Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1879, Page 3

dec OUR CANAL. Business Men of Joliet Metaphor- jcally Bathe in lts Lim- pid Waters. pnd Come to the Conclusion that Somebody Should Taks Charge of It. pridgeport’s Swift Effluvia Dis- turb the Serenity of Prisontown. (hicago and Its Stinkpots Threatened with Complete Isolation, fnecial Disvatch to The Tribune, Jouser, 1L, Jan. The businéss men of this city and county turned out in force tbis siternoon 0 the canal mass-mecting at the Gourt-House here. The Hon. J. N. Fryer, of Channahon, presided, and the court-room was erowded, s large portion of the audience stand- ing duning the proceedings, which were very in- jeresting and quite harmonious. Short speeches were made by the Hon. J. 0. Glover, of the Bosrd of Caual Commissioners, Masor Elwood, and the Hon. D. H. Pioney, who was in favor of Sbolishing both the Canal Board and Board of Failroad and Warebouse Commissioners and ap- piying the money now paid the members of these Boards to the maintenance of the csnsly and wanted 3 resolution to that effect sdopted. Remarks were also made by the Hos. W. 8. Brooks, M. Haley, ex-Senator Mar- clall, Ebert Phelps, Georze Wightman, and others. The last-named speaker, in referring 10 the Bridgeport stenches, adviscd the veople of thiscommunity, if no relief was afforded them rom this nuisance, to take the law in their own hands, turn out en masse, and fll up the canal at the Summit and allow Chicago to stink berself to death. The sentiment of the meet- ing was in favor, first, of a ship-canal; second, of State s1d: und third, of avy means whereby the canal can be improved and enlarzed. The Committee appointed at a former meet- fng to prepare resolutions reported as follows: We. the people of Will County. Iil., believing thst the Iinois & Michican Canai and Illinol River are destined to become a great source of Iraneit, conmecting 20,000 miles of inland river tommomication, 28 well as the commerce of the ol of Mexico with that our Great Lakes, and be- fieving that.as a means of commercial communica- tion, the transferzing of €aid waters into a national seambost canal will resnlt in untold benefl: to fhe mation at laree, and_especially to tne entire West, both North and South. And furtherss a meaps for traneporting arms and munitions, as wll as vessels of war; be it, therefore, Resolzed, That we urge uponour Representatives inthe General Asscmbly: L. That for thc purpose of malntaining and operating_the Illinois & Michigaa Canal the State of Dlinois refund so much of the $500,- 000 of the surpius earmings diverled by the General Assembly for locks and dams at Henry and Copperas Creek as will, in addition 1o the current !nrpgenl earnings of said canal, be requisite for taat PP That the General Assembly submt to a vote, at he nest peneral eicction, the question of the Selinguishment of the cenal to the Genersl Gor- ecament for the purpose and on condition of its enlarrement to the capacity of a ship canal. Be it forther o “Resolted, That we do hereby memorialize our Senstors and Representatives in Congress to unite necessary steps and urge the passage of an i‘ét‘h et hase hr\g'or transfe> of the Tilme looking to the purc] = of 1 is & Michigan Canal and Tllincis River im- provements 1o the Gemeral Government for the purpose and on the conditions in the last above resolution set forth. B ‘The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and also the following: Resolred. That the Legislature of the State of Tliinois now in ession are hereby requ to in- vestigate a8 tothe ownership of the property known s the Lake Front in Chicago, and, if the title thereof sball be found in the State, to pass the mecessary law to oblain _posscssion of the same, 2ud apply the same fo the purposes originally ia- tende: Mr. Pinoey offered the following: Resolred, That in view of the fact of the falling off in the revenue of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, it ie the imperative daty_of the present General Assembly 10 revise and amend the law for the ‘mauvagement and controlof the same, and to pro- vide for i{s more cconomical manzgement, and. as 3 step in the right direction. we reguest our mem- vor a Jaw abolishing the ofice of Camsl Commissioners. This resolution was adopted by a small ma- jority. A committee of twenty-four was ap- pointed o attend a State Canal Convention, £00m 0 be held at Peoria or elsewhere, as e s having the arrangements in charge may und the meeting then adjourned. & 2 -~ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 2, 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES. 3 Considerable hard feeling was expressed by ecveral speakers toward Chicago on account of its apparent aoathy in regard to the movement, und her indifference to the stink nuisance, and it was demonstrated that she would be the first und greatest suffercr from the closing of the canal. CANADA. The Sugar- Tariffi-Intercolonial Railway— Distress Among the Laboring People— Huron and Ontario Ship-Canal—An Insune Forger—Newfoundland $thl Against Con- federation—Consecration of the New Met- ropolitan Bishop—Another Snow Storm. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. OTTAWA, Jan. 25.—The Rev. H. P. Chase, ani Indisn clergyman from Munceytown, is here, and bad an interview with the Minister of In- terior on bebalf of the Indians at Rice Lake, in relation to the transfer made some twenty years agoof the islands in thé St. Lawrence and the Bay of Quinte lsuds,—claiming that the proper- ty referred to should have been sold for the benefit of the aboriguies. The Dominion Board of Trade, while in session here, passed the following resolution: “That this Board is of opmion that, in the tariff on sugar, the aim should be to encourage the direct importation of new sugars from the places of production, particularly from the West Indies: that the cuty on all sugars should be ad valorem, with at least 5 per cent addi- tional, or such auditional duty on refined sugar 25 will develop the refluing of raw sugars in the Dominion: that, when a bounty is granted on the export of sngar from any country, such suger, when imported into Canada, should be subject to a counteracting duty.” The Government have decided to reorganize thesstaff of the Inter-Colonial Railway, with a iew 102 large reauction in the expenditure, Au investication into the business of the rosd sbows that the apgrerate deficiency in its opera- Yons during the past two years amountsto $1,100000. It is also found that the result of the operations of the first quarter of this year shows an excess of expenditure over revenue of %ame $20,000 over the sawe period of last year. The office of Gencral Supcrintendent is to be bolished, it Chief Superintendent appointed, Mo is to be directly respousible for e eficicnt management of the road. e Acencies at Halifax, St. * John, Montreal, and Toronto_are to be abolished. and Ibeedle of tickets at these points will be made o0 commission. A general reduction of the stafl in 2} the departments will take place. It I5 expected that the saving to be effccted oy the ;Eul:nmnmuon will amount to $50,000 per an- Moy, Sitclal Dispatch to The Trivune. Bay ONIREAL, Jan. 25.—The Hon. A. Turcotte b notified the proprictors of the Three Rivers Journal that gu action for damages for libel will be instituted acainst them if they do ot re- ract certain injurious statements publisted by them. ‘The Journal refuses to retract, and ré- DeRs its charges, which are to the effect that . Tarcotte is unworthy to sit amonz the TeDresentatives ju the Legislature, and that he OuZhL to be driven ont. It is ramorcd that a genticman at oresent $taying in the city has been commisstoned by the French Government to purchase 2000 Canadian Lorses for the Freach army. Svectal Dispasch to The Trioune. QUEDEC, Jau, 25.