Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1880, Page 5

nilministrator pormitd tho arbitrator for Bphin, Senor Potostad, to dofeat, ns bo hns dono, tho’ purposes for which the Commision was cronted, A resolution has been prepared and will be in- trom in tho fennte toemorrow calling wpon the fecrotury of State for the necessary Information In tho prum- dgos. «The = .tribunal, although + it has noyor Answered the oxpectations of those for ‘whose benefit it was established, at Icast dis- posed of a faw cnacs cyory year. Dnat &itimmer, howover, tho Spanish arbitrator avalied himsclf of tho profext of a decision nvyerss to the Gov. ernmont umpire, Iaron Blane, to bring about a suspension of the sittings of thoCommission, nad ¥ILHD A PROTEST, which concluded in those terms: Tho under- signed deoms it his duty to declare that he cunnot agree to have any cnse roferred to tho umptro whoreln ® question of citizenship iny be Involved - until he shall have roforred the matter to tho Government of BpAiny who shalt determine, together with tho high contracting party, the Government of the United States, tho exact reach and sonns of the right conceded to Spain to traverse an uilegation of Amerlean bitleanetsips The foregoing puper wos lod on May 23, 183%, and einen thit time the Spanish Conunissiouer hne steadily refused to eonour inany order referring cuses to the umn- pire lovulsing. tho question of citizenship, a ‘queation which appears to bo Involved in every: cnse, and the result ns been that the work of the Commission ins been practically sus- pened, This has caused grent hardship to clalinants, many of whom are absolutely ponni- lose, tholr property having been tuken from then by the Spanish Government. Tho ntton- tout of Beorotury Evarts was called to this at the time of tho Ming of tho protest, but nothing bas yot been done. i MARINE IWOSPITATL SERVICK. A REMARKABLE EXUIDIT OF ECONOMY—PItYSI+ CAL EXAMINATION OF SEAMEN, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, = WAstnaToN, D. C., Jan. 1%—Surgeon J, C. Hamilton, of [llnota, Supervising Surgeon-Gon- ornl of the Marino Hospital Service, in bis an- nual report fy ablo to mnko a atatement which would prove true, perhups, of no other brunch of tho publis service. ‘The reduction in tho per ~ gapita costof matntalning the Marino Hospital Bervieo, na compared with tho year 187, was + @211,and tho total reduction In the cost per A capita since 1870 hus becn moro than gue-hall. ik Dr. Hnagillton says: “During the tacat yoar onded June 00, 1870, 20,02 seunngn wore furilshed rellef by tho Ma« rino Hogplitat Service. Of this humters 11a ¢ wore treated aa horpitul-pa , aul 23 1s diapensary or “out-pationts $1,020 diya’ re= Mert were furnished, and 14,265 prescriptions wero supplied to out-pationts, “The number of pa- ; tents trented shows an increase over the your 1878 us #690, and of 4,114 over any year previous: ‘to 1878, “Tho recoipts were $361,400, and the total ex- ponditures wero 375.101, ns shown by tho books Of tho Register of ‘tho ‘Trenaury. On this Isis dfexpenditurea tho por capite cost was 317.91, which shows a reduction in tho cost per cuplta from tho yenr 1878 of €2.11, and gives n con Unuuns reduction inthe cost per capita sinco tho reorganization of the service In 1870, when the cost wus 838.41. “Tt should bo remombered that tho nbovo cx- peuditure covers ali items of expenses on ue count of this servico, ropairs of buildings, hent- fog apparatus, lights, fuel, medieat supplies, subsistenco stores, udvertieing, Siallonyy. snl rica of medical officors and employes, the pay- rolloft this ofiice, traveling expunses, etc. ant that, while tho execes of expenditures over tho recelpta was atittte over? per cent, the excess in tho.number of patients treated amounted to At per cent.” ‘Tho recent denthot the pilotof onoof the forry-bonts of New York harbor gives speclul importance to ono of the chapters in Dr. Hamll- ton‘s report, in which he speaks of ‘TH PIYBLCAL EXAMINATION OF BRAMEN, Tho loss of life that might have resulted from tho death of the pltot in midstream would hive eon incalenlable. Had ain existed for tho Physical oxamination of seainen, the organio disenso af tho heart would havo been discovercd, sind tho pilot never havo heon allowed to remain tit bis post to endanger the ves of thousands, Dr, Hamlltem says: “Tho several reports of thisservico |hnve more or loss fully sot forth thy rensons in fayorof the 4 onactment of «law for the compulsory physical examinntion of seamen before shipment by the Commissioners ‘under the law of 1872, and in furthorunco of that end It was deelded to make an uctual trinl of tho system beforo askin, that such a law should be formally Incorporated among the statutes. Accordinxly, on June 1M, 1879, with the approvul of tho Sceretary of the Trensugy, a clreular was fasucd to medical ofll- gers and Acting Assistant Surgeons of tho sorv= fico, Hireoting thom to gratuitously examine any senmon braught to thom for that purpose by tho 194 Master, owner, or agent of any Ainerfean vessot he engaged in the forolgh trade. Three hundred a and forty-flve seamon have been examined up £ to the wih of October, Iki; of tase only twelve wore found disqualified fur active service. ‘Tho a Brenter ninnberof the reported oxaminations were of oppllennts for enlistment into the Rov enue-Muirino Service and the American Steams ship Ling of Philadelphia, ‘The officers of theso services had exercised great enre in tho selece tion of thelr men before bringing them to tho exanilner, Tho number of wpplicants for tho examinations havo been too few, and, ag stated. above, drawn from too limited a clings, to form any tue beccrtlay data on which to tise the prob- dhlo number of unsmind and disabled men notu- ally ongaged nes scnmen, and it Is probable that, except with the most intel and cotl- selentious ship-owners, tho examinations can~ not bo brought Jato successful operation until rovision ts mude by law for thelr onforcement, nthis connection It is pees to state that, while the objects af the clreutur have been ap- ey by tho medio! profession, the United tates shipping-commissioners, the Philadelphia Bonrd of 'Tralo, tho Sbhip-awners’ Assvoiation, the National Hoard of Biedin-Navigation, the Marlthno Exchange of Philadelphit, and ship- ibe pemelations Renerally, tho sallors’ bonrd ng-houss keepers, disreputable owners anit hip-mastors, hive usually opposed tho cxaml- nations. pay Tih Should a bourding-house keeper fall to ‘hlood-mones," his honrdors aro not shippes asa natural result nearly all this classof men act perforce as middicmen in this nefarious Dusitiess, a4 savers penalty visited upon all per- sons convicted of paying or receiving ood whoney would reliove enllors of an oncrous tax, und tiko away tho Incentive to the opposition how shown by to ‘hlood-money' takers. $ “The statintios of the War Department show conclusively that the mmnnbor of men physically: disqualified for active manual labor fs very ereat. ‘Thus, out of 10,000 volunteers examined Mt tho commencement of the Moxloun War, BOT were rejected. Tho statistics of the re- cruiting servico of tho «riny for 1852, show that eutof 16,008 examined, 13,58 wero rejected, and only 10,0 por cent wero necepted. In tho stutls- les of tho Provost-Marshal-Gonoral’s urea, tho retative percentage of rejections from dif- Teront soffaring pursuits 18 shown ns follows: OUutof 4,609 bontmen of varions natlyities ex- ainined, 1.220 wero rejectod; out of G14 trumen exntnlhed, 139 were rejected; out of 600 fisher- nen, 10 werd rejected sailors propor, W210 word oxnmincd, ind 2.687 rejeeted, ‘Tho Moston & Hingham Btoamboat Company and the Hoaton. Sel Ralleoad Company required all thelr employes to bo examined for colar-blindnvss by an expert, The proportion of color-biind which has been found In Dr, Jeffries’ oxamina- tons {gna follows: Onutot 11,735 men and boys, ho found 488, or 4.15 per cont, of colorblind; out of 10,005 women aud girls, ho found only six, Dr, Jeffries ts of tho opinion that tho difference is Inheront in sex, und hus nothing to do with training. If sound and hicalthy mon are neces pSity for otaplosment In tha urmy, on coating: Mnés, and as rallrond emptoyes on shore, how obvlously necessury that sullors should bo soa- worthy when boyond the posalbility uf roplnco= meaty and outoft the roach of pfofcasionaul ue % NOTES AND NEWS. CLYIL BEIVICE, Bpectat Dispatch to ‘Tha Chicago Tribune, Waliuxatox, D. 0., Jan. 18.