Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1879, Page 8

GENERAL NEWSH. Behuylor Colfax e at the Palmer, J. K. Emmet and wife are at the Palmer. Miss Faony. Dayenport s a guest of the Tulimer. fhe Hon, Warren Spencer, Dayton, 0., {s at the'Sherman, Gen. W, T. Clark. Washington, fs ono of the guests of the Paclfie, ‘The Hon, Thomns Ewing, Nebraska, is regis- tered at the Palmer. . Willlam M, 0'Dyer, of the Néw York Tribune, 18 0 guest of the Palmer, Charles Melville, agent of Mrs, Scott Siddons, 1s stopplng at tho Shicrman, Gen, F. Van Viiet, U, 8.'A,, Washington, I8 stopping at the Palmer House. J, M. Chapman, business manager of Fanny Davenport, s registered ot the Sherman, A. Do 8t. Joseph and L. F, AudifTrot, Parls, France, aro among the guests of the Pacifle. Frank O. Johuson will lead the Young Men's * meetlng ot the Y. M. C. A. rooms this evening, 'Fhe Henderson Standard Company and Rice's Surprise Party ure domlclled at the Tre- mont. Maj, M. A, Reno s returned to the city ", nfter an absence of two weeks, and is registered at the Palmer. The Republicans of the Eleventh Ward will mect this evening at Martine's Hall, Adn sircet,” 1o clect uflleers uind transact general business. "The Rey. John Peddie, pastor of the Second Taptist Church, will conduct the noonday |:rnxcr-mu:.-tlng, at No. 160 Mudison street, to- dag. Dnvid O'Neil, whom Tom Ellls attempted_to nesnasinate, waos Inat evening reported by Dr. Ishaa s in o fofr way of rccovery, ERIS still denles that e did the shooting. ¥ The Orlental Instituto will mect tins after- noon at 130 o'clock In the Sherman Houseclnb. rooma. Subject: *“Pneumatology of the 0.'1." Thie Rev. Mr. Peake will be leader. A speclal meeting of the Fourteenth Ward Ttepublican Ciub 1 called this Mouday evenin at No, 630 Milwaukes avenue (Lochner's Hall) to discuss the question of Alderman, In responding to an alarm last night from the North Stde, Englue Company, Nu. 18, colllded with the Fire Potrol wagon at the corner of Bouth Water strcet_nnd ¥ith avenue, Ben's maching Jost & couplo of spukes uud the side steps. The acckdent was unavoldable beeause of the slippery road. Fully 200 brick-layers attended o meeting at No. 5+ West Lake street yesterday afternoon, Alter n speech by Ald. Lawler, who nrzed unity und organization to accomplish thelr uim,—$2.50 n day after Arru 1,—a secret acsslon was licld, fnd nenrly all put thelr pames to an agreemont 1o bold oit for an advance, About half 8 dozen Jadics, calling themsclves the Working-Women's Assoctation, beld a meet- ing yesterduy afternoon at the hall of the Printers® Unfon, corner of Michigan and Clark Btreets, to devise measures caleulated to mneijo- rate tic condition of worklug-women, They would have no reporter nround nor would they disclose anything about the proceedings. A mectingof those opboesed to the emipra- tion of Chinamen was held at Maskel Hall yes- terday alterucon, and the followlng were up- bointed to mnke arrangements for n moss Inect- ing to be held Wednesday evenlug, If the Presl- dent slgns the bill: Dr, Duil, Moses Woodasan, o, W, Cooper, W, Holley, Charles Newland, Joseph Howsen, Garrett MeDonald, A, R, Par- *gons, C. G, Dixon, Samuel Goldwater, Mystlc Prior, of No, 330 Blate stroet, reported yesterday forenoon at the Armory that durlng Suturda¥ cvening n well-known “thiof nnmed Frauk Meyera had broken fnto her room wl hnd stolen asatln dress which cost ler $112, In the nfterncon Lieut. Huyes eaptured Meyers n: Monroc's Garden on Btate street, and recove gred the arcss at Andre Andrew’s pawnshop, No. 423 Stato street, where it had been “spout- ed" for the small sum of 37.50. Everythlug indicates a erund success for the musquerade ball of the Chleago Turngemelndo avthe North 8ide Turncr-loll this evening. ‘Her Majesty’s Fools,” as the Commitice of Arranzements ore called, bave been lms(v s beavers for nearly a maul‘x to have everything come off with zreat eclat, - ‘I'he prmelpal event ot the evenlLz will b the tefdmphal processfon of Germanfeas. ANl possible precautions have been taken to prevent doubtful choructers from getilng fnto the ball, Arresta: Peter Paul, dlsorderly conduct at the German theatre, and resisthng the ofllcer who cudenvorod to arrest him; Lenry Guerdon, liouse ngent, charzed with breaking into the house of a tenant; Acthur Stacy, of No. T35 West Lake street, und curryln;;ul’l the furni- ture; Edward Crepier, necessory to the burg- lary of Schaefer's restaurant ulonp?' with Franic Miiler; Mlchael Mahouey, allas * Canary,” a notorious charneter keeplig o saloonat No. 560 Clark street, who received most of the stolen cigars. g ¥ A ratlrond conductor writes a long communi- cation to Tue TRIBUNE to combat e current lnllucination. that the coming gonerativn of Amerlcans will bo puny, sick.y, and played out. His cxperlence of muny years couvinees him hut the contrary {8 the ciso, uuy that the aver- nze Americun ehild of “under 13 who travels o 0 holf-fare ticket 18 a8 large us a Loy or girl 01 15 or 10 used to bo in ante-railrond duys. lis thinks that an fnstructivo und interestiug artiela might be written by some physlologlst on the subject of the fnfluence of th fuvention of mil- touds upon the development of the iufunt American, A woman in n neat }Httle suburban village lins not been visited by a single tramyp durlng the Wwinter, uor hus her " husbaud bad 10 buy hern revoiver and feel nlarmed lest he shonld read in the evenlng papers on his way home ut night, # Awotlier Hetllsh Devd—Butehéred bya Framp.” Bire hud nhwlf o ton of conl dumped in a von- foletous ploce In the yard, wid carefully brushed ol thy snow whenover there was a storm, sl the conscquence was thut wheuever an ubsent- minded or short-sichted tramp did get 8o fnr ng 10 open the gate, his oyo fell on the conl and o took thut back-truck as it he had forgotten somathing, - Curoner Mann yesterday held an Inquest upou Otto Ruesell, who died at the corner of Perry and Dunhom streets, fn the Town of Lake View, of congestion of the bratn, superinduced i)}y the continued and excessivo usu of lyuor, ccensed was n German, 51 years of age, snd lefs a highlv-respected family on his Jarge furm ot Ilanover, Luke = County, lud. Ilo come to this city on Saturday last Wwith o wagon-load of produce, und drank so much on thu way that be uever ralllen, His son, 18 years of age, who_nccompauled i on the Jourusy, will return homu with the rematus to-day, An fuqucst was ulso held upon Allen Jomes, colored, who died suddenly of rheu- watlen of the heart at his howme, No. 1510 Aruold strect. ‘The noble Captaln, sometimes yelopt hand. somo Ueorge Miller, related yesterday o woful story of how he bad veen sssulled on his way hauie at the cornor of Twelith und Loomis streets by flve highwaymen, But tils wllitary prowess did not - desert bim; oh no! Il Lnocked thres of thew o pross, and the discomtited quintette © run away without securlng aunythi The ng. ]Iullcl! Investigated, Mrs, Millor nIJ‘ln-rlmn- husbund told her that bo bad fallen ut the cor- ver of Loomis und Nebraska streets; this in consequence of the sotled condition of his linen amd clothing, But the Hiumon-strees police say the misbop must have happened elsewhere, dor when the Cuptaln entered thelr distrlet ko wagin a demorallzed condition, und was sup- ported on elther side by frisnds who wished to see bt sately howe. “The hungry man from Bridgeport ! {3 at the Armory, Baturday evening Robert McCuuo, 85 years of age, ok lodging at u bouse, No, 375 Ciurk strect, Alour about 8 o'clock In the woruivg the hunery man eamo in, und, walking dellberatoly to the bunk where' MeCuug was sleeping, he begen -to Kouge out his eyes, Fallug “in thls, be bit off thres-queriers of tho man's” ear, and actually chewed nud swallowed it “T'lio particulars of the affair are horrlbly revoltiug, for it wus 8 very dirty cur for @ luncheon, —'Phe Kkeeper of the place called In 2 policeman, and the *hungry man" was taken to the Armory and locked up, o guve tho name of James Dunne, I8 shout 24 Yyuurs of age, aud & beustly, Lurdened-louking Wwreteh, notwithstanding his youth, Hu udmits the taytiewn, and offers 1o defenso that thoy bad {l:ld ?