Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1876, Page 5

‘taulay woll aa & public mAn wore not propared THE “ CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 34, 1876 ynother week It will drop in the plate at the shurohes § in & month it will be at the cornor grocerion; mest it will reach the bootblacks,” Pus 1t will be full s year bofors the country will bo saturated, and thoe people cry * hold, onough."” Aftairs {8 connldering the baais of a commercial troaty with the United Htatos. It s proposod to place Franch allka and wines on sn sdyan! ous footing a8 to taciff in the Unitod Btatos, while Franco, s in return, to aubject American ootton to only a awnall import duty. FOREIGN. Turkish Advices Still More Bolll- coso in Character. fnstosd” of forty millions; it will require a hun- e e ¥ grod mitllons to eatiafy tho demsnd for silvor 1TALY. money. Every plece of this ehange in olroula- ANTONELLL. Rumian News-Agents Crafiily Crying Lonvow, April 23, —Ths Il health of Cardina Havoo and War, Antonolll again oxcites serious appraliensions. ‘Tho Pope was closeted with him » loug time Friday, tion will bo an argament agnlost rag-baby shin- plaaters which will bo felt and ppreciated, - The Olnoinnat} Enguirer says of the Indlana PDomoeratio platform: All conu In the opinfon that tis platform fe brosd eronh f0F 4l whota world fo stamd on. ‘Tho New ook ortit rojoloos over It aa & defoat of thio fnflstion. fate, ond such men sa lusn, of Ohlo, are happy, i groenback mon 1ikn VANOR, of Ohlo, and FRANK: s of ianauel, think they canetand onit. GHLNERS $iNuRxm, of Virgiula, saya (o platform in rag baby A mctallio Hoimet. - Judg BRIGIT, of Tennoroo, oA 178 rag Laby with n gold. eyo. 116 is Lappy be- 27018 akea war on the Natlonal istiks, Tho factis, 1t contains the moat astonlehing and outragooun contradictions on the curroncy guostion that evor spposrod in & platform of soy patty In tho United 8iates. 1t{s gold and silvar monoy 1 one hreath, and squalling rag- badly lnflation in tho noxt, 1t 18 a nbamoful at- tempt to humbug & woll-moaning but igoorant sad filitorato clasa of votors. PERSONAL, Bara Jowatt, the actross, Lins boon forbidden by hor phyecians to return to the stage for at loast threo montha. Holman, the Fathor of Soft Money, waa tho first Congroesman to make application for silver at tho office of tho Borgeant.at-Arms, A composttor’s error in the dramatic roview yesterday mado us say ihat Mr. Warde a8 Hemaya in “The Apostate” was “ abominable.” The word was written * admirablo.” The Now York Graphic eays: '*Mr. Charles A.Daua and thres otbor editoraof tho Now York Sun aro 8wedonborgians, which accounts for the fine *correspondence’ of that excollent roligious journal.” *Gono to tha Black Hills" is now conalderod » eynonymous exprossion with * Gone up Balt Rivor,” which is an oxact oquivalont of AMr. G. Washington Clilds' * Cono to meot his unclo 0 his mother's sido,” A flippant biographer eays that Mr. Alexandor . Honderson, of tho New.York Evening Post, is % g dovout and fthrifty Mothodist, like good Daniol Drow, and.always mauagos to got Lis Mevator repairod on Bundays,” Mauy of tho London journals eri ticise Bignor Rogei's Hanle! unfavorably. Tho drift of ad- rerse criticlsm is that tho character, as repro- sonted by Rosal, ia too violent and melodra- matio, lacking dignity and repose. 1t ia belioved tuat Dom Pedro and Dom Piatt will moer a3 long-loat brothors, Piatt is now teaveling strictly incogoito, and desircs that he nay bo treatod as a private citizen rathor than with tho attontion due the Kiog of tho Lobby. Tho Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat remarke : "It | the London correapondont of s Boston paper who eays that hio bas sacn a Olub ‘of which the mombors aro half males and balf fomales,’ If {Lis wore not vouched for by o Boston papor, wo ihould rofuso to beliove it." Tho Louso of tho Rev. D. C. Lotlrop, of Am- terst, Mass,, sccused of brutaljty to his family wd genersl moeanness, was mobbod Monday oight by sbout 200 town Loys sud students. Mra, Lothrop wos sick and alono in tho house, wnd {8 now in & critical condition from the shock lo her norves. Dr. Richardson, of London, defonds svarico 18 tonding to provent bodily detorioration. % The svariolous man, who scoms to tho luxu- toua to be debarring himsolf from all the plens- res of the world, is generally placing himself o tho procise conditions favorablo to & long and hoalthy existenco.” Fanny Loar has boen orealing & scandal in ftaly by a Jovo-affair with Count Miraflori, s wtural gon of Victor Emanuel, aud & married wan, Bho has boon ordered out of tho country, 1od hag gono to Munich, Tho frionds of the sccontrio King of Bavaria are alrexdy beginuing fo tromblo for his safety. A noew blography of Heinrich Hoine has just boen published in London. It is eaid that ho milifully changed tho date of his birth from Dec. 13, 1799, to Jan, 1, 1800, in ordor to give an ad- wiring patron the opportunity of saying: * You woone of the fitst mon of the century,” Tho poet and the *‘admiring patron showed equal Ignorance In this respoct; mon born in 1800 The Bultan About to Appoint a Grand Vizler Who Wil Fight, THR ACADEMIA LYNCEL Toxe, April 23.—A mooting of tlio Academin Lyncel waa hold to-day. Hignor Sella presided, and presonled new members. Among the dis. tinguishod porsons who attended tho meoling wore the Hon. Goorge F. Marsh, Amorican Ministor; Dr. Mommsen, hiatorian of Rome, and Gon. Moltke. A PAPER AQUELCHED, Loxnox, April 24.—A dispatch from Ttoma to tho Times roports that the Osrertalore Romano wes soquestralod yosterday for publisbiog the Popo's paatoral thanking the Bishop of Orloans far his lottor to Bignur Minghotti, in which a violent attack was mado on thoe [tallan faw roa- doriug pricata lisble to military conscription. —l . GREAT BRITAIN, DISARTROUS FIRE. T.oNpox, April 23.—Bomorville's paper mills, noar Uristol, bumod. Loss oatimated at £70,000, Fivo hundred workmen are thrown out of employment. Course of Bprouts Presoribed for Bpanish Tax-Payora by Their Gov- ernmont, Five Hundred Employes Thrown Oub of Work by an English Con- flagrotion. Greal Unoasiness Felt In Pontifical Circles Re- garding Antonolli's Health. TURKEY. THE PORTE WILL NOT FlanT, ConsTaNTINOFLE, ADril 23,—Tho English and tho Russian Ambssaador had an interview with tho Grand Vizior, The confersncos reaulted In an announcemont that the Porte has no inten- tion of doclaring war against Montonegro. WAR INEVITABLE. LoxpoN, Auril 23.