Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1877, Page 3

PASTIMES. <pding’s Plan for Affiliating Clubs with the League. ent for Amateur Games on the White Stocking Grounds. % § $ sements Made by Hartford, Engag:. Louis. and Louisville Clubs. : L onncement of the Nlilwaunkee ~7 pssociation for 1877. Fizzle of the Athlefigs-——?lacing st the New Chicago Nine, nicott Shooting Club’s Com~ en! . K petition for Prizes. us' Latest Victory om the Pacific doh Cosste Bow OTeasy ‘Was Defeated by Howes. s Notes of Cuarling, Billiards, B howing, and the Turt v BASE-BALL. ME. SPALDING'S PLAN. hY is more firmly believed among dab- A::z’:fan ‘ertain class than that the League §etryinpto geb the better of them in some way, Ther beliesed that when the League was form- £ because toey were ot invited v, and they Lave belicved it ever since because they have oot been suecessful. The result of their {roubles and pains has been an sercement to form an assocition to wipe ont the League, as they express themselves in letter acd print. Just why they sbould wipe the Leazue out, or hat they would gain by doing it i they could, 3oes mot sppesT. luthem;;dnouhe tempest and tummit, the fescue has preserved a wenderful temper, and she beads of the clubs bave been doing their 2est to help their own condition while they at “be szme time helped every other club that plays (be game—and it is & wonderful thivg that the manavers of the new scheme canvot and witl o0t see that the ioterest of all the dlubs is 1dentical, snd that prosperity to the game means prosperty to them in the same wey as to.the Luague professionals. Tae needs of the semi-professional clubshave ‘een canvessed more tully by the League au- thorities than by their own members; and, strangely enough, everybody has agreed on the peinis which are Decessary to enable them to get on comfortably and prosperously. The Lesgue gave the matter the fullest Qiscussion, and, after that body bad adjourned, Manager Snalding, who, as everybody knows, is one of {heoldest pisyers and has one of the longest beads in the bmsiness, worked away and per- feeted what he considered u full eolution of the @ficadty. Thishe crew op.io the form of a letier and sent to such of the promiuent semi- professional clubs as e deemed most likely to consider it lefsurely and with fairness. The let~ terand plan were as follo Cuicaco, December, 1876.—There was consider- sble discassion at Clevelsnd. and [ see there is ssill £ne goinz on in the papers, abont the relations Between the Learue and the clubs that are not pembersof it. Tlaving alwars b treated by mon-Leasue Clubs, and havi s taken 2n interest in them, 1 have m tion o this subjcet, and Lisve always urzed a libersl a2d patemnsl policy toward sach clubs by the Lesgue, befieving such 1o be the interest of both dasser, Ttbink T mav eafely eay thut 1 found all the deleqates at Cleveland disposed to do the squzre ing by otber_clubs, and their legislauon bears exbetancial evidence of that facl. The League ‘taddress 1o the Fublic” contains good reasons #tythe genesal class of other clubs shonld not ndertake the oblizations of League membership, batthe Convention lezisiated as faras t could tozive other cinbs the beneit of League memberehip, ‘xbile impoting upon them none of the burdens. There are three things that all clubs which hire ‘Pplarers require: : 1. Auaiform eystem of playing rules. g tilumal lo determine disputes betoeen 3 & Security azinst ** revolving " of players. Thefret o 1he. Leawne hos proviaed for all ¢labs that choose to accept them: as to the third, it i impossible for the Lesgue to do_anything with- gutiae formal consent of the clubs interested. Since :he Convention adjourncd I have been talk- ing with several membere of ontside ciuby. as well 2 wih officers of League clubs, and have been try- 10 devise some schome that would orer thds vital point, and bave come to Le conclusion that * the imclosed form of sgroenent will accomplish the objects in Tiew better than any other methods, for the fol- Towing resso; 1 Jiwill secure vou o eyvstem of playing rules tkat will doubtless be ndopted by all ‘the clubs in u»:b:nnliriy 2 1t will secure you a tribuna} to determine dis- Putes that is more fisble to be impartial than one hoten from the clubs among whom the disputes urarite, and well fitted by lonz expenmce in Jase-ball, and by their responsible positions in the W'L:."'aymjndgmem upon guestions of sucha & Itwill give yon o far better security aginst edrrdlving ™ of Your players than conld be aiford- Jou by aay independent associntion, inssmuch ;‘ temployea the machinery of the League to en- orce the penalty and compels League clubs to take fotice of 'your contracts and yonr expulsions of Jarers, leaving them no excusé for not complying tth the terme of the new League law, probibiting them {row captaring your players. . of imkaves ¥ou thie expense and inconvenience . {nstituting a central orpunization of your own, hich it migkt be difiicult for you to constitute s0 Lo e2ve the strength ‘and reliability of the 3. 1letves each of your clubs entirels independ- 424 to manage its own aflnre in iLs own way. It would establish réfations between the {oasue and yout clube well calculated 1o advance % fatetantual interests of both. yerious gchemes Lave been proposed, 1 send K:L! Wis ene for your consideration, because I borreitto be the ‘strongest and best, aud. as I e already told you that 1 takea great deal of fuerestin this matter of the zelations of ¢he clubs mnch Otber, 1 would like to know what you ]g:n‘x it Yours A. G. SPALDING. ¢ Iorm of contruct proposed and referred w2 25 follows: R 1obishereby agreed by the parties bereto as fol- Noclub that is 2 party hereto shall employ or fl;{,‘fi,‘;fl’;w lavee (0 mhuise secices ket h{‘uth tisa party hereio masy be entitlet 's oDy plaver under contract with any club that ::'v-ny Bemee Who shail. withont the written €01 of such elub, leave ite service or fail to G bt contract, or who shall be proven guilty By e enteble conducet, shall be at once expelled 3. Noclubwho i a party hereto shall play 2ny f't:if 2F bell with any base-ball club whatever thst #hai) £OPI05 or prosent in ts nine any player that e Feen expelled from any club thatis a ereto for breach of contruct or disreputable 2, Doty Bereto shall, upon i a_player, immediately no- }i{x‘é”*"fl-‘z of the National Longuo of Pro- sl Base-Ball Clubé, such motice 1o be in Playe: by the contracting club and the 5 any i the absence of suct notice to xum.‘h ie axer shal ree from em-mem?;.uu m!h 1l be deemed to be frec ik clabthat §a a party hereto shall. upon hinfros & Dlaver from meuibership or releasing tiong] JLCORMLCL nOLify the Secretary of the Na- Sence o 2uC of Luke-Ball Clubs, and, in the ab- ‘qub:' Fuch potice ta such ofticer, auch player of 1ot deemed 1o be a_member in Z00d standing Pk (b whoce motice of contract with sach poiiad o] Decrioutly been transmitted to such offi- Toagy 21l the expiration of the term of such con- S. The notices ceting s B0tices provided for in the two last pre- rtpulations are required to be sent to the 1hat yuey Of the League upon the understsnding ot oreiott wil, tmmediately upon their re- 2 wellas 10 21) clape Jer it seres. ERpeded re purties to this agree. Fashl: tad.in the event of the! fajlare or refaeal of Singpatio€r 10 perform guch eervice, or his discon- e pyce SBEreOf, then the partics hereto shall de- See. {EFTeRTE for the performance of such serv- oAl gimes played by the clabe that are parties $oreo shEll e ajed 1y ateosdance with the piag- & a1 of tbe National Leazue, that oo disbntes that may arise between the ciubs Bosrg S PéfLiet bereto shuil be cubmitted to the * “Judicacgu DITCCOrs of the National League for 3d- 4 Y5" Jo the manner proided for by See. 2, =L, of its conatitution, and the Suding of I THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 2], 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. 