Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1878, Page 16

'HE CHICAGO ’L‘RLBUNE: SUNDAY., FEBRUARY 24, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. ANMUSEMENTS. "Gossip About the Simguler : People Who Live There. Extraordinary Accusation Against a Gentleman and Lady. They Are Charged with Destroy- ing the Bind and Body ot a Journalist. San Francisco Physicians Discover a New Malady for the Benefit of Murderers. The Bomantic History of a Painting. The Legislature and the . Stock-Brokers. A CURIOUS CASE. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. 8ax Fraxcisco, Cal., Feb. 17.—A curiouscase hss just come into the courts, which was sprung upon the reading public without any premoni- tory paragragh. Its pecularity and suddenness have made It the seosation of the hour. Henry W. Larkin, one of the former proprie- tors of the Socramento Union, brings action against Andrew J. Marsh and Addie D. Marshto recover $60,000 for injuries to mind and body resulting from the clandestine administering of aconite. Mr. Larkin went into thestate of lupacy inthe possession of Lalf a million of dollars. He emerges therefrom in possession of nothing to speak of. Some of his losses are accounted for by the great depreciationof stock, owing to the cenormous decline in values since the big bo- nanza winter. The Marshes claim that the rest as disappeared owing to his inability to take care of it. Mr. Larkin was the friend of the family, and made Lis bome with them.for many years. When he tell i1}, Mrs. Marsh was his constant and devoted nurse, caring for him assiduously, night and day. When his illness extended into months, he sent to New York for Lis mother and sister. “The great mansion on Howard street,” as the reporters call it, was too smail for a family which incduded two women. The Marshes moved out. Previous to departure, Mrs. Marsh srave to the mother a vial of soothing medicine o be administered whenever the patient be- came restless. As the gentleman is_not noted for a cherubic rentleness of dishusiuon, the doses were given quite frequently by his quicscent mother. 1t isnow claimed that this was acouite, and that the effect of the drug, so administered, is 1o produce aberration of mind. The testimony thus far us been chiefly that of physicians, who ¢ dissimilarity which 10 Jeave the case entirely to their attorneys. There are two circumstances in their favor: Mrs. Marsh appears to _have made a reputation or wide charity and disinterested kinduess of T Jators fight that out with the Mining Superi tendents. Bue they urge that the Legislature has no more right to compel a brokerto file a summary of his bpsiness than to compel & man in any other special line of business to make a state- ment of his customers and his business ¢ requ- “lar intervals. J Much of a broker's busincss is necessarily confidential,—as much ¢o, indced, as 2 vanker’s, —and they reject an innovatiod upon this coufl- dence as something with which the Legislature bas no right to interfere. The proposcd tax on sales is regarded as utter- 1y ruinous to the business. Brokers have not been making fortunes during the past eighteen months. They pay & license of $400 a year,—as much as is pad by the Bank of California. The halcyon 1-per-cent days are gone. The rates of commission now are half of 1 per cent for small transactions, one-fourth of 1 per ceni for large ones, and one-cighth when business is doue through a sccond broker. All the emaller fry of the Big Board are known as brokers’ brokers, and do this latter class of business almost exclusively. The proposed tax of onc-half of 1 per cent, being paid by both parties, woutd amount to 1 per cent. The result would be a general freez- ing-out, a_dcsertion of California _and Pine streets, an immense depreciation in the value of real estate in that vicinity, and the mischief to pay generally. “Fhe evils of the Stock Exchange are, many of thein, necessary evils, and singularly difficult to deal with. The legislators have put the brokers in o pret- ty tight place, but tbe brokers, by refusing the anticipated sop to Cerberus, have put the legis- Iators in an almost equaily uacomfortable situ- atiou. The end is not yct. THE COUNTRY MEMBER. 5 The passage of tle Tuttle bill is diligently fa- vored by the country members. It is the d light of the country member to ‘“crush?” San Francisco. The animosity he bears to our innocent city is as deep as it is relentless, He goes to Sacramento rather for the injury of San Francisco than the beneflt of his own county. He eyesthe city member with what may be called contemptuous envy. He resents cven the cut of his clothes, and loses confidence in his own black broadeloth. Your country member does not consider himself fully arrayed in anything less than broadcloth. His linen is always exceedingly crumply in the bosom, and the cut of his hair looks like the Danbury boy’s,—as if it had been * chewed off by a e, The idea that the city man is tryiug to get the better of bim is as deeply rooted in bis mind as his religious