Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1880, Page 8

: THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1880. the Third Presbyterian Church on As! THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. J. A. SLANDEN, U.S.A. isat the Palmer. B.C. Crovpen, of Hock Island, is as the Sher- ‘man. C.H. Surrs, of Indianapolis, is at the Tre- mont. : W.M. Srernitss, of Maquoketa, In, is at the Gardner. : W. W. Parcs, of Galesburg, Il, is at the Gardner. Dn. NATHANIEL AYER, Of Pittsburg, is at the ‘Tremont. 'T. J. Howrsos, of Sberman. Cies STUDEBAKER, of South Bend. Ind., is at the Pacific. Jcvcr Cuesrer BH. Eno, of St. Louis, is at the Pacific. W. B. Raxzicn, of Helena, BMont., is a guest of the Palmer. ALM. Her rencTox, of Geneva, ILL, isa guest of the Sherman. Josrrn It. WALKER, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is at the Palmer. ‘Aup. H. Houcntoyn, of New York, is stop- ping at the Tremont. WILLIAM A. CRAWLEY, City-Attorney of Jack- sonville, is in the city. Ex-SenaTor Georas G. Waicut, of Iowa, is domiciled at the Pacific. © ‘W. 5. Anp J. HL SuYTH, Birkenhead, England, are registered at the Sherman. J. M. THarcuer, the ex-Commissioner of Pat- ents, Washington, is at the Pacific. J. B. MULLIKEN, Superintendent of the De- troit, Lansing & Northern Railroad, is at the ‘Tremont. Gov. Prrxrn, of. Colorado, is the guest of Mr* and Mrs. James Swan, on Michigan avenue, En- glewood. Josern CHAPMAN, General Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque Railroad, is at the Sherman. Mns. Mary J. Hotaes, the well-known novel- ist, is in the city stopping with her brother, Mr. Kirk Hawes, at No. 109 Culumet avenue. Tacrspay afternoon Mr. Carl Dreier, Eu- ropean agent for N. K. Fairbank & Co., left for Rew ‘York to sail March 3 in the Gallia, Cunard ine. Dr Rerxouns, tho mesmerist a aul contion- ing his successful exhibitions at Hershey 4 ic: Hall. a ‘entertainment will be given to-day for ladies only. ‘Tre Mexican ‘London, England, is at the Veteran Association held its regular monthly meeting in the club-room of the Grand Pacific Hotel last evening, but trans- acted no business of importance. ; Woman's Christian Association. employs no salaried solicitor. The ladies of that Associa- tion will in future call in person upon. the busi- ness men of Chicago for their contributions. ‘THe temperature yesterday, as observed by Manasse, optician, No. 88 Madison street (TRrs- UNE Building), was, at8a, m.,41 degrees; 10 a. m., 50; 12 m., 58; 3p. m., 64; §p.m.,55. Barom- eter, Sa. m., 9.24; 8p. m., 29.39. members of the Committee whose dui itis to count the money taken in at the Parnel mass-meeting at the Exposition Building Mon- day night have not yet finished their iabors. ‘They have counted up rising $7,000, and more is to come in. Jacon Aux0s, a boy living with his parents at No. 196 Thirty-fifth street, was bitten at o'clock -esterday afternoon by a large dog supposed to Se mad. He was taken home and properly cared for, and the dog was pursued and led by Ofi- cer Stetson. Epwanp Parson WEsTox, the walker, regis- tered at the Palmer yesterday, on his way toSan Francisco, whero he commences his six-day wallc ‘ith O'Leary next week. He was accompanicd by Hamilton Busby, of the Turf, F and Farm, who ucts as stakeholder, and Mr. W. B. Barciay, of New York. AS snowrna the immense amount of travel through Chicago, the train West on the Rock sland! ‘Road at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning consisted of six passenger-coaches, two Puliman sleepers, a dining-car, and two baggage-cars. All the passenger-cars were full. And two trains of like capacity leave on this road daily. D.C. DouGALL, foreman at the bonded ware- house, corner of Hi. strect and Pacific avenue, had his left arm crushed between the “bumpers” while coupling cars yesterday morning. He was taken to his home, No. 45 Cedar street, where the arm was amputated above the elbow by Drs. Eldridge and Bogue. Mn. GEORGE MULLEN, the noted philanthi of Bristol, England, will preach in the English tongue at ihe Chicago Avenue Church next Sun- day morning and evening. The life work of Mr, Miilier bus differed from that of other beneficent ‘workers, in that he has chosen to act untram- aneled by the machinery of societies and organ- izations. In direct answer to prayer, Mr. Miller has for nearly fifty years been enabled to con- Btantly support and educate 2,000 orphans. - A COMMITTEE of the Saloonkeepers’ Associn- thon, consisting of Messrs. Schroth, Volke, Gam- mil, Cliens, and Rouhen, have adopted a series of preambles and res lutions in which they de- nounce the attempt to raise their licenses, as embodied in the resolution now betore the Council. They urge all saloonkeepers to put in their work with the Aldermen in their respect- ive wards, and to protest long and loud against the proposed increase. The subject will be dis- gus sed at the next regular meeting, which will id this afternoon. ALBERT Frxx, the Eastern Pool Commissioner; J. N. McCullough, President of the Pennsy}- Yania Railroad; M. H. Sayre, President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; J. D. Brown, General Passenger Agent of the Missouri, Kansas & ‘Texas Hailroad; J. H. Devereaux, General Man- ager of the Canada Southern Railroad; John C. Gault, General Manager of the Wabash Rail- road: F. Broughton, General Manager of the Great Western Railroad; and T. L. Kimball, General Passenger-Agent of the Union Pacific Bailroad, are at the Pacific. CHARLES GOTTSCHALK, a boss teamster, 57 years of age, living at No. 59 North Clark street, while unhitching one of his teums at 6 o'clock last evening met with a serious accident. The horses took fright at something and ran away, and Gottschalk, being a one-legged man, was unable to get out of their way. He was run down and trampled upon by both horses, and, besides severe bodily bruises, received an ugly gash on the right side of the head and had 4 right car splitintwo. A physician who attend- 2d him thought he would recover. ‘THE monthly mecting of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union was held at Farwell Hall yesterday morning. Encouraging reports were received from the various officers, showing thut there was a balance of $230 in the treasury and that twenty-five mectings had been held _during the month. A committee reported that ‘the Superintendent of Schools had promised to aid the Union in its work among the children, and it was announced that the Sunday-schools throughout the State intended to observe March Basa Temperance Days The annual meet- Ing of the Union will be held March J6, the aft- ernoon session to be devoted to business and the evening to addresses. ‘Tne Grocery-Clerks’ Association held 2 mect- ing yesterday evening at Wall's Hall, on the corner of Halsted and Adams strects, for the purpose of action regarding a certain groceryman who, despite the fact that all the other rs have agreed to close their places Of business at 8 o'clock p.m. in the winter and at 9 p.m. in the summer, persists in keeping open much later than the former hour. It was agreed in the meeting that the action of this @rocer, if not abandoned, would pesbaby. have the effect of breal up the new regulation, but the meeting could not agree upon what was best to be done under the circumstances, and adjourned without doing anything. Ar 3 o'clock yesterday morning Officer Timothy Ryan found Herman Kriippleberg in bis saloon, No. 107 Fifth avenue, suit trom a violent attack of delirium tremens. The officer brought him to the Armory, where he died at 11:30 o'clock yesterday forenoon. Dr.’ McDonald was called in to attend him, but he arrived too late be of any service. The deceased was 2 single man, and was started in business with Herman Traub at the above num- ber by ex-Ald. Kerber, about one year ago. Family trouble, and especially irritation at a brother beating him out of some $700 made him take to See Krippleberg was a tine specimen of manhood. physically and mentally. Tne Penitentiary terms of the notorious Gar- rity brothers— ugh and John—expire to-day. ‘They will not, fowever, be turned loose upon the citizens of Chicago, The moment that thet 7 ave discharged trom the prison, an ollicer wi. 11ke them into custody for the purpose of conu- veying. them back to Geneva to stand trial upon the other indictments found against them for thelr brutal nssault - upon Join Dowling. The indictment which they will be next brought to trial on is that for ‘her. It will be remembered that by a shurp ‘on somebody's part these indictments were stricken from the docket soon after the crimin- als were sent to Joliet, but_ the move was found out in time, and they. were speedily reinstated. Undoubtedly the Garritys will be again con- victed, and.in the course of afew months will be on their way back to the Penitentiary. , Arr nbout noon of yesterday a crowd gathered . at.the corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets in answer to the cry of “stop thief." The culprit was an unfortunate old soaker who had slipped out of bis cozy barroom without squaring the account for sundry drinks of foaming lager. His exptor was the salaonkeeper, and, as he was the stronger as wellas having the’ right on aiaside, he had the best of thg wordy quarrel. arleyed and gesticuiated, but finally the curious crowd by pulling out from bis inner consciousness Bene purse laden with still asier greenback: le gin- gerly drew out a V, and presented it to the dis- ciple of Gambrinus, who muttered his thanks, and returned some $4.8 change. The seedy , Stranger slipped modestly away. The saloon- : keeper gazed on the bill and found it a clumsy ‘eounterfeit. He marked it ‘to charity” on his iglate, for charity alone would draw the veil over ‘nis subsequent profanity. - Cnicaco may console bersclf with the idea ‘that, if she did lose the Democratic Convention, the manufacturers of carriages, who will have the supplying of the next President with a modo fof locomotion, have decided to hold their annual convention in this city the second Wednesday in October. A meeting of representatives from about twenty carriage firms of this city was held last evening at the Grand Pacific Hotel to make the necessary arrangements. The meet- ing wus mainly informal, but an organization wus effected by the electiun of Thomas H. Brown as Chairman and N. Halsey Secretary. A Committee of Arrangements was elected, ‘con- sisting of T. 1. Brown, H. Willetts, I. K. Kim- ball, J. F. Studebaker, J. M. Sherman, C.F. Howz, D. J. Lines, and C. P. Kimball. After dis- cussing various routine plans, the meeting ad- journed subject to call. WEAVER’S BILL. In response to a call for a meeting of soldiers and sailors who fought in the late War, and who |. favored the passage of the Weaver bill by Con- gress, about 100 veterans assembled lust even- ing at Meridian Hall, No. 99 West Randolph street. : M.S.Robinson, Alexander Montcith, and J. W. Cooper were appointed a Committeo on Resolutions. | ‘The resolutions reported recite the fact that the soldiers and sailors were pid in a depre- ciated currency, worth at the time not more than 40 to 70 cents on the dollur, and that the Government has since declared that the pay- ment ot the bondholder in the same money that the soldiers were paid would be dishonest and repudiation. They also say that the Govern- ment is justly bound to pay the soldiers the difference between the value of greenbacks and gold at the tine of payment, with 6 per cent in- terest compounded semi-annually, The resolu- tions indorse the Weaver bill, and recommend that the mecting form a permanent organiza- tion to ndvance the interests of soldiers, sailors, and marines, and epairiunicate with similar or ganizations throughout the country. ‘The resolutions were unanimously adopted by arising vote. 4 a . ‘Another resolution. was offered snd adopted denouncing Senator Cameron, of Pennsylyania, for saying that the signatures to Weaver's pe- tition were forgeri¢s. Senator Logan was held up for contempt and scorn in resolution for ling Weaver a demagog, and several thought that the General was changiug“his tactics now that he had got into the Senate.and did not need soldiers’ votes. ‘A canvass was made of all the persons pres- ent, as to what branch of the service they were in, name of company, regiment, vessel, etc., and bout 100 gave the necessary names. Nearly all ranked as high privates. A Committee on Per- manent Organization was ap jointed, consistin: of James Springer, George W. Scott, and J. W. O'Daniels, who will report at the next mieetiogs President Dickson made a speech betore ad- journment, in which he paid his respects to the Union, Veterun Club for what he claimed the injustice of saying that the Club represented the views of 1,000 soldiers and sailors in oppos- ing the Weaver bill. ‘Members of the Union Veteran Club who fa- vor the bill wero invited to attend the next meeting of the new organizution. All members: are expected to bring their discharge papers with them. THE CITY-HALL. Tre Committee on Streets and Alleys, West, is called for this afternoon, and the Committee on Streets and Alleys, South, for to-morrow. ALD. TmRoop, upon retiring from the Coun- cil, proposes to dispose’of his business and fo to the Pacific Slope with his family for a year or so. ‘Tne City Treasurer yesterday received $2,120 from the Water Department cad $31 from the Controller. ‘The South-Town Collector also paid in $3,000 in scrip. ‘we Hyde Park authorities yesterday applied forthe grade of Thirty-ninth street east and west, their purpose being to construct additional sewers in that locality. A GENTLEMAN wrote the Mayor yesterday from Washington, In., to send him two Chinamen ‘who were experts at washing and ironing. The writer promises the best. wages, and his Honor will receive applicants, but only those with the best testimonials need apply. ‘Tre plans for altering the internal arrange- ment of the Water-Oflicc have ‘been perfected, and the work of maine the, changes will be commenced at an early day. (Vhen completed, the water-rates will go directly to tho Cashier, which will avoid the possibility of the clerks tampering with the receipts, as they have had opportunity to do in the pust. SUPERINTENDENT KimKLAnp and Fire-Marshal Swenie examined the Tremont House yesterday, - and found the means of fire-protection sufficient for all practical purposes. ‘They recommended the cutting of a scuttle in one of the corridors by which the roof could be reached and the R ncing of a fire-escape on the east side of the uilding, which the proprietors promised to do. D. J. Avery, an attorney of some prominchco anda resident of the Eleventh Ward, wants to pe Alderman, Itis said he would make a good one, but his friends do not think be could aiford to take the place. He was an aspirant for Judge at the late Judicial election, and it may ‘be that he thinks to be Alderman will help him tosatisfy his real ambition. It worked in the case of Ald. Tuley, it will be remembered. ‘Tene was a change of officers in the inspec- tion of meat yesterday, and no one appears to understand why it was made or by whom. Offi- cer Sweency was taken from the Jackson-Street Market and sent to the Stock-Yurds, and Officer Lamb was taken from the Stock-Yards and sent to Jackson street. Dr. De Wolf being uway, it is a queer time for suck a change to occur, ant explanations are wanted. Tae maps for the renuibering of the South Division south of Twelfth street and east of Stute will be completed Monday. Immediatel: thereafter the required sixty days’ notice will be given, at the expiration of which time the new numbers will be required to be placed upon all buildings in the district named. ‘This will be about the ist of May,—moving time,—and ull the numbers will, no doubt, be changed in time for the new directory. ‘THe Mayor, Commissioner Waller, and Con- troller Gurney had_an extended conference in private yesterday afternoon with the Presidents of the city railway compaines on the question of their removing the dirt from thelr tracks in- steud of throwing it into the gutters. The mect- ing lnsted all the afternoon, and ull that could be Iearned of the mecting was that the Mayor distributed cigars with his usual Uberality, and that no understanding was reached. It may be said that the meeting ended in smoke, but an- other gathering is to behad. Caspers & Co. have of late been selling at auction at two places under one license,—the corner of Clark and Madison streets cyery. evening, and ata stable on Washington street once 2 week,—and the Mayorisafter them. He denies their right to sell at more than one place, and yesterday their application to continue saics at two places under one license was refused, upon the advive of the Law Department. They maintain that other auctioneers are doing the sume thing, and claim that. they are selling at qt adozen places every cay with only one icense. 