Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1878, Page 8

fHE CHICAGO TfiBUNE SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES . THE CITY. . GENERAL NEWS. Tlis Excellency W. E. Smith, Governor ot Wis- conein, is at the Palmer Honse. Tne notice in bankruptcy items of Thursday morning, Feb, 21, should ave been A. O. Danks instead of A. A. Banks. . John Jarmecke, 14 years of age, residing at N 150 North Centre avenue, climbed upon passing wagon yesterday, and accidently falling off broke his left leg below the xnee. Panl Schindler, 62 years of age, died suddenly 125t cvening at No, 303 Twenty-second strect. He was a single man, and a very hard drinser. Chron- ic alcobolism fa the supposed cause. Lieot.-Gen. P. I. Sherfdan returned to this city last evening from a four-weeks' trip throngh the Indian Territory, where he has been visiting 1osts and Jooking at tne *‘lay of the Jand.™ The temperature yesterday, as obgerved by Ma- nasse, optician, No. 88 Madison street (TRIBUNE * Building), wae at Ba. m.. 37 degrees: 10a. m., o8 2 m.,40; 3 p. m., 42: 8p. m., 39, Baroweter at82. m., 20.00: 8 p. m., 30.02. The debris on the Lombard Block, adjoining the Adelphi, is being removed preparatory to re- building, and the rookeries next to the Journal Building will soon be rerlnced Dy a fine structure, 10 be ¢rected by Mr. B. J. Chambers. Coroner Dietzsch yesterday held un fnguest upon Davig Dougherty, 54 years of age, who accidental- 1y fell into u alip of the South Branch uf the nver ncar the Stock-Yards and was drowned. He was cmployed au storckeeper by Brennock & Co, The body of the burglar (Chris. Reillinger, alias Reilly, alias Klein), who was shot by Mr. Jamee Farsan, Is being carefully dissected at Rush 2dedical College, for the benefit of science. This is the only good use the deceased conld ever come to. There»were 3,309 volumes borrowed from the “Pablic leng’ yesterday, which is the largest number ever drawn oat in one day since its open- ing. Thixis a pretty zood ghowing for an mstita- tion which some of our ** Solons * Wished recently <0 abolish. Dr. B. W. Boyd lectured before the Philo- £ophical Society last evening to a large and -ap- precistive andicnce, taking as his subject, ** Brain and Mind.™ The next lecture in the course will be by Gen. I. X. Stiles. on ‘*The Origin of the Iclief fn the Tmmortality of the Soul.” Dr. Brown-Sequard completed the course of lec- tures 1ast night which he has been giving at the First Methodist Church, under the auspices of the Medical Press Association. liis topic was ** Paral- {'SXS and convulsions, as effects of disease of the ase of the brain.” The attendance was large. While James Latbrop, keeper of a livery on the corner of Twenty-sixth and State streets, and 2 friend were ritting in a busgy at the corner of Madison and State streets sesterday afternoon, car No. 66 of the Cottage Grove line ran into them, ind threw them both ont. severely injuring them, Che horse dashed off, and before it was captured ibe buggy was smashed into atoms. The West-End Temperance Reform Club, a Red-Ribbon orzanization, was ushered into exist- =nce last evening at No. 1060 West Madison street, ith just ninety-nine new members. A constitu- tion and by-laws were acopted similar to those of the Woman's Temperance Union, and Dr. D). A. Stitt was elected Presigent; R. E. Foss Recording Secretary, and M. C. Clancy Financial Secretary. Capt. Hugh Graham, a resident of Sturgeon Bay, Wis,, and owner of the schooners Graham Bros. 1na Luther Grahum, dica euddenly Thursday night inst at No. 11 Centre avenue from the effects of a surmeal operation performed on one of his legs. He was well known ‘among the lase marine men, fe Jeaves a wife and one child, and the former 100k the body to Sturgeon Lay Friday evening, where it will be buried. Capt. Robert Pettizrew, of the Lake View police, dicd enddenly ‘yesteiday afternoon on the ride ranze. 1le had Just fired three shots in & match Detween reveral members of the Lake View Rille Club, when his head suddenty dropped forward, gnd be gargled out the words, ** Boys, that is my Jast shot, ™ arooped forward and died’ almost in- Fuantly. ' Deceased was about 45 years of age, and leaves'a wife and. four ebiidren residing in thé vil- ze. The_regular Saturday nicht public temperanco meeting of the Garder City Division of the Sons of Temperance was Leld in the little hall at No. 213 Weat Madison strect lost evening. These mec inge appear to be srowing in interest and_popular— ty, and an increased attendance 1s visidble from week to week. Last pight the hall was filcd. Prof. McFarland occupied the chair. Prof. Lald- ‘Win made a etirring speech 1n the cause of temper- ance. He was followed by severa] speakers, in- cluding Florence McCarthy. The reguler monthly meeting of the Coal Ex- chiznze wae held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Association, in the Merctants' Building, corner of LasSalie and Washington streets. Vice- President A V. Hartwell occupied the chair, and Sceretary Joseph Kirkland was present. The Di- rectors held a private meeling in the ante-room gxcriou 10 the general agsembly. The first thing n order was o eort of informal discossion regard- ing the rooms to he occupied by the Exchange dur- ing the coming year, and that proved to be the jast thing in order, as the Board adjournca immedinte- 1y aiter the question had been setuled. Mr. 3L M. Graves, one of the members of the Huomape Society. met with an accident the other day and is now confined to his bed. A cripplea, conenmptive horse, which he had shot in_order to Put it out of migery, fell toward him, and, to es- cape being knocked down, Mr. Graves jumped. and, in 8o doing, fell and fractured the small boné of his right lez. * He is well advanced in years, and the injury 18 very painful. Mr. Graves is the one whooririnated the plan of putting water troushs in the etreet for horses, and he has done.much to make the hife of dumb beasts less of a burden, \hi':lllgh his ncte have seldom come to the ears of the public. She isa euperior womsn; a woman of great strength of mind; a women who does her duty by Ter husband, her children, her fricnds, and socie- 1y. disagreeable though it may be for—them. The other evening her male offsprinz, aged 9, followed Jer silently with his eyes as sne breczed round the Toom, displaying as much excentive ability as a lively morthesster, aud when they had seated themselves at the tea-table said with wonder in Lis “‘Ma. could you be my mother-m-law Xo, Willam, my son,” stie re SI'm £led, ™ he said, abseptly, and with a sigh of relief. She rose, and-—but et us draw a veil over the sad scene which followed. The County Board of Education met yesterday mormin, President Gardner in the chalr.” A reeo. lution was adoptedjinstructing the Principal of the Normal Scbool to report to the Board before the last Saturday of cach month the attendance of 1cachers and pay-roll, and also 10 purchase needed subplies. aud 10 report quarterly all expenditnres for the same, and the receiots for tuition and room rent. The pas-roll and several bills. all agoro- pating S1, were ordered to be pad. ~The Finance Committee was directed to report at the next meetlug the amount of appropriation for the present echool year, and the expenditurcs thus far. The Bioard then adjourmed untl the last Saturdsy areb. The German Young Men's Christian Association ave opened ¢ reading-room in Uhlichis Block, corner of Clark street. The hours, except Sun- day, will be from 7:30 a. m. until 10 p. m. The object is to provide a pleasant place for young men to spend therr leienre evenings. A prayer meet- ane will be held every Thureday evening, and from 1une to time there will be lectures and voeal and instrumentul exercises. Chess and checkers will be aliowed. The inangural exercises will take place to-morrow cvening, and all are cordially in- ited to be present. Those who wish to assist in the good work by donating books can send them to the room, 20 Ublich's Block, or leave]their address with E. A Saalfield, No. 111 State street. An adjourned meeting of the men intercsted in the organization of a Soldiers' Colony was held ot the Weet End Opera-House, on Madison street, mear Throop, Jast nizht, E. R. Smith presiding. It was announced at the’ previous meetins that a permanent organization woula be effected Jast crening, but for some_ reason this was not accom- plished. Col. Pratt addresscd the asscmbly on the subject, ‘and a number of new names were added 1o the Iist, who propose to give Col. Pratt power of attorney to locate their land. The Chair an- nounced that over forty men had already joined the Association.’ The meeting then adjourned to Wednesday evening, when it ¥ proposed to form an orzamzationand transact such other business as way come up. Judge Otls, Receiver of the State Savinea Tnsti- tution, will commence the payment of that loni- promised 10 per cent dividend ‘next Friday or Sat- urday, —probably the former day, and certainly the Intter. Among the nesets bequeathed by Sidney Ayers, Exq.. [ate manaer of the Lee-liive Bank, L the creaitors Is quite 3 valuable library of about 330 volumes, consisting of works on finanee, social 21d political economy, iction, etc. Rtecerver Ward Das it in cliurge, and Wil sell'i 1o the hiphext bid- derforcah. & the Third National Bank. Jte- Sies rostkson Is busy making oat the new ectied- ek e 10 e cent diridend, and ha the 1videna of 45 per cent. i€ oth Lanks there was nothing now sesteny, I0ITENt The Facalty and Exec: ot ton lavehada meefifxr_v.u:gf Egfi,fi%": of Whea- Dressive of their views regading he sroofort S5 Iween President Blanchant ana. Fra aich,o¢" Tliey eay ~“That the Conncil, being ex parice cor Y vrerogative in pretending g tre sary wwas wholly Incompe. au) cud misled by partal, exnageruted, sng a0 festimony, and therefore its judrments, bescy thereon, are utterly without vaines that koms of iis_ conclusiony show a degree of Brejudice iy deetrose their force. ~ They trast that the wra b men and Masons will only result in informing puc. areds of young men aud women. waom they hope "-‘: ,-well’ fll"m'. fi' the l'-wm’nzhnen of the mcmgg e ut he college, and of the e ¥ presence sud favor.™ e evidence of God's The West-Town collections last week the followma: Home Nationsl Bank, 3. gt oo dscob Beidler & Brothier. $2 U38: the Kirby' Car- venter Company, $1.670;_Philo' Carpenter (per sonal and real eelate). 'SG,403; Crane Brothers Mavufacturing Company, “$7,134; the Ludingion- 0 Welis Company, £1,0727 B. S. ' Aunderson Com- pany, $535; C. J. Hull (reab estate), SL:II:';. Totai colleciions for the week ending Saturday just, 000. Collector Hoffman tarned over 33,0003 10 the county yesterduy and $13,000 to e city. The following smounts had been collected | 672; paid over, $53.502; balance on hand, up to yesterday mornine: _ State and county, $53, 0; $121,753; paid, 121,43 balance_on hand, _S318; town, £0,153:" paid over, $2,151; balance on _hand, $4,002; Park, 10,522 paid over, $10,522; making a total collected of $192.102. ‘The collections yesterday were 34, 000, but they were not apportioned, mak- ing a total collected in the West Town, to date, of $200,000. The people on the West Side pay their tazes cheerfully, becanse the assessment has been 2 fair aud impartisl one, ond the result is very lit- tle grumbling. Collector Hoftman hopes to have in nearly all the amount of personsl taxes before be turna over the books to the County Treasurer. Aman named William Sherman was penned in the Armory: Friday night, who claimed to have worked for Georpe A. Eiton, the city undertaker. He mede the statement that Eltondid a thriving Dusiness seiling bodies, and that he often kept them n_month, ~ walting for an opportunity end a favorable offer. In order to et ai the truth of this etatement, 8 TRiBUNE reporter called nupon Elton at his place of business, No. 575 State street. Mr. Elton denied in toto everything charged, Sherman had worked for him just thirteen and g half days, and had come to him dead-broke. Ie rave nim clottcs, 80 s to be able to go aboat, but, at the end of the period mentloned, Sherman sot on a_ tear snd he had to discharg him. He ot into several fights durinz Friday, and he had to have him arrested finally. As to eclling bodies, Mr. Elton denicd that, since he only delivered stiffs to the medical colleges on the order of the Coroner. He sometimes kept bodies 2 month or two mouths, in order that he might search ont their friends, if they bad any. In such casea the bodics were either Kept frozen or em- balmed and kept in his barn. Whenevera corpse Iooked respectable, or there were letters on the person or in the eflects of the deceased giving the Aightest cloe to relatives or friends, he generally preserved them, so that If friends claimed them They would ret the body in 3n undecomposed con- aition. So far as traflicking in bodies was con- cerned, Mr. Elton denied it most emphatically. A beautiful young girl on_Ashland avenue, who ownsa disacrceable father of forty-Gorgon power, read about the presence of mind of the luver of Oliver Cromwell’s daughter, who, when the_old man (0. C.) found him kneeling at the feet of Mies C., pretended that he was pleading with her to use lier influence to have the red-headed servant-girl tske him for better or for worse. She treasured this fact up in her memory for use on some oppor- tune occasion, which did not fail soon to present itself. It was on Friday night; the old man had sctont totake the train for Laporte, Ind.: his would-be gon-fn-law had eet out to sec his adored one; and his would-be son-in-law's adored one had set herself out to entertain him. 1t was her theory that if, frinstance, the servant-girl came into the room without coughing (and any servant- gl having 2 young man of her own would cough), and found her Adolphus squeczing Ter hand tropieally, £he would strike an attitude and say, sternly, */Mr. Perkins, you presume on my pood nature.—for shame, sir'" On Friday evening no servant-girl appeared, and they got to discussing their hife when they were married with much vigor, and, after nearly partiug s encmies over a dispute as to whether the best gpare bedroom in the houre at Hyde Park they would build when they’got rich should he carpéted with velvet or moquette, ot 50 deeply interested that the time slipned away, and the girl also elipped nway, — away on to the kuee of her own Adolphus, which was the wost nataral thing in the world for her to do, of course. Meanwifle, the old mun bad missed his train, and bad come back mad as & whole coop of wet hens. and when he reached the honse he was earprised, not to say disgusted, to see the parlor lights turned half- way down in that manner so sugzestive and as vating to frasciole and suspicious pareuts of fovely daughters. Stealing noisclessly into the house, he went round to the back-parlor and watched them, s if they weze a gmity couple. His dauguter w8 resting as comfortably but rather more heavily than a snowflake upon her lover's knee, and had her two arms round her lover's neck, and they were exchanging douole lockstitel kisscs with the rapidity of a sewiag-machine. **Wretched Aman- dat™ fnally yelled the infuriatea sire, after he bhad watched them for about eeven minutes, ““and thou, vile dorg—" s daugheer bounued from her coige of ‘vantage s if she hind been shot from a gun, but her agitation was only temporary, and in auother moment she #t00d cdlmly confronting hier angry site, while her stlver-clear voice cried to her lover. . ** Unhand me, sir! Could wmiy father but gec us. what would he say? You should be ashamed, thus to violte his hospitality and all the rales’of zood socicty, us laid down in Mre. Admiral Dahieren's book " But, oddly erougo, for ouce preseuce of mwind didu't wor clty, collected, . DISMISSED. The habeas corpus case of Moritz Wassermann came up yesterday marning before Jade Ac. Allister for heasine. Wassermann was arrested Up the 20th 1nst. on & warrant issued by Justice Salisbury, and fined 35 and costs, Whiclt he rofused o Diy. and went €0 jun. ‘The charge acninst_him was for a violation of the ordinance passed Jau. 20, 1873, prohibiting the eale of liguor 1o minora, \fter iying In jail 3 few day, she flled a etition for habeas corpus, cluiminy 1Lat the provision of the ordinance that prohibited the sale of Hiquor to minors was Hleral and void, because it exceoded the powers conferred by the charter of the city, and was in conflict with the gencral laws of the State, 2r. Linscoit appeared for the city, and eaid that the original proccedings before the Justice had been digmissed, and that the city did not wish to prosecute. Mr. Rubens, on bebalf of Wassermann. object- ed, because the judgment was still standing, snd cxccution could be issncd on it. The Judge. aid he conld ot be again nrrested, and 1f " the city attempted to push the matter furt ther be could appeal. n order wus then entered for Wassermann's discharge, by consent. 