Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1880, Page 8

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, THE CITY. GENERAL NUWS. 1. P. Brooxs, Voston, is at the Gardner. C. B, THomrson, U. 8, A., is at the Tromont, ©. Lrorotn, Cincinnatl, is 9 guest at tho Gard- hor, ss C. E, Monaan, Madison, Wis, {6 at the Gari. ner * . Gronas WAt.ace, Winnipeg, is at the Sher- man. M. M. Newron, Now York, {s rogistored at tha * Gardner. Mr. AND Bins. J, W. DuAIRDELE are at tho Sherman. N , MeCullough, who thinks it m1 > namo ‘gation it was found that the Liood had tle B,\J. RANDALL, Covington, Ky., 1s stopping at tho Gardner, Constant MAYER, tho woll-known Now York artist, is at tho Palmer. JOAN B. RAYMOND, tho United Btates BMncatial of Dakota, is at tho Palmer. Mn, YosntpA, tho Jupaneso Minister to Wash- ington, wife, and suite are at tho Palmer, Uniten States BENATOI Jotty A, LOAN, ro- turned to tho Palmer yesterday from Washing- ton, that “coal mino™ needing looking after again. IL 1 Tisvor and tanford Nowell, 8 Milwankee; and 8, ary at tho Palmer, It. R. Canute, Vico-President Rock Taland Rall- rond; A. C. Dawes, General Passenger Agent Hannlbat & St. Joseph Rallrond, St. Joscphi, Afo., aro nt tho Grand Pacific. THOMAS Crary, of Peoria, wholsabout taking up his bis residence In this elty, and who has en= tered into a law partnership with W. W, O'Brien, Ja muking his residonce at the Gand Paclile. ‘THe Briekmakers’ Union held n seeing aes torday afternoon at No, oot South Halsted greet, No business was transueted beyond tha ewoaring-in of about two score new members, Dexter Curtis, Madison, Wis. A. H. Hart, New York; A.J. Manning, Toronto; 1. I ruthers, St. Louis; D. McGary, Cleveland and G. W. Sunderson, Indianapolis, are at the Shere mith. JH. Sparks, London, Enz; G. M. Carter, Parbold-near- Wigan, England: De. Helasarin, dydney, NB. Wez JS. Foster, Samuel Grant, and CP. Grant, Lincoinshire, Buy. areat the Grand Pacitie, Cuannes kK, Lapp, Kewanes M.A. Miller, San Franels erd (1D. Heuzhes, dr., Now York; Joti FL Knight, Wisconsin; C, Whitehead, Winnlpeg: and J. @. Thorp, Madl- son, tire at the Tremont, Gus, GRANT spent yesterday ns quietly ashe haa the previous days of his present. visit. Uo devoted the tine to walking and recelving calls, andin the evening dined ont with friends, re- maining the whole evening. Goy. Brvenipar, Chalromn of tho Committea on Transportation, gives notice that the Aton, Burllugton, Milwankee & St. Paul, Northwest ern, Rock Island, Hiinols Central, and Wabash Rathronds will transport visitors ta the Nattonal Republican Convention at two cents per mile each way, A RPRCTAL mnss-mecting of the Wond- Work. ing Machine Hands’ Union was held yesterday afternoon at tho corner of Union strect and Cunnlport avenue, The meeting Ww private one, culled for the transactlan of Anportunt, busluess.” but the members of the Union would not divulge thelr provecdings. Ard: yesterday afternoon sonte boys play lug in front of No, 247 Ogden vena found it box on the sldewnlk * F.C, Vanderberg, iush Medi- ea) College. Pald." An offensive odor procerd. ing trom tho box, they opened it, and found within a birman skeleton with shreds of flesh at- Ancked to it. Tho box and contents werd taken w the Morgue. Mua. Many Haste, of No.f20 Union street, while peeping inte Mrs. Kirehoit's siloon tt No. V2 Engle street, to sev tf Mr. Kirchoff was with- n, necidently loat her balitnee und over tt wnnister info an oper nres nbant elght fect he- low. Striking upon her hy ceived nye aevere seulp woud, whic dresaed by Dr. dangeruns, A secret session of the remnants of the old Butchers’ Union was: at Unton Hull, No, 1500 South Halsted street. ‘Tho attondunco was not large, aa the majority: of the puelcing-houso men juve deserted the Association. The now President, John Crowley, EA, Kilpatrick, U. 8. Au; it. Paul; Dr. 8, W. hy Glasgow, Burlington, ‘La,, F..W, Horne and presided, aud, nftor a brief session, the meeting idjourned without trausacting any lnaliess of importance, SoLomox LonweNnTHAL, § years of nae, whose while parents Ilve nt No. 148% Sherman stree: playing on tho Itoek Island Raltrond, the Hurrison street crossing at, was ucefdentally run down by 6 40, and had his left Jeg crushed off below the knee. ‘Ilo was taken to his home, and was there sheng by the Alderman from the First Ward, r. Wickgrstiim, Frank KurEZINsKE 8 years of ‘ne, whose parenta live at No, Wt Fisk” atreet, wis drowned while bathing at 5:20 yesterday afternoon In Sip, in the southwest princh of the river, and near the West Division Water-Works, le wag nt the timo accompanied by a large number of smull boys, who all nin of when they ew hin drowning. Oilicers Thorne, Keneilok, and Horst, after grappling for the body for about two hours, sueceeded in recoveriug It. An ontertulament will be given Wednesday Hig tu the hallof the Unton Catholle Libra- y Association, 201 Deurboru strect, for the res Vof of tho distressed poor in_ Ireland. ‘Tho Rt- y Of. Titalo, will deliver in short address, after which tho audience will be favored with selections iss Hannah MeCs thy. Mrs. Soheppers, Mrs, Hobkirk, Miss W ley, Mr, Edward Schultze,and Dr, Muactin, Tho price of admission hua been pluced at 40 cents, and the attendance of all members Is requested, ATNo, & Front strect, a short thoronghitro eveninity, teh-enging No. » running west from North THulsted, above Chi- cago avenne, tye cases of. sinall-pox were dis- vovered yesterday, consisting of threo mints, 1 boy of 12, and. a baby. all of whom will be re maved to the Pest-House this morning, M. F Carpenter, who was removed to the Pest-House: somo days Kince, suifering from small-po: reported in very bud shupe yesterday evening, Dr. Do Wolf had decided to ditup with bli all night, the prospevt being that he would die bo- foro morning. Mns, Douotna JouNson committed suleldo yesterday aftornoon by hanging herself fn her realdence, No. 761 Maplewood nyonie, ‘Fue fim ily wero absent fi 2 to fo'clock durhyg tho afternoon, und upon their return found her ead. She had boen mentally aiiiicted for sume ears past, und once, about mn yeur aco, ute empted to take her life In a simiir manner, ‘but was prevented by tho timely urriviat of ter: busbanc. Tho decensed was of Norwegian birth, 64 yonrs of age, und left a husband ind threo grown children. Ar7 o'clock yesterday morning James O'Rrion found lying on tho tour of his burn, No. wit West Lake street, no Irishinnn 65 years of age, mumned Join Tuett, who h uked into the baron = to take =o Rrouso tho man proving | fri O'Brien summoned Yr. W. P. Verity, who found tho taun unconscious, his left arm broken, and left hip and body badly bruised. ‘Tuett isa very burd drinker, and it 18 sonposed that enter- ing the barn whilo drunk, he clambered to tho hay-loft, and In some way fell buck again. Mle infurles were not considered dangorotts, und he ‘was tuken to tho County HMospltul for treatinent, Av 8:30 last evening Oflicer ‘Tin Hyun while patrolling his post found 1 young man klvinue the of Georgo BE. Gow ty ne drunk in tho ditch near the corner of Randolph and 10 Bulle streets. The on brought him to tho rtatlon, where be was locked getsober, An hour lnter Btationkeeper Gubbing tovad him t the cell floor in a pool of blood. Upon Hi rom & cut on the right side of the heud Just above tha eur, Ho wae at once taken to the County Hospital, nnd, though he lost riderablo blood, it ts thought he will get a comfortably enouge. Iths not known wh how he reculved tho cut, as It wis not noticcd .when ho was brought to the Station, He was unable to tell anything about where he rocelyed the injury. ‘Tun “Sons of orminn” (Hermann sihne) * dedicated their new hill on the third floor of No, sng, sift ] Sunday tn June, 188] cunt 25 Washington Btreot yesterday afternoon, Tero was an Imm ‘ we crowd of ladles wed ye Inch of room belug oe . ren re of a simple nature, ‘he Prosideut of thy Hull Committee, Me. Cone rad Tunvert, made u specch of welcome. Mr. Charles Balzmaun, President of tha Hulldiog Committee, then presented the koy# to the Pres mtof tho hullin a rew well-chosen ronarks. y Song Miinnerchor follawed with ¥ which Sr. dose ph Sunder, Pr ‘ot the Grand Lodgy of Mlinols, detlye: oradon of the day. ‘Tho renminder thy session was devoted to nn svelul, lersperscd with mula: ty n baud fourteen pieces, ‘Tho new ball fe not