2 C. W. NEwrTos, 1 collector, living at No. 479 ‘Wabash avenue, came to the Mayor's office yes- terday and whispered that he wanted a permit tocarry 2 pistol. He would not have the object of his visit known for the world, of course, and haditnot been that he did not get the permit the chances are nothing would haye-been said about it, No permits are being issued now, andthe Mayor declares that none will be until the ordinance is-amended. Just what authority he has totake any such position is not known, but.certainly while be fails to issue permits under the ordinance as it stands no one can well be punished for carrying arms. AN OLD SQUABBLE. Some months ngo the Michigan Southern Rail- road Company was granted permission to move its tracks west on Clark street in the vicinity of Twelfth street, on the condition that it erected a wall along the street to protect the people and teams, et¢.,"but nothing has been since he it The property-owners in tho vicinity are be- ginning to complain, and furthermore it is ru- *mored that the raiiroud is trying to dodge its ob- ligation and is at work with the Council for the building of a viaduct at Twelfth street, which would enable it to adopt another plan to accommodate itself and the public, which those who originally insisted upon the tracks being removed from Clark street entirely do not take to very kindly. The railroad, however, has until the Ist of June to build the wall; so the affair may be “all cry and no wool” after all and most likely is. If it does not build the wall, it will probably give the relief demanded in an- other way which will be perfectly satisfactory. 4 GOOD MOY. Chief-Engineer Slattaper, of the Pitts & Fort Wayne Railroad, had a conference withthe city authorities yesterday on the question of some improvements or changes they pro) . He stated that the railrond he represented desked to substitute adouble for a single track bridge across the South Branch in the vicinity of ‘Twenty-tirst street, and in consideration of this extension of privilege proposed to purchase id upon either side of the river, and widen it at that point at itsown expense, which cannot but be a great advantage to navigation. He also ‘ed that it wis also proposed to remove the Company’s ‘tracks from the centre of Stewart avenue to 2 point ag near the tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana{{or the western line of the street, as possible, and to build a board fence along the east line of the tracks. The Mayor thought very favorably of the proposed im- provements, especially the latter, which will open up Stewart avenue to vehicles, and also atford the residents of the locality protection from the gece the moving trains. -Some legislation will be necessary upon the subject, of course. but it is not believed that either project will meet with a great deal of opposition. THE COUNTY-BUILDING. Tue trial of Camp! the ne; set for Monday aoe? apy raster ds Tue Grand Jury yesterday considered twent six bills, found eleven true bills, nine no ile, and passed six. Their work will be completed to-night and turned in Saturday morning. Yes- terday they ignored the charge against the man . who attained some unsavory notw- Batterson. Troction with a remarkably filthy case. The Grand Jury returned one indictment into Court yesterday. aoe rcs E. Poumn, J. F. Richmond, and J. B. aionnen were yesterday appainted Commis- stoners in the matter of Speci Assessment No. 42, Town of Cicero. i é ENCE STANTON and Sophie Silvers, two acpondent iris, were yesterday turned over to the Gilinols Industrial School for Girls by order of the County Court. “VEN new condemnation inthe County Court yesterday by tho Chicago & Western Indiana Ruilrond Company, and an- other batch will be brought in to-day. x Criminal Court yesterday James Pren- ainnest was sent to the lteform School for tivo, years for driving away 1 horse. Fred Murray got six months in the House of Correction for Fireeny. Joseph Wabl plended guilty to burg- jary and was remanded, Martin Graves was tried for larceny and acquitted. . Harry Taylor plead- ed guilty to petit larceny; sentence suspended. Thomas Dundon got three months in the County Jail for larceny. Z < the County Court yesterday Joseph Turner, an idiot Boy, was sent to the Home for the Feeble-Minded at Lincoln. Rosalind .Porters, Elizabeth Porters, Kate Jones, Henry Wachin- hoener, Emma Johnson, and Julia Levy were ad- judged insane and paupers. The case against Hanes Dacey, alleged insane, was dismis: Francesen Schrachber was found insane but not a pauper, and was given into the custody of the etitioner, Wendoline Seng. Mary E. Gay, also Thsane and not a pauper, was committed to the charge of Dr. Byron G. Griflith. SEVERAL members of the Committee on Char- ities yesterday went outto the Insane Asylum to inspect and measure the steum-pipe covering which has been recently done there. A part of the Finance Committee met and definitly de- cided that the refunding bonds should bear 4} er vent interest. The Committees on Public Berviee, Printing and Stationery, Towns and Town Accounts, and the “High Joints,” have meetings set for to-day. The last-named will consider Walker's claims and the matter of ap- suits wert begun int Kk. Hughes as Superintendent of plum! dos” and gas-fitting work on the new Court- House. FEDERAL AFFAIRS. ‘Te gold disbursements at the Sub-Treasury yesterday amounted to $20,000. ‘Tre Sub-Treasury paid out $4,000 in silver yesterday, and redeemed $16,000. ‘Tne internal-revenue receipts at Collector Harvey's office yesterday footed up $21,52!. OF this amount, $17,831 was for tax-paid spirits, $2,982 for tobacco and cigars, and $545 for beer. ‘Tin: dutiable goods received yesterday were as follows: -Charles Gossage & Co., 12 cases linens; Hibbard, Spencer & Co., 2 cases cutlery; Burley & Tyrrell, 124 packages earthenware; Price, Levi & Strauss, lcase hosiery; W. E. Burlock & Co., 2 cases hosiery; A. B. Mecker & Co., 118 tons pig- fron; Rhodes & Bradley, 58 tons pig-iron; Bar- num & Richardson Manufacturing Company, 40 tons pig-iron. Collections, $13,551. ‘ ‘Tue case of C. B. Hoffman, the alleged pro- prietor of an illicit still at Crown Point, day, Was called up yesterday morning before ‘Com- missioner Hoyne. Frank and John Bridgen, father and son, testified to Hotfman’s baving on several occasions brought kegs of liquor to Mathy's, the Archor avenue suloonkeeper. It was expected that Zulfer, the Twenty-second street dealer, who was arrested lust week, would be present and squeal as to the source from which he received his supplies. He failed to xp- pear, however, and his lawyer stated that he would not testify unless granted immunity. The case was therefore continued until Satur- day morning. : KEHOE SUCCEEDS HICKEY. ‘A Washington dispatch to Tus TripuNE a day or 50 ago contained a crumb of infurmution to the effect that Miles Kehoe had been uppointed an Assistant Revenue Agent in this district. A little quiet investigation yesterday brought out the inside facts in connection with the appoint- ment. [t seemsithat a certain West-Sider, who at stated periods is possessed with un over- whelming desire to run for Congress, has been interesting himself in Miles’ behalf lntely to the extent of going down to Washington and labor- ing