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

THE CHICAGO ! n earnat questions of the day. SULLIVARN. ‘lamto pieY con, taa, In presum= A are nistaken, too, In p gome of 110 A0 A es 10 explrience an n public ot M nows how b apeak, as woll ns what ppeaker. 10 MY ” 2 ery ate moting fctinyler agatnet ‘e derman P oz atr. Gldutons holer, b tioe o the lurks I Bulirls aro L Hiockine thantie hrutalities of the o th Ceutral Avia. B chard rant Wiite was expeeied to pro- A, e inceting of the now Shaknpeate toclety et e o 1ath It 4nd to defend hle pub- inLondeh U0of the rocond and third parts of Ll V1. and thelr orlgiants. i Morley adviscn woekingmen o tuly D v e sako of tho aurcenblences of French Feenel or i reminde oncof the consclentious Hersture, o n Wi attened Almeo's performe by o otler to Increaso bl lingulstle aftain- ments ™ bric) paldi jor of ‘*Merey Pull- Chofce"—the New England novel recently hed—cannot e enfiicicntly admlred. o hahe) firet descelbee the herolie a8 & poct of ex- O dluary powere, anil then proceeds Lo give speimens of her verslfcation. ‘The Rev. Jornph Cook has ennnclated an one of ytopolitical prirciples hila resolntion ot to vote for sny man o8 Congressinan whom he can not invite inner, From thia poxition [tiean casy advance mnne ‘le not to Invlte to dinner & man for whom ‘num notvoted. ‘'hiers nceld be uu want of ::c!lfl under the laiter szatem. pbyalcians of Cincinnat! propase to dincuss m" the merits and demerita of vopor bathe, ,.;:sar them who has ueed the haths and recom- mended them to othcra for fifty years may ba sup. "l tohare fomething more than scientific fns PoeetIn the subject, whilo [ Tly own person und hiscighly years he prescnts a strong argament fn elr (av0%s ' m'nu teaven-born and athier poets will be glad to xnow 1hat 8 nesw ehyming dictionary ts projected, and that it fe o be on an cnlarged and {mnroved Jan. T8 to Lo very comprehiensive, including alithe outre thymes of Browning and Byron, and many more_which have nover heforo sppeared. The effct of this volumie will bo to reduca atill further the price of the divine afilatue, ko that only the baseet of mankind can afford to be without it The Appletons hiave the book 1n press. The Boston papers contain reporta of an experi- snent In conversation over telegraplt wires recently madeat the ofiice of the Walworth Manufacturing Company. The wire used was about two miles in Tength, The principles of the telephone were ane plled, and worda apoken at Boston wero distiuctly Desrd at Cambridgeport. With more delicate ap- parstusand o better understanding of the conili- {lons necesrary to succeee, It Is believed that con- yeisallons may be carrled on over long distancee. In connection withi therecent stock-jobbing re- port of the deatls of Commodore Vanderbilt, it fu fnterestingto read how a imilar offenke was pun- {shed In England eixty years ago. The atory is told by Mr, Townsend in the Graphic. The of- fender was Lord Cochrane, 1o sproad sbrond a filie report of the denth of Donaparte, o wns seatto Newgato for one year, exposed in tho pll- lory, and expelled from Parllament, Tor twenty- fire years afterwards he wan a vagabond on the face of the earth, sndd all bis romautic galluntry in Greece, Chill, and Brazil could not soften the Dritish heart, The new editfon of Lanman's Blographical An- nals contalns an account of Rutherford B. lInyes public life, which neema to have been of somo sery- ice 1o London, The journals of that city wero lsposed at first to accept ns true the commun and erroncons statement that Mr. layea was compora- tisely naknown before his nomination; but, since reading Lanman, they have formed the opinion not oanly that Tayes was widely Luown, but that he wasfavorably known. The dcademy, In perticne 1ar,inds the conclee blography of Lanman a capital 'record,” and & valuable one, hecause 1t wascom- piled before the nomination was dreamed of, ' AnEnglish visltor to the Centenninl hns written ‘home anaccount of his ndventures at a watering- place botel, and reema to delight particularly In the facllity In mnking ncqualntances which he found at them. Ife tells how a fricnd appronched ayoung lady, explained fhat ho was an Englleh- man, far from home, loncly, desolate, and slow, #nd forthwith obtalned ler g8 & partner in the dance. But this exposure of the wont of cero- mony In Amerfcan socicty Nns lta compensutione. While tho English may marvelat the simplicity and good-nsture of American ladics, we may admiro In the same way the audaclty ana Ill-brevding of En- givh gentleinen, The monament to Dr. John Witherspoon, the Presbyterlan signer of the Decloration of Inde- endence, was unvelled In Falemount Park, Phile delphia, on Thursdny last. ‘Mo mtatue s of bronze, eolosral sfzo, and cost $18,000. Wither- spoon wea the only clergyman {n the Conti- neatal Congress. One of his notable utterances there wos the followlng: **Far my own part, of property I have some, of reputation more; that Teputation I staked, that property fs pledged, on the lssuo of this contest, Aud, nlthough there £rey hairs must soon descend into the sepulchre, I would fufinitely rather that they rhould descend thither by the hand of the executioner than desert &t thly cristy tho ancred cause of iy country, ™ M. deSt, Beuve's crime has hoen exuvosed—afler death, itis true, so that tho conmurc of o Justly- fndignant world can no longer uffect his own man- vere, but atill eoon enough to serve s nn awful waming to the ristng generation, It appears that Widle dintog with tho late Emperor Napoleon hio Faa convlcted of elght offenses synlnat table-eti- Quette. The most monstrous of these wan the un- folding of hs wipkin completely nnd the epread- {ugof It across Loth knews. ‘Thig urranjtement of :ln;n tndieated w vulgar solicitude for his trougers .nm:nm;;u;.zmd nfr kravy sitogether unworthy of Joveen of Nonor. Tho accomplishad Lon vicant vesand respects gravy—loves auil rewpocts it s0 1“0;‘. fndeed, that ho never drapa 1t In his lap, but n’:(::em::‘\]h‘ for which It wan dewlgned by Gad, < 80 the cook. To show any apprelen- andacity of the antl 5ol of gravy, thore Moo thercfure, 12 ot oucs to betrny conlees ta the world that oue i . Th oter offensed of St. Beuve hxa chiranfcles of tho Munter of tho followlng: 110 owitted to :\:‘lh.(’lm shielly of two boiled egos which ho had s s daked for a socond rervice of chickons “m‘.clmd tha bones of the chicken with his auls; Yo o **thank you * to une of the werv- Mg o a8 knita and fork an the cloth, - lly ooy Tyt plato; o pecled a pea lattuitin- i0g fagy o JONsUtudIBalLy, and otfered hulf of herninagyated next o hm : und, worat of all, of thgge 0% Ua wino liclore defuking it It nano 5t 1L will bo admitted, woy so abeolutely "8 bl queiling betore pravy, HOTEL ANRIVALS, &Imm House—. Vunw, 1, Tiovis, M. Uturbe, ] avinon, wnd A, Wallot, Mexi s Orlenna; A, Vittedlt und ays W I Tarmer, How 3 erany; the e plevetbing, Santo to, Hreck, G I)'h,‘g:lunl(l b1, Kloes 5050 G Jeileey Malene, 1 Ria, xmi A Gutt, Wi lur- Y ne, 3 . iahbuc, Jehnedsun: Sy o nunn, Sinlth Mitwaukees tho ax, South fiend; U, C, Kli- i e Bon, £, Campbet), Colf irand Tayidy: ki i, .ol Hoston: Senor l,:::n l{u’n‘rm Edwardson _ Deducin, ssdlerman flouse—The Hons 3, ¥, Johnwon, Ve Sl G, You et dndiond v i, .18 oS 0 i e oo Kl i ¢ THE W/, Yasmxarow, /c,, offig-nl' wm. i “F:filmh .