Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1878, Page 6

[\] THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1878, e e e e e e e e———— e ey cre, and that untl the rallrond connecting Walln Walla with Puget 8ound be constructed Astorin will become the outlet for produce of that magnificent count If, a8 t& expected, {his change will enable the farmers to obtain fully 10 cents per cental morg for their wheat than at present, the resnlt can- not [l to be a greater development of the re- sources of Washington. It wouldseem as thoneh even now Astoria offerca ample opportunity for a smnll banking establishment, ns with so many vessels loading here it §s highly inconvenlent for $he Captains to have to go ta Portland for the funds wherewith to defray thelr expenres, Thesg expenses are by no means Inconsiderable, aawill heatonce percelved when {t Is constd- ered that vesscls have sometimes to remain a8 'llnnl 28 six weeks waiting for the bar to calm lown. ‘The anpropriations of Congress for the per- mancnt {mprovement of this Columbia River Tiar have hitherto heen utferly Inadequate, and noone who has examined the chartaot this monatrous obstruction can “go over the bar”? without soms misgising, even wlien aboard so fine 8 steamer as the Oregon, Consldering that there are over 500 veseels’ every vear cropsing and recrosaing this _bar, it would reem that more money might advantageously Lo suent oo fmproving this marine highway. O! course Aetora +how f“ uothing ke the deyciopment of Portland. The vast amount of buliding Inthe latter eity during the Fear or S0 WAS 1t Zreat measure due to the fac of the banks having ceased to pay futereat on dep 80 that depositors rather than lel their funde remain unproductive, tumed them over into real estate. ‘I'he competition among the steamers bring- fog about a reduction in freights and passage money has brought lerge numbers of persons to Portland from Califor- nu] 80 that the real estate speculation has gen- erally tarned out well. It is not 8o verv long sinca the passago from San Francisco to Portiand was $i5; now ono tithe of that sum suflices for STATE OF OREGON. PORTLAND. Speetal Carsespondence of The Tribune. Partraxn, Ore., Dee 18.—After traversing Fastern Oregon and the Willamette Valley country, 8 return to Portland s pleasurable to one wont t& dwell in titles. Damp and rainy as it s at Portland, it Is atill & place of 18,000 In- hehitants, with falr hatels,—the 8t. Charles be- ing the best,—eus, good schools, snd an excel- Ient library, As the shipoing point for the wheat grawn {tv the Willatnctte Valley, as well #a for that produced In Washington Territory, Portland attracts, despite the drawback of the Lar at the month of the Columbia River, quite a large number of vessels, and, strange to say, the merchants, Instead of walting quietly ontil Captains’ agents sollclt them for freight, strugwle with each other as to who shall obtaln the vesscls arriving, As & consequence, charters are cffected at much higher rates than the freizht tnarket justifies, and, in addition to this, inorder ta ayold demuresge, the shippers are frequently foreed to pay far more for the wheat with which to lood the ship than Liverpodl or any other market will warrant them doing. Hence the frequent losses ana occasional fail. urea. ‘The high prices prevalent for produce ought to make the farmers of the Willametto Valtev. and of the Walla-Walla Vulley, Lowlston and Colfax districta, wealthy men, but they are welghed aown by enormous transportation rates,—0 ccots per bushel from Walln-Walla, for Instance,—high rates of interest for their land and purchuscs, std sgriculcural machinery manufacturers. Theso Jatter are always ready to turuish the farmer with the latest linprove- wents in gang plows, headers, threshers, and uther lahar-saving mmhlner;, ontime, and, a3 8 consequetiee, the anall farmers, balf a dozenof | the voyage. Bo large has been the tinmigrant wham might perfectly well combine to take one | travel this year that one explanation of the com- machiue, load themeelves down with the finest \f.-mlvc smnll suppifes of wheat arriving at machinery, mortgage thelr proverty to tha | Portland s that farmers have found it to their manufacturer,und probahly obfiz-te themselves | account in selling thelr grain to the new comers to well thelr wheat, ete., through him, for seend, §t may be thut the exceasive rains and fogs of A rallrond {8 very Ladly wanted east of the Western Oregon haye a dull, depressing, dead- | Coscades, su that the whole country may be enlug effeet upon these mens but certain it is | ovened up and farmers by enabled to obtain that the farmers of this Btate and the lower | money at somethine less than 15and 18 per classes generally are averse to Jabor. Prohably | cent per annum. Iliinofs is interesterl in no they nfgnt dotdle their incomes were they to | alizht degree inthe upbuflding of this country, sow more tn tbe fall, instead of leaving thetr | 0% the unmber ot plaws, wagons, and reapers seeding to springtime, froim that Stato is so laryge as to awaken aston- There s 1 zreat clamor for rallroads, and the { fament. It was my fortune to travel from Centrat Facliic 1s foudly unred to extend the | Portland with an Nlinols plow manufacturer Calfforniy & Oreron Line from Roscbury to | who had just traversed Oregon and Washington Redding s hut, slthough there la only ene (ratn a | Territory, sud ho expressed it as his opinlon day from Roscbury here, nnd vice verss, yet the | that s farwer in lllivols. by working somuwhat tesfMe on this train 1s so light sa to astound n | harder, would at the end of the yearvome ou a8 strunzer who ls had the Willamette Valley | weil us bis compeer in Oregon, Certaln it 1s puiled und blown to him through every chanoel, | that If the Oregon and more particularly the ural o8 well as typographical. “The bune of this | Washington farmer had such a ‘narket for his guction i3 that evers one scems valled upon 1o | produce as Chicago preacnts to the 1inols and uet as an tmmigratlon sgenty wnd to write and | lowa cultivaturs, he would be in s pasitiou Lo vrag about the resvurces of this wonderful | give up farming after a very shurt spaceof tlme, country. B Wheh a man has been here a month he has to ¥ et ———— SILAS B. DWIGHT. fmplore the peuple to baulsh the word * e~ suurees "'—with a vapital R—from thelr vocabu- X Iury, and_tolet bim' know what are the draw- | Planant Story Told of an Amerlean Crae »ua in Bariv=1low Mnark fivotbers & How- ett Took klim in Hand, Niowed Iilm Life. vae The literature Wowing Oregon s dis- cainfuated hroudeast, and men are induced to and Married llint to o Young and Presty Clreea-1thler. conie here who ure no wora dtted for the coun- try thou would be o sea Captain communding a London Truih, Mrs, Slins B, Dwight's is o very hard e regiment on lamd. 13 fs perfectly deplorable Mr, Silas B. Dwiglt, her husband, Ia of men of standlog should so_ inisrepresent era by magmfyiog ol] the advantages und tioning none of the biudrances as to induce t derzymen aud professional men Lo cote o Mayilower nobility of New Englaund, and i3 liere. At Corvalits, which, 88 its name hinvlies, | great-grandfather was concerued fn * the Bos- s 'the heurt of the valley, with 1,500 fuliad: | $0cucbarey # o little more than o bundred itante, there are five chiurches. Not one of the inisters get $1,000 s vear salary, and thus mey of calture and refinement are called o, it may be, to haul and hew thelr own firc-woord [n order to eke out a scauty subsist- ence. As Oregon and Washington ferritory ate at present, it 15 positive cruelty to seex to induen men ol culture to coma out here. None but brawny sotis of tofl, and. best of ail, agriculiural laborerr, are fitted for the country. Tnall the towns there aro threg thimes ns many “merchants ' as ore needed. The neople are narrow-minded aml fgnorant, with a passion for Jund-grablioe, lowr tastes and desires, so that