—The Washington Heratt {a reaponsiblu for tho following para: Sraph upon Clyil-Service onler No, tr Excoutive Ordor No. 1 s# no longer enforced bytho Administration, but his becomo a dent letter, “Te was found noccssary to fot it sovere) lone after Seorotary Sherman beeaine u Prosl- untlal candidnte. “A fow diya igo nn internal- revenue off waking in tho Bouth hid pvcnsion to-come tu Washington on bitsiness. ho was taken quietly usidy by Deput sioner Rogers, and nsked how he st an the Erealdential ayestion. Tho trembling ofliclal auld that rapt «wis his first | choice. gWell," sata the Deputy Oommisstonér, wo don’t wis! coinmand | or dletate to tho offlofals holding commissions from thia oftico what thoy shill do, but overy one of thom ought to take’ pleasure in promoting the ganutdavy of uur Chief, Beerot mE CEA antl work heartily in his fuvor. 0 aflicinl wis Jett wondering whether his tenure-of-oltivn wis shortened by uduiltting that he waa a Grant ‘TH OILINEGH QUESTION. ‘ThoCallfornia delegation ape again becoming Yeatlvoon the Chineso question, and thoy say that thoy will unite upon a monsure restricting tha inmigration of Chinese. Eevrotary Hvurts, they suy, hos had 4 your ta suguro the moditiva- of. the Chinose treaty, but, s0 far as they can learn, he has accomplished nothing, When the lust Chinose bill waa ‘Vetood the Cullfornia delegation was asaured by Mr, Eyurta that. tho Preaident imight have npprovwed tho, bil Rad fome of tho objedtionablo fentures beon anilt- ted. A now bill has tow boen prepared to mcct objections, 2 . EMERY HOUNOED, 7 “ Tho President hos dovided not to rocommis: sion Emory as Goverior of Utah, and, unless ho changes hi mind, will to-morrow nominate to the Senate for that position El) H. Musray, of Ls ‘ntuoky, who was formnorly United States Mar- Al of ‘the Tertttory.’ Mr: Hmory had the sup Dortof oyery member of the Cublact, oxocpt While hero Comin{s- one, for reappointment, tut tho Prostitont had determined to mako a changons a proliminary step in tho {naugttration of what he Intends to ‘ho nnew and nore Figorous foltey for the fup- pression of polygamy. Mr. Murray, whatever his parftonlar qttalifications for this new, vigor- ous, repreasite polloy ngalnst polygamy may ‘be, enjoys the reputation In his own Btate of belog “tho handgatnest man in Kentucky.” NB, CONKLING. 'Tho register of tho Itiggs House contains tho names of Senator Roscoo Conkling and wife, ‘Tho presence of Mrs, Conkling hore has fur- ished a text for tho goss{p of Idle tongites, for it is remenibered that Mrs, Conkling hus not been th Warhington for somo yonrs, but sho in now bere, and it is ropa that aha intends to. remain here during the season. ‘This fact pate perhaps, for this winter nt Jonst, sot atrest tho Tones ot Cunoncbot and itke stories whiclt hit preceded ft, gim NeaRO RxXODUS, ay The Voornces Bxudus Comimnittes ts to com- inonde Its meetings to-morrow, Mr. Voorhoos hug not yet indiented the line of investigation he intend sto follow, but (bo Ist of witnesses which fs prbflahed scoms to hudicate that ho will at- tempt to substantinto the thoury that the difter- ont rallrond companies were Influenttal In finus mumiting tho exodus, with the view to incrense thelr receipts frum passenger traffic, At all oyenta, the Passenger Agents of tho Pennaylva- nia and tho Baltimore & Ohlo_ Statlrond Compa- nics hayo been summoned. One of the Demo- erate storica tnconnoction with the exodts has been that. these rallrond eampanios, through agents in the south, have Inaugurated the move- ment amony the ncgroca. THE CENSUS. ceneuli Gen. Walker expecta that tho President w! nominate the Supervisors of the Consus to tho Sennto to-inorruw, ‘Tho nominations will be ro- ferred to the Special Committee of tho Sonate on tho Tenth Census, of whieh Senator Pondle- ton, of Ottla, is the Chairman. Among othor now foutures which Gen, Walker will Intrudiuce Inte the fortheuming census, will be a ebupter on the newspaper press, prepared by an editor who has mudethe subject a careful study. will show the rigo and peace of tho Journal- isi of the Hepubtic, including the machinery used Int produchig a’ newspaper, and. will also show the ostabliahment of Journals devoted to specialtics. ————_— Enlarging the Axtor Library. New York Times. ‘Tho proilminaries conncoted with tho addition of nnow building to the Astor Library, which have been quietly but eapldly carried forwird within tho list few weeks, were completed yess ferduy. Architecturally, the now structiiro will be somewhat similur to thy presont building, and will cost, exclusiva of thy value of tho and, 200,000. "The Ils, inadu over by John Jacob Aator to the Trustecs for tho purpose, are sitt> ftedon the north end of the presout Library Dullding, tholr dimensions being 80 by 120 foot, Ot this aren tho extension will cover 5 by 120 fect, inaking the jggregate lenwth of tho Library 20) feet, and “its gyremute depth, 1a feel, Tho entrance will be in the centre of the completed bullding, and will open 1 a apieious hall, from which will Into Tend n broud, hundgome stalrense of tho cholcest murblo, The hall will be wainsooted throughout with tho richest variety of marblo. It is the ft. tention to convert tho present ontrance-halt into a room for the Trustees, and to fit it up for tholr use, with ull tho necessary adjuncts and vonventenees, ‘Over the central part of tho buiklings above tho cornice will bo an atte story cighteen foot high, with a frontage of sixty-five feot. ‘This will be surmounted a Que stone cornice and pediment Along tho parapeta will be pinced estestals and vases of stone, The building will be made ns nearky free poke cei A nowsystem of hoattig will bo atthstituted for the present ono throwchout the ontire Litrary buildings. The new structure isto bo used as arceeptucls for the choleest hooks und manuscripts, Including many rare and ourlous works recently presented by Mr. Astor tothe 'Trusices. No changes in tho system of olussticution and shelving aro contemplated, ike tho present buildings, tho addl- ion witt bo supplicd with alcoves, into which tho atudious may retire, At present tho Livrnry has a capacity for 20,0W yol- imes, and when the new bullding Is completed thare will be room for 150,000 volumes more, or a total of 80,000. Mr. Thomas Stent, the rrchl- teet, superiniended tho bulldiugof tho Canadiin Vartiument House from 1401 to 1é04, and was the orighuator of the plans of other public buildings, John Downey will perform tho carpenter. worl, Maro HidMtz tho mason-work, and Heuvelnuin & Co. the fron-work of the Library extension. Whon it fa completed, $1,000,000, will represent tho Iberality of tho ‘Astor family in bennlf_ of. the Library since tho date of its foundation. The Hirst num given by the elder Astor was $40,000, In tho construction of the first. building $100,000 was expended, and the erection of the second huilding Involved on outlay of $150,000, Those tres do not Include the valuc of the Innd pe which the Library stands. Since its opening, contributions of ‘from 815,000 to $20,000 buve leon nude yoarly by the Astor fauilly for tho purchuso of