Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1875, Page 3

9 " CRIMINAL NEWS, Oanging of Henry White, a Negro Wii=Murderer, nt Guelph, Canada, Thingsin Embry’s Trinl at Leaven- worth Going Smoothly with the Delense. A Thrilling Tragedy Enacted Wednesday Near Olavenzont, Masz,® Aecount of an Inglorious Ethloplan Scheme to Escapa Jail at Louisville. PAID DEAR FOR THEIR WHISTLE, LovisviLe, Ky., Dec, 23, —A niumbar of por- #ona conflued in tho city jail mado a desperato attempt Lo oercapo this morning. Hevoral negroen who wera csufined in tho rear part of tho Luilding had been commilting dopredations by breaking window glass, faruituce, and boe lasiog vory badly In goncral. Lnst night sov- erat of thom were placed in n cell by them- Folver, and nll went quintly till abont 4 o'clock thin morning, when & Jond howt was ralsod. Tpon repninttg ta the eceno tho turnkoy dis- coverel that tho rascsls had sot fico to tho miattrerses on which they had slept, with tho evident purpose of ranking their escape by overpowering tho joil oficial when ha should apon tho door to It thom out. Tho bodding burned rapidly, and in o fow soconds tho coll wan dense with smoke and flames, alinost sufTo~ cating thoso within, Tho attendant obtained BSKISLACO AR BOON AR rnunblo,(nud reacued the negroes from thelr perilous position, but not une til #rone of thotn wore almoat stranglod to death with smoke, Somo of the men woro nnablo to staud when reacued, nnd o fow minutes moro would linvo settied thoir donths, The prieonors -when taken away from tha firo wero vory willing to bo locked up anywhere, and mado o eflost 0 cecapo. A MURDERER HANGED. Srecial Dupateh to The Chicaga Tridune, Guecert, Dec, 23.—The colored man, Henry White, who last July murdered lis wito in a fit of Jealousy, puffored tho extrento penalty of tho law this moruing. Tho virenmstancea of tho urder aro theso: Whito and wifo wero return- ing from a dance together, aud had somo words sbout tho freo mauuer in which Mrs, Wbite had conductod berself towards o certain man pres- out, aud on reaching theic own placoe Whito smashed her head iu with a hickory stick, and threw bor body iuto o woll, ‘The neyro is one of tho most ignowant of Lis clasy, aud ctforts woro mule to btain a repriovo on this plea, but could nat to_entertained by the Privy Conneil. Tho ution tool place in tho " Jaitiard, ouly ofiieats avd & few othors hemg Prosent. Tho eondemned man expressed the full hope of a Letier ife, and acknowledzed tho justico of tho stenco. 1 neckwas brulion aa tho drop fell. s died instantly, BURGLABS. Special Disnaloh to The Chicann Tridune. EKaxsag Cury, Mo., Dee. 23, —Eatly this morn- Iug o grang of thinves mado s rald into tho City of Wyandotte, Kan, aud for somu timo Lad thinga their own way. Thoy first broko into tho itoro of Peter Lugibibl, sud with a stoul drill aud hammer forced au entranco into s No. b eato of tho Hnll Lock & Safo Cowpany’s make and aceured the contents, amounting to about 82,500 in Londs, grocubacks, and gecuritics. Thoy thon rassed on to the sturo of J. JolLuson, on Third street, and, getling ioto the building, mede an attompt to get futo tho eafo, iu which were over $10,U00 warth of Londs, Irom somo un- Xnown causo they at this point got frightoned and loft in a burry, leaving thelr kit of tools Le~ hind. Three men in s close carriage woro soon crossing tho county bridgo about daylight, sud A s prosumed what they woro tho thicved. DEATH BEFORE SURRENDER. Speciat Dispateh o The Chicuun [11bine, BrarxorseLy, Mass,, Doc. 23,—Two brothers, Thomas and Molvin Marcl, had o bittor quarret at Charlemout yestorday, during which Melvin throatoned ‘Lhomas’ life, 'Lho latler procured ‘wararnt tor Melvin's arrest, aod Do[:my-fihurfl! Gould attomptea o servo 1t, but Melvin ‘breatencd to sLoot. 'Lho Bherift went for Y when Melvin deliboratoly burned -~ Blicriff’a barn, aud then flod to the motne tunn. A largo posso started in pursuit, and af- ter o long nud exciting chase cawe up with him, o threatenod death to auy one who approachod him, Lut, seeing that nolees thun noven ntlon covered him, ho shot himself in tho broass sud fell morlally wounded. EMBAY'S CASE. Specfat Dispalch o The Chicago Tribuns. Lesvexwonrt, Uoo, 16.—Tho second day's trinl of W, W. Lwbry for tho shooting of An- thony hos beon conoluded. Tho testimony given to-day was for tho defonee, all of which plainly shows thot Authony struck Embry first, 1t was also, proven that Anthony Lind boen drink- ing during tho day, while ke (Authony) saud in hid tostinony thas bo bod taken but one drink unitug tho day snd evemng, l'ive of tho best bunnees-men of this city teetifiod that the gon- oral roputalion of Authony wad bad, aud that he had nauarrelsomo disposition, Bmbry's frionds uhu A{:jn\'hmd. and bo 15 bowg cougratulatod on Al sides. - .. THE TWEED JURY. w Yoz, Dee. 'lio namies of the Tweed k jury, Wrenty-four in nuwmber, are as fol- Tow Losrs, Qgorgo LI, Board, Abnor W. Col- guie, dohn J. Cimg, Bamuel D, Davls, W, I, Douglas, Amos Reng, Jan, 8, Lowery, Jobn I Cuswoll, Lizra M. ingaley, Richard Aruold, Uharlen Coliing, Tiobug % Davis, John Taylor Jobnaton, Lmil Olbesyun, Julins W. Cutlin, Levi 1% Morton, Gordo rrie, Arthue J. Peae lody, Geo, Cabot Ward, Francls I3 Churber, Anson €& 1, Brokod, liobut Lonnox Kounedy, aud Lelog all, EETTING MEN INDQTED, Lovisviie, Dee, 23,—The Gand Jury of tho City Court ins been investizatiog pets on tho lato city election, and thus far ssecturned ton ludictients, two of which sro agalve 1embors of tho City Council, Beltiug on tho Iaty cloction wad very much indulged in {;nnr to vollag-day, tomo made buts of an much us B10,000. Ape sutding to the Jaws of the Stato all nonsy wou 1u botting on clection shall bo vontisented Ly tho authorities tor tho benolit of b scuvol-fund, and tho butters sentenced to fines, # ARRESTED FOR MURDER, LouisyiLre, Xy., Dee, 23.—Clarles Wilson, a {irciuan ou the Obio River steamer Bary Aun was urrested horo to-night charged with murder, 1t 13 allvged that durivg last Weduesday vight Wilson nud & dock-hand namod Fd verson had au altercation but wore subsequently made 1riends by tho etforts of thecrow, Later in the sawme uight, Wildon, it ls allcged, procured n cute laus, and, attacking Evorsos suddanly, inthictod vound from which bo diod to-day. sT. LoUIs. 8r. Louis, Mo., Loc, 20,—Under instructiona from Judge Kmght, of the Cireuit Court, to-day Chiet of Yolies MrDonongh notifled tho mauns- gers of the Missourl Blato Lottery that no Turtber selling of tickets or drawings” would Le penuitted after to-day, A. W, llubburd, “Heory T. Edwards, and Georgo W. Maloue, counterfuitors, wore eons teneed ju the Uwited Htates District Court to- day Lo five ycars wi ths Pemtentiary, MILWAUKEE ITEMS, Special Duputel Lo {he Chicavo L'ribune, MiLwavkee, Deo, 23,—Bernard Buructt and Thowps Carroll, of Green Bay, arrestod st Fort Howard for solling liquor {0 Indlany, pleaded guilty and wero fined S100 cuch to-day, A well-planuod robbery wus successfully car- sled wut ay tho wholeorala dry goods store of Goli & Fraok lsst mght, entrance being effeoted through an adjoining utors, snd §2,000 worth of etlka carriod wway, TWEED IN HAVANA, Iavaxa, Dec. 25,—A report is current that Wlltum M, T ced arrived herv last Tucsdnyon n schoouor, Beveral New Yorkers who kuow biwm Ly eighit say thoy saw bim'yestorday and. Lo-duy n diferout pacts of tha eity. TRIED FOR HIS LIFE, Snecial epaleh to The Chicago Tribune, Kiovx City, Ia., Doe, 23.-Tho trisl of Tim Wotby fur wussult with wurderous intontious oy Lo perwon of o Hueatan in the Jim Rivor puttly- waeut in Bopiciaker lust wuy coucluded iu the Listries Court ab Yamkion yosturday. Me wug to-day senteuced to thirty-thres mouths in the Tenitentiaty at Fort Madiaon, In, 1w counsol gave police of an appenl Lo the 8upremo Court, A HORSE THIEF. Srecrat Digvatel to The Chivago Tridune, Moxricrrero, 1L, Dee. A horse-thief, giv- ing tho name of 8am T. Cule, waa arrested hiore anu pleaded guilty ta a chargsof stealing n hiorso from Abbot Arnold, of Victoria, Knox County, Cole in but n bey, and younge_fn the profossion. Ho was comuitied for want of Lal, CONVICTED OF MURDER, MonnrsTows, I'a., Dac. 23.