Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1878, Page 2

j MYany of the Tramps Arrested and Set THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 14, I8/8—SIXTEEN PAGES, CRIMINAL NEWS. The True Inwardness of a New York Savings Bank Brought to Light, s 'pepositm‘s Systematically Swin- dled for Years by tlie Baulk Officials. An Order Issued for the Ar- rest of All the Di- rectors. The People of Wisconsin Moving Upon the ‘‘Harvester” Nuisance. to Breaking Stones. ST. LOUIS. Special Dispateh to The Tribune. Sr. Louss, July 13.—Marion Joncs, a colored man who is charged with the murder of James Anderson, also colored, was arrested here to- oay. The crime with which Marion Jones is charged was committed on the 11th of last Oc- tober. James Andersonand Marion Jones were employed as roustabouts un the steamer John Scudder. Jones was Captain of the watch, or had charge of onc of the two gangs of laborers ciaploved on the boat.. His duty consisted in Wwatching the bands carefully, seeing that they did wothing wrong, and making them work when they were needed. The strongest men arealways selected for this position, as they frequently bsve fights with their subordinates. The Scudder was lying at Terrene, Miss., a town at the mouth of White River, sbout 3 o’clock in the afternoon of the 1ith of October, 1877. Jones was occupied in rousing the members of his watch, and_came to where James Anderson Was eaf He ordered Anderson to go for- ward and belp move the freight. Anderson took offense at the tone in which the command was given, and some hot words passed betweén them, and, after 6ome anpry demonstrations on both sides, Jounes, drew a pistol - and shot his opponent, in the left side of the abdo- men, inficting 2 wound of which' he died in a few moments. _After firing the pistot Jones ran off the boat and escaped 10 the woods, eluding arrest for some time. He loafcd around Terrena for a few days, and finally ot a situation on the steamer Haitie Nolav, 10 Memplbis, where he was recognized by some of his old associates, wkho informed the police. He was arrested and confied in jail for cleven days, out, as none- of the witnesses to the murder could be fouud, was released. After his release at Memphis, Jones worked on a number of boats, and was not again molested until his arrest bere to-day. He declares that he shot Anderson in self- g_eh:nse, stating that the latter drew a pistol on im. John Pullin, an old man 60 {enrs of age, was arrested and committed to jail this afternoon ou a cparge of issuing counterfeit money. In- Tormation having reached the police that he was cnzaged in making the money at his house at No. "1716 Biddle strcet, & ~couple of de- tectives were set to watch the lace, and late this _afternoom, after aviug waited around the house' some time, they suddenly rushed in and found bim seated in the front room, a sort of parlor, engazed in galvanizing a lot of ten-cent pieces, with all his working spparatus strewn about him. There were two batteries in worklug order, and about $100 in spurious coin, ready molded, in 2 vessel near by, He wasin tbe act of applying the battery. The prisoner, who is white-headed. and jufirm’ with age, ackunowledged his crime. When brought before the Chief he said that he de of Morill’s’ Divi “march from renton Junction to Bristol, on the 27th, was as rapia as possible. The order to - march was given at 3 o'clock a m and, Dbe considered that they warched just as 1ar. starting at that hour, as if they bad started av1a.m.. for it was the darkest night he ever saw in his three years' experience in the army. This was put in to show that, althoush Porter didw't obey Pope's order to march at 1 a. ni., he ot just as far tarting his troops at daylignt as he would have got it he lad obeycd the or- der, the extrenie darkucss baving induced him todelay. He testitied thae his Urigade was in line of battle all the arternoon of the 29th, and they bivouacked in linc of battie. All thut, night there was_only skirmishing and artillery’ firme, He suw Porter once or_twice that after- noon. The eunemy was in front;of them in force, aud _there was no retreating or falijne buck that dav. ITe heard mothing that day ine dicating a beavy battle till sunset, when there was brisk firing, which lasted some little time. 1 this was corroborative of the previous testinony, which showed Pope nmust have been much mistaken as to his conclusions of the situation. Witness duscribed the fighting by Porter's corps un the S0th, nud said he saw Porter at the tront, and be wus doivg all he could dv. OF all the battles of the war which witnessexperienced, mcludmg Gettysburg, Fredericksbury, Anties tam, ete., thut was “thne hottest. ln twenty mnutes, out ot 250 men in his resiment, he lost al b The po- have scoured outskirts the city today “where the fellows bad taken up their yuarters, and_captured six- teen'of them rear the csttle-yards. One of the number was on cratebes, baving had a foot crushed between two cars near Beloit. Another of the gang is quite ill with fever and arue. A gang of fifty tramps are cncamped in soother quarter. . Farmers in the Town of Lake, three wiles from the city, report that the ganz made 3 forage upou their pastures and milked every cow found at large. A squad of police was do- tailed to the plave to-night, and it fs expected every tramp will be arrested, - Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Berorr, Wis., July 18.—All is very quiet at the centre of the tramp invasion, ¥ifty of the gentry who spent last night here were jowned in the night by about seventy-five more from the West, and all went East this morniuz on .a Western Union freizht, leaving the recent seat of war lonely and devoid of amusement. This tramp finvasion has distressed otner com- munitics a good deal more than it has Beloit, and many of the sensarioual stories telesraphed from Madison ave been ridiculous exagucra- tions. One hundred and flity is a larze esumate for the greatest number here at any oue time, and they have been thoroughly peaceable and harmless except as to their propensity for stealing frec rides. Nota bure- Jary has been committed, nor a row of any kind fodulged in during their stay. But we are not at all anxfous for another visit fram them, as they make rather free with patato-patches and other movable property, and thieir care in- volves 100 much labor for the volice for com- fort during this weather. HLLD FOR PERJURY. Speclal Dispatci to e Fritune. Laxsyg, Mich,, July 18.—Willinin Nestle, an old jail-bird, was arrested by Officer Hutehin- son, of Madison County, New York, and brought bere to-day on a charge of perjury, on a suit for civil damages brought by him_against one Har- mon. He swore to never having gerved a term in prison, and succeeded in getting considerable damages. He waived an examinution and was bound over to tbe Circuic Court. “Lhis part of the evidence was introduced to refute the charge that Porter and his corps would not fight, Gen. Buchanan, Colonel and Brevet-General in the army, retired, who was in_command of the Kirst Briyave, regutar infaniry, in Sykes' Division, Fifth Corps, testified taat the arder towarch at1a. m. from Warrenton Juuction to Bristol was changed to 8 a. m. because of the excessive darkuess, the report being that an orderly had to get down on his bands and knees to find the road. He did not thiuk the oarch could have been made at 1. m., because of the nature of the ground. On the 20th there was neither retreating nor withdrawing, but some countermarching and stacking of arms, but at the same time alwuays in line of battle. He bheard no firing to bis right that day indicating a battle, and was much surprised the next day to hiear that it had been so reported. When ssked agamn af there was anything in the nature of a retreat that day, witness re- plied: “I will not only say _that there was none, but the very ivea is absurd, as there was 10 cause for one.” Witness, when asked what Porter’s conduct was ou the 80th, replicd as follows: His con- duct was thut of a perfectly cool, collected man, very anxious indeed to achieve guccess in what we were about, and showing a great deal of ex- cellent judement and mititary skill throughout theday. At other times Mhis conduct was al- that ot a zealous oflicer, thoroughly loyal s cause, and anxious to make it successful in every possible mauver. In critical emergen- cies under fire, 1 never saw_him excited at auy time. He was perfectly cool on all occasions I ever bad an opportu to mes 5l THE SUTRO TUNY Boring a Hole 20,170 Feet Long 1,800 Fect Below the Surface of the Earth. New York World, Juty 1. The news came trom San Francisco yesterday that at 11 o'clock on Monday night a connection was made between. the Sutro Tunnel and the 1,650 foot level of the Savage Mine, when “a strong dreught of air at ouce poured iuto the mine” and, ** Gen. Sutro entering the Savaze work from the tubnel, a general jollification ensued.” The objeet of this remarkable engincering work is to facilitate mining on the Comstock lode, where the miners have reached a depth of from 1,000 to 2.500 ft. ' The expense of pumping up the water from such a depth is. enormous,— from §2,000,000 to -$8,000,000 year is the es- timate; bestdes, work is difficult in an atmos- phere of from 95 to 120 dezrces, where the wa- ter is often at a temperature of 160 degrees. In some places,mivers ¢an only handle the pick for TRIAL POSTPONED. To the Editor of The Tribune. OrTawA, IIL, July 13.—The trial of Russell and Walsh, the allezed Utica murderers, was called to-day in the Circuit Court. E.F. Bull and Charles Blanchard, two of the ablest attor- neys of the county, appeared for the defense, and secured a continaance to the October term on the ground of haviug bad insudlicient tine to look up the evidence. DISCOVERED. PITTSFIELD, Mass., July 13.—William D. Tompkins, of the firm of Simons & Tompkins, charged with planniug the robbery in a street- car at Troy, N. Y., of Mr. Bulkley, Treasurer of the Albia Knitting-Mill Company, has been found iu the houss of a friend uear here sufler- ing from brain fever. A Troy oflicer is now with him. DEFAULTING RAILROAD-CASHIER. Bostox, July 18.—John W. Bawker, cashicr of the freight-department of the Eastern Rail- road, abandoned bis office recently, anil already the investiyation shows that e isa defaulter to the wmount of $20,000. CHARGED WITH FORGERY. PrrLapeLruna, July 13.—Samuel Bragg, aged 62, was arrested to-night on a charze of forzing adeed for resl cstate. A Michigan officer is here for him. DEATH SENTENCE. PrmapsLPin, Pa., July 13.—Alexander B. Sayres, couvicted of the murder of his wife in the Church of the Ascension, in November last, ‘was to-day sentenced to be hanged. HANGED. CraRLESTOY, 8. C., July 13.—~Henry Wise was hanged at Waterboro yesterday for the murder of Mercer Brown, his rival in o love-affuir. The had Dbeen followine the lawless practice as 2 means of livelihood for about two vears. He * had no other means of obtaining a living, and had ap aged wife and two danglters depending upon him for subport. He further stated if he could have rotten any of the acid used in the batteries after the police arrested him that he would have commicted suicide. He suid that kis wife nad cadeavored to dissuade- him from counterfeiting, but be had not listened to her advice. Chief McDonough states that about 1840 and 1845 Pullin was rather famous in St. Louis as an expert burglar, and was sent once to_the Peni- lentiary. After that be was sunposed to lead a legitimate life until very recently. Matthew Lieyis, the colored man whose trial L the murder of bis wife has been fn progress liere for a couple of days, was fouud ruilty of nurder in the first degree this atterncon. He msl_!u?is wile’s throat in a fit of jealousy Oct. 13, 7 SYSTEMATIC SWINDLING, Special Dispatch 10 The Trivune. New Yong, July 13.~The investigation: of the aflairs of the Teutonia Savings Bank, which has been made by Mr. James D. Fish, President of the Marine Bank, since be was appolnted Re- ceiver, has developed more remarkable proceed- ings than have been shown in conncction with any of the savings banks which have Tailed in recent years. Orders of arrest have been issued azainst fourteen officers and members of the Board of Trustecs, who are charged with having frauduleotly converted to their own use the funds of the bank. The aflidavits allege a thorougbly-oranized consviracy 1o defraud de- positors, and it anpears thut 8 regular book ac- count was Lept of all the transactions by which this was accomulished. The metnnds employed were three: first, br charging com- nissions; second, Uy making false eotries of the amounts ol purchase moneys paid for bonds, elc., and dividing the difference; and, third, by overcharging salaries paid to officers and divid- Ing the same among the Trustees. So systemat~ feally was this scheme carried out, that the mon- cys thus fraudulently accumalated were paid out iu rerular semi-anpun! dividends. The ETOss amount thus paid over i six semi-annual dividends, in the vears trom 1873 to 1875, inclu- $ive of both, reached §29.34, the exact amount being shown by the books of the Comuany, and corroborated by the adidavits of one of the of- ficers, the: Receiver, aud the accountant who made the investization. o To the Western Associated Press. New York, July 18.~On complaint of the Receiver of the Teutonfa Savings Bank, orders of arrest have been issued agaiust the Trustees in & civil proceeding to recover $29,34, moneys of the bank fraudulently converted by them to their use. The namesof the Trustees men- tioned in the order of arrest, are, Louls George, Nicholas_Seagrist, Frederick Seagrist, Henry Wenks, John Theiss, John Otto, Jacob Berman, - Charles Merz, John * Hamburg, Joseph Wigrer, John N. Schoueg, Nickolas Reinbart, John Schwemen, and Michael Habo. ~Late this after- noon Louis George, John Theiss, Charles Merz, and John Schoues, four of the Trustees, gave bail in £10,000 each. 1t is understood tnat the oters will apoear on Monday and give bail. Michael Hahn, Secretary of the bank from 1871 to the time of the appointment of a Receiver, bas made a confession in which he says: When I first assumed. oflice s Secretary the Trustees urged meto takeand distribute among them tuch moveys as 1 should be able to make, either by comumissious or otherwise by the investment of the funds of the bank. Arlthe Trustees were aware sccurities tiad been bought by me and charged on the books of the bank ata hicher rate thap the actual purchase price. After 1 ad in this way accumulated several thousand doliars in difference between the purchase price aud the price charged on the books, I divided the amount eaually between the [rustees. The saluries ot the President, Tieasurer, and myself ‘were divided into ‘two parts. retained by those *offiers and mysclf, and the other was divided awong the Trustees.” : TRAMPS, : " Special Dispatch to The Tribune.’ JaxesviLLE, ‘Wi, July 13~A burglar eg* tered the house of, George: 1. Horigan, fast wiglt, and, while prowling In. the bed-roow, awoke Mr. H, who jumped and chased him out. and ehot at him while be¢ was running through the back yard: The- burglar, Teturaéd the firc; ana thienTan off.. “It is thought he was bit, as4 -neighbor says hé'saw o man belping another off innncdiately after the shooting, v The twenty-fve tramps who captured the Chf: cago & Nortwesteru Raitraad_train at Befoft. £y few d;ys 0 were, put 10 work on ' the chain: ang i Al c é 5 Mallnlwaxau 1o Thé Trivune > an150N; Wit.; July. 13.