Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1877, Page 8

R e a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1877 TI[E FLOODS. two, unless n heavy rain should fall, and then moro and greater disaster must follow. The city nuthorities should see that a loves or hlnrrh‘r'ln nlx\\l';g-d nlong tlleA \I\"elt lflnnch ol lht; f in | river from Weatern to” Aahland avenue, and The Tip_of the Olive-Branch in | i3 JroR 2 Sliar ecriow (o that now the Submergod Districts, prevafling In that. section, “ THE NORTII DRANCH. [’l"h; flm{;hlc:- 18 -luv;.uu;ll:xhz m?ny Pornon: o] ol e routhwestern part o e clty does no! A Bix-Inch Fall in the Aqueons Voluma | § 400 o e o e e Nastoon Since Yesterday. distticte. A Tuinune reporter made a telp up the North Beanch na far as the other side of .\'Icqu]-rmxvu‘{lllle, »ad {rlx nn‘pl:ce does thln rtv(;{ overflow its bauks, though in some places Scenes and Incllents In the Westorn conies very neur to it. The water in the branch Tortion of the City. 1 about tivo feet higher than usual, and runs from three to four iniles an bour, The North }in}(nuh Il“lml nr‘» h;me{'s of any klnr;} cxcept on Lake, which dratns tho surrounding cotintry, 4 po A]ung tha 3“"' snd Oanal from It receives none of the su?"lun water of the the Bummit to Lemont, vanal and the Desplaines River, ns does the g Bouth Dranch, and for this reafon does not hnnp‘dxl»ruxn mcl snme {a{“"lf nl|\lm|llcr.l'l!'}m Miles and ML vople livingz along and in the vicinity of the i os of Rushing, Foaming | { orth Brauch look upon the current iIn the ‘Waves. ereek with much satisfaction, ns it carries out in the lake the filth and garbago which have Deen resting on its bottom for several years, ——eeeeiee e tho valley of the Aux Plaines, the people spemo- ENSHIRANCE, ing to care mora about the election of Mayoer s than forthe flood hy which thev had been “at. tacked. Jt happened that only two of the quarzics were in operation at the time of the watery Invaslon, aml therefore the flow was not ko severcly felt. The re- porter visited first the Singer & Talcott Tl:my, Iying on Lhe bank of the eanal 3 short ietance abovo the town. Mr. J. C. Norton, tho Buperintendent, stated (hat. the quarry wis en- tirely overflowed, but that the ‘ylnnlnwmm wns yet high and dry. Nothing could be done, how- ever, a8 the atone already cut could not bo teached. In his oplnion it would he about ten days before he would be able to resume work, There was no loss except in time, and, ra the Company had no very pressing contracts, tho loss couid not be considerable. Thu quarty of Mr. Edwin Walker 18 mote widely ‘known, owing to the fact that Mr. Walkerfs the contractor for the cut-stoncon the new Court-House, tha squabbies over which have furnlehed entertalning . literature tn the tmvusuperfl for a year past. 'Fhe reporter found ihat hero all work had been atopoed. Mr. Roebuck, the Superintendent, and Mr. Mad- den, the hookkeeper, wers Interviewed regand- ing the condition of ' things, and gave .very mi- Downright, earnest Christlan work, througy [ been put whero [ will do misslon schonl?' was the best means to taki? | tho most good—to them—on whizh he can lsy caro of the tics of the city, He had beent 4 ,mmm"l h;"zhc iictness which characterized his hands. After showing that he had recov- d been un+ th elostion #o far. as he had scen, and he coul, | ored judgments which tho Shert@ ha not ;ml h’-’el fhat G:d tad a hand in tho work of. | abie to satisfy by reizare of any of thelr prop- tho day, and wonld bring out of it good results. | crty, Chapman says that the Bowens were If the city sat ftaclf up against God, 1t wonld | gormerdy engaged in the mercantilo buaincss, furely linettroped. 8 destruction would be | ;g havo been Tarze holders of real estalein o Rov, Mr. Goodmen followed in a few a this city. They lave alzo been heavy operators pmprllm‘;.huughls, and the Rev, E. R. Davis Ta | n stocks, and stockholders In divers corpora: n forvent prayer that the result of the election | tdons, enpecially thoCalumet & Chicago Canal might prove a blessing to ihe city. . tind Dock Compang, and James H. Bowen still The Rev. W. A, Spencer snoke of the o ime | cuwns stock i that Company, Chauncey T. ty of prayer, and Tony Dellght exprossed BIm | 33,en, either as o matter of convenionee o fob selt in favor of closing thw saloune, ¥ariely {40 onrnong of covering up his pruperty, has shows, gambilng-houses, and fen-pin alleys 00 { yinq *ypy”tile to o larga amount of “real 0 mth. 1, Mr. Bhieldon satd_he had beert politiclan all | Sitats convored to, Benjamin b, Guytor his lifc, but had never voted In(ellgugfl l;c(tjnr? {s charged, in order to tncumber the title and estorday, e had been "Ini:‘_'l?‘:‘ e bod [ hinder, delay, or_lefrand titefr ‘creditors, given T diected him to pruo bia tiket, and hebad | 4 st deert'to Willlam _ Rieharieon on farge Ting exerche clowed with singlog “Rock of | oWk OF SHG GOPTLE b4 SSCEE 000 110 agesyt amldhel !’."fl'ifi'x'fifin SUTEORIL. be ooly colorable, and tho bonds have not as Tae méfllné of 8t. John's Reforined Enlsco- fet been negotlated to any preat extent, bt are i7IL in tho hands of the make=s, Complainant's pal Churel was hold ot _tho Ogkwood Congre- | {iigtim'as oy aceatne uf fame ool sola (6 the ED EVEXTR i et rama e e T ——y NITED STATE; L6 iINSURANCE COPAPAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 261, 262, 263 Broadway, ~——--ORBANIZRD 1850—— ASSETS, $4,827,176,52 SURPLUS, 820,000 EVERY APPROVED FORit OF POLICY ISSUED ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS ALL ENDOWHERT POLICIES APPROVED CLAITEZ THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. Mr. James Roa will dellver a lecture on ** Bob TIngersoll's Gods,’* at Farwell Hall, on the 12th fost. - i The Fool-Ball Club will resume practico again this alternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, on the grounds at the corner of South Park avenue and Thisty-fifth street, The regular meeting of the Chicago Union Veteran Club will bo held this evening at half- past 7 at thelr rooma at the Grand Pacific Hotel. A full attendance Is deslred. The cottage ecrvico of St. John's Protestant ‘Eplscopal Church will bo held this evening at the residence of Mr. Andrew Pearson, No. 79 Tark avenue, between Page and Wood strects. Lunches will be given under the auspices of the Ladies’ Union Afa Soclety of the Chicago Foundlings® Home, for the bonefit of the Home, commencing to-day, at No. 110 LaSalle strect. SR TR } i 5 M . 1 "I CITY. e i nute accounts of how theaceldent hap ¢ . The temperature youerd-{. ns observed iy {R(::‘?Jl‘-n\‘\%wgg.lIl:’l%:ctuvif:‘l{"..}' 'n‘-fi rxe,:x‘z‘-?&( 8‘-: ’d&"ff'l‘,‘y “élu';f’“':f:f::f,‘,.x l:nl:x“ figlv“l‘:é‘gmclaffu?l:'l sutany xn«;fi:fi; cs ™ wATen, THE RAGING CANAL. wl’l\nh‘ad heen dano towarda rtfvalh‘-{::'gnl?w'“d MATURING IN 1877 .+ Manauac optician, No. 8 Moufton strect (Tnun: | Trrasuror waa read, which shoad that about | fhess i uofiob stratgaem and Bephesh SU: | 1 o0 tn-th sonttmestern sestion of the SCENES AROUND TNE BUNNIT. Loy FIR Ik he HEak e o e i “‘;{;."‘1‘3",;"‘13'."3 T st !'"fiemfl?efii ’,"’."}?,fi{‘“.