Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1879, Page 4

4 TH 3 CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 9. i879—SIXTEEN PAGES. ) Tlye Tribnwe TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE: Diafly Edttion. ore year.. Purts or a sear, per moni :naay Editon: Literary and ect T WEEKLY Qne copy. per Specimen coples sent free. Give Post-Otlice sddress fu full, includipg State and County. Jtemittances may bemade elther by draft. expres, Post-Utlice order, or in registered letier. at our risk. TERYS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Dufly, delivered, Sunday excepted. 25 cents per week. Datly, deliveree. Sunday included, 0 cents ver week. Addren THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-fis.. Chicazo, Til. Orders for the delivery of T TeISUNE at Evauston, Englewood, apd Hyde Parx teft [n the counting-room will recelve Lrombt stention. @ TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. T CRICAGO TRIRTXE has established branch offices Forthe recelpt of subscriptions and advertisements s foliows: B.Manrre, Agent. LONDOX, Eng.—Americsn Exchange, 449 Strand. Brszr F, GLio, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.—Palace Totel. D. COVENANT LODGE. X0. 523 A. F. & A. M.—fpe- cial Comununication will be held Friday cvening, Feb. 34, ot Corinthilan lall. No. 187 st Kinzie-st.. st 7:20 o'clock, for mburtant work. The melbers are 2l l’tql;l:fil!“flil:u bz mfi;cm_ M!Ul}%m&h&? are also Coniiaily and frateruatly wmvted. of i YIS WASDLIN, Wl L WILLIAM KELR, Secretary. XCELSIOR (GXTFORMED) cet in Lxcelsior Jiai it Second, and Thing De- itime 1%striarchs fovited. wilng B Washington sud Clark-sie. 1. 10 full wulform. The ¥i e will be conierres.” ¥ er D keINERS, Seeretary, DGE, NO. 293, A. F. & A, M. -Regular CoumuttcaTon Sondiy evemth ot Tasi. 8t Fi3 &t Freemasous' Hall, 6 Mouroe-st, Addecss on the gardyunt priuciyles of s Orict by Bt T- axin . on Iy Vst oraitieu are cordidlly fuvi C. W. O'DUNNELL, Secretary. SHICAGD COUNG S o wilt Posa FEGAIAF Comvetion on | BUFSASY even: fiGext. for bvaiucas. iy onder of ED GOODALE, Grand Stcresary. 1. 0. O, F.—Members of tite Order will ind the Tilus- oo 2 iiHiehed af 256, - very usciul in the at- e e ottt Lodve dnd Eacampuicnt v iy W ur agdress rotlier. Work. RND FRANRLIN, Jui South Clinton-st. GO CIAPTER No. t 1. A. M.—Speclal R S atos ane coratgiy vited." Iy urder Gt the M. E. P EL] SMITIL, Secretary. LA FATETTE CRAPTER NO. 2. K. A. M.—Stated vacati nday evening, at 7% v'clock, ‘st llall, T orove tar varneas: "A Tull 84 DrOTDL AL o1 A i seadeee requesied. i o SurrERworTH, 1. . CORINTIIAN CIIAPTER, No. 60, R A, M.—Tieg: wlar Contocation Monday vepiuz, Feb. 10. at 7% ook Workn telt & Dexree “Visitiar con- siicd By i ks M) S kenn, mp. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1879. The smended Army bl succseded in passing the’ House yesterdny. To it was tacked a provision regulating the tolls to be charged by telegraph lines owned by land- grant railrond companies. The Teorganiza- tion scheme projected Ly the BunNsIDE Commission was also zdopted. The House declined to entertain the proposition to trensfer the Indian Bureau frow the Interior to the War Department. The latest instance of *‘ another good man gone wroug " is one J. Wazp, of Kalamazoo. He employed two burglars to rob his wife. To enable them to dc so he left the front door unlocked. Mrs. Wanp declived to be pecificd by the death-dealing revolver, and. seizing an ax, leit her mavk on the shoulder of one of tho marguders, who was subse- quently arrested. The other escaped, and tho husband bas not since been seen. An empty pocket-book is all thatthe missing twain secared. At s coucus of the Democratic members of Congress, ield last evening, it was agreed to report a bill repesling the jurors' test oath and abolishing Federal interference in Con- gressional elections. The bill will be at- tached to the Sundry Civil Service appropria- tion in the shape of an sm>ndment, and its passage will be'insisted on even at the risk of au extra sessiod.’ It would be in better taste and more honorable for the Bourbons to call the bill * Anact to promote fraud at Congressional elections.” Financial questions seeta to no Jonger in- terest Congress, and probably this is the in- difference for whick the country has so long waited. A bill for the exchsnge of silver and gold coin for legal-tenders at the mints and he New York Sub-Treasury was yesterday tabled by a considerstle majority. I: was ed by the friends of the measure that it would make the silver dollars in circulation egual to greenbacks and gold coin. The gold Lugs opposed it because it would prevent discrimination against silver, and the silver men did likewise for the remson ihat it would restrict the general circulation of the white metal by inviting it intc the Treasury. The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of Mormon polygamy does not scem to bave suy weight with the disciples and fcllowers of the late Bricmax Yorse. They go on marrying sand giving in marriage the same as ever. The Mormon news- papers denounce tls Supreme Court, and insist that its judgment was rendered under the influence of. popular pressure. At a meeting of the Anti-Polygamy Society of Salt Lake, held yesterdsy, a memorial was adopted asking Congress to amend the act of 1562, 50 that the general reputation of the conjugal relation may be regerded as proof of marriage, and the pelygamus cobabitation the offense. Sowe such provisionis urgently needed to enabla the officers of the Govern- ment to enforce the law. Mr. TizpEN has been on the stond. He wanted to go there, and solicited the some- what questionable privilege of personally appesring before the Porrer Committee. He had taken a cold, and was hoarse,—so hoarse, in fact, that it was hard for him to tell the truth. His testimony, however, may be regarded as a model for a good, first-cless, thorongh-going demial. What Trnoexy dido't deny yesterdsy wasn't worth denying. He denied even Per- oN, for he said: *Col. PerToN’s habits of mind and mine are very different.” This is hard on Perrox, who has evidently striven with all his might to imitate his uncle in‘ all things. He denied Saurm, his private secretary, so far as Syrte was engaged in the cipher business. He denied MarnLE so far as that master of Elizabethan English daserted it for cipher vernacular. He denied ‘WEED, and said he never had liked him very much any way. He denied everybody and everything, and would probubly have gone as far as the misguided but subsequently Tepentant PeTer did before the cock crowed, 3f there had been sny oceasion for a similar proceeding. The direct inference from Mr. TiLpEs's sweeping denials is that this quiet and gentle victim of frand was reposing in 8o easy-chair at No, 15 Gramercy Park in uiter and penceful iguorance that there had been o Presidential election, in perfect in- difference to the existence of such churacter- istically-Southern institutions as Retnrning Boards, and in Lethean oblivion as to the possibility of transmitting messages in ci- pher, or even the application of electricity to the art of telegraphing. All TrpeN knows about it is that 4,000,000 citizens were defranded while he was in this quiescent con- dition! One of the Cpok County members—B. F. Wrnze (Dem.)