—Tramps “over' the Yie inTllinols ‘at Beloit, disgusted” with the treatmelit recgived by thelr panions'at Mad: {0, boarded " trains ‘on .the' Western' Uni Railroad last night,'and’ wept ‘eist tg Racine, from whiich place they expect to make their wa? 10 Minvesota. Tt Special Dispatch to The Tridune. Muwavkee, Wis., July 13.—The report dur- fng.the past few days o the effect thet hun- of irsmps were apuroaching this One part was* five minutes at a tfme, baving them to retreat to the ** cooling-places,” into which compressed air is introduced, -so.that it often takes three or four meD to keep .ove pick going. A recent item set down..the cousumption of ice per man in_some.. parts of these mines at ninely-sixpounds. The aim of the Sutro Tuunel ‘was to create, as it were, a pew sur- face and a new polut of departure, nearly 1,500 feet below the.ground. ‘Lo this depth the natur- ol fiow of the water will drafn the miuve. It is in contemplation to maiic the motive force of the water falling from above pump up that gathered below,, thi¢ whole being discharzed at the tunnel level. || Further, the tunoel will ven- tilate the mines "\ip through the shatts, thus enabling the men'to do more work at_less ex- pense. Again, a wiré-rope transportation with double track will ‘convey the ore, ete., to the surface, with infnitely greater case aud less cost than it conld be Dofsted to the top of the shaft. Lastly, the Carson River flows pear the mauth of the tunuel, und, having a covsiders— ble fall, izs power will be used to compress air to be seng into all Llie mines to cool the atmos- phere and propel machinery. ‘The cost_of hoistiue and transportivg to the mills at Virzinia City of the 1,500 tous of ore daily produced by thé Comstock lode 15 placed: at $4,500; the Tunnel Company claims that it can deliver the, same ore at the mouth of the tunnel at_thie Town of_Sutro, Lyon County, Nev., ot an expense of S150, thus making the uew town a rival, or rather thie suc T, o Virginia. \With these advantazes, it will be pos- sible to take out low grade ore, that now it does ot pay toextrct, longafter the bonanzas Bave been exhausted. The Sutro Tunnel Comonny Congress, a right to ot 1l ore extracied from all the mines alter its comple- tion, which, with the other sources of revenue should secure a bhandsome who further own a E mouth ot the tun- nel, .where a town is to built and work: will be erected. The same aci of Congr also gives them all the mines not previously owned for a distance of 2,000 feet on cach site of the tuunel for sevenniiles in length. A dozen or more quartz lodes, sowe showi execution was private. CASUALTIES. -STORM WORK. Special Dispateh to The Tribune. M,; July 13.—Superintendent Ja- cobs, of the lilinois Central, and other general otlicers of the road, are at Council Hill, seven miles from this station, dirceting the work of repairing the damage resuiting from ‘the fear- ful storm of Thursday ight last. Your corre- respondent is informed that trains will not be able to pass over thet part of the road before the st of August. No pen ean describe the work of destraction - caused by the storm. In addition to the Toss sustained by the “road, whole fields of grain, corn, and other crops in the path.-of ‘the storm bhave been laid waste; iovolving many farmers fn ruin. The first mail from " the East since vesterday evening arrived from Dubuyue, via Clinton, 2t 10 this morniog. _Uutil the illinois Ceutral be- tween here and Council Hill is ready for opera- tion, passergers and mail to and from the East will come ana go via Dubuque and Clinton. No telegraphic communication east of here 2s yet except E_v La Crosse. The body of a bridge-tender at Council Hill, named Havden, who was drowned on_the night of the storm, was found about a half mile be- low that place this morning. Oatania, Neb, July 13.—To-day’s overland express passenger train over the Union Paci ific Railroad, abaudoned on account of a lare wash- out between Antelope aud Pine Blufls stations, was consolidated with the regular train duc bere to-morrow. A break was repaired at 8 o’clock this after- noon causcd by a heavy rain betwees North Platte and Sidney last night. has, under act of 2 a to UNDER THE WHEELS. Special Dispatch to The Trivune. Fort WATNE, Ind., July 18.~A man named Petrick Kelly was run over on the Pittsbure, Fort Wayne & Chicago Ruilway lust might, and | §fHOfS WG 1000 Sotue Shon , but literally cut to picces. The aceident bappened | wilg not be worked ull its main object bus been aceotnplished. " Tt is now about, eight years since work: wag bezun at the mouth of the tunuel fa Lhe Valley of the Carson, which stream washes the castern of tne Wastioe Runge. It isdouble-tracked, straight as an arrow in its course—imiced, from its extremity the faint star of light atits en- trauce can be seen. The ri: t suffivient for drainame: three air-shafts insure ventila- tion. To pe preg ground was broken Uet. 19, 1869, with limited means,—indeed, it was soine time ere machinery was introduced o do st Arcola Station, several trains passiug over the body. When the remains were discovered Lhis morning they were in a hurrible condition. The bead was 100 fect from the trunk of the body, the arms and legs cut off, and the cutire body wutilated alnost beyond recogntion. SIIOOT THE DOG. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. TERRE HAvte, Ind., July 13.—Michael Mc- Cormick, azed 5 years, was drowned this even- ingz while taking a swim in the Wabash, caused | the boring. lr“ 1869 there were , con- by bis laree. Newfoundiand o, thet leaped on | jiricted, 860 feet; in ey L o Lis back and bore hiw down in play., 1,91: in 157, machine-drillinz having been begun, 2,650% in 1575, 3,725; i 1876, 3,670+ in 1877, up o' Aug.1, 2,131 feet. ‘Tne total length of the tunnel ficcording to the chart is 20,170 fet, or three and three-fourths miles and 123 yards. ' The cost 1, 1877, including ail auxiliarics, was $2 23 (probubly $350,- U0 has since becn expenided” on the work), and it will cost $500,000 to complete the track and meaus of truusportation, So that_altomether an DROWNED BY A WATER-SPOUT. San*Fraxcisco, Cal, July 13—A dispatch from Camp Supnly, Arizona, reports the drown- ing of Licuts. Lenly and Rucker, of the Sixth Infavtry, by a water-spout. outiay of from $3.750,000 to 84,000,000 will THE PORTER INQUIRY. k is finished. Additional Testimony Favorable to the De- | huve been incurred whea the work is " fendant. Though this tunnel bus been claimed to be the Iargest fo the world, it shrinks into insig- Special Disvatch to The Tridbune. 3 {1 o A v West Poivr, July 13~ DBrigeGen, Patrick | PI0CR0¢e when compared with the Rothschone AR 3 ¥ berzer Adit, to couduct the water from_the was examined to-lay. His testimony snowed | Frichers mincs to_Rotuschoubere, on the Eibe, that previous to aud nbout dark on the 29th uear Meisscu. Work was bezun on this -Adit there eecmed to be cousfderable confusion in the st montbs of [5u: s lenath, with its - 5 % > ranches, is rather more than-thirty-one and a e e uan twoope I the vicinlty of Wass | Sl e o s, S icer ous e renton Pike. rigade joined Pope’s coros | smaller size, havium & uniform heient of 0.6 in the morning, on the march from Manassas to | feet by a width somewlist less. Gainesville, and passcd 10 a poiut beyond the ——————— 3 Betblehem Church. but be was afterwards ‘Was This Tilden’s Programme? ordered to march to the Sudley Springs Road. oplg Sncinnatt Commercial; . Then be received order after order, sometimes | pyic 01 1S3 Very enterprisinig newspaper. by McDoyell, once by Pope’s staft officers, then azaii by McDowell, until about dark, when his There is a_question not scttled even Ly the Watterson-Hewitt controversy. Throushout brigade got mixed up with Rebel soldfers near Groveéton. - that ternble exchange of rhetoric cach of the combatants iutimated to the other that both Y know a great deal [n:_:retlh:lxll eti}.lm,li_dnm teli— 3 