Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1880, Page 9

The Recent Convention of Illinois Sugar-Growers at Springs field. srt of Prof. Scoville on Various {nterosting Experiments Made by Him. ‘production from Sorghum of Good Mer- ‘chantablo Brown Sugars and Delicions Sirups. {portance of Working Sefentifically—Tho Experience of Maj. McDowall and Dr. Wilhotm, Growing Sorghum Moro Profitable than Growing Oorn—A Good Domand for Sorghum~-Produots. Special Corresponience nf The tmdage Tribune, cuicaado, Dec, 11.—Contrary to genoral ox- ctation, the Uilnola Sugne-Growers’ Conyen- ton, at Springfield, closed fits labours within o poglo duy,—Its ovening session, howover, boing. extended tila lato hour. Some of tha most im- portant matters came before the ovening sce- aon, but wore of such a characterascould not bo prepared in timo tor transmission by tolograph, AVERY VALUADLY REPORT wus presented by Prof, Melvilio A. Scoville, of the Iinols Industrial Uniyoraity, at Champalyn, where one avre each of tho Karly Ambor and Early Oringo cana wero grown, and scientific testa made from timo to tins by analyzing tho juices, froin tho time tho cnne appronchod maturity wntit fully ripe, and atso manne facturing tho samo into sirupa and sugar, fevernl very fine specimons of brown ugar nnd sirups wero on exhibition, mado at dierent. stages of, ripenessof the cane, The objectof these nurtyses were: 1. Tonote tho development and changes fn the sugarintho plant during its growth. 2. To ascertain tho mtoatwhich the percentage inerenses, 3. ‘To determine tho particular point or stage in tho ripgning of tho plunt at which tho largeat amount of crystalllzublostygarwas present. 4. ‘To notice tho chunges which the cane undergoes after reaching tho maximum inthe quantity andquality of its saccharino mntter,—iirst, by ttanding In tho field untouched till the time of examination; second, by standing In the field tripped two weeks; and third, to nscortain which partof the cana Js richest in saccharine matter. y The following tabdlo will show TNE NESULT OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS! Experiments to ascertain the nercentage of cane and pe ntigtr (th the juice of the Harty Amber and Gary range cane, dt diferent alages of riveness: BAMLY owNay) 219 § Date, 3 B Hemarks. 3/2 a bs due 10,|00.78]5.54 ‘bug, 25. 12,43)2. sept. 6, 11.42)2,18 ‘avg. 18. ]t1.02]2.75 13,401.86 4,90]5,70] Amber cane, seada devol- ‘oned; Orange in bloom. 7.13/0.19) Amber sged in doughy ‘Orangy In bloom, 5.) Ambor seed tipo; Orange in dougit. 1.76}4.11}Orange-nood hardeniog— hourly ripe. Cano piripped and . Jef, Atanding two woeks. Bottom hate uf cane, ...” .Lsessleseo EOD RRIEOE Canes 5 Theso ists show that, whllo both varietics aro rich In cane sugar, tho Early Amber Ss richest {n cane, and the Orango Ingrape sugar; and, as gape sugar binders crystallization when hold in slution with’ tho sugar, tho Early Amber. will more readily crystallize, othor conditions being the enme, Tho safest wuy to secure, the full tenet: of aithor tho Early Amber or Ornugo ¢ino for sugar-muking $4 to commence cutting assoon es tho sccd Jy in the dough, and gi npidly as possibie, Lge eee tit ANOTHEY RNVERIMENT, omitted frum tho table, was that of cance cut when fully ripe, and stored tn the barn for four weeks, Which showed n great deterioration in cue sugar,—though in Minnesota cano ts kopt for weoks without loss, Another yaluuble work reported by Prof. fovillo was the composition of tho stulks of the cane as shown by chemical analysis. This was found to be, of— ‘ Per cent, Water... 76.58 Grape sugar. 8,00 Cane sUgurs..ecere 9.77 Starch, es Hive... an Olt. 0.07 Gum and Vege On Soluble wtbuminolds. oe An acro of cune will produce from ten fifteen tong,—sny an uverage of twelve tous. On tho busis of the wbova analysis, O77 per cent of tho entira weight, or 28 pounds, facune Wugar, and 720 pounds gripe Bugar,—which, IC it could all be extracted, would represent the fol- lowing money-valuus 2318 pounds cune or crystallized sugar, at. TCC, ss. se eres oe asaeyi syas! Wounds grape augar, equal to 60 gallons sirup, nt con ts... = Value of sugar in ono nere of if extracted iu guod imurketablo BHONC. oe see sent ener tses 26 BIER. But the ‘best resutts yet nttained have never tucceeded In saving TO EXCRED 40 PHI CENT of tho sugar which the annlyeia of tho stalks of ferghum shows St contalns. ‘The problem for fenea to selva is, [low tho 6) por cont, repru- ‘entiug money-vilue per sure of $10.41, can © sxved, or any considerable portion of ft, With only au per cent saved ina good merchant- able shape, there ig a good business fn its pro- duction, With #0 por cent saved, ‘“Thoro's mill- fons In {t” for the vountry. It is hurdly to bo betleved that, In this day of fclentific research and sehlovement, this prob- will very long remain unsolved. On tho frst attempt to produce sugur from beots in France, in tho tling of the First apolar not over 10 per cont was saved, fut tho Interest Fas fostered by louns of money to manus facturers by the Governmont without Inter es, and the requisit sclentifio knowledge was attalued, until atthe presunt thine over 80 per gentof the sigur shown by anulysis to be cons talned in the suyar-bevt is saved; and fnstond of the industry requiring the fostering caro uf tho Govermuont, it. puye/ snnuully Ioimongse sume {lo the Trensury 11 dxelse-duties, Anothor thing reported by Prof, Scoville was AN ANALYSIS OF THE BEDS OF BORGHUD, Which bus alwnys bean cluimed to have a yaluo 48 food for siock. A comparison with tho adalysisof Indhin corn will enuble any ono to poiere ta vuluo for foeding fs nearly equal to of corn; Analysis of seed of Sore | Analysts of Indian Corn Kate Bs ey sind of three ya- 14.90 KO + 068) Sugar oe. a Albusnolds,, + BS] + TOM avesee 0.01] Fibre, 5A] at 09,00 nce tho nverngo yluid of scod por pcre fully thirty Wushols, ieurly tho averugo yield A duds eutit grocdily, it will by aden Chat the eed fs not at Enimpaciant element in the valuo the plant. ‘Cuktng into aeeaunt that It adapts It reudily to the conditions of climate of arly every portion of the Union, ite richnoss vane ears as shown by seluntitic analysis, and tho te ue OF ite seed, tho muturity of whieh ls noces- ty tothe highest eicchurine dovelopmeut— thore fs nothing nt the presont time holding: i preator promise to one country thin this Veuve oadt-tnuch-ridieulod sorghum, ‘Tho itt aaa phat ae oe in which have beon pagclicted ne the Stato Industrial University, rm which wero ail embuontly pructicul in chare plesgp ene Dnishod results being shown fa suim- $000 MERCHANTADLE BROWN SUGARS, AND ; os) ‘edtal ¥ BrRUT fn eihed fn ds larxe quantity proportionatoly as ary, other cases reported,—were regarded us wage ereat importance thot resolutions wore thegitiougly adopted usking tho Legistuturo of anette 10 BOBroprinte. monoy fs sudlcigut Wot toenuble the work of experiment and ngttation to be curried on on a Hboral ecule, culty eflite charge of tho Professor of Agri+ wlueh vuluablo time In tha Convention wus Hen by boing sriven up to tha recital of oxpe- nanees et thon who are working with tho ordl- dete jippllances for sirup-making,—o mill, a Pat tat, and ws iro oe ae . ‘heso mon. cay mako a Stila” “OE i Sade consumption, pays » . whi Teady sate Brite: sirup. hich the raluer of tho cany und HY fair pico, tatu. Yon WiiLowner, Mut wuccessful sugus-produc- ut nut come from this cluss of work, sone remurkablo results In augar-pro- Treas’) Will from {line to thine be rot with. p BoWover, are wecidental, and nat to be Wi be tout ant full olution BE this question WHO to wore y the efforts of those who havo Agh,... is of taking the entire Brite, sad alnes stock of ving curetully the ehuialeal scrapotition of P aa] ia choinival corn: lon 0! Pliut, nud the changes and inedidca tons . Mou ns solved by him,—not that the : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. © that nro produced by peculine wonthor, methods, of culture or harvesting, and buve erected Works to mont thexs conditions, which must Necessarily involve considerable outhiy of anonoy. | Among ther ho tu thd Yorking aro Maj, McDowell, of tho South Etgin ‘orkas Dr, Nowberry, of tho Verden Sugars Works; Dr. Withelm, of Paritmult, Minn: tha Sugar Company at Larned, Kaw? and) inany orhora that have a Mberal amount of enpital Jnveatud ina reguine sugar-mnakin outfit, in olading vacuum-pan and bono-chareoal Mitra, Maj. MeDowell reported that, alice closing bls own season's work at Xonth Klein, he and hs two pons bat visited twenty such estabiish- ments, to compare methods of work and re- multe attained; that only thren ontot the entire ‘nutnber claimed entire suceess In sugar-making, and some slx others purti@l sitecows,—tha roe inninder being 9 fallura ne far as singin wis concerned.