‘uma words about the right of way to a cer- n bupk, About ono bundred members of St. Patrick’s Colony Associution et fn Maskell's Lower Hall yesterday sfternoon und sppointed W, J, Muskell, of the Weatern Land Jeview, und M. O, irudy, James Devive, aud Thomas Abiern o commltteo to o to Western Kansas and solect lunds for the colovy, which now numbers 150 mien. ‘The Committes leave Chlcago Wednes- duy mornlug at 10 o'clock od the Chicago, Rock Island & "Paciic Rallroud, and will cone heet Wih the Atchlson, Topekn & Banta Fe Rullroad, along which line they will examine e I-Aud,[ uid leuro all they can in regard to Uwen, They will return v1a the Kuuses Pucilc Raflrond, and witl alsa seo what that $ino iias to show in the way of agriewitural lands, apccial mecting of the Colony will ho held Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock at”~ Maskell's Iall *to ziva the Cominittes final nstructions, Of- fers of lands on favorable terma wers made by the 8t, Louls & [ron Mountatn mud the Burling- ton & Missouri Railronde, [t was reported that Tundreds of men wero awaltiys the action of the Colony, nud many would jofn it as soon ns it locnted on good lauds, Mr. Maskell will re. Enn the result of the trip of the Committee In s paper, “Then you have never known the prisoner to bs nccum{ of doing a dishonorable act! " sald, with great enrneatness, the counsel for the pros- ectitfon, **No, never,” roplied the wllgusu with convictionin Wfs ‘clarion tones. **Whnt} never?? bellowed the lawyer, whilo every enr was strained to cateh the ranly, but ere it came there was heard the sharp crack of u rovolver, and the Jawyer fell dead, shot through the brafn, while, as he covered the witness with the stlil smoking weapon, the Judge sald sternly, “This Court proposes to proteet and will proteet the adminiatration of jnstlee from public scandal. Witness, answer the question asked by the late counsel for the pros- ecatfon, and remember that the Court has its eyo und {ts revolver on you! * No, never,” frmly responded the wituess, ' Mr. Sherift,” sald the Court, a8 he let his revolver down to half-cock, and Yald it on the desk before him, *taweep up the remains of the lato counsel, i, Mr. Clerk, let the proper resolutions to his memory be spread upon the court records, ‘The State's Attorney will sccurs another nssistant and praceed with the ease, nnd to enable bim to ;lo 80, ‘lhu Court stauds adjourned for hall an hour.,’ Dr. W, P, Dunne, the City Physliclan, fn his Inst report to the Board of ‘Inspectors of the Housu of Correction, treats at sume length on drunkenness of the Inmates,~that s, on dolirium tremens and alcoholism, o the coursy of his remarks hie says: * Bat the trestment of detirfjum tremens by the -remedies now used suflices only for the time bolyr,—victims to the viee of intempurance seem nob to possess suf- ficient will-power to overcomne the temptation to drink aaing und with thuse whose nerve-centres have become much disensed, it {s dilicult to Auggest such medical treatment s may ae- i complish favorable results, The diftleulty liere In obtatning success—ennbling the ohivsiclan to determine the effects of s remedies—lies i the absurdly short terms which the afllleted (the druunkards) arc compelled to stay in vrison, aud also In the fact that, when dis- charged from prison, the patient returns to his former bad soclal surroundings, and agaln falle. 1t 18 claimed for Chinchona rubra \hat it DossLRses virtues not possessed by other known mediclnes for the cure of this und other nerve difliculties; and we deem kts claiins to be so strongg thut 1t {8 our fntention to givo its useful- ness u telnl,” Had 1t not been for the very transient period of detention of prisoners in the Bridewell,—avernging as they du but n tew days or weeks,—Dr, Dunng woulll have fully tested the virtue of Dr. D'Unger’s remedy for the alcoholle appetite. “Cut your balr? Yes,sir,” sald the barber, aflably, as ho envcloped hits customer fn o shirond of calico aud adjusted him_in a choir. *Qulto ehill—"" he liegau, lntending to be- gulle the ttme by nssoried .conversation on mu'.curolol:?' and other sublects, hut before he could complete the word “chilly ¥ the customer kald, “Yes; for theso latitudes, though I mako 1o doubl that much more severs weather, even nt this season of the yeur, has been chronfeled {n the records of the United States Swnul- Service observer stationed here, to kay nothingof the greater extremes of temperature experienc- cd by those In more northerly latitudes,” ‘Then the customer went on and told about whnt ho reeollected of the cold winter of 1839, and reclted a few Interesting eplsodes culled trom the travels of Ilayes, Kane, Buek, Betirlng, 8ir Jotm Franklin, McClintock, and others, nud the barber gnashed his tecth in im- potent raze and selzed an opportuaity, while he Jamined his eustomer’s chin down on his bresst in urder to coust round his back hair, to begin: “Polities pretty flvely, ehd ‘The ceph—s-" But it wus no wo, ‘Ilic customer blew a few Tialrs off wiud wenlally replied, *Thazzo ! and thereupon' treated the barber to a vompreten- sive but by no means brief exposition of the American politieal slituation from aevery stamd- point, dwelling particalurly on the Returning huuru frauds, the proceedings of the Eiectoral Commisslon, the Potter Commitiee’s wnguisi- tlon, und “the actlon of the Demovratie caneus “on the urors’ clauses, The barber of eutthys off . the customer's right car with ~his shiears, but resolved to make one more attenpt, and blandly remarked lu n stenographic manner, *Hair—tnn-—r stor—" * Yes: hnl bal” eheerfally romarks the customer; **sh ers always wear badly- fltthigs Loots, you Kno! My hutris thiu, bioe 'l tell you whot, you ought to try my patent Crinodonosterephalug,—thut’s the thing tobring out the balr,” and he launched focth tato o tire- less panegyiie of the virtues of this singular compound, nud the advantn neeruing rom the purchase of the Murger- botties until the burber hud no e u for dallyng tonger with hlm, andin 4 volee of concentrafed rage hissed, ** Next!" nud whispered in his late cus- tomer's ear, * I you’ro n man,—Oh, il vou’ro u man,—come round hers to-mght after the shop cluges and movt e with your own weepins 1" HOTEL ARRIVALS, GUAND PACIFIC IOTEL. 