Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1875, Page 9

THE FIRST TRAIN. « Semi-Centennial Celebration in England of a Small Beginning. Parllngton, tho Rirthplace of the World's Girent Railway &ysten, How They Managed the Iron Horse Fifty Years Ago. Joaugural Trip of Georgo Stephon- son's First Engine, “ Looo- motion,” ft» Darlington & Stockton Railroad, Twelve Miles Long, Completed in 18: The Way Joseph Pease, the Quaker, Organized the First Company. Gketch of tho Carcer of George Stephenson, Inventor of tho Locomotive. Pnveiling of the Statue of .Pease at Darlington Yesterday, THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL. QXVEIING OF TUE PRABE BTATOL AT DARLINGTON, QUAND, Loypon, Sept. 27.—Tho colebration of tho fif- fietb anniversary of tho catablistimont of rnil- ways began yewtorday at Darlington, Eng., with meny thougand people participating. Among them wero the Lord Mayor of London and the Provosta of Glusgow and Edinburg. The railroad companics have subscribed £20,- 00 toward the oxpovecs of tho celebra- tin ‘Tho programmo was as fallows: At noon there wes a grand procession, winding np by tho inauguration of a bionzo statuo of Joreph Pease, by the sculptor Lawson, couting ‘£3,000, The coremony of unveiling was por- formed by tho Dukoof Cloveland. In tho after- noon thero was a grand banquot, at which 700 questa eatdown., At this banqueta fino por- trait of Jonoph Peasa, by tho artint MaoLoth, yas unveiled. Congratulatory tclegrama woro sent, during the progress of tho banquet, to all thorailroad kings on the European Continent, ‘and in‘Amorica, Egypt, ond Inidia. + HISTORICAL, A SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEDRATION, While tho pooplo of Chicago and tho ontiro ‘Weat are rejoicing over the new era in railroad Intercommunication, brough about by tho etart- ing of fast mail troing between tho East aud tho West, acalcbration of more than national im- portance f¢ taking plece in tho little inland town of Darlington, ju northeastorn England. ‘This is no less than the commemoration of tho scmi- tontenvial of tho inauguration of the first rail- yay. In view of tho studondous results arising out of such an iuconaiderable beginnings ; of tho revolution in travol effected theroby ; of tho effect on tho world, its commerca, ita civiliza- tion, even its mannor of thought; and tho in- troduction of railway funded capital aga large faotorin tho world's wealth, thostragglea looking fothat primal realization aro worthy of moro thans passing notice, ‘fho mustaid-seed and the acorn are wont to be cited as inconsidorablo gorms with almost iufvite posuibilitiosy, Tho ‘opening of the Darlington & Stockton Mallroad ‘was tho moclonical mustard-sccd which has multiplied till the world ia girdled with its auo- ceseors in kind, ho ninoteonth century has been crowded with uncountable invoutiogs ; but Done other, cither in this contury or any past ono fa the world’s history, has rultipliod as fast, ab- sorbed ay much capital, or bocome #o abeolutely indlapensable to the hnman taco, as that of the Jocomative atoam-engine, Were it possible to blot all tho railroads and their accumulated cap- its! out of existonco in a single day, overy civil- ized nation on the globo would be mado frrotricy- ably bankrupt, aud commercial credit become a thing of the past. It would inaugurate innumor- tblo wars aud uecossitate A MEMODELING OF THE WORLD'S MAY, ‘Yet all this bas beon accomplished in the brief pace of fifty yeara; within tho short compass of an average human life, Whon, ou the 27th day of Beptombor, 1825, the Darlington & Btook- (on Railroad, 12 mitew in longth, wae inaugn- tated, with George Stophonsou as ongineer, thera but £120,009 of railroad investment in all this world, Fifty yoars have eped into the past, and now hundreds of tinos strotch away across Mountain, plain, aud stroam, tho anuual earn- {ogs of oach of which aro many times the sum fret put into the experiment, Like nearly avory othor invention of practical 4nd universal uso to tho human aoa, the loco- notive steam-engine was the product of soveral Binds: the ronult of a sorlos of fallures. ‘ho first link in the chain was tho stationary engine made by Watt, and ueod for pumping the water out of the coal-mimos of Cornwall; to Richard Trovithick, au approntice of Boulton & Watt, in duo tho honor of inventing the locomo- Ure engine, It washe who first construcled Cte on tho tight-pressuro principle, and mado bollor cylindrical, ax Laying moro power of. ro« repeee Ho abaudoued i, howoyor, just before danced the Doint of practical success, Ay ho Many other brilliaut ideas of which he was tho author, among them a plan for a tunoel un- der the Thames, But ho furniched the ground. York npcn which mon of losa genius, but moro Perseverance, workedout practical results, WOUDEN ‘fHAMWAYS hid been in use since early in the soventee oth Century for transporting: cal from the cotlierios Adjacent. waterways, It was upon one of beet Tunuing past tho door of tho Ouse §of Guorgo Btephonson's parents, Wat the first locomotive engi co gine ever construct~ td waerun. ‘The track wau uot found emooth ht t, or solid enough, for 8 oarriago as hoay: the ngine necessarily was, aud the expori- ptt ot faxteping cast-iron plates or rails ‘upon [ot tried, but the: 7» t00, gaye way under tha plug of the machine, which wae without f gy, causing if to run off the track continu. tah As obstacle aftor obstecte Presented it- , Trovithick becamo discouraged aud ais- ie at ibe. sens reanie obtained, aud tot it ntirely, turning his atteutio: fiber brigts notion which cee eee ind. It acomed as if the matter would tnd bore; but thore was a youth In Wylam, Sting cows, and known to the country-side aa hin oe BSteovie,” who was destined to fuish IW for the purpose of colebratl th i © Purpors of colobrating the fulfll- Ment of this dostiny that ‘Darlington Beorn $24 South Durham, together with rallwe mag- bite from various quarters of tho plot are ps Bkthored together tho tirst-montloned by Ibu under the auapices of the North- Just thea occupied fester Rallway, which hus absorbed the ti he Preparations wore bogun aome monte Statue uf Joxcpl Penasco, for many yours Nrosaurer of the. first radroad, was ardored lit tohtd net up in tho market-place at Dar. Re ns Invitations wero seut out to reitroad toe sin all parte of the world, asking them to reieeu ‘af the unveiling on thi tieth anni. inked [; A mouber of the roval family was is a to withdraw tho veil. A geveral holiday Darzsounced inthat waction of the country, Beta ogtou and South Durham ‘idea tho project with a who carne’, ade for entertalniy; lance ore for holding a kind of sacred war- lop around & gtoup of the firat engines used ; ake ‘urelons to Btookton, Midi rough, and. Bild of interent around the country; the conclude with a general “fuast of rea- fon and flow nf reul," not to mention that of fat things ant ‘nlf-aud-'sif, mon logo tent set for tha ocenston, — od THE FIRST RAILROAD, TRE RESULE OF A QUARTER OF A CEATERY PXULEEOST, Tt wag at the thre-hold of the nineteenth can- tury that the qnestion of a pntitic