Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1874, Page 2

THE INGENDlAflIES_. Arrest of Edward Reignolds on the Charge of Firiog_ His Premisess He Fervently Denies His Guilt-- Hunting His Unole, Mr. Anderson:Also Asserts His Innocence. The Grand Jury Will Take up Staadon's Case at Once. . ‘insurance Matfers. EDWARD REIGNOLDS.. Tho detootion of Stnadon in his attompt at srson bas not had the hoped-for effoct, atill another. instanco. of fucondiarism having oc- |- curred Monday night in the building on:the southoast cornor of Taylor and JofTordon streotd. An alarm was stimok at 11 o'clock, which was promptly auswored by tho engliies, Aftor tho fire had ‘been oxtinguished,” which was dono without much difiiculty, an examinntion of the building showed thnt throe glass jams had been pluced in tho side wall, botwoon the Inthing and clapbonda, . Thoy wore FILLED WITH KEROSENE, and from esch of them hung i siring of sat- urated ragd, loading to the rear of tho building. Foitunately, the flames did not reach the conplo‘ of gullons of kerosone in the jars.. Undernoath the sholves on ouo sido of the room was s largo vilo of rags, which wera plazing farlously Whon tlo bullding was onterod. R » This room was ocenpied by Edward l'lulgqnl\\n ns n saloon, and suspiclon'was’ at once dircoted 1o him, ‘Whon ho enme hombo lie was arrested, put {n the Union Btréck Station; and -brought yestordny moining before Justice Scully, who' Leld him in tho sum of $5.000 to'appear: Satur=" dny. Tho building “wns damaged by fire'and vater to the amannt of perhaps 8100. Had tho fiamon ronched tho off, howover, tho loss of property would have beon. much .greator:.aud . sevoral lives might have beon sacrificed. , . AT THE MOUSE ., ., . . in which tho fire occurrod o TRINUNE' raporter’ found tho occupnuts quito ready o givo in<'| formntion, but their laek of acquaintauce - with the Inglish langunge mado the . gathoring of {fucts n rather ditticnlt mattor. . No loss than five familios lived fn tho building, which is s two- atory [rame, and quita doep, the front portion of the lowor flat having boon oceupied’ by the defendrut for somo tima pnst as a liquor and Juger-beer raloon. According to tho othor ton- auts, bo had not done much business, aud the, saloou could not have been n paying aliair, | A REMARKABLE CIRUUMBTANCE o on the evaning- of -tho- fira’ was tho leaving: of their guartors Ly tho Reignolds family at about linlf-pust 8 o'clock for. tho purposo of taking a wall,—n thing they had never Loen knowa to do bofore,—and, in- connection - with" this 'walk, it was noticed by tho neighbors™ that tho:whole family donned for tho occasion their very best clothes, When they returned to their hiouso, it was in the posseseion' of four policemen, aud bora tho usnul ovidences of -Laving been . tho renno of o fire, Nobwithstanding this, Rojguolds took mnttors vory cnimly, aud; when'one ‘of -tho offieery dorived hig company to tho' station, ho exlubiced not the slightest™ coricetn. It was stated that 3 B “ REIONOLDA’ BUSINESS & was by no meaus i a flourishing coudition; and thue he was bebind in_his rent to Lis Iandlord some £64. When in jail, the prisonor was virlted by the lndlord, whom lio avked to o -Lsil for him,—n proposition which faled to most with sugihing ke tul approval. - o e n old man who, with his wife, ocauplod -a couple of rooms over that in which (ho flva broke | out, stated that he could never agnin, under the cucumstances, foel friondly towards tue defend- ane. It was not so mnch tho act of incendin- rism which sroused his ire as an -indiguity to which he was subjected on ita- account: --llo-and hiis aged spouse were, at the timo the fire broke ont, fast aslcop in bed, and when- thoy awoke it was Lo fiud themselven onveloped in smoke -and o vile stench of kerogeno, Tho old lady dressed herself hiautily, but the old mau could ‘not find bis clothex, and as the flamea burst suddenly through the wall into the room -he rushed out into the street in his singlo garmont, and was foreed to reek sbelter from tho publio gaze in the dwellinsz of s neighbor-until ono of the fire- mien, pitving his position, sesrched for the missine gatwents sud flung” them out of the window, - i / THERE CAN UE NO DOUBT ax thint a dinbolical outrage- has beou perpetrated, and, a8 tho thing stauds at present, tho evidence pomts \-mK atrongiy to Reignolds-as the perpe- trator, When he “left the bumlding thore were Four™gn souls lott in it; Romno of whom had gono to bed for the night, and, hnd the fire'been al- lowed to get furthor hendway, they would probably have been suffoeated with fhoe smoko, which was’ very denso in its unturo and pormeatod thorongh- Iy 6very nook aud corner of the houso, ‘Vho lue centive to the commnisston of the-outrage: by gnolds was, ns usial, overinsuraueo, Iis Rtack of whisly aud liquors, worth probably Tiot more than 20, was- jusured for $350, aud”his furnitinre, worth porhaps £50, was insured- for £160), 1 the Germama Yire Innranco Company, of Frie. I'n. 4 Laxt evening o Tninose reporter visited Mr. Reiznolds ut his smail bt tidy spartment'in woat is kuown a9 the County Jail, and ques- tioned i 1egara to tho affair, * Io-was unot at firnt inchned to be very communicative, but, after o tew moments urrjvuaxcmun convers satiounl skivmushimg, s S5 TECAME JOUE ACCOMMODATING,— = ° indeed, volublo. Beiny fuformed that if he had - anything to sey for himsolf it shonld' appear in print, ho replied that he didn't know what :to kv, us tho ofticera did nat lob bim seo tho sitin~ tion at his houso when thoy arrestod him.' ‘hoy would not lot Ium seay long ouongh. . i The conversation wenl on sontowhst a8 fol- o5 4 A 7 serorter—Roignoldy, where wora' you' Jast iug during your gbsonce from your bouse: or saloon ? * SEEING TIIR UNCLE, | H Reiznolda—~1 hud govo ta virll me’ uncle, sir, I hadw’t sieen lun for o lang time. ¢ Nevorter—=Whera did yoar unclo live 7 Reignolds—0a 2 cannl-boat, ki, Tiepor Whero waa the eannl-boat 2 Reignolds—In tue river, sir, betwaen Madison nud Adiung stroets, Ibaduot seen him' for a ime, #ir. 1 hed wy wife "and daughtor th mo, und wa did not nd: him at ‘homo at first, but he camo aftorward. In the meantine, wo\went out to uno or two otlier piaces, and wo tuf‘)xl( rup or t\l\ia mlmks.] a eporter—Ilow lung did you stay out Hc!gnnlds—wn wore nul.yunul ?nhl‘m;hl sir, 1 bud ot ween him for @ Joag timo, ! Raportor—Whiat did you wikbto see your unclo and awnbjor¢ : Raignolds—Oh for o soclul bit, sir. T hadu’ soun I in o long timo, . Beporter—What time dId you geb homo? Tterguolds~-Ql, soon nltar miduight, sir, I8 EMOTIONY, Toportor—What did you thinkwhon you fopud tho ailicors thera? Tteignolds—Ok, T don't know, sir, ‘1 didn't Luow what it meant, Tieportor—luw do you explain the condition of things whon yon gok tharo ? Teignolds--Indeed, I dou't know, sir. Thadn't no chanco to see it. The allicera took me righ| away. : Jteportor—You know what they found there, don't yon? Raignolda—Yes, sie; but I had no tima to look around. 1 dou's know how nmiuch was turned. DI KEROSENE, | Roportar—Itow ubont tha bottlen of kerosena which tiev fonnd bhore? 1teignolds—0ON, sir, they had stood nnder the cauntor for o fnar and o half iu the skme placo, T uved to 1l chem from tha Xogs bocausn thoy |- weie handy o fill the lamps from. Thoy bad boen 1 the samo place for more than s yeur, Nepurter—Ilow abaut the saturated rags ? Tteignolds—1 do not know, sir, T nover eaw them hefore. 