Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1876, Page 2

[ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE friends and the sister of Mrs. Pickering accom- panied them, but their efforts at consolation were whelly unavailing. £ ¥ * ME. ELMOEE & was fnsearch of Mr. Andrew E. Elmore, of Fort Howard, Wis. Newshad been received that s man answering the descrintig of Mr. Elmore, nd some things in his pockets, and_some tufts of gray hair identified a3 his, had been found, completing 2 chain of grcumstantial evidenceof bis desth. The late Mr. Elmore had been for .gome years connccted with the Northwestern Road, sud was its General Agent in ‘Wisconsin. ¢ ¢ F. W. LOBDELL. Mr. 2. W. Bingham, of the firm of Miller & Bingham, shirt manufacturers, of Troy, N. Y., " and Mr. 1. D. N. Lobdetl, of the firm of Lobdell & Cronghty, of Chicago, were in melancholy search of Mr. F.-W. Lobdell, manager of the New York office of Miler & Bingham, and hav- ing bis office at 215 Church street, New York. - He was 27 years of age and anexcellent business man. Word was recefved yesterday that he was seriously, znd his friends fear fotally, injured. Mr. C. H. Hinman, late with the firm of Cra- gin Bros. & Chandler, had received word that nn intimate friend, Mr. H. W. Shepssd, Presi- dent of the lron-Clad Can Company, of Brook- lan, had lost & foot. Afr. Shepard was 40 years of age. - .. MD. G.X. PALMER, with the firm of E. P. Allison & Co.. {ron mer- chants, of Chicago, was anxious about his wife. She had becn on the train ab Ashtabule, but he . had hopes that she wes on the train coming in. At South Bend he received a telegram that she . was not on the train, and he went on to Ashta- _ bule. . —— PARS ¥FUL THE SARRATIVE OF A PASSENGEE. Mr. J. E. Burchell, partoer of B. ¥. Jacobs, of this city, who was on the unfortunate train, left the wreck at about 9 o’clock yesterday morning, and arrived in . Chicago about midnight. His story is full of horror: «Thero were eleven cars on the train that left Buftalo at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. There * were two engines, three baggage, one smoker, two coaches, thres sleepers, and one parlor car. 1 rhonld judge there were 230 passengers. We pulled out of ‘Buffalo in a blinding snow-storm, an hour late, and ran at the rateof about fifteen miles an hour until about an hour, or may be only balf an hour, before the accident, when ‘she glacked . up to sbont ten miles an hour. The sccond engine was taken on ' at abont Dunkirk Just = before reaching the bridge, the snow was very heavy, and at that station near by, the name of which * 1 have forgotten, there was every danger of _ being snowed in. Wehad lost an hour and a ‘mp the blood as it ' passed along, &rd crushing eremnrsalualy a8 it curled out human lives as around the stubborn woodwork. «Whtn the traln 'fell, Mr. Bliss succeeded in crawling throngh a window, supposing he could pull his wife and children after him. But they were jammed fast, and every effort of his was jammed up, and the lzdy and her children were caught in the ironwork of the seats. Findlng that he could ‘unavailing. - The car was all not save them, HE STAYED TEERE WITH THEM AND DIED. Most all the passengers who escaped did soby was no egress at there. Oune lady and almost every and when taking her out the resculng party could hear the screams of women and children sayof the windows. There he doors, for the stoves were was pulled from a window, stitch of clothing stripped {rom her, they were for 8id, but could render them no assistance. “Those who came from trunks of those who had been literslly ever been there. «0f the fifty-two taken from the wreck, all were more or less injured, and abont forty of them dangerously, if not fatally. Idon't re- member any names. I was badly shaken up: and bruised, and I think there was only one man- who was as little burt as I was. «There was a fire-engine there, but there was nohose. I think the fire lasted about an hour, and by that time all the cars were burned. X half from Buffalo to the bridee. i « Before reaching the bridge I went through “ the train and noticed that the coaches snd the - smoker were filled. The smoker did not come in its regular order. There were two passenger ‘coaches ghead of it. Next behind the smoker was the parlor car, in which Mr. Bliss and his family were, and £ noticed it was one-third foll 1 was in the car behind the parlor, and ‘my car ‘was filled. Behind that were the three sleepers, *which were also nearly filled. < ° «Ye peared the bridze at about 7:45, though *dne at Ashtabula st 5:15. East of the bridge the country is rolling, and beyond the creek it -« grows more level. Weran'on the structure gt *a rate of abont ten milesan hour, and the 7 WHOLE TRAIN WAS OK TIE BRIDGE “when it gave way. The briage is about 200 feet Jong, and only the first engine had passed over wheu the crash came, the weight of the falling ,cars nearly pullingback the locomotive that had _passed over. . . 4 The first thing T heard was a crackingdn the front part of the car, and then thesame cracking: in the rear. Then came another cracking in the fropt louder than the first, and ghen came & sickening oscillation and a sudden etnking, and I was thrown stunned from my scat. I heard the cracking, and splintering, and smashing aroufid me. The iron work bent and twisted like snakes, and everything took horrid shapes. 1 heard a ladyscream in anguish, *Oh! helpme!’ Then I heard the cry of fire. Some one broke a window 2nd I pushe# the lady out who had screamed. I think her name was Miss Bingham. 4 The train lay in the valley in the water, our zar'a little on its side, both ends broken in. The _rest of the train lay in every direction, some on end, some on the side, crushed and broken, a terrible but picturesque sight. Below wero the water and broken ice; seventy feet above was the broken bridge. i " «Miss Bingham sank down in the snow and I went back after my coat. Securing that, I went to her and carried her, with a dozen stumbles and falls, up the bahk. The snow in the valley was nearly to my waist] and I could only move .with difficulty. The wreck was then on fire. The wind was blowing trom the east and whirl— .ing blinding masses of snow over the terrible ruin. - . 