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f case, ond the sul . 'Total Abstinento and N near Twenty-ninth strect. They g_—__;-—:_— THE CITY. GENERAL N EWS. 4 The Berger family and Sol 8 mith Russell sro : “guests of the Tremont flouse. James Dignan and John Due ne were captured 1ast evening while trying to di spose of a buflalo robe, supposed to have been st olen, 9 Madsme’ Esalpoff, Miss Pidma, snd Mea- " ‘sleurs Vivien, Dulcker, ‘and_‘Werthtems, from . New York, arc at the tUrand Picifie. Wendell Philllps lectured yresterday in Mil- waunkee in the Sundsy coursc. Ho will speak . §nMcCormick MHall on Thursday cvening. Mr. . Phillips ia n excellent health and splrits. " Cunrad Oberg, grocery dealer at No. 213 West L e tiatns that hin Jiacevas bur. glorized vesterday afternoon -and 8150 worth of toas, cigars, and_groceries carrled away. En- ~ {ranto was gained by forcing open the transom wver tha front door. James Dalton was locked up ot the Chicago Avenuo Station last cvenlnig cliarged wil h Younding n Celestint named R g Q'rlgen Siug, re- - giding ot No. 1 Kinzlo stritet. he dispute arosa avout some clothing for which the almond- eyo falled to satiafactorily ncconnt. Edward Curley stole conl from James Heflron, and pleaded gullty to the cliarge, with the ad- ditional plea that” necessity reduced him to the theft, wherefore ho was_ locked up in the "Twelfth Btreet. Btatlon. Cuvley I bud enongh, bt there are so many worse that it seems liko a sln to send him up. Tilen Lee, consort of Thoms Burnett, recent- 1y arrested for complicity In the Alex. White Tobbery, last evening gave herielf to the Armory police, sho ** haviug hearid tell that some white cliaj d John S8mith, o! Elzin, had cam- p)nll;lcfl that sho had robbed him of $10 and a thock for $150.7 Al of which she strenuously “The lecture of the fon, A, L. Morrison on #]pabelln the Catholle,and tticMoarish Invasion of 8pain,” undcrlhonnflvlccn of the Sacred Heart encvalent Boclety, will take place next Monday Instead of this evening, sa previously announced, in the bagement of the church, corner of Halsted and Nincteenth strects. "Nicholas Schuster and his son John put on thelr stockings on Saturday night and went forth to do depredation to iho Lincoln ‘Bakery, No. 451 North Clark strect. About $50 worth of confectionery was stolen, and the Schusters wero caught inaklnz off ‘with tho plunder. - Bpecial Lofl was given Ly both to the 18th proximo. .Last cvenine Mike Evansand Gleeson, who claim to be Collector and Town Clerk of the South Town, had a conference ot on State, discussed the sition in reference_to tho decision by the iree Judges exEc:ted to-day In the mandamus scquent meeting of the Board in tho afternoon, Poter, Frank, and Jacob Berger, three grown men of Bridgeport, were arrested by Olficer Race, 0f the Deering Street Htation, chorged ith'spiriting away 8 total of one oak plank from a tlock on the South Branchof the river. Chicago i getting wonderfully moral when lit- tlc cates for a cent like these oeeupy the atien- tlon of the Chicago police. The Wall strect revivallsta called on a promi- nent broker to ask him If he could not lend his . countenance to the daily prayer-meetings. He said hie could not very well fzo, ns business kept him closcly confined to theuflice, but i they would arrange to have s prayer-telegraph, lke - the gold and stock indicator, put ln* Lie would subscribe. An adjourned_meeting of the Indles of the West 8ide churches wiil be held in the chapel of the Third Presbyterian Church, corner of ‘West. Washington and Carpenter streets, Tue:day afternoon ot 4 o'clock. 1t {s deslred that any of the West Slde churches not as yet represented will send one delegate to this mecting to com- plfw the representafion upun the Central Com- mittee. There will be soryices four nights this week in Abbutt's Chapel, corner of Milwaukee and Western avenues, as follows: Tucsday evening, Mr. C. St. Clair will conduct the meeting, nsslst- edby F. Abbott; Weduesday evenin Johi Doran, ussisted by Georgze Elner day creufng, by E. Elmer, ossisted by Mr, Ruesell; Fridoy cvening there will bea unlon meeting. A girl on May street will never smile ogain. Her new lover called the other dny tadee hery and her wother, mistaking Nin for a piratical dealer in patcat artivles, refused him a hearlng, s sadd thut If he didn’t grovel rijght alone sho woitld pretty roun sce If Tic wos o salamander. 1l had a package undter his arm coutaining o coutly gife for the young woman, and was a vie- th to cireumstaniil evidence. Jeremniah Hagerty, a hoodlum of tho Twelfth Street Distrlet, weut upona hurral Saturday alternoon, and, meeting with Johm Dalafes, o representative of a race much despised in that rhood by the hoodlunis of the English- speaking popufution, smushed himn twlee for Tuek over the faco with a polr of brass knuckles, Ctficer Twaohey Ym. in a word for the defense, gnd‘;:on\'urcd Hagerty to tho Twelfth BStreet tutlon. 4 Now, this i3 comfortable,—this is some- thing like,” sald a frlend of tno family, us he drew up hia chair bolore o roaring wood-lire the other night; “liow much more lome-lke wood is than coal! But s it not vastly more expen- sived"” * Yes,'" aseented the lndy of the house, *hut I can always persuade dear John with o bickory club, whien {f I touk a plece of coal I'd muss up my fiugers so, and be sure to throw it into the looking-glass bebind me oe up through the gusalicr,” Ter husband redectivoly rubbed a bump on lis sinciput that was not lald down ou sny_phrenological chart, and sald Burah ‘would always have her Joke. Mme, Mitchell, s well-known {ndefinable, cs- saya to make a herolno of herself in the follow- h:_?' manner: Baturday night, shu states, upon refurning home, she found two en in her rooin {n the O'Nelll bullding, corner of Stato and Barrison streets, and, fimmediately upon her en- tering, one of thein scized her about " the throat whilo the other attempted to rob ler of her dlamunds, Then, Hke the brave little woman that shic pretends to e, she drew n “!m(»” {rom nuder her pillow, and tircd three shota ot them, QOue of thein shricked os ho retreated, and she Is contldent that sho shiot bin, There Is only this and nothing wore in the story. Bomng people ignorantly think that oman has got to bu acollege praduste or n professor to understand the myateries of finance. There can bo no greater mistake, The other day n clty editor had accanion 1o send u reporter up to tho ‘Thirteenth Ward to look after sumething, It was Iriday, and the reporter sald ho badi't o cent Jeft, aud he didn’t coro to o to the trouble of sclllng somu bonds, so the city editor gave him halt a dollur. The reporter proceeded on his way, and when he camo hack rendered o bitl for 8116 for cxpenses durin the trip. What puzzies tho city editor 1s to fnd out how this eminent financler in humble 1ife nanaged to spend $1.15 out of 50 cents, -Scenes in the West Division last cvening, nearly all of which were witneesed by o reporter: In the atternoon, newly-marricd husband tinds u suspiclous nots to his wifo Iying upon the floor, Per agreement wife meetsau old Lifend of the family at dusk upon the corner of Wushington and Green streets; susplelous husband in the shadows of tall poplars ogling the _performauce. Ecene 11, Room in La .Berge’s restauraut. Suspicous, now dignant, busband | accompaniéd by a po- liceman raps for admittance, und the scene ends in tablosux cn dishubitle, Beene IML: False wife clinging to her hushand like Josle Leon st the Adelphito lur