Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1878, Page 16

t 6 . a se bee ao THE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1878—-SIXTEEN PAGES. SAN FRANCISCO. They Prayed for Rain, and Got "Too Much of It. Gradual Destruction of All the Limber on the Coast. Budden Termination of the $100,000 Suit Against “Lucky” Baldwin. Imprisonment of two Notorious Fo- male Blackmailers. Unique Pledges Required of Par- takers of Free Lunches. The California Theatre Company Com- ing to Play in Chicago. R THE INUNDATION. * special Correspondence of The Tribune. Sax Francisco, Feb. 10.—What with the ministers mumbling, the grangers grumbling, and every one else putting in a spoke of dire- ful prognostication, the weather felt called upon to distinguish itself in somo, way, and has almost accommodated the State with a flood. The levee broke below Sacramento, our pretty little Capital, and the inundation did damage to the tune of $700,000. But it was not a good wet. flood like that of *62, over whose horrors the Sacramentans love to dwell: They went visit- ing each other in boats in true Venetian style in those days. The gondolas were put together in somewhat burried style in those days, and the guitars were lacking, but there was plenty of water, and that is the main thing in Venive after all. We are yearly becoming more subject to freshets and floods in California, as the great monuntain forests are depleted to feed the hungry Nevada Mills, and uo young trees are planted to take the places of those which are felled by thousands. There is no sadder sight than one of these Jong ranges of hills shorn of their woody crowns, and nothing but acre upon acre filled with unsightly stumps, where ounce the sighing course, have the big families, are up in arms inst, it. The people who do pay taxes con der that a brief gleam of common sense has made its way into Iegislation, and look hope- fully forward to the tle when the sons and @auzhters of working men and women shall not be. peripatetic encyclopedias,—in their own estimation. It is less difficult to earn a living when one is nut above the business. ‘As for our Hith Schools, George Elliot would hide her diminished head before our girls, if * they really learued all they are taught, and I have seen college graduates stare with hopeless wonder, and a dazed uncertainty which they were ashamed to express, when consulting the list of stuff with which our High School boys are supposed to be crammed. Thedamace would be irremediable did not the population furnish enough natural stupidity to resist the absorption of the stufling. Perhaps the calisthenic drill-master is the most absurd of all the recent innovations. Any one who has gone to school within fiftcen years kmowg something of free gymuastics, and little girls fan teach this sort of thing. There is something rather ridiculous, there- fore, in the sight of a full-grown monster, who ought to be loading an express wagon, looming up over a brigade of youngsters 6 and 7 years of age, and teaching them to wave their pudgy litile fists and move their uncertain little arms and legs according to some system of drill in- yented for their bret , . ‘The only excuse for him is that he makes $150 per month by the proccss. NELLIE FERMIN. Webare another choice specimen of femininity who has burrowed her way to notoriety through ty Clerk, and Linvite investigation into each and every one of the above statements. 7 Gerorce KELLY. CURRENT GOSSIP. TAXES. ‘Tax—tax—tax! morning, noon, and night: Yes, tax the very air we breathe, and tax Heav- en's golden hight. Onr votes have pleased you where you are, tocrush with iron heel; ‘The man who seeks an oflice now but seeks o chance to steal. - Tax—tax—tax! Yes, tax us while we sleep; ‘Thouzh we have sown with toil and care, ‘tia you, you vampires, reap; ‘Then pile on us the crushing load, and fill your purses we'l; No future punishment awaits—they say there is no Hell. © Thon who reign'st in Heaven above, so kind, 80 just, to al, For politicians make a Hell, though it be e'er 80 small; And let us poor tax-ridden slaves from Thy bright Kingdom sce F The Devil roast their thievich souls for all eter- nity. Amen! Rosrnt Tunsey. THE MASCULINE PANIC ON THE DRESS QUESTION. To the Editor of. The Tribune. Swissvatr. Pa., Feb. 14.—It is full thirty pines, and the waving cedar lifted their gretu tops to the bending sky. 7 ‘There is euch s range of country lying be- tween Carson, a beautiful little city nestled in the greenest valley among the sagebrush hills of Nevada, and Lake Tahoe, the beautiful sheet of water which inspires even a Mark Twain to poesy in description. For many miles one passes through forests of stumps, their dreary uniformity broken only by 2 snaky-looking road or two which winds along the hillside. Atthe same time the waters of the great flume come rus:ing down the moun- tains with frightful velocity, carryiog with them the fresh timber which shows that the work of destruction is still going on in the higher mountain. That mighty octopus, the firm of Flood & O'Brien, controls this immense lumber business as a matter of course. Theyown the Comstock Lode, they own the mills, they own the Nevada Block and the Nevada Bank; they own pretty nearly the entire State of Nevada. T! wh the Board of Brokers collectively and individu- ally, it may almost be said, and they own about allof San Francisco that is worth owning. So of course they own the forests of the Sierras and the big flume. We have always had an epicurcan philosophy in California: “Eat, drink, and pe merry, for to-morrow we die.” The father has looked out for himself, and has trusted to the son to do the same. The father found a land flowing with milk and honey. But hg drank up all the milk and ate upall