very linge, Wut is neatly dxed up and well adap to the Order. Tt will vo used for the: mouth wa of the Tollowing tive lodges of Hermann Sons: Chis wo" Thoms Payno,", Erele Manner," “Sigel” and’ Washington.” ‘Las Tagsataung (District Convention of the Torn District, Chicago, consisthug uf the asso= elutions Vorwirta, Auront, und Chicago ‘Turn remeinde In Chicago, ‘hut Laporte, nds Jollet, Ottawa, LaSalle, Perit, Mendota, Rockford, and Aurora. Ub, wits held at Vorwiirt’s Turnereiadl, Str, War the chair, The proceediiyrs In the forenoon con- sisted of receiving the dilforent reports of tho ollicers, showing membership of bs, Inerewie 96; nutnber of pupils, Hy, Increase 0; aud of the Appolutinent of diferent eommittess, In the afternoon tbese committees reported, ‘Tho die infet tax for cach member was fixed at 20 conte; ort) was tert with Peru, yn wiganicd as the pluce tor holding the next Convention, on the at it. Three hundred dulliurs wore appropriated for lectures, A scheme for irganizing 0 mutual life-insuranco ussoclation Mong the members was discussed at leugth, roted down, reconsidered, voted down, ddered, and, finally, dropped. The following felegates were elected to the Nation: invention at Indiunapolla: O. ltucd: Barey: un), of ins of Hubous, Dr. Liobig, Adolpy Georg, Cun 1. Suder, John Atos, C, eyaeenille. Thielerape, C.F. Leuach, Pod. Eller, and John V, Koet. Tho delegites: wero in structed to work Jor the-ulnpiion of aouniform tume of blue tlannel, ond, after resolving to 1 tivo delegates to the grent Turnorfest to bo id this sninmor at Frankfort-on-the- Main, the Conyontion adjourned, In the evening thore was a“ Commers.”” CONSIDERABLE oxeltement provailed in the Mente of Wabash avenue and Sixtecnth street, enliy afternoon on neveunt of a brintal ase anlilt made upon an old man named John Wood- ord by a young fellow nanied Tom Hayden, who: Uves with bls mothor tn tho bourding-house keeps in the top story of No, 187 Was Woodard is. necoper, who works nin Biazner, ut No. = West Kinzie street, and has been living with Mes. Haydon, who fs separated from her husband, for some years Mist, Raturday night he caing home and, refusing to stitrender bia wages to Mrs, Hayden, was turned out of the house, He returned us the hone nt about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, quarrel whieh he pleked with’ Mrs, Hayden was terminated by the son's throwing bin down, tho two (lghts of stairs and on to the Wabush avenne eldewnlk, where he ly insenalble In apite of efforts made to res ate him, Te was. ‘nally removed to the County If at examination showed that he was suffering more from the effects of bud whisky than front {ile sutra, exputsion from his into boarding SUBURBAN, RNGLEIWOOD, Tho Genova Lake Association recently met at tho residence of the Rev. F. @. Thearle, and the committee appointed to buy land for tha Assa- elation were authorized to purchase ten nereson tho south aldo of the Inke near Kayes Park. A meeting of the Englewood Mose Company will be hetd at the hose-house this ovening. The Fort Wayne Raflrond Company will ot once begitin belek and stone rownd-house jist north of Fiftyellith street, Prof. Qo. Parker, of Oakland, pald a visit to tho Englewood schools Tinrsday, with the ylow, of selecting tenchers for the fall term of tha Onkhind school, The Baptist Apron Festival, which took place at the residence of Mr. M. J. Denulson, was well attended, and much by those present, The Universalist Sue held its lust eoclablo at tho house of Mrs. G.P. Batchelder, ‘The pro grim consisted of the reading of Jean Ingelnw's “Songs of Seven.” with tableau Htustrations Dy several Httle girls. + é ‘Anestlinate made by the Moard of ‘Trustees fs. that It will tuke & Mito run tho town tho ene sung sede, €40,00 being dovoted to the bullding and repalring of sewe: ra and teachers of the A. reunton of tho ont Methodist, Episcopal Surday-School took plac. »C.Bholps. It was a at tho resid otM an entrance into tho: i vory plousunt attain. Durghirs attempted: houses of George H, Hull, Capt. White, and A, a, Mi . They succeeded In weting into M: Mitehet’s house, but wore detected, and fol. lowed tn trying to escape by Fallces He tired several shots at the burgh unable to overhntl them, ‘The Literary Society wil hold their regular ce ule oveniig at tho residonco of Mrs. t 1 Clatiey. DUE Wale The Engl fug for pract Fringe, corner of Stuto and Sixty-seyenth atr Snturday afternoon, f the nem avaited themselves of the Y put fhemeelyves in priv Mr. Avotchinine presented the Club with, a twelve-foot. bunting An m thig, which will he raised whenever the Clip Is practleing, Cupt. 3. Hrowne Clune ne Enalewood Baton Veteran Club Tharediay evening at flotson's Hall, on the life, ehuric- ter, and patrlotic eervice of Col, Eimer BE. Ells- worth, the first Union soltler kiled on Rebel soil, ‘The Chicago Glee Club will be present and alny some of the old War songs. Tho tree-planting exerelses of the June and December elnsses of tho Cook County Nornul enna will ovcur on the With of the present inouth, MILITIA NOTES. Gencral Information About Our Citizen me Saliiery. The Seventh Regiment of New York took pos- session of its palutinl new armory Inst week, Willian HL. Allen hing been elected Recond {he remnants of tho old | Ticutenant of Company A, Third Reglnent. Private John Pattec has been transferred from Ts Company, Sixth Infantry, to F Company, Fivst Regiment, Can anybody tell what has become of the “straw man of the Second Brigade? Hoe is wanted at Springtield, Capt. und Agsistant-Surgeon Henry Brown, of tho First infantis, hus tendered his resignation, which has been forwarded, Privates David L. Wood, Nleholas Pauty, and: Walter &. Wright have been promoted to Core porals tn D Company, Sixth Battalion, The First Regiment cadets wilt Hsten to wlect- ure by Capt. Frank Brownell, “the Elsworth avenger,” ut the Armory Saturday night, Capt. BE. Winter, commanding Mnttery A at Danville, requests tho dlsehargo of Private qunnee. A. Osborne “for the goo of the gery> jee,” Gordon IL Quinn, formerly a Lieutenant in Compiny Cy First Regiment, his recently been elected Firat’ Lieutenant of E Company, same command, ‘Tho Nourd of Olficers of tho Second Regiment Will holt’ a mecting nt the Sherman House to- night. A meeting was hold Inst Monday oven-. ing, but no business was trinsucted, ‘Tho oflcers and members of thosixth Infantry are also talking up the matter of taking x sum- mer trip at.some (ime during the summer, and Ge ya Lake bug been mentioned in this con- ‘nection, Capt. Hoyne, A.Q. M.of tho Firat Rrlg- ile, pada visit to Springileld Inst week upon fiportint militnty business connected with the Brigade. He reports his trip a success, The Second Brignude had a magnificent on- campment, though, If tho oflicors did exceed thelr appropriation by 81,000, and If the Quar- Luiue and Commissary have not mude any reports. The election of atiicers in Contras 1D, First Cavalry, whleh was ordered for jast Thursday night, Was postponed until next Thursday oven= dng, when It will take plice at the armory on Van Buren street. The Cotonel's rooms of the First Regiment are Dehn titted up fe a next and appeapriate min nor, tha sum realized fram the benefit enters talent some tine to enabling tho officers to go on With the work, Cpt. W. 2 Worthington, of Company A, Twelfth Hattalion, hag recommended tho ds honorable diseharie of Sergt, Peter: MoArthur, Approved and forwarded by reghnental and brie headquarters. Thy puiplis of the Chicugn Cadet School, com= munded by Capt. ehard Tobias, will have a pele drill nt the Armory of tho Sixth Regiment, corner of Wabash iventioand Van Buren street, next Tucsday evening, Tho diferent military orgainizitions of the State are expecting to draw about $10 per man from the nppropriation thie your, ur nearly 40 per cont move than list year, whieh will make thom inere comfortable. If tho S4Stno rule adopted by the Belgie Stef oticers with reference to ubsentecs trom meetlags be onforced, tha ‘Trenkurer wilP soot have money onough abead to furnish the beads quarters [tian expensive manner, IA. Whelen, of C Company, Sixth Tne hes requested tho disehurue of Privates re hummer, Lois Me istlor, an Chivles E. Eanphear for the front ot tho gery feo.” Forwarded to Springield approved. There will be nuother meeting of tho stil ofticers of tho First Urlyute ut the Garducr House to-night. “Thore will be a school for in- struction overy Monday night until turthor uotles. Uy ordur of Hrly.