Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1877, Page 12

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: O’ROURKE AND DUDLEY. Conclusion of the Inquest on the Two Firemen, Testimony of Marshal Benner and the Other Witnesses, A Word of Censnre on the Subject of Unsupported Water Tanks. The Inqneat on the bodies of Dudley snd 0'- T'ourke, the men who came to their death ia the 1 leh! & Leiter tre on the 14th inst., was resumed nad concluded yesterday afternoon before Coroner Ietzech, 1n the Chicago Avenue Station, The tstimony given wan as follows : WILLIAY NAYLOR, uf No, R0 West Washington street, engineer of fhe Fleld & Leiter Huilding, eaid that he was brought to the puilding after the fire broke out, aad hurricd to it as fast as possible, When he ar- rived, the firemen were taking the hose up the first flight. Went into the engine- room and found a fair fre and forty ponnds of ateam. Staid in the basement and kept the putap going. Conldn’t get ont to ece much of tue fire, WnenIgatto tne bnilding the dre could basren near the freight-elevator. When ! conld stayin the basement no lonzer I left. Thin was from 0:30 to 10 o'clock, The tank fell while i was in the bascment, and ten or Afteen minutes beforo 1icft. There wasno fire in the basement while 1 waa there, bt nthick suioke and twelve inches of ater about the tank; it waa put above the ceding anu covered with tin, Tt reeted on the jolsta, It e ld about ten tons of water. It stood abuut the northeast cornerof the baliaing. 1t was twelve fextlong iy elx wide. The jolstsran from the north wall toa girder supported by posta. The suiee betsween the roof and the cetling varied from tve feet in the front to ten inches in the rear, The ot by partition« are the casings around the elevator srd the batchwuy. The sheaves of the slovntors are in (s epace. To pet into thia space one must vo throngh a acuttle in the ludics’ witer-cloeet, The machinery was oiled by an ae. #irtant. Used Virginia block oii-carthoil, Tho aaclinery in the roof had not heen olled for some ayes iU was otled from cuvs, The o1l was kept in the oli-room. The bearings were, lvosely bab- Lited, and they would stop betare thiey woild get hot cnourh 1o inake mnch neat, ‘The tank had an oveetiow on the roof aud & teli-tale, We played through the stand-pipe for fire, and not throagh tae tauk-pipe, Weo hid i check-vaiveo on the stand. pipe, The hose hid not been used when | starsed the pump ficet. Tho waste ured in the duilding (s all burped in the boller. The attie had a rough #eorof oo Loards. The slove on the ffth flour wisattended to by the cloak alrrarlm:nl. The only tng that there wa In the attic wassome jron co.amne itended for a mansard roof and plenty i wan-pioe, There were no gus-Jela in the aitic, ‘iz tank wae mado very probably of five-slxteenth feonaml wesghed sboutone and one-haif tonw, The Fe e to getnp to the sheaves wis & small one— 4y cighteen incher, ‘The tank which fell thronzh w4 ntont twlee ns far from State street as from e alley. There was an accesas (o the attlc by a sior from the mde of the lmwtchway, Anyone + < et in through this door that chose; if wan 3o luckedd. The tank wlch fell wan sliuated close ¢4 tothe north wall. Don't know how mapy cole 11 e ihere weres there might have been twenty- vaoe more, The iron rope was about 300 fect or ‘[ e colnmus were Inid around miscetinneous, s ttour of the attic was usiled, Have been with e firn kinee the great fire, Have had no changtes 1 ate aumonyg the fremen, Do not think it poenible 1hat there could have been friction enouglhito starta ficea Mo not thiuk there was any chance for the fire 10 aave tuken from the stove of pipe, 3tis. K. DOYLE, of No. 181 Forquer stre Was une of the women swept out the stare; left the bullding about ‘Uhere wns n fire in the stove on the Afth almost out. Tne gas wan all out and thor was turned down, left, of the tlme_ lnce March, © unt any coal § tr unid A half to » nieht. The aweepinm we put In ‘a track and taken to 1 o \work only u few days, and be t iiny, NOver #aw niy greawy rags sbout the Never saw anybody open’the door into the uil ¢, and never went up myself, Nirs, Mary Hanl of No. 1300 Botterfield st et, the othor awe indorsed the nrevious Witaess' testimony, er ¥ow Lhe stuve red bt PIRE-ATARSIIAL BENNER raiil that o was at the oflice the mght of the hen 25 was turned | t 8:04, When wo t, found tho firemen just north of Fleld & o's bullding, One of the patrol men broke in te door in Durley & Tyerell's, and wo started upe wnre, | went up to the third floor, and some ong woebe mo subk out that there was no fire in the taddimg, T then went luto the building uorth, atd found no fire t nrdered everybody out. thinking it was 8 false slarm. On reaching the #licwulk saw people running toward the core nper of the Singer Bullding, When I had s hundred feet 1 learned that the Slnver Tuiding wad on fire. Tho dours_un Stats #tnet veing closed, § weut to the Washington strvet entrunce, and found it upen and some pecole about, I urdered Chemleal Nou. 4 to cet up into the bullding e woon o4 possiole, Just thea Aarehal Swenle sald the roof ‘'was all afire, Looged up through the rotunds snd_saw the dre, it wing o cover twenty or twenty-ive feet} It was in tie direction of the” north pansenger clevator, the simo Limo water was falling un the muin fiwer, ‘Then Swente, by my oeder, turned in the #rcod and (hird slznals combined. [ went around v tate street; tho Hook and Ludder men wery «atiing through the fron door—the northern one, vd un, When we got threugh, Enging Iinve been i the Never uttended to tne stove 1t used to tako ubout an W no fire or smohe ll\\lrw taken np o elovato: L o v a m, ‘Fho pasecnger glevalor was tiw'h burn from _the fop foor 10 L botloat. 17 played thers ¢ome $0 to cut tho fire o from “the basement. No. 10, vas put luto the rotunda, but the second and Ui ] slrcanis woro seat up stairs, Marsbale S nbeand Shea were aent up Lo the top ilvor to * ¢t tho windows were opened, nod to et up a st b lf possivle. Inthe meantime the Skinner * o0 wrdered to the State street front, L and others went upon tho roof of the .y & 'Pyreell botlding with look and Ladder © opandes Now, 2 and 3 1o raise the Field & Lejer il 4vruun us posaible, AL leust turee or four * wiempled 0 go up the north stelee .1 did mot [ BT first that = occurred after that was ! one of th tunks fell. | wasthennearly in the thaent cornerof the building. After the tank Fetirted toward [ where th suen were imosi- o Lwentup gart of a tight of stairs, and found it dae rturs did not extend any fusther, but that Thw was i pilo of tinber i feont of we, [ comes tovaced cearing away ot once, ‘There were sonie Lic e tiunbices, one of which 1 suppoved was leanjug wumis of the men, Asllifted on this Wmber 1t apiedred 10 cauww thio wounded man more psln. [ wus thea nlon When s meinber came up | re- sested ius to help cleae away. [ thouihe It pos- e that I could uet the weil out quicker irom sewiw, und | went down to Tho Gret floor closa to ¢ urin wall, and found that the firet tuor was 4 olea fo, und that thero was @ hole whers the ad Lallun torough. | then started up turongh Surley and Pyereil's, and ordered the truck cou- 2andes down (o belp out the men, When I wos on fuol | ety we lad four or Bve streams playlog ceun the Siger Buliding, Fhere were openiuge tney cunld dizectthe stresuns intothearret- A guod dear of (e roof wes sapeed in. reached the sutewalk svam | wad Lot thnt aid the wen bad been gotten ont, Shortly Merwurde one of tue AsyistantsMurshale sasd that M. feld hud told biw that the bullding was unesfo fur the wen Lo cematn o any louger. 1 then went Lo tuy Washinzten sireet door, und found tho cotas backiug aown from the tup, but | ordared ba d went up to the fourth door, whers £ Tvand Nos, 21 und, ik, 12 1ordered then n Lke 8ith Qoor, They had not suthicieut hoss tu 1each the Gfth, A moment afterwards & purtion of the toof from the northeast purt of the butlding telr, carrying with it & good desl of fre, | think Bl that time the yoof of tbe rotands lell m, careyluy = down w0 much that it Cdied the differcot stories full, su Lt & 1wan could nut wee iore than efzht or “n fes tro b aerzd the st . Tuw was after | saw the engineer, and was lu? uu.ut the tank on the south side of 1he building, It was at leust Ofteen mioutes after Mr, Field thuught the building vasafu before § ordered tho mavut. 