Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1875, Page 7

THE €HICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1875 .~SIXTEEN ‘PAGES. ¥ ty *pond,” 'by name, but s neet of fith loreslity. Messrs. Trall and Leakey bave given I Hialaid in the way of several hurdred car- of dirt s cinders, and it is W that :aop this eyesore will be amoong the ge that were. Y 3 aa al rennion of the Association of the T adred and Fifth Regimeot Hlinois Yol 02 srs wiil be held a¢ Turuer Juoction Thursday. trictly 8 basket picnic, fn sccordan 2;“ e K btious Leretofors adopted Dy the As- on. The programme of exerciscs Wwill h‘m[ anpoupced. = . ————— JEFFERSON. WEWS OF THE WEER. strs. Dr. Fonda and daughter have departed Sharon, Wis., where they will remain for ::n. dsye vieiting relationz residing in that itv. They were accompanied by Misg Low- 'ane of Jeffereon's most plessing and accom- jished Iadies. = Pigeon ehooting was the order of the day y. The Maplewood Club was met and nqusbed by the Joffersons, tne score bevg 23 to 30. Ten birds spiece were sllowed; rise, 2L yards. A maich was thep made between H. M. ‘Sweetser, of Jefterson, snd L. Malow, of Chicago, resulting in fsvar of Sseetser, by the score of 4t00. Five $6xa spiece were allowed ; rise, 21 yards. i the last meeting of the Board of Trustees gome business of more than ordinary importance ws tnescied. The Vilage Eugineer was sathorized to confer with the Board of Trustees 4 Laxs View in regard to opeoing Western $renne from Popple street to Lincoin avence, to piace tho same in good repair at the ino- uon cf Belmont avenue. The Clerk was instrocted to advertiee for bids far making ditches to complete the drainage on Armitage road from Jefferson avenue to the crosaing of the Milwaakee & St. Paul Railroad. Heyers & ter were ordered to complete the work on Belmobt avenue, under the instruc- Somt of the Villsse Engincer, Tbe Village En- ganeer [resented 8 plat showing tue line of the conteplated improvements on Grand avenye, which was acceptetd. “Tpe following ordinance was adopted : etc., That the sum of §14,000 be ralaed ”.‘&'.‘.‘,’L“'x"ufi upon the taxable property of said ke for the purposs of defraying the expeases of i ilage for the fs:al ysar ending April 50, 1876 o4 that $um of §14,0(0 shall be appropristed & fol fors, to-wit: Salaries, $4,020; roads and bridges, P,00; incideatal expenses, £1,000. Bils amounting to £262.40 allowed and or- dered paid. L The chapter of accidenta for the rast few dars s been unosually large. Xr. H. Wolff was thrown from his carriago and seriously injored. }iz. D. Jennings. by the breaking of a_ scaffold, was precipitated 8 distance of 17 feet to the fgroona, receiving injuries of a severe mature. Tpe Ltloson of Mr. Thomas Conway, while plasing, fell and broke an arm. ~The youngest w0 of Mrs. . R, Bean, wben playiog oo a bay. stack with some otber boys, slipped and fell to {be ground, fracturing his arm and otherwise jojonog him. A man in the employment of Mr. Toowss Murphy was shot throuzh his left hand, treaking several of the boncs aud badly lacerat- ingit, by the premsture discharge of a pistol which he was carelesely bandliog. ———— WAUKEGAN. THE LIQUOR-SCITS COMPROMISED. Bpacial Correrrondence of T'he Chicaoo Tribune. Watxeoax, IlL, July 81.—The liguor-snits that were to have taken place this weck will not take place at all, as the guits against some have beau dismiesed, whila others made & satisfactory sestlement. RELIGIODA ‘The Rev. O. M. Banders will conduct his fare- well service at the Congregatiocal Qhurch this evening. Baptist Cburch—Preaching by the pastor in the morning; baptismal service at 6 o'clock o . Presbyterian Caurch—-Preaching at the usual bour, PERSONAL. The following are among the prominent ar- rivals iu this city during the past weok: Col. Lippincott, Roihn Sherman. Dr. Basset aund loy, D. W. Page, E. Meyer and lady, Mr, Dansy a0d iady, Misa Reich, P. J..Fowler and family George M. Drake, J. M. Bailey, H. T. Getcbe! and {amily, J. F. Peterzon aod lady, F. B. Mar- sbell, and G. B. Rocifeller, of Chicago: Pryce Lewis, of New York City ; W. Werner, of Gal- yesion, Tex.; W. Meyor, Potersburg, Iil; Dr. Goodman and lady, St. Louis, Mo; B. F. Jones, Pittsburg, Pa.; Jobn L. Mitchell, Mil- waukee, Wis.; James Joycs, Ottawa, Il IN GENERAL. The union Sabbath-achool picnic, which was 10 bave taken place on Friday, was postponed to an ladetinite time. The Waukegan Fire Company No. 1 are to Lave uniforme. * The large residence on the South 8ide owned sud formerly occupiod by the Hom, E. M. Hamnes has becn rented by Mr. Fred Converse for the accommodation of summer boarders. It is rumorsd there wiil be & new hotel built on the Ladd and George property. Outside cspitalists are interested. A SERIOUS STABEING AFFRAY eccurrod at tue depot Fridsy. Heory Dupdale charged John Cox with meking false statements concerning hiw. Cox scknowledged tbat he had made the statements referred to, Dugdale then struck bim a blow in the face. Cox, in return, stabbed Dugdale, inflictiog a wound half an inch deep a0d 6 1nches Jong. At the present writing 80 arrests bave beon made. BARRINGTON. . YTHE ANNUAL MEETING of the Bible Society of this place will be held Bsbbath evening. Aug. 8, in the Evangelical Church. Mr. M. B. McIntosh is President of the Boclety. Full reports of the work sccom- plished during the past year will be rendered, amking the occasion one of iaterest to all. The Hon. W. B. Farrar, of the Western Eleo— tric Maonfacturing Company, has rented the Jobn Sinnot residence, and his family are now occupying it. They will be warmly welcomed into this sooiety, and Barrington Las abundance ©f soom for many more such families. The fourth ‘quarterly meeting of the AL E. Church was Liold yesterdsv. It was the uni- ‘versaj expression that the Rev. George R. Hoov- & bs appointed to this chuich for the ensuing year. Uoring his stay here he has made a mults- $uds of warm friende both jn and out of the church, and his removal to another locality would be regretted by all the citizens. Mre. Mary E. Kimberly, wife of Mr. A. V. H. Eimberly, and daughter of the late J. M. Lowe. of Chicago, died last week of consumption, at the age of 27. Nurrounded by everything to maks life desirable, sho was vet called eariy to s bome berond the sxies. She will bs sadly Dissd by her fimily, and a large circle ‘of #riends, to whom an ==~ endeared by ber lovely guaities of mind 1. ..eart, deeply sympathize ¥ith them on acconnt of the logs which 0 them i trepanible, The Barrington Post-Office is mow a money- goder office. As there is no bank bers, this will Boa veuy great convenience to the citizens. Very heary rains bave fallen the past week, L ing somewhas the grain-Crop. Xr. U. R Borlingham 18 quite ill. Dr. Wilils Batterfield is his aRonding physician. R o JOLIET. ITEMS, Bpecial Correspondence of The Chicage Tridune, JoLter, July 81.