Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1879, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY. — : , $1.07:. Corn—Weatern 0@ 005 MR b anot and Tanuare, Shge frmers KNI sasch,” T@tdiias Avtil $hiie i wicamer, SR, amhte) Werlern ‘tjfl.{q‘c; S0 mixed, 28@20c, liye noml- ST prime Tenneylvanis, $10.00@11.00 A0 : inally steadr. Mesy Fhrorisoxe= Q40700 for Tiew. ik mea pork. 88,50 Wlers, iz’ for news clear rib sldes, locte SO0 “prcked. new, dmbac. Hacons ‘;:flfiu ald, -m'c; ”n""u"l'{:rlél:" new, hijc. o 3 ¥ ned, oy ‘:i?-ln'rm'?:r' holce "packed Bt 18@20c; NSURAN Pretty Thin Piece of Jugglery by the New York Gang, :,,‘I,\‘mw e. ol ek Algrmimg the Public by Exaggerated Accounts of Losses, B o 15e. > n-q:\algg;‘_-{,’,},;".“d easler; erade, BH@8%E; Pocketing Increased Rates by Freh, Bl EaE, tho Delusion. n:"‘\;"“_ afet ..,.1l %!‘T;nlglo cargoes, 11@10¢. i ymerr—Dotlat 81085000 am nominal; Famants =l LT prain, The Recent Big Fires and Their Effects on, fadi 00 25, eat, 42,600 b “nvr:;,flfi{,‘fl“&,,,“’,‘.’&"'fl,‘.f whel 500009 on tho Companies, o, A0 “Wheat. 81, %00'buj cots, 8,000 bu. Exposure of a Neat Scheme to Hum- bug Customers. MILWAUKER, Spectal Disvateh to The Tridune. MILWATKER: Jan. 27.—The stock of graln In stilwaakee At the opening of business on Jan, 27 Jezeported DY the warchousemen aa (oliowa: W GNEMO Y HEDGES Bpecial Correspondencs of Tha Tribune, 1870, 1878, Nxw Yonx, Jan, 25.—Now that they have a Fo. 1apting, hard w'fl-- ?}'},Z,’,’ Tittle time for rest, and are not engaged from Lsvring, Fegnls 070,908 £10,203 | early morning until lats at night estimatin Zapring. FeRuia 4,070, 3 ly [ 4 z 7, reyulal ol uf{';‘l‘ 01,038 | Josscs, nttonding mectings to nppoint Cammit. ASLEEY o gi | tees to adjust them, and otuerwiso laboring 7H, 008 13,447 | with the details of losses caused by the two "o . great fires of last week, our insurance men a11, 340 mugt or ought to be heartlly ashamed of them- Tolalosws asnese scives for the absolutely Iudterons attitude they No, Bone 22‘7027_' have assumed for four or five days past. They Hejected. C 1470 bave been as exclted ns a parcel of cats on a New. — 227 | back fence by a neweomer, and, with elongated 18,407 5,822 | countenances, tearful cyes, and paule-stricken ways, they have helped cach other to imagine and belteve that downright rain and bankruptey were hovering over them with drawn sword. 53,805 700 Total.sssssines sases soa “,036 | With & pitital supply of backbone mwl ' TARLET. P moral courage, they have viewed until 3 401 3‘._3"‘,”, today the vecent fires as the fed o 10020 | forerunmers of nsolvency eif mot et ia . 918 i,usd | sembifotion, but the fecling 1¢ changing to s b e———— ——=— | more cheertul tone, and ofticers of comvsnies Total 616,018 403,164 | are regaining courage, und with it a littleof a 129,295 03,751 aunlh which has been very scarce since lust Yo. 1. 4098 waon | Saturday morning, viz.: common scnse. It 18 No. 2. ¥ s 300 well, 1t the record of the past four dags be creditable, in Merey’s paime what is discredit- Toltliareeressreranennass 127,263 D) To the Western Associated 'ress. Muwsvxee, Jan. 27.—Fuoun—Quiet; timly. ’(M{n«—“‘htnl firm; opened lic lower; closed N0, 1 Milwaukee hard, D0%c; No. 13l No. 2 do, K0jc; Jannary, BORC; L 1arch, 873(c: No, 3 Mitwankee, s3¢; No, 4 do, 03 UHY4e; rejected, bilge. Comn ith o fatr demand: No. 2, 20t4c. Oata e hiominal; No. 2, lfic. _itye quiet butirms No.1, 40c. Barley frregalar; No, 2 apring lower aive. oxs—Quiet tut frm, _Menss pork qulet; e o attam tard, 8000, “flu!—LlV'flflr\ l:,(fifi-;‘.o()uu. 80; dressed firmer Tiener, 8t 1. 7067, 7o, e o, 8000 brix: whoat, 03,000 b, e Flowr, b, G0 birla; wheat, 18,000 bu. NONODY BADLY NURT, The two fires of Tuesday und Friday nights burned up proporty wortls $4,000,000. That {a Jdrue. Oue bullding was burned 1 the firat, two In the sccond, beslde two others badly damaged. This Is the sum tutal of the entire loss, and it {8 not the first nor the second t'mo that such heavy Josses have occurred fn thls city, nor wilt ity in all human probavllity, ba the last. But wiile tuls was the outside cxtent of the damage, It I8 felt that thesa two losses actually wiped out the cntire promium recelpts of tho paat year. 1f this aggregate expericnce had been equally seattercd, it might bave been less disastrous, but some companics lost twice as much by these fires as thefr recelpts on ity business for 1878, and of course they set up a yell fike a dor with tiu-pail attachment, Then the paople suw the apparent cnornous losses of the Enzilsh com- panics. ‘The Liverponl & London & Gldbe had $145,000, the Jmuverlal & Northern 8150,000, Commercial Unlon §55,000, Royal 850,000, ete., but they didn’t think that these suins are flea-bites for thoss mauunath fustitutions, nnd held February, & ST, LOUIS. 27, —~Corrox~Qufat and un- [ §1. Loums, Jan. changed; middiing, celpte, 1,300 slock, 3 Frocn—Dull; buyera demanding concesstons, QnaiN—~Whestensier; eashoptions opened lower, bat advanceds closed firm; No, 2red , 025@ sales, 700 balew; re- mye cashy 92R@OINc February; 0 D54c T1gct u thut the $145,000 for the Hrat-nomed s 8 miuch Harchs N0, Ndn. “’I'“d' ?n"' ,’{:g'.'"" 717': .:',‘éi sinaller sutn progortionately than $40,000 to s Corn highers No. 2 mixed, 203(@295c cash; 30B | oy ogmpany of §200,000 capital ond as much e February; 14@D1%c Marclty 328,Q83%¢ | pyigre surplus, In fact, n louking over the list Apal; JL@dne May, Oals ll|a.l,:c:, 0. 2, 213 | (here are only three companics whose surplus @215 cashi 21c bId Januarys 217ic bid Fobru- | fynds are affected suflicieatly to briug thew ary.” Rye lowers 4233¢, Barley dull and lower. Winisky—$1. 04, Trovistoxs—Dork essfer; $8.87%. Lard nami- aslly nnehanged ot $06.00. Bulk ments duli; ear lots, twenly-day, clear ribs, $4, 100 4. 16 delivered, Hacon duli; clear ribs, 84.78G34.80; clear, §3.00; clear riba, $1.75 Februnry, Heceirrs—Flour, 5,000 brlst wheat, 61,000 bus carn, U8, 000 bu; oats, 12,000 buj rye, 10,000 buj barley, 10,000 bu. Smipnpxra—Flanr, 0,000 bels: wheat, 3,000 bo; com. 13,000 bu; oaty, 4,000 bu; rye, 4,000 buj bariey, 15,000 ba. PHILADELPIITA. ToiLapeienia, Jan, 97.—Frovn—Qulet, but steady; supers, $2,25@2. 