{:“:,'; \ohromeler Kouthyvest Lo ) onunry or falliy - 50 patly cloudy weatper, 5 O LOCAL OBSEBVATIONS, Fanl; Call Itaworth, A, Morrls, oy Cad- Cune 3 the For the er, rnicier, I Gy A gy 10 Cusaaao, O | T Ty Wi, i, A Doy Dovoted to Arguments Guly., Col. Van Arman States the COase for the Proscention, Ho Denounces the Defendant as a Cold-Blooded Murderer, And Depicts the Blighted Hopes and Ruined Homo He Cnused. A Comparison of the Dead Man aund of His Slayer. An Appezl to the Jury to Do Their Duty to the Community, Mr. Moran Begius the Talking on Belinlf of the Defense. And Makos o Forvid Arpeal in Belhalf of Hin Cliont. COI, VAN ARMAN. OPENING FOR THE PROSECUTION. The arguments in the case of Alexander Sulli- van were begun In the Criminal Court yesterday morning in the prerence of the largest assem- Dlage which has yet been drawn together by the trial. There were nearly 200 ladles present, and the men, belng drlven from the seats heretolore occupied by them, hung on to the gallery rail- ingaand atood on the backs of the Lenches. Buch enger, interested people, aud so many of them, bad never guthered In o Court-1louse In Chicago lefore to wateh any ecmse. Mra. Sullivan was seated beside her kusband all day, and the two were of course the centro of nttrace tlon. Doth wept during Mr. Moran's address, and not u few among the ladies were moved to tears when he talked obout a Nttle boy clinging 1o Sullivan's neek and kissing Wi as indications of contidence in his *‘ hwinane and lovely chare acter,” Mrs, Ianford was present durlug the morning, aud she, 100, trembled with ngitation, and crled when refercuce was made to the scencs of the tragedy and tho consequent mis- ery and loncliness of the decensed'’s family., Mr. Van Arman opened for the prosceution, and spoke substantially as follows: The duty of a juror was in all cascs an Im- portant oue. It was only In the freest of coun- trics, where the people Were recognized as bring the most lighly intelligent, that the oflice of udininlstering justico was vested in the citlzens; und wherever that was the case it ought to hoe regarded (and e belleved it was by all intelli- gent men) o8 the very highest duty of the citizen, nnd one which demanded the highest nnd best qualities of liend and leart; and where the citizen was called upon to adminfeter the Inw In a ease liko this involving on the ong slde the peace and safety and pood ovder of soclety, nud on tho ather the life or lberty of a citlzon, it ruse to its very highest possiblo point. It was then that o jiver hecame eimn- phatieally o judge, and required the intelligenee, the loyalty and high honor, the candor and fm- partinllvy of u judge, so that he might upon the one” hand carcfully conserve the laws and necessary lbertics - of the people, and upon the other hand guard vigilantly snd anxiously the rights of the nccused. In order 10 bind this duty more forciby upon the con- selence of the juror the lnw had wisely brought to nlltho other couslderations that enforeed this high duty the sanctions of relfgion, sud had re- gu red the jurer, before taking upon himself he mostresponsible of ¢l oflices, that he shonld swear {n the presence of lis Maker that he would exceuto that oflice honestly, falthfully, loyally, und according to the very best of hls intelligence. NOTIHING COULD BE SIMPLER or more casily compreliended thun this case. There was nothing complicated, nothing diit- cult, nothing that required nnyliflnu more than the most ordinary intelligence to perfectly com- prehiend both the law applicable 1o 1t and the factslvvelved. The criminal law, especlally in the country, wis extremely elmple. e ventured to say that the wholé mass of well-Informed citizens In nearly every portion of the United States, especlally In the more Intelligent p tions, where we had the good fortune to Hve, were sufllclently acquainted with all the genernl princlples of the erhningl law 1o be able to decide such o question as was before the Jury just about as well as uny lnu'?'cr inthe State, "It was tho good fortune of the prople that they were thus able to thoroughly under- stand and mxnnlc(ulf’ comprehiend the common and ordinary and dally vights amd privileges of the citizen. Otherwise, they would scarcely know bow to avold belug entangled o o mens- ure in the criminal law. No such ditliculty, lowever, arose with any muan of orditury - tellzence. Before proceeding with the argument of the ease, there were e things which counsel for the defense (Swett) had seen fit to deduce In his nremng of the cuse, which it was necessary for Iim to nllude to simply for the purpose of en- deavoring to dismiss them from thelr minde, becauso they had no sort of yelevaney to the case, Allualon had been made to the MANNEN IN WIHCIH THIE JULY WAR SELECTED, a8 though he (Swett) had some fault to find with the fury that was uitimatcly obtalned. The mode of feleeting jurors in eriininal cases, a3 in ol others, wag fixed by bayv, ‘They bad been selected n precisely “the manner the statute required. [fundteds of men wers bromzhit In, wimonzst them gompe of the most inteHlgent citizens fn tho vity, ~ Men of ail elass- e¥, of sl nationalities, of every coneeivable hMnd and deseription,were dismifssed heeauso they had Toried and expressed sonie kind of an_opialon ahout the etsey,—siich an oplnlon as in the cyes of the Court disqualified them, At Iast they were releeted, und with the seleetion the prosc- cution was entirely content, 1t the defendunt was satistled, it seemed to him that ought to be the end of that guestlon. But, supyo: counsel for detendunt did think, as “w ureed, that there was some unfalrness jn the se- Teetion of the jury In this ease, could the jury remedvitd Wero they fmpuneled to try that questiont They would see ut w glance that the Iasno they werosworn to try was o totally dif- ferent one, They were swarn to try the “quens tion whether the'defendunt, uceused of the ters rible erlne of murder, was gullty or not, and that was the uniy ({uwlthm far Lhem to try, Counsel fur u‘ d rm-nsu bad also given an fn- 1t ol i vanIous CUTIONS THAT MAD OCCURRED O ACCOUNT OI CIIISTIANITY, He (Swett) had sald that one Bervetus had been buraed at the stake i a most horriblo munner by u M. Calvin, Tl took the gentteman’s word for i hut of it What had_they to do with ite They didn’t burn biw. He did’t barn Bhw. DRLIt ald them In- dotermintng tho guilt ot junocence of the uccused! Other persecu- tions, i (Swett) sulid, had occurred on scconnt of rellgion. o had fead of some. terrible per- seentions, bul what of it Why waus that brought in hevel Were wo_laboring under re- tglous persecutionsi In the early’ history of the country there weree some, but since we biad had the good furtune to govern ourselves such o thing as reffeious persccution had bevome ul- solutely impossible. A mun might e o Mo- hamedan, or,worse yet, un nfided, belleving In nelther God nor fuiurlty, yet No wus iree to walk the streets, “to' transact busj- nees, und enjoy the benefits of onr ree Government. The best Christians in tho Iand could not molest or Iuterfero with Lim, \vas it contended that thero was persccution fn this cosaf Was it contendedthat the defendant had nuvlhhqr' to feur from religlous blgotry on tha part of the Juryt It his recollection served him right, the “unly men on the fury who had any religlon worth speaking of were” Catholies, and he didn't Lelieve they had enough to