Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1878, Page 3

e i was sendi —asam @ 0ULY OUC GDIION amLLY lnwyers., LORD---111CKS. Belief that the Couple Are at the Lady's House in New York. Surmises that the Widow's Euro- pean Gnyetics Were at Lord’s Expense. 11re. Hicks' Genenlogy and Fortane-« Ifr. Lord’s Wealth and Al leged Imbeeility. Neto York Sun, Jan. 8, There is little doubt that Mr. Thomas Lord and Mrs. Thomns Lord, uce [ficks, are passing thelr honeymoon at the bride's residence fu this city. For scveral days there hiave beea nppear- ances about the house—10 West Fouricenth strect—that point irresistibly to such a con- clusion. While the front of the Luilding has been carefully elosed to the public, the rear haa been alive with bustie and coutusion, The largze back room on the third flovr, formerly occupled by Marla, Mra. Hicks' waiting-iald, has been converted Into a gentleman's bed- chamber. A large stove has been sew up ju the room, palntings have been hung on the walls, and other preparations made for its occupancy by a new tenant. Within the past threa weeks the cntire house has been palnted, decorated, aud relltted to such an extent a8 o sturt the rumor that Mrs. Ilicks was about to be marrled. ‘The marrlage was ot noon on Monday. On the alternoon of that day there was an unusuat bustle in the house, and a gentleman and lady dined alone 1 the back parler on the ground floor. Smce that time the rear rooms, which befors bad been dark, have been lighted at night, and have given every fudication ot belng funatdted, Lust it the large buck rovth ou the thurd floor was ltclited and oveupted, Mza, Hicks! boudote on the loor below oze ples the entire width of the house, with thy ex- ception of the, tall. Tho blinds' had always been onen, amd the curtalus drawn, while for the last tew days both blimds and curtnios have been down, A gestleman who has been cons spleuous in New York soclety for urwnnl of xnney years said, laat uights “ There I3 not the slizhtest doubt in my mind that the widow hus old Mr. Lord - LOCKED UI* SAFR AND 80UND IN MR HOUSE. All nttempts to trace them beyomt there have falled, und 1t s morally imposstble thnt they vould Le out of the clty aind not ba heard froui, lmicfmmvuuy of the fact that Mry, Hicks Is ns well kuown ds any wowan in tha country, the extraurdinary apparance of her husband must of Itsclt attract attention, Mr. Lord went uway unaceomnpanicd by sny uf his servants, although bie ta 2o old and fecble that it requires two of thiem to it him Into a rallway ear. Mrs, Hicks i3 too much of o diplomat to” expose herself to remark by drazglui un uged and Intirm husband about the country When she can juat na well re- muin fu the efty with il 8he “would not go 10 her friends in Philadelphia under sueh eir- euatances, and §¢ sho did I would have been known lung ngo. Atr. George Do Forest Lord sald yesterday to a Sun reporter: “There §s one thime aliont wlaeh I woula ke to have the bublic sct ruzht, Tt has been said that the family had not con. * templated applylng for a conuntssion In_Junac untsl they heard of this marriage. ‘Thay is fulse, ILis true that they did not have jo view uny mmedfate steps of this kind, because they Aid not devin it neceseary, aud desired to avold scandal. The nucc.ssltf for sowme restrainfug mcasitres, loweyver, had Jong been plain, and 1 was only & question vl thne when they were to he taken. Mr, Lord vas been palpably imhecile aud unable to attend 1o s business for some tine, but tho sons inained thet by keeplur a watch on i und guarding hin from evil infive clluun'llll:y would be dolug all that was nec sary. . “1s 1t true that they know of his intention to marry betorehand, aud trled to dissunde him Trum fuf” They koew that hie was MAKING A FOOL OF NILNSELF + by hils coustant vissts to this woman, but thoy had no notion that bo fatended marringo,” ** How abaut the $400,000 Iy bonda which hols {' alleged Lo have converted Iito cash fu the luat Lo yearsi’ 3 A4 *“Tuereis strong reason to suppose that it igwent, or o conslderable part of Jt, to somie one on the other slde. 1t s known that ho wi Arequent recelpt of lotters from Eugland, 1 buck answers," ** Didl his manin ever tako o violent form, stich & self-destruction, or anything of that kind " No. i chiof futlling was® general slinbeell- fty and muntal weakuess, 16 was a panfal sthing to have bruted to the publie, nud the sons naturally wished to koop it nsecret ns much as posslble, though it waa well kndwa in toe fumlly.” * Iuve thero been an on the purt of Mea, 11 ** Noio that we know, None would bo con- sldered.” Notwithstanding Mr. Lord’s assertion, It was confluently maseried fu up-town clrcles last ev. ingg that a settlement ot §20,000 a year had beun olered to Mrs. Micks ou condiidon thut sha wpuld wive up her elalms upon tho estate, Tu zedard 1o ner lezal position, there appears to Whether ibeetle or not, ?‘I'Im of compromlse her husband ts adjudiced to by she ds his tuwfully-married wiie, and us such I8 ENTITLED TO (IL1 “THINDEY IN THE BE3TATE. A geutlemun of extensive_ medivo-legal expert- ence saul Just evenin » 8he would bon fool 10 take lena than herlewal elghts, The tact that her husband may be adjudiged of weak mind, or unlt to conduce his busiuess, does not doprive her of her sharo In his proporty, That ptea was tricd I the case of one of the Astors, marrled 8 farner's daughter aear Poughkeepe tie. ‘Tho family endeavored to have the mately set aslde on the ground that Mr. Astor was of ha wud inind, and, although they brought for- ward stroug prooly they Taned,™ Persous who are acqiniuted with Mrs, Hic! carcer 0UFOAU suy thut sha was notod fur always ghaviug in her traln some needy member of ti nobility, whose expenses she pald In retura for tho vocial countenancs thus seid to b af- funded bier, last suumer, BERebo was sccompanied by the Lowager Duchess % 40! B Albaus. W Accarding to current report, Mrs, Tlicks was g8 rocently engogzed 1o Lord Lennox. ‘The iwatch, FIR1L 18 card, was bruken off becauwo his Lordahip {7 cTused to glve uo u feft-handed connection witl nuother laay, who had not, Nke Mrs, Hicks, been preecuted ta the Que B Among tho bits' of i about | he tiule had her eyo on the Hon, Gcorge Baue crott, United Stawes Minlster to Berhuy, 1t is il that sby frequently d tho pleasure of horsebuek rides in ir. Banerolt’s eonpainy In olfers which the wary diplumat alp whichi aro floating tral Park courteously declined. 11 Lora dlunghiten's recent visit to Amerien B8 Mis. Hicks entertalied bim fn grand etyje nt lier house fn West Fourtecathi street, The {rionu ut vue of the dinner-purtics given in his honor was printed ou elegunt shects of white satin, ot A cost OF $18 AviECE. A relativo of Henry W. Hicks, Mre. Lord's firat husband, says that old Bamuel ficks, who Qv ii2 0 South strees shipping merchiant, died in 1247, leaving thre clldren, Johu, Heury, and Lliza, "The luttcr warrfed and died abroad, and the suns continue i tuu bueduoss in South stre & in 150 ) il hen L Miss Wilklow, then 23 turned frow the Hague, icr tuthier bud been United States Minis- Tnoy wers married In 1853, and in 1533 the tirm of Hicks & Co. falled, Amone thelr 0ssets was somus wild Jand fn Olio, which the creditors lefs to them, deeming It §Vilueless, Un this wild Jand was ruuud-f(hu Clty ot Toledo, uud tho Hicks Lrothers recelyed from it §LU0,000, Al L ot 1eory, ahout six v 420, Ly Widow becatne posseased of $300,000, aud with it sho has since traveied e Xtens| spending most of her Line abruad, g ber liking for notorlety and, dis- regard to Mr, Lord, the same geutleman hut the wajority ol the old wan's iricnds B ooslder bl slarp aud sbrewd, and without hie elizhtest trace of lusunity, Mo views the ‘ ut Mee. Lord as w woman of wuch un- oubted ubtliey thut between them Lhur will foll flic efforts uf the emldren to prove Mr Lard's usanlty ut the tine of marrlsge, ANONU TUE KUMORS v ine ybout rday was oue 1o the effect that Ir. Heury Berch und Geu. Jobn A. Dix atteud tie Lord-Hicku wedding, Mr, Bergh, who ot sttend thie wedding, savs: o¢ They say that Lord 15 mad, I think 35 Hoks 9 1 oue wio must be out of ber beadi ot Wy a uttia. t.ve, precly, and sound womat, L ail focome of 5,000 & y ear, should bupden el with the care of anuld man ot 25, §s ore ctptund. By the way, did yuu tructlung the Cardinal gave the Y touple uticr bo murnied tucw! No. fen dwill'tell fto you just as ono of ourdi- jcctore told it to me bialf an lwurlgu. He satd but, alter the ceremony and the blesslug, the ardinal enjolned ft upon them to be sure and 7inis ub theis tirag born in tho Catholic falth.?’ A Sunrcportes called on Gsn, DIx yetesday one tu the effect thut Lhe Inte widow ' to ascertnin the tenth of the report published in et o morni spatwer of yeaterday tint ho was ana ot guntemen of tho Hicks-Lord wels shinz, The venerable centenarfan was sentrd in an upper room o the Trinity Church ottice signing a Iarge pile of blank checks, .08 0t true, General 1 w\What, sie i aold hyy the report that vou were pri at the Hicks-Lord fi'ed«lml!l" ‘The General louked up from his work. * You newapaper men are really wetting too reckless, Here, give me n pon,’ and with that the ex-tovernor rapldly peuneil the fotlawing: - ,l’llr-.ue logert Iuin that' form, wiil youl? ho sald * (icn. DIx sald he never heard of the mar riage untll alter It was published in the papers, mlyr lmvr'l big any intimation that it was to take a0 4+ Is that all, General 1" asked the reporter. That's all, alr. Good-day,” P 8, HICKA' ORIOIN, Newn York IFoarld, Jan, 3, Asannmber of witd and Inconsistent stor! have been act alluat as Lo the orlgin and sacial connections of Mre, Ilenry W, Hicks, aince her marrfage with Mr, Lord, i1 fs only Iait and just 1o hier that, the facts should bo stated. Mra, Hicks Is not a mative ol Loulstana, nor yet ot ¥iraiuly, nordid she originally come to New York nsngoveenzes, The journals which have falien Into these crrors have piainly conlounded Mra. Hicks with snother lm‘v whom It fs not hecessary to name, but who will be easily recognlzed by all persons familiar with New York oclety, and who s mo longer living, As the Worwd "has nlrcady stated, Mra. [Ilicks is of Dutch descent, Bhe was horn at Matteawan, o part of Fishkill, and has many relatives Jiving in that nelghburhood, though she hersedl J scarcely known there, Her ancestors were umong the ‘carliest settlers of the rexlon, Kip, Van Cortland, and Sir Francis Ruinbout were the patentees of a tract of land coverini it all. Flshkil) uny Matteaswan were in- chtded v the part spportioned to Bir Francls Rumbout, The daughter of this lundholder, Miss Catherine Rumbout, matrled Mr, Rover Brett, nnd bore him several children, . One of these, Robert, murrled and had a daughter Hauuwab, who mwrried Mr. Henry Sshenck. Abraham 1L Schenck was a son of this coupl 10 Jaughter, Adaline, married Mr, Un co Peter Wilkers, a Duteh East Indin merchant, am] by him was the mother of Mre, HHcks, Mra. Ilcks never resided {n Fishikill for any length of thne, and the story of her life was atinost 1P NOT QUITR UNKNUWN THERE until It was brought out by this recent mar- tlage. Both ner parents died some yeara oo, andd lie burled side by side in tho wraveyard ate tached to the Keformed Dutch Chureh Ju Fishe kil One of the last evidences of the presenco of Mre, [iicka in the villago consisted in the dis- tribution by her at the time ot her mother's fu- nerul of B number of presents of money amonee the houschoid scrvants who had been attached to the family. Of theseone, an old colored woman muned Eleanor Patterson, who s about 70 yenrs old, still liven in Fishkill, Shoeays that on the deatl of Mra. Wilkens, about thres years ng, she riceived the sum of $50 from Mra, Hicks. Mr. Wilkeus was always reputed to be o mau of wealth, though nons of s property was fnvested fn kishkill in real estate or otherwise. Antmber of Mrs, }ilcks' relations, ns has been already eald, aro Iving In the viilaze; but they know very littly of her history, Dr. Jobn P, Schenck, of Mate tenwan, Is her second wutln,‘nml shio I3 n blood relation also of Mr, Edward Bchenck, the auctloneer, of this city. Mrs. Hicks' aequafotance with Mr. Thoinas Tord ~dates Lack to tho early dava of her first marriage with Mr. Ilenry W, Hlicks, and has been unbroken for nearlya quarter of a century, during the whole of which™ thye ho has been known as one of her warmest friends, When Mr. and Mre. Ilicks first oceuple:l, about tve ty-two years ago, the houss in which Mr. Hie still resiles, nt No, 10 West Fourtventh strect, Mrs. Hicks rave several entertaiuinonts which werg attended bzulhu fashionable world of thut day. Shehud a box at the opers, and attracted attentlon as wazay nud SHOWY WOMAN OF TIE WORLD, Bhe was a purtienlarly good horsewomun, and was frequently scen riding, attended by her groony, I the most orthodoy mannee, a speeta- cle pleusme at all times and places, but at that time and in New York Sutercating ':y ita rarity also, Not lung betore the outbreak of the Civil War o cnolnees aroso between Mra, Hicks and some of her fashionable triends, ont of cortuln proceedings of hers whlch acemed to them more dastune than comported with the then come aratively even tenor of New York fashlonable firc: and. as Mr, [Heks began ehout the suine timo to negiect his business and to Inll into un- comfortable hiatits of Itie, Mrs, Hicks graduslly withdrew Irom the eves ol the world, She presed some time fn Eurose durlug the early days of tho Civll War, when Mr. Davton, of Now Jersoyy was the United Stntes Mintater at Paris, “When fu this couutry at that perlud of her Itte sho frequently re- sided nt the Brovourt Houso with Mr, Hicks, Mr. Hicks was In o deplorablo state af health for some timo before his death, and ns ho huad fuiled his property was ch L“{ administered by others, At the fustlzation of a friend, Mr. Riehard Mott, ha had tnndo fuvestmentsin lands in and shout Toledo, “This estate was scttied, 8a tuo Word has stated, upon Mra. Ulcks, Mr, Walte, now Cnfef-Justice of the United Statvs, belnyr lier trustee. About tho time of and after Mr, Ilicks' death this proverty, - origlnally thouht a lods, beeame ol great value, and o towu was lald atit on It, to bo celled Hicksville. At tho thne when Mrs, Hicks Jo ned the church at Itoinr, Iicksville was yieiding her w very con- slderable revenie, whieh” she spent In a doshing way, investing Jariely in diamonds and jewels of wl hiuds, ~ Lpon her cards when she first began to move fn London sucicty, which was duriue the season alter her converalon, sho de- seribed berself accurately enoush ns ESIAL MICKS, OF MMCKIVILLE, ang sha recelved naturally cnough the homage usBally pald in English soclety, and not alwavs retused (n othier cantitelog, to slinsndsome whlow ghteerlg n diamomds, and owalng an estuts Iurge enoueh to Justify such aflne foudal way of altuding to it After the panic of 1873 tha - come ol hier eatate, os of most other properties 1 Lsts country, bewan to shlnk, und it becamo necessary for to return hume and look after her affairs, She still, hawever, it ts betiovey, found herseif i the posscasion ot a ool reve- oues and Mr. Henrv Berch states that only o few dnys ago My, Charles 0'Cunor, who has often ncted ns Mrs, Hicks' Jewal ndviser, told bim be belicved her lucome to awount to fusly 230,000 8 year, Whenever Mrs. Hicks visited the United Btates, after her husband’s death aud the rise in vatua of