tor any one 0 leave i moderately comfurtablo home {n the East, ond cast bis lot among them, 4 bad poliev i every wav. Except In tha fur- off pottions of Washinuton Territory, fine pro. duetive land s put espeetally cheagy, and I have stan credivle suthority that o bhurdy worker can make s much out of his Inud §u Maine, and broeure the saine os cheaply, as he can bere, with the advantage of his being there within forty-vight buurs of suchi u city as Boston, A preasent the new Innds v Washington Ter- ritury Wil produce as high as 1ty and oven aixty busticls to the acre, hut no one expects this will continue. Lt < understood that the Willametts Yalley vroduved o much a quarter of o cen- fu1y 820, and yet now thirty bushels 13 consld- cred o road eron thers, As for the climate, Western Oregon is notori- ously malurtul, ague and feyer bejie prevalent wan alarming extent. Jels sald che rafnfalt there [8 dimiulshing anntally, but certalnly it {s even now sulllvient to dishearten new-comers, The Italiun colony which settled ot Candlant Landlut, some thirty miles down the Willametts River, three year; oo, 18 abamloning the place, utterly disgusted with the elimate, and sfier o complete tallure, Faost of the Cascades there fs su much wind and dust, snd such sudden chonges of temperature. as to make diphtheria sheep over the land os 2 sconrge, When noyvle atton wlonir the Columtla Blve the nhwbitants of Eastern Ore Ly ofl fromn communiceatiar with friends fo the Esat 1or weeka toget Indeed, ms n result of - rl-a o1 all lauds, the convictlon 1wevitably D8 upon one that those who thus lsolate thenselyes from e connoctions after a shorl time sbandon their lnterest in - the world's do- ines, und f they do uot entirely censa corre- spondence with relutlves East, ntall events com- municate but seklom with thoae they have left behind, On theother hund, emigration agents ure constantly at work dissemluating rosu- colored literature 8s to the advontoges of the country, und nunbers are attracted here ouly to exnerience the most bitier dlsappolntmenty, Just now, too, the competitfon amony steam- #lilp companies has reduced [relzthts from San Franclsco to Portland 0 $7 cabin nnd €3 ateer- rutes which tempt many to leave the liny tornla country for Oregon, the land of the preat-cared ey, 88 the Spaulards named it Mucn of the Immigration hither has been from Konras, Nebraska, and _lowa, whero (armers have beet disuppointed by falllng crops ant hard winters, and for such men, accustomed Lo lardship oud dlifleulty, this country is well udapteds but for men ‘1o leave efties and lurgd Faustein towns for Uregon will in the creat ms- Jurity of cases decidedly turn out & mistake. years ogo. From a mason ol YProvidence, his grand(ather on the maternsl side, ho came to own tho land which locks the harbor of Joppa Bay in Massachusetts, ond the docks and ware- houses lylng arouud the port. His dollars are countless, and, though he has squandered them sadly, bave gone on multiplylng, Silas’ educa- tion was begun i courtly clreles #n Europe, where his stepfather, the Hon, Amass Grey, served his country uuder different Adminlatra- tlons as Minlster Plenipotentlary, It was fin ished at either Yale or Kenyon, whero high honors were carried off. Had he been less rich, the young graduate would have entered West Point on leaving college, for hio had a_ head for mathematics and o taste for suldlering, But leing o Creesus In private lllo he came back to Eurape to renew his acqualutance with courts, courtlers, and publ: wen of emivence, and to svend, secording toa plan he drew up in lis undergrnduate days, a thinl of his Income, s ntsorney recommended him to open un o count with au enterprisinz firm of American bankers. who had gut themselves talked nbout immensely fo Parls. ‘They were at the head and tall of uvery patrlotic ‘gatbering, charity, or monetury enterprise, ran patents ana a fashions® offiee, und were distancing the olu bankers, ‘Ihis was ten vears ugo. Jeopls sometimes then woudered at the sudden prosperity of the house uf Snark Hrothers & lowett, If the wonder wus expressed hefore any of theie - liex a goud explunation was wiven of the inys- tery, The wife of Col. Hewett, the seulor partner, was tirat cousin of that Iittle sparkier, Mra, R—who had twisted De Morury, Foreade, Fould, and a still higher personage” round hes delleate tngers, She lind obliged the go-abead Lankers fn luuucling & transcantinental Gubble, ond ohtalned for them o naval contract. Like Worasworth's Chirdstinn family the Snarks woro “geven,’ and chusch-goers ‘on Sunday, and church trustees, Their notlon of banking was to maku oceans of money while amusing them- selves tremetdousty, In thelr banker's code finunce was l'argent des aulres, Anuther maxun showlug the perspleacity of thelr buslness jule- ment wos tout puur les fermmes, ¢ par les femme, ‘The brothers Snark shone, when out of vhurch, 1z the monde comme il n'en pas, and went In for kigh ilfo lu its moat fa conditlon. Altached to their lizht squadron wasa certaln pretty clreus-rider, tho daughter of an Enclish grooms Minnis Hummin Bbird waa the name given her as su Infant prodigy, and sho kept §t. Tt a1 pot Nt her when she developed inton splendid, full-grown woman, with u snowy skin il an_outliue of figure which muscularity did uot tohof fomdolue softness. Minule jumped througl hoops and awun: travczes with an attitude Lorrowad from ‘horwaldsen’s ** Angel Carrying a Cnild' Soul to tleaven,” Neulptors thought her sn improvement on the angel. As patrons of art, 8nark Brothers had lier wodoled apd limbed for the picture galiery which was connected with thelr bunk, and they bad ber real prescoce b soupers J i Delmonico, Bllas B. Dwight wus naturaily invited when he came with hs letter of creditto the brothers’ enter- tatuments. e was atruek with Minnie's ploacke beauty, smnll, regular teeth, which, l»er)mu. shic showed too often, sud taken with the sinile that ht up her whole face, When she perfurined at the Hipodrome he went to see her, and wea enabted by s bunker's caro to penctrate Lo the stables Into which sbs rode fram tha clreus, standing oo oue Teg with ber urmn laden with flowers tirown at her by the male spectators aud caught tving, The shurks bought maost of the bouquets, aud caused bier ta be pelted with them. Bhe made puints by pelting back when sie had more than ahie could carry, Pour Bitus B, Dwight slid into & sleeplng rlrlnunlflp liathe banking drin, and was burned i the flugers. But he was rich enouith pot to feel the logs, nod went on loaning and invest- g, Wi a8 wioreserious, was Ly eredulous ear he lent to the Humming Bird, who got her lesson yery well, amd, whien he was desperately In love with ber, came to him with s Ludy Gooeh story, What was e to dol Hewetd, who knew she was devoted 1o o member of e trm, sald, *Marry her, Tue Enipire by this ne was down, and he was lecling nu- comfortable about some bubbles which he ARTORIA. fipeetal Correspandence of TAa Tribuns, AsTonIA, Ure., Dee, 16.~1In lovking over the report of the Portland Board of Trade for the »ear ending Aug, 1, 1878, the reader canuat full to notiee the consiicuous omission of ali wmentlon of Astorlo—Astoria, which, aa every wne kuowd, Hes at the mouth of the Columbia River, sud s as much the key to Vortland os Flusblme {s to Autwerp, Veseels loadiog at Porthund, in the Willamette River, buve to carry purt of thefr cargo in lghters down to Astorls, the portion tbus lghtered ropging from 10 to %0 percent of the enttro cargo. Had Portland capitalists willed ft, the 100 miles which sepsrate Astoria from Portland could Jonz sluce have been spauned by s road, but, oy before observed, the wealthy nien of the commetclul capital of Oregon secm 3 E to lave set thelr faces agalnse rallroads, | yoa judated. * Her v N pretty fare and und Astorta’s present hope ks in | spleudid polnts” he sald, % will Le u npurrow-gauge Mue to conmect It { your justification for thuworkd to ery vut, Well done!’ You have only ro show her, Give her thy Ewpress Eugenle's diamonds, which are to be setup 1o sucdon. Eversthing witl be for- gotten aud torgiven fur thelr sake. Minute Humming Bird wea led with some pouip to the hymencal altar, tollowed by a train of styllsh bridesmalts. A Helglan divectress of 8 youne lodles’ school was paid to funish them. Mra. 8, B, Dwigny was authorized to open snasccount with Worth and the jewelers Mellerio und Funtaules. “Thu pick of ‘the l- perial vasket was foug wto ber fap, Bhe com- plained that sbe had bo place to wear them, the bunk haviog brokes up und the bsukers ab- sconded. Boxes were hired ur Ler by the sca. son at the Opera sud Italiens, und she bud @ with Salew, the State Capltal. Fortunately the Useon Steam Navigation Company §s under the coutrol 0f nen who ure secking to develop the country ruther thau any one city, and hence fust now they ure carsylug consideruble yuantitles * of wheat from Walla Walla dircet to Astoria, 1hereby saving the shippers the 23 mnlea—14 iy und 14 out—of the W Hmne s River, und abso the whar; und draysge, and transhipment ut Portlaud, Ina word the shipper's account stunds as follows: Watla Walta (o san Franciaco. g 18, 1 M8 . 8, N, Cu.'wcharges pertou for ranspor whamportadon of wlieat.... -3 6,00 97-00 | Litine W the Gairon i Tacaday siEts b the Drayuy TR0 Francah. Eipressng a preference for the Woarfage on ship e _ 48 Yaurletes, she was token there ¢ Frenbit to San Fran . 300 disvovered, aloue redered Lo endurable. Bug 3 — how dancel ler rlso fu the world excluded bor Total per ton + <+ 810,00 from the foys ol Valentine. 1 sbe could noy Bo that aubpustoy the cargo to be shipped via Calllorula thiere by 8 clear savlug of 50 ceuts per tun i favur ol Astoria; but experiencs has suuwn that Vessels cau be chartered ju dull get u would & house, to the dances of other people, she what she coula do terself i ber owa A grose widow from Indla, who scent- ed lies quarters aud the best kind of Jiving, cichts from Astorka as from | ook ber by the band, wnd wes asked ercas to load at Portlaud they | on o pepmatent visit, . Tow olt soldier I verage sbuut four shilliugs per | received a curte blauche to 2o o the bighways ton additionsl treght. ‘Thus at this woment | and bedecs, sud couatram daveers to come o Mr. Miles C. Moore, son-in-law of the well- | Lhe weckly sotrees, for whih, by her advice, Luown Dr. Baker, of Walla Wiila, bs loading at Astoria somie 0,000 by s uf wheat sboard the Alee Couper, which veseel he churtored at the very Jow rute of U3 sbillinze per ton. Me 1upuses sending ber tu Liverpoul dircet, and, should the veuture prove suceessful, will fu fu- ture alilp all bls wheat at Astoria, As Dr. Ba- her b otie 0f the most folluential men in Wash- fugtou Terntory, there cau be Hitle doubt that Lis cxample wil be fullowed by swslier ship- cards were lssuca. Thore wery theatitcu) scraps and proverbs [n which the beat dramatic wrtisis wad urtistes, Got, Urolzette, Revuer, the 3. ters Brotun, scted, selectivns Iruts onerus sud wvperettas given by Marde Hoze, Sass. Bloch, sud Scuncidery, aud (ustiumental musie, stanngly doled vui by musicians unspariuely paid. Thrde SUCLesaIVe sUnLETE Were eeived, wnd W linal yodter ut T the wornlnz, between wineh hour 2 davciug Lad goue warrily vu Every room In the house was open, and no mys- tery made about any. \What would have heen the use of n bath of chased siiver if those who came to the parties were not allowed to see Ity and provoked by it to hale aml envy the lovely creature for whom, ft was designed, Minuic, thongh a good-natured sonl, was fond ol excit- Inge the jeajvusy of her sex and triumphing over those wno had, In playing the game of life, re- spected the ru) . ‘Some of these cstimabla ladicadiscovered that the Humming Bird was not happy in her golden cawre. Her ldecas of cn{‘oymcnt were fornied in the efrcus, round which “she would have pre- ferrerd w canter to all the refined pleastres pro- vided for her, Shefound that she couldt not exist without s brother, for whom sha had asked the Finance Ministcr's patronsge, The mrass-widow sympathizing, Dwight was appesled ta by her, and gave the young man leave to como and hoard in the houre, Other fratl were found out and welcomed. Trathers focked from every point of the compass. They took thelr place on the arag on fonr-in-hand club dnys with the cream of high-life society, and had & good time generally at the brother-in- law’s expense, fle avolded thelr soclety, and they might still be the real masters of hts house, hut for a jeatous English lady who discovered tint none of them were related to the Humming Bird, and opencd the eyves of Hilas to the painful fact. Ho sct an Inquiry on foot. Birdie then declared that they were her causing, and when beaten out of this intrench- ment, ler freresdelail. Her mother took In nuralings. ~ Hence the mumcln“:lt{ ol foster- brethren. This was, the husband thought, teo bad, He kicked agalost it. The verdict of !Iure who heard of the quarrcl was, serve him right, 1think it a hard case for her to have been told that stie must go and live quictly and alone in a villa purchased” for her somewhere in the provinces, winter and summer, on an allowance of £45 a mouth, 8he wanted to return to her old clrcus life, but hs would not let her. Twen- ty-live pounds a month were not enough to Kcep her {o gloves and perfamery. Her habits were Incurably reckless and luxirlous, thoueh, poor creature, sho had often turned from truf- fled dishes, and sent her mald out tobuy s ?l-pcr full of fried potatoes in the Faubourg St. onore. ‘I'o the villa the Humming Bird went. Tt was near enough to town for lier to return con- stantly to her okl haunts, From prmle the husband kept the srrangemncnt in which she was forced to acquiesce u seeret. Parls, he gave out, did not agree with her, and a passion for gardening had taken lold of her. A brother came to share her exile. flo adylaed her to go on as usual, ordering jewels and fine elothing, and make money with them. Thery was a revendeuse that e kuew who would sell them for her. Startlingly long scores were run up. By acvident a Jeweler of whom she had ordercd a Tour thousand guinea necklace found out the story of ner scparation. She had nlrendy had” many valuable trinkets of him. I dlscovery Jed to s denuncintlon to the unnbnut and to 0 prosceution. As the Humming Bird shone in the excursions last summer of the Four-n-Hand Ciub, this afTuir Is the great sen- sation of the bour In the circles and Bova- partlst drawing rooms, where the cl-devant clreus rider was recelved and made much ol Nobody pities tho lusband, who, fortunately for biat, 1s not Mable fn Franco for the great debts his wifs bas contracted without his au- thorizatiou. 