belief or his faith iu his own im- prenable honesty. He introduces a bill for the benefit of bis own county once in a while for a flyer, but his best cfforts are miven to properly subduine the city, and making it feel itself to”be of minor impor- tance to the country. His favorite points of attack are the Board of Education, the Bouard of Supervisors, and the Stock Board. Wit two or three flings at the various im- portant Commissions, he wmanages to pass the winter profitanly and agreeably. A sinzular fatality seems to have attended the Legislature thi ion. No iess than four members have dicd sioce it convened in Decem- ber. Oneof these, Mr. Natban Porter, of Ala- meda, was one_of its brightest lights, u gentle- wman distinguished for fine scholarshiv, for legal acumen, and for rare powers of oratory. We have few gifted speakers lett here where they once abounded. The silver-tonzued Fitch, the last of the. Ciceros, has gone to Arizona, where many devoutly hope he may rematu. Senator Booth, whose speeches, by-the-way, are much pretticr on paper next moruing than when delivered in his somewhat lifeless style, has wone to Washington. After our people once et to Washington we neithier see nor Lear very much of then. “fhe remainder of the galasy have all gone— beart, which, “among her triends, give strong refutation to the moustrous charge. Aleo, it is_suspected that the ifrequent, pro- Jonged, and hearty imbibing ot alcohol may bad more to do with the temporary top- pling of Mr. Larkin's intellect tban the slow and iusidious absorption of aconite. Tither way, it is rather intercsting, foral- though there is 2 woman af the bottom of it as usual,jshe is not at the bottom of it in the usual 1) A y. MASKED EPILEPSY. Another case which excites more than a pass- ing interest on nccount of the parties involved is the trial of ‘Thomas Nice for the shooting of Dis mistress, Emma Meehan. She was a young girl not morcsthan 1S years of age, and had loaded him with kindnesses after the manner of these unhappy doves when they fix their aflections. The murder, at the time,—it is now more than ayear since it_occurred,—was regarded as one singulariy cold-blooded 2nd atrodous. There was even an effort made among the roughs of the vicinity to Iynch him. Ris mother came on from Washington upon receiving news of his arrest, and she bas exer- cised almost superhuman cfforts to save the young man from the gallows. Sne is Adelaide Murdoch, the clocutionist, and has had a hard life even without this way- ward son, who apoears to have been a sharp lhorlg in her side since the very hour of his Dirt] Naturally, the defense rests upon the plea of insavity. The testimony in this line did not. for some time, show the young manto be affficted with anything worse than that very general discase known as ¢ pure cussed- e After it.was solewnly stated in court, ver, that he Lad had jaundice and carache in childhood, the case began to put on a better appearance. wentle gradations they worked him into sits,” gud, at the last adjournment of the Court. be was discovered to be afilicted with “masked epilepsy.” Physicians have 2 happy knack fn getting up these euphonious titles which explain them- seives. Masked epilepsy is a very obscure form of the disease. “The paticnt has ncither the prewmonitory vertizo nor the warning initial cry. Also, the attacks generally take place in the nignt, when the victin is aloue, and he afterwards has no recotlection of the occur- rence. For this reason the cxistence of the dis- case is, sometimes, not discovered ,tor a consid- erable time. . In point of fact, it is not usually discovered untl the sufferer has murdered some one, and is on_trial, with 1 couple of clever luwyers to Dback him. The court-room offers pecaliar facilities for the discovery of symptoms of insani Truth to say, althoush the impression pre- vails that there is pothing the matter with young Nice but natural deoravity, the evidence £ous to show that his grandfather was an in- mate of an insave asylum for fourteen ycars, and that the defenaant’s father was similarly afllicted. Eccentric people with such antecedents should Dot be permitted to wander about with im- punity. There is a strong tide of sympathy with the wretehed mother, but if the epileptic son goes scot tree she will be wise to et him out of San Franasco as expeditiously as possible. THE STOCK-BROKERS. There is a ripple of excitement in the Stock Exchange over whatis known asthe Tuttle bill,—a liberally-sectionized document §;whick plays havoc with the brokerage business as now conducted. Its chief provision isthe appointment of a Commissiouer to one of the fattest places that it is possible for the imagination of a legislator to conjure. Its expressed aim {s the “further- ance of mining interests in California.” But the generally accepted idea is, that it has ‘been put up for the brokers to pat it down. They are a frec-handed sct of men, these brokers. “Such vast amounts of money are constantly vassing through their hande that they lose