Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1880, Page 8

THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. G. D, Yarwood, New York, fs at the Palmer 8. P, Momilton, Duluth; Is at tha Tremont IL, D. Booge, Sioux City, is at the Sherman L. @ Mnson, Muskegon, Mich, fs at tho A, R. Loeb, Now York, Js rogistored at the i, Bouthiliier, Montreal, is n guest at the c,Q. Millard, Bloomington, IIL, fs at the 'N. M, Kettinger, Peoria, IL, is.stopping at Louls 1. Davis, Salt Loko City,.1s0 guest at tho Palmer House. Commodore J. M. Burns, Norfolk, Va,, sat the Tremont House. Edward Elis, Schenectady, N. Y,, ts at the Grand Pacific Hotel. J.C. McGrew, Lexington, Mo., 1s atthe Grand Pacific Hotel. ¢ D,M. Osborn, Auburn, N. Y,, {3 at tho Grand Pacifle Hotel. ‘Charles HH. Sprague, Providence, It. 1, Is at tho Bhermnn House, “W.O. Miller and George IT. Fizer, Lead- ‘ville, are nt the Sherman House, 0.8.¥aton, proprietor Michigan Exchange Hotol, Detroit, is nt tho Patmer House. -Willlam M. Sayere, Esaq., a leading mer- chant of Goshen, N, ¥., is at tho Pulmer, Marratta, Superintendent Coulson Line, Yankton, D.'T., ig at the Palmer Russell O, Arnold, Philadelphia, and the Rev. M. C. Harkaway, Columbus, nre at the ‘'ro- mont House, + Judge Lambert Tree has arrived from Washington, and {a muking lls home atthe Grand Pacific Notel. RN, Cable, of the Roak Istand & Pacific Ttallroad, and B, B. Mitchell, General Manager luo Line, Rochester, N. Y., ore nt the Grand Pacitle Hotel. The temperture yesterday, a3 observed by Mannase, optician, 89 Madison street (Tiinune WM, 82 deg.; 10N. my 35; 12 Burometer at8 a Building), was at 8. - A telegram from Detroit announces tho recolpt of advices from Renton Harbor, jitst neross the Inke, stating that the Supreme Court fed tho clin of Mr. 0. B. Dickingon, of this city, to suventy-seven acres of Jand In the heart of tho Town of Benton Tnr- Dor, and that tho Jubilant citizens hanged Mr, and subsequently cremated valdent of tha Phoenix Dis- tilling Company of this city. Coroner Mann yesterday held an Inquest nt tho West Twolfth Rtrect Station upon Talbot M, Curd, colored, a University student and a car. miper, who was found sectlon of ‘Thirty-ninth and Ullman Berosts pontoon bridge at that point, which his ven remover, ‘Tho fury called the atten. tion to the dangerous condition of this slip, and considered it n matter of the utmost importance, Curd having been the third who Is Have heel drowned in tho slip at that particular Poin at Washington hua de Dickinson tn pili rior for a morning The first annual meeting of the Western Manufacturers’ Mutual Fire: any wns held Tucaday afternoon, ut which Howling ollivers were el Frosbtent, Josso Spuliit A. Monityomnery (formerly with tho ‘ushrance Company): + Exveittlve Commlt ‘Turner, and Clinton Hr rpany whieh sturted curly inet spring, not eet ormanlzed for hualncss ntl! Now fact, the organization isnot yet quite urters of the Company Hanager W. Gd. 'S rice ure at oom 6 Empire The Alwunt of Monticello Seminary held thoirannial meeting ty the clut-rooms of the ‘Tremont. Homi Locke presided and Miss Wood neted na Sccre- as deelded ta widen the seope of the Association, and to invite to atl future meet- dngs and banquete ait grad nary, whether resident letter was read from M of the schobl, suggesting thit at the next bans aquet ther should bo ay y and an nddress by Miss Fobes, the forni Miss Grice Patterson was 13 ullug Secretary, and it was de- cided tohold the anntial tangiet aut the real- dence of Mrs, D. N. Bush, No, RRA Prairie ave- nue, Feb, i, ut? p,m. TSH CATHOLIO COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION, of tho Bourd of Directors of tho Trish-Cathollo Colonization Asaocintion was held estendiy tnthe ladies’ onlinury of the Grand re Were present tho Et, Roy. “Bishop S| pallinuge Veork A tho Principal of the institution. eleoted Corres tev. 2, J, Conway, Pritrlo du’ Chlen Anthony Kelly, Minseapotls: tho Hon. John Fitggeratd, Linooin, Ne d W.d, Onabun, of Spalding prealded, and W. J. Gnahun ‘acted 0 ‘Tho bond of the Treasurer, In’ the sum of $200,000, was approved. President and = Seerctary in tho subseripttons puiruhase of Innd in G: County, Netrushku, 35,000 neres, was discuss aud the recommendation of the Committes was aecepted and indorsed. ‘Thi ous quirters of tho country showed that tho rospecta of the Axsoviution were most flatter Ang. Adjourned until 10 o'clovk to-duy. ELECTRIC LIGHT. + The improved Brush clectric-light lamps were put Into the grand exehunge of tho Grand Pa- velfic Hotel yestertay, and tested for the. first time last ‘ovening, and were a Thy proposed 2 reporta from varl- : Drake & Co. at onve ordered onvof the largest sized muchines, aud will ght wp ult the purtors, Doms, Lilla. and corridors of the housy I, and closed ja currentof alrean roach them and canse 0 ker of tho Hight, The improveiment of the +lamp fs fn the design and in the nianner of feed jug the carbon, whieh drops from a copper tube, ‘ecorined, and in which isu piston wh ‘ ait mo waiters etain, Mr. Drake thi aud lamps will cost &4, ir. Drake suys tho few electric Ininps which he bas run ‘durlig the past threo montis iave: snyed hin ie OF F250 per month, and he anticipates Unt the new hunps, when hoe gets them al fi lice a Bnving of $400 exch month on bls gas h—somothing not to be sneered uf A NARNOW EXCAPE. ‘Three small boys, who hud no more sense than, persist in skating upon the pond in Union ark, narrowly escaped afternoon, at 320 o'clock, boncath them, ee ee quere boos wut it creer wf of Ivo aver thy shullowest pond, an the feo In Union Park hid ; December cold snnp, and had been greatly weak= sened by the heat of Ute sun. Tho uccident was witnessed by David shaw, Burney and James Masterson, employes at tho park, nid Dotectives pao And ‘Thorpe, who, After getting weno x Kucceedest in Mr, Shaw wus tho: first to . reach the boys, who were striggling and atran; Mug in about six feot of water, and himse camo near bein clinglug to hiv “Winakburg ot So, bur itu jackbuin of No. 610 Hubbard stroct, Patrick Hayes of No, 108 North Union street, and Harvey: No, 672 Weat Luke street. 3 PLERTWOOD—PATE, . Tho wedding of, Roctor of Bt Mark's The new machinery beon ther xince the ~rescuing the boys. SARA Te Duilelson of Gone Mae em ht P. Fleetwood, Church, and Milas ty Fake, took at ‘earner of Cottage Grove uvenno nnd ‘Thi Tho edifico was crowded with the frienda of the contracting purtica, and many wit entrance, Bo dubde wus the csi wore unublu wy, decorated = with: iy At precisely 6 o'clock tho brit purty xi the church and proceeded slowly up tho contre iisle, the organist of tho church pluying: an nppropriate march, ‘The fathor and muther - of tha bride cue tint, followed by tha bride Sand groin, ‘The litte proceaiion wis met at the chancel by tha Ht. Rov. Bishop Moly + who performed tho ceromaiy ral t! ypresslve form of the Chureb, Th ly uttired tna rich traveling dress, A lt of the clergy of the city were in atte: py pir lott just night for a short uw Southern citles, a y frivuds wu reception on thetr return BUIGIDH IN JALL, Early yesterday morning tho night watchman, disoovercd that Vi 374°: Sin the County ‘Jul "Kluparck, 0 bounler in tiat Inetitution, hid » committed suicide by hanging. ‘The min wis ft itving bonds tu keup the ‘wife, with whom, {1 congo king bublts, hu hud Hyved une 19, on the ground «1 to make bly quictus by tyi which ho used tustend of Buy is neck and attuching the cud of it ht water-pipe. ‘Then hye stood on weloset and Jumped for it, The ave. suffcrod a » Juiied tn defuult rds pouve towul - quuuce of bis dri He ocoupled vell i= es icing wut, ibe could, buve auvod Rol enough to kee! jeya off the Hoor, Ho niust haverslowly strane Blodte death, for his nock was not broken, Core . ‘HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 18bu, onot Mann held nn Inquest, and avenilet of “Sutelde while In a atate of unsound mind" was returmed, THE OLTY-IALI. ‘The Committee on Fire and Waters