Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1880, Page 4

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VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- TION—Will confer the Fourteenth Degree of the A. ttish Rite on ‘Thursday evening next. By EO. MCCLELLAND, T. P. G.M. of GEO. ED. GOODALE, Gran@ Secretary. SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1890. GiapstonE has been reélected in Mid- Lothian without opposition. + Artre occurred Friday night in London and fourteen lives were lost. Ir is believed that Queen Victoria will open Parliament in person on the 20th. —_———— Aw explosion of sulphur in a colliery near ‘Shamokin, Pa., fatally burned five persons yes- terday. ‘ Heavy rains fell throughout Kansas yes- terday, doing incaloutable service to the wheat and other crops. £ Tue “Reds” of.France purpose organizing ademonstration in honor of the Communists who fell in May, 1871. . Two ES were killed in a minenear White- hall, N. ¥., yesterday, by the falling of a pillar ot ore. Several others were injured. Twentx-FIVE fishermen, not twelve as at firet reported, were drowned off the mouth of the Colusppia River, Oregon, during the heavy squall'of Tuesday. i Henry Tuomas, a farmer living near New Canton, Pike County, UL, was struck by light- ning while hitching mules in his barn yesterday morning and instantly killed. Tue Turkish in of the Russian Co). Commeroff was sentenced to death yesterday. ‘The Russian Government has been for some time demanding a trial—indeed a conviction—in this case. Tom Joxes, a colored man, of Satan, Mo., returned home late last night and found Will- jam Jackson, another colored man, usurping his Position, whereupon Jones seized his shotzun and shooting at Jackson killed him on the spot. ‘Tne delegates elected to the McIlenry County Convention yesterday are anti-third- term by a good majority, and, a8 the complexion of the delegation from the Fourth District de- _ Pends on that county, it seoms settled that they will be for Bla: Issrnuctions have been issued by the Spanish Colonial Minister to the Captain-Gen- eral of Cuba to combine firmness with human- ity in dealing with the Cubuo insurgenta. The recommendation to humanity is something new in a Spanish order to a Cuban Governor. i Vy rains and slight frosts have done SonsMerable damago to the crops and vines in the mountain provinces of Spain. A kind of beetle which did great injurf to the crops in the Southern provinces of Russia in 1878 has made its appearance in great numbers this year, and tho Russian farmers are greatly alarmed thereat. InpicaTioys that Grant will not obtain the solid vote of the New York or Pennsylvania del- egation continue to multiply. The pressure from the districts is too much for some of the delegates to withstand, and .there is now no doubt that Blaine will get about 45 votes from both States, notwithstanding the efforts of Conkling and Cameron. PRINcEsSS PauLInE of Wurtemburg, un- Uke most Princesses, had her own way in the murriage business, and selected as her husband a physician of Breslau. Before receiving the as- sent of her Hoyal father to the alliance, Pauline had to abandon her title of Princess, and will be known for the tuture as simple Mrs. Dr. Wilm,— 8 plain and plobcian name enough. Bismanck seems determined in his pro- posal to deprive Hamburg of its privileges as a free city, and intimates that any interference on the part of the Reichstag will be regarded as im- pertinence, and will be strenuously opposed. Herr Lasker was yesterday refused permission to introduce a resolution in the Reichstag declar- ing the action of the Government in the matter unconstitution: —-— Te steamer American, of the Union Steamship Line, from tne Cape of Good Hope for Southampton, foundered on the 28th of April near the ¢quator. ‘The passengers and crew took tothe ship's boats, and already three of these, containing fifty-four persons, have been picked up and landed at Madeira. Five boats are still missing, but when last seen they were making for the Liberian coast, with very good prospects of reaching it safely. BIsMAECK, in a speech delivered to the - Reichstag yesterday, bitterly complained of the ppposition which Imperial measures received at the hands of the Liberals and the Catholics, and threatened the Jatter party with retaliatory sneasures, and suid: “I am tired, tired to death when I see my efforts constantly thwarted by Liberals who will not yield on the smallest point ‘when the continued existence ot the Empire is atstake.” Herr Wendhorst, the Catholic leader, probably alarmed at the tone assumed by Bis- marck, declured that his party did not oppose the Government from party motives, and partly ‘agimated thut there would be less opposition for the faturefrom his side of the house. The Liberal members do not appear s0 tractable, however. ‘ ‘ ‘Vicrorta’s band of Indians are reported to hare killed twenty families of Indians near Rock Creek Cafion, Arizona. At lntest accounts Victoria, at the head of ninety warriors, was trying to make good his retreat to the San Car- los reservation. Lieut, Kramer and about fifty cavalrymen were in pursuit. - AstRoye effort will be made to induce President Hayes to appoint Postmaster James, of New York, as successor to Postmaster-Gen- eral Key. A petition in favor of the appoint- ment has been signed by the leading business and public men of New York and New Jersty. It is now believed that the appointment will not be delayed till after the Chicago Convention, but will be made this month. —————— Tuowas SrarLeTon, a Jacksonian Demo- crat, told the Wullace Investizatmg Commulttee yesterday how Judge Barnard of evil memory made United States citizens during October, 1668. "The Judge read out the names of some eighty persons each day, and as the names were called the ward politicians vouched for the existence of a person corresponding to each. Judge Bar- nard, good, easy man, did not require the usual oath,—a simple assertion was sutisfuctory. The naturalization papers were then issued, and dis- tributed by the Democratic Clubs to those on whom thoy could rely to swell their majority in the city. Thus was Horatio Seymour enabled to carry New York State in 1863. Fines broke out three times during the past week in a barn belonging to one Jacob Berg, of Milwaukee, but they wero readily ex- tinguished each time by the firemen. After the fire on Friday evening an Investigation wag made, and a little 10-year-old boy was discov- ered bandcuffed and chained in a room which would have been swept by the flames had the fire made any considerable