-Gen. Lorrenee, ‘Tho upplteation of Private J.J. 8, Wilson, Je, of B Company, First egimont, for a discharge inet with dianpproval wt) compuny, rewinentil, trigade, and general headquarters, | Thoy all thought tuo mitch of Wilson to let bim go, Ar iu meoting of Ub Comune First Cavalry, held fast week, Corporal Howard Barnard wis broioted to the rink of Sergeant; Corporal Logun to Sergeant; and Private W, 0. Gurrison to the rank of Corporal, to act as Commissary: Bergeant, vice Barnard, on leave of absence, The Sixth Kuttalion reports somv 300 dress vuiforms on hand new. This organization has prospered very: aaa within the past your or tive, and fa hurd utter the best of the older cone sauna In polut of Hii ber al CISC As shon 88 ONY ture compuny fy mustered Mn tho Birth will be a reglineat hoving elyht conipantes, de to oporied that tho new fatique-pants whieh tha Citlzens' Assocation promised ta the ou Heat oruntantions itro ubeut ready for deflvery. They are to be ight blue, and, when donned by the men in connection with thelr dark-blue blouses, they ent upishod from Won-comiulsioned ollicers and privates of the reyulur army. Cupt,'T, G. Lawler, commander of B Company of tho Third Regdinent, or the Rockford Hitlea, Jaw recommended the dishonorable disehurge, pu service, of Privates Luclis I Alt + Geurgo K. Miller, aud sidney d. Zura, tof disobedionce to Approved by regimental and. brigade bendquarters and forwarded, Capt. TL i. Suxwoll, comsruaaline BU Company, Fine Cavalry, hina angina for the houorablo Mlavhiuary Urivate Nowoll Spaulding, on no count of disubillty; and he ulso recommends that Corporml Frank Sullivan, Sergt.d. 1. Spen- cer, aud Privates Marcas M, Brown, it J. Bluck, Fred d. rent, John Briston, Rudolph A, Barnes, Charles 8. Church, and Josoph Downer be dls- honorably discharged for tho good of tho serv: fee, Appcoved and forwarded, regimental and brigade headquarters, Licut.-Col. John #1, Fithian, commander of the Twelfth Buttalion, requests permission to hold @ battalion encampmont some time during the summer. The request has beon forwarded to Springticld approved. Thero has boen consid- erable tal concerning the encampmont ques- Uon, and tho impression eppcure to be provasr FE = lent that there will be no regular enenmpment of tho brigades this yenr, and consequently the regimental and batttlion commanders are gon- eraily moking arrangements to net upon thelr own individual neecounts. Tho question ot brigade encainpments, however, has not been as yot defluitly settled, and it would perhaps be ns weil for commanding aficers to bear this in intnd before arranging too extensively for pri- yate picnics. There appears to be a great deal of biggling nbout the uniform of the new Scots company recruited to the Sixth Infantry. One week tt ly tamomneed that Ht will ne tho fall Hbghtand costume, and another that the regular deesa Uniform’ of the regiment. will bo worn, with some distinetive budge to show that it is really a Beotch company. Heforo one makes up bis mind which ho would rather see. ho snould vv something dofinit as to what thnt distinct- ive budge [sto be. Ef the eaniy Scot ors pon tho street with bare legs, 4 kilt, 1 swallowtail cont, and a silk shake with eat-tall pampons what will people ais, On the whole, perhaps It would bye better to ‘adopt the whole of elthor wiiform. Tt might not be Iinvppropriite to hive one or tivo eompaties attached to tho regiment, In Highland costume; it would certainly give pletttreaque appenrance to the organization. but, on the contrary, ono style of dress untforne throughout would caso tha command to look larger and neater than if two or three costumes were adopted, It Is questioned as to whethor tho commandin; oflicer of the Sevond Regiment nected Ina legu imunner in storing the arinsof bis command in a privite warchouse without permission from bis superior officer, and itis quite provablo thut hoe will be calted upon to turn his ging aver to the proper official, na the Intter is. responsitite for thom. And such eases as this bring out the fact tha more forcibly that the Quartermaster of the First. iirigade stoutd not be longer without a stiltatle storercont or arsennl for the reception of State property. The inntter hig been repent- y Urged upon tho Governorand the Adjutant. teraland it is quite like hat samething wilthedone In this dircetion very shortly. 1¢ has becorre vo military necessity,—in ft an tmergeney, ‘The regilir unthorized upproprin tlon his been found insulletent to meet tho res quirements, and It. isin order, now to draw from the reserve fund the amount necessury to make up the deflelt. Avertain bea sheot, which enlls itself “authority in rilftary mutters," states that: “tho commandant of tho First Infantry has ree celved official permission to take bla command to Oconomowoc on July 1%, to remain n week,” and that "this important point haying been act= tled, preparations will at once go forward in atte tlelpation of the event,” ete, Tha “ inportant polut” referred to ds suttled, with the exeeption of n few trifling dotatls, noticeable nmong whieh aro tho facts that no official permission tins been, given, nor has any formal application been tnade us yet by the commandant. The eine pre pe, publishes the informution to Its readers thitt Maj. W. 8, Soribner, the Inspecting olevrof the First Brigade, has conmpteted hls tour of itrspece tion, and Js busily engaged in making out his re- port to be forwarded to Springicld. Italso eloins that itis cnubted to give sts renders a tabulated atatément concerning tho condition of the several organizations in advance of tho report. Of course the tillitary gontus of the sheet referred to cnn de this, having n copy of Inst Monduy’s Truss before hin, contalning n full tubulnted report, by compantes, and the 1+ regntes at the list inuster, showing the cont« plote strength of the entire brignde, In nearly column of figures, Tobe sure, he could copy the totals, and tt will be ecen, by referring to tho copy of THe Trainuye, that be could, and dd, Ukewleo mnke at tolerably correat copy of Tue Tiunony’s Introduction, Capt. Willlam lack, of Company F, First Reginent Infantry, has tendered his resigna- tlon, Capt. Mock has been [dentitied with tho Firat since ty organlzatlon, taking 0 very activo: pare fy all its atfairs. from the start. Fis organs zed Company F and commanded tt for ome the, bringing it up ton state of efMfcienoy and diseipline second to no other company in the regiment, Then there was a vacancy In tho of fico of Firat Licutennntof the company, and here Capt. Hivek showed tho unseltiso intorest which he felt in the welfare of hls commuind und in the regiment by duingsomething which very few other officers altiaiter as he was would bivo done.: He resalyed and insisted upon venting the position ot Captuinoet the company which he hud reeraited, contrury to the sentiment of most at the members and: his brother ottleers, and labored for tho election of E.R, Knox. dr, formerly n field olficer of the regiment and 6 non of lurze milltury expericnce. anid wel Keown ellelency as at ollicer, as commander, hiuself taking the next place of First Llouten- ant. Hedld this, a3 he: sild, because ho bos Heved It te bo for tho best Interest of the com jany, and this u Itish uct, so Unusual ameng milltary oflicers, mado him — atl the more poplar, When, a short tine subsequently, Capt. Knox was elected Major of the regiment, sack was rediectedt Capt- ain of his con by ununimeus vote, He has brought Co Ly ap tna high state of discipline and eiticlency; he hie always been well liked by the officers and men of the regl- nent, and ils resignation, which has beon held by the commanding officer for a month, has at list been very reluctantly forwarded. Capt. Whuick hus malitained a spotless record from tho very elurts LETHARGY, + The military is nguin falling Into one of those dangerous states of lethurgy and inactivity in whieh tho members suspend nearly all faterest dn tho welfare of their severul organizations, ‘These spells seem to attack every military com- mand ones in about so often, and, unless vigor oug war Is waged ugainet, thom, thoy will prove fatal to these who ure not partlentirly strong, aa wrlticisin of 1 