—Diasing Pastoriun has boen convictod ot tho murder of Isano Jageste. A mction for a now trial Las becn made, —_— TOWA, ‘The Thirteenth Stute Consus-Report, spectal Correapondeiice of The Chicago Tribune, Dys Morsey, Ia, Dee. 22,—The thicternth consua-taport of tho Htato (1971) as just been mblished by tho Secrotary of Btate, and con- taing 50U pagen, or ovor 200 more thaw neial, In 1836, tha tirst cansus of tho Territory of Wiscous 8in, of which lowa wns thew n part, wos taken, The connties of "*Demvino” and Du- buquo thon comprised all the territory north of tho lino of Missouri, from the Mississippi River ta the 'acific Ocean, and contained o population of 10,531, In 1816, Towa having been sot off from Wisconeln ng n Torritory, o consus was takon, showing a nopulation of 97,683, In 1817, the first consua was taken under the State (Gov- etumont,—tho Tortitory having Leen ndmitted to the Union in 1816, —and the result was o pop= ulation of 115, Tho averago sunual increaso hag been aa [ol per cout, T per cent, n 76 18 1,350,544, —an In- croase of 99,211 einco 1873, ‘I'ha white popula- tlon shows o Inrge lack of femnles, which must bo dizcouraging to bacholors, _There aro 697,057 males and 617,420 femalow. This is sad, The samo rulo holds 1n _the colored population, of whom thero aro 3,123 malos and 2,551 fomalos,— a total of 5,476, T'ho firat white child born in tho Huto wne Samuel A, Asres, ex-Doputy Ane ditor of tho Rtate, now rosiding in Dakotn,— tiurty-six years ago. ‘Thero aro mow 052,454 Hnwkores born fu the State, evldencing uncon- mon industry in that direction. Thero were born in the Unitad States 541,550 5 in foreign countries, 203,501, About 28 por cout of tha entire population is under 21 years, Of the en- tira population over 16 yeare, tho avorage of thoso who eaunot read i4 1in 165. Thero nre 221,668 dweltings and 219,624 familics, or 28,036 moto families than dwollings. Tho agricultural wealth of tho stato {ssot fortl: an follows : Acres improved land. Acres untmproved, ., Acres In_culttvation. Cora, bus Tiye, Lushla Oats, bualicl Barley, Luskcls, Ttuckwhoat, husiicls, Flaxseed, busbels ... 205 1,380,003 3,056,101 Of thohogs, there wero 65,466 Berksbire, 96,053 Tolaud-China, 27,315 Chester Wlite, 2,176 Ma- geo, 310 Eessox, other breeds, 35,311, Number sold for slangbter, 2,634,371, Of tho cattlo of improved breods, there wero Durkmm, ,733: Devon, 1,126; Heroford, 43 Ayrshiro, 1483 Jersoy, 117; Ioldernogs, 4. Tho number of shoop was 724,204,—an in- creaso over the year bofore, but a great decreaso over ten yoars ago. ‘T'he value of prodncts 1s fixed as follows: 1o - 102 ‘Iho Inst threo items aro ot even approxi- mataly correct, ns manufooturers refased to givo tho value of thoir products, becanse, under the Taxation laws of this State, ¢ Is for their inter- okt to keep thoir busiuess from the putlic aud ho Assessors, Not ona 1n ton are as reported, Lhe fucronred valuo of lauds and towu-lots aines 1865 is $109,704,745. iy +’tho school-statislica eliow: Piblic school~ houses, 9,255; rkcholats, 506,303 valuo of fichool-houses, #94:,075; total expenditures for #chool-purposes, &4,420,874. There aro %) col- legos, mcademiod, and private eobools ; ot which 2 are oman Catholic, . Thus it will ho seon that, in all tho various de- partments of tho Stale, there iy a thrift acd a progroes that are romarkable. The material wealth added is indeed cnormous, whilo the edn- cattonal intorests ovidencu tho importance they hold m tho hearty of tho people, Iowa is dos- tined to bo tho banuner Stato in the Union, HaAwkETR. METHODISTS AND THIRD TERM, An Explanation by m Correspondence New York Herall, Bostoy, Dec. 20.—The Hev. Dr, Sherman, who offeiad the famous resolutlon indorsing Bistop Iavous renonmuuation of Gen. Graut, has fur- nished your correspondont with Lis vorsion of tho matter, Tho aclion of the meeting, he thinky, has beon fmporfootly undorstood by the pablie, and honca tu hinvo boou subjected to much sdverso aud not weldom sovere critivinm by tho press, **This wisundaratanding,” sayd Dr. Sherman, *{s mors to bo deprecated a8 it ‘involved in consure not only the proachiera’ meoting but tho managers of tho Lract Soolety of the Metlodist Episcopal Churel, vomo of “whom wera prosont at tho meoting but were in uo way conuected 1n ot re- mvom[lfid for its netlon, Tho Ductor, 1 contin- uing his oxplanation to your reporter, said : **Tha Boston Preachicrs’ meeting 15 o miscel- lananus ossetbly of Mothodist prosobors fu the city and viciulty, accustomod tu gathor on each Muudu¥ moruing sud discuss in n freo way all worta of religioun and soclal subjoets, Among the gubjects that camo up i tlis shape some two mouths ogo or more was that of the condi- tion of the Matliodist Episcopal Churoh in the Bouth, In tho course of tho debato some re- marks wero ade, to which exceplions were takon by somo membors, who thought them un« truo aud calculated to refloct on ol administra- tion of Bieliop Haven fn tho South, To et tho matter right aud to watisfy all portics, the Lishop, who was theu absout, was fnvited to ud- dresy tho mooting st bis couveuicuce o tho stato of our work in the Houth, Un the Gth ‘nst, {n oonnection with tho Bunday-school a1l Tract auviversarios, 1o was in Doston, toguber with somo of tho Tract and Bunday. Behooh Becretaries. o ot tho Doston Preache:e’ ingeting, when, in TOFpOnA0 to tho ubavoe cal), ha addrosned the mostiug ab length on thio utataof the Bouthorn work. The Boutl- ¢rn work wad bin maln and only topiv of dse couree, savo, o Lo [uterfoctod horo and thore, a Is hig wont, 8 Pyful rouark on somo kide iewno, Theso cccasiopal hints and Jokes on matters foreign to tho subject in hand, of couro, made au {wprossion ou tho audience, which was concorned unly w» kuow his version of tho state of things in the rogion where the Tashop has hin ofticial rosidooce, Iy explaining the coudition of tha froedmen tiq tucidontally tuehtioned that the President hud boon g truo friond to this class of peopls, sid thn parote thetically ndded, that the peoplo would xegrot It if ho sliould uot bo continved in ollico acotlior torm, und, ns_ for Limeolf, bo prayod thattho DLresident miight Lo reuominated. Tlus was o), nnd it oceupiod ko small & placo {n tho address a4 to ako very hittlo fnpression on miads who were hoaning bim in order to obtaiu his viaws 1 regard to the relicious state of tho South. Bo truly was this the cuse thut {3 moving u voto of thuuky aud approvel L had refevence only to the l»aiuv. indobate abonut the Suutborn work, and hourd with not & littlo wurjriso afterward thut Wo Lad nomtuated a Promidontial oaudidate, 'I'he Loston Proachors’ meoting, though quite freo to uxrreuu ity nund on any tunio it pleasey, is not n pohitical ciub, aud does not elaim to have made nuy iceidential nounnation,” THE END NOT YET, Notwithstandiug this positive explanation by Dr. Bhorman it is cloar thut tho matter among tho preachore is nut yot ended, —_— ‘Too 13iy for 1lis Place, Waahiuytons Correapundence Boston Journa A stalwart, burley Domocrat, who b #omo time desirod to koo Lis uamo on (Lo rull of Congress, in considorstion of light ‘wser- Vicus, was rewardod yesterday by the appoint. meut of ' cuntodisu of the tlag.”" Ilis duly was to holst the tlag over the 1lall of the Houss nt iho bour of mesting, and to lower it Jprompely altor l‘ly) adjosrnwent. Rejoiced oyer his good furiung he wWas on buud to-ddy, sod, tuking the “stars wud stiips,” ho started for tho tlugentat ou tho reof @ fuw winutes befuronoon, But *thoro's usuy walip” Letweon v un appoiutment andun odice,” sudon xouching the gurrot L © iteve Dr. Shora found that hio coold not Aqueeze lumself up No prirorer over trind harder Lo contract lus At Jaut ho was foreed o givo ik up. and a more alonder Dem. nc:n‘.