Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1879, Page 9

PRIDAY, JANUARY 17, I899—-TWELVE: PAGES. ] THE COURT 1THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE a8 {n other parta of Mesopotamia; but tbe sur tace of the soil Is, on the whoie, green and pleasant to the eve. The glad waters of the river flow on in the hrl;'lh‘ ‘morning sunshine, with palm and muiberry hanginzover its banks, drinking in sap and 1ife. The great city which counted fta population by millions, and filled tne world with a renown fiot_yet forgotten, hag Aisappearcd under the dust of twenty centuries, but Nature fs as fresh and jocund as when lhh{lon wan still nnbuflt. Birds sing overhead fn the plcasant spring airj butterflles flutter about In search of flowers; balmy odors reeale the sense. It is difficult under the drcum- atances to feel a8 one perliaps oughit to feel for about the child that conld lead to her identifl tlon, and no ooe could he found who had seen her about the town before the erime was dis- covered. Photographs of the child wers sent to every police statfon in Bwitzer- Iand, and deseriptiona of her were pub. Tished §n all the papers. After a while, by tho merest accident, risoiclon rested on 8 woman pamed Ruchat, lying in the Canton Vaud. It was proved that the child was hers, and {L was supponad that she had killed her becanse, being illegitimate, she constituted an vbstacle to her arrloge. It come ont further that she was actually married to her preasnt husbund at the very time when all 8witzerland was ringing with had dizenvered and talked with Living- ftone, how was It received? Did the press of this country break forth in peans of pralas for the heroie young man, snd exult over his won- derfal sucess? Not a bit of it. From one end of the land to the other, onr papers, with few axceptions, sncered st the tidings, They pro- cd not to betieva the story at all. Blnnlflf' raid, had put up a job ou nis employers. It was all a lie, Lhay paid. ~Btanley had never scen the old explorer, and his alleged adventurcs were & mere _romance, drawn from his fertlla mmagination. Then the papers began to relate how Stanley was 8 romancer by profession hefore he left America,—liow as A news- fore make such an adjostroent of the would tend to drive all coffes sugara out of the market, filling thelr place =ith the purer, much richer, and, of course, more profitable planta- ton sugars. 'he hard sugars. which ace refined with tha seetate of lead (Augar of lead), aro supposed by many to be pure becanae the icad is general- 1y neutralized, 0 that it cannot be detected by analysis. But the third party well know that . this}s not doae with sufficlent thoroughnesa ty render the siugars saf2 to the consumers, espe- cally invalids and Infants. Therefore they would also discountenance tnis class of goods, va BOARD OF EDUCATION. to teach German, And It needs no prophet to predict that there never will ve.” INSPECTOR VOCKE iffered with Inspector Stone very materfally, and insisted that tho aeductions from his figurca were erroncous. For one, he wanted his chitdren taught (lerman, and he thouzht to take the study ont of the schools would be a great Injury ta the canse of general education. Aknowlédie of German, or any vther forezn tongue, was & great advuntaco in the study of our vwn language. e was nstonished At the animosity displayed toward the study, and, while he believed those trying to aholish it wers D. K. Tenney Sues for Damage Evening Spent in Fightin Angthior EVRIRE Spantin HIERting: Done to His Nose. Over Special Studies. A New Way of Gatting Aiter the Stink- Inspector Btone Presents Soma Btatistics Faciorice. Relative to German Instruction, No Conclusion Arrived At, sand the Estimates Sent to the Council Anadjonmed meeting of the City Board of Educatlon was held last evening, nine members belng present. After the transiction of same routine busi- mess the special order—thio estimate for ealaries «=was token 1p. Inspecior Bartlett moved that the report of the Comittec on Salaries fixing tho galaries of the special teachers of music, German, and drawiug, at an fncrease of $300 over what they weru last year, be adopted, GERMAN, Inspoctor Btona moved,as an amendment,that the ltem of 81,500 for the teacher of Uerman be stricken ont, and in support of his ‘motion spoke atrome length. He sald, reading from manu- geript, that German had been Introduced in the grammar schools by a resolutfon of the Board of Fducation, adopted Auw. 1, 1865, which author- {zed Instractlon In the Washington Behool as an exueriment. The then Principal of that school was tho late Ben] R. Cutter, who engaged Yicartily In the work tomake the teaching of (German o stceess, and he wos complimented by the Cominittee on German for his labors, At the close of the sclicol year ending Aug. 81, 1664, there were 116 puplls taking German o the Washington School, In 1830 the study was put into the Franklin, Mosly, and Wells; fn 1867, into the Newberry; in 1608, 4nto the Carpenter, Kinzie, and Cottaze Girove; in 1870, inta the Haven, LaSallo Btreet, 8kinner, and Svammon; and in 1871, with the Lincoln ndded, the work culminated with the fustruction of German in thirtcen schools to 4,207 pupils, 1o all of thess figures the High 8thouls nre not included. During the nearly thirtcen yeara which had clapeed E(nce the adoption of «’nu resotution in- roducing German Into the crammar schools, :m.' mnsucuou in that branch has suflered s steady and _unbroken decline, until it must be confessedl by everybody that tho attempt to feach It had proved an utter and complete faile ure. Had on Heqan with, Nov.22, 1878, Puplls, Luplis, ashington, In 1806 &6 Franklin, Iy 1800 1t Wells, in 1560 176 Newhorry, in 1807...0 0 8L Covtage Grove, in 1868 5 124 Carpenter, 1n_1870 7 Kinzie, in 1870, 100 luven, i 1870 AN s Skinner, fn 1K 10 83 oo, in 1871, 401 15 bear 8N, Clark Street, in I877.... it “Thus, n the twelve orlgiual schools there wera at the start 3,035 pupils, and wow Lut 1,102, or just about one-third, In all but two—the Franklin and Moseley— there hus been a very considerable loss. derman fustruction in the LoSalle Strect Schioo! was abandoned within two ycurs of its utroduction, But It might be asserted by the friends of Ger- wman that thess twelva achools in which the stwdy orliriated ditd tot coustitute & falr test, Welf, take the whole city over. In 1871, when the number of puplils taking Oerman was Jurgest,—it nover was so larro bofore, nor had it been since,—thers were 4,207 puplls in thirteen schools, or an sverage of 10 puplis to the school. In No- vember lase there were 1,024 ouplls in ecighteen schoole, or on averago of 106° puplls to the school, Thus, In the past seven years, the nuta- ber of puplle taking German had decrensed wure than 60 per cent. But,’ssid_thio Commlittes on_German, that would not do cither, becauso in 1830 tho study was sutmmnrly withdrawn from the primury emdcs, thus cuttiog off 1,000 pupils st one low. 'S0, to muvt this objection, he would elhminate the primary grada puplls. Aud still, i the grammar gradea aloue, there was o se- rloun fatling ofl.- Ia 1871, in_thirteen schools, there wero 1,441 - grammar puplls taking Ger- wmny, or oo aversze of 110 gramwmnar puplis to the schicol. “In Novetnber last the averago was Lut 106 grammar pupils to the school. In 1871 the total evrolhinent of school children in Chicago wus 40,000; tbe number of these taking German was 4,207, or sbout 10 per cenl. Last year the enrollment was 53,000, an lucrense 01 19,600, while the number of children_takwz Gerntan hod fallon to 1,800, or sbout 83§ per cent. 