Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1875, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY xz, 1875. ee LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, The Supreme Court on Tax-Sales. More Efforts of, tho Assignee of tho Atlantic & Pacific. the Decision of the Supreme Uritfclsm of : Court on Lachca, Judge Craig's Opinion Reviowed. LACHES. OTE TO A RECENT AUPRENE COURT DECIBION. Yo the Huitor of The Chicano Tribune Cirgago, Fob, 19.—Tho follamng is » note to the opinion of Castner vs. Welrod, decided by ihe Suprome Court of Tilinole, and tho opinion Jolivered by Judgo Craiz, aud published in the Bhlesgo £nfer-Occan of Feb. 15. TUR BYLLANTA ofthat portion of the case commented upon is w follows’ a; mpiainants, married women, being the own- waiufcoor reat, ebtatetn. 1650, and (hele husbands javing an catate during coverture, or an estate by the jurtevy initiste, the defendant went into possession of jamo under coloe of title, and in the yoar 1638 ob- ined a Hmltntion against tholusbande’ right of en- ry under tha statute, Ifeld that, aitor the pas- Inve of tho Married Woman's act of 18ct, the atatute pe limitation would commence to ‘run’ agalnat the tomplainante, who ara atilt married, and tat = com plete bar bad since Leen obtained againat the right of entry of marriod women under tho statute of limita tion, Weld, alo, that tho Married Woman's act of 1861 4s fucdnsistont with tho saving claus of the elatute of liinitation, which gives a married woman toven years after hier discoverturo in which to bring her action, and that the latter ia repealed by impllea- Hou, also, that when tho defendants obtained s complete bar ton recorory by the hnsbancta, tho life palates of the husbands were gono; thnt the life es tate woa destroyed; and that the right of action ot once nccrusl to the wives, while {ho bustands were etlifalive: and that, ag soon ae thoact of 18¢l was pused, to bar of theslatute commenced to accrue againat the wives, While {t may not bo a grateful task to criticise our own Suprome Court, yot wo fool that if tho criticism bo mado in kindness, and simply to ealt tho atteation of tho Court to mistakes which they would bo anxions to correct when pointed out, that no exception can or will be takon by any momber of the Court with tho manner of doing it, When a rulo of property in once catablished, every citizen Ja interested that no Innovation be mado oxcept for good rea- + gon, and excopt upon full consideration of all the prior decisions of the Court. Bays tho Court: aa It is urged by the complainants that at tho time the defendant sequived tho title to the int, threo of tlie complainants woro, and atill are, under (he dieabillty of coverturo; and, as to thom, tho slatute of limita tlons did not ran, nor ata they concluded by laches er acquiescence, but aro protectad by and under the anying clauso of the Btatuto of Limitations. To overcome this objection, tho learned Judge reasons as followa: A ‘femo covert" who has rights of entry or causo of action may mako such ontry or {inatituta euch action within . — years after her becoming “fomo solo” (Statute of Limitations). By the Married Wom- * gn’s act of 1801, ‘tho disability of coverturd was romoved,’ anda marricd woman is vested mith tho entire control of her Inds aud personal catate—sho has thorefore becomo a fome sole. Ergo, 8 married woman is a fomo sole, and tha eaving cinuse of tho Btatuto of Limitationa has theroby become unmeaning as to hor—tho reason thereof has failed. ‘WE CANNOT AGREE WITH THIS ARGUMENT. Wo perceivo the following fallacies theroin: ‘Tho Limitation act uses the torms fomo covert and fomo sole {n contradistinction to ach other, and in thoir natural gongs, Tho Married Woman's act unos tho words forme sole not at allin contradistinction to femo covert, ale re- mains a feme covort, notwituetanding she ob- faing a mited control over certain proporty, “ag though she was sole and unmarriod.” 'Lhe term " femo sole” in the Limitation act is to be interpreted simpliciter. The term * femo solo” in tho Afarried Woman's act is usod with a qualification. ‘Tho torms aro not interchangoa- Die or conyortibla, It is fallacy of ratiociua- tion into which the learned Jndga has fallen, and says Mill (Logic IL, Book 5,ch. 6, 84): Bowe Instances of thix fallacy aro recognized by the echoolmen as the fallacy a dicfo secundum quid, ad dictum simpliciler. ia is committed whon in tho premises a proposition is assorted with a qualification, and the qualitication lost sight of In the conclusion, or oftener whon a limitation orconiition, though not assorted, ia noccssary to tho truth of the propoaltion, but is forgatten whon tho proposition comes to bo omployod as 5 premio, otc. JUNGE ORATG ASSERTS that, onder the Married Woman's act of 1861, “tho wife is vested with tho entire control of bor iands and personal ssinte.” Let us examine the actand whothor this isso. Tho act do- clares that “all property, both ren! and por- sonal, belonging to ouy married woman @ ag her solo and soparate property or (b) which any woman horeaftor married owns ot the timo of her marriage, or (c) which sny marricd woman, during coverture, atquiros in gaod faith from any poraon other than ber husband, to- gether with alt tho rontn, atc. theroof, shall, notwithatanding her marriage, bo aud romain during covorturo lor solo and soparato property, under her sole control," oto, Now, the tract of land in Utigation was owned by threo of the complainants during covorturo, but if docs not fall under tho class of proporty charactorized under a, as it was not thoir solo and separato property, nor undor 8, as thoy woro married boforo 1801, nor under c, as it was not property acquired during coverturo, nor if it ind bean could tho act have taken away tho lifa estate of the husband, scquired prior thoreto, aa It had become a voxted Tite Boo Hose ys. San- ‘dorson, 98 Ill, p. 247; Cole va. Van Ripor, 44 U., p. 68; Noblo vs, McFarland, 51 Ill, p, 227. ‘Tuoir property consisted ina revornion ox- Tene on the life ostatos of their husbands, and id not fall within the actor 1ddiat all, Thoy bad not tho present controlot thalr pro erty, and the statemont of the Judgo, that tho wife is vested with tho ontire control of her lands,” is too broad, not true, and hes misied tho Court, But, supposing tho statuto of 1861 covered the Proporty, THE STATUTE INCONSISTENT with tho saving claune of tho statuto of Imita- tlous? ‘The savieg clause of tho statute of lim- itations confora a privilege upox a femocovert. ‘The act of 1861 confers additional priviloges upon wfcmo covert. Are theso privileges cumulative orderogatory? Judge Crate says privileges ox- tonded to.a fomo covort by tho act of 1861 aro de- togatory to the proviso iu favor of a feme covert under tho atature of limitations, not becauno the Marriod Woman's act expresaly or impliodly topeals that proviso, in accordance with the rules of sound construction of a statute, but because Judge Craig interprets tho roasone and motives of tuo lawgiver siinply a1 ippesiiitions on his part and