the honey. Theson finds that he must now start a cow and a bec-hive for arich man’s pocket. She is oue of those float- ing creatures, a saleswoman to-day,a ballet- girl to-morrow, and something worse the next day. After considerable nomadic experience, the fair Nellie found herself one day,under the pro- tection of a gentleman of leisure who is an ex- tensive capital When the joys of relfef from pecuniary neces- sity began to cloy, Nellie conceived the idea of She pictured to her- self the joys, delights, and comforts of such an existence in such vivid colors that, at last, she scrupled at nothing to attain them. « Under ordinary circumstances, in order to be- come a widow it is first necessary to become a becoming a rich widow. wife. Not so with Nellie. tul task of poisoning her protector. The gentleman detected the scheme in time to save his life,and, being naturally a trifle in- the society dignaut, withdrew permanently from of the charming belle. Not to be outwitted, she instituted prozeed- emauded a separate ings fora divorce, and d maintenauce. fell through. Nothing daunted, Nellte deeming it necessary, that she should live, has eversince called herself Thomas Biythe, aud under that name as M She merely proclaimed herself as such, and then undertuok the cheer- As the document necessary build the suit upon was not fortucoming, that see. ‘uc Jorestry of California has become a se- rious subject. It is found that tbe climate is changing, and that the resources for natural ir- rigation are precarious. Al! this is attributed to the enormous depletion of the forests. It is only svithin a very short time—tive years, per- a ae there has been any planting of trees at all. There are not many varictics indigenous to our soil, but itis the experience of the planters that ost any species takes kindly to the adoptive earth of California. ‘The eucalyptus has been planted in vast quau- tities, owing to the rapidity of its growth and to the little care which itrequires. Already its great sprawling green leaves, rich with healing qualities, have become familiar to the niethermost iets, and scarcely a door-yard but boasts its eucalypytus, known to the chil- dren under the homelier name of the “blue gum.” BURLINGAME. We have a town of that name situated some sixteen miles to the south of San Francisco. It has neither street, nor house, nor inbabitant. dt cannot boast even the saloon and post-office which are usually accounted all that is necessa- ry to constitute a townin California. It has not even a squatter’s cabin, But it is always called Burlingame, and it. is customary to say that it was founded by William C. Ralston. It wasa wild, marshy tract, bare even of a shrub, and with nothing to recommend it but the vicinage of ducks in the shooting season. it lay on the road to Belmont, and when that wild, restless spirit dashed across its dreary epace behind four galloping horses, in the ini- patient fashion in which he traveled, it occurred to ltim to create something out of nothing. He bought the land, divided it iuto equal- sized square lots, planted avenues of trees where the thoroughfares were expected to run, and embowered each Jot iu a framework of trees, that every man might be barred from his neighbor by 2 fence of living green. The trees are of many varieties, the larze-leaved cucalyp- tus prevailing. There is a liberal sprinkling of the scraggy accacia, there are locusts, and pop- lars, and cedars, and all have flourished. But nothing more of Burlingame has grown save trecs and fences. Beside the greenery of Burlingame, Mr. Salston planted several miles of avenue along the highway. It is not yet of sufficient height 4o give much shelter, but it waves a promise of grateful shade, and it keeps the great man's ame upon the lips, if not in the heart. XHE BALDWIN-M’CORMICK SUIT. This interesting scandal turned out about as Might have been expected. It transpires that the injured Lennie had not only been considerably married, but that her orizinal seduction antedated her acquaintance witb Baldwin by some years. Lennie was the most frank and fearless per- jurer that ever faced 2 Court or ornamented a witness-box. The faces of her counsel were a study when she was called upon to testify. She would contradict herself withthemost naiveand engaging frankness, and with the most dumb- founding consciousness that she did so. When the cross-examiner would ask with severest frown, “ Did you swear to a lic when you satd so-and-so five minutes azo™ Lennie would gaze at him with limpid child-lik and answer “1 did.” K brccs After this had happened some twenty-five or thirty times, her counsel threw up thé case in disgust, aud Lennie tripped out of the court- room pertectly unmoved. Her nerve was not shaken throuchout until esterday, when she was arrested upon a charge of perjury preferred by E. J. Baldwin, and thrown into jail. Her bail was fixed at $3,000, Which she bas not yet been able to obtain. A night in prison may bave brought to the frivo- ous Mis: 4 McCormick & realization of the fact that she has been engaged in a yery bad piece THE PUBLIC ScHOOoLs. Theworkingman is submitting to the $1 per Gay policy with s patience which will comfort- ably tide over the existing spell of hard times. Buta severe blow has been struck at his choice hobby,—the education of his children, It is his favorite idea that a prince of the blood royal is not entitled toa more comprehensive list of accomplishments than the son of a hod- carrier or the dauchter of a waskerwoman. Thus by gradual steps our public schoo!s have come to vie with the. most elaborate finishing academy of the olden times. Beside the regular corps who devote odd spare moments to in- struction in the English rudiments, we hare a batch of French and German