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. THK,CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, I876—SIXTEEN PAGES. 7 PASTIMES. Further Changes in the Base~ " Ball Rules for *77. with Some_Innovations on the © system of Scoring. “st. Louis Demands Second Place in ithe Race. Effect of Foreing the Training of Young Horses. Trotting Prospects for Next Year--- ‘War in the Septilateral. Rudolphe Abead in the New Tork Billiard Tournament, BASE-BALL. MORE ADOCUT THE NEW RULES. Inlast Sunday’s TRIDUNE was given a sketch of some new rules which were dcemed necessary to be adopted to improve the game. Many of these changes have been suggested by other ors than THE TRIBUNE, and canvassed by Detter suthority thun the writer; but it is the gim of the present article to get these suzzes- tions, when epproved, into shape to bé passed by the League if that body deem best. Last ek the consideration of the code’ extended {hroush Sec. 11 of Rule 5, ‘which covered the cstion of suppressing fair-fouls, and advanced arule intende to cover that point. And in this connection it may not be amiss to consider the {des advamced by Mr. Fowle, Secretary of the St. Louss Club, for getting rid of the kind of hit- ting objected to. He suggests that the home- plate be moved back six inches, and the bats- man be compelled by rule to strike with the full swing of the arm. It scems as if moving the plate back would only aggravate the foul busi- ness. and would still oblige the umpire to say where the ball struck, which is the oné thing which we want to get rid of. The idea that .seemsmost feasible to the writer—and Mr. Fowle will approve it when he thinks ot it—is toget entirely 7id of the puzzline question of where the ball struck by utterly leaving it out of the case, and counting only where the ball goes to, is fielded, or stops. As to the provision that . the batsman shall strike at the ball with full ewing, that seems utterly useless. Ross Barnes, the most expert fair-foul hitter in the business, siways bits them with full swing of the bat, and Just as bard as he strikes any other kind of ball. But to resume the consideration of the rules: Sec.50f Rule 6 worked badly several times last year,and should e amended. Asitnow stands it puts the runner out for going out of the line “to avoid being touched by the ball in the bands of a fielder.” That is all right enouch, bat when s fielder is waiting for the ball to come to him the runner onght to have some show to et by. This would be given him by adding to the present rule these words: —but in case a fielder be occupyinz the runner's roper path, sttempting to field u batted ball, then Tie rinner shall, run out of the path and bekind aid fielder, and shall not bo declared out for so doing. There was a curious misundersfanding last sesson in the conntry clubs over the interpreta- tion of Scc. 15 of Rule &. which is generally un- derstood 1o be & provision for touching aman out when off abase. The rule said that he must be touched “by a fielder with the ball in band,” which was interpreted by many to mean that if the fielder had the ball ‘in either hand te might touch the rubner with the other apd put him out. The only change necessary to make this plain is to take ot th: words “*in hand,” and leave the rule to cay that the runner sball be out if he is touched by the fielder with the ball. The objection that this would allow the fielder to throw the ball at amanwill be secnto be invalid by examining the meaning of the word *touch.” the last paragraph of the same section is found the provision concerning the runner’s ob- structine the ball, which is utterly crude, be- canse it uses the word “ intentionally,” .and so gives the umpire a right to decide on a man’s motives, which he never should have had at all. ‘The only way that scems feasible Lo get out of tlis troable is to put all the responsibility on the runner, and make the last part of the sec- tich read s % g —and if 2 batted ball etrike him [the base-ranner] e ehall be declared out. Oge of the most extraordinary sections in the code, and the one which seen.s £ have as little Teasan to its back as any, is Sec. 7 of Rule 7, which provides® that tlie umpire shall render o dce:siun unless appesled to by a plaser. It would be mucn more in accord 1or the ‘section toread: 3 SEc. 7. The nmpire ehall render every decision called for by these rules without & ffll by uny layer, unless it is expreesly provided. Thelast section in the rules, as they mow stand, provides that no player on the batting sile ghall come within fitecn feet. of the foul lines, and all others than the Captain and as- gistant shall keeP fifty feet away fromsaid lines. While this has always been in force, it never was obeyed until the Chivago Club drew the proper Lnes to aid the umpire, and insisted on the observance of the rule. It would seem as 1f these lines should be marked on every ground &ad, for the purpose of having it done, the fol- lowing addition to the eighth section has been Propused : ) Defore any match game the Captain of the visit- ‘:g clob may demand of the nmpire that two paral- Jel lines b marked. in the same way that the foul lives are marked,—one fiftcen feet from and par- allel with the foul lincs, and the other fifty feet {rom and parallel with said foul lines, And if tbe home club ehall refuse or neglect to make euch lines as ect down in this section, provided :‘fi:fi' ?{: the grourd will admit, then the game 2y the nmpire be declared forfeited to the Another serious defect in the code wasjn £iving the umpire power to say that a ball goihg 1nto the crowd was * willfully™ stopped or un- vittingly etopped by an outsider. No umpire ever could decide that question surely, and it ‘Fould be quite proper to take the word ! will- ully” ont n.llufictbcr, and make_ every ball ¥hich was stopped by an outsider dead. This ‘Would put the visiting club on an equality with the home nine when playing in a crowd, which "b‘;:otmuelzms the case 1OW. F: of the most important things to be con- “‘dw by the League as an addition to the Dlaying rles is a serics of instructions to scor- ers, which sball, if ressonably perfect, result in 2 mu ter uniformity. in keeping the rec- e of the managers who sit in the 3 € will—and have—rather overlooked the "“l:flmme of the establishment of the uniform £3stem desired, their idea being that they cate €ry little how runs are made so_long as_their Dine gets the majority ; bul Lhese Sumo men are :‘“"’“L’ the class who take the most interest in erates and who pay more Or less money to ‘ayers aecording as their records are high or 0% in the publishied list. 1 Year's method of scoring was well enough Yoger¥ dub could have had a scorer who n%fld Bave believed and practiced what cvery e er scorer did; but that was impossible, and \3e result has been the undue promotion of cer~ {in plasers' records by one dishonest scorer— . 1be only one of the eight employed by the i &~while the players in the otber clubs e had to stand on the record made for them byalhelr own performances. o Delow is given a series of rules drawnup by mzenuemm Who has had a good deal of expe- ot in that braneh of the game. It is not :‘himm ed that they are perfect, but they may €10 be builded on until the best system is Tii ord TULE VI —SCORING. pinrder to promote uxiformity in_gcoring cham- [_,mn;mp iamee the following instructions, sug- lons, and definitione arc made for the benefit of 7 of League clabs, and they are required to o 5¢ the scores mentioned in Sec. 3of At X11. Sig® League Constitution in accordance there- BATTING. (SUTION 1. The first atom fn the Yabulated t.ater the plaver’s name and position ehall be Qnmlu-r of tinice he has been at bat during the - _Auytime or mes where the pluyer has ,M;;nl tobase un called balls shall mot be in- e, In this colamn, o > 10 the second column should beset down Sro2s made by each player. Sret s b third colums shonld be placed the made by cach player. e- M102d be scared in the ronowhs_.