Imaginary, instead of intorpreting, applying, and construing tho statutes as they are found in tho etatute-book, Aud because Judgo Craig's good or ies reasons for the statutos in question contradict oach other so much that thogo rea- ‘ona cannot stand together, thorefore tho atat- utes cannot stand together! Conatraing stat- utes dehors is noithcr more nor Joss against all tulea nt construction than construing contracts or wills dehors, from supposed inteutions, not appearing ju tho inatrumont, The rule cessante ratione legis cessat wzipsa lins no such wido ap~ Plcation that it is in itself sutiicint to ropenl a statule, Wo would all bo at aoa under auch oon- structions, A Justice of tho Ponce dina to give ous reason, ® Circuit Judge will proceed upon an- other renxon, a Judge of tho Bupremo Court upon sull anofhor, and tho poor and conscientious legal adviser will havo to toll his cliont thas tho Jaw is vo and ao, but until we have beard from the Bupreme Court we cannot say whether or nat the law hea not beo ropealod, not directly or impliedly by any other ousctment, but by some reavon underlying the statute, and slumbering dn tho broast of ono of tho Judges, Fearne on Remainders, pp. 87 aud 83. Our Bapremo Court has earnestly warned against this modo of cou. truing statutes in the caso of Morriaon et. al, ve, Norman ot al. 47 Ill, p. 481 (1808). wATA THE COURT: 7 aimnarameny at ect am, aon uh em ‘ale ca vy Wol of thelr own, uroperty, should be cousidcred a removing thelr a thom the benent otis povelh aa therefore, take from Unnitutions), "Mus this couscyuence does not follow. “ A married woman, sven befu; tho act of 1861, wi iisbnd ay eaedan caf ate pl there was bo legal obstacle Bherany. $0 a suit to ber way, Bu Ue statute did not impute aches to ber far feti sue, becatise her scla were #0 laryely ead useeen ite under thecoutrot of her husbands ‘Vaie control suai sll continue, in a great di ®, notwithstanding the legislation of 1801, uud'wo do nbtto te idberty to aa; that an act whoee primary object waa merely 19 secur > the property of a tuarried woman from being aquan, dered by an improvident, husband, or sold by ite creditors, should be held to.repeal, Ly implication, = ‘very ituportant provision in Gur statutes of Umnitauont ‘Lheao acte, aud thw act of 1b01, ate wot 1u pari amas [robeLiy tue Legtalatuse, fu passing the tat; ler, bavar bestowed 9 thougts upon Reformer, "', Compiele revision of tha law of Gusband and wife, in of 1461, might lead to many Im. Tartar changes: bat we ant bo. Rolug Ueyont ante allatted spacre if wocnteted upon ap will a feld of Sudiclal feginlation, Wo tauat hold tho naving clanre pf the Hnutntion tawato'he unaffected by the act of Tac, (In Lludley va, Smb.h, 46 11, 829, Junuary Term, 1868, the Court dcom ft unnecessary to dincues the identical question, of to express auy opinion na to what would bo the result), Woece from this that the reason of our Sit- prome Court in 1868 {tr regard to the statutes in question wan entirely differont from those of Judge Cralytu 1874. Indgo Lawronca had » diffurent reason for the etatutos under consid- eration from Judgo Craij, and, as bo intimaton, tho Legislature pro vabty never bestowed thoughetal reasoning upd any of those statutas. It must, however, take evory one by surprise that the decision of [urrison ys, Norman on this point, while it f6 thoroughly Incompatible with the decision undor consideration, is entire- Iy disregarded, not avonaltaded to, as Ilttls ax the cate of luge! ot al. va, Sandoraon, 38, It, p.251, Aprit Term, 1865, where the Court enys that it is not for them to indulge in, hypothoses as to what cans the statute will be found to apply. Moroovor the maxim 1a ovssante ratione legts, and tot cessante ralione juciicis, etc, ‘Lo under stand tho raasou of a atasitte is very doslraule for many purposos of ity application, Lut it can ue Ba employed for tho purpose of its own de- struction, ‘Lexidos, when tho saving clause of tho statute of Jimitations was at first adonted by our Logis- lature, could uot at that tit already a fome covert own Holo pnd soparate astate? And, If no, hind that saving clause no application to auch state? Ie tho svatutory acqurate ostate to bo loss protected? ‘THE MOST ANAZIUG, aud, at tho sama time, {n its routs, most sort ous’ misunderstanding of tho law and of tho im- port of our docistous, occura in regard to the time whon # roversloner's right of entry or right to sue accrued, Washburn oo Iteal Proporty, IIL, p. 192, states the law to bo that no dlsactain of a teuant of « patticular calate and occupation undor it, however tong continucd, will affect the right of tho roversionor. ‘The butter may onter whenover the particular estate sliall determine by its limitation. ‘ho statuto does not run against a rovorsioner till tho death of the tonaut for lite, whero tho Intter has convoyod tho cetate in feo, And where o hnaband aad wife wore diswoiecd, and the dissalsor held adverso possession for tho period af limitation, which possersion would bar the right of the huaband, If living, at hts death sho or her rapro- sentatlyes might claim the land (¢.nd soo cneos thore cited), Sae also Willisina on eal Prop- arty, pe 253 (a, very Inecid statement of the samo doctrino) and tho comprohensive axticlo on fimi- tation contributed by J. Wildor May, 1% ad (editor of Angell on Limitations), to fourtoceath edition of Bouvior's Law Dictionary (Secu. G1 aud 62), UCI 18 THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DOCIRINE. Wo have no statute on the subject changing that common law rule of real proporty. The rufs op- plies to marriod or unmarriod, malo or femalo, « reversionors alike. ‘Iho decisions of our Supreme Court are in full accord with the com- mou law. In Talcott vs. Draper, 61 Iit., Soptem- ber Term, 1971, it fs eaid by Justice Shatlon: ly operation of ths statute of limitations, the life estate of tho huavand becaine barred, and wa veated in the adverse possersor, anid he then held f tu tho anme manner and with tho saino rights that las would have bad if the husband had conveyed the sanie to him, (Lhe doctrine announced iu Shortall va, Hinck- log, 31 1M., 223.) Tn Kibhlo va. Williams, 68 Ill, January Terr, 1871, tho Court appiies the rule Jad down in the caro ef Bhortall va, silnckloy, In Bteelo ve, Gollatly, 41st Illinois, page 39, April Term, 1866, Judgo Lawrencn itlustrates tho rule as follows : Yor example, suppose A {s tenant for life with ro- mainder iu feo to B, aud C enters adversely ‘under, briefs, nor do wo kuo‘y tho partion or attorneys of tho case, Auicus Cunias. ——— TAX SALES, IMTONTANT DPCISION BY THE BUPREMK COORT. The following fs an important opinion in refer- encototax nalor, which probably affects such titles in evary county of the State. Tho original caso wan in the Circuit Court of Will County, and was brought by Heryoy Lows, who sought to recov- or a lot in tho City of Joliet, on the gronnd that he had s tax-title which was valid in lew, and auficiont to voat tho title in him. Tho dofpnd- ant had tho foc-simplo title, and claimod that