now bouks, a Tobacco Smoking. Lan 4 - don Tiiners Mr. William Pratty ‘of Newtown, Montgomery- shire, hus forwarded to the Lancet tho fullowing Interesting Jotter from the Inte Prof. Parkes: “My dear Dr, Pratt: I think my state of mind as epurds tobicco fs very much what yours seomd tobe. [have honestly tried to colfect evidence from moderate smokers, both medical mon and others, and when tolerance hrs been estab- lished, I have never been able to make out any symptoms which implicd injury. In tho caso of many medical non whom LU have asked to study their own condition, the unswer has always beon the sume,—viz.: they could sco no harm or dls- turbance of any finiction, Even in somo cases of cnormous smokers—t. o., inen who rarcly wero without a plpo or eigrst eould loarn of 10 injury, On the other hand, I havo scen, like all of us, man complaining of ayspepaln, nervoun- Wiese tects ete, and who were much bet- or ng t r leaving olf smoking; in fuct, in these cases thera could bo no doubt of ttn injurious effect. In boys of WM or dh who begin to smoke, I ‘think have observed that tolerance is slowly uttitined; that appetite fs less, and I presume digestion and nu- triticn less good, and that the complexion ho- comes pusty and’ loss florid and cluar, Thore was u striking case of this kind in the gon of A meidienl friend, who watched his son naturilly very ourefully, and who told me that the effect of ‘tho tobacco (a good deal wes smoked) was quito unmistakable, E perernided the kon to les- kon his tobaeco ono=half, and his henlth certain- dy improved; but bowas then a young man, ‘Tht some injury, therefore, is sometimes pro- cucod, and especially on young people, scenis to me quite clears but itis curious in other cisca how dificult It {s to find ill-effeats, oven fn the young, when the quantity is not excessive, As to tho effect on tho young, oven It ts curious in diurmah apace ok Ih Teor ani me aE nO UN oR arma; and yet whon 1 waa fn Burmuh muny yenrs go often sa A woman wall Mong atoking ber efgar of tabaceo, rolled up in o plantalu-leaf, and carrying on her lp hor child of 8ord pears old, who alao hid ble or her Ittle olgur, which was smoked with the greatest gravity. On talking to tho Burmese Qvho amoke constuntly), they would never allow that even the young eifliren were in the least hum meds When I wag in Turkoy I tried to make inquirles of soino of the Intelligent Turkish gentlemen; ene or twoot them suld that they thovght the Turks hid learnt to amoke from tho been growlug upathotlo and dul] over since, Dut others laugned at this, and the rural Turk, who smokes a guod deal, {4 a flog, netive, onergelia follow. TF hnve talked with mmeny Gernnins, who all stand out manfully for tobuveo, In. conclusion; I confess inyaclt quite uncertain, Lean find noltiing ik good ovidence In books; too often a furegu re couclision, with= out any’ evidence to buck it, isgiven. £ think wo must decidedly admit Injury from excess; from moderate uso f enn seo nu harm, oxcopt ib muy bo in youth. My opinions are, you will gee, very Indetnult, and | would gladly see somo reilly good eyidenco collected. If at any tine youcan wond me any faets,1 shalt bo very apatorul, Jicliuve me, Vory sincerely yours, PARKES. Hittorne, Southimnpton, dun, 28, 187 ————— Tho Duke of Portland’s Will, Lamon Currespondence Manchcater Guardtan, ‘Tho disposition of the vast proporty bolonging to tho Inte Duke of Portland [a beylining tbe much discussed in soolety, and avems to haye erented thy amount of RA Tiere and disuppolnt+ mentusunily attending tha testamentary are rangements of wanlthy mugnntes. It mid boon well known that, provided the lute peer and bis brother divd withaut malo saue, tho yuluablo Tandon pronorty cortalnnily, derived from tho Harleys, Karis of Oxford, and tho Holes, Dukes of Nowenstle,—and nlso the Ayrshire estates, formerly belonging to Gen. Beott, would bo shared cqually by hls threo surviving sigtora for Afe, with remainder absolutely to the helr malo of cuch or of ull of thom, Accordingly, Lady Ossington, Lady Howard do Walden, atid Dudy Tfonrlotta Hentinck now succced to, this Inrge forteno under tho will of thelr father, tha courth = Duke, ai it will produce thom about , year ench, tho motropolitan part, more: over, being of an opr iow nature, Ono of those hulics is unmurried, and of the othor two only Lady Howard de Walden has helrs malo, 80 that oventuatly Lord Howitrd do Walden or his hele mite will Buccood In this cnormons fortune, ‘This, however, by na means loaves the now in- heritor of lien ukedum A paupor, His cousin. bus bequeathed to him, 1 hear, natal allthe family catutes ine various vountios which wero not entailed on the title, pat algo those th Culthe esa, which ho hud Winselt purchased, valued at more thin thres-<quirters OF a mithen, add p ere won) prgeny te un inmenee amount, together with funded property oxceoding, {tia sald, a millton sterling. Tho whole Loqtiest in Delleved to realleo quits a hundréd and titty thousand 4 year, The now Duko, however, secnis worlby be tt, for le 8 rumorol that ha bus alroady oxe- outed a settlement on it inogt Ubordl scala upoi his stepinother, who milssod being Duchess 0 Portland by just two yeirs,and bas devoted 100,000 to vuch of his three balf-brothors and to his own half-sister, Tha ulmost untire absence of teyucies in the luto Duko's wi}! hus, f uudere stand, caused very considerable ppolutinent ‘Various quartors. ij a Don't fall to procure Mira, Winslow's Soothing Syrup fox children teething, or for dysontery or dlarrboa, 25 conte, Avoid imitations, ing Europewna, and hin unduratood that 50,000 a , Ityou Uave thoumstiam, snouralgis, oF 8 brulso, epral oul Ouse! awoke toa woudorful remedy, Price, 2 conta” THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1880. INSURANCE. Little Improvement at the East— Looking to the West for Sustenance. A Tariff Association in New York to Bave Riska Elsewhere to the Big Offices. A Casé of the Biter Bitten—A Blow to Boston Pride. Underground Insnrance—Pollties in the New York Depariment—Dirganted with Cellulotd Risks, Bpeetal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. New Yonk, Jan, 13.—Thore continues to bo it groat deal of free-and-ensy talk about an im- Provoment of the situation for firo-Instirance companics, founded upon the general idea thut, ng tho business of the whole country [s improv- tng, ergo thore must soon bo an improvement in. Iusurnnee, Itisa solemn fact that, when this surtof gabble is critically analyzed, It appears to rest upon the single fact that In tho Great West local Boarda of Underwriters are reorgat- izing, and that In many localities rates havo beon suvceasfully udvanced. . When It is asked, What ure tho companies doing hero to help thom- aclves outof tho Slough of Despond they have been wallowing In for three years, thennawer Is, “Literally nothing but talk." There ts much hand-rubbing aud rejoleing bocnuse tho West Is doing so well, but here at home there is only talk, As an illustration of this statemont, tt fs known that In Boston w committee of local un- derwriters, after conaldering the question of an Underwriters’ Union to advance rates for threo months, had the cowardice to publlely report that thore was no use {n ratsing rates in Moston, because so much business would be kent to Now York that the Boston of- jicea would wuffer. Thoy thereforo advised that nothing be dono until such time as a tarlit was put Into operation in New York, and asked tobe discharged. Compare this feeble otery from Boston with tho hearty respons from the West, and you will see ata glance wheroin tho fondest hopes of the American underwriters lic, A STNONG TARIFF*ASBOCIATION MOVEMENT. ‘This time tho movemont for the perfection of aTnriff Association in this city fa being boldly pushed by a cluss of companics which hivo hitherto held out. Until now tho Continental, Home, Greenwich, and a few leading locnts have nbatalned from any aympathy in this mayement; but at present they are In accord with It. Tho proposed orynnizution rests upon four planks by way of platform: |. No rebate whatoyer to tho assured or any one Jn bls omploy. 