'The nuwber of children of German birth has dwindled from 83¢ ver cent to 84 per ceut. And now they wero paying $12,000 every year to teach German to less tian 2,000 children, 8o that thie cost of tultion in this branch was more than §0 ver pupll per year. And this, too, while the city Liad Jezs than $3 per vugfl per year for tul- tlon In reading, writing, aritbmetic, or any other common ncliool branel. Bu, juggle with the facts and fizurcs as 1l pieased, they must come out of any {n- yestigation fully canvinced that the people of Chicago do not want Cermasn taught futhe gramunr schools, ‘This too-uppurent decling has taken place, tou, In the fuce of the iost deternined efforts 1o protect and encourarae German, both by the tenchiers and tho Board, Every annusl report for the past thirtesn years was filled with the storles of wrecked experimouts. Uegioning with Mr, Cutter, sud the Washington School, the Cotnmlttee, In cvery report, had bad the samo story to tell all the wav down through, ~—the study was doing well uud there was overy reason for encouragement,—only somethluyg somewhere was wrong, and with a triling mod- Htication the thing would be all right. ‘They began by teachiog a German class in euch schoul, and thus calling from each roon thu pupils who wanted to study German, aud consulidating them Juto uue class. 1u 1860 the Cowmitiee reported that they had changed this, the only objectiouablo foature to the instruc. tion, anil now all would be rigat and the study would progress satituctorlly, In 1871 the only thing needed to perfect the tuition was a Superintendent, und in 1878 they . thought that gradiug It would help imatters, They also thought thut if the study was dron- red from the sfxth and soventh grudes it vould ho more profitablo oa s whole, 8o in 1874 Miss , Blauer wus elected, and tho Cuomimitteo said that all woa now complote, aud they wero about to o lerward at an astoulshing rate. Tho year followlue it was gruded, and the Commitieo congrutulated themselves that *there was no oppusition to fts introduction into any school in the city” ‘Then in 1875 it was taken out of the primary grades entlroly, and still araln they were promised a success, whey aloug cane Musara, Prussing and Hots, and sstd in JAT7 it wus necessary to go back to the orig- inal method of 1805, with, of vourse, n fow mditicattons, ‘That is, bave teachers who shult fustruct tho scholars in thelr own rooms, snd bo competent to teach all branches, fu short, udopt tne Clneln: plan. But, before dulug thilw, let there be *for buperintendent of tier tmun instruction a gentleman who, besldes being a thorough (Jerman scholar and teacher by profession, should be fully at homs tu all the brancl o English education,” Buch a eentleman had been chosen, and romething yery closcly approximativg the Cinclunad plau Witd now belng futroduced. “And yot, notwithstandiog, 1 belleve the Gerian counnities haa nover asked auytning of tis Board which has been refused; notwithe stundiug the system has been chuuged, aud wodifled, and pulled In pleces every year, it is & - fnllure. “Thc secret §s tbis, the péople don't wantit, They have never bad an opportunity A 10 vote un the questlon, or they would have put ;ne scal of thelr condewnation on it long ago. L was put in, it has been kept fu, by this Board, aud that againat tho deairo of thie peopte. Ol Ut Buyi souic oue, we never put it into a school UBtil It has been asked for. Well, now, you take the elzhtecn schools 1w which 1t ls taught, wultiply by 130, the number of petitioners e tssary o its introduction, sud you bave the atartlicg fact that in « eity of 500,000 iuhabitants yuuintroduce s nludg. for the tuitlon of which all are tuxed, upon the requeat of a winority of Just o 00! Do you call tust any expression of lhu.w 1l of Lhe peovlef *1 say pevple do not want it taught. Iave they not demunstrated it by the fact that no cuusiderable pumber will study ft, oven when they buve & chunce? Have oot the Germao- Auerlcuns themsclves cxpressed their deslred Gery last of oll, want thelr children taught I--;rumn. Whyl Wby, because they expect o iweand die bere. Now, at tha start, their chil- ren labor under alsadvantazes 8s compsred ®ith native Americans. And so thoy do, or sbould, want nothing to lutervene to provent their cotldren from wastering the Euglisl lan- h.“luh at the very carlicst possibly woment, Lev are haudicapped at the Legiuolog, bel Then, as to the utility of the studys sud I o iy (hat to be the ouly grouud upon which s thing is at all defepsible. Looklug buck Over the records, 1 believe 1t to be s true state meut that thers has uever becu & penion cdu- Cuted lu our slools who bas been thought it ‘honest and sincere, hie belicved they were wroog, and that he woult thetr error, [La study bad been generons in the past, but now they’ talked bant ecotomy, no economy in dispensing the special teacher, scholars was attributable to other causes than was that in the last few weeks, since some Teved thnt if the only objection to German was Becard of Jodgmeats, New Suits, [Crimiral lnl- {ers, Ele. her crime. On being arrested, the woman cone fessed Ler gullt, Iut her only motive for the crime, she atated, was to save the expense of the child's maintenance. To this end, sha de- Iiberately took the child from Berne, where she was staying, strangled her with a shoelace, and banged {nv:r to a beam In the shed whero she was found. The jury refused to tce nn‘ extenuating circumstances 11 a case su nteriy heartless and monstrous, snd the womao was rentenced to the extreme penalty of the law,—Imprisonment for lite. ‘The acitation for the re-ciact t of capltal Bpunishment {n Bwitzerland receives a e {mpulse from this horrible erime, for which the great Capital which unce cumbered this und, Nature does not mourn for ft, and it s hard to he sad at the biddiog of sentiment when the bright spring hides its grave.” ———— A RADICAL REFORM. Mr, Hess Proposes & E rm In the Calen. dar=Something that I8 Likely to Attract Attentlon, Forr Dobos, s, Jan. 8.—When times are out of jolnt, a reform of the calendar s in arder, and Hussia’s tmpending attempt in this paper reporter, somewhere, he nsed to Invent rensational yarns and |.rint them as true, cte. Some went cven further, and cirentated the basest {ntimatfons and statementa reflecting upon his moral character,—chargea worse than the churgesof mendacity, When Stanley's book, “How I Found Livingstone,”” was published, publle opinlon, manufactured ng the vress, was 80 prejudiced sgainst him that three-fourths of the reading public cared littlc or notbing to see the work. The press kept right on with their tirades and anecrs just the same sfter the book was out as before. * I recollect with what indif- ference 1 myself opened the volume and com- mencedto read It I believed It was the workof 1 live to ree them confess ughter.] The enemlics of the There woulld be with the services of and the resson there had been 8 decrense In the attendanco of German Asult of adecidedly novel kind was begun vesterday hy D. K. Tenney, the well-known lawyer, sgainst the proprictors of divers slaughter-bouses aod rendering-cstablishments to recover damages for the nolsome smells which issue from thelr factories. The names of the defendants are as followa: The Chicage Packing & Provision Company, The Allerton Packing Company, John O'Nell, Joseph Sher- thosa assigned by Inspector Stone. The fact changea had been made, the attendance of Ger- man pupils had largely increased, and he be- based on exponsa that it would bespeedily wiped out. N e bl taof | win, B . Tlutchinson, B, F. Murphy, no punishment secms Loo extreme. fosead Laith g ot . | direction will one of the notable events of R e A " ———— e e asceond Manchausen, But, as [ porused chap- m.‘_-::n:fiiflp};fl"fl“fi:‘:figfifi‘;‘:vfi;e:rgfi:ily this now yesr, 1870, p, D, Armour, H. O. Armour, 8. A. CYPRESS AND MYRTLE. tor situr chapter, tho Inteeaal ovidence of sha mistaken In Iungdcdllc lons. As far as ho knew In view of the present condition of humen [ Ricker, H. sA. golnfnrd. R;mlhv:cr Scan- m;thx fi,,":f. l‘:::{nmlmcr.;:i":ndmlu ‘u'v ;‘h: mz': tho Germans werc anslgus to have thelr children | soctety the world over, especlaily I Russla, lon, C. 