plalntiff waa not entiticd to possonsion. ‘The Court gave judgment in favor of the de fondant; the plaintiff theroupon took an appeal to the Bupremo Court, and that august body has afirmed Judge.McRoberts’ Judginent. The opin- fon is by Mr, Justiea Seholfield: ‘The only eviitence of the pubitestion of the notice by the Collector that he woul! apply for Judgment for tho delinquent taxes agsinat thy property in. contro. yersy is. what purports to be the cerlifeate of the pabliiahers of the paper printed at the cotielusion of the st of delinquent propsrty, and an a continuation of the same advertisement. ‘This appeara only in the sama unmber of the raper contatuing the advertizemont, and. there fa no certifl- cate made by the publisher sitica that publication wan mde, ‘This wax clearly insuifielent to give the Court Jurinilction in the cate, In Fortmnn, et al, va, Itugiea, et of., 68 111, 207, Iu apenking of the quention of notice inn ike case, It wan salt auch » notice 1s required by the @utute, sud {tin indispenrable to confer Jurindh:, flow th this proceeding wntess an appearance ia en fared, It{selatutory aud summery in tte character, and the requiretnanta of the law intint be alrictly pure iiind, ‘The notice takes the piace of procerr, aust $1 Ln otily by ite publication, as required by the ‘statute, that the Court ontains jurludiction to hear aud adjudicate upon tho case, iin Fox vo. Tattle, 65 Il, 378, tho certificate of pub- Itsation was slgued ‘by Jolin Wontworth, publiaer, by Teed, and It was hetd tnsuMlcfent to sustain the Jind ment for delinquent taxes, It {s contended, bowever, in the present case, appelleo i concluded in this ques tion by the fading of the County Court ax recited’ an tho judginent, true, ft is damien to ny, lig the, appellant was not also concluded by a fike finding, in tha case juat referred to, for the judgmicnt there, pursued” the statutory form'prercribed by the thirty-ffth acction of tho act of Feb, 12, 1853 (Gross? statutes, 1860, p, G05), reciting that the notice had born given. ‘But the ‘statute reqiiirod that the Collector should obtain copy of the allyertisement, of the delinquent Ia and lolx, together with a certificate of the duo publ cation iHoreof, from the printer or publisher, and Oo Mlerame with’ the County Clerk on or before the first day of the term’ at which judgment wan prayed. (Grona’ Statutes, 1869, p. 60%, Hec, 184.) ‘The advertisoment and cortltcate in evidenco aro tho ad- Vertlzemont and cortificate relating to this Judgment aud sale, fled by the Collector in the oftice of tho County Clerk, andit {a proven by the eridence of the County Clork'that it ia the aamo which was iuspected, hy the Court, and the evidence yon which the Court acted in entering judgment, Tt has never been held, where the record itrelf (hat the evideuce of Jurbidiction upon which tho Court acted wan, insuillcent, that ite finding iu favor of * Mts Jurivdictlon wan coustructive, In Gondy et al. vx, Mall, 20 Ti, 116, it wan expresaly nald that the dnding tu seh caso wae not obligatory, The Chief Jurtice, in deliv- ring the optuion, observed that, In the case where the law requires nlx weeks? notice and the record it~ self shows but throe weeks! nofice was given, or whero & process has boon returned not acryed and the Court nuould find that the requirite notice was given, or that the process was duly served, it would bo absurd to eay that euch finding wan constructive, when the very rec ‘ord would show that this finding was vold for want of juriediction, to fad anything whatever in the cae, Uther aud mora recent dovisions recognize the saino doctrine, ‘The erktouce being clear and full to tho jut that the pretended certiiloate of publication be- Fore us in tu quo upon waich the Court acted in rou. dering the Judgment, and i being, equally clear that itwas not mado ofter the pretended publication, tt eas ineufliciolit evidence of the facte recited in it. ' Tt showed color of title and pays the tazes for seven years, ‘Cho tenant for life would bo barred; but can thera bo any doubt but that, after bis death, the retnaluder-enan might bring bis actlon and recover? To hold of wits would be to divest bla eatate without sche on Ay part, af ie could not Uring euch a mult during she exiatenco of the tenaut for life, Thla priuciple js aie reetly nottled in tho caso of ‘Iigiius vu. Crosby, 40 Tit, 260, deckdod at the progent term of this Cormt, An’ ayainst the eatato in remuindcr, the atatuto das not begin to run uutll after tho death of tho tenant £01" lifo, aud it muat run its full period before that cutste is barred, In tho caso of Jacobs ve. Rico, 83 Ll, 971, January Torm, Judge Bockwith sass , ‘Tho appellee entered {nto possesrion in 1852, under color of title acquired iu good faith; aud froin that {ime until tho cominencemont of this sult 1m 1863, how retided on the premives ond patt all taxes Bott thereon, Dustin became investor with « life cetate in tho premisca by the Curtesy initiate, Me had tho right of possession duriug bie Ufo; aud be inight havo commenced suit and recovered possowulon iu the same manner that other tenants for fifo recover possession of thoir estates, Tho estate of Dustin was one thut might Lave been sold snd cotiyeyod Jn tho samo mane uer that other life catates arc, The statute of Urmitn~ ‘tous hag the samo application to it that it has to other estates of that nature, iy ita operation the life ealatp, of Dustin waa vestorl ju the appellee, aud he How lolds tt in {he same man= ner end with the same rybte that he would buve lind Af Dualin had conveyed the asmo to him. Tha remedy for its recovery, by Dustin and his grantee, was tiot only barred, but (ho title was. trans. ferrod whore the remedy coseed, ‘Che appellaut is tho owner of the reminder, und when tho life estate ceases he will bo ontitled to poswesion, and may re- cover {t from thore who wrongtully withold it, nora ve, Hinckley, 31 1Ul,and many other cases cited. In the leading cnse of Shortall ys. Ilinckloy, and anothor, Si Il}. 