—has introduced a bill in the House which provides for the election of the fifteen Commiissioners of Cook County next fall, eight of whom sball hold office two years, and seven for one year, and eight and seven to be elected alternately thereafter. The territory outside of Chicago is divided into five separate districts. The bill requires each of the Commissionera to give bonds for §10,000 for the honest and faithful discharge of his duties, and that he will not accopt any bribes, and fizxes the compensation at 31,500 per annum. Mr. Wezer has perhaps cut out 5 Jittle district for himself, with a $1,500 salary, apd, not baving confidence in the strength of his lioesty, wants to be put nn- der Loadz against receiving bribes or levying , blackmail. The bond provision is humbug, aud not worth the paper it i¢ written on. Comumiissioners will not be prevented from making contractors whack up with them by -any such-silly device. If any chauge be 1made in the existing trrangement for the elec- tion of Commissiouers, the best one is that proposed two years to mako the term two years, oud elect eight members st the next county clection on a general ticket, five from the city and three from the country towns, and the next year seven on a general ticket, five from the city aud two from the conntry towns, and so on alternately, The whole county should vote together, or clse the city shou!d bo cut up into districts as well as the country part of the county. Bat the general ticket 1s the best. Four or five thousand citizens do business in the city, but sleep outsido of the city limits, where they keep their families. Their inferest will be Dbetter represented by voling for a general ticket ench year than for n single Commis- sioncronce in three years. The honest voters who live in the city want the assistance of the voters in the country towns to help them elect Commissioners who will represent the taspayers rather than the rings and robbers. If the Commissioners were elected on a gen- eral ticket the bummers would be Inid out at every clection, aud honest rule established in the Ceunty of Cook. CEICAGO AND THE CANAL, A writer from Morris, Iil., in Tae Tars- UNE yesterday, complaining for the people of Lockport, Jolief, Morris, and places further down tha line of the canel, pro- tests agoaiust the use of the canal for car- rying off the bad-smelling waters of the Chicago River. He represents the sufferings of those neighborhoods as intolerable, and in- timates that, in self-defense, n mob may Iynch the canal by choking it with bowlders and other obstructions. We published the letter because it expressed fully the extrava- gance, foolishness, and inconsiderateness of the complaint generally. In the first place. the complaint is vastly exaggerated. When the winter is severe, ns it bos been this year, the canal is frozen in places a considersbls ‘part of its whole depth, leaving but & small and contracted outlet for the water. This year the water, from the time it left Chicago until it reached the Lockport dam, passed tnder the ice, and therefore was not purified by exposure to the nir during its journey, and when it escaped from its icy cover the foul pgases eseaped at the sime time. This condition cf things does not oc. cur in open winters, nor is it gonerally of long duration. * S0 soon as the ice is removed and the volumo of water ealarged and exposed- to the air, the unsavory odors lose their in- tensily. Here in Chicago, whero this foul water originates, it ceases to ba offensive, or even noticed, so long as the canal is open and the wator allowed to flow freely away. This is the case during the greater part of the year, and the peculiar aunoyance of this winter isdue to the aimost unexampled se. verity of the senson. ) It is a necessity that the conal must be supplied with water from the luke. The State began the construction of the canal nesrly half a century sgo. It under- took to excavate, Dot & * ship” canal, as our correspondent absurdly imagines, through which sailing vessels from the jakes were to mavigate; bus tho purpose wrs to connect-the steamboat navi- gation of the Western rivers with that of the lakes. The originel design was to secure by the deep-cut n depth of water sufficient to float the Mississippi and Ohio River steam- ers to the lakes.. Lake ships require a depth of water wholly impossible in the capal. It the State could now widen the canal to 120 feot, and s0 deepen it 85 to give stenmers sufficient water,—sny six or seven feet,—the originsl purpose would be fully accomplish- ed, and there would never be a lack of water in the cnnal or river ot any seascn of naviga- tlon. The canal, however, was constructed on the narrow and shallow cut, the lake water having 1o be pumped into it. Chicago sdvanced the money and cut the canal five or six feet deeper than the surface of the lake, dispensing with the pmnps, and the State sccepted the work and pnid for it. To render it complete: the canal should be widened to about 120 feet at tho surface, and mado about seven feet deep in the clear. The flow of water would then be almost as pura as if there were no Chieago at this end of the ditch. If the State intends to main- toin the canal at all, it shonld scoop out the bed to n proper width. Rut the real remedy is for the public opinion of Iilinois to de- mand of its Representatives in Congress an united snd persevering effort to have this canal accepted by the Government free of cost from the State, and bave