—thoy having given up working for sirar, and rin thoir whote crop for airip with entire auecess. Rut tho Major said that, with himself nnd atl of the athors visitod by lilm, (ho causes of falls Ure ih sugar-production were naw so apptrent to thelr own minds that, Instead of Its being a sourco of tiscourigement, they were nll more than ever encournged to yo nhend, FEEDING SUR OF COMPLYTH SUCCERS in the future. ‘Tho fuct ts, It was a ensy of mon otfruging In’ manufacturing. operations on Jorge sonlo, requiring 0 high deyree of sciontifie knowledge, n5 well ns trattied, export Inbor, with no data to go upon bul the resulta af Inborntory oxperhnonts,—hetwoen which and succeastil commoretu! operations, Kulson says,“ thore 18 tt gulf almost as wido as that whieh eeparated the neh innn from Lazarus.” However securnte and rellahla hiborators exporiments may ho when applied to lure teld operations, tho whole ground had to be gone over anew, and vt Jonat one season used up in earning how q vly successfully those to Inrge manntiecturing oporations, They also found thet tho axe rere lubor obtalned from tho Bast aud from ho Buyer pianos of tho South, when they came to work in Sorghum cane, had just wa much to lenri os themselves. St should furthor De stated, that the past season his been one of the poorest for tho vane erep for many years, 1 nearly all’ parts of the country. As the canoe Whe appronching maturity, wet, bot, suliry Weather set int nearly all pa fF tho North= ‘west, chusing wu “second rere ‘metho attrtlnise of situkers from tho Jolnts—whieh enused 1 mipid detorioration in the quality of tho cane.— tho new growth taking up tho sigur atrondy stored In Juiecs, and chunging it to uncrystullize able or grapo eugir. Amony the inost successful tn this sonson's Ooperntions Is DH. WILMELM, OF PAITNAULT, MINN} y and his sucecas fs inalnty due to tha fuct that he bad « previous year’s’ experlenec, he having gone through tho oxperienes Inst sengon that Inost of the other sugur-mukers have in thls, Tila works aro regulic siuger-works ona sinull senle, Inchtding vacuuin-piun, bone und ebarcont ilters, ete, costing ubout $10,000. They hive n enpuelty of 600 gallons per dus, und wervercoted as experimental works to test the practienbllity and profit of aftguremulcing from Minnesota enno, Tho sano partios who furnished tho enpltal are ready to put any amount into lar works when fully entisticd of the success of tho business. As beforo stated, nat year tho Doctor mude failure fn sugar, and ran his works’ tho pro duetion of wretined sirup, But this year, with wagrently Inferior quatity of cane, he has hid futr success, producing a fine article of course= crystal yellow sugar, which would grede and oll Ju any market by the side of New Orlenns No.2 yollow, at the rato of six Finale of eugir to tha guilon of sirup. His molasses he rellnes by passing through bonc-charvonl, prodneing: A NEAUTIPULD AND DELICIOUS SIRUE, perfeotly pure, which Is rendily.nt 6) conts per guiton, wholosnle, 1t would be impossitle to produce an article of sirup equal in quiudity and ela to this, short of melting puro suyur into alrup. With his two yenrs’ exporience, the Do ctor re- Banls tho qnosilon of successful augur-prodiie- best results Baye been as yet attained, but that sugar and refined sirup éan be produced In such quantity and of such quality as to pay good proflts te the furmer who grows the cane, and the rollnee who: buys and ninnufsetures it, A portion of the cane worked by him (s grown by him, and the rest purchasedof farmers, Ie Js a strong tidyo- cate of whit is called “ ‘THE OPNTRAL SYSTEM tho erection of works atinilar to bla, but of largo cupucity, which will buy the cane raised hy the furiner by the ton, or buy a somi-sirup made by Jocal manufacturers with thelr sinwle crusher and open-pan avaporation. In eclthor cnse the purchaser can determine tho actual value of what he fs purchnsing, since the poluriscups in- dicates tha exact pervontige of sugar in either tho julee or alrup. With 10 percent us tho atand- ardtortho juice at na xed proctpltntion, tho value of uny cane, olther gulng above or falling below thisstandard, can be accurately dotere mined; and the same js true of ull qualities of situps. ‘Tha ostiniuted vost of works with a ca- patuity for 1,000 cullons, por: day, oF 500 nutes per sengun, Including - buildings: 1s $2,0n, would Inctude onging und bollera, ono o1 Jurgo-alze crushing-inilis, two open pans for. dneing the. Juicu. to a semi-sirup, a three-foot vauuum-pan, bone-churcoul filiert, ete, Tho coat of running such an establishment would be Dut Mitte more than of une of hulf the capacity; ond a atill further cnlargement would be still io. the direction of economy in production, THY HICK OF CANE UY THE TON, whore ft hns ticon butight this yoar by different operntors, bus rioged from $2 to 3. Two dollurs tg regarded 4 too low a price, and $3 a Nettle two bleh. About $2.10 was thought to be tho right fiquro. A little entewlution will show that at tho present prico ft will bo a profitable crop for tha farmer to ratso, Ground whit will produce titty bushols of: nora porncey wilt pro- «luce twelve tons of cane, which will yield thirty bushels of seed. A comparison of tho aunlysis efcorn and cano-seed given above will show that fur feeding purposes, with corn at ®) couts per bushel, tho care-soed fs worth at lonst 25 gents per bushel.. We huve, then, this result: ‘Vulue of ono vere of corn, shollod and delivered: nt station; °° 4 i Fitty bushes ot 000. 15,00 Value of foider, if ‘5.00 ta eennes «$20.00 Value of onv nero of ¢ red at mls ‘Twelve tons at $2.50... sapere esse SILO Thirty bushels seed at 20 aes 7.00 TOM sos rrecsees eresee $57. Proiit of eano per nore ayer corn... 517.00 My previous report slowed that tho woucral tostimony of growers was, tat the cost of rats ine and murketing did not vary materially, But, allawing $5 u8 asdivonal cost’ por acre on gang, nnd wo etiil have . $32.50 PER ACHR IN FAVOI OF TI CANR CHOP. Reports: from munufacturers show tht the murket-demand for canc-sirups fs atoudlly ine sreaalng.. The small manufacturers of ¢rude. sirieps dnd a tocnl demand which tates ail they can ionke for domestic consumption; the larger Tannutactirers are finding f ready tmarkot and growing demand: from bakers and curer of mouta; while tho refined sirups, like those of Dy, Wilhelm and sume otters, enn go inte the general markets on tholr merits, and soll at Temunerative prices. Mr, Hodgus reported that ho bad soll a careload In St. Louis, for Mr. Leonunl, of Belvidere, in this State, to be used In the curing of ments, nt cents per willon Dr, Wilicim has also bought large quantities in Minnesota for refining ut the sume price, Aw tho renl valuo of these crudo or unrefined slrups becotnes better known, Chey will be moro in de mand for ull purposes where a cheap sweotoncr: Js wanted, since tho poluriscope shows that Woy, contain 66 per cont or more of pure suyir. Mr, Hrecipos before loaving Bt Fouls, loft a cumple of Now Orleans tmolassod. selling at wholesale at 45 cents por gallon, with the Gove ernment export at the Custom-ifouse for polur- iaation, und received by telegraph tho roport, which was 00.00, cual in sacchiring yulue to ONDY ABOUT WO PEt ORNT OF THK ORDINARY 4 CRUDE KORAMUAL NEN, ‘With the {mproved uicthods of extracting sugar from the juice of tho Bouthory cane, i hirgor per cent of the product isobtuined In crystaiilzed bugar,—xrvatly lossoning the quantity and do- teriorating the quality of the Now Orloung wmolusses, Something must take Ita phico to meet’ tha — constantly-increasiug do mand of business, where it pivga umount of sacchuring mutter ls ossential, ‘Yo mect this demand, wo baye only tho product of Borghura and Glucose. But, ag the Inttor ta Ko deticiont in socohuring matter, requiring two or threo tinea the quuntity to supply the aincunt necessary, the Songhun sirups will always be abl ta com- peto auceesstally with it, and will take tho prof- eronco ns tholy rout value becomes known, For table-sirups, the eye must bo consulted us well ns the polite. ‘Phis wus shown by y wtuttes mont by Maj. stoDowall, who said ho otfercd hia alrupa (Ceram tho Bouth Hin Works) to doaters fn Chicnyo, and the highest oifor received was 37 conta per gallon, As un oxperiinent, he prowurad some Glucose (C forget the cost: fit aiilon, but probably net more thun 20 conte, and mada a mixture of two purts ‘of Glucose ta one of sirup; and, on subinittiog: the sample, was offered 5) conta per oies hy tho sume partics. au us ho gitld,a good Mothodist, be did not go {nto the mixing bual- head. itis evident that PROIDRD PROGRESS WAS HEEN MADE (n the domestic production of sugar during the post year, and this mululy . by thoso who havo arranged works on seclontitic basis, and are call- jog chemical and mechunical science to tholr ald in overcoming tha obstavlos In the way of com- plote suvooss. ‘ ‘The Mississippt Valley Cuno-Growers’ Associn= don with bold ts third’ annual meeting In