Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1880, Page 13

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: ‘SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1880—SIXTEE PAGES, REAL ESTATE. Bright Prospects of the Chicago Real-Estate Market. 3 gales of Business and Residence property Last Week. gore Property Beginning to Stir South, West, and North. posed Revival of the Chicago & bia Evanston Railroad. Possible Change in the Grand Tronk Route Real-Estate Values in New York. ‘Though the past week was broken into by fhe holidays, it was by no means an idle one realestate circles. Agents have been sy, and some important negotiations have ‘concluded as reported below. The en- rs ents to invest in real estate never ” feemed greater than at present. There is a SING DEMAND FOR ACCOMMODATIONS. ‘Yr. Henry Strong, who has broken ground forone of his new stores on Fifth avenue, Monroe, has already received a dozen “gpplications for it, and is assured that he qan rent it ata price that will pay him an in- rome of 9 or 10 per cent net. Architects are pay drawing plans for new buildings. Ev- eything points to an unsually active and us spring for real estate. ‘Mr. George Sturres has sold to Mr. John Borden for $100,000 his store on Monroe greet, 0 feet west of Clark, on the south side of the street, with lot 90198, £A. Cummings & Co. have sold for $18,500 to S. P. Parmly, of Parnuy Bros., the lot gmated on the northwest corner, of Des- ies and Lake streets, 60 fect fronting on lakeand 140 feet on Desplaines. It was povebt in 1843 from the Canal Trustees by old Mr. Davlin, who has owned it ever since. Itwas never transferred, never mortgaged, never sold for taxts. Mrs. Davlin has lived onand occupied the place ever since the pur- chase, and has all the original tax-receipts for thirty-seven years, every paving and water-tax Dill having been paid at maturity. §. HL Watriss has purchased for Chicago ies of Jobn Jeffries & Son, of Boston, sores Nos. 15 and 17 East Randolph street, for $55,000, and has sold eighty-five acres of Jend near South Chicago for $51,120. Mr. Henry Strong has sold his house on fhe northwest corner of Prairie avenue and Eighteenth street for $25,000. The lot has a frontage of twenty-seven feet on Prairie avenue. On Wabash avenue, between Fifty-second ani Fifty-third streets, 132 feet on each side of the ayenue and 133 feet on State street, 396 feet in all, have been sotd for $12,000, ‘Messra. Mason & Mitchell have sold to the Lake Shore Foundry two blocks, Nos. 73 and 10, in the Town of Cornell (or Grand Cross- fnz),on South Chicago avenue, near Stony Island boulevard, for $5,000 cash. This torporation will immediately build a foundry for castings which will give employment to men. ACBE PROPERTY fs beginning to stir in different quarters. The long dormant region north of this city, m the Lake Shore, above Lake View, ex- ibits signs of life. Several negotiations of importance are on foot in this region. Land here has lain utterly neglected for years on account of the fatal deficiences of transpor- tation. Suburban development has followed tlosely along the line of the Chicago & Northwestern Road, and the thousands of acres which le along the lake, between Ual- vary Cemetery and the city limits, are, ex- cept at Lake View, but little more in use than they were # TWENTY YEARS AGO, What this region needs is transportation. This wilt soon be furnished by the North- western Road oranother corporation. There is a chartered company which holds a fran- thise for the construction of the needed rail- toad. Thisis the Chicago & Evanston Rail- read, whose terminals are indicated by its fitle.. Few people are aware that this Com- pany has the RIGHT OF WAY INTO THE CITY. When the Chicago & Pacific was seeking mentrance into the city it was granted by the Common Council on condition that it should be shared with the Chicago & Evanston. This vested right in the Chicago & Pacitic mght of way the Chicago & Evanston still has. lischarter permits it to enter the city at Southport avenue, down which it runs to Hawthorne avenue, where it would meet the tracks of the Chicago & Pacific, now owned bythe St. Paul. Down Hawthorne avenue the ronte proceeds to Chicago avenue, and from thence could be extended by purchase as far into the city as was desired. THIS VALUABLE PRIVILEGE Will, no doubt, soon be made use of It is being canvassed among the possibilities that, after yeaching Evanston, the Chicago & Evanston may strike northwest towards Fox Lake, so ‘Imnging into communication with the city a Populous district clamorous for such fa- dlities, - Acre property SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY Emits is being fealt in generally in large Docks. Attention has frequently been called % the subdivisions near the Stock-Yards. Herealarge population are finding homes. In Stone & Whitney’s Subdivision, east of Ashland avenue, between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth stroets, upwards of sixty acres have been bought and sold during the past Yearby Mr. J. E. Burchell, Most