Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1874, Page 2

o ~ INSURANCE. A Talk with the State Insur- ance Commissioner, Lfforis to Bo Made fo Prosccuto Agents of Wild-Cat Com- panics, The Beauties of West Virginio In- SUanco. ¥ill Filed by the Creditors of the Great Western. Charges Agninst Assignce and Ollcors, TUL COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE, Among the arrivals in this city yesterdny was Mr. Frank Leovnrd, State Commussionor of In- surance. Ilo hns not come horo, ny Was Bup- posed, to examing {uto tho respousibility of tho ©yild-cat " companios which have recently com- moncod lssuing policies fn Chicago, but tpon privato businoss. A reportor of Tuy TRInUNE Dbad & talk with him at tho Palmer Ilouso in tho afternoon, and lenrned soveral intoresting facte. 1lo unid the Directors of the Empiro’ Insuranco Company wore responsible mon ; that tho socuri- tica for 3104,000 woro considered good, tho Com- pony doing buginoss under an old chinrter, which authorizod them to commenco whon §100,000 capital hnd beon securcd. o thonght injustico bad beon dono tho ‘Irado, of Camden, N. J., which, though emall, was & golid Company,' with eomo thousands of o surplus. In fogard to tho *‘Mineral Moun- tain,” application had boen made for au Auditor's cortificato, but it way refused on tho ground that tho concern was mol conaidered sound. As totho " Commercia),” of Chinrlestown, W. Vs, tho *Unfon,” of Now York, the o Fedoral City,” of Alleghony, Do, aud tho +Nail City,” of Wost Virginin, none of them had applied for authority to catablish ngoncies- in Chicago, aud, if any of them had, it” would un- doubtedly have beon rofused. While tho posseasion of an Auditor's cortifi- cato is not an absoluts guaranteo that a company is solyont, atill a compauy which is unablo to procuro ono is not ns safo to insuro in as the other, The compnnies last named have failed o comply with the laws of Iilinois, nud, .hy issuing noficies in_ Chicngo, nro guilty of & violation of the 'statuto. Tho Attornoy-General is looking into tho mnttor, and, if tho proper ovidenco can’ bo obtained, tho ngents will bo prosecuted, These ngonts, or brokors as they ¢all thomselvos, claim to act ns tho egent of the insurcd, tho premiwn money being sont (o the homo oflico, and the 'mllchu written there and forwarded by mail. Ithis is the way tho **wild-cat” companics are doing business, aud it js doubtful if the Inw can ronch them. If not, the only way to drivo them out is to let their policies alone. Their rates may bo very low, but, in eate of anything moro than an ordinary loss,—nud oven in'tha cano it iy donbtrul,—thio amount of the premiuin would not bo received by tho policy-bolddr. This ad- monition wili bo heeded Ly business men, bus there may bo_many who will tind oub too late what reliancein to be placed in an irresponsible ingurance company. gt WEST VIRGINIA INSURANCE. The repntation Hartford baywon iv connaction with'the ineurauco business Is well known, It i8 not 8o well kuown, howover, that & formida- ble rival Lay sprung up west of the Alleghouics. This. now city, which i now making o apecialty of thoiusuranco businoss and doveting its availa- “ble capital of $500 to protecting poople from the ovilg ‘of confiagrations, is enlled funtington, and is & very ploasant littlo village.in Cuboll County, W. V., on tholino of tho Chespeako & Obio Railroad, Cabell is w small West Virgin- ia county, & little bolow thio town of Gallipolis, on tho Ohio bauk of tho river. Whis tfown or village of luntington has suc- ceeded in organizivg for the bonelit of mankind threo firo insurance companios—tho' * Mineral Mountain,” tho ' Nail City,” aud the * Pea- body." According lo (ho Insuranco Almanne for 1874, published by the Speclalor, of Now York, tho firat of thoso'bas n capilal of 100,000 aud assets to tho kame amount ; the sccond o eapital of $100,000 and nseots to the amonut of 168, 000; snd the thied n capital of 125,000 aud as- sota Lo tho nmount of $144,913, ~ Tho Insuranco Diuo-Dook, publisbed by Stepbon English, of New York, disdaing to tike auy uotice of theso companies ; they do not appear in its list of re- putablo organizations, The last number of » THE INDEX, an inguranco paper published ut Doston and Cin- cinnuti, says of the * Mineral Mouutain," * grosy cash auucts, weluding unl)ilnl. 2109,800—= * wild cat;'” of tha *Nail City " iceayy, * groescash as- gets, including eapital, 3163,000—a * wild cat; '™ und of tue Peabiady it gays, ** gross cash asscls, incinding capital, #144,018—not o trustworthy company.” As was stated in yestorday moru- ing's Tunuse, 5 TWO OF THESE CONCERNS, tho *Mineral Mountain” and the * Nail City” are trying, through the ageuncy of brokers, to do Dusiuess in this eity. Thoy take sl tho business they can got at whalevor ratos tho poyson wish- ing to be msured is willing to pay. No matter now smell the premium, tho busincss is o sufo ona for thoso companics, siuce thoy never pay anything, not even & loss of $100. "Any Chica- foun, Who i simple onough to insure his props erty .in_oue of thees companics, is cortain, cnsp of fire, to find that ho 1s 1usured in a worth- Toss compuny. ‘Thera aro others of the sama ir- ruvnanuiLla nature'which will bo noticed bere- after. . g THE GREAT WESTERN COMPANY., ‘The troublos of tho creditors of the Great Westorn Tusuranco Company seem to have just begun, judging from n bill which was iilod yos- torday. It'will be remembered that sbount o weok ngo » dividend waa declared to the ereditors who had not yot recoived anything, and thnt gomo of the creditors wore dissatisfled, and threatoned to enjoin tho psyment of tho pro- posed dividend, Tuey wore apparontly as good & thoir word, for o closoly-written bill was filod yesterday, in the United States Circnit Court, by W. I. Dickinson, Robort Furrant, aud Edward Kehoo, agaiust O, W. Upton, R, J, Waters, Hurt 1. Stowaxt, C. D, lookor, and A, N, Waterman, to INSURANCE ENTOIN THE PAYMENT OF TUE.DIVIDEND, Dickiuson claims to bo a creditor to tho amount af §2,600, Farrant to the amount of $1,901,and Kohoo to tho amount of %6,300. Thoy then go ou to allege that in Octobor, 1871, tho Company bocnmo, baukrupt by tho Groat Firo, but, notwithetandiug, tho Company lept o business until January, 1872, as pnlluy-hu‘xlaru camo in thoir losses wero scttled,—with somo by puyiug in fall, with othors by vaying part, and siving ‘s cortificato for the yomninder. Alout gfiu.usz was 80 paid, Complsinants claim that theue paymonts woro mado within four monthy of bankruptoy, and ave thoroforo fraudulent, and that it was tho Assignoo’™ immedinte duty to brng suits ngainst theso partics to recover these amounts, At this tune H, L. Stownrt wes Prosi- dout, 1. J, Waters Vico-President, and 0, D, Hookor fucratary, ench being stockholdar, and lurgely Indebled” to tho Company for siock, In Tuio, 1870, Stawart gave (ho Company A NONTOAQE Fon £#40,600 on Jand in his rubdivision of the 8, W. 3¢ of Beo, 1,38, 13, Waters, in Muarch, 1870, guve n mortyago to secure £,000 on cortain oty in A, N. Wutormun's Subdivision, Ilookor, likowise, to secure a dobt of #2,000, gava luurl}"u';n o the Company on cerinin proporty in Lulko Conuey, 1t Io alloged thut these mortgnsos woro recorded, It huvo sinco beou velensed, although 1o manoy has hoon paid. Stewares morcgugo wus relonsed Dec, 19, 1871, by Waters and Hoolis e, as oflicers of tho Compuny, and the othor twnl)rnum'udnwlunuccl their mortgages In o similar manner by the ramainiug ofticers, and nt abont tho samno timo, 1t is alleged that no con~ rideration was givon -for theso relouncns that they vera all fraudulent and void, and muda for the purpore of roleasing- theso three yariicn from their linbility, and that it it was the Assign- 00's duty to havo the releasos declired void, nud & THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1874, e e e e e ey tho mortgngon forcolosed, for tho bemoflt of the Company., T X *Tho comnfln(nnncs then go on to eay that 71113 OFFICERS 0P TIE COMUANY,” betweon Oatober, 