Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1878, Page 8

8 Thi O TiiBUNKE: WEDNESDAY The weapon was bronght to the Madi- , Mrs. Kz nt, Mr Mrs, T, Q TI{E CITY- #on Street Station by Mrs. D. McGraw, who had | Bmall, Mes. A, Teter Geniry, THE BANKK SMASH. ‘ 3 3 4 Mra, T, f. flobh, Thy composed s found it lying fn front’ of No. South direen | G% Tiidty i ickeam, Sageonsin-C S o3 8, treét. Tto distance from Ihere to the placa where | Jiuripar. W Lyman, B, A. K. Steele. Phitip QENERAT, NEN the body was picked wpsis fivo biocke. Yeb1t 18 | Adoinnan, Asslsontsurgecns: Rieartor. 31, sl | Scenes and Incidents of the Gias- T. S. Thain will lend tho noon-day prayer- meeting In Lower Farwell Tlal, 150 Madizon street, to-day. I'he tempernturo yesterday, os observed by Manaese, optician, No, 88 Madiron strect (Trapesr Bailding, at8 n.m., 38 degrees; 108, m., 4% 12m.,523 3 p.m, 62; 8 p. M. 50. sarometer At 8, m., 20, 07; AL B p. ., 2044, ‘The namo of Batler decornten the Palmer- Tiouse reglster. Don't lot anybody etart, how- ever, for it Innot he of Massachusctts, buta ge tleman from New York. The origind! Jacobs, as ftwern, was, of course, lookingafter {he success of his **Ponl-your-lsguca’ campaign in the Bay Biste yesterday . Colloctor Harvey's offico in the Govern. ment Butding wes open only hait the day yestets day, but the iuternal-revenne receipta reached £1.3:24 for all that. _ 0F this amonnt §14, 8132 way for tazes on =virite, 32,030 for tobacco and eigars, 8200 for beer, nnd $H0 for exports—800 barrels from the Pacenix Distilling Company. Mr, Michnel Davitt, of Dublin, Ircland, whn wan eentenced 10 tweive years’ confinement {n un Enelisn Jail for nn nlleged Dolitical offense, and WNo wad recently relcased after eight years penal rervitude, I8 ecobping at the Palmer 1fonsa b this eity. Mr. Duvlithos been lecturingto Jarge audi- ences throughont the Unlted Htalen turing the last 1o month, A novel fentnre will o added to the Good Sucplierd Bazar this (Wednesday) evening. Two Yoting contests will be Inaugursted, —one for 8 ellk flaz to by awared to the police furce or the Fire Lo- pactiaent, the other for & snperb edition of **Pict uresque America, ' contribated by Jansen, Me- tInrg & Co., to be nent fo Cardinal Mashing or Arcublahop Saciiaie, —a most appropriate gift. A saciety whiclt ns for itw abject tho pro- motfon of the knowledge of the original Ianguages of the Bible was ntf:mlm-( Monday in the Bi] saom of Farwell fail. The Rev, Arthur Lit the New Lngland Chuech, wae elected Chai aud tha Ttev. L, P, Mercer was chosen to inct 08 Secreinry, Prof. Maimon states the object of the orzanization, oud_the itev, Messra, Sumner Ellls ami Thomas and Me, Benjamin Douglas wera ap. Inted i comnitics o prepara o constitation for e nociety, The meeting then adjonrned to Nov. IX at 12:150'¢lock. All clergymen and others Julerested fn the objeets of the society are cordinl- 1y tavited to attend, EXAMINING RENNEDY'S BRAIN. br, 1L Lymsn avd Dr. D. R, Brower, of West Adams streel. have petitioned the Siate's Attarney to allow them to make a scientiflc exami- natlon of 1he skull of Kennedy, the wite.murderer and insaue suiclde, and Mr. Milla has promised them all the facilities for 30 doing when the au- topsy of the body takes place. ‘The medicsl tlcmen expected’ that the ortem esam(na- tlon trould take vlace yesterday, but if it did they wers not advised of the fact. Tho ob. eei of thie cxamination on ther part s for the cueiit of science. 'hey first desira to discover whather the injucles receved by the deceasod upon the head were vermauent fraciures of the Loue, depressing a portion of the aknll upon the pruln euliclent 1o cause epllepsy of the brain, théreby producing insanity, Uy means of a ini- crasconle examination of the Lratn, which 1t will take several monthe to complete, they ray they will ive enabled to fudge as to whether or not de- venued wag adticted with wneanity. {f lie wan in- eany tnere would be {nflammation of the onter cortical ~portion, or the pray motter which furms the outside shell of the beain. In advanced wiaies of tnsanity thin wnfammation prodaces & de- cided chanze of color in thess parts, rendering consideratly darker; but In ordinary cares Al gervices af o microscope are required ty recog- mze them, and this sofL of investigation tnkes tine. It will be a matter of consideraslo impor. tauce to tho physicians, and their report will be read with fntereet Ly acientifie peaple, THE HELDER(-DONARUE CASE, James Doninbue, ngainee whom eerious charges were nado in yesterday’s TRINUNE reearding the kidnapine o “spiriting away of a M, Henry Helbers, who was lormerly in his employ, calicd st thut olfice lat evenlug aud made the following w»latement regarding tue m{'llerloul nffaie: Some #ix months ago, while Telhery was in his omploy. the latter recewved trom Germany 8 gold-draft of £300. Helbery callected tho money and went un o ¥rand aprec, aquanderingevery cent of it {n 2 short time. When ibv money was gone Ielborg wont 10 work as watcnman at tho W, W. Strong farni. ture wanofactory, Tbere he stated that the latger part of his money had been retained by ‘Donahne and engaged 8 lawyer to prosecate Dim, The lawyer Tollowed ~ Donahus 1o lictroit, wheto ho had gone 10 buy polatogs, and iad him arrested on the charme of Yarceny as baffee. (When the time of trinl arr{ved Hetbery's Tawyer did not apuear to prosecute, and the prisnner way discharged, - He wie then followed up by two detect! who forced him 10 pet into their bugzy and drove him 1o & town callea Wyandotio; there n for Toledy, frum whence 8 ¢ . 1le was locked yp at the Central Statlon ono tay and then uke“ betore Jdustice Sallsbury, who beld bimin bail of 12,000, Not hieing bl 1o wsucure bondsmen al once hie wan talen 16 the County Jail, where 1o remained until uweek ngo st Friday, when he wavo badl, Dny before yesterday be hind o conssitation with lirl verg, and they ‘succecded In amicably sottling tho ailatr hetween' themselves, and 1e)bes with Dopabue st the latt Twnety- frelnireet, Donabue claims that Lelberg's attore ney wos the cause of all the trouble, any that he ocied witbour outhority from L client, le tends to sue the Iawyar for false mprisonment dumages, SUDDEN DRATHS. AL7:15 lawt cvenlng an lakan named Carlo Onli), » chestnut vender, Te)l suddenly dead at the northieast comor of Clurk and Washinyton streets. Dr. Suyder. who attended, pronouuced it elther a cave of apoplexy or hesrt' disenue, The body was taken to his fate home, No, 84 Meridiau atrect, Ticcensed bod a witeand thres children In thy old country, and bad only been in the United Statce %o years. Monday midnight Mrs. Ellzabeth Reewoldt died suditeuty at No, 70 Wells street, Sha had been & suflerer from consumption for & Jony tiwe, and it x suppored died of that complaing, Deceased waa » Geninan, 33 ycars of age, ' ACCIDENTS, Monday aftermoon Wil Tweniy-sisth atrect, was o 2121y injured vy on accident Fertilizine Company's work of No, 410 800 perheps the Northwestern ut he Block- S Yards, Whila tnlull!g a plank walk between twa huildings, oo end of & plank upon which he Lud weped gave way, and o fell to {he ground, a distance of about Afteen foet, Imcturings Ihigh- Lune, both bunve of ho right arm Justabove the wrist. brufslog hle face badly, and ‘tadly cuitng is toneue, 'The autending physiclan thiuke be wili recover, Eddle Dixon, 10 y of age, was run over yes. lerdny at the curner of Milwaukee aveuue wud Uniuvi strect, by a horse and express wagon ownod by A. Urqulisri, of No, 70 Weat Indlans street. The tnjured (Wn taken to his home, corner of Hultard and Halsted stroets, and was attended by L. lowe, who pronounced his injuries quits ve- iz INcifie flotel=Tin 1o Sieig b Eorpes ucific flotel—=Th« 1lon. Mate 1, Cs xeed e 1. T. B. Newaics. bpringaods I Kemter i Goldsehml fue i " Belford. “Lu: Latiner eousa=A, 1 Malr, Coint liap s’ 3 urrill,, Geueral Superinteadent of Ceairal HUR Towa: Geis. 2. No Rtk 8ud Cof, o SthasBoig O H A the oo, -, Bleele, Jolioty ! 