of the pur- were made at $600 to $700 an acre. ‘The prices realized have ranged from $600 to $3,000 an acre, and the property sold for $800 ‘Was resold for $1,200. Other operators have equally successful in subdivisions in this vicinity. Mr. Burchell is now making €ttensive purchases near Brighton and on inst street. Altogether 275 acres have been bought. ¥ An important change is in contemplation inthe route by which | * . od THE GRAND TRUNK Willapproach the city. Negotiations have opened {pr a route along Fifty-first « Sheet, crossing’ the Western avenue boule- ‘ard, turning at Halsted street, and running fnwith the Wabash and Western Indiana Mong Stewart avenue to Twelfth street. The teht of way has been secured fora large Bart of this line. One obstacle'in the way is ‘Se objection of the Park Commissioners to Wing tracks to be laid over the Western avenue boulevard AT FIFTY-FMST STREET. Bukit is believed this difficulty can be over- qe as the Commissioners have allowed the ‘abash to make a similar crossing, ‘The re- Salt of this proposed change will be that the Snnd Tronk will come over Fifty-first Street instead of Sixty-third. Efforts are be- made to transfer the Grand Trunk round- use, car-shops, etc., from their present po- ‘i atthe corner of Johnson and Egan venues down to Fifty-first street. provements are being made AT BRIGHTON. nue boulevard, between Fort¥-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, for $1,590 an acre. IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK Were 49x100 feet, improved, on Cass, south of Erle, $18,000; 67x188}4, unimproved, on Prairie avenue, south of Eighteenth street, $35,000; 55x11434, on Fifth avenue, northeast corner of Quincy, $80,000; 25x10), improved, on Huron, east of Dearborn avenue, $6,600; 389x100, on Indiana, west of North State, $6,600; 5 acres on Ashland avenue, northeast corner of George, $8,000; 200x150 on Wash- ington avenue, east of Fifty-sixth, $5,000; 20 x90, op Market street, south of Madison, $8,000 291/x40, improved, on Peck court, west of Wabash avenue, $13,000; 181/x00, on Chicago avenue, west of Rush, improved, $6,250; 25x170. improved, on West Washing- ton, west of Ada, $13,500; 415-100 acres on ‘Thirty-fifth street, northwest corner of Ash- Jand avenue, $10,000; 20x180, on Randolph street, east of Market, $6,500; 125x150, on Jefferson strect, south of Chestnut, $5,500; 25171 on Michigan avenue, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth, $5,625; 35x171_ on Michigan avenue, near the above, $7,875; 50x 150 on Oak avenue, west of Vincennes, $6,- 500; 233¢x10414, improved, on West Monroe, east of Wood, $6,000; 334 North State, $10,- 000; 261x1643¢ on South Park avenue, north- east corner of Thirty-fifth, $26,400, ‘The bill for the sale of THE LAK" FRONT property to the railroads is in Washington, and has been reported to both the House and Senate. ‘There will probably be no objection to the bill. It amounts to a quit-claim from the United States to the property dedicated to public use, so far as the Lake Park is con- cerned, and authorizes the City of Chicago to convey the same for a railway-passenger depot, providing that nothing contained in the bill shal! deprive owners of contiguous lots of any of their righis to compensation, on account of the change of use, that they previously had. If the railroads get the land they will begin to build carly in the spring. BUT FEW BUILDING PERMITS were issued last‘week. Among them were those to the Peek estate, for restoring build- ing at 45 and 47 Wabash avenue, ata cost of $25,000; C. W. Lasher, for six two-story dwellings on the northeast corner of Web- ster avenue and Sedgwick street; J. B. Weeks, improvements ut the southwest cor- ner of Taylor street and Western gvenue, te cost $3,000; H. J. Storms, two two-story dwellings corner of Fulton and Maplewood, to cost $2,600; Roger_Piant, five-story store near the corner of Fifth avenue and Monroe street, to cost $25,000. Mr. Robert D. Fowler, of Fowler Bros., packers, will erect on his recent purchase of 414 lots near Forty-seventh street and Ash- Jand avenue, dwellings for the packing-house employés. These number 700. By the close of winter 500 model dwellings will be erected AT PULLMAN. ‘They will be rented to the Pullman employés at $10 a month. Among other enterprises to be undertaken in the spring is some extensive house-build- me AT RAVENSWOOD, on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. This place lies on the Jake shore, a few miles north of the city liuiits, and small houses rent readily. ‘The steel works at SOUTM CHICAGO will probably be finished by February. The improvements going on in the harbor will enable vessels ot the largest draught to en- ter and unload. Adjoining the harbor is the stock yard for the deposit of ore. The blast furnaces, four in number, are heated by fourteen Whitwell’s patent stoves. The lutter are nearly ready, and are said to be the largest in America. The blast chimney is 195 feet high by twelve and one-half feet in dlameter. Be- sides these buildings