919,—April Torm, 1869,— Mr, Justico Walker says: ‘The wifo’a {ntorcst ia not 8 preaent but a futnre ca- tate, depeudont upon tho death of the husband, Tt fs {rue that by the operation of the atatute the bisband may bave lost lis estate in the lands, but it doos not therefore follow that the wifolaa become vestod with ‘hts ealate, or that it hus merged in Uke feo, and croatod a present ‘estate in the wife, After the death of the husband, tho purchaser may no duubt auo for ond re cover the fco, as ft was uot bsreed—but only the life estate, Gregg va, Teseon, 1 Black, 160, ‘The design of the Goucral Assembly, no doubt, was simply to invest the purchaser of premises, and those iu adverse possession, with all the rights of the grautor, precisely aa he then eld them, Auy other construc: tlon would virtually ropeal the Imitation laws, in ref. eroucs to real estate, and bo fraught with coneequen- cea never contemplated or intended by the General Assombly, ‘The plaintiff bad ouly acquired the righia of iis grantora as they oxistod at the tine he racelyed his deed, and, thoatatutory period of nitation haying run against tim aud his grantors, he has no right to recowr, a In Higgins vs. Crosby, 40 Tll., 266—April Term, 18U8,—it was said by J judgo Waller: r ! Iti certaloly true that tho statute may rn, and the bar become comptete against anestate for life, or for n term of years; as in such casea tho right of eutry feo present oxiating right. But, in auch casca, when the yartloular eatate in apent, the bar falls with tlnt estate, and the right of eutry then accrues to the remainder- aman or roverslouer; and theu, aud not till then, tho statute begins to rub agatnet bin, Wo would auk, Howcan the doctrine be ox- pressed clearer and more procisely than in the words, When tho particular estate {s spent the Lar falls with that oatate"? Whon fa that par- tenlar estate spent, however? If the partioular eatate is, for instance, a Iifo estate of A, it ty spout with the dropping of A's life. If A hag conveyed it in foo to i, B holds it for A’y life, If A's life ostate baw boon barred under tho statute ag against B, D holds it av ayeinst A during A’a life, In all those cases the saly febrind upon which O, tho reversioner, could clalm that aright of actton for tho recov- ory of thoostate hay accrued to him, would bo tho allegation, not that A tins ‘sold it, nor that A has acquioscod in womobody olse's enjoying it adveruoly, nor that A has allowed it to be barred under tho statute, aud in consequence thereof that A hoa .beon deprived of a right of action against Oj wo way tho revoruioucr’s allogation would havo to bo that A has died, and A's death was the only liwitstlon whoreby his life estate could be spent wccording to all tho rules oflaw. Tho Court, in othor words, says upon, the death of the tonant for life (as then “tho partivular ostate is spent”), “the bar falls with that estate” (which iw certainly correct), aud it is no bur any inoro tothe estate in revoraiou,— © tho bar falls," But hora 16 THE GREAT MISTARS of Judge Craig, = For hiw the partiontar, estate fa epent" ng soon ad acquired bys third party, irrospecitye of the teriaiuation of the life of the holder of tho particular estate. fo saya, * tho lifo outnte Laying terminntes by operation of tho statute of limitation,” which ts not the’ law, He refers to Hinchman vs. Whiteatono, 23 1,, 185, where tho Court sa) “When the right of entry oud tho right of action aro both lout, i: ia dificult to porceive what practically remainy to the ‘former’ owner,” But this only states the Talation between the ** former owner, against whom the statute has run, and his privies on the ono side, and tho ‘latter onucr, the Rere son ju whove favor tho bar of tho statute bas run, and bis privies, on the other side. It doss not, caunot, refer to tha relation between @ re- vorslonor and the party who lias acquired pos. session of the life-cstate under the Stat- uta of tations, And it makes no differs ence whother tho roversioner ia a marricd woman or ® shoemuker, The right to inutitute proceedings for the recovory of tho re- Version accrues in cither case at tho time of the douth of tho tonaus forlife. Tho transfer uf the life extate to a third party (oitber voluutury or Anvoluntaryy does not work # morger cf tho Uifo ostato and the rovoreion, Pho forogoing remarks aro based upon the assinoption that the opinion of Judgo Craig, au it appears in the Jnfer-Ocean of the Toth inuts 16 reproduced thore comptetety (awit appoars to bo). Woother there was otherwiso a utate of facts, notwet out in the opivion, that justillea au afirination of the decrce of tho Cigeuit Vourt, WO caunot Bay, 88 OUF Only Concern With the caso fe that ofa lowyor who is iutoreaud iu avoing 00d law estab! '@ bave nelidor gown the would be just aa roasouable to receivo in evidence tho doponition of a witnors taken about a matter in litiga- tion before the faota hava ardurred, ua to roceive a cer- {ifcate of this kind ass compliance with the law. The objection urged that appellee alould not he been allowed to make defense until he showed a pays ment or tonder of the tazes, ete., for which the prop erty had beon eold, in fully inet by teed et al, vw, Tye Jer ct al,, 66 111,, 283, where It was old that the law. requiriig that this should bo done is unconstitutional, The judgmunt fx allrnied, —_— CHICAGO COURTS, ‘THE ATLANTIO 4 PACIFIC INBUNANCE COMPANY. Dr. Turpin, the Mecciver of the defunct At- Jantlo & Pacific Insurance Company. is again on tho war-path after somo of tho Company's prop- orty. ‘Chis time Granvillo W. Morris, W. IL. Dodrick, C, ¥. Dyor, O. D. Mookor, R. J. Watora, ond Henry 8, Dagolt are defendants, Tho Re- coiver charges that in March, 1878, W. H. Dodrick, belug indobtod to the Company in the gum of $5,000, traueferred to it as security three notes of G. WW. Morria for the aggrogato eur ef yit,140, secured by a mortgage on some Jote in J. W. Stowart’s Sub- division. At tho timo of tho transfor #10 Company indorsed on tho notes a crodit of 35,140, loaving $5,000 dne, which corrospondod with Dedrick's actus! indobtedness. This was tone for the reason that Dedrick wished to give {tho notes and mottgage in sottloment of his in- dlabtedness to tho Company, yot did not wish to ke porsonally liablo for au amount greater than bia ronal {ndaptodness, and tho socurity afforded by tho mortgaged premises was not considered to bo worth more than §5,000. In June follow- ing, itis charged, the officers of the Company conspired with Dedrick and Morris to dofraud tho Company, by giving a roloaso of onc- half’ of the lots from tuolr lien, and these lots wero then sold. Qomplainant clargos that this reloaso is fraudulont, and asks to havo it sot aside, andthe notes and mortgages sold to pay the amount due the Company. pivonces, Lavina Fox charges that hor husband has maltreated hor, and abused hor shamefully; that lio fsa also repeatedly beon quilty of adultery; aud. Jastly, that ho hag filled the mengure of Lia wickolneus, “Tho promisos considered,” she prays for n divorce, Funnio E, Olark ropresonta that ber husband, Waltar*B. Clerk, has dosorted her alnos the summer of 1871, and she, therefore, considera hersatt ontitlad to a divorco. UNITED STATES COURTS. D, G. Goau, Asvigues of Marooux and Goyder, aued Jogoph Pratt and L. Ht, Hall for Tha Forest City Pipa Works began a suit for 1,500 agaiust P. 0. Goblo, W. it. England, and ‘LL O, Estes, 5 DANRRUPTCY ITEMB, Balmon F. Cone, 5 jewelor, at No. 150 State atroct, Chicago, filed a voluntary potition, His liabilities, pehucipally for goods bought, ara 610,- 44116, and his assets, consiating of stock of Roods a.nd bills receivablo, amount to $9,946.80, Henicea this, he has 5 one-soveuth interest in the estate of If, B, Cone, decoased, aftor payment of debts, and this intorest ho bolieves to ba worth nothing, as tho debts of the estate excced tho auxots, Tho caso was reforrad to tha Rogistor, discharga was isgned to A. Brayman, Jr. SUPERIOR COUNT IN nnIZE, ‘The Union National Bank sued J. K. 0. For- ht Ac Mofri b uit agatoet Henry C > A. Morris began a Bi nat Henry Craw- ford, claiming §2,U00, s s Thomas Walch commenced an action in tren Dass anainat William Hess, laying damagos at 910,000, cIROUIT covaT, Lovi Abt filod a biltagainat Samuel J. Walker sudothen to foreclose a trust deed for $3,750 on Lot 13 of Packer's subdivision of the ne 1 of the. w 2¢ of deo, 6, UB, 14, which uote and trust doed wore plodged by Walkor to scouro a note of his own for 37,000, ‘THE CALL TUESDAY. Jupar Moonr—18, 19, 20, Suna Roaens—No call, Jupax Bootu—125 to 136, Juvex Tixer—20 to 10, except 90, JUDaMENTS, Sorentox Count—Comvuasions—Kato McNamara ve, ¥, W, Dickivon, $313, SubaxGais—Hank of Chicago ye, Charlee Busby, $1.600.