Bt. Jouls, on the Hat inet, Vhia will have a much larger attendance than tho meeting, at Spring Held, aud will furnish much: valuable Informe uon, whlel hope tabo able to furnluh to tho readora of ‘tH! 0. C, Gruns, hIMUNE, Codtish iu the Pacific. sy og 1 San Francisca Chronicte. Ban Fraviehivo haa hithorto benn Importing tho codiish conguued on the coust, Ituppours in leu of ‘aerving our supply from the Kust wo shall soon be Jn 4 position to export tho urticlo, By referenoo to thy following statistics it will ba Ben that the take of tis by vassels belonging to the port bus increased yearly :1u 1585 seven Vessels caught 400,400 feb; i 1876 keven veasols cuught B4,Uu0 tu; while durlug tho season Of Lode, Just clased, olght vessels conveyed to dun Francis tho large number of, 1,200,000 ish, ‘Pho obi sources of supply ary the Chouwnyin Isiands and tho Ochotsk Bea. ‘The chvuntiuocs that attended the discovery of this yuluuble branch of fuduatey aro soimewhbut ourlouy, Tn 18d6 tho brig ‘Timaudra Jay becalwed of the Lily and of Ragahilen, in the North Pactiic, Themen ocvoupled thelr leistirs tine In flahing, and wore nuance to find that tho codfish came speedily to thelr bouks. Thoir take was auilelont to enit> ble thom to Uring a munber of fish to Kan Fran- tleeo, good news led to tho fitting out of ri wacle, nnd over Bince the trade hag been steadily en aronatliy and fa likely tow aumo large proportions. Muny af the fh, wher ret, average from clyht to ten pounta in wolght. -Thoy soll rowlily to deters nt from 5 to vants for beat quullty. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. The Bankrupt Law. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Farrron, Ul. Dee, i.—In the now Bankrupt Inw whichis proposcd, is there to be no pro- vision made for those who male assignment of Property for benoit of creditors since tho , old Bankrupt law expired? = ‘Thero nro also vn class who made aasigniment white tho old law wan in force that could not afterward go Into volun- tury bankruptcy, because no steps wero taken toward that positlan when nssigninent of tholr property wasinude, T belong to the latter class. a thore nu relief in the now “biltsong to allow Unfortunate businessmen to engage in business nein, or tnust thoy forever work with this lond on tholr backs, aud Wo possible way of reticf ? Youn Patnon. “Lako Saknegan.’? Th the Bsllor of The Catcago Triinine, MinwauKker, Wis, Dee, Eh—L notice In to day's Trinesn nn artl rom yourOconomowoc correspondent headed “Lake Saknegnn,” aud atutiog that tho Smithaontin Institute ia de alrons of nscertuiuing the location of a Inke fortuerly known by that name, Tho articte nlso stutes thut Dr. Jubn A. Ileo belloves Pewaukee Lake to be tho one in question. I cume to Wise consln over thirty-six years zo, aud settted on Fox Hiver. Dani well teqnalnted with the river for w gront part of its longth. There ts in the western purt of Jtueine County, nbout three inlles above the Villujcoof Waterford, a smioll - Jako called Tishegan, with its outlet in Fox River, and whieh 1 think fully aiswers tha da seription given by your correspondent, and whieh it scoms to me is intich mare likely ta be the former “Sakacgun” thin Pewauked Lake, HL. M. Roprnsox. A Stinging Itebuke to Ald, Burrett. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, < Cincauo, Dee. 14.—Will you kindly allow apace Jn ‘fins Trtrpusy for the following opon tetters ald, He. Barrett, of the Seventeenth Ward— Srez In behalf of imysele and thousands of olners of our fellow-cltizens In the Seventecnth Ward, I protest agalnst your action In the City Council last night in voting agalnst the so-called “sinoke ordinance,” aud woreby helping to defeut it, You shoutd have known, had you cared at all to Investigute, how your conatitus ents feltabout the subseot; that nin pniths of thom destred to have tho ordinance py You Bhould know that tho pire Diatitery Com: pany located on tho river n short distanco north ore wo nyenne bridge, produces nothlt, but whisky, swill milk, smoke, and stinks, which: nre peddled fround and fureed upoti the people of our ward to thelr great—Dboth inental and physleal—injury, = We desired that this Company, hold at least be compelled to abate that jeer thelr gonemi nuisance which con gists In tho ‘grent volume of black sinoke that, yeur outand year fn, day and night, Sundays and week days, is cinitted from. thelr chimneys, ond distribyied over our ward, where the pro- yalllng western winds always carry ft, making our bouses tnelenn, the vie font and unhealthy, and doubling tho Inbor and expense of our wives' washing, Yor hid the tinest opportunity that perhaps you will ever get to revord yours self in fayvorat the people wha sent you to the Council, When the vote was belme enlled things shaped themselves eu that it utmost absolutely Jay dn your band to defent or pasa tho ondinaness bad you voted yo" the ordignnee would hayo pasaed; voting no,” as you did, you dereated t. Some bady or corporition with perhups foel nbitfed to you Tor voting ng you did, but tho }eople of the Seventeenth Ward won't, and 1 ave no hesitiney in declaring thut 1s tholr rep- resentative fn the City Council you are an utter fallure aud unworthy of tho confidence ones ro- posed In you by our people. Lhave no doubt tooy will have the goud senso at tho next olec- don ta roleyuto you buck to obscurity. and thereby show you, and inen of your JIk, that even poor people hnyo rights that should be ree spected 1a ugainst the Lody and soul. destroying whisky Interests whose willing and abject slave you scom to be, In conclusion, let mu notify you and ull concerned that I am on tho war-path aguinst tho whisky interest, apd all ite Interests ‘aunt rangillcations, and sites yuu have chosen to becomne Its hackney, and to Shane yuur actions fn the City Counel! ‘here you sit is our repres sontutive-necording to its dictates, I glial take care that the people of our ward tre volightened n this subject, and if you persist fu misrepros euting us wo shall know tho reason rie 1, P, NEvpon. Street Pavements, «To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cuicaco, Dec. 1.—Yaur correspondent, Thomus 4. Hill, Esq. has lent himself outap- parently for amighty U.P. Hi Job, Ina Ine genulty and gontus of a hundred generations of men haye beon exhausted on the problem of roads and pavements, without reaching a fully sutis- fuctory solution, But now comos Mr, Hill, o page wri ter, develd of experience in rond-bulld- ing or constituent qualitios of matoriuls, und shouts BRurckal It seoms that Mr, H, fs a mtoroscopla “prop- erty-owner” on geome obscure trall in tho West. Bide wilderness of our city, and ho came over tha othor day to tho mecting of tha South Division Street and Alley Committee of tha Counell for tho gratuitous purposo of gotting tho gentlemen of tho Cominitice right on the perptoxed ques- ton of street-paying. Hill Mvoms to be tho loading orntor of tho Litorary Bureau of tho " City Sap Paving Com- pany,” and of course trica bard to ourn bis atle pend. With the aid of an cheap poet that thed, 5.1. Co. ure wbout buying aud adding to thelr Tureau, wo ny look fora speedy aud tual set- tlenient of our entire paving polly. Orator Tit remurka that tho pedplo of this city demand a puayormont that is * economical, comfortable, and healthy.) Bxactly sol Ant it fa for these epeciile ronsons tat tho Lest in formed citizens now demund that wood bo Minarsiell -aitagatiar: nso paving tontcrial und sdino well tried and approved mutorhil bo substituted thorefor, It ls now # muttor of muathemationt demonstration that wood fs tho costlust of all paving materhels that it makes the most uahealthyaf all pavements no anne mun double, and, so faruy our past export. cnee goes, Jt makes the most comiforticss Of wl roalwnys, not excepting cobblestone or country corduroy. If any eltizen wanta oculur evidence of tho durubllity of cedur blocks, we can show bin a four-year-old puyement In this clty as rotten a8 Denmark, ft requires but from’ one to two yeurs' wour to “cabbie” tho surfaco of a round-block pavement sou to rendor it nbout ag rauckety as an old-fashfoned cebblostone pave. MWoodon blooks absorb and retaln nat only tho surfuce water wid filth, but also the solur hout, and return the samy by vaporization up Into our brenthlng reservolr, charged with tho death- dewlng, oxide gases with which to inflate our lungs und purity our blood, Wo havo in the hicurt of our city, and on most of our host Inhabited streets, something Hke a mille RyUre Of wooden Payemunt Infltered with tho vilest of oxcroment,—-in cold obstriotion rotting, and loving our atmosphcro with the well-known product of vegetable Wecomposi- ton and physient exerement,—deadly malaria und apores of all types of typhoid dlsense, Lyenturo that Health Oificor Do Wolf, os well AB every export provessor ‘af medical soteneo hit thisvity, WIL toll you that the corrupuon