there are four casting- houses, each 124x59 feet, and another build- ing 36x95 feet for stock. The boiler-house, 250x98 feet, will contain seventy-two boilers, each 35x4 fect. The raijmill lacks only the roof of being finished, id, when completed, it willbe the largest in the world. Other enterprises are looking for sites in this vicin- ity, and one of the calculations of the future is that the Rock Island elevators will be es- tablished here. It will be necessary that their receipts be made a regular delivery be- fore they can placed outside the city limits. Following Is a summary of the loan trans- actions for the past six days: Previous week. Xombers of new houses have been built to i mmodate the employés of the munu- turing establishments in the vicinity. A ne BE oot house has. been built at the cor- nue at ear and Blanchard ave- 20 to S100 000. Lots are retailing at The Alton Railroad Company are enlarg- aie car-shops, between Egan and Kin- Hebbal and Thirty-seventh and Thirty- sin eee to accommodate forty-five new Tea acres haye been sold on Western ave- No.| Amount, Mortgages .... 331 53.000 Trust-deeds .. a)” sbmo28 Totals reols 474,005]| ints 927.418 Te 187... “2] “eei" _stujooa]| “80)"” eee The Pest-House and the Bridewell stand in the way of the boulevard needed to con- nect DOUGLAS PARK WITH THE SOUTH PARKS. ‘The best.route open to the Commissioners passes west of these buildings, but still too nearto be pleasant. It is hoped the city will remove the Pest-House. The Bridewell, of course, is permanent. Several new routes passing to the east of the buildings have been suggested, and will soon be considered by the Commissioners. A petition to the Common Council is in cir- culation among the owners of property front- ing on Centre avenug, between Fourteenth and Twenty-second streets, and residents thereon, requesting a sufficient appropriation to construct a viaduct over the railroad-tracks of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Northwestern railroads on Centre avenue, from Rebecca to Sixteenth streets. The Chicago City Railway Company are making arrangements to put down an ex- perimental section of TUR CABLE LINE now used in San Francisco formotive power to see how it will stand the test of a Chicago winter. Cincinnati, too, is moving*in the same direction, and will have a cable line in operation as soonas the necessary permission can be obtained from the Common Council. Mr. Casebolt, the inventor of the cable sys- tem, is in Chicago to superintend the pro- posed construction. He sees no difficulties about the two points as to which question has been raised (1) whether the cable would work round 4 curve, and (2) whether the trench in which. the cable is laid would not fill up with snow and ice and prevent the runningof the cars. With the cable one man and an engine can do the work of 300 horses. In San Francisco it is 2stimated that the ca- ble roads yield 83 to 6¢ per cent greater profit than the horse roads. There are six cable roads in operation in San Francisco, and the three horse roads will adopt the system in the spring. The cables have been In use there four or five years, and their utility and economy have been demonstrated, REAL-ESTATE VALUES IN NEW YORK is the subject of an interesting editorial in the New York Times. The daily lengthen- ing lists of recorded real-estate transfers give but a feeble idea of the increased activity in New York City real estate. The past few weeks have the liveliest experienced in the market for'many years past, both as to the amounts involved and the number and variety of the transactions. The most grat- ifying feature of the movement is its sound and healthy character. Hoase$ are bought to be used by the buyers as permanent homes, and lots are purchased by builders for imme- diate improvement: Seventy-second street will be all alive with building operations during the present winter and coming spring. Though none of those transactions have as yet been recorded in the real-estate transfers, theyare well known in up-town real-estate circles, and unimproved Teal estate in this street and in this immediate vicinity HAS SUDDENLY ADVANCED IY VALUE from 20 to25 per cent. Edward Tracy and another, who on the 6th of August last took litle to the block between Seventy-first and Seventy-second streets. Madison and Fourth avenues, have, during the last few weeks, as we understand, sold, for improvement, four lots on the south side of Seventy-second street, commencing 100 feet west of Fourth avenue, at a protit of very nearly 50 per cent on the price paid four inonths ago. They paid $190,000 for thirty-two lots, and sold, as We understand, four of them at $18,000 each, There are at this time OVER A THOUSAND NEW BUILDINGS, chiefly dwellings, in conrse of construction in the upper wards of New York, east of Fourth avenue. In the region between Fourth and Fifth avenues, north of Sixty-fourth street, buildings of a finer sort are going up in every direction, Mr. John Sloane has recently bought a plot of land, 35 by 175, on the east ide of