1 dou't know auything about thwnn The ollcers dudn't give mo tima to lovk L thom, TIE INQUMANOE, Rtaportor—You woro insured, wera you not? Livignolds—Yos, sir, for $500, Eeporior—lin what company ? Hergnolda—1 doh't kuow, sir. I nevor looked b the policy, The agents came to ot mo to in- nure goversl times beforo 1 ewred. ‘I don't kuow what company it was in. I nover earod noything uboul fires, Bume peoplo, when tiny bob B 130, wlvAYS ruu to it, but 1 naver o npar thim. T take no plensure fn Yhom. (mover | waht to a fire {n my lifo. ‘i | ENEMIES. “Reportor—How da vou actount -for the rags and ElTn bad looks.of things mendrally 2- e Ttoignolds—Woll, sir, L hinve enomics, Evory- el 86 bave Lo Thore was a Dutch- e aloon, and his children webe 0 they usedl L quarrel and Ones [ told Wim that T if ho didn't keep boudy hins them, |, man lived over my ® older than ming, an atmo my childron. wouldn't tand it_sny longer, hiwchiidren off-mite - Rnj uncr—m‘.’y othor onomina 2 Tolgnolda—Woll, sir, thoro \was once that soma- followa broko mydoor down at night with atoaox; * and laid the house opon;. I lindn't-anv rovalver, and eo I couldu’t moot timm ag a min ought, an they got away, aud I noyer know who thoy werd. But Igbolluvu {hoy livad protty near'me, " TRoportor—Was thoro snything olo of tha kind evor happencd ¥ e g Roignolda—Yes, sir. I sloop vory sonnd fn- dacd, sit, and I novor hoprd {6, mysalf; but, ono moruing, whon Iwoke up I fonnd my wholoside- rwalk covered with bricks, aud'the neighbor told ma that thoy had beou thrawu againet my houto in the night, sir. Reporter—Ald yoti nevar heard {t?* Relgnolds—No, sir. I sleop ver toll yo, sir, I.binvo' cnomica aroun Another time g windows wara .all-‘brokeu’ und I conldn't nd ot avything sbout te.” .* !Keynrtnr—;fio yolt never took - any ‘intorcat in fron AT YOS 0N Reignolda—No, sir, I nevar.run to thom. . Roportor—You didn’t Jmow, '{bon,” tant yoitr proporty was insured fov swore’ than it “was worth? o ol sound)* I - thore, v, .oy i s me BTOOK. © © ad ** Rolgnolds—No, sir ; stid 1 don't kioy it now, Thero was my, stook, of liquors, add my il ture, sud my olothes, atid. o' good buelnces, - 1 1iad beon thera for two yorrs, aud I was mokiog #p, onest Jivin'; and God kuowa_wiint. I'should waut to bury inyeol? ip, for, i "No, ule 3 I novor thzbught of it.. I nover ‘saw. the rags until tho officors, shiowod tliom to me. . Whab sbould I want to spofl my business for? . + . Tteporter—And you dida’t khow what company you worse {nsured in? | i 2 Roignolds—No, sir. 1didn't want to fnsuro mesllf ot all.’ The man aaked mo to many, timos boforo I listenod to him, ; - Roportor—And you didu’t know meko. monoy it yonr sfock waw burne 1 Rofgnolda—No, sir. ; . Ttoportor—You did not own tho bullding? ° Reignolds—No, sir, N N _ Thesi My, Befguolds, took ‘up the strain, and ‘wauted to know how “miuch bail would.bo ro- quired,—i¢ it would Lo wore than £600." If4 wantod to_get. out by to-morrow., Balug told that it would probably bo more than that, as'thiy was.a bad time for incondiaries, roal or suspect-: od, L6 rolapsad inté mogdinoss.,. Reviving, how- -ever, bie oxpreasod bis sutprisg that bia wifa had not bepn to ses him,—' nor me daughter, nor mo uucle, nor mie sunt.””, Ho ayppuuu_xi tho officers would not lot thom como, LR * With regard to boing nirict and savora with in- condiaripaal the preseng, crisis, Mr. Roignolds ngreed outively, ** It 18 right," ho snid; L don't .complain of that, but the olicera didu't give mo any. chanco. .I don’t know anything aboat it,” #nid he 3 I don't kuow Low niuch wae bitrned. “But it is all right, They ought, to be strict,”. with iwhich honeat cotfossion thie reportor loft him with an improssion of blarney. ; AARON ANDERBON., ... .. . Asron Anderson, the person who has atinino an infamoits: notoriety by an alleged attompt to fire tlio'premises No. 217° Portland avenug, was _brought before Justice Boyden yostorday, morp:. ing, and his esso _continued- till Baturda; bail being fixed . at $2,000.- . Boing uunble to give il ‘he was taken to the Gonnty Jail, and confined in “cell No! 68, whore Lo waninterviewed yostorday -aftornoon by & TRipysy reporior. . A .THE PRISONER, ! 549 : 18 & good loohing; man, loss than 80 yenrs of age, -and spenks tho ‘Englisli latiguago ‘without' tho slightest approdcli io'd foroign tocont, although 0 {8 by birth & Scandivavipu. " Me'has'a aheor~ {ful, agroeable- manuoer, and wonld never bo pick- ed out of & crowd.ss one likely to commit tho " dovilish orimo of arson, « Another man ocenpies the snma coll with Andoraon.. The following was the subsatance of. .. o i s ¥ 4 v.: THB CONVERSATION : bebween the raporter. and tho prisonot: .. . . ;' R.—Andorson, I live come to got a stalémont fraw you rolative to the incandinry businesa for which yon aro arresied. P A.—~Wall, I gavo wy statement to, Supt. Relim . this moruiog. T am willing to toll what I koow. .—Yoll it.thon, . M A.—I know nothing at all about the fire.” T had not boeunear tho placo for two daya beloro, My family wontinto the couatry three woeks " ngo, aud the people up-alairs had” the key il nothing to do with Inying the fre-trap, and . knew notliing about tho way it'was done until I read it in somoof ‘the papers. S e & THE INSUBANCE. —You carried a hicryy ingurance, didu't you ? . A.—~Not riore thaf what my goody warraited, I bnd been insured all along, and had no object in setting fire to the place at all. v 3 Tt.—How long haye you been In Chleago ? A,—Sinco 1870, "I have alwdys Lorne a ‘good charictor, This in the first time any kind of .a ailminal charge has boen brought agntust ‘me. 1 do not feol any alarm about my trial, becatrs”. I bad nothing at all to do with tho attomptod burning, . % It,—There appeara to ba agninst you, howevor. i o A.~TI%inow thera Is; it looks satrong, ‘but I can't help that, The public miund s exclted any- Way over 0 many firas, and, of courss, that w{ll have a bind offect, ‘That affair ‘'on North' Clarik streot was a bad ono, S 4 R,~1Io thore anytbing clso you degire to say relative to the chargo aguinet yoir? ' & A.~Nothing. I am content to await tho resul of wy trial,, | i Vs Kou' would up? a l;;nity strong’ case .’ THE INNURANCE MEN. . Tha tieinago of Mayor Colyin, to tho Common Council Monday .avening has -inspived the lu- surance mon .with moro* hope for: roform fit ro- gAxd to fire: mattora in thia city thun they have heretofore "entortnined. Thoy bolieve that the Mayor ia 'in carnest, and that the Common Council will esrry: ont his recommondations, More i oxpectod from this source than from the much-talked-of Citizens' Committeos, Nove of tho citizons ‘appointed on the - varions commit- tacs last weok to act in’conjunotion with tho Dudoriwriters hava ‘as yob mado their “appear- anco, aud, consequontly, ne meetings bavo boon hold. - A number of the Enstorn™insurance companies, liko most of the English - ones, nre moving very cautiously, aund rofuse to undor- ‘writa for the Yresom + and most ‘of the compa~ niey, oven including the focal ones, underwrite in the bettor portion of tha city only, rofusing to take riska in oxtra-liazardous neighborhoods. The mauy cugos of incendiarism lately discov~ ered lind o Very wholesomo offecs on -the insur- ance agents doing business in this city, and it is not likely tha they wilt overinsare any proporty for soma time to come. (O _THE CUICAGO TOARD:OF UNDERWRITERS held anotlier secret meoting vostorday aftornoon at tholr rooms, No. 127 LaSallo strest, for tho purpore-of further considering tho recommons tiong mado by the National-Bonrd at Now Yo Oun motion of Mr. R, I, 8mith, a resolution wax adopted empowering the DPresident: and Sceratary of ‘the Board to offer s rowacd- of 21,000- for the-arrest and oonviction of any Terson or persons for firing or uuem’ning to fire uny building within the cicy limits. - Iho rosoin-" tion also -provides tor Jiberal rawards for infor- mation which Jends to the conviotion of incendi- arien. The- Hoirotary was instructed to: huve ihesa resolutions printed on large placardy and postod around the ity A resolution was also adoptod that 1 par cont additional Lo ehargad on Luildings over 70 feot Lieh, uud on buildings having -Mannacd -roofs,« aftor Auguat 1. On buildingd loss than 70 foo igh halt of 1+ per cent additional- will bo chirrged, Anotler regolution wna pnesed. that, on eop- arate bintldings connactod by openings, 10 conta on tha hundred ude oy ditionul hall be chirged aftor Another meoting wijl ba 1ield this afternoon ab ot i o s ol Shev il ok 0l ug Ll by the Nationa Board, & ¢ Fecomuendulions —— HMISCELLANEQUS. BIAADLN, The reputed author of the North Qlark stroot gunpowder” plob was brought befue Justico Kaufmanu vesterdny morning on the chargo of “altompled murder proforrod againat him by tho poleo olicprs. Tho ohargo was read aud contine uanco applied for by the proscontion, who ro- quired timo to propato propoerly