brod of our wood pavements. ia, produotive of mors 4 f Afonso and death overy year than resulte from, uny ono specifia cnuso besiies, Yot, iu Tull view af those fatul frets, tho "C, 8.2, Co. avek to perpotiuto and oxtend tho comctery paying system of our city,—und mug) thonghless citizens are contributing thelr vf forta to asalat the result, Lot it by stanped. GC, Bi. Kina. ———__— A Too Costly Wedding (Gown—Hlow It Spolled the Matrimontal Plans of a Now Hampshiro Widuwer Bastun Commonsoraith, : A fow weeks ago n Now Hampshire man who had been a widower four or five yeurs concluded 10 Would tako another helpmate, and, Instead of inakioy bis selection from tho murrlazoable girs of his own nolghborhvod, pe give ont that hw was wotny down to Hoston ta gee bim a wife, Mu lett home for that purposs, apd the jeors of his nolgbbors, who predicted all sorts of mis fortunes that would befall hiins Arriving in this elty, ho made his way to awelleknown tntellle Renee oitloy and imparted (Ho object of his tils- sion to the mutrou In witendanco, After conslds erubla qucationing to satisfy harself of tho buns caty of the farmer's intentions, shy went into tha room where were 8 dozen OF more youn, women wnillag for sitnations, Sho stated to them that 0 mun was i tho ottice who had come to Hoston to ect hima wife. Were there any present who woru willing to murry an honest Now Tumpsbire farmer without any courtabipy Ie said fa was willing to give fern good the-art of wedding clotlos at once, “Ono foun plump. looking Iria yi) anid sho'd tike to aed tho party. After a fow mlantes’ conversation with the Widower she consented to marry bin, and they left the oifice to buy tho wedding :outitt. Tho farmor took fnto hid contidence ony of tho salcawomen, who joyfully ontered Into the nutty tor, After navisting thom in thule sulecion of tho various necessary articles of w minor nuture, thoy went up to the dress department ta buy: the wedding gown, The variety shown the young girl quite bewildered hes, bit she finally Bot her beart on a dress that exactly sulted her, Unfortunately, tha prico waa $15 moi nnn wos wilting ta pay. ‘Tha girl cvaxcd and plouaed with bims the saleswomun used all ber urgutnents to muko the sule, but the widower wes iattexitls, “'Culrty dollars was an ali-tired Jot of money to pay for a gown.” Finally the irl declared that nothing: else would aathsty er, and heen to cry 1 real ournest. Matton looked xerlous; several other saleswomen took gides with the girl, und pleaded for the coveted dress, but without susccas. Then the girt gut ber spteit up, und tolybim that he was u moun old fellow, and she Wouldn't marry bla sf ho'd give her tio beat 9s Ip tho sturo, aud utr out, 7 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, Paper Read Hefore the Historical Society by the Hon. E. B. Washburne. A Vivid Description of the Eyents of That Exeiting Era. Tho Horocs and Horaines of Rovolullonary France—Thoir Deeds and Deaths, ‘Tho ball of tho Iflsturient Society, on Dearborn avontie near Ontarto atreet, wis Mled Inst evens Ing by members of tho Socisty and others who ene tu Jisten to a quper by tho Hon. Be Ty Washburne on“ The French Revolution.” Atter Borne routhie businces had been diapused of, Mr. Warehburne came forward and read bis paper,of whith tho following fs 9 Cull abstract; Mr. Washburne begat by saying that tho hiss tory of the Freneh Revolution recorded the grent-. est and the tnost tragle, the most terrible, and. Uramatle succession of cvouts ever sot down In tho annus of the world. It was, of cottrse, fin- poysitie tn the scope of a singte paper to do Justica to a subject whieh nppalied one by its very magnitude. ‘ho longest life, wholly do- voted tu tho subject, would be utterly tad quate to fully master tho history of that gre: Upheaval of al the blind passions of a inighty and maddened people, whieh left in. its pathway of terror and blood, so much social dlsorgunization, ruln,, desolauion, and inisery, Three thousand volumes had nls rendy been weilten upon it. while many werd tue added overs: y ‘the Interest in tho French Revolution incressed na ine rolled on Until to-tiy it exelted tenfold more atten tion than it did itty years gone by. cold be done In tho Iimits of tha present papur would be to ative a passing glance mt some of the most etriking Incidents and features of thit frightful epoch, which had for nearly a century: eluenged the profoundest Interest of tho most intelligent circles in the civilized world. He had In muny fnstanees followed the deseription of events and persons as given by Louls Liane, Latmurtine, ‘Thiers, atid othors. Mr. Waghburne passed fn rapid review over the reign of Louls XIV. the Grand Monare! barely niuding tu the werk, corrupt, and bunched Lous XV. whosn reign was Fo indlse eolubly tinked to that celybrated wanan, Mme. Pompalour, He alse totlebed upon the great writers of the times, Including tho Encyclope- dists, whose works he referred to ns constituting: tho iterary glory of France, and spoke partlen: larly of Voitulre, tho grent writer ot modern times, who supped the foundations of Chrigtiantl- Ae hy along series of writings 8 tnuen dis- tugtished tor thelr unrivated beauty of style as for thut wonderful. geniits of satire and punygen- vy of ridicule which mado the human race laugh at itself. ‘ IT WAS IN THB REIGN of Tauls XVI, tho spenker continued, tht tho Revolution broke ont—theryear before pur own—and all Americuns would remember with gratitude thitt (twas it this time that France stretched forth (ts nund tonasist the Coloniste,and poured out Its blood and treastire Uke water in defense of thelr ivertics, The Fronet suldier fought side by sidu with the American sollicr on many a battleflotd, aud thelr ashes lay mine gied with tho koll of the country thoy helped ta pave. “And to-day,” continued tho. speaker, “we salute the memories of Wiese noble Frenct: beroes with nifection and grititude. Muay tha turf ever grow green und the wild towers ever blossom over tholr tintnewn and undistine gulsbed graves." Mr, Washburne thon procecded todeseribe the moimorable evenes Inimediately preceding tio opening of the States Genoral at Versailles on the bth of May, Vi On tho preceding day 1 great national nad lous fto waseelcbrated It wus one of the grent days of Froneh histor Twelve hundred Deputies, the Klug and Quee and tho entire Court repaired ta the Chireh of Notre Dame to nttend tha celebration of was chormous, All Paris Wwsand roots were ied with oxpectant slzbt-seers. ‘Tho batcoulos wero ormunented with the richest and most costly draperies, and decked out with the most beautl- fal women of Franco in tho coquet and bizarre costuines of the Uines. In passing, Mr. Washburno drew an admirabie pen-pleture of Louls XVI, who was deseribed ag never having been made fora Nlig—n blir boy. cxrelesly Drought up, dod married at tho age of 30 to Marie Antoinette, who was thon but M. His fave wis tabby .and meautngless, und his oyesdull, Though Enitls eanouton. ho tackod Intelligonco, Arinnoas, nackdeeision. His genurat fecblences of churneter, in fact, expoxed him to tho contenipt of his subjects, while his vacilia- don, want af cournge and decision, cost him bis. throno unt his jit. Mario Antoinette was: described 19 bolny the very opposit of the Kilnw, and tho thrilling drama of her fe, tho epeakor reuurked, wuld cluster round her memory fur all ges. In person, sho wus tall, and .gricofully formed, and while her benring was mnjestic and even imperial, yet such were tho natural dignity and grace of her manners that tho womnn ulways shone out under tho creat With a breathless Intorest the world followed all the decudfyl and shook- Ing Incidents of her curcer us Queen. ‘Tho ut- tompted eseine of the Hoyal funily from, the Tullerics and from France were more thritiiog and strange than nny fletion, TUB ARREST OF THE ROYAL FAMILY at Bt. Menchould was bricily winded to, Tho next morning ufter that arrest tho wholy party: Was put under escort for Paris, ‘The interyven- ing night was palated by the speaker ng one full of horrors to tho Queen of France, Ail tho passions of tha motuer, tho woman, and the Quen took possession of her soul, and at dawn tho bitir of that fulr woman was turned to white- i— “Yor grow it white Ino winute ashen As niun’s have Keown by suddon fears.” The oponing of tho States Goneral took place on tho hth of Stay, 1780, and’ mileht, in one sense, ‘be regarded as the commencement of tho Revos lution. When organized into tho Nationnl As aombiy, tt was fn respect of munibers, totem Blatcsinansilp, cloguence, patriotism, blood, an birth, ono of the most celebrated ant Imposing ruuntona of mon thnt the world ind over seen, Tho great Sguro was Mirnbean, who han thrown hi:nsclf into the Revolution with wl tho weight ot bin nudaelty and genius. Whon be entered tho body at its opening atl eyes wore fustutied on hin, and amuronte ran through