paper cross in the tablesux vivauts, following with mutual forriveness, nod ending with the disgusted polleeman hving Lomewards, Travebu sgents and liverymen Ko not thou and do likewise, . « An affectionate young girl on 8heldon atreet, whose most Intimate mule friend Is u widower with three children aud an eligivle fucomo, told bim the other evenlug that it wos positively fly- ing in the fuce of Providence to futrust those dear little onex to the care of Mreling servants, w10 would al bis substance i riot- ous houseke: berett ofn woth- £’ tender lovi chiful care, sho said softly, her e sympathetic toirs a4 ehe spol and your household lacks the constant supervision of a perfect woman nobly plaunied to warn, to ccmfort, o command,’ “He appeared much moved by the earnustness with which she spoke, nudf squeezing hier hand warmly, bade her farc well, Next morning he wrote to Ler that the words tLat skic had spoken to bim had created & deep (mpression . The children, be said, needed more attention thau mere servants could give them, and the lioure iteelf needed a mls- tress. }o had, therefory, resolved to ndvertlso 18 BUNDAY Trisuse for u houscheeper. * Youog wman," said a stern-lookiog old re- former on Maadison strect yesterdsy to a young geotleman who was grappliug with o 10<ent dgar, “do you know what there s In that egari” “Tybacco, I guess,” responded tho jousz wman. “.:3': and more (han Lhat."” Wit exclatned the smoker, “you didn't tucan that auy one ’s been up to a proctical joke #nd put guopowder fu i, and hoe ugcasily re- n&uv:d 1t from hiamouth. * No, but it coutains thirty-seven noxious cheuleal ingredivuts, smong whicu ] only need micntiou ammonia, carbolic adil. prridive, viripige, bidive, ‘JHI CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JANUARY 2, 187% acld, creosote, acette, butyric and slerie acld, Dlcoline acid, fulpheret of. hydrogen, propronie acidin and bisuiphing of ammoniacal ozone.” #Vell, snpposc it doeal? anid the young man. * Also'nlcotine, nfeotia, and the preumonle fer- rates, Nicotine, that sccursed tiuld, one drop of which J)lm:cd on the tongues of three tom- ents killed them in twenty-seyen seconde 1 uin't three tom-cats, nor yet one,” repiled that young man, who had o little appreciation of the Amll{ ‘and power of sclentifle’ demonatra- tlon, **and you had better walk off on your ear.’? The stern old moral reformer dld sowith 8 8igh, becauze he had expected that the soung an would certalnly throw the cigar away and mve him a chance of picking it up for s home consumption as soon a8 he had gone round the corner. TR CATHOLIO T. A, AND T, UKIOK. The Irish Catholic T. A, snd . Socleties held an adjourned delegate conyention fcnlcn]ny af- ternoon at 3 o'clock fn Mpakell Hall, fur the purpose of perfecting a general Insurance and benevolent associntion, comprising all the socie- ties, P, M. Hansbrough occupled the chalry and Lawrence Burko acted na Seerctary, Mr. Carroll, from the Cominittce on Plan of Organization, reported. The nnme of the asso- tiatlon s to the Catholic Total Absti- nenca and Benevolent Unlon of Chi- cago. The report goes on to state that the cost of life insurance fa too high for the ordinary laboring man, and_that the funds support numerous oflicers and ngente, and far- nish _gorgeous offices, Tlie report fixes the membership B\mllllmtlom and provides that the loard of Directors hall consiat of two mem- bers from each Soclcty, 1t fixes the ofticers to be ciceted, ete. The ubgccl of ihe association 18 to epread the cauge of temperance, 'The cost of odmisston shall be &1, and 50 cents neaces- ment upon the deathof a member. For every 100 members the widow and children of the de- ceased to reccive $40. Tho report was, after soma slight changes and discuseion, adonted. TINT FOR A BEASONADLE ROMANCE. This panic and financial lll’llll!dhc{,llll\'fi been upon us for a good many months; but, strango to say, not a single exchange has yet contained the story of the bankrupt husband and provi- dent wile. It is casy to get up this story as to devise n plan for vounting the Electoral vote that won't work and please both sfdes, Thero must bea young husband engaged in commerclal pursuits and a young, beautiful, and affection- Be wife whoni' tho husband helloves to be frivolous, On a wet or snowy night—snowy is better, because then he can shake the feathery flakes from his coat in the hallway—he comes liome worn, wan, and haggard with great circles under his eyes, and throwing himself into a chalr” says: “Florentls, 1 am ruined—busted—gone up higher'n Gilderoy's kite. 1've been shinning round all day, but money's tight, and my utmost cfforts have {yruved N, d. To-morrow & notc comes due at lio Fifty-third Natlonal Bank, and unicss I can meet it [ am ruined.” And the strong man covers his face and weeps. ‘*Jullus,” says his wife, *how much money do you wantl T have o litdle—just a little—ol my o¥rn.” *The note {s for $10,227,48," he replies bitterly, *‘and you haven't enough to trest to shell-ovsters. * ifaven't 11" and she draws from tho drawer of her sewing-machine asavings-bank book, and, casting berself on his bosom, sobs thnmg‘x her hnppy tears: **Take it, my hushand, take it, havo saved up $654,000 out of tho housckeeping money—it {5 ull yours.” *Saved! saved!" cries ihe husband, clasping her to his bosom. Some pathas will come fn well for a finlsh, and the story wiil be sure to have a good run. JOW BITK DROUGNT HIM TO TIMI, A yunup‘)mnu on Calumet avenue has forsomo time past been trifiing with the affoctions of a young woman. They were to have been mar- rled lnst October, bt tho ceremony hias been - postponed several times, and u couplo of wecks ngolheyoun;:nmnpmfimm\ that theyshouldstill fiirther postpone it till after the 4thof March, when busineas had revived, and the vexed ques- tion of the Presliency wus finally settled. A few days ago hu obaerved with some curiosity that whenover hie called on her she was readinic 2 book that didn’t look like a _novel or the farm- {ly Bible, which she Invarfubly conteated with singular ostentation os he entered. Une day he eaw from Its biuding that it wasalegal book, and, 08 she was carrving it away, a piece of paper fluttered out of It aud fell upon tle floor. He plcked [t up unuoticed, thruxt 1t Into his bosom, and when he ot home opened it. What was his eurpriec and prat- fflcatfon on openinz it to find that jt wns an obstract of the law of breach of promise, with all the colebrated enscs, showlig 0 a_mathematical nicety how muny rqueezes of the hand, packazea of gum-drops, sleighrides, conterminous and co-ordlnate joint. ocettpations of one rocking-chalr, takings to theatres, ete., were In the eye of the law cquly- alent to an engagement of marriage; also, what dainages could be obtained, the probubla cost of nnactlon, cte., ote. There waa alyo an opln- fon by a prominent crimival lawyer to the elfect that whese the defendant wns a dry-goods clerk on n limlted salary it would hardly pay to sue him, exeept to foree him Into narrisge, since all that could be recelved from him wuummrnlllblyv La consumed in legal expenses. ** If, nowever,"™ continued the lawyer, * you should shoot de- fendant, I hove not tho slightest doubt but that 1 can securo your ancquittal at the hauds of an and disind ested jurs—in - fact, am wIlIInF stake my professtoual reputation upon It an lend you u revolver, If the tragedy s conduct- ed fo'a dramatic fashion, and we have a good, 1ively trial, tho chances are that thele notorlety will “bring you