—A Times' dispatch from Berlin reports that tho Sorvian War Oftico has ordored all militismon to Junrnm for a foraign campnign. It I8 coneldered, howover, excecd- lugly improbablo that Sorvia will go so war un- less Bho is attacked by Turkoy. BOMF RUSSIAN TALK RELPING IT ON, A dlepatch to the Rumsian Telographic Agency saya: '‘Anorder has been sont from Conatantinople to rovictual Nocalo for six tonths at any cost. It seems unlikely that Sorvia and Montonogro will remain unafiectod. Thao, if tho Turksars victorious, thoy will at- tack the Principalities. The Eastarn orisia hes raached a moment whon it {a for force to pronouncs tho lass word. TIIE 8ICK MAN WILL CRY OUT, A Vienna dispatch to tho Daily News says the Porta jntonds to igsue s circular nate to the Powers, rominding thom of their promise to ronke no domands boyond those coutalned in Count Andrassy's note. THE PIIME MINISTER TO BE DOUNOED, The Grand Vizier's position is shaken, Badyk Pasha and lingsein Avol are his possible sue- cossors, Tho appointment of tho lattor .would moan war with gorvia. ACTIOXN, Bervian traops aro to march to the frontior to-day, ostensibly for manouvres. Tho Turke are concontrated at Niuch, and are reporied to ?m_nbur 40,000, and to havo twenty Krupp bat- erios. INDIA. BUSTED, Loxpox, April 23,—A telogram from Caleatis to the T'imes announces that the disturbanco in Bustar {a ovor. gt ey PORTUGAL. A HOYAL OBITUARY, Lisnoy, April 33,.—Tho Urincess Isabslla died yonterday. CASUALTIES, FOUND DEAD. Speciat Disateh Lo The Chieago Tridune, Des Moings, Ia., April 22.—A fow days since, the dead body of sir. Dilsaver, Shoriff of De- catur County, waa found 624 miles northwost of Leon, in on open field, Hin horse lay doad to the eouthwost of tho dead rider, whose feet waore In the stirrups of the eaddle. The man's olothing was torn off from Lis hoad to his legs, his pocketbook thrown about 75 foot from him, and his revolver more thau 100 fect, His hiat wavrolled out ina flat ehect. Mr. D. wana Lighly estcomod nnd popular man, and had hoon o resident of that county for twenty yeara. RUN OVER AND INJURED. Spectar Dispalen to The Chicaun Tribune, LaCnossz, Win, Apnl 23.—A telogram ro- coived to-day from Now Lisbon, Wis., states thnt Mr. Albert Pierce, of LaCrosso, an omployo of the Chicago & 8t, Paul Itoad, was run over by froight train No. 7 coming west Inst night. Ouo leg wan cut off bolow tho koo and he wus othorwige injured. Mr. Pierco {s s voung msn woll known in thiy part of tho country. THE *‘NONTH GUNMAN OAZETTE" comments in & tone of approval on the plan for armed intorvention by Auatris, and gays tho con- acnt of tho Great Powers is asaured. THE EMPEROR OF TURREY, Not long ago, the English press conld not say enough flatturing things of tho noblo Turks. Dnrlnfi this period of puffory, the noble Turks wore borrowlug bundreds of milliona of British gold. Whou the Britlsh stopped leuding, {ho noble Turk also stopped paying iuterest on what ho had borrowed, ‘Lhereupou the British opin- fon of tho noble Turk suddonly changed, and tho corrospondents at Constantinoplo began lift- ing tho blankot that hid his bideous carcass from the guze of Europo, and the roal charactor of the odious Asiatic is now boing rovealed. A creditor’s idea of a debtor's characior changes amazingly whien the Iatter swindlos him out of Lis mouoy, A London ZTimes corrospondent, wnting from Constantinople, April 1, thus de- seribon tho habits of tho Grand Sultan: ' Official informntion bas been recoivdl that His Majosty tho Bultan has ahifted his quartors from his wintor residenco ot Dolman-batcbeh to tho ndjnmlu%uplnco nt Choragan. The old palaco of the Soraglio, which Las been the resi- denco of tho rulers of this land for {iftecn cen- tuties, and the position of which, at tho point of tho triangle formod by tho City of Constantine, betwoen tho Sen of Marmora and tho harber of tho Goldon Horn, points it out a8 tho vory koy of tho Bosphorus, has béon abandoned by the dogenerate descondants of Stahomat IL., ‘since its man building was dostroyed by firo in 1863, Boltan Abd-ul-Medjid lavished immenso tronsures to build his now palaco of Dolmah-batcheb, on tho shoro at tho 1uot of the Pora HIII, vound tha turniug of theloft or oorth. orn bond of the Golden Horn, past tho Artillery Arsonal of Top-havol, and tho suburb ‘of Fon- dookli ; and, not satisfiod with this, Abd-ul-Azlz, tho prosent Hultan, has outdono Lis brothor by the construction of his new palace of Cheragan, LY pl::rgunua edifice, whero millions have bocn sunk in precious marbles, more spleudor, and ACCIDENT IN A MINE, 8r. Louss, April 23.—Whilo five peraous wors doscending & coal gliaft st Brown's Htation on tho Coluinbus Branch of tho #t. Louie, Kauuns City & Northors Railrond Friday last, tho rope brolo, and all fell {n tho bottom, ovor 100 foct. Two mon aud a boy woro instantly killed, and tho otlier two fatally lnjured. . SCALDED TO DEATH. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Lacoy, IN, April 23.—Yestorday afterncon a little boy aged 8 years, sonof Conrad Pointuer, {n this city, was sealded to doath by falling into & tub of balling soft soap. DROWNED, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, Minwausee, Wis., April 23.—The body of Georgo Hoyt, of Chicago, was found in the Mouomonce River to-dny. lie wae Isset soon alive at the end of February, ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE. Lomsviuty, Ky., April 20,.—The Hon. Harrie #son Cockoroll, ox-Siato Bonator, sccidentally killed himsalf by s pistol to-day ot Richmond. ————— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, &pacial Lispalch ta The Chicace Tribune, SruiNoytecy, 1L, April 23,—A Federal officor is here for tho purposo of serving pupers upon additional witnessca summoned bofore Caulfield’s Congrassions! Investigating Committos. The Shorman Vetoran Guard of this ity were jnupecied, mustored, and sworn into the Stato sorvice on Haturday evening by Adjt.-Gen. moro not tho first men of tho ninoteonth con- | magnificonco so dazzling tho oyo 88 to btind | Hilliard, sssisted by Capt, J. I. O. Irwin, Asslst- Jury, but tha last of the eightesnth, it to the uuflclnnn{l o? wrcitectural taste, | ant Inspector-Goneral. Tho Comrln!lfl attach- Tho lato Dr. Orestes Brownson onco became Tho presont flitting, however, is only tho first of | d to the Fifth Regiment of lllivols National Guards, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicage Tribune, Lanaing, Mich, April 23,—E, H. Van Dusen having rerigncd aa & mombor of tho sullding Commuasion of the new Iosne Asylum at Pon- tiac, tho Governor has appointed Warren G. Viuton, of Daotroit, to the vacanoy. Br, Lous, April 23,—Atty.-Gen, Hockaday cammenced s suit yestorday in the Circuit Court at Jofferson City sgainst thoe scouritics of tho lato lossoe and sub-lesgoos of the Poniten- tiary for non-fulfillmont of payment of, a con- tract, a half-million dollars being claimed. Br1. Lours, April 42.