Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1878, Page 8

of Trustees, rose and sald that at the last moetin: of the Trustees cnough pledges of pecuniary nl 0 entirely clear away the ontleman haid given The Soclety was now high THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. F1814, Leltsr & Co. have signed the leass for nd will immedliately go to work #0 tBat they may be ready for occupancy by ry, but didn't learn very much, Otis mnlnlnlhlng that the busincas was legitimate, and that he dt exactly what he ngreed to do in the contract,— nred his ** best offarts ™ toget aitnations, e sal when he got ont he would continne it. 1l fs s pretty aharp fellow, and very pisosivle, Henry, on the other hand, smiled when spoken tn about the *'Pathfinder.,” 1f he had been candid, he wonld have esid, '*Tknow It Is a swindle, but [ Am_not fool cnongh 10 sy A **racket " originated In Doston ‘The dinding over of thers tvo men will check, it not nndlmu\.l for a time ultflent. the snide em- onclee, 24 been recelved church dett of $35, 000, his check for $5, 000, Feveral of the membors gave vent to thelr feel- ings In pious exclamations of gratitnde, and Mr. Henry W, King presented tha following resolution: Ired, That the thanks of this Soclety are jmtly Tatees for coneelving the {dca of paylnx this church, and wilh: Iabor and enierg; 10 an Amount suniclent for accomblirhy thelr new quarters, The pullding occnpied by Hadley Brathers, book- sellers, on Washington strect between State and Deatborn, has just been sold to Marahalt Fleld fer $75,000. The papers have not yet been mado ont. Rx-Ald, Stout has saed Clem Perfolat for 8176, eald to be & portion of & **dlyvy " put np by a con- tractor who bidon the Follerton avenue contract. Terlolat says he didn't handle the monoy, but knows who did. > Coroner Diotzach yesterday held an {nguest at No. 202 Clark street npon Christian Babr, who committed sulcide by cutting his throat; snd upon Jacob Schmidt, who dled suddenly of Bright's dis- Bt No. 143 Charch street, The temperatare yeatorda; nasee, opticla: Tho resolation was uuanimdnaly adopted. s Praiee God from whom all blensings flow™ was sung with spirit, and the meoting a TIOTAL ARRIVALS, strong: Mineral Polnt; 7. F ce Col Levl Rhodes, Hockford, sumner and 1L 11, . 11, Moonay, Phila: Tur TRINUNE xposnre, ‘Chicago," and now the *'Pathfinder falr way to bo A thing of the pasts The polica nthoritips are determined to squetch this netty swindling, and Sngcflmrndant Hickey han given o Bnerman Hmise: ftrong, Fond dn orders to arrest | 8q.¢ g 5 James 1, Granger, of Bt. Taun), MInn., Afd Mis' gy, nariles engaged In ft every | hia ballfixed ai 8500, Tho charge azainst hintls, q rial Hall, without clenching hla flst and breathing | 3. 8mith, daughter of the lste Rcy. Worthingirs Twenty-TonF nours uotl] they st ap sbop: Juks he rallectadabont Sio0itce s xilent which he Dishonest Merohants and Weighers, slanghtor against dim Niaine, wlil rank as & craven | Ainith, of 8t Afbane, Vi, orihingioy NORTH AVENUE BRIDGE, CHANGES AND COUNTER-CIIARGES. ‘The North avenue bridge controverny has opened np A long serles of charges and counter-charges. 38T o W, Baitey, Montpeiter; J. Sl—te’l!, l)mv:hlx‘ 1 D; B, 1 G, a8 Gbaorved by s Wright, Des Molnest No. 88 Madlaon strect (Tntsuxe ot 89, m., 10 degrees; 108 m., P.m., 48; Bp.m., 42, ter at8a, m., 20.95; 8 p. m., 20.00. - The regular monthly meeting of tho Doard of ‘Managers of the O1d Peopla's Home was held at tho Homo on indiana nvenue and Thirty-ninth strect i Thres hundred and nino dollars and fifty-cight cents was collected during the last month. The laay mhnagets of the Homa for the Friend. lees held & regnlar monthly meoting yesterday, 1t nppeared that there wero in the Home 134 Inmates, an increano of eighteen in tha month. T celpts for tho month were $1,830.50, and the dls; barsements, $1,070,08, The Committes on Constitution ai Mining tock Exchange the Commercial Hotel yesterday after- noon a4 o'clock for the pu A meoting of the atockholders will be o'clock at the samo place. D. H, Miller, of No. 108 Ontaria stra! to ray that ho was not fined for sellin) milk, but merely for selling skimmes claims that the samplo on which ho was fined was from a can which was to bo sold as skimmed milk, bat the Justice wonldn't belleve him about it. ‘The Committee having in charge the matter of a memorial to the late Georgo B. father of the postal rallway service, held s mect- pointed Mr. Squicrs, Mr. Committen tu prapare blanks, etc., and mako arrangements for rafaing o yearly, Having loarned that Iermann Raseter, | tions aftor It {s passed, Mr. Havea' Adminlatration DEATIS, oy e e A e T | Yatd s m:‘“"' ': the '::;"o'm o | Ttas edltorof the Saats-Zeltung, at one time pithe 31:'«::.?.2?.’ e, il M, Tiayen With | oo e s estervelt & Gooper, of Plymouth, Tnd., m;flh‘n‘l"&ltn" ,nlu:a ;\'::-:lonn‘t::ef lohnmmt‘n!‘:‘ held a position In that office, a reporter called on 800 8, 0 known in history »y Wedneids T R IS for tHe plles fof the bridge, which twas nc- cepted by Buperintendent Wilson, of the Board of Public Works, withont the sanction of the Mayor, and while he was absent from the city, Itwas atated that the firm were offered piles, suchas the apecidcations called for, thirty feet In lgngth, for 14 cents per foot, hnt that the Arm prefefred those of twenty-five fect lengths, and pald 15 cents per foot for them. be sunk— 180 to bo thirty feet long, five to be thirty-five feet 1n length. that of the pilea driven only about on of the length required In the apecidcations It was further atated to tho reporter that Mr. Charlea 8, Crane was uunlz engaged {n_getting up thia in- whicl hands of Mayor llesth, of which the following fe a mpy;_ 3 i i S T TR R T n by me for Con ecker, Scranton, Pa.: 1 Keymour, Dubug! Dohery, Daittmore: Musa, s G, I3 Bprig) ¥ Marston, Boston, PLIERS THE *“PATHFINDERY? COME TO GRIRF, The **Pathfinder " has at last foond s path, oot for one who applied to him for a sitaation, but for himselt, and it lends to Jollet, by way of the Crim- inal Court. Unfortonately, the hesd of the con- cern, Chandler, wasn't taken in. havoglven up the mansgement of the business since Tam Tnieuxe oxposed the so-called ** Em- ployment Agencles, " amd tarned ever tho bnefness A feltow named George Henry And it s these Notwithstanding tho toone H, L, Otls, han also been hired as a clork. two men who are in trouble. writing-up of the swindle, for it ia nothing elec, the **Pathinder " has boen gathering In mach moro men this afternoon a1 125 Clark street, P 8 and signing that unique contract, which the spplicant, he o ays shall be forfelted If no work Is ‘procared for him within fourteen days. Otls was arrested a_weck OF F0 80, Tueaday* he waa run Ilenry, and they spen leir’ caso was cslled bafore Justice Summerfield, and they took & change of venno to Justice D'Wolf. Thech were twenty-five monin the Jus given up amall sume, and, though promiscd sitoations, never, of cours; THE BUFPENERS. William Brehaci of No. 50 Blue Island avenue, who made tho complaint, sald he saw tho Path- finder **ad™ In & nowspaper, and went {0 the of- d him he wonld get him a placo as driver of a delivery-wagon at $0 8 week, It S1 and signed the contract, but without reading it. 1o didn't know what it meant. After calling soy- oral times, Otis putting him off, he left the city and was gono a weck and & half. itt (he proportions shout equal, ~that 18 to say. | think Bbout one-haif wero thiriy Jeet Tong, wnd tha balance twenty-five fect lang, Indeed, some were soshoart that thiey would scarcely stand up, except as they were lield by supporta natled Into longer ones.” Jicapectiully, eoing In it that but was discharged. ing yesterday and o togethor with o sbove letter is dated at a polnt on the Stnast, and Capt, Whil Th Northwestern Rallway, where Mr. Dalton is en- ged aoing some piling work, but he will be or two, ‘Tho letter