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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. PASTIMES. Eshibition Game Between the ‘White Stockings and Franklins. Programme of Coming Western Championship Contests. Ahe July Buoning and Trotting Meet togs at Dexter Park, Amival in COhicago of Budd Doble end His Stable of Flyers. How Tom Allen and Joi Goss Expect to Fool the Americans. BASE BALL. 'WHITE STOOKINGS VS, FRANKELINY. The first appearance of the White Stocking pine sgainst an organized club was in yester- day's game with the Franklin Club, 6f this city, perhape the strongest amatour organization n the State. The attendance was good, consider- ing the inequality in ths teams and the extrome improbability of & close game. Among other old-time base ball enthusissts to be seen in the stand were the following : Walter Williams, Ed O'Brien, Walter, Charley, Al, and Dick Hough, William and Henry Petillon, Billy Barner (tbe pedestrisn), George Oleve- Jand, Luciug Howiand, Gen. O. H. Smith, Dick Stearns, Norman T. Gassette, Charley Hilton, Brewster (the hatter), Courtuoy Campbell, Bart~ lett, Frank Wentworth, Billy Hayden, Cbarler Hunt, James Barrell, Izzy Jacobs, Godfrey Harris, Jake Smith, Fred Erby (origivator of cormect and mobby styles), Billy Wolff, Joo Mackin, Harry Everbardt (the Bishop), Admirsl Billy -Lyon, Billy Olcott, Beverly R. Chambers (ex-President of the Excelsiors), Frank Parmelee, Jr, Billy Manning, Chariey and Billy Dean, Al Le Pran, Johony Hoaley, Charley Clayton, George Griggs, Col. J. H. Findigan (Cincinnati), Frank Nichols, George Sard, Jake | Richards, Ald. Tom Foley. Lawrence Beardsloe, Henry Newton, Damp Rhines, Tod Cowles, Joe Snow, Jouts Drock, Dr. James G. Brown, X. E. Swaithont, Billy Murray, Charley Waeeler, Mosa Weinstein, Lip Dsvidson, Frank Bagg. Billy Emerson, Ass Swift, Col. Jobn Eemble, Sam Towell, ~ Prof. Billy Rico, J. Appleton ilson, Frank Beemis, C. H. ~Shaver, Billy Smith, Billy Ogden, Ed __ Mark- ham, Hobe Ogden, and Jake Wolford. The Trofessionals appeared to rather better advan- tage than on the previous dxy, and the addition of 3 dark-biug tie to each man's uniform relieved the | mopotony of clear white, and gave a very pretty ! ‘effeet. The confusion Likely to riss from similarly- i colored caps has been removed by the introduction of 2 grecn one, which has been mounted on Peters, and tecomes him well. The Club dress is now the tastiest and_nestest in the whole list, snd thers is no doubt that the men will work heartlly to 24d to their equipment the only thing it lacks —the whip penpsut for 167. Testerday’s game was chiefly notable for the hard hitting of the profession- als, which was well mstched by fine, close, active field- jug. Anson appears from the scora to bé an excep- \os, but his overthrows wers excusable ones, and wonld hardly have occurred in a big gsme, Tsrnes did some excellent work in the field, and Peters ro- sembiled nothing so much 283 sparrow fa scarch of worms ; the Inier is to bo credited with a wonderful 2utch off Reid's bat in the third inning, = The char- aciexof tho ingeld work way be judged by Ui fuct that double plays were made in the second, third, Afth, and seventh innings, The first was by Petere, Barnes, and McVey, the second by Barnes and McVey, the thisd (and the fimest of the fofy by Peters and McVey, and the lant by Hines and Barnes, The professionsl outfield was attended to without an error by the regu- lar players, Glcnn _appearing for tha first timé in the ‘The best work for the Franklin was done by very fine gume, Quinn snd Reid also put in e Very e o, though the latter scored mora rrors than he was on for, The game is, of tourse, unworthy 10 be detailed in full, and all neces. mary information csn be learned from BB PAE ERERR o126 & REEER il 1f o af 1| 0 ooiole Y 01213113 of o1y o PIRIRIRIR] LERER 3 whlisliy 123466789 hicigo, %0; Frankiln, 7, seceived the uaual odda from the professionals—viz., five 0uta in each inning, The veteran Jimmy Wood filled the position of umpire satisfactorily, and inter- preted the new rules concerning strikes and bails ex- ceilently well. Tbe only fault found with bim was by . 8 captious Frankiin, who declared that on_one occa- slon he got s0 mixed up that he scratched s wooden ieg {n deapair. Thus, however, 13 an unwarranted and anproved assertion. OPENING OF THE WESTERN SEASON. The Whits Stockings leave to-morrow evening for TLouisville, where they open the Western profeesional see0n in games with the new Louisville Clab. The Birst game will be plased Tuesdsy afternoon and the socond Thuredsy, Fridsy tho Club goes_from Louis- villa 0 Cincinnatd, and will play the now Red Stocking Club of the Istter city Saturday of this week ana Wed- Desday of next. In the interim they will take a trip . Gp o Columbus sad piay the semiprofessional nine ty, ‘The Brown Stockings of St, Louls leave for Cincin. nati Monday, and will open the season in_the City of Park, playing games Tuesdsy snd Thuradsy of this week. They go to Louisville when the Chicagos leave, s1d pisy two games thers when the Chicagos and Cin- einnatis ere st work. Fram Cincinnati the Chieagos goto St, Louis, and Play two games there, May 4 and G, while the Louis- ¥illes ae playing 1 Cincinnal After tbe White Stockings return o Chicago, the following games will be played : . Msy 9 and 11.—Chicago 8. Cincinnati, 3¢ Chicago; e e A gt B mminna, Chicago; iy 13 and 16.—Chicago va. Lonisville, at 3 Clzclogati . St - Loui, S St Louls, sy 18 and 2).—Chicago va. St. Louls, at Chicago; Cimcinnati ille, st Louisville, va. The Chicagos will take with them their fall team of fweive men, thongh, i Glenp is well enough fo play, $wo will have to lay Off besides Cone. A considersble gumber of Chicigo gentlemen will sccompany tlie Club, and certain others will go dawn to St. Louis when the Club is {0 play there. Some of them have vivid remembrance of moneya lost in betting on Zot- tleln’s White Stockings, and they think they ses how bogetit back. Maybe'they do; and then sgatn—— BOSTONS—ATRLETICS. Sneciat Dupatei to The Chicaqo Tribune, April 22, —The first gams of the onship series between the Bostom Olub, of Boston, and the Atblctic Club, of this city, was played Diero to-day, and resulted in & victory for the Bostons by ascore of 6105, . THE BOSTONS. giZue Baston Glabe ban the following opinion of Mo~ nley: Further observation strengthens our Lelief In McGinley's unfitness for tho position of catcher, It is in the most friendly epirit_possible toward him and fhe Clab that it is sald, but still 1t must be said, and ihie sooner the managers recognize the fact the better. The position of catcher is 0 tmportant thatit shouid be filled by & msn whom experience has proved to be srery way trastworthy. While McGioley is 3_good player as good pluyers go, no ono who knows anything “of the game would bet u dollar on the Bostons in s pmo with any one of the nrs o clule while he remains behind the lan A sin- e pseaed tall or mufed fou, or a wild row to second base, may determine many A0 important contest. . . . John F, Morrill hss boen engaged to play with the Bostons this yoar. He tleyed with the Lowells (amateurs) last year, and bo- fore that with the Stars of this city. Hé ia 21 years 3ld, born in Boston, weighs 155 pounds, and measures 3166111 inches. Me a a very good player, and will be # valuable man, Indced, if onemay judgo from hiw sy of Jast Tharaday behind the bat, he 18 & better Satcher than McGinley. It i not improbable that the *0ld Man * may have o change of