563 extran, $1.00Q3, 605 Obio 184 Indlana famlily, $4.76@5.50; Pennsyl- 5,003 high grades, $4.00@7.60. grief, while in every other fustance the losscs can bo pald without Iinperiling the losers even {n a remoto degree. It ks slmply & cose of ¢ no- budy hurt,” TIN CITY NOT ENDANGERED. Tuis ridiculous panic is of such small dimen- slons that it s difficult to treat it soberly, Tho {dea which went fortn tho day succeeding the fire, and which has been harped upon with fu- creasing clamor ever since, and which doubtless produced the same {mpression clsewhere, was that the City of New York bad narruwly escaved deatruction by o wholesule, overwhelmlug con- flagration. ‘This {3 too puny aud contemptible to requlro much consideration. ‘Yhe fazt is thut the firat firs was conflned by the fremen to the four walls of one bullding, The second flre burned through two purty walls of one bullding running from Worth to Thomaa street, but was contlned by two indonendent wallg as soon as 1t 0, 2 rod, $1.05%: am- No, £ Chicago, 00@ Corn stendy; 43%@44c; mized, 4dfc. 0@ 31e: mixed do, ber, $1.003;; white, $1. Die. Oaty quiet: white Wentorn, ave, It ina ved, met them, The firemen wereablo to provent its esion - fominally unchanzed, Fo@10.50, | crossing ‘Thomas strect, which fs vuly " thirty- ndia mevs beef, 18,0018, 25, Manis, smoked, | Jour feet wida betwen bullding casil 8] ’l'lle‘y1 held it In cheek from crossing Worth street, aml thus this great, threatening conflagration nctually burnt over less territory than your big Fleld, Lelter & Co. fire in the Singer Building many months ago, There might haye heen & wind, and there might have been frozen hy- druuts. ‘Flere might bave boen o shower of gold, but thers wasn't, and that {s just all that can be sald, ‘Toget up a scare on two little fires {uvolving $4,000,000 lous fs sbout the thin- nest fraud of the season, HOW IT WAS CREATED. This panle smong the {usurauce companics and the public was created by the newspapers, egged on by tha frigbtened companies them- sciven. The vapers Interviewed verious fusur- ance ofticiuls and got cxaggerated statements of the losses und the effect upon the busiess, and printed them, Then themerchonts desiring insur- 4 m;w tfin.ufigbbfl nrima stean, . 26600.60. Brrren—Market weak; Now Yok State and Dradford County, Pu., extrus, 21Q205¢; Western Tiererve, 12:50¢. Fuvs~Weak; Western, 91c, Cugzee—Dull and unchatged, Frrite, ; refined, Ve crude, Bye. Wuinsr--Nomivally unchanged, Rrcgirrs—Flour, 2,500 briei wheat, 84,000 buj cora, 47,000 bu; cats, 11,000 bu; rye, 1,600 bu. CINCINNATT, Cixciwxars, 0., Jun, 27.—CorroN—Quiet, but teady atbe, Froun—Dall; family, $4.25 Onars—-Wheat fiem 3. 25, but wot quotably highers r:d and white, 90! Corn quiet, but firm; eI, Oata quietat 24g7e. Ky dullat 61 g Llor dallsod”nowinal; No. % fall, Tk odatoat. 80,00, Larduiets | unce seut out orders for fncreased lines at & nio- T3 caslh; $:6,40 buyer Marchs short | ment when the compaoles wers diaposcd to re- 04,565 buyer March: short con quist st $3,87%, $5.00, teady, with a rood di af 3 Berezn--Dul) lyl;sl nnchn“"ua. asndiey 80 Lixssan Oi~Sieady at Ui, strict lines tominimumsums, The supply belng partially cut off and the demund Increused, still furtherbightened the sinall panie. It wasurged thut mercnants were uvable to obtain {nsurance, aud on the surface it appeared os If the business of fire-insurance had been affucted by the blind- HONTON stapzers, ‘Ilie brokers wero {nfected, und the Bostox, Jan, —Froun—Btesdy; Western | coutaclon spread, but alittle judictous blood- s, $1.0027,25; common extras, $2.75@ | 1¢1HDg by 6 few bold and determined fellows broke the apell. “lo-day the sltuatiou is calin und serenc, onsd, excepting upon cerigin risks which demand upwards of o milllon cach, any- body with a respectable riek willing to pay & reasonable rate can et all the nsuraheere- isconein extras, $4.00@4.50; Minnesots 235,50 winter wheats, Oblo and Michi- i, $.75@5.95; Nllinols and Indiana, $3,000 0.00; 5, Louls, $3.00R0,25; Wisconsin snd Yinnesuta patent procens. soring whests, $0.60@ g J ulred. Gamaie weats, s:n}n!:fiififi'enow 40951c, e bhipe i ot {atadull;No. 1 and’ extra white, 366300 No. The first cffect of thia scare was to ralsa rat in the dry-goods alstrict (which it ia proper hers ta say tekes 1o that part of the city bounded by Grand, Elm, and Resdo strects und Weat Broad- way) to tho gross tanfl, which mcans the tarlil rates as they stood prior to 1875, wicn 8 20-per- cent deduction was permitted. 'This was dons s0 utiversally that merchinuts wore takeu aback. They had been paying 50, #0, or T3cents on risks adjudged to be desiroble, und now were con fronted with the alternative of nni,hx;; 70, 80, or 100 cents on the same urupun{. ut they pald it ruther than uot to lave the lusurauce, und the compaules soon regatned couruge cuough to baul in the premiums ju o wanuer unegualed since the days succeeding the Chlvago aud Bos- ton fres. This Jasted untll yesterday, when thers was 8 visiblo slvhflulfi to'tho demund tor concessiong, and to-duy the gruss turltl Is the ex- ception {nstead of the rute. 2 whiie, UQiisi0; Ko, ! W«“‘“f 0, i o mlzed, i white and No. 2 RxcEipra. dogtize, o HirTaCEo 00 bris; wheat, 23,000 bu; Suiruexts—Fiour, 70 bela; corn, 26,000 bu. KANSAS CITY, K Epecial Dispaleh (o The Tridune. - AN348 City, Mo,, Jan. 27.—0uaix~The Price .mnruwu:wnenl-lucnlnu.ln.:wob 3 ehip- o, 15,050 bu; fall No, 2, cash, 8lc: Februa- 81%c; No. I, cash, 76c; February, T8Xe; No. h caab, 7he, Corn—Recelpts, 10,700 L. K N/ Tor 8:020 ba vlow No, & caul 2 TOLENO, i 0LERO, 0., Jan, 27.~UnaN—~Wheat firmor; T White Michigan held at D53e; amber Michi- Ted'wipat, D3c asked; March beld at B0%c; No. 2 wiater, spot, held at N3c; Mebruary, 05!4c uked; 0 ' - HOW MERCHANTS WERE NUMBUGOED, iv:w:oi'[‘,‘; b‘f‘ 'd"‘“ °'¢’,‘;('§f’ o ‘:‘fi: 3;(’:;':' The prime movers in this littlo zame were the Wadoe No. ¥, 23xc, i | arest companles who control large lines of in- surance in the dry-goods district, Whea thelr customers sent orders for focreased Imnn‘zu Dernorr, Jan, 27, —P; = they returned thewn with the Informution that Orapy.-\y cady ;:‘,’;,&;‘,}z:‘,‘:‘,rr:&fi,_ they could not fill them excepting st so ad- vanced rate. The brokers caugbt the same Idea, One merchunt who on Monday got $200,000 st 45 cents, oo Saturday was glad to pay 85, An- other who had for thres years beeu fusured at 50 ¢ 10r Jannary, D% e bid; for Februar, i 2 DA ye Ddkc for e, W for April, 07%c: uuumu’u. ¢ .““: iy nru..bixn Heceipia, 34,003 buj —— 0 0O3WEGO. cents, bad bard work 10 get any policies on \u;“"‘ Jan, 27,—Gatn- Wheat steady; No. 1 | Monday lsst at 1 percent. The Liverpool, London ¥4 Duiuth spring, §1.10; No. % Milweukes, | & Globe broker was on the atreet trylng to ro- 10i Xo- 2 red Wabaah, §3.00. Cora pomiaally | lusura liuo oa 1, B. Clatln & Co.'s establlsb- i, BUe & uleda, 4de, ment at 05 cents for which they only received s S w weoks ago 75 cents, until the tirm heard of MEMPHIR, l(;eund nnd:s the l«n:' by canceling the policy Juxn, 37, ~Corrox—Qulet; rs- shipments, 2,200; stock, 76, 3 ax 500 ' oaliagve, WianeY: 32000 to provent e agitation, Storics are told and eu]xund with grest unction pow how mercbants wers bamboosled {oto payiog double rates for & few da)'llhlud 1o many :fiafllu 1t is remarked, :v-m.nt..,‘ g *\Yell, tho gumae fsn’t all opesided: we've becn Paoa PEORIA. cutting down rutes ut the bebest of tho assured 0 by o L, Jsu. 27,—Hignwixss—Ssles of | for four years; 1t i3 our turalo put’em up 3t $1.03y. sgalo ow.”