alleges cerlaln facta, and tfic Mayor # hat talned that Mr. Wilson shall ceass holding office. at least a8 long na the present Admintstration te. Howaver, Mr. Tleath has fall faith in both Wilson and Thompson, and says that he them to bo perfectly honest and capable. Ar. Wilson he has known intimately for over years, and he thinks that no man {s hon- windling. There eats at the Palmar HMouee is Mr. M, ice's office who Genernl Freight ] Agent of the B.' & O. Raflr E. Ingn of Cincinnat!, the Chicago, Cincinnati & Lafayetio Railroad; and Mr. Q. 1. Ont., the General Freleht Agent of the Grest Weatern Rallroad of Canada, A petition for the pardon of Den Boyd, the en- graver of counterfeit bank-noto plates, now sery- ng out & torm of ten years in Jollat, atgned by his friends, And, having pasred through ‘Washington, has been referred to District-At- angs, whose decision wiil probably settic tho question of Boyd'a liberty. ‘The schooner Mears, lying in the river near Mad- Inon street bridge, with board ring delivery at Buflalo, becama wateriogged The leak was dlscovered Sust in (imo to save the graln from damage. The on, and the water will kept out until tho veslel can be placed In dry- dock for repalrs. othing particnlarly new around the seven hundred at the Fidolity | troubles grow out of jealonsics between riva) cun- tractors rather than anything olec. As was stated in_ yesterday's mnu.!:‘ Conro, Car- He told Otls he y. On hia return, Otls told him ho had got & place, and written him a letter, hut as ho n Siled, Bushack wanted thoaddress of tho party in order to satisfy himself, but Ot wouldn's tell him where he conid be found, David 8mith, of No. 85 North Cisrk streef in want of work, went to oom 20 to told him he had they had just been filed. ot Smith s place In a tobacco atore, but ho ssked 4t thiat wa tor. ki the entire bridge, which was to cont 87,100, Iarry Fox reproonts thom lero, and all that he aid was ta build the sub-stritcture, whila the auper- structuro was aub-lot to Willinm B, Howand, who in turn sub-let to Leon Soulerin, It was aidn't come, it had Yy who did the piling and Iatd the _fonnda- o bridee, tis wan visitod by a Tminusx reporier yesterdsy at his oftice, No, 4 Clark strect, Xia aaid smphatically shat thio Whole list of charges and that the author was & **what's his Te placed tho whale biame for their n npon Charles 8. Crane, Mo Aald that ) had a law-suit with Conro, Csrkins & Co., and that he and the Chicago Dredging pany were determined to drive him ( wips wero put in ope ono or two altuations, However, be would sit $2, Smith asked wh Otin sald for tna situation. Ouls aeked him to sign & paper. Io wi " Id it was a **certificato ' $2, so that he conld come back In case of trouble and ahow that e (Otis) had recelved the Otig asked him for his ‘rrcge he a8 cd ban! “*ploatea " depoaltora “are wante to get their dividends, and McAulife reportod thatthey were very lax in coming. £:1,800 ‘In tho bank, and lint it was, Otts sal et _he has not called. slted 8600 fn 1872, and has Intorest wn. due amounting to $200.24, and has never called 7-0am°tYOR molto Mliwaukes;, St's hes|thy *¢Hecause 1 don't wantto, Just as long asl stay here Crane can't gat a job, because Ican get i, jm the namoc of & ma Otle told him to come Monday, and the place world be open for him, Saturday he called on hin reference, and found that no one hed heen thore to make inquiry about him. Otly, aud was told to come Monday, and, after waiting about an hour, Henry come in. Otis sald Henry had been out to sce the reforcnce, He hadu't been near him. Otls told him tocome the next day,—that he was almont sura he would get the but he didn's cet It who llves at the carner of Dutterfiold ninth streets, was snother victim, ted asituation In o butcher-rho) told hitm he had one, but beforo it coul Diim be must ** make an 3 thing." At firet lie aaked couldn't give him so much, and left. He called the next day, and Otls osked I slno conaldered that too much. ha calted at the oifice sgsin, and aw atlon was atill cpen. 18 sal would take §2 down, but §3 more maost bo W Case agroed to thi Otls told him ho could commenca as The salary wa A morning paper Rev, Dr. Grodory trial College, biad preceding ¢vening., esterday announced that the 'resident of the Ilinols Indus. ectured at Unity Charch on the ‘This wiil bo news to the rov. crend gentieman, who wae at that moment Itsten- ing to & talk by the Kev. Henry Ward Deecher, In- stead of making one on his own account. an and a lawyer, was tue lecturet, and laentitled to the credit thereof. Mr, Charles Cooley £0; traveling together aro rol {uz to noll a patent pas-burner owned by him, somuch aa the men have no aathority from him o eoll this burner, Mr. Cooley suggests (hat they may very likely be naing this prelext to examine thelr windnws, hiiflnrl, efc,, o he went {0 | .« By bidding undcr him, " replied Mr., Fox. ** And then nefther *¢ That 1s all right,* ‘Fhat was not true. the work for the Nort we could not, and had to put inmore than the specifications callod for. " **Iluw s it that the plans were chanpd after ft wan found that the Chicago Dredging Company had thie laweat bid, and you came in aftorwards with a stlll lower oge?™ *¢1don't know. The change was made with the Mayor's knowledge, and wa wera detarmined to et the work." **\What havo you to say to the charges mado?* **That they are outrageous and unjust. This 8 good cover for the Mayorto get rid of (e He was afrald to drop him on the Mich) gan avenuo matter,” Then Mr. Fox went on {0 asy that the centre ler of the bridge called fornine J0-foot piles, hen he had pulled out the ol ones he found that 710-foot pllea were not long enoun}} and only ons tho rest being 15 feet. h er and on nstead of nine, **Yes, some wers a that'a couplo of men ng about the city pretend- tion Aud pay rome- 1he Inside of houee preparatary te robb [ ting stray peddiers et sl i any The day foilowlng Detective Arold, of Deaver, city last cvening in_ charge of tho eame ylace, whom ke arseated on an indlet. s ago ot Newark, N oung man, and very e charge ngainst him in that bo *‘sailed ore" on the Loston Bmelting Cumpany, of Cojorado, fn November, and thoreby cern to the tune of abont $:1,000. crlme nnknown hore, and yot & gravo offense in Cole A postal-card_signed W to John Riley, No. 4Hi Mac terday received by the American Insurance oany at tho pumber nawod, No #ucn person as s known to the Company, statement that a man calling himeelf Thomaa Kilcy wan on the Gth inat. lylng dan, unly 111 at Patrick Cruge’s, on the farm of W. C, moot, Bye miles northeast of Petersburg, Menard It was feared ho would dle, Irient’of the sick man wishes, ho can have tho card by calling at this oftice. A memorial servico for the Rev. Samnel Chaee, 15, last, wns held laat oven- 188, Veforand Yan ssed throngh the car Nenninzer, of pridoner ia & fine tably connacted, and ¢ soon as ho eaw the party. $12 & wi 1le dropped in tho noxt day, wnld ho hadn't bad ting to sco il come the following Monday, requested Lo call the noxt day, naked to call thenextday, He and his money was nut returned. over tho contract, but couldn't ay that ho knew its whale contents. Charles McLaln, of No. 23 Archer avenuo, wi waa the naxst Wl‘}nn , He vl w s Lo get him o Otls said he ha " h d, ' Yea, " replicd Otls, ve Llm his last $2, and Otls told him tocowe th ‘ednesday, and ho would put him to work. Otis Informed him that ha didn't think d he would try and got me_1n ho aal ut off with *‘Conie tu to lim, **I have got & e went, and was 1o did wo, and was aidn't get the place, . sl was near t| shore, whore no #0-tool piles could be_driren, Thero _wero only 205 ptics called for, We sunk 218, We asked extra pay for the four not called for in thu centro clump, but they would not allow 1t, 80 we gave all over tho epecifications to tha The plles were all white-oak. We did not Smoot, and directed on sirect, was l|lm|1 