several advantazeous offovs, while fuur siceess In the lecture-tield wiil in- eyitably e nssured.” The young man's halr stood on end when he read this; then no wrote to the girl that be hait only suggested these mnny postponements to try lier foith to the ut- most; tuat it hadcome forth llke gold from the eruclblo seven times hotter thun b could he heated and altopether lovely, and that it she would only name the happy day which ho panted for na tho” hart for the water-Drooke, he would he there every time, When the glrl recelved this, her heart overfiowed with c¢motion, and nurdy whispering to herself ¢ My grandmother's ducks! ™ she wrote to him that ‘fucsday pext would for her. No cards, JIOTEL ARRIVALS, Tremont Hause—The llon, ¥, F. Cary, Clncin. natl; C._E. Shedd, Boston; Kugens Shaw ond George Thomas, Kou Ulalre; J . tenderson, Newton tioodwlin, and C, 1l, Matthews, New James Sherwood, New i M, €. Lipplncott, Pittsburg; G. 11, Caldwelt snd John Montzumery, Ilaverhill, Mass. ; A, F. Plate and 4, F. Wagzon Now York....Shermun I{ouse~The llun, W. W, York Yalllan, Deicorah; W, i1 Uogge, Wheellugs J. 13 aas, Lako Huperlol JHolly, Lock: worts d. . W, Randers, ' Tielialre, 0.3 1. 11" Osgood, West Randolph: A, i Sarringlon, Monireal.... Grand Lacife—A. J. ) L, Mertiam and A, L. Wilder, » i Edly, Omahai Wi D, Sor: ton, Detrait; Baron Von Holweds, New York; W. Tia W. Towsiter, Now Yorks D, Turrence and E.' K, Punuett, 8. Louls; Ucorge Harding, Philadelphia, “almer louse—A. 1. Armatrong, New York; . Ackerman, St Louin: B, ¥, Dwliht, Bus: 8, Dibley, Cleveland; P."H. Redmond, du. B, A, Irotols, Washington: (en. orth, Kunsas; tho Jlon, J. A, Ather- sco; ‘Horaco Osgood, Rochester; W. GLASS, LECTURN Y TR REV, B, I’ POWKLL, The Rev, E. P, Powell lectured lust night at the Third Unftarian Church, corner of Laflin and Monroe strects, on the * Wonders of the Spectroscope, with Reference to the Blue-Glasy ‘Theory,” Tne church was comfortably fitled with an intelllgent audlence, who were deeply interested fu My, Powell's masterly treatment of nis subject. Following la un abstruct of that part of the discourse bearing on the blue- glusa theory : In opening, the reverend gentleman sald, If they needesd o text ut all for the lecture, the best one wus that glorious pussags of tae ohl Mosale cosniugony, where God sunl, “ Let there be llzht, and there was dight.”” Hewas to taik about u ruy of Hebt und what It could reveal tous, kle wonld tuke n slugle ray, becuuse o eun ray was really o bunch ol rays. After ex- plainfuy the construction and working of the speetroscope, he stated that by [ts uicans we could learn of what materlal the beavenly budics were compored, If we discovered that our globt was forimed of the sama materials, wo might take u much more nelzhhorly futercst tn Juplter, Veuus, and otber pluncts. There wus Teadly v renson why this principle suoulid not cnter futo theology and forin 2 universal sys- tem, ws matter (s one, spirit is vne, and there fs Oug Father over us afl. Speaking of tho colurs {u the sunbeam, lic sald while there was o little selence in the blue-glass theory, there was also au lmmense wimount of humbug nt. He must say that the letter of Gien, Pleasonton to Tue ‘FiiuNe wus the wors: contributlon on the subject. ‘o red ray of the sun was found to contain the beat of the solur beamj the yellow coutains the light; those which contain the chemlesl or photographic power are Lhe violet or blue; the trecu is ’mrtly yellow and coutafus a purtion of hight. If the red rays ulone were rmuiucd to puss futo a ruom it would berowe ntenscly hested; the yellow would inake it coul, and if the blue ray was allowed ta pass 1 it would take off a very large proportion of the heat. “Thut color aflécted nature was not to be denled; Indeed, g actual effect on anhnal and plant Jfe was one of the scientific probleins of theage. ToLeep ol a portiou of the Leat or light, or botb, wus probably just what we needed to remedy conatitutional defects. Ina mobst, cloudy climate, like Englaud, we fougd the inhabitants cool-headed wmen, who enloyed Iite, aud wero never in o Lurry; but o our liot, clear atmosphere nature left us tuo cxcitable, hasty, vervous, asud full of fret. We might cowpensate for thls erence BLUE by oriifclal meaus, but to know fust what todo we must stwly nature’s own pro- cesses, and learn the special object of the differ- ont colored rays of light. Ile had no heeitation in snzlng. froin the prescnt standard of scley- tific knowledge, that bluc glass was no cure-all, and that 8 grave mistake might bho made hy filling our windowa with bluc light and shutting out the light and heat of the aunshine. Horti- culturists tn England were in the habit of wsing different colored glasscs. They used the blue in the spring becauss it gave the chem- feal ray, ami had the power of golng down to the and tapping the dead bulb, and kaying ** Come, for the spring drawa nigh.”” In the sammer ynhow glass was employed, beeause It had the power 10 decompose the earhon gascsand weave them {nta a texturo and foliage; thered was used in autumn, because the lieat ray had the power of perfecting the reed, In brief, the blue started germination, the yellow advanced the owth, and the red tipencd the seed. A startling af plicatfon of the light theory had been made tn a French lunatic osylum. melancholy patient had been “treated In a blue raom, and an Improvement was slortly afterwards moticed, ~ Rooms of other colors hiad been fitted upin the Asylum, and a report of the experunents would be’ looked forward to with Interest. This trial, howerer, was not due to Gen. Pleasonton, or any other Amerfean. Theorles in regard to the ecifect of lghit on life were by no means new, ‘The lecturer went on to explain the wagnificent revelations of the spectroscope, and remarked, In conelusion, that there might be revelations more grand In some otlicr stagze of 1ife far out of this sphers, MAN AND BCIENOCE. LECTURB BY FROY. GUNNING, * Prof, W. D. Gunning has consented to deliver a couree of six lcctures on sclenco and man at Herslicy's Muslc Hall. The firat of the lecturcs was delivered yestenlay afternoon , to a highly- {nterosted awdlence. The subject under constd- cration was * Foregleams of Man (o the Geo- logleal Age,” and was lstencd to with rapt at- tentlon, The Professor, {ntroducing his lecture, re- marked that Arassiz used to say thatGod incant man when he miade the fish. Oken used to say that man represented the sum total of tho ani~ mal kingdomn, Enicrson used to say that no sclenca Is sublime until it touches msn. 8avans ond sagges apoke wisely. In thesc scasions wo are to traverse o pnst antfeipatory of nan, nndln future of which ourselycs arc “the antivi- ation. L4 The past is written in tho carth's crust. By a few chalk dellneations the speaker showed how the history was wrilten and how we can read {t. ile delineated the ‘*life-dawn® from lts fossll entombed in the oldest rocks, It was o body without membera. The first drnft of life on the globe answered o the first draft of every 1iving thing that peoples the globe to-day, The 1ifc-dawn has left ita ruins through o rock sye- tem which attaius o thicknessof nincteen milea, and, taking the average growth of ecdiments o8 a time-scale, moy represent the necumulation of 160,000,000 years| For so mauy years may tho earth liave cycled on after the getting of life before the getting of a norve, & limb, a mouth, or an eye. “Loinely ns God" Is the dariag metaphor of a Westernn bard na he looked on the face of Shasta, cold, barren, and solitary, Lonely and {dlc as'Govl, 'the mind says that, measures this universe by o tine-seale of 6,000 years, Agassiz beliered thal all things were created In germs, bees fu a sort of hive of gering, and men in n gort of natlon of germs, but all germs arc Alike, and_ n apeck from the life-dawn antmal could vot ba seen to differ from the beglnuing of lish, bird, or man. 1f n flsh forceasted man in its structure, 80 nay the dawn-animal have been a fainter forccast “of the future man. As time passed, diversified forms of 1ifu appearcd fn tho ecas. The plant-kingdom appeured in sea-weeds, one representinie by Its structure a rout, ancthier astem, and auothern leal. It was not till vegetatiun came on the land that the parts combiued to form a perfect plant, Anafozous to this has been the metliod of creation with the anfinal. 