positions in pros- [k 88 e strengluening of tho nina wmust of caurse 1ooked to rather that any persopal considerations. NOTES, ‘The Graphic Company Lave just' finished for the Dufcago Cluba fine lithograph of ils players, grouped tround 3 typleal ball-ground. The Mutual Club bave engsged Fred Trescy, once of Shicago, to play feld for them this year.. Hels a good ¥00 when Lie wanta to be, and subjecs Lo tho samo gen- #nal roublo s Authews of the same team. . The bago-ball club-honse is being rapidly fitied up for ocenpaney, and will be ready by or before the club Teturns {rom its rip. The furniture and other fitting Tpaf the establishment will bo of the finest, and tho fuembership of tho club of tho best. President Hul- B chiarge of the membersbip of the club, and is .:lmdyz r‘mh]'mng of many tickets, By the day of ‘mhmw asge Bropordion of ths lovens of the game z st AR > THE TURF- THUE DEXTER PARK MEETING. - Col. Mansur has arranged his programme of - faces and purses for both the July meetings st Dexter Park, and hos generally done much bet- ‘er than ever before in the spportionment of - Boney and selection of classes ; ke hss improv- _id oa the division of money in that he has given e firat, of running meeting, $3,500 instesd of + 16,700, which 15 had Jast vear. There was last lml:oun.idmhla grambling. and nos altogather < Inmerited, because.the trotters took all the bi 05984 ; this year mnxn;hunldh-mmuhgmmg of the pacing race Was also & wise move, and it is safe to prophesy that it will. be one of the best sttractions in the first meeting. Itought to drawa farger field than any other race. Following is the Jpnr %mme for the first meeting commencing June FIRST DAY, FRIDAT, JUSE 0. B \fi'om I—-Bunaing; 1-mile daah; all ages; purses of and $50. N :‘;smm.nl; 227 class; purses of $625, $300, No. 3—Running; stake race for 3-year-olds; mile and repeat; entrance, $50; $300 added; second horso o reocave §100; p. p. EECOND DAY, SBATURDAY, JULY 1. No. 4—Bunning; dubof 3 miles; fori all sges; pfll:ltl of mmd‘flw,‘ i e s, 0. 5—Pacing; fres for allj pureéa of $500, $250, $150, $100, No. 6—Running; mileheats; thres in five, for sll ages § $3%90, $150, §100, THIRD DAY, MONDAY, JULY 3. No, 7—Running; three-fourths of a miledash ; for 2-year-olus; $25 entrance, $150 added; socond Liorse 0 receive $50; v. P, No. 8—Running; mils and repest, for all sges: ‘purses of £250 and $150. No, 9—Trotting; free to sll under saddle; entriea wmust bave mo record, either to harness or wagon (time made under saddle 18 no bar in any other kind of Tace); purses of $500, 250, $150, £100. No.10—Running: dash of 13 miles for all ages; purse of $150 and $50. POUTRW DAY, TUESDAY, JULY 4. SNo, 11—Running; stake race for 3-year olds: dash of 13 miles; $50 entrance, $300 added ; acoond hoceg to roecive $100; p. . No, 12—Running ; 2 miles and repest ; for all ages; purses of $450 and $i50. No. 13—Trotting ; 2:31 class; puraes of §1,000, §500, , $200. No. 14.—Running; consolation purse for all horses that Bave run and not won during the meeting; mile and repeat ; $125 to tirst, $25 to socond. Horses that hiave been Beaten once ailowed 7 pounds; horses beat- e twice, 10 pound ; horees beaten Uures tmes, four- 0 pounds, Following i8 the programme for the second meeting, commencing July 182 - FINST DAY, TUESDAY. JULY 18. No. 1—Troiling: 3:40 class; purses of §625, $300; $200, $12 o A-aaings e hestss 5 in 6; sl ages; raes, $350, $150, $100, P o S0l clage’ Diress of 1,000, $50, S0, $200. SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19. No. 4—Trotting; 3-ninute clasa; purses of $025, £30), $200, $125. No. 6—Running; mils and repeat: stake race for Symarolas; 0 eafrance; S0 added; vecond horss 1o eceive $100; p. p. i Tmu.i.n%:li“l‘S class; purses of §1,000, $300, No, 6~ THIAD DAY. THORSDAY, JULY 20. . No, T—Trotting; 2:5 class; purses of $625, $300, No, $—Running; 2-mile dash; -all ages; purses of 350, §150. et Na, 9—Trotting; 227 class; purses of $750, $350, 250, §10. FOURTH DAY, FRIDAY, JULY 21, No, 10—Trotung ; 2:30 claes; purses of $525, $300, ) §125. g 11—Running; 2 miles and repest; purseaof $450, §150. —Trotting; free for all; pursea of $1,250, 1§00, £400, £250, Thia m3kes the tatal of purses for the second mect- ing of $15,000, and for both oectings $22,500, against $22,000 1ast yesr, or & gain of $1,500. The stake races will close June 1, but the time when other entries will close Lo not been announced. All the racing will be goverued 28 to weights and other matters by the Lexingion revisad rules of 1s76; the trotting by the rules of the Natioual Turf Cangrees. Season fickets 0 the Park wils be piaced b 116 same figures s tho former years—$i0, $25, and $20, BUDD LOBBLE and his string of trotters arrived from Cahfornia yes- terday, and are stopplog over at Dexter Fark for a lit- tlo rest Leforo procecding o Philadelpuia, where Budd fa expected o arrive this week, Following is tho company which the veteran trainer has rouglt over the slope to make tho big cirouit, Goldsmith Afsld, looking well and resdy for any- thing, though she will probably uot get much racs work this year, Abe Edngton, a new contestant for Fastern hon- ors, thin being Ius first appearance this side, Mels dapple gray, with a record of 2225, It will be remem- bered thst he beat the phenomenon Defiance last win- ter i San ¥rauclsco, whea tho staked were 5,000 3 de. . The bsy mare Clementine, formerly owned by Graves & Loomis, of this city ; her record js 2:71, Ella Wright, s bay mare with a record 'of %:34% Young Volunieer, no record, but esld to be fust: and the colebrated stallion Sam Purdy, with & record of 223, Doble has also in his party Daniels’ Springbok _and Baldwiu's Grinstead, the fiyers who went to the West 1o win the Lig purse for 4-mslers. THE NEW ORLEANS BACES, NEw ORLEANS, April 22.~At the Louisiana Jockey Club Spring meeting, sixth and last ‘day, the sttend- ancewas very large, westher clear and warm,and track hard. ‘The first race, the Fortuns stakes, for S-year-olds, 25 entrance, $i00 aaded, mile and a half, was won by Harry Hili by three lengthe, Ossea second, Southern Exprees third, Time, 2:42K. P 11'5,%” pool on the track, Harry Hill sold at $100; the eld, £26. The second hr;ees for, beaten horses, 1 mile, purs $300, was won by Survivor by » length, Enlister see~ ond, Puss Baoadnax third, e, L:id. In the pool on the track. Survivor sold at $350, En- lister $170, and Broadnax $50. Inthe third race, four mile-heats, all ages, porso $1,200, was woul by Sam Harper, distancing Falmouth in'the first beat. Time, 7:42. 1n the pools Harper sold at §110, Falmouth $10, A 50-MILE RACE. Sax Fraxcmsco, April 22.