1t ecems that thie case, as the Corporation Coun- sol subsequently stated, was_a pal.ap. job on the part of Wassermann {0 get, if poasible, s favorable decision. He 1s a member of the Saioon-Keepers® League, and had himeclf arrested to test the law. ‘The action of the city's attorney, Lowever, put & 810D 1o this Scheme, THE PUBLISHIERS. An adjourned meeting of the publishers of this city was held yesterday afternoon to take uction on'the report of the Committee appoiuted at a previous sesklon to considerthe proposed bill rela- tive to the classification of muil matier, which had been adooted by the New_ York and Philadelphia publishers. The conclusions of the Commitee Iere reported in Tug TumxE a few days uz Thits repors was yesterday rejected. and a was adopted for recommendation 10 the Post-Ofice Department. Thelatter provides that there shail be three kinds of mail watter: first, written: second, printed; third, urticles not comprised in the first and second classes. There shall be two rates of The second class, —-a **registered ™ and an -+t ordi- pers™ rate. The **registered™ rate epplies to bona fide newspapers, muzazines, and periodicals, having a legitimate list of subscrivers. Forcizn veriodicals of this character may be sent throui the mall at recistercd rates, without recistration, 10 regular subscribers. The certificate of revistra~ tion May be revoked by the Postmaster, should he deem the publication to have changed 1ts charac- ter; but the publisher is catitled (o relief at the hands of the District Court should he feel bimself aggrieved. istered matter may be examined at eitber the mailinz or delivery otlice forveritication. Turegistered, secona-class mail matter shall b subject to a rate of one cent for esch two ounces or fractional part thercof. The senders of second cluss regietered may inclose 1nvoIces of the cote tents thereof, or bills and receipts for subscrip- tons_theretd, or circalars relating exclusively fo the payment of the subecription price of the bub- lication in which they are fnclosed, rtmer. o AOTEE ABIVALS, “atmer._Hnuse—Col. C, L. Wallace, 3. ¥ Timen v, 3L Cogper, Tolcuo: § Jbuzfgx{ Goroa! e Hon, . It o ¢ D A Il Newhall, Philsdelylita; whlish obertso ol.... Grand Pacic—A. X. Allerton, New I E. Stelzer, Boston: 5 0. Rochester; W, Usborn, Rock Island; C. I worth, Soux City; S. I Enshm, Iarifor Wick,' Youngstown: C. Ib. Newcomb, St. Hon.'D. M. Keliy. Green Bay: H. 1 Louls, Georie Barrie, Philadelplta. W, B, Woodlill, §¥cr ‘Alnsworth. Hud- son: A Wallace, Danoury. Conn: < 5. . Tempic. Albanys 0. Smith, Boston: the Hoy George Sanford, Crown Poit., Ind. 1 Wian, Sy, more; Seth Parker, Jr.. New Yoik: E. S. Frye, Bos 9 Davis, Philsdelphia; 1. W, Grahan. New 1. Thouras Powell, Treniont Jiouse—Col. Bdward dilson and New York: the Hon, W H. Bean, nd E. J. Johnston, Dakland. Cal. orki N 1. Muttiers. ialtiimors 5 . L. Frye, New Yor: Whifman, St. Louts: Jacoh Frast, Clnciunstl Whilamson, Albuny:J. K. Elston, "New Yor ‘Russell, Detrolt; L. S, Waldron, Boston. POLITICAL. THE TANMANY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE metat 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in its rooms, No. 77 Clark street. Judue Forrester pre- sided, ana H. F. Merritt acted as Secretary. There were present Alex Sweeney, Malcolm McDonald. Thomas E. Conrtney, R. Taylor, Joha Horton, J. R. Doolittle, Jr., Willam McNally, 0. Conlon, W. J. Clingen, A. G. Fisher, M. Mulloy, Theo. Guenther, Huch McLsughlin, O. G. Swmith, and Florence Donovan. _ The Precinct Committee primarics evoked con- #ldérable dizcussioii; and the time was finally left to the tiscretion of the Chairman and Sub-Com- mitteé, who would fasue ghe call. The orivinal date was fixed fof the #é of March, but it will propably be fixed for the 9th proximo instead. The matter of taking action in regard to town and eity elections was postponed, until next meet- ing, when it will be dccided whether the Tam- manyites will take partin the Aldermanic contests n The question of township consolldation was dis- cassea, bui no n:z(undmu takon. e meeting then aidurned until next Thursds; afternoon at 3 o'clock at the same piace. ¥ PERRY ff: SHITH'S SQUAD ;71 Democratic Leagd¥§ met_yesterday afternoon n his ofice, coraer’ of Washington and Dearborn Shreets, giienry AL Shepard preeided. und thivty- mes were added £ Tuat included all the busiaess done. o P TWELPTH WARD. A small number of the Demo: 0. S19 West Mudison strect, for thy Istening o tho general plan of orran ¥ mmany srrangement, it appearing that the nry couliuot write, Siaen 300 epirits Still in cases where sumulating cocktafl bad t(ni":;i_du :n;e‘;":l ':1‘:; appeared on this occasion witna red ‘ribbon, Lo e make the. scheme clear. and if was ncidentally stated that from 1Thirty to fort persons in each precinet Lid reglatcred under the fammeny ¢ recistered if tl ugh McLavzniin kept the nojgy nner.-* Books were handed around to men in the i fereat precinets for the rocention of signatures, - and an sdjournment was had without difficulty. The members of the Thirteenth Ward National Society, which isan_offshoot of the Toledo Con- Vention, held a meeting lastevening in Tammany Hall, corner of Indiana and Lincoin streets. ound filled that rather gmall apartment to it full capaci- ty. * Those present comprised the bester class of workingmen. Andrew Spalding presided. John McGlivray made a strong épecch in favor of ibe enforcement of the eight-hour law and the abolishment ~of . comvict labor. M. S. Kelsey. M. S. lobinson, Michacl Healey, und ofhers, made speeches in favor of vaper cur- rency as laid down at. Taledo. Applause was fre- quent and loud, and the mecting gnite lively. Several new names were placed on the Soclety’s roll. THE NORTH TOWNXN. vl AN ADJOURNED MEETING of the North-Town Boad was held at Justice Kauf- mann's office yesterdsy afternoon, Supervisor Murphy in the chair, and all the members present. “I'he Committee appointed at u former meeting to report upan the salaries to be paid the employes of the Collector's olice reported as follows: Your Committee appoloted on the question of ex- penstnof the. Collectors ofice, having examined the questlon, beg eave to report that the Collector has collected $8),000 fn taxes of all Kinds. 1n collecting tnistax the Collector reports that 262 days' labor has ‘been performed by his assistauts fuside the ollice, and 254 days' lubor by outside coliectors. Ia view of this small coliectlon, which your Comunitiee belleve (l' partially occasioned by the prevalling **hard time: nod of the Jarge number of men employed L6 colleet the tax. your Comunittee do not feel warranted in recommending A larger amount of sompensition to the assistants than $3 per day for the outside help, and $3.50 per day for the clerks employed 1n the Collect- or's ofiice, 1t ia the opinion of your Committee that a larger number of men have béen employed than was necessury o colleet this tax, and we recommend that the foree empioyed in the Collector’s office be curtatled, and that the Collector be allowed for the nextiwo W at the expiration of whicli time coilections b A:E:k“f'—flllfi‘n ‘lanfi::sC:l’er'BR:ysfl.wm.'r day. spa c Collccturs AL SS per day. M.\ u?n??klfmlgluen are flll'l\lt:l!.luf opinton that the Col- lector’s dellnquent list can be made chieaper and better by experts at a certaln amount per book than to have it done by the day, Your Comiulttee lave ascertulned that such delinquent Mst can be made by experts at an expense of less thun $300, und recommend that the expense of making sald dellnquent lst. n&ruulen.