{fi,‘,}g,";‘;;u {;fn aper® | forit, 1t i further charged tiut the Bank of | erty began to subside a littlo sesterday morn- i The Aux Plaines River, tho source of the | tha fullowing morning, —ile hastenet dewn 1n | WILL BE filscflUNTED AT 7% L Barometer at 8 4, m., 80,235 8 D mu 80.02, © e (o Tisnop. Uhetier e Send.) The i‘!“‘“"“l hfi' ""V:’"' feite ities hlelxunglm:lln t‘;‘% ing, and measuroment showod o fall of about | fnundntion nt present vesing, tho iuhabitants | the quarry to resenc the books from the aflice. T Divine services will be held at theBnaiSholom C‘he::-lyra"l‘sxcl(n'i‘?a vlfi::l;‘lgc‘ J“:.‘.’u"fi'é'n"“'rffu“?fi.'&“ Ahovemontiohed Judgmenta Ronert Ko and | 8% Inches up to the afternonn; but tho freshet | of the West. Diviston, Is a litlo stream—gener- | Ilu wan already toolata to inake an entrauce tn ON PRESENTATION., - - * : everyth ct 3 - the usual manner. Tho oflice was clght feet deep in wator, and was completely Insulated, e procured 4 boat andmaunged “to-ceawl I ongof the upper windows, Then, cutiing a hole In tha flnor, he succeeded in reachins the lower floor, where, after_numerous _divings, ha succceded In gettibg hold of the hooks, amd also the plansof the Court-Hinuse, Tho workmen's ::?H nn‘d the offite furniture were washed away ost. ¢ At the time of the rc}mruzr‘u visit the quarry was buried under elght fect of water. Nothing of the large cstablishment was visiblo exvept the rool and_upper story of the office, the roof of o long shed used for stonecutting, aud a der- rlflfluundlnu solltary and forlorn,in the inidst of the Tcmgle. Michigan avenue, between Fourteenth and Bixteenth strects, to-day and to-morrow, commencing at 0:30 o'clock a. m. The Rev, Dr, Isaac Stemple, of Williamaport, a., will officiate and lecture. The Rey. J. 1L Vincent, of New Yark, will Tecture before the Young Men's Christinn Asso- ciation in Farwell Hall Saturday evening. 8ub- Ject: “That Boy,” Ile wlll give a plcturs of a real American boy, with humorous delineations of his experience and cxploits. ‘Tho Health Department was the only ane of the ¢ity offices open_ycsterday, and there hut Iittle was stirring. Eight deaths from_scarlet fever have been reported this weok. The new cases of discase reported yesterday are at Nos, 1181 Wentworth avenug, 8 Morgan, S10 Twen- ty-firat, 144 Seventeenth, 240 Norch Halsted, 2, Cottage ptace, anil 844 Carroll avonue. The nnnual election of the Pork-Packers' As- sociation was held yesterday, ana the following oflcers were olected for the current year: I’res- {dent, B. F. Murghey: Vice-Presldent, B.I. stlll ragges with very damnging cflect, and the | ally so dhninutive that it might bo termed a torrent of water rushes through the Iilinols & | rlvulet—flowine soutlivard, and distant about Michigan Canal, and th West Fork and the | six miles from the ulity limits, One would South Brauch of the river, with a speed of about | never suppose that such a wretched, puny, siily - six miles an hour, and, joining just below Ash- | fittle streak of water could reuder ftsclf in- 1and avenue bridge, they pour a liuge votume of | trusive and unpleasant to the peoplo living on water In a whirling, eddying, and bolling cur- | fta vory banks, to say mothing of a clty scven rent down and Into the Inke, the water of which | iniles away. Yct so it has succceded fu dolng, has been much discolored, as every one {s nwaro | and thercby has gained a notorlety that it has of who drew it from the hydrants, never been able to obtain in all its long years of Many of tha low docks which skirt therivor | previous corract hablts,—a notoricty’ not dis- on elther side, ns far west ns the bridga above | similar to that of the gentlemen who | receive mentioned, are overflowed. All the slips lead- | tha courtesles of the Sher!f in thelr iast mo- ing Into tho river are swelled over thelr docks, | ments, having proviously exerclsed thelr fertile lumber-yards and their contents arc flooded, and | brains {n composing lengtly confessions and rondered Inaccossibloto some extent, coal and | declnring * themaclves quite fit company for stone yards aro covered ,with the water, and | angels. warchouses, sheds, dwellings, and other bulld- 80 many rumors had spread abroad regarding ings aro In tho sea. the exact cause of the {nundation that a report- At the contlucnes of tho two riversand the | erwas detalled yestorday to visit In person Lhe mittee on the Church roported that nothing had 5{3}“{ ‘f‘:;';,gfv {;fl:ggozflctg ..E“m'l'i?uf?'&'n 1re been done to securnn permaneul! Inccn(\\"ur.wm Sught 1 e made ssallable, T Jmmu’" lls?il, but expected to continue in thoOnkland Church | 77002 ) "Howen turned over ‘1o uhnm'nnn h for some time to vome as heretofore. Theful- | Corfificnte tor Nty shiaroaof stock in e Calu: ln_wlnzomem: wore elexted: Fcnlnzr, nnr;}’en,_ Mot & Chicaga ~Cand und ock Compangs Ve K. Dewes; Junlor Warilon, 1, W, Riices? | but the tatter ias Yeoh unablo. to realize antt ll“l‘l"”l’!ulhllhJ ‘Eonf' Brw =-”€’ trymen, to | thingonit. Chapman therefore nsks for a dis- AL R L W siaiey, | covers. the appoiutment ol a_Recciver, n in- e L . B Lo . GO janctia o prevent any 'tsansfer of thelf aspets Frank E!:ml:s.? A7 ucrh“o:; year, A: G. Cona, | §y 1hyy dlefendants, ad u decreo declaring that E. 1" Brooks whs ‘elccted ns deleate for thes | BUT, | property, ot ba * discavered may 9 me7 bo applied to the ratisfaction of his judg- flf{’fi:’?l Convention tobe hold 1 Philadelphia- | 1on, estdes the Bowens, the Cnlum‘m Ont moton I s emnivad that e Vester con- | /a0 Sk 1" sonireal, Wilain Afontor sult and negotiate with c Hev. oL, 12, . 10 hecomo Itector. A meeting of the Vestry .‘“s"'g;fl'fl‘h“""“"v and B, ¥, Guyton ane made will be hetd to-dny noon at 157 f.aSalla street. 4 DIVONCES, EASTER ELEGTIONS. Ono loue suppllant at the throne of - justice, Tho aniiual _meeting of the Church of the | AvaryJ. Roberl.ls’nn. meandered into roujrr. yoa- Goud Shepherd, Tteformed Episcopal, the Hev. | ¢ rday 'after a divorce, She marxied Andrew W, E. Whilninkon Rector, itas held Mond ; B exénlne, ot which tho lowtng oiMiors worg | Rusbertsonon the Ist of October, 1874, and oo JAMES BUBLL, - - PRESIDENT Aranch OMer, DO Ladalicsst., Clilcaxo, CHARLER 11 FUOST, Manager, I, L. BALDWIN, Axent, N, B, METZUKR, Supérintendent. VANILLA Gll()CoLA’l‘E, ¥ FOR DBDREARIFAST, LUNCH, and TIRAVELITRS, Defies all Ionest Competition, Sold by all leading Gracers, TURMOtL, OF THE WATERS, Mr. Madden £alil thut Monday morning a dis- patch was sent to the Cannl Commiseloners an- nounclng tho frealiet, and askine for rolief. Mondny night thirteen men and a foreman ap« genred and began the work of repairing the renk at the Saz. Their Inbors ' were iruitiess, e e S it of Marcl d out, bably t 2 v T .! Hutchinson: Treasurer, C. L. Raymond; Seere | elected for the ensulng year: ot L e as b was-abgut Acsion-time, | connl tho freshet has beon particularly severa | Tocalities along ibe river whero things were s ‘.‘,‘,’Hfifif,‘{é,"fl,fif}“n}ffi‘,f'l,,’,‘:"fi,”l Jouting tn faster | ... .OFENINGS, | ‘[ tarv, 8. F. Howstds Directora, Josiah Stilea, fl. ;['a;:lex-gnfl:uzll‘m::fi n.rxn;lr:lel:h{w ri‘ghgmm and ,bas not ?Im:u mtnrnm,\. She‘ lm‘s given him | and damaging to tho many people wholive | they should not lie, and obtaln definlte and final | mon wero alded by u{m\e of Walker's n{unrry- | Bohfunl,l . M. Culbertson, J. B, Robertaon, | 0 Surime ity Gaiien . 