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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDA FEBRUARY 29, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. 3 . ~~ FOREIGN. Gladstone Sounds the Note for the Next Political Campaign. He Has No Sympathy with the Home-Rule Agita- tion, Bat Believes that Treland’s Man- ifold Wrongs Should Be | . Righted. The ‘Anti-Obstraction Resolution Passed in the House of Commons, Tex Regulations in the Win- ter Palace at St. Petersburg. Hundreds of Vagabonds Allowed - to Find Shelter Therein. y to Increase Its Volume of Silver Currency. - . Weekly Review of Events in England and on the Continent. GREAT BRITAIN. APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY. Lospox, Feb. 28,~—Sir James Fergusson, formerly Under Secretary for India, and one time Governor of New Zealand, has been ap- pointed Governor of Bombay. NEW CABLE. * . 'y steamer sailed yesterday with a cable to connect Manila, a city inone of the Philip- « pine Islands, and Hong Kong. GLADSTONE’S supe ATA LIBERAL MEET Gladstone last night addressed a meeting {n Marylebore, London, in behalf of the Liberal candidates for Parliamentat the next eral election. Referring to reports that. Parliament would be dissolved on the ground of “obstruction,” he seemed to enjoy a sort “of quiet triumph in the fact that the debate now progressing in the House of Commons has deprived the Government of that op- portunity. He said the whole thing appeared to have been plauned by certain Conserva- five subalterns, and seemed 2 very promising scheme, but it had turned out totally diferent from what those wise- neres expected. The fact was, all parties agreed that obstruction isa very bad thing, and he was bound to say that the Ministers’ proposals were moderate, and that they had supported them in a spirit of equity and candor, and instead of storm, there was, in foet : VERY FINE WEATHER. Referring to the recent election in South- wark, he attributed the result to Liberal dis- sensions over local arrangements, and the candidate chosen. Ife said thatowing to this dissatisfaction 2 large body of Liberals ab- stained from voting, while the Conservatives polled their full strength to the last man. Gladstone said xett little about foreign politics, and what he did say was pitched in averymoderate key. Hesaid he was de- Tented at the prospect held out by the recent jegrams front that the troops will be withdrawn from‘Afghanistan; that affairs in that country will be settled in accordance with the wishes of the Afghan leaders, and the scheme for sending an European envoy to reside at Cabul would be adjourned until the new Ameer could himself make declarations on the subject. He admitted that the bility for _England’s attitude on the Turkish question had been removed | sonal‘relations of the two dynasties control from the Government, and rested_on the shoulders of the majority in the House of Commons, but declared that the matter fr ae NOT END THERE. @ concluding and principal part of the h was devoted to Lrish Brats. He de- he had no friagdship for home rule, and did not understand entirely what it meant, Unity of the Empire and the authority of Parliament, he said, must be maintaines independently of every consideration; but, the subject to that paramount principle, if the subordinate functions could be detached from the overworked House of Commons, __ would the advantage and —< satisfaction not only of Yreland, but of the whole Kingdom. He deprecated all angry indements of ‘his irish fellow. , He could never, he said, forget In . Sousidering the Irish question, the unjusti- = ble, shominahble conduct of this country Paw Treland through many generations; ie could not forget what temper of mind was luced in Ireland by the long continuance of thisconduct, and he felt it his duty to ort his countrymen on every occasion to Seco calence and forbearance, and even ad ess in viewing every Irish question. conclusien, he declared no higher ob- dect could be presented to the Liberal poli- cian than that he should endeavor ‘to com- Dine together the people of Scotland, En- and ‘Treland,—three strands of one reat rope which never would be broken, Sten If'it were tested and if it were strained le united strength of the world. THE ANTI-OBSTRUCTION RESOLUTION. gi the House of Commons to-day, after a G7? and personal discussion and the rejec- Son, by oxerpowering majorities of the apendinents offeres by "Donnell (omeRule), member for | Dungar- pa. Callan (Liberal), member for Zana, and Courtney (Liberal), member Che keard, the resolution offered by the es of the Exchequer against “‘ob- Stuction ” passed without division. A rider a fed by Mr. Forster was also passed, pto- iding that nothing in the resolution ‘shall Preclude proceedings against a member in the. ce With ancient usage. The debate Che proceeded ona motion that the anti- ete Mae NSS adopted Willouraivisione | 12 Motion WS adopt! Th THE TAY BRIDGE INQUIRY. mae inquiry into the fall of the railway ge as te mirth of Tay, on the night of which many lives were, lost, is Froeeeding at Dundee before the Board of bad. le. Several painters who painted the bi ge last summer testified that they saw pamerous bolt-holes empty; found bolts in doles where there should have been rivets, found rivets without heads, and b: ing columas of the hn girders: Was cracked fom top to bottom, aud held to- “Re ith tour oo ands; that somelines ion of the bridge was so grea! they feared it would fall. mn RUSSIA. GEN, MELIKOFF. Lospox, Feb, 28.—-A St. Petersburg dis- Batch says: “All classes here feel that the Rat appointment of Gen. Melikoff is neces- HARTMANN. Pots Feb. 25.—All statements made by i le journals that the extradition of the Nihi- = Hartmann had been decided upon by the rench Government? seem to haye been en- Urely premature. President Grévy and the thine discussed the matter. As | ques- of principle they seem inclined to grant ihe extradition apes, Tegarding Hartmann dea cminal ‘under the common law. Gam- meng is said to approve of the extradition emby ure. Itlooks very much as if it would Toil the Ministry. with the Radicals, QPeclally if De Freyeinet’s amnesty Speech ne Productive of any good. Rappet concludes a bitter article on the hoa ed intention of the Ministry to extrac pote in lican s Le Rap) Publican, Dee A SHELTER FOR VAGABONDS. Loxpox, Feb. 93—A dispatch from. St daily becoming more Cos- Petersberg says: “It may be uninielli Ceo igible to many persons abroad ‘how the Nihilists succeeded in doing their work in the very residence of the Imperial family.:. Probably no other building in St. Petersburg is Jess safe than the Winter Palace. It has always been a: refuge for numberless vagabonds, Workmen, ‘friends of servants and. ushers, many without passports, who would not live with impunity anywhere else. ‘ ~ perial ukase of Nast April eae aun powers - Gourko" to’ search to .Gen. :the -buildings of the - Palace,. but - eve! ‘ x 7 that severe Governor-General ‘could hardly yenture, such is Russian administration, to interfere with the special authorities _of the erial residence. There is an old Russian jaw which gives the right of ‘sanctuat criminals taking refuge within the buildings of e Imperial palaces, so far as concerns e ordinary police, who have vo -jurisdic- tion in such cases. No fewer than 5,000 pereons have been Jiving He the Winter Pal- ly has ever known duties of one-half of them. eae Seater ae Afront rane OF GEN. MELIKOFF . as virtual Dictator has créated a good im- pression, especially in circles ‘where he him- self and his previous civil administrations are: best known. rule*at Kharkeff, though mild, has been effectual! in repressing: isorders. His views generally are known to be liberal. All classes feel that the measures taken are necessary and wise, and think Gen. Melikoff is the man most fitted for te place, Ho well snformed. person be- 'y Widespread conspiracy amon the dignitaries, Court officials, or ater GERMANY. A-PROTEST. Lonvon, Feb. 28.