80 Baldimores * Xool Thattipada, ata: siter Ingetsoll, “Detruits - Cal, J. A i dcary Juinen, New “York ascow, ‘Bcotland. . .. Tremni Newsrk, W. 11, ‘Siiveos, Now T U . rthy, Balllinur o; Clazk Woodidan, Ornaba jouse—J. &, Burdy, Turaer, St Josepiit Col. V- Alfred Meyers. Moutans; the Bt 4. 8; Watcpan, sycamore: (e tluae Rovers A b, eysille: I, L. 0, V' h Sidmbenier, Lovtaviiier aad d. Wr Tiaabta: Baopvi.” CRIMINAL, In nrow between rival night watchmen sttho corner of Dearborn avenns and Diviefon streel sl au early hout yesterday morning, Thomas H. -Luight wassoverely cus about the bead by Frank Patten. Tue injured man realdes at No, 412 North Lasalle street, An uuknown man, too drunk to give Lis neme, camu 1nto the Armory last night blsealng vrofuscly from several severe wounds an the top of thic head. The police macertained that he had been lured fnto & house of i1l fawme,and lind been beaten sud robued of sbout 845 Ly two notorious colored clutacters nawed Cornella Bell sod ** E1l" o wera urrented, o oen sod *EIN Dlatoo. Arrests ;. Charles Wilson, mnaking threats 10 i1l Clara. Edwards; Jennfe Drown, & erpeian roomtug at Ng. 422 Htate atceet, whaw Hine zeu had arrested for carving bhn with pan-kalfes Mary Alimeyer, who eataved from the Mouss of Jtetuge by tyluy three blankets together snd shiding down thew fron 8 third-story window; ten tug. ey, charged with unoecesssry blowiog of whia- tles; John Berry, whom Detectives Livslag aud Lub\lul;fnu thouzht mignt sttewpt Lo vote it ho was ultowed to remaly at liberty, Clerles C. Salvesen, a young fellow slding at No. 705 bouth Moy strect, has bevn Lvking 117 1or unwards of & year by represeut 0 fwself (0 e an [uter-Ucedn Feporter, That Ve the fellow a notico a fuw Usys ago, be baduince been tepresenting the night cey of tuls paper. He ordered from Brpwn oote, uf No. 128 Clark street, an vlaborsie star, of shpe uped snd orler- engraved upou reverse fhe follows g VPresested to Clarles €, Salvesen, . DL i W, 0. T, by wewbers of shu I, G, O, June 14, 2476, ke star a now at this oltice, e wakers Laviug been uuable ta. soblect from tha ' ‘ ‘;.:3[4; E;:T-uu ;,uu L b;u-n «lmpla)'fl n 1Y o UE Tuisung. Feg) whom Lflmuwl«d #houid prosecute the mu';:. bl - e ABRAHAMS SUIC)DE- FUBTIAER DETAILY. The wystery surroundlog e death of D, B. Abubawms, the West Lake street livery-stable keeper, was partiully clearcd away yesterday by by Luding of i platol it which the shuotlug atrange that 4t that hour in the evening no oac in tho nelchborhood heard the ehot, and it Ia atranger yet that no one eaw the horse and buggy and the dead driver lylng limp on theseat, The theory ts that an foon As the ahot was fired dealls ensoed, and that tho horse, frigutoned atiho nofes, ran away, fnd that the bodv was jolted ont of the vehfcte. In poing from No. 15 South Green atrect to the corner of drecn and Jackeon ntreetn the rnuaway horss had to croes Weat Madi- son street at one of i1 t and Hvelicst points, Yot nobody has yet repotted having seen the atrange When fonnd, the bady gave evidence o % hoen drageed’ some diatance: 1he ovarcoat was pulied oves tne corvse's head, and tho clothing was all dinareangel and covered Wit Aust ond dirl, When tue pistol-shot was fired, rrobably the horee, which was a spirited creature and difiicalt to manage (so eaya the son of the de. ceased), aprang forward at onee, and Lhis cansed the body to fall or lop over, restitini eventually in itn bemg thrown alfogether outof the carriage, "There s #t11} many feutures in this affalr which aro nexplicable, 1hio buay of Mr. Abrahema Iay in the front par- Tor of the La Plerce louse yesterday, which 18 one of the rooms that havo Deen occunied by tho Abrahame family for the past five years, they heing by far the oldest Loarders n the hofel, Mra, Abranams refused ta leave tho corpae for a ainaly moment during tho day, snd manifested the m intense griel, The sun, Fred, told a Tiness ro porier thiat he wauld never bejicve bis fatlier com. mitted suicide, as thera was not tho slightest fn- centive for the act. 15is nfairy wern not serloualy embareacted, and ecerianly they had never cansed him much apparent snxiety, Mr. Abrahams was Dot A miaD to @ve Way to morose reflections of to discouragement, and he had not shown any such atata of inind to any of hie frieuds ar family, ‘i'he young man sald, that he had been badiy misreprescnied by ihe mm"‘“fi papers in roe gard to his action fn withholding his father's lctier $rom the police, Naturally, he said, he dtd not wish to huve the peivate family nflllrii)unlllhml ta the world, and this lecter spoke nbout financinl embarransments which could wol possibly intereat the public. For thatreason he had tried to keep the leticr back from the detectives, Jlo admitted that he had lled to them n eaying that he didn't know anything of tic whetcahouts of the Jetter; he said that bo bad been wild, as many other young men were, but now he meant to sestic down, ynit **bumming,” and take active charge of the hyerv-stable, Me. Edward A, Trask, o real-estale agent, wos mentioned in the letter of Mr. Anrahams (0 his wife holuing oim completely fn his power, and ex- torting 0 per cent A montk from him as intcrest on mortgages. Mr. Trask aal yesterdny that three 'y 270 Al came to him '"hfli: that o mostgago held against bin by 8 xentiemon in this ity was about to be foreclused, and beyging him 10 loun hini the money o pay it. e, “Irask, had therenpon indaced a friend to adyance the money, taking notea for one year, Abralhams noglected to pay either the principal or” Interest, but borrowed of Trask from time to {ime suma sufficlent to pay the intercst to the bolder of the poles. Daring Aheft frequent ti tiond & warm frlenastp Spravg np oeswesn thar, und the real.oatate agent came to look upou the I stable keeper 0s 8 father, (This ta Trn ateme At toe end of the year the note was renewed, and still Abra- taros kept on borrowing of ‘Trask in sums of $200 to £100 mp:z“xflnlurlt. Then taese obligationy were Included in the mortzage, and on Nov. 1of this year the accuiuisted noten were di last Mr. ALrahoms sent &8 message to ‘I'rask saying that be would call sround at nalf-past & in the afternoon nnd arringo about the mortyuge. Bab ha didu't come, Monday Trask met Abratnsme on the street. and they had s fricndly talk (50 Trask says). That was i fatal Monday for poor Auen- hawa, 1t could not hiave been long after this in. terviow when the ilvery-stable keeper harnessed ap hls fastes’ horse to & Hght bapgy and stacted out on the ride which ended in the Loras tearing np 10 the Jivery-sishie a3 10 o'clock st night without s driver and’in the finding of Abrahams' corpse on West Jackeon street witha ballet-lole In Ll heaa, Resurding the statenent In Abraksina' lost letter that ‘U'rask was charging him G per cent & month the Intter porson eaid that he wonld neither deny por corrobarate it, 1o mysterionsly hinted that the res} facts wouid come ont beforo Jong. Heforo coming to this city Abrahams lived In Ottamwa, Ia,, where ho was cngsged in porke packing, wn enterprise which resulied disastrousiy for hiin from a financlal stondpolnt. Jie has Lived In Chicago n_ycars, ‘U'rask says rpat thediv- ory-stable was doing n profitable businevs, but that Abrahams and his lnml‘f were «xtravagnut livers, 2nd were cunstantly in