railway or train wos fist discussed, Ia ial an act yas paesed by Variiamont for the construction of “The Burrey Iron Railrord" botweon Wadas worth and Corydon, Consuleratde opposition to it was nrounnd at that line, dnt tho track was finally buitt a distance of 26 miles, It eonmmtedt of a woudon train, overiaid with cast-iron patos, on which tha wheels ran, cud with « sansa to keep them from running oi. ‘Shera was 10 thought, hovaver, of any lractiva po ver, except thas of horseu ur donkeya. Tl wane julia was, ard could be ted by any ono hy the parnent of stipulated tolls, tt talled to ba anecessful, howoyer, and tho track wk nold in after years for a vemioal sum. This was a development im ono branch of whatis huown to-day as a rail road. Meantime, ‘Trovithick und Steyhenron wero bringing np the other branch : that of the focomative engino, ‘Tho poxattility of euch a thing was demonstrated. and locomotiver wore making regular trips years bofure tho volld mon of Darlington had determined on 8 public ratl+ way to Stockton ; but in their wildest dream they never thought of anything mare apoedy as a means of conveyance than the avi:uala used on tho Wadaworth «& Cordon Railway, The engines in use wore all tho rosult. of private in- yestinent, and wore fit only for private ueo. RURDENONy, HICH: Tho wostern part of Durham was rs uninyll- ing in general appouruuce as one could wish to seo; butit was rich fn cant, which was likely to find orendy murkot along the coast and in tho northern part of Yorkshire, if auy moans of cheap and rapid transportion could bo dovined. This tract of country jay between tha Rivera Toes and Wear, neitherof which was navigabla for any conriderable diatatee, Tho only meth- ods of eurrying con} from Dartington and Bish- op Auckdand, a villago some miles fugthor west, was upon the backs of mules aud horses. Stockton was the nearest port, eitunted s fow iiles above the mouth of tho Tees, te southern boundary of Durham, and Uotweon those points the trains of pack-animals plied, ‘Tho first step looking toward an Improvement in thia prinntive state of ulfnira was taken in Stockton in tho yoar 1810, whon a mesting of citizena was held aud tho quoation of a :ailway oreanal to Darlington waa propoaod. It was docided to got tho opinion of some compctont ongincor as to the comparative foaxipility of the two plans before taking any definite action, end tho meoting adjourned sive pie, practically, for nothing more hol heeu dono when, sixtecn months lator, Edward Doaso, one of the inflnen- tial Brondbrims of Darlington, began to agitate tho question, and succendod in getting toxether a Committee. After discussing the question st longth, tho Committco couldn't docide which it wanted, a railroad or a canal, ‘Tho advice of John Rennie, an ongincer, waa sought, and ho, after surveying the grommd, in 1813, recommend: ed the makicg of a canal. DNOFPED FoR vIVE YEARS, ‘This report exhausted Dariington's energios, for the tima, and uotbing was fons, owing, purtly, to the prospect of an European war. Vivo years Jator, howevor, in 1818, Stockton waked up again on tho the subject of tho canal, anda numerously-signed polftion, containing, amoug others, the names of Edward, John, and Thomas Pease, of Darlington, was presentod to tho Mayor of Stockton, asking him to call a public meeting on the subject. The meeting was hold and it was resolved to apply to Parka- mont fora charter. ‘And thore was the ond of it again. In September of thoeamo yoar, a meeting was holdin Darlington with Thomas Meynoll, Enq., in the chair. Reports wero mado. b: Engineers Overton nud Rennic, both favoring & publia horse-railway, Ho it waa do- efded to petition Parliament fora cuartor for a railway. ‘Chis wovoment pianed the citizens of Stockton. ‘Choy bad voted io favor of a canal, and thoy would Lave n canal or notluug, If tho Darlington folka wanted n railroad they might build it thomeclves; thoy would’eet no belp from Stockton. In fact, quite bitter fooling: was acouxed, and, whon completed, tho road was called the ‘Quakers’ Linu,” for the mon who built it. Application was mote to Parliament that year, but tho grant was dofoated by the offurts of the Duko of Cleveland, who owned Hands im that section of tho country, IIo based hie opposition Upon the fact that tho road would dostroy ove of bis fox-covers! ‘Ihe courao of the lino was changed so as to avold tho fox-cover, aud the” petition r-nowed tho following yoar; but bocauge of the sudden sdjournmens of Parliament, owing to the death of s momber of tho Royal family, nothing was done with it. Finally, however, in 1821, THY, BILL WAS PABSED, and the Ponses and their confreros prepared to Roto work, Thoy had subscribed capital of £120,000, and only wanted s compotent man to tako charge of the business, ‘ It was at this point that George Stophooson Appeared apon tho scons, and by bis honest, earnest work and clear-hosded advice wrought such chauges in their plana that the placo and tha work have became of world-wide intercat, ¥rom tho beginning bo had the carncut co-oper- atlon aud confidence of Edward Peaso, to whos Ainaucial insight and steady porsoveranco under discouragemants is largely due tho crodit of final success, ‘Tuo Hirst move of Stephenson was to reaurvey tho line, which resulted in lig poiuting out & route 8 mile ehorter, and at the same time 80 situated that tho grados would ba leas steop,—a very importaot {actor in the problum, Work was now begun tn varnest, tho first rail boing laid May 24, 1822, Meantime ho was lavoring to convinco the Company of tho advisability of em- ploying steam in tho tracilon of its cars, inatead of horses, ag provided for in tho charter; also that it should bo prepared to transport passon- gers, 86 woll a8 merchandito, Ho succeod- ed in so far that fn 1823 tho Company had provisos of this sort inserted in {ts emonded charter, Au tho road proyroasod, the Company becaine moro and more convinced of his lovel-headeduess, aud, finally, throo of his engines wore ordered, Engineoring had not boon roducod to a sclance then, ag now, and tho consequence war that at one or two points on the route tho grades woro AO steep AB to roquira the aid of stationary enginos to drag up tho loaded cars, or THR OPRNING. Evorything was in readinces, and Hop, 27, 1825, ras aunounced as tho day of tha formal opun- ing, A printed schednto of tho tue at which tho tra would pass given points waa ciroulated slong the lino, that {bo pooplo wight be on band togeult. The rosuly was a yousral holiday, and people camo from Nowoastle and all the cooutry round about to wee the woudor. ‘The engine with which the trial-trip was to be mado welghod 8 tons, and was tidy named * Lo- comotion,” Karly ou tho morning of the anepi- cious day, tho mombera of the Company as- womblod at tho first steap grado and tried tho oxperiment of passing a iran of loaded cars over it with tho stationary engine, Evorything worked to perfoction, and the train was wade up asfollows: At the boad was the engine, with Ueorga Btophonson in charge; thon followed mxcars, luaded with coal and flour; a special cuvered