Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1880, Page 4

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For the benefit of our patrons who desire to send alngle copies af THE THIDUNE through the mil, wo tive herewith the transient rute of postage: Demestic. Bight and ‘Twelve Page Paper. Fipteen Page Paper....; Eight and Twelve Page Paper. Hiidon Pace Uapersseeeee TRIBUNE BRA’ Tire CHICAGO TRIBUNE has established’ branch bffices for the receipt of subscriptions and advertise- mentaas follows: > NEW YORE—Room 2 Tribune Building. F.T. Mc- FADDEN, Manager. . GLASGOW, Scotiand~Allan’s American News Agency, 31 Renfield-st. LONDON. Eng.—American Exchange, 419 Strand. SEsRy F. Grnita, Agent. WASHINGTON, D. 519 F street. “SOCIETY WicliNas. ST, BERNARD COMMANDERY, No. 3, KE. T.— Bpecial Conclave Wednesday evening, Aug. U. at 7 olcioek sharp. for work on the Order of the Temple. x whe fteconier hax, by 01 th + der. reured the applications tor don Building on the Jyh, and recel Of the Excentive Committce our propor= tion of invitations, and be will deliver them pro rats ta the sir Knigh.s ac tuls Assembly. ‘This will be Bnal, the end of the demand and suppty, By order aot HIN UD. BM. CARH, Commander, J. 0. DICKERSON, Hecorde! a CHICAGO _ GONFECTIO: BENEVOLENT (CHARTERED) ASSOCLATI ‘the resalar Inonthly meeting held Aus, I the following ofticers elected the previoux meeting were duly installed: Pi (Joho Stackes; Vice-President, A. W. Tal- —A\ ‘won; Treasurer, August Newhausen; Corresponding tary, Emi! Henry; Financial Secretary, J. © Brindmore; Sezgeant-ai-Arms, William Paefer. BUTLER CHAPTER, No. 36, 0. E.8., will hold their it Meeting Wednesday Evening, Aus. 17, cor ner Madison and Mtovey-ais. This meeting will be auended br many promincnt members of the Gen- era! Grand Chapter, and the secre. work of the Order Sill be exempittied. All members of Chupters ure cordial; 0, ALLEN eras MAGGIE F, GASKILL, Secretary. D. A. CASHMAN LODGE, Nv. 6%, A. F.& A. M— Perolor Commmalcation ‘Tucsdor evening, Aus. 1 in elr hall, corner of West Madison apd Robes-sts. portant Work. Members eapected. | Visitors wel come. Sharp& G. A. DOUGLASS, Secretary. f HESPERIA LUDGE, NO, Ml, A. ¥. & A. 3. —Special Commanication Aug. hati p.m. for Work, Mus er ‘Masons and their guests are cordially and fraternally invited. JAMES BMUTH, W. AL HL BRENAN, Secretary. LAFAvErf CHAPTER, NO. 2, R.A. M.—Stated Convocation Monday Evening, Aug. 9 at 8 o'clock, Special bi es taking ation on delinguents. 3B: Order of AVS, KL DORST TIL AE BLP, WALJ.BRYAI Secretary... 2 NATIONAL LODGE, NO. 586.—Stated Communica tion will be held Tecsday evening, Aus. 10, corner of nL Randoipb-sts., at § o'clock (special si aergiocy Pp. m.). Ar Master BTasons are congas riled yo be present to witness our war! ero bresetjOLN W. OSTHANDHE. We At “ATTENTION, SIR_ KNIGHTS.—The members of Apoiio, Chicazd, St. Bernard, snd other Command- eres cin purchase Templar cards and badges ot H.C. ‘Titlany & Co., 151 Fifth-av. APOLLO COMMANDERY, 4, Conclave Tuesday tvening, Aug. IU, at §o'clock. A SoM attendance ts desired. By order of the Eminent Commander. ILS. TIFFANY, Recorder. K. T.—Specisl SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 1% AL4nGE wool crop will be collected in. Australia this‘ year. “Barney CLEAVELAND, a colored man, ‘was shot dead by an officer at Milun, la., yester- day, while resisting arrest. «Miss Exvizanern Hint was arrested at Newbern, N.C., for having caused the death of her lover in 1878, by poisoning. > 2 Gex. Haxcocs visited the Democratic Headquarters at New York yesterday and chut- ted for a while with ex-Senator Barnum, i"Minwm” Mars, a well-known thief and burglar, was arrested in Milwaukee yester- day. He is not unknown tothe Chicago Police Department. “TWENTY-FIVE ballots have failed to de- ide who shall be the nomince of the Georgia Democrats for Governor. The Convention will try iw hand again Monday. Marrsew Dow1inc. an aged wealthy farmer who resided near Golden, Colo., hanged himself in a cellar yesterday. Domestic trouble ‘was the cause of his rash act. -VioLexr storms have prevailed for the last few days in Upper Arragon, Spain, and cam- muniéstions between that country and France are interrupted in consequence. -Russta has informed England that it nas Rot recently interfered in Roumanian affairs to any considerable extent, and that ull complaints to the contrary are quite unfounded, * EE e :Marraew Krause and Ernest Land, two young farmers residing near Manitowoc, Wis., Bad a dispute Friday evening which culminated ih Krause fatally stabbing Land witha penknife. De La Maryn, the Greepbacker, expresses eanfidence in his party being able to carry Maine and West Virginia. The same gentleman says we Derperans will certainly be defeated in In- . Heavy rains have caused a freshet in the Cepe Fear River. near Fayetteville, N.C. The lowlands are overtowed, and great damage has era to the corn and cotton crops in the vi- ty. Cot. VERNEsco, a Ronmanian Envoy, is about to visit Washington and ftio Janciro toob- tain recognition of Houtmunia us un independent State from the United States and the Brazilian Goveroment. Coust pe Cuaaonn is represented as be- ing hopetul of huving bis royal expectations ful- filed. He expresses bis royal thanks to those Frenchmen who have recently renewed the ex- Bression of their allegiunce to him. +Mu Wiuniam Hanrzery received the Democrauc nomination for Congress in the Eighteenth Wlinois District yesterday, vice Judge Heilman. who declined on account ot ill- beulth. Hartzell formerly represented the dis- trict. AN attempt, which is the fourth of ibe Kind for the last year,was made to burn down the Opcra-House.at Milwaukee yesterday. The fire was started in the busement of a liquor store near the edifice, but was discovered in time to save the buildic 419 the charges which the American Dis- trict Telexraph boys of New York bring aguinst their employers are truc, there is excellent Yeason for their strixe. They say that ther uve been obliged to work from 7 a. m. to iI p. m.,t0 pay for the ice-water which they drank, and are constantly under surveillance of the “spotters” of the Company, and when discav- ered in even slight derelictions aro severely >» Me. Brasue, of Halifax Court-House, N. C., noticed recently that nis watermelons were rupidty disappearing. He attributed their dis- appearance to the colored people. who were holding a series of religious meetings in the ad~ joining woods. Whether to test the accuracy of his suspicions or to punish the robbers, he poi- eoned the melons, and then set up placards Dbearmg the uotive, Louk out; these water melons aro poisoned.” The negroes thought that the notices were merely intended to scare them off, and took the melons, of which they ute generously. One of the party bas since dled, and five others are ina very precarious conui- tion, Tue Pope is desirous of pushing