Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1877, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGRS, 7 SPORTING. n The Snide Match Between Great Fastern and Smuggler Ezposed., proposed Meeting for Colts at Dexter Park Next Year. Where the Great Trotters and Drivers Will Spend the ‘Winter. American Horses in England---Track Talk for the Million. Base-Ball “Crook ” Devlin’s Sup- plementary Confession, e Charges the Louisville Club Managers with * Fixing ” Umpires, Etc, Ete. THE 74URF. A SNTDE *“MATCHLY Some weeks ago this paper alluded to the prac- @ice of trotting horses in what are known as hippo- arome races, taking the ground that o long as the pablic artended these eshibitlons of speed, know- ing them 1o be £uch, and not in any sense bona- fde races. there could be no possible objection to 1hem, - For several Tears past there has been but little hippodroming done, for the very good reason {hst there were o horees to do it with. It takes a conple of animals uf national reputation for specd toaraw 3 paving crowd when they alone are to compete in a race, aud since the days when Goldsmith Maid and Lucy made their tour of the stes, there bave been no ench animals in the market. The Maid, to be sure, was hipoodromea for a seseon or two. and drew crowds on acconnt of her popularity, but even her prestize was on he wane when Doble so wisely decided 1o with- crawher from the track, and her exhibitions of ¢oeed were made in connection witn regutar race it being foond that the public iould oot consider them alone an afternoon’s ort. After Smuggler had defeated the and obtained the champion stallion's Tecord of 2154, he would have been 1 good one to have accompanled the little mare on & hippodroming tour, had his unsteadiness amd unrelisbility as 8 campaigner not rendered him al- ot meel Then the present season was drawine to a close John Spian concluded to make nsc of the reputa- tion of that grest horse, Rarus, and securing Hope- ful 2nd Great Eastern as side lights to his cquine suar, went forth on a hippodroming tour. The @ecting tlree trotted some very creditable races, Hope-- fo ad Rarus going to harmess and . Grest Eastern to suddle. But Iopeful was ‘pardly in condition to stand even €0 light a cam- .zuas 2 hippodroming tour involved. und was n sent home, leaving Rarus and Great Lastern Atthe Indianapolis mectin: W © continue the fan. over the country from «cland, apnounciug that the owners of Great Eastern and Smugzler bad mrtched those hursn; o 'he ot over the Cleveiand track for $5.000. puins taken to State that the owners of the no: tad made this match it look as if thes funuy work™ in connection wita the Great Eastern is owned by Mr. George mill. a farmer who lives near Rome, New York. and Smuzryler by Col. Russell, of Hoston, anu neither of these gzentlemen is celebrated as a patch-maker. Another curious feature of the afiair the fact that two wecks before the race a1 Cleveland was announced. the parties controlling Great Eastern and Rarus tad telesraphed to the manazement of Dexter Park in {his city and informaily arranged Tor a trot over that track, which was to have tiken vlace one day before the date on which the Cleve- l:nd -*match ' was announced 1o oceur. But as the Associated Pres« telegram distinctly stated that the owners of the horsex had arranezed the Cleve- land afuir, people m this city thought they mizht pave overruled the drivers in the matier of tae Dester Park engazement. They might have gone ou_in this_belief forever had not THE TRIBUNE *-drooped ™' on the matter i a_very unespected mapper. On the day that the Dexier Park trot ¥ o have tiken taken plice, and but ixenty-four hours brevions to the -time shen toe Clevelznd *‘match wns due to come ¢I, the Post of this city anncunced that Mr. Ham- =iil. the owner of Great Esstern, was in, the city. Ii scemed very fusny that & man who hzd matched horse tu trot a 1 £5.000 shonld be in Chicazo the day bef at race was to come off, instead of slo Eir borse in Cleveland, anil accordingly the matter w1 investicated. 1t dic not tuke much mquiry to kock the vottom out of the yarn abouta mutch. It seems that Mr. Hammill had never scen tine lorse trot under saddle, and learn: from the (hicazo _ papers that Great _Eastern and Bsme were fo trot at Dexter Park, wonce started for this city. He came via Clever lod. but so profound was his irnorence of the oatch which the Associsted Press credited him wuh having made, and which was to have been totted the following day at Clevelund, that he tze rizht along to Chicago. On reacning this i he discovercd hie mistake, and took the affer~ zon train back to Cleveland.” Whle here he was testioned about the matter, and suid - that {barley Green held entire and complete control l!gmu Eastern, and could do with him precisely © he chos Sow tnere are but two pomts to the matter of the alleed match between the owners of Great Extern and Smossler which was never mude. The Associated Press agent av Cleveland either tia:trocted the yarn out of whole cloth, orit was 1old to him by ‘partiea whom he belicved to bs respogsible for what they said. Ia the latter case beean, doultless. te)l who these parties were, and vard the desired information at the carliest con- Tenlent opgortumity. There were a preat many pools ©ld in Clicaro on this enide **match,™ and no oot much of the money was placed because ke bettinz men belicved the Associnted Press dis- Jotek correct, as it had a right to be, and kuew 15t if Mesers. Hamill and Ruesell put up thewr Eoney on a race between borses owned by them, it Tould be up-and-up. If the Associated Press acent at Cleveland was lied to abont the matter, let btatell who his informants were. in order that in Le futare the pubiic may steer clear of other so- Giled matches made by them. The misrepresenia- ton in this case was discovered merely by acci- 2, vat, now that it has been discovered, Jet the . matter be fully investicated. PHOPOSED COLT STAKES. Asite readers are awarc. this paper1s not partic- Elatly in favor of colt races for trotting horses, be- Tievinzthat ina majority of instances thie youngsters tare pitted against each uther in races daring 2¢ st five-vears of their ife are nermanently - Jored therehy, apd toar where one baby trotter iinson " ien are ruined by the severe work Decessry to prepare them for races. It ie well goouza, ‘perkaps, for lhe breeders to hold meet~ inzeat which contests between colts are the prin- cpl cvents, and their ciforts i _that direction thus’ sesson. both in New York uwd - Kentucky. hsve resnlted i a wonderful co; z down of the hitherto best fecorled time for L 2, ¥, and 4 yoar olde. Gov. Shrusme’s 1, as 3 3-year-old. alonc bemg left vatoacheq. In view of the fact that colt races are cuming into popalarity, it has been sazzested that meeting 10 be held next summer in Chicazo Ibe manszenrent of the track should open rtakes fo:d, 3. and 5 vear oid coits and dilics, letting the eatrance bo $30. Lalf forfent if declared out three Trecks before the day of the race; the Association 10304 $30) or So0. Tt s thousht BaL ihese Elakes would fill well, ‘and thai the increased sttendsace which they would undenbtedly attract . ¥omid more than repay the amount put up by the Tienagement. = The scheme Las been talked np some 2mong Chi- §azo honsemen, and ineets with universal favor. 