~The general distress pre- Yaliing amongr the Jaboring population is begin- Ding 10 be felt in_this vicinity, especially among the residents of La Cunardiere, Stadacona. and t. Charles villages, ‘and portions of the ad- Jolumg Muvicipalicy of St. Sauveur. It is stated ' numerous families in these Jocalities are Pt to unusual straits for a meal, and in various l:mm have resorted to cakes made of bran ) &bpease their hunger. poBall-pox 15 reported to have broken out at C:l:nf\‘- wt“l a[nrl h!-};:o’ulem:nu‘ in Cb""fi;‘}i‘ Ly, Where fri v At o i someyecn b fi tful ravages werc ca 0y . Té Special Dispater to The Tridune. [ QRONTO, Jan. 25.—A pumber of the agents g the principal insurance companies doing a hre-bnslnm in Canada are bolding a conference ere. “The result is expected to be a slight in- Ccrease fn rates in certain districts and on a cer- 2ain class of risks. total extension of railways in Ontario Iast vear was 136 miles, and the total milease of ;‘418 Province is now 3,534 miles, not including miles of the Canadian Paclfic Railway, av present under construction. 3 m}l{: F. C. Capreol has presented a petition to ¢ Legslature, praying that o Committee be appointed to consider the Huron & Ontario Ship-Canal scheme. Including the recent acquisitions by the set- tlement of the boundary question, the total area of the Provioce of Qutario is now 231,000 square miles. The extreme length is 1,070 miles, and the greatest width 400 miiles, with coast-line of 810 miles. Cooke’s Church Congrezation held another meceting, when a Committee was appointed to megotiate with the Rev. Dr. Robb with_the ob- ject of juaucing him to remain, It wasre- ported that their mission hud proved unsuccess- ful. A Committee was therefore appointed to rocure a substitute for Dr. Robb, who will leave for Galway, Ircland, io a few wecks. Special Dispatch 10 The Tribune, Loxpox, Jan. 25.—Mr. John Livineston, car- riage-manufacturer, of Ailea Craig, who recently committed forgerics on various parties living in the vicinity of Ailsa Craig, in all amountine to $20,000, is in jail bere, and feigns to be insane. He professes to have heard ol Ailsa Craix, but not to be acquainied there, und denies any knowledee of his former intimates. The theory of insanity is supported by the fact that his wife and children are entirely destitute, und that he has not sccured a penny in the world Sueciat Dispatch 1o The Tribune. HALIFAX, Jan. 25.—The Neufoundlander news- vaper, pnbilsned by a brother of Premier Shea, at St. John’s, suys: “‘The rumor that New- foundland intends to join the Confederation of Cavada is without foundation. The subject has not been aritated here for some years,— never since the quondam Contederaie party adonted an express resolution not again to raise the question until the people of this country, who had vetoed it at the polls, should at the Dolls reverse that decision. They pledged them- selves solemnly and Eublicl_\‘ 1o this covenant; and to it they have kept with a fidelity which even their antagonists have respected, and have never seriously” impesched. Nothing whatever has_sice occurred to change the position o affairs in relation to this subject in the slightest degrec. A general election took place two months ago, and Confederation was not named, —was, probably not thought of from first to last.. The-pledge referred to ie, with thosc who wave it, as valid to-day as on the day it was an- nounced. .. 5 i . There is great mortality in various parts of the Province at present. At last accounts there were eight persons ving dead in the Town of Yarmouth. There have becn forty deaths from aqiphtheria this winter mm_the smull settlement gf Middle Stewiacke, N. S.,—principally chil- ren. Spectat Dispatch fo The Tribune. MONTREAL, Jan. 25.—The new Metropolitan of Canada was consecrated at Montreul yester- day. The Rev. William Bennett Bond, LL. D. (McGill) was born at Truro, Cornwall, Sept. 10, 1815, educated at London. and ordained at Quebec by the late Bishop Mountain, in 1341. He was first a traveling missionary stationed at Lachine, near Moutreal, but in” 1343 went to the Parish of 8i. Georae's, Montreal, as curate, where he remained till his elevation to the Episcopacy, filling the offices_of Rector of t. George's sted by the Rev. Edward Sallivan, well-known in Chicago), Archdeacon of Hochelaga and Dean of Montreal. When Bishop Oxenden resizned - the Bishopric Jast October, to take s chaplaincy at a pleasant European watering-place, there was some disatisfaction in Canadian Episcopalian circles, the custom of English clerzymen taking colonial Bishoprics Simply to obtain a title having become some- what frequent of late, and Dean Bond's election was made a certainty; He is a hard and sys- tematic worker, and though he has celebrated the communion ina Presbyterian church, und bas been denounced by a High-Church paper as **a furions and persecutiog bigot of narrow un- derstanding and scanty education,” bis church is known familiarlyas *St. Gorgeons,” from its sumptuous, striking, and Catholic-lookingchan- cel. The ceremony of consceration took place at 11 2. m. at St. George's, the consecrating Bishops beiuz Bishop Medley, of Fredericton, N. B.; Bishop Lewts, of Ontario; Bishop Will iams, of Quebec; Bishop Faunquier, of Algoma; Bishop Fuller, of Nizgara; end the Bishops of Maine and Nova Scotia: Special Dispatch to The Tribuns. ‘TOROXNTO, Jan. 25.—Cold, blustering weather, with suow, prevails in Northern Ontario again to-day, and the local railway lines are once more blockaded. All trains on the Midland Raflway .have been canceled. Trains on the XNipissing Road are at a standstill, and the Lon- dop, Huron & Bruce Railway is scaled up as tight &5 it was two weeks ago, aud stages are agrain brought_into requisition. The train on the Northern Railway, which left the city at noon vesterday, bas not yet reached Meaford, baving become imbeddrd in a snow-bank bear Thornbury, fiftecn miles north of Cotlingwood. The 1o'clock train was canceled this after- noon. A freight train on the Grand Truok ran off the track at Brampton thisafternoon, the engine and part of the train going over the iron bridge which spans the main street. The road will not be clear until to-morrow night. Meantime passengers and baggage are transshipped at Brampton. Sorcil Dispatch ta The Tribune. QUEBEC, Jau. %5.—A snow-slide occarred in Champlaiu strect this afternoon at thesiteof the terribly fatal slide which four winters ago swept ten houses and several peopls, including a whole {amily, out of existence. The avalauche rolled down the front of the clifl of Cape Dia- mond, brinzing up against a row of brick _ houses opposite the site of those demolished in 1575, and filling the street eighteen feet deep with snow, burying the houses to the roof. Large bodies of men were set to work, and fortunately the inmates were dug out alive. THE WEATHER. OFfFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasminerox, D. C., Jan. 26—1 a. m.—Indica- tions—For the Tennessee and Ohio Valley,caster- Iy to southerly winds, cloudy weather, followed duripg the day by falling barometer, rising temperature, and possibly local rains west of the Lower Mississinpl. For the Lake Region, partly clonds weathey, and in the northern portions lizht snow, with winds shifting to casterly and southerly, falling barometer, and by Sunday slight risc in temper- ature. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis- sourl Valleys, warmer southeast to southwest winds, falling barometer and partly cloudy wesather, with Hght snows n Minnesota. « The Mississippi will rise at statious below St. Lou LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. CuIcAGo, Jan. 25, Maximum, 43: minimum, 3: GENERAL 03 EREATH Cuteago, Jar Fr. Garry Ft.Glnson. ... Grand Haten 0! is "3/t snow. (03 LE. rain. |Gloudy. "Clear FINANCIAL, CINCINNATI, Jsn. 25.—The house of Williams & Lawson, wholesale liquor-dealers on Walnut street, was closed by the Sheriff last pight, under- an, attachment against the stock by a number of creditors. The assets of the firm are stated to be from $30,000 to 340,000, and the debts to about the same amount. —— VIRGINIA ELECTION. ° RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 25.~R. L. T. Beal, Con- scrrative, elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, has been chosen to 611 the vacancy caused by the death of Represcntative Douglas. The vote was small. LOCAL MISCELLANY. THE CROOKED. CAPTURE OF A BABY STILL. Mauy a day has passed since the Internal Reverue officers in this city have swooped down upon an illicit atill, and jerked up the offending manipulators of *tanglefoot.” They supvlied asensation inthislinelast evening, and, althouch 4 small one, it *goes” all the same. For some time past they have been watching sn innocent- looking hardware score kept by one C. H. Taylor, st No. 99 West Madison street, and within the past few days arrived at the definite conclusion that something more than elbow- joints and stove-lifters proceeded therefrom. In brief, they discovered, as internal revenus officers always discover, that underneath the barmless hardware store was a fully-developed distillery on a very small scale, and that the proprietor jof, together with a fellow from Rockford by thé name of Forbes, were running mashes and disposing of the product by the jug und bottle process. They waited until they got the evidence dead against the place, and then resolved to go fnand possess it in the maoner prescribed by law. Last night was the appointed time, und the skrmishers de- ployed along Madison street until they brought up at the shop with the duplex attachment. The party was made up of Chief Deputy Col- lector M. C. Springer; Camillus Cox, Chicf of Division Deputics; Deputy Collector George H. ‘Thompson; Parsons Cook, a Storekeeper tem- porarily assigned at Sterling, but who was up vesterday on avisit; Chicf Deputy Marshal John Stillwell, Deputy Marshal M. A. Wheeler, und Deputy ‘Marshal G. W. Joues. A couple of newspaper men, who ‘‘dropped” on the scheme duriog the day brought up the rear with the praiseworthy inten- tion of being in at the death. . The attack ‘was made systematically, all excent Deputy- Marshal Jones pouncing apon the place ia {ront, and that officer cutting off 2ll meaus of escape from the rear. On entering the frout door of the etore, the ofticial intruders ran up azainst a couple of men whom they naturally took in tow. One was a little, black-baired, black-¢yed man with s sbambling galt, who proved to be nonc other’ than Taylor himself. ‘The other turned outtoben stray customer, and was soon let out, while n_Deputy sat on_the door-knob and held possession of the place from the front. Of course Taylor wanted to know what the — it all meaunt, and he was soon told. According to his own story, he was THE MOST INNOCENT-MINDED MAN ALIVE. A young molder by the name of Forbes was boarding with him, bad done a little work for him, was very hard up, and had obtained his permission to make a lfttle ¢ apple-jack " down in thecellar. That was the only earthly thing he knew of it. The practical oflicials produced a dark-lantern on the spot, lit two or three com- mon iamps that were scattered about the shop, and, with Taylor at the head of the column, started ou a tour to the basement. They ot down a rickety pair of stairs, balf crawled along a floor that was chiefly conspicuious for the holes it contained aud the smouut of rubbish piled upon it, and finally brousht up at a little doorway ‘leadioz to arear cellar. Slats had been nailed up across the doorway so that the next room had to be en- tered in a stooping postare. Just before enter- ing, however, their trfed cyes lit on a barrel into which a tin pipe descended, and which evidently servea as the condenser coataining the coil tech- nically known as the * worm.” The rest of the apparatus—and _a very cleverly-constructed piece it was—disclosed itself on “entering the rear room. ltwas all there,~the furnace, the botler, and the pipes connecting with the still fn the other room. Near, the furnace stood the mash,—three barrels of mofasses, water, and yeast,—evidently abous, ready to be run off. The fire was out, bowever, und everything cold and cheerless. But the evidences o illicit distilling were conclusiye. Looking further, the officers discovered some cmpty whisky-bottles, which explained as well as anythivg could how the stufl was gotten rid of. In the meantime, Taylor kept protesting his innotence of any wrong-doing, and the officials attended to what be said und learned that Forbes was out for the evening. This oulyserved toconfirm a previous suspicion that the latter had ANOTHER STILL in another part of town, to which he also de- voted his attentions. Having seen all that there was to be seen, Taylor again took the lead, and the party ascended to the store. In the meantime, 2 young fellow had come in whose familiarity with the place sugzested the propriety of detsining him. Taylors wife and Doy had come down from their rooms overhead, and were, like Taylor himself, greatly aston- ished at the turn of affairs when it was ail ¢ plained to them. They also protested,—evers bodv protestea but the officers. The voung man who was detained proved to be Joe Walsh, a plumber, who finally let out the fact thathe had made the furnace in the rear cellar, which Taylor all the while protested was put up sim- ply for the purpose of smelting brass, and which Forbes had diverted frow its original usc. But all things must come to an cnd, and this was the case with the protestations and. the gabble. The officers buttoned up their overcoats, and in a few minutes Taylor and Walsh were on their way to Commissioner Hoyne’s bifice, where they substantially repeated tl previous state- ments. The old man’s bail was fixed at §2,000, Walsh’s at $1,000, and, as they were unable to get auybody to go on their ‘bonds, were com- mitted to jail in default, where they will stay until 10 o’clock Monday morning, when they will be taken before ‘the Commissioner for further examination. It was rather noticeable that ncither the two men nor Mrs. Tavlor herself appeared to be plupzed in grief. in fact, they stood up to it so well as to suggest the thought that they feared such a possible ending to their little venture, and were more or Jess prepared for it. Lne. *upple-jack” theory doesn’t work with the oflicers, who bave a hot-~ tled sample of ihe *‘tanglefoot” as it comes from the tail of the worm, und who contend that there is the best kind of a case against the whole lot,—particularly Forbes, for whose ar- rest, they amply provided by leaving Deputy- shal Jones to hold the fort and pab bim when be came in alon towards morning. OPERATIC. MLLE. ROZE ‘was made the recipient of a parting testimonial