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

4 > Guaute BR, Matson, cqudidates for Sherill; ou o CLUCAGO TRIBUNE, MONDAY, SUP LMM 2%, 1s80—TEN PAGIOS. THE CITY. ’ GENERAL NEWS. - + Jonx McCuLovant Is nt tho Tremont. 8.8, Lows, of Bt. Louls, Js at tho Shorman. . B. F. Mautstt, of Warsaw, I, ts nt tho Paoifio, 4,1t. Huvp, of Green Bay, Wis. Is at tho Shor- man, 0.1K, MoKexngy, of Dixon, 1,18 at the Tro- mount. : ry An Junae 8, J, Krnxwoon, of lowa City, is at the Pacific. Davip Wiungn, of Now York, is at tho Palmer. dony anv J, F. Waanen, of Australia, are at the Patmer. : O25 Gronan A. Snentpan, of Now Orleans, is at tho Palmer, . i Dn. W. Re Leoxann, of Now Yori, {8 at tho ‘Tremont. nab ype : ‘ Gronar A, SANDRNEON, of Indianapolis, fs at the Sherman. Mantiy, I. Towxsenn, M. 0,, of Now York, is at the Pacitle, “runopone ScuWAx, U, 8 with his wilo, Juno Geouor I, Panken, of Davonport, Is Stthe Palmer,” ‘ Skxaror WinntAM Perr Iigntoaa, of New Or- Josue, In at the Paciile, ALEXANDER Kes’ and family, of Florence, ‘Wis, are at the Sherman. \ IC. Wanstin and family, of Portland, Ore, nro domiciled at the Tremont. J.P,G, Lawnenor, tt. Wf, Howard, and John i jepes London, England, are registered at tho almer. ‘ JLB. Packen, General Superintendent of tha Now Jersey Divistan of the Pobiiit Valley Ral- ron, is ut the Pater, = zi 7. 'T. Eckenn, President, and D. Doran, Gene erm! Superintendent, of the American Unton Yelograph Company, fre at the Palmer. “A Lrttia boy baby, abont $ months old, was round last ovening i 8 ballway at No. 130 Dn Bille _steoet by Detective Shoa. It was sent to the Foundilngs’ Home, Lawrence Bannett, Louls James, Froderlok Tiock, Miss Mario Watnwright, and Miss Kate Meek, of the Barrett combinition, are at the Pucitlo en route to Indianapulis. C.F. Epwanns, Baltimorg; wits, Woodstock; J. H. Den! If. Moore and wife, Dukot New York: and C, G. Campbell, attho Gardner, Con. CoAnK E, Cart, of Galesburg, was at the Paeltio yesterday. Ho reports a general good fvellng throughout tho State and rousing muct= ines everywhere, Col. Carr speaks at Audison, Wis., this evening. , Dn. Dovatasand James IHowetson, Port El- in,, Ont; Capt. C, C. Johnstone and Mreand tra. George Cowan, Edinburg: R.A, Whythand und Thomns Drame, Glasgow. Scotland; Johu i. Jo }, Draells Fnglund; and 8. de la Lonio, Pacis, ure registered nt tio Pacitlo, , ‘tim Mentelssobn biterary Society mot yestor> day afternoon’ in Sinai ‘temple to purfect ar rubgements for tholr coming annual Ilterary and socht! reunion, to bo givon Supt, 28 at Lake- sido Uni Mr. Edward Lowy presided. - After arranging the program of oxércieca, tho Society adjourned, Orricer William Lobbeko was badly injured nbout tho right neo it 5:30 lust evening by belng thrown from @ wagon. Le had started forth to serve a acarch-warront, and og tho witgon ft which ho was riding was rounding the vornerot Larrabre etrect and Chiongo avenuo the sent gave way, and he was thrown Violently to tho pavement, Tur Ladies’ Brauch of: the German Ald So- eloty will give an entertainment at Uhlich's Iti Get. 3, the net receipts of which will he. devoted t& thy p clothing. ct with which to gladden tho beurts of poor and ¢ serving children on Christmas Evening. Ti will bea grand concort aud ball, The prinel put German singing volet{es and several prominent German artists lave promlaed thelr aid. LOCAL POLITICS. CONVENTIONS AND MEETINGS SATURDAY AET- ERNOON AND EVENING. Tho Democratic County Convention met Sat- trday. forenoon at 10 o'clock in the Palmer Hougo vlub-room, Melville W. Fuller was chosen Temporary Chalrinnan. Aftor organiza tion, the Convontion proceeded to ballet for tho diferent candidates, Tha choleo was; Judges of the Superior Court—H. M, Shepard, & M. Moore, J. V. Lo Moyne, and Juseph 1, Brith, 3 es Couhty Commissfonors—Pat McCarthy and John KE. Owsley, Weat Sides don Sweeney oud Frank Niesen, North Side; and Theodore Quunther of tha Fifth Distriut, Shorl—Chris Caaselman. “State's Attorney—William J. Hynes. Coronor—Jonn Colvin, ‘Recorder—Florenen Harmon. Clork of tho Cireult Court—Hans Haorting, FOURTII BENATONAL. 4 ‘There waa a very lively iepublican Conven- tion i the Fourth Senatorial Diatriot, Bx-Ald, C, 11, Cage was clected Chairman, ‘Three candi- dates for Senator, Messrs. J. L. Parish, Chris Mamor, and Francis A. Riddle” were placed tn nomination. Four bundred ballots wero taken, nearly ull standiug! 8 for’ Mamor, 11 for Riddle, and 35 for Parish, The Convention adjourned until this oveniug ut 6 o'clock. WAND MEETINGS, Tho Thind Ward Republican Club met in Mare tine’s South Sidu Hall. Speeches wore made by D. K, Tenney, 1. 1. Condes, candidate for Stato Senutor, and thors, Co}. Louis Schuffncr has succcoded In obtain- fox 60 unitoring aud the popular ballot-box torchus for the tee of tho Guritold and Arthur micehing clubs iu the Sixtecnth Ward, A inveting of tho roqular Hopublican Club of the Firth Ward was held in Raber's Hall, No, 130 Areher avenue. A number of specehes wer made by candldatos for county ollices, tundance was large, .”_ , ‘tre Welsh Gurfelt ond Arthur Club, wilt bold wmev tug at Carpontar Hull, No. 1 West Adit Lata aut biota we, Svoniag The fucetinig wi addressed y Goo! fe Got WeDavie, and others, 9 CORO Pals ‘The Kopublicuns of Ityde Park mot in the Vil- Joye Hall, D. A. Furey in tho chalr, An Exoous Uve Committee was uppolnted, : consisting of George M. Hogue, Waite, Honry V. Prove amin, Hugh B, Ferri Marshal Horne. .Ad- dresses were nado by Jouathun Young Boum- mwuu and Sr. Freeman. The Lake View Mepublican Club mot Friday evening, Speeches wore mado by Mr. BAY Allon, candidate for Judo, Heprosentative Dollis and He. Blobuid, "The mootiug wus visited by the Gariuld Club of the Seventh Pree davt of tho Fitconnch Ward, with uniforme and Ay (satthe Palmer F. Church and nan, St Louis; WW. MeKnight, Cincinnati, are ace wrebes. A Gurileld und. Arthur Club was ore‘ runized ut tho conclusion of the meeting. The Executive Committes of tho Central Chub have decided to. adopt. tho uniform otferod by KPC. Klokko, ‘Vhla is tho full Buys ttt Mlue™ uniform, and conafata of a neat blue cape, trinmed with red, with the regiflation ap in rudnnd blue. ‘The bultat-box torcl isa part of tho autit urntuhed, For officers thore fsa blue Achuoet, with a silver capo bundsomely bound, A targa and enthusiastic meeting of tho Fourth Ward Kopubticans waa neid in the chureh at the corner of Suuth Park avenue and p pire thied strect, Tho chair wis filed by Mtr, Jouk, Prosidont of the Ward Club. ‘Tho onition of the evening was detlyered by Mr. D, W. duckson, who graphically compared tho qwertte of tho to grunt purties and their vand{- dates for the Presidency, Keg evening the fon, Stowart L. Wood- ford, of, Now York, and Judge Tourgee will ad= dress a grad massemvcting to be held at Mo- Cormlok Witt unter the ausplees of tbe-Young Men's Auxillary Club of North Chicago, Amon tho ist ot VicosPresidents ura Jesse Spalding, [, S. Arnold, Josuph Medill, John A, Lagun, dent a. Drake, Luther Latlin Mile, Judge ‘Thomas Drutunond, Caurles: K. Culver, Monroe Heath, Sumuel 1. fLaymond, Judge Joseph . Gury. ‘The Bouth Bide Scandlunviune met at the core aor uf indian avenge and ‘Twonty-ninth street yod organized tho Bcandivavian Garileld and Artaur Club, with che following ollicers: Prusl- dont, And, Bandberg; Vieu-Prvsldent, Fred Nel- 300; Sucretary, it. F, Helle) Vronsurur, - St. Gib. son} Murabal, J, dobnwan; Delegate to. the” Cen trul Committee, G. 2. Hansen. Spocchea wore made by Messra, Jolin I. Enundor, B.A. Sunioe que sits Bunalberay O, i. Matson, and