—Supervisor of luternal Revonuo Moyer, Revenuo Agont Colony, Daputy Unitod Btato Marshal Williams, and othors, ro- cently made a raid in the southwostern part of Pholps County and captured nn illicit distillery and destroyed it, owned by Edward Genly. tho many migrations to whioh the Sultan will, in hig idlo reaticusnoss, bo tmpellod 88 the summer advances, The caro of lus scores of palaces, pavilions, kiosks, and pleasauucos on eithor alde of tho Btruit constitutes ono of the main occu- pations of his vacant existonce. ToLoardmoney, to piloup brick or stono and mort: nd to gnzo from hia window at his ironclads tiding at aochor, ara tho only bronks on the indo- lenco and indulgenco of lus harem seclusion. A Princo born in the purple, not porhaps dosti- tuto of such fustincia and facultios as might Lavo ralsed him to ligh destinios, Bultay Abd-nl-Aziz has sunk into amero pampered and cloved voluptuary, Uniltted for any work vy hig offomioate bringing up, obese sud flabby, in- eapable of suatained exortion, mental or phyai- cal, corrupted by his own overwoeening conscious- nogn of unbounded nuthority, snd by tho base sdulation and adoration of those who exaggore ato lua concoit of » powor which they oxercito jn Lis name, but fortheir own bonefit, this Padi- shab, this ‘Refuge of the World,’ thia ‘Shadow of God,' keopa uloof from the carcs and duties, and withdraws within bimsolf, limiting hig in- torconrao to & bevy of femalo slaves and s hberd of eunuchs, or Court-Chamborlaing with eunuchs’ hoarts, with *snch offects on his tempor as may be expocted from a contrast bo- twosn the obsequiousnoss that surrounds him in his fool's paradiso and tho ynubs and buffeta which awnit him whenever he ventures into col- lision with tho stubbornuess of the outer world. It 16 only in bis Larom, as he must foel in spite of himself, that hisrcign is absolute. Outside its walls _thero aro robollious Gisours and moddling Christian Eotunutuu, and weak-mindod ~ Mimstora grudging the sup- lics, Dut within those walls his strong- 0ld 18 impreguable, and thero he abides, invis- ible, inacocssiblo to reason or romonstrancs, un- amenabla to sdvice from Vizior or Ambasaador, No truth, 1t is relt, can make ita way to the Bul- tan ; no good would como of 1t if it could, For auy measuro of roform or improvement by which Lis tottoring Empire might be stayed in ita fall the Bultan has to be surpnsed, hood- winled, or bribod into giving his consout, nor is there over any certainty that what has boen ab- talned by the Miniater's sirategem may not st ony momens be revoked by the sovereiga's caprice,” e SPAIN, A ILATID OW 70 IR XOED, A = Maomw, Aprit 29,—Balaveria, Minlater of Financoe, on submitting the budget to the Cortoa yesterday, announcod that he wanld retain the extraordinary war taxcs for the sorvice of the Jogagod in a controversy with Trask, tho antl- lobacconfst. In the heat of the srgument Browneon lost his temper and knocked Trask fown, Ho thon apologizod, and Trask, re- Ireshod like another Antmus by contact with his mothor sarth, roturned with redoubled energy to the discuasion, * I forgivo you, Brownson,” said Irask, whenaver hostilitios sesmed to be about broaking out sgaln. Finally Brownson maid: *Look here, Trask, I knoeked you down once, sod 1 have apologized for it; if you say any- thing more about forgiving me, I will knock you lown ogain,” A London corrospondent of the Boston Adrer- lser, writing of the new blography of Lord Macanlay, remarke: * Peoplo who knew AMa- COharlotte Cushmnn’e Will. The Yrovidenco Journal has tho following counoerning tho rofusal to sdmit tho will of tho lato Chiorlotte Cushman to probato at Newport on Tuesday: ** At the mesting of the Court of Probato yostorday the caso of tho will of Misa Charlotte Cushman was called up by the Hon. Francis Brinloy, counsol for tho Exeoutors. 1t hina sovoral timos boon before tho oconrt, but sdmission to probato bas bosn refused, soveral of the lending lawyors maiutaining that the Jdocision of Judge Bterno is not good law, Mr, Briuloy roprosented yosterday that ho waa acting o8 tho attorney for Wayman Crow, Edwin 0, Cusbman, and Willlam I, Hargadine, nll of 8t. Louis, Trustoos of tho late Charlotto Cush- man, of Nowport, and that on the 10tk day of March last ho presonted for probate in that oourt tho Iast will and toatament of Mies Cush- man, which was duly oxocuted at Chicago on tho 11th of January, 1873, in the presence of four witnouses. 'Tho handwnting of two of tho witnceses Las already beon proved, but the third witoess, ~Willis W, Folt, is dead, and tho fourth, J. Young Heammon oould not bo found, Al the informa- tion which could bo obtained from Mr. and Mca, Edwin 0. Cushman was, that hoe was probably in Washington, but Frank G, Harris, whilo in ‘Washington, made overy offort to find him, and fafled tadoso, Mr, Brinloy stated that in view of this fact,and of his utter iguoranco ot tho whero- abouts of Bcammon, he ssked the court to admit the will to_probato, seoing that the codioil has been proved. Hecontendedthat no person bad ap- pearod to oppose to probate,nud that the dolay was lo find that he was jn many respeots 60 ostima- ble & clinractor a8 ho' appoars to have boon in fhe domostio circle., He had tho repntation of being cold and distant, sud was not thought to be & man of fine aod doep feolinga, In private wnd domostio lifo he soera to have boen tho re- versa of this, It was generally supposed, also, that his path In life waa vory smooth, and that bo had nooo of the strugglos with fortane which fali to tho Jot of most mon of lottors. It in with something like smazement that those who woro wont to envy his supposed good fortune have learncd how linrd & battlo lio bad to fight, and how nobly he combated."” ' Presidont Tylor was married for tho second Mma in. 1844, just before the oxpiration of his Presidontial torm, Mo was at that timo in his E5th yoar and his bride about 20, Hie fricnds trled to’ diseuado him from the match, and ono pf them told him & story of a rich old James vor planter, who called bia body-eorvant Tousy into council on the expediency of his marrying amiss in ber teens. Toney shook hia hond, say- Ings *Masss, had you bottor?” ‘*You, Toney,” reptied the infatuated planter, * why not? Bhe is so besutiful that the aight of her would make one rise from & alck bed to marry ber, Iam old, to bo surs, but I am not too old o make her happy." “Yes, Mases,” diplomati- ked Toney, *you {8 now in your trus; but, whon abo {8 in her primo, where den, Mases, will your primo be?" Mr, b increaye the lond tax 3 r | unnecessary and voxatious. Ar, Brinloy sald thin :1’1:"“1‘::1““ to hinve laughed st Toney's phlloso- g:n:: and taxos on srticles of 05:;. cago was peculiar and unllke any othor. A will, 'y o nevertheloss married Miss Gardiner, mmption 26 por ocent, sod make & to bo admitied, must be mado to sppear by aod tho marrisgo proved & very happy ono. proof to bave beon signed, sealed, aud do- Mrs, ex-President Tyler is now guest at the clared the will by tho teatator, in the presence of witnosses, &o, "The subscribing witnessos must roduclion of 25 por cent in the salaries of tho clergy sud some olvil functions, Ly these Georgetown Convent, whero sho has & daughter | moans be preposed, after 1877, to pay s third " at achool, i of tue utorest oo tho publio’debr. e | BReEL et LINe, 1 (U0 BN Do powar HOTEL ARHIVALS: ntereut would be vaid fu full, when the oapital | 6™, party to' produco, from doath or of the debt should bo o roduced by process of rodomption that 180,000,000 pesotos would bo suliclent for all payments, A BNUU 1N BUSTERSION, Loxpow, Aprile24.