Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1880, Page 5

of the isis pene. In the same e .e Heral announces this splen- 2 aro a number of tablés showing the aiaesrence of the destitution, and the great ne- | ‘Thrsity of its alleviation. ‘The showing is fright falenough to move the hardest heart to pity, gnd it {s 80 wide-spread that it includes within qos ghastly area alurge proportion of the popu- ation. Mr. Bennett has nobly responded to this jig call upon the cbaritably-Inclined, and made pach & good use of a portion of his annual in- ome as might serve as a wholesome example for other rich men to follow. —=— tur Orthodox clergy in Berlin have lately gajrered many exciting speeches in theGerman Capital against the Jews; and particularly Hof- 1, Stocker has seton foot a lively agita- Social Christian Union against the femitic race. The Uitramontane press fully spproves these acts; but the Crown Prince, who. 4 once already expressed his displeasure at she bebavior of the Orthodox clergy, has now sqritten the following letter to Pastor Gruber, in Reichenbach: “ Thave been particularly pleased | Hrrecciving your book, ‘Christian and Jew,’ and | So youmy sincere thanks forit, Ihopo with that your call for peace will be listened to ‘py all circles, and will find the appreciation which it deserves.” Pastor Gruber, who is also an Orthodox Christian, explains how great is tho ; Ability of those who have stirred the Jew- | En question, and be calls for peace. don in the Mp. BEECHER on amusements: “When I 1 was in Germans 1 went to a great garden. ; there I saw family after family—old and young Uinting under trees and listening to the music. They were drinking lager beer, which I think— yes, I think they could have left that out. But nen came home and saw fathers going to Yoshington and Albany and other places of amusement, leaving their families for a week or | froat times, I said I would rather have the Ger- | man with bis lager than the amuscment-seck- ° ing American with bis separation from his fami- { jy, 1 think that the churches, industrial clubs, | andguilds should see to it that the people are provided with proper amusement ” soe of the Chinamen in San Francisco are very adrvit thieves. When they wish tosteal chickens, a dozen or more of.them, in dead of night, visit the locality where fowls are sup- ‘to be kept and distribute themselves about toonvenient distances. They then commence {mitating the crowing of the cock, which they do soreally that all the roosters in the neighbor~ ; hood send out shrill defiance. This betrays the { exact whereabouts of the roosts, and the unfor- : qanate fowls must roost high or they are gob- Ned and taken to Chinatown for the next day's dinner. Covers are not always infallible. Judge Enapp, who tried Mrs. Smith and “Cove” Ben- nett when they were acquitted last week by the ! unanimous verdict of the jury on the first bal- Jot, also “sat upon the caso” when they were adjudged guilty and sentenced to be hung. On the first trial it is snid that the Judge charged the jury very strongly against the prisoners, whofound them guilty accordingly, but on the | second trial be charged them otherwise, and the result was different. Tae imports of 1879 exceed those of 1878 dy $51,967,533, whilo the exports of 1879 are only greater by $28,038,420 than those of 1878. From the way business opens up in 1880 tho imports ; ‘will be 100 millions larger even than those of 1879. Isis doubtful whether the exports will more than equal theimports. The business boom is becom- | ing crazy, and will run into the ground ere long. Tue News center has scooped the cent ‘Teegraph for the city printing by secing it and go- ing itonecent better on the priceof corporation advertising. While the fight of the mice was going on for the printing, they were alsoengaged | ina fearful swearing contest.as to the respect- ive per cent circulation. The News was the hard- est swearer, and won by a cent. ‘ManswaL MacManon has made a sensa- tion in Paris by offering for sale a half of his } magnificent property in the Rue de Bellechesse, atareserve price of 320,000 francs. The house is the ancient hotel of the Duc de Castries, Min- ister of War under Louis XVL, from-whom Mme. MacMahon derives the title of Duchess de Castries. Asa dark horse, Vice-President Wheeler ‘has his admirers. What gives color to his dark- ness and makes his friends think his nomination probable is, that he hails from the great State of New York, and that the Empire State must be Propitiated. Tue Troy Times says that Senator Conk- ling would be the favorit candidate for Presi- dent in New York, and “ would sweep the State like a whirlwind,” but he refuses absolutely to bea candidate. The Times is booming for Grant. =—=—= i Tae last “swear” of the New York ; Herald end Sunasto their respective circula- | ton puts the Herald ahead. The Sun oath-taker | i committed the least. perjury this time. Tae Connecticut Republican Convention ; for appointing delegates to the Chicago Conyen- von will not be held until the 7th of April MODERN YS. ANCIENT ARTS. The vise. mau, Solomon, sald: ‘The thing ‘that hath been is that which shall be, and there 48n0 new thing under the sun.” Inthe four- teenth century Chaucer rephrased the same sentiment,—“There is nothing new ‘but what ; has once been old,”—and another put it in this | way: “ Thereisnothing new but what bas before ; been known and forgotten.” And, strange to say, In the face of the most startling discoveries ! of the last fifty years, the aphorism of Solomon : remains one of the current coins of speech. AS amatter of fact, the phrase has ceased to pos- Sess any significance whatever, since, so far aS the everyday life of the people of the nine- veenth century is concerned, there is nothing , 80 to epeak, under the sun. A hundred’ zeus before Chaucer rephrased the saying of lomon, Roger Bacon made a prophecy almost Hd absurd to the people