coach coutaining the Direvtors; twonty- ovo coal curs, fitted up for temporary ue, snd carrying about 450 peuple; and lastly, ax moro cara filled with eval, ‘Iho morchandiao in tho twolve coal cars weighed about V0 tons,—uo in- considerable weight, cousidering tho ciroum- stances, A SINGULAK FEATURE OF TIE FNOCERSION was aman ou horsuback, preceding the train and catrying & baunor ingoribed with the Company's mottor “ Periculum privatum, utilitas publica.” A lithograph of th® portod repreuonts the trai croselng & ravine over which w suther formidable stone culvert bas beon thrown, ‘Te borwuman with tho flag iu brought prominently into viow ; tho long train of little coal-tubs, packed with human frolght, stretches away into obscurity ; asuggodtion of broad-bnmmed bate iy caught Doueath the covoring of the Directors’ couch; & Waxonor has stopped bia team in wonder by tho roadside to wee the cavalcade yo by; while tho erninoucos on every side ara crowded with poo- plo, awinging their hate and giving vont to their {colings iu the frecet manner possiblo, Aw thotrain started tt wae followed by tho Multitude on foot, choering their fellows on board, and a number of horsemen rode along- side, When ono of the most favorable portions of tho road was reached, Stophouson: intimated to the bannor-bearing horeeinan in front thas it would be periculuin privatum intrath, aa far as ho was concerned, unlesa he gata the track, for he proposed to put on steam, Just to woo what ‘Locomotion ” could do. The horsam: retired accordiugly, and a part of the way run at the rato of 12 to 15 milog an hour, Jeaving the pedestriaus “bull-down™ in the distance, sud the horseman woll to the rear, Darlingtou wau reached iu duo time, and the train was reorganiaed forthe run to Btocktou, by the removal of the finslaix coal cary and the substitution of enough empty ones to Aocomnio~ YI fate 149 mora passengore,’ With thia train the ran of 12imlea to Keackton wax meda without Uoclared open and roady tor arineas. THEY LOGE a Right hera may be noted the «7 the oveaing was duly eolobrated at Htuckion by great rejeuedos, ane numberof drunks aud Hhybes, anda general food" at dao Town-Siall,—ni ox- awple whieh + A men have zealorly fol~ Lawed on mich oceasionn to this day, ne Yeah Jouroa's don't seem to havo autered into the sf fate with that cordiality and zenl vbich micht havo been oxpected andar the crenine ances, aad the probatni ; ! thin road failed lo avprecinty the molitfyang ef feels of cuniptimontary Howovor that may be, aad wag opened, and al anee enteret on 8 prea ara antes the "10th of October tho fie wad put upon the track, and horas, (ho fara being 1 shilling. | Tend quite vapidly, inost of ther tain ordis mary vuise-eaten Dorliea, munaied on fines whanks Dy the termu uf the chancr, any oy eoald use ‘the cust be paging a stinniated toll, aud the rosnlt wane tively com: etition for carrying of paskengers. Finally the Compaay touk charge of the entice business, and attache | pasnenge ite regular iraina, In this continued to rm eg HH hiuomenno Goal carcying Baainesr, until about witozet seara aya, when i! toa Kanilawed up by the great. Nerth> western Ravrond, and the engine, ' Lacuna. "places ow a pedestal in front of thy ntu- dion'at Darlington. pee eee DARLINGTON AND STOCKTON. THE TERMIN OY THE FIST RAILROAD, This cclobrution brings prominently before the world the two towns through the liberality and energy of whowe citizane the railroad, with its almont limitless puneibilities, was roado ap acccraphal.o! fact, Darlington, whieh was maiuly inutramontal in putting the work through, is altuated apon a tits He rtroam called tho Skerne, an afiluent of tho ‘Toor, which forma tha fonthern boundary of Durham, a shiroin tho northeastern portion of England, bordering on the North Soa, Darliny- ton (s in tho southwestern portion of tho shiro, 1934 tlloa south of tho town of Durham, 45 miles north of York, and 11 miles west of Stock- tou, 8 port-town a short fast CO above tho boad of Teen Lay, whieh Opens into the North Hea, The great North of England Railway, ono of tho five trunk lines of the islaud, also runs through it, Jt is a market town, and in 1851 bad a pepuiation of 12,453, most of whom bolonged to tho Socioty of Fricuda, or Quakers, Sinco that time, howover, tils portion of England has developed remarkably, and with it tha towna in that section, xo that thoso § atstiatica give but nn inadequate idea of the fmportanco of the piace, It is oxtromely well built and lightod, tho strcots divorging from a spacious market- place. It hasa bridge of throo archos over tha Skerno; n church dating bavk to tho twelfth cen- tury, which formerly had a collegiate institution connected with it; ® largo church of tocent dato; a grammar school, founded by Queen Elizabeth; a “Blue-Coat” achool; uaton work-house; at one timo an Eptecopal palace; a Town Hall, and a mochanics’ institu- tion, The Icading Industry of tho country round abont it is the miuing of coal, though tho town baa manufactures of worsted snd liven yarn, and several foundries, lt ia # titular borough under tho Bishopof Durham, and gives tho title of Earl to the Duke of Clevoiand, It is tho piace of elections for the southern division, and there aro held the County and Vetty Seasions sud tho Burough Courts, BIOCKLON-ON-TZEA, at tho other ond of the Stockton & Darliogton Railroad, in 1852 had a population of 10,459. It is ono of tha bost built towns io tho North of — England ; has a Town Unll, a Custom-Houre, a thostre, 8 mechanics’ inetitntion, and a subecription li- Draty. It aldo maintains a spacious race-coursa Just ueroas the Toos. It bas ship-yards of cou- sidorable extent; manufactures of ropo, anil- cloth, linou, snd worsted ; iron and brass foun- dries, breweries, flouring-milly, ate. Itsy harbor has beon improyvod so ag to admit vessels of 30) tone burthen. Itia a landiog-port for certain classes of goods, and is the distributing contre for a very considerable trade with London, Leith, Hull, and other English towns ; niso with tho Baltic Ben, the Netherlands, Haniburg, aud some of the liritish provinces. Its principal ox- ports are coal and Jead, aud itychiof importa, ubip-timber, tallow, otc, It is estimated that not leas than 1,600,000 tons of coal aro nhippod an- nually, In 1851 1t owned vousols of an uggre- pate tonnago of 27,780, In thowame yoar 1,011 yoseols with 92,636 tonuage entered the port, and 44,486 of 859,694 touvago cloared. NEW TOWNB. Au unerpovted result of the complotion of the line was tho slarting of the Town of Middlo- borongh, 8 short distanca above Stockton. Whethor oy account of tho carly disazreomont or from some other canso, the Danington men wero unable to make euch arrangomonia for tho handling of their coal at Stockton as they doemad desirable, and thoy accordingly provid- ed for its delivery of Middloborough, which sprang up efter tho mannor of town in tho nited States. lte growth, notwithstanding ite rapidity, was solid, and 1: now bags a population of about 25,000 souls. Other towns, such ns Conyott, have also sprung up along the lino, and have grown to Us prosperous trade-contres, cach contributing ita mito to tho remarkable advaucomont of tho north of England during tho Isst quarter of a contury. —_-_. GEORGE STEPHENSON. 