1 Hunter, sna Will- | Drcht ihs Tobied to. yake. hia o "p";.::': 2 yoars, | thercabouts. As presaged fo Tum Trisunz, | information. Means of transportation weraan | men, and toama wers Turnished thotn, but not P E{ NI Q . Had ‘I)Oh{‘llll‘ék ancotky l;i;z:;‘:nm'fi- o i, 1! | Jam Clucus, g now a1 proposcs to forecloso his cquiby of re- | the Fiver and canal began rising rapldly on Sun- | nssured and agreeablo fact, owing to thotrack of “{::“m}"":n‘l‘;"gfl:‘f n‘t“‘t! ‘“5“'1“ flbd'ifl'fl Secomns \ b [ 1 Kreigh, James Turner. 4 Ré’fl‘.’,fi“g;rns'"“' Deers, Jdames Whyte,' and | jornni'on in her charins. o day, “"d‘ 0"‘ ‘Ih” ?V“‘““W h"l that t‘:"‘y the Chicago & Alton Rallroad, which kindly | TiC0ACH wiieh the repnr\ell'“mr‘;vgml. dusk ot Cligg . S 3 k ¥ . ONITED STATES COURTA. rose twenty inches in au hour, so that | conducted s train of cars contalning the report- As to the damage, the Superintanflent catl- | - ety 7 il qSent. Eelerieiliced an old and pomeetell | sihmtet Chajel, jof Hsilem aad: Ouk Park, os¥inin 8, Care, of Nei York fled o bl yes | the banks wero overlawed and tho water was | cr andseverat hundrods of other peopls_direct | mten bat it Wouli amonnt £0. nt it 86,000, | _3tre. L 1. WEANT, Iate a8 Wabathear., Agaat tr Adams_street, Monday evenlug, of heart-dis- easc. Ho left his home in the morning in npe ]mrent good licalth, but was brought home sick ate In the afternoon. He grew worso gradually, and died at 11:30 without o struggle and in the resenco of his famlly, Tho deceased brought ic first train of cars into the city over the Michigan Southern Rallroad, and for the past twenty-five years had been connceted with +the Chicago, Rock Island & Paclfic Railroad, at the time of his death having the Wardens—A, 8, Pack, John Carne, TYeatyymen—Georga Bharp, Willlam Archdeacon, G. G. Mayo, A. F. Fitch, T, 8. Rattle, ‘Tho following Vestry were clected at the par- ish mecting of Emmanuel Churcl, LaGrange, for the ensulng year: Wardenz—@. B. Lyman, E. B Clark. Vestrymen—L, L. Tisactord, Lesiio Durnam, A, C.Clark, F. D, Cossitt, G. M. Fox, A.\V, Merriil, and J, K. Philo, TIE TRAVELING MEN. including loss of time, ‘Lhe Lroubla lmppénml at o very fnopportunc thne, as Walker was just Iw.-zlnnlugrto ship stone tothe city forthe Court- THouse. The last load was seni Fuilay, and it was expected to Bhip four lods nweek from that timo forward during the summer, Of course, all shipments are_stopped, aa the stone, cut and Iollnlml.lnr usc, lies at tha bottom of a deup and turbulont strenm. The other quarries jn Lemont are those of the llino!s Stone Cowpany and Boyar & Corneuti, sent pourfng through tho streets In all direc- | to the Aux Plalnes River. It 1s at tho Village tions, from Weatern ayenue castward s far as Ashland avenue. In thoso thoroughfares por. | Of Sumtait that the river.is firat eucoautered; fect rivers were formed fn the deep ditclics, | Sumnit is a tank-station, and relativoly 18 of no Above Ashland avenue bridgo tho Wwater fu the' | partleular account, cxeept that it is the home of West Fork Uroko over the luw banks, and ran | John Wontworth, whose stock-farm iy the cavy in n northicasterly courso toward thenew Water- | of that misgulded class of people who thlnk Works, & half-mile or mors distant. Buveral 3 emall dwellings and. shnntios were. drowned | L0t Rgrlcultural pursults ara the noblest on out by the angry torrent, but most of the denl- | tarth, and a life awnong potato-natches and zens ’-mckm{o thc‘!‘r posts. Am (32:»- barnyards mora inspiriting than o rosidencs ona 8, 1. Teylor's imparted Trimmed Patterna a0d General Slock, willopen April 3 at lier now calablislimaent, 146 State=yt., so extensive asortment of our Bpring and. Summer Fashlons, We Invitethe Ladleaof Chicagoand the ad- Joining citles nnd tawns to call snd examine her atyles 8. T, TAYLOR, 516 Brosdway, N, Y. et . AUGTION SALES. C. Stong to restrain them from fnfringing his patent, Lisucd August. 1850, for certain im- provements in watercloscts, and to recover $50,000 dar3nzes for such infringement. Charles F. Dlake, as’ Trusteo of Carx, filed a_simllar bill agalnst tho tamo partica to recover damages for fufringemont: since his_appointment as Trustee. TTRM:. At 10 0'clouk this morning Mr. H. W. Blshop, the Master in_Chancery of the United States Court, wili scfl at auction, under decrea of fore- dircction of the movement of trains. ile was o g man family who occupled ono of thom, | fashionable avenuo In s perpetus!-atmosphore | Both aro flooded, but “sustain no great injury, | ~ By W, A, BULTTLEAS & GOy S arot gyt el i | vty S st ko Lier S | SO 00 AR, PRI of U ene | s e it condonal e | o ffhry o 8o WRAPORS | ey sod o oneatn o sams | 7 Ve, s oo, 5 b 03 m 8 resl- e Y S 3 8l {8 R . oo Jits ot Dofctock toany. o 1o 1M MBEEHk | el ety Sacretaryy | L0 AT | takopluceat the door, of tto Republle: Lifo | Smbledaround tho only room whieh their atode | 1ttia vliago wan foun o o bolling over with |° peca Dlpaich to The ridune. 250 PACHKAGES Lockron, [, April 8.—The -water in Des- lafuca Rtiver has fallen n fow inches, but fa still jowing throuzh n pumber of braaclies inty the canal with tremendous force, ‘Che guard lock at the Summit {s five foct under wator, Shall contained, An old laly who was confined to | excitoment. Tha popalar clamor for roform in bed by {lincss in another housc refuscd to be ublic offlces had at length reached a pltch when removed to a safer ?flucu. although tho water | It could be no louger withstood, It tas inti- was within a half o foot of the mattress upon | mated, not in whispers or fnuendo, but in thun- which she was lylng. der tones, and on the broad highway iu front The minutes of a previous meeting wers read and apprav: Mr.” Cralg, the Chairman of a Committes heretofore appointed to devise a system for tho furtherance of Christian work among traveling The following exhiblt from Sloan's Jnsurance INre Iteport qh'en the statistics for March: Alarms, 80; “stills,” 5. Frame bulldings, 10; brick, 113 dwellings, 153 vacant, 3: barns, 23 cigar factories, 2, and one each distillery, fumls To-day i8 defanlt day In the Superior Court in law and chancery, Friday will be thelast day of service to the spceial term of the Circuit Court. SUPERIOR COURT IN DRIEF, ASBORTED GLASSWARE, WHITE AND YELLOW WARE, TADLE CUTLERY, OIL CLOTIIS, AND CARPETS, ! b Lot Lanes foeos st anil Ay gt /WEDSESDAY MORNING, Aufl 4, ot 0130 o'clock, T faciory, patnt-shop clothing store, storago | men, roported that the Committeo fad as Yet | Jotun W: Nicholson commenced a ante In debt [ yowara (10" THOOR FOUNED DOWE, . | of Sonesgrocery, thak the Town Clerk was be- | Fot ME0, fotee nls YL, the ‘st oursicacpne, Tt sod o et room, carpenter-shop, dry-house, wire-fenco | adopted “",““fg’“‘: 5 “c'“t;l":”‘“dlt{‘"‘““t'fi“‘i esterday azalnst Samucl Schutz and Simon | fngs of the Chicago Stove-Works, near | thirty-fivo cents, and tho popular fury rose to e e factory, tumiture storo, aid sidokvallc, Laes, | BASSE