Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1877, Page 8

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 27, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES THE CITY. GQENEB.AL NEWS. By order of the President of the Board of Edu- eation, the pablic schools will be closed on Decora~ tion-Day. Morris G. Menard was elected Second Lientenant ©f Company E, Second Regiment, last evening. Peter Kiolbasea, late member of the Legislature from the Fifth District, has been appointed to a clerkship in the Cnetom-House by Collector Jones. At a recent meeting of Unity Church Society rezolutions of respect for the memory of the late Artemas Carter, and expressing sympathy with the Dereaved family, were adopted nnanimously. An owner is wanted at the Cottage Grove Ave- nue Station for a brown lfnen table-spread with the letters W. H. D. embroidered in the centre, a plaid_water-proof cloak, and 2 pepper-and-galt mixed coat. v Orders have been promnlgated by Lient.-Gen. Sheridan transferring eix companies of the Fourth Cavalry, under command of Col. Mackenzie, from the Department of the Platte to the Department of the Missourl. The May- given last Wednesday evening under the gep ?c{a of the Union Pieasure Club at Vorwaerts Hall was a most enjoyable affair. partici- pated in bg 115 couple. “This is the Club's last Pparty of the season. Dwight R Smith. Eeq., President of the Spring. fleld Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Epringfeld, Maes., and A. J. Wright, Esq., Treas- urer of the ssme Compauy, are in the city, stop- ping at the Grand Pacific. The temperature yesterday, as observed by Manasse, optician, §8 Madicon street (TRIBUX Bailding). was, at 8 a. m., 50 deg.; 103 m., 5 12m., 59; 3p. m., 59; Sp. m., 54 Barometer 8a .203 8. ‘m., 30.16. Dr. J. W. Velie, of the Academy of Sclences, ¢ has justreturned from a four months' Jabor in Florida, where he has been exploring the shore and the ocan in search of new specimens. He Teturns with s rich collection, which, we presume, will be duly presénted and described - at the next meeting of the Academy. It has been definitely decided to give the news- hfl{! and boot-blacks a picnic on. the Fourth of July, probably somewhere north of Evanston. All cltizens, bakers, restaurant-kecpers, aad grocery- men who can contribute lunches, fruita, ice-cream, pastry, etc., are requested to communicate by let- ter, at once, with Dcen Jones, Room 15, 189 Clark street. ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Doard of Dincmrfl{ the Northwestern Traveling Men's Association was held yuwrdnf afternoon at the Sherman House. There was a foll attendance, and, after transacting the regular business, _l\\'enlfl'- seven names were added to the membership. The annual meeting 1akes placo Saturday, June 53, and eflortaare being made to have a reunion of all nembers, now nnmbering over 500. The afternoon German paper, the Frele-Presse, ans been enlarged to accommodate the war news, In which the Germans take much interest, and mosed over from the North Side to No. 60 Fifth avenue, where it i8 now poblished. The Frele- Presse Is not a member of the Associated Prees. but it manages to **special” from New York and otherwise o pick up considerable Associate Press a‘ternoon news. _ It is Republican in pohitics, and gives President Hayes' policy & bearty support. Judge Drummond yerterday morning received a diepatch from Mr. Emery A. Storrs, announzing tuat the million-dollar suit against Jake Rehm had been withdrawn as it now stands, to be commenced again in another form. Mr. Storrs. has been in Washington consulting with Secretary Sherman in regard 1 the matter. and they have arrived at vome very important conclusione, - This necessitutes the change. Judee Drommond informed a reporter gm. 25 the matter now stands the case is not before m. - Policemen and others were kept busy yesterdsy searching the beach for the remains of Jittle Willie Dean, bat 10 no-avail. Should the waters of the Iake fail 10 give him ‘up, the parents remain in awful sus A gentleman In the Jimes Luild- ing named J. M. Meig claims to have scen the boy Thureday afternoon at the corner of Lake and Dearborn streets, but Officer Frank O'Neil, who Imows the Dean’ boy, contradicts the statement, Dbut admuts that the Loy closely resembled the lost one. ‘The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Direct- ors of the Chicago Public Library was held in the Librarian's rooms at 4 o'clock last evening. There were present Messre. Shorey, Hotz, Onohan, Scranton. Mason, and Walker. “Mr. Mason, Chair- man of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, Teported that the bills for heatingaud lizhting hiad been materially less this year than last, but the bill for insurance had been'a trifie more, owing 10 an increase in rates. wr. Hotz presented sev- eral bills, which were ordered paid. Un motion of Mr. Onahan, it was decided that the Library should be closed on Decoration-Day. On Friday afternoon, from the family residenice in Wheeliug, in this'connty. was buricd Mrs. Mary Cameron, thic wife of Gen. Daniel Cameron. The 1ady bad resided in this city and Wheeling during more than twenty-five years, and had a larze circle of friends endeared to her by her many nobie qual- ities of mind and heart. Shc was most estimable in all the relations of life, 2nd notably a8 wifc and mother. She was pgentle and kind, 2 lady of Christian earnestness and faith.* Gen. Cameron Lias the sympaths in his loss not only of the numer- ous relatives, but of all the scquaintances and friends of his carnest and devoted wife. A meeting of the Chicago Brewers® Association was held yesterday afterncon, Mr.J. H. Mcavoy in the chair. The question of sending delczates to / the annual mectiog of the United Stutes lirewers' Unfon, which takes place in Milwaukeo on the 5th * prox., waa dircussed at some lencth in an-informal way, and it was tacitly resolved that each member of ‘the Association shouid go as a delesate, if he saw fit. * 1t was suggested that it would be well to entertain the delepates for the Eastern and South- e cities on their way home from Milwankee. ‘The proposition was warmly received, and it was Tesolvad to extend to them the freedoin of the city, show them the parks snd other lines, and give \lhem 2 banquet at the Tivoli. A chivalrous Louisvillain nndertook not long 8ro, on meeting in the cars 3 Chizago mudsill (in the paint and ojl line) to bully , but the Chi- uzémn resented the insult with disgusting vivacity. and referred him to a {riend, adding that he was equally an adept with the sword or pictol, **Ah szid the Louisvillain, **I should !’:e delighted to kil you according tothe rulesof the code of honal, Tutat present 1 cannot give you my card or refer you toa friend. In“fact, I am {raveling incogmito, and desire not to reveal my identity, ~ and, in a dig- ified manner, he tendered o de facto apology, at ihe same time begping it to be understood that this was done without prejudice 1o uny future ne- tion he might take de_jure, when hanpier circu 4lauces would permit him to have the pleasure of suedding the honarable gentleman's goah. A rocial scientist overon the North Side, who oclieves that he coutd double-discount Herbert Spencer with one hand tied behind his back, has for some years 'msl been conducting an intercating series of experiments on Bcrvant-girls, his object Leing to ascertain whether or not engugements In boarding-houses invariably conduce 10 Gishoncsty. . ond if 50 why; also, whetner there i anything Joriable except condenmed paper-collare that i arder can lcave in his room with impunity. He begins to think that the first proposition 1s troe, ang that there is nothing which a chambermaid won't take, from the smali-pox up. He left sowe amucilage in his bair oil bottle and the red-headed 1 with long ringleta appeared next day with E‘:‘r halr ehingled. He Nad on Friday night a box of unusually lively pills entered for home consumption. Yesterday after his roum bad been *made up " the pillshad all disappeared, and lat gkt three doctors were holdinga conncil of war over the housemaid, who declared, Inan informal Bate-mortein depoxition, that she was surc the co Thad poisoned her out of jealouey because the milk- Iman said he preferred brown hair to black. bers ing brown, while the cook's is black, though . that eame may be owing tothe creature’s dyeinz 