Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1880, Page 7

-Spontine (two of “fee and “Aknown to ristmas, Preparations in. the. - jops---Good Times: for the Little Ones. cipations of a Dull Holiday-Scason att a Society---M. Grery at & Concert. My Pritctim o Heotor Berlior’'s “La Prise de Troie---An Operatic Master- “piece. pes Tide ", Divoree uarrel with Mgr. Guibert—The Question: in’ France. fence of The Chicago Tribune. 10.—Still the same. lanpering a 1d, white shect spread over the city, the setorardly all the signs of intense gloom’ aascomfort. But it is. different if, turning: * ‘pack on the strects, with thelr chccriess Tors of snow and ice, you 100k into the shop-windows. that are now being dressed and beautified for Christmas. ™ ‘WONDERS UPON WONDERS your attention. ‘Thousands upon thou- sands of glittering toys are there for the chil- dren; dolls arrayed in costumes red, white, and plue, yellow and purple, silver and gold, for the girls—guns and swords, drums and. trumpets, errs end soldiers, for tho boys. For tho elder folk there are miles upon miles of lace shawls, cart-loads of costly carpets and rugs from the distant Orient, housefuls of cunningly-worked ‘pronzes, and more things - besides than I.could tell you. Where all comes from is only less mys- terious than where all gocs.to. ‘You would say, now, thst the contents of one single shop like the’ Magasins du Louvre" or the Bon’Marehe would be sufficient to satisfy the Christmas crav-" ings of 4 whole clty.. And the Louvre, with its ' 900-odd roome, the Bon Marche with its acres of shop-window’ and its miles of winding passages, are but small specks in the immense assemblage of similar places that tempt you to spend your saoney foolishly-at this season in: Paris. EVERYDHING THE MOST INGENTOUS FANCY COULD forthe amusement of good boys and girls is piled and stacked away in orderly compartments ‘atthe Magasins de Louvre. There never was a transformation-scene in a Drury-Lane panto- mimé ngare gorgeous. In the evening, 25 you hms bome past the shop, all ablazo with color and sparkling in the concentrated ght of a hundred electric candles, you-icel almost en- vious of the littié Ones, to whom all this tinsel is pot asham, but a grand and delightful reality. Only the poor children are somewhat forgotten by the shopkeepers. These pretty gew- gaws aré for the most’ part beyond the reach of. the. artisan’s’ and the. laborer’s Yoss and girls, But their turn will come presently, .on Christmas-eve. or thereabout, when the annual fair will again be held on the Parig boulevards. There will be toys and trink- cts ofall sorts, anid to suit all purses, sold be- ‘tween the &th of December and Twelfth-Night. "Froxi s “Society” point. of view, this Christ- mas does not seein likely to be particularly brill= fant. We hear little of dances and merry- makings, outside :a. very: limited. circle.‘ Our masters and Ministers (probably disheartened by the grayness of the political horizon) fight shy of balls and receptions. : e . le : 3S. GREVY, t a the President, will not throw open the salons of the Elysee for quite six weeks yet, and even then we shall get buttwoor three faint glimpses of the Presidential splendor (most modest splendor itis. Certainly, next to Grant, M. Grevy is the ‘most silent President the Republican 'world has Been 60 far. He scarcely ever goes out into pub- lic places. He writes next to noletters. And he makes no epeeches unless he is actually driven te. when he makes them us short and to the point as politeness will allow. A new P atthe Francais, and a con- cert atthe Conservatoire or the Chatclet, alone seem to’have power to draw the President from his seclusion. His ‘love’ of ‘music fully. equals his passion for chee ee tarde. Last Supday, he went to the Chatelet, with his daughter and M, Turguet, to hear Berlioz’s -threc-act opera, “La Prise de Trofe,” performed. He had a very hearty reception from the crowded house, when he entered the box, on the first tier, that had been fitted up for him. I mention this specially, for itbas considerable significance. the Chatelet audience is hulf, at least, composed, of students and young people—the flower of ‘the schools and the cream of the Quartier Latin, Hardly Jess warm and spontaneous was the greeting Biven to < :MACOLONSE, the enterprising conductor of the Chatelet con- certs, When he stepped quietly forward to his ‘desk and raised his baton to direct the execution of the opening bars of the opera: Well served applause, too. ‘There is no man Living in France who has done more for the musical art than be. The production of “La Prise de Troie? isnot the least of the: many services he has ‘ren- dered it. Both-3f.Colonne and ‘Mf. Pasdeloup Fere struck withthe idea: of presenting this bitherte ‘Snperscrm sd opera of Berlioz to us this Season. M. Pasdeloup got the start of his rival for once, He had the first two acts of the opera ‘executed at the Cirque last month; and on Sun- gar, like 3f Colonne, he gave us the whole work. ut, in his eagerness to get ahead, M. Pasdcloup imperiled the success of the opera. When beard the first act of “ La Prise de Troie” at the irque, three weeks sung by Mme. Charton- Demeurs and M. Piccalugu, and -played by an ‘ietentra that had evidently not sufficiently re- Aearsed the work, itdlsappointed me immensely. At the Ohatelet, last Sunday (possibly in some Measure becat I was more familiar with the paris, Dec. D wise music), it struck me ,AS BEING PARTICULARLY FINE. ‘The second impression was certainly the cor- ect ae: There are few nobler works in the tole range of dramiitic composition than’ La Frise: : ‘Troje,”—though it is not, in some ways, all adramatic work. What I’ mean is, that, yale Berlioz's music is in most:partsexcecding- y fitted to the dramatic situations, the situa- ns themselves and the plot of the opera are ‘Tinlly‘adapted to the requirements of the stage. c opera is, as it were, a string of int a its,—badiv balanced, and often written ‘ore (one would think) with a view to their per- nee in 8 concert-room than in 2 theatre. a Course, ‘the instrumentation is masterly, 1s in a imost every composition of Berlioz. The whole pera is cast in ihe herole mold tnt Gluck: and ‘erlioz’s early idols) so loved. ng of Gluck’s stately shaplicity is noticeable pihemelody, but it is characterized by greater Teens, and ere, deeper, earnestness Ithas » breadth, and power. There isa Quo in the first net which could ‘ This pen DUT BE MATCHED IN ANY OPERA. - is mast by Cassandra, sod her lover. Chorehe. e CO destruction and desolation of Iium, besceches her lover to a4, leave her toher fate. Chorcbe refuses. of quo vontinues for along time in the shaj Pen log. At the close, the voices blend in howesncble burst of song. The second act, Tt connie OF far the best and most effective. tains two superb marches, onc of which een musicians as the “ Marche Troyenne”) rs in another work of Berlioz’s,— Les : Fe Carthage.” Besides these, there is a man, be ‘borate octet, which pleased me less than 4 ty neighbors; and, finer than all,‘ there pied Most eloquent descriptive music, played a ae appearence xd the widowed Androm- iy DOr ae Ene third act is dramatic, Second. I should hesitate-to adviso -ant puratle manager to mount * La Prisede ‘Troiey” lesshe were actuated by the most noble and motives. a Goestnice PERE DIDON, can friar whose eloquent and brill- gut sermons atthe Church of St. Philippe de Pane pave-been tho talk of ‘all ‘fashionable the ai ‘ora month past, has suddenly incurred ispleasura of bis ecclesiastical superior, ase. Guibert, Cardinal-Archbishop of P: His pertignce