-fl w that amount. Collector Miller said it was not true_that his col- lections were small, and maintaind that, compara- tively speaking, be had collected mgre money thun his predecessor. e wanied the outside collectors paid $4 per day, which he sald would be just and right, and at ihis rate the expenses of the town would be le#s than prior years. Justice Doyle saia the present Collector had col- Jected about $1,500 per_dry, against S1,700:per dav by bis predecessor. e was in favor of adopt- fnp the report, the expenses allowed belng the same that had been allowed Ist year. Clerk O'Brien wanted the report accepted and laid over, but its adoption was cuiled for, und his motion was lost. 3 3 The report was then concurrec in, Clerk O'Brien only voting agulnst it. & _Justice Doyle asked Collector Miller, fa discuss- ing the mutter of fising the Collectoes chief clerk'a puy. whethier or not some of his Inside employ, were not connected with collecting taxes in Lake View, and he replied thac Oscar Chatles, Collector of Lake View, was in his employ. The matter of fixing extra compensation for the Collector's chief clerk was laid over after some dis- cussion, and the Board adjourned without date. THE HEATHEN 'CHINEE. UUNTING POR JUSTICE. A reporter strolling about yesterday in quest of anything thut might present itself, or be vresented, wandered into the justice shop of Lozan D. Wal- lace on Randolpl street. His Honor was found #cartd 4t his desk ' musing over the Russo- “Turkish war, the Rande verdict, the Sherry-Con- neliy chances of protructed earthly existence, and last, but not least, upou the scurcity of petty liti- Fation und the consequent scarcity of bright and jingling quarters, mnot to mention trade dollars, when turning- o the reporter he maid: *‘Yon should have been here Just ashort time ago. 'There were three China- men 1o here, and their antics were very funny. I was sitting here just as Tam now, when the door opéned ¥qftiy and I saw a peculinr head thrust in the door.” “The face was dari: like u half- breed Indinn, und the eyes were .bright and_rest- less. When he owner of the face came in I saw that he was & Chinaman. lic beckoned to some one outside and unother Chinaman appeared. This lust one was a short, quiet, stupid-looking fellow. He apparently was not satistied with the Srst man's scratiny of the room, 50 he peered in, and, after assuring himself that the Court was iu, he entered aud beckoned 10 a third, who came in also. Not one of them said a word, but they walked sround the room and ut Jast ranced themeelves in tront of my desk there, just where you stand. I was smused at their movements,” but admired thelr self-posscssion. Yout have scen them walk- ing along the street a3 though there was not o man within a radins of ten miles, haven't youy ‘Well, that's just the way they came in bere. They all bowed courteously, und the big mun—the onc who came in first—iook off his cap, showing b queuc curled up on the top of his licad, and Bafd: Who sue, who sue> 1 knew about this Chinese cage, and I said very slowly, *Sum Cli sues Tung Wing Lee.' *Who'sue, who sue?" acain asked the interpzeter, as you might call him, speaking slowly apd abstractedly, S0 1 said ‘again, just os vlainly ae 1 could, *Sam Chi sues Tung Wing Lee for $30 for washing. *Sam Cf!' exclaime the speaxer, us if he did not know such a man *Sam Chi!” I said, ‘Yes, Sum Chi. Samm C- Chi." He repeated it after me. *Sam C-h-i. —Chi—Chi.” Then he turned around to the ot} and said, ‘Sam Chi sues Tung Wing Lee.’ Each one said, *Sam Chi! Sam Chi!' and then they ull #aid *Sam Chi,’ und they looked at each uther ana smiled cunningly and langked. *¢+Sam Chi sues Tung Wing Lee,’ 8aid the tall man, and they lotd up their hands as Frenchmen o, and shruged theirshoulders. I knew what they were up to, the sly dogs; they wanted to make out that they didu't kilow Sam Clit. Dou't you see, and they were acting it out here? They are s cute lot, for T tell you they didit nicely. ‘The spokes- muan then said with the sume smiling, graceful way: *Who Sam Chi—washee—washee man? I £aid that he was, as far os I knew, bscause he had tued for laumdry work done for Tung Wing Lee, * Me no heapee piuch know Sam Chi.’ I told them all I knew uoout the cuse, and they looked s in- credulous as before. The big man would shrus hus shoulders, hold up bis hamls, and swmile, and then each of the others would do the same, *Sue, sue, whenee—what timee' said the leader, and I told him. Ife then reached nround nudes a Llue blouse which he had on und brought out & cigar: ‘SmokecY and held the ciwar up t0 me. I- told bim that T couldn't take it, that it would not be right. Ifc looked puzzled, "but put the cigar back and said: ¢ Allee right, ailce samee,’ and thoy bowed them- selves out. '1 tell you it wus funny, and then the rascals have learned o quick. ilow wicely he asked me if T would have that cigar. They have learned the customs of the country, and they learned thewm mighty guick, too. O, they are #mart cueses. Their self-possession is remarkahic, They acted just as gracefully and intelligently 2 me to underatand that taey aidn’t know Sam and their politeness and ¢ase might pass for oli breeding. They are far above fic pourer classes of his coumry in native shrewdness. The case comes up Tuesday. Come around. They bave got lawyers, and Sam Chi, I under- stand, promises to have - Leapee witnesses, alle yuntée.” “The case I8 set for 2 o'clock. 'Good ny. " CRIMINAL. B. E. Pike complains that, while playing s game of billiards at the Palmer Touse last evening, some unregenerate thief walked off with his cuffs, con- taining a very valuable pair of slcove-buttons, William Suliivan helped himself to a horse and buggy belonging to Frauk Bonhsm, a South Water street merchant, but Willlam was collured before he got over Clark street bridge, and now reposes at the Armory. Detective Ryan yesterday came home from Mil- waukee. having in charges James Nolan, who got Michael Glenson drunk, hud 5 heapof fun with hitm, and then robbed him of S00. Gleason Is a stuns-cutter cmployed on the new Custow-House. Oficer Davoran last evening sighted John Mor- ray on the corner of Desplaines and Lake streets, Murray mghted him at the same time, and his guilty constience prompted him to run, and s he did so dropped a good overcost and o vest, both of which were doubtless stolen. When Greek meets Turk then comes the tug of war. . Michel of the former nationalty, and . Alexander of the latter, both rovming at the cor- ner of Clark and South Water streets, had n mill yesterday, and the Turk as usunl got the worst of it. The Greek was arcested and way fined 33, Officer Amstein saw two ticket scalpers, Joseph® Smith, alios oward, and Edward Wood, towing s green-looking Granger sbout town. e followed them until he was convinced that they were trying to rob him, and then he took thew to the station, The Granger gave the nawe of Edward Ferroll. Detectives Shea and Lanaing yesterday urrested John Cahill, John Donahue, and Patrick Cabill, who, it i8 ulleged. held upand robbed Johh Crowe, of Scott County, Town, Tuesday nizht last. _ They met him on Peoria street, and while one held o re- volver at his head tne others took u wulch and chain and a revolver from aim, Three _youths giving the names of Lonis and Charles Detten and Frank \Volfing are lacked up at the Chicago-Avenne Station, charged wiih the burglary of some S300 worth of silverwars ana othier woods from William Weadley, of No, 662 North LaSalle street. Several nigbts ago the residence was entered by ‘acroft sneak-tufeves, and while the hmila: ‘was at supper mnearly every TOOm Was ransacke The residence of Mr. A, H. Chapman, No. 14 Laflin street, was entered by sneak-thieves Friday and robved of about $100 worth of jewelry and suiver-plated ware. Mr. Chavman Is one of Col- lector Hodman's deputies, 1is mother wasabsent a few moments at a utore, when the thieves took posscasion und barred her out. They -were sur- prised too suddeniy, for they left behind a lot of stuf which they had packed up. Thomss Ganey and two other young men are locked up at the West Twelfth “Strect Statlon charged with rspe by Bertha Lieber, a yonng zirl Iiving on_ Jeflerson street. 