~ has been sppointed *cnstodinn of tho through tha amall senttlo-hole. hent on enc: dimonwions, but it wa in yain, flag. AINWRIGHT CASE. The Critne for Which Ilenry Wnine wright Was Rnng tn London Lnse o niny, e On the 21st fost., ovry Walnwrisht was exo- <titedin Tondon for the marder of Harnet Lane, 8 woman whom ho had deccived and ruined, aud 18 was horrible murder, tho body beivg mutilated by who liad Lorae him several children. ,the mucdoror, who attempted to carry the piccas in a cab through tho city with a view to their witinnte coucealment, 1lenry Wainwright waa found guilty of the murder, and his Lrother Thonuws of howg aceessory altor the fuct, lloury Wainwright was ju the brush tiade in tho Whiteehapel rod, in the axt End of Loudon—thut vast district, teoming with n donuo popuiation, which to the West Itiders is almo-¢ © teren incoguita. Ho wax a man very docidedly superior in" caltnre to tho wverago of thoso among whom ho dswelt and puraned lns vacaticn; of gonio education, and with o talent for reciting and lecluring, 1lis husiness did noz prospos he Jost n valunble contract, and finally ho be- came bankeupt. Ths pavo of Muslutss lo the Whitechiapet road, o watclhouso, was closed, and ali the Turnituio 1emovod tu satinfy his credits or#, with the exception of & mattress and bole ator, 1 habits bod brought rain upon him, and ho found it imponsidlo to support bis wile and childrou, his mistress and liers, Uarriot Lane and her children woro Jiving with n Miss Wilmora, who became Ilarriet's dovoted friend, Hopt, 11, 1874, liarniot Lano went to thoe place of Lusiness of Wamwright by appointment. o had reut hor somo money, and eho had boon able to et hor things out of pawn, Blio left Miss Wilmoro and ier childron, and seemed in high spirits and hopoful of n specdy retura, She was never nfiurward seen alive. A year paased, during which many and oarnsst inquiries woro mado by the missing woman's frionds nnd rolatives, ~ Telograms und lotters wer rocotved by Wainwright, who showed thein ta Miss Wilmore, froni a mayt named Frioake, stating that Harriot liad gono away with him to tho Contiment. Thowas Wainwright was tho personator of Frieako 1 this and tho other do- vices by which the two brothiers conspired to lull tha iuquiries mada, On the 11th of Inst Saptember, tha very day of tho month on which Harriet Luue Lnd digap- Euumd o vear Rgo, all Loudon was startlod by a orrible tala of the diacovery inacab, in tho posscueton of o man, ot two fargo parcels con- taining clevon fragmonts of o fownale human body. The wau was Henry Wainwright, A four- wheeled cab drove along the Whitsctapol roud ; 1u it was n mon, n woman, and two largo parcols, Breathloss, aud_like o Llooahound on’ tho trail, suother man foliowed the cab through the crowded streots. “8top that eab, for God's sakol” ¢ Man, you ara mad[” Buch wore tho only wonls uttered by the pursucr to two po- Yeemen whow he mot, aud such wau their reply, Tho enb stopped on tho othor &ide of London Dridge; the pursuer was close babind. Ho nad hunted his quarry to its lair, U'wo other policomon, struck by tho man's excited manner, obsorved tho cab.” Out of it camo the hirer and his parcols, and mado to- ward the door of an old honse known ns tho ** Hen and Chuckens.” Ho wasearrestod insido the Louso. ‘*'F'wo bundred pounds if you will lot me go and ray nothing ! " lie exclaiweéd to the policemen, flo wan firmly secured, and the par- cols examined. Tho man was Honry Waia- wright, his companion was Alico Day, ono of tho **ladies of the ballet,” and in the parcels woro ;:m rewaing, hown in oloven pioces, of Harnot ane. He had dug In tho rear part of hia warohouso ashallow grave, and lined 1t with chloride of lime. All boing rendy ho had inveigled Harriot Lane to the place, shot her tnivo through tho head, cut ler throat, and buried hor. Lank- ruptey camne, and the pronnses wero to pass out of Wainwright's hands. A dresdful odor per- vaded the pince, ond was noticexble in tho noighborliood. Tho murdered body must be wmoved. 7 IARRIET TANE'S CHILDRIN. &tra‘ford (Dec, 4) Crrreapondence Lundon Globa, Lho nppearance of Inrrict Lone's children Edmvnu that, however their protector muy Lavo en plached, they wero uovor allowed to waut for anytuiug. Llump, clean, merry, and noatly drossied, theso poor bairns frolicked around tho room, uvidently in the Lost of health avd spirita, Not on them yet rests o shadow of their mother's dishonor or their fathor's erine, Sittiog ou my kueo, and trying in vaio to fix my oyo-glass in her eyo, Beatrico was full of the grand doings they had on Guy Fawkes Day. * Koul liroworks, sou know ; nquiby, aud crackers, and & bontira ; and then—we bung Guy." A very charmung child, this sunny-huired daughter of a murdorer; Ho charming thud novoral offurs of adoption have already besn mado to the kindly woman (Mies Wlln'mm) whom sho and Ler sistor call ** mam- ma.," TII! OREENACIE AND MANNING MURDERS. Lirduah Meitical Jourani, tie, 4. This romarkablo case _(Waiuwnght's) rosem- bles that of tho woman Brown, for tho murder of whom & man uawoed Greenacro was tried and convicted in 1547, On this occasion thoe body of tho murdered woman was cut juto threo pordona ~—tho heud was fonud at Paddington, tho trunk in tho oast of Loudon, and thoe limbs tlx wooks aferward tn the District of Camberwell. The identity of tho body was clearly made out, in #pite of this attompt to defeat justico, In lhe Watowright easo tho evidenco slows that au attempt had beon mado to disposs of the Lady by burylng it under tho floor of & room, & (uzne tity. of clilorido of lime boing thrown over at aud frooly mixed with the earth of tho grave. This waa tho mods in which the Mannings, Lus- baud and wifo, disposed of tho body of & mun named O'Connor, of whoso murder thoy wero convicted nt tho Central Criminal Court in 1819, A Fine Art Lxperlence. Jivaton Commercial Liulierin, Into ono of tho laryo Juwelry aud fancy goods storoo! Buston walkod, the othor day, ono of those customers that tho Lolidny souson somotimes briugs to town, He was a hurd-hauded, looso- Juinted, broad-shouldered individuul, carefully dreesed iu anew suit of boggy. ready-made clothies, o homo-laundriod shirt, und a hat which, although perfectly now, wus threo scusous boe hind the present fushion. Banntoriny up to ouw of the salesmen, with a very obvious nttempt at boing at bomo mmong tho ghtteriug splondor of tho salosreowm, sud a gonoral nir of **Not to Lo astonished ur done by you Toston follers,” ho inquired. “ (ot any bruuzew " Tho clork answersd iu the alirmative, and lod tho way to n bowildering stoek of bronze ntatu- ottes, clocks, cle. ‘I'no visitor stared at them for s mowont as an futerior African might huvo at tho first whito mau_ Lo had ever saon, and theu, sotting his hat & littlo more flnmly on iy head, askod. ** Which o’ them figgera mout Lo the Venus of Liuh low i ‘The trained ralesman, with plaeid counte- nanes, quietly rop! 1 *1 do not’ remembur auy by that titlo; aro you sure that was the Lumo " ‘Pho patron of tho fino arts drow a large yellow #ill: handkerchiof from Lus Lal, sud, opptug Liis fnco uneasily, waid **1¢ mout b’ boon avo high, but T thiuk it way Ligh low ; Mariar sed that ¢f Ithou't of woven-up 1 shouldn’t forget tho untus. Tho fact is,” sard tho lpuzzh)d purchasor, with s suddon burst of confidonce, **tho fact is, anx, I hbev just putup 8 uow tonmont down to Bouth Iligglusboro', aud Mania "lowed sho'd hke a brunzo in the Joom, suthin’ ike what ehio soed onco fu Ham SuiTuer's ‘mrlor on Deacon streot. Bam he writ the namo on s card, 'n praps i'vo £Ot It uow " and, diving into bus broast pockoet a4 it ho was to unsheath a two-hauded BWord, ho lugged out along pocket book, from tho dopthy of which ho plucked & card antt hunded 1t %o the salosmeu. $ ¢ Ab D" waid tho lattor, **(he Vonus of 3ilo. Yos uir, hore inn fuocopy, a reproduction by Barbitiouno," ‘The vuitomer survoyed [t carnestly for & mo- moot, aud then suid : *Yo Laiot got & perfect one, This 'era ouohas lost buth ber donts sll down bar back.” ‘Lo pationt salesman oxplalued that tho statu- otto was a copy of the origiual that was found i that condition, ++Bboh!" commonted the othior, aud then houi- tatingly, “dou't any of thou lave any moro clogo 'u that ? This "oro oue’s uishit gown "puary to Liave kind of slipped off ou Ji Again tho shopman, despite his twitching mus- clos, oxplained to his attentive listenur tuat it was an fmitation of au sucivut stutue, Ilo. howe over, cocking his hiead on the sidy, wquired : *Wall, o What'll you tax fur her, Joun as sho utands " rapping lus bouy knuckles ‘on tho Lrohizo, us if it were o buzz saw, ** Ouio hundred aud fifey doilars for that sizo,” said the clork, * Wha-u-t ! almost shouted the aatonlshed would-ba pation of sue aris; ** s bundred 'n Litty dullers fur a brunge gul "thout suy wrms, wud sluarco 8 1ag to lier buck | Vounus of Aly Low ! Venus of Your High, I nould #ay. Aluudred "n tifty dollurs! - Wiy, that's balf “the morigsgoe ou brother Jim's fanw. Guess Mariar must SLougls wy nuwe was Willian B, Astor, instond keopiy' cotnin Cousin hov vo, Cap? wrws and got TIIE CIITCAGO TRIBU FRIDAY, of Jobn Tigginn; stenek atraight luo for taoe L ntation, THE EX-DUKE 0F MOT e Ralroad Something About tho Lato Brancia Ve London Pimes. Tho msp of Earopo has wuffered so many teannformntiona sinco the downiall of the Aus- tran power in Lombardy that the world bas almont forgotten the maliguant’ fufluonee onee crerted over European bolitica by the polty Princes of Naly, Tho death of the Austrinn Atclidulio who was onee known as the Duko of to romind us that tho Modena may vervo fencration which was klentified with the most Tuiufut and jgnoble porod ot Iialian soryituda M Dasring nwa Uersonnlly, the character of tho Duko had no choracterstics, bad or £ood, which would enlitlo him to bo remomberad n history ¢ bt as historieally typical his carore nud his claims aro not uaworthy of notico, Ila was, in truth, n ropresentativo “scion of tho olil Monarelieal systam which wo wore ftorlunate ouough to brenk down in (ho roventeenth con- tury without shattering tho cuntinaity of our fue #iititions, which Franeo moro painfully amd dis- astrously flung off n haudred years later, aid whieh hag now dwappeared evon amonsz tho des- potie Empirea of the Continont, ‘The Duke of fodena concentrated in himsolf tho giorics af all tho reactionury Royaltios of Eurapo. prandfathor way the Archduko Ferawnand of Auntria, wou of the Lmmoror Francis I.; his krandmother san tho Duchess Marla of Eate, daughter of the last raler of tholine which, siney tho fifteonth century, had reigued in Modena, (tuastalla, Rogrio, and Ferrara, Moreover, the Modoeso family of Este, na representing tho fo- malo line of ¥avoy, with tho righta transmitted to 1t through Charlea the First's asughter, 1lon- rietta of Orleans, might, on tho theory of the ight divine of sovoisigns, have alleged a titlo to tho English crown prior 0 that of tho 11onke of Hanover, descomded from Charles tho First's is- ter, T'he Pretendors, howovor, with whon the Duke of Modena was st intimately connocted wera the viettms of much wose _recont revolutions than those whieh drovo James IT. to 8t, Cer- maing, Tho lasy Duke of the old line, Ercola of Eute, was dispoasossod by Napoloon, and his Duchy was absorbed - the Cisalping topublic. But when, nearly twonty years later, tho inun- dution of French conquost had Aubsided, tha Alhed Sovereigns, parceling ont llnlz amoug the cadets of tho houso of Lapsburg, bestowed Modena on tho Archduko Irancis, the son of Duke Ercolo’s only daughter, ‘Thia I'rinco mar- rled n Princoss of “the Houae of Savoy, and left his Duchy to a son, Franels V., who dicd on Sat- tirday oveniug, at Vienun, nfter vixtoen vears of cxile, following n troublud reigu of thirtecn venrs, 3 Francls V, succooded to the Duchy of lodona 8t critical tino for rulors who, as was in his caso natural from his deecent and connections, srero doeply convineod of monnichical irrospon= sibility. It was in tho early duys of 1816, whon ol Italy was yuivermng with the rovolutionary vropagunda, when dotioctatic aposties, patriotia poats, and passiounio youthiulmaityrsof hberty were fanning the ilamo destined to blaze out s fietcely two yoars later, Many Italiaus hoped Lo compromiss with tha rovolution; in a tow montha the world waa to be astonishod with tha sight of that wonder _of wonders, a reforming T'opo; and if tho Itatlon I'rincos had been pifted with tho emallest measuro of foresight, thoy might have evaded or brokon tho force of the heaviest biowa which fell on them In the hour of popular wrath, A modorate policy in Church und Stato would possibly have saved Modous, ‘Luscauy, Paruw, aud tho rest. But Fruncis V. quickly showed that he liad no symipathics with moderatiun, Tho Sesuits were dominant at his Lonrt as thoy hind been at bia fathor's. Searcoly bLad ho assumod tho governmout whenho pro- ceeded openly to idoutly himself with tho fa- natics of reaction by nowoliating marriages for botl his sisters with the Bourton L'rotenders to tho Fronch and Spanish throues, Tho elder of theso Drincosses becsme, in 1848, the wifo of tho Comte de Chambord, aud the youngor, in 1847, the wilo of Dan Juan, boir to tho proten- stons of tho first Dou Carlos, It [ probable that the political offect of thoso Modonoso mar- Tiagos Lias not been lesn thun that of Mary of Listo, the mathor of **Jamos IIL" 1t hns Leon often aurmised that the obstmacy with which the Cowte do Chambord declines all * travsac- tlons ™ with Liberal 1doas may have beon ou- couraged by dowostic intluouces. Wo may, par- hiavs, olso more cloarly read the character of tho arrogant Bourbon who i maintaining o fruitloss contest in Bpain if wo remember thut his moth- er was sister of the Dike of Modeus, Fho policy iudicated in these alllances wns subgequently pursued with sa much activity at Modens that o yoar nfeer hig nccession Frauely V, had bocomo ono of the most dutested of luropean rulois, In 1847 nod the beginning of 1843, his Goveru- mont wag only upheld by Austriun hayonots ; but the Austrinns had soon moro than euongly todo to Lold their own grouud against Lied- mout, Iuugary, aud the revolution which oven monaced the Lapaburgs in thoir capital, Iiret, tho Jesuits flod from Modens; tho Duke noon {fullowed 3 then be erept back again for a whilo, once more under Austrian protoction ; n sec- ond time o took to flight upun the ove of Novara; and, flunlly, ho returned when the Lopes of the Itnliaus had boen swept away for n sosson by tho defcat of Charles Albert. ‘Ilnt wad the summier of complacent Conservatism ull over Europe, In ucrmnu(, the aspirations nfter natloual nmty wero quelfed for a timont Ol- mutz; in Italy, tho Austrians, the pricsts, and tho Princelings everywhoro seized and dividod power oneo mora, Tho Duko of Modona camo bnck to his Duchy in 1849 with soothing uiises of o liboral polloy and o reformod adminivtration ; but o yeur lator the Jouuits camo buck too, aud the dacal promises woro forgotton, Modena was scandalously misgosornod danng the decndo which cunticd ; tho peoplo were uot only baiked of tho national fdeal on wlich thoy had set their boarts, but were worried by n gmlling potty tyranuy, Tho cup was overflowing when Cuvour's subtle craft precipitated tho opsulng of tho Itahsn Question 1 1859, Tho vietories of tho Fronch and Hurdinian armios in Lo bnn!