2, A commission of 7% por cent to brokera. 3. A carh-doy of $1,000 as n forfeiture fund in case of conviction for violating these pledges. 4. Local companies to abstain trom necepttny risks outaldy of tho city at less than establishes kacitierntes’ in the locality whore tho risk ts Jocuted, The Inst ptank fs tho attraction to tho great figeney companies, and ad will agree to no plan fora bliding taritt whieh does not inelude tuat Idea. The brokers are badly frightened al- ready by the proposul to Hnilt tho commissions to7 per_cent. They will gain something by cutting off tho system of rebates directly tothe assured; but to reduce thelr commissions by ono cut from 25 to 744 troubles them. Hut the sue- cess of this scheme Is by nu meuns certain, and, if disposed to lay a wager, It would be safe to bot upon its failure thin othorwiso. The wholo dimeulty tes in the distrust entertained among tho companics about tho honesty of thelr nelgh- pOrs. INKOADS UPON THE AGHNOY COMPANIES, ‘Thoro is no sort. of question that the necesalty of vhecking the practice of alty companies, of accepting risks In towns and clitfes where thoy haye no tgents and have no means of learning tho rates, excepting from the smooth tongue of the broker who olfers ft, inspires tho larger compinies to persevere in orgunlaing a Tori Assvclation. The locals have played huvoe with local tariffa throughout tho country, Bo long as the old tartit reinained, anybody who hid a risk which he thought was rated too high had only to sond his appilcation to a Now York broker, and he would got pullujes in return from companies of undoubted merit at loss thon tho agents in his own locality would chargo him. This beyran, in 1874, and hus continued ever sin although by 1877 local Bourds had almost ceased to enforce obligatory rates anywhere, and hence local tariifs were myths, ‘Tho scramble for risks has-beon continued with unubated vigar ever since, Now tho large agency: companies have been Sai the small city companics to tha wall, and tho Intter nro orying out for meroy. Thos ure sick,—slok,—alok,—und want reform, Tho big ampules say, * Yon, wo'll reform mitt- tera in Now York, whoro tho bulk of your busi- ness fs, provided you will keep hands of from the ominitry, where tho bulk of our premiums comofrom.” Thoreforo thts is the secret ment ing of the zeal of the mammoth companies for n 'Tarltf Associntion in Now York, Hut the amall companies want better rates in Now York, and are almost ready for any change by which thoy cunsecure thom. If the Tarilt Assochition sors Into operation, there will bho no more Chicago dry-goods risks written in non-roprosented Now York companies at. 26. cents under Chicago tar- ifs. ‘That is tho avowed intention of the prime movers in tho present schoto; und ft must bo confessed it is nearer success now than ever be- foro. AN INSTANOR OF TOW IT WonKS. Asan illustration of this out-of-town compo- tition between the companies hero in Now York and tho munmoths who have agoneles at every croas-roads inthe West, the following Incldont will suflice: Two weeks ngo tho Supervisors or county authorities of ¢mne of your {tiinols coun- ties advertised for proposals for {nsuting a coun ty building for thrua years, A fow months bes fore, a siinilar building inan adjacent county had beon taken by gitt-cdged compantesat a1. pe 100 for three years, On this occasion tho local ngonta wero all united ina local Heard of Underwriters, and were acting under an obli- gutory tarit Thoy nll bid tho samo rato, viz.2 Sper’ cent for three years, One smart Aleck funong. thorn, however, sont in a second bid, of- forlog to place the whole amount in companies of undoubted respectability Cor $1.40 por $100 for: thoterm, dnd wag awarded tho contract. Ho was immedintoly confronted by telegrams from hisown eompunics, refueing to accept tho risk a that rate; but promptly tele. raphed a prominen company “in ‘ow York, through whom ho effooted tho antire Uno at his own rato, pooketed the whole com- nilasion, and laughed at bls competitors for thotr thaldity, ‘This incldont shows how the agoncy companics aro balked in the West in try ng to ritse rites hy the local compunics of this clty,and hence thotr desire to secure legislation to” pro- woud or iu pocmians, hee ed oom wnlog hore y we country rake at le thar tho loon! tari? rites, ” ee | THA FRELING AMONG TIM COMPANIES. ‘ow that the books aro belng balanced for tho yoar 1870, the retrospeot is not at all a savory one for the deluded stockholders. In nearly oeyury case tho net surplus funds of the compily nios have been reduced, even among tho pot ine stitutions; but somehow the dividend-lists come Out protty atrong, considering tho exporionce of the your Just passed. More ure sApectiiens of the way tho stookholders arg treated, Tho foltuwl companies havo just declurcd sumnleanuual 6 ercent dividends: Empurlum, Globe, Groat Western, Hamilton, Munoyer, Importers’ & ‘Traders’, Mercantile, Hellet beer, Germune American, Home, Sradosmon’s, and Home: ‘Tho followiig deelnro 6 por cent aa thelr sem! aonud offerings: San raar Ningura, Poo- plo's, and Park, ‘Tho Williamaburg City pays ld per vont,and tho Warwick pays 7 por cont quirtorly, Yet ttfy the oncrully croditod belief that only two or threo of those companies will show an cqual not aurplua with lust yours Jt is tho current bolief that a large majority of them hayo pald dividends out of thoir surplus, und notout of thelr earnings, In this view o! tho case, ft cun bmrdly bo considored strange that the compantos, or titthor tholr managing officials, are not happy tn tholr present foollage. Thore js udded ta tho discontent with the pust Year u terriblo dread lust some Ujuastrous conta. gration fa near ut hand to draw tromendously upon the companios’ resources, Tho Noston fro Inst month was a warning to foo from or avotd tho wrath to come, and it is only humun nature: that the companies shuuld bo in constant foar of such an even ‘THAT BOSTON BLAEN AND THA INSUNANOR COM- PANIES, It turns out that tho burning .of tho Cathodrul Dullding and adjnvent premises recently in Toston was only, OOF dis- play of fireworks after alt. daily papers magnified it as usual, po the une dotwritors, na usttal, were perfootly willing that It should "be gnagu! fobody’ belonging to tho insurance fraternity ever objcots to a grunt: pabug outery over & tends tnaterially pooplognd make them anxious to got thoir we ty insured at any rate, It turns out that he loss to the Insurance cumpanios by the Bose tont blaze will bo Jess than 100 000, ‘and many compantog have already settled thoir Have At leas thitin £0 conts on the face of tholr polices. 