'The -henrlug organ s ealled an urari-. Now, before the ovary appeara as the orgzan of au anlmal, it upprars ns ananimal. The Professur deliucated o beavtl- ful little bell-shaped Jcnlv with the motith pend- ent ko the clapper of a bell. It pantsand pulses through the sen, slaying and eating, e showed that this roving Medusa Is the -50C of uhiydrold. Anothier lowly anfmal represents a stomach, auotheralung. Independent antinals unite and form ope, and tho organs are co-or- dinated. Indepeudent zoolds have united to form an fnscet. In the ovean we may see o atomach unimnl in the form of o sav. It I8 a stomach which had gained o few n}mcudm:cf. omong thein a heart, Instend of o single pulsating sac, which s the first draft of u heurt, nnllm lias un surfele and o ventriely, velna und arteries, But Nature, having ad- vanced to n doublo heart, does 1ot know how to use it. Auricle Incessantly chianges Into ven- tricte, and ventricle [nto ‘nuricle. These anl- mnls congregate I vast shoals, and, in thelr phosphurcaence, glare ko Ymm of fire, green and cliish, They unite into chalng, and op- pear ke n writlifng, flery serpent, glding over the waves. ‘The speaker then showed how, from o bonc- Iess compound, anfinal ¢reation advanced to o vertebrato with hones. He went on to sketeh nearcr and nearer antleipations of man. A glince _along the geologle nzes suggests the method of Creatfon. Time was when Nuture stopped with the ez, Time paesed, oud Na- ture’ made an ovary an animal, A8 purts of nu antmal came beloro the completo anlmal, 80 the fvot, and bralns, and bealt of & bird canie Defore the binl; €0 the pelvle areh of o maninnl came before tho wammal; so hints and antlel- natiuns of ian came before man. The human y caine by instollments, The age of man cannot be fixed. We should n)y:nk of the nn- Hl|\|lly of man ns we epenk of the age of St Peter’s at Rome, The foundations of “the tem- ple were Inld I one century, The walls, und pillars, aud nrches rose In the next. The over- spauning dome crowned them in the next. 8o nrose this living temple. Its corner-stone wos fald {1 the (lfe<lawn that elumbered, pulsclers and senselees, on the tloor of the first sea, Ity walls of tlssue, Jta plilers of lhone, rose through millennfuins chronicled In the globe’s crust. It overspanning dome of brain crowned the temple, und 1y the fullness of timeg man becano a living soul, Man is old, and yet hie §8 young, He I8 old in foot and youuz n head. “His foot remalns cluse to the primi- tve pattern of tho plantigrade. Hia brain do- parts the farthest posalble from the prophetie drait lufd In tho tish, The body of man, inov- fugz, in enbryo, through all the Mfs phuscs be- low, prociilms tho sucecsslon of forms through which it has moved up alongs the slopes of the Ful cternity. ‘The outery of man to-day Is, * What shall be the destiny of my unfolding powerald" ‘The earlicst articulato mlt('r?' of mun was, * What or who ereated my body ™. * Who was he, and where was hel" ‘erfed” an anclent Hindoo, in the Kt Veda, * who und where was he, he without bones who madu the first fellow with boues?" Next Bunday the Professor will iry to answer this Vedie ery aud show men in the making. DBEER AND SUICIDE. A BEJOINDER TO CORONER DIETZSCI 0 tAa Kditor of The Trivune, RocneLLg, I, Jan, 26.—The report of your Coroner I characteristic of a great miud ond a good mind. 1ie 18 worthy of the flattering euln- £y you bestowed upon him {n to-day’s Twisuse. We cannot say too much in favorof the public ofticer who takes advantage of tho opportunity to educate and lead his conatituents up to the highest morat etandard in hls power. Ho reclp- rocates the benelita tho nm‘rlu have bestowed upon him a hundred-fold, ¥ he alms, u addition to the faithful of the unrl asant dutles of his ofl ey to clevate the people up to the high moral cxeellence of his own character, What u beautiful cssay (tnstead of an uzly, repulsive report), what power, wity wisdom, aul sublime woral scatiment! \Whenever before id we sec such u profusion of muoral lescons In une siuglesermont Who would not bu a better wan after reading this merlel reporti Would that ail our publle utlicers nee ample and perform the dutles of their oflices snd the dutles towurds thelr tellow man us Coroner Dictzsch! 1laving enld so much by way of -mmmti my upprectation of this report, | now take the libes 1y 1o custon he state und rug to the ellect beer has upon the German, cousing a tendency to lunacy, ‘Fhis proposition fu will bo diiticult to wubstantlate, und I think ation will convince vur friend usion was taken for graoted, t the ex- further hu that this con rathier than based un fact, 1t is Germusn ratfonalism, G thought, German _plitosophy, tie fty to Bible theuvlogy and dogs tiemn olten voluntarily to seek « reat tu death, " o die §s to steen,” says 1)'flolboach, and this view is gcnmdlf) awceptid Ly the most thoug) ful Gennans, ath to thein hus lost its ter- rors, wid they die, falthful that it will lear thew in the samo condition they were in pre- vious to birth., Belleving thls, they Lesltato not (and I would not) to *go to slecp™ when lde hus proved a latlure aud cxistence bovomes burdensome or when haunted by physical pain. Belleving this, they bave tho advantaze over the “hellover,” who stes In the uncertaln future an eterulty of fucomprebensible soi;. but also the fearful'vislon of sn everlastiug hell. 8o when trouble overwhelms tho poor German; wheo, after exbausting all bis enesey, his busluces fs & falluro; whiea bo cannot poy bis debts; when bo crmon radleal man {nfidel: that cause cannot geatify his love for a quict and comfort- ablo home, for beantiful pictures, fowers, musfe, ks, and - all that pertains to a gaod table; 10 ho loses her who has onl;1 ta make him hnp[g; it death robs him of all that makes Jife eheerful, or i T loses his health, then fu- decd docs hie joylully seck that shore from wlience no wanderer retarns.” Vielsslludes of Jifo that send the belfevera in heaven and heil into the Insanc-asylums, nnd the non-helieving German toeternal rest. 5 ‘To end a ecrious anb}nt lightly, but with due respect for your cstimnble Coroncr, you wiil permit me to say that the want of heer would caurc more Uermans to commit sulclde than the habitual use of It. Respectfully yours, Orito WETTSTRING —— AMUSEMENTS, THR GERMAN DRAMA. Miss Elizabeth Von Stammyvits last evoning added another leat to her laurel wreath as a brilllant tragedienne by her excellent rendition of the part of Elizabeth in Dr, Helnrich Lauber's celebrated drama * Count Essex.” While sha plaged the part of * Deborah *? the week Lefore in & inouner that would reflect credit upon any