her ‘Toledo property, shie was aceus- tomed to £o to the wateringplaces fu n style suited to her Inconie, and, as the quarrels which hud tuterferred with ler carecr as w woman ol fusnion before the CIn! War had become wat- of tho dim pust, sho moved In & circle of w1l fn this cuumr( with something of the brillianey which made” ner yotable abroad. In 1876, When Lord Houghiton sisitod this coun- try, sho extended her hospitalities to him, und wave him ou the 2Sthof October In that year a dinner of twenty covers, quite notable for ita speador. ‘Two pollcemen did duty in frout of tho house, and u force ol liveriod Afrieans gave state wud style to tho banquet. Amang the company were Mr, and Mrs, Jobu Blgelow, Mr. Clurkson Putter, Mra, Stevens amd Mise Bre- vens, ¢x-Giov. and Miss Dix, Mr. and’ Mra, Henry Uereh, Mr. ang Mrs, John Shorwood, and Gov. Tilden. Aunother notable dinner tiven by Mra, Ilicks to Chlof-Justica Walte wiif also bet remembered, Durlue the London season of 1877 Mrs, Hicks resided at Claridie's Hotel, long her favorite headyuarters in Eugland, aod nutable us the seene of an AMUIING LITILE BOCIAL INCIDENT connected with one of tho muny trips of the late Queen of Holland to Great Britain, ‘Thoe story has often been exurgoratud, and does not reatly amount 1o much, thy upshot of it beng that it brought obout on gcqualuts ance” Letween Mrs, [licks and Her Ma- F“ . who was gratifled to lind thas o= umlv had so brithant o representative in the splendid American widow, ~Of Sra. Hicks® re- ception given to Gew. snd Mra, Grant, the $furld has alrcady spoken, IL wus .rm.lulmncd with fushfunably and tamous veople that the Prince of Walcs came, lovked fn, und, despalriug of making au entrance, went his way. Mr. La- bouchere, Impertinently cotnmentiug upon it o Truth, doclared that the stately bustiss bluzed with dismonds wherever 1t was possibly that 8 diamond could bu wado ta *etay put " on the humay form divine, ‘The Londou curlc»Yund~ eat of tho Worid, s, Jennlugs, in chronleling the events of the Grant vislt, recommended the appoiutment of Mrs. Hicks as the American blfumer abroad, and it fv only fuir to say that in o little aitticulty which wrose beeween 3Mra. Ilicts and Mr, Piecrepout during thut alzh aud nobly Republican holiday, the Minlster caine off decidedly secoud best. It was duriag this thne that the baud of Mrs. Hicks was sought fu mar- rhuLa n} Lord Henry Lennox, o brother of the P‘fl e of Richmound und Uonlon, but unsuccess- ully. MuS. HICKS' LNCOME. Sew York lisen Jaw, 8. Loog before this tiwe {her mothor's death’ Mra. Ilicky bad “teut” her retdtives uu fricods et Fishkill, Thay kucw ber only b reputation. They only kuow of her now, Leen sad Lelore, by réputatlon, Blis wa commauleative; aud, a8 oue of ber auld yesterday, she wils **as quecr oy Dick's bat- baud.” Meruwarrisge to Mr. llicks, although not directly a good Huauclal ulitiuce, was a #good thivg® judirectly. When he died ho Iefv. Ler little, except sowe property fu unde- veloped towns ia the West, which bave siuve becowe productive. Somu of thiy property ts) bave bee fn Tuledo, but all of 1t was not.” It tlioushit, bowever, Lhat it bus brought ber 8 guod THI CIIICAGO TRIBUT E: TUESDAY. JANUARY & 1878, fncome i date sears. Mr. Hickshaltwosisters, and Mra Hicks aiso inherited tneie proverty when they died, Thev had a great odeal more 1o leaye their than brother, and thelr leguey tereas- ¢il her cume materlalty. Wile Mes, il not will.ng tocommuleate with her rei about hier property and Incume, aha hiad on anv- eral neeasions explalned that she had other means of suuport than those Just mentloned, “hu et it be genczally underatood that i addi- ton to the property nherited from the Hickses ane had fallen hetress Lo leqacles from members of her husband's family in flolland, It Is not Delleved by the relatives who inrnished this in- formotion that Mrs. Hicka has at any time bren without a grood fucome, and they exurces the belief that it Is not now far from $60.000 or $50.- W0, Taay do not attempt to acrount tor Lhis Taet strange freak. They havo heard nothng uhout her to her discredif, and they do not ad- mit that thero s anything unnsucl ahout the niarriage exeept the disappearance of Lae par- tea, PREPARING TESTIMONT FOR THE LUNACY COM- MISSION, The attorneys represencing Mr. Lord's sons ara preparlug the testimony to be presented be- fore the Commisston appointed to ingulve lnto the mental condition of- their father, 'The evi- dende of several employes of Mr. Lord, of sume of his tenante, and of “hrokers theough whom Tio transacted busliess, has alreads heen taken, 1t In antil to afford proof that the old gentleman has been lucampetent to attend to his moncinry allairs properly tor several years. Home of the Nfe-lons drleuds of Mr. Lord aro alss to be valled upon to testify In this reward, Among these 18 Mr. Moses Taylor, who, a long tine ato, It Is rald, advised tint Mr. Lord shonld not e allowed to ga to the Lank alone, o3 ho was Incompetent 1o do buslovss there without guid- ance, and wuas exposed to attacks irom thieves. tle ofien Kept more that &1,000,+ 000 worth of securltics tn tho safe, or vault, in hiy oflice on Exchange place. e used to hoast that the vault waa safer than thoso of the sofc-denosit companles, and that no burglars could foree {t open, An attempt was made to Lreak IL open one New-Year’s night several years ago, The door was drilled, aud a charge ul powder was lired. The shock of the explo- slon slurined the ovcupants of the house, who Jmmedistely entereil the oftice, where um)' found a bag of powder and somo bitrlars tools. Bhortly before the attempt 10 burst the safe was mwle several persons who il longed to the actective squed were seen lofer- inir” in_Lxchange place and Wiltams strect. Mr. Lord teled to hush the matter up, and re- fused to nilow a repurt of fL to be nuwde ut po- lice hea lquarters, It hecawe well known un Exchange place, however, aud was yesterd ny the topic of conversailon umongseveral broners, It fs'malil that Mr, Lord's sons have for a loug time past been considering the propriety of PHOCURING CONTROL OF THEUS PATHE'S BUSI- NESS, Thev bave tried quietly to bocome occupants of his ollice to waten hig” procecdlmzs, but he al- ways ummlr reptilsed them, were, It Is saldd, unwitling co take lezal proveedings that might place them o a false position, otherwise they would have fnatituted proceedings simalur to those thal are now I progress. They knew his intimuey with Mrs. Ellegs, but they never suspected o would imarry her, On the morn- iy that she arcived from urope, in November Jast, Mr. Lord recelved a telegram from her, umt ho sturted at 7 o'clock in e carrlage for the steamship dock. He tovk her from there to ber house, and dld not return to his own house unfil. the evening, A wentleman who used to vialt Mr Lord’s oflica very olteu suid vesterday that he had heard him Jamout the fact thal somebody In Eurooe, was pesters In him for moncy, At such tintes he would exclmnt pathetically, *And I have a family to support, tou.”