dovt. THE COURTS. THR BURRVE ESTATE. Judge Moore was occupled ail day yesterday in bearing tho demurrer to the bill {n the case of Duchanan ve. Shrove and others, It seems that T\ T. Shreve died in Loulsville, Ky., leavinga latge praperty (n both citles, Dy hls will be directed that bls estate should be divided Into Gve parts, thatone of those parfe should be piven to his son, Charles U. Shreve, bat that one-half of s part ahould be conveyed ta 8 teustec for 2 Charles' beneflt durine his litetime, dnd then descend to Lin children, Charles U. Mhreve snbsequently becatoe embarrassed, ond- mude n wenersl aerlgnment lu Loulsville conveylng n largs amount of property by descriptios, ond adding In the conveyance that it was his object to convey all the proverty that he owned not exempt from execntion. The Assignes, James Nuchan, & short time ago fAled a bill ciatming that ho \vas en- titled nnder that conveyauce to the trast estate whith was conveyed nnder his father's will by Charles durink hielite, 'The will provided that, o far ae the trust estate wus concerned, Charles shunid save no power to focumber it, except ps to tue rents and proflts, The defendant clalms that the hill will niot he becanne the trust estats for hia Jife did not pa Lecause e iad 110 power of alfenation. Alan that the deed of asignwiens was inetlectiial, firat De- cause (b did uot upeclly or deecribe’ the trust estate, tho ouly terins In the instrument which could bo coneldered us. covering the trust estate telag tue qenieral onea above referred to, ‘The deed of assignment did not convey or affect the estate, because (L was not undes aesl, The dee having been executed In Kontucky, where no scal’ renuired, (he Drecaution wus not taken there to have 1t under Yhoe aryuments Were not concluded. Nr, G dynn Uarnett appeared for the complalnant, and C.- A, Gregory and L. M. Shreve for the defendants, 1TENS, Judze Blodgett wihil call through hiv calendar to- morrow 10 aca what casow are ready for trial, and will then Immcdllnl{ roceed to call thoss resay, ‘Ibe motion for an n}‘uneuon in the Pattgioser case will bu hieard to-morrow mornlng before Judge Mcaliister, Otte Urvanzky filed o bill againet bis wifs, Wil- helunins, asking for a divorce on the ground of T riay confessed Cuaries M. Rieger yesterdsy confessed juag- meut for 8203, 00 fu favor \'llex{lln Blatz, 1% TIHE CALL. JEBox Biobartr.—het chses and general boalneas, PPELLATR CounT~Opinions will then be cailie N u Bouthiern kil e, I A St wa Y esiand 47, Jirpia ve. Uglel Take hore & S lculinn Soutera l(gll:u Comneay ::'. urdaks 4o, Hrows ve. Tuchrs; ahd S Nve va. Buls Jack, " No case on hORHHIR, - Jybag JANERON—No cilise On trial. " Call 18 62, 04 to 07, 70, 72, 74 W Te, 8240 54, 80U 8 10 8, Inclusive. Uk Mooke—y, Whiek v, DA o8 h:film:g. can Jun LA, o, a Ho ceuse on trfal, Call i 179, 11, Glata yo. Couk, on trial, CNIIs Jenuk Buoti il 1) Lo 1L, Inclusive. JULo® MOALLISTRN=2, $47, (npany. Jubug WiLLiaws—~145, Johoson va Derilzbsiie; 2,003, Jewell va. Bnoyer. g THE WOMAN’S HOSPITAL, AMNONG THE MANY PUBLIC INSTITOTIONS ©of Cuicaco devoted to the allovintion of the iils ot suffering bumsnity there are fuw, if sny, moro du- serving patronage and the countenance and atd of the humsua and charitable than the Woman's Hoe- vitalofthe Stato of 1lligols, located at No, 671 Catiage Orove avenue. Though in uperation bul & compuratively bricf period, cnough bLas been siroady accomolished to show that it supplies a ‘want uot otherwiso or clsewhers fully supplied, that iis services ai B now slmost Inaispenva. Ble, aud toat i bids 121 fu ihy neat futute 10 reals 1ze the moet sanguine expectations of Ite faunders, It 1s special 1o its charscier, Mlllfi wholly devuted 1othe treatmento! the discunce and accidente pecu. liar 1o womap. particulaely sucn us requirs surgical wicans for their alloviation sud cure. During the perations ¢ Inwates wpesk in terma Of udiveraal prstas of the king treatment recolyed ond the great peucAt derived tay at the (natitution. The Hosyial arge, commodious edifice, built of ed brick, sud supplicd with al) n improvements. 1ls Jocalion Vs ooe of ost pleasant in t] -at the entrsnce of the 1Ly, — Woodlswu Park, and dicectly oppoelic the gruunds of the Chicago Unlveruity. Lake Michigan, G land Vark, sud Douglee-Munument Purk aro (g th lmwmediate 'Idnll{. and Lilis Park, Drexel Loulo- vurd, aud Bouth Park sre withina fuw 1winutee® fl“' “y {nufiul cars, which pusa the door ot the 0apital P.Pmm are sdmitted rrespactive of thelr ereed, folur, matonahty, o7 cundition in s, A wom-. oal suws e charged far patieats whu aze sbie (0 pbay, but those Whu are not able, residiug witbin Ihe State, are taken free. A fuw of the rooms will Le sowely furnished for the accummodation of paticnls woose Cifcumatinces enabio thew to bay higher gaice, sapecially thoto who com Lo the ity from distant - places (or treatinent, snd who nidy wlepto avold tho dlscomlorts and inattention inacpernble (row a sojourn at hotels and buardiug- Bovdes. A frev dirpensary ts counccted willy the dlosplial, und ls open every Wednesday und Satur- day f1o1 10 1032 o'cloca for tbu gratuitous ireatmont of respectable pout wouten, - Toe Hospital 8 uuder thy wanagement of & Board of (iovernurs, Boara of Lady Supersivors, and & . Bledical Hoard. The frat ts cowposcd of a numbor of thw leadiuy clilacns uf Chicago and other promi- went citles ln thy biate, with W followlng ot~ Tuo Hon, Williews Bruse, Presidenss fi £, , Vice-Fresieent; J. Ieviug Pearce, Trvuse urer: aud Willlam Bornee, Becretury. Tho Board of Lody buporvisors cousists of Alre, Julta M. Jackson, Prestdent; Mew, A. H, Barber, Treasure er; Mra. B. D. Fatferson, Secretary; Mra. dutacs M. Recd, Mru. Jeaws Clewent, Mra, M, K. Strat- ford, Mrs. J. Leawing, Alre. Peter Laggy, Mra. Lutler btow, Mra. J. B. Flood, Mee. M, D, Keu- fard, Reeldent-Tuysicians . Ramsey Flood, M. D., Assistant-Phyaician. A mecting of the Ioard af Sapervisors was held Frlday, at whicht commtiees were appointed 10 sollclf eontribnfuns for the prepose of “procaring nreded fusnitare fae the institation. 1t was also deciited to hole a fair for tio benedt of thd Tus- plial aome tinie tluring the enaning month. and eommiticen were apnoinfed, to make the neceassey nerangements, Doubticea the apneal of th Iadies to the public for aid In this laudable en prize will he penerously met, for tho object is cers tainly & most deeerving on: TATHER KENT. CELENRATING TU1S GOLDEN WEDDING, ‘The lectnre-room of tho Flest Vroebyterian Charch was well filed last evening with a happy nocial throne, the occasion belny the celebiration of the poiden wedding of the Rev, Hranerd Kent, Letter known as ¢ Fther Kent." The Arst steps toward the celebration of this event wero tsken by the teschers of tho Miston Chapel, which was fonunded by Father Kent, but the members of the First Churcti, of which ho is an honored member, felt that they would Tike to Joln in paying thelr testinonial to him, and it was nccordingly deter. mined o throw open the lectare-room of the chiren on the peeasion, ther Kent was twenty.ono years ago the fonnder of the Railrond Chapel, * At ticat the serve Icen were held In 2 raiirosd car on the Michigan Sovtham tracks, then a frame bullalag was ercct. ed. and finnlly the school Was maved Into its pres- ent capacious quarierdon State atreet, nese Four. teenthr. All this time Fathor lient har been active- iy connected with i1, and now ho gues to the Chaoel daily, where a readingstoom i alwaysopen, liears the freauent calls for nid, and seekn out tha voor and destitute of the neighdormood, It whs a8 a slight secomniilon of thees years of wervico that the ‘leachers of the Chapel Eahliath-achool defermined on marking the fiftieth snpiversary of his wen)dlnn-du(. ‘The oe- caslon waon eatirely informal, being in largo part n soclal reunlon of teachers ond friends of the all. road Chapel, and quito & nomber were present from abroad who had been teachers thero in for- mer years, Tather Kent and his wifo ook their Aiation just in front ot the deak In the lecture. 