Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1875, Page 2

TIIIT CTITCAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, CRIMINAL NEWS, Oanging of Henry White, a Negro WifwMurderer, nt Guelph, Canada, Thingsin Embry's Trinl at Leavens worth Going Smoothly with tho Defense. A Thrilling Tragedy Enacted Wednesday Near Olaveraont, Massy Lecount of an Inglorious Efhloplan Scheme to Escape Jail at Louisville. PAID DEAR FOR THEIR V/HI3TLE, T.oviavitug, Ky, Dec 23—\ number of por- rons contlued iu the city jail mado s desperato attempt ta cecapo this morning. Beveral negroes who wero esnfined in the rear part of the building bad becn committing depredations by breaking window glass, furuiture, and bee Lavieg very badly in pepcral, Last night seve eral of thom wero placed in n coll by them« selvor, and all wenb quictly till abont 4 o'clock thin morning. when a Jond howl was raisol. Upon repniring 1o tho eceno tho turnkoy dis- covered that tho rascals had sct flro to tho mattrerres on which they had slept, with the evident purpose of taking their escapo by overpowering tha jall oficial whon ha should onon tho door to let them out. Tho boddiog burned rapidly, aud in s fow seconda tho coll wan denro nith rmoke and fiames, slnost suffo- eating thoso within. Tho attendant obtained nssistanco an roon a8 possible, and rescued tho negroes from their periloua position, but not nn- til #ome of them wore alinoat strangled to death with_smoke. Bomo of the men wero nnablo 10 stand when rescued, nod o fow minutes moro would havo settled their denths. ‘fho prironors avlien taken away from tho fire were very willing to he locked up anywhere, and mado Dy etfost o czeape. A MURDERER HANGED. Srecial Iapateh to T'he Chicaoy Tridune, Greuen, Dee. 23,—1ho colored man, Henry White. who Ingt July murdeted Lis wifo in a Ot of jealousy, puffered the extremo penolty of tho Inw this morning. The vircumstaucea of tho wurder ara theka: White and wifo were return- ing from a danca togethor, and had somo words about the freo mauuer in which Mrs. Whito Liad conducted bersel? towards o certain man pres- ont, aud on reaching thefr own placo Whito smashod her Liead in with a hickory stick, and turew Ler body itnto s woll. The negio is one of * the most ignoinut of his class, aud elforty 'vero made to obtain & repriove on this plea, but could not Lo entertained by tho Privy Council. Thoe o took placa in the ~jailvard, anly oiivials and o few others bewng presens. 1he comlemued man exvressed the full hope of a imtrer hife, nnd ackuowledged tho justice of the rentence, 118 neck was brokieu as the drop fell, Tie doed instantly, BURGLARS. Srecial Digvak:d to The Chicano Tribune, Kaxsas Crry, Mo, Dee. 23.—Early this morn- ing o gang of thioves mado nTaid into the City of \Wsandotte, Kan,, and for some limo had things their own way, Tloy first Lroko luto tho store of Peter Lugibill, aud with o stoel drill and hammeor forced au cutranco into 8 No. 5 eafo of the Hall Lock & Sato Company's make and sccured tho contents, amouuting Lo about 2,500 in Londs, grecnbacks, and sceuritics. Thoy then pasged on to the storo of J. Johunson, on Third street, and, getting into tho building, made an attempt to get into tho safo, iu which were pvor §10,u00 worth of bonds, I'rom somo un- Xnown eauso they ot this point got frightened and loft in a burry, leaviug thelr kit of tools be- ind. Three men in o closo carriage wero soon crossing the cotuty bridgo about daylight, and i in presumed thet they wore the thicved. DEATH BEFORE SURRENDER. Special ispatch o The Chicaun I1ibuns, BrnixarieLy, Maas,, Doc, 23.—Two brothors, Thomas and Melvin March, had o bitter quarrel at Charlemount youtorday, during which Melvin turoatened Thomas' lifo. 'The latter procured a wararot for Molvin's arrost, and Da{;my—fllmril! Gould attempiea to sorve if, but Melvin throatened to shoot. Tho Bhorif weut for md, whon Melvin deliberately burned tho Sherifs barn, and then tled o the woun- tmne. A Jurgo posso started in pursuit, and af- ter o long and cxaling chaso cawe up with him, 1o threatened desth to avy ouo whu approactiod him, Lut, secivg that wolees thun seven ritlos cosered bim, ho shot himself in tho breast sud toll mortally wounded. EMBRY'S CASE. Speetat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Lesveswours, Doo. 16.—Tho secoud day's trial of W. W. Embry for the shooting of An- thony bsa' boon conotuded. The testimony given to-day was for tho defonee, all of which plaioly shows that Anthony struck Ewbey first. It was also, proven that Authony Lad beon drinke ing during tho day, whils be (Authony) said in his testimouy thucbo had taken bul onie drink duog the dry and ovening. l'ive of tho best businers-men of this ity textifiod that the gen- orul roputation of Authony was bad, aud that ho had 8 quarrelsomo disposition. Embry's frionds nrlu dfim;hncd, oud bo (8 boing cougratulated on Al widos. [ THE TWEED JURY, New Yong, Dee, 23, —1lo vawes of the Twoed siriek jury, tmenty-four in numbor, are as fols lows : Messrs, Goorge L. Board, Abner W, Col= gate, Jokn J, Cinco, Baruuel D. Davls, WWm. P, Douglas, Amos Reao, Jas, 8. Lowery, John IL Cowwell, Lizra DL Kiogsloy, Richatd Arucld, Unarles Colitus, Roberg I, Davis, John Tuylor Johnaton, Emil Oiberman, Johins W, Cuflin, Leva I Murton, Gordon Morrie, Arthur J. Leas body, Geo. Csbot Ward, Francis I Thurber, Ausun G, ', htokod, hiobert Loennox Kouuedy, wud Pelog Hall, BETTING MEN INDICTED, Lovevire, beo. 23.—~The Giaud Jury of tho City Court Lias been invostiguting bets on the late city clection, und thus far bas returned ten ludictmeuts, two of which sre agalust wembers of tbe City Council. Duttiug on the Jate election way very much indulged in Kn’or to votlng-day. Bomo made buts of as much uy 10,000, Ac- zording to the Juwe of tho State all money won lu beting on clection shall be contivcatod by tha ruthuritics for tho benont of the scuvol-fund, and tho botters sentencod to fines, ARRESTED FOR MURDER. Louisvirig, Ky, Deo, 23.—Cuarles Wilson, & firewan oo the Ohlo Rivor steamer Mary Auu, was srrested hero to-night charged with murder, 1t s alloged thaé during last Wednesday night Wilsou oud a dock-land pamed 1d Lverson Tisd ou altorcation but wore subssquently made 1riends by tho ellorts of thecrew. Lator in the »vameo night, Wilson, it is slicged, procured n cut- lars, and, attacking Everson suddenly, inllicted & vound from which he died to<lay, sT. Louis. BT, Locis, Mo., Doc, 25.—Under jostructions from Judge Kmght, of the Cirenit Court, to-duy Culet of Polica McDonongh uotifled tho mause gers of the Missousi Ftate Lottery that no further sollng of tickets or drawings would be pertuitted alter to-day, . W, Ilubburd, “Hensy T. Edwards, aod George W, Malons, counferfulters, wers eon- tenced in tho Uwited Ntates Diatrict Const to- day to five years w the Iemitontiary, MILWAUKEE ITEMS. Auecal Insvateh 2 The Chicago 1'ribune, MiLwavker, Dee, 23,—Dernard Burvett and Thowas Carrull, of Groen Bay, arrested at ot Howsatd for solling liquor to Judisus, pleaded guitty and wwero flued $100 cacl to-day, ¥ A well-planned roblicry wus successfully car- ied out at tho wholesale dry goodw store of Goll & Fraok last night, entrance belng effected throvgh an wdjoining storo, and §2,000 worth of e1lks carriod away, TWEED IN HAVANA, Ilavana, Dee. 23.—A report {8 current that Wilhwm M. T'weed arrived hiere Iast Tuesdayon » seloouor, Sovoral Now Yorkers who kuuw hiw by might say thoy saw him'yesterday aud to-duy ditferont parts of Ltho city. TRIED FOR HIS LIFE. Bpectal Diapcteh o The Chicago Lriduna, Kiovx City, a., Dec. 23.—The trial of Tim Welby fur swssult with wurderous intontions on Lo person of & Huestan 1 the Jim Rivor sottiy- want in Bopicraber luwt wad coucluded in the Dustriet Court b Yazkton yesluday. e was to-dsy sontanced to thirty-thres months in the Temtentiary at Fort Madiron, In. e counsel gavo swtico of s appeal to tho Bupreme Court. A HORSE THIEF, Specwat Diapaten to The Chicugo Tridline, Mosttertro, I, Dee, 23.