—A Madrid dlepatch says the Spanish Govornment han consented 1o sus. pond the collection of the foroed war-loan from, and the billetiog of saldiers upon, Epglish real- dents_whilo nogotiations with Great Bnitaln on " Parmer Houss~0, Eatabrook, Boston ; Gerardo Mare Unea y Diigado, Edusrdo Gonzalea y Fojardo Jole Tuls and Bencto Gonzales, Parls, Prance; Hanches Faclo, Dr, Baavedrs, and Macartnoy, Moxico; E, Maun, Jr, and A, E. Maun, Boston; E. D. Yatos, Phildelphinj J, D, Tilford, Now York; J, ¥, allet, OU City, P....Grand ducifio—11, Ostarterg, Tlock Tsland; O, W. Yoyer, Mempbis:' E, A, Brigham, Phlbda!phll}‘O.LIAn, othor cavse, in such a case it was wot- tled In Fry's will (8econd Rhodo Island Reports) socondary ovidonce way be gly- en, and that " secondary evidence _ia roof of tho handwriting of fhe witness, Mr, rintoy contonded thas the proof of tho hand- writing of two of tho witnosses in this case unaer the circumstancos was sulllclent, oapscial- Iy a8 tho codicil had boen alresdy proved bore. I the subject are ponding. 1t was a question for ihe ditcrelion of the ln‘r:- f:l g;nfi‘ Qlins, :L,{’A;«h’é'l‘!‘.‘ J.l ufi:‘ lanl- — Court, and that, he urged, should be exercised Yorr's Jobs B, Miller, DesMolase; Gapi. Bam. liney FRANCE. to decreo that the will was legslly proved. Duffalo; Denfel Ouurchil, STILL MOLK ELECTIONS. Indeed it has beon srgued by distinguishod ria, 0,5 E, Olark, Jr. Waahington, ., vemont_Hous—Y, H, Armst —! were hold | jurists, that where there was no opposition lows; u.nm,' ';(':fv" Yur';u H, G, llly‘? .x-fu " “:]‘N:' Apnit xfl:r- f,’ fi?c‘:::fil:.“ fmpu.m {n » will which appesrocd to be mgu?u upon Noery B D’ Yerguson, nd’ W, 8, 'Abbot, ay for mom it faco, the witnouses ought mot to ba required Talg: mvr'; D, 2, Forrest, Boston; BY, Dabiman Buf- | in the Thirtoonth Arrondissement sod 8t. Donli | 40" teri'the Probate Caurts beforo avy objoo- Sl 5 M. wankian, Greod “:m iyfanitde Tianguo, | M, Candagrol, Radical, was elected In (o former | yion was mado, oveu If tho witnosscs were nuar Bpringold 5 LIEUS | alatriot, receiving 5,680 votes sgaiust 1,250 for | at kiand. At tho cloa of Mlr. Drinley's romarks Yoiln Q. ‘Turoer, ki M, Porron, Bouspartiet. In 8t Dovis, M. Ca- | the Judge docided that ho must bave proof of Lingfad, ™ #t," Louis oun, | millo Toe, Hopublican, was successful, pollivg | tho hsudwritiog of the dead witness, and of the ) All Ly witnoss whoso residenco was uuknowo, and iho 6,808 votea to 5,663 for M, Deverdier, & Radical, Qen. Wimpler, a Republicar = Jpeared a8 & caudidato st the first olecticss, Ziamuw from the ooutest. COMMERCE WITII TR UNITYD STATES. Leboir utates that the Minutorof Forsige i 8 e, J.' 3. pullive . W, Howara, Hatis Pattim Trou E ‘Nirw, Eizabetn Cady Blanton, New York; Dr. #, McCollsm, Oinciu- Dall; Nat Balsbury, Frink Maoder, and Miss Peuling Merritt, 4 Troubadours M. .. Gardner Uouse—Thomss T, Oskalooka] @. W, Glevens, Ban Frauclaco; & &, Btrong and 8, T. Atwater, Jr,, alphis, csse waa continued two weoka, Tho court stated that until the will 18 proved she conteuts are not to bs mads public, T'ne delay is clul‘u(& sonye snnoyance snd incomyenicnco o the parties con. corned” B . CRIMINAL NEWS. Detulls of tho Killing of Col. Am- brose Spencer at Linn, Mo, A Voman, as Usual, at tho Bottom of the Assassination, The Dead Man a Son of an Ex-Sccretary of the Treasury, Horrible Orimes by Indians Reported from the West. THE KILLING OF COL. AMBROSE SPENCER. Chamols (3o.) Leader, Our usually quiet little town was tho scens of A mont natrocious and bloody tragedy which transpired on last Monday morning of thia weok, 8 littlo fter 8 o'clock, aud which nent » thnill of horror and dismay throogh the entito com- mnuity. Early on that morning s etrangor by tho namo of J. W. Jeffors, a rallroad omploye, and latoly rostding in Marshall, Tox., arrived 1n town, aud mado inquirles for Col. Spencer and family, Having roceived tho pecessary direc- tions, he procoedad at gnco to the residence of Capt. Georga W, Ilopkiny, who resldos a short diatance from town, and bad a private iuterviow with Mre. Spoucar, From the conversation had during thia vieit, it sppears that tho strangor claimed Mra. Bpencer 84 Lis lawful wits, and finr little boy ma hia chtid, and inmatea that they should leave Spaucer immediatoly and gooff with him. His request being rofused, ho retraced bis #topd to town, But a short tima afterward, Col, Sponcer catno into town, cahing at Mr. Th mp- son's saddlery establishment, where ho sngagod Ju & converaation with several gentiomon, Whilo thus talkivg, the door was suddenly opeued, the stranger apposring at the ontrance witha rovolver in bis bisnd. pointing at Col. Bpencer, and eaying inaloud aod commanding voico: Whero is my wifo, Col. Spencer #* The Colo- nel had hndi{ time to atnwmer: * Who aro sou? What do you mean ?” whon tho stranget fired three shots at him in rapid succession, nono of them taking ffect. By this time tho Colonel bad succeoded tu reaching the atroet, but tho strenger baing®loso to hig beels, fired & fourth timo, hitting bia tmark and laying tho fleoing man prostrato When we airived at tho aceno of tho tragedy wo bebeld Jeffers sianding in tho stroet with tho rovolver lu his hand. Poluting at Lis victim and addressing bimself to the crowd, he exclaimed: **QGentlomen, that 1ty the man who bns abducted my wifo and stolen my boy," and turning to tho Shiorisf, bo saw: *Fir, L aw your prisonor; tako this pistol, I havo no farther use for it." While the Shonff tuok his man to tho fail, tho citizeny crowded around tho wouuded man, and o momont's examiuation digcovored a ghastly wound in his hoad, Ho waa immedi- ately romoved to ono of_the loser rooms of the Court-lloure and medical aid provided in- stantly, but o briof examination rovealed to tho experitucod oyes of tho phyeicians that the wound was mortal, and that Lo could not live. Ho lingered until 8 o'clock p. m., when death relivvod him from his sufferings. Wa saw Jof- fers in lus coll oa tho eamo evening, well dressed, aud of good appearanco. Ho weara a light mustache aud gostee, and tho hair of tho wnno color, His oyes are gray, and his faceis Ktriking or rathor peculiar, and shows much determination, n strong will, and much inde- peudonco of wpirit. Judging from the letters. written to eome attorney in this town, he wmust bo o very Honditive man, who loved his wife snd child almoat ith 1dolatry, Diagateh to Giobe-Damocral, Jerpengon City, Mo., April 19.