—Nell Mowry and J. P. Smith rode a 50-mile mustang raceat the Bay Dis- trict track to-day, the former winning in two hours and elght minutes. Mowry will ride &100-mile Tace at the Centennial, i NOTES, £ 3r. 0. Woodworth, of Bloominglon, has purcliased the thoroughbred stailion Idaho, by Eentucky. Lady Turpin and the remainder of the stable of 8. A, Browne, of Grand Bapids, will be trained &t Eala- The Livingstone County Horse Association will hold its annual meeting at Howell, 3lich,, Msy 51, June 2 and 2; $3,500 will be hung up. Alroy, by Almont out of Emma Kinkead, by Con- seript, Las been sold by Gen, W, T. Withers 10 Charles L Spnith, Treasurer of the Earl Park Association, Earlville, Il Alroy is now 2 sears old, and bronght 1,000, The management of the Kalsmazoo, Mich., Drising Park have decided on the following programme: First Day, June (~3:00 class and a 2:30 class, Second Day—2:44'and 2:36 classes. Third D and 2:34 classes, Fourth Day—2:40and 2:23 clusses. All are for a purse of $800, except the 2:22, which is of §1,200; £050 to irst, $350 to second, $200 to third, It was de- cided o give this race in place of a freé-forall, &8 it ‘would likely bave more starters. ——— THE RIFLE. CHICAGO CLUR R1I00T. . Members of the Chicago Rifle Club mot yes- terdey afterncon Lo shoot for & revolyver present- ed by George Beutteumuller. The shooting com- menced at 1:30 p. m. at the South Park Range. Distance, 250 yards off-hand, An equal number of all present took part on esch sido. The team making the highest ageregste score to shoot three additionsl ebots ench, the one making tho best score to take the revolver. The shooting was of tho most exciting character, Mr. Burn- ham’s team winpiog by ooly oue point. In sbooting off Mr. 8. W. Burntam made the best score, therabv wioning 8 very besutiful prize. Next Saturday thers will be two prizes, and it is ex- pected the members will be present without furtler notica. Below I8 tho complete score, 250 yards, off- hand 3 . 8. W. Burnham., 4344333434—35 344346404535 33343534334 D. B, Fiel 30434234 4—31 George Beut 4443833340-31 B. L.'Nourse.. 42023444329 195 J. A Shaffer. 344435445—40 S. E. Bise 44244243435 H. G. Howe,. 430484544—85 C. 02440454531 424282424—99 403324402-35 Lg| 1. F. Nours: Walter Buruhom. COMING AGAT. Beside all the Contennial tonrnament matehes and the like, the American team los on hanil snother con- test with the Irish rifiemen who were defeated at Creedmoor and_Doliymount in 1874 and 1876 The team from tiie Green Isle will not nccept the verdict of two matches and want another ehy at the Yankees, They will be accommodated, and the match will be chot as oo a8 possible after the conclusion of the Centennial tournament. —_— THE RING. EXPOSUTE OF A FRATD. ‘Thera is just now an attempted resival of the ‘brutal aod unlawful so-called **sport™ of prize- fighting, and tho premouitions are seen on every baod; bat chiefly, perkaps, in St. Louis, where the brusers do most eongregate in the West. The papers of the Bridge City are fall of ac- counts of efforts to promote the bastering np of one Tom Allen by one Goss, and in thig business the mast prominent and respectable names to be met with are Harry Hill, Joe Cobtrn, and the' like. To educate the Chicazo mnd up to the pitch of appreciating the pearlv-forgotten bruuaiity tho mansgers of o varietv Bhow - have .allowed Allen to pretend to spar on their stage with & man who goes under the pame of Mike Madden. The spirring is the feeblest poeeible eort, and o better exhibition czn e the gymussium by half the amateurs in the city, It ehould moreover be said for the protec. tion of the Chicago public, as well as the people of other places, that the man Who goes through the mo- toms of 9 ‘with Allen is Dot Mike Msdden atall, but & bartender in Allan's St Louis saloon, Who trav- emploger to gall th public, the English mi d.w-elgml,’" has bout two years, g thrown up 4he sponge to Desth in London, Ha was, moreover, by 10 means wo heavy or iarge s man za Allen’s bar- XKeeper, but was a msx of Some science, which the Pprescnt indindusl is uot, The msn who announces Allen’s competitor aa “Mike Msdden, Ohampion of London,” tells an inexcusablo untruth gvery evening. ‘There {s & pisn on foot to make some money out of the gullible public on falss pretenses by Allen aud Gous, which ahould bo exposed. Befors Goss left ' England be snnounced that he {atend- ed -to “meot amd fight Alen in America Pursuant to this declaration, he has been_correspond- ing with Barney Asron, of this city, and Friday the latter received a telegrata authorizing him to maxe & uateh with Atlon. The word has now gone out that the mstob will b fougbt 82 abave, but the kernel of truth in the matter is taat 1o match will be had botween the two men, and thers iy no intention o mako auy in & way. The plan is o get a8 much free advertisiog aa possible, and then drop the whole thing. It 42 ex- cted that a pretty good thing can be made in New ork and the East by Goss and some second-rate, whilo Allen and his partonder travel through the West elz around with Znd a8 {ur Eratas Pittsburg to pick up the money of men who think they aro looking at real fighters, 1t is 8 good schemo, bat it won't work. g IN GENERAL. THE * CHOICAGO FIELD™ haa very greatly improved sioce the new man- sgoment took chargs, and is now the leading suthority of the country in kennel matters. Porhaps it gives up rather too great & propor- tion of its space to dogs, but of that its patrons sre bost judges. If it wera as full aa to ather branches of sport it would be the best paper of ita class in America. - - DOCARDUS, J some time #go, offered to.put up his medal won in Englaud, sod n:mytf[g the * championship of the world " inscription, If any ono cared to make a matel for jt,-snd now comes one Dr, Bower Talbot and accepis after s fashion. William Gwyne Frice, of Logan County, IL., aiso accepts the offer of Capt. Hogardus to shoot for the champion gold medal won by the Captain in_England, . G. Prico is & British subject, bornin Wales, and therefors claime,the right toslioot s an Enghshman, although he has left the old country a long time. The mateh.to come off with- in 200 miice of Chicago, IR one or two montha; it be- 3nd that distance reasonable travellag expunaes 1o be lowe . WRESTLING, The managers of tho Christl-Heygster wreatling match have secured the new Chicago Theatre for Tuesday evening, and the match will bo wrestled there, ‘The men’ seem to be very unequally matchied in_size, the German, Heyyster, being 51 Inclics iu breast measure, with & weight of 234 pounds, whilo DLiv_opponent ‘Weighs only about 15 pounds, and measures about 43% Inchies around the breash. It would eoem as if it would require a protty large man to tip Hevgster over if he wers usleep, 2iid no small man could rofl biw on his back if ke were lylng down, It i far to anticipate for Tuesdsy evening s long sad possibly exciting contest, BUFFLER BEN, The Tale of the Wild frapper of the Greas Plains. It waaup in a saloon on Wost Van Buren street. He was a gaunt young wsn, whose face hado't been washed for two monibhs, aad who wore his bair loog bebiud. He waa attired in a slouch hat, buckskin bresches, a red flannel shirt opea at the peck, snd a rough coat. Ho had four re- volvors and & big knife in his bolt. When four dry-gooda clerks came in in a group and ordered some beer. the first dry-goods clerk said to tue bar-keeper: **$ay, John, who's that cuss over yonder ?” “That," said the saloon-keeper, dropping bis Yoice to an awe-strack whisver, *‘toat 1s Buff'jer Ben, the Wild Trapper of tho Great Plains. Ask him to drink. Perhaps ho witl.” and theWild The first dry-goods clerk did e« Trapper replied : **Wall, stranger, seein’as it's yon, 1 will jnst take some firo-water. A8 I heerd Old Rod Taul sas to Spotted Cloud, ‘It's 2 mightly long time between drinks.” Here's to us,” aud he enguifed 2 dose of whisky. *‘You are,” «aid the first drv-goods elerk, *conuected with the trapper bnsiness 2" *In the scalp and gnzzly hog,” said the sec- ond dry-goods clerk. ““Your remituecences of a personal character, 1 doubt not, would be exciting and interesting,” aaid the third dry-goods clerk, -~ “Troth is strauger.thsn fiction. Take something ?