1 1o receive the congratuiations of thew fricuds. Dehind them, on the wall, \was n semi- cirofilsr band of eveigrecns, on which were the dates **1828—1878% in fAowers, ana below Cuid was the niotto, **God's Work Paya Suro Wages. '* Bankets of flowers covered the frontof the plat. form and the table in front of It At sbont half-past 9, the pastor. the Rev. Mr. Milchell, called the company to order, and_stated that Mr. Hendermon wished fo make 'a few romarks, Tha Iatter then stepped forwaed, and, in a gracetal ad- dregs, congratulated Father Kant and hie wife on thelr having lived to celebrate the present anni- varnr{, and aliuded feelingly to the dedt v gratl- tudg the church was nnderto him for hix work In tho Rallroad Chapel. Al the close be presonted Father Kent with a purse contalning about aeventys five gold dollars, on belslf of the teachers of the 3 chavel., Father Kent responded in s hnmorous way, tell- ing the clrcumistances under which he met hie wite. and the reanlt of bis axperience of dliy years of warried Jife. Tla felt, with Solomon, “that o wife was a good thing, and ndvised the young men 1o ibiuk tilen before they decided fo remain Dbachelors, The company ndjourned to tbe church patiors to dircuss A very wubstantinl soread of zood things, and the gathoring hroke up at a Iate hour. Deslides the burse from the teschers, a large num- ber af the church folks fonnd occaslon durlng the evening to pay thelr regarde to Father Kent ins more unosteniations but equally substantial and sstiafactory manncr, the amount uf which tan only be known by the givers and reciplents, BUBURBAN. RVARSTON, After'a uickness of several weeks, Mre. Joabella M. Jocelyn, danghter of Cepl, John Dorchoster, and nlster of Mra, Gen, A. C. Dncat, Mrs, A esler, and Mrs, Willlam Johnson, diod at the resldence of Iho latter early y2aterduy morning., Tae Rflmbllun Club mer Monday evening, bot adjourncd ita_meeting fur the annual election of afiicers Untl] next Saturday evening, ‘The Village Trustees, at o special mesting Mon- day evening, decided upon an ordinunce for the laying of u ten-Inch vitrifled pipe sewer from Diavis street to University piace, through the'alley tetween Chicago and Orrington avennes, The Eelectic Club elected oftfeera Monday nlght. They sre: Presiuent, Geosyo ¥.-Lord: Vice:)resl- aeut, E. S. Horrows; Secretary, Mrs, 1. C. ‘Wicker;'Musical Director, , Mrs, N. G. Igiehart, e — MURDEROUSLY DELIRIOUS. Exciting Scene In tho Callfornin Constitu. tional Convention, New Vork Mercury, - The Assembly Chamber at; Bacramento, Cal,, recently was the scent of &, murderous attack, which, for the timo beingj‘causcd o great ex- cltement, and Lias aince beew *the chief tople of conversation, The Copstitutional Conventlon pdjourncd before noob, but alter lunch o great , muny delezates returned'ta the Copltol and re- taatned i the Chamber throtughout the after- roou. Shortly after 2 o'clock an Individual named Hale, considerably under the tofiucnce of ltquor, put in an appesrauce, and by his sctions succeeded In_making himself obnoxious. Ber- geaat-at-Arms Sherwood was talled iny and took the man by the arm to put Km dut, AL that wmoment J. Berry, Joint delegate from the Couu- tles of Bisktyou, I'rinity, &nds Modaoe, was poss- ing out. ‘The Sergeant-nt-Arms and his drunken clarge folluwed, the latter expostulating wild- 1y, Suddenly e called art: * Where {o h—i are you golug1" Berry, Lhinking doubtless that the question was addressed to hlm, turncd awd used an indecent expreasion, The drauken man inade sume remark Lo the effcet that hio wae not addresslog Berry, when the latter sald, * D—n you, Il Kll both of vou,” st the same time drawlag his pocket-knife and rushing on them. The Bergeant-at-Aring, whom Berry evidently did not knbw, s¢ized his arun gud atiempted to reasou with him and exptaln that he was remov- o adruuken tman, but Derry was grestly ex- cited und strupuied 10 get tree. He applied se. vere apithets to the drunken man, and shouted : “Let mo get at bim; why don't you let e go3 DIk the ——of 8 ——" Buddenly he loos- eued the Sergesnt-at-Arm’s cluich on bim, oaod, uartiug at the unoffendior man, seized Lim by the walsliers with oue hand and drove o koifu tirice or threp tntes into the right side of his neck, The Servesni-at-Arjus ant Delegates Tinaln aod Farrell ruabed vn hlin and forced Ltm back over the desk, where they uttemoted 10 get the kalfe out of his hand, 1o the ferce struegie the Bergeant-at-Arinsrelazed his grasp al Berry's hond, and in & twinkling be drove the knlfe Into the back of the Berzeant’s hand, Intlicting patalul wounds, Thercupou all pars tles refinguishied their lold * apan the $ufurlatea man, sad_ retreated to a adfe distance, Herey pockated his kpife und walked up and down toe centro alale, brandishing bis arme and calllng upon the Chalrman to cali bimn to order if by dared, and kiudred vnoosensical remarks. In a few wmiuntes Ofitcers Woods and Coffee arrived, uvd, tuking bim o cbarve, couveyed him to prisun. The wounded man walked off slone to udrug-store, The conduct of Berry was unaccountable under the clrcumstances, but subscquent ex- plaaations by Mr. Tinain, of Frialty, sad others acquatuted with blm, tepd to cloar up the my tery. It sppears ibat Herry, wha resided Yreka, was formerly s heavy drlnker, hay sulfered the customary results of egresavo in- tomperance. [le was formerly In the Ntockton Asylum, but for some time hos been vizorously abitemious, aud his coustitueuts, who deews hibm, very justly, au able man snd taleuted at- turne, came convinced that it was sate to (n- trust L)m with electlon to the Lonvention, le hus not participated In the proceedings of the Coaventlon to uny marked extent, not haviug introducen o single proposition or awendment to the Constitution. 1L Is thopmght tho fndul- gonce lo dquor induced’d sudden attack ol his old athnent, resuliing in the unfortunate atfuly, An effort wlil be wade to have him committed (o the lusane asylurd, and 8¢ & necessary cone- quence lis scat will bo declared vacated by the Cuaventlon. —— A CARD, LoussviLLe, Oct. 5, 1878.—1, O. P, Anderson, of Truy, Perry Couuty, Ind., do beredy certify that I was tbe bolder of one-bslf ticket, No. 84,767, lu the Afth drawing of the Cowmon- wealth Distribution Company, which transpired on the $0th of September, in tha City uf Louis- ville, Ky, Baid ticket cost the sum of $lat the ollie of the Cumqnny by correspondence nd- dregsed to T, J, Commerford, Bicretary, Box 0, Loaisville, K., calllag Tor $10,000, aud which 1 have this dav presenied for payment ut tue oflices of the Comopany, the same belog promptly paid by check on the Third Natlonsl Bauk of Loulsyille, which cbuek was duly hop- ] 2 ored and Q. P, AxoRus0N. Nsw York, Oct, 10, 1579.