011£0. Interest In the Next Tolltical Campalgn— Demacratic and Jtepablican Candidates, Spectal Corprspondence of The Tribune. CLevELAND, Dee. 21, —~The excitement over political mstters in this Btato every day in- creases, Varlous combinations are belng brought out by the fertile Imagiuations of the various wire-pullors, and thelr merits fully discussed. Each side 1s interested, and for the samo rea- 1t there is any difforenco in the depres of the Interest. manlfested, It predominates ln favor of the Democrats. A more hungry set of politicians and sluysters, anxious for some pub- lic fat, was never seen. They have bebeld, for 10 these few years past. promiscuons biessings in the way of appolutments to office showered unon thelr uelghbors, the Republicans, They were, n ycar ago, given a few Yits of State pat- ronago from thy success of thelr Gubernatortal ticket; but this served only to sharpen theap- petite of those who obtained thewn, and made those who Qi@ mot obtaln nanything especlally desirous to do somethivg to forward their own {utereats. Tn the aplilon of all this vast multl- tude, the question of whether they are to ab- taln & plece at tho political wanver—whsther thoy are to lap salt from tho uationat officlal *lick-log "—depecda upon tho declslon o ro- ward to who s to runon thelr tickot for Qov- ernor next year. They argue more and more, as the days o by, thot their party has been beaten thnoand agaln with an Eastern man aa chief standard-bearer, und now the time has vome whenw Western man must be tried, Thelr enemles, the Republicavs, have been wsuc- cessful In runniog & popular Governar; why stould they wot learn wise dom by sad cxperience und the tnane urement of thelr opponentsi Why should not the Demnocrats put forward a successful Ohlo Governort * Your Unele Dick™ is out of tho questiou, Fie was clected all rlght, but hos come {or from sronsing any entbusissm. With. out doubt, the grestest Democrat in the State, not 10 83y the createst at present 1 the West, 13 Senator Thurman, ¢l must”—sny the hungry ones and those most Intimately nc- qualuted—** aceept the nomination for Govern- or, wet down to work, and shiow his power at home, The victory next fall s by no means to bu an casy ono to ‘wiu, The Hepublicans have Leen sucreasful this year. The rag-baby is dead. Thurman bellea’his record on that sub-. Ject, and ho inust show what he can do in the natier of harmouizing this.” ‘Tu be sure, Thurman claims that he is not a candldate, and {s reported to have safd that he will not secepts but this is a sort of Jetfersoni- an ditidence, which, of course, makes hiu a lit- tle slow In jetting @ good bLIrd fn the haud escape for & prospective one i the bush, As funny as it imay seein to those who k now w)f the facts, it s really clafined that Yoy Uucle Dick," the present Governor, 13 playing his cards tine with the Presidency in vlew. f{¢ thinks that o second election s all that he would nesl. ‘Fhe vituation on the Republican side hns nnt mich chinge since my last wiling, Koster {s decidedly in the lead. Almost no ong clse fs thought of, though some scatterbrain has pro- sed thot Garfleld be placed at the head, with ter for Licutenant-Governor, This would unjguestionably be a strong team, but it would have the declded dullcul;rv to contend with, that nefther of them would acegpt in_ that way, 1 am _credibly informed by Garfield's friends that he docs mot waut the Governorsbip, and wlill not aceept a nomiustion under any circum- stances. lois after the denatorshlp, and pro- poscs to make an open Hght for i, Of course, St the nomination for the Presidency comes in the proper order, be will be glad of After his seventecn years of exverience fn the Ho he would bonor the Henate, aud soou tal prominent place, “I'ne Hou, Charley Foster is popular, especlally in the northiern portlou of the State. 'He makes 2 rroud Representutive, and will wako 8 success- {ul Guvernor, and knows just how to go around to tho county fairs aud do the honors, Ilecan tol! o good story und make a pleasant speech,— much beiter than the mujority of those who have held tho offiea in the past. But there Is no une who would think him ‘exactly the wman tor the Scnstorship. Ho hasn'd the “mand’ o stand tu the shoes of Ben Wade und John 8her- wsu, Qary. a e ————— MR, SHUMAN CAN'T HAVEIT, . 70 the Lditor of T Tribuns, Aunoua, Ik, Dee. 2L—You state that the Aurora fleucon favors Lieut.-Gov, Shuman ssa vandidate for Unlted Sta Eenator, the polnt Lelog that thereby Benators in the Leglaluture would bave & chance for the esctiug Lieutepant- Governorahip, Thers are theew gbjections to this flne sugestion. First. the Stute Constitu- tion ux{)rcu!,\' declares that uone of the Execu- tive oflicers shsll be eligidle to uny ather oflice during the term of thelr presvnt Tucumbency; second, svery wember of the fenislature takes 2 Very atronig vath not to give any votu in any way prejudleed by bis own personal gein (sew thy | cgislative oath); third, the people elected Mr. Bouman Licutesunt-Governor, and they wish hims to stuy there; and they, asa body, probably du not wish him 1o be Unlted States Benstor, Please publiah this as the views of at east UNEK OF TUE PEOPLE. e —— Death of & Kuropeun Milllupal Count Alicelslus Fraucls Joseph Pot has Just died ot Paris at the ago of 84, e was bu weuscly wealthy, and besides un weowe of F300.,000 & vear received upnuitles to the amount of 800,000, **Tue ursucs cuipeles witl ive chawiagne-suvpers when tuey hear of wy duatt M he sld atwortly before be expired. He ot bimself natusalized in Euglund jy vider Lo disinberit bis son, with whown he was, however, ulways un goud tenus; but subsequently he made « wall i his sou's tuvor, wud the eatate of $4L0.060 8 yeur gocs Lo Count Nicholas Putockl, well Knows du Paclalan s;urting cirdes. Tne ucal willfosatee wus the husbaand ol the besutl ful Countess Delpuine Potoski, who. at the dye fug wuslcian's request, played bis welodics to scotbe Chopiu's Juat Lours. which wiil mect all his wants without bringing on & revolution or Ieasing ua fn chnos, and which at the rame time can be done In & short time, and swhich will recelve a strong support from his encmtes (the Bar), no doubt. It Ia simply this: Abolish the common-law forme of pleading and anbstitute s concise statement of facts relled on by the complainaat, or plaintiT—call it what yon please—in a com- plaint, petition, or declaration—call ft what you please. In caso of & note or other instrument, file a copy also. The sufliciency of this atate- ment In law can be tested by ademurrer. The answer to this statcment s & rlnln concise statement of s leqal or equitabio defense, or buth, 10 be tested In the sams wav, If desired. This answer fs replied to by s denial or any lcga! or equitable excuse, tested as helore. No swearing to any of those nfeadings except {n case of special defenses or non est tactum, ‘Thcee vaths avall nothing in s trlal, If one party awears to & declaration stating a certaln Iact, and the other denies it and swears to lt, one simply lies, and nothing comes of i, The 1ssuc made by these simplo atatements is tried by the Judge (arbitrator), or by the jury as arbi- trators, with the Judge as umplre. In fact, the Biatu of Jliinols necdsto * shake Johin Doe and Richard Roe, the old fogics, and adont a simple code of practles like the one in Indisoa (which [ think 's the best), or fowa, or Olilo, or any of the other prosressive States, and #tcp up In the Iront ranks, and even abolish dower, thet relic of barbarism, and substitute s fee. Bhio has uble dudges, good laws, and toler- able lawyers, but thera 8 no denving that the delay and inystification of the administration of the fawa have become almost unbearable by the patient ond long-suflering publie. The resuls I that the blame §s lold at the doors of the Judges and the Jawyera, when they, of all inen,nsa claes, are as hard-worked and consclentious in thelr duties as any other in the great band of workingnen which we cull soclety, Cope. LAW REFORM. SUGGQFERTIONS. Too the Editor nf The Tribune. Cnrcago, Dee. 2.