8 THE CRACKLING OF THE FLAMES, .the whistling wind, the sereaming, ,ade 8 pandemontum of that i .the water of the freezing crec ‘blood or black with the fly ing then know that any lives had bel 11 had oscaped_alive, though all wéte or in- jured. The fire stole swiftly alodg lfhe wreck, and inafew moments the carl fiames. The ruins covered the whyy tween the two piers, the cars jammed in or Jocked together. One engine lay in the creck, “smashed to pleces, the ruics breathing steam .and fire. * uJcarried Miss Bingham to the only house nesr by, and which appeared tobe an engine- ‘house. I was completely exhausted, and re- mained there forty-five minutes, when the in- jured began to arrive. I think there were fifty- _two brought in alive, bub onc or two died after their removal to the town, where they were sub- “sequently taken. The town was about a quarter W amile distant. L4 e « [ did not go back to the wreck, but from the tnginc-house door I could see into the ravine, 1nd the fearful scene it presented. The’ sighi was elckening. The whole.wreck was then on fire, and from out the frozen valley came great sursts of flame. There werc crowds of men there, but the fire beat them back, and they somld do nothing. The wounded were lying sround in the snow, or were laid on stretchers or taken on the backs of men and carried up the bluf. The spectacle was frightful, but those who had gone to assist worked steadily and well in spite of the intense heat. They carried away sll who could be rescued, and then waited mournfally for the flames to subside, 5o that bodies might be taken out. As fastas thein- jured were sccured they were taken to the hotel. That wes some time before anything | coald be done, forin thirty minutes after the [all it was impossible to get near it forths fire. 1 think it likely that a great many were buried under the cars, and g LOST IN THAT WAY. . “ The hotcl was about a quarterof amile from the creek, and as the long line of stretch- =rs and stout men bors the sufferers along, the stormy air was filled Wwith moanings of auguish. At the hotel the wounded were kindly carcd for. Physiclans and suigeons were carly on hand, and every effort was made Lo relieve the sufferers. One lady, whose foot had been crushed, was carried shrieking in tabor pains to the little hotel, and during the night she gave birth to a child. * “From the topof the bluff to the water's sdre it Is, I should think, from seventy to .eighty fect, and along that bluff there ranged Lines of excited men looking down on the burn- Ao, helpless sgony below.. It wasa heartrend- Ing scene. The mangled, bleeding bodies writhed in the terrible tortures around them. _Bome died with prayer an& some with shriekings of woe on their - lips. Some Were caught in the iron and woodwork, and hetd while the flames crept upon ihem and burned them in.the ~ery sight of cool, rippling water. .As they died they fixed their bloodshot eyes longingly upon the snow . that beat pitilessly down, and lay white and beaati- ful on their smoke-blackened faces. The fire crept steadily on through the snow fiakes, leap- don’t think any one was taken ont alive after the fire. YTam fearful that all who were not saved before the fiames got headway, perished P: the general conflagration. « At the hotel I heard some of the employes of the road soy they had slways been afraid of that bridge. One man said he went over it two hours before the accident and thought then it was too light. «Jghonld ssy there were at the least reck- oning ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONS EILLED outright or burned to degth, and this in spite of .the fact that some of the officers claim thatv there were only 165 on the train. Y don’t know thensme of a human being among the killed, except Mr. Bliss hd his fam- ily, and I don’t know the names of any of the injured. All slong the road coming from the scene are anxions men fearful that friends or relatives were on the train and killed or injured. Perhaps some of them may yet heer of deplora- bldMosses, for the railroad officials admit that there were over 100 killed.” THE STORY OF A SLEEFEE PORTER. Mr. Jerry Stewart, who also came in last night, was porter onthe New York sleeper « Palatine.” 7 yas standing by the statcroom at thefront of the car when the accident occurred. The first thing I heard was the bell-cord snap, and then the forward trucks struck on the bridge, and were knocked off the car and the car camedown on the bridge. My car was the first sleeper and the eighth car from the engine. As she struck the bridge it broke and she went down through. “The cars forward went down first and the three sleepers followed together. My car struck offop of the parlor car, and the other leepers followed right after. The parlor car 11 on her side, and my car crashing through it, Xkilled cvery one it. There isno trace of any one ever coming out of that parlor car. The sleepers behind me fell separately on their sides. In the parlor car was a man and his wife and two children, and two more passengers, the sleepinz-car conductor, Harry Waguer, of Syracuse, and the porter, ,Charley Kane, Cleve- land. In mycar therewere twenty-five pas- sengers. I don’t know any of the names. «PAfte rve: struck, I sang out to my pas- sengers,-*Get ont the upper windows.” They all broke for the windows, and all succeeded in getting out, so far as I know. I got out of a window, and helped out zn old gentleman and a lady with a broken leg.- I then went up the bank. AsIwentup the bank [ looked back at | the train and it was then on fire. I turned back after helping the woman with the broken leg up. When I gof I helped out the old gen- tleman. The fire cayght in the rear part of my car, and the k: WHOLE TRAIX WAS BURNING BRISELY. I did not see anybody crawling ont, nor did I see any one lying around. All that were saved ad been savéd then. As fast as the passengers were taken out they were taken up the bank. From the time I helped the woman out until I | train.- got back.must have been sbout five mimutes, and in that time the flames had run the whole length of the train, and the whole wreck wason fire. All who'were not saved in fifteen minutes were - never saved at all. ' The wind blew of fiercely, end there was no hope putting the fire out. It burned for an hour and a-half or two hours, nearer two hours, Ishould think. % KO ONE COULD GET NEAR IT ‘because of the heat, and the crowd stood around on the bluff waiting for the fire to burn out. u] think all the passengers in the coaches perished, for the sleepers fell on them and crushed them. The last sleeper was the Lonis-, ville car, the *Osseo. There were four or five: people init. I saw only one who got out. It was a2 lady, but I don’t know her name. The next was the Boston car, the *City of Builalo.” 8he carried a Jarge load. I can’t say how many got out. Idon’t know how many passengers there were, for how many were lost, butIthinka large number. “One*engine remaine; othber engine fell and ed completely around. Then came the b: S and the coaches, ani the smoker, and the parlor and sleepers, all mixed il one indescribable mass, cxcept the three last sleepers, which fell togethet. &3 gawno one crawling around, nor did [ hear any screams. , The porter of the ‘Osseo’ was named James Doyle, of New York, and the on the bank. The porter.of the *City of Buffalo’. was named Webb. - Both weré killed. «] saw nearly all my passengers afterwards up at the station, and one or two were fatally injured. The rest were badly but I don’t think dangerously hurt.” . ANXIOUS FRIENDS. DURING THE DAY many people called on Supt. Parsons to see if any news had been heard in regard to the fcl- lowing-pamed persons: ‘Andrew E. Elmoré¢, Fort Howard; H. W. Snepard, Brooklyn; Danicl Bogle, Chicago; Miss Marion Shephard, Ripon, Wis.; W. C. ‘Warner, Chicago; F. W. Lobdell, Troy, N. Y.; Miss Mionie Mixer; Joseph E. DeKoven, New York; A. G. Leonard, Chicago; Frank Nod- Me,; John D. Pickering and his nephew, Chahes R."Picxering, Chicago; Jobn 3. Lalor, Chicago; M. P. Coggswell, Chicago; _P. P. Bliss, wife &nd family, Chicago; Mrs Jesse | § ML Richards; K. L. Hall and bride, Englewood; Mary O’Connor, Schenectady, N. Y.; Albert Guild, Palmer House, Chicago; H. Tilden, *Cleveland; C. P. Fenton, Danville, Ill.; Mrs. kins, Bangor, G. E. Palmer, Milwaulige. THE MIS$ING. In response to inquiries a(.tu' the missing, Supt. Parsons received, among others, the fol- lowing dispatches: Pickering and 'bor{ noton ourlist of saved J. W. Lobdell Is burt serionely. Jiea Mation Shepard sightl not saved. Mrs. Jesse M. Ric C. E. Hineman, A. E. Elmore, nof saved. C. B. Coven. Warner not eaved. The names of the injured on my train [to arrive . S. Car- AmEER. 