? < e . WHAT THE COOL IEADS DESIRS. Civediui 0 I OLBUM: | The toolishuess of some of the compantes tn aulard while, 110 "':' ;}'“’"““‘"’“‘r allowing thelr psolcky fear to crowd them foto ) De. 4 O Crry, P, Jan. 27, ~Permovsva—~Market an oxcessive advance in rates {o the hest of the excltement, threatens to defeat s reform which Spvacd excited, for ycars baa been peeded to strengthen the Wi, St with 8 weak feeling; Orst sales st o 08i4c; advauced to BEXC, clos- 33 AL O3e bid; sblpments, . | Bre-fosurance busioess here snd clsewbere, ,,:;l_l'i:c -uqucuun-.' 511“3600?0 brldy 8Y01° | bt was demunded before theso fires might ::un;q;"t v',':;g':;‘g}:g‘;";‘— ""“‘;{"fi:: bave Leca put luto execution after the fires, if 4, Olic, Paludeiytia deltveyge: B voesti wisdom iastead of Iright bad prevalled. It was slwoply a reasonable advance, ssy of 25 per cent Fitass, TURPENTINE allaround. That would bave stood the teat of - .;:1!. Jan, 27, —Srinte Tusrksviis— | time; customers would’ bave been satlstied; comyavics would bave ucreascd thelr recelpte; and in the end mony would have pre But when the reaction how in Prnamn resches its hight, some_companics will bs vesed that they werc such fools, others that they ceased so soont the public mad at them all* and ready to encoursge every non-tarlf company in its re- bellion. The cool-headed fire-Insurance men de- slra reform, but thiey arc opposed to every tems porary expedient. GOING FOR TR JONN DULL COMPANIES, The evidenca thickens that there will bes 1ively contest in the Legisiatura over the impo- aitlon of further restraints upon English fire-in- surance companies doing business in this Stata, ‘The local companles are jealous to the last de- gree, and whea they see their business slowly but surely golng year by year off their booka'on 1o the books of English cumfnnleu, they are the mad, mndder, maddest lot of Sellowa In the buai- ness. What they would have rejoiced to sce in 1he Inte fircs would have been the English losses trebled and their own Jesscucd, but alesl for human calculation: when the big toc of au Ea- Tllahmnn fa pinched the whale foot wud ankic- oint of an Amerlcan {s squeezed unmerclfnlly, n the meantime, don't you belleve in any more insurance panics unless fires destroy property ‘worth $20,000,000 in one day, Nothing short of that will bankrupt tiro companles of recognized respectability. TAE SCOTTISN COMMERQIAT. In arecent letter to Tnie Trinune [ printed & paragraph from the Jnsurance Timen of Lhis city, relating to the Rcottish Commercial Insurance Company. ‘The Hon. John ¥, 8myth, Insurance Buperinteodent, speakiog of the Times' attack on the Bcottish Commercial, says: I have not acen the statement fn the Jnrurance Times touching the Bcottish Commercial Insurance Compsany, Nclther It or any other newspaper is. authorized to speak for this department.’’ It will thus he seen that the rumnors started vy the Times have nothing to stand upon; that Mr. Bmyth has cxpressed no misglvings sbout the Couipany. Noso. LIFE-~INSURANCE, To the Editor of The Tribune. Ci1caao, Jan. 25.—~In thelr letter of the 19th of Novembcr, 1878, which has becn publiehed as an advertisement In nearly every newspoper in the United Btates, the three chict officers of the largest life company In the world state: “in view of the pussible depreciation below the vital standard, by reason of the unusual number of retiriug membera during the last thiree years, it was Incumbent on the maonage- ment to check this decrease by such means as would be efficlent to the end sought and Jeast burdensomo to the existing policy-hollers of the Company.' Of candor and sccuracy the managers of thls Company appear to be quite destitute, but of evasion and concealment they bavo an unlimit- ed supply. Prior f0 1875 their reports {o policy-holders contained statistics showing the percentago of the atnount of actual deatn losses toilie amouut expected by the mortality tables, as follows: Ler mllil 1871, Twenty-ninth report, p. 21. 1872, ‘Thirtieth report, p. 187:8, Thirty-firat repost, p. 1874, Thirty-accond report, b, Showlog great galve from vitality. . Bince 1874 this important information has been carcfully omitted from all reports, pre- sumably because the percentage of actual lusses to expected lossos increased to a polut which would make au odious comparison with vrevious years, or with the ratios of ather com- panics. Posslbly beeause rome fnquisitive Jn- suranco Comsmlsstoner mads calculations and found the Company’s flgures Incorreet. Cer- tatnly the suppression of this Informatn was not vrompted by praiseworthy motives, But the priveipal causs of linpalred vitality has never beon acknowiedged or even alfuded to by the ofticers. “Mhe first sua plainest principlo of the busl- nes s thut insurauce should be written only upon the Jives of persous in zoud bealth, For uver thirly yeurs the officers of the Mutual Life have appropriated all the dividends to the purenase of additional Insurauces upon the lives of its members without any medical cxamiina- tlun, excopt that made at the fssue of the origlual policy, and without knowing whother the subjects of this insurance were, when the additionul insurences were granted, in good lenlth or at the point of death. "The most superficial consideration is enough to convince any person of ordinary inteliigence that of 75,000 lives of which might have been sound flve, ten, twenty, und thirty years ago, a large proportion would become in these perlods more or less impalred and uninsurable o any respectable cumpany. ‘Il amounts uf insurance {ssucd by this Cowmn- pany in vivlation of this fundamentul princlole may b Judged of by the fact thut in the lnst seven years alono [t excceded (he envrmous sum of tifty millious of dollars. As to how wuch of this $50,000,000 has since been surrendered, the reports ure sllent, and no one vutside the active mungers of the Company can know, Whilo the Mutual’s Jead fn this monstrous Blunder (undoubtedly one of th preatust ever mudu in the business) was readily followed by wost of the New York companica, it was never udopted by the old computicn of New England und New Jersey: henco the Jatter gre ot now found engazed In frantic cfforis to bring in "uu'w blood ** to restore an “impaired vital- y.! ‘I'he damaging effects of {his falso step nec- essurily ficrease with the age ol the Company und its polley-holders, und, € not abandoued before many years, ita resuit will most serfous~ Iy affect the (,‘ulmmu{. In thelr thirty-third report, page 39, the offl- cers stote: Ji a Mutual Compuny the utinost attatouble cquality of right und privilege should exist umong ita members, und every bractico {uconslatent with this stould b abun- doned.” 