Fifth avenue, on which he intends uilding a dwelling for hisown occupancy at a cost of $100,000, Ar. Robert L. Stuart, who still owns the greater part of the block be- tween Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth streets, Fifth and Madison avenues, has excavated a piece ot land, 100 by 125, on the northeast cor- ner of Fitth avenue and Sixty-eizhth street, It is said that on this site he intends building a “palatial residence,” the like of which has not yet been secn on Fifth avenue above Fifty-seventh street. : Nearly ajl the houses in course of egnstrue- tion on Fifth avenue are being built by wealthy men for their ownoccupancy. Fifth avenue lots are too high for THE PURPOSES OF SPECULATIVE BUILDERS, who operate chiefly on ‘Madison avenue and the side streets adjacent thereto. Mudison avenue plots below Seventy-ninth street are much sought after by speculative builders, ‘The most recent sale on this avenue is that of a plot of land, 100x985, on the southwest corner of Madison avenue and Sixty-second street, to J. E. Doying, for about $97,000, Mr. Doying has built a great many houses in this neighborhood. He proposes to erect a first- class apartment-house on his newly-acquired. Jand. Another well-known up-town builder, W. Croft, has just purchased, for 355,000, a plot of land 100x100, on the northeast eorner of Fourth avenue and Seventieth street. The same plot was not very long ago suld for $50,000. There are probably but few instances where real-estate transactions could be ef- fected to-day at anything like the prices which would have been accepted six months ago. “ An examination of these prices is convinc- ing that Chicago real-estate values, after making all allowances for difference of pop- ulation, wealth, and age, are too much be- low New York values. THE FOLLOWING 18 A CALENDAR OF CITY CONDEMNATION AND ASSESSMENT CASES to be tried in the Superior Court at the January term. The cases will be called in the same order as in the lst below, as near as maybe. ‘The call will probably conunence on the first day of the term, Jan. 3, 1881. This calendar will be called by either Judge Gary or Judge Smith, and as soon this is definitly determined notice will be given through the papers and in the Law Bulletin. Per- sons desiring further information can obtain it by calling at the special assessment office, Room 4, City-Hall, between 9 and 11 a. m. each day during the week: No, 72,216. City vs. Sheridan et al; extension of West Indiana stréet from Western aveuue to Grand avenue. West No. 75,400. City vs. Marsh et al.; open; ‘Twenty-first street from Union street to Jeffer- No. 72,209. ae vs. Workman et al.; opening analley from Oakley street to Western avenue, between Pack avenue and West Lake strect. No. 76,4. City vs. Rives et al.; opening or ex- tending North Morgan street through to 3iil- wankee avenue. No. 75,408, City vg. Kellogg et al.: opening Ver- non avenue from Thirty-seventh street to Egan avenu . City vs. Hottinger et al.; widening Sullivan, street from Sedgwick street to Huribut stree! ‘No. 75.403. City vs. Uaknown Owners, etc.; ex- tending Vernon avenue through Lot 6 of Asses- sore Division of unsubdivided lands in See. 2%, No. 74.697. City vs. Unknown Owners, etc.; opening Vernon avenue from north line of H. Grave's Subdivision in N. E. } Sec. 34, 39, 14 to ‘Thirty-first strect. No. 15,404. City v8. Binkowsky et al.; opening Fry street from Noble street to Rose street. No. 72.245. City vs. De Wolf et al.: opening a street from north line of Lot 11, Block 3, Ellis’ West Addition, to Egun avenue, to be culled Aldine street. No. 75,407. City vs. Walker; extending Nutt court through to West Twentieth street, ‘No. 75.405. City vs. Unknown Owners: opening alley east of Uliman street. from Springer ave- nue to south line of Block 7, ete. 'No. "5,63. City vs. Lincoln et al; widening Thirty-third street from Forest avenue to South Park avenue. No. 73,971._ City vs. Green et al.; opening Fisk street from Lumber street to the South Branch of the Chicago River. ‘No. 73,180. City vs. Willing et al.; opening and widening Thirty-seventh strect from west ne Lot 8, etc., to Grand boulvard. No. 7, City vs, Butler et al.: widening north Halsted street from West Kinzle street to Hubbard street. No. 75,29. City vs. Unknown Owners; extend- ing Groveland Park avenue to Twenty-eighth street. No. 63,760, City vs. Morgan; assessment bene- fits opening Artesian avenue through to West Lake street. No. 63,767. City vs Morgan:jassessment benefits opening Seymour s-trect through to West Luke fits opening Maplewood avenue through to West Lake strect. No. 43,417. City vs. Williams; assessment bene- fits opening Wushtenaw avenue through to West Lake street. No. 52,408. City ys. Speara et al.; assessment benefits opening Irving avenue through to West Monroe street. No. 49,366. City vs. Hubbard et al.; opening an alley from Efg:.teenth street through Block 5, Assessor's Division, S. W. +4 Sec. 22, wv, 14. No. 55,931. City vs. Witdmun et al.; widening Forest avenue from Douglas avenue to Egan