'il ‘E"Jl"; L C. Block, | oot Deatis and Royal Marriages Tread | its ntsorption thrilied ' with sdmiration taught thete mother tonguo as well a8 the | where Ninilfsm aims at the utter destruction | W. P. Hand, Heory Obendor!, George II. llig- oo One Anather's 1eels. for the pluck and genlus of the hero, Enalieh and tho fact that the study of Aetman | of tng existing order uf things, and may scek to | gins, J. 8. Touuglore, Andrew Hinles, James e York wartt, and indignation for . his_ calumnlstors, Paxton, Christlan Wahl, Robert D, Fowler & Bro., 8. W. Allerton, and John B. Roofuson. The plalotifl says hio owns & house and lot on the South 8lde, where he and his family reside, and the defendants are possessed of certain premiscs used for slaughtering animals, and * for manu- facturing fertilizing materials from the offal of guch animals, from the carcasscs of dead anl- mals, and from promiscuous carrion in general I think that no one who has carefully read that book retains the least misglving as to the entire and consclentious veracity of the writer. Yet even after the whole world wos convinced and acknowledged that Stanley hsd really found Livingstone, still o large ‘share of American newapapers hegrudgea giving him any meed of praise. They elther were ellent about him, or lct slip lil-nutured squibs und critlcisms to in- jure hiim. Alfter he had a second time entered the beart of Africa, and letters came from him ‘The marringe-fesst and the faneral baked- ments follow cach other with strunge rapllity of Tate in the Royat households of Europe. The wedding of the Princess Thyra of Denwmark re- called that of, the lato Grand Duchess of tesac, which was celebrated under the shadow of the death of the Princa Conaort of Enzland, her father. Itwas noted at the time of the Grand Ducliess’ wedding, by the way, as of cvil omen resurrect the defunct Nepubiican calendar of 1702, with its gory spectres of the Sanscullot- tites, and In view of the general history of cal- endar reforms, this question deserves moro than a paasing notlce The deliverance of Tsrael from Babslonlan bondage was preceded by a change of the Jo'vish calendar (ses Ex., xii,2), and tho advent of Christ upon earth by tha introduction of the the opposition to the study on the part of cer- tain n{’cmbm of the Bonrd, He belluved the attendance wonkd largely tcrense, ancd as it was pronosed to do owny with cxtra pay, ete., lo teachers at an carly day, the lost opposition to the study would be done away with. INSPECTOR ENGLISIH moved as a further amendment that the salary for speclal teachers of music and drawing be stricken out, and spoke to his motion. ‘Lnese O o far mora objcctionuble than Ger- | Jullan calendar, Into which heathen mofd the | found in the sirects of Chiesgo” They | that Queen Victorls refuscd to doff her weeds [ to civilisation bathied witli the life-blood of his man wah and b e urcs (2 sl (et | Guliin. ere bas hilerto been cut, 1 v | ouaht o' bavo o caried on ther | even to Urighicn the marrace of ber favorle | SRS e Sanfud Sioe throngh Botly o tham b decriasod, Out of the THOY | fie wonered. that tho old bottio has becn | business | se mob to bave njured | danchier, And nuw, wihin awedk fronn the | S5his bitherta Nnknawn, sorts of Journais had p o went on tu | able to retain this now wine of the npow dis- | ** the plainti® and other peaceable | weddainz-dav of his brother, King Witliam IIL | othing to offer except mendecious crticisms, slxty had graduated st e'fnr. maintain that the teaching of draminz was robbing the children of opportunitics to perfect themscives fn remdlng and writing, which was ono of the worst features of the wiiole subject, With muslc the case was not very different, and thie teachers were vonstantly démanding more time for the study, e wanted, if auything was to ho done, thas the root of the question ba reached. ‘Inspector Jacobs was opposed to German 1n tho schools beenuse it wus unfair to single out one langunge from the many to be taught, and be- cause of the expense of the study, ‘I'ho matter of Holiand, Prince tlency ol the Netherlands hias died. Jeaving his vwn' bride of less than o year awidow, to darken with the gloom of her bereavement the approuching nuptlals of ber sister, the hetrothed bride of 11, i M. the Duke of Connaught, Prince Henry of the Netherlands was born at Socatdyk, June 1, 152), He was the jounrest son of King Willlam 11, by Queen Arna Paul- owna, & dauzhter of the Emperor Paul of Russia. For many vears Urince 1lenry adminietered the Duchy of Luxemburz with great success, and ho held the high offlce of Lieutenant-Admiral and well-disposed citizens,” but they have not; and, on the contrary, they have, an {s charged, 50 carrfed on their opecrations *‘that divers nolsome, noxlous, nauseating, slckeniog, offen- sive, and unwholesome vapors, fumes, smokes smells, stenchies, aud vutrefyloyg exbalations” tiave been given off from their factorles, which have penctrated into plaintiil’s dwelling and seriously Interfered With tha health and comfort of himsclf and family, And he reckons his damages at not tess than $20,000, assertions that he was golng through Africa siaughtering {ts simple natives, and secking no- torlety by Invaslon atnd maltreatment of an fo- offenaive race. I recollect yery distinetly scelnr such fliugs at that time in the Chlcago Zimes anil other papers, Now why, [ ask, has- Stanlev recelved such treatment ko genersily from the American prers! One would suppose that his sucress would have been exulted fnand glorified over us @ matter of national pride. Lven now, after the publication of Lis unperalleled journcy through the Dark Contluent, T ace very littte of pensation so long, and that the present tino Is still clo'hel in the old garment, partly patched with a new plece of Gregorlan cloth, with the rent of the French Revolution still umnended. No wonder it fa {1l at casc in such costume. Divine Providenco scems to have reserved the honor of presenting the Christlan world with ;{1 elnllru new suit to cover its nakedness to ussia. In the Gazelte of Nov, 22dand 20th T have dis- cussed tho Jullan calendar pnd the Gregorian retorm thereot, aod now I proposc to show Low communding the Dutch navy, aswell as a high of drawing and music ho had given vory HEtlo | jyeee Instead of simply adupting the latter, DIVORCES. ol ranik in the navy. of Kussl 1 Zh | enthusinsm manlifested Ly our newspapers. study to, but lie was fncllued to coindlde With | pight'sct an cxnmpluv worthy of imitation by | Faunle Fleckor complains that her husband, the rlnusl p«mul:lxr Prince of (i Houso ‘n'c O | e tnot aust, that ' mcananil pnwarthe Inspector English os o matter of public econ- calousy was st the root of the whole matter? That because Lhe New York Hera'd was ono of the founders of thicse expeditionn of Suxnle[v, the rest of the press at first decried It all, and since it has proved a suceess have not inac- vanimity enough to acknowledge thelr mistake and to muake the amende honorabie all other nations and introduce the Millenlutn, ‘When the war drums beat no longer, And the battle IIAPI are furled, TIn the Parliament of man, Tlie federation of the world. TIn thelr count of time the Russians are now ange, und at the tnauguration of the Isthimus of Suez Canal be represented Hollaml with great dlguity, in company with his first wife, the Frincess Amelia of Suxe-Welnar-Elsenach, This lady diedjehildless, Muy 1, 18725 and in August of Jast year Prince lieury woas marrfed with Frank Flecker, about three years ago, nfter they had been married some six ycars, stole all her personal property and furniture, awl also a larze smount of money from his cmployers, and then left the country, and yesterdsy she omy. ’fim amendment ot Inspector English was then put, ou a call of tho previous question, and lost by a vote of 4 tob. Inspector Btone’s nmondment was next put and lost by the followior vote: twcive doysbehind us. ~ When wa write Mon- king sl ¢a | mucn pump at Berlin to tha Princess Mary, —Jacobs, Stonc—2, % i v, dan. filed a bill fur divoree, asking also to be allowed .y tas Mlacy 18 thils is the fact,—and I bellevo it fa,—1t | ; {t‘x‘gl—l{::;nr Is'(’x"}?hm, Pruming, Vocko, Dart- | o 0 ey e Yy Ul to rorume ber malien mame of Fanls Plec L the it dausnter of foul bl ou the' atferwias proud. epuiation of jott, Frankenthal, Wells =7, , arty. B G 24 e | Amenic 't 3 ll‘llpeclor English moved as a further amend- "}.lrow.Ar;:llcl;uli'hr(n‘l‘n‘l‘:‘l{i‘llfisr“l'lfi;om(ircgory -fmlu Farwell vesterday pranted ? divores to m;:x“’%gé‘,‘,"’ ‘}’,““‘“lfi"fiz?m“&'"-‘“.';‘“n';‘(fi: llmlhl:nn‘ lnchcu'od name fi’ kthu l‘:llcflfl“ press ment that ibe appropristion for all of the | VIIL, by dropplog theso twelve days out of Annie ITunt from Frederick 0. Hunt on the dvnnsty,—Kiog Willlam's liclr, the Prinve of ?wurfwmn':.lh!un:u::;t :nd"‘n‘:ofioufiul):a &?i’,i.