of his time as that of the ipton. “I will now,” says the friar, men- Won some of the wonderful works of ‘art and ; nature in which there is nothing of magic, | and which magic could not perform. Instru- | ments may be made by which the largest ships, ' ith only one man'guiding them, will be carried | ae pereater velocity than if they were full of | tailors | Chariots may be constructed that will ' Sore th incredible rapidity without the help bie mals. A small instrument may be made ; chine ws orraise the greatest weights. Ma- / ines may be made which will enable men to | H Tulk at the bottom of seas or rivers without nger.” The basis of this remarkable Prophecy consisted of the knowledge that the | ucients comprehended dimly the power of thewand other mechanical devices, but lacked ingenuity to apply them to the necds of zi Tosay that the art of railway and steam- Poonstruction is not new, because the Ro- peed the Power of steam to turn a spit, 8 slander upon the memory of Fulton, Watt, 2nd Stephenson. To refer to the block-printing j of the Chinese as evidence that the modern art ; of printing is° merely the revival of ! an old art is equally absurd, and equally unjust to the inventors of the movable Upesof the Afteenth and the cylinder-presses | of the nineteenth centuries. With as much Propriety it might be pretended that the modern mill is “ no new thing under the sun,” use the Egyptians pounded corn into meal ina mortar; and that the sawmill is an old in- Yention, because a Greck made the first iron ‘aw-blade in imitation of the jawbone of a Snake. Disraeli the elder says, referring to thoir : Prsetice of stamping pottery with block ‘etters, that the Romans invented printing Without being aware of it. He suggests that the improvement of the art may have becti pro- hibited by the Senate. ‘This is very improbable. Romans used terra-cotta pipes asa means SE conveying hot air through their dwellings, Duttheir kitchens were only cleared of smoke Opening wide the windows. The Tto- man Senate would not, presumably, bave objected to chimneys; but-in all the City of the Seven Hills there was not a Romnn citizen ‘with the necessary degree of inventive skill to devise a emoke-stack. It was not until the Century that the Romans knew the use Ct thesaddle. -‘The first Roman cavalryman sat cuthe bare back of his horse. Subsequently, cloths and the skins of animals were adopted as ‘The first mention of tho saddle oc- _Curs in the rear 310, when it is related that Con- Stantine the younger was killed “ by a fall from Lis sqidle.” ‘The Oizst saddles were doubtless Yery imposing structures. How heavy they. ‘Were is not Imown,—no specimens have been Preserved,—but they were certamly ponderous ; favorit mules were, however, ahod with silver | ; the'moderns take the hint quicker than the an- | greater diffusion of ; tect devoted a great wealth of genius to the ! never devised a comfortable tenement-house. | dew, they were no longer discernible; but in the ! few know, nor preseryoe what they had acquired j Was killed in a wrestling match at Evergreen, | : simply whistle for the old man and the dog. ! Democratic enough to say a campaign with Mr. ; bankruptcy, and cause many small storekeepers j but, a vote being taken, there were found to be } | Chopin works, revised by Scholtz, inexpensive THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY atatra, because in the year 38 Theodosius found | necessary to issue an order forbidding those who rode post-horses to use suddles weighing | more than sixty pounds! After the “heavy sad- | dle came the costly saddle, Inthe fifth century saddles were made so extravagantly magnificent as to call for the interference of the Govern- ment. The Emperor Leo I. issued an edict in which it was ordered that saddles “should not bo ornamented with pearls and precious stones.” | Itscems to have beon two or three hundred | years before-etirrups were thought of as a con- | vVonlent acceasory to the saddle. In the statue of Trajan at Rome the legs of the rider hang down without any. support whatever. In the ab- Sence of stirrups, mounting-stools were pro- vided. _ Some horses were taught to kneel to re- ceive thoir riders, and, in other cases, conquered Princes and Gencrals were forced to stoop their backs to the foot of the rider. Thus the Em- Peror Valerian bent to his victor, Sapor, King of Persia. That Necessity. isthe mother of invention is shown by the history of horseshoes. They came in with paved streets and gravel roads, The horse of the Arab who roamed the desert as free and almost as swift as the wind required no shoes and had none. In Ethiopia and Tartary horses are still unshod. The Greeks and Ro- mans shod their horses sometimes in time of war, but presumably only when their fect were sore, and then clumsily with leather or hemp, not with iron nailed on to the hoof. Nero's | | A Marked Decrease in the East- shoes. It was not until the eighth or ninth century | that the modern horseshoe was invented. But ! it was a long time even then before horse- i shocing became general in Europe. Iron was Scarce, and it was all required for the fabrica- | ton of arms and armor. In the eleventh cen- ; tury, when a rich Prince of Tuscany went to | meet his bride, his train was magnificently deco- i rated and his horses were shod with sitver. Tho { nails with which the shoes were fastened were also of silver, and when one of them dropped ' out it was the spoil of the finder. Undoubtedly we owe much to the ancients. : Invention isa progression of ideas. Each step | jn advance contains a hint of the next. That vcients’ did is owing to ‘the fact of the knowledge. Among the ancients the development of the fine arts, as painting and sculpturo, far outran that of the practical arts. The archi- construction of palaces, and temples which should dezzie the eye with their. splendid pro- portions and gorgeous ornamentation; but he The people of India