1871, and ‘Jauunary, 1872, paid out largo ‘sums’iaken" from tho “asiots of tho' Compnny, for thelr own porsounl benolit, anounting in all to about $30,660.74, In Junu- ary, 1872, n potition in bnnkmlxwy wag_filed ngafnat o Company; aud about twvonty days af- tor tho Com‘muv filad a_confession, and” woro adjudieated bankrupt. During theso twonly duys Jamos Baxtoracted na ‘I'vosauror, and, It fa clnimod pald out for protended claimu about £1,704.60, In_fraud of tho rights of tho other credisors, Daxtor altorward claimod he hait procurod a lonn for tho Company of S10,00, ont of which ho Iad pald the 23,704.66, and’ given n mortgago on tho Company’s property ; ho thorafors anked that ‘ho might “bo paid for hiy troublo and advances, which was done, This olalm, it 18 now allogod, was frauduwlont ; that DBaxter only drow ordors on_himaelf, or, if any woro paid, Loy woro pald after the ndjudication, Ou the 11th day of April, 1874, C: W, Upton was appointed Ansignoe, and A. No' Waterman Attor- noy. Juuo 17, 1879, = judgment for &5,483 wag obtained by tho Compaiy agninst I, F WATLRS, which wae aftorwards satisfied on payment of €500, on the roprosentation by tho Assignee that Wators coutld not pay nnfl more, AL tho samo time an ordor was made by the "“"F“ for tho paymout of 3700 to Wators for servides as wit- noss, 'Chis satisfied the judgmont, aud still gavo him 300, which wos paid him out of tho ostato, Complainanis claim' that at this very time Wators wan aoting ns Vice-Prosidont of tha Atlantio & Incitlo’ Insuranco Compnny, ot the comfortablo ealary of 37,600 n year, besidos hav- iny nm‘plu monns to pay tho judgment outside of this salary. ‘I'he complainants then’ stato thnt Blowart, benides tho mortgage dobt of 1,000, wne - dobted to the Comparny in tho sum of $15,000, Nov. 92, 1873, Upton flled o potition in tho bauk- ruptoy caao of the Company, nsking that ALL CLAIMS: AGAINET STEWART MIGUT DE BET- TLED on hig reloasing to tho assigner A mortgago on ortait swamp-ande Lot by . 8: Stowart theso Inuds boing worth not over 89,000, which was grantod by tho Judge, aud 'Btowart roleasecd, o induco the granting of thiy petition, the As- mgnoo alloged that' Stowart was in_ill-hoalth, and that thero was somo logal doubt as to his lability, while complainants olaim that Stowart was at tho timo in good- health, and worth at lenst 2300,000. Tho Assigneo s then charged with having sold 8 Inrge nutber of “lots on Milwatkeo avenuo, worth §25,000, for tho inadequate amount' ol $1,200, under tho order of the Bankrupt Conrt, Soveral of tho creditors remonstrated with the Marshal and Mr. Waterman, tho attorney, about the sacrifico of tho Innd, but fuofeotually, sud Uptun ¢lnimed to know nothing nbout it. I'ho uext allegation is that the officcra and adjuateo claimead at first that -tho liabilitics did not oxceod $400,000; that within two months aftorward thoy adwmitted thay were $900,000, a part of which howevor was- subsequontly ro- jected as fraudnlont, but ovon now the admitted clnims amout to $700,000, Not only this, but i€ i charged that, betseen tho timo of adjudication and tho appointmont of Argiguco, tho ofticors and agents of the Company mude up & large numbor of FALSE AND FRAUDULENT CLADIS on noliciea agninst the Uom;'lu:f', which wera ndmitted and nllowed a8 valid, and oxist as legal clnima, Fictitious names. wero insorted i tho policies, and the parties ropresonted as living in Chicngo, whercas tho Directory failato give such names ot all. Tho agents' names wore algo in- sorted in somo policies, The policies woro not numbered consccutively, but large breaks were mado, occasioning wany mistakes. For inatanco, tho policies' purporting to have beon issued in ono month would be 16,000 or 20,000 lower in numbor than those issued tho month preceeding, and many policies woro thus duplicated. The Assigneo, when called. on for explanation, it is clni:tned, declined to mako any or investigato the matter, At tho mooting held Scpt: 30, ths Assignoo read & report showing his receipts to heve been abont 2130,000, sud disburscments for oxpouses, and foes about 245,000, leaving a brelance of £85,000 out of which to pay the dividend. ANONG. THIE EXPENGES Tind boen £9,000 to A. N, Wutorman for legal gor ices, $10,000 for clork-hive, and $8,000 for oftico- vent. Lhesa fecs ava all claimed to be exorbi- tant, aud it is alloged that Upton lay himsell shared the logal fecs with his parinor. As to tho ofiico-rent, it is stated thut tho Ansiguco Lay oceupied bis own law-oNico-ouly, with the flrm of Upton, Boutello & Wntorman. Complainants next stato that the Assigneo should have made bimeat? famitine with the du- tios and conditions of bis ofilco and the bank- rupt's oatato ; that he should - have nsccrtained what sums bud been paid out, rud the amount of louees occarjoned by the fira; that ho should have sought to discriminato botween good and Dad claima, and should have at onco proceoded to recover all debts dua or fraudulent aud profer- ontial payments made, o should have com- pelled the stockhelders Lo pay up the amount of tnpnid stock, instead of allowing them, or somo of them, to'ettioon an uvjust basi. It is clnimed -that he lias failed iu all thesa respects, and that-ho has also appointed hisInw partnor ns attornoy, and gonorally erosely neglocted biy busines, and aliowed falso cluims to be proved agninst the estate. Finally complainants stato that n Inrgo number of the creditors concur with thom in their viows, aud {hey thoroforo auk that- TUE ASHIGKLE JMAX L RANOVED, and anothor mau b appointed 1 whom Lhoy con tanst; that an expert should bo appointed to ex- amine the affairs of the Compaby, aud that My, Upton shiould bo madoe responeible for all sums {hnt may-have beon lost ta tho Company through his mismanagoment, and nlso that an injnnction bo isvned to restrain him from paying the divi- dend which was ordered, or from further inter- fering with the sssets of tho Company until the queation of his roraoval bo sottled. Alessrs. Higbio & Plumner aud E. A, Storrs sppoear for thio complainants, —_——— DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. Snecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuna, Woobsrook, 1il,, Out. 9,—Mra. Ellen Quinlin died yesterday, aged 102 yoars, One hundred and thirty cavringes followed her -romains to the 1artland cometory to-day, [ NEW. YORK FAILURE, New York, Oct. 9.—L. Rolerts & Co., flonr dealers, South sirest, announce thnt thoy are compolled to ask a temporary oxtension, —_— Our ‘* Nohby * Overconts. Business men jutending to purchase winter suits or overcoat, may bo suro that they can find tho latent Broadway culs ot Nos, 184 and 18 State strect. No aofforts are spared by 3r, Nutting to make lis garments uttractive, and price, aswell ae style, will bo always found satisfactory, The Boyn® and Children’s Depart- ment this keason” in moro complete {han ever beforo, Audy NUITING, the ¢ C. O, D, Clothier, —_— To Horso Mon, J. 31, Mynes, of Nora, Iif,, wilt have nn exteneive #alo on his farm, sdjoining the Villago of Nora, Oct. 16, 1874, ‘Thot which will attract tho meat attention §s apair of fino matchod horscs, Theyaro known all over tho Northwest s the fincst and fastest leam i {he conutry,- Never yob have fuoy heen handled by a tralner, Theyaro porfoctly kind and sound ; 7 yours olil§ ean trot faster thou 3 Minutes togetlier, e Ohicago- & Northwestera Roilway--Sun~, doy 'Train. The Through Pacific Ixpress Train for Council Dlufla, Omalis, Bun Francisco, and all other far West pointy, will leavo tho Wolls Btreot Dopot of the Chica~ go & Northweatorn Rafway nt 10:16 a, 1, Sunday, Oct, 11, Chrough tickets via Cbleago, Burlington & Quin= cy, aud Chicago, Mock Jslaud & Paclfio Ballwaya are good on (his traln, ———————— Lincoln Monument, Excurslon to Springficld for only half-fare, $06.00, Partics wishing to bo present at the unveiling of the Livcolu Monument at 8priugfiold, K, on tho I15th inat,, can avail themselves of the sbovo low rates, "Pleketn on salo ut tho Illinoin Central Ltallrond ollico, fout