in the shape of 4 dinver at the Grand Pacitic last evening by Mr. John B. Drake. The com- pany zssembled in Parlor 44 at 8 o’clock, and pussed & couple of delightful hours in social amenities, as also the discussion of a dinzer which was, by the way, an elaborate exposition of the art of cookery, Among those present were Mile. Roze, J. H. Haverly and wife, G. B, Armstrong, of the Jiler-Ocean, sand Mr. Gaster- feldt, of the Staats-Zatung, and wives, Mme. Lablache, Mme. and Mlle. Lido, W. T. Carle- ton. Sig. Arditi, and Heory Mapleson. The compuny, except Mile. Hauk and Col. Maple- sou, leave for St. Louis via the Alton Road this morning at 10:15 o’clock. Col. Mapleson is laid up with gout. JORE WAR. Tt is understood that. there Is once more war in the_operatic troupe, and this time between Miss Hauk and Mme. Gerster,—not between them exactly, but on account of what the former considers nndue favoritism shown to the latter. It wus the intention of the troupe to leave this morning for St. Louis in their special train. A drawing-room in one of the cars was specially set apart for Mme. Gerster. Miss Hauk did not come ou with the party irom the East, and consequently no such provision bad at that time to be made for her. It was now found impossible to provide ber with a drawing- room for the trip toSt. Louis. ~ So she declined to go upon this spccial opera troupe train unless she could have a drawing-room, to which she considers she is as much entitled as Mme. Gerster. There cannot well be a draw- ing-room provided for her without ousting soinebody eise, and then somebody else would gotowar. So itis mot likely that she will go down ttis moroing. Failiog of obtaining the coveted drawing-room, she says she will 2o down to-pight or to-mortow moraing, but thit, if she goes dowa to-morrow morning, she will beso tired out thatshe won’t be able to sing Tuesday, although sunounced for.that evening. The St. Louls papers will doubiless give the continuing chapters of this imoending tragedy. PRE-EMPTING SEATS. The appearance of the corridors at Baverly’s theatre yesterday morning reminded one of the frout of the old’ Boweryon a Saturday nicht, only women were in the place of news and errand boys. The fair creatures began arriving as carly as_10 0'clock, and at once took posses- sion of the first-balcony staitways. Theladies had “ standing-room ” tickets, aud were determined to get a gaod place. Luckily for them, as they thought, the doors had been left open.” On dis- covering this, they rushed in and scrambled for seats, taking, of course, the best in the balcony —the front row. 1t was filled in a twinkling, and the less swift of foot began taking posses- sion of the sceond row. In a little while all the holders of stading-room tickets would have been provided for. What cared they for the seat-ticket-holders? A wretch, in the ‘shape of a man, soon appeared, and remonstrated with them.’ They wouldn’t listen to him. Having possession, they intended to hold on. At the end” of bulf an hour, however. they were romted Dby the men, others having come to the aid of their brethren, and driven back to the stairwavs, when the doors were closed and Jocked. No blood was shed, ousting was denounced 8s 40 “‘outrag; Af- ter waiting three hours, these entbusiastic fo- 1nales were allowed to take the places their tickete called for, and presumably wot their money’s worth, The Mayor Sesterday morning votifled Supt. Seavey to have enough policemen at the theatre, afternoon aid_evening, to keep the afsles clear, and Deputy-Supt. Dixon, with asquad of twelve men, execuied the order. DR. THOMAS. LECTURE BEFORE TIE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The Rev. Dr. Thomas lectured before the Philosophical Socicty, on the * Wavering Beliefs of the Age,” last eveniog. He first showed that the thoughts of mankind gathered around three common centres,—ourselves, the universe, and God; then that it was dificult, in a world of thought, to draw exact dividing lines; that the world of thought, like the geologic world, interlapped; thht there were periods of child- hood of the races where everythine was believed, and of manhood where things were doubted, and out of these grew again general convictions that became beliefs of the ages. The general movement of thought in our times was in the difection of the few to the many, and the spirit in which questions were approached was one of greater confidence fu truth,—that of the judicial type of mind as dis- tinguished from the partisan that had had so much to do with thought in the past. in search ing for the wavering beliefs of the age he looked at the fleld of thought under four heads,—the political, the philosophical, the scientifie, and the religlous. ~He dwelt upon the instability ol Government fn the past, and the insccurity in which those of the present found themselves, and yet beld that they would reach a solution m universal liberty, justice, and brotherhood In philosophy, he neid that an ideal school, even if held as true in epeculative thougit, could mever influence practical life, where many had to accept the testimony of their senses, and act upoa ft. ‘The real battle he found between the material and the spirftual schools, accounting for the former from the larger attention that had been given to studies of the material world. He held that mankind would, in the circle of think- ing, come back more to' the thought of mind and spirit, and would rest at fast in a belief of both the material and the spiritual. In science he held that there were no established beliefs in the gense that thev could not be changed if facts were found to be differeat; that the ecientific world was simply moviog in the search of truth; and hence, if any of its belfefs wavered, there was no excitement over it. ¢ What we want to know is truth.” On the subjcet of religion hie beld that man could not get away from the thought of God, and, under some form or couception, tiiat doc- trine would always be believed jn. And, be- tween the extremes of no iuspiration and the verbsl-inspiration theory of - the Bible, he claimed that man would hold it as an inspired book, and it would be the great book of relie- jon. He claimed that man would hold that Christ was more than_buman, because that was 2 less tax upon faith than to account for the facts of His lifc and their influence unon the world if we sald that He was only man. Ile held that man would believe in a future life and iu equal justice beiog done to all at las®. Op these points he took the view that the arrest of doubt was found in the fact that it was impossi- ble to prove a negative, and, on this account, man would always belicve them. THE RECOUNT. EERN CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT.' ‘The recount in the Kern-Hoffmann contest was continued yesterday, the Seventh Ward and a part of the Eighth being complcted. The fol- lewing is the result in the Seventh Ward: ot As far as the count has procecded Kern has ined ouly twelve votes, and the situation is isheartening. It is understood that he wiil to- morrow ask ihat the contest be dismiseed, but if be does Mr. Hoffmann will object, and urge that the count be gone through with. It was'a bad undertaking for Mr. Kern. FIRST REGIMENT. THE THIRD PARTY OF THE SECOND SERIES of First Regiment receptions was given at the Armory, on Jackson street, last evening. There were between 500 and 600 persons present, and it would be safe to say that not an objectionable individual appeared upon the floor. The de- cisive discrimination of the Committee having the receptions in charge and the vigi- lance excreised, render it almost im- possible for any person mot bearing a good reputation to gain' admittance. The parties have maiued in favor amougz the better classes of people in the city, until they are ab- solutely as select as the majority of select pri- vate matherings, and a great deal more so than' any public assembly that has ever been scen in Chicago. The reziment has been rewarded for the efforts of its officers in tbis direction, and many huodred dollars have been added to its coffers, which is greatly nceded to meet the heavy expenses. Last evenine there were attractions added to theusual quota by the appearance of Licut.