Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1876, Page 3

PASTIMES. - The Chicagos Defeat the Club that Whitewashed the Browns. programme of ~ Championship Games for the Remainder of the Season. personal and General Notes from the League and the Semi-Pro- fessionals. [ast Day of the Trap-Shooting Tournament at Dexter Park. The Chicago Audubons Win the Team-Club Shoot. s Another of Those Klelnmans® Trier to Smoke Paine Qut of His Hole. Dwindling Prospects of a Fall Trotting Meeting at Dexter Park, Lstest from the FProject for a New Park for Chicago. BASE-BALL. LHR CHICAGOS AT SYRACUSE. | Speciat Dispatch to The Tribune. BYRACTSE, N. Y., Sept. 2—The great event in Dase-ball circles in this vicinity tuok, place here to-day, when the celebrated Chicagos played the strong semi-professional Stars of this eity. Fully 4,00 people were in attendance. The game was hotly contested throughout, the Chi- cados being obliged to put forth their best exer- tions to save themselves from defeat. The home nine took the lexd in the first inning, and beld it up to the seventh, when the sufe batting of Addy snd Barncs, and a three-base kit by Anson, gave the Whites a winuing lead. A very high Wind prevailed, which accounts for the many errora ou both sides. Followmg is the sae by wow - - " - oo ° 120 ase hite—Chicagos, 93 Stars, 3. Errorn—hicayos, 113 Stars, 10. Luns earned—hicagos, 3. B fEE MCIUALS DEFEATED BY AN AMATEUR cLus, Euzanerh, N. J., Sept. 2.—Base-ball: The Mutuals were defeated to-day by the Resolutes (amatcus), 3 to 1. THIS WEER’S PROGRAMME. The Chicagos will close their week of amateur work to-mor at Ilion, N. Y. On the same day the_Louisvilles will' play at Bridgeport, Conn. The Western professionals will meet the Eastern half of the League for ten days’ play according to the following schedule: Sept. 5 and b~—Chicago vs. Athletic, in Philadel- phia; St. Louis vs. Mutual, in Lrooklyn; Louis. wilevs, Hartford, in Uartford; Cincinnati'vs, Bos- ton, in Loston. sept. 8and 9—Chicago va. Mutual, in Brookiyn; St. Logis vs. Athletic, n Philadelphia; Cincinnati o .llztlnrd, in Mariford: Louisville vs. Boston, 0ston. L 12 and 13—Chicago vs. Hartford, in Hart- fora; St. Louis va. Loston, in Boston; Louisville v, Mutusl, in Brooklyn; Cincinnuti vs. Athletic, in P:ladelphia. 8ept. 15 und 16—Chicago vs. Boston, in Boaton; §t. Loais ve, Hartford, in Hartford; Cincinnati ve. Maotwa), in New York; Louisville vs. Athletic, in Phidsdelphia. At the conclusion of this programme the Leaue will make their way Westward again, taking about 1 wevk to get out here in. They il tuen pluy 2 two-gawme series through the West, the Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, and Cinciftinati Cluos receiving the attack on their own compost heaps. The arrangement of dates will be'on the same plan as in the schedule for the East,—that is, two games in three days until sll are finished. After that, several tics rewmain tobe played; but only halfa-dozen in all, and then the season will be ended, probably before 0t 10. Tur TRIBUNE would like to give the £l prograizie for the last eight games in the Weel, but caunot do it because the Eastern ¢uys have not yet drawn lots to show how tuey will pluy when they start out. GAMES TO PLAY. Inasmuch 8s no games for the championship lave been played during the week lIast past, 1t seems out of place to insert a champlonship tazle wien it would be identical with the one prizted ove week azo. Instead thereof will be ivund below a list of games yet to play before tle ennant can be considered lost or won: s N 3 E CLUB&. = H a i Bletic. .o rneeneenna| | O 4| 4] O 4| BH4 19 Zo-ton. [ Chicag 4 Cinemnati 4f 4 o 2 4l 4 3/ of 4] 4 This shows 75 games still to play, and 20 serfes still to finish, as_against 8 alrcady dis- pused of. Th mpleted scrics are Athletic- Boston, Hartford, Boston-Mutual, Ciicawro-Cincinnati, Chicago-Louisville, Chi- @zo-3t. Louis, Cincinnati-Louisville, Louis- ville-St. Louis. . TR EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP, It s ratiier surprising, to say the lcast, tofind, onmakinge-up the yesult of the games played tween Bastern clubs, that the Bostons have Won more that the Hartfords, but that it is true may be scen trom the fullowing table: Games lost. . % . THE WESTERN CHANPIONSHIP. ., . The New York Clipper reviews the Western ciampionship play as folluws: Tie event mext in importance to the League- Pennant clhunpionship is the strugzgle between the lour Western clubs_for the local championship bonoss ‘of the Western States, in which the cou- lestants were the Chicago, St. Louis. Louisville. and Cincinvati Clubs, Tnie was practically settled lest week on the occasion of the close of the series between the Chicago and St. Louis and Louisville #0d Cincinnafi Clubs, the honors of the champion- skip of the West remaining with Chicago, as the 3ppended record shows: __ Games lost.. The Chicago Club not only leads 'St. Louis in to~ tal won games by 23 1019, but in fewer defeats by 710 20. " Besides which, the Chicago mineis the otly League team which has not been defeated’ by auteide clubs. St. Louis has one wore game 1o play With Cincinnati, which may ieave her score of foriesat 20. On the other hand, however, St. L n boast of defearing the Citicagos in 2 ma~ Ority of the contests, cluo vs. club, their record Sanding at 6 (o 4 in won games. SEMI-PROFESSIONALISM. The Chicago Club has the credit of being the nly one of the League clubs which has not been takeninto camp by outsiders. Some of the Leaguers have been beaten so often by semi- Professionals and amateurs that it secms doubt- 1ul whether they had any business in the League e first place. The Louisville Courier-Journal hzs the follow- Ing: “The semiprofessional clubs scattercd broadeast, throughout the country are just play- ing the wild with League clubs nowadays. The Ciieago nine, thus 1ar, has been the only one ot comnpelled to talc a back scat at the Liauds Of the ‘semis,’ but there is no telling how lung ench a state of affairs will continue to ex- ft. The St. Louis Browns have been trying to teach the non-Leaguers the hidden beauties of the gaine, and from appearances it would scew that” the non-Leagruers are very apt pupils. The people of Syra N. Y., luid tieir breath fairly tagen away when their club, the Sta Refeated Harry Wright's Bostons by 4 tol. { as that of their THE CHICAGO" T 5 [=] g SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 187%6—SIXTEEN PAGES. Last night again it was twinkle, twinkle, little star’ in Syracuse, the boys re, fi,wds of the finnanent %cffigt}ug t::: Towns 8 to 0, being the second non- League club to whitewash 8 1 L egul. gubina full game, the L{vc»()?xk;,uot‘{;fin Mass, baviag préviousle dofeated {ha Athlaticy be noted that, Sehile these sy orcr b 1A L £ I-professional nines take a lucky streak mmesg:m vuile, soun times burely losiuig a game, and ot s, S0UC defeating the reulars pretly sevann et lay, in thelong raw, will be Iu{m«sler‘;::.es‘g’s[&g“ ren.” fall-Gedged frofessional breth. The extraordin: career of Browns during lusfieek has Iu{w‘é’:mifistlrft“eg the assertion 50 often made