of Loke ptreut, Wayentations -at one-half Fates, Tiekets good {o-return 16th and 10th, et e e Ty Provont Rhoumntism Dy nsing tho antlrhenmatio shirt muda by Detts & ntou, 176 ftats atreat, opposta tho goneral eatratce fotho Valmer: ouse, Genflomon con voly wws & porfoct it fu fno white shivts. to order, a6 woll 88 Huding snything they waut in furnishing goods, Stoluway Upright Pianos Aro celobrated for thelr oxtraordinary durabiiily and wapacity for standiug fn tuno throngh the most chaugeably vavlations In temporature, Drices samo s “wquarcs, Lyon & llealy, Btnto snd Mourco streuts; - —_—— Somo Foreltn Cynio Bays That Amarien has a hundred veliglons, but ouly one ravy, 1o might havo mudd §t s & thowand dentl- frlcen, ut only ono that beautlfien tho teeth, without {njurlig thom, vizs Sozodont, Gl S Chjckering Vrsght Planos, Strang aud cleat {n tone 3 stad fu_tuno -splendily warranted durablos oecps very sl epuco, leed's; Tomplo of Slusle, U3 Vuu Luren utreet, © TUBULAR LANTERNS. Important Case in the United States Circuit Court. Various Patonts for Improvemonis-in- Buriing 0ils, Bte Taken Under Advisement. A enso of gonnidorable importanco,—Dboth in a poouninry way and as involving in a morked do- greo tho question of what & patent is, or & pate ontablo articlo,—kuown as tho tubular lantern cnse, 18 now on trinlin tho Unitod States Clreuit Court bofero Judges Drummond and Blodgots. In May, 1867, John 1L Irwin, one of tho com= pinfuants fu tho prosont cawo, obtalued a patent for’ A TUBULAR LANTERN, A sndl in 1808, 1869, and 1870, took out other patonts for improvements or modificas tions of this original - lautorn, As i well known, vegolablo or animal oils contain a varying proportion of oxygon, which enablos thom to burn with greater onso than minoral or hydrocarbon olls, a8 korosond, which aro dostltuts of any oxygon. To obvinte this dificulty, MONE OXYAEN ‘must be supplied to tho Iatter class of combuatl: bles to insuro that nececessary combination of oxygen and earbon which is callod combuation, Irwiu theroforo altemptod to obtaln this reenlt by carrying & supply of air down to the baso of tho barner of n lamp or gas-jot, instend of allowing the flamoe to bo supplied, by such wir ns was in immediste contiguity to tho flame., In. his first patont : he plncod a funnel or bell over tho flame, adjuated at such & uulp{ht that the products of combus: tion, consistivg of carbonio' acid' and vapor, should have a chauce to escapo instend of boing drawn into the fuanal, This boll wad thoen ot~ tached fo n long tuba, which waa enrried down to the base of tho burner, and supplied ‘it with air bolow tho cono. In an ordinary lamp, ng will bosoon on ox- amination, the air requisite to sustain tho flame is supplied through s porforated plato bolow tho cong, whith also sorves to sustain'tho chimney, the latter aoting a8 n flug to crento blast, and al tho samo timio sorving to protect tho flamo from outsido dralts. Irwin only allowed tho flamo to be supplied from tho alr ‘which camo througlt tho tubo from tho funncl, and his_ the- ory was that tho heated air’ from tho flame, im- pinging on the surronnding cold air, drovo tho latter through the tubes, TNE ESSENTIAL POINTS of bis invontion ‘wore, as ho claims, a bell or fannol placed at sioh a distanco abovo the flamo as to roceivo n volama of pure iir, a tube to pasa this to the baso of tho flanio, without avy escape, aud any kind of ordivary burnor combined witht the tubio and boll, : But this Iomp hed no chimuoy, and thg flame was doflected by nny surrounding cnrrenta of air, o obriato this objection wan tho purposa of 1114 SECOND INVENTION, N whoroin lio 2dds to]tho foregoing patent.a globa which ho' tormed o protactor.. In' ordef that thoro should ben supply of . fresh air, through tho funuel, & space was left botwoon the top of the globo and tho funnol, and a parforated plato was placed at tho Uneo, on which tho globo rested, which also allowed tho paesago of air. Theso wora tho ossoutial polnta of tho inbular. lamp or lantern involving this priuciple, as the,iu- voutor elainied ; tho supply of nir to the flamo of & lamp, or gn-s-]eb, through a tubs or funnel, by a blnst, tho blast being creatod by the Loated afrof tho lamp, instend of dopending first on tho inort maes of alr fmmodiately surrounding tho flamo, a8 1n an ordinary lamp, or socond, through any blagt furnished by s chimnoy. THE GAIN waa that,-even where a flamo was snrrounded by o chimuey and globo, a blané of outside air at tho top or hottom. of tho chimnoy caused it to smoke, or ovon oxtinguished i, Whilo the ‘com= plainant claimad - that in his patont a greater quantity was faroiehied, and in an unvarying quantity, thus espocially adapting his invantions to_Innterns. By threo subsequont, iuventions Trwin added dovices for supporting tho globa in place by a spriug, and improvemonts in the shapo of the cono and jacket, and their adjustmont to tho Iamp,—nouo of them, howover, varying the prin- ciplo of tho first two invontious in tho mothod of supplying a blest of air, Irwin claims that o hea mndo theso Ianterns for somo yeara! and that o Invgo number of parties have paid hima roynlty for licenses to manufacturo thom, TIIE DEFENDANTS, Dane, Westluke' & Covert, alarge firm in this city ;engnged in tho manufactare of lamps and lantorns in this city, Lowcver, made a lantorn similar to complainant’s, and rwin accordingly brought suit for infringemont of .patont. To this the defendant ploadad that Irwin was not the first inventor.of the dovigo, but that it had boen kunowa for filty years in France, Holland, and ILngland, and hera comes in ONE OF THF GURIOUS POINTS OF THE CASE. It sppenrs that iu 1826 P, Tespnz, a Fronch- wman, noticed that smoko and. vapor were given oft from the combustion of oil or gas which often bilnckened tho ceilings of roomns or injured tho goods in p atore, and attempted to find somo meaus of gotting rid of theso noxious products of combustion; either by carrying them out of tho apartmont, or burning them in the flame whoneo thoy originated. ~'To accomplish this, Lo placed a globo ovor the flame and o short distance abovo it, partly to coudense the yapors, aud partly to carry thom down by two tubes, and introduco thom jn tho flame to be " moro thoroughly decomposed. 'I'espnz also_designed in some of hin devices to condonso and precipi- tato theso products of combustion in water, to carry them in tubos out to the open air, or to condsuse the vapor and precipitate wolid particles on a surface of cold metal. In short, Teapaz's invention wag, as ho states in his spocifieations, ** s sinoke- contuming, vaporizing, condonsing apparatus, sunilable to condense tho vapor produced by thoe comubustion of gas or oil, &e." A year altor, and {n 1827, Mesers, Orry, Norry, and Do Cormeilla patented nn invention baving o similar objact in, view to that of Tespaz, aud which they called o FUMI-COMBURATEUR," or maching for destroying or consuming smoke, Thoy employed for thit purposo & bell aver the flamo to receive tho products of combustion, and o tubo to cmry them down to tho flame, into which they wero emptiod year the top or hottest part of the flame. The puro air was supplied ontirely from tho bottom, ay was clalmed. arg alter, two Frenchmon, ‘Martin fotlowing tho. stops of tholr pro- decessiors, obtsined & putout fora aimilardevico, llll\’illt(l\flil lar objoct, tho aifforeuco beiug that this Inst invontion was spocially employad to utilizo tho wasta gus that csonpos whon too groat n prossure is cmployed, go that it is not all burned, and that air wos mixod with this re- turned gag bofore it was driven into the ume, TILE ENOLISIT now took up tho same ides, and in 1817 John Braithwaito patouted an invention for ‘recoiv- ing tho smoke aua othor noxious oxhalations sud earrying thom back into. the flame." In this patent tho smoko was discharged on the ine sldde of tho flame on an argand burner, pure air being supplied from tho outelde. Tho modol strikingly resombles somo of the complainnnt's deviees. A top in n difforent divection, but in the samo way as Irwin's invaution, was made by an En- glikh fnvontion of Caswoll, nud later by A, i, Cribflold, of the United Btates, to produco i Inmp which shonid not bo blown ont by the wind. In both, theso patonts, whivh the defondunty olaim have bean piraled by Irwin, the supply of uir comoy from above instond of Delow, the objoct being to admit air to the flame indirectly,” and ~ thus prevent the effoct of & _ sudden draft. 