4 MAN OF TIRELFAS INDDSTHY, Georgo Stophenson, whons memory is inaepar- ably connected with the colebration, was born in the eastern room, first floor, of a red-tiled, two- storied, rubble dwelling, known as Ihgh Stract House, and standing 8 fow hundred yards wort of tho little colliery Viliago of Wylam, situated some 8 miles west of Newwcaalle-on-Tyno, Dur- bat, England, ‘Tho houso was of tho common- est description, being divided into four rooms, upplastored, aud with dirt floots, and was ocou- pied by familioa connected with tho colliertea of tho noighborhood. Hie fathor wag in strait- onod ciroumblances and occupied, with his fam- ily, but asinglo room. Tia business was to at- tond ono of Boulton & Watty’ colliory onginos, for which ho received baraly suificient to pro- ‘vide the commonest necessition of life, Ccorgo waa tho second of a family of six, and was boru June 9, 1781, Tho first years of his life passed miuch as those of othor children at that time, running hora and there at will, and with no inatruction. Tho mino at which bis father labored was finally worked ont, and tho family removed to Wowiey Bara Colliory, whoro Goorge found Lis fret employment asa herder of cows for a neighboring widow-iady. Evon at this early age Lis machanical genius bagaa to manifest iteelf, and, with s compauion named Ju Thirlwall, ho apent bis loisure time in fash- foning MODELS OF ENGINES IN CLAY, almilar to thoue in use at tho colliorles, His noxt work was in tho fields, loading borsos tu the plow, for which be reoslvod the truly moderate wage of gixpenos a day. Still later ho was employed about the colliery whera his fathor workod, andat 14 yoars of aga was pro- moted to by hie father’s agsistant, ate shilling s day. Itiwrotated of him that, whenover the owner of the colliory appoared, he would hide himsolf, loat he should bo considored too amali to rocoive auch a largo salary. ‘Thiy colliory waa algo shut down after a timo, and the family removed to Nowbero, where George became a flroman, independently, at the ago of 15, and two years later an ongine-mau, his father occupying tho position of tireman underhim. Up to thie timo be had not loarued toroad, It waa then that Napoleou way making such a atiria Europe with his brilliant military achievemonts, and the collior lad liatened eagerly to such fraginentary accounts as were read to him from stray journals of the day. Tho reading merely whettod his appotite, aud ho began to at- tend night school, His progress waw sowothing remarkable, aa ho gave every wpara nioment to the mastering of problems 1m mathematica wot for him by bis teacher. At 19 he had progressed as farsa the * double rule of three,” and could write his own name quite legibly, By this time ho bad became known a8 @ sober, inielligeut, and trustworthy workman, work being ucarce, owlog to tha dopresgod siate of finances ut the timo, ho left bis father’s houwe and wont to fill the responmble position of brakeman for @ winding epgiue iu & colliery somo $0 miles away, boarding with a neighboring farmer. Hore, stimulated doubiless by the bright eyes and Winning) waya of xa COMELY 6XBYANT-MAID pamed Fanny lisudersan, to whom be was mar- 1h CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUMSDAY tied at the ago of 21, ho bacan to omp!oy his spore hourdin cobbling. and finally in makina shovn, aud ovan Inet. Marri’ and suttiod xn, ina single room of a targa henge, be esutinuel hin aevers indit-tre, adding to to trate of Hiao- niakar that of eloaniat clocks and watohos. Hines tells how, apc une occasion, when ® sateh we browcht to hin to be pat inorder, le luoked at it aud dirceted that at ba pus fa tie oven foraquirier ofan hear A queer way of treating a sate, troly, but when taten ant it wae fertad to beranning all rizht. ‘Tha elsnes fart told nin tint the whea's werdiitnrly olugyed . with oil which hat grown sti, é ot ittetsudiig the oartra luhor waich | hi itoosd oo uron hitanesf, fe furad fing for mumeroun macha:ieal exnarunents, | K othe Nemeie of imecisnical pecans, Mal taotion, AMiMay © uly be lM od from dis tint of iniad, he took gaat dciyht va f ne, and inaraye Levers enporeanity for ne 1h tO faves, AL af cts conatiuction Alt putting tin thotonsh ober, Tv 1304, his aon Robert wax born, and in tia fotlo eat hie wile, for show he kid at OR, diel This tole np bik Louw oid, oud, lensing: hin een in good hands, be - Wont upon myitation ta Sloutroue, Sevtland, to | take cherge of Laseeln & Wat's enrinet at work there, to temainad in that plies tor In: returced again to the nei zhhor. eweartle, in ord: tte ba near hie child ain} his (athes, tho latter now rendere? ho'pless from the effects of a hohe Tek his oyeright, Me cantinied efor hua dur- ing tue remainder of tis life, buartep, In 1893 a draft wat mado for militia, and Georges was among thowa dravn. He was hist averse to military lif, thonyh among tis bravest of mon, as he proved on mote than cho cecamun. Ip order to avoitl service, he nut only coliected tugether all bia vavinus up to this tice, bub also borrowed & conuidorabla sum and hired a sul- bbitulo. About this time be was pow: desira to omigento to America. Me had » plaz for the introduction of steam vesoala ou tho rivers and iuland Iakos of this comntry which he belioved could be succossfully carcied out. Mur the procuromont of s subsitute had stripped lum of all bia money, aut tho project’ full through. Mcantime.tatoady progreag toward tho realiza- Hon of a tocomotive eoging was being made, A Mr, Bleukinsop invented an epging modoled chiefly after that of Richard Trevithick, waich tras found to work as economically we horse- power, for tran«porting coal a hort distance, and it was omptoyed for this purpoxo ou a pris vate tramway for twonty years, In 1812, an en- gino of n little difcrent construction wan put upon tho Wyiam trainway, and was used for hisuling coal a dixtunco of % miloa, Meautine, Shophenvon bad kept hiteolf in- formed of the progress made. and had evolved. aomo ideas of lis own which be cousidired val- uable, Lio had acquired tho reputation of beiuss a practical man, and ono of more than ordinary mechanical abr Accordingly, whea ho ap- pled bimeolf to Lord Ravensworth, oxnor of the Killingworth mines, for mouoy to build an engine, his request waa not denied, andhe went to work, embouving tho bost featurea of foriner attempts, togother with inveutions of bis own. When couipleted, it was OUURTENED “ ALUCHER,” aud was put upon tho track fora trial July 23, 1814. ‘Thongh a very primitive affaw 43 com- pared with tho onginas of to-day, it waa found capable of drawing 20 tong of coal atthe rate of 4 milos an hour, ‘Though reagonally euc- codeful, it was not no much 60 48 to ANLerscdo horae-powor, both continuing in use, Wita tho countonanes and eucourazement of his patron, however, he continued bis exporimenta, making an cugino with the nxies of tho drive-wheely cou- uecled with chains working in toothod wheels, One