euporlor ofteer by Inferior otcors and meinbers §s one of tho causes of those seasons of Inertia; tho failure of State or other authorities to fulttll their promises with: regard to thuunees or assistunca {8 nother; the domorulization of ono company in a regiment, the shortcomings and incompetenoy of certain officers, lack of conildenco and respect, onyy, Ingratitude, falso statements, une warruited pretensions on the partof those who: ure unnble to back thom, and various other enuges tend to promoto a lick of interest, and. but for tho persistent exertions of n few public spirited members of the. orgunizution. thesa perlods of UnATEN & wawld ultimately destroy the efiiclency und disetplino of the milltury en= Urely. ‘To overcome this, it is only necessiry that avery oficer and momber of the mulithi, from the Adjutant-Genoral of the State down to tho youngest private, do his duty Ina prompt, cheerfil, and regular manner; thon there would he nosuch thing us inactivity and lack of inturest. Lot tho Adjutnnt-General at all times eet. in exuiaple by dolng everything In a regular military minner, even though be ts crowded with work and may hive oa dourth bf agsistanes In his five; lot the brigade offtcers do. their whole duty openty. fenrlesly, and above board; let the commanding olicors of regiments and battalions sco to ft that euch offe. cer in thotr commands enforees the proper dis- elplinve amome his men, and that all reports are minde on times let the company oflicers gee that: every non-commissioned oficer and private In hig command Is vt his post ut the proper times; and, above all, let the first sergeunts of compas nies bo prompt and regular in making out thotr reports und returns, for upon them depends al- most everything, The turdiness of one frst rent will put buck the returns of the Auhttant a of regiment, and this, in. turn, delay. the work of tho Adjutant Genoral, besides causing a grent amount of unnoynnece and vexation all around. ‘Tho {dea Is not mennt to be conveyed here that the Adjutant-Coneral, the brigade, regimental, and company conmmanidcrs do not do thoir duty, but where business, reerention, and milltary matters: ure ao Interwoven with ouch other, it 1s tho endl. est thing in the world to forget and noglect many of He performanzea casantial to presery= {ny the disci pling, efleioncy, and interest o£ the iniiitary’ commands, There is Rrabatly not an oniver or private tn the state militia who would Wot perform his duty to tho lotter 1f ho worg to. stop aad consider’ that. the prosperity of all others depended ta a large extent upon himsclt,. It is uot 80 much solfikhness us thoughtlesucss that causes men to Inck In punctuality, ——— TO COLORADO AND RETURN, - Round-trlp ticketa to Denver, Colorado Rprings, and Pucblo may bo found on sale ut Chicago and allother coupon polnts on Ine of tho’ Chicago, Itock fsland & Paci from May 1 to Oct. J, 1880, Passengers cun procure their tickets via Kansas City, Couneil Bhitts, Leayen- worth, or Atchison yiu this Hine, and have chalce of routes beyond, or they can gu vin one route und back anottor. £ ‘There fs but one chango of curs botween Chi- cago und Denver and Pueblo, and all changes aro made in unton depots, Palace dining-cars aro attachod to through oxpross trains, in which niculs ure gervod at 7 vents cach, For further particulars call at our elty office, ‘0Clark struct, or at depot office, head of La Balle street. H. St. Jon, General Ticket and Passenger Agent. ——<—<——— COLORADO EXCURSION, Tho Chicugo, Burlington & Quincy Nallroad Company will commence May 1, 1490, and cone thhue during the season tho salu of frst-clnss excursion tickets frown Caleago aud local pointe to Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo by six @ diffurent routes. These tickets will bo good golng West within fifteen (15) days from dato of sulo, and to return until Oct. 1 following. Full: man paluco-curs are run by this Company from Chicago to Councl) Blus, Topekn, und Kansas City, Forwing w Ine with but one change of care to Denver and Pucblo, Dining-onrs aro ut- tached to all: through trating, In Which meals can be obtained at tho reasonable price of 15 cents, a Benovolent Dentistry. A bonovolent Detroit dentlat announced that we 1G) vi . ted do wullons of gus and oxtractud | Ey teeth. pat eters The Eldredgo Sewing-Machine.—I[t leads the world, and ts the best for you to buy, Sold on monthly payments. 100 State street. ———— = Times; Our highest artists in dontis MeCbohoye bosond Aoube tweuge Dae Ee woe ————— Rosy-cheeked misses and pretty boys buy thel: candy at Dawson's, 212 Beato ptreots aia Kea LONDON MARKETS, Covent Garden, the Temple of Pomona and Flora. How the Institution Now Differs from Itself Fifty Years Ago. Tho Sale of Flowors and Frult--A History of the Famous Marte —_—___— Ms Literary and Artistic Celehrity-—-Noted Mabltnes OF Ils Old-Time Coffee-Ionses, Special Correspondence of The Chteagn Tridtene, TLonnon, April 15.—T wonder how many of us evor rend Gay's “Trivia.” People have quite forgotten the gifted author of “Tho Beggars’ Opera,” and, what is more, show little tnelina- tlon to renew tho aequnintance, Yet Gay wasa elover poct, nnd had a yast audience In his day. ‘hames street ylves cheese,” says *Trivin'; “Covent Garten, fruits; Moorfield, old books, and Monmouth strect, old sults." I imaging thors are fow Engllsh-sponking peopte any where who do not know that Covent Gar- den gives fruits and Sali somowhera ob- serves that ano of tho first things Macautay’s Now Zeulandor will probably do, when bo makes that celobrated skotdning tour wo have been so long promised, is to come and ineditate among ita moss-zrown arcades. Coyont Garden is a two-fold temple,— DEDICATED TO POMONA AND FLOTA, Ttistho Congress of tho fruit and vegctable kingdoms, sitting for this tnighty metropolls. Aud [want you, my shudowy friends, to svcom- pany mo thithor, say at 0 o'clock In tho morning (ut which hour the vegetable market {8 falrly open), and seo the members of this Congress legislating for hungry London, The rumble of morket-wayons through tho strects docs not cengo during tho whote night, and long before anslight all tho approaches to Covent Gardon tire choked up with trucks and vans groaning under gigintic toads, Some of tho wagons nre bullt up with cabbages, in wall Uke regularity, to a hight of twetve fect. Othors are stacked with peas,—if in season,—turn!ps, carrots, urtichokes, and othor legumes, Iltornlly “too numeroits to montion.” In tha motley mosnic of conysyances, numberiess grocers’ “traps, and hundreds of costermongers’ don- koy-carts and more plebinn handbarrows, seem- Ingly in inextricable confusion, struggle to get out of the Blocknde, buttons purpose, On tho sidewalk surrounding the ninrket-bulidings lo Battered a miscollaneous collection of vegota- bles, rendering pedestrian trafic’ dangerous, You must nét dare too much in this direction; if sou do, [ warn you you will come to grief. For, besldes the probnbllity of, tripping up on the loose cabbnage-leaves and greens strewed nbout, and of belng knocked down by bellowing: porters carrying greasy sacks and loum-in- erustod baskots, you min the risk of getting bit in tho head with flying green-meut from the hands of the alort truckmen, who are unloading: thelr froights by throwlng thom Into the nands of men below, : THESE DRIVERS NEVER REST; thoy aro on tho jump every instant, for othor wagons ore waiting to bo eniptied. Salcsmen who aro assisting are told to “look sharp." Not. n moment's respit is given. If tholr helpers bee low begin to show signsof fatigue and lag a Iittio, they only growl out. there!" and shower tho enbbages down with re- doubled energy, or tilt out more person the flage stones, to bo scrambled for by mad porters Hko tloga ufter a bons. Within tha market, buying and selling of tho mature common to such places goes on all tho whild, and purchusers rush backwards and for- wards, surging in and out with relentlces ob- “stinacy. They, too,: pay no attention to a strangor In tho way, oxcept to tread on his feot and muddy his overcoat. Nolso thore is in abundanco and to spare, insido and out. High above tho srenking. of the henvily-laden yans whose drivers are attempting to extricate tholr wagons orto bring thom within unlonding dis- tance, and the onths of tho bold charioteors aforesald, who sing tho merits of their fellows in choice phrago, there aro, distinguishable the shouta of the silesmen soliciting patronage, and of shippers giving instructions for tho removal of goods nlrondy sold. As market {8 prietically over nt 8, uvery= body 1s intensoly oceupled with tho worl in hand; but, with all the nolse and profanity, thoro are vo unseemly oxhibitiona of the MIOTOUS NATURE OF THE OLD TIME The contrast belween tho Covent Gardon of fifty yeurs ago and tho present Is, in fot, us wide a ono as can possibly exist. The old watchman, helpless for good, nnd tho most corrupt of pub: Mo olflecrs; tho turbulent and drunken old women; tho porters quarreling over thelr morn- Ing potations; tho jndea and negtected horses dropping beneath thotr cart-londs of half-rotien yegolables; tho London rakes making not night but morning bidcous by. tholr obscene bhis- phemles, and deoning {t conduct becoming of kentlenion, ty interrupt honest industry ind scoff at carly labor.