Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1877, Page 4

1, g = 0 18 it s e v £ @Iw Trtbwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. Khert Eatunla Feliveckiy portpaid. 1 7 'ATta 0f & year, per mant| WEEKLY EDI Pk A g Clubof twenty., Fostage prepatd. Epecimen coples tent free. Toyravent delay and mistakes, be snre and gtve Poste Cftceaddress (n full, incinding State and Coanty, Remittances may he mado either by dratt, express, Tost-Otfice order, ar fn reglatered letter st our risk. 7ERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIBENS. Tofly, del! cered, Bunday excepted, 245 cents per week, Leily, deilvered, Sunday focluded, 30 cents per week Addrers TUE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Lotuer Sladicon and Dearborn-sta.. Chicaito, Hile — TRIBUNE Rooma. Occupants, 1, CHARTER OAK LIFK (Insurance Dep't.) 2. TO RENT, 3, QUSTIN & WALLACE. J. T. DALE, 4. DURIER WATCIL-CASE MAN'FO €O, 8. ORUINS & APPLETON. 6. TO RENT, 7. HENUY LUEDKER 8 WM. C, DOW, A, W. ROBDINS, 0, WRIGHT & TYRIEL] 10 CANTER OAK LIFE (Losn Dep't.) 11413, PAIRCHILD & BLACKMAN, 1613, JAMES MORGAN, 1t W, BRIDOE. 16, JIKNILY E. SKELYE. W, D, COOPER. 17, M. D, HARDIN, 18-19. D. K. PRAISONS & CO. 20, HUTCHINSON & LU DIRECTORY,. BROWN, L - 23, EDITOR-IN. D 24. MANAGING EMITOR, 23. ASSUCIATE EDITONS, 26, L. C. EARLE. 27, W. 1. TANKY & CO, 28, WILLIAM RItOSS. 20 Il F. NORCROSS, J. A! McELDOWNEY. a0, PATH LYCEGM RUREAU. a1, COMMENCIAL RDITOI. 2. W, W. DEXTEIL. 33. GFO, L. THATCHER. A, V. STEVENSOT, 2. NIGHT EDITOR, . CITY EDITOIL Ofiices {n the Dullding to rent by W. C. DOW, Itoom 8. S———— AMUSEMINTS, Haverly's Thentre, Randolph strect, titween Engagement of lobert McWade. Clark — and _LaSaile, **Kip Ven Winkie."" * ik Nb:" Chl{nuo Thentre. ark stre ' iy et, between Lake and {{andolph, Emerson's Musenm, Monroe st ety Vi o ioarce nu;“u‘l‘;. weeu State and Dearborn, Vauda: . MeVicker'n Thentrs, adison street, between Dearbo; 3 Eogagement of ¥. 8, Chanrran "oty 00 State . reer MCIDY Thiontre, . unroe t, ) o 4 " o NRe, SIegty Corter, Dearburn, ** Jack aud M1 e TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1877, CHICAGO0 MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicago produco markets wure escltod yesterday by war mews, and broadstaffa were stronger. Mens pork closed 174;c por brl lower, at $13.05@13. 6743 for April and $14.024@14..05 for May, Lard closed Gc per 100 Dy lower, ut 80.27% for Aprlt snd 80,115 for May.. Ménts were unchanged, at 4%c for luoso shwulders, 7Nc for do wnort ribs, and 7ic for du whort clears, Ilighwines woro quict, at $1,05 per galton. Flour was in good demaud and stronger.’ Wheat closed 2!5¢ higher, at SLIIX for Aprll snd $1.UB%@1.30 for May, Corn clnsed &c hizher, at 40xc for Auril and 44%ic for Muy, Oaty closed nbout i(c hizher, at ke tor: April and 0%c for May, Ilys waadic better, at USGeTle. Darley closed finmer, at H1Ga%6e for April. Hoge wera actlve and 6G10c higher, welling nt 85,10 @355 for poof to chiolce. Cattle wora activo und 10215¢ higher, with sulea at $2.76@6,6, Sheep were quiet and steady, One hundred doliacs in gold would buy 3105.32% In greenbacks ot the close. Greonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterdny elosod at 95. A resolution was yestonday adoptod by the New York Methodist Confereco, nand n copy ordered to bo sont to President Haves, Yeartily indorsing . the policy of pacification and locel Government toward the’ Southern States s ono which “cannot. fail to ndvance tho welfare of the natlon und tho interests of Goo's Kingdom.” I'rivato lettors to the ssmo effect are pouring in upon the Yresi. deut by hundreds, ' Tho mortality list in the .Ulinols Logisln. ture yestorday wns wnusually large. «Among the slain were tho Lill aboliahing the Rail- road aud Warchouso Commiasion ; the Lill nking it o misdeanounor to do protty smuch overything except to poto church on Sune day; tho bill to abolish {20 printing of - de- i linguont tax-lists; and the bill restricting the rate of interest in Tlinols to 8 per cent,® A Lill wus roported Ly the Select Comumittes providing for the abolisiment of the State- s, THouse Connnission, : - —— Tt will be noticed that a Lirgo epace fn this issuo is devoted to the chrouicling of numor- ous evonts of futercst to the roliglons world. Wo print u lotter from n Buston corresnond- ent tracing the progrous of Mr, AMoonr's . work iu thot city, and the formidable olsts- clos be hna contended with oud, it now ‘ap- pears, overcome ot lant; and due menticn s mado in our local yeports of the mmmal westing of the Chicago Presbytory ; tho rey- ulur weekly meetiry uf Methodist uinisiers oud the terminalon of tholr discussion'of the proposition to rumove the presqut e- striction upon pastora! terms aud uppolid- ments; the noon prayer-wmeoting ¢ the sus- cess of Messry, Winrrex and MeGuananan at Toledo, and the doiugs of the New Eu- glond Methodist Conference at Boston ye- terdsy, o Accordmg-to },oheu‘l- i»oilcf.“élerl: Apauy ! s hay o arranged the roll of ,tho next lowie a8 to givo tho Democrats a majority of four. toen, whereas, by ull tho vuleg that have Leretofore governed the proparation of the roll, tho wajority should Lo but seven at tho outside. Apaus, lhowever, adhores to no rule that hindors the result aimed at,—that 18, to securo such a majority on the opening of the extra sesvlon as shall give the Demo- cruts the coutrol of tho organization. It Ix of minor cowsequenco to what oxtent tho Clak's roll sy be subsequently correctod by the House itselt, o loug as tho wmain point, the wrganization, has been carried. But it shoukd occur to Clerk Apaus that his ; Ppartisan conduct is liablo to be reviewed by iy e Y wcopted, .Q— would consent under any circunstances to 1 . the House, and that it is quite possible that conscquences unpleasant to himself should Tee——— The Board of County Commissioners yes- terday edopted o serivs of resolutions invit ing tho Legislatare to sppoint a special com- wittee to investigate the scts of the Board, and esking the Legialature to defer action + on the bill {0 legislato the present Board out of office until after tho investigation shall Lave been completed. The resolutions are %, tho thinnest of clap-trap, the shollowest of - buncowbe. The carvupt rascals who com- D priso the ujority of the present undenstaud porfectly well that oven if the Legislature THE CHICAGO TRIBUNL: TUESDAY. APRIL 10, 1877. undertako the investigation of a body, some of whose members ara now under indict- ment and awaiting trial, It would require six months at least for a commilteo of ex- perts to uncover a small portion of the jobs and