1t, ‘which would be just like her vanity, for some peo- Ple never know when they are making themselves Tidicalons. The social scientist 15 mach pleased, me lilcn!.h with the resuts of bl investigation, ough, as a human being, aith in nw forcver destroyed. - Rl A lady on Burnslde place, whose servant-girl Dbeen t-ombled Tor some time past with 5 Ern o familiarity to the bead, read recently that in En- cland servants never were enconrazed to place hemselves on anything like an equality with their mistresscs, and that if a servant did once forget the respect due 10 her employer the latter would mot scold her, or lose her temper. bat simply put on & look of infinite astonixhment - ang epecchlese surprisc at the discovery that a servont —a scrvanti—should 50 address her—her! The author added that this treatment never fafled, nnd st servant-mrls were g0 imbressed that” they Would go benind a door and die, or have their haiy turned gray before the next meal, 1s a glance at 1he butter-plate would ehow, and 8o on. - Accord- 1ngly the subject of this memoir practiced before a Jooking-glass till, ax she thought, she had got the Tight cxpression of visage, and when veste; the Eirl brought her a letter. and, sitting amiably down ©n the isble and swinging her feet, remarked with lively manifestations of interest ana Eympathy, ** It's from Miss Nellie—has ber feller Proposed to her yet or gune back on her*™ she con- Claded that it was just about ime to paralyze that rl. Accordingly she opened her cyes, elevated ¥ nose, 100k a double reef mn her lips. and tumed The reeat fall Jreseure upon the servant-girl. DId he scrvant-girl go into hysterics, or anything of iheson? Notmuch ehe aidn't, but, after staring aldly ot her mistress. remarked, SeCan’t yoo Sneezcand get it of your mind?t It's bad holding Jourbreathso. Lemnme get a straw and tickle Toairee pbstll meke you suceze, and then {2‘:’:: I hzed‘t:_‘gfiur.' The mistress does not believe 4 ever mare her fortuno ua a tragic An observant milkman, who has lo; :!’lhkruulu and foibles of haman nlfi:‘:‘: ;‘:— $oaar study, recently came tothe conclusion that I \vonld be well to have & more romantic sort of L_n;el’gnnne of his aristocratic rontes TP near Ioaion Park than he was then employing. . Accord-. gly hewent round in pereon 2ud left word at Sach of the honees that he had encaged a Naesian < :ru;‘alfl |‘\ bnseh l:::g:fi!h mozh:; had fminhemed him a serf-girl of su ing besaty. The o1 Countess, by eg‘onflnne& ontes the unhlp;i( girl 10 death, and her lover fled %o the mited States.' At the desth of his ma the Comnt will return to enjoy his ancestral estates; mesnwhile be is seeking to find some one who, mot suspocting his rank and wealth. will Jove him for himeelf alone, 2nd to this end bas entered the milkman's service, Having imparted this information in strict secrecy to every housemaid on his route, the wily milkm ‘went I:zm poured another bucket of health-gi ing water into the milk-tank, and instructed the Count (who is o native of Kankakee) that to hold up his end of the business all he Lad to do was to sigh deeply when he served out the alleged lacteal finid, and eay nothing.. **1f yon wantto give short' change, and they ~ find out that you're trying fo knock down on them, explainea the employer, ‘‘say ‘Ah, yes— five copecks more," and sigh.” The experiment has proved wondronsly successful. All the im- pressionable scrvant-gifls on the route declare to their mistresses that this particular milkman gives ‘better measure thau any other and furnishes a su- perior article (which, inded, 18 not the case), so that he has acquired about twenty new customers, “and when he comes clattering alony the strect in 1he early morning and raises a yell in the purest Tussisn dialect of ** Mi-ilkoffski! ™ dozens of oung ladies who have heurd and been touched by Jfs ramantic story come to the gates with pitchers in their fair hande, and, when he eighs, say to themselves, **Ab, heis thinking of his sunny Moscow! H THE NOTEL KEEPERS, The Hotel-Keepers' Association of Chicago held a regular monthly meeting yesicrdy afternoon at 4 o'clock in the office of the Holel Reporter, No. 126 Washington strcet. There were present Messrs, Couch and Wilcox, of the Tremont ouse; Halbert, of the Sherman louse; Pulling, of the Commercial llotel; Newman. of the "Atlantic Hotel; Gates, of the Gault House; Sands, of llu? Sands Housc; Cummings, of the Brigys House; Pinney, of the Revere House; Gill, of the llerr chants' Hotel; White, of the Clarcndon ouso; and Strong. of the St. James Hotel. J.D. Billings. of the South Chicago Hotel, was present as a mllilx?ri’n]lln" the President, occupted the chair, d James W. Scott acted as Secretary. A he Committes on Tailroad Transportation, to whom was referred the matter of obtaining favor- able rates and Sunday lay-over tickets during the {1al} Exposition, was granted further time. i Thcxpresmem, from the Committee appointed to go to Sprinzneld and look after the Fire-Escape Bill, reported that they had succeeded in obtaining an amendment 10 it, but that the wholo thing had failed owing to_the adjonrument of the Legisla- ture. The original and the amended bills have beeu given in Tuz Tinuxz. The report of the “ommittee was received. ¢ The Secretary anuounced that the record books, designed for aze 1n_each hotel in keeping an ac- count of employes discharged for canse, and delin- quent guests and notel dead-beats, would be ready for delivery Tucsday. Some diecussion cnsued on the feasibility of ap- pointing o grievance coumittee to take cosmizance of discunrged help, etc., and, on motion of Mr. Wilcox, it was decided that any dismissed em- ploye should briny a card of recommendation from the hotel-keeper who discharged him or heron making application toa member of the Association for employment. Messrs. Pulling, Scott, and Wilcox were ap- pointed a committee to draft rules for the govern- ent of hielp. The Association then adjourned, and the mem- bers were invited to examine seversl patent fire escapes, among thema novel one invented by Mr. Thomas Hughes, of this city, avd 50 constructed that a sort of au endless-chain ladder can be ehifted to any desired part of a building. 1t cost was tae only objection urged against it. SUICIDE. . ‘Taomas Hammill, 32 years of age, and boarding ar No. 210 South Water street, last evening made 2 most determined effort to make away with his life. He first laid down before & train on the Mil- waukee & St. Paul Kailroad, but was saved from a terrible death by J. J. Joyaes, conductor of the train. Then, while Juynes was talkingtoa by- stander about the sffair, he whipped onta knife and made ou nnsuccessful attempt to cut his own throat. Every action indicated insanity, and he way finally placed on the incoming train and brought to this city, where he was turned over to Ofticer Georpe Dewey and locked up 1 the West Madivon Strect Station. The first attempt was made near the Pacific Junction. At 10 o'clock yestercay morning Karl Wehls, re- siding at No. 18 Thomas street with his son, at- tempted to commit suicide by drowning at the Di- vision street bridze. e was rescued und turned over to Ofticer W. B. Thorpe, to whom he stated that be attempted the deed because bis son’s wife insisted that he should leave the house or go to work, and for the latter he was incompetent, be- ing 73yearsof sge. The affair was finally com- promised, and if there is a woman on the North Side who ought to be ashamed it'is the one who g0 craelly cast the old man out to die,- if his story is true, TWELFTH WARD SEWERAGE. The ndjourned meeting of the Twelith Warders who want sewers, etc., came to order last night in Campbell Hall, corner of Campbell avenue and Van Buren street, Mr. C. H. Crine 1n the chai The Committec appointed by the last mecting to draft and present u_petition to the Council, re- questing the expenditure of $200,000 for improve- ments, reported that eaid petition had been circu- lsted during the past week for sizmuatares und presented to the Council this week. . 