Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1874, Page 2

.+ THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1874, LOGCAL MISCELLANY. THE WAGNER INQUEST. Tho inquost futo the clrenmstances attending the death of Mary Wagnor, which waa bogun Hopt, 8, closed yostordny. It was manifest from tho oyldenco glven on the first day's eluting that tho shootlug, if doua by the ofiicor, wns puroly sccldontal, But the majorily of the jury wero not proparad to eay that tho stray Lullot cantod Mry., Wagnor's doath, ag they woro of tho opin- lon thiat the pistol used by Oficor Ford conld siot projoct & Lell 860 feat—tho oxnct distanca from wherp tha poligemen wera firing and whoro Mra. Wagner stood. Tt beeamo, thorefore, supremoly Important to dotorming THE CARRYING GAPACITY of the platal, for, lu tho ovont of a_nogative de- laion on that point, tho death of Mrs, Wagner would wear the apponrance of a homicido, and tho provious quostion would thon have to bo do- cidod 1 Whokilled hor? ‘[bo iuquiry was nd- fonrned Thuraday In order to procire tho tosti- mony of experts,—gunsmiths, gun-doniors, and othors. 'Tho Curoner having hoon callad olit of town to attend an inquust at Lemont, mnd de- talued thera until Baturday rfternoon, the jury did not mact to doliberata until yestorday, TWO EXIERTH tentiflod au to tho calibro of tho pistol, but thoy dittored in opinfon very. ruaterially, Tho fury congoquently wera still fu s quandary, and as littlo ablo to solve tho problem of carrying cn- pacity a8 at thelr irat mceting, After much do- Jay and useless, potutless dincusaion, in which the jurors and exparts jolned, it was suggested b A TRACTICAL TEST bo made. Several of tho jury and the Cor- oner accordingly drove out ou tho prairie at the wostorn ond of Clicago amvenue, whoro, tho distanco being menaured off from au jco-hougo, the pistol was diecharged, and four ont of mino shoty wero distinctly heard to striko tho bullding, Thus ocastly and in tho sutest mauner all doubt was dissipntad, Tho jury, immodintoly after their roturn to the Olieago Polico Btation, the place of meoting, ngmmlf upon A VERDIOT: The jury oxonernied Ofticor Ford from any oriminal iutent. Indecd, tho experts suy thal ptrixiug an object with o piatol-ball at such a yango must bo accldental, and it was so domon- strated yesterdny. The jury, howover, consuro tho ofticers for firing witliin tho city-limits, and, as thelr oction was n violntion of a city or- dinance, it is probable that it will recolve” tho attontion of Lho Iolieo Board. Coroner Stephens displayed much suxiety that 1ho case should ho intelligontty aud earofally in- veatignted, and decided aid sided tho jury con- siderably in nrriving at o coucluslon. When™ the jury assemblod yestorday, tho Coronor oxpisined that owing Lo the doparturo of mont of tho gunemiths of tho city to nttond o oonvontion of gun-doniors at Ningara Falls, he was unnblo to bring beforo them nioro than ona export. 1o hnd comanited with roveral, and thelr opinion was, ho said, that the pistol could throw a ball from 200 to 500 yards. ilo then callod M, THOMAD, gundealer, of Bouth Olurk streot, who testlflad : That pistol will project a bail from 200 to 500 yards, acaording to the mako of the cartrideo usod, Iam perfoctly cortaiu it will kill at 200 vards, and I thivk it would ki)l nt 500 yords, I way for a corteinty that it would Kill at 800 feet. A LITTLF. DISAGREEMENT. IEMSIZ Pribyl, of Milwaukes, once gun-dealer, testitied : o my oplufon that pistol wonld ot carry 800 feet: but, if by chance it did, it would not send a bnll through a paper box. Ay, Thomas—Weil, I am roady to back my opinfon, Tl bot $100 to 575 that I s right. . Pribyl—I know tho pistol well; it would not carry 200 yards, and would not have forco to kil at that distanco. I'm not s betting mau, but I will stand at 867 fect awsy and lot any man shoot at mo. Coroner Stephens—3Ir. Abbey, the gnomakor, told me that he waa willing toswear Lo will shoot » ducl at 80 rods (400 yards) with that kind of stol. Mr. Groesbeck, s juror—Vell, I don’t know eo much, but T dinit dot it the policomans did nob kill her, it must bo God. It wos seon that no decision could bo arrived at unlegs a practicsl test was made. It wae dono, ae alrendy stated, having tho offect of convine- ing ihe jury that the miesing bullot did tho fatal dec . TIE FOLLOWING YERDICT was returnod : Wo find that Mary Wagner cameto her deatt on Bopt. 2, 1874, from a gunshot wound of the body penc- trating the right lung, and wo £ad from the ovidence tat tho khot wus fired from a pistol fu the honda of Donnis Ford ; and wo further tind that the shooting ‘was accidental, While wo exoncrato Ofiicer Ford from apy Intent to kill Mrs, Wagner at that tiue, we cannot but express aur disapproval of tho reckless mumer fit which said oficer and Omicer Olo Benson practiced platol-fiing in o public sircet of this city. e A BIT OF SCOUNDRELISLL. The lady advertiser Ia frequently, if not in- fallibly, exposed to insult from n class of men whoso diseased minds lend them in tho ways of impurity. They look with suspicious glancos at overy femalo form, and are forever laying plans to ensnaro tho innocont, impecnnious, or foolish of tho softer eox to ruin, As a rule, the fellows who aroe no afiticted bolong to tho ** puppy” or- der of humnnity. Thoy (fancy themselves irre- sistiblo, and look upon all womankind as their legitimate prey. Nothing can bo more disgust- ing than thies clnss of crenture. He hasnoshnmo, but is gifted with enough low cunping to hide bLia renl name and ingult the modesty of ladies while esiling under false colors. As a rule, he is a follow too worthless in his own porson to at- tract tho lovo of any honost woman, and he is evor on the lool-out for pome one whose frallty equals his infamy, 1t isnot to bo wondored ab that Chicago is cursed with some of this flithy tribe. ‘hey garrison tho strect-corness, stops of lotels, and public buildings, stnro pnssers-by oub of countenance, nnd make it positively rayolting for decont women to. walk in the prin- c‘\anl thoroughfares, unescorted, sfier night- fall. ’.l‘ln:fi inspect all the nowspaper advertiso- meonts to discover some spparent victim, and in- sult her with improper communications, broad- 1y hinting at orimine! intorcourse, Imagine the outraged foolings of any respectabla woman ab roading a noto of this chinraater. The foliowing, whick will oxplain iteelf, is a model opistle of {he kind referred to + MoxDay, Bapt, 7,1874, , Teibune Office: T have s very nice room, nicely furnfshed, with Liot and cold water, bath, ote., Yery couvenlout, with good Doard, snd_it occurred to mo on noticing your adver- tisement I should much prefer a respectablo lady room-mate {bau one of my own sex. Henco this note, You can shiare mly room aud all the comforta of s homa for tho very small expenso of jifteen cents ver weeks Should you desire to accept of the place, pleaso drop me n line, and I shall present mysclf for abeervation, Presuma you would 1Eo to ace and chiat with me prior toentering into permanent arraugeients, Very ro. epectfully, Address Trxny 8, Braxe, Tost.Office, 1 8.