Coroner U.S ‘The Seventh Ward Fronch Republican Cluo mut yesterday atternoon at No.l Wost ‘l'welfth strect, there was another tucting of Freuch Kepublicuns beld at the sate time in the Fours wenth Ward, the attendance was hot us large a6 usual. Beyond the udulasion uf some new meinburs, no business wie transioted, his avouing there willbe a mava-mnovtingot Freak: American Republicans ut the northwest corner Of Harkin und Halsted streota, which will bo addressed by omluent speakers. ‘Tho Germun Garfield and Arthur Club of the Bixth Ward met at tho coruor of Lincoln and Winingn wtrests, Charles i'cipp tn tho ehulr, The niceting waa quite a lurge one. It wis voted that the Club turn out ‘Thursday events and at tend the meeting at McCormick's full. ‘Tho Club will probably musiur’ olgbty moaibers on Thue cccuslan. It was deotdod to hold ® nmsa. moetlug Suturduy wvoulug at the sume place, whon promineut spuukers will ba present. and address thy mnecting. A Uburty pole, olghty feut high. will be ralved, aad & lurgo gathoring of lo- pecker publicans ta ux, ; Tho regular Republican Club of tha ‘Thir- teonth Ward mot at Nu. bud West Lake street, ¥, J, Smith presiding. ‘Chere was a luryo ut- tendance, 4 tou upd interostiog address was wade by Richurt B. ‘Purhill, and specchos were algo mado by Mat Beuner, Seth Hanchet, and by | bry by James Frako, J. 1, Bonnott, W.A. Phelps, ox-Ald, Knopf, und Ald, Chompson. “A “committee was Appointed to canvass the Republican yote ac- cording ta the new persincta erento by the Gomity Hoard, and the Excoutive Comniltteo wus tietricted to supervies tho canvass-lists, which are lo be given ta tho Judges the day of tho primaries for tholr guidance, ‘Tho First Ward Republican Club met at tho Grand Pacife, with Col. Abner Taylor in the chale, it was deelded to ‘allow gach finn to so- leet elght names tu be pinced before the Club na dolegutes to the County Convention. ‘Tha fol- jawing. Judyes wero auggested for the ward far tho ‘Kovouther lection: First Preoinet, J.T. Tratt, J.P. MoBlroy, and Mr, Butler; clerks It, J. Cram; Second, Harry ly en George Everhart; cleria Mr. & Nickerson, Simeon W. King, and Mr. Convorao; clerk, W. W. Roberts; Fourth, Stephen Brown, 8, Foote, 1, it. Hrown; clerk, 7) MeKinney: Fifth, Ianac’ Ganiner, 0. F. Wa- terhouse, George Harris: clerk, Ws' Ht, Dott: Bixth, I F. Greene, Fred, Hunnebure, Joseph Mota;yclork, Willinm Reed, : ‘The. last-natmed Judge suggested (it euch precinet Jaa Democrat, Hpeeches were made by Col, A. N. Watermnn, Mr, Allen, Commissioner Purington, and Mr. A, F, Bradloy, a eojored mat, candidate for County: Commissioner, after which the meoting ad- journed. | STATE APPOINTMENTS. : Mr, It. W. 8, Whoatloy bas consonted to fll the Bprointments in Popo County which Capt. Thomns was obliged. to Hive tp on account of tho sicktiess and death in his family. 1. We Witcox has appointments for Puoria adiy. Galesburg Wednesday, snd Knox- Villa ‘Phoraday, . Gov. Cullora will speak at Paxton Oct. 4, Bay- brook Oct. G, and Wishington Oct. J, Congressman Aldrich bea nppolutments to spenk At ‘Turner Junction Oct. ©, Bloomington ‘Oth, South Chicago tho Tthy Dalton the sth, aud Englewood the 0th. Elliott Anthony will speak Mn the Sixteenth Want Wednesday tho Tenth ‘Ward Thursday, aud the First Ward Friday. 2 MISCELLANEOUS ‘ Cap Da Towards. Jim Springer, tho Chairman of tho Greon- baci Sthto Contra Committeo, hing gone to Ln Alaunpolla to consult with Gon, Weaver in re~ gard to tho campaign In this State, Wouver ts expected to take tho stump In tliaots immedi ntoly after tho Outobor elections, y Senator John A. Logan returned to his rooms at the Palmer House yesterday morning, A ‘Danone representative woo entind on him dur- tog thefternoon found him lying down, ul ly worn ont with tho urdugus work of the > Palgn, traveling on eduntry railroads, and get- time but little ornosirep. Ho spoke Saturday night tt Watsokn, where an enthuslastt: weet- ing was hulde there “being 1,000 torches In Une, end Wnt in the country Logan. 1s. perrivilanle welt pleased tho aspect of alfatrs fn thisStnte, Ho leaves this evening for Warren, O., where he 1s to par- Uelpate with Gen. Grant and Senntor Lagan in tho greut demonstration .to,bo held thors to- HMWELOW. , BUBURBAN, - #NQLEWooD, ‘Tho Young Men's Gartlold «and, Arthur Club hold thelr regular meeting this ovening, Col. Hicaby, of Chicuio, and othor spoakors, will ba- presont and address tho iuvcting. Tho: Gleo Club wit give somo of thelr fue niusic. * Capt. Jumes HE. White has boen apvolnted to Activerthe report of tho Veterans of Englewood. toGen.Garfeid at Mentor, O, Whon tho reply. from tho General commanding fs received, it Dan bo framed and bung in the rooms of tho sb, The enticus for selecting delegates to be voted for ut the primary Satucduy for the Cook County: Hepublican Convention will be held Thursday evening at tho Republican headquarters. The Literary Soelety will meet this evening at tho parlors of Prof, a. M. Fletehar. ‘This being tho iirat mecting since tho adjournment lust spring, 8 full attendance {9 desirod. ‘A bualness meeting of the erpsichorean Club will be held at tho husg-house to-morrow oven- ing for the election of officers and to decide where the Club. ehult hold thelr parties during the coming season, Missy Hesste [Munter, an_amnateur render, will give an entertaininent at ‘Titotson Hall Friday Svenings Oct. 1h, ‘Tho iev. 1, M. Painter save Bible-readings at the Preabyterinn Church yesterday morning and evening.“ Mr. Painter fs on ‘his way to Loudon, Eng, to take clinrye of tho Mildmay Misslon. Voundmnaster Chase captured thirty-two'Toxns horsés which were grazing ou the pralries with- outa berdsman tast Wednesday, which cust tho owner 800 tu libernte, * CURIOUS STATISTICS. Who’ Vast Proponderanco of. Murders and Momiteldes In the South Over the Northern Ntatea.’: ~ 5 ys Dispatch to Cineinnatt Gazette, PHADELPHTA, Pa., Sept. H.-—~-Lipplucott & Co. have Just published’ a valuable and curlous statistical book. ¢ ‘ Mr. IL ¥. Redfield, of Washington, D. C., impressed! withthe figuring of homleldes In the Southern States and yet finding Southern ers’ who asserted that. murder was no more frequent at the South than in the Northern States or in Europe, determined to ascertain as exactly as possible the relative proportion of murders at the North and jonth. 4 For tlils purpose he selected as representa- tives. of the. South Texas, Kentucky, apd South Carollua, because jn ene of tho threo States there Is one newspaper which has de- purtments of iocal State news, well kept up from year to your, In many of the Northorn States it is quite easy tu collect the number of homicites, elthar from o carefully kent annual registration report, such ns that of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island, or from the syorn returns of the Clerks of the Courts, ag in Pennsylvania. | ‘The: Board of Health and polles reports furnish date for Now York City, and itis not diflenlt to tind out the exact number of homicides in tie remminder of the Stute of New York, Upon actose investigation of reliable fig- ures, Mr, Redpath finds: ” ee 1, ‘Phat the numbor of homicides in South- ern Stites ‘is proparianall yerenter thin ‘hy any country on tho earth the population of which is ruted aa civilized... 2 ‘That the nuuber of -homictdes Inthe South since the War hng-renched tho enor- mous aggregaly of vb lenst 40,000, kl :the year 1878, when there was no. wilversil distupbances, the figures ‘are. astonishing. During that year in Loxns there were more homieldes than:in tho stx New: England States and New York, Pennsylvania, Michi: aan, and Minnesota, which ten States have Au nggreente poptlation of nearly 17,000,000, In South Carolina during. 