8. J. Taley, Doston, W M. Davis,Clucinnatl, A, F. Swiiteford, L. 8. Francia Todd, Boston, 8, B Joncs, Quahn, |G F, Whittell. Sun Fran'o Jobn Amery, N. Y. tew. T North, N, Huven, 10 W French, Boston. [0, Buliwin,Jz., Cloverrd, THENONT HOUSE, . Koy, Taltmore, (L. Ullrich, N, Y, ‘o 8. Tanilton, Milw," |Ciiaw, Loth, Cincinnatl, J.W.Wilber, Graen fuy, [Coos. Burnham, N. Y, e, Sunders, Taledo, 'S, C. Qill, Steulonyiilé, doscils Seott, N. V. | AL C. Roberts, St Lon, PALMER 110USE, - Wm, Gale, Winous. °C, Boncho, Noston, I | inton J; 11, Tincon, Minncap'lia 1. W, Sanford, Clevel'ud J. A, truh, indinnapol'sJ, . Condit, 8t, Paul, 0. Plunkett, Boston. (U, M, Smyth, N» Y. BUERMAN lIOUSE, C. A, Anderson, Engla'a J, il Ward, Baltimoro, Qew, 11, Seeley,’ N, Y. 1A, C. Rieloy, Vond du L, Bouthern maddened test-onth thoucht Jumes Blisrp, N, . i, Detrolt, (O, I, Mavon, Glasow, C. W, I'acker, I'nila, ML I luum, Montzom'y C! F.'Snodeker, Clnctn'i{A. Young, Alllwaukee, MILITIA NOTES, MISCELLANEOUS, Dischareged **for the good of the service! mesns dishionorably discharged, ‘e Rev.d. N, Ureen bas been appointed Chuplain of the Eleventh Reglment, Third Brig- ade. O, P, Crane has been appointed Swigeon of the Beventh Rewiment, vice Middlcton, de- ceased. The restgnatlon of Capt. J, T C. Richards, Company D, Filteenth Battallon, has been aee eepted, 1L, ¢, Hoftman, of Company F, Tirst Real- menl lll:l been discharged * for the good of the survice,” ‘The reslenation of First-Liout, John M. Reticher, Comvaoy D, Fourteenth Battalton, resldence Roek Ishand, has been aceepted on account of removal (rom the Stute, ‘The resiznation of Second-Lient. Brook Staf- ford, Je., of Compuny E, Fifteenth Battallon, vesidency ratton, s bten accepted by onder of the Communder-in-Chief, on uccount of re- movyal from the sStute, A number of enlisted mon have recently been discharired uyun surgeona’ ecriificates from the Beventh und Fifth Rozlmente, the Sixth, Four- teenth, and - Fiftecuth Tuttallons, wad the Fourth, Firet, und ‘Mlird Regunents, ' This {san casy way of getting out ot the service, but thy :xlwu should know that it goes on ruwrd sgulust hem, THUB NINTIT BATTALION, Friday of lnst weok s compauy of military of ficers from the First Brigade, with ladics, took au excurston to Champalen and Urbany, for the Kuruolu of visithys the "Btate Industrial and Hlitary Bchools: “The party consisted of brig.-Ueu, — Torremcs and wilo; Col. Bwuln, of the ¥irst Reuimont, unid wito; Col, Caunon, of Gen, Duca's staff} Ma}. Truman Mlller, 8urceon of the Firat Regl- mient, und wife; Licut-Col. Powell, of the Bixth Hattallon; Copt. Daker, Sorst, Frank Hoyne, and Sergt, Bell, of the First Reghment, ‘The Milltary Bebiool ot Champalen wus vialted, aud the cadets were reslewed by Gen. Tors rance, Dr. Gregory, the Regent, ncting ns Mas. ter of Ceremonies, The principal object which enlled the visitors there wus a reception given by Campany D, ofthe Ninth Battalion, und reso- lutlons were mluml:d by them expressing theie thauks to the municlpal authoritics and the wilitary bilicers of Champalgn for the courtesies extendid t then, HILLIARD'S REFORT, The anoual report of Adjt.Gen, MiIlfard for the year 1877-'78 {8 out, uud contains un ex- hauative roview of the pust year, with a full ace count of the rints, ete., with reports of the sev- crul heads of Departments, aml a number of suwgcestions from the Mujor-Uceoeral, Burzcon- tiongrals, und the Asslatant Inspector-Geuerals, Iu reference to this sunual report, Maj. Jubn Lunizau, Assistaut Inepector-Geucral of the alm Bt‘l[\uh:. writes the lollowlng comwuniea- oui Ta the Editor of The Tridune, Cuicago, Fob, 22,--In thy_anuual report of the Adjutant-Genoral GC the Stats jurk puviiebod, thero Inapactor of th Flrst 1 n the condition of th Hecond Ttegimel srhich was not intendes for_pablication, an to the proper statna of the commanil At the time of inspection, The roport was, fu my opinlon, nnjnst, in that & sbseqnent Inapection” wan ordorod and performed, dunwg which & maorked improvoment ml taken -place; #nd a report covering this inspectlon was fore warded fo the Inanccior-General, which should have taken the placo of the former report na to the rowinont's conuluo“cle.. under date of Nov. 17, 1878, The fitat report was maddnnder nnfavomble efr- cnmstances, which were smmediately after im- proved, so it ie due to tho command that this ez- planatlon shonld be made. The suggestion tn ro- eard to tho placing of funds In the hands of tho Nrigade-Quaricrmasior was to systematizo thelr distrivution, after ascertaining the waits of the several commanda belunylng to tho First Drigade, 29 In my opinion n distursing oflicer in necossary In anch” on vreanization, 1t was not intended to reslect in the Ieast on the capability or lonesty of thoso afticers in whose hands tho funds were ai the timo the suggestion was offerod, JonN LANtoAN, Major and Asaistant Inspector-Goneral Firat Brig- ade, L N, Q, GRAIN INSPECTION. DETAILS OF THE SYATEM. Fow persons, even nmong those directly en- gaged in the ‘graln “trolilc of this city, have a detinite idea of the machinery through which the important scrvice of grain inspection (s per- formed, From small beginnings and {n a com- paratively short period of thine It has advanced, step by step, with the gratn trade, uutil it has become a department of very consfderabla pro- portions, employlng in the actual work of in- spection on track, aml canal, aud elevators, twenty-eight Inspectors who nre stationed on the scveral rallroad tracks und elevators, to- gother with the Chief Inspector and three Asslst- ant Inspectors who supervise the work of the entiro department for the purpose, maluly, of maintaming untformity of grades. 1 THE BTATIONS FOR 1N-INSV'ECTION are as follows; 1, Chicage & Paciflc Rtallrond track, ofiice cor- nee North Halsted nnd North Branch; J, B, Fiteh, Third Assistant Inspector. 2, Chicaro & Narthwestern Rallroad, Wiscon. sin Divislon, and Milwankeo & 8t. Paul-Rallrond tracke, cornor Canal strcet aud Carroll avenuo; I W. Porter, Sceond Assistant Ingnector, 3 Chicago & Nuriwestern Raflroad teack, One lena Division, Park Statlon; F. W, Boudreau, "Third Anaistant Inspector, *4, Chicaro & Northwestern Rallroad track, near City Elevator, corner Sixteenth street ana stowart avenuo; WHilam Smilio, Second Asslstant In- spector. o engo & Northwestorn Ratlrond and Pitts- burg & Fort Wayne Rallroud tracks, corner Six- teenth and Jeffenson streota; N, D, Buiilvan, Scce ond Assistant Inspector, *0, Cnlcugo & Enstern INlinols Railroad track, corner Leavitl and Kinzle etreets; 8, Wilder, Third A tant lm‘wuwn 7. Iitinols Contrall Rallroad tracks, footof Sonth Water streeti . G, Buckloy, Second Assistant In- apector, A "8. Chlcrgo, Burlington & Quincy Iinflroad tracks, cornee of Sixteenth street and Centro avenue: N. L, [rwin, Sccotd Asslstant, and Wil- fam Bidweil Third Assistant Inspector, *0, Chicago, Alton & St. Louls teack, cornorof Ilahuted streetand Archer avenuo; Charles Carroll, Second Assistant Inspect *10, Chicopo, Rock nd & Paclic Raflroad teacks, cuc-shops, Forty-sevonth street; I W, Fitcb, Second, aud M. Hanley Third Assletant In- spector. STATIONS FORt OUT-INSPECTION, * *1, Armour, Dolo & Co,'s Elovators A and 13, ofiica corner of Sixtoenth atreat and South Brauch; Jo . Butte, Taird sssintant Inapector, 3, 81, Louts Eluvator, coraer of alsted atraot and Archer avenuo; . Colby, Third Aseletant In- spector, lonat Elevator, near South Halsted atreat B, Canfleld, Third Assistant Inspeclor, 4. ' Elevator, corner Twenty-third stroct and South Branch; J. F, Kendall, Third Asalstnt Inspector. i Chieago, Rock 1sland & Pacliic Klovator *4 A, * oflice soutly end Twolfth streot bridgo; D, D, Ja- cobs, Third Assistant Iusnector, (. Chicago, Rock Island & Paclfic Elevator ** 1B, " ofico sam pinco; James Carroll, Third Assistant Inepector, 7. City Elevator, corner Lumbor and Datas streets: P 0'Connor, Third Assistant Inspector, 8, lllinols Iver Llevator, West Water streot, betweeen Madison and Washineion streota; W, A, Walker, Third Asslstant Inspector. 