steals perpetrated by tho present Board ; moreover, the Legislataro ia already in pos- scssion of the facts necesary to nfull un- derstanding of the question of abolishing the Board and electing a new one mponn different plan,—those facts Leing that tho peoplo of Cook County nre -tired of being robbed and plandered, and demand the op- portunity of makiug an immediste and sweeping reform fn the ndministration of county affairs. . "The Snpreme Court of tho United States has tapped the Centennial fund in the inter. eat of the Natioual Treasury, its decision being that the Government is a preferred creditor, aud must have the $1,500,000 whicl the people's representntives loaned to that enterprise bofore tho stockhaldors nnd other {uterested parties can be allowed to dispose of the profits. Tho Court holds the Cen. tonnial stockholders strictly to tho letter and spirit of the nct of Congress appropriating the sum ns a loan and not as a gift. The ex- plicit understanding—without which the bill could never havo been passed—was that tho United Btates should be repnid tho money advanced to assist in the completion of tlie Centennial buildings, and the Supremo Court, in deciding that tho claim of the Gov- ernment must tako precedencoe over the claims of private individuals, simply carries ont the meaniug and intention of Congress in voting to extend the loan. The Lounisiana Commission is still gound- ing public opinion and public preferences at Now Orleans nud taking notes thoreof, but so far a5 is known little progress has been made townard a settlement of the difculty. Bankers, merchants, Iawyers, and in fact all prominent men who have felt onough inter- cated in tho work of the Commission to give an opinion, have_beon patiently listencd to by that body, and yot thera are mnny more to bo henrd bofors the Commissionera can bo propared to moke up their minds upon the real merits of the controversy. Tho most important inquiries are yot to be mado, nnd these concern the judicial and financial interosts of tho Biate. It romains to be soen under which King tho courts thrive best and command the greatost reapect, and whethor the Nicmorts officers are collecting all the taxes and furnishing the sirows for o stable Government, or whother the bonsts to that effect are but empty wind, aud the PAckanp strong.box is the heaviest. A decision cf theso impor- tant questions will go o long way towards clucidating the knotty problems which are of uocessity connected with the main case, It in intimated that although the rival Govern- ors talk of ¢ fighting Lo the bitter ond,” nnd of !aticking till all is blue,” thero is at bot- tom a good deal of brag and bluster, and a sottlomient may be suddouly reachod, as was done at the timo of tho Wnreren Compro- miss, ovon bofora the no-compromise mon aro nware that tho area of low baromeoter hns moved fnto the Gulf of Mexico, pose R e The itwmedinte benetit of (ho now Sonth- orn conuection which the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy Railrond Lins recently acquired may bo mado apparent to tho people of Chiengo in tho enjoyment of enrly spring vegetablos ot rensouuble prices if tho Bur. lington Road will furnish the proper facili- tivs for rapid nud cheap transportation, This new connection, which might bo called the Chicugo, Missouri & Texns Road, gives tho Burlington & Quincy the control of a through route from Clicago, by way of Quinoy, Enstern Kansns, and tho Iudian Territory, with Dallay, "lexss, und has there a connec~ tion with Iouston, which enables it to run a through car from the latter city to Chicago. Mr. R. B. Baes, a commission merchant doing business in Houston, {4 now endeavor. ing to make urrangements with tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy for through cars from Wouston, run ns a sort of fast-freight line, and proposes to doliver daily in Chicago new potatocs, peas, beans, radishes, and cabbages now, melons and cueninbers in & couplo of weeks, and green corn {u Moy, o all the quantities that moy bo demanded. The price of these new veg- otablea at so early a soason, und delivored promptly from o country where they grow without the aid of Lot-louses or binoe glass, will depend largely, na o matter of courso, on thorntes of trausportation and the facili- ties afforded by the Burlington & Quiney Ruilroud, ' Thoso ought to be most liberal, for in no way can tho advantagos of the new conunection bo so quickly and generally ro- veulad a8 through an. improved broakfast nud dinner table. 8t Louis is already got. ting vegetablos from the sawmo section of the Southern country throngh its Little Rock connections, aud Chicago pooplo are just ns fond as 8t. Louls peopls of o varied and at- tructive cuixine, Wo must have just na wbundant, just ns good, and just s early vogetables from the Houth a4 8t. Lonis en- Joys in order to iaaintaln our equality fn tropical luzuries along with our superlority iu the practical things of life, * et Senator Keuon Lins futraduced a raparnte bill to apply the minority.representation principlo to the eluction of the Cook County Commiioners, tho sald Commissioners to Lo clectad ut one time and on a general ticket, Tho bill was read the fimt thno and referred to the Comumittes on Municipalities for fmmedinte action, Tt will proably be reportod back in a day or two and read the second time, The Springfleld roport ndds: Thero seems to be an understanding among the Cooks to crowd thisand KRousxsox's blil tiyough thio Senate, and tako tho chances on the best ona intbe Mouse, Mr, Bamit spokein favor of tho Rowsox bill, and denounced the **plumplng process’ as ouly calcutated to uld the gamblers in ulwayu getting fu thele reurcavutative, "This is o very remurkable viow taken by Sonator Waru, We would like to ask him how the corruptionlsts obtained control of the prosent Bourd, It was mot by *the plumplug process”; no part of tho Board has been elected by tho minority principle, and yet it is utterly corrupt. Hoveral of ity members are indicted for swindling, black. mailing, and stealing, and refuso to bo triod beforo any court or jury in Cook County, Bomo of tho very worit memblers of the Board have come from the single districts of tho outside towns. No bigger rascals have ever had scats in the Board than some of those outside town members, Wers they clocted by * plump. ing" or the cumulative system? Lot us supposs that Benator Kzmox’s little bill shall becowu a law, and that hereaftor the wholo Board shall Lo clocted on a ganeral ticket, with tho inority-represontation priociple, and suppose that all the gamblers, confidenco operators, sud other blacklege