the work of propegating the faith in Asia and Africa, and for that purpose will revive the Africon and Asian branches of the College of the Propaganda, and will appoint a Vicar Apostolic for Morocco, Tue recent murder of Dr. Parsons, the American missionary, at Isunid, ix Asiatic Tur- kos, is said to have been committed by Circas- sian refugecs, and is not ‘at all due to religious fanaticism. The Turkish Government has been in the habit recently of sending Circass!: fan erirojnals into the region whore the murder oc- curred, and other outrages sre likely to follow. ———ee Mosr encouraging reports have been re- ceived during the week: at the Republican Head- quarters in New York. {ndiana is now confi- duntly claimed by the Republicans, and there is an excellent prospect of their carrying Florida and West Virginia. Chairman Jewell reiterates his belief that the Democrats have nat tho slightest chance in Counecticut. Gen. McDonaup, ex-convict, has in the press and will shortly publish what purports to Lea history of the St. Louis Whisky Ring. Ad-. vance sheets have been already given to tho St. Louis papers. McDounid seems to pave sin- gicd out Gen. Babcock and the St. Louis Globe managers to wreak his vengeance on. The pre- lended révelacions seom to be more damaging 10K AMERICAN meats and American live stock have been recently shipped as far as Gonevs, Switzerland, and the price of Swiss cattle has been considerably diminished in consequence. american preserved meats are said to havea large sale in nll the covntrics of Southern Eu~ rope, and the American Consul at Genova says that a profitalse market for American flour aad American cheesy and butter can be found in those countrics. = Concuessuan DE La Maryn, who has been recently in Alubama, has come back isgusted at the sectional spirit displayed by the “Southern Democrats. Ie ugrecs with Gen. ‘Weaver that half the truth has not been told about the intolerant spirit displayed by the ex-Confederates towards the colored peopl. or about their batred tothe Union, Everywhere he went be found ‘manifested a pitter hostility towards the loyal people of the North. Cuarces of wholesale corruption aremade aguinst tbe City Democratic Ceutrat Commitico of St. Louis in connection with the nomination of candidates for city offices, The primaries were held, it is Charged, at an unsuitable time and in unsuitable places, the judges of election were iguurant or corrupt, and the whole affuir is denuuuced, us a fraud of the worst descrip- tion. Respectable Democrats in Chicago can readily believe in the truth of tne charges. Tae Coroner's jury which held an inquest ; OD the body of the wife of the engineer oi the yacht Mamie, who was killed tn the recent col- liston on the Detroit River, returned a verdict yesterduy afternvon, in which it Is charged that the c@illision was owing to the gross carclesness: or criminat negligence of George D. Horn, mas- ter, and Henry W. Buff, pilot, of the steumer Garland, which ran down the Mamie. Whether any further action will be taken on this verdict has not yet been uscertained, Gey. GARFIELD left New York early yes- terday morning. He was greeted by immense crowds at every station. His speech-making Powers were taxed to the utmost, the enthusi- asts of each crowd insisting on bis delivering some kind of ap address, however short it migut be. He will stop over to-day at Chautauqua. He is accompanied by Murat Halstead, Congressman Wiliams of Wisconsin, Congressman Conger of Michigaa, Lieut.-Gov. Platt of New York, and other distinguished gentiemen. Oxp John Bender, alias McGregor, and his wife Nancy, were taken in churge by Sherif Bender, of Labette County, Kansus, at Fremont yesterday, and are now on their way to the sceno Of their fiendish atrocities. The younger members of the family huvenot yet been arrested. There is intense excitement among the people of La- bette County, and threats of lynching the old fiend are frequently made. Bender basa great dislike to go to Kansas, and would doubtless commit suicide if he bad the chance, —_—— GEN; Orp keeps a close watch on the movements of the Texas filibusters, and the Mexicans are also said to be on the lookout, and Preparing to give the Army of Occupation, a3 the filibusters call their organization, 2 warm reception.- Gen. Ord thinks the movement bus been inaugurated by German and English inttu- ence in order to interrupt the growing good feeling between this country and Mexico, and to returd the construction of projected ratlroads through the latter country, which, if construct- ed, would greatly endanger the trade of the En- glish and German merchants. ——— Ans. Saar, who died in the Detroit hos- pital-prison yesterday, made a most extraor- dinary ante-mortem confession Friday to the Matron of that institution. On the night of the 13th of September, 1876, her busband was wur- dered ag he lay in bed beside ber. The body was then tuken to the bara, which was set on fire. Mrs, Smith. her sister, her sister's husband, and a young farm-hand, named Alexander, were arrested for complicity in the decd. Mrs. Smith and Alexander turned Stute’s evi- dence, the former swearing that ber husband was killed by her brother-in-law and her eleter, whom sbe incited to the deed. * Both were found guilty and sentenced to the Suite Prison for life.” Mrs. Smith was given fifteen years’ im- prisonment, and young Alexander ten rears, in her confession to the hospital Matron, Mrs. Smith says she swore falsely; that neither of the pacties convicted had anything to do with the crime, nor did she know who committed it. She says that a certuzin party, whose name bes not been revealed by the authorities, persuaded ber to make the false confession. assuring ber that she would receive a light sentence. In her anxiety to rejoin ber children she agreed to do us Was Suggested. While giving ber testimony she wus under the direction of this party, who was ip the court-room at the trial At certain preconcerted signs made by him she answered yesurno to the questions of the prosecuting attorney. The confession creates considerable of asensution in Detroit. and the matter will doudtiess lend tu a searching investigation. ——— CENTBAL WA1LR-WORKS. The City of Chicago has. now a population of over half a million persons, and that popu- Jation is increasing rapidly. It has been less than fifteen years since the first tunnel under the lake was built, and a supply of water equal to fifty millions of gallons per day secured, Ten years ago the population of the city had increased to 300,000, and the necessity for an additional supply of water Was evident. In -1870 the city made the Recessary loan for the construction of an additional tunnel from the Crib to the present location of the water-works near the june don of Twenty-second street and Ashland avenue. This tunnel was intended to fur- nish an additional supply of one hundre millions of gallons