teachers, a small army of,music teachers, a brigade of drawing teachers, and a calisthenic drili-master. ‘Also, we have our cosmopolitan schools, where the English language is admitted on sul- ferance. Senator McCoppin, of San Francisco, has in- troduced a bill which provides that the forcizn Ianguages and music be banished from the sys- tem of public instruction. _ The people who pay no taxcs, and who, of has accumulated a large wardrobe, and con- tracted an extensive Bet of bills, which Mr. Thomas Blythe has quietly ignored. This has brougit her to grief atJast. She was arrested the other day for embezzlement, and, failmg to obtain bail, bas gone to keep company With Lennie McCormick in prison. They will doubtless exchauge contidences across the corridors, and possibly the two sd- yenturesses will concoct a scheme which will involve some other poor fellow, with money, and give us afresh newspaper sensation when they get out. THE FREE-LUNCHES. These eharitics of the Lady Bountifuls still continue, and the pledge-signing is so general that certain portions of the city in the vicinity of the lunch-table look like a miniature Fourth of July time. The sameness of the blue-ribbon has depart- ed, for the pledges have become many aud vari- ous. Thus, while one pledge involves simply the abstinence from intoxicating liquor, another mentions tobacco only. A third includes both, while in one district some enterorising person makes the unhappy luneb-eater pledge himself to abstain not only from liquor and tobacco, but from adultery and stock-gambling as well. This pledge is something of a poser. Sometimes permission is given to scraten the ticket.. The guileless lunch-providers are sure to accord assent, but are sure also to evince a mild astonishment at such unreasonableness which greatly discomfits the signer. ‘Asa rale he would rather sign it with its provisions com- plete, and then go of and break the whole pledge thantace the kindly put uncontrol |- able curiosity which follows his request. to scratch an item. Mr. David Bush, who discountenances elce- mosynary aid as fatal to the workingman’s self- respect, conceived the plan a little more than a week ago of raising $5,000 by subscription to give a number of the unemployed of our city immediate work on the park at $1 per day. He bas collected the amount, and $215 add: tional, and a body of men wiil be set at work. Nothing coud be more popular thau the use to which this money so quietly and so expediti ly collected is to be cevoted. We nave a pe tive affection for our park, as new, and wild, and rugged as itis. We count the trees as they are plauted, aud almost the biades of grass as they are sown. We look with fond proprietary pride apon the little spots of cultivation lifting themseives among the miles of surroundmg sand drives, and the ring of the horses’ hoofs upon its matchless roads is swectest music to those who trud: sand across its weary space avert x0. It nay be that the root of our pride in it lies in the fact that every dollar spent upon it bas been honestly expended. No taint of doubt, no tinge of reproach has ever assailed the Park Comunission. Perhaps you are too honest in Chicago to ap- preciate this, but here it is simply wonderful! THE THEATRES. ‘The ballet-girls have folded up their tarlatan, and spangles, and calves, and have silently stolen away. They are replaced at the Cal- ifornia by Signor Eduardo Majeroni and his wife, Signora Guilia Tessero Majeroni, com- monly called “ the Maccaronie ” for short. Majeroni will be remembered as leading- man with the Ristori troupe, and an exception- ally fine, if not a great, actor. He has been in Australia for some two or three years, and utilized his time of exile by doing what the critics call mastering the English language.”? It has the better of him yet, although he bas achieved wonders. He has not adopted the English school of acting with the English tovgue, but retains the profuse gesture of the Latin actor. So far, his appearance has been in a play (“The O14 Corporal”) which required chiefly pantomime action. In this he has been won- derfully successful, but he has hardly created the furore which he might have done before all the foreign actors took tolearning English. Tae fascinating torcign accent loses its charm when we have too much of it. With Modjeska yet lingering in our memories, with Feebter no stranger to us, und with the two Majeronis on the stage at one time, a little pure strong En- glish sounds excellently well. You are threatened in Chicago by Mr. Hay- erly with an invasion from, our coast about March 25 in the shape of a ‘Trip to the Moon,” with the California Theatte Company in the cast. In such case you will have something de- cidedly good. Itis long time since anything has been such a hit in the California. You will have Tom Keene, our heavy trage- dian, who boldly took the Ware Antony honors from Edwin Booth during the famous $50,000 engagement, and whose -Vacduji shared the honors with Macbeth at the same t-me. " You will have the roly-poly Bishop with his prize calve % il have the blithe and merry Alice And they say the scenery goes along with the crowd. The scenery of the: California Theatre can play a star engagement anywhere. That used in ‘The Trip to the Moon” was very beau- titul, but New Yorkers say that the “Black Crook ” in its palmiest days in Gotham did not compare with its production here. This is not California blowing. 1t is truth. JASSARTH. ——— A DENIAL. To the Editor of The Tribune. __Cucaco, Feb. 16.