their case, Banden #uld ho was ready fo trial, 1o wanted to “pooit anybody could prevent Lis eolilng powder,” Tho Justice granted a continuanca Ul Aug. 4, at 8 o'clock a. m,, holding tho priron- er in 10,000 bonds undor the sccond obargo, making #14,000 altogother, 'This amount way vot forchcoming, Justice Kanfmann rofusing to take rarther bail from Shivloy, who had alroady | surnisliod tue §4,000, unloss ho qualitled, Btouds [ e v i) sior Har TR .T'hera iA ninoh f)l-will againat the: scoused on’ tho North : 8ide, whero ha sooma to bolprotty gonorally bolloved ‘gullty, snd soma 'dhtlvaiast. WAA Ae oxtravagant gs to waato n coil 0f ropa/by stretehing 1t acrosn Olark stroot noar his:btora sostorday morning, Thero hung from it n cmu-}'o of placards’ronding '* Nio Staadom—Iang | - “Tho_Testimony 'Substantially What' Has’ | Btran) him, ' b Itheing consldored adviaablo to take np lils ¢uko ww woon wa- powsiblo, - tho Btalo's - Attornoy w{mnlny l[}efllu_d for s spooial venire for & Grand Jiiey; ' 1E- will'meot td-day; and Btaadon' will bo brought boforg it immedintely.” ' TR 2 ‘¢ EXTRA WAZARNOUB. ! ' - _Thio’ Pittablirg, & I'ort Wayno oil-dépot is ori *Twolfth stravt, comor of Btewartavenue. ' 1t I foot and & tar'roof, - Thero sre! now abqué, 550 - Vnrrels earbion and macline;oil ‘in. tho xlopat.: Eaut of the bullding; and but 40 fbot fro -in tha lumbor-yard of Hntch," Tolbrook & Cai*: It oxtouds the wholb longtli of ‘ thd place; exedpt'n stnhll ¥pot on Trwalfth Btreat, tthich 8 ‘occipled ! by & saloon; Threo’ bundrotl - foot: onat, on Twolrtlatroot, is Fiillotn & Ladbnér's planing- mil), with & contlungue pile of lumbor batweon it;'and thd depot. Boyond “this* mill;' and’ ox-' teudihg to the'river, is Darton & Jpnou’_lumhnp: yneds : § Buyond Tateh, Holbrook .& *Co:'é ynrd on- tha with, atd tlio coul-yard of' Angoll'&-Arnold and tho planing-mull of Hoarnon & Payn. . 7 * On tho west ride of the depat tho round-houso (of the Chicago, Altan'& 8t, Lbuis Railrodd'is 70} toat " OIT, Tle nenrest part ‘I -wood, thie rast! Driolt, * Oppoatto the dopot on Twblfth streot in; -Qarl Liof'n conl and vood yard, with “an’ almost ‘dnintorfupted space of lamber boyond'th On tho ouat hido of thedopotis adfoot w platform and covor.” | B e WL S=v . qusmicn Sotmay, T 2l Al | of the Weat Bidb Polics’ Goutt; thinksthat tho law rogulating tho galo of (iuupomlnr‘y;,thln tho city is by no monna a4 - folly oboyod’as it onglit to bo. According to the lawv, no porson iaallowed to givo or.sall smpqwdnr to an6thor without thé porwit of the city, which- costs 6, under & pon:, alty of £25,'and yot thoro are numbors'of shops* which vond thd dangorsns oxploalvo Tithot por- wit.” Another proviso of the Inw is that all.por- sona _ solling ‘anulxawdur -shall "have the -wb ninted tn 1arge lottora'dyor their malty entranco! t i statod that thoro {s hardly o small grocory stora on tha West Sida which is'not able to' pro-' yide parties going gonning with all the nodosmary matbrials, fncluding powder; hd-that:thero linvo' ‘boon but very few pormits granted to partiea’in this Pnrtiun of the city.’, Thie is' o thing wofth lookiug into at.auy timo, but expocinlly now that, tho alris rife ‘with gu‘upuwdar plots; i, THE CHRONICLE. The Tnst number of.the Now York Tnsurance’ Clironiicle.containg an prticl,on,thie Airo..of, tho | reporta of -Incqudiarish snd’ : 1ty foc dolng mado: - ! Thoro aro cerfain things tho mec ‘which at onco th melf-kvidant,s 171 i The first is_tho entire roconntruction of thaFire: Departniont, Froin tho-firat organization of the Ohl« can 1ro Dopartment, mf.mmm@r bua; hoen glvon lieause to Qo Mta-worst. What thut worst is, tho loas of. £300,000,000 i1 1871, atid tho “alingst miraculous salyu~ tion'of {ho city 1’1874 from a-like devastation: at:n cout of 3,000 somolees_familess aud about $4,000,000, sl attest, 'Tho dairién nnd tha evidonces of this fn- cflielency have been! 20 often and - o pininly set -forth, {lat ropetition now .would be »u tmposition upon.tho ol Rouke uf our roalera, , ‘Tho factfa, that Cbicago's iro Depurtnieut must bo' roconstracted, 'or Ohicago Tuuat continnia to exist without tha protoction And sup- POrt of JUBUTANCO, .= vi\ |iy- sime s A (o And, il Lriugs n £ o fuce il orio of s mosk Amportunt leswous of tho fire,” No'elty.18 a0 dopendent pon §ts credit a0 Chiengo, Nonb ‘his ko genoroyaly, Taw e 80 wiscly, diseounted the: futta Tdass orifiually bullt wpon the faith of. tha. sbrewdost Edst< ‘ern’ capilalista. It was robuilt upou the sawma faitl, infensitiod by tho desporation of necgssity, -In this direetion, .all its .resources bava: boen exliaustod, If {hat faltly ahould bo ouce more &haken, {ka founda: tions of Chicago would be removed, not 3 ba Toplaced rephtable tnsurunce compuutes now yrotodting Chles: 1go crediv wonld ot merely shake, wouhljuuoll. ‘fiag creait of tho city, ey ‘Ll domonds of (o Ohicago undarwriters, .as: ot forth 1n_thoir resolutions in.'anothr column; are ‘| nefther . immoderute or‘impracticablo, . But such 1a tho'prevailing teniper umlorg thelr principals, and #o’ great Is the prolability of fartlier 1oss i Chlcugo, that unloex theae demands are aomplad: with mos -of. tho “inunirers, upon whoso support the busineas.prospoct, | of Glifcifgo Liuve rested aa upon. pillars nf granite, will withiraw that; support, ‘Fire_{nsutnco companics:| are not cleamosyiary” Inetlty “They” will ‘¢on- :alder, they #hould and thoy niuut consider, this ques- tion 67 contiuubug to_tako (xisks’ in Culcyo' onsita racriln as & qooation. of profit-or. 1oss . tol.themeelves auly. - Gonutderad:in this way,.one. thing {s_cloar,—. tho Oity of Ghicago must bo botter protosted fram fire, or the oflicors of fira .insurance companics psh, Justica to tholr“stockliolders,. to-themselves, and’ o nelr policy-holders in'otlier placed, cancol tuelr gioll-* cles thiero and refuso {0 tako further risks thero nt any ratoof prembum, - e oLl ¥ Tt tho reorganization of : the. Fire: Dopartment of Cbicago wiil not. of ilaelf savo, the city,. Xor, ycars Qnjeniio bus tolerated within 1ts corporatd fimits many | squnre mils of {rall wooden“struicturos, of tho col , wob ordor of aichiteclure, crowded elostly “togothor, sud inforépersed with -oilirofineries,” planiug-milln srob-foundrien, factories, and dangerotim workehopa-of overy description,—all ‘awaiting but the outtreak.of & fire under favorablo conditions to bo swept awsy, as by. & whirlwind, . ; In the madness of fho. hour adyocating thie removal of 'l we tha.clty Jimita, " o ouly be the‘credtion - of ‘another , Ohicagd, -ouf llmita of tho present Chicago, whiichpin. jta turn, wouid: wlier hirn‘without Snwurance, or burn itale and s insuzers,. In fact, it would be cheaper und more soui=, slble to _rommoye the, brick. and. stona Lulldlngs away froni thetr Lazardous sirronnd! 18 con bo done, and ought to bo done In this wuy:, . . .. + First, demoltuh every woudon®siructire unlawfully orocted on the Houth 8ide, within'the burnt district of 187, sinco that_fire; That Wiere ara apany. such; orecled and sutfered:to reinain by the unlawiull pere mit of the Conwon Council, 16 a notorious fact,, - | The uunicipul authoritios of Chicagabuve douo woll to make the firc-limits of {1id,city’ cofucidenit with*ita boimdurivs, Butno clty ‘whould kuow betfor -than Quicago thit {t Ja ono thing to pass - irs ordinance, - and quite another thing to :enforcs it, Hitborto, in Culeago, it has Leon the fashion of the. outhiorities (o suspend thio enforcament of this ordinanca in faver of diktresqed (2) property-owners, who stoutly ., thot they, cunuot aford tho expeuso of cracting safer bullde Ings. * What city lif tha world” con 'be” polnted” ont yhiere o graed of auch men haa not been tho- worst obslaile to kil yrogress and fmprovement ¢ “CHARLES DICKENS, - The Cause of His Soparation fro | o, Witee: | ¢ Londan Correspondence qf the New. Yol 4 Iu the last Amorican )nlmru whiel-have como to haud I see that -Wilkia Colliug'.dramu. of 1Cho Frozen Deop has boen porformed in Bos- ton. You ave .perbaps sware:that Colling hins roeontly boon engaged in turning big play {nto a novel, ~ *T'he Frozon Doep" .uwakons many sa reflections in my mind, ss that pioco was - indi- roctly thio meaus .ol briuging abous much of Dickons’ domestic unhappiness, . The whole story of his uepirntion from his wife has never Yot been properly told, aud in all probability nover * will be, .08 bis widow is_ resolved. to maintain the silence she . has' so . long kept. But it is ponorally kuown that the fomily is dissntistled with -Forster's .; book, Your renders may lhave, henrd. of ;the, grand amateur porformances giveu v 1859 at tho Freo T'rade Hall, Manchester, in a1d of the Douglass Jorrold Fund, Dickous, Collins, Shisley Brooks, MMark Lemon, and many other celobrated writors took.purts. . The ludios’ chinyactors wero intore proted by professional actresuos. Amoung theso was Miss Ellen Cornan, 8le wad then a frosh, ‘pleasant-looking girl, not espevially pretty, but possessing a goud figure aud an extrowmely agroo- ble manner. 