avenue. No. 55,983. City vs. Joliet & Chicago Railroad Company et al; opening Logua street from its present eouthern terminus to Archer avenue. No. 58.160. City va. Letler et al.; opening a street from Thirty-eighth street to Egan avenue between Langley street and Cottago Grove ave- nue. No. 77,503. City va. Lewis B. Brasher; opening Idaho street from its present southern terminus to West Taylor street. No. 77,504. City vs. John Kinsella; condemna- tion of land for construction of a sewer from erence avenue to South Branch of Chicago ver, No. 77,505. City vs. Fuller_et al.; extending Ru Bie street through to West Twenty-first Btree! No.'77.08. City vs. Leach et al.; widening El- len street from Wood street to Lincoln street. No. 77,507. City vs. Dana etal.; opening Hin- man street from Hoyne avenue to Leavittstreet, No. 77,508. City vs. Potwin ct al; widening California avenue from West Madison street to Warren avenue. No, 77,547. City vs. Bromley et al.; opening an alley through a part of Block 59, Sec. 7, 3, 14, No. 77,448. City vs. Turner et al.: opening West Quiacy sirect of the width of sixty-six feet from its western terminus to Halsted street. ————$—____ AT THE BALL, For The Chicago Tribune, ‘There's a pause in the dance, ‘Phere’s a bush in the room, And each heart loudly pants ‘With the presage of gloom; “And the hurrying footsteps are hushed, ‘And ceased is the barper’s loud tune, ‘Thro’ the scent-laden air, "Mid the whispers tbat Hy, Comes a half-issued prayer, And a shrick, and a cry, Till thrilled are the souls of the listeners, And euch breath is the breatn of a sigh, Lies a form on the floor ‘That a moment ago, ‘With a heart full of bope, Lightly tripped to and trot But her lips are as pale 28 the tilles, And her forehead is cold as the snow. Now the music has gone, And the dancing is done, And the mansion’s great lights Go out one by ont; And nothing is heard save the sobbing O'er the fair one whose revels are done. Carcaco. A.B. oe A Fantastic Pair. ‘The Figaro states that two phenomenal speci- mens of humanity are now in Paris; one is a giant and the other a dwarf. Thegiant, named Nicolai, seven feet tive inches high, isa young Russian, of 24, who served in the bodyguard of the Emperor of Hussia during the Turkish campaign. Heis one of 170 men who forced a passage across the Danube, near Semnitzu, on tho 15th of June, 1877, and was rewarded with the Saint George medal for his bravery, During’ the war, many of his companions fell around hita, while be escaped unburt, and as some pco- ple expressed their astonishment at the fact, “Tris very simple,” he, sai “all the shots passed between ny legs." Nicolai Simonoff be- n to grow’ 80 enormously only while he was about twenty; until 18 he was of ordinary stat- ure. He married before joining the military service, and vn his return his wife, much aston- fshed to see 4 giant enter ber house as ber bus- band, refused to recognize him, Princess’ Paulina, the dwarf, is Dutch; she mensures only one. foot two inches. ‘The giaut bolds her on Bis stretched out palm. The com- Dinution of the two recails to mind the fantas- tic story of Gulliver. Bad dreams, disturbed sleep. indigestion, stomach was, all vanish before Hop Bitters. 08. City ve. Morgan; assessment bene- | DEATH. — Distinctions Between Real and Apparent Death. Infallible Indications, and Indica- tions That Are Not Infal- lible. Different Availahle Measures—The Res- piratory, Innervation, and Cirs culatory Tests. By Dr. Tilltam Fraser, A satisfactory definition of life should ex- press conditions involved in every phase of vital development, but never identified with any mode of inanimate existence. Trans- mutation represents one such fundamental distinction between animate and inanimate objects; for, although some inorganic com- binations nossess a degree of permutability consistent with substantial integrity, this in particular cases is always uniform in character and limited in extent. Ice, for example, may become — succes- sively changed into the liquid ana gaseous stats without chemical decomposi- tioh; but there is an intrinsic limit to such permutation, for under simMarcircumstances of pressure, at an unalterably fixed eleva- tion of temperature, it invarlably becomes resolyed into simpler constituents. There are apparently no such inherent re- strictions to organic transmutations, which may be perpetuated indefinitly, under appro- priate supplementary conditions, without perceptible intrinsic exhaustion. Yet organ- isms are never sufficiently independent to spontaneously evolve such progressive re- sults, but require the constant accession of extrinsic energy to develop their included potentialities. ‘Thesun isthe physical source of extraneous energy for every species of vital change oc- curring on the earth’s surface, as through the immediate agency of its rays vegetables are enabled to abstract from the surrounding medium those elements adapted to their special needs; and, although animals cannot thus directly appropriate solar energy, yet they are enabled to utilize it by