concerning them,— that they were one of the weakest. if not the Weakest, of the League clubs unless Bradiey led them. They have been vlaying Blong p. McGinley c., aud Mack r. £., while Clapg snd Bradley wercabsent. The last-named two went rom Chicago straight to Philadelphig, and will Tejoin their Club when they open the League g?.;mce in Brooklyn Tuesday. " A dispatch to the Globe-Uemocrat says that in the Zame against the Syracuse Stars the Browns made only one base bit, and that by McGeary in the first inning. THE WHITES 0¥ 1877, The Courier-Journal s the following para- graph sbout Capadian bail: *The intcrest taken in base-ball in Canada, is, in mauy places, even more intense than in the States. ~ Crowds 0f 5,000 and 6,00 people have been seen several times on the bull elds this season. In the con- test for the Dominion championship, the Te- cumseh Club,‘ of London, have obtained so great a lead that even the accession of Spence %o their old rivals, the Maple Leafs, will Lardly prevent them flying the pennant. Goldsmith, thie,pitcher of the London Club, aud formerly of the New Havens, is considéred the finest player in the Dominiod. His plicling is very effectivo and his playing generaily is good. Quite prob- ably he will pliy on thé Chicagos another sea- | son. ‘He has already received good offers.to play with that tewn from Spalding.” This nakes about the twentieth player that the various'papers of this couutry have accused the Chicago Club of ;* making sirenuous efforts to secure.” Great Scott! do tfiey think that Chi- cag0 wants thirty men in ber uine for 1677 ¢ The first and most common paragraph at pres- ent in circulation is to the effect that Chicago will keep her whole team intact; the next is that only two men sre to leave. Following these come a flock of parugraphs asserting that the following players are beins negotiated fo Goldsmith, Tecumsehs; Bradley, St. Louiss Wuitt, New Haveus; Flint, Indfanapolis; Ger- hardt, Louisville; Bond, Hartford; Ferguson, Hartford; Remsen, Hartford; Nolan, Buckeyes; and so on to the nuwmber of fully a score. When it is considered that thc mauagement are in their right minds, and have 2t prescut the best nine in the country, it would scein rather fool- ish 10 sccuse thewn of any desire to vhange in any wholesale way. It is therefore suggested to the gentlemen who are continually making up slates tor Chicago, that they wait until Sec- retary Young notitics them of engagements for Chicago. You are all Wrong se far. PERSONAL AND GENERSL. The Actives of Reading and Standards of Harrisburg, Pa., are playiug ten games for the championsiip of the Stute and a purse of $1,000. The Clipper grumbles at the small attendance in the Eastern games, and advocutes the reduc- ing of the price of admission to 25 cents as a remedy. The Sad Francisco Club has disbanded and gone home. Its trip acruss the contipent was a tinancial failure.” 1ts record shows 2t games won and 11 lost. The only engagement announced by the Sec- Tetary of the Leugue this week is tuat of Will- iams, who will play with the Cincinnatis for the rest of the season. The venerable but unpriocipled Puddles re- Jjoices that some editors head their base-ball as did a Charleston ciap when he wrote: * Bring on the fool-killer; tun thousand idiois assem- bled to observe eighteen lunatics quarrel over base-ball.” The Inalanapolis Journal urges Clack, of Cin- cinvati, and Jinmy Wood, of Chicago, as two zood umpires for 1577 Both of them have becn well received this year. Another “abie-bodied lunatic down that way has the check to put lor- ward the name of Walker, of Cinciunati. About 700 persons responded to invitation: issued by the contesting Grain_and Greenback mines, and appeared on White Stocking grounds yesterday to see the Board of Trade and bank representatives wield the willow. The result was highly satisfactory ta mioc B. of T. men, avd to all their backers on 'Change. Score, 2 to 1L Bond has written a letter in which he with- draws his charges against Ferguson of selfing games, saying he made the charges when he was inad. 'Well, this is a go. Sooue of the great piteber’s peculiarities is to strike out regardless of thetruth when he gets mad. A moderately- sized piece of sticking-plaster pasted over. his speaking-apparatus would, doubtléss, be of ser- ¥ice to the young gentleman.—Courier~Journal. Last year tlie Canadizn Association adopted rules by which strikes were allowed to be called - on every steond fair ball delivered, and balls to be cailed on every second unfuir ball sent in. This proved to give toe batsmen too much lati- tude, and inercased the batting scorcs. At a recent meeting the Association, by an simost unanimoud vote, changed so as to accord with the American code. A stock company, to be known as the Man- chester (N. 1) Baxe-Ball Company, with a capi- tal of $1,000, was orgunized Aug. 22, with S. W. C. Pickcrinfi as President; F. C. Pilsbury, Sec- rétary; C. 3L Carrier, Treasurer; H. 8. Clark, Manager, with five Directors. Grounds com- prising about 9 acres will be_fitted up and in- closed jn Piseataguog, a mile from the City- Hall of Manchester, and suitable buildings will be erected at an early day. The Mercury says: *‘ Manager Jewett, of the New Haven Club, bas been applied to by the managewent of,the Indianapolis Club to be- come their manager for next geason, and bring five members of the New Havens with him. Ic will probably aceept the -position.” To this the Indianapolis Journal adds: ** This is a mistake. We've got our nine, save one, for 1877; Juwett and five of his players may go to the Alleghanys next scason.” A meeting was held in New Haven, Conn., Monday evening to consider the proposition to form a'new base-ball company, or joint stock as- ‘sociation, for the purpose of Keeping the mem- bers of the New Haven uine in the city until the end of the season and forming 2 good nine for League menbership uext year. The attendance was quite large, aud all present were eager to co-operate in bringing avout the desired result, After considerable discussion a Comuwittee of Ten was appointed to solicit sybscriptions for the new Company. TRAP-SHOOTING. END OF THE TOURNAMENT. The shooting tournament which has been in progress at Dexter Park for the past four days closed last ovening, paving proved a decided success both as to the sport furnished and the financial results attained. The weather each day was very pleasant, tlie birds good and strong, and the average of the shooting ruled very high. The highest average of the shoot proper (excluding ties) was that of Abe Klein- man, of Chicago, who killed 84 birds out of 8. Mr. Klcinman aciordingly took the prize for highest average, which was a valuable mcel schoum pipe, preseuted by T. C. Banks, of the ftod and Gun. . Following are the tics on 8, 7, and 6 birds in the $450 purse, which remained unfinished from Friday: TiES ON 8. Second ties— 31 yards. 