1t 1s the very opposito of the *utmost at- tatuable equality of privilege,” Lo write up, without aoy medical scrutiny, from six to nlnc millions \Qf insurance unnually upon the hives of old meibers, some ot whom are in guod aenlth, und sume of whom must be finpuired snd uninsurasle. ‘The Mutuul Life-Tusuranco Company proba- bly needs “uew blood.” Tt certalnly needs s refurmation iu its mansgement. ¥ SPELLING REFORMN, Au Open Petition to the Unlted Stutes Congrass, Honorable Genllemen: Permlit your humble petitloner to urge upon your attentlon the de- sirablencss of putting fu courss of early udop- tlon a sinple und practical systom of spelliug, While our langusge s conceded to bo the most expreasive und logical, as woll as simple, of any In the civillzod warld, fts ctymolozy 14 s0 utterly devold of systens that the spelling of each and every word hos to be separately learned, requiring an averago of at least five years of study to becone a passable speller, und Yery many more to master the art. Indeed, 1 question whother the chamolon pedestrian of this fast age would be ablo to get over ground enough to find on aversge of two persons per day who, even though he met numbers who had devoted themuclves to itersry pursuits for hall a century, could promptly wil uner- ringly spell every comuion word {n our langusge without consulting a dictlonary. And yet the whole ditficulty, necessitating years to acquire thut which might be learaed lu a8 many weeks, lies in the lack of the aduptiva of asinple system that would give to every consonaut and vowel a definite wnd universal oftics to perform,—s system which would spell overy word exactly as pronounced, and pro- nouites every word exactly as spelled, Fur fnstante, i beau, dough, gu, know, low, scw, toe, and all syllables und words of ke pronunciation, werg spciled with the simple cunsonant nuJ yowel, like go, the moment Lhe slmple slphabet, und the mmethod of putting the censonant and vowel suunds together to apell ons of those words, was learned, the learner would ba sble tospell all of them, But now, baving been {sstructed how to spell dough, and belug asked to spell toe, the new beginuer would be lrt to respond t-o-u-g-h, toe, which would be & fough way of speliing' toel or {f asked to spell 2o, would respoud, g-o-u-g-h go, which wight raise a loud goughphauyh ol said new beginncr's cxveuse, and tead to throw coid water 0D his ambition to learn to spell all the thousands of words in our luuguukel While adwittiog tust thers has besu some gress fu this inatt that It is lesslaborlous 0 spell labor to-day than it was to spell the Jabour of s hundred years ago; that tos fogge of then was denss coinvared to the fog of to- day; sud, also, that st the samo rate of rogress, our descendants of a hundred years ence may dispcuse with the omivuus grunt {ugh!) after so¢llivg tho, and probably with wany stlent Jetters sud double consonants, yeu why permit the occans of time aud wovey to be wasted, If by timely and judiclous actiob it s practicable to sdopt sud specdily lnaugurate » uiy‘-mu that, though w-k{u‘%‘hu; very tritling chaoges lu our present alphabet, wiil ensble suy begluuer of urdivary loteligence wha bua from the adoption of sug three years' time cach to & people already numi- bering 46,000,000 and rapidly increasiig, and ‘what measure ever engaged the attention of your honorable body approaching it in magnl- the saving, stich monstrously toriuous combinatinns of let- ters an w-e-l-gh, wa, all silent letters, double consonants, etc, would cconomize at lenst 25 per cont of all Lhe space of rrlnlml natter, papers, books, ete. i cconomize writing,—save at least one-fourth of all the tima apent by the thousands of iterary writers, vlerks, copylsts, etc., constantly em- vloved in writing, niid more or less time to the milifons besides who thus employ only s portion uf thelr tine. oroblem. tance of this matter, Connectlcut, Pennsylvania, ane \ Bumerous & try, Including thut of Chlcago, have taken d tiou of sitvplifying the spelilng of language, not from knowledgo servatierm, but from ignorance, prejudice, and learned only the simple slohabet and the method of joining the yowels to uncrringl hie hears pronounce: ayery common word Yie seen A tem ception, st least to sotne extent.) consonanta with the apel) every cammon worl and (‘Ofl'fl‘"f' pronouncs 1ed by that ays- irse he gn ex- (Proper names will of \Who can estimate the paving tiat would result aystem! Bay only ude But the above does not cover the extent of 8uch a syatem, by expunging all Nor yet Is this all. It woull How to adopt and ingugurate n systemn, is the e people_are awake to the finpor- The Btate Lerisiatures of econsits, and choul Boards throughout the con ctded action in favor of Bpeliing Retorm. Even in stow-golng old England, hundreds of School Boards and Educational Assuclations have peti- tioned thelr Government to act “{Mll HT aue the Epglist 'l‘nlgcmcmo SUNDAY TRIBUNE of Dec, 29 last contained an admirable cditorial on this subject, concludivg as follows: *Enough bas been written to show the Im- ortanee and reasonableness of apelling-reforin, The strongest opposition to it cotues, after all, or ratiunal con. the unwillivgness of ineu to exchange what they koow for whut they don’t kuow, It is the duty of lntelligent men everywhere to asslst (o the movement: and a State 80 far In ndvance in constitutional reforin as Iilinols is shouid not Iag behind fo a great educational work. The resolution of our Board of Education is timely. We hope it will recetve the attention it deserves in the Lemnstature,” Now, your petitioner humbly contends that this {s 0 national matter, and should be acted upon by the Natlonal Legistuture. Pardon the presumption (lneited by an anlent desire to see our idolized” Awerican Natlon lead in this stupendous reform, us well as In other great measures of human prowuress) of suguesting _that vour jhovorable body create u capable Comtnlysion, cmpowered to offera sultablo reward for the bLest system furnished within a brief “specified thine, all systeius sub- mitted to become the property of the American vublie, ‘The Commission to seluct the best, im- prove it it Lhef' sce_ opportunity to do o, aud send It forth with a Congressiouai recommenda- tlon of, or enactment for, it general adoption. ‘This would warrant publishers fn lssulve re- form scliogl-books uml schools fu mdopting them ; wo lead to {ta use anmong newspapers and journ and specdily and suvcess{ully ac- compllsh the work, “The reward offered would draw out the best possible systeur, nnd Con- presstonal sanction would fnuugurate it adop- ton. Your petitioner woull urge, fu behalf of at once sdupting & radlcal sud thorough system, that this spelling-reform