- - s the ground When the bali from the Lat str.k Telders. l%m-m i# partially. or wholly, stopped by a men i motion. but siich player éannot recover Gzl in time to pandle the ball beforc the strik- W’!‘:‘:::; fi;;t lhxsc. i i Uail i» hit ¥o eharply to an jnfielder that % eanza: hanie §¢'in tima ta put out & man, In case of doubt over this class of hi ive the field- er the lgnefit, and score o M\se»hi‘: & . % When a bali is hit so slowly toward a fielder that € cannot reach it before the batsman is safe. § SEC. 4. Inthe fourih column should be placed 10 the credit of each pluyer the total bases made off Bishits. The unit, or base, consists in getting Tom any one base to any oth®r base without being putout. and the striker is to be credited, not only With the number of bases which he himself makes after a hit; but, in addition, with those safely made by every other player who is on base at the time he runs toward first. 1t should be undersiood that a base or bases mude off-an error of a fielder count tuwurd the score of the player who ran from home-base toward first base when the error was made, All the Lases made off such error, whether by the striker or by some other player then on base, shall go to the credit of the striker. The striker shall be credited with a base when he is_sent to bose on called bails; and, in addition, with alf the buses ‘made by otherplayers wha may be advanced on the Pplay under the rules. A basg or buses shall be given to the runner for a succegsful steal, whether made.on an error of his opponents or without error. . Bages shall not be given to _a striker when any plaver, other than himself, vhall be put out on his strike, FIELDING. SEc, 5. The number of up?oncnts ut out by each-player shall be st down in the fifth column, Where a striker is given out by the umpire fora foul strike or becanse he struck out of his turn, the ‘put out shall be scored to the catcher. Sec. 6. Tho number of times a player assists =hall be sct down in the sixth column. An assist should be given to each player who handles the ball in a run-out or other play of the kind. An assist should be given the pitcher whenz ‘batsman fails to hit the ball on the third strike. An sssist should be given the pitcher in cach case where a batsman is declared out for makinza foti) strike or striking out of turn. An assist should be given to a player who makes aplayintime to pul a runmer out, even if the player who should complete the play fails throngh 1o fanlt of the player assisting. An assist should not be given tos player who mulls the ball, or allows it to bound off his body toward a player who then assists or puls outa player. And. generally, on_assist should be given to each player who handies the Lall from the time it leaves the bat until it reuches the player who makea the put-out, or in case of a thrown ball, to cach player who throws or handles it cleanly and am'such way that a put-out results. or would re- ‘snlt, if n6 ¢rror were made by tie receiver. SEC, 7. An error should be given for each mis- play.which allows the striker or base-runner to makeé one or more bases when perfect play would harve insured his being put out. In scoring errors off batted balls :ee Sec. 3 of this article. SEc. 8. Earned runs should be counted on the ‘basis that no base-runner can steal a base without an crror being given to some one for it. This scews to cover all the polnts over which theré has been any dispute during the season past. Tie only entirely new section is the one which provides for the record of bases.” Tho idea in this scheme is that each player should have credit for everything he did toward getting ruus for his side; if’ he bats himself along, give him credit;, if he sends somebody clsc along, credit him if he steals o base, give him credit; “if he—in short—does anything to wig, let him have credit for just what he did. Tre Tris- UNE believes that this way of crediting a player will stir him up more than a mere record of base-hits. ¢ ; CONCERNING FORFEITED GAMES. Oct. 8a correspondent of THE TriBu: the signature “A. G. M.,” clearly poi the effect ot the League Coustitution in declar- ing forfeited games, if the Board of Directors were asked so to do, and bis_discussion of the matter was so evidently based on facts that the Club chiefly interest’” has determined to act as they were then advlsed to. The Chicago club had no very vital interested in taking the action on its own account, as it was sure of the flag inauy case. The St. Louis Browns have, however, drawn up tne following protest and appeal: . St. Lowts, Mo., Nov. 16, 1876.—70 the Board of Directors of the Nalionai League of Profes- sional _Base-Ball Clubs—GENTLENE: The St. Louis Basc-Ball Club of St. Louis, respect- fully presents this, its complaiut and claim, against the Mutual Base-Dall Club of Brooklyn, N. Y., and says: 1. That said St. Lonis Clnb has faithfully com- plicd with all the requirements of the Constitution of the National Lea e, especially with so mich thercof as is embraced in Sec. Art. XII, and ‘more particularly that during the scason of 1876 it played five champlonsaip games with gaid Mutaul Club on the grounds of s3id ciub in Brookiyn, N. Y., asfollows: The first on the 23d day of May; the second on the 25th day of May; the third on the 27th dayof 3lay; the fourth ou the ith day of September; the fifth on the 6th day of September. 2. That said Mutual Club, during said season, played fwo'championship pames with the St. Lonis Ciub on the zrounds of the latter, in St. Touis, o., as 10liows: The first on the 27thday of June, and the sccond on the 20th day of June, and that these seren games wero all the gamnes played by said clubs with each other during said season. 3. That bvthe terms of esld Sec. 2 of Art. XIL., said St. Lonis Club was entitied to have five Zames pisyed upon its grounds by said Mutua] Club, 80 that three games are still due from said Clud tc eaid St. Lonis Club, and playable on the grounds of the latter. 4. That when the Jast game was played, viz. :in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the Gth day of September, the St.” Louis Club then and there required, and was by the Constitution entitled to require, and expect the said Mutaal Clab to play the remaining three gumes on the grounds of the St. Louid Club .within a reasonable time, not exceeding two months; that more -than two months have elapsed up to and including the 15th day of XNovember, on which last mentioned day the>play- ing season closed, £o that it iy now impossible to play raid games; that the St. Louis Club, ever £ince the Gth day of September and up to the close of the playing season, offered every facility to the Mutual Club to play said games; sad, in addition, also guarunteed said Mutual Club a sum of money #nflicient to cover its traveling anl other expenses ¢ it wonld come to St. Lonis and play said games, but the Mutual Club wholly failed and refased to play £aid cames. ‘Wherefore, the St. Louis Clubclaims that, nnder the provicions of sald Sec. 2of Art. XIL, itis entitled to and shonld be allowed a forfeiture of £aid three games from smd dutual Club, and prays the Board to decree that said three games are for- feited to the St. Lonis Clubby a score, each, of 9 runs to 0, and that they shall be counted in favor of tue St. Louix Club as threc games won in the championship season of 1876. . .+ . This will be passed upon by the Board, and if the request is zranted, as it is Jikely to be un- derthe rules, thelist of games won and lost will be as follows: B & - Clubs. Won. Lost. Chicago. 