per day. It was expectetl that this supply would equal the wants of | the city for a iong penod. It seems, how- ever, that, through no fault of the engineers, natural obstacles—the touching of cock—~ compelled the grade of the west eud of this land tunnel to be raised instead of lowered, friction of the water passing through several thereby reducing the head or fall from the lake, and the result of this has been that the depth uf water in the wells at the West Side water-works wes considerably dimin- ished, und consequently the capacity of that part of the genera) distributiow scheme {fs much jess than was originally contem plated, The'operating inachinery at the W est Side works has never been completed,—a double engine only having been provided when the plan called for three. The two uperating es- tablishiments are pearly four miles distant, and the force given to the water in the mains and service-vipes is strongest at the extremi- ties of the city, where least needed, and weak- est in the centre, where most wanted. Where the tio’ currents meet, there the force is lightest, and much of this force is lost by the hundred miles of pipe running at all manner of angies between the two pumps. In the central parts of the city—that is, about mid- way between the pumps—located the great- est amount of combustible property and the largest number of high buildings. in that section the high buildings form comparatively. a solid mass, and this mass is extending and at the same time becoming mere com- pact every day. In these buildings are stored the great bulk of the merchandise and valuable personal ‘property of Chicago. ‘Every store and warehouse is crowaed, and the amount of property therein can only be computed by hundreds of millions of dollars, ‘The improvements of the real estate in this same section will compard favorably in value . with any like number of buildings in any other city in the country. Ourentiresystem, therefore, presents the anomaly of furnish- ing less water and having less force in the section of the city where it is most needed, and where, in case of any conflagra- tion, the loss would be most overwhelming and culamitous. It isa mistake to assume that in case of a disastrous fire in the business section of the city the loss would fall alone upon the immediate owners of the property destroyed; that loss would fail upon all property-owners, and upon all persons resid- ing in the city, and be felt more severely by the interruption to employment and wares which would be a direct result, The Mayor has appealed 1o the City Council to order the preliminary steps to be t#ken to complete the pumping machinery at the West ‘Bide works, by duplicating the present en- gines, arid thus give to that cs himenta capacity of pumping 60,000,000 of water directly. At the same time itis vonsidered py intelligent, thoughtful citizens who have considered the matter carefully that the most pressing need of the water service is the provision for central pumps on the South Side of the city, near the South Branch of the river, which can be supplied with water from. the foug and large funnel xt a point where that tunnel Is at its greatest depth, and hence has the greatest fall from. the lake, Such an establishment at that point would at once relieve the water service, at the other points of the less of force in the suvply caused by the friction in the long distances the water has now to take to reach con- sumers. It would equalize the force now given by the standyiyes; it would give strength and power to the water de- very at the very points where the greatest supply of water is needed, and where that supply is now weakest, By - equilizing the power in the mains the pres- ent pumps will be able to furnish the same amount of water they now furnish at a less | expenditure of fuel and force. The strain on those works will be largely reduced with- out reducing the service actually performed by them. The water system’ will be made more symmetrical by having the distribution proceed from the centre instead of the re- mote extremities. Nature did not put the heart in the feet, hands, or head, but supplies these extremities from the centre of the hu- man systein, Mayor Harrison concedes that the location of the Water-Works originaily on the lake shore and Chicago avenue was a blunder, and, for the same reason, the location of the second works at Ashland avenue and Twen- ty-second street was q repetition of that blunder,—that fs, unless central works are built. ad the original works been located on the South Branch, between Jackson and Harrison streets, then additional or auxiliary works might have been located elsewhere. But the presentduty of the Council isto avoid any further perpetuation or repetition of the original error, and now supply the de- ficiency in the system by locating a new establishment exactly where the original one should have-been located, and Jeaving the ex- isting works to Gperate” as’ auxilfaries to the central works. If any member of the City Council wishes to understand the economy of locating the water-works on the line of the river, he has -only to inquire what the cost per annum is to haul the coal by carts to the Chicago avenue and to the Twenty-second street works, and as to the difficulty at times of severe weather in having the coab furnished atall. With the works on the river the coal could be delivered direct from the vessel and stored on the grounds if necessary. REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH IN THE FRENCH ELECT ONS, ‘The recent election in France to the Coun- cils-General has resulted inan unexpectedly large Republican majority and the erushing defeat of the Clericals, Bourbons, Bonapart- ists, and all the factions hostile to the Re- public, A cable dispatch from Paris says: The final result of the election is, the Repub- Heans cleoted 92, the Conservatives 372. Re- publicun gain. 240. The Republicans now con- trol at leust seventy Councils-General. The election is one of special significance— first, because it secures:an immense Repub- lican majority iu the Senate: and second, because it isan emphatic indorsement of the activn of the Government in breaking up the unauthorized Jesuit establishments. The French Senate is made up of 300 members, of whom seventy-five hold seats for life, vacan- cies in their number being filled by the Sen- ate itself. The remaining 25 are divided into three groups of seventy-five each, each group going out after terms of service of five years each. The election of these Sen- ators is made by the Councils-General, bodies composed of the Communes and municipali- ties, 14,200 in nuniber, whieh elect by a major- ity of their members Senatorial electors, who, after a lapse of two months. meet and elect Senators. The recent elecnion, therefore, is tantamount to the election of an overwhelm- ing majority of Republican Senators. Still more than