8. G. Secaton was called for, and said, that he was iiving in a district hard up for eewers, but firmly believed that it was agninst the city’s inter- €8t 10 horruw any more money now, when the city was alreads borrowing money, and had_nothing to issue for the proposed improvement. The Finauce Committec éeclined to borrow more mones under any circumstances. except to pay employes, Mr. G. Hunter said that he for one was in favor of refusinz to pay any more taxes until the scwer- age wosattended to, The Fire Department was of little nse in the ward, because of the defcctive condition of the streets, which delayed the engines en route to fires. ' A pleasant gentleman belonging to the ** it unwashed ™ arose and wanted to know what Alder- wen were clected for, and the conundrum was at once given up. AL10 o'clock the meeting adjourned, subject to call of the Chair. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIOS. The County Board of Education met ;e!lcrflny afternoon, ail the members prezent, and President J. J. Catekin in the chair. It had bren genernlly understood that the Board would certainly elect a Principal of the Normal School, the term of the present incumbent of that oftice (Prof. D. S. Wentworth) havinz expired. The tie of last year, however, apparentiy snll con- tinues, a3 half of the members favored the reten- tion of Prof. Wentworth, while the other half strenuonsly oppose 1t, presenting the virtnes and capabilitics of their candidate, Prof. J. W. Larri- more, lately of Douglas University. _As there was n0 poeeibility of electing cither candidate ot_this sessfon, the membera of the Board agrzed to leave the matter for the nextinectibg to arrange, and 21 2:30 adjourned until $aturday at 2:40 p. m. 1t is generally thought by the members that tho c]ei:!nn of Prof. Larrimore at the next. meeting is certain. TOTEL ARRIVALS. Zyemont ITouse—the lion. B. W. Clark, St. Loufs; J. s Clty 7 v. vheas E. Caven, Kan ne Hon, W. W. W 10, Detrol roy. New V' 11 Lucus, St Louts; G, etroft; W. II." Crane und Leouard Grover, New York Col. " Joseph _Conrad, - Liford. Bosou; A Thomas _ McCulloush, Y Sherman Touse s, 4. Washingron ct, U, Eph Wood, K que: Frank M - Grand Pactjie—\ X Din- mure. “New for} % o, Elmira:’ D. P. Kimball ‘and G. 0. Stevens, Boston: Thomas Richiards. St. Louts; J. W. Musson, 10: W, M. Dunn and Johu Pope, Fort Leaven: Jall; Cedar i, . Parke; Paliner House=The Hor X, d.s G W, Stone. New York; Charles Bates. Toron! Montreal; Howard Sanger, Austin Tex. N g, Boston: B. . Sherwood, Clnclnnulli J._C.Smith, . Daldwin, Drooklyn; C. E. White, Fisher, w York; il G(Ilc!{llt, Day- More! Louis; 1. Itaymond, . The Commercial—S, A.Vauzhn, logans- ‘aldo, rson; J.. W, lrown, N 2. Shatler, Cincinnatl; W H. Heodrick, 3.°W..Turlay, Centraita: WEST-TOWN. SETTLING Ur THE BUSINESS. ‘The West-Town Board held a meeting yesterday afternoon at No. 58 Halsted street. Present, Jus- tices Matson, Salicbury, Morrison, Eberhart, In- gersoll, and Scully, Supervisor Pedersen and TownClerk Tarble. Mr. Eberhart presided, and stated that the bill of ex-Supervisor 3foore was before the Board for considera- tion. The Dill calls for the round - sum of $1,500, divided as follows: Ninety days" serv- ice out of town, at $2.50 per day, $225; days® service in town, at SL30 per day, $210; and for services as ex-oflicio Town Treasurer and Treasuc- or for the funds of the West_Side Park bonds, for interest conons falling due July 1, 1876, and Jan. 1, 3877, $1,035. Mr. Moore being called on, sald that he certainly ut “in the number of divs specified, and in andlinz the money hie assumed a responsibility of which he had no contemplation before his clection. Be bad to pive a bond. and believed that the amount yay fair to all parties concerned. e had followe&'precedent in the matter. Justice Eberhart moved to paas npon the items separately. This motion prevatied. and Mr. Eber- hart moved that the amount ssked for tae per diem be granted. Justice Sulisbury seconded the mo- tion, which wax carried unanimously. o Batice Ingersoll moved to adjourn. Lost by 5 oles £ Juetice Salisbury moved that the Board pay Mr. 3Moore S1.000 for extra rervices beside the suim ure o hoe Mate ded mtice Mateon seconded the motion, and sai thatbe was satisfied that the :nnom?l' was a jnsdz one. From his examination of the ncconnts, he was satisfied that the Supervisor had incnrred mach responsibility, and de- gerved that compensation. The vote being taken, Mesers. Mateon, Salisbury, Pedersen, and Tarble yoted injthe atlirmative.” and Messry. Eberhart, Ingersoll. Mornson, and Scally in the neentive, being a tie vote. A 'motion to adjourn met a simi- lar fate, but another oue was Immediately made and the meetlng melted away. aman, N Whitt THE REPUBLIC LIFE. WHY IT WAS TCRNED OVER TO A RECEIVER. The fact that the ofilcers of,the National Life-In- surance Company made no opposition day before yesterdsy to the sppointment of a Receiver for the Republic Life, which it once uponatimeswallowed, 2nd - has since been engoged in disgest ing the morsel, may have excited some little fnquiry among the insuring pablic. Mr. E. W. Peet, the President and Actuary of the ational Life, in & conversation with a Tmsoye TeDorter yesterday. said that the National had been carrying the Joad as long o8 it felt able to do so, and hnt:mly resolved on thia step ns the one moet advantageous to the olic' - holders. = They had been plyhsl-.s‘:: :l':l‘lcllfl 'fp:'l:c)". Possible, but the tune had come when it seemed Dest to have a Receiver appointed. There wero two rensons, mainly, which led the Natlong to come to this conclusion. Tn the frst place, If it went on paying - maturing endowments, the people at tho other end of the line, ~who were 8o nufortlnm]lw uwofl% 1o have an; licies ~ muturing, manifestly be Y tredted unfatrly. This dlfllc;llg would b remedied by putting ihe Compuny inl the hands of o Recelver. Inthenext place, 8 large partaf the asacts was tied up in suits and on det posil with varlous insurance departments, all of which the Company could not tonch, but which ccerver could collect. : nUmlcr these circumstances the Natlonal Life re- solved upon the step referred to, after 3 carcfu consideration of a1l the dificulties prescnted in case the Natlonal continned to carry the load. Tul:: ints aja Mr. DPeet, was in [PpOIMnCYe the Ttepablic's - policy-holders, who twould be benedited thereby, an it would not make any difference in_the National ex< cept that some of the stock might change hands. The iatter Company, hesafd, was dolng a good business notwithstanding the popular scarc on the subject of insurance, and its bustness would not be affected one way or dnother by the fact that the TRepublic had been put into the hands of a Ite- celver. THE COUNTY BUILDING. The granite bids for the new Conrt-Honse work will be opened by the County Board to-morrow. The Pike murder case will be called Tuesday, but it is understood In advance that a continuanco will be asked, and, itis believed, granted. Judge Wallace will be a candidate for County Judge this full. His name bas been mentioned in connection with the offlce of County Treasurer, but itis now doubtful whether he would accept the nomination if tendered him. The question of admitting to bail James Jones, who kifled bis brother some b0, \as submitted t6 Judge Booth yesterday. The Court ruled that, in- asmuch as the defensé to the crime was that it had been committed in self-defense, Jones could be admitted to bail, and fixed his ‘bail at $10,000. Jones will endeavor to find-bondsmen to-morrow.