“u.'.u ground of desertion, the complainunt to have the eare of thi children, and to Johaons Well- man from Heory C. Wellinan for drunkenness, shie to have the care of the children. 1TENS, Tho Avpellate Court has concluded ita call, but tho Judyres will be fn Chumbers for the nex two weeks or more to consider the cases sub- mitted, and to wrlte opinions. ‘They have not decided whether they will deliver opinions Mon- day afternoun or Hot. Tue hearing of the case of the Protection Life- Insurance Company vs. Oszood, In the Appellate Court, was postpoued until next term. In tho case of Tmylor vs. Keep, the Taylor will case, in tho sagie Court, an appenl to the Buprenie Court was granted on fillngz a bona in the sum of 8250, 4 Mr. O. IL." Hortop, ‘Recciver of tho German Bavings Bank, was vesterday, on his awn peti- tlon, authorized to pay E. A. Otls §1,093.52 for his servicea as solicitor up to the vresene thine. aptional studics ba stricken ouat, which was lost by avotoof 4 tob. Inspector Hoyne moved as a substitute for the motlon of Inspector Hartlest that the salaries of the special tencliers be fixea at §1,200 each, tha same as lust year. Inspector Frankenthal was astontshed st such a motion, aud argued that Chicago pald ite spccial teachers amaller anlaries than many of tho smaller citles. Ile thought it _the teachers mlml retained thoy should bo pald respectndle salar ‘The substitute of Inspector Hoyno was then withdrawn, and the original motioi of Inapector Bartlett was put and lost by a vote of 4 to 5 Tnapcctor Stone moved tuat the appropriation for the teachers of the deaf mutes be approved, and the motlon prevalled by a uuanimuus vote. Inspeetor Bartlett moved that the appro- priations recommended for the poy of the Superiutendent and lus assistants be approved, and the niotion was adopted. INSPECTOR STONH their calendar and suppreasivg three out of four sccular leap-years, let them drop tho cu- tire systemn of leap-years.and In place thereof make the year { and after that each flftieth year, a year of Junllee, countlog all their years up to 1928 at 865 days, awgl then adding tiwelve days, or one’ to each’ fiouth in cach scar of .tl’“blice, aud ond day mete to cach tenth Ju- ev, The effcct of this change, assuming it to oc- cur between now aud the 1st of Junuary, 1830, would be Lo make each year begin and end with tho same day of the week, and each following year with tho next day of tho week, without in- terruption or “leaplog' over' any one day of the week, Each seventh year wotld be o **Sab- batfeul " year, beglouing” and_ ending with a Bunday. And it the present {nconvenient di- vision of tho manths was also changed into full weeks, maklog March, June, September, and Decenmber, fu which the changes of tho seasons fall, have thirty-five daya or five full weeks, and all other months twenty-clght days ur four fult Urange, being 4 noturious profiigate who rarcly visits [lolland at all3 uud lns sccond son, Prince Alexunder, 8 person of_delieate health and o disposed tu marriage, It was on this uccount chivily that Prince Heary made up bis mind to n second marriage, and it was chiefly on account ot Prince Henry's second marriage that his brother, King \Willlam, determined to be mar- ried again limeelf. The sudden death of Prince Henry, therefore, will greatly enhance the n- torest taken by the people of Holland In the new Queen thut Ring Wiilinm has givens them. For cvery tnan, woman, and cbild In Hollaud knows fuil well that a fallure of succession to the Dutel throue tnay incan the anninilution of the ancient independence of , the Dutch veople, and the absorption of the fertile provinces and the fine barbors of the Low Countries into the igantic Lupire whlch the Prince of Blood and ron s bullding up so sternly in Central Eu- indulzed In Itto risc above it and show tiat they are vapable of awarding honor to whom honor I due, The lust cxpedition of IHenry M. Btanley, in its fearful trlals and halr-breadth escapes, In its romautic sdventures and instunces of herole for- titude und endurance, is um-?u:lm, we infght. most say, by all the past, in fuct ar fletfon. Ulys- ses, immortulized by!lomer, through all hsnar- velous wanderings, does not surpass Stanley for eds of herolsin, tor wonderful c.oruiu.‘l fromn uth, and unintermitted exerclse of courage and sazoeity. When munlrf was feted at Liverpool or Loudon after hts nrrival frowmn this lJost fa- mous exploration,he was ealled upon to respond to the toaet, * The Press of Amenca! A briel cable dispatch abuut 1t was bublishied in our pa- pere, by which we were fuformed that Stanley amazed uls friends avd every one by going fnto atirado of abuse of Amerian papers, and svemed disgusted with the subject given him, 1 rope. Tho new Queen of Holland, Queen Emms,— A composition meeting will be beld ut 2 p. . | or, W give her name in full, Adelalte Fmina . et 8 o oftered the following: 3 weeks, then cach mouth aiso would begin the | 4o-day in the casof J, M. W. Jones. Withelmiria Therean,—in fust tirued of 20, nav. | Sout, wender, st b, - L wOql e e Tarotred, That the estimates 0a adopted by this | 2M8 week dey with which tho year counnenced, UNITEDSTATES COUNTS, Ing been boru on_the Hhth of Auzust, ' 1633, e P ever gave fl, or any synopsis of it, to us, I be- leve, aod 1 guess they were ashamed ta. The Engllsh people could not have understood his denunciatlons of the Amceriean cditors, tor they uever could huve concelved that the newsoapers of Lils own laud could have shown the spirit thut thoy have shuwn toward the man who has re- fieeted such glory on the Amnericun name, No wonder tho English papers feared it Stanley was prowing crazy, as the result of bis suffer- ines in Atrica, K Now, If there s anything to be sald in de- fense of the Amerfean l,mm In this notter, 1 wonld like to hear it. .I helleve thae Stanley fecls this treatinent most deeply, amd lifs heart has become really embittered thereby toward olmost everything American, It I8 08 oul- rageous ay was the treatment of Columbus by the Spanfords, to whom he had glven a new world. Swunley has borne the starry flag of the United Btates belare hln fur 7,003 miles of weary and death-hounted plizrimage in a8 foreign laud, most of which was over paths never before trod by a white man. No explored and mapped out the vast lakes of Central Africa, whizn had be- fure been but clanced ot by a civilized mub. 1o followed the great river, the Congo, now the Livinzatone, from {ts beglunings throuch thousaids of miles of tamighty course amous lands populous with the fiercest and most cour- ugreoud savages, and through wildernesses sand over cataracts apoalling as obstacles to proz- ress, but he nwle his way through it all, anid, alter nearly three years of privation, toil. dan- ger, and wental straly, hy gave to the world the mup of the great water-blchway of Africa, toreverinors to bo assoclated by manklnd with Amwerica, which turnishied ita discoverer. Al ‘.onor to Btanley, and all contempt for his de- tractors, 1. —— POISONED SUGARS. Ta the Editar of The Tribune, Laxx Fonest, Jan. 10.