the ** P'atadn nry ob as presser i piies of them, but tho piles we put in this job we Millor & Co. Wo clalm to hava put In 185 fect more pliing than the spocifications called ‘There was only ono twenty-foot %llu in_the ‘whole lot, which Is etill lying on the sl ,Jkuoi the clty bas got agood Job at M. WILLIAM B. HOWAD, e office is in Room 10 Metropolitan Dlock, was him o botter one. McLain did so, and wi Saturday.” Otis t! situation for you in a dye-house, and ncsday st $8 o week," had and he dldn’t oing to keep himaell and mskod him f to wait a minute, aud he would make it satisfacio- Then ho wrate an order, aud astd, Al tne restaurant, and you can get your 1fo took it, and thoman satd it was no and threw it under the des 11 14 2 and told him about it. sotne inlstake, and told him to go to it o would lave the matter Monday ho again went {0 Otlv, and bo said **Come Wedneada: T'1) put you to work lna commission house. culled, and found that Otis was in_the Armo Otis told him thet if ke dldn’t get hima job cont would be ouly the nctusl expenss 1o hitn, —30 David llartsook, of No. 170 North Carpe stroet, was then aworn, hi nd of a place kind.” 1lenry tol D, D., who died Jan. in the C-uwur-lpu ennlve charucter, and wero partici- Lafen, aud tho ltevs. Dre. 8. know Low he ol wias very busy with a corkscrew, opening a bottie L W, 1. Morrlson, 0 ink, Arthur Ritchle, and 8, Morrison, of Oak Park, oneof the oldcat presby- al Diocese, preached the serwon. @ 1ife and cunlnent services of Dr, Chave, and paid a Just tributo to his memory. The congregation was quite large, TIE DEMOCRATS. ‘Tho purification wing of the Democratic parly in tho reading-room uf £2 the Palmer Ilons 5 . \V, O'lirien mado & purification specch, in tho course of which ho stigmatized the Democratic ticket-peddiers apd the Democratic oul excresences upon the Dem- ocratic body, and recummended a syatem of starva- rew a realistic piciare of the quatrels of Domocratic saloon-keepors, intimating rather plainly that all the work whicn had hitherto been cat through the influence of vile whisky. 10 s¢o the dawn of & naw era when responsiblo men would peddle tickets, and respectable men would wen as Perey 11, Smith, etc.—who had tho courage snd nobility of soul to lguore saloons. Judge Forrester followed fnun carnest o) advocating the neccaslty of an carly reorgan! of the pariy, und augvesting that Mr. O'Brien sbould procved to stump it through the wards to waken tho sioeplng Democeats. Mr. O'rien declined tha honor, expressing his rcadlncess to throw himeelf into farnished the rods, oundry, of this eit agloon-keepers as e Bullt duder iy dite ita strenyth, and tl fications In overy particular. I thought that both Wilsan and Thompson acted anfsir with me, and were to oxacting, §wsy thatft{s the best bridge Cbicago, and I wil DC d, d him he could get him a job to arlvo a saap-wagon, After more talk, Lenry neked of 3 placo’ bo' wiihed, At e T *‘Thave ‘one right here.” papers und looked over lartsook said he dido't him n‘lln what kllnd came to thy front—stich 1o asked for 83, ‘Theu ho wanted ot ihiaves, And. the goods, It sppears, belong o | bossihle, and, I'havo no doubt, 1s belug verpe- | party of the North fa compoacd, in a Iarge d RYoF Heath naye ih gation itk bo | Birs"Gouitcr and Mra, Cortl, wila and mother-in: | iFated. 7" | Fofa Whigs. _Thay cannat forget that Gas. Wholostlo nod Hatall Dep Conro, Carking & C q Moward ¥ 48 | Jaw of one of the prisoners. A (rlend who objects TAKB PAPPER, few aubjocts nearer ths heart of thelr groat leador, | B18Y8, alAgonts, Conro, Carklng & Co., and Howard I8 anxiousto | (" olico stations beilig uied jos 13 going | 1t comes In bulk, and s bought originally from iy. | Heaty Clay, than the aboltlon be restriction of | 8t., Chicago Tiaoy ,1,,,,;, ,,mc,,m,,,“‘l’n"“:,_'m',“,",’;',{;m 2 | to oring the case up on '8 writ of habeas corpus thia | BOFnt peuplo who don't know snything sbout | this royal prerogative. Tinio and again ho wauld give hl ina hotelat 816 a woek, waa told that tho party hadn't been scen, and he to call again, (Wednesday), bt Jepry waan't there, Otle, the last timo he was at the oftice, If ho didn't get him 8 situation or glve him his money back there would bo war in that oftice. wauld get him work, 1f Lo (Hartsook) I him the 82 and ** take It out of him. James Kevley, of No, 151 Blssoll atreet, noxt re- Tla wanted a clerkship In & told him ke bad one for d had called he couldn't but didn't get work, , **Come Mondsy went, and lenry tofd him that **the men did; want aoybody,” ss bueincss was alack,” sava bim lefter L0 & restaurant-Keepor tato street, and on gaing there the proprictor said ho bad cngaged o boy thu Natutda next sent him to Room €2, No. Of but [t was vacant, in w place apre to run an e e went that di the breach when A In tho meantime ho saw 0o oc- casioy. He was willlng to speak when thero was sowetliing to spesk wbout, but at the present time there was 1o qucstion up, wviscd constitution home with him and exapine ity Atrangements werc made for moetings in varions wards, of a somewhat (ndelnite natuze, aud, aitor certaln changes made in the Committes to take up suatters geucrally, the meeting, which was through- well-conducted, ad- ¥ of tho Commiitee wil cld baturday afterncon at headquartel PORBION-NOKN CITIZENS, A meeting of forclgn-born clilzena was hold at No. 188 South Halsted strect last evenin; Jurposs of organizing a society for benevolont and lirty persons were nted the bwealsh, Nor- Irish, Gorman, Boh B8OCIAL EVENTS. the matter on the atlention of Congress and the fuvestigation by the Cauncil exceodingly probatle. 8 160, OLOTIES- OLEANING, 81] t0 receivo & sconug, pounde, and the buyer says, fty.’ | country. It waea cardinal principal of the Whi As talands at resent, tho caro s ‘dechisdiy imizeq, | Police canhardiy fail foreceivo sconug, And wcargd s mads up, and AL AR T L g e T e e R Cii ks Bty 0TI AM nterested cxpert lnfimur should Lo employ- 5 figures which do not give morc than one-hall tho | and It was precisely In cases liko thal involved in i ur CLEANED aad REPALE ed to carefully oxamin the sttucture sud raport SUBURBAN., real woleht, Under other clrcutnstances this | tho remonstization of silver that ienry Clay and Our FD. aviriging e3pesst, Fdo resulta 1o the Mayor, whalever they ey be. BYANSTON. yould” be coneldered prima faclo evidanca of | the Whigs of bis day would have denunced tho | MeTATN S0 Uyt fraud, but it (s not so looked upon, becauso the | voto as anti-Republican, arbitrary, and despotic. ‘ d thers would be no war, he would give 1o would take the re- Ar. Benjamin 0, Jone of this city, wers quietly wnarricd at the resiaence of the bridegroom's father, J. Hussell Jones, Eeq., No. 100, Ashland avenue, ot balf-past 6 o'clock 1ast evening, the Rev, Lr. Sullivan, Trinity Epls- copal Church, oficiating. Nooe buttlko relati and most Intimato asscclates were presoot. T'here were many costly prescnts, but they woro kept vut of alght, and the alfalr was mad ostentatious as poaslble, owin, lated his experiend 0 1o paid $1.50, at harmonious an 0 Dearborn street, Then he told_Keeloy be_coal place t0 learn printing at 83 a week, but t. Allen 111, of No, 700 Carroll atreet, psid $2, d 0 aent 10 the restaurant on Aund: wegian, Belgian, Irench, mian, and other natlunaiitics, Wi calicd to the chiatr, sud Maj. A, B, Zsremba scted ¥ A cunstitution was adopted which states that the nized fur the promotion of broth- corly seutlment among atl citlzens of foreign birth, v cumbine ail such citizens and their sons, for the thom in their dutics as clti- ly protect thiem both individ- In the awsertiun snd main. rivileges under the Company Cof tho First Itegiment gave & ballat the Matteson llouse last avening, and tho affaiz s 8 48 in ever lcular. the samo slory 6e that Keeloy related. M 3 con Surmagnyan Jhes e Loth thes men, it will sawo place on the same ds; It looks on tho fi Soclety ** s orga ] it Otls bas au are Tn other words, m as & stall, in order to deccive peaplo curions und desire to know **Fathonder" really docs try to get work for atective Heinzman teetified that Otis admitted bim that ho was the genersl manager of thy Justico D'Wolf thought thers was no use {n mul- lyiug the testimony, since it was sil to the sainc TUERE WAS NO DEFENSR. The only thing tha victine were cross-ezamined about was aa (o theiralzning the contract. One «f the sttornoys had bes 3 «an uncowfortable gearce, " ‘The Committes of Ite- purpose of imstructin xzenw, and (o eventual nally and colective! nanco of thelr ustitution and Jaws of faction of overybody, ! did not depart until long after midaight. “ those present were Col, aud Mre. E, D. -Born Cltizens, The'sfairs 11 ba governed by and Commuitices from eac represented in the organization will attend to thefr reapective constitoencies. Auotber meetiog will be held two weeks from at tho sawe place, when the organi- perfected and 8 permanent place for wceting securcd. Ausoctation of Forel F :: ) Tayior, Lical. snd Mrs. llice, Missce Hattio oF fhehuoclatian Wrlght, Hislen Heath, Shunio Vreckbam, Jouule aitie thers weeo two) dida't “The other was of the same opinion, since uo in- teut had besn shown, 18 Orinaby, Bello Klnzman, Beile Kinye- S5 chardson, 'Mary Hoftwan.'Alllo Quirk, toported gestardags Kata Taylor, May Scaily, Lizzie X, Woods, nd ouly ons of scazl 1t ray lnterest the “hut the tatal cout of ¢ L, 1478, was 8, 544, 350, Advertisements FoF pro the Eightceoth street visduct over tho rallroad e tara Wi biasaits et 15aa 12 Apeh tractors wi probaul operstious lo . “Fhejon will coat 858, 000, P L The work of strengthening ra Pringle, E ople of Chicako to know Ciara Pringle, Emmi machine and Instrument for getting noney oul of {rks up to Jan. ‘There were seven f eigbt cases, on each of which a separste indict- ot B would bold the partice -swindliog theni. wment could be found, gonerally ffor awindll awalt the actios tesvelt, Aro 4 to do the work on Helle Masfield, Licut. H, ury. d wero commlit- TUE BESULT OF THE TRIAL satisfactory (o the wen and boys who bad o of them of tho last dallar they harge was unticipsted, siuce (he (icorge Hassett, McLalu, H. . Moffngn, Wood, Qalltgber, Mulvey, Fruzier, Boncdict, Btrell, R. }lnfllto Kenncdy, George Chrookite, Borgt. Hamlie . 0 crib progresacs iva tne structure additional sccurit ion of the water, some rip-rap worl will be thrown sround the foundation. Leen declded Lo take the loose stone out of the trib-work and replace them with a cement wall. TUE FOUKTH PHESBYTERIAN, After the praycr-meeting last nizht at the Fourth Mr. Warren Norton called b church members prescnt o order 1o bear an intercsting atatoment concernlag the tnances of urch. Mz, C. H. Muollikea, tbs Socrctary of whe Board been robbed, bad, A dlac] THE COUNTY BUILDING. he held uuder it. Sherift Kern gocs Lo Jollet Saturday with twenty soon as they reached the street the be tweaty-five victims would satisfaction oy lienry would not Presbyterian Church, good threahin, vo Beea touctivd, because he Tue Graud Jury forthe Februsry term will be {mpaucled Mondsy and discharged for ono week. In the County Court yosterday tho lrat care set for the Jaguary terw waas disposed of. The tsial A Tuisusg reporter had 8 talk with them to the wmoruing, while they wero lucked up w tho Armo- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1878, . NEW YORK CUSTOM-HOUSE. Manner in Waioh Revenne Frauds Are # Committed There. ealendar for the Febrnary term will be ready for sttorneys Batueday., FEx-Conatable ¥, 1. Row, who has been in jall for some timo on tho charge of maifcasance, \wna released on ball yesterday in the sum of $1,000. Jndgo Jameron yosterdsy fized the bond of 8kelly, Walker, et al,, Indicted by the Iate Grand Jurp, &t 81,500 In cach caze, No ball was offeres during the day. Mtes McKea vislted the Jail yestorday, tho fiest timo since her trial, Hor visit was to bid her ac- quaintances thers good-by and to gather up the offects sho had whon a prisoner. John Wagner, a North Slda practitioner, who haa -had copsiderable tronble in his career in narturing n pomrmu mustachs, came Into the Criminal Couflfin(utflly inanswertoan indictment, and had divided merchandise Into thras or fonr groops— rhowing the cost of weighing a ton: and in one care, where a comparison tvaa made hetween tho amonnt of & weltner'n welghingand his charges, it was found that ho had denbled np two or threo times. That man's neck waa broken. *'Bnt in tares Is whers the greatest frands ara practiced.” - —————— cmnuinr OPINION. Blaino? Massachusotta? Let—ns—think, O yes! Mulligsn was a Maesachusetta man.—New York World (Dem.). The son of Mnssachnsstts who henceforth Razenupon the statne of Willlam King, in Memo- as snfe on the fleld as lgm(culoml duelist, 1 am almost Inclined to think that ho s a liye safer, Ilois more carcful. e ———— I yonr food distreases you, take a it o tord'd Gamatea Ginger: By Rack & Raynor's mait cozh mixturo in & simply ll‘: eald the remedy for ailulta and chlidren. Mr. Hermann Raster elntes Someo Interesting Experi-. ences. MARRIAGES., VAN BIOCKIIN~RDDT—Wedasrday, Feh. a2t iy aidence of The hride's mother, Wililam Van % SFChicago, and 5';:« L. Fddyvot oneids, ¥ pitackile, F1L-BAITII WWe . Feb. Aoan S (18 Browar oF the Priac, Geores Farsmars: DoATDOm A¥s, by th ‘Tiey g ‘ranklin " gave up tre did the 18 in & What the Government .Loses Batween whom It were base flattery to call a clam.— IFasA- {ngton Fost (Dem. ). It the Dland bill is placed on the statuto. book, and the Prealdent does not do everything in his power to dafeat it, and to obatruct ils opera- OLDERSIAW—GUUL,D=0n the evening of the my Inat., Bt the restdence of tho bride's parents, 437 (oin: By the Jtev. (- Jlarrin amiated by the Hev oy cke, Perelval P. (lders and Florence Btanr, cldest qanghter of N, W, Gould. 53~ Montres! papers piesto copy. At 8 mecting of the Committes on Town and Town Accounts yeeteriay an order wan mada for- bidding the Buporvisors in the severnl towns of the county from lssuing ordora to the poor for tea or coffice. They are 1o bo so instracted, and, whether they oboy the ordor or not,the Committeo will re- ‘Tag TRIAUNE called nttontion yesterday in an cditorial to the larze amount of stealing that fa done In the Naw York Castom-Tlonse, by which the Govornment is defranded of millions of revenne . him last evening to learn his experlence while there, Mr. Raster, like Richard Grant White and other literary men, had suficient time to serve the Government faithfnlly, and his nosition was that of weigher,—an honorable and an. important one, and he held it fivo years, **When I went Into ofMce in 1801," sald he, ¢! the Custom-Tiouss was full of the traditions of the Domocratic Administration, and was conalder- ed as crooked aa it conld be. It took some time for the now officlalato learn the workin, great many of tho old deputies, inte, and foremen had to be retained on acconnt of thelr technical knowledze. They held the reins In thelr hands, and when thoy fobnd an officer was careloss, and Interested only in arawing his salary, they contin- ued their old habite. As noon as I took hold X be- gan to make obsarvations, 1didn't want the wool pulied over my oycs. 1had to retain a doputy as naalstant welgher, and he Jooked upon me asa wolf, He wonld say, It s customary to do this or to do that, and I wonld tell him I didn't caro what the custom was, —that 1 wasn't bound to follow old customs, but to do what waa right. Thers wero nineteen weighers, and the wholo port, Including Drooklyn, was divided Into ne many districis, each contalning from two to six or elght plers, —some more, whore nnl{ o fow vessoln discharged, A welgher hod to keop from ono to five or six gangs of four or flve mon at Lhe scales; and he hed to welgh all tho poods that paid duty,—nscertain the grose, and then