'ho ' hot - osvapod through the Lop of thoso lanterns, and the cold a1 enwe through the same oritlce, and wag earried through tubos to the base of tho flan, but no boll or funncl waw omployed, and in all probability- tho hoat of the flume which rurifled the air at tho bottom of the tubes, and thus ereatod a partinl vacuum, wus relied on to koo up the draft, Loutly, the Ireuch invention of Pape I wrgod by tho dofondauts ng baving antioipated (Lo patent of Lrwin, This was an spparatus, ay’ tho invontor says, fo melt tuo and Dbuen tho smoke, and & burner, n bell abovo jt, , and a tubo, which, passing (hiough tho can.of ofl or prowso, liquotled it, aud earricd. thio smoko_ baol 1uto thy llame, Ln its shapo it somowhat resom. bled an ordinary studont’s lnmp, T MULT THELL OINLCTIONS on tho ground of want of novelty, Irwin urges thas the object in viow of theso old palonts iy entirely nnd vadieally difforent. Thoy sought to utilizzo tho products of combastion, e Lo wupply wenrrout of afe from nhove which should uolbo nubject to vaviations, ay was tho caso yhon it cro from below. In tho 'Losnaz and Orry-Netry, air | rrenyo | um\ululn‘[] ni: k [m,coneu‘um offots malorinl was omptied' Into ho flatio toward tho top, and at its hottest point, toeacapo tho dnldnufng Influenco it would oxort: wero {t introduced at tho bottom, and a nuxml) of froali.alr was given for tho suppork of, thé lnmo. In hid,” on the other band, no air wad supplied excopt what camo through the tuboe or tubes, and the boll was placod at such a holght as to_allow. tho. vapor and smoke to, o8- capo, a result the old patonts Look oaro to avold by'plncliig tho boll au olorio, over tha flamg aa Yn:sl‘)lo. I fact, in all of theso Fronch nnd inglish patonta it is clnined Xnm oir i suppliod from bejow, and not above, As a furthor proof, Irwin _introducos . tho chomloal analysls of tha nir “takon from tho tubos-of tho formar patonts and from a lamp of his own construction, show- ing thay tho smount of . oxygon tn most of. tho former ia vory amnll, whilo ‘i his it Is nently na largo as in tha open air; and, lastly, ho produces his_ Inmps which do butn ag an incontrovertiblo proof: tg'u fact, whothior tho thioory "bo corroct or not, that hot air will drive a column of cold air into tho tubos. of his patont, a8 waa attompls od to ba proved by ono of tho exports. TO NEPUT TIIE SEEMINGLY IMPORSIDLE FACT, ng viowdd from complafiinnt's standpolut, the dofondants bogin witl asking in what tho cssence of Trmiu's patout conslats, He ‘clnims the boll, tubo, and burner, and thoir.combigation, but 1t Ju not statod bow bigh the bell must.be from tho flamo, how larga tho burter eliould be, nor Low lonig the'tubes, mo thiat any tubo, burner, or boll would answor the specifieationa ; and to sustain tho_patont, thoreforo, it.must bo held that the application of a tubg snd .boll, or. globo, to s Iamp wos on invontion, Inrogatd o tho"old patonts, that of Teapns wan to consumo tho smoke and condenso tho vopor, and Irwin' readguized tho faot that lio con- donsed the vapor by. the provision of a rosorvoir for it pud the l)rnyln{on vf o holo in tho sido of tho ean fo lot {his off. Tespaz nleo sliows an ap- poxatus which works Mtgnue‘n chimuoy, the BaiNo ‘B Irnln‘ls firat patont. It {8 & fact, that Tewpaz. and Trwin, diffor in thelr toories, but “that is immatorial.. Mon ig- noran}, of “sciontilic Inws have mado yalunblo in- ventionn in atfemiiting to corry out abpurd the- oriea; “Cho Attompte to produce porpotual mation 3 89 " tovalunblo,. improvomanta in mechanjcd. “Alchemists, .in attompting.to trans- muta baso thotsl into gold produced tho eciouco of chémistry, and astrologers gaye us tho prin- ciplos of asiropory. Tho dovico,. not tho “the- ory;' {8 what ‘tho Conrt must considor. Tho thoories in thoso™ cagos .woro widely . difforent, but tto machibes and the rosult similar.. Tespaz has a boll, tubs, aud burnor, and Irwinno more, aud’the oxporimonfa show that tho formor'a lamp did'work on the blagt principlo,, Moreovar, it is“concoded’ by tho complainanta .that tha Englisly tatont of Braithwaito ‘oomen very closo to that o7 Irwln, 5o that ong .of, thelr own wit- nossos Says that s cliange in the proportion and rolativp dimonslons of tho several parts inyolved in th!a‘upurgtion may determine the, charactor of | tho; spparatus,j so thst if tho boll in tho Brax!h‘i!nilbilnvoul(‘on Lo raised, or tho pipo Tougthentd 60 a8 to perwit tho, current discharg- ad from'the chimboy-top.to bo disperued, snd to ormit dh .inflowing, ourrent of air to tho bell o pasa down tha pipo to the burner, and mako this pipo big onough'to let onough pasy to sus-~ tain'tho flame and incloso the flame at tho baso, nlm l1Emmlt‘h.\ that and Irwin's patoat would bo simllar, IT 18 MOREOYRR CLATMED that matters.of propostion, adjusiment, and vons tilation, 'hndlelifith_nmd size'ol the tube, size and hoigth'of the ball,{and size of burner, aro purcly mattors of skill, and may be varied by tho work- men’ omployed /to” make' tha patonts, so a8 to produce’ ‘tho’ bost, result. But .if thesa mattors of distance, longth, or size are matorinl to tho patont, thon Irwin's patont Is void for not discldaing”all ‘matters not essontial to. its con- structign, Tho old. patents, althongh intonded to burn'up, tho emoke, actually performed.an. otlox office, that 'of sunplying air likg the patent of complainant. 'The formor iuventors orred in not bolg acquainted with tho charmical Inw that n ehiomical operation cannot bo_continued by its produets ; that i, that tho producta of com- buation cannot ba brirped by the fire which mado them, * They'saw that tho flamo was Letter, and attributed it to a'wrong cavso. As to the thoory' that s THE UaT AIR drivas out the eold into tho tubo, which _the de- fondants called the ¢ Pumpkintheory,” from .a diagram represonting, particlos of hot alr acting on ttoso surrounding them, tho. dofendants as- gort tho woll-known {aét that producta of com- buatiou, being hot, nnturally rise, and take tho nhortoat courso to tho tunnel, and that a gasoous stroeam ciunot bo induced fo divido itsolf cou- trary to the laws. governing tho. curronts of flnids, the’hottest and shortest course boing alyays taken by the gaseous product. It was conceded that tho complated lantarn. was good for burning hydro-carbon oils, but, it was not good _for "any other Kkind of oil. or gas, and thia distinction was not taken in the patonts, bue would not ba good or patentable if it wera. Hono, it briaf, the _patent was bad bocause it was auticipated in the art ; becauso it was sliown to bo identical witl an glder patent; and becanse moro was claimed than was comprised in tho in- vention, ‘The trial has occupied thrao days, and a largo amouut of oxponse was incurred in getting tostis mony of experts, copics of patents from F'ranco and England, and making modols. . Mr, L. L, Coburu appears for tho complainants, and Wost and Bond for the dofendants. The caso. waa takon undor advisoment. LINCOLN’S MONUMENT. Arrangements for, sho Dodication— IRoducod finliroad Mates to Excurs sionists. BenivarrELD, 1L, Oct. 9.