1f over the Germnn poet's doctrine vk Arcudian, sS4 ‘!ll‘ilw ,.Jury 'Allowed to. Sépnmtq- 8 ouc-story briok bulldiug, with- collar, 800x40 |- ' * . e 14uh {nat., from which the following extracta are |, for at least ouo generntfon. The: withdrawal of the 1. | i animenéomont of Wis Trial at flio Criminal Couvts L Alveady Been Puhl!slwd. f - The trial'of Dr. Charles Ell, who rests un- dox tho serious Imputation of.being o profos- alohal abortlonlat, and who hsa acquired a gronk dodlof, unonvisble notoriety in conseduondo of tho . dsmnging. and -appsrently . well-foundod \rumors fhiols 'have'boon ciroulatod about him, wab 'boguit {1, the’ Criminal Court, yostordny moraing, botoro Judge-Farwoll, ' Earll is undor {ndictmont for tho murdor-of & _girl pamed Rosqtta Jackson. through the modium of an ‘abbrtlon; and Ling boen in jnil evor sinco tho ‘allbgod “not of malpractico © wns com- mitted.” : The public momory doos not noed fo! bo* rofroghdd et * great longih about tho ‘cane,’; g’ it i only n few waoks ®irica all tho disgusting details wore Inid baro by the investigation of tho Coroner. The main ‘Iagts aro briefly thoses: The vietim of. tho sbor- tion livod in tho capacity of sorvant with a mar~ riod sfstor nomod Mrs, W. II. Flagg. The lat- tot'a husband ia a barber doing businoss at No. 999 Wost Lako strcot. It is neaorted that his ro- “Iations with ‘his slator-in-Isw ;wote criminal in. ir chnractor; and in ordor to hido,thom, and sayo thio girl from oxposurg, tho orimo Which ro- sultod in her promature ‘doath was committed, Hor} body . wnd' privatoly interrad, but 'the: propor authoritioa causod it to bs oxhumed and in post-mortem -oxamiaation made. - - This*'dls:: dlosed i the .. faor that .an abortion’ “had boon = porformed, ' and ' the ovidence ! subsoquontly gathored fastonod Earll, Flagg, and . 8. woman namod Heiland; in" whoso‘ houss' the unfortunate girl oxpirad. " Thoy wore lield o tho Criminal Court, Tarll as principal, and' the othor- two as acoosso: b .Thg Graud Jury'.gave' the mattor imme- diato attontion, retiming tho necessary indiot- mébit'as bpoodily na ‘was consistont with the do-’ mauds'of fustice dnd {hoe gravity of - the offonse logod, and, as bofora montioned, the case came. 8p for, flual‘hoaring yosterday! ‘Btate’s-Attordey" Reod appenred :in belilt-of. tho ,poople, and Dr.- Earll “was ° roprosonted by ' Mr, John Lyle 'Riug.;and 'Col., Durand, Tho. atidud- anco :in: icourt: during: tho. day. -wog | yory Intge; noarly all tho “seats being ocenpiod: ‘The men wero groatly. in the Majority, only, ono femalo spectator boing vikiblo beaides'those who ‘wera prowont as witnessos, - Of courso, - ? 5 THB PRINCIPATH -+ - s in'the ohso wore the chicf objegts of attraction. Thoss wora ‘Dr, Earll, whio was dressed in o geripolously neat mannor, , and waa excecaingly énlm ond collected in_his bohavior, botraying it~ ‘ tle or no nnxiety for the fate that maybefall bhim ; Mr. and Mrs. Yiage, who appear to ba reapectablo pooplo, and ondeavored 28, much a8 fioesible to' i i of' value in. tho further: e thought might bo: of’ value in 4 ud’ B e e e ‘packbt & thin Iroh IfAlrafSend with a hdoked end, whichi lie fourid in; Eagll's offico, and flalnhm sajd might have prodmced the. 'wounds dis coveréd . in , tho post-mortom - loxamination, Anothier “.insirumont’. . found " had. . hi olnws;c. and wns used genersily in. casos -of ‘prognancy, Tho wonrcity of any othor kind of instrumonts in tho oflca was A0 gronl a8 to bo noticeablo-~- At -tho-inqguost -» Dutilo containing osnence of tannywas nroduced, bt witnoes dld-not oxamine (b closely_onougl to toll.whint would ba a.safo duse.of.it.. I it.woa. fgunuk(h, ten-spooufnl of 1t would pro- ‘duce ondnehio'and porhaps ‘qonvulsiofis, “Tanby. wan usod by & cortain clans), of ; women for_ ita snpposod oifaok In cases of pregranoy, ‘bitb wit- noen did not bolievo that 1t would abortion, It waya nob bollgve that Royotta Jackeon waa produced by tandy, ' _ g . DR, 0. PAUL BIMON was next placod on the stand, and toatifiod that ho'was predont whon Dr. Jnokson. Tha ontse 6f bor death waa poriton- itis, superinduced by au abortion. ¢ CONONER STEPHENS todtifled that ha held an h:;luost on. the body of Rorétta Jackson on tho 1’ Juno. A fwmius was bronght into Mrs. Hoilaud's Touso by Ofticer Simmons, who found it in tho ‘back yard, Witnoss was presont in Graceland Comotery whon Rosotta Sackaon's romatns woro dlsintorred and {dontified, ‘They wore thon takon to tha County,Undertaker's placo, on Milwaukes* avontte,” ¢ A L On cross-examination, witnosa statod that ho orderod nn examination of {Liacll'si-ofice for in- strumonts and modicines, At tho suggestion of the porson {n charge; Dr. -Henrotin made the oxamination, and earrfod away ,Buch arlicles an trinlof tho caso. Tho Lottle of tansy produco at the inquost was handed:.io,witnoss by Mra, {llnllnmd. Ho had hed conalderablo talk with o Ttosotta Jackson had bvé'u'h'klh'g, and Mrs, Hollpud- banded bLim .tho.tapsy. This wos_at the police station. DA ISR [} . . WITNERSES ,RECALLED,, e Dr, Panl was reealled: by thb” proseoution. aaked if it was his opinion;that {ansy" could pro- duco an abortion.” He'repliod in the nogativo. Dr. Hourotin was also rechiled by the prosscus tion, and asked how mahy fotusos be obsorved in Farll's oftice. The counssl for the dofense ob- joctod to the question, and tho Court oversuled it . Vo Syeyer Y g it FrANCELIA BETEARD i e wna sworn, , Bhe _testified ;that +was tho daughtor of Mra. Heiland. Bhe saw Dr.Eatll onca boforo Rosotts-.Jackson..wont to her mother's houso to live. _She was known by the namo of Alice ITayos.. -Witnosswent with hor uz | Webuer, 15, . Stanioy, 15, W, Foller, Touls aobied Dr. Earll’s | Nolke, aud John Millor.—.Tho complainant, Dr. Barll's ofiico. _ Bho asl walk with hor, and wheu thoy. office, on Halatod street, Alles, or sha waa going up to aso him..-Witneas wont with hor,”and anw lier go into_a private room with witness' £6 Také tho'Dootof, Bho'romained injthore abontifive | alroady béen ropeatodly“told, alioges that tito ministos, nind whon slio caio ot thisy Jonts .‘;.v' ‘dfticors and Dirsotora havo frandulontly convert- This waa about two orihreo. diys.atter she came ta livo with witrioss' mothor. 