-A Vienna correspond- ent writes that the manner in which the Rus- sian press has sought to make use of the re- cent demonstrations of German sympathy for the Czar to prove that the old relations be- tween the two States still exist, has called forth articles in the North German Gazette as a protest against the theory that the per- the relations of the Governments. _ SELVER CURRENCY. Bentix, Feb. 28.—The German Govern- ment has given notice of its intention to in- crease the amount of silver currency to 12 marks per head of the population, instead of 10 marks, as now. BISMARCK. Bismarck has enforced his demand for the appointment of a colleague by suggesting that if his work is not thus lightens he be allowed to retire altogether. Bismarck is still indisposed and confined to his bed, The Emperor conferred with him for an hour and a half yesterday. CANAL SCHEME. ‘The German Government is aboutto revive the scheme for cuttmg a canal navigable for yar vessels between e Baltic Sea and the an Ocean. le scheme is warm: ported in military circles. Te SLIGHT DIPORTANCE. BERLIN, Feb. 98.—The National Gazette 8a) silent importance is attached in well- informed circles to Prince Wohenlohe’s ap- pointment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is attributable to desire to facilitate intercourse between the Emperor and Bis- fhentine ob account of the indisposition of the atter. FRANCE. 4 BAe, Feb. 28.—Viscount Benois d’Azy is lead. a JULES SIMON ON THE EDUCATION BILL. In the debate on Jules Ferry’s Educational billin the Senate yesterday, Jules Simon, Re- publican, expressed himself as favorable to the principles of liberty of education, con- science, and religion. He maintained that Art. 7 of the bill, which prohibits the mem- bers of unauthorized societies from teaching in schools, was an onslaught upon the free- dom of education, and concluded. by saying: “Inthe name of my republican faith, I de clare that to attack the liberty of parents is to attack the principle of liberty, and is danger to the Republic.” SPAIN. ROUMANIA TO BE RECOGNIZED. Maprip, Feb. 29.—In the Senate, Premier Canovas del Castillo announced that the Government intended to recognize the inde- pendence of Roumania without delay. CUBAN REFORMS, In Coneress, the debate on Cuba was re- sumed, The Minister of the Interior demon- strated the necessity for proceeding slowly with the reforms in Cuba, in order to avoid contusion. Maprrm, Feb. 28.—In the Chamber of Dep- uties yesterday Robledo, Minister of the In- terlor, accused Cuban Deputy Labra of sym- pathizing with schemes of autonomy and in- dependence, and_said their success would be the dishonor of Spain. He protested against the threatening language of those who sought to impose their doctrines and satis- faction of their personal requirements upon the country. DENMARK. FIRE RAGING. Loxnon, Feb. 26.—A Copenhagen dispatch of Friday night says: “A fire now raging threatens the destruction of a large portion of the city. Fears are entertained for the British Embassy. ‘The King and Crown Prince are present stimulating the exertions of the firemen.” VARIOUS. SEARING COMPLETION. Rome, Feb. 28.—Only twenty-two metres of St. Gothara tunnel remain to be pierced. TURKEY. Lonpon, Feb. 28.—The Town of ‘Urfa, in Asiatic Turkey, supposed to be the site: of “Ur of the Chaldees,” has been nearly de- stroyed by fire. BELGIUM. : Brussers, Feb. 28.—The King is sending six small steamers to Stanley for use on the Congo River. THE WEEK. IN THE BHITISH PARLIAMENT. Speciat Cable, Lonxvox, Feb. 28.—There is much reason to believe that the Government intends at the beginning of the week to dissolve | Parliament and appeal to the country against obstruction, denouncing the Liberals as Jrish allies. The Tories themselves jubilantly proclaimed this purpose in the lobbies of the House of Commons on Monday night. The Government took the most unusual course of proposing resolutions modifying the rules of the House without consulting the leaders of the opp@sition, relying on the hope that the Liberals would criticise their manifestly weak measure, and so present theinselves to the country as defending obstruction. This measure failed, first, by Lord Hartington announcing his hearty support of the Government, only com- plaining that the resolutions were not suffi- ciently coercive; secondly, owing to Mr..Sul- livan’s brilliant speech demonstrating in de- tall that nearly every member of the Gov- ernment previously practiced obstruction in an extreme form against educational and ecclesiastical measures when the Lib- erals were in power. The Ministerial plot was so palpable that even most of the Home- Rulers united with the Liberals to bafile the scheme. Mr, Shaw spoke sensibly, and his more violent colleagues have refrained thus far from filibustering, thoygh it is re ported Bhat. they have appealed to. Mr. Parnell‘against Mr. Shaw. So damaging was Mr, Sullivan’s speech, so complete the Liber- al triumph on the general issue, that the Tories now . say they never yneant to dissolve Parliament on this issue. So passes away one more dissolution. ‘The debate continues, the Ministers meeting with no unfair opposition, yet the manifest truth is that both parties show extreme timidity in dealing with the gToss- est abuses under the guise of parliamentary forms. Neither Sir Staf- ford Northcote’s nor. any other scheme yet proposed can effectually suppress the ob- structions. Mr. Sullivan won an equally brilliant. victory over, the Goverument in organizing the campaign on ‘Monday night, whereby the House reversed the foolish privilege vote censuring ‘Mr. Plimsoll passed on the previous Friday. THE BONAPARTE 303 ae y" borate S} i 0) ser taster ee eeision to ! allow the Bonsparte monumentto jn Westminster Abbe: Doveke cea condemnation. Stanley’s best - friends regretfully pronounce’ the speech -dis- ingenuous, and the alleged.: reasons nly "two journals, the Daily Tel- eqraph and Morning Post, sustain Dean Stanley. The others, of every shade .of political opinion, attack “him. . All admit that Dean Stanley is... yield- ing to Court “influence. “The “Dean’s attempt to denounce. Thomas ‘Carlyle’s sig- nature as a forgery is confuted by a letter from Carlyle’s niece saying thatthe signature was appended to the memorial by her, at