—Should m}' torms not suit you, I imugine T can mnke inore fuvorable termy, Verlnps would ugrea ta settle your wush bills, Lesido makio you n handsome prescat oceastonally, I'ho foregorng roffinnty lottor came sccldent- ally befora tho nolico of this ofice. Doubtless it ia only one of huudrods, but, unfortunate- ly, tho racipionts are not all gified with sufil- clent knoswlodgo of the world to exposo tho ont- rageous rascals who aro guilty of such canduct, It may bo as well to warn gentry of the ** Henry B, Binko " ordor that n watoh wlll bo kept upon thom, and, if they persist in persccuting houost ladles who iveert business ndvortiscinonts in T'ux; ToiooNe, they will bo tracked to their lairs ond given over to condign punishment, It iy not very difficult to trap poltroons who can bo - guilty of nuoh infamous conduet, snd, ir thoy * aro caught, the penalty will not add to their honlth and happiness, . Sy A FALSE ALARM. What was at first supposed to be & plain and ontragoous caso of kiduapping was roported to Tolice-Ofticor Do Graot last ovening, and he mado s vigorous search for the gnilty party withont succoss. ‘Fho ohild taken in this in- atance ls Annlo Miomn, o G-yenr-old daugh- ter of Mra. Jobsnna Miema, the widowed motlier of five littlo ones. The lot child is a pretty and toresting oue, and thoso aro tho only rensons that can ho uulguuu for her sbdne- tion. - Hor mother is s poor, hard-working washerwaman, and therofore no hopoot ransom could have inducod tha kidnappor to havo car- ried lior off. ‘Che !ciruumutauceu sttonding tho abductiou are as follows ¢ Mrs, Miems, who lives at No. 220 Hec- ond stroot, ~mear Bickordsko, left lhor home i 30 o'vlock yoetordsy morning ta ko to tho rosidouce of tho liev, Mr Gulick, on Washinglou streat, nour Ads, whoro &ho way engaged to do washing, Bho hud pro- viously instructod hor son Albort, & fad of § yaors, tocall for her at & o'clack, 1n comprny With hils sistor Annio. At the nppaipml houe tho two ehildran wore passing along Washington ptroot, and, when nosr Ads, saw & man sitting on tho curbatono, who immediately culled tho boy to him, and, handing_ him & pinltinted card an which was peintod (1t ornato Tottor the nunnoa “Al{aw Olnrn 8, Groon, " roquaateid him togo to Dry Bushnell's oftic, on the vorner of Randolph and Adn utrosts, and doliver it 1o told tho boy to loavo tho glel with him, and ho would tako enro of her unl bo roturned, Lho Ind dld nw Lo was bidden, but, finding that his mossngo was for nought, roturncd to_tho spot whero lie left tho strangor aud his slstor, and discoy- orod that they had - loft, and on Jooke jug nbout saw thom polpg toward somo unfinished bulldings on Fulton stroet, near Ads,: but boforo ho conld overtake thom they disap- peared. Ile mat Oflicor Do Oroot on Ads ntreot, and roported to him, The pairolman ran to the buildiugs roferrod to, but, after n aoarch in thom, found uo traca’ of tho Iljduappor. ‘he mattor was roported to the mothey, who bo- eamo nlmost diatractod ab the oceurronco. Do droot mado n° clogo soarch . until nenrly 8 o'clook, when he roporfod to Cupt. L1lis, aud ordors wore at onco given the pollce Torca of the city to soareh for tho miusing child ond her abduetor, Tinter informntion showed *that tho child rotirnod home horsolf, sud hor mothar's heart was mado glad when sho yeturnad from the police £tation and found hor. gt LOCAT LETTERS. A CORUROTION. To the Iilitor of The Chicago Trivines But: In your Sunday fssue thoro {a a notico of my recovery from arceent sovero attack of brain- fovar, and then is added: “It ig sald that roli- glons thoorics had much to do with tho afilic- tlon.™ As thero have been overal notices from thno to Uma of the nalure and causo of my {llness, which, to say thie loast, woro based ouly upon fiying ramors, suol as any community can furnish at short notlop, I trust you will sllow mo space for o trao statoment of the caso. Whilo I have been nblo to do the workof s paster, withont any {nterruption from sickuess, for sovoral yoars, yot my gonernl health has not Dboon goad, being rather inclined to biliousncns, and esgiocinlly has this been tho case during the aummor, and this, in addition to an incrensod ansioty on nccount of thostate of my wifo's health, who Is subject to o_lung-difilenity, lad wrorn upon mo movo than I waa aware, uutil it culminated ot last in n govers attack of brafn- fovar, tha wsunl dolirium of which Insted mo from'n Haturday night until the noxt Tuesdny morning, during which timo T Brusumn Isaid many things which I would not havo sald had I toou iu my right mind; but I «vas not awaro {bat o mau's uttersuces during on attack of bralu-fovor wera to bo takon ns ovidenco of his *roligions theories,” or, that becnuso ho has strong convictions, *that this s evidonco 0% gonotal ivganity ; although I romembor readin thnat once, whon Paul wad speaking in dofonso o his faith, tho oman Governor cricd ont: * Paul thon art basido thyself ; much Jearning bath made thoo mad;” but as tho rmaent gonaration aro inclined to sido with Paul rather than Iestus, I had supposed tho ineanity indiclment witl- dsawn, ° That I emphasize in my Prnnchh-g tho Oiris- tinn dootrines of tha Fatherhood of God, a8 opposed to the old idea of the absolito monnrchy, snd tho brotherhood of au as oppouod to sectarianism, I admit, but Tam not aware that I do this any moro than guch men a8 Collyer, Ryder, Forrestar, Wendto, and other Chi- cago divines are aocustomod to do. Talso emplin- |, ize anothor Christian doctrine, In rolation to sin, (nud perhaps it 16 this that ¥ Orthodoxy™ deoms suliciont cauro for brain fover) that aln muat be punished ; that whulsoover a man sows, that ho muat also renp, and that no righteonsness of au- other con_servo as o substituto for our wicked- nees ; and, bolieving thig, I warn aud oxhort mon to turn from sin and lve to God. Dut whateyor may have been the cause of tho illness, 1am thankful for my recovery, and uxsnv.-cz to ro- sume my Ynlplt 1abors next Babbath, Permib mo, in cloalug, to return thauks to my numorous frionds for thelr kinduces, so fully manifested 28 it ins been whon L most neodod it J. 0. M. Ilewirt, Pastor of Guity Church, Oati I'anx, Sopt, 7, 1874, A THIORY. T the Editor of The Chicago Trivnne: Bin: It scoms strango that, amid ol tho sup- positions advanced a8 to who killed Mra, Wag- nor, no one hns, apparently, thought.of the woll-known fact thata ball, or any otlior mis~ gile, Btriking the ground at a cortain auglo will richochet to nearly an equal distance to that ot which it first struck tho ground, This is oy- peciaily true il tho missilo should glance upon o stono or any other hard substance. As an illustration tako n emooth, flat stone, and throw it ns far as you com, in o direct line upon tho water, aud If it strikes nt tho proper anglo it will V' ekip" to o groat dis- tanco boyond the pomnt that the utmost power of your arm has propelled it. This, I beliove, will explain tho death of Mre. Wagner, tho great power of tho ball, and account for the missing uhot of the officer, Of courso, tho exact sngla roquired conld not ba obtained once in 1,000 times ; but it must havo douo soin this lustauce, Cnicaao, Sopt. 7. B PREVENTION OF FIREf, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bimm: Ag your paperasinco July 1f hascon- tnined many plana for tho protection of Chi- cago from futuro blazes, some appesring to hnve merit, othora quite visiovary, but nearly allin- volviug such outlay of public mouey a8 to makeo the oure nearly as great an evil as Sho disoaso, without further comment on the plans alrendy bofore you wo offer ours, which 1 to solect such gites in the Inflammable parta of 'tho city, ns practical fire-fightors will conside key positions, Agreo upon a regulation building, varied in di- mensions to suit tho locslity, whoso walls shall be of cortain materlal, holght, and thickness, roof and shutters fire-proof,—in_fact, a bullding that as near os may bo will bo a bar 10 fire from cither direction. ‘Then offer to the ownors of theso sltes such inducements as shall causo tho orcciion of this claes of buildings, As arule’ Ithink a loan of tho wholo or three-fonrths of the amount neces- gary to put up such buildings, at o rato of inter- est of G or 7 perceut andoniton yeers', time would secure thir eroetion at nine-tonths of tho dosignated pinces within twolve mionths. It seoms to the writer that thoincrouso of tnx values, 1ho docreass of firo-taxos (sxponses) and rates of insuranco incidant to tliis plan, would jubtify the outlay, not mentioning its offoct on tho city's appearance, WEST BIDE, Ci110AGO, Hept, 5, 1874, THE COUNTY COIMMISSIONERS AND THE HOSPITAL 10T Tn the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sm: Some of tho County Commissioners liave beon onught in chicanory. Thoy are so adjudgod by (o Grand Jury and tho peoplo, Thoy bought n lospital lot for tho ostonsible purposo of providing a sultable hospital—an in- stitutlon now vory much nocded. Thoy are in dlsgraco for tho way in which this very commend- ablo act has beon dono, They have now tho opportunity of sinkiug thomsolves in worse disgraco or of half rotrloy- ing what they have alrerdy done. If thoy sllow the lospital lot to lay unocou- plod for years, they' can mmko tha mensure of thelr infamy * comploto; for it will thon nppenr that thoy bought the lot for the avowed purposoe of profiting by a job, and not for a howpital ; it will more ocasontially add to thelr own odium than n“{u other course lhnf' could pussibly pursue, If by anxiously wish to rivot tho judgment of tho peoplo put into shape by tho recout raport of the Grand Jury, and it tho hovorable membors of the loard, of whom our faith {s nlmnfi thoro sre mome, ara anxlously dostrous of boing bfi the pooplo reck- onad with thasa cenguced by tha jury, thou lot them all dotormine to keop tho noupital lot.a vacant spoce g1t Is, and koop the poor misors able unfortunates who happen to bo siok” in tho disgraceful nest of oorruptiou called a houpital, that has sinco thoe great fire o thoroughly mado our county contomptible, Bueif the county stop-fathors Linve any slight dosire to estnblish’their Lonesty in the purpose of the purchrso of the mto; If they caro to bo understood as having boughtalot roully for o hospital 3 if thie was tho purposo for which thoir legislation wau_made (however badly tho )nmunumng was done), then thoir way i plain, Phiey hove just one t\mxg to do to [nduce the paople, 110w not over-credutous m thoir bohalf, to bollbve In them, snd that I8 Lo proceed to build n hospltal ab onco. There " is nobt tangible ronson_ngainst it, and all tho intorosts of the publis demund 1t, “Thelsek of funds, and tho grent cont of tho etructure, witl Lo urged by somo; hut no one who haw read tho editorinl pago of Ik Tarsuse on the suldect of pavilion Lospitals will tako suoh ob- Jeotion an valid. A hospital bullt on the pavilion Plun not ouly has tho advantngo of boiug buils chanply, snd of being tho vory way, but it may bo buils Tnlol«l 3 ot time Is abundantly sullioient, With tho County Commissionors rosts tho wholo rosponsibdity in this matser, And thoy ost In'a eanitary ‘I'hroe manthy oro nat plane responsibla for thelr own honorj tho goad nnmo of the county, tho olty, and the liven of tho unfortunnto sick n" woll are In their Dands, and {f thoy over evade the nccountability to which thoy aro hold by tha - pooplo, thov cai novor oucapo tho rigor of thelt own consclonces 1n the time to come, Q. CHICAN0, Bept, 17, 1874, TIE REPLY, * 4 To the Kditor of The Chicago Pribune s \J Bm: Iwaw in your papor this morning o emall picce aboub tha dirty Van DBuron atroet cara, § woulll ltko o hove you {uform us how wo cnn koop our oars clean whon a passengor. “comios Into the oar, puts lils fpat, with bwo inchies "of mud and dirt,.upan the seat, and, if the con- ductor nska bim to plensa keap his foob off, ha will ey, ! You aro gotting damu partioular with your old ears;” spits o grong gob of tobncco on tho floor, and still keops uis feot on Lho seatb. Tha conductor goes to him agan, and this timo fse says, “I'll tako thom off whon I got roady,” nnd still koopa them on, ~Then, tha conductor 18 obligad to tako liold of his feat to pub tham oft, Mo will jump nr and ooy, “Xeop your liands off of mo or I will give you n slap In tho gob{” If that man can tell ualow to s‘mup our cars olonn we wonld {hauk Jum vory much, Cuedao, Sope, 7, 1874, Coxpucron, % ETEAM-WIISTLES, . o the Kditor af T'he Chilodgs Tribune: . LFYe Bt ; Wo wisl to catl the attoution of tho cit; authoritios, through the columna of 'I'me Tnin- usz, to tho unjustifiablo nuisance now Inflicted upon tha publip by steam-tug and locomotive whistles, . | ¢ . Wo vorily boliovo-that no city In "the country, oxcopt Ohioaga, would endnro the infliction of anch an {ntolorable ovil for a singlo day. Wby our nights, ns woll as onr days, should bo ron- dered almost nnondurable, and tho sick of our families shonld bo shocked ‘and dinturbed by the interminablo screaming of steam-tugs and loco- motivos, in moro {han we can uudorstnnd. JMany n poor invalid who, throught o long and woary night of distrers, bas valuly tried to gob an lour of quict ploop and relief frem pnin when nt lost the covotod nap comes is rudoly awakoned o now and more intense anfforing by {hoso unenrthly blasts that seom to bo roundad for the specinl purposo of aggravating thelr migory. Is thera no remedy for this nulsance, for n nuisaneo it assuredly i and that too of a most perniclous tondency? ‘Fhero eannot bo any ox- cuso for nllowing a locomotive to stand for somo ton minntes on the track In ono of the most populous portions of the clty, nrond- ing forth fercing mereamk ny sige ngls for somcbody or thing a mila awny. Neithor can thoro Lo any necesslty for tho tugs to vio with each other in making day and night, hidcous, under tha protenso of giving signnls to tho bridge-tondors, - If tloro muat of' nocessity Do tho sounding of these whistles, may it not he donoe within such reasonablo bounds; and in suolt a limited wy, that tho oud desired may bo ai- tained - withont such distress to our gick snd such aunoyance to all? Wao wonld, in the namo of tho suffering, oall npon the ety authoritics to regulato this matter in euch & way that tho rights of our cllizens may be rogarded as woll ag the convonionce of tngmen and ratlway oflicinls, Quicrao, Sont. 7, 1874, ITISEN, == CRIMINAL. . CRDUNAL COURT, ' Tho Soptember term of this Court opencd yesterday morning with Judge Rogors, of tha Cironit Court, on tho Dench, Before tho ar raignmont of the prisonera who were indicted Dy tho last Grand Jury, and who aro atill in cus- tody to pload, Stato's-Attornoy Reed called the atteution of the Comrt to the fact that mn in- dictmont lind bosn found against William Jones, nlins * Canads Bil},” for obtaining money by the threo-card-monto game, which, under tho statuto of tho Stato, was puuishablo by impris- onmont in tho Ponitentiary, Tho ofiicers wero unablo to aecertain tho whorcabouta of this notorious' ewindler, , Mr. Reed turthor stated that tha ehief proscenting witness, a Mr, Joln~ #on, of Kausag, who had been swingdled by this follow, was held to appear agninst him, and, not Doing ablo to give surety, Lnd beon conflued in jatl for tho past ton days, and Lo thought it propor Mr. Johnson should bo relessed. Tho gentleman waa brought before His fonor and releasod from custody on his own recognizauco of $200 to return and appear against the porson who robbed him of his monoy should themohte- thief ever bo arrested, A, Johunson evidontly concindpd that Chicago ia n place whero justico ia obintued under difioulties, Still, tho oflicors of the courtoannot bo blamed so much a8 the law itsolf. ; v B Maving disposed of this mntter, the Court and tho State’s Attorney procacded to tho srraign. mont, Eighty-geven prigonors wexe presonted bofore iho ber of justice to piead to tho indlot- monts returned egainst thom. The liat included meon and womon of various ages, and of all na- tionalitios, The erimes with which they stood accusod ran from nssnnlt with intent 1o lnll down to potty lnrco:fi-. Tho mn]orll.fr entored tha ples of * Not guilly.” Qut of this clues therg wero o fow who furnished bsil and were roleascd fromn custody. . Tho following pleaded guilty : John Mueller, larceny ; Willinm Duun, ~ burglary ; Jotn Colts aund 1I, B, Mooro, larcony ; Mary Rogan, larcony ; 8amuol Bizas, larcony ; Frank Frink, larcony ; James Luby, larceny; Frederick Miller, Iarcony; John Juckuon, burglary; TFroderick Miller, ussault with intent to do bodily dnjury ; Willisam Anderson, lurceny, aad thoy worn remanded. I'ho following pleaded guilty to larcony and wero sontonced to tho County Jail: ~ John Burphy, 10 days ; Jamos dartin, 20 days ; Potor MoCaun, 6 days; Louis Lymnn, 20 days: James Glenson, 20 days; ichaol Leaboy, 20 days ; Maggio Wolls, 5 daye, and_Olnrles Page, on tho samo plos, was Bent to tho Roform Behoal for two yonrs, : A potit jury was culled for the berm, but only sovon of tho pariies who had neen drawn rosponded to thocall. The Court then ordored n spocinl vonire to il up tho pancl roturnable this morning, THE TOLIOE COURTS. Thomea Prico was before tho South Side Po- lico Court yostorday, on tho chargo of burglary, and hig oxamination was continued till tho 1:!