should run u candidate of their own, aud each gewbler **plump” fiftcen votes for bim and succced in electing thewr inan, what good would he do their frateruity in the Board? Could he outvote the other fourtesn honest members? If all tha gamblers and blacklegs in Cook County were to separate from the romninder of the voters, would that not bo the best thing that could happen for the other tickets? Wonld that not improve the chancos of elocting n majority of good, honest, sonnd Commissionera? Cortainly it would. Mr, Basu has misconccived tho whols operatlon of the minority prin. ciple in elections. There is not the slightest danger to be apprehended in the direction he is looking for it. The partisan objection raised against eloct- ing the Boardl on n goneral ticket ig, that the Republicans or Demoerats may elect the ontire Board, thereby giving ona party all the members and tha othor none. That very objection lies againat the Ronixsox bill to tho extent of ten mombers to be elected by tho city. One side or the other may got them nll, The application of the minority prineiple docs awny with such obfections, as the stronger side cannot’ securo more than ton of the fifteon, and if itdon't nominate goodl and neeeptable men it may loso soma of them. Kzmox's little Lill shonld bo allowed to pass the Senate, It the Iouse don't ap. prove, that body will reject it, and that wilt Lo tho ond of the matter, A vigorous investigation of the life-insur~ snco companios and the life-insurance system is now in the hands of the public, the policy- holders, and the Legislatura of New York. An unusually well-fuformed correspondent callsattention, in 8 communication in anoth- er column, to three new lines of inquiry which ought to be followed up. Therois no secret of life-insurance kept more impenetra. ble than the rate of ¢ommissions paid to so- licitors ; but enongh has lenked out to make it certain that srome of the leading compn- nies pay extravagant cominissions, the sum total of which is oven a greater fraud on the policy-holders than tho salaries the officers receive. Let us have some light on this point. Probably a still greater lovy is mado on tho defonseless policy.holder by the shamefully-inadequate amonat roturned him na the cnsh value of a policy thut has been allowed to lapse. Every policy-holder who lots his policy lapsa is entitled, of right, 1o have givon back to him, loss some trifling percentage, tho ** roserve " part of the premi. ums ho has paid,—that is, tho sum laid aside ond invested by the company to meet the extrn risk of his later yoars. If he relicves the company from this risk, o isentitled, by all the prineiples of lifo-insurance, to receive back his money ; but the companies, in mak- jug such sottlemonts, imposo on the policy- lolder whatever terms they will, A third subject of inquiry is one about which little has been said, but which obviously may un. cover o great abuse. It is to what extent, if any, have the officors of life-insurance com- panies mado themsolves and tholr families prosonts of paid-up policiea? These are nll niatters on which the publie, which is indis. tinguishable from the policy-holders, has a right to demand information, and it must be forthcoming. 3 S— . THE IMPENDING WAR. The Turks are at least consistent in thoir precipitato rush towards' their manifest dos. tiny, When the English Note was issued, thoy scouted it. When the Berlin Memo- randum was ogreed upon, thoy would not listento it. When the Austrian Note was propored, they would have nothing do with it. Thon camo the Conferenca of all the Powars sitting in solomn session, and not one sontonce of its findings wns recelved with favor. Its declsion was contemptuonsly ro- jected, and its members wero politoly Lut firmly shown the door. England, Turkey'a best friend, begged, conxed, remonstrated, nnd threatoned, but oll to noavail. T'he Porto ‘was unanimons in rejecting the decision, tho Councilinvited warauddefied Russia, tho peo~ ple clamored for war, Russia did not ot pro- cipitately, 8ho issued a prolocol, eall. ing upon the other Powdr to, join her in demanding guaranteos for tho reforms tlie Turks ara wo profuse in promising, and offering to demobilize her vast armics whon the guarantees wero shown to bo suf- ficiont. Al of the Powers hiava signed that protocol with the exception of Turkey, and Turkey nppeard to be ready to take tho last stop in tho diplomatic prelude to the military trogedy by refusing to sign or disarm, and this” notwithstanding the declaration of the Bultan in openiug Parliamont, that ** We have given proofs of our sincora desire to defer to tho wishes and” counsels of tho friendly Powers.” The colossal andacity of this declaration is shown in somo of the dis- patches this morning, which nflirm that tho Porte rejecta tho protocol, refuses to sdmit tho Russiani declaratlon of disarmament, de- clines tosend an ouvoy to 8t. Petersburg, and rofects any interferonco in hor negotia- tions with Montenogro, 1If this news be true, then war is a cortalnty, Thero can be no doubt that Russia is thor- oughly propared for the impending war, and will go into {t with lminense advantages, both worully aud physically, By a bold diplo. matio stroko sho hag placed Turkey in tho wrong, sod all tho other Powors having sigunod tho proctocol, Turkey will be luft without allies, in caso she hns' not signed. Ttusgin b most undoubtedly mede terms with Germany, and ias anunderstauding with Austris which will provent any interference from that Powor, at lonst in the introdactory stnges of the war,+ Bho hus also lided her thmo uutil there is a stroug party in her favor {u Buglaud, and will not go to war with Tur. Loy this tlmo with all Euglaml sgaiust hor, & sho did tweuty-five years ago, Italy, which has no sympatby with Turkey, s in sympathy with Lor; and France, which Las uo speolal interest in tho Eastern question, Is working in the goncral interests of peace by giving her attention to her Intornationa! Exhibition of 1878, As Vicros Huco aid the othor day, in his Poris speechs *Itis a treaty of peaco, the siguing by all peoples of on act of fra- ternity, tho pactof industries linked with arts and eciences, encournging discoveries of prod- ucts, exchanged with ideas of progress, multiplyiug comfort.” Flushed with their Serviau euccoss, A #uccess which las been magnified becauso there wero a few Lussian volanteors nud officers in the Servian army, tho Turks scom to have rejected every propo- sition of compromise, and now flud them- selves confrouting Ruselu with every avenuo of help or sympathy from the other Powers closed ageinst thom by their own