11111-5 it l)]lnrlin. R. Williams.... . “[he thira prize therefore fell to Mr. G. C. Feoria. : Kimball, of R. V. Moore . J. C. McBride. T. Sta, Mr. Moore, therefore, took the .fl_{t_h money. The next event was & purse of $575, divided asfollows: First prize, S200; second, $150; third, 51003 fourth, $75; fifth, $50. There beingonly thirty entricsy the prizes were cut down pro- rata.. Following is THE SCORE AT 21 TARDS: sy 11111:11L11-10 A 1010110110—8 1111111111-10 11111121111~-10 11110011118 Greene Swith . 1111001110-7 Abner Price.. 0113110111-8 i 11111111109 111111111110 1111101101—8 1011111111-9 Dr. Piere— 0111111111— 2111110001= 9 1111111111539 11110111009 1101011110- 7 111111111119 1111111110709 1111110000-8 1111111111-10 1111111171530 111011111159 111110011128 1111111111500 111131111079 01101110102 ¢ § 1100111001- ¢ . Johneon, 1101110111— 4 T S 1011111210- 38 R, Williams. 20011110111 - 8 Tax'mzs ox 10 wens: A. Kieinman. ......0 g Y04 AtStyards. §C. Abbort i - ' T3 -3 S 6. Kimbyii tiriy OV k4 11115 oo ¥. Dozey GooiTh Tirio— 3r. J. J. Kleinman, of Chicag first money. 'The ties on 9 ‘;;u;eo?thercfare ok 7 26 3 4 T Dogardun S ST L Wella e Da i 00010-1 011114 Mesers. A. H. Bogard dni;ou“ 3 - A. H. Bogardus an . H. Klei divided second money. Following uml\leuuunn » THE 26 Y. Fiod Poprach . PEROK B AT 20 vakDs, g Abner Price 11100-3 J. A, Nichol 11000 R.J. Swan 11011 Johnso 11111-5 Stage .10010-2 Jobn W " 0111 0-8 And Mr. Jolnson, of St. Louis, “took third mouey. THE T(E8 0X 7 A 2 Green Smith.. ATt ninvg E H. Giliman, 3.S Grinith. . Hudson. Mr. E. Hudson taking the fourth R. V. Moore. J. Partington. C. Myers.,..... S. F. Tarrili ... The fifth money, therefor P y, therefore, fell to Mr. The next contest differed considerably from the others in the tournament, being for & purse ol $975, divided as folluws: First, §225; second, $2005 thira, $175; 1ourth, $150; fifth, $125; and sixth, $100,—the six best scores to win;, 25 swgle rises at 25 yards. Aunexed is Tux sconE: C. 3, Whenle— 01101111111 ~22 Y ERIAL 1111111110111 1~22 11111 22 i e 1111111110102 1010011111101111111111011-20 B0 T ° o Gl 1111101101101111-19 111110011 a.slgrtid 11! 110111011110-18 Grohd 2 1111101101111611-20 11010110110 —15 5.0l 01202 1001110110011 el 111011111011111101-20 110101111111 2 Eathinia 512 11111011100-20 11111111111 -2 PR 11011100111101-21 TI1{0III1T1001101111111101-20 ©10111111110101001 = E'”mfi:nx‘nuon el s i 1111111 = J. Halloway— i LEAR IR Ti11111111111110011121111-23 T 110 ot 111011111010-22 1U11111011100111111112111-21 A, Klemman— i1I111111111111111211111-25 S 1010010111 ar. 111101104dn R. Chuich: 9 011011111101231111¢11110-20 3N L z 111111011 —2 B. Wiicox: i xiehuh 01011112011111111210011112 N 01111111111 11110111 « T fiid 11111111128 Williaw B.fve— 101i110111111111111101021-21 B. Jomson— 011006111110dn E. C. Abbott— 2 or1110110110dh €. 3. Emory— 1010111101111111111811111-21 A. C. Pstrick— 1111011111001048r. F. C. Snowden-— 1010111111011104dr. C. Willams— ' 1111011111111111011101111-2 Mr: Abe Kleinman accordingly carried off the first prize, Mr. J. J. Gillespic the secoud. E. Hudson and J. Halloway each having killed 35 birds, divided third and fourth money, and Messre. Wheale, Bogardus, Nichols, and’ Will- iamns, each having kuled 22 birds, shot off the yards, on the filth and sixth prizes, Following is C. J. Wheale, AL 1L Logurdus. J. A, Nichols C. Willinms. Alr. Williams took the fifth prize, Bogardus and Nichols dividing the sixth. Four clubs sent representatives to the final shoot of the tournament : the Chivagos, Audu- bons, Omahas, and Central City, of Syracuse, N. Y. The terms were 80 birds to each team, 25 yards rise. The first prize was an elegant gold wedal, valued at $200, grcaanted by John A. Nichols, of Syracuse, N. Y. Each club paid $20 entrance fec, which was divided to tmake up second and third prizes, G0 per cent going to s:nusd, and 40 per cent to third. The score stood: £ CcHICAGO 5 F. P. Taylor. 1100111111010 ©; B Willas 0101102111111 W 1111111110111 J. 1111100011111 AGDUBON CLUB, J. 7. Kleinmsn....0111100101111 ‘Abner Pric 1111111111011 M. L Klelnmaon 1111111111111 C/E. Feltun. 1110011111110 cLuE. 100110 100101 101110 111001 ITY CLUB. 111811 111131 11001 The victory accordingly fell to the Aububon Club, and tLe medal, very handsome produc- tion, was handed over to the representative of that institution. Second muney was given Lo the Chivagos, and third to the Omaba Club. At the close of the shoot theassembled sportsinen gave three cheers for S. H. Turrill, manager of the - tournament, for Abe Kleinman, winner of the ipe, and for those_engaged in the shoot. Mir. {’ilcinmnu prescnted the pipe to Greene Smith,— 2 proceeding which evolved much enthusiasm, and the Chicago shooting tournament was atan end. The pigeons for yesterday, as well as for the other days’ sbauflnfi, were from the covps of the veteran sportsman Tom Stagg, and much inter- est was added to the sport by the fact that they were strong, healthy targets. A curious feature of the tournament has been that while the shooting has been sv goud, and while it comprised all the best men io the coun- try, yet the attendance of spectators has been 0 small a8 hardly to justify u_gatekeeper. 1t sceims that people do 0t carc to see any persons other than themselves lire guns at birds. And it is. after all, a brutal sight to anybody clse than'a trained Sportsman. (ANOTHER ELEINMAN.” Henry Kleinmau—perbaps the least known of the three brothers—has heard about all the Paine challenges toat he carcs to, and responds with the following offer, which will produce o mateh or a back-down onthe New Yorker's part Cic, Sept. 2, 1876—Zra A. Paine, Esq. DEear Sin: 1 by challenge you to a match at 50 wild pizeons, 5 yurds rize, Audubon Club rules, plunge-trapy, for $30 or 3100, to be shot at Dexter Yarion Thursday nest. Your money will be cov- ered at 43 South Clark street any time within three days. H. (I, KLEINMAN. 3 ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Green Vall hooting Club of Delavan, L., offer shooting Tucsday and Wednesday of this weck, with purses each day. On-Thursday next, the 7th inst., Mr. F. Milli- gau, of this city, sud Greenc Smith, of Peter- boro, N. Y., will shoot a pigeon-inaf at Dex- ter Park. The terms $200 a side; 26 yards rise, from H and T plunge-traps, Auduvon Club rules to govern. Shooting will commence at 10 a. m., Do recess to be taken, and cach man only to use one guo. THE TURF. 3 A OALIPORNIA TROT. Sax Fraxcisco, Sept. 2.