—The shooting and kilhug of Mr, Bpencer by J. W, Jeftors, at. Linn, yestorduy, scoms to have been anticipatod by parties who kuew tho circumstances, prior to tho tragedy and the canse therofor, In 1866 Mr. Joffers was married to o lively widow namod Laura A, Murphy, st Carbondale, whom he socmn to have dovotedly loved. They lived pleasantly together somse threo or four sonrs, when thoir paths diverged. o wont West. Sho Tived awhilo at Capo Girardoau, whoro sho made tho acquaintance of Alr. Spoencor, snd is ro- portod to have married him. Ho squandered what monoy ho had ju rlotous living &t 8t. Louls sod vicinity, and loft tho woman to ehift for” herself and her little child. Joffors roturncd and found thom in dostitute circumstances, and providsd for thom to tho best of hu ability, but the woman rofused to live with him, Ho wont to Marsnall, Texss, and & short time ago received informa- tion shat his wife and Spencer ware living togother at Liun. 1o started for there. and, a fow hours after his errival, shot Bponcer thrqugh the head. Immeodiatoly after a friond tolegraplied hare to Attoraogs Bmith snd Ewing to have thom rctaiuod for Jellers, who hiad Riven lumself up. Spencoer was & son of Hocratary Spencer of the Navy utdor Piorce, His brother way implicated in, and was consdered the leader of, tho mutiny on board tho brig Bomers in 1847, whila that ves- sel was off the coastof Africa. Young Sponcer, brother of tho doad man at Linn, waa tried and hanged at tho yatd-arm of the brig in compan; with Cromwoll'and 8mall, Boatswain's mato aue ship-carponter. Commodore McKenzie, in com- mand of the brig at tho tuno,was arrested on Lis rotnrn to America by ordor of the fathor of tho doad midshipman, then Becrotary of tho Navy, but was acquitted, and the old Commodore re- migned, Tho man who went to hig death yeutor- day waa o clover ofticor in the late War, but was considered & profligato, and at tinies & worthless charucter. He was alwaya proud of lis noble blood. The cause of tho tragoedy is a lovoablo woman, woll posted in tho ways of the world, and who ecoms to have formed a strong -attach- mant for Sponcor. # Joffers, in big prolimiuary examination, made no denial of tho fact of killing Bpoucer, and thinke tho shooting was justitiablo under the circumstances, INDIAN DEPRAVITY. Font Laramig, Wy., April 23.—Of the* throe wounaded vien from the Rod Csuon massacre, two have died—Beergesir, of Virgiuls Qity, Nev., and Qroshan, of Bigelow, Holt (‘ounty, Mo. Fol- tonWan alive ot last accounts. The colored woman captured was killed, Her body was found full of arrows and mutilated. Sbo aleo had beon rayishod. Fonr Lanamie, Wy., April 23.—H, E, Brown, of Salt Lake, ono of the propriotors of the Gil- more, Salisbury & Patricks Btage Liuo, is lyin, 60 miles from here, at Sage Craok, badly wound- od, Two ambulances aud sn escort havo just boon sent by Gen. Dradly to brlug him hore, ne- enmz-uled by acting Asmstant Burgeon Pettys of the United States army. Mr, lirown was shat by Indisus on tho night of the 1st. Ilo was making & uight-trip on ono of tho fast freight wagons, abd was seitting by tho side of tho driver. Thoy wero suddenly fired upon, » ball lutting Mr, Irowa nosr tho front of the loft bLip, tlrse striking tho brass sholl of & cartridge in his bolt, carrying the cartridge into the wound with tho ball, both re- melning in 8 body, rmakiog a very bad case. Ho will roach hero to-morrow night or Tuesday morning, Lezavexwontn, Kan., April 20.—Advicos havo beon recoived bore that wome timo Thureday night a family of emigrants named Bakor, from somawhoro in Pennsylvanis, were massacrod by Iodians about 100 milos northwest of Custer City. The family conaisted of inan, wifo, and two children, Al woro braiued with batchots or tomabawhs and then scalpod. Tho wagou be- louging to Baker was rillod of everything valua- ble aud oartiod off, Tho bodies of tho victims wore decoutly buried when found. | HORSE-THIEVES IN IOWA. Spuctal Dispateh to The Chicago Triduna, Des Moixes, 1., April 23.—A woll-organized gaug of horso-thloves exiata in this Btate, oper- ating from lhe wouthwost northosst to the contre, thonce west through Cass aud Pottawat- tomio Countios, thenco narthesst ihrough ll-xdlanCouulK. ang thenconorth to Minuesuta. They have their "depots aund rendezvoux, where thoy Iide themselyew and bhorees, Thoy also Lavo * apolters,” whese bueinoas it is to go sbout spottiug or sclecting horses, aud report the ‘‘lay. "Last weok a gangof thodo fellows camo to g’ln!. belug arrested by Bherif Dilsavor, of Decatur. Oue of them, John Btanloy, made s confession, which will rostore to tho owners wevoral valuablo Liorsos which aro now in Missouri. John latfeld, of Davis County, Mo., was the rocoivor of horsed of this gaug. PE, : &pectal Dispatch o The Chicao Tridurie, Duxs Mornes, Ia, April 22.—A few days ago Mre, Phbmo Edwards, s woman 54 yeara of sge, living slone In Rochestor, Cedar Gounty, was awakened In the evening, whilein bed, and saw two men at tho bodside, who ut once weized her by tho throat, aud by mesnas of bruta force ren- dored hor poworless, until thoy ropeatedly vio- lated hier persau ¢Lion thoy lefs tho Louso, As 400D &g shie could movoeho rau to & nolghbor's and gave the alarm,—showiug oo hor arms sad neck the effects of the atrngglashe had had with the men. George Hawkins and Henry Comstock wers naubaequontly arrested, and chargod with tho offense, having boon identifled Ly the woman, A POSTMASTER IN TROUBLE. 8anpUSRY, O., Aprit 23, —Racent robbories in the Post-Office hero lod to an lavoutigation by tho Poat-Office Department. United Htates Bpecial Apent Honry took posecsslon of tho offico Baturday, at the roquost of Kostmsster Vantine's bondsmen, and, untli the commission of Mr, Datt, Mr. Vantino'a successor, who takes possesslon of tho ofiice May 1, ia recoived, the ofice will romain in Ienry's bands, Examination and inventory of tho yroperty wore commenced Saturday, and up to this writing hava dovelopnd a doficit of 22,000, which mnat bo masde good by eitler tho Postmaster or hin bondsmen. ARREST FOR ADULTERY. Bptcfal Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune: Guaxp Havey, Mich,, April 20.