rashness, The ultimate militory strength of the two nations leaves no doabt as to the result of tho war, provided tho Russians conduct it so 83 no} to stop on the toes of the other Poweni. The utmost force that the Turkish Government can raiso after cxhaustivg the resources of the Empire is a little over 700,- 000 men. The present army of Russia nun- bers 750,000 mien, but tho whole military force fucase of war can ho brought to 1,600,000 wen, half of whom can bo used for offensive aud half for defonsive purposes. Tho Turkish fleet cownprises elevon frigates, twenty corvettes, fourteen monitors, and fifty-two smaller vessels, carrying 812 guns, built out of money stolen from England, mahned by English sailors in part, and undor comntand of an English Admiral. The Rus. sinn fleot in 1875 consisted of 225 nteam vos- aely, with 521 guns, distributed in the Baltie, Black, Caspion, and Aral Seas. It will te scen that the Turkish flect is the stronger of the two, nlthough the Russian has probably been incrensed since 1875, but this counts for littlo, as in caso of war the fighting will Le mainly on land. It should also be estimated in this counection that Turkey will have other onemies than Russia. Peace with Monteno- gro has not yet been rettled, and is now fur. ther off than ever. Greece has long been resdy for rebellion. Bosunia and Horzego- vinn nre still in the field, AMicted Balgaria will spring to arms ngainst Lier merciless butchers, and without doubt Servia will be dragged into war again. As the first attack in case of war will in all likelibood be made by the Turks in the Black Sca, the following dispatches, which wo find in the London Times, will show how the Ilussians bLave been spending thoir time pending the diplo- matic contest: g Onxasa, March 22, —Apart from the demobilized corps, and the corps appointed for the defense of Kustendji, tho Nassian Army of the South here fa 250,000 strong, inciuding 700 deld-gune, All the corps are on 8 peffect war-footing, Along with that of Odesas, the harbors of Nivolalef and Akere man have been protected by a serics of batteries armed with the heaviest cune, and torpedoes have been sunk to bar all hostile approach. 1ty spectal command of Gen, TubLiszx, const batterles have been erected between Odessa and Akerman, Onkssa, “March 25,—O0deaen s completely soe cured against an attack from tho eea by about 500 torpedoes which have been lald, and a serles of fortiscations well planned and sdmirably nrmed. ‘The torpedoes are 1aid about five miles off the har- bor, in such a way that no ship can cnter harbor withont coming within range of them. The fortid. catlons consistof elght batteriesor detached worke, Of these, e two principal ones are on tho eonth- weet, sud two are to thy northwest of Odessa, ‘There aro three hatteries on the quay of the quar~ antine, and one battery on the quay of the Russian harbor. ‘These works are armed with about 200 heavy brecchiloaders and mortars, The garriion uf Oucess I8 about 10,000 strong, but in the nelghbor- houl large masses of troops Are in thelr cautons wenta, “Iho fnterest in the struggle, however, so {far as the Black Bea is concorned, will be brief. 'Tho Menrt of tho struggle must be south of the Balkans, and, between Itussia’s two vost armics, the one awcoping down from Kischineff, on tho borders of tho Pruth, through Roumanin and Servia, and the other moving from ‘lilis on (he flank vin the Asintic sido, the indications aro inevitable that Turkoy will be crushed like ap cgg- shell, and meot tho doom sho has so long been inviting, THE CURSE OF THE B0UTH. The real impodimont to the rehabilitation of the Sonth may be found in the condi. tion of things described by a wellin- formed South Carolina correspondont of the New York ZTribune, It is the sheer, persistent, chronie, and Lereditary indis. vosition of tho Sonthorn whites to work, In nuy of tho cotton, rice, or sugar growing districts of the Sonth, the vory samo rolations between the whites and blacks may bo fonnd thnt this correspondent has roported from Bouth Carolina, In the cities, nll the sorv~ nnts, porters, cartmen, stovedores, etc., are blacks; in the country, nll the fleld-hands aro blacks, 'The whitos may koep the shops, cnter the professions, Lold tha offices, and hang around tha central portions of the town talking politics, but they are never found in nny vocation: which requives manual labor, Thero aro thoso who have been taught that such work carrfes disgrace with it, and is fit only for ‘“niggers”; thore aro others who profess this dactrine merely ns an oxcuso for their refusal to work, and still othors who Lave no vxouso but ** pure cusseduess,” All agree, howover, in tho absoluto nnd univorsal determination not to kol their hands by wanunl labor, no mattor if poverty stares them in the faco. ! gt No community can nfford to support moro than a certain proportion of drones, aud the proportion iu all Southern communities is too large. In any county or town whero there nro 1,000 negroes, thera may almoat alwnys be found the samo wumber of idle whites, ‘Cho decline of prosperity in such a community is a mnero question of time, © The blacks cannot if they would, nnd will not it they could, carry the whole burden of support- ing thewsolves aud an equal number of lazy whites who nffect n supuriority over them, Tho nogroes, whilo willing to work for self- support, are not nn ambitioua race, aud are usunlly content simply to keep the wolf from the door, They aro an fmitativo race, and yield readily to the forcs of examplo, especially whon that example s set by white mon. Forn tima after the close of tho War, and under the spur of their new condition of freedom aud cquality, they sot about to ac- cumulate some substance of their own, But it did not take them long to discover that tholr subatance was being ecaton up, in part by the carpet-boggers aud in part by the idlo potive whites, and they soou relapsed into the ensy-going, shiftloss labits of thiir race omancipated from the lash of tho ovemocer, Uhen arose the ory that the megroes wouldn't work, It woant morely that they wouldu't work for the support of tho whites, nor will thoy ever do 80 outsldo of alavery, There is no renson why they sbould, when thelr surplus curn. ingu ure uot onjoyed by thumselves, but are absorbed by the whites who want to live on them, ‘he fact romniny thut tho nogroos do ull the work that s dome, They work enough to get corn and bacon for thelr fam. {lies, and'thero they stop, The renson they stop there is becauso exporienco hins tanght them that surplus earnings will not hnprove their condition, but bo absorbed ju one way