with the Chicago Congressmen to the end that something might be done for him. He labored so successtully that at last Miles was rovided for,—at the expense, however, of M. C. liekey, who has beeh euployed and: wesraployod on the ‘quarterly renewal system for some tine ast, butwho has ut-last received the chilling information that his services ure. no longer de- sirable by the Treasury Department. Neither the late occupant of desk-room in the fourth story of the Government Building, nor the gen- tleman who was intluential enough to provide him a comfortubie position in the Government's service, and until lately manag@d to hold him down in his official sent, feels exactly jubilant over the changed condition of things, and a feeble kick is not altogether improbable. If it is made it wil! have to be made soon, for before the Ist of Murch Miles will be warm in his seat and can snap his fingers at tho foeman's taunts. A NEW COUNTERFEIT. Special Agent Hall, of the Secret Servico, struck a new counterfeit yesterday which it is just as well to warn the public against before. it gets into any further circulation. The now deceiver is 2 $10 United States Treasury note‘nt the series of 1875, letter C, and the most striking feature about it is its color, which is consider- ably darker than that of ‘the genuine. The paper crumples with a snap when handled, and the durk fibre lines, instead of being worked into the paper, as ina genuine Dill, ure simply printed on the face in imitation of the correct thing. There area number of minor discrep- aucies which are readily detected on closer ex- amination. The word ‘series," for instance, in the lower centre of the Dill, made up of letters fully a third larger than those in the genuine, while the letters in the words at the top, “Engraved and Printed at Burcau En- graying and Printing,” tip over until they al- most assume the italic character; whercasin the genuine they are very clearly Roman. The number, too, is even, when on the note with this letter itshould be odd. The picture of the late lamented D. Webster, in the lower left-hand cor- ner, is so decidedly and unanimously “ off” as to attract attention quite as soon 2s any other pe- eculiarity of the bill save its color. Sofaras known, the note has not appeared in any other place, the Treasury Department-knows nothing of it; and the supposition is that it hes either broke out in Chicago alone or in Chicago and other lendil cities simultaneously, without the news of it*appear- ance elsewhere having as yet reached here. Four of the bills were grabbed yesterday, and the quict investigation going on may develop Be interesting information as to who “ shoved” em. BOARD OF EDUCATION. SCHOOL BUILDING CONTRACTS. ‘The Board of Education held a meeting last evening, President Hoyne in the chair, and all the members present except Messrs. Armstrong, English, and Stensland. The standing Committees of the Bonrd re- ported favorably upon a number of bills, and were instructed to issue vouchers for the amounts. On the recommendution of the Com- mittec on Buildings and Grounds, contracts ag- gregating $31,000, distributed among some thirty contractors, were awarded for the building of a school on the corner of Wallace and Thirty-ffth streets. SCAMMON-SCHOOL PROPERTY. Mr. Keith, from the Committee on School Fund Property, presented a report advoc ating the renting of the Scammon-School property on ‘West Mudison street to John M.Smyth for thirty years at a yearly rental of 33,055 (being $15 per front foot). Mr. Smyth contracts to erect sub- stantial brick buildings at a cost of $40,000 with- in two years, and the present rental is subject to spprise at the endof ench term of five years. Mr. Keith said that the property had been twice advertised, and bids of $2,400 and 35,000 per year had been received. The larger rental was of- fered by a person who was found not to be responsible, and x readvertising failed to bring inany replies. He thought Mr. Smyth's offer a fair one. The report was approved, and 1 rec- ommendation of the same Committee that three frame buildings now on the lot, and also the old Scammon School, be sold and removed, was also adopted. PAY OF A TRUSTLE. The same Committee reported in regard toa claim of Mr. W. K. Sullivan for $1,1700n account of work done by him as Trustec in foreclosing certain mortgyges, that the Committee recog- nized that he had a claim for remuneration, but they wanted him to consummate the sale by the delivery of the deeds before they went into con- sideration of the amount due. They recom- monded also that a bill of $440 for advertising the property in the Legal News should be paid. ‘The report, or at least the first half of it, met with considerable opposition. Gen. Stiles’ suid the whole job had not occupied half a day, but it had been agreed that Mr. Sullivan should be bald 244 per centon the amount involved, and he supposed this took the nuture of ucontract. [f this were the case he would have to vote for the payment, The report was nmended 50 28 to specify that the Board would pay “ what seemed to be justly due,” and in this shipe it passed. TEACHING BOHEMIAN. ‘The special order was called up, being the re- port of the Committee on Text Books and In- in the public schools. A petition had been pre- sented by a large number of parents and -guardians of children receiving. instruc- tion in the Throop School, asi that these children betaught Bohemian. Mr. Vocke, Chairman of the Committee, announced that he bad no report to make; while Mr. Stone, on be- half of himself and Mr. Stiles, reported in favor of grunting the prayer of the petition. The move- ment was, of course, designed to bring up the question of teaching German in the schools, and something in the nature of a discussion was ex- pected. This was shut off by the previous ques- tion being ordered, but a motion to adopt the report of the majority of the Commitee was lost by the following vote: ¥eas—Stone, Brenan, Stiles, Frake, Curran—6, Nays—Vocke, Keith, Bartlett, Frankenthal, Hoyne, Hichberg, Delany—7.. The Committee on School Funds and Prizes asked for permission to purchase from the Jona- than Burr Fund seventeen sets of Chambers’ Encyclopeedia at $33 per set. Mr. Stone said he could buy the book referred to at $15 per set (the American edition), and that struction in regard to the teaching of Bohemian -| * the Seoteh dition could be got for much less than $33. ‘The roport was recommitted, and the Board adjourned. : —— COMMERCE OF CHICAGO. TRADE OF TIE CITY DURING LAST YEAR—AN- NUAL REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRADE. The Scerctary of the Chicago Board of Trado has just issued tho twenty-second annual report to that organization, giving statistics of tho trade and commerce of this city for Jast year, with comparisons. ‘Tho report states cultural products that “Tho receipts of agri- in thelr vurious forms havo increased over thoso of 1878, and largely over those of any previous year. In grain, including its “equivalent represented in flour, the receipts have amounted | to the aggregate of 138,144,571 bushels, against 101,-_ 086,595 bushels in 1878; those of seeds have increased nearly ‘30. per cent over 1878, and in live stock there has been un inerease over ‘the unprecedented reccipts returns of tho previous year. The for these Produets have enabled the farmer, as well as all others in the interior, to purchase largely of our merchants and manufacturers, giving a life and activity to general trade quite exceptional in ate fears. The amount of lum- ber and other products of tho forest sold and shipped to the interior has Increased toa consid- erable extent, while the prices realized for these have averaged higher ‘thin in 1878. In general merchandise the increase of siles by the whole- sule merchants of the city hus not been less than ' 30 to.35 per cent in the value of goods sold; in fron and other metals, the increase has been much larger, while in very few has it been less thun 20 to 25 per cent over sules of 1878. duct of local man- ufacturers have also increased in a very consid- erable percentage, many establishments having been crowded with orders to their full cupacity.’ ‘The following are ESTIMATES OF VALUE OF FARM PRODUCTS shipped from Chicago during 1879: Flour and grain (equal to 325,598,379 bushels). : Live stock . Meuts, lard, tallow, and dressed hogs. Butter and cheese. Wool and hides oe Seeds and broom-corn. Highwines and alcohol... Miscellaneous products . A grand total of.. Corresponding estimate for 1878.. Corresponding estimate for 1877. Corresponding estimate for 18% Corresponding estimate for 1875... The above estitnate of the v shipped would be much larger had the stocks in store moved forward to an extent usuul in the ¢losing months of the year, the amount of grain. in store in the city being about 3,000,000 bushels greater at the close of 1879 than at the corre- Sponding time a year previous. ‘The following table shows the RECEIPIS OF THE LEADING ARTICLES OF COM- some lines, especially MERCE in Chicago for the pnst three years: i 1879. 1878. 1877. Flour, bris .. 3,030,502 2,691,142 Wheat, bt S577 14,164.51 Corn, bur. 1S 47,915,725 Oats, bu. 13,5 Rye, bu. 1,725,565 Burley, bu Beet, Pork, Cured meats, Chee ris: 2 Bh S89 ips.151.13,707 + WSL TIT BACT 3 222 48,800,519 Lumber, mit... Shingles, m..$.. The following principal articles the past three yer i Flour, bris.. PURIM. TNE ZION MASKED BALL. Purim and the season of joy which it commem- orates were fittingly celearated by Zion Literary Society last evening:in the third annual mas- querade ball given nti North-Side Turner-Hall. Some 400 people, displaying the widest range of costumes, participated in the festivities, and ap- parently enjoyed them tothe full. Among the most noticeable characters and costumes were the young lady who with, her milk-cans and her milk-wagon, assayed the role of “Tina, the Milk- Vender”; the peripatetic Italian with a hand- organ, monkey, and little girl; Dr. “Mary Walker, in her bloomer" monstrosity, distrib- uting pasteborrd cards announcing that she was to be found during office hours in tho sky-parlor at the Palmer House; several jockeys, inale and female, and especially one of tho latter sexin a very handsome costitme of crimson and white silk; 2 couple of “Dolly-Varden" girls with jockey enps, settingfoff a supertiuity of blonde store hair; a striped, ‘nhabitant of Joliet’s most populous public insfitution; a female *Robin- gon Crusoe,” dressed in paper feathers, a la Alice Atherton; an’ omnipresent individual whose exterior garments bristled with very hard and very thin samples of ‘matzns,—the Jqwish unleayened ‘bread; another wearing a suit figured with nll the cards in the pack, and on whom the crowd facctiously fixed the sobriquet, “the Dutch Full” everlasting champagne bottles, each jammed over end enveloping an individual underneath; avery young and uneasy * Lone Fisherman”; half-dozen gensdarmes, carrying nothing more formidable than broomsticks; the young lady whose pink costume was elaborately tricked out with pretzels; a tlock of ducks, arrayed in tho feathery costume set by * Robinson Crusoe,” provided with horrible noses, and noisier than anybody else on the floor; # very immature “Billie Piper,’. who was compelled to leave her pick and her dirt-pan in the dressing-room, and who appeared to be propor- tonately disconsolate thereafter; and any num- ber of others, tricked out in every conceivable fashion, and displaying not a little originality in their choice of characters. ‘On the west side of tho hall stood a cabin, filled with a group of darkies who were in unusually jolly spirits ‘and whose vocal efforts rivaled the orchestra so far as noisy effectiveness was con- cerned. Four calcium lights in the gallery were turned on the scene below, and, by the use of red, blue, and green glass placed before them, successively cast these brillinnt colors on the moving pinorama below until the picture was one of unusual brilliancy. Masks were removed at midnight, when the company retired to sup- per, only to renew, the tripping afterwards, un- masked, and to coutinue it until a late hour in the morning. LOCAL POLITICS. SIXTEENTIL WARD. Tho Sixteenth Ward Communists met last evening at 156 Clybourn avenue for the purpose of putting in nomination an Alderman for that ward. The party was well represented. The proceedings were conducted in German. The iirst part of the evening was taken up by the routine business of the Club, after which those present proceeded to namea nomince. Several vallots resulted in the . choice of Mr. Henry Stabl, and the selection appeared to meet well the approval of the Club. Mr. Stahl is an upholsterer by trade, and has not re- Sided in the ward any iength of time. He is said to be one of the organizers of the party, and has been identified with its interests up to_ tho pres- enttime. ‘Twice nominated for the ollice of Alderman in the Eighth Ward, he was defeated both times, and the knowing ones in the Six- teenth predict another defcat. EIGHTH:-WARD. The Eighth Ward Democratic Club held a well-attended meeting _ yesterday evening in Purcell’s Hall, corner of Clinton and ‘Twelfth streets. The only business of importance ac- complished was the “consideration of the best method of nominating candidates for the en- suing election, a motion finally prevailing that the Club objected to the old system of primarics, and favored the appointment, by means to be determined upon fater, of 100 men from the ward, who should meot in Convention and nom- inate candidates. A yote was taken for Pre: dent, which resulted as follows: Seymour, 2; Hendricks, 12; Hancock, 3: and Tilden, Bayard, and David Davis, icach. The mecting then ad- | Journed subject to call of the President. TRADE AND LABOR. ou. One of the Trade and Labor Councils held a regular meeting last night in Greenebaum’s Hall, Fifth ayenue, with George Rogers in the chair. The following new Union delegates were admitted: Boxmakers, William Borne, William Sewyer, and David Coleman; Painters and Glaziers, 8. Clancy, M. Dwyer, and J. W. BIc- Kenny; Typographical Union, No. 16, G. W. Stivers. The Committee on ’Bus Line reported that a license had been secured, and the matter had been placed in the hands of the Com- mittee for -subscriptions. A resolution, was adopted sympathizing with the cigar- makers who are on a strike in Cincinnati, Aresolution was: adopted that a committee of three be appointed to place before the City Council the matter of policemen, doing the painting, calcimining, and building for the city, while the city is not properly led or the people protected on the streets. Messrs. Mc- Aulitt, Dwyer, and Clancy were appointed the mimittes, after quite & ion was had. Mr. Bucklin wanted the ‘Trado_and Labor Council to. make up to James Springer a deft; ciency of $50 or more for Kearnoy’s, speceh at McCormick Hah some time ago. The oe Stated the Council had nothing todo with ae meeting. Mr. Adair said that the Council hi 4 motning SOO cath it, but moved a vote 0! winks to Mr. Springer. This motion evoked a great deal of discussion, and Mr. C. F. Kenyon said that the meeting ha been called for the bencfit of the workingmen, and bad only benefited Mr. Kearney. Mr. Bishop suid that Kearney had never re- ceiveda cent for his talk. The resolution was tabled, and.the matter was referred back to the trades-unions for action. ‘Mr. Adair stated that if Mr. Kearney was the champion of the workingmen, ho was opposed to him coming here and placing himself in the handsof cheap lawyers and deadbeat politicians. Mr. Springer was ‘a nice man, socially, but he and Beatty were political dendbeats. It was one of Springer’s tricks to catch the working- men’s votes. Mr. P. H. MeLogan was willing to go into his pocket and help Springer out, as he had Advanced the money to pay for the hall, which was $100, After some further debate the mat- ter was dropped. The meeting went Into execu- tive session, and the reporters tool their leave. : THE NEW. The Trado and Labor Council of which Mr. Ward is President met last evening at No. 5t ‘West Lnke street. The