el v 1o an a2 utry . The i e o Rorternbatile on the B0 Hn | i) Lot o sl sarta A onld said it was thehardest fighting he ever saw. ticulars. of the consultation between Tilden and ' = On his cross“xamination, he said that on the 40cki he reported to Popeand McDowell that 3 column of troops had fallen back to Qainesvilie from:-the woods, but that'alarge number of the Southern Congressmen. e refer to the Rebels still remained in thewoods. From this, time when Mr. Tilden drew bis memorandum of the number of available Lroops of Conueticat, 2 hie'said; Pouc®atd- McDowell strongly inferred that the enemy was. on “the 1etreat, while he Rhode Island, . New -York, thought ofberywise. ware, Margland, .aod. Virgiola—and ‘waen My, mar said, * But men alone are not, anarmy 3 | and Mr. Tilden said, “True_enough, money i ‘To'-Schofield,-witness safd he heard no heavy miisketry firing of the 29tk until tiear evening, i " Kings \ Division "and Harrls' lighi cavalry made an ttack, ‘and. he alio’ sald the darkuess came quick thatnight. This evidence, Witli tho previous testimoby,* was significant, becaise it conflicréd serigusly with' Pope's dis- patch to Halleck on the mornitig” of . the 80t and correspouded with the évidence of the pre- vious witnesses. * Fisher A. Baker, a lawyer of New York, who was Adjutant of the Efrhieenth Massachusetts, tity of wold in New York, which he, ds Fresi of martial law. - Letlus get at the-bot e *. Anderson’s Narrow Eaca; W - Norrlsiown Herard, > A poem rend at ‘the Wyomine .Centenhial urged the vast crowd: to warning strain!? “Strike- th strain! ™ “Strike the'tyre in mournful strain t/? +*Strike the lyre in joviul strain .. Strike the Iyre in dultet strain!” And yet he wasn't struck. _Anderson wasn't there.” He probably got wind of what was_going to take place, and remained away to avoid being struck io all those straies. d o dent, proposed to eapture wuder a declaration { o faets, | trike - the-lyre-1h || e’lyre id rartiol | ew: Jersey, Dela- | needed,” dlsnh%"nl: 4 paper showing:ibe quan- | il ag LOP-HANDED MANIA A Decidedly :Queer Letter from Charles Reade, the Novelist. He. Asserts His Ihie’lleumal_j Superiority toa Citizen of Cincinnati, . And Tells' Him that He Is Either a Liar or a Chattering Noodle. , Cincinnati Commereial, July 11. We are perinitted to publish the following remarkable correspondences . ! 51 E. 7, U.S., SL EasT Tmmp Srueeet, Cixct April 1, 1S78.— My, Charies Reade, Author, Lon- don, England~—Dear: Sin: I have seen, in a disjointed and fnperfect form. sume extracts from your recently published papers on the subject of “ Amyiderterity.” 1 have oply a partial kuowiedge of what you have eaid, but concede all you may claim s to possible cqual ity of develonment. of both right mna left sides of ‘the’ bouy, hands, feet, arms, legs, ete. In doing this I jundre all thc urcuments which might Le . induced from _ ana- tomical or puysiological reusons, as I an uncqual -to them, from ignorance- thercin. It seems to me, however, that no advantaze could result from the tultivation of the equulity you_seem to lay so muely stress upon, but con- ¥, ureat trouble, expense; and inconven- %, besides Joss of valuable time in pursuing iguis faluus, aod iu. explanation of my idea will cite 1 few tamiliar examoles, us they oceur to me, and which I think will confirm’my ob- on to your dogma, fu at least two subjects with which I have Somg familiurity: First—Musical instriiments, Second—Meehanical’tools. J could extend my rémarks much farther, but haye not time to spare; . Now as Lo musical fistruments: I see that in one of your papérs you intmate that the violin might be played just as well with the baw in the left hend and' the violin 1 the right. as in the mode preserived- secundum artem, which is vice versa. ¥ IC I fulrly understand your meaning you are certalnly mistaken oy this point. There arc certain peculiaritics n the conscruction of the & violin _which would require an _entire contraricty in the .position of all the strings, as well as in the {nternal structure of the nstrument, in order to cnabie a lefe- handed man to play anon it with due effect, and this differcuce holds £pod in all stringed instru- ments played with the' bow or by the snapping of the finirers, ete.,~the violin, viols, violoncel- lo, contra-bass, gruitar. banjo, cithern, ete.; also for all the reed instruments, as the oboe, clarl- ouct, bussoon, serpenty etc., and also in all the Gngered brass iustruments with valves, the samedlilicalty is foand—that is to say, that to construct any of thesd {ustruments in such a manuer as to enable a‘left-handed man to play upon them, the modes of construction would bave to be reversed. 1n idstruncuts of modern form of the flute family, with intricate, mechanism, such as is necessary to meet the:'requirements of execu- , tion demanded by modern composers, the intri- cacies of a double arrdnzement of the keys by tie reversal of all -the appliances as now used would present aliiost- insuperable difliculties, and without any compensating advaitage. It i3 true that the fife had the drum, the jewsharp and the military buslemay be plaged” ingiffer- ently either by right or left hand, but these are unimportant “mfitters when compared to the things already ,imentioned (cymbals and castinets may be ;added to the catewory of uterchangeable instruments). As to the orzan and.piano, the attempt o nake them and a1l the musie heretotore composed &ud printed for them subservient to the system of equal hand- edness could result only in utter failure. I note your remarks about superiority of the left hand_in pugilistic cncounter. Here you mistake efect for cause. The superior elliciency of the olow given jby,the left hand is to be at- tributed solely to the extra strength and vizor of the right side ofsthe body from which the blow emanates, aud with which the left arm and fist have nothing to do except merely as iuxlti_ become the * tool” with which the work s done. g 3 Jority of them are syfeclally adapted for use by the right hand, althdugh some may be used by either right or leit. 24 tew examples may serve to expluin what I tean. The eimlet, auger, auger-bits, the scre iver (owing to the fact that the screws to be'dkven are all made to turn to the right, just ns-the entire system of the vuniverse turns fu the same direction), the brace and its bits;vnotably shell-bits, nose- bits, reamers, and :counter-sinks, the sickle, grass-hook, all sevthes, and au infinite number of cutting implements, are now, and have been from time fmmeniorial, desigved for the use of the rizht hand, and in my humble opin- fon will coutinue to bx: 5o made and so used for all time to come. Any other course could bring about ouly trouble, expense, and confusion, I will hot tax yowr paticuce further, as my time is short. Hava not said a tithe of ‘wuat T could eny. Yousee Luisagree with you only in one way, Which i3 thi, il possible (aud I graut you tiiat) to be ambioextrous would be a bane instead of a benefit, Yours respecttully, “ V. CABriBBTRY. Born and bred in Sheflield, Yorkshire, but for the last twenty-live years u citizen of this county. . S.—Scenc-painting is but Httle better than whitewashing. it In relatdon to caligraphy, all the signatures of areat men I bave scofishow they were written by the rizht hand?. Perbaos our old friend Wiliiam Shakspearat was arunk or paralytic when he wrote the t¥o specimens of his writing left 10 us, or haps he was trytue to write with his Jeft band. No. 19 ALRERT TERRACE, Ky1eurssrinee, April 15.