called for Satuniny. The ‘Treasurer receive $1,270 from tho Water Department yesterdays $810 from tho Controllors and 554 from tho Collector. The Controller has about closed his books for 1879, and Minds that the total issuance of ecrip has been $1,613,000, agalnat $2,170,000 for 1878. The Iteense of R. IL PY, Davis, 0 saloon Aceper doing business nt No. 1 Forquer strect, Was revoked yeatentay, on complaint that his place was the reaort.of vagabonds and thieves, and genorally disorderly. Messrs. Duily Bros, were yesterdey award- od the contraet. for supplying bread. with which to feed prisoners at tho varios pollco stations overy day. Tt takes from 300 to 400 pounds to go around, and thoy’ are to receive four cents per pound for all they furnixb, The Board of Inspectors of tho House of Correetion met In the Mayor's attics yesterday’ morning and approved of the Superintendent's fnnual report, and reappointed hin for another form. Mis lermof oftice expired the day heforo, Tho report. will be Inid before the Council at its next mecting. Another case of small-po: Featerdny, and it eame from the Denmark Hotel, The patient was oncof tho few left at the house under gard, and he was tiken to tho SmatiePox Hospital for anfe-keeping. ‘The house 18 now almost deserted, and St fa thought that na furthorenses will occur there, The caso In the house Is fast improving. and will bo entirely well Ina few days, itis thought, ‘The Mayor yesterday tssued an order re moving the Superintendent of tho Sinull-Pox Hospital without nppolnting anyone to the place, The ocension of the hasty netlon came of tho fuct that Tuesday he came “down in the ambulances to yet some patient, and was in euch condition that the Health Commissioner had to take him off his * carringe "and send an ofticer to tho Hospital with It. Io is to remain at the institution, however, a day or two, aud, in tho meantinie, v nurse Is to be held responsi- ble for the conditet of atlairs, “The Inspector condemned yesterday, at No. 8 Weat Jackson stroot” murket, one slink calf, ono sheep, and two” legs of mutton; at Nos. 5 and 16, two hans; nt No, it, one sheop; and nt No. 06, one hain. Seventy-six pounds’ of pork were eelzed at No, 101 South Water street: 1,000 pounds of lish at No, 160; ond, at No. 157, one barrel of rabbits, In Bridgeport eight quarters of beet were condemned, font of which wero frat Mullock whieh had ated at a distiller the Stock-Yurds one hog was put in tho tank. ‘The promised revolution or changes in the Water-Oilce—or some of thom—will occur to~ day. Commlsstoner Waller would not say) Just: whit be proposed ta do, or whom he proposed to. dismiss, but it $s lenened thut the dismissals would Include’ four collectors, twelve ahut-olt- mien, three meter-men, and the Second-Aselst- ant Arsessor, Some of those tobe discharged will be otherwlee provided for, which will neces- aitute some changes In other directions, but tha mostof them will go for good, and nothing in the shane of tuiaton or influence can help thom,—tho fact being that thoy are utterly in- competent. COUNTY-BUILDING. ‘The ense of Willian Bennott, ons of the “bumboat" men, was yesterday stricken trom. tho docket in Judge Gary's Court. So onds ono more of tho furefen! crusndcs lately go trequent. Among the cases set for trial before Judge Jameson this morning are tose of the notorious Eddie Guerin and Cory Millard, and of Thontus Lord, one of tho alleged participants in tho Field, Leiter & Co, atlk robbery. ‘The Committee on Roads and Bridges held nbdrief acssion, aud audited a fow very small hills, To-day the Committee on Towns and ‘Town Accounts zo to Lemont to examine into tho out-loor rellef business in that town. Mect- ings af the Committees on Publile Service and Judielury aro get for to-day, but, will probably go aver. ‘To-morrow n meeting of the Printing aud Stationery Commitice is appointed, Judge Gary Js engaged In the Associate Criminal Court in hearing the quo-warranto cases uguinst the Elston Wheeling Grayel- Kowd Company, | ‘This corporation js ulleyed to havo forfeited ita charter by neglecting to kee its rond In proper condition, and the suit ts Drought to ermino the right of the Company tocollvet tolls, There ure 160 witnesses or so, all of the bucolle persuusion, and tho trial may’ fast ten days or more. Judge Gary yestordiy ex- cused tho Jury panol until Monday. The McQuaid manstaughter-case came to anubrupt enil yesterday afternoon, the Court (Judge Jumeson) instructing tha Jury to acquit the defendant, 1 was shown that the killin of Robert Anderson, for whieh McQuaid was indict: ed, wns itcclentid, and grow out of a" seri serin @ two over a grins of bass muge”™ between th bull, State’s-Attorney Mills recognized that t facts would not warrant him in waking a conv ton, and submitted the case without argument, dt viet aecase which did not Justify an indict- inent In the Criminal Court yesterday before Judgo Jameson the Indictment against Willlam H. Dunton, a dustico of the Peace at Arlington Hetghts und Moses Hawken for conspiracy to ob- tal the indictment of Mrs, Susannah Underhill for larcony wis stricken from tho docket. An- otber cise ugainst Dunton for barratry was also stricken of. The evidence in the eaxe of Thomas Mangan, William Toomey, and Sim Woods, joint- Jy Indicted for robbery, was heard by the Court, and the cuses stricken frem tha docket, Witl- ium teed, who bad been Incarcerated on a churgo of rungs wus dischurged ona writ of babena corpua. ‘The Collectors of the following towns hes terday led thelr bonds and obtained their books: Simon G. Kine, Eyanston, bond £165,~ B00; Houry Steege, Matno, $21,000; Jumes O'Con- nell, Palod, $tig0b; Henst Hrelbe 21400, ‘The Collector of North Chicuyo ty get= ting alongs well with bis collections of personul tuxea, Yesterday Jianes A, Kirk & Co, paid in $2,100, nnd the Peshtigo Lumber Company coi tributed 31170. Among the othor heavy tux- ayers Who: have already settled aro Perry: 9: + Palatino, iT oe a tH, McCormick, the Brun wick & file Manufacturiug Company, Peek & Uanshe chtatthancr & fon, James t. Reedy, tho Minols Leather Compuny, De Golyer Broth- tra, Charles Pope, the Frazer Lubricating Com- pany, and Tillinghast, Allon & Co. ‘The Joint Conunittes on Public Buildings ani 4 leo mot yesterday afternoon and. wrestled Cor a tong time with “ Farmer" Harms’ application for urbitration of his clulms, Tho matter was finally referred to the County Attar ney for hisopinion, An applleution from P, J. Sexton for eatimates on flre-proof worl: not yet dono wne referred to Mr, Exuny architect’ of the new Court-House. A communication from oomombers of tho Mur aking for the fimediate trinsfor of tho Shoriff's ollice to the South Side will be reported without recommendation, but ns avon as the per- nuuinent roof Is inplace something will be done inthe matter, The Committee resolved that Mr, Flannedy’s contract for the sewer work on the Courtellouso should bo annulled and bids sollelted from tive sewer-ebullders, Tt wvas voted hy $ tod that Sexton should bo wain allowed to Did on the fron and brick work of the rotunda, the contract for whlch he repudiated some time: ago on the plea thut Inbor and materinls had ad- yinecd in prices, Tho vote on this remarkably ¢heeky proposition stood as follows: Yous— Ayary, Chirk, Coburn, Wheeler, Wood—5. Nays— Boexe, Benne, Hutt—3. An estimate for e510 in tuver af Join Davis & Co, on nevount of stenmeheating, was allowed, and the Comiitteo adjourned unt 2 p.m, Saturday. FEDERAL AFFAIRS, ‘The exports of nlcohol yesterday amounted to 150 barrels, At the Sut-Treasury yesterday $5,000 fn Kol bas puld out, and tho sanie amount ro- colved, Subsidiary silver amounting to $15,000 was recelved, and 4,000 atandurd dollars disbursed. Collector Harvey received yesterday from internal ovenue sourees, $19,490, Of this amount $10,804 was contributed by spirita; tobacco, and elgure paid §1,48, and $111 cnmu from boeor, * Frederick Packlewlez was brought before Commisslonor Moyne yesterday