{ulm o shoek to all thio petty Priucipalities which clung to tho skhirts’ of * the Austilan dominlon, and offaira m Modens became so thireutomny that in Juno, 1959, tho Duka flod,— thin tima tinally,—leaving power in the Lauds of n liegeney, which expirod a conplo of dave lnter of heor torrar. Who popular vules smporatively demauded anpoxation to the sub-Alpue King- dom. The political comprowminey concocted by tha ingenuity of Imperial statesmon wero plain- ly seen to bo out of date. 'Thia absorption of the achies was_ recognized as fnevitable, and in March, 1860, Riug Victor Emmanuel * decroed * tho union of Modona and its dacal neighbors to the Kingdom of Hardinfa, Against this sacrle loglous vialation of divine right tho exited Duka immedutely fulwinatod a protest: bat his agpeal to the conscionca of Europo had as littio practical offeet on tho populur minud oa tho solomn warnings the Comto do Chsmbord dends forth from Frobsdorff, of the vehemont denunciations of the rovolution which Don Car= low pours out from the monntaink of Navarrs, “I'he amalgawation of Tuscany and the Emilun Provineed with tho kingdom formed in Northern Italy by tho union of Picdmont and Lomb.xrdiy proceeded witharupldity and tharoughnens whiely proved soparation to ba an unuatural state, 'I'ho subsoquont ncquisitions by which tho work of Italiau unity has boeu accomplished have boon more wirikivg iu thelr fincidonts, and moroe important in the Intorests aifectod ; buc their sasimitation has mnot beon so mechanically porfect, mnor, iudecd, in ita moral resulta at all so satlufaotory, as that of the sonoxations of 1869-60, ‘Thoru are no trouble- omo traced of particulariam in tho Duchies; if Modonn, liko othier citios both gronter sud small- cr, has somo reason to regrot her deposition from tho rack of & capital, though tho capitul onty of an Ineiguiticant Dukedow, tho loss 18 autweigbed in the ostlnation of the vast major- ity of Italiaus Ly tho euorinous finlu- of unity and freodom. Tho seoluded, self-bufficlog lifo of tho pooplo of a potty Urincipality had much which was quaintly pletwesquo ” about i, but it wad & nurrow aud - unwholesomo Nfe, Trade was crampod within strait- cued borders Ly an Jguoraut snd oltish flscal systow clorieal fufluonce franti- cally struggled to keep vut movw idead ; the unational upirit which wakes a country respectod aud self-respecting wad banned by tho rulers of theyo little soveioigntios as a curso and & peril, All theso thivgs aro changed. \Whatover may Do tho faults of Italian palicy or of Italisu ad- wmivistration in uew ltaly, ideas, Lusinicss, and sucial inlluences can mova to and fro without lot or hinderauncs, This movement 18 an {ndispons- abls candition of healthy growth, It is becatuse tho order of lhini(u which the Duke of Modena ropreseated was irreconcilable with this wholo- so1o vitality of all tho national ensrgies that wo rejoiced - Bs final collapso and js disappear- auce from the politics of tho prusent sge, Albert Hdward, d Hrobkiyn Aryus, ‘Tho Princo of Walos 1s producing a doop im- lmusmn upon tho supcrstitious minde of Her lajenty's subjocts in udia, Mo drove oub the Y With a lurgo party of Inglshmon ang natived, - They Lad taken & loig tour mto the intorior, sud wero about o retury, when & buge tiger doried 1uto tho road s fow Luudrod fuct whoad of thew. Aluert Ldward was the nrst wma (0 tuible off Lik soat uud crawl under the struw, wuttering us b did oo, Lowi soib qui maly pense.! DECEMBER and, tiame his hat a dittlo firmer, ho mado a hnaty eait frow the store, and 24, 1875, —— 'LEGAL HOMOR. The Bar Associntion and tho Alder- manie Contempt Casa, Wanted : An Organlzatlon Which Wil Euforce Professional L. sponsibilliy. To the Eltor af The Cluorta Pribune: Ciucauo, Dee, 23.—Iu sour artiolo upon * Le- gal {louor™ in the issuo of the 214 inse., you Juntiy express yonaclf aa to womo only of ths dangora to bo spprehended to the adminiateation of Justico by the currupt practices of utscrupu- Iutw members of tho legal profossion. While you are right iu your concluslong, you mistuko thn exceptions for the genaeral rula in sinting tho premives npon which your conclu- wvions aro baswd, For it by no meang trae, nn a fact, that tho eoudust whick you condomn 1 recognized as ' profossional” among the mem- bera of n profession moro abused, becauno moro misapprehondod by tho genoral publie, than any othot. A lawyer eun no-mora Justify u eriminal or crimo by a resort to unfair monns than Lo can commit tho crimo of which his cliout may bo aceuned, and expoot nbsolutlon under (ho ethical code regulating tho conduct of all attorneye, and that standard of honor and morality 80 uni- versally recognized by Judyes gnd counsolors. It i not to bo dentod that your * class cf law- yeors "—I. ., tho cinug stereotypod ns mon who will do ansthing for & foo, and sall Justice for » considoration—do exist, It iy also’truo of tho most sacred calling {hat knaves and hypocriten Kain admission o tho sltars of religioin ond of Uovornment, and work the greatest injurics to mankind by tho prostitution of ther places and tho high offices they fold. Tha Supreme Court of this State, in tho case of Thu Peoplo va, Lamborn, a contompt caso, whera an attornoy was cuargoed with betraving tho cone fidence reposod in him, uays: *‘Courts of jus- Lico ouglit to bo careful, from o just sense of thoir own honor and integrity, ne woll as from a rogard (o the Intorest of the community, to bo cautions whom they sdmit to administer [‘u their tomplos, and flrm in oxpelliug from their portala thoso whose conduct woald polluta the judictal aitar.” In tho #nme connocction, tho Conrt snys : ‘*Tho attorney ahoutd be actuatod by high and honorable motives ; but, if otherwiso, ho bocomos & seourge to docicty, and o stain to o profession wverywhora estoomod hanarable,” I could fill & volumo with extracts of cloquoent rebnlko of thoro who fall ander the elags you do- gerboin Auch glowing langusgo a8 mombors of tho lega! profession ; but the very practices of whow, as described by you, places them out~ sldo tho ** Bar " and undor the ban of their hou- orablo professionul brothran, It wasin viow of the fact that the ropntation of tho ** Bar " has suffered, and will alwuys anf- fer, in tho cstimation of the outsida public, from the practices of those who, according to tha opinion of tho Bupremo Cotrt, “pollate tho udicial oltar,” and who, according to your opin- fon, constituto tho **logal profession,” that a Bar Asrociation was organizod 1 this city n year ago. A fow of the leading moubors, tho same na thowo in Now York City who removed Darmard and Cardozo off the Lenel, camo together und do- clarod that, to ** maintain the hanorand diguity of the profossion of the Iaw, and to incrowso its usofulnoss in promoting she duo_administration of Justice, the Assoclation should be organizad.” It was 80 orgamized. 1t drow to iteslf abaut 250 men out of the 500 that constitute the Bar of Chicago. livor{ promiso was held ont that tho bouellcont dosign of it found- erd would bo realizod, that tho fuld would bo divided, that tLo profession would be punticd, and tho due administration of jus- tico necured againgt the unscrupulous hucksteis in fixed-up jurios, and back-staira inluoncos set at work sgamst Judges, that 8o ofsen disgraco the tempion of justice and corrupt all tho fouu- tains of junisprudence. But the knaves of tho profossion ara more activo than tho loyal body,— 8418 ever tho carko ioall socin) organizations, A fow, liko tho ward bummers L our politienl orgaulzalion, from tho beginning obtaiuod the control of its aftuirs, and, avalling thewsolvon of its combined strength, bavo to sowo extent appropriatod tho intluence and power of tha As- sociation to extend thelrown private and solfish intorests, ‘Ihe **ring” in the Dar Associntion have munifustod their power 1 duing somo things thoy ougbt not to huava doue, but mora ospocially in louving nndono tho things thoy ought to lave done, and wo may add, * Thoro 1 10 hoalth in it,” Lect ma cito yon to tho lata eloction of a Judge of tho Supronie Court in thin distrit, for wioin the very active *ring membars” of this Aragcintion declared thomselves, Io way the candidate of tho chyus moro than u _ year uince, and he emi- Rrratod hero for tuat purpose, Wo will sy wolbing of his legal atsalnmonts, becsuso“you huvo airoadv found the truth in that respect, whon you said of him, ** Ho was n sodond-olnes lawyer.” But Low doos he seand in rospoct Lo the ‘honor and dignity of the law, and tho duo admunistration of justico according to tho standard of profossionsl conduct? 