&1 sk, under 3800 bail. > The Polleo Conrts yesterday prosonted an un- usually busy appoarance. The Boath Bide Jus- .tica disposed of 130 offenders agaiust tho poace and dignity of the city, tho Wost Side of niucty- soven, and the North Bido of twenty-sevon. Justice Kaufmann hind John Sinclair, Julius Vichtenborg, aud Horman Krorowitz before him in tho North 8ido Police Court yosterday, on the charge of riot, nnd conttuned the hearing of thow eane it tho 16th inst., wuder bonds of %800 each. D. Kellogg, whose hougo at 83 South Halsted stroot was “pulled” on Saturday night, was be- foro Justieo Scully yostordoy, charged sith leop~ ing n gambling-house, and Hued 100, 'Tha *doaler” was finod {60, nud thirty-one inmatos wero luad 310 each, Michael Englieh, tho ruflan olarged with bo- ing the man who recontly entorod the house of Alr. Rticks, on Wost Harrison streot, sud shoot- ix]xg Mr.lni,l\{nabbfifll)w g&xra%o{flon)llly yestorday, 0 was held to ball In 83, for burglary, and 6,000 for assault with tnfout to kiil, T Jomes Geary I8 o youthful highway robber, he being only 11 years of ago, HBunday he metn buy about bis own age and knooked him down, -and robbed him of w pair of earrings, Yestordny Juntico Ksufmann hoard the cage agninnt tho lad In tho South Bide Potica Court, and dlsposod ot Dim by imposlng o flne_of 810, and in addition thoroto oot him to the Dridowal for thirty days, Larly Bundny morsing thera ocourrod s fight in tho bnlanny of Andrew Velt, No. 401 lmfwd streot. Oflicer Walsh entered to netify tho kooper to shut up, when ho was hit by Auton Bauor with a boct-glass and rocoived gonoral bad trcatmont.from tho crowd. Snuer was held in 400 bail yesterdny by Justico Scully, and the others dismissed. Iho Haggorty hovel, at Kinzio and Elizabotl slreotis, wus tho scono of a disturbance Sunday night, A dozen or moro porsons were within raming a disturbance, ONicors Ornion and Walf attemptod arrests, and tho rosult was that Cau- non wak shob ab a numbor of times, while Blin, Haggorty Jnned Wolf with o hammer, It could uat ba praved yostordsy who did the shaating, but Mrs, H. was flned” 25 for her part in tha moloo by Justico Beully. John Moanoy and Wiltlam Moore, & braco of vogrants, word arrestod Bunday ulght “ piping " rosidonooy on Yinirle _avonue, and wore lodgod in tho U'wonty-socond-Stroet Statlon, Yosterday thoy wera hitorvlowod by Justice Kaufmaun m the Hontl Bido Lolico Court. Ahoy vould giva no eotlsfuctory acconnt of themselvos, and Moouoy, when' intorrogntod as to where ho way bouna for, repliod thal hio * wishied to go ta Jollat," Tlts onor blanaly inforuiad him 1f hia porelsted In pursuing tho vocation for which ho s arrpsted ho would find his dosiro granted fn n vory short timo. Moonoy in ovidontly, n strangor to thg placo, ny hio did not underatand thadrift of Xaufmnun's ramacks, Thoy wero hoth fined 25, and montopco was susponded for twolve hours to pive thom an n‘rporlnnlty to shinko the dust of Chiongo from tholr foot, Tho gamblera of the afty who wero arreatod I8t Baigrday night, with " the inmatos of thoir honoes, woro all arraigned Dofota Juatico Kauf- mauy, at the South Sido Tolica Court yonterday. The linnmlm brothers waro diuchargod, a8 tharo wna na ovidence ngninst thom fo prova thot thoy kopt o gamnlng house, L'ho inmatas wora all dis- ohurgad, ‘Uho romaindor of the prionors ked for % oominuance 4l Wodnedny, which wan granted, thoy boing hold undor &200 bouds oah for appoarance. T, T3, Bmith I tho nama » felllow'gave yeatar- dn¥, and who roprasontod bimsolf to bo n'drum- mor for tomo Eollun in Now York., During his visita to Ohicngo ho freguontly calls on o Frencit woninn mxmm{‘ Annio Vyilliams, Smith arrived {n tho city Sunday niorning, and, aitor nightfall, ho startod out 1n soarch ot tho woman. ‘Iho fire of July 14 Iiad caugod hor to chiauge her quar- tors, and tho gontloman Irom Now York was abont to glve up the qh;ent of his search, whon, in passiug by No. 140 Uhird ayenue, hio saw tho object ot hin ndmiration, apd hastoned to groot ler. Thoy immadiately onterod hor patlor, and, tho evening boing close and suliry, took off hig coat, containing his- pockotsbook. Bubso- quontly, on lenving, ho discovorod tho logs of his wallet, containing éw. Ha immediately cansed lor arrost on tho clinrge of lncceny, Yostorday morning the twain nlppnumd bdfore the Justioo of tho Bouth Bide Palica Court, whon the nc- cused informed tho Conrt that aftor Bmith hind gone she found his pocket-book on the floor, whers & liad dropped whon ho threw his cont on the trunk, Tho ourroncy wna returned Jo him, out of which he pald &6 and costy, by roquost of Justios Kaufman, for bemg in a houso ill ‘repute. ‘Iho acensod woman loft §3 with tho Clerk of tho Court on the oharge of dis- orderly, to which that of larcony was changed, Willism 2ooro -was bofore the South Side Polioa Court yestorday, oharged with larcony. 1o went into the rostaurant of B. Hondrioks 095 Btato stroot, Bunday ovening, and ordarod an oyater-stow. While' It was being propaved for him Le-concesled wo or thrao kutvos, nap- king, oto, undor hiw vost, Mr. Hondrloks missed them, and fnformed tho maun that thieves wore not allowod in his catablishment, but at the snmo time placed tho stow before him., Moore's dignity was insultod at this retloction upon his lonesty, and drawing a razor—tho nogro's \)'cnlwu—fmm hiscoat-sloeve, ho was about to annibilate tho restourant-man, whon his son fortunntely appeared on the scene nud took a band, Tho follow was collared and kicked out of tho housp and into the arms of Ofiicor 0'Brien, who lodged him in the Iarrigon-Stroet Station, Phe articles stolon he droppod when boing handled by young Hondricks, ['he charge was chianged by Knufmann, on hearing the ovi- donce, to that of disordorly, and s fhio of $13 imposod. A CITY OFPICER FINED. Capt, Martin Hoully, Olork of the South Side Police Comt, linw boon drunk for tho past eight months, with nu oceaslonal remission of & day or two in which to prosout himuolf at his bost, and thank Maj, Tunison for kindly attending to tho duties of tho position, and thus ovabling him to coptinzo huig carouspls, Baturday night this nodel Polieo-Court officlal, in company with four of his associates, calicd ot the saloon and restaus rant of Jacob Rictz, No. 60 North Wells stroct, and domanded lunch. They were informod that tho hour was late, and it wis 1mposaibla to en- tortain thom. At fhis information Scully smaabed in tho doors.of tho establishunont, and hurled one or more ompty beer-kogs through the window at the head of tho unoffonding g!lctz. During the meloee that ensued, tho Clork of tho South Hida Poltea Court hind his hund braken, It was dresged, aud ho now carries it fa splinta, as o reminder of his druulkon conduct. Duriy, tho muss Sorpt. Rehm put in an appontance, an took Senlly undor arrost. 