on a change of failing to erase stumps from whisky burrele, Ele ouse was continued until Friday, in $600 bonds, A. cigar manufacturer named Philip Bohle fulled tu keep a proper inventory of bis work ond gules, and wis biekatand compolted to give Donds for 400 to eppeur Friday befory the Come uilseloner for a furthor bearing, ‘Thu horse and phacton selzed some tine age, and whieh fs to bo sold to-day, bas been a sere aif pratitieasion, and pleasure to all tho olllclals who are In the good ress of the Quare terms Tho sulo to-day Js looked forward to with grict and gushing of teeth, Most people are in the habit of looking on dlamonsds 48 valunbly mourchundises, but a regis- tered puckuge which was received at tho Cus. ta yestentuy yock fur to dispel thut Idea. The prekuge contained £23 genulne aparke Jor of sina) th a ee cqnmlgnird front, Franco ta at dealer » ho invoice valua wus on G40 francs, or ubOUt $1 for tho lot. y ‘the dutiable goods recelved at the Chicago. Custom-Houso poatertay vere ug follows: Parke hurat & Wilkinson, 1h lary of iron; Fowler ros, Taal of waltpotros Wilson. Packing Gor- puny, Lbox tin plate; Chicago Buunpiug Con puny, 1X6 boxes uf tin plate; G. 1. Cunco, 0 Hargis, 6 c1 : xed of macuronty Kanteler & of cigars; A. Rafeons, 8 cased of elgares Kuti a Bros, U causes of cigars; L. Flersbuiin, 1 caso of aketcbea; W. F. Poole, 1 cago of books; and A. It, Abbott & Co., G cases of artiste’ materials, ‘The collections amounted to $15,axh, REGISTERED-MASL HTATISTICS, W, D. Rawlins, the Superintendent of tho Reg “but gaye it with dignity, a {atored-Tettor Division of tho Chicago Vost- ONico, has prepared fv atatement showing tho Amount of Dusiness dong in that branch of the aervies during the year Ii. 'Th tered 45,071 domesiic letters, A001 parcels of thint and fourth clasa malice, 8m foreign Lets ters, (My foreign parcels of thind and fourth class, matter, and 2887 freo otticint tetters, ‘The total LEGISLATION. my belief that they finally mistrusted my sine eerity, and for that reason decided not to trust me and left mo behind,” “Mr. Richmond rays, tu reyned to tho oredi+ Dility of tia witness: ' Randall's testimony has never heon tinpenched in any vatirt, and 1 found hin on the United States Jury at Hiltings’ Courts and na Ttandall woe personilly known to the hore were regi The Reagan and “Sapp Railroad Bills—Opposition of the Qnher of Tetters nnd packages: roristered wos, Judge, who conaldered him a ft Juryman, f cons Mans The registered deiters recelved Tor ine Roads. thie tertake his testimonss. T-any Filly antise tribution mmounted to WAL. Two hundred fled Ih 1 tho Hteinn matter." auil three thousand three inindred aud ninelys Th fully natisited by Rich- lx letters were forwanled, ond 311465 were re> rar celved for delivery, thud making a total ntumes ‘x i Tf, now, the fi End of the Work of the Southern er of KUSH registered letters and packs aims nmission—/ Commition af Congre fuex handied during tho “yene: “Tho ‘total lal Com : - fd unable to send exports to take testimony ott number registered paelages handled 7 Typieal Case. the spot, it fs probatle this conspiracy would, Wad RMR OG having been made up have been xucecastut. There are thousnids and dispatched, (60.011 packages received in = others like tt. ‘Tho expericnee of the Commis- aprans ue kena Freciverl aublroxetel yi From Our Own Correspondent. Moe vat pee to Bi tho iutliaee of ete Chicago, and Wild registered packages reeeived cal | mttting any lags of Southern clatins to got bee Heeeee ee thimmtl kowisteret pmutchens The |», WABHINOTON, D.C. Jan, 1—The transporte fore Congress and bo ndjudiented by eoueintt Rintemont further shows that {0 through regia. | Hon question Is much embarrased bere by tho pontehes were received In transit, Hae | enormous pressure brought to bear on Congress -- : pouches dispatched, and HAS) reveived directed | through representatives of tho rullroads on the A POICE WRINKLE, fo Chien, gelviig 29,700 08 the tobd number of 3 through registered panehes handed tie, The nuinber Of registered prekagees recived in these: through pouches was Ww, the number dis- patched elm ig tho sume thine UGRe registered cases reeelyed tn tran The grand total of registered letters, parce! pau 08, ind etacs handled during the your ii ‘oots Up 143,61. The figures for comparison floor of tho [loud nnd in the lobbies, Tho West suffers in thie reapeet, ns in many others, {1 cone sequence of tho location of the Capital ‘Tho National Legislature sittug on tho serboard, whero tho transportation Interests tre all-pow- erful nnd the ngriculturat elusses comparatively of no hnportance,—or, ef only tho enme fimpors How Changes of Venuc WI Be Fixed on the Went Sido. Pollce stations are tha final resort of many classes of people, Tho thief, peace-disturber, and murderer, the luwyer, whose capabiltities . bei 0; is hy ée only fithim for a small prnetice, and tho weary sein the tines or previous sears, ra bo pivekeurcla ey re aqucezead Or a Fowl ag | tramp who has nowhere to lay bis head. Wut, tt the ngs iniey Wat fhe eee Aine, Ce name body would bo in Ilinols or Wiseonain. hus remnined for the present Munietpal Admin- {stration to flud.o new use for the stations, and in addition to thefr presont uscfilness thoy are now to be made houses of refuge for some of the Justices of the Peace with which this city 13 evidently overstocked, Who ‘orlginated tho scheme? No ong knows, and in the words of nn realstered letters, and about 40 per cont tn rexistored inaticr of tho third and fourth classes, over tha previous year. ‘The public ts Just bertnulng tomnderstand the ndvantages of tho revistration of packiyecs, and the present yoat’s inercase will doubttess be enormous, ‘The farmers hnvo no representatives here ox- cept thoso on the tloor of Congress: whervis, tho raltronds enn fill the hotels with able attorneys uta fow hours’ notice. REAGAY'R VIEWS. . Thad a converantion n few days ago sith Ren- 3 - ny ex-Muyor, “If anybody aska you tell bin RENT-DAY. ran, of Texas, Chairman of tho Tauso Commit- yout don't know.” All that “tho reporter TRovntES OF A MAN Who TRIED TO ConnECT. | tea on Commerce, whose bill to prexenierpllrcntl knows 1s this: For about a week post 1 Willian D. Nabbitt, of No. 618 Weat Monroe | Alsertmination ts meh furthor advanced thin | riirdozen members of tho police force any other similar incasiro., Mr. Rengan wos Poatmuster-Genernl of the Confedoricy. Wo ts abhant-working member of tho present House, almost alwnys {1 his seat, when not on his fect on the floor of the Hou Ifo ts disposed to bo pugnuclons, and ts snepicions of tho grent cor- Dorations, or anything In the naturo of legisla- tion which looks Hike an attack on the privileges of the people. Tdireeted Reagan's attention to the critlclams of hie Dill by ‘TH Tamone, Ho sald that Tin 'TRInUNE represented his views well enough. Tho Committee on Commerce was urged from many quarters to. annex n provision for a Nae tonal Railway Commission to tho bill fn qites- tion. But he had felt, aud In this respect i mu Jority of tho Comnuttee had nyreed with him, that auch a proyiaion woult endanger the fate of tho bill, Personally he was In favor of wCom- tnizston, But ho had to consider not only whut was desirable, but whut was proeticahle. When Foire to givo up his office at the corner he retlected that tho railronds had been powers | of Cannt and Randolph streets?" ful enough to kill several such bills in the House, “T hear so; but then Eiun not tho wisest por- and had xetually stopped in the Senate Inst ses- | son in tho world.” slon his own Dill whieh attempted much Jess, he “me idea Is then’to fix up things so that peo- wits dlspoxed to limit ht forte fi the first ine Ne cannot, feente Democratic justice in the Pos stance Inerely to the pissuge of a bill to prohibit | Hee Court by taking changes of venuo to Repub: diserimination and poolimys, and ta define a con | lean Magistrates In the vicinity of the station.” tinuous cunt Ber Hh we have done this “TE guess you've hit it right. Dy-by; call street, is at present, and has been fora fort- night, an Inmate of the County Jail, being 1 commodated with n cot In the debtors’ depart. ment. Ho told tho story of his troubles ton 'TRinuNE reporter yesterday, and {t Is 09 fol- lows: ‘Three years or so.ngo he rented some premises at No, 78 South Paullnn street to Thomas Gault, on attorney, for $200 per annum, payntle in dnonthly installments. They had a diMeulty as to. who should poy the water-tax, and this culminated In Gault’s refusnl to pay rent, Then Babbitt nafled on the doar of No. 78 n notice to this effect Walting for Tom Gault’s hongeerent. Several mouths pust duc.” Gut tore the notices down and sued Bab Witt for bel, On the first trial Judge Gary ruled for the defense, Gault appealed and the ease was sent buck for a rehearing, On the secs oud trial before Judge dameson wt verdict for Hoo wis given in favor of Gault. ‘This Habblet declined to satisty and heroleniy resolved to go. to Jal before giving up one cent for trimite, He hud nn den that he could sehedale out und the Poor-Debtor’s net, but this has been held: not to bo allowable, malice formed the gist ofthe nection. Nelther ean he get out ona writ Of bainns corpus, ug he stands committed for contempt, Ho, as'the other side hns to puy for his bonrd, he hus resolved to stay: in Jail f who are carpenters by trate have been enguged, chiely In tho sceret hours of tho night, in remodeling the rear end of tho West Division Volleo Court. Thoy were os inysterious about thelr work ng if denth waa the pennity for divulging tho secret, but yesterday tho Job had. Ro far progressed that the reporter coutd plainly scot very light, alry, and conmodions apart- ment fixed up In the manner peerllar to Justico shops, nnd without whiting for any of the nelgh- boring houses to tumble down and alirm him into thinking what It all mennt, he walked down stalrs and at the frat city ofleint ho met fired of the following query: "What Justico fs going to occupy tho new room upestairs?"” ‘why, Ingersoll, T believe,” and the aforesntd oficial’s eyes nearly popped out of his hend as he comprehended that the scerot wns no longer ‘or while. It is probable, however, that he will try, tho effect af a writ of error in the Appellate if he ean gut one. much, he sald, ‘he thine enough to consider | again.” att gb the Conimiseion project. pa poe, coming over te tae cl Liat, Suipeuin e 1 DROADS. nden pune! eeretitry’ le were AMUSEMENTS. area ae Found, na snl, running towards cach othor to “7 um surprised to see,” aold Mr. Reagan, | haven quict. cmtab, i ta fe hile = “how deeldedly opposed the raflronds ure to my | notte necdle, ho ulways points to the t LINDA. measure. Thavo endeavored tomakelt perfectly | iets hls polnr atur., Austin 1s. Hike tho comt- Tl Profetto....ccsssseeseeee veeesBeohreng | fale and equitable. My al han, Geert to nvold | piga—nll gorts of ints wre engraved won, Antonlo. a Gulusal | tho abpenrange even ofunything liko oppression. | hin,’ ‘Tho needle never deviates, but tho truo Manqui dake’ Tebaldl | Notwithstandthy; the large Bustern scat pain jon sailor can tell by consuiting tho bimicle how Plerotto. “CIID UMss Cary | have persistently attempted to tritle w ibe | tho good ship §4 heading, ‘The reporter con- Maddalena, Ce Hoblatt | Committee, do rvihing in their power for | suited the binnucle,—that . ho popped a qites- tion or two xt tho Scerctary full in the henr- ing of tho Superintendent. ‘The needle wavered not; the compass quietly proceeded to. indicate, It was true that a second Justice wan to be Installed in the West. Madison Birect Sta- tion, Tt would Ilkely be Ingersoll, The design was that he should get all tho changes of yenuo from tho Polive Court. There were good and ruilictent reasons fu favor of tha scheme, chict of which was that the Polfee Depurtinent nor the clty was ever able to get any record of enses wherein a chunge of yenue had been taken. Also that these citses proved "fat takes" for tho Justice getting thota,and that tho city got no portion of the feces. When tho reporter asked if tho city got any portion of the feex In the Police Courts, the binnacle was in great commotion, ‘The reply enme that the law required thom before becoming Pol{ee Justice to aign a relense of all feos and emolumente, ontalde of thelr galury, to the el nil tl those documents wore on file in the Controller's office, and Mnally, that when Justices Wallace, Walsh, and Kaufmann camoto draw tholr salaries, [t would be advisable for tho Controller to plump these documents into their purposes ¢ s asking hearings, aud then not coming before the Committee, or using Ine fluence In the House to postpone netton, Chis policy waa curried go fir tht the Committee nt ist decided to atop tthe futile dalliance,’ and reported the bill to tho House, ‘Then tho rail- pond men came to thme; Messrs. Vanderbilt anid MM Linda... . le, Valleria Tho performance of “Linda” last evening may almost be set down ag a novelty, for proba- bly very few of tho present generntion of opera- goers are funtlinr ae wequainted with it, It hns been dono so seldom Jn this eity. Ithas only | SON u SE ee terete teee) (Gn Tyo Tos: bors, nnd 3s fant Darter (eee eect ene aaa ee aa are fince was inany yours go, Ita first performanee | ing.” Tho results of this conference will proh- was during the memorablo week In April, 1465, uly be known beforo these Hines are rem. that Innuyurated tho Croaby Opent-House, and ADEQUACY OF THE WEMEDIES, it wag one of tho first opers that made Kellogg Taaked Mr. Reagan us to tho adequner of the n favorit. Tho east. at that time was one whieh we | remedies proposed by his bill, especiully refer- ean hardly hope ever to see excelled, oa ft inelid- ed Kellogg as Linda, Morenst as Plerotte, Lottlus Carlo, Bellint as Antonfo, Dubreul as the Mar- quis, and Susint as tho Prefect. Why it should havo been shelved so Jong 14 remarkabk for, notwithstanding the thinness and very un- Interesting character of Its story, it fs, froma mustenl point of view, one of the most interest- ing of Donlzettl's works, Mled with bright, fresh ring to the fact that private persons would be slaw to nvall thomnselves of tho privilege of un netion at law against great corporutlons, Hed. mitted the foree of this, and satd it had often, come within his own knowledge that corpont- tlons had Jitlgated through to the courts of the Just resort merely to wear out thelr opponents. “Rut,” he added, * wo have provided fora erin Inu! ns well nga civil action. On Information, tho District Attorney fa compelled, under our Dill, fo prosceute erlminally the oficers of trans- he faces and request them to “ante up.” ‘The nees urtagthat still keep thelr place on the concert | Reluitlon companies | violiting | tho,, Bey | dio again becune stendy, ‘There wero many: stage, very taking ducts, strong and wotl-con- ‘oplu of Mr. Reagan, in conclusion, * that the py tho West ahuuld oppose this bil, fsn't hut! out better than na brend, particularly when there {sa prospect of getting the other halt in due time, We propose: only to bo patient and reasonable; and_to provide a remedy untit the desired agency of reférin and information can other polnts in favor of the new schemo, Polica Court’ business could be slinplitied, the Cleric having nceess to tho papers of both Justices, und tho ontire business could he beld in hand ensily: by the authorities at the Clty-Hall, If the gcheme worked successfully in the West Divi- sion, us it war sevoutly: wished it would, tho a structed finales, and more brondly and har- montously scored. than nny othor of his works. Tho performance, therefore, wis nat only very Interesting for tho merits of tho work itself, but ulso for tho revival of old uxsociutions and tho Upportunity to hens such tielodions musie, oven | hoestablished, Itefleet that tho Senate tinuch | Bund practicg would be fuauzurnted at tho Are ihon tate outor dito. It Isonly Justice to | moro dificult to mandge In auch