—The following ar-, rangements have been cffected by the Commitica on Travsportation with the companies named for roturn-trip tickets at reduced rates to those wishing to attond the Lincoln monument dedica- tion aud the rounion of the Army of the Ton- nensoe, to take place in this city next Wednesday and Tharaday, 14th and 15y’ inat. The arrango- monts for tho celebration are upon the moat magnificent scale, and a large altondanco from all ‘sections of the country is assnred., Soma companies refuso to sell singlo tickets at roduced rates, but will make vory favorablo terms to parties of ton or mors on_application to tho General Ticket Agent, Round-trip tickots aro good only over tho lino issuing them : At~ lzntiec & Paciflo, one and one-fifth fare, to roturn on cortificate of Beorotary, Chicago & Alton, exoutrsion rates from all stations, good until tho 16th, Qleveland, Columbus, Cincinvati' & In- dinuapolis, excursion tickets to partics of twenty at 4 cents per mile, ono way. Cincinnati, Ilamil- ton & Dayton, ono-bnlf™ fare, to roturn on Becrotary’s certiflcato, Cairo & Vinconnes, ono and one-fifth fare for the round trip, Hannibal & Bt.'Joo, ong and one-ifth faro for the round trip.” Indianapolis, Oinofunati & Lafayetto, ono und_one-fifth faro for tho round trip, Jacks sonville, Northwestorn & Boutheastenir, one and one-fifth fare for the round trip. Kansas Pacifie. and oparatod lines, excursion rates on to tho . General Ticket Agonl & Michigan Southorn, rounil-trip tiokota at roduced rates. Loulsvillo, Now Albany & Chieago, full fare ono way, to re- turn froe on Bocretary’s certificato, Loavon- worth, Lawronce & Galveston, excursion rutos to partios of ton or mora, Missouri Rtiver, Iort Beott' & Gulf, exonrsion rates to parties of ton or more, Ohio & Mississippi, round-trip tickots at § centa por milo. Itockford, Rock Taland & St. Louis, one and one-fth fara for the round trip. St. Louis & Bouthosstern, one and ono-fifth fare for tho rpund, trip. Bpringfield & Sontheastarn,, one-linl¢ farc'from all stations. Toledo, Wabash & Weslorn, excursiop rates from all stations. Whitewator Valloy, one aud ene-fifth “fave for tho round trip. — Polltoness Extinordinary, When the . "o Doum”. for the viotory was colabrated, Thiers and MaoMahon both attonded. the solemn coremony in the churchat Vorsaillgn, T'wa arm-chairs ‘had been placed noar the high altar, one for Madame, tha wifa of tho Maruhul, the otlior for Atme, Thiors, wife of tie Proaldont of thio Repubjld, Mme. MacMnhon, born Duche oss of Usstrae, undorstond’ her. position, and,” knowing that' the, right is the placo of honor, modoatly sosted horself on tho loft.” While tho. Duchisa was still kuealing, Mmo. Thiors arrived, “ Denr Madanie, your chair 18 on the othorside!” “ You aro too good, Madamo! Roally X cannob consont,”, ' ko it,I bog!" ¢ Bince you dosirp it ; but really you ombar- rasymo! " Aud Mo, MaoMahoy rose from hor Lnooa aud betogk heraolf to tho right aud ‘cou- tinued hor piayers, while 3ma. Prosident Thiors” Linolt ostontatiously at the loft., Tho ecoromony ovor, Ming. MaoMahon expregsad., hor, aokuowl~ | eidgzmonts for tho courtesy of Mme. Thiery, ' Yon havo.nothing to thank mo for,” tho lat- tor replled, *“ You did not know, of aourso, ulmz \;l‘l.on T camo in you were acoupying my place 5 Your place] On the loft, Mmo, Prosidente ? # Cortainly; Mme, Marstnl, The Queous of ' Franco alwnys- placed thetusclves ab tho loft of tho.nltar. It way. thd ouly place, indeed, whoro . tho Quoen did nat._geat horsolf on tho richt; it iu 8o in order that tho Quoen might.be firut undor Lo it of the Digkop is ho turns to give the benediction,” T'ho gratitudo of Mmo. MeoMalion, horn n Cnstreo, for this losson iy royal elqueito which * tho daughtor of M, Dosno had condensonded to , givo her, be tinaglnodi—Gon, Jealus, in ihe |, Galaxy, jobers RAILROADS. The English Accountanis® Report on [ tho Affairs of the Erie Road.. Opening of the Chicago Section of the Baltimore- & Olio-Railway. Miscellaneous (tems.. ERIE, TIHE ENOLIST AUCOUNTANTS' REPORT. Loxvoy, Oct. 0.~Tho.report. made by ho London accountants of their [nveatigation into tho affairs of the Erio-Raikway Company, which was read to-dny in tho Stock-Excliange, says that in throo the years: ending- Soptombar, 1873, the rofits of tho road woro $1,008,775, insiend of 6,352,673 aw ntatod in tho Cowpnuy's accounts. This amount is subjeat ta & further deduction in rospect fo. the. various. itoms. charged (o tho capital, or not yot admitted, Tho report ahosws o loss on tho working of the Atlsutie & Grent Weatarn Railroad up.to Sept. 30, 1871, aud atates that: 3,240,167 woro . paid by tho Lrio Company a3 dividonds in the yenra: 1871, 1872, and 1873, Tho accountants congider that undor tho ecircumstances the dividends on preforred stock woro fairly earnod.” An authoritativo ex- amipation and determination of many quostions of law.and fact affecting tho nnture of. the-mul- tifarlous labilities and - nssols. must Ve accomplished - beforo- n completo olucidation of tha prosont finsnelal condition of the Com- pony can be arrived af, T'he acconntants ox- progs: thameelves lighly antiated i-with': the facilities afforded them for tho prosccution of their fuvestigation-, in Now York. Thora are many important appondices to report, whicl waro not raad, and hich will not bo published until the fasue of Capt. Tylor's roport, which they will accompany. Tho roport says that but. for tho: doficit of £466,444, shown by the corrected profit aud loss aceount, as oxisting .Sopt. 89, 1871, $270,000 wonld havo beon avrilablo, subjoct to the adjugt- mont of outside matters for dividends on tho common stock, after tho, pmyment of four dividends -on _proferrod stock for tho -two years ending Juno 99, ,1873... Tho accountanta auticipato that tho valuo of tho recoveriey from Jay Qauld will fall -vory far short of their nominal amount. An obstract of tho statoment of the asgota and liabilitios of tho cumwu{ up to Bept. 80, 1872 shows the -liabilitics to bo §115,449,211, and the .assots £118,205,970. Tho roport covers n poriod from -Sopt. 80,1871, to March 81, 1674 S IMISCELLANEOUS. ABOLISKING EXCURSION-RATES, A meeting of tue Suporinteudents,of all tho TWestern Railronds was hold Inst Wednosday, at the Southern Hotol, 8t. Louis, 3o., for the pur- pose of taking action in rogard to ebollshing the provailing custom of making excursion-ratos on extra occnsions, and to roduco the runniug oxponses of tho passenger, departmonts of tho ‘various roads.. Aftor o long discusnion of tho subject tho fol- lowing resolution was introduced rnd -adopted ¢ Resalvedy gk tho Clialrman appolnt o, committoo of five Gonoral Passengier and Tlckel-Agents, who are hereby.authorizad to call 3 maeting of (ouoral. Tiokob and Passopger-Agents of the varlous competing linos of tho. West at the Gramd Paclio Hoicl, Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 10 o'clock a, v,y fo consult witlh each other, and, if ‘posaible, {0 submit, n plan for the abolishment of oxcursfon-rates, the reduction of pas- Benger expenscs, cto, Under the resolution, tho Chairman, Mr. Rob- hert Harris, General . Suporintendent of tho Chl~ cago, Burlington & Quiney Reilroad, appointed tho following namad gentlomen s such commut- teo: E, A..TFord, J. Charleton, C. L. Lond, I\ Tonfield; I, 0. Daws. Tho abave action will, undoubtedly bo greatly condamned by tho public at large who found ex-~ curgion-rates o grent holp wheu wishing to wisit fairg, ete. 