Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1877, Page 7

3 ! i N TILE, CORONER. His Deeds and Thoughts During 18786. Commissiqnelr Conly Invited to Retire to His Sabine Farm. And Jobn M. Rountrce Treated to Someo Ambiguous Com= pliments, Yedies and Gentlemen Who Violated the Canon Against Self- Blaughter. The Bnlefal Mother-in-Lawe-Disape poluted Tove---Category of Accldents. Alarming Increnge of Murder—Leniency of Jurors, Ete.~-A Word for the Fallen Women, Ooroner Dictzach has completed ligannual re- port of the dotngs of his oftice, and the docu- wment, which {8 as learned, pugnacions, sugires- tive, and ¢ntertaining as previous productions of tue same writer, in poetry and In prose, {s given below, It contalns 8o much which is entertain- Ing that it Is not llkely that the Coroner's gloomy prognostication that it will be read hut by a few will be fulfilled, It certaluly will recelve the thoughtful attention of Messrs. Conly aud Roun- tree: In submitting to my fcllow-citizens this annual review of my official actions, at & tme when the canntry i agitated by polltical complications of nupsralleled muznitude, and when but little eredit 13 usunlly stfached to the uiterances and opinions of public oflicers, 1 canuot refeatn from expresslng my anxiely an to ita reception on the part of the publie. 1 dare not hope that more than a few will pend this communication with anything ke real Interest for the snbject-matter, while ths man: wlll certainly pasn 1t Ly with that lotharzy whicl Lan pecome one of the chlef characteristics of. our day. inteven the few, [ apprehend, will peruss thise notes—tle result of experience’ gathered In my ofiicial carcer—with cacelens ease, prompted by the thought now so gencrally prevalent in regard 10 men in !mhllc stution, What good can come ont of Nozareth? and in the general churs after.the **milghty dollar," 1ny suggentlons will probably sdon be forgutten, ‘The time our peuple are willing to devote to the enrnest conslderation of publicaffairs, such ns shonld be expected from every good cltizen of & repablican commonsvealth, secma to grow less In pronortion ta the greater fm+ portauce anid more complicated condition of polltl- cal events, and the gencral apathy of the people In regard to publie concerns threateningly reculls the fate of ancient Rome, and the danger of a change in the fortn of our Government. Notwithstanding this general apathy to public affalrs, T respectfully bespeak for the fol Inwlnf [ wmarka the reader's carcful attention, especially becauso ONE OF TUE PIFTEEN LORDS OF COOK COUNTY, Mr. Couly, who represcnts the verdant pastures of Lemont, §i a recent meeting of the County Board has socn fit to cast the lustro of hie brillfant mind upon what hie deems to bo the unimportance of the Coroner's oflice, Mr. Conly acemn to have but o very imperfect perception of his real position, nnd docs not hnderstand that with Blin the ** non pos- sumus " heping where ho ceases 1o e Conunty Commlesioner, What a blessed thing it would be for the State if men of the callbre of Mr, Conly, wmenwho are and remain good and usefnl citizens as loug as they follow thulr wwn vucation, hut who, l? accldentally put into u public pusition, fnmedintely fmagino that nothing is beyond therr power of comprehenrlon, although in renlity they may not have the wlzhtest understaniding “of tho business of others, —what a blessed thing 1t would be if such men could be made to undurstand the meaning of Horacewhen be says: **Beatus Hie qul procul nesatiis, ™ ete, ‘The Enzlishof which, adapted toour case, would be: *‘lappyis howho, remote from all public husiness, sfter the fashlon of onr pristine fore- fathers, cnltivates his paternal fields with his own Texas steera: who is free from all desira fur public nnaila; who does not caro a atrawy for the: Yeteran Reforin Associatlon’s ‘\mclnnm(lnn of ‘wah,' nor for the storms upon tiw irato sca; who. always avolds the connty butldime (forum), il never lin. gera in tlie antechamber of the Counly Aftorne, (Horace himself pays: **'The antechamber of the mora potent citizen, but of course ho meant County-Attorney, who, at lcast in our day, cer- tulnly sccna to be tha **most potent citizen® catant). - In his excellent 1ittle work *‘De offclls," wrltten for his sou then sofourning In Greece, CICERO 8AYS: ‘4 Naturo hos primarily 1epired ll animate bo- fnes with o desiro to maintain thelr bodles and 1iven, and to reslat all” enemics thereto. A anotiier place in the ramo book he aayn: which i4 morally good, according to the views of tho stolcs, han the tendency, among others, to se- cure the perpetnily of human vociety,” Accord- iz to tness and ‘ather philosophical axioms yhllu\orlly of law has catablished general legal principles, and from them evolved s systew of statutory enuctments for thoe prolection and secu- 1ty of human eoclety, Considerlng the constant friction of conllicting intereste, and the general state of mutual enmity into which munkind 18 delven by the great strugele for existence, It bo- coumes ono of the chiof dutles of tha Efate to en- forco such Tnwa in spite of all apparent oh- rtaclee, 10 profect the lives of s eifizcne, ond, in cascs of accliental, sudden, or violent death, to fuyestigate the cause, (o glve acconut theredt fo the people, to utilize the experience thus acquired for the future prevention n, similar cases, and, tnally, to punish the encmics of so- clety, Tho public oficers t‘nl[)loycd in such Invey- tigatfous i Lhiv conntry and {n tngland are calfed Coroncra (the service ls very simllurly peforsed fn termany), (ho word heing derived from ihe Latiu **corona,” crown. The Coroner, then, 18 an oficor who acla for tho Crawh in monarchicul, and for the majesty of the people In republicen countrics, © sad whoso luportanee 1s cqual to that of B J hdge or otlier high oicer, Poraibly Mr, Conly and hix constitucits in the quarrics af Lemont and sur- raunding country disagrec with the views uf tho wine lezialutora who orlzinated the Coroner's oflice, Buch at lcast would be tha indlcations derived from s uttorances upon the olice, and tie cqually fime portant lustivutlon of Coroner's Jurles, (1 b could made to understand “tho sucredncas of hutnun Tife, the impostauce of protecting it, wnd the guars spies uf cundentions inveatizabion aifuricd by Mr. the dual system of Coroner and Jury, would probably want e to hold in {n n hia prenent opiulons ot the subject, thut they might bo urled ont of wight, aud e would perliapm agreo with g b Ui, that men Feprescatiing the pesple in any capacily und fur any burpose. whatsoever Hhould nut s men of very limited breadth of view, but, on the cuntrury, men of grasping minds snd cunsiderable width of comsprehenatou, 1n his celebra rpuech 1o 1he Commiestoncrs, Mr, Conly fusther ¥ald that the Coraner had only in twenty-four cuscs—in reality there wero (hivty- two—twiind over the crinthualy o the Grand Jury, but of tho remalnlu sixty cases definitely sottin by thie Coroner ana his Juries by did not say o word, Can it be the opinion of Me, Conly l{ml persons found hanged sthould be left hangins those druwned should be allowed to doat, those polsoned to_decqmpone, and thoss meeting with sudden, nceidental, ar violent death from varivue catines, left an found without aughoritative exisuination into the causes of deathy This, (3 ugeicultura) friend and statesman of the ing peesuaeivn, would be on lnvitstion to deedn of vieleuce, althought it would cerialnly be 4 teasurn of that wise cconamy of which you liave mude yoursell th chauigion, fur ut prescit the county” generonddy piya the enormods rmn uf 81400 the birind of euch friendiees victn accident