~Jonpph Nix- fon, photographer, formorly of Lexington, Sanl- Ino County, Mich., was arrested at Sprivg Lako lust evening, on tho charge of adultery. It eeoms that his paramour, Juliot DeCamp, by whotn lio has two children, was n servant fu his family at Loxington, Juliet loved Romeo, and tho passionste coupln Do-Camped. Ths first wifa has boxn soarching for her long-lost Joaeph. o has given bail Lo appear. e THE TOWN OF BRISTOW, A Noewsgatherer in the American Coluny Rocently ablished in Cone nan — Gosslp Concerning Various A'arties Who Have Fled to Escape the ‘T'yranny and Oppression of the Untted States Government, Spectal Correanonusmes in The Chicaas Tribune, Derrorr, Mich., April Zt—~ruia morning while your carrospondent waa pearing over 1. roginter in tho Hussell House his eye caught tho well-known signntures of Cols. Matthows and Kinnoy, two gentlemen woll known to the active snd paesive members of tho Whisky Ringa of Chicago, Milwaukee, Bt. Louw, and Pekin. Tbioking that the adveut #f theso two distinguished missionaries in the cause of atraight goods to the City of the Straits, meauta vinit to tho Town of Dristow on the Canadiau slda of tho river, the correspondent determined to croes over to Windsor and make n survoy and investigation, Not boiug well posted on the lay of tho land 1n the sleopy listle town which floats the cross of St. Goorge snd tho Catholio V. R., your newsgatherer sought out s frioudto atd Lim in his enterprise. In this ho was eminently successful. 1ie met o gontioman who at one time did business in St. Paul, and before the big fire was o denizen of Chicago. On explaining his errand, tho ox- denizon cordially sesented, and the twaln pro- cesded loiaurely to tha little forry-boat which makes s trip overy fiftocn minutes to the Cannda’| border. A disbursement of ton cents induced tho Captain to crowd on the ateam, and in a fow mivutes tho boat was tied up to thoe Windsor dock, A walk of fifieon or tiventy rods brought the roporter and bLis friend to tho main eircet, down which thoy slowly sauntered in the hops of accidentaliy eucountering some of tho Croolis, who sro thorein exiled on acconnt of complica- tious of a more or loas serious charactor with the whisky frauds. It was inarket day. Tho main street was protty well filled with toams and wagons from tho country, and the Granger wag numerously ropresonted. It was also uoticeable that the Granger's porennial cnemy, the punko- sloerer, was not to boseon, Windeor don't seem x'n be & healthy looking town for such sleek ruit. On turning tho corper near the American House, a sharp-featured. dark-complexioned, smooth-faced gentloman of about 45 vears, tho possensor of & pair of ebarp, twinkliug oses, bove along up, aud after gaziug intently at the ox-denizen ot Chicago, remarked : 4 “ Well, this is strunge to meat you hero; Low o you do 2" “Why, Mr. Wileon, {8 that you? When did you Joave Miunesota " “1 left Bt. P’aul Inat Monday, and got here two doys ago.” - 3 * Are you stoppiog here or in Detroit * I awm stopping here for the presaut ; it's nice aud quiot hers, Aud quito rotired. 1 am waiting for some dispatchos,” aud tho genial Wilson smiled sudibly and poioted townrde the dock. *+ Any whisky 1 yours ?"jsnid thie correspond- ent, afterthe formality of an futroduction had bacn gons through with, ** No, not auy. I got o subpwns trom Wakh- {ngton & fow daya bofare 1 loit home, to go be- toro an Iuveatigating Comuwittoe, which 1 goin%sumuuh tho lutorior Departmont, and I've ot this far on tho way. I guews I'll tarry here fnr a little winle, ns'the Washiogton air don't soem to be conducive to my health just about this time." “* Thon you'ra dodging an investigation luto some contracts or somethiug of that kind 2" $117all, yes, that's abont it.” What contracts are thoy 2*' * Tranaportation contracta iu JMinnesots, Da- kota, and Montana.” !* What sta the points connacted therawith 2 *“On, now what'v the use of askiug such a question? It is to nvoid auswenng that I sm hore. trying to kilt time in thia duil hole.” **Have you scen any of tha whisky men who ara domiciled hero?" “*No; 1 have not been hers long onough to get scquainted. 1soosgood many Americans aronnd the various hotels, but I dou’t know who thoy aro,” “‘Wuom Is this invostigation aimed at, to which yo are summoned as & witness ? " ** Aerriam and Witder, of 8t. Faul, Merriam was at ouo timo Speakor of the Legialature,” b \\-?hnz did thioy do, that a committeo {8 after om 2 “Well, now, you are very anxfous to knos, ain't you?” The correspandont acknowledged the corn, but tho gonial Wilson, from St. Cloud, mndtul of tho fact that ho was dodging inquisitive Con- grossmen, bad no idea to comply with the ro- quasts of an inquisitive roportor. The conversation uow assnumoed a mors gon- eral characior, aua tho trio procecdod to the American 1loueo, where speedy justios was doue to s couplo of bottles of Canada zlo. On loav- ing the hotol, the reportor paticed four mon olng down tho leveo totho dock. A mititary fiut from beneath the brim of which appearsd nome curly raven locks attracted the attention of tho newsgathieror, o increased his speed, aud for hulf & minute made as good tima as was over done by Weston. The roporter knew the object of hiu soarch. It was Col. Matthowa. * Hullo, Matthows, what are you dolug hora?" W "l%o,rv aro you, Tninune, and what brings you ro 2" “Qh, I camo over to aoa_your fHock, I sup- pose this 18 one of your missionary trips, and," Bald tho roporter, racogniziog Root, formerly ona of the Doputy Collectors in Chicago, *'thesa gentlamen hero ara & fow of your lamba ?