1878 there wore more homicides ‘than in’ the six New En gio States, togethor with Michigan and Minnesota, with the 6,000,000 population of these ctght States, | oy . Pe tn 1870 thy population of tho State of New York was in Uttle over: tlve tes that of Toxns, if homiekles were na: frequent tn’ New York as In ‘Texns i proportion to the population, there would be over 2,000 murs dors and manslaughtors annually, an nyer- neo of ovor: five daily, Sundays incinded, Were orlmes against the person is frequent in Now York as in Texas, tt would create revolution fn less than two years, If tho State authorities were not suffclently strong to protect Ifo and to preserve order, tho! Na- tlonal Government would: be appealed to. Come what might, tho citizens of Nuw York would not submit to 2,000 murders annually, Se " “Ponrls of Thought? A German nuthor has nindo n ‘collection of mixed wetapbor, which be cullé peurls of thought, Somoolt them aro worth quoting If only ay A warning to hiigh-Hown orators wet to allow thelr magni lop sipe to ty awny with them altogether, * We will,” orled ab inspired Suclule ut "bure all our wl und, with overy sal! unfurled i, steer bolily out Into the oceun of freedoms" Bvon that tight fa surpassed by. an vtfort .of Justice Minister Ifyo, who in 1843, in n speech to the Viouna stndonta, impressively lccltrud: ‘lhe ohuriot of the Keovelution ts rolling tong, ‘und quashivg tis teoth ait roils.” A pan-Germanist Mayor oft Rbtnelund sorporation rose sui higher in uy d= dress to the Emperor, -Hu sald; No Austria, ne Prussian, one ‘ouly Germany, such ware the words tho mouth of your Toworlal Slajosty bas always bud in te oye" We buye heard of the Tmiouth baylug un eyo-tooth, but never bo- forv of tha mouth’s vyo But there ure even Mterury onion who cannot open thelr months “ without putting thalr foot fn it." Upot. Johauneg Behorr is auexuuply of such, Ln nk critiolsin on Lonau's lyrics he writes: "Out thu dark reylonaof philosophical problems tho poct suddenty lots swarms of songs diyo ap onrrylng far-thashing pearls of thought i thuir beaks." Songs und beaks are cortuln- ly related to ono nnuthor. but wero novur seen: in, that Inconsyrnous connection before. A German prenchor, speniing uf a repentant girth, suid: “Sho knolt in the tomplvof her intertor and prayed foryently,” Ww fout nu tidlierubbor doll could imitate, ‘rho. German Parliqnientury orator of the present day atfords many exuaples of metaphor wuz tury; but two must suillee, Count Franken: berg lute authur of thom. A fow years nyo be pointed out to bis countrymen tho neces. “alty of “solzing tho wtronm of “tine by the foro. lock"; and in tuo just sovslon by told the Minis: tor of Wur thutif he reully thought the French wero suriously attachod to pence bo bud bettor realyn vitiog und return to bis “ puternul oxen." The Count bud no doubt the povt's paterna rare iu bls wind at the time. But none of thease pourisg of thought and expression iu Fatherland surpass the speceh of tho immortal Joseph Prudhomme on bug presented with a sword of honor by tho company ho coumanded ii the Nations! Quard of France.“ Gentlemen,” ala boy tbls sword isthe brightust day of my a No ono oan ufford to dispouse with tho uuo of Sewed Carpet Linkug. Use only that manutact= Ured of cotton and pauper. ‘Amorican Carpet Lining Company, New York and Boston, all carpet deulers, ‘or THE PRAIRIE. MYSTERY. Strengthening of the. Conviction that H. A. Conant Was Murdered, Yestorday’s Investigations by © the Polleo Tend to Conflem That Theor A Caso Calling for tho Labors of tho Ablest Detectives. Tho farther the policy Investigate tho Conant mystery the tore antisfied nro thoy that he died a ylolent death. ‘The lonely Jucation in which hu was found, completely hidden by tall weetls and grasses, tho fact that he ‘had only — stockings upon hls feot and ono, hat. on his head, togethor with the {net that one of his ‘pantnlvons pockets was turned Inside out, and a siinll: pocket-mirror waa lylug on tho breast, combino'to make outa strong argu- ment In fayor of the murder theory, It Js certain that the decensed would nover have gone to the spot to Iny down nor to take a smoke, nor 1s It’ in ne, with any portion of the surrounding field whieh the deceased woultl ente to visit. Besties, it was’ plainly apparont that. the house had been thoroughly ransacked. Tho bed- ding, was turned ont upon tho floor, . and = everything. that © might be used ns on -receptacie was turned upsidedown, and the contents seattered upon. the floor, 1t Isattugether Improbable that all this was done by trainps or other wayfarers who happened to find the body In tho weeds shortly after denth ensued, Reason as one ‘anny with the facts, he’ will ultimately be ‘forced to concedo that tho. case is a vory mysterious one, and well. worthy of Investl- gntion, A little, just alittle, was done in’ this direction yesterday by tho police. . ‘Theo- ries are cheap, and with a garbled account: of the. affalrone canthink out a hundred theories as fastas they could be enumerated, Work, hard work, is what is needed to gotat the battom of such a. imystery, quid no pains nor thne showd be spared In working it out, 2 : ‘The scene of the tragedy, thus carly be called, was vi by a curlous trong and ag noone brought anything to the place, but went away with something, the police found the goods in the house supldly. disupperring, Uy naen there was ‘nothing left dint was worth earrying away, Detectives 'Thorpe and Tierrey spent the day in cirenlating about among the einpioy Sat the car’ shops, aud in picking up such seraps of Information 1s they could find, . They had no great success, how- ever. ‘The story briefly mentloned In yester- day’s ‘Tumuss converning the quarrel be- tween a previous tennant: of the house and Conant -over the crop of bay on theinnd was pretty generally circulated ninong thea men, Jonant appears to have talked n great deal nbout the conduct of this predecessor of hls, and it was HOUR HE possibly that by so doing he had inestrred the hatred and resentment of this tenant to such a degree that they had perhaps nct in deadly contilet. “Did you tid this tenant?” asked the re- porter of Detective Thorpe, “Ng, we did not;” he replied. “No one knew the ‘name, and ns ‘they were. sald to live at present on Forty-elghth street, wo searched tint locality thoroughly, but without, BILLLEBS. Ite further stated that ho had talked with Henry Crews, 0 suloonkeeper out there, who ive Cont x good reputations with a fittehor named Brett, who formerly had a lease of the premises, and with scores of others who were familar with Conatn’s habits of fle.” Nothing significant’ was elic- ited In nny quarter.” No ong appeared to know anything about Conant’s sister or her husband, who were sald to Hive with Jilin last sprung, ‘The woman ‘may or may not haye Thon ia sister. At all events, her identity: thus: far is entirely unknown, © James Curry: and Joseph Kerr, Linptoyes it the earshops, were closuly interrogated, . ‘The former was on more fntinate terms than any one else, perhaps, with tha deceased, and the Tattér is the man whom Superfatendent ‘Tittle sent to Conant's house to seo why ho dh not return to his work, | Kerr stated that he found things In and about the hours ta about the samo condition ag they wero found If such it can sited yesturdny by Officers Larsen aid. Gross, AL ins first visit la found Conants hat lying ovpon oo chaly with his handkerchief In the crown, Ho