—The Joliet Literary Soclety their meeting Friday at the hoose of E. H. Akn. Declamations, music, and select read- Iags were smong the entertainments. The Teachers’ Institute closed Friday. Among £ba most enfoable of the closing exercises was Ficnio at Linden Heights. All seem to be ¥ell pleased with the work of the_Institate, 0 doubt mauy received a pew impetus in ® great work of education. Among the distin- F-,fl!hd teachers trom sbroad were Prof. Darling, Lockport ; Prof. Anderson, of Fraokfort: Prot. Brayton, of Englewood : Miss Raymond, of hfl'“":;‘ng\un; sod S M. Erter, State Saperio- ;Xba members of the Universalist Church wil ive l’;nnd vocal and }g:fi{xmme&l com:::fi sday evening. Prof. , of Chicago, wi formish the music. The Rev. Pather Damen, of Chicago, deliv- m,mzmuu and interesting lecunre in St. e ,'- Chusch. thSnm-iny evening. ;fl;‘s :ea:\:;n iven under the auspices of the Joliel - y flnnihnur:’ o t e most interesting exercises of the :;chlr-‘ Tustitats, jast closed, was an Allustze: o of (ko Tcner i which sne:;efimr uhee!u;u otured at.the Joliet Steel Mills, 3 Bruner, cns of the overseers. A OTHER S8UBURBS. TUBXER PARK. cidley the Cigarmakers’ Association from mflcu, mmbering neas] enjoyed the dayas e ly 1,000, )).' The suzual'picoic of Kilwinning Lodge, A. F. 3 A M. which was to bave, been held at Park Tuesday, and was postponed on acconnt of the rain, will. take place Tuesday, Aug. 8. . Ticketa sold . Iast Tuesday will be good. On:Wednesday the Howa Street Preebytenan | Banday-sahool picnioed in the park. Suoday, Aag. 1, a picnic connected .with the National Scandins: Caaveation will be held st Turver Park. It will reprégent in part the fol- lowing Chicago Societies: Sves, Nora, Dania, Bcandinavian TurnerSociety, Scandinayian Sing- ing Society, Frejs, Narwegian Society, Norwegisa Singing Society, Scandinavian Workingmen's As- eocirtion, and Scandinavian Shoemakers’ Asso- ciation. Aug. 5 occors the annual pienic of the Protes- tant Society, and following it are several Sundsy- echool picoics, and Aug. 8 ths Hungarian Asso- ciation picnic, 5 This plenitude of picnics at Turnar Park ia Dot spasmodic, for the Park Association a.e leasing the Park almost daily for months yet to come. _The ramored purchase of the Chicago & Pa- cific Railroad by the Iflinois Cential 1a not, eo fal a8 can be learned, certain as yet, but seems one of the mewitable railroad events. The ramor bas not enly ioterested the people and excited the real estate operators and owners slong the - line of the Chicago & Pactfic, but has cansed the general inquiry : What does tbe Iliincis Ceutral want with the Chicago & Pacific? The answer is this : The Iilinois Central control and operate the Dubuque & Bioux City Road. The immense passengec and freight traflic of that road in Iowa 18 now Lrought by the lllinots Central from Du- bnaue down over tho Chicago & Iows Raitroad to Slendota or Aurora on the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy, and thence into Chicago. This involves not ouly a circuitous route, but an ar- rangement with two other roads. The Chicago & Psaific now extends out through Elgin and Byron into the very face of the Iilinois Ceatral at Dubuque, 8ud why should the sale not be made, if, indeed, it is not already ? All interested in Turner Park and other Chicago & Pacific su- turbs are consequeatiy awaiting with high hopes & * streak of lack.” PALATINE. Negotiations aroin progress for srranginga match pame of tase-ball between the Palatine club and the Mutzals, of Janesville, to be played at some point on the road to ba agreed upon. probably at Woodstock. As the Palatines are the victors over ali the local clubs with which thog have played this season, and the Janesville club bave an excellent reputation, a game of more than ordinary interest may be expected. Nearly 200 boxes of cheese have been shipped to market the past week from this stahon. Cheese-making is oneof the growing industries here, and is atready the source of much profit, both to the farmer and factory-men. Mra. James Wilson, one of theoldest residerts of this place, and beld 1n bigh esteerm for her maoy excellent qualities, died last Thursday evening. The funeral will be held to-day at the M. E. Chuxch, of which socisty she has long been a consistent member. The fuuergl was postponed on acccunt of the absence of her son, who was uoable 0 reach bere until late Batur- day evening. A now paper is roon to be started at McHenry, called the McHenry Plaindealer. The prospec- tus states that it «ill be the endeavor of the publishers to make it a live local newspaper. In politics it will te neutral, and, while advocating the claims of no party, will exercise the right to criticise all without fear or favor, whenever oc- casion may require. i DESPLAINES. A petition is being ciroulated snd has received o Jarge number of signatures, askiog the author- ities of tho Northwestern Railroad to place a Sunday train on the road from Desplaines to the city, in order to accommodate such a8 desire to attend divine service in the city. This is some- thing much needed, and has long been earnestly wished for by all the subarbe on the line of the road. 1t would be sare to be well patronized, snd the officers of the road would receive the, iear:y thanke of very many of their best friends and patrons. 3 The infant eon of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Weller died last Sunday morning. Dr. Wood hae rented the house now owned by Ar. E.A. Thomss, commonly kuown a8 the Ward residence. The fine farm of Mr. Rathbone, near the vil- Iage, was recently the gcene of an ‘interesting contest between soveral rival mowers and reap- ers, each claimmng superiority. Four differeut machines were tested in a large fleld of rye, and the competition was of the liveliest character. The affair passed off pleasantly, and 5o woll did each do its work that it was difiicult at the close of the trial to choose between them, NORWOOD PARK. The sonua) picnic of the Bobemisns was held at their cemetery last Sunday. There were be- tween 500 and 600 in the party, filling fourteen cars. They dicembarked at this station and marched to their gronnda. They were quiet and orderly, and the day was plessantly passed in amuséments pecaliar to that vationality. The Sunday papers reach Norwood before 7 o'clock in the morning, which is a8 early as they can be procured in mapy portions of the city. Such baing the fact, who would not livein the country, where we can bave pure air, cooling breezes, and & beantiful landscape, and a: the same time enjoy thoss advantages which are supposed to accrue only to denizens of the hot and dusty metropolis? Prof. Silver, who bas traveled somewhat ex- tensively, and i a writer of Boms considerablo repute, is paseing » fow weeks in this village. The Hon. Jesge Fell, of Bloomington, was noticed in the village s few days sgo, the puest of Prof. Eberhart. _ i Miss Dryer, who is engaged in the Bible work in Chicago, spent last Saboath ac thig plessant subarb, ¥ 4 A relect party from Chicago visited this place Fnday on a picoic excursion. The day was cool and pleasant, snd was enjoyed to the full by the participauts. For such parties no more iovitiog place than Norwooed can be found. and 1o finer picuic grounds than Shephard's Grove. LEMONT. The German Benevolent Society paraded our streets Jast Sunday. The Society now numbers 150 members. Mrs. and Misa Boyer, of Lockport, having re- turped from the Pacific Cosst, are spending a few weeks at the residence of 8. W. Norton. Miss Ida Benedict, of Chicago, is visiting the Aisses Watkins. Cabbage fyan still hovers around the streets snd saloona of Lemont. The affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church ‘were never in £o flourishing a_condition £ they sre at the preseot time. At the clode of & re- cent revival twelve new names were added to the membersbip of tbe charch. ‘[he prosperity is owing to the energetic labors of ita pastor, the Rev. J. W. Phelps. The members of the Methodist Episcopal Sab- batb-school hold their annual picuc Thursday av Brown's Grove. A bew hardware store bas been opened here by Measrs. Eulert & Neill. Mr. Daniel Murphy bag 80ld his business here to Thos. McCeuley. - Mr. Mnrphy 18 aboat to move to Cicago to begin business there. ‘[he