attendance of delegutes was rather slim. George Geide reported that nothing had been done relative to the inspec- tion of factories in this .city. The pre- amble of the new constitution was adopted. A list of tho diffegent Standing Committees was read, and the President was 2u- thorized to appoint the Committees and report atthe next mesting. Mr. Morgan introduced a resolution favoring the paseaee of Hendrick B. Wright's Homestead and Loan bill, and it was adopted. The same person urged that action be taken towards strangthening the hands of those who ure working for the Eight-Hour law in Con- gress, and the Secretary wns instructed to for- ward to Congressi Wright, of Pennsylvania, tho expression of the wish of the Trades-Council of Chicago that the National law be rigidly en- foreed. After the ndoption of 2 resolution of sympathy with the Kearnevites in San Francisco in their efforts to make the Chinese get out of Chinatown, the Council adjourned. FAITHFUL POLICEMEN. A Gang of Midnight Prowlers Sur- ‘rounded by the Watchful Guardians of the Peace, 2 ‘This is a true story of two city policemen and a private watchman. It is not written up from the history of the fight of the tallors and the snuil, with which all children ‘and some grown people are familiar. It is something which happened in the neighbor- hood of Lincoln Park only three nights ago. It may strike the reader as strange that the names of these vigilant.and promotion-deserv- ing officers are not given, but that they are not is due to their modesty alone. They asked so enrnestly to have thom left out that it was im- Possible to refuse them. Mr. —inson lives on Sedgwick street, not very far from tho park. Night before last he was awakened from his slumbers by a sound of threatening voices somewhere in the neighbor- hood. He listened, and heard somebody talking in his backyard. Of course, his first thought was of burglars. He felt for his watch and his pocketbook, found them safe, and, being re- licved in mind, very softly, and quietly opened the bedroom window and looked into the yard. It was inadim and dismal period of the night, after the-moon had gone down and before the sun had risen, and he could see nothing: Presently he heard a voice saying: your hands up, d—n you, or I'll kill you.” Straining his eyes in the direction of the yoice, he saw the shadowy and indistinct gure of aman standing near one corner of his shed, and, looking still further, with eyes which grad- uuly got accustomed to the darkness, he saw two indistinct ficures on top of the shed. Then he heard the individual who had first spoken say to another, “Jack, you go around in the alley, and, if they try to got off og that side, you shoot.” Then he heard an individual move off slowly along the alley. Presently, Jack said to his fellow, “It is awfully muddy here. Hadn't I better stop where I am?” “No,” sald the first speaker, “go clear up to the corner, keep your eye open, and shoot the devils the minute they make a move.”” hen there came from the top of the shed a clanking or clattering as if of iron, and still an- other voice sang out,‘*Drop that jimmy,” and then, as if speaking s0 the other, “They have got all their tools up there, Frank. We'll capt- ure the whole outtit.”” 2 ‘Then Mr. ——inson putin his oar. Said he, “I am the propristor of this house. What is the trouble dewn there?” Said the first policeman, “We have got a enue. of burglars treed on top of your wood- shed. Have you lost anything? Have they been in the house?” “T don't know,” said Mr. ——inson. “‘ Wait a minute, and I will put on my clothes and sco; and then I'll come out. 4 : “ Bring your pop along,” said the policeman. “Tey are pretty hard customers, I guess. AS near as Lean make out hey rons be a part of ‘One-Eyed _Fritz’s’ gang. We have been.notic- ing some fellows loafing around here for some time, aud we kept an extra watch to-night, and we have got them ‘dead to rights.’ ~ “Tam very much obliged,” said Mr. ——inson, “mightliy obliged to you. Just hold ona min- ute. Don’t let them get away. I'll be down.” So he hurriedly slipped on his clothes, got a dendly weapon, aroused the household, and asked them if they had lost anything. Three women immediately searched for their pocket~ books, three watches, and three jewelry-boxes, and, finding them allgafe, wept profusely, and begged him not to go out and be Killed. Then he went out into the yard, froned his way along. and, finding the first policeman at the corner, asked him how long they had been there. “About an hour,” said the man, “Did the fellows say unything to you?” asked Mr. —inson. - “ Will they talk?” “They said something,” replied the police- man, “but it wasin some foreign language, ess. I couldn't Tightly, make out whit it was. ‘t sounded like Welsh. I guess you had better run over to the station and tell the Sergeant to gend the squad. I don't know but what they may, be armed, and we may haves bad fight Just at this moment the irrepressible small boy of the family made his appearance in the yard. He had been awakened by the commo- tion, had heard something about robbery and shooting, and had put on his clothes ina disso- lute, arbitrary munner, and had come out to see the fun. Nosooner had he gotten out than, looking up on the woonshed, and straining his eyes, he suid to his father,“ Why, pa, what in the World are our nanny goate doing upjon the woodsh ed?” 3 “ Nanny goats be d——d,” said the policeman. ““Them’s burglars.” But Mr. —inson started. It was getting to- wards daylight, things were beginning to clear up a little, and, as he looked, he was struck with the appeniance of tho figures on the shed, and called out * Nanny, nanny.” * Then the creatures upon’ the shed, recogniz- ing the voice of an old acquaintance, gave an unmistakable answer, which was neither Bo- hemian or Welsh, nor anything but unmistak- able goatish. “T guess you hare made a mistake,” - said Mr. -——inson to the policeman. “Those seem to be my goats up there. Iam yery much obliged to you for watching them so carefully for an hour or so, and now I'll be more obliged if you and your friends could get them down for me.” ‘The policeman was silent fora moment. There was general silence around the premises except among the two goats. which, for some reason or -other, opened in full chorus. “fhave agrent mind,” said the policemat “just to take you rightalong. This business o: keeping goats on the roof of a woodshed, I be- lieve, is against the ordinances. Still, if you won't say anything aboutit, I gucss I'll let you alone. “Very well,” said: Mfr. ——inson; “I guess we will call it even,” and the policeman quictly withdrew. When it goto little lichter it appeared that somebody had puta plank up against the shed, The two gonts had been tethered-in the yard, but, owing to the looseness of the soil, had suc- ecedcd in pulling out the pinsto which ‘their chains were fastened, Having gotten freo, they had quietly wandered up the plank until they ot on the roof of the shed. Owing possibly to tho noise made by the policeman, they had re- mained there without.making any effort to de- seend. The occasional clattering of the chains which they drew after them had sounded to the zealous policeman like the moving around of *jimmics" and other burglarious implements. Notwithstanding Mr. ——inson‘s balf promise that he would keep quict about the thing, the joke was too good to keep, and he imparted It yesterday to one or two confidential fricnds on ‘Change. Mr. ——inson’s neighbors may now sleep in peace, as. they have policemen and watchmen-who keep a keen eyo on “ One-eyed Fritz” and his gang, and allow nothing—not even a nanny-goat on a wood-shed—to escape their observation. > CHRISTIAN WORKERS. Sr. Louis, Mo., Feb. 26,—The ‘Convention of Christian Workers, which has’ been in session here since Tuesday, adjourned to-night. Quite anumberof ministers and laymen from abroad have been present, and all the evangelical min- isters of St. Louis have participated in the pro- ceedings. The audiences have been large. Grent interest was manifested, and itis believed at least one of the results of the Convention will be the bringing into the field of Christian effort a considerable number of active workers who have not herctofore taken any in- dividual part in the cause, and that the closing month of Mr. Moody’s work here will be crowned with success. $< INDIAN RAID. Corpus CHRist1, Tex., Feb. 26.