—A horee-thief, give Ing tho namo of Ham T, Cole, waa arrested hore nnd pleaded guilty to a charge of stoaling a horse from Abbot Arnold, of Victoris, Knox County, Coln fs but a bey, and young in the professiou, o was conmtied for want of buil, . CONVICTED OF MURDER. onmerowy, ', Do, 23,—DBlasis Pastorius has heen convicted of tho murder of Isano Jnqueite, A motion for o now trial has been wade. 5 - JOWA. The Thirteenth Stuto Census=Report, speetnt Correspondence of The Chiengo Tribune, Dis Morses, In, Dee. 22 he thirteenth cenrus-toport of tho State (1871) hins just becn published Ly the Becrotary of Biate, and con- talnn 500 pages, or over 200 more than neaal. In 1536, tho tirat cennus of tho Territory of Wiscous pin, of which lowa was then o part, was taken. Tho counties of *Demuino’ and Du- buqus thea compriscd all the territory north of tho lino of Missourl, from tho Mississippl River to tho Pacifio Ocean, and contained s population of 10,331, In 183t Towa having been sot oif from Wisconsin ns a Torritory, & ceusns was N voptlation of 17,684, In 1817, O P sa e asler tho Btato (v, ernmont,—tha Tonitory having been admitted to tho Unlon it 1916,—and the Tosult was » pop- ulation of 1 Tho averago auuual incroease hay becu as follow: Territorial decadn, 8,704, or 2,67 per cent, 47, 0r 44,10 Jer cout, b per cent, o 4, 0r 7.4 per conty Iho popmlation of 1875 i 1,350.541—an ln- crossn of D211 sinco 1873, The white popnla- tlon showa n large lack of fowoales, which must Lo discouraring to bachelors, T'tiero are 697,057 males and 617,420 femalon. Thin is sad, The samo rule holds in the colored population, of whom thoro aro 3,123 malos and 2,453 femalos,— a total of 5,476, The firat white child Lorn in tho Bates was Samuel A. Avres, ex-Dennty Aue ditor of tho State, now residing in Dakotn,— tnrty-six years ngo. Theto are now 552,482 Hawkoses born fn tho State, ovidenclog uncom- mon industry in that direction, There were born {n the United Htates 531,550 ; in forelgn countries, 203,501, About 24 per cout of tho cutire population is under 21 yoars. Of the en- tiro pobulation ovor 16 ycare, tho averago of thosa who cannot read i 1in 105, There are 221,508 dwellings and 219,624 fawilics, or 28,056 moro families than dwollings. of tho dlato is st Tie ngricultural sreall fortl: s follows ¢ Acres improved Iand., Acres unmproved. Acres in cultivation! Spring wheat, bushels. Winter wheat, bushols. Corn, DURLOLSsesseener liye, hushels Oatx, bualicls, Harley, Lnshel Buckwheat, busiicl Flazneed, g8, thoro wero 85,466 Ierkehire, 96,033 Poland-China, 47,315 Choster Winte, 2,176 Ma- geo, J10 Llnsex, otber Dreeds, U5,31l. Number sold for siaughter, 2,634,371, 0Of tho cattlo of improved breods, thero wero ; Durham, 9,733: Devon, 1,126; leroford, 93; Ayrshire, 1445 Jersoy, 117 ; Holdernosy, 4. "Yhe uumber of BhoLp Wau 724,20.—an in- creaso over the year beforo, but a great decresdo ovar ten yoars ago. “W'ho vnlue of prodncts is fixed as followa Farm, . $124,407,078 Uarden. 720219 Urchard, 1,315,080 Sruall fralt 4,50 erd..., Dalry Fureat, oo Mauufacturce Cosl mlned., . Building-5tono. s e, s ‘Iho last threo items aro not even Approxi- matoly correct, as manufacturers rofused to give tho valua of their products, becnuso, under the ‘Faxation taws of this State, it I8 for their inter- ort to keop their busiuess from the public avd tho Assessors. Not one in ten are as reported. ‘L'he iucronsed valuo of lauds and town-lots sincs 1865 in $109,704,7:45, 2 +'ALo school-siatistics ehow: TPabtlo echool- honscs, 9,255; scholats, 606,951; valuo of achool-louses, 3241,075; total expenditures for school-purpoyes, &4,419,9 ‘I'hwere aro 99 col- legea, academios, and private schuols; of which 22 are Roman Catholie, Thus 1t will bo seou that, in all the varicus de- partments of tho Stato, thero is a thrift avd s progrosa that aro remarkable. Tho msterial wealth added is indeed coormous, whilo the edn- cational iuterests ovidenco the importance they hold i tho hearts of the people, Towa is dos- tined t0 bo tho banner Stato Jn the Unjos. AWKETR. METHODISTS AND THIRD TERM, An Explanation by tho Heve Dr, Shors man. Correspondence New York Herald, Tostoy, Dec, 20.—Tho lev. Dr, Sherman, who offorad the famoud resolution indorsiug Bishop Maveu's ronomination of Clen. Graut, bias fur- nished your correspoudont with Lis verion of tho mattor, Tho action of tho meoting, lie thinky, haa boen hnYothlv understood by tho publie, and henco to have boen subjected to much advorso and nog seldom Bovere criticisu by the press. **This wisupdarstanding,” suys Dr, Sherigan, * s mora ta bo deprecated as it involved in copsure not ounly the preschers’ meoting but tho managers of tho Lract Sovtety of the Methodist Episcopal Churety, somo of “wliom wero presont at the meoting but were in no way cunuectod in or re- sponsibla for its netion. Tho Doctor, m contiue uitg Lis explauation to your raporter, said s *Tho Boaton Preachers’ meeting 1s o miscel- lanoous assembly of Bathodlst prouoherd n tho city and vioiuity, secustomed fo gathor ou each Manday tagruing aud diseuss in o feeo way all sorts of roligious aud sucial Bubjocts, Among the subjects that came up in this shape some two motithy ago or more was that of tho coudi~ tion of ths Methodiss Episcopal Charob fn the Houth. Intho courda of tho debato soma re- marks were made, to which excoptious were taken by somo members, who thougit thow un- truo and calculated to refloct on tha administra- tion of Lishop Huaveu in the South, To set the matter right sud fo watisfy all partles, the Ihshiop, who wad theu abaeut, was fuvited to ade dress tho mooting at hig couvoulouce on tho state of vur work in tho Hauth, Ouo tho 6Gth fust,, in coonection with tha SBunday-school and ‘Tract anufvorsarios, Lo was in Boston, tu%mhcr\vith some of tho Lract and Bunday- School Bocrotarice. 1o mot tho Boston I'reacherss’ meoling, when, in rospouse to the nbova call, he addrussud tho mectiug at length on tho #tato of the Bouthern work, ‘The South- orn work was bis main aud ouly tople of ais- course, save, a8 ho fnterjectod hero and thare, s 1y Lis wont, o playful romark on somo wide issuo, Theeo cecasional hints and jokes on watters forcign to the subjoct in land, of coursoe, made au improssion ou tho audionce, which wus concorned ouly 10 kuow his version of tho state of thivgs in the rogion whoro the Tishop has Lis ofticial rosidonce, 1n explalning the condition of tho froedmen ha iucidoutally wmentioned that tho Lresident bad boen & true friond to this clasd of people, and than paron- thetically ndded, that the people would rogret it if ho should not Lo continued in offico Auother term, und, aa for hiwmsoll, bo prayed that the Lresident might bo rouomivated. “I'us way all, and it occupiod #o small a placo fu tho address 84 to mako very ittle impression on minds who wwro hoaring him in order to obtaln Lis views in regard to the roliglous state of tho Houth, Ho truly was this the caso thut |1 moving u vote of thanky aud approval Lhad referenco only to tho ]ulm indebato abonut the Soulhorn work, aud hoard with not & littlo wurprive slterward thub wo had nominuted » I'residontist eaudiduto. The Loston reacheors’ meoting, though quite frec to oxpresd ity uund on any topio it pleases, I3 not a purmunl olub, aud does not claimto hsvo made suy Prexidential nomnation,” THE END NOT YET, Notwithetanding this positive explauation by Dr, Bhorman it is clear that the watter amoug thio preachora is not yot ended, ‘Too Iig for Mkis Place, Washingtons Correspundence Loston Journay, A ptalwart, burley Dewovrat, who has for nomo timo desirod to seo his name ou th pay. roll of Congrues, in considoration of light viced, was rowarded yostorday by the sppoint. ment of ** custodisn of the u-P." ity duty way to bolst tha tlag over the 1iull