8t 7 1ast evening] are J. E. Burchell and ter. 7 A few passengers from the wreck went west on people No. 1 this morning. Whether Chi Nooagst them 1 cannot eay. - T, Frraen Lalor, avlawyer of C:lflgn T. Frrsurz, is in the hoepital here. R. Austin, le:roguflemr of Raitway Adcer- . 8 this afternoon [to arrive this mornine]. I have asked for the namex of those, Will advise you soon 2a I There are & good many that were tiser, goes west on if_sny, et answer. amed beyond reco - fu the Cleveland {rom Chicago. ition. T. FLEsuxg, Jo. ngton, Ey. ; A. Burnh: the wreck said they could see into the cars andconld sce the med to death. They described them as wholly un- recognizable beyond identificatiou, and present~ ing the most ghastly scene t.he_ylud ever looked on. Bome of the unfortunates were burned lit- erally to ashes, and in some cases only calcined bones were left to tell that “human beings had hurt. _Mr. Fenton rds. David Bogle, ospital arc A. Glbsoa, Cafro, 1. ; Charles Ricker, Bedford, M;“fl: “'l‘lf=r Hl’gna‘ £ waokee: C. D. jng from one maas of ruius to another, licking | Pattcrson, Waterloo, N. Y. ; John Lalor, Chicago; rt Munroe, Rutland, Mass. Sander- ?.f’.,‘fafgm ioas 5 William Dormer, Nisgara Kokomo, Ind.; R. Austin, New Yorl ‘Harris, Cincinpati; C. Dumas y Davenport, leave Cleveland at 7 o'clock this even- ing, and will arrive in Chicago at 9a.m. i M. Reid ace among the injured den badly, but mot_considered H. Tilden andg. yil T. Fi —Reid slightl, pm el 'LESHEE, JB. Between thirty and forty persons are ‘killed, and about sixty are wounded. . C. B. Couca. A BAD EERAND. General Passenger Agent Morse and Superin- tendent Parsons furnished transportation to the following persons: E. K. Rogers, Jr., and & friend, who went to look after 3 member of. Mr. Rogers' family; Messrs. Whittle, Jacobs, Far- well, and Moore, to look after the remains of Mr. P. P.Bliss and family; Mrs. Stewari, a celored woman, the wife of a porter on one of the sleeping-cars; G. E. Palmer, of Milwaukee, tolook for his-wife and child; Dr. Pearce, of Englewood, to look after Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of Englewood; Charles E. Pickering, wife, and sister, to look after Johu D. Pickering and his nephew. ¢ FERSONAL. % In reference to the missing, a TRIBUNE re- mfiu ascertained the {ouow{ng {further - par- ars: John D. Pickering was a bookkeeper for Pres- ton & Co., Board of Trade Building: his nephew, aged 7 years, is a son of C. E. Picker- ing, resi at” No. 72 Wisconsin street. Al that conld Jearned of them was that they were not on the list of saved. Mrs, Dr. Pearce called and said that H. L. Hall and wife, of u%x:flewond, had certalnly got on the train at B 0. They were marricd at Oswego, N. Y., on Thursday. Mrs. Hall was !ormum Mrs. C. J. Dickenson, of Ghicago, and Mr. Hall js a picture-frame manufacturer, ‘whose Place of business was on Canal street. Mr. Fenton was o bardware dealer at Dan- ville, Al that is known is conveyed in the worda?"“ He is not, saved.” * Mr. Palmer could get no ‘tidings from his wife, and feared the very worst. Miss Minnie Mixer, of New York, was coming :; cdh;mgo to spend the winter. with some iends. : Mr. R E. Burchell, yho was to arrive last evening, was injured, but not scriously. He is & partoer of Mr. B. F. Jacobs, and _tel egraphed that gentleman yesterday to the effect that Mr. P. P. Bliss, wifé, and family were dead, and their bodies were awaiting trans) tion. Mr. Bliss, his wife, and two small children had gonc East to spend the holidays with Mr. Bliss® sons, at Rome, N. Y., and were on _their return 1o Chlmgc \when they met thelr death. : A. B. Elmore, reported among the lost, was & rominent rasident and lawyer of Fort Howard, 8. Daniel Boyle, reported dead, lived at 56 South Ann street.” He wlfi a coal dealer, and, with his son, carried on business at 133 ‘Ladalle street. ‘A telegram was recelived late last evening%v A C. Térry, of 78 Lake street, stating tnat H. W. Shepherd, of the Iron-Clad Can Company doling as well as could be expected under the circumstances. “ A. G. Leonard, sbout whom no information was received, was the head of the firm of A. G- ZLeonard & Co., shoe dealer at 185 Fifth avenue. He resided at 794 Wabash avenue. 4 W. C. Warner, reported lost, was a member of the firm of Woodman & Warner, dealers in wrought-iron pipe at 226 Lake street. 2Irs. Jesse M. Richards, reported among the 1ost, was the wife of a former President of the Board of Trade, who several years ago retired from ctive business and made the tour of the world. Daring the past two or three years he has been traveling back and forth between this and Eastern cities, = M. P. Coggswell, reported_among the dead, was a transient guest at the Palmer. He wasa traveling man, bat had not been in the city for some two months. Killed, was 8 coal merchant of this city, one of the firm of Rogers & Co. Hls brother, E. Rogers, left for Ashtabula yesterday afternoon. THE EXPRESS COMPANY. Early in the forenoon, H. D. Colvin, Agent of the United States, f.xprm Company, tele- graphed to the scene of the disasterto ascertain :mfl partict that might be known, and the fin owing is a copy of & dispatch received by Duxkms, - N. Y., Dec. 30.—H. D. Colvin, Agent: Agentat Ashtabnla says that the body of Parrington, the American Express messenger, has been found. Our messenger, Waite, is probably dead, as he has not yet been found. Both our and he American safes are all right. Waite had but one safe and no valuable trunk, and only 6,500 ?nnnda of freight, and five large packingtrunks for Chicago. 2 There will be no interruption to the through passenger travel on the Lake Shore Road in conscquence of the disaster. Through sleepers were run last night over the Ca Southern Line, and the same arrangement will probably be in force to-night. ‘General Passenger Agent Morse,8uperintend- enta Parsons, aud their assistants, will bein thelr offices to-day to answer all questions in re- to the missi:fi. ‘They will furnish free transportation to parties desiring to go to thescene of the disaster to look after friends and 'relatives Who were on board the fll-fated A LUCEY CHANGE, Mr. Sydney A. Stevens, of Philadelphia, who arrived here last evening, and_Wwho ié stoppin at the Grand Pacific Hotel with his family, b: B TAITOW escape. wnm;% to go through to icago on the ill-faf train. At Onpeids, N. Y., he ubo&nofl for his motker, an aged lady named Mrs..E. B. Stevens, and his sister, Mrs. G, H.Bandford, and nurse and child. They all intended to come on tozether. But his mother was rather too aged to be removed at catiug—entlons from the cars, and hence they concluded to take the Michi Central train, as_ it had hotel cars at- ‘tached. This alone saved the family. . - SHIPWRECKED. t| AN OCEAN STBAMER LOST ON LONG ISLAND. .| NEw YoRk, Dec. 30.