—Fifteen In- dians attacked a wagon-train of six wagons, heavily laden, from Chihuahua for Laredo, and captured three drivers and the live-stock. The teamsters escaped and brought the news to En-~ ceras. Twelve men nave one in pursuit, The Indians were well moun’ armed, iogurd iio Grande River," and wrent . SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. The Work Done in’ Cook County Last Year. Two Destitute Towns—Addresses by Leading Ministers. ‘The Cook County Sunday-School Convention will beheld to-day and to-morrow in Farwell Hall. Proliminary meetings were held yester- day evening in each of the divisions of the city. THE NORTH DIVISION MEETING of the Cook County Sunday-School Convention Inst evening was held in Grace Methodist Church, corner of North La Salle and White streets. The attendance, considering that similar meetings were going onin each of the three divisions of the city. was very fair. ‘Mr. J. B. Hobbs, who ‘had been designated as Chairman, called the meeting to order and pre- sided. : Mr. E. C. Fisher, Secretary of the Cook County Sunday-School Association, read ‘THE REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. It was an interesting document, of which the following is an abstract: Yilinois is among the best organized States in Sunday-school work, there being organizations in every one of the 102 counties, and in over 900 of the 1,515 townships. Cook is the banner coun- ty, and ‘ans been mado ‘80 by house to Bible. visitation, cottage praycr-mee' 5 - na Statistics ave still incomplete, but the dings. returns for 1879, so far as obtuined, show as. fol- eet Teachers Wo. and Denomination. schouls. scholars. Advent 2. é a Buptist . A ee 29 9,039 21 5,003 Lutheran. 48 1,28 Methodist ey 14,395, Presbyterian. a 40 12,037 Union and Independent 56 75 Total Evangelical. . 342 70,808 'To which may be added— 5 364 4 Bit 4 ed 46 19,900 In all........, soasereseeensAOL 92,638. ‘These figurds may be compared with the cn- rollment for tho public schools—viz. = ENROLLMENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. City... County. os, Add Catholic schools. ‘Total During the yeac thirty-six township meetings and institutes were hold. In the summer Mr. C. M. Morton devoted two months to a purtial can- yass of the county, visiting seventeen townships and holding thirteen meetings. 01 men also nssisted in the work, a as been un-advance in methods and a decided in- crease in: the number of those who study the Word. The Treasurer's report shows 3619 re- ceived and £631 expended, while there are bills due amounting to $75. The report concludes yi tho following recommendations for the future: “Having considered the work undertaken*by the Association, and seeing the rensons for en- courugement, and the demand of the destitute parts of the county upon us,—looking at this multitude of neurly 93,000 who are in the Sun- day-schools of Cook County, we suggest that the ‘Associution should have at least one competent person to superintend the work. _Under the di- rection and with the adviceof the Executive Committee. we may secure more workers for the destitute fields and better work in those now oc- cupied. Weremind you that in this great city county, With all its churches and associa- tions, there is no other organization that at- tempts this work. Other cities have orgunized missions, tract societies, etc., etc., with many stations, and many more workers, while we ure comparatively without. Is there not a need? ‘We ulso desire some suitable rooms as a Com~ mittee, which rooms could also be used as an office ‘for the Superintendent, and serve as an exchange for Sunday-school work- ers, and contain as soon as it can be procured a suitable reference library, with maps, ete. The only place in the city at present is the rooms of the Y. M. C. A., which are crowded with the many things centered there, and affording no room for such work as ours. To do this work, in connection with our other expenses, will require at least $2,500, and your Committee think this could be wisely and economically expended. We recommend that this sum be raised. ‘MR. W. B, JACOBS | folowed with same general remarks on the work, with particular reference to the need of extending it into the country. In some Legisla- tive Districts evers-family had been reached, and he hoped that the time was not far distant when this might be said of the whole State. THE REY. J. MUNRO GIBSON was the next speaker. There was everyreason, said he, in view of tho progress in the work here as elsewhere, to thank God and take cou: x There were times when discouragement was but natural, but then thoy only saw the dark lining to the clond and soon learned that things were not what thoy seemed. He had been greatly enccurnged by recalling the experiences of Elijah, who, wher discouraged, was informed by God that there were 7,000 knees in Israel that did not bow to Baal. Vice and crime scemed to multiply in the great city, but the “still small voice” of the Gospel penetrated everywhere. Though in the eye of the world it did not amount to much, yet the Lord was in it. The Kingdom of Heaven was not to come with observation, and it was onl; those who heard the “still small voice” in their hearts that continued steadfast in this noble work. That the Association’ made no great stir was no evidence that it was doing nothing. Especially should those interested in the work be encouraged when they remembered how little money had been expended in it dur- ig the past year. Most encouraging was it to know that God had put itin the hearts of so many to volunteer to go out of thé city and do missionary work in the Lord’s vineyard. In many places these Sunday-schools were the only means the people had for religious instruction. He had traveled in the country districts himself. and knew how eager the people were to hear the Gospel preached to them. He had been sston- ished to hear that in Cook County—the banner county of the State—there were two townships Leyden and Palos, where there was neither Sun- day-school, church, nor religious obserranci He certainly favored the suggestion in tho re- ort in regard to employing a Superintendent to lock after the work of. cheering and helping those enga; in the cause in the thirty-two townships inCook County. The labors of the Superintendent, too, would often revive a whole neighborhood, and their effect would be mani- fested in the churches; In this way the influ- ence of Chicago would reach out, as it ought to, into Cook County, and Cook County would be to the State what Chicago was to Cook County. He had. no doubt that the necessary $2,300 could be raised, and hoped the effort would not be long deferred. In conclusion, after referring to the wonderful growth of the Glasgow ‘Foundey Boys’ Religious jociety, he suggested that it would be well to connect the Sundny-school work in Chicago more than ever before with the week-day work, and expressed the hope that this great Sunday- school year would be but the beginning of 2 new ertof renewed zeal and greater curnest- ness in the Sunday-school field. Acollection was taken up for the benefit of the Association, after which the audience were dismissed with the benediction by Dr. Shepherd. ‘The Convention in THE SOUTH DIVISION was held at the First Baptist Church, corner of South Park avenue and Mnirty rst strect, and nue, and was well attended. M bland ats, sided, and the devotional caries: - Dare pre. ducted by the Rov. Dr. Worrall, ‘The were cone report was en re Ae troduced » after which tho Chair a i BISHOP CHENEY - the audience 1s one who on the Sunday-school question 7 S2aze88 theng Bishop Cheney said it pave him no pleasure to meet those engaged myrtaary work for Christ and for the