headway. In the Dath-room of the dwelling attached was also found a pair of .handcutfs and a chain from which another béy had just extricated himself. Berg, who is the stepfather of the children in question, has been arrested, and will be prose- cuted at the instance of the Humane Society. Tne Democratic leaders have determined on passing the Little Deficiency bill with tho item for the pay of Marshala left out. They will then pass a separate appropriation for the Mar- shals’ salaries with the political rider tacked on; and they assert that should the President veto the appropriations they will adjourn without making any provision for the payment of Mar- shalsor the sustenance of the United States Courts, These assertions are evidently meant ‘as threats to frighten the President into signing the proposed measures, but Mr. Hayes has shown before this that hehas an abundant sup- ply of backbone, and is not to bescared by Democratic bluster. AMERICAN citizens residing in Peru have published a protest against the inhuman and reckless mode of warfare carried on by the Chilians. They complain that their property has been ruthlesly destroyed and themselves wantonly insulted. The mode of warfare pur- sued by the Chilians is described as the maraud- ing of pirates and buccaneers. Their successes have been followed by plunder, conflagration, murder, and vile crimes against women and children. The American residents protest against this barbarous mode of warfare, and will demand through the United States Govern- ment indemnity for all the losses suffered, and they are reported to be very considerable. Vernon Harcourr, recently appointed Home Secretary for England, was defeated for retlection yesterday in Oxford City by the nar- row majority of 54. He had about double this majority over his now successful oppunentat the general election. His defeat will not necessitate his retirement from the Cabinet, as doubtless some useless and obscure member of the Liberal party will resign his scat in order to make way for him, On acoount of his spiteful jealousy of Mr. Gladstone, many of the English Liberals will secretly rejoice over Mr. Harcourt’s detent. Mr. Hall, the successful candidate, is a wealthy brewer, and even classic Oxford could not with- stand the seductive influences of the grateful beverage. Tue Ways and Means Committee have finally agreed to report a tarfff bill in which a few mengre concessions are made to the news- paper and book publishers of the country. The report favors a reduction of 10 per cent on the duty on wood-pulp and 5 per cent on print- paper. It also recommends a slight reduction of the duty on agricultural and mechanical in- struments. All efforts to reduce the tariff on salt failed. The monopolists of New York and Michigan had too many friends on the Commit- tee. The bill for the revision of the sugar tariff does not materially reduce the duty on that ar- ticle, and, in fact, some are of the opinion that it will rather increase than diminish the tariff thereon. Thus has the Democratic Con- gress failed to carry out the promises made for it by its Western supporters. ee Davis, the much-married man, will pay dearly for his reckless violation.of the law of marriage, which is the strongest support of the social system. The verdict in his case is im- prisonment for five years anda fine of $1,000,— the extreme penalty provided by the statute. The jury, it is reported, agreed at once that Davis was guilty,and they only required: an bour’s consultation to fix his punishment at tho highest limit. His defense was purely technical. He was confronted with three women with whom he had gone through the ceremony of marriage, and nis whole matrimonial history revealed a peculiar and impertinent indifference to the moral as well as the-statutory law of marriage. ‘The conviction is in the interests of society and justice, and the outcome of Davis’ bigamous cureer may serve as a useful warning to men in this part of the country who are ambitious to emulate the example of Brigham Young. ——_— Ovtstpz Cook County the Grant men were comparatively successful throughout the State yesterday, as will be seen by the following table: Tash- Grant, Blaine. burne. SoamoUagunncosto Bl secosceccescouces Bl ssscccsascceheues Blam THE COOK COUNTY PRIMARIES, The result of the Cook County prijnaries yesterday is a substantial triumph Br the anti-third-term party. The delegates .are divided as follows on the Presidential issue: City. County. Total. { Washburne. ot v él Blain 39 ut 43 Anti-third-term 3 Bt It Pro-third-term. 6 Gi} ority against Grant.2? 2B we Majority ag Yet to be heard from........ Majority over all........ sssescesseeeseee sree 20 The complexion of the delegation to Springfield will depend much, of course, upon the organization of the County Conven- tion, and the spirit of the delegates when they get together. If the anti-third-termers act as the ‘third-term people would if they had the chance, the whole delegation will be chosen on a general ticket, and the 4 sponsible principal. District, will be for Grant, unless some changes aré made in the list on contests. The surprising feature of the canvass yes- terday was the strength developed by the Washburne movement. It is. clear that, if the third-termers had not called the snap primaries on three days’ no- tice, Washburne would have swept the county from end to end. As it was, more Washburne delegates (including the third-termers sailing under false colors) were elected than Grant delegates. This is the more astonishing from the- fact that the Washburne men had no organization, no money, and scarcely any time in which to collect their forces. ‘ The contest on the part of the third-term- ers was the most disgraceful ever known in the history of this county. Money was-nsed. prodigally; repeating, ballot-box stuffing, and bulldozing were the order of theday. No decent advocate of the third term could have witnessed the proceedings of the partisans of that cause in the First, Second, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Fifteenth Wards without shame and mortification. It cannot be thata cause which needs to be promoted by such means is worth sustaining. The Second Ward, in which tissue ballots were used and @ challenger turned out of the polling-place, and the Eleventh and Twelfth, which were carried by swarms of Democratic repeaters under the leader- ship of Demosthenes Hildreth and his brother-in-law, Con Mahoney,—both of fragraut memory,—will be, and ought to be, contested. If they are thrown out, the triumph of the anti-third-termers will be complete, and