—A special dispatch-from Bridgehampton, L. L. says: “At 4 o’clock, the ship Circassian, ashore on the bar off Bridgehampton, on' the south shore of Long Island, was entirely broken up by o southessterly gale, and lost, together with twenty-nine lives. The Circassian went ashore in thestorm on the night of the 11th inst. At that time the crew and officers were saved. The storm of yesterday caught thirty-four men, employes ‘of the Const Wrecking Company, ou board, snd a short {ime after midnight - the ship went to pieces with an awful erash. © Accord- ing to the account, four survivors were washed ashore this morning, more dead than alive, on fragments of the wreck. None of the remaining twenty-nine men have been scen, or ‘heard from, up to the present time, and, there s but little doubt that all have perished. The Circassian was insured for SIM,EOO in’ London, and the cargo for $90,000, in this city. She was consigned to Bwan & Co. Only ebont 400 tons of her cargo were saved. ~ MINOR CASUALTIES. i ANOTHER BRIDGE DISASTER. RUTLAKD, Vt., Dec. 80.—There were forty passengers on the Montreal expresa train which suxt might, broke through s Widge near Pitts- “ three cars and the engine composing the train were completely wrecked. The engineer and fireman. went down with the engine, but escaped unhurt. Capt. Ford, of Montreal, and W. J. Chambers, of Binghamton, N. Y., are the only persons scriogsly bruised. The accident was caused by the train funning off the track and striking the bridge, gredpimt— the structure and cars to the ice below, re- sulting in a mass of ruins. SNOW SLIDES. ;s Savr LAKE, Dec. 80.—There Bave been sev- eral snow-slides in Littlo Cottonwood Cunon within the past few days, carrying away several hundred feet of snow-sheds over the railroad. Yesterday & _snow-slide occurred above Alta which_buried in their cabin two Frenchmen pamed Charles 'Hantani and Louis Labrie. ‘Thelr bodies were brought to Alta to-day. Soenat Diebatch to The Trio une. . CrINTON, In., Dec. 30.—About 6 o’clock last evening, Thomas Hill, a well-to-do farmer§ who has resided twenty-five ycars in this county; while attempting to cross the railroad track ahead of a pessing traln on the down at Low Moor, was, with his wagon and load of W scooped on the engine, he receiving such injurfes that at_2 o'clock this morning he was supposed to be dying. A PATAL SLIDE. : Orrawi iy Deo S0oh Jyearold_sonof ec 30— ear-old_son of the Rev, B, L.” Colwell, pastor ‘of the Baptist 1 | Church, died this morning from the effects of injuries recelved vesterday afternoon, while en- mfid _smif-.he pastime of ‘sliding dovn hill ona A EEROSENE DISASTER. CoLUMBUS, O., Dec. 30.—Mrs, Joseph Kelley was {atally burned this morning by the 8155 Glod after a e Bours, porions of Bér body a few hot lons of he .belnznunulm.m:p‘.“s'po i /| and the Cum&my of New York, had his foot amputated, and was_| Mr. B. A. Rogers, supposed to be among the He - had bm(m}if:t a tlexet in- | ford ‘yet nmome were sqgiously hurt, while | RAILROADS. The Grand Tronk Railway Strike Ase sumes Formidable Proportions. Business at a Stand-Still Along the Entire Line. 2 Newly-Employed Engineers Infimidlm‘d and Compelled to Quit. The Military Called Upon to Protect the Bailroad Anthorities. THE CANADIAYN- STRIKE. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. « 'ToRONTO,, Dec. 80.—The strike among the Grand Trunk locomotive cngineers_is the all- absorbing topic of conversstion here. Alarge number of railway men aud the general public are congregated at the principal pointsof the line and at the round-house here. A strong guard of police is found to b2 necessary to pro- tect the Company's property. It is even thonght probable that the volunteers will_have to be called ont. The course of the strikers in Intimi- dating the Company’s servants, coupled with the discourtcous treatment of passengers, s generally considered unwise, and is ak- recting public sympathy toward the Com- pany. A snowplow wes dispatched east from Belleville this morning, but “was forced to return, the .strikers throwing stones and using threats towards the driver. During the absence of the police for a short time from the round-house here, en epgine was run off the track and considerable property of the Com- pany damaged. Mr. -Spicer, General Superin- tendent of the Grand Trunk, has issued-orders to have the wants of passengers without means attended to. Thére are some fifty or sixty at the Unlon Station here who were going through last night. No train will be run before Mon- day. Till then the Company will devote its whole attention to clearing the track.” Fifteen freight trains are. stu between Toronto and Stratford, Luckily, the only live stock on the line at the time of the strike was_twelve cars of live hogs near Gueelg::, where the: Company -have: good cattle-sheds. Between 300 and L S""“"?;;m Dispatch to The Trid c 0 Tridune. DerroIT, Mich., Dec. 80.—The guarrel be tween the (rand Trunik Railway snd the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineors, which'result- ed in o strike the entire lzngth of the road last night, is still as far from adjustment as when they left work-twenty-fonr hours ago. A few engines, half a dozen or 50, have been engaged, hopes to start 2 few trains east next week, possibly beginning with New- Year's Dn;. D Tpecial Dispatch to The Tribune. MONTREAL, Dec. 30.—The Grand Trunk Rafl- way eogine-drivers' strike is causing serious trouble not only to the Company but to the postal authorities and the traveling public. The strikers are quiet here, and haye a committee in session continuously awaiting developments and keeping an eye on.the ‘‘scabs,”? as the new drtvers placed on engines are called. There is more or less intimidation r;falng on, gnd in cunsmgécncn new men feel frightened and reluc- tant about going out. A Grand Trunk employe states that the railway authorities wiil be uua- ble to secure more tban fifty new drivers to do the work of the road, and many of these appear afraid to act. No freight trams will be' dis- patched till the present trouble subsides. 'An engine-driver who is not a member of the Union was on his way to the city this morning with a train when ke was accosted by some strikers. He pointed out his position to them with tears in his eyes, by showing that_he bad a large family depending on’ him, and while' thgg are receiviog pay from funds of the Brotherhos both he and his children would be left without bread if he struck work. 7 . Engine-Driver Leavey, going east on a mixed train to St. Hyacinthe ‘last cvening, struck at St. Hilaire, notwithstanding that he was a new driver who had recently replaced one of the Brotherhood. The driver has been. arrested. Another driver at Richmond, who was also recently taken on, being nt St. Hyacinthe when the foregoing train was stopped, Was ordered to 8t. Hilaire to take Leavey’s engine and bring 1t Dack to Montreal. He consented to do so. On reachiny; St. Hilaire he received a telegram rrom Mr. Spicer ordering him to move a train from the main line toa side track. He aoswered he would try, but, on being again ordered to do it immediately, he peremptorily refused, -and struck work, and remained thereto keep tuvey company. : g : The strangest part of this aflsir is that nearly all the men recently put on to take the place of the discharged have been among the first to strike. At Richmond, the men all refused to work with the exception of one. When he attempted to take the train out he was threat- ened, and nad to leave the locomotive in the cnzine-chog‘ ‘The hotels in the neighborhood of the traing ‘brought to a standstill both by the strikers and the snow-storm are doing a brisk business. Sev- eral inhabitants of edjoining towns and vil- lages bad to take up their quarters here last night, while othera slept..as best they conld fn the cars, which were placed in reasdiness for them at Bonaventure Station. To all appearance the strike was arranged to take place at o most contrary time, as the men belonging to the workshops do not return to work Saturday, therefors any help expected from that quarter could be diflicult to get, as the men are scattered all over the city. % Special 10 The Tribuna. BELLEVILLE, IIl., Dee. 80.