matters than | mory. ‘Tho bimclo tnd wo doubt that it would the chorus and tho orchestra, as well us to its | the House, and you will ace that we have been ‘play asus ue Deleon party, when tt Ment lender, to riy thut this Interest was | wise in not attempting too much.” ccnmne Known on board ship that Justicn Vv ne mintetilly cuban! hy: that satellbrent an MR, BATES HLL Trown, 2 Republican, would preside at tho prox- enthustust(e work, especully in tho finales. pective South Division Uouse of Refuge, | io providing for n Comission fs till inan oarly dtnge, and ite further progress fs at least doubt. ful. Mr.Sapp himself belfeves the Commisston fa tho eascntin! thing, but sees no ronson why his Mile. Valteria fimproves upon nequalntance. Her thoroughly musient style of singing would naturally. produce that result, for it is very raro i ud been Pollce Cominissioner, and was thor- oughly posted in potlee affnirs, u competent and dndicinus adviecr, and, all in all, a inan to be hat vo he: ponsclentto eat (3 greatly prized us an acquisition to tho city's that We buve heard xo conscientious and ferith | vill shold be antigonized to Heagan's, He | inanmgement. ‘Pho nocdle manltosted its grent- Ree TE eee rei oko of tie | Voted for Reagan's bill In the House, and will do | est approval. Why? Commissioner Hrowitanco most antisfactory artists that baye ever aung | 8? ngaln when it comes up. Ho will have a hear | raised the needle from. crossing-policeman to tpen our fount bonds, Whitever sho does she | 48 Foon befor tho Committes on Commerce, | sorgennt. ‘The binnaclo greatly, wondered how tigen Wolly bee: a That atte © | and willadvoente the Commission to the hest of | thovseerat leaked out, aud Wished. publicity tlocr wall, boeaugo ake docs not attennt tho Im | hivablilty, Iv hus no objection to the inereuse | would not be given it tuitit HL hud heen tried an nudienco with tents of which site f4 incapae | Of the sitlarles of Commalalonens to £0,000, but | iy an. experinont. "Tho binnacle Nghts blo. Her forte ties in smoot, sustained alge | Put tho saris low to avold crittelsm fromthe | censed to burn, ita oll hud give Inu, in quiotuess and modesty of style, and 4 | othor aide, Ho wonld bo mld to support an outs and — tho revarter , wandered twa tho expression of feoling, and to these require. amondment Inerensing the sularics of the Com- | to "And Justico, Walah, “He 9 was rath nilssioners and their Becretary. BOUTHRMN-CLAIMS COMMISION. The Southorn-Clatms Conunission expires by Innitation March 10 next, You have already hid aaummury of its report for the year, Hut it muy not Dowell known that tho Commission, during the nine yenrs of {ts existence, has dane vast amount of work, and saved mittlons of | money to the Guyernment; and ull to the antl fuetion of disinterested men of both parties, No vomplulnt or expression of disautisfuctton his been heard from any quarter, except from the eluim agents, The Commission was orgiized 11, fouingio otk Uno arin when All was dono so | isl, Ail-tho clans wore Med by the 10th of well. Sig. Galnss! was cordinity welcomed, and } Mateh, 187), and no ovidonce hus been taken sines shured the honors with hor, Ho wasin dine volee, | Maret 10, 1870. The work of the Commission 1s and aang with allhis customary tre and vigor, | now virtually completed, only. a. namber of na well na with that perfect method which ehnr= | cliims of bankrupts, whode assignees have not feterized his work last xenon, Tho partiea | nppeared on thoir behalf, remaining waadsudi- amall one for an artist of such superb powers, | cated. ‘The Commission considers only cluims buthe mude it thoroughly interesting, and in | for stores and supplies” furnfabed by loyal the mitediction scene Toke to a inuygnitivent | persous to the Union armies, Destruction of burst of dramatic power, Miss Cary was tn property or any injury to tho same, and the use happler ven than on Monday eventig, and gang | of uftdings ave clpssified 18 “canunltiesot war,” and acted the part of Pleralto with youl effect. | and not paid for. The elalms allowed by the Runelo, the new tenor, made wn agrecuble tim | Commission during the whole period of Its extyt- pression. Though not a great artist, he [4 a | ence havo amounted to somothing less thin &4\- careful ainger, and displays In his work consid- | 500,000, and those disallowed to more than $00,- erblo feellng, and, at" thnes, much dramatic | 000,000, foree. Behrens had i small part, tha Prefect, oi the dno with Guloxsl sang with. great feeling, “This oveniog the * Daughter of the Regtnont” will be given. — THE REALISTIC DRAMA, Playgoers mny be reminded that on Monday: ovoning ut MeVicker's the first production of Churios Heato's version of '1'Assonmotr,” ‘entitled “Drink,” will be given, The cast will embrace tho Boston ‘Theatre company, and the ullottment of pero he us follows: Coupeat, Mr. Thomas W. Keene; Gonget. a blneksinith, L, 2. Showell; Lanticr, a hatter, Bo J. Buckley; Mex Holtes a tocksmith, D. 6. Maguinniay Polen, a retired soldier, 5. B. Bpringer; Bre Salt, John T. Craven; Hib, Gene Wiloyy Pere Colombe, Keoper of FAssonimoir, W, 1H. Spe dercitlaey, Ming itnchel Nowh; Viryinic, Mike Florence: Chane; Phabe Sage, Miss Ada Ailauny Nand, Little Gertrinte; Madame Houge, Mrs, Tre Juliet, Miss Clarn Be Fins; Delphine, Misa ¥ nile Dudley; Loufee, Mia dulin Dillon, Drak: pleased with the iden, and’ announced his Inten- fon of sonding all changes of venue to hia nearest neighbor. ore hus beon some talk that the luw would not recognize the now scheme; he ‘doubted th Payno Fittz, an at- torney, cited cise wheroin he [beat the city, Judge McAllister holding that n Justice huyitig an oilice guine dlstance fram the Police Court could not ront a room newer tho Court and hang: out his shingle, siinply us a means of catching changes of venue, ‘Tho new fdon ploused him so mnuch that he talked. all around it, and ad- mired cach feuture brought out fn cons nection therewith. sorrow twinge him badly when he wondered howsehis brother: Justive, Mr. Morrigon, who hus beon waxing Sirens, upon refugees from the West Division Po- ive Court, would look upon tho Intest enterprise of tho best Mayor and the best pollee, Ry this now arruugement Justice Ingersoll wonkd do private aa well aa polivo business hn hbs new quurtera, and {n coy wition for the room, the fuol, aud light furnished/himn ts ex pected to turn over a certaln portion of the feos of his office tothe Controller, Ils court-room will be reached by tho outside stairway ut tho station, and thorico by a passage through the Polleo Court, Exnetly when ho will take por- session 18 not known, but it may be expected any day this week, —————__— SENATOR LAMAR'S CONDITION. Wasutnaton, D. ©, Jan, 4.—Senutor Gordon hos a telegram from Gen, Singleton, dated Juckson, Miss, to-day, sayings “Lamar ts allirhtty paralyzed. Ho {a better now, I am with him,” i Murwpitis, Tonn., Jan. 14.