3 ut® tribung g du&fih?‘t wnal el be Inal and bindlng upon the ) agret e “’;‘;"m,fig'f‘mfi B EQ nto effect on the . Club that is'a parly hereto Ee?;‘lfl ::rl u;e‘ ;zngr:;-:e;t. nd the Sr'a‘gan;'n"fl.ifn'“fifl cate ecrelary of the Natiousl In witness whereof the clube that are partics Bereto have, by their duly authorized Tepresenta- tives, xigned this ag, day of F\;m“w:‘ .Af‘fimfgv ?n or before tha 1sth Two of the more prominent of the clubs in the Lhe ideas advanced, and severa] 5 othe, ;A; :ion:fi u; S}f fae:slble mndn'ls‘lém that w;::k;? o ef necessary. e letter above Ziven was, of course, in the nature o 5 :‘I‘ :l;lu‘:;ml:;rm;t;on,{pll{: a m)p)- having fr&ggr;:& e of the violent partisan broposed Association he casts donbts l:vgr!l the ¢ ntions of the L &b’]i- ;\;ghfiy b:g:ule lh:ix, of all the criticisms passcd on the plan no word hus been o can be alleged abainst s s dency. 1L therefore, it is quite satfstactory, provided it be well hacked up, and if 1t b @sit Ls) indorsed by the President of the League, it ould appear as if it furnisbed a way out-of Hhe Lroubles of “ffi semi-professionals. which Acan ound in or after vl oF unbiody ehes, a warwiththe League £ THE FAIRBANKS' NEW GROUND! It was intimated in Sunday’s Trisus S UNE th the Fairbanks Club of this dity was sber o seere a lease of the White Stceking grounds, thus getting control of the inclosed zrounds i the wity for their games, and taking position at gnce as the leadiu amateur organization of the State. The scrauzement sugzested has been concluded, and the Fairhauks have become lessees of the grounds. The idea is, and the gilect upon U game In the city will be, exeal- Jent. The Fairbauks Club is cosiposed of youns men in the employ of the Fairbanks' Scalg Company, and the fuct that they are filling ood positions, and are not living off the pame 1o any way, is just the proper rruarantee that they will keep up their character of amatears, and will conduct the game on their grounds and in their pluy 50 as to elevate it. Last vear, the first of their organization, was quite successtul, and they marked it by twenty-two vietorics out of thirty-two pames played. For e coming season they Lave strengthened their team, and will enter the field Wit the following T. Mooney, N. Edwards, J. Gillen, T Furloux, T. Burke, W. Brown, and J. Collen. [ositions as susstitutes. players: S, Bracken, t T. Reardou, Two other sentlemen will have The club orgauization F. Stancland. J. Hadley and A. C. Kellogz, The Club announces that it will during the season play a series of games for the bLenefit of the choritable institutions of the city, an idea which will be well received no duubt. The strongest. reason why the arransement with the Chicazos is a 700d one is, that it _enables the strong clubs fiom such cities us Milwaukee to come” bere and meeta gaod club, which they could not very well do last season, Lecause of the Jack of a proper ground. Nothing is more important to the game than to have the interest in it diffused ss widely as possible, and to encourage tho am- uteur while givinr the best possible professional exhibitions. It was no doubt a wise thing to enable a club of high standing to take the lead in amateur base-ball in Chicago. LEAGUE ENGAGEMENTS. The ‘engagement of Dorzan by the Brown Stockings is denied. At the time it was an- E, it was iu the form of a special telegram which asserted that_his con- tract had been received. The Philadelphia Fress the story in ghis wisc: * The new Board of ircetors of the Star Base-Ball Club of Syra- cuse have secured the services positively of Dorgan, the catcher of last year's nine. He will be the manager of tbe new team. He has refunded the advance money which he had re- ceived from the Si. Louis™ Club and returned their papers unsigned.” The Hartford Club have determined on an ex- periment iv the pitching line, and have engazed Larkiu with whom to fill the place of Bond. The .new man is well known in the semi- professional line, basing been pitcher for the Brooklyn Club, and also for the Iiion (N. Y.) Club. ~He was quite successful among clibs of about the same strenath as his own, and his dclivery is described as nearly like Bond’s, His only exvericnce asainst a strong League nine was May 20, 1§76, when hetook Matthews? place in _the Mutual nine against the Bostons. The latter nine bit bim for eight clean bitsat that time. With practice, in Ferguson's charge ke is quite likely to make another Bond. Another engazement made known during the past weelt is that of Georze Shaffer by the Louis- ville Club. _He is a relic of the Fhiladelphia Club of 1575 and the early part of 18i6. After that organization went up into the air, heturned over into 2 semi-professional club, thungh the writer is upable to remember exactly which one it was. It may Lave been the Allezheny, or the Neshanunock, or any otber one of that grade. Heisa fair fielder, with something too ‘much actlon and show, THE TRIBUNE expressed its sat- isfaction at the Louisville line of conduct when that Club announced the engavement of Bennett, and it still Delieves that building up from semi-professionals is a_good jdea. It is not. however, at all ciear that Shaffer will prove strong enough to hold his own ina first-class club. The St. Louis Club have secured the services of Arthur . Croft, whom the writer takes to be the same_player who occupied centre ficld for the St. Louis Reds in 1875, and played with them again n 1876, If he be the same player, heis au excellens outfielder and fair but not first-class batter. The engagement scems to in- dicate that the Browns have rather given up Hall for 1877, It will be remembered that they announced bim as oue of tbeir uine, but they Dave never given formal notice of bis engage- Jnent, and the inference from that fact and the enmagement of Croft is, that the negotiation swith Hall has fallen through. Thc Philadelphia Mercury intimates that Ifall refused to sign th St- Louis because they wouldu’t pay hitn enougli. If the management offered him more than $1,200, they ought to havea conservator sppointed for Lhoir goods and chattels. MILWAUKEE. The Milwaukee Association have announced iheir nine for 1877 as follows: Beunett, late of the Neshannoclk, .3 Chandler, p.: Mills, 1 b, Carbine, 2b.; Andrus, 3 b3 Lawler, s.5.: Yose, 1. I.; Furlons, e L3 McDonald, r. £, Of tiese Chandler, Vose, and Furlong are from Ailwaukee, Mills from the IHartfords. Carbine and Lawler from Chicazo, Audrus from the White Stockings, and McDonald from the St. Louls Empiree.. The tezm is a strong one, es- ecially in the pitcher's aud catcher’s positions, but it will take a trial to convince people that Carbine can play. second base. Mr. Rogers, manager of the Club.was in the city last week on his way to the South, and on mecting him a reporter demanded to kuow with cer- tainty about Bennett. Jn reply, Mr. Rogers said positively. and a2 matter of fact, that he Yiad a contract properly eigned by Bennett. and_ that hie bad nodoubt that hewould considerably strengthen the team. ‘In reply to another question, Mr. Rogerse.de- 2 , Rogers: Jifed with considerable emphuasis that his club d idea of an vould join or approve the publishy 3 Teague clubs, & Why.” said lic, e couldw afford ta do such a thing it would be snipping ose to enable som y :’i‘!hfl‘;fisnfac& Last vear wé were glad to have the Chicago Club, for instauce, come and play us, because it helped our revenue it falisied _our pawons, and - convinsed our {fricnds and supporters i ‘a e could play a good stifl game, and were \ortiy of encouragement. Not any Association for us; we cannot aflo;«loxt.ma:g T wish you ve ¥ that as coming from me. 3 “%‘lxxl-?fldzus is & good business man, and pro- oses Lo earn enouzh moncy with is Club o [eep his backers whole in pocket. With thal end in view, he uklr-s gsllgfllfl{n‘?