0. Cunalluruou G, L. Parker, Thira Asslstant lne spector, "10: Northwosteen Eloyator, cornor West Wator and Indiana streotss G . Burkman, ‘Third Ase sistant Inapector. ' 11. Cnicago & Pacific Elevator, corner West Tranch and Hatsted streot . Bi Fiteh, Thirg As- siutant Inspector, - s 12 Alr-Line Elovator, corner Franklln and North Water strovts; Jobn Kolley, Tled Assist- ant Insocelor, ~ . ” 1, Galenn Elevator, cornor-Rnsh nnd XKinzle streets: [ W, Leland,’ Third Aslstant Inspoctor, 14, Contral LHlovator, foosof Sbuth Water stroct; Taylor, ‘Third Asyistunt Inspector, 5, " Panville Eievator, corner Hickory streot anid Ashlund uvenue; 8, E, Farsyth, Third Assistant Inspector, g Supcrylsing force, main ofiice 168 Washington strect—John ; P Ticynolde, Chief Tnspector; U, 1. DPartier, Firat Amststant 'luspoctor; John Link, Second Awslutant Ineveetor; ‘Thowns Vorter, Sec- ond Awsistunt Inwpeetor. Statlona murked with an astorlsk aro connected with the main oflico by telspnone dircet. In addition to the foregolng, the Department employs four oflice elerks, one messenger, aud ue collector in the wuln ofllce, und olzht hielpers,” who nssist the Inspectors on teack, Tlie uveraze cost of both fnspections, nnd in- cluding alsu registration, fa about one mill per bushiel—rather leas, "The Comnlttee on \J:penln conslsts of T, W, Dater, 8. D. Foss, und T, H. Seymour, ofllce No. 150 Washington stroct. ‘The Assistant Iua[wctorn have been employed on the Inspection lorce from six to elghteen years eoch. ‘I'he registration relates only to the record of the tssuance und cancellution of recelnts given B\ the warehouses for graln dolivered to them and delivered out by them. ‘The work is per- formed by the Rtegistrar, Mr, B, F. Culver, nnd lx clerks, but no fces are charged, the whols okt belngr paid from the receipts for inspection aud ineluded fu the mill per bushel above res k‘-rm: to. The oflice is No. 156 Wushiugton Btreet, TIEY WANT TIEIR! PAY. TIE MULLIGAN GUARDS OF 1871, The militfa who wero called out to protect the clty from the thieves and the thugs at the thoe of the great firo In' 1871 do not proposo to willingly let the memory of thelr valor dle, or thelr servlees go unrewarded,—it they can belp it. Delieving that the warrlor, as well as the luborer, I8 worthy of hls hire, they propose to strike the elty, or the State, or somcbody, for thelr pay. Itls now neorly elght years sfuco they stood around the smoldering rulns sud vonsented to “ sacrlfics thetr timo and thelr conveniencs for the publlc good aud 3 o day. In that long interval repeated attempts have beon made to milk the pubile treasury of thelr pay, but for some reason or other both the muulcipal und the State Audders buve falled to “give down.” Nothiug deterred, they have armed themselves with wilking-poits ond milk-stuols, and propose to tr it agatn. This latest effort was started some 1wo or three k8 ago, when a munbor of thy clzen soldie roto tu Christian Mcier, one of the Buclnlist members of the House, and asked bl to exert Miwsell in thele bebalf,* Mr, Mcler hunted nr the reeards, found the report of the State militha to the Adjutant-Ueneral for 1573—tho curllost his could wet—and discovered thut the document was sigularly sllent on the subject of their employment, ‘Ilien hs went to the Adjutant-General, who could only teli him thut his recollection waa that there were flve compunles, outside of Cliicago, who were called out by the Governor, and who only were en- titled'to receive und did recetve pay for thelr services, ‘Uhe absence of anything on the sube Ject tn the report for 1873, or, indced, fn any other ducuments that could be found at' Spring- flold, was somothing that the unpaid militia vouldu't exactly uccount for, ‘The recollection of the prescut “Adjutant-General, however, ac- corded’ fn the main with the statements con- talned In 8 lolter to a member of ono of the companics from - Adjt.-Gen, Higging, Mu&x!.u. 1874, 1o that letter it wae stated thut $2,000 had been appropristed by the previous General Ausemibly to puy the militia compunies which did duty ln Chicago i October, 1871, under orders of the Uovernmout. The law was #0 worded, however, according to the lotter, as to exclude the L‘hlcugu rum'pnnlun from the bunelits of the appropristion, for the reasan that they wero nob ordered out by the Governor, ‘Tha letter closed with the stitenicnt that the appropriution was for 81 per day of service, but thut ‘the limit was $,000, which would only pay the companles from other parts of the State, ‘Thie fuct remajued, bow- ever, thut the militia did duty, and that some- body called them out, und thut they were prome faed pay for thelr services, and the t thing to do was to get hold of the somevody, usk him what authority be bad to call’ thein out und make the ch promises, und then decide what furiher steps they should take to got their pay, Bo a meetiliy of representatives of the suvernl companics waa held yesterday afterncon at No, 150 West Lake street, whers tne whole business recelved o generous airing, und a - committes of fve, couslating of ¥, Wickmunn, L, Brandes, Wills fam Bohn, Huus Miller, aud Adolph Osterman, suvolnted to futerview the then ofticers of the Firat Reglment, und afl others In authority, at Abut weworable period fn Chicago's Listory, aud aiton Elevator, cornar Carroll nvenuo and-| il what.chance the; ors, stind for wetting thelr Week, thetefure, It e’ quite 'lJmu Nite, (en, Shoridan, ex-Mavor Mnson, Uapt. Flscher, Mnj. Vender: Cal, Usterman, Capt. Paul, amd possibly ofhers, Wil ho vislted by (e Committee and. naled n fow pertinent questions on the subjeet matter, Wion thy Cunmilfitw seciires the desired amount of informatlon it will order another meeting, and the combined wisdom will then determing what fa ipost expedient to bo done. ust what the bill will be s not knowt, part of the men baving been led to ex- peet §3 a day, nud another part $2.95, or pollee ey, Altogether ‘thie were ten companies of alxty men each,!rerving from clehteen to twenty days, buat the cxuct number of §6 nen nml &5 min 18 one.of the things which is yet to e igured out, © BT, PATRICK'S DAY, TREPATIATIONS ¥OMN 1TS ONSERVANCE, The Irish-American Counctl held anadjourned meeting nt Maskell’ Hall yeaterday