Carlyle’s’ express request. Mr. Gladstone, in ‘a: published letter,’ announces ‘his hostility ito. the = project. The agi- tation against . the: statue continues mers ‘he Connell of the Wor! en's tion, a _radica lorganization, resolved to take immediate steps to obtain ry renewed expression of workingmen’s opinions. It is proposed to hold a public meeting and sub- scribe an ‘address to the people of France, and thus endeavor to counteract the unfriend- ly impression the memorial produces. HREDERICES HARRISON ON AFGHANISTAN, ‘rederick Harrison replies in the Fortnightly Review to "Gen. Rae et swer to a former article: He reviews the whole evidence -carefully, reiterates the substance of . the accusations, declines to accept Gen. Roberts’ defense as sufficient, _and; while not impugn- n.. Roberts’ honor or yeractty 's eonviets pin of bublishing Inconsistent stsic- » He protests against the policy under which the British army invades av tnloffend: ing people, and carries into every valley the halter and the Jash. . Since Prof. Harrison’s article was written & dispatch has appeared in the Times purporting to give the official statement of the Indian Government admit- ting that men were hanged for possessing the property of the Embassy, inciting the people to rise, and attacking the escort. Gen. Rob- erts personally confirmed each sentence of this dispatch. This amounts to a confession of the gravest charge. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHTS. Matthew Arnold publishes in the same pe- riodical an. important article on copyright, preing the English publishers to adopt the French system as the only solution of the do- mestic difficulties arising from the grow- ing public demand for cheap books.’ He advocates international copyright as the only means of securing justice for American and English authors. He admits the‘expediency of conceding to Americans the exclusive manufacture of foreign books, approving of an author’s aud not a publisher's copyright, He declares that under the alleged liberal payments by American publishers to English aurlioks he never himself received altogether PERSONAL. Carlyle has been Jately much indisposed. He ig unable to drive out, and sees few friends, except Froude and Lecky. He be- gins. to experience an occasional fajure of Inemory, but his mental powers are other- wise unimpaired. Notwithstanding his extreme physical ex- haustion, Cardinal Newman’s accident, al- though resulting in a broken rib, threatens no serious permanent consequences, He is mending rapidly, considering his advanced age. Lord Salisbury is improving slowly and transacts some business. Lord Rosebery is able to leave his cham- er. "The poet Browning, after a tedions indis- position, is again going out, Itis reported that Monsignor Capel has ‘been suspended from his functions for two years on grave charges. Tom Hughes has finally. retired from his candidature at Salisbury, yielding to a cabal, composed mainly of_ tradesman, resenting Mr: Hughes’ cotperative views, and partly of Nonconformists, who dislike astanch Church of England man, Sundry persona intrigues also cuntributed to his withdrawal. MINISTER LOWELL. z There is no news from Minister Lowell since Iast_ week, when he wrote that he could not form definit plans, his wife having had a relapse. He could not leave her in her present condition, but. would start for Lon- don the moment’ she is better. He had not then received his English credentials. THE STAGE. Mr. Irving has accepted a new play by Ten- nyson.. 1¢is in two acts, was written for. the Lyceum Theatre, and is dedicated to Mr. Irving. The subject is unknown. Replying to an inquiry for information, Mr. Irvin makes the public answer that he has an gat! registered in Heaven to reveni nothing. ‘There is no prospect of its production at present, sod : ‘The Bancrofts, aftersome hesitation, decline definitly to produce Sardou’s “Daniel Rochat” in England, paying the forfeit under the contract of $2,000, ‘The celebration jubi- lee of Victor Hugo’s drama, “Hernani,” was a great failure, owing to M. Perrin’s mean treatment of the dramatic critics and the literary world generally, All that | is great and illustrious im arts, letters, politics, and soeiety should have been inyited. But the grasping manager suspended the free-list entirely, so great a critle as Lapomerye being refused. 2 place. The | audience was provincial and foreign, and badly dressed. ‘The actars, disgusted, did not perform well, Victor Hugo was beliind the scenes, but did not show himself. Sarah Bernhardt as DonaSolwas applauded. She brought down the house as, with a palm branch on her bosom, she recited Coppe’s somewhat mea: yerses ‘on the fiftieth anniversary of “Her- nani,” and the battle which raged on the nightof its birth. The poet promised the Titan whose praises he sung to live to 100 before becoming immortal. ‘Victor Hugo's grandchildren were in a stage-box, weeping at the woes of Dona Sol and Hernani, or gleefully clapping-hands when the -curtain, rising, discovered David Anger’s sublime bust of their grandfather, with all the actors and actresses of the Thea- tre Francais, who performed his dramas, grouped aroun ‘ THE HARTMANN EXTRADITION CASE is the all-exciting, all-absorbing topic. The mendacious statements of the London Times and Telegraph are contradicted Officially. Hartmann has made no confession, ant Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambassador, has not threatened to leave Paris should his ex- tradition be refused. * ‘THE “HERALD” RELIEF FUND. E Speight, i Lowpow, Feb. 28.—The second meeting of the Herald Relief-Fund Committee was held at Mr. Bennett’s rooms in Paris on Friday, ‘My. Shaw, M. P., Col. King. Harmon, MP. Prof. Baldwin, the Rev. Mr. Hepworth, and iin Bennett’ being present. Mr. Shaw fwas chosen permanent Chairman, and A, C. Ives, Honorary Bectetary. It was agreed that the approach of actual famine had been for the moment to a considerable extent met by the action of the various Commit- tees of Relief which have already been organized, while it was made clear that there are some of the most remote and very poorest portions of the country which have as yet received no help, or at jnadequate assistance. This being admitted, and the fact also clearly put be- fore the Committee that the eatest pressure of poverty will be felt during the months which intervene Letween this and the next harvest, the Cominittee decided that it would -not only offer immediate as- sistance to districts not yet refiched or cov- ered, but should also be prepared -for the in- evitable increase of misery which must occur before autwinn. Mr. Bennett informed the Committee that the Herald relief fund would be placed st their disposal at once, and it was therefore resolved that two members of the Committee—Prof. Baldwin and the Rey. Mr. Hepworth—be delegated to visit the distressed districts immediately, and least ye that they have power to act in cases ot special need, reporting at the next meeting, which will ee held in Dublin. Each member. of the’ Committee expressed his determination to make a personal visit to those parts of the country which are found to bein the greatest need of assistance. It was further resolved that accounts be opened with the Afunster Bank and National Bank, and that avy three members of the Committee have power to sign checks. It was further resolved that, as reports from Donegal show that that district js in a very critical condition, it be chosen as the first field of operations, and such assist- ance rendered as the visiting Committee may deem proper. CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY’S PROXY- ‘Special Cable. Dusxrs, Feb. %.