turned this upside-down, fn order to nate the noxt thie he went to the honse If its position had been ehanged, Ata subsequent Visit he found 1t fn the samie position, and then he realized: that “semething had elther bofallen Conant,. or fie — hind concluded — to Yeave town suddenly. ‘Tho disappearance erented considerable tall In the vicinity, but no one appears to-huve thought of Institut ing any Investigation. « : ‘ont was known to be so very pecullar iy hls ways that many pald no attention to his divuppearance, thinking it was merely one of his curious freaks to suddenly quit work. anit fenye the neighbvorhonit, Ast yet if seoms curious that Superlutendent ‘Tuttle would not have linngined that some- thing had befallen the iat, “Ie gcrtalaty. retnembers well and 1s abte to repeat the tall Conant had with him on the 10th, when he fold him how burglars had entored his house the day before aid had stolen hls best suit of.clothes and a pair of boots, Conant further said that ho thought the serles of thefts to which he had been subject were perpetrated rather with a desire of annoying tim into abandoning the piace than with a hope of pecuniary giln, , lintaution of nat Notion tha naxt day, but of invoking tho nid of the clty pulfcaan dotect- Ives, Alo of watehing both Saturday night pnd Sunday for the thieves, whom he contl- dently expected to return, Why did he ex- pect them isaquery. One of the tinekee: ors at tho: shops says that Conant told him also bout, “the robbery, and: mide an. effort borrow i revolyer with witch to protect himself from gonta of the workmen, Not succeeding in this, hoe seid he would bny one down town, From this it would appear that the dead man had cash on-hnnud besides the $43 owlag him at the shops, but nota penny was tound elther’ in the house or tpon tis person, > Investigations at this end of tho route were cut short by tho announcement, that the in- quest and: post-mortem examination wore to take placa at tho. Morgue. at 3 o'eloek., Its the afternoon, ‘To that dismal rookery on reporter repaired at onee, «Within: the walls of the ricketty Morgue—a disgreeo ta wny elvilized clty— ‘there was a sight and. stench whieh few were able to “withstand, Finally some one sprinkled a quantity uf chloride of lime over the Hoar sos ey and damp with the dripplugs from two badly decomposed bodles on thw marble slabs,—the one that of a“ floater!” Inthe rlyer ond the othor that of Iran Alexander Conant, ‘The latter. wus? by far the worse of the two, and wven those, aceustomed to do work of -the. kind ro- quired by the Coronor quulled when | WeRe 4) ‘body, ‘Tho seene was too repulsive and pousenttng, att getty the purty went cut: tipon the stdowalk, My tinally rimming the price up to $4, a man was found whe would cut’ the clothing trom the body and search the clothing, lle manuxed: to wade. through hls undertaking, County Physlelan Biuthardt. and, his assistant next: attemptad to make 0 post-mortem examin: don of the remains “Amari on the jread reaused then to think the death-blow was there, and they amnde a careful ex. auination of it ‘Cho skull was, how- ever, found Intact, and the brain within was Huyuttied, Out naturally Inctosed in the dura miniter. wasot © hin uray color and showed no discolorations such as would) ba consoquent upon bruises or other injuries about the head. ‘Tho Doctor also thought Uae apoplexy could not have been tha cause of death. ‘Yhe remainder of tho body wns go corr pe and Intangible that nothing: further could be dune by the doctor, He made a statement embodying thos fow tuets to the jury, and this, together with a longand complate state- ment by Ollleer Larsen, made up the facts presontable to the jury, and they returned a verdict, copy of which iy appended: Wo, the jury, find that the deovased, Hiram Alexunder Conant, camo to hid death on ur Roo sept. 1, near. bla residence, la the ‘Yown of Clcoro. fruta causes which the Jury are unable to detorming, there being ge evidence further than that the deeunsed disuppeared on the = th = of Beptember, 18), nw wus not discovered, unt his dead bouy was found Rept. 25, 1880, lylug on the ground near its Jaty reaidengo Ju euch @ badly ducomposed condition that uy post-mortem ox. amination would not determine tho causo of doath, - best to thus close the He Suupunced hia It was considered case for the proseut. Lf at uny future tne now evidenco warrants the opening of tho ease It will ba reopened for the purpose of appending it. Stuenents of employ’s av the enr-stians will alsa be taken during the week for the purpose of filing them away with the othor records of the ease, About everything that would furnish the bly with a clow wag carried of by them, The list tucludes 9 syringes and 2 atspongory bandage, the counterpart of ‘which was fond upon the dead body, a uttuber of battles of medicine, such as bromide of potassium, liydrate of chloral and sonic. homeopathic pellets, a rubber stamp used by Conaut in printing his name upon cards, & lot of mmemorandum-bootss, a loiter fiom hits brother, Ira KB. Conant, who used to Hse on na fara near Detroit, a number oC cards hearing diferent memoranda, and some. articles of clothing. ‘The police also hava fave necount-hooks whieh were found upon the body, ond whieh are the only things whieh bositively potut to thy identity of te tleccased, Both vooks bear Conanls name and that of UL Carter, a. grocer do- ing hislness near the shops. A. Ietter referred ta In, yesterdny’s recount, and whitch . was found won p table tn the hottaa ns If re- cently finished, is ns follows; the writer evi dently had not yet ascertained the name tor address of the man to whom he was writings Cickno, “pasa 2, 1890—To Sree T wish tho Dlenmire of addressing Sir 1 tuk tho pleasure of nddressing yon With a few Hnes as inny bo to your benifit & "content ud well uso litte to ny, ‘own Fam on and bave in possuselon tho pleco of Mr. Donia Norton In Cleero, opposit the cur Bhops adjoining, your 20 I have for ono year from Say first, Inst 1 thomsyht would sea lf you wanted to lot tho 20 adjoin- ng. I find Ccan get tennnnts for It if there was bulldings by working a little for It, there Is only way todo it: that ts, Working In tho Shoup belng acquainted. ee, iniluencu & making tho first Deginning inyselfe afralilof Runt Eetate men without a cause, but fuer will buy of Guch othor and pay more than it Js worth many was asking nb first Why wtto you Tive way baok there ull alono po. hole bors, Where do you at your Groceries? Wh ‘uv will dround out in the spring ona mun tried & tho Watter & Weeda drove hint out hut It wants pationts-and perseverenco several partles bas spoken, af late if tho could rontapurtof tho House Jam hn since they see 1 lve comfortably hero &1f {think the Land Lord Js like to bulld goon JF, huvo several avquaintance comin from Detroit ta work in tho shops but would liko by mo or all toguthor & whion thera Is cnoty here tu keop n grocery store by the way of working Inthe ahop randy to answor,tholr ques- Hons af any thuo this purty that hing livod sx tho Tfouse before docs or hus dong but little good in ‘this vieinity as thoy are quiet muted for miles around the wassorry when thoy come back to cut tho Hay for locks ‘was coustuutly being broken echickons & oven pigs wis carried olf thoy was.three weeks cutting the Hay [would “not lve here another year If thoy had any varnd ‘around the promises fur { buve tot been able to keop a lock on any thing ora bit of gurdon truck tit] It was fit to ate, Among tho articles taken by tho olico a | Tumnuse reporter found 2 copy of the lease held by Conant