—The strikers drove off the néw workmen to-duy, and placed them inthe lodie-room of the Brotherhood. The au- thorities took steps to release them and punish thefr jailers. The latest development is, that the prisoners have joined the Brotherhood, Who quartered them in a hotel down-town, ' ERToRONTO, Dec. 30.—The only train in motion West of Montreal is a western-bound passenger- train, which is_approaching Belleville. The track at that point is_barricaded on both sides of the town, and the strikers are 80 demonstrative a company of militin has been called out to assist the civil authorities in pro- tecting the railroad employees fin an endeavor to clear_the line. Eastérn-bound passenger trains will be started from this city Sunday ‘morning. 5 St. ALBANS, Dec. 30.—The Grand Trunk en- neers have seized the turn-table at Point 8t. harles, and refusé to let n:{; trains pass. The Eg‘ntrefl anthorities have been applied to for 0 pmefiger_a are detained A DIVIDEND. Nzw YoRk, Dec. 30.—The Auditor of the Lake Shore Road yesterday presented to the Board of Dircctors his report of the business for 1876, and in it says: ‘“The rond, machinery, and property have been all respectively main- tained at their high standard condition, and in many respects materially improved,” where- upon it wes resolved that a dividend of 1% per cent_upon the capital stock, out of the wnlnfi:- e for the six months ending Wwith this month, g:lrl on the first of February next.. The stock ul':lned 1)¢ this morning. and ' recovered 3 per cent. i . APPOINTMENT. 8r. Louts, Mo., Dec. 30.—Col. A. A. Tal- mage, formerly Superintendent of. the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad and its branches, has been appointed General Superintendent of the Mis- souri Pacific Road, vice C., W. Mead, resigned. Col. Talmage will assume Bis dutfes Jan. 1o — ST. Louls. 81. Louis, Mo., Dec. 30.—The opponents to the scheme-and-charter proposition seem deter- mined to fight its adoption to the bitter end. The certification of Mayor Overstolz and Pesid- ing Justice Speck yesterday was sent to Becre- tary of State McGrath at Jefferson City last night. At3o'clock this morning that geatle- man wos aroused from his slumbers br Alexan- der- J. P. Garesche, a lawyer ‘of this city, snd notified that an {njunction would be applled for before the Circuit Court there to restrain him from receiving, filing, or deperiting in his office a copylof said scheme and charter. Some hours later Col. L. O. Knapp left with Secretary McGrath the copy sent up Messrs. Overstolz and Speck, and thus the mff ter will rest until Jan. 4, when the application for injunction will be made. e ————— OBITUARY. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridure. ASN ARBOE, Mich., Dec. 30.—Dr. N. 8. Hal- leck, aged about 70, fell dead this afternoon of heart disease. He had not been ailing, but was supposed to be perfectly well. He has lived in this city and vicinity for the past forty years, BLOOMINGTON ITEMS, Special Zispaich to The Tribune. BrooMixGTos, Iil., Dec. 30.—Lawyers of ‘Bloomington held a meeting -to-day regarding the sppointment of delegates to the Bar meet- | ing at Springfleld on Thureday next. Inasmnch 23 thers will be many Bloomington attorneys in Springfield that day, no sppolntments wcro made. - Messrs, Hoghes, McNulta, and Prince were appointed to draw up constitation and by-laws for a County Bar Association to be or- ganized Jan 13, Tt is the opinion of o majority of the McLean County Bar that Judie Tipton's resignation should take effect March 1, and not sooner. FOREIGN. % THE EAST. RUSSIA WANTS A CLEAR FIELD. Moscow, Dec. 30.-<The Gazelte 8ay53 In'the event of the conference being broken &2, Rus- sia would have to enforce upon Turkey not ‘her own decision, but that of Europe. Europp would then virtually make war sgainst Turkey with Russian arms. ‘The most friendly neutral- ity of Europe would not sufiice, a2 it was not Russia who raised the Eastern guestion. sia could not afford to risk a reamor flank attack upon the Porte in addition to ‘the ces which & war would . entail upon her. -Ri must therefore unite her own interest With that .of some other Power. J , CUBA. | + PEE CRUISER MONTEZUMA. HAVANA, Dec. 80.—The Captain of the Arierican schooner Maud Barbour, which Janded here Wednesday last three of the Montezuma’s crew escaped from a boat sent ashore by her for a pilot and capcized, stated to tho Havana re- porter of the Western Associated Press that all e knew about the subject was as follows: The Montezuma _cast anchor about 160 miles from Truxillo, where the coast is en- tirely open,” and sent a boat ashore “for a pilot. iThe boat _capsized in the surf and the three’ men, who -were: Spanish sailors, and part of the crew o1 the, Moctezuma at the time of her capture by the Cubaas, escaj ed and made their way to Truxillo, where the Dpnmsh Consul chartered the Maud Barbour, on Dec. 13, and dispatched her with s ealed papers and the threa sailors to the Government there. The commandant of Truxillo sent.npmfi of, about twenty-five men to capture the ezuma. The Captain of the Barbour could mot prevail upon the three saflors to give -any account of the movements of the Moctezuna since her capture up to the time of her arrival off the Honduras coast. MEXICO. ATTEMPT TO ROB A STEAMER. BROWKSVILLE, -Tex., Dec. 80.—Steamboat John Scott, an Americzn vessel belonging to this port, arrived bere this morning from Rio Grande City. As she was nearing this place the Mexican guard on the opposite bank of the river pointed thelr guns at the pilot, and ordered the boat to land on the Mexican bank. The pilot rang his bells to stop the boat, but 'lotided on thisside instead of the othér side, Tne Scott had a quantity of specio on boara from up-river meschants, which, it ‘is’ supposed. Reveullas proposed to_seize. The BScoctt leaves: for up- Tiver ports to-morrow, and it is feared tiiak a=- other attempt will be made by Reveullas to stop” the free navigation of the Rio Grande. e ——— AT HUDSON, WIS. ... Special Dispatch tg The Tribune. 81. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 30.—A fire at Hudsor, ‘Wis., destroyed thres buildings, the St. Nich- olas Hotel, A. D. Richardson’s store, and Mrs. Dippo’s mhunu'y. Goods and fixtures mostly saved. Loss about $8,000, and mpstly. covered by insurance. The fire began at 11 last night and lasted till morning, the work of the fire- men and citizens sgainst it being retarded by the extreme cold. o = e TR e AT ST. LovIs. . ‘Sr. Lous,- Mo., Dec. 30.