—In your paper of the 10th i appeared an article in reterence to the coy- ering of the steam-pipes and boilers of the Cook County Hospital which is untrue, and does me great injustice, as the covering was put on un- der my superintendence, avd you will oblizeme by giving this article as much prominence as you did that article. In that article you state that the covering is a failure; that it was mys- teriously applied last summer; that the ashes have so eaten the pipes as to necessitate con- siderable outlay at an early day; and that the contractor never was required to give any bond, allof which is untrue. The fact is that the covering is in excellent condition: was put on January, February, and March, 1877; that the ashes have uot eaten the pipes at all; avd that the contractor was required to give 2 bond in the sum of $6,000, which was approyed by the County Commissioners and iiled with the Co - years since I got up the first editorial scare on the subject of pantaloons. Up to that time, editing a newspaper had been a masculine pro- feesion. Manhood or boyhood was an essential requisite in editordom, and pantaloons were the bone, and sinew, and brain of manhood and boyhood. Get but these, and you were at onee invested with all the prerogatives of the sterner and: wiser sex. I, in assuming 2 man’s work, intended, of course, to be 1 man; and, as pan- taloons were che only requisite, I would have them by fair means or foul,—so argued the edit- ors. Nay, it was certain that I would be cou- tent with nothing short of editorial pantaloons; and the question was, Whose should I get? Exch particular editor thought I wanted his: and how they did clutch them and cry out! How fiercely they defended their possessions! They must have lain awake nights, or slevt with one eye open, watching those pantaloons! Every mail came laden with the burden of their wo, aud all sang in the same strain: ‘ My trousers! O my trousers! Ye gods defend my good cussimere trousers!” That is, all who did sing, and that was a vast majority of editordom, from Maine to Georgia. Some of the projession had two pairs, and didn’t care. On the contra- ry, they were wicked enough to enjoy the sport of seeing the others dance and do battle in de- fense of their own aud only pair, Many drew swords, rcady to die in the last ditch rather than let me baye ‘their pantaloons; and, of these, foremost in the list was George D. Prentice, who turned bis back to the wall, and faced me in deadly determination to end’ his days then and there rather than’ let me have his panta- loons! it wasayear or more before I had quieted their alarm, and convinced them that J had no rus on their wardrobes; but the mis- chief was done. Men and their belongings are apt to be taken at their own estimate; aud their terror led Mrs, Stanton, Mrs. Bloomer, and hun- dreds of other women to think there was a tal- ismanic virtue in pautaloons to cover all politi- cal and_ physical disabilities of those wno wore them. In their desperate defense against a purely imaginary attack, the? happy pos: of pantaloovs ¢reated areal encimy termined to dispute their exclusive right to pantaloons; and, a5 I had given them the first scare, they went back to their tirst opinion, that it had been pautaloons I had been wanting all the time, and had artfully covered my desiens by directing attention to such smal! matters as robbing cradies, and selling meu, women, and cbildren on the auction-block. So, from the beginning of my public life, I haye never been able tu turn round, or even look in any given direction, but some editor drew his sword in defense of his pantaloons, and I, very naturally, learned to cousider the merits of these sacred garments. The result of this consideration is a very firm conviction that folks who can contrive no better coverint for their own bodies should be modest about criticising their neighbors. ‘Vhen one under- takes to dress like a frog, he should be sure he has material as_elastic as that used by a frog: and, with all their inventions, men haye not yet produced any such inaterial. They pride them- selves oun the firmness of the cloth they use for a covering, then fashion {t into garments which make no allowance for joints, strut around like peacocks, and lecture the weaker vessels for not dressing sensibly. As covering forhis own stupidity, the Cincin- nati Gazette mau pleads that German oflicers dress worse than he does. He stoops with difliculty, but they cannot stoop atalt! He is probably correct, for tuey, too, are men; ail the military costumes are especially zotten up by men, aud are all stupid,—those of Europe the very acme of stupidity, and masculine stupidity at that. They necd uot be so excessively nervous about wy stealing their patterns until they contrive something worth stealing. Moreover, they need not put on such airs of superiority until they invent some corering for their own bodies that will permit the free use of their joints, and Jeave some room forindividuality. Given twen- ty. gentlemen in full dress, and twenty waiters ditto, they lool as much al as forty crows, It required a long, bloody, civil war and an Oliver Cromwell to emancipate them from peach-blossom satin breeches and pea-green silk coats, scarlet velvet mautles, lace rutlies, and false hair; aud now they do put on such airs of virtous superiority to the vanities of fasbion, but join some order the first chance, to step around ins fancy regalia! Less than two cen- turies ago the wisest man would pay what would now be equal to $500 for a wig to cover his own hair; avd now they make themselves bald to ex- lubit their nice bats,—cannot go to church ina Jast year’s hat any tore than a woman in a last year’s bonnet; change the cut of their coat two or three timesa year, and have their heads stuffed as full of pantaloons as an old-clothes- man’s bag; talk about them in season and in season, for they and the talk ahout them never are out. One cannot speak or write on any subject but they are on the alert to