™ said the fourth dry-goods clerk. «Wall, no,” said the trapper, I never drink when I'm off the war-trail. It kinder makes me ugly, yor see, and I'm apt to dror my cutlery. I Killed seven men up to St. Jo, Mezzouri, onst, Beven map that I nas talking 10 as friendly as 1 mout bo to you, but I eorter got rilea—wall, me some more whisky.” “ Your hapd,” said one of the dry-goods clerks, “haa often been stained with human blood 2" *Stranger, she hev. The fust time yon come up and eeo me at my wickiup in Montana—soc- ond lodge on the right beyond the Yeilowstone River, and be sure von turn to the left up by the big boulders 300 miles this side—ask any Iojin, and tell him yer want to 6ee Buff'ler Bon, and et he don't scalp ser be'll show yer the road plum straight. I'll show Yer old Bul'sEye, my rifle. She's old Kaintuak steck (lixewise the barrel) and is 16 fost long, and whenever I wipe out a whita mao I make a notch on the barrel, and there's notches all the way up one side and 9 feot down the other. X went up to 880 your graveyards ab Cavalry &ud Greeceland. They'ro a good denl like my private graveyards, more posiea and statutes, and o o3, though they sin'tso spa- cious. Now, jist aboat three months ago I turned looso in & bar-room down to Lafayette, Arkpnsaw, and the Coroner was kept busy for three daya after attonding to seven inguests. And this was just becsuse a durn skunk stood up at the bar and improved his mina with my conversation, and never asked me if I would take—" (Hera oe of the dry-goods clorkacanght Bufl- "ler Ben's ove, and he stammered out an invitation to fill her up agsin. Mr. Buff'ler Ben irrigated himself, apd in seply to & question concerning bis solution of the Indiza quastion, eaid) : “ Injins! Wall, no: I never keep couut of the reds 1 wipo out. Iused to when I was yonog and sort of vain, but I grew ouc'nit. It looked t00 much like vanity. Isuppose I've not tuken the trouble to lift the har of the last 150 or 200 Indians I've killed. Before that I was kinder particalar that way, snd took so maov scalps that I bust the 'Frisco chignon market, and sev- enteen dealers 1o false hair went into bankrupt- cy. Injina is poor trash. Gimme a whola tribe of em and I'll wipe 'em out &5 fast 23 1 can load my revolver and put it to my shonlder.” (Hers ho paused again sud_was promptly ro- freshed. Then ho continued): #1 tell you, boys, if you want to ses the choicest country on the footstool, jest vou go to them ar Biack Hilla. The only thiog sgin the countrs ia the buffaloes. They hutch there, and when they take to flight it's awful to ses them in clouds 80 thick you can’t see the sun, and when they light they cbaw up garden sass, und sour apple-trecs, and corn, and railroad ties, and potatoes, and _telegraph poles. Bot tbar's gold in the Black Hilla. I've seen it myself. When you get down o the bed-rock you strike £50 and 820 pieces, and you wash out eagles and dollars in the streams, and up it the roots of the grass you find small scrip and nickels. No puggets ag 1know on, thongh Idid hear at Shyan of one worth $165,000." Thus, with anccdote and information, Buff'ler Ben whiled away the time.” When the four diy- goods clerks hiad settied for the drinks, their bill amounhing to £6.53, he bade them an afection- ate farewell, and made them promige to call at his tepee if ever they were up in Moutana. When they had gone out, the bar-keeper yisid him bis 20 per cent commission on the drinks sold through his mstromentahty. and told hirn to recollect uext time that it was grasshoppers that flew, not buffaloes. . Beccher’s Scandal Comuissions New York Sun. Prof. Dwight, of Yale Colleso has been asked by the advisers of the Plvmontu pastor tocall a meeting of the Special Commiitea of which he is Chairman, and to organize the Scandal Com- miesion provided for by the Advisory Conncil, by selecting from the Lst of twouty names already published five persons to investi- gate. No one outside of Piymouth Charch has asied for the Commirsion, no adverss testimdny has been proffered. aud L. Swith Hobart, the Cadirman of the Commitlee appointed by tho Coogregatioval ministers to draw up testimony, has heard nothing 10 respouse to i3 call. The sixty dags' limitation expsres at the ciose of this month, a¥d then the Commisgion is to be or- kanized for Piymouth Churcn. The plan of its work has not yet bacn diaclosed, but it is inti- mated that it will sic to receise testimony in the Beecher cags, and, haviog heard all the wituesses who will testify, will repors to tho charch. Another view of the sitnstion 1 thay the Comnussion will be kept alive as a protec- tion agains: all agaressive movements, snd that it is designed cspecially to head off all councila that may be threatened to investigate the rcan- dal. 5 Dr. Wellman, of ‘Albany, and ex-Gor. Dingley, of Maine, are Prof. Dwight's aszociates on the the Committee. Itis not known at what time they expact to meet. Scens ata charch, after the clergvman’s perora- tion. Julia (to Xantiope)}—* What a beaatiful close!™ Xaatippe (Wao has been epicefaly eyeiog & well-dressed lady bofore her)—¢: Neau- tifal clothea! Yes, but I know she didu’t get them ia & beautitul way." p s fide | THE GRAND JURY. It Continues [ts Researches After Corruption. An Interesting Examination of Mr., A. C. Hesing. Negotintions of 2 “Times¥ Employo with Periolat, 1t ts Hoped to Prove C. F. P. fo°Have Been a Conspirator. The Grand Jary yesterdsy morning was per- plexed as to what to do first, and whom of the many witnesses summonaed to give precedenco to. This uncertainty came partly of the fact that Tee Trizuxe had faithfally reported what bad been going on, and of the further fact that the scqpe of the investigations instituted by Mr. Storey had been 80 wide as to create a doubt n his mind as to what had been done and what remained to do. Tne considera~ tion of this mspect of tho work cast a gloom over the inquisitors for a moment,—st leass until Mr. Storey had regained hia lost broath 1 climbing the long stepa to the jury- room. The first thing he found to do, after lengthy reflection, was to try to find ont just bow Tne TripusE had been enabled to publish tho procecdings of the jury every day ip ths face of tho fact that bo had counseled with his fel- lows about telling tales out of school, and been vory particular tv say to witnesses that it they revealed anv part of their tosti- mony to TRILUNE reporters that they would bo the subjocts of & great deal of sighteons in- dignation.” To this end he summpned AUCHITECT EGAX ‘a8 the first witnoss, who he accused of tolhing ‘Lz TRInUSE roporter the substanco of his testi- mony & few da\g 8go, because some juror had chaoced to see the two standing together on the street. Mr. Egan denied that he had repeaied Dy art of s testimony to the reporter, bat confessed that st & late hour of a certain night upon going Lome ha bhad found the in- dividual in question in waitiag for . him., He bad, told him poting, however. This did not appear to eatfy Mr. Storey, for s siawped his foot upon tho foar, *ith the exclamation tlat there was something wrong somewhera. Said be, * If you did not ‘squeal’, somebody elao baa; and it must b3 Juror, or else oW could Tuk TRILUSE hava taken the lead «i It ka8 2" Mr. Storey sgain urged tho pecessity of every juror maintaining tho utmost ee- crecy as to what oces in ths jury-room. Hia protest was increased by {nformation dropped in his ear at the time that o certain juror had been daily pumped by Tz TRIMUNE 1man. When M. Egan was allowed fo be farther heard, he had nothing to' say except to confirm what he hsd already leatified to. There was no conflict between his testimony and that of Armstrong in the Court- House work, 8o far 38 be know. Mo