'Tho railroads lose:nothing by issning oxeursion-intes, for .tho difforonce- in fare -in made up by the inorosse in passengors, n major- it); of. whom woutd not go but for gotling of suck ratos. Railronds: wonder why: the... Grangers bosr mucl. spito- agaist. thom, Dut just wnclh. nctions as. tho abovo ‘mentioned disgusts tho peoploe with railronds in gonoral, Whonover reductions in exponses must bo made, the poople are made the sufforers in- stead of thosa who by right ought to suffer. It Dbay. hoon, suzgested that thoy abolish.the com- mission #vetom, -‘L'lhiers is ane roud in this city: which paid over $90,000 commissions in one year, and it way -safoly be added that nll tho Western ronds combined pry from 132,000,000 to 3,000,000 anaually. ‘Thero- are .scalpors and agonts who now.carn from commissions alonn, §5,000 to 310,000 -annually, Numberlosa. sham afforts towards tho abolition of this nuisgnco have boen mado, but.meroly 1o biind the people. . ‘I'ho managery of the roads kuow full well that it can- not o abolished as loug ns tho very Gonoral Ticket Agents whom thoy: appoink to'make the roforms ure- known supportots of this systom. If tho railronds mual retreuch, lot them bogin at home, and thon when this 18 -accomplished thoy may go outside sud abolish oxcursion-rates, TIIE DALTINORE A OII0_. ‘Tho seetion of the Baltimoro & Ohio Rallroad (rom this city to South.Chicago-will b formally opened to-day, and a train will loave with invited guosts aud a number of city: ofticers at 3 o'clock p.om. At half-past 7s banquet will bo given tho guests . st tho South Hotel. The . road from . this city . to Daltimore will bo formally opeued on tho 1st.: "na track is .now _laid contiuously up to tho Michignn Contral Crossing at Lake Station, and is continued on the other sido. About 4 wiles moro track is to be comploted at tho Lake Sta- tion Crossing, which will bo donain n few.days.: Iho. Commssioners appointed by Judge'Gillstt,: of Valparaiso, met at the Crossing yestorday, After having oxamined tho ground and lLatonod to argumonts of the counsols of both tho ronds thoy rotired for consultation, and in o short timo thoy roturned awarding $100 dnmages to tho Alichigan Contral Railroad for tho right-of-way used by tho Baltimoro & Obio. LAKE BIORE ROAD, The following now Station-Agents have been- appainted at the following stations on the Luko Share.. & -lichigan Southern Railread: Ray- milton, 1. H, Luwton; Oberlin, M. J. Young ; Clyde, 0. I. Graves; Coylon, 8. N. Cooko; Port .Clinton, . G. W. Pnyno;. Cnrroll, J. T\ Hinor; Oak Ifarbor, J, '8.. Furell; Martin, Charles O, Earl; Dotrolt, 8. 8, Hand ;. Now port, A. L, Gambeo; Ida, . Cooloy; Hollnud, A, I Monh; Butlor, 8. Wi Gilbork; Tiigs, G O Klino; Bronson, L. 8, Carrel; Brockway, T, T Willnrd ; Three Rivers, 1. L. Chndwick ; Flower- field, A, J. Roynolds; Byron Contro, .C. J. Carrol ; Grond Crossing; R. P, Dunn, BURLINGTON & SOUTHWESTERN. RAILWAY, Srecoul Dispale to The Chicaan Tvibune, Bunrivaron, Is, Oct. 9, —Yesterday, in tho Davis County Distriot Cours, held ot Bloomfiald, Ia,, it was decidod by tho Court that, in tho caue of Eber, I, Ward vs, tho Burlington & Bouih- wostorn Tinilway, tho oquity was with tho plain- HIf and with tho cross-potitioners, to-wik: Nae tional Stata Bank of Butlington, 8. and J, Catlor, J. W. Durnew, James N, Maortin, and John Smyth. “horoforo, tho respoctivo judgments of the lien-holdess againat sald rond ‘are - declared valid and binding liems upon tho road snd all its. property, and prior 1o all othor claims. It wps further ordered that I. McKitteriok, Cashier of tho Morchants'- National Dank of Burlington, bo appointod Trusteo and Reecivor, ‘Iho Rocolvor is ordered, smong his host of du- tios, to oompleto tho construction of tho road to Htanloy City, Mo. Lo do this, and to satiely the mochanie-lony judgment, he can issue dobon- {ures not to oxceed 31,000,000, o fms, of courgo, fall control of tho ropd, andmunt reqaire tho officers and omployes to give Londs for tho fnithful performanco of their dutlos, #o asto proteot humaetl from lops, o shnll also, ou tho 30th day of each wonth, filo n statomont of tha recelpts and disbursemonts with tho Olork of the Court. 1o slnll nxply the enrnings of tho road In puymg off tho dobt anid comploting tho construction, and, whon be hog fully complied with tho many provisions of tho deeroo, khall snrronder tho rond to the Burlington & Houthe western Roilwoy Compnny. Bumo tbink that 1t will tokio nt least flvo yoars Lo straighion up mat- tors. No botler man than B, Mekittorick could havo boon solested, Theve uro bmihl. prospects ahoad not for the I, & B. W, and it bids. fairto Lo futims ono of the mowt valusble milways contoring in Burlington, — Americnn Woma niirage Associn. ton, The annunl meeting of tho Amerioan Woman. Buftrago Associution will take: placo in Detroit, ‘'nenday uud Woduesday, Oot, 18 and 14, and will Lo un occasion of gread importance, A full at- tendance of tho friends of Buffrage from all purta of the country iy carncslly desivod, The evening: uossions .will bo devoted to nd- \drosses by numerons sposkora of hationnl ropie tation,Thoe headquariors of dolegates will bo &b tho Biddlo doune, whuro thoy will bo met by o [ Chigago |: b 'next doy the body wns oxhumed under the super Committoo of Rocoption appointed by the Womans Bufltnge Hoolaty of Detroit, who will, as Iarna. ';,?:Nb 0, provido sccommodatioun for tho spoak-* Amonyz the spealers oxpeated front abrond, in addition to viniy ominent mon {n Mlichigan, nro Mra, Julln Ward Towo, tho on, Jolm Whita- bond, Mary A, Livormoro, Gen. A. C. Voris, Alba.- G, Woolson, Ionty- B, Blaokwell,. L Btono, tho Hon, J, 1, Diadwoll, Mary I\ Lnste sman, Bikhop Gilbort TTaven, D. D,, Margarot W. Cumpboll, Martha (. Callaunn, Margaros V. Longley, tho Rov, Plichn A, Hanaford, Eliza- both K, Churahilly Mary I', Ilomas, AT, D., Mzs, M. ERlott, Matilda 1, Ilindman, Carolino A, Boulo, J. W. Cuso andotliors, TLuox BroNE, Clialeman Exeoutivo Commitleo. TIMFULLEIR, 5fis Vernion of ‘That Attempt to Swin= e the Insuranco Compnnics. ‘Tho dnde, that enterprising inauranco journal publisied at BDoston: and Clncinnati, hns gono inta the eriminal litoratura of the insurance busis ness by intorviewing “im Fuller, and gotting from him nn noconnt of the way in which his and Tainforth tried to make a raiso of £100,000 out of tho lifo-inauranco companies n fow yonrs ngo, Much has beon said pf thig daring and woll-nigh Bucconsful ontorprine, butitho privcipal notor hing nover boforo hoon iuduced to opon Lis mouth on tho subject. Tho gontloman to whom-Fulier told this story Lad known him years boforo in Ponnsylyania, and meoting him {n Chicago o couplo of monthy ngo; remowed tho’ neauaintanco, -and callod on him at Lix oftice; Thon follows the story Befora parting, ho eaid: “Did-you ‘nolico that man who took yaur card nt my ofiice tuls mornlng 2" ¥en; T talked with Lim." ¢ Well,” ho respanded with animation, That's tho man I burfed [+ Ful Tor, #1 ejscnlated, * '’ s Sadducce, 'Talk not to mo in tho Innguage of tho resurracted.” " What ! linven't you heard of my great couspiracy ngainut life-lnstir aneo compantes 3 Confessing my-waut of knawledgo, Bo {nvitad mo to his hiouso, whiore' bo promilsad fo give mo_full: partleulars, - Afier_entering - his. kome, -wo: goatad_ourselves Lofora large bureau, Opentug tho lower drawer, fully & Lnlf-busliel of nowapaper-clip- pings wero tiaplnyod, * You sce,” hio Baid, ¢ when nn nrticlo nppeara about mo, I cut it out, and throw it in here, Hore f8 a book in whicli I paated tho hintory of tho atterapt to. defraud Life-insuirance companies, ne publistiedt in: the papors of that time,” X foliud the! sorap=boolk. Handad .me, ROW i my posscasion, con- tained thirty-clght poges, and is filled with clipplugs from nowparery, all oi {1io one aubject, TIH): BTONY OF TIK CONSTIRAOY. 18 thin: *Intho summor of 1804, tho mubatuncs of 1hio oxact yrords of Fuller aro given, *Frod Lacy, Dr. Charjes B, Kendall, Richard Hafnforth, aud niyne all ontered - Juto- o consplraoy . to-.defraud . different lite-fnsurnnco companlos ont of $100,000; Thore were othor minor porsoungea whom wo used, but sa thcy didnot appear-in' the expose; I will not mention thor, Lacy was bookkeepor fu thio Atns Life-Inauranco Company's oflice here: Kondall hail beon n surgoon i tho_nrmy; Baiuforih -was Qunrtermaster of the Tifth Tilluols'Cavalry, and I had various occnpations, Lacy wan chonon thut' we might bave » *friend at Oouirt? to warn us- of -approacning - danger, _Kendall wau selected for a family zhfllc on ond to eertify to tho death of Rafuforth, whoso life was to be jusured. 