—all theso are gone; ind go aso aro tho terriblo lessons thoy inculeuted, Order 14 now preserved, a3 Mr. Diproso remarks Inhls book about London, as well ns it can be | Amongst a rude assemblige of women and man Whose battle for existence beging when the clv- ilizntion of the great city sluinbers. * { am told that for tho flower market tho growers chicily bring thoir stocks Into the hulls at or before midntyht. In the summer-timo, these, ns wells tho vexotables and fruits, are sold uttho early murkets. (funideeds of womon aud girls may bo seen buying bunches of roses nad yiolots, which, minde up into button-hola Douquets, they will dispose of later in the day At the street-corners, London tlower-girls, as Mr, Dickens writes, now falely hold their own tn point of tnate with those of Frinco or Ttnly. von in whiter Nower-girls find muteriats for thotr little bouquets; Cor, thanks to stenin, vioe letsare brought from the Selly and Channel Isles, and even from the south of France, and there 1s always a certain supply of hothouse Hlowers,—a0 that there aro miiny tlower-xlrls who ply thelr trade atl the year round, Thera ig ong favorit corner in tho Strand, for instance, that E cannot remembor ever having seon minus the litte waif whose “Sweot violuts, penny a nh," is never silent. Lwng just imontiontng Mr, Dickens, -Lroferred to the son. Who over speaks of the fathor aq Mr? When Thad no money,” guys tho gront novellst, ’E took a turn In Covent Gurdon, and stared ut the plnenpplea in tho market." In tho winter-time tho lowers market continues just the sume, oxcopt that tho inoralng sale tukes place luter in tho day; it {8 always spring at Covent Gunden, ‘Thoro is nnother rspect of tho interior of the murkot {n winter that I must not forgot to mene ton. Within the inclosed squares ut thu sidea olf the muln avenue THE WHOLEBALE YRUIT MARKET {a carried on, Thoro are thousands of boxes of oranges, hundreds of sucks of nuts, boxes of Hamturg graped and of Fronch winter-pears, and barrela of bright American apples. At 10 o'clock the silo begins. While the moru ox- ponalyo fruits nro purchased by the Weat-End store-Keepers, tho chonper are briskly tld for by tho costormongers, Listen to the prices at which the fruit is knocked down, and yor will wonder no longer at tho murvetous bargains at which these Itinorant vendors tire able to rotail thelr frulta, although perhaps you may bo ase tonishud when you remember tho prices at. which you have seen the contents oP hain of these boxes marked In frultorers’ shops" Frei of all kinds is remarkably cheap in London. © well romember ny astonishment who | frat found out what some of tho prices wore, Oranges were sold for ono and two cents apleces Jemuns for about (ho sume, ara Tlttle lesa, Banannd wero offered ut three conts cach, und fine ‘pears could be bought two and three a pomy. Theso were tho priees at the fruit-store, The street. venders usuully selk at about halt tho prico usked by the frulterors; and tholr stovls ure, as arity, wood, This un error to suppose thoy soll unsound fruit, The truth ty, they buy at tho anction-sales in the markets, and usually wot what thoy want at about tholr own prices,” Tho regular retuilens buy what they think thoy will Hind purchugers for, and no sudre. After’ thelr cholco 8 made, what renutlng mnist be disposed of at some prico or othor, for ripe fruit will not keep, Thon TUX COSTENMONGER atepsin. Being content to sell ble etock at as fulr profit, and having no artlttolal price to koo) ‘up, he charges each day for whut he sells, aceord- 48 there isan abuadutice orscnrclty in the market. Hones hfs prices atways vary, and one may falrly’ judge Crom them tho relative posis tions of supply and demand, € was told last night by one of these puripatoticsa, whose stall wag judt ts Loudon Uridgo, * Ornnges ts high, rr Yot he was selling tha delicious fruit at “twos penny; and ny tunurind oranges are being cried “on the strects five for a penny, Some months ago f bought neur tho Monument some of tho Jurgest and sweotest bunanag L over tusted for n penny apiece, Large lomons ure to be bud to-day three for apenny; and it was only a fow weoks sinco that the {inerants wore offers ing swoot oranges six, fora peng, soyenty-two for a quarter of a dollur,—think of that,—and all ud, ‘tho Londoners, huwever, gre not groat ruit-cuters, ‘ Generations ago Covent Garden belonged to tho Abbots of Westminster, The nume bad not then boen corrupted, and people culled it Con- yout Garden. Walter Savage Lundor hus de soribed the chango that bas come ovor the plac alnce tha monks studlod thoir missuls In the church orchard: **The convent becomes a play: house; monks wid nuns turn actors and actresses. ‘The garden, formal and quiet, where a salad was cut for a Lady Abbess, aud flowora wore gathored to adoro images, becomes a market nolsy and fall of life, distrituting thousands of frutta and Howers ton vicious metropolis.” As far back as tho beginning of tho thirteenth century the Inclosury belonged to tha Abbots, who, 1c cording to Walford, sed tho site for a burying- ground. Thon, and long aftor, Covent Garden WAS IN TITH COUNTRY. Mighty Tondon had not encircled ft, I can dno oxnet date of tho market's ostablishment, Evon at the beginning of tho century, the ar- rangements wero very primitive. Tho midds walk of tho market, 18 we aro told in “Old and: New London,” conslsted of oli, tumble-down shed-shops, though tho fruit, flowers, and veg- etables wero excellent. Crockery ware was sold in several of thom. There wers two medicil- herb stores, whero:you could purchase leech and snalls, thon ‘employed to for consumptive gritionta, were Also, a well-known itinerant bird-merchant had astully whero he sold larks, cannrics, owls, pare rots, and lave-birds, Tho present markat-bulld- ings, by no means fnposing, wore erected tin ISL by the Duke of Redford, tho property having belonged to the Bedford family since 182, when the Crown wave It to dohn Russell, Earl of Bed- ford, tinder the description of * Covent Canton, Iytng In tho Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields fext Charing Cross, with seven ncres ealled Long Acre, of tho yearly value of six pounds ex shillings and elght pene Hix pounds alx shil~ lings and vight pence! Now Covent Garden is the richest nppatnuge of the Ducal eutlty of Bed- ford, TU wish, ts anothor lias wished, that you or Joiny Criend, had one tithe of the fat revenues thatvoze from between the bricks of the Red ford estuto, Yon should not dignor idelve thon, In the wordsof the author of ''Twiee Around the Clock,” * Wewould drink brown ale, and pay tho reckoning on the null and ne omin for dobt should wo to jail [that wo could help) from Gurryowen’ to Glory.” A few yoare after the constriction of the present building, opon-nir nvcommodations were pro- Yided on the roof, ind now, a4 you enter tho market, you cnn see the plants in’ platuresquo lines apparently Ree from out tho roof, Thearen of the market is only about threo acres. In comparison with the requirements, the facilities nt Covent Gurden aro ridiculously inadequate, D Twas strongly tempted, whon I commenced this letter, to {gnore the markets nt Covent Garden and devote myself entirely to tho literary an artlatic history of tho tocallty, Covent Garden undoubtedly possesses more Ilterary memories than any other apot in modern or nnefent Lote dou. During the whole of the twolast centuries it was, in tho words of Tho Connolasour.” “tho: neknowledged region of gallantry, wit. and crit- ieism.” In tho days of tho trast ‘tivo Georges a concourac of Hterary chirnaters and ten of zen- ins frequented the mumerous colfen-houses, wie and elder cellars within its boundaries;such na probably never before met in any othor one Rpot. All tho famous men of the Cree pe- rlod of English Iterature gathered thore. 