—The. following: dispatch has been received by Archbishop MacCabe: Thave had a: telegraphic dispatch from his Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, fatorming oie that he has asked you to act us his roxy on my Committee for relieving irish Uistress. tmst. you, will be able ta give the Col ittee_ tha__ benefit of your cooperation. His Eminence Offers’ suggestion relative to the rule of the Committee as to the signatures of clergymen, of two denominations for applications. 1 send for sour consideration # copy of the reply of tho mmittee, and to assure your Lordship ghar sour pomination has afforded much satis- raction to the Committee and to m: : Jans GORDON BENNETT. vanes Tanto e caren ae i reclee “ork: We lo express'our, D = fion of your nomination of the Archbishop of Dublin ag your proxy on theCommittee. We shall fully consider Orr objection about th signatures. of xesidént clergymen, but di site to suggest hto iy Of Boards of Gi edians and Chul of of Guardian rman of existing charitable committee, the Mayor of any city or Chairman of Town Commissioners, the ground is practically covered, inasmuch as we shall give no relief without investigation. We shall in any remote district be prepared to re~ ceive application’ from any one ‘clergyman or any one ble person. ‘Fae ¢ Cosaarres gy fa4 New York Heep ke- {| efal. “IEF ND. ‘His Eminence-Cardinal McCloskey has re- ceived the following cable me: rom the ost. Rev. Dr. Gabe, the Archbishop of To the Cardinal Archbishop of New York: Wit represent your Eminence with pleasure on the Relief Committee. | LARCHBISHOP- MACCABE, THE EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS, A Cairo correspondent telegraphs Pane er Bestia, the ‘Kicdees Mat cousin, has carefully read the Masonic de- scriptions, which; so. iuterested him that his Higtiness, accompanied by Prince Ibrahim Bey. and Dr. Fauton, sailed yesterday in his yacht for Upper Egypt to examine other monuments from a Masonic point of view, e “Grand Masters of the English and Egyptian lodgessin Cairo are confident that Commander Gorringe’s emblems are Masonic. oo ” BISMARCK’S ORGAN. The political auties of Bismarck’s organ, the Nordeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Gor stitute a pleasant theme of commentary for Paris journals. x @ bellicose article, the purpose of which was self-evi- dent, and which .had- the merit, of alarming no one, that journal, having waited a few days to judge of its effect, coolly turns round on itself and con! cts iis own arguments and . ‘menaces, Germany, it sulably says, has no _ hostile designs against any one. Of course, the Ke publican journals, which took. the first commentary articlecalmly, amuse themselves with the second, much to the confusion of the reactionary organs, which had made such an arm of the Guzette’s warlike vaticinations, as being natural consequences of 18 alle od eaallea tendencies of the De Freycinet a . ANOTHER OFPO! for putting a settler on the efforts of the alarmists, who have interest in creating a be- Hef that the peace of Europe is likely to be proximalively disturbed, will be atforded y the discussion of the budget of foreign alfairs in the Jtaltan Parliament in a few days. The Italian Minister will profit bi this oceasion to clear up any doubts which may exist as to its determination to repress the efforts of the Italia Irredenta party to embroil it with Austria, or to otherwise com- plicate its external relations, ‘pak FERRY EDUCATIONAL BILL. So far the debate in the French Senate on the Ferry Education bill has been unworthy the gravity of the subject and reputation of a great national Assembly. The Senators have been decidedly dull and not particularly decorous. PERE HYACINTHE’S LECTURES on “Divorce” and “Human Nature” in Paris on Friday night were most interesting, though not hkely to convince M. Nauquet nor M. Dumas. The Calié des Conferences was packed, Nearly half the audience were dadies, It was bold .of the lecturer. to touch a burning subject, bolder to touch itso honestly. There was no beating about the bush, Pére Hyacinthe was not always logical, but always frank. To a great extent he evidently shares the ideas of Paul Feval, He does not absolutely forbid the right of communities to make divorce laws, but he believes them symptoms of decadence~not of progress, ‘* Marriage,” he says, “may be considered in three ways,— as natural contract, eivil contract, ant ligious rite,—viewing the question purely in relation to human nature, he advocates indis- solupility and monogamy. MME. DE REMUSAT’S MEMOIRS. The publication of the Jast volume of Mme. DeRémusat’s memoirs give. peculiar piquan- ey to a letter which may be found in the “Bibliotheque Nationale” among the papers relating to the Napoleon family. To ‘under- stand it you must bear in mind that the Comte de Rémusat eajoved the honor of being the master of the Emperor’s wardrobe: Sr. Croup, Aug. 19, 181.—Monsteur te Due de Frioul: Please tell Com‘e de Rémusat not to meddle with my apparel in future, and inform, him r ave withdrawn his title of Master of ..my: wardrobe. Get a list of my clothes. , Have them verified, and marked. I'am not aware the Comte ce Rémusat was appointed'by.uny decree. However, if any such decree exists, prepare another that ~ dismisshim. yy: : From this it would only appear plain that Napoleon gave ‘the Count what is called e K.. Patti continues to draw at the Gaieté. Merelli cleared 35,000 francs last Tuesday, and probably will have:taken more to-night. For all that, Merelli may yet come to grief if he does not make sweeping reforms in his chorus and. ballet, and give us something bet- ter than_ the filthy, cast-off scenery of the defunct Lyrique. ‘Mine. Heilbron has no luck at the Grand Opera. She has now appeared in three parts and had to give them up. She will not sing Qphelta, again for some time. It seems. thal s Ile. Daram resumed the part on Wednes- lay. ‘ Pe rag ‘Harris is having a great success at ian. ‘Miss Freeman, a young American lady, is to make her début on Thursday at La Scala. Miss Kellogg was yesterday presented to Verdi. POLITICAL. SHUMAN OUT OF THE FIELD. it was rumored in political circles yester- day morning that the Hon. Andrew Shuman had withdrawn from the race for Governor, and areporter of Tue Trmoxe called on him at the Journal office and asked hinn if it were true. “Yes,” was the reply> “What is the reason ?” “For several days,” said he, ‘negotia- tions have been going on between John R. ‘Wilson and myself on the one side, and Mr. Charles L. Wilson and the Evening Jour- nal Company on the ‘other, for a lease of the Evening Journal newspaper establishment. They terminated Friday even- jug in the signing of alease by Mr. Wilson and myself, by which we take the full con- trol of the Journal Monday morning, March 4, and manage it in all its departments. Of course this will occupy my time, and running for Governor or any other office is entirely outof thequestion under the circumstances.” “The fact of getting control of the Journal caused you to withdraw?” “ That is all.” A It is said Mr. Shuman’s friends were work- ing hard for him, and ‘that he was pretty sure of getting the nomination if he could secure a majority of the Cook County delegation, which they:-had some assurances of But, as he remarked, not- withstanding the certainty of prea hae nomination, he could not possibly neglect bis business interests here by going to Spring- field for four years. 