—A apeoinl from Jnok- son, Bie auys Senator Lamar’s condition Is tin- proved, menta she muinly confines herself, though where the florid character of the musla demands It sho shows herself possessed of 1 degree of exes cution that is by no menns ordinary. In every phnac of the churtcter—In the pathetia adicn to the home, in the passlonnte scene with the Mare quia, in the mad scene, and In the happy fiiule where reason returns—she acted ff not with in- tengo powor ut least with natural effect and un- studied grace. Tho “Luce de Quest Aniina” is usually considered the taking arin of The role, and this ehe sung with elegant tintksh and fino expression, but it would be almost an injustice A TYPIOAL BOUTIERN CLAIM. Annexed to tho report of this year is a minute of at curious case, In which the oifort to defraud tho Government wag more Ingenlous and elab-* onite than usual, but similar dn kind to many others, As the vaso ilustrates the really ex- cellent work which the Commission hns dono, us well us the desperate shifts to which the Suith- ern claimants have been put, a passing notice of itseoms notout of place, ‘tho elatin was pre- aonted by Shiny Helo, ‘af New Orleans, fhe amount claimed wis £116,402, ‘The stores aalil to bo gupniied were LARS) hopheads of suger and 1,400 fnrrols of molinees. Mrs. Melon nlleged that in Mays 1803, sho gave her husband from $40,000 to $100,000 in monuy, with which he boyght for her the sugar and molisses deserted In tho Petition. Her story ws corroborated apps rently by hor husband and four witnesses, ono of whan efalmedd to he 0 dateative crployed by the Quurtermaater at Now Orlouns, and nnothor the pilot of & Government transport. ‘Thesu wit axes sworg to personel Knowledge af tho pure —<————— Excention of Domestic Animals for Murder. According to the Roman luw, ff a inin was burt by a tang inlaid, asa vicious horsg or a dangerous bull, the owner atforded satlafaction by the surrenderot tho animal. Tho sine rule extended tan mun's slave, and also to his gon, oth of whom werg regarded by the Rott law ius his chattels, ‘Tho Burgundlan medieval law enacted that where one tame antinal was hurt chiwe of tho supplies, thelr transportation to f has hid ai cnormons run in London, baying now | New Orleans, and transfer to the ‘Quarter | by aviunthus tho. often ie matanall wiks 0 Pence Menriy. GU. porformunces: “Purtientar | master, ‘ho’ witnesses teattiled orally before | Anne ind seandinavin to hunt Wolves tui ree et ichainipelien tie sattiog of the plug, | Ho Commission, and were rheldly cross-exume | Germany und Senttinnsin n ea ee ee ae eta hivitig Geen eiimad | ined, but tholr testimony wis not shaken in tho | pss With a Grin Oe eee neh pas lenst, Atagentor thoCourt, Mr. iichmond, was | “dares, and asan iuggravation of bid punish- upon tho work for six ur seven Weeks, ment. Saxo Grumnitious stutes that tho nsso- elutlon’of wolves at tho hanging of tho criminal was mtancient punishment for purrioide, and in Cormuny tho hanging of dogs with tho sulforer: wan particularly npplled to tho Jews, Rororius, a Papal Nunelo ut the Court of Hungary in tho sixteenth contury, wrotoand published a trontivn to prove that animals aye rational, and thit they: mnke # better nse of thelr reason than man Ln this work he stated that it waa customary tn Africa to ernelfy Hous, In order to deter: thom from cntering towns; and ho had bimsel€ seen two wolves hung froma gibbet in the forest between Cologne und Jullers, naan exiunple to then xont to Lautuinna. Ho Investiguted the tacts varetitllts and nscertiined that tho churucter of tho witnesses for vernelty wis very bids that ail tho porsous who were wld ta hive sold the sey this week: mip et Gigs wary pine tent oF nue of reneh; an he pretended detective a 1O ‘Miss Alco Harrison his yono to Ruropo. Hor | Quartennaster's Departinent md the wleged visit will bo brief, | planar Lie Garena seu neice whe Dot! ths George Honvy, the Tondon comedian, has Bnd | eee ent este ie eatig. alsoevaitions. to have mundo thelr valuable observations of a stroke of parnlyats, and tho sume afiilction has | Mrs, Heinn’s slipmonts. ‘Tho wholy conspiracy befallen Mra, Charles Kenn (Bullen Treo), , tl wos oxpoaed by the testlmony of Charles 8. Attractions at tho Now York houses: “Patee | Hundull, whlch Is vory remuriablos fax,” Park Theatre; An Arablan Night," Dae DRAMATIC NOLES, “Prejudice” and Kato Girard appear In Jere * Churtes 8, Handall testilled that in March or, April, 1877, Coa 'W, and Poter F. Kendall ine | other wolves, The Roman onstony of winuatly Iva: “Tho. Life Guarda”. Broadway Operas | teodueed bin to Mine Hoinn and Jobo Helna, | ettelfying dogs,on uecount of thelr failure to Houses" Fatinitzay ‘Tinta; = Pronch Flatay” | and anid they wanted him asa witness for Mrs, | give tho alarm when tho gupital was scaled | by Unlon’ Square; © Tho Danites,” Grand Operas | Holing that bts passage and expenses to Wash the Guns, must be considered us cammenori: tye, not a pound tutiiction. Itinny be observed that antinals, though conselous of tho iden of danger—without which they would not preserve tholr lvex—ure deatitute of tho idea of death; and that tho Intlletion of death upon one wnlinal would not opernto by way of exwuple upon Houns Tho Tourists,” Muverly's; Tho Pl- rates," Fitth Avenue, a MATRIMONIAL, Special Dispatch to The Chicugo Tribune, tan would bo paid, und, §€ the ola siecved- ho should have. #500. Witness in reality know nothing wbout the claim, but was wanted to Rwenr that bo aaw augur and molasses marked ‘Mary Heluny ond ‘SM. HL! taken from Hermie tuge ind Cook's Lundined on the Sulllo Hotilnson Furepoin, Il, Jup.14.—Misa Florence Hurrell, | and Ceres to Ititon Houge and Now Orleans, | tHother, animal, | iho wine, romurie muy: dauguter of Me. Jobu Burrell, of tho firmot | He. wis required | to ‘isi "Rentals "house Pane ete avai nlng avtetiitatered ta pn Euimort & Hurrell, was untied in murrlago this | pyre oe “meant and phuyod the | dogis ne warning to nnothor doy, All” puntsh- morning at 11 o'clock to Mr. Sylvanus Igeormans, Seyof Morris, 1, The nuptial knot was Ged by tho Rov, David Hurroll, of Dubuque, whelé of tha rides The happy couple reeetres monts of aninials munt, in order to be operative, bo fudividunts pnd he tho capital punish iment of an aulmal is an absurdity, becnuse it extinguishes the Hfeof tho only animal upon part of Judge, and Randall was thd witneas under exnmination, Ho was drilled by Kendall a8 to his testimony. Questions were put to hin Und ho was tohl whut answers ho Wad oxpocted f Alay nunnbor of handsome and costly presents, | 1 ies, ‘Tho withens was to say that bo wus whieh the puntahinent cun oporate, a o ur scat vt ‘. cil, & purt= a - aay tees for tholr future home, Morvis, ths | pez con Rute, tho brothor of Gon Ttler, SARATOGA BentNOS, Guano Uxtow Moret, , 8i.—AMexsrg. Morgan & Allen, 69 John red, New York City—GeUNTLEMEN: Ono bottle of your, medioie bus cured we of Intumation of the kidneys. Inclosod find 8! or please send ino One bottle of “Constitution Was er" furufrignd, Yours truly, - | Joun BioCounicK, ‘The witness gives 4 full und curious account of how ho was drilled Kendall to anewer all questions, This drilling went on from two to three weeks, once of: twioo uo diy, on Baturda nightsand all day Sunday, The Kendalty and Capt, Hoinn wero niu in the matter, Frank Ottendorfor was spoken of & good witness, ‘Tho witness says, *T thought us this opportunity wad Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune CLINTON, UL, Jan ne of tho most happy ovents of the senson in Clinton socioty was tho delebration of tho wedding nuptitls of Sr, Stes yon W. Hutebtu, a prominent young man of thls county, and Mies Binnie Merriman, un accom pylsted youuu lady of Clhitton, and dw Mntor uf te HL tf ‘1 eeu Union Square Hotel, New York City, ee, HG. Adres t hurrare menciint, Te | the best lat could oifer to enutlo imo to reuch | Ask your druypylat for hs New Y ¥ Bivecund tot. plano, wold watch anid chun, | Wasbiogton, whoerg if summoned aa a witness New You, Messy, Morpan & wore along tho presents, —————__$_ ‘The Eldredge Sewlng-Machine.—It lead the world, anes the eat for you . buy Sold on nionthly payments. 