~1, A. H. sMorgan, of Pullsdelodia, Pa., do bereby certify ruat J wus tho bolder of one-hall ticket, No. 83,674, which vost §1 at the Cowpany's office, by curre. spoudence sddrassed to T. J. Cointuerfurd, Beo- retary, Box 90, Loutsville, Ky., aud which dresw 430,000 {u the tth drawiug of the Cowmon- wealth Distribution Company, which touk place fu the City of Loutsvitle, Sept. 30, 1878, aud that I forwsrded sald ticket 1o T. J, Commer- ford, Beeretary of the Compavy st Loulsviile, which stnount was dulg":ummul and this day gmm tly pald 1o me through the oftice uf tue Nuw York sge A. L. Mogaax, FURNITURE AND BEODING STILL CHEAPER. For ail the Furulture Msaoufacturers’ Unlon, st Nua. 260 and 271 State strect, bave vold all goods atstrictly wholessle prices 10 make toom fuz new styles, tuoy bave reduced evem lowez stiil. gow Failure. Desperation and Despalr...How the Shock Falls npon the Share. holdors. Rush for the Bank—Poverty and Btarva- tion Throughout Bootland, ' Correspandence Aein York Herald, QGrasaow, Oct, 20.~—Once, but only once, do we read In the history of Scottish vommerce of 1 disaster equaling In crusbingconsequences the downfal) of the City of Glasgow Bank., Dls- credit has been cast wpona justly celebrated aystem of banking, tnin and beggary have stepped suddenly fato and selzed upon homes of wealth and position, The news of the fallure eame lke n thunderbolt from a clear sky to thousands. Rumor had heen busy for some rays Lefora the crash came, it ia true, but the 11l news liad not flown wwith {ta nroverbial pace, 1andthe portentous murmur did not reach the earof thasa upon whose daily 1ifa the collapse will have the crestest effect. In the loner com- mercialcfrelomenshrugeed thelr shouldersnt tho evident disposition of the bank to lend vounte- tance to uusound speenlations and to give credit where credit was attended by tonslderablo risk, But, op theother hand, there were the share lists to point to where it could be scen in black and white that the stock of tho concern held {ta own agalnst {ts rivals, and that for years past, and so lately s last July, a div- fdend at the rate of 12 por cont hiad been pafd. 1t waa in the latter light that tho afairs of the bank présented theniscives to the pubile; all canflalng. they knew not of the frail reed upon which they wero leaning, of-the hollow rotten- ness ot the ground beneath thefr feut, TOR sMAST, The blow was therelore sl the more severe and stunning when, on the morniug of the 24 inst, the public prints througnout the cunnllry contained the following announce- ment: Tne Nirectorn of the City of Glasgow Dank hav. Ing intimated thelr rosolation not fo open thelr doors for businus® ta-morrow, and tu ceaso the la3uo of noles, the nnderatzncd banks horoby cive motice, with a VIbw to lessen the inconvenlence of the atoppago to the public, that they will receive, in the ordinary conmoof business, the notes of the sald bank now in circulstion, 7 hen followed the hames of the ten different banks in Scotland who came to the rescoe of the totes. Tha tirat frenzied rush for informa. tion elicited the bare facts that the Directors of the City of (Hasgow Bank had, carried on busi- neas notil tifey found ‘themsclyes 1 an uttecly hopeless and helplesa’ state, “They then coui- munteated wwith ihe other panks throughout thie vountry, requesting o meetiug of thelr vari- ols representatives. At tho first conference, in Ldinbure, the atate of affalrs, 80 far as then ul- luwed to be made khwown, was lald before the dulegates, and a Comimissioner was appointed to nink ®an fuvestication as far ns wos possible, ‘The result of this reliminary inquiey satisfled the managers of the ‘Scotch banks that it was utterlv hnpossibie td kive hny nssistance or re- liet to the concern. “This decision was conveyed to the ‘deputation 6f Directors of the City of (lasgow Dank, who then declared that they had no alternative but tavlose thele doors, A CLANNISH ACTION, Matters having asdatied so critical & form it waa deemed advisable ‘by the other binks, with n view to sustain a8 (hFas possible the credit of the country nud thémuch-vaunted * Scoitish avstem of banking,™ £b acrept the notes of the City of (Hlasgow Bank in the ordinary course of busfucss. Some Idéh'may be formed of the effect af aueh a stedf Whey it (s stoted that the bank, which had ‘beit tostituted in 1839, hod 133 branches, 1,270 nadners, and o total of de- yostts amounting WP IES000000, It had mara ngencles than oy o¥ier similar fnstituiion Seotiand, and, by wealls of these, lts ramilica- tions wero extended Yifroughaut the length, and Dreadth, and into tifetremolest corners of the land, In pang of thé country places the bank waa teprokented by Togents” of the wmost influential character, wiho f{aspired the ut. most confdence, iIA° had therefore es. tabllshed extensive Ubnnectionn in toelr ru- spective districts, LU the general public, how- ever, tiese officlals: kew nothing of the sus- pension tutll the very’uorning of the fatal uay, To tho whole, of t):z"lumnphh orders wore sent fu time to prevét” thelr openiny ‘ot tho usual hour, but in a6hE caeathp telegrams bad zoneastray, and the F¥et of the'suspension was gleaned trom the MWérning Journsls, Where suicls was the cage the Atpositors naturally made u rush upen the braniits and recovered posse. sion of thelr money. ', / d THE NEWS IN 0LASGOW.S At the headyuartef5t the bank there was of course the wildest ext@temet, and In all the de- partments of cominesedt quite a panic: business came to a standstill, 51At the chlof oflice, in Vir- ginla strect, larze cfdwds assembled early in the forenoon and remhined all through the day 11 the neigtisorhood, T¥en aud watneu who had mogey fu thu bank ‘Brried to the building, aud, “upable to yeAllzo the dread calsmity that had overtaken thein, made trantic atlempts aud plteous spoeals el ket back thelr properes Perhaps tho most deplorable scenes were wit- nensed at one of the branches in the cast end of the city, fnhabited by'the poorer portion of the working closs tn" conucetion with thia par- tleular oflice a departvhent had long been in operation which partbbk, to a large extent, of tho naturc of o saviuiin Lanks, recelving very emall sums from thethrifty residents of thy district. At the time of tho suspension thers wero & long list of dbtiositors on the huoks of the branch, and the ambunt atthelr credit was very considerable, It'way {usyitable that theso should suffer like the others, and, kunowing this, the poor people ‘crowded in hundreds to b doors, but of coursd their entreaties were of all. Bo great wad thu assemblage at tho olfice that the police had 1o be ealled out. Actiog on the first smphise, holders 0f the dis- credited papor hurried 1o get 1t changed for cold or other notcs, This anxiety was, of sourse, altogether unnecessary, and tho fact that the nutes were teken o any number with. out remark satistied the holders of them that they need bave been under no uneasiness. INCIDENTS QF TRE RUSW. There wers sowne cascs of haste, to realize which show that even abank [allure Is not with- out its humarous side.. Onu elderly Judy, hav. ing got her notes n:lnnmmi assured the counter clerk, lnntone ol reproof, that she wonid bo her own bank after this, aud suother walked away under a heavy load of zold, prescrving a dlgritied silenco when told by the banker that she would ba back agalng and an old man whose s had been lodged In one establistuent, on applylng for aud obiaining his deposit, re- marked, as he lelt, to one of the oMcials, that A birl in the han's worth twa fn the bush.' A promijuent Glusgow clerzymasu bad recelved a cheek on the Clty Hank for his hall-yedr’s sti- 1end atout n week prior to the fatlure, but had delaved cashing it, and ou the Wednesdsy morn- ing of the crash hu left howno with the jatention ol converting it fnto solid col Liea be came the head ofllew of ituated he niade inquirics of the 1 less parson wifl also fall due shortly, and the i!ml;u church funds sre lodged in tne City Jank, LOSSES OF TUE CHARITIES. More than oue of the clty charities wil) direct- Iy and {udirectly suller by thie suspeusion, and in one lostauce, where funds had