- Phe prironers who plended guilty on the last ar- raignment day were sentenced in the Criminal Court yesterday, a3 follows: Christien Hinn, lar- ceny, throe yenrs Penitentiary: James Waison, larceny, rinety days House of Correction; Frank Whitney, burglary, cightcen months Penitentia- ry; Michael Tooney, larceny, ninety days House of ‘Correction; Frunk Elm and Thonias Lyons, Jar- ceny, thirty days each House of Correction; George Atwood, larceny, sixty duys House of Cor- rection; and James Fletcher, larceny, u.xniy days House of Correction. B. A. Devine pieaded guilty to larceny and was remanded. Thomas Jordan was found guilty of- larceny and_given six months in the House of Correction; Albert Bater pleaded guilty to larceny and was remanded. Sheriff Kern was yesterday beset by adozen ap- Yicants for the position of bailiff, supposed to Bave been made. vicant, by the. degth of Mr. Bilo lings, of No, 28 Peoria street. Billings had not been a bailiff since the davs of Agnew, s most of the applicants learned. -If they had been later in the day, however, in their inquiries, they wonld have found a different etate of affulrs, bat would not have been beuefitted thereby, A vacancy was created among the bailiffs of the Criminal Court Jate in the aftcrnoon by the discharge of Dooley, bot the place had been yiven away in advance, 08 had already Leen noted in these columms. The reason for Dooley's discharze did not appear, but will doubtless at an early day. A SPECIAL GRAND JURY. State’s-Attorney Milla yesterday morning asked Judge Booth that an order might be entered for the issuance of a special venire for a Grand Jury. The Court promptly made the order, and the venire was issued, rétarnable to-morrow morning at10 o'clock. ‘I'he occasion for a special Grand Jury is not known. The State’s Attorney would bave nothing to say on the subject, and no one could be found who knew anything.” Late 1n the afternoon Mr. Mills was closeted with one of Pin- Kerton's men for some Lime. 1t is safe to say that something is in the wind, however, for special juries ore seldom called. It was only a few days #go that the jury for May reported that it had finished its * Jubors, “and was A year mgo o similar procecding was lad, and the result wns the indictment of several Commissioncrs and others, What the jury nas been called for must appear in few days. aind those who rear juries had better preparo for the woret. ‘The order to the bailiff in whose hands the venire was given wus to summon none but first- class Lusiness men, and this i3 the material of which the jury of a'year ago was composed. THE CITY-HALL. The City Collector yesterday took in 81,100 on speclal assesements, and in the License Depart- ment $460. 1t appears that the disease reported os varioloid at No. 222 Cass street was nothing but measles or o slight rash. ‘The city offices will be closed all day on Decora- tion-Day to allow the employes to joln in paying thielr respects to the patriotic dead. ‘The Department of Public Works will advertise to-morrow morning for proposals for the construc- tion of 3 sewer on North Halsted street, from Wil- Iow to Sophia street. After the 1st of June 10 per cent will be added to the wuter-tax as a penaity for delinguency in payment. Therefore it is money in one's pocket 10 pay up before that date. The Treasurer's receipts yesterday were $500 from the City Collector, §5, 847 from the Water De- partment, S1, 837 from'the Comptraller, and $51, - of back taxes from County Treasurer Huck. 2Mr. Jozeph Bonfield, the new Carporation Coun- scl, filed his dond of $5,000 vesterday. He pre- sents as sureties Messrs. John R. Walsh, IL. C. Ayer, Michal Ullrich, and Marcus C. Stearns. Mackin & Watson yesterday filed a bond for the faithful performauce of the work of paving North State street from Kinzie to Chicago avenue. James McBean did likewise for paving Caual street be- tween Hacrison and Wright. There is on foot a project to make those persons ‘who cause alterations to be madein their sidewnlks 0 that the fire I.\f'yr;mm. ctc.. must be moved, pay for such removal, and not saddle the expense upon the city, 83 18 now the castom. During the past week Seventeen deaths from scarlet fever Liave been recorded upon the books of the Yealth Department. Five new cases of the disease were reported yesterday. The general death mte for the wees has been lighter than ususl. Since the 1st of April over 3,000 licenses have been issued. Two thousand of these were o team- sters, and most of the remainder to pedalers. Ouly 100 Lilliard-tables have been licensed, whereas there should have Dbeen at least 500. The police nave been repeatedly notified to look up the de- linquents. The following building permita were lssned yes- rday Ml:!. M, Ottu, & two-story and basement store-dwelling, ¥o. 102 West Harrison street, to $3,500; John Koller, s two-story and cellar velling ou LeMoyne, near Robey strcet, to cost $1,500." During the past week the Building De- partment has issued eighty-seven permits, thirty- seven of which were for permanent buildings, whose estimated cost is $189,000. The Committe on Liccnses met in the City Clerk's oflice yesterday afternoon, and decided to recommend to the Council the passage of an ordi- nance requiring that pool-tables be licensed. The Committee hold thut the zame of pool as played in Chicago is of protit to the keeper, and thata pool- table shiould afford some revenue to the city. = The Committee will also recommend. the passage of an ordinance requiring dealers In salt, smoked, and canned weuts, etc., to take out a buicher's license. This action is_taken because of the pro- test entered by the butchers, to the effect that the aforesaid dealers injured the regular butchers' business. Those bakers whose trade les among small means, and a_emall persona of who buy one loaf of bread at a time, loaf ot that, are dlseatisfied with the new bread-ordinance, which provides that the smallest loaves must | weigh one and o half pounds cach, and say that the ordl- nance was prepared by the 'large bakers, and by them Jobbied through the Council. The small Dakers aforesaid have made s **kick," and want the minimom weight of the loaves fixed nt one pound. Complaint has been made to some of the members of the Council, and it is probable that the ordinance will be amended ns desired by com- plainants, ns many of the Aldermen understood at the time of the passuge of the measure that one pound was the mininium weight. The Committee on Fire and Water met in the Fire Murshal's ofiice yesterday afternoon, and talked over a way of enforcing the Building’ law. Violations of thut Jaw are of ‘such common occur- rence that it has really pecome alarming. Frame buildings zrossly beyond the dimensions permitted by the ordinauce aré sprinzing up all over the city; lumber-yards are being located and extended with no regard o the Juw for their government and re- striction. 2nd all these violations are reported either by the policemen or firemen, or noticed by the Building Superintendent's force of men, and yet the prosecutions are not carried on. The Com- mittee want to know why not, and Superintendent Cleaveland says that with his force of two men he cannot be expected to watch for violations, stop illegal building, and care for the prosecation also; and jn this the Commitice agree. They, however, think that the prosccutions are within the prove ince of the Superiatendent of Buildings, and will aek legal advice upon that point, Shonid it %o be determined, the Commitiee see no way exceot to increase the force of men in the Buliding Depart~ ent to an extent to cover all its business, Superintondent TLLPLAYING, uperintendent Hickey yesterday fssned the fol- lowing order, with special insirucions 1o the Cap- uims for the strict enforcement thereof: No ball-playing will be allowed on aa; lane, sldewalk. Or alley within the comporars Has st the city iereafter, and It will be the duty of the potiee Torce to arrest ali'Dersons Whom they see playing or throwing, bails or other misailea in, from, of 13t0 any sureet. sidewalk. or alley, for violation of Secs. 23 and $40fChap. 23 of the revised ordinances. - The police BRIV AL 88Y heron oF perians wiont tney < & % a0y way Injuring or defacing ihem, oo tER OF ANNOUNCEMENTS. The office of the Miinols Humsne Soct located at 124 Clark street. i) The Rer. W. S. Plummer, D. D., will preach at the Tabernacle tosday at 4 p. m. ‘The officers of District Grana Lodge, No. B. B., will address the Drotherliood this g & Lo. evenlng digcharged. ‘| corner Lake and at8o'clock in Covenant Hal LaSalle streets. The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach a sermon this morningin the Church of the Redeemer, on the *+Eastern or Greek Church.” * A meeting of the Third Ward Union League Club will ‘be held Monday at 8 p. m. in thewr hall, eouthwest corner Wabash avenue and Twenty- second street. All members of Company ¥, First Regiment I. S. G., are requested to be at the Armory Mnndg evening, to altend the business meeting, at whi an election of oficers will take place. Tho presence of all members of George H. ‘Thomas Post, with their ladies, s requested at the Grand Pacific Hotel Monday cvening, to prepare decorations for Graceland Cemetery. The regular meeting of ‘the Chicago Soclety of Physicians and Surgeons will be held_to-morrow eveningat the Grand Pacific. Prof. J. S. Jewell will give a diagnosis of the seat of lesion in hemplegia. “Neglec!ed Children, or the Streetlings of the Period,” will be the topic, and Mrs. Cynthia Leonard the speaker, in the People’s Lecturo