s not well udapted to gradun! and _plecemncsl adoption, correcting one clngs of words this year sid another n few years lience, for the reason that every Jlitle change, to becutne adopted ready for the taking of an- other step, requires the lssuance of an entire new set of school-books, neluding dietionery, wlich fa n rtupendous ubdertaking, nmd were much better done at onee for all “There cau hurdly be douby thut there 18 wisdom mnl fore- slzht suflleient 1 this American Nation, repre- sented n your honorable Loy, to produce a system that will meet the requin s and stand the test of ages, und ba so casy of acquire- ment thut not only will every Amertean cltizen Dbecome a proficient speller und reader, but will Do the means of extending our laveuage ubroad untit it shall becomo the grand medlum of ine tercourse of the whole civilized world, W A3 AL Doty CURRENT GOSSIP. TAE BARBER'S LMAENT, Cunctnnats Star. “*Fair malden, wilt thou sncar my fate?" A love-afck barber cried. ++0 not" sajd she, **1cannot bo A little shavi bride," Ty lip, pomade, dotl}wound medoep, And cuttoth starp aid keens Soth precious art thou to my heart, Which hiones no othicr yueen. ++Ard rince to ba my bonnle brida Thou wilt not condeacond, I fenr my daya have run tuelF race And roached thelr lather end, +vTpus form muat crumblo In the duat, "hese lpw i death grow dumh s Thia barber's mug, ¥o fae aud suug, Suetachon pule become, THE MAN WIHO AI'OLOGIZED. Detras Fres Press, It was at the corner of Waodward avenuo and Cungress street, and the tine was 10 o'clock In thie forenoon. A citizen who stands solld at 200 pounds was walking along with bright eyo und 1he birds sloglog in his beart, when all at once he found himsclf luoking up at the cloudy heav- cus, und & voico up the strect seemed Lo say: “Did yo ace the old duffer atrike that ley spot and claw for grossi* “Fhien another volce down the street secemed to You bet 1 ald! Ie's Igin® thero vit, but he'd nll'flulnt up ! he knew how big bis feet looked ' solid citizen dId get uo, The first thing Hul City of Detrolt spread out before bt ‘The next thinge was a slim man with honescolored whiskers, wo was leaning agalnst a butldivg and lsughing us i his heart wonld break. « | ean kuock your jaw oft In three minutes!” exclaimed the citizen, us he flshed for the cod of his broken suspender, Iy stiw mun didn't deny it o hadn't time, Ho bad his hands full to attend to his laughinic, The solld man fnelly found the suspender, counted up four miseing buttons uud bis vest split up the back, and slowly went looking back uinl wondering if he could hie held for damages to the sldewnlk, He had heen in his offico about ten minutes, and bad just Anished telling his clerk thut un express-team knocked hita lown, when {n camo the sl men with Lone. colored whiskers. The solid man recoguized him and put on a frown, but the othier held out his buns! and sald: Mister, I came to beg your pardon. You fell on the walk und I lsughed ot you, but— bal ha! hut—upon my soul 1couldwt belp ft. 1t was the—ha! ha! hal—funniest sight 1 ever saw, and—oh! ho! ho! ho! hat hul—1 couldn’t han Isughlngt" 1 wanut none o' your penitence, and none o' your company " sharply mplle\l the solid man, und the other went out, Iwabout an bour the “fallen tan* hud to go over to the expreas-oflice, The man with the bone~colored whiskers was there with a package, snd ho reachied out his land und becans “ir, I usk your forviveness; I know what be- lougs to disuity snd guod manurs, but—but— halhat—=when'] saw your licels shoot out sud your shoulders—ha! hu! ha!—double up, I had to hol ha! Lot hal hia! ahebi-h-hi ™ ') lick you {f T ever get s good chance!™ remarkod the citizen, but the inun sat dowa oo & box und laughed till the t Caue, *1n the afternoon, as tho cllixen wus about' to 1ake & car bome, some one touchied bim on the elbow. 1t was tho mun with the boue<colored whiskers. Hisfaco bad u very scrivus, carucst louk, und he began: «+Citizen, 1 am positively ashamed of myself. Iam going to settlo In Derroit, aid shall sce vou often, 1 want to ask your forgivencss tor luughiog st you this moruiug.' Heseemed so serious that tho solld mon be- gan torelax his stern look, und he was sbout toextend his bad, when the other continued § i*You sce, wo arc atl—ha! hal—llablé to ac- cldent. I, myself, haveottcn—hatl ha! lal— struck au fey spot—bo! bol hat hinf ba! bal— zone down to gruss—ah! ha! hot hal ho! ha!" ‘Fhe solld cltizen withdrew Eis hund, bracea his fect, drew Lis breath, and struck to mash the other fine. His foot slipped, und next be knew he was _plowing his "bose futo the hard snow, When he got up the man with the bone-colored whiskers was Lautiug to a bitch- fng-post, und as black tn tho fuce us an old bat. The citizen should have kitled him then uud there, but he diun't, o made for s car like y beer volng over 8 brush-funce, und his effurts t0 ook funoccut aund unconcerned after hu wat duwn broke bis other suspeader dead in two, Such Is life, No mancan tell what s fey spot will brng forth. S MEPHISTO, London Toised, An Ingentous chess-plastog figure of povel coustruction fs now being esbibited in Loudon st the Royal Aquariuw under the titls of # Meoblsto, and will sbortly leave this city for Pans. Tle history of chess-autowmata is @ re- markable oune. Vou Kuewpelcn's chess-player 1nade the tour of the Courts of Europe, and its secret was twice sold to crowued heads. fue JANUARY 28, I870—-TWELVE YPAGES. ' clever concealment of a human belng fn the n- ¥ the other ninets-nine would give a geatle wrap terlor was the explanation of all its’ wondesful | o7 the counter and softly murmur * Beer.'— achievements, and the merit of its invention Norriatown Herald, 3 1ay in the devices by which the manipulation [ About this time Prisce Rismarck steps around Wd the person within while appearing tolilstailor's and remarks: Say,Echoelder, just to court Inspection. ‘The Crystal Palaceautoma- | puta murvr lining to dem goats and bants, vill ton was nn aaspiation of the same ldea. youl 1dinks ve have anoder Zocialist schutzen- * Mephiato? dq:rends upon another principiv. | fest poody sudden, maype.? e is actuated from without by & buman in- A fiaherman who fou telligence, and the problem {s 1o sscertain how mmm,f;mfln {é, ',l“:d,,‘e':,',n,t,fl,i‘fl:l.fi"e..