thisis itsignificant as indorsing the recent action of the Government in relation to the Jesuits and other unauthorized relig- fous orders. The Clericals confidently ex- pected that in these popular elections, which maybe compared to our elections to the State Legislatures, the people would re- buke the Government and declare by their votes in ‘favor of the Jesuits and their anti-Republican intrigues. The result shows that the people of France are in accord with their free, secular Governinent, and are even more radical than their rulers. The immense majorities prove that they aro deterinined upon the separation of Church and State, and that the Government shall no fonger be hampered by the plottings of mon- archistson the one hand or clerical inter- ference on the other. In the face of such decisive majorities the ultra members must abandon all hope of defying the Government, and the Governnient will go on more reso- lately than ever in enforcing its decrees and protecting itself against the sinister influence of the Church. Its warrant may be consid- ered authoritative, for it is the Catholic peo- ple of France who have given it such a hearty indorsement. © ‘ In commenting upon the result of the elections the Paris Figaro gives the Con- servatives some very excellent advice. It says: “Two courses ara left to the Con- servatives, either io accept isolation and exclusion from public life, or to’ re nounce their daily diminishing hopes, Tecoguize the accomplished facts, and form a Conservative party which cannot be charged with hostility to the Republic.” This is ex- cellent advice to the French malcontents; but if the editor of the Paris Figaro bad had the Southern Bourbons of this country, instead of “the French Bourbons, in his mind, he could'not have written anything more apro- { pos. It suits the case of the former exactly. {a waste of fuel and of power which no pri They occupy towards the Government of this country precisely the position which tho French Bourbonsand Uitramontanes ocenpy towards their Government. Theyare hostile to its existence, and they seck to impede its administration, evade its laws, and defy its authority by every method they can devise, not even stopping short of violence and of the most outrageous frauds at the ballot-pox ever known in the political history of any country. It would be in accordance with ordinary decency, if they carnot recog- nize the republican form of government and obey its laws, to accept isolation and exelusion from public life with which they have no sympathy, or to recognize the Government, the Constitution, and the laws, and ubey them, and form a Conservative party | which cannot be charged with nostility to the Republic. Enrolled in such a party, contesting for power upon legitimate issues of policy, performing their duties as good citizens, protecting all classes of citizens in their rights, maintaining and defending an honest ballot-box, and giving attention to the majerial development of their States, they would command respect, apd elevate their own section. Under their present conditions of hostility to the Government~a hostility which is as impotent as it {s unreasonable— they cannot expect to secure power or 2d- ‘vatice their prosperity; and, if they cannot give in their adhesion to a republican form of government and obey its laws, they had better accept isolation and exclusion, ——— TANNER'S TRIUMPH. Dr. Tanner has at last finished his long fast, and the country is free to devote itself to more important issues than the mere aim- Jess curiosity 10 see how long this particular individual can go without eating and not die, Whatever else may be said of Dr. Tanner, he must be credited with extraordinary’ will- power and equally extraordinary tenacity, persistence, and endurance. Physically he is a hero. Indian savages at their sun- dances have suspended themselves on hooks in. the flesa of their backs and swung in air until the hooks tore themselves out, without a groan bemp uttered by the stolid savages. Martyrs have given up their lives at the stake for their faith without faltering or re- ; cantation, There have been innumerable Cases of torture, self-imposed and imposed by others; but not one of them can be com- pared with the forty days’ famine torture which Dr. Tanner has cheerfully and volun- tarily endured., It was 2 courageous defiance of every one of the functions of Nature as wellas of the dogmas of Science. Most people suffer great discomfort in losing ove meal. " What must have been not only the discom- * fort, but the horrible tortures of a man who has lost 120 consecutive meals, not of ne- cessity, but upon his own motion, with the knowledge that the food which his system eraved and for which it was erying out was all about him and could be had at any minute. Every method of Nature was re- versed. Every organ was armsted in its natural functions and set to domg strange work until it was brought to the verge of collapse. Stripped of its natural ‘nutrition the body was living upon itself day after day. It was like kindling a slow consuming fire in his vitals whose burning produced excru- lating pain. Every force of Nature that is exerted to Sustain life and nourish it was suspended in its operations except his indomitable iron will, which grew strongeras the body was consumed to a cinder, and kept it under subjection, and defied and duspised pain. From this point of view Dr. Tanuer isa hero. Butnow that the self-imposed forty days’ fast is accomplished, what of it? What will not induce people to fast because they “know Dr. Tanner tas lived six weeks with- outeating. It is not going to induce people toeat less. There are big eaters and there are little caters, and gluttons have been glut- tons from time immemorial, and will continue to be to the end of time. Ifit could induce people to eat less and eat plain food, and not to overload their stomachs, it would be well; but temperance has been preached since the days of Paul, and is illustrated with an in- creasing list every year of victims of dyspep- sia, apoplexy, and the diseases of disordered stomachs. It proves nothing, because the medical books contain numerous instances of fasts quite as remarkable as his. But, it is sald, if Dr. Tanner succeeds in bis forty days’ fast, it will encourage the involuntary victims of fast—by shipwreck, for instance, or other disasters—to know that they may live forty days without eating. But fast- ing on an inhospitable island or, float- ing on the sea, exposed to the hot sun and to the vicissitudes of Nature, without friendsin sight, with the knowledge that no foud is near, with no help near by in case of emergency, with no admission-fee to witness the spectacle,‘or pleasant drives to get the air and change, is a different thing from Tanner's fasting in a comfortable hotel, with plenty of friends around, with doctors well supplied with medicines, batteries, and