6 1% St. Louis.. 10 Iartford ... 21 Boston. 31 Louisvilie. 36 Mutual 49 Athletic. 58 Cincinnati. 56 P YERS. The following list shows the champion play- ers. It comprises the names of those having played in the champion nines, and the number of seasons each has thus played successfully. The national championship was first contested for under 2 regular code of rules in 1871, in +which year the Athletics were awarded the pea- The Bostdns then won it for fonr sue- ve years, and the Chicazos carried it off this scason. Spalding and Barnes played with the Bostgus during the whole four years in club won the championship, also which_ ] with the Chicagos this seuson, making a total of five championship seasons; McVey and White, with Bostons three and Chicogos one years George_and Harry Wright, Schafer,” an Leonard with Bustons four years; Manning, 0’Rourke, Birdsall (sub.), and Beals (sub.) with Bostons two years; Addy with Bostons one vear and Chicazos one year; Hall, Siweasy (sab.), Ryan (sub.), Rogers, ‘Gould with Bostons one vear; Malone, McBride, Fisher, Reach, Meyerle, adcliffe, Cuthbert, Sensenderfer, = Heubel, Bechtel (sub.) with Athletics one year; Anson, Peters, Glenn, Hines, Bielaski, and Andras with Chicagos one’ year. Itis worthy of note that en the foul-lines and out of tac reach of the . those players who were in_the Athletic nine during the season in which that nine won the championship buve not been connected with any other winping nine since. It will be remerm- bered thar the Athletics that season \ere awarded the pennant through games being thrown out rather than by the actual score. - WAITING ORDEES. The composition of the League clubs is likely to change considerably for next year. Follow- is a list of players i League clubs the past sea- son who have so far not been enzaged for next ear: Andrus, Clinton, Dean, Addy, Mills, Hol- ert, Hastings, Ritierson, Cassidy, Fisher, Knight, Cuthbert, MWhitney, Malone, Bradley of Boston, Coons, Pearson, Crayer. Booth of Matual, Treacs, Sweasy, Mack, Zettlein, Bie- 1nska, A. Allison, Pearce, Wil amg, Bechtel, Somerville, McBiide, Nichols, Carbine, Clack, McGiuley, E. Snyder, Fouser, sushong, Ficlds, Paul, H Many of thia list have sigued with' scuii-professional clubs’ and others’ are ¢ awaiting orders.” TIE ATHLETIC CLUB. The organ of the Athletie Ciub takes the ground that the Leazue cannot expel that club Tor forfeiting its games, and says that_*four of the cight lubs have unoflicially notified toem that there would be no opposition.”. The last fifteen worcs contain o first-class lie, and oue made out of whole cloth, Tie TRIBUNE has not up to this time made any comment on the situation of the League and the Athletic Clubi But it will mow say, once for alf, that if the members ot t¢ Leazue permit the swindling ‘Athletic Club to salve over their default and failure to keep faith, then the Leawucis as dead gs Judas_ Iscariot, aud its death will be more descrved than that of the rotten National Association. That’s all. THE REMATNDER. - The Hartford Ciub were more suceessfal in their home gamcs than they were on the | grounds of otber clubs. In Hartford they won twenty-three zames and lost ten; in Cindinnati theyw won five sud lost none; in Boston they - ever afterwards revives. ‘won five gnd lost one, and1n Brooklyn they won three and lost two. St Louis a3 tuch most unfortunate place, losing four there and win- ning but one. ~ Their three successive defeats in that city, during which they failed to score a single run in twenty-seven successive innings, Was an cvent of the seasou. An effort is beinz made to rcorganize the Philadelphia Club, and jt isto be boped that it will be successful, provided the people dig up 2 new set of men to, run it, andone different from any lately known in ball circles in Philadelphia. Among all the ** suggestions ” which have been made thluenr, none have been more en- tirely nonsensical than the following from Phil- adelphia: End the scason Oct. 1; let more clubs into the League; make the series five games. It would seem asif the proper source for ¢ sugzestions ™ should not be a bankrupt and swindling association, like the Atnletic Club. Theend of the ‘‘surgestions ” above noted would be that the League would wind up just where the Athletic Club now is—in bank- rTuptey ank dishonor. ‘fhe Philadclphia Afercury, with the accuracy which distinguishes its statcments of fucts, says that the following is the best ficlding niue in the country: “ Bradley, pitcher: Scyder, catcher; Fisler, first base; Burdock, second base; Battin or Anson, tie, third base: Mack, short _stup; Ryan, left field; Eggler, centre ficld; Blong, Tizht'fild.” The truth is that Bradley is ninth among pitchers, Snyder fifth among catchers, Fisler eighth among . first basemen, Burdock second in bis position, Mack third in his, Ryan nineteenth among fielders, Eggler eighth, and Blong twelfth. These figures ure based on the printed tables, The guess which the Aercury man made was right in only one place out of nine. As far as fiures go'to prove anything, the best flelding nine in the country would be: D. Allison, c.; Spalding, p.; Start, 1 b.; Barne: 2 b.; Anson, 3 b.; Peters, s.s.; York, L L; Holdswortl, ¢, f; Cassidy, r. THE. TURF. BARLY TRAINING. Not more than three months ago Tme TRin- UNE-entered the most emphatic protest in its power against the practice of training and trotting youngsters, and it is mow pleascd to sce so influential an suthority as Tallace's Monthly earnestly advocating the same idea, as it does in the article from which the following extract is taken:® See how grandly Nature is vindicating the per- sistency of her unalteruble law, that early maturi- ty insures early decay. Crittenden, at 2 and 3 years of age, had all the spced. and power, and freed for etill greater exertion that the nonparell, Ten Broeck, displayed in his matchlees four-mile triumph. At 4 and 5 years of age hie was entered in great contests, but never made his appearance ou the turf simply because he has never becn able to repeat his 3-year-old mile perforgdnces. The expedicuts thal have been resorted 1o have been lezion. But, whether treated for weakness over the loins, or scvere sorencss in his entire muscu- lar system, or irreprossible perversity in his brain, the grand young trotter fails to perform the won- derfal performances of his penth, and, thus fa is but a poor counterfeit of his babyhood greatness, Happy thought, too, happy in the conception of his birth, happy in the enduwment of great speed and un equable temperament, happy in his brilliant triumphy_at the ,Charter Ouk course, where he scored his_splendid triumph ovet all noted 3- year-olds, bas bezun to show the evidences of the ruinous practices of zarl{ teaining and. racing. This year he was driven u half-mile trial in 1:09%, asa4-year-old, and since that time has never been able to trotsquurely and without the preseacc of that distressing bitch that betokens over cxertion. Next year, o early in his career, when he should he scurcely more than broken, he will be retired to the harom. Laay Maud, too, the peer of sny .trotter in s{:ecd and game, that ever challenged a rival for the. victory, s & ringbone, decrepit marc, justin the prime of untampered hor«chood. Gov.Sprague has those alarming” cn'argements of the front anklcs, und that rounded protuberance of the curb joint, which plainly indicate teo much work before his Iimbs had lbeen strengthen- ed with the hardencd _sinews of matunty. And Prospero, the dazzling consteilation ‘of the Last, who brought $20,000 after his 3-year-old trinmph, and distanced his com- petitor in 2:221 in his G-year-old contest, mot only made a grand failure in the Septilateral Cir- cnit of this season, into