sce if anything is going to be said or done about pan- taloons. If 2 woman wants pay for her work, they think this means pantaloons. If she speaks of hygiene, she wants pantaloons. If she asks what they have done with the taxes she paid them, she is plotting to get possession of their pautaloons. Now, brethren, do get up some kind of dress that would be worth copying; but, as Jong as you shingle your heads, put overshot roofs on Your shoulders, wear marble head-stones ‘on your hearts, collars as inflexible as tin, and those nasty rags flopping around your ankles, no sensible woman will invade your realm to select a dres: Physician, may come to eal thyself, ané then sick women you for healing. Janz Grey SwissuEce. “TURN THAT BABY!? New York Times. There was a Connecticut lady from one of those interior villages of the State which have become celebrated for their innocence and gar- den-seeds, who, being ignorant of the danger- ous nature of heated steam radiators, recently learned by sad experience that they are devices of the Adversary. She had reached the City of Providence, R. I., on her way to Boston, and was compelled to wait for some time in the raiiway station for the arrival of the Boston express. She was accompa- nied by her baby, a valuable infant of about 15 months of sge, and, as she desired to explore the recesses of her traveling-bag in search of the key of her trunk, concerning which she had an awful fear that she had lett it at home, she looked avout her for a place on which to temporarily deposit ber baby. Her eye caught aJarge steam radistor with a handsome marble top, which she mistook, as she subse- ently explained, for a *‘mantel-tree-piece.”” pon this delusive slab she deposited the baby, placing it in uw sittine position, and carefully propping it.up with bundles, and then retired a corner where she could search ber bag in quiet. Instantly, that unhappy infant lifted up its voice and howled. The mother was annoyed at its untimely expression of dissatisfation, but determined to let it ery for a few moments un- til ber search should be completed. It tookher about five minutes to find the desired key, and she then was ready to give her attention to her offspring. She addressed it in the most winning rsery jargon, but it declined to cease its wailing: “Then she jingled before its eyes her bunch of keys, and even went so far as to suz- fest that an examination of the works of her watch might be granted toa really good baby who would sign a pledge to abstain from pins and colic in every form. This also failing of the desired effect, she offered bribes in the shape of candy and gingerbread, all of which were, to her great astonishment! negected. By this time she made up her mind that a pin tnust be at the bottom of the trouble, and she therefore took up the infant and instituted a brief search for the supposed instrument of tor- ture. Finding all the child’s pins in precisely the localities where nature had placed them, she grew somewhat indignant at its causeless outery, and, after threatening it with the se Yerest form of nursery punishment in case of farther persistence in crime, she replaced it on the radiator and informedit that it must remain in that position until it was ready te be a good and quiet baby. Just at this point a man of appsrently 50 of age, whose appearance unmistakably ed that the hand of female affection had uever buttoned his collar or adjusted his n tie, looked up from his newspaper, and remark- ed to the exasperated mother: ‘Madam! Permit me to: suggest that it is time to turn that child.” The mother, startied at this ad- dress from an entire stranger, Who, as au ob- ious old bachelor, instantly ineurred her right- cous contempt, asked him sharply what he meant. ‘Merely this,” replied the monster, “your infant must be entirely baked on one sidie, and you had better turn it over and cook the other side alittle.” Filled with astonisa- ment and horror, she seized her infant, and at the same time nappeuing to touch the slab with her hand, discovered that it was extremely hot. Further examination proved the truth of the unmarried misereant’s remark. The infaut was not only baked, but was overdone to such an extent as to partially spoil it. The railway company has refused to pay damages, for, although {t is not denied that, by means of the steam radiator, a valuable baby was nearly ruined and was rendered wholly un- fit for any usctul infantile purpose, it was claimed that the mother and uot the company” was at fault. This claim will doubtless be sustained by the courts, although babies in Connecticut are so scarce us to be quoted at an unusually high figure. ‘The incident may ve of use to the Connecticut’ mothers as a warnin! that a steam radiator is not a mantelpiece, an that infants spoiled in baking will not be paid for by railway companies. QuIrs. Fools and their back hair are soon parted.- ‘The worst pill in the box. A pill o’ sham. To keep yourself warmi—Keep the fire coaled. Ittakes a regular corner-dandy to strike a natty-tude. Give us the money of our fathers—our patri- money, s0 to speak. Punch notices that the baldheaded men comb their heads with towels. How does a cow become a landed estate? turning her into a new field. When is a dot most like a human. being? When he is oetween a man and a boy. A Newport man forged a check to pay for some boots, and escaped with his booty. Weatth will never take wings and fly away, if you sprinkle a tittle economy on its tail. All that is required in cleaning the b—t—f—1 a off the roof is contideuce and long finger- nails. The boy choked to death by a hunk of spruce pitch may be said to have suckgumed to the grim messenger. “The Republic,” shrieks a Southern editor, “isa failure. Give us a King.” Which