da thew any speclal harm, Ho belleved they were not & remurknbly religlons jury, but hoped they 3 teresting o wera better than they had ggdvén thenisclves out to Le. Probubly, although members of no churclics, they were all good Chirdstiaus, for o mun could by as good o Chirlstlan ws there way I the world without betonging to a ehureh, What had tho terms Proteatant and Catholic to do with the question before thew, or with thelr determiuntion of §t7 Was it pretended that t was beenuse the defendant wus o Catholie that he had been accused of the offensol DId counsel pretend to eay that a terrible Lragedy like this ought not to bave been investigated; that the defendont ought not to have been tricd ¢ Counsel scvned to think 6o, 1lu trusted the jury would thiuk otherwise, TIE 1SSUR BEFORR TIEM was sfagle aud shuple, 1t was whether the de« fendunt was gullty or fnnocent; und they wers bouad b{ the highest obligution that man awed to his fellow-man, to hls country or his God, to try it not by what was said at tne bar, ot by Intlmatlons wmude from ,witbout, but upon the sWorn testimony detlyered fu thelr presence. ta dwelt upon was that the de- One of he pu fendunt was n MAN OF 8 8 man ol such whili)i O EMINGNT LEARNING, cultisre, uf xied tild, amlahle, tentper and dispealtlone—had hecome rhingte cresmstees 1w which Tl theronzhly eubtivated ntal wevine a3 inurder wi ibllity, 16 had becu urged soer slrondy the elrenmntan 1 10 heay mrstngt, him, 1 v 3 0 conclusive suswer that, ha conld not Le ity of the offense charged, Waa that trug Inpointof fwctd He bad no intentlon to ndant any Infustice. God knew Tie had no feelinge that wnr‘ He freely admltted, and ft (znvu Tk iereat piensure Lo do so, as ho helleved it 1o be true, that the def up to the Limo of the hombclde was Liizhly 1~ itable to hfin. Bullivau was not an © Trfsh wen- tleman ' o any such sense ns they understond the tevm, He was no more att Irdstinian than he ‘&Im apeaker) was a Dutehmnn, He was horn i this eountry, aud was an American, and therefore there was not the sllzntest oceasfon ta talk shout nationalitics. e ndmitted that the effeet of cducation, of calture, was to re- fine aud clevate the mind, Lo fimprove its pow- erg, and also had the effict to jmprove the leart nnd consclence, and all the moral quali- ties of the man, There was o cluss of homicldes perpetrated almost exclusively by endant’s life men of high chareter, Homicides perpetrateil on points of honor, fu vindicetion of character, were perpetrated by nien who possersed eharae- ter and calture, and high and delieate: and sensi- tive feclings,—perpetrited from o fnlke sense of lionor, by en who feld themselves above ordinary people, und unwilling to submit to what ordinary prople submit to, and whe re- sorted to what they called gelf-defense. They did not geek the remedy the law gave them, hut they nssumed Lo be the Jadge of thelr own wrong and to exeente p code of thele own, That, was the nature of this homlicide, Ile ndmitted that ordinnrily, altmost universally, murder was !mrpclmtc(l or purposes of rolbery, in brutut jizhits between man and mau, amonic the lower cluss of people; Lut murders hind heen known 10 e commitied by every class of men. Ile fustauced Dr. Webster, o inan whose ehavacter was us unimpeachable a8 that of the de- fendant. Ile conceded that, us fur as the evidenee shiowed, the shooting tn which Sulllvan was Involved in New Mexico occurred through o fault of his, but he Insisted o homiclle under the cirecumstances of this case was mora likely to be perpetrated by o man whose repu- tution had hefore gtood high, a man of culture, o mun of pride, 3 man wio had & strong affee- tion for lifs wite, than by uny other. No matter how strong n mnn's affection for his wlife, no matter how lofty his sense of lonor, the Mghest duty of on Aticrican citlzen was to obey the wholesome laws of the land, It would be n sadt day when we adopted the cotde of the duclist, It ‘would not do to say, as had been said by counsel (Swett), If they should tind that the ollenae was prompted by the RESPECT AND LOVE OF THI3 DEPENDANT YOR 1S WIYE and that thercfore it was justifiable. Could they suy that! If €0, men stood no longer cyunl before the lmw, 1f the defendant set sside the wholesome laws to which oll inust stibmit,—I¢ fn his wraih nud passion he sssumed to right his own wrongs whatever these wrongs wero, in o manner that the laws did not wilow, hie had the high security of thelr onths, with which lie was satisfled, that they would eondemn him. ‘fhe law would compel “them to do it if the defendant had violated fts well-knovn pro- vistons. Counsel had drawn n most attractive pleture of the carly life of the defendant, both before and after “the wnrrinze, drawine largely, of eourse, on his own faney. 1le could not”give them any such secount of the deceased, the otlicer party to this most unfortunate aifafr, e was not hére as the defendant was to make o favorable Impression upon their rinds; he had fgoue where ]umw. weeurnte aud exact Justice, was fully adminlstered; whatever eliis or erimes he had committed had been summed up, and the balasice struck, and his destiny no Jonger depended upon any verdiet of o Jury. The pros- ceutlon had endeavored to show what his pre- vlous conrse ot 1ife wus—to place Tim on sonie- thing like an m‘unlily with the defendant ; they had lieurd Jiow he was nttacked, Lis moral char- acter impugued, and everythine east upon his suemory thict would degrade sod vility him, and this too IN THE PREIENCE OF 1IS WIDOW AND IRR WEEDS} and when he o@ered to show that deccased’s course of life hud been equally honotable with that of the defendaut, he was told that the law prevented i, Sowe few things were, however, n evidence about Mui, Huanford was not an Irieh pentleman. Uedid not know that he would be calied o gentieman by the other slde, There was nothing pecullarly romantie about Biw, Howns the plainest kind of un Amerl: can, as were s aneestors before bim, o wi not a hero. 1fe had held no great number of offfees, and lymhuhly liad no very larze virele of infuential tds.” Tis wus an amfable cltizen. cent was as prosafe as possible, hut Ime it was one of the most useful Hewasn nossible, 1 noor, laborious, paf hovhmaster—an humble, nkivg, sutfering man, al- most from Infancy up; a zan of feebie consti- wutlon, dimivutive in stature, sickly, effeninate, pedentary in his habite, merely dlstlguished for the dlligence with which he performed the ono duty o his lfe,—teaching In the schiools of the elty,—dfstinguished as & seholar, distin- grulshed for the fdelity with which he pursucd his most useful of callings, No comparison could be drawn Detween the rather splendid youngz man who e hefore them, with his dis- tinguished history, elevated fo oflive ulmost s soou as he reached manhood, favored by for- tune, married ton deauliful wad accomplishet lady, a favorite fuall societfes futo whi weilt, and the poor, hard-workhw, overtasked muu now IyIng murdeved o his prave, who e celved his death-wound ar the hutids of the & fendant, He was but a comimon eharucter, doowmed, Hke most of us, to the drudiery of Bard work, ‘The defendant, by the rullugs of the Court, had ad EVERY OFYORTUNITY TO IROVE ANVTHING he pleaged agalnet Hanford’s wornl charaeter, and if the defense. could proy ot fm- morality they could prove u tacusand, for, if an uet of whastity