&sianesofi ;:ig ible view of the effect T s ;‘:gri:: %t revente to please somebody else who fias & mudge. Measures are being taken to in- corporate the Milwaukee Association according 1o the Jaws of Wisconsin, the proposed capil being §5,000. PLACING Tnhfl CKXEAgDSB. length de- rrespondents have at sou mg;z“;%dwtbntp TrE TRIBUNE_explain how gbg White-Stocking nine :; to Iie %?‘c’mgflgi XL“:EI: . and both of them kindly nd- O he Jatter condiment cinnot be u;;‘nxl. As far as the position of the team is cflncr:rl:1 i nothing can possibly be kuown as to several of 5 5 ractice has becn the positions uutil considerable P course, pretly e, e ne, Taters 2 5“??’{5"3%331 2 third, and Hines at cent &Bmd!cy {equally clear that Spaldilg and L g en them, and that McVey ‘J‘:fi’—"}fi‘fn“;.fi%‘&“fiéué;fi%’ ’}n meb times and grames as the new man, Smith, may him H st base there may be Self capable of. At first e oy Waite (who has played nmnz)I o sas excellent last year), or pla i the posten e oven Smitn, Eilher Gleus, Waitt, Smith, or the change pitcher, can ory Well play the feld. and all of them have fayed tere, The Clipper obliginaly astigns ennett to the White Stockings, aud‘ ei\'n:) ?r_ plaius where he sh:lil play, b that is ov ere b gl in Oiivazo, and he has, moreover, signed to Milwaukee. i FHE A ; L uscitate the Athletic Club of P e Ywa proved a full-biooded failure, Tt was not for the want of wind and striking.’ cbody clse to get even but simply that people had made up their minds that it \RA{ quille’ time that the wreck was al- Jowedto go to the bottom. For weeks, and even months, the Jercury and Jiem have bosst- ed, threatened, wheedled, begred,” roared, whined, and done everything else that could be thourht of to encourage backers to come for- ward, and they closed their appeals with the as~ sertion that the next meeting would set thinzs all straight again. The night of the meeting came, and n couple of reporters went around and found that the hall fu which itwas to be held was closed; and furtber, that there was next to nobody to goin, it it had been open. The Mercury seems at_last to have come down to hard pan, and, after detailing the fzzle, 2dds: “That this fiasco should have occurred in the present conditfon of the Athleticsis simply suicidal, as it will be impossible to get a guorum present at any future meeting.” The Sunday féepublic is not more hopeful, and thinks that this should be “‘the last farce enacted in the fnterest of this defunct orgunization.” The Press and Mirror, a far wore respectable and influential sheet than the .lfercury, in comment- ing on the meeting, says: ** The opinion of those gentlemen last evening was, that there should b a good club here this scason, but no Athletie, a3’ this fizzle of a mecting had de- stroyed the last longerine spark left toward the objcet.”” There is considerable hiope of a suc- cessful organization in several utterances of the Press, inasmuch _os it _represents the better class of Philadelphians whose co-operation will be necessary to put a Phila- delphia_ Club in a position to be respected. When this is thoroughly uuderstoad, tlen the mew idea will be carried out and a strong and well-managed club will apply to, and be admit- ted to, the Leazue betore abull is struck next April. Tt is a goud sign to see the Press trying to help th:e game along. TERSONAL AND GENERAL. The League Book will be on the market about the closc of this week. Luff, formerly of the New Havens, will play in Rochester this year. Allentown and_ Erfe, Pa., are expecting to have good teams the coming season. TParks, who played a brilliant season of one game with the Bostons in 1676, will play in Al Tentown, Pa., the coming season. Harry Smitn, of the Chicazos of 18T, s in gymnasium practice, and will make his appear- ance here at the opening of the season in good forte. McManus has been made manager of the St. Louis temn for 1577, Ife is a clever, genfal fel- low and will do well enough with the new team. As for the old lot, nobody cver managed them— or ever coutd, for that watter. The _St. Louis amat ubs leld a conven- tion Wednesd nized for the coming s Eight clubs were repre- gented. The idea is the same as_success- fuily carried out in Chicago lust yeur. It would be quite proper to bave the leading clubs in cach organizution play a _couple of games to- gether. The Clipper publishes in its last fssue a full, fair, and well-written account, of the objebts of tlie League from the pen of 2 gentieman from Chicago.? 1t 1s the first word of justice which that body ever received from the time Mr. Queen exuressed himself as opposed to the League because it was formed without consult- ing the Clipper? ¢ one kindly tell us where Cathbert propose 10 play the coming season. s expected aud announced some time 0go that the former would fetch wup ine Indispapolis, but the ofilcinl list of the nine for {liat city as published elsewhere does not contain his name. Two men who were <o prominent in the third club of the country last year should ot be allowed to fall by the wayside withuut some explanation offered. Some of the Eastern paners lavine appainted Pike Captain of the Cincinnati team without the privity and consent of the management baying been first had and obtained, the En- guirer denounces the idea, and thinks that Addy would be a_better choice. There is no doubt thar the Hon. Bob is possvssed of excellent judzment and plenty of experience in steering men around bases. If the management think that he can make Hicks run, however, they are very much mistaken. The Iudianapolis Club are even now at work in the gymnasium, aud are fitting themselves as best thity can for the hard work of the coming year. letter from them says that they will Dlay the following team to staft with: Nolun, .3 Flint, v.; Hoiitz, 1 b Miller, 2 b McSorley, 3 b; Mack, s.