alteruoon, Alexander 8ullivan In the chiair, A rosolution was miopted by a risng vote autlorizing the Président of the Councll to cause the memorigl pdopted by the United Catholie Sociotivs of. Chlcago on last Thursday night, concerniog the late Blahop Foley, to ba transeribed and appropristely mouuted, and sont to his mother fn Baltimore, A committee, couslsting of tho Grand Mar- shal and the Hue Marshals of the varlous soct- eties, wore nppointed to arrange a route of pro- cesslon for Bt. fatrick’s Day. ‘Ihe Commit- tee-wero out nearly an hour, and on returning made a report whicl was a vietory for the re- form clement, who favor short routes for pro- cesslons, Scvernl amendments wero offered, some of which contemplated taking the procea- cosalon ns far north ;a8 Chiteago avenue and ns far soutl as Archer avenue, but theso minend- ments were o)l réjected, amd the report was finully adopted by a declded mnjority. The following {8 the “route swreed upon: The socletica will form at the corner of Monroe and Desplalues streets, amd morch south on Desplnitces to Harrison strect: west on Harrison to linlsml: sotith oo’ Halsted, to Twelfth; enst on ‘Twollth to Wabash avenuo; north on’ Wa. bnsh ovenne to Lak the aforerakl protectyr: pay, During the probably that Gea, o streat: west on Laka to Btates north on State to Indiana; west on Indiana to Desvlntnes, and south on Desplalnes to 8t. I'atrick’s Church. s ITunor the Muyor, the Clty Councll, nnd the very Rev. Johu. MeMullen, ‘D, D,, Vicar- General and Adminlstrator of the Diocese, were Invited to review the procession, Motlons were ndopted Invitlng the Flrst and Second Regiments, the Hannibal Zouaves, the Sixth Battalfou, Luckey's Zouaves, and other military orgranizations tu foin In the procession. Tt wos nunouaced that (e Grand Marshal, all the Asslstant and all the Line Marshols would mece next Sunday afternoon at Maskell Hall, ‘The President of the Council congratulated the members upon thetr action indicating o dig- position to shorten the route of procession, und Imnml this was tho Inauguration of a unl(f‘y which would lend to celebrations more signifi- cant and more edifylug than those which in- ¢luded only street parades, Ife hod n sugazes. tion to offer conceruing thelr action this yenr, Wwhich lie was confldent would meet with o hearty response froin every one present, ns well a8 from those whom ihey represented, e satd oneof the last public” nets of the Inmented Bishop Foloy was tho_cextenslon of aid to St Joseph's Orphan Asyluw, Perhiaps thero was no ono of all the. charitable institutlons fn which the good Blshop took so much Interest as in the Orphan. Asylum, The Asylum, unfortunately, was in debt. Besides, it neoded enlarzement. There were in the Mother Superlors hunds now applieations for the ndmisslun of o hundred little ones wlom she could not accommodate for want of room. An enlargement of the Asylum was, therefore, an imperative nacoas!y. Iy suvizested thut some nieshs bo devised for the taking ap of o collection fram the procession as [t passed some given point. 'The proveeds should be used for the construction of an addition to the_Asy- lum to bo kuown as the *“Blshop TFoley Mentorial.” Surclv no more worthy method could be adopted for the celebration of St, Patrick's featival; he' know that If the lato Bishop could spealk, he would nssure themn tlint no monument conld be bullt to perpetuate his memory which would bo so grateful to him ns a bome for thoso to whom b was so thoughtlul, and 8o kind a puardinn, The supgestion was recelved with declded mnnifestations of approval, und a motlon was odopted by a unanlngus vota that a collection be taken up on St. Pojrick’s Day from the so- cictles i processjon, and‘tlat the Rtev. Mother dJuseph, Superior of the Asylun, be invited to neeept the contrlbutions as e procéssion passed # polut on the routo to be deslenated hereaftor, "The Councll then adjourned, subject to the Presideat’s call, . ‘W. H. HIARPER. DECISION DY THE SUIREME COURT, Among the opinious fled at Otiawa Baturday wad dno roversing the declsion of the Clreuit Court In the case of The People agalnst William 1. Horper nud his bondsmen, This was a sult brought to recover 8 butance of $25,000 which was fn Iarper’s hands at the time of his re- moval from the position of Grain Iuspector in 1875, the fees having beon suiflelently [n excess of the exnenses of the offiee ta allow of the ac- cumulation of such a sum. ‘The money, it is allegud, Was on deposit In the Cook County Na- tlonal, und wos swept nway by the bankruptey of thut concern, 0 Buit was begun fn; 1877, and in May of Inst ear the matter camue up for hearing heforo Judee Rowors on a demurrer, which the Judps sustmined, holding that the only persons who could sue flnrper Wera those from whom these excessive feos had been collected. The suretfes —Col. Ingeraoll {8 one of them=—-were not called onat the time the bond was made to contom- plnte the possibllity of being held rosponsible 1ur fees accummtlated in the hunda of the prin ul, beyond the umoint for running oxpenses, 0 such lability conll cxist on a falr congtrue tlon of the bond. He would huvo to sustaln the demurrer on the eround that the breach asslgned wag not of 8 duly:.contempluted chther by stutute or the surcties when they sfcned the bond. 'The constitutional question s to the valldity of the Grafn-Inspection law would be left to the Supremo Court. ‘That budy hus now ncted, sntetion law, und hotding that Hoeper or his suretles nrolfuble to the Railroad und Warchouse Comnmissloners for fees on hand, low this do- clslon s to bo recouclied with the previous ono {n the Tompkivs case does not appear, TIHE VOICE OF THE PLEOPLE. Tho Schiool Tax, o the Editor,af Ths Tribune, Cinoaao, Feb, 23,<My sthool tax in Cook Cuunty I8 between $700 und 8300 each year, I want Germun and drawlie taught o all of our public sehools fn the county. If I had fitty klrls und titty boys, vvery ono of them should lewrn the Gurman Lingungo, it bas always been ereat embarrussnient to mo In my busi- hces affalrs Ip not understanding the German language, There ary plenty of teachors in Cook County that can teach both German and English a8 chieap us the Kugnsh is taught now, L. W, Broxa, Whauts to Go te Lendvlilo, To the Editor,af ‘The Tribune, Cutoaao, Feb, 23,—Will you kindly inform mo If there 13 any agency or company in the city that will send people to Leaville, th bo relme bursed by lubor after arrival there! I would like Lo go, biit through an’unforseen uccldont | lately lost what few doltars' [ hud accumulated, am theretore unable th pay my way, 1o years ok, strouss, healthy, nud willlng to worl cun refer anybody to, oF bring referoiicea from, sume of the lewdbig merchants of this city, It Buy such exist, plense 'stute Jocation, or would you allow them to drop-a lue, cave Tiinune oflles, Lo yours respectfully, Jonert B, Ronents, sustalning the In. The Dutol! Langunge, To the Editor 0f The Tribune, Ciicaco, Feb. 23.—Tlhers scems to be a dis- nosition to reuew the! phouctle question, the object belng to shnplify and abbreviate the ex- {sting methods of spolling. Some of your cor- respondents have given epeclmens of thie fn- tended reform, at Teast so fur as certain words are concerned, I obsy; 've that it 18 proposcd to soell the word “ you!