has been brought town abrupt. stop. Sere Didon has, as I told you in previous letters, joer caching a vigorous anti-divoree crusade, aeons Ais best, by Subtle argument and scien: ever n Pscudo-scientific lore, to show that, how- Sen Etteg divorce laws may be to some other Patras they were not, and never could be, whee to France. He latcly took up, the some- Paradoxical position that, in all. énlight- med and advanced countries, a tendency was Hea ceable to return to old-world and _conserva- Digg wotions on the subj ject. Each of Pere ‘ike 's Sermons, Sree ifr Arey rere more than ordinary homilies) has. bi sharply eritivised and warmly culogieed by the 1, however, organs of public opinion. bare united in rendering tribute to the eminent? - Wy Christian and eourieaus episit of Pere Didon's * this t, Itis, possibly, : ead “VERY: COURTEOQUBNESS— . ~ ity and readiness to listen tothe opin- ous of tis adversaries—which has led. lim taco ditcuitics with the Archbishop: Mgr. Guibert Floms to have found a smuck of the dangerous Temmewoxy of the Lacordaires and the Monta- anwersin some of Pere Didon's recent, utter- navet Perhaps he feared that he t soon e/a Second Father Hyacinth on hands, _ 789 he came to: the conclusion that it was high <tme" the too popular young ir reacher “wis hea + and reminded of the implicit obedience wed to Mother Church. From the fact that age Didon is to resume his sermons (changin; inpat biect of them, however) at abother church intertsy-the Trinite—next Lent, it'4s safe to Guibe the difference between him and Ber, rt bas net yer, at least, assumed the pro- of ascandal, If anv cay young Ameri+ CHICAGU. TRIBUNE: YSUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1880-SIXTEEN PAGES ‘|a small apartment, not" over 16x10 feet and it is far shorter than | widow'thinks ‘she has of bécoming.'| drawhig a pocket-knife, cut hi the ‘as a good time to wind up, and thus the: Sirs. ‘Didon, she .is likely, I fear, to. He bitterly forehead. ‘Then he MEET to eee by Meola. ‘They say they will pay off ‘aolley disappointed... .: Hapry MELTZER, * nunning out: of the front door, but he was for dol ats Ag at thom, autckyy on thate z a” ir Hy a on purstied and captured’ by Officer John dang- Segurities: terest, ‘and parties owe a “as cHIcaco. : alarm from Box 42 at: nae hen was ‘preceded by a still alarm to the Fire-Insurance Paitrol,"ias caused Yy fire breaking out'in the private. office of W. H. Bradley, Clerk of the United States Dis- trict Court, located on the third floor of the National LifeInsurance Building, Nos, 161 and La, Salle street, and: directly over ‘the entrance to the Sub-Trens- ury. The. fire was __first’_ discovered by the watchman, William Flood, who saw smoke and flame'issuing from. the win- dows of the office, which open into Arcade court. He gave the alarm, and the cry was taken up.by citizens on the.outside, by whom “| it was borne to the. fire patrol. The: watch- te men in ‘the building, throngh excitement, neglected to open the outer doors, and the firemen were compelled. to break them in. Once they: reached the fire, they made short work: of--it -The office is - quite jn dimensions, “and. contained only a large* ‘Writing-desk, and *a quantity of apers and documents ‘of all descriptions. ‘he damage was entirely confined to this Toom and contents, and will not exceed $200, ‘The loss of the papers, itis fair to say, will not be of any great importance. As the origin of the fire, there are several theories, first of -which is the watch- man’s idea that ‘the steam-pipes set fire to some papers which ‘had become. charred: by contiuned heat. “In support of ‘this, the- steam-pipes, though the night was wann, were found to be greatly ‘overheated..- The firemen thought mice or rats playing witha box of matches furnished a. more reasonable solution. x “sg hi Last night's fire-will be a warning. It had‘ a good start, and a destructive fire in such a building could not fail- to result in great, if not irreparable, loss to. cash in’ the’ Sub- Treasury, and to valuable Dapers and docu- ments all throughout the building. The alarm from Box 35 at 9 o’clock last evening was caused_by the burning out of a chimney at No. 163 State street. No damage. AT BALTIMORE, MD. Barrmiore, Md., Jan.3.—At noon to-day five steamers were throwing water on the cotton stowed in the warehouse of Thurston, Harris & Co., at Buchan’s wharf, which took fire last night. Over. 3,000 bales were in the warehouse, of which John Merryman & Co. owned 2,600; fully ‘insured. The estimated Joss on‘ cotton will be fully 60 per cent. The warehouse belongs to Letnmon Hevis, and is atotal loss. Insured for $20,000. : Randolph & Jenks, a Philadelphia firm of cotton brokers, had 1,100 bales stored; in- sured for $138,000. William E. Hooper & Sons lose about 140 bal insured for $5,400. The. grain, flour,and other- produce in ad- joining warehouses were damaged somewhat ‘by water, but-the owners, David Dows, Trail & Gambrill, and Harvey &.Brothers, are in- sures i Several firemen who ventured into the warehouse were overcome by the stiffing at- mosphere, and were borne off insensible. ‘When: windows burst open.from the heat, the volume of smoke was so dense the fire- men could not see each other, and had to feel their way. The wharves were crowded with people, and :several fell into the dock, but were rescued. When the south wall fell, a munber-of firemen were on the roof of an ad- joining building, andthe following were se- riously. injured: - Daniél. McIntyre, John iser, “John: Bfurray,.. John..J. Medfahon, George .W. Miller. foreman), John T. Cos- thrown into the ditch, grove, William T. Akerman; Alfred Squier, ohn McMullen, and William E. Rodenhi. . The fire is stil burning to-night, and three engipes continue at work. e "| AT NEW CASTLE, IND. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, . . New Casrtx, Ind., Jan. 3.—This city was visited by a disastrous fire yesterday. “About o'clock a fire was discovered in the large frame’ residence of J. K. Mowrer, on-Broad- way, opposit the CourtHouse. Before water could be obtained the fire had gained such headway as to be entirely beyond the control of the Fire Department. The flames soon: andere: long ‘The Office ”. sa- Toon’ and the apbthécaryStore'of Dr. Needham were ablaze. .The Mowrer building was oc- cupied by Mr. Mowrer a8 a residence; Mrs. Ramsayer with a stock of millinery goods; I M. Jones, insurance agent; Mrs. Wisehart, and Mrs. Clift, and Phil Jones as a residence. The inmates had barely time to escape, and but very little goods or property were saved. The loss on building is estimated at with no insurance. Mrs._Ranisayer has $400 insurance on stock. Dr. Needham's loss will be 3100, and_ ‘The Office”: will lose about $500. The City Bakery had goods damaged to the amount of $300, mostly by water and carelesness.: The origin of the fire is unknown. ‘ MILWAUKEE POST-OFFICE, Serious Charges Against the Manage- ment—Palpablo Violations of the Statutes. A * - Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘ DULWAUKEE, Wis., Jun. 5.