the Second Congres- sional District will be truly and fairly repre- sented in Chicago. Any action less than this will be a base surrender to the worst ele- ments of the Republican and Democratic parties—united to foist a bad cause’on an unwilling people. THE VETOED RAMLROAD ORDINANCE. On Monday evening the Mayor vetoed the second ordinance granting the right of way to the Western Indiana Railway Company to enter the city and occupy the streets and alleys in the area between Fourteenth and Harrison streets and Third and Fourth av- enues. The Council failed§to pass the ordi- nance over the veto, ~ Tue Tritune has urged in this case, as in all similar cases, the adoption of the most lib- eral policy towards the railroads, especially in the mutter of entranceto the city. Against the policy of their exclusion this paper has always strongly protested, consider- ing that every addition to the railroad facilities of the city was of great public benefit, whose effects extended to every part of the city, and to all classes of business, and to all industrial occupations, Tae Trinune has, however, insisted that these franchises were alsoof great pecuniary valueto the corporations seeking them, and that the city should stipulate as an absolute condition that the grant of the franchise should in every case protect the city from all liability, present or remote, because of the surrender of these streets and alleys, and should also stipulate that the grantees should compensate directly all private citizens for loss or dam- age resulting from the taking or destruction of their property. The veto message of the Mayor unques- tionably shows that in the preparation of this ordinance there has been a considerable omission of the legal protection which is due to the city and to private citizens, and that it would seem that this omission has been in- tentional, the purpose being to obtain the grant and leave the city and private owners of the property to suffer the consequences of such omission, without remedy. The present situation of the case is embar- rassed by two previous acts of the City Coun- cil.. The city by ordinance some years ago provided for opening South Dearborn street, and the proceedings were carried on to the point of confirmation, the land being con- demned, and judgment giver in favor of prop- erty-owners for the land taken, and against other property-owners for benefits resulting from the opening. Some persons paid their tax for benefit, and others were paid for their property. Then, after several years’ delay, the Council hastily repealed the original or- dinance. In the meantime, it has been un- certain whether Dearborn street was opened or not. One person. has got judgment against the city for his land taken for the opening, and if this judgment be sustained the city will be responsi- ble in a million of dollars for damages. The present ordinance covers over half 8 mile of the distance embraced in the Dearborn street opening, and ignores the existence of Dear- born street altogether. Another embarrass- ment is, that last fall the Council passed an ordinance granting to this Railway Compatiy a franchise extending its right of way to Van Buren street, That ordinance was passed over the Mayor’s veto, but the Appel- late Court declared it void. ‘This decision may be carried to the Supreme Court and re- versed. In that event, had this second or- dinance passed, the Company would have had, as the Mayor shows, two inde- pendent grants, wholly consistent with one another, and practically giving the of land in the very heart of the city, without the least protection to the city or to private owners against any liability for -damages or injuries. ‘The omission to repeal the first ordinance before granting the sec- ond, and the omission to protect the city and Private owners from losses and liabilities, were, ‘we think, properly treated by the Mayor as fatal objections to the ordinance, and he did right in vetoing it. ‘The Mayor points out several defects in the legal composition of the ordinance, and properly insists that the Company should submit itsdemands to the scrutiny of the legal authorities of the city and be made,sat- isfactory to them. : Another objection by the Mayor is, that, while it is held out that the Gran@ Trunk and several other substantial and responsi- ble companies are seeking this franchise, no one of them is willing to appear in the mat- ter or assume any responsibility; that the Western Indiana Company is an unsubstan- tial affair, owning only twenty miles of com- pleted railway, and that the other companies really intend to be. tenants to an irre if the trunk tail- ways in whose behalf the city is asked to grant this franchise are unwilling to become responsible to the city and to private persons under the terms of a proper ordinance pro- tecting and saving public and private rights, then it is all the more important that what- ever contract may be made shall make the privileges granted conditional upon the use of any of them by any.company whatever, The Mayor points out the indefinitness of the ordinace, and insists that it should be ninety-two delegates will go down to Spring- field pledged against the third term. If, on the other hand, the representation is by Sen- atorial Districts, the result will be: ae: Grit. Grant. Second District... ‘Third District..... Fourth District. Fifth Sixth ‘The First Congressional oubtediy return two -anti-Grant delegates to Chicago, and the Third District two more. Washburne will have one in each district, and Blaine‘one. The Second. or West Side plain and direct in its grants and in its re- quirements. i Many will agree with the Mayor that tlie right of way should not extend north of Twelfth street until such time as the city shall provide for straightening the river from ‘Twelfth street to Sixteenth street. ‘This im- provement, he points dut, will enable all the Tailroad tracks to be‘moved west of Clark street, and then the right of way might be extended over the new terri- tory, north not only. to Harrison street, but even to Van Buren street, giving the new line and future lines ample room west of the present tracks of the Lake Shore Boad, In that case Clark street would be. as Company unlimited litense over 160 acres” itshould be, an open thoroughfare, free of all railroad tracks, This would leave all the territory east of Clark street free of any railway obstructions. The cost of this im- Provement, he irisists, should be paid by the Company, the grant of the property being far greater in value than the possible cost of the work, This would so