“-'l‘-',‘": the moves upon the board become known 0 his | gyns square, give us 4 naw deal.” **1f you want Airector, nini how the counter-moves are com- | o nude'ecl,!” replied one of the partf, *you municated to thefigure. The new cheas-player, |yt catell 1t and akin ft yo\lnell.lt "’ whio had been eshibited at the inventor's house & for rutne time before hts introduction to the | When the Amerfean eftizen of elegant lelsure public, Is n Mephistopheles scated in achalr, the chalr beingfplaced at an ordioary chess-table. The pleee of furnfture un which ho sita contains a deep scat, but this, as well as the body of the ficure, may be investigated while play is golng on, nnd it In clear that there {s no persun con- cealed in elther. **Mephisto™ raises his arm, grasps the vlece with his hand, and moves it to its proper square, He moves from the board ~the pleces he captures, and mgmifles **check? by touching the opponent’s king. Rometimes ‘he oyea very quickly, sometimes takes time to dellberate,” Oceaston- alig he Jifts his face to his oponent nnd Jooks up with a smile. Theso arg lttle tricks to in- crensa the effect of his skill as a sclentiflc che: wlayver,—which fs, indeed, considerable. Ordi- narily ' the board is uncovered, but oceasionslly n newspaper {s placed over it, so that the moves could not be reflected by 8 mirror In the celling, and * Mephista " plays s move In spite of the obstruction. The mvstery of ‘' Mephlsto's” action s to be explained by the use of clever mechanism. ‘The movemenis of the arm are very free und varled; more so, for Instance, thian thosenl Mr, Maskelyne’s sutomaton whist- player. But although Mr, Babbage held it to be “possible so to talculate beforehand the changes which cvonld be ruug upon the aquares of tlie cheas-board by the pleces placed 11pen it and to construct mechanism to provide for ail, the merit s not claimed for * Mephisto ™ of befug entlrely sutomatic, The inventor says, by way of au apology for e part supplying the deficiencler ot mechanism by human intelli- gence, that life 18 too shurt ta'conatruct a cliers- playce who should be entirely sutomatic. e 1 also the fuventor of a perinutating lock, the key of which is provided with niveteen pius, each of which admits of three positions, nml it hus been calenlated that even for tbe minor Bilitugsin Sentral Parque, hestauds spell-bound New York Commerclal Advertiser. Boston Commaretal Dultetén, The stamp act—A clog dance. A" spare’? room—The bowling slley. Qarsmen should wear their halr in rowlocks. Priucess Loutse carries s little cane; so did AL 15 8 lady's Liair something to adore when It is bangedt A hen hegins to pay Interest when sho gets her coup on. A fashionable wrap—tlammering with the beer mug for more lager. now more than the trade dollar. ticket,’ because only oncin & thousand drawa, Oune of Websters definitions of * plum' fs “' & Liandsome fortune,'’—Letce the word plumber, anter to mary were ft not for the jangleof the sleigh-bells. weach down South. Chicago Commercial Adrertiser, Did you ever see 'er rub 'er nosed ‘Women in short hair are dock-tresses. An advaneed pupil—A protruding eys, A still alarm—Bursting of & whisky copper. figures a man would be cogared ten hours a day, 30 days a year, filty years of s life, to work them through, The thirty-two pleces on the sixty-four sauares of the clicss- oard with the vurying powers of sume, would rive a &t larger number of combiuatious, and, as * Mephisto' was perfected in six or seven years, Itis not sarprisiug to fearn that he fs not entlrely sutomatic, but is a medium for the ex- ercise of hmman Intelligence manifested only iu anovel and nt present an oceult Way. HO lifetimes, | oo keep [have.” Thou shalt not commit adulteration. dairy is: One ather a cheesy alr., e ———— The Death of Mr. J. Blair Scribner. TUE MAN WHO NAD DISPEPSIA. Adrian_(¥ich.) Timer, There came to the dinner-table st the Law- rence Ilouse, the other day, two straugers, oue a lean nid hungry-looking custamer, the other & decent-appearing young fellow, As they reached the table-the otder roan clutched fran- tically at the bill of fare, uud remarked as fol- lows: “Let's sec what they got. You know T ean’t eat anything, Been ncarly dead for ten weeks with the dyspepsfa. Anl ‘oyster-soup’—gucss thut won't hurt me” 'To walter; *Bring me rome oyrter-soup; ond, let’s see, bolled white- tiahi 5 ves, 1’1 have some o that,'” nnd fish were rapldly eaten, . ¢ what else they've oty vou know [ ean'c eat everythiug, itoast turkey,'— that ought not to hiirt me. Pl bave some o? thut. *Ronst beef,'—ves, Pl have some o that, iChicken pot-pley—yes, that's caslly digested, 'l lave rome, Let's sce, Iecan'teat every- thing, P'lE tuken bit of the bulled ham, some macaronl, aud—ah | some chicken-ivers und vew- etables.” The walter had been taking the order, and the nun with the weak stomach reactied th way for crackers, thut way for butter, here took n plece of bread, there & plekle and a stalk of cele nnd, frequently remarking that he conldn't ent everyibing, staved his stomsch untft his dinner was brought. He looked it over, sent the waiter back for sote roast yeap wind another onfon, remarking that Lis stom- ach was weak, he had been suffering terribly from dvspepsin, nud couldn’t cat everything, but ot lust ot to work nid cleared the alshes, “Ihe matter of dessert troubled him some be- couse bis storuach was so weak, but lie finally ordered mines pie, plum puddine, und fee-creau, with a cup of eoffee, ‘Fhey were Lrought und devoured, wnd then he culled the waiter nil made her u contidential communication to the effect that he had been slek with avspepsia, 1hut his stomach was weak, he couldn't eat n'nl;(y'lhmu, and would sha being him a bowl of wi! ‘Fhe milk was brought, he crumbled somo bread 1herefn, and 18 his younger companion tiad departel), the man with the weak stomuch renarked to the gentleman ocross the tavle from hbim that it wus durs rough to have to come down to bread,winl milk, but he had been ek, he couldn't cat everyehing, und he had to be careful, Aud pow the latidlord Is anxfous for that man ta come around when he fs well. o needu’t comu but onee. ness, und taking a position which migut bo of a long tife, fortuvute of men, prosperous fu his affairs, lmplyy i his hume, a faverite with all h quaintances, the associate of urtists, poetd scholars, und il the world predicted for slon fn the best drceles of Ainerlean society and brings sorruw o so wany beart e —. A Hroken Promisr, San Francieen Newslatier, lumented Mr. Hayes, of Washington. fare Minlster to England, il he should ed. We were thut polite young msn and, the Bulgarians, still we desire to publlely state that Rutherford's promises ure ot worth a car- tleket. ——e—— Like Bon Like Father. Worcester (Miss.) Sou. A young man tn Hoston recently received a bequvst of $25,000. He had been poor, and the head. less dissipation, in sp ¢ uf the cffori remainder might bo given Lim for safe-keeping, father put $10, started out to spend the other 850 in a frolic, That nieht he slept on a bench in a barroom, was gone. Divorce Story. Repuslican. A Mnasiachuset Suringfield (Muas, ‘The lawycrs frequently dlvoree who give singular grouads for their ve- TWO INCIDENTS, St, Louts Kevublican, Not long ago ene of the belles