M0 B0 e O ananey that Dhria: | Toclh cllming 80,000 damagos: . |'the junctlon of “Biuo leland and Ashisad | an unprecedonted stage, whn Gno. of tho o ELSEWHERE. AT No. 5 FORREST-AV. il f-;\'olvi)d. . Or!wlnn'ing ran: tian work tas to interest the peoplo o avenues, and camo very uear drowning them | cumbent's friends, in a'speech tull of deep sen- INDIANA. ‘,’?5" anm'- Henry A. Kohu, laying damsges at | out. The ditchios along the streets wercall | timent ond sprightly humor, showed that tho flllcd, and a rapid curront was vistblo In them. | error in the accounts Wwas on the wrong alde,— At the southern end of Ashland avenuobridge | that he was a creditor to the amount named, thera commences -Post struot}n muddy little | and not 8 debtor. The vxplanation only In- thoroughfare that Jeads up to the canal bridge, | creased the public indiguation, as the whole a short distanco toward tho sontheast, and that, | matter wos fmmodiately vonstrucd as o -cam- too, was overflowed, and the water cven ran | paign dodge on the part of tho Clerk to sceurn ncross it ina wido stream. On_ buth sides of | sympathy, the strect are a number of small houses, and Leaving the tangled massof vaciferous voters, the {nhabitants of them wero all subjected to | tho reporter sought the banks of the Illinols & the damages and {nconvenlcnces of the flood, | Michigan Canal.” Tho canal. as Las herctoforo which covered the floors of some and not quite | beenstated in Tus ’l‘rmm:ml has exporienced thoss of others, Littlebrldges woro improvised | an incursion from the Aux Ilaincs Liver, so as by a fow to reachthe sidewalks, which wereonly | to complately change its character. Instead of vartially overflowed, and sevcral small boats | o straight, and narrow, and sluggish body of wero brought into requisition to effoct commu- | water, it has became a wido and irregular - tor- nfcation with the outer world, Ox;gunlux tho | rent, Jowing at the rat of about six miles an Danville elevator, just below tho canal bridze, s | hour toward Chicago. Tho tow-path was jost to Green-Islander diwells with soveral “childer? view, except fn a” few places whers for some and a wife, all of whom delight in snaking fre- | reason it had been ralsed above its usual quent trips in an old scow that has beon rigged | level. Just beyond the camal, about ten rods after tho manuer of o fcrry-boat. distant, was tho edpe of the Aux Plaines,—not Near tho City Rallway Company‘s largo sta- | its natural border, by any means, but tho pres- bles thete is & amall sea of water, and 1t ex- | ent boundary of the flood. A bridga crossca tends along tha bauk of the river for a long dis- | the canal at” this point, and on tho west sldo tance. Docks oro covered by it, along the South |- o tavern, ‘whose owner combines the plesaure Branch, and o number of familles aro inconven- | of bcer—cclhng with the bardships of iarming. lenced byit. The Gas Company’s docks are | The road crossing thoe bridge aud passing the Just high'enough by & fow Inches to escape the | tavern is called tho Lyona road, but for the lest overflow, few days it has been impassable. Only tho ‘The workingmen employed in the numerows | fenco-tops could be discovered, while jutting manufactories in the vielnlty find walking to | above the angry food here and thers on esch and from them difficult and ¢ven dangerous, | side of the rond could be seen forlorn yollow and some ludicrous mishaps have occurred. | atalks,—the only relics to the oye of extensive Ono was instanced to o TRIBUNB roporter yos- | corn-fields. Tha river 18 hero not less than terday by a citizen who witoessed it, aud, not- TIRES QUARTERS.OF A MILE IN WIDTH. withstanding himaself- and family were n | After the firat onsct Saturday ovening, it cropt Jeopardy from the freshet, fie *‘laugh- | up closor and closer to the Bcotch tavern-koep- ca untll he cried” Two Germans, | cr's abode, until the worthy host grew tremu- workingmen, going in o) anamn directlons, met | lous leat ho should be wafted downfihn tide, to- near Ashianid avenus bridge, on a narrow board, ether with his boloved family and bar-fixturcs, upon which it was necossary to crawl with tho | The water cmPt up to his barn, submerged his hands and knees In order to0 pass along. One | wagons standing in the strect, sud pickled: his had a package of meat In his hand, and tho | hen-house; but yesterday he ccatatically danced other a dinner-pail. Both desired to paes to | upand down the margiu of tho freshet, and terra firma, and in doing so fell oft tho narrow | pointed out to the reporter that it had receded plank futo the water, In’ which they tloundered | scyeral fect since the night provious, and' fumed for 8 moment, and then succeeded Following the highbank between the conal and in getting out, minus dlnner-pail and meat, aud | the river, sn cxcellent view of tho situation was wet to the skin. obtained. About amile north of the bridge the SEVERAL PAMILIES three great features of the landscape alter thelr have been compelled to move out of their | complexions. Tha rallroad andthe canal, which houses, and theso aro temporarlly provided | run parallel all theway from Chieago in a south- for smong those in the nelghborhood who | westerly'direction, hero take o turn to the south are more fortunate, The flood has caused seri- | as they strike the river. The latterup tothe ous disasters to some of the poor people, whose | seme point had been running southeast, but sources of incoma aro cut off,and kitchen stoves | hero changes to a due southerly direction. and other utensils rendered usetess for present | Thenceforward for many miles river, canal, and service. rallroad journey side 'Ly side. Right at this All alonz the West Branch, {from Westorn | fork, whero the threo factors meet,—that is to avenue hnd‘n to Ashlaud aveouo, tho water | say, within a few hundred fect,—ls the Ogden fows over the banks and submerges rmp«n of | ditch, This was dug by John Wentworth and all kinds for somo distance on both sides of £nat | Mahlon L, Ogden for some occult purpose of straam. The tow-path of the canal s above | thelr own, and has been Kept disconnected from water, but the bank on the opposite, or south- | the river by mcana of & dam or lock. When the ern al&e. 18 washod away In soveral places, and | waters ramo down tho Aux Plaines in carnest the water rushies along at a rapid rate, this dam was swept away as if 1t wero Just east of Western avenue, and noar New | made of {mue, and ~ the -tide Blue Island avenue, aro McCormick's Reaper | leaped Into that ditch and Ailled|t ina twinkliog, Works, Ly which _the rivor passes. Tho wator | But that wns not all. 