'Tise Doctor askod Rosettn into tho privatol rogmyat lus oflice. About two daya after visiting' the Dootor, Ro- sotta was takon slok;-and wae slok-for nine days, and never got up, again. Dr, Karll waa at her motlior's houso fivo or six timoa to-so0o tho :do-~ | but slao for i consed. Wicuges wont for him tiwico.tho day slie”| Scrintions. died, but nover héard any ¢ thom at Lior house. [, ;' i ‘On cross-oxamination, witness Yostified that 3rotllmo an | modiatoly aftor this suit tho mamo plalntuf com= lmnulnr fallaoy, Wituoss did | moncad nnothor suit iu trospass sgaius lio ,abortion in tho.casoof | dofondant, ‘laying damngos st §20, THonrolin mado'a post- | of monoy and~chooks with tho dofouddnt, and morton oxamination . of tho fomains of Tosetta | the dofondant paid » Inrgs .amount of chooks 1k, 16t and 10t of | Withthodoténdsnt notes smounting to812,005.54, abouit tho ohnractor of tho medicinea whicls | rofuscd nd | gonco of the dofendant, and thorofors brought Tosctta, eaid | nfter.rsstting- out. the fnots of tho. organ- i} od' by his negtect it complylng wi ot his) agroeomont. < S \ BAD BLOOD NETWEEN DANKS. | N o' Bank of /Chicago bogan a anit' fn trover eitordsy .in.the Buperior Court agalvet the National Bauk, Inying damagon at $100,- 00, 'I'n olaim fs on & no{‘u for $40,000, mado by Horace Hurlbut, with mtorest at 8 por cent, and payablo May. 4, 1874, to tho order ‘of Clirlos. M. Bmith. This notn, 1t s cluimed {n_lugal par- lance, the ]'-lnlmur casunlly lost the 16th of Hop- A th he tai i tomber, 1873, aud that It eawo_tho sama day to the ™ posscsslon ~of * tha " defondant,” who' has converted it - fo -his ' own uso. In' othor words, It was- probably kept to foouro somo mn'god olalms nrr;cwnnca’s. In‘x- 3 pasno 3 o Bank of Chicago slatos that In Septombor, 1879, 1t oud tho Third National Bank' waro-éngagod in banking; that it hind, deposited a largo amount drsiwn on It, - Plalntiff* booame 1ndebtod to' the -, ‘d‘myd\f,,NlHnnnl . for - ad{ vardeos fo tho /amount of abont '$32,000, in Soptonibor, *1878, hud for. soourity dapositad ~—ono notg_ for ' 1,000, bsv . C. noto for §3,305.54, by D, 8. Taylor, indardod by.. tho Conn & Won Broocke™ Manufacturing Com- ayy; ono uoto for €3,000, by tho Clicagé ilyor Smelting: and Relining "Company; one noto for 85,000, by-O. 0. Ten Broecke, Hecrolary of tho Conn ‘& Ton Brocoke Manufacturing Com- Lm\n and ono note for 1,700, Ly.A. Vail & Bon, dorsod by Georgo O, Bmith on, - - In Qotobor, 1870, (ho plaintiff claims Itpaid tho defendant all but about 8200 of its indsbtoduces, It lso olaims-that at tho time the above-mon-; «tloned ndtos. becamo dud the rospoctivo makers . Givenn; ono the dofondant’ to: gollost/ the amounts, and stio it not 1;:1‘1 3+ but-that tho Third National Banlc do either, The indorsera have-thero- by boen roloased-from thafr labilityrand nob only this, but tha makers have.all sirico becomo ingolvont, Plaintift claims that the amount of tho notes will bo loat entiroly through tho nogli- suit to bold it n%mnnlbln for such loss, which 18 oatimated at $20,000. . 4 | TUE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANGE COMPANY, The long-throatoned. bill against the ofilcora and Directors-of;-tho National Lifo Ineuranco Company, for ombezelement of the Company’a asdots, wes , filod | yestorday afternoon in the United Btatos Distriot Court_by, Kirk Hnwos, as Rocoivor of that Company. The dofendants are Bobjamin’ Lombard, Fornando Jones,' H. G. Teod, 8 A Drigen J. Av Grigwold, W.'0, Lot bard, AL D, lfomon, T, L: \\fne, Geoorgo ibbin, T. W. Lull,. 0. T. Mann, J. D. izatioh’ ' of * tho - Company, “ita officors, and ita’ mathod of doing -business, all whicl have od 'tha psgpssmonts levied on the policy-holdors, which formed.n trust fand, ‘to tholr own use. The smount go. embezzled amounta to about £118,000, snd tho bill :asks an'account, and that tho abova-mentioned; defendnnta mny bo held: sovorally. responaible, not onty for thid amount, 0_amouns, of {hmr unpaid sub- o D versation bolweon | BILL To RESTRAIN ‘A SALE UNDER TRUST-DERD, Bamual J. Walker. filed u bill in_tho Circuit Qourt agofnat B. Behlosingor, 8, B. Sohlesinger, Rosotta was at her house.either. two waocks and | George P. King,'and A. B, Jenks _to- prevont a thirgo days or thrae woeks and three days, aud | salo’'of Lots 11 to'18, Bl wao 80 slek that sho was not able to situp; ., Bhe. | ‘Block 48 ; Lots did not go with witness' mothor to Dr. Brooks' ollico tho night boforo-she died:: There was o ‘dance at o house near where witness lived the ‘svoid . tho publio gaze ; and Mra. Holland and .her'dgughtor, Miss Bullard, the former of whom “{u a.slirewd-looking porson of uncortain age,:and tlie latter an innocont-uppearing damacl. : ! I+ TIE JUR buanj)lbil_‘!lw‘l.lml of tha Court for sovernlhoura, Mr.’ King ralsed sonto technical objeotions to tho rogalar panol, but’was -ovortuldd by the Court, 1d instructed to procoed | with tho oxamination Bt thiojurora: Thia was ‘dull, todions, and ‘int h:unuf, and finally ‘resultod :in the selection of 1110‘ following twelve: Otto Yo\mi: Clifton House; William T\ Daniols, No, 217" Lakoave- -0 ;" James MoGatrf, No, 767 Wabssh avouus ; 0. Cobb; Aatteson House; A. West, Coolc Coun- ty National Bank; J,: P. T'rue, No. 227 Wont ‘Lako streot;: Frank Johnson, No, 559 North Clark street; William -Milnor, No. 13 South Greon'streot ; A. 'I'. Hommingway, Oalk -Park; harles Hotel; B. Bhorman, « 3 W, . Huntingtoo, No.: 212:8tata. strect. . Bevontoen othor porsous: were ‘exnmined, but wore -oxoused from sorving for ‘various cauges, tho priucipal one being that thoy Jind reud of tho cagofin the newapspens, and hiad ‘formod opiniona_ 2 to the gnilt of the prisoner, ‘which would probably-intorfero with the ronder~ ing of:an impartial and puprejudiced yerdict, - - < *Aftor the jury bad been siworn in, tho Courb toak a yecoss for;lunchs y OGS 1, On reassembling, . 3 i €5 vazag MRGMEED 1 g poned the case for tho prosecation, and. spoke wonld : undertake L0 'provo. 'hat!the, decensod, Rouctin’ “briefly. He said li‘e four faotay:vi .| Jackbon; was -ngnnnc; thal an, abortion hai "been performod on her ; that ghe died from: tho. ’offoots of that abortion; and that the dafondant _préoured the abortion, (The:poonle, Lie thought.. *were nok desirous that tha mpn . phould be hang- |- ed, in the event of his guilt being proven, but demandod that Do, shonld ‘bo sent to the Pon- itentiary, whore he coutd do no further barm, - L MIL KING (e - followed for ' tho defense, He 'said he-felt cer- i tain that the people could- not make out a casio -ngainbt his ‘client, as..there . was no ovidenca against biim, . ATl Ho agked was that the jurymen shionld not.parmit themselvos, to be' projudicad 02, | by any influencesor impressions that.might have boen "dorived from _readiug the_reports of tho provious trial of the cavo.. 1t would.be shown that Dr, Tarll had uo conngation with the *mat- tor until'after the abortion was porformed, if it evor was porformed; T o - e . Tbo bearing of testimony was thon proceeded Lo e MRS LIZZIE FLAGG o was tho firat “wilnoss called, * Bhie testified that alit lived at ‘No, 839 West Lake'streotyand- way married to Willinin 11, Flagg. Bho was _ac- quainted. with Rodotta Jackson ‘In .the lifolimo of tha Iattor, ,Bhe was hor,sister, and was about 18 yonrs of ago at tho time of hor death, Wit- neas Iagt say hor alivo at lior (witngiw') house atout'the first Sunday in- Juno, ‘and gaw hor dond'at the houss of n M. Heiland, Witness did not know of tha gitl's iclmess:uatil after.sho had died. Buo wus buriod s Giacelaud Cemo- tery, and was disintorred by . witnous, her hus- hnm‘, the Coroner, and the County Physician, . Crasg-examined—\Witnass camo from Now Yorlr, aund rosided in Cnioago about six years! lKor,émnr Tosotin first-lived ‘with anothor sls- ter hainod AMra. Otis, and wons to livo with wit- nosx about a l{mu‘ and three or four woeks pre- vicis to hor doath, ~ Bho was'a ‘Servadt in tho family, and was paid us such. . Witnoss nover noticed any particular Intimsoy bolween hor husband and Kowouts Jackson, Tho feoling bo- tweon her and ber sister was always pleasant, Bho naver noticed anything suspicious In hor ac- tions, and had nevor observed any familarities botweon tier and hor liusbann, Witnoss' kad a convorgation.with Officor Hogan shortly aftor Tosstta's death, 5 S : { Q.~Did you toll tho officor Lhat a crimiunl 'In- timaoy hwd exintod botween ‘your Iusbund ‘And your sister?” g of eleotive afiinities was proved to bo truo it was when Dickons und Miss Tornau met. It wus, ovidont o nearly uitof us that the .two were mutually infatustod. . Dickens . was conatantly. nt her wmide, though . his _isanuor wui carofully gnarded. Mys,. Dickens was with tho party, but she did not appear to notice tho [nti- macy. . Vdry soon nftor theso porformances Misy ‘Tornan, ot Dickens' wish, loft the atage. Iin affection for Ler wue nid to ‘bave hoen puroly platonie, aud I havo nover met any one who waa dizponod 1o disputo this boliof, t, neverthn- Jens, it was this intimacy which was the fiusl cauye of tho rupture betwoon Dickeny and his wifo. Tor mavy youra prior to 1850 thelr mutual relntions had hoon anythiog but happy, although T do not think that My, Lickens had provioust had nny woll-grounded cause for '}onlnusy. A, shoxt timo aftor tho purty roturned from Man- chonter, Mra. Dickens - wont into o fushionable Jowoler's at the Went End, whero slio #as in the hinbit of dealing, aud waa sskod by one of tho {inm, who know hor well, bow sho tked hor now bracolot, Bhe ezid that sho did not undeistand him, aa.she had wot raceived any such artivlo, I'he gontleman thou oxplained that it was ona Mr, Dickens hod’.ordered for his wifo, with o likenean nnd vome hair in it. This of "coursa opened Mra, Dickens' oyos, sud a soparation wpoodily followed, ince thal timo Mra. Dickena has Jived vory quiotly in s pretty little howse nent the Regont's Park, where her childron, whoso respoot and affection sho hus always on- Jogud, Lnve over boon fraquent visitors. P it g S v THE EVILS OF BABY-FARMING. Neuw Yonx, July 28.