of the Housa uy the hour of niceting, and to lower It jrompily usftor the adjonrument. Rojoiced over his good festuno, he wes on baud to-day, aud, tuking the “tary wud staps,” bo slarted sor tho thugestair ou thorvof @ fuw wiuutes befurouvon, but **thore's any wulip” Lubwoen ** s appoiutment adun otice,” aud o rowchiny the gurret b found that he conld not wqneeze humeelf up through the amall scuttlo-hole. No prisorer bent on eacapo over tried harder to contract (us dnnonsions, but it wan i vam, At It ha was forced to givo st up, and a mors alender Dem- ociat Lins been appoited *cnutodion of tho fag.” TIE WAINWRIGHT CASE. Tho e for Which Henry Wal wright Was Ilnng in London Lave ‘Tuesdoy, | On the 21+t inat., Toury Walnwricht was exo- ented in Ton lun for the marder of 1iarnet Lane, & woman wtom ho had decelved nud ruined, and who had borae hiin sevoral children. It was & horrilte murder, tha body being snutilsted by tho wucdoror, who attompted to carry the pleces *in . eab through tho cits with 8 view fo their altimaty concealment, 1lenry Wainweight was fouud wuilty of tho murdor, mud his botter Thoman of hoing aceesaory aftor the fact, Heury Waivwright was u the brash tiade inthe \Whiteehapel road, in the Bast Eod of Loudon—ihat vast district, teeming with n deneo popnintion, which to tho West Ltders is almo-t o terra incoguita, o wax n mmaun very docidedly superior {u caltnro te the averago of thoss among whoto ho dwelt and patsued hia voeaticn; 0t gome edueation, atd with o talent for reeiting aud lecturing, i business did nos prosper; hie loat o valuablo contract, sn:d finally ho bee came bankrupt. 108 plava of business in the Whitechapel road, n watehoneo, was clased, and all the furnitiro 1emovod tu eatinfy hin credit- ors, with the excoption of & mattress and bole stor, s habits had brought ruin upon hiny, and ho found it impossibls to support bis wile nnd childrew, his istress and hors, Harriet T.ano and her ehildren wore living wilth a Miss Wiluore, who bacamo larriet’s devoted friend, Sopt, 11, 1874, 1iarriot Lano went to the placa of business of Wanwright by appointment. 1lo bnd kent her somo money, and eho had bovn able to pot hor things out of pawy, Kho left Miss Wiimors and Lor chitdron, and snctued in high spirits aud bopoful of a epeady return, Sho was nover afierward acen alivo. A year pazsed, during which many and earnnst inquiries wore mada by the missing woman'a friouds auil relatives, - Telegrama nnd lotters wer> rocetvad by Wainwright, who showed them to Miss Wilmoro, from a maii named Frioake, stating that Iarriet had gope away with Lim to tho Contment. Thomas Wainwright was the personator of Frieake i this and the other do- vices by which the swo brothors conspured to lull tho inquiries mado. On tho 11tk of lnst Boptember, tha very day of the month on which Harret Luue Lind disap- {;flnrml o vear ago, il Loudon was startled by s orrible talo ot tho discovery inacab, in tho posseneion of a man, of two large parcels con- taining _elevon fragmonts of a fotoslo human body, The wau waa Ilenry Wninwright. A four- wheeled cab drove along the Whitechapel road 1u it wae o woun, a wowan, and two large parcels. Breathtoss, and liko a blooghound ou tho trail, suother man followed the cab through tho crowded strectd. **Btop thot cab, for God's sukel” ¢ Mun, you ara mad {” Such wero tho onlv words uttered Ly tho pursuer to two po- licomen whom ho met, and such was their repty. dho cab stopped on tho other elde of TLondon Dridge; tho pursuer as elose bohind., He had hunted his quarry to its lair, U'wo other policemon, struck by tho man's excited manner, cbserved the eab,” Out of it came tho hirer and his pnrcols, and mado to- ward the door of an old honso known as the *¢ Hen and Cluckens.” o wassarrestod insido tho honso. **Two bundred pounds if you wil 1oy mo go and yay nothiag ! " ho exclaimed tothe policcmen, fla was firmly securcd, and the par- cels examined, The man was Houry Wain- wright, his companjon was Alice Day, oue of the **ladies of tha bollet.” and iu tho parcels ware ;}xo rowains, hovu i clovon pioces, of Horriot ane, He had dug in the rear part of hia warchouso ashallow grave, and lined 1t with chloride of lime. Al being resdy ho had inveigled Harriet Lane to the place, shot her twica through tho head, cut her throat, sud buried her, Uank- ruptey catne, nnd the premiges wero to paes oub of Wainwright's Lands. A dreadful odor per- vaded the piuce, and was noticesbls in tho nmgn&mrhood. The murdered body muss bo morved. UARDIET JANE'S CHTLDIEN. Stra‘ford (Dee, ) Corrempondence lcndon Globe, Tho appeurauce of Harriet Lane's children B:uvnu that, however theic protector may bave e plockied, they wero nover sllowed to waut for anytuing, Plawp, clean, merry, and noatly drossed, theso poor Lairny frolicked around tho root, evidently (n the best of hoalth aud spirits. Not on them yet restd a shadow of their motber's dishonor or their fathor's crime. Sitting on my kuoe, and trying in vaiu to fix my oye-glass in her eyo, Bantrice was full of the grand doinga thoy had on Guy Fawkes Day. * Keul firewurks, yon know ; squiby, aud crackers, and n bonlire ; nnd then—we Lung Guy,” A very charming child, this sunny-Luired daughter of a musderer; #0 charming that several offers of advption have already been mado to the kudly woman (Mirg \\‘llflmm) whom slio and her sistor call ** ma- ma. THE OREENACRE AND MANNING MURDEAS. Jiriuah Medical Journal, 1w, 4, Thils remarkablo caso _(Waluwright's) rosem- Dles that of the woman Brown, for the murder of whom a4 man named Greenacra was triod and convicted in 1347, On this sccusion tho body of the murdered woman was cut into three porious =tho hoad was found at Paddivgton, tho trunk in tho onst of Loudon, and tho Jimba eix weoks afterward 1o tha District of Camborwell. Lhe identity of tho body wus clearly made oul, in spite of this attompt to defeat justice, In the \{'llnumlx; caso tho eyvidenco shows that no attempt hnd beon made to disposs of the body by burying it under tuo (loor of & roow, a quan- tity- of chlorido of llme Dboing thrown over it aud freely mixed with the earth of tho gravo. “I'his was tho aode in which thie Manoings, hus- baud aud wife, disposed of the body of n man natued O'Connor, of whoso murdor thoy wero convicted at the Central Criminal Court in 1819, A Fino Art Expericnce, Loston Commerciat Bullerin, Into one of the largo Juwelry aud fancy goods store of Boston walked, the athior day, une of those customers that tho holidsy souson sometimes Lrivgs to town. e was a hard-hauded, looso~ Juinted, broad-shouldered judividual, carefully drossed in snew suit of baggy, ready-made clutlies, & homo-laundriod shirt, and a hat which, wlthough perfectly now, was threo seusous bo- hind the present fasbion, Sauntoring up to vpe of the salesmen, with a vory obvious attempt b bolug at hume smong the glittering sploudor of tho salosruow, aud a gonural air of **Not $0 bo astouishud or done by you Ioston follers,” b inguired. “jot any brouzes " Tha clork auswered iu the aflirmative, and led tho way to o bowildoring stock of brouze statu- cties, clocks, oto. ‘L'ho vieltor stara) at thom for a mowmout as an futerior Afrivan might havo at tho first whito mon_ Lo bad ovor aeon, nnd then, sotting biy hat a ltllo maro firmly on his bhoad, askod, “Which »' them figgers mout bo tho Venus of lilul low 7" Tho tralned eslesman, with placid counte. nauce, quietly roulivd + “§do ot remember any by that title; aro you sure that wan the namo " ‘fuo patrou of the tino arty drow a Isrge yellow wilk handkerchiof from Lis Lat, ®od, oppiog his fnco nneasily, said : +* It mout b’ beou aca high, but I think it wns high low ; Mariar sod that of Ithou't of seven-up 1 shouldn't forget tho nume, The fact is," said tha puzzled purchasor, with a sudden burst of confidenvs, ** tho fact i3, Cap, I bov just put up o now tenmont down to Bouth Iigginebore', aud