ap- Dpreciztion of its value, and disburse it with the macnificent progigality of a Crasus. . Hence they are called upon to subseribe to eversthing, from charity to thievery. It is quite an understood affair. that at every Legislasure there shall be a lttle bill whose de- L E\I;m ve secured by the bleeding of the ‘Ineir response to the eall is generally prot cheerful, aad sbundant. This Gime The shemocs have defeated themselves. The brokers refuse to “puugle,” as the lobbyists expressively put it, and threaten, if it passes, to disincor- vorate and remove to the other State where the restrictions arenot so great and the doctrine of live and let live has a lairer show, ‘The princinal points involved in the proposed teislation are the requiring mining companies to make weekly and monthly statements of their, conaition, the work actually being done ou the mines, ete.; compelling Stock Boaras to print daily statements of their transactions, and makisg it incumbent on every broker to fite with the’ Commissioner provided by the State for this purpose a monthly transcript of his Lusinéss, and to pay ooe-balf of 1 percent on all his sales. So far as the mining statcments are con- cerned, the brokers are willing that the legis- where? The parsons are still fichting that out, and each one belicving as hard as ever iu his own doctrine. AN EASY ESCAPE. A young man while on trial for burglary the other day observed the back door of the court- room to be standing open, and, eatching an op- portune moment, leisurely sauntered oat. To the unmitigated disgust of the oolice foree, lie has not leisurely sauntered back, and they have been engaged cver since in a hopeless search for him. . Jack Wallace—such is the enterprising crim- inal's name—has vroven himself before now to be a hard bird to catch. He was one of the par- ties interested in the famous *“Elaine robbery two or three yeurs since. The picture is the work of Toby Rosenthal, a San Francisco boy who has made an enviable reputation in Munich, and who always seuds the best work of his brush to San Francisco for exhibition. It had been purchasea by a Cahfor- pia lady, @ wealthy patron of the arts, with the usual stipulation ou the part of the artist that it should be exhibited belore its trausfer to the gallery. Larze crowds were visiting it every day, and when, one morniny, it was found to have been cut out of the frame and carried off, the con- sternation was general, ‘The wildest s lations were indulged in as tothe causc of its being carried off, very few inclining to the simple and natural idea that the thigves only wanted to sccure a reward. Mr. Jack Wallace was manager-general of the scheme, but was not able to sustain himself for any length of time on what he made out of it. The “Elsine™ picture was the subject of another discussion yet. Thelady who purchased i ¢ good round sum of "§25,000 for her acquisition, and is said to have bid over the original price named by the gentleman for whom it was painted to order, and who claims to have selected the subject and its mauncer of treatment. Not to be outdone, be determined to have an «Elaine,” and gave an order to Tojetti, a local artist, to paint him one from the same text. The dead ateered by the dumb Went upward wath the flood. So we had a second Eiaine exbhibition, but not a sccond Elaine robbery. Flouds of photo- graphs of both the pictures adern the counters to this dnfv, and the discassions as to their rival merits still wage actively, but the run of cus- tomers for * Elaine’ has ceased. ‘Another picture from Toby Rosenthal has or- rived, and is on exiibition at one of the art gal- leries, and crowds are flocking to sce it. Bt they o o Jaugh Instead of bringi them the dinging solemnity which fell” upon every obe Who went to gaze ou the dead ¢ Elaine.” Tt represents a boarding-school alarmed at an early hour of the morning, and shuws some thirty fizures in various stages of toilet. A couple of cats in an atticroom, which are the cause of all the disturbance, are vis- ible to the epectator, but mot to the inmates of the pensionnat. A sturdy maid-of- all-work is attempting to bar the door against the invisible intruders, and the old preceptress, in peignoir and curl-papers, and with the erimp- ing-iron as an_implement of war, superintends the defense. The fleures are all lifelike and natural, and some of them charming. Itfs a pleasanter picture to have around the house than the other, but doesnot contain the element. of greatness’ which may be claimed for *Elaine.” The latter is said to have been painted from a living modgl,—a California girl,—whose head has been turned by the circumstance. * Das Allarmrite Penslonnat looks more like a copy from life, but where wwould Toby Rosenthal get the entree to 8 boarding-school at that hour of the morning, especially with such a_starchy dame of propriety as he has pictured at the head of it4 Apropos of nrtha good story is told of the Director of our School of Design. A young lady contemplating a picture for the walls of the Art Association, submittea