—~Joln G, Grabam, an in- fant, died yostorday from mal-uutrition, The physlofan who was oalled to attend tho child when it was dying writos Lo tho Board of Ifealth 4 followa : * L'conjder him & viotim' to baby- farming which provalle so extensivoly in onr uity, froquontly fnd “illegitimate “children rlnced with oareloss aud ignoiant women for the sbparent puroosa of causing thelr death.': 7 T'hd'8tata’a Attorney objectod to the queation, ‘on the grotind tlint no._roforonce was mado o' it i the diroct oxamination. % .t “Mr, King stated that the question was asked for tho purposo of laying a' foundation for the Impoachment of the witneas, ; ' | o I'io, Court sustained .tho Btate's Attornoy's various objections to questions concerning tho convarsution bétween tho ‘witness and Offieer Hogan, and the counsol for tho defense took ex« ceptions to the rulings, & @ . . -, tKlm. Tlugg waa thon mllowed to leavo tho staud, y = 4 DR, HENTOTIN, y _County Phyaician, testifiod thit e haeld n'post- mortem exnm(mflnp»qn the romnina of ‘Rovottn Jacksou: In-his apinion, -she hud DLoon preg- inant, und ber doath wne tho result of an abo.- tlon, 1lo deseribed the'condition of tho remuins ul eoma longth, unyinfi that {hore were wounds intho womb which had evidently beon caused . by the introduotion of instrumonts, When wit-' ness teutifled at tho Coronor's -inquest, ho was not ontiroly conversant with tho facts in the cnso. Hubsarquently he made anothor hwu»lls(n- tion, and thon he'becrmo more fumillur with tho chatactor of the wounds in the womb. Dr, U, . Paul Bimon wau prosont whon tho second oxam- Inntion was mude, 4 . Tho romaindor of the Doctor'a tostimony waa* lvarned disquisition on tho varlonu forms of Inflammacion, but he dosited it to bo undoratood vy the jury thnt he waspositivo that the intlammation observed In the post-morten oxamination of Itosotta Jackeon's romnins wee duoto the wounds obsorved iu tho womb, which wero undoubtodly caused by soml-blunt inatrus ments, Tho witbess visited Dy, Larll's offios ab the Buggostion of (he Coroner, and there fonnd quito s- Iargo collection of fnatru- mentsused in Lhe troatment of fomnlo »nr(:lcul easen, Il took away & fow, and loft bebind s number of | probos, syringos, elo, Lognlar phy- siolaun wonld have to use & similar olass of in- struments in similar casos. +*At-this point $he Wituoss produced from his night hoforo Rosetla was takon sick, but witnesa ock 47 ; Lots 10 to 19, 5,7 to 12, and_1,. Biock 05 ; sud Blooks 80 and 67, all in the Town of Canal- ort. Complainant atates that in Japuary, 1873, i gavo threo notes to Witilam Benrgiss for tho wggrogate sum of $25,000. When they fell duo did not know whother. Rosotta waa there, apd | an arrengement: was made with Naylor & Co., did not know “auything “about lor’ jumping @ | whom_he. supposod held the mnotes, by which doctor at her Witness rope. Bho nover BAW.. mothor's honse, oxcopt Dr. Earll. that attended Rosekta at the Limo,of the abor- tion, and that- hor,, mother would "not hava_ it known for the, world., iy . ADJOURN S Y i It 'was now b o'clock, ‘and ho suggostion of . thie Blate's'Aftarnoy the:Court:dacided . to. take, no further teatimony nutil 9 o’clock. this, morn- | owing s large bum, far exooedin Ing, whon the cros-sxamination of Miss Bullard will be ronpwad on romo_ very fmportant polnts. . THE JURK ALLOWED TO BEPATATE. - At the roquest’of the -dofonse -and>with the anothér noto for - 625,000 was _glvon aud thb first " threo i taken ‘up, . Walker hay ! The prelminary work of impnneling. & ury | did not toll Mrs. Ruad that it was Dr. Duff [ siace learned that- Navlor & Co., Instoad of bo- 1ng absolute owners, only bhold tho notos as col- Interal security for an indobteduoss of Sturgisa to;thom, pud that thoy,also hnd othor collatoral socurity in boods for thojsamo debt. At that ime complalnant alloges Sturgies owed' him:a latge amount, but :was jnsolvent, and etill is 26,000. 'Un- loss/-therefore, - he.can .sot of noto ta Stur-. inn’ claim, he will likoly lose the whole. Naylor .Co. have wrongtully resorted to complainant’s socurities t, instend of. exhausting their cousent of thia prosecution, the:Court allowed:| other securition firat, and the Trusleo advertised the mambers,of:the. jury to separatg jand: go to tholt homas for the mght, instoad of dqli‘vgfl'ng A them over'to tho caro af a Bailllr, snd’ kooping thom aloof from all otitsids iufliuonces, na has hitherto'bocn-the rule in capital onses.ic This is: the firat instance of the kind-in; tho history-of to sell- the -promises yosterday noon. -An in- {nnc“on was “therofora askoed, and granted in ime to atop tho proposed sale. | 3 "THE ORICAGO & PACIFIO RAILROAD COMPANY. jaral A. Allaby filed - bill in the Circnit Qourt sgainst tho 0 & Paciflc Railway Company. eagl criminnl jutisprudence in Lhis country outside of ‘| for au injunction. She. atalea that eha is tho tho, Stata of Yark, and its. elect will ‘bo ‘watelied [with intorest by 'the publio- at = lob. on Haw- the dofondant houso -and aud that ownor of thorne aventis Inrgo. The ' anthority’ for it s fonnd - in'| hias Iaid a track on'that avenue from Willow to tho'decision of tho New Yorl-Bupreme Court in | Larrabos atreots, mder ‘tho enso of the People vs, Ktephoua (19X. ¥.), &ud no doubt the sonndoeka of tho oplbi Ission of the Com- mon +Council. ~Cha Constitution of the Btato, , from | howaover, domands that tho i Company firet pay which thero wore two dissenting voices, will not' |- the'proporty-owners along tho strest the amount only bo critically examinad, but seriously ‘qnes~ Atonied, should thopraciica of allowing-juries in |'in front of their property. This the defendant.|- murder trials to soparato bacomo genoral, | THE ' COURTS. ‘Record!of Cusinoss Transacted Yes % S terdaye ! l TRY rowERg OF TAE COOK GOUNTY LAND coMPANT:! || About » month ago, 0: 8. Hough filed s bill in -the Superior Conrt to reatrain u. falo wudern trust-deed. ' Hough stated in his bill thnthe had: .made & lonn of the Cook Qounty Land Company; of £30,000, giving s trust-deod o certain landg that in May, 1673, i6 sold tho land o ‘tho Com-" pany. for 865 ehaves of their stock, supposod to- Do ‘worth 36,500, Tho Company then loaned nim 80 por cont: of ‘the atool, Lo plodging his stock as coliateral Aecntity. On default 'in pa mont of tho loan, tho Company was to: libve the right to sell the stock without notice, ag public, or privatesale.” © ¢ Ty 3R s ough theu claimod that“the Tand Company wan organizod under the name ‘of **The Land and . Improyomout, and Irrigation Company,™ with a capital of $100,000, This namowas after- | wards changod to its present: title, and the capi- tul stack incroased to @7560,000, - The_chartor of the Coinpany only gove it ‘power ' to exnmine; aurvay, and purchaso lends, or iutercatsin lands, water-coursos, or' intercsts . thoroin, yhich aro 88 noar a8 may bo adaptdd by nature to the uss of | watar to ‘rrigato tho samo to facilitatathe growtli of crops in dry, goasons, ‘and tg, Improve’ and cultivate the samé for such orops ehtefly us re- quifro irrigation to produce the. largest xoturus.” No power' was given * to- buy ‘Innds for'gencral Purposas; or crach and rent bulldings, or to do.a general loan bismess, and complaindnt's land boing in Chicago, aud not remarkably well adapt-: ed for imigntlon (oxcopt; possibly. by, .atreat sprinklors), he alloged the Company