Mania "lowed sho'd ke a brunze 1 the koepin’ Joow, suthin’ hke what sha seed onco {u cousin Bam Btiffuer's parlor on Boacon strect, (‘ounin Bam hLe writ tho vame on s card, "t praps 1've ®ot 1t uow " and, diving into his breast pocket 83 i ho wad to unsheath a two-handod eword, ho lugged out nlong pocket book, from tlhe dopths of which ho plucked a card aud banded 1t 1o tho salosta, 5 **ALL" sawd tho Lattor, ‘‘the Venus of Milo, You uir, hore fuu fiuo copy, u roproduction by Barbitionno,” ‘The twomer survoyed It earnostly for s mo- meut, aud thou suid § * Yo haint got a perfect one, hov vo, Cap? This"ers ovohas ot buth her armsand gob donts wll down bar back,” ‘Lo patient salesman oxplalued that the statu- etto was a copy of the origiual that was found that condition, ++Bhoh " commonted tha other, aud then hesi- lnllnpsly, “dou't auy of them have suy moro ologo 'n that 2 This "ero ouo's muht gown 'pears to Liave kiud of slpped off ou lior."” Agam tho shopman, despite bis iwitching mus- oles, explalued to bis atteutive listeuvr tuat 1t Was an fmilation of an sucieut siatue, s, howe ever, cocking his head on tho sido, inquired : **Wall, naw, whiat'll_you tax fur Lor, jous ag she stauds ¥ rapping bie bouy kuuckles ‘on the bronze, as if It wero o buzz ssw, ** Oue hundred aud £fty doliars Lor that slzo,” said the clork, “Wha-a-t!" almost shouted the mstoulshiod would-be patron of she sriy; **a hundrod 'u ity dollary fur o brunge gul 'thout suy wrws, aud bhiearco o 1ag Ao her bsck! Voaus of My Low! Venus of Your iligh, 1should say. A Luudrd "n ity dollurs! Why, that's Lalf "tho wmortyage ou brother Jim's farw. Guooss Blariar muse thouglt wy nawe wag Willian B. Astor, lustead of John Iliggina:" aml, ti.ine his hat n little tirmer, hio miada a hasty ovit frosa the store, and rtrnck A straght Lus for tao Bastern Railrosd station. THE EX-DUKE OF MODENA, Something About the Lato Kraucis Ve Landon T'vmea. Tho map of Lnrope haw wufféred so many transformations sinco the downiall of the Aus- toan power in Lombardy that the wotld has almost forgotten tho malignant influonce onen cxerted over Huropean wvoitics by tho potty Princes of 1lal The death of the Austrian Archdulio who wan onco known a8 the Diko of Modena may rerio to romind us that tho Reneration which was fdentitied with the most pwinfut and fgnodlo poriod of Lialinn sorvitmle 18 pareing away, Peraonally, tho character of the Dulo had no characteristion, bad or wuod, which would entitle him to bo remombered in history : but as istarieslly typleal his eavese aud his claimy are not uuworthy of notico, [lo was, in trath, 0 ropresontative scion of tho old Monarchical syatem hich wa wero fortunate enotigh to break down in tho soventeenth con- tury without shattering the continaity of onr in- situtions, which Franca mave patnfilly an dis- astrously flung off n hundred years Iater, and which bas now disappeared even among tho dess potie Empiroa of the Contmont, The Dubie of Alodeua concenteated in himself the glories of all tha reactionsry Rovaltios of Burape, His prandfathor wad the Archduka Foraivand of Austria, son of tho Ewmparor Francis L hig graudimother was tho Duchess Maria of Fate, daugliter of the lnst ruler of tho lina which, sitcs the fifteonth century, had reigoed in Modowa, Gnastally, Rogyio, ind Ferrara, Moraover, the Modeueso faniiy of Este, as ropresouting Lho fo- nalo lino of Mavoy, with the rights trausmitted to it through Cliarles ihe First's daughter, Hen- ristta of Orleans, might, on tha theory of the right divino of roveroigns, have alleged a titlo to tho Englis crown prior to that of tho foire of Hanaver, desconded from Charles the Furat'nuis- ter, e P'retenders, howover, with whom tho Duko of Modona way ot intimately conugsted wera the victims of much more_recont rovolutions than thoso which drovo James 1L, to $t. Ger- maing, ‘Uho Iast Duko of the old line, Ireolo of Esto, was disposseseod by Napoleon, and his Duchy was abdorbed st tho Cisalpine ltopublic, But when, nearly twonty years later, tho innn- dation of French conquest had subsided, tho Allicd Sovoreigns, parceling ont lLialy amouy the cadots of tho bouso of Ilnpsburg, bestowed Modenn on the Archduko Francis, the son of Duke Ercolo’s ouly datighter. Thia Princo mar- ricd n Princess of the Houao of Savoy, nud feft hir Dueby to o son, Fravcis V., who died on Sat+ wrday evening, nt Vienua, after mixtaeu years of exilo, folluwmivg & troublel reign of thirteen ¥ Francis V. suecooded to the Ducby of Moidona at o crittenl timo for rulers who, Ba way 1o lis caso natural from Ins deecent and connections, wera deeply convineed of monnrehical irrespon- gibility, 1t was in the early duys of 1946, when all Italy was yuivertng with the rovolutionary propagaunda, when demoeratic apostics, patriotio Poets, and passionaio youthlul maityrs of liborty wero fanning the 1iama destined to biaze out so fiercoly two yoars later. Many 1taliaus hoped to compromtue with the rovolutiou; jn a few montha the world was to be sstonighod with the sight of that wonder_of wonders, n reforming Popes; ond if tho Itallan Princes had been gifted with the smallest weasuro of foresight, thoy wmight have ovaded or brokon tho forco of the Lenviest biows whiel fell en them in the hour of popular wrath. A modorate policy in Church ond State would possibly bave saved Modona, Tuecany, Parumu, and tho rest. Buat Franes V. quickly showed that ke Liad no sympatbies with woderation, 'Tho Jesuity woro dominant at his Conrt as thay bad been at his fathor's, Bearcoly bad ho assumod tho government when ho pro- coeded openly to ideutfy himself with tho fa- natics of reaction by nevotiating marringes for hoth his pisters with tho Bourton Pretenders to tho Froucl nud Spanish throucs, I'ho elder of theso Princceses bucame, in 184G, the wifo of tho Comto de Chambord, and the Sounger, in 1847, the wifo of Don Juan, hoir to tho protens sious of the firat Don Carlos, It Ia prabable that tho political offcet of thoxo Modcnoss ruar- riages hiaa not boen lees than that of Mary of Esto, the mothor of ** Jamos I1L" It hay Leon often mrurmised that the obstinacy with nhich the Cowte de Obambord declines all * transac- tions " with Liberal 1doas may have been eu~ couraged by dowmnatic iutluonces. Wo mny, por- hLaps, ulso wore cloarly read tho charactor of tho nrrogaut Bourbon who i msintaiving a fruitloss contest in Spam if wo remomber that his mothe er was sister of the Duke of Modeun, Thopoliey indicated iu thoso alliances was subsequently puraued with 8o much acuvity at Mudens that o yoar after his sccession Erancis V. had becomo one of the most detestod of Jinropenn rulory. In 1817 and the boginning of 1843, his Govern- ment way only upheld by Austrin bayouots 3 but tho Austrians had soon more than cuongh todo to hold their own gronnd sgainst lied- wout, [uugary, and the revolution which oven meunced tho Liapeburgs in thoir capital, Fret, tho Jesuts fled from Modenn; the Duke soon followed ; then he crept back again for a whito, onca moro under Austrian protaction ; a scc- oud time ho tvok to flight upon the eve of Novara ; and, finally, Lo returncd when the liopes of tho ltalians had baen swept away for n soason by the dotest of Ciwnrles Albert. That was tho aummer of complaceut Conservatism all over Europe. In Germany, the nspirations after national noity were quelled for & time nt O}« mutz; in Italy, tho Austrisna, the pricsta, sud the Princelings overywhere scized and dividod PUWer ohco tmore, The Duke of Modons came back to lis Duchy in 1849 witn woothing misos of n hiboral polloy nnd s reformod “adininlstration § but o year Iater the Jesuits came buck too, au the ducal promises wore forgotten, Modena waa scandalously msgovernod danng the decado which eustied § tha peoplo wero not only batked of tho nattonal ideal vu which thoy hind sot thoixr hoarts, but were wormed by s galling pety tyranuy. ‘Tho cup was overflowing