tho hull. His enormous head, with Us shaggy huirs Als frightful fee, oll pitted With: amutlepox3 ils foole Cull of audacity and giandeur, drow wpon bias the gave of all, for In hin. was pre~ sunted the grand voice of Revolutionary France, His labors nt that. thie were ineredible. Ie ninstered all questions of ferlslution finance, diplomnaus, war, religion, politicnt SeanIOL FS im- Busta taxes. At the tribune he wasrterrtbte by 13 eloquence and his power, but, stypping dows), ho was without virtue and without mine, Ruled pe. ineatinble desire, he was under the {nthience of overy passion, Such was the dévouring actly> Aty of hia mind that ie “No danger daunted, and ng labors tired.” Belzed by a fatal ittiess,, the news spread quickly all over Purls, and ereated 0 grout aud Unidetoatio emotion. Alt parties nl comfitfons, alt opinions, pressed before his duor to Inquire as to biscondivon, Me died on tho morning of tho 2d of April, 17, und tho whole people were plunged In geri Funeral onlogies wore uvory- whore pronoimecd, thy About tps wore vlosikd, uinusenents Were, Toturdiet ous nd ball whtels arented to anal 80 publie griot was broken olf, He wus, bryfeg dn the ith of April, with a pom rind pageuney nover before witnessed, and his rematys sopoatted tn the Hanthenon, APTHIL LONG DELAYS . and great alsputes, tho Ntutes-Gonoral” was Hovily orgvnized ay the Nationil Assembly, At Franeo was init state of supreme. wih tho National Assembly y utter decree In the tnterest of pubtic tberty, tho publle ferinent wis on tho ncreaso, ‘The Court, depending on the army, was undisturbed and utterly unprepared for tho storm that waa ubout to break over Parla, ‘The apenker hore deseribad in graphly way tho taking of the Rastile on the Mth of duly, View, This frightful and sombre old prison, Dullt in tho fourteenth coutury, was later trang: formed fnta a prlon of State, and proseciptions and lettrowdereachet hud Mneumbered f(t, and, Med ft with the most ilustrious people uf. Fran "The watchword wis given, a laf uly,” and tha veration, amid blued and carnage, fell Letor the fury and force of the peoploot taris, antl Hitorally not one stone remitived upon mother, The great key of tho outer gato, {ninense, rusty, und awiowanl, wed by the xentrics an for tho turments of nen, wax proscuted by La Fayetto to Washington, and had stice been, wived upon by nanumbered: thousands {n the tiansion of tho Father of Hts Country aiid the shudes of Mount Vernon, Mr, Washburne thon took up tho Jacobin Chub, chururterizin, an onraniéution of pubtle prsston und the centraflgadon of publia Anarchy, tte diatul and sombre ball ia the ue Bt, Honoré was Iyghted only by some candied charitably contributed by somo uf ita babttuds, And yet it became the great eugine of public optnfon, and sequired a power and milucnes ans hoard-of (null politieal history, Its meetings were attunded by ull chines, rich and poor, bigh pud low, Hero Mirubeau . thundored roused = every, rovulittions ary pussl Hery Kobeaplerre jaunchod bis incendiary, bombs and Murat hoarsuly clamored for blood, ‘Fhe paralytic Couthon crowd to the trithine 10 excite. ta yenqeunce, Comflte Desmoulina mised by bis wit and Irony, And Larére charmed all hearers by bla rounded verlods and adorned with towers the hutrod of tho people, rf AYTER MIRABEAU DIBAPPBALKD from the scene of uction, itobespierre foamed Up Hs tho great gure in France, Ho took bis Bent In the Nationul Assembly us a Deputy from the Departivent of Cululy. Aa deacribed by Mr, Washburne, bo was a lappor little man, dressed: fn oxquisit taste, usd always wore bis balr puw- dered, Ho wns self-willed and” goif-reifant, vindictive, seltlsh, cruel, and fu utreds, sevking 2O Pludsure, but votiug bimecif to lubor and study. Pandered to all the worst jostincts of tho human Face, and founded bis Jativuonce on tho yilest ons of humun svcluty, Ho fsticrod tho es cold, ot bi wy reat fortress, Vofontted with des 1° poptinee and became its tol By such mean tho Jecubin Club; hy the Jacobtn Club, ! nition: and by the Convention, Franes The people adored his “euprices, and. even. Shut+ tered his furies, The tribunals cut off heads without a hearing inerely at his designation, Natit tnally bie aneontrofled power appallest hit Aeeoinnllees ig mueh as it did his vietims, and at just they nil tinlted to pall down the {dol they: Dad rateed up. Tho winter of 1780-'N0 was a terrible one tn Parts, The starving population had been roused Yo Inndness Dy nt untried prea. bo mob of Paris went to Versalltes and brought the King, Queen. and Royal family tatha ety. The Nae tlonal Assembly followed the Royal family from Veraullics to Paria, and made a constitution and vier att which wastuken by the King and 1 Tho y the bloody Murat, Bounced into publle notice at the taking of the Bastile, upon tho elastic platform ot revolutionary enthusiuam, his inane became n synonym for nil tho crimes and all apenter nlsodraw n striking portralt. of the shamo of tho Revolution, until on the 1th oof dttly. 1nd, the: pontard of Charlotte Comay ended the monster's life, Tho Jayislative succeeded the Natlonal Assetn- Diy, but its career wae tho abort. and simple rec- ord of wenkness, pueeility, broken faith, ines pacity, nud ehoames, It finally abdicated by e: mg n National Convention, It was on tho 2th of d » Viet, luring the existence of this As- sembly, that the NOW OF PAINS ATTACKED THE TUILPIES, made {19 way into the. very presence of tha King and Queen, put tho red bonnet on the Ring's hen, led him to tho baleony of the pal- +, nd presented him ta the howling mob out- e patse here,” sald the speaker, “In the Prerence of one of those great historle tgures that will forever exeite the most thrilling Inter- est so long os atmiration for benuty, virtue, in- Alelligence, courant, and fortitude shill tnd san fadatuent in tho human heart, It Is Mme. lo- ond." The speaker rapidly but skiitully traced the eventful career of this remarkable worn, whose. tuking off constitutes one of the most trae events in alt history. The duwehter of an ene wraver, born In humble life, she was doomed to. #lory and the seatfol At JS yearsof ay abe ecanbriend all tho stuidles which belong to a tnore: perl, Ente ane Into the spirit of tho ton. her genius, her eloquenve, her ens thuainsm lent themselves to the foundatton of a party anda Republic. Soon ingulfed in the whirl of. the Revolution, she mounted the senffold set. upon the Place de In Stevolution, Conducted from prion to the guillotine, the fatul enrt piased by tho statue erected to Liberty. It wits thon that she mae that supreme adieu to tho Repuliie she adored, und which at that moment coveted her biogds OO Uberty, what crimes are co! Itted In thy boly name.” Mr. Washburno said ho had now brought his nudionee dawn to tho overthrow ef the rmon- areby on the 10th of August, 17, and, fearing that ho bad alrendy wenried their putience, ho would refrain from further taxing it by con- Unuing tho subject at that time, After tho rending was concluded, a yotoor thinks’ wis tendered Mr. Washburne for hig ine teresting ayd instructive paper. THE LODGING-HOUSES. A West Washington Strect Dive Seen In the Light of Two Inquesta, Franklin Hone, 40 years of age, an Inmate of 6 cheap lodging-house kept by ono Marion, at No. 41 West Washtogton street, wos discovered by tho watchnin at 6 o'clock yesterday tnorning in the ngontes of denth. Dr. Neiil was sent for, but the tan was dend before be arrived. Tho de- cvased was a very heavy drinker, nnd his disso lute habits, together with hick of proper noure Ishment, were tho causes which led to his death, It wus lu thiy eamo house that O'satin- dled Under sumewhat similar clroumstances early Sunday morning. Tho Coroner beld an In- quest Upon both men, and tho Juries returned a verdict of death from tho excceslyo. use of alvoholic fiqnors in both instances. They might haye gone tarthor und called tho attention of the proper nuthorities to tho condition of the den in which thoy died. Tt is a low, damp, dreary’ basement, which, up to the thine, of its trans formation Into a lodging-house sdme few: yoars nyo, lind bean unoccupied elnce tho bystness rusb in'the Weat Division after tha grit fire wus endod. It was too miserablen bnsywtent for any man in business to think about feating. for any purposes whatuver, Tho sewempo is ale ways in bad order, and the ventiinnen atforded Wy" a dor ond narrow little winlows open- ing upon tho sldewalk fa whotly inidequito, The lessee of the piace bag put in # lot of com- gion ping bunks, which are pinged in ters four bunks tlh, “Those are rude/y constructed. The heads arg tnade higher than the foot ends, and tho necasity of piiiows or something to raise the sleoper’s bead bizber than his body is thug ob- viuted, Not a shred of beddingor bed-clothing enn be Clean sheets twice 1 work,” Ww omimandations of tho tunks are erent out “with. to hs Oe tone any ono 