suit will you haye it, General? Alittle girl suffering from the mumps de- clares tha¢ she * feels a3 though a headache had slipped down into her neck.” A.young Iadv in Winneconne, Wis., refused an Oifer of marriage recently on the ground that ber father was not able to support a larger fam- iy “You must cultivate decision of character and Jearn to say ‘No,’ said a father to his son, Soon afterward, when the father said to his son, ‘‘Chop wood,” the boy said “No,” with an emphasis that showed a remembrance of the lesson. _ The butter-head woman is now making a life- size bust of Lady Godiva. Mrs. Godiya’s only wardrobe, according to the pictures we have seen, was her long hnir, and Mrs. Brooks should have no ditliculty in procuring butter of that description. By AMUSEMSED WAVERLYS THE (Late Adelphi. -. ATRE, -Proptietor and Manager. ST NIGH Me THIS SU: The superlative Ameri AKIN and MISS KITTY B e THE DANITES. assisted by Mit. LOUIs ALDRICH, M,C. T. PARS- LOE, Vining Bowers, 3 ora Gu dtiwaite, and a Wonderfully strong ptienomenal enst. ‘To-morrow, Mouday—LYD1.A THOMPSON TROUPE. HAVERLY’S THEATRE, _ (Late Adeiphi.) J. H, HAVERLY .-Propiletor and Manager. OF EE RAN- in Commencing To-Morrow Night, Monday. Feb. 13, and continulng uutll further notice, in Grand Style, Colville’s Folly ‘Company. Compactness and effectiveness, combined with youth, beauty, and artistic excellence, are the sailent features of Manager Samuel Colt ille’s Folly Company. Headed by the Urivaled Vovalist, MLL ME ROS: EAU, and the Inimitable Comedian, SR WILLIAM EDO and succeeding and comprising every member he LYDIA THOMPSON TROUPE, In the New, Original, Glittering Drury Lane Burlesque Pantomime extravaganza of BABES IN THE Woops; Or, Who Killed Cock Robin? Introducing a Selected Company of Fifty Artists, and many Marvelous Attrac ineluding: THE DRUKY Bane SHEE At DONKEY AND Remember (Friday) Exira Gra day Matinee. Matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays, 2:30 SPECIAL NOTICE, THEATRE in the pl Washington Birth- COMING TO HAVERLY’: the Great Dramatic Celebrity ORPHANS, MISS KATE brated Combination, A COURSE OF FOUR LECTURES BY THE REV. J, 0. FLETCHER, ‘To be dellvered on the Northand South Stdes, on “Mount Vesavins and Pompeii,” ate Adeinht), of THE TWO. Beginning in First Presbyterlan Church, corner of In- dlaha-ay. and Twenty-Unst-st.. Feb. 22, und in New England Congregational Chureb and Delaware-plac mitting to elt liad at Hadley Bros'., Janse: son ros’. For the ‘benetlt Assocation. McVICKER’S THEATRE, § the sec) TWO ORPHANS PRODUCED IN ASTYLE OF GRANDEUR NEVER EQUALED IN CHICAGO, 4 BRILLIANT casr GNIFICENT SCENERY, ARTISTIC MOUNTINGS, COMPLETE MISE EN SCENE, COLISEU NOVELTY THEATRE, ‘0. 87 Clark-st. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, Last times of Mr. A.1. Sheldon’s exciting 4-act drama, WEALTH AND CRIME! isted by the fascinating young actress, Miss NELLIE NEORD, Alsu the greai, the wonderful, the unap- 3 le Uekets 20 ci McClure & Co, ‘of the; Women’: and V ‘Christian Every Night. Wein ceday and BA proachable 83 SIEGRIST MIDGETS. MONDAY, Feb. 18, the World's IMzhest Kfekers, The DUVALLI SISTERS Morris and Flelda, The Collerts, McCain Sisters, and the funniest of sy Comedies, OUR INNOCENT Pastor, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, SUNDAY EVENING, FEB. 17,1878, First appearance of HELENA VON RACOWIZA and EMIL VON DER OSTE: DIE SPICNIN Drama in 4 Acts by Victoricn Sardou. ALEX WURSTER, Director, NORTH SIDE TURN-HALLE, GRAND CONCERT TIS AFTERNOON. AT 3 O'CLOCK, CHICAGO ORCHESTRA (40 Pieces), GEORGE LOESCH, Director. BEETHOVEN, SAINT-SAERS, MOZART, MEYERBEER, WEBER, STRAUSS. ‘The best-of music at the lowest of Admission, 15 cents. CHICAGO ATHENXUM, 6S Washington-st. BOOKKEEPING CLASSES, rof. GEO. K. RIX, Teacher. Terms—Sv,00 for 12 lessons. AJEEB? “AJHEHB,” ‘The Wonderful AUTOMATIC CHESS PLAYER, As COMING. prices. 25e, AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY’S THEATRE. QUINLIN & HOOLEY.....-Proprietors and Managers. The World-Renowned Queen of Tragedy, JANAUSCHER! SUPPORTED BY A SUPERIOR COMPANY, Under the management of ELLSLER & CANNING. MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 18, Firet time here of the new and powerfal play, written expressly for Janauschek, by J.V.Bridge- mun, of London, entitled CATHERINES RUSSIA. TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 19, Firat time of the Grand Trageay from the German Iliad, ‘*"tbe Song of the Nibelungen,” entitled BRUNHILD. WEDNESDAY, EVENING, FEB. 20, CHESNEY WOLD. JINATSCHEK |e 4 }aRE BEBE CATHERINE OF RUSSEL. BRUNHAILD. SATURDAY MATINEE, FEB. 23, CATHERINE OF RUSSIA. SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 23, MACBETH. POPULAR PRICES: 50e, Tse and $1.00. No extra charge for Secured Seats. (a7 MATINEE PRICES—25c and 50c._@= NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, ONE WEEK ONLY, COMMENCING _ MONDAY, FEB, 1, THE BRILLIANT EMOTIONAL ACTRESS, MISS WO00 Late Leading Lady at Wallack’s Theatre, New York, SUPPORTED BY LEWES MORRISON AND HIS SELECT DRAMATIC COMPANY, ‘Will present the following Plays, in whieh she 13 vad have few equals and no superiors: 5 Monday and Tuesday Evenings and ‘Wednesday Matince, CAMILLE. XTON ‘and her Cele: ) Wednesday aud Thursday Evenings and Friday Matinee, MISS MUL TON Friday and Saturday Evenings and Saturday Matinee, FROU-FROU. Popular Prices---25, 50, & 75c. Reserved Seats on sale at the Box Ofilce. ALFRED J. KNIGHT’S New Entertainments, Tistorical Impersonations will Farwell Hall March 1, tn the most elegant ir. Knighe will impersonete all Shakespeare's prominent eharacters, and show how they hated. conspired, and gave themselves up to Mr, Knight has been attracting the most pol- ined aadiences in the Ei passion.) {shed