—Suie: 2y privacy has been intruded on by a letter from” you, in which -you tell me that you have only read garbled extracts from wy letters denounciug the lop-handed mania and disproving it by a mass of evidence; aud that you are ntterly imnorant of anatomy and physiology really stands in the areument. If, bavine thus announced your disqualilleatlon, you had gone on 1o isay “and therefore 1 wiil not have the folly and the arrogunce to speak positively on tle mmtter,” I should have said **thiis dunce is not a-fool,” and in a world where nearly all the dunces are fools, I should have welcomed you as a novelty. e But fostesd of thaghavinghunounced sour fn- capacity, you proceed to sit in judginent on your intellectual superior in a matter where he 15 zl:lrowund)y Icnmedl,‘» and you areas igmorant s dirt. il Your letter is in three divisions.—irrelevant a‘;mh' 4 deliberate lig; a piece of imbecile twad- c. r TOUR'BAD LOGIC. Every fool knows that the musical performer is an honorable except to the lop-huded mani, Here both hands do dkilled work, and exercise the whole bram, whi¢hi 15 all I roquire. 1 have never proposed to reverse the skill “of the two bands. You are working a folly outot your own head, and formmg my name toit. YOUR ‘MENDACITY. That the lef-handed blow of the pnailist owes its force to the right side of the body: Were this so, the right-handed blow of the puilist would owe its force to the left side of the body. ' It's a lie./” When n blow is struck witli a sword, a stick€-a_cricket bat, ctc., the reverse foot is adyatited, and the reverse side is the fulerum. But in the pugilist’s blow, whether with rizht hand or left, the correspon iug foot is advanced; ‘and the blow takes ail its foree from the sub-clavicular muscles and the flexor and extensor muscles of the arn that gives the blow. Of course you may not be.a liar. You may be simplv a chattering noodie, with no exes in your hiead; butone or the other You must be, to utter so stupid a falsehood as the above, aud send-It 1o me of ail people. C YOUR'IMBECILITY. Who doubts the existence of the lop-maniat And, 5o long as it does exist, of coursc many t0ols will be made to fit it; but even here youy mendaciiy must creep in. You_ suppress the reaping-hook, the plane, the saw@he sauwe, the knife, "the hatchec, the scissors, the pen, the sword. Correet your fgnorance: wy good sir: and'as your iznorance deelines your self-sufli- ciency will abate, and vou will not be so ready to hurl them both at-your intellectual superiors, ' on matters where they are men and you are & child, * g CirArLES READE. 81 EAST TmmD ‘STREET, CINCINNATI, May 1, . —aMr. Charles* fteadé, 19 Atbert Terrace, FKwghtsoridge, Londouw—Stk: - Yours .of Ith, 10 response Lo minetof st ult., received vester- ds 1t is characterized by ueliness” and: ina- When you - call-me bure and simpie. 4 'yiz'nomm. ' dunet, or'-a*1001; ~.When " yoit “déciare ‘yourself g imwmcasurabiy ‘iny - int Jctaal superior, that'T am as- ignorant as’ dirt, & -biind, chattering nocdle, that'T -am. merely | WS~ a'ehild * where” you are o man, besides: ag- ousing me of - tergiversation in my handlthe of‘the subject ‘undor-discussion in my letter, =you simolys procisim 'iyourself: agan - grained blackguard, and entirely " untis to-dis- cuss‘any’matter with a gentlemsu!. 1 haverend some of your-cffusious: in . the - same strain in public priats before, and the present only serves Yo coutirm nn estimate previously formea in my mind respecting: you. It [ conid hav had you wichin reach when I read yoor letter I would bave tweaked your nose aod kicked your pos- In respect to mechanies’ tools, the great ma- " terior as a punishment for your impudence, but T have slept oo it, and am npwegoled off. -, Why you should indulze in such an exhibition’ of weakness and jrascibility of temper, Iam at aloss -to understand, unless it be . that your mind is'unhivged, and that you area fit subject for a commission de lunatico inquirendo. Noth- ing shore of this can account for it. As a searcher after truth, I wrote you my first letter in the kinacst spirit of friendly criti- clsm, believing that from honest differences of opinion, tested in the alembic of reason, under Iree discusslon, we nay often” elicit the”truth; but in your self-suflicicuey you scem to imagine that yonr ipse d:zit must be accepted of all men, und you brook mo opposition. In this I feel sure you will tiud yoursel! ultimately mistaken. I will not bandy epithets with you. I sce you are capable of pouring forth n’torrent of bil- lingseate, and do not desire to have such filth disembozied upon me. “Whoso toucheth piteh shall be dedled.” : * Vixcest C. BRADBURY. A GREAT CATALOGUE. A Work Going on in the Surgenn.General's Library Which Ys Attracting Attention AlL Over the World. Washitngton Dispateh to' New York Tribune. A worls has loug been in vrogress at the oflice of the Surgeon-General iu this city, in which the members of the medical vrofession all over the world are much interested. A foree of seven or eight clerks of that Bureau have been cogaged for several vears, under the direction of Army- Surgeon J. 8. Bililngs, in compiling & enta- logue of ‘the literature in the National Med- ieal Library, vetter kuown in Washington us the Library of the Surgeon-Geueral's Otfice. This catalogue is to be much more than its name indicates. It i3 rather an alpha- " betical classification by names of titles of all diseases, wounds, and affectionsto which human llesh is subject, all knowa remedies, theories of treatment, - und . deseriptions of special cases, @iviug at the same time the nanies, of authors who have writlen upon medical subjects, aud of the books, and the numbers of the pages n which such matters are treated. T 1n short, it will be when finisned a complete descriptive fndex ‘to nearly everything which has ever beeu written upon any jsubject, in any language, which has a professional interest for- medical meu. This is perbaps an overstate- ment {n one respect, for the catalogue will not contain references to any book of which the Na- tional Medical Library docs not contatn a copy, but us this library is now thousht to be the largest medieal library fo the world, a complete catalogue ol it will be for all practical purposes a universal index of medical literature. The catalozue will form a series af seven or eight volumes, each about the size of Webster's Unabridged Dictiou: Should Congress au- thorize its publication, it i proposed to dis- tribute sets of this work to the meaical and circulating libraries m all the large cities of the country, where they can be consulted by any physician who, having & special and uncommon case for treatmeunt, may wish to_know what has been written upon other cases of the same char- acter, and where such writing may be found. Congress at the last session was asked to author- ize the publication of an edition of 10,000 copies, at an cxpense of $200,000, for distribution as mentioned above and for sale at the cost price of paper and printing to physicians who should wish to bave copics in_their own librarics. In Eupport of this request.a memorial was pre- sented to Congress from a committec of phvsi- cians npoointed for the purpose by the Medical Society of the Couniy of New. York. Iis cou- cludinig paragrapl is as follows: The Surgoon-General of the United States has vrepared & snbject catalogue, a epecimen fuscicu- Lus of which bas been hailed with unprecedented praise by the medical press of the United States and of all Europe, particalarly of Engiand: und Germuny. Tnis subject catalomue will by its pav- licu! place the buried ‘wealth of the medical literature of afl countries at. the easy and ready disposal of écientidc workers.. The completion of this great work is u necessity for the medical pro- fession of the United Statés, and for the heaithy development of medical culture of this and ail countries. 1t will rankamongst the most practi- cal and beneficial publications of the present period. “The specimen fascieulus referved to is in pam- phiet form, giving the “first seventy-two pages ot the proposed publication. 