3 une never ut LU who had a decent Uringing-up. The place 1s lighted with nhalf-dozon kernsone lamps, whieh, elthor froin their construction or the bi oil with which thoy are filed, give forth sulting and slekeninu odurg, In some places the apart ment 14.08 “dark ng pitch,” while In others the ght is gluring und dazzles tho Inveatigntor. ‘THIS, REMURANDTESQUE BYPECT of stron ight and deep shade fs tho work of rotlectors with whieh tho Inteps aro suppiied. They must hive retlectors In these rauches; they fire ‘as much of ‘yecommendation us * clean shoots twice a week.” Directly benouth thom are genvrully to be found two or shreu muerte of tho houge, ona stripped ty walst, another with only no sbirt on, ant yot oo nnothor = porknps stark nuked, with his garments over bis knecs, They nro Inditatrionaly engaged In Picking parasites feu thelr clothing, ind when an unusually turge offender 1s caught the crowd is called to withoas his execution, and Mr. Ingect fs round iN cursed, Ata liter hour tho fumntes aro all asleep, They stretch theinselyes naked, or nears Jy 80, in thoir pine bunks, after tying up their clothing into # hard wad, known as tie “tranp's Knot.” ‘This serves thom forn pillow. ly rea- son of tho lodger’s condition 3 ho seer it Is liccessury to keop the apartment heated to uo dogrec which would suiforato one accustomed to ordinary Ways of Hving. Avarico on the part of the proprietor feads him to close all the wine daws, aud to bar up tho entrance with a Btorin. “door nrrangement on tno Inside, and in thls way ho sitves fuel. Thero ure w bulf-dozen of thoso houses In tho’ Woat Divislon, and the one reforred ta above i by no menns tha worst. In Tuet it seems to be Bo much better than tho othe ers that from 2) to men patronize it nightly. Tho Vapor and stenches arising front Ko many hus pian bel, many of them diseased, together with the heat ant sewer-gns, tonike the atmosphere s0 fetld asto be intolerable snve to thore aceus- toned toft, ‘That two mon hive dled thors in two successive nights ie not to be wondered at, Je js macvelons that trom ono toa hulf dozen do not din every night, for evenina boulthy and wetl-conditigned inan could nat bo” eK pected to withstand in night's lodging thoru, The mldnight atmosphere of ono of Whose places Js ko nothing ¢lao on earth, and when at lust duytight appears aud the ‘lodging-house is thrawn pp hot so much for the purpose of nirlug and ventilating {tas to ebtll the room and this drive out tho lazy and reluctant horde vos cupying it, [tis no wonder that people ving in tho block Aro compelled to shut up thoindoors and windows, and remuln within until THE STENCIL 18 TISSIPATED, . This ia the luxury which tho saloon-bummor fnd the tramp yets fer a nickel. . For another nickel he Kets a hiss of heer at somo saloon whore food not fit to throw ton dog fs sot up ag frveshineh, and thus he Hyos froin day to day, What with his mode of living and bls balefil Jodginga deuth must bo welcomed by tho un- fortunuto who finds himself in these depths of aueraday lon, hts condition of things morita tho attention of tho authorities, Lust your it was compitted that benny 6,000 mon found lodgings in tha Nii Ward for fd conta or Tess, and tho * dime houses nev but tittle better that tho nickel ones, The niger to the comuniilty Ae urge Ju ease Of l-pox or any othor violent and contagioss disense breaking att in these eva cannot be overostinuted, Tho gutboritics Hxht ehy of tho mutter, however, Aswag demonstrated tn the Jost ciection, tho tramps’ lodging-house ty a boon to the candidate for public office, und then, be- slues, thy owners of the butidings in which tho jodatn ‘houses are located aru men of weulth and intluenco, BOGUS BUTTER, ‘To the Editor of The Caleago Tribuna, Wiyrrwaten, Wis, Dec, 1.—This i¢ the kind ‘af stull that vomes to us tidorsed by ono of your Jargost and (supposed) most reapectable tiring, Wo would most respectfully but trinly roqucet that the Brooker Dulry Company keop their “yutefat” tor the city trade exclusive! if Wo peviee ova rane eouniry, butter, Wo Inctose tho ciroulur, Yours truly, Gauit, BueKtny & Co, MANUFACTURKD BUTTE. Notwithstunding all the ubuso of ignorant newspaper writare jealous competitors, fad imupinitutors of thas vile compound callod: “shipping butter,” the industry iu which we are enraged continues to thrive, und we consider that fta permanency ja now ussured boyon question, Thos are foots, and tho business of mnakioy “manufactured butter" by those wha thoroughly understand It. as un art will grow ta a4 great promiponce in thls country as it has in Europe, where, us ia woll known to thoay In tho trade, ft bus become a sucecsx beyond all ex- Jectations, At the present time thoro are over Sixty butter factories in Motterdam, to suy noth: ng ot In Viennn, ita uurg, Berlin, Kria- Manta, Liverpool, London, ete, fh connection with tho foregoing, wo desire to call your attention to the article manufactured by ourmelves, aud to which we Joyita your most oiretul serutiuy, knowing that once baving sold it, you will become a steady customer for vate or certainly one ag long us the wupply of yl uutural butter fs scarce 11 your looullty, Our butter ia mate fn the most cleanly manner, wud of perfectly pure and wholedoine materiula, ‘The most eiclent experta in the butter trade y thoy cannut tell It from ogni Duttor, us it ptonly bis the cotor and flavor of same, but’ also tho *yraln,” wolehas ¢o desirably in an arntloint product. Tho article wo tuke is us fur gbead of ordinary watural butter us duyllghs 1s. abeud of durkucss. iS Suould you focl interested tu the matter, wo would by glad te forwand you samples showing {apisrhat, we nto making, Our gools aro now boing Rold targets tu the trade in various parts of the comitry, und give perfect satisfaction In every Instance. Our atylo ot packing fs varied, thus—tn tubs of 20,30, 10, and 00 pounds each; pails, 10 pounds cach, packed Aix In a “riek, te rolls” and “prints,” varying in weleht from otne-half to twoor three pounls onch, whieh aro tiealy wrapped In riusiin, and packed in cheese boxes: containing 40 to 7 pounds cach, Shalt we rend you nsample tub of tho butter? We wilt guarantes it to give ratistaction We not onty do not, but empbntienth yi wi it Ja popiinrly esl ba boanilagehniian Get rand other vilo stulfa sold as natumtl butter, which rently aro not fit for hue man food, Wo write you at the summestion of Messrs. N. K. Fairbank & Co,, who are tho princ{pal stockhold+ ersand who are actively cngiged hi the manages nent of our Company. They sity: * We indorsa all that bas been written you on this anblect.”” Correspontenen | sullcited «nud quotitions promptly furnished, Brooxer Dany Company, Chicago. THE POLICE FORCE, The New Broom Hegins to Swecep—Re- movals, Promotions, and Tranafcrs, The chanyes tn the Pollee Department, many of which have atready been announecd in this paper, were offiginily promulgated yesterday, Jt willbe Been that thers Is a general sinking up, anda nearly ubtversal shifting, except on tho North Side, where it was decided to tet woll enough alone.) Meut. Unrrett is a vory old ollteer, whose reduction is due to the fact that he Ja no longer fitted for the duties of the office he has heen holding. Yoltowing 1s Superintendent MeGarigic's order: i (ener! Orders No, 17-1, Tho resignation of Capt. Thomas FE. Sininans, of tho Firat Pros elnct, has tls day Leen aecepted, to take effect funedintely, iM % Dieut. Villu Buekley, of tho First Pre etuct, having this day been appolnted a Captain of Police, i# hereby assigned to duty in, com mand of tha First Precinct, vieo Thanias F. Sin mons, resiened. 4% Meuts Thomas Barrett, of Cottaxe Grove Avenue Station, Is hereby reduced to tho rine of pitrolaian, and will be assigned to duty as fock-Up Keeper ot Marrison Street Station, 4. Lieut. Madison Rendell is hereby transferred from the Second to the First Precinet, and will report ty Capt. Willa Buokley for agsigoment: toduty at Cuttaye Grove Avenue Station, vice Thomas Marrett, reduced, & Sicut. John Tyrie fs hereby transferred from the First to tho Scvond Preelnct, and will report to C. H » Simon O'Dunnell for nesizument toduty at Jeering Street Station, vies Madison Neudell transferred, 0, Detective Joseph Kipley, of tho Central Station, having this day been appointed a Lions tenant of Polied, Is hereby Firet Preelnet, and will report to Capt. Willam Tuckley for asalenment ta duty at Harrison Street Staion, vice John Byrne transferred. 7. Heteetive John D. Shea, of the Central Stas tlon, having this day heen appointed a Lleuten> nntof Police, is hereby transferred to the First. Preelnet, ond will report to Capt. William Buteles ley for aasignment to duty in command of “Twenty-second Street Station, view Witlinm Buckley promoted, 8, Lieut, Jobn Bonflold, of the Second Precinct, having this day been appointed n Captain cl Police, ts hereby transferred to the Centr Bta- tion and will assume command of sald Station, and perform such otber guties is may be as- signed hin by the General Supertutendent. 