1 ehould buve foughe the fAre some time Jougerif ithad vot been that | koew of this other tank, 1 didn't wans i1 ta fall and carry away (h #t.7w on which the inen wore working. | bad ore deed @ ostresm o play fo the Bfth-story W.aGow to prevent the ) he or L wuler Juto thu basement. 1did bave i Wdea that the dre wight have caught from tho sleiv, Lut § do nut ihink it puesivle, The vnly v et theury bs spoutanvous combustion. Do not koW who turued io the Aeet slar, Had sito. SUeSer iwenty-three engines, most of thew in good 7nins ail of them were in working urder. Six of dteee wentiuto suop aftesward, ‘f'ne uuse wis 1o wood couciton, We burst eixteen or eghteen logthe,and imust of tLat wan leather hose that had okl uee Loy yeurs, ‘That snderwent s ures. vie ol frow 125 10 200 pounds. The wster ruply war gued, Knew Dudley: I be way roifucated 1 was from Lot iz, “ile was inwood Grulbl, A urder hus been taaued 0 tbe Juspece <3 uf butidings by Capisineaud the work has 3o bdone, ME Agaew, Fite Warden, becn vt diptnet, “Lhe buitding was bo the district 3 e 1Y, and sesoral cuanges bave been made beccwtuand uf thut Cowpany, w0 thit very +o 1 the prevent Caplain did ool kuow the cou- tracnun of the Mager Bulldiog. ‘fhe ladders in 10 the Departwent were not long enough. Our Cajeat une ts elgty-three fect, —the Skinuer, —and Ity touk us to the third door. The ditlerence « ween this ure sad the former que o lhw iae bLuidlng la t ol the i Lone, becaust then there wae motblog in the 2 thhiug, aud in the ialter case it was full of Ui, SOME QUESTION THEN ALOSE 3 o whetner the jury would Lear uny further tes. 1 1ouy. Ihe Coroner thouxbi it was of uo use. 4:. Prusoing woved W beas the dogtor, but no- 3udy put tue wotioy, 3 Ar. Pruest fullud for the uodertaker who had L.ivu care ol Dudley. Mr Eltos, ibe pertug Wavsw estimuny was waitsd, was, howerer, nud present. nor was the doctor who examined Dadley, and for whot Mr. Prisaing aleo catied. The 1at- ter then added, way of eaplanation, that when the jury tnepected the undertaker's, thiat ofilcial 1old them tha corpae Browght to him it wae Disckened by amoke, a<if he had been killed by suitocation. D. R Mignaolt, M, D, 10 that abont 10:30 he visited the Morgne and saw Dudiey. Fonnd hlu- 1#oh marka on hie foot and knce. alen a blugnces ahont the eyes and mouth, When 1 heard the his- tory of the'case, | was of opinion that death ene suedt from auffucation ar breathing smoke or heat. Dadley might have died of eptlepey or of heart- disense and had the same symnptoms, The jury then turned the reinmnder of the peo- ple oat of the room and vracceded to consider THRIR VERDICT. After debating the matter from 5 o'clock until 6:40, they returned the following as their verdict® We, the Jury, fnd that Charlea A, Dudley eame 10 his deatiy, from sothe caise o us wakown, 1o the AL MOFy of the premisee o Lefter & Co durak + aceurred ‘heron’ gn, Weidneaday, Nov 7%, and_ thAt fohm O'Ronrke dted’ en e same premises, during the aame nre. by feason of the falilug of Al iron water-tank from the topestory “of e bitlatng. W her Tecord our dectded J! proval of the pi of pacing DeAvy water:t, withont tncombiust! nmnmnn- Al T der them upen the top story of high bulliinze, thus enaARgRHm Buman 1o, And we belfeve it (e ay: renented danger trom the falllag o e of the (ke TToU1 e UpWFatoly of tiie premiscs of | Inkds Lelter . erionay intorrared willi the suppression Of their fire, sad we recommend _that the butlding inwe of the sa amended w4 to forbid the placiag of Jarge L et \SE1es of SuiLdings Unless Tut ke 10 tible suppor From the evidence hefore us we aro unable to sscers tain the immediate cause of the fire. e —— WEST MADISON STREET TRACK, To the Editor o3 The Trihune, Citieano, Nov, 2 ~Your reoort of the vroceed- 1ngs of the Common Council ycsterday shows that ot £ W a) Park, Yo 'Charie (wis cERta ox PR Tare. Wit i i ductisbull over Rockxell screvt. In conelderaion of 1t DR SRttt Eten e ATacie o WL 8E : otigation tu extei ek ot W JGater sipeet until ' via tuet 1n bulte over liockwel street, To sl those people who have any interest west of AVestern avenue, either as residents, property- owners, of visitors to Central "ark, enchi au urdi+ nance wonld border closely upon an insult; and to {hose whi:j-c-l:meuu(:nra ‘near Lake street it govs far beyond that polnt, oy oae Thon,” the Chicago City Rallway Com- nany was granted authority to lay i1 tracks on West Lake strret on condition that **sakd track sliould be extended to the present or future city limits when, in the ommwn of the Commoit Connell, sich_extenaion was necessary,*’ and ths Chicago City Railway Company. whicli tranafeered it rizhts and liabilities to the West Divisfon Mail- way Company, took its {runchiss npon the cone dition that it wonld so extend Ite tracks wiihin sixty dara after the passage of an vnlinance roquire Ing it to'ito wo: and unlees it obeye such ordinanca of the Commun Councilit forfelts ull it rights ipou that street, o On the Oth_day of Aprll, 1877, #he Common Council paesed an ordinance requirine (e West Division ailway Compuny to extend iis trarks aud ouerate fts midway upon_Lake sireet tu Central Park within sixty daye. This ordimance has been contemptuonsly disobeyed, and the anly answer that has been niade (o it s this proposed ordinance, which compels the puyment of additional fare pros vided atrack i laid npon Madieon streer, where the Councll has no_puwer to compel the extension, and excuses the Company from bullding a track whers the Council can ulone comuel [tia bulld one, and leaves it to build or not upon Madison sireet an it may deem fit. The distance from State street to Uentral Park Is four miles, and s but a trilo further than the dl tance to Silver Leaf trove on Ouiden uvenne, where this CompARY FiLls cat un oae fure, uhd is not s far na the doath Side Compiny runs for one faro, What motive infucnced this Committes on Steects and Alleys o reporting such an onlinance Icannot tell; and admit that they may be entiroly honest ones. 'but to an nnprejudiced 1nind 1t looks Mke n comyiete nurrender to the ltatlroad Compa- ny, which has been 10 contempt of the Comuwon Councll for months, #, “This question of vinducts on Rockwell street was starteil by . Hussell Junes. President of th Weat Divislon lallway Company. and 1 defy the Comuittee on Streets and Alleys, W, D.. to'deny + and it was #0 started by lin ma o convenient cuse fur either not extending hin tracks to Cen- tral Park, or, if competied to do v, fo charge nd- ditlonal fare for paxsage. Who supposes that vin- ductn wili bo bulit over Hockwell strect in our generation, when thero are dozens upon dozens of streets In the city where they are needed ten times [ ¥} mote “The residents and property-owners west of the Great Enstern track onl, that the Common Council y understand this questfon, and that all portles in"Interest fairly understand it befure they are sold and delivered. Yours, etc. o L. BEXNETT, To the Editor of The Tribune, Citicaco, Nov. 21, —1 notlce In your lssue of this morning that the Committee on Strectaand Alleys of tho West Divislon revorted an ordinance grant- ing nuthority to the West Division Raliway Com- pany to extend tholr tracks to Central Park for iwenty-five years.© Thls purtlon of the ordinance is well enough, but they also propose to give them authority to collect an sdditional fare of two cents for the distance weat of Rockwoll strect to the vark, which 1s ouo mlie, which wiil ptace the fare for unfortunate citizens and taxpayers west of Tockwell strect at 7 conts. They propose to allow thiem to collect this extra fora uutil the viaduct fa built over Rockwell stroot, which, in the present state of the city Bnances, 18 too far in tho future tu even adoit of a thought, This is class lcgislation carrled to extremes, when we canstder it ts not_only the people living waat of lockwell etreet who sre fntecested, hut evety citizen of Chicago who may visit Central Park. The distunce to Central Park 4 much shorter than savernl lines In Chicago. For ine stance. the State sircet and Cottage tirove line s five mnilen, the Archer avenue line fone and three- quarter miles, the Milwaukee avennc line four and une-half miles, onall of which the fars is only 5 centa; and there are none of thein whone future prospects are so bright, and none of them tere Diinateat a pubilc park as tho pronosed exten- sion will, ond nono of thewa carry as muny ort-rids busnenpers 8 the Madison strect ne dovs, When you tuke into account the dis. tance (s only fourand one-quarter miles, it does not seem possibie that our