widen the area be- tween Clark street and the river that all the railroads, present and future, could find room therein for all their operations. Despite some generalizations and loose expectorations of speech which are pecul- jar to the Mayor's style, the veto mes- sage. clearly established that the ordi- nance should not have passed in the form in which it had been adopted by the Council. It lacked the great essential of protection to the city and protection to the owners of pri- vate property. All the amendments proposed by the Mayor are so just and proper in them- selves that the new City Council should not fail to require them in any future ordinance that may be proposed. Especially should the Council now dispose of this question perma- nently by limiting new roads on the South Side vo Twelfth street until such time as by straightening the river all the roads in the South Division can be provided with en- trance on the Iuke-shore, or in the ample room west of Clark street. That regulation should be made the permanent policy of tha olty. eee cereel “3088” RULE IN ILLINOIS. The Senatorfa! syndicate and their outside associates do not seem to have the success they anticipated. Conkling’s packed Con- vention in New York, which “instructed” seventy delegates, half of them against the wish of their districts, to vote for a third term, has failed, ang over twenty of the dele- gates refuse to submit to the impudent dicta- tion; by the time the Convention meets the independent delegates will number thirty. Cameron’s mid-winter Convention in Penn- sylvania has its commands repudiated with equal defiance. More than twenty of the fifty-eight delegates have, at this time, in- dignantly and defiantly repudiated the com- mand to vote for a third term. Senators Carpenter and Cameron, of Wisconsin, have failed to deliver the delegates of that Btate, as per their part of the pact. In the whole Wis- consin delegation there is but onethird-term- er, and, as he is a candidate for Congress, he hopes no extra-term candidate will be nomi- nated at the Chicago Convention. Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, one of the old subsidy gang, is repudiated by a solid Blaine ‘delegation from that State. The Delano faction in Ohio (the Delano who was one of the savory members of Grant’s Cabi- net) was. repudiated by the Republicans of that State in a unanimous anti-third-term delegation. In Maryland the notorious Creswell, ex-member of the Cabinet, the hero of the Chorpenning swindle, who was at workat the Maryland Convention laboring for a third-term delegation, was more suc- cessful, and rung in several third-termers by trickery and overreaching, Seeor Robeson, ex- Secretary of the Navy, was unable to control the New Jersey Republicans, who declared against a third term, Belknap, ex-Secretary of War, wasequally powerless in Iowa, which declared solidly for Blaine. The friends of the late Senator Morton, of Indiana, true to his memory, unanimously repudiated the third term. The Republicans of New Hamp- shire rejected the appeals for a third tenn by Credit-Mobilier Patterson,—expelled the Senate for corruption,—and sents solid Blaine delegation. Look at the members of the syndicate who have thus far been repudiated by the Republicans of their several States: Conkling and Tam Murphy, New York, Pomeroy (subs! Kansas, Carpenter.ang ron, Wisconsin. Cameron and Kemble, Pennsylvania, Creswell (Chorpenning), Maryland. Robeson (ex-Cabinet officer), New Jersey. Patterson (expelled the Senate), New Hampshire, Belknap (ex-Secretary of War), Iowa. Delano (ex-Seerctary), Ohio. Gorham (Ring), California. ‘The Republicans.of lllinois have also been “sold.” “The bargain and contract made was to deliver the Republicans of Illinois solid- ly fora third term, in consideration of un- limited control of offiées in Illinois. Shall the delivery be made? Shall the Republicans of Lilinois consent to be “sold” as slaves, and as slaves delivered oyer to the pur- chaser? Itis true that an Illinoisan in Congress once told the South that, if they ever wanted aman todo the ‘dirty work” of catching their slaves and returning them to thelr own- ers, he was always at their service for that purpose; but we mistake the sentiment of the Republicans of this State if they will sub- mit when the same person bargains and pledges himself to deliver their votes with- out their consent, His contract is too large, and the Republicans of Illinois will see that It fails in the delivery. 3 When the Republicans of every State in New England, when the Republicans of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Kan- sas, and Minnesota are breaking the chains of personal slayery and are declaring them- selves to be free men and not mere chattels; when they are asserting the original battle- ery of the Republican party, ‘Free soil, free speech, and free men!” fs Illinois to be silent in this general assertion of free ballots and no bosses? Oannot the Republicans of Ili- nois govern themselves? Are they mere babes to be nursed by some Senator? Are they incapable of forming their own opinions and of voting their own sentiments? Must they have a guardian to take care of them, and to tell them how to vote and whom to vote for? Must the Republicans of Illinois have a “ Boss” who can sell them and trade them, and bid them go hither or thither at his bidding, after the manner of the Southern slave-owner in the olden days? - Let the Republicans of Illinots take this election in their own hands. While demand- ing free speech and - free ballots for the col- ored men of the South, let {hem assert and exercise theirown freedom at. home. Let Illinois be free at least. If thera is to be coercion, bulldozing, bribery, buying and selling, intimidation and fraud,’by Senators or any persons capable of such conduct, let no man be permitted such practices in this State. We appeal to the free people of Illinois to assert their freedom, and to treat interference with that freedom with the determination and resistance it deserves. THE SMOKE NUISANCE IN CHICAGO, During the past week a Committee of the Citizens’ Association have madea report on the smoke nuisance, which they have been engaged in investigating some months past. Ihis Committee consists of Messrs. Crane, Blatehford, and Hale,—all of them practical, competent men. As a result of their inves- tigations, they conclude that ‘the smoke nuisance, as far as it proceeds-from station- ary boilers and tugs, can be abated so as to be inoffensive,” and they recommend that a city ordinance be passed requiring all per- sons using engines