had paid certain smotnt of monoy to Armatrong o be ald fo Periolst, and if it had not been 50 pald he did not know where it had gone. Periolst had approached bim in the last few weeks and, demanded 35,09 out of $:,000 ho hiad roceived from the county, on the representation that if it had not been for him he would not have gotten the bill audited, etc. He told Periolat o go to h—I. apd afterward wrote him a letter sasing that e did not propose to be further blackmailed, Smco then bo bisd been treated coolly by the County Josrd, and bo thiought thut Perfolut's threats to oust him wers about belng carried out. Following Mir. Egan, seversl other witnessos wers esamined, the chief among whom was Ao C. HEBING. The grecting of Hesing and Storey, of course, was of the most corlisl character, a natural result of thelr weli-known relations. Mr. H. was asked, among other ngs: 4Dy you know anything sbout suy corruptions of lng kind 7" 1z, Hesing—T do. Air, Stores~You will please atate all you knaw of a public nature, sud especially who werw the instru- .ments of corruption, and whether yon hud anythin to do with whiat you may speak of or Tefer to. M. Heslug roplied In aubstance that, in 1609, be Bad done some work with members of the City Coun- cil for the purpose of securing the city printing for the Trmes, ‘The reply was greeted with outbursts of langbter by the jury, and this phass of tho investigation was speadily ot sight of. After quiet had been réstored and several essier and more agreeable questions had beon asked and apswer- ed, Mr. Storey reminded Mr. Hesing that the staufs- Zeitung had made, ot different times, charges againat certaln officiale, and sald thatthe jury would bo gisd to bear whotever ke had to ray. Mr. He-ing answered tho question by ssking a dazen, among which was whether the Times had not also made many charges. He cited, for instance, thiat the Zymes had sccused him of recoiving $5,000 Periolat for the influence of Li paper in tho purchase of & lot for the County Hospital on Ashfsnd avenue; that the question csme befure the jury and some one had sworn that all the papers of the Gity had received the same smount. Ho had nover received any such amount or any other sum, and could speak for himself and s paper, but ot fof the Tmes or Mr. Storey, [Laughter.] Mr. Hesing continued in the recitation of the charges Mr. Storey had mads againat him, and referred {o the matter of the Aux Sable Bton quarries in which he hsq been accused of hav- ingan intercat. At the tima tho charge was made, he sald, ho did not kmow of the existence of such quar- Ties, Questions of various kinds fotlowed touching all of the county contracts and contractors, but tho ex- amination was little elsa than &0 exchange of courte siea between tho belligerents, being_vemarksble for what was not elicted more than anything else, and if the jury st the closs had been called upon to pass » vote of thanka for their enjoyment, they Would have becn 5t a fosa 0 know 1o whom they” were under the most obligation, the witness or their fore- man. MESSRS, J. T. CLOUGH AND A. J. GALLOWAY were then examined in referenco to everything within their knowledge, from the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers to the late South Town eloction frauds. They kmew very listle, snd proved unprofitable witnesses, The other witnesses were dismissed for want of time to exsmine them, and will appesr _to-morrow {n con- nection witn others who have boen subpensed. Outaldo of theaction of tho Jursytho reportar wis enabled to gather somo turther facts in connection with COURT-HOUSE AFFAIRS, which may not be uninteresting to the pablic. It was stated in these columns yesterdsy that if thoinvestiga- tion {n the Court-House architect matter wss pusbed that the Temer might possibly b refiected upon, not- withstanding that s editor is foreman of the investi- gators, Rumor has jt now that Afr. Willett, architect of the Times buildiny, was originally pushed by one of the editors of tho +#mes for the position of architect. An assistant editor of the Temes, it is said, undertook to get bim the position of architectof the Court- House. To this end he 18 ald to have gone to C. F. Periolst and offered him $5,0.0 cash to get the Court- Touse job for Willet, the understanding being that if the proposition went through double this amount was to =~ lwve beeen deducted from Willett's bill ogainst Mr, Storey. Periolat took kind- ly to the propoeal, but ‘having already secured Iargo advances from other arcuitccts for tho same Purposo, and belng unable to guarantes anything, tho trade was not made, the employe of the I.mes, it is 84id, backing out. Witnesses in the matter will, of course, bo summoned. Immediately after the jury sajourned, - DR, J. T. BLUTHARDT was around thebullding, He bad come over wu-. solicited to explain to the Jury au item in Tox Tais- DN yesterdsy morning refiecting upon him in tho interview with Otto Matz. Ho ated to tho reporfer that he had met Batz, ns bad been stated, but denicd that he had told him that it would bo n-cessary, to got 1he work on the jail, to pay $2,000 to Periolat. At the tme, he eays,’ Mtz ' was in & jor- ful "mood, aud had already been awarded the work’ by o majonty of a quoram ot the Dourd, but not by a mafority of the eatire Bourd, reveral members having been apinted away 1o Springfeid. In ape.king of this matter to Matz, be said to bim in 2 joculsr way, while he was bossting of having the contract secured, that ho bad better ses Fericlat and give bim au amount of movey. Ho did ot know Periolat at tho time, aud had ot #0 much as scen blm, and all he 6aid wasas a_passing joke. He ea5u La testified to all tha facts 1 Octover last before the Grand Jury, and that to-morrow Le will demand 10 be Lpard agaln, to vindicate himself. ‘THE INVESTIGATION S0 FAR haa amounted to very little, it i5 clear enongh that Peclolat lna robbed every contractor aud architect with whom he has come in contuct, but, on ibe other Dhand, ail the mioney ho haa received has been for & real or imaginary consideration. For this he cannot be indicted, it appears, aud the effert to-morrow wil be, €0 fur 05 bo s coucermed, to mako bim out “*a con- spirator to defrand,” and to shos what became of the miouey ho camo into possession of. Whetber the in- vestigation will amount to snything aa subjecting any one to o criminnl prosecution, is not known, but it in generslly conceded, Ao far, that if n conspiracy is egtiblished at all it will be between Ferfolat and Armstrong to defraud Egan frst, and secondly, {o displacs him with his o¥n money 8 architect. This theory, under the circumstances, i3 quite logical : Firsr, because Armstrong heid the money Letween Egid and Periolat; recond, becauss the disposition of tiie money on hia part {s mysterious ; and third, because in all tho testimony so far, that of ‘Armstrong and Perfofat bas been essentially the exme ~at least corroborative. And o strengthen the theory 15 the fact that Egan hap been recently growing in dis- favor with the County Board, and the protability that Lis conneation wilhs the Coust will speedily be brongé anend, ARCHITECT WILLETT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 5 Drarzons STIEET, Caicano, April22—Tseeit intimated fn your paper of this morning that [ had acted as architect for Mr, Storay, that X poesessed his good will, and also that of his emploses, and further, that they had evinced an “ undue” interest in wishiog tohave me appointed architect for thie County Court~ House, g It 18 quite trup