made cotton fabrics go fine | that, being spread upon the grass and wet with industry which constitutes the basis of all other : industries—agriculture—their methods were simply wretched. Egypt's architectural monu- ments remain the wonder of the world even to the present time. Her people attained to a po- sition of prefminence in all the then known arts of civilized life. But Herodotus says of the Egyptians: “When tho fields have been irri- gated by the flood of the river, ernch man sows his own land and turns swine into it; and when the secd bas been trod- den in by the swine, he afterwards waits for harvest-time, and then, having trod out the corn with his swine, he gathers it in.” In the hiero- glyphics found in the Pyramids, which have required ages to decipher, we see the dawn of the salvation of all arts, through the art of “making thought permanent in written characters.” The ancients could neither tench the many what the for the instruction of future ages. So we recur to the printing-press as the source of modern educationand the salvation of cach step of modern progress,—the distinctive featuro of difference between the civilization of the an- cients and the moderns. a ' PERSONALS. The Czarina has arrived at Paris from Cannes. Her health is greatly improved. Neither Mr. Tilden nor Mr. O’Conor has | engaged himself to any young ladies during the , past two days. King Alfonso has not been shot at for two weeks, and begins to fear that things are going wrong in Spain. . ‘The thermometer reached 15 below zero in Minnesota last week, and people thought it was an Adams boom. Clara Louise Kellogg has gone to Nice for the rest of the winter. Clara is evidently de- termined to have a good time while abroad. It seems that old Standing Bear and Bright Eyes are absent from their reservations without a pass, and are Mable to arrest in case they visit Washington. We notice with pleasure that Nemesis has |- begun operations again.’ A man named Irwin Ala., recently. ‘Tom Thumb is now one of the features of a 10-cent Bowery show in New York, It would hardly be appropriate to say “How are the mighty fallen” in this connection, but that’s the * idea suggested. When Gen. Grant felt the earthquake shock at Havana he took off his hat, bowed po- litely, and remarked to one of his attendants that this was the neatcst personal compliment that had ever been paid to him outside of Phila- delphia. ‘The Spaniards have a proverb that “a pa- per cigaret, a glass of fresh water, and the kiss of a pretty girl will sustain a man for a day without eating.” In this country itis different. A man’s knee has been known to support a girl ‘several nights in succession. ; ‘The Burlington Haackeye, always a close observer, says: ‘Did you ever notice, brethren, the bigger the woman the smaller the hat? It's only your delicate little fairy, whose lightly fall- ing tread scarce bends the daisy that itfallsupon, that wears a bat as broad as a coal barge.” A Cincinnati girl who had a quarrel with | her beau One night last week suddenly rushed from the parlor in which they were seated and drowned herself in the canal near by. When Chicago girls quarrel with: their lovers they. The editor of the Mount Sterling (Ky.) Scorcher had a callfrom 200 masked men, who requested him to publish their warning against the horse-thieves of the county. He said it was against his rule to print anonymous communi- cations, but he thought he could make an ex- ception in this instance. ‘The Washington Post is mean enough and Sherman for a candidate would be rich in many of the clements of humor. To hear a crowd try- ing to give three cheers for Sherman, whilethelr ; teeth were chattering from the inevitable chill of his icy presence, would be better than a cir- cus. An attempt to introduce one-cent coins in San Francisco is meeting with vigorous opposi- tion from the small dealers. Ata public meet- | ing acigar-dealer denounced their circulation as & movement of capitalists in fayvorof the Chinamen. The circulation of cents where five- cent pieces have heretofore been given, he said, would injure the white man, and introduce | to sell out ut less than cost within a montb. An- other speaker said that the penny had no more to do with hard times than the rising of the sun, only two advocates of the cent piece present. ———— NEW MUSIC. Lewis & Newell (the Chicago Music Company) are now receiving the latest additions to the edition Peters, Leipzig. Most noticeable are the and elegant. This house have the finest editions of music and musical works of Europe and America.. Those interested in music should not fail to visit Lewis & Newell's, 152 State street. plabibecmeti hbase EX-SHERIFF KERN'S HALF-SHELL SCHEME, wherein he furnishes our oyster-loying down- town lunchers daily with steamed, broiled, fried, stewed, or raw oysters in superb style in connec- tion with his business lunches, and the remark- able quantity and quality of imported and other Deeron draught at. 108and 10La Salo street, are highly commended. DRUNKENNESS. Dr.D ‘Unger, discoverer of the ciuchona cure for drankenness, cures all cases. Room 2 Palmer House. “Brown's Household Panacea” will stop any pain or ache, or heal any fresh wound, Trial size, 2% cents. Avoid counterfeits. ———_— Feeble ladies, aged persons, weakly children, persons, of ccdentany habits, all need Hop Bit- ters i gan Central Grand Trunk route, which ; Will probably experience a still greater fall- | be anew competitor in the field—namely: the | Northwestern Grand Trunk, itis understood, i not rt Way 4102] 3,74) 8,370 i Pan-Handle. 3,655] 1,312] 3,240) 4,015, Baltimore & Obio..| 1,176] “620| 517} 1,154 Total......-+++. 