which he was heralded by ‘his owner offering to match hiw. haif-mile heats, against any hore in the world, but was retired be- Tore the Circuit was closed, beaten and discom- fitted, and suffering with -a_fractured jaw intlicted upon’ him in colthuod by the strong arm of his owerful trainer. At Cleveland his defective Eocka and restive ehifting from onc foot to the other told how plainly early training had mort- Even that early In the aared his cous . Circuit he looked prewaturely old and \veurfi. and longed for_the indefinite’ vacation to which he has been mercifally assigned. The sad catalogne cun be greatly extended, but itsappropriate closing chanter conld be effectually written from the records of the Breeders' Centennial, that has just come to its disastroug ending. Thirty-eight 3- year-olds were entered for the Revolution Staked in the early summer; only seven of them appeared at the starting-post. 1f the severe training und ‘melancholy vreaking down of the thirty-one that never put in an appearance conld be truthfully written, there wouid be no more breeders 3-gear- old races on the trotting turf. Among the abseat ones, the snlendid youngster for whom Col. John W. Conley, the inaugurator of this disastrous business, gave $5,000, is uoticeably con- epicuous. There ' something profonndly mysterions in that sudden retrogression of n overworked baby-trotter, from which he rarely It is like tbe relaxation of a misspent bowstring, or the silent snapping of the tonder taread of life in the apparent fullness of robust health. It is beyond the analysis of human investigation. For instance, Mawmbrino Bertie trained on with amazing progress till he had made his wonderful two-mile trisl of 5:48, at two years of.age, and then the culmination or his carcer seomed (o have inetantly taken place. Crittenden, too, tralned on, full of ‘buoyant courage, until he trotted that fatal mile-trial in 2:29, at three years of age: but from that day to {his fie bus not only Jost his resolute speed, and even stroke, and exuberant ambition, but the trottinzaction has be- come g0 irksome %0 him that nothing but the hob- bles, used to change 'the gait from pacing to trot- ting, will force him to resume his stride. . . . The most terrible denunciaiion of this cruel sys- tem of precocious development is found in the startling fact that only one single contestant on the English turf to-day has reached the natural morta- ary of 5 years of age. ‘Not even the cloguent protests of that eminent authority, Admiral Rous, could recount the wrongs of the many grand colts and flllies that the per- nicious practice of early training and racing has consigned to the crippled helvlessness of prems- fure Gecrepitude in the stock harems of old En- glund. 5 NEXT YEAR'S PROSPECTS. © The Septilateral Circuit for next year has finally been filled by Flectwood Park, which claims the week following the mecting at Hart- ford, being the first week in September. As Cleveland and Springfield are already at warregarding dates, cach having claimed the last week in July for its meeting, there is a fine prospect for a row, which will be hailed with joy by Western horsemen. Last year Springfield jearned that its position at the end of the cir- euit, was a disadvantageous_one, and for next car has claimed the week heretofore occupied { Cleveland, and which that track still claims. he clash of interest secms likely to result dis- astrously all around. > Horsemen all over the country have learned that to enter a_trotterall the way throuzh the circuit is attended with no small expense, even when the balf-forfeit system is in operation, and if the animal meets Wwith any of the numerous accidents to which horses in training are pe- culiarly liable, or should vrove not speedy enongh for the class in which itis cngaged, & heavy loss, and in many cases bankruptey 1o the ownr, it the result. To avoid this, many re- fuse to pay the entrance money, are suspended, together with their horses, and retire. From this cause alone, the meetings at Hartford and Springfield last season were failures, and it is Yittle wonder that when the officers of the last- named Association found that Cleveland, Buf- falo, and Rochester were having thé cream, they took the bull by the horns, severed the friendly relations that had existed between all artics, and entered the list for 1877 on an in- cpendent footing. Y &he break in the ranks of the ill-favored Cir- cuit has been hed up, as above stated, by the admission of Fleetwood Park, but whether the arrangement will be a success remains to be seen. The Eastern horsemen will not be apt to ship their stock to Cleveland when equal in- ducements are offered for tke same week at Springficld, and once started in this way of go- Ing. there is no telliog where they will stop. The crooked work displayed on some of the Cir- cait tracks last sumuer hus rcceived the con- demnation of homest horsemen all over the country, and many of them bave expressed the intention of stecring clear of what they are pleased to term *the robbers’ roosts " in the fu- ture. In view of these facts, the management of the_Chicago track should bestir itsclf and take advantace of the opportunity offered. Let the meeting be given, us this year, during the week preceding the contest at leveland. Give reasonable purses, have a variety of events, breaking over the “mile keats to harness,” best three in_ five. a rule that has obtained for so many years, and the success of the last meeting will bé more than equaled. ~ With Dexter Park mal %’war at one cnd and Springfield at the other the monopoly of fast trotting which' the Cireuit tracks have so lopg enjoyed will be completely crushed.—Zhe Post- - RICHMOND RACES. . RICEMOND, Va.,- Nov. 25.—At the Fair Grounds r:we«;ourse‘ last day, the weather was delightful and cool, the attendance moderately good, and the track in fine condition. The first race was a three-quarter mile dash, for all ages. Entrics: Bosworth, First Chance, and Cau{un. First Chance took the lcad at the start and kept it to the finish, with Coupon sccond and Bos- worth third. Time, 1:20. ° The second race was one and a half miles, for all ages. Entries: Lady Clipper, Bay +October. ' day’s. Ela\fly and Rudolphe was rather in the lead. The Rum, | from Baltimays and Hatteras. The race was well contested throughout. Hatteras took the lead on the first quarter and kept it to the end, the other two contesting sh.-u-pl{: for second place. Won by Hatteras. Lady Clipper second, Bay Rum third. Time, 2:425{. The third race ‘was one and a quarter miles, for all ages, Entries: Libby L., Tom O'Neill, and Hobkirk. The latter” being Iame, was allowed to withdraw. The race was spirited be- tween Libby L.and Tom O'Neill, the latter pushing Libby hard on the second and third juarters, but Libby kopt the lead to the finish. ime, 2:18. TRACK GOSSIP. The Brecders' mbeting next year will be held at Fleetwood Park, during the third week in, The rumor eoncerning the breaking down of the race-horse Tom Ochiltree, which is going the rounds, is false. Mr. J. A. Grecn, of Muscatine, Ia., owner of Bashisw, dicd of héart disease Nov. 10. - He was awell-known hcrseman, and his loss will .be much deplored. K The chestnut horse Botany Bay, by imported Australian, and the chestnut colt Néw York, by Planet, have been sold to & Western gentieman for stud purposes. Mr. Snnfrird has returned from England, and reports all liis horses in excellcnt health except Brown Prince and Egotist, who were recovering from slight accidents. Blackwood, Jr., winner of the stallion cup at. the Breeders’ mcetln%, is wintering at Nash- ville, Tenn., as also 15 Enfleld, winner of the three-minute race at Dexter Park, last summer. Williams & Owings have shipped Fair Play and