that I bave been employed by Afr. Stores au au architect, and also that be L8 paid me Uberally therefor in cish. I posaess, I hope, the good ‘will of Alr. Biorey, as well as all other gentlemen with waom T have bad deslings and have tried fo_descrve it. "1 any one bas stated that I naed, or endesvored 10 use, eithar directly or indirectly, any improper or gorruph Infinence, b ia sizply sa unqualified tar, end I challengs the {ullest investigation. When I got up my competitive design for tue Couri-Houss, I men- tioned it to Mr. Storey; he replied that he hoped the best plan would win, and that I might bave the best plan. That was all' thet evar passed between U3 on the subject, 1 unite most heartily with you In your destre that the whole subject be probed to the bottom. I kmnow nothing sbout the corrupt influences that appear to bava been usad, axcept what 1 bave seen in the papers, but {f the Grand Jury think I can throw any light on {he subject, T am entirely resdy snd willing to sppear "Respeat{all before it, 3 Jiaxs R, WreesTT, Architect, —_——— LRTTERS FROM THE PEOPLE, TOWKSIIP ORGANIZATION. T the Blitor of The Chicago Triduna : Cui1caco, April 32,—~Many people and pspers are advocating the abolichment of townahip organization in Cook. County. This, in view of the late events in this city, wonld appesr to be a desirable end if, after such sbolieh- ment, something better ‘would take its place. If you and the. public will take the trouble to examine tha Ravised Statutes you will find that it s dombtful if such wonld be the case. Art. IL, Sec, 21, Chap. 139 Revised Ststutes, provides the mode of dis- continuance of township organization incoun- ties. By this section it will be seen thatthe whole county must bo included. Sec. 22 pro- vides that if & majority of votes azein favorof of discontinuing township organization, ““Then such organization shall cease in snid county ag oon a8 a County Board is elactad and qualitied, sud sll laws relating to counties not onder townsbip organization shall be sapolicable to such county the same as 1f township organ- ization had never been adopted in it.” Sec. 23 provides for tha election cf a Connty Board ip January following of three members. Sec. 24 provides thac such Buard ahall assume its duties 10 February foliowiug, and *shail be the legls Buccessors 1o the County Board of sueh . 25 provides for the dispoeition of town records, (places them in the County Clerk's of- fice), closing up wulinished buwiness, etc., etc. Sec. 22 of Coap. 46, ** Electious,” ;rovides that in counties not wunder townskip organ.za- tion lhe ‘Treasurer &hall hLe ex-ofiicio Assessor of such counties. Sec. 72 of Chap. 120, Revenue, provides that the Assessor, when un- able for an7 canse to perform the duties of bis office, may, With che advice aud consent of the Coairman of the Couuty Board, etc., sppuint one or more Deputy Aseessors Lo mesist i moking the avgessment, and designato the dustriet v which the Deputies msy act. Bec, 144 of Cbap, 120 provides that the Sheriffs of couatiea not under town, ship organization shall be ex-officio Collectors of such counties, and may, by Sec. 152 mp- point Deputy Collectors in ail the towns pf the caunties. So it will be seen that by the abolition of township argenization the present Town Board of fifteen members would be supplanzed. by a Board of thiee members, and the Couniy Treagurer becomes [County Aesessor, and the Sherif- beoomes County Collector bozb. with power ta unp.ins depaties inall the towna in the county, Theso offices of Town Assessor aud Towu Uollsctor aro not abol.shed, but are filled by the Treasurer and Sherifl. ; Now, I am thorongbly i favor of abolishing townehip orgauization, provided it can be done wihout golog from bad to worse, or _jumping from the pan inzo the fire. The system contemplated by our, statutes for counties not uuder township organi- zation 18 fitted for a sparsely p.pulated counuv, sod wholly unfitted for 2 conaty like Caok, aod, vhile we admit that township orgapizafion 18 fis for North, South, and West Chicago, e mast sdmit thatitis smted to the comnty towns of this comuty, atd 1t seems to me that our onlv effective remedy 18 fo by some imenns aboliub it in thoso tareo towns, ‘and re- tain it iu the county towns, but this caonot be done under and by our present statutes ; it must by them be dous in the whole coanty or not &t Sec. 87 af cbap. 189 coutaine a plan for uait- ing swo contiguons tows. Under tnis section these towns conld be mado into one, making 1t coextensive with the city, 80 that the oilices of Assessor and Collector would, 10 effect, be city offices; this wonld bo one reteds. The ooly other remedy would ‘be to get an act. of the Genersal Assembly to abolish township or- ganization in_ sl cities like onrs, care being taken to avold special legislation prohibited by the Constitution. it is not_practicable to at- tain eitber of the sbove-named remedies, would xé not be better fo ‘“ endure the ila we have fly to those we know not of " ? R.JL Eppr. IEALTH OF OUR SUBURBS. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Cricago, April 22,~The ealabrity or health- fuloess of Chicago as & place of residence isnot attributable so much to the exertions of the Board of Healsh as to the pulsations of the engines at the Water-Works,—in other words, to the abuundant and excellent sapply of pure, fresh water. -This is of conrse a secret, but as there is nothing mean about Chicago, she s williug to cell it to her outly- ing suburbs, even thongh it be at tlue risk of building them up at her own expense. The principal drawback to the health of subur- ban towns within ten mites of Chicago is the lack of good water, hence the prevalence for several years of fever and azue aud other ma- 1arial fovors at varions places, especially on the banks of the Desplaines. Even at Evanston the surface of the water is impregnated with miasm which caused considerable sickuess before the lake water was introdaced. Now, if the towns near Chicago could make arrapgements, by mesns of connecting pipes, to Ret their mnEl,vuI drinking-water, at least, from the [ake at Evanston, Chicago, or Hyde Park, the suburba would be much bealthier than thoy now are, or can be, with their present water- supply. The fevers which hover over the waters of the sluggish Desplaines might be dissipated or destroyed if the inbabitants of oertain towns along its banks were this season to plant large quautities of sunflower seeds—the producs ot which, aside from esnifary profits, woald more than compensate for the ontlay. It woalda't be A bad idea for the Board of ‘Heslth to experi- meat in this direction, and inclose the ssvory Stack-Yards with & cordon of rank-growing veg- atation. L AL ] SOALL VICE, PESTILENCE, AND FIRE GVEECOME - AN OVER-CROWDED CITy ? To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Curcago. April 32.