—A trot to-day at Oakland Park between St. Julien and Dan Vorhees, mile heats, three in five, for 10,000, Vorhees won the first heat in 1:26%, and Julien the next three in 2:25}¢, 2:30%, 2:293. CONCERNING A PALL MEETING. Turf news about Chicago is of the scarcest and slimmest at present, and there is scarcely . any prospect of the success of the Dexter Park {all meeting, which alone coula enliven horse- men. Mr. Mansur takes 3 philosophical and fair view of the situation, which he expressed to a TRIBUNE reporter by saying that he had tried quite as often as La cared to the experi- . und ment of giving Chicago people first-class turf sport, reckoned as sport alone. He was con- vinced, be said, that the closest and honestest race would not draw, inless the contestants had made great names elsewhere. He had givena couple of meetings in which the sport was of the best, and conducted with perfect fairness, and yet people did not care to see it. He was willing to try them on another tack by putting up a big purse for the fastest ones, if he was sure that he could get them, but as matters now stood it bardly secmed feasible. A $5,000 purse would draw Goldsmith Maid and Bodine, but the latest advices from the other flyers indicated that both Smuggler and Fulier- ton wete badly out of shape, and not likely to come West. Mr. Mansur was undoubtedly right in think- ing that a race in which the Maid and Smuggler should cater and trot to win would be well patronized; and he is no lessright in saying that people would hardly come out to see anything less. Still the idea of the meeting has not been given up, and there is the shadow of 2 hope that it may come to pass after all. THE NEW PARK. The project for a new trotting-park near Chi- cago is advancing as rapidly as could be expect- ed underall the circumstances; but action in forming an association must_necessarily be de- layed until the return of the horsemen who are now in the East. Itis learned from several gentlemen who have arrived home this weel that the project of a new park and g grand fall meeting Tor Chicago meets with the great favor of all liorsemen, and that many of them bave expressed a preference to begin the season bere rather than at Cleveland. Thereis no doubt that the project will meet the approval and co- operation of the horsemen tlroughout the country. This being the last week of the Septilateral, we may reasonably hope to see the turfmen back here before the end of next week, and it i3 altogether likely that the preliminary steps to forming the association will be taken at a gen- eral meeting of turfmen, to be held about the middle of this month. LATE ARRIVALS. Among the stables which have lately come to Dexter Park is that controlled by Ashley Brothers, who have in training some stocks quite likely to be better known by trotting men in a season or two. They bave, ainong other good oues,the well-shaped sorrel gelding tudson,out of Volunteer, and half-brother to Bodine. e hes trotted several races this fall, and been lucky cnough to get off with a record of 2:45, though he will lower tiose rures considerably when usked, A pair of beautiful bay wres, each 7 years old, form no little attraction to tie stable.” They are called Lady M-Fatridge and Jennie Holton, and arc in perfect trim. - ‘Lue first is out of Woodford's Mambrino, and the second from Bockus' breeding. Their form and trim are creditable to Mr. Nelson, the veteran trainer, and Mr. Shears, who presides at the stables. Beside these oider trotters, the Ashleys have three attractive and well-bred colts which they are gesting into shape. They will malke several entries if there is 2 fall meeting at Dexter Park, and will also trot in oueor two classéz at Davenport and Gulesburg. TEN PER CENT ENTRANCE. From prescnt appearances it would seem that, after this season, the Trotting Associations which form what is known as “the Septilater- a), will return to the old system of 10 per cent entrance fecs, with no deductions in case & horse is drawn. Up to the present: season this was the in- variable rule all over the country, and wherever a change has been made the result has been, to say the lesst, uupleasant, and in many cases disastrous. Especially is this true of the associations at Rochester, Pough- keepsie, and Hartford, and as mutters now staud it is altogether probable that Springfield will be included in the iist of wounded, Here- tofore the associations composing the Septi- Iateral have had matters pretty much their own way, and when 2 move was made by them the small-fry tracks all over the country made haste to follow their lead, in the blind belief that such acourse_could not fafl of being attended with beneficial resuits. Last winter, when the repre- sentatives of the associations constituting the Septilateral held their aunual meeting for tae purpose of arranging pregrammes, etc., for the present season, the plan of maeking the entrance fee 10 per cent, balf forfeit in case a horse did mot start, was broached, and after some discussion adopted. It was thought that by omending the - former rule in this manner alarger nuinber of enti would be secured, thereby profiting the associ tions interested, and that the horsemen would «also save mouey in case, as often happens, their horses should be unable to start at any partico- lar meeting. The result has not been what was expected,and THe TRIBUNE is intormed on good authority.that the assodations at the Eastern end of the Scptilateral are feeling rather sick in consequence. i At the first three meetings, Cleveland, Buf- falo, and Rochester, the starters in every race were numerous and the assuciations reapod large profits, but the tracks at Utiea, Pongh- keepsie, and Hartford have suflered, and in races tuat at Cleveland and Buffalo commanded 2 large field of stariers but o begzarly arruy hasqsppeared. . The explanation” of this is semplicity itsell. At the beginning of ‘the sesspn 1 great many men who ownea fast horses decided o enthr them at all the Septilateral mectings, on account of the 5 per cent forfeit clause in the couditions, argu- jug that, in case the company was too fast for their lorses, they would lose but 2 small amount by withdrawing, ihen, if the entrance bad lcen 10 per cent, pay or play, these same men would have entered their horses at but two or three of the meetings. e A forcible illustration of the legitimate resalt of the Eg)cr cent plau was had at Hartford last Wednesday, when the 2:20 race was called, and two horses, Trio and Plauter, responded (o the Judges’ bell, and went through the farce of trot- ting around the track four times, Planter drop- ping_one heat, probably in order to better Gmilk” the pool-bux. The entries to this race numbered fourtcen, being about the same as at the other Septilateral meetings. The purse was $3,500, of which the Association saved §625, second and third money, by the appearance of but two horses. But it lost $1,500 by the failure of the other horses to start, on the supposition that all of them paid the 5 per cent forfeit, which is not atall likety. The audicnce also was disgusted by the sight of two horses engaged in a mock contest of spced, when the advertisement and programme of the dny contained as starters the names of fourteen horses. The saine condition of affairs existed to some. extent in the other races. Where a dozen were entered a quartet would start, and the merits of these were so well kuown that all interest in the race was lost. The ofticers of the Septilut- eral Assocations well know that the sceess of their wmeetings depends entircly on kecping, ailve the popular interest in them, and can plainly see that the cxhibitions at Poughkeepsic artford this year will militate greatly agaiust the success of these tracks in the fu- ture. There is but one remedy for this evil, and that is for all the assaciations to return to the old rule of 10 per cent entrance, with the addi- tion of enforciug the clause In the National As- soviation rules, that