taro them, which fs an cssentlal voint, becausa tho gross woight expresses nuthing ng long as yon have an incorrect tare, AND THERE IS WHEDE FRAUDS ARE COMMITTED, In a great many casea it had become the custom—1 have no doubt there was beibery In it originally, but in somo justances it was lazincss—the import- era are just na glad, or rather moro glad, to have s foo) for a welgher than a rascal, becauso they have 10 pay the rascal, and not the fool—1it had become tha cistom, undsr tho pretext of showing courtesy, and facllitating the welgher's busincse, for the ym- orters to aend down the taro, 1t \asnot long be- fore 1 discovered that the tares they sent down were very large, **Now and then it wonld be almost Imposeible fo tare exactly. For instance. llquorice paste, which comes in boxes of 400 or 500 pounds, The poate aticks to the box, and it wonld be very diM- cult to break it open and clean It and ascertain its welght. I caught one houee that sent down the tarcs on 500 cascs, ot filty-six pounds for each case. The duty at the time, I think, was 156 cents apound. T looked ata caac, and told the foremun to make It forty-two pounds, [ was saro it was not over forty, but [ rave tho firm tho benet of the oubt, Thatmade a difarence of $1,000. They talk- ed abont contesting the matter, And (hore is where there 18 danger also. | There s no appeal from the woigher's figuros, 1f ho finds hio le wrong ho can correct them, butno one elso can. This Airm madn o great outcry, and I told them tocontest. * Let us bresk open 6 box; theyare In the Castom- Tlouse,* 1eald to them. Then they dldn't want to Lava sny fnes, and concluded they would better pay the duty. KOW A8 TO THA. It comes fn whatsro called ‘chops,' s serles of numbers. A *chop ' consists of from thirty to eighty or ninety cascs. ‘Thae taro Is ascertained by . taking ont of overy * chop’ of less than fifLy three of thecases, at random, andoutof a ¢chop' of more than that number five cases. These are emptied, and the casingand packing weighed. The morchants have to do this tareing, becauso thoy soll thele tea by tare, ana henco muat have on thelr own' account a correct tare. The toa often galus in woight by o sea voyaye. In all cases where tho tare s odd ounces over even pounds—there Is usanlly from twelve to sixteen ‘pounds tarc and some ounces—the Gorvernment ?l‘nl the merchants the benefit of the odd ounces in this way, 8ay the tare Is ffteon pounds soven onnces; it 1s counted only as fifteen pounds; and the importer has to pay diily on seven ounces which hie never got: the seven ounces go fortea. But If there ars aight ounces or more over, the tull next pound §s allowed. 8o §f the tare of fifteen pounds ¢ight ounces, It is reckoned at aix- toen pounds, which gives the merchant the baneflt of sight ounces. One day ahotuse had a wholo cargo of tea come {n—over 6,000 chests—and they sont down their tares. ~ The woighars wera {n the habit of takinz tho list withont any questions. Jt was ono of the largest lmsonlnu ouses fn the city. I looked It over, and ont of tho 120 chops thera was not o lluflla tara where the odd onnces wero less than eight, *I'll tare those myaelf,' I And I wont to the bonded warchouse,—the fellows there didn't lika room, —and [ got tha tare from the sai 0 that thert could ba no excuse, and fourl it more than half of the total mumber ot iad a taro where the odd onnces wero In favi ¢ the Government and agalnet tho mer- chants, 1) rednrlhe difference’ on that one cargo, aud, by putting olght ounces and over in- stead of seven and under, thero wasa profit of $0,000 in currency. ALSO IN RATLROAD IRON tho welghora were In tho hablt of taking tho mo e, mlematng Wil Do taken to Gieddes, N» Y., for (nter. £ Syracure (N. Y.) papers ple BCHAUDEL—At Oak Park. 1l.. Feb. & Mra. opbiy Schanbel, in the N4th year of her age, of REArt dipease’ Funeral services at Haptist Chiurch, thence to \Waig. heim Cemetory, Friday, at 1 o'clock. THOMPEON—On the 5th Inst., Emma A.. daughte I,sz'l'n:mll and Barsh Thompeon, aged 10 montha s, 879, 'Fanotal from residence, 250 Thirteenth-place, Fep, 7, 'at 11:30 8, m., to liosenill. i i BOKUP=Friends ara rospectfully Invited ta T i B s A i R Charica Bokup. from his Iate restdence, 417 3t kcc-av.. Friday afternoon, Feb. 8, 8t 1 o'clock, DYSON—-Feb, 0, William Dyson, aged 63 years. Bouty S Fuddersted (Eng.) papers please capy. ANNOUNCEMENTSN. e PRl S OO A GRAND CENTOAT, MARSMRETING WILL T beld at Farwell 1iaii this aveniog by the Ciilzeas League for the Buppresaton of the 810 of Liguor o nors. 1t ls expected that Mayor Heath will preatde, ang Bimery A, 8torrs and Dr. Keysoids and. others i apeak. n'" n to-t b . o, Wabash-sv. Thflfullel will {vork li“ll wheel, 14 TTAE R DR THOMAS WILL DELIVER i fecturs on the interesting subject of **Doubt " s} ine Unfon P'ark Congregstional Church this evening. Admission, 33¢, Y[-‘IIR_IKEV._DI'I. GINSON_WILL GIVE AN AD dreas on temperanea §n Trinity Eplscopal Chapel this evening at DABRITI'S PREPAIRRATIONS , B, T.BABBITT'S Original and Standard Manufaotures, OFFIOE AND FACTORYt Hos. 64, 66, 68,70, 73, 74, 76, 80 & 82 Washioglen-st, K'Y, BABBITT’S BEST SOAP, The moll#)llllll and effgctive Soap for the Lau 1 shi rposes ever ofes Al e, Wathlaturisies et offnd BABBITT’S “TOILET SOAP, Aade tram the purest vegetadle ofis, Tnrl o Tollot and't o Thath.: For wie ythe N 48 nO equal. Bample box, cantalning sent fres on receipt of 73 centa. BABBITT’S SOAP POWDER, From this Powder a beautifal and servicesbls white woft Homy, of sy desircd strength, can be msds i3 {en minutés'withoat the use of gresss or potsd. T Package sent fres on recelpt of 35 cetta. BABBITT’S YEAST POWDER, Absolutely pure, Bresd, clltl,unflr"r:(s etc., muds In'a short space of time, keep longer, and are more die eatiDle thaa when made of common and cheap imiis lons. A trial Dackage sent free on receipt of 76 caslk BABBITT'S SALERATUS, A standard articls, Asample package sent free of receipt of 15 conta. . 5 BABBITT’'S CREAM TARTAR free from all fmpurities, The house: ;l;:n‘y u'fi.?’n To° FPiat PacKkaga scat frea on receipt e was let to O'Donnell withont campetition by a strict **Ring" vote. ‘Tho Connty Agent's offica dispeneos nbowk $40,000 of the amount, the lios- pltal conanmes $10,000, and the Poor-1fonse and ne Asylom about $30,000. Thls is the largest contract in the gift of the Board. Cagt. Keourh, Supervizor of the Town of Le- miont, was before the Committco on Town and Town Accounts yesterday in anawer to an invita- tion, ‘The complaint agalnat hin wan that he had been too liberal to his constitnenta, but he was not Inclined to regard 1t as much of a erime, 1la wae told, however, not to be so lavish In his charity in 1o fntare, and reminded of the fact that, while his totn only paid about $i3, 000 into the Tressury, ita aupers took ont twvice that amount. e resentod fhn insult by asking the Committes out, and as they drank with him thoy thought batter of him, and he went off determined todo pretty much as ho pleascd, remarking that tho county was bound to take care of ita paupers, ete. v The Committes on Publte Dulldimis and Public Service met yestordoy afternoon. The first thing 1t did wan to take up agaln the matter of allowing Walker an estimate from Egan of $27,000 un the Court-Hlouse work, Examining the estimate, an crror of several thonsand dolinrs was found in the calcalations, yet it was nllowed, the Committeo reconsldering its formeractlon {n catiing the estl- mate down to 821,000. 1t the estimate ia incor- rect, —and the Commlttes sald it was,—it is & little strange that it waa paseed on. The question of holding a conferencs with the city autharities about ‘building a dome for the Court-ilounc was aleo con- ridered, but il that woe dono waa to call In tho Connty Attorney and urge upon him to give an opinion a8 to whethar the county could forca tho city to bnild a dome, which he promired to present 1o a fow days, the 1oan who was 80 engaged in holding his Angor orver the tap of the cask, corruption, that he did not notice the efforts of 'Congress to knock out the bung.