and avother for tho support of tho non.pro. ductive whitea who play the gontlemen, talk politics, damn the Radicals, curse tho blacks, auathowntize the carpet-baggers, nud do nothing olse, 3 Conviciug eovidence of the rtubborn re- fusal of tho whites to wark whero therois & large amount of Linck labor may be found in o comparlson with thoss districls at the Bouth whero tho negroes furm the sisller proportion of tho population, In Virginin and Maryland to some extent, in nll of West. ern Virgiuia and Missour], in Eastern Len. nessee, Northern Alabama, part of Arliansas, and tho mountain regions of Georgls, the whites work beeauso there aro not enongh negroes to support them, and the result is that these districts produce even more abuu. dautly than the richer lands where only the blacks, work and tho whitos look on. A white man's labor not mercly produces, but {t oty tho black man an cxample that makes bis tabor the wmore productive. The latter is spurred on by cmulation, and is not satw. flod to seo the white man botter his condi. tion while the black man rewains stationary. But in those districta whero the white man will wot work, the black man bas no inducoment beyond actusl self- support, pod tho inovitable rusalt is o ducline in the awmount of prodaction and & cramped condition of things not unlike uni. versnl poverty. This is the trouble to.day and has been for years ; it can nover be over- oome Lill the whitea produce their share, now that they have no means for coercing tho negroes to work for thom, The fipoverished condltion of the South has beon nttributed by the native whites to the depredations of the carpot-bag politi. cians and the political dissensions that have grown out of their presonce. 'This excuse for idleness will soon be lacking. In every Southern Slate but two, the loeal Govern. monts havo been turned over to the native population. In these two Btates—Bunth Oar. olina and Louisiana—it is not unlikely that cvery somblance of armed intervention to sustafn tho carpot-bag Govornments will be soon romoved. 1f, after that, the South- eru Btales have ocorrupt politicians, it will bo thelr own fault, There will be no longer any Federal interference to blame for politieal troubles, for bulldozing, for general prostration. Baut the Bouthern whites will find that their troubles will still continue if they sl nll insist upon playing gentle- men and holding the offices, aud all refuse to do any share in the work of production, ‘The prosperity of the South does not depend upon the withdrawal of the troops. 1In doing that President Havxs will merely take away the standing excuso for the prostration of the country, But, in the absence of slavery, the negroes cannot Lo coerced to work enough to snpport themscives and ns many more white men, any mors than the foreign population of the North, con. sisting mostly of field-hands aud dny-laborers, could be coerced to mupport the nntive American population, The negroes will work more when they seo white en work- ing about thom, and wheu their surplus oarnings scrve to botter their own condition ; but whils the whites nro content with o shabby-genteel poverty, the blacks will be conteut with their fog-cablny, aud shiftless- nexs among the blacks with idleness nmong tho whites will alwaya furnish a favorable ocoudition for social disturbances, political dissensions, and commoreinl prostration. —r— A ‘The Clm:in;mn: are sl Inveuimunz the bailut-box stulling that has been practiced In that ity by the " TiLbzN Reforiners,” alfas Democrats, We copy from tha Commerclal's report of the testhinony the way the election waa conducted ln the Fourth Ward Inst spring: Mr, PaT O'Bnixy, Councilman, mado the follow- log statement: At this point Gxonos Durry put his hand Into the balut-bux, took out a hsndtul nr tickets, and threw ::.lrm on lhfln“m!l' Lmh‘llfl the table. About thesaing ho wes d 10 b busy separatine butiches of ulled 10 ether, and bux in & junip. Thiese tickota, iie nos A78:" Ao uBjected to il thews bigh- ool Truds, Lt without any res suliing from It, ‘1o 3imply zot curses fur his frouble, Hutwiiet one iuan was sllowed tu come Lo fho tabla sua, dellborately” picking up s buncl of adlemative ol , ato iy pucket, witd walk away witn then thin, fig was not willing {0 be a pazty to thie farce any nget. So Lieurose, put on his c ud eald: **Gene bletnd, T will have' uotbing tor 4o with thess frauds™ " Tle thereupon eft. In October last there wers frands in the Plrst Precinctof the Fourth Ward, and s Demuocratic majority of 647, 3ir. Erunaix lloLLaxp, former. 1y Democratic ianager in the Fourth Ward, belng asked Low ft bappened that the vote fell of, snid: **Wae could got get at the ballut-boxes, " bocauso **ilfesg was s julge there that was not acquaint. ed,” and <*the Republican party ulso had'a clark thero of the name of Pxauce, There was no chance to operate.” 1o explained that the consent of tho clerk is necessury to forge names on the poll-books; and the examination procecded: “ ~Uperalo In what way? A.—1t would be vary es Lo bert Tt e e the e mscnt of fhe e o Yary easy Q. How would you' operate with tid condant of the clerky A.~Uct him fo'write dowa inore names thag thiere wero balluts in the box, < . —Then? A.—~Then, when the polis closs at nlrhl. ol Interested and hustle thiogs arvusd, * Have a Htsie iepiita there) easc al the Yotes nto the box to vorruspond with tho tally, sotho clceks would kiva th amount uf saunes the ction | the' Novembor electlon show that ward? A,—1 sitp- rm that was dune in the way [ nr:&x of, Thn{dlfln't ave no flepublican Judges ‘vr clerks at that elections they ware il Deinocrats, That was Uxed befors the elaition came e —— Beveral prominent citlzens of Chicago went down to Springfleld lust night to urge the prompt passage of a bill to enable the plundered taxpuyers of Chicago to et rid of thu present rascally Board of Couk County Commisslopers by clecting a brand-new Board noxt fall. While there, these gentlemen might make some In- quiries concernluz other measurcs in which Chlcago is futervsted, and among them the Gas bill iutroduced by Mr. Rociz somo ten days ago, Wae werela error at tha time Ilu reporting tho price which it is proposed to fix for gas in cities of over 100,000 inhablitants at $1.20, The price proposed Is $1.50 for cities lika Chleago, which {s the rato the South Side Company is now charging the city fur tho street-lamps. 