when Cavour's subtlo eraft preaipitated tho opoulng of tho Italian Question in 1859, Tho victories of the Fropch nnd Sardinian armies in Lowm- bardy gave a shock to all tho petty Princlpatitios which clung to tho skirts' of " the Austilan dominlon, and offairs 1 Modena becamne so threatemnyg that in June, 1859, tho Duka tlod,— this timo tinslly,—leaving power in the hauds ot a Regeney, whiteh oxpirod a conplo of davslater ot elieer torror. Tho popular voleo imperatively domsuded nunoxation to the sub-Alptuo King- dum. Tho_political compramisey concoctod by tho ingenuity of lmperial statosinon were plaine Iy seen to be out of dato. Tho absorption of the uchios was recognized as inavitablo, aud in Mareb, 1860, Klug Viotor Emmanuel * deereed * tho union of Modona and its ducal nelghbors to the Kingdown of Bardipia. Against thin snerl. logloun vialation of divine right the oxiled Duke iwwediately fulwinatod a protest: bat his appoal to the consclonco of Ruropo hiad ay littlo practical offect on the popolar mind as the solemn warnings _the Cowte do Chambord sonds forth from Frohsdurll, of the vehoment denunciations of the ravolution which Don Car= los poors out from the monutains of Navarra, T'ho amalgawation of ‘Iuscany and tho Limilan Provinees with tho kingdom formed in Northorn Italy by the union of Piedmont aud Lowbard procecded witharapidity and thorougliness \rhu‘{x proved soparation to be an unnatural state, 'Tho subsoquont ncquisitions by which tho work of Italiau unity hau boeu accomplished have boen more utrikiog dn their incidonts, and moro bmportant in tho intorests affeotod ; buc their —assimilation hms not beon o mechsnieally tfect, nor, iudesd, n ity moral resulty at all wo satlulactory, ns that of the annexationy of 1650-60. Thory aro no trouble- somo tracos of particularism in tho Duelios; it Modona, like otlicr cities both groater aud small- cor, lias somo reason to rogret hoer depomtion from she rank of & capital, though the capitul onlvof an Insiguitiesnt Dukedom, tho loss 18 outwaigbed In the ostimation of the vast major- ity of lullnnflq tho enorinous galus of unity and frecdom. Tho secluded, self-suficing lifo of tho peoplo of a petty Principality had much which was quaintly pictwesquo” about it, but 1% wus o narrow aud unwholesome hfo, Trwvlo was cramped within eirait- cued borders by an fguorant sud vollish flscal sysows; clorical intlusues frauti- cally struggled to keop out new ideas; tho national spirit which makes a country respectod aud sell-respocting was banned by the rulers of theuo little soveraigntion as a curso and & peril, All theso things aro changed, \Yhatover may bu tho faults of Italian polioy or ot ltalian sd- wintstration i new Iisly, ideas, busingss, and social inttiences can movs to and fro without Jot or hinderance. ‘Ihis wovement 18 an indispons- able condition of healthy growth, It iy becansa tho order of things wnich the Dako of Modena ropresented wad hirecoucilable with thiy wholo- so1o vitality of all the nationat energios that wo rejuiced an” fs final coilapso aud ta disappear- auce from the politics of tho prosent age, Adhert Edward, 47 Hrdbkiyn Arous, The Priuco of Wales is producing o doop im. frossion upon, tho wupukiitious widndy of ller lujesty’s suvjocts in Iudia, Mo drove out the othier day with a lurge perty of Lughsbmen and butives, They bad taken & lobg tour into the interior, aud were about to return, when s hugo tiger darted wuta the road & few buudred fuct aboud of them, Alvere Edward was the firat mall 10 tutuble off Lis soat sud crawl under the straw, wulteriog ue he did eo, Loni svil qui wal y pense DECEMBER 1876. 24, " LEGAL HOMOR. The Bar Associntion and the Aldere manioc Contempt Casa. Wanted s An Organization Whichh Will Enforco Professional Nee sponsibiltiy, To the El tor a? Tha Clao v Fribune: Cnteaao, Dee. 23.—In your acticla upon * Le- ol Lonoe™ in tha issne of the 24l wass., you Juatly expreas yousaclf as to some ouly of the dangors to Lo opprehendod to the adminlstration of justics by tho evrrupt practices of unscrupi- loun members of tho lvgal profession. y While you nre right iu your conclustons, you nistako the exceptionw for the genaral rule in wtating tho yremises upon which your conclue wlons nro basml. For it 1 by no moaus trae, as & fact, that tho conduct which you condomn i recognized ps ** profossional” among tho mem- bers of n profession moro abased, becanse moro mirapprohiended by tho genoral public, tuan any othor. A lawyer can uo-moro justify o criminal or erimp by a rasort to nofair means than Lo can commit tho erimo of which his cliont may be acensed, and expoct absolution under the ethucal code regulutiog the conduct of all attorneys, and that staudard of honor and morality 5o uui~ veraully recogmzed by Judizen and eottndolorn. It is not to bo denisd that your *elnsa cf Jaw- yors "—L. r., tho class stereotyped ns mon who will do nuything for o foe, sud soll justice for a cousiderativn—do exiat, It {s also true of tho most encred ealling that knaves and bypocrites gain admigsion to the ultats of ruligion aud of Uovornment, and work tho greatest injuriea to mankind by tho prostitntion of thur placos and tho high ofllces they nhold, 'The Supremo Court of thisState, in tho cose of Thoe Peopleve, Lmnborn, a coutonmpt caso, whero an attornoy was ciarged with botraving tho con- Iidence roposod in him, sagn: **Courts of jus- Lioe oughit to be careful, from & jnsc sense of their own honor sod intogrity, a8 woll as from o rogard {o the interest of the community, to bo cautious whon thoy admit to administor in their tomplos, and firm in expolliug from their portals thoso w boss conduct woald pollute the judicial altar.” In the eame connoction, tho Court saya: +The nttorney ahould bo actaated by high and honurable motivos ; but, if othoriwiso, ho bacomna n Beourgo to society, and o stain to a profession wverywhara estoomed honorable,” I could 11l & volumo with extracts of cloquent rebnko of thoso who falf under tio clavs you de- setiboin ruch glowing langungo as mombors of the legal profossion ; but tho very pructices of whouy, as described by you, places them ont- alde tho ** Bar” and undor the ban of thoir hop- ornblo professionul brothron, 1t was in vlow of tho fact that the repntation af tha ** Bar " has sufered, and will always puf- fer, in tho estimation of tho outside publie, from the practices of thoso who, according to tho opinion of the Buprema Court, *pollute tho fudicxal aitar,” and who, rceording Lo your opin- on, coustitute tho **legal profession,” that a Bar Aswociation was organizod in this ity & yoar ago. A fow of tho leading membors, the snme as thoro in Now York City who romoved Darnard apd Cardozo off tho bench, came togetbor aud do- clared that, to * maintain thohonorand dignity of tho profession of tho law, and to increasn "ita usofulnoss in promoting she due administration of 3ustico, the Assoclation should bo organized.” Ic was 80 organized, It drew to itself about 250 uicn out of the 600 that constitute the Lar of Chicago. Lvery promiso wad held out thny the bouecficont demign of its found- ors would bo realized, tuat tho fold wonld bo divided, that tho profession would be puriticd, and tho due administration of jus- tice recured ngaiust tho uuscrupulous huckstors in fixed-up juries, and back-stairs iniluoncos set at work agamst Judges, tbatso often disgraco the tempioa of justico and corrupt all tho fonu- tains of “junispradence. 