—0, H. Jenuiaon vs, 0, L, Mruwn, 4, W. Kort, and Aorris Vfitkius, $1,002.03, Ormourr Covut—Coxrrauuys—Loule W, Reiss ye, Willlum G. Tucker, $216.19, Jupar Loori—ht, E, ‘Tyler, use, &e,, va. 0. B, Cook, $50.05.—B, 8, Morrie ve, Wi i, Adame, §130,60,— ame va, sain, $1,018.01, cae BOUNTIES TO SAILORS, To the Editor wf The Chicago Tribune: Cutcaco, eb. 19,—In an editorial in this morning’s paper, you sposk of several commu ulcations from ex-soldiers, complaining that in- Justico had becs done them in an articlo printed in Tux Larmuye. You spoke thly morning that you did oppose giving bounties to eallors, au thoy had dono nothing but wail from port to port. 1 think you have done this class a groat injustice, Lboing ove, What did our sailora do at ‘Hamp- ton loads, af to time of the Merrimac; at So- bile; at Now Orleans; at Pors Noyaly at Fort Houry; at Fort McAlister; at the capsuro of the Alabama, all through the Iste uo Noazaute wee ponte, You ined une sailors ‘ala s0me~ re Yours truly, Mink from Dork ae! {Tho editorial in question did uot speak of eallors ax a claus, bat aimply of that portion of them “who did nothing but crulse from port to port,"~Ep, Tawons) THE LECTURE PLATFORM, Charles Bradlaugh’s Ideas of “Land and Labor.” An Immonse Attendance and on Inter- esting Address, “Taxation and ‘Popular Religion’? by Oda- diah Jackson and Parker Pillsbury. CHARLES BRADLAUGH. “TAND AND LANOR.” Never since {twas firat thrown open to the public bas McCormick's Iisll probably been ao completely Aled with humanity aa it was yon- torday, to Loar Br. Bradlaugh discourse upon “Land and Labor.” Thore waa not a spot of standing room oven, and the audiouce was aa one thusiaatic as it was numerically xreat, Scvoral times the spanker was intorrupted by applouso, Ianghter, and crica of ‘Hear! Heart" while at evory pauas the ball echoed with the usual marks of approval. Uo opened hia lecture with » doscription of TUB DIVISION OF LAND in different parts of the world, England, France, Gormany, and America being more expecially alluded to. Ffe dwelt upon tho mittions of acres owned in Englaud vy various titled individuale, To spoke of the million and s half acres owned by tho Duke of Sutherland; of the vant estates of the Duke of Lucclough in Scotland and Ire~ Tandy of the vast oatates owned by the Duke of Norfotk, drawings vivid picturo of tio men who grind file, knivos, and saws, whero sparka of steel find thelr way into the lungs; of their suf- fering, thoir poverty, and theit doath, ‘the Duko of Norfolk had on income of £600,000 year, Wo didn't earn a penny of it, and the world was not made any richer by it, The Duko of Wostminster had abont six or seven and #& half millions, The Duke of Richmond was another wealthy landbolder, a nobleman tracing bis lineage back to one of thoxe protty women loved by ono of Englaud's Kings. Ho it was who in dave of fam- ino sugested that * a pinch of curry powder in hot water would make good soup.” He, with his mittions, complained of Lis sqricultural troubles, Ne spoke of the Duke of Devoushirs, who bad beon made tho loader of the Liberal party in Eugland because ho was AGNEAT, WEAR DUKE. A uot very flattering description of this gen- tlemau followed, ending with * You might aw well buy a doll out of a dollar store.” The Dako of Bedford got his monoy by stenting from the Church, Mr. Bradlaugh did not urge that it wag 8 serious crime tosteal fromthe Church (laugh- terand loud applauso), but in the lands whieh. lay uncultivated and .whers all game was preserved, if 8 peasant was caught with a rabbit or a haro, ho would Donrent to jail. What Ar. Bradisugh objected to was that what was lawful in tho one was un- lawful in tho othor, He had been found fault with for using the word wtole in regard to this nobio Duko, but what elde waa it ? If thore was any other word he would like tolkuow it, He next spoke, rather humorously, of the freedom of press criticism, and the ignorance of facta, the want of knowledgo, which’ bad led certain papers to dispute his statements in regard to Luglieh lands. Io reiterated tho fact that thero are 32,000,000 acres NOT WELL CULTIVATED in Bogland, and 11,000,000 which aro totally uncultivated, Io spoke of Eughsh papers, such ax the Morning Nees, which admittad 15,000,000) acres of uncultivated land; put Lo was willing to tako the lowest ostimate. Because ho demanded that theo should bo dus, plowed, sown, and -caltivated, ho was vallod a demagogue, Ho wos told thoy ho rebelled againet thoir Dukes, Ie went on t show that thoy had not bean the mon who had been of uso in the world, who Lad been pioncers, who had planted colonios, or even tilted ther own soil, adding: ‘Dhoy alone have boon the weeds that bave grown in our garden.” = Jia next tiated that, botween ctw years 1727 and 1832, thja eleon ntOto 700,000,000 nero irom tho nace’ aid added it to their own estates. Ho qteationod tho differouce botioun the poor man Who ona dark night usos force to kuock down, garrote, and rob a man in the strooty, and thess noblemen, who, with tho knowledge that gave them power to assort their right to Icgtslate, nsod that legistativo power to yet tho better of tho ignorant poor man, and rob him of lis land; alding his opiniou that the pickpocket who risky his life in the streets was VASTLY THE MONE HONEST of the two; the others named run no risk, he spoke of the poverty of England other than its agricultural poverty which ho had already dwelt upov, Whore tho rich man wrosts the acros from tho poor man ond loaves hitu to utarvo; tho poverty of ats great clticy, such aa Liver- pool, London, Manchester, Edinburg, Glasgow, and othora ; & povaity not of mixery only, but of dirt, disoase, aud agualor, an iuboriled’ poverty which bas grown with tho mau, which lias Le- come a part of his naturo, and against which he could not rebel. Ho apoko to those in tho audi- enco who had been to London, who had seen ita magnificent structures, ite Inxury, ite woalth, Ho bado them go to the resorts whore tho crini- inal claseca sre born if thoy wonld soo tho ahad- ow cout by that woalth. Next he spoke of tho TMOUSANDS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT in South Wales, on a strike, ay ha admitted ; but in aplaco whera strikes ad boon very frequent in tho Inst fivo yonrs, Ho ppoke of ‘tho reduc- tion of wages in Yorksbtre and other menufac- turiug districte, where wages wero boing reduced aad doubly reduced, while rents