'Pho record of tho Bupreme Court to which ho is clacted, and 1o which thin Association contribu- tod, by its sileuco and nou-activn, will answor, It 1y oly a fow mouths ago that tho wholo community wad startied by one of the grossost outrages evor porpotrated vgainst tha univorss! frunchiso of our liborty in tho stufling of tho ballot-boxes of the city to change its Municipal Uovernmont, Tho Citizous' Awsociation thonglt tuo courts conld wtill afford thom prutection agamet tho last step to bo takun byn Counoil ™ in tho consummation of the outrage. Ouve of tho most uprght wnd indopendent Juidgos fusiied nu ln}unuliou to arrost tho threatened wrong, It”wau thon that the powor of the legal profossion wus luvoked, aud whoro 1t should Lavo bosu the lawyor's duty s an ofticur of tho eomits of every dogreo to uphold its process jn defenso of liborty, thers wore found four niombers of the profewson in Chi- cayo, to counsul tho Aldormen to 1esist the pro- cees, dely tho courts, aud oponly contemn tha In of tho Iand. 1f thiy contempt had Loen a mete fmpulve of passion, committed in pressnco of the Conrt, somothing In imtigation conld bo urgod ; but it was dotiberate and contrived aftor matuco study, so as to imposs a chartor of gov- orumont upon the Eoopla ** through o fraud per- putrated upon the ulloj-boxes," obtatning & ro- resule by the actlon “of tho Common Councit which tha courts could not aftorwards supersodo or declare u nullity, howover otherwiso it might puniab tho olfetso of contempt. ‘I'ho Govoru- mont itsol! must bo racognized as de faclo, Tho people of Chicago mnst submit to rovolutionary violonco—n chango of Govornmont—or accopt tho de facto Goverument, bocause certain mom- Lors of tho * legal profession * interposcd their authority, ad ofticors of the court, to protocs tho conu\drllan, aud gove thoir writton opinion that tho Cours fssuing the Injunction could uot puu- isn them for o contompt, Now you can flud the names of theso gontlo- tmen, ouo of whom and the prmeipal you have Junt elusted to tho Huvremo Court, and neithor — yoursclf mor the Dars As- socistion havo ever pointed (hi outrugo out as any obfection to the candi . Again you willfind, as Yam Informed, that the Lar Asyoclatlon has been oxceedingly diligoot {n ap- pointing committeca to prosecuts such obscurs tucn a8 O'Lenry snd Qoodrich for malpractico fu tho Divorco Courts; while suoh mon as Goudy, Dickey, and Taley, members of tho Associntion and responmblo for the outrage abave rocited, &ro passed uver fu sileoce. Hora I8 the poiut to which vour editorist con- surcs whowld bo pointed. Tho profossion at larygo should not be held responsible for the wins of u fow, Othorwiso how oftou will !l profossors of vellzion be placod 1 the erimiuat dock for the ofonsod of the knavos and bypoorites who soek the yory eanctuary of tho churches as a mero cloak to the frauds thoy ncditato, aud aucoeod Ly means thereof {u ‘perncteating. You Bay ‘Ihoro uro wcores of lawyors iu this city who ought foiever ta bo dobarced from l[men({nu in acourt for pructices at once unprofessional and dishonorable,” Very truoj but how can it be otherwise {f you, nsau organ of the peoplo, Bive i;our support or countenanco to thoso law- fora )y such an_indorsemont ad you lutely ex- hibitad in their cloction to the Buprome Court of tho Statu? Wao are informed that s great doal of dissatis- factlon exista insidu the Liar Associstion on ac- connt of its uttor waut of moral coursge to bring ite awn suembers to nocount, aud that its uro iy to Lo supplied by & nuw Association, Nothig but the aversion to the controvensy it will sugendor, and the rupture it will osuss of l)mfunmnnl intimaoies, hus dalsyed this reform, Jut why doos the press indorse such mombers of thy profession as ars guilty of Lo practices of which it complaing ? [+ it bocause, aa alloged, tuat it bolieves iu tho nalural dupravity of the wholo Lody, and that excoptions are 80 raro a4 not to be recogmaed? ‘To mdiwmit this fu to st onco despair of our entiro sociul and govoru- mental vrganization, fu comparison with which any other political or social wiructuro would be fur preferably, svon way ratber suarchy sud chaos, R Nix stories, Those who ara 1 tha babit of telling prodigi- ous stories ought to buve good momnixa; but, fustunutely, thoir memoried aro generally whogt, e ———— Bichard Drinsloy Hhoridan dealt with thoss tondacions pest +in 8 manner peouliar to Himuelf Ho would nevor allow himeolt tobo ontdote by 8 vorbal prodigy. Whenivor a monatrons atory wad told in his prosonco, he would endenvor to outdo it by ono of s uwn eolnagn, and - consign the narrator to confusion by o falsshood mwors glativg than bia own. Onca iu his Loariug a soorting adventurer ran thus: 1 wan tsling ona dar, sy in a cortatn cold sprivg full of dolleioun trout, and noon cught n laree mosn, Dt what was roally surprising, not a foot from tho cokd upriage thare was one of bollog water 3 w0 that, when yan wanted ta cook sour fi<bi oll you lind to'do, fter hooking thom frvm the eold ppring, was to pop thew directly into the boiting,” The comnnny all oxproasod nston- ishment and incrodulity at this moustrons asnar tion, with the exesption of Hheridan, [ know,” mald he, *of o plienomenon yet mwa surprising, I was fisnlug ouo day, when I camo to 0} 1o whero thero waro thron springs, Ty first was a colil vaw stockod with flah, tho seeond a boilng epring, and the third a natural foun- tatn of melted buller and payaley,” **Moltad butter and parstov ] first story-toller, **impossiblo I'* —_— FINES, AT RED OAK, IA Couxcrr, Brures, In., Doz, 23.—A fire at Rod Oak at 2 o'clock this marning destroyed the cu- tiro enst sido of the Luildings on tho piblio squaro. That sido of tho square was built solid with frames, ‘Tho fire broke ont Iu 4 one-story building belonging to 1i. oppen, of Now- ark, N.J., and occapled by 1. J. Ockerson as o wararoom, Tho fire, notwithstanding tho porfect calmuosn of tha air, spread rapidly, nnd i about two hours that wholo sido of tLu suaee, oxeepling the building . which wes tho druge #toro of Wheelock & Clurke, was in_ashes. 'Tho Ilappen blnlillng wa3 usared in the Keokuk Stato Company for 2500, Next south was s good two- exolaimod tho story Duilding owned by W. 