1lc was subsoguéntly liberated on ball of £200 for biy appenranco bo- foro Justico Kaufmann yesterday morniug to nn- swor to tho chargs of drunk and disorderly, Jim McCormick becamo his auroty, At tho con- vonlng of the North $1de Polico Court yosterdny motning tho nso was calied, but the principal failod to npoear, wheroupon a fino of 815 and costs Wos aasessed ogainst im, The execution was mado out_and put in the bands of Builiff Codman to collect. This conducs on tho part o an oflicint whose duty it is to prosecuto ay Cletk of » Police Coutt partios who nre gailty of tho gamo olfense of which ho himeolf was guilty doserves immediato nttontion, and the drunlcon, worthleso reprobate should bave charizes pre- forrod zgainst him before somoe court of compo- taut juriadiction. MIRCELLANEOUS, Heury Rreod's storo, No. 578 Stato streot, was ontered by Burglars yesterday morning, before daylight, snd $125 wotth of silverwaro taken. Michacl Woun and Peter Oooling quarreled over tho right-of way i obtaining enwdust at a planing-mill, corner of Clark and ‘Iwellth strocty lact ovening and the formor stabbed tho latter in the hand with a pitehfark, inilicting twa sovero wounds, Wonn wus urrestod and lodged iu tho Armory. At 2 o'clock yestordny morning, EQ Krogmann and Frank Moonoy becamo enygsged in an altor- eation, in which knives were drawn, and the lat- ter cut twico in the hond, Tha aftray ocourred b tha corner of Calumet avenue and Twenty- ixth street. Aloonoy lives at No. 235 Cottago Grovo avonue. Krogmann was urrested aud loekod up. On complaint of Willlam O'Kelly, mnde on the 27th day of lagt month, Mra. Horrigan, John Youuy, Patrick Casoy, William Foud, and Jack Malonoy woro_arrosted for making threats to do him h\i’m‘y. Yestorday Justico Hiasdalo placed the partied under $200 bonds cach to koep tho penco. Carrio Daly complained yestorday befors Jus- tlpo * Hinsdnlo that Dollie Wilson, who resides in the samo hongo with hor, at No. 125 Bast Van Duren etroet, had mnao throats to do hor vio- lonce. The Justlee, upon her ropresentions, is- sued n warrant for tho arrest of Miss Dollio, aud placed it iu tho bands of Conytablo O'Brine, who ‘xmugm tho Indy boforo the Justico. Tha hear- ing of her caso was continuad Lill to-morrow un~ dor $100 bail. Thiovas and swindlors from all ports of the country are paying fying visits to Chieago, prep- arntory to taking 1n” tho numorous Btute and county foira which are to boleld all over tho West. 'Tho dotectives horo have ordera to keep a closs watch on all susplolons parties who aro abont tho oity. Tho citizena on the southorn limits of tho city aro talking of organizing o vigilauce committeo, Yor . tho Jurpose of summnnrily dealing with thioves, 'I'ho latost burglary which has startled thom was oommitted at tho howso of M. J, Jonos, No. 891 Arnold_stroet, whilo tho family was abgont, last Saturday, Valusbles amountivg to $250 woro talien, tho thioves galuing entrance over a transom in the back doorway. i 1t having boen excoedingly dull sround tho lumber-docks for tho lnst few days, o party of five or six roughs undertook tho task yesterday alternoon of changing tho monotony of affairs, and making it lively for the boys for a little while. ‘They first went into a aaloon on the cor~ nor of Franklin and Bouth Water stroels and trfed to oroato o disturbauce, but tho propriotor of theplace, being no chickon, ropulsed thom most vatantly, and turnod thom out of doors, They then woit along the lumber-docks, smash- ing the windows of the Vosscl-Owuors' Lowing Company, and ivsulting tho marinors congro- gatod around thore. Thoy finally went into tho Baloon of Bwenson Brothers, kuown aa tho Buffalo Saloon, and domanded boer, Whilo the youngor of tha brothers draw tho beer from tho barrol two or three of tho pm-t{‘pmmcd upon him and beat him foarfully ou the head. . The fumult Dbrought in the eldor brothor, who was up-staivs, and lio way al6o seb upon by the crowd and foar- fully boaton on tho hend, rocelving sovernl wounds, Ono cut in tho head 1a soveral inchoy long. Ile had ou bims gold wateh and chain, which was taken from Lim, as was also his pook- ot-book, Another party, during the moloo, utoppad boliind tho countor gud emptiod tho tll, The party thon boat o hurried rotreat, aud went 1o thio West 8ido. 'Tho strangest thing about the affair is that no ono interferad with the sarty in their outragoous conduct, although horo wore n largo numbor of lumbor-shovers who were presont at tho aftray, Polloe-Onicor Tounnn, who s stationod at tho lumbor-dooks, ‘wan nowhero to bo seon, sud diligont soarch aid not roveal hls whercabonts, Long.aftor tho ffair wae ovor, and the roughs had docamped to parts unknown, he turnad up, and statad that ho ind boon to dinnor. One of the prriies wag ar- rested on tho Wost Bido in tho ovoning, ———— GENERAL NEWS. ‘o followiug gontlemon, dologatea to thoe Na. tloual Sportsmon's Conventlon from the Guu Ulub, loft last night for Niagara Falln: 8. If, ‘Curelll, 1M 3, Bdwards, I, 3, Abboy, Thong Htagg, aud Oharlos Moryls, The temporature yostordsy, sy observed by Mannaso, optician, under Tut ‘'nipuxs Building, was, in tho ehade at 7 a. m.,, 66 dog. F'abr.; 103, m., 771 14 m., 835 8p.m, T8; 6p, m, T4; and 8wy, 10 At a reoont meoting of tho congregation of 8t, James Eplecopal Ohureh, tbo following gentlo- .| ors mon woro eleatod delogatos to tho Dlocenanal COonvontion, whioh will meot Twendpy: Q. R, Larrabeo, . R, Mubhard, J, Y. Ledloyno, D, Gaodwin, Jr., T, 11, Sheldon. d ) The Ohieago & Notthwestorn Railroad Com- pany brought {o his city yostorday; 160 mora ureks of Australian mail, Tlho Monnonitos aro atill coming. The Chica~ go, Durlington & Quiney Haflroad transporied yostordny nine car-Jopds to Lincoln, Neb., and throo car-londs to Atoliison, Nob, The story of Mrs, Mary Olivor, to the offcct that hor daughtor Alico, age 17, hss beon abe duotod from Notrp Dmine Canvent, at Reading, g., Is gonornlly discradited by the aythoritics 0t0, Tho incidontal oxpensan of the Buporintond- ot of tho Nowshoys' ITomo, ag will be showa in hia forthcoming roport for tho last quarter, wore $320.75, . ‘The Young Mon's Olirlslian Association yos- tordgy placed upon_thoir fountain in front of tholr rooms a box for the rocantion of such con- tributions as tho thirsty mey find it convoniont to donato, The Dircctors of the Newaboys' fTome falled to transaot any business yosterday aftornoon, owing to the want of & quorum. Tho moeting wn; fioulpanud until this aftornoon at 2i5 o'clock. The noon nxpress on the Alton Road yesterdny brought about 300 anti-union miners to tho cit; who woro thrown out of employmout nt Draid- wood by the compromiso recontly offected be- tweon tho strikers and the owrors of mines. ‘I'hoy woro auything clso thay noat and tidy in appearance. An enterprising cltizon up in tho Thirteenth Word has stocked » founr-story bldklh\? with burglar-alarms and rovolvers, and proposes hiring and sublotting to timid Louscholdors 400 private patrolmon, 1o saya in confidence that ho would not call Pottor Palmor bis cousin. ‘Whenover a biltiard-player is guilty of a par- ticulnrly unostontations and woll-austained fluke, say that ho is & * rogular Major.” Iho will ap- prociato tho complimont evon more highly than 1f you should call him a thiof upon wheala, You call yoursolf o Gvanger, sworn to up- hold honesty,—look at the tapor in _that peach- basket,—bah!” remarked o grocer Thuteday last to s farmer. Then he went mside, and in hia Eust indignation put twioo as much sand as usual uto the muscovado Bugar-berrel. A horse attached to n buggy, in charge of Fronklin_ Jackson, ran away on Stato_stroet,- near Madison, yesterday attornoon, and