&3 Golden, 1. f.; Warner, ¢. £} Roetp, r. . They have in McSorley an excellent change pitcher. “Thut team ought to make al~ most” any in the country hunt around pretty eharp for runs. The New York Clipper Almanac has been is- sued. Aboutall its base-ball figures of refer- cnee are correct,—that is, they are lifted bodily from Tne Cuicaco TrisUNE. It is a zood deal of encouragement for o reporter towork all the scason in keeping and tabulating scores ouly to bave them stolen bodily by a man too lazy or incapable to make his own averages. It may be fair to add that, out of over fifty republications of Tur TRIBUNE’S tables of averages by other papers and books, the Clipper Almanac 1s the first and only one to burglarize them. The assertion and reassertion of the claim that the present Hartford Club is to play in Brooklyn next year las at last worked up the Hartford Post to the use of strong language about the author and promoter _of the story. Following is an expression of the J[est’s opinion: *The rooklyn Eagle and other papers which publish the slops compiled by one Henry Chadwick still insist upon publishing the statement that the Hartford Club is to play its games in Brooklyn next season. This statement is a lie, as Chad- well knows, but since the Leacue was formed without his consent and contrary to his wishes, he has taken cvery opvortunity” to cir- culste all sarts of malicious statements which would tend to injure the Leazue and the clubs which compose it, through the columns of the Clipper and other’ papers. Persous wishing to keep posted on basc-ball matters should steer clear of such papers.” George Wright came near being the subject of 2 coroner’s jury recently, It happened thus: A friend of his, 1éarning that he wanted to take his wife out sleigh-riding, offered to loan Georze his nag—a played-out “old Lorse, surc, but very slow. Of course a joke was intended at George's pense, but it came near ending seriously. When George went to the stable to et the horse, a pretty lively animal was paced in the slefri for bim, and 1t was only with difliculty that George could get his wifé into the sleizh, s anxious was the horse to be off. Away went Georze along the Cambridge road, and in vain Qid ne strive to restrain the speed of the animal, who displayed a remarkable desire to pass eve othier team on the Toad, and he did it, too, witl case. Finally after a twenty-mile ride—Gcorze hoping to tire him out—the horse and its driver returtied home, and, fortunately, Georgereached the stable without accident, greatly to the satis- faction of the livery-stable proprietor, whos Tostler had given George the wrong horse, viz. a nofed trotter able to do his mile in 2:20. George’s arms were nearly paralyzed with the pull fic had to submit 1o, and it is probable that Tichas had enough of fast horses for the time being. Fond as he is of lively balls in batting, he_decidedly prefers a uou-clastic horse for sleighing purposes.—Clipper. » TRAP-SHOOTING. P KESNICOTT CLUB SHOOT. i ‘The members of the Kennicott Club gave the only trap sport of last week at their competi- tion Thursday at Dexter Park. The weather was not of the pleasantest, though perhaps it was the best day of the week, The attendance was fair. The first event to be_decided was the regular shoot for the Club’s handicap medal, for which there were nine entries, including Mr. Phillips, the holder. The Handicapping Com- mittee bad placed the men from twenty-three to twenty-eight vards, as indicated balow. The result of the shooting at ten birds cach was as follows: Jandicap Total dhlanacs. kill!iL 8 9 ! Thomas, Jr . & GeorgeBarnard_ 10 10, W Baldwin i T, W, Wilmarth....] Bfessrs. Phillips and Barnard then shot off the t(c,d;md the Iatter won by killing 4 outof 5 birds. ‘The emblem of superfority of the Club, the buck’s head, was then contested for by six mem- bers, the conditions being 6 singles and 3 pairs of birds, the former at 21 yards’ rise and 80 boundary, and the latter at 18 yards' ri 100 bouridary. ‘The result was as follow: Wilmarth .. 9 J, J. Kieinman 9 Ap Price. .. 2 9 The first threo named then shot ot 3 singles and 2 pairs to decide the tie, but. were all tied azainon .. A second shoot-off gave the em- blem to Mr, Price, who killed all his birds as | they rose, | ¥, ¢ B0oGY."! After the conclusfon of Bogardus’ match in Virginia City, he left for San_Francisco, where he “had accepted Robinson’s challenge to shoot four matches. for the dmmnionsmg of America. The first of these taol place - ‘Friday, -the conditions being 0 singles at 21 yards rise and 80 vards bound- gry, end 20 pairs at 18 yards rise and 100 yards ' servations on the nccessity of 2 better Game law. boun . At the end of the singles Bogardus had scored 52 and Robinson 51. After the third pair had been shot Robinson refused to o on, claiming that the ruling of the referee was un- fair, and hurting his chances. THOSE QUAIL OF MARTIN'S, In last Sunday’s TRIBUNE Was published an estract from the Chicago Field commenting rather severely on the shooting of quail- from traps, Mr. ECT. Martin, the party’ who has charge of the coops and_shaoting.grounds at Dexter Larx, replies 1 this week's Field, the points of his defense being that the quail in uestion werc not netted in this State; that they were bought in_coops on South Water street by Martin when g0 nearly starved that half of them afterward died of exhanst- iou; that they were not intended for shooting, but for breeding; and, finally, that it seemed more reasonable to let them have a chance as they came out of a trap than to wring off their heads in cold blood. Mr. Martin adds some ob- ANNOUNCEMENT. The only event of note this week will bea swecpstakes for 3 couple of clezant cases of i’mi&d birds, to be shot Thwsday at Dexter urk. PEDLSTRIANISM. HOW O’LEARY WAS DEFEATED. In Tne TrmmuNe of Dec. 31 last was an- nounced the defeat of O'Leary in his 300-mile contest with Howes: but it was not until a day or two ago that any full account of how it was done came to hand. The following is from the London Sportsmgn: ‘The place chosen was not one of the best for the purpoee, a4 the roofing was only of canvas, and not sufliciently proof ugainst the drenching rain, which wrevailed at different petiods of the race, to make the posjtion of the onlookers very comfortable. The track, 100, heinz exposed, was' not calculated to favor any g0od perforinance, and, as the weather from the outees wus altogether against those inter- ested in_the venture, the affuir was hardly such a financial succese as it mizht otherwide have been, aithough on_th firet two days there was a gate of 1y 2,000 O'Lenry’s style of goine at the ont- set pleased good judges, as lic went very upright, in fairsisle. Iie hau been suflering an the previous day from dirraliea, and soon after he begen to walk it azain troubled him, Consequently seversl interval were necessitated, evea at the start, and when tienty-fonr houre had clapsed Howes, who wax not pushed,ehad only done ninty-five miles and five Iaps, while O'Leary’s total was seventy-seven miles el/ht laps. The American on the second gay still had to leave the track at frequent tervals, while Towes went gueerly at one period, having the groat toe of anc of his feet swolien Trom nn overtight shoe. At the close of forty-eight hours ITowes was credited with nearly 163 miles, and 0'Leary was just finishinz his 1i1st mile, During the evening Towes had his toe lanced, and he was preatly eased. At Th. 57m. 47 yosterday (Fri- i Iowes fnished 200 wiles. O'Leary 2hont gone AL 3 very regular pace; hut stant retirements eansed him to get farther behind, and at 4 o'clack sestenlay nfternoon he wax near the completion of his 191st mile, while at that time Howes was in his 221st mile. At 10h. 12m. 10s. last nizht O'Leary, after having completed 209 miles and one lap, mounted the box. atloted to the press, and announced that he Fave in the ruce to Ifowes, who had then just Gnished his 2415t mile. Howes was anxious 1o walk ont Ifs full distance of 300 miles, but after doing five more laps Lie was gtopped. NorEs, A dispatch says that O'Leary and Weston have been matened for o sic days' walk for 4300 in April next. Itis worth a small wager that it will never be walked. 