it to her in- structor for the usual touches. Every one knows how much has been done by the teacher in those master-picces of brush and pencil which decorate the walls of fond, proua parents. ‘The picture in question was brought by the shy muid to her instructor at the usual intervals for the usual filling in. She managed so discreetly that the unsus- pecting master laid on every daub of paint him- sclf, and the soi<lisant artist did absolutely nothing. i The joke was not cxplained to him until the cormittee at the quarterly exhibition con- demped it roundly as a vers bad plece of work. He laughs because it 18 expected of him, but not heartily. JassanTm. —— A Dream and a HBreach of Promise. Findlay (0.) Courder. In last July, Mr. John A. Pittsford, Superin- tendent of the Mount Blanchard Union Schools, Obio, was married 10 Miss Josie Smith. Miss Lena M. Howard, of Morrow County, com- menced proceedings against him in the Hancock Common-Pleas Court_ for breach of promise of marriage, laying her damares at $10,00. The case came up for trial last week, and, by hisown letters, it was proven that he bad promised to marry her some time before, and that he was engaged o her up to within less than a month of his marriawe with the other girl: that he visited her freqfiently; that he gave sugges- tions as to her Lridai outfit, and examined aud jnspected a part of the same; that Le vowed ften he would marry ner, “God belng Wi ;;l't'e:” and that he finally broke the engazement outhe ground that he had had a dream, in \hich @ notion came futo his brain that it would not be good for bim to marry her; and then in Jess than a month he went oif and marricd thic other girl. His letters further showed that he offercd to purchase the bridal troussesu of the wirl he bad thus cruclly cast off. ‘The jury brought in a verdict of $8,500 damages. THE GAME OF CHESS CHESS DIRECTORY. Cutcaco Crzss CLus—Nos. 63 and 65 Wash- ington street. Cincaco Ciress AssoctaTros—Hansen & Welch's, 150 Dearborn street,. opposite TRIBUNE Building. Chess players meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange), the Sherman House (Basement), and at 425 West Madison street, corner of Elizabeth. All communications intended for this department should be addressed to Tue TrnuXE, and indorsed “*Chess.” TO CORRESPONDENTS. K., city.—It is one of Mr. E. B. Cook’s beau- ties. ‘The key1sBtoR 8. R. M. C., Manchester, Ta.—Please re-examine the problem with your proposed amendment. 0. C. S., city.—Thanks for the favor, which ia neat and good, though we do not feel at Jiberty to make use of it. Suimates are well cnough in their way, and are favorites with fome, but the proper place for their presentation we belicve, especially when upwards of three or four moves, is in a chess magnzine, where various tastes are catered to, and where their appearance does not disupooint the many to gratify a few. Would be pleased to re- ceive some of your direct problems. ENIGMA NO. 117, BY MR, I. DRESSLER. King e b s King at it 2 at K squ n; e at () nccon Tiahop at K R clehth Queen ot Q second Rook at i 13 sixth Pawnat QB third Tawn ag K B second Pown az K fourh Puwn at Q B fourth Pawn at Q I afth White to play and mate in threo moves. PROBLEM NO. 117. Competing Problem in American Chees and Prob- lem Association. Morro—**Field of the Cloth of Gold." Black. 2y i, Giitis) Vi | > White. White to play and mate in four moves. Problem No. 116 requires a White Pawn at 5. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 114. White, 1.BloKBS 2.BoR+ fat . 3 kes P /Bt Ke2mate #,* Correct solution to Problem No, 114 received 11. Ovington, C. A. Terry, C. W. Cla . Benjamin, &. It. Burnbam, E. Barbe, ¥ mun, Johu Glaze, Georzie Haltaday, L. Ji P. Bjornson, N.F.IL, 4. E. city; Miss ‘Grace Howland ntiae, JIl.; R. M. Conzar, L. G.; New Heven, Conn. Manchester, Kt., Turner, 111 SOLUTION TO PROSLEM NO. 115. e, Black, 1..Pro8d L.Kttolis 20t Bach 2. K takes Qdlsch 3 Reto¢hmate *,# Correct solution to Problem No. 115 reccived from W. I1. Ovington, C. A. Perrs, O. K. Benja- min, E. R. Burnham, E. Barbe, C. W. Clark, P, A. Derzman, I F. Paul, G. il Jenkine, J. Glaze, -2nd J. B. 1. U., city; Miss Grace Howlan d Sid Herzbere, Poutiac, 111, ; Keithsburu Ch N. L. G., New {laven. Conn. ; T. D. Huy K., Turner, 1l e Gy den, Eniield, 1T, § SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 114, 1.Ktakes B 2..Any move I Bl 1.2 to K3, then2..Bto QD 4, ete. Otherva- rlations c: *,% Correct solntion to Enigma No. 114 received from W. Il Ovington, C. A. Perrv, O. R. Ben- jamin, E. R. Burnuam, and E. Barbe, city. SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 113, Whtte. Black. QuoKES .. takes Q ‘Prakeslt 2. Any move ates secordingly. Thiere arc many variations to this flao problem, but the above will sutlice. 