throw tho ocoupant out, and colllded with a lorso-at- tachod to an oxpress wagon, Mr. Jackson os- crpod with sluiht Lruizos, and tho exprous- mun's horse was killed, Yestorday tho schools of the oily resumed. A great many children bid farewell to places of oroflt and truat to return to school duties, The ‘oung Mon's Christian Astocintion Employmont Burean is propared to fill with good boys all placos vacated by schiool-going childron, Tho Gould firc-ongine, now at No, 18's house on Daarborn streat, will bo kopt here far anotber weols, when further trials of lier_capacity will be mado. 1legowners have placed n pair of horns on hor, and nvite compotitors to beat hor 310 foot and tako them off. The Goshon (N, Y.) corrospondonce of the New York Herald, under dato of Aug. 81, rolatos ‘s and story of misfortune, suffering, and sorzow in Orango County,” tho unfortunate porsou boing o man named James B, Williams, who is said to have boen n man of considerable means and o rosldent of Ohicago prior to tha groat fire, which swopt away all his posscusions, Sinco then ha lins met with tho greatest hardsbips, being re- duced to absolute peuury, and in addition to that aflliction came the death of hia wife, whila travel- ing to the homo of hor reiatives, aud a disease of the hand which neceesitated the amputation of one of his thumbs, . Tight kundred and forty porsons, fourteen horaes, and three doga quenched their thirst at tha now Young Blen's Christian Association fountnin on Mawson atrcot yesterday, They nse 500 pounds of ica daily iu tha fog-bax under tho sidowalk, and the contribution hox on tho front reun‘u(l;s vach ono thal another fountain is to bo orectod. A meeting of colored citizens was hold yester- dny evening in Judgo Mooro's room in the City- all, for tho purposa of taking stops toward the organization of a colored militia rogiment. Wiilinm Duaker prosided, nnd speeches wero mado by Messrs. Lowis Marshall and othors. 1t was roported that soveniy-nine persons had Bii,'uc(l tho roll, An clection was then bad for ofticers of Company A, resulting as follows: Captain, Jamos Shelton; First Lioutcnaut, Charles Scgmore, Sccond Lioulenant, A. J. Ethoridge. From tho energy thus far displayed the movemont will undoubtedly bo o succoss. Wo aro, indeed, tho creatures of accident. Saturdny tho kooper of & fashionablo boarding- house on Wost Washington stroot hnd just com- ploted & contract with a young mon from the conntry, sure pay ond of sound principles, when his attontion was rivetod by the .sight of a lawn-mower standing in tho grass-plot befora the door, Iastily romarking that Lo didn't ropose to train inany houso where they choppod Enu by horse-power, hio doparted. ‘Tho sad ac- cident has cast n gloom over tho wholo com- munity, Those who take a just prido in tho disromina- tion of knowledge among tho lowor orders by means of the daily press will ba pleased to know that whonever o policetaan hegins to fira at & mark overy ol womau within 800 fect of him— oud particularly behind him—stops into hor louse with the alaerity aud modesty of an in- sulted elam. Thoe Presbytorian ministera mot yestordny morning for the first timo Bindo the snwmor va- cation, ‘I'iere was not a very large attondauce. A general disoussion of churcli interests was had, thero belug no specinl subject for consideratian, aud tho only business doua was thoe appointmont of a committeo to rovise iho order of "tho moot~ ings, some of the membors desiring to make tho plan and purpose of tho woekly gatherings dif- feront i certin rospocts, Tho Denf Mute Society of Chiongo Is regularly orgauized for the nur;&ow of securing n library and a lecturo room. Onaccount of their infirm- ity, thoy are entiroly cut oft from all the enjoy~ ment of lecturing and proaching, and iv s only by some organizod effort, assisted by benevo- loneo, that thoy are ablo to sceura lec- tnres addrossod in their peculiar language. Tho public wonld do tho Socioly & grent ood by supporting it, ‘Choso having donntions 50: tha Sosloty witl plonse address J: B, Lown- sond, No. 600 Carroll avenue. Ho is tho only collector of subscriptions, ete,, in the city for tho Socioty. T'ho Hocloly aims to bocome an Tionor to itsolf and tho commumt{ in general, 1t has sbout forly members enrolied, Thoro uro ovor 100 donf mutes living in the city. A liealthy and robust-looking young Granger with o red hond called on Justico Winship yes- terduy and introduced & girlish blushing maidon, dressed in pure white from lier bond to hor foet, rolioved with o blue band around her lat, o pink tloat her collar, and a stuunivg sash of the snmo hne around her slondor waist, ashis futuro partuerin all bia worldly goods, and deaired that ho forthwith unite thom in the holy Londa of wedlook for bottor or for worse. 1ho Justico signified bis willingnosa to accommodnto tha youthful pair, aud with that view kindly in- vlemyl thom into his privato room, and thero ro- uested tho expoctaut groom to produco hig liconge, By this roquost the rural gentleman ap- poared coniplotoly stunnad, and the.unsophisti- onted Grangor repliod that in Chicago ho waa unawaro that o llcenwe wad nooessary, Upon the information that it cortalnly was, e startod for his bat, sud cagerly Inquired the direction to tho County Clork’s oftive. 1lere again he was doomad to disappointment, as the hour then was 6 o'clool p.m., and that officor cloaad his offico nt 5, Tho rustic couple, who wora evideutly flocing from tha opposition at homo to the consnmmatlon of their doarost wish- o8, with disappolntmant depioted upon their countounancos, bado e Ionor good evening, and assured him thoy would walt on him ngain carly thia morug, and then arm in ann wended their way towards Homo ono of the numorous Lotels of tlso Woat Bide. Our Olty Governmont has just boen glving another exhibition of its alliance with tho rufian oloment in our midst, A wook ago, * Canada DI, tho tbros-card montd u{mmlor. swindled two Xansan farmors out of all thoir monoy, 1o waa arrostod, had a mock tria) at the Pollca Oourt, and wus lightly flued. ‘I'hia fine he uppealed, and menuwhile the farme wore lold a8 wiluessea to apponc agolust * BIL" fn tho Criminal Court. One of tho men, Willam Jones by nawme, wes held for wwo woeks, he cnge camo np yeaterday niorn. jug, but it turned out that "n’l " had ¢ fumpod tha town ™ aud gone to parts unknown. 'I"lm polico snid that they mudo soarch for him, but it conld not havo hoon a vory closo one, for the villain ds woll kuown, and could hard- ly lmve loft the nhy without their knowledge. Now tho victimized farmors ¢an find thelr way back to Xanoay In any manuer that may suit thoir resources, for thoy have not s doliar loft, Mut tho pooplo may an well give up all hope of having n docent polico force, honest detectives, and good muuioipal protec~ tlon whils the prosont et run things thelr own way at polico Lioadqunrtors, sy X CITY OFFICLN, The Board of 1fonith ars now loeated in thelr now raoms in the Ilonors Block, With many sighs, but fow toars, they bid o long and deep farowoll to tho lealy-roofod and dlmly-lighted rooma which thoy have hitherte oceuplod. Wednesday motning fhe Taw Dopnrtmont will: ocaupy $hoir old quarters, to which Lo, rooms hnvo boon added, and tha whole neatly grained and ealoitmined, Frank Adame, Reag,, has acoopted tha position of Asslatant Corporation Counsel. 