¥ yu, - If there fstobe a change why not adopt the Duteh form of the word,—the stmplo ut Why 18 uot u for e see- ond person ua correct 'nd “fonetle” us 1 for the lirst person? 1f weliould ve spelled you, thew J should bo spelllitf @l or ay, Peoplo often write the words ¥ 1 owg you ™ thust 10 U, nud how can that be fmproyéd upon? It savea four~ seventls of the lmmfim shace, und uny cblid can loarn to spell thob@ thres words in that Hfanctie" way in threw feconds, 8peaking of Durch w Dutch spell is the samp, doubtedly got the word from tho “Low Coun- tries,” 1o thejAnglo-Baxons came from lotland, Holstelu, and” lavover, ‘Fhe Germuus speli 14 fshy the Latios esf, and the Greek ally whilo Wo Duwtn spell f fr, wad kds remluds me that the we do, und we un- that form the Ll have ndopted, who have examined Uie Duleh tongue no- tica o clurer Feacmblaneo hetween it amd En- gheh than between Gorman and Enelish, Let e mvan fow examules of thia slmilnrity: “Wan de hond onder lgt, ol do wereld wil liem biten,"—When the hound under los, all the world will him bite, (It will bo observed that @'l and roid nre spelled with onc . It would bo lurd to ulive o goall renson for using two.) Take snother example:s “Een goed vriend I8 beter dan zilvor en goud"—A gaod friend ia hettor thanallver und gold. (Fhie Duteh ** buter? Is botter spelling than the Engitsh botter, with itn duplicate ¢ {u the word.) Another sample: + Wat au nuchtere denkt, dat apreckt de drou- kaard,"—What the sober man thinks, the drunk- ard speaks. And this: ¢ \Vat u niet brand, dot koel nelt,"—~What burns yon not, cool not, _ ‘There fa n limlly of course, to theso sinllirl- Uen, In many Dutch senierices scarcely a word would be reegnized by oo unacquatuted with the lunguage, Linao. Are MMorses More Preclous thnn Women? To the Fditor af The Tribune, Citicado, Fob. 23.—I want to tell you that at lenst one reader of Tz SUNDAY TRILUNE was Immensely aratified to rend your editorial thereln deprecating such exibitions of ** endur- anco as that of Mme Ln Chapello last weck. It 0 man were to drive a horso so rolentlessly— no matter how splrited the horse—the law would intorfere for the horao's enko, 18 a wuwnanless worthy of presersation than a horsed I do not undoryalue the development of human muscle, bt I not its nbusu at lcast as inbutan es the abuse of equine muscle? I glory tn exhitations of human endurance, to any endurable extent consistent with life and henlth, Peralstence be- yond this Is, ns vour cditorial well says, " im- moral and dearading,"—cruelty, with noadequate cxcuse. [low o nan, elaiming to be humai, of- flelaths elther as the pedestrienne's manager or physician, could sauction ner still further pro- ]i’"“hi‘"' the torture, 18 beyoud the comprehon- slon of M. Dy Baking-Powder, To the Edilor of The Tribune, Criioago, Feb, 23.—The manufacturers of baking-powders, in the vindication of thefr products published in Baturday's Zimes, state that alum buking-nowder Is ns harmiess as that ' tnade from cream of tartar, To tell it fn their own lnuguage, the cream of tartar powder ‘‘leayes nothing but u little Rochelto salts, and the alum powder a lttlo Glauber's salts, equally barmicss,” Now, cream of tartar is composed of pottassn ond tartaric neld, and the chemical reaction be- tween this and the carbonato of soda, also con- tained In the powder, is, thut the carbonfe acld of the soda 18 set free, the tartarle nefd uniting with the soda sud pottassn, forming the tartar- ate of soda nnd pottussa (Rochelle salts). But in the case of alum we have anotlier ingredient sbove thuse, the reactions of which arc anal- ozous to the Inst, that {s aluming, which is tho princlpnl part otelay, and is left In the bread, Lunalvzed a sample of atun powder, aud, as the analysis [s very simple, uny one cun onsily find whether the hnklnfi powder they use con- tuins alum or not: 1esolye n small quantity ot the powder fn water, und when it hos scttied pour off the elear liquld, and to this edd am- monin. I nlum 18 presont iu the solutfon, you will gret a dense [perecinitatd of alumina, ~ In the samule annlyzed by me a_tablespounful of baklng powder gave about hall an ounco of aluminn. As theabove quantity fs the amount used In loaf of bread or pan ‘of biseult, for each loaf of brend a person cats ho takes into his syatem nalf an ounco of slumiva,or clay, Ory in othier words, as the vest varieties of chinas waro are altmost pure alumina, and, supposing a cutn und suirer vach to welgh four oynces, ho would eat as much clay as would make his cup and saucer in enting slxteen loaves of bread. Aluminn 8 also the basé of the netal aluminum, which is the chief {ngredient in the slloy called orfold; 80, putting it in snother 1lzht, enourh of this metal would pass Into hiis syatem in thie course of a fow weoks to make o dozen orfold wateh-cases, What the effect of such & diet would be we w il teave with the physicians, but when they tell us that the chemfeal results of oue powder is practically the sawme a8 the other, they do not Elve us thy facts, A. JAMIESON, Lifo-Insurnncu, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cutoaco,' Feb. 22.—Every Individusl and every corporation organized and dolng business In the Btate of Tlinols is oblged by law to bear o share of thd burdeos necesenry o order to raise n revenluo to support the State, The busl- ness of lify!liisurando exacts moro monoy for lesa valuu that any othier known oceupation,—a fuct demonstrated by the last annual statement of the Mutual Life of Now York, from which 1t appears that that Company bos aceumulated 1n less than thirty years eighty-seven millions of dollars,—twenty-one millions more than the comblned capital of nll the bankers in the City of New York. In olubt years—from 1560 to 1876—thls Company took from the people of this State In pretmiums four millions of dollurs, nnd returned one million for death lossce. By ita charter, nomoney of the Company can b Iuvested outside of the Blato of Now York, nul the threo mitlions of dollurs profit was romoyed from this Btate to be cared for fu the City of New-York, In the same period all the componies dolng business In the State recelved for premiums thirty-two millions flve hundred thousaud dollurs, of which they roturned for death losses ten million two hundred thousand dollars, leay- g u not surplus of more than twenty-two mill- fons of dollars. And yob this busloess, which When ita true character beconies known will bo publicly brauded 08 a fraud and a swindle, paya no tax3 contributes not a dollar toward the sup- pulrl( of tho Governmenut which perinits -4t to exist. 