Madge Duke to New_Orleans to talke part in the coming meeting. Keccne Richards'stable, consisting of Redman, Redding, Henry Owings, and Clemmie G, will also participate. Willes' Spirit discusses the proposition to arrange an international stallion race between Russinn and American horses, and concludes that it would be impossible to bring about such an event in this country because the Russian horse-owners who trot their horses anly for reputation would not bring them here for any purse. The Spirit concludes that the only op- portunity likely to be given in the near future will be at the Paris Exposition in 1878, when such a meeting as is desired may be bad. The had the Canadian trotting-moose at Bel- mont Park, Philadelphia, Nov. 20, and his style of opening himsel? so disgusted the City Jiem man that he advises “Moseman ” to take down his sign, and substitute the moose for the broken-down horse. The nature of the exhibi- tion did not attract a very large attendence. It was announced that be would endeavor to beat Goldsmith Maid’s time of 2:14. Some time since he was matched to beat 2:20 at Truro, and made his mile in 7:30. Monday, being matcned, aainst 2:14, he did much hetier, and trotted = mile a trifle better than five minutes. If they announce the next time that he will endeavor to o for a milea minute, he may succeed in get- ing down to about three minutes. “If you don’t succeed at first, try,'try, sgain.”? BILLIARDS. THE NEW YORK TOURNAMENT. The billiard tournament which has been in progress in New York all the weck has not pro~ gressed far enough to give a certainty of what the result will be. Soven players are engaged, and aseach has to play six games, it follows that twenty-one contests will be necessary to scttle the matter. Up to the close of yester- sixteen games had becen disposed of, mmoney prizes arc 3600, $100, 8300, and $200, with a_billiard-table for the best general aver- age. The feature of the play is the substitation of a trifile smaller balls for the 23§ which have so lonz been the standard. The mew size is 95-16. Followingis a statement of the play up to tho close of ydsterday: " Joseph Dion won from Cyrille Dion, Schaffer, and Garnier. Lost to Daly. Cyrille Dion wonfrom Garnter. S_[Lmt to Joseph Dion, Kudolphe, Schaffer, and 0s80n. Slosson won’ from Schaffer, Daly, and Cyrille ion. "Lost to Rudolphe and'Garnier. Garnier won from Slosson and Rudolphe. ZLost to Daly, Cyrille Dion, and Joseph Dion. Schaffer won from Daly and Cyrille Dion. Zost to Joseph Dion, Slosson, and Rudolphe. Daly won from Garnier and Joscph Dion. Zoat to ScuufTer 2nd Slosson. Rudolphe won from Slosson, Cyrille Dion, and Schaffer. “Loat to Garnier. New York, Nov. 25.—The afternoon game in the billiard tournament was between Rudolphe and Schaffer. The former won—300 to 152. Garnier and Joseph Dion opened_the evening play. Garnier was 203, when Dion ran the fame out. i Slosson and Cyrille Dion followed. This was the most plucky and_closely-contested game of the series. Dion started by making a run, of 114, Slosson caught up, and showed a gm%i deal of scientific play. n the twenty-first in- ning Dion stood at 257'and Slosson 235, when the latter made a_run, winning tae game, with an average of 14 9-21. \ OTHER SPORTS. A% . COCEING. The effort to make a main of cocks from Chi- eago and Buffalo is about where it was & week aro, except that Jerry Mouroe, the leader of the chicken-fanciers of this city, has made an ultimatom with his Buffalo challenger, Dean” Wilson, of No. 65 Carroll strect. Jerry offers to fight him a twenty-bird main anywhere with- in ‘miles.of Chicazo for $30 a side a battle, and a side the main. Inasmuch s thisis the only proposition that Jerry will make, it will talce only a few days to find oub whether the battles will be fought or not. PEDESTRIANISM. The 300-mile malk between O'Leary and Crossland for $1,000 was to have been com- menced over the Lillie Bridge (Eng.) course last Monday, but nothing has been known of the re- sult here, or even if it was walked. The London Sporting Life has the following | in its last issue: “Some influential members of the Turf Club bave exoressed a willingness to. back Weston against O'Leary for a genuinesix-days’ walking- mateh, to take place at Lillie Bridze, under tie management of the A. A. C., and the Smithfield Club show week has been proposed as a most suitable time. If O’Leary and Weston desire to oppose each other in g fair aud honorable con- test, the stake on either side could be made sufficiently large w0 overcome even the atbrac- tion of gate-money exhibitions,” THE RIPLE. The New York 15orld of the 10th relates the experience of the rific shots in their first match at “ the running deer.” The following descrip- tion will interest Chicago rifiemen: The first competition in the Winchester company match at the *‘Running Deer" target was shot at Crecdmoor yesterday. The distance was100 yards. and open to any rifle, including repeaters: bulls® eyes to count four, centres three, and outers two. A fine of 10 cents was imposed for each thot fired when the deer was outside the boundries, or which struck the haunch. These fines were added to the entrance money, and onc-third of the total went to the highest acore, and one-sixth to sccond best score. The prize ia_$50, to be won three times. Each competitor liad the privilege of entering fonr times, but only the highest score to take the prize. Tlundreds of gentlemen from this city and the peighborhood “who wonld never travel out to Creedmoor to bang awayat aatill target, now have an inducement to _trytheir luck on the ranning deer. It is made “of boiler-iron bolted gecnrely together, and placed on a short pivot, that gives the deer, when running, an almost natural swing. An inclined plane ‘has been 1aid, upon which i3 placed a narrow track. The deer is on small rollers, and two men, placed at each end of the track, behind a partition which gmmcu them from etray bullets, push the deer own with force enough to run it up the opposite side. The distance within the boundaries is abont ninety feet, and the deer will cross' this within thirty seconds, When it runs across, the men at the other end turn it abont on the %ivot, and send it epinning back. Guod shots at the still targets failed yesterday to hit the running deer often. They must aim hetween four and five feet apcad of the deer to hit him, and those failing to do this of- ten bit his, hannches. The competitors enzazed yeatérday numbered twenty-six, and, notwith- standing the cold wind, kept up a continual roar of langhter, as the black disk, showing fnes, was stuck up more than any otheT. These were nine competitors who did not hit the deer once, but who declared that they had received their money's worth of sport. G. E. Stetron made the best score in the fi{th competition fur the prize offered by Messrs. Schuyler, Lartley & Grabam for rapidi- 1y and accurucy. e ————— PORT HURON. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. PorTHURON, Mich.,Nov. 25-10 p. m.—Dow~N— Propellers R. Holland, Idabo, Winona, Asia, Eeweenaw, China and consort, Mayflower and barges; schooners Schuylkill, J. E. Gil- more. . Up—Propellers Russia, Java, Annic ‘L. Craiz, Emmé¢ Thompson and barges, Wetmore and consort, Coflinberry and barges; schooners E- ‘A, Nicholson, Champion, - ‘Wixp—Southwest, and gentle; weather mild, with snow. ————————— GCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yors, Nov. 25.—Arrived, steamships %gritmllc, from Liverpool, and Cornwall, {rom stal. . -, Loxpo, Jov. 25.