'I'. Johnaon, of Oltumwn, oand ocoupiod DLy TLowis & Childs, hardware, No ingarance on tho building, Lows, £2000. Tewis & Chlilds loss about 26,000, Insured in the Commorcinl of Bt. Louis for ®1,000, Tho nosxt two wero one-utory buildingy, Tho first was ownod by 11. A, Thompeou, nud oceupiod ny a Wwarchouso by Lowis & Childs. Loss on bullding, &500, Tho socond was awned by Mike Osborn, and occupied by Mres, H. P, Lowin os a mulinery etore. Losa on building, €500. No lusuranco, T'ho corner building was ownod and ocentpied by Joweph Fishor s » grocery ntoro. Loy, 2,000, Tnsured on buildiog £1,00) in tho Morcantile of Chicagy 200 in the Commercial of ¥ ug, 0 two-atory, next north of tho ouo in which the firo “originnted was owned by Whittier & Durhnm, nnd used na & harners manuflactory, Loss on building and goods, 83,000, Insured in tho Moresntile of Chicago for £1,000 5 in the QGlobo of Chicago for 1,000, Tho noxt was a one-story huilding ownod by T. V., Crandali 5 loss, 84005 no 1wsuranco; oceupied by J. M. McLoan a4 o dry-goods mtora; MeLean's loss, 2500, Next wero two buildinge, ono storics, owned and occupled by Ieano Payne as o rostaurant and C tobacco etoro; lurs, abont 000; some insurance on roods, Next wag tho harness shop of ‘Thomea Gobgan ; loss, on goods, $200 ; no it puranco ; building owned by 'Thomas Rogors 3 losy, 85005 no insurance. Tho mext bLuilding wag o ane-story frame owned by T. W. Crandsll, which was forn down to prevent further eproading of the fira, Wheelock & Clarke's drug store was the corner building, The Roods woro carried out in & hasty mauner, and damsagod to tho extont of some £200. Tha loss of Mr. Ockerson, who oceupied tho building in which tho flro otlginated, i3 about 81,000, ‘tha total lous Is about 820,000, Tho fire i bollovod to Liavo been tho work of an iucendiary, 1N NEW YORK. New Yong, Dec. 25—A firo thls morning In tho buildings Noa, 40 and 42 Vesoy strost, caused loases smounting to 240,000, distribnced among a number of oceupauts, who are mostly insured, IN CHICAGOD. The alarm from Box 923 at 10 o'slock last even- ing waa caused by a firo in the two-story frame building, No. 166 Bouth Desplalnes stroct, owuod and ocenpled by Joun Prattas n dwelling. Damugo on building, 8100 ; tusured for $500 fn tho Uuderwritorw', of New Yorh; andon furni- ture, 5100 insured for #200 in 'tho samo cow- pany. AFTER BRET NARTE, And Not S0 Very Ear After ITim Elther, Sonora (Cal.) Demuverat, Wa are about to relate an incident which wonl: in our optulon form a first-class basis for *a story of Califoruia Hfo,” as portrayod by tho thousaud aud ono amatour imitaturs of Francis Brot Harto, Firet doscribe tho surroundings. Au atkali villago fn the heart of the Mouo coan- try, where tha * tirst low wash of civilization 18 indicated by batterod oyster oana and empty Bourbon botiles. “Lho village itself & conglom- aration of adobe, and envvas, saloons and cabins, vice and virtuo, rockioss indepoudence and super- natural idiocy. The occupution of the inhab. itauts anytinng appropriato to that scetion of tho country—at presont wo are at a loss Lo Hitgyoxt auy occupation suitable to tho surround- inzs, put have no donbt Lhut tho fertile brain of tho amatour will readily find romotbing for his Larous to carn their diurnal sustenancs by, for a uamo for this dilapidated, ouz-of-the-way placo, Butan’s Jtovst will perings do as well an any other. It is not at all neccwsary that alt should be prominent, but their remarks (in dinloct of courso) must bo_judiciously salectsd sud erammed in whenavor tho writer {a at o loss {or o paragraph, Lot tho brokee-down ;barawmer [:lny tho wmalo hero, Itmay bo ss well to call i & man of superb aducation snd clossical purts, formorly a placer miner in tho southora inivey, ‘The woman who is to lond grace to tho #tory, must be tho unly femalo in the * camp," Dow't picturo Lior as piretty or overvirtucus, for that would Lo entiroly utorthodox and not ull aftor the style of tho mastor Lobomlan, Around theso two the lucidouts of the story mast clustor, ‘Ihe man drinks tke & fish and tho wommn iy * unconvantions),"—takos {n washing for a living and is idolized by the commumty in which sho Lives, all of which way be outirely incunsistent with the truth ; but no matlor—yoi are writing & Cahfornia romance, and mconsistonoy muse ba your ground-plan, 'The man's numo is * Saudy " or ™ Seotty " or Poto™ or “Jim ™ or any sig- godtive title, 'I'ho woman may bs ‘*The Pride of Mono” or “* Cnorokeo Hal ™ or * Clitquita,” it matters not which. Aud now for tlo iucident. **Baudy " or whatovar his name s falls in Jove with the * Pride of Mono.” His passion is re- ciprocatod. A gamblor oallod ** 8hort-card Dill " (clussical cogaoten) s alvo in lovo with tho horoie. Dosdly animosity oxists, betweon tho bumnior aud the gamblor in consoquence, and thoy Flot oach othor's ruin, Finally the woman tells tho gumblor that sho cannot love him, Il ragos around for & while and at lust conios to tho conclusion that he will deoida tho whoto mattor by nu appesl tu chance. whaothor ho shall kil tho bummor *Sandy® and turry “Chorokea Bal” or whether Lo shall mouut his spiendul thoroughbred and doport in tho oarly dawn jnst as o fow dmwui{flhmlmun aro wonding their way down the racky raviue to thoir daily labor. The dice deolde that ** Bandy " must die. ‘Tno scene changes to the ** Howling Wilderncaa” ealoon. At this polnt, the amatour mnay diurlny his powers of description and hlg knowludgo of porverted dialast, ¥ntor * Bandy. Lnter " Bhort-card Bill” Lnter other catlaver- ous monatrositios destgnatod citizens of ** Batan's Ttoost,” 'T'ue gamblor provokes n quarrol with the moek-oyed bummer. A platol-fight onsues, Hore the amatour can litorally ** shrow himsel| 1o can get o scono of confusion snd carnsgo that might rival tho famous fight at Uilgal, “whore thoy pilod tho duad outside the door b cords,” and iu which the * short, sharp bark of the Derrlugor” wag board * soundiug the kuoll of doparting kouls.” Lho gamblor s victorions, and ** Bundy * strotohos bumsclt out on the fleor preparatory to dylog in orthedox California romantic fushion. **8hort-card Dill "' mounts bis borso, and in company with ** Cherokeo Sal," who lius reloutod, doparte f£om that vicinity for over, In tho wmoautime tho Lifs-blood slowly oozea from tho lofé side of **Hay Apparoutly the bununor's minutos are numbe: ‘Fho only physiciau in tho place 13 called, sud the following alistio " couversation enyuea, Dog, old pard, what's the chances p* Blim, Bandy, d—d sliw,” {1as gha gone, oo 7" A world of pathos burdens thess words cf tha dying mau. ‘+Yeos, Sandy, slio's gone,” Tears woll up ln the oyus of the byatandors— oyou that had uot kuown toars wince thoy last gazed upas the woil-warn strap thut huog zaulda the patcrual firoplacy, ‘* Gonoe and left me; gono, gone, gone," A Pause aud a silenoo lu Lhe ** Howling Wilde:ness that way tomb-like in ity solemnity. +* How much longor, Doo, kon I Lang on 2" “Just two minutee nud three-quariery," mald the doctor, grasping the hand of thy dying man, A convutsivo shudder panses through the frawe of tun almost defunck humwer, Limaull ou L1 elhow with & wighty effore hoe thrawu ono arm around thy neck of tho doctor aud lu pathotiv lones exo aliny ; ** Kivs me, Doc, kiss s, L'vo nothing wmoro to Ha throws dive to seo- Tuon raivin”| live for now thit Sal's gono. Kiss mo, Doo, oy we," thor pause, no 1py, Doe?" eontinues the dying man, "u:pliuu the dostor. ** About timg Fou wore den Moro pausos, The ummer triey to dio, buy doen not sucoedd, Fumlly ho gots up, and, goloy to tho bar, santoitionsly romarks s ** Gomo, boys, let's licker.” ’C}‘llm *“hova™ lieker, fund o mystory being oxplatund, 18 appoars thaf el butlot wircnd o » Sy n s nud cama out nonr hia vertebrm tnstead of oy atraight through him ag 1t shon'd have dong, Tho man itves, wuch to tho physician's dlagn Dowmtmont, Tins magniflcent plot1e offered g tio uspidug awateur frea of chargo. A COLORED GIANT, Ex Ahbs Senty of Mexnndria. New York tiraphs, Al Joln A, Seaton, of Aluxandria, n gleanty oatored man, who sitractel wuch altention aboul Lwo years ago when ho marched as ono « the gunrd of honor beside the hearso contaiaing tho romaing of Charles Summor on its A Esagy through Now York, I now a spocial Doputy Sheriffin this city, and has Loon placed o charge of the Mjuitable FLifa Insarance Company'y building, 120 Iroadway, o largest privaty Etructuro dovoted toofico uses in Ameriea Thodo who have beon there within tho last twy months cannot liave fatlod to notico Seaton, Ify a6 foot @ {ncbios bigh, s»londidiy proport lonca, Atraight a9 an arrow, and about 43 years oll leis dressed in bright bluo cloth, with Bl buttons veaching to lus chin, In his band he davgles n kuatied cano4 feat 1 inchin length