~This tight on the su. mar question is & trlangulur one. There are three partivs with three specific oblects in view, "Fhe first party aro highly eatistied with things ns they are. ‘They deprecate uny disturbance, ‘They dusira that the people would leave them otease fo thelr comfortable quarters. ‘Tney purpose Lo retain the luw of Congress sa ft s, for thereby they belleve they can continue to do us thoy Luve hitherto doue, Under It they have been able to defraud the Government vut of feom $4,000,000 to §8,C00,00 sunually; uroer it they have been able to adulterate their sugars, and by making the twelve additional davs of the year of Jublie all Sundays, that year would be further distingulshod from all otficra by the sticeesslon of two Sundays cach month of that year beginning and also endlug with s Sunday, Buch o valendar would bo more correct than the Gregorian and bo better adapted to the peacenble iotroduction of much neoded social retormg, uniform lawa and customs, tor some ol which se the Boak of Leviticus, C 5. While readlug this and tho Mosaie account of the creatlon, this system suirgested itaclf to m{ mind, and It secins strange to me that the Isracl- ftes did unt adopt such u system of counting thelr tima nlter the Babylonian capiivity. 1In thelr culendsr from AMonca to the presont. day the vear Is reckoned nt 854 days, aud tho months bave alternately thirty aud twenty-ning days, and to bring this lunar year {nto accord with the solar year also thoy add seven months to the funar cycle of ninctecn solar years, ‘I'hla thirtecuth month of thelr lcap years, called Veader, has twenty-nine days, and is udded Lo the third, sixth, eighth, eleventl, fourtevnth, luvfnlfl:nlh, and nlucteenth year of the lunar cyclo. Prior to Moses their year commenced with the sutumnal equluox i tue month of Tishrl or Ethanim, but since tho Babylonian cnl;umy 1t beggins with the month of Nisan or Abll (our A))rl , and Tisurl became tho suventh mouth of their year, which s the change nlreagy ale |I]l|l}¢ll‘ ;o. (8ce Ex., xih, 2, cte,, aud Kings, vill, 2.] ‘This system of counting time makes no pro- vislon fur correcting the error of the lunar cy- cle, which 1 bave atready discussed in u former articie, and 1s therefore not fu perfect uccord with the solar year, Now, let us see how my proposed system agrees with the solur vear, “The period of 500 years would, accoraiug to this plan, consist of— B Mer own sex will be pleased to know that sbe 18 of medium stature and o nleely-turned figure, with ‘animated features, a fing compiexion, o fresh and laughing mouth, aud an abundance of chestnttt hair, walch she weers in waves down an Lief foreheod, She s delightfully short- slzhted, aud lns to make as uitch use of a buals ness-like eve-glass as 1f she hnd bren born on Beacon Ill, Boston. This uunlity—it must tot bo called o defect foherited from her mother, the Irlucess Helen, dsughter of tholate Willlutn Duke of Nassau, onco. one of the most beautiful, stutely, oad graclous women of Uer- uuuf. but for some vears pust n confirmed fnvalld, who never leaves lier, bed (Il 6in the eventog, and then bas (o be borue through the chateau or along the garden walks In a wheeled chaly, On this seconnt the uew Queen's lifo hins been o very qulet one, Her fatier, Prince Gieorge Victor of Walleck-I'rymont, Count of Ruppolatetn, Lord of Hoheneek and Geroldseelc upon Wuszlvgen, is o tall, durk, heavily-boarded may, pleasant, benevolent, and warmly beloved by his 67,743 subjects. The Uridecas Emma Is the third ot his six chlldren, five of whom are daughters, Bho §a the second to make o Itoyal wmarringe; ber imunediate senlor, the Princess Marle, was _married two years ago to Prince Willism of Wurtemberg, the cousin_und helr. apparent of King Chorles . Tho Princes of Watdeck-Pyrmont are among the ust anclent relgniog sovercizns of Germany, whilo on her mother's slde the youne Queen {a allicd to her husvand's {llustrioits House of Nuseau, which, hasing §ta orlein son uboiit 915, braneh: ed off into two llnes in 1935, The King of Hot- land {8 the head of the younger branch, and (ke estates of the elder brunch of Walram were fn- corpurated with Prussls in 1808, 'The Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont retalis s werely noniinal power In bls Piiusipaiity, which, under the treaty of accession of July 10, 18417, is adininia- tered by Prussha, Avolsen, the lttte Waldeck Capital, fs a dear little town of 2,500 souls, on the Aur, about three hours by vost-rusd from Sehierleld, the nearest statlois on the Cassel ltallwnr. The country arouna Is sover and notoverfertile] and the Httle Capltal I8 neat, quict, sud stecplly cumntortuble. The eastle Iv o fine one, thongh not architecturally pretentious. ‘There ory two lanze brick bulldings torming a deml-lune and the entratiee to the first conrt from this, on the left, hetween two mnassive eranite towers covered with Ivy and ovenpled by the Prussion 4, 8 bridge, replacing the old drawbrlige, the Court o3 Honor, on the three sides of which are the bulldings (orming the castlo proper, Alomgthe wings run portivos, which are vlosed with ghass doors [n the winter, The Duard be approved and presented to the Council, and that the same be accompanicy by a communis cation (o the effect that this Board rescrves the privilege af adding eatimates for ralaries of speclal teachers of music, Uerman, drawiny, and sleo tu the offcct taat the salarice uro wonat we expect the teachers to recelve In net cash, Inspector Prussing movod as n substitute that the vay of the specinl teachers bo fixed ut $1,850, and urped the importance of Laviog the estimate completo when sent to the Council, Ho nmnxilu hiis motiou a concesslon on the part of those In favor ot tho optlonal studics, and hoped 1t would be coneurred in. ‘The substitute was doclded to be out of order, whercupon Inspector Stone's resolutlon was put and adopted by n vote of 8 to 1, Inspector Prussing voting In the negative, Inspector Stone then moved, to frrovocably fasten hils resulution, that the vote by which it had been adopted be reconsidered, and that the whola subjeet be lald on the table. Themotion was lost, and tho estimato will go betore the Committes on Schiovls of tho Council this after- noun. ctor Bartlett moved that 850,883 (be Iraac W, Rancke, of Pennsylvanls, commenced ;l‘! euit yestorday for ‘810,000 agaiust Churles altz, e - The Turner & Seynfour Manufacturing Com- glny filed a bl nguindt the Cblesgo Curtuln- Fixture Company,—W. H. Ovington, Heury E. Austin, administrator, aud George P, ttoss,— to. nnearth mssets “bf— the Curtain-Fixtire Cnmp-&{ with which to satisfy a Judzment for $2.554,08, ‘The Cotmvany was orgutized in Feb- ruary, 1872, under the goneral law, with a capl- tal of $25,000, and with W, Il. Ovington na Prosident. It rmuuuedmlmn its stock pald up, but complainant charaes that this was not 80, but that one-third the stock was paid by the asslenment of o patont by Henry L. Hall,” aud 1ho otber two-thirda wero pald by tho notes or checks of Ovingtou, which were immediately drawn out as soon s the Compnny was organ- Ized. 1t1s alsoallezedthatthe Company wasney- re properly organized, but that the defendunts went throughthe forin of gettlor up acompany Inn added to the salary cstiinate to provida ayainst the 16 per,cent deflefency, which led toa lungthy dispute. Yhu question was tivully laid over un- il the next meeting, The Board then adjourned for ono week, and 1t 1 belleved by the cuponents ot the optional studlea that thuy have gufucd & substantial and lasting victory,—that tae Council will approve of the estinntes, aud that the last bus been heard of the speciul teachers about whom the Board hias wrangled for the pust six weeks, large amount of asacts whi paying his clabin, and. ho be compelled to discover what asscts of thy Company they have, and to poy his judguent, BUPERIOR COURT IN BRIzr, James K. Finlay commeuced a suit yestenlay azalost The Kaunsas Clty, Enlgorln & Southern Jalrond Cumgnny. claiming §10,000, The Unfon Mutusl Life-Insurance Company filed & blll agalnst Francis Larned and Joscnh A. Sleeper to forclose s trust deed-for 812,850 on Lota 10, 1), 8, the W, 3¢ of 7, and ull of Lot 11, which lies west ot a line drawn through the centre of eald Lot 7, from north to soutis, und paratlel with the cast and west lines thercof extended acroas sald Lot 11, sald lne crossing the south line of sald Lot 11 at a point eighty-four fect cast from tho west line of sald lut,—-all of ralil Jots being o Burrough's Bubdiviston of Lot 53 tn Elll’ East Addition to Chicago. ‘The Ottoman Cabvov Company flled a bill against Jeincs F. Done and Benman P, Richards to prevent them from usivg its trade-mark of Ottomsn Cablvey.