1..Q to Kt7 will not answer on account of 1..Ktto B3, and2..Krto B2 %, Correct solution to Enigma No. 115 received from W. M. Ovington, C. A. Perry, O. R. Denja- min, E. R. Buroham, and E. Barbe, clty; T. D ayden, Enficld, 1L g NOTES. The regular monthly meeting of the Chess Asso- ciation will be held next Ssturday evening, March 2, at § o'clock. All members arg requested to attend. That marvel of ingenuity, **Ajeeb, ™ the Automa- ton, is on cstibition at the Tivoll, and displays his (or its) powere both at cbess and checkers to the entare satisfaction of all who question its abil- ity. Those who desire to witness the performances of this incomprehensible picce of mechanism should do so at once 83 its stay 15 limited. The following is the core in the Chulienge-Cap Tournament now being played at the Association Rooms in this city: & = Won. Arensberg. 2 Adalr, Crawford. Uedeman; Watson.. Lost. —tncw ast week that Mr. 1t 8hor ita Gogzzin has retired from th therefore canceled. »CHESS IN AUBURY, N. Y. The following zame was played during a recent visit of Capt. Mackenzie to Auburn, N. Y., in which place and the surrounding towns, according to the local papers, quitea **revival™ fs in pro- gress: tourney, and his score BISHOP'S OPEXN! ‘White—Mr. Huntingon. Elold to B7ch taies takes Kt, and wins (2) White bas conducted the game in finc style up fo this point. Instead of checking at Kt 4, however, he should Lave played 26.. G to R 8 ch) winning the Queen, ¢. g 23..Qto1i8 ch Grokt7eh Gto Kuseh, etc. CIESS IN ENGLAND. In the subjoined game, which was played at the 26..KtoB2 takci Kt (best) City of London Chess Club on the 23d September, 1874, Mr. H. E. Bind gave Mr. B. F. Bussy the odds of the Pawn and two moves: {Remove Black's King's Bishop's Pawn.] Diac ird. White—Mr. Bussy. 10 K 4 CEELEEEEE88558 (a) In the opinion of Mr. Potter, who 18 perhaps the finest giver of this description of odds now living, this is the best defensc the second player can adopt; bat it should be followed by P to Q3 Dbefore the Qis brought to K 2, else Whitc can eafely win the Q I8 Pawn. (b) We prefer the Bishop at @ 3. (c) 1t we remember rightly, Mr. he adopted this defense, cont nued Kt 8, (d) The cause of Black's subsequent misfor. :m}gs.” ‘He should, of course, have played tae @ o Kt 2, (¢) An ingenions sttempt to capture the Q by bringing the other Kt to Kt 5. () A clever and unespected blow, which forces e game. ¥ (g) This second encrifice is mecessary to drive the Q away from the protection of her King's 4.— Glasgow Herald. —_————— FRIENDSHIP. What is Friendehip? Tell me truly, For I know not what it meaus, Ir by words outspoken only s Spoken thus, but Fricndship seems: I would call it merely formal, Yet conducive to some end— But how wide the limitation “Fwixt such Friendship and a Friend. What is Friendship? I woald have it Everlusting, cver trae; X would have it firm, unyielding— Yes, uncomprowmising 1003 1 wouid have it sacred, holy— Not the outward, empty sBOWw, But the pure and princely fecling- Love, true Love's mujestic glow, As the Sun the morning waketh, Glorifles the coming day; As the Sun, when leave he wketh, ‘Taketh not himsclf awny; At the close, how brightly shining! What 2 picture now is wrought1 0 what gorgeous tints, detlning Art and Artlst—unforzot! So the heart, with like effulgence, Bezutifies the life of Mun; So the beart, by like indulgence, Fructifies great Nuture's plan. God is everywhere around us— Everywhere we meet His view. Ab, my friends! His is the Friendship, ‘Everlusting—alwaya troe. Josepn D. TURNET. e ————— Sight Restored for Ten Minutes. Elizabethtown (Ky.) News. Mrs. Abbott, who resides within & few miles of Pitt’s Point, in this county, had a singular circumstance to happen to her one day last weck. She has been totally blind for about cight years, but, for about ten minutes on the day in question, she recovered her sight, and was coabled durimg that rief period to see everything about the house,—something she had Dot been able to do for clght vears before. The bouse had recently been mnewly papered and painted, and, when total blindness came over her again, she deseribed accuratcly the various colors used in the paperine and paint- ing. Her son had married since she lost her it, and she had never seen her daughter-in- 1aw, but, in the period she was restored to sight, she saw her, and alterward deseribed her ap- pearance acturately. The momentary cestacy oceasioned by tlie mirasculous restoration to sight was as suddenly disstated by its equally instautaneous loss, and she is now as blind as ever. Stacnton, when with4..E 10 K Rooms. 1. TO RE: 26, R 3. DALE. 4. WATCH-CASE MAN'F'G CO. 56. NT. 7. G. C. COOPER. 8. WM. C. DOW. A.J.BROWN. W. ROBBINS. 9. WRIGHT & TYRRELL. 10. CHARTER OAK LIFE INS. CO. HILD & BLACKMAN. R. W. BRIDGE. R. W. COO. NT. GEO. & L. P. SCOVILLE. R . L. C. EARLE. W. J. BARNEY & CO. . WILLIAM BROSS, M BUREAU TO RENT. . NIGHT EDITOR. 36. CITY EDITOL. Oftices ta the Building to rent by W. C. DOT, Room 8. oo e A e e GOl T0 T CRBAT SAI { Percan. Perdozen. orn. Onclida Community.... 13 $2.10 Tomatoes, Standard, 3-1b cans. Corn, Star Brand. Succotash. . 3-1b Peaches, 3-1 Strawberries. Pea ‘Whortleberrl Cherries. Teaspberrics.... 