been obtained by pubtic subscrivtion for the erection of an institution for waintainiog orplian children, the entire capital Is fockedd us. prrard af £40,000 of the Buntentativn Fund of the Free Chureh of Beptiaud {3 catimated to ba locked uy tn aifer- cut branc] throughout the countey where collectivs had been wade only & week or two before, Business Kuoplu eeucrally soun realized bow much tbelr hauds wero fettered by their buuk counection, Ong merchaut who dealt with tha City Baok found buusel placed ju sucha position that hecould neither get woucy 10 tarry on bls bustuess nor possess hitmself of “the guarantees which would enable him to procure money, abd all this although Le coudd with per- leet easo syuare tbe account between the Lank and biweel Cases occurred alsu lu wolch rsous in busioess whose funds were loeked up ‘:mu bank had to digposy of thelr govdsata vousiderablo sacritice u order to get mouey actusl necessities. These instances rdsbip sre not w0 fur rescning fu cratip{ug (ndueace as those Ju which co~ operative sud othir societies are concerned, The United Operative Masons’ Associstion of Bcotlaud 13 @ depositor fu the baok to the aouns ©of £17,4X, the whole of its available capital, aud thefe are other combinations, as well us suburban corporstions, wtose fuods ure shuitucly locked up, A CANNY 8COT. On the day after the susveusion an focldent cawe ynder notice which stiowed consiferable cuteucss oo the part of xn individual reslding o one of the miuing villages sowe mil Glasgow. Durlog the stfervoon of tl wentioned this personage prescuted ol potes belopglug to tne City of Glasgow Bauk 3L the bead office of oueof ths other Uanks sud reauested bulllon in change. Tue officlals, UVEMBIY € by dublous of the manner In which so_many notes had been collected, remsed st the time 1o cash them. On Inquiry being madoe it was fonud that the gentleman in oues- tion ind been buving pound notesat fifteen shitlings a feco from Lhe workiniz classes (n the m.-nm.{ who were of the opinion that paper wna of "liitle’ value peciog that tho bonk was “hroke.” On n par In enterorig was the Ulargot shopkoeper who, having a keen eye to busluess, aflited to his window varly in the faorenoon of the day of the trash a notice to the effect that he would secept City of Glasgow Bauk notes in oxchange for goods TIE BFFECT ON TITE MANX 2AN, Nowhero perhapa has the City Bank fajlure caused mora distress than in the Isle of Maw, where, under tho namo of the Bank of Mona, it carcled on busfness at_four branches. 1t had alinost a monopoly of tho depusits of the teland, the sum on hand ot the time of the stoppage being close upan £400,000, Many per- sons had thelr all lodged on pecount, nid nre now left without n dollar. ‘The names are given of onu gentleman swho had £7.00, and a Tady £3,000 in the bank, and both nre deatitute, Atone uf the flahing villages great distress s anticipated, ‘The lishermen nave had a bad season, and have had to rc?' on those smatl savings fortho winter's living for themselves nnd families. TMR SHARRHOLDENY. But while the depositors have our sympathies 1t 13 the sharcholders who ara most 1o be pltled and condoned with, 1t means ruin to mdny a bouscholl. There are hundreds who were, a few weeks ago, Nving In comfort and fancied security who to-day find their sourco of fncomu suddenly cut oil, That donbts nbout the state of the bank's affalrs exfsted s apparent by the absence from the liat of copartnery of the tiames of the merchant nrinces of the large oitles and the wealthy geotlemen of the country, It on tho contrary, with a feeling of rluml aul prise that one ffnda It Is crowded with the names of widows and spinsters, of clergymen, ot ner~ sons whoso means ore lield In tritst. Ve find that there are in )l 350 women registered on the 1ist of partners, and the total amount of stack opposite thelr names 18 £103,660, “Of these, twenty-five are widows, Iuvlnl;; £8,370, which, with the exceptlon of one holdine of £2,100, Is mostly in L1010 shaves, Clerevinen are ropre- seated to the exteut of thirty-three proprictors, and thelr proportlon reaches £19,070, while there are no fewer than 180 cascs In which the stock {8 held in trust, the amount being £132,8, Duzing the last ten years tne pumber of shinrchiolders has very greatly Incrensed, Large holders had toen selling out, nnd the stock was gradunlly being divided into small portlone, Many ond heartrendiog are the Incidents told concerning thore who stand In the unforitnate position of partners In the bank. Widows, whose entire worluly store was embarked in the rotten and sunken ship; small tradesmen, who had invested the most of what thev had been able to lay by; ministers, who looked to the dividends to assist {n the educating of their fam- {lles; doctors, who, with Incressing bractices, had ‘;lncm] their surplus lncomes In * safo keep- o 'y commercial men, who had put an odd thuusand into fne cunecrn.—all_are versonally poken of and comiolud, with, More than one instauce {a pointed vut fo which whole famities arc halders of atuck; brothers are representa. tives of thelr widowed slsters, and relatives are trustecs for orpbons. Ruln, If not absolute begeary, 18 the only conceivable prospect in nun{ canes; In others, men, who have by steps climbed 1he lndder of fortune, just sec their way to beyin the worla anew; and merchants of comparafive ofiivonee, who, whilo eumrelled to outwardly Iaco matters boldiy, «re inwardly worrled with the thought of hating to part with perbaps the larger portion ol thelr wealth. A HARD CASE, One Instance, In which n widow fs concerued, Becmns nngfllnriy bard. During a lifetime her busband wus conneeted with futand revenue, oud some four or (vo years nizo ha died sudden- Iy, leaving her 8 sum of about £300, My thead- vice of fricnds & portion ot the money was in- vested in one shade of the City of Glasgow Bauk, while the remaiuder was soent in furnfsh- {ug o pretty, commodions house, with the view of KkeupinZ lodgers. She bad onc child, strove lard to galn a livellhood,—the Dbrarding money and the dividend ou ner share together only mnking ends meet. What must be the inevitablo result of o call, howeversmati, upon herf _Attentlon {s drawn to an entry in the list of shareholders whero a widow living jn a town n tho vicinlty of Glasgow ia Indlonuz,s o8 bosacssinie numerouis shares, whila followinig Ler namo aro’ records of soveral tranafers of slock, The hardship of the casa is further explalocd by the statoment that on the death of the hiead ot the house the money was placed in stock fn the widow’s ~ mame tin trust ' for tho family. The children grew up and last year one-half of the holdiug was ap- rtioned among them. Allara iuvolved, It s hele entive possossion. Axaln we hear of n widow lady, wiose husband was connected with e bank, being seized with paralysis ou hearing er dauzhter reading the Senounceent In tye pupers of the stoppaze of the bank, and she is lot expeeted Lo recover, Another lady, whose entlra funds wero fnvested in tha City Bank stock, wrute toher law axent to ascerfaln for what parish slie may require to claim upon for relicl as sho is without a penny in the world. Bume vne has related to usthe case of & city doctor, He had begun pracelco {n the country, but some yearslhovk vemoved to Glasgow, iwhere he gradually worked himself into a fairly fucrative connettion, I saved money, sclevte; City Bank-stock nsaffurding good security with n good return, took n house and {urnished it in keeplug with' bis position in the profeasion: cveryLling was - wolug on prosperousiy when the crask came. Ybe shock is almost too much for Wim: he eave ho kas borelv enougb to