- Geo. Sheridan and his staff, together with a number of the officers of the remular army who arc sojourning in the city at present on gecount of the Reno fnvestization. 'These offi- cers were the centre of attraction during the early portion of the evening. The young mili- tiamen eyed them askance with envious glances, no doudbt wonderiug in their own minds how Jong thev would have to serve as privates id the Illiuois National Guard before they would be entitled to wear the epaulets, sword, medals of honmor, and the title, with all their attendant ulories, that were enjoyed by Gen. Sheridan. The ladies looked upon the brilliant spectacle with great delight. ‘The lady who was asked to dance and headed a quadrillc with the hero of Winchester was probably voted the queca of the occasion. The General tripped about on the smoothly-waxed floor, and cut pigeon-wings after the most ap- Droved style. AMNONG THE PROMINENT ONES who participated in the festivitics were Lieut.~ Gen. P. H. Sheridan, Gen. King, President of the Reno Court of Inquiry. and Col. Ryall, one of his associntes, and Lieut. Lee, Recorder; Lieut. Wailace, Licut. Upham, Licut.-Col. al. eridan, aud Lieut.-Col. George Forayth. of Sheridan’s stafl; Maj.-Gen. A.C. Ducat and stall, Maj. Maxwell, Capt. Sawyer, Col. Older- shaw and wife, Lieut. Col. Collins, und Maj. Whitehouse, Gen. 8. B. Sherer, Inspector Gen. Strong, and Col. W. H. Thompsou, of the Governor’s staff; -Gen. J. T. Terrence and staff, Maj. Jobn Lannigan, Maj. Henrotin (Brigace Surzeon), and Capt. Seribner: Quirk, Maj. Hennesy, and_Licut. Glassbrook, of the Sccond Regiment; Col. Powell and wife and Mag. De Young, of the Sixth Battalion; Capt. Brockett and Lient. Jacobs, of the First Cavalry, L. N. G.; Col. Edzar D. Swain, of the First ~Regiment; Surgeon Truman Miller and wife, Capt. and Mrs. Koch, Licut. Charles W. Harwick, Capt. Black, Capt. and Mrs. Lange, Licut. Lovejoy, Ordnance-Searzent A. T Bell and wife, Capt. Fraok Davis, Lieut. <. . Bangs (Quartermaster), Gen. A. C. Chetlain, Gen. A. C. McClurg, Dr. and Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. und Mrs. Josepn Creswell, Mr, and Mrs. Clinton Butterfield, Mrs. Rollo Butterfield, Cant. and Mre. Purington, Mr. and Mrs. Buell, Mrs. P. B. Weare, Miss Wood, Miss Lottie Good- rich, Miss Frost, Miss Burns. Miss Josie Van Cott, Miss Pearl, Miss Renm, Miss Bassett, Miss Gillett, the Misses Castle, Miss Hainsworth of - Omaha, Miss Paulson, Miss Britton, Miss Oliphant of Niles, Mich., Miss Blaisdell, Miss Belle Whecler, Miss McLain, Miss Powell, Miss Smith, Miss Friedlander, Miss Beers, Miss Pearce, Miss Genevieve Lafayette, Miss Koch, Miss Amy Franklin, Miss Foss. Miss Henrotin, Miss Clara Whitman, Miss Drake, Miss’ Grace Incll, Miss Mionie Green, Miss Hanser, Miss Wildham, )g:s Libby, Miss Maud Parmelce, and many others. SUBURBAN. - EVANSTON. Mrs. Anpie Morgan, wife'of Mr, William' Morgan, died at the National Insane Asylum, located at Elgin, Jast Wednesday. Her remaias bave been placed in a vault at Rosehill, whence they will be remaved for burial sometime this week. Mrs. Morgan had been o ineane as to necessitate confinement for five years, and the veraict of ber death was that of chronic mania and pulmonary consumption. The Pioneer Hose Company have been in- formed by the Village Trustees that their re- quest for rubber outfits shall be granted. A chanee is to occur ah the Avenue House, The Messrs. Swart retire, having made arrange- ments to manage o Sterling house. “Their suc- cessors are not vet known. ‘fhe Baptist.Charch will be preached in to-day by the Hev. L. A, Abbott, of La Crosse, Wis. Dr. Fisk, of Chicago, is to be at the Consrewa- tional Church, The other coogregations will Iisten to the usual talent. —————e————— T INDIAN COUNTRY. Fowr KopiNsoN, Neb., Jan. 25.—Private Sprowl, ambulance-driver, started to drive to the old eamp, one mile distant, this afternoon. To-night he was found lyine in the road with his skull fractured. It is not known whetber the wound was caused by s guashot or by fall- ing from the ambulance. His condition Is crit~ dcal. "The wound cannot be examined to-uight. Wednesday night a trumpeter arrived from the old camp, ana reported being fired at by a party concealed in a ravine. It is believed that eitherIndians or bad white men are in the blufls. Companies A, B, F, [, and M, Fifth Cavalry, under Capt. Ferris, arrived here to-day. ‘Théy leave in the morning for the Sand Ilills, where ' Little Wolf and a band of 200 Cheyennes arc reported to be. Companics A, F, E. and T, Third Cavalry, leave for their respective stations early next week, leaving but two companics at this post. i OBITUARY. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. DusUquE, Ia., Jap. 25.—The Hon. Alexander Bliedung, one of the most prominent men of Clayton County, died at his home in Gutten- ll)‘exgg ‘tcnv-dny. Ho was & member of the State Legislature, and took a prominent part In poli- tics of the Third District. . B Specéal Dignach to The Tribune. PriApecraia. Pa., Jan, 25.—Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock, mother of Msj.-Gen. W. §. Hancock, died at Mornistown yesterday. She was born in Montgomery County o 1800. Her late hus- band, Benjamin Franklin Hancock, was a1so a native of Montgomery. They were living on a farm when their distingnished son_was bors in 1824, und four years later removed to Morris- town, where the Haucock mansion has since béen located. BUrrALo, Jan. 25.—P. B. Locke, of the firm of Locke, Austin & Sparks, the well known lake Captain, died to-duy, aged 48. ————— SAVANNAH RACES. SAVANNAR, Ga., Jan. 25.—The Jockey Club meeting closed to-day, and there was a good attendance. The Lamar stake for 3-year olds, mile heats, ‘was won by Ben Hill. He got the sccond heat by the foul riding of Mary Walton, and had the tt.}:,lrflfifm'nuh;!allop qrer lh% course. _Mary won e first heat casily. Time, 1:47%, 1:30%. Ben was the lflvoritc-v e, LaH, 1etee In the mile-dash Essillah won, Jim Bell sec- ond, Gabriel third. Gov. Hampton fourth, Virginian last. Time, 1:47. In the mile-und-a-quarter selling race, which closed the meeting, the time was not, taken, the {a}l of‘ the i}{n! lm:iheine seen. Egypt won, opahanaock second, Hattie F. third, Omega fourth, LeRoi fitth. s SN LOTTA AT LOUISVILLE. LouisviLLe, Ky., Jan. 25.—Lotta’s engage- meut of one week at Macauley’s, under the mavagement of Abbey & Scheeffel, of the Park Theatre, New York, has proven an unnsual suc- cess, ‘“‘La Cigale,” her new play, was pro- duced Friday night and this afternoon. The houses on both occasions were among the largest. known in the history of the theatre in this city. The receipts at the matinee are said to reach a higher figure thun at any afternoon dramatic performance given in the cityin five years. Lotta received many floral offerings, and tumal- tuous applause. 