2 ‘Phe following card appeared in yesterday’s Journal: The undersigned and Mr. J. R. Wilson, nephew of the late proprietor of the Journal, hare consummated au iirmingement by which they become the publishers of this. paper. They will assume & been connec! ment of the paper for ears, and will hereafter have gent lon ‘of that department, while the undersigned will have charge of the editorial department. Having been editorially connected with the Jour for nearly twenty-four years,—first as associate editor, and since 1861 as managing ed- ftor.—the latter is neither new to the duties and responsibilities of the editorship, nor a stranger to the Journal's readers. ‘This new arrangement necessitates the request that the name of the undersigned be now with- erawn from the list of those who have been pro- posed ng candidates for the nomination of Goy- ernor by the coming Republi aven- You. His entire time and attention will bere- after be given to bis editorial duties, which are ial to his:tastes and more in to. u urged his hame in connection with eo high and honorable an office, and is neither insensible nor indifferent to the compliment implied by such ‘They will no doubt appre Hite the changed circumstances which re der his withdrawal necessary. He can serve the Republican party,'to which he is most earnestly devoted, better through the columns of the Journal than he could anywhere else, and St will be his constant study to make the Journal not only a faithful and an efficient exponent of the principles and interests of that party, but popular newspaper, worthy of the confl- dence and support of the gederal reading public. The general character of. the Jou as a careful. trustworthy Rewspaper will not bé except in Bo far as its business-inter- ests and ita news-gath enterprise will be pushed with fresh vigor. We fully be~ speak, ‘and shall endeavor to merit, the pood- will the Western pul ‘ANDREW SHUMAN. ~-J€1s believed that this will end the litiga- tion between John L. Wilson andthe Journal 'e he le~ regarding the alleged interest of the former. be ma is at present before the Supreme JAMES P, ROOT. A reporter of THE TRmuNE met Mr. James P. Root yesterday afternoon, and, after a talk about politics in general, came down to particulars, and-asked: him. how he was get- ting’on with his candidacy for Attorney-Gen- “T can’t have made very much progress,” said he, “for I have been a candidate only & eNews that?” sald th rter. had “How si! @ reporter. “* t hat understood that you had been in the field for some time.” . “Notatall,” was the reply. “Mr. Shuman ‘was a candidate for Governor, and I Inew, as” everybody else did, the utter impossibility of Cook County getting two places on the ticket; s0,E Eqeiedly stepped _aside out of deference to’ Afr. Shuman. He, however, having as- sumed the entire charge of the Journal, cwithdraws froma the race, and L, therefore, see no reason why I should not now become a candidate, there remaining no other com- petitor from this county for any place on the oRttd Ste Root. having thus ir. Root, thus form: ut himself in the fiel “veut his way. eye It is understood that Mr. Root’s friends are confident that he will carry the Cook County delegation and get the nomination. They say “that he has been a ‘member of the Legislature from the South Side, rep- resented the First Congressional. District on the Board of Equalization, was a member fer, this county of the Republican State Cen- 1 Committee, and for the State on the Na- tional Committee,—positions which he could not well hold without acquiring a very Jarge and genera] acquaintance throughout the State. So far as those attainments are concerned which are needed in an Attor- ney-General, they claim that, as a practicing lawyer, he has devoted himself, both in the Circuit and Supreme Courts, to those subjects on whlelt an:A toruy General £. ealied to ‘or these reasons, they say he will come out-yictor in the race. fi 2 OBITUARY.» : CHARLES BG. STOUT. The Rev. Charles B. Stout: died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Bishop, No. 95 Park avenue, yesterday morning. Be was born April 30, 1807, in Ontario Coun- ty, New York, and during the earlier years ef his boyhood received only such instruc- tion as the common country schools afforded. During the years 1820, '21, and ’22 he attended the academy at Canandaigua, N. Y., but was obliged, in consequence of failing health, to return to the farm for a couple of years, after which time he engaged forafew years in mercantile pursuits. . ‘He became a communicant in St. Luke’s Church, Rochester, N. Y., in June, 1827, was admitted as candidate for holy orders by Bishop B.'T. Onderdonk in the year 1834, was ordained to the deaconate by Bishop MeCoskry, in St. Paul’s Church, Detroit March 5, 1837, and admitted to the priesthoo in St. Luke's, Ypsilanti, July 2, 1838. The first four years of his ministry were devoted to “missionary work in the Diocese of Michigan, organizing during this period_ the parishes of St. Luke's, Kalamazoo, Mich., and St.;Paul’s, Mishawau- kee, Ind.; became Rector of St. John’s Chureb, Lenawee County, Michigan, in May, , , owing to sickness, was _obliged to resign, and accepted a call to the Rectorship of. St. Peter's Church, Westfield, Western New York, and afterwards labored in the parishes of St. James, Painesville, 0., and t. Philip’s Chureh, Circlevilie, O., and or- nized the Church of the Epiphany, Urbana, hampaign County, in 1848. In 1858 he again entered the missionary field arid became ‘Rector of St. Mathias” Chureh, Waukesha, Wis.; afterwards removed to Wilmington, Il, and organized the Church of the Re- deemer, and also took charge of St. Paul’s Church, Manhattan. In 1861 he removed to Clinton, Ta., taking charge of St Jol’s Church, which parish, owing to removals and changes consequent upon the War, resumed its connection with the parish at Lyons, Ia., in 1863, when he ac- cepted a call to St. Michael's Church, Mt. ‘Pleasant, Ia., the beautiful church edifice of this parish having been erected. during his ministry. In the summer of 1868 he accom- panied the Rey.. Dr. Bishop, Rector of St. John’s Church, Chicago, on_a visit to Eu- rope, and was present with Dr. Bishop at the time of his death in Paris, France. On his return he resumed his labors in