actress, it fs very cvident that sha fs much better suited to such roles a3 the one she assumcd lnst evening, IHer lijure, volee, and heartig have something qucenly about thein, and it takes but & slight stretch of the fmaginatfon to believe her to be a real queen, ter performance was rewarded with unbounded applause and numerous calls before the curtaln. Tho partof Count Essez wos ne- sumed by Mr. Emll &on Der Asten the new leading man. o 18 tall, good-tooking, hns n stately flgure and an excellent volce. Yet with all ihese glfts, ho lacks feeling and easc, and in the more uathetle scenes he s inclined to rant, Mr, Brockman made & very exceltent Lord Southampton, and the three Sccretarles, Sir Jobert Cecll, Tord Nottingham, and_Str Walter Raleigh, wero well 'imrfonm:d by Messrs. Meyer, Franziiller, and Janaid, Mits Lindeman dd quite well as Countess Rutland, cspecially for one so voung, belng but 17 years of age. This young ?ady E\ a promising actreas. Mra. Jorn dcacrves favorable mention for her grasp of the character of Lady Nottingham. Altogotlier last evening's performance tyas one of the best that have been glven at the New Chicago this scason, Next Sunday evening the comedianof the company, Mr. [och, takes his benefit. Iie has selected for the occasion one of losen’s Iateat roductions, _cntitled * 8chwera Zelten Troublesome Times). Mr, Koch s o great fa- vorite with tha Germans In this city, and bo will undoubtediy have a crowded house. SUBURBAN. LAKE, Tho Town Board men on Saturday, President Muirhead {n the chair. Present, Condit, Cory, Shirley, and Murphy. Tho saloon bonds of Willlam Willl wero preseated ond referred to Committeo on License. E.T. Martin petitloned to have James Grez- son spoointed speelal policemnn “for Dexter Park. Petition granted. Peter Roach,who was fined in December, 1875, for selling Mquor without & lcense, petitioned the Board to refuud the fine, amounting to 323, Referren to the Committee on Finance, 1n relation to thu proposition of the Chleazo, Rock Island & Pacific Rallway to tako water fromn the town, the Comwmlittee on Firc and Water recommended that the Board finstruct the At- torney to draw up u contraet between the Rall- road Company and the town, fixing the com- pensation at 32.000 ayear. The report was con- curred in. A communieation from the Board of Trustees of the Villaze of Hyde Park was recelved, giving the proposals to furnish coal forthe jolnt Water- Worka of Hydo Park and Lake. 'The bids were s follows: W, P, Rend, Laurel Hill...,. oo, oo $6.206 perton, ticorge If. Fleming, Fonntain Co... 4. Georgo F. Flemlng, I na Block. 4. George F. Fleming, XXo.o0 voeeries B Georze P, Floming, Laurel Hill W, L. Roblnean, Indiana Bloek ... 500 per ton, W. L. Robinson, Shawnee.. 5,70 per ton, Tuey recommended. If the Board ¢ tha n contract be made with Georze I° for 400 tons {(more or less)of Indiuna block coul nt §4.45 per ton, and with the same party for forty tons (mora or less) of Laurel Hill ‘at $6 per ton, eonditlonnl upon the delivery between this date and June 1 nesty payment to e made upon welghts taken nt the Water-Works, The communication was slgned by the President and Board of Trustees, and Water Commissioner, The recommendation wus concurred ti and Bupervisur Condit lustructed wlm:purc the con- trret on behalf of the Town of Lake, About 35,100 worth of bills were audited and other hills referred to committecs. Adjourncd for one week. e —— e ‘THE COURTS. Marltimo Lien Law-—Judgwments and New Holtse—-Divorcos Ankod For nnd Granted. Tu the caso of Charles Spearen v, the schuon- er Hizgic and Junes, Judge Blodgett gave a de- clufon Suturday involving some Tezal points of interest toscamen ond those whe go down lo the sea In ships. Thero was alibol filed to re- & et ton, .00 per ton, cover scomen's wuages and money loun- cd to the owners of tho schoouer, The proof Sshowed thut in 1878 Hizgle and Jones, then the ownera of the schooner named sfter them, sold hier to a woman named Margaret Doyle, taklug o nortgage for part of the purchase-money. The llbellant served ns mate on her during the sesson of 157 and carped $414. Tle also loaned Miss Doyle $300, which ho alleged inlis libel was used for the purposo of supplying the vessel, and tool a nota from Miss Doyle and her brother Willlatn s eceurity, In October, 1874, n settlement was made, nud Mbellant took o new note for tho nmount, $675, sccured by her brother, InOctobier, 1575, Mlrs' Doyle was unable to pay thy purchase-tnoney dud” on the mortgaze ln'lll‘,',glu and Junes on” her orlzinal purchase, and they, in order to protect themselves, wers ubliged t Day & number of Hens which Tind ne- crued ngalnst the vessel in. various ports. The result wus that Higele and Jones settled with Doyle and took bick the vessel, Durlng the negatlations between tho partles which resulted in the transfer, they becate wware of the fuct that Spearen hnd 8 claln for services, They then offered him 25 per cent of his debt, but ho refused and fled the present Jibel. There was wlso anovther ftem lncluded for sweeplng out and saltlug the hold of the schooner fn Felw ruary, 1875, Lo render her fit to recefvo o cargo of wheat {u the following epriug. The defendants clalimed ilrst that the claim was stale by resson of its not having been cn- forced as o maritimoe llen In proper thne, two sensons havingz elavaed; second, that tha Jibel Tant had walved nis llen by taklug a note with securitys third, that os far as the borrowed money and the services in the winter of 1515 were concerned, thoy did not create a maritime lten. Judze Blodgett sustained the delense ns far as U borrowed motiey wiis conceried, olding that it ws not a marithne llen under the proofe. 11e ulso decided that the clad for sweeplns out thie vessel wag not o maritiine len fn s marjtime contract, as any common laborer micht have done it. It was further held tha against the prescnt ownera the claim for wages was not stale, from the fact that ;hcr had no- tiee before they made thelr tinal adjustment and took the vensel back, and that they took it therefore subject to whatever Hen the Hbellant had. ‘The Judee, however, decided that all the payinents which fial been ‘mude by the’ Duyies to dibeitant which had ot been specifically” ap- plied should be applied on this Jien, and found that althouzh the urlginal claim wus 8314 wages {n 18T, yetit belng evident that Jibellant had yeaelved various sums of money from time to thie whilch had not beou_apecitically applied on any part of this indebtedness, the Court would upply It all on this claim for' wages aa in favor of tfie subsequent puschasers of the vessel, A decree was therefors rendered for $342, TIE CHICAGO A FACIPIC HAILROAD. J. M, Whitman, Rocelver of the Chlcago & Pacltie Ratlroud Company, iled his report Sat- unday for the months uf November and Decer- ber, which 1s as follows: HECEIPTS. Balance on hand Nov. 1. 