of (he most important of his iuventions, howevor, was tho expedient of turning tho ox- haust atoam into the smokestack, which be did iu hin third attempt. This, in fact, was found to be the very breath of life breathed into tho machino, cresting as it did a blast at the chimney, malting bis tres pura much better, and enabling: him to produco steain at a grontly accelerator rate, this provenzing a euddon running down of tho prossure in the botier, THE FINST AAFTTY-LANP, But tho engive alone could not ocenpy the en- tire attention of his active mind, His thought was attracted to the danger to in'nora from gas- explosions, the accumulated gas igniting from thoiriainps. Ono ortwo had occurra! ai the mioon whore ho was at work, sul ha bo- an a eries of axperinents, resulting in bis ar- tiviug at the conclision ‘that tho’ gas would not ontor tubos of a cortuin size. Upou thia the- ory he had porforated lantern mado in tho Intter part of 1815, and proved bis faith in it by going iuto the miuo aud walking with tt hand through portions known to bo filled witt gas. Smiles claims for him the arthorsbip of the safety Iawp. Ho say that Sleplencon made for him a sccond lamp, which was as auccerstul ag tho first, and yet s third, the faut of which he pet on exhibition only a few days after Sir fumphroy Duvoy mado rnblic bis sufaty-lanip Invention, At any rate Stephenson's lniups are stillin usa in the Kilingworth mines, aud aro said to bo preferred Jo Davey's, Tho onginos, algo, which be built In 181G aro still in use on the Killingworth Railway, hauling loaded coal- cara at a speed of 5 or 6 miles an ho In 1819 the Hotton Coul Company decided to biild 10 muitos of tramway and employed Sto- phenson to superintend the work. 1t wos com- pleted and opened Nov. 18, 1%23. While engaged Upon this ho married a aecaud time, after 3 wid- owhood of 14 youra, his second wife botug Etiza- beth Hindmarsh. Appreciating the advantageu of an education ho had beon caroful to give thew. tohisson Joveph. He paid for his instruction by tho tutor of tho neighborhood; sont bim later toa school in Newenatlo, profiting himsulf by every stop of his son's advancemont ; and dnally to Ldlnbarg, SUPERINTENDENT OF THR FIRST NAILROMN, Tlis bucceas thus far in whatevorhe hed under- taken had given Lin coutcisuce in bis on pow ora, and when ho loaroed that the Darling- ton Quakors had secured an ect of Parilamont fora railway betweon that place aud Btockton-on-Tees, ho at onco made a triv acrose tho couutry, and applied for the pouition of ens ginaor of the road. Ho gotit, and tho bistory of his doings in that position will be found in connection with the history of the road itsolf, given eleowhore iu this article. Too romaindor of bis life after tho memorable Ropt. 27, 1425, may bo bnofly told. It is with the primary atrugglew looking to tho grand re- sult that tho world sympathizos. The honors and greater achiovoments following ero but corollaries to the fret proposition, aud are takon for granted. Ho was next called to bo ouginoor of tho Liverpool Manchestor Ratlroad. In his proliminary surveys. ho mat with all kinds of opposition from the peonle slong the proposed Jine. Hin anaistante wero chased by the farmors with pitchforks, and al! sorts of violenca and contumoly hosped upon them, Thon thoro wavs black swamp to cross, and the ougineering aki} of the day was not compotent to bridge it with atrack, Finally, hawover, ev- rv obstacle was overcome, and the row wea opened. Other works, of greator or les impor- tanco followed iu rapid succession ; railroads, cuttings, tunnoly, bridges, viaducta, ote, ; but, with all this labor on haud,—his aon Robort was. now engaged with him,—be found time for fure ther excursions jn tho field of invention, Itwas ho who first conceived and put into operation the plan of multitubular boilers in engines, vastly adding to their powor of stoamn-genoration, & inothed which is in uao to thia day, The buay and ueofut life was closod Aug. 12, 1848, aud his romains were interred iu ‘Tumity Church, Chostorield. , alge RAILROADING, DEVELOPMENT IN FIFTY YEARS, ‘Threo yoare after the oponing of the Darling- ton and Stockton line the Liverpool & Munehes- ter toad was opened, aud other linos in various parte of tho Kingdom rapidiy followed. ‘Tho peoplo of the United Stated were not slow to ap- precieto the advantages arlvimg from improved mothods of transportation, and aa carly as July 4, 1928, Jous than three yoara aftor George Sto- phouron'’s triumph, grouud was broken for tho first reilroadin thia country—tho Baltimore & Obio—and if was opened the following yoar, It sounds queerly to Westorn oars to hoar the Bal- timore & Obie Railroad spoken of as the oldest iu tho United Statos, aince wu alt remomber tho rocent troubles of tho road iu getting the right of way into Chicago, ant wu have conroyuontly been led tolook upon itas ovo of the youngest of the roada, Mut it must be remembered that tho Baltunore & Ohio of to-dsy and tho Haltimore & Olio of that day are two very different concerns, ‘That was s very limited and primitive affair, whose pame was long Ghough to fold up severtl times, aud then cover its track completely, It was operated partly by Lerse-power aud partly by a locomotive built at Baltimore, and still pre- served in the works thoro. Two yeara lator, in 1890, the Mudson & Mobawk Railroad was opened, while lines were under contract in Vounsylyauia, Messachusotts, and Now Jersey, Tou yoars lster 1,843 tailes of road were in operation, and & second decade awollod the total to 8,647 mille. Iu 1864 there wera 35,000 miles in operation, with 15,000 wiles under voatract, or aa wach as iu all the world beside. Thero are SEPTEMBER | cirenit. 28, 13875.-TEN PAGES 009 milny in cporati now pratialy Vowing es the TROT HEY for onoh soar suey tao he 4 1, Ins 1 stotal atthe beaion ng of 1873 wes dis- tributed uivony ho wedilons Uf tun country. ae flows: Sew Tnglaud 553 nile da. Htai qiegs & Mootle States, the neunts having 6 Tumois fee of railsav in aod is footed by rvanin, With’ 5,369 ; New York with 4,9, Ohin with 4,104, For, the exconrayemont of rai!road-building Cengrena bax, nt various times vinen Sept. sh, 1850, when it established a precedant by gront- Saeren of land tothe Hino Cons 75 gcres of 4 Of all these roads is £3,- 7, or one-half mnore than the indebsed- ne-8 of tho United Stat-#, about which we groan romich, ‘Ihe totat receipt for the sear 1572 wrro £173,211,055, of 15 per cant on the cost of ‘the operating expenses. were 20°83 per cont on the prow warn ined, "Thue Waves £165,175 ax net earninste which i420 percent of tho earital invested Daring the yeur £6241 14) wat pad in divie dends, or an ‘avarayze of a litle lees thau 4 per cout on tha cat atock, PROGRESS EUW RENE, ‘Tho firat London line was the Greenwich: road, op.ned to Deptford in February, lsd. It was opened asa how, with e band of musicians ateuch ond, drewzed in tho garb of becf-eators, todraw pausvigers, A boat proved that :t wars Permasent attraction, and o hnrrel-orgaa was soon eub-tittted at the Deptford ead, for tha bands of Lecf-caters. ‘This aleo, and