1 wish Teould enumerate bulf of thom. Thore were Button’s colfec-house, and the Medford, and ‘Tom's, and Will's, where came together celchrated actors, printers, and authors, whose names ore as funilidr to wens JE tholr possess Bors were stlil in tho flesh and electrifying na with thelr genius, In Covont Gurden was tho “Finish” tavern, the seene of 86 many encoun ters and disturbances. 1t was before this nolsy hostelry that Richart Brinley Sheridan, dramas tlet, wit. and member of Partinment, dend drunk in the gutter, told the watchinan that his name was Wilberforce. Johnson first met Boswell in Covent Garden, and there nlso poor Dryden wag Homued within an ineh of hla life, Steele and. Addigon were nightly frequenters of {ta hoss table colfec-huuses, where they wrote hull hele = Tittlers. and Spectators, “When Vol= tara lived in Engtnnid Covent Garden wis his chosen home. Turner palnted inustreet hurd by, Wycherly lived In one of its houses: and Flelding wrote somo of his most brililint sketehes inn iittte street running out otit. Wedgwood ance cluimed tho locality for hishome, 8odld Colly Cibber, und Churehill, and Hollngbroke, and Otway, and Hogirth, and Wilkes, and Garrick, and Foote. Sam Butler, nuthor of * Hudibras,” was so fond of tha placa that he chose it for his fal reating-place. And Goldemith, whon ho was not in Fiect stroct, could usually be found in tho vicinity of Covent Garden. Popo know every stone of ‘the region; and so did Marvell, Congreve, and Young, in thoir tino, Indeed, tho nimes. CROWD UPON MY MIND 80 BWIFILY, ond with such utter disregard of chronological order, that f find myself hopolesly ‘confused, St. Paul's Chureh in ‘Covent Garden is a ver muinsolenm of great men. Inigo Jones built this une for his patron, St. Paul of Bedford, fa 1613, The Earl wanted n chapel for hla purish- Joners, and told tho fanious urtist and architect nottoge to much expense in tho building, “Lwould nat have ft much better than a barn,” quoth the noble Enrl, Aimwered Inigo, “Very welll You shall have the handsomest barn in Evglind.” Mr, Jesse, in hts * London,” says that there nro more men of genius interred In tho Covent-Garden St. Paul's than in any churoh In England, except Westminstor Abbey. Butler rests thore, according to his own appointinent, There lao lie Sle Poter Lely, the painter; and near bim the well-known actor and wit who died in Jill, Dick Estcourt. Mrs, Contlivro, the author: of “Tho Busybody” and other plays, is buried in tho churchyard, hard by tho yraves of tho famous wood-carver Grinilng, Gibbons, and Robert Wilkes, and near those of Johu Witcott, tho “Poter Pindar" of George ILT.’s reign, an Muekin, the notor. * Ihave mentioned tho coffeo-houses of Covent: Garden, 1 will tell you ‘something of two or three of these ciasale haunts, and tholr connce- don with tho ilustrious names of our Iitcrature, —relying for my facts upon Mr. Edward Wat ford, who finished the work of roscuroh on his- torient London that dear old Walter Thornbury begun, but did not lye to complete. First thera was ‘WILL'8, tho one of nll tho coffec-houses which in tho Boventeenth and Elghteouth Centuries sup. plied the place in socicty now ocenpied the modern club that holds the highest placo in the Hterary history of London, John Dryden was tho President of tho nssemblayo of wits that mot under its roof; and it wns owing to his of- forts, a8 Pope writus, that WHI 1 won such bigh repute. Defoe, in one of his buoks, describes how this resort also stood high with tho sris- tocraoy of birth as woll us of letters, who nlway's visited Itafter the play, 1 presume, though, that the blue and green ribbons and stirs wero not allowed entrance into the little rooin on tho first tloor over which Dryden reslied, for contra tothe compuny that met thore was not rendily granted. No mere pretenders to Iterature or writers of fugitive verses could obtaln admit- tance. It wus to Will's that Popo, when 8 mero ehild, induced his friends to carry him, that ho might gnze oon the grea net whose mantio ho was deatined in after- Ife to wenr, Ubiquitous. Papys was also among: ita frequentera. After tho doath of Dryden, when Popo ruled the Parnussus at Will's, Addi- son transforred the pretmincnce to BUTTON'S COFFEE-IIOUSE. Horo tho brilliant author of “Cato” used to retreat “whenevor he suffered any vexation from tho Countess," and hero ovory evening he would meet his friends, Dick Steele, Budzell, Carey, Davenant, and Phillps. Popo was not 2 Ktranger olthor; and it was nt Dutton’s that Philips, as Dr. Johngon tells us, showed himsetf ono of cho gonus viritablie by hanging pa rod with which ho sald ho wus gaing to chastise the Kittle man of Twiekontnm, The conventional officers of tho Cardia wero likowlse nt this rondozvous, where the editor erected at tho ontranco 1 lion's bond with ‘a lurgo mouth to revelyo contributions from young and inex- porioness authors, Charles Johnson, fimnous for writiug i play) oyery year, wns a dally nt- tondunt. At lutton’s, as at most of the other votfoc-tiouses, tho hnibituca ised to wear long- flowing Maxon eis. ‘There was pulled down in 1885 a building ty Rusgell street which has boon known for upwards of a contury and a hulf as “ram's Coffee-Iouse." ‘This was nnothorof tho llterary resorts of Covent Gurdon,—a place whero’ “there wis the best of conversation tl midnight." Tn the early part of tho rolun of George HL a club was established at Toin's, cons sisting of upwards of 600 members, fneludtiug not only Garrick, Foote, Murphy. Dr, Dodd, George Colman, Goldsinith, and Dr. Johnson, but the Duke of Montague, Lord Kodnoy, the great Lord Clyde, the Earl of Anglesey, Earl Peroy, and the Duke of Northuinbertand, But tho day of volfeo-honses is past, und Covent Gurdon, onco tho resort of fashion, wit, and tcarning, is only known to our gencrition as the location of a market that supplies modern Bubylon with ita fruits and lowers, ae ————_—— MORTUARY, — . Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Avian, Mich, May 2.—Tho remains of tho Hon. EB, 1. Clark were buried in Oakwood Comu- tory this afternoon, ‘Tho Kev, Mr. Prico read tho Episcopal service at tho housu. Goy, Cros woll, Anson Buckus, A, I, Wood, W. IL Waldby, W, 8. Wilcox, Gcorgo 1. Crane, W. W, Luck, and FR, Stebbins acted as pall-boarers, Deceasod was anald and Uberal member of the Order of Odd-Fellows, and lodges from Tecumeuh, Bilgs- field, Morencl, Hudson, dasper, and Weston, by invitation, ussisted tholr brethren of Adrian Lodge in pay ta due respect to the momory of tho departed, Attondunce at the house wes very large, und tho funeral cortege exceptionally fin+ podlny. a A NARROW ESCAPE. Samuel Chambors, tho assistant enginoer at the Shurman House, bad a vory nurrow cecupo from a most terrible deuth yesterday afternoon. After doing some work which had called him to tho fifth floor of the hotel, bo aesired to go down: uguln by tho frolght elevator. He had tho key to the clovator door in hls pooket, and when ho opened {t and found that the elovator was not resting at tho ftth tloor landing ho peored Into tho well boneath bim to ind out whore it wus, A eight of the conurete pavement ot the base of tho well, lylng somo ninety odd foot bencath him, showed him that tho elovator wus above bin, and ho started to quickly draw back, when, before the thought became uction, he folt the bottom of the clevater softly touch the crown of his head. Tha olo- vator was moving slowly yot, — thero was no time in which to draw tho head froa from ite pressure, und the - horromstrickey man fel. tha pondornus car very slowly, yot ver surely, pushing him down tuto the abyss whiel yawnod benea' » With the mud’ strength of deapair he clutched the side-alll of tho ole- vator door, bis fingera clings to the alight tenure with agin of iron. the olevator de- scended he shifted his hands atong tho sill and bent his body, not with any hope of salvation from the apparently inoyitablo