1t was prepared for exhibition at the_Centennial, where physi- cians from all countries had an Opportunity to examine it. As an illustration of the courents, tozether with the extent und detail of the work undertaken, it may be mentioned that the sin- gle heading ** abscess ™ ’covers about 700 refer- caves, filling eight pages of the work. A single reference will serve asn _éxample of the rest. * Barlow, W. IL, two’'cuScs of deep abscess treated with carbolic aeid. Manchester Medi and Surgieal Report, 1870; () pp. 37 (4011 1In al} civilized countriés periodicals have come into life, in whicke are chronicled 21l passing events and discoveriés swhich are of: in- terest fo the medicalprofession. Nearly one- half of the books in the National = Med- are bound volumes of these publi- se 1ssucs if all the mod- ization, and sonie of them cover un unbroken serics extending back more thuo half a century, The largest single series, an [talian medicat journek, now embraces more than 20 volumes, *ia” ‘The librury now contains nearly 90,000 vol- umes, sowme of whichare: exceedingly valuable, not‘ouly fur the information - they contun, but as relics of the carly days of boor.making. The most ancient volumes dute from the lourteentn centary (before the: invention of priuting). They are carefully written in a elear hand upon narchment, aad -are. perfettly legible at this day. The illuminated <cupitals. ana border- waris, togrether with the omdings und heavy clasps, iliustrate the, . paticuce and of the ancicut bookmakers. The library is the resore of writers upon medical subjeets from ail parts of the coutitry, aud not seldum from other iands. who'eome here 1o avail them- seives of the unrivaled fucilities for reference which 1t offords. Arranwements have been made by wisich sets of -works upon wny wiven subject or by any sinele author can be seut ut the request of any responsible persons to any city which posses a fire-proof libirary build- mg,.to be left iu the custody of the Hbraviun, and returned to Washington after they shull have been consulted by tie yhysicians who bave requested them. [tis expeeted that the fortie coming catalogue will bave a tendeney 1o estab- lish- medical lbraries in all the great civies, either by the direct purchase of new baoks or by the putting tozether of the private hbraries of local physicians who may wish to avail them- selves of such av arrangzement. e —k. Bob tugersot - Washington Correspondence Hartford Times, Col. Bob 1ngersoll, * the handsome received the other day photographs of tiost Hlinots twins,—one of whom was christened Bob Inzersoll and the other Jim Blaive, as an appreciation of the hizh regard in which those gentlemen were hield by the pareuts of the twins. Col. Ingersoll’ has had the pho- tographs enlared, and takes pride in showing the copy of the youthful * Bob? to ull his' friends. Ingersoll cleared more money last season for the nuwmber ol leatures he delivered than any other man on the lecture plattorm. b lecture paid him, on un average, 200,—nis regulur pay being $250 per lecture. The total was reduced, Ly Tecturing several time free,—that is, devoting the proceeds to various and woithy objects charity. While here he has all of the law bus ness e wants. {e has refused a good many 3. He has met with more success io practicing before the Dopartments than be- lore the courts. It was through his ef- forts that the large upprooriacion was re- considered by the ~ House Committee on Naval Affairs, and made by Congress to pay to nuval contractors a tiumber of cfaims that have been haning lirea long time. Mr. Ingersoll’s fees in these enses nlone amount to nearly §40,- 000, which is not to be sueezed at, for less than two months’ work, durine whicn time he slip- ped away from the citv over a Gozen times, and delivered lectures fu other cities. His trip to Connecticut, he says, for the number of lec- tures dehvered, pud him and his manager (Redpath) better than any other work during the scuson. He has associated with_him' in the law business, fu this city, his_brotner, E. C. 1, for several terms a Representative fn e al White Elephant Dead. 2 Times of Indin. . The oldest of the white elephants, which was born fn 1770; dfed in-its tetsle of Bankok fn November ldzt. Every one’ knows thdt - this famous- elephunt, before-which » whole people bow the ‘kuee, is the emblem of the people of | s nmitizated -Hari4m* fmbecile, as beiig ut: | Slam. It'{s’ honored with the most beautiful presents, for the ‘Indiaus, ‘Tull of ‘the idea of metamorphosis, still behigve that so majestic an animal could be animated by only the spirit of o god “or 0f an emperor. Each' whita elephant - ‘Dosses3es its palace, a'vessel of - gola, and- har- ness-resplendent -with jewels. “Several manda- rins are agtdched to its service'and feed it with | cakes and'stigar canes The Kiog of Siam s the ouly personage before whom it bows ‘the koee, and a simllar-saluration is rendered by the mou- drebs Iho.deceased ‘idol way accorded s magnif- teent funeral. - A huodred-*Buiddbist: oriests officiated at the carcinony. «The three surviving white elenliauts, preceded by trumpets, and foi- lowed by an'immense concourse of people, “ac- compavied'the fuveral car'to:the. bank of the Menam,*where thie' King and his noble lords re- ceived the rémains;” which- were transported to the opposite bank for burial. A procession of thirty vessels figurcd in that carious ceremoay. All the floatiug houses, arranzed in double file on the enain, to tiic uumber of 6,000, were adorned with flags aud svubolical attrivutes, Id -| Trouting NEEDLE MOUNTAINS. 'Among _t'ha.Sno\A;s in Southwestern Colorado. Mnnnlnin-.Lim, Cinfinmaw}]em, “‘Cnmy}lob- bers,” and Cast-fron Donkeys. Climbing the Range—A View of Utah and the Pacific Slope; Special Correspondence of The Tribune. NEEDLE-MOUNTAIN RANGE, San Juan Coun- ty, Southern Colorado, July 3.—We are perched to-day upon the summit of the Needle-Mount- ain Range, 12,000 feet above the sea. I nave laid My blankets fora desk, on the edge of o snowdrift to write. Before night we must de- scend far enouch on the Facific slope of the rarge to flud the edge of the timber-lins, where we can obtain fuel. Since writing you last, our days have been rincipaily devoted to climbing. We followed the roaring Rio Grandé along its angry conrse, up througzl Wagon-Wheel Gap and Antclope Tark, to Ute Creek, which foams down from the snowS with the speed of n race-horse. All along our journcy the fishing has been excel- lext. WE ITAVE CAUGHT TROUT g in every way known to the art piscatorial. - Al- thourh the Rio Grande has been, from the spring-ilbod, a torrent which would have tired the tail of a whale to Ster, yet every contrib- uting stream has furnished its pools, where the trout elided out of the tumult of waters to the shelter of some boulder that had falien down the mountain-side, and there awaited ia schools their food. We have used ev- ery kind of fly in our suecess. Where streams have been too thickly frinzed with willows for casting trom shore, we bave ridden down their bed oo horseback and tilled our sacks by casting from, the saddle. . As long us civilization lined our path we had lots of company. Every inhabitant had a stont vole on his shoulder, striking out on donkess and big-boned horses for some favarite brook. “These pine saplings were so huge, and held so rizidly erect, thut the valley bristied as with an urmy of lancers. It may be gmood mews to Western farmers that the loud-mouthed mur- murings of this fishy multitude in the great breeding-grounds are of good fmport to crops. “NARY GRASSHOPPER' for bait could be secured, except by dint of g suchchase as would have brought to bay a fox oralion. ‘The lonzed-for *hopper is scarce in theland. Occasionally a section of this long- poied cavalry would dismount, and, with big sumbreros, start at breakneck