the band at tho London end, were Analy witharawn ; but for tong tune, in fact until quite recently, a. bugler waa kept to play tho traiue in and out of tho station, out of deference to the old stage- coack custom, Another pocularty of this early road, ariwiug, tov, out of the custom of hghted etreots, wos the puctuy of a row of lamj.son each side of the road, throughout Ita entire leogtls! As though the hyht wero necersary for the eus gine to find ite track, or for the paerengera to pick out a roft spot on which to fall, in case of ncatas: fue fret eleven monch: the road eatried £36,750 passengers. Tu 1497 tho nuraber bad imereased to 104,090,000 carried in and out ot Londou alone, with 3,640 daily local trains in and out, daily, the city having eprosd out ip the way of suburbs till its popuration 16- vided op 600 #y1ar0 miles, Dung the samo year inthe whole of Great Briain’ there wero 374,293.665 passengers carried cu wingle tickets, and 29,495,600 on ‘perlodieal tickets.” making 4 tozal of 313,609,264, or more than ton jourueys for each min. woinan, and child ou tho isinnds, It is dificult to grasp there figures: but an ap- prosimate ides may he got by considering that counting ona each accond, twelve houre nday, 1 would require moro than twenty years tu ci merate thon, In 1569, there were over 109.000 miles of rail- Ways in the world, or enoush to make FuUR COMYLETE CICLITS OF THE GLOLE, and it is safe tu way Lhat since that time eu moro Lave been Link to completo auother i Tho Old World at that timo bad o 50,09 miles ix operation, of whic Engiand tiad 13.910; Germany aod Austria, 13.992; France, 9,624; India, 9.687, with 2,000 under contract Spain, 3,161; Swodon, 1.190 ; Russia, 2,800 ; Bot mum, 1,073; Italy, 2.752; Switzerland, 795 ; Egypt, 760; Holland, 617, Canada at the same time lad 2,20) mites in operation, BAPETY OF RAILROAD TRAVEL. It {s, and bas been, quite the fusion to spank of thodangers of ratroad travol; but a fow comparisons will ehow the frliacy of tho as- sumition, and prove to any eano mat that ho th safer in a railway car running at the rate of G0 miles an hour, than by his own fireside. ‘The accident insurance companies have proved thw fallacy by insuring persone for long trips, cover- ing very conmdcrable ruins, fora merely pom nalfeo. ‘Clus illustration of the comparative safely of railway travel in very plain aud, at tho samo thine, vory startling : the cbanves that one will bo struck by lightning of Le hanged ara considored extremely remote; yet atatieticn show that they aro th to one as compared with the dangor of being killed in a ratiroad ac- eldent, Of tho $13.60:,264 who traveled-on rail- ways in England in 1568, but fitieco were killed. Stated iu another form tho proposition stands + Ifa man could begin traveling at bis birth and could travol continualiy, having his hfe contin- ued until ho should be Lilled on board the cara, the probabilities would give himan existence for 60,000 years, or enough to make Methusaleh a mere wripling by comparison. “SUBURBAN CICERO. Tho Board of Trustees of tho Town of Cicero mot at tho Town-Hall, Austin, yosterday, ‘Truveo Heoville offered 8 resolution author- izing the Town Trossurer to receive cortificates of sale from the County Treasurer iu settlomont of wpecial asseusment in all cases where tho proporty asveswe] has been sold under aon order of Court for such epccial assossmout. Petitious were received frum citizens of Aus- tin and Ouk Park requesting the Board to ro- instate a4 policomen Ui. Hankormyer and C, L. Thompuon, Trustoo Willcox moved that tho petitions bo reforred to the Committes on Vohice. ‘Trustee Scovillo moved as an amendment that tho prayer of the petitioners be granted, Lost —~pyes, 3; noes, 4. Trusico Dounersborger proeentod and moved the aduptivu of a revolution instructing tho Town Clerk to send the Board of County Com- missioners of Cook Conoty a copy of the reeolu. tion requesting them to take such actiouim the Promises og will make the toll-road on Lako utreet, from tho city limita of Chicago through the Town of Cicoro, a freo read, The report of the Committes on License, to ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN pee eee oe Time, To-tlorrow Morning--The Phase Only Pactial in the West. Its Appearance at sun Rise in Chicago. Ancelirse of tho eun will ocetr to-morrow morning, Wednealay. Sept. 2% tt will be uf tha Jand called "annular" to aume portions of tho { Uh'a wurfacs, tho dark body of the moi he | ings entirely eurroundoed by a ring (annulus) of minlight, At Uhiesya it wil be only partiat, ‘Tae rn will rise a very littia to the anath of eaat, with the moon between us aud the lower half of hiv dees, presenting & ereecent of hight. Tho following chozram represents the propor- tion of thin crescent to the whole solar eurf; end ite portion with reapect tothe horizon, at o’cinek in the morning, Chicago mean time, At that instant the moon's lower hinb wil bo almost exactly on our horizon, tho loweet part of the solar cresnont being w little thuse tha apparent Jeval of Lake Michigan. No sdlowanca is male in tho diagram for tho effecta of refraction, which will causo tho cronent of light to acpear to be rtbor longer in proportion to ite broatth than hero shown, and giro to ita bonnding lives an elliptic shape instead of tho exact circular forin. tee From this time the wim will yy in apparent mze, na niore and tore of hid divs is uncovored, till at 32 minutes past G o'chs1 moun vill havo outircly pasued from Lelwee bigs and us. Tho ‘last contact.” an itis called by astrosoi;ers, cr the complete rcatcration of sunlight, will then occur, the notch of darknoes onthe eolar limb fading wut about 25 degries south of Astronomical cast, and sume 16 degrecs north from a vertical ine parsing through tho ap- parent ceutro of the sun—shich will then Lo about 10 deyrees above the honzun. The following aro the clesients of position at seeedch, 2tm, 46, 40m, 47.6- Seu, te am, 4,76 deg, 1501, 1 TALD PROM OHICAUG tho ectipse will sporoach more nearly to tho total puawe; ond near the foot of Lake Erio it will be almost toral at the instant of sunrise, As wae slatod in Tare Tsinenr of last November, in our annual eummary of the leading agtco- nozuival phenomena of tho sneceed‘ug vear, ‘it will Lo ceutral ou a line which starts a row milton southweat from Gew rung to the pylat where tho 20th dg porsk latitude Cuts the western coast of Africa, and o1 beyond the enst coast of Africa. ia south tatitude.” ‘That is near the northern end of tho Island of Madsgascar. Venus will be in coujunction with tha sun at the tine. Along tho hue thus tndicated as the een- tral path of the pheuomenon, aud for an ever. age dietauce of a hitle more than 50 miles on ech side of it, the eclipse wil bo auuular. ‘Tho reason for thid interesting phouomenon is the fact that the moon will bo retatively ao far away from the earth that the apex of her shadow will bot quite reach the eurface of our globe. Out- ido tho mite ai: iudica.ed tho eclipse will bo apartiat ono. ‘Ino limit of ending at sunriso runs near tho imidJlo of Minnosota and Iowa, and tho