received by rowurn mail six powders, with inatructions to talio threo of them himsolf the firstday, and con- trive to administer tho other three to thie objoct of his afToctions on tho second. He succeodod so far as to take tho first powder, and it com- plotoly cured him. _It filled tho sching void by cronting anothor.—Bloomfield (Ia.) Democrat. —a. W. Clark, of Clarkatou, the well-known fish-propagator, 1a now engaged in_stooking tho various Inkes of Michigan with whitefish, Laving alrendy sent out over 100,000 spawn for this pur- poso. . Ho has some 2,000,000 of tho whitoflsh ove, cithor already hatehod or in tho process of hatéhing, and most of thoso ho will distiibuto throughout the State, placing saveral thoussnd in each lnko in differont scctions: Whitefish at- tain maturity in throe or four years, and it 18 be- Tioved that in tho courso of eight or ton yoars, it tho oxporimont of propsgation proyes Huccoss- ful, tho lakes of Michigan muy bo mado to abound with this fish,—Detroit Tribune, —Sovoral papors in Iowa huve boen misled by an incorract statement in the Ohicago dailies to the offect that there nre just 100 counties in this Stato, tho Inst and 100th" boing Belknop, formed by omasculating Pottawnitamio. This sounds yioll, but it isn't trae. Tho Logislnturo have or- dered au eloction in thot county to see if the people aro willing that such » division should be mmfl:, and thal’s ny noer a8 Bolknap comes,to having nn existonce, Tho yoto will be taken this fall, when, it is possible, Towa may have 100 counties, which is one more than we now have.— Des Moines Register. —It hos leakod out within the post weol, though the discovery was mado some timo ago, aud kopt secret from ivtorosted motives, thnt & Inrge doposit of jron-ore oxists in the westorn part of :){nls county. All wo can learn of the matter for tho prosont is that the ore i8 of the bost quality, oxtonds ovor 600 acres, and that g party have alveady socured the laud., Our in- formaut states that tho tract lies whero tho lino of the proposod Northorn Itoad will run after leaving Waussu, Locnted in the midst of a heavy forest, which it will tako years to exhnust, this oro can bo sieltod on the ground into a su- perior quality of iron, loading oventually to the ostablishmont in that section of tho several clnsgos of iron manufactories nnd tho industries apportaining to thom,—Shawano County (Wis.) ournal, —The Governor of Goorgia has leased out the convicts ot about £8,000 por_suumm, They are seatiored about tho Btato, and are to bo empluy- od in mining, railroadivg, and farming, T'lie Governor recoived bids for moro conviots than Lie could supply. —Tho somowhat colebrated Albertson cnro iy oxplainad in the last McCGregor (lows) News. I'. D. Albertson had been in the omploy of Bay- sett & Hunting, of MoGrogor, as whoat-buyor at +a new station on tho McGrogor Westorn Rail- rond, nomed Bassolt, 8 miles from Nasbus, ‘Albertson went to Nashua, and goton a * sproo.’ 1fo had in his possossion $1,100 belonging to Li omployers, When ho got sobor ho found him- solf 8200 short. Frightonod, ko fortified tho situntion with soveral other drinks, when, con- cluding that he mifiht as woll swing for auold phoop s for s lamb, ho *Jit out™ with tho reat. Boxsions was put upon bis track, and followed 1iim to Dubuque, Chicago, Bt. Louis, and Kan- 40 City,—at which placo ho was foind in_jail for somo potty offense, dead-broko and in debt. Tlo was brought homo and incarcorated in the Clnyton County Jail, and will bo tried about the 18t of May. ‘—Much excitomont has provailed at Bozeman, Mon,, regarding tho telogram - recelved from Waghington by the Uovernor of Moutans, who had beon ordered to bring back tho Yellowstone oxpodition, ‘Lo snxiety of tho people subsided, howevor, whon it becamo known that Gov, Potts telographad in reply that the expedition was out of rtaclh. —Objaction s mado at the nction of Ohief Justica Waito on Friday last, in ordoring