—This question may be solemnly asked of Chicago. This city was, no doubt, uever growiog moare rapidly than now, sud while improvements are extending ont over the broad prairie, along muddy and wodrained streets, the question may be well seked: What ehall be done for the anfoty and comfort of the peovle, when within & fow years the oumber of inhabitants shall bave doubled ? The posasibilities are that this city way become the most magmicent and desirabla city on the globe to dwellin. Will the people a0 wha they can to make it 40 ? It already has ita contemp ated chain of parks undergoing devel- opment, with its maguificant driveway of 30 miles or moseé, which witl no doubt become the pride of the whola surrounding country. as well as to peaple of Chicayo ; 80 that the rewdents of* St. Louis, Milwaukee, and uther surrounding snb- urbs will_visit this great metropolis to behold 18 wonders, and to especially Wisit these delightfal piessure grounds. And here comes the trouble with our great patks. They are onls the people af letsure, or those making & business of it, who can afford to v.sit tuem. In fact thoy are out of the reach of those most needing their beneficent intinence. In theory they aro wmagoificent, in practice they are insignificant compared wiib the little Union, Jeflerson, Ver- non and other parke in the heart of the ciry, which are worth more for the golid comfort they briog to the very doors of our people thun all the outlsiog thou¢ands of acres combmed. Wo o not want to pe understood ae intending to depreciate the value to Chiucago of its great park syetem. but would rather iosist npoo a vigorona pragecation of-the inprovements therein to keep pace with the wonderful development of the city’s growth and reputation aa a popular placo of resort. We wancmore of these :*inlava” parks, and a8k : Woat would the people of the whole city take to bave tnese parks, small as thev are, removea from their midst? Could they afford, 1 poiok of money, to take twice a8 much ss Lbey have cost, while their pressuce haa guven uwice the value to their property ? Af the overcrowded portions of the city, where debauchery and vice enough is engendered to corrupt and ruin all the people, could have besutifully kept parks les down in their midsz, these temples of Nature, sdoroed with art, whose roof is the arch of Heaven, would dnive these rude and vile johabitants to the four quar- ters of the earth or bring them into harmony witlh: these barbingers of reficement and mercy. As o sapitery measare also, sn abund~ ance of space occupied by :parks at projer intervalg, to let in the eunshine and admic the ture air of hesaven, i3 next to proper sawerage and cleanlinese, which are next 10 Godlines?, in promoting the health and comfort of the people. E Whils 1and ia 80 abuudant 28 in the vicinity of Chicago, snd comparatively cheap as at the predent time, how esn the people over- look thesa grest improvements? Block after block of houses is continnally being commenced in the southwestern part ot the city, esch house on an aversge frontags of from 18 to 95 feet of 8pace, thus preparing the way for pestilence, vice, sud further wide-spreed conflagrations like that of 1871. The only eweeping dry winds come from the southwsst, so thatit the city protects itself from daoger in that dirsction it will be comparatively safe from any great dis- aster from fire in the future. While the advan- tages are 80 maay, it does not seem possible these beautifying touches to our city will be longar averlooked. In the space bonnded by Madison snd Six- teanth streeta and Ashland and Western ave- nues, there should be st loast swo parks coverivg s block or mora of ground esch, and placed pear atrest-car ar _prospective street-car ' lices, and as many south and southwest of thia space as may be deemed eufficient. The people onght to act in this mat- tor at once, aa the probability is that, after the present year, every block of ground will have more or {ess improvement npon it, preclnding the probable chancas of ever afterwards accom- plishing much in this airection, If the oppor- tunity goes by there can never be anything but regreta i the future. We now have s arospeul of & better adminis- tration of ,City Government and a more eco- nomical use of the taxes, 8o that these improve- ‘ments may be made withont any increased bur- dens of taxation upon the paople, as the addi- tions! expense would soon mare than be re- turnod in the increased value of taxable prop- Log Alrox GEORGE- SALEY CHURCH. Zo the Editor of The Clacago Tribune < Guicago, April 22.—The Christian public may be anxioua to see Low far the work has ad- vanced providing fands, by subscription. for paying off "the Swedich Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church. Dushne! strest (South Bide). We thank God for what hias been done, Several frionds of the' evangelical work bave given us liberal pecaniary aid, but not only that, they hava piven moral aid, they have stirred up the congregation itself to renewed effurts to get ont of debt and to go on in the great work which the Lord has ziven to tho congregation among the many thousands in this pars of Chicago. Swce the first acknowledgment, which smonnted to 3295, there have come 1o subscrip- tlons from Ameticau {rieuds s follows: From Story & Camp, for the Sunday-school, $50; I, Speucer, 25; Mrs. Mary B. Latlin, 825: Mr. U. A. R, $25; by cash, from several persons whose names are uot mevtioved, §105. To all those who have given moro or less tha undersigoed will give the congregasion’s and his own tukuks. Our Heavenly Fasaer bless them all. ¥. P. Nyquisr. HOW 18 IT? To the Editor of The Clucado Tribunes Carcaco, April 23.—Are we to have s lfamine of fiactional currency before we can gat auver to take its place 7 Since Tharsday the United States Sub-Treasury has been receiving large sums of currency, but the amouont of silver irsued has been comparatively iosig- nifleant, apd at the rate at which tbe clorks are leisurely paviog out the coio, there seems every reason to expect that there will ba an immense quantity of currency with- drawn from circalation betore there will e any considerable amount of sulver afloat. 1f tuere ia aoy lack of milver to redeem tho currency, the public onght to know it, bat if 1t ia because the Sub-Treasury is too slow to keep up with the demand, the Sub-Treasury shouwld ‘be stirred up. ‘WaoLEsaLy DEALER. *A CENTENNIAL PROTEST—** WOMAN BUFFRAGE.” Tothe Editor of The Chcago Tribune: Crcaco, April 22.—Beliovivg as we do in the fundamental principle of the Goverment under which we live, that * saxation without repre~ gentation is tyraony,” sod that the present laws conferring the balfot on non-tax-pasing men of foreign birth, whiie tha political existence of tax- pryiog American women is persistercly ignored, Aare uujust, mass meeting, under the auapices of the illinois Women Suffrage Association, will_be held Thursday, May 4 in the First Methoaist Chureh, to Tecord our protest against all future legislation in the interests of a priv- ileged class. Diatinguished speakers will ad- dress the meeting. By order of the Associa- tion. Boxxron HARBRET. Qo ELOW. 7o the Editor of The Chicago 1ribune s CHicago, April 22,1t i8 a question whether our *‘wise ones” of the Citizens’ Convention bave givon the subject of abolishing township organization the attention due thesubject, Many wisie and able men thinkthe association too fast, and don’t kmow what they are doing as they bave pot suficiently considerad the matter. We dou’t want any more such chacges as the Hesing city charter affair, and jump from bad to worse. Idonot #ee how we arato better ourselvea by abolishing town organization. We cersainly will have about as many officers as now, oply they will be appointed by two or three men in- stead of by the people. I write this that tho matter may be looked into and see what is bess to be done. Let us go Srow AND SUAR. HUMOR. The Iatest fashion in kids: Twina. Did * the shirt of Nessus™ open in the back ? For a temperance Bevaridge, Isger isn't bad. A gealy business : Fishing off the breakwater on Sanday. Ed Phillips says he wouid like to resd Gray's Elegy to his bummer {riends. *The Charge