it completed for steamboat navigation as a free, national kighway, connecting the Missisgppt with the lakes. It was never intended that the canal should be a mere prison for little horse-boats, The whole schgme contem- plated a brosd steamboat water-way, through which the water of Lake Michigan should flow freely, continuously, aid sufficiently to furnish both canal and river- with unbroken navigation throughout the Season. Our correspondent writes seemingly in sympathy with that feeling—so common in certain parts of the Stat¢—of doing znything to aanoy Chicsgo. He, seems to think that it would injure Chicago to closeup the cansl, snd therefore ho thinks the .csal should be closed. .. /Fha canal is tire common property of the'State, snd the fact that it is not as wide, not‘a§ deep, snd does not carry off as much water as it might and ought to do, is not the fault of Chicago. Any scheme to improve and enlarge the canal, and to furnish #'full stream of pure water through bearty, united, and liberal support from Chicago. This city will pay s full shere of any cost that may be necessary for that or any other object of State expenditore. But when it is proposed to maliciously close the canal becauso it is of somo benefit and con- venience to Chicago, then the half million of people in this city will bave something to say on the subject. THE END OF A FRAUD. One wholesoms result of the BLopGETT investigation will be the breaking up in this community of that profession known as ¢ friends of the Court.” That investigntion has shown that such a profession is a fraud, an outrage upon the Judiciary, a rank * con- fidence " business, and as immoral as it is disgraceful. There have been great efforts made by the Legislature and by society gen- erally to degrado and punish every lawyer who engages in the reprehensible business of procuring divorces without publicity, and even without proof or residence of eitler party. Thatis considered to bo not orly so low n business ay to justify the Conrts dis- barring those engaged in it, but especially disgraceful because chenp sud nasty. The practice of pretending to exercise “infin- ence ” with the Conrt, and of taking fees on the score of being an “intimate friend” of the Judge, is not only zs disreputable and as dishonest ns that of the divorce-shysters, but infinitely mora detoralizing. 1t may be nssumed that, in ninety-nine cases out, of a hundrod, moncy taken 83 & fee.because of supposed influential intimacy with's Judge is rank robbery,—s coufidence game that should entitle the recipicnt to so- cial and legal degradation, As o rule, such intimacy or influence with the Judge never exists. The men who pockets the money never approaches the Court in the way ex- pected, and dure not do so; but he takes the money all the same, and swindles the anxions victim. That such a practice exists cannot be doubted; that moncy, and in largo sums, hasbeen puid for such supposed back-stairs service, 1s no secret; and we will not do a Judge of nny court in this city the injustice of assuming that such service has availed a litigant, or that a Judge was sware that any attorney was practicing on a supposed per- sonal influence with him. ‘The fact that such men exist tends more than aught else to creato an impression many minds that money is potential in con- trolling judicial results, and thersby propu- gates the idea that he who can pay the most can gain the most in court, All thisis s most positive injury to the courts, and" operates as an unjust and undeserved re- proach to the Judiciary. It is a common thing in Municipal Governments for legisla- tive brokers to furnish lists of members whose votes can be secured for or against a measure. It often happens that names aro mcluded of members wholly unconscious that their votes &re sold, and who would resent such an act in the most de- cided manner if they wore mware of it. These professionals who take mouey for sup- posed private influencewith Judgesare guilty of greater scoundrelism than those who sell lists of votes in City Councils. Their baseness is doubly infamonus, becanse, in ad- dition to its own infamy, it is a shameless libel on the Court, The recent investigation should have the effect of breaking up this business. No man can have read the procecdings without being satisfied that to pay money for private infiu- ence with a Court is to submit to shameless, disgraceful robbery; and that the nttorney who will hold out the pretense that he can 8id a suitor by private influence with the Judge is a scoundrel who will sell to both sides, and is in all reasonsble probability an arrant impostor. Hereafter the man who pays money for such service must do so with the full knowledge that be is a fool, victim- ized by 8 cheat. A REMINISCENCE OF ‘' HOME INSURANCE.” There aro probably still a good many peo- plein Chicago who remember that smong the ante-fire local institutions in which loyal Clicagosus wers expected to tske a large amount of pride, as well as most of the poli- cies, were the home insurance compenies. These nuwerous and pratentious local insti- tutions disappeared suddenly some time during the pight of Oct. 9, 1871, and the most vigorous search subsequently failed to discover so much as the ashes in some cases; in others, proceedings in the State GCourts and the Bankrupt Court occasionally raked up diyesta membra of certmn home companies; but generally the cost of the legal search was greater than the value of these scattered remunnts when found. As a rule, the people who had msured their property in these locnl companies found it mora profita- ble to go around borrowing money where- with to rebuild than to spend either time or monay in the forlorn effort to collect an infinitesimal percentage of Josses on their in- surance ; and the wisest among burnt-out Chi- cagoans praferrod to fila away the old policies asfire-mementoesand useful warnings agsinst the indulgence of local pride. It has always beeu more or less of & mystery to the unin- itinted how it was that these companies, and their securities, and the individual liability of stockholders, could have been so compldtely obliterated ; and the BLonoxTT juvestigation, if 1t had accomplished nothing else, has been of some service in lifting the veil from this profound and impenetrable problem, The Garden City Insurance Company was one of these local institutions which were so dear always, and