beautiful groves of N. J. Brown ara well patronized by picnic-goers, the average thus far being two & week. TLe members of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society have been 1avited to attend toe State Convention of Temperance Societies, to be held in Joliet Aug. 24. This floovrishing young society already numbers 800 members, and new cames ere being added- monthly. The work of reclaiming the drunkards and convert- ing wicked Lemont into a peaceable village is going on. LYONS. The numerous friends of Me. John Kasper, formerly of Summit, were surprised and pained 8 the news flashed over the wires last Thursday that he bad been murdered. and his body fonod ons railroad track outin Iowa. This rumor proves to ba without foundation, bowever, a8 it has been - ascertained since that Mr. Kasper ia stuil in the laod of the living. The oovstant rains of the past week have serionsly interfered with Eay cutting and saviog, and the farmers ars inclined to grumble a little at'the inscratable ways of Divioe Providence. The heavy winds and rain have laid the oats fiat, and the rot has alresdy its appearance in the potato crop. N Among the building improvements at Summit may be noticed a pew wagon and blacksmith shop by Mr. Shroeder. . The Summit Actives plaved a picked nine yes- terday, defeating them 21 to 6. . A petition is to be I}:mmm to the authori- ties of the Town of Lyops asking them to take the Decessary measures to prevent the ** Board of Bealth® "from landing at Sammit with her cargo. The last weekly eociable was held at the house of R. J. Allison. ~ There was = large attendance of the young ladiea and geutlemen of Summut, and s pleasant evening was spent. 8 MOUST FOREST. This littls community was considerable stirred by the fiovel featurs of an Indian bost or cance race. The poet sings about the squaw and her birch canoe, and on Weanesday evening last the gonuine article was seen on Willow Spring Lake. In a race between the canoe with s single pad- dla snd a six-oar barge propelled by two oars only the barge came in ahead about twelve lengths, in & .ot one mile, Hearty a cheers greetad . successful competitors, refreshments were afforded them by the ladies. On Friday another race took place between s singie soull and a two-oar barge, and the single scull outeiripped. the barge in one wile ovar 500 feet. Amids: great excitement among tha spec- tators the ladies banded & beaatiful boguet to the victor. The vangnished: were mada the re- cipients of a nosegay of mustara blossoms. ‘The sufferers, however, will have a chance this week to retaliate ; for it is_announced that there will be several grand bost and cauoe races, at which a liberal amount of crab-catching will be part of the programme. : Several impartaat sales to Eastern parties aro pending, and this pretty little suburb has galned more than its sbare in growth and improvement. OAK PaRK, It has been rumored that the Episcopal Society are thinking of getting up another excursion to Lake Geneva, as they did last year. ‘Lhose who enjoyed the delights of ‘the day at Lake Geneva last summer wish the pleasure repeated: The Baptist Socia:{dflve thelr picnic, that was postponed in the middle of tbe week on account of the inclemency of the weather, on Baturday. 8 Migs Jefferson, of Desplaines, is visiting Mrs. tone. Miss Mary Benedict, of Aurora, has doring the week been the guest of Miss Marjon Hiles, The drug store formerly owned by Drs. E. L. Cash ana 0. Peak bas changed hands, and is now owned and managed by Dr. Rusaell Lewis, 8 young physiciap. i Mr. George Blossom is visiting his old home in Dubugue, la. 3 Mr, Ingram took the earlymorniog westward- bound train Fridsy, Mrs. Warren Wilkie returned from a short so- Jjourn at Aurora Friday. —— MICHIGAN. —_ _ KALAMAZOO. HARVESTING. Speelal Correspondence to The. Chicago Tribune. EKaramazoo, Mich., July 80.—The farmers in this section are about through with their harvest- ing. In some places the wheat ciop has been very light, while 1n others it will average from twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre. -Some vew wheat has been brought in. The presept price is $1.20. A majority of our wheat-buyers express the opinion that it will be considerably higher than this within a month. “New potatocs are coming in. The potato crop this season will be the largest known for years in this State. ‘They are now selling on the street at 30 and 85 cents per bushel. Berries of all kinds haye been scarce this sammer. THE EALAMAZOO DEAMATIC SOCIETY < drow fair-sized audiences at Union Hall two nights this week. ** Ten Nights in a Bazroom” was the play. Stoddar’s Theatre troupe has 8180 been here two nighta this weeks, Itis a question with us whether they had as much money when they left town as they had when they arrived. " The reason for their’ failure was that we had no suitable' building for them to ex- habit in. . A base-ball tournament is announced to be held at Vicksbarg, in this county, Ang. 6. Prizes amouoting 1n value to $50 are to be given. An- otheér tournament is advertised to take place at ‘Tonica on tha 10:h, 11th, 12th, and 13th of the same month: $600 o prizes wi'l be given. FIBEMEN'S TOUR VAMENT. Afameeting of the Stats Fuemen's Associ- ation held bere last Tuesday i: was, dotermined to hold a Firemen's Tournament at Jackson some time in September. The tournament will last two days, and will be participated in by fire compapies {rom all the leading cities and towns of the State. Last year it waa held in Kalama- 200, and proved successful. - ‘At that time one of our compante came-off the victors for the frst prize. This year they will have & larger com- petztion. TARGET-SHOOTING. Great excitement bas been caused among our Tocal ebatp-shooters by the prospect of & match at target-shooting by some persons residing here. They donot wich to have their names in print yat, 80 I mll only say that ope is an ex: presa agent at this place, svother & well-known capitalist, and the third a Main street grocery- man. The persons concerned have no repnts- tion as crack shots, but whilo reading the ac- counts of therecent matches in Ireland thetr in- terest in the subject was raised. Happenlog to meéet togathér one day, target-shooting became the subject of conversation. This led to iudi- vidual bousting a3 to their being extra good shots,- and out of this has grown the match, ‘which will-take place in & few days. A gentleman 1rom Gun Lake—about 25 miles north of bere—says that the shores of that beautiful sheet_of water are completely lined with the teuts of visitors from Knlamazoo and adjacent towns, Who are camping out thefe in search of pleasure sud fish. 0s. . HUMOR. It is one of the curiosities of natural history that a horse enjoys tus food most when he hasn't & bit in bis moath. A farmer in Chariton found a way to make a balky horse go. - He took him to a strange town and put him up at auction. He went for $85, ‘What ia tbe difference between spermaceti and a schoolboy's howl ? One is the wax produced by a whale, aud the other is a wait produced by the whacks. A wmarried man bougbt a spriag chicken In the market the other morning, and now be thinke the reason it was called spring. chicken is because it will take him till next-spring to carve it, un- less he uses nitro-glycerine, . An ancient darkey was observed gathering up a bagket of bones in rear of a.boarding-house the other day, and, when asked . what use he in- tended to but them to, he replied: *‘Dere's lots o’ Northern chaps walkin' around hesh an’ axin’ for relics of de War, I'ze gwine to pleage de crowd if