8. Lieut, August Blettner fy hereby transfor- from flinmau-bStrect Station to. West Twelfth-Strect Station, vice Jobn Bonfleld pro- mated, 1, Lieut. Willan Ward is bereby transferred frdéin the Third to the Secon Precinct, and WH! report to Ceul Simon O'Donnell for nasenment todnty nt Minman-Strect Station, vee August Dlettner transferred. I. Lieut. Sehael C. Callahan 33 hereby trans- ferred from West Chicayo-Awnue Stition to West Madivon-Street Station, and will bu 1s signed to duty, vico Willlnjs Ward transterred, 1. Lieut. Bod Steclo 1g: beroby transferred from West Like Street Station ta Wost Chileno Avenue Station, and wii! be assigned to duty in coinmund of West Chicago Avenue Biitlon, Vice Michuel C, Callahan transferred, 13, Acting-Licut. Edward J. Keatlog. of tho Central Station, having this day been uppuinted a Lloutenant of Police, is hereby transferred to the Third Previnot. und wil report to Capt, Fred. ervold for assignment to duty nt West Lako reet Stution, view E. J. Stecie, trausferred,, 14, Thomusy H. Currier, buving this day been appointed Lieutenant of Police, fs hereby ns-* signed to duty in charge of tho detective force at the Central Station.. fi. Sergt, Archibald Darrow 1s hereby trans ferred from the Second to the Third itrecinct, and will report to Capt. Frod. Ebersold for 1s- aignmunt to duty in ebarre of tho new station on | Mullen steauleyane Western nvanies 5 10. Bergt. John Rehm is herchy ‘transferred from the ‘Third to the Second Preeinet, and will report to Cupt Simon O'Donnell for assigument todaty at West Twelfth Street Stution, vice Arcbibald Darrow transferred, A 17. Patrolman Edmuml Hoche, of tho Think Precinct, baving this diy been appointed a Ser- eant of Police, is hereby asaljgned to duty at West Fake Lelbreus Station, vice John itehm transferi a 1%. Patrolman John’ Post, of’ tho Third Pre- cinct, having this day een appointed n Sore vant of Pollee, {8 hereby assigned to duty at Feat Mudleon Stroct Station. 1¥. Patrolman Daniel Dutty, of tho First Pro- oluct, busing this day been appolnted i Ser. geaatot Pollee, fs bereby assigned to duty at Yarrisan Strect Station. 20. Patrolman Chnrles J. Johnson, of tho Fourth Preeinct, having this dey been appointed oSergeant of Potice, is hereby nsalgned to duty at Chicago Avenue Station. 21 AIL Sergeants appointed and neairnod to duty at principal stations by virtue of thiz order shull perform such hours of duty as thelr ro- Bpoatlve Captalns may desiguate. 2 AIL persons promoted or transferred by virtue of thls order will be respected and obeyed in the Departinent according to the rank te whieh cach is promoted or assienend, "This order will take olfeet nt 7 o’clocts a. mi. Tith Inst. Wiitaan J. MCGANIGLE, General Superintendent of Polleo, RICE CORN IN KANSAS. SS. %. K, Primo’ Bird Story Laughed At-Tho Crop a Success In Western Kannsus, ‘Ty the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, TLannxen, Kas, Dee, .—T huve just rend the communication of Samuel T. K. rime, of Dwight, IL, in your issuo of tho vth .tnst. and um at loss todcculy whothor Mr, Primu is it earneat In what ho says, or whetbur he 33 am- Uitious to rival many of the bly stories that bave been gojug round tho papers In tho Inst few years In regard to eea-serpepts, ruts on Pike's Peak, ete, ate. Mr, Priine's retiable (7) correspondent In Stat- ford County has Just written him, that “tho Immense crop of rice corn, which equaled in extent the yalue of tho Indian corn erop, bad been caten up withit five daya by millions of small birds that hud suddenly swarmed down upon tho country and devoured tho grain.” Larned, trom which point tha lotter ts writ- ten, {s the railroad station nt which mpat of the residents of Staltord County do their business, Fariners are passing back and forward dally Dbotween Stafford County and this pont, yet this information In Ti: Trcmusy ta the test intima. ton we have bad of the destruction of tho entire rico corn crop of Kansas, and careful inquiry: fatlsto vorify the rumor, Wo have, therefore, come to the conclusion that it must bo a “Prime” joke, ‘Ta show how ridiculous the statement ty, upon reference to the third quarterly report of the Kansas State Hoard of uricultury, just publishod, we tind that the neveuge of Tndiin corn iit tho State ta 5400, neres, while the serene of rico corn ts but ha hi acres, it fy probably troo that rico corn bas hare ytuken the plitco of Indian corn in stat= ford County, but Julying from tho above Ngires iteertuhily Is not trun that the rico corn urop equals that ot Tndhin corn, tho kitest estimates compute the Indian corn crop of Kansas tn 1KSU at 100,000,000 bushels, and tho average ylold per acre of tho eastern hall of AU will equul that of tho Stato of Mllnols for thie ear—it the reports of tho ngricultural pross of tks latter State ure to be called npors Reganting tho rice corn, four-htths of the ene tlre crop Is now burvested and socured, Twenty. seven aud a half per cent of tho entire crop of rice corn i tho Btato fs grown dn thiy county,— Pawnee,—yet the crop has not been Inju: cy uirticlo hore fron birds, or in apy other Manner tat Lbave beard of, tia posuibie that a fow furmers havo boon negligent in regurd to harvesting thelr rivo corn, and that it is still atandlog In the felds, and it ia furthor possibly that a targe stock of birds have destroyod several small pitches of 1; buc tat the déatruction bas been widespread, or that tt ting oven extendodoutaldver the township, ls scarcely probable, For Uw laformation of Myr, Prima, would’ say that the yield of rice-onrn’ In 143 swill probably not uverige to exceod twonty Dughels perverse, Bo fur ns its adaptability toa dry climate and Ita nutritive qualities for stock feeding purposes aro concerned, it has entirely fied our most sanguine expectutions in regard to it, but it bas net syeniod our ideas Jn tho inattur of yield. It will, however, always bo o ‘valuable crop to our frontcr counties, We doubt not but that My, Prinie hia extend: od hospltalitics to partics who hyve been coms potted to return from tha woxteri frontier of angus On Hecount of tho very sovery drought that prevulled during last yor but it Prime will come here he will tind many: good Inols furmers who have no Intention whatover: of roturniog: be wilt atso dul that tho formers who wilt not return te Title nola, prefer, ta remain in Kann: aro the anes that Titnols would Wk Dest to come bak, And the ones that ha turned wre those that enn be best xpired from Kutsas, aud ara loust desired by Ulingls. ‘Pho }sirtlea who aro now returuing cumo bere with very Tittle monn, and vntiroly uutitted for plover Hife, At this distance west In the State, Our ploucers must buve capital, and when they como bore und invest it in cuttly wud sheop, to bo bandied on tha farm in connection with wheat raislag, aud Urogi-vosa pulse 5. erred to tho yo x : ing, and sugar cane, thoy can mike a ny Stafford Count: Western Katsas baa suttcred wade byte eae cont drought, now hnppiiy ended. Wa resources nny seneon, moruand better dist In any season since this country waa opened for fettlomen! is looking ing more neo tn the Nght of erttel on tho and, belleves what evidently perm raed Ltt It G Ruceess of H, ough reat, the rr ave hi buted rains this fall ‘ing in Consequence, our wheat cro} Her, and uur farmors nre now {cele over thelr prospects, and, thotr recent misfortunes, It seems art OF Mr. 11 perpetrite such a huge. tipon et the tenor of hia letter t to Ke pon them. From Prime undoubtedty Hiecaenmangent wroto him, but his anxloty to verify hi , 9 be ved tn enugration 4 FErity hla predictions in ‘ours tritly, W. ge AMERICA AND ENGLAND. A ‘Travolors Impremsions and Opinions —Contrants In Cittinte and Pooplo— Journcylng hy Italt—Tho Hom the ‘Two Countrioa, a Loxnon, Dee. tempted to set down a fewor tho romaining i Polnts of contrust between England and Amere Sitting calmly at my own Qrealte and counting up tho pictures T have seen, tho people I havo met, the ptensant things that are now only memorios, I ain Jen which Impress theineclyes on my mind, Lfind 80 tnuch tondmire In the {fo and mannorsof tho United Htitos that Iam fenrless in recagniz- ' ing anything that docs not commend Itself to my tasteorjJudginent, Thendvantayes poascasod by Amerlen over England that are. mantle fost at first sight are natural—a glorious’, tracts of country, aplen- Bky, ad enormous rivers, and . unbounded mineral and agricultural resources. IT never cvaso to're- member tho blue heavens of Amerien, tho ‘elco- tricity of tho ellmate; and yet tho othor. day, when my oyes rested on tho soft, misty ontlines of tho Welsh bitls, ns tho Arizona steamed for Liverpool, an instinet of rep i) and peace took possession of me, The gray clouds, the undoes Iined