all nominations shall be accompanicd by the entrance money. This rale has never been enforced, from the Tact that un- til within a short time the associations, owing to the scarvity of trottingz-horses, have ina measure been bidding aguinst each other for entries, and none of thein liave had the courage to hve up to the rules for fear of offending and driving away from their tracks the very men whose assistance was necessary to their success. Now, ail this is changed. Trotting-horses are as plenty as grasshoppers in Kausas, and there is hardly a from the Dbloated an_in- this country, boudholder to the Poscy County bump- kin, but imagines that he has ‘s trotter of merit; one that is bound to win fame and fortune for its owner. Scures of th lunkhead trotters bave been entered in ra all oyer the couutry for some time, but it was unot until the present scason that they invaded the Septilateral. But they have done their work well, as the members of many an assp- ciation—as they gaze on the loug Jist of horses with highfalutin titles that were entered with so much pomp, but never paid the money—can testify. It cost these backwoods trotters noth- ing to enter. Their owners merely sent the names of their plugs to the diffcrent associa- tions, and then traveled to Cleveland. They paid their entrance-money there, aud went into a race. If tiey won anything they went to Buffalo, and if they didn’t tiey went aloug anyway, aud took ohie more shy at the races. Sowe of them got to Rochester, but there even the boldest of tie cornfield turfmen paused, and they went home “ by a larze majority.” The result of their inromls on the success of the Eastern mectiags has been given above, and a protection against a repetition of the perform- ance pointed out. Let it be adopted by all tracks belonging to the National Associution, and pext season, instead of beliulding a track full of hay-fed trotters and yahoo drivers, the majority of whom generally manage to rua into suine one before reaching the first turn, the public will sce a reasonably large field of gzood horses, and the associations will know where the money is coming from. THE LUCK OF TILE TURF. The good luck and bad luck of the turf are both mysterious at times, and partfcularly so in the speed of horses. Sowe of the best trotters have,no pedigrees worth speaking of, and were originally bought for s song, while horses with royal pedigrees have proved worthlesa brought 1o the !rg': The unse“.h?)? Diui: Swiveler, who won: the 2:2 race at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, t Tues~ day, i3 an illustration. In the fall of. 13 o young Boston man visiting his wife's relatives in Oneida County, New York, observed a farmer driving a pair of horses, and noticed that the young one, although laboring under an attack of the epizootic, had the points of a trotter. He looked him over and purchased him of the farmer for $230, took him to Boston, nursed him up and brought him out of the epizootic, and by sleighing time he was ready for the road. He was given 4 little practice owt on the Brighion road, and it was soon found that if the driver wanted to sce anvoody on the road he must look behind him. 'The horse attracted the at- tention of the knowing oues; and the young man 8oon bezan to get offers for him. Not be- ing ahlgto aiwn a high-priced animal, he finally sold a half interest s the horse for $500. Tho Lorse has been given nothing but road-work sinee, and was never in a race belore last week, yet, it i3 claimed, be can trot bis ‘mile, when pushed, in 2:18 with- out & skip or break. 'He is sired by Walkill Chief, the sire of Commoniwealth, the winner of the 3:24 race,—is of a remarkably pleasant disposition, and a_lady can_drive him ou the road at & 3:40 gait without pulling him o ound. Iis preseut owners were offered $5,000 for him before the race, but wouidn't look atit. He is & trotter without training, and is sure, withood luck, to niake abig record and bring a big price. SEND-OFFS, Ttis reported that Mr. Schulemberg, of St. Louls, owner of Little Fred, has withdrawn that horse from the charge of Morrill flighee. _The Nipper, owned by Al Hankins, of this city, is entered in the handicap sweepstakes for all'ages to be run at the Louisville fall mecting. He will have for opponents such good ones as Novity, Verdigris, Grit, aud Elemi. The premiums offered for competition for the first 1mecting of the Michigan Horse-Breeders' Association, Which is to be licld at Detroit, be- ginuing Sept. 11 and ending Sept. 15, amount 1o over $12.000. Of tnis sum $9,000 will he devoted to racing and trotting. Probably the most unlucky stable of the pres- cnt season was the one cditrolled by J. F. Mor- row, of Boston, of which John Trout is_driver. Qut of & string composed of Nettie Burlew, Georze A. Ayer, Banguo, and Frank Reeves, it has only been able to Start one horse, Recves, and le has succeeded iu winning 8250, The Pacific Coast, [:uoplt: have invented a way to trot yearlings. A race for that age will be trotted at Oakland Sept. 9 fur prizes of 330 and $30; mile heats; drivers to ride a runuing horse and lead the younysters by halter. If tnis thing keeps on we may cxpect to see mures trotied when with foal and the suminary made out to the unborn. The New York Sun says that Mr. Bonner's horse Grafton recently trotted a mile in 2:17% on a three-quarter-mile track. The fact that this was on & Erimlc trial ou a private track, and that Mr. Bouner keeps his lorses for his private use, and never allows them to trot in public, renlers all such announcements both doubtrul and uninteresting to the general horse- man. AQUATIC. THE INTERNATIONAL REGATTA. The rowing regatta at Philadelpbia, which has been so fully reported in “Tax TrisuxE from day to day during the past weels, - contained at least one unplgasaut feature for Chicago, the defeat of the Northwestern Club four by that of the London Rowing Club. The telegraphic reports were full of allasions to bad stecring, which was something very little expected of Curtis; but the New York and Philadelphia pa~ pers give more ntelligible accounts of that part. of the dufticulty. The New Yerk Herald explains it thus: A marked surprise for 2l who saw the etart was the number each were pulling, for both_crews had actually run it up, siiding seats and ail, clear to forty-four, aud were dasaiag onat & pace which kept the cloud of hiorses on tae towpath right down totheir mark all the way. But here showed a fatal error. Almost before they hud gone a minute Curtis instead, as he had feared, of crowding over toward the pole, and g0 fuuling Londom, was uctuaily flying off at a tangent, as if heading for the Eustern or outer ban, and the reason was obvious. Easily, the most powerful mun in the boat, nnless the fact be that he has not the staying ower of the others he should never have pulled ow. « Instead of casng himself, in his eageracss for the lead he was hauliug away too hard, and the port could not keep their side up. A lust e sces his danger and circles back to his piuce; but, closely 23 he stuck o his rival, and thougl he woulu not be shaken, he kept now pailiug