100'State street, ~ t, 0, 1879. Allen, 89 John street, New York Cily—Guntun- MEN? Lyin happy toluform you that I am pow eutirely woll, having usod only one bottle of “Constitution Water. ours truly, 5 Bopp Donia. Ank your drugglat for it, in favor of tho claimant, 1t was iny intention to deny ull knowledge of tho matter, ad was tho truth, and to rofuso to give any testimony whut. over. 1 never promised to tostify, but my inane norand deportment wore intended to inislead thom, and lo give thom tha conviction, It is ; a ‘ tt “su tho Hinit beyond which it would bo unsafo THE MARKETS, A Genoral Deoline in the Values of Breadstuffs and Provisions. The ‘*Tatlora’ Lose Confidence ond Hurrledly Drop Their Deals. Four New Elevators to Be Built Next Scason. ON °CITANGE. THE DRADING WODUCE MAREE wero very wenk yeaterday, Confidence In the future of prices seemed to bo unusually die- turbed, and the result was heavy offorinya of all Drought prices down by a run. Whent declined fully threo cents during the day and pork MM cents. ‘These wore followed by a deellue of 12% cents In lard and fully one-half cont per bushel in corn, ‘Othor grain was relntively steady, though oats lending artielus of produce, which fell off in sympathy with wheat.and corn, ‘Tho wenkness in prices was ju provistons, — and grain wero = rathor our light, receipts warrinted this conclusion, enrned for themsolyes tho — cuphonious namo oof — “‘fallers,"" tho title = being: giver thom because thoy aro Btipe paset to, have followed at the fat ‘of dim Keene and his condjutora, hontai to ney make money In the advance In prices which 0) belloved Keene was certain to accomplish. Thoy appeared ‘TO NAVE LOST CONPIDENCE, in whent at the present for sovernl reasons, hs mentioned the claim by Boglish writers that the bigh prices on tho othor Muted an Intow of [villzed world at a rato which was proviously: considered searcely possible, thus increasing the supply in Westoriy } 9 higher prices have somewhat diminished the consumption. The stocks at nearly all tho principal points Among these may aide of tho Atlunti huye stl wheat from all parts of tho Europe, while at the sume tho th in England are reported to be lange, te fy ercgute belng much yreater than, f& ust at this present prices, Another fact 18 tho un ustully nrHo necumnlation of | griin nt wl the principal points on thls — alite of the Atlantic, shape of sceuring vessel room for the rellet overcrowded clevatars will be pub lredy adequate tomect the rush of grain from ening: cranes: between this nnd tho 0} of nayization in it? denl got rid of carrying wanted by consumers? 1 during the last weok, when THE ACTUAL DOP wns only Leent to? cents on the days specified. ‘The gorsequence Ia thit the numerous people who have Invested their cash In sraniter lots, 25 well as those who are always on the lookout to make money by gelling“ short,” have concluded thatthe market was going to “thundel that It was best to sell freely. jotsof orders here to sell ut ull tho even cents und the price ut which outside, Yestordiy those orders camo in with- out limit, several of which tha reportor raw, They wore of 1 peremptory character, runnin, thud: “Sell 60,000 Murch wheat ” Bell 100, March whent,” “Sell 10,000 for February,” ete. and most of the parties who received them posal= bly neted with lesa digseretion in. currying them olit than if thoy had been truding on tholr own, ‘ket and offering they wero wfruld tt would drop ‘ot in thelr gecount, ptt into tho to sell wildly ns b out of thelr reach before thoy could work, ‘Tho ordors possibly cine In wit the more: vigorously as many of the purtics thought it o comparatively good tino to sellwhile recelpta ure amull, a8 they expect thatthe cool wouthor will Iurden the roads in tho country and make farm- era’ tlellyeries more free, in which eare prices In trying to take ad- vantage of this fret before Its ‘oecnrrenes, they it about the cffevt a [ttle soones thin nn 0 l with the proiits offered in filling. There wero few hurdy onough to undertnko new deals on tho “long” sido in the face of tho provalling would naturally decline: Droug telpated, The otforings yoaterdny seemed chiefly done by the “ shorts,” who were satt wenk1ess, Ver oxistintho murket for pork aud lard, if wero .THE PROVISION DEAT. substituted the movement of hoys in tho country for tho expected inerense in the farmers’ deliv. eries of wheat. ‘There was a multitude of soiling: orders, most of which were ae bused on phouses Were nbout tho beliof that the packing to start up with renewed vigor, and that tho ine erensed supply of product will force prices down as above intimated, there was nothing in the condjtion of the Foreien markets Indeed tho orders to buy meats for export uppenred to be more nuincrous than at nny othor tine for two or three weeks pust, with tho cx- any, It is consumers iro eatise Hed that thoy will not bo nblu to secure much further concession, In yiow of tha shortness of with a rust. to warrunt weakness In provisions; ception of the previous focaitle that Enylish the hog croup, ich hns been variously cat! muted ull tho w: 4 ANY from 600,000 to 1,000,000 hi beatdes a falling off to the extent of ame flyo o efght pounds inthe weight of tho average anl- aml, Tho market for corn was rolativoly stendy, though lower as above noted, Thero wit i good demand for cash corn to Lond on vessels in tho harbor, and, tho recelpta being Nght, 0 iy deal of this corn had to bo kold from store, gel room was taken yosterduy for 42,000 bushels Tho parties who wero carrying it of corn, bought for May ugulnst thoir sles, and tho consequaco was a lyeller murket thin cout otherwise have beon ex- pected, The trading in other months than for in fact, store optlons drugged through the greater part of the aniry and May wus not hinges duy, It was noted that rye wna Rteady and bir loy Ashade firmer in spite of tho weakness ull round, t STORAGE CAPACITY. “ It was roported on good authority that ar- rutaginents hud praetleally beet muda for in crewing our ain storuge capacity between now and next hurvest, to the extent of nearly 4,000,000 bushels, Ono house {8 to bo built on tho Northwestern, Rond, anothor on Rock Taland an two othora ary talked of Tt is _ considered. robublo tho Chicago, Burlington & Quinvy Hallroud will nd a Atth houso to its already cnormous storage cannclty, Thor {a not;much consol Hon in this to the parties who aro or have been unnble to consign tholr grain to store during tho lust few weeks, but tho philosophor may derive: somo sutistuction from tho retlectlon that those extraordinary nrrangoments ‘would never hive been mito bit for tho unusual presstire of lust’ wwluter for storage room, aff tho etlll moro ox dratelinury, #iut now. Tho cupltalists who aro about to Invost thelr money In tho erection of now warohoused are probably satistiod tint the character of the Chicago murket hua nidleally changed from thatofa fow years ao, and that the grain trade may now be ‘regurded as one in which large quantifies of xtuff will bo held hero asi fivestinent during the colder bulf of the your, [thus long been urged. by parties who vluhn to understand the changing character of the grain trade thut this is 0 Ay pea p contre of necumulation for tho whole Northwest, and at, Wo InKy No moro oxpcut to have a healthy market without a lunge stock of grin on hand thin a dry-goods merchant to trinenct a big business with baro shelved. Tt ts undoubtedly possible that wo may accumulate too much grin here for the ent of tho trade, but tho conservative man would scarcely yent- ure, in tho ight of recent developments, to as- FS ACCUMULATH THE anata : of tho Northwest {n Chicago while waiting for a inarkot. It {4 certula that if capital be ublo and willing to hold tho grain bere tnt) consumers want Jt, boldens may count upon bLe- ing able to socure better prices for it than ore: hed for it we ward under the old plan ured to tho consumer in the way which left to tho buyer 8 lurge voice in dictating the peice wt which It should bo sold, Ag it ts manifestly to tho interest of the producer that he should real hop aged rive for bis property, ho may consalo himself with the rotlection that some permanent my cone out of the present ovil—that Is, 1G wppirently undue proasuro at present felt in the grain trado—that it muy result ina porn. nent clovation of prices to tha big joxt point at which the consumers of Westorn Europe will bo. pulod to poy for what surplus wo may have to —__. ’ GRAIN RECEIVERS, APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES, ' A meeting of the Grain Rocelvers’ Association was held fn thq Directors’ room of the Board of _ Se ohne Tes. nll the moro murket! ng it did not seem to ho caused by de- preasing telegrams from other polnts. Liver pool wos reputed to be ar littlo firmer on both wheat and corn, with no {mportant snanae 0 and = promised to