weetern borders of Mirsunri and Arkan- sax, into the Gulf of Mexico, The Southern limuts of tho partial pluze tarts from tho enst- ernehore of the Isthmus, in 10 deg. of north Intitude, ekirts the northern shore of South America to 10 der. of sonth latitude, id passes 15 deg. south of the Capo of Good opo. The northern limit starts 9 dog. on thiy side of the pole, pear the meridian of Chi- cago, pavevs through Great Britain and the dleditertanean, bends northward through Ara- bia, and onde in the Arabian Sea, SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF THE PHENOMENON, The avnular echpso ie s very pretty thing fo look at, sud worth traveling a fow mniles to seo; butitdocs not possess the enme Anterent to the astronomer as whon the moan is near onough to the earth to completely shut out the view of the eun, for even 6 few scconds, [1 tho latter ents the magnificent appoaranca, culled the solar coruna, is visible, Iti the kuu's Btulosphers. which can only bo seen when the more powerful light of the solar orb is cut off by tho interposition of tho moon. A sreat many of the secrets of sun chemistry have Geen discovered by tho study of the coroua ; and that opportunity will ba Jacking to-morrow, ‘This eclipse willbe valuntle ouly in s matho- matical senso, It will furuisl the astronomers with a very prociae moans of determiuing tho position of the moon; and the observations may possibly enable them to correct the tables by “which the place of the moon, at anv re- quired iastant, fa caleniated. Int even im that Texpect the oclipse will not be wo valuable aa it would have boon a faw yoaraago. Tho obser.a- tions of the tnugn’s place 10 tho heavens, a6 ro- forrod to the tixed stem, which bi whom was roforred tho petition of Martin and Bridget Smith to revoke the license of John Worner, reported that the comptsiuants had no real cause of complaint. On motion of J. W. Bcoville, the meeting sd- journed. OAK PARK, The ladios of the Methodist Eplacoya) Bociaty will give a sociable iv tho lecture-room of their church Tonraday, A particularly good tinie is autivipated, ‘Tho Baptist Bociety held a Sunday-school con- cert ip their place of worship Sunday evouing, ‘Tho Postmaster is still neghyeur of the desire and ruquest of the citizens to have another mail nadey. ‘he matterts casily obtained, aud can for the trouble of asking for it. To will bo a Sunday-School Convention at tho Rivor Forest Methodist Church Friday evon- jug for the parpove of orgaulziug the own of Proviro inta a Sunday-uchoo! district. Promi- nont speakers from the city will bo in attoad- ance. ‘I'he public are cordially invited. ELMHURST, Mr. George Taylor arrived homo from Europe Thursday last. The Hon, ‘homes Bryan returood from » short trip to Kentucky early in the week, Misa Brown, of Evanston, was invited by some. of the prominent citizeny of this placo to focture on Cowper, She avceptod the invitutiun, and a largo and intelligent audience flatenod to Ler able effort Naturcay ovoning. Tho locture wae given in tho ohapal. Tho Elmhurst Boarding Bohoot, of which Mrs, La. M, Cntter is Principal, opoued sucessfully on the 1th, Fe ene ae en JACTA EST ALEA. "Tia denet Thank God, the div is caatt Thy dread pati La u'r 5 Aud what's now buried fu the past Shall burn wy brain no mura, ‘Tho din ie cast} and on my doom Gobi Pate hay set tho woul, Wale tllyute the beurt, and leaves in gloom Ail Lopes for future weal, Heneeferth my Ufa will ever be One wa of desolation; No mueth, uo frivous jollity, No youthful detectation, Aud yet, al mes I know I'll s08, Jy others, Ute actions ‘Which will throw back the iemory Aud bring bright reovllectious, ‘What ts life without an stint To ltvel—yet Hive in blindness! No bope to if nt love'w periahed fame— No words of cleermug hinduces, . Osrcava, ea beon mado yo persistently aud regularly for nearly fifty years past, have furniahod the data from which the elomonts of the luvar orbit, and the porturbationa in that orbit, aro now known very accurately, How nearly thosu elomente have been obtaimod may bo judged from tho fact that the timo of tha eclipya of tho eto in 1869, ag calculated by tho writer for Don Moinen, Is., agreed with tha observation to within fonr seconds, and the path of tho lunar shadow across the oarth at that point waa conntant at svori uron their hooks. Tho ace countane reported the proita which ho found acerning ta pret one, and they amount ta from (4) cach, ‘Toe court condemned fon mon to a fine ct $700 cath, ten ton flno*ot £107 arch, ong toa tina of £600, ant one to the same tine aud a year's itnpriscument. Thirteen of the convicted are in tho lands of tha palice and will tinva to suffer the peunity ; the reat rd away befure tho arrest THE COURTS. CHICAGO. AMOTHER ORPHAN actT, Tho injunction againnt Morsrs. Grover & Colo and MeKeo Rankin having succeeded 20 well, the aamo parties, Shook & Palmer, Mod another bill for injunction against Mr. J. H, MeVicker and T. A. Hall, to prevent “The Twa Orphaus from belyg played ont tha New Ghieago Theatre. The allegattona are carlygtho «sino, (hough given with leas dotail, It an charged that prior to Fob. 1, 1375, thera Wage play in Fench called “Les Doux Orphe+ tart Jackson purchased a pro- prietary rightinits contents for $750, and ims turdiately translated it into English, theraby bo- coming 8 Joint proprietor of the play in the Froneh language end svie author of the translee tion, It was they cupstichted and sold to com- plainants. Tho same allcgetious aro made as before: that the pinyin valuable ono, thet fb hover bad before Luon translated or published by the consent of tho authors or transtator. It ta thea chargod that MecVicker sud his manager, ‘J. A. Hall, havo bean permitting the performance of “Tue ‘Lwa Or. phans" st the New Clicago Theatte, to the Groat damagoof the complainants, They thore- fore ask for an secouns aud an injunction againet, tho infringomont ot 'N. Hart Jackwon'a lay, or any colorable amitutinn of at, ur the employment of tho nawe of “fue Two Orphans,” "The Orphans,” “Les Urpiolines,” or “Los Doux Orpholuics,” by the defezibar. ATKINS € ULE + Tho report of D. ©. Bradley, Awigneo of At- Ling & Burgess, was fled yesterday, rocatding the sale of tha bankrupts’ property. ‘Tho As- since reports that the bid of O. I. Green for 424,000 wan the highest that was offered, and. ho recommends that tha property ba inado over ke him, on paymont | of tho 224,00), leas £13.503, which ia due to J. N. Esrkor, and is eecured by a trust-deod on the property sold. Lhe mou-y received isto be sub- ject to any liens which may be decre:d to bo vatid againat the property. ‘Ibo avlo was con- firmed by the Judo, The claims of the National Tank of Wlinats for $557, aud of A. Plagmer for $160.60, wero referred to tho Keyistur. DIveHCL, John B. Smith fled a vill againat his wife, Rate L. Smith, praying for a divorce on sccount of hor desertiun. ITE, Tegister Hibbard hae returned to the city frote bis Eastern trip, and will bo in his 100m a3 usual, Judge Biodge!t wea in town yestarday, Ta the enwe of LL. Hong, Ausignee of the eote's Oranitita nnd Bageage