—~In your fesue of the st “Reformer” has presented his indictment against the common-law practice in the Conrta of ibis State, aud ln your Bunday issus you have called attention to the subject In » lengthy editorial, '*Reformer " gives a declarstion on 8 promis- sory note, as ho says, “‘to fllustrate somo of ita fthe common-iaw practice] lotliea.” Now, T tiink, in fairness, “Reformer™ ought not to have sala, an he did, that, * under our practice, the plaintiff must file” tho declaration, of which hogivesus a form. Of course there must be in the commencement of a declaratlion the name of the Court, and the title of the causc,—ihat is, the names of the plaintiffs sud defendant; and, #o0 long as the forms of sctlon aro pre- served (which I sdmit are uacless and had bet- ter be abolished) the form of the action must be sated. But I will show you that the form of the declaration glven by * Reformer” s not re- quired, either by the laws of this Biate or by the common-law practice. A declaration on a promissory note substantlally fn the following form has been held good on demurrer by the Bupreme Court of this State. *For that,where- a8 tho sald defendant on the 1st day of Janu- ary, A, D, 1878, made hls promissory pote, In writing, as follows: *Chicago, Jan. I, 1978, One day after date I promiso to pay A. B, $500, with Interest at 10 por cent,’ yet tho defend- ant, though requested 5o ta do, has nut paid the eall &'flf nor gny part of it to thy plalntiffs’ damage of $600, whercfore he brings suit,”” eic. ‘The title of the Court and the nawes of the rnrty plaintifl and defendant, ana the form of lie action—trespass on tho case on promises— of coutse preceded this statement, Now, it sny simpler form of declaration or statement of | catise of action can be made, I have never scen one. I udmit some of the worda fn tbis form may be owmitted, and ths declaration be just ns good. For lnstance, it need not be sald ‘“on the 1at day of .Jauuary, A, D. 180, Lut Instead thercofl the word * heretofore” may be used. 8o ol thecom- mon count, it may be mady a8 simple as the most concise statement under any so-called © code of procedure,” I think therc is room, however, for reforms in our practice, while 1 Elu:it sny that 1 think It is very sitaple In- eed. 1 would be glad to sce sll forms of actlon sholished it It vould bo done, and I think the time {3 not far distant when (¢ will be done. I that were done, it wonld be unneccssary to say anything nbout the torms of pleadinz; for it is arule of common-law pleading that the facts constituting a cause of action or defensc must be stated, and that o pleading must not contaln the evidence of the facts, It the Legialature were to provide that the olnint!fl might verlly his declaration by the aflldavic of ‘hlinselt, or by his ngent or attor: and that [ that case the defendunt akould verl hispled, it seemato me ull the reform requiredin that direetton woulil b sccomplished, Ta that case we might hope to get nothing but iacts, avd those the very truth, in the vleadings, “The plalntyiT would be compelled, It he veniled his declaration, to state Just the truth of his case, und the defendant, in his plea, would b obliged EDITH MAY MARRIED. Iler Tencne nt tho Ninking of the Mobawk Itecnlled~Naved by Ono of Commodore Gar- ner's Friends to o Wedded to Capt. Artbar Raudalpb, of England. o York Swa, Dee, 22, The pleturesque little Church of the Holy Communion at Sixth avenue and Twentlcth strect was on Thursdsy last’ the scane of coe of the most notable marriages in New York so- clety for some time past, Miss Edith Sybil May, daughter of Dr. Frederick J. May, late of Baltimore and now of New York, was the bride, und Arthur R. Randolph, late Captaln In her Britanpic Majesty's Fitteenth Reglowent of Hus. sars, was the groom. The wedding was strictly privato throughout. No cards of invitation had been fssued, but ut 8 o'clock, the hour fixed upon for the ceremony, the eosy Ittle church held a Joyuus throng of friends of the happy pair, Mlss May, o stately blunde with auburn halr, was sttired o an claborate and costly bridal dress of whito satin, with orange velt and tlowers complete. She was attended by her alster, Miss Carrio May, ond her cousin, Miss Oclrichs, The bridegroom was stout and of fortd complexion. o wore black throughout, as did Wis groomsman, The ushers were Mr. Frederick May, who fought: the ducl with Mr. ‘Beunett I the spring of 1877, and Mr. Wiilie May. Toth are brothers of the bride. Dr. May Ihe ceremony wus g uvn:fy his daugiter, berfurine 1o state Wa defense—1, ¢, the facts on which he Ly tha, Lev, ¥, E. Lawrence. A re- relled for his defense—truly. If he had no_de- | cevtion, to which only the lmniediata relatives fense, of vourse he conld make none. This [yWEre ‘“"“va‘“"D"'-‘d in Dr. Moy's honse, at would eura the esil complained of, and tho | N0. 30 West Nincteenth street, Tue bridal pair will sal) _soon for England to pnss the honey- moon at Mr. Randolph’s scat st Euswours, Wift- shire, 3rs, Randolph, nce May, lias Joog been one of the leading belles of faslitonable New York so- clety, Her nams was brought nto distressing promincice by tho sinking vt the yucht Monawsk in July, 1876, The Mohawk wus tho largest and costhieat yacht in Amerlcan watcrs, haviug beeu bullt tor her owner, Commudore Wililam 1, Garner, at a cost of many thousand doltars, Sne was fitted up In the most luxurious style, and shie earrled u spread of canvas that even for a vessel of her dimensions was unusual, tor mnata ond spars wors spectally ponderous and heavy, It was sald to be a freautent boast of her owucr that hic could take her as niear the pole us Ksns had wooe, € hio wished, {ler sizo and tonnage \was 8o ereat that tn & smooth sca she was beaten by more than uvne of thae crack schooners of the Now Yurk Club, The suin- mer ot 1870 was uausually itvely for New York “1aw’s dalavs ' In mere collection sults would, 1n most cases, bo thinga of the past. ‘There are other mutters, 1 think, which might be reformed, It has scemed to me that the suminons vr_process by which a sult s com- wenced need not be returnable at any term of the court; but that it would bo better if it re- qiifred tha defendant to plead lna certainpum - ver of days after service, 1f he falled to blead within that thne, provide that he could not plead nfter without showiniz by atlidavit that he bad o wvalld defense on the merits. ‘Then I would abolish the replication in all cases unloss where the plea sct up facts consti- tuting a eet-off or counter-claim, or va which toe defendant inight clalin and have aflirmative rellel, [ wonld provido that’every fact in o plea which ouly set up a defepse should be deemed demed. I know it |s said that by means of the blead- Inge enbsequent to the plea, the lssue is par- rowed down Lo tho slugle point {n dispute, This is 80 1 theory ouly. Iy our practice, the Court | yochtamen. ‘o Countess of Dufferin, may, and on applicatlon always does, grant to | Lanadian yacht, of which preat ~decds the plainthtl lesva to roply separate replfcations, | Wero expected, came dowu from - Iulifax and avchored off tho Club-house at Staten Isiond. On the atternoon of the 91t of July Mr, Garner entertaineda party of friends aboard the Mohawk, which lay only afew bundred yards from the shore, and near the Cotuntess of Dullerin, the Dreadnnught, the Phantom, the Magie, and other fiyers, ‘Ihe pleasure party abourd the Mohawk consfsted of Commodors Garucr, Mrs, Garner, Miss Editk May, Miss Adels funter, Col.J. Behuyler Croaby, Mr, tinrdiner G Howlaud, and Mr, Louis Moutant At 4 o'ctock the order was given Lo set sall, al* thouh the thick, black clouds, ominvus of coming squall, were rising above the Rarltan. Ul watermen shook their heads when they saw tho cuormous epread of canvus that the Mo- howk was carrving, with the squatl momenta. rily drawing ncarcr. Those In thu yuchts cluse by” shouted words of warning, " but they were lost in tho burst of the tempeai. Tho splendid pyramid of eanvas which the Mo- tnwk bl spread 1o the breeze voreened over gracefully at thu first gust, but without golng far enough to capsize, Just ns e wua recover- fnyz. thu secomd burst struek lier, ol the huge mass toppled over Into the sea, The ladles were in the cabin, and thelr rst warning wus the torrent of water gushing down the hatehe way. Louls Montunt, at the rivkof lis lite, rau down tno compunionway, groped about until hy found a fady, who proved 1o by Miss Edith May, and was returning with her when s second ruah ol water down the uvarrow hatchway ucarly overwhelmed thom both, He cluag 1o his com- panlon, boweyer, sud tinally, with the ussist- auew of Col, Crosby, succscded in gottingg ner to thedeck, Miss .