such ws they undertook to show been eharged against him would, ns they cluimed, justily the dererstant in killing B I they eould ‘nmvc Nl to be s viclous and worthless man the Justiiecation would have Deen mteh wore conclusiye, The principle rought to be establlshed, so far as he conkd see ity was that, il the an could khow that the wntan kilted wus fmmoral, that conitituted u jns- Htlention for the killing, With (all permission to prove all they conld, and nterested {ndolng 50, what had they shownd They had shown thit one of the men whom Hanford aceused of belug fu a ring in the Board of Education, My, Euglish, had safd to un Alde “What, would you say of me 1t I was t Counetl and ipon mere rimaor char, nuthor of that letter bad been oblived to send u ladv out ot il psequenca of his refatlons to 'fhat they bl been per- mitted to prove, The object of it was muni- fest. It wus, If possible, to BLACKEN VITH MENORY OF THE DECEASLD, English, smarthygz under the aceusatfon, mado that obligue innuendo suainst the chastity of a poor, weakly, Jaborlous man, sl the jury were cadlett upon’to belleve this, Thu detendant wis In his grave, wd tho prosecution hud no ineans of auawering such s eharwe, for how would it ho pussible for them, wo nmtter how falao (L were, I mutter how scandalons, without the name of the wornan, to fdenlity the sipesed trasa to which he sHel) referred? i far- alshed It they would have to bring the Judy hyr- self to prove the falschood, but they wonld it be permitted todo that, Ile nsked that they dor nob conviet Jlanford of wluliery, now that he was dead, upon the stutement made by English, and blavkon his memory, sid not - do us - they were asked, palllate and Justify hls wur- der, lo' “lefi them “to sy how much fafruces und honesty thero was In that Lind of a detense. Waa It decent, or munly, o wnest, or humane that w alander, used by'an cneiny oo wmoment of passfon, should be bluzoned over his tomb und mde to ufitict Hv- imgr relatlves, ul.urly for the purpose of shield- fng amun who, fn”the hour of * his wruth und mulignity, had been the eause of the death of the man whom he now sought to slandert Mr. Vi Armian theu diseuased at length the Iaw of guaerder, saying thnt tho man who dit not bear alleglance to”the laws was a traltor to Lifs conntry. Ha saw nothing fmproper In WOMEN UNDERTAKING TO FILI {f they possessedd the ubllity,~of cugnziug fn literary © pursuits, writing' for - nowspa- pers and periodieals, Coten,—but thoy must remember, and thelr lushands must remember, that, when sssumiog dutics ordinarily performed by men, writlng sbowt snd ritielsingg “others, they themselves will be- vomethic subjects of eritieisin, Such waa the case with Hunford’s article. Mrs. Sullivan hud wssimed to be o writer for papers, and was une- doubtedly an emnvut one, Ho bad not the slightest Tault to tud with her, Il acquitted herof the llfl;lueu blamy fn this affuir, She, however, hed jolned {n publie discussions, and Twd no rlglll.tu clulm exemption from what all undertook to bear thelr pars fn. Who did not kiow that newspapor cditors wero habitually assaulting ono unother with wordst Whst mai or womun who attetpted to oceupy o position In nny degreo public, "vscaped comiment! Was it far the husband of such a wornn to say, 1 will shoot down the first mau that suys a word ubout "P wifg,=I will not tolerato {t—my wifu whom I' love and respect 1 Every mai was Lound tu suffer grievous wrongs; and every mon, MEN'5 I'OSITIONS, owing to rafl “mortality, committed grievous wrongs, Without the clements of forgivenes: aud forbearunce, soclety would be~ 'RIBUNE ¢ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21,. cgme a pasdenronfum Tell. Fear of bodity e merely vould not Justify killivg. ‘Fliere niust e a dive noecredty,—not tieceasity to rave honor, to save wonded prides; not temporary eratiticatlon, 1o VALY 10 De e findy no selflove to be fattered or pandered, Notie of theie, before the b, were resomlzed neol the alghtest welt o conddernt: Whete o tnan was seressor e wus bnea- feltated fram setsing up selldefense atall 3 the jury THER THIS WAR A CARE OF JUSTIFIABLG HOMICIDE,— whether the defendnnt was compelled by ¢ dive necesnity 1 of proteeting his own Hife, or of rv- fng himsell from enormon s bedily linrm, to take the Hle of Mr. Hanford, The questlon ane rwered ftself, Sulhivan did not cven pretend it By the bumanity of the law he was pernitted 1o e his own witness. Tad he fold them that he believed, that ho really thought, i the situ. ation In which he i piased, that nothing but takineg the Hfe of Manford would save hin from present death or prreat podily harn ! The dee endant, commenced the aitwek, e went to Hanford's houee, attacked him, nnd knocked him down. AT Hauford had then rhsen with u [:1»(01 Ity his Bawd, aud Sullivan bad shot him, t would etill be murder. The {mmu nian conld not plead a neeessity whichho had brought u‘;mn hitmselt 18 an excuse for the homicide, Hie was disquallfled from sctting np the plea of aclf-defense, unless after the fight had pro- greered pome thne and he abandoned it volun- u:rily and notified the other slde of his Inten- o, é After reviewing Tlanford's letter, claiming that the extent of the charge was that there wis 1 RING IN THE BOALD OF DHUCATION, and thut Mes. Eallivan wus [nfluential with that ring and with Mayor Colrln, he sald the churges conld not have been proven even if the Court hd permitted proof " to be offered, Did any oue auppose, it there were men in the Bo: making use of thelr positions Tor sinlster umd fproper purposes, that they wonld come for- ward and testify to 1t1 Wolldn't every one of them deny ftt "A man who was hase enough to pervert hs offlce thus would le base enough to deny it even under oath, The 8 4 uni- versal suspleion all oves Y about thut thie that the ofll were full of rings, and that opinlon is as well-founded now s then, ‘The defendant was W acqualnted with the Board, and had no in n ussnult- Ing any one, hia only Interest befng the advance- ment of the schovls, Councel did not know whaterunds of hellef Hanford had in the truth of the stat nta 4 but Havford had sald to Sullivan, ¢ W otl colne to e in alugzal way I wil) either ke them true or I wil'take the Jegal consequences. e did not know Iiow much” oppressfon, wrong, and insult he hnd sufTered at the handsof the Board, What Le hnd sald to Sullivan was all he was bound 1o suy, und all the law competled bim to say, ‘The only men who inade any fuss nbout heing calted ringsters weramembers of thisBoard, 1f counsel Tl done nothing wrong, and ehould be charged with dofngr wrong, he should pay no attention toit; but'lf a man told the tenth about hlin he would be apt to nake o fuse, The most clamn® orouis man wns the robber when enught, Mem- bera of the Board bad been called to prove that there wus no wrong,~the same ones whu lind heen aceused of being fu 1t,—and the value ol thelr testiimony was to be determined by the Jury. He fusisted thot their testimony was not redfahle. IN COMMENTING UPON BULLIVAN'S CONDUCT AT HANPORD'S NOUSE, lie sald there never was a cooler nan than Sul- livan,—he reciting verbatlu a long speechithat he made to Manford, and teline exactly what the reply wast never was a njore skiliful and sdrojt shot made under the tircnmstaunces, A recess was then taken until 2 o'clocks Upon renssimbling, the attendance wias as argze