and violence, provided the body s nut at once disuatehed it the dissecling roum of kutne fnstitution of medical learning, it jn ca-e youe oppostition to the Coroner's ollice, Ugreat and wood Cunly! docs not 2o as fur 88 Lo Wt tho bodica ot (he riubdenly ur siolntiy deceased to be left to rot in the public thorougli- fares, then Jet wo lu thie connectiva show you A PIELD OF ACTION 1O YOUN OFFICIAL ZEAL, Conly Ari-a In ethe Counct) of the rulers of this county, O eloguent thunde und tell thew that “our wanner of repdering wuto carth What was morts] [ thoee who in the midat of their Runely aud thoroy poth of 1lfe were surprised by deata, of thu~c who died penniless and withont s sinzle frieud Lu the wide workd, 1s_unworthy of a chantable und civilized comuanity, Tell” th thiat wuch peswons, With v one to weep fur them, Y one [0 protect their remains, are sent down Lo **Hudea " like #0 Wuch carrion try 1o lupiess up- on thelr mindy the fact hat, With cvery uie of these unfortunatex, we bury 2 good ahare of anr own buman dlgmiy, and remind thew of lesutiful words iy **Hamlel,” tht sound like muockery when applied to var pauper dead: —tusleep, — eein, (0 04y we vnd ¢ Bearfacby, ad e Uoand nate syl shocks e fesh [y irels (o, "t 3 conmummativs Devoutty 10 he wisiied. I looking over my books I ind that 606 inquests werw held durbis the Jast jeanfrom, De ::..n.dm‘ufl:.kn‘ 170, which 1e' olzly-8vg niorg uring the preceding year. Ao hein tind the following i i —T0 Yo more—and, by USES OF DEATH ! Murder, 32 men, 4 women, sod 5 children) ; suicides, 35 (5 vien and 8 wowen by drowning, 15 e by uounf. 7woumen andsmen by poisot- Inz, 5 wenind 1’ wouwan by hanging, 1 man by heowing himsell out of & window, 4 tien by cut- Huz thle throals, 1 man by stabblug hiself, Aviong the suicules 26 wery Uermans, 14 Am Satis, 11 Lrishinen, 2 Swedea, 1 Pole, and 1 Italian), Aceldental drovuing, occurring wostly duriog the T:}nm:mumh-. ‘wae (ho causs of death In 75 carcs m»l e, O wouien, aud childzen). Ioatledat 0 casea’ therg was & suspicion, altough bo cou- flusive evidence, of suicidal intout, and'in 2 cascs 931 play was suspected bat not demoustraled, the Tiop Srbecs havicg so far advanced in decomposi- 0L (hat it wag catirely impossibio ta wake & post- B ew exsmbugtion. It the persons in question ,nu.:‘um{ tha. victlws of foul deesds, by perpe- 4 will probably fosever remaln Socuro from baman reteibution, Acclientai or intentionsl Ppolsoning was the cante of death in 7 canck (1 men, 5 women, and 1 child). Tywenty four prrsons (17 men, 1'woman, and_ 6 chiideen) Tire kiiled by aceilebtal tallng. | Four porsone 1 nan and 3 childeen) were kifled by accidental e careleas shooling. Ona child was killed by a falling wall, 1 man woa ceuahed under n plle of Jumber, 1 man killed by o falling etone, and 1 1nan hy A falling bucket flled with coal. Une man was Killed by falling from a scatfuldthz, and 5 _children were tun overand killed by vehicles, Two men came to thelr denth by falling {hrough a shaft at the tunnel, One man and L child were kiled by exploslons, Fiftecn persona (3 men. 1 woman, awl 5 chiliren) Jost their livea thromsh rusaway teama. Two men weea frozen to death, Pive persons (b men and 1 child) cither fell from, or were crushed by, elevators, and 18 persons (5 men apd 13 children) were realded to death, Seventben peraons (10 men, [ wamen, and 2 chil- dren) died from exposure, ‘Ten men' were killed by machinery, ani 70 peraons (45 men, 2 women, and 23 children; 40 within_and 21 antalde of the city iimits) by railroad sccidente, Elzht peraons 2'men, 4 women, and 2 ehildren) were burnt to death. "5 men 'were kicked tadenth by horees, Two children died of starvation. Twelve children saddenly died of infantile convulslons, Iizht pursons (5 men and 3 children) died of suffocation. and 4 men of aunstrake. -Twenty-six fotuscs were found and 4 skeletons. One jnfant was stillborn. 'There were thirty cases of dellrium tre- mena (21 men and O women). One man was the victim of quackery, There were 7 chsea nf pre- matnre birth, | One woman died of paralyels, and Slpersons (M _men, 16 women, and_one child) of apoplezy. ulmonary discuec wero the caiise of sudden denth in 22 cnees (18 men and 4 wonen) ; congestfon of the brain In 34 cusca (26 men, G wonicn, and 1 ehild); epilepsy In 4 cases (3 men and 1iwoman), There were 1 cares of scarlet fover, 4 of nervous fever, § of dyphtherla; syphilia inthe case of 1 woman, 1 case of absccra, and 1 of chiolern morbna, 1n 35 cases (30 men, 4 wowmen, and 1 child) nothing was gleancd at the inquest re ardIng the name, restdence, or other clew (o the dentifeation of e deceascd. 11 the case of a man whose apine wag injured In consequence of a leap from a raphdly-moving rall. rond trafn, and who was thercby " partially par- alyzed, only bis given name could be learned, and the fact that hie owned soine. renl eetate somewh inthecity, Hia memory had been co much affect- ed Uy paraiysia thiat e did not_remember Iis fam- ily name, rior could ho give any fuformation ns to thie tocatfon of his property. 1le dicid soon afier, and the queation of hin Identity and the property he owned will_probably forever sewnaln unsolsed, In such and similar casen tha re-enactinent of the ald regulations in reintlon (o the Morgio would lio dealrable, whereby [t was made o duty of tiie Coronee to have the remalng of wiknown victims to accldent or violence photographied, thus furnishing the only possible means_for u fature fdentification of the deceancd, 1 would, thercfore, respectlutly but urgently cal) tho aitentlon of the Board of County Commisalonera (o this Important matter. A TRULY SHOCKING INCREASE {n the number of cases of murder and_manslangh- ter Is exhibited by the Coroner's books for thie vear 1470, Duriug the year immediately preceding, ihero were twenty-two such caséh, while in 1 Uils number was ncreased to thirty-two. Tiko morbid_sentlmentaliem which i this euuntry I rapldly becoming A recognlzed basls for the tréat- ment bestowed npon_ dextroyera of. human life, the variety of excuses sought and found for t aud tho fact that minny of tiem nroabiolutely treated oa the herocs of the day, are certalnly the Dbeat meann o enltivate all that is beantly in hnan nature. The pixtol ond the knife are frequently mado the sole nebiters of human sirife, and we are rapidly returning towards that bacbarous condi- tlon of affnirs In which §t wan neccréary to in- struct children, alinost from their nfuucy, in tho use of deadly weapons, 1n order that they might wanily acquire manterly wkill in the handling of thead amfuble and weful instrments. The aw shich makes the cacrying of concealed weapons a criminal offense [s now, and will probabiy remnin, adend fetter, and in order that the Meears, Mur- derers may not come to rief from want of chances for escane, cach one of them 18 at once grantel o threefald examination of hin cause. TiwiceLwelve and once twenty-four ** guoi men and true " sit in judgment over hius, the st time at the Cor. oner's” inqueaty the eccond thue 1 the Grand o 2 X Jury, and the (hird thoo at the triat ju “the Criminal Conrt. In some one of theas instances we hut too frequently find good-natured and sentlmental roula willing to let mercy vun_away with just:ce and to alluw tho **native hue of resolutlon ™ to be** elck- Ted o'er by the pale cart of thought ! Soclety ix cven now’ almost reconciled to the fact that in all hupumntc:xmu‘ when the perpetrators of cold- hlooded crime should suferrelentless reteibution, elther aur juries will not ugree, or clre the tordian Kknot of Anerican Interpretation of Taw In vloiently revered by Judicial rolings, Tothe