Comuion Councll conld fusten this thora in tne vide of West Chicazo. Trintse will take tuterest enongh In f tho city to assist us 1n this matter, may not make our section luaccevaible by placing the fare wo high that people will strive to get farther from the most inviting portion of the clty for motlersts hooses, inatead of investing in the vicinity uf Central Park, Yours truly, Jo D, Evengrr, —— DEAD DAYS. Gerald, do these days of Antamn, Full of sun , and balm— *Twist the Westorms Lyiog, in a yolden culm— waft a teader echo aver cud sens of the Frow enchunted shorew, where dreamed we Those foud dreutns that ne'er camu truel? Never falln the Indian Summer's Dreamy spell upun the lands, But fair mein’rles riro before me, Meckining with thele aity hands Puintine backward Lo the sbadows ‘Fhat enfold the hallowed days Of that Autumn when we wandered Down the leaty woodlaud wiys, Curved the path through rhine snd shadow, st the trembling poplartree, Flashing, Ik & foulit of sumninat I e breeses, wild and feeoy Burned e wuple's vivid giory By the dark ua [Fezrant pie; QGlowed tue siinach'a lewves renplendent Asif dreucticd with crimson wine, O'er the hedies, richly ruied 1 TILE COURTS. No Agreement in the Whisky Cases-=A Counterfeiter Tried. Record of New Suits, Judgments, Divorces, Banlrupt- cles, Etes ‘The fnry in the whisky cases, nfter being out all nignt, came info court yesterday morminy looking rather the woree for weat, and reported that they were unabe to agree. Judue Modeett asked I there was any prospect of agrecing, and whether theit trouble was cansed by disagreement un a point uf Iaw or fact. The toreman repited that the question was one of fact, and that there was no urospect of their bring. i jn o verdict, Tue Judge then discharged them, vam:rkln;} that he war sorty they could nol agree, but the evidence wae socontlicting that there was perhaps ronm for an honest disagreement or diference of opnion, Mr, C. il Recd then asked to have the remaine tng whisky cases tried, 11¢ had & witness present there from Kaneas, and he wished to go on with the viher cases, Judae Blodeett sand the Jary had all heard the evutence in thiscase, and they would not sit in ané othersimndur telal, It wotkid 1ake oo lont 10 1m- pantl nanecial ey, and the cuses would theree i T Gib 450 QYT e Jury «lond at nine In favor of the Govern. ment 1o thiree in favor of the defendant, Both par- | fien are entitied to another frial a« soon a8 1L can Tie had, but it 18 probable a settlement will bo made of some kind, « sdudce Bangs wrate to Commisafoner Raum the reault of the trials and the refusal of Judie Blods. ettto eall another Jury thie term, le furiber stated that the plea of Ennumity bad been intere posed 1o some of the other cases where It would not apply, and that he intended 1o mterpose de. turrers und et a decl+lon ud roon as possible, e hiad recelved a letter from Leunard Swett stating thut the sult azatust Gholein G, ituasell had been brought on usaesaments and penalties, snd ought to bediantissed. This letler was aleo sent on to Washington. TIE CARTER COUNTERPEITING CASE, The trinl of Walter P, Carter for connterfelting was conchided yesterday utterpuon befor dudge Blodgett, Several witnesses were examined us fo the character of (he staff found m Caster's room on Weat Filteenth street, among them Detective Tyrrell. to whom Carter confessed that he had been maning bogue coins, 1le clalmed he had only suceerded in Juxt making o diving, Carler 18 0 yolng than N0t over 0 yenrs of age, but ho is must expert at making bogas money. s molds were made of ploster of Paris, but so hand (it they pave good impreseions,- ‘Fhe compusition used for the coing was a mixtare of meals, and was well calvulated to decetve, belng white and hard, and having seinewhat of the metalic ring, and even the unlling un the edee being ehurp, Nine out of ten persons wonld nceept vite. uf theee totns s good un izht. At the conclusion of the arzuments the Jllri‘ brought In a verdiet of gullty wituout leaving thelr seuts, Phe prisouer was remanded for sens tence, ‘The case of John I McCormick, fudicted for violatiug the Bankrupt law, was then taken wp, lo waos u parlner with 1. Berrick tn the hout and shioe business at No. 148 State sfrect. It m cinlmed that ho caused goods to be taken from the store voun after belng received from New York and had them sold ut the suction store of McNamara for G0 cents on tho dollar, and that e of the proceeds weroused In paying o tnorte wkage on the homestead of his wife, The trial s not concluded. TIE HIGH BSTATES, John T, Clarksun, Anna 8, Clarkson, John A, and Ellen P, Cutler, Charles U, snd Funme B, Carleton, John T, and Elizabeth Noyes, siled o viil fmcrflny in the Superior Court against George M, Iigb, Exccutor of the lust wil of John Uigh, Jr., Muud, Florence, and_Funny E. Clarkson, Anna, Jessie A, aud Catherine Catler, Richard 1L Carles ton, Emest 1. Noyes, John M., George I, and Itoberts Hligh, asklig leave ta borrow $:20,000, so asto make ‘up $1:0,000 together with what the eatste owes, and with the proceeds of the loan to Improve tho property on the routheast corner of State nwl Harrlson etrects, that un the comer of Franklin snd Michlzan sirectn, lwlum{ln;f to the 1Hzn extate, and to make divers other lexa improvements, besldes puying off adebtof 30,000 on o lot on Wabash avenue, Leave was given by the Connty Court in 187: to borrow some maeney, but awlne “to the flnsncial dletreen mince It has not been found sudiclent, ‘The catate is valued at 34 . and the propoded tm- pravements will largely Incrouso the income, DIVOKCES, Jaseph I3, Cunco complaine that hls wife Is in {he habit of getting drunk nud trying to cut Llin up with a8 butcher-knife, She s now cooling off in Jall, having been arrosted for drunkenneas, and he lakes advantagoe of the peaceful interval to prepare a bill for divarce, Caroling 1ori olao has & drunken hushand named Adam, of whom rho wante to be relloved, She has lert him thres times on account of his abuse, and s often hon returned on his promise to roform. Ilts vows, Lowever, have unly lasted long envugh to ennble him to get her back, and now this fourth soparation sho vuws shall be fual—by the Court's permiesion. 1da 3. Clayson haseven & moro acrions charge 1o innke auniust ber husband, Georgo M. Clayson, ‘They were marrled in September, 187, und almost immediately after be bean abusing hur, Un ons wccasion when she was enciente he iil-treated her #0 serjounly that she wis vblived 10 have hin ore rested and bouad over to keep tho rn‘ueu. Soon after her confinement he loft her a day or two in the winter withuut tive, and the renult was her child died on acconnt of his neglect of her before and after its birth, In Norember, 1870, he de- serted hier, and slie now prays for a divorce, 1TEMY, Judee Robinnon was engnged yesterdny in hears Ini tho continuution, of e urziincnts on tho de- murress in the Gayge "cove, which wero vostounsd from last week, ‘Phey wero concluded, and the case taken under advircment. Judzes Qury, Jomesun, und Maore will hear mo- tious to+duv; Judgo lozery siubmtited casen: Judge Booth wet cases, biks, Chicago Erening Mail Come pany va. Sumphreyville, and motions; Judge Fare well general business: und Judge Wililais the clusing nriuments 1 Fox va, Lowg; Judge Will- fame will not hear any divorce cases to-day, In the case of Frotection Life-Insuranceo Campany the Receiver fled a petition stating that amonik the assets of the Company was s certificate tur fifteen wharcs uf the stock of the tate Natiug. at Nank of Springels Wl lv now fnthe bandy of G, W, Kretzinzer uy eccurity 1o him on the Hee ceiver's bondin an attucluuentvuit, David ', Lits tler, of Sprinefield, husulercd B0 cents o the dol- Inr, o $3.000, for tale atock. Tho Muceiver thuught this offer 8 good one, Judge Willlams ordered It 1o be accepted nnlews objecuon bu made within five days to the sale. George W. Cauipoeil wae yesterday appointed Assignes In bankruptey of Lo J, Pltuer, ‘The comvosition meeting of Scavey & Co, was continued Lo Dec. 3, A tinal dividend of 8 per cent was declared in the bunkrupt estate of Fred llocrdt, BUFERION COUNT IN DRIEY, DPeter Devine begun 8 wuit yesterduy agalnst the Wichards lron Works Company, claiwing $2, 000, icorge Nowkirk brought suit for & like aniount swnet Jeremiah Leaming, F. W. Krause encd Salomon Rothschild for 1,000, The Conrad Selpp Browing Company began a anit 1o recaver 52,000 from Meinkard ‘Vlrl- o . K. Masonr ana B, ¥, Luce sued Ellsha and Charles Eidred fur $1, 500, lk-nl{ Walker connmenced an action sgainat dumes Mesirezor, claming §:3,000. Juln’ T, Nickerson sued [ 11, Wilkersun and 3 lier tur £1, 000, « Aunuity Insurance Com- nat Williim P, Junes, dr., Leophaet & Co., Munroe u, . Marshall Field, e J With the radiant eulden-rod, “Larles Brachrovel, T. C." Moug, Maria L. Bhowerinyg gusis of balm and blossom i Phitlips, Wellington l"lll'l p-.l the Un the windii path we trod. Life-Jusurance Company, David I-‘olun-A: ll‘[u ch.