2 thie city there are more trotting colts than mu: E:fm: have any jdea of, and with the large num- 1 that would undoubtedly eser in stakes each as l0se proposcd above, a long teld of starters would §ndoobiealy be secured i each class. In Peter Jobazon’s smbles there are 3 conple of exceedingly 1ot youngeters: the -y Iy Lucy Cayler, st recently trotted a i S and 8 - o lls by the Clneago etaition Monroe Chicf, that {Jowed 3 mule in 2:41 before hei purchase % Hemtacky by “"Mr. Longler, of this Fi b¥ whom she is owned Mr. B. ke, the weli-known - horceman, has a Hlly lae Buli that wonid be elizible in a 3 g Lext seagop, and that has koD €no {pdemonsmrate that it would take a good one to Sefeat ber. Mr. Dougherty, of the Webster ave- s Stables, has a numoer of younmters by his o men Woodford in charze, and would certainly hoilling 10 test their metal in 3 contest with ,h" es of their ave, and several colts: by Menelaus Thejaie Is ow ligudimg ave as specay us any at enro2ee. M. P. L. Hanscom. one of the most Douslastic breeders in the West, would doubt- thy De represented in any ' colt stakes sl Might be established by the get of s wallion Manscom's Ethan Allen, and Mr. Wads- restailion Silver Duke would not probably be aithout s sun o daashter in the fray, From the arrounding country there would be any amount of tries. From Kavima Mr, Coc would doubtiess fome forwurd with some of the promising youug -ootiers under ns control, the getof White Eve, facned by Mr. Joba oyd, of this city, and from ¢ country about Waukegan there would be 3 Cpmber of eniries, the pet of Argonent, Toicper, ete. Racme would also be rep- sacented by choice selections from the breed- fae re. . Dull, and Yicharce, while Mr. C. T. Bradley, of Milwankce, {o2ld prabavly enter some cofts by his son of inoletoman,” Mr, James Van Etta, now pro- MIelor of 1 jarge etock-farm mear Japesvil Gy, 2nd formerly a prominent business man 320, would name some colts by his hors® not lonzagothe pairiwere to have trotted a racc, g Paras was not acting right, and but one heat was rotted, inoing that in q In a few d: an Ass ity Presa @ veeple in thie vicinity would like to have him for-" “ case tne race had been trotted, one verdunt speci- Robert Fulton, the sire of Janesviile and other Cleveland taken place, and Smuggler trotted 2 mile gooa ones, while Indiuna, ‘Ohio, Kansax, nad [in 2:14 or bLeiter, 'the Callformin. trip would other Weatern States would be represented by, the £t of uch well-known horses sis Line_ Bull, Gen. Grant, Markswan, Wapsie, Cosster, Ethan Allen, ete. The Southern breeders would lso be present in force, as there Is mot a better market in the country for horses than Chicago, and the only way £ sell” young trotting stock 13 to. show speed in actusl races. WIHERE THE DRIVERS WILL WINTER. a There has nothing of importance tranapired in tuef circles durninz the past week. Budd' Doble, after au unsuccessful season, has started for Calis fornia with a car-load of liorses, consisting of Smugzler, Volney the preut overrated. and five thorouzhbred colts and fllies. the proporty of his father-in:law, **Lucky " Daldwin, of San Fran- cisco. Now fhat the Mafd has becn permanently retired from the turf, it is probable that Budd's star will decline, and other dfivere with a5 much merit but les food forrune tal John e his piace, have been that Col, fast record for Cot. Raszell's motive isa very praiseworthy one, but if auy fast record is to be obtained in Califor- nia this wWinter it must bo I 4 race, and notin any private trial or hippodrome. Smugyler's reputi- tion as a eire will depend, not on his own merits a8 abandoned, and farther eaid Russell's object was o get a borse, This 18 all right, and trotter. but on those of his colts, - Thus far they ‘have not shown enongh speed to be heard of, at least not in races. o trotin 2:14. or better, horsemen all azrec that be can undoubtedly perform that feat whenever in good fix and on a fast track. shown himself possessed of more speed than any borse in the country, but his unsteadiness has been detrimental to his aticcess in races. Tn regard to Smaggler's ability le bas frequently Some four weeks ago, when it was announced by thie paper that Goldsmith Maid had becn perma~ nently retired from the turf, a lfoud and entirely Splan has been taking it easy at Cleveland fora oF wes 5 N soon on s pay 1o the Facific slope with & car- | piertins . thay it Wis ‘'a meroc mewspaper load of trotiers, among which will be Rarus, Ade- lide, and Calmar. “Should the weather be pleasant during his elay here, Col. Mausur will probably arrange for some' sportar Dexter Park. 1t is possible that Charley Green may no- company Splan to Catifornis, with Greut Eastern, and in this case they would probadly join Smugaler in a hippodroming four. Indeed there seems to be a general exodus of fast trot- yarn™; that tue mare was well as ever, etc. How mach truth there was in. their loud protestations may be judred {rom the fact that everything trans- pired exactly as orcaicted by Tiiz for two weeke the mare has been the breeding-farm of her owner, at Trenton, N. J. nounced hicr retfrément she bas neser trotted a mile, “although he had several enxagements to RIRUNE, and uietly resting at cory N. Smitb, From the time this paper an- ters o the Far West 'this fall, as Morrill. 1izbie e e Laks lins espressod bis intention_of going with Little fi‘;',‘,',‘.‘,;,,,g’:;,"::,,‘l:‘;‘, Toe El.;:,r.'.es'{:.rci"bmf,’,{:ld' i i‘,“xg;;s".'fyfilf,fi;fl'n‘.‘;ffi’fii“fi"u‘;‘?\f’fl.;\,’,'f”fi;fi I te spring will be_bred to the 4-year-old 'stal- Mace will also start from New York on the 15th | Panrap 0570 DY Gen. Enox ‘out of Lady inst. with several trotters, ~ +* Nosey ™ Brown will Drobabiy winter in the South, unless be coucludes 10 reopen the conl-yard which he manipulated so successfully last winter, and Moore Floyd, of Pittsburg, Who has been o enccessful with Slow Goand Budger Girl, will probubly take them to wurmer rezions. Lew Glenn will no doubt make his aunuai trip to Floriga, and may have some company from his section of the country, Peter Johusop will Winter in Chicago, and will find plenty 10 do in caring for the valuable horses in bis charge. AMERICAN STABL] Next fall is likely to witness the advent in En- gland of at Teast on more American turfman, M. ‘ierre Lorillard, and it is possible that Mr. Angust Lelmont. too, my send over some horses. Mr. M. 1L Sznford, who 15 now over there, thongh the colts hie took over were notrepresentatives of the American race-borse it Lis best. he having no snch G-vear-olds as Vera Crus. Baden-Buden, or Ling Faro. or such older horse a8 Ten Broec! Ochiltree, or Parole, Lius been fairly succesafy eamings in etakes alone. despite the illnes Brown Prince aml Eay Final. and other mishaps, amounting to somethy $15,000, while uin Prospects for a_better campaizn’ nest yearare most excellent. Like Mr. Sanfard, Mr. Lorillard 3* 3 man of immen: alth, ' “and, us he has a keen ambition 1o succeed 96 a Turf King, and i« ot hampered by any vrejudices in favor of | 1 this sire of his own breedin nst that straiu. he will be sure to take over to Enzland a big stable of hizh-class horses, and to back them heavily, So ENGLAND. it the intention, as he expresses it. of **gving both eides ™ of the story about the expulsion of Devhin large ure the stakes that a turf-man can liud in. Enlend with 2 lucky coun, and so certain is it that our good horses can compete on cqual terms with those of Enclond, that the inducement to men like the Lorillards, who race for profit as well ax for pleasure, 1o take xtronz ~tuds over to the old country and e it Tacing on a larze scale, is 3 powerfulone. “If American horses succeed at