doom, but with i the instinctive desire to off as long as poss! bio tho agony of the Onal moment of surrender. tho olovutor-car do- ascended until bis body was bont donblo and his Abt ing hands had got within an inch oe two of his feet. [fs right shouktor was boing orushed by the welght. tipen it, and his cheat waa fo contracted that breathing was all but an ime possibility. Finally hla hands and his fect mot, and thon one band and then nnothor gave way, nid the poor fellow's suddenly-relensed body. Tt did not us tho his tert ankle betwoen Itself and the floor, and the ob- struction proved stuflleient to stuy its downward Dangling thus by one Toot, Chambers felt hope revive within hin, and shouted grees 10 machinery conneeted with tho elevator wns stopped, burs were recured, and tho clovator tha unforhinite below, Bill lowly and surely fell outwards into tho clovator wall, reach tho concrete basement this tri one, In tho moment of his falling, caught! TOYTONS, for help, which was not long In coming. raised sufliciently to ullow fellow to be lowered by a rope tothe toor whero ho was taken in in safoty, Fora man ence, Chimbers was neither so much hurt nor frightened as wight be expected. Ils shoulder was conaktorably hrufsed, and bis collur bona ae dislovated, while the anklo which had borne ho tmtot his pendent body, was very bad No bones wero brokon, however, and Chanbors walked down atairs to the ongine-rooin, whore ft surgeon nttonded tohis wounds, and pronounced thoin serious but not dangerous. LOCAL CRIME. &PATSY DEVINE.” Thero wasn littté flurry about the Armory yesterday over tha man Devine, allas Coyne, who Js locked tp thors for the Goodfellow mur- der at Bloomington tn Inst August. Tho pris onor Insists.tint ho fs ptaln Thomas Coyno and not Patsy Devine, A person whoso name tho pollee retuse to give, most Nkely becauss ho fs Bapy ora“ give-away" in thule omptoy, called toxeo Devino yesterday. Ilo upproiched tho cell, stuck hls hand “gingerly through tho bara, nod ealled the prisoner by tho futnitar nome of Patay. ‘The prisoner shouk the pruterred hand, und had a short oe ley with tho mun, which was listened to by a policcinan stowed away in adark corner, This poticeman, formerly Of the opinion thut the prisoner was not Devine, chunged blamind. A reporter who suw Coyue shortly aftor this Intor- view found bim cool and collected. Tis vieitor alloged that ho used to work with Deyinc ona farm nenr Alton, and claimed to identify him ag thoman be knew is Dovine. “But before bo left mo,” siuld Coyne, “ he acknowledged that he was not sure, t8 1 looked older than Devine, He wise chargod mo with belng an nequaintance of John Lamb and *Sheeney’ George, in jull here for ‘murder, [ bolleve, but I never heard theso names until he mentioned thom to mo, Neither have Lover served timo at Joiforson City: aay, as ho allegos. I was noyer thore iu my Ifo.’ ‘hie prisoncr talks freoly in this strain, uses no sling, and secs not to undorstand sian) terms that every thict knows nnd cannot avol using. His manner is convincing that ho is not Patay Devine, and hence not tho mun wanted for the murder, Perhups, howover, be 14 only a clover artist in dissfmulution. ‘ ARRESTS. ‘Tho Central Station dotectives yesterday run in for vagrancy Sum Hannah and Charles Andor~ son, Bothare incorrigible criminals, and nyo served two terms at Jolist, whence thoy wero Mberuted only recently, Tho former 1s quite a poet in his way. and nchloved u great reputation for bis Penitentiary sonnote a fow yours ago. Stephen 3, Burchill, a tonmator, 23 years of age, Is at the West Mudison Strect Station charged with stealing a horso and ght wagon from Otto & Knhweilur, of No. 20 Blue Island uyente, Tho men bourd in the same house near the cornor of Despiutios and Adatua atreots, and Rurehill yesterduy became intoxicated, bocausa of tho death of child In the house. The com- platnants aimnly ‘want to know what bo did with the rig, and thig he was unablo or unwilling to tell thom ut the time be was locked up. Aloxandor MeCaughen, cha: two boxes of cigars found in his possession, ant which were idontificd by Rudolph Selfert, of No. 183 Clurk street; Dantel Slattery and Pronk Biit- Hgan, members of the Fourteenth streot bund of thieves, who wera caught at B o'clock yestor- day morning just after they had burglarized tho tuloon of Charles Berger, No. Ti State street, of ngmall quantity. of liquor and clgnrs: Willlam Heideberg, assaulting H. Stern and. cl Wpping n picce vt his nose; Gustay Huehtz, Oe Mirouts and assaulting Join Loin, of No, 2 Rumsey streot, becauso of a potty noighborhood quarrel; Thomas Harris, atlas "Skinny" Hop- Kilns, a troublesome youngster, disorderly and realsting Ollicer G, A, Bender. t Don't rundown a policeman, for you aro Ila- ‘blo to be caught and incarcerated without any chance or hope of boing bailed out ino filthy ell. Hunning down » policeman {3a crime not epeotfied in the criminal calondar, and tho Neo, therefore, think thoy have n right todo na thoy please. For running down Olteer Parker, two women, giving tho names of Dolln Galioway and Christina Lat Bordy, aro locked up at tho ‘West Madison Street Station, and yestorda; police captured and locked up Lyman 0. Ch who, for nught known to tho contrary, {fs arespectablo young nan, Neithor of tho threo nro booked, nid so cannot be bailed. Mr. Clark acknowledges having run over Oficor Parker, Dut snys thoro were extenuating circumstances, which no ono but himgeif could mention. Ho mot tho women at the corner of Randolph and Peoria streets, and, scompthom in asad plight. owing to their horse baiking, he attempted to nid thom. Not succeeding after somo few trials, owing to the women having little or no knowl- edge of driving, he Jumped into the buggy and offered touzive them home. Tho horse acted stubborn alt tho way aloug. and juat as tho aceldent ocourred tho Galloway jwomun_ had lashed the xninal Into a rapld gait. ‘Lhe officer got off the frout plutform at tho car, and It was eblelly through his own carclesness ond short- sightedness that ho was run down, CANADA. Brazillan Steamors—Tho High Com- missioner to Groat Britaln—Apples and the Natlonal Pollcy,?? Speclat Disputch to The Chicago Tribtine, MonTREAL, Muy 2.—Now that the line of stoam- ors botween Canuda and Brazil can beregarded asan estublishod fact, a numbor of Montreal merchants and manufacturers are taking meas- ‘ures to extond tholr trade to that Empire. Two gentlemen leave for Brazil, with numbroua com missions, by tho first steamer sailing from Mon- tren, Mr. Bentley, Brazilian Congul, writes: “Loxpect the Brazillian steumeors will start in tho cuurse of three months, prubty In tess time. They wilt start from Montreal or Halifax, touching at the West Indices, Pornainbueg, Bain, Rio danelro; and return by the gume route.’ Tho Government hus stipulated with that gen- tleminn that the steamers shatl sail to and from arteent du summer, and to and from Hulifax in winter, Speetal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Orrawa, May 2.—In tho Houso of Conunons, on tho bill appointing a High Comnilssioncr ot Cannda to Great Britain coming up, an intercat~ ing discussion took plice. Sir John Macdonald exphiined the provisions of tho bill; and, altud- ing to thosntary of A. ‘T. Galt (High Comnis- stoner), sald be would bo pluced on tha samo status as w Lieutonant-Governor of tho first clasa—at on gilury of $10,000, Ho olnimed tho appolntmont would offect a lurgo financial eav- iz to the country. ‘Lhe Hon. Alexan- der Muckenzle condomned the Admintatru- tion for thelr violation of the principlos of constitutional governtuont in mukhi tho uppolntment first, and asking Parliament afterward to rat! » Having humorously al- Juded to the Governmont's anxicty as to tho precedence tho High Cquuinissloner should, enjoy at entertalnmonts, ag minifestod In tho oflicin! correspondences, ho ndyised tho Goverument to euution its High Commissioner as to tho Kind of languaye be should uso on public occas slong. Ho contomned und ridiquicd Sir Alex- andor Gult’s * dingo” speech mado at Montreal previous to his departure, and bts Inudation of the Roxconsfleld Goyornment, which Governs ment, on arriving in London, ho found ina nilnority of 150. Othor passuges In tho corres Bpondence intimated that thers wos a schomo under conalidcrution for the cxtablishniont of a Binal) standing