Course, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, at Temperauce Radical Hall, No, 618 Wost Lake street. Admis- sion, 10 cents, The Rev. C. I Whecler, for twenty years 8 mis- slonary at Harfoot, in Central Turkey, will speak in Lenvitt Street Congrepational Church this even- ing, reviewing the missionary work, and in his most interesting atyle set forth the characteristica of the Turks, and the feeling of #the missionarics concerning the war with Russia. Miss Rosa d'Erina has consented to sng at the musical and_military festival of she Sccond Regi- ment in the Exposition Buildinz Wodnesday even- ing—Decoration-Day, Sundayshowill give a lite- rary and musical entertalnment in McCormick Hall, and she olicita for that occasion the patronsgo of her many friends and admirers The Unlon Catholic Library Association will give its inaugural entertainment Thumsday evening next at Hershey Hall. . The programme will include addresscs by the retiring President, the President- clect, and the Rev. P. W. Riordan, readings by 2Afizs Gavin, some vocal selections by Miss Jennie Bush, Mrs.” Sheppers, nee DePelgrom,the Misses Conly and Green, Messrs, Huessin und Besler, and the Freuch Quartotte, < The Choral Union, an gmateur musical orzaniza- tlon of the West Side, will render the ‘*Prodigal Son™ of A. J. Sullivan to-morrow evening at the Union Park "Congrezationsl Church, under the leadership of Prof. Orlando Blackman, The fol- lowing well-known singers will also take parf Mrs, Clara D. Stacey, Miss Mina Romuweiss, Ed- wara Schulz, and F. A. Bowen. Mr. Falk will preside at the organ, A butterflies® ball will be given about the mid- dleof June undor the ausplocs of the Ausiliary Board of Managers of the Homeopathic Fre Dis- pensary, with the assistance of u large number of socicty Iadies. 1t is s yet too- early to give the details of the affair, but it will be a very brilliunt entertarnment, in which the Queen of the Batter- fles will gave o ball to all the little butteriles, who will emergo from their_cbrysulides upon the stage 10 take purt in appropriate dauces and tableaux of the butterlly sorl. A noteworthy feature of the affur witl be the reading of **The Culprit Foy™ by BMru. Dainty, the illustrations furnished by the children usider Martine's dircction. CRIMINAL. The case of Phanuel Anderson, charged with eelling lguor withouts license at Rosehill, was continued by Commissioner Hoyne yesterday, until Saturday zext, in bonds of 2500. Hennessey and Stewart, the **three-card monte ™ men who wero srrested early last week for swin- dling 2 Pennsylvania butcher out of $800 in cash and an fndorzed draft for $1,000, were before Jua- tice Wallace yesterday afterncon, and upon the cvidence were held to the Criminal Court in bonds of $2,500 each. They went to jail. George Hitz, of No, 213 Mohawk street, while azing at a new ** lunch sign " in the neighbor- fiood.accldunm“y run into a youngster with & cigar in his month, knocking the weed into the dirt. The ruffian, Thomas Gaughan by name, insisted on hay- ing revenge in a fight, aud at once seized hold of Hitz's right hand with his teeth and literaily chew- ed off the ends of two fingers. He was arrested and locked up at the Chicago Avenuo Station by Ofiicer Still. An injured busband, pistol in hand, is onthe war-path. Heis in search of the destroyer of bis happiness, and that mana reoorter on o morning paper. As a general thing, reporters are too busy chronicling the misdeeds of others to perpetrate any of thelr own; but in this_particular cage there was a reporter with leisure, and he bas improved the ogportunity. Several others are equally guilty with hum, but'the husband has decided to settle with them in alphabeticul order, and the newspaper man 18 high on the list. A mutual friend has warned him, and he has left town, not desiring to servens a sequel to the Pike- Jones case. This disappearance has irritated the husband excessively, since he Lis purchased a new revolver, and does not want to waste his money. The womdn Ella Loulse Hanson, whom Detect- ive Osterman recently bronght back from Fort Wayne for larceny of a gold watch and chain and $100 from Rasmus E. Peterson, was yesterday dis- charged, and goes on her way rejoicing back to the old country, There ia quite'a romance attached to her, which would be quite interesting were she a womaznof repute, She resided with her husband man $iond ‘town in Denmark, but one aay the latter skipped out to avoid criminal prosecution. In her grass-widowhood she fell in with Peterson, who was agent for u lottery. " A prize, $5,000, was drawh by a peasant brother apd sister;’ the money was sent on to be ald over fo them by Peterson (in the_old country otteries differ from tnose in this), but Peterson skipped ont. Inducing the lucky winners to go to Copenhagen, he departed for America, taking with him Mrs Hanson, all the while promising to find ber husband. In New York their baggage was seized and the stolen money seized by the Dunish Consul. Mrs. Hanson proved conclusively that the property upon her porson belonged to her only, and Bhe was of course discharged. Bob Powers, hackman, is determined to keep his name before tho publie. Wednesday night he 1ook lodgings in high pomp at the Palmer House, and swindled that Ciravansary ont of some $10 and a bottle of wine, wherefore lio was arrested and put under bafl in Justice Wallace's court. Yester- day be hired a rig trom the stable of erry, ** the honest juror, " and failed to show up withit. In the afternoon he was connected by the description given with 1 bold attenpt to swindle S. Myman & Co., jewelers, the particulars of which were puolished in yesterday's Tripexe, but the police could not find him when he was wanted. Yesterday after- noon he turned up once avaiu, this time at the store of C. D. Pencock, on the corner of State and Washington strects, where he selected S1,910 worth of jewelry of all descriptions. Ile wave a check for the amount on the First National Bank, siymed M. R. Powers, Lie then filled his pockets with the jewelry unwrapped os it was, and was making away, when the clerk insinuated that he hud better walt and eee the check cashed. The two went scross the strect to the bank, and Powers insisted that he had an account of $10,000 there, but after searching the deposit, business, gold, and collateral depart- ments notusingle cent’ could be found in_his name. He wag thercfore turned over to Officer C. Seibert, and by him was locked up at the Armo- ry. 8. Hyman & Co. positively identificd him as the man who had endeavored to play the same ame on them, In regard to the missing horse and uggy, Bobasya hie tookit down to. Cufumet, and while crossing a bridge the vehicle broke ‘through and was smashed into atoms, aud the horse broko its neck and lies there still.” The fellow is un- doubtedly ineanc, and dangerously so: hLence, he should be kept under guard. Some time ago Le wasa *cabby,” but bus sinco degenerated into a 1ow pimp for a house of ill-fame on Fourthavenue, IMPORTANT CAPTURE. Capt. 0'Donnell, Martin Hayes, and Officer Lon- dergan, of the Armory, yesterdsy afternoon at 2:30 o'clock made an finportant urrest atthe corner of Van Buren and Pacyilc avenuc, in the peryon of James Colwell, aling **Speckled Jimmy." Some three years ago he, in company with *‘Stampy* Gallagher, Billy Colwell, and Ienry Moore, wore detected By the police ia committing 4 burglary in Cleveland, 0. They made a retreat, but, being hotly pursued, Jimmy torned and fired at the closest otticer, mortally wounding him. All four are Chicago boys, und were forced to leave this city after shooting one of their own crowd, named Boland, on_the corner of Hoyne and Harrison etre Colwell was frequently arrested, and served a four-year term for picking pockets on Wabash avenae, andtwo years for tappiug the till of Charles Kern's ealoon. **Stumpy™ Gallagler was canght two yearsago in this city, and is now serving 1 sontence {n the Ohio Penitentiary for the burglars. Moore and Billy Colwell went to Cali~ fornio, and are now serving ou: seventeen and twenty yeans cach in the Penitentiary for burglary. James Colwell has escaped captare #nd identica- tion until yesterday. SUBURBAN. PARK RIDGE. A change in the running of trainson the Wiscon- ein Division takes place to-day. The midday trip of the Barrington train is to be wholly discon- tinued, ita place being supplied by the Mall Ex- press, which leaves Chicago at 9:30 8. ‘m., reach- ine here ut 10:06 3. m. The St. Pan} Express will Bereafter stop at all suburban statlons. Going south, it will leave here ac 3:13 p. m., arrivingat Chicagoat4p. m. The St. Paul Express going north at night will hereafter leave the city at 9 p. m. instead of 8:30 p. m., as heretofore. The Desplaines train will not be delayed at Canfleld. as formerly. At e request of Zang, the L. 3. D. Associa- 01 repeal *‘Caste ™ ursday e . Music will be furnished by the Cornet And.