'I'lis ko doos, oy tho Mayor ssys, with tho distinot undoratand- ing that tho salary I8 to bo tncroased to 85,000, ‘I'io Bonrd of Polico and Firo Commissionors Tinyn yocommonded the purohasn of two lots on tho corpor of Htate and Thirty-syenth sirects, from tho owner, Mr, Honry Greepe- baym, Tho Committco on Btroots and Alloys of tho Wast Division failed to moot yusterday, owing to' he absauco of & majority of ita mambors, 'Cho Chairmon of all Common Councll Committoes aro to ho pitied, They wander despondoutly without an aim all around the old rookery. The attention of the Board of Jloalth las boon ealled ta the fack that, in tho district north of tho Wator-Works and onst of Olark atroet, tharo are an npusual number of doad dogna lying In tho stracts. The odor from there deosylng oaronsges {8 not such as would tand to insplro North Siders with » high opinfon' of the au- thoritios, Yho Uoard will a¢ ongo abolish the nuisanco, Mr. Clovoland, tho Mayor's Socrotary, has anuworad all the questions askod by tha "Bacre- tary of Htate in rogard to tho Polico Dopartmont of thin city, for tho benofit of tho . Goveramont of Japan, o yestarday forwarded s ocopy of tho Raviaed Ordinances of tho ecity ond other ofiicinl do.umenta to tho Socretary. Tonovan, tho bankrnpt contractor, yosterday 1ol tho Bonrd of Public Works that ho could not fininly his contract, Tho coutract will imme- distely bo relot to the next lowsst bldder, the loag, it m{. bolng suffornd by Donovau'n bonds- ‘nr;’ollf' Mr, Ferdinand Link aud Connty Trossuror iller, ‘I'bo Board of Pollse and Fire Commissionors lold & ropular meoting yosterdsy aftornoon. Tho caao of Ofilcer Kuright, which “was contin- ed from lst weok, was ugain brought up with somo naw ovidences sud wituesaes, and rosulted in tho dismiusal of that oflicer from tho Po]lco force, Oflicer Melray wan fined five daya’ pay for abaonoo from duty without permission. The charges against Officor Kiploy wero dinmisned, and b rocoived a slight reprimand. ‘Tho Boar thon sdjourned. The chief topics of convorsation inside the Hall are the raid of the palico on the gambling dous, and the payment of damages to twa par- ties whoee property was demolished In the Hal- stod strect firo of 1873 Tho Pn ont of theyo damages, the Clty Attornoy inslsts, is illlegal, and tho Aldermen contost it on moral grounds, :vhich 18 somothing they aro noi atall accitomed 0. ‘Tho Asacssor has roturncd his roll of porsonal property assessments. A Committes of Equali- zation, cousisting of tho Mayor, J. J. lln&m&h ond Charles Dounohy, will sit for ton days, bo- filnnlng on the 16th inatant, for the purposo of caring and adjusting complaints. In the offico of tha Firo Marsbal may bo ssen & amall model of tho application of the telegraph to fira-ongines, The wiro, covorod with wator- proof loather, ruus along tho hose from the nozzlo to a small hammer locatod on tho engine clogo to n gong. Ou tho nozzle is a small key, on tonchhlfiwhlch signals can bo instantly trans- mitted to the engineor, thua abolishing tho pros- ont systemn of scuding ordora from musn to man along the lino, ‘Lhe invontor has gono East to prociire somo Lose with tho aitaohment, nud, when ho returns, an effort will bo made to intro- duco It into the dopartment. ——— PERSONAL, Tho Lingard troupo are stopplng, temporarily, &t the Tromont 1lonse. The Hon. Olivar Pillsbury, of Now Hampsbiro, ono of the National Insuranco Comminsionors, starts for home to-day. Sir Bruco M. Soton, Bart., and Horbort Pracd, 3L P., of England, are stopping at the Grand Pacifie, Mr. D. M. Doyd, General Passongor Agent of tho Penusylvania Railroad Company, is in the eily. Mrs, Solon McElroy and her daughter, Miss Mollie, have roturnad to the city aftor an absence of some months, and are guests at the Palmor House, 3 8, C. Hough, formerly of Chicago, and now Goneral Passongor Agent of the Yitisburg, Washizgton & Baltimora Railrond, with hend~ quarters at the Lirst-named city, is at tho Tre~ miont House, Tho Hon, Walter B, Bcatos met with quite a serious accident lnst woek whilo on route from this city for Evanaton, whore ho rosides. As tho train was starting, ho stopped back from tho platform to permit 2 lady to enter the car, snd, while doing go, was cnught between the moving car and a post near tho track, and narrowly es« caped beiug fatally orushed. As it was, lo bad & collat-bono feactored and was momowhat bruised. s condition is hopeful, and his apocdy recovory anticipated. Mrs. Albert Jenks, the only daughter of Goorgo 8. Bangs, Leq., tho Goneral Suporintond- ent of the Unitod Statea Railroad Pontal Ser- vico, dled gt the Garduer Ilouso, in this city, Saturday. The Houp. J, J. Haydon nnd family, of Indian~ apolis, are stopping with Dr. Hayes, at No, 123 Calumet ayenuo. - TRobert Warren, Esq., roturned yeatorday from his trip to England, v HOTEL ARRIVALS. Palmer Iouse—8, I1. Lovy, Now York ; Frank Hambleton, Philadolphia ; J. L. Merriman, U, 8. R M.; W. M. Kilgrave, U. 8. A.; T W. I'almer, Dotroit 3 0. I, Fostor, Now Orleans ; Elijah and Thomas ‘Tlon, Springtiold; J. 3L, Eddy, Omnba: Dr, I, II, Kimball, Minnoap- olis; Theodore Coleman, Deentur; A. Drittan, Pittaburg ; O, 8, Prico, Philadelphin; H.1I: C, Damoody, U. B, A F Chadbourno, Ban TFranclsco; J. X. G. Pitkin, Now Orlopns, . . . Grand Pacifle—W, M, Lockwood, 8t. Touls ; Samuel A, Miller, Louis- villo; Charles 3L Groene, Now York; 3. O. Datter, Iows ; David Ritchoy, Pittsbarg ; P. D. Armour, Milwaukoo; E. H. Ogdon, Philadel- hia ; L, C. Itusaoll, Iudianapolis; D. Rovor, .; F. B urlington ; O. B. Bherloch, 8t, Touls, . . . Sherman House—J. M. Donforth, Du- buquo ; J. R _ Cuuningham, — Torre Haute; . A. Drillie, Berling enry Smith, Quincy; D. Wobster, Detroit; I. W. Binfadolt, Rockford; R. R. Wallaco, Now York; II. @. Randall, Iartford, . . . Tremont Honse— R. Loeds, Now York; L. Arms, U. 8, N, Cumunings, Now Yorl; Charlos Villers, Now York ; 0. Ot, Mendota; B, W. Jones, Joliot; the Rev. J. 11 “Vommgorholz, Qalveston, Tex. ; J, 11, Comstook, Boston ; Henry G. Catlin, Vormont. P ———— ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Univorsity of Chicago, in both tho colle- ginto and proparatory depnriments, begins the fall term Thuredey of this weok, the 10th inst, Candidatos for examiuntion and admission should bo presout at tho University at half-past 8 o'clock that moraing, The Goneral Conforence of.the German Bap- tiat Ohmrch nssombles in this clty on tha 16th int,, and will romain_ fu seselon untll the 204 inst. Its sessions will bo Lold in the IWist Gormau Baptist Church, Tho mombors of the First Ntegiment of Linols Infantry will assemblo to-night at their armory, Nos, 77, 70, and 81 Btnto streot, for tho oloction of company ofticors, and for tho trausaction of furthor important bushioss, The membera of tho Law Company of the Firat 1llinols Iufantry will meot this avoning At 1744 a'clock, sharp, at the gmcn of tha Hon, 8, K. Dow, Room 15 Methiodife Chuych Dlock, for tho purposs of comploting tho company orgon- ization, Aftor the orgawzation i pocfectod, thoy will ropair to their Armory for tho election of Lioutenant-Oolonel of tho battalion. s BSUBURBAN NEWS. HYDE PANK, J The Board of Educntion haye undor considora- tlon tho propricty of establishing two now dehools, primary sud grommar, on Hyda Park svonue, botween Tifty-first and Fifly-fifth stroots, in ordor to rolioveilse ovorcrowded condition of the High Bohiool building, the South Park Bchool and to provide for a grammar class ab Wood- Iawn, snd s committoo of throo aro seoking propor reoms for the purposo. Applicatlon wos mado by the Truateos adihe “Thixd Distriot for admission of Saudford Faulk- nor, Mary O. Downs, Mary Goodwin, and Llizaboth Goodwin to the HMigh Sehool and it wag ordo sed that thoy bo admittod if tho Supor. intondont can find soata for thor. Projrosals wore recolved from Cowporthwalt & Co, for the Introduction of Monroo's Readora al rud;l‘ll:ud rnllnu; nloo, from John McCarlhy, for osition of Principal ot Cornoll Beh yrcm I Alno]Yn M. wlzuh‘mmrn: Xwfi'bo;%%l ‘n‘fizfik tolgl‘l:"lolggll; B:huul_ m“)l]a hér th ,{men or neating? Cornoll Bebool. woro opened and road, n'; rollonl«:: b0z Elfirgv;wd Bcligol Jugniture Gompany, Ghl- | S . et 380, . A, lfl Androws & sigeing Hukool Furaffira Gomipan, . 