* “Cortanly. Come, gontlemon, lot mo intros duce you. Thisis Tux Tuisuxe, Col. Conklw, of Milwaukes, Mr. Ackermsn, of P'okin, and Mr. Root, of Chicago.” < *+ Allow mo to introduce Mr, Whiaon, of Bt. Cloud,. Minn. 1Io fa horo buylug cattle and walling for ordors from Washington, sald tho reportor. o party soickerod. Doying caftlo was sllently cotod T. T\ A general hand-sbaking all around wag in- dulged in, and it was proposed that tho party should step into Ackerman's placo sud gat a oigar. %Aokenmn and hig eon are running cigar- storo. ‘The pere iw disconsolate bocauso sour mash {8 an ‘unknown yusutity 1a Victoria's do- minions. ‘Tho cigars wero lil, and, as the blue emoke onrlod upward, the party iudulged in & general couversation on the monta of crooked whisky and Congrésaional investigations, Col. Matthows, whenintsrrogatod on the ob- jecs of bis trip to the Dominlon, dectined to #tate, except to say that hie mimply came over to svo thie boys and have s little talk with thom. Ho romainad oulya ehort timo, when bo roturned to Detroit and took the ovoning train for Grand Rapida. Col, Kinuoy, who astonished the Dotroiters by woariug a handsome new nocktis for the firat tune In eight yoars, accowmpauiod mm. Late in the day your correspondont endeave ored to loarn from the temporary dwollers In Winduor the dotuils of the Colonel'a mission. cAl:l he could -mmmnwn that ho talked over 6 C4508 TOW ol sinet Dan W. Muun sud Plul Wadaworth, o Col, Conkhin, exstwhile of Milwaukes, {8 pro- pariug a bistory of the Cincinnati orookeduves during the time whou Delano was Commissiouer of Iuternal Rovenue, and what ho discoversd whon seut there on an fuvestigating mission. e intiruated that hie waa i posscsslon of somo facta coucerning tue Ring which are start- lug du thoir charscter, aud whon made publio caonot Lail 10 wako [y decided sensation, Furthior then tbis ko would not aay, alloging that the tunu bad not yob ur- rived for bim to unburden b soul. Btephan!, one of the Bt. Louis digtillers, who travelod from the future .capital to avoid arrest under sn ludictment, walks around tha aloglo business amtrest of Windsor A gort of an ornamental Sphyox. He is morose and taciturn, speaka to noboby, and walks aronnd all slone, with both bands hidden bo- noath tho expansive folds of hia cost-taily. Loot bias cropped his beard quite closo, Hela in vory good spirits, and occasionslly apesks n Dleco concarnlug the efforts of somo of tha lant Dbatch to ride out of court on his shouldors. e wtill aflirma his innoconce. RAILROAD NEWS. THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL. The high rogard in wihich the fliinola Central Railroad and its managemont 15 held in England- can ba noon by tho following itom from thie last number of tha London Ratlicay News : No bettor ovidenon coul Lo afforded of the roardi- nesr with which English capitalista wonld subscrile to railways in Americs, if oniy satiafied that they ‘would be Tairly and Lioneatly managed, and with a dua regsrd to tho intercata of tioso who provido the capls tal in thia country, than the reeeption accarded to st fexuc of £200, ling mortgage bonda M00 G per cent ster) of the Hiinols Central Ratirond, annnunced during the weok Ly Mesarn. Morton, loke & Co, The wholo smount was at onca mora than subacribed, thn prica of Jusiio balug 95 per cent, The confidenca shown by investors, and evidonced ' tn the comyaratively high price of tho Londr, woull appear to be smply yuunm by the position of the froperty. Tho report or the past year, fult detailn of winch were given in those columna last weak, showa & revenuo halanco of £4,050,000, of whilch the 'intorest on the bonded delt absorbied $61,000, leaving availablo for tha ahiaca capi~ tal 0o lem than §2,31,(0, with & balance of $103,w0 to be carriod . ‘The margin of accurity on tho bouded doot is thus exceptionally larws for au~ Ameri- can railrosd, which gives the bouda of ‘the Company a position clonely approximating to that of the prefer- ence cliarges of & howo reliwsy. The issto of bonds referrod o ls made for the purpaso of providing ml- ditfonal rolling-stock and strcd ralle, The bouds aee included in and form part'af tho consolidated mort« Rage of #15,L00,000, under which, tncluding the prow- ent amount, $11,000,000 hus been’ raised, ‘THE IRON MOUNTAIN ROAD. The last anuual report of the Bt. Louis, Iron Mountain & Houthern Railroad represonty tho grnperly of the Company as follows nital Eue ol s (71,668 por e, Tunded coupuns (§2,008 per ity Total (363,999 per mile)...vvs Thiere 18 a floating debt exceeding flosting astets and raewal funds by about a million, The {ucrenra in pasatnger traflic wea 6 por cont: of frelght trutlic, 46 gur ceut,~tho Inttar carriod with an inercase of ouly 16 per cent In freight train milea, Thie #¥eraio pastenger-train 11ad was A3% passonge 47,015,110 the averago freight-train loed, 114X tons in ik 8gainet 3) paescngers snd 403 tons In 1874, The trattic was equivalont [ 1573 ta 1.0.7 passongers and 240 tons of freight carriod each way daily over tho entirs milesgs. The recelpis and expcnsen were: Incresse. Hy +e. SI,TE0,087.00 £1,107,804.47 1u.431,220,06 By agrecment with tho boudholders, ouly part of tue intercat scerued 1n 1875 was paid, the rumaluder betng funded, CM‘ICABQ. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL. Tho annual report of the Chicago, Milwaukeo & 5t, Paul Railroad for 1875 makes the following exhibit of the comparative earnivgs, expoases, aud condition of the road : Groms earnirgs, Operating expenncs, ... 5.814,116.33 Net earnfngs.. L. 303190073 Interest on Louls, Mil=s of Ton 1,99,221.73 1,409 Tons of frelght moved... 1,133,853 1,632,527 Number of passengers QML 1o sgens saeees 1051527 1,013,150 T councetion with tho report 1a’ given & compara- tive statcmont of the earnings of the Western Unlon Rallroad for the yeur 1874-6 : 974, Gross esrnings... 1,128,107, Orerating expenses, 68,164.21 Net earnings. ... $54,943.60 Intereat on 15,000,00 244,767,00 During tons of freight were moved, sgatnet 412,670 in the' year 1874 Thore was an to- creaso of 70 in tho Dumber of passcngers carried over the provious year, THE CHICAGO & ERIE LINE. Tho Chicago & Erie Lino Is rapidly growing in fayor with the traveling public, and 1ta pas- nonger business is now almost pqual to that of any of the old linea leading to the East. To the efforta of Mr.'D. W. llitchoock, the able General Agont, this eplendid success is fn a grest monsure duo. The rie & Chicaga Ling oxpects to do & largo share of the Contennial businces, aud the managors are getting ovorything in first-clasg order to give general satisfaction. They are having o numbor of first-class now cars in the conrse aof ercction, and Mr. Pullman Las solacted Lis best palaco and drlwmg»room car for this line, As tho Erie Itairosd has Intely lesded the Lebigh Valloy Ratlrosd, and built s third track on it own line, the Chicago & Erie Lino will be enabled to take passongers through to tho Ceu- ternial grounds in Philadelphis: without change of cars. . MICHIGAN RAILROADS. Sperial Dupateh to The Chicago Tribune, Lassivg, Mich,, April 22—Thoro has boen recorded in the ofiice of the Register of Doods at Flint a trust-doed from the Chicago & North- oastern Railroad to John E. Xfiller, of Port Huron, of all the landa botwoen that city and Launosing, and all the rolling-stock and other prop- erty of tho Compauy, to warrant him in fssuing mortgage-bouds to tho amount of §1,200,000, This would seemn to indicate an early complotion of the road. ‘Tbo Grand Tronk officisls haye passed over tho line of tho Chicago & Loko Huron Railrosd On & ProspoCking tour. WISCONSIN RAILROADS, Speciat Dirpateh to The Chicage Iribune, Osnrosi, Wis., April 22,—OshLoab is agitated Just now by two railrond projects, both of whick ilnd adheronts. The Wisconsin Midland Road ia torun southwost, through Marquetto, Portage, and Minera! Foint, to Dubuquo ; the Wisconsio & Laxe Buperior, from here northward to tho shores of Lake Buperior. Afd tn large amonuants Liag already been plodged to both rusds by the towns on the lino, and both Companica are pre- pariog to nubmit the quostion of votiog munioi. pal aid to the City of Oubkosh, . SUICIDE, Sveetal Disrateh to The Chicago Tridune. 