3 The followin paragraph from an unpleasantly fault-finding paper gives au idea of how they view a walking-matel gt the Hub: “}Vhat the Boston people most liked about the walking girl Von Ilillern was her wonderful technique. Tier phrasing was correct, and she did not shaw that weakness which compels failure of effect in the third and fourth toes. Her rendering of Cho'ilin opus No. 91 in B foot flat was ap- plauded; and though she had little of Shoe- mau, she gave the leggatto of Snoebert with great sole."” H OTOER SPORTS. GILLIARDS. Mr. Bensinger, representative of the J. M. Brunswick & Balke Co., sent to St. Lonis yes- terday o learn the whereabonts of Sexton and Slosson¥ He desires to arrange for some ex- hibition games here. Milwaukee also wants them. o Lon Morris, the well-known- amateur, d3sires toplay Frank Parker a game of 300 points French for 8100, and if Frank accepts, as there is very little doubt that he will, the game will take place Wednesday evening at No. 11 Mon, roe siréet. ¥ The Northwestern Congress has reccived in- formatlon that the medal crookedly won by Shaw is now in pawn in_New York City. Itis proposed to sceure it, and hold it in réadiness for another and a lexitunate contest from which both Shaw aud Burleigh are barred. If the medal can thus be sccured the praposition Lo have a new medal made will be abandoned. CURLING. The sportiug event of the week in Chicazo Lias been the curling tournament, which was not so largely participated in as was hoped, but still therc were clubs cnough to give considerable interest to. the contests, It hag already been stated in thesc columns that_the Four Brothers Club, of Toronto, won the Gordon Medal, and ““the Soutl ' the’ Dulrymple Medal, while the Detroit Club carricd off the District Medal. It should be added in favor of the Scotch national zame that its first exposition in this city was at- tended by nothing but the best of order and goud feeling. No~ betting was heard, and the ame, as a whole, may be said to be a great ad- ition to the cirele of sports. The game between the old and young men will take place to-morrow at Lincoin Park, the contestants being eight men over 50 years of age, against eight under that age. The follow- ing players will take part in the mateh: Oter.fifty—Wilsony Marshall, Kirkland, Hatton, Ritchic, Lorimer, Wailace, Under fifty—Duncan, Howic, Keyes, Hogg, Wil- son, Forrest, lrons, Martin. Play will begin at 1:30 p. m. sharp. ROWING. The Pall Mall Gazette laments that the seull- ing chimpionship hias gone to Austrafia, having been taken away from Spdler by Trickett; and it adds that if Higgins, now champion of Eu- eland, does not take up with Hanlon’s chal- lengre, he may very likely find the iatter in Aus- tralla for gcontest with Trickett, from whom alone the world’s championship cat be won. ‘The determination of the National Associa- tion of Amateur Uarsmen to hold {tsnext regatta iu- Detroit is a gratifying one, and will do more than a little to make the Association National. as it has claimed to be. The member- £hip has been confined to 2 few clubs in the Mi dlc States, with only one in New England, two from the Soutb, and a_comparatively small uumber from the West. The result of holding the regatta in the West will undoubtedly be to draw 1o pretuy nearly all the Western ‘clubs, and, insicad of the present membership, to swell it to 100. - The Detroit regatta will be one of thebest ever held and the largest. TIE TURE. The sports at Hartlord, Conn., have laid” out 1 straight-away mile track on the river, and re- cently challenzed the Middletown men to come over and trot horses. They came and won every race, and now the Hartford people think they have had all their work for notbing. The California papers announce thst J. C. Simpson, Theo. Winters, B. Timons, W. P. Barnes, John Cutler, Henry Walsh, J. N. Crabb, and W. K. Armstrong aré subscribers to the four-mile-and-repeat race, to take place.Feb. 23, on the Bay District Course, but fail to give the names of the horses. The trotting gelding Dick Swireler, well known as the former property of Henry W. Em- mons, of Rome, and recently soid to Johu F. Morrow, of Boston, bas again changed hands. He has been purchased by James Golden, who drove him in his races last summer, the price paid being $5,000 cash. A few weeks ago 2 paragraph was started in an evening paper of this city to the effect_that Mr. Goodrich’s Granville was seriously anddan- zerously ill with congestion of the kings; and. in the lick of uews, the statement #as widely copied. Mr. Goodrich, fn speaking of the horse last week, sailed the complaint from which he Dbad suffered nothing more than wind colic, and said thathe was now entirely well. OI the numerous fast trotters that Commo- dore Vundervilt owned, he had in his stables at the time of his death oniy Small Hopes, Mountain Girl, and Arthur Boy, and these now become the property of his residuary lezatee, William H, Vaoderbilt, Dnrigz his [ast {llness Iie presented Prince and Eob Roy to his broth- er, Jacob Vanderbilt. During his life he owned Betsy, Commodore, Fanny, the Emrmerson colt, Noe, Postboy and Ploughivoy (perdaps as fast a team as were cver hitched “together), Moun- tain Boy, Lady Backus, Daisy ,Bums, Harry Harley, Nettle_Morris, Prince, Arthur Boy. Mountain Girl, Rockingham, Myron Perry, and Ewmpress. Ex-Gov. Stanford, of Californa, has re- cently made another valuable addition to his already numerous and poworful stable of trot- ters ou the Pacific Slope, haviug last week pur- chased from Charles on, of New York, his young_stallion, Gen, Benton, vears old, by Gen. Scott, dam by Gray's Hanbletonian, for the larze price of $16 Gea. Benton is a bay, 16 hands hizh, possesses great speed, and has shown a mile $a private in 2:50%.© Mr. TRobinson purchased him last Augus; for $6,000, and the horse was delivered to him & Utica dur- ing the trotting meeting at that plwce. 1t was there that Jack Phillips drove him the trial mile in 2:203¢, which caused the parties that sold him to repent of their bargain, 3 GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Naming the Twins---0ld Si's Wife's Bustle. Lement of & Deserted Wife---An Official View. The Green-Byed Honster—Treasary Beanties-d Question of Fire, LOVE ME, LOVE. Love me, love, but breathe it low, Soft as summer-weather; 1f you love me, toll me o An we sit 1ogether, Sweet and still as roses blow, Love me, fove, but breathe {t tow. Tell me only with yonr eyes, — : Words are clxenp’ 8 wnl’ar. If you love me, looks and sighs Tell my motfer's daughter Bore than all the world may know. Love me, love, but breathe it low, ‘Words for othors, atormrand enor, Wind and changreful weathere " Let the shallow waters flow. Foaming on togetner; But love i8 still aud decp, and oht Love me, love, but breathe it low, —Joaguin Millerin ihe Independent. NAMING THE TWINS. Afaz Adeler in New Fork Weekly. A friend of Butterwick’s, who staid at his bouse a short time after the twins were born, overheard the following conversation between the fond parents one night after all hands had retired. He was in the adjolning room: Mrs, B.—What sball we call the twins, Hears, dear? B.—O I dunno. Almost any good names. How would Moses and Aaron do? or Cain and Abel? Mrs. B.~You ought to be ashamed of your- self to want to name one of your own children alter s murderer! You might have hunted the whole Bible through without finding anything ‘worse! B.—0, well, call them Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego then. Mrs. B.