1874 Fron freight and passenier uccou Post-ofices on mull account. Uulted States Express Comp Advunce charges collected. Loan certifcate: Slucellaneous . Tolal ceeanine dervices . DIYBURSESENTS. Tallway Company) . Necessary fmprovementa. ..., R ht of wa; elc. . Loan certiicatea and interest TOB GABDNXR HOUSE. Hogh A. Whito and 3. D. 8paiding fileda bill Saturday against Charles J. Gaubert, W, F. Tucker, Flison & Pomeray, and Joseph W. Clap, ta restrain the ealo of the fixtures of the Gard- ner Tlouse. Complainants state that in 1874 Freeland B. Gandnor and wife gave a trust-decd for $00,000 on the north half of Lot 4, Block B, and on their leasehold (ntereat in_ Lot 1, Plock all in Fractional Schoul Scction” Addi- tlon to __ Chicago, in which the Gardner . Tlouse s and was eituated. The hotel fs, of conrse, furnished with - fixtures mnncctlnfiwuh qas-pipes, and the Iat- ter with the public mains, ond tlese gua-fix- tures, it 1a allewed, are apart of the frechold and contalzed in the security of the truat-deed. and are worth abonut 210, The bar-room contains certain tables and counters, and the office has counters and otlier fixturcs necessary for the uae of the room fastened to the foaré, and all forming part of the realty and prasing with it. The securlty {s not sufliclent to paythe fncumbrances, there being nlso another trust- deed for $18,000 on part of the property, Gaue bert claims to own these fixtares, and has ad- vertised them for sale to-day at public auctlon by Ellson & FPomeroy. Cotnplainants, there- fore, ask that thase fixbures may be held to be anl of tha realty, and that the defendants inay he enjoined from disposing of or Interferinit with them. DIYORCRS, Bertha Vogel filed her bill Saturday alleging that her husband, Ernst Yogel, in 18:2, without iusl or reasonable exense,willfully deserted her, n conscaucnce of which she wants a divorce from him. 2 Judge Farwell granted a 'divorce Baturday to Iarriet Stewart from her husband, Dugald Stewart, on account of his desertion. Judge Willlams granted a lightning divoreo decree the same day to Mary Ann Hall, from Henry Ilall, on the Fruuml of desertion. ‘The il was only filed Friday and suppressed us 1t was called for service. Tho defendant kindly entered an appearance, but mude no defensc. A default was taken nzafnst him lmmcdlnlcl( and adecree entered with the celerity which characterized tho disbarred Goodrich fn his Elllm{ days, before adversity ahd & Bupreme Court,_eame upon litn. The complainant was nlso allowed to reassume the maiden namo of Mary A, Horn. ITENS. The Judges of the Circuit Court wiil this mornine declde the Evans mandamus case, ‘Fo-motrow will be the Taat day for filing trial- notices for the February term of tho Supcrior Court. No cases hearlng numbers abova 3,000 need b notleed, No now calendsr will bemade up for Judge Gary. ] UNITED STATRS COURTS. The First Nattonal Hank of Milwaukee bezan asult for $3,500 agaiust Thomas & Ruddack, James 1T, Palmeter, Charles 11, Ruddock, Azre B. Leonard, and Lawrence W. Nuthall, BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. A sccond dividend mecting will be held Feb. 14 In the case of Colwell, Clark & Co, Tn the ease of J. I, Danlels, the claim of Dan- iel Small, which was* urlgln:\lly $27,7.62, was reduced to $20,829.00. A final dividend meeting Wil be held Feb. 13 in the case of Burkltt, Sutton & Stanley, Hogpe & Ifarmonlng were adjudiented bank- apt by default, and o warrant {ssued returnable Teb. 27 befors Regdster Johmson, at Peorla, Dradford Haneock was appolnted Assignee of R Morton & Co. L l]\ discharee was fssucd to Wiltlam A, Burch- ard. The composition meeting In the case of Biddle & Doy, the bankrupt woolen merchants was partly held Saturday and adjourned until Feb. 8. _Tho firm offcred 20 cents on tha dollar cash or 334 cents payable In thirty, sixty, and nincty days, with secured paper, and Mr. Corwidery, who represented nearly all the East- ern creditors, asked for timo so 08 Lo write to bis principals. The mecting was therefore ad- Journed, A flusl dtvldend of 18 per cent was declared fu the case of A, A Wiswall, The former divi- dend was 12 per cent. BUIBIIOR COURT 1N DRIEN, N, H. Walworth, Recciverof the Clty Natlonal Bank, commenced a sult against Lewls W, Beck, elaiming §10,000. The People, &c., for the use of Wattson Carr, began o suit In dobt for 2,000 against Herman Siemon, Bdward Elchoff, aud” Wilhelin Sor- genfeel. DeWitt C. Butts et al.,, for the use of Frank C. Blshop, sued Josiah L. Ford for $1,000. CIRCUIT COURT. ‘Van ., Higgins filed blil sgainst Thomas 8. Dobbins, Gicorze 8, Bowen, aud John 8. Wilcox, actting out that lie holds o judgment ngoinst Dobbina for 818.026.23, Thia "was recovered on anote for 320,000, made by the defendants and sccurcd by the first mortgice houds of the Chi- cago & Paclfie Itutlroad Company, numbered as follows: 131, 182, 183, 134, 135, 180, 137, 149, 140, 601, 603, 003, 601, 005, 031, B3 63, 53, and 635, Tho bonds nre comparatively worthless, and complainant offers to scttle for 210,000, If, however, this cagnot be done, he nsks that tho bonds may bo sold and the pro- ceeds applied on Ms Judgment, Angel Tlorner began a suit in treapass agalnst Sumue! Barets and Louls Btern, elaliniog $3,000 damiages, COUNTY COLRT. Intho estatc of Martha Athertum, the will was proven aud Iottera testnmentary were grant- «l to Thomas Atlierton, under bond for §6,000, TUE CALL, Jupar Broonrrr—Crizinal calendar. A sct case of Feucrateln & Plluger est to be tried, dunar Gaur—I154, 154, 135, 157, 108, 178 to 181, 183 to 189, 102 to 108, 200 to 202 inclusive, No. 156, 1all va, Chicago, Milwsukve & 8t. I'aul Railwny Cowpnny, on trial. Junat: JAMEsuN—Pnascd cases until the end of the term. _ No. 480, Wendorf va, Rtyan, on triul, Junar MoonL—40, 60, 61, No,” 47, Cooko va. Parwell, on trial. Jepue Roazus—Bet caso No. 3,043, Morier va, Goulet, and calendar Nos, 08, 6, and 75 to 87 inclusive, No. 4,377, Lascnowlth va. Hawkins, an trial, Bootu—54, 80, 82, BY, 84, 85, 67, 88, BD . No. 79, Fulmer va Traynor, on teful. dunoe MCALLIFTEN—137 (o 1KO, excent 138 10, 143, 147, 148, 154, 135, 150, 160, 108, and 170. No canc'on trial. Jiper Fanweii—Gencral business, JUDOMENTS. TwiTrp SATEs DisTiicr Covnt—Jenor Duona- rrr—Ldward llolt v, Steam-tug Annio 8, Smith, decreo $ Charles Speanen ve, £chooner Lig* gle and Jones, fding, 3 Burinon Covur—CaNressioxs—Mora, Reevo & Vs, Constantiuo J. Krieg and Ocrlu P, Blake, Xational Dank ve, lliram T, Merrill, artholomew Qulrls, 8244, 7 vuat toory. M. M 1] » Uilton, &1,- UNITED BTATES SUPREME COURT, In the United States Supreme Court Wedues- day the following business was transacted: No, 172, The case of Donaldeon, Asslimeo fu bankruptey of Emanuel Mann, against Farvell & Cu,, ol Chicaga, from the Wisconsin Circuit, pre« wenta the yuestion whether the purchine of goods u‘pnn credit by a persou who, at the time of pur- chase, 1a insolvent, and knows himeelf to be so, aud unable to pay, is voidable by the vendoruf the goodw, 'Thia cass presented such a state of facty, and the Court inwtructed the Jury that, under the circumatances, tho sale was vofdable by Ferwell & Co. o and that, if they hould dod that tho fiem reclaimed the goudy In time, 1t was voldable even a agninet the claim of the 'Aasignee, 1t ls hers contended that the purchase of the gooda was mada without sitilce ur represontatin of any surt, n the usual course of business, and that, nlthongh the bankrupt had been nsolvent for wome time, he had etil) conducied his husiness, and was accorded usnal credi hat, under such clrcumstances, the walo wan n Court eeeed In 118 Instenctlons, W, 1%, Lynde for ALe pislntifl In etror, ¥, Marluer for defendunta. - et 2+ CORN IN |OWA. Tu the Editor af TAe Tridune. OniExt, Adalr Co., Ia., Jun, 25.