'The river was still unsat- liaa surrounded the yards of tho great manufac- | istied, and, having onco got a hold on the ea and pastors of the churches n "those towns and citles where traveling-men were accustomed to spend Sunday, so that pews would be sct aside for thelr use, and means em- ployed to fuvite those of the fraternity who might be in town to vccupy those pews. The speaker sald that o conslicrable fnterest had already Leen manifested i the traveling-men's organfzation, snd he was sanguina of great re- sults. After n good deal of discussion, all favorable, tho”Chalr- nppolnted_Messre, Cralg, Hazard, Turnely, Hoyt, and Norlo u Committce to consider tho feasibility of renting and furnish- ing rooms to bo used aa headquartees for the Association, and n placo of resort for thoso travellng-men,” whether In or out of the faith, who might be in the clty. The Committce is nlso to consider tha cost of furnishing the rooms. It was thonght Ly those present that the catablishing and suce cesstul opermtion of such n resort would create a new bond of acquaintance and friendship among the fraternity. Mesers. Norton, Abbott, and Benjamin wero appolnted a commitiee to havo printed and sent out circulars to tho pnators of churches in this seetion of country to spread the information concerningthe objects of the Unidn, and nsk- Ing co-operation, After somo dlscussion of minor natters and the relating of intereating experienco, the moet- ing adjourned. # PRESBYTRKIAN TUEOLOGICAL SEMINART. Blshop Chiarles E. Cheney, of the Reformed Eplscopal Church, lectured ot the Presbyterian Thneologleal Beminary toa large and appreciative sudicnce fast evening. The reverend gentlo- man bad been fuvited to lecture beforo the stu- dents, the closing Jecture of the scholastic year, but the aunouncement brought forth an audi- ence far moro numerous and varied than the in- E:Iv.uluun could afford, filling the room to over- owing. 3 The lecturer was introduced ;n!'mf. Tatton, and announced as his subject: *The Useof Tl- lustration {n Preaching,® ilesald that in the colleetions of art in forefgn lands, high over all things stood Luthor and "bis Blble, and evnr{; ‘where hiad art mc(mud the preacher aud ki mission, Ilo was talking to those who wero soon 10 o forth to preach the Gospel, to whom this valto of Iilustration In_future ifo conld not be overestimated. ‘The Gospel of Christ was a marvel of fliuatration; tostrip It of its meta- phors would bu to destroy #t. ‘Those who had used illustration freely irero among the most successful and Influential of the ministry. ‘Thomas (iuthrlo was an cxanple,~he reveled in illustration, and no inan of any time had been more beautiful, simple, and Intluential. filus- tration orrested aottention at the start, lu America the hablt of coughing whtle the minle- ter was anuouncing his text was as common as a rough sea In tho British Straits; and he knew of no better incans to arrest tho coughing than {llustration, whuther It had a bearing on the text or not, for the more inappropriate the Ulus- tration the better would {t _scrve its purpose {n the channe! indicated, Iliustration Incendiary, 33 maliciousncss, 8; defective flues, B} carclessness with lamp snd matehes, 83 care- Jess use of alcohol, 3; burning out of foul chimneys, 4; and ona each spontancaus combus- tlon, sparke, defoctive hearth, plumbe: ex- toston of coal-stove, bulliling_fire, rekindling, urglars and false alarms, 4, Totul, 83. THE CIVIL RNGINEEKY, ‘The regular monthiy meeting of the Clvil Engincers’ Club of the Northwest was held at the 8herman House yesterday afternoon, E. 8, Chesbrough in tha chair, and L. P. Moorehouse Bocrnllr{; S Gen. W. Sooy 8mith read o ln er on *New Methods of Making Iron and 8tecl," a part of which was made a lctter of some length from A.T. Hay, of Burlington, Ia., destriptive of.a new qusn which I3 now elleiting aome atton- tlun In sclentifie circles. The paper Jed toan extended discisslon, which was full of fnterest, The Sccretary announced the particulars of the coming Convention of the Amcrican Be- clety at Now Orlecans, which tho Club had been fnvited to attend, and _that he had niade ar- rangements with the Illinola Central Rallroad by which transportation would be furnished {ree of cost to the members of the Club, CITE SCAVENGING, ' That cltlzens nay bo informed of what 13 expecied of ‘them in alding o the scayenger service, the boundaries of the _scveral dlstricts aro herewith T civen; and, as (t des{red that all garbage and & ashes may he on hand and in suitible receptas ) cles, sttention ahould be pald to the days of o collection of said garbaze: 'In the North Divis- Z fan dally collections will bo inade In the district bounded by the river on the south, Wella street oin the west, Chilcazo avenua on tho north, and the lako on the east. In the remsinder of the diviston tri-weekly collcctions will be made, B Inthe South Division daily collections will . tie made from all housca north of Harrison : street, Tho rest’ of tho division will be gone over tri-werkly, “Inthe West Diyislon, all east nf Halsted . strect, south of Lako street, and north of Har- : rizon strect will bu scavenged daily, and inthe 170 restot the division triweekly coflections will * be made, ‘The scavenger contract has been let, and Peter Downliig has begun work thercupon. TI0THL ARRIVALS, M. A, Weaver, Bedford, Ta. ; the ‘vlorado Sorloge; W, 0. dson, Datlas, Tex. : ‘Col. orb, New York: G. £, Atwood, St. Louls} Addizon ybee, Indiana . 1. Krapp, Wino- pa: II. 1. Ureen, Dotrofts J. W, Bandors, Hos. J. Loonils, llastbord; T J. Hya Grand Pacifie=C, M, O v, wringtalas " AL RPN ot ringel . . Mol e Emith. Tadianapolies G L orky 8, 8. Merrill and J. C. Gault, 1. L. Wright, Canton, I1L.: the lion. t, G. Ingersoll, A, M. ¥mith, Varisy B, T, Cabe ler, Rtock lsland....Sherman House~The Hon. Joscph Rankin, Miiwaukes: W, C. Voshurgh, New » York; Waahington Libby, Ottawas the lion. J. E, K. Herrick, Epringficid: the llon, M. 8, .lml{n. Yoodstacks @, ', Eorle “Umaha; " Il W a GENTEEL FURNITURE KNABE PIANOFORTE, Etc., AT ATOTION,' Wednosday Morning, April 4,at 10 o’clock, - Atdwelling 5 Forrest-av., Juat south of Thirty-inten, The cniire horischold effects of 8 centleman fore i housckeeping, conaiailng of Parlir, Ghamber, niz-raotm Purniture, Velvet and liriadls Carpe Tora, FIAlF Maftressca, Bodding, togetiicr withy {urulahings of o 10-ro dwelling, Knabe Fisne, tict fill toie, hadsorio Horewnod WML AL LIS & CU.._Auctioneors. BARKRUPT SALE ‘Threa fina metal showcases, Aro-proot safe, desks, shelying hronzo stataes, efc. WEDNEEDAY MORNING, ATRIL 4, at 11 o'clock, ¢ our Balesrooms, 118 and 120 Wabash-ay. WM. A BUTTERS & CO., Auctioneers. 100 Assorted Clocks, Wednesday Moratog, April 4, st 11 o'clock, st aur Auction Touse, 118 and 120 Wabash avsnue. W. A, BUTTERS & €O, Auctioneers, THURSDAY TRADH BALE, DRY GOODS, WOOLENS & CLOTIING, RSDAY MORN! o 1! X T ors & G A citon Taomin e Hom ¥ City and Country Merchanta wiit aiways and full lines of salable gooxls at dur saica, W3l A, DUTTERS & CO., Auctioneers T By G, P. GORE & 00,, 08 and 70 Wabash-av. Wednesday, April 4, at 9:30 a.m, ‘Wo shall soll at Auotion an Unequaled Assortment OF QUSTOM.-MADE Boots,Shoesg.Slinpers ALL GOODS are SPLD PERFECT and RBEGULAR, unless apecifiod *as aro” ab time of sale. GEOQ. T', GORE & CO.. 08 & 70 Wabas On Thursday, April 5; at 9:30 o'clock, A Car Load of Stone Hollow Ware. : Aneclal Dispatch fo The Tribune, Fort Warng, lud, April J.