15 Oneida Community Botzled Frults, per bottle, 40c. Hickson's Cash Grocery Honse, 113 East Madison-st, AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY’S THEATRE. Prices, 25¢.50¢, 75¢,and $1. Matinee Prices, 25 and 50¢. Last Nights of the Groat Tragedienne, JANAUSCHEK A GRAND REPERTOIRE THIS WEEK. MONDAT, Feb, 25, the Grand Tragedy, BRUNEFLD. JANATUSCHEK as.... ~Brughild TUESDAY, Schiller's Grand istorical Play, MARY STUART. JANAUSCHEK us. Mary Stusrt ‘Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Evenings, and Sat- urday Mbtinee by TequcsDe CEIESNEY WOLD. JANAUSCHER fn her great daal char- acters. eesess seresLody Dedlock and Hortense Saturday Night. ' DEBOR AR, JANAUSCHEK as...... Deborah MONDAY, MARCH 4, Mrs. Oates” Comic Opera Company. NEW CHICAGO THEATRE. ONE WEER. commenciug MONDAT, FED. 25, the = celebrated HYERSSISTERS COMBIN ATION And SAM' LUCAS. under the management of the REDPATH LYCEUM BUIEAU, the only Company of CULURRED DRSMATIC ARTISTS in the world, appenr- 1ng in the great woral and musieal draina, OUT OF BONDACE{ This Company has been Justiy styled the COLORED VOKES. 50 AUXILIARIES. 65O Inciadinz an extra chorus of 25 people_and an entlre Military Cumpany, the CHICAGO RIFLES. ~New Scenery. paluted éxpressly Tor this plece. Flantation Mclodics, Plan‘ation Scenes, &c. Matinees Wedaesday and Popular prices, 25¢, 50c and 75¢- DRANATIC READINGS. At the request of many friends, MISS MAUD EENNICOTT Wil give o reading at Flood's Huil, Hyde Park, Thurs- day evening, Feb. 28, Tickets to be had at Ar. Don's druy store. RUSSELL’S ACADEMY OF DANCING, Cor. Wuod and Lake-sts. Third Term Comeences Mareh 2 and 5. Saturday. STAR LECTURE COURSE. McCORMICK HALL. ITAKE GREAT PLEASURE In announelng that. after {nfinte Iabor 44 with greal expense, I have cd the mnost extaordinary arrzy of LITERAL TIONARY, and HISTRIONIC talent e grouped fn'a single combinadon, or nngcnflng together Shone oceaston In America-tnchuding 1 _the ensémble of great clocutlonary arlats presenced, every uaie ot Tecognized natfonal fame—al assisting (o 8 grand NG “ TOURNAMENT, In which the patrons of the STAR COURSE and the icencral public will enjoy the novel pleasure of hearinz, duringz a sinzl eve 1a close contrast, and fmmedt ate succeasion.all of the sreatess leading living readers render thelr chofcest selectious In thelr Inimitable and pecullar styles, contributing to produce the most unque, enfoyable,and britliant literary entertainment eyer Dro- The artiats secured to filustrate jected in this country. ihe clocutionary and histriontc genfus of our cra fa- clude the great Shakapearean interpreter, ELLA W. F E LT’ (Her first appearance in Chicago.) SLAYTON, Chicago's fatorite~the charming emational und humorous veader. COUTHOUI, ‘mantle, Jessie The areatest Uzing elocutionist and most pelished and VANDENHOFF, & ameree o e [IURDOCH, Together forminz such a group of artlsts as has never before been assembled at onc entertainment i Amer- ica. The Iteading Tournament will occur in BfcCor- wick 1iull on TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, The sale of scats beginning at Root & Sons, 156 State-rL. FIIDAY morning, sarch 3. Xotwithstanding the great expenae of bringing cther in one eotertainiuent these several yreat urtlsis, the rice of tickets will be no more thian has hitherto been charged to hear any 0n2 of them, reserved seats belng sold without extru chiarge at 500 INCLUDING 750 RESEVRED SEAT! And One Dollar. _Reseryed Seats cost no more than STANDING ROOM. And all available space will be taken by those desiring 10 be present to witness the TOURNAMENT, 5o those intending to attend should arrange to secure the best seats by Uelug irst n lize. . GEO. B. CAKPENTER, Mansger. FARWELL HALL. ESTHER, “The Beautifnl Queen,” Will be glven at Farwell Jall, MARCIH G, 7 AND S, Under the auspices of the WASHINGTONTIAN HOME ‘aud for the benellt of the CITIZENS' LEAGUEL. Madame SALVOTTI, whoee wonderful volee thrilicd every one at the late Gllmore Coucerts, [n the role of QUEEN ESTHER. ETTE, of the Tiching. Rornard PROUD GELISH. Mr. CHAS. S HAMAN. M. [IOMER STONE Grand_Triumphal Marelies and Cligruses of Powerful Chorus of o) Volees. Magniicent Oriental Costumes. Com- plete Dramazte Actlon. The pleasing and popular reader Mina G. DAIRTY, The airt gentus on gohom has Jutien Cusnian's 3 hls pluce has been in preparation for some weeks un- der the direetion of J. A, DEWITT, who has given it successfully mazy timies, and 0o palns will be sjared to pac it on thie stage complete 1n detall and ona’scalc of grandeur that will make it the event of the week. Admission, including Reserved Seat - - 50¢ COLISEGM NOVELTY THEATRE. The only Vaudevllie Thentre In the e, No. 87 Clark-st. This (Sun- hoble day) Afteraoon and Evenlng the laug omedy in oneact, entliled C QUR INNCCENT PASTOR. Success established of the HIGII K1CKERS. the DUVALLI SISTERS. Last appearance of the Liliputian Acrobats, SIEGRIST CEILDREN. Also the King of Baajolsts, TOMMY TURNER. Popular prices of admisslon. Commeneinz Moaday—G: . BA sensational drama eotitled SRELETON