* Tcrore the arrival of Mra, icks I this elty from Euiope, he used to fngnire dai- Iy us to thio thne of various ocenn steamships, and he told his relatives receatedly that some- body who owed bim 300,000 was comiug from Europe to pay itn over 100,000, Thunss Lord, Br,, wus, according to his fricnde, always = A VAIN MAN, easily afToeted by female hunully. and convinced that vvery ludy who lvoked his way was over- come by his masculine charms, A gentleman who has known hint for many years told a ro- parter of the Z%mes yesterday that 2 Mr, Lord, onlv o few years o, used Lo frequent Broad- way, and “ocle every wirl that pussed him. Waenever one of them glanced at him, he would follow and converss with her, His relutives knew ot this peculiarity, aud some of the femnala wembers of his family often played tricks upon hit. ‘They wonld veli thelr fa.es, and us they passed would giance ut him. After leading blm. on they would discluse their Nentlty. It was through this characteristic thut he was so often decelved by confldeyee wutnen. Why," sald Mr, Lord's ol friemd, ** I know of .one” woman who llved upon nim for {mlru. She wa a very beautitul woman, whose e, accordne to her vwn account, had been tilled with sstortunes. *ler tatoer was a well- to-do Boston_man, she sald, who, at the out- break of the War, was moyed by patriotie sentls menta to convert ull his pussessious nto United Stutes honde, Then hie went Into the army, ace compaeled by his llve sons and’ her husband, uklnix tho bunds with bitn, 1o was killed, ond hikewize his suus aud son- w-law, The Lomds wers lost. She married agoi, aud her sccond busbund and clnld were killed in the first Chivayo fire,. She cutne to New York, uwd marvied a third time, but within n few days atier the wedding her husbaud was kitled by o Tourd avenun ear,. 8tio told Mr. Lord that slis hud berun a suit aganst the raitroad cotnpany, but that unless shiy was louned money sue could not prosecute i, Moy ol by ber dutress, Mr, Lord ave her money fur waonths, sumetlmea as much us F150. ial- Iy, his agent made up his mind that she wus uty 1te wont to the Filty-reventh Strect t, where sho smd her suit wes pending, and Tourd that notiing was kuown about hor tie e tnen visited her, found hor living tn ftne styly, aud wearing handsoms attlrs. 1le atter~ wilrds prevented “ter fram entering Mr. Lord's uftice, Thia Is ona ase whercln un adventuress deceived and robbed Mr. Lord,” suid the re- purter’s informunt, *but 1 could tell of many ulmust sluilar cases,” 3L LOUN'A FONTUNE. The fortano whien v, ‘Thomus Lonl, Br, Is reoutod 1o havo Used 50 oxtravegautly did not aiwayas belong to bhms When o retred from miereantilo business, ahout twenty-five yuar oo, ho wus worth o lurge amount of monuey, but between thut poriod and 1563 he Joss the reater purt of it “The fallure of the Colum-. biun Fire and_Marlne Insurance C'nm'muy, of which he was Preslaent, weakened hls fnancial conditlon Very much. Shortly alter that cvent hu dnnerited o large part of the fortune of Mr, utus L. Lord, which wis sbout $3,000,000, ‘Then hie was enabled to sell the Cotumblan Ine suraucy Company’s stock ut 8 good fgure, Upon comiug lute ixummuu ol s Jarge cstutu he fnsfated that hls sons should give up busi- nuas, telling thetn he was ablu to support thom vroperly, Llis son Thomas . was then o memwver of the Urn of Lord & Morgan, in the drug busiueas; Coarles and Ilenry wero in utner Lranchies of trade, and Frunk wis i @ large bauking-house, They gave up thelr occupations, and Mr. Lord settield large anuu- {tivs upon them. Mr, Thomnos Lord purchased # hundoom residonee ou the Sound ut Hunung. touy Long Ivluud, his bfotuer Charles bought one on the Hudson, dlenryand Fraok Lord rymained In New Yorks, but oeeastonally made trips to hnm{u-. Mr Lord has withlu the past two years lutled ta pay lis sons thelr allowances ot the appolnted thues, 1t §s now belleved that this wus on uecount of the fuct that ho was con- tinually BENDING LALOK SUMS OF MONEY 10 some person In Europe, Although his sons were intormed thut Mr, Lord realized money on lurgo ainuunts ot sccurities, and - tho disappear- aue of tha muney could not be gecounted for, thioy did not futeriers with bin 98 trat, [t wus only when Mr, Thomay Lord, Jr., beeaine contl- denit that Lis fatner would dissipate his entire eatate §1 not controlied, thut he went to the old kentluman's ofilca and assumed charge of i, Atis gather, it s sald, ut rst sirongly objected tu bls prescnce, but foally arced to and said, 1t s reported, Lo thauked Giod to ba yelleved of em- barrassments.” Ha thon told his son of the persou in Europa who owed b 300,000, but dld wot reveal tho neme of toat debtor, [t ju now estimated that within four years Mr. Lord’s catute has been lessened by about $700,- Q0. A aegal gentleman, who has led nsuu to asslst in putting the =statv n order, admitted yesterday . thut 100,000 worth of Uuited Btates bonds that properly belong ta 1t cunuot be found, 'The deliviv 1o stocks uid cash hae not yei_beun leurned, It i not directly arzed by Mr, Lond's relatives sad thelr coun= taat Mra, Hicks, while Iy Europe, was tho recient. of the tioney sent theve by the eld wentlenmn: 1413 a mngulur lact, bowever, they £uy, that ut tho thuo that lady went to Earope, about u year oo, o lurge umouut of Unlied Btates Lunds were myateriously disvosed of by Mr. Lord; and 1t 14 equally sugeestive thai, while Mrs. licks was on her way home from Europy, lu Novemberlast, Mr. Lord wus very eleerul ut tiue T"d saul very often that a ped- son was crosslng the 0.cuu to pay him $100,00. A prominent physlelin, who was a near relg- tive ot the Jute Mr. iloney W, Hicks, told o ropurter of tho Zlaes lant” eveuing Lhat, when thit wentleman tarried twe preseut Mre. Lord, his Quuber reiatives Wers very indizount, e suid, however, tbat the l.ulr Was & goud wile, sud wag bever the dashing leader of New York socloty shu has vecn pletured, She had o great Tuve for torsee, und rodo well, aod she knew how to give pleasaut enlertainwents. ‘Toe geutlewan dealed that the ‘Tuledo property ever produced for Mra. Hicks an snoual income of §50,000. e sald that when My. Hicks fatled be_asalgued s0wo proverty beeids that du Loludo W bis wife.amnd that her entire estate could never have roduced o greater income than £20,0X, Tt was T apinfon that she was 50 yeaes of age, and there was nothing wrony In the matriare of & woman ol that ave to a man hice Mr. Lord, ‘The same gentleman #ald that 10 Europe Mrs, Hicks did not glve many re:entios, but those she «hl give were s brilliant they attracted reweral attention. CURRENT GOSSIP. TINTHER AND HERE. Twa were sltting heside tha elver— Beantiful river and broad, Stralelit an a dart from the cowman's qulver, Deep with never s ford, Childiab pratilo and gray halrs hosry, Mountaln and watere cold, Twillght of Auntumn's wondrous glory F1iling the Jand with goldt Childhond Tsughs at the sunset-splendor, Dreaming of coming days; Age Is mute, and the white hands stender Cluaps, whilo the old man prays. Lo! a barge from an Unknown Ocean, Funesal-draped! The child Bhuildercd coid st its onward motlon—~ Walting, the other smiled. One In wone, but the othef gazes Hilently into the Weat, ‘There on tho hoat, dark-curiained, blazes Escning's aureate crest. Ever the barga (s growing dimmer, Erer the shadows close, Faintly the city's far lights glimmer, Sadiy the river fows, Letrzio, Nov. 22, 1877, Trien I, Kixa. A LAKE WITHOUT BOTTOM, Virginia (Ner.) Enterprise, Pyramid Lake ia nearly forty miles. In length hy from fifteen to twenty du width, It Is but 4,000 fectabove the level of the gea, while Lake Tuhve 18 6,210 fect above the sea level. Tue lake contuins many Islands, several of which, near the middlc of the luke, rise to the height of some hundreds of fect, and are pyramidal {n form and light gray In color, One tall spire, scen far duwn to the northward, where the lake scems shorcless, I8 perfectly white. A large 1aland, probnbiy thelargest in the lnke, eontains five or slx square miles of comparatively level rround, aud Is covered with vegetation. up- on this lsland a number of goats were turned loose some years since, and they have fnereased at a wondertul rate, ®0 that they may now ne scen feeding upon every hill. Ther need no care, winter ur summer, and areabout as wild a9 tho guats found by Robinson Crusoo on tne Island of Juan Furnondez. The lake {3 of fm- mense depth; it fs sald that near the centre GUO fathoms of line failed te fud bottom. The waters of tho lukears bracklsh, except fmme- diutely sbout the pofnt swhiere the waters of the Trackee Hiver flow into it. Owing to the hrackishuess of its waters, to ita reat depth. or to both depth uud brackishness, o lake never freez Although the lake s generally very rough, owlug to 118 belng expused to sweeping west- erty winds, the Piute Indlans fearlessly nuvigate ftinall directions aod almost at all times on thelr tulo rafts, Theso rafts are often nothing mora than a singls -~ bundle of tules, but when the rait ia intended to ace commodate more than one person Lwo or three bundles wre Jushed together anl drawn into the shape of u clumsy boat. Near shoro they generally pole these eraft anout, hut they frequently holst & sall made of a blan- ketaud leariess!, vay 80 fur out upon the luke that only thelr safl rematus visible. These tutle-boats very closely resemble the entamarans used by the natives of sume of the ielands of tho South Pacific. They are so buuyant that it fa {mpossible to sink them. Far out'in the Jake among Islands they set thelr longlines,strunz jull of houks, Thess they visit on thelr rafty, aml sometimes bring (ot leas than 300 pounds of trout at ons trip. ‘The trout arc sold ot 10 cents per pouni at the lake, thereforo itwill readily Le scen that fshing s a profituble bust- vese, At the north or lower end of tho lake are n duzen or more {slayls of rock of ecullar and pleturesque form, ‘These are of solid rock, and are from to 400 fect In helght, At aafs- tance they look liko monster mushrooms or epes standing on stems,—such eggs sa mizht tave been produced by the roe, that binlof anclent tines, une wing of which, aecording to 1un-El-Wardee, was 10.000 fathoms long.s It 18 fipossible to chimb these rocks, a3, while their stems form perpendicutor walle, it §s be- yond the power ol wan to nscend those parts rhera they begin to swell out into domes, Mr. Stiles suys he hos sounded the loke ot the buse of some of these fantastie blands, and, with the longest Mue at hia command, wus unable to lnd bottom. Oue of the lnreest of theso ialands, the tall white one scen fram towand the head of the luko. Is not wholly perpendieuiar on all aldes, Ou enc of its sides thero is u steep slops which it i thonght mizhy be realed in some way, A atory Is current at the lake that Johu C. Fre- nvut, the great ** Puthiinder,” found a path to thy mfr of thus rock, It Is belleved that he left his fleld glusses and soine ottier Instruments of vulue on the sammit of the roci, nud mauy at- tempts bnve been mado to cliind it in order to secure these articles, ‘The lnst attempt to acale the prramid was by a suilor, who used a long rope, thiowing it up- ward until It caught upon a projecting point of ruck, theu drawlug himself up, and nzaln throw- sog s fupy to a rock ubove, Mo reachied o helght of ubout 150 fet, whien he was unahte to Nnd any more projectious over which Lo throw his rope, aud came near never reaching level ground slive. Ho was obliged to descend In the same wn{ a8 ho eifected the ascent, and when he flually got down he wus completely ex- huusted ;" s hanas wers bleeding, and Lo was cut and scratched from head to fuot. The flshe ermen bave now concluded that the only way which tho flcld glasses and other plunder can bu secured (n by attuching & Jine to o rock and then tiring 1t over the top of the pyrmnid from » mortar, Oune of the small rocky falands of the Jake fs alive with rattlesuakos, It Is supposed that the first of the stock were watted to the lsland on o raft of tules or ariitwood, - Do, Wood, who hias visited tho {sland, says there fs *mbillons In | na reptiles have their homnes among the rocks, and Live ou tho egms aud young of waterfowl, ai upon the deag fish that are vast ashore on the Inland. Mr. Wood suys that the storles that bave been told of thosnakes rushing in a biny, hissing und rattling, to attack any man on tho island, are untrue. Io found that, whenever they werp dlaturbed, they ran awav and congealed” themselves 1n the crevices of the rocks, just us would have been douno by any ather suakes, ABANDONED BXHIBITS, Ihltadtelphia Tines, Jan. 5. Customs Appratser Moore and two assistants werw ut the Interuational Exnitition yestenluy, scttinig valuation upon abandoned aud other Centonntul exitvits (rom foreign countrics, As was the cuse with all gooas from sbroad Inteud- ed for the Centouniul, thess exhibits were al- lowed to bo placed In the show without the pay- tent - of duty before ths 30th of November, 1476, tho day on which the Exhibition was closed. . Whele owners, morcaver, enjoyed the additlonal privilego of having the guods exempt from sale by the Guvernment for ono year fm- mediately following thatdate. Thelr entire pe- riod of grace was, therefore, slX monins louger thun the time oraiuarlly granted fo cases of uuclaimed or abandoncd goods upon which po duty has been pald. Esch eshilitor, however, was required to give a boud wsuriug the payment of all duty sliould tha exhlbita be sold by thelr owners; the roturn of the articles, uosold, within the snccified cimo tothe respective countries whence thoy came, or their sale by the Goveroment at the expiratiou of one year siter tho cloce of the Exhibitiou stiould thoy remaln until that tiwe uneotered for duty. When tue big show ended, hilnts sullicient to it about 500 cases of ordlnary size wero abaudoned by thelr owners, for varlous reasons, bu sonia bustances no huyers cuuld be found for the wrilcles, and the ex- lubitors hus no woney to pay duty, waila [ wany cases the customa charees stnounted Lo uearly, J uot quite, ué much us the goixds bud cost or wero worth ufior being usd or exposed fur six wontha, About two months alter- wards all these g wers taken away by the customs authoritles and put into the Aopraisers’ stores, with tho excep- tlon 0f @ lot ol show-cases uu:l sume heavy mu- ciluery, which were left in the Mo Buildivg, where they are now dlvplayed i tue Permancut Exnltion, Auuy ot hesbow-cases wers sold subject to duty, ubd the chunzes wada o then by their purciascrs, who substituted diiTercul it vuwes uud othcrwiao altered the appesrulice o the cases, proved u source of great trouble to the Approlsere in thelr work of yesterday. Mr, Browu, storekeoper 1o the Appralsers® departrucut, says tbat sin the goods wero brouzbt to tha stores about three-fourths of theo bave been reduetned, owing Lo the exer- tiong of forelyu Cowmissioucrs aud Cunsuts, u quantity of ux- whom Collector Tutton mudeacaualnted with the fa.ts of the selzure shortly alter it hal been efleeted. But more than ens hundred cases of goods vetremainin the Appraiscrs’ storesat Hee ond and Gold mireets. ‘The customs authontics, not bnving exainined them yet, are unable togive deflnite information concerning the character or value of their contents, They cumprise ma- chinery and merchandlse of every description from prohably every country that was repre. r:nuzdpa: the Centennial. It Ia befleved that they would not bring more then one-fiith of their cyst ot auction. The most nutavle part of the collection Is eomposed of all the fixtures, furniture, and other articles that were used in the Trufs Frerer restaurant, “This lot, at the close of the ahiov, would hardly bring’ 84,00, and, as the duty reached that sun, the propric- turs preferred o abandon the goods. One ot the principal articles in the rest of the Tot 18 a centiilugal arrangement made of copper, and used [n evaporating sugar. It cost rotimbly ¥%0, fn the Catharino street ware- house ar6 All the sections and contents of the Moorish villa, which was sefzed with the other cxhibits, It Is said