-ulz‘n‘m-n: raslands, A, Kesn, ¥.W, sliy, James Payne, n 8 leafy, wild cascade, D, ¥, seynsour, D, O. Steong, David Suubor) Stiveriug, with its ruam, ‘blossoms, Lakewide Hatl co bany of l'm?u-'.'. ¢ ":f + Allibe dusky deeos of sbade, Chutch Eavfard I, Willlanis, to foreciose a $5,000, wade by Wilham I, ‘Waved the fernv, like golden featbers, From vach quist, purple nuoks QGlowed the curdinals, like cubers, Al alony the laughing brook, But we pasaed tne brilisant beauties, One and all, until we stuod Where tha beeches soread thelr rustling Aniber tents withiu the wood, Flowed the wind ‘Thraugh the (o ar and wide, Making wild, Bictodioe echocs, “That in the mellow wurmars died, Pollowed by & suddea patter, Like the fush uf Sumumer-raint Bhal} we ever near the beech-nate Patter ou the leaves sgmn? ‘Never falls the Jodias Summer, Like o dresw, ubou Lhe land, But, i spirit, ‘neath the beeches In the weving wood § stand, + And your blue eyes siile upom me 'Neath your white sud sunny brow: Ahl | wouder what fair woman Mects those teuder glances now. Gerald, If toese days of Autumo ue Lo you Walt b whisper ures, whera dreamed wo that ne'cr cal Aud the beart that loved N Cany Vorusia, i THE TELEPHUNE, Special Corvespondencs 0/ Ths Triduns, Laxuso, Mich., Nov, ‘The telephone of Mr. G, B. Richaiund, of this cily, was tested oa Sunday, on a loop-1ise from this city to Detruit, aud back to tue city sgain, -3 distance of 240 witles. Sounds of the huwisn voice were quite dis- thuct in this city, sud ats Bell receiviug instrum 8t Detzolt, A battery of 272 cype (bolhiog aboat s 24llo cach) was wsed, Mr. It prouoasces big \n- m::ln\ Pperlycied 10 Wausmis 8 swvesnge 1,000 T e e e e . e D e - - « B 1 Jouew, Jr., on that plece of groaad bonnged Ly & line commenciug a¢ the N, E. coruer of Dlock 50, according to the onginal plat of the Village of Evanston, sud """"nf thence southe ward along the eaot line of said Block 50 for the dietanice of 150 feet, tbeuce westward aud paralle) with the north line of wald block 150 feet, theuce northwird wnd parallel with the cust line of snid block 150 foet. und thence castward 1o the place of bensmng; anotuer for U0 on o truct 144 by 150 teet in Ahe vumo tlocl third, sleo against thy same, to forecios s trus d for the same amuunt oo a fet 15) by 150 feet in tho wawe blovk; and 8 fourth to forecluse s trust-deed for $1L,000 00 & ot 148 by 150 feet, aldo in Hloc] uit for 330, « Edwin C. Cudhiman commenced 000 ugainst tne Joliet Iron aud Steel Compuny, e H il AOUIT COUNT. AT E e National Car-Spring Compauy sued J, Stmumons & Lo. for !I.JM)A Heary R Ruseell began a sult to recover $2,000 of Francis Agoew. COUNTY COUKT. T the estate of flarriel dcKindley letters of Kuardisuship were granted 0 Jobn G, McGiudley, or #0000, L1 the vatate of Joseph Kuenmeth letters of ad- ministration were grauted ko Aogust Moldenhauer, under bond for 33,000, CUININAL COURT, John Annult was 1eied for the burglary of Ald. Keruer's bouve sowe mouths sgo sud honorably acquitted. lv proved that be was vol the man very clextly, and lso proved a good cheractar. Frauk Wilson and Johu Dawson pleaded gutity 0 ny, 4nd wi County gl Were given one day cach I the Hicuard Scbell aud Trumaa Kobluson were found Fnllyar larceny, and given ouw year each ip tos cailentisry, James Dunovan was tried for conspiracy, and the Jury was out. | TUE CALL MONDAY. Juoax DEUNNONL—I0 chambers. JeLux BLowakri—Crimidal calendar, JUuGE Uaky—218 Lo 221, 324, 223, 32, 804 229 10 240, It Ve, NG Cabu wa traak UE JANEY - Paised cases. N0, 1,181, Darmody NS, an Mo 18 naker va veb I8 MUniL= E . "RReF v e 32, 08 tlale Noeninge No case on Wetnland 3 to 40k a0 On trial. trial. 11 prr RooTi—Set ease term e Anthony. and calendar Nos. $RCTANINE, CEeORE 3% At o Fov JUDAR WILLIAMS—( 2 Tl b neral bl J. T Rieding v < ~Joba M al. . (1 40y = Fernnuda Jones va. Monroe Heath and Hitiean, §45 CUIT COURT-J1DOP Poorn~Radger State Manu. i, $214.40, —Alv utfng Co. 've, “Anselm Nevwal, $214.40, nolita vs. Tewhe W, ook, €421.85. ~Tolman & kiug [ 3 2 ampbell et al. ¥s \Wtills b etal. va, Witlingn Giounery yerdic Itohert Mervey et 1, 8103 al. Vs Cel Wallace; verdict, 430, and motlon for new trial by platatifs APPELLATE COURT, The thicagn Tribune, At a conference be. 4 Pillahurr bere on taet eveming, durnye wiich, amone other thi rules the Appellate Caurt of this dintricy were con- sulered, the following, i substince, Wwere adopted 1. Tho call of th third day he teem. 2. Appellant or plaintif In error muat fite his avstracis and brief«in the Clerk's oilice within the tme limited by law for tiling the transcript (romthe court below, S, Appelice or defendant in crror must fle hie briefs on or before the twellth day of the term in all casen where by law the Lranscript is required to De filed on or befure the fecond day aof the term, and in all other cas s eafil hriefs must oe fled on or before the twenticth duy of the term, 4. Each party is required 10 faraish the other, or his connsel, & copy of his abstract and brief, or brlef, us the cade may be, on or before the time for filin the game, provided said onposite party or s connrel redde in the county from which the writ of crrororappeal 14 progecited. ‘The term will connmence on the 20th day of nexi montl There are now but three eoses on the ducket, e p—— THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARTY, Tathe Bditur of The Tribuse, Lroxs, In., Nov ~Feeitug as 1o, prond of the recond which the Republican party fas made in coneetion with t.o eventiul scevice uf it istory, 1 am sorry that I cannot resist the eonviction that very many whom the party has honorad with the highest oftteial positivns nre demonstrating their uiter nndtness and their inability to rise above the ntriguo and chicancery of the demavogie o a6 to exhibit atuch evidences of statesmanship as the country has & rlehit to expect at thelr hands, Upon no measure of public ollcy have the peaple ot ull scctions and all purtics been more united thn in the demand for Clvil-Service reform. It has been felt that the senthucnt of the ull Democratie war-cey, M To - the vies furs belong the spollw,™ las demoratized fo n feaeful extent every browch o of the public service, Riling every devartment of the Government with yulinwl barnaclen, selected with referenco to witat they had or tniht accomphsh for the promotion of smme onu's personal luter With no nquiry ne 10 their Ginesd foe discharg: tho duties of the positions assizned thent, 'Ths expression of this sentitent wias so rtr ertoral that Loth nev maiing 1o (he country the most furmal and pledied for the correction of thia great esil, n accepting the Presidential unminaton Mr. fayes cave the additonal assurance that thie reform met s hearty apurosal and should command bis most carnesl ¢forts, In bis (nsugural address a 3 dent e gnve to the peonlv rencwed assurances of the riucority of his intentions In Lhis regard, snd m the excrcieo of the ap- pomting power conferred wpon him o one can chitrge that he bas farled in o single fnstanco faathtully sl honeetly 16 execale the Truat in the spirit of the pledoes so-repeatedly and volemnly made; but, histead of recetving the encottragenent and lul»rml’l of ather public vervanta who are under ke ublivations (o afd n accomplishing thin re- forim, we ure presented with the nunnilating wpee- tacle of Republican Senators meetiug in sceret caucus for the purpore of devising means to defeat the President in s laudable effurts to execito the will of the people. "These Senatorial dlgnularien, with an arrovant assumption thot vueht (o conslen every one of them to private ilte, demand that tue President inust, before making nominations, con- #ult them, —=in othier word, that hu yield to them the prerogatives thut under the Constitition and lawa beloni to kim wloue, Jf tho Presluent ylelds to this demond we may well ingnira” what becoruen of the promised Civil-Service re- formt It {e neither more nor less thun o ledgzes, B persistant deters repudiation of ‘mny mination to retain ut all bazards the old eyel of nppointnienta Lo eifice, with nll the evils that in- herently uttnch to it. Disgnlso it as they may, it 14 a coufesslon upon the part of thesy conapiestorn that kumething nore than the merlt they possess lu needed to retain them n thelr exalted positions, “Ihey munt be permitted at tho public expenso to subshilize agenta whose Influence may be exerted in thelr favor 84 occaslon mny require. The Prosi- dent whowm the people have elected wmuset surrender to tnem, and make appointinents at thelr sues- tons, und 80 14 to subservo thelr intereels regard- leas of fitness or quatitications. 