and r AUCTION SALES. By WM. A. BUPTERS & CO., Auctlonee! East Randolph-st. THURSDAY TRADE SALE, Dry Geods, Woolens, Clothing, &e., BANKRUPT STOCK SOFT HATS & CAPS, THURSDAT. NING, Feb it 9:0 o'clock, at PI 4 SEWING MACHINES. THE WORLD RENOWNED Price Only Twenty-Five Dollars, THE ATTACHMENT FOR MENDING, FREE SaLESROOM: COR, STATE & MADISON STREETS, AUCTION SALES. By GEO. P. GORE & CO., Cs and 70 Wabash-av. REGULAR TRADE SALE DRY. GOODS, OPENING SALE, 1878 Spring Seasen 1878 Tuesday, Feb. 19, at9:30 a.m. Cassimeres, Jeans, Household Linens, Linen Handkerchiefs, Wosiery, Suspenders, Cutlery, Hats, Linen Collars. Ruchings, Collarettes, Machine Twist, Stationery. Slates. Notions, Pearl Buttons, Dress Shirtsy Whips, Hardware, Of the foregoing we have consignments cov- ering Full Lines, GEO. P. GORE & C0., Auctioneers. CARPETS, SPECIAL TRADE SALE, FRIDAY, MARCH 1. GEO. P, GORE &CO., Auctioneers. * Large Catalogue Auction Sale of Boots, Shoes & Rubbers Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 9:30a.m. prompt. Fine lines of Rochester, Philadelphia, and Newark made gools be soid. Also the Chicaro Shoe Co.’s Men’s and Wom.’s wear m Grain Goat ard Kid, Calf and Buff., fully, guaranteed. The Rochester Standard Rub- bers, warranted first quality. Samples al- ways sold and freely duplicated. Catalogues and gooas ready jor inspection Mondsty. GEO. P. GORE & CO., 6S & 70 Wabash-av. Thursday, Feb. 21, at 9:30 a. m., SPECIAL TRADE SALE OF CROCKERY. A large assortment will be offered, both in open lots and packages. GEO. P. GORE & CO., Auctioneers. Friday, Feb. 22, at 9:30 a. m., BANKRUPT SALE 150 Suites of Parlor Fornitare, Frames of New and Elegant Designs, which will be sold without reserve, ‘The attention of dealers is epecially cailed to this sale. 4 GEO. P. GORE & CO., Auctioneers. “Saturday. Feb, 23, at 9:30 a, m., ULAR SALE OF “REGULS Parlor and Chamber Furniture, Office Desks, Organs, Book Cases, &c. G. P. GORE &CO., Auctioneers. By ELISON, POMEROY & CO., Auctioneers, 7S and SO Randolph-st. CLOTHING, PIECE GOODS AT AUOTION WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB, 20. at 10 o'clock. A Stock of Seasonabie Ready-Made Clothing, Plece Goods, etc, = ELISON, POMEROY & CO., Auctra. * Tuesday's Sale, Feb. 19, at 9:30 A. M,, NEW AND SECOND-HAND FORNITORE, Carpets and General Household Goods, General Mer- dise, ete., etc. ELISON, POMEROY & CO. OUR REGULAR WEEKLY SALE, Friday, Feb. 22, at 9:30 a. m., Large stock Chamber Suits, Parlor Furniture, Lounges, Solas, Easy Chairs, A full line Carpets, General Household Goods, General Merchandise, &¢., &¢. ELISON, POMEROY & CO. uctioncers. By T. E. STACY, AUCTIONEER, 146 Dearborn-st., opposite Tribune, Sales of all kinds of Property~Merchandise, Real Estate, etc.—MADE BY AUCTION. MORTGAGES FORECLOSED, cte. Am having sales almost dally. If you have anything to be sold, please call and make arrangements. Terms satisfactory. T. E. STACY, 146 Dearborn-st. UPT SALE, RINS, Assignee. BANKER Hy order of Be 1 A BY . &CO., Auctioneers. REGULAR SATURDAY SALE. HOUSEHOLD GOODS. SATURDAY MORNING, Fe Stour Auction oom: 174 Ea Auctioncers, 118 & 120 Wabash-av. AUCTION SALE OF BOOTS & SHOES EUERSDAY, Feb. 19. LARGE AUCTION SALE OF DRY GOODS, WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20, Hats and Caps, Carpets. Clothing, Cutlery, Harness, anda general assortment of de- sirable Dry Goods and Notions. Sales at 10 o’clock. CHAS. E, RADDIN & CO., 118 & 120 Wabash-ay. By Wii. MOOREHOUSE & CO., Siand 83 Randolph-at. Next Regular Sale on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 9;30 o'clock a. m., when we shall sell new and desirable Parlor Suits and Upholstered Furniture, Chamber Sets, Bedsteads, Bureaus, Commodes, &t, Chairs, Sofas, Leunges, Rockers, &c, Ofice Desks, Chairs and Stools, Carpets, Stoves, And a large Assortment of General Merchandise, Second-Hand Forniture and Household Goods, &e, (Successors to Bishop & Barnes), Have just received a full line of Gents’, Youths’ & Children’s SOFT & STIFF HATS, 164 State-st.. cor. Monroe. THE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL. State of Illinois, 273 THIRTIETH-ST., Chicago, Between Wabash and Michigan-avs. The Woman's Free Dispensary connected with this institution 1s open every Wednesday and saturday from 11 to 1 o'clock for the gratultous treatment of Diseases of Women, MUSICAL. THE NEW CHICAGO MUSICAL SEMINARY, Corner Madison and Peorts-sts., (over Carson, Pirie & Co.'s) Will be opencd on the ist of March. ‘The method of teaching Is one which 1s new and efm- ple and a complete knowledge of Piano, Harp, Organ, or Guitar ia guaranteed to “be civex fn tweaty' lessons, ‘Yerms very low. Allcommuntcations for the present may be addressed to $7 Hast Washlngton-at.,, oum 3 J. if, MACDONALD, Principal: NOTICE. DIVIDEND NOTICE. Cutcago & ALtox RatLeoap Cour Secretary's Otfice, Chicago, Feb. 14, 15 gy A cash dividend of tatve and one-half per cent on the Preferred and Common stock of this Company has been yable at the office of Messrs. M. K. Jesup, Willtam-st, New York, March 4, 73. 1ethe Transfer Books willbe closed on the 21st Inst., d reopened March 5, 1473. EEC Epona ‘W. SM. LARRABEE, Secretary. DRY Goons, NOTICE THIS! We must have EMPry SHELVES to make room for Spring Goods, consequent}, we have made the tollowing reductions. Read them carefully, and if you haye any intention of purchasing do not fail to get our pricey: 10c Snowflake Dress Goods reduced ta 63:0, 10¢ Cambrics (yard wide) reduced to 5¢, This is cheaper than Calico at 3c, 20c Tycoon Reps reduced to 12c, 30c Colored Mohair Alpacas (double fold) reduced to 18c. 30c Black Alpacas reduced to 12tic, 65c Colored and Black Cashmeres reduced to45c. \ Cr 1 M 1 gol i 50 Sets of Mink Furs to be closed out this week at the ridiculously low prico of $6, $8, SLO, $12, $15 and s20. 