1t 18 8 well known fact, capablo of proof, that these life-nsuranco companies annually coxpend lurge amounts of money which belongs to thelr volicy-holders to dofest wliat they are pleased to eall hostile leglslation, "Fhat 1s, when a bl is introduced inauy State Legislature which bas for itaund the finvosition of a tox upon thy business, agonts aud lnbbylsts are ot onco sent armed with funds to dofeat the bill, and gener- ally they do defeut it. 3 ‘the Chamber of Life-Insuranco In Now York was an organization tarough which the tunds of the companies wus nxg:mdud. ‘They all con- tribute, nnd whon o Leglslature was to bo bought ora bill defented the Chomber of Life- Insurance did the work, 1t Is not supposed that there fs tho sllghtest probability of the passage of an net imposing n tax o this business by the present Leplsinture, but thut fa no reason why the 2ubject abould not be agitated, (roror A, BuurBLDT. Bpelling-Roform Iristles | &Spectal Dispaich {o Tha Trivune. Cittcaao, Feb, 23,—It to-day's TiinoN® was o faie fudex of the public futerest In the Spell- Ing-Roform, some system should bo adopted right.off, or the English innguage will soon bo 08 Bubelistic as thu staves of n hooo-bursted washtub, “Vox " favors having long vowels Indlcated by o termioal o, Here fs “reform™ In a vow rulse, While roformers {n this lino generally concede Uit slleut o should be dropped, *Vox* would “plle up the acony "' by nddlng etobe and me, o und ra, T und oy, ml 0, no, and yo, ete, 0, boel thut'll bes now Rus—as ag recform! “G. C. 0. hauls G, D. B, ayor the conls for his fuconsistent spelling, a8 o would-be reformer; aud Q. C. 0,," i his article, In one place spells should shud wid fo another ADULTERA I have carofully analyzod, and Mioroscopically, “Oswogo Pura Staroh” and ¢ Oswego Bilver Gloss Staroh,” Both Samnples are caroful proparations of quito free irom any ad- Lime, or any othor de- mineral mattor, or adulteration of Maizo (or Indian Corn), mixiure of Sulphate of scription ot any kind, The gluten of the grain has been onromllfv arated, and tho Starch contains no traco of No purer articlo could be introduced into the ' BERNARD DYER, F. C, 8,, Member of {he Soclsty of Fublic Analysis, Cliemist to- the Dovon Cnumulv' Agricultural Association, market, The Notts, Chismber of Agriculture, &c, #hod. n't this rather alipshnd spelling] The Amerlean ' system spella should shawd, and why! Becouso w Is, o8 its name implics, double-w, with the soundof uain foll, wnd 1t alwava has that sound, whather before other vowals, as in will, woll, worle, water, ete, orafter o' n the necessary diphthong ow, as in hound, town, our, foul, ste. In all other. Ulnuen 1t {8 atent, nmd uacloss, John W, Whinfleld thinks the preaent spoll- lr‘l)( helps to A1l out amd mako a beatifut picture, Well, Mr. Whinfleld, overy man to his taste, but don'tbon floating straw. Pitch teht in for sour stde, wl have a spelled abrh, nnd me inlegh, and o ough, and Jighol Whifo it mpy lnck’sensc in some cyes, It will probably bo areatly inereased in braughltfgh inyours, flure rawe phorr the beauyhte ghfull! but don't insinu- ate that cditors, a8 o class, aim wninly to fill up thefr papers with letters ‘that will veeupy the moat rovmn_In proportiun to the fdeas,—much writing and Httie thought. ** A Lndy " wants to know if Lhe spelling re- form won't render somo standard works use- leasl Docs the English Innguage render choleo works in the Latin lauguage, for {nstance, uso- lesst Cannot people who shall have the timo aud the desire to read such works ng sho men- tlons devote the threo or four years necessary to the present difffcult spelllng fust ns well, If ro- form-spelling is adopted, as they, nnd everybody olge, who learn to rend ot all, can—and will be obl:'fed fo—it 1t la not? Mra, M. . Walker restlcssly wreatles with the multitudinous diagraphs, But there are np diagrapiis that our present lotters will not spell elmply and accurately, excapt that of th in this, that, ‘those, the, ste. This the * Amerlcan a{llum supplles, with on h crossed near the top, Hke o t, thus forming a combined t and b fn the spaco taken by h; und this character fs called the, and used when nlone for the oft-used word **the, or {n conjunction with other let- tera for tho aforesnid sound of th, The legiti- mate sound of t und h fu thin, lso of sh and ¢hy can 18 well and properly bo spelled by those Jetters, in the new systewm, as now. As for such o dlu&nph as sh (a8 In_azurc) being cssentlal, I will bow acknowledzniont to any ong who will deinonstrate it. Nobud{ will be misled by pro- nounclug szurc distinctly ns spelled, u long at the begtining of o syllable slways being pre- ceded by the sound’of short 1 (ory), and the short sound of u nlways hnvlnt: Nluhnserlefl, as In vision. Noj the best spectacles I bave yet found have nat enabled e to discover any vew requisite In “the diugraph liue, except for the sound of tin the, Wit M, D, CANADA. Lnlior and_Immigration—Salbath Obsorv- Anco=Tarif on ConleAdultoration of Food—Ald to Colonlzation, Apecial Disvaich to The Tribune. OTTAWA, Fob, 23,—By fuvitation of the Gov- ernor-General, Dr. Edward Young, lato of the Buresu of Statistics at Washington, walted upon the Governor-General, and presented a copy of his book on ““Labor fn Europe and America, elogantly bound; and alao a copy of his work on Tmmigration, glylng information to immigrants seeking n home In Amerlea. His Excellency ox- pressed great pleasure at the recoption of these books, the eubject of Inbor and hnmigration having engaged s serious consideration. e inquircd na'to the causc of the decling of im- migration to the United States in recent vears, and exoressed his carnest destro that n work similar to that of Dr. Young'’s fn regard to the United States gbo prepared, showing the induce- monts offered by Manltobs and the Northwest Territory, and widely distributed, In an inexpons slve form, throughout England and Scotlund, In the House of Commous, Mr. Christie pre- sented o petition from the General Assemnbly of the Presbyterion Church, pruving that steps should bo taken to sccuro the botter observanco of the Lord’s Day In the Provinco of Quebee, where Postmastcrs aro requirea by law to keep their oftices open for a timoe on Sunday. A motion was earrled, asking that the reports of the arbitrators appointed to fnquire luto the matter of the boundardes of Ontarlu and the uu- organized “Territories bo brought down. ' The mover said he favared the Prunc!lllun of creat- ing o new Province out of the District of Algo- ma and the territory between Manitobs and tho new westerly frontier of Ontario, It 1a suld that a Cabinet Minister has been en- .| denvoring to win the support of Membera of the Hlouse by promising a speclfic duty of 75 conts ex ton on oll kinds of coal. He not only urom- sed that such aduty would be lmposed, but s;fld that to do 80 was the Government's luten- tlon, A report on the adulteration of food has been Inld before the House, 'x'lv Commlsplongr of Tularid 1vbiise, 15 L Hotioh, 5308, bk, il thie year, un nnulysln\‘na mado of samiples of the following proutets: Allspiea, huklur;—nowdur, bread, butter, cauned fruit, cassin, cloves, cins namon, chocolate, cocon, cod-liver ofl, vollve, cream of tortar, cgg-powder, ginger, it~ Hquors, milk, mustard, peppor, potted ments, preserved veeetnbles, Bausngos, sweets, an tea. ! 818 - samples onalyzed, . 