former case the trinls are frequently postponed nntll oblivion has Iulled society’a demanid fur retribution, and In the Intter case the triale are often brought to definite conclurions which for a fow daya cail forth exores- slons of the idignant surprise of tha people, only tobo ns rapidly forgotten, for pablic indignation avlth us ta n thinis of remnrkably short duration, “The worat of this laxity In the enforcement of our criminal lasa. this lenient toleration of the riemics of saclety, 1a Itx slow but snro tetdency ‘ownrds complete anarchy and lawlesa terror stich an dis- reced the time of the French Revolutlon. Our eglslators, Jawyers, and jurors would do well to fotlow the udyice glven to the liberal genticmen of the Anstrian Nelchsrath apropos of & debate upon capital puniehment by Edward von Hartmann, the well-known anthor of **Die Phyloeophie dew Unbewussten, to-wit: to stndy Schiopenbaners theary of criniinal Jarisprudence, who teaches and demanetraten ** that the priuciyn] abject of punivh- mont isthic creation of a counter-niotive acainst future crume, aud that, therefore, the reforming of the criminul fa only to ba regurded ns sccondary Lo tie principal obfect of pantshinent, which §1 not ta bu obatructed thereby, TUR PARDONING PBWER, #0 froely exercined by ou late Governor, Is in direct contradiction 6 the above-sfated principles and encourayes the ravh decds of bluodthirsty udi- viduale, 1 fully agree with the sentiment once during fast yent weritten down by my friend He mann fineter: Whenever the Meesrs. Murderers begin 1o respect the sacredness of human life, ten will it ba early enougli to talk of the macredncws of their ltves. ‘Pl records of our Crlininal Court show that o have stcaully prozrexscd In the dirce- tion of Jenlency towards the kilghts of the knifo and the revolver, Thanka to churity and love of Juztica ou the part of soing of his cannirymen, the twolold aasassin, ltooney, Iu wiill enobled to In- dulgein **the mveet liabit of life," and if In his present Tasculum, ot the farm of ls_father In Wisconeln, thero' are no convenlent Dutchmen (vida W, W, OBrlen) to spuot ut, he will, alns! have to content Vdumwelf ' with smaller gaue, a deplorable condition of niFalra that will unifoubtedly o to him, a3 1t was to younz Stegfried In Ubiland's famous’ Laliad, ** Bitter and wad enouph, " Marty cases of this kind that occurred during last year have not yet been dedmitely eettled by the Court,and conaciuently T refrain from any allislon 10 them, Tut It may 1ot he aubes, perhape, to fne ¥lte Uncle ¥aw (o provide o new il impenetrable Bandago for the eyen of in Godders of Juntive, Purchance, nlo, {t mizit be proper to svold the Qrand dury In' cases’ where o person han been charged with morder or manslauzhiter, by directly bluding Wm over to tho Crimimal Conrt, which would not only dimtnlel the chances for o nunishment, ut aleo the costs of the procecdluzs agalunt the wiwpected person, This matter, how Yer, Leheerfully leave to the Jwizment of veofe or, never having studled jurls. privdence myself, Lam not uble to_uny wheller my supeeetion fa thichretieally adiiesible or not, 1 this connectlon, det e call the attention of the geveral public aa well a the County Commissloners 1o the extraordinary IMPORTAN: OF CHEMICA), ANALYSES In the very frequent cusca of polsoniuz, Withont, nuch aualysts It §s aimost impossible 10 prove the crlmo of ‘murder by poivon. | 1 am well aware of tho fact that chemical analyses, ns well us the sclentllc urt af micro-photozraphy, now extensiye- Wouployed I Eisopo for the’ purpose of dis. tuigulehing betwecn hutan and aninia blood, Are very cortly auxilluries ta the erlmina] Jaw, princl- nally beckure the professional gentlemen of un- duubted competence fu theso matters are few In nuuber, becatso only men of many years' esperi- ence and ractice can be relled o, and decatne hese not only eniploy costiy fustrnmients, but are lea obliged o keep up with the contiuned and ranid progress with all the new discoveries, §ne ventions, and newly-demaonatratea trathe relating to their acience, Lam uursonally acquatited with only three gentlemen whom 1know 1o be. fally couipetent 10 peefarm > lego urtle,” 2 quantite, tive un well as qualitative snalyxis in organle amd unorzenle chemistry, but whether any one of the scientile gentlemen'of Chicago has ever mato ex- pertments” - wicro-photography 1 bla o oy, And yet thers were two cases befora {ha Coroner duncg the past year tn which microe photography Would have Ueen the ouly neaus of watablishing erfine, One of these cages was 1hat of the old widn 1tletz, who was found nurdered un Goose Island one night laat year, Ali4 sons and hig ron-fn-law were snspecicd and arrested, Large stains of blood wero found ol the cluthes of oug of the wone, as also upon u hatchiet discovered abaut the vremlsce, The privoer claimed the blood to be that of hogs ilied' by hiny the day before, and for want of praof be a3 well a4 s brother " brother-In-law hud (o ba e charzed, [u Europe insuch cases the suthoritics would have **muved beaven and varth, " without rd to expenee, I wrder (o wecure the triuwph of Justice, and to establish beyond o doubt vither the guilt or thy innucence of the suvaccted parties. Soute of 1he learned zeutlemen, however, whom we placs i reaponsible lezal positions, declare theue aclentitic anxiliuries to the crimnal law to be humbag, " and scciuwe the Coruner of oliciouss neas for recommending thelr eraployment, At the next opportunity §shall sppeal to the courts for 3 deciauti 3¢ 10 Whether it ia just und proper 16 e pluy such scientide ** humbagzery when tle question ia the dlscovery and punlshnent of wur- dee, capinz ASIONG THE MANY SUICIDES who durlng the last yeir have ended thelr miser- able exisiéncer, peraous of German birth have again heen by fur the 1008t numerous, The we! knowa nattonal beversge of e Germany, lag Deer, wny have soue juflucace upon theie payeto Jogical peculluritl Tho habitual ues of beer acemn Lo have o tendency 10 direct Lhieir psycho. Tuglcud atlwents 1uto the'fona of o metumorphosts frbm plleguatic case to melancioly, aud, Anally, sulcidal mana, This, howe ia, of cuurre, rothing but a vague supposition, and the peealiar frequency of suféide amions the Germany may have peycholuglcal reasons totally differest. Neither do Iwish to make war urun beer as un habitual bev. crage, for o myaell a dew believes fn tho old students’ masim, that **cerovislam Libynt how- {ues, anhwalia celera funtcs. ™ Duriog the firat year of my term of offico thera was Lyt oue among the many suicides who fclie, victioi o TIE DIRR PASSION OF LOVA, During the year Just cloaed the number of that class of swadwen incresaed to four. Ouly in iwo cases, however, did the ebjects of *:Love's labara. 1ost" shiow any signa of pity or remnrse when they Tearnerl of the fate of those who had preferred to e rather than l{ve withont them, and In ono_case the faithiers damael swho had cansed 8 man to de- stroy lils life appearcd apon the atage on _the very evening after hia death, probably thrawing out her shait for nnother foul io hecome & victim of hee ¢harms. 