of tho premises, i showed ithat he rented the house and adjacent prop: ‘erty away back, in last May. from. tho owner, Denis. Norton, and that the rent, which was 90 cenis per month, was to be pald the 7th of ench month at Norton’s palnt-shop in tho city. This furnished a MuiBENE reporter with s clew, which belng followed up furnished fmportant lformn- tlon, In the directory Denis Norton ts sald to be a puinter on State street, and Iiv- {ne at No. 1605 Prairie avenue, ‘To ‘the Intter place the reporter went. Mr. Norton kindly gayo all the fnets in his possession, Ilo bought six lots some years ago from Bianchard, a real-estate dealer, whose thle to the Innd was worthless, | In order to nerfeet lis title Mr, Norton found w man named Little living at Cleyaland whose title to tho twenty. neres of Jand, Includhig tho lots he purelinged from Wlanehard, was very nearly perfect. He completed his pur- chase, and, iy order to retains possession, fils attorneys ndvised him ‘to build the small house which now stunds: on tho ground. ‘The first tenants of , the = house remained. there only 0 short tle, and the next tenants wore Harding Spafford, who remained wntll last spring, - They never pald any rent, and lived like cats and dogs, Mr. Norton became so disgusted with thom at the end of four years that ho tried to get them out. Finally Butcher Brett: got the lense, and. under him the Spaffords re- inalned for a year longer In tho, house. Spafford was formerly in the employ ot S.A Kent, of No, 98 Park avenue, as 9 coadhinan. With him Hved his brother, mother, sister, and niece, ‘The Nortons, who visited thom sevorni times, say thoy lived In the mostaquntid manner, und thot "the plas, poultry, «ond cattle found shelter under the "one roof, They bulit a:burn nbout on the spot where Connnt was'found dead, but: tore it down when they anit-the place. «Their rep- utation was very bags Mr, Norton suspected at once upon: hearing of: his tenant's demise that thoy had suinething to do with his- taking-olf, “Ther Spaifords wero at un- rodly set, and lo: frequently heard that tha place, as conducted by then, was one of the worst, They lived Ike barbarians more than like elvilized beings, ‘ - In addition to what Mr. Norton heard of them, Detectives Shea and Kenting, upon vistting the houso' yesterday, identified 1¢ us one” they searched about a year ago ‘while scouring that section of the city for fo safe which had been stolen by burglars from an Ogden ayenue grocery, Arough crowd occupied tho premises’ at that thine, atid the notorious Pasdly Moore, now atJollet for horse-stenling, was making hig headquarters there, fo And so It was with these people that Conant hod the- dispute, nnd whom ho refers'to in tho letter given - above. Mr, Norton was fanfitur with the dispute over. the hay, aid says Spaftofd hdd no right toc it what evor.. IIe minaged, however, to make Co- nant give way and: for threa weeks tho horde aftileted him by-their presence In eut- ting hay off the sinall plat of ground. © ‘The? auarrel between them became on vel Ditter one, ‘Spatford claimed that orton did not own tho and, and that he hind periniaston te cut the hay from the rightful owner, ‘There upon Slr, . Norton. wrote at Connul’s request to Mr. Little, = and the ‘reply auickly ‘camo that no such [ptmlsaion | had ever, been alvens To wished, howevor, that Mr, Horton wont have the hay cut and soll it at a reasonable commission, Conant. was hired’ to do this, but tho Spatfords beat him out of It, rs It‘ is the duty of the pollee, under theso — clreunsstanves, .- to: tnd and ‘thoroughly investigate. the Spafford family. ‘They were «on tho right track yes- terday when they Ware rearching about For. ty-elghth street, for ‘tho fanily ‘recently moved ont towards Austin. ‘There, may, of courae, be nothing in tho susplelon that the Spafford brothers aro cognizant of the mur der, but the clreumstances Would seem to warrant n thorough invostigation of the atrip’ the clothing from the']: recont doings of that family, =. Regarding the dead body, 1t has been sug: gested that Conant, if ho’ was wurdored, 08 seems probable, was most, likuly shot, wu ran to tho spot where he fell, aud that by subjecting the body to qtlekelfme, or chem- feats, Jt would amacoratoall the flesh, and leave: the bones Intact. In: this way the presence of n bullet in the body could be made lnown, and the bones would certainly show signs of injury.. ft is improbable that this will be done, however, as it would fuvelve time and expense, and moreover fit is an {mnovation—nud an innovation” in this sort of work in Chicago Is something un- henrd of. In fact tho body has already been taken In charge by an undertaker who hag lily oye upon o section of the $48 ut tho cur shops, a Danger to Syracuse, ‘The Byracues Journal declares that Byracuse isin constant danger of uw terrible inundation from the canal nt Lodi locks, und thus deseribus thosituation: =" From tho vastern Minits nt Byruouse to Utica tho Erio Canal oxtonis with: out a single lock, und from Rotne to this oly tho current is weatward,—in thigdinwetton, If the locks at Lod! wore to give way willlons upon miliiond of gullous af water. would turnod upon the: ‘oity. . Syracuse, bp the ‘exception of thosu puria tying Mipon the bills, would be dovustated, Sticots would bo Hooded and buildings torn from thelr foundations, Hunn lives would be sucriticod, and proporty destroyod, 1¢ 1a impozsibte to coms pute tho loss that would bo occustoned, but the ruln wautkd bo general, und the city would sutfor ft blow that years would not repalr, 6. Ita ut wore “going into the locks ut Lodl, and abould strike the gates with suficiont ferca to throw them no power on carth could proyent the largo volume of water from sweeping dawn upon the lower lev Everything would bo carrlxt. befare {t, and the forge of tho vast body would bo go great that in all probability the looks would by lorn out and and banks below burat, Tho Lodi locks nro be- (weon thirty and forty fect above what ts known: ngthe Syracuse Level, ruuning through tho main partof the olty. The fall ls auiilctunt to give tho water torritio momentum, and bofure wnything could be dona to proventit nearly tho whole city would be inundated. fwice Synicuse has narrowly cacuped thia disauter.” a A Church tuvaded by Rats, St. Jumea’ Gusette (London). For many months thy putish church of Thirsk, which hag “beou rvccutly restored, hus been tne fested Ln Its interior by several scores or buls, which sot only wude “fosrful work of the naw: oak stulllog, Dut a¢ evening dervice might ba seou ditting'to and fro fa tho viclully of the rafters of tho nave, . Various mens havo been (ried to rid tho eullice of tho pests, but with lit- tle sueceva wut) this weok, When an owl wae placed Ju tie churob., During the last fow the workmen Aro | will roully “Guile States, for It puts into possession of evar: Hike a ining ehndo, plated with silver, with its swith lack palut, orlamp-black (black ts a great f ‘the former, gives thom nights tho offtcers have paid visita to St. Mary's for tho purpose of nscortitining what effect tho now fnbnditant find on the bate, but, although thoy have witited exch evening well inte the darkening, nota bat hia been seen, Uf the owl has not destroyed them he has had tho elfect of cotnpelling them to keep very close quartora, A fow montha ago the bata did damage to tho pipes of tho now orean, They ontored it tho wide end, and the pines boing tiarrow at the bot- tom found themaclycs tnabto to get back. Aa meres olght dead bats wore found Inn Binglo AMUSEMEN'TS. DEATIL OF MISS NINA