it takes up all the beef bones — Vioksbur g Her- from out doah in Viczeburg. ald. One of Detroit's philanthropists: faw. an old ‘man seated on a galt-barrel 1. frontof a grocery- store, the other day, and the white locks and sad face touched a tender chord. Laying his hand on the old mau's shounlder. he asked: - “ And so yon are waiting to be gathered home, are you 2" “No, sir; I hafn't,” promptly replied the old man. '@ waiting for the bank to open, o that I can gather in $3,200 on this check!” He hapvens to own four or five big farms in this county. ¢ Chawles, Chawles, bwing me—ah—a small —avewy smail piece of boef—ah—about the size of & haif a doliab. Do you understan Chawles ?” said s delicate yonth to'a restauran waiter. ¢ Yes, sah,"in & moment, sab,” said the darkev. As be etarted Off, & groat raw- ‘boned feliow nfllnfi near by yelled after him, <Waitaw, waitaw {7 Yes,sah; what will you bave sah?” The eyes of all in the room were upon the muscular conntryman as he drawled forth, “*Chawles, Cbawles, owing me & small—a vewy small piece of pork—ah—and one bean, Do you understand, Chawles #" i bl MW FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHILLER. TRARSLATED BY H. R. BIGELOW. Far out in the aileace of darksoms night, ‘Where the waves are beating with ceaseless might, Where the crowds rush along, and the loud billows roar On the shimmering sands of a wave-beat shore, Comes the heart-rending cry of grief-atricken maid, And this the lament the dying lps said ; 5 “ OB 1 heart of mine, bowed down with grlet; The world has ceased to give relief ; Its pleasures, turned to endless pain, Bing ever on 3 sad Now, Holy One, call home thine own, Sincs earthly joys I onse have known, ‘When round zuy life his love was thrown, “Oh! bitter tears, in vain yo flows onl beurt, in vain Four wos; The dead {rom earth canuot arise Until we meet beyond the skies. Yet, in his love, I'find that rest Which is from Heaven a gift most blast To those by trials sare distrest, “ What though my life by gref be torn, ‘What though my tears in vain courss on, 1 would nos call thee from abave, 2y childhood's {riend, my only love; For, when one's life is clouded o'er, The sweetest pieasure then n store’ 1s the pain and wail of lose of yore.” —_— Ritoalism, The clergy of the Chdrch of England, who earcy out their extreme Rituslistio proclivities i the face of the new law governing public wor- ship, seem to be having a rather lively time just now. The Vicar of §§, Albans, London, waa re- cently suspended for showing t0o0 much fuss and feathers in divine worship, and his curate called upon the people * to form a golid square, aboul- dor to shoulder, cheek to cheek, jowl to jowl, knes to kooe, and ta resiat to the last the onsets of the enemy.” Notice was also given out that thers would be no further celebration of the Holy Compuxion in the church, because of the requirements of the law to abandon the extreme mode of celebrating it. A law restricting Ritual- iam exists in the Protestant Episcopal Church of this couotry. It is obser or not_observed, sccording to the proclivities of the Bishops of the Dioceses. « BUNKO. - An 01d Eemedy. }‘o_i a Pres- _ent Evi A Return to the Whipping- Post Recommended, What the Leading Bunkoists Have to Say on the Subject, ] Hike HcDonald Thinks It Would Open-a New Field for Beiting, He and Harry Lawrence Have Faith in the * Aldermen, Doubts and Fears of the Tender- Backed Ropers. 1 They Denounce the Plan as In- human. The Chicago bunko-man 28 & newspaper sub- ject bas been very exhaustively treated. Re- porters bave used up pencils by the gross sna paper by the ream in an oft-repeated attempt to warn beni; *nd strangers of his subtle wiles and ices, As the foghorn is sounded ouvelopes the sea to.warn soma smaneis o poff & dangerons coast, so has tho wunio se..c.er of TaE TRIBUNE blown lusty blasts to warn the unwitting visitor of his dan- ger as he pilots himself and carpet-bag through the unfamiliar ways of this bucko-operator's practico, He bas erected lighthouses in the shape of vewspaper eolumns, setting forth the characteristic and peculiar method by which bunko men entrap their victims, to guide his steps clear of the beseiting dangers. Hs baa placed buoys, ‘i the shape of myriads of paragraphs, recounting the unfor- tunate experiences of hundreds, along every route, to enable the rural craft to hold & mafe course. He bas written ‘‘Dangerous” over every bunko-den, and has placaided * Beware of Thie Man" upon every bunko operator in the city. And yet peopls seem to profit very little by these continual warnings. They ignore com- pletely all signs of dangor, and sre deaf toall trumpet-blasts of alarm. They are still daily beguled, deceived, and taken in. 1t seems impossible to forewarn the rural gen- teman of the delusiveness of the bunko trade, and familisrize hun with tho unmistaksble char- acteristics of its followers. The Granger intel- lect seems fincapable of understanding thata villainous: character may belong to a man of courteous manners and polished addrees, good clothes, etc. He confuses the bunko-man with his fanciful idea of the appearance of the bandit, highwayman, aund cuitbroat. He apparently conceives bim to be an individual with a steeple- crowned hat surmounted with a gracerully flow- ing feather, wearing a short velvet jacket, tight knee-breeches, and high boots with morocco legs and taseels, and & belt in which bristie half a dozen navy revolvers, and who invariably car- ries an enormous cutlass swinging at his side. He has raven black hair which bangs down to his shoulders in beantiful ringlets, 8 jet mus- tacho of the flerce. and Satanio style, & goatee, which londs n savago aspect to his features, & qeep black eye which looks -right through the -countryman's leatber pocket-book, and discovers the whereabouts of his weslth, no matter in what unheard-of locality about bis person it may be secreted. He has white teeth, anda cold, cruel, sardonio smile and. talks like the hero of » Ledger romance. Otbers who have read trials.of celebrated murderers and scaoned the features of the culprita in the. yellow covers, or have hoard described the unhapoy heroof a lyochiug-tree, arranged without cards or ceremony, upon the appzeliension of & horse- thief, fancy him to be an INDIVADUAL WITH SUGH CHEEK-DONES, lm‘}: le jaws, a savage mouth, with tangied hair and shaggy eyebrows, wesring a slouch hat pulled over his eyes, & red fiannel shirt, aod stoga boots, 5 ’ - Let the bunko-man come in either of these shapes, and the startled, terrified farmer would retreat with the celerity of a coyote. Let him couie i any shape but bis nsual seductive guise, and he would shun him as he would nitro- glycerine or Polk street whisky. BUT THE BUNKO DEVOTEE in peither of these. Externally he wears the as- pect of a gentleman. He dresses with elegance and taste,—costly bis habit as his purse cau buy, but not, suspiciously loud or warningly showy, His voice i8 cultivated and soft, his usge correct and polished. He talks smoothiy and easily, and readily adapta the tenor of his con- vereation to the miud of his listener. Me ap- fguq to be a suave, courtéous gentleman of the kindliest intentions, whose heart is filled with the besutiful purpose to warn the unsophisticat ed stranger of the snares and allurements of s wicked outy, to protect him from the wild whirl of dissipation and crime, and render him the benevolent offices becoming to A Christian and ‘philanthropist who desires to shield his fellow- creatares fromharmandein. He will caution him aganst the blandishments of the fallen