—Sunday night the bridge at Cedarville, In this county, valued ot 86,000, was swept away by flood. The rivers Auroughout Northern Indiana arc greatly swollen, and high water s reported from all quarters, slthough thero has been thus far little destruction of property. The dam In Eikhart River, at Rome City, Is threatened, and if it pgocsoutit will flood a vast section of the country. A large force of men {8 at work try- ing to rmvenl dlsaster, but at this" writine, '8 . m., it is belioved the dam will go away before morning. > e ——— .- CHICAGO SNOW-WHITE GLOSS STARCH 18 tho whitest, purest, and strongest starch in the market, Chicazo Improved Corn-Starch is an prre as the new-fallen snow. Try it and convince yonraolves. ‘Thisis o now Chleago enterprise, omploying 100 hands. Such onterprises build up Chlcago com- merclally, and Hiod employment for labor, Chi. cago Starch: Company, corner Ulark and Twalfth streots, ——————————— ey DEATIIS, “RODERTE—On April 3, Jamea M, Toborte, aved 40, formerly a well-known fruit dealor of this cltl;. uneral at bis Iate residonce, 741 Wes! ot Wednesday at 2p. m, Bl RAYMOND—Mrs. II. W. Raymond, dlod CINCUIT COURT. Duncan Ross Aled a bill againat Jease Adams, Barhara Adams, G. Titus \Willlams, and E, 8, Stickney, tu furecloso o truat-decd for $3,000 an Lots 11 and 13 in Block 28 fn Kimbark's Addl- tion to Hydo Park. TN CALL. Jupar Broporrr—Yet cascs and genera! boel- nos. oL JubeE GAnr—302, 303, 1300, 308, 400, 403, 405 to 408, and 410 to 417, Inclusive. No caso on trial, 97, 8, ‘10, Jurnax Jaxesox—80, 87, 88, 00, 01, 02 90, 102 104, 107, 110, 11'% 113, ‘116, 118, 120, 124, No. 10, Boskowltz vs. Bnker, on trial, Junor Moonz—~13, 14, 15, No. 12, Tayneva. Cumminge, on teial, e ¥ Jupor Hooens—io0 to 413, inclusive. No case o m trial. Junax McAvrLigren—Set cedo 2, Friond . dcall 3004 A No case on trial. 11, Cox va. Mec. Gulres 330, M 've, Haxringlon; 937, Same vo. Fltzgarald, and tho Walker cases, JUDGMENTS. Bupenior Count—Caxresstons—\¥illiam Dodge v&. John Fitzgerald, $000. . CRIMINAL. J, 8. Barrett is at tho Armory charged with tho larceny of pants, coats, and shoes belong- fug to Thomas Ready. Both aro newsboys lving at the Newsboys' Home., Nottfe Lec, inmate of a bagnio on Van Buren street known as Long Branch," was locked up at the Armory last nizht, charged with the lar- ceny of $10 froma Urangernamed Victor Meyer, hailing from Davenport, Ia.* i Willtam lsakson, a recent importation from Rockford, was at the Madison-Strect Station lost night blabbering beeause he had Jost all his money. i{c ¢Jaims to have beon knocked down and robbed on Canal stroct of $35 In cash and a recefpt fora note on the defunct Scandinavian National Bank. James Mnrnh{ is locked up at tho Twelfth Btreet Statlon charged with *‘ringing a super,” wtherwlse a watch, from H. D. Perkins, of thio Harrison Court 'llnlel, while that gentleman was pushing his way through the crowd ut tho polls, No. 577 Canal strect.” The watch was te- covered upon the thief when arrcated. Justico Summerflald yeaterday held tho fol- lowing: Jotin Welch aud Joscph Dunne, lmwhl%u cketbook from Misa Lillan Vore, of No. ubash avenuc, $1,000 cach till the 4th; i, C. Brown, larceny of nsflk wipe from J. 11, Parier, of the Tivoll, $300 to the sth: O, H, Monroe, robbery of §35 from John McNoll, $500to the 4th; Charles Dalloy, drunk and dis< orderly, thirty days in the [foussof Correctlon. The cascs of F, F, Lewls and John Faith, the North Dlvision highwaymen, were contluued {n 81, o James Wilta, & West Divisfon ruffian and Raymond, beloved wite of her realdence, 1007 Weat nre: + at B o'clock Tuesday, April3. Funeral notlce hereafler, 2~Toronto, Cornwall, and Lockport papers pleaso copy. . " MACKINTOSI—Taesdsy, April3, Jeanle, wife of D, Intosh, Faneral from her 1ste residonce, 024 West Con- grosa-at., on Tharsday, Apell 5, at1l o, m., by carrlages to Gracelar 'riends of the famlly are invited to attend, HARLAND=Mrs. Ellza Harland dled of dropsy At ber lata resmdence, 102 West Adams-st, aged 07, nnz%mc;fia ylpen‘ pleasa copy. —The fnnerat of Capt. Fred Roed will bo iRt i B Vil 3 , at 2 o'clock. vited toal endpwnhnut turther notice, il LANE—The funeral services of Mr: Mary Lane will take place to-morrow marnin; 10 oclock, from her lata residence, 12 Lane-place, to Bt. 3 e i 2 Friends of the family are favited, Iy SR MEDICAL. B P veu oo TSPV Dr, Schenck’sStandard Iltomedies, The standard remedlies for all disessesof theluogs ara Behenck's Pulmonfo Byrup, Schenck's Ses Weod Toolc, and Schenck's Mandrake Pilis, sndlf faken be. fore the Jungs are destroyed. & peedy care Is offected, To theso three medicinea Dr, J. H. Bchenck, of Phil < Harl £ the speak f I - | sdelphia, owes bis unrivated saccess tn tho trestment F U R N I I U R E " ;’,"“"\\nrk’f"w“ b "',’,L " ;‘,{:’,}"’,}flfi‘: |: ?&hflfl(’;fi, fl,b;n'_ it ,.m,'iflmd sport, lust n\‘enl;? at 7:30 ontered Coffec John's | tory, but has done rio serlous damage. Hetween | works around the mouth of the ditch, was not | of pulmonsry discasee, - . Gcorgo Halloway, 1 the truths lio was impressiog and eshanced tho restaurant on North Clark street, near Mich- | those buildings and the now Water-Works the | at all desirous of letting go. Consoquently, bt ‘The Pulmonlc Syrup ripens the morbid matter in the Antmmeusa stock and fine assortment of Yuralturey Yark: . 8, Weoks, U, i, A !»Ir.uum of the llstener, It alsofixed the trutha | i2an, and attempted to ralse s riot. He turned | West Branch has s width of fully half-a-mile, | by bit the loosa soll was caten futo until a tor- | Juogvi nature throws It off by an essy expectorstion, | 0 Do bolil to the hixhest biddor without reaerve. w- Yorks 0 aught in the mind,~made the hearer stop and think,—and thoss beforo him who were about to commence shing for men (souls) would find that the hook bafted with illustration would catch the moat. ‘Tho kind of {llustrationa to be used should io curt, simple, and polnted, Thesermons of Beecher glittered with {llustrations, and sodid those of Talmage, Moody owed much of his and the water runs in s northcasterly courso | rent no lessthan 200 yards in width was pourlng across the yards of manufactorics and houscs, | over the barrler and flooding the prairic. That and finds its way into the ditches of tho streets, | was what brought the food {tito Chicago. Stand- lmg spreads over tho vacant and limproved lots. | fug on the canal bank nnd looking northward Carcful obseryation showed that the flood | and eastward the reportor bobeld a vast and un- came from two directlons. The overflow of the | broken expansc ol water, This polnt was dis- north bank of the West Fork, botween Western | tant eleven miles frorn the City-Hall Squara and Ashland avenucs, was caused by a rise in | and nino mlles from Ashland avenue; snd for for when the phiegm or matterIs ripe sslight courh will throw 1t off, the patient has rest, sad tha lungs be- B3 10 heal. Toonable the Pulmonle Byrup tddo this, Bchenck's Mandrake Pilla 304 Bchenck’s Bea Weed Tonlc must be treoly used to cleante the stomach and liver. Scheack's Mandrske Ii}ls abt on the liver, removing all obstruc- tons, relax the gall blsdder, thablle starts freely, and T, Whiting e A, B, Balt 3 Lake: C. 4. 1indre, llooghton, L. 8.1 A. 0. Strong, i Buflalo: the_lien, 1. 