soeed over the rocks .after some insect which had -become visible on the horizon. Another section of the brigade would meanwhile ¢lap spurs to bare- ribg, and nead the ’hopper 50 as to drive it back toward the scoop-shovel hats. ,Captured at last. o _death-halloo was given, and the vietim triumphantly held alofc for an instant by the- Jucky captor. That man was geod for a dozen trout. ~ Ile would commence fishing with the knve-joint, and end up possibly with a whisker. ° Lower down the valley, the larze willow-fiy—a centipede-looking creature— covered the bushes, being substituted by a kind Providence for the usual bat. g Parties coming this way for trout-spoll will do well to make HEADQUARTERS AT WAGON-WIIEEL GAP. The wountains have been cleft asunder just suffi- ciently for tli river to jump thronen; and there is_a little hostelry there the host of which is wighty with the rod. - He took 3,500 pounds of trout “last_season. We have found the fish larze, ond of several aifferent flavors. Some are woody in taste, as in certain streams ju the White. Mountalns and Adirondacks, while others are of {full flavor. I have caught muany by trallinz a large fly in the rapid water beueath the surface, as one would a minpow, I wastrving this the other day on the Rio Grande, the water.of which—as is the case just now, afternoons—was bizh avd muddy. A fine trout- apparently missed the submerz®d bait, as a boy with a handful of dust in his eyes mizlic possivly miss an apple, and leaping, like a bolt of gold, high into air, took the fly, which I had allowed to rest, as be came down, Starting for mid-river, he went down it LIKE A BOLT PHOM A LOW, aided by the twelve-mile current. One hungred and fifty feet of line went oat as if entangled in a streak of lightning, und I followed over boulders, with. the tip of the rod overlapping the butt several inches. . In this high, thin air, Lstock to that trout, by lung-measurcment, titty miles,~by the practical chain of staze-road medsurement, balr a mile,—before running bim futo a chute or branch of the river. While this fish weighed but two and a half pounds, yet the strain on rod and - Jiue in this torrent was, I believe, equal to forey! We have found trout close up to the snow-line, where we are nmow perched. Fora while wee shall sav them - Adios, until descending the Pacifie slope. From wy snow-bank desx lere I can look far overinto Utah, while the Rocky Mountains streteh below me like a suceession of hills. For the past week water has frozen in the buckets every night, while the covering for cach man consists of two pair of h-avy army-blankets and two comfurters. A buffalo-rote and rubber coat form the mattress. Webase packed these, apd the provisions, on = OUR DIMINGTIVE DONREY:. These little creatures cling to the stecp mountain-sides like goats, Que—the smullest in tiie lot—1ook a roll of several hundred feet yesterday. e went down the mountain-side with his paci, like aball of yara, and disap- peared in the cunon b=low ina cloud of dust. An hour afterward, when we reached the same valley by the slow descent of the trafl, this cast- iron donkey was cropping the urass, and lookinig 45 wise as if this cut-olf bad been a mere matter of business. ; Last niuht we camped in the eize of the timber-line, which is usually 11,000 feet, wuile from the front of our tent stretched the foi bidding upper region in which trees cannotlive, We celebrated the leave-taking of timber-line by a very fair CAMP-SCARE. . Aburit a mie below our tebting-placo, one of the party stot 2 large cinnamon-bear. These creatures have been getting up an uely reputa- tion lately in the way of chasing people; and, s this particular bear did not run at the shot, Phin the portly, who was the author o it, did. ‘The affuir was'the subject of discussion around the fige, and Joinson, our erizzled prospector aud guide, Who knows the wountains as a cab- man knows tiie streets, added to the interest in bea by stating the existence of mountain- sut the spring just Lulow. At 10 o'clock the regulation fent-music was com- fortably under way, and home and other good things ~ were spreading out before us in dreamland, when there wss a loud cracking of the brush just outside, and a heavy objeet stumbled over one of the tent-cords. ‘Then the west side of the tent came in. Some one, who had leaped far enough at the first slarn to fall over the flunr-sacks, shouted S REARLY The Prolessor removed outside his coverlets so quickly under this stimulns that he stepped upon und destroyea Phin’s pocket-edition of the Bourbon family.” In revenge, Phin fell over the Professor’s assaying outfit, and bas been lw menting the uselessness of balf his compiement of toes ever since. Another party with whom we are acquainted gave hunsell up for lost, under a hideous weight of warm_ fur that 1ell upof him before be could follow in the footsteps on his illustrivus predecessors. This weight was subsequently found to consist of Phin’s dis- ('uflx’:“& buflaio-robe. aided Ly a ton or two of provision-sacks, which the remainder of the party overiurned in getting ontside. Beach, who cscaped in somie mysterious smauner througn the side of the tent, climbed a sapling, in_ order, he aflirmed, to have a better outlook, What was the cause of our frizht will never e known. Some vrute prowling around our tent bad suddeoly taken alarm, and disappearcd. “The Professor, mourning disconsolate, swears by his injured ‘sssaying apparatus. that it wos Thin's big black borse, which was found uext morning loose: By We have day-thicves as well as night-prowi~ ers around our tentide-places. - 1t has been very amusing of late to witness the antics of N . THE ' CAMP-ROBBENS,— L & bird /I believe peculiar to this regior. It is thé size of a jay, with'a lurwre grayish head. [t ocepation, from dawn of day to dark, s thut of stealing from us. ~ Devoid of féar, 1t will slip up while we are eating, snatch a plece of bread, and away with it. ~After a couple of days’ a qunaintance, it- will: hop upon a’plate," selze morsel; and thep take to precipitate flizhe, and 4 upon the :'mearest bush - chuckle © aud jeer in the funolest ‘manger, However tame-- while - “procuring * thefood; it - bo trags ‘the .thisf-'by *precipitate flight sonce its ' jaws' have Another gifeer visitor | V/e flndft" bave upon and * unscemly :rejoicing closed Gipon the morsel. ‘of ours is the musquito, the snow-banks. - Duringe it makes constant attacss upon our beasts, and slugish forays upon ourselves; but, with the first chill of eveniuy, disappears, and our zights are free from it. THE MINERAL CHARACTER of this country is Very rich, und sowe rich dis- book . with ' | - A sicn'ond vachelor. M. Stiaw; -lives on £30F the brieht warm day | coverdes have lately been made below ug. Some knowing ones Neeale-Monntain district i3 destinoy to berome famous. n e X nals. ~ When the Professor g " his assays, we shall know for ourselyes 1?1?, ;- int ‘the v, aflirm t'nnmq site, which scarcely scems g bung away, and yetis a good three miles, d'i‘iufi"” E of mountain-sheep have been nrognd 0% & we expect to feast upon their dainty mution ba. fure set of to-morrow’s sun. This Tetter reach Lost-Trall Ranch by corier t0~mor) ; aud from there be formarded. . B0 ———— - TURF NOTES, Wildidle, the running horse that won s many creditable victories in the East a fery Yo ago, and was subsequently taken to Califoy is getting some very fine colts in that State, Dick Swiveller is befng “felt of” stirtapy, 3 The owner of the chestout eelding Hupter, the Horse that was exposed 15 a ringer at Deg: ter Park last sumirer, has fised up-the claimy against that horse, and he has been reinstated, Proteine, one of the most suceessfal lmt(m‘ of the present season, is one of the exceptions of the rule. that early training Spoilsa_trofter, Shehas been on the turl since her gecond year, It1is doubtful whether Mazo-Manie wigp, & started the Centrul Circult this ymn;:l:u;ebr? i formances thus far not inaicating that he wogy }.