woman, sgainst the tempting savor of the cocktall, sgainst gambling-houses, wherein he darkly bints that men are drugged and robbed ; against buoko-men, whom he characterizes a8 artful fiends, full of guile and iuiquity, who staud on every street corner to waylay xnd plunder him. And'then he initiates him into the ways of ‘“representing™® the dice, **progression,” “chances,” and s * thirty-one throw." Before this initiation takes place and the fee 18 paid, the dehghted stranger takes his com- panion for A CITY MISSIONABY, & mamber of some religious assaciation, going about doing good and carrying a knowledge of the blassings of rightéousness to tus wicked and einful fellow-creatures. - He gobbles down the fempting bait and finds too late that men betray. It seoms imposaible to talk enough, wnte enough, preach enough, to keep people clear of these dazzling {rands. Like moths, they are ever caught by glare. ‘We must extinguish the atiraction, begin -with the bunko-man himself, 10 briog abont areform. THE COURYS OF JUSTICR bave failed to assist in the holy purposs. The bunko opurator ‘is oily, elippery, and wriggles out of the hands of justice ss easily 8 a piece of wet soap.., Not one conviction that hag deprived him of 118 usefulness has been board of since be first became a Chicago institution, He has occasionally been fined, but he paid up chesfally, immediately resumed business, and got even before vight. There is nouse in aiming at his pocket ; that is bottomless, and always full as long 2a the gaping etranger is abroad TUKDEE MIKE M'DONALD'S GENERALSHIP, he has Littlo'to fear. He'fn the favored friend of the police force and the recipient of Polics Court leniency. If he getsin a tight placs, Mike draws . on hia reserve of witnesses and SWwears him out of it, aud the complainant slinks away-sheepish and ashamed, deeming himself lucky to bave eacaped arrest and_incarceration. The bunko-man is held up as the honest and re- spectable citizen whose nonor, reputation, and dearest emotious have been grossly ontisged. The ‘innocent victim is looked upon as_ the blackest scamp, and Mike and his followera hold up their hands in holy horror at the thonght that such depths of villainy as he has displayed exiats 10 the quiet of the raral districts. How can wa doal with thess rascals effectively and-protect our conutry cousin ? A su; rgestion ;nqm ;l;::]y{ beenthmdah-nhtch might pluck the rom the path of the bunki d make it a hard road ?o trayel. LA . ITISTO0 FLOG THEX. To do nothing lesa than to eatablish agsin the almost obsolete whipping-pos:, asd lssh every offender of this clasa according 10 the extent of his crime. It isa somewhat povel method, and Zu:ny :u-‘x’knaxs::iaml:“a hmfi foreign hl).t.he in- nt ! on. But wben laws fai what is to be done ? X Lo Silly prejudices should be stfied. We should not adhere $0_a vain idealism ; to so homage to an ideal justice and au ides] mankind. The People of the State of Ilingis vs. The Bunko- Man sounds well, but mesns nothing as loog as the p: Of the firal part has no better way of gothing & upap.the party of the second part than at present. Ths people outoumlier him, bat probably two-thirds of them could not be clubbed out of his snares, and the rest are de- Tenssless azainst his organized mavipulation af justice and: length of pocket. - Cansequently, Bome propose to descend to s method coarso and bratal perhaps, but apparently efficacious. We have it in—Floggiog, To discover how thoe prospect of such salatary and vigorous treatment .was received by the buake-men themssives, & Tnisusz reporter in- terviewed & number of them yeasterday after- noon. He firet called upon - - 8 THE CHIEF OF THE CLAY, i)lhkn lIl:Dan,gld- He found this individual at The Store,” in the midst of a pumber of his most brilliant satellites, talking on matters of e Jo0 asked ‘*Well, Jde," asked Mike of s slce! - dressed ‘individusl ust drawin the " jese vi g whisky. cocktail, *did you' miss the old fellow you tackled on Madieon strest this morning : - HUNGRY J0B— ' for the person addressed enjoys this choids ap- gell_nuon, derived not from the extent of his odily furnishing, bt from bis greed for Gran- gers—laugheda augh of heartless, hollow mock- ery, snd replied, in the coarss language of the gambler, for polite conversation 1s lid aside among themselves: *Just ppt a atack of red=on that. “Icanght him for 100 cases. Why, the 0ld fooli a preacher down in Wabash County. Came up hete to attend some religious conven- tion or other. Got hisname off Burke's register. Queer old duff he was. I told him [ wasa nepbew of a city clergyman, snd ssked him to call and see my uncle, and talk over watters. He will have to see bis uncle with s ticker,' T’ guess, to raise money enough to got home. . Cleaned bim dry as a temperance con- vention.” ~wd rity this contom:tuous fling the low fellow indulged 1o s diegusting chuckle and passed McDonaid a ruh of money, asked Mike. * Set- ith the game-kec -cr, eh 7" s, that'a all right, “were's your *boodle * and I'm off for the Central train to take another trick,”. aud, whistling **Muiligan Guards," he etrode away to commit fresh depredations npon tbe innoceut and anwary. » +That wes an' odd duck—that old fellow in ellow corduroys yon'nad in tow thug afternoon, obnus, " said 3ike to an individual known to bis familiarsas - 5 ENATTER JOEN. * Yes, he was,"returned the person addressed. “Tthought he was pretty light when I firat hitched 10 bim. He didn't appear to draw much more than a Misaisaippi scow-boat. But he was preity well loadsd. Caught him for $150. He was from Kaosas, and we got to talking about the grasshopper plague there. He said there were a good many_grasshopper-sufferers where be Lved. I. don't see, 'Mike, why the people don't do somethidg for the grass- hoppers. The papers are full about the Frmnoppamnfimm It's mean to et them suffer in this way.” The crawd laughed heartily at the bad, unfeeling joke, and sug- gested to Johnny fhe expediedey of *setting ‘em up” forthwith. Johnny assented, and liba- tiops of byrning, soul-destroying whisks were directly poured down their respective throats, " BAID TUE *SNOOZER,” & dimioutive, dwarfish speciman, who hovers on the ragged edge of bunkoism, and has yet to achieve & brilliant record as an operator, **'I had bad Juck to-day, Mise, Bun sgainst s man coming ount of the Sherman this morming— looked as green aa.a grasshopper and flet a8 & floundsr. Tried to *steer’ lum, but he wonldn't have it. Cussed like a corsair and banded me over to a ‘cop.’ The peeler bandled me a little rough, you know, for a blind, and eaid he'd see me fixed for & six-months’ stretch, dragged me up Cimk ontil we got Gut. of sight of the fly- quck. and thea we woat inlo Foley's and had & drink on it.” “You're o good, Snoozer,” said Mixe. *Why can’t you tumble to & paying ‘racket’? Hero ou Liave every advantage in training, but I'm Taoged it W pan make soything of Yod. You'rs & dead Joss to the honse. You haven't brought ina mckel for a week. We can’f bave iz. Yon're no good for genteel work. You'll have to try the sneak-thief live ; you might do enough there to kéeep from starving.” The reporter, quring this edifying and in- structive conversation, had stood just behiod & pile of wine-cases which separste the cigar 8bow-case from the bar of * The Store,” wheuce ho bad retreated when he observed tha: Mike was evidently engaged in taking an acconnt of stock of the profils of the morning's work, Ho overheard all that was said, however. Much more conversation of the eame sort followed, in- terspersed with oaths and curious words and phrases common to. the bunko business, no doub, but which he did not onderstand. Sev- eral otbers whom be heard called * Kid,” Jerry Duone, California Jack, etc., told their swindling sdventures with well-meaning and nonest but ignorant people who had come hera to buy goods, Lo see friends, or to aitend con- vontions, all of which demonstrated the most completa rascality and the most cruel and heart- less rapacity. The e and means by which tbey bad eptrapped the mususpecting stranger werse dwelt upon, some of them creating much amusement and eliciting many compliments {from Boes Mike, to whom all paid over a sharo of their spoils. Here was the *“respectablo” Fagin surrounded with bis horde of Dodgers and Sikeses, Here were illustrated in the strongest colors and in characters of tneir own hmanin, the iniquity of the most succesatul species ol robbéry, tbe gullibility of strangers, and the cor- ruption of ofticers of the law. p he 8cens. proved indispntably thatit is a trade organized by a master hand, followed with all the zeal that characterizes the most enter- prising Chicago business mso—systematically, and, a3 the'daily records of these willaing’ ex- ploits show, succeesfaliv. 3 = The reporter had evidently dropped into Tl Blore™ when its chieftain was holding oue of his ZEVERYDAY BUSINZSS CONSULTATIONS with bis partoers. Pregently he heard bim say: *+Jerry, there are a pretty good-looking lot of strangers at the Paciflo this morning. It will do to look after them. I understand there ates lot.of Jobnny Bulls stopping there. Maybe you can catch 'em fora ‘drawing.’ Then there are toree or four country stockholders of an Iowa railroad theze; they ought to be pretty geod ame. I! these Aldermen keep on getting ed and borrowing,” contivued he, laughiogly, *“ 'l peed bushels of money. The bank is run- ping light. Try aod do .the best you can. Tack, you fake s look stound Kutne' and the Brevoort. Jim, you might look into the Palmer, and Johnny, you take the strest-corners. Fol- low ’em close, boys. Don't get gcared a¢ Sum- merfield’s flarry ; that will be IHHEEIL Spoozer, da try and make & man of yourself.” The * boys ” departed to their several flelds of operation, and Snoozer sallied forth, no doubt filled with the noble purpose of meking & man of himself at the expensa of the swanger and to the emolument of MoDounald. ‘Phe latter sauntered towards the door, prob- ably to Beothat the boysdidu't loiter around Jim Appleton’s, and the reporter, emerging from the place where he had been an earnest lListener to the above conversation, accosted him. R.—Mike, what do you think of THE NEW WAY OF PUNIBHING BUNKEO-MEN? ‘Mike—Haven't heard there was any way of pun- ishing them. What new way? R.—Why, flogging them. k) M.—Floxzing them! Come, now, what are you giving me . R.—Why, dido't you know there was some talk of introducibg the whipping-post? Mike—Whipping-post! Come now, that is a good one. Don't fool a feliow. Tell me what You mesn. Flog a bunko-man! Why, what for? You bad better catch a_few Jeffersoniane flog them. It wouldn't hurt a few reporters any eitlier. What do you mesn? I.—There is soms talk_of trying to extermi- pate the bunko busiess by tying up every man caught taking & trick and’ giving him .a good sound flogring, proportionate to the exient of bis offense. gon know well enough that the law fails to reach them. "Mikn——l don’t see that it does. You wouldn't bave s man punished for what could uvot be proved against him would you? Lots of bunko- men have been fined. R—TYes, and they have paid up, and the fines have not delayed their depredations an hour. They probably worked the harder to make up for the money thus paid out. But what do you thin! of the flopging method? o mo—w. I doo’t kpow. I bawn't hea time to think it overyet. How would the flog- ging seances be conducted ? WEHO WOULD FAVE OHARGE OF THE CEREMONIES B.—It "is probable that the Mayor wenld sp- point sn official flogger to be confirmed by the Common Council on Coun¢ [ Mike—Thers would be 100 men bumming around to get the sppointment. I think I'd iob= by a little samoog my friends so s to get a good man ip,—a man we could rely upon. b B.—A flogging-yardin some locality where the abricks of the victims a the lash desceaded up- oo their quivering flesh would not afict the ears of the delicate and Bensitive would proba- bly be erested. Mike—Every Alderman wounld ry to get it lo- cated in his ward, and there would be another fight. I think Iwould put in s little work for the boys in the Council, snd fix the flogging business g0 it wouldn’s make ’em rennd-shoni- derea to atand it, N R.—But supposing it was carried out on the square, don’t you think it would break up the bunko business? __Mike—No, 1 dont. The boys would fight & Littls shy, maybe, but they are game, aad not to be stopped by a litile:thing liks a sore Those that dido't get caught wozle good deal of fan out of those wpo did. g Hay A o—Why all the boys wonl their friead Hoked. and - "o £0GOwR o see GANBLE ON HOL R:—Gamble on him ! Mike—Xes, gamble on him. % ]A};-flo]l; 5 = : ike—Don'tyou ses? Now, suppose Ha was tiod up, what & pretty chanco toere would be to bet on bim. Some gambler would waut to bet that the irst lash wouldn'tdraw blood. Soms ather yncozer wonld bet that he woulda's squeal under ten lashes, or that he wonidn't squeal at all. Somebody else wonid gambie that he wonid fa1nt away befors he had had fifty lashes. Others would offar and take bets that he would be abla to walk to hia carrisge when the thing was over. Others would bet on the number of days it would take for him to get well. And a faw of the boys, before he peeled, would bet on tbe color of his uudershics, or thet he didn’t wear any, or wore gilk or flannel; the. number of moles on his back—in fact, thers would be a thousand thinga to gamble on. Don't you ses ? B.—Yer. That'ssvery ° i CHEEBYUL VIEW TO TAKE OF IT. Mike—Yes, and some of the buys would be on hand with a sweat-cloth for chuck-a-luck, and a lay-out for faro, and we would have a good time. At the end of the fun we wonid boost the victim inta a carriage, take him home, have him covered With an acre or a0 of court-plaster, and around %E:m ths ext week * taking tncks ” haod over R.—Don't yon think such energetic treatment wog;{g nmfiewh;: t{;mncen the Loys ? Mike—No. ey saw that such & was going into effect thayy'd Plaa TEAIY POR IT. R.—Train foric! How? Mike—\Vhy, just a8 prize-fichters do. They would have their skins rubbed with pickle-brine and curry-combatwo or three timesa day till they became ss thick as rhinoceros’ hides. After they bad been flogged a few times it wonld merely tickle s little, and really do s man as much g0od s a Turkish bath. I'm talking now a4 if it wera goinyg to be dons on the squaro, Bat if it ia done at all I think I can fix it 80 the boss will Dot miad it much. o2 B.—;}:fl Eee;l gdtnlkbu 1“ these ceremonies were e conduc! ul - i D b pubbicly. Sypposiug they : STRICTLY PRIVATY. Mike—That wouldn't do. It wounldn't be a week before you paper-folks would say they were ot conducted proper.y. You dou't want the wholo town there, of course. »The best way would be to issne ijuvitations to reporters, Mayor, Com- mon Gouncil, and public ofticers, and, of conrse, £ the “boye” most interested. It wonidn't. bave any effect mnless they were allowed to eeo it. R.