8 umu[ Steubenvillos J, N. Taylor, Now York: J, . Litt Vhtiadelphing Gen, Thomas Bennett, Neatwoud: David Strabl §t. Louls; the Hon. Alva Adams, Del Norte J." N. Converse, Lincoln, Neh.: Qeorge ) Grond. 3. M. “Whailng, 31iiwaukees i K. Kuox, Jr,, Kcotland’ Henry M. Williaww, Fort the chairs upside down, upsct tables, and smashed crockery, until James Robertson, ons of tho walters, remonatrated with bim. With. out further ado Wiltz drow a4 ** pop,” and would bavo shot Kobertson dead 'bud it not been that the weapon was wrested from his rasp just as he was In the act of diring, The hullct ‘went wide of fits mark, an through Robertson's right hand, which he throw LATEST SPRING STYLES Tarlor and Chiamber Ba's, fofss, Loun, l_\“ Extenston Tahles, Meat Eafee Matbie and ‘Wood-Top Tabiek Walnut Dedsteads and Lureaus, asy Chairs and itock: ens, Mirrors, Wardrohes, ook Cased, liow Cascs, Pl Tor'and ORice Deaks, liruarals and Wool Carpets. A1l o'clock, Carrlages Buggies, Phacions, o 5. mfififm Sales st Privato uul%«sm gromot) sltecd e s B vaynes: J. A. le, Li ., 4 g . his sore that stream, whilo' the inundation of | the wholoof the latter distance nothing but water | th8 llverds soon ellored. a1 0., Aucks. f E‘"’fl’.n"',;:ulflnfll A R ",';“f:,‘.""‘.,‘,?u‘l‘sf,fl’l‘,“:‘;g .‘:l‘:"f,‘,';,‘“:,‘:‘c',‘lnwhu roro | up to protect himself, Wiltz was almost im- | land lyin between Twenty-aixth street on tha | could be scen on tho cround, TS widty of uf:":“f’""'&".n".,'f’“’"‘ faa weatte sumulaieang | S i) ety far better educated than bimself. ‘The porable, | mediatcly arrested by Oficer Patrick Welah, | south'and Taylor on the north,sud westof | this huge lake, ms near as could bo s G L ":C::':l‘ :‘ s l‘:“";‘“ mizes | By ELISON, POMEROY & COy ! RELIGIOUS. or tho supposition of tho_ cxistencs ‘,P some- ?n'fi."" convoyed to the Clileago Avenue Bta- | Western avenue, was the result of a freshot in | gucased, was = about a mile narth b4 usiug. It salats the df- Auctloneers, 84 and By Randoiphest. eestion by toning up tha stomach to a healthy condi» 4i00, 50 1has tha food aud the Pulmonlc Byrup will Taaks £0od blood; thea the lungs heal, aad the patient wiil surely get well If carolstaken Lo pravent fresh cold, All wha whh o conault Dr, Bchienck, elther person- ally or by letter, can do so as his principal oftice, corner ofBlxth aad Arch-au, Philadelphla, every Monday. Echenok’s medicines are sold by all druggtets through- out the eountry, To CONSUMPTIVES thing, wus an approved style of pulplt Mustra- tion.” Bpurgeon had made illustrations of this class a success. P’ The great sourco of illustration was the Beripture fteelf. tn its lids could bo found Nlustrations spplicable to every subject and cvery phrse of life, Hlistory was a vast sourco of flustration. The history of our ago illus- trated that of another. Trie sclence, too, was ull of natural theology, and afforded an abund- ant budget from which to guther {llustrution. _ tho Desplalnes River, whose waters found an | and south. And, 2180, there casy way uacross the country {nto Mud Lake, | was a perceptible current setling towsrdsthe causing that shallow pool to'risc and scnd its | clty. As for the river itsclf, only a'narrow n sccumulated waters down {uto the city in & per- | of ‘embankment runnin, down from the far fect sea, overtlowing tho land fn-tho western | north marked its limit. Far across the dreary snd southwestern sectionsof tho dz{, and dolog | waste could be scen the clutnps of trees which, great damugo to public eud privalo improve- | in ordinary times, shaded the banks of the ments and property. 3 rhfld Aux Plaloes. They wers submerged to The large tract of unimproved land bounded | thelr lower brauches, by Taylor stroet, Wood street, Weatern avenu Nothing has yet been done towards repalriog and the Chicago, Burllogton & Quincy Railvo the breach In the river embaukment and stop- Is still submerged, and is likely to be for some | ping the immense food that, as has been showi, i TUE NOON PEAYER-MEETING 2 at Farwell Hall yestenday was rather slimiy at. tended. The cxervises were commenced by singing ** What a friead wo have o Jesus," led by 5ir. Phain with grest camcestoess, The Rev, E. R. Davis read tho usual requcsts for prayer,: and the Hev. Mr, Uoodman followed with ' prayer. ‘S Gulde me, oh thou Grest Jehovah," (i was then sung. 2 Fill The Rev. J. M. Gibson read from Isalah, xvi, Our Regular I'viday’s Sale, A April 8, commencing at 0:30 8. m. We have tho Entire Idumtlmruol firat-class Resle ence, New Parlor Suits, New Chamber Sets. A FULL LINE - Good Misnt and Second-hand Carpets. SUBURBAN. BNOLEWQODY At the snnus) meeting of the congregation of the Triuity Reformed. Eplscopal Church, held Monday evening at the Baptist Church, Antho- ny J. Touzalin was chosen senfor warden; E. 8, Hulburd, junlor warden; vestrymen, John Rumsey, W. J, Terpenny, James Grifith, Auother source was the scrap-book, judiclously Tulburd. . N 1 1d = Mate madeup. Inth Jier dayshehada | George M, Chase, I A, ltulburd, and W, N. | time. s pouring duwn resistlessly upon the city. The General, Hauseliold .Qoads, Blaves, New remarking upou the appropriutcncss of that | Gy Do sheaker's younger tayslichat® | Siith; delegates 1o the Chicago Bynod, W.J. | The dam scrious, and | work properly belongs to t! 2 hown nutboritices AND :{fi',',“q,‘,’,:‘,’:,“:.“:;‘,,fm’;:';-,c““u';,:,':".‘,':!';'- part of tho Gospel as bearing upon the occaston | higascrap-book,—filMng it withanecdotagathered | Terpenny and James Griilith; sitcruates, A, J. | that by but those sages arc always elow to move in auy~ God at onr salea largest sbock of goods, which mush —clection-day, Ho thought the meoting sbould | here and thire,—t0 which practice e had ad- | Mitchell and J. J. Ymmfi delezates to ths fara thing that involves expense,- Besides, it mnzbe NVALIDS. be sold, ELIION, POMEROY & ot forget the mportance of the clection, and | hervd as long as Lis labors would allow, Ob- QUeneral Couccll, qu‘;-e 1, Chase; alternate, | the flood, and about tifty new), sald with some truth, tbat tho present high S At s it J.J. Young, The uewly-clected vestrymen will hold a weetlng this cvenlug to clect ofticers and appolnt all_nccessary comynittecs for the cnau- ing year, The Eastir services were very Inter- esting; twenty-three persons were confirmed and adinitted to the church by Blshop Kallows, W, J. Terpenny, the Buperinténdent of the Sab- Lath-school, was presented with an album by the children of the schioul. The Rev. Mr. Bos- ‘worth made the prescutation. scryation was, perhaps, tho greatest source of fllustration after nil, and of all persons the preachers should be the most observant, They sbould keep thelr eyes open always, for, look in whatever dircction they wight, they = would tind naterial for {ilustration and food for thought which would embellisty their sermons and ftupress them upon the world, The preacher could not exereise too much care in the preparation of his ser. wero uprooted and swepl away,” The loss from | stage of tho water renders work in that direc the washing away of sidewalks on Western ave- | tion almost fmupossible. It will probably be nus snd lutersccting streets s large, aud will | somo days yet before the water will become low necessitate much work and the um.