ail the appliances for restoration, with the Knowledge that he could have food any in- stant, that his wil) grew weak and be wanted to qhit, with every preparation made for his comfort, with plenty of attendants to give him baths,rub him, and minister to his slightest wants, with some women sending him -their sympathy in bonquets, and others expressing it stil) more strongly by insisting upon marrying him, with handsome daily re- ceipts for his pocketbook, and the prospect that when the fast is over he can lecture to the American people, and that the American people, always on the search for sensations, will flock to his lectures and give hima hand- some remuneration, These advantages the boor devils floating for days on the sea, or washed upon the shores of fondless islands, do not have. Unquestionably they keep up courage as long as they can,—for no man in health is very desirous to die; but how much would the knowledge that Dr. Tanner went without eating forty days in bis comfortable hotel quarters help them? Place Dr. Tan- ner himself in an open boat ‘and set him adrift without hope of tood or sight of hu- man being, would he endure fonger than other men? “There is one view of this matter which isa sad one. ‘We shall’ now bave shoals of mountebanks and humbugs who will seck to make money out of the excitement attending Dr. Tanner’s experiment by getting up fasts of every possible description. Mr. Ter- ence McGuff may exaggerate a little when he writes to the New York Truth: ‘As another step in the same direction, I'am willing to live three days and three nights in a whale’s belly if the ¥. M.C. A. will pro- vide.a suitable whale and haveit comfortably furnished.” With all Terence’s desire to establish Divine truths, his proposition is not much more ridiculous than the entertain- sents in the way of fasting which will ve speedily offered to the American people. ‘The mania will have its little day,—so little, however, that Jandlords and landladies need not fear any diminution of their extraor- dinary profits,—and then some other folly will take its place, Is the order of precedence ia the matter of mecting the appruaching necessity, the central water-works must be regarded as pre- eminent. The business of supplying the city trom the territoria! limits, instead of from the centre, is obviously a waste of money, and espenditure for machinery, and really useful purpose has it subserved? It | yate person oF corporation would continue a day longer than necessary. The provision tor central works and for a distribution from that-point is demanded by public safety and every rational considera- tion, including that of the cash expenditure. With a central’ pumping-works the present tunne! supply of. water may be sufficient until 1895.. Withouta centra) pumping estab- lishment it will not be five years before the new City-Hall and County Court-House will be left without enough waterto reach the second story, and in case of fires in the central part of the ‘city the Fire Department will look in vain ‘for water to be sent from the shallow wells at Ashland avenur, no matter how many engines may he put there. ‘The cost of the lot for the central water- works is urged as an objection against entes- ing upon the construction of such works. ‘This objection disappears in contemplation of the necessities of the situation. But the city is prepared on this score. The present temporary City-Holl-culled the Rookery— occupies a .lot belonging to the Water Department. It is something like 200 feet square, and, if vacated, would now sell for not less than $1,000 a front foot, or $200,000. With this money, or I a water-front lot of ample size can be purchased on the South Branch, between Jackson and Harrison { streets, for the. propesed central water- works. Before this time next year the city offices can be removéd to the uew City-Hall if the completion of that building is pushed forward with energutic industry. The net profits from water-rents exceed $1,000 a day, and this income ‘vill construct the super- structure and put in the engines as fast as the work-can be pushed forward. We trust the more intelligent and reflecting members of the Council will give the subject proper thought and arrive at wise conclusions, THE REPEAL OF THE BARBARIAN LAW OF DisrREy3. The atrocity of the wretches who, under the protection of the law of this Stute on the subject of landlord and tenant, haye-been robbing and plundering so many hons~ keepers in this’ city bus been somewhat ex- tensively presented to the public, It is a matter of doubt whether even in the most notorious cases there can be any adequate punishment because of the encouragement and protection which §he law of this State affords such practices. ‘There are two radical defects in the law: (1) The law authorizes any person claiming to be 2 landlord, or the agent or attorney of a landiord, on bis own motion and in the absence of any oath or other affirmation that there is duc him avy sum for rent, to write out a warraut of distraint, and proceed to the premises of an oceupant and seize and carry away" ali the fur- niture or other property he may find there, and secrete it; and the law further au- thorizes the man who does this to file his warrant of distress with any Justice of the Peace living in any part of a county, and re- mot: from a city, and the person whose prop- erty is taken may never hear any more of the proceeding or of his property, be denied the opportunity of replevin, or of even con- testing the claim for rent. That is what the letter of the Jaw authorizes, and that is the daily practice in this city. (8) The law authgrizes also the institution of a civil suit aguinst any citizen before any Jus- tice of the Peace residing in any part of the county, compelliag the persons sued to at- tend the trial of such cases, at the most un- Teasonable hours, twenty-five miles distant from their homes, or suffer judginent to be given by default. Under this authority of law, gangs of disrep- utable attorneys, equally disreputable Constables, and more disreputable Justices carry ona large amount of this class of so- called legal business in this city and county. The victims are mostly poor laboring men and defenseless and friendless women, who, upon the judgment being obtained, are robbed and plundered -of their household. goods in flagrant.abuse of honesty and gen- erally of the commonest Jaws of decency and propriety. ‘The law should beamended so as to render these abuses impossible. .The whole law of distraint should be repealed. It isa relic of feudal times and of feudal power, when the owner of the land-was also the law-giver, judge, and executioner, and when he had almost absolute power as lord of the manor. This law we inherited from our British an- cestors, and it-still exists in many of the vote, thr bank-clearings, the citi ea newspnpers, the numbor of municipal licenses