ultimately so costly, to the loyal Chicagoan. The mystery in the ease of this particular Company was deepened by the complication of & re-insurance in some other local company. Nevertheless, some of the more inquisitive of the policy-holders dis- covered that it had liabilities amounting to about $600,000, aud that among the stock- holders were such men as Jomx C. Doxr, Jouy C. HaiNes, Dr. Foster, the State Sav- ings Institution (which was spared ouly to be & victim to the wrecking of SPExcER), and others who were then able to pay. There was a danger that some of these creditors of an inquiring turn of mind mighé proceed in the State Courts in order to get tre Com-- pony into the hands of a Recerver, and force the officers and stockholders to sield up fo the full' gxtent of their Hability. Thereupon some. of the parties in interest couceived the brilliant iden of putting the Company into bankruptey as a meaus of dragging out the problematic existence of the institution to such length that the creditgrs would be glad to'take any- thing that might be offered to them. A son- iu-law of Alr. Harxes happened to be one of the policy-holders and ereditors, and became the instiument " for earrying out this plao. Hoy, .the" Sfate" Savings Tnstitution people knew or came'to believe that proceedings in bankruptcy could . be made practically inter- minable, is no part of the present story: it is only certain that their fondest hopes were renlized; that the Garden City Compeny, * the canal from Lake Mchigan, will find & | once in the Bankrnpt Court, remained there from Aug. 14, 1872, till Oct. 2, 1876; and that, during all that period, the ring of stockholders, witk the aid of lawyers and purchasing-ngents, succeeded in buying up the great bulk of all claims at prices ranging from 5 to 12 cents on tho dollar, which were always worth the 30 cents on the dollar that was finally renlized. The testimony before the Kxorr Committee ‘on Saturdny revealed all. this, The modus operandi Ly which this neat little speculation was earried ont ean scarcely fail to have an interest for those unfortunate policy-holders whose local pride hnd be- trayed them into the hauds of this local company, and who finally parted with their claims at from one-gixth ta one-fourth of their actual value, fu dospar of ever receiv- ing any more, It seams that a lodgment in the Buukrapt Court was regarded us a per- wauent abiding-place. There was no sched- ule of assets, no inventory of the estate, and no prospect that the petitioning ereditors Ind any intention of ‘insisting upon these usuel and rather essentisl incidents of a bankruptey proceeding. In the meantime, the, quiet purchase of claims progressed fanously., Ouce in a while a shrewd attor- neo, “ smelling n mice,” would filo a motion, aud the Conrt would enter a rule, requiring the Lankrupt compauy to schedule or be attached for contempt. Such order baving been entared m behalf of any particular creditor, the stockholders or their agents would pay that persen all his claim was wortly, and he would assign it to thew; the new owner of the claim would allow the rule to lapss, or get an order from the Court vacating the rule for a schedule: There were numerous spplica- tions of this kind, and oue after another they were hushed up.in one way and another, aud the desired scheduling of assets was de- layed until nemdy all the claims bad been gobbled up at small percentageof their real value. Some of {he former creditors of the Garden City Insurance Compavy may now comprohend for the first time why their de- votion to this particular home institution was 50 noorly rewarded. Alr. Hoxer Cook, an attorney for claim. ants, an assigneo of clailms, a speculator in claims on Lis own account and by proxy, and finally an agent for the ring of buyers and an attorney for the defunct Compsany, was particularly active in these transactions, 1t was difficult to follow this epry gentloman in all the ramifications through which he was led under the Bkillful and laughable cross- exnwination of Gen. Stiues. He would have saved himself a good deal of torment, and the public considerable mystification, if he bad ndwitted st the outset thatlhe was on both sides at the same time,—ncting partly for tho creditors, partly for the stockholders, but chiefly for himself throughout bis entire connection with this scalping business, In failing to set out with this cofession, and fn his desperate effort to avoid the poiut of Gen. Sties' quick and penetrating ques. tions, he lefta jumble of testimony, admis- sions, explanations, and other explnuations of previous explanations, which is simply inextricable. It may sorve to mystify the fleeced and deluded oreditors of the Garden City Insurance Company a8 much as they were before, and leave them only-the poor consolation of knowing that they received from one-sixth to one-fourth as much for their claims as they would have received had there been a prompt snd complete show of _assets from the start. . QUR POISONERS, The old question of the adulteration of food has been revived again at the East, and new ond startling . results are being developed by the experts who are giving their attention to the complaints that are made. Some of these results wo print elsewhere, and they will prove very interesting reading to those who bave hitherto been 1n ignorance of the resl character of tho food they are cating. Itis not very pleassnt mntier, and it can bardly be called entertaining to any one to learn that he is breskfasting, dining, and supping on poisons; butit is none the less of interest as furnishing suggestions for the ennctment of stringent legislation, and an ef- fort to enforca it, AMr. Groroe T. ANGELL, of the Massa- chusetts Board of Health, contributes the larger amount of the information which we print, and he fortifies his information with references that arc unquestionable, He finds that the weight and bulk of tea are increased by the use of mineral and orgsnicsubstances, and thot a fictitious strength is given to it by the use of vegetable substances. Searcely any green teas reach the consumer m a pure state, and many of those which de are adulterated in New: York. The green tens are ulso converted into black by chemical treatment. Coffee is not only adulterated with chiccory, but the chiceory itself it adul- ferated. Peas, beans, rye, and wheat are also used, and the coffee-berry