—Arrived out, steamships | Bothnia, frors, New York, and Nova: Scoting, AVEN, EUROPEAN GOSSIP. Bathing at Leukerbad--One of the Queerest of Sights. The Day of the Dead---How It Was Observed at Paris. A Spiritual Story. BATHING AT LEUKERBAD. A Leukerbad correspondent of the Boston Herald snys: * Coming down the Ghemmi Pass, on the Rhone side, I found myself in the beginning of a dirty town, the filth-strewn streets of which were only equaled by the gen- eral dirt on every side. But, luckily, this was only a certain quarter, and, after carefully pick- ingmy wayto the hotel path, reached what promised greater cleanliness and more personal comfort. I wasrather sstonished at this, for I was in Leukerbad, which even in its name told of its being a bathing town, and one would at least expect cleanliness in such a place. “I had heard of the Baths of Leuk, and was particulary anxious to see them. I was told the best time to go was between half-past 5 and half-past 6. So the next morning I arose early, 20d passing through a covered passage-way that continued the hall of the stage on which I slept, I was shown into the public bath-room, where I saw something I cerfainly shall never forget. A large, well-shaped room, with several windows. Tae walls somewhat dirtier than white. - At the side opposite the windowsa number of blue wooden doors. The foor of stone, and divided into three tanks, two small and one large. The tanks were paved with stone, and about chest deep, and were filled with a slightly opaque brownish water. In this water were every one of the gay individuals who had peopled the salon the evening before. The Dbenevolent-looking lady was sitting on a Wooden seat that ran all round inside the bath-tank. The face was the same; but, horrors! half the sflger hair that looked 50 well last night was evidently up-stairs, and a few corkscrew ringlets bung dampiy by her head. Before her face floated (she” was im- mersed in water up to her ‘beck) on a piece of two-inch plank sbaped Jike a'lily-pad, her break- fast, which she proceeced tu “eat whenever the conversation she was directing dlowed 2 pause. The coffee, Frenchrolls, and a little honey with an gy might have looked most _appetizing bad I met them outside, but bere, ban! I thonght every minute the brown and medicinal smelling wuter would run down from. her baggy cotton sleeve, and, slipping by the diamond ring, drop into the coffee or darken the suowy ' sait. Be- side her plate was the morning copy of the Times, as yet uncut. Before and around ber were all the women and men that had danced away the cvening before. But what a change! Toilets, where were ye? The heads were, in- deed, nature unadorned. As for dress, each one worea sort of bag made of jean, or something similar, which, fastened round the throat, pos- seased slecves, and came down 8s far as the knees, but it wss unconfined. Some few, in ad- dition, wore knee-breeches; but there they were, 3 wet, steaming, unpainted, unpowdered crowd. ““Some were just finishing their break- fasts, others ~were reading Ictters, others were chaffing. The gentle- man who had worn the white kid gioves the night before was flipping water in the face of the lady who had pounded the piano, and choked off lier attempts to singz a snatch from ¢ Madame Angot.’ All possessed the lily-pad shaped boards, and tney would occasionally tako a sort of swim, by allowing their weight to rest on the boards aud pushing themselves along with their feet; which, by the way, as the water was sufliclently clear, were quite visible, and were bare, as was also the leg as far as the knee. Waiters were passing to and fro with orders. While looking at_this extraordinary sighta new-comer entered from behind one of the ‘littlo ‘blue doors, and_bowing to all in the bath with exquisite French ~politeness, ho seated himself slowly on the bath bench by\pushing his board under water, the buoy- ancy of the wood forminga resisting power to the law of grayvity, and ordered his bresk- fast. Turning to look on the other side, the first tank contained three women (the larger had. seven women and five men), one of whom was the red-nosed female I had seen in the parlor; she was geated in a corner of the tank. Before her floated a lily-pad board, and on it a reading- dosk. The open book before ber, ‘L’Homme qui Rit," and in the water below her white feet and legs were visible. My staring, aswell asthe half dozen otker visitors, produced no surprise; in fact it scemed to be taken for granted. On the opposite side of this tank sat two old cro- nies busily gossllplng, and so vchement was their aiscussion that I expected every moment to see all the breakfast things upset and disappear be- neath the wave. Once one old woman'’s bread and butter did o under as she made a wild ges- ture, but it scemed to make no difference, for the soused portion was the next that passed out of sight behind her toothless gums. . Just be- yond the old woman was the third tank, and I saw it was tenanted by one solitary iudividual. With his arms passed between two lily-pad planks he fluated, the wave just flgpling gnst his chin. Nothing was scen of him but his bald and shining head between the boats, like a cherub’s head between his wings. As he turacd, floating solemnly, and with no apparent effort, his face came toward us; lo! and behold, it was our dozing old gentleman. He floated 60 gen- tly, and in such o dignificd way, that I felt sure his hands must still be_softly clasped below his watch chain, or where his watch chain oughnt to be. But I asked of an attendant, * Why is this good-natured looking gentleman shut up all :ly himself, and not allowed to mingle in the Wal- halla of the Bix Tank; Js be dangerous®’ *Oh,’ answered my guide, * he’s an incurable.’” % An incurable! Hugh! Ibeganto creep all over, and, holding_my breath, left the place more boldly than I had entered.” It seemed as if I had come from a hospital, and to thiuk that T dined with these people. Uflghl “Qutside, 1 paused in my flight to read the regulations. Summarized, tney inform you that the care of the waters and police jurisdiction is intrusted to an inspector appointed by the State. He takes particular charze of the source and management of the sprivzs. He is to keep all buildings in good order, to receive yeur}iy advice from the doctors at the water-cure. and to see that the tanks are never overcrowded. His duties begin on June 1, and end Sept. 15. The bathing establishment shall be regularly open from 5 till 10 2. m., and from 2till5p. m. No one shall be admitted to the bath where all bathe togcther without an admission card given by a physician of the cure. The prive of an ad- mission card is fixed at onefranc. The inspector can cxpel any one from ihe tanks who violates the rulesasto admission. He is alsoempowered to expel or fine any one who breaksany rule, who indulzes in improper and unseemly conversa- tion, shouting, swearing, singing obscene songs, or splashing water. He decides all disputes be- tween bathers and wajters. He has also police charge of the whole place, makes reports to the Government, prevents begging, and a thousand. other little things. All fines of his imposition go to the poor-box. The minimum is two, the maxfmum fifteen, francs. “My attendant_now called my attention to the private baths, Which anybody could have by paying 50 cents. 