as tn the morning, Col, Van Arman resumed his anument. He sold he deslred next to allude to n subject upon which considerable time had been spent by the dufense, and that was the PART WHICH THE DEFENDANT'S WIFE TOOR IN THE OCCURKEN e elfeyed all the interfercice onber part in the homicide was for the purpose of hutianity, e had not the slightest kiea that any woinun— niuch Jess o ludy of her accomplishinents und oot character—coutd have nterfered fn suchn seene for uny other purpose than that of peace, e beggred to be understood to entlrely acquit her of the least possible blame fn conneetion with it. But that was not all that was elaimed on the other side. It was urged that the jury elould take Into mecount her nlsfortuncs. They lad token great poive to prove that'severa) years ago she had received an in- fury, undoubiedly tnore or less severe, He wus not aware thut Mr. Tlunford was necountable for it, or knew snything nbout It. It oppeared that, they were utter stranwers,—that Hanford knew Mrs. Bullivan merely us a public writer, and fn that capaelty mlone spoke of hery thut she, o writer of Iniluence aud ability, through ber abil- ity, und by her pereonnl attrictions, hnd exerted an fofluence upon members of the Board of ¥l ueation, He submitted, what liad the state of hier health to do with the cnse! Having wit- nessed the asewssination, as bloody as the ree. ords of crime showed, In the presence of Manford’s wife and _ children, sym- pathy was asked for her because, o the followlng evening, o physiclan found bier in o highly nervous state. Was Hanford respon- eible for i1 If the defendant had thought it to take N8 wife there, could Tanford have pre- vented ftf Did it oceur to the jury to examine the condltfon of Hanford’s wife? of her orphian ehilaren, beside the hody of her husband foully murdered! Was elie not somewhat nervous on that evening? Might he not clalin !flup:llh)‘ for her, as counsei did for the wife of t) fendant! It might bo gald that the blow recelved would avcount. for her condition, Were the jury emtisficd that she was struck by 1an- ford intentlonally? DIA they beleve that Han- Wi ford, kuocked down, nrose to his feet, stags el u moment before his death, struck Sullivan{ Mr. Van Arnan ke 1t had been sworn to by the brother of the de- fendunt and by o barkeeper. A July's cheek was very tender. The slightest rubbing would prodice aved spot, Hamord, steildng out un- consclonzly, muzht ave struek her: but did the Jury betleve frou what they knew that he con- selovsly struck her a blowi Did uw{y believe this slekly, feeble man, knocked dowa by » vio- Tent blow, got up and turned sround, and nten- tlonally struck o lady whom he dld not know from Eved Woull they, for the purpose of nld- Ing in makfug a false and fictitious defense, find Elm e willtully and deliberately dealt her o ow § 5 ‘Ihe jury had had upon the stund a most ex- traorlfunry illusiration of te CHARACTIUL OF THE YOUNG MAN, They suw the positlon which he undertook to asstatie for himaelf. One of the oflivers of the court was attacked by him and pronouneed a Mor slght fn hls faue, without the slighest provovation, simply Decause he put a simple question to hlin in the discharge of his duty, mueh worse attack, au-d a far wore bratal tack, aned unprovoked, houl been amade to thelr wresenco than was ever tade by Hanford upon_ him or his wife. Sullivan had carged the State's Attorney with taving Jled about D, andd had attempted to ereate puilie opinion agzoitst him, No more disraceful accusation couthd be brought ngainst 3 man, According ty hiy own statement, ho sabd that eame ene kad Mr, Reed, before hepcine the e ¢ age, before the trial, ha.d sald the plleved hime wullty, Over 108 ien wers Lrowgeht fu here, among 1l the ot ntelli- gent wen of the elty, who no other ground Whatever upon which o buse an opiulon thas what they vend In the papers. Mr. Redd, of coutree, iad read all the dally papers; the detaticd account of the pesassibatlon, (he sworn testhony hefore the — Coronei®s Jury, and nearly Intellis maoie Lrought into the it testitle that Ye Lol formed amd generslly expressed an culndon, und bad it etill, Were they Tarst The closgymen of the town, becanse It had veenrred to them to preach about tho aifaie und show theredrom an example of unllcensed pasatan, Tad byen ealed by this Wghly winlable young nan ¥ elerieal scoundrels “wid Hars,” " They Tl no business to sny anything about his cuset The publie bad nothing to do with his conductt They hua no ¥lght to speak of itt The Constl- tution uncl the laws secured to every one the right of tree speech. Was he to shoot anybody down who sa fd unythiog agaiust himt Sulllvan earrled i pist 01 tigion Nl B, sid clabied {6y, u right, 11y did not know thut thy Jury would approve of the practice; thut they wollld think it vreditable for him to prepary Tumselt to tnke sdvintige of any unsrmed mun futo whose preserres e ight cor Sullivan Jud nequired tho Jiubit, As'w part of bl educa- tion hy CARMIED A DEADLY WEAPON WIEREVER HE WE on the newspapers wud it the pesreful character of Seerctary of the Pourd of Publle Works, A man that would taka the puins 1o put a plstol iuto his pocket contenpluted the ma lie was to muke of it, und 1t was an fndieatiom of cow- ardico. He enw tho deceased sluk down from n terrible wound, and heard thy sheicks of his wife and suw her tears— Mr. O'Brien—How do you know? Mr. Van Avmun—Ile snys so subatantfally, aned he hua glven no expression of s rrow or nerition from thut day to this, Not satistied U calling bim o dog, Tio st biue keu his namo and seek further vengeancs oy his ave, ‘T'his was tho snfablo youth, the child- hku und lenib-like temper, that shot downe Hun- ford, I did not shoot at Hanford'’s urm, for his arms were up, Such u shot would have g ong obllguely u&)anrdi. He fired obliquely doyin- wards—at dhie vitul part. I he hud khot 1 ur tl‘w purpuse of Alsabling, be way equatly gulkty of murder, Tn conclnslon, Mr. not the: sl *e had convietlon f Hize retenderd that an, him or his wif wonld not waeatfon ny t thtest desre Imlll.fl,e the erd A origrltiel hlowy, or any wh 3 uponthe verdict, Hullivan 1 not have supposed lls wife U shiot, e did not A been struck, e ndrel haspirnelk Ife haud It pitered, The man was coming towarid him., w Van Avman usked the jury if, under the roles of Iaw, they eould have the glightest doubt, to whether the killing was necessary, i seifadefonse, or not, 11 not, what » duty! The orioe way murder,—nothi and nothing loss, and they conlil 1 nothing Jesa ont 6f §t by any principle of Jaw, hovtse Jt was @ o slght, dellberate, and most bloedy murder. [Sensation.