'The oficers do not place much relince in the storv, Bertha states that on the mizht of the 1ith, while cross- ing Twenty-second street bridge, ske was assanlted -aud parties ever since. who carried her into railroad by y five young men; e e Wid not report car, and kept her there. this affair u‘:‘ul ::\'er:l d;yn l}u:::‘x;‘ ufgg‘:;;’ : P e parently unharmed, as she T:: e aar b 14 mot tellinz the truth, and thiat she is 8 pretty wild girl ooy way. Minor arrests: Jobn C. Hofling, bigamy, upon complaint of Eliza Steuben; C. W. Burnes, - loguacious ingividual who kicked up a row at the Ne ¢ nfternoon; George e Chicazo Theatre yesterday nitermoan; Georee Hankins and fiv tes o Nor i ro etreet, | whidh = Detectives Rlordon and Maloney = beat last evening by breaking in the _doors; Georue Jordan, a colored sport, who absconded from this ity sorne time ago with » quantity of morigazed property; John ileury Suilivan, very drunk, and found in posseesion of a lot of Tailroad tick- ets to Milwankee for which he conld not satisfac- torily account; Daniel Hogan, lurceu{ f some oads from u Clack street grocery: Josle-Ketley, [arceny of 05 cents from Fred Sherman: Arthur Megland, nlias ‘-Shirty,” and George B. Starr, vagrants. A St. Louls paper says: ‘‘C, A. Farrig. who reached this city yesterdoy from Chicago, tells the story of un unpleasant experience. At tie stution at Twenty-seeond strect, Chicago. a mon 2ot on the train, and, appearing to be 2 nice sort of indi- vidual, wes soon epgsged in conversation with Tarrls, The man sajd that he, 100, wae on his way to 5t. Louls, and the couple, in the smoking-car, became quite Intimate. Finally, the stranger zave Farris 8 cizar, which the latier smoked aud soon thereafter became aifected with an unacconntaule drowsiness and fell asleep. 1le remained asleep for some time, and, aftor awakening, lost sizht of Lis agreeable compapion. - Upon his arrival in St Loufs he discoverad that he had nlso luse S3L0. The case was reported to the police, but of course there is no chance.that the ugreeuble stranger with the powerful cigar will be found.” Michael Mellon, recently liberated from the Pen- Stentiary, is in 8 fair way of going back ut once. Yor eeveral duys past he has been making the tour of wholesale and retail clothing houses, and under the ulins of M, C. Farrell, of Evanston. has been huying billa of goode. Then, with the excuse thit he had to go to the bLank to get money, be would~ skip ont. His_object in doing this, 1t is thought, was 10 pipe off a suitable lace for a burglary, in which ling he s an expert. r selected $28 worth at Clement, Morton & Co.'s., 'S worth at H. A, Kohn's; and 4 sfwilur amount ot Kobn & Wineman's. Yesterday he tried to cet away with a puir of pants, but a boy was scut to tho “bank with him, and Officer Wyman caught Mellon 48 he was givtng the boy the slip, An Owner is wanted fur the unts, and_ also for & new suit of cluthes which the prisonek is wearing. Justica Scully yesterdsy held the following: Jobn Keese, larceny, $500 to the Criminal Court; Arthur Spencer, burglury of a West Randolph Btreet butcher-shop and stealing therefrom s par of gocke, $1,000 ditto; John Callahan and Will- iam Shawcross, larceny of ive boxes of cigars, $500 to the 28th; I. Tuttle, lar- ceny as ballee of $19 worth of cigars, $500 to the Criminal Court; J. C. Uilbert ang W. Purkhurst, counter-chargres of larceny as bailce, $300 to the 25th; Barbara Metha, craclty to her Tittle son, $300 tothe 2d; Michac! 'Russcll, Peter Keefe, and Robert Fitchell, vaggants, S100 fine cach. ' Before Justice Summerfield, Georze Gifford was held in S1,000 bonds to next 'Thursduy on o churge of larceny from Matilds Fusher: Nettie Howe, larceny of a watch “und chain from John Sage, ‘of No. 406 Michizan svenue, $500 1o the Criminal Court; Georye Havill, JI.. two charges of burglary, S700 on each till Thursday, INFANTICIDE. Mrs. Lyons, an inteliigent Irish woman living at No. 9 Court street, in the southwestern part of the was yesterdiy instrumental in bringing 10 Tight o bonu tide case of infanticide, Durine last winter Mrs. Lyons barbored & woman named Alcee Geary, who workedy for her bourd. She hos seen her eeveral times since, and Friduy evening the wowan called at her hous and begged to be 2llowed to stay all night. Duri the enrly moraing hours Mrs, Lyons was aroused by Alice groaning and rushing vack and forth in the buck yord. She asked bher what the matter wus, aud upon being informed that it wus o sevére cold and cramps, sel abont pre- paring some warm drnk for her. Miss Geary refused to: take it, and later Mra. Lyons followed her to_the privy, where she found ber in great pain. The conditlon of aftairs ashed upon ferut once, and she accused the woman Geary. She denicd, bot finaily owned up. Mrs. Vout, & midwife living ac No. 742 Twenty- firs] ' street, was scur for, _and _she told them the child had been born. Mrs. Lyons then informed the Iinman Street police, and at 11 o'clock fiicer Thomas Dooley 7oand the dead body of the child in the privy-vauit, Tae woman was coufronted with this evidence of her guilt, and_thereupon coolly related how she had strungied it, and then thrown it away. She i3 o ‘rough, _uncouth women, 40 years of nge, and looks 3 if she' had zonc throbeh o desl of lardship, She conversed freely with a reporter concerning the afair. The father of the infant was one Luke Brophy, & married man not liviug with s family, whom ¢he met while she was working ut the corner of Van Buren und Cunal streets jua boarding- house kept by one Ward. She wus questivned ciosely regarding her life, aud allowed toat she hud u mother und A married sister living in the city, but they had cast her of, and she did not know where they li but veed to live with 1 man now_dead, by whomn she hnd two children, neither of which, 'she freely acknowledged, ever lived to suckle. She scems catirely devold of feehmg or self-respect, and it wasonly when she was asted if she had dctually muraeted theer newly-born innocent babes that the tear stood in her eye, while she refused to answer. . THE COUNTY BUILDING. State's-Attorney Mills was nrecelpt of numerous letters yesterday asking for seats in the court-room 10 hear his speech in the marder case. Aspecial Grand Juryis in prospect. It may mean much or little, but such Commissioners as have heard of it arc already not a little ancasy. TUnless Lieb scttles 3p his acconnts satisfactor- 11y legal pracecdings against him will be commenc- ed ina few days, in accordance with the Instruc- tions of the Board on the subject. A few days o the indictment sgoinst Maj. Wooas was dismisted for some csuse or another, and now o movement is on foot looking to golng into o further mvestigation of the charges against him, Itis eaid that new evidence has been dis- covered in a more thorough esamination of the Protection Life-Insurance Company's accounts, which will be luid before the next Grand Jury. ‘This will be additional to what has heretofore veen presented. The Pablic-Service Committee wi report o the Board to-murrow, and recommend that proposals benvited for farnishiuz the county with weat, bread, mlk, and printing and_stationery, and Mr. Senne wiil introduce 8 resolution fixiag the date for opening bids, etc. This will open up the whole contract quostion anew, anda_squall will cusue, for O’bonnell's friends’ will insist on giving him the meat contraet without competition. ‘The Committee on Judiciary and City Relations met yesterday moruing to conuder the resolution of the City Council looking to_consolidating the Towns of North, South, and West Chicago, The matter was talked over informally, and, there being a doubt ns to the powers of the ioard and the de- zality of cunsolidating, the whole question was turned over to tac County Attorney for an opinion, h will be given fnafew days. ‘The Attorney subsequently said to a reporter that he did not be- lieve the towna could be consolicated, froma easual examination of the question, and it 13 highly prob- ale that toe Bourd will not take any action in the matter. The Grand Jury yesterday disposed of numerons cascs and adjdurnca carly. The jurors complain that many of the cases prought before them should have