—Tho'loss by the ‘burning of the St. Louis Drug-Company’s store 1nst night is estimated at from '$50,000 to $60,- 000; insured for $28,000, mostly in-Eastern le:mpnnles, the names of which Will be given ter. . Lo * AT DETROIT, *y . Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune. Derrorr, Mich., Dec. 30.—The sawmills of 8: G. Wright & Co. burned to-day. Loss about $14,000.. Covered by {nsurance. IN NEW YORK. New YoRK, Dec. 30.—A fire last night at No. 187°Bowery damaged the building and stock to the value of $85,000. This loss is distributed among the several occupants. e INDIANS. CALL YOU THIS FRIENDLY ? CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 80.—A courier coming into Fort Laramie from the Red Cloud Agency reports that two couriers, & mail carrier, and a wood-chopper, left Sugar Creek early Christ- mas morning. Two hours before sundown they whre struck by a party of thifty friendly Indisns within sixteen miles of Red Cloud, who Jilled the two couriers named Dillon and Reddy, also mortally wounded the mafl-carier, Tate, who had two sacks of matter, likewise severely wounded the wood-chopper.’” Thé- wounded only arrived at Red Cloud day before vesterday, ‘being exposed during the interval to the intense cold. They were severely frozen. They report hearing more firing in thelr rear. an hour after being attacked. Tt is supposcd that other par- ties not yet reported were: attacked. A party as gone out from the Red Cloud Agency to search for bodies. S —————— WASHINGTON. The Texas Pacific—-Dangerous Counterfelt ---International Meteorological Observa- tions. A % Special Dispatch to The Tridune, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 30.—The Postmaster- General {s considering the propriety of requiriog ‘Postmasters to report monthly instead of guar- terly. By such plan the bonds, in.case of loss, would more nearly protect the Government. . The Texas Pacifle people. are confident that the Pacific Railway Sub-Committee will report a bill providing for the pguarantee of the bonas of the Compauy by the Govérnment, and that it srill be adopted by the full Committee, and be reported tojthe Honse. . There is rumor that Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, i3 to be replaced by Judge Sh]iaple , United States Judgeof the Upper “New England District. ~Clifford is en- titled on account of age to retire at his own op- tion or full pay for life. -Clifford is a,Demo- crat, Shipley a R:;gubucan. The Secret-Service people have discovered a very dangerous $1,000 counterfeit. The fol- '{iowiug is the official descrition prepared to- ay: . g Points of difierence between the gennine and the counterfelt $1,000 note, legal-tender, issue of March. 10, 1863—Letter 1*D " Iathework on face and on back broken and _irregular on the counter- feit; the signatore of Spinner -heavy,and edges ragged. The terminal **n? letter in the Register's pame, **J. C. Chittenden, ™ has a hair stroke thick Bnd heavy, quite unlike the genuine, which is clear and fine. - The sbading of “the letters in the words ‘‘United. States” on the of the bill in: the gemaioe is 80 fine a5 to make them stand out like block letters when examined under a glass, while in the coun- {erfeit they lie flat ou the paper. The shading of the note in the portrait of Hami is very heavy onthe left, and the nose is siraight andhisa Tnched appeatabce, while in the genuine the nose Pnclincs to the left, ia. well dcvglo‘)ed. and under the lass shows at the tip a separation of the car- filage of thatorgan. 'Yhe plate of the counter- feit is nearly one-sixteenth of an inch wider than the genauine. To the Western Asmclated Press. Wasamerox, D. C., Dec. 30.—Secretary of the Nnv{ Robeson has, at the request of Secre- of War Cameron, formally nssured the lat- ter of the fullest co-oeration of the Navy De- partment in the work of carrying out the one daily simultanecus meteorological observation now made with the internatfonal co-operation of so many nations on earth a8 fully as possl- ble at sea and around the world. ‘The observa- tion will be taken at 7:35 8. m. GOLD "AND SILVER. . 8ax Fraxoisco, Dec. 30.—J.-J- Valentine, Superintendent of the -bullion department of ‘Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express, has made up his annual statement of the treasure product of the States and Territories west.of the Missouri Riv- er for the t year, summarized s follows: Gold, $44,328,000; silver, $41,530.700. Great care has been taken in_separating the gold from the silver product. Mevada leads with $49,089,0005 California, $15,815,800. The statement corrects many erroncous theories on the silver question. & ks . _ TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, Bpecius Digpatch to The Tribune. Qumxcr, 1., Dec. —The Whig to-day pub- lished 2n annusl review of tho business of Quin- face an aggregate increase in' ufsctures of nearly Build- of. mearly cy, which. will show jobbing sales and ;n";flll e -'$3,000,000 as compared with 1ast_ye! inéwgmmfiu show lm‘upe.flzu:uro— 300,000, cox, Kan,, Dec. 2—A dispatch from Topeka_announces the appointment of Jndg‘e Albert H. Horton, of this city, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kiogman, resigncd. CRIME. A LACROSSE TRAGEDY. 4 jal Dispatch to The Tribune. 5 LaCrossE, Wis., Dec. 30.—The ‘most terrible tragedy that ever occurred in this city was en- acted on our principal street to-day i daylight, resulting in the shooting to death of Dr. E. Chamberlain, one ;o LaCrosse's oldest and most respected citizens, and the fatally wounding of Oscar Wissenger, & former Lien- tenant of Police here, It scemis that some trouble had existed. between Dr. Chamberlain and Wissenger for three years or Jonger, the na- ture of which has mot yet been ascertained. The particrilars regarding the'fatal shooting are a5 follows: -About 9:80 this morning Dr. Cham- berlain, while sitting in his catter in front of Bmith's grocery-store’ on Maine street, was approached by Wissenger, who presented 3 sgotg\m heav] ! loaded, and, without a word. discharged the load of buckshot into the body of Chamberlain, the charge taking effect. near the heart. He was removed into. the_store, where he almost !mmcdiute? expired. In the meantime Wissenger crossed the strect, throw- ing the gun away, .and, drawing pistol, shot Iimself - throt the head, inflicting a. fatal wougd. It -is stated that Wissenger. had repefitedly threatened to do the decd Which he this morning accomplished in & cowardly and dastardly manner. While o rumors are afloat it is now probable that none but the two immediately. concerned -in the tragedy were parties toany knowledge which might nccount for the commission of the brutal act, Dr. C““““?.&“‘“{‘ mmwl LaCros saht\vx&l;;y ears ago, had a. large ce as a physician, gndwu also interested with -Mayor Hogan, of thig-city, in the:lumber business on the Black and Chippewa_Rivers. He.was aman of con- siderable wealth. He leayes a wife and one child. Wissenger leaves a wife and six children. The community is¥ery much’ excited over the tragic occurrence. . PARDONED. - Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribuna. 2 Jorxgr, 1., Dec. 30.