9 tire seemed to have struck the Bodtonians i ube coat eal ie eotons Wi urprised, ‘Those ult ings fo! ‘lroe slides of. Cs Thiowk, and wero all udjuining and Ca 3 with ouch other. ‘Tie idea generall: wed by tho public was, that several bull had Bapreicate whiok was only partially truv, ws the buildings woro only subdivisions of ono building, which opened cach into the other by: arches or doom ways. As well cull tho Palmor House several bul dln ag the Cathedral Blovk. But the lata fire took soute of tho starch outof tha Moston sgonts and cbmpanios ant, excollenos of the Boston Fire Di mont. Woy hud claimed that uo tro could gut sulllcient headway to destroy oven one building, and {t was with sorrow they were esunpallad tondmit It could. The obvious moral of all this ts, that fire fs an uncertain element, and that Its course can never be with certainty predicted, however great: tho preeautions taken to avert its augers. UNDERGHOUND INSURASCH. ‘Tho Massnohusotts Commissioner of Insurance must bon alecpy old fellow, who was nrowused from his lethargy by the lato fire in timo to fsa warning that, whereas It appeared, conatdor- able insirance hed been effected by various partica on the damaged property in companies which had never been nuthorized by the Come monwenlth of Massachusetts to receive proml- uma in tho Bay Btate, therefore be it, known that such practices arouniiwfal, and the offend- era are Unble to a penalty of £500 Nie for every offense, This {a the merest bosh, und tho poo~ plo who inaure Know It. The whole truth of this business js, that the occupants of the Cathedral building cold not obtain all the Ine surance thoy required It Moston, elther of agencies ar companics, nt any pri and were compelled to seck It In this city and elsewhore. Now, who wero tho seullty “parties? Why, Mesara. Rand, Avery & Co, and) Houghton, O4- goo & Co., the teminta who could not be served in Buston, Both those risk wera notorious Itinerunta In this city, and traveled tholr amal round from cy with tho regularity of purest nonrenso for the 3 cotts oficlals to threaten theso parties with the vengeance of the law, ‘Tho sume thing ts being done by many Hoston merchants, who ure obliged to resort to this city for extra: Inaurance, | fi the same way New-Yorkers go to Boston, Chicago merchants to New York, and so on. There is searcely 0 Jarge’city.in the Union where the insurance fit- cilities are suflctent for eve: of your efty readers are eure let them Inquire how much tnsurance th covering the stocks of your lending increhants in Buropenn companies hot represented in this country at all. A LIFRSINBURANCE NUNEAU. Tho country has been tx froma, so-called Life-Insiran clty,sqlieiting asalgnments of clating and powers- of-uttorney to prosecuto clalms against [ne solvent Hfe-Insurance | compantes. Recently these circulars huve taken the forin of offers to buy elaima against certsin companies upon whichdividends faye beer declared; and the Inference has beon drawn, that the whole atalr Isaswindic. Severn! tneuranice Jéurnals hive pronounced it at fraud without Tivestigations Pieleappenrs that it ba legitimate pursutt, en tered into merely #3 A speentation by purties who: have money, butare entirely free from collusion with Recelyers or other parties fntereated in winding up Insolvent companies. It is a sbrewd plin to keep posted ns to the doings of Reeely- era, and thon spectilate upun the ehylms, Tho polloy-lists ave obtainable at tho Insurttico De- partment, and also in the Camny Clee oflce, wnong the pupers filed by the Receivers; and the plan ainply invelves some smart head- work: ng to tho dolugs of tho Revel ay nd, In doubt- Tenses, bringing © pressure to bear in favor of the recognition of individual claims, ‘Tho pursuit has patd handsomely, and itis estimated that the parties running the Insurance Bureau have made $100,000 out of it In the lust twelve months, Just now these purties nro buying up claims agalust the Continental Life estate. FOREIGN MARINE OFFICES. Gov. Cornell, in his Inaugural tn ze, gested that thesame renson existed for requiring deposits from forolgn marine computes ag from foreign fire companies, The remark probably had its birth in some of the large but declining imiutunl marine compentes of this city, cute ing the Atlantic Mutual, which Is so large that it defies (he bard times, all the marine mutuals iro on the down-grde upparently. The old Mercantile Marine, only afew years ago, enjoyed grent prosperity; and Its Secretary, Edward Walter (now deceaged), was in authority upon marine insurance whose word wads law. ‘Chat Company ls now a thing of the past. ‘Tho Onton Mutual is another of the marine wreeks of the Inat fow years, and itdled simply for want of nourishment. The marine business of Amerl- can companies has suffered, equally with the flee business, from too mitch compotttion and fromiliminished values. The foreign hulls are inaured abroad, and ull. the cargoes owned or shipped abroud on foreign account ire also cov~ ered In Europe. Now another dinger threatens ta stil further diminish the fncomo. of American companics from inarine risks. It 18 the turond of foreln murine eompunica, Al- rowdy sovernl of thom have settled heres and it is rumored that seine of the ieee English of flees which hnvo been successful In fire business ure about to. undertake moring risks ns well, Tho London Assurance treaty his an ocent murine ngoncy here; and anothor big eompuny, Itisetated, Ja inulined to follow tho London's example. SUPERINTENDENT BMYTHE'S PLACE. Thoro isn vastdeal of logrolling golng on at Albany just now relative to the succession of John B.Smytho in tho ofMlve of Superintendent of tho Now York Insurance Departmont, The notorioty uchleved by Mr. Smythe nga politician, and bia known devotion to the interests of the Governor, have ted to the supposition that hiv renomination tind conlirmation wre i sure offices kK sug: thing, But joro’s «many nt slip ‘twixt cup and iP, eays the proverb; and so it 1a likely tw ‘prove in this case. Mr. Smytho was i year summoned before the Sonate upottcharges of misconduct, and his most avtive partisan on that occasion was Benntor Pomoroy. Later on, this Senator was 4 candidate for Governor, and, on human prnaiel Smythe should haye helped him; buthe didn't, Ho engineered the primuries tn Albany for Cornell, and dofented Pumeroy, ns Well ns Sonator Robertaon, another anti-Cornell enndidate, Pomeroy $4 not now in the Senate; but. his henchman, Willlam F. Woodin, is,—ind 80.18 Senator Robertson. It is an open seeret Ly Albany that those two men and thelr frionds hayo resolved to slaughter Smythe, and that his fnto fssoaled. Ie won't be contirmed, so the story runs. ‘The lobbying now In progress may change this pager ‘butat the present writing: it appears thut tho Superintendent fs doomed to fent. But he is a mighty smart politician, and one of those Tare mon who reecnbile ents in thia: that, no metter how they Call, they always lund on thelr feot. Accordingly Smythe is ko astute in his manouvering that he nue change the cards and dent hluself four aces yet. THE CELLULOID FIRR. There an rene deal of Aneehton, and mi of the “1 told you so" tatk, ovor tho recont fire tw tho cellulold factory at Nownrk, One purty ays there was an explosion, and refers to the fullen walls and lost tives 08 a proof; and the other aldo says there was no explosion, aud that it was gas generated by heat that ca aes walls to collapse. | Ttis an endless tdebate, inthunmabillty of celluloid ia clearly estab. Ilabed, and underwriters aro afraid of it. But at present the most scrinus joke is on the Presl. dent of one of our old-fashioned, conservative compantes;—a man whose marvelous caution would not pormit him ta oven look at a proposal for iuguring such a factory. He spat pon it as bo would upon an offer to insure a burning hays stack or i nupothe distillery, Dut in an ovil moment thia wise oli conservative was tempted to visit the fuotory, and, once there, he was con- vorted from his provious methods of thinking, g and, whon ho ennic awity, necepted $7,100 on the Tlak.. Nono of your paltry $,hor £5,000 polletos for hiin—not’a bit of It: He took his Nae #indly, becnuse he thought he had a good thing, and Ho got it, The feelligs of our eonsorvative President muy be bnagined when bis neighbors: (who weren't on tho risk) began to poke fant him. ‘Tho loss to the iusurance companies will bo nbout 10 per cont,—so tho 1088 will bot ho a Be- rious one; but tho wischeuds who took tho risk will not adiniteven now that thoy wero mista- ken. DIVIDEND FIOM A DEFUNCT. ‘Tho Western