and 2 inohios in ialnetor acrors the head, 44y parents,” said ha to a_Graphic reporte; thin morniug, **wero sat froo by Gen, Washlng. ton whilo ho was President. “Aly mother war very young at the time, but sho bas ofton told mo sboutit, I novor was a slnve.” ko that olevator, eal,” saul ho blandly, tarning to sgomo ono who wantod to O toex. Judge Fallerton's oflice, Thers were four oloya. tors n view, but the mon sighted along the nn. der eido of tho Dlae sleove ‘und ponderous fittle (#) finger that wora oxtonded ovor lus head, ang poesed ont from undor thom with au expression of thanks, ¥ “Ithink thero must be not farfrom 15,000 peopla vass dnand out of the bullding durs i tho day,” contluuod the sable glant, with bardly & traco of tho acesnt peculiar to bis race, * My fathor was 6 feat b inehas Ligh, but my mothor was not remarkably large. ‘hore woro ton of g children, soven woro girts, and avorngod abou( 6 foo 11 inchow, ~ My brothiora wero Loth sall, each bolug nbout 6 feot 2 inchos lngh. I was the youngest, I weigh now 276 ponuds,” Heaton Jearnod tho trado of a carpentor, and swhot lio wan 18 years old had aceasion, with live otliors, to hold np oue side of a roof, which, ho ways, welghnd over o ton, The othor wide roste ol on ths ground. A bracocave way and his compations leaped back in fright. Seaton had Loen standing im- rrudently under tho root, shout midwuy betwesn the ouds, sud coulil not osenpo, Duwn camo the lieavy mass, slowly doubltag up his strong army nuwtilho got an opportunity ta placo bia. Lead sgainst a raftor, Here Lthe young giant held is until his reasuuring eries brousbt his fellow- workmon to his nssstanco, , Duribg tho War ha orvad as carpéntor on tha Peninsula and ut Aloxnudrin. At tho latter Placo ho was onrotled for tho defenss aguinst the ralda of Gon. Mosby. Oneo, wlulo in Maps a8sas, ho obtained o furlongh, nud on his roturn misded o train and was o day late, * Gon. White tlo erdoroi me up hefora” bis tent,” he said, chuckling all through his huge frame at the rec ollection, *and, by way of puntshment, mads oo whistle from 11 o’élock until 4. Mr. Sonton in quite artiatic in this kind of porformance, Subsequoutly Gon, Whittlo made him Digale Commissary” Sorgeant. 1o lold that poeition until the closa of tho War, Then ho becamo s mersonger in tho Commisunry Dopartment, whoto Lis litheuess and addrove In' carrying notes and taking vorbal mosnages from ono (o partmont to usuother won him genoral fuvor, Noxt o want to the Capltal us u watchman, and was afterwards appointed a8 tho fimt and nly colored momber of tho Capitol polico. "Mt powition was worth abont 1,600 o year, and tha force Is lurgoly composod, Sonton sass, of broi. en-down avmy oflicors amdt othor gonflemen, whotio nhecersities compol thom to accopt such positions. Tt 18 amibe dintivet from tho Wasls ingzton Caty polico Toreo, Lut our colored friend's honora in lifo havy mainly been wou it tho political fiokl. O the 27th of lust October ho 1esigned his position ny tho ouly nogro _member of the Biard of Aldor- mon of Alexandrin, whoio in has always 10 4o 1, and where ho has much papulavity, [y says b lias nlways boen able to poll o strony Lrinh vota. Ilo was elccted threo times to the Joard of Aldermon, aud was, until last_Octobur, Chairman of tho Lighth Comirossionsl Distriel Itepublican Commiittea, o wans onco tondored tho nominaticn for Mayor of Aloxandris, nné once, aliv, the nomination for Congreasm: from the Xighth District. Abont n year Judge Kuith appointed him ndmivastrator of the cstato of John Fox, o white grentlomanof Alox sudrin. Bosides lis nttondanica ab the funoral of Chdrles Bummer, ho was appointed to stane a8 oneof tho gunrds of Loner Leaide the 10mxing of Chiof Justico Chaso 10 the United $tator Supromo Court-100m In Washington, beaton ways that about two yourd azo, while Lunting uear Hunting Creck, in' Virginia, ho sun a youug man struggilng in tho wator and wenl to his reeono. 'The man clawped him arouné tha neck wo that ho conld not swann, and Hontor Have that o Dad to [ift Limon s shoukier and wullc ashoro with bins through § feet of wator. —_——— Puris ‘Paxation. valt Malt Gazette, Tho comparative enso wish which Francebean the enormous tasation readersd necossary by the war is one of the staoding wondors of the tiwo, But the endurance of the ity of Pang under hor burdous s ¢von mora romarkabla than that of the country at lnrge. According to M. Toroy-Beauliow, if the taxation of L'siis was distributed oquml‘{ over tho populstion, uvurK man, womay, and cluld in tho city would pay balf o frang, or dlve penco sterling, overy duy, Inthis estimato i included tho contrite tiona to the Btato and to the dopartments sg well ua to tho municipality, Restricting onr at- tention to this lattor enm, wo fiod that tho oz« penditare of thol'aris municipalitv fa nealy don- ble that of the Kiogdom of Portugal and mors then donblo that of Swoden, It oxcoeds tuat of olland, i3 about tho same a8 that of Lavaris, and approaohos within £120.000 that of Belgiuw, Dut Bolginm has » populstion abont two and & Lialf times ay groat as . It will ba meeu, thon, ag M.:Leroy-Dosuliou romarks, “that afier tlie alx groat powors, Bpain and Turkey, thor ia uno nation or kingdom in Europs the ruvenuo and expanditure of which notul.y surpasa those of tho City of Varin.,” The Ludget of tho city for noxt yoar fs divided into two party, ordinary snd oxtrsordinary. ‘e ordinary oxpouditurd {s estimatod to amount to £8,120,000, boing au incroase upon the ostiuata of tho prasont yoar of about £120,000, sud M. Leroy-Boauliew {8 of the opinfon that the budges for 1877 - will show & still furthor inoresso of, porbaps, half a million, sinco the whole charge causcd by the loan ralead this year will not be brooght to account till 1877, wil "bo other additions. The extrsordinary oxpenditura Is estimatad to amount to £4.160,+ 000, makiug tho total expenditure of all kinds roach next year, for a oiy ©f 1,852,000 inhabits ants, the enormous sum of £12,280,000, The Ercnter PAre of the oxtraordmary expendituro, . Loroy-Beaullou is #atiaded, will prove to be oxtraordinary and temporary. Dut with atl lu deeiro to tako au optimist viow of tho situntiou, ho s forced to0 admit the probability that pars, ¢ least, of this decoptive heading will reap- {m_nr sgafu aud again in suocowsive budgots, With rogard to tho ordiuary oxpeuditure, we find that very noarly bialf, or exactly £3,840,000, 14 nbaorbod by the service of thia debt ; £460,000 1a uwallowod up by tho colloction of the taxes— not au immoderato sum, it muast be sdmitted, slnco 1t is no more $han b1¢ ver cont of tho prove recoipts § £620,000 fs oxpauded fn public charity, and tho Lrefecturo of the Polico costs £500,000. Viually, the sctual sdwioistration of tho city coste only £2,240,000. Of thin nmonnt, lighting, paving, and 80 on, take £800,000, whilo tho ox- penditare on edacation, both primary sua sco oudary, 18 a littlo over £400,000. —_—— DPuoexibly thors An 0ld Doll. The Newpors Nuws Lins this sccount of & vou- erable and notable dolis * Amoug the r contributed by Newpors to the Centoonial Fair Which the Iadles of Providence aro carryiug ou, iua doli bolievod to be the oldest in the country. It is of wazx, about 10 iuchoy Ligb, sud bws grown yellow with sge uutil it looks l'rlgmrullx like a corpse, 1t boasts tho followiog historys It was imported from Paris as a model of the fashions of thedsy, and was bought in Phila- dolphua by the Hon. Benjamin Bourne, of Lristol, wlo was & momboer of Congress from 17 tc 1706, The doil was givon to Lis niecs, Miss Lillio . "Turnor, daughtor of Dr. L'oter Lurner, 8 eargoon iu thu Jovolulionary army, M Lillio ‘was born u 1794, ‘fho doll's éyes st 1Lovo, sod it still wours the Anery in which il crowsed the ocoun to bliow i ambitiowy asmy :’yf the wonng lopublic how thelr Parisian slstef ressed,”