—Gregori Peri, the Ital- {an who murdered two men named O'Brien end Ready, in his saloon on Halsted street, 1o Chi- cago, at the timef the groat conflagration in October, 1871, for which crimes he was sentenc- ed to be hung, but managed to escape the gal- loys, his sentence being: commuted for- life in the State: Penitentiary, was pardoned to-day: and also Michael Enright, who was sentenced from this county in February last to fivs ’e“s'i imprisonment for mayhem. Peri bad served four years and one month—a severe punish- ‘ment, in his own opinion, for a double murder. These last cases make o total of twenty con- victs pardoned by Gov. Beveridge this month. LYNCHBURG@G, KY. Special Dispatch.to The Tridune. Louisviuis, Ky., Dec. 80.—Gov. McCreary has informed the authorities of Clinton Couaty, in response to their application for troops to protect prisoners in, jail from lynching, thathe cannot employ & military force until the civil ower has exhausted its redources, as the law of &entncky anthorizes the employment .of sny number of jail guards that the Court may deem neceseary. CONVICTED OF ROBBERY. Special Dispaich to The Trivune. . ForT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 80.—Tha trial o(‘ Timothy Casey and John Rice, of Chicago, charged with robbing an old man named ‘Elisha Graves of $200 on a train in this city, in Novem- ber, was concluded last night. Casey was found uilty, and sentenced to seven years’ in the enitentiary. Rice was acquitted. bt SENT HIM BACK. 8ax Frixosco, Dec. 80.—Max Erlinger, the Baltimore forger, will start for the East to-mor- row in charge of & detective. The requisition from Gov. Carroll arrived, geswrday. with eight indictmengs found by the Baltimore Grand J ’E 8t for forgery. Upon receipt of ED Irwin issued an order for his surrender. % THE WEATHER. Wasgmerox, D. C.. Dec. @l—1 a. m.—For the Upper Lake region, the Upper Mississippi and fower Missouri Valleys, increasing cloudi- ness and light northwesterly to sontherly winds, slight rise in temperature, and during the day slowly falling barometer. 1 % Spectal Dizpatch to The Tribune. Pa., Dec. 80.—The soow-blockade se- riously affected the railroads. Trains were snowed in and detained from twelve to fifteen hours on the Erie & Pittsburg Road. The mail- train due last evening got struck in a snow- drift eleven miles from_Erie three hours, with two engines, which could not move the rode. The train arrived Jate this afternoon, with five engines, two of which were disabled. . On the Philadelphia & Erie the mail due at7 o'clock 1ast night got stack in the snow _twelve miles from here, ond with' great difficulty was No trains have me ~ from' the East over the Lake _Shore since 5 o’clock yesterday. It requires four or five engines besiaes o pusher to hanl, some trains. All freight-trains have been abandoned. The snowdrifts in mauy place on_the road are ten or fifteen feet high. ~ Kive hundred men are at work shoveling snow from the tracks. LirTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 30.—This has been the coldest day of the season. ‘The mercury was at zero this morning. The Arkansns River is frozen over. s AL OBSERVATIONS. Cit104G0, Dec. 30, Wind. _ |Rn.|Weat ‘Maximum thermometer, 223 . © GENELEAL OLSERVATIONS. Cu1cAG0, Dec.30—-Midnight. ‘Stationa. nsas, viee Judge. °| her liege Bar.| Tar. _Wind. _jSnw; Weatrer, 12 il fr 18 o 1 4 I 68| 20 can 80.12| 12 Grand Bhiven 80.08| 22 Grqueie....30.07| 14 Milwankee. 5 vt Hi 2 Toleao. ... Ed LATE LOCAL ITEMS. At about 10 o’clock last evening, Willle Hooker, aged 15 years, residing at No. 33 Thirty- seventh street, shot himself through the left breast witha small pocket-pistol, and expired almost instantly. The boy bad shut himself up in his bed-room, and whether the act was com- mitted intentionally or through the careless handling of the weapon cannot be said.- Last midnigkt a small squad of un tfe management of OMcgrs Rlonm!fi:qnd g:: bert, swooped down upon the Fortress McDon- ald, otherwise lmown as the “Store.” The officers went armed for the emergency with candles, jimmies, and other appurtenances for a bombardment. When the gamblers * douced the glims,” the officers struck lights for them- selves an P\dlcd gamblers from secret passages throughout the upper portion of the building. In all, thirty-eight of the sports were captured about twenty escaping through the roof and de- aeendin%byntherbulldlngs. fficers Riordanand Befbert deserve great credit for the manner of their warfare -innst gamblers, The *Store?” has long been let alone by the police, partially out of respect for the political influence of its proprietors, and recently because of its bein, almost impregoable, but now that the go g:kmm!;;:: ustartzd )1111: shuu{ld‘;ble continued. ers_shor ~ lowed to monopc{!z?hrse business. i st berat Pretty or Not. Frank Leslte' s Zactex Journal. § To be pratty is the great object of almost every livig woman, even those who lecture upon the lmgmnrlehy of doing so. Beantiful women spend a great deal of thought upon their own charms, and homely women grow homely thrm;fh retting because they are not hanasome. Men, at least while they are young, are yvery like women in this respect, thong%: ey hide their feelings better. K 'here is one comfort to the homely one, how= ever. After you come to kmow people very in- timately, yod do not know waether they are pretty or not. - Thelr “ways ”* make an impres- siun 0n yous; but not their noses and cars, their eyes and mouths. In time, the soul expresses {iself to you, and it is that which you see. Aman who has been married twenty years scarcely knows what his wife looks like. He may declare that he does, and tell you that she the fmage of his early love isin his heart, he doesn’t see her ag she is to-day, but u;%i was when he courted her. Or, being an indiffer- .ent husband, he may not know that she is the e woman that other DEOpIt llluk her. You have known mea who have married the plainest women, and think them beauties; and you know beauties who are quite thrown awnay on men who value a wife' for her success as L CC;O . o % By . . ar as one’s effect on strangersistobe: taken into consideration, besuty is valvable, and very valuable. So, if you have it, rejoice; but, if you -bavé it not, be content. Take care of your - heart;” gom' soul, your mind, aud Your manners, and you will. make for yourself that beauty which-will render yonm ‘lovely to those who are nearest and dearest to yon. LOCAL, MISCELIANY. THE COUNTY BUILDING, ‘The County Treasdrer's dffics” was “yesterday undergoing some changes to add to its conven= jence for'the transaction of business, * Judge Williams will open the January term of the Criminal Court to-morzow, simply to coraply with the statutes. The juries will nof be called uotl] Toesdays, . R Commissioner Holden left for Joliet yester- da v, to épend his New-Year’s Day. While thers he will. look after-his interest in a projected rafload from that eity to" Aurora. + Commissioner Lenzen said ‘yesterday that ha was anxions to join hands with his fellows, and serve his ; constituents without, money or price, When he introduces hisresolutfon to that effect, e will find himself - alone; but then he may ba able to make ‘some capital out.of the scheme. Sheriff Kern yesterday caused ‘the discharge of a bailiff in one of the South Side courts to be written. ' It will be placed*{n his bands to-mor- row,-and his offense, as ‘therein noted, is neg- lect of duty. Thus commencés the “second™ bateh, and all those who have been made prom- ises will stand up. The County Hospital was so erowded vester- day as to necessitate the putting upof cotsinthe hafis. The institution will by relieved in afew days by a e transfer being madeto the Poor- House, but that, too, is overcrowded. A rem- edy could be found for both evils by the exer- cise of greater care in the admissjpns. ; ‘The recently-elected county officers will enter upon their Tespective ‘duties to-morrow. The only real change in the management of the pub~ lic “charitics’ wili be at the County Azen¥'s of- fice, but whether this will be for betier or worse is a mooted question. “If the “Ring” will keey its hands off, the Improvement cannot, fail to bs marked. 