\lum by all lccnum“dmulnyul and In that way cyery (act in a plea is rentled to, and the Issue 18 no narrower than it every mu- terlol fact were deemed donied without sny repiv, Thers Is one more _reform I wouid notice at this tine. It I8 provided by statute that the parties (o an vetion way walve a Jury and sub- it the lssues to the Court for irinl. To thie, however, buth parties must couseut, snd i1 & case Is reachied ou the ducket or ealendur In its regular onter, ard tho defendant is not present, the plalntlit must call a jury, It ought tobe provided that the delendont w9l be deemed to conisent to a trial by the Coure If he do not ap- pearat the trial, or by not appearine at the trial. ‘Chero would scein to be no use fo tall- Ing a jury to try the lssuc when the defendant made no defeuse ag the trial, Lam ore than kit Inclined to think 1 am acquainted with **Reformer.” I think I saw hin unet at 4 meeting of the Bar Assoctution, when a committeo had reported sn wnendment to the Practice act to ba sent to Bpringticld to be acted on by the Legislature, The subject was the atfidavit which the statute permiffed the plainti to flle with his declaratioy, snd which it required the defendant to file with his plea1u case the plalntlt Nea an atfidavit ot ks cause of actlon, I remember that I proposed the reform 1 have abova explatned, whilu ** Reformer," il [ am cor- rect In my beilef of who hu ix, proposcd that the matter which tho Committce had provided should by embodied In the defepdant’s afllldayit, to be filed with his plea, slioukl be sct aut in his plea, and the plea be verifled by the defendunt, or hle agent or attorney, [ remember that o member of that Committes erledont, “Oithatisthe Iowa Code!" It would hiave been just as horrible jt | the tnust adiirablo heroispt, Wheo the the Committec-mun had smelt thu New York, or | ¥ater onkulied them 3r. Montant asked Oufo, or Indiunu, or Kenticky, or Missours, or | her € she could swim, 8he said she could, and with hs asslstance she Lattled brave- Jy with the waves until a boat, commanded by Mr, Boverly Novinson, camu to thelr asslatance, In thelr eugerucss the reouulmi party capsized their own buat, and it wss only after several minutes of anxious exertiun that the brave girl was rescued, Commodore tarner might have suved himsel? but he chose to die fn the hope- task of trylug to rescue his wife, who was Yl pesd down Dy the heavy cabin furnituare, Miss Tunter perished with My, sud Mrs. Goroer, and Frost Thorne, For a long time aiter the dlsas- ter it was rumorcd that the fricudsbip between Miss Muy aud ber rescuer nad ripencd into un engagement, ‘The death of Mr. Montant of pucumonia put an eud to tho engugemens, i there wus ous, Miss Carrte May, the sccund alster to tho bride, §s well Known us the former flances o Mr. James Oordoa Benuett, who af- lclrv,l‘ilgfill fought thu ducl with her brotber Fred- eriel uy. ‘The groom, Artbur R, Randolph, orio: to his marriage with Sliss Say, wusa widower, his first wife buing Misa Deltuinira Emma Primrose, eranddauhter of the fourth Earl of Noscbery, and @ sccond cously ol the present Earl, At the timo of Mis frse maretsee, In 1864, Cupt. Randolph _bore his ancestral name ol Arthur Raudolph Mullings, o had previously auld out uf the arny, iy which b bheld o comniission as Captaln in the Fitteeuth Hussars (the King' Kansus, or Nebraska, or Colurmlo, or Nevada, or California, or Minnesota, or Wisconsin code, or the cody of practice fi wny other State or Territory, It wits * the code,” a8 it s called, that was the nightmare which selzed upon the Comniitiec-man, I remember, too, that the as- sembled wledom of tho Chleazo Bar thun pres- ent cricd down both propoaltions, und that tho amendnient proposed by the Coinmitice was adopted a8 the best brovision that could bo madc by statute for simplitying thy practice of our courts {u that respett. “And now, whilu the rlafntlit Is required to e a declaration, in which ho may, und often does, fnciudo from ve to ten counts, becsuse the luwyer has thewm printed in bl oftice, his silldavit of tausy of action siates only a angle oue of the flve or ten causesfof mction set out i his declaration. Of coursel it s ubsurd. And, but for the fusne cry sgainst ¢ the code," the “-m\mllluu o require the plaiutif ta vcmly s decloration, If be would require the defend- ant to verfy bis ples, might bo adopted, und the * law’s dotays™ would ceaso to bo a couse of complalnt as to olarge class of ca 4 course, where there a real ineritorious ense, theu the cause must awalt fte thue au the docket or caleudar for trial, But if the large clasy of cascs Iy which there 18 no defense were disposed of by default, the delay in the other cusen wonld be much T studicd my profession and commenced prac- | UWn), now comutandod by tivn. Key, ‘The tice under tho uld comnman law cules. | have | Fisze with Miss Belluoira Primrose was subsi fived aud practiced ju 4 * Code Stute,' so- | quently dissolved, and since that pertod Ate. called, 3 know there uro many, very many ex- | Randoibh los dropped the ngme of Muillugs, in seeordancg With the conditions anvexed to the travster of his estates. et 5 POISONED SUGARS, o the Editor of The Tridung, Laks Fousst, Dec, 24.—1s glucose unhealth- full Considering the great amount that 18 uscd inthe udulteration of sugars, sirups, sudeandies, thisis a very important fuquiry to 40,000,000 people. If headthiul, then oue objection to its use would be reinoved. 1f destructive of hiealth, shall @ few uen, for the suke of amassing to themselves collossal fortuues, be allowed to Jeopardize the health aud tlives of a natiout 1p theae latier thnes there secms to be o great lack of privcipte in the mercautlile world. There arc many so unscrupulous, that, in preparing alimentory articles for sho public, they make uo fuquiry whether tbeir products will kill the con- sumer or not, bus whetber they van wake money by them. If guelr goods are not sullcienty desteuctive to produce lmcdiate sullering so us tu aruuse the fears of thu consumer, thelr cousclencey sru satisfied. 1s his true in rels- tton to the sugur trade! A 1w, wure conaclentious, . ratber than have their skirts stajued with the blood of thelr fellow-wmen, withdraw from s buslness whers they must lose wouey by the uoequal strife of sclhug u pure articls fo competition with su jm- pure oue. Artitlclal elucose, in the furm of sirup, bas been a1 urticle of (ommerce for & Bumber of Nuars, but thic uetention of scieutitic men bas uot Levn durected t ity werlts und demerita il very tately. Sowie, bowever, baviuz carefully obiserved jts etffects from the comeucenient of its use ao un wliwcutary substance, bave beeu celiencles n the * codes o1 procedure * ot uil the States aud Territo whara they prevail, But chavge t& not olweys reform, wl I do not be- lieve it necessary to adopt 8!l the conditiuns of any system to avall onrselves ot the excellen- e, There ure othier matters 1 might reter Lo, but $t wonld make this already too Jong com- wugication burdensome to you. Quonust, BOUNCE TITEM, To the Kaitor of The Tribuns, Cutcago, Dec. 22.