1 was to furnish the fundsand to' manngo ' matiersi ganerally, . Rainforth and myacif worato lavo: throes | fiftha of the amount obtalued, the othar two, vne-tilth cach; Tho firat step wasbo . ADVERTISE FOR A WIFE FOR RATSTORTI, 10 whom tho policies showid be made payable, After. much correspondence and many intorviews with' the doftor sex, Wo wers wiable to find auy ous we could trust, and st thossmo timo control, You 566 o werg not onxlous #he should hayo much of tho monoy.l. Finnlly, it was doclded the policios shoukl bo sublect 1o Raintorth’s will, and that hio ghowid make' a will in* Savor of a daughler of-ono uf the conspirators, whom Bo was prosumobly intonding tomurry, Sho knew notuing af It, nor wus hot knowledge neat#dary, as her - {fathor and onu other cousplrator weie to ke namued a8 executors of maid will, . Wall, on Juue 20, 186G, Raln- . forth wna inzured in tho.2:ttia, of Hartford, for $7,000. On the 11th of the following December, $3,000 more y5am takon fu tha St, Louls Mutual Life, und on: tho 20U of tha samo monts, & polley of $3,000 . tho M~ tual Benefit, of New Jersoy, was procurad, These aro . all for which we were obliged to answer In courts Feb, 10, 1807, Ralnforth was - purposcly taken ac- verely sick in an attornoy’a oflico,” and immediately Durried to bis room, 8§ Daveborn strack. - Tho publielly of tho attack was 1o securo witnesses to lta sovority, Mo atnrvod himself for thiree: days, and . Dr. Kendall: gave im putrgatives and lobolla-seed o, “ On thio moruing of the 2d, Dr, Patkier, a dialnter cated physielan, wan callea fu £0r & purposo, 1o ald that thio patient was . KUEFEIING THOM TYPRIOID FEVER, and would uot lfve twelvo hours, A couplo of ths com= pufek’ ngeta also called by nvitation. They loft aat- istled that Rainforth would soon dic, and they wero right, Within ten minutes ho got out of bed, hurried into an adjofuing room and dresecd himucl, Erom tho fauto foom I earrled in o corpro nnd placed it n thio bod Just vacated. Dr, Kendzll happenad fn, and T s ta I solemaly, *Poor Rickard 4 dead’’ Ho Iaughed, and commenced asslating me, Wo drossed it {u the clothes usually worn by IRainforih, Whon all was nearly completed, I called” to Ratnforth, saylugs +Dicl, como and help Iy yourself out1” T ihen loft, ruturning soon after with'a couple of friends,' Tho' room was darkened same, 0 thelr suspiclons were not aroused, , Indewl thers was litlo dunger; for the body wan wondarfully Ik the one It counterfcited. Wo limt oloven bodies in all, but this one, obtained from tho Tuwsh Medieal College, {hin cily, was iho bost, Tho Tuneral took ylace the day followlng the supposed death, Hers is the Heket auiborizing the burial 1 EGRACELA 44, 3, Fullor, ownor of siuglo grave in Block 1 @racelyud Cometory, 3 ontitled to admigson at all timos §12 conformity with tho Tules of the Company, + ¥, Orgos, Supt.? ¢ Tho jnsuranco companies were notified of Main- fostiva doath whlo tat eatloman ad qulotly resting in disguiso undor the niias of leury Culvert, at the Dupont House, 160 Hudson sircet, Now York, ' Mean- ‘while, L8 lnst will was belng probated in Obleago, All seondd propitions. Soon, Howoy DIFFIGULTIES AXD DANGEDS, begau.to loom up, Bly.brother Chnrles suapeeted fraud, and took a.$5,000 poliey on his own . 1ifo Lo the fana”agout, saylig: “im wllpd Halnforth for by Insirance, ‘and o will be killing mo noxt. I want tbis polloy eanceled,! o firat croated sus-. plcion, and, d—-n him, I havo nover spoken to him since, " Next, o brother of D(ckwfi not hieard of Dufore ia years, turned up ot LPeorla, I 1fe 82w no- tico of lify_ Lrother's will being probated, and finding Dlinself lgnord therein o commenced aquealing, anld o lud smurderad his brothior for Lis lusurancy onioy, dozlaring his utention to Lave the body ox- unmcd, obweon Dicliw . Lrother and mine, tho wliolv affalr got into tho_dotectves'linnds. - Lodrning that the budy would o disintorred thia following day, & bolil move Was determined upon, 1 went fo the der toctive, saylng & ‘1lave tho companies ewployed you- {0 work np (s so-callod lusurauce swindle 97 ¢ They hoye! *Well, do you caro for whom you work?’ *NoJ 4Then how macl_ nro the companies {o vy you?' *If successtul, $3,000 and exponses o leas Bum for failure’ ' ‘Al right, rald. I, ‘lot us talk buslnens, 1 want to securo that monogl. If T get ity you shall recolyo $10,00017 Tho bargain was 10ndo.’ T Imow my mp, aud could trust ldn, Tho rion of {tio companica nnd niy detective, ‘Iwo plyelcinue, uu sgent, who insured Hainfortl, the latler's brother, andDr.'Kondull, wero prosent, Tho agent. honestly belleved tho coryso bofore Lini wis that of Ttaiuforth, aud go stated, Ifis brother conldu't say but it was, not haviug #on him for years. Dr. Kondalt identiflod . tho body.us Ralnfortl’s, “The two physicians. muilo o postmartem_ exsmination, aud found tho causo of dtoath nutural. Tho only Suspicions clrcumstanca was thut the deceased died from a tuborcular disease, wille Richard had beon certifled ns Laving died from ty- phoid fover! Dut under the deteetivo’a manipulntions tho investigatlon ws Aperliclal. Succoss scomed esrtaln, Thoy gathored around s body 1o Tophe 1t i1 th cotlin when Dick's brother discovered - A HOLE 1 TIIE MEAD OF T GORLAL, 1t was probed and found to bo 2 inches deop, . Undar’ tho urprire nud suspiclons auggested by a0 - suiden a dikcovary, tho physlcians pronutncod it tho -causs of death. This alaried tho dotective, and led Lim to be- Hovo I ad docolved hitn, : 50 ho came fa me, saying : £ D—n_you, youmrdored Rotuforth, and’ ara try- ing to have mo help yon ont of it for n part of the smanoy.’ 1 was fmediatoly arreatod, Tho reet in saon told 1 To clear yself, I Nad to produce Raluforth, which il But then bo question aroso: *1¢ you aidu’t kil Tiatiforth, Wao fs this man you @id kill 2* "To clear m; f froni that suspicion, I had. to sliow liow aud wtien tho body was proonred, Tho hole 1 tio tiead jiroved (o Lo fromn n ), driven thero in Bos- ing tho boily, ~We were all hield for conspiracy to do- fruud tho {tisuranco comypanios, * W set upiu defense, tlt a8 wo lind mudo no application for tho monoy, no crimo fn Iaw bad boen_connnited. After a hoarlug, wo wera dlscliarged, Tainforth was then Leld for CONTEMIT OF COURT, {0 cavaing bin lastwill fo bo submitted for prouate, tropho that had placed tho wholo of Franco {u mourning, sout in his rosignation, and novor darad to appoar hofora tha King or Q weon, Ona doy, however, he wun passing through Lho Tuile orles gardens, whon ho eaw thom both on a bale covy, dressad tn doep mourning. Ovoreomo by rumorso and amotion, ho foll on his knoos ho- fora them, and ou leing summoned to the prose enco wag freoly pardoned by tho Royal pair. ———— THE COURTS, Ikccord of Busitioss Transncted Yewc torday, THFE GREAT WESTEDN TAILROAD LAND COMPANY. Waltor - L, Claronco, L and Ferdinond W. Degls, T O, Hill, and Wi R, Pago filed & bill in tho Cirenit Court agninst tho Chicago & Great Wostern Rallrond Loud Company and othrs, to forecloao n srust-doed for $75,000, securod by an. immonyo numbor of Jots in Rivoreldo. THE UNITED S8TATES COUnTS; The Conuccticut Mutual Lifo-Insurance -Oome pany filed o bill against Goorge R, 11, Hughos, L. B. Gookins, J. II, Roborts, . Ziogler, J, II, Plonsants, and R, I Plensants, to foracloso a mortgago for 85,000 0n Sub-Lot3 of Lot 1 in Block 3 of Lho origlual Town of Chicugo. DANKRUPTOY 1TEMB." A hoaring and creditors’ meoting was ordored : to s hold fu tho matter of 13..C. Btasey, on the. 19th of Novembor. A liko ordor waa'alad- made’ in tho following. oneos : Thomas -Grant,. D,-W. . Coan, 1A, Wright, J, T, Allon. SUIEQION COUNT IN DRIEF. - C. IL Fargo & Co. bogan a suit in attachmont apainat 3L, 0, Lamb, Gt V. Dowoy, J. V. Patters sou, and AL T Tiakor, olaiming 81,078.00, Awmolia-Rayinond. filed o bill. agninst Luofnda A. Carhart, Cora B, Carhart, I, L. Cathiart, .G, @. Carliart, A. 0. Oarhart, A, MoBosn Garhintt, .- L. Thomeuon, H. M. 'Fhompaon, W P. Mallory, E, 1L Mallory, G. . Ciario, and 0, A. Lowiy to orclona & trust-deod for $10,000 on Lot 7 of ifi:‘}l‘!'n!csn ||(l;“;11 ;;:.)\‘x;x‘g’ :\\l:&‘é\:iflion of Blogk 2 of R ubdivigion of tho'W-2¢ of OIMCUIT counr, Georgo, Trumt if i “l‘lruyls;silfi“:\ l’s::“s:’.’. .Iffé’é‘.“" & suit againat E. T, + A, Llison stted Ira I Tisadoriok Pallmon: 3r. st Ay 00 b gan a suit for £2,000 against E, C. Relchwald, 3. 