* CIICUIT COURT. C, II. McCormick fled o distress warrant agalust Bolomon M. Wvman to recover 8575 rent of the store Nos, 123 aud 1M State stroct, “I'is Natlonol Hank of West Virginia bezan a suft by attuchincut aalnst Sawmuel Klmberly, claitning 25,000 W, Ii, Watson sued the City of Chicago for p— . An ‘American Lady Soes tha Popes Cneresnonitenice Iiliadelphin Telegravh, Wo were nuite a lorge American party, The ladica were required to dress o black, without eloves, and wear black lace vells a @ Eapagnol, Arriving at tho Vatlcan at noon, wewera ushered into the audience chumber by une of the uttend- ants dressed fo searlet allk brocade livery ; about 400 visltors were present of all religions, mavy Catholics wha had come long distances, others only curlous towitness the soltemn and fmpos- ing ceremonies, After waitingz perhavs an hour, during which time, woman liko, we had thor- oughly canvussed and criticieed the audlence, just a8 they were no doubt dolog with us, Leo 111, - arrived, sccompanied by two Cardinals, Lut without auy other pon| orvdlnrlny. Remov- ing his bat and seatlet cloak (pardon me it Ldo not epcak technically), ho appeared fn a pure whita robe, wearini i sash of molre antque rib- ‘Lon, and acariet slip) embroidered with gold, ‘The visitors et lurows uround the sudicney Days, 400 common years of 305 days each equaln, 17, tod 9 years of jublleouf 377 days euch equala 3, 3k 1 year of jubtles of 378 days each equals 500 years €qualtiicse acovas sues .o which mukes the averaze lengths of tho years 805,243 days, which 18 0.00031(} days, or 860 seconds Icss than the present lengtl of the trop- feal year, which i3 Im ¢piibly but covstantly decreasiog, so that this small error of 1804 sec- ouds would disuppear in the course of time, whcrcas the greater error of the Gregortan 400- year perion of 23,08 scconds, s stated {n my articto ou the Grogoriun valendar, 18 constantly increasing, diverging from instead of converjs- for toward the true length of the solar year, 000, chamber, and accompunled by onie of uls Gardinals, But this is of lmlernq-eqn.-ncu tu usof this ORIMINAL COURT, i o ee e, which ¢l capevintly the v e wvesy poscormeann | presut generation, - My arcuteat ablettion (0 | 1 tho caro of Fdward and dohn farrty ot | Siiie b HGECRIER, BAEL O Gl | Soctiope el o oy ed'to him by namuaby Lo Cardindl, blessed cach | VUF present wodo of coulitiig i I tho arbl- | 1, eharged with asnuulting Officer Castello, 1o | of the Waklecir, who elatn deacent from Wit | 12 50 B0 GO0 iy pORs alenarens odiridual, ail kucellig, Chiristiansof all denomi- | brary number of days bu the wwonths. “fhe ldea | jury found the Garritys gullty, aud guve Ed- | Kina, surmounteid by n closed crown. ~ The en- polsunous, uml worth frum twa to threo cents uations kissed his hand, white tno Cathotics also ";"' el ""““"j"’“ e COUEY | War Gorrity ono year i tha Peniteutiary. | trauce here b6 to u superb hull, from which s | per pounil, 'Ihiey have been able 1o chemicaline Kissea his ring and foot tuny of thoso prescnt [ OF the -~ Clrlsthn fora uid | ibls grest | Jotm was fuind undor sge aud rumoudod. T | roaily grand stalway conducts to the apsri- | thelr products with murlato of tin and uther ::;;nflx; gnx.lm um.nx;: o la\'u‘lhu 1'a.m:| m.;.‘.p i-‘..'l'{":ln'u" gl A R Av“““‘:'“b"‘"‘::;wx_u":fll{ ?mm were lmlulhllml 0d fi{ them bave yet | ents of honor which wero oceapled by’ the | polsous, tranforming the blackeat, darkeat urtl- o mpre:sive vccasionthe S - 0 unswor four indic o e saine nature, hing 14 Sy ] * Pipo scemnal nioat benict, haprsand affeciions | 1t at thirtv-one dasa, vo naincd wdd counted 1 | **\Wiliuin Sannders was found gulity f sseuii ‘*I\l'l:;:g_gmll';'1[:"“_‘;:3;:'{_‘Lm,*'(';'mf;;lg';},g“;{;.o,‘{;;; vlo thut can be found on the plantatious Into ate, and at thoconelusion of Mniun',:ccrcmuuv. comnemorition of the buttle of Philiplwhiere | 5yd piven sixty davs in the County Jail, fafr looking article, By these frauds on the family are on the right wing, looking out on o beautiful Engitsh swaril bounded by pretty listle vlsutatiovs, the Koman Republic was strangled and thy Em- pire reared upon fis rulna by tho fivst Emperor Augustus, sucing to me preposterods and whol- ly unwortby & fres and Independent Chrlatian which lasted an hour and a haif, he p ro- nounced a gensral benediction (rom the Pontiticul chalr, and the audicnce dispersed, John Perry was tricd for rape and acquitted, Ole Olseri wan trled for carrying burglar's tools and scquitted, Guvernment amd on the constmers they have been able to sell thelr palsouous, frandulent goods ut »u low u prico that they luve driven e —— g . . T, Tarn watton, oL prmlary HENRY M. STANLEY i niore eunsclentlous retiners ot of the bual- Hartyned Lotter o New Ilnven Regtater, The Fronch revolution which gayggthe couv | = goun Jones was on trial for burglary. § TVINGEAUGES), TR Trees ness, Other cauditlates in tho fleld oro the manager | degrace to the Roman Empiro souun®o chunge THD CALL. Crteaan, Jan, 10.—1 respectiully solledt the | = 310 now they appenl to the grocsrs who pur- this, and, ke wverytbivg - olse, it Jeveled tha of "Il Greatext Shuw on Eartl," Phincas T, privileze of vaying in the columns of Tng T Brideeport, who was st | daye of the months'down to the common level | - dunar TiLongerr—150 lo 182, {nclusive, No. 5 chase their products with the ery that these dis- Barmutty o bt we s ke, oo anvcs | of thirty daya cach, aciing. o’ or i super | 30 Cuian s G ity Coipus, Vi a feor wundn which T think 16 th Interests | trners of thelr feacs ure tryio fo ain the re. Thursduy, when he found Uicre woro olgit nen | aumerary duys at the end of vuch year, and, sa | “Ral o0 SULEGyL of fustice ought to be sald, It 0 pezand 0§ ot business I the Unfuid States and - drive ho Legiststure who were williy, ¢ far, the Republican calendar was b great - the erest explorer of Centra) Afvica, Henry M. i i i lntholes k 5 to pledga | G vement upon the Gregroria, but the divislon i i to other countriow. Huln thelr busmesst Junas Gam—71, 72, a0, nselves to vota for him. Then he siarted in , 18, ud 10610 Stanley, snd the treatment of him by the | oy clence of evers honest man erles out i actual candidate, not, as be says, as ad; ©of the months into ducudes, fusteud ol wew Hudy v ons, on el R e % ho consclence of every 2 ries out ju R hiio ant. dd One thete Betne | Tuvoiviug tbe sbolition of tho Subbathday w SUbur Saiani—Aveisth Judge Gaey to-day, [ AlNCricun pross. of fha '"{“'"l".“"‘f"" 'l"f":",t thuder tones that such & nefarlous business to the front if he can. Jle invans bugi- | tBe great mistake for which the Republican eal- | Condemuation cascs w-w«iaeu 3.""14‘“"';?:"'} . The treatmient 1 refer to §s rather pertatuing oughbt to be rulncd, und men who are engaged in 20, No, 15, Turpin Junos Moous—19, 18, vs. Cunnolly, on bearing. Jupug Roaruw—i75 sud 370, No, 872, Escbett thy past, unless negieet and dudifferonce muy Le considered to by treatment, Though [ wmay and says thut, whencyer he tukes hold of eudar justly fufled of genersl adoptio, perishe 1y project i curnest, be bas an unhappy f fnog at Watcrloo with the first French Empire alter alifo of thirty vears, it driven to the wall, if ot to the Penltentiary. It tuey cannot refing suzarsunder w luw chut ed ulty fof muking o success of it. e may make speuk severcly, Tis TRiseNE will not neces- | o0 wa 10 proteet the dues of the GGovernment & taflure of it this time, but 'f“ suys it 1s the last wlnkm p:npmu_i ;'n:gndulr. l&m arl:lcr of ll.ni 5,390, Peentes va, Hum- | sarily take execption to i, sture L atn by no uitd tho wetl bulniz of the people, fet thew o chanve be will ever have of sccuriug the ruveted eck days ls nover intcrrupted, as by our pres- out of the busincar. ‘fhere area pleniy of Chicago West ivialon | peqng sure thut your Journal bus jolied f” the Deliling of