87, Cuanves, Il April 22.—Joho H. Lowe, p farmer residiog 4 milea weet of Bt. Charles, Kano County, committed suicido by banging, dn his baro, last Wodnosday, It is supposed that pocuniary embarrassmont was tho cause. e g:: 53 yoara old, and loaves a wifo, but no chil- U, perial Disnateh to The Chicago T={bune. Des Mones, Ia, April 22.—About 8 _year ago, Mrs. Rosu Hers, of Hampton, obtained o divorco. from her husband ; since when the world to her bas boon all awry and eadly disjolnted. She drifted into molancholis, and, & faw days since, ended her sorrowa with s dosa of atrsohinine, Specal teh to The Chicago Tribune. Pxonia, 111, April 23, —Early this morniug a watchman at Elovator A disoovered the lifoless body of aman floating on the surfsce of tue wator, a fow foet from shore. Assistance was rrocured and the body sooured. It proved to he hat of an old man namod Joha Bwger, whose mysterious-disappoarance from his home ocour- red in tho onrly part of the month. Tho body was much decomposod, and haa ovident!y been in tho water wome time, An inquest wes bLeid snd & verdict of saicide rendored, as Binger was insans at the time he loft homo, and had fre- quently throateued to, kill nimu‘t. He loavos a family, A e DEFICIT IN A COUNTY TREASURY. Srwewt Duvaleh to The Chicago Tribune, Dea Moixes, Ta, April 23.—A settiemont of the sccounts of I, A, Gerhart, late Treasurer of Marshiall Couuty, deceased, shows & deficis of ©24,614.67. Ha had Leld tho ofice for mauy yoars, and was one of the most pogum mew 10 that county, stsading bigh fu sl phasos of so- ciaty, Mo was well Lkuown by the basonio fratarnity throughous tho biate as one of their modt exsmplaty memboru. 1t I supposed he had, from the well-known goner- ouity of bis nature, beon 1o the babit of ex- tending favors to those who wers ewbarrassed, by earrying thelr tax-receipts. Iad not death come this (act would notheve been discovered,as thoy would all have been taken up iu due time, Althongh su fllogal and criminal act, no oue supposes he had a wrong intent. 1l loft ample property to make good the deticit, —_————— A WINDFALL. Louisyiiiy, Ky., April 23.—Zaobariah Ep- stoin, of this city, bas been willed 200,000 by the death of Lls brother in Qormany, whoso ef- focts aro estimated at a million in gold, The Epstein who diod Las four brothers uud s wister, nono of whom bhuve soon him for forly-two eary, when Lo suddenly disappeared, mo oue uow where. Ooe brotker, Zacharlab, lives in Lonlavills; lnolhertsn'llmln. lives In Luxem- burgy s third u burg, lomg in Amun.nlnd""n“ i dad, “d_- THE VIEATHER, Wasamxator, D. C., April 24—1 & m.—Fot the Laka region and Now England diminlshing northerly winds, and’ clear or partly oloudy weather. . 4 Spectat Dienateh to TAr Chicaos Tridune, Liravexwontit, Kan., Aoril 33.—Prof. Jobn H. Ticw, tha noted woather man, loctursd In thit clty Iaat night, To-day ha issued his prognostis catlons for May, which have not bafors bees mado public. May, sccording to Tica, will bo 8 stormy, clondy month, with heavy rainfalia from tho 8th to tho 1ith, 14th to the 16th, 21at to the 23d. and 26th to tho 20th, Howover, he pre dicta coul nnd clenr woather. LOCAL OLBERVATIONS. Cnicage, April 7, Wind, _[Rain [Welbe W07 N Eu froah.... 43 OT.N.E. freati.. 47| 48'E., fresh . 4% 60N, fresh, 9:00 p, m. 30.6), 4] TN rest 10:18 p, '3 40| TS'N., freal. Maximum thermameter, 07, Minlmum, 4. GENENAL ODSERYATIONS. Cutcaao, April 23—~Midnight, Hiatio raThr, Wind, Tiain {Weathor, Cresonn: 51'8,, brisk.. Tiamark ; 48HE.f Breckineld, 09 45'Calm, Davenport....30.071 48 K. E., lirl Tonve 091 5Calia’. Dulutl lcaim Excaial AN, fre Ft. Gibw 7 Keokn 48 NV E, Iz LaCronse 528,, gintl LeateirsGrili 10,02 GBN: B, frosbo.. Sibwaukee... 50,10 afl[ 0l 40 I s e e A MISSING MAN. Specul Dispateh to The Chicage Tridune, Des Mowes, Ia., April 22.—Jotn B. Williams, of Dodpe Township, Boons Counsy, went to Cllcago a faw daya ngo, and roceived abont £7.500 for & lot of cattlo; minoe when he has not baen beard from by his family or craditurs, the Iattor of whom have -mchcd, what they could find, Whether I:e hion fied or been murdered, fa for the futuro to dovelop. He had hitherto burno o high roputation for honesty and in= tegnity. — BUSINESS NUTIoRs. ‘Tested by ‘Time.—For Thront Disens ea, colde, aud cougls, * Iiroicn‘s Bronchaal Troches ™ have proved their etfieacy hy o test of many years, e g 5 05 Nurnett’s Cocoaine allays irritation, remnoves dsndruf, and invigorates the actionof the capilluries in the highest degrec. p SILKS. “IT PAYS T0 TRADE ON THE WEST SDE CARSON, PIRIE & C0.S BARGATNS The following lines of SILKS, just received from the great New York AUCTION SALES, bought in the present depress- ed state of the market at a ruinous loss to the importers, are the CIIEAPEST - GOODS ever sold : At $1.10, a line of handsome shades of 20-inch Colored Gros Grains, worth $1.50 to $1.60. At s1.25.1m-§e lot vory choice shadoa Lyons Col’d Gros Grains; rich, bright lustre; never sold undor $1.75 to 51.86. At $1.35, hoavy, very rich Col'd Gros Grains, stylish shades; worth $3. The ahove 3 lots ere worthy the immediate attention of purchasers before choicest shades are sold, Trimming Silks from 75 cts. upward, At 85 cts,, lot of Fancy Bilks in good styles. At 76 cts., now linos of Fanoy Silks, great bargains; some of them for« morly sold at $1,25. At 85 ots., largo assortment of Fan: cy 8ilks, very desirable atyles, much under value, Af $1.25, lino of Cheney’s Amerigan Bi:ks, striped; same goods for- merly sold at $2, Henvy, all-silk, Black Gros Grains, %1 and $1.26. At 81.50, Splondid Cashmere Black Bilks, worth $3. At 81,75, Lyons Cashmere Gros Grains, 8n oxtraordinary bargain, At $2 wo shall offer a' very rich, heavy, and olegant Lyons Cashe mero 8ilk, equal to anything that can bo bought olsewhoro at $3.60. WEST END DRY £00DS HOUSE, Madison and Peoria-st, DRESS GOODS. GREAT REDUQTIONS IN DRESS GOODS ‘JOB LOTB OF - DEBEGES, PLAIDS, SERGES, CRETONNES, PONGEES, &c., At 20, 25, 30, 83, 37,45, 500 per yard, sur. passing in value anything ever shown im Ohicago. W, . STHPSON & 60, BUCCESSORS TO SIMPSON, NORWELL & 00., AT'THIE OLD STAND, 79 & 81 State-st.