1n tho remalning cane the woman who caused the Ieresietible desire for death remalned entlgaly unknown. wleon I, In credited with the remark that tdm (o sublime to the gidlenlons there in bt onentep,” Let us make tho step Lhen, and pass from the contemplatiun of the tragedy of love to that of the pour fellow who biew out what littls Drainn he hiad on accoant of the tortures to which hie was daily subjected by, — 1118 MOTHER-TS-LAW, Mothers-In-law have always heen & creat power of mischiel i the world, snd, alast thic plaguc in ro untversal ond endaring that we must desynie of ever seelng It overcome. ‘The misery causcd by mothera-(n-1aw Is eternal, even as mothers-in-law themsclves are Immortal, "Amoug: Jast yenr's auicldes there were annaually many prostitites, and, be iLadd Lo the credit of these ‘anfuctanale usicasts from hnman society, that o no cane where one of thew had sought reliel from the agony uf a life of shame In sulcldal death was the Connty Treasurer asked to pay the faneral expentes out of the people's monev. I lave fre- en these women gather aronnd (he cof- unfortunate rister who had sonzht and found cternal rest for her weary soul. With ex- ive silence do they tenderly decorate with wers the Snanimate” forin of their depart- el friend, but_lardly ever have n them weep. Denth ° secma lews painful after llves like theirs, and I¢ I8 not difiicult on such occarions to resd in thelr weary cauntenances o regretiul resiznation to their hiopes Iees fate, Perhapa they think of the lime when the aun of human happiness elione as_Lrightly for ihem as for thelr morc fortunate sieters, when with pure anid mardenty hearts and fond hopes they awaited the future, when they knew not what i< ery fuila to the lot of thowe who travel the braad rozd of eln, ‘Then came temptation! As timidly did they shirink, al nrst, feom the sweet words of the sduicer as did Gretchen from Fanat: T'm neftlier tady, noe am 11alr, And liome 1 can o withiout your care! Bt the youne and pa<slonate, the trustinz and In- expurienced beart, believel the falr words af the heartless seducer, and the Tovinz dvn ylelded to Hin temptations onig to awake from a #hort Intoxi- catlon of passion a disappainted, descried, dishon ored woman, And then eane the fail downwarid, downward, downward, isto vica nnd shame, intg minery and despalr, Into the hopeless condition of an atandoned woman, from which there i bat one relief, —death, merciful death! Who understands THE TERRIBLE SUFFLRING OF TIERE WOMEN! Who knows the agonlzlng thoughts, the pangs of remoree, the uttor despalr that muef Ml helr minda in many'a weary hour of sulitude? Soclety, heart- Icaw, canting, and frequently hypocritical even, In ita professions of acxual viruie, parses them' by with never more than a contempluons shrugaime of shonlders, and yet these unforiunates are capable of the noblest sentlments and mos<texcellent deeds, Inwmy ofticial upnl:li" 1hase frequently had oceas alou {0 obverve them In truly magnanimous prac- tice of that mwectest of virtues, charity, and 1 have thaught 1t proper to mention ax smuch 10 the credit of this most friendless class of social oulcasts, 1 have (ntentionally dwelled somewhat at length upon this subje hoping through persuasive words aud finpressive recitale Lo press the matters and facts above related more efectively npon the attention of good aud true women, who, aritable work in sich as these, a cases, will recall many of these unfortunutea to useful and ¥irtuous life. Ladies of this country! so ieell known or sour’ beauty, grace, and pedne. ment, and more so” for your fiznevolence, use all your power of devotion and persuasisn, iry your utmost to save those of your sex who are not Jost enfircly, and endeavor fo restora them to o good and honorable spbere of action. One of the most deplorable cases nmong laat year's sulcides was that of A MODEILN MEDEA, a mother who, driven Iuta despair either by the in- fldelity of her **Jugon,™ or by want apd destitu- tion, firet drowned hier two clildren, and after- wards herwelf, i the waters of Loke Micnoigan, The terribie menta) stragzle that Lurns o mother's love {nto murderons cruelty has been grandly Iusteated by Eunipides in bis tragedy of ** Mudea,” almust 2,500 years ago. Yel we find exactly the »ame mymptomy of psvehomachy i our owa nge of Al ¥ 1 clyilization, und we shall continte to ind them as Joug o8 mankind remalns unchanzed and wibject to cunflictinz human passlons. Nt many duys after that unfartunate mother had earried her wo chililren into death. anotlier mother fell prey ta the treacherous waters of the lake, Iut vhe was drawn [nto her watery grave whilo endeavoring to texcue her two children | But from these poctical and tragical scenes lot us retuen to roarsest reabity, aud cluse thia chap- ter on_mncides with the bare mention of the £ that onc of the most frequent i well an wost pe- cret motlver for suicile Is that direst of discases, — syphilis, **Saplentl sat" And now, after buvingestd a feir kind words In behalf of those who have hroughit thelr mivery np- on themselves, let me nlso remember those unfor- tanate oues whose lves have been SACIIFICED DY UNFORESEEN ACCIDENTS, whu have been torn from thelr beloved ones, thelr wives and chaldren, only to leave them In nbject mivery and poverty. 1 xome of my fellaw-cltizens, bleascil with the eomfarts of Iife, would accept iy Invitation to visitstich places of mlscry, they prot bly would It many caser chanze thelr 1 about the condition of 1l unfortunate fellogv-heinws for the henefit of the latter. Kturdy ien with downcast faces silently mouen and wiand beside the coftin with trembling, strang, an '""“‘"& hut, alaa! hielpless and empty—hauds, They think abous to-morrow, having to descend the shuft, climb np fo the nustendy scaffold, ar veniare fna fraf) boat ont upun the treacherons lake, Very often woun 1 daiger their Hps move In sflent prayer, and thetr minds they take leave of wife and chilldren in thelr fae nway Nlitle cottage. How willingly and with what self-sazrities wonld lh\*( have ussfated the widown and orphane of their depurted frlend, but, ulas! they have s fecling heart, but alt are partners in puverty, In huch [ustances we are fnvoluntarlly reminded of the ** Agrariun laws "' (lexes ncrarie) of the ancient Ruimans, by which public Lind< of the Stute could not be glven to the patriclans ue lenseholds, but hiad to be divided ntnong the cultivators of the wual, the bone and winew of thie people, —tie lahor- fugg clame, What a manifold mi wonld cease to exiat alwa - with us, to Wi extent wonld general welfare of ‘the people be increascd! My fellow-citizens will certaiuly pardon me it | clle s *Cdemonstratio ol ocilas™ 8 few casc that cauio under my personal obeervition during my Ikt yenr's officlal eareer, Late one Saturday afternoon, thinking that my painful duties wera Hufaticd f0r the week, T wap suddenly Inforiied by a dispateh thata Jaborer had been killed by thy falllng of u wtone from u hullding then $o conrs of crectlon on Arhland avenue, §hurricd 1o the spot, but found o my aerval there that the body had buen removed Uy an express-wagon to the home of the deceused, nind that tho witnesaes bad sl roue there; Wis home was far oif on the Soutl Sl think ‘vu Portland avenue, - Approaching the house of maurulie, 8 few nien with ggard faces suppad wie, nfornung me In a whispee that te budy had Fen conveyed to rooms of another tenant of the house, since deceased‘s wife was just then iy Tabor, und_uxlourly all the tine Inquiring for her fusband, whoin ehe had sent for several thoes he- anlclpattig the *speedy” auprouely of hee ivery, A phyrican did Wis utmord 10 appease the sulferer and to decelve her av fo the real caire of tho continual absence of her husband, Wit was o bo done? 1 mysell ui Dy helpless, far telling hier the truth might bave Deep of fatal connequences, Soon after [ waw fn- thnt ho b given birth to u ehlld and was then sound aedeep, ©left wits painful thou for the uext days could only bring s coutinng the drama,'Fwo duys afterwards she Tearned the true piate ot facts, and who can_ deaceibe the grief nud deepsir of the nufortunate widow and mother? Four amail children