—The Sunday News will contain astatement, obtained from a discharged employe, of the inner workings of the‘ Milwaukee' Post-Office, which it spreads over some three or four columns of its space. Stripped of-all its unnecessary verbiage and reduced to its merits of fact, the * article amounts to simply. this: It claims to have, discovered~ that inen employed upon outside-and private work have been borne upon the rolls of the office and paid by the public funds;.that the Assistant, Postinaster, D. W. Fowler; hada direct.and monetary in- terest in the contract for the delivery of the mails, in palpable violation-of the statutes; that competent ‘and faithfi officials have’ been ‘discharged to. make room for political pets, and specifies instances. Accompanying this is the general charge that the Post-Office « has been, and. is being, managed to subserve -local party. ends, and that under this system sitions in the office are bestowed as rewards for political service, without regard to the merits or capacity of the appointees. The knowledge of this discovery came to tHe ears ‘of your correspondent toa late to enabdle him to see the implicated officials and ascertain what they haye to say in’ regard to the charges.” - 4 SUING*FOR .A CHURCH. >": Bpectat Dispatch to The Chicago Sr. Lovis, Jan. 8.~A_ suit’ was filed to-day in the St. Lonis Circuit: Court of decided in- terest, since it revives ante-bellunvissues, and promises'to engender a bitter feeling between the Northern and ‘Southern branches of the Presbyterian Church... The property involved. is the’ Walnut Street. Presbyterian Church property in-this city. When the ‘split. on the question of. adhering to the Union or going -with the South came in War.times, there was a division of the members of the church.into two bodies, the Union body retaining pos- sion of the-chureh building, The other party still retained ‘an organization, and claims to have been and to have continued, the real Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, with whom the property: should have re- mained. The property involyed has become very valuable. phan rte - . LATE-LOCAL iTEMS. p _. Frank Radog, of No, 184 Augusta: street, ‘Was killed on the Butterfield road, fear Elm- -hurst, Friday night-.'The deceased, his brother; and brother-in-law were all capsized in a ditch, and Frank falling. bericath, the wwagon, which was ‘heavily loaded, was crushed to death, “The Coroner will hold his inquest to-day. <* ie : evening at dL “Some unknown. person: last o'clock fired off a revolver in front of No. 189 Fourth avenue, and then ran away. The bullet was doubtless fired.at random, but it Nery. nearly Tesulted in. the-death of one or more persons. crashed’ through .a rear window of 2 baj at No. 406° State si ect and buzzing. quite closely over the ‘heads 0: the inmates, who were at luncl:-in the room, buried itselr in the wall... old; after a stiarp pursuit two or three bloc! mia th, He Toe Jocked up at the Madison- ‘|. Street Station, but was too ugl: drunk to, } give any ‘forth aS of the al ; er, particulars of the affray, lack’s‘wounds are not considered serious. ; It was yesterday. reported that William Buekindahl, an employe. of. Willfam Siever, while crossing the.Grand Trunk Railroa with a hay-wagon at. Sixty-third street run into by a construction-t on the East- ern Indiana Railroad. The -horse was. dead, along ‘with the wagon, and’ Buckindahl was carried -along upon the.train for nearly a mile before his cries were heard. He was badly cut and bruised about the head and face, but it was thought he would recover. He was taken first to the residence of Mr. Eberhart, of, Chicago rday. »- 3D oeop es -.. CASUALTIES, «|< 2/4. GAS EXPLOSION. =; New Yorr, Jan. 8.—Much excitement was caused among 2,000: people at the matinee in Aberly’s Theatre by the: explosion of gas be- hind the stage. Theré was.a heavy escaj and.a search for the leak. with f lighited match caused the explosion, and a cry,of fire followed. No one was hurt, the stampede being soon checked. am SERIOUS ACCIDENT. * Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. NEWCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 3—The Hon. J. C. Huddleson, a prominent citizen, met with an accident, which may result seriously, by being thrown from his buggy: last Thursday. » DROWNED IN A CISTERN. Jensey City, N.J., Jan. 8.—Mrs, White- more, aged 24, fell head foremost into a cis- tern at Elizabeth yesterday, and was drowned. before she.could be taken out: f ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE. . The Daughter of a Proiminent Detroit Grain Merchant Elopes with and Is Married to 2 Wealthy Young English- maui 3.25 Special Dispatch-to ‘The Chicago Tribune. Dertxort, Mich., Jan. .3—At a late hour Thursday night a prominent citizen, a mem- ber of the largest grain cominissiqn house in this city; who'has recently returned from Europe, called at the Central Police Station, and, after holding a hurried interview with the:$ergeant in charge, sammoned a car- riage, and ywas driven to the residence of the Superintendent of Police. That official was called up and accompanied the grain mer- chant to the telegraph office, where the two passed an hour or two sending messages and receiving others. They then left onan early train yesterday morning on the Michi- gan-Central Road. “The second -scene in the little comedy Is located in Jackson. Thurs- day night Officer Webb. Rowan was in- structed by telegram to arrest an eloping couple coming: west on the Pacific express. The train was two hours behind time, but on its arrival the officer boarded the sleeper and had no’ trouble in finding the: persons de- scribed in the dispatch. _He took them from the train to the Commercial Hotel, where the young man arrariged for the immediate sum- moning of. a magistsate for the.purpose of uniting himself and‘the young ladyin mar- riage, the ‘latter ‘seeming correspondingly anxious to -have.the ceremony performed. One of. the City Justices directly put in his appearance, and the flurried couple were quickly: made one. On the next train the father of the young lady was a passen- ger, but soon learned that his daughter and her lover were husband and wife. He nevertheless repaired to the Commercial Hotel, where she received ‘him with an.em- brace and a kiss, and the remainder of the day the trio spent in each.other’s society. All returned on the express east. No one in Jackson was able_to learn who the parties were, as they would neither register at the hotel nor give names. ‘The scene again shifts to Detroit, and -fo-dayyithas.,cranspired that the young lady was the 19-year-old daughter of the grain-merchant referred to, and that she left home on New-Year’s cyen- ing ostensibly to attend a -party. Her prolonged ‘absence excited suspicion and investigation: Her © lover, an Englishman, whose acquaintance she made while traveling in Europe, is said to be wealthy, and the elopement was:planned not because he is objectionable to the bride’s parents,- but’ because they opposed a present union, and wished the event defer- ted a few years. To this the enamored couple dissented, and, when overhauled, were found to have purchased through tickets to California, where they proposed to remain until the ‘parental storm blew over. The parents of the bride have accepted the situa- tion with the best grace oasis, :and she is now back again. beneath the family : roof. “ Alls well that ends well.” Strenuous ef- forts have"been made*to keep: the matter quiet, but the gossipers have already given it considerable publicity,.and it has created a sensation in high-toned social circles, A MILWAUKEE. ROMANCE . ‘With a Spice of Tragedy in It. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. * Miwavgee, Wis., Jan. 3—A romantic love affair, with.a sad sequel, has developed in this city.within the past week. -Thé fam- ily of the heroine of the romance.reside on Third street, between Grand avenue and Wells street. Itseems that she had formed the acquaintance of a young man employed in the cigar snanufactory of Edward Ascher- marin & Co., and permitted him to call upon her. The acquaintance ripened into love on his part, but not.qn hers. Therefore, when he proposed marriage she rejected hign’say- ing that she did: nod, and never-could, love him. The -parents of the \ young. lady interceded -for:the’ rejected’ suitor with such persistence that She: finally consented to marry him. The. éngagement,” like many another:similar,one, proved’ short- lived, however. ‘The, poor girl found that she could not cultivate. love for the man of her unwilling choice and rejected him finally and absolutely.” When fhe baffed lovér found every appeal‘in vain, he becanie frantic, and, Striking -a ‘tragicair, invoked’ the ‘curse: of Heaven upon‘her, and called upon the ‘spirit of his departed mother to appear at her. bed- sidé'in the dead ‘of, night with a lighted candle in her hand, and thus. disturb her sweet repose. - This curse, uttered withthe yehemence of distraction, tell with crushing force upon the mind of the agitated and-su- perstitious. maiden.- She brooded over the portion that xppeared mostterrible to her,— the nightly visitation of the ghost-like form of-the young. man’s mother, clad in the gar- ments -of «the Brave, until. at: the imagination. resolved itself into such realistic’ shape that she actually believed she saw. the spirjt. form approach her bedside, candle in. hand, and heap mute imprecations upon her head. The shock of the apparition proved too great for her frail system. She sickened at once, and.two days later; despite the efforts of the attending ‘physicians, breathed her. Jast,. In her dying moments the rejected lover-appeared at the bedroom sloor,: so.the -story runs, and essayed to approach’ the sick girl. .She saw him, andy) eine, too weak ‘to articulate, impatiently waived him, ‘out of her’presence with uplifted hand. Still. the parents ‘arged hint to ‘go in and see her,: which he'did, knowing the while that he was; violating ‘her dying wish not to see her any. more. In the announcement of the death of the young lady -under such peculiarly sad ‘eiroumstances, heart-disease was ascribed as’ the cause, in accordance with the diagnosis of the'case made by the physicians, aig th FINANCIAL, : ~‘Mesrms, Tenn., Jan. «3 M.' Sampter, -wholesale clothing, made an“assignwhent this morning. The. creditors are- principally in “New-York: ‘J. A. Fischer was named Trus- ‘tee. The liabilities are about $75,000. As- sets not.stated. _ he ie San Francisco, Jaii"3.—President Cai Gi ‘dinaioan Suibrea the ines et lobe Fie imm ithe saloon of Louis Slac! No. 54 West Randolph street, shortly before last midnight, and almost immediately got -into’a quarrel with ‘another and: unknown Man, because he'was talking rather freely.to Nellie English; . a -prostitute frequenter of the" place... The - saloonkeeper, seeing ..that trouble was... imminent, jumped in between-. them, -.whereupon itzsimmons tumeéd upon hin foriously, and, f the’ Capital Servings Bank, Sacrament e eaking on bebait of the Directors, says that, real cause of the closing of the bank was, the.belief of the Directors that savings banks cannot: be_successfully.carried- on- under the new’ Constitution, and~‘the ‘Directors are ttred of “working for dividends for depositors only. “The assets of the bank, they stale are fully.equal to all the Iabil ties, and the batik" is perfectly solvent, but this, being” the ‘close of the dividend Lawn, and thence to this city yes-, t+ ww: Ioans at less ie eghange to nesioners examined Fame Monday and foun solvent, and the -Di- rectors. thought they could close their bank- ing business in the face of that report with- out discredit. ‘ WHAT THE CHINESE BUY. Curious Things They Buy to Cure Sick- ness and Gain Strength—Breeding In- ‘sects to Procure Wax, : ‘London Pall Molt Gazette, 1 ; Opium and cottons, and tea and silk, con- stitute in the estimation of most people the ‘sum total of the foreign trade with China. ''To such generalizers ships’ bill of lading are unknown documents; they do not know, apparently, that cotton and opium do- not supply all that Chinamen seek from foreign- ers, and that the laboring classes of the Em- pire are not all employed in cultivating tea -and manufacturing silk. . These: articles are, after all, only the big fish which come to the trader’s net; and,- when. they fail, there are plenty .of smaller fry which help to: supply their place. The Chi- nese boast themselves of being a civilized people; but though their philosophy is cred- itable they are unable to provide their seam- stresses with any but the clumsiest of needles, and though they can calculate eclipsés with ‘commendable accuracy they have failed to conttive anything ‘better ‘than flint and steel wherewith to light the wicks :|-floating tn ofl which serve them for lamps. -| These imperfections in the domestic economy of the people, being universal and ever-pres- ent, cause the appearance of a box of Bryant & May’s matches or. a packet of Kirby’s needles to be received with expressions of leasure which would make excellent models for the conversational advertisements now the fashion. One can imagine how enthusi- asts among the purchasers of the 75,129 gross of matches imported into ‘Tientsin alone last year would dilate on the superior ease with Which they are now able to light their even- in Jamps. and how the female owners of the 273,500,000 of needles, which were fellow- yoyagers with the matches, would clatter over the excellences of the foreign manu- facture. But many other things go ta China besides needies and matches. ‘hinoceros horns, tigers’ bones, and deer and buffalo sinews are imported for the benefit: of timid and sickly Chinamen, who seek by swallowing decoctions made from. these promisin; stances to acquire some of the strength and courage of their original owners. And there is no lack of’ enthusiasm pniong Chinese gourmets for the succulent beche-demer, which the shallow waters of the islands of the Pacific Ocean yield at their demand, or for the birds’-nests which lend such.a glutin- ous charm to their favorit soup. No other swallows in the world but those which build their nests in caves on the sea-clifis of Java and Borneo are able to produce the last most precious delicacies. Newly-formed nests or nests in which the eggs are freshly laid are most prized; and these have to go through a process of cleansing before they are dried and dispatched~, for the China market, where, however, if-in prime condition, they reward their captors at the rate of . 36 ‘shillings _ per pound. ‘Among more materially-minded purchasers window-glass, wately dyes, paint, and other “sundries” find a ready sale; and peacocks’? and kingfishers’ feathers are eagerly bought up to adorn the hats of mandarins whom the Emperor delights to Renae and the head-dresses of fashionable ladies. e In return for these and other imports China sends into the outer: world medicines of far greater value than those she accepts from it; though she has evidently some cus- tomers who are fond of rare remedies, and who look“with a strange faith to lily flowers, ginseng, and.lotus nuts for relief from some of the ills which flesh is heir to. Even from the disease-begotten tuber known as China- root, which grows from the roots of un- healthy fir trees, fanciful invalids extract a cure for diseases as unreal as the remedy em- ployed to dispel them. ‘Another export due to an unhealthy condition aggravated pean uncongenial climate js the white wax of Sze- | chuen.. In the Keen-chang distr t ‘Ovinte~ there.