fare increased, taxes of all binds aro incrossad, the cost of food isiucreased. io spoke of wagos nx represont- ing tho food, shelter, and lustry they will buy, and when it meant only cnough of theso to sup- port lifo, whon wages were reducad in amount and the cost of living incrossod, thon of tho terrible condition of things Nort ho questioned how to rollova tho poverty in these groat citlos of Livorpool, Lonton, Glas- gow, Manchester, Edinburg, and others. Ho sald he could not ask them to omigrato Lore, for in Now York thera were tons of thousands out of omployiuent, and in Boston, in Philadelphia, and Chicago thoy wero numbered by thousands. The men who had walted upon fim here had givon Lim 6 terrible picture of the coudition of affaire, but they might hove taken too strong o view of mattois, seeing thom only from one side, Ho bad been told that unskilled Inbar, do- ing whatever it could flud tu do, got rometimes 60 centy, wometinies 75 conte, sometimes 814 day, and it could never be sure oven of that. Ifo had been told that it cost s man and wife and throo children, at tho very lowest estimate, eB a week to live, “If a man who earned the fallest wages could not cam enough to live,thon matcors woroiudeed terrible, Mo was not sure thot Lo was correct, that he had been told the truth, ‘druth," answered by soveral in the audionce. He bogged them to boar with bim, and lot him finish his lecture. fo xtated that s atool-manufacturor in Pitte- burg. paying £1.50 a day, because he thought no skilled Inborer ought to work for Jews, bad informed Lim that thero wero 60 MANY OUT OF Wonk he had been offered abundant help for @4 a wook, Mr. Bradtaugh thought this ‘terrible, horrible" in such @ country ad this, ard suggested that it would not be romediod by adding to tho omigration. He could not fuvito bis countrymen to the Eastoru States, for they oro being overrun by Vrench Canadiana who woro working for lower wages and crowding out the Irish. Nor to tho West, for from Buffalo wostwvard thero was the German and Swodish eloment to compete, already proven & more sober and trustworthy pooplo, moro akill{ul, and ready to work at loaser Waxes than the Englishman conld, Hut bo gued that there aust be room, with our prairi Our pine foreute, coalfield, sud irou-mines, Tut then why do not tho starving poor tind their way thithor? wae hia noxt question. In 8 cole district not 180 milow away thore was some do- mand for labor, men gotting from $1.35 to $2.20 aday. But he referred to men's dislike to seeking such places ta tho vice of yreat cities, whose toudency was to absorb aud aggrogote men, Ho did not wish to blame or roprosch tho working man, but thought it far better thoy should go axe sgricultural Isborors than to atarvo In misery in tho citiow, for in evory greal ce thore must bo a masu of misery, fle spoke of the often-advaucod theory that capital is hostile ta labor: that thero wan toa much ju single hands, and, If distributed, thero would be enaugh for all.®, Ho thought it : TUS MONT DIsAsTHOLS DOCTUINE that hadever been proached. Labor, unaided by wealth, would uot be worth ¢1 » day. but, supplomouted by wealth, it booame ukillod labor, ‘The speaker way in favor of trades uuious so far as thoy added to man's progress in cul- ture, knowledge, health, etc.; bus when thoy incant exclusion from theso tinge, or deuiod a man a right to work, thon thoy were totally wrong, Awan coming from England must live. Ho spplies to varlous trades. carpentoriy aud tailors, aud others. Esoh trade sejeots bin, and there in nothing left for him but to beg, ateat, or din, an inaninch as ho duos bog or steal he lowers their wages, either by what they sive him or by what they are taxed & arrest and imprisun him. TRADES USIONS WERE WRONG then thoy say to won reeking for work, ' Wo won't Lave you in our midst.” They had bad different part to play, and wonld have found out long ago their faulta’ lind not aristocracios do- clared them egal and opposed them. Hand vined against atrikes, but to uso the eurplua monoy it helping those that needed it, Ifo npoke of the neceasity of attantion to pati- lice by every one, urging them to une tho fran- and that having this power denied to xo. many meu in his country thoy hal no right to complain of curruption, siting, * Leyislatnred aro hut the roflex of the people." Io objected to tho Rothschilds, Vandorbilte, and Anta, an being of ou benolit tos country, Buch tien, who donuthing to make money. ourht to pay tho heavient taxes, ‘Aheno should not fall npon tha workers, but mon who own lands, or hare money {u the fuudé, ‘Chere mon were not thove who carriod out the great works of the world, built atoamers, ocean cables, or bridcen, Thera wera mado possible by ths small cuntnbutious of amalt number of mon. Bhould he ailvito his poor penple to go ont on to tho prairies and nettio? Hero lie was told that, though the land was rich and grain of all Kinds could bo produced, it cout tou much to get {t to market,—that the poonls were Letug STARVED DY RAILWAY MOMOPOLIES. He thought the Grangorm had done wrong to abstain from politics, die disclaimed any man's right to resort to arms with freo presa, free platform, aud the fraucbise, Suck a inan wasn traitor to his country and a coward to his claas, Ho thought that the Grangers had already found out their tnistake in refusing to identify them- eelves with politica, He drew tho differ. enco betweon the causa of — building roilroadw hero and In Eugland, and apoka ef the eubridi asked from Government by our roads, and the restrictions placed upon them. Ho thought the aubject of waterd stuck a little too fine tor them, but that nu com- pany would carry produca toro cent less thin pom pay all oxpenses aud some jp Lbete~ foro INDUSTRIES ANOULD NF DLVFLOPEN in those Wostorn landa which should domand the agticultutkl products; furuaces should be built, mines developed, cte., and then the stock- holder should bo sati«fied’ with 3,4. 6 or G per cent on his capital, aud thas be able to pay a fair wago to the laborer. Ho thonght he ehould like to challenge a fow of Parkor Pillebury's views if he had time to hear Ins answer, 46 that gentleman was prengnt in the sudience, He did not belisve in paper currency. Tt did not represent weulth, and wan only worth what it would buy, It might aunwer if Amonca was not trading with all (hoe other nations of tho globo, Ax it is now, it did not increase one atom, aud poisoned all business transactions, One hundred and oloven dollara was paid for every £100 worth of goods bought in England, and the buyer, wondering what gold would ba the day he shall soll, becomes a gumuler aud agtock- jobber in spite of Limscif. Mr. Mradlaugh thought paper nurrancy wan corrupting all our dintributive concerns, sod in- juring tho country and its institutions, ‘Uo finizhod with n glance at THE YUTURK OF LAND AND LAnOn, here and abroad. “In England,” he sai Awe will have the land." and ho repeated bis aveertion with intensa vehomeance—zradually, Inwfnlly, a eres now aud then gained by toilsome cul- tivation If it may be, but if Duxew Earle, or Queens should stund in the way, then thoy must godown, for they would nob let’ the race die, bat wontd break the gingerbread china. flo thought it was more dificult to aay what the result would bo in France, with ber large standing army, and the monaco of war: but tie had lope oven for her,—that her people would onterow their ignorance, and the authorities bo elected by tho people of Frauce, not of Paris only. In Germany, the note had rounded already, ‘Thoy wero trying fo stop the tide of emigration; to entice mon back. Whilo the fathers had learned science, philosophy. aud poetry, the sous would Jeara polttice, The mightiest Repub- Mg would be ins New Germauy. Ie noxt spoke a 4 AMERICA AND HER DUSTIN, with his own love for a people who enoke tho kamo tongue, Ho sod that oar fatnre Inv in ourselves; described how our minery het arisen from inattention ta politiea; spoke of the dend patriote,—Adains, Jeforton, Patrick Henry.