cruilitors of the dofunct Pater- fon Insurmaice will rejoice to lonrn that tho {te celvor of that.company tins announced a dlvi- dend upon all undhyuted claims of 40 per cent, and that there {a even a probability of a further dividend. ‘Tho ereiitors tnolude all polloy-bold- ora who atirroudered thelr pollotes before thelr expiration, and all personk who hold chats for foekes sustained priur to tio Anal ealinpss of the company. ‘Thore Is $14,000 of those oliims tn. Alsputed, but thore 18 8,000 which tho Revel Is Nehting on tho ground of fiegility, The outcome of this Wunkeuptoy is sneappaual Tho dlyldends —puld yy insolyen' re companies are gonerally 80 small that thoy nre nut worth looking after, and the claims are bought up ata large discount. Anothor Jersey compnny—the Citlens’, of Nowark—will not pun out so well na tho Paterson, At preaont it 1a predicted that tho clilmants will only recolye 00 por cout of thelr indebtednvas—a surry auquél fan company which carrioda high head during tho prosperous days which followed the Bostan tire. Both the Paterson and Citizens’ were rulned by the same causo—viz.2 incommetont management. HARD KNOOS FROM THE CEGISLATONE. Hardly had tho Legislature been orgumzon, and long before the Standing Committecs had ean appotuited, Senator Bosalons, fram the west- erh partof the Stute, iitroduced bia bill (which Was pussodl by the oeaty Ane strangled In the House Inst winter) providing that the aunt {naured shall be assumed to bo tho true yuluo of property cuvered in caso of Its total destruction,—othorwise- known ns the “Valuation law." Tho vompantes in thla ¢lly do not ucouge Benntor Sessions of any improper motives in introduolng this bill, They know he is vory mugh in earnest ubout it, and credit hts entire sincerity: but they do belloya that va- rows violas pores ws have nvallod thomsolves of bia zeal und ainecrity to urge the pussayy of tho bill, in the hope tat the compant ested will imitute Zuechuus, and * come down," This 1a what the oompunies aro resolved not to do undor any elrenumstances, in the firm bellet that, if onoo submitttod to, the tax will be tovled as Ne yretid a4 the Loylslsture movts, They will Hight tlio subemo by legitimate methods, and dy an opposition to its merits, ‘Tha session will doubtless bring forth soveral schomes designed to oppress and emburrass the compunics more or lesy; but it will probably be found that they will not submit to aieceh{ng process. Hoyond socurlag the absolute solvenoy of compantos ad- mitted to tho business, the Btute hus as little right to “ regulute” insurande contracts as thusu: between buyers and sellers of cheasa and buttor. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ‘Tho Humboldt Insurance Comput ark, has decided to retire from business. Itd Now Jersey business has beon rolnsured in the Williamsburg City, wid tho balance will probu- Dig be tukon by a Now York company. ¢ ‘Tho Grantto, of Richmond, fs anothor uf the comparatively now ventures about to be wound un, dts risks havo ull boon reinsured, ‘ho Now York Junin inne -Dopurtmont this year ranuires all tho English and other forclgu oompanios to roport 4 list of thelr roinaurances ws inter. , of Now- Upon rty outaldo us wollaw inalde of this dpor property Ich ig sundoded to moan that, if any refmaurance {a done in other compinics than thoaa allowed to do tnisiness in New York, the eompanica will be refused a renewnl af their core tiflentes of nuthority to do business here. Mr, William T. Rend is credited with the sto- cessful organization of a new Underwriters’ ale Hance (ta be composed of the Now York City, Exchange, and two other city companies), for tho purpose of doing an agency business, dr. Rond wis one of tha American managers of the Scottlsh Commercial for several yours, and the inere rulnor that he was to preakle over a new ageney combination has brought bliin wumerous applications from the West soliciting the agancy’. The New York Insuranen Department hus re- cently completed satisfactory. examinations of tho following city companios—viz.; Manufacture ors’ & Builders’, Sterling, Guardian, Merchants’, Forillard, Northern (of ertawn), American Exchange, and Hepublic. Some of these were on tho sick list, but are reported to ‘be convalescent, Instnnees of low rates continue to he cltod. Tho Star Pin Works, of Birmingham, Conn. 0 large concern, was lately insured for M cents per annum by cutnpanics of high standing. In this clty the Sturtevant House bas been insured at tho’ sane Bae —a risk which, when con trasted with the Palmer House of Chicago, should reduce the rate on the latter to about fivo cents. D 5. It Is stated that some of your Chicago dry- mls inen got caught with policies sont them rom England in the bogus Northern Countics Compuny, lately placed in bankruptcy, Ni EMO, “PARIS LIFE. Alterary and Art Gossip French Capital. Bpectat Correspondence af The Chicano Tritune. Pants, Deo. 27.—Tho festival at the Hippo- drome tho othor night was a finincial success, [1 spite of frost, damp, and sno’ from othor points of vidw, It was less Most of tho great ones of * Seciety " kept away, the diptomatic corps was poorly represented, andthe receipts were chiefly contriuted by distinguished " foreignera,—Indles of doubtful mitch bejeweled nnd costumed,—nad by the "loud" clement of Paristan society which adorns tho boulevards from 9 p.m. to midnight. Of course the ex-Queen Isabella was there, with agoodly following. ‘The Journalista, too, mustered strongly; pretty actresses wer plentl- ful,—so were ugly actresses. The coup d'cil presented by tho mighty bullding chosen for the festival was, both {nside and out, really falrylike. A regular Spanish village bad sprung up in what fs usually the arena; and, amidst scores of picturesque —_ booths, cottages, brides, tawers, and posadas, moved surging thousands. Fronch. Spanish, Enylish, Russians, und more bosides, jostled and elbuwed thelr way to the stalls, at which the best-known comediuns, male and female, in Parly viod for custum, The best business was on the whole done by the vendors of the Parts- Murefes, PARIS-MURCLE Is tho title given, as L told you in n former Iete ter, tothe oxeepional and remarkable {lus- trated Journal gut up under the direction of Mt. Lebey,of the Agence Havas. The most curlous partof it was perhups formed by the page de- voted to the fau-simile autographs of various Boverelgns, Princes, and Princesses of Europe. Abthe top, inthe centre, was the nutograph of the Pope,—a few Hines in Latin. Close to lt stood the polite contribution of Alphonse of Spain. Below, again, were tho naines of the King and Queen of Holland. i suppose I need not complete the list. Ono or two names, by-the-by, were conspicuous by tholr absence froin tho Royal acrap-book. Those of Victoria of Englund, Alexandor of Russin, and Frederick Wilhelm of Germary, for ine stance. On tho other hand, thore wore, In various paris of the puper, autographs of Gortschakof, Bismurck, Vou Moltke, Guribaldi, Orloff, and, of course, tho Irrepressible Gladstone. Sovoral of the fltustrutions of Parte-Murcle wero well worth framing. Melssonnior contributed a large drawing of 1 Mounted Herakt,-a very epirited effort. Detallle, Do Neuville, and Berne-Bette- cour gave a few capital sketches of military, things, and persons. Gustave Dore's offering was a drawing that represonted Freneh Charity coming to tho relief of a Spanish family sur- prised by tho inundation nnd clinging to the hulf-submerged roof of tholr rutned house. Equal interesting, too, were the literary con- tents of tho paper; put i Spare you further de- from the tails, Th spite of all tho brilllant attraotions of the feativul, VERY FEW PEOPLE, I BELIEVE, ENJOYED THEM- BELVES. ‘Thora was the rentent difficulty experionced in. getting to and from