with tearless vyes stuod by her belslue, unable tu_ comprehend the rad fato that Befell ther, snd chewing crista of bread given thew for the purpose to keep them qulet, Whose feelings whl not bo touched wiilh those of mine when | reinte how in the winter of last year onn dark and stormy Febrary uleht § foand, Tu s miecrablo ahanty near'Pwenty=secondstreet bridige, o puor abatdoued womna, a baby ut her Lreust and BTt irt st her sides eoniiuely werectly une canscluas of her wniferiugs? On the fuor of the durk room, Just before her, lay the bodles of her tusband and brother, both of whom had been killed at noon i a coal-yard by a falling wae of trozen coal, Nel nor food, tot even s lizht, cosld hie faun 4 the weetched creativg won iardly able Lo wnswer my (ucelivis, In this case urointe unce would liave “been piocitred at once, but thy rmallhours of the nicht passed away before even the moat innugiltate wante of the unfortuuate onca conhil be suppliva 1 could recite niany lustances of similar cases, bt {1k the dtove will wittice ta procare (or my future apphieations for nnediate usslstance hetier attention on tho part of the Kellef uud At Socl and County Ageat, for Lobail apply ouly I ci-cu whero there (8 Dnmediste assistince sbsulutely necessary, THERE IS NEVEL A DEARTH OF INTEMESTING 1X- CILENTS ofthe grave na well s the lmorous kind in o Cor- ogerwotticial life. A police ilieer once called uy atlention Lo Uhe 1act that in i aiuzle panel of jururs wathered uear the scene of the 1nquent therd weds not less than tive professionsl thieves und conl- dence wen. Egot thelr wames and then, placag thet in line beforo me, 1 had the plednure of g inz upunus’ choice nfot of Peniientlary facen were ever collected anywhere, Frou obvlons rea v6ns | then excused the whols lot frum serviag on the jury, They saw the puint 'md—uifli red. I 1wo cusce bodies had to be exhied by order Of the Court, JEwas then show that hudicy are uot rapldly décomposcd 1n tiraceland Ceime- tery, A corpye being in the groand for ten days wus o well precerved that o pos-warten examination cuuld be pertormed. On this uccurlon Dr, diaznosis, ‘doubted by 20, was triuniphnoily sustuined by the caan.ina- thon. * 'Fhe subject bad not, as wis expvtad by joing; Med n conscquenco ut un sbortive, bur, wb Dr, Daxter had previoualy declared, uf a ey phiiitic tumor I the brain, o the cuse of 'the second cx- humation st the cemetery of Niles Lontre 3 post- mortem exatination coald not be performed, the budy betng wuine days affer the barial 1 4 coue pleto statd of decompoitivn. ‘Tl ws & great advantaxe for the mau Hucbner, thon fu jall on susvicion of huving wardered lv wite ond then thrown her tuto s well. e was discbarged for wast of evidence, bnt the guud peapls of Nilee have thetr own viuw ou the subject i AN WEOAHD TO TUM WOLK PEBFOUNED by tha Coroucr's oflcw, the books show that there V38 an average of tbroo Ingueste for every two days. besidesthe expcution of wauy writs, which {s aoL less laborious aud troudleqvmie. The dis- tarce truveled by the Coroner snd bie aslstant 5:.\“ 4l sverusge of 20 mlk-{ur day, Ou 39 Sun. (486 lnqueats were hold. Nioe loquasts were held after 10 o'clock v m.y U1 Af10r B3 Wy B0 14 be-. PR i o P THE CHICAGO., TRIBUNE:. THURSDAY. ety Al U, e fore 8 Compared with the fonr Coroners their Deputfes in New York, the Coroner of thia county hawto perform three fimes the' amount of thelr work. According to New Yark papers, all of them held nnly 1,007 {nquests, for the pecformance of which they divided among themeelyes the hand- #oma fittla some of $78,000 [n fees. In this conn- ty the Coroner's oifice hina last_year been runat n total cost of $17, 542,85, which Is_not nearly ro much as the cost of the single criminal procedure againet the Tarner brothers, The expensea of the Cofoner's offico are ox fol- or's salary, 83,000 Depnty's S onntable's salary, S50 oflice exps transportation of corpacs, 'railroad fare, buggy, telegraphing, a0 atationery, 81,391,750 Jury faen, by “the Trearuter, 7,008, in 5 caxen of ane day'a daration, 45 of 'two da 4 of three days' duration, 'Deduct from feen collected by the Coroner o the amount of £408,K5, and the total cost will sppear to he i an ahove rtated, materinily slecreased if the law allowed the Coroner tocnllect (nguest-feen from the railroad corpor- tione. o two dayn the Coroncr acted ae Sherlfl withoat belng able (0 collect any pay therefor, he. canes the fragally snd economicaily-dispoxed County Attorney, Me, dohn M. Rounires, who en. tertaine 8 tender rrgard for the Coroner's welfare, decresuthat a liftle extra work withont extra pay wonld hove n benefieent tendency againat that official' increasing earpulence, for a1l of which ho may rest aesnred of m‘y lasting ¢ atitude. In conclusion, 1 wiifany that the CONDITION OF THE MONGUE s rlimply dikgustine, and a disgrace to the com- munity,” Thia Institutlon in in nowise ftted for ite avowed purvose, snid. nolwithetanding repeateidt requesta and ruzestion® ofi my part, no etepa hare been taken to hnprove It and make it as useful an it should be. Toping that it neyer may hecome my duty to orform anyitng liko the scrcicce Iately rendered vy colleasues In Ashtabula snd Irooklyn, and that our much-teicd ‘city may be apared the mis. fortune of such ghastty ncefilents ae lately hefell thore pinces, Tclore this review by rendéring to my fellow-citizens my sincere thanke for the par- tiality *hown fn my favor at the kst clection. Sterpecifully, Lt Dirsa, ‘oron: CURRENT GOSSIP. UNAWAR When rores bloomed, [ found o friend? 4in sped the ch iny year— The Huo leaves fhuttered 1 thelr rost, Audtields stretehed whito and drear, Dut, when the bine- Mrd built its uest, Snring whispered In “'l'hv friend. O foolirh I "To dear, —tno dear,” —Scribner for February. p —— TIIE OLD MAN WIIO SMILED. Detrolt Free Ires One time there was a guod old man living In Detrolt. Iis back was bent, his step was slow, and men who gazed upon his snowy locks and wrinkled face whispered to cach other: “ il¢ s a good old man whe hasnot long to live.” ‘The old man had been well off {n Nis dav, but when e found himsell on the shady slde of life, wife dend and home broken up, he eald to 1ifs ouly eon: 4 fiere, William, takeall Tiome be ny bome untll 1 d The son teok the papers—you bet he did! and the father was miven i cozy corner, o big chalr, and a corn-cob pipe. All went well for a year or 50, and then the son aud the son's wlie™ be- gan to make it uncomfurtable for the nice old mun In the corner. They threw out hints, de- prived hitm of his comforts, auil one cold day fn winter he was told that he had - better gu to Hulifax—Nova Scotiu. ‘The old man's heart was sore as he went out into the world to battle numalnst hunger and cold, and wheun night came he cowered ina door- wav and wept like a ¢ Who s making that chin-mmsic up there?” called n reporter, whose steps hud been arrested by the sob3, and he went up the steps, patted tiie ol man on the bead, and by and by the story was told, «Lome down to the station with me," sald the reporter, tahing the old man's arm. *Your #on §s first cousin to the man who preferred buzzard to kunb, and I') Lhelp you fix Bin Next mornlng one of the dally papers con- falued an ftem to the effeet than un old gentle- man named Goodhearthad been found wunder- nzz the streets at vight, and that when taken to the stution $10,000 worth of Unfted Stateshonds were found on hite, - The old man read it over threw thoek, stapped his log ne he saw the point, and a beantiful smile covered his face and elimbed up through his hair. — In about an hour Lls son Willlam rushed Into the station and called out: | * Father, dear fotlicr, come home! All of us were erying all night 1ong, and my wite [s tow Iyine fi o comatose state on your aecount ! The old man went hotne With bim, winking at the lamp-posts and smlling as he turned the comers. - TEe hiad all hs comforts bacl, and the +un bought him a costly pipe and u pair of box- tued buats that very day. Well, us tune went on the son ventured to grgest that the bonds had better by turned over to bim, sud every tine he sald * bonds * the old mun wonld smile and turn the subject to patent milk-cans or the necessity of counter feltern taking more pulns with theélr lead nick- els, The other day the father went to bed to i, aud he smiled oftener than before as he lay waithng for the smnmons, ‘The son sald his heart was breaking, and then went through the old man's clothes to find the bonds. He didn't find any. He searched the barn, and the garret, nnd the cellar, and flualiv, when he saw thut death was very near, hie leaned over the bed and whispered: * Futher, dv you know me 1" # Oy, yes—I know you Hlicu book,” replied tha dylng man. And. father, dou't you see that this thing is almost killine med” & Yes, Willam, I ace it." “ And, father—those—those—honds, you know. | suppose you want them used to pur- clise you n manunient (" “Carrect, Wiltinm,"” whispered the father, winking a ghastly wink, and as that samne oll smile covervd his fuce death came to take him to # better bome, When evening fell and the son and the son's wife were wilily searching the straw-bed to et their hands on those bonds, a reporter stood un- der the gas-lamp scross the street, und with his thumb on his nose he sweetly ealled out: “Hold agin uud got the tin—npext tillal son step forward " 11 bath grown ve and let your —— VANDERIIL WHE New York Tribune, ‘The preatest passlon of which ho was possess- ed was card-playing. I former years the games were always played at efther the Unlon or Munbattan Clubs, and conststed only of whist, of which he very fond, These who have played many games with him state that e was a very wdroit and clever playe 1lo lud a moat vemarkable wid wonderful inetgory of the cards atter they had becn played. e always reveived a poor play Wil u frown, and pralsed & goud wne. e once had for a partier Willlun - Couke, . railroad man of Hrideeport, Mle declured that Mr. Cooke made the best play b had ever seen” duriig his long experience in the game, ts was truinps, He, and the Commodore's Jung suit was spades, thy whole of which he held, with the exe c‘)llun of the s and @ card of mmaller denomlnation, which were held by Mr. Cooke, without the Commodore's Enowledge, 1t was the Comti- dure’s lead, the trumps having been exhanste und he was debating f: Bis indnd how to captu wr et rhl of the king, so 6s to run vut kis suit. He ot Jength led the ace, on which his partuer played the King, thus @ving the Comtndore the control of the suit. If the small card had yed, Lis partner would huve lad the nd i the sult, and would have boen return the sult alteswand. ‘Uhe Com- mudore uften referred to this play, and declared L was the tnest he had ever seen. ONE MORE ABOUL' GEN, N’ Ctlea Olaerte Tt is related that he was trylng a case in the Southern tier, the preslling Judge belnge pe and frritable, us well ws ruther dull, Qe had not ouly cruss-examined » wituess at greay lenwth, but had frequently put the sanwe ies- thons, which the Judee had frequently rulad arainst a3 foproper. At lust the pationce of the Judge was vxbausted, and he rebuked G Nye, ad petulantly asked him, *Gen, Ny what do you think 1um sittg here fort Ny Jouked up at the Bench, sud, with o grave cotnzenance, but a twinkle Tu his eye, ougwurad coully and composedly, * You ave got me this time, your Houor!" AN ASHTARULA WIDOW, Mr. C. C. Fulton, In o letter from Nlagara Falls to the Bulthuore draerican, gives au amas- fuguccountof a widow whom he mcet on the tralu. Bhe had just retutned from Ashtabuly, where she had been, sccompanted by her broth- er-d-law, to search for the rematns and clucts ot hier hushand, who was oue of the victims of the recent catasteophe, While walting fur the departure of the traln, tho Iady pathetically told liersud story 10 the passenzers fu the cars, assgrtiug that her husbaud bad 7,000 1 Ll cout i-z, and while the oiticera ol tue Com- uny gave ber the valuable {m pers that were oo i person, the mouey was stitl missiug, 1ow tho papers oould ‘have been saved, aud the ‘cost and mouey aod even the body of the mau burved, was segarded a5 o wysiery, Sbe told Yber story with conaideruble fecllng os she sat o decp invurn- ing, with & heavy crapo vell tralling aluiost to her foet, beads lier canpanlou. About au hour lett tho bridge, and whey nger Ihis s might be ' dns 1877 Buffalo, the attentlon of the passengers was at- tracted to the bereaved wiluw, who acemed to be easting her grief to the winds. 8he was clining cozily on the shoulder of her brother-in- law, whose right arm was around her neck. ‘They had eyes for no one but themeselves, and it soon beeanie apparent that the bereaved widow was helng comforted to_ lier heart's content. The whisperiog gmnlu:llly changed altnost to bill- lng aud wooltie, and & slight rippling lauih fre- quently greeted those sitting near the entranced couple. Oceaslonally she stroked his mustache, and anon he put the kauckie of his forctinger to lier mouth. A WILD-GOOSE STORY. Anabeima (Cal.) Gazette, The large flocks of geess that are conatantly passing over the town are frequently shot at, but they gencrally fly at tan high an altitude to be reached by the leaden misslles, Sometimes, howeser, the shots tuke effect. The other day we were watchlng a fluck fiying southward, when the report of 8 gun was heard, and_we Faw one of the preese healn to fall slowly. The Gtlicrs, perceiving that thelr courade wan wounded. uttered shrifl criea of distress, and abont a dozen of themn flew under the witnded bird, huddling together so that thelr backs formed nsort of bed, on which the woundes one rested, They buoyed It up for €ome tine, the: others Tooking on mid manifestine their con- rern by uttering Joud, discordant slirieka. Find- iniz Lhat thelr companion was unable loticer to arcompany thewn in their flight, they abandoned him to W3 fate, sl he fell Into the arns of an expestant Chinaman, A CONSIDERATE MAN, Iarts Ter. At a grand battue, just as the day's eport has begun, an unhappy hunter blows ofl a sufllcien- ¢y of the hewd of his companion on the ris The wonnded man dles without a cry, and the hunter, asno one has noticed the accldent, sl- Tently nters i and reloals. ) At'dark the eotnpany reassembles at the piven rendezvous, Smith 8 misein: *Where Is siathi™* §s the ery, S0t 1 killel Smith acellentally,” remarks themurderer: “yon will find most of hun under the big be vt General stupelactios, und the slayer of Smith 13 severely cunsnrud for not having sooner mven notice that helu might Lave been extended to the wounded muan. 07 course I miuht bave done 80, b pro- }nxlg; “but Ldidn v want to spuil your day's un. . THE GREAT ITA'T QUESTION. The problem of how satisfactorlly to dispose of the bat In church §s treated of by the New York Times, which fails to discover any satis- factory solution. To hold the hat in one's lap Is impracticable, as {t interferes with the use of vrayer and bymn book, o I It §s placed on the Feat it generally gets sut ugon~i7 deposited In the alsde 1t fs Kloked or swent away by a Tady's Placed on the floor 1t absorbs dast, and . Toestablisha hat pound n the vestibule, where hats eould be ticketed and kept during service, would elmply result in converting the sanctuary into u hat’exchange, where