—of uur vest mineral wealth, aud that our country was “tho emtetblo of tha world; the untae. mother of liberty, or cursor of its fnture life.” Ho enid our strength lay in onr echools, free from sectarian doctrines, and besought his henre ers to make all who came to these schouls learn, for ignorant mou wonld not do for republics. To let nono of sha cld world creeds make our obitdren wall, but to les thom grow up free, and then if there was truth they would Sindit, ‘The woukness bo found in tho dismne!ination of the many to vote, In leaving politics to little cane oused in buck-rovine. Ho did uot think that wo wero doing onr duty iu thls motter now, but were falao to oursclyer, aud onded with an ap- eal for cach inau to leurn tho value of and use his fratichine. Mr. Bradiaugh Is a very tapld, enthnstastic epenkor. whove elight accent snd quick utter- ance renders hima occasionally a little dificult 10 uuderstand. Ho, howover, has that inagnetic power which can carry the people along with him, even thourh they may differ from him, sud ho concluded amid reiterated applause, ———— THE LAW LECTURE COURSE. OUADIAM JACKHON, ESQ., ON TAXATION, Obadiah Jackson, Exq., delivered before tho Collogo of Law on Saturday tho olghtesnth in the course of public Iecturcs by mombers of tho Chicago Bar, his topic being * Taxation.” Ue remarlicd that taration is but ono of tho threo modes in which Government may lawfully take tho property of tho citizen—tho other two bong in the exercise of emineut domain and during war of public neceesity, Taxation differs from eminent domain in the fact that inthe latter case compensation must bo made to the owner of tho property takop, but ehould revomblo it in: tho” respect that in both it should only be taken for public use, not fur private cmolument. Taxation with usis direct or indireot, the Federal Govornment being sup- Ported mainly by Indirect taxes and tho State by duroot. Direct taxes as tovied by the Staten were sither poll taxes, or licenve taxes reating on doubtful occupations, or taxes ov tho ausossoa ‘yaluos of real and personal proporty, It ia with the third clans only that lawyers havo much to do. No treatise iuforms a lawyor very fully how to resist an unconstitntioual, unoqal, or irrogu- larly-tevied tax. Yot to the validity of ovory tax levied by tho Htate, about sixty distinct require. monte of statuto law aro uocossary, and in the case of taxcu lavied by cliies, about eighty sov- oral stops must be taken before tho property of the citixen can lawfully sold for the tax. It is never prostmod that any-of theso stops have beou complicd with, but tho pro- sumption ia to the contrary. Honce, in uot a ingle lustance {t 14 belioved, hag tho Supreme Court afitmod a mero tax title, resting solely on its own merits, For, unlasa overy requiromont of the atatuto is complica with, the sale undor it void. ‘The titles which have bean sustained have beenjin conjunction with tho Statute of Li itations and Posuosaion, ‘Taxus to bo valid un- dor our low must be nnifarm, i. ¢., must reat on tho pasuossed values of different citizous and Wealitles in an eqaal percentage, ‘Therefore, 6 built Uko Bill No, 300, now befora tho Logislaturo, which should preeeribe ons ratio of tax to thy dollar of avecwscd value for cities of over 100,000 peonis, and auother for foitio: undor, would, 1a lus judgmont, bo as invatld as if it provuled that the al of A should pay Till to the dollar, aud thatof Bb 3 mills. _Moroovor, under our Constitution, both tho Logivlature and tho courts must cononr to sell the property of the citizen for stax. It can only be done on a lawful judgaont. Chis fa a gross improve ment on Kastor State aud English practivo, ‘Khe apeakor quoted extensively from our Stato Wovisions to show the claas of caves in which taxes and epoca! assosmmonts had been bold void, aud closed by avowing his belieg that tho well-being uf nocioty is promoted by rosisting earnost and outepoken, but lacking in soncen- tration of thought, Ha commenced with a re- view of Biblical history, and pronounced tho religion of Monea and the prophets "# jargon of Stonemonts and sacrifices." After dioll- ing mt length upon Christianity In its eatlier days, ho attecknd tho rollgles of the proront with great vigor, and argued-that it ‘Was Inirdensono, contly, and exolusivo, Lo then pictured tho distinctions In popular faiths, draw. ing tho lines closely hetwaon Protestantism apd Catholleimm, alallfally weaving in and discussing tho various religious tenots of the several churches, expecially in reforancu to the Trinity. Ho regarded modorn Christianity as the worat ordor of slavory, forthe rearon that the Church dare not question it, or for © moment recognize that anything could take ita piace. Ho waa not of thore who would Jay rnathlosn handa npon it and tear it down, but would gather build it up by tnenlesting into tha publie mind higher Ideas of life, and by ponalarizing phynical and imental edncation, Christlanity as it was postroued its lieavons and halls. and popular religion wa but @ teconciliation of the soul, The prisons, pallowa, and yuillotine had for 1.590 yearn been a part of the grandeur of Christianity, and on tho battle-field, ainia the earnaga and blood, chaplains fad never beet wanting. The spoakor was listened to with mark: ed attention throughout, and frequently int miptedl by applatuse, especialy whon aseniling what seqined to him tha errora in poputar rolig- fon. Tile wecowd tecture of the comrao will be delivered Ruuday evening, tho cubject ta be yet ann AMUSEMENTS. 