*-grows'-in “abundance the iqustrum lucidum, an evergreen tree with pointed ovate leaves; on the twigs of which myriads of insects Spread themselves like a brownish film, in the Spring of each year. Presently the surface of the twigs becomes incrusted with a white yest substance se- ereted by the insects, and it increases in quantity until the latter part of August, when the twigs are cut off and boiled in wa- ter. During this process the wax, rising to the surface, is skimmed off, and is then melt- ed and allowed to cool in deep pans. By one of those curious accidents which have done so much to increase the knowledge of man- kind, it-was_ discovered that by transporting the insects bred in Keen-chang to the less congenial climate of Kea-ting Fu, in the north of the province, the amount of wax produced was vastly increased. No people more readily discern a commercial advan- , OF More speedily take advantage of one when unincumbered with political considera- tions, than the Chinese; and this singular effect of removing’ the insects from n con- genial climate to one so’ uncongenial as to prevent their breeding was eagerly taken ad- vantage of by the Sze-chuen traders... Trav- elers ty night on the high road between Keen-chang and Kea-ting :Fu may meet in the «spring of the year hundreds of wax merchants, each carrying his load of female insects, big with young, on their way to their wax farms in Kea-ting Fu. The journey is rough and long, .and a fortnight’s sun would precipitate the hatching, which should take place after the females have, been attached tothe trees. To the unscientific eyes of Chinamen the round, pea-like female ap- pears to be nothing-more than an egg, and this belief is the more excusable since the birth of the young is the signal for the death of the parent, of whose there remains only as evidence an outer shell or husk. * Six or, seven of these prolific mothers are wrapped in a palm-leaf and tied to a branch of the Ligustrum lucidum. In a-few days swamns. of infinitesimally small insects creep forth and cluster on the twigs of the tree, where they fulfill their mis- sion and perish with its accomplishment in the boiling-pot each August. Baron Richt- hofen considers the value of the annual crop tobe on an average upwards of $3,250,000, PANIC INA THEATRE, Mempnis, Tenn., Jan. 8.—At the matinee at Le Brinos’ Theatre this ‘afternoon, during the first act-of the “New Magdalen,” while Miss Ada Cavendish and Adelaide Cherie were on the stage, acry of fire was started, and inamoment the whole house was in confusion. ‘The audience, composed princi- pally of. ladies, was very large. A general tush was made for the exits. ‘The alarm roved untme, but two or-tiree ladies fainted, and the curtain had to be rung down before order: could was resumed after a delay of fifteen min- utes. --Fortunately no one was injured. “, °°. WHAT TENNER SAYS, Crxcmynatt, Dec. 3—Armen Tenner, a man well versed in Scientific matters, las re- ‘turned from a visit to: New: York, where he went in the interest of the Cincinnati .capitalists, to examine the Brogress of Ed- ison in: the electric light, He reports that Edison has really achieved little that was not known to science fe years ago, and at- taches no importance to the statements that. he had solved the problem of the distribution of the light. : FAILED.. /Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tetbune, East Sacrvaw, Mich., Jan. 8.—J.P. Derby |. & Co., wholesale and retail grocers, executed Fa. chattel. mortgage to-day on their ‘stock and personal property to 103 creditors, . hi ve re Wi Cage bythe City-Treasurer under @ tax- “warrant. —————_— -OCEAN-STEAMSHIP NEWS. Loynoy, Jan. 3,—The steamer Silesia, from Hamburg for New York, put into Plymouth with her rudder damaged. vee Queenstown, Jan. 3.—Arrived, the steam- er.Spain, from New York. te ~ ts TlaniFAx, Jan. 8.—The steamer Henry An- f , from New Orleans, twelve days from Rouen, put in here to-day, short of coal. pein oe AAS -_. THE PANAMA CANAL, hes York, Jan. 3.—A ‘Panama special says De Lesseps expects aid from England. ‘Hejfifs received overtures for the fusion of iS Scheme with ‘that- through Nicaragua, trict of that. |. oth revious existence | be restored. The play. and that he has no fears of any competition under Gen. Grant.. The new company is to be called the Chagrés Canal Company, to pre- ere. a ical name, as in-the case of ACADEMY OF DESIGN. An Adjourned Regular Meeting of the Academy of Design was held yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the roomsof the Lydian Art Gallery, corner of State and Washington streets. President J.C. Cochrane occupied the ghair, and there were present Messrs. Paul Brown, Heo, Peterson, J. J. G. Berghoffer, | Enoch’ Root, Louis Gregort, D. F. Bigelow, R° W. Wallis, Charles Peck, G. C. Collier, J... Robertson,’ J. R. Stiles, b. ¥. Schwerdt, J. @. Verbeck, J. R. Sloan, A.D. Beecher. = ‘The Committee on Schools made a report rec- ommending that the tuition remain at the old rates,—viz.: $10 per month, attendance daily from Ba, m.-to4 p. m.; half’ attendance, $8 per month, for three days oach weok; to -be paid in advance for a period not less than one month. ‘The ‘report was spreduetive of considerable discussion. Two plans were suggested: The first to receive and instruct such scholars as the cademy should select in the rooms of the artists; and, the second, to hire a room for the purposes of instruction. After a d_ deal of talk the report was adopted. is, of caurse, simply determined the question of tuition, with- out in any way settling the question as to when, how, and where the pupils were to be taught. i. B. Dixon, the architect, was proposed as an associate member, and L. E. Carr elected an Academician. The resignation of Trustees Ferd W. Peck, James H. Dole, N.!K. Fairbank, D. W. Irwin, Robert Harris, Charles E. Culver, and Mui Nelson, and W. L. B. Jenney, a member, were re- eclved and accepted. An election to fill the nine existing Arastecships resulted in the choice of the following-named gentlemen: C. F. Schwerdt, Charles Peck, J. C. Cochrane, Enoch Root, R. W. Nal D.F. Bigelow, A. D. Beecher, G. J. Ver- eck. ‘The offices of Gi UL, Dunlap, W. T. Baker, and John Crerar, ss Trustees, were formally de- clared vacant, those gentlemen having come un- der the constitutional provision creating. yacan~ cies in case of refusal or failure to serve. Paul rown, H. E. ©. Peterson, and.J. R. Stiles were elected to fill the vacancies so created. = Mr. Pickering having resigned his place on the Hanging Committee, Mr. Carr was appointed in bis stead. - Oe % The President expressed the desire of several members to provide for an entertainment sim- ilar to that given in 1868, but as the hour was late the matter wasreferred to the Entertain- ment Committee without discussion. 4 ‘The Acudemy then adjourned. ‘The artists belonging to the Academy who are interested in the projected life school say that it will be actually started this week. SECRET SOCIETIES., The officers-elect of Lumberman’s Lodge, No. 717, A. F. & A. M., were installed Wednesday evening, on which occasion the retiring Master, W. A. Wright, who has filled the office for the last two terms, was the recipient of an elegant pold-headed: vane asa token of esteem by his rethren. Past-Master Pratt was very eloquent in ranking the presentation, which was suitably responded to. ‘The installation of the_officers-elect of Posmonoiifan: Lodge, No. 6, K. of P., will take lace Thursday evening. ‘The officers-elect are: . C., E. E. Comstock; C. C., George Andrin; V.C., James McGregor; P., August _Goodkind; DM.of E., George N. Lydston; M. of F., Leonard §. Hudson; K. of R. and8., enn Bank; BM. at 4 James W.. Stone; ‘Trustees, Henry Gant, George N. Lydston, W. Bowden. The following officers of: Miriam Chapter, No. 1, 0. E.S., were last evening imstalled by Mra. Pitkin, the Hight Worthy Grand Matron: Wor thy Matron, Mrs. George H. Beale; Worthy Patron, J. M. St.John; Associate Matron, Miss Inez Deiuce; Chaplain, Wellman 3f. Burbank; Treasurer, Mrs. H. E. Mallory; Secretary. Miss Jennie Hodgson; Associate-Conductress, Mrs. T. J. Morgan; Warder, Mrs. Sarah Marshal; Senti- nel, Hugh Robertson; Adah, Miss Aveline Gloa- son; Ruth, Mrs. J. Mf. St.John; Esther, Miss Nellie Kelley; Martha, Mrs. J.’ E. Pettibone; Finance Committee, Wellman M. Burbank, Daniel Mason, and Parley P. Faskett. The installation of the officers of Union ark Lodge, No. 610, F, & A. M., occurred at their hall, 681 West Lake street, Monday evening. The elowiag officers were installed by Wor- sbipful Bro. G. P. Randall as Most Worshipful G, M., assisted by Bro. J. R. Wilkins as Sfost Worshipful Grand Marshal: J. C. Cluett, W. M.; Albert Bayer,S. W.; I. C. Carlson, J. W.; C. Bunge, asurer; Jt Beomer, Secretary; Benjamin Beemer, S. D.; John Buolley: J. D.; 0. 0, M. Brady, 8.8.; J. P. Jergson, J. §.} William. Keeling, Tylor. After the instullation ceremo- nies the visitors were invited by the members to participate in a bounteous repast in the ban- quet-hall adjoining, and, after faking part there jeasant by 2 in, the occasion was {further made eloquent speeches from W. Bro. Randall, W. Bro. Smith, Bros. Wilkins, White, Haight, and a ne A “Super’s?? Lament. In the “Stage-Door Stories by Those Who En- ter It,” recently published in London, Arthur Mathison is the author of the following amus- ing‘ Wail'‘of a Banner-Bearer,” in which will be found a good deal of fun and not a little truth: Hh “Well, what ifI am only a banner-bearer? ‘There's bigger blokes than me what begun as ‘supes,'an' see where they -be got to., Why don't I get there? ’Cause'I ain’t never had the chance. You just let me geta ‘ ing part’ as soots me, that’s all. Ob, it ‘would be all,’ ch? ‘Why—but there, you area baby in the purfes-. sion! you are! jYhen youre been Capting of the Guards, and Third Noble, and a Bandit Keerousin, and First Hancient Bard, and fourth in tho Council of Ten what listons to Othello, and the Mob in the Capital, and a Harcher of Merry Englund, and a Peer of France what doesn’t k but has to look as if he could say ‘a Jot,—when you've begn all this, you may talk. I needn't be offended. All right, old pal—I ain't. ‘Though was when that utility cove said as I was. only a banner-bearer. ‘Only!’ Why I should like to know where they’d be without us,—all them old sponta tragedy merchants. They'd haveno armies, consequenily they couldn't rave at’em, and lead ’em on to victory and things. They would ‘aye no Semnites; so they'd ’ave to cut out their potent, grave, and reverent seniors— an’ that’ud worry’em. They wouldn’t’ave no hexcited citizens; and so they couldn’t bury old Ceser, nor praise him neither. They couldn't strew no ticlds with no dead soldiers.- They’d have nobody to chivy’em when they come to the throne, or returned from the wars. They couldn’t ‘ave no processions, as for balls and parties, and tonemongs, why, they couldn’t give em. And where ’ud they often be without the ‘distant ollerings’ behind the scenes, allus a a-comin nerer and louder? Why, [remember a’eavy lend one night, as had insulted his army fearful at rehearsal; he stops sudden, and thumps his bi late, and says, ‘’Ark, that toomult! when there warn’t n0 more toomult than two flies ’ud make ina milk jug. We jest cut off his toomult, and quered, bis. piteb ina minnit, for the laugh come in ‘ot. e’re just as much wanted as they.are, make no error. “They could do without mein the modden drarmer. The modden drarmer,my boy,ain’t act- in’. It’s nothing but ‘ cuff-shootin’.’ You just has to stand ngainst a mankel-sheif, with your hands in Poole’s pockets, and say. nothing, elegantly. You don’t want no chest-notes; you don’t want no action; you don't want no excitement; you don’t want no Jang, no heart, and no brain; only las an’ soda, heart an* potash, brain and selzer. Everything’s dilooted, my boy, for the modden drarmer, and the old school, and the kostumes,’ud bust the sides, aud roof too, of the swell bandboxes where they does the now school und the new Kostumes. P'raps I'm right? Of course I’m right; and 'min earnest, too. Why, my boy, if th * was to offer me an engagement as a‘guest’in one of them cufl- shooting plays, and ask me to go on in evening dress, I'm blest if I wouldn't ‘throw up the part.’ Trousersand white ties cramp me. I wantsa suit o' mnilan'a’alberd; a toonic, and my legs free; a dagger in my toeth—not a tooth- ick; a battle-axin my’and—not a crutch. I likes to be led to victory, I does, I likes to storm castles, and trampel on the foe, I does. I likes to hang our banners on the outer walls,I does. Pm a born banner-bearer, { am, and I glories in it. No,my boy,‘none of your milk-and-water “guests ’ and such, for the likes of me. An’ if I was the Lord Chambermaid,-I’d perhibit the modden drarmer altogether. Them’s my senti- ments. If he don’t perhibit it, xctin’ ull soon be modden’d out of existence; an’ we shall have ‘Macheth in a two guinca tourist suit, and Looy the Eleventh in nickerbockers on @ bisykel. It’s the old banner-bearing school as got us ‘allour Dig actors, and It stands to reuson, my boy; fora cove can’t spread hisself in a frock coat and droring-room langwidge. They're both on ’em too tame for what I call real actin’ to Amusement Note! Jonquin was at Barnum’s Hotel, Baltimore, a few eck ugo. He wroteto a friend in New Jersey, and ended the letter: “Come and see me whenever you can; Iam at Barnum’ The friend, who does not appear to have been famil- iar with Baltimore, unswered: “I am sorry you have commenced exhibiting yourself. If you had ‘stuck to literature’ you “would have made your mark and fortune. Whereabouts is the Show now ?”—Mirror. . @ new company organized by James Ward pate othe Danites” is a5 follows: Alerander McGee, Inmes K. Roberts; the Parson, Joseph Nagle: Washee Washee, William F. Wallis; the ude, ‘William A. Chapman; Limber Tim, Will- jam D. Stone;. Stubbs; George Kendall: Grnzs- hopper Jake, Fred Lennox: Billy Piper, the Un- known, Marie Wellesley; Bal Hickman, T. Bene- dict; Hezekiah, William Sterling; the her, EB. Fergus: George Willams, Little laa; the S7idder, Miss Emelie Kiehl; Capt. Tommy, Miss Maggic Campbell; Bunker Hf, Miss Louise Kichl. « In an article published in the London Theatre upon the discussion now going on in England anent the immorality of the stage, that maga- zine sensibly says: ‘** A moral man who chances to be an actor i8 just as able to avoid laxity of conduct a8 {sg the member of any other profes- sion; and a modest woman is not, by being an notress, placed at any special disadvantage when she is accosted, a8 other unprot girls too often are accosted, by the Brummagem Fallante of the London streets. It isno doubt a pity that there should be actors who do not lead reputable lives, so!