—I thought it would be a blow to the Runko business ? Mike—No such thing. But why pick out the bunko-men for this kind of trestment ? Why nes flog all other classes who evade the laws? HERE HARRY LAWRENCE.ENTERED and ssved the roporter from disoussing this broad question with Mr. McDonald. Harry was asked waat hio had to say about the flogging msthod of dealing with his class. Afterexpregs- iog surprise mmnilar to McDooald's, he said : “ My mother used to flog me for playing cards. ‘The more she flogged the more I played. Flog- giog ‘ql§nd me, I think, Never would 'ave been where I ham hif it ’adn’t been for flugging, You can’t break a hold dog of hold tricks.” R.—But suppose you bad to stand 100 Iaghes well Iaid on, Mr. Lawrence? L.—I would 'av to to stand it, T suppose. But they won't catch e, I ham hout of busineas now. R.—How about the men who are still in it ? L.—They might feel a little scary hif they bain’t game, but hif they are they won't. A man's A FOOL 7O GET CAUGHT hat ba trick hauy way. * R.—How cau you always elude your victims ? Wait fi.fliou get hin the business, yoang mav, aod theu I will tell you, 'Ow da yon get reports of secret meetings? There his tricka buo Ball trades. R.—Bunko tricks, mostly, in vours. L.—Suppose this thing bis hadopted, ’00L DO THE ¥LOGGING? R.—XMike and I have just been talking sbout it, and L have told him an official would proba~ gly be_[dectad to §ill the position by the Common ouncil, L.—You'll fix 'im, won't you, Mike? Hif you don’t, we'll go back hon the Haldermen. . dlike—I guesa that'll be all right, Harry. We wond':?dm up “The Store” just yet, will we, par L.—No, I think not, hif I 'ave hany say. R.—Buot, Alr. Lawrence, there is 50 much pub- lic indigoation existing just now against banko men, whom 1t seems impossible to resch by law, that thers is every prospect that this mode of punishment will be adopted, and the people will a6 that it is vigorously applied. It may ba that the work will not be delegated to any public officisl, who may be corrupted by the influence which has been so successfulfy exerted in the case of other officials. THE YICTTNS may be selected to apply the lash. L.—Ho my heses, that would never do. Let & man with a fist like a’am 'it me, hand witha bold bull whip, maybe. Yy, hit would cat a little fellow lixe me right hin two. Band 'ow many Insnes would a feifow get ? R.—A lash for every dollar of the trick taken. L.—Ho dear me, that baiot fair hat hall, yon know. Vy, the feliow aa takes the Lnck shouldn't ‘ave ball the floggiog. Mike geta 15 per cent, I get 15 per ceut, the gamekeeper gets ha show, and the man bas did the vark don't 'ave more than alf. R.—Then you thmk you and Mike onght to come in for & share of the threshing, do you ? L.—Ho no, that's not lut, but & fellow ‘oo hl;e;'ln trick honght not to get vipped for hall hot bic. Mike—It's all nonsence to talic of any flogger bat one elected by the Aldermen. If the fellows who get “steered against a drawing ” attemped t0 act we could have a few of them *slugged " before they left town, and that would scare off the rest of the flats from waating to apply the ¥ THE COUNCIL HAS CHARGE OF IT the bovs are safe. TL—You can 'andle the Haldermen, Mike. So the vipping von't hamount to much, hand I'ave ba lot of tricks I can learn the boys so they von't get caught. Vy I'avetakeu in lawyers, members of Congress, preachers, newspaper meu, haod fellows ’0o thought they was mighty “fly” and they couldn’s prove it on me, could thoy Mike? Mike—No, Harry, we always pulled you through, old boy. When you wanted a witness to prove an alibl you bad him, or some one to gwear 1t was a case of mistaken identity, or that on had o interest in the place, or that you be- onged to one of the first famlilies. It didn't make any difference what, you always had your witoesses, 2 L.—I could put the boys up to & Iot of dodges which would eave their 'ides from the whipping- post every time, hand Mike, Lif youcan't fix hit with thurfilldermw, I'll do hit. ke and Harry lndnlied in s little farther conversation, in which they congratulated tuem- selves taat, by etther the ** political intinence™ of the one, or the subtle tricks of the otber, they would preserve the ** boya " from tne institution of the whipping-post. ‘The reporter shartly afterwards sccosted L L:‘fiflas-w“’"‘ individual, s very genteel, delicate-appearing Lo who wu,gin accordance with the inasr.mpuum re- cetved froms Mike BlcDonald, watchinz for the guliible stranger in the neighborhood of the corner of Clark and Washington streets. R.—Joho, how does your skin feci? Do you thiuk you can keep it whole if the plsn of flog- giog bunko-men is carried into effect? 8 J.—\What's that? Flogging ! 5 R.—Why yes, that’s the way they have deter- mined to deal with you fellows hereafter. 8. J.~Noj; it cannot be. R.—Bat it can, though. They ars buildinga whipping-post and pen on the West Side, and the first one caught taking » tck will be strung up_and given from futty to 1,600 lasbes. 8. J.—Well, that bends me. I could stand a fire, T could stand s stretch at the Bridewell— but the whipping-poat—0 no | not for Sospper John, We must get some dodge to meet taat. How do you suppose A DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE. of physical ioability to stand torture would work ? R.—Don't think it wonld do. It's s little too lean. : 8. J.~Well, my back will be covered :'lfll poor man's pmtelx':' tm!n this on, and if I csn’s play off sick, If T got canght, then Tm . £. What's the reason they are goiog fnto this scheme ? R.—Why, you always elude the law, and the people aro going ta drive you outof wads if posuble. £ . J.—\Well, it's our backs sgainst greenbacks, an era \‘viuu.f‘fi and stand 1t It will be bard werk to drive us out of Chicagos it's the fineat place in the world for s man who can do & first- Class genteel line of business. R.—You don't think the system of flogging, 3f iptroduced, will affect the bunko busivess, then? : B. J.—I domot; 'MIKE GUABANTEZS TO FROTECT US, B oo o o .1t 8016 will ot bk D, or fix it 80 it will plan of flogging us, b bo Here's go, I'moft, 123, dobany acoosied & couBtrymAG With groaé heartiness, and the twain were soon afterwards on their way to Kentucky Block. 3 JERRY DUNNE Waa discovered by the reporier not » great whils Alterwarda in the rotunda of the Grand Pacifie, where ho bad been sent by Boss 3hike Lo look aleer Johohy Balls and couotry railrosd men. At the moment when diacovered by the pews. Paper man he was puttiog bimself on friendly terma with » young aockney. O yen, [ know 'im. e know; rum fellow he claimed an edly declired he ey London, in rattling glood b ecomed to placs tho buhikoist on an immediate gaod fooctng with bim the cackney, with whom be presontly walked avay. Thers wasno opportusivy for 35 soter: view just then, but one was offered an hout or Wfllt;gr, wm;n Jerry lvr- met in *The Storo,” ** flashing a large roll" and tef i gleo of a Johuny Buils “dramaent Tk Grek s('[‘nkfn:,;hlerry into the back room of * The ore," tho reporter acquaicted hi il object of his vigi‘: in a tew words. b Wit the JEBRY’S REMARKS wers short and crisn. Says ho: **We can’t bave it; won't do; it will never worl.” R.—Do you mean that it wil fession ? Jerry—Why, of course it will. No first-class professioual man {s goiog to stand a hoiso- whipping. Some of “em who can’t wake a cant in a city that bias a good Government and a de- cent police force will probably stick here 1f their necks are broken for it. You see thia is an easy town to work ; pleaty of flats and vothing to fear. But if they set up a whipping-post bere it will be an uopopular place for the finest artists. I've worked every city in the country, and can make s good Living io any of 'em. I work hore becauss it is easier and safer, but I'tl bo haoged if I Lave my hide cat up at any whipping-post. h!