—Springfeld (Masr.) Unton (Goldile Rep.). It the Dland bill is amended so ‘na to charge seignorage 1n the free colnage of sllver ballion, gold onght to be placed In the same cate. wory. Under our mint aystem no charge whatever ‘was made for the colnage of gold or si}: rior to theact of Feb, 21, 1853, which bmvrll:lre for & seignarage charge .of one-halfof 1 porcentum, When the lied demonotizing act of April 1, 1873, wan passed, the seignorage chargo for gold dolinrs was roduced toone-fifth of 1 percentum and finally abolished altogather by the sccond sec- tion of the act of Jan. 14, 1875, cnmmonl{ known as the Resamption nct. Now, If tho selgnorage charga is rovived, itshonld b revired for gold as well as silver.—St. Louls Republican (Dem, ). ‘The gnyly caparisoned stoeds the now party proposes to prance out on the greonback sward for the race tn 1880 are Danlel W. Voorbees and Wihllam D. Kelley. Of courso tao theory of thls now par- ty !s that a vromlse to pay, well stuck to, {s as good A8 the gold; that greenbacks shonld be reelod off Inthe Treasury Dupartment as the telegraph operator recls off hts paper, and that the prime function of tho angust Yocretary should be (o stand nnd ciip them off as the wanta'of trade demand. Alittlo cloud about as large as o man's hand—a good hand, say four aces and a clab—overshudows this delightful arrangement, and that ls the candl- dacy of Danlel's gaide, phillosopher, riend, ‘Thomas A. Hendricks, They cannot afford to antagonize each other and ahako Ind{ana and Lake Jicnigan to the month of the Dig Miaml, It may Do they will both withdraw and compromise ‘on Uncle Jimmy Wiiliams, —tinciunati Commercial Ind, Rep.). . A great many who atlended the moeting Mondsy night to Indorso Senator 1Iill'a oppasltion to silver dollare, and wore out their boot-heels and walking-canes In the vain attempt to get up & little applause, soemed to be Impressed with tho 1den that the ontiro businoss was inangurated for the purposc of ‘‘vindicating® Mr. Hill. This feeling seems to bo perlodic, Scarcely a month passca that Mr, Hill does not need to zn vindt eated;" but it may be said that, after all, the real urposes of tho peoplo aro to obtain rolief, and not o arguo with statesinen Itke Hill aud Lamar. 1t may be sald, morcover, that it fs posdl- hle for a man, or even many men, to belleve most heartily fn the justice, wisdom, and necepsity of remonetlzing silyer, without Impngn- ing the motives or qnesiloning the sincerity of Mr, Iill, Thls may appear atrangs to thoss who rebm (o bellevo that gveryoody aliould snceze when the distinguished Georgrlan "takes snnff, bat the fact will cease toobe at all peculinr long before this financial discussion ls over, The goldites lackea but very little of mdicating "' Mr. Hill's course. “They had r«nkm enough, bat they lacked argument and a crowd. The people were out in_conelderable force, and it aecmed to be fme possibla to carry thinga either by stratagy or atorm. The crowd was too Iarge and too nnanimous tho other way.—Allanta (Ga.) Constilution (Dem.). The silver motalists can slnte their polnts 1n a cloar, proper, logical form, s follows: 1, The contract with our creditora was to pay them in coin, 2. Thiscoin, as fixed bylaw, and under- stood intho contract, was both silver and gold. 3, Bince this contract wos made, snd without the actlon Inlnfknuwn or understood by tho people, sllver was demonetized. 4, This demonetiration was, and_could be, in tho Interest of unly ono party,~tho bondholders. 5. It did incresse the vAlue of thelr investments In onr bonds, this in- creaso boing sccured byl(;;{hllllan that 'was un- doubtedly surreptitious, 6. The restoration of the silver standard docs them no wrong, asthelr bonds stiil claim only payment in coln; and silver bo- inz understood ns coin when the contract was made, it ls porfectly legitimale to ro- cofn aflvor of tho eame atandard, and usa it in pay- ment of bonds, ‘This recalnage. tho people, after folly investigating the morits and facts of tho case, demanded, No reasonable verson donbts that both East and West sliver recolnage is de- manded by the rto le, 8. 1f the effoct Isto pay wen who labor in sllver, they understand this, and ars wiliing to receive it, not doubting that the coin will bo worth tno dollar, in making purchascs, it professed to bo, This {8, substantially, the wholg case. It will be well for mombers of Congreas 1o knoi that this subject Will not bear to bo teifled with, 1f sllver ia not remonetized by the present Congress, it will inevitably eator Into Congressional issugs In the next pohtical canvas Congrel will then bo electod that will pass a harsher meas- | uro than oven the Bland LIlI, and this witbout de- lay.—DLittsdurg Gazelte (Rep.). ‘Tho voto power is tha royal prorogative of the Constitution. It had its origin in England when her Kingeclaimed to rule by divine right, snd when the liberty of the subject depended on the favor of the Crown. Btrange fo say, too, this prerogative waa practically abandoned by the sov- ereigns of (reat Britaln before it was ingrafted into our system of Uovernment, and wo bellove thera has beon no Instanco of It oxerciss by them since our Constitution was adopted. The argn- ment for the veto In the Convention which framed the Constitution was that It could be used to pre- copy. The contract cailed for 205 piley lemiened al half w“!eu Is, in part, based upona letter relatl u hicagn, 1 will state thaf TRS rom the beglnnink to end. I knew ry 0] ¢ exsct nuroher and and eyery pile.’ lut, as 1 have not got. me. 1 ¢an oniy make & statement from A8 Jou atate (hat You are nof par. wis) 01X DALTON, they can bo sns- CRIMINATL. Deecher's ovorcoat, a fearfully and wonderfully made affair, wans recovercd yesterday fn a West Division pawnanhop. Edgar Foote 1s at the Armory charged with om- bezzling $176 by meana of a spurious check from the Wu‘t Dl’rlllcm storo of Ch‘:pln & Gore. John €. Duncan, Lonko man and confldence op- erator, ran afoul of Christian Wagner, a wealthy Granger, Duncan wouted o tomporary loan of $100, and got it, but as he was lighting out Wag- nor saw tho gamo and had him arrested, —just in tinmo, too, to'savohis monoy. Hewas fiued $100 by Justice Bummorfleld. Early yosterday moroing Willlam Raymond and George ‘flenderson were eapied by Officers Deck and Tierney just a8 they were about to burglarize antore on Madison street, botween Ellzaboth and Ada strests, They ran and the policemen por- aued, firing several shota so close as to scare them to a stand.still. They were booked at the Aadison Htreet Btatlon, ‘Tho auit in which Miss Ida Phlllipa and Mr, J, ‘W. Boyington appear as defendants azainst the charges of adultery and fornicatlon prefecrod by Bordette E. Patten was called yeaterday by Justice De Wolf (North 8lde). Eeveral of the witnesscs of ihe prosecution were oxamined, and nothing Im- portant was dono up o 5 o'clock, when the inves- tigation was continued. ‘Thomas Reed and Frarcls Lord wero yesterday placed nhder bonda of 8500 cach to answer to the complaint of . B, Ilolman, who saya that by means of decds he was induced to purchase from the two above-named 1,400 acres of Western lands 8t 00 cente por acre—$840. Thoeo deeds aro al- leped 1o be bogus, and hence olman thinks that ho was defrauded of his mone; Minorarroats: Chatlos West, asssuliing Henry Boolge, and cutting him underthe eye, during a quarrel in the Centennial nit Saloon; Frank Cramen, a: lting Georgio Atwaod, of the Unlon stroot dem!