'Her encagement is paying even better than Mary Anderson’s. _ BOLD THEFTS. . Anv audaélous robbery was committed yester- day afternoon about 4 o'clock by an unknown thief, who actually carried awav a four-foot show casc - from Lehmann's store, corner of State and Adams streets, and, takine it foto on mley in a manner s0 ccol that no one suspected he was not an employe of the place, rified it of about §200 worth of cheap jewelry. He cscaped de- tection. Another bold theft occurred at Schicfferstein’s shoe-store, corner of Division street and Cly- Bourn avenue, vesterday afternoon. While the proprictor was busy waiting on a customer, a till- tapper walked fu and carried off the till, contain- ing $40. He, too, escaped capture, but the till was subsequently found between two houses, minus its conteni LT e ENMESSEE BONDS, NAsmVILLE, Tenn., Jao. 25.—Edward L. An- drews, attoroey for the lioiders of the ola series of Tennessec bonds, to-day filed a bill against eight railroads upon which they havea lien under the act of 1852. He filea six bills in Memphis, and will file more in Knoxville Mon- dny against raflroads upon which the old bonds Dave liens. i Y SUICIDE. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. KALAMAZOO, Mich., Jan. 25.—Mrs. Anthony Huxtable, azed 65 years, living in Prairie Ronde, this county, committed 3uicide last might by nanging herself in the cellar of her house. Fam- ily difficuities are the vague cause assigned for the deed. ———— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Arrived, steamer Gel- lert, from Hamourz; Elphinstone, from Liver- puol; Hermod, from Cardiff; Acapulco and Ailsa, from Aspinwall; D. Stemmann, from Antwerp. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.—Arrived, stcamer Lord Clive, from Liverpool ————— oules. For The Tribune. ‘What did Baritone? Ancient Grease: Old butter. A smoke-house: A cigar-store. Anoldlettes: An aged landlord, A matter of form: The newspaper. “Down in front”’: An incipient mustache. A trial-balance: Prisoners left over when the Court adjourns. % A Hoyne-avenue man calls hishorse * Favor,” because he curries it. Speaking of style, there isnot much *get-up” to people who lic abed until noon. People that don’t fret are like oystersat a church-festival, inasmuch as they never “get in astew.” When & raw recruit makes his first sally upon the cnemy, we suppose he must feel sortie peculiar. The man_who regretted that he had “no position in the world * evidently forgot his dis- ‘Position. The best way to indulge in a tie-raid is to watch your opportunity and soeak intoa fur- nishing-store. We read something _recently about the “House of Bourbon.” No reference to a ‘‘ sam- ple-room,” however. ] pain nobods,” said a dentist, when asked it hie hurt people much. And a creditor of his said he told the truth. Newspapers that cmploy two or three humor- ous paragraphers may be said to always “Keep their wits about them.” A young man says: ‘“You can zet round the pirls at Vassar casy enough, they suck-gum so readily, and are so Vassar-lating.” It doesn’t reflect upon the good-nature of a paragrapher, who is unable to construct another joke; 1o say that he is *out of humor.” A commercial traveler and a young man about to enter the Episcopal ministry resemble each other in one respect: both take orders. Spilkins saw a well-known leader of fashion ejected from his hotel the other night, where- upon he remarked that he had seldom seena more stylish turnout. Pcople who anticipate a freshet here the com- ing spring should remember that they predicted a similur calaimity some years ago. It is freshet in the memories of some ol our citizens. When vou eater your sleeping apartment, and fina that your solitary pulow has been denuded of its covering, then is the time, and.the only time, whea you feel that it would be an inesti- mable favor if somebody would give you the H. elip —— ‘What Might Havo Been. Ctica Meratd. A Cincinpati engineer bassigned a contract with French capitalists to build a railroad in Palestine, from Jerusalem to Jaffa. Had such a road been constructed a number of centuries ago, St Peter mizht have becn 2 brakeman in- stead of a fisherman. 1 GOSSIP FOR LADIES. JEMMY AND JESSY. Young Jemmy and Jessy sat mate on the stile. Says Jemmy: **In vain time i cooing [ loses Tcan't get a Kies, nor a word, nor a smile; Come, can’t 50u say Bo! to a goose?” SaysJessy: **1dow't want to hurt son, my dear, Or I'a 83y Bo! to you. You're o slow! 1f you can’t take a kiss without asking, 1 fear Tehall have to say Goose: to a beaa ™ — Exchange. “OVER-STIMULATION IN WOMEN.” New Yurk Eventng Post. TIn the January namber of the London Gentic- man's Magazine, under the title, * Over-stimu- lation in Women,” is an article which in sub- stance asserts that at the present day many Eun- glish women in every class of society habitualiy “over-stimulate.” The magazine speaks with the authority of a publication of great age and wide repute, and the writer of the paper in questiou—who, by the way, appends is name to it—is a well-known physician. This geutle- man, Dr. Frederick H. Daly, aflirms that he is not a total abstainer or a belieyer in total absti- he is, however, agreat stickler for mod- eration, and of this he implics, it he does not directly assert, that women are as a rule less ca- The strain of ddodern socicty, to bed at about the time the fashionable world now dines. - Durinethe ** scason ”” a London lady “yworks really hard,” and she works in a crowd- ed town, kecping late hours, und living in hot, gas-tainted rooms. “Thesc are just the coudi- tions which induce a languor that a glass of sherry will, for the time, quickly relieve; 7 nad it is taken, and taken too often, and the occa- sional indulgence becomes a reular one; spirits are after a tine substituted for the sberry, and the victim, by a facile gradatiou, becomes an habitual, snd’g¢herally a secret, dram-drinker. Such cases, Dr. Daly intiwates. are not only common. but so shamefully numerous as to con- stitute a prowing and terrible danger. He wuarns female tipplers that. their nervous orzanization is more liable to injury from alcohol than that of men; that the mental aud moral cifects with them are more disastrous and more irremediable, and assures evefy womap “who is_constantly -over-stimuiating that one day she will get gout, or kidaey disease, or braia se, or discase of the liver, followed by dropsy.” fle says ‘that women should ounly take wine or beer, if they take thewm, with their food, and that they ought never to drink spirit§ at all. e points out that the seeds of fatal habits of excess are often im- olanted by the usc of stimulents at the period of Inctation, und advises that. at all events, they “shonld be discontinued as soon as weaninZ is done.” e proceeds to show that the middle and Jower classes are, for special reasows, suf- fering from cipsomania as well as the upper classes. It is gin aud strong beer with them instead of sherry and brandy. The evil, it-is this writer's conclusion, should be grappled with at once; and the British *“Legislature has two dutles to perform before we can hope for much improvement. Oue i3 to repeal the Grocers’ license, the other is to pass into law the Habitual Drunkard’s bill or some such measure.” ‘The picture drawn by Dr. Daly is a very dis- tressing one. How far its accuracy may be im- pugned remains tobe seen. We are reminded, meanwhile, thata charge of like nature was leveled a few years a2o at the woman of New York. 1t excited much indignation and