28,901] 19,652} 12,383] 34,817 THE RAILROADS. Bound Traffic Last Dias Week. Increased Facilities for Suburban Travel on the Illinois Central. Reduction in Lumber Rates to the Mis- . souri Quadrilateral. A Project Which Might Prove Oonven- ient, EAST-BOUND FREIGHT MOVEMENT. ‘The increase in east-bound. freight ship- ments during the week ending Jan. 31, in- duced the railroad managers to believe that another boom had set in, and that hence- forth they would have their hands full of business. . But these hopes have again been shattered by the result of the business during the past week. The statement for the week ending Feb. 7 shows that the roads leading east have carried $4,817 tons of flour, grain, and provisions, the principal articles shipped, against 40,416 tons the week previ- ous,—a decrease of 5,599tons. The bulk of the grain business was again done by the Michi- carried 11,897 tons out of a total of 19,152.. The business of the poo! lines ing off during the present week, as there will Northwestern Grand Trunk, which was opened for business last evening, when the first train left the freight depot, corner of Canal and Sixteenth streets, with a cargo -of grain for Liverpool via Portland. This line, although owned and controlled by the Grand Trunk Railway Company, will act independ- ently of theold line. The latter will con- tinue to act in harmony with the Eastern trunk lines, and send its business from this point via the Michigan Central the same as heretofore, while the former wit do its busi- ness direct over the Gri Trunk via ; Port Jiuron to Portland, and thence by. steamer to Liverpool. The steam-: ship line from | Portland and the haye entered into a contract to do their busi- ness jointly, and issue joint bills of lading from this point. This will enable the new line to make such rates as it deems proper to secure the business, regardless of what the rates from Chicago to New York and other Eastern seaboards may be. As shippers care but little by which line their business goes, aslongas they get such rates as they want, it is most likely that the new line will obtain all the business it can carry. This fact will undoubtedly have the effect of accomplishing with the Eastern trunk lines what all argu- ; ments and pleadings heretofore could not ; accomplish, namely: a reduction in freight rates. It is generally understood that, in order to meet the competition by the | new line, the rates will be reduced about | March 1, The competition by the Grand ; ‘Trunk is sure to make trouble between the Eastern lines before long, and unless, Com- missioner Fink succeeds in devisin; zplin i by which the various interests can be har- ; j monized and equalized, another Eastern war in freight rates may be- expected as soon as i navigation opens. ‘The Grand Trunk will be } able to make it hot for the New York lines if : such a war occurs, for it has not only a good | all rail route to Portland and Boston, but also | alake and rail route via Sarnia to the same points. Then itwill have the advantage of cheaper ocean rates than the New York lines, and lower terminal charges. Were it not for this Grand ‘Trunk complication, a re- ; duction in rail rates need not be looked for for some time to come, as the railronds * do not expect any serious trouble from lake « competition this spring. They do not expect that a reduction in rates will move much more grain than is carried at present, but what is going forward they donot like to have taken away by the new rival. Itis claimed by the Eastern managers that if they ; were to carry for nothing they would have business only until the seaboard storehouses were filled, which would not take long, for they are pretty full already. Theprives continue to be so much higher in the West than in the East, and in the East than in Europe, not- withstanding the decline during the last two weeks, that but very little can be exported. There is an enormous tonnage in New York harbor wailing for. cargoes, but the vessels cannot_secure them, although the storehouses in New York are nearly a full as those in Chicago. In New York the number of bushels in store is nearly one-half greater than at the same time Jast year, and the total “visible supply” atlake and sea- board ports Jan. 31 was about 52,000,000 bush- els this year, against 39,500,000 in 1879, and 24,900,000 in 1878. Under ordinary cireum- | stances the railroad men say it would proba- bly be good policy to reduce the rail-rates about his time to prevent holding until navigation opens; but the elevators bein; substantially’ full already this argumen does not tell. Future arrivals at the sca- board ports cannot be held, and with such an enormous ‘accumulation, and the great demand for vessels for’ carrying fron-ore and lumber, already proved by the making of contracts at high prices, it is all but certain that the vessels will get ad- vanced rates in the spring, and consequently the railroads will be able to secure traffic at. remunerative rates after navigation opens. ‘Therefore, if a reduction is decided upon by the railroads it will be simply, enough to meet the competition by thenew Grand Trunk route, and not to move the produce now be- ing accumulated in the storehouses. For, should they reduce the rates toa very low figure now, and the grain should come for- ward, then there would be such competition for freights by the vessels. in spring and summer that probably the railroads could more than. 15 or 20 cents per 100 un for _ carrying, which would fardly pay their expenses, while now they are making an immense profit. The evening-up of the percentages of the yarious roads in accordance with the pool al- lJotments is still causing much headache to the various roads, and they are getting wider apart every day instead of reducing the gaps between them. The principal difliculty is be- tween the two Vanderbilt roads. The Michigan Central on the 4th inst. had run ahead 16,982 tons, and the Lake Shore was behind 16,212 tons. The Fort Wayne was ahead 3,384 tons the Pan-Handle was behind 315 tons, and the Baltimore & Ohio 3,839 tons.. The immense surplus of the Michigan Central is accounted fe by the large amounts of freight shipped ver this line by the Grand Trunk during the Jast few weeks, but the heavy shortage of the Lake Shore can hardly be explained on any other ground than that it has been allotted a much nlener percentage than it is entitled to or able to secure. - The following statement will show the amount of flour, grain, and provisions car- ried by the various. Eastern roads during the.week ending Feb. 7: Grain, | Prov’s, F tour, |tona of {tone of ris. {2000 . | 20600. Route. Total “tons. 1,892) 14,329 080] 6,040 DETROIT & MILWAUKEE. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Trioune, - Detnort, Mich., Feb. 7—An important de- cision, involving the legal corporate exist- ence of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Mil- ywaukee Railroad Company and its liability for the bonds of the old Company, was ren- | dered in the Superior Court this morning by : Judge Chipman. On the 26th of April, 1875, | Robert Cook recovered judgment against the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad Company for 5,000. After the judgment the property | and. franchises of the Company were sold : under foreclosure to certain parties, who, | under the statute, transferred them to the | Detroit, Grand Haven &. Milwaukee. : The. judgment, with interest, now { amounts to about $6,700. Cook claimed that the last above-named corporation and the Detroit & Milwaukee. Company are the same corporate bodies, with a mere | change of name, and it was sought to main- ! tain this on the ground that if the defendant is organized under the provisions of Act 6, Session Laws of 1859, the statute expressly makes them the same; and, secondly, ‘that that act is repealed by the legislation of 1872 1 = 1880—SIXTEEN. PAGES. providing for reorganization after foreclosure. It was assumed under the last ground that the defendant is illegally organized and never has been organized. In fact, and that the only corporate entityit has or is capable of exercising is that of being the old Company. In rendering the decision Judge: Chipman said. the case must be determined by the construction of Act 96. The purchasers at the mortgagesale acted in accordance with that act. The validity of the last organization cannot be inquired into in this proceeding. A strong controlling fact in the case fs that the Detroit & Milwaukee Railway Company were divested of their broperty by mortgage foreclosure and sale, and that the purchasers at the sale took it ab- solutely free from all claims against the Com- pany except prior mortgages. In theirhands all liability of the property to execution for previous indebtedness of mortgages was cut off exactly as all rights of mortgages to prop- erty were cut off. ‘They stood in the position of other persons aequirin title in a legal manner, and up to this point were at liberty to dispose of it as they pleased, and whether to keep it or sell it was entirely at their op- tion. Judge Chipman said he did not be- Heve that Act 96 intended a reconveyance to the same Company. The purchasers bought under the provisions of that act, andif they failed in achieving their purpose of forming virtually a new company out of the fran- chises of the old because the act was repealed, it would be monstrous to hold that they lose all tights under foreclosure, and that the prop- erty they bought at the sale is not theirs. but belongs to a person whose right to it was sol- emnly foreclosed by decree of a court of eompetent jurisdiction. It may be that this act is unconstitutional as between the old stockholders and the new, or between the tate and present corporate body, but this is a question relating to the rights of a creditor of mortgagees, and the intention of the act is clearly expressed that the purchasers shall take ‘the property and franchises free of all claims against the original corporation. The property purchased at the foreclosure sale is the property of the purchasers and their grantees, exactly as any other property purchased at such sale would be, and that they have done nothing which would render it Hable to claims of the nature to be cut off by the ordinary rule. The plaintiff is not en- titled to recover, and judgment ought to be rendered for defendant. I. C. SUBURBAN LINE. The next number of the Railway Age will contain the following interesting article re- garding the extensive improvements lately made by the Illinois Central on its suburban line between this city and Grand Crosssing: The Illinois Central Railroad Company isabout | completing some extensive improvements which will give it facilities for rapid transit for suburban travel probably unequaled by any other surface rond in the country, and, in re- spect to economy of construction, convenience of reaching and leaving trains, and attractive- ness of route, it willbe superior to the enor- mously_expensive elevated railways of New York. The Company early inaugurated a lib- eral policy in running suburban trains, and, by continually increasing its facilities, has built up a very large suburban traffic, and caused the luke shore to be rapidly peopled by those doing business in the heart of the city. It now runs twenty-seven trains daily, at short intervals during the morning and evening hours, with less frequent trips at mid- day and inthe evening. Its rates of fare are quite low. Ten-ride “punch” tickets, good for any number of persons, aro sold at the rate of six centa per trip for the first four miles, seven cents as far as the city limits, five miles, and so on to 13 cents to Parkside, 8.74 miles out, where most of the regular suburban travel ends, though these trains also run some miles farther. To still better accommodate the increasing business, and to enable trains to be run as often as may be desired without interruption by the through traflic which now crowds the double tracks, the Company has been engaged for some months in widening its rond-bed and lay- ing down two additional tracks as far as