the assimila- tion of certain of these vegetable products which it has previously served to elaborate. Asall the progressive transmutations which indispensably constitute individual life are dependent on the constant incretion of mate- rialenergy, integration isalso a universal con- comitant of vitality, so that for practical purposes life may be provisionally defined as the . CONTINUOUS TXDIVIDUAL INTEGRATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF MATERIAL ENE! ‘While these two correlated processes per- tain to every variety of life, the physiological expedients by which their respective activi- ties are sustained must varyIn conformity with the specific requirements of different structures, A simple unit of protoplasm effects all its vital purposes through direct interchange with its environment, without the neeessity of any intermediate provision. But, in higher organisins, life is indissolubly associated with certain avcessory processes, and, in these cases, though the molecular interactions on which its essential attributes immediately depend are directly impercepti- ble, yet it is possible to prove its existence or non-existence by sensibly demonstrating the presence or absence of these its inseparable concomitants. Man with his powers unimpaired mani- fests his vitality in unmistakable terms, but conditions not incompatible with resuscita- tion may occur wherein all his functions are sc reduced as to be directly impercepti- ble. In such eases. to prevent premature burial, it is important to discover some sign absolutely diagnostic of real or apparent death. An essential characteristic of living bodies is their power of actively maintaining a de- gree of varying integrity of constitution in opposition to destructive influences. This requires the incorporation of extraneous ma- terials and theirconversion into definit spe- citic structures, and always involves the iim- mediate apposition of ingredients, as well as a reciprocal state of the parts to be nourished. Although such intimate re- eiprocation of living structures and nutrient materials must always exist, the means whereby it is effected varies exceedingly in different instances. In tho lower order of beings it is accomplished very simply, the medium which they inhabit offer- ing directly the requisit pabulum, which their own condition enables them to assimi- late without any preparatory elaboration. in more complex. organisins a definit corre- lation of parts is necessary to elaborate the crude materials of food, as well as to bri them into immediate relation with the varl- ous tissues. In some simple forms vital action may be suspended _indefinitly by desiccation, being restorable by moist- ure; an even in some _ higher cold-blooded animals a state of temporary negation may be induced by congelation, the yitul powers returning concurrently with the absorption of heat. IN MAN IT 18 QUITE DIFFERENT: the animal functions may be suspended, and even some of the organic processes inter- rupted, without extinguishing life; but there are certain of his functions the cessation of which for a limited period must inevitably cause death. i .As_to their vital significance, man’s functions imay be classified into es- sential and supplemental,—the | for- mer ineluding such as cannot be discontinued beyond a brief interval without fatal consequences; the latter such as may be suspended or even destroyed without in- volving general dissolution. Thus, although sight is important to comfort, it may be lost without affecting vitality; the hepatic func- tion may be vicarivusly performed; even the renal secretion may be suspended for a considerable period beyond death; but the complete cessation of any of the essential functions of circulation, innervation, or res- piration must be speedily fullowed by such & result. By the circulatory forces, a constant flow of blood is directed to and from all the parts; by the nervous system, an alternat- ing effect is produced on the tissue-elements, whereby at one time . they assimi- late, at another disintegrate; by the respiratory apparatus, certain of the result- ant products are incessantly eliminated. These three complenental functions are so interdependent that the complete interrup- tion of either necessarily: jJeads to arrestment of all, and consequent death. Human blood is of a highly complex nature, as through it the textures receive ail the materials adequate. to their continued maintenance and repair.’ Its chemical com- position is never definit, varying in different individuals, and in the same individual on different occasions. The relative uniform- ity, however, of some of its physical char- actersis indispensable: to its vital efliciency. It is semi-solid, containing innumerable white and red corpuscles.