of society ne- cepted the watrhnonial proposition of a worthy young gentleman, sud was asked by him to name the happy day. 8he consulted her parents —who had previously gluen thelr consent to the mateh—and a family councll was beld, The de- clslon reached was curious, us well as character- tatle of our country and age. The father und tnother sgreed thut the soclal position of thelr daughter required a gramd wedding, The father, however, annoutced that wisfortunes inbusiness hud brought him to the verge of bankruptey; that bie was, In fuct, prepartog Lo make an ga- slznment tor the benefit of nls creditors. To thia the mother replled thut, the erand wedding betug of primary lwportance, it inust, of cutirse, Lake precedence of the nssfznment, for pecuni- ary rensons_vasily - understood. And it was so ordered, 'The murriage oceurred amid s blaze af wiory, duly chronlcled In the newspaperd, und o few days afterwards Mr, Sinith's” paper went to protest, uud bis creditors Lok posses- sfon of Nils lmited asscta, Not longegua fund husband informed his Toving wile that his inunciul s Mairs were in that conditton whicls_indicates & specdy and divas: trous collapse. ‘The wife sald Netlé, but shought much, The result of her meditution was the next day she went down-town uid boueht a seal- skin sucque and a set of diamonds, Bhe told a temule nelehivor, who kuew of umlmpendhni calamity, thiat 1he saequeund diamouas * would fast her a lifetime; thut, i sho did not get them now, sha never would, und so she got them.” Tl collapse came o due thie, und it (s hardly necessury 1o pemark that the furrler und jew- cler are whistllng for their money, A promiuent Boston inerchant—an ex-Gov- ernor of Mussachuseits—| hunginz fu his vauptlog-room a I»hmozn ¢ purtralt under which I8 wrltten * An Honest Man.” “Yhe hon- et ingt thus hunored hud slmply putd bisdebts in fully after having been compelicd to votpro- milse thew st & husty discount. thu ex-Gor- ernor ingtsted that the hero of such 8 reinark- able decd should bhave hls picture taken. Ho taken it wos, ninl there B lungs,—-a sad coms mentary upou the rarity of thatold-time virtue: HoxgsTY. when a young woman of fleld ssked fora divorve irom ber newly-made husband because e hina vory tulek lips,” ‘he lawyer told Ler sho sugaosted thut usually the wife kuew what kind parties fn guestion are well known in town, and rated the day afier the coremouy. church and never a liquor drinker, so0p after the separation, and i discust bas left town, where ho had lived since o boy. TPELLOWS NIYPOPIOSPIITES, Asthmatic Bronehitis of Nine Years’ Standing Cured by tho Syrup. T, 01N, . B, Aug. 11, 1863, MUt JAMES T. FELLOWS: DEEAIERIE: T conatter 1t oy duty | thenedt | have recelved mpound byrup of Hypupliosvhit, (e Inat ulnie years 8 great sulorer Asthma, atthnceo NIl 1at fur Weeks | conld noftlicr i down or taka wny nuuftabment of consequenee, B duritg the e sulterig (ntensely, | hay Uilfereud times, the sdyive of tweuty-teo phiylcivus, The Ieast exposure a efthier damp or draft, was sure 1o Feauit i u sovers atiauk of iy disearc, FInding wo selle? frou all The medicines 1 fiad taked, [ concluded 1o iry your Cutspound o of Mypoplivsphiltos, sad j1a¥8 riat rewun 10 thank Gud for the feanlt, | liave, i 9, taken Ewelvo hotties, and fow | fuc ‘as strong well asever | felt ta n ife, il for ihe fast ysar have ot liad one wouents stk ieas, aud Beltier doea duniuess or draft have the Jrast efect upoi e, Wers Tiowrite on 1he subject for huurs, | couid ROL say enungli in pralw of your tsvalushls Compound Byrup of Ty poutivsplilicn ur”yhva W adequuie’ tea of my » ‘st llberty to make what use you pi ¥4 lcuso of Ahils letier, bresuse § hope te publiclty sy be the bicaus of Ienettiug other duiTerers s kiuck el Liss me, | retialu youl 't ful o pesali yours bt VELL, Esmoutnat ind mddreas, J. Ldulin, No By lt W yellow Wrupper | wiich sevn by olutog thu paper Licfure tis I'rive £1.50 por bottles 3ls for $7.064 bokl by sl Drugitsts. ra Ageuta, J. A & Clucinoatl, 0. S QuUIPH, . Hulf & loaf {s better than @ Joat all the thme, Every tramp fs In favor of the ate-hour law, "Tis scver thus—sald Alexander whien ho cut the Gordiun kuot, Venlee I overrun with blind wmen, altlourh shu {8 mistress of the sca, Did you ever hear @ hogehead speak? If so, ‘what was It the hogshead The only people who realy enjoy bad bealih are the docturs. Sald a phltosopher: * [ don't like 8 man who s intimate on short acquuiutaoce, because he is almust sure 10 be ‘short! on lutiwate ucyuatuts uuee.? % Qur enormous consumption of timber” s a themo which sl young men, who chew tooth- pivks on botel veraudus, stu requested to cons Louk out for the nam stcriark, Haus, wider, W hear of l;mumr_v M:hoolfmlnlrnn-’ who :n- Vi . coursues scholars tu ruuning aatches. b the youuy {dea, i othier words, buw to BRAZIL & ONI0AGO O0AL 00, 3. G, NULOCK ..o and Clteags Maeger iuccoseor W WALDLON, NIBLOCK & CO.) Yesterday s policeman arrested o boy who had an onfun tied (o the corner of bis bandker- chis The charge agsiust hlm was curryiug coucealed weepiug. ‘When fust young men o Reno, Nev., get futo a dispute, tuitcad of resurtivg 10 Lluws they co 1uto the uearest saloon wnd sbuke thu dice to sce which 16 the iggeat liar, An Irish gentleman hwhfi( gurcbnul asu alarm clock, st acausiutanca wxked bl what Ls jutended todo with it. *Ocu!” snawered e, $vgure P've notbiug to do but pull the atrivg and wake mysell.? Main Ofllce, 103 Washington-st, X Y o ual fur y STal 8, v w1t & DAt checrrul biase. ke bickory Woud: Lakini & very NGk Gre.. FOF confory and economy It Buriuies uy ouber sult (ual 13 th biurect e, o 1, J5 deaters sud larke consumers. T PROPOSALS. ) b1 Lo usas Clty & Nortu- AT ifes, ot b g Ny [t ‘w“:.". Blo Lodis Jaa: } Eatad braparais will W received ut og utice ot o - RS MIUOIRE Enxinvr, bt Louls up to ¥eo. 1, You can get an sutograph letter of Dublel | it T‘:"?'r'?' Aol nasonry. Bridgtas, aud trett Webster for eigbty cenis, You cau get | Limgorstziy mis) T O sixteen glasses ot boer (or the suwe money. U 1. . iway Bles, 8 piociGeations tu be socy bl iby olics. D. cuurse we'd chovse the su.ozraphi; but wa fear LiVm. o : dt., icndent sirveys the magificent equipage of Kurnel Gesh with addmiration, aud remarques to hiz kom- panfon, **Wot a mitev «thiug 18 leters,V— -It 48 the teade dolor that we want to get rid of A new brand of cizars Is called *The lottery The jlogle of the sleigh-bells would be pleas- 18 it not time to hear that thecald hes fnjored the peach trees! They have this kind of freeze number of permutations resulting from thess Many sson of, toll fs worth many & ton of i, 7 L4 Rong of the ready revolver—*A charge to A new commandment ts Imperatively needed: The difference between our sanctum and a bas . sn easy chsir und the The New