Park- side Station. This work is being done in the most substantial manner, and the total cost will not fall much short of $200,000. ‘The Company is now building six cars similar to those used on the New York elevated roads, having the seats placed in the usual position in the centre with others at each end, these facing } each other after the manner of street cars, in order to facilitate ingress and egress. These cars will sent forty persons,—only two less than the ordinary coach,—weigh only fourtecn tons when empty, and when loaded weigh no more than those now in use weigh when vacant. an experiment, an engine of the ‘‘double-ender” type is being built at the Rogers locomotive works, It will have two puirs of forty-eight- inch drivers, a four-wheel truck under the tank, and a two-wheel truck under the front of the engine; cylinders, 15 by 22; boiler, 46 inches in diameter; weight, 3X.tons empty. As this engine will not have to be turned, considerable time will be odie resent all engines, after pag at the Lake Street Depot, have to run aan mile and a half, A CONVENIENT PROJECT. | Washington Dispatch to New York Herald. The House Committee on Railroads and Canals is entertaining a singular proposition, which, if it should find favor with Congress, is capable-of very wide application. The Washington, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail- road Company proposes an arrangement with the Government, by which it shall be allowed to import steel or iron rails for its road. and pay the custom duties with its bonds, which ‘the Secretary of the Treasury is to hold until the road has earned their face value by. serving the Goy- ernment. Such a rule, if it were adopted, would be_endlesly convenient to American citizens. For instance, a man night import a pair of trousers and bay the duties on them witha bond to be held the Seerctary of the Treasury until he had obtained a Gov- ernment office and earned enough salary in it'to pay his campaign expenses and redeem. his bond. The Committee is considering the Company’s Proposition, but it will probably prefer to recommend a general law allowing everybody to import everything and pay the customs duties with bonds. The same Committee intends to report fa- vorably a bill compelling the Government to arantee the bonds of the San Antonio & ‘exican_Border Railway to the handsome tune of $15,000 per mile for 160 miles. It will be observed that there is nothing mean about this Committee, but the general impression is that the House of Representatives is not at this time giving guarantees to railway bonds, REDUCTION-IN LUMBER RATES. As predicted.in yesterday’s Tripuns, the roads in the Southwestern Railroad Associa- tion decided: yesterday to make a reduction in the lumber rates to Missouri River points. ‘The new rates will be as follows: From Chi- cago to -St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, and Kansas City, 213{ cents per 100 pounds in car-loads of- 24,000 pounds; from Mississippi River points north of Keokuk, 7 cents per 100 pounds: from: Mississippt River points south of and including Keokuk, 13}¢ cents per 100 pounds. This is a reduction of 3 cents per 100 pounds,-ana will, no doubt, have the effect of bringing more life in the lumber traffic from this point, which has been almost at a standstill during the last month or ‘two, owing to the competi- tion by the so-called. “Liber Line” lately formed by the West Wisconsin, Sioux City & St. Paul, Sioux City & Pacific, and Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs ‘Rail- roads for the purpose of taking lumber direct from the Wisconsin regions at Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls to Missouri River points. The Northwestern Railroad, it is claimed, is acting in eon iumetion with the’ “Lumber Line,” and is, therefore, fighting the other Chicago lines on the lumber business. NEW YORK, ONTARIO & WESTERN. Svectal Dispatch to'The Chicago Tribune, New York, Feb. 7.=-On the 22d ult. the New York & Oswego Midland Railway was reorganized as the New York, Ontario & Western, and a new Board of Directors and: officers were elected. On Friday an entirely new set was elected, as follows: Jose F. De Navarro, Charles J. Canda, Julius Hallgar- | ten, Charles S. Hinchman, of Philadelphia; Corporation-Counsel William C. Whitney, Samuel S. Strong, E.. L. Frank, Will- iam M. Fleiss, C. N. Jordan, Theodore Houston, Gen. Burnham, Mr. and one other. It is understood that Mr. Jordan is to resign the Presidency of the Company within afewdays. ‘The significance of the change lies m two facts: One is that Messrs. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in whose oflice the meeting was. held, are the American fiscal agents for the’ English “purchasers of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, re- cently ‘sold under. foreclosure. ‘The other is that Messrs. De Navarro, Canda, ‘and Strong are members of the New York Loan & Improvement Company, Which built the Metropolitan Elevated Rail- road. Wall street has been filled with seem- ingly absurd rumors for some time past of a proposed combination between the Atlantic & Great ‘Western and New York, Ontario & Western for the building of connecting links and the establishment of another very round- about through trunk line via the New Jersey to the turn-table, at Sixteenth streot, a Farley, j : of the banking firm of George Opdike & Co. ; the Master Teported was due on the Ist of Midland, which is soon to be sold under foreclosure, from New York to the West, These rumors have been repeated and denied a hundred times. Yesterday the parties in- terested refused to talk on the subject one way or the other. é a, &1.c. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. - INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 7.