1, Sinith & Go,, Partinnd, i m;rc]m Manufucturing Compauy, 1 Tio winnimity of o nmused tho Bonrd, espocially as t'nfufm' ul‘)]c‘:: privatoly informod boforahnnd thng thieir bids would o aliko, and that thoy hiad formed a pome binatlan to koap up prices, snd that the com- pany who_recolvod the contraot was bound to pay Lo apch of the others b per cont out of thote profits._'fho subjoot was lald over one wools, Mr. DBiuford reported tho ncliool consus juss takon undor his guperyislon, by whicl it appuars thera aro fn District No, 1 Hydo Park 445 fami« lies, and 1,218 children, of Wham tho nnmber nttonding school gre 270 males and 254 fowmpies; ol 0, ; o v 'ho sovoral Committecs on Repairs roported 4hat tho wohool-honues hind boon nfl 1““ lmgonfl ordor, "Who subjoot.of furnacos for Cornoll Hehool-houio was next conaidorod. Tho aeaigumont of o teacher to the Brookling 8chool was reforrad to Mr. Cudmore, In oape. sultation with the Buporiutandent. JBEVORBON, An loo-croam and frult fentiva] will bo held st :l; i‘lrutI Unnurc{,nnuannl Ohurch of this place s avoning. tho Bunday-schoot Hoyarye " 0 7 o Blveu to KORWOOD FANK. Tho Board of Truataos of this village met fn the Town-Ifall Baturday night Iast, - Thoro were prosent Georgo I Cawpbaoll, Robort Pollock, Jamea Guilbert, Martin D, Stovons, and Lorin 0. Colliny, Jr. The above-nnmoed gontlomon qualified by taking and subseribing to the oath of ofiico. An cloction for Proaldent of t, ol in the ohoice of Gaory m.’"c?&‘}.'&fi?”'fi"& oloction Loing hold for Olork, Mr. Cyrus J, Gorsa was choson, who, boing presont, was duly ine e tomiag ppol s following appointments of village ofil \)vluru tl;lon mvide: lrnot.J C{,’,‘}‘E“”"’""g‘ ’l‘c;m::: annahan; Tronsuror, Jo 3 Constablo, Thomas Orr. AR liog On motlon, the first Monday In each month Jay chiosen as the timo for the regular meeting. lllzf {Jontrd then adfourned to ¥riday night, tho h inst. A mooting will bo bold Thuraday evening is he Rotormed Church for the purpnyeo of a?gin? zing o munical socisty. Concorts will be given d&mfi dl\m wintor, if a succossful orgamzation ia offected, —e THE ‘COUATS. A VOID ORDINANCE, On the Bth dny of June, 1874, Charles I, Townnond, of Clinton Township, Iows, moved to Bouth Evanston. He had proviously paid his rond tax, snd got a recoipt therofor. On tho 1st of July he was warnod to appear and labor upon tho streots of Bouth Evauston, in accordanco with the ordinanco of that village. Io replied that ho had poid the road tax in Iowa. Note withetanding this fact, he was sucd -befora Justice Goorgo M. Huntoon, of Bouth Kvanston. Ou tho 18th day of Julya judgment waa rendored. agalnat him for 24 and costa. On hisrofusal topay tho judgment a warrant for committnl wos issuod, and bo was inearcoratod in the County Jail of Cool: Countyon the third day of this month. On that day E. B. Payno, his attornoy, filed a potition for o writ of babeas corpus, stating tha facts o8 nbova sot forth, declaring that the judg- ment boing for §4, whereas the ordinance under which it bad boen inflictod vrescribed a fino of 46, the commitment wes void. It was alno cone tendod that the ordinance itself was vold, on tho groupd that there was no power vested in ¢ho Presidont and Trustees of tho Village of Bouth Evanston to enact any such ordinsuce, ‘When the case was hieard Judgoe Gary reserved his opinion. Yeatorday he decided that the ordi- nanco of Bouth Evanston which doclared that every inhabitant of the villagoe above the age of 21 and under tho ago of 60 should bo compolled to labor upon the stracts of South Evanston for two days, or, noglecting to do 8o, skould bo finod tho sum of 35 and costs, and incarcerated until the fino and costs wora paid, was void, bocausa tho Village of Boath Evanston was organizod under the general law of 1872, rolating to citica and villages; and that inaldo of the gonoral Inw thore was no power granted to corperato aus thorities of citica and villages to ‘onact an or« dinanco roquiring tho jnhabitants of such citioa and villagos to labor u{on tha stroots and high< ways. Judge Gary_ thoreupon discharged tho relator, George O. Ide appoared for the Villaga nfl Elouux Lvoanston aud Eugeno B, Payno for the rolator. As n conrequonca of this decision, Mr. Paynpe, on bebalf of tha rolator, hias this day commonce: an action in trespnss in the Buporior Court of Cook County agaiust George M. Huntoon, tho Justico, and’ David Lilly, tho Constable, Inying damngos at §10,000, ITENS, Tho noxt torm of the Cirenlt Conrt will com- monce Monday Su{»t. 21. Attornoys are request- ed tofilo their trisl-notices as soon as convouiont, aud nt least os carly ns tha-16th, as new dackeia liave boou made, and pew term numbers given to pendiug cosen, and it is dosirablo to havo the calendurs printed as soon a3 poseiblo. Judge Bloore has raturned, and will hear necossary matters o usual, Judgo McRoberts, of Joliot, will bo horo next month to assist tho Judges of the Superior Court. UNITED BTATES COURTH. Tho Mochanics’ Savings Dauk flled. & bill ngainst Loura N, Starl, Mary A. Stark, James L. Btark, and Loura N. Stark, guardiag, to fore- clogo a mortgago for $10,000 on the cast 40 fock of Lot 8 in Blook 86 i Kinzie's Addition. W. 8. Ladd, O, E. Tilton, and Stephen Meado commonced & suif against George I, Clarke, R P. Layton, and O, P, Silva, claiming $10,000. SUPLRIOR COURT IN BRIEF, Thompeon T, Taylor began o anitin replevin againet J. W, Laimbeer sud T, A. Iungorford 10 rocover a borse, buggy, snd harness valued ab £1,000. i\[)‘m Hurrington bogan o suit in trowpass against W. A. Ewing, Exccutor of tho will of “tngm;u‘ov' Lwing, deceased, laying her dainagos b $4,000. R < Hoyal M, Bassott commonced a euit in nttacie mont against tho Washoo Tool-Manufacturing Compnny, claiming $8,000. W. I' Goolbaugli and Marous 0. Soarng sued Ewing, Mahon & Co., for 24,000, John R, ‘Townsond bogan sn aotion_in trog- ass againnt Georgo M, 1luntoon and David Lil~ rls. Iaying damages ot $19,000. i Jobn 1t Adams began a suit for 57,000 against Adam Bmith, Samuel Swith, and Plorson D. Smith, 3 CIRCUIT COURT, .. M. Bradley, for tho uto of Ibeuozor Wake- loy, began a sutt for §3,000 agalust Goorgo A. iolden nnd R. 8. Willlamson, % Tusyell & Winaton suod the Olicago & Pa~ clio Railroad Compauy for $1,000, Johu MoWado connnoncod zn action against John Feony and Edward Burkbardt, elmming 24,000, " TNL COUNTY COURT. TIn the matter of tho ostato of the lnte Martin 0. Walkor, I, Ransom, 8. 'I'. Hanchett, and W. 1. Glenson wora appointed appratucrs, Tho will of tho Iato Michacl: McCall wag proven, and lottors testmentary woro weued to Ttose McCall, nnd hor indlvidus! bond in §3,000 wan approved. ‘ Maris G. Jones was appoiuted nuardian of Frauklin Drovkway, a minor, undor au approved boud of §8,000. JUDQMENTS, hg““mlm; Gmm]x\-(;;nm’la»maflmry Taubon+ imor ot 81, v, Adam Sl 00, Junos GARY~—A. B, Work ys, Bmith Whittler, 484,08 g A Suit Agatnat Mombors of & COugross sionul O ittou, From the New York Sun, Mr, William 1nstings haa brought a suit in tho United Ktates Courts againat John A, Binglam and othérs, formerly mombors of the Judiclary Committes of the Iouso of Nepresontatives, for “having wilfully, wronglully, ilogally, fe« loniously, and corruptly failed and noglected-to porform their sworn duty as publio ofilolals, and !ulaniouuli and corruptly conspirod togothor and wuppreusod evidonos of corruption, and of the commission of high crimes and misdomenanors on tho part of Ligh publis oflicials ; proved ani eutabllunod bofore eaid defondants by plaintiff while tha defoudants were sitting as a Judicinry Committes of tho Ionko of Represontativos of tho United Btates, on tho henring of an lnpeach= mont procoading prodcouted in person by eald Hastivgs.”