-disant ‘actresses whose 90 shillings week mysteriously provides them ‘with brough- ams, and other people connected with the stage who are not lar church-goers. But the iar in having associated with it misfortunes which are suffered by court and camp, aad are to be traced alike in the city and in society. It does nothing which gives the pub- He any right to interfere with: the private lives of its votaries; and all attempts, however well intentioned, to regenerate the religious and moral tone of the profession a3 a whole are as impertinent as they are superfluous.” : According to Augustin Daly in a recent inter- view, Seadhending adits rise in London about fifty years ago, when “Tom and Jorry " was put on the bow: at‘the Adelphi Theatre. “The management,” said he, “ flooded all the suburb- an districts and near towns with orders, and for three weeks the piece was played to apparently overwhelming business, but with really Jess th: £2 a night in the house. The Londoners com- ing to the theatre could noteven get standing- roqm amongst the delighted throng, and were worked up to a tremendous furor about -the play. Tho Consequence was that it ran over two years, and proved a perfect bonanza.” LIVING WITHOUT EATING: A Minneapolis Man Who Says He Can Do So-—Challenging Dr. Hammond to Teast His Powers. New York Times, Dec. 31. Dr. William A. Hammond, of this city, has been challonged to put his theories about the ability of o human being to live any length of time without physical nourish- ment to a public test. The challenge hag been made through a Minnesota paper. by a'Dr. H.S. Tanner, of Minneapolis, who offers himself as the subject of the test. Dr. Tanner cinims to be able to live in comfort without food for at. least thirty days, and that he has twice publicly submitted to a test, each time maintaining lifo, consciousness, health, and the ability to take physical exercise, although totally abstaining from food for the extraordinary period of forty-two days. He asserts that Dr. Ham- mond is ail wrong im hfs published opinions about the power of the human system to endure long fasts. About two years ago Miss Mollie Fancher, of Brooklyn, attracted public attention by her claims to be “a fasting girl,” and to possess powers of “second sight.” Dr._ Hammona probably derided the claims made for the girl, and offered her a reward of $1,000 if she would make-a successful attempt, under his su- pervision, to substantiate them. ‘The chal- lenge was not accepted, and the Fancher case dropped out of sight. The girl's friends, however, have. continned to mafntain that she does possess the extraordinary powers claimed, and to insist that Dr. Hammond acted disingenuousty, because, as they say, he must have known that on the grounds of decency sho was compelled to refuse to allow her every movement to be closely watched by him, anda number of other men, for thirty days. Dr. Tanner comes forward now and announces that he has no objection to being watched during the ordeal he proposes for if by as man; men as may be selected for the Purpose. te does not want to win the $1,000; he does not want to make any money out of the affair; he says he merely offers himself, in the interests of science, as @ living proof of the fallacy of Dr. Ham- mond’s views, He says he will pay his own ex- enses to and from New York, and while there, if desired, and makes only a single condition in the whole offer, nee that there shall be secured for him suitable apirements while he is engaged in’ the fast. That promised, he offers to do without all food for the period of thirty days; to place himself wholly under the care and supervision of any man or number of men that may be selected, aud to allow the ex- periment to be conducted either publicly or pri- vately, Dr. Tanner says he repeatedly mado the osition to Dr. Hammond, who did not answer He then wrote to Dr. J. R. Buch- anan of this city, and had him make the propo- sition. This Dr. Buchanan did twice without getting a response. Dr. Tanner then made the challenge through the Minneapolis Pioneer Press, and had it republished in New York yesterday. A rter of the Times called upon Dr. Ham~ mond last evening and showed him a copy of the challenge. Hesaid: “I never claimed, under any circumstances, that it was im} sible fora human being to live without food for thirty: There are over a dozen well-authenticated cases and over without ined in coal-mines without above pro h of persons living forty da: food. Men have been cont and lived at least thi: days Men have live without food thirty days while buried avalanches. Insane persons have lived without food for evenionger terms. 8o havo hysterical women. I did not make the proposi- tion in the Fancher case ag Dr. Tanner states I did. It was claimed that the girl could read tho contents of a sealed envelope, besides living a great number of days. without food, or sleep. From these claims-I knew she was a fraud, and I offered her $1,000 if she would read for me, and“ in ‘my presence, the contents of asealed envelope. ‘That was the offer. If Dr. Tanner, whose name does not occur in the Medical Directory of Minnesota, can do what he proposes, Ishall be glad to witness it and to Certify toit. But as to denying i, anything in nature outside of mathematics, I certainly mean. to be more cautious than even to deny the pos- sibility of a man’s living a whole year without food, no matter how improbable such a is. Twill accept Dr. Tanner's proposition, provided Gd parr all spat i: a resonable sere on je succee ‘will glac ve a fect. If ha does not, I any When the body is perfectly there ia no waste of tissue, the amout consumed in mere existence is small, and under such circumstances & person can go a long time without food. Dr. Tanner does not say whether or not his proposition includes abstinence from pina If it aan inet axon be ase cg leny the possibility o! being successfully carried out. People have lived without water ten ortwelve days, not lo . Without food, wdinary acceptation of the word, in -the: 01 they have lived ‘much longer. You ‘can dadiy ition. He should publish _me as saying that I will accept Dr. Tanner's proposit come on here before the middle of January. I- would like to have,the ex) ent tried at the Medical College of ‘the University of the Ci New York. -We will sed that Dr. Tanner is fur- nished with as comfortable apartments as he can desire. I would like to have all the watch- ers in the case selected from among the medical students. They will L Breve, both patient and vigilant, and under their managoment collusion of all kinds will be out of the ques- tion. «.A certificate of success under circum~- stances like those ought to be very desirable ta “Dr. Tanner, if he sincerely believes he can fast for thirty days. And if he does succeed, we will glédly certify to the fact. The students will leave at the end of January, and that is why I would like to have Dr. Tanner come before the middle of the month. The reason I did not an- swer Dr. Buchanan was because I did not know him.” The reporter could not find Dr. Buchan~ an, his name being neither in the City nor the Medical Directory. $$ A Nineteenth Century Wonder for the Fashionable World. Paris Correspondence New York Graphic. ‘Tho Icarned in these matters are tal ofa new system of sturting the fashions, which is shortly to be tried. Itis whispered that a lady of noble birth, and once of very xmple means, who has been reduced to poverty by unforescen circumstances, is going to restore the fortunes of a most illustrious house by making dresses. There is only one obstacle,—she cannot appear in the matter by name or oven in person. She has every qualitication; it takes a lady to dress a lady; and here is one ready to doit. She could gain millions in a few years by placing her taste at the disposal of fushionable Paris, but she naturally shrinks from publicity. After much reflection she has determined on appear- ing masked. She will be the nineteenth century wonder,—the * woman with the velvet mask.” A splendid place is to be taken for her, and fitted up in the most luxuriant style known to Paris dressmakers, with tapestries on the wall, and with exquisitely carved furniture. It will be officered by a lunge staff, but Madame, the generul-in-chiet, will never, in her counte~ nance, be visible to the public eye. If you wish to take counsel with ber, you will be introduced into her studio, where you wjil find a tall person, of very graceful manners, rfusked in dark blue. The very employes of the house are not to know the nate of thelr mistress. Sho hus to maintain | adoublesecret. The servants of the house at which she lives are not to be able to identify her with the masked lady of the establishment which she conducts, She will leave her home in the morning ina hired flacre; she will change her finere on her way to her placo .of business, ‘and inthe second facre she will put on her mask. She will go home at night with exact the same precautions. elt at some length on this Ingenious Scheme, because I think in the mere machinery of it there is untold gold. All Paris will be sure torush madly .to-9 woman of mystery in niously advertised in this way, though it {s ex~ tremely probable that the noble dame is merely the daughter of some concierge, who has served fn apprenticeship to the dressmaking. 