8 - Ex-Commissioner Johnsop, recently np%glnh ed Deputy Sherifl, has not vet filed his bond, and it is said that he will have more trouble here than he did in securiog his appointment. He wasput in at the instance of a committee < ven from the Board headed by McCaflrey, , and Schmidt, who made the demand, e should be takan care of. If he succeeds i ng bond, it is said, he will be assigned to duty in the County Court. I The Committee on Printing object to its being said that they know-nothing nboggflnux;g.' As far'as can be learned, Carroll u: to_be con- nected with a photograph gallery, McCaffrey used to feed a press, Tabor used to live next door to a prmting-ofiice, Cleary knows a man who used to work at the ‘‘case’’ whenaboy, and Hoffman has “for years contributed to -the columns of & Scandinayian paper. They: were all to have concentrated their knowledge yester- day to investigate the alleged frauds in connec- _tion with the printing of the Board proceedings the past year, but at no, time was-a gquornm present. If a quorum er secured, it might not be amiss for the’ Jmittee to ascertain who has paid for trapgfiing the proceedings into German,—the corp:3o gor or the county,— and also as to the manp:30 o which the printing has been done in ‘Engh:}) bind who has paid for the proof-reading. 45? " CRI The gambling-house of A. J. Scott, No. 395 Clark street, was taken in by the Armory volice 1ast evening, and the keeper «and five inmates were lodged in the station. Justice Scally " yesterday ‘wredked his ‘ven- geanca upon Thomas Lyons, & vagrant, whom the police.found it hard to condemn. He was sent to the Houseof Correction for three months in default of a $20 fine. The residence of Albert Stranck, No. 821 Twenty-third street, was entered by burglars Friday evening and about $150 worth of jewelry and a canary bird carried away as plander. The family were bsent at the time. . * Louls Baurr; for :the larceny of a agmtltv of farniture from W. Levy, of No. 185 West Ran- ‘dolph'street, was arrested last evening by the police of the Madison Street, Station. The goods were taken from in front of the store. Anna Mack and Mary Jones were caught last ovening %rmning goodsdrog the * Nine-Cent Store,” No. 188 Madison street. They were Jodsed In the Madison Street Station, and upon ching them a quantity of small &ry goods were found. David Wolf, another of the gang:wha sneaked the $390 from the till of B. F. en’'s jewelry house, No. 137 State street, was brought to grief by Detective Scott yesterds; ; and was ad- mitted to bail in $1,000 to the instant by Justice Summerfield. - T ‘Ella Johnson, a young lady whose; ight and tapering fingers have more than ouce rought her into trouble, was again caught at the Boston Ntore yesterday afternvon by Detective Heinz- man. ~As is usual in cases of this natare, there will be little or no presecution. Yesterday there were two - aduliery cases be- fore Justice Scully. The first was lh:ri:g::ubr, a lithe and:handsome young mas, and bettx Gannon. The complainant was the husband of the erring woman, Williaza Gannon, of No. 178 Clinton street. 'The second party woa Raphael Ahecco{ a performer at the Coliseum, and Min- ni¢Stokely. The wronged wife, Caroline Abec- o, of No. 208 State street, obtaining traces of lord’s shortcomicgs, called for him at noon yesterday at the Despiaines Honse, under the escort of Officer George Davis. Both cases were continued to the 3d inst. 3 : SENTENCE' DAY. Yesterday was sentence day in ths Criminal Cot and the following were pronounced: Patrick Mullin and Richard Harding, larceny, one year each in the Penitentiary; Sohn Stew- art, assanlt with intent to kill, seven years in the Penitentiary; Joseph Kimball, larceny, nine- J’ days in the House of Correction; James fackson, larceny, fifteen months in tbu_House of Correction; Ellen Moran, larceny, eighteen months in the Penitentiary; H. J. Nel, larceny, thirty days in the House of Correction; Eman- nal Taylor, colored, larceny, four months in the House of Correction; Charles Bennett, larceny, ane year in the Penitentiary; John Shes, isr~ ceny, four months in the House of CorrecsOnj Frederick Eflis, assault with intent to killy sl years in the Penitentiary. 3 AL A Mysterious Ptt.: - Bowling Green (Ky.) Fantograoh. . Nearly fourteen miles gn) llmom direct Hne southeast from this place there is a singularand mysterious pit in the ground. Tt is situated on a high blaff in a wild, fiinty louh‘t{, tangl with vine, bramble, bricrs, bushes, brocs, and shrubbery on-the waters of Drake’s Greek, below the motth of Trammol. The aperture is & dark, gaping hole, dleft through the stony crags as though the blulf bad at some time crackal and split, . The opening is some tea feet au&y four éleeb Hwid; ‘ut the v;idestef rocky, yawning lips being eprea o the shape of a hgma co} sp’ thee apeX, speak, pointing westward. - Py some of the peopls in that region i is, ko 83 SHel ole,? while others call j# *Indian Pit. One remarkable feature of the abyse is that there fs- sues from its.dees depths, ceaseless os the rounds of the geasons, a volume of misty vapor, which, especially on. crisp, frosty mo! can be seen seending above the tree tops and flodting, Off on the' air, whitened with rays of the rising sun. Flint, ‘bowlder- shaj stones, and ' others worn by the friction of time to perfect roundness, are scit- tered profasely all about the place, as though thrown high by some - unknown upheaval and - showered back like rattling hailstones of all, sizes and dimensions. - In the fall and winter this fog volume is warmer than the catting blasts that sweep along the deep gorge. In summer the mist is cooler and not so dense. The pit widens from the top in its downward cous and woe be to, any living thin once swallow: through its dsck mouth. Throw a boulder or stone into it' and not the faintest echo ever reaches :ihe ear a:r:a \;hmzcrn went. Some seasong ‘since a party of persons assembled af meplt,lgetarm;nedwuthom its hidden bot} tom. ey were provided with a strong cord over 600 feet long, to which was attacheda stilliard weizht. They dropped the weight into the hole and pald out the line. Down, down, and down went the welght till not a foot of cord ‘was left, while not a sound came to tell the tale of its subterranean passage. No bottom was ong 50 to is a bewltching little blonde, with soft Jong after .hnegls 1at, and n&.nd l‘:rtyk?::éy;:é reached, and the weight was withdrawn da and unsoiled, as th bas St and dakacss on e soundingn 8 P 3