VARIAN. Carson (Nets) Thien Sent, 16, We regret to Jeary of thedenthof MissNina ‘Varin, sister of C.8, Varian, of Reno, who lcd In Liverpool Inst Monday, Miss Varian ‘Was an netress by. professton, nnd at ong tle amemberof tho Buldwin Theatre troupe, She has ‘appeared {n Carson and Virginia City on several ucensions, and was possessed of decided force and taler . Mendwtite (Pa.) Index, A cable dispatch » few days since brought to our city the sad news of the death of Miss Nina, Varian, the well-known netress. It is but.a few months sitice Miss Varinn lett our elty ufter some weeks’ visit nt President: A. Aw Livermore's. While here her any Trends and acquaintances much anfoyed her eharming soctety, and to them all the news of her denth comes as’ severe shock, Int company with her afllanced husband and her nurse Miss Varinn sailed from Boston for Liverpool on the 20th inst, boping that a. change of air would restore her falling health, ‘Tho futile result of hor trip tho enble was first to announco; whether sho dled on shipboard or not we have not learned, Before her career as nan netress Miss Vartan spent. on portion of her girl- ood in Meadville, and afterward reeelved educational ddvantages at Ingham Uniyer- sity, Le Noy; N. Y, She early showed taste and untural powers for neting and entered upon her stare career quite young. Ter Ruecesses have been more or less identified wlth those of the Unlon Square company of New York, | Iecently she had ployed learl- ing roles with Edwin Booth, who especinily praised her neting In Shiakspearcan drama, iv desired her support in saine recent Enyt- erm engagements, and it was one of the severest crosses of her lust fow months that her health prevented her accompanying and supporting Booth in his presen tour of en- gagements abrond, While “Miss Yarlan’s death will be sincerely mourned in her pro- fesston, “her loss will bo more Heonly Te gretted by tho many friends who so highly esteemed her. 2 MUSICAL NOTES. | Tians von Bulow is writing 2 Bavarian No- tlonal bymmn.- Ufibinstein hag added a aeventh movement to his “Ocean Symphony,” Alma di Murska and ‘lheodore Wachtal are singing ot Krolls, in Borlin, A Conservatory of Music has been started at Atlonta, Ga., of which Mr, and Mrs, E. A, Schultze are the principals, Miss Blanche Roosevelt, who hns been quite Il], is now so far recovered that sho ex- pects to make -lor appearance syon In Mr. Cellior’3 new opora, * Nell Gwynne.” Locke's inusie to‘ Macbeth? (composed in 1074, it tg anid) will be given at ‘Tremont. Temples Boston, during the week of Oct. 18, with othor selections, by Jarrett & Gullek’ Mustea! Phalanx, | . eur ag Durlng this week “Paul and Vii “Faust? “The Bohemian Girl? and dullet,? “Carm Ania,” ” “Lover's Pilgrine age,” * Luela,” aid “Chimes of Normandy,” will be preseated by the Abbott company, Miss Alice Juggenhetin, the remarkable little planist, who will be well remembered. here, formerly a pupil of, Mr. Wolfsohn, is now studying with Mme. Clara Schumann at Frankfort, Germuny, and gives great promise, Mr. Willlam JI. Sherwood has had «an offer from Pittsburg, Pa., to establish his normal musical Institute thera next season, ‘Tho sals of $2,000 worth of coursa tlekets Is guaranteed hincas an inducement, together with othor advantages, On next Wednesday craning Miss Shan- nessy and her pupils, assisted by the Misses Jeonorn Pearson, Mary 'T. Dourherty, Mary Kinsella, anid Messrs, Gleason, Moore, Beree, and Dunne, will given concert at O'Nelll’s Masonte Mall, No, 670 Weat Lake strect. An ontertulniment, the first of a sories, will ho siven under the augplees of the Youn; Mow’s Christian Association, at Farwoli Hall, on Thursday evening noxt. Mrs. Jessie Burt lett Davis, Miss dentle unter, Mrs. Louls Falk, Mr. MeWade, Mr. Leffler, and the Chi- eae Quartet will take part In the perform: ance of a popular program, The ‘New York Musteat Revicw_ says: “Mr, Cellier’s opera, ‘TheSultan of Mochia,? Whieh, by .the way, though spoken of ag ‘now,’ is seven years old. gunorally condemned. ‘Tha Ibretto ls un- pardonably .stupid, abounding In stale and weartsomo puns,: and for lack of suything Ike 0 plot there 1s8 succession of incon. nected scones, which become more and nore dull, with cnongh of vilgurity Introduced to add nausea to fatigue on tho part of the listener. ‘This is alt the moro to bs regrotted beeausy Mr, Cellier ts 8 clover writer, and is handleapped by tho miserable quatity of the libretto, As to the music, itimsy be said thas there are soveral graceful sougs, such.as a barenroto in tha ‘first nct for tenor, anda alimber song for soprane, with “cello obligate.” DRAMATIO NOTES, This evening Joshuc Whitcomb will begin tho fourth week of his cugagoment at Me- Vicker’s,’ 2) “ Grizzly Adams,” supported by the stock compiny, at’ the Weat - Sido Academy this evening, | - As the, Zwa Dromios, in “The Comedy of Errors? Robson and Crane appear during tho present weelk, ‘Tho hotel corridors wera yesterday ero wwited with: tragic: actors, MeCallotgh ‘and Bar- rettl's compantes were in the clty, John Hooley. dr. formorly Treasuror of the Gultek & Balsall company No. 1, has been appointed asgistint manager, Kice’s “Revels” last night was witnessed by John McCullough and Lom Keene, ‘Yho second weok of the pleco begins to-night, ———aa ig deservedly and Engine Run by Solar Heat, Parle Carrespondence New Orleans Pleayune, An invention ting Just buen perfocted which rove of incatculubte bonofit to the oltizen ton nogroga who will works won't eat, don't want ofothos or wages; und this concontrit ed ton negrovs requires ho skilled hand ta work it, Wwitiife Ii ouble foot of water fifteen fuot high ogory hour; twill driven mill, a fan mil. atheashing macbine, sugar-cano crushing rollera, a churn, a. straw-euttors it with clean rico, gin cotton, ‘boll water, couk, distill water, turn an {ec-oroum. freezcr, mika feo, distill are dont spirits, wash,—tn fine, be worth more than auy Leh Wo era or any ten Chinese, or any ten panturds, ; iho you remombor that visitors to the great Exhibition of 1478 wore astonished to sea a pump lift water, stoum potatoes, aud boll soup, with> out coul or fire, anly by sunbeaing? Sons, Motechat’s *Bolur Rocelyer, which did all those wonders, bas been go tproved that It reully goons to have become of practical use, Mons, Mouchot’s spparatug consisted of a brass shude, large opening tirned toward the sun, In tho contre of thy shudo and In itanxis was the re- culver to be heated, This receiver wus vented Absorber of Hout, and all around € was a, glass kereen to prevent the escapo of tho ‘prisoned bent. MM Pifro hi mune somowhal Mons, Mouchot’s apparatus, Tho latter xavo the sides of bly reneetar an foclination of 45 d leg. something of the epee ghupo, minkes the oer less igh by halt, und so ebune all logs by radiations ho’ throws" Lhe sunbeams on tho lower part of tho buller, which urrangoment seoures te rege ular production of wleuiny be changes tho miechaniam which keeps tuo appurntud con- stuntly exposod to tho sun; he bus juyented a new motive power and means of transmitting motion, Jo xet wp a machine of one-horse power requires a boller which produces forty- two pounds of steam with a hoat of ive atmos. spheres; this quantity uf steam can bo ruised with a retteator of twenty square yunds,—say tfeeon ye eightcon iuchus diameter ut ite groatcal buse. Fortis of Dontisiry. Stator (Me) Wits 5 Dr. B Tp Sones Watcrviilo’ dentist, had a rather ugly experionce with ono of bis pationts recently, Tho subject way a strong aud bealthy young follow of 35 of 80, and the Devtor pro- ceodel to nduilnlater