been scttlea in the Justices' Courte, and be- fore being discharced will report their impressions. In one of the cases passcd on, which cast the pb- lic considerable, the amount involved was 50 A woman bad let s man bave that amount with \which to go and get o dog for her, aud, not hearing from nim, ske went pefore @ Justicé of the Peuce and had Bim bound over to the Criminal Court un- der $300 bonds. Tnere are dozens of similar cases on the docket, or cases of no more importance, and the Justicen who have sent them over Wil be overhauled fn the report. SUBURBAN. PARK RIDGE. The Young Gentleman's Double Charade Club metat the residence of Mr. Sabin last Tuesduy evening. The altendnace was larger than at any previous meeting. The charades were well acted, and afforded much amueement. Refreshments were served after the charades, which were highly appreclated by all present. The next meeiing whl be hield Maren 5. A Subbath-School Association was held at the Methodist Church Tuesdny evening. iss Lidu Brown and Mr. Thomnas Keits were onited in marriage at_the residence of the bride's mother, Weduesday evening. The ceremony wus periormed by the Iev, Mr. Detzer, of Desplaines. r. and Mrs. Keits will make their home ut Des- Plaines for the present. LAKE. A meeting of the Taxpayers' Assoclation of the Town of Lake will be held at the otlice of William D. Kerfout, 90 Washinaton street, Tuesday at 11 o'clock u. ., shurp, for the purnose of consider- ing the recent decision of the Supreme Conrt, a8 it applies to the cnormoustaxes in the Town of Lake. A full attendance iy ‘requested, 28 this uud other hinportant macters will be dizcusued, A rumor was doatin around town yesterday that nk Abel, a saloon-keeper ut Oakland, had **#kipped out of town. S400 in debt, u portion of whici belonged to the Oakinnd_Hove Compuny, who had a ball at Carr's Hall luet Wednesday even- ing. ‘The rumor is vronouncea false by the men in his vicinity. The factsare: Avel has hud 4 sa- loon in Oikland nesr the Temperance Coflce- House, and hus been credited with gettine a good many persons dranic The ladies of the Coflee- House have foogit Abel with all thelr power, first trying to convert him. Tite (andlord of the safoon- keeper, a Alr. Bell, has been determined to' make im miove; for three years hie nas tried thiy 11 all the courts 1n Cook County, and has finally succeed- cd 1n nis pians, the Court not taking Abel's bondsmen in the last case. He seeing that he had pot to move, quietly disposed of his ‘property md moved to the. baven of rest—tne West Side. e got up the supper for the_Hose Company, but basnot as yet been pald. He tried to and did Dborrow some small sums of money. and owes some debts, He was nround Osklsnd yesterdsy afer- noon, She was never married, | FORT DEARBORN ADDITION. The Validity of the Sales Made . by thie Secretary of War * 4 _Impeached. The Passage of the Beanbien Bill the Way to Get Rid of the Valentine Scrip. FORT DEARBORN ADDITION. . " Tothe Edltor of The Tribune, WisuiNGrox, D. C., Feb, 20.—The difficulty in regard to titles in the southwest tractional quarter of Sec.10 in Chicago is-not and has never been known or understood, and there is but one way out of the difficulty, and that is by the nid of the Beaubien title still in all of that land, and which the bill proposed by Sen- ator Matthews, of Obio, remedies. The law required that land, when it should cease to be needed. as a reservation, should be certified to the Land Department, for that De- partment to caucel the reservation entry made in 18%4, and thea for the Land Departmeut to sell it to Beaubien at $1.95 per acre, he being a pre-emption settler, and this course migat have been pursued it the American Land Company bad not then been the owners of a large tract of land in this same quarter-sectlon between Kinzie street and the north side of the Chicago River, and oo the bar east of the old river and south of the present outlet A pre-emption sale would have passed a part of this to Beaubien, giving Beaublen a title by succession that would have antedated that of the Land Company, and taken a part of this luud, as they cloimed, and at that time, though not now, have ercated a serfous question as to all of it. One of the then late and just-retired Cabinet ofticers of President Van Buren’s Cabinet was a member of this Land Compauy, and while the land was Leld in fact for it,—it haa beea pur- chused for it,—the ftitle was not taken or kept in either the pame of this Com- pany or that of the snid Cabinet officer, but subscquent events developed these facts, of which the writer has the black and white proof,—that is that it was at that time their propertv. It was undisturbed by the sale by the Sceretary of War. As 300n as the old Fort-Dearborn ejectment case was decided by the United States Sunreme Court, on the effect of 2 pre-emption sale by the Land Department, when the land was still reserved and not iu its jurisdiction to sell, o motice was given by the Secretary of War thiat lie should cause this land to be subdivided into lots, streets, and alleys (not -parks), and sold i the followinz Junc, and the instructions which be gave Mr. Burchard were that if he could not scll this land at Chicago, to adjourn the sale to Detroit or New York, the vurpose being to eet the lands sold and improvements started betore Congress could meet, and iater- cept the outrage, and this notwithstanding the people of Chfcarro then appealed for delay, be- cause it was an inopportune time to sell, and that they hoped the sale would be delayed for the action of Congress iu the premises, and thev made these things known to the Secretary of War by a petition. The act of March 3, 1819, under which the sale was assumed to be made had been in force for twenty years, and an examination of the Land Department records at Washington shows that uot a siugle reservation of the status of this had been sold under it by the Sceretary of War, but that sales of such reseryations (which had oceurred during this period) had all been made by the Land Department, and less than eight months before, os Judge McLean saye in the Rock Island Rescrvation case, the Secretary of War had not sold_that reservation, because he found that e hiad no power to sell it: the power in that case being identicaily the same to sell that as to scll this. There beiug no power to sell, the_question arises as to the cffect of the sale. It was a nullity. The sole power of disposing of the public lands rests i Congress alone, or sugh oftieers of the Government as Congress by law delexates this authority to. There being no authority for the Secretary of War to make this sale, it was as much a vullity as if the Post- master-General or some self-appoiuted individ- ual or citized had made it. The next question arises, Did the patents signed by the President cure it? Not at all. But for the laws of Congress all the patents signed by the President would be void, and that authority is Hmited by the laws of Congress. ‘These patents all recite they are based on sales made of Iots in their reservation iv 1339 by the Sceretury of War. Therg was neither authority oflaw for the sales or for the patents to issue on these void sales. To fllustrate: Suppose, we cll on President Hayes ana pay bhim a milion of dollars to sell and patent to us the Territory of Dakota. The act would have the same amount of law to sustain both sale and patent from bim as_there was for these sules and patents, and with the money placed in the Treasury the cases would be iden- tical. Lapse of time iould uot change the wat- ter. The legal title would still be in the Govern- ment. A patent that recites matter in the budy of it to show that {t is void, as all these patents did, does not take any title or color of title out of the Government, nor does possession under such a title for any leneth of time aud vast expenditures aud improvements cure the defect. See case of Lindsley vs, Wil- lard et al., 6 Peters. It was not onlv settled by the courts that there was in 1339 no authonity iu either the Seeretary of War or the Presideut to sell suct reservations as this, but in 1556, on the 3d of March, it was so recognized by Con- aress itself, by au