1t Iy qulte “sace that, ineorar as this feature of the President's policy 14 concerned, the massca of the people aro most llcnrlll{ln lyml)flflly with him. Thoy feel that he is acting in good {aith, and with no oter purpose than to uccomplish thy Lest results, I he has tho firm- need 1o maintain his pgaition he will bo sustained, svlille those whu scek "to clrcumvent bim will be Lrouglit to grie e ——— REFORMS THAT ARE WANTED, To the Editor of The Tribune, Ciiicaso, Nov, 22.—In the now era of peace and quict dawning on the nation, shall wo sink Into mental stupor, or shall the same energy which has bitlierto donw so much for us be hopefally turned futo such chanuels o shall glve rich frult In much- needod, various, practical, and vconomlics) reformat Many are looking fora favorsble mnawer to snch questions, WHI the future bo rich sn all possible utilitarian developments, or s it to bea timu of #lothful Inactlon, ond are we to ba smitten with o lepriay of coucelt i thinking that future eeforms of a practical patare, fu s large and comprehenalve sunve, are neithier needed nor uttainabler To do so would ot be like the American Deople, sud we hopy, and fesl axeured, that continued intellectual Nite wiil dlusipate ali svathy and scek » broad na~ tional activity 1 all csdcntlal practicsl utilitariun reforms, What, then, are soue of those reforms B0 much rpquired? Firsi—Reform of the Enclish lancuage. Give us a phonetic yeform of the lungunyu up o the highest pointof pmcucnlnulu{. Many intellnzent minde ute ready for thlv, Yhis reault could, no doubt, bu best uccomplished by an interuational A ican Comilanion, 10 be Instituted re- by the tiovernuents of the two conn- e usw dictionary of wuch u commisilon woulid be uladly accoted by ail English-upcaking Ppeoplo ns tie standard, Second—The adopting of the metne systom of Welkhts und ieusures, sd, I possivle, in connec. tiun--by Governmental infuence—~with other lend- uz countrles ln Eurupe who lwve not yet adopted It Aleo, at the sumo tine, thuudoption of o uni- furm system of expressing the vasures sud pow- ers uf all fnatrumental and dynaimic forced, Third—="Tha luonen, i weaknend of our Na. tlonal Government abows Lhat saine thiuds **are out of jou. natjuns ince our Constitution was sdopted bavexn tho prucess of experinco discovered valuable vrnciples of actlon in fres government, 3 there be wuch, wre we foo conceited or ignurant not to avail ourselves of wuch realized experience. 1t 1 hardly sunposable that any pulitical constitution made o handred yeurs ago conid bo applicuble, or avallabi 3ul!l’lllllllll of thu times, ection, we think, will venture 10 assert thut Lo-ds Whetlier our Constitution ae it ts ls not mors of 2 curee than & blewsine, Too much constitution sometines kills the child, If thiw be true, where 4 the pundced, | am one of the wradually- Incresning number who look largely for it fu (he wystem of @ responsible ministry, #ourth—Lniversal educstion,—~voluntary if wo cun, conipulsoey if we must, Kespectfully yours, HoUTH WATKR STnRkT. WRECKED, Wild, wili{a th with vreat waves ralling aver, Aud blacker and nearer craw the ol avesnuat; From worning w gluaming the & Laws vuth hover, Aud awful the faces thut nre whitening with dread. O strunded the beach 1s with furnue of the dy! And foruie uf the dead once carcloss and {re Awmongsl thewm s maiden with heart full of aigh- Milt— 8ho standutn and lookeih on the turbalent aca. 8he turneth each face so mulr The light from tne buraing sbl Al urv:}ked are hor hopes uwly, For tne l‘l'.'!“ willing volce beedeth not hier dear [ 0 long s the day, and the night ead with weepling, And surrowful bours are spont down by the lea, Forthe wmaiden is still thete, her l{nuly‘wlleh g, 5 kv-rw. ‘With wild, straining eyes Jooking out wwnl:d s“" wea, 3 Puiscaron, fi ——— FLORIDA LANDS. To the Eddor o) Tie Tribune. Cuicago, Noyv. 24 ~In your jasusof th appeared & communication from Mr. R. 8, la ttacking vur statements conceruing et the value and product of Flurida lands owned by the Trausit Hallroud Company. As bis would-be ear- casmis a4 gratuitous attewpt to controvert facts with theory and ridicule, ud tends to injure vur busiaces, we trust that In commun justice you wul give puollcity o this reply. The statement to which be takes particular exception was taken from 4 letter written by Mr. Juha W, Cheshire, the editor of the Montezums (I8.) Repuslican, snd pubdlished 1o that paper. Mr. C.. whose bugh sandlog and accuracy were bLeyoud question, while 1u Flurlds last Juny sscertalued the facts ae toover 30,000 worth of m}:uhlu baviog been roduced on twenty-i rus frous the owaers. and ¢, wilh others of the largy excurvivn party toere on's special tour Of inepection. waw their camuie. #ion wercbants' returns, from which the refersed 10 Byures were taken. As Mr. Wallace ouds tocast & etigms on oursclves aud the lands fepteavot, would kesucctfully rufer Lim snd soy others ta the folluwing geatlsmen who bave” visted Flori. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ! ] 1877—TWELVE PAGES da. and altern thoraash fnveatization pur from these lands: William 1, Untfon, it lector: tho ltev, dames Macliuxh e Wil (18] i, B - Walto Tolin W, nesville, v, e 101, “and many othera We rcpresent a wealthy and prominent cospora. tion, ani anr customera will beur witness to the etraiuiitforward manner in which we conduct uur agency, B :no T, Saity & Co. ———— CURRENT OPINION. Tho Democrats in Congress ars busily en. gaged in flzhting the army. Well, the army fonght the Demoerats foe foue years, and thials only changing the order, —Hoslon Transcript (liep.). Luoking dispassionately and critieally over the Demncratie feld, we pronounce Samuel J, Randall the horee 1n best training and condition to-day for the race of L880.~~Phladelphia Press Uteps) Gov. Tiendricke is quietly «**snding to his 1aw practice. He wili remain (b peace antil 1840, when he and his fricade intend to_make a rueh for tne P'residency, He will make a bot Bght far 11— Lincinnalt Enquiver (Dem.). 1t i9 ridienluns to talk of 25, Ing 45,000,000 of renn!e in sbjectls bave -done with the cheap demarozuery which makes such & bugaboo of this handful of wnen and continue the military_ cotablishment of the cou ey an fts preavnt footing, —dogusta (Gu.) Co situtionatist (Dem.), J It is the Milan (Toenn.) Frelange which eaya of Mr, Tiiden thay the next time the Demo- ceatie party will nominate some man “with more sund in hia pzzard, Clearls, the gay. ooy of the Liberty-sireet Literary durenn sre uot eaitine many ot e Bouzeon weehl'es aowadyd, = len- para Udenn.) Aratuache (Ind.)s Whenevar the Mom-ter whom this conn- tey shiall sened to Enplaniean com! ine the any quatiitivs of Le ol teteland character whii eiare aete b dedeesan (vis, e W enatent ftncss for the position, sod the Latet States can re-t erfectiy wabisfiod tuut tiie conge ry s nt leant one Minister anroad who will re. feet the hlghest Bonor on the American name. Montyomery (M. ) Adcertieer (Dim, ). Gon, Jmnes Longatreet improves a good opportunity fo_gota sharp rap ot the Democeats who have never Torgiven hlm for necepting o upder tien, Geant. e #ays in o letter ton fri ‘et is inly witness leadors and De crats of the liny secking otiicoof a Iepublican President whoso' eicction thry clalm was friudi- they contiuie to denounce tiose of the uth who aceepted ofica from President Grant, whose election they never queationed,™ We cannot binme the people of Californin for wishing (o b rellaved’of this great evil, . We carnently hopo that they will e entirely auccoss- ful, and'that Congreas will take effectual means to preventany more_ tmmicration of an inferor ad degruded race of people, We hope the Southern Cogressmen will tuke thls Just view of the matte constdering his subjeet Cotiereas will, pe haps, learn to Jutge muce fberally of the Sont; white