—1 sce a com- muulcation from Davenport, Ia., to Tue Tiun- ussof Jan. 15, In which the writer says that 4,000,000 bushels of cornis In store between Davenport and Conncil Blufts, aud that 2,000,000 of this amount {4 hetween Atlantle, in Casa County, aud Council Bluffs, n distance of forty- five iniles, which s Imposeible. Thea he tells you that two-thirda of the old crop Is o hand. Now, sir, It §s a well-known fact that the corn crop of last year was ull consumed, or neatly all, aud what was not fed was sold at a gaod pee—from 40 to 50 cents er bushel—and moved out of the country, 'he grain-buyers ot Stewart und Atlantle say that there i3 o old corn to speak of on the Rock Leland road, and i there 13 any old corn in the country it §s Ju the hunds of etock-feeders, who would not setl {t at any price. On the B.& M. road the samo ecarcity exlsts. Tum well ac- quainted with corn merehants on that road, and know whereof 1 speak. As to the new ¢ it was like the crop of 1574,—it was only from fm}l to two-thirds of o crop, und mure than onc-hatt of that s slready sold and goue 3o the Enstern markets, And 1 think that whoever s sble to hold on to thelr corn untll Jung will et from 40 to 50 ccots per bushel for all they have to sparc, Living as I do, m the best corn country in Jowa, aud acqualuted fu il the surroundiig couutles, Ithiuk 1 have aright to know what Lsay, and 1 thlok that this Daveaport correapondent has got to buy corn, or he Is working ju the fatercst of those thit do Lave to purchase, sud to hold the prlco of corn down as longz as [t I8 possible, so that the farmers will get small prices tor corn and they get large profita for buging and selting. Rospectfully, Joux Winrs, P. M, ———— HENRY SAYRS, ESQ., FOR MAYOR, To (e Editor of Ts Tribuns. Cu10460, Jan. 37.—At a thne like the present the best and most competent citizen should bo elocted to the oftices of trust, and Do a0 can TEsq., our city e {s n gontleman well known In financial “circles, both at howe and at the East, and descryediy opular, No Dbetter standard-hearer van be found. Repubiie- l{u&n‘r'nnlnnw him, nod he wil certainly Lo elected, TIIE RAILROADS. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN 1870, ‘The last number of the Railroad Qazetle con- talns n full review of the rallroad construction of 1876. It nppears from the exhibit that, though the conatruction of new roads has been small as compared with those years in whith building was most cxtensively carried on, the progress was materfal ond healthy. The time Tias gone by when rafiroads could be built on speculation and prove profitable enterprizes for those who first took the project in hand, what- ever the effect might be upon those who had to henr the brunt of the undertaking, . “Fexas, Californin, and Coloradu cxhibited the question that In Henry Sayrs, wonld haye & moxlel Magor. i most marked rallrond Ymurcun In 1870, The first-named. State butlt nearly as fuch rallrond during the year as it ever fAid in any preceding year, and {ncrenscd {ts milcage more than one-Afth. Both Califurnia and Colorado constructed more railroad than In any preslous flcar. Ohlo led _Colorado In the number of mfles, but not in the proportion of the mileage to tha existing length of rond, New Yurk bas the most mileage of any State in'the Unlon, Thero aro three Btates which Tave over 5,000 miles of road: six States with over 3,000 and leas than 5,000 miles; sixtcen States with morothan 1,000 and lesas thau 8,000 miles; elghteen States andTerritories with over 100 miles of road and less than 1,003 and fivo Territories in which not a single mile has been constructed, ‘The following summary shiows the mileage of new rallroad constructed” in each State and Ter- ritory for the at the end of 1 g_fiunr 1876, and the total mileage i Construcilon _Totat in lfl“t;fl. 49 850 1544 7 0 0 0 44 49 Indiann. v, s sse K Indlan Territory.. 2 e 80K 70 138 0 20 5 7 40 437 piry 024 Mfealsaippis 10 MinsOtELoveeve 100% 3,018 Nebraska 52 1,181 Nevada.. 0 711 New Hampa 0% 041 Now Jerac; 84 1,604 New York owx 0,620 43 1,371 230 , (80 () 251 004 G800 0 182 Houth Carolina.... 17 1,458 Tennesca.. « T | 603 ae7X no7 480 B10 1,048 110 13 0 0% 2,675 450 70,040 THE SOUTIWESTERN RATE AS- SOCIATION. The fouthweatern Rallroad Rate Assoclation has just issucd the following circular: Ciitcaco, Jan. 20,—0n and after tha date hereof, tho rallronds In this Association will charge the following rates on_east-hound businces viu_St. Lonfs, Louisiona, Hannibal, Quincy, and Dur- Nnzton? Mlesour! Ji tver to EastSt. Louls, on freight to— Fourth class, Flour, Wheat, = Corn, Boston.ieaers oueiC dtc 24¢ N 21 48 2t Philadelphia 48 24 Baltimoro. o2 20 i Minsour! Chicago. a0 20 29 Bt. Lonle 0 5 17t 25 0 23 No chi hall bo allowed In the sbove rates prior tothe next mectingof the Ansociation, unless made In convention by ths Genoral Frelght Agents of tha Aseoclation and approved by the Chalrman of the Exccntiva Committee, 1t is distinztly understoud that, in caso the rates to tho reaboard are less than the ratea proper to tho Bu"l'" named, they shall apply only ou scaboard usjrcss, ITEMS, A meeting of the Londholders of the Detroft & Milwaukee Rollroad was held In Detrolt a day or two ngo. Out of the $4,500,000 of the bonds In exlstence, $1,500,000 were represented. A plan for reorganizing the road after its salo under the foreclosure proceedings now pending tnthe Wayne Clreuit Court was adonted, The prlunlpnl features of the plan were published in Tug TRINYNE about o month ago. The Committee appolnted by tho mecting un- der this arrengement, to take charge of thofore- closure suit, sile, and reorganization of the road counslsta of Il N, Walker, Bir Churles Young, Qearze Jerome, Geurge Hendrlo of Detroit, and Mr, Martin of Tamilton, Ont., "Tho Pitteburg, Fort Wnynu & Chicago Rall- rond has sollelted blds for tha crection of alarge und commodions passenger depot at Alleghany l.‘ll{, Pa. It i3 to behoped that similor steps will soon be taken by this road for the erection of 8 depot to tuke the place of the ditupidated slied now in usc at the corner of Madison and Cuanal streets. 7 e ———— THE AUTHOR OF PENNY POSTAGE. Sie Rowland 1111—The Old Ago of a Grent Neformer, Zandon World, Dec, 1. ‘Thero {s sometimen a disadvantage in a name, especilly when it hus been borne by two famous men. Tho Congreve whose onument is in Westmtnster Abbey has fu these lutter davs been confounded with the Inventor whoso natne {s Indissolubly united with rockets and Tucifer- matclies. A ity man ooee luughed ot the notion that the tomb of Cougreve wus to bo found in Westmiuster Abbey, as it was to by secn In Charlton churchyard, * with the match- box on thatop.” What the writer of elegunt comedles would have thought of this fallacy of confusfon must for eyer remain unknown; but Sir Rowland 11111 has been subjected to u Nke Liunder. Itis not very long since his spirit woy ovoked ot uspiritunlistic mecting. The question was asked what the spirit of Sir Rowland 1M1, the inventor of the penny postage, thought of Lalfpeuny post-cards; the angwer was that he approved of them perfectly, Now, aguiust this manifestation there ure two objections: one, that Sir Rowland 110l fsnlive and well; another, that he dislikes post-cards as o violation of his {dea of ** uniformity of postage;" the conception which led to the pastal reforin of which the men of the pregent peneration are 6o (‘l)ll!flh.