\e 2ble to win ir his class at the Eastern et ngs. L. B. Durham, ot Nushville, las purchaseq the 2-year-old eult Bulwark, by Bonnle Seqte, ag: m’ilpflcelzs lsmpo“idthw have been s lonn oue. a3 the colt isoueof the most ing youngsters in the land. . Eving Petrarch, one of the best-known and myst unlfortanate of English race-horses, i3 -g\?:: i!: the pagers, on_account of having pulied gy lame after winoing the Rous Memorial Stakey at [Asoot. "His tusf earcer Is thought tobs nded. 4 Georze Hoover, of Bradford, 0., recently ot to Kenincky and pumbuudfl?xl cox.ki'.gé < perthe well-known trotting mare Hose Jacoby, by Harold; also’ Minale Bell, 4 years, by Bel. ment; and Foundling, a 6-year-old mare of unknown breeding, that can trot fast. =,_; &3 As showing the personal characteristics UL grerertnces of Frank Harper, owner of Teg racek, it may be mentioned tnat durinz thy recent meetlng af Lonisville he stopped st g boarding-house 'kept by a colored Individul named Tinton, and patronized only by blacks. - “Johnnte ” Blow..:whose disrcputable cos. nection with the Bill Bass affair ot Lexingioy some weeks ago was fully ventilated in taes columns, is rocially ostracised at St. Louts, Duriuz the lat: race meeting there he was o udmitted to th= Jockey Club grounds or truck .. The thoroughbred imported stallion Eclips died recently at the farm of his owner, Ms Frank Morris, Westchester County, New Yot &3 Eclipse was foaled in 1835, aud iinported by Mr. 7§ Richard Ten Broeck. He was by Orlando sa & of Touchstone), out of Gaze, by Bay Middlewn, Golddust stock docs not command 5o hishy ! fizure this senson as formerly. At the latean. vual sale at Eden Stock-Farm fortv-three hes of trotters and roadsters were sold fora tos of $5,570, an averave of $120.33. The hizhest price realized was $400 for a 6-year-old sonof Golddust, out of a thoroughbred mare, sold g G. W. Wale, of Carthaze, 3o. 3 Tae fact that Rarus trotted in 2:) balf-mile track at Cincinnati last Wednesdar, thereby placing himself at the head of thelist as far as- ha!f-mile -tracks are concerned, will doubtless worry the Tury somewhat, but' thi paver. will probably contiaue to cry-that the horse is no zood this season, and can’t trot bet- ter than 2:21. time in the Alexander Plate this 2. Coltness wou the same rxe 9, and Freeman the year previous Gold Cup, Verneail’s time was +4:83;_Apolowy’s, 1n 1877, 4:45; and Doncaster's, in 1875, 4:39.° Verncuil won the Gotd Vase, the Gold Cup, and the Alexander Plate at the {fecent Ascot mecting,. their total value being $16,000. ey ] % Verneail’s . Quite a number of horsemen renched Chicago this week, Peter Johuson, Bill Delaney, W. L. Beck, and Lew Glenn betig among the Rumber. Johpson’s stable at present consists of Monros Chef, who has recovered from hia illness aod is being worked; Capt. Bunnell, who is in tie iz;, 3 Gray Charlie, who is recovering frowm the ellects 3 of his runaway at Jackson: and Envov, a Mas- catiue borse, by Gen. Hateh, he by Strador’s C. M. Clay, Jr. Euvoy has s record of 2:43, but can troz in 80 or better. The great match between Ten Broeck sod Moilie McCarthy has been run. The operals over. The whole allxir 3 simulva matterof recollection,—would it could be forgotten! For the first thne in the course of Licr nguri ex- istence Louisville failed to satisfy the cxpectss tions of her guests. Not that Louisville or the Louisville Jockey Club Is to blame. Farfrum it. Wescta table that was fair to look npon, but the dinner was_nota suceess. The tuoks did it. Tne question now is, What are we going to do to retrieve ourselves i—Louisuille Couries Journda!. There was a ghastlv attempt during the Detroit meeting to have ‘““an exhibitiva of speed,” the Association naviug declined 10 uceede to John Splan’s terms for showing Rarus. Cozette, owhed by French, vue of toe proprictors of the track, was brongzht oat, and effurt made to have Hopeful **show " !I;“‘-: but Al Richmond, his owner, decli ¢ unless 350 pacer, 1 have anything Lo do with the matzer unl An effort to secure leepy Georse, was also unsuceesstul ¥ the old ware meandered sround the track aloue in the extraordinary time of 2:. The following thoroughbred stock, the proo- erty of Mr. P. Lorillard, was sbipped iroa Nashville, Tenn., on - the st inst., io the Ran- cocas Stud-Farm: Merry Lass, brown iy fualed 1577, bv John Morgan, dam Vesper Light By Childe Aarold; Chancetlor, bay colt, fosled 8 1877, by John Morean, dum S.nduwu& by Jack %1 Malooe. ‘The ubove were parctased at Gen. . 33 Harding’s sale. Also, from Lesiugton, Kf, g chiestnut filly, foaled In 1877, by ump. Australian, - 1 dam Mazurka, by Lexingron (the dam of Zoo - 23 Zoo); purchiased gt Mr. Alexander's late sale of -1 yearlings. Also, Oppuuent, bay mare, foaledin ¥ 1573, by Melboure, - Jr., dam (the dam of Op- tionist) by imp. Glencoe, in toal to War Dance: Michon, bay mare, foaled in 1873. by Melbourae, Jr., dam Nelly Gray, by Lexington, in foal 10 Waverley. The new Racing and Trotting Park {s proceed- ing rapidly; bids are in for all the work, adtbe contracts will oe let Monduy next; the sarves- ors have completed their task, and the parkis staked off. "hie contract fur the fence, which was sold o Messrs. Willoughoy, Hill & Co, b * & becn let to o builder named ‘Thompson. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Ruitroad have about concluded to rup a branch track to the park. ‘Tnls will prove of excellent adsaotagetd residents of the South Side, as vastly imorovisS their facilitics for reachiog and returning from the track. The Committee on the Natiof Firemen’s Tournament have almost decided to open the track with their exbibitions. Apre- gramme for uu openinic meeting Is being dull‘! ¥ considered, and an 2gent of the manazers, )b‘; be W. M. Boyle, goes to “Toledo to arrauze for 3¢, entry of some of the celebrated lrullers,fih‘ Thetrack 8 to be completed by the L.uu; = Aungust, and the ovening neetivg will probablf }Ifi oceur the last week [ the suwe month. E Last week Trne Trisuse alluded to ‘lhI; glaring frauds perpetsated by the scoundre! drivers at the recent Detrolt niceting, and 1be mauner in which they were winked at oy U judges. ‘The papers of tiat city are Just besis ning to see the matter In the ssme bebt, mh the Post and Tribune says: * The odivus mod one is obliged 1o encounter pow-a-dags 'Ma, ever trotting §s in progress has done moretd . dezrade the sport than any other one ihiss except the dishonest trickery of some profel sioual turfmen. There ar¢ honest men assr. ciuted professionally with the buslness of g 5 ting horses, but the public have seen wni‘ndl“ robbery with which turfmen are directly of' b rectly chargeable that they arc disinclined tobe lieve that such a thing asa * square raccean witnessed. Add that lamentable fact w!bevrz' ence of the villainous scum betore :_ncnflfl;ma and it Is small wonder that we bear reapectste i 'men declare they eannot e induced to £0 025 a trottiog race. " It is indeea time that the $0 a3 pur to its purgution.”” 1t - e Shaw’s Paradisc. Fancebura Couricr. acre- farin i Lewls County, Kentucky. E® dresses like a monk of the thirteenth "centdh and devotes his whole ‘time' and “fortu! ‘Howers and tropical fraits. His farm 13§08 ronuded by abizh fence, without gates or His house i3 covered with rare’ viges; hgm fig-tre¢s tweaty. years old, and flowers blm acre. - He never derives acént from' his oully of money and labor, but delights in *moith, plring curious growths and_combining Naturd. and art in wonderful forms.” . He calls his ¢ colony of bees his children, and the birds feed from bis table his Jittle angels. The bl follow him through the walks aud take thebe rics from his band, I