Mt. Pleasant, ‘but was obliged, in consequence of failing health, to give up his charge in October, 1869, when _he returned to Chicago, and had resided here since that time with his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Bishop, doing such min- isterial work as he was called on to perform when his health admitted of it, his labors being more particularly in connection with the parish of St. John’s in this city. Mr. Stout met with a serious accident in Septem- ber, 1878, at Kalamazoo, Mich., while oceupy- ing the pulpit of his son during a temporary absence, by which his shoulder joint was dis- Jocated, and from the effectsof which he never recovered, and to which may be attrib- ‘uted ina measure his inability to rally from the last attack. Mr. Stout was for more than twenty years on the list of missionaries of the Domestic Committee of the Board of Mis- sions, and acted for several years as Finan- cial Secretary for Griswold Colleze, Daven- port, Ia., in Which, capacity he raised a con- siderable amount for the support of. the col- lene. JUDGE COFFIN. Crxciynatt, O., Feb. 23—Judge C. D. Coffin, one of the oldest members of the Cin- cinnati Bar, died this afternoon. IMPORTANT CAPTURE. Several Burglars Taken into Camp. The Consolidated Detectives Agency of Messrs. Slayton, Scott, Flynn & Stewart, ex- city detectives, yesterday launched a boom of their own, which erooked people will be ‘disgusted with. In the forenoon they ar- yested for Sheriff Peck, of Grand Rapids, Mich., one Frank M. Johnson, who is wanted in that city upon , several charges of burglary. Johnson — was found and arrested on Adams street, avd in his possession were found several articles of jewelry which were readily reeognized by Sheriff Peck, as a portion of the plunder taken at Grand Rapids. Upon searching a house at the corner of Jefferson and Jackson streets, where Johnson had _ recently lived with his wife, about $200 worth of jewelry was recovered. Several weeks ago Sheriff Peck says Johnson and his pal gave him considerable trouble in the burg- lary line. ‘The residence of John Belknap was plundered one night of about. worth of jewelry; then the residence of A. D. Plumb ‘was robbed of about $100 worth of goods; and things were finally. becoming serious, when the house. of Capt. George E. Judd was entered and plundered of about $150 worth of jewelry and‘ clothing. These burglaries were similarly planned and_ executed, show- ing the handiwork to be that.of one gang alone. The Sheriff was not long in gettin: hold.of one of the burglars, a fellow nami Valentine McLoughlin, but Johnson, who was the principal, jumped town to. avoid arrest, and went’ first to the . Hot Springs, and thence back to this’ city. Johnson. though quite ayoung man,” has @ peculiar hardened look, and.is given a pad reputation. The goods recovered are nearly al} of the guantity lost by Mr. Bel knap. Sheriff Peck will start home with his prisoner early Monday morning. * The agency have also been working in co- operation with the city detectives in working up 8 case against a gang of thieves whose homes, or “ hang-outs,” arein the vicinity of Clack st Fourteenth streets, snd whe. are nen doing & I usiness ip robbin; freij neears alone, the Rock Island Paik. road tracks. ‘The names of those at present under arrest are William, Cannan, ‘alias “ Stubby? Kinnear or Kanale, Timothy “Moore, John Milligan, and William Fish, All ae well-known. thieves, and have fre- uently me 3 them are under bail even now for robbing the railroads. Fish is put recently out of the Penitentiary, after serving two years for the burglary of a hard- ware store on Lake street. Heis the youth who was so badly cut several Brae ago by the notorious Sailfe Tierney, The robberies with which they are charged, while they rep- resent no large amount, have been of an ag- gravating nature to the railroad. They have. securred from time to time for the past ear of two, but the case upon which itis hoped to convict them is the most recent one. About one week ago a freight-car just ‘ron the East was Ipft standing on the track tear Fourteenth street, preparatory to bein; siitclied into the main line and sent to Roc! jsland. ‘The car was broken open during the night, andaquantity of goods, exactly whatis { fito the bridge-switch, unknown, were stolen. The principal item | front and rear. There were ten competitors, was eighty yards of cloth, worth about $300, belonging toa dealer in Rock Island. The value of the entire amount stolen is roughly estimated at $1,000. The detectives have re- covered the principal portion of the cloth, and that, too, in such a* way that the thieves . can be readily identified. Instead of selling the cloth to some vutside person as the ex pert thief would have done, they turned it over to a couple of tailors doing business about the corner of State and Fourteenth streets, and five of them left. measures and orders for suits of-clothes. It is expected to recover more of the-property stolen, and to arrest several others: of 1 is notorious band of thieves. CROONAL NEWS. | THE MURDERED PAWSBROKER. ‘Special Dispatch to The Chicago ‘Tribune, Borurwerox, Ia., Feb. 28.—Gradnally the mystery: surrounding the. murder_tf J. E. Joachim is being unraveled. Four nit are now under arrest here belongmg to the.gang of thieves at whose hands the deceased met his death, one of whom, Richard Howaré, | has confessed to, having knowledge of the | assault on the paivnbroker, and the others are strongly suspected of being directly connected with the affair, though of this the police do not feel sure The names of two of ‘the parties under arrest with Howard are William Van ‘Beeke and Dave Carey. The name of the other the authorities profess not to know. Joachim was visited in Chicago by two of the gang, who told him they had about $400 worth of goods to sell, and induced him to come here to buy them. ‘Then it was ar- range by the gang to knock 1 pawnbroker down and rob him, which was done, and he died from his wounds, though that was not contemplated. Joachim’s brother-in-law gave the descri, tion of Howard whielr resulted in the latter's arrest. Howard has given the names of seven persons who, he says, are concerned in the murder. The hearing of_ the prisongr swas continued to-day till next Tuesday. The ‘manner of robbing cars by aie gang Was: WEhey would board an east-bound train here a mile or more east of the river, where they would get off, and then some of them would board a train from the East, break open the cars, and throw out goods, which would be eatnered ‘up by others of the gape ond concealed. Suspicions are expressed that they were advised by parties East as to what particular cars to rob. A MYSTERY SOLVED. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. BraprorD, Pa., Feb. 28—A mysterious murder has just come to light at Clarion, Pa. In August last John Blair disappeared mysteriously. He had sold out, and put his household goods upon a raft, intending to go. to Cincinnati by water. Several weeksatter- wards his decomposed body was found in Piny Creek. A small hole was noticed above the right eye. but no attention was paid to this at the time, as it was thought that he had fallen from the raft into the river, striking a sharp stone, and causing death. This week a couple living at Clarion quarreled and separated. The wom- an went before a Magistrate, and swore that her husband_killed “Blair in a quarrel over some logs. ‘The murderer stripped the body of its clothes and everything and threw it into Piny Creek. Ie has been wearing the clothes of the deceased ever since, and the garments have been recognized. The mur- derer has fled the country. A WORRIBLE CRIME. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Leavenwortn, Kas., Feb. 28.—Mrs. Sul- livan, of this city,a poor woman 55 years old, is subject to fits of mental aberration. ‘At 12 o’clock last night, while thus affected, she was knocked down by four men, dragged into a ravine, and brutally ravished. A ori- vate watchman saw the four men cross his beat, and, continuing on, heard:the moans of the’ unfortunate woman, and found her in the ravine covered with bruises, the mark of 2 slung-shot upoi her head, and unconscious. He noti fied the police, but diligent search on theit art has thus far proved unavailable. Mrs. ullivan has regained consciousness and be- come rational, but the cold night had so be- numbed her faculties that she only remein- bers indistinctly seeing the forms and hear- ing the voices of four men, when suddenly she felt a crushing blow upon her head and knew no more until returning consciousness brought a realization of the terrible crime that had been committed. A TEXAS TRAGEDY. GazvesToy, Feb. 28.—A News special from Quero, ‘Tex., says: Three men, Holland, Martin, and Coward, engaged in pitching half-dollars for drinks. Holland disputed the game, and started for his hause fora gun to kill Martin, His mother, % years old, came from the house and caught Martin, who was trying _ to revent Holland getting the gun.” She held Martin’s arms while Holland drew 2 knife and savagely hacked Martin’s throat. Coward placed a pistol in Martin’s hand and he shot Holland in the arm, then shook him- self clear of the old woman, kmocked_ her down, and shot her, inflicting a wound from which she shortly died. He then fired again at Holland, wounding him mortally. Martin’s injuries are not serious, a THE GARRITYS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Excrs, UL, Feb, 28.—The Garrity boys, Hugh and John, of Chicago, arrived from Joliet yesterday at Geneva Jail, They will be bailed out on Monday, and will not be tried on their indictment for mayhem until the next term of court. ANOTHER ERRING MINISTER. New York,. Feb. 2.—The Rev. H. W Richardson, of Sea Cliff, L. L. eloping with his wife’s sister, and leaving behind a family of small children, was arrested on a steamer about to start for Texas. << SUICIDE: Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, PmoaperpHta, Pa, Feb. 23—Iwo re- warkable suicides by jumping from awindow were reported this morning. One is avery sad case. An officer, whose beat is in the best portion of the city, saw in front of him when between Broad and Fifth streets what he at first supposed to be a bundle, but which on nearer approach proved to be a young Iedi¥ laying on the pavement near the eurb- stone in front of 1416, on Walnut street. She was clad only ina nightaress, and was ina aying condition. ‘Just then isaac S. Wateman, who resided in the house, came out, and the young Jady was taken in, butdied an hour after. Shewas Miss Mamie Dwight, 19 years of age, the iddaughter of Mr. Waterman, and a partial invalid. She nad, however, been in good health and apparently well the night before, so that the cause of her death ‘A few hours before Henry Williams, a seaman, who had been treated for dyphold pneumonia at Jefferson Medical ‘ollege, climbed out of the fourth-story win- dow over the grating and threw himself out. He lived aboutan hour after. Was 2 mystery. It is presumed that his death was induced by disappointinent in love. DANA IN THE DUMPS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. New York, Feb. 29—The Sun, after ex- plaining why it does not. choose to oppose ‘Tilden in his Presidential aspiration, says: “From whatever point of view we contem- plate the present condition of the Democracy, and in that party the hope of the country seems for the moment to be chiefly placed, ye see only cause for despondency and for doubt concerning the future.” ————— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New York, Feb. 23.~—Arrived, the steam-. ers Frizia, from Davre, and Rheinland, from Antwerp. Lospos, Feb. 28.—The City of Brussels, from New York, and the Ohio, from Phila- delpbia, havearrived. ——— : MILWAUKEE BARLEY MARKET, Spectat Dispatch to The Chteaga Tribune, ‘MILWAUKEE, Feb. 98.—There was consid- erable stir and excitement among dealers in barley on, ’Change to-day, because of a de- cline in prices of five cents per bushel, The transactions at the decline were quite heavy. ppprmemnmeaensas eves ‘PRIZE ARCHITECTURE, New Yorx, Feb. 23.—The Sanitary En- gineer offered $500 in four prizes for the best designs for school buildings to be erected on aplan prevailing in New York, open only her, and engai + was, with two others, at -| statement in saying that The following are the prize men: Arthur T. Matthews, Oakland, Cal.; Samuel F. Thayer. Boston: H. C. Koch & o., Milwaukee; aud RG. Kennedy, Philadelphia, Frederick Baumann, Chicago, receives honorabie men- tion. BOGUS TICKETS. Putting Up a Job to Get Employment on a Ballroad. There was arrested yesterday upon a charge of ferjury and taken before Justice Prindiville a man named Mark Fee, who, waiving examination and not being able to find bail, was committed to jail to await tho action of the Grand Jury. During the latter part of last January. the Local Manager of the Atchison, Toveka & Santa Fé Railroad was visited by a lady who informed him thatshe could put him in the way of discovering the means by which bogus tickets of that railroad were being placed in circulation. In proof of her ability todo so she produced a dozen or go of that Company’s tickets which she showed to the Manager, who at once became interested in din negotiations which re- gulted- in’ her introducing to him Mr. Mark Fee, the prisoner charged with perjury, who, by dint of assuming that proper reticence and air of mystery which becomes the amateur as well as the professional de- tective, impressed the manager with the he- Hef that he, and he alone, could trace the parties who were engaged in the unlawful traffic with crooked A., T. d& S. F. tiekets. ‘The result was that that railroad engaged both. Fee and his lady friend to work up the case on behalf of the Com- pany, gaye them money to penses, free passes, and a promise of solid reward if they bagged the game, which the Company wera now eager to hunt down. ‘The Company did more than engage Fee and his lady friend to watch the ticket-crook: they also engaged a Louis detec! named Thiel to watch Fee and his lady friend, and the arrest of Fee yesterday was the result of the St. Louis man’s exertions. To ga back a little, it may now be stated that up'to about the middle of last January