fesued, and all the other indications of populution with which statisticians are familiar. ‘The discrepancy between these indications in Chicago and St. Louis first gave rise to the suspicion that the census of the latter city waa fraudulent. The corrections now make the correspondence between the reported popula- tion and the indicated population of both cities nearly perfect. ——— ASTRONOMICAL. Chicngo (Trrecnz oltice), north latitude 41 deg. 82m. 573.; west longitude, 42m. les. from Wash- ington, and 5h. um, 30s. from Greenwich. ‘5 ‘The gubjoined table shows the timo of setting of the moon's lower limb, and the official time for Nghting the Arst street-lamp in each cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, uniees ordered sooner on account of bac weather. the following times Yor extinguishing the first lamp: nt. Extinguish, 7 3:95 a.m. mm. 9:40 p. Ia. Srey ee” Bane 106 po ma ‘The nwon will be in her first quatter Friday ut 6:52 n.m., and about four days from ber peri- ree. Sbe will be unusually bright, to propor- tion to her apparent * fullness,” the latter part of the week; and the “Soa of Crises,” in the upper balf, may be easily made out with the nuked oye as adark paich about the size of & silver dollar. fae sun's upper Hmb will riseon Monday at $:014 a. m., south at Sm. 11s. p.m.,and set at ‘207% p.m. ‘Tuc sun's upper limb rises Friday next at 5:06 p.m. ‘Tho sidereal time Thursday mean noon will be 9h. 6m. 12.593. Mercury was fa conjunction with the sun last ‘Toursday morning, and is now too near him to be visible. Heis west of the sun, passing to- wards his greatest western’ clopgution (13s de- grees), which will occur the night of the Zistinst. Venus is now east of the sun, setting affer him: but not yet far.enough from him to take the pcs Mon of evening star. Neat. Thursday she will suuth at th. 50m: p. m., and apt ab 7:35 P m.; or about bulf an houratter sunset. Mars will south Thursday at i:is7 p. m., and set ats:10 p.m. He is a scarcely visible object. Jupiter will rise Wednesday at 9:15 p. m., and south at 3:49.14. m. Thursday. His appnrent dis- tance from the sun fs increasing almost precise~ ly at the rate of one degree, or four’ minutes of time, each day, ns he is neurly stationary. That is, he rises each day about four minut. earlier than tha day preceding. He is about 3 degrees enst from the star No.8 Piscium. His appurent diumeter is now 43.2 seconds of ara. It will be 47.65 seconds early in October. He will then shine with nearly one and a quarter times his present brillianey, being se bright as to cast a perceptible shadow in the absence of the mova. (Sho will be“new" on the night of the 34.) To- night at 11:37 p.m. the first satellite will emerge from a transit of the planet; and the toird will pass the same phuse Monday at 10:57 p. m. ‘Tbursday, at 1:11 a. m., the shadow of the sec- ond satellite will pass on the planet, and the satellite will follow at 3:36 a. m.; the shujow will leave the planet at 3:34 a.m. Suturday, at 1:16 a. m.. the secund satellite will reappear from occultation, and at 3:33 a. m. the shadow of the first will pass on the pinnet. Next Sunday,at | 0:44 a. m., the Orst satellite will be eclipsed, and will reappear from occultation a1 4:06.2.m. His _ bright spot will be turacd directly towards us 03 a. m. Monday, 3:40 a. m. Wednesday, 1:10.a. m. Saturday; and.will be visible for nearly two and a half hours before and atter those dates. . Saturn will riee Wednesday at 9:47 p.m., and south Thursday at 4:26a,m. He is alsogaining on the sun at the rate of aboutfour minutes of time perday. His apparent diameter is 1743 seconds of arc. The greatest and least appar- ent diameters of his: rings are 42 seconds and 113g seconds. The earth is now 15}; degrees soutn from the plane of the ring system, which shows up beautifully through a good telescope. Crauus will south Thursday at i:l4 p. m., and set at 7:55 p.m. He is now too near the sun to be visible except through a good telescope. On the 20th inst. he will be only three-quarters of & degree south from Venus. Neptune will douth Thursday at 5:25 a. m; a 8IR EVELYN AND THE LATE PRINCE. - Brig.-Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood {s to be con- Rratulated ou his distinguished achievement agin biographer. In extorting from. the forty Zulus who overpowered and slaughtered Prince Napoleon, after a desperate and protracted struggle, a conféssion of their cowardiceand the lion-like courage of the Prince, Sir Evelyn has added new lustre to the fame of the Napoleonic dynasty.\ ln the words of the efghteen Zulus who “encompassed him about,” the young Prince, ornamented with the assegais which had been thrown into him until he looked Ifke a porcupine, “ turned upon ™ bis assailants “like a lion at bay.” He rushed at his nearest op- Ponent, * who fled” In terror. “He Gred bis pistol.” “He seized un assegai which had been thrown at bim and thus defended himself ugainat seven or eight Zulus."” They state on oath and on their sacred honor that * they did not dare to States, including Winois, notwithsiancing its viol: tion of every principle of justice, An incomplete research of the laws of the seéveral States on this subject to discover how far the ancient barbarism prevails gives { the following result as te the progress made by the vivilization and intelligence of the age: In Wisconsin the writ of distress for rent bas been abolished. In Pennsylvania the old brutal law still exists. : In New York distress for rent is abolished. In Indiana distress warrants for rentare not allowed. In Ohio distress. warrants for rent were abolished long ago. in Lowa distress warrants, co nomine, are notallowed, but landlords have lieus for rent which can be enforced by attachment pro- ceedings in Justices’ courts. In Michigan distress warrants are. not al- lowed. In Louisiana distress warrants are wholly unknown to the law. as far as we have had leisure to ex- into the State laws on this subject, but even this partial examination shows that the spirit of the age is in the direction of stamping this relic of absolutism out of the statute-book. In Indiana the law requires that a defend- ant must be sued in bis own township, ex- cept in capias suits, or where there is no Justice of the Peace in the town. In Ohio the juvisdiction of a Justice is lim- ited in civis suits to his own township, ex- cept in attachinent cases, or cases of- forcible entry and detainer; and the same law should be adopted in Iliineis. f In Iowa tae jurisdiction of a Justice ex- tends over the county, but suits must be broughtin the towuship where the plaintiff or the defendant, or one of several defend- ants, resides, ‘ In Michigan the law in this particular is substantially the same as in lowa, In New York suits must be brought in the town where either plaintiff or defendant re- sides, or before some Justice of another town next adjoining the residence