all, the example of the Duke of Hamilton lust sumuer will be followed, and I owners-will draw gely for vearlings on the Kentucky stables, with the nitural consequence of putting up prices and increasing the profits of Ameriean breeders. TRACK TALE. George Evans, the jockey. sailed for Europe last A handsomer colt vever danced on the datates, ol Let him collar the hill ere you carol his prase: and Hall. The followlng effusion is very popular in En- gland, where it originated, and may intercst sowe- 0dy in this country, It 15 supposed o convey an ishman’s 1dea of his hunter: ‘When the country is deepest 1 give you my word ‘TiS a pride and a pleasure to put litm atong. O'er fullowe and pastures he skims like a bird! For_there's awthing 100 Wigh, nor too wide, nor too strong Agthe plows caunot clioke, nor the fences can stop Our clipper that stands n the stall at the top. ‘That satin coat covers tough sinews: 5 Base metal will glisten as brightly a3 gold. Behold himl le's cue {t! Ears drooping, fag work- o ¢ beatity’s a craven] The other runs well: [aln andthree-cornered, but—as not learat shirking: Just reineuiber, my boys, that breeding will tellt BASE-BALL. DEVLIN'S SUPPLEMENTARY CONFESSIO! A gentleman well known to a reporter of thi aper writes at some length from Louisville, with He hegins by eaying that the base-ball ublic will heartily thank the Louisville Club for its efforts 1o expose corrution in the game, and would be even more profase in thetr thanks and congratulations could it be made to appear that the efforts of the man: uniformly on the high plane lately nssumed by them, has not, it appears, found s way into the Courier- Journal, and that item bears upon the Clu relations to Devinney. that Devinney scheme had been put up by the manasers after consultation with himself and otners, and that it had been brought to such a pitch of perfec- tionthat, as he expressed it, in the conntry could have won a game from us ment of the Club had been One purt of the confession of Mr. Devlin When asked apon subject, Devln confessed that the ‘*no ecighteen men week. - e will return 1 the spring. ] won The brood-mare Moden. by Parmeson, wasre. | With Devinney as mmpire.” Add the ever- cently sold at auction in England for 38, 137, *| recurring proofs offered by facts to this confession _of Deslin’s, and It puts the Gubricl, one of the last sons of imported Glencoe, died on the 2th ult., in Montsomery County, Va. The well-known running colt Garry Owen has brokendown. He is owned by Jenuings & Hunt, of Kentucky. The new St. L wide. and the be fitted np ¢ Thomas Winans, of s track iy seventy-five feet track on the inside isto altimore, has purchased the Urloff trotter: ght to this country Iast sbring by Licut. Samailoft. 'he English_steeple-chaser Sandy broke a leg while in’ the Octover lundicap stéeplu-chase at Louisville Club management just about where the public have long ago stationed them. Further- more, the Club cannot afford to repudiate this branch of Mr. Devlin's revelations any mare than they can the others on which they put so much stress. guilt in one direction, his suilt in the matter of buying up-Devinney just Vecause they stood in with the outrage on the other clubs, Tt will be hard to find any ciub mana- ger who believes it was much worse for the game Tor Devlin to eell himself out than for his employ- If they accept his proof of his own let them mot izmore Croyden; and was Sestiuyid. ers to buy out amother mon. It was depasing and ¥ i sl corrupting the game,—in one cuse by an_iynorant, ‘The trotting mare Fannie Jefferson has been sold | needy player: in the other by high-toned, wealthy toa gentleman fn New Haven, Conn.,and will | gentlemen. These are the views of Deviin and bereatter be used on the road. the correspondent. 'Fey wounld also be those of. Aristides Welch, of Philadelphia, has purchaced the thoroughbred mares Austraiind and Sister of Merey. They will be bred 10 Leamingion. ¢*Doc™ Starr, a well-known California_driver, was shot and fatally wounded at Oakland, Cal., Oct. 19, by a younuyx man named Frank Ouden. a Gen. G. W. Harding, of the Belle Meade Stock- Farm, has purchased 1he Enzlish stallion King Al- {red, by King Tow, out of a ware by Bay Middle- ton. D. L. 5. P." is informed_that Parole walkea for the race tnat was to | n place be- fiseif and Tea Broeck Nov. 3, aud conse- quently won it. The black stallion htshade, formerly o mem- ber of the famo: d stallion-team, com- posea of Suverb, by Ethon Allen, and his three eone, died reeently at Washington, N. C. At the recent sale of Dr. Ilere's trotting stock, néar Lexin eirhty-two head wero cold Tue Trn Directo: the Devinnes watter, as chi mentary confeseion of Devlin. NE were it avsolutely settled that the a3 weli as the players, were knewing to zed in the supple- Another thing of whica Devlin complains bitterly i3 what he calls'the Club's lack of faith with him in nother matter. e that when the first sus- picion of crookedness was excited the management went 1o him and asked nim to tell all he knew, and that they then absolutely promised him full im- munity and protection. Tin made his second confess Fays, to be o their promis he richly des and becaus Under thiy promise Dev- m, expecting, as he ered up, but the Directors broke nd expelled him,—which the same ved, both because he soid zames, he was fool enough to own ap 10 it. * ‘While Devlin has owned up to tne fact that he lost three wames on_purpose, and for money, he wishes to call attention to his e reason why he did so. 1tis simg absolute want of thie necessaries which mouey could buy, and which lie could not get hecanse fie Clab would not pay him the money which it owed lanation of 'the y that he was in . while thirteen nead | S t ¥ ; i PRl bl bim. i eays that the Club has not paid him a #ing (o Joscph Ewait averuzed $169. 61 each. | goljur since last August, and that it now owes him Adelaide and Plaater we $470. Further, that when, in Augnst. he gave, his name, that he Indizn: and th made etther of the entnes or bas anything to do polis mveting in Charley Gr t driver is out ina card den, brouht only & 3 has been gricvously misuced in mot being paid landlord an order for $150 on the Club, that In short, Devlin clalms that he With gha horses. accordig “to b conract, On the samo AL S i authority it appears that the . players cha ot Conpurms of sterling, Til, has par- | Sera ouwed by the Crub the followins sums at the yearling stailion Cowlnt, by ero of Thoridale, | §00, OTpthe weazens Savden SS0Us Gerhardt, out of Abutilon by Belmont; also Carlotta, year- g 1y, by American Ulzy, dam Patti by Mam- brino Chief. Gen. Withers, of the Fairlawn Stock Farm, re- old to Robert Chevne, of Toronto. Can., yearling bay colt by Aluont, dam by Murion, for 1,500, and at tae Same fgure disposed of the chestaat flly, s Casey, 3 yeurs ola, by Almont, 1o an Eastern party. Mr. Wadsworth, owner of the Duke. prowosesa very fair way to sett] as to whether that ho or Helm's fastest trotter, by oferinz to match his horse against Mr. flelo's, mile heats, three infive, in over Dexter Park. The total amount won at runnicg meetings in the United States this year, up to the close of the Boltimore mee: W 50, 503 Of this, Pierre Lorillard has won €50. and his brother Georze The averaze winnings of the tnirteen tables is S8, Mr. Jewett. of the Fair Oaks Stock Farm, Zanes- ille, O., recently sent a lotof norses to New York, among the Jot beine a rosn pacer that has cieaned outeverythine on the raad. He is said to ‘be able to pace 4 half-mile in 1:02, and wiil soon make an effort to beat Blly Boyce' record of lion il the question J. Cumber, owner of the trotting horse Bright- wood, that created so much excitement in the Tilinofe Circuit Jast summer, being protested as a “*ringer” at nearly eve: iere he trotted, Das written 4 letier toa Daper in which he states that lirightwood is by Clear Grit, the horse that sired St. Patrick and Clothespin. Mr. B. F. Akers, of the Kansas Stock Farm is now ‘on the road fo Chicazo with a car-load of young stallions ready to use on the track or roae Tie bus aiso some fine threc-year old fillies, many of whom are by Et oa, the last of Lhat prest horse's get. Mr. sale of xtock here last SUIMMEr Wa2 Very succe ul. and the fact that his representations 1n regard o borses can be relied upon, makes him popular with the public, The popular jockey. Barrett. who rides for the cruck Eastern stabies, was picked up by Mr. Brown, tne trainer, when 1 barefooted littie boy, either blackinz boots or playing pitch and toss near e Astor flou-e. The swall boy. perceiving that he bLroad and intellectnnl countenance of the tramer—he 15 2 much handsomer man than Lrown {hie Beadle—was directed towards bim. was some- what avasted at first: bat being asked whether he would ot iike fo ride race-horses, be forthwith replied that be would, and thresy a xomersault. A regular meeting of the National Board of Ap- peals will be held at the office of the Association iu Hartford on Tuesday. Dec. 4. All communica- Ziens 1ntended for the consideration of the Board at the avbove meeting should be forwarded at ouce o $2501 Latham, LafTert; hax not been paid, that 1t will be, home taey were given S100 each, oul the others could et nothing. It further appears, as an,ev dence of tie condition of the Club, that the car- penter who builtthe stands for the grounds has neve 1ing his money fu a o | onaut s | garded for sale by thie Sherill of Jefferson County, Devlin in the fact that he has not been ihat claim is ot made by himself or by the corre- spondent, but still the Tacts about the Club are quite proper to be published as showing how it treats 1ts plavers, and, more than tha, how it treated other clubs during the &c 0. proi mecting to exvel the Club on ucconnt of its failure to keeo fuith with them in the matter of payment. Devlin, for instance, claims that his contract was continuall the day competent legal ndvis 3 that it was so artfally drawn as not to hbld the 4 Club for a dollar, the League Board for equity, and others will fol~ low his precedent. 1 it &hall be proven, asis claimed, that the Club hax defaulted 10 ite plavers, or has been euilty “of subormng umpires (or un umire), Leazue,—] Hall on their own showi; more stand & defasltinz and dishonest ciub than can the club stend a dishonest player. w: Craver, ' $200; Mall, $200; fague. $250." This sum of §3, i the players do not expect When the Eastém players went off cen paid: and that, despairing of ever get- y i ¥ other way. he has gone into ‘ourts, and that even now the concern ia pl There is not the slightest gronnd for exeuse of aid, and son. Jt appears that the expzlled members of the Club st 10 appeal to the Lengue at its Decomber violated Tr ¢ was ex| n the time he signed it to ed. He hus taken it to , and they have told him He therefore proposes to ask should be promptly exnelled from the t a5 prompily as rhould Deviin and The Leaguc can no TAE MILWAUKEE CLI A correspondent in Milwaukee sends the record f the professional Clun of thatcity as follows: 7o 10 ko, ) a0 sant wsts aoa iy vay 1o the Secretary. AT thie meeting. the Bosrd will exercise its aut ¥ of supervision and review, in uccordance with Article 7 of the by-laws, tak- ing cognizance of questions of a general cnnracter, petitions aifectinz members, appeais frow decisions and rulings of the several district boards, and such other appeals and apphications as are authorized by Raole 52, and judement will be rendered in all Cases whetem the parties are prepared for trial. After the Kentucky delegation that controls Ten Broeck had decided not o start him in the race asamst Parole Nov. I, they offered to race St Murtin and Vera Croz aguinst Parole under the same conditions as th ce, viz.: Onehundred dollars entrance fee, o for age, Baltimore ruics, with %000 added. which would have made St Martin's_weight 114 pounds. Parole’s 104 cunds, and Vera Cruz’e 102 pounds. Naturally Str. Lonllard and 3r. McGrath ditfered as to_the chances of the race. and 1t & not much to be won- Qered at. espectally on the partof Mr. Loriilacd, for, plucky 2s e i, and with ali the confidence he hae in Parale. he could sec that the little gelding would have so much the of the race with St. ilamn to force tne pace and Vera Cruz 1o win, or ¥ice ye 3 i Col. Russell. owner of Smuegler, is makinga desperate effort 10 advertise that horse, and ie be- T woly wesisted by the callow youths who uttempt a THE MAPLE LEAP CLUB of Gueiph, Canada. played thitty-tve sames dnr- ing the season just PAst, winainz seventeen, ticing two, and losinz sisteen. Following e the battinz verage of the men: fo write about horse matters for the Clevelana papers. They illed columms of the papers on {vich they are empioyed with the thinnest kind of slush about the horsé when the enide **matc, vhich reference is muade elsewhere, was xn'.l?l ‘:lw tapi: and , when it was finally declared off, becanse Dudd ;Doble was r 1o California, they fell to ould have dune in waiting 1o al s writing about what the hor: Sway asvg Prayers. oing s0 fAr A5 10 assert that, after arriving at ting the last quarter of the sec- Their efforts to advertise Smaegler might have gone for something had they kept within the bounas of reason, but one of them inadvertantlylet the cat out of the Bag by statin, in an article on the horse's depar ure for California, that, had the proposed race 4t vena mile ‘and repeat | Lapham, 1, and c £. Hasungs, c. and c. Hewer, r. 1. . s, 1. . sl g A i a9l 4 . been in the city. . The flelding record of the Club is as follows: EREIETE RS Sy =3i 83| =3 S3ica 5308 & 5| 2§ 5§ Payers. S Bl EERE-1RY ol TRl P3n T B BN &7 .| 82388 20 1412000 .06 .41 Jonliam, 1, and ”! 3 q0l 4018 Lo T 8 Qainton, ‘e and 35,1 34 1801 89 63 P . Smith, pand of.i 33 40,135 47 ) Giilespfe, > 3o s 37 o Dixon, 5 2307w o7 Sullevas 52 3308 30 ies and ¥ " lewer ! s 6l 120 1L L7 15 THE TECUMSEN CLUB. . The record of the Tecumsch Club, champlons of the International Association. and also of Canada, shows that it bas won 47 games, drawn 7, and lost 20, totsl of 0. Following aze the averages of layers: theiplayany BATTING. llean. 5 Doscher. FIELDING. g 33 & Players. £3 H ;E[ BN 1[Gimean, 1. 1. i - Hornung, 15¢D. and 1. . lagner, T. 1, 4iSpencer, . 1. 5 Smit 10 Rnodell, f. and¢. 