itself is imi- tated artificially. Of five samples of coffec analyzed by Liw, three contained uo coffee at all, and the other two had only a fev guins to the pound. Sugar is adulterated with terra alba, which costs only balf a cent per pound, and thon- sands of tous of it are pround up every year for the use of adulteration. Glucose, a prod- uct derived from corn, which is very inju- rious {o the kidneys, is also used in great quantitics. Sirups contain a large per cent of it. Tinis also precipitated in sivups, and low grades of emgors ere Dleached with muriate of tin. The glucose is made stil mora abominable by boiling the corn-starch from which it is made with oil of vitriol. It is corroborative of Mr. ANGELL'S sssertions that Dr. Turee, an Eoglish analyst. has jnst published a report that the coffze und cocon sold in the temperauce teverns are com- pounded int the same munner, and that there Wwas ot 10 per cent of the purearticle in any of the samples which he aunlyzed. All sorts of villsinons compounds are ued in candirs, —among them chromate of lead, prussic ack Teercury, arsenic, copper, tar- taric scid, and fusel oil. These are used not only in the coléring, but also to improve their taste. Mr. AxceLr further shows thiat much of our cheese is made of skim.mi mixed with olcomargarine oil; that milk is mode artificielly; that cayenne pepper is mixed with red lead, mustard with chromate of lead, curry powder with red lead, vine. 8ar with oil of vitriol, and that one.balf the vinegar sold ia New York Gity 1s rank poison. He says that bright-green pickles get their color from copper; that our flour 1s full of plaster of Paris,-bone-dust, sand, clay, and chalk; that ulum is an ingredient of almost every ‘virlety of ‘baoking-powder; that all spices are impure’; and even that the sooth. ing-sirups, cough.siraps, pectorals, cholera medicines; and pain-killers which we take for relief from suffering are heavily ndalter. ated; that our very wall-papers are fillad with arsenic enough to 1duce sickness in every household ; and that liquors of every description are poisoned. Mr. ANGEzLis not alone it his testimony, The New York Erening Post recently sub- mitted nineteen samples of coffee bought at various stores in New York and Brooklyn to Dr. Moz, a chemist, who found in them chiccory, roasted wheat, rye,peas, beans, roasted carrots, parsnips, turnips, roasted acorus, sawdust, lupin seeds, oak-bark tan, croate, burned sugar, and baked harses’_und bullocks’ liver, The coffee-bean is also imi- tated with an artificial bean made of bluo clay and mixed with chiccory and dandelion. Dr. E.R. Squms, of Albany, also recently read a paper beforo the State Medical Society, showing the same infamous practices we bave recited above, and suggesting ¢ the in- corporation of n State Board of Health, to consist of four members nominated by the State Medical Society, who shall bo physicins; two expert physi- cists, nominated by Columbia College and Cornell University ; and two lawyers, nomi- nafed respectively by the Bar Association ond the Modico-Legal Society. After this Board is formed, it must appoint, by com- petitive examination, seven officers, who are to constitute a Board of Inspectors of Food end Medicive. Lastly, a Board of Prosccu- tion has to be formed, to consist of lawyers, who shall hold meetings at certain times, and ecch one of whom shall prosecnts nll cases recoived from the State Board of Ifealth in his own dustrict.” The difliculty does not lie in finding out what is adulterated, but in punishing it. It is pretiy safe to assnme that everything we consue, excopt eggs, fruit, and vegotables (when they are not rotten), is adulterated, and fhat one-half of mavkind is engaged in poisoning the other half. With the new belps furnished the poisoners by the progress of scientific discovery, it is uot re- markablo that the doctors: aro continually finding new disenses. All this may e as- sumed. The desparr of the situation is how to punish the ' adulterators. Thers are alrendy severe penalties prescribed by law, but the laws are dead-letters. No pretense is made of enforcing them. As tho half who are engaged in poicouing are not prosecuted by the other half, it would seem to indicate that they are willing to bo poisoned. Those who are fastidions about the matter must either live on boiled eggs whoso *parentage is known, or potatoes cooked with their jackets on, or else surrender themselves to the tender mercies of the arsenie and prassic- ncid sdultérators. There is uo hope that the laws can bLelp them, for they are adal- terated worse than the stulf we eat and drink. THE PROSE-CRUSHER (PATENTED), A couple of despairing lovers. on_matrunony in- tent, started for Dover the otler day, ridhu double on an ox trained to tae «uddie, The infuriuted dad overtonk the party, compelied his daughter to re- turn bome, and lefu young Locnisvai and s team in the road. — Irigy (AY.) Democrat. A gitl In the County of 'I'rizg, Whose patent wsa stern, ot did dig Aloug with bet lover Toward the county-veat, Dover, On an ox, —a peculisr rig. But the father pursued and o'erhanlea Taem, though **Gee!” **Haw " uud **Get up!"” they bawled, Bore off the sad fair, And tise lover left there A-shedding of tear-drops that scald. ————— The success of the elevated railroads in New York is not a certain indication that they would succeed in any other city. New York is very eculiarly built up. Owing to its mmovable boundaries on two “sides, the residence quarters of the clty are necessarily remote from the business quarters, and rapid trausit is a ques- tion of importance to a laree part of the popu- lation. No other city is similarly situated as regards transit within the city limits.. But it may soon be a question whether the steam rail- ways will not have to elevate their tracks in cities. They are a constaut source of annoy- ance and daoger in crowded streets, and city ordinances requiring a low rate of speed are as £reat an inconvenience to them as they are to the people. If their main tracks could be raised they could effcct an jmmense aunual gain in suburban passcoger tratlic alone. The fifteen or twenty mmutes consumed in getting from the depots to thecity limits are no inconsiderable proportion of the time spent in trips to aud from the near sub- arbs. Half the time consumed in- making the trip to Evanston, for instance, is used ingetting from the