to bint nitro-oxido gas for tho purpuse of oxtmicting a tooth. Searcety had tho a indu got well Miled, and thy toot! beun duly pulled, when Jumping up ke a tlush he atmed ‘wv tremendous blow at the Doctor's hoad. Duckiny uuder, howover, the Doctor es- gaped the blow and giving the fellow a vigorous ugh sent bliin back igain into the chair. But is biouk wus Un, and Junip fag up quickly be atriick tho wall fuat af the side of the chulr two fearful Liows with bis double theta which falrly shook tho tiilding. By this timo ho was out of it and calmed down finmediately. All of this took but 6 second or two aud occurred ta a amall room pedo off fram tho main office, go that the Dootor had no monns of escape, Tho plain Impress of two seta of knuckles can be plainly seon in that wall to this day, : THE WEATHER, Orrice or THE Crt Stonat Orricen, Wasntwatox, D. C., Sent 8%—te a 10 dications: For ‘'ennessca and the Ohto Val- ley, cooler, northwest to southwest winds, rislug barometer, partly cloudy weather, with local ralns, : For tho Lower Lake regton, cooler, south- west to northwest wintls, rising barometer, Nght ralus,. followed by partly clondy weather, . For the Upper Lake regton, partly cloudy weathor,. slowly rising temperature, rishig followed :by falling bdrometer,’ northwest winds shifting to southerly, 7 For tho Upper Misstgalppl and Lower Mis- sourl Vailoys, cleni or fair weathor, winds sliifting to west and south, rising followed by falling baromoter, slowly rising tompora- ture, Cautlortary siguals continue at Mackinac City, Alpena, Port Huron, See. 4, Detrolt, foldda, Sandusky, See. 6, Cleveland, Erle, DuMtAle, pooaLonseny Ar19%, . 1 BOGAD OUSERY ATIGTHGAGO, Bopt. 26, Tine, | lary Ther.jla) Wind. Vet] Jen.) Weather - B[Lt rat, a | eo |s. Wea} i Mt. ml gt | ae y Cloudy. Pp. 5 9 pros] ob | at IN. th.) wots peaas| sear] oo Lin INS well b © Maximum, Th mininiim, 65, GENERAL OlSRRVATIONS, 7 UM10AdO, Hopt, 8-10: 18 p.m. Ther! Ther. = stations, aus} ms} wna, |rn| were pe Me | D, Im. Sistbet | Ets SRRSTEECRESSheA: SENSEZS! joa. «| Clear {Cloars sordye SEGA LESAi Bi Viount Joksbtt Yinginta ft Winnomrces,:| Gh | 51 Yankton 7 sees Ee Ne Ey fredteee|oee Wie Rontio,sss)ecssdslomr. Se _ _Antronomient. Young Mr. Latehours was sitting on the poreh tho other night watching a J yearcold girl trys ing to keen nwake long enough to see tho morn~ jog star rise, Thoy talked astronomy. * I wish J wae a star," ho sid, amiling at his own pootlo fanoy. 1 would rathor you were 4 comet," sho sald ‘dreamily, Ils heart beat tumnultuously. “And why?" ho asked tenderly, At tho sume timo taking hor unrosisting Uttlo hands In his owl and w! i * he repeated imperiousty. “Ob,” she anid with a brooding enrnestness that fel! upon his soul tke a bare foot ou a cold oll- loth, “bevauso thon -you would only come Around once every 1,500 years!" He didn't say anything until be was half way to the front aate, when he turned around and shook his fst ait the house and -tnuttered between’ his teeth that: “by tho dads, it would bo a thundorin ftyhtlonwcr thon that before ho camo nroun again,” But by that time tho poor girl was in ‘bed and sound naleop. " —<————$$—_— Dangerous Toys for the Ohlldren. n New. York Stour, ., Anumber of toys imported to Paris from Firth, in Bavaria, bave been aclzed by the polleo be- eyuso the brilliant colors with which thoy wore iy ited were composed of palsonous muteriule. ‘oltng ehildren carry almost overs tne which thoy hotd tn the hunds to tho mouth, ond, there- foro, nulthor tho cbloring nor the substunce of toys should over be pulgonoug. ‘Toys of brilliant hues, elustic balls colorod and varnished, and louddn soldiers In uniform, of overy vurlety, aro. among tho selzures, Tho Firth manufacturers goud tholr toya all over Gormuny, and Germany furnishes nearly all tho ehenp toys in Engiand. Itt very probable that: this country will not eseupe Its share of tho distrivution, ’o parents should keep f sharp oye on the mursery, and sue that sicknoss ordouth may not Iurk’in thoso mouns of childish amusement. Tho Original Seckel Pear Tree. Tho Gardener's Monthly for September has a full history of tho original Socket pear tree, which {s still standing in the “Neck,” illu strated, with nout of the treo, Itis only about half Binning in fact, not boing much more than n shell. Itatill bears a fow porns. It is supposed to be avout 160 ycurs old, It is conjectured that tho scod from which tho tree sprung was thrown overboard inn core from a vesdot as it passed town the Delnwara, which, belng washed to tho shore, took root and grow, there being subsc- quently dykes thrown up to protect tho bani aguinst ‘tho encronchmont of tho tldcs. Tho farm on which tho tree stands fs now owned by Mr, Bastlin, : All Sockel troes In this country nro from grafts or fruit sceds of thls tree. . a It Was Alfonno, 4 A well-dressed young than’ ontered a Madrid shop u fow days ago, and, after walking uncasily about for atime, wkeds " Haye you any watches with Indlu-rubber cages?" ‘Tho astonished shap- keoper answered in tho negative, Tho youth shambled up aud down tho floor a few times and again said “ You havon't any rattio-boxes with diamond handles, £ suppose?" “No, sir,” autd thes. k. How youny does a obild begin to 180 4 Velocipede?" asked the youth, “Itdoponds a oud donton the kid," was tho anawer, * goo ein youn, some don't.” Would you sell me & two-wheoled one and chingo it forn threo. whocled one if ic wasn girl?” Couldn't do it," cuino tho curt response, Tho youth wont out und the shopkeoper_reposos in tho lowest dun- goon of the oustlo, Itwns the King of Spain, — Tournallutic. Oatveston (Tez.) Neivs, Gilhooly i tatking Rbout starting A now paper in Galveston, and was telliug a friend about It, © You oa burrow $50 und atart a now pager,” said the felond encouragingly, “You durned foal! {CL vould borrow gu winit would I want to startu paper for? I wunt to start tho puper 40 that I cuu borrow the 8p." Murshutitows (u,) Btaterman. “Why don't you ‘buy @ powor-pross?” in- quired govoral onthuainatie Democrats ag wo woro taking our locke! up pages of type through tho streots on a wheelbarrow ton steam print- jug pross owned by n righ printing Nrm. Why don't we: buy the Durdman iouse, Woodbury Wlock, und the Publla Square? Why don't wo ralye h—l on $4.50? Ttly oasy to do all theso things provided you hnve the collateral, but at this writing we confess wa baye not enough money to buy n chueso-press. Printing Domo- vratio papers in Towa js ike peddling pounuts in A gravoyurd, A <<< ML. Vert’s Love for Sclonce. u Paris Telegram, M. Xavior Vert. Whosocnunio wis not long since brought promlnentiy before tho solentiiu world fa connection with un Ingenlousapparatus of bia invention culled the polyaoope, for ox- aniining the interior of humin bodies, now onco more comes before tha pubile in the serlos comle wid rather complex rdle of villain, sophist, lover, and scluntifio ontbusinat. : Bl, Vert hug just boon tried and couvicted hore on tho serious charyo of corrupting and sedaving a Number of young women, When arrosted Ae ‘Was surrounded by thirteun youthful hour tho ulriest of costuuica, Vert urged In dofen but be hud been curriod away by soluntiti en thusiusnt and that the fnteresting youu wars wore morely subjects; but the Court dectt to aduslt this curious plea, and sentenced Liu to three months’ fuprigomucnt, A Little Singular, Bononguhata (Par) epubilicar, Te strikes us usu little singular, uy Gen, Tan couk ts va thoroughly n soldier, Unt he doos not have more of voliier's commideris about him, We nover heard of bin attending