—the latter consti- tuting nearly one halt its mass. The abso- lute number of these corresponds with the degree ot general fealty 3 eee decal agere- gation fluctuates with varying contingencies. This fluid is the seat of TWO DISTINCT MODES OF MOTION,— asensible circulation through the heart ana vessels, and a subtiler interchange with tissue-clements. Several causes conspire toward its circulatory mass-motion, the heart’s motion being asine qua non. The molecular motions being invisible, an expla- nation of their modus operandi must be part- ly_hypothetical, There are, however, cer- tain associated phenomena admitting of di- rect observation under certain circumstances which serve to throw light on the physico- yital relations of the blood. Thus, besides its general distribution, it 1s subject to local variations in the total quantity ot its mass, and in the relative proportion of its yarious constituents. As there are means of artificially exciting preternatural activity of the circulation to a recognizable extent, in parts open to observation, during the mini- mum degree of vitality, such a ibility affords a reliable method of infallibly decid- ing in any particular case as to the existence or non-existence of this vital process. Tissues are divisible into vascular and non- vascular, according to the mode and extent of their nutritive supply. The latter, being destitute of capillaries, receive their nour- Jishment from the neighboring vessels by endosmosis, The former are pervaded b those minute vessels, which ndmit red cone pusclesin a lesser or greater number, ac- cording to the desree of functional exalta- tion. The cutis vera being a supertictal vas- cular tissue, the excessive accumulation of red corpuscles in its capillaries is readily perceived by the consequent floridity of sur- face. Such sensible reaction to direct irrita- tion implies the concurrence of several de- terminate acts in the structures directly in- volved, as well as the codperation ef more remote parts. Thus the tissue elements Thust possess a responsive power to become exalted in function; and, to solicit a surplus of blood-ingredients, they must also contain a continuity with the presiding nerve- centre, whereby tho peripheral impression may be centripetally transmitted along the aiferent nerve to this point, thence reflected along the vaso-motor nerve, causing relaxation of the arteriolar muscles, enlargement of calibre, anda freer flow ‘of blood into the part. Cardiac contractions are also necessary to propel the corpuscles into the capillaries, is ae attraction of the Hesne dlements for jodies can - sible distances. pie sited atin ‘an’s structure conceals the chan, which occur within the minuteblood-vessels, but some animals admit THE EXAMINATION OF THE INTERIOR PROC- -ESSES which accompany and conduce to the external manifestations of capillary congestion. serving the circulation in the web of a frog’s foot under the mictoseope, fluctuations in its current are noticed independent of the heart’s action. ‘The cdrpuscles, perhaps fowing uni- formly at first, may slacken their speed, then oscillate, or even retrograde. Apply an irritant to the part, the flow soon increases, and a: greater number of red cor- puscles” pass through in a given time; they also show a tendency to cohere as well as to adnere to the walls of the vessels, which may proceed so far as tu choke up their calibre and prevent the trans- mission of blood. As the effect passes off, the corpuscles gradually separate, move on, and at length’ the circulation resumes its normal state. Such investigation explains the nature of the changes which occur in the capillaries of the human skin under artificial stimulation, | Heat, which ig the most potent and avalla- ble form of irritant, when applicd to the skin so as to considerably elevate Its temper- ature above the normal point, causes first an efflorescence of surface, deeper at the cen- tre, and shadin; off —_graduall: toward the circumference. This red. hess can be temporarily displaced, leaving a white impression, which disappears on re- moyal of the pressure, the part resuming its foridity: with a rapidity commensurate with the activity of the capillary circulation. By increasing the heat or prolonging its action the color becomes more distinct, till at the point of greatest Intensity the cuticle be- comes detached from its subjacent cutis by the gradual exudation and aceummiation of a fluid which thus forms a true vesicle. A spurious vesicle may be similarly produced onthe dead subject; but such’ is a purely physical aud local effect, entirely different from the more comprehensive action and characters of the physivlogical process. in post-mortem vesication the contents are generally“ gaseous from - decomposi- tion; and even if fluid, from infiltration in an oedematous or dependent part, this is always serum, unlike the vital fibrino- albuminous solution coagulable by heat, The pathognomonic distinction, however, -is the DIFFERENCE PRESENTED BY THE UNDER- LYING CUTIS on remo the loosely adherent cuticle. This, after death, has an unalterable yellow- ish-white, crisp, horny appearance, in ob- vious contrast to the efflorescence of vital act- ive congestion, which can be repeatedly dis- placed and renewed by recurrent pressure. Although circulation is a vital necessit; the chemical