1t this Is too low, tho gas companics can caslly catablish the fact by an exhiblt of thelr actual investmenta and cost of manutac- ture,’ There Is no disposition on the purt of anybody, so far a8 we koow, to force the gas companles to charge aoy less than will yleld them o reasonable profit; the purpose (s, that, sluce gas companica nro.of the same nature of quasl-public corporations as rallroads and ware- houses, they shall not be permitted to enjoy thelr monopolies to the extent of extortion. ‘The so-called Qranger declslons of the United States Suvreme Court give the Stales the right to regulate such corporations, and the falr and proper exercise of this right by the INlinots Leg- fslature would relleve the City of Chicago from Lhe coutracts which bind it to poy an cxcesslve wrice for & term of years, Thero is undoubtedly a genceral opinlon that it is timo to turn on the gos and throw as much light on this subject as posuible, —————— The entiro public will be paiucd to lexrn of the dangerous llness of two of tho most promi- uent physlctans of Chicago, in the Allopsthie aud Homeopathite schools, r, Frren aud Dr, Bexur, both of whowm have sttalied thy higheat rauk In thelr profession, and cotuvamt u repue tutiun, the one as a phiysivian and the other as & surgeon, far oxcesding loca) Tholts. Both have been kuown as ludvinitable workers, and both have undoubtedly been Lrought to this duuger- ols ceista by their asslduous devotion to their profession, Dr, Pussn's lavors i Ws lurge private practive and 1 councetion with Rush Medicnl College, which was his pride wud of which he was oue of the it gradustes, under- mlued his bealth, and Dr, Busug, who bas bud adelicate constitution for years, sinply by the exartlon ot an dron-wilt power has followed the moat daugerons sud distressivg dutles of the, surgeon, often coming to Lhe rescue whers othe ers fulled, aud nover hesitating to do what s skill prompted and conscicucs dictated, untit overwurked nature was compelled to suceumon, The fawilles of thess two emlneul pructitfongrs wil huvo the generul sympathy of the city aml apy fervent prayers that an overrulng Provie dence may avert the threatensd blow, et ——— Packaup hus got a geuulue political chumee Teon ju bijs vabinet of curiusities now on exhible tion Lefure the Loulstuna Commisslon. It 1y 3 Diatrlet Judge thut voted for ‘Tunen and Nicuons, but 1s now strung for Packauo, ‘Ilie espense of such a gem u tbs natural bl tory of Pelivun politics must have been consld- eruble. Yeb it cunnot Le culled dear at &ny price. To have In bis cabluet on exhidltion bes fors the Commission o gebuive TiLuEx-Nicu- oLLS Democrat, crylug, 'Han for Packanvl’? wust possess & 1oral stfect simply tucaleulable Ia money. —— ‘The London Zimes ot Marcn 23, speaking of steam as the wotor power of street-curs, sayss Mr, lauwmixa, civil cogineer, gave evideucy be- fore (Lo Tramway Comultice ou Weducadsy in re- ard to the working of the sicani tramways {o Parls. He stated (LAt fous of MeNiwETUER's Cary were mow at work over four aud une-bal . of traniway I & very populuus part of the city. "Thero Was no luterruption of the ordinary trafic; tle Lorscs were not Irtzblcued: there was ho uolve, uusioke, sud only s fittle sicawm Ju bad weatier, 'Tho taile wers yrooved fu the samy wauner 84 the Iruwwaya in London; the marbnus speed waa welve wiles un bour,' although that suced was seldom reuchied, 30d fhe cogines ran fitecu boure per duy, cocacquently the cars were was 0ot present | running datly for several hours after dark, and the accldents had been very few and trifiing, The only precantion taken at night was to light s lamp ateach end of the care, The people of Parta, after seven montns® experience of tram-cars, Wers crfectly natlafied with them, and had asked for heir extension Into other districts e — . CrAMBERLAIN very llkely thinkathat If helets g0 without liauging on, Hastrrox will hang on without lotting go his Bourbon theory that a negro hias no rights that a white man is bound to respect. Wihile the former hangs on to his title to the office of Governor, the Jatter will let go of hls White-Line notlona; but if CHAMDERLAIX should vitiate his Iegal lién upon the office, Hastrrox would e left without any possible restraint, provided he chose or thought he was competent to discriminate against the frecd- men, 1t fs Just as well fo have the clalm of COAMBERLAIN [u Jegal form so that the courts can act upan it. ‘The contingzency of the de- cisfon will keep ITAMPTON 0n his good behavior, ond be o 2ort of bond to keep the peace, e t— Mr, SuarLer, the Charleston (8. C.) corre- spondent of the New York T'ribune, says that 1t the negro Is the worklugman of the Routh, it must bo admitted that he is also the crim- Inal," and procceds to state that in the Coluin. Lia Penltentlary out of 400 prisoners therein only thirty were whilce. As negroes constituto the majority on jurles, and as Judges are in. debted tv the colored peopte for their positlons, this vast preponderance of criminals Indicates that the negroes mete out justice with a prodigal hand to those of thelr own race. There issome satisfactfon In knowing that much in therr favor. 1t shows more gencrosity than the whites would cxhiblt similarly situated. e WeNDERLL Printirs is enraged at Devens hecause in 1851 he remanded a negro named 818 to the custody of his master, under the Fugitive Blave Iaw, DEvens' friends claim that he raiscd money 1o purchass Bruns' freedom, but the latter, now of Nashvilie, howla back that he rematned a slave until Lie came within the Federal tines In 1803, The country was once excited about “Symmes' Mote,” but Gon. Dryans s lluble to be more excitod sbout Bruns’ hol-cr.?? ——— The 8t. Louls papers are having a very o structive time countlng the number of names in thelr uow directory underdiffcrent letters In the alphabet. They aro surprised that on tho hasls of & population of 500,000 so few names should appear under the letter “H" or “Z," ete. ‘The reason Is that the Jarge proportion of tha pupulation is collected under the significant letters D, B—dead-beat: translent chaps ‘who wero imported, a portion of them at lcast, merely to be enumerated, ——— They arrived at the population fn 8t. Louls fs s sald, by taking the sum of the ears of the men in that burg and dividing it by the cara of a Clicago nianj the quotfent, of courses up- proached the lufinite. Hud the diviston been the generous flaps which shadu the caput of the editor of the Milwaukeo Sentine, tha quotlent would have expressod about the correct vumber of people,~perhups a Mttle short of the reality. e ——— The New Eugland Conference of Methodlst preachers called up Baturday the anti-HAYES resolutious about which 8o 1muck fuss has been made, and unanimously substituted for them and adopted s scries expressing the warmest sympathy with tho