of either plaintiff or. defendant. We submit that the three millions and more of free people in Lilinois should abolish any barbarous, cut-throat law which authorizes auy’man to write outa warrant authorizing himself to seize and carry off another man’s Property, without an oath as to the validity of his debt, and without a bond or other se curity for the property seized and carried off! At will be seen that the tight to sue a man in ,a-remote part of the county has been wisely restricted in several of the States. THE St. Louis and Louisville papers affect tobelieve that the census just completed in Chicago was not isonestly taken. They’ don't believe anything of the kiud, of course, but it pleases them—this wild. talk—which diverts attention frum their own shortcomings and the suspicious returns from the South. The reasous for beliving that the Chicago census is honest are the evidences of growth contained close on bim, until he sank exhausted on bis hips.” There is goud reason to believe (though Sir Evelyn does not say so) that, if unfortunately the Prince bad not lost his sword, which fell from its .scabbard in the excitement of his attempt to mount bis horse. he would have rup the forty Zulus through the body, buried them with the honors of war, and returned to camp next day beuring a bundle of assegais! It is agserged that the lion was once given the Bower of speech long enough for the noble beust to say that man possesses a great advan- tage in his ubility tu make report of bis contests with the king of the forest. The lion doubtless intended to insinuate that, in reporting his own achievements, man is an egregious liar, or words to that effect. The surviving members of the Nupoleonic fumily—the dynasty witbuut a throne—ure fortunate in the late Prince's diographer. Hud be lived to tell his own story it might have been tess bighly colored with glory. We do not mean to insinuate, as the tion didin relution to human lon-fighters, that Sir Svelyo isan untruthful person. Doubtless the eighteen alleged Zulus told their alleged story of their own cowardice and the remarkuble bravery of the late Prince, But what did it cost to make them say that they were cravens, and soto slander their race? Doubtiess it was necessary 10 show to the world the kingly qualities of the young pretender to the throne which isget- Ung dusty and musty in the dingy back garret where the French Republic keeps its uld thrones. Doubtless the memory of the episode of Sedan rests rather heavily on the hearts of the Nupo- leonie dynasty. The contrast between Napoleon Lat Jena, Eylau, and Friedland, and Napoleon IL at Sedan does not tend to strengthen conf- dence in the Napoleonic star, Something must be dune to bolster the failing dynasty. Hence the young Prince was sent to Zululand. The situution was very desperate which prompted the sending of » boy among savages in search of military glory. Aud nothing can be more ead than the fute of the poor Prince, unless indeed it be the effort to prop the shattered fortunes of the fug-ends of the family Napoleon by impro- vising an inspiring uccount of a flerce battle be- tween the pretender to a throne which bus no existence save in history andu band of forty bloodthirsty suvages, Rut Sir Evelyn bas im- mortalized himself.—in the opinion of the Napo- Jeonic fumily! There was need of-an exhibi- tion of Nupoieonic heroism. It was neces- sary to find a cion of the noble (2 fainily no longer able to keop house in its own country who would not surrender as did Na- poleon IL, or resign to-keep ont of battle as did the immortal Plon-Plos. On the testic mony of eighteca Zulus the map buabeen found. ‘The man is dead, but be neither surrendered nor ran away; he died with bis faco to the encniy. Sir Evelyn has furnished us with a chapter or a puge of history, Its Zulu authority may not be of the highest character, but it will ‘Pass cur- rent,—among the members of the Napoleonte family. Bugénie,—an Empress without a crown and a womun who sent her son among savages after glory only to receive him back dead,— Eugénie may not be able at “this present to recompense the late Prince's biographer; but what if the French people should get weary of soverning themseives, knock over the-Repub- 4s and ask Plun-Pton or some other Napoteopir ‘riuce to guve them frum anareby! Sir Evelyt. wouid surely be remembered ag the author of an ena biography,—n biography of » authenticated by ~ on Zhluat y tho tesumony of eight or SENatoR CovKLine did not attend th Republican conference in New York, and thy caricee desire for party harmony. + 25 aomewhat Gf a talent for ma : a talent which he did not fuil to iene anes cngo.—and it is but natural that be shogit. fully avoid any occasion to reopen wounds”, flicted on party rivuls, were it only by eee pearaned as the leader of New York Runt” ans. This scrupulous remand for tho teeqe others augurs well for the tact and scp ficius offert whieb Mr.Conktagis likes ig 2 into tho canvass, Mr. Garneld will doupi leave New York thoroughly impresseq win Hp magnanimity and disinterestedness of aurea Senator.” ————— A PIERCING wail is heard from It is about the census. The Gace atl over the election roturns of the three Inert Western cities, with the following: seat sting was his ¢ Senator pid sacs Tig Pemmaten. it. Louis, AO Ww Chicaso ee neg ea According to those figures the vote 3 to ulation was as follows bcc The answer to the sugges the twofold. First, Chicago bus grown. apidiy sir 1876. Tho fire and the panie coming together closely kept the city back in the first halt uf the deende. Probably 36 per cent of the lncreasa was in the second half. No new arrivalsin ing year preceding the Presideutiat election woud be entitled to vote. Secondly, Chicago has 4 much larger foreign and uanaturalized pope Jation than either Clacinnati-or St. Louie | ‘Tals appenrs from the census-rapart of 18). Thg number of males over“1 and of male citizens iq .the Counties oy Cok, Hamilton, and &t, Log is reported as follows by the last census: oe Meg Cook County (Chieazo) es ee Cot Tees 6482 Tue number of unuaturalized adult mates { fo Cook County in 1810 was, therefore, Hg, in St. Louis County the number was 1g. ; 264; and in Hamilton County only 8.482. Chicagy probably receives taree immigrants 1 St, Loa? one, and tive to one more than Cincinnati. Thy Gazette further says: : We shall huve u further test when the vote for President in 18 shall be conuted. Chica, if the Cineianati proportion shall obtain, cast 94,000 vores, aguins: 62,400 in IST6 If thers ig to beany such Incrense, it {so be boped the Republican party will get its far stare. St. Louis must walk up pretty tively ts the bak lot-box if it proposes Co contest even with Cin cinnati, to suy nothing of Chicazo. ? For the rensons already stzred the: rote of- Chicago will not be 94,000 in 1.30. There were’ 31,000 undaturalized males in this counzy in I, andthe