that the owner of this ar- chitectural oddity asked about 3,000 for it be- fure the scizure, but, owing to the difiiculty of fndlug many Amerleans ready to jump with such a sum for & Moorlsh villa, e has not heen able to rut 1t vut of Undle Sam's clutches. The princlpal abandoned article now at the Bx- bitition. in &lditton to the atiow-cases, s a stone-dressing machine, wuizulnf‘ several hml. which was exhibited in ritish Devart~ the ment. All the scized goods, even though sold for one-ffth of their cost, would tring a very larze sum of monev. Collcctor ‘Tutton has fieen in Waahtngton arrangine with the Treasury olll- crala for thelr sale, wlich he will endeavor to huve begin on the Joth fust., or a8 soon there- alter as possible. MIS. WELDON AND GOUNOD. Mrs. Weldon, the Euglish woman who is accused of bewltehing Gounod, the famous French combuser, has given her sioe of the story to a voluble correspondent of the New York Worid: Up to 1563 ehie live quictly In North Wales with her husband, Ste was an accomplished vocallst, familiar with all the muslcal masters of the day, and & favorite in Lundon artlstocratic suciety, 8he was the daughter of s country gentieman with a dowry of £40,000, fond of dolug good as a philan- thropist, She wanted to found a freo mueic- #ehinol for puor children, and to this cnd went to Londun In 1809 to pive converts under ans- taeratic pattonage. 8he found plenty of zood words but very few shillings, sud fluslly gave up her aristocratic friends sud took to chofr- sluging. It was while thus employed that she met Gounod, who, s shie gays (and 88 he s, alnc), was struck br *the purity of her vol. the art of her wechod, and the noble simplicity of her style (Thess are Gounod's words.) e besought hier 1o 1uke the principal part in his new overa, “ Polyeucte,” and volunteered to finish it expressly for her. Ie associated himuself with her {n her school plan, and Mra. Weldon and her husband nursed himn in bis sickness, popularized Ins works in Engiand, and wade an arrungzencut with him which was beneficial both to lim aud Lo the Weldons. To iow how ol this heneflted Gounod, Mrs, Wel- dou cites that sluce he wnade her acqualntance Ll works acll for two-thirds more thau bolore. All was flouslshing until 1874, when Gounod, after partiug with tiem in the inost affectionate munner to go to France, suddenly ceased his fiunhlnu «Iudfi- Jetters aml mmulluneously the arls press Deran to abuse her ns * the fair- halred” Anonyma from the London putters, who drew the unforiunate French composer (louuod tito her nets for the purposs of tobbing hln of his art, his brains, his for- tuncand bealth:" the Londoa pupers raid not a word In ber defense, ahe wus surroudded with cruel slanders, her nerves shattered. She would lave dlsappeured from publie view cxcept for o Llnd fatily and ive or elx orphan children whom Goutiod and lier had promised to take cre of. The thougnt of these dependents toved her, Bhe tried to Induce hier husbund to go with her to Frunee aud endeavor to jorve Gounod to carry out bls contract, but he re- fused, but volunteered to give £1,000 a year to curry on the puilanthrople wors, while the wife glves uer lator, She sa; In my opinton my husband shonld bave publicly botsewhipned Goiinud, T have, pirliaps, an ex. uted feollng on the subject, but 1 feel that wo should be deservedly calumututed and dishon- ured 1f Tltred with & ‘man who_had not cared to protect oithier himseif or bin wifa from the et atrucious slandere; and haa I sbandoned my school Lshould have glven he rizul to those who said thut my husbund connived ut my dishunor, with the intention of geiting heavy danaces out of Gounod e co-respondent. M, Gounad, counting on y despale at tue Bnheard of dificuities of wy purition, hod sald thut shis Engiich woman had druwn him Into her bets by putting on chaniy's mask: toat her chiliren ‘wero mythe, end her sclioal a swindle. This, a0 far, 14 my actua) re- ward for all 1 huve gonv through fur the lots of an ideal sehioul and o fow poor cullaren—little **no- bodies "5 and yet. ag tho whole of my world knew. 1 wus & queen of socloty, - With the Gospel for ny sxampie, 1 cunaot understand bow 1 could ever have allowed it to enter my braln 1hat thuee who try to du guod in this world are likely o bo hulped or appreciuted, She went alone to Parls, havinz the origlual score of “Polycucte,’ and was ndvertised to el seleetions frum i, Lut Gounod’s triends rucceeded o persuading the menazer of the Ttaltan operis to prevent ler appearance, §t is harily nocessury to remark thot the French [»m pie do not credly M Wetdun's story, bo- leving rather the verslou told by Gounod, aud licrototure published. A NORWAY SENSITIVE PLANT. Inctanupotis Journal, The affectation of Interest {n the sclences fa Jeading tho country a wild chase, Many aro the laughaule blunders that tho would-be sclentlsts are led {nto by their vaulty, Aseoon as a littlo ellque begin to understand & fow sclentific terms and priveiples, they give themassives a socloty nate, and fufict ponderous essays upon oo an- othier. Bret Harte's “Bodety of the Stanis- taus" 18 8 fair example of thie uverago sclentitle sovivty. Doston is largely responsible for this lunavy,, Ittsa cass of sclentille vanity gono Lo secd, and tho seedd has spread like thistle-down, Unlortunately, the wind set ju our dircction, Wit n feariul responsibility 15 Boston's. ‘This popular dulusion bas taken root {n La- 1a) ‘Lhey call it after Agasmiz, Thls knot ol scll-deluded mortels might have forever re- malned {6 funocent avd harmless obscurity had 1t not been for thut destroyer of bappiness, the practical juker, 11 the practieal joker, und the tian who dldw’t know it was loaded, could anly overcome speclife cravity aud bo shot oif into space, how much lighter” the world would be, ‘Ll joker knew thot ooe of tho members ot the Suclety was particularly proud of his knowle wvdge of butauy. Rare plants were to bim o “well-apring of pleasure.” He reveled In u col- lection "ot no ordinary comprebension. le wanted o Norway gensitive vlant, boweyer, “The Soctety ha bien regaled wit the beautles and wonders of this wonderful plant. Imagine his joy, un Christas-Day, when a warm triemd and” fellow-scicolist prescoted Wm with o pot contalulng 8 shoot just out of the ground and of promising appeatance, Ho bad been to mucL truuble to procure tho plaut for uls fricml; bur, knowing that he would scientlifeally uppres ciate tho present, he wished 1o test bis adinira- tiun by this little present. Words could not exe press the delizat of the savant, The pot was temlerly carried howe, and placed fn the most favorable spot fu his gree-house. Dally he would spend Louvs bending over i, waterlng 8, and watching its beauties unfold,” That hittle bruwn sien convealed reye- lations which §t waa to present o blwm, aud ho would write a paper vu it to be read to the Club, With the patfencs of Bacun beshde fils wondertul brazen hiead, be walted, watched, and watered. And bow was he rewsrded! The other morning be concluded that bls pet necded to havo the carth loosened about it,~ Cureully be bruke thu dive around the stem. Ho struck sumething soft and round, Could his plaut by bulboust Hers was a discovery ndeed, With cager fingers he remnoved the earth and uncoys ered @ mouse. Ho bad been watching and wateriug Jus tall, which would never reward Ll with the hoped-for buds. Butany Las not that attraction for bim that it forwerly had, aod hls sicatitic driend bas gons East to upply for a posltion on the Jdmerican Naturalist, SEDAMN London torid. Everybody who Is scquainted with s )ittlo French mustknow of the exclumation * Dame ™ Mauy Englishnien fmagine that ft must weun lady, and vefer to the Virgin Mary, 1o poiut of fact It was origiually * Damne," a corruption of Domine, meaning Lord. Now fu Euglish we have u klod of checked curse—* Damn1” Ity ea it au Euglishwan were about to curse some- thing, but suddeuly stovped bunself. 