-mllluu of a | enough o allow active operations. large sum of money to replacs them. Returning to Hummuhuu reporter drove ATOUT SEVEN YBAKRS AGO southward along the banks of the canal toascer- a similar disaster occurred, and then, as | talu what damage bad been done to that im- now, the same mruon'—umufih not fmproved {mmnt thorvughfare. About thres miles from then ssal present—was overflowed In @ llke | the villago there ia a place where the bank be- mauner, but the damsgo was comparatively | tween tho canal aud the river is lower thau at that the chapter reud from wes in consonance &) with the Old Testament generally in its national I Interesta—full of patriotism, We read thas our 3 Lord wefi; over Jerusalem, but the tears were really sbed over & doomed city, and wero .| the result of the highest patriotism, In Revelas § tion the City of God ‘'was sct befors us Bome regarded a segrvgited ifu as the ideal of * existence, but this found ite basis on the idea By WD, MOOREHOUSE & COs 274 a1 378 East Madisot-at,. nesr tho Bridge. Weshall scli thi 8. 1. 8t ‘0 o'clock, & targo lotol NEW AND SECOND-HAND FURNITURE, WINCAESTER'S HYPOPHOSPRITE OF LIMFE AND BODA will promptly and radieally cure consumption and absolutely preveat its developemsut in all cases of Predisposition or threatened attack. For WEAK LUNGH, CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, GENERAL LEBILITT, NEBVOUS PROSTRATION, DYSPEPSIA or INDI» UESTION, LOSS OF YIGOR snd APPETITE, sod ¢ - | mouns,~his wrmor for God's work. Ie | _Adispatch from Allen, B. C., announces the | smail, other points. Through the ncgligence of the | all diseasss arising from POVELTY OF X ) LY injage trchen, 8od that Qod aflorded b petn ey Lot e seilt SEub | Should study slouplicity sad_preechi iy | dcath of Miaa Justiua Condit, dsughter of A B, | ° Tho Sewerage Superintendent and the bullder | authoritics the enibagkment has beon sHowed | WINGHESTEICE i POMIOAE Lra - oe | T2 Cibmber, Hbraen Hafafroom K welfaro of the city depended on the charscter of | fucts and truths with® the greatest zeal, | Condlt, Esq. She died Mondl!. at4p.m. Bhe | of Westcru-avenuo sewer clalm that it isall | to remain In a condition that any ouoconversant by i | Wil bo'mourned by a large clrcle of frlends. From the station at South Englewood, on Eighty-seveath strcet, to Ninety-fifth street there 15 only ene culvert, and all the water on ndred acres, LIME AND SODA 18 A SPECI¥IC, being une- qualed as & VITALIZING TONIC, and BEBALN, NERVE, and BLOOD FOOD. Price, 81 and 83 per bottle, Prepared only by WINOHESTER & 00, Ohemists, P VT, L4 2 S mmnmnansa CELEDRATED thro“goul the Unlon--expressed toall parts. 1 B and upward st 25, 40, 80c per . Address orlersGUNTUER, Confec — e e cver forgetting the power aud application of fi‘l’u:tml:g. T§u mdfier ¢loscd alth some wholesome advice to the students who wero about to Jaunch forth into the work of the min- lstry. At the conclusfon of the lécture Bishop Che- }ny was tendercd & vote of thanks for his ef- t, s o"!’hu graduating excreises of the seminary will be held to-morrow eveniog. THE COURTS. {ta dtizens, and upon thelr choice of rulers, Ma- terial pmlpcr‘\}’V had always proved a curse when scparated from moral prosperity, It would vot do to rely on good laws solcly, for these could not be ubtaived unless good law- au‘: u‘a‘x‘m "fm;'fi" hen‘fe lhle l&ufifi:ce“:é r ople taking a deep foterc: [ affalirs. m laws wsld only be enforced by & sound publlc scutiment. Whatever there Bea been of corruption in _city affaira ll{ at the doors of iLa citizens, and were the result of an sentiment, hence every man and woman sound, and is doing all that can be expected of | with the eccentric habits of the river should it; but, on the other hand, citizens inthevicinity | neverpermit. Hero was discoyered assert that it 1s choked up or bursted at somo TUE PIRST DREAK, '~ unkoown point, and that it {s uot taking off any | A breach fu the bauk about forty feet In width of the water which stiil comes booriing down | was scen, through which l{gt\hfl Niagars was the Ogden aveaus snd Western avenue ditches. | pouring with such force as to cover the_surface - The 1snd around Lawndalo and the Bridewell | of the canal for soms distance with - foam. is frco from water, and Twenty-sixth street, | Horc was scen the phenomenon of water Ogden avenuc, Western avenue, and intorsect- | running fn two dlrections. Part of the lnfi streets, aro passable to tcams, but bad for | discharge into tho canal gelloped northward walkers, toward Coicago, and the remainder yushed in Decp ditches and water lots abound in the | tho oppoeite direction with 3\1:1‘ speed. No & New and Secondhand Cook Stoves. 13 New Bewing-Machines Corrops deco 8 By HIRAM BRUSH, Auctiones, 108 Fifih-av, Farpit 1) 3, Ci Beddlog, Eewl! Tz at A 810 Weat Sedtsonsh. s the west side, draining several h has no outlet, cxcept through th ing. Whenever there s & heav water riacs on the west side of the track from one to four leet higher than on the east. Last Bunday tho water rose untll it commenced run. plog through the cattle-guard at the station; aud, but for the fortunate dhcnver&nbv Mr. i sbased ANE, -+ Quinnell, would fa a very short tl have | territory betweca Ashland and Western ave- | oneapparcutly had mads au; to stop the JETT] % i mfihfl?&.‘&i work for the propsgation of BOWEM BROTIERS. Wasiod Away & 1arge Opeping ubaer the track, | nase &ad the Chicago, Burliagion & Quincy Broa, i v £ touer, Chicazo. 2 Uiy Tho rewsrks of Dr. Gloson were followed | Thbo visible asscts of James H., Chauncey T., | with the usual result of a wrecked passenger- | Rsllroad tracks, and New Blue Jsland aveoue. Continuing on several miles, another large = = TSH B8 by siogiog snd praycr, when the Rev. L 3L | and George 8, Bowen baviog long since disap- | train and probable loss of life, a3 the outcom z In several lostances familles have been cowm- | crevasss wasfound,the discharge from thisseem- | * HAYR GOODS. 1 P’ukhu.m spoke briefy of the necessity of Fraok Chapman, a judguent creditor to regular triiu would have been dueina short | pelled to mave out of submerged houses and | ing to flow southward. Two minar breaks were | B R o o T I &) B O e s e oy | pearcd: ApEiAs, & Judgu Wb | tine. The smallest opening made by musk- | seek dryer babitations. alao discovered. ~ Nooo of these had been re- VRl ¢ 1 T nakers .1t was bis pruyer for God to guldg | the amount of $2,010.83, gled a creditor's bill | 1345 or other ageocies throlgh the embauk- | —Tholake wuter had resumed Its wonted clear- | palred, nor bad any attempt to heal thew been 207 parsor ha U 8. "Buad ur Fiice N whoever might be elected o rule the city, and | 8gslnst them yesterday to discover If | ment, at any polnt within threequarters of & | ness and swcetness yesterday, and it is belleved | made, 8o far ws could b secn. ] ri g Ladies’ Bhoes s i {ufiucnce the public wen o deeds of g ss. | there o any property which bas | wlle, wouldbave the same result. that the food will catirely subsido in aday or | ‘The Clty of Lemoutlsy snugly cosconced ig ¥ Bucdien, B WALt b1, Chlcage, For Ladies ; 008, 1