HAND. RORTH SIDE TURN-HALLE. GRAND CONCERT THIS AFTERNOON. AT 3 O°CLOCK, BY THE CHICAGO ORCHESTRA (40 Picces), GEORGE LOESCII, Director. . BARKMAN in his fiEETHOVEN. SAINT-SAENS, MOZART, MEYERBEER, EBER, STRAUSS. The best of music at the lowest of prices. Adwmission, 15 cents. MCVICKER’S THEATRE, GRAND AND TRIUMPHAST SUCCESS. Seats can be secured ten days fn advance. Two Orphans, MAT The Great Drama As produced ot this Theatre it has EQUALED! NEVER BEE 3Rl 2 NEVER WILL RE SURPASSED! Matinee Prices—Only 50 and 25 cznts. HAVERLY'S THEATRE. (Late Adelphl.) J. 0. HAVERLY... Proprictor and Manager. TH UNDAY NIGHT, REMEMBER Colville’s Folly Company, Headed by the Urivaled Vocallst. \'LLE EME ROSEAT and the Intmitable Comedian, ME.WILLIAM EDOUIN, 1 every member of the in_the New, Orl Extray. Klilled pr; E_WOOD; Or. Who 2 a Seiected Company of Fifty ous Attractions, (ncluding 3 of BABES I Cock Robin? Introduct Artlsts, and many Marv E DRURY LA HANICAL, DONKEY AND i3 QUINAD Matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, .SUNDAY EVENING, FEB. 24,1878, Der Verlisbte Lews! DRAMA IN 5 ACTS. BY FRANCOIS PONSARD. ALEXANDER WURSTER, Dircctor, FARWELL HALL, Dorcas Society Benefit, Friday Evening, March 1, upon which occaston ALFRED J.KNIGHT Wil present his New and Elegant Entertalnment, **lilstorical Costurie Impersonat ons,” which liay bee produced above sixty times this season in the East, ‘with unprecedented success. liegerved Seats 50c, ut 152 Statest. Admbsston, WilI commence ¢ 8 o'clock, OFFICE CHICAGO NATATORIURL Michigan-av., corner of Jackson-st. Weare Inrecelpt of a Inrge number of inquirfes re- garaing the next Swimming Season of our estaolish- ment, and In reply would state that the books for sea- son subscriptions will be opened snd our summer clr- cular be ready for distribution on and after the 20th of this month, and to those now subscribing we olfer the Venefit of our large gymnasium without extra charge 11ll toe opening of the swimming-season. HERSHEY HIUSIC BALL. Hershey Popular Concert Mouday Evening, Feb. 25. ADMISSION, 25 CEN}'S. HERSHEY HALL, 83 and 85 Madison-st. THGRSDAY EVENING, PEB, 23, COMPLETE EXPOSE OF SPIRITUALISN. All the **inanifestations™ given and explaiued fn full nght. Dr. Witheford. the eonverted * medium. " Seats, 26¢ and S0¢. N*CORMICK HALL. . FUN! PROF, CARPENTER FUN! In his wonderfal and nmuilng Scenes {n Mesmerlsm and Psycliology, Monday Nizght, Fen, 25. Admisston, =5 aud 50c. _Commence at 8 o'clock. A LADY . that would wish to adopt the stace can hear. of 3 00d opportunity 1o travel to support a star; must : o iady_of ecducation and reunement. ~ Address I B 21’ Elils-as. All communieations strictly conti- ential. “Jeanie JowelL” SEWING MACHINES. Price Only Twenty-Five Dollars, THE ATTACHMAEAT FOR BAENDING, FRE SBALESROONM: (OB, STATE & MADISON STRERTS, AUCTION SALES. By GEO. P. GORE & CO,, 68 and 70 Wabasu-av. REGULAR TRADE SALE DRY GOODS, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 9:30 a. m. §9999§59§¢9 HIGHLY IMPORTANT CONSIGN- MENTS, which will particularly inter- est Country and City Merchants. bhbbbbbbbb SPECIAL. Fifty Cases Hosiery. GEO. P. GORE &CO0., Auctioncera. CARPETS. SPECIAL TRADE SALE, TRIDAY, MARCH 1, 10 A. M. FEFTY PIECES Single and Double Chain Ingrains. TEN PIECES Wool and Worsteds. FEIFETY PIECES Higgins’ Tapestries, Superb Designs. FEFTY PIECES Floor Oil Cloths, Spring Patterns. ONE HUNDRED PIECES Table Oil Cloths, Assorted. GEO. P. GORE & CU.. Auctloneers. OPENTNG SPRING SALE OF BOOTS & SHOES . AT ATCTION, Wednesday, Feb, 27, at 9:30 a, m, We shall offer & fall line of fresh. desirable oods on ahove date, facluding Philadelphiz, Roclioster, Utica, and New York goods in new styles and larce variety, snd also full lines of Eastern makes. Sampiés will be sold in every lot, and will be duplicated freely if desired. Also & linc of Rubbers &t large discounts and creat va- riety. GEO. I. GORE & CO, 65 and 70 Wabash Thursday, Feb. 28, at 9:303. m., REGULAR TRADE SALE OF CROCKERY, Both in Open Lots and in Packages. G. P. GORE & Auctioncers. AUCTION SALEs. By WM. A. BUFTERS Y uctlosers, T B x’:‘n%?nrfn 90, No. 9 Eam;gresx-st. MORTGAGE SALE Household Fnrmgre, Carmets, &, TUESDAY, March 26, at 10 oiloeka, . At Dwelltng No. 9 East Congress- ‘entire conténts of fouricen :fifl'&;&fim sell the S e seom, e Ml Pl By order of the Murl"zfi:g,"" Glsaware, &c. g WL. A. BUTTEDS & C0., Auctioneery, BANKRUPT SALE, OVER $6,000 WORTH (P FINE, MEDIUM, AND comox Furniture, ONFINISHED FURNIR Manufacturers’ Materials, AT ATUCTION. § e oAt THURSDAY, Feb. 23, at 10 o'clock a.m., A AUCTION ROOMS, 153 East Fandolph st 3y ordors 7K. Je ignee, we will sell without reserve, for cash, the entlire Stock of A. L. Crovl constewitic of Fine. Seaiarm a7 Common oo Sets. Parlor Sults I Fioe Plush, Hair Clotl, a1 Terry, L. Cenure Tablea. Lureans Silebourds, Wasnstanis Trecs: Bedsieads, Looking-Gissies e, o~ L Abo. Uniuisbed Goods, Purlor Sulta, Clalrs st in the white, Sofa, Chalr, and Lot “Also, Manufacterers’ Materials. LBk Cfes Pl