1 felt the water. It was very warm (88 Fahrenhbeit), but the vision of the old fncurable remoyed all temptation from wy eyes. 1 went out, and, joining some friends, we went through the village, and visited five other baths the place is provided with, three first-class at 40 cents, one second, 25 cénts, and one third- class, or & free poor bath, a sort of Bethesda pool. Inall but the poor bath there were from twenty to forty people in the water, what re- mained of the 900 patients who were in Leuker- bad this.past summer. Those that under ordi- | nary circumstances I wonld have found in the poor bath had been placed in a separate bath in the second-class house. Inall, when I entered one of. the bathers instantly swam toward me, presenting a basket at the end of a stick, an goliciting alms. One of my companions, arather susceptible Boston boy, who entered the bath for the first time, fled witha howl as this wet and steaming sinner swam toward us. The peo- ple in these baths were of an inferior class to those I had seen in the first one, and were maio- 1y French, 3 the newspapers of the morninz mail, which is daily deliveredin the bath-houses, plainly indicate. “In some of the tanks a dozen or two werc playing a simple game. Each, women and men together, caught hold of a string on which was slipped 2 ring, and one of the number stood in the middle endeavoring to stop the course of the ring and _touch its possessor. A constant chantiog in French was kept up, and as the ring was passed under water there was cver a chorus of splashing. . In one bath an old cure sat read- ing his Testament, and in each house I saw one or two apart by themselues—old sinners floating round. There were others of the band of incur- ables set apart like rare animals in a zoological Zarden. “The tank bath {s used in all cases. From 4 to 5 in the morning, everyone is np. The bather goes to the dressinz-room of toe tank which be prefers, and dons the long woolen tunic. He goes to the entrance of the tank, plunges care- fully into the water, and joins those already there. Affer four or five honrs in the water he dries himself with warm towels, retarns to the hotel, and sleeps or rests about half an hour or | more. At 11a. m. he has his gecond breaklast. -He then walks and amuses himself, and be- tween 4 and 5 p. m. takes his sccond bath, re- maining in the water about an hour. He dines about § and retires about 10. Heis cautioned to avoid violent emotions, great fatizue, long excursions, dancing, late hours, excess at_table, indizestible spiced and heating food, abuse of spirituous and alcoholic drinks, salt and smoked meats, sausaze, and too much wine. It is im- prudent to take a bath alter a long journey. Greatattention must be paid to weather, espe- cially as the changes are so frequent in mouatain climates, and warm clothing is indispensable. As much exercise as possible should be taken, 2nd ¢ the patient should seek the society of oth- ers.’ The water is to be taken internally when it does ot interfere with the discstion. ~ Taken in this way it is often good for internal troubles of the liver and other orrans. [t is taken hot or cold and between meals. Shower baths and all the forms of douches are used, and in many other ways the water is used. Lotfons are ap- plied to those parts of the head that arc not rlm:ed under water. The water is also applied by means of wet cloths to swollen - joints, ete. Some patients during the first days exhibit signs of nervousness, sleeplessness, and general fa- tigue. Others display a tendency to sadness and despondency. fhis soon disappears, the breathing becomes freer and_decper, the circu- lation frecr, and in a little while the patient is covered with an eruption Yxmu«), which is ascribed to various causes. It retires as cari- ously as it came, and with its departure the pa- tient is cured.” THE DAY OF TIIE DEAD. A Paris letter to the Philadelphia Zelegraph 6ays: Wednesday being All Saints’ Day, and yesterday the Day of the Dead (Le Jour des Morts), the usual annual pilgrimage m the cem- cteries, to lay wreaths and bouquets on the graves, and to say prayers beside them, took place. It is truly our Decoration Day on a universal scale. As the weather was superb, the crowd, always very great, was something pro- digious. It has been cstimated that there were over 400,000 visitors to the different cemeterics. ‘The greatest throng was, of course, at the vast burial grounds of Pere Lachaise and Mont- martre, but even the simplest and most retired cemetery could boast of a number of visitors. ‘This natural aud pious custom of dedicating one dayin the year to the commemoration of tbe beloved dead has been made for years past the vehicle in Paris of political demonstrations, par- ticularly under the Second Empire. Many per- sons yet remember the crowds that throoged around the grave of Cavaignac in 1657, and of Baudin, the murdered Republican Dep- uty, in when the _vast and gorgeous structure of the Empire was alrcady tottezing. The tomb of Bawlin, ren- dered poteworthy even to a casual visitor by the splendid recuinbent figure it bronze, of the dy- ing Deputy, executed by Millet, which adorns its summi, is still one of the pilgrim shrines of Republicanism, and vesterday it was_nearly entircly concealed by the pile_of wreaths that had been showered upon it. The tombs of the Generals, Clement, Thomas, and Lecomte, who were murdered at the outbreak of the Com- mune, were the objects of special attention from the soldiers. The vault wherein sini is interred was bung with garlands, Michelet’s tomb was also protusely decorated; and it is said thrt his widow supplies it with fresh flow- ers weekly. Alfred de Musset’s grave Jooked wan and deserted, notwithstanding the few of- ferings that had been laid upon it, and the wil Iow that he craved to shadc bis last resting- place, has a yellow and faded_aspect. Rachels mausoleum was adorned with two beautiful Jardinieres full of _flowers, besides which many persons, in true French style, had litterally ©left their cmds” upoa the dead actress, 8 pile of visiting cards being _visible just inside the door of the little chap- el. Henri Murger's tomb has. suffercd reatly from the vandalism of visitors. he lovely image of “Youth,” by Millet, that stands at the head of it, is represented as in the act of showering down flowers on the slabJbe- neath, and a number of fluwers carved in marble had been rivited to the slab itself. All these have been broken off and carried away, one by one, and the statue itself has been badly dam- B%cd by damp. Strange to relate, on the grave of Frederic Soulie, some one had deposited a ‘wreath bearing this inscription: * To the Author of the Wandering Jew!” Poor Eugene Sue! There is one grave that is never left undecora- ted, let whose else that will Jack crowns and bouquets; it is that of Marie Duplessis, La Dauie aux Camelias. Though she died ntm‘lfi twenty-three years ago, her name, immortalizes by the genius of the younger Dumas, has still a strong hold on the popular imagination. In strange contrast, thesepulehre of Pere Enfantin, the great leader of the St. Simonians, was wholly neglected. The two great anniversaries of the dead are eagerly anticipated by the makers of the stiff funeral wreaths of dry yellow immortelles, jet beads, and artificial ‘leaves, which form the staple commodities for the decoration of gr.m:s in this unsentimental land. ~Natural owers, although abundant and _cheap, are but little used by the lower classes in com- F.’u‘ison with these tuwdry ornaments. Hideous ittle crosses in black wood, and common plas- ter images representing the little Samucl at rayer, or a kneeling angel, are also very popu- ar. There exists in’ Paris over 1,500 persons ho make thelr living by fabricating funeral wreaths. The favorite immortelle grows on the dry. elevated lands of the middle and southern departments of France. It gets its name_from the tact that its petals, when once dried, pre- serve their color unchanged for several years. It 1s usually yellow, but it is sometimes colored greenor réd. During the month of October the crop of immortclics is forwarded to the Halles Centrales, dried, and packed in small parcels, Swhich are'sold g} a few cents for 3 package of two pounds. Yet notwithstanding this low price gome $3,000 worth of immortelles are used annually in Paris alone. At one cemetery