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Forrest vs. The Toledo, Peoria Cor and others. Cross Bi. . uw one parcel, and subject as hereinafter mentions snd. asrecited in sald decree, on ‘Tucsdaystharamenties (2eb) day of January, A. D. 1a ay elvvo8 (1) o'clock: in the foregoon of sald inst-nayred dey. the premises Prop yy taentioned and described In ssid decree, in the mortgages therein referred to, a4 follows, to wit: All-and singuinr the sald ‘rallroad of the sald Toledo, Poorls & Warsaw Rallway Com- pany, situates, “iyipg:. and being Jn the State of Iilnols, and’ extending from the City, of Peoria to the west-ling of the Stato of Indians. passing Into or through the Counties uf Peoria, ‘Tuzewell, Woodford, Mclean. Livingston, Ford, aad froqnuis, the western terminus being within the City of Peorin, and the eastern terniinus being at the eastern bound- ary of the State of Lllinols, where the sald ratiroad, connects with the Toledo, Logansport & 3 Railway in the State of Indiana, the | being 26 near ns mai (110) ites, z Ways, ways, und rights of way, depot krounds, and Other lands; all tracts, bridgés, viaducts, culverts, fences, and other structures; all depots, stauon= houses, engine-houses,, car-houses, freleht-houses, ‘wood-houses, und other bufldings, and all machine> shops and other shops, held or acquired for nro in connection with the said railway or tho business thereof; and including. also, all locomotives, tenders ears, and other rollinw-stock or equinment, and al machinery, tools, tmplemenu fuel, und mas terials for constructing, operating, repafring, or re- pissing the sald railway, or any part thereof, or any of ts equipments or appurtenances, and also all fran chises connected with or relating to the sald rall- way, oF the emstruction. tenance. or usa thereof. and all the property, franchises. rights, and things of whatever name or nature, together with all and ‘singular the tenements, hereditaments, and ap- purtenances thereunto beloninz, or In any'wisa ap- pertalning, and the reversions, remainders, tolls, in= Issues, and profits thereof, and, also, all the estate, rlzbt, title, interest, property, possession, claim, and ‘demand whatsoever, ox well in law as i equity, of the suid Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Rallway Company, of, in, and to the same, and any and eve: art thereof, with the nppurtenancos, and the nal Toledo, Peoria & Wareaw Railway Company's rall- road tracks, lands, grounds, buildings, and property constructed and situated tn the Mtate of Mllnols, com meneing at the Town of Warsaw, at the Misviatppl River, and running thence eastward vo the Llnois Biver, at Peoria, {Minols, together with the rosd-bed und tracks, sidings and branches, lunds, stations, snd shops, ears, enines, toolsgand’ machinery. und all Fines, credits, aud. francnites of the said Company, including, and meaning to Include, all the property, Teal and personal, of the sald Company. ‘The said above described property being, and bein: Intended to be, ail.and syieular tho sald railroad o: the sald ‘Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Company, asdeseribed In the mortgazes or trust deeds barein= above recited, and including the branch raliroad fro1a. La Harpe t Lomax Station, In the County of Henflere gon, and all the right, title, and interest ‘of the sald Toledo, Peoria, & Warsaw Rallway Company in and to any and ail Inads, depota and depo rounds, tracks, side-trncks, and other property and sypurte= nances situate in the City of Burlington. in the Stato Of Lowa, Including the richts of way, the road-boa, fuperstructures, bulldinzx, shops, and all stations and Jands, and all the Hxtures ‘and strectures thereon, of ‘whatever names and natures, used nad _to be teed in operating said railroad, and all tools, implements, cats, engines, and rolling-stock and equtpments ba- Yonging to sald Ratlway Company, and =!! supplies aud manterial provided by said Company, or tha Rocelvor thereof. to be used in operating sald ‘rallroad. und all Choses In netion, contracts, azpecments, Personal, acquired oF belt dy the ‘with all’ corporate franchises af & Warsaw Kailway Company. in- cluding all'the Zranchises of ali the corporations of which sald railway had been composed by consoll- erwise, will be made subject, nevertheless. 10 ts and equities, if any wach thera be, of all persons or corportions cintming, or to claim. any Fight, ‘title, interest, or lien in, to oF upon the lands, tenoments, and real estate of the said Toledo, Peo ria & Warshw Railway Company, sitnste in Burltnz- ton, in the State of Iowa, under or by virtue of a.cor- tain mortgace or trust-déed mude by sald faxt-named Company to William It Osborn nd William ‘Tracy, earing date the ist day of Mareh, Lsr2, and recorded {a the Recorder's office of Des Moinex County, tn the State of lows. on or about the Zist day of ber, 163; and subject also to the prior lien of the mort- by the Pooria & Oqaawka Railroad Com- rn comes, rents roperty, real and Keceiver, together said Toledo, Peo: an agreement between the Peoria & and the Iijinots Central Hatiroad Com- pany, dated the llth of Mareb, isv, aa modiied and extended tn the decree herein; and wabject also to the rights and interests of Hiram Thornton in the right of way of the branch railroad between Hamil- ton and Warsaw : "The sald mortyaged property will be sold absolutely, and without the prirllege of redemption, and free, clear, and “Mscharged of and from al!’ contmets, Teases, and agreements made by the sald Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Rullway Company with any persom ‘or corporation since the execution and delivery of any of the said mortzages or Crust deeds here! ‘ Bet fo ‘Said sale will also be made subject to.all sams legal~ Wy due for taxes, which are an absolute lerat lien upea. e property of tho said Compaity prtor to sald mort- fifhe terms of such sale will be aa follows: ‘The sam of fifty thousand dollars to be paid in cash to the sald h Et rored bidder at tha Hine of the sales tae rosalndar of such bid to be paid contirmat may then determine, elther in cash or in the bonds the sald Toledo, Peoris & Warsaw Hallway Company, as provided in sald decree. : ‘Wor any information in rexard to the sad property, and the terms and conditions of atie, reference 6 On Ola In th said cause, hereby made to the decree on fia in the anid caus or ty Chancery of the Circult Court of the United. States for the Northern District of llinols, Dated Chicago, December 14 A.D I - =