‘mng ABLINGTON IEIGHTS. The approaching martiage of Miss Rose Good- fellow, a universal favorite in all circles here and at Desplaines, is confidentially whispered to a few intlmate friends. It is said the event will take place some time during the ensuing month, e SRy A S AL b%nnr?{em?,flnha r. Uenry E. MeNab, i cele- e of baptism will be M. E. Church lhlg morning, HAnloliirdta tha The Evangelical Gorsman sarp: . vangelical German camp-meeting will com- mece Wednesday, June 20, o the. camp. ground mear thus place. 2 Ia teat is Delng manafactured e at Des - commodating 500 peopies L ORIy smaller, ac ‘armers are planting their corn the Jear, owing to bad seed. secondidas BOSTO Madness--The Wag- Musie : ner Festival: The Young Man Who Came Up from the Country. And the Young M.;m from the City. The Scrap-Book Club Discusses ‘Wagner. Dom Pedro of the Club Harrahs for Richard Grant White. . What George William Curtis Is Going to Do for Us. From Our Own Correspondent. Bostox, May 24.—The Musical Trlennial Fes- tival which has just closed brings the season’s feast of music to an cnd. The Wagner Festival was the great event, and greatly the fashion. There is no doubt that there were some real ap- preciators, who could and did thoroughly ap- vreciate the Wagner musie. There is equally little doubt that the majority did not bave this appreciation, but followed the few, and worked themselves up into a fine frenzy, because it is the nature of a great majority of people **to !ql- low to applaud,” and to faucy that it is their own enthusiasm, their own taste, when in reali- ty it is this easy reflection of what is thought to Dbe * authority »* that is at the bottom of it all. It is this falsity, this mean-spirited. truckling, which springs from a sort of uncasy self-con- tempt that does not dare to speak houestly of 2 natural taste or ignorance, which I wish to lunge at now, aud totell a story or two anent. While the Festival was at its height there came up out of one of the rural districts 2 young man who had a beautiful, tenor voice which he was in the habit of using, greatly ‘to the delight of his listeners and to hisown en- joywent, in an old-fashioned country church- choir, where Mozart and Handel were the fashion of the tunes. He had heard a great deal, and had read more, of the great Wagner Festival, and he had come up to hear it, and, as he thought, to enjoy it. MIE WENT TO IEAR DIE WALKURE, and this is what he sald of it, and its effect upon him; “\When I went into the theatre that night I thought I knew what music was, and I thought I had a pretty good car for mnelody as well as hurmony. When I came out of the theatre I felt that, if this was true music, then a greater idiot than I was did not exist; but I by aud ll)Iv came to the conclusion that the company of id- jots according to this measure was a very cred- itable one, for it would include old Handel and Mozart, as well ns Beethoven.” I will let Blondina telt story number two: 1 was sitting rapt in mwost heavenly musings fn an interval of Beethoveu's Fidello, in the same seat wiiere on Monday night I had listened and tried to understand Wagner's Die Walkure, when all at ouce 1 heard & young man's volce just behind, saying, 2 *¢To think of these peopleapplauding Fidclio in this extravagant fashion, and receiving that magniticent Die Walkure in the undiscriminat- ing way they did!’ ~The tone of disgust iu tals voice was iutensified to the lastdegree. [ looked around to see the owner o the voice of this high aud mighty taste, that could afford to soub Beethoven and clevate Wagoer above his head. Isaw an august youth oi probably five-and- twenty suminers, who just at that moment, after the labor of speaking, and while sadly thinking of *these people,’ was solemuly suck- ng the ivory top to -his pretty little cane! T regarded him with awe and reverence; here was abelng who thought he understood Wagner. Here was a_superior soul to whom Beethoven was as Wagner's luckey. Here was a far-reach- ing spirit; whose wings or whose cars were al- ready sorvuting to appreciate ‘the music of the future!’ “ LITTLE CAD, Ihaven’t a doubt but that he was one of the ushers whose daily business was behind a count~ er,” cried our Dom Pedro, tor it was at the Serap-Book Club that Blondina told ber story. * Not necessarily,” returned Blondina to this outburst. There isa great deal of nonsense und ull mauner of atfectation out and beyond the counter. There ure some very irreproacha- ble young gentlemen of this city,—elegant and critical West-Enders, who have the Harvard gloss upon them,—who are full of just this kind ol thing., And there are plenty of men and women here in Boston, of various localities and social circles, who are bitten with the music manig, and who think that they appreciate high art. They gotoall the costliest concerts, and thea go-home and try to iuterpret music that was only meant for an orchestra upon their pianos.”” “Yes, yes, I know ’em,” Interrupted Dom Pédro, ' LORD, HOW I IATE A PIANO IN THESE DAYS. A piano was made for melody, pure and simple, for tunesif you will, but never for those long, involved chords and slow transitions, which were written for strings and viols. Listeu to what Richard Grant White fearlcssly says in the last Goluxy about pianos in his incomparable wusic article;” and Dom Pedro takes up from the table the maguzine in question and pro- ceed sto read the tollowing: *I believe that there has been no more per- nicious influence upon music than the transtor- matlon which the pianoforte bhas underzone sinee Beethoven’s time, and its diffusion over all the world. 1 do mot refer to the cruelties which it is daily the means of inflicting upon in- offensive families and true lovers of musie, but to the effect it bhas had upon -com- position and upon performance. ‘The Tormer it has helped to be at once flashy, dull, intricate, and shallow ; the latter it has led t0 be astonishing. Brilliancy, a crowd of notes, sonority, all without beauty of form or emo- tional suggestiveness—this 3 the music which the mn,dem grand pisnoforte has brought up- on us.” And listen bere to what he says of TIAT WOMAN'S JAN, MENDELSSONN: “Alter Weber’s deatlt, woich deprived the world of the only musician who promised to follow Beethoven, came Schubert and Men- delssohn, neither of them very strong men; the latter decidedly weak and deflaent in creative faculty; the former far more fertile and original.” “*What do you mean by ‘that woman’s man,’ pruy 1" asked Brunetta here, with some sizos of aggressiveness. I mean the man that has written the dreamy, vague complainings and little idyls that all women dote upon, and think they are doing great things in hiel art when ‘which, I believe, he in some sort professes. But the demands of truth are incxorable. Tonality is something whick cannot be magnificent or splendid; nor can it beattribated to a composer as being In the slightest degree a claim to ad- miration. Indeed, one composer can hardly possess It in a greater degree than another; and the writer of an c&?ememl ballad, or of *Thou, thou reignest in this bosom,’ has it, sithough not more lnrge%. with stronger moanifestation thun Mozart or Beethoven. And yet it so hap- pens that Wagner is in his later works less goy- crned by the Inw of Tonality than any other known composer of the day. Tonalityis simply the relation of a musical phrase, or air, or long- [ er composition, to a keynote or tonic chord. To this tonfc chord the harmonies of the composi- tion must bear a close and constantly felt rela- tionship, The harmony almost always opens with this chord, ‘and Ccontinually re- curs. to i, and. either in its simple form or in some of its inversions, it, i dominant and subdominant, arc the pen:andbly ruling harmonies of the composition; and upon this tonic chord the composition always ends. That is tonality; nothing