—You know very well that there are only two twins, and that they can’t have threo names divided equally between them. I hate Scripture names any how. I want to call them after some Qistingnished max. B.—Well, name one of them Batler and the other 8churz. Mrs. B.—I'd rather dle on the soot than have a child of mine named after an undergarment. B.—How'll Bismarck and Gortschakoff suit Fout Mrs. B.—Butterwick, you kuow I can't abide thoke German names. You would fuflict a curse on vour innocent boy if you would send him through the world with such aname as Bismarck Butterwick. You know very well you_ would. T prefer an American name. One that belongs to this country. B.—Very well, then, call one of them Spotted Tail and the other Jole-in-the-Day. Those are indigenous to this continent. Mrs. B.—Mr. Butterwick, if you are going to turn the subject into ridicule, T will get up and dress myself, and go down-stairs. Yon shan’t insult mic to my face, anyhow. You know well cnough that { meant some white American name. B.—How would Smith and Jones answer? Mrs, B.—I'd rather bury both of them in one grave. Why don’t you suggest some distin- guished American nemed B.—0, all right; there’s Benedict Arnold and Martin Van Buren. Ars, B.—They shall never have those names with my consent. » B.—~How about. Adams? /' Mrs. B.—~That's only one name, and there are two bables. B.—~Well, call ome “A® and the other “Dams." . Mrs. B.—Mr. Butterwick, if you use langusze like that again 11l go hometomother's this very night. B B.—Well, then, if youmust have thenames of celebrated Americans, call one “Tilly Slowboy and the other “Toodics.” Mrs. B.—Were they prominent men? I don’t remember hearing about them before. B.~Why, my dear, they both signed the Dedlaration of Independence, and Slowboy was Vice-President under Washington. If you want straight-out revolutionary patriots, those are your men. Mrs. B.—What did Mr. Toodles do? B.—Louisa, I am surprised at your ignorance! {}on‘t 'you know that he commanded at Valley orize Mrs. B—I don't think much of their names, anvhow. Say over some others. B.~Lemme see. Well, now, there’s Mephis- topheles, and— Mrs, B.—What Qi you sey he did? B.~Did? Why he commanded the frizate Constitution in” the war of 1S1% and he was killed while nailing the American flag to the Mrs. B.—And you wan’t to name onc of your children after hiin} B.—Certainly. Why not? Nobleold patriot! Did he not die in defénse of— Why, Louiss, what are yon going to do? Mrs. B—Why, I'm going to quit this house and take the twins with me, and stay away for- ever. I know just os well as you dothat Mephistopholes is another name for the devil. D’ve scen him at the opera. It Is perfectly in- famous for you to suggest_such o name for your own flésh and blood. I don't believe in Your Slowboys or Toodles either. I'm certain that you have been telling scandalous stories, and now I'm going to leave. Then Butterwick was heard to use a persuasire tone with Mrs. B., and finally she made it q] with him. The twins were eventually baptizes John and Henrs. OLD SI'S WIFE'S BUSTLE. Atlanta (Ga.) Herald. “Ef you'd bin'downter my house las night youd scen er pannyrammer!” said OId Si. “Tlow is that?" )y old ’oman, she bought a seconhan’ one ob dese byar newly-invented steel-spring 1emale tenders, an'—-" * Bought what, you say?" “Oneob dese hyar patint fish-traps dats ‘oman straps on an’ totes ‘round.” ‘A bustle?” “Dar, now, dat’s de very name. Well, she tried fer ter put hit on, sa’ ez she hez only got nine yard ob kaliker in her dress, yer kin ’ mag- ing de struggil dat she had.” *1Vell, did she get it on?" “Ob, yes, she got hiton jess ez eezy ez put- tin’ de barniss on astreet-kyar mule. De aggy- tashun ariz when she cum to put on her dress ober de darn contrapshin " © How did that work?” “Blessed marster, dat’s what I'sc tryin’ ter tell yer—hit didn’t wurk at all, sah. She jess gymnasted ’round dar tell dar wuzn’t room in de bouse fur nothin’ clse but her an’ dat shuck-baskit affa’r! [had ter he’p her on wid the gvarmint, honey !"" “Who, how did you manage i, sir? ‘*Sho'! 2I’se waggin'd too many days not ter git de better ob acaselike dat! I jessstood de ole ‘oman on de table, an’ kotch hold ob de dress wid de waggin-kiver grab, an'I had dat grrmint on fore yer cood say Jack Rabberson.” “+¢Well, and how did she get out of i1 “Oh! oh! don’t ax medat! I went visitin® soon ez I got hit on her,an’ I stayed till bed- time, yer kin be bound " LAMENT OF A DESERTED WIFE. Denver Tribune, bl The Postmaster at West Las Animas, Colo., has received quite an interesting letter from 2. deserted wife in Mississippl, which s worth pre- serving for its literary merit, if for no other reason. Then It tells a sorrowful story, and goes to show how the wile men often impose upon the innocent and unsuspecting. We give a few extracts: My Dran Sn: T take the liberty to write to you to inform you of J. W. Matthews, which I think it would be profitable, especially to the ladies of your town & community aronn, who is & great woman decciver; he goes about marring women & leav-¢ ing of them & taking everything he can from them; he married me the 22 of October, in 1874, and we lived together good and agreesble, aad he ot me to come back to Mississip i to see my peo- Ple, and mansged to Leep my beding and promised me! as soon a8 he would get & place, that he would send for me: and he took my things off with him o Texss and sold them. He has used me bad. I have found out eince he has treated me 80, that I am only the third one he has married and treated in the same way. He left them taking esersthing be conld, e married his first one in Candds aud lived with her three months and feft Ber and came to the United States and married the second one and lived with her tweniy or twenty- one years, and raised one child and left her, taklng everything be could froms her. _Alas, he bas three Tiving wives and I don't know how many others that ¥ haven't never heard of. He is an intelligent man, but he has acted mighty mesn. Any man that would take the ldrumaie of a loving woman, 23 he has, oaght to be kicked ontof the country. You know ko is guilty of bigimy. He ls 51 yeura old, agreeable to bis own statement. I hape you ‘will be kind enough to do what T ask of you. AN OFFICIAL VIEW. Paris Paper. A young man of good family makes at the seaside the acquaintance ot 3 handsome yonng woma, seemingly of high social position; falls desperately in love with her, wishes to marry her. _ Here, to nis horror, begins an avalanche of cruel anonymous letters, informing him that his spouse-elect is this, s that, is the other—in fige, Is anything but what she should be. The lover vehemently protests that these are calumnies, and hastens to the Prefecture of Po- lice to obtain a triumphant refutation of the charges against his sweetheart. In view of .the gravity of the case. the Prefect consents to in- vestigate the lady’s record. The pour lover Llstins breathlessly as the official runs over the 00ks. : ‘' All, here we have her! Schuitzer—Olympia; passes herselt off as the Countess de V.; age; 57 ran away from ber motber (midwife, 99 X strect) at 13, with Y., barber: subsequently was left an heritage by her alleged nncle, Z., druggist; pext heard of at® ~—. Here the odlicial looks up and secs the young man with his hiead bowed down despairingly on bis arms ml‘;l bis whole frame racked with agonizing sobs. \‘Come, come,” says he, kindly, “cheer up. There’s ROMhInE to b pluim