of the Light Brigade What the city owes the lamp-lighters, "Dom Pedro does not wear Brazilisn pebbles, for he has & couple of capital IL’s of bis own. “Mouey will make the Mayor go.” Colvin ssys he'll get out if the people pay moro taxea. The merchants of this city ** pulled down the blinds ™ on Tuesdsy to sllow their employes to vote. A chess-problem: How the Town Bosrd, playing the Evans gambit, msted Aike in one move. *The 1ast galoot s A. Bhore,” who was arrest- ed for cruelly beating his wife, in Louisville, last week. President Prado, of Pera, is in New York ; snd bis * little black-and-tan " has got the Peruvian bark. v The Committee of Twents-five to the bum- mera: *“We'll bave our rights, thoagh the ‘Evacs {all.” 3 They bave been flinging mud at soms of tho Presigential caudidates, but they threw & Little Bock at Blaine, The New York critics say Nym Crinkle’s #Twins” need doctoring. They failed to get & spanking reception. Ex-Gov. Moscs, of Sonth Caroltoa, is high- lv indignant at the charge that he was cor- rupt while in offico. O tempor! O Moses! Tne Londoners would hike to knosw, you kaow, whether the Hempreas took *Jobn Brown's body ** with ber oo her trip to the Continent. Biigham Young's centennial family thought it was Gsbrel's trump tbat sonnded when they heard the biagt uf the powder-explosion at Balt Lake. In agalcon here, the other night, soma of tha Whieky-Ringszers were singing ** Wo may be bsp- ps yot," when a bystander remsrked : °* They may be—Joliet.” * Pique ” was plared centuries ago in En- gland, one of the characters being Tom of Cov- entry, with Lady Godiva as the 'star. It was thep & ** borse-piecs.” : Aa egcaped lavatic was arrested 1o the woods -io Northern New York, a fow daya since, who 8aid he wanted to get * Far from the Msdding Crowd™ st Binghamton. The foke waa a bad one. »nd they * ran bim in.” A leared disciple of Confucing, from inside the q:m Wall, who hua & cheap-labor laundry siga 0n State street, has been victimized by s *“3lelican man * who §old him an autograph letter from ex-Treagurer Spinner for a good sum by representing it to be a lettar from the Experor of Chiua creating the hesthen & Mandarin with two @words. lood © FUN-GTRANINGS. |Trausers, abtsined Oa credis are breeches of trose) | Pickpockets gather crowds only to dispurse Chem.: ¥ A man always feels' put out when he is taken|in. Philoeophic bot unprinciplea : ** My son,” said & vyeonersble philosopher, *‘ never. waste your j : time—not & moment af it; Eody elaeii™ it; alwsys wasts same ‘When you bear of a man's ownis thonsand-dollar honss on Besoriie: adred don't it strike you 83 being rather Height- :i::au Placa of residence ?—New York Commer- An exchange remarks that “one drawbsck tq Baving money is, that everybody wants to know what you ars going to do with 1t.” We bayve observed thia ourself ; they usually want t koow about the first of the montb, and have az ::&l’alum‘; way of c;):;;ug armln ‘and sitting o1 your Iront steps mo 8 1t you don’t tell thy —Norwich mpu:m.. iR ¥ i A Cincinnatian, who had “purchased au oil palating at private sale, callod 1n an artist & consult kim as to how he ahould hangit. Thu artist Jooked at it long and cariously, sad then said: I wouldn't bang it, if I wers von.” *Wouldn't hsog it! Wby not?" * Becaass the sentiment of the age is rather againet cap- ital punighment. I wouid commnts iis senteace to solitary imprisonment for life 1" _A boy-reformer, in 8 speech s few. evonings since, mads this remark: I have thres gosd reagons for keeping the pledge not to use to- bacca; first, because I am $o have fiva dotlars at the end of a year; second, hecause I have pledged myself not to wse it; and third—the Btrongest motive of all—becanse [il ges a Jiok- ipg '] don' keep it1” It is unnecossary o say that thespeech was spplauded. The ways of Divine Providencears mysterions. The Jast illustration is the case of s fizhtning. 10d snd pump man. He was attempting 1o tell & farmer that thera waen't a case on record when a building or anything else nad beenstruck by lightning that bad s rod on it ; wheu, horrors | there was & flash, foliowed by a clap o. thunder, and that man fell from his wagon. which had og it rods sufficiens to furmsh jnst fourteen com- mon-sized dwellings. They buried him, potting in a pump at s boad and arod at his feet.— Brooklyn drgus. A College-Profegaor tells the following : * Durine tho atter-dioner talf, the rough speci~ moa tor whom I was surveving remarked tunt mathematics had always seemed a very wondar- tul thing to him. Thinkinz to interes: him somewhat, I bezan to ilustrate eome of the wouders ; among others, tried to show hia the way w which Neptune was discovered. After sule twenty miates of elaburate esplanation, I was gomewhat taken aback 1o hear bim sav: * Yes, yea ; it is very wonderfal, very; but [with 8 sich] there’s auvother thing that's alless troubled me, and that 1s, why yon have to carry ope for evory ten ; bat, if “you doa’t, ‘twon't como ons right,” " TI0CS SMTLES. Lyving in wait: Falso scalos. A hittle boy, whose conduct magde is mnther say that sne feared ho did not pras, roplied : Yes, 1do: I pray, every nigl, thas God mil make you aud pa like my waya bottor.” An Tilinoia prescher, sava tha Detroit Free Preas, who belioved that fire insuranco was do- fving the Lord, i¥ uow living in a bara until hia congregation can find him another housa, The Rev. Dr. Blackie. of Edinburg, says that the modern sormop *'is like toddy made of one- tenth whisky and pine-tenths water.” Brother Blackie's ides of toddy ia correct, at least. A Southern bookbinder bound up eightesn dime noveis between Biblo covers, and a preacher carried tho book seven miles under bis arm to read some copsoling passages to & dying woman. Ino the old record book of s Conpecticut church, dated 1702, is this itom: “ For makin a uoise in cburch, Aunn Boiton, spinster, is to sit three dave in the poor pow, and pay s Hne of five shiltings.” On & warm, bright Sabbath afternoon in June, ‘what ballowed thoughts arise st the apectacte of bundreds of pioua Yankees emerging from the American Chapol in Paris, jumping into their oarriagee, and driving oat to the racea at the Boia do Boulogue. i “Eliza,” gaid 8 clergymsz to one of hig. pa~ risbioners, whom bo saw with ber bar in car- ing papors, *'if God bad designed our bair ta carl, Ho would have carled it for you.” ** e did, sir, when I was a child,” was the reply; *but He thiaks now I am oid enongh to do'it myeelt.” It 13 perhaps impoesibla for two women ba- tween whom 8 rivairy for precedence in the latest fashions exista to appear simuitaneously in the same géyla of spring bonnet and still be- lieva in the Universalist doctrine. Each foels that theremust be soms sort of punishment bereafter. % 1t takes along time to finish a naw building in Toledo. A man up there advertises : **Ta clorgy- .men—NMinisters of the Gosvel desiring s rali- able type of eternity for illustrating their sor- mons will pleass call at my new bailding, now in coursa_of completion (?). This is not & rare opportunity, hut it is a good one.” During s recent rovival excitement in the out- ekirts of this country, a réquest was mads for all who desired the prayers of the church to rise. A shaggy old miner, burning with » desire to do his part. aroso, and putting his hand dows iata his buckskin, meekly inquired, ¢ How much will it be, boss? "—Oanon Cuy (Col) Avalanche. Norristown Herald: Prof. Tyndall was mar. ried on the 24 imst. 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