thint as Friday noxt 18 Qood Friday, motionn will bo lieard on tha duy preceding. It fs asked by what authority doos tho United Btates Suprome Court rovognize one Triday as any botter than anather, enpecially, as the common phrase has it, * Go {1 not recognized in the Coustitution," and that {nstrumont prohibita all raligions sacta, —Ou Baturdsy afrernoon, Louls Davis tied a tin-pan fo tho tail of u dog Bolonging to Molclior Erdau, The dog, howover, not valishing the up- pandnkm refused to run through the troeta to attrack tho nttoution of other dogs, snd turned Jupon his tormenter and bit Lim on the right hgnd. This Inocousod Davie to siich onextont that he seized & olub and Lilled tho animal. Erdnn, the ownor of tho dog, thon obtalned & warrant for tho arrest of Davis, Justice Kries nd{'unlull tho mattor by ordering Davis to pny §10 to Erdan ns valuo for tho dog and the costs attonding the sorving of tho warrant, which he did.—Rallimore Bun, —Ohaoplain Sunderland, of tho United Binates Honato, accidontally omitted to mention tho Vice-Prouldent in bis supplication at the Bumnor fanoral gorvicos in the Bonate Chamber. Bo, aftor making o vain offort to find tho sgont of tho Asraciatod Pross, ho induced & spocial cor- respondent to insert tho omitted words in his roport of the prayor, and it was mado comploto by tolograph. —_———— ' OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. NEw Yonx, April 2.—Arrivod—Steamahip Pom- - merauis, from Hamburg ; Btoamer Novada, from Liverpool. Iavenroorn, April 2.—Steamsbip Canadian, from Baltimoro, has arrived ont. ek S e EAST LIBERTY LIVE-STOCK MARKET. EasT Linenry, o, Aprll 2.—Oxrrrr—Arrivals, 56 cnri; bost, 6@ONC: medium, G2@c; common, G@axgo; hille, .’l,lqt?lc. §1160s-Arcttal, 435 "cars ; best, $0.2090.407 York MFrivln, 1 car; bint, §1.0088605 me- RIBBONS. Ribbons! ‘We add to-day to the great attrac- tions alrendy offered in. these goods large lines of Gros Grains, Taffetas, ' Moires, Velvets, Fanoy Plaids, Bro- oades, and Roman Striped Neck and Sash Ribbons at the Extremely Low Prices heretofore so highly appraci- ated by our Customers, We solicit attention also to a lot of 2,000 choice Fans at & great bargain, and to the Superb Stock of Ornamental, Fanoy; and Toilet Artioles now opening, by far the most attractive of the kind in the Weat Chas. Glossage & Co. 106, 108 & 110 State-st. 60 & 62 Washington-st. BOOTS AND SHOES, 50 & 52 MADISON-ST., Have this week receiv- ed 50 CASES of Men's Boots and Shoes, in French Calf, hand-sew- ed; Boots and Congress Graiters, of their OWN MAKE; French Walk- ing Shoss, machine- sewed Boots, Alexis Ties, and Laced Shoes, and which they offer at VERY LOW PRICES. Fverything in the Shoe ine. HATS, TERRY EXATET The Nobby TAPER CROWN SILE HATS menufactured by that loadin Hatter of New York, J. R. TERRY, SOLD ONLY BY BISHOP & BARNES, Cor. State and Monroe-gts, TRUSSES. CURED by Aaxsh's Tadicsl Curg | AL kinds of acee, Appi- “Dofurmitios, Eo.," fiftod snd war: rantod. ¥, A, BOWLES (lato Marsh & Bowlos), 103 Washingtorat. EDUCATIONAL. COOK COUNTX NORMAL SCHOOL, BPRING TERM COMMENOES TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1874, For particulars addross D, 8, WENTWORTH, Prinoipal, Knglowood, Cook Co,, Tl AMUSEMENTS, o ACADEMY OF MUSIO. FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MRS, JAS, A, O .A TG, ‘Whon sho witl appenr {n her favorite rolo of the CGRAND DUCEHESS. TaMorrow Matinoe-LA FILLE DE MAD, ANGOT. Baturday Night-FORTUNIO, =~~~ GLOBE THEATRE. TFRIDAY, APRIL S, The Lust Performanco but Two of the Jee Bros. and Chrisde’s PANTOMIME TROUFPE, IN UEO, L. FOX'S Humpty Dumpty. TO.-MORROW (SATURDAY) LAST HUMPTY MATI. B~ Look out for Mnudly" 8. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, FRIDAY EVENING, April 8, BENEFIT OFJ.J, SULLIVAN THRES GLORIOUS PIKOES, Dreams of Delusion, Boots at the Swan, 'T'o concluds with the fifth sot of Shakapeare's groat play, RICE AR IIXIX. atninn, SRR R AT R lns,