523 were unadulterated, 271 ndulterated, und nine- teen doubtful. Qut of 178 sumples of milk, Mfllunt¥ were adulterated. Forty-vight samples of collee were npalvzed, and thirty-slx of tho uumber were adulterated. Tllll‘lyi!th! Bam=- plea of mustard wera snalyzed, and the whole declared adulterated. Ul pepper, uvcn?'vumh: out of forty smmples wers odulterated, ‘fhe report proveeds to state that, without Including sugar in which giucose was found, or chocolsto or cocon, both of which are lareely composed of farinnceous und ssccharine mattet, exactly one- third of the snmples were adulterated. 'The presence of glucose In small quantitios (s some- tUmes on - unintentional ~ incident, but its preacnco in large oronortlons can hardly be other than jutentional; nnd {t may bo necessary o flx a legal llmlt above which ita presenco shuuld by beld to be fraudulent. While only nine ndultekated samples of tea out of nifty-thres were found, vot this is not proof of little ndulteration, {uasmuch ns the adultern- tions weroe of a very bad desertption, nud fu ona samplo the nualysist says ho did not find nuy ¢enuive tea, During the past year thero ling been three roseeutions for offenises araluat thy Adulteration-of-Food set, tvo for refusing same- ples, und oue for seillng adulterated mill, Suectel Dispu.. in The Tribune Lonpoy, Ont,, Feb, 23.—The Colonfzation Ald Society has appolnted a deputation to go to Ottawa und represent the views of thu 8o clety, with the object of securing Government nhlbn the movement for settlvinont in Mau- Itoba. COMMODORE VANDERBILT. s Sayings us Tostlfled to by Witnossos Oalied to Bustain His Will, 41 put my trust in Providonce, boeause Providence fs a8 aquuro as o brick,!! “Paor Hornco (F, Clark), he broko himself by trylug to bo as big u man as I am,» 41 would rather have glven 1,000 whares of Central stock than have bad that horse (Mount- ain Boy) die” & Bpeaking of the Erlorond,tho Comniodore antd : A man going up sud down'hill don't got along as fost us o man on the lavel. We've got a luvel road, aud wo shall get nlony fast,” During this time he anee called with Gen, QGrant upon the Commodore. When the latter cume down-staira nnd saw Gen, Grant, ho ex- clatmed: Why, Ueneral, you'ro nothing but a boy." When Dr. Deems sat by the Commodore's bedside fauning him,the Commodore remarked ¥ poctor, all “you'vesald has had uo moro welght with e than thut fan you hold {n your band,? * Harry, amillion or two |s camuch asany ong ought to have.” “ Well, Commodore, theré ts o very casy way of getting rid of the reat,” +¢No thero ulu't, for what you have ot fsn't worth anything unl, an by and i€ you_ glve a0t the bower, the wl%lrul."' s lzu #utblus sou givg ;;:7‘ Gen, Dutterfleld at on, ;1h'r Commudoraationt bufi\'ltl(én : hl(ilthrd T savenuo o tho presencs of u'rn,“'\m ¥ s Commordoro st By orn ' Crea Before you know it those thlepes |I¢)MI"" City-Hall will haye s mortgage on uW"x' ‘Ehe Commodure told wityes % atairs’ very' Into onu!nlulncn:n(I:'r‘:lnh*m'“"' nratoga, and found Torace i (R _Sv:lm". and 50me others nluvnlucnnl"u'l Ax rCoom. There - belng po Btakies fy mh,-(' Bmmnmlum asked ‘what they werg lm ome ono auswered, W For fu, i x"n"""-r"" ll%lczm 8nld 1o withess whey {elling (e’ Com. e Iden of four grawn nien Waging rores ozothir ot thak tiin of might for hoI¢ Cardy ‘The Commodora aityq harl beon Cireuintey it it b st ead, ndlu it the objuct o §a'iL! ho did 1t an 10 alfect Tive vyane oftle" 1 sald you have got i then thé stock wlfi fall, waat It hadn't ought Lo, for Iye o fool enourh to et tis thins toetlycy 1o 180 1t scuttered after my deathoy g o't 10 barg %0 on the market,” =tk § sharg ) mer, tate, st i DRUNKENNESS, Dr. D'Unger, dlscover of l.llisselnuhon: flruukonneu. cures all cuscs, Itogn 21“" s Palay GH,LETT~Cora , s and Birs, 1 ONIeRE 20 Heke '“"""”"‘“"'}”",’flwlr, reallence, i 2o £:1,00 (e moralnz of Fob, 35, ageqy Lo H mahthe, Funcral aeevices ot re m. *Caretagon i6 Uskwong, *° TOSIS, Fob. 2435 DCatsy « Schlesswoh, ageq yun Tu TN o g ot 4 i Salirday, 1 Tglirt Magnor, nyeit 40 years. ¢ Sarah, wiyy 20 uneral servicy | s I otiocks, o, Tuadnye Hoon s, 0 Dewboray, AN~ Jullus Newinan, at Wabahe (v, Suliay r{x:}%vnl‘t:?nrxl;. Follh et v i idence Tueniny arreps 00 2 8t 3u'clock, " Friunds of the famnly R FZ~Clneinnati and indianapolty § 3 Papers plg ence, ! wiageat., Sir, 5 g aged b1, Notict of funeral hereatter, JUIINSON=] o SUOUNSON=1n thle elty, an Saturdy, o g 139 STatli0] Jommsondar: Peb 2ty aughicr o'y, 2 yearnang g J T8, Row0. Jolinsun, ayed Tho_funeral. will ‘takn plaé I'('lluwm(:el uy:l'n;'r’ '\‘\)'.ullrlnl"tu{(ll'l')flsf..l:r T ‘J{!’xni‘x"x‘.’}&'a? trlends of tiy f o neteq. it ALDUIDGK—In (] 2 E witsur Ton G, Aldriger 7+ ¥ 2 Eiluabey 1, fiotiea af th funoral wiil bo gtven herearyer, $7 loine (N.'Y.) and DUbLANO (10, paskr s ANNOUNCEMENTY, Biidhd, MIE LIBERAL RELIGIONS UNTow :!.‘ oy nL.EL‘u \Inltarian :..-nammn'fv’r:l ln';f‘z.rifufi'l; “fll‘ifl;‘,'!‘“' Chrlatlanity from Constaaiine 19 Theu. AUCTION ~ALE A AR A e e A Y GRO. P, GORE & GO, B %0 and 52 \\"nflmfk-. L0y REGULAR TRADE SALp DRY GOODS, TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 9:30 A M, Pankrunt Btozk Tallors' Tel; . Gl Muttics, Flower R ward's Nuedlg UEO. I GORE & €0, Auctm, if 1, Wednesday, . Foh. 26, af 930 3. g, prompt, wo'shatl sell by eatalogue, 3,300 CASES Boots, Shoes & Slimpers KO CROICER GOODS ARE MSDE Than will be in this salo, and ovary thing a retailer roquires in STYLE, QUALITY, and WORKMANSHIP ‘WILL BE FOUND. Catalogues and Goods ready for inapaaflon Ifondsay. GEO, P. GORE & CO.. 80 and 82 Wabuhear, B\' VWL AL BREVEVEUAIREN & EU-. &t Auctionvors and Foal en 173 nud 175 Ravdolphest, 670 MILWAUREE-AYV, STOCK OF A DEALKI CROUKERY, YELLOW AND (ILASNIA MANGES, FURNITULE, STORE FI) X AT ATCTION, i Monday Siorning, Feb, 24, at 10 ociock, at siore Milwaikco-a A. DUTTERS & CO., Auctioneers REGULAR THUISDAY TRADE SALE. STAPLE AND ¥, " DRY GOODS, WOULENS, FURNISIIING GOODS, &¢ BANKRUPT STOUK OUSTOM-MADE OLOTHING, THIRIDAY MORNING, Fob. 270t 0:300 clock st earoot, 173.6 TS A YR co., Auctoreens e WM A BUTTLIRSCR, ductioiens BYFLERSITIN, BARKER & NEW AUCTION FIRN, AT OLD STAND, 84 & 86 Randolph-st, OPENING SALE, Wednesduy, Feb, 26, at 9:30 a. m, Wo will close out nl} comlfmnrnllu[ the firmof . D Sturk & Co., conslatlng of u number of Chamber and Parlor Suils, CARPETS, And General Housuholy Guuds, Geaers! Merchaadiey Talttve clo ¥l DL M, NANDEIS & COy B> T3 aud 74 Wahash-ay, AT OUR REGULAR SALE OF BOOTS AND SHOES' AT ATUCTION, Tuesday, Feb, 23, at 10 o'clock, We will offer the finost stock ‘;f Mon’s nud Women's weny over 0 fered at Auction in this city, Uall and examine the gous FLOWER PEREUNE rrmm s . bl eryetesceoed FLOWER 7 i ~ = CELERIATED THROU(H Yum i Unlon—ewresl & al parts, 110 and. mi-\'fiuh‘ P oz per lon Al Sriets GUINTIER, Lot toner, Chleaze. READ TEITSSTY RATION STARCH. whole of thom to be adulteratod w. orsl ovop nearly 40 por cent of earthy 3}‘ E;:ml =¥, matter, This found to gonsist O _otter 9 both Chomioally whito, torra alba, or sulphato of 1mo. samplos of Kingaford’s N Y, 'fim“, Qot, b, 1878, KIN sope auig. Cousulting : AND I rocontly purchased, ) ot tho same neighborhood, & sorics of O 5t pricos: or starch, puying for thom threo (_ilu‘i"" und U On subjocting thom to “Blymhb 20,30, and GSFORD’S OSWEGO PURE SILVER GLOSS ~ STARCH LAUNDRY . MANUFACTUREERS ! IS ABSOLUTELY PURE. i on the ssmo d“’;';,‘,‘,‘,?m found th? FOR THH P L -§ [1EEECE®. ., F— 1 = R T ]