people, Who, Like the Callfornians, nave an intorlor mice of belngs to deal with, — Vickebury (Misa,) Herald (Dem. ). After cight years of service President Qrant gracefully and quietly retired from the oflice which had been almost theast upon lie, and 19 now enjuyin the recreation which ho has so well carned, But bo In by nu means forgotten by his counteymen, They withess with pride the attene tiony which are sliown hum In forelan countries, It gratifics them to know that bis fame os & soldler anda man s net contined 1o his own land, I, thren years lience, (liey destro to avall theamelyes of hid services peuin, Who can eay that they wonld b;l{ malioe u (oulsh chicer—Albany ELxpress (Jeew. }o The New York Iferld publishes n tablo shiow!ng the fluctunations In the value of siiver for the past ten_yeara, hows that, from 1860 1o N7, the pricn was remarkably steady, ranzing fronn G235 penca 1060 per ounce. ~ The Huctuation In the yaiue of sitveraw n commodity besin nfter the year 167i, In lta cort to show the untret- warthinces of silver na u money metul, {ho Herald etrangely overlooks the most significant fact o veloped by fta etatistics, numely: tnat before mil- ver was demonetized 118 volue was 6a steady s pold, It Muctuated hardly ua much, The platn inference i that. treated sluply ns u commoiity, the price varles nccording to the state of the kel; treated na money, it in not lisblo ta Hucty ‘Lion any more than tolid, Testoze it money chac- acter, and it in us reilnble a mensure of value ue the wit of man can coutrive. —Clnclunatl Commer- el (Und. Liep. ). Standing m tho very heart of the grent section of tho country that 1 named the Itepndin- tlon rection, speakinz cspectally on buhalf of the vast Went, whuwe **domination,”™ we are toid, muut he reslated, wiose ** arrzaneo ' must be re- buked, wo send notice to the Atlantic Motropalia thut we accept the imsue (paying the bonds in ailver) thus flung i the face of the Weat, Wa aro proud to say that the recont volo in the peo. vlc's branch of th Courreas upon the Silvoe bilt indicates that we cau aifuri to accopt tho bisue, and If such action be **repudiation, " we covet the name of ** revudlationiste,” We sond word also that to just such ** domiuation* the East wiil be compelled to submit; it is the domlnation o’ the law and the bond Ly the admlssion of vne of its foremost orguns, Vreclsely this **arrogance™ will certniniy bear awny; it 1% the arrounnce of the seople, in the sweat of whose brows 1ho bond In to Do atit 'nud tho. iaw uitiled. —Cincianati £ne quirer (Dem.), ‘The solid South cau, if it will, shape the policy of the National Demoucratic party, and In dolug this comtol the destiny. of the country, ‘I'hey now have the power in thelr hands, and, bav- Ing that, they must be hold responwiolo for lie use, ~u reaponalbility heavy und weighty, and one that cunnut be escaped, Lioubile: e of the North- vrn brethren will be o tritle reative st first, 8¢ they reo Southern men coming to the front in the na- tional counciln: but they will become accustomed to tho sicht after o little while, and, recoguizing fte fustico ke **littlo w *thoy will gracefully accopt the situation. ey 18 nothing that so recuncilos s man toa given stuts of thincs s the knowledge that he cannot n it otherwlae; and 30 when our Nurthern brethren, If any such ihero bo, who have come to louk upon the souttiera wing of the Demoeratie parry aa in their rigliful posis tion when acthiiz as hewors of woud and drawers of ca that we have and Intond to keop ancla diiferent rmul«u. they will prowla Tittie, and then sradually becone seonciied to the inoyitavle, —Zulelyh (No C.) Obaerver (Dem. ), 1 hava hinl the gool fortuna to sea Me, Hayes' Itichmond visit through the eyesof anun. reconstructed Iopublican —ihure aro suct. lo by 8 Republican, an lowa Republican, an Jowa Jles publicau whow Zach Chandler picacd for one of ihe two most Important post i bis gift, | have salil enouch tn ahuw the politien] nlymment of the man, The siriking thing s, that o hus coine buck from hia Iiichinond trip u Huyes Tiopublican, - He W Juet Lurning over o threo daye’ wml when I fuund him at s deak, and, rewemBring wundry deliverances ut (he time o and the Atlanta receptiol found uny loyalty ot the nald he, rurpmfi his letters, Y- tody ieJoyal, | have seen 50, 000 mon receive tholr General on paraide, 1 have ween wreat political conventions, 1 have seen unhlowa Iltepublican mass-uceting at the close of the War, and T never oaw nuch enthusltan, or suw a man received with such enthustusm us tayes, ™ $White nud blacki™ e dhin't scem to be uny diterence, 1 just it on the platform and lookud, aud Just wald fu mywelf a uinn thut can do Hed ' und fie waved butls arim over an linagzinary wndi- «ence of 20,000~**n tho man for me, 1don't care what his *policy* 1" *VWell, tid the peon'e tulx *loyals’ did you go smunze them ¥ 8 alk Sloyalt' Toey talked Jike—well, ke thuey bad been walting ten years for a pretext to talk loyal, It semed Tike all the bitterniess hal gone ot of palitics, don't you know. ‘That’s what the Requb. icaus eatd. I hunted them up and asked them, sud they uaid vouehiow people, dian't hate theti 1ike they used to, —let them alone, —let them be itepuolicans if they wanted 10, And they don't actan i they had capiured b sitacr. Tuey eall themeelves Teanersts all the same (18 wis ouis stently u geeat rebicl (o my fricnd (o sinke one Lanutiar pez i thle upheaval of s pahit fvaven aid Ca11HD T UAL Loy Just say, *Any Peeats deat filicir Prestdent when o dues nght,'— Washtugton Letlerin ¢4+ ifer.dil, —————— BANGS AND fH: WHISKY MEN, To the Editor uf The Tribune, Cuicaco, Nov. It has come to a remarkahle avd when & jury can't tell whether 8 United Btates atrtct Atturney or s whilsky oy telly the truth. United States Distnict Atiorney Bonge iv in hard fuck, 1le tricd to save Jake Kehin, but that geu- tleman went tojuil; and hls later efforia to save the Whisky liing by bringing the weakest case to trial Gret baaresaitedina disagrecment of Lhe Jury, HoNEsT Gavass. e o . FAREWELL, ‘This sad, sad word ! llow wauy a hape's death-kaell 1s suunced by the solemn word, Farowell And wany u neart 4 thue forevercrushed Faiut yuices speak it —then i duath are bushed, The loved sud luving meet 1n fond eworace, Then say Farewull, the (268 time face to f1cel The aged leave tne young, aud cmldren close Phele weary eyes An tutiuite repodo. Farewell! thia mournful word oft msrs the joy . Of fedtal accues, which else knew o alluy, To-day we gatlicr, as we've ult befure; Tu-worrow's vacaaot chair says, ** Nevernore,* A, uevormore! Bt Earth‘s foredoowed farewell s never uttered where huwmartaly dwell ! Eowaup ¥, Nowste, ——— 0. P, MORTON. Toledo Blade. Hesleeps in Death—thu Union's mighty Thor: ‘Tne valwart Clinef whom Neture gave commnand Q'er inco und States; he who, with virilc land, Fierce-Gaunog xeal, and vision l#ulrlnl lar, 1o mast'sy led the whielwiog whirl of war; At bume frow hiddeu teaitors suatched the brand 1u madness raised Lo cevastate toe land, Aué treasun ceashed deucath bis conguerlog car, A country saved sud puryed, 8 peonle free: A seevile ruce o wuanly stature brougat: Thesc are Lis shining ttls-desds to (3mo— His woow, reabunsive o the Natlou's veed, 'xh‘d!u'znfil.m(‘} il {n ot ?'h‘ ;’llulbhlhk 54 wade Lhe Country's good bia only atm. Tourvo, Nov. 1o, 147 ER" the lowa Cunventlon CURRENT GOSSIP. REMEMBERED, Tlaw anickly highta the dimming nye At what this one woud doth imply: That we will be, when desth draws nigh, Temembered; To know that, when the last green sod Upon onr new-made grave s trod, We'll be, though gone to meet our God, Remembered; ‘That we will be, and cherished well, When menentnily the solemn belp Tolls slowly forth our tun'ral-knell, Remembered ‘When yanished in our short-ived fame, Hetarned to dust trom which we came, That we will tie, in Ileaven tho wune, Tlemembered, Mixznac Poixr, Wi ——— THE CREMATION OF A BABY. New York World, Yov, 21, On the 11th [nat., ns been alrendy pub- Hahed, the Infant child of Mr. Julius Kircher, vroprietor of alarge ultramarine manufactory at 615 Fast Fifteenth street, died of marasmus, Mr. Kircher 1s nomfually a tmember of the Ger- man Lutheran Church, while his wife belongs to o Jewish fumily. Though both middie-nged, they have heen marned. but a short time, aud this was thelr first child, When [t died it was proposed to bury it In the Lutheran Cemetery at Middle Vitlage, Lut the father of Mrs. Kircher wusanxious that the futerment