‘(c un- conscluus that any reversion to the older system would probat:ly bring about & revolution,” . Retired now from active work, he llves amony surroundlugs pleasuntly remlnding him of theauceessive stuges of his work and of the feeling entertalued toward hin by the great body of his countrymen, In & huge oflive-desk, closed ot once by Sopwith's monoclelde, hy keeps stored in various drawers, all correctly Jubeled, many curlous specimens of the early history of the new postal reghine, stamps for which'the collectors of those articles would py inany times their welght in gold, to wit, proof- shicets of the carly black stamps, oblitcrated with red, until a cléver mau of business pofnted out that stamps of a falnt red color, sensitive to acils and obliterated with black, would give less openlngg to fraud. There ava ofso specimens uf the famous Mulready envelope, proposed to Bir Rowland ({0 by hls vigorous coadjutor Bir lenry Cole, who, anxlous to fmport art futo the Post-Oslice, lucited Mulready “to produce u dealyzn for a stamped envelop, on which Britan- nia ls depleted as postmistress of the unlverse, with winged messengers dellvering lotters to expectant beings in every quarter of the globe, Skirmishing round the Diank space left for the address are camels aud elephunts, presumabiy carrying the malls of the futur:; and on the extremo e¢dge may be descried Bbaun the Post, Deerfoot unik & Laplander in & car drawn by reiudeer, and engaged in postal operations. To the despair of thic artist mind, the destgn never becamu current, There were difliculties as to obliteration, and in the heat of tks Post-Olfice struggle the artistic element vanbstied. T'o ono relic of the past the possessor attaches peculfar value. It s one of the causcs of the United . Btates Hevolution, found among u collection of ol stamps {n the vaults of the Btamp Office, It {a for 9 abillngs peuce, and was intended to bo n something colonlal had vot the late ‘asbington (ntervened. Thero is also at fampstead a kiud of Pandora's box flled with the placards with which London was cov- ered (o 1847, At themoment when tho Scerctary of the Post-Oftice was working bard to reduco Suudsy work, the fury of the Babbatariaus aud 6 stuck u Col. wes e e —————, arauscd, and 8 sagage onslaught was made upon him, It {8 curious to read these old exploded squibs, and fnd Sie Rowlund Hitl held up by hiy subordinatea na a snecies af antk-Christ bocausa hy ¢id not abolish Sunday work nltogether, Thern arc carientures of him, too, (n which the pleasant methoitical old gentiemen (8 represent- ¢ as & demon postman, the very fathor of eyil himsclf, delivering letters on n 8unday morning, Other records of a uaclut and suecessful cnrecr are stowed awny in tiny drawers, and properly marked and srranged {n due onls e e THE ST, NICHOLAS. To spend 850,000 fitty years ago fn bulldinga hotel was unusual. The same sum Isnow spent, yearly in simply malntalning the perfect con. dition of the 8t. Nicholas Ifutel, New York, and fn providing tho gucsts with every possibla means of pleasure, it S oL U VT — DLATIIN, OIRIEN—Jan. 88,3877, Jennie O'Drlen, nged 5 yenrs I montiis and B daye. gt wneral from 501 Huttatdeld-st., near Tientys lo-day, Monday, 2 p. m.s to Oakiwosd nint| Cemetery. LUDINGTON-In thin city, Jan. 7 Lllllll(l‘%: n, aged 4 years, hrother of X Luding. vom, Chicaco, ani dd. Taidingtan, of Wistoveln, IR[n® ! ake! el . T e s il ey cea. d0 Wetionky I iy ORAM—Mrs, I Oram (formerly Mary 31, Frohaticion deparicd thia 1ire tho SOtk day of dam uaty. 1877 Funeral from her home, 138 So N D P Samne] MEDICAL. Schenok's Pulmonio8yrup, Bea-Weed Tnnio: and Mandrakoe Pills, These deservediy celehrated and popular medictact have offected o tevolution fn tho, hiealing art, and proved the fallney of several mazims which have for 1nany years obatructed the progress of medical selence, The false eupposition that ** Consumption t incurable® deterrcd phiyaleians from attempting to Aind remedles for that dlacase, and patients affiicted with It rocone efled themselves to death without making an effort ta excape from o doom whieh they supposedto he une avofdable. It s now proved, however, that Consump- tlon can e cured, ond that It hasbeen eured ina very great numberof cases (some of them spparently der- perate ones), by Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup aloue; and in other cases by tho same medicincti connectlon wiih Hehenck's Ben-Weed Tontc and Mandrake Pllla, one o Doth, according 1o the requircments of the case, Dr. tchienck himmelf, who enjoyed untterrupted #ood hiealth formoro than forty yoars, way supposed atone thms tobe at the very gate of death, his phyat. clana baving pronounced his caso hopelens, and abage Aloned htm 1o hia fate, Tlo was curod by the aforessld medleines, and, ainca his_recovery, many thousand rimiiaely affected havoused Dr. Behenck's preparatioos with the same remarkable surcots, Full girectionanccompany cach, ma¥ing 1t not o Iutely neceasary to perronily sed Dr._Schienck unles patienta wish thelr [unics examined, gad for this pur- [pse fiols profesrionaiiy at lix priveipal, office, comer isth and Arcli-ata.,” Philadelphia, evory Monday, whiere all letters for afvice must ho addresse chenck's medieines ere sold by all drugels AUCTION BALES. By WM. A. BUTTERS & CO. Auctloneers, 118and 120 Wabash-ay. BUTTHRE & CO.’8 Rogular Trade Soto, Crockery, Glass, and Plated Ware, Table Catlery, Carpeting, 4-4, 6-4, 2, 3, and 4 yard wido 01l Cloths, WEDNESDAY MORNING, Jan. 41, at 0:10 o'clock, at \ieir Atiction Ntoome, 118 and 20 Wabash-av, 1,000 BOTTLES (50 KINDS,) WINES and LIQUORS OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, AT AUCTIO WEDNESDAY, MOLNING. Jan, 31, 8t 11 o'clo:] our Auction Tooms, Wabishiav, Catalogues now vesdy. WM. A. BUTTELS & €0, Auctloneers. 6 MARBLE MANTELS AT ATOTION, Wednerday Morning, Jan. 31, at 10 n'clock, at Butterd Auctlon Itvops 11l 12 alashoav. Wil A, BUTTEJS & CO..” Auctfoncers. ~ BUTTHRS & 00,8 Rogular Trade Salo, Dry Goods, Clothing, Woolens, Hats, Caps, Furs, Bools, Shoes, &6, 10,000 yards Namhurg Edgings, &e., THURSDAY, Feb, 1, at 0:30 o'elock, B " OEATTEL MORTGAGE BALE. Fotire Fomiture, and Faroishings OF A First-class Resldence AT AUCTION, OnFRIDAY, Feb. 2 at 10 wclock, at our An Teom, 118 And 120 Wabash-av..cornte of Siadisol conalating of Axmineter and irumeia Carpets, artor Bee, Mario-Ton TAkler, COMIwT Reth, 11ait Maireuee. ¥rchelt irfors Late Lurlaity, Gad'Coiar cliets Dining-rcam and [itchen Foraiiure. ‘ALYO, Fing 7-octave Iiano. e ) Furte. ‘Ihie above coinprisen the entire antAy of & first-clas Festdence, S0 poromptory (or cuah, WAL A: HUTTERY & Anctioneers, By BLISON, POMLEROY & CO, Auctioncers, 84 and 84 Randoipti-at, THE AUCTION SALR CARDUER HOUSE FURNITURE COMMBENCES THIS MORNING AT 10 0°CLOCK ELISON, POMEROY & OO, — AVOTIONBEERS. . By G. P, GORE & CO., U8 ond 0 Wabash-av. REGULAR TRADE SALE DRY GOODS, Tuesday, Jan. 30, D:30 a, m, SPECIAL.! TWENTY CASES: Cassimers Bhirts, Flonnet Bhirts, Cheviot Bhirta, Calico Shirta, Dross Shirts, Shirts and Drawers, Shirt Fronts, oto., cto. BANKRUPT STOCK OLOTHING. GEO. . GOHE & €0., Auctloneers. OUR REGULAR AUCTION SALE Boots ShoesRubbers On Wednesday, Jan. 81, Wil Lo an attractive one of Scasanable Goods. GEO. P, GORE & CO., 88 & 70 Wabash. RADDIN & CLAPP, AUOCTION AND COMMISSION & 4 BOOTS & SHOES, B3 and B5 Wabash-av., Wil offer 8 largo line of Seasonablo Goods, with out reserve, on Tuesday, Jan, 23, 10 a, m. By JAY. I'. McNAMARA & Cou 117 Wabash-a N. W. cor. Mudlson-st, Our legular Trade Sale, and a lur; Bankropt Slock ef‘ Boot and Shoes il Auctinh Jan. 29, at D4 oclock. AMARD & CO.. Auctluacers 1034 tioper, Chicazo. CELEBRATED througbont the Unlon--expresscd tosll ports. LB sad upwand b 23, 40, 60c per b, Addres orders GUNTHER, Conted useieteet o R d e et ty-five cent sizo of (b4 "““:'""«I”t:' e c«}:gln-’\‘ w rger alscs. ié'.-nfiu.w. TN NER, Drpgristsy Cacage o el ¥ e

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