Company, va. VD, Matheny and Geerye Hubert to set a aide 5,000 mortage on the baukrupt's ssock, the Acerca of tho Lietrict Court dismisciug the bili Wag sustained by Judo Prim. UNITED byATHA CO! day againab Whitehouro aud Clarence Binke ta 360 demurrage on the bvivouer Welly Hueh Coyna filed a hitel ve Frane.s 3 ANENUHTCY ITEMS. Goorge W, Campbell was appointed Assignne of the estates of I'ritz Angustinand Ezra L. WH. Gardiner. - ; F. kK, Mappel was appointed Assignee of George Joernit. ‘An Aadi:uee will bo chogon for T.'T. Vaylor at 10's, m. to-day. : Tie flaai meeting of L. Nawlin and George McEiwaut till aleo bo held at the same time, and a composition meeting in tho caso of Fr oick Hinkel. Tho first dividend mectiog of Abraham Katz, and the eecond di nd meeting of William F. Mayhon, will be hold at 2 p.m, A discharge was inened to Nelson Plumb, SUPELION COURT IN KBRY, Anton Spickermaun bean a suit in trespass agniust Charlies M, Cuthbertson, Lyman Blair, and Chauncey J. Blair, to recovor $3,0U0 dam- ages for a broken leg. Ross Toniel Logan o suit in tresnass against Simon Kloo, laylug damages at 35,000, cmMcurY covEr. Willie C. Jackson began a suit for $2,500 aga'nat Samuel B. Gookina, Charles I. Race buvan a suit against Joho W. Mooper to recovor $1,000 for sa alleged breach. of covenant. CoENTY counT. : Tn thocetate of Dwight Ktinck, tho will was proven and letters of administration were grantod to Leonard G. Klinek, under bond for $24,000, CREINAL cover. William Novins, Joa ph Giennett, and Jacob MeCoy, minors, wore tried for larcepy, con~ victod, aud rémanded for goutence. Engeno Jones and Annio Gilbert, two obony- comploxioned fudividuals. wore tried for living iu open adultery, and neqnitted. Hoary Allen was tried for Iarceny, and se quitted. z Henry Wagner plosod guilty to the chargo of being fonnd ins building, nud was remanded for sontence, Charles St. Clair ana F.C. Stack were tricd and found guilty of burglariously entering the nousoof Thomas Hoyus, and wore remanded for sentence, W. Ryan was convicted of receiving stolen property, and remanded, Judgraont was outurad against Robort Jonos, Jotun H. Moor, and O. P. Lyon, for €500 oach, ou # forfeited bail bond, SUDGMENTR. Scerraton Counr—Conrxsstons—Jolin A. Brugeoy va, Jonn Wetzler, $2,275,011, J, Lake va. Asshol and Laclus 8, Pierce, $1, uo Flanigan ve. Reubea Clovelaud and Jou’ 1, 83,5351 Ciuevit Covnt—Junor Boarn—N, §, Bouton ve, Chivagn, Danville & Viucenues Railroad’ Company, $12,492.23, + ELSEWHERE, SUPREME Co CLT OF ILLINOIS. Special Viantteh to The Chicago Tribune, Orrawa, IU., Sopt, 27.—T'ho Supreme Courh proceadinys to-day were as follows ¢ MOTIONS DECIDED, 69S. Appeal diamieret, HeSNING DocrEr. 1, G4, 31, and 49. Petition dented, ‘allawed, 43, Opinion moditied, 76h. Merwin va, Hrowu; proceedings awarded tne stauter. 765, Goodman va, Tylor; sxme order, Hyman va, Nast; same, Decree of Ciretilt’ Court atirmed ; opiniot Loavo granted to amend procipe and writ. 81, Continuance set avidy and taken: on call. within a fow ecoro yardw of tho path previously agsizned by calculation, There tacts may woll cause the nnivitiated to wonder; but they aro a causo of sull greater wondor to tho ins Qividual who hag studied the mathematics soowsk to understand the intricacies of the problem by the solution of which the moon's piace at auy given time can bo ascortainad, WHERE AND NOW TO OLSENVE IT, ‘The best place from which to wateh the eclipse of to-morrow morning, in this city, 1s the late shore. As tho event will bo ovor in about forty minutes after sauriso, the sun will be too low to pormit the eclinse to bo watched from among the houses, oxcupt noar the clogs, Those who have sccess to the tops of high buildingy may, of courso, watch its’ progreva without ‘desceuding to the vulgar Juvel,” but evon that yantago ground will be scarcely #0 good a3 a position on tho shore of tho Iako, unions the atmouphero abould be much luaded with lake vapor, In the couutry avy atation tay be wolocted which has an onobatruct- od view, on thw level, towards the oast, witha Nttla leeway to tho eoutheast, A piece of smoked glaas ahould be Vetta and those who juake euch provision will fad it to thoir advan- tage to tase w long wtrip of glava, smoking it thickly at ono end, and tapering the smokiness to = faint film ot tho other end, They can then choose the degroo of einokinusa that permits the mout distinot vision, whiok esnnot always be dotormived beforchand, we the state of tho atmosphere at the timo hay something to do with it, as well as the mdividual atreugth of vidon. > Only ove total eclipse of the sun will be visi- dle in tho United States from now till the wud of tho prowent century. That one will occur in July, 1878; the line of totality will pasa Acrouy Colorado, and thence to Cubs. E.G. si hee StampingeOut Botting im Pari, Tho French polis baye stamped out betting with big bots at Paris. Not content with clei Any out the regular ofticos where bote wero mado on horée-races, thoy have pursued tho devotess of the turf into ano Eugtish tavero in an obscure street, whence the guests wore accustomed to step into the streets to {et down their buts, in” order to allow tho Isudlord to baug out the placard, ** Na bottivg allowed.” This dodgo Brant work, however. ‘The police seized every- thing, arrested a dozen porsons, alt Engtish- gach, searchod thelr readeuces, aud put an sox 795, Sturgiaa ve. Clark; motion to enter fodyraom a4 mune pro tind overrile: ation to set ald jaiigmont sustained, and Joub W, Marsh inde party 0 suit, James 1, Moyer and Juin Bf. Hughes will be ffranted Neenno to practice lave in thie state ou forely, ieohge, and Heury W, Busth on dipienie, W MOTIONS, 449, Motfon for supersedcas, CALL OF Docker, 121 add 123, Proviously dispoxes of, 322, 143, 140. Guntinuud for evevice, ah 12s T25s 125, 144, A 251, 142, 194, 185, 136, and 3, taken. 138, Consolldated with 12), and taken, 139, Argued orally by EN, Lewls for plaintiar ia error, and T. Lyle Dickey for defendant, Court adjourned to 9 o'elock to-morrow morn ing. —_—— A SUNSET THOUGHT, On Indiara’s soll, one e'on, ‘An cl-aing day bade laboe ooase, Icoutewptated lang wacene Of rural lovelinesu and peace, Dut off beyond thts viow, which gave full tous choice nought wles tu chopes, 4 ware ss gloomy au the ¢rave Facotpasied countica with Its ooze, Out on tho weatern stretch of dey Mopuitie miate roay lus beak; sth Uw taiaty, worane lay, Abd reptiles writhed (a dwellings dank, A caldron of rubssenco, cranot Just o'er thuse extulativus dresr, ‘The setting sua through cloul-e Edfulgence on the vaporuis me ‘To misamata doath-distent * With fobrile taint, this tranalen( epell —° OF sular uscronaucy lout ‘Thy peorleas buw of uacro-sholl ; And fronte of mottled ether gleained Flampoyantly before my eyes, And for s purple wowent ecamod . ‘Tho cuter walls of Paradiso, Bright waves of quid Jasper bove On aoft, Elysian aboroe of pearl, ud iridescont Evening strove ‘Mer toptnoat peunons to unfurl rained AsTdldtt befors this scope ‘Of qeni’s principality, 1 thought: : Ze Beare afar are Hopes ‘Too mark densa ei fs" i Soua Mcdoray,