Fee was engaged as engineer in the printing~ house of Rand, MeNally & Co., who,amongst other work, print the passenger tickets for 9 number of the railroad companies: doing busi-~ ness in the West. Inprinting railroad tickets, as in all kinds. of printing, typopraublcal errors will occasfonally arise, and the rule in such cases is to destroy the spoiled jobs by ‘tearing them across and then sending them down to get burned in the furnace. He had left thp employ of the printing-house some days prior to his engaging as detective for the railroad, a fact which was known to the St. Louis detective, and-which aided him In coming to the final determination which re- sulted in Fee’s arrest ..and incarceration. The trip which Fee and his lady. friend_made for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad was barren of result, and, when they came back to Chicago, Fee, so itis charged, feeling that something had to be done, but upa job on F.C. Shepherd, the nightwatchman’ of Rand, McNally & Co.'s printing-house, of the following“ nature: Calling upon him one evening he handed him a sealed envelope, with an inclosure, and asked him if he would Kind enouge to give it to a friend of his on the following day. Shepherd, nothing suspecting, agreed to do so, whereupon Fee reportes-io the railroad officials that if they would arrest Shepherd then and there they would find a railroad ticket upon his person. Fee was required to swear out a warrant be- fore this was done; he did so, Shepherd was arrested, and the ticket found on him. When the case was investigated the_evi- dence was so clear that the crime was Fee’s and not the night watchman’s, that the latter was suffered to go free while the former was arrested on a charge of perjury. There is no proof that Fee was en, in the sale of tickets. ‘The theory is, that when he was acting as engineer in the printing- house -h¢ had. an opportunity, whic he? improved, of searching amongst the- spoiled’ tickets | which were brought down to be bummed in the that he saved up carefully a number of them, not for the purpose of dis- of them, but to use asalever with to lift himself into the snug position of detective on one of the roads. He succeeded fora brief time, but lacked the brains to carry on the deception to a profita- ble length, and finally came wofully to grief ‘when, as it is alleged, he endeavored to make a seapegoat of the night watchman for his own crime. THE STORY TOLD BY THE PRISONER through the bars of his cell in the County Jail last night was to the effect -that one day between the 1st and 10th of last November, while he was working as engineer in Rand, McNally & Co.'s establishment, F.C, Shep- herd, the night-watchman, who had access to the ticket-room, handed him four blank passes of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- sway Company, and later gave himtickets over thirteen different roads, among them thirteen. tickets of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Road, three of the Shicage: & Alton, and others of other Western ro ‘The prisoner quit work at Rand, McNally & Co.’s on the T2th of Jast January, but made no effort, tc seli the tickets, knowing that they were fraudulent. Aboutthe 18th of that month he ran across a lady friend of his who had been employed as 2 detective on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road, and he told herot ‘the tickets in his possession and the manner in which he had obtained them. She asked for them, got them, and said that she would see the managers of the different roads and inform them of what they had, which, she thought, would give one or both, of them a job in hunting up the parties who were deal- inthem. The lady did so, turned the tickets over to the Companies, gave theman- agers to understand that there were more of them out which they could hunt up, and the final result was that both he and the lady were engaged by a lawyer named Brooks acting for the Atchison, ‘Topeka & ‘Fé Railroad, to enter upon the hunt, the Company agreeing to pay. all expenses anda handsome sum if the hant was suc~ cessful. The prisoner and the lady then went to St. Louis, where they got on the track of ‘the ticket-crooks. From there they went to Kansas City, and there found a man who had received tickets from Frank Snep- herd. Unfortunately, however, the man was furnace, and fav in jail on a charge of counterfeiting, and though heswore to hisstatement, Mr. rooks, the lawyer, would not accept it as Trellable. The alleged counterfeiter’s affidavit was to the effect that on the night, of Dec. 1, 1819, ho mitted_to Rand, Mc- Nally & Co,’s place by Frank Shepherd, and taken to the ticket-room, where Shepherd gave them a. number of tickets over different railroads. The two then went to Kansas City..and from there one of them went to Council Bluffs, while the other switched off to Ottumwa. The alleged coun- terfeiter safd also that he knew of the other two men receiving tickets by iail from Frank Shepherd, which they disposed of. He himselt fot tired of the business after he had disposed of the first lot, as the work of selling them was too arduous to be profit- able. ‘The prisoner, finding that the Kansas City counterfeiters story was not credited by the railroad’s legal representative, went with his lady. friend % St. Joseph, Mo., where they met the President of the Western Detective ‘Association, who told him that the crooked tickets were being sold in St Joseph, and that he hadsix pr seven in his possession, and was going to getinore. That night the prisoner went to Council Bluifs, where the City Mar- shal of that place told hira that he knew of parties who* had been there -selling crooked. tickets. but who had since gone _to Lincoln, Neb. ‘This ended the travels of Mr. Vee an his lady friend, who returned to Chicago front Council Bluffs. A short time after thelr ar- rival here a job wos put up by Lawyer Brooks upon the night. watchman, to whom Was senta woman who met him one night and asked him to give her a ticket, to which he responded he would send her one. On Friday morning, the prisoner said, he talked for some time with Shepherd, who, - after a while, showed him an envelope, and said it contained a ticket for the fady {n question. This Fee reported to Law- yer Brooks, who, notwithstanding he had given a verbal promise to the prisoner that is name should not be known in connection with any of the overt busi- ness connected with the case, caused himn to swear outa warrant charging Shepherd with having the ticket illegally In his pos- session. The prisoner wound up his story with a declaration of his innocence, anc of his utter ignorance of where the charge of perjury could lie unless he had made a t the envelope con-~ tained a ticket, when, of course, he did not actually know that snch wes the case, ee LOTTERY DRAWING. B Lovrsvi.z, Ky., Feb. °8.—The seventeenth drawing of the Commonwealth Distribution, Company was held to-day at Macauley’s ‘The-. atre, in the presence of a Jarge audience. The following were the principal bres arma Ticket 37,825, drew $50,000; 28,432, drew $10,- 000; 10,012 captured $5,000; Sez and 45,50), drew $1,000 each.