shoula take vlace ina Jewish cemetery. Mre. Kircher, on the other hand, wia opposed o Internent any- where, amd proposait, us 4 compromse, to cres mate the body. This was azrecd to, sod on Tuesday evening last the cremation was per- d at the factorv. o'clack, when the majority of the work- v, Mr, Kirener re juested two of hils most trustwortyy hands to reman aid see that the fires in the drying-room were kept up at their ureatest heat. His instructious were obeyed. He then went into his private oflice aud came out with a smatl paper which he lad brought down with hiin in the mornine, and which, on being uncovered, was fuumnt to con- tum the bbdy of a baby, 8 days old, awd welshe fug soven pounds, - Tie ciihl was wranped up inalinen ~chemise und had s little Lamds crossed upon its breast. The body was care. fully deposited oun_ the table, on the top of several packages of ultrn-marime, while the bellows were apuiled to the tire, whicli suon at- taiued such licat that the wron tursed red and white by turns. Mr. Kircher then fifted the budy of his dead baby futo an tron returt, which he t on the jire, and, standing off at o distunce of a few feet to avold being scarched wwatched tie flames Jeaplg fity_and all round it, his eyes sulTusod with tears, The two work- nien remuoved their inats and stood looking on meanwhile, In fitteen minutes the fire had dong fts work, wnd all that remabied of the seven-pound bnf-y was two ounces aid a balf of clean white ashies, Mr. Kircher then bade bis men extinguish the tlames, which wus done, and time belug mven for tie retort to coul, {b was earefally removed and the ushes wers put uto @ plece” of tissue paper and wesghed, after which they were fnclosed o sumall siver urn, which Mr. Kirchier projoses to stand on hls wantel-piece with the Inseripilon: Egullinrd Louls Kircner, Geboren dten November, 1877, Grstorben Liten November, 1 A reporter of the Wortd who ealled to gee Mr, Kircher yesterday had a long talk with Ul about his slnculer sction, Mr. Wircher i3 an intelhgent wan of conslderable culture and very ndvanced views, 1le 18 thorourhly Ger- man u appearance, manner, and thouht, and does pot apeak any Euglish. He talked treely About his chlld and Ita cremation, and sal: 1t was thoroughly successfn), ‘The furnoces at our factory are just titted for cremation, ns they can give the ireatest possible nmmint of heat, which is very necessary fur the proper service. There wis no disugrecable swell ut all, no smel of any klud, and as to the appearance it was not hald ns ahocking aa the burying of n hody i the ground, Tdid this becutise 1t 1s o principle with me. 1am opposed to burlals of m? kiud; they are bud and dangerous, Bee, In this case, on ordinury funeral wonld have meant tedlous ceremouies, great expense, twenly or tlurty carrlages, and adding to tho griet of overybody; imstead of that wo have n sfmple and effective mode of disposing of the body, and with that urn we shall have the remafns of our anly littieone always with us," At this point, Mrs. Kircher entered the room and tried to dissuade her husband from talking further, but he put licr gently and alfectionately aside, and contiuued, saying: * Tut, tut, my dear, it can do no harm to bo properly under- stood, 1 am altogethier in favor of crémation. I havae left explicit orders in my will to have my body burned at wmy factory by miv men atd dise posed of ns thu baby's has bLeen, 1f my wife dies tirat T will do the samu for her," “1 wish you would contradict the statement that we did this because we quarreled nbout wlhat cemetery our child should be bhuried fu, We (o not quarrel '— hegau Mrs, Kircher, * No, indced, Interrupted” the husband, pot- ting his wife on thy tiek.” ** We do not quarrel ubout auvthing," she re- sumed, *and ceetalnly not about rellion; we are too advanced tor thats The Laby's budy was cremated bocause ft I8 the oulv rativnal way to dispose of budies, Bume peaple du not liKe the Idew of betny burned, but it Is surely better than beinis buried with all the horrlble possibille tiea uf premature interments," ** Yes,” added Mr. Kircher, “think of what hapnens I hot climates, where thy people nre burfed within twenty-tour lLiours of duuth, sud umun‘; the Jews, wlien they have Lo nter their ttoad [t husto 80 88 not to Keep thelr bodies over Babbatlis und feasts. Cremation provents tho pusaibility of thess tofogs, As I huvesud, ook at the sxpensn; what money for expenslye cottins, tor numerous und uniecessary car- ringes, for drunkon te8 among certain clagsea; what money might be saved torthe purposes of charity, for the promotion of - cnce, and the education of the people. Grave. vards could glve place to parks and gardens for the people, und we would actually deerense death by removing some of the caudes of sicke tead, ‘Uhess are the reasons, and not because of religious ditferences, that L have practiced cremation,” “Yus, thot is true," assented Mrs, Kirchor. We mourn our baby, of course,” Mr, Kirch- er reanined, *but we imourn bim less cremuted and his remafus with us hers than we would with his listle honl{ moldering i the ground and the food of noxlous limects, Burely crema- tion I8 ratlonal, s healtniul, ts wise, sod 18 therefore woud' And Mr. Kircher wiped away tear us hie bowed lis visitor guod-by. L. A. Osnonxe. BULLETS IN A PULLMAN CAR, Naw Orlegns Tymas, The Pullman sleeping<ar which reached the city on'Tuesduy night, attached to the tratn due at 10 o'clock, was about fuur buurs befure that the theatre of a stirring incudent, and that it oid not. terminate In a tragedy sectis imiraculous. Wheu the tralu stopped at Chattawa, fL took aboard & Mr, Charles Lee, his wite, child, und servant, who bestowed themselves in the slecper, Directly after leavime thic statbon Lee's wifc requested the aleeping-car condactor to give her agliss of water,—u o less requeat, tu be sure, -=but Les seened o thiuk otherwise, (ur, ale ruptly rislog in bis seut, with su uinery ook, he suildenly delivered & powertul blow upou his wife's face, cxclabuing st the same time, “ab, 1 beard you,- aud VI teach you better than to ‘dirt with other wen” “Be- fore the few othier passengers taiely understowd wliut the row was about, Lee had whipped out o six-shooter, and, pointing it at bis wile, threat. ened her with instaut death 1o case she oifended agalu. At this Juncture Med. Hall,~alittle but A brave wontan,—whu sat uear by, attempted to pacify Lee, and so fur succeeded thut he cone scuted to sic down, but almost directly jump- log up, aud, carrying Lis pistol in huud, be swore lie'd bunt up and kil the slecping-car conductor,—who uad vone futo the forward car, —and uway e rushed wildly 1 pursuit, He had no inore thao reached the platform of the cosch uud shut the door than by quickly turned, aud, pressiug the wuzzle of bis pistol axninet the car-door winduw, delivered three shots (u Fapid succession, the bulets Uy vis vlously dowu the car wisle, but, as luck would bave it, bitting vo oue—the ouly approach to fujury beiug u bullet-hote in Mre. Hall's dress, that fady being Lhe only oue ol the passcugers who stuod ber irouud, the rest haviog qulur shelter to u statesvow at the trat note of dead- Iy duvger, flaviue dred Uls three bullets, Lee continued bia pursuit of the sleeplag-car cunductor, Meanwhile Mr. Mike Nurton,—tue ouly gentle- oian passenzer u the slevper,—srming himsell, sl out miter Lee, deterwioed 1o wave the sleepinzcar conductor it possible. Mrs. Hall, With quick woman’s wit, pulled the bell-rupe sbaroly, sud the tralu couductor, burrylog therefore to the rear of the traly, voon wet Lee fu full sall after the sleepiug-cur conductor, and, AL thls woment, too, Mr. Norton coming u‘r. Leo wad captured, disarmed, and guarded, while & tulegram was forwarded Lo the cty requ the sttendauce of su ofticer upon the arn: the train. Lee gave wo turther trouble, and upon bis arrival at the city depot was haaded over Lo a poliveu He 1s sald to be 4 man of violent disposition, sud this dispoaltion was ou Tuesday aauravated by drink to a more than ordinary LY ature. 