100 Ladies’ Cloaks to be closed ont at §2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $8 and $10. 75 dozen Gent’s Uniaundried Shirts to be closed out at 50c, 70c and 850; worth double the money. 50c Turkish Bath Towels reduced to 20c, 10,000 yards Hamburg Edgings and Insor. tions st 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 8,10, 124, 15, 18, 20 and 25c; without doubt the g: bargains ever offered. Genuine Lonsdale Muslin, 83:¢. Genuine Wamsutta Muslin, lle. - Bates’ Quilts reduced to $1.20. Great bargains in Fine Heavy Brown Shee ings at 6,7 and 8c. | New York Siar 984 && 286 West Madison-st. PIANOS, We have in stock a Second-Hand STEINWAY SQUARE PIANO ‘That we have taken in exchange for an Upright, whlch is {a fhe condition and will be sold at a bargala, Iss style two, plain rosewood case. with front round com ners, carved les and lyre.” LYON & HEALY, (General Agents for Steinway Planoa, State and Monroe-stt, LEGAL. ‘NITED STATES OF AMERICA—IN THE CIR- cult Court of the United States for the Northera District, of Nitnols, 1 chancery: John N. Dealion and Jobn W. Brooks ¥a, the Chicazo and Towa Uallroad Company. andalso Charles]. Bowultch, Wm. G, Weld, and C. J. Morrill on thelr intervention, “Notice 13 hereby given that in pursuance of adecree of the sald Court entered of recurd tn said cause on the fourth (1) day of December, A.D. 1877, L Henry W. Blaboa, Master In Chancery of said Court, and as such Master, at the hour of tea (10) o'clock Inthe forenoon of Sat urday, the ninth (9th) day of Maran, 1878, at the froat door of the building now used by safd Court as a Court House, known as the Republic Life Bullding, numbers 157 to 183 LaSalle street, In the City of Chicage, Coun ty of Cook, aud State of Mliuols, will sell a3 directed th sald decree, at publfc auction, tothe highest and Dest Lider tierefor. the mortgiized premlses mea toned In sald decree, and particulurly described as ful lows, to-wit: All the railroad of the sald Ciileago a4 Towa Katiroad Compauy made of to be made, extending from Joliet, tn the County of WI, tu Foreston, {a the County of Ogle. in ald State of Mllnols, tucludlus Tignt of way therefor, road-bed, superstructure, {ron tes, chalrs. splices, ‘bolts, nuts, spikes, all the Isudd and’ depot ‘grounds, statlon-houses, depots, viaducts, bridges, Umber, and materials, and p:operty purchaced for the construction of sald raflroad, all the engines, tenders, cary, and machinery, all kinds of rolling stuck owned by sald Chiteazo and lowa allroad Company 3e- quired for or to be used upon sald rallroad, anu a!] the franchises and rizhts of the sald Chicago and lows Railroad Company relating thereto, ana all property acauired by virtue thereof, including side-tracks,tura- outs, Machine-shops, tools, Implements, and pera Property used on or along the Ine of aatd rafiroad. acd all property acquireu by sald Company since the execu tlon of sald mortgage in and relating to sald rallr toxether with alland singular tne tepements sod aD purtenanees thereto belunging. and the rents, taues, ‘and proiits thereof, and all the ‘estate, right, ttle, and interest whatsoever. ag well In law as ta equity. of $3 Chicago and Towa itatiroad Company of in and tothe same and all other property, rights. and franchises and things whatsoever which were Intended to be coareyet ‘by sald mortgaxe now In th Ws ut under the ca. trol or authority of the Iecelver appointed ta 2 cause, and ali property acquired by purchase or other: yiseby said Recelver auring the pendency of thls sult for use in connection with such Fafiroad, aad whicd shall be at the time of said sale in his powession, ort which he shail be entitled, tozether as one entlre prods erty, and not tn separate parce:s. Cupald bundsand coupons secured ave foreclosed 1n st cause may be recelved by the Master from the par: Chaser in lieu of cash ta part payment of the purchase: money in the manner, to the extent, and upun the terms authorized by the’ sald deerve, and for, the c) rand terms of sale, and, thme and mode of yvis ment, reference ts had to vald decree of record ia cause fn sald Court. i February 4, 137: HENRY W. BISHOP, 4 ‘Master In Chancery of the Circuit Court of the € States for the Norther District of Iittnula. TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFice oF Comrtroniyn oF THe CCRmENCY, Waste INGTOS, Dec. 3, 1677.—Notice ts hereby given to at persons who may have claims against the fnird are ans of Chicagi that the same must be presented toHuntington W. Jackvon, Hecelver, with the lez Proof thereof, within three months from thla date, they will be disallowe JNO. IAT RNOX, ey will be disallowed. ¢ saptrolier of tne Carreaeh- poeeroe 2 Ps . AMERICAN LINE. Philadelphia and Liverpool. ‘The oniy transatlantic tine salling under the Ams can Else. Salling every Thursday from Pbiladelpa and Wednesday from Liverpool. RED STAR LINE, Carrying the Belgian and United States mails. _ Salta every twelve days, alternately from PHILADELPH! and EW YOnR. Dik a Tand ONLY to ANTWERP yaftsin amounts tosult, wo Git.e SONS Gen'l Agents, 119 East Randolph-at, Chicas® W.E. LAWRENCE, Manager. INMAN LINE. United States and Royal Mail Steamerse ‘New York to Liverpool +12 Queeastown, HUKSDAYS AND SATURDAYS. Ps F. C. BROWS. Gen. Western Avent, 42 South Clark ‘Drafts on Great Britain and Ireland for sale. CUNARD MAIL LINE. ‘ Salling three’ times a week toand from British Ports. Lowest Prices. Apply at Company's Office, northwest comer Clark and Randolph-sts., Chicago. E PB, H. DU VERNET. General Western Agen _ WHITE STAR LINE. § Dnlted States and Royal Mafl Steamers between New TRee Sarat ae APE PAceRon 5 ee NCS General Westera Agee Drafts on Great Britain and Ireland, e