11 Blonin, 24 b, 2 Powers, c. Goldsml, T tc. 14 Quinton, €. arid 24% . THE SINTEEN LEADERS. Secretary Yohn, of the Indianupolis Club, has made up a record of the play of sixteen of the best- known clubs in the arena during the whole season, with which he favors this column. It is as follows ozmcas: seosa | HounuB DUy Aunsy| wuuouLD)| “anasinor yasunoig 100k 2152420 | YD Zlcmncosas CURVED PITCIING. Ancxperiment was recently tricd in Cincinnati to demor 1 but in & more simple way. N on the corner of Munson d Pine streets when the clubs were coming in. Seeing the ball in the hands of a friend, he invited a pitch. The holder of the ball put ne foot ahiead of the other, shut his lips tight tozether, elared with awfal ferocity at his friend, and’ then’ twisting his arm twice from the shouider to the elbow, and four times trom the elbow to the wrist, let drive the deadly missile. The slim man, who bad intensely warched the mysterious oreparation, saw the ball ing to the right and laid in that direction, but was immediately convinced that it was turning to the left, and while striking out in that direction wasastonished to observe that it was ubont to plank him in the middle of the back, and promptly whirl- ed zound to intercept I, Dut ot sccing tat all in that direction, and beinz dreadfully excited, he jumped aboat agaim, ard just in time to catch the bull on the bridse of his niose. There being plenty of pavement back of him, he was saved from fali- ing any great aistance, and is thus preserved as a Tiving evidence that a ball curves, although it is not Ifkely he will ever smell again with any sort of precision,— Dunbury Ve MISCELL. It {3 safd in St. Lowss | to reorganize for next year. During the past week Gonld, Foley, Addy, and Haztings, of the various Cincinnati clubs, have It appears that Addy has been released ny Cincinnati. Some wag has been putting npa’ “stiff” on an evening paper to the efect that Barnes i to have & club on the West Side on grounds furnished by the West Division Strect Railway Company. Craver, of the Loulsvilles, followed his exonl- glon with a letter to the Conrier-Journal denying every charge made nzainst bim, aad demanding opportumity to meet his accusers face to face and huve a thorongh in i The news about a club in Chicago is zafned from a Philadelphia paper this week. It notes in one paragraph that the Chicagos have envaveda full teun nd in another that they are **about 1o en- gase™” the Fersuson party. -Now, both of these Storiea cunnot possibly be truc. The Enguirer msn has fieured upall games played by League clubs with each other (calli the Cincinnau a League club) aud finds the to_be, inthe order named: White, McVey, An- gon, O'Rourke, Cassidy, Manning, Clapp, Jones, Start, Hallinan, Pike, Peters, ete. A correspondent in_Milwiukee says: *‘Tn sour rcport of zames played by the twenty leading clubs of the country there 18 an error affecting_onr Club unfavorably.” The Cluo has won 33, tied 3, and out of 6, insteadof won 26, tied 3, and totul, This would make our percent- 0, instead of .453, and would put us tenth instead of thirteenth.” There is a verv estraordinary difference ion between Hank Chadwick and Al Wrizht a3 to the merits of J. A, Haldeman, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Wright speaks of the **after- wards acknowledgad to be false cvidence of the epy. little Johnuy Maldeman,” while Chadwick mentions the same man as ¢*Mr. John £, Halde- man, the able base-bull editor of the Courier- Journal,” The Courder-Journal foots up its season_as_ fol- lows: Games won, 72; games drawn, 2: games lost and anld, +i: games plased. 118. This table incompleté, —very incomplete,—too_general in fact, 1t lumps all **games won" in togethier and don't attemot to mark off those won by De- vinney and those won by the Club from each other. To put in **eames sold” and leave out **games bonght™ is nonsense, The Cincinnati Enguirer mon, situation, adds: ** Arrangements will be ed before Jun. 1 which. the writer beliey zive the Cincinnati Club of 1878 almost.a wal over for the chiampionship.” That's puLting it on a shade too tnick. No man living ever did or ever pick out such u team. o get Jim White uld, of course, help Cincinnati, but when a writer talks abot *‘championship team” five months hefore the season opens he goes ont of his way to be —. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 3. 3.. Ind. —*\When and where will the League meet this year?" _inszer—Kennard House, Cieve- lund, 0., Wednesday, Dec. 3, at12 m, : L. AV Can you give me the battingz and flelding records of Gujvin, Dolan, Holbert, Cream- cr, and Fulmer:™ Uiusiwer—No, nothing trust- worthy until the Secretary of the International Association, Mr. Williame, finishes bis work, 0. 0. S§.—**1s Lonisville to bave a_club next scason, and will it be in the League if it does? Answer—The writer has nbsolutely no knowledge about that matter. Address J. A, Haldeman, Courier-Journat oflice, Louisville; he kyows ull soout it. . P. G.—**Will any application for membership in the League under the rule letting in thut outside club haviiig the best record he made. and who conld muke It Ansicer—Indianapotis has clearly the right to such_membership, bave won the most games ™ (71). Whether itis Intended to apply for it or not, has notappeared. P. R.—**To decide abet: Did or did mot the Louisville and Allestieny Clubs play a game be- fore the Louisville and Chicazos did this season: if #o, give date and score?™ AAnsuer—The Louisvilles played the Alieghenys in Pittsburg, April 25, and the score was: A., 35 L., 1. Thal was before NEQUS. the Red Sox propose opin- discussing the erfe Louisville and Chicazo met. I, §. 3. (1) Where will Shetzline, Mesesle, and Ellick play nest year? (2) Who do’ you c sider the nest batter imong thesé men: ilotali Morgan, McKelvy, ana Quest:™ Answer—(1) The first two will no doubt open the season fn Phila- deiphia. Have seen nothing about Eilck. (2 Would rather have McKelvy. LeEps—*+Last week you gave a record of four newspaper estimates of the batting of Jones, Man- ninz, Fike, and Addy—all ditferent.” Now i am staicholder for a small bet about Jones and Man- ning's batiing records; waat shall T goony” a- swer—The Cincinmati Enquirer publishes the fig- ures for its clup made up by Secretary Young: they give Jones .31 and Manning 336, ~Yon are safe to decide by those. PEDESTRIANISM. A VICTORY FOR O'LEARY. Ever since Dan O'Leary began his carecr as a pe- destrian he has Dbeen fignting down men who be- lieved that because they were of his city they were 24good as he. The most promising of these men has been Ennig, who has been & prominent athlete in this city since he gave up the business to which he was educated. His has been a prominent name appended to challenges, mainly to O'Leary, and now that he has had his chance and made his rec- ord, he is willing to retire and’ assume the - more slowly-profitable business of carpentering. Yesterday's walk was for $500 a eide with some eide bets that made it well worth O'Leary’s time to do his best. 1¥itkes® Spirit was stakeholder und W. B. Curtis referee, which gave assurance of fair play all around. Inasmuch as some bets had been made on time, and therefore on distance, Tur TRIBUNE ycsterday sent o competent surveyor Who reported that the track was fully up to the claime, and that to walk it seven times was to meke an honest mile. The history of the race is soon told: Ennis started at £:02 ‘yesterday morning even with O'Leary ana went away at once at bis best pace to hurry the champion. ~ He made his first mile in 7:47 with O'Leury back at 8:14. Thus en- couraged, Ennis fell in behind O'Leary and walked him twenty miles of as pretty work as ever was ¥een on o track. That told the story: at the end O'Leary was fresh a3 a daisy, while Ennis was pumped out, ddne-for. busted, rnined, and gone. e told his backers shortly after that it was all up with him. and if he could not tire the mail-carrier in twenty miles he couldn’t wind him at all. That was reaily the end of the race, und thouch O'Leary finished his time, itwas amere motter of form for the sake of the gate-money. After Ennis had rested he was bronsht out zain at intervals and walked with a great coat on for the eight of (he people. At 45 e ave up the ghost, and was taken home in 8 hack, e and his backers explain that he took cold after his first brush with O'Leary. ‘This might be more pronerly translated that he \was beaten and could not finish. e made 54 miles in 17:43:45. O’Leary continued to the end, and made his 100 miles i 10:59:40, —not a record to make & row about, but far betier than he had any need to make 10 beat bis competitor. Had the hall been fairly warm and the reasons good enough, he would have hurried the record pretty well. A MEMORABLE MIDNIGHT. From Jark Twain's Unpublished Notes. *¢ Comae along,—and hurry. Few people have ot originality enough to think of the expedi- tion I have been planning, and still fewer could carry it out, may be, cven if they did think of it. Hurry, now. Cab at the door.” . It was past 11 o’clock, and I was just go- ing to bed. But this friend of mine was as relinble as he was cccentric. and so there was no doubt in my mind that his ¢ Expe- dition” had merit init. I put on my coat and boots azain, and we drove away. “Where is it? Where are we going®? “Don't worry. You'll see.’” He was pot inclined to talk. So 1 thought this must be a weighty matter. My curiosity grew with the minutes, but I kept it manfully under the surface. I warched the lamps, the signs, the numbers, as we thun- dered down the long streets, but it was of no use—I am always lost in London, day or night. It was very chilly—almost bleak. People leaned against the gusty blasts as if 1t were the dead of winter. The erowds urew thinner and thinner, and the noises waxed faint and scemed far away. The s us overcast and threatening. We drove on, and still on, tillT wondered if we were ever 0ing to stop. At lust e passed by a soa- cious bridze aud a vast building with a lizhted clock-tower, and presently entered a gateway, ussed throbgh a sort of tunuel, and stopped u a court surrounded by the bluck outlines of a great editice. “Then we alighted, walked a dozen steps or 50, and waited. In a little while footsteps were heard, and a man emerged from the durkness and we drop- ed into his wake without saying anything. He ed us under an archway of musonry and from that into a roomy tunnet, through a tall iron zate, which he Jocked behind us. We followed Lim down this tunnel, #uided more by his foot- steps ou the stone flagging than by anvthing we could very distinetly see. ~ At the ‘end of it we came to anotlier iron gate, and our conductor stopped there and lighted a little bull’s-eve lan- tern. Then be uniocked the gate—ang T hed hie had oiled it first, it grated so dismally. The gate swang open and we stood ou the tireshold of what seemed a limitless domed and pillared cavern carved out of the solid _darkuess. The conductor and my friend took off their hats reverently, and I did likewise. Thus for the moment that we stood there, there was nota sound; and the silence seemed to add to the so- lemnity of the gloom. I (ooked my inquiry. He answered: +Ie is the tomb of the oreat dead of England —WESTMINSTER Appy (One cannoi expresss a start—in words). Down among the columns—eser so far away, it seemed—a light revealed itself like a star, and a voice came cehoing through the spacious emp- tiness: . \Who goes there? C— The star disappeared, and the footsteps that ied it clanked out of hearing in the Mr. V held up_his lantern, and tness took something of form to stately columns developed stronger and a dim pallor here and there mark- ed tie places of Jofty windows, We were amoug the tombs; and on every hand dull shiapes of men, sitting, standing, or stoopin: inspected us curiously out of the darkness— reaching out their hauds towards us—some appealing, some beckoning, some warning us away, bffigies, they were—statues over the graves: but they looked human and_nataral in the murky shadows. Now a little hall- and white eat squeezed bersclf through the bars of the jron gate and came purring lovinely asbout us, unawed by the timeor the place,~unimpress- ed by the marble pomp that_sepulehres a line of mighty dead that ends with 4 great author of yesterday and bezan with a sceptred mon- arch away back in the dawn of history more thun tiwvelve hundred years ago. And she fol- iowed us about and never lefs us while we pur- sued our work. We wandered hither and thith- er, uncovered, soeakiug in Jow voices, and step- ping softly by instinct, for any littie noise rang and echoed there in way to make one shudder. Mr. W— flashed his lantern first upon this object and then upon that, and kept up 2 ru ning commentary that showed that there nothing about thie venerable Abbey Was tris ialin his rvoidof interest. Heis a man in authority, being superintendent of the works, and his daily business keeps himn familiar with every nook and corner of the great pile. Cast- ing @ luminous ra¥, now lere, now j'aud(g, le would say: « Observe the height of the Abbey,—103 feet ta the buse of the roof,—I measured it myselt the other day. Notice the base of this coliimn, —old, very old,—hundreds and hundreds of years; and how well they knew how to build in those old days! Notice it,—every stone 1s Jaid Rorizontally,—that is to say, just as Nature luid it orimnally in the quarry,—not set up cdge- wise; in our day soule people set them on edge, and then wonder why they split and flae. Architects cannot teach Nature any- thing. Let me remove this matting—it is put there to preserve the pavement: now thereisa bit of pavement that is 700 years oid: you can sec by thesc scattering clusters of colored s how beautiful it was before time and sacrilegious idlers warred it. Now there, in the border, was an inscrition, once: see, follow the circg—you can trace it by the ornuments that have been pulled out—here is an A, and There is an O, and vonder another A—all beau- tiful old Enclish capitals—there Is no telling what the inscription was—no_record left, now. Now move along in this direction. if you please. Youder is where old Ring Sebert, the Saxon, lies—his monument is the oldest one in the Aboey; Sebert died in 6165 and that’s as much as 1,250 vears ago—think of 550 years. Now yonder is the last one— Charlés Ditkens—there on the floor, with the brass letters on the slab—and to- this day the people come and put fluwers on it. Why, along at, tirst they almost bad to cart the flowers out, there were so many. Could not leare them there, you_know, because it’s where everybody wallis—and a body wouldn'c want them trampled on, anvway. All'this olace about here now is the Poet’s’ Corner. There is Garrick’s monu- ment; and Addisol aud Thackeray’s bust— and Macaulay lies there. And here, close to Dickens and Garrick, lie Sheridan and Dr. Joho- Son—and liere s old Parr—Thomas Parr—you can read the inserivtion: Tho: Parr of ye Covnty of Sallop borne Ao: 1483. He lived in ye Feignes of ten Princes. viz: K. Edw. 1. K. Edw. 5. K. Rich. 4. K. Hem. 7. K. Hen. 8. K. Edw. Qv. Ma. Q. Eliz. K.Ia. and K. Charles, a 152 years, und was byryed here Novemb. 15, 1635, «Very old man, indeed, and saw 3 deal of life,—come off the grave, Kitty, poor thing, she Jceps the rats away from the oflicy, and there’s Do harm in ber,—her ana her mother. And Dhere—this js _Shaksoeare’s statue—leaning on his clbow and pointing with his fiuger at the lines on the scroll: s -capt towers, the gorgeons palace: The Sorean thmples, the treat plobe self; Yea, all which it inherit, ehall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck bebind. ~That stone there covers Campbell, the poet. Here are names von know preity well.