1Lut the knaves of tho Jrofossion aro mare active than the loyal body,— as 18 ever tho caeo in all social organizations, A fow, liko the ward bummuers fu our political orgauizalion, from the beginning obtaived tho control of jts affalrs, and, availing themselyes ot its combined strength, havo to somo extont uppropriated the intluenco and powor of the As- soclation to extend their-own private aud solfish iutercsts, The “‘ring”in the Lar Association lave manifosted their power 1a doing some things they ought not to hwve douo, but moro espocially ‘in loayving undone tho things the; ought to_liave don, aud we may add, * Thore 18 10 hoalth in it,” Lot mo cita yon to tho lata election of a Judgs of thu Supreme Court in this district, for wiom the very activo ring membors™ of this Arsociation declated thomselves, lio way tho candidato of tho cliyus moro than o yoar since, and ho emi- wrated hero for that purpose. Wa will say unotbing of his logal sttainmonts, Leenuso you bave alroady found tho truth tn that voapect, whon you sald of hiim, ** IIe wag n sccond-olasa lawyer.” Dut how doos he stand i rospect to the bonnr and dignity of tha luw, and tho duo admivistratlon of justico according to tho standard of professional conduct? 'Pau record of tho Bupreme Court to which ho in olucted, and Lo which this Association cootribu- ted, by its mlenco and mou-getion, will nuswer. It iy only o fow tonths ago that the wholo community wos startied by one of the grossost outragos evor perpotrated ugainse the universal frauchiso of our hiborty in the stufling of tho bullot-boxes of the city to clange its Muaicipal Uovernment. Tho Citizous' Asaaciation thonght the courts could wtill afford thom protection against tho Inst step to bo tuken by a * rimg Council ¥ iu the consummation of Lthe ottrage. Que of tho most upnght aud sndopendent Judges Issuced un ln}uncllnu to arrost the throatened wrong. It" was thon that tho power of tho legal profossion was fuvoked, sud whore it should bave besn the lawyor's duty as an ofiicer of thio comits of overy degreo to uphold its procoes in defovso of hberty, there wora found four membors of the profossion in Chi- eago, to counsul tho Aldormon to 1euist the pro- cees, duly the courts, aud opouly contemn tho law of tho Iand, If this contempt had boen o mete impulve of paysion, committed in presonco of tho Court, somothing in imtigation conld bo urgod; but {t was denborato and contrived aftor mature study, s0 as to imposo a chartor of gov- orowout upoen tha Ennplu ** through & fraud por- potrated upon tho builoj-boxes,” obtaiting & res Tesult by tho action “of tho Comumon Council which tho courts conld not afterwards supersodo or duclare u nullity, howover otherwiso it might punish the oifenso of contempt, Lho Govoru- ment iisolf must bo rocognizod as do facto, Tho poople of Chicaso must submit to revolutionary violonce—n chaugo of Goveramont—~or accopt the de facto Govorument, bocause certain mom- hors of thu * Jogal profession interposed tuoir authority, as oflicers of the court, to protcot the cuu-vlnum, aud gavo their written opinion that the Court issuing the jujuuction could not pun~ ish them for a coutompt, Now you can flud tho names of thoso gentlo- mon, one of whom and the principal you have just elected to tho Buvreme Court, and nvither yoursell wmor the Burs Ase socistion huve eover pointed thiy outrugo cut ps ooy objection totho candidate, Again you willtind, a¢ 1am iuformed, that the Dar Arsoolatlon hins been excoodingiy diligont in ap- pointing committees to proseouts such obsours wmon 88 O'Leary snd Goodrich for malpractlco in the ivorco Courty ; whilo wuch mon a8 Goudy, Iickoy, and Tnley, mombera of the Awsociation and responsiblo for the outrage above recitad, aro passed over in ullouve, Iere {6 tha poiut to which vour editorial con- sures xhould bo pointed. Thoe profession nt lurgo shouid not bo Lield respousible for the sins of o fow, Othorwite Low oftou witl !l profossors of roligion Lu placod tu the eriminnl dock tor the 0ifonsod of tho knaves and bypocrites who seek the vory eanctuary of tho churolies as & mere cloak 10 tho frauds they meditato, and stcseod Ly meaus thoreof fu porvetrating, You sy “thore uro wcores of Jawyera fu this city who ought forover to bo debarred from sppearing in = court for pructices at once uaprofesslonal and dishionorable,” Very true § but how con it ba otherwiso if you, asan organ of the people, give znur wapport or countonsnce to thosa law- ore by sach an indorsoment ay you lutely ex- ibited In their eluction to the Bupromo Court of the State 2 Wao sra informed that p great deal of dissatis. faction exists tnside the Lar Association on ace connt of its uttor waut of moral courage to bring its own members 10 ocaunt, and that ite {atluro in to bo supplied by & uew Assoclation, Nothiug but tho svorsion to the controversy it will eugender, and the rupture it will causo ot i.mmmnu lutimaoies, bus dolsyed this reform. lat why doos the pross indorse such motbers of the profession a8 are guilty of tho practices of which 1t complains ¢ I it because, as alloged, that it bolioves in the uatural dopravity of the whiolo body, aud thut exceptions sre 80 rare as not to be recognized? ‘To admit this fa to at once despair of our eutiro socisl and govern. mental vrganization, jn comparson with which any other political or social structure would Le h}:‘r preferable, evon may rutbier anarchy snd chiavy, S Dz Storles, Those who are it the babit of telling prodigl. oua stories ought to huve good wemenlea; bus, furtunately, thor momosied aro gouerally shogt, chard Drinaley fhoridan daalt with thons uondaciony pests inn manner peculiar ta himselt o would nevor allow himself tobo ontdone by n verbal protigy. Wien.ver a monstrons atory waa told in s prosonce, o wonld endoavor to outdo it by ono of luy own eolnawo, and cousign tha unrrator to confasion by n falsehood more glanug than bia own, Onee fu bis Loating o svorting adventurer ran thus: T wnn fishung ane day, say in o cortatn cold epring full of delieions tront, and koon caught n larec moa, Nut what wae really pnrprining, not & foot from tho cotd wpring thero was one of boilng water no that, wnop you wanted te ook your tish, all yon hind to'dy, after hooking them from the eohl epring, was to pop them direetly fnto the boiling,” The comnany all exprossod nston- mhmont nnd Incredulity at this monalrons nssoer- tion, with the exception of Sherdan, “1 know," sald be, “of n phenomenon yeb miro murprining, I waa fishing one day, shen I cama £ &} Inco where thero wore throo aprings, Tho firsl way & cold one stockod with flsh, the second he third n natural foun- r and parsiey," nd parstoy 1" ezoialmod tho firat story-toller, *‘impossiblo " o m s Fines, AT RED OAK, IA Cowert Brures, [a., Ded. 23—A flre at Red Oak at 2 o'clock this morning destroyod the ou- tiro cnst side of tho Luildiugs ou tho publie oquare. That sido of tha squnto was built solid with frames, ‘Iho firo broke ont in 4 one-story building bLelonging to 31, Ioppen, of Now- ark, N.J,, and ocenpled by D, J. Ockerion ns o worgroom, Tho firo, notwithutandiug tho porfect calmnesn of tho air. pproad ru]vid)y. and in about two hours that whola sido of the syuure, excepting tho buildiug 1o whicl was tho druge #toro of Wheelock & Clarke, was in_ashes, Tho Hoppen builidng was iusared in the Keokuk Stato Company for 2500, Noxt south wwasa good two- story buildiug owned by W. ‘. Johnson, of Ottumwa, and ocoupiod by Leowls & Childy, hardware. No insaranco on tho building, Loss, €2.000, Lewiws & Chills loss sbout 86,000, Inaured in tho Commercinl of Bt, Louia for $1,000. The nost two wera one-atorv buildwigs. T'ho first was owned by N1, A. Thompson, aud oceupicd 4 a warohousa by Lowis & Childs. Ioss on bnllding, 8500, Tho second was owncd by Mike Oshorn, and occupled by Mrs, JI P, Lowis os o mullincry gtore. Loss on bullding, £500. No insurauco, The corner building was owned and oceupicd by Joseph Fishor an o grocery storo. Lomi, 4,000, Iusured on building &1,00) in tho Mercantile of Chicago; on goods, for $1400 in tho Commercial of 8t, Louis. Tho building, » two-story, next north of the ouo {n which the fire “orlginated was ownod by Whittior & Durham, and used ns a horness manufactory. Loss on building and goods, £3.000. Insared in tho Mereantile of Chicazo tor 1,000 ; in the Globo of Chicago for 1,000, Tha noxt was a one-story Lmlding ownod by T W. Crandall ; loss, 84005 uo snsuranco; oceupied by J, M. deLeau as a dry-goods stole; McLean's losy, 2500. Next wera two buildings, ono stories, owned and oceupied by JTeaso Payne 88 o rostourant and " tobacco storo; loss, about £3,000; eomo insuranco o roods, Next was the harness shop of Thomns Gohgan ; loss, on goods, #2090 : na in- atrance 3 bulding owned by ‘Thomas ltowors ; lors, 5005 no insurance., The noxt building was a one-story frame ownod by T W, Crandall, which was torn down to provent further spreading of thoe fire, Wheelock & Clarke's drug stora was the corner building. The Roods woere carried out in & hasty manoer, and damaged to tho extont of somo £200. Tho loss of Mr. Ockerson, who occupied tho bnildlnF in which tho fire otiginated, {s about &1,000. Tho total loss Is about 20,000, Tho fire is bolloyed to have been tho work of an iucendiary. i IN NEW YORK, New Yonk, Dec. 20.