ourmy Ju Canada for Im- erial and Colonial purposes. ‘This proposal wan denounced in unmeasured terms, He did not beliave In whut Sir Aloxandor Galt in his Mons trunl spcech wus plonsed to say of tho people of the United States, *Thut they wero a hoatlio, ar certainly, 1€ not a bostile, ut lonst an unfrlendl) nation.” Hu did not hellove that Ang respansl- ble Minister or representitive of Canada had any right to s0 churactorize the poople of tho United States, He wus not aware that thoy had shown n disposition to manifest a hostile or un- friendly spirit in any direction; and it was clear- ly our duty, while maintaining our loyalty us 0 British Colony, to cultivate friondly rdlations with that people, and not to send an Ambaasne 4 dor to Engtind whose last act in Canada wus to give a parting kick tow sHony people. This appent to bo tho hight’ot diplomutis folly, Mr, Muckenzie’a remarks were recolved with great cheeriaz, tho Hon. Mr, Dinko, the new lender of tho Opposition, follbwed Str, Muckenzte, and ble speech was tntorvsting ua dofiniuy tho policy of the Opposition on liiperial questions, Elo sald that as long as Canada had no volco {n dircot. dug tho forelgn policy of tho Empire, ho would oppose the expending, a8 a colony, of blood and money in carrying toa succeesful t3su0 wars BO undertaken. One of tho drawbacks to tho ap- pointinent of ajpormunent Commissioner in Lon- don wus, that ho would cease to bo inforined from personal abservition and knowledge of the wishes und viows of the ponple of this country; and in that respect the proposal was faulty, Ho feared tho High Commissionersaip would bo found to bo an exponsiveluxury, Sir John Macdonald dofonded ihe appointmout of Sir A, T, Gatt, und said thore was bo arrange iment by which Canada wos to furnish ber cone tngent In curse of a foreign war, Such a thin; bad nevor boon suggested by the Imporia! wudthoritiog, oF considered by the Canadiun Gove ornment, The rumor upon which the gontlo- mon had bused their remarks was utterly with: out foundation, ‘The bill Nxing the haley of the High Commis. sioner. foelly passod 4 majority, The Minister of Justice introduced a bill specting the administration of criminal fustioe in tho, torritorics now in dispute between On: Ho had passed through such a terrible experl- ght of tha elovator-car, together with lly mnahot, red with stealing * in Manitoba or Ontario, tion in regard to th entertained, because ono UN, BY wi in Canada, ronhelt, and for reduc! petroleum from 130 quality of potrol Salt Maple: Maplo-sugar mondo from bad been ompticd last aut to bo worthicss, BTRONG—Saturd at, Mra. Willinm F tthe funoral sory tario and tho Fodornl Government, 1, that auch cusca ns may arise can he tie This ste sented to by the Attornoy-Gen: Tho Minister of ‘Finances somonty tho Houso by intimating thata certain Ried 0 duty on apy to foster the production o¢ 8D ‘Tho Hon, Mr, Baby hns give sea a are eae et pec! nation a trol Provide for mialng tuo fretteat of Tate to Potraloum fram 109 demrecs to 180 dogrorg at Ing tho fire-testan to 120 degrees nnd for Placing tho responsihility ax lou Willlamstown, Vty at tho brine from tho farmor's beef and ore ica th TOs Aog ri her et les coma 10 Objects ort peg 0 of ho Rete a oft! 8 Pah. font Fabreny i, to tng um on the vendors thareof, Sugar. tho a thee Toate ate rt et tumn, Was Bo salty DEATHS, ‘ May 1, nt No. 10 Thintragee en at Bi Ala fatk'n Ein Cottage Uroverny. and. Ibronpretephach Waeuces, 4,aL12m. Friends invited wit Ce Watortown (N. ¥.) papers pli of Charica Han months and it Saturday, ay Lint 11:45 p.m, p.m. Monday, MANSTON—Mny BRACKETY—Wilto Hutch! i i Wy Hite Mute Ings Henckett, on} ton, agod 2 years 1 month an TEREN! nt No, 4 THeaday thout further noth ihernoti pleaao cepy, EM eat dcp a Gea i. trol}. ‘May 8, to Gracetana, 14 pemont 2 Carfle, ancond dauatitor of @ oa a Cat Lak ages 284 Aryans BENER—May 2, pyonenitie, ‘Mildred Amy, Arist Ge ae ea at fi Tt days ry honor, aged | Tone Lmonth an $27 Washi jm (in) RING- Moy i.nt 116 Bouth foraon King, agod 77 years, bel Uavor. Fanorat Monday at 3 p.m. cr! 7 . and 8) papers please copy, Teo lovad t W thor of ate ‘Now York pepors plenna copy. (voons—M, and imoniine? ? Alexander ‘Boston and Newfoundiand papers pl Willinm Bor cramton CROWLEY—1 oy 5 Willintn and Bri Crom mgneral at 1Lo‘clock em. 3f papers a o'clock a.m. fonday, May’, fromNoy B. Woods, need 2 yea O77, joy, aged 1 your ane"f! CURRIER—May 1, 1980, at Bycamore, Hor, SL D4 formerly of Chicago, aod ia Tea Our cory. LYNN=—May 2, nt11:50 o'clock, J gad dontiy Woloved daughter of Brigaet aed Wegey ‘unoral fro a calvary Comotarys oo 7 Sedawick-st, by cars te MOLTER—Sunday, May 2.at hls Into residence, 2 Clyhbourn-pince, George Kunoral 3 SHAVER—Sunda) Sunday, May 2, of typhald- aoBonvar ont dtrriol Te Sad the wa eer Laue Beavor, nged it yoara and 11 montha, runoral at ll a. m. Tuesday. 451 Wort Jnckson-at, to 1 Rosai Molter, azed 44 dosdny, May 4, ata p. sa. to Grocelan raceland, ; ee EL, May 4, from realdencs, ———————————, ANNOUNCEMENTS, LL MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES APPOINTED to make arrangementa f Foquanted tate prasent witho ing, Stay 6, at tho Palmor Hic for Docnratic ab fall Wedneadee yt jousd, Pisitor SAME ECCS WILT CoxPaE tt the noon prayor-mocting aay, Lower Farwel rans xe q ZI shit eoENe MEN'S GOSPEL MEETING WILL id in Lower Farwell ial] to-nigt Defovaugh, of | th 10 Forty-novonth-at, Church, will makoo short sdarons. hee Med. if TP reabyieie MIB REG! TAR MONTHLY MEETING OF THH (PR REGULAT, MONTHLY MEETING OF THE Directressos will bo hold Afyiuin ending, May, at Penne Te arpa meot at 7.30 p. m., nt he same place. a ee Min BOARD OF OFFICERS OF THR SECOND Regiment will hol Bierman Tlouse Cluty Hours for gonornl businoss, and a Ligutenant-Cotonol, vice Itond, reslgnod. oma this evoning at Bo’ old Bn olectio monthly meeting atthe clock, AUCTION SALES, By GEO. P. GORE & C0,, {and & Wabash-ay, REGULAR TRADE SALE DRY GOODS. Tuesday, May 4, 9:30 a, m CLOTHING, Ladies’ Linen Suits, Hats, Caps, Ladies’ White Wear, Alpacas, Ribe bons, Straw QGoods, Shawls, Table Oli Cloths, Cutlor: BANKRUPT ST '» Ot0., OtO. CK GENERAL DRY GOODS, including an Invoice Short End Cloths. GEO, P, GORE & CO., Auctioneer, BOOTS AND SHOES At Auction. Wednesday, May 6, at 9:30 a.m, WE SHALL OFFER THE Largest and Most Varied Stock BOOTS & SHOES Yot offered this season. ‘ ‘The manufacturors are calling for thelr money, these gonds must be sold wituoul eny reserve. vad Tn addition to our regular stook, wo snail sell FINE STOCK Ora Alonday and ‘Tucmiay, B BANKRUPT RETAILER! Which will furnish an unusnally fine chance forall buyors. Catalogues and goods ready for inspectioa * GEO. P. GORK & thast ao Wabastest, POMEROY & C0. dundoncers, 78 and 8 Mandolph-1b Elegant Household FURNITURE At Marbla-Front 11 South A Residence, shland-ay, Monday morning, May 3, 10am. Th Rlogone | tl . consleting of Blogane ie arnaura oF abaYS ote conane fle Be Parlor seta, Spignala, Body Hrussele carpet, Elogant sideboard and 1inil Treo, full aot bteck Wak hut Dining-Raom Furniture, Bode, Bedding, Coa ory, Stovas, atc., ate. ij "POMEROY, &CO. cert. Auction aband bo Rendoipt-at No. 84 Twenty-sixth-st, | NEAR INDIANA-AY., Monday Morning, May, 9, 10 a. mM Tho entire Furniture of above Dwelling, om slating of Good, Well-Conditioned Furulturty consisting of Marble ard Walnut Chamber Sets, Parlor Set, Itrussele and Woot Carpal Dining-Room and Kitchen Furniture ateada, Hels, amt Redding, Crockery, &¢ «tlao, Cook ant Heating Stovess Th, POMEROY & CEN ttt Pry By MENRY & Buocessors to Chas. 1. Itaad ‘and HATCH s In & Co, AucHonbEh 157 & 1) Wabash-ay, . LARGE AUCTION SALE. Boots, Shoes. & Slippers, TUESDAY, May 4. “Another Large and Splondid Lot of MANUFACTURERS’ SAMPLES Stioe Manufactu rer’s Stock, J je a8 Constating In part of Howe Bowing Machine, 8! Uppor Leather Kplitterse Sor ee ioreoes, Lane Bhow Carwons, Veg Ficate, Crimping Blocks Av LOU, Tap ansorigt stots of « Retail Boot and shoe Desh orgolng out df business. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, REGULAR TRADE SALE DRY COODS! FUR and WOOL HA’ LOTHING, GOODS, ‘SILKS, LINEN! 78, STRAW 18, NOTIONS, et Also the Entire Metall Stock of Gente’ Yoru! Goods belonging to Ar. B. Henkle, a AT 10 O'CLOC! TIENRY & K A.M. HATCIL Auctlonsese. .__ CANDY. ma Aa it dares recon: Scent alae 1