depot to the city Jimits, thouzh the whole trip is about twelve miles, and the city part of it is less than two miles. ——— The free-lunch excursion from Chicago did pot meet the cordial reception in Mexico that was promised. The »lexican Punch, La Gacelilla, got after the excursionists and ham- mered them in the most unmercitul fashion. The excursion party is represented at the theatre observivg, in a rapturous way. the performances of three ucrobats ou the trapeze. Nothing can be scen of the audience but tweoty pairs of No. 15 boats elevated on - the backs of the seats. La Gueetilla tells a great seerct when it adds to this cartoon the explanation that the Govero- ment reserved cighty orchestra-stalls and eight boxes at the theatre *so that the Chicago mer- chants (?) may amuse themselves free gratis and for nothiog.” Another eartoon brings out the versonal characteristics of the excursionists in a strong light. We are glad to know that the dead-heading proclivities of the excarsionists have been in part satisfied, tor it was never con- ceivable that they should do anything for com- meree. But it was worth going a thoussud miles to get a free pasa to the theatre. fres bt Sou, The New York Jera'd fixes a comparatively eagle eye on the recent unpleasantness at Wash- ington, ind says that CONKLING'S achievement in the matter of the New York Custom-House uominatiuns *is the most remarkabdle example in the history of American ‘politics of the vie- tory of an individual over a hostile Govern- ment.” Itis, itls. We remember nothive like it since an individual astenpted to force his way iuto ARTEMUS WARD's unparalleled show in spite of the hostile wovernment of the ereat showman. When the younz individual was taken home in triumph upon a shutter, the band playing ¢ Dear Mother, I've Come Home to Dic, his Spartan maternal, relative cxamined him critically and said: “ My son, I know what's the matter with you, my son. You have heco fooling with a threshing-mactiine, my son; and you've zone into tue what-you-may-call-it with the oats, and come out of the, thingummy with the straw, aid the hosses bas gob you under their hufs und trompled upon you, my son.” e AR ‘The Princess Louise has come outasa Pro- tectlonist, wud is stimulating the domestic in- dustries of Conada by offering a bounty of $5 a hiead for tripiets. Buu H. R. H. should imitate her mother und sisters, who have shown their faith by weir works 50 remarkably that Queen Vicronia will be a great-randmother pext month, if all gocsweil with the hereditary Princess of $axe-MEININGEN. By the way, the Londoa 1forid says that “ Up to this time no Queen of Eagland has ever lived to see hergreat- grapdebidren.” Perhaps the London i$orid can suy how many of the previous Queens of Eneland—ibe two Msmrys, £Lizaneri, and AxNE—lived to see their grandebileren, or, for that matter, their children? i —— There bas been 2 decided weakening on the ‘part of the Democratic Hostiles in their warfare upon Mr. TILDEN during the past three weeks or so. This phenomenon has followed closely upon the extensively-circulated angouncement that the old gentleman had made 2 cvol milion on his fovestment in the Elevatéd Railroad stock; an anoouncement which scéms to Iidicite that jo June, 1880, his bar'l would -be as miraculonsly replenished as the Widow’s was 34 n]d. ‘The Hoal inig that it will be hecessary to avenge the Great Fraud by renominating the ticket of 1876, The opposition in New Yori, too, has cooled down about 212 degrecs since some one thought he discovered the old gentleman’s haud in the overtrow of Tammany last November, and the subscquent proceedings against JouN KELLy. We warned these brash young men twelve months ago not to go on fattening up crow agaiust the day of crow; bat they despised our counsel. We have only to add, as a matter of news, that Mr. TILDEN i8 still fatteniug up that crow in & c0opfn his back yard. Thebird meas- ures hirty-eieht fect across theextended wicgs, as big as SINBAD'S roc. e ————. A Post-Office Commission bas been at work in Baltimore. We do pot know exactly how it discharged its duty; but it selected a site and advised that $1,000,000 be appropriated for the purchase of the ground and the erection of a building. Secretary SHERMAN azreed cnthusi- astically to all the recommendations of the Committev—except that ove favoring an ap- propriation, which he does not consider neces- sory ot present. It may be supposed that the Commission received this news with painful sifence. A Commission which doesn’t get any- thing out of the Treasury can hardly be catled 2 success in these days. et The recommendation of Secrctary EVARTS that the salary of Bavarp Tayror as Minister to Berlin be continued to his widow for the un- expired year of scrvice is approved by leading newspapers of both political purties. It would be 2 zraclons and generous act—such 2o act as Is too seldom charged up to the credit of our Government. There is, indecd, bardly any- thing more disheartening in our politics than the contrast between the stinriness of our Government In dealing with the widows of mer- ftorious officers, civil and military, and its prodigal bouaty in voting subsivie: e ——— It it be true, as stated fo the New York Dapers, that the victory of the Administration over CONKLING was imwediately followed by the discharge of ten clerks in the Customn- House supposed to be friendly to bim, and the appo:ntment fo their place of ten others known to be unfrieadly, the triumoh of Civil-Service reform ou thut oceasion was uot so complete as lus been reported. But it will be wise, perhaps, - to take the comments of the New York press i this connection for some time to come Wwith a gratn of allo b m— Unboro generations of Londoners will bless the memory of Mtss Lisgrra Rist, who had for forty-three years filled the post of orgamst at the Church of All Hallows, Barking, in Great Tower street. ‘That lady, now deccased, has left (the Pa’t Mg/l Guzette informs us) & cousidera- ble sum in ands of trustees to be applied ‘“forever” to the distribution of gravel in steep and shippery London roadway she had personally superintended and paid for during ber lifetime. ——— Jony Biient's comparison, fn his letter to Cynus W. FIeLD, of the system of Protection with the syetem of Slavery arouses. the {ndie- nation of a New Yerk man, who writes to the Hera'd that, * While England governs udia in the marruer she does, her pretense of abhorrenve to Slavery miteles the tone of the Pharisee with the erf of hypoerite.” A bit,—a very palpable bit. : ———— The Brooklyn Eagle thinks—or rather says, for it doesn’s think avything of the kina—that when Mr. TALMAGE besougit bis nephevw, in the name of the Higbest, to play the part of the stool-pigeon and lure the peeunious of the Tabernacie witlin ranee, * be did an enthuslias- tic aud 8 generous thing.” 