out, now work- ing buck, and s0 putting little jogs wto his couree apd adding materially to nis mile and a half. eside his 12ulty steering one of Curlis’ crew, atthe quarter, caught u crab, und if Me. Kallorin had kept is eyes in the boat he would have saved at leaat one, if not two seconds by it; and in‘the next half. mil¢ they ectually catch anuther among them, and slucken aimost 1o a standstill. But London dash- ing reworscly on, sicering magnificentiy, bursts actoss the line in 8 minites 54 seconds, only & seconds ahead of the best erew Americs could olfer to meet berina race for the championship of the world. Had the track been alike for both, and had the two steered equaily weil, it would have been a dead heat, or the W esiern men would have won the race; bat, on one condition—pawiely, that London had done her best and hence could Iet out no recf. 1f on general principles this is unlikels, one thing ‘aocs still point to it, for if uOLnow came she, far down on the bomesweich, 10 slacken her siroke till it was oarely 0¥ The strangest part of the whole regatta was, howerver, the curious victory waich made the Beaverwycks champions of the world by defeat- ing the London Club. Coucerning this unlook- ed-for endiug to the regatta, tbe Now York Tribune say: 4 One surprising thing is that this race, which makes the winners the amateur champlons of the sworld, was won by a crew which hias been beaten over and over by many of the clubs which 1t has Deaten on this very rce without meeting them. it scems un anomaly that a crew should beat others Dy goine slower tlan thes o, but that is the fact in {his case. The winning time of the Beaverwycks which gave them the Chumpionsnip to-day hus been bestcn in the couree of Ll very race by which they have wou the championship, twice by Yale, twice by the Northwesterns, and fwice by the Lou- doners, Had the crews ‘which went over the course in the quiciest time beeu cliosen for the final heat, it would have been Yale, Northwestern, and the London Clnb. 1t seems strange that the Beaverwycks, who won to-day should have done so in 133 scconds slower time than Yale made yester- day, and 63 seconds poorer time than Northwest- ern'made yesterday; and, if the English say that we have mot besten their best crew, we can be pretty safein saying thut it was not our besi crew toat beat them. One of the 1ost uncomfortable surprises in this surprising affair was experienced by the betting men. Ph.adelphia is fresh at regattas; old bands do mot bet onthem; they are 100 uncertain. No points are trustworthy;but here the London men were backed in the pool at 100 to 2 azainst tie Beaverwycka lo aconsiderable extent, witls calumitous results. OTHER SPORTS. BILLIARDS. The deadest unburied thing in Chicago is the game of billiards, considered as a public sport. Some of the rooms are doing well enough, but no matches are made or thought of. Frank Parker bas left for Detroit, and Rhines smiles over his bar. Match-playing may, If the experts elect, die out in Chicago, but there is one thing that myst be attcnded to first, and that is the disposition of the Burleigh-Shaw sell- out. Probably hardly more than z dozen men in Chicago remember the match at'all, and a still smaller number are aware that a meeting of the Northwestern and Southwest- ern Billiard Congress was held here, and that it adjourned for thirty days. After that the record jsablank. This last mecting was in April or thereabouts. It seems quite proper that Mr. M. Bensinger, who has the matter in hand, should take sume action before the members of the Cougress and those bolding proxies all die or remove from the city. NEWV SPORTING PAPER. A well-appearing sporting paper called the Pacific Coast Life has made its appearance berc, and its ability and the quantity of news furnish- ed entitle it to rank with almost any Eastern perivdical in the sporting way. i bl THE WEATHER, WasmneroN D. C., Sept. 8,1 2. m.—For the Upper Lake Reglon, southerly winds, warmer, partly cloudy westher, and fulling barometer. LOCAL OBSBRVATIONE, » CuicAGo, Sept.2 R iieather Tame. . Thr Hu. p. m. 30,07 0. 1. [32.07] : 10:18 Maximum ther a0 nater. 673 MIbau - GENERAL OBSERVATII Cuicago, Sept. Thr. Wind. Bar. Stations. Rorhesiod -.o..i30.03) Tohatlo . o oihas 30,07 LOCAL CRIME. A Colored Man Murdersthe Wrong Individual. ; Another Version of “ A New Way to Pay Old Debts.” A Husband Attempts to Cut His Wiie's Throat in the Strest. Miss De Covro’s Assailant Held to the Criminal Court. ALL A MISTAKE. KILLING THE WRONG MAN, Another murder was last evening added to the already long list of similar crimes. This time, however, the white folks are outdone by the colored,—the first {nstance of the crime of murder among that class of citizens since the Perteet tragedy. The facts of the affair are but meagre, and the participants lowly and on- important persons, hence but little excitement will be occasioned by taé affair, and even this little will not be enhanced by the fact that the murdered man was not the one selected to suf- fer the murderer's vengeance, but & poor, inof- Tensive colored man, who threw himself in the Way of the bullet to save a human being. THE MURDERER i a young colored man of stylish habits, named Albert Curtis Swith. He has borne a goud and peaceable reputation until within the past two weeks, when he was caught plundering bis for- mer employers, Messrs. Barcts & Btern, No. 84 Jackson street, of about $60 worth of wines. For this crime he was bound over to the Crimi- nal Lourt in $300 Lail, in defgult of which he ilngered for a time in jail. Tuesday last be ob- tained a release on 2 bond given for his appear- ance by Dan Webster, of “Biler” avenue, the rofessional bailer of the colored population. Rotn ohE oL & 3ithation, and having & para- Irzed_ wife at home troubled with the care of wo children, Smith yiclded to his misfortunes and took to drink. While upon these sprees he remembered all his “old feuds, aud . determined to settle them with the least possivle trouble to himself. One in particulur, With a fan named Perry Hersey, employed as a bartender in Reuben Smith’s % Palace ” saloon, at 129 Fourth avenue, troubled im most. About Lwo months ago Hersey Licked him out of the place, and threatened to brain him if he ever showed himself in that vi- cinity again. ‘The reason for this summary con- duct is illeged by Curtis tohave beeh the i nations of Mamie Brooks, a white prostitute Living over the saloun. Smith did sowe small favors for one of the inmates named Mamie, therebyincurring the enmity of the proprictress, who ultimately refused lim entrance to the house. Hersey took her side and battled for it as best he koew. Yesterday afternoon Smith called into the saloun, as he says with a view of settlement, but, aceording to Herscy, merely for the pur- P pase of KICKING UP A DISTURZANCE. Hersey put him out, and, upen reaching the sidewalk, was greeted with a_voliey of abuse. The neighoors threatened to have thie disturber arrested; when, by way of indicating his **bad " iabits to any who might wish to attack him, ke crussed the strect with a bravado air, and tired of his