| in danger when he lired the e THOMAS MORAN, OPENING FOR THE DEFBRSE. Mr, Moran then opened the arsutnent for the defense. After referring to the very sad spect of th y he devoted particalar attention to the communleation presented o the Council by Ald. Van Ordely anguing that the associatfon of Mrs, Sullivan’s hame with that of Mayor Colvin was sufliclent of {t-cif to fudicate that her chastity was culled Into question, He nsked the jury what they understond by a female lobhylst, and answered the question Jiwselt by saying that {t was one who ecarrded Der pofuts by granting favors. He sabl that the mun who pronounced ihe communieation ne susceptible of the construction that Mrs, Bullivan wasan futellectnal Jady proclalined Bimself an nsa. Jle aseerted that §f Manford M not mean to bn understood In the way fn which Sullivan understood the contents, he would have gald so when Sullivan demanded o retractlon, The article meant exactly what Sullivien thought it meant—what the Presldent of the Cuuncil thought It meant—what the prosecutor in hLis heart Anew it meant. He then commented upon the testimony both of or the e the witnesses for the defel A blow wiieh Mrs, vo- st the hands of Hanford, claiming that the fact had been established beyond a controversy, The inference from the evidence vas, that Hanford struck st Sullivan first, for waa It nut natiral when aman had been colled a dog to strike the person so calling him IEence e nrmed that Sullivan wus not_the gressor, The two men struck ot each other, and fell upon the grass, and flanford was teipped, Sullivan. did not. knock bim down, ‘This ended the fight na Letween the ), and Sullivan's retrent commenved. Such controt of himeelf did he have under the contumely the manhal hesped upon hitm to his faee, when b asked for the authority by which the man hal traduced andd vilified “his” wife, Ile neserted :hut Af Sullivan had not desired to end the tight, he prosceutlon COULD IAVE GOUGED out Hanford's eye when his finger In it Tanford was nat bewildered, did not stageer when he got up. The testimony forthe tion ehowed that he struck eomebody, am : proved conclusively that that tomebody 8. Sullivan,—that” ehe vas struck W brutal - voluntary Dlow In the face by the craven, cowardly, wisersble wretel, There was anore evidence to show this than there wus to show that Sullivan shot Hanford, even taking hig own admission for it. No man had challensed the foct. v une who would do fo was not it to make fils mind up on any questlon, The jury must believe ity beeause they had sworh to lelieve the evidence sub- mitted to them under oad A man that could it down In his own house, with his little prat- tling children abeut him and his wife by bis side, aud write such an article ubout o woman whotm he did not know, the wile of o nelch- bor, was a brute, and wonld naturally strike o womun. The jury must tielieve beyond a reasonable doubt that Sulllivan drew a plstol and fired s shot when he was, in his opinfon, in unparent danger from Hanford, The evidence showed that hie was pinfoned fn the stronz arnils of u friend of the man whe was uu cnety, and his own enemy, o6 he thonght. There wis the man, gafd M) Moran, who had Infamousty slane dered and mullened bl poor, slek wife; who bl nsseverated agaln and agal to his fuce the elander; who had etruckc bis wite, rushing towards him as it was satd with his hands up. He elabmed that the fact that M. Mullen ‘hod his hands ont to keep Hanford away was evidence that he (MeMullen) feared DANGER TO SULLIVAN from Manford. Would the jury say that Suili- van dil not think he was §o daneer—did not fearit! Would they give the leto thefr own intentionsf 1L they put themselves in his place what would they have don Mo thosy his Chriztlan character, his kindly charaeter, and God-lke, forgiving nature, the thouzht catue to s mind, ** What shall T o to the wan who has abused and vilified my wife, who Dis strick hera brutal blow, and I8 now rushog towards me? 1 will draw'my plstol and disablc Db 1t was bumane and o just thourht, 1 will not shout hing™ he sald; " Dwill draw my plztol and break his arm.'? Mr, Moran_denied that thls was committing % There known to C struek his wife, Before Glod, and be the Was no st proposition tlan T, 16 Cthe man aright to disable Iim. ¢ mal, it wae that he had deliberately red at e man. e never aimedt the revolver. How could he! Mr. Mo- ran claimed he cowid soty frum the position in which hie was. Beid by MeMutlen, who had_one arn around fllcre Lie seized John Mattoc] ated on a table near by, and fllustrated his position, mnels to the ¢ comfliture of Mr, Mattocks and to the amnse- ment of the andience. | Sullivan tired that shot und T obeyed the first law of preseevation, . Murder w victims _in the dark. Innoce Ife wonld sk the hia eyes, the & eV upmi L ature of virtue, s eandil coun- tenanee, s dellcate, gen fratures, his open comtenunee, throush whivh his personal virtues sho: brightly as the stars fn the Dlue dome of heav IS WAS A COUNTENANCE upon which no one could lok withont ndmirn- tlon, [Here Mr. and Mrs, Sulllvan were over- come aud wept. | Mr. Moran sald he did not appear os the de- fendant’s palid uttorney, but as his friend. ture lad stamped b us o gentleman, o ture niule no nistakes., 'l'hci]ur.\' would aviuit, him, they would find a” complete, full Juetifieation, according to the statutes, the de- Chions of man, sl aecording to the: precepts, tstitutions, and leglslation of God beente his ehnracter and churicleristiva grave the e Lo the propositlon-~though It was sworn to s thou- sand thnes—that e could commit murder, ar any other crlme, with matles n ks heart, Fhey would acquit him, beeass ) conviction woukl Bannt then v ey Went Lo thelr hotmes und Tadd thelr hes those of thelr wives, nnd reallzed that they bad sent to the Penitentfary a man who Liadd protected himeelf, amd protected Tis wife, and suvesd Dier name Hom illsgrace, d Il her ta 1 i b ome whi veten with the thonghts of its fustls wind that it wonlkd be i accordan and the evidence, and the foc vd Sullivan's acquittal; demanded it under the evidenes nnd the law; demanded it under the principles of ETEUNAT, AND IMMUTARLE JUSTICE that lad thele orlein in the i of the Al- ;nh:m)' aud thelr ablding.place I the husman eart, s Aequit him," he xald, “and th of tha vasde ik your tundjng hety his teveible, fmgending doo will sw Hves e the sunshl PON L sULY y Acquit hfm, and when yout coma wpon the st Ulag befors the Juliuent-xeat, when you come toucconnt for ‘your actiuns here, when your tauits and your virtues will appeur hefore the Alwihty tor of us all, there of pequittnl of an stand Destde vou shinfug the briccitest of wll the bright ucts of your lives, undd then witl the angels and the arclangels thiit surrowind the throne of God plead fa trumpet toues fur your dellverance,! ‘Ihe Coitrt theu adjourned til 10 o'lock this morning. collection Cr MI3, UANPORD. To 1he Lditor of The Tridune. CireAco, Oct, 2T wish tocorrert thestate- ment miade hu the Sunday Times fn regard to any attendance npon the triul of Sullivan for the murder of my hushand, I have not been in the Court-louso to exceed an hour since the trial begun, and then ouly ut the request of the State's-Attorney, I was ot thero durlng the thne Sulliviay was on the stand, and did not uet the purt described by the. Sunday Limes. Alus, Hasrono, e ——— CONFIRMATION AND DEDICATION. Bpeclal Dispalch (o0 The Trivuns, GaLewa, U1, Oct. 23.—~The Re.