and boilers to adopt and apply such apparatus as they may deem best sulted to the purpose, and providing an ade- quate penalty for the violation of the ordi- nance, and likewise for the employment of one or more inspectors to aid in its execu- tion, The Committee are of the opinion that the ordinance should also apply to locomo- tives running into the city, and they in- tended to include the steam-tugs plying 01 the river, as well as stationgry boilers, ~ ‘Ynere is one point in this matter which the Committee touched altogether too briefly and falled to include in the ordinance they recommended. Yet this very point is the most important and essentiat in any effort to suppress the nuisance, We refer to the practice of “stoking,” as the English call it, or “firing,” as the operation is known among us. In all the communications which the Committee received from England great stress was laid upon the influence which the engineer and fireman can always exercise upon the volume of smoke, in all experl- ments that have ever been made in this coun- try and Europe it has been found that fre- quent and light additions of fresh coal to the fire produce the minimum of smoke, while fewer and heavier contributions of fuel create the maximum of smoke, When- ever a thick volume of black smoke is seen pouring out of a chimney, it is a sure sign that the fireman has piled in three or four times as much coal as was necessary. This is a universal practice among the en- gineers and firemen, for the simple reason that it saves them troubie, time, and lahor, and gives them more opportunities for “lay- Ing off,” or for tinkering at their engines, or for dodging into saloons for drinks. If it were a sworn rule of the craft that no man running gn engine should “ stoke” or “fire” more frequently than is absolutely necessary, and that every one so engaged should pile in as much fuel as is possible without ex- tinguishing the fire, this lazy habit could be more faithfully observed than itis nOw. But it is this very practice which accounts in the main for the actual waste of one-third of the fuel used, which is expended in smoke that is helping to make city life almost in- tolerable, : Smoke is simply the result of incomplete combustion. The theory is very well ex- plained by Dr. Henry M. Pierce, who has patented an improvement for the construc- tion of steam-boiler furnaces, in the follow- ing language; Ifa lump of coal {s laid upon a clear fire. the first result {s distillation or reduction of the fuel from a solid to » vapor; second, fgnition and complete oxidation of such vapor; third, optical disappearance of all the olements of the lump of con) ‘except the invombustible matters remaining in the form of ash. If a piece of cold tron be placed quite near the burning lump of coul, the combustion of the vapors touching the cold iron will be arrested, and the carbon con- tajned in such vapor, instead of being burned, will be deposited upon the ironin the form of soot, or will pass up from the iron unconsumed in the form of a black smoke. Hence the vapors arising from: the fuelon the grate may, in acom- mon holler-furnace, elther burn or be cooled and take the form ‘of soot, which greatly im- puirs the efficieacy of the boiler, or pass off in visible smoke, which is fucl thrown away. ‘The usual heat of fire is about 1,000 deg..—the hent necessary for ignition being about S00deg. At a lower temperature combustion coases. Steam at sixty pounds pressure ai Cemperatiire of nbout 205 deg.; at 100 pounds, 32 deg. Hence the temperature of the water-surfaces of or- dinary steam-builers is from 400 to 500 deg. at least ‘below that Hecesenty for ignition; cgnse- quently smoke is formed, and either deposited in the form of soot or carried out of the chim- ney. This description will enable the intelligent reader to understand why it is that the sud- den addition of a large amount of fresh, cold fuel retards combustion, and, in propor- tion thereto, adds to the amount of smoke genarnted; and hence the necessity for plac- ing some constraint upon the engineers and firemen to make them do their work as they ought todo it in justice to their employers and the public. We presume all the devices for consuming smoke are of assistance, and the experience Ts Tawuxe has had with the Orvis appliance has been highly satisfac- tory. But none that have yet been Invented, and probably none that ever will be invented, ean prevail against the practice of shoveling in great, leaps of fresh coal any more than against the excessive application of any other cold substance to incandescent coals. There is no doubt that the City Council should. pass an ordinance compelling the owners of engines to use smoke-consumers, and that inspectors should be employed to aid in the enforcement thereof. But such an ordinance should also include a fine for de- liberate violation of: the scientific and intelli- gent rule of stoking or firing. It should bea part of every Inspector’s duty to visit an en- gine-room in any building from which he discovers a large volume of black smoke is- suing, and ascertain not merely whether a smoke-consumeris used, but also whether the fireman has not shoveled in four or five times as much coal as was necessary to keep up the required amount of steam. If owners of engines understood their own interests thoroughly, they would exercise a personal supervision over the running of their boiler- furnaces, and thereby save largely in the consumption of fuel; but the public interests demand an interference as a protection against the smoke nuisance, and the fining of careless or lazy firemen would soon lead to a change in their iisual practice of raising smoke rather than combustion. _—_——— ee DISRAELI. “There goes old Dizzy,” said a workingman as Beaconsfield shuftied along a London street. Yes, thero he goes, out of office, and he is %5 yearsold, But itis stated that before Parlia- ment convenes he will address a meeting of the Conservatives of both Houses, and after- wards assume the leadership of the Oppgsition. Benjamin Disraoll is ono of the most remark- able men of the present century. Born at its very dawn he exerted an influence upon the literature of its first quarter, and the opening of its lyst quarter is powerfully impressed by the splendor of his genius for politics. It {s not often that a curoer Insts fifty years, That of Cosar was about forty, of Napoleon I. less than thirty, and Alexander died at the age of 33. But Wellington filled the public eye for nearly sixty years. The publication of “Vivian Gray” in 185 introduced Disraeli to the most