more nor less.” And hear what he says of Wagner's music as melody, harmony : 4 Wagner's musical figures have become as in- tricate and often asugly as those of a Chinese puzzle; and the entertainment {s to me low they fit each other and the words to which they are adapted. Inbis orchestral wbrk wo have the most masterly instrumental coloring; a knowledge snd an elaboration which is un- surpas ond also uninspired. It is great technical work, and no wonder that professional musicians admire it. But what is itsreal yalue? Take for example the finale to the overture to the ¢Meistersinger.” It s very impressive materially, and as a work of “instrumeuntal art. It becomes tremendons from mere muscu- lar activity and accumulation of physical force. THE VIOLINS RUSH PRANTICALLY UP AND DOWN THE FINGER-BOARD; the violoncellos are ready to jump over their bridges; the trumpets blow blood out of their eyes; and there is general frenzy. But what Is 1 this harly-burly about? What are the ideas? Look at them. There are after all but three, or it may be four, notes in a chord, and a melo- dy is—well, a mclody; an nnmistakable sort of t}{lng, one would think, slthough so hard tode- fine. What is there here of harmony or melo- dy that would be valuable for its own sake? Strip this mugic of all its instrumental elab- oration, tone down its noisy melf-assertion, and look at the bare ideas as they can be play- ed with two hands upon .a pianoforte, or with four strings on a quartet, and what are they wortht Would a circle of cultivated musical people sit entranced by them if thtq were play- ed upon an old harpsichord? No, I take it. And if not their worth is little.”” “There, whether that be gospel or not, it has the rare virtue of being independent and origi- nal, as Grant White alwaysis. He is the alivest man T know. No beating abont the busi with him"; and, waving the Galaxy above his head as if it were the national flag, our DOM GAVE A UEARTY CHEER FOR MR. WHITE. And to finish up the season, next weck come the anoiversaries, which arc the most democratic of affairs. Nobody need talk about hizh art there, though there is'a ood deal of high talk. There will be representatives from all tue various circles of the city and country, but Music Hall they tinger them out solemuly upon - the viano. Those Songs “'inhgu'. ‘Words! ¢ gods! Songs ~ without soul, or body, or zuy sequence whatever. And women dote ‘upon them. I never knew a man, unless he was a very womanish fellow, who cared for them.” I quite agree with you, remarked Blon- dina, avimatedly and unexpeetedly. I bave ale ways bad the sawe feeliug for Mendelssohn that you express, uad I have noted his popu- larity with uiost women. I remember not wore than'a month ugo I was visiting A PRETTY, BRIGHT WOMAN, who, after dinner, played one after another of these vague sweetnesses. Presently, in a lull, in sheer desperation, I begzed for something definite,—"*a_ tune.” I recall the superior, pitying, yet diszusted look, the balf-breathed groun, the remark ot one who felt that she had been casting pearls: “I don't think you nre fond of musie,” T, who for years had fed myself on Beethoven, and Mozart, and Haudel, and uever could find. any fluent words to talk about music, it was so much to me,~I to be set down as not fond of musle because I loved it 100 well to like a little pianoforte tinkle on Mendelssohn's washed- O Ve st the 1 * Well, that’s the way of it. dare sa ‘woman hadn’t known you three mnntbn." 2 “‘ iufxmuula‘mm!';." nd on this slightness of uaintance sh passes ]\t.\légmtl:m— B;n it :H!h‘:lanme kind of Jjudgment that comes from this u; LfEasmhtae noatural falsity CLIMBING UP AFTER UNENOWN GODS, running wild over so-called authorits while uarecognizing the really flawless m.uxfbofiuen such as Handel or Beethoven. And the peuple who make this judgment are always the people who go by ‘authorities,’ wnatever that may mean.” But it menns really the last fashion and {:ry: Bat hear what White says of this last Ty : ** I have been held up as a dreadful example of musical incompetence on the grouud that T cannot ‘appreciate Wagner's ificent (or splendid, or something of that sort) tonality.! to Of course it cuts me to the heart show that my criticaster was thoroughly izoorant of ihe very meaning of the word that he used,—a word which is the ofa principle of ' paramount importance and ce In tne wt of musie, and all the rest of the places will not be over- flowing with such fashion, and so redolent of clegance as at musical festivals. But George Curtis is to "preside over the banguet and the speech-naking ot the Unitarian festival, and tflnt will be euough to draw & crowd and to lift imagined commonplaceaess into a new ail N.P. atmosphere. THE RAILROADS. A WESTERN WAR. And after all it looks as if there willbe o war be- tween the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Union Pacific Railroads. It will be remembered that the 3Missour: River Rallroad in Nebraska has 3 been fghting the Union Pacific for some time past, trying to compel the latter road to pro-rate with i on the Pacific business. As this would have greatly. reduced the profits of the Cnlon Pacific, this road tried every possible means to avert sucha calamity. 1 The matter got finally into Congress, where the case is now pending. The Chicazo, Durlington & Quinc{ was not directly responsible for the action taken by the Burlington & Missouri Rivef lioad in Nebravin bat as this road trolled and managed by Messrs. Forbes § znd Perkine, who are also con- ]| nected with the Chieago, Burlington & Quincy Mr. Gould made war on the latter road, knowing? that it had the influence to stop the Nebrasku road from continuing_its war. Through the exertions of Mr. Robert Harny, Presidentef the Chicago, Bn‘;lim;wn & Quncy, the war was broucht to an end, and un agreewment entered 1nto by which bot! siles made certain concessions. The ugreemen provided a re-establishment of the Iowa pool be-| tween the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chieago, Rock Ivland & Pacific, end the Chicago & North-, western Railronds, letting in also the Burlington & Mi-souri River Raroad in Nebraska. and the Sioux City & Elkhorn Valley lailrond, both of which had not belonzed to the pool hefore. The way_ con- Union Pacidc Laroad, in consideration of a promise that Do further attempt should be made to compel it to pro- rate from any point west of Omaha. acreed to divide equully allits businces between these roacs, and sbow 1o partiality to the Northwestern god Rock Island Roads, both of which lines he had secured control of. The managers of the Jines forming the new pool have held unwberless sessions in this city since that time, and perfected the details of the pool and arranged a schedule of divisions. Everything has been ready for several weeks past to commence work under the new arrungement. All that was wanting to_make the arrangement binding was the sigauture of the various Fnruu interested in the mattor. The monugers of the Chicago, Burlington & QLumcy and the AMissouri River Kallroad In Ne- braska were ready and anxious to have the sirna- tures attached and the arrangement carried into effeer, but. strauge to suy, the man- agers of the Union Paciic and 'the Chicago & Northwestern and Chicazo, ltock Istand & Pacific Railroads refused to attach their signaturcs to the document, pleading various fiimsy es- cuses. And here the matier rests ut present. No amount of entreaty can induce the managers of the rouds controlled by Jay Gould to sign thewr names to the agreement Which needs butthis one mors act to muke it efective. 1t seems that Jay Gould is nhoidmz off to to see what tumn the elections of the Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago, Rock Island & Facific, and Michlgan Central Raliroads will take nest montl, 1f these clecions go aguinst him, the concessions e made the pool would work attorney from A. B. Bayl holdersy sclsed the ui\;:'n:'fl:'fix" D by, ington Road for default of Interesy *.% Bloxt gatlon 1 regaried as purely mafizes, Bt I8 bankrapt, and by decree of the Peg, ey in the hand3 of o Receiver, i) eral Superintendent. 7 W'“’“m TABBITTS m BABBITTS TOLLET §ip Aed 1 tToller gt O T Sl odury Ltz COmmog gy, ST teriony s Lletaansis ; ot i e acibay Babbitr's Best Soap has perfc oy g T P T s manwacture. ¥ ¢ 0le et For Use in fhe Nursery it B iy Worth ten times Its cost to evory mather wm B.T.BABBITT, NewYork(}ity. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGIsTy, A PERFECT TOILET §)p First among the requisites of th artlle of Soap, but to procare it oy aineys P ‘matter. Many of the most expensive So-vllnt; ~ ket are made from coarie and deletoriony are s thel dellcate coloring and frazrant. pertummy oot conceal the most repulstve tmpurities, The ou recently made pablic regarding th tively startling, and deserye lerl‘:u._ln né;:‘,-"' g Scented Soaps arc now Kaown 1o bs extremye it B tHonable, expectally f applled to the bead; njter o B batr, trritating the scalb, -and Inductag sever s, scles. The character of the tngredionts may by from the statement of a geatleman why w,o scenting of S0aps his business; berecsatly ersons enaaied o thls emoloyment vere sy [ in Christendom. * Sample box, contalning ounces each, sent free 0 agy addreas cents. Address il EE PARDRIDGRS disastzously to tho interests of the Union Pacifc. When he ogreed to the arrangement he was confident _of controlling the three lives named above, and it was therefore his Interest to give the bulk of the Pacific business to the pool lines, which agaln Wwould have beeu compelled to_give most of their business to the Michizun Central, keeptng itall in the family. But siuce that time mutters have changed materially. He is no longer certain of getting control of the Michigun Central, aud there are chances of his losing the control of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacitic ond the Chicago & Norih. weatern. I he should lose them, he will undouby. edly try to punish them by discrimimating ngainst them, and this he could not do if the poof was cacs rled into eflect. 1t is understood that he is already looking for southwestern connections to rus hiy througa line that way, instead of via Chicago, . s far as the case in Congress about pro-rating the Pacile business with the roads west of Omana i concerned, he has no longer the Bame fears of being ten as he had & shiort time ago. It is cinlmed that he has formed an offensive and defensive treaty with Col. Thomas Scott, ugrecing to uid the latter in his Southers }:ucmc raid, while Mr. Scott sgrees to aid Mr, Gould in benting hi adversarics. ot only does 3r. Gould now expect. to be able to bent the Bee. lington & Missouri River Railroud In Nebraska {n its pro-rating claim, but he tninks be will be sble to ket through Congress an act which will do away with the Government Directory of the road. sni place the Union Pacific on the samo footing ag roads built excluslvely with private capital, ang make it safe from future interference or trouble on the part of the United States Government. ILLINOIS CENTRAL TLAND SAL Special Dispaich to The Trivune. SPRINGPIELD, iL., Muy 26.—The sales of land in the several counties in Iinols during the six months prior to May 1, 1877, by the Illinols Cen- tral Rallrond, are reported to the Auditor's office as follows: In Alexander County, 317 acres; Pu- laski County, 40 acres; Union County, 152 acres; Johnson County, 132 acres; Jackson County, 300 acres; Williamson County, 200 acres; ki County, 260 acres; Perry Counry, aorukf;"\'\?ufi? Ington' County, 330 acres; Jeflerson County, 514 acres; Clinton County, 216 acres; Marion County, 822 acres; Clay County, %80 acres; B County, 610 ncres:” Jasper Coanty, 520 :a’:fe(."i Elingnam County, * 511 acres; ‘Montzomers Couny, 40ocres: Selby County, 530 acres: Chi 3 0 i Chris- tian County, 600 acres; Macon County, 40 acres; L«;;nl.: County, 40 acres: Piatt County, 80 acre: Lee County, 240 acres;. Carroll County, 83 acre: Ogle County, 80 ncres, Jo Daviess County, 76 acrea:Stephenson Coanty, 20 acres; Ford. County, 40 acres; Kunkakee County, 120 acres; Iroquols County, 68 acres; Champaign Connty, 360 acres; Douglaa County, 40 acres, ‘Total, 8,732 ncres. SOUTHERN ITEM. JAcKSONVILLE, Fla., May 25.—Justice Bradley, of the Unlted States Sapreme Court, on Taesday decided the motion for an fnjunction asked for 1y the two wuits of the Western (N. C.) Rallroaq against Gov. Drew. , restraining the salo of the Florida Central and the Jucksonvlle. Pensacola. & Mobile Railroadr, recently neized by the toan tacs ;n:; :v‘.llgie'lln xj:::;rx:ymeim g{ intercst on bonds, by 1avolved exceeds 87,000, 000, % The Bmonnt THE LAFAYETTE WAR. Spectal Dixpatch to The Tridune. Lararstre, Ind., May 26.—A new featare in the Lafayette railroad war was developed to-day in the retarn of several indictments agninst B, 1. ‘Waldron, late Superintendent of the Ohlo & Mis- slasippl Railroid, who recently, under power of in Chtcago for Ladtes, at M. E. Churc) corner Clark and Washingion-sti. fromseven to ten years betag th which the uccunln’on could B‘fl ‘:ll‘::‘fl?.‘ “Fie dLicuity of procaring. Tollot Sosp 14 3t 1ast obviated: bemecd ey DT Bunarer, 4 enterprise and chemical sitill of My, hose ftheias chermipaaRcd, Sotp whose e ment A Xind Ju the Uanited States. Tho revpur o SFSkoLG 7Arlous PRITCLIOGS L for many yearybees rAATE) seminatefli but this Istest success [ crown to the uumerous victories already achicoy’ (Atier vears ot patlent Iabor aad sclentife expemen, Mr. BanntrT has succeeded In perfacting the. compodt 7 10 of thie fineattollet soap ever Introdniet” TaIo% clpal ingredlents are the purest vegetable ofis: mfl ufacturing processes are encircly new aad orgias Sl result 8 lmply unparaiied x thi departmentol “*B. T. BABAITT'S TOILET SoAP™ it tho trade. by which this elegans toliet Taviry b scrdenut torappication to the delicate skin of (hiosd and ladies, 1615 wltogether unequaled i 1 ropertied. ‘The S0ap I8 nof péumed. fhe lapeica B T Babblce Telict Sesh Tocs . o hSbbtes Tote Beslthful and agreesble article of the Kiag e o2 F T rah spectally deatrable for the Iadis ough spectally deatrable for the use chlldren, this soap fs equally approf fll‘:‘lfit N men's toller, uad as 1t makes & heavy athes I Sy of the fines soaps for Larbers use, 1t s fun laced upon the market, but the deman } Becoine Benerat. = Nas Fork Tt el B. T. BABBITT, New York £ty —_— Ul SILKS. Will offer on Monday 500 pieces o Black and Colored Silk from Nev York Auctions at prices fully 20 p cent below those asked' by othe Houses, At 75 8 good 32-inch Glace Silkfor Gre adine lining, At 85c heavy Black Gros Grain Silk werd AtS1.00 wo shall offor s 23-inch ety Gros Grain; others ask S1.25. At 125 & good Guinet Silk worth SLY At S1.35 Givernaud's extra hesvy Gra Grain. Agent's price, SL55. At S1.50 Guinet Satin-finish Gros Grs worth $2.00. n At $1.90 and $3.00 wo shall offer 0 pey Lyons Silks, Satin finish, 24 inches Wik worth $2.25'and $2.50. e Also, 50 pes of Colored Silks in light Qark shades for trimming, 850, 15, sad6e At $1.00 we shail offer 50 pes of Calard Silks, good shades, and never befare sold & less than $1.35. o At $1.10 we shall offer 35 pes of Gros Grains, 30 inchos wide: others & At $1.25 we shall offer o full line of ner Spring Shades of 30-inch Gros Gram never before sold for less than $1.50. At $1.50 a job Iot of 24-inch Gros Graits extra heavy quality, never before offered iz Tass than $2.00. i At 75¢ 8 job lot of 50 pes of Bl White Striped Gros Grain, cost 9001 gl to import. 500 pes All-Wool Black Cashmerss 88 50, 80, 70, 80. 80c, and $1.00, and gusrd teed to be 10 per cent below theprices sskel by other houses. 20 pes Grenadines at18c, worth 35¢ 25 pos Lron-Frame Gronadine, allSilkedd oot, at 50c; others ask 75¢. 25 pes Mexican Mesh Grenadine st 5% last season’s price, $1.25. 10 pes 2-yards-wide Iron-Frame Grest dine at 90¢, +1.00, and §$1.25, worth $13% $1.50, and $1.75. PARDR 209 Stats-St, car, Mams NER, SPECIALTY — Disesses & CES+ SAM TURN ClAS. B, FARNTLL b DIL W.'W. ALLPORT. DR W, . LYMAY 114 & 116 State-st. _— ém: Feet, l.:od B Oftice hours, 9. m. toGp. m. Sum‘lll.fll-fl-._l X CIZIROPODISTS. 1blal p.m. E i s ekt e o0 D, KENISON, Chlropodia. s the plcastet L. WILLARD, K1, § DOLLAR STORE. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT Efig DOLLAl 108 106 MADISON-ST. DENTISTRY. Dr. Lewls has removed 10/ y northwest corner of S8t Iandotph-sta., over drog st ik el e om where he bas Bre. fle wiil do E‘%fi"&”:” AP S, Y aaned 196 £ FOR S7 AND 55 o8 825 're‘:lzlfi rgf\ Sr'l\ siglgfl. th";',‘ a pecialty. “t-_}lmgfi_&, * 112 Deartors £y e MILLINERY. Mme, POITRAS [ Can be found hereafter, ready to flil all ordert Fine Milhnery, of store 101 STATE-ST- oS 7] PR 5% i i N e B o anc, g mopors N