the sitners woubl sceure the grood hats, and the saints be obliged to content themselves with the worlbless ones. GLAND OATH. Serivner, “T swanny ! doea such universal duty as an oath thronghout New England that the cxpres- elon merlts some attentiou as a philological cu- rosity. No_one can sojourn among rural New Eunglanders for any lenith of time without be- I driven to speculate as to the orjein of the phrase. Coulidt it have come down through ages of gradual ellmination from some Lichly epectable pazan formula, such a< F will s by any of the god«," for Instance? This secms A not wholly aneredible supposition, aml Hts 1he seeming vularism st once to the level of a **condenzed cl ¥ A NEW-E! A BIT OF NATURAL HISTORY, Purlington Harekege, It s noticeable that the cat who mounts the ridge-pole of the wood-bouse, and #its apart at the concert, an s wrapped In thoughtful ab- stracted silence untfl the programme s about half through, opeus out, when he dous come in, with a wall that curdles the blood Ina frozen heet, and rouses al) the other members of the troupe 1o a very azony of frenzied emulation. ———— HERSHEY: MUSIC . HALL, DICAL- 83, &5 and A7 Rast Madlson. SANFORD'S s _ CGRAND' RADICAL CURE \payaypal (omeert;: For CATARRH | this (TNURSDAY) Evening, January 25, 1877, Inatantly relleves and fermanently cnres this loath- same disease in all fts vars lng Mages 1t posiesses the . toothing and hewling properiies of planis, herbe, and | M8 ANNA DIAMDIL, the Distingulated Larks in thefr essontial furm, free from every fbrous alia, of New Yeork, . contamination, sad In thie respect differs frum every | MT WILLIAM 11, 8AERWOOD, other known remedy, 10 oae short year [t has fuuad e BB R e a Flalet of Bodhons, < fts way from the Atlantic to the Pactfic cont, and " M5 . CLARBNCE EDDY, 7 wherever known 133 bocome the atandard remedy for Sl 3 : th treatinert of Cularth, The, proprietnrs have been walted upon by keatlzmen of natlanal reputation who have been curcd by this remedy, and who hinve, at con- stierabic expense and perumal trauble, eprent the good news througlout the circles fn which they move, \When you hear & wealthy gentleman of Intelligence and re- tnement 3y, **1 owe miy life to Sanford's Radical ou may feel assured that It §2 an srticle of Kkreat value, and worthy to be classed amoug the fand. d wedleal specifcs of the day, M7, WILLIAM LKW, sod , e M. RICHIETM. Admission_(ineluding renerved neat). 81 tenin bezing Eriday Miofnins Jas: 19, AL Lyoh & Heals " M'CORMICK HALL. Farini-Pappenheim - Concerts, FRIDAY AXD SATURDAY EVENINGS, = January 25 and 27, 1877, s IMPORTANT LETTER | yypsug EvGENIE PAPPENHENM From a Distingnished Physician, ion 1 Far : 3lia H, Draneill and i 1. Zuthurg, Sopra A. 0. Hinrtis Mezzo-Sopeano: Mes, 11, O, Farinton Cantralt; Meesrs. E. Sehultze and @, Sluthardt, Tens ore: Mg AL Farint and’ Mr, F. Howen, Hao Cantates Sfventa, . fereghy and Nohie, flass rofundos Sr, of B, it 1 1 #lghit, of b Liehitiy £l il Beseler, Condnctor, Numan volee, the inlivl, onn e inore nnd w ;3 4 R L e T e ! AL Sdora. HLes L1 0.0 Nut (e sy @ breaks mijs P 1o noed bevau ery vital for tuf trntious, L andent o1 by nst phyalcans, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE. Impotenth fird by ) and eharlatans, tho@ :;A:II:'LH: ‘l Lave hut el )w(:'ni:;lhl lrrl-ud T AL fiioniawich: | THE EMPEROR OF PRESTIDIGITATEURS, o1 V, i) e LE COMMANDEUR CAZENEUVE, EVERY EVENING at 8 o'clock, and WEDNES- DAY sad SATURDAY MATISEES, n hir prand SOIREES OF PRESTIDIGITATION, Including that Inscrutable myatery, the DOUBLE ISDIAN MAIL, Matinee entertalnment eanecially please LADIES AND CHILDREN GRAND CARNIVAL DY THE North German Society of Chicapo, - (The Jarsest Foclety In the West), eon i hearty ap proval, | beileye 1y e when all the tsunl remedies fall, bes 158 mULLE T001 6f the discant v 1z, e Gefits while it heais the ulcreated meiuty Gifect anplication Lo The nasal pusagen, L i 1+ tused o cortaln ixed rues, 80d unless the sital fories Are tow fur exhinosted munst, (o the 1!‘*‘1! majority of Cnzen, efiet n enre, A, M b bhcott Block, 50, Framlogbews, Ot I, 1974, CATARRH And Deafness Cured. anged te Gentlemen @ My wife haa h trouhled seith Cat: for A e e e ! vifnors | In NORTH SIDE TURNER HALL, ERT VeI Ty 1 Yeapms S p 10 Bt Malne AL Satarday Evening, Jan. 27, ‘77, EDIIFS BAL her trouties hay ( TWO SEPARATE BANDS. Musle ail the time. ErOWIng rapiHy better, AC s Alie can bear 2a well 3 anever, and Lan confident ttat n pensteient e of s | Admision, $1 Noallonacents, Neverved seats ta med| Wl‘lrl|n nit In An'.u( h . ADELPHI THEATRE, I: nrlmr:] S 1 'l'ht HOver: ‘.l 1, ree tief and'cure Bagrded hyfalint, Mespeebiody poirt, TO-NIGHT, LADIES' NIGUT, . Hardwick, V., March t2 Rollin llcrl_y_ l" A SILE D OLIO. $.—Mr. Luther Bullard, af (his fown. saports el Hitiesguey NS A, fiax taken many reniedies, And has employed MINERVA; on nbilee &lakers uy without refier, i ivatest | CLOUDLAND UN Hiantating Seearaeerse enefit frum the use of SANFURD'S LA DICAL CU L Nelile Larkelle, Cottan Pieking. . . W Fanny Beane, - [100 Genuine ch packaze contalng Dr.Sanford's Improved Inhale | satnntes oo it aDLD HAWE, CO0Ted People, e e ST el i oty Bext, only appearance of Mia IENNIH Srieslets htonktioat the Unlted StRcen WEER S & HIGHT, ifl'!he Uenentof tier Father, H. A. Highi. (2 POITEL, General Ageats and Wholesale Druggists, McVICKER'S THEATRE, The Desutitul Young Actress, LOUISE POMEROY. Wednesday and Thursday Eveningy, Jan. 24 and 23, Suakapeare's Comady of AS WOU LIKE IT. Fridar, LAUY OF TY0xs LOUIS| faurilay, 2 POMEROY Matinee, Ry =T eless Comedlenne, VOLTAIC MECHEL o B0 ier new play. M1G PLASTERS |, . JiRLES Tiviee, MAG WILL'E CIHAPMAN «Sansgor Bosto COLLINS’ naGuig Week commencing Monday Evenlng, Jan. 22, Auzustin Daly's Famous FIFTH-AV, TEEATRE CO., With the Metrapolitan Success, entitied LIFE. For Local Pains, Lamencss, Sorcness, Woakness, Numbnass, and_Inflammation of the Lungzs, Liver. Kidneys, Spleen, Bow- United States of America, Novihern District of Illinois, s, Inthe Clreuft Court thereof, Willlam I, Fordick and James 1. Fish, complaluants, v1. The Chileagn, Dan- ville & Vinecunea Bailroad Company, James Liwell, and 1. Biddle l:n‘l;vr(- -{l'[fi"ml:\'\lll:i. 1 Chancery, Notice te hereby given that by virtue of ndecree of foreclosnre 0f the Ulrenlt Court of the 1'nited Ftutes for the Nurthern District of 1ilinols, rendered un Des cember's. A, D DN I a certan'suit fo chancery wherein Wiltan I Fosdlek and Jamer 1. Flah are eor pluinanta and The Chieags, Dans | Toud Comt any sud others are def signed, Muster fty Clia public’ anetton, to the ihest Aud Mugular ‘the Hiol Diviston of Chileago, Dauyiile & Vinceanes aliroad Company, g about 1l miles I Tength, tugether with termli 1racks In Chicage, — sboul o and elphtelenths (TH-10) lles tn ~und a braneh from Dlsmarekx ¢ & Vincrnuvs Kall- dants, the wmiere } or mald Gourt il scll, at il 1 to the Indiana State Hne,—atout four and six-tentbs 010 i with al) the righ, Sranchises, wereto nertatitug” sud kit and all the cous ta of sald Company. und wif the right, ttle, quity of redempiion of satd Chicago, Danville i linitroay Compangs all the kld prope appurienanecs, anchises 10 be pold a8 au entirety 204 the amine sre specltically described aad sehieuuled (o ; R Chfcago, Dauville & Vig cetinea Itaflroai from Dalto, In the County of Coof southeriy to Danville, i the’ Couaty of Vermiiion, distance of one hundred sud clght’ IIIN‘ Tt Al Tiranch lie from Tstoarck. fi eald Verminlon County, soitheasterly to the east line of the State of i dintance of 1 With tie Tik nge. bridge an ol ApPUTLenaUces thiercal, aid all woud, coal, 7 IE uae o atton