1t 1s thy old Freoch word seized by the English, sud coducd with s uew aud alse wesviug. Fue “Dumuol™ of the old Freuckunan, meaning no more than Lord, becumie the lavguage of curs- Iug fn fts travsier into Eugibsu, Wo can see lll'u:lltl’v o sune thing In a later form of runstoration. ‘Puc old French 4 Damog 'Y becawe ot a later date ** Dawe!" witha very disiinct proauuciution of the wmute vewel Ju French poctry this vowsl wouid be distiuctly beard to the present dayi but 200 yeary szo thery could be no duubl aboud it, even fu pross and ordauary talk. Intho Euglish plays of that werlod it will be found iu the form of ** Dawm- me!? and “ Damn me!"—another proof that what waaa mere adjuration in French beeame through misunderstanding a curee. In the old French enfca there are no phrasea more enmmon than such as ** Dame Dieu,” * Damne Diey," * Dampne Diew,” and * Damle Diew,” They simnly mean the * Lord (lod.’ But imagine what they must mean, or rather must have meant, of awful ond terrible to the old En- elish, who either knew not Freneh, or were, lopin ayeay from ft and knew (b but halt, 1t Ia throtigh this horrible misunderstanding of ancient date that the tamillar verb for cursing~ Dainn—lins come to be accllmatized among us asit Is Among no other people on the face of the earth. Our fashlonable apecch was at one time Norman Frenchi we fliled our mouths with Normnan oaths “We then forzot thelr meaning: we ignorantly turned themn to curses: and to our disgrace they remaln as curscs RMODR us to this day e —— THE BLANCHARD ENGINE. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cn1cA00, Jan. b.—After reading the letter in todav's Triuse entitied * Blanchard's En- gine,” [ cannot forbear a few remarks reeard- ing that principle as shown in thatarticle, The letter peserts that it is unnecessary to have a large holler to gencrate and Lold steam to run the engines, but that it Is possible to manu- facture the steam just as it |8 wnscd, and no more, and calis it a hew principle or method, 1 would state that as lung agy as 1360-70 a na- chinist In the Clty of LaSalle uot only thought ol that method, bnt he also constructed an en- wine and demonstrated the method. “The en- gine was abuut 10 fuchies in heleht, and not only shuwed It possible to manufacture steam as ft wos uscd, but exinblted the gearing requisite to furnish the water cach stroke of the preton, the medns of turning tha same to steam, and the dbsposition of the cxhaust, and the possl- bitity of the utilization of the power. A, B. DE VisTa, A HUIE NUMENOUS we liave estahiiniod reat ividone. &y draignated i Wil b taken o fie same Maln Otilee, and will be recefved uring tue week, and unsli9 p, ot ) statloner, 170 eaie tatloner, etc., 1003 i STON, Weat-3ide News Depot, 1 rland-av.. coraer of Halsted.ot, ;:‘DI‘UL HENRY. Bouks, Statlunery, etc., 320 DI+ vislo: W, C, TTERRICR, Jewefer, News-Dealer, and Fancy Gouds, 721 Lake:st. . cornet Lineoin. BY MEAL ESTATE, ~ N URDERTO ACCOMMGDATI FAtrons (ntuugliout thy cit irateh Olces in the d linre savery d at Ul BALE— b Tpimer sere. cavh, W-ncte fatm, (ust 7 miles from nue, wif'f8 sced, (rime dwelline. fonr rooma: cli d wold three years ago for £30) nly 18 oot & hetter hargnin F3tclaan 107.acre farm, 8 splendid -ruom eliinz, thols for 105 cattle{ Just one- ialf mile from the ‘Town of Slone and denot, "in Woods ury County, lowa: 21,200 down, beisnce ' ame year. Ahis farit is worth $3, U 23 pef acl 8 1Arin, 680 scr! n Mellenry County, 1t (iea from Chigago, 3 flea from dex ¢, Bas @ fine dwelling. two' farze ‘stock barms. i enced, imsting water, and no hetter isod in the Rrate, e fmnroveinenta cat &1A000. This lani onght 16 bring #50 per acre, cash. Will vell at 837, 830 duwa. Ttogm 7, 179 Madibon: AT A GUEAT BACIHFICE, Pilty STy mi_brick dwelling, brick barn, and lot, Ubpuriio Jellerson Berks (rvi-clase sur- JOR AL elaw 11 o0 Adama- Poinding #1.100- L0t 243123, south front, on Warren-av., be- tweén Westornoav, and 0k e $1,100-#00 dusi—{;otiaxo, and lot 265125, south front, on Adanisst,, nesr Clmplffl-.r. ¥ 12-ro0m dwelllng aut Tot on Arnotd- AWCEn TRirty stk g Tt o v s, e 0 TItryaiKtE nud Thirtyoac. ow, . Wert Adnin T lerant etawon hiick ! 31903 ] o Laryat 2 3w o BE & bargaing T ttuom 7. 140 Masieon ng, batn, Wit trat . 1. BO k) a1 [Fosas ROVET) FANN, 310 AGT in Central r 0niy 311 an worei ot cas) iermie. Ad iresa K. ¥ SON, Unfon, Is. 201 EALE—#1.0% farm iand, B nillea froi illea frot OF A1 nival & 8t do- e ain, et tn Camden 0.1 th armfng partof (he Btate aud nd offered v tiie very bea, 'fhicse are nu hunibuge xeoulne bareal ades, i Tiaorm 7. 170 Madieon-st. Sa or 1 BOVD, i:fin FALE=$4600~A VALUANLE _TRACT . OF 1, 280 2 located land In North Carolln; cres of e’ magnigcent irac uf timber, waluul. eKory. taULS fine atredn of water an i good mil nites, Thisisone of tliv best stock tatches In the United Atates, anid the beakibieat loeality in the States fever and ague are ungnien, Wilksell at the abote fgure. orexchange for Chlcao ot bersoul properiy st s tale Tluation,” Avly to . I BOYD, 170" Medlaun-at.. 0 7, with and g DVANCES MADE ON DIAMONUS, \WATCIIFS, 2\ hinds, L LALSDELS privaty ey, 13 11t NY SUMS OF MONEV TO ROIT L furalftire without ‘femoval, planas, aud Rood co iaterals, 153 Dentborn-sl., Hooin 22, AA MONEY IN 60)3 TO SUIT TO LOAN 0N e fursilie. cie without remotal, uron guod Collaterals._C. B, WILSON, Lioom s, 118 Randoiph-at. U~ GOLD “ASD RILVER. va dianionds, and veluahles i AL HOLDSAMIED'S Loan and [heillon 01, 10 Fast Madleon-at, Fatabilined i, LUANED 0N COL rivate bank, 16% East Adam NIONEY, T0 LOAN OX FIRST MORTAAGE 5 curity In amali or larzs awounts st low Interest ftoom'2, 4734 Lasalle- 5 NIGKELR N 8\3 0k 82 AND GFWAIDS GAY AN bolind n exchiaags for curraucy at the counting Toani of the Tribune Cinipany. N i NIEn CAN UE JMAD IV EXOHANGE, FOT _curreicy_at the countlug-room o the_friune. QILven SNoi $infn o Tribune Company. WUAT wiLL YOi; VY maringainok S 1N 0y o for cllrrency at counting-room of N CASH FOIt BTATE 37 LBY, Trivane s Neer ' 102 Addrl:llog VWANTED=A LOAX OF $250 03 rade ticke® fOF 100K OF SHOTE thie. 1Luno ullice, Sk, The eralsued helng deatrous of n'llrlnl frum bual- ness, Ollers for saln his sioc oar, graln, and such wiher mer, B Is asuaily kept lo aanits pent fu the Weal, logether with With the sains nd has hosu purchased from vaw wud clegauty salee over aonum hiore fa In 1wo-stury brick buliding 24180, with ana stury In rear 2413d, with good busvwicat. Ueus, $00 e - o mite Uiy, Wromd ory, on o 0. 1 and 1 the beas lovation O This rei: Tund, Uapttal reaulesd from $30.000 {0 23,000, ¥or fur. ther parttculars Inquirs of Mewra. Sirauue, W Cu., Unicago, or sddress C.n. DN A DB CIASCE FOI AN TN VES (31k v HRht for sald of an"A | paten 1o thut a 8o tuy, but uacul 19 overy bause: wil' seli one-tliird, ono-hatf, U entire 1Btarcat: Part chab, bals poce In wdod slavle inerelisniiacy will bear thie closeat nyeatigution. Add Fribune amce, artls D WANTED-MALE RELP, Bookkeepers, Clerkss &ce VASTEH-A! EXPERIESCLD GROCERY erk: mnat rpeak Neanuinevian and Qeemang Beed 8pply. TAIKEIR & CURKAN, 397 o \VAKTF.D A TOY AT 300 8TALE-ST. 1O Wi 1n & gro-ery store, ane who naderstands the bua- 1neass niome other need apyTy. : W ARTED-RONKKEEPER FOR DNE O hou twice weck. fn evening. Address, atac- {B age. (erms, refercact, and reslience: K B, Trib - une ofiice. ANTED—TOUNG MAN CLFTIK, IMMEDIATE: lrmr!i‘ l(r‘nlr»:;‘nxr" hie. petijon; lnllkefll,? 