—I1t ls with real pleasure that § seo the prominence you sre eiving to the quession vl law refurm tu this Btate, aud [ offer 1bis reason as an avolocy for the space required for thls short communication, The complaints of Mr, Fsuntleroy have led bim to sttempt & reformation ou his own re- sponsibility, but 1t scems to ne that he tus undertaken something fu which be will not bave Licarty symputby, because bis plun, though bou- eab duits (utentfous, s iwpracticuble, ‘TUu trouble, it seems to wy, is uot in the Judges. the cousts, or the Jawyers, but it s the legithnate fruiz resulting from the udootion aud use of the comstaon-luw practice and furms of wetion fu that Stute, and the diviviou ol the vourts it law sud cquity tritunala, coutiaey to thy exaiuple of vur alster States ol the West, uG coutrary to the habits of simplicity and di- rectiess o business which churucterize tho Auwerivun people. Arbitration will not remedy the evil, but the very fuct that 1L receives con- sideration drom such men as Mr. Feuotleroy shovis that a change from the prescut mode 13 Gemanded by tue publie, ‘Vlse Judige s the urbitrator uow, and fs cdu- cated sud qualitied for the pooition Letter than any one wlo could Lo chusen baphazard)y, With Mras pertalislog, Tl sabic 3 plan perfectly satisfied of its evil ¢ffecta on the human system, As has before been remarked, glucoss fa generally made from atareh and corn digested In sulphuric acld. We tan have nu controveray with the former, Butsulphurie acid, sometimes calied ofl of vitriol, Ia an active polson. ‘I'he new Amerioan Encyclopedia says uiphuric acid fa a powerfully corrosivo polson, acting instantly upon the thront and stomach, and causing In- tense agony and death.” ‘Therefore, if used In connection with any alimentary substance, it must ba neutralized. This 18 done by the vee of Ime, Home chemists sav that [t can be fo elTectually done that the acid will not prove In- Jurfous to the consumer, Somo Imagine that this 1s true In al) cases. They alro aay that the 1ime s precipttated, and lett In the residunm, so that It s harmless. Probably this is frequently so cffectually done that” the chemist cannot” detect elther hy analysis, but it is very doubtful whether It Is s0 thoroughly accomplished that one or both of them will “not have somo evil effect, 1f some have been carcful to neatralize the acld by the lime, and then removed the lime bevond the chemist's skill to detect then, facts prove that others have been gullty of the most reckless carclessncss, Prof. R. C. Redzle, of the Michigan State Ag- riculturat College, Intel{ analyzed soventeen specimens of sirup. He found that Hfteen were made of glicose, One sample contalned seventy-tvo grains of sulphuric acd, twenty- cight grains of copperas, and 863 graips ot limie to the gallun, *A whole familly wera made serf- ously il by the use of ik Another sample con- tained 141 grains of sulphuric scld, and 724 grains of’ lime to the gallon. Can any one doubt that such an amount of chemicals must prove very detrimental to the consumersi 1If, in some fustances, they may have falled to op- erate as & very sctive jolaon, they must fn every case hiave proved o slow polson gradually undermining the healtlsa! all partaking of them. 1f, however, we had atl the facts fu relation to the consumption of sirups contaluing that amount of chemicals, we think they probably would prove like the barrel of sirup scnt to & be- nevolent [nstitution fn Chicago, which eauscd vouifting and purgiug in every one who used it But ft {s scldom that sirup can be found with u ch so wmount of medication. What, then, ean be eald of glucose and otber sirups of a het- ter class, In which more care has been taken to neutralize the chemicals! Is It harmless when the chemist cannot, by analysis, detecs any olsoni Tucre §s no doubt that, If there I8 suf- !}ulem polson to produre Imunediste paln, the chenist can deteet {t. - But it Is very frequently the casa that bis skill ir insulficient to detect auy when there is only enaugh to sct as a slow volson, Therefore, otir views of what is wholc- some or unwholesomu cannot be governed en- tirely by analysis, Experience ond observation must come to our ald in arriving at conclusions; and hero s where the more consclentious of the refiners have signally failed. They have felt satiafied with thefr produets If ey conld neu- tralfza the pofsons used to such s extent that they could not be detected by analysis, Conse- quently their glucosc, sirups, and sugars, If not an active, have heen uennnlly s slow, polson, producing dysvepsia, with its concomitant afl- ments, in wultitudes of thuse who otherwise ;;'mlml; now Lo enjoylog comparative zood calth, 1t Is more than twenty vears since the Stuarts first hegan to monulacture FIHL‘OI sirup. Many hatled its advent as & great finprovement on the aerk-colored sugar-bouss and New Orleans mo- lusses. They were pleased swith Its color and taste, little dreaming that it would stowly make fuvallds by the thuusands. There werg & ovw, however, who were In the hablt of carefully ob- sorving the eifects of different alimentary sub- stances ou heatth, who finmediately tonnd that tholr sirup caused such sn irritation of the ali- mentary organs that {4 was not safe to wse it, Sinca that time the reflners have employed chemists by the year with tho purpose of devis- ing same now methods by whiell they iight cheapen the process of the manufacture and re- foing of sweets 8o that they might the more succeesfully campete with their neighbors, Cun- scquently the Jaboratorics of the refinerics havo been filled with poisouous chemieals of various kinds, But so revent wero thev in relaticn to thelr discoveries that, not only did they con- ceal their various provesses from the consum- ers, but, ad for as luy In thelr vower, they did not allow their nelgflhbflrinz refineries to onter {oto thelr seerets, Such belng the case, fs it atrange that when the consumer calls for some spectile kind of sirup he ‘van have bo surety whether he fs purchasing glucose, tin-rofined strup, or a pure articlel Llttle probabllity of obtalning the pure nrticle, however, . But glucose not only produces dyspepsia, but, mordhm to Fastern professional inen, diahetes olso. A medicul exvert, writihg for 3 Naw York paper, saya: ** We stated in a previous article that glucose, if habituully used in large quantitiea, would cause discase of the hver ainl Kidneys, and especinlly diabetes of the Intter orean, Physiclans well kuow that kidooy afTec- tions haye been ou the Increase all over the country for several vears past, consequontly mortality stutistics show u large percentage of Drizht's discase and dlabetes, and It is a well- founded upinion that more than half of these coses could be traced to the use of adulterated sugars, glucose helng the adulterant of from 80 o0 ver vent. . o . ‘lut,’ ssks some In. quirlng reader, ‘why, If s0 much suyar (s found in diabetes, doea not pure sugur caltse this dis- casef' Tho answer i very siniple. Pure refined cane sugar being & nutrieut aliment, und casily digested,~excepting h{udylnepllc: whet It is ln sirup foru,—aseimilatlon” (s ‘porfects whereas glucose 18, like many other swects, dllieult to digest, unid I8 lmperfectly assimiilated, lience we find it & prolitlc causs or discuso—Induciog not onlv dyspenala and constipation—but dis- turbing the functions of tha liver and kidnoys as wo have shown, ‘The x’""’"" and progress of dinbetes, caused by the use of lucosc, can caslty 'P: demonstrated by tests with a polari- acope. Prof, Chandler, speaking of sugar adulfora- tion before the New York Academy of Sclences, saye: ** 1 luve some snecimens which. fn my Judement, Hlustrato a deeree of wickodnoss and rascality that [ find ft dittlcult to talk about in that calm manner which is nmfwr on the pres- ent_oceaston, There fexhibitiog a two-ounce vial] 18 a spechinen of ‘a sugar reduced to a slrup, und tested with sulphureted bydrogen ras, As it bow stands, tho material outside of it hos scttled to the bottow, Uven shakiog (v up It settles very readily, showing that It Is something that has much greater weicht than tho rest of the sugar, 8nd upoa assay this proves to be a mixture of coppersnd acids. . ., It sceme to me that this ls about the wickedest form that viee hus taken in thess modern day: and baid as it Is In its intluence upon tho phve {enl health of our peools sod thelr children, fta effect ypon the moral liealth of the cummunity s ¢qually disastrous.' Next Naturday we witl consider the comparative merlts sod deaerits of different kinds of sugur. RossiTxit. e, COMMERCIAL, The Board of Trode, and the commerciat community generally, observed Christimas-Day by a complete closing of doors. Hence the quo- tatlons for araln, produce, ate,, were nominal at the latest feures of Tucsduy. LIVE 8TOCK. , The recclpts of stock were light.