chilean 2 Stand christ died. He thought he knew n geo Whom about that work, but the report af theget eal of the Convention ‘had fairly surprise? ‘That report told him that witbln the one 3 bells of the churches o: icago, County of Cook, there are fro tone thore was neither a church nor. Sundays yeert Ifhe were to attempt to arouse oy tool thies on behalf of heathen lands he ears [abt fail to succeed, but the fact remained eauy Cook County—the banner Sunday-schog) oat 2 of the State, according to the Secretar ety Port just read—two townships were utes void of organized means of grace, Thee alone ought to rouse them to a full gj Rng tion of the importance of Sunday-schoot : ‘Tho economy of the work accomplishey pee Sunday-School Convention was worthy of te mend:tion. Ithad accomplished its gravy Co ast year at a cost of $000, n sim whiners Pork pared with tho cost of two county inguin gqee™ the Poor-House andthe County Hospita ne during the past year had swallowed up ihe uct of $1,500,000. ‘The Sunday-School Cones asked for the coming year 20 be supp $2,000, which he thought was a very nade Mit: which should be cheerfully provides gt 2 body ought to feel his own ‘personal ‘renve bility for the work, and it was to a lack ot wy fecling that there are now in Cook Gano! entire townships utteyy given up to heer ism, . They should give a helping hand to on the missionary work in connection with oe day-sehools, -sbould make it their personal ang’ Individual work to sce that tho foul stag shat not be allowec remain on th Ce Ge vires, ot Mroonts ome ie Rev. C. H. Everest, of Pl, gational Church, and others spoke Dries’ ILLINOIS MILITIA, f Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Feb. 28.—Gen. Hilliard hag issued on order for 2 general inspection of thy different commands of the LN. G. saoath of Starches ne EN G. during the The Eldredge Sewing-Machine.—It Je; the world, and-is the best for you at Sold on monthly payments. 199 State street, Chicago Times: “ The McChesney ‘ to—$3—has been a flag of public Troe “They met by chance” at Dawson's candy and cigar store, 21] State street. legs Indi ion, dyspepsin,. nervous and all forms of general debility relieved by oat ing Mensman’s Peptonized Beet Tonle, the ont preparation of beef containing its entite mute, tious properties. It is not a mere stimulant like the extracts of beef, but contains blood-making, force-generating, and life-sustaining properties: is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute disease; parti if ret sulting from pulmonary complaints. Ceswel, Hazard & Co., prietors, New York. For gala by druggists. DEATHS. GEE—At the residence of her mother, 18 Som” Monran-st, Rebecca Yee, aged “0 years? onthe aod lays. - ‘Funeral services nt the house Friday at 16 o'ciock Friends of the family invited. eee RSH Ghee Seas edericks Riesling, - digas tee Ge Senda. 2 tna mes ‘nneral at 1 o’cloct inday, Feb. | to Gmeciand: “Friends are iavited. ¢2 Helena (Ai. T.) papers please copy. GROSSE—Feb. %, Henry Grosse, aged 48 5 Funeral Sunday ut 124 p.m. from late residence, 1S East Chicago-av., by carriages to Graceland Cea Ty.” = STICKLE—In this clty Feb. 2% Andre tekte, tephos of Aire Hivie Palmer aged a yours = Funeral from No. 3 Boston-av. to-day at 3 olor ta. The remains wi Ty) en i, for interment, a DINAN—Feb. 26, at 200 North Clark-st., James Dinan, sonof Patrick and Winnetred Dinan, aged? monks #27 Detroit papers please copy. se HOLTZMAN—On Wednesday evening, Feb. 5 America B.. wife of Jobn T. Holtrman, aged @ yearn, ‘iimeral On Friday at 1 o'clock from sid: Weed Val Buren-st. : GEE—At the residence of her mother, 118 South Morgan-st. Rebeces Gee, aged 2) yoars 7 months and ays. z Funeral services at the houso Friday st lorelc Friends of the family invited. Hedeee GORHAM The funeral of Mrs. Marths Gorham deceused, wll take piace from her iste residence, No, 33 West Jackson-st., to-day (Friday) at 10 2. mand will be under the direction of tho Danchters of Union. The remalns will be taken to the Olivet Bap | tist Church, on Fourth-ay., at Il o’clock a. m, thence to Graceland Cemetery for interment. ‘McCANN—John McCann, aged 35 years, at No. G2 South Stuate-st. a native of Leoughgelly, County Armazh, Ireland. ‘Funeral Feb. 20, at 90’clock s, m., from 122 South State-st. to St. John’s Church, thence >a carriages to Calvary Cemetery. Late member of Division’ A+ ANNOUNCEMENTS. hare SEVENT: REPUBLICAN Club will hold its regular monthly meeting at the hall corner of _Chicago-ay. and Sedewick-st. this Fan attendance is desired all mem! of the Cob are requested to be present. Wer GOSPEL TEMPERANCE MEETING Wily be held in Lower Farwell Hall to-night in charg of Mr. W. H. Murra: ye “4 THE Nooy PRAYER-MEETING TO-DAY Willa be held in Farwell Hall instead of the lower and the Cook County Sunday-School Convention ‘unite in the service. PB Absolutely Pure. sou tADE FROM GE APE CREAM oof ee usekeeper's favorite No other preparation. makes such light, faky. bos breads, or Inxurious past ry. Can be eaten Dy. ties without fear of the il Is resulting from heavy, gestible foo. Se Comm ended for arity apa meness mist, Dr. MEOVAL BARING POWDEE CO. Now Fark, 1 WEDDING PIEESESTS. | s the attendance was very large. J. N. Barker wee ia he. chair. al ¢ Secretary's annual report was read 5 F. Jacobs, and = re bye jwise THE REV. We;C. WILLING ‘ollowed with an address largely stati: whieh it was shown that in tho’ county. tuere were about 73,000 children who were out of Sun- day-school, because ‘there were no schools for them to attend, which he considered a deplora- ble ‘condition of affairs, ono of, tho principal ie 3, causes of which was which made up an ‘inant See sion of about 5,000 children to the lice stations. While religion cost but si per capita, he said rum cost or from which i drew the conclusion that the Church had a great dealof worl: to do, and would have to double its efforts if it was expected to correct the growth of semi-Paganism in Chicago. Money was the cheapest thing that could be put into the Sunday-school work, but self-sacrifice, rather then smonors, as most fj needed ie, and ve what was wanted, and self-preserva- tion should impel the Church in the tak it bad upon itshands. There were 6,000,000 children in the country marching to the Sunday-school to the tune of church-bells; but, on the other hand, it was a sad reflection that’ 18,000,000 souls were daily marching to the saloons, among whom were a large proportion of our sons and daughters. He concluded by urging the taking of a deeper interest in the Sunday-echool work if the cause of God and morality was to be sus- tained. Baas THE REY. DR. LORIMER followed, and said he could not conceive ot more important epoch in the history of he Church thun the establishing of the Sunday- school 100 years ugo. It stood next to the Ref- ormation, and, as we looked at the influence of the Sunday-schools over the Church, we became amazed. There was a necessity, how- ever, for the Sunday-school, for they sprung up alongside our modern infidelity, and he could see the hand of God in them. They had per- etuated and spread the Bible, end though it iad been driven out of the every-day schools, it been driven into the family, and the people Tacks of the ‘inyersolls and ‘others; and to cen OTB, AN forward the cause of Christ. re and to Dual B. F. Jacobs followed in a brief address. ‘The meeting in the West Division was held in _ SILVER. Wedding Presents, Table Ware, &c. SPECIALLY LOW "aa Hamiiton, i Shourds & C0: State and Randolph-sts_. AUCLION SALES. By ELISON, POMEROY & COy Auctioneers, and 90 Randolph-st i FRIDAY MORNING, FEB- 3In AT 9:30 O’CLOCK, OUR REGULAR WEEKLY SALE; Our immense double stores are filled with © us stock of New and second-band FURNITURE, sits) Beds Parlor, Chamber, nnd Dining-reom Furnltstp ers, 1d Bedding, BRUSSELS AND Woo! 4 oh and Bedding: UR SGeneral Serenandise, Crock OF & 0. wure, &c., cc. Glass ISON, POMER Anctlonects ‘7g. and & Rando! CANDY 2: Bend $1, 9, & or 5 for B5 es by Casiaten iy Asser Pet Wiese Surge, Aa | GUNTE Nisdlson-sty Cxiouem