—W. P. Fish- back, Master in Chancery, who returned trom Washington this morning, reports that Justice Harlan will make his final decree on Monday in the case of the contested lease of the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central Railroad by the Pan-Handle Company, and that it is believed it will deny the lessor com- pany—the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central—about $1,000,000 of the rent which January; will affirm, as was held last Au- gust, the qulidity of the lease: will hold that about $8,000 paid to the National Line as commissions and to a Car Trust Company for rents must be accounted for as expense by the lessee, and paid out of the 70 per cent of the gross earnings retained by it. The lessee will appeal to the Supreme Court, DETROIT & BUTLER. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. .. DErrorr, Mich., Feb. %—The total local subscriptions up to to-night in aid of the De- troit & Butler Railroad project amount to $47,800. The books were opened at the Board of Trade rooms this morning, and individual members of the Board subscribed $9,800. This latter sum is entirely independent of the Board of Trade subscription of $10,000, and all subscriptions are made with the un- derstanding that they are not to be paid until the road is completed and trains running. James F. JoysBubl, Ducharme & Co., New- berry & McMillan, Allen, Sheldon & Co., and tis estate of Senator Chandler give $5,000 NEW YORK CENTRAL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Burrauo, N. Y., Feb. 7.—The New York Central Railroad has appointed R. H. Noble Northern Passenger Agent, with headquar- ters at Buffalo. His territory. includes Western New York, Ontario, the Oil Regions, and parts of Ohio. The Central has never had a Passenger Agent at this end of the road before, and this new departure means a lively competition between the Central and Erie for New York business. CINCINNATI SOUTHERN. Cincinnati, Feb. 7.—It now appears that the clauses in the law providing for the last issue of bonds for the Cincinnati Southern THE TRIBUNE WEATHER-MAP. From Observations Made by the Signal-Service, U. 8. A, at 11 P.M, Washington Mean Time, Feb. 7, 1880. * Se { 965 pausiale Wet Porm Greenwich [83° Garry OWinnij Ef, ‘Beer 30.16 ae TO Rao o Pembina. QOS VIiOQ@e TEAL REPO | u, derainay racer ‘Bar. Baro St.palk’ q Bar 30.54 a\\ te T 15 NS; TONS Bis Bar 30.43, = La Cross brad cM = T 15 CIS %%) Bar 2021 a? ise Bh a as D fF Muwauredi iS Bar 20.42 i mow OR EN “FA Bar 30,12 Sts Omaha Tae HICAGOg S p Ky 30.47; Dis oe Reene™ 2D) oulsviiie Bar 30.58 Sharnce T. ‘T 37 ashvite 57748 Satem* . Nat \Bar S051 Knee *s' cade hattanooga T aa Calunibis Bar 30. Ors * Vicksburg Bacon 2 , Savannaha f a # chattidooed,,, a Observations taken at the same moment of time st all stations. SERVATIONS. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS Cmtcaco. Feb. 7. failroad prevent He. contractors trom turn ‘Time. | Bar.|Ther.|Hu| Wind. Vel] R'n.| Weather. || Time, | Bar.|Ther.|Hu} Wind.|Vel| Rin.) Weather, g it over to the trustees unt! ly com- ra ize Ral Fao lea esi leted. The trustees will ask rel-ef from, the BS $)|etear: a8 Clea: egislature to allow them to receive ‘th 20_| 56 6 3i_| Clear. road. : ‘Maximum, 31; minimum, i INDICATIONS. ' 5 CASUALTIES. Orrice oF Tue CmeFr Si1enat OFFIcER, WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 81 a, m—For BE! Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, slightly warmer, southeast to southwest winds, falling Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, TorEpo, Feb. 7.—Another of the frequent railroad horrors which have occurred at this point took place this afternoon about 4 o’clock in the Canada Southern yard at Canada Southern Junction, As one of the yard engines was backing down to be_con- nected with a freight train Assistant Yard- master Michael Sullivan attempted to get upon the rear platform of the tender to make a coupling, but, in doing so, the tool-box, which he had caught hold of, tipped over, and he fell square across the track. . The wheels on one side passed over his neck, severing his head from his body, and-on the other side running over the legs below the knees.’ The deceased was 30 years of age, married, and leaves a family of three chil- dren, Another man with him hada narrow escape from the same fate. RUN OVER AND KILLED. * Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Kansas Crry, Mo., Feb. 7.—About 6 o’clock this evening a horrible accident occurred near the Grand Avenue Station of the Mis- souri Railway, in this city. A switch engine was backing up the main line, when a Mrs. Phebe Murphy, who was walking with some friends on a$side-track, became fright- ened and jumped directly in front of the moving machine. The footboard knocked her down, and she was instantly killed. So_ quickly did the affair occur that Thomas Barry, who was on the footboard, did not see the unfortunate woman until she was down. The accident was witnessed by the husband. of Mrs. Murphy, who stood in a doorway not twenty rods away. : BURIED ALIVE. Special Dispatch to The Chtcago Tribune, Keoxus, Ia, Feb. 7—While workmen were engaged in excavating undera high embankment this morning the earth caved. in, burying one of the men, named John Gavin, out of sight. The earth was removed and he was taken out dead, his body being badly crushed. Owen Ennis was buried to his hips and severely though not dangerously hurt. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict to the effect that Gavin’s death was the result of negligence on the part of those in charge of the work in failing to provide proper pro- tection to those employed. A TERRIGLE PROBABILITY. New Yons, Feb. 7.