hafl oxceod- od its powors in losning nionoy, apd that it had no right ‘to.gell- his. property. - More- over, hio claimed its stook in-conssquenceof its violation. of ita chnartor was worth little or nothing, and that ho was unable-to -gell it to nioct his obligation to the Company. : Ho, thero- foro, asked a reconveynngo,sud an injuuction ngainst & salo In the meautime. .. Tho injunction was allowed ox paite. . ... EBiit avead 1 -A gonoral demurror was filod to the bill, and argued yestorday morning, Tha points made in tho bill “wore admitted Dby the domurrer, Lut Judgoe Mooro hold that.ovon then tho billshowed noaquity s thnt tho Conspany hind a right to pro- coed to collect ita. dobt, and . he .thoreforo dis- misged it. An appeal was taken (o tho Suprome Couit, Judge lrumbull appoared for.the com-: plainaiit, and Qeorgo W, Bmith for the Company. ITF, TUOK-CREABER TIROUDLES AGAIN. . - 11, W. Fuller and Inaac W, Barnum filed a bill in tho United Btates Cirenit Court againat Henry 0. Goadrleh, yostorday, asking for .an:account and rovacation of his “liconso, : Thoy allego chnt in 1868 an agreomont was made .with the de- fondant by whioh he was to Lave tho osclusive munufaoture and enlo . of their . patent -.for a scif-tucking and quilting . attachment, commonly known.as o tuok-ciouser, Goodrioh wae to render a monthly nccount, engaging also not to soll maobines for: loss. than $1.25 each, aud to pny ss royalty 456 cents on cnch article sol),” This agreomont . wag kept . until. April, ‘1873, when lhe stopped’ paying money, but continued muking roports- until Oolobor, whon - they &lso consod, Dotweon Aprd and- October his snlos smounted, . by s owu statement, to §21,111.75, and siuca that tima complaisiants olaim Tho numbor of tiok-oroasors . sold betwoen April and Qctober, six months, wore' 46,415, not fneluding 600 sold by an agont, aud the number #odd since thon and’up to the presout timo is alloged to have boon 180,000, judging from tho stato of the trado and tho rate of incroase in the wales, Complaivants aldo allogo that Uoodricl has not given his timo to tho businons; -| avenuo until it hoy hava boon $60,000, | thiat bie s made snothor patent, which Lie en< of 68 that, will Lo caused by laying a track bas nltorl{ refused and noglected to do, {Jome platnant thinks her property hasboon damaged ‘at least to the amount of $2,000, and aaks an in- -Junctionagainst thio Company to provent it from Turther aperating its llna of road oo Hawthorna pay bor the ‘damages she haa sustained: 7 i < BANRRUPTOY ITENS. ' Douglar W, Coau, of the tirm of Coan & Ton- Troeoks, filed a voluutary petition, stating that ‘hisp Habilities -amonnted to-about $16,000, and. ‘that his aadots are limitod: to twonty-five shares ‘of the Conn & TauBroocke Manufacturing Com- nany, which wore supposod to ba worth $1,000 a. ‘sharo, butara not now of .ahy valne, The cdse’ was roferrod to the Reglstor. . * % Thomas A. Wright, a commission merchant, ‘filed & voluntary nelition, His assets are noth- “fug, whila -his linhmtina,.&arinci aliy by losgos on’ grain, foot np abont £19,000. His cage was also reforred to Rogiator Hibbard, H In the matter of tho Mutual" Seourity Insur- :ance Company, TI. ‘H;” Honora was mudo happy by tho yecoipt from the Assignes of. s relouso of " hig proporty - from - the -Lon of that little judg- :mout.. for 5854,000 agninet J. Y. Bcammon. It will bo romombered that- Mr. - Beammon waa- 8x- . .amined. somo: tima ngo,..and- tostified that he hield 4 large amonntot ldnd that really bolonged to Honoro. When Honaro attempted fo soll it was discovered that o hindrance existed in tho'shape of tho judgment to tho Insurance Company. The Adsignee having becomo satisfied that Seammon ‘was not.the owner by permission ' gava's rolonso to Honore. - 18 BUPERIOR COURT IN DRIEF. Qhristopher Kempstor filed a potition sgainst T, L, Kompnater and B, B, Hayes asking for a mochanic's, lion _for $11,326.79 on n block of six buildings on Sheldon streot, another block of soven buildings on Ada streot, and a third block of fiye bumllngs on Fulton streot. . .3V, Partriq CIROUIT COURT, : Elizabeth MoCann.* commonced an -nction agningt the World Mutual Life Insurance Coue pany, claiming $10,000, gl 0. L. Misoh bogan a Ruit in attachment againse J. L, Matthews nud William Koxon to secover 81,000, + .’ .. . THE COUNTY COURT. In the matior of the City of Chicago's delin- quiont: tax-lists, on motion of Corporation Coun- ol Norton, the Court orderod ?udgmunt for all taxeu. and nssosumonts in dol m:}uont list to which 1o objoctions have boen filed. i 'Tho Invontory,- appraisement, and widow's award of the eatnto of Ldgar D, Piorce was ap- proved, and widow's selootion filed. JLiottors of administration wero issued to 4. ward Lichtenhain' as administrator of tho estuto of Theodoro Lichtonhain, under an spproved bond of, §400. ., . . % The will of the Iate Petor Law wnn provan, ana letters testamentary to Winism 'I'hilo and Clnrles Kruoger, gud tho oxecutor's individual bond, $4,000, was approved. . The will of tho lato Orian J. H. Adams wasnd- mitted to probate. An appeal was prayed and allowed on Mling bond ln LU0, i ‘In tho-mattar of tiia_ estuto of Mildobrandt August von Glal, the Court, ordored that tho cexocutor pay $1,200 per annum for the support :and oduoation of August von Glulin, the roaidi- ary logates, and sléo to purchaso a piauo for hiim to pursno hls musicl stydios with.. - THH CALL. Junae GAry—405 to 479, 462 to 500, aftor to-day, Jupak Bunns asslste Judgo Gary, .Junak Booru~Notions Ior now trials, z . : JUDONENTH. ‘UN1TED ATATES CinouiT UoUNT—IONOR BLODAETT, ~8ocond Nutiousl Bauk of ‘Titusville vs, Marcaliy Morio, 882, No eall .90, §Ta7E8 DisTRIOT COUBT—IUNGE DLODOETT, . Palloun, $3,236, pon, Aasiimes, ve, A, % rrion Couns.-Conrssions—M. D, Ogden ot alve, Waltor Prelcaven, $542,60,—~Humuel Btiuuss v, Detor Soliank, $76.° 'lie Hupk of Montregl vs, O, I, Ertzand . A, Bpeucer, $13d.14,—~Hvury Rabn va, J, N . A, Oflos ot sl va, D, 3, Wrenn, $105,06,—1, D, Barton va, J, ssoll, verdict, 48,99, and motion for & upw tel Juvox Dunzs.—Joht MeWido ve, I, L. Gowan, gngod not to do, and that e has Rold machines | $1,181.00, at pricos varving from 45 conts to §1.26, contrary to his agroomont, thuy injuring their rights and profity, Thoy therefors ask that ho ba enjolned from | co Acmlem{ manufacturing thoir patent any longer, or sslliug | sesults of i is, nod that the liconso given lim may be do- s Ioute for the Pacifie 'Telegraph. Prof, Davidson, Presidont of tho San Francie- of Science, Iaid before that body the ha suryoy made by Commodore Bol- kuRp, of ths United States steamor Tuscara, ,of the Court | jgo suod 1. 15, Mallory for $1,000, foF 8- o’ Tatonu botwoen San Franciaoo ln‘d anuu.m l?a n‘:\y!: { **In the soundings from San Franclsco to San Dlogo's groat many off-horo_linoa woro run. Nihoty. miles off Point Ban Luis tho depth - crondod to 2,000 fathoms, with gray groonish 0070 at tho bottom, and a tomporature of A littlo oyor 82 degreos, O Capn Mendocino n platomt -was found, - with s dopth of 2,Gul fathoms.. O . Buu Nicolat, AL tho distance of 98 or 44 niles, tho depth wus 2,000 fathomy,* Down'thé Chlitor i const tho ovzo beenmo greoninh uatil Ban Diogo waa “apjronthed; and on tho platoau oft thero a groomish, livl\llmvlnh 0oza wan obiainod, “'nenco noross to Honolulu the 0ozo was yellayw- ish,! thon yollowlel<brown, and finally " brown ‘ngar Honolulu. In all cagos tho nigas of tormer lifo! brought up, woro thoko obtalned on the Nuflhami‘fl:}flu Congt. To onolulu the dise tando is 2,200 miles, Tho hottont averngén 2,508 fathioms in depth, or 16,610 feot, and the avorage tomperatura 1a 83 0-10 degroow, Much mora than one-half of this wator alonr tho ocean-bod - hins a tomporatnro . of 85 dogrces only ; nhova this oame a steatum of wator hoatod {0 40 do- grodn, and above this ug‘ldu wator hentad to 50 dogtoas.. . Upon a caloulation of tho volume of tho| wator --botweon this oonst and Honolul, aloig tho-lino of soundings, ho' cstimated the nahitity at 1,868,000 cubjo milos, Of this, 1,040, 00 cublo miles range, mn temperatura from §3.0 to 85, Dotwaen tho tomporstaro of 85 and 40 thoro aro 682,000 eubie milos ; from 40 to 60 do- grees, 182,000 oubio iles; and from 50 do- ro6e. Lo tho Dbighest temperature, which 3 found over at, Ionoluln, 71l dogroes, tho volume s 100,000 cubio mileds, In othor wordy, the film of surface-water revging from 59 to 73 G-10 {8 only ono-lenth of the mass of wator below it. Apparontly tho grado i very, Btoop ab Honolulu, snd’ off Han ‘Diego, but in renlity it nover oxcoods one foot in twenty-six ; no greator impodiment to eablo-lying is oncoun~ tored. from Honololu to Bonin laland, whoro thero is tho grentest dopth of the routo, 8,263 fathoms, nor thonco to Japan, In sounding to * Bonin soveral submarine. mountaing wore dis- covorod, and the lead camo up Lwico in o batter- cd Btato ns if, it had struck rock, Tho 'proatest dopth from Bonin 0 Japan is 1,400 feot: Tho total distances along tho route aro: From Hon- olulu to Ban Diogo, 2,240 milos; from Ifonolulu .to Paol Island, 8,278 § tho, const of Japan, 480 milea; belng: 5,009 nautis enl milew, or 6,060 atatuts miles. 