— Milton, and_ Gray, who wrote the Elery, aund Butler, who wrote Hudibras, and Edmund Spenser, and Ben Jonson— there are three tables tv him scattered nbmlg this Abhey, and all got * O Rare’ Ben. Johnson cut on thém—you were standing on one of them just now—he i3 buried standine up. Thercused to be a tradition here that explainsit. The, story goes that he did not dare ask to be baried’ in the Abbey, so e asked King James if he would make bim 2 present of eighteen inches " purty moved on, and 1 lost teem. s preseat, sordid, plodding, commonplace of English ground, and the King said yes, and | asked him where he would have it, and je said Westminster Abbey. Well, the Ring wouldo's 20 back ow his word, so there he is, sure | enough—stood up on cnd! Years ago, in Dean | Buckland’s time—before my day—they were dig- | zing 2 prave close to Johnson,and they uncovered him and bis head fell off. Toward night the clerk of the works Lid the head to keep it from | being stolen, as the ground was to remain open ! till next doy. Presently the dean’s son’ came along, and ke found a bead%oa bid it away for - Jonson’s. And by-and-by along came a | stranger, and ke found a head, too, and wafked | off with it under bis cloak, and a mouath or so | afterward be was leard to boast that he bad | Ben Jonson’s head. Then there was a deal of correspondence about {t in the Times, and every- body distressed. But Mr. Frank Buckland came | out and comforted everybody by tellmg how he saved the true licad, and 5o the stranger must have got one that wasn’t of. any cousequence. And tlien up speaks the clerk of the warks, and tells how Ze saved the right head, and so Mr. DBuckland must have zot a wrong oue. Well, it was all settled satisfactory at last, because theclerk of the works proved his head. And then I believe they got that head from the stranger,—so mow we've got three. But it shows vou what regiments of people’ you are walking over,—been’ collected here for twelve hundred years,—in some places no doubt the bones aré fairly matted together. ** And here ‘are some unfortunates, Under this place lics Annie, Queen of Richard II1. and daugnter of the Kinfmkex, the great Earl of Warwick,—murdered she was,—poisoned by her busband. And here fs 2 slab which you gea has once had the figure of & man in armor on it, in brass or copper, let into the stone. You tan see the shape'of it—but it is all worn away now by people’s feet—the man bas been dead 500 Years that lies under it. He was a Knight in Richard IL's time. His enemies pressed him close, and he fled aud took sanctuary here fn the abbey. Generally a man was safe when he took sauctuary in those days, but_this man was not. The Captain of the Tower and a band of men pursued him and tis friends, and they had a bioody fight here on this floor; but this poor fellow did ot stand much of 'a chance, and they butchered bim right before the altar.” We wandered over to nnother part of the Abbes, and came to a place where the pavement was being repaired. Every paving- stone has an inscriptionon it and coversa wrave, Mr. W— continued: “Now you are standing on William Pitt’s grave—you can read the name, thougnit isa good deal worn—and vou, sir, are standing on the graye of Charles James Fox. I found avery good place here the other day—nobody suspeci- ed it—been curionsly overlooked Somehow but it is a very vice place, indeed, and very com- fortable” (holding his bull’s-eye to the pave- ment and searching around)—+ A, here it is— this is the stone—nothing under here—nothing ni lu“’_n verynice place, indeed—very comfory- able.” Mr. W— spoke ia a professional way, of vourse, and after the mannerof a man who takes an interest in his business, und is gratified at any piece of good luck that for- tune favors him with; and yet with all that silence, and gloom, and soleinnity around,us, there was something about his idea of a nice comiortable place that made the cold chills ereep up my back. Presently we oczan to come upon little chamber-like chapels, with solemn figures ranged around the sides, lying appar- ently asleep, in sauiptuous marble alcoves, with thieir bhunds placed tozether above their breasts, —the figures and all their surroundings black witn age. Some were Dukes and Earls, some were Kings and Qucens, some were an- cieut abbots, whosc effigies had _lain there so many centuries and suffered such disficurement that their faces were almost as smooth and as featurcless as the stony pillows their heads rcposed upon. At oue time, while 1 stood lookinz at a distant purt of the pavement, admirinz the delicate trecery which the now flooding moonlight was castinz upon it through a lofty. window, the The first step’1 made in the dark, holding my hands be- fore me, as ouc does under such circumstances, I touched a cold object, and stopped to 1cel its shape. I made outa thumb, and then_delicate fingers. "It was the clasped, appealing hands of one of those reposing image: lady, a queen. I touched the fave—by accident, mot de- sign,~and shuddered ~ inwardly, il not outwardly; and then something rubbed acainst my Jer, and I shuddered outwardly and inwardly both. It was the cat. The [riendly creature mesnt wetl, but, as the English say, she gave me © such a'turn.”? 1 took her in my arms for company and wandered among the grim sleepers till T eaught the glimmer of the lantern again, and then put her down. Pres- ently, in a little chapel, were looking at the sar- cophagus, let into thie wall, which contains the bones of the infant Princes who were smothered in the Tower. Behind us was the stately monu- ment of Queen Elizabeth, with her efliry dressed in the - royal Tobes, lying as if at rest. When we turned around, the cat, with stupendous simplicity, sas coiled up and sound asleep upon the feet of the Great Queen! Truly this was reaching far toward the millenium, when the lion and the lamb shall lie down togettier. The murderer of JMary and the conqueror of the Armada, the imyerious rler of a turbulent empire, be- come at fast a couch for a tired Kitreu! It was the most eloguent sermon pon the vanity of human pride and grandeur that ‘inspired West- minister preached to us that night. We would have turned puss out of the Abbey, but for the fact that her small body made heht of railed zates, and she Wwould buve come straight back amain. We walked up a flight of half a dozen steps, and stood in the core of Euglish history, as it were—upon the holiest ground in tbe British Empire, if profusion of v bones and king- Iy names of old renown make holy ground. For liere in this little space were the ashes, the monuments, and the gildedeffizics ol ten of the most illustrious personages who huve worn crowns and borne svepters in this realmn. This roval dust wus the ‘slow accumulation of 400 The latest comer entered into his rest stopping gupon 2 pavement laid down in years, © 400 years awv, and since the earliest was scpul- chred, more than eight centuries have drifted by. Edward the_Confessor, Henry the Filtn, ‘dward the First, Edward the Third, Richard the Second, Henry the Third, the Queens Elcanorand Philippa,—it was lihe bringing the colossal myths of hustory out of the forzotien ages and speal ing to them face to face. The gitded etligies were scarcely marred—the faces were and majestic; old Edward the First looked the King—one had no impulse to be familiar with him. ile we were contemplating the figure of Queen Eleanor Jying in state, and calling to mind how like an_ordinary human being the great King mourned for