was for a thme Rotly discussed. The tase was, without question, too strongly put. A naturaldispleas- ure was aroused by the idea that the object of the promulgator hid been to make a* sensa- tion? rather than to subserve the cause of truth and good morals. Suspicion was drawn to the viand by the piquancy ofits sauce. Yt it can scarcely in fairness be denied thatif o quarteror even atenth part of that was aileged of drunk- cuness among women had been truc it was a proper {uuction of journalism todirectattention 1o the evil and denonoce it. Thedifficulty com- monly is thut thereis always in such cases a strong temptation tu exagyerate an evil in order toenforce the requisite attention to it. We hooe for the sake of the women of England that thisis true of the articlein the Geatlonan’s JMagazine; for itwould be far more agreeable to supoose that a siugle writer bad sketehed an ua- faithful picture, or even put forth a caricature, than that a cousiderable number of English gentlewomen, as well asan equal fraction from the classes not so designated. have sunk to the vile indulgence that Dr. Daly deseribes. We must remember, however, that he writes, not as a0 anonymous or enersl writer, but uader Dis own sigoature, and With the experience of a physician. The prevalent impression in these | circumstances Wil be that where there is so much smoke there i3 likely to be a trace of fire. Something like these allezations has been in the air for some time, and there is a suggestion of them in more than one of the current Enalish novels. But we shall be called on speedily to bear evidence in rebuttal, and until then judg- ment may well be suspended. In the mean time 1o harm will be done by pointing out that the changed social conditions to which Dr. Daly imputes so muci of danger exist bereas well 83 in foreien countrics. The habits of New York and of London are in this wise very similar. There is certainly - more drinking "in_soclcty—cimong both_ s than before our Civil War. The statistics show a formidable _increase in the consumption of spirituous liquors in the United States, and consumption is not confined to saloons, hotels, and the jugs of the working clasees. Far more beer aud wine are drunk in the United Kingdom than in this country, but in spirits we unhappily areas far in excess. The insidious enemy may attack agy one from the hizhest to the lowess, and no apology is needed for temperate but earnest caution to whomsoever may be in danger. ‘Thearticlein the Gentleman's ayazine may be too highly colored. and we repeat we hope it may be proved so. It either case, while it applies to 2 condition of things which is not to be found smong ourselves, our readers will appreciate the motive which directs their atten- tion to the allezed increase amoug women vf a shameful and terrible vice which itis much easier to prevent thau to cure. DIAMONDS IN SAN FRANCISCO. From the San Francisen Chroniclc. The annual meeting of a popular society was heid a day or twosince, and in the interim, before 1he meeting was called to order, 2 discussion of some interest occurred. Said one of the gentie- men present: * You talk about hard times in Californis; there has never been a year when the purchase of costly jewelry and dismonds ex~ cecded that of the present year.” There 15 a lady now stoppiug at one of our Iarge hotels who wears a pair of solitaire ear- rings worth $50,000. They belonged to the col- lection of jewels of Queen Isabella of Spain, and were purchased at the time when that de- posed monarch sold & Dortivn of her valuables at auction in Paris. These two stobes were bonghy for $24,600. They are twenty-one carats eacts, beautifully matcked, and are pronounced the finest gems in the United States. Tiffany & Co.. 1 New York, place their market value at $50,000. It seems to me thatisa rather valuable load for a lady to be carrying about in a careless wav.”? “1t is so, and it furnishes a strong incentive to crime. Why, there’s Mrs. who never comes down stairswith less than $15,000 or $20,- 000 worth of gems on her person—that lady who wears the brooch in the form of a fern leaf, glittering with fifty or a hundred dia- monds.” 41t is_a zreat wonder that robberles are not of more frequent occurrence in this city, consid- ering the careless display of valuables.” “1Vell, 5o far as the hiotels areconcerned, it is ‘probably owiu to the perfect system of espion- age which is a_featare of them. It would be almost impossible for a professional thief to ob- tain admission to the house, and all the emsloy- es are instructed to be on their guard against sneak-thieves. Bnt some thieves did obtain ac- cess to a lady’s room iu one of our hotels about two weeks , while Madame 2nd ber husband were at dinaer. They overhauled trun drawers, and obtained a watch and chain and some coin, but adame happencd to be in full regalia at the time, and the thieves were disappointed in getting hold of her dizmonds. There is one lady stopping at the same hotel who knows s polat. She has a magnifi- cent pair of pendants valued at 330,000, that were purchascd from the Emopress ugenie's jewel casket. These diamonds are incased in gold. and bLer earrings are apparcatly nothing Taore than ordinary cardrops. But when occa: sion requires she simply unclasps the cases, and exposes the magnificent gems. From the ordi- nary appearance of the carrings one would not consider them of much vatue.” PHIL HODGE’S SECRET. Louisvitie Courter-Journal- Ten years ago, in Lewis County, K., a young lawyer named Phil Hodge married Miss Addie Sillett, amid flowers, music, and hearty con- gratulations of friends. When the guests had departed Hodge went to the bridal-chamber, where he remained during the night. At early dawn he left the bouse, and in passing out he met a servant of bis wife’s father, to whom he said: “Tell your master Iam goue forever.” The new-made father-in-law, upon receiving this message, burried to his daughter’s room, where, to his amazement, he found her still in her wed- ding-robes, with her hair disheveled and her veil torn off, and in a state of mreat excitément. "A severe soell of fever followed, buc cever in her wildest delirium did sne betray the cause of her agonr, and thus it has remaioed 3 theme of ron- jecture cver since. To a {riend, the other day, she for the first time told the cause. Here1sher story: *Lon Foliet and I have been raised tozether. 1 had reccived mast macked attention from him, but L never dreamed of marrying him, for he Bad 2 mother and sisier Gepending upon lu for a livelihood. rbil Hodge, who 1 only knew a few s, courted me. I aceepted him, aud my admiration for him tempted me to betieye I loved tun. igat of our_wedding, Loa and 1 were sitzing a iictle apart from the crowd, our conversation was only of ourselves, and L coufess [ then felt Lon loved me, amt he was more of wy bappiness than L nad ever dreamed, Phil Hodee overheard a few wurds, and 62w our carncst manuer. When he came to my room he found me dressed stilt as I was when I lete the parlor, aud, showing his surpris ne * What was the matter with me2” Lanswered us_incifferently as possible. ing’ We exchadged several commonplace remarks, * after which be asked me quite barshly, ‘Addie, did Lon Fo liet ever tell vou he Iluved you# 1 answered, * No.” “What was your ¢ e tion to-night #! His eyes were upon me: 1 dare not tell aught but the truth, they scemed ta picreed me” throngh. 