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AOGADEMY OF MUSIO, The eminont Character Actor, Mit. FRANK 8, SEIANFRAU! An tho accentria Yankoo *Salom Scudder" tu the oCcTOoOmoonr: sheilting Drama, titnvtrative of Stathern Ito, inten. ing Laantital Necnory oy Pizmott, Plantation Seanes, ators, ail Wondertul Iealistic Kf McCORMICK HALL, PROF. O. S. FOWLER lay Atternoen, Vob, Feluek, onls, | Admission, 51 ceiits HEALS Wedumday Evening, Lob, %4, att o'siock, to Gentte. ‘only. Aduinssioa, 10 conte wach, SIAN AND Mt Gonsultaiicas ay to your wes aad eliitdren's Fy Dost tniainess entire, ette Tally at Huuse, from 8a. m. tl lop. m., tl) Toared Balnae Maren 4, GENERAL NOTICES. Tax Sale Notice! Until March 1, 1875, Tax Sale Cortificates held by the city can bo redoomod or pur- chasodfas follawa: For City Taxcs of 1873, for amount of salo and 5 per cent promium; etter March, the promium will bs 10 per cent, For City Tazos of 1872, and prior yoara, the rate is 25 por cont. Tho buyer will be entitled to tho accrued ponalty of 25 per cent on Cortificatos for Taxes of 1873, and 76 por cont on thoao for Taxos of 1872, ‘eae HAYES, Comptroller, Fab. EMERY. any, Limited, hae had ite ate iMemunle and Circulars setting ta for th fot Chica, The fonsiun direct hy giv Atwones, nor hee It oxpocied Stang, rit direct, to thy United Statesaines init. be to'tona durtug 13/4, and tls Directors enutiun manuiacturyrs that thy atalome advertisers Abuse rujureed to ary Ineurrec MALPH 8, HOLD, Sacretary, aun Jaubary, 175. WANTED. —__ Real Estate Wanted. A lot aultable for Engine Mouse in the vicinity of ‘Alot cornoriug on @ atzeut oF id anti} March 6, 2875, markod * Iroposals fur Lota," aud addressed to doraigned. 8.BMAYE npr, FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCALES OY ALL KINDS, FAIRBANKS. MORSE & 00, 111 & 13 Luke St., Chicago, reful ta buy only the Genuini ovory illegally-lovied tax as much ux by rosisting every illogul = claen by ono citizen againut nothor. §=— "fue ~~ oppo- wite view «is = ws sontimental, —wyco- pbantiscrror. ‘Uho succcewoful tux-tighter la a truer patnot thao tho payer of in iilogal tax, ‘Tho former oboys tho Iaw, aud helds tar-ofticore to the samo resjoneibility. ‘no jutter bows to the unauthorized tvranny of iguomut and incom. potent ollivery, und oucourages odicers to act ig- horantiy and {ncompetoutly. If a8 a political ecouomlst us uaid, the people consist of threo clausos,—lax-payors, tax-cutori, art tax-light. erd,—he proferred to rauge himself with tho tax-lightera, {ho uoxt lecture of the course will be by Jauies V Root, on the law of the erganization aud government of parllamoutary bedios, tn be fallonnd by James L. Migh, Hay, or “Infunce One. aa PARKER PILLSBUR “ YOrULAL RELIGION Parker Villsbury dotiverod the firat of « series of Sunday evening lectures at Wood's Fall, cor- per of Washington and Groen atroety, lat ayou- ing, taking as hiy subject, “ Popular Mdiglon,” The ball was woll tillod, sud the wpeacer was DISSOLUTION NOTICES, DIS SOLUTION, ‘The partuorsitp heretofore existing botween the under _RAILROAD TIME TABLE, ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF ingiiig Rexrtanirton ov Nevenencr. Mans.—t Satn: eapted. * und: ted. 38 rive Buinday ative tae} Dalige ny mePte CHICAGO & NONTHWESTERN RAILROAD. ePacific Fast Line, rseeport 4 Dabuace tc Frocport & Dabngus apres Hiwaukes Mall, ingle ind Kingiesate, WICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD, a tatty and foot af Twentyeserondt ‘utheust corner af Randolph, ‘Arrice, peee GRAND RAPES AND MONE exp * 8:3) a, m.!* 8:05 p. re $i pe mie Soo es eet ‘snd dumiay Ex, ALTON RAILROAD, eae eager te Wier Hi Sunday Rx, 9° Baturday CHICAGO & ALTON Chleare,, Kanins et kta rand Wonver Faat Itz, Lonis and Speinatield 11 p SilOAGO, WILWAUKEE a ST, PAUL RAILROAD. (Sh Sosth Clarkes opjemte bhermar Hvwee wader Wee “Arrive ison, Montoa 4], fee, Ut Urvisa, Winuia,| oA" me)" 18 Pm Het Stunna tnt ainy ela Mifwankee, for Ripon, Herlit;, « Alengsta & Grong, Bn iwankee, Mattisan, J. Chtens als, 1» Setins ay ak Stare Mimaukeo & La Crome $9220. m, 1° 60pm ins’ Poin 1b Aas om +1100 4.12, IS CENTRAL BAILROA Teen Kt. Louts Exper tig In Piringhsid an Peaein hringhsit'and Pearle Drabuuwe t Slaus Ghiy Ieee Dabnaue & Fe Dodge E a Passeuzer,. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILNOAD, Depots, Soot af Laken ant ancl Sixteen aid al devote. Indianneav. and Stzteonthe Tebet Oca, Mi Clara “Arrive, Mailand Expeoes, ‘Mondo Aurora Jumnor'atirova Accat 3. Suadars. 1 KANKAKEE LINE. Prem Centra Depot, foot Lake-st,, ani * ihn, 15 Hanolphte ant pat Sea fe deste renter Bape + 9480. ra)? 826 pm, Ratt Sigh Side. m, CINCINNATI 32% LINE AND KoKostn LNs. Fram Mituihua, Cincinnati db St, Louts Railway depat, aoe ner Clintes and Curretloate Mido, Wehet efter, 18 a Teave, 82004. m./" 840 p.m ip. m, 2404, m pPITSBURG, CHICINNATTe ST, LouIs RAILROAD, eke ner, 4 andolpheater ond at Sepoke Lea Indtts Ue, Fa m Jatanapolls, Lawl “nati (dally ty}. Arrive, 6000. m, pom 0p. me! 1408. me PITISBURG, FT, WAYNE & CHICALO RAILWAY. Leave, | Arrive, BALTIMORE & OHID RAILROAD Traine leave sro Exposition Huilding und depel Soot ay Twenty-sccendeat, Treket opice, 82 Laisall Lane. | a Mail, Sundays Exconted, ys | #9 p.m xpress, Daily... 705p, ma.) He m CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD. Depot, corner of Van Luren ant Shermanate, Webel uften, Grant Pueyie’ Hotel, bea Omaha, Leavenn'tha atebieon Rr '*1 Pern ACcoMMOdAttOAseeree vee Nleht Expres, OCEAN NAVIGATION. _ “STATE LINE. ol Tehartate lesen dasernoet Patten ad Londonderry se fo-ba pioarete will sall froin Pier No, SE North slivers ea fob jure eyfaturtar. Fob, 13, Woulosday, Stared 1 ercafter, taking passengors af Brlu joail parte cf Great Brltein ana Tlands s fea , and Gon 5 Deaite for! a Oleh? OF pasaugo to IN, TALBWIS" a Con Aguntat 43 Tiruadwasy Now York Divers yc-ukce, Nu, 8 roadway, Steoinge as law ae Py ty ute tn AON We EAT Touutal Wostern Agent, él (lark-ite, Ob ONLY DIRECT LINE To FRANCE, uo Goueral ‘Transatisntio Company's Mail Stoanrehiis botwens Now Yori and flatre, Pa . farihaee Xo al rigaesen Foro arold both teu! ki thie Tay fad the discorulu fina, sroubl 1 Keone nee vente CUOMGY Ait National Lino of Steamships, NOTIOB. HH anit herty ute bi Sailing Micha New one ford Pca Halllug from Ns York (or urdon (dk Cabin 56% Fe B70, ur, iceittatene Dourn totais et a re tucedt gate: ‘Dialte tor £1 and upward, Anyply to P. B, LA! Ngitinaet earner Olare an Randolpiaie, iotpane oe Shurwan Huuse), Chicaxe signed iu the Iotall Hats, Cape, Furs, and Gouta’ Fure nlahing Goota Husluesy, and the Cloth, Hat and Cap Manufacturing Huslaoss, 1s thts day dissolved by mutual consent, PHILIP KABTLER, wlll continag on hls own account tha tuanutauiuriog businioss and suite all sccuuuts of tho TOSB JONBS wlll eo . th alt 988 JONES mill eantique;nn his own account the Boas, and sot amare t EEDS,” — WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, FULL STOOK OF CHOICE SEEDS for HOT BEDS, Catalogues tre J.P. FOGG & BON, and #6 South Water-st,, Chicago, 2, Pia thaatse Cheese ai provisions includmd. Pply to i HINA) ‘LaSalle and i nh ty A ~ Great Western Stoamship Line, brom Now York to Bristol (England) direct. Great Wosterz, Capt, Windbsm, Wedureday, Jan, 28, eit raga Copt, Spuivs, Saturday, bab. d, fabin Passaye, 670; Jut iat, $15; Birarage, $M. excuren' iat oti pny we" dea't Petighh bepea 1S GEO. McDONALD, Agent, ora NOMS, 9 & LL NASSAU-ST., NEW YORK, Jasus OIROULAL NOTKS end LE’ forutia tarsll thy be fiat el vis an Gaited Higton, West lads "AR HIG PIRAN: US to Is, 0, A ate If, OAL IPOUNLLy i ‘ad oiboc ietelned,