-monda; Ph lllz Daustestoll, a ealoon- keeper at Ko, 23 North IHalated street, hutting James Nugent on the head with a club; William Qardoer and Peter Cruse, larceny of a keg of beer trom Berton's saloon, No. 147 Monroe strect, and selling the eame_to George Brawn,.of 124 Fourth suonnet Robert King and Maud_ dilien, pounding and cutting each other in a Clark streot bagulo. At last some departmonts of the polico have adopted the common-sense principle of provention rather than cure of the numerous ‘hurglaries that “have taken place recently, “Yesterdsy Datoctives Bauder nnd Beott brought in ‘on general grlnclplol. **Keclover,' Lawrence onttle, nck Conley, Kridsy Kelley, Morrls Gaivin, and Dennis Redden, thieves who aro nono to good to do burglary, At the West Madleon and Armory ftations about a dozen more woll-known crooka were locked up. This was dons in the ‘hopes of Hdding the town of a Im’flul of erooks of all descriptions, and i3 to bo rigidly kept up. Justice Morrison yesterday held Thomas Grady and Jobin McVeigh in 81,000 cach to_the Criminal Court for atlempting to burglarize Levy's tailor- shop, No. 420 West Madlson streot; (Irll!! $500 additionsl for the |ltbllllf of ) cap ang articles from Richard Hleeell, of No. 04D I'rairie svenus; Alphonse Stauber and Fred Koss, lulllllln{ and cutting Willlam Born, who s not yet able to bo abaut, $1,000 to tho 10th; Juhn McCormick, o hardened young wratch, who boeats and threatens to kill hla arphan slsters and ar vld lady whocares for thom, 32,500 to keup the pe Frank Hembos, the forgor and confidunce who obtained quantities or goods on orders bear! and ho has an ided that all these had the contract for bullding HARRY FOX, Com- 'y Fox) {nn makes any money, 4 Mr, Fox. "**We took venue bridge at a lower body elee becaune wo thonght we foot on tha piling. which we found ore were ton -foot, making eleven in thospecifications demanded. feet In length, " snswered lon, A BABBITT’S POTASH. centrated alksll, double the strengh of :gA:lEar: CPGiaan. "Sampia scat free on Tecaipt of 2 in the North avenne Wantervel Cooper, of Ind, We bought some 23-foot ore, noar THE PROPRIETOR will give xold for every oumes of Impuritl mny of thess proparations. Tor Sale bu_all Dealers. welght from the ust th thing as tho appra! taking tho ice appr: ment. A cargo consiais of wany thousands of ralls, #0 many 10 feet long, o many 18 feot, so many When the reporter visited him le g | 20, ®o many 22—perhaps five or six differont Caati e, Tthat bridgo e s Jawel. 1t s | 1ho forKad sIKRAVIFCE of vari008 brawing brme, wae | Jenatin; 1ho AEures Aro Eivons And 1618 o areadful | sen’ Tenr! cobmiinblo momara Cbon of JLEDICAL, the money that Chicsgo hia ever had, | held in $600 (o tha Criminal Court on exch of four- | job to weigh thom, I had dotected s liouse 1n & | natance, - tha clandésting domonotization of ; : Ttut 1 detost nowapaper notoriety. o far as Iam | teen charges, beforo Justice Kaufmann, #mall fzand, and, when a cargo of rails came in for | sif whick, it was, snpposcd, might TER - 1say that the charges mado that this | 'y g nighiy probable that the Weat-Divislon po. | 1hems 1wassuspicious. 1 first got their woiglts cacapo the ' mcruliny of both : = o beldge :‘- not well bulll are sbsolutely and un- | yicq will come in for a scoring before Judge Scal- | {0 And out it they Intended to cheat, They ox- | Honses of Congress, and Inauch casesa veto would, Hodly false. B L e atons (s ciie | Dected to Lave thoao welghts returmed. T st my | a0 to say, call & halt and bring About a reconsider: Hovard then produced his Iron bills, and | KAVer [RI4IOMIE; {0 2ereral Saiioon (e POVES | inon towork, and gotout ftty ralls of eachslse | atioa. Huticwas nover moant by tho OFiginal {nsiated that the superatructura waa the best that |.WU00 (g lip, #—that ls, Dutting no charge agatne | A0d welthed' them—the averago wolght huldlng frienda of the veto that tho wisdam ™ of the I'rowl- could pouly e bomn Bell, e pilos wnd |' o b i T8 IR (s vcardhte o | Koo (ot the whcl’ and b wlenisers a0 much oftwotlinis of twte; | ARE RELTABLE REMEDIES, negle Brothurs, of se In toe o was & matter of Fltaburg, 'and Luwls, Ollver & Bhiliiph. of the | lease onbail or in auy other way save by procurin) it was notexpectod a wgit of habeas corpus, It 1s" aald by competent sutlioritied that thora 18 no law for such proceed- ings. A anights aga C. D, Cartls and C, 31, Deitt were arrested while carrying off about $250 worth of mnpeni. pposed to be stolen. They re booked on the wiip, snd the greatest secrocy Jresorved, about the afatr. They ro: ned fn the lock-up last night. " snd no friends, not even Curtis' wife, was allowed to riviteye that isseldom 1f ever denled tho meanest thiof. But it is alleged theeo men are $,000. 1 wight have been much greaier, bocaura had great suspicions thatthoy had given the num- f shortor ralls much greater and the numbor of long raila much lssathan really was the case. To ascertain that fuct would have taken two or threo wecks, since the whols :ln‘gl ‘would hisva had to bo unloaded and counted, When 1 repurted ta the under whom the welghers work, he uald, aa it v, a large job, to let l({u. *4Tnere are & great many aMicles, bat { cannot enter into detalls, In which & great desl of fraud ls while the Volesn made the caxtings. **The nuromrnflnu ton, und I will stand by at it will como up to the spect- Preaident would use the voto to thwart the te will uf the people as expressca by Con- er protracted dobate. Accordingly Presie dents have somctime opted the alturnstive, rather than fly in the of the poople, of retaln- 1ng a bill ton days without eigning, or roturning It ‘with thelr objections. Tho result of this modeat couree fa 1o fivo effcct to tho bill without com- romlelng thelr consclentions scruples. Tha President thus throws the responsibility npon the represontative of the people. The Republican Of o hifgh Scientific Charaoter, do signed for the cure of all disoases; Fropm‘od strictly according to th aws of Modical Chomistry, Thou sandsof Physicians and Patientsaré using thom with unparalleled su¢ coss, Office and Pri nl%nl Dopot No, 8 University Place, Now York City. Van Schanck, Eftevonson & contln 1 stand by 1t. The Thl{ 1s all 1 morning, and the praciice § illegal that tho Welglt. A fellow moy bring In & bag welyhi X Baye, " scaf Tt Aliy Tho Village Trustocs met Tuesday eveningat the rooms of the Hoard on Das rect, and dla- posed of certain busineas which has been awaiting tholr action for three weeks, ‘The Village Treasurer'a report for January waa vead snd placed on fle. Itshowed: Recelpts, $16,020.50; dlabursemonts, $1,814.01. The re- "?5'5}'315 & balance in the Tressury, Jan, i1, of Mr, Ira X, Holl uperintendant of the Water: I} importer les: tion: i statos distinctly *ho the same more or and thus escapcs thu charge of vlnilntew y defrauded. ilo will pay fur [ho differenca n the welghts. Thers may be half a militon ounds in & vedacl, and the invoice calls for only 000 pount 'he clorksin the Custom-louso koaw that the weight s considerably more, —100, - 000 or 200,000 wmore, of courso; they have no means of ascertaining. The pepper {o put up In bage. Thoy are weithed, and ghor hands 1u & veturn say for 400,000, whon actually there is £00,000. ‘Tho duty upon the 100,000 would be s cloar galn to _the h"ylw“r‘ and he i, "5 T e ,000, 10 pay $1, or $2, the weigher. From *the character of some of the men who wore therc when [ was, 1 have not tuc shightest doubt thas that was done. 1 welghed oue cargo which ran at least 40 per cent over the fnvolce; and I saw Lhat that particular cargo was made to run only 10 or 15 per cent over, " WITIL COYPRR . very little can bo done, becausa It come: 160 vouunds, but I once caught 8 hou. cargoof 4, oags como in. 'The) Yet, men wha claim to have been tralned as Whi, aro now calitng Jondly on President layes to do violence ta this great fandamental Whiz principle in which ho and they wero educated. = [Yashinglon (1. C.) Union (Bep.). e ——— DAMAGE FOR LIBEL. CrvoINNaTI, O.) Feb, 6.