act of that date. The public press of Chicago and the people of that city in 1539 bardly supposed that the Secre- tary of War—assuming he had the power to sell, aud this lund was the Goveroment’s and uot Beaubiew’s—could setaside a park paceand vest auy title in the city. But itwas urged that if prevailed upon, the ageut seat to sell mizht do this, and that Iu that “event the city vould get the benefit of the breatbing space all the same, und a committee was uccordingly appointed the City Council to have this agent sent to sell to violute his instructions so far as to set aside this space, whicn, at the request of this Com- mittee, be did. Now, if this setting aside was void, vither as beiug beyond instructious or no power in the Secretary of War, it follows that 50 far as the City ot Cnicazo is concersed, or any adjoining provrietor, this land, resting ou theSe facts ulone, was from that date, both va- cant and unappropriated-in law, and, 18 we be- lieve, the Iilinois Central did ot file on it and take it,, it became as subject to be divested by serip filing on it authorized Uy Couneress to be Iocated on such land, as if Congress had passed aspeeal grant convesing and describing this very land, and "a = subscquent graunt by~ Congress thercafter, after the matter woula reach the United States Supreme Court,would be beld to convey nothin s there- would be nothing less to convey. How are the property-owners {o Fort Dearborn Addition and mortgazees in the future to be made secure in their titles by the Matthews bl for their relief, and the serip locators bebeaded i Ttis this: The law is, tnat as long as there is an eguitable title in Iaud, and the Tegal title is in the Government, that time does not fmn- pair it, and nothine can get abead of it to take the land. This being true, it follows that all the filigs that have been made on this fraction- al quarter-section of land, or that may be made on the improved portion any duy, cannot avail so_lonz as this cquitable title cxists,® avd the same bill that proposes a grant to these heirs provides for o Telease to the Government in trust for purchases of other parts, and to tue ¢ity of the streets and alleys fn trust for these vroprietors and the public, so that not 2 moment will be given for a0y one to file any scrip, of which Washington isinll, and their titles will become perfect for all time to come. It does not do to say that if the Beaublens had no interest in thislaund, and the sale or dedication was void, that because of the value of their land and the money that had been expended on it, it could mot be faken by serip. When Congress made that law for Val- entine it was a pure matter of business, of contract between them and bim, ar- ranged and agreed upon beforchand, and what they Intended to do must be fixed by the words they tben tixed fu the law, and Con- fZress cannot now say what it did or did not in- tend. They were not babies but of full aze, 2ud if they did not know what they were about, their Government is as much concluded as if they had tully understood themselves. LAWYER. SENATOR MATTHEWS’ BILL. Following is the full text of the Lfll intro- duced by Senator Matthews for the benefit of the Beaubien beirs and other purposes: e if enacted, etc., That there {8 hereby granted and coaveyed to Catharine Beaubicn, widow of Jean Baptlste Beaubien, deceased, tas use of the one nondivided third "part of 'the real catate horeafter described, for lfe, a3 dower ' interest theren, and of the followinz-named children of Jean Doy Beaubien, deceased, and subject 10 said dower estate, the one undivided sixteenth part of saia real estate, to-wit: To Henry Beasuolen, Phalip Beaublen, Willlam S. Beanbien, Alexander Besublen, Madoro B._Deaublen. ~Marzaret TRobinson, Marla Robiason, Caroline Fields, Morrls Beaubien, ' Pauline Beaa- Dien, and Clotilda Beaubien; and to John Balsley 8 life estate In the nndivided one-third of one-aix- teenth purt of said real estate: and to each of the three following-named persons, Clara Long, Emma Plerdon, and lenrietts Besubicn, the one "forty- eighth vart of naid real estate to esch of Juim Furnell, Louis WWoodville, and Teabella Green; also the one thirty-second part of snid real estate to each of Jumes Fennerty and Josette Smales also the one undivided ninety-sixtn part of said real estate to cach of Sophia_E. Ogee, Helen Barpard. Julia Wigeins, Jobn E. Beaubien, Chazles If. Beau- Dien. and Emily Ogee, said zrantees being the widow surviving, the children ana graudchildren, and all the heirs-at-law of Jean Baptistc Beaubien, who was an early pre-emption settler on the fructional quarter-sectiou of land hereinafter described; and the land hereby granted ana conveyed 10 said nomed grantees boing all those parts of the southwest fractional quarter of No. 10, Township thirty-nine morib. ange 1+ enst of the third principal meridian, in the City of Chicago, County of Cook, snd State of Tilinols, that sre described as follows, tu-wit: First—All that part of said fractional quarter of land that ies east of Michigan avenac snd nortaof Madison street and south of Randolph street. Secondly—All that other part of said fractional uarter-section of land that hies between Ran- olph street and Washington street and between Michizan avenue on the east and the first Jald-out alley west of anid Michigan avenue, the vecond tract being supposed 10 contain less than four acres of land, and being sll of what is kuown in said City of Chicago a3 Dearborn Park. The sald grantees, being all the heira-st-law of eaid Jean Doptiste’ Benubien. deccased. release and surrender to the United States, for the nse and beneiit of those who have received conveyances from any of the Department oflicers of the Gov- ernment of the Umted States, all their right and title to all otter parts of the said fractional quarter-section of land not within the two tracts of land bhereinbefore granted to the said grautees: and these cther partd #0 released and surrendercd are hereby granted and conveved and confirmed to the sad parties for whose beneilt they were released, save and except as to all strects and alloys, which are Lercby con- veyed and confirmed to the City of Chicago, in trost, for the benefit of sald adjoining proprietors and the public. " ————— SUICIDE. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Dusuque, Ia, Feb. 23.—William Th!es. a German farmer, living a few miles from Waver- ley, was found last nieht hanging fo his bare, dead. Hewasaman fn good circumstances. He hada lawsuit the day before. which might have been one of the causes. It is alsp rumored that o woman is at the bottom of it. He leaves a wife and two children. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 23.~Emma Neal, an tusage girl, 23 years old, who wandered away from home two weeks ago, was found banging to a tree in a corufleld tins atternoon. The body had evidently been hanging some time. There are some suspicions of outrage or mur- der. A verdict of suicide was rendered. Some months azo Joseph Brown, of Carmi, 1ll., committed suicide, and twenty days, after his father, Elijah Brown, followed suit with o shot-gun, after having dug his own grave. Last nizht Mrs. Brown took lzudanum, aod fin- ished up the Brown family. Special Dispatch 1o The Tribune, BLOOMINGTON, 1L, Feb. 23.—Early this morn- ing it was learned that a man named Mitchell, night elerk of the St. Nicholas Hotel, this city, had run away, taking with lnm 3150 stolen from Doe Ayrnan, of Leroy, a zuest of the house, who wus intoxicated. To-nizht Arvman took 140 oraius of morphia at oue dose and in less than an hour wus dead. He had been sbout the city in a drunken spree for over a week, and us he sovered felt deeply disgusted at his con- duct and his befng ronbed. The deed was a de- liberate suicide. Special Dispateh to The Tribune. NEW Youx, Feb. 23.—A terrible suicide oc- curred this afteruoon on Fifth avenue. The World says that Louise A. Sieocre. 