yes- terday, that of Pere le Chaise, it was computed thzt the number of wreaths deposited on the i’m\'es could not have amounted to less than 25,000. The ugliest of all these funeral crowns is an imitation of a wreath of immortclles, cast in plaster and painted a bright yellow, with the inscription “To my Father” or “To my Mother,” ete., in staring black letters. A SPIRITUAL STORY. The Spiritual Scientist tells the following: “Col. A., an English officer living In Paris on half-pay, intrusted some very important and valusble documents to the keeping of B., s Frenchman, who .occupied the rooms immedi- ately below those occupied by Col. A. fn the Rue de F., and who was supposed by the latter to be a safe and conflidential friend; but B., dishonest~ 1y intending to nse those documents for his own benefit, subsequently refused to restore them to .Col. A., and, at length, denied having received them. % “Qwing to certain circumstances of the case, 1t was impossible for Col. A. to recover his prop- erty by legal means; and, having exhausted ar- gument and persuasion in the vain cndeavor to induce B. to give up the papers, he deicrmined to evoke him, with the aid of Mr. C.,an English friend of bis, who, like himself, was a powerful magnetizer, a medium, and firm believer in the feasibility of such evocation. Having fixed on & night for their attempt, the Colonel and Mr. C., being religious men, passed the preceding day together, preparing themselves by prayer, meéditation, and fervent appeals to their spirit guardians for help and Zwadence in the act they had in view. @ At about midnight they heard B. enter bis rooms, They waited until they supposed him to be thoroughly wrapped In slumber, and then solemnly cailed upon bis spint to_present him- self, bringing sll their power of will to the task | of compelling him to come to them. Tremen- dous blows were almost immediately struck by some unseen agency upon the table, which was violently pushed about; and the author of this disturbance, interrogated by the cvokers, de- ‘manded, through the hand of Mr. C. (a writing medinm), what they wanted of him? The two evokers insisted that B. should tell them where he had deposited the stolen papers, and B. obstinately refuscd to give the informa- tion demanded, jerking the ‘medium’s hand about, or beating it violently ngainst the table, breniing the pencil, tearing the paper, and fill- ing the room With strange noises, until, van- quished by the superiour fludic force of the evokers and their spirit hepers, he confessed that he had placed tuem in s secret drawer, opened by a spring, in a cabinct, which be de- scribed, it: 3 room ol vhich he gave the address, in the Rue.de D. (i a distant quarter of the town), under the care of o man who was in his par, and to whom ke had intrusted the key of the room. @B, awoke in the morning with a full and distioct remembrance of the nocturnal scene in which be bad been so unwillingly an actor, though uncertain as to whether it been 3 dream or a reality. Alarmed, be dressed in haste, rushed off to the Rue de D., ana ordered his man on no account to let anybody into the room of which he had the key. “*+But the two gentlemen who were here this morning, almost before it was light, came by your order, replied the man ‘and so, of ‘course, [letthem in.” \Yith an oath B.dashéd up the stairs and into the room. is rage at the keeper of the key and the evokers when bie saw tbat the papers Were gone, may be ed, Ke- turning at once to the Rue de P, he went direct to the Colonel’s rooms, forced his way in, and upbraiding him, threatened to force him to give back the papers. . ¢ don’t much think you will?’ colmly re- turned the Colonel, ‘for they are already on their way to England, where they will be saie from the machinations of sconndrels like you.! #1ncredible as it may scem, B., blinded by rage and capidity, determined to take legal proceedines agzainat Col. A. for the revovery of the papers, and actually cited him before Magistrate on 2 charge of frandulent abstrac- tion of documents. “When the litieunts appeared. before the Judge, B., as plaintiff, was called upon to state the groutd ot his complaint. He began to re- count the scene of the evocation just narrated; but the Judgze, sup) him to be of unsound mind, cut him short, cxclaiming, *Hold your tongue! Ihaveno timeto waste on madmen. The case is dismissgd.??” £ FIRES. AT NEWARK. N. J. NewARg, N. J., Nov. 25.~The extensive enameled-cloth factory of Atha & Hughes, on Sussex avenue, was destroyed by Erc this moim- ing. The loss Is between $50,000 and $735,000. Partially insured. IN. CHICAGO. The alarm from Box § at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon was caused by a fire in G. F. Foster's sail loft, No. 4 Narket street, caused by the ex- plosion of a gasometer. Damage triflicg. e ———— GEN. HOWARD'S ACCOUNT. ‘WasmeToN, D. C., Nov. 25.—To-dsy Dis trict-Attorney Walls entered a euit for the TUnited States against Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, A. R. Shephard, and Edgar Ketchum (the twa last as sureties on the bond ot thefirst-named)ta recover the sum of $22,703, which, it is charged, ke bas nut accounted for. and wlich sum came into his hands by virtue of his appointment a3 Special Agent and Disbursing Officer of the Bu- ;:_-:u d:f Refuge and Freedmen and Abandoned nds. DUCTIONS. Ovwing to tardiness, and to meet the general requirements of the public, we have determined to re- duce the prices of our goods be- low anything offered in the city. 500 pieces stylish Dress Goods, Striped, Plaid, and Snowflake, reduced to 13e, worth 35¢. 350 Tvcon Repps, elegant styles, reduced to 14c, former price 35c. 275 pieces Colored Alpacas, double faid, reduced to 200, former price 30c. 250 Serges and Basket Oloth reduced to 20 aund 25¢, worth 30 and 35¢. 100 pieces Black and Colored English Cashmeres, double fold, 35 and 40¢, redaced from 45 aod 50c. 175 pieces Black Cashmere, all-wool, 40- inc wide, 80, 85, 75, and 850, reduced from 75, 85, 80c, and £1. 150 pieces Black Cashmeres, all-woo!, 43 inches wide, reduced to 75, 85, 90¢, and 51, These are the lcwest quotations on Black Cashmere of any housa in the city. 125 Black Alpacas, Mohair Lustre, reduc- ea to 35, 35, 45, and §0c. 85 pieces Cioaking Waterproofs, 45, 50, 85, 75, 85¢, and S1, the cheapest Whater- - proofs ever cffered. 100 pieces Plain and Rough Cloakinz Bea- vers, $1.25, 51.75, $2, asnd $2.50,—exiraor- dinary bargains. 150 pieces Boys’ Cassimeres, reduced to 35, 45, 50, 65, and 75¢c. 175 pieces Men’s Cassimeres reduced to 85¢, $1, $1.25, $1.50. P. S.-—Extaordinary Bargains in Dress Silks, Beaver Cloaks, Furs, Blankets, Flannels,fand Un- derwear. New York Siome 284 & 286 WEST MADISON-ST. GROCERIES. DO ¥YOU KEEP HOUSE 7 Flour, Minnesota Spring Wheat, best, per bri36. Flour, White Winter Wheat, best, per bel... Plour, Patent, best, per br] H Syrup, 5-gallon Kege, for. fackerel. 1~ kita, extra fat, pe Raisinn, Layers, new, 25- Raisins, Layers, new, 6-Ib boxes.. Currants, new, per B... Java Coffec, green, per . Jzva Coffee, roasted, pet i Java Coffee, green, hest. per b Juva Coflee, roasted, best, pes ib. Jtio Coffee, roasted, ‘best, per Ib. Starch, 6-D box Feision: 1A Corn Starch, Kingsford's, 1-D pac Oyster Crackers, beat, 3 e for Soda Crackers, best, 31 for. Delivered free In all parts of the city. J. HICKSON, 113 East Madison-st. SPECIAL NOTICE. Owinz to the continued dullness in_the Who'esale Trade. nnd my stoct of LA- DIES’ zni GEN'FLEMEN'S boing very large, 1 will sell at . RETAII: Al kinds of manufactured Furs, including Seal & Mink Sacques, Fur Trimmings, Etc., AT MY REGULAR 'WHOLESALE PRICES. CHARLES GLANZ, 1MPORTER AND MANUFACTURER, 110 & 112 Madison-st.

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