—only 280 cars all told,~and prices were gencrally fAnner, though there was not & partlcularly active de. maud for any class. Packlug hogs aod choive beavy shipping lots commanded 5¢ sdvance, but light welghts were steady at Tuesd: Bgures. lg!u-nvy sold at $2.50@2.80, and light at $2.40@ 53, ———————— e BY TELEGRAPH. NABT LIBEKTY. Kast Lisgary, Pa,, Dec, 25 — CavrrE—Recelpts to-day, 238 hiead, a)l for esle here;'total for two dayw, 810 through, and 84 local, Run light snd Hitle dolng. Preve for good to extra rangiog at a nuorter blaher than this day s week auv, wille common grades wre rathor off. ‘Tow demund ls bzt all weound, Fluos—lteceipla to-day, 1,640 hend: fotal fup two daye, U.500; Yorkers, $2.75@4. 005 Putladol- By, 32, 0565200 BugRr—Iiccuipts to-day, 400 head; total for two days, 2,700; none seillng to-day, DBUFPALO. Hurrato, Dec. 95.—No market to-day, Al stuck on the Lake Bhore Ruud between Pulnesyille and here basareived. No shipumeats to-day, WUOL. Bostow, Dec, 25.—Wool Market—The sales this week Include X and XX Onio and Venpsylvania ficeces i 43630, privcipally fHe. Otner Beeces, luciuding alichigau snd Wiscousin, 30G@dc, aud combing ana delaine Heecas BiwsdUc. Bupor mud X puilca iu (alr demiand at 40c, wws choice 1oty uf aupes selling at 38Gs40c. o e — A Joke ou the * Barkeep."” Rucheater Uaion, A well-appesrui zeotleman walked foto the barroom ol adivie otel the other cyenlug, aud, professiug Lo bo out of cbange, asked the bartender it he could put biy wnbrella ub for a arink, As I was a grood sllk one, the securliy was agreed upon, The wan swaliowed bis bev- erage, and, quictlv ralelng bis umbrella, walked out. Junwv did pot call him back,. bub took she joke as philusophicatly 2s possible. - ———— Pharmsceutical, A couple of youug drugglsts were out hunting oear Ithaca, N. Y., on Toaoksziving Day, An old Turiner, oh whose demcanes they apoeared as Lrespassers, utdertuok 1o cligas then with dogs. DThe brave' younz pestiv manlpulutors both blazed sway with thelr shot-guus sud - seriously filed the ofd geotlivan with shot. Ou their Lusiness cards they uow spcak of themselves as ** Drugziste aud Farwer-shootists,” RAILROAD TIME TABLS. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRATHS, EXFLANATION 0¥ Rrrerence MARRS.—t farqr ey ; Any Hs Ifiefl YBanday excepted, 3Mondsy exceprcd, CHICAGO & RORTHWESTERN BAILWAY, Tieket Offces, 03 Clatk . (Sherman Hoy aPaclic Fast Lini agloux Cliy & Y abuluate hay kx, 3533233 ey aFreeport, Jiockd & | vecport, Roekd & Dubna waukeo Fast Mall ken Bpeciai~gi M{Iwatkes Exocess. ., DMfiwakue Pasnenger. dMilwaiikee Passenger (4ai17). bGreen iny ¥xpress, k¢, Pani & Minneapo 3333333533533, press, a)ake Uenevn & flockford, bFond dn Lac, via Janesviile, ., Puliman Hotel Carsare run through, botween Cii. enen and Conncit NG, ou the ‘PR 1SA¥iS Chicase tier rosd rune Pullman or aoy other form of hotel cars west of Chicazo. @=Depot corner of Wrlls and Ringle-ata, d—Depot corner of Canal snd Kinzie-sta, CHICAQGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RATLEOLD, Depota foot of Lake-at., Indlana-av, and Slxteenti-y. and Csnal and Bixteeath-sia. Ticket Omces, 50 Clark: st And Bt dopots, VT SUSIRSTUARITPIOIRE L L > Ed I Leavo, { Ars Mendots & Catesburg Fxprem...[* 725 a m ; tiawa & Bireator L press. R e B4 nrrle 0 pn Am[* 3:20 p am® 3:40 pan am 49 bm sml 20ipm pmi* 7isham P 1048 a1 pm s HiAs am Bm 158 m m, im g am am pm am Pullman, Faince Dining-CArs and Pullmen 10-whect Slee] |uf-Cnr¢ are rup batween Chicago aud Omabs op the Pacific Exress, QHICAQO, ALTON & ST, LOUTE, AND CHICAGQ, EANSAS OITY & DENVER SHOBT LINES, Usinn Depot. Wess Bide, near Stadiscn.at. bridge, ang Twenty-thtrd-at, _ Ticket Ofice, 122 Randalpheic. [_Arrive” Kanuas City & Denver Fast ¥z, 90 b ml ] Bt Louis, Aprineticl] & Texas. [+ 0:n0 & m, i Moiic & New Orieans £xpress 00 n m N 8t Touls Fpringleld & Texss, 00 pm 0 Feorfa, Wtfngion | Fast Expeiail oio0 im H & Reokuk Express 0N p m! o Chicagn & Paducah I, It, bx, o) am u Stroator, Lacon, Washingt'n 30 p m| m Jaltet & Diigns Accommodstion't 8:00 p m 5 | QHIOAGO, MILWAUKEE & 8T, PAUL RAILWAY Uslon Dapat, corner Madison and Canal-sts. Ticket oII ":En'l‘a‘mm Clark-st., opposizc Bhermen House, Leave. | Arrive, 1w PELLL 0 osaesanenss @ i ToT e e B et ey * 700 830 8 7243 pm sy, and dlcassba thruan Day|, Madlson, Teaicie @i Chica & 1010 8m ¢ 4:00p e Tows Rxpres, *10:43 8m Mliwaukeu Kast i R isconsin & Minnesots, jay, Stovens Polut, and Adh- ugh Nlgis Express. 7:008m Al frains run via Nillwankee. Ticketa for 8t Paul and Minneape d eltlier'vin Aadlson and Frairia du Chien, or vl vase, and Winous. ILLINOIS OERTRAL RATLROAD, Depot, foot of Lake-st. and Jbox ot Twenty- ‘Ticket Uttive, Riandolph-st., near and. i 288859 aCalro & Texas v. Hprinzfepd (‘i}l!rt‘ll. Bpringneld Nignt ixpross..., Peoris, Burlington & Keokul bEeorta, Burlington & Keoku Dulmque & Kloux ¢ity Kxpres Dubuque & Kang City dtimaz D, E8gi a On Saturday night o Centratia ol $0u Batuniay niktit runs ta Peoris only, MICHIGAN OENTRAL RAILROAD, Depot, foot of Lake-at. and foot of Twenty-necond-st. “[eket OMee, 07 CIArk:st., southesss corner of Hane duiph. Grand Pacina Hotel, and at Patmer louse, Teave, | Arrive, alh (viadtaim aa AtrLine)....ls To0nms 0:03 81 ay hxpi . u 0 & Iy b Kelatnazoo Acconimodation, 4:00 pml*10i0 am Atlantlc Express 5:13 ping ;00 am Expren. i IS 8 m PITTSBURG, PT. WAYNE & UHICAGO RATLWAY, Denot, cornor Uanal and Msalson-sta ‘Ticket Offices, 03 Clark-st., Palmer llouse, aid Grand Pacific Jlotel. Lewve, | Arrive. * A3 nm* 7:00 pm Sis nmf s am 9:10 pmit i am L: Xgl foot of Montoe. g leave from xpos] dfag. foof o Tieket Ofices, rk-st., or House, Graud cl0c, snd Depot (Espoeltion Butiding). oy Leav ming REpress. s As0min g B:i0am Yot AR LAKE BIORE & MIOHIGAN SOVTIERN, Toave. | AFeive,_ *7:}iam s 740pm * 0 kI 74O P e 813 IH'I] lsl.l)lm $10:20 pm |} 8:40 8 W QINCINNATI & ST, LOUIS R, R, " Cinclugatt Alr-Lino aad Kottomo Lise.) Dopet. Corner of Cltision Aud Carroll-ate., We Mom!s [afl-01d Lis N o e Clocinaat, Indtanspalfs. Louts: et s R ko) i e EANKAXEE LINE, Depot, foot of Lake at, aud foos of Twenty-second tonatt, Tndianaga c"‘x‘]l. Day Lxpi % G {113 CHICAGO, ROCK IELARD & PACIFI0 RAILBOAD, Depot, corner of Van Tiuren end Shormen-ste Tickol Ghice, 80 Clark-ate, Bherinan Hise: , Teave. | ATFve. “ 7o wmls 7:28 pra i o170 B [ 3140 b 1R * 8:00 pm[*10:20 & T o100 pimit K15 8 10 e Omahs Express aru served o diplug et 7S oty vach: CHICAGO & EABTERN ILLINOIS RAYLROAD. ** Dauville Houte.” Ticket Offices, 77 Keal,, 123 Dearborn-st., and De+ pok, coraer Cllutou and Carroll-sts. Leave, | Arrive. *puusnY 1 pin b ru_Ascommodation, ht Kxpress. fie "Kabre ny Mail...... En{h,vlmu & Fiorlds EXTHACK OF HEEF. P e e A S S B LIEBIB GOMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT, YINEST AND CHEAPEST MEAT FLAVOURING STOCK FOR BOUPS, MADE DISHEB AND SAUQES. LIEBIGCOMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT, %1 acoed boor . y only with the fae- stulle of Baron Lisi guature tn Blus Tuk across the Label, Consumption fu Eogland Insressed wne fold I o years, LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF Al EAT. To be bad of all $wrebsepers, Orocers and Chemist. Sole Agenls forthe "~ PIOPOSALY. WIS ool e e RO Proposals for Dredging at Rock Islnund Rapids. U, 8. Exoixzux Orrics. 2 1. 1., Dee. 24 1478, PUPLICATE seh oD T i st 56 feceiv. [z the yudersigned uotil ) p. ub., Jadl £ 13TV ol I{!Efluhl broken roek fruni the bottum of tha lis syl e Bed s For IS ARGUI R, Mator of Engtacors. L. e A e 42 % b et e A NO CURE! DR KEAN' . NO PAY ! 173 Bouth Olark-st. Oh:o:‘o. = ' oauls personally or by wall, free of chargs, on sl e et dichseh. br.d. K L4 i thu Galy physictals [ thy city who warmiats cures of B par. I Fiivass Ko piual, 03 bouth Clask e, Chlcaguy UL’ Everybady truan 0 Atiaadlato Fa (8e hua heard of Ly 2L e i smen, b verid, it pai kBl wemsn, Rocors inotl b Jetnd pnon: 3 10nt biauipa fur b wide 10 Waalihs 2 oot 8¢ chrica inhrmslion sl s Eatn e PRESCRIPTION FREE. Vi Lost ST BT Gt SRR e Iacrs A uzgiil DA the fsgredicalls 133 veac T ot Cluclanatl, Olas anh Aion vr Ficvas. JAQUES & L0