1t also sees nothing at all wrong m the cipber business. AN A Dr. Squings, the eminent physician of Brook- 1yn, says that the Legislature will never frame a law to prevent adulteration until it defines pre- cisely what,adulteration 15. All previous laws on this subject have been failures, becanse they ‘hav¢ not made clear, beyond the possibility of a mistake, what was the nature of the offense the Legislature intended to punish. BT Ay It the shark expects to maintain his proud pre-emincoce, be had Letter leave off being found with such rrifles as cannon-balls, broken bottles, old boots, brass watches, chain-cables, and rusty bayonets fn his stomach. Let him tackle boarding-house bash, or botel entrees, or something serious, or else retire Iuto igno- minfous obseurity. e ———— It will not do to be “down™ on the Three Young Men because they did not make out a case against Judge BLODGETT. They showed that something was rotten in the surroundings of the District Court, though not in the Court itsclf; and, until an ipvestization was hud, it was impossible to suy precisely where the rot- tenness was. We hope it is not true that Senator CoNOVER, of Florids, has been offered the appointment of Minister to Iialy, to succeed Mr. GEOROE P. Mansn. Mr. MARSH has been too long abroad, und is thoroughly un-American: but Mr. Cox- OVER {s bardiy the man to succeed him. ————— Neplew PELToN squirmed sbout in a pitiful way “during his eross-examination before the Civher Committee in New York; and it was dis- coverced, when be tried to step from the stand, that he had inadverteutly tied s legs in & double-bow-knot. ————— Mr. RIcBARD SyiTu thinks it would be a good idento have the United States Senators nominat- ed in the State Couventions before the election. ‘This would be better than haviug the Chairman of the State Campaien Committee choose the Senator. e— The Rev. Mr. Tyxa aunounces a sermon “ To u-Churchgoing Men” This must be preach- ing to an empty house, unless he is availing himself of the telephone, ————e— Tne Turer Youse M “We have done the State sonie service, und sse know it.” eT— N An exchange says that “Ostrich-feathers are down.” Ouly part of them, dearest. —————— PERSONALS. Tt looks as if Ohio was giving us Taft-y. ‘When sinuers (co-parsinuers) entice thee, consent thou not. Mr. Tilden even believes that Pelton is the root of all evil, Poor Mr. Hendricks! He has become croes-eyed trying to look all ways at once. Kate TField has taken a spacious mansion @ man? Billiardist Radolphe is violently opposed to nursing. We suspect that he was broogbt up on the boule. A ilden Clnb has been formed ot Pitts- burg. Tt 1s such lttle facts what lead s to believe that the barrel is still on tap. A recent lonn exhibition in St. Louis was &0 poorly patronized that we cannot avoid the im- ‘pression that it was also a losnsome exhibition. A St. Louis girl is said to have won $600 from her.lady friends in one year at penny ante. Go 1o the ante, thou sluggard, and do likewise. Anna Dickinson has jusf completed a new pia7 which she calls **Aurehan.” Anreliasgs, uren't yon turning out plays altogether too rap~ idly? 01@ Sammy Tilden went to the barrel to &et South Car'ling a bone: when be Lot there the borrel was bar¢, and poor South Car'lina got L © Senator Christinney§ whode health is very delfcite, gues to Peru honing ‘that he may derive great benefit from the fanious earthquakes of that est is .contained in the will o t, who for forty-three years filled the poat of organist at tie Charch of Althal- lows iulondon. She nas lefta consfderable sum # W tue hands of Trustees to be applied *~ forever and when be is served up in Jaly, 1850, will be a work whichg in London; but, Kate, what isa mansion without to the distrihntion of gravel in ‘steen and slippe, London rondways. The will wil doubtless basey, tested by surgeons and cork-leg makery, Mr, Partridge was hung at Corpus Christo, Tex., fe other da, and it is sald that b giog “game. Paul Boyton recently swam twenty.fivg miles I two hours and & half; aud we are almojy convinced that Mr. Boyton 12 8 bigeer man thay old Neptane. The statement is made that John She. man 15 growing homeller every day. It the state. ment 1s true, it wonld appear tnat there s no Ny 10 homeliness. Nrinendo-Narogan-Bhoop, Maharajah g, Kach Bebur, bas arrived in Paris from Tndia, Lisoop—we have cafied him Bhoop since oar chylg. hood—visits that city solely for vleasure, Prof. Edison hus brought his istrment, for maenifying sound to such a perfection that brits use the soft, low, difiidert voice of Lozan may ba :lsunutly beard in every patt of the Seuate chay. er. Add William S. Pelton to the oll of g, tingulelied liacs of our day. Iie is entitied to 5 bigh plaze among such illastrious names as Aqder. son, St. Martin, Mrs. Jeuke. Mark Twam, gng Ananias. Tho temptations to stndy law at this period are not powerful. Mes. Gaines is quite olq, and cannot Just much lonyer, and Mrs. Steware fy. tends todivide up her eatute awmong ber heneficiaris before she dics. "en couples live in Bridgewater, Mas, who have celcbrated their goiden weddingsince (g firstof the year. Mr. Johin Shorman regaras tary 23 one of the immediste and plessiug results of thy return to 3 gold basis. 