Castérs, Handles. Springr, Moss, lalr, T Tazcs, Pl Terzy. Cordellne, HAlr CGoth, Gimp. Wrebuizg, Tiokis Buriaps, together with many othier 00ds, WAL &, BUTIERS & CU.. Auctioneera By T. E. STACY, ATUCTIONEER, 146 Dearborn-st., opposite Tribune, Sales of all kfnds of property, real estate. &e., mude bf auctlo: Mortzages foreciosed and property tak-a cliarse of. Parties wishin; any business done In oy lg shall have satisfactlon or 5o charze. References qisen. "+ E. STACY, 145 Dearbora-se. TUESDAY, FEB. 26, AT 19 4. M., AT 307, 3072 AND 339 RORTH WELLEST TEree frame houses and ground lease. Terms of lase atsale. Houses can be moved if desired. T. E. STACY, 148 Dearborn-at, THI DAY, FEB. 23, AT 10 A. M., At Wrenw's Stabls, No. 196 Wastingis 15 Fine Horses, 4 Bugides, 2 Express Wagens, Hur- nesscs, Whins, &¢. Fine chiance. Salesgre. T, £ STAC1, 10 Dearsornst. RECEIVER’S SALE, Seturday, March 2, at 9:30 a. m., Parlor Suits, Chamber Suits, Office Desks, Pier Mirrors, And a general assortment of HOUSEHOLD GOODS. GEO. P. GORE & €O., Auctioneers. CHAS. E. RADDIN & CO., GENERAL AUCTIONEERS, 18 & 120 WABASH-AV. Particular attention given to the outside sale of (eneral Merchandise, Real Estate, &e. CHAS.E.RADDIN & CO., Auctioneers, 118 &120 Wabash-av. Shall sell at Auction TUESDAY, Feb. 26, 300 CASES ASSORTED BOOTS & SHOES, 500 Cages Assorted Rubbers, 50 Lots Chicago-made Shocs. Also, balance stock of dealer ciosing busi- ness. Also, small Bankrupt Stock. WEDNLSDAY, FEDB. 27, LARGE SALE OF DRY GOODS, Cloths and Cassimeres, Clothing, Hats and Caps, Carpsts, Embroideries, Umbrellas, Tranks, Showcases, Pipes, Notions, Etc., Etc. CIAS. E. RADDIN & CO., Auctioneers. By WM. MOOREHOUSE & CO., 81and 85 Randolph-st. AT OUR NEXT REGULAR SALE ON Wednesday, Feb. 27, at half-past 9 o'clock a.m., We shall sell a larger variety of New Farnitare than usual. An immecnse stock of Parlor Suits, Chamber Sefs, And all kinds of Household Furnitare, must be ““OFFICE FURNITURE, Carpets, Stoves, and General Merchandise. _Also, ‘a latge ot of sccond-hand Furnitare and Housc- hold Goods. On Thursday, Feb. 28, at 10 o'clock a. m., ON THE PREMISES, 125 Blue Island-av., We ehall gell tho entire stock of a dealer. Farnl- ture. Carpets, and General Merchandise. Sale positive. . WM. MOOREMNOUSE & CO., Anct'rs. By ELISON, POMEROY & CO,, Auctioneers, 78 and 80 Randolph-st. Tuesday’s Sale, Feb. 26,at 9} a. m. GENERAL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Carpets, Stoves, General Merchandise, &e. EL POMEROY & CO., Auctioncers. MONDAY, MARCH 4, AT 10 A, X, At 156 West Washington-st. ‘Forses, Wagons, Safe, Truck. Scales, Offce Faral- ture, &c. Sale peremptors . . E- STACY, 140 Dearborn-si. BANKLRUPTCY SALE. HARDWARE STOCK Belonglog to the estate of MANS LINDERMANY, 180 NORTI CLAREK-ST. Heating Stoyes. $235; Cooking Stoves and “"fi} 1e4; Shelf Goodsand Tin Ware, £2.00; stove Flr- tures, 33167 ‘Tools, $150; Horse and Wagon, §100. To- . $3.375. Bids for the purchase of the shove propertyais wholc or in Iots 23 above specified will be receiredd the undersizned untfl Tuesday, March 5. ac 10 ol &.m., at which time tne bids wiil be operied st thestore 1n the presence of the bdders. The acceptance of any bid sublect to the the Court. BRADFORD HAY Chicago, Feb. 23, 1873. Proyisfon: By H. FRIEDMAN & CO, G. W. BECKFURD, Auctioneer. 8398 COTTAGE GROVE:AV. Lotween Thirtieth and Th|r:‘yx-fln:-fl:.,ui;nl’_‘igfi;{)é:‘: Feb. 26, at 10 o'cluck, an entire stocl Corlia, " Also i lxtures, Horse, Wagon, nad Hanies. GROCERIES COME T0 THE GREAT SALE GROCERIES. Extra_Syrup, Joblot, per kec. Best New Orleans Molasses, per n s g g F 3 g & Baeli! Dried Whortleberrl Soap, German Mottle e “;L“acfi:n ! €0 ba pird i d. all Kinds, 3 Ibs for 8 Baking Powder, per Ib... Bo s Dowder, & fbs fo -S\. e Lard, 20-1b palla fo Crackers. Soda. pe Crackers. Soda, best, Crackers. Oatmeal of Graham, per ib. Ginger Shaps, best, per .. Faney Mixed Kennedy's, per i Hickson's Gash Grocery o Tl == ) 113 East Madison-st. NOTICE. " DIVIDEND NOTICE. CR1Cago & ALTON KAILROAD COXPAST: Secretary's Otiice, Ghlcago, Feb. 1, 1575 B 126 h dividend of thfec and one-baif per ceatod | e I g e ‘atthe oiceof Mesirs. . £ J¢ Poon e Qa5 Willamesc, New York, dareah 873, o b Transter Books will be closed on the 215t 2% 5, 1878, snd reopencd March 5 IS\ b npe secreiat. ELOCUTIONIST. = rrocomover. WALTER C. LYMAN, ELOCUTIONIST, 284 MICHIGAIT: -AV. i Send for circalar, Those wishing to make 3pp05" ments for lessons please address per mall THOTOGRARIY: _ o OUR REGULAR SALE, Friday, March 1, at 9:30 a, m., NEW PARLOR SUITS, NEW CHAMBER SETS, LOUNGES, EASY CHAIRS, AND GENERAL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. Carpets, Desks, General Merchandise, Plated Warse, &ec., &c. ELISON, POMEROY & CO. BANKRUPT SALE. 8,000 Butter Tubs and Firkins At half the original cost. 181 South Water-st. D. HANCCCK, Asziguee. Photographer Cabineis, $6:__CUis 82 : 7 “Jeanie Jewell SCALES. 529 FAIRBAHNKSE . SCALEY oF ALL KX.‘H%E 840 FAIRBANKS.MORSE S 111 & 118 Lake St C42% Becarefultobuy oaly theG=asisk e ; R