—A firo thin morning In tho buildings Nos. 40 and 44 Vesoy strees, caused lossus nmiounting to 40,009, distributed among a number of occupauts, who aro wostly insured, IN CHICAGO, The alarm from Box 823 at 10 o'clock laat even- ing waa caused by a firo in the two-story frame building, No, 166 Bouth Deeplaines stroet, owned and occapied by John Pratt as a dwelling, Damago on bullling, €100; nsured for §500 in tho Uuderwriters', of New York; and on furni- ture, 3400 ; imsured for $260 in tho samo coiwe ey, AFTER BRET HARTE, And Not So Very Far After ITim Elther. Sonora (Cal.) Demicrat. Wa are about to relate an incident which would io our opinlon form o firat-claas basis for *'a story of California lifo,” 88 portrayod by tho thousand and one amateur imitatura of Francis Brot Harto, First doscribo tho surroundings. An alkali villago In tho heart of the Mouo conu- try, wuors tho * Hrat low wash of civilization 18 indicated by batterod oyster cans and empty Bourbon botiles, “Lhe village itself a conglom- oration of adobo, and cauvas, salovs aud cabins, vico and virtuo, reckiess indopondence and super- natural idrocy. The occupation of the inhab- tauts snytiung appropriate to that section of the country—at presont wo aro at a loss to suggest any occapntion suitable ta the surround. inus, but have no donbt that tho fertilo brain of tho amateur will readily tind somotbing for his horoes to carn their diurnal sustenancs by, As for a nams for this dilapidsted, ous-of-tho-way piace, Batan's Roost wiil perbisps do as well as any other. It {8 not at all neccesary that all shuald be promivent, but their remaris (in dialect of courso) must bo Judiciously selected nud crammed in whenever tho wrlter {5 at o loss for a poragraph, Let the broken-down butamer play tho walo bero, 1t may bo as woll to call i & man of superb education and clameal parts, formerly a plucer miuer in tho southern tnings. 'The woman who is to lend grace to tho #tory, must bo tho only fomale in the * camp.” Don't picture hor as pretty or overvirtuvus, for tiat would bo entirely unorthodox and wot ajl after thostyle of tha mastor Lobomlan, Around thosa two the iucidents of tho story maut cluster, The man drinks liko a flub and tho womnan iy “unconventional,"—takoes in washing for a hving and is idolized by the community in which sho Tives, all of which way bo ontlfoly inconststaut with the trutt ; but no matter—you sro writing n California romunce, and ruconsistenoy must bo your grouud-plan, Thu man’s uumo s ** Handy " or “Seotty " or ** Peto” or “Jim" or any sug- goativo titlo, 'T'ho woman may be **Tho Prido of Mono™ or “Cnerokeo Bal™ ‘or * Chiquita,” 1t matters net whick. And now for the ivcident. **Bandy " or whatevor his name iy falla in love with the ** Prido of Mono." 1lis passion is re- ciprocatod, A gambler oallod ** Short-card Bill ® (olussioal cogaomen) in also in love with tho Lorote, Deadly animosity exists batweon the bummor aud the gamblor in consequenco, nnd they l;lat oach othier's ruin, Finally-tho woman tolly the gumblor that sho cavuot love bim, lla rapon around for a while and at lost comos to the conelusion that Lo will decido the wholo matter by an appeal to chance. whethor ho shall kill the bummor *Sandy" and murry *Chorokes Bal” or whethor he shull wount his splendid thoroughbred and dopart in tho oarly dawn just sy o fow drowsy Chinamen aro wonding thoir way down tho rocky ravine to thoir datly Iabor, ‘I'he dice decido that * Sandy" must die. ‘The scoue changes to the **Howling Wildernesa" ealoon. At this polnt, the amnteur may display his powers of description and bis kuowledge of pervorted dinlact. Mutor **Sandy.” Linter “Bhort-card BIIL" Entor other catlaver- oty monstrosities destgnatod citizena of **Batau's Ruost. 'I'he gamblor provokos a quarrel with the meek-oyod bummer. A pistol-fight ensucs, Hora the amateur can litorally * throw himselr.” 1o can get a scone of coufusivn sud carougo that might rival the famous fight at Gilgal, 4+ whore thoy piled tho doad outside the daor by cords,” snd in which the * short, wharp bark of the Darrluger™ was hoard **goundiug the kuell of doparting sonls.” ‘Lho gambler b victorioue, and * Bundy * stretobes limsulf out on tho floor preparatory to dying in orthodox California romantio fushion,” * Bhort-card Bl " mounts ity horse, and in company with * Chorokeo Sal,"” who has reloutod, departs from that viciuity for- ever. In the mesutime tho hfu-bioad elawly oozes from tho lofs sido of -Hundv." Apparently the buminor's minotos aro numbered. ‘I'ha only plysician in tha place i culled, sud tho following * realintio” couvorsation ousucs, oo, old pard, what's tho chisnces 2" “Bllm, Baody, d—d sliw," * 1[as Bho gone, Dog ¢! A world of pathoys burdens these worda of tho dying msn, ++You, Bandy, sho's gone.” ‘Toars woll up {u the oyus of the bystandors— oyon that had uop kuown tusrs slnce tnaz laut phuad upaa tho weil-worn strap thet hung beside the patcrual flroplave, ‘*Uous and left me; gone, gone, tmue." A llllul and & Bilenoo [u the ** Howling Wildeineas " Liat won towmb-like I its solemuity, ** How much longer, Doo, ken [ Laog o “*Just two miuutes aud three-quariers,” sald the doutor, graaping the hand of the dying man, A couvuleive shudder passes through the fiame ot tup slwoss defunce buwuwmor, Tuen raising bimasclf on bid elbow with a wighty offort hoe throwys ono arm around the neck of tho doctor and in pathetic toned oxaaling : ** Kiys me, Doc, Liss 1. L'vo nothing more to He throws dico to seo | o for now tht Sal'a gone, Kisa mo, Deo, Rlzy we."” Aunothior vanse, *Lime up, Doe?" continues tha dsing man, "Tiino up, " teplies the dudtor. ** About timg you woro dend," Moro pausen, The bummer tries to dio, buy dorn not wiccedd. Finnlly lie gets up, and, Boing to the liar, sontontiounty ronarke s ** oo, myni lot's licker." "h %_'Ilm **hov. : er, 2 ho myatory betug explained, 1t appoars that * the bullet glancod arown | ~'Si\mh‘n’w by m:\; camn ont noar his vertabem instend of gomny straight through him as it shonld haso don, Tho man iives, much to tho phvaician'® diag. pontwont, Thiv magmficont piot s offored tg tiso uapiring swatour free of charge. A COLORED GIANT, Ex Ald. enton. of Alexandrio, N York tiravhie, Ald. John A, Seaton, of Alexandcla, o Bleanly calorod man, who attracted much attention about two yeats ago whon Lo marched as ono Y tho guard of honor heside tho hearso containing the reminy of Chorles Summer on it parsagy through Now York, Is now a Apocial Doputy Shierifl in this city, atut hos Leon placed fu churgy of the Lqutable Lifo Iusurance Company's building, 120 Droadwny, the largest private structuro dovoted tooflco usen in Americq Thonoe who have boen thera within the Jast twe mouths cannot bave failed to noties Beaton, 1n 1 6 foct 6 nchos high, snlongidly proport foned, straight a9 an arrow, and about 35 years old Heis dressod in bright bluo cloth, with giy buttons reaching to lus ehin, In liy band 1q dangles 8 kuotted ennad feet 1 inch in length and 2 inghes in diametor neroes the heal, My paronts," «aid ho to n_raphic reporior this mormui], **wero sat froo by Gen, Washing. ton whilo ho was President. “Aly motver way vary young ut tho time, Lut sho lisg often told o aboutit, I never wan o slave,” “Tako that clevator, sah,” snid ho blandly, turning to somo ono who wanted to go to ex. Judge Fullerton’s oflico, Thero wera fonr elova tors in view, but the man sighted aloug the nn. der sido of tho bluo aleove ‘and pondorous little (#) finger that wora oxtonded ovoer lus bead, aud passed ont from under them with an expreasion of thanks. 