dis- tinguished socicty in England. [h the drawing- room of Lady Blessington he “elbowed Dukes descended from the Conquest.” The book was a brilliant satire on society-and politics. It im- mediately became the rage, ran through many editions, and was supplemented by a key in which its characters wero {dentifled as the celebrated wits, politicians, and great ladies of tho time. Lord Brougham is laughed at as “Bir. Foaming Fudge,” Lord Elden satirized as “ Lord Past Century,” and Mr. Canning mercilesly rid- iculed as “Bfr.. Charlatan Gas.” Did Disraeli wish merely. to make himself known to the world? If 80, ho succeeded to his heart's con- tent. He became famous, notorious, the lion of the hour, and his audacity amply sustained him. It was then that he became prodigal of witty eplgrams, and from wasting thom on socioty he came finally to the more weighty business of flinging them at the heads of opponents in Parlia- ment with terrible effect. His ambition for Political distinction developed early. Bulwer offered him the opportunity to stand for a bor- ough and he eagerly seized it. Lord Melbourne said tohim: “Well, Mr. Disraeli, what is your idea in entering Parliament!" “To be Prime Minister of England, my Lord,” responded the son of theold Jewish bookworm. His opponent was a brother of Earl Gray, then Premier. But nothing daunted him. He denounced both great parties,—loftily scorning the Whigs, and characterizing the Tories as “in a state of ignorant etupefaction.” He was defeated, and this first defeat was followed by three more defeats, It was not until the fifth attempt that he was returned.” Upon one occasion, being asked sneeringly, “Upon what ground do you stand here, sir?” he retorted with withering sarcasm, ‘On my head,sir!” ‘It wus during his fourth canvass that O'Connell referred to him as “the Mneal descendant of the impenitent thief on the cross,” Pending these contests young Disraell continued to publish books, which, though ofton “insolent in their smartness,” were always “clever.” In 1837, af the aze of 22, he entered Parfament. His malden speech, which he hastened to deliver, was 8 complete failure. He .was laughed, sneered, and howled down, But he managed, above tHe din of the hooting and cat-calling, to warn and defy the House in this memorable language: “Thave begun several times many things,, and I have succeeded at last. Ay, sir; and, though [ sit down now, the time will come when you willhear me.” Here was “ pluck,” true “grit'’; and he wos quite cool, too. Of his own discomfiture he said: “A fallureis nothing. It may be de- served, or it may be remedied. Inthe first in- stance it brings self-knowledge; in the second it develops new combination which may be tri- umphant.” It wasa year anda half before he tried again to get the ear of Parliament, and he got it! He became a partisan of Sir Robert Peel. But when Peel deserted the Protectionists, Dis- raeH deserted him and became his most bitter and uncompromising opponent. Reviewing Peel's history, he once said: “I find that for between thirty and forty years, from the days of Mr. Horner to the ‘days of Mr. Cobden, Sir Robert Peel has traded on the ideas and intelligence of others. His life bas been one great appropriation clauso. He is a burglar of others’ intellect. There isno statesman who bas committed political petty larceny on so great a gcale.” He exhausted all his vast resources of invective, wit, irony, sar- casm, and withering ridicule in assaults upon the great Minister, and finally drove him, from power. But in his biography of Lord George Bentinck he does ample justice to his old polit- ical enemy. He, however, in that admirable work notes a defect in the character. of Sir Robert, which shows his strong appreciation of his own most distinguishing characteristic, im- agination. Hoe says: Thus chaeee and thus accomplished. Sir Robert Peel had a great deficiency: he was without im- agination. Wanting imagination he wanted prescience. No one was more sngacious when dealing with the cireumstances before him; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy, His judgment was fuultless pro- yided he had not to deal with the future. . , - He was so adroit that he could prolong resist- ance even beyond {ts term, but so little fore- seeing that often in the very triumph of his mancuvres he found himself in an untenable position. Disraeli alsosays of Peel: For so very clevera man he was deficient in the knowledge of human nature. The prosper- ous routine of his youth wag not favorable to the development of this faculty. It was never. his lot to struggle. Although forty years in Parliament it is remarkable that Sir Robert Peel never represented a popular constituency or stood a contested election. It is plain that, in showing the deficiencies of Sir Robert,—lack of the imaginative faculty and the knowledge of human nature,—the romancist and hero of desperate struggles against a sea of adverse circumstances feels that he is triple: armed inethese respects. When, in 1852, the Earl of Derby came to the Premiership, Disracti was made Chancellor of the Exchequer; he was fg necessity to the Tory Administration, and must be accepted whether or no, Douglus Jer- roid, writing toa literary friend of the event, said: I must congratulate you on the advent of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Rt.- Hon. Benjainin Disraeli is the successful mun of letters. He has ink in his veins. The goosc- quill—let gold and silver sticks twinkle as they may—leads the House of Commons. But “the managed the finances as if figures had always been his forte; and when he pre- sented the annual budget he displayed a re- markable clearness and soundness that showed how careful and effective a study he had made of fiscal science.” It was during Disracli’s “third term” as Chan- cellor (1887) that he carried the greut electoral- reform measure,—the Hotsehold-Suffrage bill. ‘To do this he disrupted the most haughty Tory Cabinet that ever sat in Downing street, con- verting to his views Lord Dorby and the Dukes of Marlborough, Richmond, and Buckingham, and driving from office Lords Salisbury and Carnarvon and Gen. Peel. Stealing Gladstone’s thunder by that coup d'cat, Disraeli made himself. the hero of the hour, and was: hailed as the bene- factor of England. It was after that great Min- isterial and Parliamentary victory that he was made Prime Minister, succeeding Lord Derby, again solely because the Tory party could not do without him. A sense of justice compelled his elevation, He had labored thirty years for it, and it was a proud day for the Jews when the represéntative of their race was summoned by the Queen. But it was a humiliation to the Tories, who consented because they must, and a humiliation to the haughty aristocracy. His hold of power, however, wus brief. Gladstone did not have to wait a year for his first revenge. He came to ®flco with many signsof a long reign. Ho possessed a splendid genius, but still he was no match, in temper, for his wily adversary, Disraeli’s leadership . of the Opposition was indeed ‘ matchless. By a series of Ingentous‘ assaults upon the Ministerial polloy he gradually disin- tegrated the Radical party, and finally gave Gladstone his coup de grace on his Irish Univer- sityreform scheme. In oneof the great debates on that measure Disraeli showeil all his orator- ical powor of thirty years before. Turning upon Gladstone, he said: You have now bad four years atTt; you have despoiled churches; you have threatened every corporation and every endowment in the coun- try. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticised eyery profession and vexed every trade. Nobody is certain of his property; nobody is certain what duties he may have tu perform to-morrow. The Cabinet was defented and Gladstone re- ured. Disraeli was summoned to forma Qov- ernment, but refused to encounter a hostile Parliament. Gladstone resumed office and had another “ year of it,” but in 1874 was forced to appeal to the people. In that appeal the Tories achieved a triumph, and Disraeli again came to the Premiership. Then followed his entry into the House of Lords as Earl of Beaconsfield, and his decoration with the Order of the Garter, that bauble most coveted by English nobles. How he purchased a controlling interest in the Suez Cunal, acquired Cyprus, made the Queen Empress of India, and consummated the Treaty of Berlin, are matters of recent history. Scarce- ly two years ago Disracli was one of the most conspicuous figures in that remarkable conclave at the Prussian Capital, of which Gortschakoff of Russia and Bismarck of Germany were mem- bers, where he successfully asserted the nuthor- ity of England in Europoanutfairs. But the other day the people who had “welcomed him back tu’ England with such a demonstration as had not been seen since Wellington returned from Waterloo” drove him from power without a sign of remorse or the ‘faintest semblince of emu- tion! And this is the popularity of 2 man! Fifty years of hereulean brain effort,a brief term of dazzling power, and then tetiroment to theranks of the commun herd! sane McCarthy in 1871 thus deséribed Dis- raeliz : A tall man with stooped and rounded ‘shoul- ders; a peculiarly shaped head, fust denuding it- self of bair, but with the hnir ‘that remains still Diack ss ever; a complexion of dull brickdust; a face puckered up like an old mask, or as if the wearer of the fuce were always screwing up his lips to whistle and never accomplished the feat. Yes, “there gocs-old Dizzy” out of oftice! Who would have believed the mau who should have so prophesied two months ago? ————— ASTRONOMICAL. - Chicago (TRIBeNE ollie), north latitude 41 deg. 52m. 578.; west longitude, 42m. 18s. from Wash- ington, and 5h. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time of set- ting of the moon's lower limb, arid the official time for lighting the first street-lamp in each cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also ue following ‘times for extinguishing the first lamp: . Mom sets. m. Light. Extingutsh, p.m. 3: 00 a. m. Wes day.210:27 p. Ei ‘ednese 10 22% Mm, ‘Thursday. 11-08% Bm, Friday. 1. brsnci B: m. The moon was in conjunction with the sun thia morning at26 minutes after midnight, and will be in Apogee at I o'clock Tuesday morning. Friday morning she will pass Mars. leaving him to the north of her path, and being separated by. him from Castor, the well-known double star in the head (s) of Gemini. The sun's upper limb rises Monday at 4:4i4 2. 01.5 souths at lib. 56m. 13.23. a. ro.; and sets at 7h. 08Xm. p. m. ‘The sun's upper limb rises Friday at 4:40 2. ™.; souths at Ih. 56m. 10.03. a. m.; and seta at 7h, 123¢m. p,m. © Sidereal time Thursday mean noon, 3h. 27m. 25.883, Mercury now rises before the sun; at about o'clock Thursday morning. He is slowly ap- proaching superior conjunction, which will Oc- cur June 2. Venus is west of the sun, and is (thorefore) a morning star. She rises Thursday at 4:0¢ 9. n.; nearly lost in the twilight. : Mars {sa not very conspicuous ‘object in the western sky evenings; now forming an obtuse- angled:triangle with Castor and Pollux. Friday he will be 8 deg. south of Castor. On Thursday three, which are between him an Teeter he will rise at about 2:57 cas me ‘aturn 182 morning star, ne dey he will rise at about 3:33 aad oe ate ranus is an evening “star,” but. se: be recognized with the naked eye. Thane next he will south at 6:59 p.m. His position thon will be 1 minutes of aro east, ang ao? mlnates north, from rho Leonis. = Neptune is very near the sun; was fi tion the first day of the current month. ae poe lias of the University of w,; recently proposed tq emplo} 2 light on the summits of Quito and ie Sestrta Prominences as a mode of communicating ekg another world. He'thinks that the inhabitants of Mars might be réached in this way, and that they would understand a succession of “dota and dashes" of light tobe the result of intelli. Fence here, though they would not comprehend the language. The payment for the trouble ana expense would be found in return signals, It may well be doubted if we could get uj signals powerful enough to be tg at such on immense ‘distance after losing a great part of their intensity in Passing through our atmosphere. It appears Probable that we can sce the surface of Mare only because his atmospheric envelope is vey rare as compared with ours, and that telescopes on that planet cannot be much more Success fal in dealing with the earth than ours are in the attempt to peer through the Venus. aaa serene at A glimpse at Jupiter, taken from ti Dear. born Observatory last Friday mining Hae be- fore sunrise, showed that the big spot about which so much has been gaid {s “sti, there.” ‘The circumstances were not favorable for ascer- taining whether or no it has changed in size during the time that the planet was Passing be- Hind the sun. A few weeks more must elapso before that can be known. 