meet ordinary accounts, et alone contribute toward making up thu deficit In the bank's assets. Agaih, s gontleman well up In yeara is pointed out 10 us as one of the hapless shareholders. Years ago, ib is whispered, he found his way from the North of Scotlaud to g\n\z his fortuns i the more commercial South, ‘o sommc extent he was successfpl, and ultl- mately becamne a parinerin 4 local mcrcantile bouse. Decllufue health compels biw 1o retire from the firm, sud, ““Mf quictly ln lis retire- ment, he linds oo smple income trom the diyl- dends accrufug from sone shares in the City Taok, which represent nearly-the whole of his limited fortune, Now, however, ho (s deprived of well-nigh everytidng. A similsrly deplurable case Is thut of gie minister of n’ large Free Courchi, Some money had been letv to ths clergymun, and part of it was Invested inshares {n the City Bank, Fora conslderable timy his Fnod lody fius wullered from a severo ailment, or tbo wievintion. of whleh residence fa o Southetn climate Decame i ticcessity, e ac- cordingly waa silowed, althougl with great re- gret both of cungregm.lan aud presbytery, to demit his charge, the dissolution of - the pustoral chargs to take eMect ny from the first Bunday of next month, The lady bud mean- while Jeft forthe Coutinent, and to leave the congregation upen jor the cholee of another wnlutster inatters wees hastencd, aud it was ar- eauged that the reverond gentleman should preach his farowell sermon, white the roup of the hiuusehold (urnttura was advertised for aud took place on the day on which the aunounce- ment of the bank fatfurs was made. of the taiiure wus a territlo blow to the pastof, Not ouly were tils shared in the bank goue, but Dis conticction wilh hiscongreuntion having been cut ho was Left without auy resource. Thesats of tho furniture took place un the Wednesday, aud Friday hud been fxed fora miecting of the congregution, at-which a presentation of siiver plute and a purse of £old wasto have beci nade o8 & patting ®iit, Thevo was o very large meet. ing. "The position of thelr late mitnister was con- red, and it was yuan{niously sud warmly re- solved Lo ask the rovercod gentteman to withe draw bl resignstivr and arrce 1o continue fils mioistry. EHe was sent tor, and with a full heart accovted tho continued affeetion sud coulidenco of his people. THR UNLINITED LIABILITY. Otber shareholders are sullering 8 the agony of suspense. One geutlemen of whom we hiard cxpresscd Lhmsell as willing to hand over 425,000 to the bank to compromise the clotm agaioat him as a sbarcholder, Another partner, whose name s ouly entered for one share, offored suma of hla acquaintances £3,000 1o take tho respunsibility of bis small bolding off his shoulders. ‘Iie” ouly society cutered as sharcholders Is the Glasgow Reliious Boslety, aud the atock Is neld in trust, being a portion of the money out of which allowsuces are wade 1o old und iufirm members. yWhile the Soclety’s funds will all be swallowed up, the trustces—as i3 the case fu all fostances where stock 1 heid In trust—becoms gersopatly lable for valls, (Great judignation is expressed ot the conduc of the Glasgow Directors of the bank; thelr actlous ard cven aald * to cowme within the pale of the crimingl luws and 1hat they sy \et have to susWer very grave charges, Itis buttoo true that they buve nuade shipwreek of s boble institution, recklessly divided the blunder auooz themselvesand thelr Irisude, and have intlicted mtsery aud min upon thousauds of lonovent suflercrs, © The statement 1» broadly utade that only one Glasgow Director 13 gree trom the charge ui borrowiny loree sums of muney from by bank snd ustng his position 08 u Dlrector torbls own euds. fudeed, it Jooks w8 3f the Buard bad doue buthivg else but niet and voted wach otber addlionsl suws ss ad- vuuces, untht from some balf.dozen wen ure due tho bunk us many willlons sterling, Tho seyea Glasgow Directurs neld only ubout 29000 of stock utnong thew, wiile thoes of the Edoburg Board, fous fn numbir, were proprietons of £35,000 of stock; ey, Jike the twu Aberdecn Directors, who owan £10,000 stock, taving been Kkept quits fn the dark us to the true state of the dauk’s uffalrs. How they will fuce stie huy- dreds whom tbey have brought to destitutiou at the gatherin: the sbarebolders is dithcuit to lwsgige, ‘LTheywere sl mea holdwg tue very firat positions in the eity; men whore honor had never been tainted; men, In soma indtances,who \vvr&: oromineot in the part they took in church matters, SAWYER'S ELECTRIC LAMP. An Tnventor Cintmfng That He Tias Solved tho Prohiem That Has Parrled 8o Many. Xew York Sun, Nor. 4. An organization uuder the laws of the State of New York, comnosed of Albon . Man, Will- fam E. Sawyer, Hugh McCulloch, Lawrence Myers, Jacob Ifays, James P. Kernochan, and Witliarh H. I{ays, has been formed, to be known by the cornorate namo of the Electro-Dynamic Light Company, and the certificate required was Oted In the Cleris's office of the County of New York on July 8, 157 Its nominal capital is 810,000, and the serip $200,000. The objects of the Company are set lorth Lo be tne production of light and power by means of electricity,— the lighting of strects, huildings, and vther piaces, producing, comducting, and distributing electrieal currents for Nebting and vther pur- nases, and tho wanufacturo and sale uf all ma- ehinery necessary for and ndapted to accomplish the niirposes nuned. The patent onder which this Company pro- poses to carry on its business ik on the discovery or invention ot W, E. Hawyer, known us the Sawyer-Mun electric lamp, a devico that they asscrt was yltunu‘d o year ago. Wiltiam . Sawyer, the Inventor, was recently the chlef electriclan of the Westérn Union Tele- graph Company, and it was while occupying this nasition that o made the dlauover{, resign. fng his place that ho mizht dovelop it aud in. troduce it to tha world. ‘The confldence of the corporators in the Baw. yer-Man syatem, after witnessing it {n overs. tlon for a tiwmber of daye, {8 no great that it {s averred thev have pala the Iwveutor & lorge sum, in addftion, for a controlling fnterest fn his_reserved Kuropean territory, and that the ex-8ceretary of the Treasury will sall i an early ateamshlp io nlace the fnvention hefore tho Europesn public. Many of those interested in tho new enterprisa were holders of the city gas stocks nnd have been quietly unloading, nnd it 15 asaerted that an oifer hias” been mada to the Company by entircly responsible persons of £100,000" over and above the royalty, for the right of operating and selliug the luvention o ona of tha largest States of the Unfon. ‘The jet, or lamp, as Mr. Bawyer calls ft, he says costaless than 81 to manifacture. It is hermetically closed, and as vo oxygen can bo admitted, there can be no combustion, aud consequently no burning out of the carbon ints, ‘The lamp conelsts of two sets of con- uctars, supporting s diaphragm, or plate. An upright bar on this dfaphragm supports an. other bar runninz transsersely from fts top, From this transverse bar depends o carbon pencily about vne-sixth of au fnch fn thickness, which {s the ligut-givlug substance. Uunder- neath the penell, but nottouching it, Is a pleco of motal called’ tho anvil, which afso rests on the disptiragm. The whole apparatus s in. closed i a glags case, scetired to a stand, The entire lamp is seven aud a balf Inches high and twoand a hall {ncbes in dismeter, . At an exblbition of the inventlon on Satur- day,atter the engine that producesthe cleetriclty was gtarted, & smatl key turned on the lght, ‘Tha carbon poluts within the Ianp became tirat of ared heat, and then grow perlectly