therdaf, § gt of tie sald Ciago, Daiile 3 faliruad Company to the ua aud ppurienaners of o Sauthern Ratirml Conpany, and the track cea of the Piishurgli, Clucinnati & st Louls Lall Lompany fruin Thorato, tu Couk the Cfiy of Chie 1. The terintnal tracks, uldings, ewitches. ana appy t of 24t Chigazd, Danyitle & Vincennes 154l Cumpany at and near sald City of Chlcago, whetlwr hisof way Lk & lenkt i ot Ter withs all <hin Of Way oF cuntrarta thervtor, or Hlghis to have i niafntahi such tracks, ov any part thercof, and i biihiitge atruciuie apurienunces wercof, Incln A Sy tted § on gronnieot Company, sdjacen y ot woud. cudl, utnd otlicr ANpplive, Tools 5 1he nio uf sald Chea msfile & Vinvennes Batlroud Conipany, aud sttuate or uscd within said Ciiy of Chic w Or wlonk 1he dine of ot Chicao & Sunihern Hall- 1044 Compan i funatl §bt. Louts Baiiway Conph 4. ‘e sout fots thirteen (3 atl aixte atit Tt els () i Lloe s S0t twenty fuur (24), 1o lock sevin (7). Adition (0 Chilcazy, subjoct (o 8 len of ty-five hundred dollare. Ixhieen (1r) ect of (i i i twentyenlue (i, thirty (), sod_thiety-(wa Uil @ feasstiold fritere-tin ot shtriy-one (31), 1] Ttlok four c, Magic & Rigl's Adaltion 1o Clie Witl the trme] - buildines, and Axtures thers bl luts twe ), thirty Gad, aud thiny-1wo w'of wbbub twenty-thres NLyTYe 125) [N TNE o I i, cars, numbered 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, aud 8. e vars, numbered 2, L a4 Cars, nimbered 1, 3, and 4, (v CaB00 CAr, humbered B, 4, O, 6 T, K, 0, 10, Oue hundred aud siat cars, heing U beariuk vumbe both licdustve, ank L o b, Lighty -hve 't I anhers hetwey fhree huids »1 aud el those | ), being those bears © hath Inclustye. A1%) cosl care. bt 0 100, both {ncitsiy 1m) block eoal-cam, e EUrty-faur (40 stock cars, belag e beartng nutt: Lers between 24 Lo Zab, both duvhisfye. O the val 3 Chl Rty e 0T L .m,tl..lllm'n T \ bl I I o 00 0l 10 84k Hne of Fatlrs ~ U wald sl Wil b ut the hour of 10 I i Conpany Bl Otie GuERter of L | Ll alt the balang ¢, and o o g e i Lt e (rota Lie a¥ of i v o, ni Of Uhe ur- o Ui e Issicasion of atl . BIEHOP, Hattes i, iy o i fm 1o v ki chuaer, whitlh will o e property so directud i Staster ty Chiancary of the ¢ :;(L\Il‘! fur lln'7\ urthera 1) sy & InT% . AR KKACE, CANFEELL & Lawnewc, Complaiaants solitiur: Prices Greatly Reduced, ‘Workmanship and materials as good as the markes produces, Extra beavy Linens unhnid. and initials embroidered on sll fine rts. ;ILDREDGE & 0O, 55 Washington-st., near State. Ialag) 5‘Io~k Collars, Ouffs, and Furnishe ocds. Jan. 40 —THE SMITH RUSSELL, HERSHEY MUSIC NALL, 8 East Madiso ESSIPOFF RETURN, Jan. 20 & 31. In canscquenee of Iterous Teauesta, Mme. ANNETTE ESSIPOFF Andisted by BERGER FAMILY and SOL and shrubs,_Evon in Paralyms, Fits, and Norvous and_Involuntary Muscu- lar_Action, this Plaster, by Rallyioe the Nervous Forces, bas_effoctod Cures when every othor known remody has falled, SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. AB— Bt ] Misy PALMY, Mons. VIVIEN, Mone, DULUREN, Wil klve THEEE GRAND CON 75, Monday and Prico, 35 conts, riactiar byenii, dau. S aad i, anl AATOHDAT i TN R Ainfreian, tes I , £1.%0. Bale of seaty Sont an recelpt of prico, 15 centa for One, | Frlisy st Lok e s Susi C1 e prac g ! Fiiiiway Tralios tved 2t the $1U5 for Bix, or $3.35 for Twelvo, 0 any | — - ol il e part of tha United States and Canadas, by COLISEUM, DAY, FRIDAY, AND OONS, 5 " A ENTIRE NEW COMPANY! Norton, Harry firown, The Winuetts, The Dra- uliy Willtams, Marie Kherman, 1 Dore sad Lulu Motttuer. Millle Sackelt nod Msuries Pike, Aurteine Grey, and the cutite Company In the Bure fesque # Admbusion, 25 and 50 cents. WEST SIBE SKATING PARK, Cor. Ada aud Madison Masquernde Baturdny WEEKS & POTTER, Propristors, Baston, | F OULAN STEAMSITIF g L 3 NS OALY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE, 2l Traosat Mal) Steamers cw Yurk an g at Plymouth i 1) for the' landiug of pasrengere: Thee spten i y¢éselion Ehiv Tavorite route for the Cantinent, {Cabins ctric Belis,) will sali (rom ler No. sl na fullows ance, Trudrile, Saturday, Jan, dur, vanzlier, saturday, Fev, 10, 3pom, Evening, Jan, 27, . m. Labea. Anuda, Frae . THREL BUAUTIFUL PRIZE! crul, ) b 5 AR iy T S, AT bt it “winel Ve Sabm, $11 4o CLAIR M IELS waritediat the Park, E120, accarding o Arcomin Secind, & Thiird cabin, #40. lelurn tieae Stecrage £20, with auperlor wine, bedliig and utensd) ed rates. neliting charge, UNION PARK_CONG. CLURCH, THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 23, Free Lecture by Trof. O. 8, Fowler an Self and Juventle Colture, connnencing ot 8 and cloaiug with public examinatione, Consultations daily at the Palmer Iouse. until Feb, 10 only. AW PUBLICATIO * There hc“uui « dull npage between ity covers,’’==1imes, New York, The Galaxy FOR FEBRUARY NOW READY. comtmodation, without _extrs Aleatiers marked Thus o do 461 Carey_stecrade piscns v LOULS, DI HENLA W R LINEMALL STEANERS ew York sud Glasgow: vy BOLIVIA Feb, to. dom ent, 55 Broad; Cavins, £653 to €1 ew Yok : Jag, ST AN Febodo, 3 pm Cabins €35, 10 €705 Steersge, $2%9. Drafta faatied for any amisunt af enrient rates. HENDEENON BEOT 1) Washitnzion st NATIONAL LINE OF STEAMSHI New, York to Queenstown and Liverpoul. T AR Jan. 10.1 pm e, x {3;-'“.‘-43'_‘}?“’;“ eV | Justin McCarthy's (ireat Serisl Story begiug in Wi "f\';‘-:;u o N, 4 buuth Clar! (his Number, 18 STATE LINE. Y K T ASGOW, LIVERT L N The Adminiatrativn of Abraham Lincoln. iy Glleon Weiles. ~Art's Limitationa, By Mar- warct J. Preston.—Applied Boloncs, A Lova Stouy 1y Two CuswZns, By Charles Darnard, —The Murdor of Margery. By Walter A, Hurlingume. —Love's Roquiem. By William ‘ho Lettars of Honore de Balzac. Iy Hewry dumes, dr.—The Btory of s Lion, Uy Athert Rbodes.—A Woman's Gifte, By Mary Alnge DeVere,—The Modern Pythla. By &N, Luce.—Afunschar, 1870, By Bret Harte, Aut Dinbolus aut Nihil, Tur Tuvs Stone or a HalLveiNation,—On Reading Sbak. spoars. (Conclusion.) By Richard Grant White, —'The Philtor, A Leaesn or Kive Antuun's Tink. Wy Mary B. Dodge.—Misa Misanthropo, Dy Justin McCurthy, —Drift-Wood, By Palllp Quilibet, — Scientific Miscellany. — Qurrent Literaturo.—Nebulw, By the Editor, THE GALAXY EWRRIACK, M 4 larkoat. I German Lloyd. a1 . Great Western Steasnship Lin “rom New Yo to lirlstal (Englaad) direct, b Jo. | Cabin s St .x;ux;\]:‘l;:lkhl: o FeOiciv 1S THE i Nilrast T 3 AWERICAN LINE. PHILADELPHIA AND LIVERPOfiL Cabin, Interniediate, aml MeerEe pacesge LOW TES. coruer Madison, . General A " CUNARD MAIL LINL. Salliug three timess wek toand from British Ports,Lowest P Apply at-Compoauy's Office, nortbwest cornee K and Randalpl-te,, Chicazo, vl DU VE ral Wetern Agesit, WHITE STAR LINE, Carrylug tho Matl, betwer 1 Ay Wk Comoud BEST AMERIOAN MAGAZINE. No Fawily Can Aflord to Do Without 1. NOW 15 THE TINE T0 SUBSCRIBE Price, 36 Ots. per Number, or $4.00 per Year, ‘Who would not give $4.00 for such a Mage azine lor a Year? WE PREPAY THE POSTAUE, It Lo bal with either ** Harper's Weekly " or e 0. Witk ++ Littsil's Living Age®, for $10.50. SUELDON & COMPANY, 8 Murrajy-sts N, X, Al General Drafts on Grest Britata and Jrciaud, W I KOYAL VICTOLIA HIOTEL, Nesau. Babazy falsads, - Forrutl ARSI oop & co. 753 Drosdway, i W CWANTED, i VTN SaEy e nsts raotantictc — = AM]‘; iSRS A | MEDIOAL, 2 paver, 13 e cs, peacil - 4 e, LA o S, ek i PRESORIPTION FREE e, with el ,” gold-plat ot Dlleat s ouninl Taa Fur thopeedy cur of exs. Lost Mene: 4 Semtnal e » et brought 6a dlscresion of . droce poit-patd, 3 eenta: 3 jackazed witls n-%x:‘\i bl sl Ylianlars SN }n' A i3 g fim“b’filf RS TEENEYR | B AR BICTARUA S U Clailaneds onle Jerats’ B o ARl WOLFSOHN, - [ INTER RESORT., - - '’ oy |