0 0f 11y Ciareonte ‘L._’m ”l'Il care} securlly given, 127 Traaes, ‘vANTEn-A TOY WHO 1(AS IJAD FRO! fo three years' experience At joh pri M IO 83 Siate-at, Employment Agencioss ANTED—1L0 LABG Eost DB & WV ATt waZ LAGOUEIL, Bt put: sourns consta, TAN & CO., 208 south Water-at, Miscollanenan, VWASTED=TIt \VELING SALESMEN POR 1LLI- n Injlana. and Southern W I nots, Nori nona bhut Arst- avoli telny furward references with ap| wa18 tha terruiory vou icsrs to tra WHLNIE hinporter Washifztou-sta, \WANTED=MEX 10 8ELT NEW FAST-ALLLING Articies: pays imincnseirs cataiogue free. Ameri< can Navelty Compny, 1% Ste WASIEBZA YOuXa b oprapit galiery chadce aad falr wager; aniph-at. O ASSIBT 1N Pii0: ‘atn the businesss good t ot gallery 23 West Naoe ;l;:xr.:l,ilfi:’l"{\?’h LOCAL AGENTY endid cliinee to” mate im0 rfill! Lasalie-st,, I2oom 21:?“ el D-FEMALE Domesiics, mpework fn & gan cbitren, ' NO Triah. Call At G0 East Ratdorgn ate thint foir, 7 AN ol RAL TOUSE W4 11 ramilly; wil vl agood ROMEra (oot man gi between Halsied T preterren. a1 o sud Dres mf- ;!. R Giltl, (GOOD WARIT- runet) for g neral housewotk. 13 South .+ near Thivty-amst, ToCILA! 0R FOR_A PRI~ a0 or German, Laundresscs, =A GOBD WOMAN T WAST TO- Wet Monrog-st. Come early, I IODAL WWANTED, A WD S am. e % SUILATION WANTED-IN A STORE DY A ¥ man: has had axperienca in 1he shos basi B 54 rorn nieas. Wil work cheap. 18 (03, Frlnune ofice. 0B (0 Batal TAdet wa Seare e et ioncs: . 1ribune uflice. yeara' caperience, Miscelinncous, ITUATION WANTED—BY A STEADY DOT. 10 53 years old tn work for bosrd ud mtiend schodl: cliy oF conntry, Ade L A A VAT Y 3 oy nisn (Scanginarian) a4 waichinan o Nindot mork: 13 ot AFaId OF worke 9. THpune, _BUTUATIONS WANTE Domesticss JITUATION WANTED=TO DN SECOND +) and tekns care of ehlidren, Call st Tornies cuployer, 24 firoyemnd KITEATION WAN TE A GHIL TO DO GE eral ousewurk'in » small Tamiiy, * liest of refer. 81474 Wabaslieav., Wednesdsy, Letween 1 D-BY A YOUNG GTIL T0 DO cond work or asalat In geocrat housework. Avply lchigan-st, 1 GIRE AS family, flesy SITUATION W erul Liousework,” 440 L QITUATION WANTED=BY A CONPETENT GER- +3 man wir) to coak, wasn. and iron tna private Ameri- £an faInIlY, of L do general buttework | & smull fam- vt refercices gtven, 1€ renuired. Flesss call at 119 u \Tm Twenty-seou MIETENT OI1L feneni tousowore, ity 10-at, SITUATION WANTED-D 31, 2 o generat hodsework in asmatl famii eiEed. Picasa call or addrem A B ST 3 South Sion toum #, 233 WANTED=BY A NORWEGIAN G, 1 Bousawork or as couk. Address 1l SITUATION WANTED=TV A FIST ~(GOK, TieAL oF Pastry, cliy or country, amall Jiutol nr hoand® tiig-huuse, - Avply 451 Fiftli-av., Tlovin 3 basement JITUATIONS WANTED=THOROUGILY 10N ERT, reliable Norweziani g0 cook aud waseri sln {ermun secand grl; referonces from beat famiites, 87 Veraon-av. SUUATIUN WASTEI-IY & CONIETENT Grith ta do weneral housework or 0ok In s private famlly. Avply nt 1000 State Y A COMPETENT Wi ) anas » tTatecliss cook, or wouid do genersl honses work. 140 Elghleentheal., rear. Senmstresscs. QITUATION WASTEU-IY, A YOUNG LADY TO L o dremimaking or famlly sawiug, liclerence lven, Applytad A & 504 Waba Nurses, SITUATION WANTEU-AY WET NURSE. CALL 8123 Weson-av. Laundressce. RESPECTADLE QITUATION WANTED — ¥ A ) iri s Arit-clasa lauidress ' Cau glve good rolor- Please call, for (wo days, al 1 pouth Dis- L., Up-atalrs. Miscellnncouss * QITUATION WANTED=A LADY, 35 YEARS LD 1Dl utes her acreices i payment fur boan a soine Routhern botel for (he winler; references given. Ad- dress J 200, Tribune uilice, o plaine South Nluc, NICELY PURN 1) ROOMS. 30, 113 Fast Hsndolp FIN ELY}'-I'UIK . t; ¥ate tamil APPLY ‘Wownt Slde, "1, RENTZBANGAM Furnislied frout room, 1 Jowlsls private tawily. Dladlon-st, P LENT=R PLOCIE GF BIX NOU Weat Madlson-si., modera fmbrovemen talin r houskoeping; font low. WL I, THOMPSON, 29 West Madisou-at, North Slde, ¥ TI'0_RENT-YURNISHED ROOMSE, 92 TO §3.30 k, with fire, convealent to busincas centre, near Cistk. T=$TONLS, OFFICES, &co storcss PO RENTTIE STOUE 125 BOUTIL CLs 2. D, MAMILTON, Koot 1, 126 South A eir FRESHLISHED, "GO0 FAYIRG DY woods And boot usiaess for saloy raro chance; $300nF Fatllog health the reason, Callor sddivse W 313, with Field. Lelter & Co, 701 BALEY fai o A v ocaton Sobth Biaes uirable locatlony bou ldress L o4, L rbuue olice, 2 (ALL BTOCK OF CIGALS AN B, Rilirenn o, e ofite (R orders vy wall prow; AWD FOTL LAGIES AND i cluthine, ~ Oriers By i t, 343 st 101N it O wphist frev, LUD ERA A 0 MY ElS remioved ‘Truin my old ruet Pearlucat., whers or of hoots aud wy old patrons, USMEROTS pariimsiug ves asalle-st, Yr:iasm.c NERS: plicatioi from parcis sol propersy. T, J, & PANTERZA WARRHES, O AVE N e i L ML ' ROBER Orleas) Bulldiug, 123 L.mllxnr ___ _LOST-AND FOUND. __ ORT=T WILL EAY NOUE FOR Rk (TR N OF MT ufirl. "fi' eu frui Brupswics silljard tall, than can bo reaisod elsownere. L b7, ‘Lribunc ofice, e WANTED EN=TO [ENT-T00M: HATab, Head horth wel of Clarky price 10W: give lucattou, descriptl price, Addresa L 33, Tribunconice. __3UARDING AND LODG South Sldo. AST WARHINGTON-ST. — 31 Elm[ltl Fuyins wilh buard from Aransicut rates $1 per day; 31 rest OUE T MICHIGAS AV, “PARTIES WISIHING 280 B STiirive Foome w0 b can bo sccolinudated ab lioderato price. Hsfervus 503 NG, Woat Side, P LD IN-COURT=BOAKD . 'Fhuit Tooh Aind bed-Poua | Alsoe cFins Fessonavly. Flototia ki NO-NOS, 331, dkh 455, AND 337 - B i i bl kst of 1o Hous Hoard with room perday, $1.%) and 835 €0, 87.80d 39, Loows well furafined; buard i (GUWN'S HOTEL, 270 BEATENT.— ; Wil buard, $5.50 Der weoki u!u..:-'i“:‘f‘.nu 42507 day board, 3501 Judglag, 3 TEVAUA HUTEL, 184 AND 130 WABASUCAY. IN YA SIS 8 foome sodbard 31.00 e Uari $4.50 W 87 peir wosk. Day board, 34 ber wasi. ot KON BANE. E 301t SALE-BOARD DF TIGADE MEMBERSHIP, Inquire st 134 Buuth Water: g il % ) WATCUMAKERS=A COMPLETE of Ane tools, Interlsl, &c., 818 bargaln. Ap- Kuom 80 Ashignd Blosk, ANTI 805 5] well Turnia 0ST—A BLACK NEWFOUNDLAND bOG WITH whito brensd aud curly body. . Fiudyy will be Lyud: soinely rawanied by owaer, EXNST WEIEK, 163 East Vo Yuru-st. TASI 0574 BO! OF CLOTHEZON WATA Ty, A liberul roward for thelr returd to 1078 TR AV E D= PR TIE CITY pLACGHTER: B e S D A R o o8 ray ubare, cols . :figl'?m‘u'.u wad T5e retura of the sine to JOSEFE d o SIUSICAL. NE PIANG, BUT LITTLE USED, FOIL SALE A BREDLAN: “'}.flf:&.flmfl‘ea fora yokrs: WFINE K8 LUNAE Tetiple of Mustor " 05 AND OIGA IVE YEAL kv, “Fuf cash sl BoatliY, OF fusr: 1" al prices. Call agd ex- buying. Ihustrated vstalogues usalle sl of Music, 3 Vau ucea-at, Sy T e TAEI AR FGE ook s-sTASDAI WORKS sl - Gelaro you ke siraty o oA 8 i S O ST IBRARIESOREMALL LOTS OF BOOKS WAN' 4 forcash. Correspopdeaca solicieds BA Cheap Book dtore, 101 e - 80! PUEREGED VoA H E=CIEAP—GOVERNMEST OYELCOA O ot T L A East Jtandulphat., vo-stain. 3 DOIBALE=A COMPLETE FILE OF THE CICAGG Ty Jritiise”or i8¢ year T, " At ¥ Trivuge utice. TO EXOMANGE, _______ Fie! MOUIGAUE OF §13u0 full_particuiars ads ST by areas SPRP T ealrs W, W v [’ EXCHANQE=FOI ;3 FEIT UIEAGU Nug 190-4CT¢ fAris, Onl) Ihtco-querter Lilis truin cuutty seat, Wavae Counsy. ihis Sisie. vn Utilo Miwahappd llaily. W, TORSES AND CARRIAGES, SURIGHE-1F YOU THE FINESE TPURL: D L:il‘lg‘l‘gl‘flf'fll i'V'u‘hfliuh:&lg“wmflgufl:ii Bow e, O LEAA a0 ¥ 5 el A Rt A AW AY &) G Siaie-at: A\ ] 34 hio & B. COWGILL, bpriostield, 1t UEAP HOLSE KO vazil. Lascwent, IO0USEHOLD GOODS, SRBY BIOVE b LE-AN INEEOVE! K i perfoct order, 740 Mic| X F"cnus\vr.l.l.} I78 WEST MADISON-ET., BELLS o all kinds o fursliure, carveis, rrln“l v sad siovre. You can furula yuur homes with good’ sew vods bn easy lustalitacuts. REPIOOF WARELO 56 WEST MONROE, u . JLure, ercls carrlages cle. Losas xluu'y“-m‘"o’un" it “ynm?u"u"n'.“bun Tostataeks vtgdoua