—R. J, Milcs, of the Grand Opera-House, by his counscl, Thomas A. Lotan, Esq., received o verdiot for $40,000 dara- ages agatnst P. T. Barnum, W. C. Coup, aud others, for o libol publ!sbc& two yeara ago. “I'he case has boen on trlsl ton days, and bas at- tracted great attontiob, — —————— Coolness on the Pleld ‘of onor. Corvespondenca PAlladslohia Times, My father went to the field ss sccond for s mau who was & novice and a coward, flowas a young fcllow of lymphatie tone, with stragglimg ‘Whiskers up to his un‘-—\!lu s & sign of weak- JONBS—RONBITS, % i 8 ) 10! ~ CONFEOTIONERY. CELEBRATED toroughod the Union—exprossed 1o parta. 1B ana gpmard 8 | 25, 40, 80a por ®, Addres orders GUNTHER, Confed —_— d Mles Nottio Roberts, Warks, submitt=d his monthly seport. 1t showed that 7,44, 74 gulions of watcr bad begn pumped duriog January; alao, that the expense had lLeen $138. 24 for that period. Accompanying the monthly report was another detailing tho workings of the Department for the glm nine montha, and spponded to this latter was r, Holly's formsl fesignation from tho poeltion of Watar-Works Superiutendent, stating, as tho grounds of his withdrawal, that ho had sccepted a simflar position at Burlington, Ia. ‘'ho reelzna. tlon was accopted, to take effect Feb, 15, The Committee to whom was referred. at_a pro- ng, & petition from Uik & Do Coudres as quiot and un- o tho decande of and Mrs, Jones u&d for the whore they will rémsin for soveral COMPANY 0'8 BALL. tloner, Chicago. By ELISON, POMEROY & CO.. Auctioneers, 78 and 80 Rsnaolph-at. THE PEREMPTORY SALE AT ATOTION ples present. which had the effect of s of ancing- nd the parlorato almoast th-tuh‘.d A o oy . T, C. Ketcl 0. 10 bulld a mammoth_Lreskwater pare les w rong. Perbaps o neas. Ha could not hit anything with s plstal, O Mitcelh W G Kby, aad 11 ke shore botneen Daviesna. Courch | Ihat paporiwace Gare me A Clow Golng out to practice the evening bofore, ho El‘b & Pemlars vamable Sfflcl duttes to the atreets, and a fow bundred feet ont § o water, | could Lo practiced. Tho welght {ell juto s tremor at passiug & uew-made gravo, A ks l‘rl-.oq: ll"o‘c & 1t being demgned to convert tha luclosed aren into | each bag welghe 180 pounds, It that Hnally gave way to sctual tears. IHo was in the ozdinary, sfter whicl » coal and lumber yard, seported adverscly to the scheie, and subumitted along with their report o remonsirance from the Exccutive Commitiee pf the Univeraity domonstrating that thu village has no power anyway 1o grantsuch a petition. ‘the report was nauwd. v, John Kbert, a practical machinl kunowo I Chicago, was ciccted Saperinte) Chie! Kogineer. Adjourned for two wusks, Uoadisti Huse, Eeq., deulos the truth of the statament that the Nortawestern Rallroad I8 nogo- tlating with Lim for the purchase of Lis iayd in the vicinity of the old depot ss a sito for a new one. Mr.” Jlurd, wifs of the Hon. Harvoey B. Hurd, ‘who has for mavy yeare been somewhat of anin- valld, wax atricken with paralysie Mondsy evening, while aitending a meeting of the Eclectic Heading s fotds of Lok uoutetverk & Co.r of Ghie icorge Lord, of Lord, Stoutenverg & Co., of B cago, 1t 1s feared sho will dio. e — THE ADMIRABLE "EQUITABLE.! In the eighteenth annual statement of the Equit. ablo Life-Insurance Soctety, found on our first page, the myrisd of friends of that fine organixa- tion, ss well us the general public, will Aind Sgures at once Interesting, pertinent, and gratifying. The Equitable holds descrred prominence among the vory best of the world's lfe-insursnce compa- nies, and Its buaincss Iuldyelr showed bow Srmly 1be organizstion ls rooted la the good will of overybudy, No pollcy-holder iu the Equitable over botsers but what “his bencficisry will receive the foll amount of tae insurance. Afl pulicies sre pald as 8002 as due, aud tho Boclety 1s ulikos aource of cousolaiva 1o the bereaved and of pride o the countrrs fo weigh & cargo. ’l‘hl{ pat scales and they show 1,610, 1, or 1,62 —two pounds” for (ho bag. I found out {rom & man inthe trade that cotlue ia not welkhed fu Brazil, but mexsured, so it might sometimos happen that & bag conisina four or five pounds over; and that tion on feur or dve thousand bags woald make llulln a snug sum for the jm- porter. His weighie are taken, “Arlr\ from what the weighers nfake in the way of bribes, some add 10 Iheir Incomes by . MAMIPULATING THE FAY-ROLLS. ‘Take lron, sice, coffee, which they do not welgh; these thoy chario for what it would have cost to welgh them, snd more too. 1 caught one at “:ih aud bad hio dismissed. s rolls ran up e or $3,000 & month. A falr pay-roll was from $100 to $200 & week. The lsborers got 40 cents au_ hour, snd could wake fairly ssy 812 & week. Fometimes they had nothing stall to do. Most of the stevedol make their marks, snd tho forsman certl o them. And fctitivus names aze pat in, and a0 might draw $100 when ke would payrmt ouly $30 | or $80, adaing what he pald the foromas, who wmade the cestidcates, *ln w uy klod of fron excopt ualle, the welgher bas & leqtinate porqulsite—a feont & ton. A purchoser nceds 8 weighar's cortificate; snd If tho weighing were dono by privala parties, th Jmporter would bave to pay four or times much. ‘This was cocouraged by th for the reason that the inturests of the Uovorument and the Imgamualnddu Tha welghers would nat wel the iz and scrap’ from, bt lhc"ofl d charve the (iovernmenl for the fiwe of thelr ten es 12 toey bad weighed it. Tuore was then no incaus of ssccriaining where be cheat camy i, sud I devised & sjetem of aversges— utterly banged ufi. His hands shook like he was palsied, and bis lips tried to run sl over his face. Ho was determined to fight, how- over, snd had told my father he would go to the fleld i he “had be carried there in o cart. My father saw that ho was a man at heart, and determined tochdsa the gooso flesh off of bl flo saw the! all he needed was confidence, e at once began to treat the mat- ter as If the hitting of the other man was an s¢- comolished fact, He then commenced discuss- ing the point at which {t was desirablo to strike bim. *‘Iwouldn't hit him in the head,” ho saldi “it is bardly ever done, and takea more tlme. Just put your ball in his body, about two lnches below the arm-pl.’” By taklug everything us & matter of course, ho suceeeded fu fnparifog coulideucs ta bis fricud. The ucxt moruiog he made him eat a comfortable breakfast, discussing the hunger be might feel after the duel. When they had reacted the fetd he put him in position, snd thou sald to bim, careleasly: * Don’t wait to ralse your platol to his head. Assoonasit's level to withiu two inches of hls arm-p the trigger. Juat below the arw-plt, m= ber!” And suro ¢nough he did put his bail right there, and walked off the ficld, remurk- fog: “Iknew I had hit biw beforo I pulled tho trigger.” B8kl with a pistoll Why that fa nothing. I saw one of the best duellsts 1 over knew put out of verve by bls opponent putting on a palr of vye-glasses, gazlog at bioi futently, then removisg thew, wipiug them, and re- placing them to biis eyes. A green min is just No. 87 Madisonest., FINE FURS! Ladles® Soal and Mink Sots, Seal Bacquess Gents’ Seal Caps and Gloves, Robes, &c., &¢.s gfll ha cqgéhuud 8t 10 o’clock this mord: 8 40 giiso¥, ForEnoy &co., Austtonters REGULAR WEBEKLY SALE. FRIDAY MORNING, Feb. 8, st 0:30 o'clock, New Parlor ad Chamber Suit A FULL LIRE OARPETS, STOVES, General Household Furniture, Crockery and Glassware, Plated Ware, Goneral Merchandise, &0., &0., &% ELISON, POMEROY & CO., Auctt- By HIRAM BRUSIL Auctlonsar. Ofce 370 East Madison ure-seckers resumed dancing, snd Mrs. Davis, Mr. and Mrs, Davis, Bello Cowdery, Porter, Roso Moore, Nannle Leonard, ¥\ een, Davis, Mr, an t. and Mrs. J. B. Tristram, Mr, aud Cafiin, Miss Wilce, Misses May lutch- mma uard. Namie Sawyer, llattie Dor, i emon, Cora Bas- Bmitb, Neilio Uratne. Cazels Lrooks, Head ta; Hay Listerman, old, Lda Benelict Low Borgt. I, Miles, L“' ol iillams, Messrs. A. E. Ely, A. L. Mitchell, M, Vauzweil, b. 8 8t 10 . wiil bo sotd st the ¥ e LA DRUSIL ducsanssr”