York Tribune says the rony of fate has seldom been more atrikingly fllustrated than in the sudiden desth of Mr. J. Blair Berib- ner. At 8o uge when maoy young men arc just casting ahout for u start iu lfe he found himeetl at the hoad of oue of the richest aud most dis- tingulsbed publisbing houses in the United States, managing 8o extensivoe and varied busi- thougiit ample reward for the intelligeut labor He seemed to be one of the nost n & still brigliter future, It rarely appens that the death of a young man wukes so deep on tinpres- ‘The newspapers are hunding round an item regrarding 1he extraordiuary power of inenory pussessed by the Jate lamented poet lryant, and eay It fa only cqualed by that of the present Wonder A€ the latter remembers his getting on bourd & streetecar in Clnelnoatl without his pocket-book, about a week miter his nomination, and promis- Ini to make the polite young man who lhll his elect- while we would not give up our connection with this_chaste family journsl to become King of suuden scquisitlon of wealth rather turned his He began 1o speud the mmm{ 1 reck- s of his father to reatrain hiny, nnd kept on until only £11,000 was left, ‘The father begged that tius and the son, belng then U1 from loog drunken- ness, and very &eunucnt. readily complied. The iutu a pocket in his shirt, and uned [n the morning cvery cent of the money Lnve spulicants for titlon, but the most sfngular ono came last week could hardly get a divoree ou thut ground, uud of 1ips her husbund lud belore warrlage. The were married only a week or two azo, but sepa- e husband fs not over 23, and, though a ‘member of the ot drunk 11 T IASLREAR SIRA ARLE: ARRIVAL ARD DEPARTURE OF TRAINS, EXPraxation oF NerxRENcz diwxs.—t ,lnnrdz ;xna.r‘ ;cd *sunday excepted. $Monday exceptes OHIOAG) & FORTHWESTERN RAILWAY, Ticket Offices, 62 Ciark-st. (Sherman House) snd st the dapota. Leays, | Arnyve. aPacifie Fast Tin ame¢3:40nm ationx Ciiy & Y am ¢ 840 poe AM* 3140 am pmt Tl am pmiToam pmi 7:00 am am$ 3:0 pm pm* 3:30 am am{ 4:00 pm Ami, 400 pm am*7:y pm iiwauke ni Pm *10:2 am BMIiwankes Passenger (da iy pmposam biveen liay gxbrent. ., am?a:30 pm 25¢. Paul & dtnneapoiin ‘Eip Am* $:00 pm bR 1 & Minneapolls Fxor pm{ 7:00am 18 Crame Express. am S 4mom ln A pm ) am BS¥inons & Rew trlm. am put sivinona & New Ui pm am bMarquetta £ pm m at.aké Geneva pm m bFond du Lac, pm Pullman_Tinte] Cars sre run throngh, between Ui eRE Council Diuffs, on the trafn” leaviag Chicage m. No other road runs Pnillman or sny other form of Bote) cars west of Chicas ‘a—Depot corner of Wellnand Kinzle-sta, b-Tlepat corner of Canal inzie-sta. OHI BURLINGTON & QUINOY BAILBO. Depote foot of Lake-st., Indtana-ay, anit Blxteenth-at., and Canal and Kixtesotu-sis, Ticket Difices, 50 Clark: st. and at lepats, ; Arrive, s E [REC) 125 & m| Mendots & Oalesborg Express 1o & Frscpors Fabress, onn & STUbY ¢ 1ty K Epress ) 0 ] ] ] 3 0 Eiprem, Vullman, Faisco Diuing-Cars aud Pullman 16 wheel o S1ceping:Cars are run between Chicago and Om the Paclfic Exrest. OHIOAGD, ALTON & ET. LOUTE, AND CFIOA KANBAS OITY & DENVER BHORT LINER, Unfon Deput, West Bide, near Madison. bridge, and TP venty Shiraar, 1 icket G, 152 Habdalphi-it._ Ranuas Clty & Denver Fast F: 3 ingtield & Te: Bt 1 Mobile & New Uricana Express . St Loula, 8priogteld & Texan. “eotis. Brliogion | Ease Exor & Keoknk Express Chicago & Padacah I, 1, Ex. ttreatar, Lacon, \Washingt'n kX, Joltet & Delghy Accommedation sz gEEgsEang soosuRuYY EEEEES | | CHIOAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RAILWAY Unlon Deoot. corner Madison and Canal-sts. Ticket Oton, &3 Houth Clark-at., 0pposics Bherinaa House, | Teave, | Arrive, Milwankee REprott.,...ovesse Wisconsts & Minnesota, Gre Hiay, and Menasha through Day 1 £ 10:08m ¢ :0pm *ampmensam Hapies.. n‘mf’m, Trairie” "di G Milwankee F's; i wupm U P Wiscousio & Minnraota, - Green, ) Bay, Btevens Puini nd Asl i 1and through N p0pm: T008Mm “Alltrstns ron vis Milwankee, Tiekes for Bt Paul and Minneapolisare zood elther via Madison Wd Pralrie du Cllen, or vis Waterrown LaCrose, and Winoua. JLLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, Depot, fout of Lake-st. wnd fout uf Twent vesecond “Tikes Ofice, 121 Randulpti-st., pear Clark ve, Eprinatiold 3 springae t EXpress. Fusow. Durilugton & Keoku Peoria, Burlington & Keol Dubunue & Sloux CIty [ixprest Dubuiue & slqus CINy Express . Gliman EEECECEECEEIN a0n DIgNT rune to tent b0n Saturday night runy to I'eoria ouly. MICHIGAN CESTRAL RATLEOAD. Depot, oot of Lukesat. anid fout of Twenty-second-st, Tloket Ofce, (17 LIeric-al. epuiheddc cornnr of Luns duiph, Graud Pacine foted, and at 1 pin 1 Ridd pn | *0i00 B 20143 8 0 PITTSBURG, PT. WATNE & CHICAGO RAILWAY, Depot, cornar Uanal and laulwn-gts, Ticker Otlicey, 63 Clark-at., Palmer Hoise, und drand 1 Thutet, == 1 Leave, 1 Arrive. nm* Ti00p PALTIMORE & OHIO, 3 hllhllllr. faot of Monroas »t, Tlcket Offices o 1 i inior 1tousc, Uraud Pacife, and Depot (Exposition Dutiding), ArTive. Morntng Expraw. Fast Liue.... 23 40 m Yornlng Matl-01d Line w York & floston B U0 810, Ti40) b Atianiic Expreas (daily). 18 pmi 8w am Nignt lLxpress.. 110:20pul § 140 & CINCINNATI & ST, LOUIS B, I 4 Rokomo Linc.) Waat Blde, PITTSBURG, (Cincinnat] Atr-Lino an Tiepot, coruvr of Cliuton and Cesrol ouls- 11, Indianapoify, Le Clneinostl, In DO iul fred vitie, Culumnus & EANKAEEE LINE, Depot, foot of Luke »t. and 1 Twenty.socond-st, Arrive, Cinefnpstt, Indlsnapotls & Loul Ville Day Exprest.. ** Mlgat Lxpret o:nam's 8:00pm nin g 7o am CRICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIQ RATLROAD, cput, €0 ¢ Van Duren and Sherman-sta, Tiekst e, o 08 i n s, — port Express. . J.earvenwori ‘scottuodstion, . CHIOAGO & EAB?:E‘!BH ket OfMces, 77 Clark: ek O arar "t Tnave, |_AtAve, vam e drpn 713 EDUCATIONALL ENNNYLVANIA M ACALENY, CHESTER, PA. Sesslon opens Jan, . Thurongli Instruction in Clvil Fngineeriog, the Classics and Lot Fur clrculirs suply to oL, 1y 3 ‘T DEA Sehool fur articulation s 1u_connection Wit pesslon daily —CIIOOL, 08t Mng third yearot At sud Hp-resding 18 now 1o 4 & Kindergart fromwtal, V FAlRGANICE' BIARDAND. SCALES QF ALL KINDS, ) FAIRCANKD, MORSE & GO, 111 & 113 Lake St., Chicago, Bocarefultabuyouly the Genulas, P TPRE EAGLE LIQUOIL CO., holesale Liquors, 1530 Clarkestn Chicngo, 1l d Liguors fu any quantity. lllqll 82 .143'1:,!"0 3 per gallon. L mINCELLA, Use ¥ Y DR.KEAN, 173 South Clark.st., Chioago. (cosult personally or by mall, {ree of charzs. oo all Chronte, Teevoui p s peetal dlscarey. Liredokeah e the wuly yl WhoWaITHUl CUPes U EO B Contdaniial. Yontiss g b - Guide 1o Weal b [imaiion o gpecia e PRESCRIPTION FREERE. L ¢ of Beminal Weak: Loat aorne AL Giiordrs roukic o by tadlscres Fa O Eatens * Ay drugeist bas the Insredieutis JAQUED & €O 139 West alxilas, Clucisgal, Vb,