1told the ‘whole truth, d W 1 hud rinished, he said with colduess, calumess, andstubborn resolution: * Addic, yor love Lon Foliet; heshall marry you; we will never meet again.” I beggyed biin'on my Kneeg not to leave me, but it was of no svail. - When the gawn came, be arose, kissed me zood-by, with a * God bless you,’ passed out from me fore ever. My feelings were indescribable, the room was Horrible in 1ts darkness, my mind lost its reasoning power, and thus passed muny weeks. Through a mutual friend I heard of him often, of his wandering, desolate life and death uon the frontier. Well have our blizhted lives puid: the penalty of a false step. When Lon heard of his death he came immediately to see me. £ refused to see himj then he wrote mea long: letter telling meof his love, his never forgetting me an hour these long years, and I have con- sented to marry him—but we will not meet till our wedding night—Jan. 29, 1879." A MARRIAGE-INCIDENT. Writing from Grecntield, Conn., the Rev. Dr. T. L. Culver rciates the foliowing inarrisges incident, which bappened there in “ye oldem time”: The Rev. Steven Mtx madea journey to North-+ ampton in 1696 in search of a wife. He arrived at the Rev. Solomon Stoddard’s, informed him of the object of his visit, and that the pressurs of home duties required the utmost dispatch. Mr. Stoddard took him into the room whera hisdaughters were, and introduced him to Mary, Esther, Christiana, Saruh, Rebekab, und Hao nan, and then retired. Mr. Mix, addressing Mary, the eldest dauzhe ter. sald be had lately been settled in Wetherse field, and was desirous of obtaining a wife, and concluded by offering her his heart and hand. She blushingly replied that soimportant a prop= osition required time for consideration. . He rejoined that he was pleased thutsho asked for suitable time for rellection, and in order to afford her the needed opportunity to think of his provosal, he would step into an adjoining room and smoke a pipe with her father, and she could report to him. Having smoked his pipe, and sent a message to Miss Mary that he was Tendy for her answer, she came in and asked further time for consideration. He replied that she could reflect still longer on the subject, und send ber answer by letterto Wethersfield. Ina few weeks he received her reply, which is probably the most lacouic epistle of the kind ever penned. Hers is the model letter, which was soon followed by & wedding: NorTuAMPTON, 1698.—The Rev. Slephen Mizs es. MARY STODDARD. The_matrimonial Mix-ture took place on the 1st of Dezember, 1696, and proved to be com- pounded of most congenial elcments. TO ACCOMMODATE THE LADY.. Buratte. A woman with three bird-cager and alittla girl has just zot op the train. She arranges the three bird-cazes on o seat, and then she and the little girl stand up in the aisle, and she glares ground upon the ungallant men who remaio glued to their seats and look dreamily out of the window. I bend my face down to the tablet and write furiously, for I feel her cyes fastened upon me. Somehow or other, [ am always the victim in cases of this delicate nature. Just as 1 expected. She speaks, fastening her cum- mauding gaze upon me. ¢Sir, wonld it be asking too much if I begzed vou to let m{sel! and my littie girl have that Seat? A gentleman can clways find a seat s0 much more eusily than a lady.” And she smiled. Nat the charmingest kind of asmile. It was too triumphant 10 be very Of course I surrendered. I said: tainly, certainly. I could tind another seat without any trouble.” She thanked me, and I crawled out of my comfortable seat, ant gathered up my overcoai, my manuscript. my shawl-strap package, my alise, und my overshoes, and she uud the little girlwent into the vacant premises as soon as the writ of ejectment had been served, and they looked happy and comlortabie. . ‘Then I stepped across the aisle; I took up those bira-cages and set them alonz on top of the coal-box, and sat down ob the seat thus va- cated. 1 apologetically remarked to the woman, who was gazing at me with an expression thav boded trouble, that ‘‘it was much warmer for the canaries up by the stove.” She didn’t say ansthiug, but she gave me a look that made it much warmer for me for about five minutes than the stove can make it for the canaries. don’t believe she likes me, sud L am uncomfort~ :m,- confident that she disapproves of my o~ uct. FEMININE NOTES. We saw a young man with two heads on his shoulders the other day, out dide’t consider it much of 2 curiosity—one pelonged to his girl. She sang soprano sweetly— L Her voice was like a lyre; But on Sunday she ate onions, And thas busted up the choir. An excited old man came in yesterday to fo- form us that be had seen six women sit a whole ‘hour in social conversation without once refer- ring to what they wore.—Turner’s Falls Iteporter. She was an’ Albany lady who informed a vis- itor who came to see her new nouse that she was baving nicks made in the walls in which to place statutes, and in oune of them a burstof her hasband. Henry was sittiog in the parlor with Laara, and in aitempting to turn the gas down dim hu extinguished it. “**’Therc! " he cxciaimed, *“the gas bus gone out.” ¥ Yes,” murmured Laura, *and 1 wish somebody would follow it exam- ple.”” Then Heury went out too. A plain-apoken woman recently visited a mar- ried woman and said to her: “How do you manage 1o amuse yourself* Amuse,” said the other, “don’t you know that I bave my housework to do#” *Yes,” way the answer, “I see that you have it to do, but as it is never doue I conclude you must have some other way “of passing your time.” A young lady, after passing the Cambridge local examination, suddenly broke off ber en- fagemcnt with her swectbeart. A friend ex- postulated with her, but she replied, *“I must merely say that his views on the theosophic doc- trine of cosmogony are loose, #nd you must 2% once understaud how impossible it is for any true woman to risk her happiness with such person.”? Say! some of you lawyers; we were just won- dering: how is it, it a man’s wifc runs away with s wnarries an insurance arent, and never comes back to him, what relation is the be- reaved man to his mother-in-law yet! As she has not run aj is she stiil his mother-in-law{ And il so, is ‘shealso the insurance mau’s mother-inJaw? In what relation, in fact, does a man stand 10 his wife's refatives when, as in the instance just cited, his wite is not ** dead, but gone belore™ i—Burdette. Jennie June thinks girls should be taught to help themselves. Bless vour soul, Jenuie, th do. We sat opposite to a delicate, bluc-cyed, spirituelle creature of 16, at the boarding-house table, and saw her help herself to a plate of soup, a sirloin steak, a chicken’s wing and drum- stick, two baked potatoes, three plates of.corn, two pickles, four hot rolls, a dish of macaroni, aquarterof a mince-pie, a wedge ol apple- pudding with wine sauce, and two dishes of vamlla ice-cream. They do help themselves.— Exchange. e — Three Sips of Punch. Constable (to Old Wiggins, who has come down on a piece of orange-peel aud a slide) —*““There,now! I’opes you're satisfied! Serves you_jolly well right! If 1 catches you a slidin’ on the pavement agsin I’ll run you in—sharp?™ Ethel—“It was 1 most wonderful perform- ance, Aunt Tabitha! First, she was shot out of a cannon’s mouth on to a trapeze Biteen yards above the orchestra, and then she swung herself up till she stood on arope on one lew at least 120 feet above our beads !’ Auut Tabitha—*Ah! T always think a womax lowers herself when sha does that!? Master Benjamin—*Look at my beauti gold casket!” ster (ilmlsm\'m-y“Al:;l gl‘g look at my beamitui silver ax!?