4 Philadelpbin physician has just made 5 discovery which will startic every baby in the lang, e has learned that baby-carts are very injaclon; t0 babies® heaitl. ~Let there be no mare badies, or 4t least 0o more baby-carts, It Mr. Tilden hod been a trae patriot ke swonld riot have stopped at the price of a few lect. ors, when, by paying It, e could bave spared ag unhapny conntry the present **weak, corrapt, ang fraudulent Administration.” The Marquis of Lorne offers a reward of on:pound to every Canadian woman who sha)y uchieve triplets. And bow mach mobler itfs 1o compete for tais- reward thsn 10 struggle for the ety honors of pecestrianism. Had the barrel boen full at the lime te South Carolina Returning Board offered to sel ony, Mr. Tilden most iikely would have closed with thy olfer. Well may the poor old man ezclum, *Tyg want of money i5 the oot of all evil,” Anthony Comstock is painfully, wonder fully, and intolerably modest, yet it ia more taay suspected that he would have nssisted Peepins ‘Tom on the memorable occasion of Godiva's rigs baa he oyen around at 1hat inferestiug pertod. A “scientific gent” hus wmade the dis. covery that the carth {3 one-sided. No ogehag attemuted to acconnt for the phenomenan, -hag we ventare to suggest that possioly 55 maypy caused by an uneven trimming of Gen. Bumside' ‘whiskers. The true cruse of the distress in ZEnglazd appears, singulurly enough., to have cecaped the nutice of econvmists. It clearly lieafathe fact that the servant girls of America who proe 10 ba hieirs to vast English eatates are draining the csp- itul of that country. The Presbytery of New York is shont to begin an investigution of 3r. Talmage. Perbany Mr. Tulmage ought to be investigated. batitis true that all other ministera of a denomastion sr always eager to Iuvestigate the one svhose choreh pews rent for a great deal more than their own ‘Cho Detroit Free Press says: “Stick a pin there; David Dasis will cling to his seatin the Senate, the report of hi# resigantion to the con- trary notwithstanding.” Now, if we should stk a pin there we don't believe Mr. Davis wonld eling to his seat in the Scnate. the report of the Fru Press to the contrary notwithatanuing. After reading the testimony, we ara con- vinced thut Maj. Blodzett could have renderes Judge Custer no gssistance hud he gone into the ravine, as the Indians bad bought up the Staak- Zeitung stack at a low fizare, and the stockhoiders of the Germauia Life-Insurance Company would have teen massacred before they could havegu out of the timber and crassed. the creek and joined Gen. Hesing; and while Boss Reno eolicited the appointmeut of Vocke 8s Assignee, there 13 mo - evidence to show that Sfuting Bull knew the valae of the stock. And again, the testimony is cless- that the Grana Jury was strongly intrencbed os ths binff, and lable to fall nova Maj. Dioagett's rear had he attempted to relleve Capt. Hibbard atths little blue mark on the map where ScautBangs topped to take a drink. i R **MUSTY OLD MAIDENHOOD.I' 4 the Editor of The Trivune Coicaco, Feb. 8.~I ask the permission of Tae TRIBUNE to allow me, through its columns, to refate, or rather give the other side of, some of Mr. Applebee’s remarks in his lectare on “Husbands and Fathers,” particalarly where ba relers to men being cousigued to live in “musty old bachelordom through the expensive idexs and love of display” which, he states, keeps men from marrying. i Now, as there are always two sides to 3 ques- tios, I would like to give a few facts on the other side, which is the reason why so many women are destined to live out their days in “musty old maidenhood,”—women who, other- wise sitoated, would make good wires and mothers. Mr. A.'s assertion, that men remain single because of their fear of incurring debts and responsibilities which they cannot meet, Is a poor one. I ask, Why do they not chooss wivesfrom among the [ntelligent working-women of our country.—women who, rather than make unworthy matches, remain single until they ars 80 and gpward? There are hundreds of sach women who have 0o home buc what they pay for, who would be rey A zood, wmg man in their _ever) and be content aud bappy with a” plain littie powe, and with true appreciation enjov that which they could call their own, alter their years of strugwle with the world, which bhas proved o Eldorado o their view. Isayit is the gentlemen who are to blame, for auy young man of intelligence and worth, insteady’of marrying a girl his equal i age, und w20 is possesscd of pood cowraon sensé Zains admittance into wetl-to-do famlies, and there seleets his bride, 3 wirl_of 16 or 15 years, who 4s wholty inexpericuced with the weiguty proolems of life, and who has been educoted with kigth ideas, as a companion for himself—s map of 2 or thereabouts; he warries in styley and repents at leisure. Sitould he be asked why he did not marey 8 zirt ucarer his 0w e, Le will unswer disd tally, 1 don't wanz an ola mud,” or *“‘ose who has too much will _of her own, or iz othier words, otie who Las becn her own boss t0g long, “for she knows tou mueh for me.” Such are- the Inconsistenics of mev; the pretend to desire wowen for heroes, but will invariably take a doll or a being who is. a mere vonentity, one whom ** they cau mold ‘to their taste,” and leave the girl wito would be s coua- selor, belpmate in business aifairs, keeper, cook, solitary exis or, if she weary “waiting,” ¢ some ol widower” who may be forty or fifty years older. than perself, which I consider to'be the greatest outrage to° soclety, herself, the man sGe marries, and ber chzidren. should she have any, for 1t s, most uunatural that any wirl should wed 2 man iwhose emildren ure older tnan herself, and 1 fecl safé in saying that no woman would make such & match baa she the possibilits of choosing 3 com- panion of like nze aud tastes with herselfs and, as our worthy lecturer says, ** women ar¢ icker in their perceptions, than men”'; bad they the equal chance of choosiog a life partaef 1hey would make happier sclections than 3¢ oftentimes made by men, sl being the best judye of the loterests of her own and ber chil- dren’s lives. But the wav socicty is regulated 5 woman has to “take what offers ” or *-o without.” sod. = few wowen can stand thestigmaof ** old maidy’ they make their mistakes by marrying the wrong. man in many instances. Women are just as true to nature as men m‘i it they can indulge in the same freedom of thought and action which actuates them 35 men can, but wonien,being the slave of *~ public opinion,” not of their doow, but through 8¢ influence of Jaws made for them Ly avn, false to themselves, one another, and to the autkors of those who are the cause of their fail: n closinz my remarks, T wonld say, God speed to che noble baund of ten and women ¥BO are using thefr best ‘endeavor to free women from thewr bendage to socicty, and in assisting to pure thoughts and guod impulses. making the chioice of “the best of either sex tu be abose all other consideratious in | a3 well o3 matritnonial hlc.[ 1 subscribe Il)ylself 15 apeo tise supporters of Mr, Apnienac’s lectures. 4 Oxz or TnE MavL.