Stanley's labors nuid successes, and belicvo ite splrit Lowards the ereat explorer cut Jeap-year systein, and the Babbath Day on which the Lord rested jo contemplation of the woudrous works of His creation, und of which ) position, snd hu proposca to try and get (v, He a9 vears of mge,uud yet he saye: Lcan travel further, do ten times the work, eleep and honest men who ore ready to step fan their places, Bugars can, o an houest way, be re- fined cheaper i this country than du any ofher, Ju A 368, B0, BT, N8B, B0, 005, U. cat less in twenty-four hours, aud yet feclas [ CLrist uays that it was made for mun, and nob d 5 ¢ has Leen quite wbe opposiie. However thrs | 'Thers bt o dauger of the business beine dviven Weil, If 10t Dottcr, thun my Wife, who ia forty | s for thie Bubliath (sce Ex. ik, B, Murk i, 22- | - Vi Witliaus—ior. 1o, s KA aliv i 10 the West ludies, or any other forelen countsy, yeacs iny juvlor, eun after the fatiius of & du; ¥ | 23; aleo Heb. 1v., 44, cte.), 1s Crulted above all | 555 745, 888, b4, BOu, 610, 815, an may be, THE TRINLNE wsually by open tothe | 8000 SR T lerof Chleuszo huve stgned @ 4 other days, being the Hrst and Just da seveutl yeur, and also the tirst sud fust day of cuch mobth of the year of Jubilee, as well ns the last day of the tenth Jubileo, nod shoukd, therefure, commend this Flumwd uew systemt 1 discussion of such toples even thol itsown coursa §s crithlsed, und u tbat cuse it keows low to defend ftselt, lenry M. Stantey has now carcled the Ameri- can fag from the ludisn G:eun 1o the Atlautic, b sbopplng.” Iean bold wy own with a mafority of each of men who are much younger and less active than 1 am, and don't kuow but what a Scoator's scat Ls o3 guod for e as for any of then.” 1t Baruum doesu't securs au eloctlon, he wilt cause petition to Congreas, the virtual effeet of which i3 to perpetnato thess trands on tha Giovernment and the people. We are rcfulcfll 10 fearn that thers #8 not asotber city In the Unlon where ey have buwed i such “humble subulssion to Uxiten Brates Cincuir Couny- FEOSIONS— It .;.: E. Kelly ve. Sawmuel D, Weakley, $),- » ratching sinone the dry boues and stir up the | Of vounting our days to the Iavurable considera- I 0L | gkt wcross tho eentre of Afries, two-tlirds of | the dictstes o the Sugar Riog. aulinals cousiderabl HOEOEe Chrtan Worlii - s o | Darmnaan, SLUGS. o paal Apblatin xe; Neuny e Wi tirauzh o 1and unknown o | ‘The second purty ure autuvonistlc L tho first. ~Sisbylon me 3t I well-choacn sontences all that tits pm‘lml::q fl Toriolat, 31, 002,50, —Saus va. Hame, B, 00 30, L’W‘{l"“,'m‘"v l&"“““l‘x’; ‘“_“:_“ l;::”;:""““x':l : ‘““‘{,‘I:: fl'g ::‘;:g::‘“l,':’:l’;“‘,"“’d'm‘i‘: :}‘:‘:l"_'lfir":";"':f“::m At Babylon, Mo tovatten Geary, editor of the | Cudar reform implies and suggeats, but, unablo | o dbbe GaRT=Goras Watsow ve. Jumoy Alken, | (05 o oy ivilizon. mate Twico bus b | the Government. They waul laws ineking it Tore trod by civilized man. plunged futo that durk continent and sulved broblews that have been the perpiexity sud de- to do su, Lmust bere lcave this proposition n Times of Judiay who Lus receutly publisbied & | 0% s Ynperfect outliue, boplug that at ) higuly eriuival to aduitesute with glucivse wnd bouk ou Aslatic Turkey, found the rcupln busily i 00— oneph Duorak vy, 'The Chicapo, lurling’ il porwoll with thu or oy other chemlead that van $9, tou & Quiney lisliroud Lompany ; verd! y St mdtion Tor new sHisle P2y b i Quareylug bricks from the old bulldins for saty [ Bome future duy T way bo bl to prescat the | Juner Javesox—City” v, Schuler: condem e Tnap-mbkers und students of ceouruoly | bo deteeied by auatyafs. Here by rest their Ey nnu’n»unmxum town. Of the site itself und | resders "{ tha ‘-"‘“‘f With apecimen copy of @ | tou; verdict, $U04. 38, for opuning North Fra S0 years. The first Hme, bo weut o i | case, on the supposition thut, if othicr chemlealy thie fmpressions it creates, he wrltess It iy .\lm»nmr ulu:lnnnlc‘l lustrating shisproposed sys- | Iin street froi North avenua Lo Musomonce stre the Tost Livingstone, The dungers and diflicul- | in commou e are neutrul 80 that thecliem- sual for travelers to Gwell upon the uster | bt i all ite detal . Huse, S —— tics thut beact his patls then were such thatnone | fst cannot find thems, thele products are safe A Horrl Crlw A murder trial bas just closed in Switzerland which bas excited 8 cousiderable sensation, bo- causo of the euormity of the crime commitied. A Jittlo more thun two months sgo the body of u lttde girl, about 11 years old, was found bang- log in a shed ncar the rullvay station ut Fribourg. The csse was a very tusterious one, desulation of Babylon, aud to palut ita site s & strip of daesert, tspeclaily wo-begone end un- fertile, But the eloquent geutlemeu whodwell upon this uspeet of the pluce could not have secn it In tho wuiddle of April. “Tue date-zrovea aud gurdens slougs the bauks of the Euphrutes are then things of beauty {n thelr fresh wpring verdure, ond the plaiu itaclf ls lald down wit but u lou-nature, indomitabie fortitude, un- bendivg will, und great resources of tact ond Juczment could have overcome. Ho o se- complished bis task, ulded pecundarily by two Journats, one sy Awerlean vaper sud the u British one, 'The eclat of that great ed 1o tbe fawme of Awerica ud, rince 8 was the under- tu the consumer. With such changea of tho Juws they beliove that Louest mew can cigzaze I retnlug, sud make au houvst Uying by th busincas. “The third party culacide witli the second as fur as they go, Bul they are uot satlabicd with tofy, They wition thut ol coflec sugurs ure, aud have beenn trom the trst, lung before in A Qacor Duel A ducl has been fought fu Algeris under sin- gulur condilons. 3. Polved; President of thy Council-Geueral, ¢ballenged AL Feulllet, editor of tho Zeramma, for Hbellug bim fu his' paper. ‘I'ho editor agrecd to dignt i M. Polvro would slgn & paper authorlziug biw to continuu his at- crops, Irigation-counls cross I¢ Lero aud | tscks 1n cosc uelther party sbould be burt, | and audrst it was subtuscd shio bad committed | tukiing of an Auicrican 1o rescue 8 wortd-re- | was thoughit of, poisoned with varlous cuctu- there, and give trouble to tho borsc- | Tuis wus done, oud an exchange of bullets | suicldc, but thu unsuhnous oviulon of juedical powoed Englisbmau aud save tho results of | leals, so tudt none of thum ure it for the wan. No gruss grows upon the maumh1 took place, witbout result, and uow the Zeyaui- | experts was that the child bad been stravgied | years of lavor n Ceutrsl Africa speut by the | human stumach, ‘They wake no exceution of and thers arc patches of the level | ma is in posscesion of ‘s letter of llvense to | befure belug hanged, end that it was beyood | lost explorer. white or brown, the latter being gencrally tnore white ity the uitro whlch I to bo found bera | sbuse Jta aversary ut plessure, Waen the nows seached thls country that | poisonous thuy the former, Thoy would there- doubt o cuss of mundor. Thers was nothing 5 -« unless the refiners can, by & more thorongh nes of sulphurous ackl-gas than in past years, nru- tralize the lead more effectually ‘than they have donc hitlierto, Bugar of lead being the most active pofson of noy used by refiners lsa: edged tool that requites w more carefnl nandling than has hitherto been given to ft. The refiners have becn satisfied if they could conceal it from thio chemist. But this 1s not sullicient, and unicss they can nentralize it su as to produce less eyil results than in past years. s law should be passed by Congress unquolifiedly forbidiing jta use fn sugar refining. Frauce has done so. Why should not Congress? Conversing with DroDe Wolf, President of the Boarl of Health of Chicago, a few dnya aince, he fliustrated this polnt by a referenco to swill-milk, He said that no onc, by analyxis or microscopic examination, could In anywiee dis- cover that it was different from. or Inferior to, the purest srticle. Nevertheless, everybody knew that it was pofsonons, and deatructive of human fe, In proof of the