2l teingey. ONE CENT New York Sum, “The cheapest dining-room in the cltym gy tbe 2laim placarded on s house In Grang Sty close to Clinton. The testaurant [ 5 room of modérate size, furnished with tables and a large sideboard, “We pup clothy on the tables whon we opened, a week ago eald the elderly waman who, alded by hep u;n conducts the establiahment, *bat there ) such a rush of boys, who were nelther nanner| ror near, that we had to take them of, \y: are filting up anothier room 2roumd the rpey eapectally for the bovs, amd when that 1y Open we slill resdirve this nlace for adults,t Printed bills of faré were scattered ahgy eiving the following prices: A small cup op tea or coffee, with sugar and milk, o cen ¢ a cup of the ordinary size, two cents; bread ag) butter, oue soup, one ceuts a slice of corned buef, one cent; a baked or bofted Intatg, ona cent; cabbage, one cent; bakel bean s, yng centy bofled or fried wush, onevent; Olinea), one cent; bolled tlre, one cents a iarir uf 4 pie, three cents. The quality of all thesc iy, 18 excellent, but the oneceniportions are rng) ¥etu fair appetite could be appeased for fiyy centa, and a ravenous one for 1. Everyth g is clean, and’ the cooking 1s dood, “ Wio supports this charity 1" the woman vesterilay. ' Charity I she_exclalmeds “why, sir, iy fsn't a charitable Istitutlon: 1t 43 i higiyesy enternrise, winl 1 giiess 1t 13 oing to pay, The margin for prolit (s smatl, us you way fin, WP, but it wilk be enonzh to 1ive on I the crow; cote na they have been combigz, We lage 1y buy cluse, ang waste nothing, but by carefy) makizement there 18 u vvolit on every cent'y wurth we sell.” Ihe'newstuys entered nolstly, seated them. Aulves at o table, as o party ot lemunstratisy but unaceustomed tellows nibehitin Delng, al perused the il of tare. One urdered vorned beel, beane, n cup of coffee, nud a wnyt. ler,ata total costof four eents. Onehaly larxe cup of coffee and a quarter of a uie at e sanie cost. The thind more recklessly ordereg n cup of voflee, brea ) and butter, beaus, corned beely 0 ernller, fricd honuny, & potate, and s doughnut, at an expenditire ol eleht cents; g e heeame grorred bafore the food wa all eaten, and, 1 spite of hard gulping, half of the dougit nut amd a thied of the putato were left, =+ “* Boys are vur principal eustomers,” said thy woman, **und we have o rush of them about 5 or i o'clocks but at breulifust and lunch timey we have n good many workiug wen and wonen, Why, sir, at the rate we are starting out, [ don't know but we'll oceupy a whole building in o fesy months.” A STRANGE HALLUCINATION, New York tleratd, Not, 20, Miss Esther Brown, u laly of color, explred Yesterday at No. 4113 East One Ilundred andg Twentieth street, What she died of wus o mys- tery, but her fricuds had a suspicion that she was the victim of a snake, frog, or some seml. amphiblous creature, which had for months lo- cited fu her vitals, The decensed herself was under the lmpression that there was a denlzen fu her stumaci which was dlsposad to be rest- less, and whicl, when other food was wanting, preyed upon her. This she told to several fricnds of hers, and she scconnted for the stounge lutrusion in this way: At a not very remote dite Mias Brown was In the country, and one day while roaming theonzh the ficlds and woods she camie upon n brook tlenr us crvstal and exceedingly tempting, Miss Brown thirsted and she nt oncy 1‘u.nreu 4 draught of the brooks water, But, alas] Miss Brown never recovered from the etfeets of that drmk. A serpoat or a toud—which she never learned, but sho was pusitive it was cither one or the other—happene wl to be n the water, and slipped down her throat, aud from that day lier stomach was the abode of the reptile. Sho felt its movements within her, and consulted phyefelans without nuwber. ‘The medicines they prescribed sne ewallowed, but singularly cnough the creaturs lived ou; gastrie Julcu wus puwerless 8o fur as it was concerned, and the strongest emtls fafled to move it At lenzeh Miss Brown sicke encd and died, and Corouor Woltman wus uutl tled of ther demise. Yesterday bis deputy visite ed the hiome of the deceased to innke an autop av. Ta him the mother of Miss Browa statel that the dead woman wus the only vne of ulne children who had ever Wéen sick, In her youth she had the small-pox, and Iater on i life she Lezan to complain of pams In her stgmach tor which no physivian coull ax couut, Bhe remonbered, however, havisg drauk the water of a brook which was kuown to contafn o vumiber of snukes and lizards, A couplo of these cremtures, 1t was supposcd, were swatlowed, and they at once begau (o con- suine purtions of Miss Brown's stomach, OId Mrs. Brown was positive about the suakes Bho =ald that when pork, pickics,or other victuals for which they had no relish were eaten by her daughter thelizurd tried to crawl uway unil the snnkes wrizgied about, thereby causlng the wommy ntenss torture, It was o dresdiut sliock to the old colored woman to Jearn that poor Esther hud no such fninates as were supe posed to he located 1 herstomach, wod that consutmption, Bricht's Miseass of the kidneys, und dyspepsta were the causes of Lier deaty, and Nt suakes or lizards, e, Plaig Commoy was asked of A TERRIBLE LWITER, New York Times, A great dealof discusslon has arisen since Mrs, Btuart committed suiclde, as to tho nature of four letters felt Ly her and written just be- fora sho tuuk putson. Thu most strentons ol furts huve been made by the friends of the de- censed to suppress these colstles, nud Coroner Woltiman has refused to nake them publis, It Liua been learned, however, that threo of these lutters were to relutives, and icrely stoted that she had determined to liveno longer, bade them furewell, and asked thefr pardon for her deters miuation. The fourth letter was adiressed to her husbamt, It was couched in mnild and of- feedlonato lauguaze, but was absolutely terrib lo In its couteuts. 1L called the attentlon of Mr. Btuart to their wedding six months uo. 1o re ferred to thy homes they had iefo to o throuzh theworld toeetber, 1t reminded lim of the blessings, bappluess, and prospocts they had started out with, und reealled the good reasuns the bride had to look forward to tho fature with the . mwost sanguime expectutions, 1t spoko of thoir vows—tiers Lo love, husor usud obey iy, and hia—to love, clierish, aupport ber, It watd that I oever a4 woman went bonestly und loviogly to a bushaud, sho went su to him, aud 5t evers woman bod bech a true uud affectionato wife, she had been one. It thien, . patnful language, showed bow tw change had comig over her dream, and Low sbo bad sccn the rich web of her fuuey gradusily drop from her full and clowing ldeal until it left the mure skeleton of ber hopcs, at uubearatle, ghustly renmmder of what they bad been and 0 what thev were reduced, It pletured iu the laugusge of youtnful despair the gradual sink: ine of her husband into the power of the vice of drink, until e became absolutely lost 1o e sell aud to her, wud became cold, selilsh, repel tunt, cruel, wid dnatly intlerable And then, (& sandy all this Lol a0, absulutely su, unchages ALLY ouy sl hikd HO Wialk Lo Live aby funzen,—.er vvery hupe wis goue, sl whe wonld lulivw them. She wmd sbe could net help it,—sie asked lus pardou for her determination,—told him that she still Joved hhw, bade bim farewelly and then took ber lfe, — 118 * TELEPIIONE.” Datrolt Fres Fruss, A Detroit saloon-keeper has suffered much vecunfary loss at tho hands of dead-beats, and has racked his bralu for a remedy, It doca nob pay to knock & mao down because Le has no money, and harsh words collect a crowd and give & place a bard uame. The other day the salognist got the ldea he bad been strupgling after. He rigged up 8 wire, s mouth-piece, und other purts of a telepbioue, and was ready fur the first cuse. It cae ulong yesterduy mori L:.f' A welldressed and deceut-lookiug man called for braudy, swallowed it, and suftly said: WP call around und settle ws soon a3 1 en getacheck vashied.” * All right—all riglt,” smiied tho ulunnlskJ and he stepped back to the mouth-pivee 83 called out: “Chic! ot Police, are you Int" Thie beat lalted to bear what was golog 08, and the sulovuiat coutinued: Al right. | want to Kive you s description of & swsplcious loukiug charactir—just goue vus of wmy salovn, Are you ready V! ‘There was au iuterval of two or three secoudsy aud the saloonist west ous “ About Uve (vet eight—lizht balr—blue cyes —Ruatee—Urowu vvereust—black — " *Bay, you!" cxclamed the beat, **here's your 15 ceats for {“:‘,.P““"V‘ 1 bad somo change 1 wy vest pocke L uealimyes” smilea the salooolst, ands takiug the wouey, be weut Lo the wouth-piecd called: “It’s ull rizht—1 made & wnistake—man is 83 good as the wheat [ Tuc beat walked out without a word, but 83 he reacicd the street be growled: 5 “That was & dead give-awsy oo me, aod I'd Uketo puuch ol Prol Bal's bead wbous [ an o