-Kev, Blshop Foley, of Chicago, adwinistered the sacrament to ncarly 500 persans st St. Michael's and Bt. ~ Mary's Cathollc Churches In this city yesterday alternoon, “Thia ufternoon Dishop Foley dedicated the new and maznifieant Catholle Church at Me- inee, in this county. The ceremonles were sting amd bpressive, anl were aeased] tully 3,130 CaLlinlics from fialena, Dubuque, uzel Green, nnidother places, SPORTING MATTERS. DASE-BALL. The Chieago team were in the city yesterday closing up thelr matters for the year, and within a few they wiil be In thelr reepective Tmnes taklng & five months? rest. Contrary to thie usual custom of ball-players, a large propor- tion of the White Stocking teamn will retmain in thi elty durhoe the winter, Spalding will attend to the business whici bears his name at No, 113 Bandolph strect. Barnes, MeVey, Glenn, and Addy Wil glsv retnein heres White wiil go to Potery wil) apend the winter in L Il uttentlon he- aien, ned - Marshall- Lwed veen Pifladelphla, Gl town, ko, The Tormer city will probanly be thie scom: of u Hitle afTair In wihieh Angon, a youne Indzy and o minlster will take part. Hies will spond the, winter b Washlngton, and Andrus wili stay a purt of the e at Dis hatne e Detrolt, Fpectal Ditpatch to The Tribune, Hantrorp, Conn,y Uct. An agrcement to-day perfected for a series of five games cen the Jlartfords and Bustons for the within a few wee clamnionship of New 1and, the first wune to be played on Wednesday, the Bieh, ot Hurt- ford, the secoud on ‘Ehursday st Providence, the third on Friday In Boston, The others are not yet fully arranged for. &pectal Dipatch to The Tribune. MINNEAPOLIY, Mt Uct, 25.—In a game of base-ball between the Red Caps, of &t. Paul, und the Blue Stockinze, of this city, to-duy, the score stoud 9 to 11 1n favor of the iatter. Nuw Yoitr, Oct. 23.—The Herald, speaking of the bare-ball season drawing to u close, says: A constant drain on wesk treasuries had “ts effect, The Mutual und Athletic Clubs were huth swamped before the season closed; conacs quently both were unsble to make their seeond Western tonr, - ‘The auestion whetherthe games ayed by the Mutusls and Athletic cluby ehall i thrown out,or whether thelr unplayed gumes #hall be forfeited, will be decided in December, at the annuul meeting of the League.” THE TURE, Batmivone, Oct, 25.—The Exceutive Com- mittee of the Maryland Jockey Club offer to the owners of Tom Ochiltrec anid Tenbroeek, In theevent of thelr agreeing to sun those horees o a dash of four mileson an extra day ringe meeting of 1877, ot Pimlico, Lo pax them respectively 8300 aplece to defray thelr traveling expenzés, and to divide with the winner of that event the gate aud shate receipts of thie day, the riies and weights of the Mary- laud JocKey Club to govern the race. CASUALTIES. ITONRRIBLE ACCIDENT, Spectat Dispateh to The Tribune. Storx City, Ia, Oct. 23.—This evening, abotit 7 o'clock, as George R. Witemnn, u mil- ler In the City Mills of this place, was adjusting o belt, his clothing was caugght by o shaft whicl made sixty revolutions before he was released. In revolvinz with the shalt his feet struck the celling, pounding them ond one arm to a jelly. A millwrlght working near suceeeded in throw- fug the mactinery out of gear, und resculyg the ;mfurtu pate taan, but ft7§s not likely becan ive. — A SUNKEN STEAMER. Mesritis, Oct, 23.~ Nothing In regurd to the sinking of the Rosa Miller has heen recelved to- doy. She les 1n six feet of water, with a stump through her hull just aft of the boiler, and, a8 er [+ pising, (b s feared ehe will o to "The steamer Pine Bluif has swone to her weafgiance. ey w0 of 500 bales of cotton will be saved with little danage, The boat is comparatively new, and valued at 75,000, In- surcd in Pittsburg aml Cluchuinatl oflices, DROWN Special Dispatch to The Trivune East SaaiNaw, Mich, Oct. 23.—A emall boat contafning six men and n boy, while cross- iz the river this morning, suddenly filled with- It thirty fect of the shore and five of the oeeu- pants were drowned, Thelr names were Her- waun Knupp, John Cassar, Charles Bluha, Fred Smith, und John Smith, - Al were lubor- ingg men and four leave familics, CRUSIIED TO DEATIL Bpecial Disyatch to The Tridune. Dusvau, ki, Oct, Sh—Joln Osmur, nged 18 yenrs, residinz at Tete Des Mortes, was killéd Saturday while hauling logs. His team started o log, and another that was proppud up started, rolled ovor him and erushed him to death, 1lis futher is a well-to-do farmer in this county, TITE JTORIIOUS OF SHIPWRECK. Triscryows, Mass, Oct, 23,—~An account of the loss o€ the brig Alniirs etates that the crew of five, including the Captaln, took toaraft, and, ufter terrible sufferings, the Captain and wne of the erew dled, Another beeame nsune sud Jumped overbvard, The remulning two were rescied, FATAL RIDE, CixersyATI, On, Qct, 23 —A frefght train on the Kentucky Central Rallroad ran through o bridee near Nicholasville, Ky, yesterday, Bill- o PLillp Carrizan, who W ling o ride. Important Declslons by thoe United States Hupreme Court. Wasmngron, 1, C., Oct. 2h—The fullowing important opinlons fun ecveral Hfe-usurance cases were dulivered by thie Supreme Court to- day New York Life-Insurance Company, apnetlant, v Willinm C, b and Parmelia A, Dudley, formerly Parmetis A, Stalham, apveal from the Clrenit Court of the United States for the Southiern District of Misstssippl. The New York Life-lusuranes Compaoy, plalntifT h errory va, Charlotte Scyms, in ereor to Cirnit Court of the United States for thy Southern Distriet of Misshaippl The ttun Life-Insirance Company, It o error, vs, R 8. Buck, executor of ‘haeles L. Buck, ised, fn error to Cireult Court of the United States for the Southern Disteiet of Misstseippl, ‘The polnts decided are as follows: A poll of Hle jusurance, with o stipulation for ment of un unnual premimn by the assurel, with a comdition ta be vold on non-puytient, is not an insurance frowm year to year, Hke s com- mon fire pol but the premining constitute sn annuity, the whole of which I3 the cousidern- tiom Tor the entire nssurance for e, wid the comdition 18 u condition subsequent, making vold the poliey by Its nou-performanve. But the thne of payment fu stich poticies s materizl, and of 1he vssence of the contract, and fatfure tu pay Involves an ubsoluto forfeit. ure which cannot bo relieved against in equity, 11 fallure to pay the annuad prembum e caused by thy futervention of war between the terrl- turies i which the Insuranee Company and nssured respectively veside, which makes it unlawful for them to hold futercourse, the puliey I3, nevertheless, forfefted If the Cotus pauy fnsfst om the condition, but In such case thenasured §s entitled to the equitable value of the polley nrislg trom premims wetually paid, Fhis equiltable votue s “the ditference bitween the eost of w new policy and the present value of preminins yet 1o be pald on the forfelted policy when the forfelture ovcarred, amd inay e recovered Inocquity, The dottring vevival of - contracts suspended durtg the War §s one based ou con- slderations of equity und justive, amd eannot be Invoked to revive o contriet which It would b upjust or ineguitablo to revive, as where tine 1§ the essence of the contract or the parties cun- not by mude equal, The average rate of ior- tatity Is the fundamental busls of life mssurance, utdyns this i3 subverted by glving to the use sured the option to rivive thelr policies or not, after they have been suspended, by w wur, sluee none but the sick and dying would apply, it wauld be unjust to compel 3 rovival apalist the Company. Mr. Justico Brad the Conrt, s oy delivered the oplnlou of ‘L't Insured _partios Hved {u Misslssippl, and wero prevented from paylng thelr premiums tn consequience of the War, ‘Ihe ubove apinion wus concurred in by Juse tices Swagne, Milter, Davls, Fielt, und Bradtey, The other four members of the Court dissented, Mr, Chiet-Justles Walte, dissenting, sald: ¢ [ ngreo with the majority of the Court in the uplnlun tiat the decres and judgments In these cases should bu reversed, and that the fullure to pay theunuual premiving as they matured put su el L the policles, notwitbstanding the de- fault was ocensloned. tho war; but I don't thlnk that o default cven under such civeuin- stances rafses an lmplicd promise by the Com pany to puy the aseurca what his” policy wus oqulitably worth ut the thue. I thereturo dis- ust ans, geot from that rart of the judgment 5 ] or' triad . notinced, which remands the causes upou such a promise.” S e RAILROADS. INDIANATOLIS. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. INDIANATOLLS, [nd,, Oct. 23,—~Last week the City Council paased an ordinance muaranteeing the bonds of the city to the amount of £450,000 in uld of a belt rallrond and stock-yards, taking o first mortgage on the proverty Lo eccura pay- ment of the bonds. Thero were quite 8 num- | ber of conditions coupled with the ordinance, they were sccepted by the Cumpany tho | day following the passsge of the ordinnnee. Last Fritday tie Supreme Court dectded the up. peal of the Indlana North & South Rellvoal Company ve, the City ot Attle, favolving tha restlon that would - arise i the caso of this clty and the belt rafle road O the uestion of paging - the bonds was ever ralsed, The Court held that, under the statute, the ity wus authorized to Iaste honds wider the following conditions only: First, that the road ran Into, through, or near hier corporate limits: second, that o petis tun elgned by o majority of the {ree-hoklers of Buld ety was presented 1o the Comnon Counct of sl "eity uskinie ey to fsxue hey bawls fn ald ol the consteietion of suld voud; thivd, that the donation o made shall not be payable untll the rond In aid of which {t 15 riven shall be su far completed as to admit the running of traing [rum the polnt of commencement to such Dol or points as are designated fnthe petition. 1t ulro held that the Counvil had no power to aunex other conditions, and, if it Qid, they wera /4 null i vold, Under these elreumstances, thy A Caunell tmnhl.'m reconsldered it nctlon, and re- 3 ) ferred th ancy to the Judl-fary Committes & ttorney, ‘The Attornéy, however, i his opinion that the Compnny, having ' the cotditions of the ordinanes o °2 and having procecded under that ace 44 the coutract could be enforced Ly 3 e e, TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. Epectal Dispatch to The Tribune, . SpRrizgriee, 1L, Oct. 25.—A voluntars pett tlon in bankruptey was to-day filed by Radeliffe Bros., of this eity, dealers (ndry goods and mill- inery. Liabilities, £15,000; , about 80,060, ' Spectal Dispateh to The Trivune, 7 87, Lotts, Oct, 21.—Tnfs afternoon the Chle cavo Campuizn Quintette, Frank Lumbard, C. iith, B M, Howard, Otls Carter, and J,°M. 1, ‘who uccompanied Bob Ingersol to Belleville to-nfghbt, visited the editorial roonts of the Globe-lemocrat and entertalned n select party of gentlenen with some ot thelr choleest songs, ‘The visit was fntended eapeefally os n compliment to Mr. J. B, McCullagh, and the entertaiument wos. thoroughly enjoyed by all present, e e Bitten by o Tarantuls, luseblo (Lol) Chtefiain, Dan smp{gnm, n workman on the South Pue- ble Water-Works ditch, at the 8t. Charles, was bitten by u tarantula on the evenmng of Friday, Oct. 8. In_such o manner as to result almost tally. On the night ln question Mr. Shep- 1 sleeping In & cabin on_the * Gray- ch,” nenr where the Rio Grande way crosses the St. Charlee. Ile had made his bed on the tloor, and bad searcely gone to sleep when he felt something pinch s shoulder and then run ocross hls face, He tried to catch it with hls hand, but it escaped him. Scvero pains beginning to shoot from the shoulder, Mr, Sheppard beeame convineed that ha . hud been Dbitten by a tarantula. Ho then ran up the rfaflway track to Mr. M. T. Robinsun's, about three-quurters of 5 mile distant, in the hope of gutting some whisky to use us an antidote, bug unfortunately Mr. Robingon had no whisky on hand, He thei returned down the track and went to the house ot Mr. Necee, near where he was bitten, Shep- pord fs u stout, powerful man, but by this thne he wus nearly cxhausled. Tho [mlu hal passed from Nis shoulder down j.‘ i left <lde, until bis whole body was offected, 3 and he was in a state ot the most excruclating ngony, Mr, Neece hurrled to Mr. Howard's half W mile up the st Charles, and faformed hitn of the occurren Mr. Howard Imnedi- ately mounted his hurse and gallopud to Pu- chly, elght miles di; t, for_n supply of whis ky. In the meantime Sheppura ” returned 10 his cabin, and In o short thoe, from the action of the polson, be becume alnust’ genethle, and hi: + head, and Hibs becante Trightfully sw In just two hours and lialf from the thoe Iy Litten, Me, Tlowerd arrived with the whis) The polsoned man e was now in g very o condition, un- able to move, und evidently ut the very gates of death. The whisky wus hintuedi= ately administered, and he specdily revived, Abont o quart was' given him, whei, as ¥lepe pard himsclt says, Le Lezan to feel mself the atrongest man o Colorada, and It wis with dif- fleulty that four men coull he It roon becumne evident that the whisky would prove an cfl\uruml untidute to the tus: u‘ulu puisan, there bt littly L witl beall right BUSINESS NOTICES. A Word to Mothers, You will find Mre. Winslow's Seothing Syrap an invaluable frien It cures dveentery sl dines rhuen, regttlates the stoinach and bowels, cures wind calle, hoflens the gimk, reduces inilaniwation, nnd ghes tone and encrey th the whole aystom. In al- Thost v stance where the infang (s anfivring from paln and exhanstlon relief will e found in 13 ty or 5o agalu, or 20 minutes after the Southig Syrap bus been 3¢ adiunistered. Do not fal to procure it. i RSkt sdailaii There nree thowsands of peaplo In Chleago Itated constitution swith shattered nervossnd debi 5 of Tion Is & sover Bolund's Arowmatie Bitter Wi rign reetorutive, D SILEKS AT THER West Bd Dry Goods Honss, Madison & Peorin-sts. Notwithstanding the rocont heavy advaneo in Silks, the following lines of Bpocial Bargains will bo found a8 cheup, and somo of thom cheap- or, than ovor boforo: Very lergo assortment Colored Gros CGrainsg, desirablo dark shades, at . $1.25 ; & very chonp lot, Hoeavy Lyons Colored Gros Grainas, choico fashionablo colors,nt#1.60, woll worth $1.75. g TLino of rich and heavy Lyons Col- orod Gros Grains, elogant shades, at, $1.76 vor yard, regular $2.26 aunlity, nnd'tho choapost lot wo havo ovor oflered, mming 8ilks in the T"ull lines of 'I' now cloth shados. BLACK SILKS. Good all-silk black Gros Graing at $1,00 and $1,10 por yard, Ioavior and botter black Gros Grains at$1.26 and $1,36 per yard. At 1,50, o spocial bargain in hoavy Bluek hynns Gros Grains, At §1.76, Lyons Cashmero Gros Grainsg, worth 600 u yard wmore, At 82,00 wo ofter n vory rich, hoavy, and clogant Lyons Cashmore Sillc; caunot bo roplaced ut $3.60. FANCY SILKS, Line of dark fanoy Silks at 760 per ard, Agm.oo, vory desirablo assortment darlc stripo Silks, At $1.25, choico late Novoltios in dark golored fanoy Silks. Vory 1ull assortment Trimming Vel vaots in all tho now doep shados at vory low prices. Volvotoonain tho dark cloth shades, Carson, Pivie & Co. “I7 PAYS T0 TRADE ON THE WEST SIDE” FOI_SALE, COUNTRY THE FOIt LIGHTING COLEMAN |AND eUBURBAN BUILDINGS. Safe and Kconomleul, Nu, 224 (AN Clark-st. APPARATUS.| 55D vou cinourana,