2 ——— . THE Trrpoxe recently presented stata. ments froma large numberof the prominent insurance officials and actuaries of yariong States, giving their opinions of and experiences with the vagary known as “codperative” or “assessment” ife-insurance. . It is noteworthy. that every one of these men was outspoken in declaring the system which professes to give life-insurance without paying any attention two mortality tables, reserves, capital, assets, or State laws to be absurd In theory and delusive in practice. This testimony was freely given by men in no way interested in life-insurance ex. ceptas careful students and public servitors, and is Invaluable evidence against the folly of trying to insure human life without either Missouri tersely put it, “The actuaries of State departments who have sn expert knowl edge of the business of ‘life-insurance but are in no way concerned in the affairs of any life company are unanimous in their disbelief ia the practical benefits of the codperatiyes™ There is considerable of this so-called tive businé’s done In the West, and it is plainiy the duty of the forthcoming Legislatures to enact laws which shall bring the societies under the strict-management of the State insurance officials. A scheme of life-insurance which can- not point to a company organized in consonance with its pecullar precepts which has ever lasted ten years is too dange.ous and irresponsible to be allowed to run unhindered by official super visian. — ‘THE Globe-Democrat boasts of a large and influential circulation throughout Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. The political effect of its circulation and influence in these States is seen in the election returns, thus: Missouri, Demo- cratic majority in 18 1813 Try: Arkansas, in 1872, Repul In 1378, Democratic by. In 1878, Democratic by and in 1880 will be Democratie by. Texas, 1872, Democratic majority, Texas, 1876, Democratic majority. Texas, 1878, Democratic majority... . And this fall, with Grant and the third-term issue led by Jo MacCullagh and tne Globe-Demo- crat, the Republicans of Texas will be buriedun= dermore than 100,000 majority. But Macexpectsto muster frum these three States, where he and his booms have smashed Republicanism flatter than a pancake, the following votes to fasten hig deadly issue upon the Republican States viz: Missouri, for the “ Boom Arkansas. ‘Texas... Rotten votes... eoveel ‘This 1s enough to force third-term down protesting throats of Ohio's forty-four votes, with fourteen to spare, being almost enough t0 lay out both Minnesota and Nebraska. It lg by such means as these the conspirators expect to ovetaticlm the Republican party in defeat this t . he will south at 3:54 p. m., and set at 11:30 p. m. Jupiter isa morning star, leading the other — al “Tur Cincinnati Enqutrer, which has been flercely anti-Tilden, thus heads -its report of the late Democratic State Convention at Columbus: $ - HE WAS THERE—SO WAS THE FAMOUS BAR'L, WITH ITS PATENT BUNGHOLE ATTACHMENT AND ITS CORPS OF ABLE-BODIED ENGLNEERS—HOW ar ue STRAIGHT THROUGH THE CONVEN- In its editorial columns it thus speaks of. th “old usufruct," showing that the “famouy bar’L” also rolled straight through thas office: Samuel J. Tilden isin robust health. His right arm is as strong as the right arm of any other man who never trained for a prize-fight, worked at the blacksmith business, or eng in other Physical labor calculated to develop muscle. His mind is a8 cloar aa it ever was, and his aver~ age head-work in the past is well known. He is a3 emphatically a candidate for President now as he was in 1816. He is as neute in watebing the course of political events in 1880 as be was in thé exaiting circumstances of 1876. He is just a3 able and just 23 much disposed to make a vigor- ous campaign as he was. four years ago. In short, he is 9 candidate for President. Likewise, his “grip on the Democratic ma- chine is firmer now than ever before. : Wnen editors first begin to discus the speling-reform question they do it froma fun- netic point of vew. They write In Nasby or Josh Billings style, and allege that is the way the written language wil appear when spelled according to the rules of the American Filolog- ical Society. After studying the subject further, they gradually becom more grave and consider- ate, ike those wicked chaps who. ‘went to church toscof, and remuincd to pray.” Here are som specimens of fouetic fan by those merry Jokers, who sooner or later wil be serious advocates of reformed orthografy: : The Hom Jrni stks to its spelng reform witha przstucy worthy a betr koz. The langwage be- gins toluk likes ytern oy the lat War, milous wun arm and both legs.—New York Advertiser. ‘When spelling is “reformed” she'll write: * I'm sailing on the oshun, The se is hi; no sale in site, - It filz me with emoshun.” But one “spelt” will not change its name For she'll be so-ale jest the guim! —Anulrew’s Queen. . The editor of a’ newspaper that has adopted fonetic spelling in a measure received a postal- card from un old subscriber in the country, which read as follows: “ I hev tuk ure paper for leven yeres, but if u kant spel eany bettor than. uhave bin doin for the las to months u may Jes stoppit."—Burlington Hawkeye. Tue Vienna Neue Freie Presse lias tried the experiment of lighting Its composing-room with electricity for the past two months, and Announces its ‘entire satisfaction with the re- sult.. Eigat “differential” lamps supply a much better light than was before obtained from eighty gas-jets. The printers, who are the best Judges of the quality of the light and its effects upon the eyesight, are unanimous In its favor. ‘The systom employed is that of Siemens and Halske. A force equal to about three-fourths of one-horse powor per lamp is required for the electric machine. As to the expense com- bured with gas, the Freic Presse says that where water-power can be employed, or where coal is cheap, the advantage is decidedly on the side of electricity. i * —————___ . Tue New York Tribune says that of the 600 delegates niready chosen to the Chicago Con- vention Blaine has secured 241, Grant 24 Sherman 91,. Edmunds 31, Wushburne 1 ‘This estimate is bused on the beliof that only 14 of the New York delegutes and 25 of those frou Pennsylvania will vote for Blaine. The Wash- ington Blaine Club, however, claims 23 in the former State and 23 fn the latter. A DAvprx of a boy in New York is on the rampage about his son's callow marriage. The boy is only 18, and is earning $3 a week in his uncle's store. . The girl {s only 15, but alresdy knows so much of life that she is a terror toher neighborhood. The boy is known to have been fond-of the gir!’s society, and one of his sc quaintances told the boy’s father that his son wus murried to the neighborhood terror, und had money or experience. As Actuary Harney of ~