mountains, tho very mist that floated be- tween them and me, seemed restful; the effect Was ts good as a night's aleep. Arrived at Liv: erpoo), thhs gave place to one of disappoint ment, the ume kind of disappointment ono ex--~~ pericnces when arrivin Jontinent by the Grent E Jn London from we astern Iallway. RAILWAY TRAVELING. T tried to put myself In the plico of an Amer- Jean arriving in England for the Orst time, He hus come from Btreets, {ta clean-looking hotels, its with miles of wilted signs, its ight and Atres, jts attractive oystwwr-siloons and rants, und — its cars every etreet.. fils inemory is full New toy-tke York, with Its bright srosdway, sta travers- of bide ~ skies and fall tints, and In tholr place (tie month belug October or Novem ber) ho comes tw; streets bluckened with smoke, and. overheat & sky ug dirty ng the houses and us wet as the streata where tho ruin haa left pools hero and there in which to reflect the surroundin, ness. Fle tnds sume reficf, Aourtesy and submiesivencss o} ugii- rhups, io tho waiters at the hotel where be ents his dinner, but a senso of “tho lttiencss of things” strikes him as bo stridos upon tho plutform uni sees for tho first, thine an English rullway train. “Why, it looks. Uke the toys I used to play with when a boy tl”? exclaimed ‘nn American gentiemnn ns be and I stood watehing tt train go out of tho Midland, Dlutfurm, ‘The cnrringes were, uo doubt, tho sitine off matic, model from whieh’ the toys wore ‘he enormous driving-whecl on the engine surprised bim, and be would be more ATTy astonished aul by tho speed of the train which carricd him to St. Pancras; for ona portion of the Ine the Midtand expresd runs at aspecd of ; soventy miles an hour. My American friend - Went to bed in the Pullman cnr of the Midland, and Twas content with a iirst-clasa compart- saont ina bogie" carringe, so-called from {ts erican wheels. Tho Rogiish rallwi are better built, and tho ‘walting-roome trots better appointed than those of Amerien, though there « he ‘vo Chet e travellog in Znglang un th ania allway or the Now York Contral line to Ningura, On the whole, ono fecls a great - er sense of than onan lex lish ph " thi Engtish line, tho speed the currlages larger, nnd: tho construction non American railway boing muck of the whouls such us to nupt the cara to sharp vurves. Thore ire Englishmen who find trav- vllng in America far preferable to railway Jaurnesing iy the ubsence of the feu system. uirt, I prefer tu be waited upott, to havo and-bu carried, and to be generally wate! Engl land, on oecount of For my own my hed over by the railway guard and porter. Tho services they render you are usetul’ and plens- ~ aut, and are very cheap at a small gratuity,’ Compared with the haughty {ndopendence with which you oro trented by the servants ofa great American polmnay the Teed ollloers 0} lng and refreshing, which the ne; the Runt tho English lines Is con:fort- The .dogre eda and conelliutory courtesy of ves of heat: at rors’ nto per= mitted to maintatie tho utmoxpicre of tho Pulle “mag cares 382) era, aud Aincvlendd thi CH froin the want of ventilation in whlott the ‘darky ruvels, Tho “colored ly revetges bimsclf of his race travelers in the that, after a night’s so-catiod get up witb parebed Upa, achin: general deringument of thotr ubie to Ki OMeol ve nua tenvul- ofton 3aader-; fontlemnn rauilicicnt" for the past slavery yy torturing tho white Pullman cat Bho. spotudee. F. heads, and @ faculties, The colored oficial has kept thom all night iu a sul- fovating atmospheroof heated stoves and pipes that consiimes the oxygen without any means being taken for renew! nF it. But, though nos in ructiced to Buch excess abit of benting apartments of all kinds private houses, this and ex- eluding. the outer utr {so source of misery to Kuropean strangery in tha United States, and Inust be injurious to the health of the prcnits Hutter tur tho alry coldness of some Ruglish botusea than the aspbyxiuting beatof the ma<« Jority of American jomcs. INTENSITY OF AMBIMCAN LIFE. jo rule in America is restlesness. haps Sy Thi posit obtains iy England. ‘The oft country thorefore, most nttrictive to men and women who buve lived tholr ives In America. and wand rest. Tho intensity of life was peculiarly aj parent In perpetnally: HO. All tho town seomed to on tho rush,” ‘Thora is adraw~ ridge that crosses one of tho chief thorough- fares. Tho opens aud shuts, trai: Seoros dutained while: . 4% is of men leap. from tho cursand try to get over while it ia moving. Not that thoy roully facilitate their progress, for thoy huve to wilt for the cars to eroasy but the! must “get on," neglect” any opportunity of bolng vamnon, And this iiuet bo sald konoral ly for tha 0 ‘women, men of the United states, y it tang if avine dumon of mo- uon was behind everybody In Chicago, thore is such 8 peneral onward prilrie city, Butlet tt besaid tu thelr bonor that thoy uro never i too great a hurry to | stampedo in the groat - olite to Tholr natural gale lantry toward the sox, their considerution fur woman of very cinss und station, puts (o shame the most polished nutions of Europe. wornao may travel alone froin one end of the Btutes to anothur, and every mun seers pledged -to hor safety and comfort. ‘Tho fuct that suo is alone gives ber immunity from insult, In Lopdon a protty girk ora well-dressed worn cunnot wall aloug any leading thoroughfare without being insulted by word or loulc bulf a dozen times. The bur rudeness of mon towards women in omnlbusos and on niflways, and thelr lmpertinence to thom: in tho streets, ure a burniug dle which bonsts of Ita manhood aun ndvaneed clvitization. f Atnorien quite approviuto tho dat Pr acct which they roeciyy ut the hands of tole respect whic ice toa nation glorios in ite 1 don't thinis wonen feronoe and vanntrymen. Thoy ure too apt to accopt spes- elal courtesies us it right, No wondenmuny of them dislike Exgland, where mea too often give them merely an equality Dy thoupiight tholr own way tn nh crowded rail supa. or omnibus station without the slightoss , nowledginent of stronger sex, which 1s to be u Ma treatment of the weaker, Yot a uel of position, lotting way privil of. the ind nid gentle in pretty tho Aimerlean git] ence sald to mo: "2 ndinire an Engtish husband because ho docs not lot big wht fool bin a an. Americun busi aery ane Engilshoun; Dut wouldn't mi be nfrald of bint’ and Tabould RNQLIS} $ND AMENICAN HOMES, At present there fa no ovwparivou betwee: Tinglish and American bomea, A: murica bas-nt the houses, the survants, nor the inducements that belong to the bone tte of Eo ib wa houwe o' districts of Aimerten 18 4 poo! or villa. ‘This will be strikingly upparent to americans truvelin drat pluce, tho Euylish cotta wood tow through Grout nd, In the country i substitute for the tor the tirst Uritain, There tano ex- aupcuratlan of sentiment in the tributes which poots have “inyurlubly paid * to “tho cottnge = homes of | Engtand.” Tho humblest other supurior Densunt householder fo the country districts hua often g picturceque litte bome, with a flowerand kitcheu gurden, alto- f jo tho Amerivin ee one dees at outlying places along the railway routed, have n house of his own Is tho vbiof ainbitiog oC an Englishman, Bxvoptin London und other large cities, no young man dreaiws of uiarrying unl fe tad Fur bed take hls it is a most thing ta woe ont restaurant, house, und cau literally ivan inh lapse cities lnaceustomed dining out ut a “ Homo" medns tore in England than da Atmerten, and the home life of Nuw York bears no compurison to that of Londau, The lack of a thoroughly settled class of mich and wowon devoted tu dumeatic servica in Aterica hus much to do with this; go ilo, of course, have the heavy rents of good houses, ‘The arte " muna voltage’ and hi England are almost up f Aniurivn, Youtou, have more to ahow 1a tis direction an New. Yet with thoso advantu, York, England, 4 vort of feana at which i women where Tuligion, over, pocullarly diinking at ‘publia burs, woinen tho enuct! atreot tdiv-cliss house of mown fu the greet cities "hitadulphia and Chicago a 1 vé On the wlde of My of, . we extlult to Amore, comer. & sight sad and loathsome with babies ja thelrarms tale in ut all Bours uf the day, women often rooting: nto tho streets | inn state ot drunkenness, There ja no dueper |, | tilts Of tho jnoral cseiticheon Of Great Uritaly hon thls: MIbHG scandal, excopt it be the open wnd shumeluss salleitation by u crowd of rast le tiites in the West nd streets from dusk tl jong atter mnidiwight of every: day that comps, would seem ae if the highest virtues and thy”; lowest vices traveled wlong side 0; English metropolls, Poverty anc to taco and oxlut closer tar hory -oltener face It y gle th the ot wenlth “mMces getber thu lu sy motropolis the world ps yer been, ‘Tima was whon now u Lottlo of thou, Boop had to suffer withoald; : rs ull's Cough .tycup ousee :