uy ros union oF a cump-tire to drink u cup of cotfea or eat a cracker With tho buys. Grant, Sherman, Sberkian, und all the great Gousrats love to mine glo with tho yoluntours in thelr social gather- ings, to tuke thoin by the band, to talk with them, to oat bean soup und smoke pipes in mnomory of tho ‘sixtios, Guu. Hancock mingles du_nond of those foatlyities—and wo Lave often wondered why. Oo AFrog That Would « Ducking Go, few face Palludinin, A Planteville druggist bas preservod in alco oh a huge bullfrog, and tufts mouth a youns duck, ‘Vue bistary of the pnir iu us fotlowas Mr, Freeman, of Pluluvilic, bad frou Une to the missed youne ducks, in all some twenty or twenty-live, for whose mysterious disappear- ance Do was unable to account. Determiued to fathom the myatory, be watchod fur the enemy, aud Burpriied bi in thesbape of a large bull. frog us hu gelzed one of the young ducks und was Ja the wet of swallowing It, when dir, Treo- man put an ond to “tho sport by rapping hin‘ over ho fend. with aolub,” who two wore pres served oxactly.as thoy were ta! 3 en. — Olcomargarine Exported as Butter, 1a rosponso Yo compisints’inndo by Walt nt complaints mado alte Gitte & Con i 8. arr de Ua, MolConie: Nownen Uo. N, B, Hare & Co. and many othor recely= ers and oxporters of butter, upon the Produco Exchango, that thoy aro now obtaining very imporfeot stutistics ns to the quantity of butter that ts boing uxported from the country bovausa Tnuch oleomargurine fs cleared ns butter, 1. 11, farker, Mreskient of the Exchange, yesterday addressed a lottor to tery Kher res anesting that nocossary Instructions be given tothe United States Clearing Department ta have oleomargaring distinguished from butter Jn tho olenrances, Interviows with the loading butter firms show tho general opinion to be that it is not only im. portant to fo trado that huttor and Its. sabatl- use ahoulit ho olugsited under tholr distinctive henda, but thabit ta equally Iniportant tn mak- ing up tho genoral statistics af commerce. It was sitld that to class ateomurgarine In tho ex« ports was n fraud perpetrated on avery Amert+ gun oltizon who oxpeets to yet correct Informa- Hon from tho Governihent statistics, and with tho sane propriety all grain might be classed wndor tho head of wheat or all ofl aa potrolonm, Tho roport of oxporte of buftor from Juno 1 to Sent. 1, 50, 48 11,814,701 pauls, apuainat 750,834 pounds for the samo period in 1879, and 9,817,001 pounds for tho saino thmo in 1878, ‘Tho trade ore unable to uscer~ tain what proportion of this is oleomargarine; but the donlers are convinced that tho oleomargaring manufacturers are working night and diy and selling the substitute very largoly tu the homo, out-of-town, atid export trade, and that the Inw requiring the een ros UG branded and ship- peda * oleomargar! uo Js notcomplted with, It j# Dolloved that of tho udulterated butter ex- ported not ono tub out of n thousand Roce out under the brand of “oleomargarine,” or ia cleared ns such, . A Queer Coincidence nt Delmonicon, New York Hour, ‘Thore was a curiously dramatic sceno nt Del- monico's the othor day. A slight young fellow, with ared mustnche,s fat fn the cafe with a couple of friends. Anelderly man, with 0 ery mustache, sut ata nelghboring table, aud played with a ernteh na he watched tho younger man, The young man was Jamos Harton Koy. 'Tho eldarly min was Gen. Daniol Sickles, who killed Philip Barton Key one remarkable day in Wash- ington, Fortunitely’ tho vendetta ig not an Awerican institution, a AWestern Hensorvo College. Tt has been ascertained that Amnsn Btono Is the inan who wilt pive $500,00 to Western Re- servo College nt Hudson, O...1f it 1s removed to Cleveland, Ata recont meoting of tho Trustees it was practically resulyed to remove tho collego to Clovelund, and to chungo the name to * West- ern Reseryo Universt ane College already has an ondowment of a Dun Co es e Paris Telegram. Alexandro Dumns' ites epistio to his coun- trymen, * Les Fommes qui Teunt, ot les Femmes qui Votent,” which Is ubout to appcar, Isan- alyzed in several of tho morning Journals. Jn it the author again ndvocates divorce, and oulo- gizes the hardihood of fair America, As soon as tho public learns that the Shakers’ Sarsapnritin is tho genuine Shaker modleine pre- pared from roota, herbs, and “berries, grown, aolectod, and propared by the Canterbury Shuk- ors, Shaker Villnge, N. H., they will take itin prororonce to all othors, such is thoir regard for ho charactor of tho United Brethron, * << ‘Tho French cannot pronounce cough, but thoy appreciate and use Dr, Bull’s Cough Syrup. ' $$$ Buy tho Improved Howe Scales, Borden, Selleck & Co, Avents, 07 Lake streat, DEATHS, WOODWAND—Bopt. 25, of scarlot fovor, Jamas A, Woodward, son of Patrick and Elton Woodward, Agod 6 yeureS months and 2 days, ‘anor! Yep. Zi, at 1U a. ni, from reatdenco, X97 South 3.0 Salio-s, to Calvary by carriages. HYDE—Hept. 4, John Fydo, aged 66 yours. Funors! Monday, Supt. 2, at2p.m.. from his Inte Fytidenco, it West atonrue-st, by eartiagos to Itoso- FOSTRIt~In this elty, Bopt. 25, Caroling B, beloved wifo of Daniel Hi Hoste ered ia yonra nnd d monte “Bunoral (Monday) from No.8 Polkeats ot 10 o'clock a. m., ditected by the Daughtors of thy Taber~ nrclo and tho Daugntors of Baminria, Bervioo nt Quinn's Chapa} thence to Uak woods Ceuiotory, by cars On tho 12:05 train, ULLENTON At Chester, F Wi, Bont. 2, dt bronebiis, (Alozandar Nawiiniel Bullortons of thle alty, 5200 70 years, moral took. pince at Chester, Sept, A, Romains wil bo Bronunt Here for intarment. - ‘Notes of funoral n to-morrom's Trihuno, ANNOUNCEMENTS, ip eer ee DAVES Wits CONDUCT ‘Titi noon pragor-inectiug to-day, Como if you can atay oniy five minutos, TV YOUNG MEN'S GOSPEI-MERTING Wid Viuhid tovnlaitin Lower Parwoll Halle Biranuurs gro cordinily invited, AUCKION SALES, By GEO. P. QORE & CO., 2H and 216 Madison-at. REGULAR TRADE SALE, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 9:30 a. m. Ono Thousand Lots DRY GOODS. Aq tmportant pate, > + GEO, P. GORE & CO., Auctionoors. Extra Choice Attraction TO CLOSE BUYERS OF BOOTS, SHOES, - and RUBBERS, AT THE AUCTION SALE ON Wednesday, Sept. 29, Commencing at 9:30 prompt, by GEO. P. GORE & CO., 214 & 216 Madison-st., Who wilt ctose out 2000 Casey Sunsonable Fall and Winter Goods, and nt same time Full Lines of the following extra choice guods, nut auld In thie markus by any other housd; nor have ever beon: Chicago Shoo Co.’s Women’s Wear, M. L, Keith’s Men’s and Boys’ Wear, H. F. Prouty & (o,’s Sucker Boots. Hulbert & Jenks? Men's & Boys? Shoes, MF. Pratt & Co.’s Men’s Fine Wear, CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE! On Monday, Sopt. 2, nt 10 o'clock a. ma ne No, 231 Mienizan-ay.. there will bo sold wt Au ‘alt of the Furuttura lo auld woruuye, consiating of Purjor and Tudroom Sats, Curpots, Beda and Budding, Katghen Furniture, Cruakory, Glasstware, oto, : OHO, A, HATE Bale positive. - N, Consiabio and Auctionver, LOTLERY DRAWINGS, ‘The Kentucky State Lottery Company Baa roqularly diawn, tn pure f UonerntcAuscaibly Of tho Bute oF Thursday, September 30. In which thore wus atways a chanco of gutting $10,000, Fo" Lpeica ce asain OF Butz: Paired ake Tr rageseen uch of the ‘entucky, oo Ju Urb vw of fy Helaes Of Mo Pritesot Prieaof rad AW Prices of ‘27 Approxtmat 20 Prizca amounting to.s.ye000 TICKETS, Sl. For full particulars, nduress MJ, Mletusond, Goviugton, 1: Q, Uptugton, S00 Broadway, N. ¥., or Fred Evby, 67 ds 6D Washington-st., Chicago Full List of Drowinus al bitshed in the Chi- aT HOGRS wd ites me a Be ols pure. eet ts atund ante