Adminlstration, Thisshows the difference beretofore polnted out by Tue ‘I'ninune between “applaudiug® and *adopt- Iog™ aserics of resolutions. ———————— ‘The Springficld SBoLoxs visited Baturday the various ssylums at Jacksonville. The effort of certain cvil-minded persons to get up a fecliug of Jealousy and rivalry between tho Behool for the Feeble-Minded and tho Legls- Iature ia happily made abortive by the visit. ‘The members think that even if both concerus illustrato the same disabllity, there is plonty of room in the Statw for each to fourlsh, e — The Democrats are holding s Coroner's fn- quest on the lato lamented party of that name in Chicago. Did it die through treason in the ranka{ or did It perish in thewilderness through followlng strange zods! Tho election returns would seem to fudleate that ¢ was wrecked ln the attempt to imake port under bare polls,— bare of Democratic volers, to say the least. e —— 1t Is stated that Gen. Coxsk was to have been Chiet of Policeif Prruy IL Bairst bad been elected Mayor. Ho is. tho man who, awhile sinee, proposed to capture Washington and fu- stall TiLozs, Our citizens will shudder when thoy refect that if PERRY had not been defeated by a pure majority of 12,000, this man of blood wmlght now be seated n Hickrx's place, 1t s stated that 800 bills are before the State Legislature for consideration, exclusive of ‘washerwomen's-bllls, board-bills, snd ¢ refresh- went-bllls. If the wembers give the former ubout the same attention somne of thew extend to the Iatter, the lotereats of the peuple will not suffer, = It the County Commissioncrs are legislated out of ofllce, thero should be sowe ppecial de- tectlve polleemen employed to look aftcr some of them. It ls caster to watch the gaug now than it will be when it Is broken up, and every scalawag Is prowling about on his own hook, ——— A nolle prosequl has been entered in the care of the Guvernuent vs. DoNN PraTr, charged with seditious writiog and Inciting to rebellion, The Iatter concluded to Don Plety,—[u sbort, craw- fish, repent, aud promise tu be s goud buy, so the Attorney General let Mm off, ——————— The Russlan Bear is for war; the oard of Trado beur fs for peuce; between the two, sume budy 1pust grin and bear ft. ‘Will some oue send HiLpnxtu & bomb-shell? Buch a pas-lgg ought tu be blowu up als JRwWETT. L PERSONAL, Cleveland people are Industriously preparing the detatle uf & baby-show 10 cumu ol this week, Adelards N u deufes that she s dylng of conautaption, S4yu uha Ling the lange of & races huive, Ban Francleco social clrcles are convulsed by the nuptials of Withsw Madieun Uray, of Majus, snd Mlsa Kit 'TE Woug, of Chilus, Tlcary Evans, an Indianupalie funatic, Is locked up In a Ciucinustl Jail, sud s confessing v uee dere st the rate of & cord an huat, < The Graphle thinks that sbad are now golng up the New Enzland rivers; but they bave su swiul time dodging the luose will-dawe, P Tun Chioyenns leader ssys Abe, town ls Oversun wilh unemployed priuters, peuniloss, buugry, and fegtsure. They have descended ‘apon Cheyenns ke gruesboppers, and arv 1y u'stirring tondltiun, ** Auna Divkinson Is 8ot au actor,—uever can be York ceitle, - That ty tr anr token Lister Wallack cau uever Clress, ut Jubs SWIEA Fhe 100ther of o fam- (zchunye, WO ‘The Jewett tragedy “In New York has strangely exclied Descon Rictard Slih, of 1 Cincinuati Gazelte, who coutemplales the despenstion of wicked partuers with freitoge of burrue aut uue mixed with spprehenaion, " A party of Chlcago giels wers out Jumplog the rope 0a the pralnie regently,-sud su unsophisti~ cated Knstern wian, who pssscd uver the grouud shoitly after, thought {heia had boen a bullale Szt \uere. —Andrew's Hazar, ; St. Loaky clsihs a populstion of over half & mill- lon. Now, Chicago!—Hoston Fodt, Well, almust everybody kuows that two-thirds of the balf-mille fon are Chlcago men, who have gons duwn there Lo negullate the purchase of 81, Louls for & cranberr; patch. f Awoug the Ewperor Wililam's bizthday gifts was & Urunswick saussge slx foct high. a glusatic aquarium, contalning & sca of transparent elly, with oigty Gahes ready for the table, sud an Kaat- aregg of corn, Bowers, and byascioths resching to the roof of the hall. G. D. Fulsom, eogineer of the Ashtabula tralo, 13 slowly zecovering fron his ljutles, but saye he will Dever be ablo o run oo engine sgain. The locomotive is at the Lake Suore sbops, Cleveland, badly brokes up, aad 1§t will Like $7,000 to put &8 1a sunulug codez agele. SCARLET FEVER. An Important Paper on the Epi. demic by Dr. De Wolf, The High Death-Rata Larpels Attrib. uted to Unsanitary Conlitizng, Scarlet Fever Fatallty Appalling Vileg Compared with the Total Mortality. Bridgeport Stinks, the ftook-Yard Qoug. pools, and Distillery Refuse, The Necessity for an Acourate Birth Registration. The Chicago Soclety of Physicians and Sur. geons held a regular seml-monthly meeting last evening in Room 44 of the Grand Paclflc iotel, Dr. W. . Byford presided, Dr. sawyer acting as Sccretary, and about twenty members of the .Soclety were present. . Dr. De Wolf, Health-Superintendent of the city, read a paper on *Bcarlet Fever,” as fol. lows: The prominent festurc of the sanitary history of Chicago for the past year has been the prevalling epldemic of scarlet fever, The total deaths from all causes In 1874 were 8,023, 15 belug frown - scorlet fever, ur about 1 fn 7. In 180 the total deaths. were 7,809, 206 from scarlet fever, or 1 to 83, an increase of 100 por cent from scarlet fever, while the total death rato was 126 less than in 1874, The weather during 1876 was favorable, tho temperature not unusual In ftave. riations, and the gencral death rate low; but the total mortality was incressed by the prevalence of this contagious diseaseé to an average extent of 71 per month, The startling increasc In Octo- ber from 70 to 124 indicates this month as a con. veniout starting polnt for an examination of the movements of this domestlc pestlience, For reasons to be consfdered hercafter, no rccord of this contaglous diseasc Is found at the Health Department, other than the recie terof deaths, until February,1877. Sincethat timo the law ordering reports from attending physi. cians has been generally complied with. In the two months ending March 31, 1877, thero have Leen recorded 747 cascs, with 203 deaths, o per cent of deaths to coses reported of 20.8, This ‘per cent {8 probably too high, not all the cases belng reported, but corrected returns pive 24 per ceunt as about the correct- figure. From Octaber, 187, to March, 1877, both inclusive, there were 8,240 cascs and 780 deathis. ‘The Liuvuse to houso