AbouL. Look!on record as long as your arm, and never a single conviction for anjthing!" THOE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. Detrole Fres Press. In front of 2 gate on Hastings street a girl nine or ten years old was yesterday morning walting and watchlng. Of a sudden Big En- glish, the bootblack, turned into the street half ablock below, arawing a Land-sled. At the same moment Catuip. the newsboy, turned into the street half a block above, also drawing a sled. Each one had come to take his true _love out for an airing, and neither knew of the other’s intentions. They met at the gate, and while they were scowling darkly at each other the true Tove was wondering how she could ride both sleds at once. ‘V Ex;mn, go back!” hoarsely whispered Big Jud 5 enaDon't teclime, se ose-thief " warmed the other. They pulled down their hats, spit on their hands, and met in the shock of mortal combat, while one of the sleds slewed around and knock~ ed true love into a snow-drift, from which posi- tion her mother Jifted her out and shook her till her teeth rattled—bundled her into the house and broke up the sleighing party. TREASURY BEAUTIES. WWashington Letter o Toledo Commerctal, We are now in the midst of & seasonof din- ners, church festivals, matinees, private theat- ricals, and tableaux. In the departments the clerks work only in the forenoon during the holidays, and in the afternoon the streets pre- sent a gay and animated appearance, for the voung ladies of the departments are out ar- rayed more gorgeonsly than Solomon or the lilies, in_bewitching pull-backs, rouge, pearl powder, dark eyebrows, and underscored eye- lashes, bent, like Tamerlane, on conquest. They move down Pennsylvenia avenue usually in pairs. From the Treasury Department to the Capitol, via the avenue, is a measured mile, but only a portion of this dis- tance is fashionable for promenading. Our Treasury beauty busbands her munitions until she reathes Thirteenth street; here she is truly formidable, and members of Congress, or at. taches of foreign legations, to say nothing of our famished army officers, from the Western border. who are able to pass her withont one long, lingering look, descrve a certificate from a Returning Board wmfosed of such anchorites as Plato and Stofeus. The gait of these ladies is rather too rapid for a fat man, but a little too slow foralean onc. This necessi’ates, in the interest of flirtation, frequent stoppages, and intense scrutiny of the shop-windows as they pass and repass each other. A QUESTION OF FIRE. Harper's Draer. A husband and wife were having one of those arguments which oceasionally interrupt the har- mony of married life. He grumbled because there was not a better fire in the room, and de- clared that she always was_just so stingy In re- gard to the use of fuel. She rather admitted her general partiality for cconomy in the direc- tion referred to, but at the eame time she as- serted that she was the subject of a great im- provement in the specific point then mnder diseussion. For proof on her part, she went on tostate that when her first husbaod was very sick (he did not recover) she really felt some reluctance to having a fire of sufficient capacity to make things entirely comfortable. *‘But,” said she, “when my second dear departed was in his last sickness, I had such a fire as no rea- sonable man could find any fault with. And,” she continued, “when your time comes to lie in that ped, With no hope of ever rising from it, Lshall havea first-rate Bre, as hot_as—why, 80 hot that you will hardly know the difference when you're dead.” TWOMAN’S WRONGS. Burlington Hawkeye. A Rochester woman recently brought suit ‘afzainst a man, and tried to recover $3,000 dam- ages, for running after her, holding her, and violeutly and forcibly kissing her. But, on the trial, it appearing that the man had only one leg, and was blind as a bat, and had Jost his Tight arm eleven years ago in a buzz saw fnci- dent, and was 62 years old, and so deaf that he couldn’t hear a man ask him_for a dollar, the casc was dismissed at plaintiff’s costs, without froing to the jury. And the plaintiff is the mad- dest woman, 2nd hag written to Susan B, An- thony and the New Century for Women about it. It does scem as though there was no law for Women in this country’ INTERESTING EXAMPLE. Piacertille (Cal.) Democrat. At the recent examination for teachers’ cer- tificates by our County Board. one of the exer- cises was: “Define hyperbole, and give an ex- ample.”’ To which one of the lady applicants responded a5 follows: ‘‘A hyperbole fs an ex- aggeration of the truth, used to illustrate wit or humor. Example: The train running between Shingle Spriogs and Latrobe goes with such speci that the kiss left on the hand of Mr. Wat- kins by his Placerville zirl was not dry before it ‘was shaken by his girl at Latrobe.” FEMININE NOTES. ‘The survival of the fittist—A. live milliner, An old bachelor says that when he wooed she wouldn’t. A circuit court—The longest way home from slnging-school. * Many ladies of fashion in Paris powder their stockings with gold dust. A gentleman said, when a pretty girl trod on bis toes, that he had received the stamp of Dbeauty. “arriage {s promotion,” says George Elfot. sr;eLi might have gone further and said it is com- motion. Adam and Eve, we suppose, were the first to start ““turning over new leaves.” They did it to kecp up with the fashions, The chauge to the Iatest styie of lady’s hatis raadily accomplished now by’ ulrnr]y unshipping thie bustle and truansferring it to the top of the wearer's head. Love s capable of almost any sacrifice, but Do man can swallow a hair from the adored one’s head without first suppressing an insur- rection of his wsopagus. «Chinese bables never cry.”’ If an American mother must take an infant to the theatre or opers, she should cxchange it for ome of the Chinese brand before leaving bome. Ap alligator fourteen fect long hangs around a Florlda hotel in hopes to take in that Boston woman who passed South last month with six ‘marriageable danghters and an orphan niece, Falton Times: Love makes 123 pounds of girl feel no heavier than a feather on & fellow’s lap. Dubuz Nees: And the same fellow would have his leg cramped all out of shape by seventy-five pounds of wife. Perhaps a man with chiliblains doesn't Iike to get up thesc cold 1ornings and kindle the fire; but, when be married her, he took her © for bet. ter or for worte,” and there she is, sitting up in bed, just ready to hurl those words at him. A young American prima donns, who took lessons in dilan a few years ago, and retarped 1o this country discusted with the tyranny of Italian music teachers, has been engaged usa substitute for a steam-whistle in 2 Lowell boot- Tactory.—Brooklyn Argus. A Milwankee editor writes ip this melancholy strain: “We dido't want our wife to go to the anction, and so we hid her shoes to kecp her at home; baving occasion to o ont an hour atter- ward, we looked for our boots, but they weren't there; meither was our wife. It isn’t any nse.” A mother’s love is siever wholly exlansted, and whep his father whaled her -boy for throw. iug wudbails against his newlv-whitswashed {ence, the mother {aterposed with th < that if Gustav Dore had such a fn&h(l‘ch?::a'r:' would have been the famous painter that he is, There is nothing like a pleasant 3 Windham County girl, who hung b hor wocs ing Christmas and thought she had takenevery- thing out of it, accidentally found four oranges and a pound and a half of broken candy biddea way downinthetoe yesterday.