continuc so for Reveral days, ns the bad weather in tho country haa atopped farmers from moving over tho roads In very many sco tions, The weakness, however, scomed to come fram outslde.' Thero were Jirgo selling or- dors on hand from people on the seaboard, and tho welght of tholr offerings boro.prices down rupldly. There were rumors flouting to the ef- fect that “the clique” was selling out, but the reporter was unublo to ngcertain unytiing that ‘The selling Keomned to Lo dono on behul of the men who have time of the year, and thoso that ure Dearlshly disposed Iningine that English buyers ure comparatively independent anid wilt not caro to take much of or wheat ut any thing Ilko n neluding — Chicago. It is well known that, our stocks sire larger than ever before I the history of the elty, and it fs fenred by some that even tho arrangements re- cently iiads and possibly to bo made in the thoxpring. Tho question is asked all round, What is going to be done with Wil not the capital tht is already in tho the lond before tt ix ‘he untural effect of these constderitions upon the “tallers” has probably or posglbly been enhanced by the ox- negernted reports of Western weakness which have appeared in some of the Enatern papers, Parngrapbers have noted declines of 6 cents to 10 cents Beh bushel In this market at «jump And so they have been selling rather freely for three or fovir days: past, Wut mostly on Lmited orders. There wero | 39, B,—in fnet, between the top each market closed much tho same stute of things seemed to and a. ateadior that Trado yertertay afternoon, EH. W. Rogers, Prealient, in tho chatr, Tho Chate snnounced tho following standing committees: ‘Tennaportation—A. M, Wright, Chatrman: vw, gorges E.1, Stovens, H. 11. Hoss, John BteLauge Ure Warohouser—J. Hf. Dole, Chnirmon; A, 7, Shark, Charies T. Nash, ©. C. Moeller, Albert - ERG. Inpectton—Charles i. Culver, Chairman; H. Haldwin, dd. MoDermid,d.G. Smyth, George Ii, Bidwell. Memhership~C. 1 Blackmnn, Chalrinan; ty, 3. Hoswell, J. af Wanzor, C, C. Warren, 1, ¢ Orr. Commissions—Jobn RB. Bensley, Chairn W. Duntan, St Rosenbaum. Me D.stovers fe . Foss, On motion, Murry Nelson & Co, wero ndmi members of the Astoclation, ea An nascramnentof 82 per firm was onlorcd dofray expenses connected with tho invest} tion being mado by tho special Comiittecon ine Bpection, appointed at a previous meeting, Tesolutions wero offered ly Mr. Wanzer, lone ing to. an improvement. in tho system oF ime! welghing, and n committees composed of J, p, Ttumsey, BW. Underwood, and J. i. Wanzee was appoluted to osk tha co-operation of tho Bourd of Trade, * ‘Tho incoting thon adjourned, a SPECIAL TELEGRAM. To Murray & Cv., 127 La Salle streets I the grand drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery on the 13th inst, No. 51,745 drew first, enpltal prize of $30,000; No. 10,416 drew gio. 000; No, 09,840 «drew $5,000, M.A, Daurnty, Preaident No FAnoy Piuces—Lest act teoth, $83 Ming y rates, McChesney Bros., Clark and Randolph-ata, ————>___—_. Cigars and Candics bought at Dawson's nro qi perfection, Remember tho number, 211 Btate, foci ae a Bey Indigestion, dyspepsia. neryous prostration, | Pe eee eaeedeaiotttitgeretigved te ict Ing Mensman's Peptonized Beef ‘Tante, the only preparation of beef contalning ite entlro nutri Hous properties. [tis not a mero stimulant ike the extracts of becf, but contalus blood-muaking, force-goncrating, and life-sustaluing properties fs invaluable in all enfeebied conditions, whether tho result of exhaustion, nervows prostratlon, overwork, or netite diseasas particularity if ree sulting from pulmonary complaluts. Cuswell, Hnozard & Co,, Propelotors, New York. For sal by drugaiata. ———————— A MEDICINE SHOULD NOT BE GAUGED by the suddenness and violenco of its effects, Self-ovident 18 this proposition would. scer there ure many foolish persons who ure content only witha remedy which acts nbruptly, The ne and other nostrum-venders who trade t ho creditlity of this clogs find thelr “ best holt," ng Bone Artemis Ward termed It, in tho snio of violent purgntives. So long is thoy wrench the bowels of thelr dupes suillciently thoy are prety sttre of a certaln measure of snecess. If, Ine stend of such pornicious rubbish, Hostetter’s Stomueh Hitters is used, the results are widely different. Tho bowels uro rolloved, but always gently, by this plensant laxative, which docs not Wwenken but invigorates thon, and endows the co-operative organs of digestion and villous te erction with nctivity and regularity, Btrongcthont tho constitution and physique, and, while it ts anfo in ita constituents, ig suiliclently prompt tn- operation, MARRIAGES. BEDI —CARSON—AC Ht. John’s Cathedral, Quine © jan. 1, by the Ht-ov. Joseph C. Talbots ‘D., Bishop of Indiana, assisted by the hie vy, Alexunder Burgers, 1 Da Blahop Of Quin io M. daughter of Mr, and Mrs, John H. Carsoa, of Quincy, and Mr, J. Medill, of Chicuxo, DEATHS, WOODMAN—At 0 Went Fiftecnth-at., Jan. 1 ay 3:25 p. tn, Uf montugitis, Cora, cldoxt daughter of G W,and Cornelia Woodman. Frnerui survlees at 11 to-day, at the Reunion, Pres Chueh, on Fourteontt-st., betmuen ‘Tiroep nls. WHEELER—At Grind Crossing, Il, Jan. 13, B ward K. Wheeler, ugad 7 yeare) months ind "14 ay and on dan, ia Rrontiy and Udayay sons of Christophor 0. and jane Why jor, “ Mary MEVEUSIan. 4, 1s, Max Moyer, acd Gl, _, inoral Thursday at Lp. ty frond 6 South Clarkat, by curriages to Grocolund, ‘Frionds are Invited tas rdirebaees : MASTERS—Jon. 1, at 1% West Polk-st, Thoms Masters, of dropey, axed 43 yours, ‘af taneral here: ery nimatuck (Mich,), and Biss SUE, nee, Hupo-st, Wodnentay, dan. 4, ¥ 1, Beed HE yenTR, Funeral Friday at Bf. Patrick's Cliurch, thence by carriagos to Calvary. ANNOUNCEMENTS. UNITAIIAN CONFERENCE MEETING WILT bo ticlt in the'third Unitarian Church, eorner of Monroe nnd Latiin-ats,, thin ovuning at Addrosses muy bo oxvected from tho Inv, W. fe Alwor, of Huston; tha Moy. Broke Morford, Rboroy, Haq.3 tho Rov. G. BE. Garden, of Milwankees tho toy. i, 1. Gnivin, and others, ‘Tho public are cure diaily Invited. EVIVAL RRVICES, CONDUCTED BY THE pastiir, tho Hoy. F. X. Harin, nro bolng holli Uintstod Rtreet Churelt ‘ovory erent, oxcept Nature any, with good results. ‘Those movtligs are attended ith More than tho usual Intoront. TPE WE. 36, D GOODWIN, PREACHES, THIS ovoning nets Inthe Chicago Avepito Chute, Lan Mallet. ‘Shu tonplo, atlit throne ta meetings conducted by the pastor ond bis brothora, 2 BAKING POWDER. baolutely pure, Made from Grapo Cream Tartsé Housokooque's favorito in leading eition of tho werl No other preparation makes such [xt taky, bot irons, or lnaurions pantry. Can by eatun by ayenep, thes without fear af tho its reamiting from heavy Inde kuatibly food, 7 e-Commended for purity snd yiole Fomoneas by the Govyrnmont Chomlat, UE: Mt, ROYAL BAKING POWDER CG, Now York AUCTION SALES. GORE & CO. 2 Watash-av. ‘Thureday, Jan. 15, at 9:0). mm, REGULATE papa . SALE Crockery and @lassware, earke W; Gand GC Waro in open lot Brown an ellow, 5 M0 bri, Glassware, © nasorigd.” JampUntnnoys Hurners, Shades, &. Goods packed for country merchants. GEO. 1, GOW & CO, Auctonoert, CANADA FUR MANF'G C0 Removed to the Elegant Premises, 142 & 144 Wabash-avey Hotwuon Madison aud Sonrvo-ats., And to roduce stuck wil} nell during dunusry sal Artivion at munitfusturer's Gost, Splenilid usoorsine! In deal and Mink Buciuus, Dolmans, ota, Largs ing by purchasing from us. BEAK & BUCHER, CLOTHKS CLEAN! ec AO MANING: YOUR OL; eee ots Ol (THES fjauclsaiw ene laiasteen: te o Ny Hieiondtcn' Dresses tscquet LADIES AND GHNTS NB Lndtes Drees REMOVED, vant ‘Hund § B for a supe toe’ by "Gapross Sof chu | ust Cangiog in Kinorles, pub. pee, ganly anu strictly, Gre, He Call Chicago. Auitross all hy tre: fieit, Confectioner CUNT Content COUGH LOZENGES. er ~~ KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES [I wRD OBERT SMOLSU MEMEND (td 9a Toren Bold by al lets. Tr YOUGEA & CO, Naw York Apia Sty by” Pot Whoulur, nget 2 years *