one’s seats,—o difficulty Which was not very much lossoned by the mon- Ktrous number of Stewards commissioned to at- tend lo the visitors' comfort. It was very oold in the hall, coo, notwithstanding afl tho well- monnt endeavors of the Press Committee. And, to idd to tho cheerlesness of the entertainment, the imperfeetly-boardud flooring, ald down upon tho sandy ground in the arena, let the duat come through the cracks, so that, before the ovening was ended, about 50 per cent of the company wus elther coughing or sneezing, Tho Hippo- drome. festival was an excellent thing for the poer Murclans and poor Parisians, batween whom thoreovipts taken wero divided; but it wig oven a more excellont thing YOR THE DOCTORS AND CNDERTAKENS. {rather funcy that the noxt time tho press ves a churity fete it willavold the Hilnpartenie. Hut, Indeed, 80 res little scandals and quarrels own out of this Mureian alfalr, thut it is slightly doubtful whethor charity will not mani fest Itself ina dltterent form In future, The inagnificent results attained Intely by the Figary, which in about a fortnight collected aubscrip. tons for its poor-rollof fund ty the extont af ANOUT A MILLION FRANCS, sumelently ahows that thoro sro onough kind- hearted folk in France ready to give, for tho suke of pttro charity, when thero is urgent need, without any desire oF attempt to got back twice tho value of thoir gifta in the shape of fancy faults concerts, balls, and Hippodrome * Ver bonns,” whieh may be pralsowurthy in their way hut. which smack strongly of sellishness an puulfers. Actrious chanco threw me the other day into the souluty of a lady who claims to bave INBPIRED ALEXANDRE DUSAS FILS with tho most strildng scons in Lis famous play, “L'Etrangere.” You remember, Of course, tho Incident, of Mra, Clarkeon's visit tothe Duchesto de Septmonts, Tho whole scone, with seareely any differanco, occurs In x little known, but ‘very Interesting, work of Mme. Clulee Brunne’s, entitled “Le Marquis de Precioux,” published in Paris just twenty years ugo. Mme. Mrunne, at the time, even proposed todramntize hor story, and actually wrote to nak Alexundre Dumas iis to collaborate in writ- Ingit. Ue refused; but, as we have seen, he thought it worth bls while ta turn tho Hea to account, alone, Juter, Neither of tho Dumus, the — fathor the or gon, his heun over-scrupulous in Hterary’ matters. It is notorious that Dumas pore, for inatanen, put his namo to numbers of works of which he hardly wrotea no; and, Hke Charlos Kingsley, hu Inigined inuny Of bis most marvolous deserip- tions, He ovelved Oriental jungles as Charles Kingaley did South-Americin forests, aud bls uitless readers thank him for it. This reminds me that a friend of Aloxandro buiuas,— ; ADM. VON BCIDMITT— who dors know all about Oricntal sconery and Urlontal mantiors, 6 miking w considerble com mution in the Hittle world of Paris just now. Nothiug in the novels of the uuthor of * Stonte Christo’ and © Joseph Balsamo " is more strange or fasclouting Unun the story of this doctor, Ho bas beon In danger of death by fire and water, - fever, polaon, and half- dozen othor ‘ngoncies, In spite of his iistakuble Germun nine, und stl more un stakuble Gerinun appearance, Dr, Von Sctmitt is ¢ Dutehinan. | Now liston to his story, und tell me whethor, outof the Odysavy and the Illud, you baye over read nnythlig moro curious orstitring. Whon quite w young tallow ho went out to tha Kast aa a ney luctor, and was wounded In the Bonie expddition. tls wounds obliged him te stay In Java longer than bo bargained fur; but, os Xu will gov goon, bo had no reason to regret it, While an this mysterious (wland—In this land of deadly wpns-trucs and mylurln, serpenta and eavages,—be inore than onde overheurdthe mative dovtors talking fn reverential whispers of the virtues of TI QUACO-PLANT, ‘Tho peaplaof the Malay Archipolago attribute it sorta of fanoiful powers to this guna. they inay bo believed, it is a sortof uniyersial curu for wounds and sores, bites and buntons, cuncors aud vinkerworms. “There uro incre things Jn lieayen Barth, ly thu aro druamt of in our — philosophy." Hainlet'a spovoh may baye occurred to Von Schmitt's Inind as he Hetoned to the dutky miyants, At ait events, bo thought the hint worth attention,—for on his recovery, he set off for Borneo, Where, after studying bard in pris vate, hu was udimitted to the medical mysteries of tho Hrutinins. Hoe lved as tho sliyy of prlest for some yoars, passing himself off for an Grom ‘This he winhuged to do puceessfully bi caretully yelny bis wkin. Ropouted and Ju- dlelous appladtions of some wash or othor quite romoved all traces of bis Buropoun origin, and. guve him the fine, sunburnt, tawny comploxton of the Est. When ho bad, as ho bolioved, learned all (ho pecially wiibod to of tho Druhmlus, Von Schmitt’ calmly "dropped" Hurnvo sad returned ta Europy, where the Origntal slive was soon forgotten {n the polished Wostern guntlemin, He became ncqualuted with Alucandre Dumas, whom he cuted of whit: was thougnt to be an incurable cuncer. ilo noxt traveled tn Italy, Holland, and Germany, Myving in a prodigal splendor that would huvo DONE NO DISCREDIT TO MONTS OINUETO UE ‘SKLY, In Romo, if 1 pntatake not, ho marricd a Princess Stuurdo—a tseondant, ie the Btuarts, ‘This ludy, I my romurk jon passant, la at present in Rome, on business Spanvetod with § forget how uunyiniliions, which aro soon, thoy say, to bo~ oome hor rupert, thunks to tho fatesvau on of the Fopy, who one of her most inmate and THE TRIBUNE cH 4 Q) me fat 9 f fy ale Fr, at Winans “. ESCANAB. Bar 29, iF AUKEES iar 29.80 it TAS e5) i @ CHIcAao\ ey .ToLepo Soe -Bt.Joneph LEAVENWorR?; Hi tha SOR Topeka _ Beers Springdela} «J >° Aiton ne 29.95/40 ST.Louis Bar 30.1 rece) CAIR “SLaaghtad West frr ‘Evaneysite Qpringhads FT.Qiason ...\ Bar 30.00 Teo WEATHER-MAP, From Observations Mode by the Signal-Servico, U. 8. A., at Washington Mean Timo, Jan. 18, 1880. Langiade Wyss Kom Grevaw ZARE IPI 70; eG Tafayette a Bar 29 94, ibe) INDIAWAPOLIS Gy Oy! MASHVILLE OF 40.1 da (TNO 9 26° Be rataat Apyiled For, Fair, Cloudy. Rain. 2. RRainiall, pact 8 hours. Artes paint tn the direction the [#0] wind In blewing. ipa eg ren te ot Ceim. Light, Freeh. Gate. andy MeXaly Coe Fograrers and lenges Sault pies ‘ap Pablishers,. 2 2 fa Hur 29,08 \ T3s 1 Sarrge whe - \ et DETROIT 4G) ? 29.01 ype wer Ol Bar 2094, 4 ve TTSBURA, ‘Logansport anafere® bi Tat 20°01 /#\« Comittus, ° 7% CINGINNATE 448 (Oe a a ale ay 9) 2 Sw AIDAOY oof QUISVILLE Yo Ziuntingtomm Har 2002 TSE | (White Sulphai ’ Springs? oLisingston L Scale ofMiieas y } ° Wo" ey Observativns taken wt the samy moment of tue at all atotions, LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. CHICAGO, Jan. 18. Winds Fl Ita, Weather) Tune, Har, Ther Hu, Wiad. Ver deny iPeather, — || 92a) be m'B8-00) BH na 4 mW. 7 fhoss peme BSH St hermomotor, 65, INDICATIONS. Orrice oF THe Cine SIGNAL Orricen, Wasiixaton, D.C., Inn. 10—1 n. m.