'I'his dooa not allow for any slack in laying tho cable. i — e THE MOUND-BUILDERS. ,' : Rolics, of tho FProhistoric- Peoplo ot Amerien. From the' Louisvills Commercial, ‘We liavo boen permittod the porusnl of a very intorosting lotior to R. H. Compboll, Ba, of the Ohio & -Minsiesippl Raflrond,” writton' by rof.’W. W. Bordan, from which we make somo extracts. Tho lettor is.duted Doputy, Ind., 24th July, Mr. Borden snys » Y “In company with Ar, Jamos Powern and Dr. ° Jordan, of Loxington, and Mr, George Cantion, of New Albauy, we made. an -exploratioh of -whut has been supposed t0 b3 the workof/tho Indivm, iUpon examination it ‘proved to -bo anotlor of thoso remarkablo works'of tho Mound-Builders,* known'as Fortifled Mouuda. - Lhia. groat work— & rolio of the. prehitorio race—is.on an olovated ridge,.or. ‘ backbono’. as it is called-at Lho water~ inuk, a short distance above Doputy, and on Lha’ Iaud of Mr; Gilbert Wiggam, in Jolforson Coun- ty, Ind., .immodiately below. ‘the - junction .of- . Grabow's with Big Craek or Muscatatack. Tho backbono ' which this fort is ‘situated possoRses, many natural- ndvantages. .for, n work -of thid-kind. The wostern ttono -wall - commences on tho- summit ! .of ‘tho, almout rr{xpnfltgnh\r rocks, tho blufia of Big Orook, 100 fost or moro above thet strenm, sod extoiida’ across tho neck of land 250 yards £o,ttio ‘equally procipitous blull of wliab was ones the bed of Gralinm's Crook. T'his wall.iy built ‘of cornifor~ ous limestono, 10 to 12 feat wido at the baso, and rosting on the black slate., Tho cnstern wall ox- tonds from bluff to bluff 40 yards in longth;;and in ita provent dilapidated staie is from 18 to.20 foetin width, = s AT STV “‘Near, tho - eastorn. wall' 18 &' fine lookout: mound, with large forast treos growing upon dt. From this mound tha landscapo oxtends nvrth: iward for 2 miles, sud nlong tho valloy of Gra~_ bamx Crosk, and up Big’ Creek: toward tho oast. ‘Thiy seleotion is one- .ers, who wers undoul! sun. b s “The space inclosed i botween four and five acroy, and within the imclosuro is = .cave. of which there aro many in tho vicinity, shd whiols 'uu:loishted.ly sfforded water when necossity ro- quived,=: . e . o e 4¢Yon will sce by my imporfect degoription that thio position of thia fort 1 precisoly tho fume us tho one described in my 'ns‘]\)\m’ufinn' of lnat'year, found in Clark County, Ind,, abovo the mouth of Fourtoen-Mile Crock, o nthe Ohio Rivor, “ Mr, Gilbert Wiggam, who ‘resides nenr the “fort, told us that implemionts of Imdian origin Wore plenty it tho neighborhood, and a shork .|-exoursion by the boys resulted in the findiug of ‘& granito ax weighing slx pounds.” tedly worshipers of ‘tha ~—Mexico 1§ making- progress in one way, at loaat, - Hor telograph lincs aro extonding rnmdux zll: a ghort time sho will have 5,000 miles of em. e ~ '—Mr, and Mrs. Algornon T. O. Sartoris - will arrivo in this conntry in Oclober, to attond Mise Bhorman's wedding, and a .fino suite of. rooms aro boing proparod for them iu the Whito Houso, » —Towa County, Wis., has rocently funded $160,000 of hor dabt at 60 cents on the dollar, There is now romaining-about $160,000 more-un. “settled. - —Lieut.-Gov. Talbot, having a sorious time of it formung the Bonrd of Hoonao Tunnol lrusteos. 1lis flyet co:nbination was -brokon by the refusal of Gov. Bullock, Mayor Cobb, and Alanson W. Boaxd to sarvo : and ‘now his sacond ig shattored by the with- -drawal of Mr. Georgo O. Riohardwon, —Bomo lover of atatistivs lns found ‘out thnt of the 86 members of Couyress 198 ara lawyers, 50 business-mon; 20 ‘editors, -snd- 18 farniors, ‘Thoro ure about 40,000 lawyors and 2,500,000 indepéndent farmers ‘ln:tho " United - Blatos, Thera is, therofore, ond lawyer to about 200 of , and ‘ona farmer to about 130,000 that profossion - agriculturista, . —Tho Boston Postlooks-at chnrity in a busj« "rioss way. It mays: ‘‘Tho Baronesa Mayer do Rothechild and hor daughter arg putfod for their gouorosity bocauso they have given $2,600 to n charitablo institution; but if a man worth ®1,000 hed given 10: conts, which would bo quito as large n proportion of his posgessions, who would Liuvo wastod the ink o rocord it?™ © - , —Somo Idos of tho :immonze fishing business carricd on around tho .Island of Nowfoundland may bo formed_from & facé casually mentioned Dby a correspondent of -tho 8t. Johwmas North Star, writing from Fortuno Bay, northern district of Nowfoundland, Under dato of Juno 29, the con'oudpundunt gaya thero were 850 suil of aquare. . riggod vessols in St. Potors Roads, besides 360 schoonors,—s floot of 050 vossels,—all waiting tor bait to purene their: busitiess of cod-fishing ; and this 18 only onedistrict of the island. A Ningara® Falla hackman hos nctunlly beon arrested and punished for ukln;i advantage of a' stranger, Ho agroed to take bis man from ono of-tho small hotels to the brink of the Horseshoo for 25 conts, which. was paid at tho ond of tha Journoy, bub the driver fhuog around and sub- Boquently inducod the stranger to ride back to the notel with him, as he was obliged to roturn, and Dhnd no objection tocompany. ‘This pro- cedure finally brought. about & olarge of $1.50 for serviced rendored, The sirangor demurred, and finally had "the friendly ncltman arrested for Wlegul “charging: Tho Justice assozsed tho Intter &20.75. - - : —Fathor Martin, - the Catholic priest of Wil of *Maseachusotis, in K loufihby. 0., who wanted £6,600 from tho Clove. Innd Leader for publishing that he had porsuads ed o widow among .his parishioners that hee lusband’s _eoul was in purgatory, and thas Iy had offered to pray him out for $10, got tho #at. {ufaction of an adverse verdick. Tho com; bat. tho Court held that “ purgatory s n. statod or shown to be apartioular pluce,” aml that * praylnz the soul oit of puvgatory in i Illl,\'h)&l to bo sssuming any particwlur dostiny ivz : —Tho Sonato of the Univeraity of Londow, ea- tablished by tho late Tord Brougham whon ha was simply 8 potential mombor of tho 1uuso of Commons, was Iately soticited by the majarity of Convoceation to apply for o new charter, with powor to the Univorsity to adwit women to do- groes. Tho Benmte declined such notion by & majority of 171010, Uwolve yones ngo this quostion had boen brought before tho Seunls and voled down bya mujority of 1--tho casts iug vole of Mr, Googa Qrota, tha historiau of Qreceo, who thon was Chancollor of tho Unls vorsity, b : —Tfm Lineoln Tower in London, which was a0 much talked nbout w short thoo agoy tures out ta bé moroly a stooplo to tho Rov, Nowman Muil's chureh. “Englishmen and Amorioans oonty/b- uted in gold to poy for it, anlit is oroamonted by tho sfara and atripos, the British Non, and the Amorioan onglo. It i stranga that, with all the aflmormnltluu thoy have had for Joarning botter, thera arc go many Amerloany who mistaka fools ‘ishinoss for bxntrlullum. 11 iL {5 posuible for tha spirit of old Abe tolook upon that ridisulous tower with It .eagle and Its lion, ho must fect elther very sad or vary much amusod at lis couns trymen’s way of oxhibiting thoir admiration for him,—Louisville Lounivr-Jourhal, snd from Peel Isinnd to - - pectior to mound-buld: ,