—A second large iron tank has drifted ashore near Ocean Grove, N.J. The first one came ashore Wednesday. One weighs six tons, and bears on its man- hole-plate the maker’s name, - ‘‘ McKeoghs Bros., Liverpool.” It is thought unless tanks were blown overboard, which is hard- ly possible, some great vessel foundered at sea during the recent storm. SUFFOCATED. Sr. Pavut, Minn., Feb. 7—The house of Andrew Bemot, a farmer living near White \] high pratse prominent people of that city bestow upon the St. Jacobs Oil, says: port of the efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil and the high character of those supplying them, the inference is irresistible that this remedy is the most remarkable for such diseases as bave been mentioned in the above interviews that hus yet been discovered: and, considering their value asagulde and suggestion to sufforing humanity, there is nothing unmercantile or unprofessional in advertising the article. The above ought to commend it to the confidence of all our citi- zens.” barometer, and clear or partly cloudy weather. For the Lower Lake region, south to west winds, falling barometer, slight rise in tem perature, and clear or partly cloudy weather during the day- For the Upper Lake region, during the day, south to west winds, rising temperature, and falling barometer, with clear or partly cloudy weather, followed in the northern portions by slight snow. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys, in the southern portions during the day clear or fair weather, warmer south to west winds, and falling barometer. In the northern portions threatening weather and snow, followed during the night by colder north to west winds and rising barometer... UPRIGHT | “A HOST OF EREENDS PIANOS. ‘D NO ENEMIES.” REED’S TEMPLE OF MUSIC, fiat & 108} REED & SONS,? J Estaplished} State-st. ‘Proprietors. i 1842. ST. JACOBS OI. PEOFESSIONAL. StJacobsQil| CATARRH. The Great German Reme dy. One Hundred Thousand People Die An-_ nually, in the United States, of Consumption. " ENTHUSIASTICALLY INDORSED BY The Trade. THE PRESS. THE PEOPLE. The Chicago Tribune, in an article embodying the Ninety-five Per Cent of all Consumptive Cases Besta With Catarrh. SYMPTOMS AND PROGRESS. Although Catarrh of the mucous lining of the facial cavities and throut is attended with most unpleasant, and often distressing, symptoms, yet It ls usually until the disease has reached the of the upper part of the lungs jor awakes to the imminent danger to which his self-healect has brought him. ‘Although there 1s scarcely one inten of the hun- gfeds all around us dying, in youth or middle age at consumption, but that can look back to a time when If ywas “nothing but Catarrh,” and although in case of facinl Catarrh every breath of air drawn into the lungs is slowly and surely drawing the disease from the face downwards, yet. the catarrhal subject is quite a3 cer= tain that the disense will never reach the luncs, as is the dying consumptive that the lungs are not affected. ain over and between the eyes, weak ever, confus sion of thought and loss of memory, difficulty of breathing through the nostrils, bad taste In the mouth, offensive breath, sore throat, hacking cough, and the unmitigated anhosance of ‘continuelly clearing the head and thront—theso are the symptoms of caturr! while confined to the throat and facial cavitics, and should be deemed of sufficient importance to demund acute, if possible, of so troublesome a disease, even if there was no danger. CARD SPECIAL. From twenty-seven years’ experience in the treate ment of Catarrh and ‘its complications, Lextend my “Taking in view the number of testimonials in sup- ST. JACOBS OIL. Bear, burned this afternoon. One child, & years old, suffocated, and others were rescued. Money loss, trifling.’ The children, leftalone, caused the fire. STREET-CAR COLLISION. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Inpranarouis, Ind., Feb, 7.—A collision between street-cars this evening on the Washington and Noble streets line severely injured a lady passenger, and the driver of one of the cars had a leg badly fractured. DROWNED. Sz. Jonn, N. B., Feb. 7—By the upsetting of aschooner at Cheney’s Cove, Gran Me- nan, John Fesbit, Frank Robinson, John Larry, Mrs. Lindsay, and Mrs. Simon Frank- lin were drowned. SERIOUSLY INJURED.. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, BurFato, N. Y., Feb. 7.—General-Manager Wiliam P. Taylor, of the Canada Southern Railway, was seriously injured while driving his trotter on Delaware avenue to-day. A ST. LOUIS SCHEME. Sr. Louts, Mo., Feb. 7.—Some forty or fifty of our leading merchants and manufacturers held a meeting at the Lindell Hotel to-night toconsider a project of establishing in the City of Mexico a permanent exposition of articles manufactured or purchasable in St. Louis, and providing fora similar exhibit of products of Mexico in this city. The project inet with great favor, and a committee of five active business men were appointed to work itup. * OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Loxpox, Feb. 7.—Steamships Republic, Columbia, and Guy Mfannering, from New York, have arrived out. New Yours, Feb. 7—Arrived, stnemabitee tate of Pennsylvania, from Glasgow; yar from Bremen; City of Chester, 4 Liverpool. TOO MUCH GAS. New Yorks, Feb. 7.—Capt. Brackett, Rev- enue Agent-of the Treasury Department, | severely injured about oe weeks 85? by few x ion of coal gas in the bunkers of the ees Greece’ has begun suit against the National Steamship Company, fixing his damages at $25,000. BUSINESS NOTICES. 1s Kumyss, the daintiest of toods and most potent tonic in form, of a pleasant beverage, a mild milk-wine. Nothing élse go rapidiy enriches the blood. eptics, the weak and delicate generally, shoul: Ke it. It affords immediate comfort, and often re- stores health after all else has failed. ‘To be had only at 179 Madison strect. Lame Back, Chilblains, Bunions, and all diseases of the Skin, Ery- sipelas, Salt Rheum, Eczema, ip, ete. Diphtheria, Sore ‘Throat, Preumonta, and all in- be Satisfaction gunranteed or monoy rehinded. Sold by all Drusirists. @ Mluminated etreular'and cards. Samuel Gerry & Co., Proprietors, Olllee 7, Sold by druggists at SO CENTS a bottle. 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