revolver nto the ground. Nothing further was seen of him until last evening, when he returned to Brook’s louse, and eu- ticed two of the girls to accompa.y him into the saloon for some refreshments. “This time, as he himself acknowledges, NE MEANT BUSINESS, should he again be assaulted. He had no sooner entered than Hersey, jumping over the bar, threwa chair full at ius head. "Smith re- treated to the sidewalk, closely followed by an immense walking-stick, of 2 character and weight that ought_certaialy to include it in the catalogue of deadly weapons. Smith claims to bave been felled to the earth, and stunned by the cudgel, but those who witnessed the affair claim that it went beyond him into the road- way. Swmith then drew his reyolver, a small- bore Eureka, and fired. The first shot went iuto the saloom, but failed to nit Hersey, hereapon Smith again fired, and, as he did sd, - GEOIGE GLINN, ° employed as cook in Mamic Brooks' house, stepped to the door to ascertain the cause of the uisturbauce, and received the bullet full in the right breast. He was carried into the sa- loon, and was thence started to the County Hospital, but died before guing half way. Smith stopped long enough to see what damage De had done, and to whou, aud was then Torced to retreat from a crowd that would probably bave lynened him had they been permitted, and yet, this same crowd suddenly turned upon the police after the arrest had besn made, and would have done scrious dumage with bricks aud stomes had not reinforcements arrived. Swmith ran through a vacant ot to Dearborn street, and thence south to Polk, and was cap- tured by Officer Amstein, the revolver and g razor still in his hands. "This story of the shootingis substantially that of the prisoner himself, corroborated by several witnesses, but there are those who assert that the Lillings of Glynn was premeditated and ma- Ticious, and._thai Smith owed hima grudge, us well as vo Hersey. “The murdered man was shot through the rizht breast about 2+inches above the nipple. He was abous 30 years of age, unmarried, and is not known to heve any relatives or triends in this city. The body is at the Morgue to await an in- quest, which will be held to-day. Smith is 38 years of age, and not at alla murderous-lagking feliow. He s a vife and two children' in comfortable circumstances re- siding 8t No. 8% West Adams street. Yester- day’s sprec was the last he calculated having for some time (and such it will prove to be), as he intended to go to work as cook in_Walton’s restaurant on Washington street. He speaks of the shooting freely, and with the deepest concern for his fate, but strenuously denies that hein any way tried to kill the deceased, but Tather the man Hersev, who had offended him. ITUSBAND AND WIFE., THROAT.CCTTING IN PUBLIC. Considerable excitement was occasioned last evening at 7 o’clock, in the vicinity of Wabash avenue and Twentieth street, by a quarrel be- tween a man and his wife upon the sidewalk in front of No. 806 Wabasn avenue, and the excite- ment was still farther increased by the dastard drawing a razor and attempting to cut his wife’s throat from ear to ear. The brute who made this cowardly and altogether unwarrantable at- tack-upon an inoffensive woman bears the name of Michael Leary, and has recently earncd only a meagre subsistence by working on the railroad uear Lombard, in this State. His wife, Sarah, left him about a year ago, after & short season of married . Lliss, because of his ruflianly conduct towards lier, und because of reports about his having an- other wife in some Eastern city. For the past seven maonths she has been_living as a servant giriat the boarding-house, No. $25 Wabash ave- uue, where she bas - been valued for her faitnful and unassuming conduct. Leary returned to this city a few days ago, and hus since been trying to drink wore liquor than usually falls to the lot of any one buman being. Suturated with drink, he called Jast evening ut the house where his wite was [iving, and requested an interview with her, which she readily accorded. The two took a walk down the street, and when in front of No. 808 Waubaah aveuue he turned upon her, caled her foil numes, and, nut_content witn this sort of abuse, draw a razor from his _vest-pocketfand - slasiied ber across herthroat. She saw the blow cuming and partially averted it, 50 the weapon merely gashed the cheek and throat on the left side of the head, fnflicting a wound about 3 inches long. It bled protusely, and by many it ‘was thougat that she was beyond recovery, and, true to the common custom, not one of them made an effort to stop the murderer. The ‘woman was taken to her home aud was attended by Dr. MeWilliams, who prononneed the injury not dangerous. Mrs. Leary Is a sister of the wite of J. C an, a livery-stable keeper on Wavash avlnue pear Harrison street, and thitirer she will be removed to-day. Leary has thus far myanaged to keep beyond the clutches of the police, but can hardly” suc- ceed in doing so much longer, owing to in- curiated condition. % RAPE. HELD TO THE CRIMINAL COURT. The switchmau Daniel Mahoney was arraigned before Justice Summwmerfield, at the Armory, yesterday afternoon, upon the complaiut of Aimee de Cuvio, who charged him with assault with attempt to commit 2 rape. The alleged assault took place in a car near the Baltimore & Ohio depot 3 week ago yesterday eveaing, and the statement of the young lady regarding it lias already been published in Ta TRIBGNE. She was the only wituess for the prosecation, sud told ber stery in modzat was. * Charles T. Guyer, concealing some things on account of their indecency, and thus showing 3 consideration for the accused which, if euilty, he did not deserve. Sue conducted lerself throyghout in & ladylike mauner, and made 2 very favorable impression upon the court, Chanceilor Trude represented the prisoner, and asked the complunant a great many im. pertinent questions, some of which she declined to answer. He introduced testimoey to shuw thut the defendant could not have bgen in the car for the lengch of time, and as often as, the complainant said he was, and Mahoney himsell swore that be never saw her until last Thursday when she vcamo to the weigh-house, uesr where he was working, and made Some inquiries about 3 boot-black. “his was the dsy when she weat witha policeman to see it she could Identity she man who assaulted ber. Mr. Trude claimed that the complainant was endeavoring to cover up something by prose- cuting Mahoney,~that, while she was not a blackmailer, she was endeavoring to gain noto- riety. No traverse jury would commit ou her unsupported testimony. - The Justive said there was no doubt fa his mind that an assault had been committed upon her. He did not believe she was seeking uotu- ricty. In his expericuce of twelve y he had never seen a wituess who was so reluctant to give facts which would reflect serivusly tpon defendant. Sho had identitied Maboney us the man who conunitted the ofense. and i was true that he was employed in that vicinity Sat- urday night. The witnesses for the defease had not rendered her statement improbasle. It was