é‘;u iv'groes into effect what are you going Jerry—Why, quit : pall up atakes, light out for otaer digginga. But I don't think it will 8o through, There were interviews with other operatory, but they are not given, ince they all expressed their abiding fauitt in Miko's abulity to pall them through. ZA VISIT TO LAURA BRIDGMAY, Dr. fowe’s Pupil, Born Blind, Deaf, and Dumb, Amanda B. Harris in Christian Dnfon. A fow weeks since I visited Laura Bridgman in her home near tha institution for the blind at Soath Boston. If any one supposes that by rea- 80n of her deprivation she is queer or awkward in person or manners, he is altogether in error. There is nothing at all singalar in her appesr- ance. When I entered the parlor, s member of the fsmily with whom she lives was playivg on the piano, and close beside her, on :plo’w gu-g thero naa a very slight, very ereot, quiet, selfe FPosseased loolung girl, who seemed to be listen- ing to the muaic, while her handa were busy over some crocheting or similar work. Bhe would Bave been taken for & guost who was nimbly fashioning some pretty article while being enter- ed with music. The expression of her face was bright and interested ; and one watching her satisfied look would have been slow to believa that she did not hear. The green shade over her eyea indicated that she was one of the biind. Bhe had on a brown dress, a blus ribbon at the ?‘ckk‘t.' oldb’r‘i:g sad v and a watch or locket in her —Aa neatly-sitired, gen Iady- like person, looking lbont’flfl, mongfh:-di 0 18 xeally ot far from 44, with sofec brown hase: smooth and fine, & well-shaped hesd, fair com- ilexlon, and bandsome features. That was aura. Dr Howe spoke of her aa * comaly and refied in form and attcade, gracsful in motion, sad posiiively handsome in festurea;” and of her “ expressive face,” which, indeed, in sensi- bifity and intelligeucs, ia abave inatead of below the average. . ‘was conveyed to As s0on a8 the information ber that she bad a viritor from her native State, who knew peoEle in the town where her nearest kindred live, ahe came swiftly across the room, leaving Licr work on the centre-tabls as she pass. * ed it, and d my haod, Iaughing with the engoruess of a child. ' Then she aat down face tor 1face with the lady who has charge of her, and comme a0 aoimated conversation, by ihe manual slphabet, essily understood vy cne who bas practiced if; but the sleight-of-band by which the tiogers of the friendly hostess, manip- ulating on Laura's slender wrista, communitated With that living conaciousness shat in thers without oue parfect sense except the taste and touch, was gomething mysterious, inscrutable to my duller sense. Yet that the commusication waa defloite, quick, incisive, 80 to Bpeak, was maaifeat onenghy o, Tantas faor besmed, and she was ali alert. Partly by the letters and partly by aizus she said » greatdesl to me. She **ought to be &t home to be compaoy far moth- er," Bhe said; and once or twice she fashioned the work, **Mam-ma" very distinctly with ber lips. With regard to this vocal expression, Dr Howe saya, *he has attained such facility for tallung in tho manual alphabet that I regret thas 1 did not try also to teach her to speak b vocal orgavs, or regular spesch.” She asked if koew a member of her family now dead, aud seid, ‘“That was a long year afier Carlacied.” She seemed brimming over with things to tell me, and wanted we 10 kaow abont her teaching some of the blind girls to sew, which is part of her daily employment in the school nesr by, and which she takes great pride in, threadiog the peedles and making per pupils pick out their work 1f it is not dove nicely. Sheisa seamstresa berself, does fancy work, and can rua s sewing-machine. «Next she caught hold of my hand and led me up two flighta of etairs to- her room to show me ber thiugs ; bat the first movement was to take me fo the window, where she patted on the glsss and aignitied that I should see what a pleasant prospect there was from it. And thers ehe, who had never seen or heard. waited by my side in great content while I looked and listen- ed: the sky was blue, with white clonds floating over it, and bitds were inging ; it was a perfect April day, but she could get no consciousness of it except in the softness of tho air. Yet her face was radiant, and she stood there as tuough aho both saw and heard. 1 wish I conld bring before all those who are discontented with theur lot, re- piniog becanse God has withheld something from them or taken something away, the chear- {ul face of this girl who has 50 little, but who - uccepts it as if she had all ; who has never seen a buman cotntenance or Leard s human voice, who in the mfinite glory and beauty of thia out~ ward world has 1o part, ghut in by herself in that silent, dark, unchangiog, awfal lonelioess. The nextact was toshow me how epringy ber bad was; then ehe deliberately took uff my shawl, as if sbe mesnt business, and showed me all the . pretiy things and conveniences sho had in her Toom, opeaing every box and drawor aud displsy- ing the conteots; her i“ chain she laid aganst her neck, ber bows and collars aud_embraidared bandkerchiefs were taken up one by one, then deftly replaced in their proper receptacles; ner wnting materials, sewing implements, little statuettes, trinksts, large Bible,—I had to see them all, and then her wardrobe, and it was with the greatest delight she ran her fingers over the “shirra” of the flonnca of her best wiater dress and the onirass basqué, as if to_say that her thiogs were in the latest fashion. 'inally she took oat a sheet of paper, presased it down on her French writicg-board, examined the point of her pencil, and wrote her autograph, *God is love and truth. L. N.'Bridgman; " and then from her needle-case and spool:hox produccd & cambnic needle and fine cotton, had- snowed mo how ahe tbreadsd & needle, which was dong by bolding the eye againat the ¢ip of her tongue, tho exquiste nicety of touch in her tongus gui ing her to paas the thread through. It was dons in an instant, though it seemed 1mpossibia to do it at all, and then she presented me the threaded necdle trumphantly, baviog secured is by alip- ping a koot Atter descending to the parlor, she told me how kind it was in Dr. Howe to it her up such s pretty room, and then I must go isto the achool- room. whither she led me by the baod, aad 1n- troduced mo to several of her friends among the gnmla, and when I took my departure sbo would ave the teacher go with me to the door to tell me which car to . The last nmn of Dr Howe gives some particu- lars relating to the way in which he bronght this very ioteresting girl into communication with ber fellow-creatures, making her *‘one of.the luomaa family,” patiently, Iaboriously, lovingly going over a tedious process, month after month and %‘" after year, until abs became what she is. Sho bas s bome during the cold weather at the instisution ; she earns “s little money by making bead-baskets,” etc., sod bas the incerest of §2000, which waa bequeathed to Ler by txo {riends,—mother and daughter; *buc still ahe barely receives enough for neceasary asticles of dress,” he adda. gently suggesting the needs of “ lhlhl. dear chiid™ for wbom he has dose s ‘muc Capt. Eads’ Jetty, Cspt. Ends has now 400 men at work on the Jetty at the mouth of the Missjssippi, 2nd has alroady projected it toward the deep water more than 3,000 feet. Tae work is being pushed for- ward at the rate of 200 feet per day. A posé- office has been established a¢ the presen: ter- minus of his work, and a Postmasser sppointed.