white, resembling tha fotensity of the sun it noon. duy, and producing the same effect a8 It upon the evee. ‘This Intensity, howaver, was caslly wodilled to any required degree, and the light was unitorm, steady, and under as perfeet con- irol os pasiignt, 1t Is clalined that the now iight, when n grub tical use, will bo wholly free from inany objece tions attonding the usc of coaj-gas. Jike smoke, sont, deterlogation of the utmosphera In houses, aad dauger {7 nl!ph’vm. LA it (s fmpossible to lfgnlte apything by means of thts clectric light, ft ls clalmed that the Sawyer sysicin, wr;en in uso, will mateclally reduce ingursues rates, & Mr. Sawyer, and those fnterested with him, feel confident that he has completely solved tho protlem of clectric Nght in Ml its detatls, here rematn a few merely mechanical obstacles o be overeuime, that lo says arg of easy sl tion, In urder 10 ndapt the light to the uvcrfulny uees of Ule. They are In rapld process of ace complisnment, aud the foventor and his friends aseert that, within the next two wecks, Hithts wiil he arranged in a jarge butlding where the whole systenscan be siownand explained to the publie. — A LIFE-INSURANCE QUESTION ANSWERED, ‘The first questions ssked by those propostng to insuro their lives aro: “*Is the Company sousd and stroug and its methads of dalng tust- nces safe ond conservatiye?” g fts past histors becu Bich a8 to lefil to the bellet that ita strength will enduro %' The Equitable Life Assurance Soclety ta ahgwn to ba such s compa- ny by the followlvg filustration, which proves that by careful and cfficicnt management It hos been able to introdice a form of polivy which Rives the fullest indemulty at the loweat cost, ‘thie_holder of policy 44,590, 0 resident of Weat Virginfa, fusured Junc 17, 1809; age, 50; amount, $10,000; annual premium, $73), The Toutlia period expired June 17, 1879, at which time an sdjustment of tho accumulations waa made, the insured electing to apply the surplus or meccumulatfons on his polfey to the purchase of a life-annunty of §348.64, and continuing his wolier In farce. “Hia next premium, when the Aunulty sud the aunual divideud of $214.30 are deducted, will be only 8163.00, This is equiva- Jeut to o dividend of over 79 per cent of the an- nual premium. It is safe to say that results Mko the foregulng bave never been achieved by suy similar {nstitution. ———ee— Duck & Hayner's malt cotwh mixture remedy for uaulls aud children, A simpls DEATIRS, e ST ol A e SMROOR) WANUEMAN—AL his residence 190 South Greome wt., N LTUTnY ¥ A Yeir 11 ol 8, Henry Waogoman, aged 71 Gt Funersl frow his lata restdence, by carel Gracelund, Nov, . Frlends of (e a1y tmeiien, ' € Cinctunatf papers pioase capy. AQCELYN=AL the rveldeica of he brasher-fa-jaw, g dobasn, 3 Evauston, T+ o Koy, o S feabella 31, Jocelyn,” daukiiter ot Capt. Joia Dorches: ;} ral at 1l ¥ 0 s imiradag Nove Fcr hake sud Yorest-a M) ~On the o OF 10! . sl‘l;l.‘lllull"ll of Patrick aud' ln"flglun“':fl.l?lr;': :2:1:““ DEUTSCH~Nov, 4, at 27| it ok, O Gathierine, Iatant dadbT Ve aloteg, Clap = Funeral 1o-day at 1 p. m, ‘("['( :‘uz;bu J-\Wl’lll‘llr copy. RAGUR~Nov, 3, Us Wikl K.R‘s":.‘:a. encyigvy, infant daughter of MCCARTHY—Noy, 4, Mfter & short Jli years, Funeral from Lls fate realdence, 1080 Madison-t., Oudnentay, ae §1 o'clock, by carriares w Calvary Y. NETT~Helatlons and Iy feunert of 6 sebuer Ketchum, 1usl his fuveral wiil 1ake place to-dsy at 13 frym the tealdencs ghor, Wit Slucier, fedat, fo L & N.W. Depot, theucs by X papers pléass cop ANNOUNCEMENTS L MEMBEAS OF THK SECOND NEQINENT a'clack aharic (Uil dresk o e evealux et ¥ ~ MAILIIOAD LANDS. IT 1550, maay people daubt (hat the Nilisole mpany 1188 sny mare 1ande' for sale, ue thist 1t ine 2000 actes OF By aud Cruft iaads for eale 1n thy Southcrn vard ot Biata, ¢ from #1¢u @<peracre. Tiiesa lani: whan properly cultivated. 3 leld Tumiensa crups of Tye, vats barley, hickalest, corn, frulle bars vles. abd veraiasins of s kin ¥or turiher luforawstion apply ta . DAGGY, Lead Comumlsstoner, I. C. i, 1. Co.. Roon 11, 74 Mickigan: Chicago, 1. DYEING AND OLEANING, Tour Old i 458 Clothes ! it 0. LADIES AND GEN 088 Do afclock, 442 Bonigh [laigted. s 1o fiuws : ! S il i, 8. Slhawis dyoid nd Travelers, i SAND BLAST C| GORHER CLINTQI & JATKEON STS.CHICAGO, TARRANT'S 8 n Al"l‘.llll-:fl’r. oty e e IS Whenn Cnmwa‘l Tarrant’s Selizer Aperient, outinovay v nepafa, affords A delichtrul an tnently bnchels 1o gy RBOLD BY ALL_DHUGGIETS, AUCTI0N NALES, KO, £, GORE €480d 70 Wabaru-ar, For Wednesday, Nov. g, WE SHALL SELL AT AUCTION 2,000 CASES ASSORTED $huas&Bubhers A Iinie, eonling drauant, em feow all Cebrile compiatn Among which will by found fall 1ines Chirago Shy M. P, Prouty & Co.’s Bueker Loots, g well s chutooline of Fur-Lived Gooly and Hoeof steictly At Rubhers. * GEU. P. GORE & 0, THURSDAY, MOV, T, AT 830 &, 1, Negulsr Trads Bate o OROOKERY AND GLASSWARE, of Enclish and Amerlean W, g, niro Yellow ‘and_Tckinsham fuil ine of Lawine, Chimneys, Shndes, I , Gintilete, Tumbins, Ppusked for cOunLY merchants., uwln, ee. Uouds AT 13:30T. 3., BALE OF NEW FURNITURE, Conafsting of Parlor and Chamber Sufts, Lonnecs, rs, Bedstoads, fBureat, & genersl anortment of 14 ] (ORE & LU.. Auctioneery, W. A. BUTTERS, LONG & Co, Auctionrers and fieal-Eatate Agents. 174and 173 itandolpl- GENTEEL FURNITURB, HANDSOME & RARE FANOY FURNITURE, SILVER-YLATED WARB, 13 AT ATOTION, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 0, at ::“ l.::clm:k 8.1, 88 0D salese e e G & CO., Ancttonce BANEKRUPT SALR. FIsh (New Kits), Iron Safe, Stoves, Etc, at Auctios, 100°rlock, TN ters' Auce PICTURFS, T00} AT 175 o A WEUNESDAY. Noj enkins, Asignee, > BT, Losa acy ~ ULAR THURSDAY TRADE SALE, DESIRABLE DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, & THURSDAY, NOV, 7. AT 9:30 0'CLOCK. ) 1 & 175 A KIRABLE LIN DE! O Latles' and Misses' Frs, Gents' Far Ceys, AT ATUCOTION, THUREDAY MORNING, fl:zv. 7 t 11 o'clack, at oo GMEROY & CO, Auctloneers, 78 & 80 itandolph-st, a WEDNESDAY, cauunt of elecifon.) FURNITURE. Que Crltasan Plush Parlor Sult, cost §: m M Tul e Cotwforters, Uenersl PUMEROY & O AWNDROKER'S SALE Fine Watches, Diamonds, and Jewelry from . A. GOLDSMID’S LOADN OFFICH, NOV.7,AT 10 A, M,, 78 and 50 Randolphest. Fioe Uola and Bilver Watches, Dlsmonds, Flne Jewery, Chbaina, Locko?s, & tats, and Misceljancona too By ELISON, P At Our Btores, Laruo sud aitractive sale, te nod. POMEROY & €O,, Auct'rs, By D, D. BSTARK & CO,, B4.aud B [tandolpa-ak, WEDNESDAY. NOV. 6, AT 0:30 A, M., A splendia amortment of PARLOR SUITS, CHAMBER SETS, Satas. Lounges, 1t Ttackers, M. and 1, Wardrbies, Bookeasen Ehlcboatis & GOreat bargaing ta L1 &c., Pler, Mantcl, an Brussels, Wool, and Ingrain Carpefs, ‘ommodes, Nuresus, and Dintug C| otk Moms n'lqnu."?unz i aw 5 dioxsware, 10 . b Cosl 11048, "30 Ilesting Stoves, ticncral Merclisudise, D, b, STARK & 0., Auclioneers. 1. FRIEDMAN, and 202 sadolphest. Another Grand sale of Fint-Clesa Goods. China, Crockery. Glassware, and Fanoy Guods! On WEDNESDAY, Nov, 8, nt 100'luck. d White (ranite ¢ am und Yellow War Ta_Vicans Haades o T 18 O’OLOCK, £0 Caes il Py cons and o Dire2t (0o Europe, sultable w. Tup Chimneys, Armad for the Ilalidays By LYOXN & CO., Auct'rs., TEIS DAY, 106 MADISON-81 0, 25, ad :f\g;:‘;-‘l By WM. MOOREHOUSE & €U, 7 Auctivneers, 85 & 57 Jiandoiol-st. oS very largo :nh‘-& FIRST-CLARS SECOND- FURNITURE Bureaus wod Sadi- - To divpose of TO-) AT AUCTION TIIN DAY AT (1 0% 400 brls & 100 Lialf brls Malaga 0 bys Lewons, Dates, mu! Peean Nuls, __MAIR GOOR Aus, NATTIE A, Gt i & 1t fisl. Guods seut Sule agent furt LLECT You H ) Wigs matsivonier and w o WITH THE CA&"I ILE AG ErN WASHINGTON 2