charze that the refincrs atiil fall to ncutralize all the Iead they use in fefln- ing, let me give n fact occurring withina fewr days. A gentieman who s subject to bleed- ing piles saw n barrel of hard sugar, Just out of the refinery, and branded pure. 1le thought it a fine opportunity to make an experlment. Ac- cordingly he useid It freely for one day, and pald the penalty by the daily loss of bloml for o week, Now, there was probably no glucose or tin {n jt,—the late ecxcitvineot in relatlon to those two articles has doubtless rul. & top to thelr use for the present,—but the lead was there, though probalily neutralized to such au extent that It could ot be detected by tha chemiat, ‘There oughit to be a law corn) wliv prepares alimentary substances for the ‘oublle to report Lo a Board of Ifealth the chem- icals ho uscs,and how ho uzes them, We ouahit not to bo compelled to wholly rely on analysis to learn whcther our articles of food are pafson- ous ornot. Aualvsis Is an insufllclent teat. If that is our only rellance, then swill-milk is just as grood as any other, loubtices some will say that the timo has not come to appeal to Congress for the cnoctment of Inws on this subject the propriety of which cannot be demonstrated by chemistry. If not, we must turn to the medical faculty and ask them 1o watch the eifecta of our sugars ou thelr fnvalid patients. I they will do 8o, they will, by and by, be able to give a testlisuny which would justity Congress in passing sum- mary laws in relation Lo the sugars now In use, though anaissis should fail to detect many of tho chemicals used by the refloers. While tha present excitement lasts they probably will not use any except such as they can neutrallze to :;n:h an extent that tho chemist canoot detect hetn, But liow is the battle now waginz hetwcen the firet two parties before tho Congresslonal Committee to end? Which 13 to como off vie- torfous 18 n very importaot question to 40,000, 020 of vonsumers. Tho first liave money on thelr stde, and great influcnce. It is cnsy for them to tuy upsuch men as David A. Welis to advocate thelr cause, They also bave great in- fluence over the wholesale grocers, who are so Intimately connceted with them fo business. o 13 natural that the latter should fecl quite sen+ sitive sbout taking sides against so powerful a nd on whom thoy are dependent for ono the leading articles of thelr trade. Furthermore, when they have so much at stake, would it scem strauge if they found thelr purse-atrings long enough to sway Congreas! The llke bias been done heretofore, and may bo done ugaln, Let us hope that virtue and fion- csty Lias ealned such an uscendancy n that hody tuat any steps i that direction will uot incet with success, We have seen eaough of inlqui- tous laws by which the (nfluentfal and rch ora made richer and the oporessed and poor aro made poorer, ‘Tho second party feel that they havo right, and tho people, as” far as they are enllghtenald on the subject, are on thelr slde, They are ablo to prove thut the Government 1s yearly de- the tirst party out of iniliions of They hava also been 1o prove Ly onnlysls that thero was wlucose, muriate of iy g, and copperas in their sutara, 1f, instesd of depending ‘on analvais, they had found - mission within the duors ot “these establish- ments, they would have found other chemicals eyually deleterlous, Lut L think the third party, of whom we have spuken, must wait to sce the end of the coutest butween the otners before (hey ulterapt to carry out thelr more radical views. ‘This Is a subjeet of su_uch jmportance that the whole country ought to make its volca hieard by petition within the walls of Cungress, Is there not some one in cn-r{ clty and villags 1u the Northwest who feels sutlicient fnterest In this subject to cireulate a petitfon to Conuress for a law agafust adulteration, and sead It to the member of Cangress for the district In which he Hyest [will senda copy to any onu whu will wiitemne, L. Rosstren, PRIMITIVE JUSTICE. Snmmary Exeentlon of a Murderor Ly the Citizens of Fort Wrangle, Alnaka. Vietor(a (1, 1) Colanist, Dee. 24, A cold-blooded munler wea perpetrated at Fort Wranele on the evening of tho 19th Inst, From wformation reccived by the steamer Cali- fornta, which arrived from the North ot Burrard Inlet on Bunduy luat, wo gather that previous 10 the duy of the murder a fight had tuken place between two men named Powers aud Weat, John Boyd, a natlve of thie Southern States, who seems to have taken an futereat fn the aflalr, went foto the house of a cooper named McCully to procure a plec of raw beef to put on the eye of uno of tha puiiisl While thers he used bad language sud to all jutents aud purposes was spollig for s fight, VPrevious to this he had, after much tmportunity, borrowed a re- volver from u man named Sunderson, Havine gotthe piece of meat for the fujured muu, Boyd proceeded to Dicker's saloon, where hu threat- ened to Kill any man who was a frieml of Pow- ers, and commenced to abuse McCnlly, Thouus O'firsen, who was well usluted with Boyd, avproached bl b o friendly mauner and asiied him what alled him, ot the same thue placiie & hand on his shoulder and telbiug him that thero was no ocenslon to call everybody he met hard uswes. O'Uricn did not anticipate trouble with him, but diceetly he hod given blu theso few wurds of trlendiy sdvice Boyd drew tho full cocked piatol from tho breust-poclict of nis coat, placed [t agalust O'Brien's heart, lired, and kil ed Ll on the spot. Immedintely the gravity ol the erling beeams known the clizens of Fort Wrunele threateved to selze Boyd und Iyneh Bim. On sevond thoughts It would seetn, how- ever, 1hat they communieated with Col, Urit- tenden, Collector of Customs, aud asked him o taky chango of thu murderer, . Critten- den declined, statiog that he hud bo Jwifadiction o the case, and informed the ltl- zens that they were the luw, The citizens thereupon calied o weetlng, formed - eu armed protective Commlitee, ana took the mur- derer fn change. The next day o meetiog of uil Wrangle was convened, Mr, Georico Nowell be. fug voted to the Ir, ‘The meeting uylng canferred on the Cliiiau the power toappoint wree Judices v ted Messot, W. J. Brephuens, hinan, and 1), Flanuery toact in that cap: The l,rl.mu:r wus then ar- rulgned on n charge of williul murder, and waa perimited to name hls own jurymen. A fury was then bnpuneled, consisting of W, M, Ben- N Deunly, 3, Wynu, . Carson, Meludden, C, fermott, J. Freethy, el C. Brown, awd F. Bweeney, ’I'hu prisoner was defended by Mr. D, McKiunou, the prosceation belng condiicted by Mr. G, Nowell, * Having heard the ovisouce, thy jury retlred furcousultution, und after an abseucs of threcquarters of an hour brought in averdlcs of *gullty of wurder tn che fiest degree.” ‘Ihy death sentence wos then passed upon the pris- wner,who Was hauged at 9:15 on the worning of the 16th fist. {0 the presencs of upwards of sy Tudiung und almost the eatire population of Fort Wrangel. ‘fo prevent uny breuch of the pesce durhig the exeeution an anned body consisting of forty citizens wos formed. No diturbance, howover, vecurred, and after by body of the munderer bad hung one hous it wus cut “down &nd decently dnterred, Thowas O'lirlco, the unfortupate victiu of tho alluic, wus anutive of New York, aud formerly kept Litule Lake Houswe on the Cariboo itoad, abuus twelve miles from the Furks of Quesnelle. Boyd bas a bad reputation, aud hus always been {n troubie. A few ycars slace be drew ab ugly- lookiug knife ou 8 wwaw lu Cassisr, oud threal ehivd 10 take bis Jife, It 13 the general oplulon at Fore Wrungel that ho bus met with bls des sorts. A contession be wude a slort time be- Jure he was bunged 1s sald to be full of dread: ful detulls, s bus not yut been wads pu bite. IBurbank. New York (urrespondence {ndiasagalia Journal. A. 1% Burbauk, the bumorons resder, makes $10,000 2 yvur, 1to tells we thay, Lhe very doy inat Bayard Tuylor leit for Germauy, ho offeret to write & ploy with a stroug Amepican chasacier it Burbank would persouste it, Hing every man