her 600 years ago, we saw the vast illuminzted clock-face of Parlis- ment-House tower lowering at us throuzh a window of the Abbey aond pointing with both hands to midniznt. "It was a derisive reminder that “we were a part of time, and not aurust relics of a by-gone age and the comrades of Kings—and then the booming of the great bell tolled twelve, and with thelast, stroke the mocking clock-face vanished in sud- den darkuess sud left us with the past and its grandeurs again. We descended, and cntered the nave of the noble chapel of Henry VII. Mr. W— said: “Here is where the order of Knizhthood was conferred for centuries; the candidates sat in these seats: these brasses bear their coats of arms; these are their banners over head; torn and dusty, poor old things, for they have hung there muny and many a long year. In the floor you see inseriptions—Kings and Queens that lie in the vault below. When this tanit was opencd in our time they found them lying there in beautifal order,—all quictand comfort- able,—~the red velvet on the coftins hardly faded any. And the bodies were soand,—1 saw them myscl. They were embalmed, and looked natural, although they bad been thercisuch an awful time. Ope of them, though, was in bad condition,—he burst open and fell out on the floor,—just a mess of stult that looked like pitch. as you may say. Now in this place here, which s called "the’ Chantry, is a curious old group of statu: rr,—tne firurcs are mourning over George Villlers, Duke of Backingham, who was assasivated by Felton in Charles L.’s time. Yonder, Cromwell and his family used to i Now we _come toythe south aisle, and this is* the grand monamdt to Mars,,Qaeen of Scats, and her efligy—you easily sce they getall the portraits from 'this efficy. Here m the wall of the aisle is a bit of a cariosity pretty roughly carved: ¢ William West, tomb-shewer,” 160S. That fellow carved his name around in several places in the Abbey.” ‘This was a_sort of revelation to me. I had ‘been wandering through the Abbey never im- amining but that its shows were created only for us—the people of the cteentn century. But here is 2 man (become a show himself, now, and a curiosity) 19 whom aif these things were sights and wonders 175 years ago. When curious idlers from the country and from foreizn lands canie here to look, he showed them old Scbert's tomb, and those of the other old worthies 1 bave been speaking of, and called them ancient and venerable; and he showed them Charles IL’s tomb as the newest and latest thing he hrd; and he was doubtless pres- ent atthe funeral. Three hundred years before is time some aucestor of his, perchance, used to point out the ancient marvels inthe im- memorial way and then say, * This, gentlemen, is the tomb of his late Majesty Edward IIT,,— and I wish I could see him alive and hearty again, as I saw him twenty years ago; yonder 13 the tomb of Sebert the Saxon King,—he has been Iving therewell on to 800 years, they say.”” Ana 300 years before thin party, Westminster was still a show, and Edward the Confessor’s grave was_a 1oV elty of some thirty vears’ standing,—but’ old “Sebert » was hoary and aucient still, and people who spoke of Alfred the Great as a comparatively recent man, pon- dered over Sebert’s grave and tried to take in all the tremendous mesning of it when the “ tome-shower ” said, * This man hath lain here pigh five bundred vears.” 1t does seem as if all the generations that have lived aud died since the world was created have visited West- ‘minister to stare and wouder,—aund still found aucient things there. And some day a curicus- Iy clad company mav arrive here in a balloon- ship from some remote corner of tne clube, aod as they follow the verger among the monuments they mav Lear him - su “This s the tomb of Victoria, the Good Queen; battered and wacouth - s, it looks, it once'\was a wonder of magnificence, but 1,200 years work a deal of damage to these things! As we turned toward the door, the moonlizht Was beaming in at the windows; and it gave to the sacred place such an air of restfulness and peace, that Westminster was_no longer a grisly museum of moldcring vaaities, but her better and worthler self—the deathiess mentor of o great nation, the cuide and cucouractr of right ambitions, the preserver of fame, and the home and refuze for the nation's best and bravest when their work is done. MINERS’ MUSSES. RELIGIOUS WARFARE. Speciul Disnatch to The Chicago Tribune. PITTssOnG, Nov. 10.—For o long time 2 state of terrorism has prevailed in the vicmity of the Duquesne coal-mines. The troubles that the miners have had about thefr work have been ageravated by flerce relirions animosity among them, so that a Protestant hardly dared to ven- ture among Catholics or a Catholic among Protestants. “The Latred to each other has fre- quently been shown by threatening notices of yiolence or burning that wunld be committed. The threats to bunif were carried out fn several instances. Fire-Marshal Stevenson, in exame ining the matter, ikl his suspicions aroused, but was afraid to call witne lest the suspected parties should cscape. At length, howeser, the matter became so bad that it was determined to send detectives to the mmes to collect evidence against tne snspected parties, which resulted iu fastening the guilt upon William Butter, Martin Dunning, Patrick MeNulty, and Patrick O'Ilara. Late last niwhit Oflicer Smith took sixteen then and made the arrests without difficulty. The prisoners were 4 ed this evening before Mavor Phitliy and three of them commwitted to jail for tr. McNulty was discharzed, there béing no. evie dence azainst bim. When the Mavor announced that he could ot aceent bail, the wives and fe- male frieuds of tae prisoners sct up u diswal howling, which had to be forcibly suppressed. G HELD AS SECURITY, Desapwoop, D. T., Nov. 10.~On Thursday the mivers employed at the Keets Mine under Contractor Conlee, took forcible possession of the mine, on account of non-payment of their wages by the contractor. . The miners are still in possession of the mine, haviug resisted the Sheritl successfully, and refused a cumpromise of any kind, except a full and complete scttlement of their claims. They are seeure- Iy fortitied, well armed, and provisioned to stand a month’s siege. The citizens of Central City,- near ‘which the mine is located, arc in sympathy with the miners. It is feared that blood will be shed before a sett! ment can be obtained. At 6 o’clock this even- ing the miners issued a rinted circular invok- ing public sympathy in their behalf aud explain- ing their position, which is briefly that the con- tractor owes them 32.300 for labor, the con- tor will not pay. them, and they hold the mine for the rame. Consideravle excitement exists over the situation, which is the main topic of conversation throughout the guleh. FURNITURE, FOR SALE! BEFORE FAN. X, 18S78. In consideration of a change in our business on Jan. 1, we offer our ENTIRE STOCK boil Farmifir, either complefe in bulk or in lots to suit customers, This stock comprises about $50,000 WORTH of medinm ard flne goods, eonsisting of the most beautiful line of PARLOR SUITS, . CHAMBER SETS, DINING-ROOM SETS, Library Suits, Fancy Furniture, Curtain Goods, &c., &e. We mean bnsiness, and hope to close out our entire stock as above., NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED. Fixtures for sale cheapafter Jau. 1 next. L. G. FAIRBARK &C0., - ART FURTITURE, - ]_.32 STA.TE—S’;E’. 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