oumber is probubly incresced rather vaan decreased now, The. total vote'of this ccunty will not much exceed 90,000, and, ff the ; canyass fs thorough and the peuple are walked up, of that Chicago will poll in the neighborhood Of 75,000 next fall. ~ é , ert carefully. Tue New York Nation, ‘after stacs ing the empty nothingness of the lettersof, accepiance written by Gen. Haacock and Mr, Englsa, comes to these conclusious in regant thereto: Or-inarily, we admit, a candidate for the Prey. idency is not culled on for any such expusition, becuse, as a pohitician, he usually bus speeches, or votes, or some sort of oficial history to refer tw. Lf, for Inétance, Gen. Gari coutined - bs letter to simple acceptunce of the nomma. | - tion, and for his vpinions and policy hud turned’ voters over to his speeches and votes ih Vou gress, he would have turuished them with ampls means of furetelling the pul:cy of his Admins tration upon every important matter now be fore the country or fikely to come befureit, during the next tve years. But Gen. Hancock’ bas nuthing polit:cal to produce except bis gea- eru! order in Louisiana and his leter tothe Govergor of Texas u dozen yearsago. Weere thus, after waiting a good while. left by | Gen. Hancock's letter in the ditiiculty iz: which his nomination found as,—that is, the diticutty of knowing nothing about him 234 politician. - We see that he bas u bigh opinionof the Constitution of the United States, and agrees with the ancient proposition “ that ours is a Government of divided powers,” and has PL peer ore for peace and concord. -dat almost everybudy one meets in the strect bag thig amount of equipment for the Presidency, and would, witha [ttle time and the helpofs literary friend, produce bis views on points in as good a dress as Gen. Hancock's ler ter, Unfortunately, too, Mr. English’s letter does not furnish that strengthening supplement to his chief's wo.ch Mr. Arthur's fu wu Gen. Garfield's. Mr. Erglish’s avoidance of the topics of the day is even more compiete than Gen. Huncock’s, while his tone is much less dignified. Indeed, be has almost played the art of the enfant terrible which was playedby iunsgan, of Texas, at the Chicago Contention, He hus thrown aside all the drapery of general propositions about peace and wisdom, andsd- dressed bimself in the most unblushing manner tothe single task of proving that it is not good the Republicans have beld them too lung, and the Democrats ought now to have a chance at theni. He feels like the backrn who sald the other day in a country town that he wanted" s change of Goverament,” aud wus going to vate for Hancnck “to sce if it wouldn't make those iris In the Post-Otfice give civil answers bout the currency, nothing: about Civil-Serv> ice reform, nothing; about the tariff, or taxa- tion, or the public credit, nothing. Whatheis interested in, apparently to the exclusion of everything else, in what the statesmen of the City-Hall call “a new deal” t a ——__—— THE fragment of Hancockers in the eb lightened Village of Evanston appealed toCar ter H. Harrison to come up and help them against the overwhelming hosts of-*Radical- ism.” The eagle alighted there and spread bis wings. A report of the speech says: ‘iit In speaking of State-rignts he said: “There is no danger of .Stute-rights, State-riyhls have been settled. It was settled by te War. It wasseitled by the thousunds of goals which are resting at peace in their graves. It was settled by that monument, tho millions of dollars which were expended by our Govern- ment to crush the Rebellion. This isa Unina.— a great Nation, and fus part Iam silling to spell it with a big'N.’” Now, if Sr. Harrison only knew it, this is Republicanism, and itis gratifying to know that he has imbibed” some truths from the Republican. press, which be reads closely. * ‘The “best Mayor," etc., is treading on danger ous grounds, if he only knew it. For a Demo crat to call this a Nation. and especially to spell it with a big N, is flat burglary in Buurbonic eyes, The first thing Harrison knows be wilt be hauled up before the deacons of the Democratia Chureb, like poor Springer, who spoke well of Gen. Garfield, and be compelled to recant OF suffer excommunication. The Cincinnats piste form don't recognize this as a “great Nation,’ but only as the agent of a confederag of sover eign States, according to the resolutions of 'S, and Carter H. Harrison has come dreadfuly near uttering rank heresy. What must bate been the feelings of Judge H. G. Miller while listening to such “consolidated” biasphemy Ss “This isa great Nation, and tam willing W spe itwitha big Nl The subject, from a Demo- cratic standpoint, is too painful to pursue. ——— Tue Boston Herald (Ind.) says of Gem Hancocx’s political blunder: Some weeks ago we called fact that Huncock’s cbuncesof gaining the soled ot the Independents of the country, Gependes Wholly upon his roudiness to make a frank ate clear statement of the civil policy he bal a adopt if elected. Since that time ho bay WEEE and msde public his letter of acceptance, eo DOW We are told that this js all that 1 0 be iS pected from him in the way of affirmation ot explanation. If this turns out to be true. tt c:munly say that be and his advisors are ha ing un egregious political blunder-—one WITS nO amonat of partisan zeal ean fully offset. a independents of the country may Or, may cet form a cons{derable number, but {t is certhe that whore the parties are so nearly balance strength they form a contlogent with w agsistunce more than one doubtful State 00 be carried. ————__——— Is the political controversy fast weck in Cincinnati between Judge oadtes (refenads f attention to the Rep.) and Stanley Matthews tho latter assed former an awkward question apropos of tbs Domoeratic desire for a free bullot—ri2.: “What safezuard has ever been proposed that bas not met with the united, and determ.nea, and perso” vering uppositiva of tbe Democratic party? which in Ohio regularly repeals the Resi tration law passed by the Republicnas woen in power, ad. shields repeaters, and ballot-box stuffers, and commits al! the frauds at elecHom’ it possibly can. a <a A La SAtce dispatch says: on A new source of untural wealth bas beeo “a veloped here within the lust few days. A Ger Ueman named Burnes, of Chicago, who, bas tested alf the clays between Chicago and toa ver, bas chosen a atratum of clay situated Creve Comr street no belng the best for maxing for any prrty to bold the offices too long; that . a fine grade of pressed Unick found anywaere He {9 now shipping it heavily toa urm at Union Stock- Yurds. smpervious to waver and contain oo lime, ty bringing $15 per thousund. a - Two pavewrens of President Taylor, sald robe ta dustitute circumstances, were VOU valance of $25,000 atthe last session of CongTess. this sum was duo him for the unexpired prt of the year in which ho died. With the examola The brick mude trun tare