3 “Ithink thoro must Lo not far from 16,000 pooplo vaes n and outof tho building during tho day.” contiunod the sable giant, with bardly a traco of tho accont peculiar to Lis race, * My fathor wns 6 feot 0 inchoa high, bt my mothee waa not remarkably large. ‘Thoro woro ton of us children, soven wers girls, stdaverngod abou( G foot 11 iuclien, My brothors wero Lot stall each being nbout G feot 2 inclien high, T was the youugest. I weigh how 376 pounds,” Seaton leamod tho trado of & carpentor, and whou Lo was 18 years old had oceasion, with iive others, to hold up ono side of arvof, which, he says, weighnd over aton, The othor side roste ed on the ground. A bracogave way end hia companions leaped Dack in fright, Beston had been standing tm- vradontly undor the roof, sboul midway betweon the ends, aud could not oseape, Duown eawo the heavy masy, slowly doubling up hiv strong armng until'ho got an opportunity 10 place s hoad sgainst s raftor. Hero the young ginnt beld {5 until bis resssuring cries brought Lis follow- workmen to his asvstanco, 5 During tho War he sorved as earpantor on tho Peninsula and at Aloxandris. At tho latter place ho wus enrolled for tho defensa agaiust the raids of Gon, Mosby. Ouco, wlilo in Man- #8828, ho obtaited o furlongl, sud on his rotacn migged o troin aud wad o day luto. * Gon. Whits tlo erdorol mo up beforo™ hiutent,” lo said, chuckling all through his hugo framo at tho rece ollection, *‘and, by way of punishment, made mo whistlo from 11 o'clock until £." Mr. Seaton is quito artiatic in ths kind of porformanco, Subzeqaeutly Gen, Whittlo made him Drizade Commussary” Borgoant. Ilo Lnld that position until tho clouo of tho War. T'hon he hecamo o mergonger in tho Cowmissary Dopartment, whero bis lithoneas and addresa in carrying notes and taking vorbal mossazes from one do- partuient to nnother won him general favor, Noxt ho wout to tho Capltol as o watchinan, and was afterwards appolnted o tho first and only colored mombor of the Capitol police. it pogition was worth about §1,600 a year, and tha “oroo f largoly composed, Santon says, of bra: en-down army oflicors and othor ~gontleme: whoso necessitien compel thom to accept such positiond. Tt 1 nuile distiuct from the Wisly ingeton City polico furce. Lt our eolored friend's honora in lfo have 1oainly been won in tho political flold, Onjtht 27th of last Qctober ha tesignad his position u3 tho only nogro_mombar of tho iard of Alder- mou of Alexandria, whote his has alwavsresdde, and whero ho has much popalwrity. 11 #ays ho bas always boen able to poll o strosg Liinh voto, 1le wua clected threo timos to the Board of Aldenmen, aud was, untid Jast Octobor, Chairman of tho Kighth Conurossional Distrlel llepuutican Cowmittes, Yo was unco tendored tho nominaticn for Mayor of Alaxandria, nné oueo, also, the nomination for Congressmar from the Eighth Iistrict, About n year sge Judge Keith appofnted him adminstrator of the estato of John Fox, a white gontloman of Al abdria, Dosides hins attondanco at tho funoral of Charles Bummer, ho was appointed to stunc a ouoof tho guards of honer Luaids the yontain of Chief Justica Chasa 1u the United Statos Suprome Court-100m {n Washiagton, beaton vays that about two vonr huuting wear Hunting Creok, in Vary a young man strogeing in tho water and wou! to his reecuo. ‘Che man elasped him aronnd tho neck #9 that lio could nos gwim, and Reator gavs that ho Iind to lift Limon lus ehoulaort und walk ashoro with bins through 8 fuct of wator, ago, winle 4, lio san Paris ‘Fazntion, Palt Malt Gazette, The comparalive anso with which Prancobean, tho ewormous taxation roaderod nccossary by tho war is ono of tho utaading woudars ol the timo, DBut the enduranco of the City of Pang under hor burdous is cvon moro romarkabls than that of tho osuntry at large. According to M. Loroy-Besulian, it the taxation of Party wag distributed oquml‘{ over tho population, nvor‘v‘ man, woman, aud chufd in tho aity \mulJ pay hialf a frany, crfive penco sterllng, overy duy. 1n this estinate is inclnded tho contribu- tiona to tho Btato aud to the dopsrtwents ag well ua to tho municipality, Itestriclivg our ate tention to thiu istter snm, wo flud that the ex- penditare of thol'aria municipality 18 neatly dons Lle that of tho Kingdow of P’erbugal and more than donblo that of Bwodon. It oxcoeds tbat of olland, is sbout the same as that of Bavaris, and approachos witbin £120.000 tunt of Belkium, Dut Bolginm bas o population aboat twosnd & half timen a8 groat e Daris. It will be soou, thov, aw M.!Leroy-Deautiou remarks, “that after the ulx groat powens, 8puin aud Turkey, thore is no nation or kingdom in Europe tho yevenue aud expondituse of which notal., sirpass thoso of tho City of Laris.” ‘Iho burf‘:on of tho city for noxt yoar [ divided into two parts, ordipary and oxtreordinary. ‘the ordinary exponditure s estimated to amount to £8,120,000, being au incronge upon tha estimate of tho presont year of about £120,000, aud Loroy-Beaulien is of tho upinion that the budget for 1877 - will show o il furthor inoreasa of, porbaps, Lialf a million, sinco the whole charge causod by the loan raisod this year wall uok e brooght to account till 1877, Possibly there will “bo other additions, Tho extrsordinary oxpenditure is estlnatod to amannt to £4. 160, 000, makiug the total expenditure of all kinde reach next yoar, for s oity of 1,852,000 iubabits ants, the enormous suin of L12,280,000. The reator part of tho extraordinary expendituro, [, Loroy-Beaulleu is satwsied, will prove to be ostraordinary and lom‘mr-ry. But with all b deeiro to tako an optimist viow of tho situation, ho1s forcod to admit tho probability that part, at loaut, of this deceptive hesdiug will reap- ronr agaln snd again in uccessive budgets. With rogard to tho ordivary oxpeuditurs, wa find that very nearly balf, or exactly £3,810,000, 14 absorbed by tho servico of this debt ; A 18 swallowed up by tho collection of tho taxes— not au immoderato sum, it must be admltted, sluca 1t is na moro than 53¢ ver cont of thio groes recoipty ; £620,000 fs expended in public charity, and the Prfecture of tho Polleo costs £500,000, Finally, the sctusl adwiviatration of tho cily costy ouly £3,240,000, Of this amount, lighting, pnviu{r. and 8o on, take £800,000, whilo tho ex- ponditure on edacation, both primary aud 800+ oudary, is a little over £400,000, ————— An 0ld Doll, ‘The Newpors Neows Lias this socount of vew- erable and notable doli: * Amouyg the redicd contributed by Newport {o tha Centennisi Fair whioh the ladica of Providence are cairying ou, i s doll balieved to bo the oldcst i the country, It is of wax, about 10 [uchos bhigb, and Lse grown yellow' wish age until it fooks frightfully liko & carpse. It boasts the followiog history: It was imported from Paris aa s model of the fashions of the day, and was bought in Phila- delphin by the 1on, Benjsmin Bourno, of Uristol, who was a womber of Congress from 17Ut 1780, The doll was given to his niecs, Mist Lillie 13, ‘Turnor, daughter of Dr. Puter 'lurner, 2 surgeon in tho Lovolutionary army, st Lillio was bura in 1793, Tho dolls eyes wtil movo, snd it still weurw tho finery in wuich il cregsod the oceun to show (he atubitiony asmwy H' the 3-uun.w Rtepablic now their Parisian sistes reesod,”