45 years of age, emplosed as nurse by 8. B. Hard, Wwho has an apartment on the sixth floor of the Stevens apartment-house, committed suicide by jumping into the street from a sixth-story window. ‘The woman had beeo sufleriug from neuralgis, and it is belicved had taken morphine to allev ate her sufferings. This morning she com- plained of a bad feeling iu her heau. About 3 o'clock she was left alone in tue nursers. Immmediately over the Twenty-seventh strect entrance a thud was beard, and the woman was found on the sidewalk hor- ribly mangled. Her suiade was a very deter- mined one, as she had to erawl out of the nur- sery-window and upon a ledge above the win- dows of the fifth story, an appalling height from the street, and throw hesseif forward with such impetus us to clear some railings below. Falling as she did into the paved street, she was of course instantly killed. —_— HYDE PARK. The Lyceum which has for the past few weeks so nobly entertained the villagers has s yet not de- cided upon their next entertainment. It is under- stood that it will try and have Dr. A. Reeves Jackson lectare at a near date. The temperance movement has reached Hyde Park. but whether it will affect it to any great ex- tent remains to be seen. Thursday evening Mr. A. E. Bradler lecturea to aboat sixty persons, about one-half sivning the pledge. Fridav the sudience was increased to 100 with more smzzners, and last night the andience was_ greatly increased. Friday Mr. Paul Cornell epoke_ for a short time. He be'feved. like the Apostle Paol, that o little wine, the pure juice of the erape auchas our mothers made, wag £00d for man, and se expressed himeelf, bat upon beinz corrected by the leader, thouzht that anything containingz aicohol was bad, Ar. Hopkins und Mr. Colon Robinson also spoke, r. Robinson has vizned all the pledees presented to hin for the last thirty-five years, and will keep on doing it. —_— EVANSTON. Prof. 0. H. Merwin has been so successfully ne- fotiating with Miss Annle Loulee Cary, the re- nowned rongstress, that Evanstonians may be as- sured of hearing her next May. Prof. Merwin, in the meanwhile, will organize a chorus of. 100 volces to aesist. Dr. N. S, Davie will rivet the attentlon_of the Dhilosophers of the Philosnnhical Society Monduy evening with a paper on ** Moral Insanity, —————— 'WEST END ADVOCATE." Charles E. Crandall, publisher of that successtal local weekly, the Union Purk Advocate, has changed the titic of that racy little journol to the West £nd Adrocate. The mew title much better Tepresents the ecope and range of the ddcocate, which, in its faithful labor for West Side inter- csts, hus fully werited the great success which it enjoys. Crandall is u bungent paragrapher. e . “Before we were married,” said he, “she used to suy bye-bye so sweetly as I-went down the steps!” "+ And what does she say nowi” asked his friend. *( just the same—bug, buy!? O Tsee! she ohly exervises a different spell over you.” e e e D MARRIAGES, B LT ST SO LIGHTFOOT—ROBBINS—Joscph_A. Lizhtfoot, of Chicago. and Emina J. Fobbics, of Port Gibson, B oort Gibion papers plede copre© o o Miss BLAIR—PEARCE—In this clty, d Feb 19, at rinity Stethod .n flfio;&‘!‘%"xn‘a’nfi' iy Bev, W ¥ Cratee, rand Grace E. I'earce, e e e o DEATIIS, GRAYDON—Honors Graydon, Feb. 21, 1873, dauziter's rostdence, 24> Nortlh, Markorst St et years. Fusicral Sunday, Feb. 24, 1878, at 11 a. m., ot 7, 78, 4t 11 8. m., by carsto L2~ Toronto (Ont.) papers please copy. CONROY—Feb. 4. of consumptlon, Kattte Conror, ased 15 years and 10 dags, yoRIZo 2 B and fiza Gonrop, -2 YOUUEESt UtElter of W Funcral from redldence, 0 North Peorla-st., Mon- 5. Friendy are mviced. HSVARL SR Oty A TS o S5 e Fredale el Uy e to Caivary. R ““Funeral wil take place Sunday. Feb, 2 y o R ‘erf"’t'u'f&.'}rxflthi&u"l’l;;—2"'z" % W TARCR sty ol et I Surbect. s1s i e day, Feb. 24, at2:20p. m. Friends javiced. i 1 y“%’%u‘::‘fi.’-"fl' s, SOt St Sed Fra st., this Root.. Services realdence, 136 T -1 Sunday, Feot 2b 2y . 0 |7 ontp-Recond SHOLLENBIRGER—Frb. 20, of congestion of th brain, Wiiile. younyest son of N 3 aged § years 6 nonts and 19 dage, - O Soolleablrger, Kesidence, No. 57 West Hastin, Gar darinis Walle slecpa a peace. BLAL=A¢ 1626 South Dearborn.st., Cliaries Stewart, of membrancous efidn??fi:y”‘m‘ns"gi Charles {1, uad Conlella Dlatr, axed S years 11 montis an rvicesat the residence Sundayat 2:30p. m. R maina (o be taken 10 Delavan, onday mornlng, "Aslecp (a desus, O Bow swese, 008 momlng. GEMING—Feb. 20, Euialla Man W ad . 0. Going aged B ysa aks o Shild, of to%- Davenport and Burhagton” (Ia.) Ppapers please ANNOUNCEMENTS, THENEUM NEW GYMNASIUM AT 55 mes AT vorm e e opeser A r e b0 DES Fearly tickets the use of e present Gpmany Y that date will be free. Day and nisht ofp molom S fu drawing, mualc Enslish studirs sncions I crn lanzusges. Spectal sitentlon gipe ot 00 4 Ingand phonizaplhy, Day-school o lndivipa struction open at all times for children oo Sounz py ple. B WITHEFORD. W0 TAS Teputution 283 materlalizing 1o ] Pented of the erTur of Dis ways i Uik Laviagy juriuns Thursday evelng. anibllley st Henuey AW REFORM MEETING OF WONEN I ut 213 West Madlsor 2 N AND y o Nt U230 D, m, " Segid OTICE—"TRE SECOSD W4 sai Clalh will meet on Monday sseaiae SELUOLICY Bennett Medical College. 573 State-st = on P Leake wiil address the Gltb o the Fgin or G2 Governneat to make anythini: other (e o0, of th tenger I payment of debts and the Iimiaqon 165 L, Frea ACHIEVED oy right and duty. M. A. FARWEL] Q. OBERT UERVEY, E: i l;cl&l‘xt in “IEI cime co: Chure] s eveuing, cormer M Subfoct: “~ Walier Seatt. Admines, 1t "[uE GRATORIG OF Es £or the beneilt of the Citizens Lopi B 5 iai March 0, 7. ands. - Mime. Sabvotn, wpasLarve] B heoian Tt Monuay auis, macamat a3 g 2 e ance of the chorus Is requeated. 05 FUll atiead: F[UE KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK Alsat. mear - Mircl 18, =), Monaar ‘g SHE IRISTT LITECARY ASSOCTATION /v et at Justice Scully s offss e (L0 WLy Hoan 8¢ 3 v'ciock. Mo mcetlng Monday Gon) Hiers FPUE EEGULAR SUNDAY 4 TS i of the Firse feb-1tibbon Gy Sh00N fo-day. 83 the Club will actend D, 1ieyiocs PMTare at Plymoutl Congregational ChUrch tigy vy B FPHEREV. J. M GINSON WILL DELVES T Dinetechi Bibie Rending to Yaraoy ol e T v.xlx, the singlog. o1 will have charze of FHE WEST SIDE RED-RIBEON urch, corn & $:30 o'clock. 001, this altEpmns ot r[HE ANNUAL SOCIABLE AN 5 1" meatof e Cambrian wne;‘mgz oy eaonSt. David's Day. 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Office and Prmcig\nl Depot, No. 8 University Place, New York City. Van Schaack, Stevenson & Co., Wholesale and Retail Drug gists, General Agents, 92 & 94 Lake- st., Chicago. EIAIRR GOUDS. Pure Siiver White, withoat e yelo? § Y :A';;i‘: SPECIAL Inducements. Gray Hair NOTICE.—As there are unscrapulous a7 Deslers Jho represent thelr almost worthicss [mitatlons w"n £he same 25 my Patent SARATOUA WAVE (manehc tured and s0ld UX LY by me), L will prescnt one FLEZ OF CHARGE to any lady who wlll produce one ming factured and sold by any other dealer which Proves be a fac simlle of mine, MRS. C. THOMPSON, 210 WABASH-AV. L . HAIR RESTORED @ U t nacural color by steams. N0 dee o auy kind used. switslies or balt any kiod or co'or trented and faction GUAs2ANTEED. GRAT, 74 St ATOGA WAVE: ST TOR Al sour batr 7 crimping {t. In fact, bemade be ave, fonnd o THONTR0RS! At Hatr goods of all kinds sent C. PALNER NOUSE IR STORE The best place in_Chlcao for gfl Wholesale or retall, 1805 Gosadier A A Tt 270 W, Madun- i MiS H1AT FIE M. HUL- : Wigs made to onler 3ad 253 W. 3fadisun St e e _ DISSOLUTION NOTACE. ‘ DISSOLUTION. . — gz e copartnership heretofore existing under b 70 n"é'h SEBISHOD & BARNES (Hatiers sod Forery hhting been dissolved. by Mmfation, sue aadthy. Bas taken the store 143 State-st., where, wiAZo plete new stoci of liats. Capa. &c:lie woild le] 0 tee b frieads and customers uf e Ol L0 pe, frtort= FRAKK G. BARNES would be pleased to walt 7 his friends st the above number. . mrvican oiman Liver Pad Company, Salesroom, No. 134 Madison-st.. 2Z~-Consultation Fre. Corner of Clark. “Toanie Jewell.” CINIEOPODHIST. DENTISTIEY, FOR S8. Gold Filltng, Plate Work, and preacrsciion’ of nataral tee spectalty. St B . W. M. H. caly, 112 Dearbora'at CORNS. ;zaten DR. KENISON, Chiropodlst, hsa the qylgl;fi’;u rooms tn Chicago for Iadies aud gents 8t 100 RodT06 Watlingron sty Firet Al £. 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