possible for Mahoney ©> have done what was alleged, and still attcuded to his work and be seen by the'men. Lo would consides thut he was disgracing the position b vceapid I b discharged the defendunt after hearinz the tes- timony of this bunest girl. He suoild theree fore huld the prisauer in 31,500 bail to appear st the Criminal Court. Tt_should also L stated that the young lady has 2 letter from Canon Kuowles, of the Cathic- dral of S3, Peter and Paul, corumending her a3 a commuaicaut of the Episcopal Churea. The aceused, Mahoncy, is an ex-buckuman, and has been arrested several times for genera) cursedness. PROBABLE MURDER. A BUSBAND SHOOTS LIS WITE. And still they come. The last tweal, hours of the weck, already replete with mutder and murderous assaults, received a fisting climax in a report which came at o late hour last night from the Chivagu Avenue Station, containing the particulars of what way prove an uxoricide. Tie affzir trinspired at widnight Friday in a low huovel on Grand avenue, 3 the Boulevard, 2 pluce so fliag ¢ mote police did not hear of it day afternoon. In this el Tived negro named Andy Cliford and his paramour, 3 white woman named Ann Callaghag, whose hits- band, Matthew, descrted her about a_vear azo. Matthew has been having a time in California, and, returniug home Fraday, was 5o enraged finding his wite untrue to him, aud living witn another man, that, after a short_quarrel, he drew his revolver und shot her. Tue ball en- tered the mouth, its course being only partially impeded by the teeth, leaving it sufficient force 29 lodge in the throut beyoud reach or extrac- ion. Upon hearing tte particulars of the affalr last evening, Oflicers Kerr and Smith, of the West Chicago Avenue Station, started out fn pursuit of Callagghan, and shortly before miduigit sut- ceeded in linding him. ‘The woman is represented as being in u critival coudstion, bug exuctly what that mcans could fim be ascertained owing to the Iateucss of the our. + ITEMS. of No. 620 Clark street, was before Commissioner Hoyne yesterday, charged with neglecting to take out & special Li- cense as a wholesale liquor dealer. Harry Jennings for larceny as bailee of 2 sum of moticy trom G. W. Brock, doing Lusiness at the coreer of Stute aud Wasningion streets, wus yesterday beld in §300 bail to the Criminal Court by Justice Summerfield. Justice Summerfield amused himself yes! day morning by seuding vagrants and inma of houses of fll-fame to the House of Correctivn. Annic Brown, David Brown, Adam J Frank McAllister, Emma Smith, Maggic W Annie Macauley, James Davis, Stephen Lawlosr, Mary Iitter, Louis G. Malone, Rickard Brown, Joun Orr, Mary Merritt, Lenry Millington, John Joinson, and Thowmas Browa, eaca went oat on 4 thirty-day ten. SCHOOL-BPOKS. 8 The Reductlon in Price. From g circular just seut to the Principals of the Public Schools by the Presilent of the Board of Education, thie following extracts are made: Your attention Is ealled to the action of the Rourd of Educaiion relating 1o text books, taken ‘Aug. 24, 1876, and found below. he followins 18 the resolution referred to: Resolted, That all books authorfzed W be used fn the actiools shall be furnishied by the publiers to the Principals fereat schools, at tie wiole-al Tatcs ugreed upon by the DOATl, and that sald Sra Cipain siall sell thc sa3e 10 the paplls At suen wholesate prices, and retura the procezds Lo sugh publisters or s ageuts; prozide hist this i shall fa no case le for any luss ai I thercby. You will plese give notice to the pupils of your respective echouls thas, if they sodesire, they can obtain from you the test-books required ut the the following Tates, which are 20 percent beiow publishers’ rétail prices: In order to show the reductien, the compara- tive prices of sowe of the books are given of the dif Publieners’® Prices by relail prices. Principuls, Analytical Speller. 3 25 $ Lo odel First lteader. 40 ‘Analytieal Second Reader’ 43 Analytical Fifth Reader. 123 Anderson's History of the United States. eer aeeee L20 80 Warren's Common School Geog- raphy .. ceve soes.... LBS 1.51 Monteith's Eiementary Geogra- 3 Bh 80 [ Q«. er's Primary Arithinetic a5 28 Vebster's Common School tionary. b w5 50 Graded Singer, § b Heidner's Practi Course.. 80 Zimmerma ture, Part . &0 Payeon, Dunt Copy Baoks, large 10 8 Payson, Dunton & S % Copy Dooks, Primary. s You will please uotify ipils that this rangement is intended only to secure them their ‘books at a reduction of 20 per cent from full retall rates, as heretufore paldhnnd that if they can pur- chzse at lesy rates than the rutes givenabove, from any dealers, they will be expected to avail them- ae{vu of the privilege. You will st apart an hour once or twice cach week when books,can be obtained of yoa,—you will deliver books only upon receipt of the price given above, and will pay over to the publishers or their agents the money received for books sold. “This will insure for parents a reduction of 20 pey cent from fornier rates, and if the retailers come down, as they undoubtedly will, they will still make a proiit of 13 per cent. It has taken MMr. Richberg and his co-laborers s couple of years’ steady fighting to sccure the adoptiva of this plan. e eT——— THE COAL TRADE. NEw Yous, Sept, 2.—The Pennsylvania Coal Company has issucd a circular giving the follow- ing as the prices of_conl during September: Litmp coal, per ton, $3.10; steamer coal, per ton, $4.10; grate coal, per ton, $3.56; ¢g¢ caal, per ton, $3.85; stove coal, ver ton, $4; chestout, coal, per ton, 38.60, HazLETON, Pa., Sept. 2.—The coal operators of the Lehigh region have devided work should coutinue on the foilowing terms: Miners and other inside hands will be pad prices based on the average price of coal or buard vessels at Perth_Amboy, South Amboy, or Hobokes, and, with the prices of coal as fixed for September, their wages will be reduced about: 15 per cent. Allengiueers, bosses, firemen, and vutside hands, will bereduced from 10t0 20 per cent. The Lehigh Valloy Railroad Company make a reductlon tolls or freights fromn the wines to Penn Haven. ‘The only reduction i3 in tolls between Penn Haven and Perth Amboy. The rate now fixed for September is $1.33 per ton. ‘The men ac- cept the terma ) e ——— WASHINGTON ITEMS. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C.; Sept. 2.—In the appeal case of the L‘hknil, Rock fsland & Pacific Kail- road against A. L. Bell, who improved sowme land belonging to the railroad and desired to enter fv as a homestead, the Secrctary of the Interior bas given a dedsion in favor of ths 2. Cumpany, on the ground that t' title to the lands in question was not wres from the Railroad Comnpany by the act of f-av. gress relied upon by Beil. One hundred and twenty-four clerks )P the 500 employed in the War Denarti=® ¥ its vanous bureaus were to-day dis.] account of the recent action of Cgy Qering a reduction in the derival {Eemm— departments. e — YELLOW FEVER. Savaxyam, Sept. 2.—~The Col gives notice that no {nterruption business has occurred or is ECTACLES through the present sickness. SAVANNAL Gu., Sept. S—Newat MANASSE'S, oy SaY Mz‘xi G,y EX \ew'B.