—For Tennesseo and tho Ohio Valley, during tho day, clear or partly cloudy weuther, warm southorly to westerly winds, falling barometer, followed during tho night by rising barometer and colder, threatening weathor, For the Lower Luke region, south to west winds, increasing cloudinoss, falling followed by ris- ing barometer, and during the night lower temperature, with wind shifting to north and west, and arena of snuw. For tho Upper Mississippi and Lower Missou ti Valloys, colder northwest to southwest winds, rising barometer, increasing cloudiness, and in northern portions Night. snow, frien Von Schmitt, meanwhile, hus settled down in Paris, at tho magnificent Hotel or Palace (for {tis almost « Palace) of the Rlurlo Sforzas, in tho Avenue du Trocadero, where he contem- plates giving a -series of splendid reeep- tons “this” year. Mme. — Muckuy, — Gen. Noyes, and a good many other of Dr. Von Schinitt'’s neighbors—aond patients—in the immediate nelghborhood of the Hotel Bforza, will have hurd work to hold their own with him in “Society this season, Dr. Yon Schmitt hns: élightly diverted tho Hotel Sforza from ite original destination. He his turned it into a sort of luxurious private hospital, for the bonefit. of wealthy sutferers from the diseases he studied In tho East. But this is a trifle to tho hospital he is trying io found in the Bola de Boulogne. His iden ts to build a sort of model village, consisting of nbout a hundred isolated eottages, constructed on strictly sclentific principles,—n sort of VILLAGE OF HEALTH, infact. Here he proposes giving hospitality to patients troubled with cancers, canker-worms, und 8 good deslot money. When the Princess Stuardo, his wife, gots thoxe millions, tha Village of Henith ts likely to become 2 fact. ‘This Von Schmitt reminds ane of a hero of Alphonso Daudet’s,—" Le Nubab.”” Nabobs of somo kind or other aro contininlly coning and woing in Paris, flashing acrosa the Boulevard trmament ke meteors. They muy he Hussiin Princes, Turkish Pushas, English’ Milords,” or Duteh Doctors. lke this fir. Von Schmitt, It mutters little, ‘They are all typified in the * Nubob.” One of the most extrioriinary and cocontrio of these Parisinn “ shooting stars" was THE PRINCE DESEDOPE. whose superb art-collection and paince at San Donato aro to he brought tothe hummer by M. Pilict, of tho Hotel Drouot, shoruy. ‘The wealth of Prince Domidot wis only equaled by bis Ho lived the life of awild and cruch ils inarrianey however, reformed Revmed, camplotely. ‘Then his Princo was balf miwl with gricf at first, and ab- hired the world. But ho ald not keep falth with himself, for ho subsequently played a prominant part In Russian polltics, and becuine a great art- collector, Tho openiog of the Sun Donato silo is fixed for the Ist of March, 1880, somo falut notion of the importance of tho troasures Ho euminited by Prince Demldoft may bo pelierct from tho fact that the sule-cataing is bolng sold At 50 franos a cop; Hanny Meersit. $$ Cigars Not Necessarily Tobacco, Central Law Journal, . Wo uro glad to avo that judidiat notice has been taken of tho fuct that cigars are not necoe. sarily. ™ tabnect for wo have beou of that opinion ourselves more than once. In an Bae i ish court fist month an exolso prosecu ton was ound against ahawker who wos charged with selling tobreeo ata fair without a license, A lnhorer proved buying two elgars, for whieh ho pilddd., at the defendant’satall, lie afterwards, at the request of anoMfeer of Inland-Revonte, wontand purchased another olan, which des fendant took from a box on bls stall. For tho defense, his counsel said that the defendant wis aeripplo almost ponnitess, and it wos etrango that the exeiso should lay nm irap to catch him ns thoy havo dono; but after the explanation he should offer, he thought the Bench would have no hesitation in dismissing tho ense. ‘The de- fondant was churged with selling tobace with= out brving a ieenso, Not aword wad said about efigors tn the net; and ho subinitted that: elwnrs mfght and did consist, chictly of hay and eab- bage loaves, anil that, fu faet, (hoy were nat * to- Maceo" ut ail. ‘Tho prosventing counsol Evplted, but the Benet agreed with the defendant counsel, and dlamissed the case, ——— Waan't Tarreds ‘Tho tar got vold and hurd while tho mob was getting reddy to punish James Guyton at War- ren, it T. ‘They were out of doors on fn cold night, and nobody had amatoh to ght a fresh fire under the kettle. So thoy rolled tho naked Why It minn tn the sow until he wad chilled almost to deuth, and let the outruge go nt that. NEW LIGUTS, REVOLUTION IN LIGHTING Coal Gas Light aud Kerosene Lamps Petroleum Gas Ligh and the Pneumatic Ligh ‘This Company wil) Join capitalists, munitolpalitios, und established or new (as Companios in ouch locality thfaughout the United Statos in supplying to consuni+ ors tiner ant ¢ peas lights thin can be pro- duced by any other known process. ‘Chreulare deserlbing theap Huhta, which are now on oxhiuition at our ofico, nnd also ¢ho full morita uf THE ELHOTRIO LIGHTS Can bo had on application. Coinpantoa equipped with Theme lights can fees Mind forovap control tier yieliy business of any locniity. No better opportunity fur the safe and proiitavlo javestinant of caplinl cnn be fpund Ip any inarkok the closust Investigation by the Dost oxporte ta Invited. THE WORLD'S LIGHT MANFQ, CO. 116 and 118 Dearbarn-at,, Chicago, Hl. THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL WHO WANT LINENS: Housekeeping GOODS. CARSON, PIRIE. (H. WH offer extraordinary Bar« gains in their Linen and Housekeeping Departments during the OPPORTUNITY | SALE commencing MON-~ DAY, Jan. 19. Notwithstanding the enormous advance in Linen and White Goods during the past six months we are determined to offer our immense stock of Towels, Table Linen, Napkins, and Quilts at lower prices than ever quoted before the raise. Ladies will do well to’ call and examine the Bargains, whether intending purchasing or not. 1. Case Toon Dice Table Linen, astra heavy, at 350} good value at Bde per yard. 2 Cases Half Bleached Tuble Linen, saite flulshed, at G00; lowest prfceever aald fury 750, 40 Pieces Buper Cream Double Damask ab 250; would becheup at Gt. 85 Plecen jineat quality Barnatey Meached or Unbleached at 81; worth $1.50, 193 Doz. Towels, AU-Linonw Damask or Huck, full yard tong, at 13 1-86 each; have deen selling por 17e: 200 Dox. Damask or Muck Toivels, large, #80, well worth JO, U8 Dos. Huck or Damusk Towels, with tld + Seluges, worth $1; reduced to G0e. 100 Dox SH All-Einen Naphina, 750 per dows; vlswut price R125. 50 Dox, 5-8 Double Damash Napkina, 1.754 thia Ine great burgaily ts 100 havo sold them Fovely at PRB. Halen Tullet Huck Crash, 10 inches whide, at 5 1-20 per yarits sotd by the bale at 0. ibe Marseilles Quilts at $1.23; former price extra wk, DS Murseittes Quilts, slightly soiled, largest slroand eetra hoavy, $8.25 cach) yood vale for $3.50, r A large lot of Embrolderedt Plano and Table Spreads reduoed over 25 por cents, SAME GOODS AT NOBTIC SIDE STORE, CHEMICAL WORKS, Garden City Chemical Works, . 33 Michigan-av. ‘yha firm nove of J. It, Huyok & Co. under which ¥ from thi oiktad te ach biatdess, will froin, le, day Oe jan. IT pis thas o1 MIN TL BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCIIES. A Guhl Established Twenty-five Years. BROWWN’S CAUTION! ne YT mores one tee Tw 4 i a Sepeenises aia ‘Obtaln ouly BROWR'S . ve ttietn BRONCHIAL be Arend With the name, of the bro. eritatlon of the Lungs, a pristure on the Guverns Pecan ae Dieteees Prag fete ee H; M- bs wh ly ju boxes, a! Bet otaue | "NFER Op CE TER Tes SS | Sie tia cruel te te pron te Prepared and Sold by Tavera elepaal Mang bt X Mal Met or Grama, olde ait | JOHN I, BROWN & SONS, Boston, by afl Drugalete, G7 Drowns Brocebial Troches contain ingrediente which also uct specially on the organs of the VOIOR, . ‘They have an extreordioary eficecy in all affections of the Throat and Larynx, restoring @ healthy tous - when related either from cold or over-exertion of the voloe, and produce « clesr eaunc jon, They are particularly recommended to SINGERS and PUBLIC BPEAKERS, aod all who are aMiated with Cough, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Influenza, Sore Throat, or Moarsenese., ea TREE BOLD BY ALL 25c.-WORLD-FAMED REMEDIES.-25¢, MRS. WINSLOW'S BOOTHING SYRUP, for Children Tecthing, &c. : BROWN'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS, for Eradicating Worms in Children (unfailing), BROWN'S HOUSEHOLD PANACEA, for Relloving Palo, both Internal and External, BROWN'S CAMPHORATED DENTIFRICE, for Whitening and Preserving the Teeth, DBRUGGISTS.. RN Ce