examination Lo the nelgh- borhoods aifijeted with a high death-rate du- velopa s rtling figures, From tho statis- tica thus obtalned an exhibitlon of :ver{v :Enclr.n of neglect in domestic hyglene fs obtalned, [Thisyvicw was justitled bfi the speaks er by mn% and Agurea showiny the Fitth, Sixth, Hevcatb, Eighth, and Fourteenth Wards to bo tho greatest s dnrerl. und at the samu time the wurst-drulned and sewerdd,] Some words rank terribly low Iu the sauitary scale, but uone ataud #o high as to xerve for un ideal. Compar- ing the befure-wentioued 1-drained wards with the more clesnly, better-fud, butter-housed, and better-aired population of the Secoud, Third, Fourth, N(mll, %Iuvuum and Twellth Wards, the lessou which such differsnces teach tmay be clearly read. The ycorly deatb-rate in "the Fourteenth Ward was 60 per 1.000, in the Fourth Wanl 1L8{ per 1,000, That fs, thero ‘were 50U deaths in the Fourteenth Ward last year which would nevee baye occurred If the Yovulnuun had Hved fn the Fourth or Eleventh Wards, and to buve saved one-hulf of that number of bumun lives na 'yfnr, shouid be & stimulus to any man's smbl- lon. & Itis very truethat other influences are at work In thc Fourth Ward reducing the death rate; thero Is weulth and tho gued homa it sup- plies, but guod sewors, wide stroets, ‘and good water aro_missfonarics of civilization wherever placed. The puuperizing oud - debllitating amolnt of afecase awopgst the population in some scctions of the city lsa fate from which sanltury inprovement alune can save them, . A DRUNKRN MOTHEK fn a low, vilo den sald Lo the sunitary oflicer who asked ber why st drunk, * If youlved In this vlfic‘::"ynu would ask for whisky instead of milk,! The lecturer quoted. from Dra, Thomas, Allison, Hilller, and others In support of the viow that cleanliness, drainage, aud good Influ. ences havo no visible {ufluence In res zlnq cous tagion.. Murchisuu says, on the other hand, that the number of deaths from scarlet fever ln four of the E:)orut and tost crowded districts in London 1n 1883 wus onv death {u 663 fulubit- ants, while at the samo time, in* the four richieat districts the proportion was one in 447, Strcbel mentions the Frankfort epidemic asooe of thae mildest, walle Kopp records the sama cpidemlc fu the u‘\lbrluull y situated 'Town of Hansy as one of great severity, * Whatever otber statistics may show, those nt Chicago polut tn unsauitary cuuditions na the importaut factor in thecausation of a high death rate in scarlet fever. In the Fifth Ward thero 1s a terrible mortality, burn of sanitary ne‘;lm andnurtured by dumesticand geoeral 01ih, Years ago, before fertiliziug grppannlau- were undure stood, it becane a problein how to get rid of the refuse of the packing-houses, and thousands of its wore dug in the Fifth Ward and lled with Fm- death-broediug materlal, .. - - . Engilsh statistics show a nyuch anlnr prevas Jeuce of scarlet-fever in the fall of the yoar than at other seasons.. Our record shows that in 1875 the average death-rate for eleven months was fourteen por month until Deceinber, wihen It mountad to forty-four, Frowm December, 1875, it cantinued to average forty-flve per month une il Octuber, 1876, wheu i suddenly mounted to 13, neutlly 100 per cout greater than the presl- * 1, vus month. Iu Novewber the deaths were 138; i December, 1495 Jaunnrs. 1877, 166; descend- jug lu Februsry to 113, and fu March to 02, 'Br. Brudo states Lat the coition of -driuk: fug water scems tu jullucaco wn ‘epldemnie, and there Is no doubt thut the recent washing out of the Clilcago River and sewers fnto the lake ‘huscaused extenaive diverhizead troubles through- out the city. Durlug the it ton daye the deatli-tate from scarlet-fever bus focreased, | sfch be due to the watee the deleterious fie Aueuce will soou subside, 58 ‘I'he epidemic of 1803, which raged all over Englaud, caused 4,063 deatlis In Londan: eno fu fuurteen uf the entire deatli-rate, Modura epldomics I Eoglaud and Genuany have never ven &' higher proportion thun one It cleven, and that only fur short perfods. In 1800, the lust previdus cpidemic fu cmmq} there wore 57U deuthis trpm scuvlet fever out ol « tota) deth-rate of u.&—wlng 1iu 11}, Our yecord Jur the past few munthis snuws as followst October, 18578, 1 deuth from scurlet lover [os tutal of 0; Novewber, 1{u 85 Decewber, 1 u b1 Januury, 1877, §ln 43¢5 February, Lin 53 snd Marchi ' Lin 63, Our' staplstics ' show that the prevalence of searlet fever ay an epldemle hus vxisted in the ditforeut sectis f the cty unlnuenced by exterual sanls lty ond|tiols provalling without material diiferonce in the perceutsge of cases iu the moat salubrious o the wuat uuhealthy nelghborbivods. But the MORTALITY FROM TUER DISEASE lins hieen Juflucuced Lu the extent fu sume cases of 100 per cent by sunitary conditions sud_sur roundings, The “Lighcst deathe-rate fu 1875 1870 wus reschied {n December, while u 1877 we touckied the bhighest polut 1o Jluu-;( with 8 gradual retrucession in February and March, The lamlil{ of the epidemly, ineasured by the return which it bears W the total deatli-ssto (und this (b tho ouly true wessurc, for we cal elnlor great accurusy fu vur deagh record, ) ls the must appaliiug recorded i the whole history of mcdl:l,urufinn ul“wfx Lias given the samo per ceut cath to atl utlicrs, Flually, 1 desire to 15; aword tothe rru‘t’l‘ ston tourhing matsers pertalulug to the Health Ottice. ‘The Taw requiriv, ‘"2‘"‘ tothe Health Otlicer truw the uttendlug physiclan of every cuse of cuntaglous disesse occurring in bl ractice remaiued perfuctly 8 dead letier untid ebruary lust, Fromn that date [ cau contidents 1y say the law hisa been gencraliy complied with, The genersl recoguition of e ofticial pothe -lccluinfillc.\rl:l ever Lo be s coutuglous dis cuse within e myegulng of the Health we us- der which the Departuicut of Hesith was vt gaulzed, and the uevessity of o prowpt rcwg thereul, constitutes al “luiportays :rudl b the blstury of sanitary affuirs fu this city, ‘The” negligence " on the W:; of” two or _ thres pnz:lrl.sm,—cul reputable,—or us I lcar, thelr f{uteutional evis siupof the law—Is reprepensive, lur.uhulbl- Ill th record of deatis und thelr causes may be 1 seeklng for the best mesusof preyeutiou, ¥ statlstics of Lealtby llig sud of dlscusc, ats their assucduted und dependont conditivus. -In still more fuiportant: and, If the profession I: this stutter wil conllally sustain tic nlol::“l” 5 icur lu the future, It way proyve a0 step ww‘:rd nliu general w’nlml of this Jugass a8 au cpldew! : \ “Fbls coutrol ey secm dlstant and doubtful o wany, but the object aloed wb ls meitber i i 3 i i |