1. Compton'and \W. 1, Doxtor-brought aule : snd George Lkor for 33000, Pty oodman & Mooors fllo il Quiano” Fovudlinge. Homo for 3 5ot the lien to the smountof §3,203.49, on tho dofoud. ant's boilding. Tha Peoplo ex rel. John AL Owen. filod a'potie coo, to compel ‘it to submit.to the vot v ;me'suon of tho adoption of tho new to\ur::u:a"x‘; (' TIF CALL. Jupar Ganny—053, 65, 67 to T4, T7.- Jupar Jaxeson—77, 78, 83 to 100, Junor Reasns—32 to 44, oxcapt 35, 40 and 43, Jubax Booti—87 to 90, 93, 9, 96 to 103 Jupar 'reg—€3 to 83. % & ITDGARNTS, o urEnton Count—CoNrL: —] o T resstoNs,—Harrlott Olark v, ILLINOI8 SUPREME COURT—NORTIERN GRAND D VISIOX, OtTAWA; Il Oct. 9.—~Tho Suprome Court mat,. pursuaut to adjolrnment, with all the Judgos presout. . Tho Tituols: Cengeat Ralosd 706, Tho 3 2 ‘om| Paltorson, Cautro romanded, . - L 707, Gooderich va, Gook, -Suporsedeas allowed and ball approved, .. 44, Iohearing ~ aockot—TInllaban. va, The State of stipulation on fle, KEW MoTIONH 709, Read va, Smith, Appoal dismissed, 708, Webls vs. Hazol, Samo with & por cent dame aga ‘Application of R. 0. Mahoney for sdmission to practico on forelgn liconso, CALL OF TIB DOCKET. 441, Gomminslonern of Tiighways of tho Town of Ihnla v, -The People ex rol. John IL. Welcl; - appoal from Werren, Taken on call, 442, Jumes Thotmposon va. Briggs W. Soronborgerg appeal from Warrou. Taken on call, 443, Rockford, Rock Island & St, Louls Raitrosd Company vn, Lucinda Tafforty; appeal from Knox, Takai ou eall, 414, Rackford, Rock Island & St Louls Railzosd ('afinmny 8, Ira llall;* appeal from Enox, Taken on call, 4i5, Darnard A, Slam; Hooper «t al., for use, ot ou call, 446, Josoph O, Glovar ot al, va, Olara Benjamin ; aps peal fron Superfor Court of Cook, Tukon on call, 447, Clarlos Graham ct al. va, Hoxina Fulford; ape peal from Kankakee, Taken on call, 418, Willlam Durbam ot al, vs, Donjomin F, Baussor; appeal from Kankakee, Taken on eall, 449, Wilifam Durham et al. Jamea douroo of al,; appenl from Kaukukec, on on call, 450, John Durbam ot ul, va, John Dunne, Jr., ot al; appeal from Keukakee, Taken on eall, 451, Holuics O, Sleight etal, va, Tho People, ote,, for o of Welter Township; appeal from Heury, Takon oueall, 452, Join Long ve, James E, Conklin of el; appeal from Cook, * Stands on motion. 433, Peter J, Claasson, impleaded, ote,, vs. Benjamin Shacnemann; appoal from Buperior Court of Cook, Taken, 54, Chieago, Burlington & Quincy Raflroad Come pany v, Jucob Notzkl; appeal from Poorda. Judge aont aflirmed for waut of abatracts and bricfs, 455, Asa Whituman ot al, vs, Matthow Lcaneberry; appeal from Peoria, Take 430, Daulel. Leonard vs, Georgo P, Estabrook and Trank Cawp, for uao, otc;; appeal from Suporior Coutt of Cook, Taken, 457, Houry T, Eameh ot al, va. Der Germanla Tutn Veroln ; appeal from Cook, ~Taken. 463, 'Blephen P, Lunt, impleaded, ete,, ve, Johu M Stopliens ; appeal from Cook, Oral argument by Whitan nud Morrizon, and taken, 459, John O, McCord vs. Meckanics! Natfonal Bank of Chicago; appeal from Buporfor Court of Cook ki vs, Margart IT. T, ppeal from Coo, Taken H THE CALL ta-marraw ‘commances at No, 461, TIS GOURT ADJOULNED to 9 o'clook to-morrow mornivg. —_—— -MISCELLANEOUS: A, M. Thomson, formerly cditor of the Mil- waukieo Senlinel, -hag taken Zgening:-Times,.a small daily of that oity. —Richarg H, Stoddnrd, who has lost the use Inflammatory rhoumatism, is lenrning to write with his left, and alveady turne' off munusoripl —Ar, Proctor, tho astronomer, is urging tha nadoption in England of our systom of tho publis eation daily of predictious of tho weatbor; nud anyy that in his ]acturing tour in this country ha only kuow theso predictions to bo wrong twice in three months. —At a confirmntion lately held by Bishop Walsh, in tho townsbip of Btephon, Cnnada, Lo of total abatinonco from all intoxicuing drinks dm'iui; twenty-ouo yeurs, and tho girls that they wonld abstaiu from excess in dress, —Tho City Conneil lunt ovening reccived n messugo from Mayor Doyle, votoing tho rosolu~ tions providing for the ercction of aCity Hall, The resolutionn, however, were prowmptly paysed over tho voto by a'voto of 30 to 8 {u the Common Conneil, and of 8 to 1 In tho Doard of Aldormen, —Providence (. 1.) Journal. —Pliney M. Bromley, propriotor of the Os- Durn 1louso, Rootiestor, and woil Inowa throngle out tho Stato s one of tho old-time paulet-moy, died on Sunday at his honio, Tho docensod wag horn in Now Iavon, Oswogo County, in 1810. 1Io waa Collactor of tho F'ort of Gonasco, under Buchrnan, when ho know ho waa not dead, but iiving, On that o rucolvud sight monthn in tho County Jail, Thy Dactor and myself wera held " for contempt iw having ofered o whit'for probute, knowing the mukor was ly- ing, But Ibud doclined serving us oxceutor of tho A, and, after & briof conflnoment I was dischargod, Koutlall gob off with four monthe’ (mprisonment, * Now,” ho conbluned, “you have the oxack and wholg truth, aud you aro the first to whom I ever gave It lll[ il You seo wa missed ouly by u scratel, A nniidriven futo o deud muv's heat, fustoad/of into u ping bourd, a8 wus Intonded, lost _us $100,000 3 for, hiad wo boeu successful in tho Nalnfortls ease, wo ki eqsy necess o $95,000 additional” WDIA you ever, T auked, # malio monoy from uny company i that wu§ 2" Woll,” g uiwtwered, we must wot {alk abont thint ; but if you will tako n walk with mo some day, I enn show you » blacksmith workingat his teade i thix city, Vlto was buriud, and $5,000 reallzed thorefrom. Ha wan not burled Loro, howoyer, but camo hors to conceal blmsolf, and finally to lye,” — e The Man ¥Whe Was the I rect Cnuse of (o Buke of Orleans’ Dontl, Tho Parly I"ilana announces tho death, at the ago of 80, of tho Comto da Chumnbig, formorly the equerry Lo tho Duko of Orleans, and indi- teotly the canuo of his doath. In hiscapncity ns oquorry, it wad his businoss to attend o the olliciont managoment of tho Royal stablos, seo tho horsos wore propesly eared for, and; abova all, thng Hmi/ woro freo from yivo, Iy some un- Tortunate misohnnes, or caroleadioss, two horses which hag boon condemnod oy vicfous und uns munagesblo, wore nover removed from the stable, and wore hurnossed (o the Duke's car- vingo on tho fatal 19t of July, 1643, Tho griof and eonstornation . his death enused throughout Franco are still frosh in tho memory of tho pres- ont goneration, Ic may, thon, bo ensily imagin- od how the nuhappy Couut, In despalr of having boen tho junocont oauso of the Toarful catues —An old man, by tho name of Neil Doughorty, no rolativos, lefc 312,000 to a man whom to bad ounly known fora month, and loft the - greator part of hia fortuno, smounting to 800,000, in trast to tho Romun_Catholio Bishop of Raphoo, | in Iroland, to catablish i ** Donghorty Amorican Tnutitute " for the eduoation of poor children. —Nows wns recolved on Wadnesday norning of tho doath of Lioutonant-Commandor Edward N. Kollogg, of this city, Captain of tho United Beates monitor Ajax, which ocourrad at Ponen~ cola, Fla,, on Tuesdiy of this wook, o wag nbout 52 yonra of ago, sud lenyes & wifo and tyyo ohildren, mow rosiding ¢ Morrisauia, N, Y. Bvorybody i Wanlogan will romomber tho souial Nod, who has lived with us finca early hoviioad, until ho ontorod the Unitod States sor- vice, and will _sincoroly monrn his untimely decoasio.— Waukegan (Jil.) atriol. WEEKLY COTYON STATEMERT, New Youx, Qot. ©.—Tho wookly statoment makos the following showing ¢ Not rocepta at s}l United Btales poris for tho weok, .- Tant yeir. Totalto Lawt yuar, Exports £ Last year, Last yuar, soe #Htock at all Unitod States ports, Laut yoar, Htovk at i) last yoar, stock at Last youT,yueusevs Btock of Amerlcan afloat for Great Drifafn,.:. Lagh y6aZaseesnesenen, tion for mundavus against. tho Village of Glon. - Tiifniois, Errors confissed and causo remanded 28 pey Lakou, ) 460, ‘Elijab 8, Aloxonder-vs, David F, Rundel Ta~ o, osscasion of the - of his right hand, tomporatily at loast, through which remiuds tha printors of Iorace Grooley's. . caused all the boys conflrmad to take a pledge - who recontly diod m Brooldyn, N, Y., aud had « i ! |