—Norwich Bulletin Scene in a recitation-room: Professor~"The ancient Egyptians were in the habit of ucrql.flhc.x ing red-headed girls to the devil” Auburn- haired student—* What did they do with the red-headed boys?™ Professgr—* Thc( sup~ posed they would go of their own accord.” It was a gentlemanly young man who re- marked wonderinzly hog ’1’1 ~young - lady could render berself ridiculons by Yielding to the ab- - surd vaaries of fashion. Then the wind caught him by the new style of shirt-coliar un which his hat rested, and he was obliged. to clasp both arms around a_ telegraph-pole in order to keep from being wafted over & neighboring roof.— Yorwich Bulletin. Buflalo Ezpress: A Rochester drummer tried to make scquaintauce with a_young lady on the cars at Batavia, saying he was * travelinz olone, was lonesowe, ™ etc. She simply said: *1 should advise you to spesk to the conductor. It is his business to take charge of fools.” And he de- parted for the smoking-car. Buftalo Erpress: This Is positively the latests Iwould I were a school-marm, Andlmon% the school-marm's band, With 2 small boy stretched across my knes, And a ruler in my hand. A Louisville man agreed with his wifc on New Yeur's Day 1o stop swearing for . year if she would stop scolding. 1t was & meas trick of the man to suggest any such compact, for, while he is getting along” under it tolerabl: well, his wife'ls literally pining away, and wi soon die and leave him to marry another woman. XNew York Commercial: “What Men Need Wives For” is discussed in the recent issue of an agricultural exchange. y man who has goue around the house at 2 a. m:, pistol in hand, looking for a_burglar, with his ife ahead, cart rying the lamp, Ought tobe sble to answar that question. i ‘The Boston apple-woman fs not affected by the literary atmosphers in which she peddlea ber commodities. A few days ago Mr. R\:y politely accosted her and oercy teress c two pages of * Proverbiat Philosophy " for thres spplés ind o, pint of peanute, "g:n- galied bim al -pin,” a0 reatent unker Hill monument down on him. #all ‘‘Dearest Ethelinda, lode star of my life, gom of my beart’s dear ln:’e, say wilt thun’he ;l,lnc.'" Algernon Eduoard, ‘thy bosom is me own heart’s resting place.” “Sweet love, me Jife is biessed forever. Wait here a few moments till Irun over to Canada and shoot your brother, and I will come back and settle Four millinery bills.”—Burlington Hawkeye. CRIME. ] THE COUNTERFEITER OGLH, Special Dispatch o The Tritune. i ‘WasnTNGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.—It appears that Miles Ogle, who was aptured at Pittaburg by the Secret-Service agents together with $6,000 in counterfeit §10s of the National Bank of Mune cle, Ind,, and Richmond Nationsl Bank, Ind, ‘Was one of the most extensive operators in the. manufacture of counterfeit money in the coun~ try. Information was received at the Secret Service Division here to-day that 110 engray and electrotype plates for printing‘conntertat notes weré recently recovered from him. Ogle s now in Pittshure Jail awaiting trial. Officers of the Secret Service have been on his trafl ‘since -August last. His ipal base of operations was' in Cincinnati and Ken~ t?%'y. Itis e'.rie ;thed dg_nt he an ‘Il:eenimen- sively e e usiness in Cin~ cianati, nfn‘«%dut he s l.hegoo:g:.r of . mnsldnemble valuable property there. His ostensible busi: ness was keeping s livery-stable. This scoundrel has furnished more than 100 inmates of the different penitentiaries, who bave been arrested, tried, and_condemned for g counterfeit money. He isa natise of gkflnflelphh, has been since 1871 in quod sever- al times for dealing in the queer, but always managed to avold trial by jumping his bail. He will Bardly be able to escape now, as bis bail has been fixed at a large sum. The Secret-Ser- vice officers bave several old_indictments ready, 50 thatif he gives bail on one he will be taken to other districts, where he stands indicted for the same offense. SPRINGFIELD. Bpecial Dispaich 16 The Tridune. SPRINGFIELD, II., Jan. 20.—In the United States Court to-day, W. S. Ingram and Thomas Rudisill, of the Jefferson County gang of counterfeiters, werc sentenced to the Peniten- tiary, the former for two yearsand the latter for one. The following indictments were returned: Against John 8. Brown, of Gallatin, and O.R. and 8. K. Ritchie, of Hamilton, for violations of the Interpal Revenue law, by crookedpess in the sale of liguorand tobacco; Joseph De Hoven, of DeWitt, passing counterfelt money; and agalnst George Deatherage, Columbns Shep- berd, ana James C. Russell, of Morzax, for hav- ing in their possession counterfelt money. A sccond indictment against the three last named is for oreaking into and robbing tho Post-Offics at Lomi, in this county. . Isaac Meyerstein, & prominent citizen of Pleasant Plains, this county, was before Com- missioner Adams to-day, cf assing cognlerleétqwg. dfl{e e an examination and gave nd for his future appearance. Tnge"{wf‘ dissgreed In tho cass of Sesdock Mitchell, late Deputy Postmaster at Locust Grove, Franklin County, with the lm ceny of a pension check. = Spectal Fort WATNE, Ind., Jan. 20.—A. colored man named Samuel Ward, who has been & terrorto the community for a long time, waa to-day con- ‘victed in the Criminal Court of assault with fo- tent to murder, and sentenced to five years in the Penltentiary, - The crime was committed on. the 27th of Décember, when Ward with two other men attacked a farmer pamed Fredenck Horstemeyer, beat him until they supposed ho 'was dead, and robbed him. Horstemeyer isstill alive. Ward’s pals are awaiting trial, ESCAPE OF PRISONERS. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune, 8r. Joszpy, 3Mo., Jan. 20.—A grand jafl de~ livery took place here lsst night. John Law- rence, C. C. Thompson, and Alexander Brough~ ton, under charge of murder, the first conylote3,” and James Martin, Jobn Sunlils, and Willlam Johuson, under charge of grand larceny, esca) from the County Jail by tunneling the Lawrence is under sentence to be hanged on the 22d of April next. RECAPTURED. Special Dispateh to The Tridune. y KEOEUE, Ia., Jan. 20.—Thomas Fagan, Prank Martin, and James Keller, three of the prisoners who broke jail here on Wednesday evealng,. were rearrested to-day at West Polnt, TIL, and the Sheriff has goue after them. This makes five of the number that have been captured, leaving but three who are yet at large. These 3“}: James MeXNealy and two colored mea, named ohnson. IANGED. Sax Fraxcisco, Cal., Jan. 20.—A Virgiola City dispatch says that Peter Larkin wasbanged to-day for the murder of Danfel Corcoran. — THE WEATHER, ‘WasHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21—1 a. m.—In the Upper Lake region and Upper Misstssrppi Val- ley, falling barometer, after 2 temporary rise, {rom Missouri to Michizan, westerly to souther- 1y winds, generally warmer and clear, or partly cloudy weather. LOCAL OBSEETATIONS. - Citteado, Jan. 20. \Rin. | Feather, "Ms3imom thermometer, 30; mlatmum, 3. SENEKAL OBAERYATION), Cuicaco,Jan. 20~Midnight. Wind. _5ne, Wealher. S.W., fresh!. dy. B B R 5.1 briskc < Cleaz. THE DUELLO, ‘WiLarxeroN, Del, Jan. 20.—Two South Carolina negroes, one a Democrat and the other 2 Republican, had 2 duelat Fair Biafl. Fach- had four shots, and the result was one was wounded threc times dangeronsly, ana tbe other wanzded in tha niid wess ? .