products of¢its activity onid of themselves speedily destroy life except for the concurrent exercise of the respiratory and other functions. ‘Tissues, such as the nervo-muscular, which perform some specific action, may be classed as active in contrast to passive, such as the osseo-fibrous, which merely subserve some mechanical office. When the ultimate parti- cles of passive tissues are fully developed, they remain in that state for a longer or shorter period, and then gradually decay, Active tissues, during their development, ap- propriate a store of energy which, at maturi- ty, they are capable of instantly expending in manifestation of their ‘special pow- ers. Such exertions are inevitably at- tended by degradative transformations of their material elements. | Cardiac movements and their associated vital codrdinations involve the expenditure of nervo-muscular energy, and consequent production of simpler compounds, such as carbonic acid, the undue retention of which in the blood would cause certain death. Such a fatal contingency is prevented by the cir- ewlatory forces propelling the carbonized blood into the pulmonary capillaries, where aninterchange with the’ oxygen of the air takes place through the intervening mem- brane till the vesicles become surcharged with carbonic acid, which is then expelled by the expiratory torces through the anterior oben- . ines of the air-passages, where its detention is evidence of vitality, while its utter ab- sence under adequate tests is undeniable proof of the opposit condition. For, though certain cold-blooded animals can exhale a sufficient quantity of this product through their skin to permit a reduced vitality, inman such a cutaneous transpirationis exceedingly minute and altogether inadequate to the maintenance of life, and itmay continue even after death as a merely physical property of tissue. INNERVATION is blended with and controls all tho vital Operations, being conspicuqusly implicated with muscular contraction,—an act primarily concerned in the various movements of res- piration and circulation, The frequently-re- peated transmission of intense electric cur- rents is the most powerful stimulus of con- tractility; and, when such a measure fails to excite contraction in muscles essential to life, death must have occurred. When rigidity and putrefaction are actually established, they may be accepted as infalli- Die post-mortem indications. The former stave arises from the muscles and other soft tissues becoming so stiffened as to resist flection of the joints,—the muscles of the lower jaw and neck being generally first involved, those of the lower extremit last. It might probably be confounded with stiffening from extreme cold or spasins; but frozen limbs vield a creaking noise when forcibly flexed, from breakage of the con- genled moisture, and spasmodic contraction Tesumes its morbid position on removal of ene forrecting force. Not so post-mortem rigidity. Putrefaction succeeds rigidity as a bluish- green tint of skin, commencing usually on the lower part of the abdomen and spreading over the body. Similar gangrenous appear- ances may occur during life; but, besides their more circumscribed ex- tent, the invariable. presence of a8 line of displaceable redness at the confines of the living tissues is a constant and charac- teristic distinction, ‘The desideratum, however, is SOME INFALLIBLE PROOF OF DEATH whereby this state can at once be decided without waiting for the more tardy super- vention of these positively post-mortem phe- nomena, * Neither the cadaveric aspect nor coldness and lividity of service are constant or unc- quivocal signs. ‘The cessation of the heart’s action beyond five minutes is undoubted evi- dence; but {t fs impossible to acoustically determine this with absolute certainty, even when aided by the stethoscope, as the sense of hearing may be fallacious in selicae ease Neither a ee dae reeptibility 0! ie respirator c hrents ‘of the chest perfectly decisive. Con- clusions from experiments on the eyes, by trying to excite the pupillary muscles by physiological agents, or by examing the fnndus with the ophthalmoscope so as to ob- serve certain changes supposed to be essen- tially post mortem, are invalidated by the comparative unimportance of these organs to general vitality, The same uncertainty holds as to the effects produced by tightly ligaturing a limb, as there might be complete occlusion of its vessels, and consequent ar- rest of its circulation, without necessarily fatal results. The changes induced iu a pol- ished needle inserted deeply into the livin; tissues may be closely simulated by non-vita! causes. Circumstances might also obscure the difference between ihe contents of ‘vital a post-mortem vesication. atthe possibility of absolutely deciding; in doubtful cases, as to the presence or absence of vitality depends on the possession of arti- ficial means wherewith to sensibly demon- strate the minimum activity of each of the essential, u tion of the various specific reactions un their appropriate tests being infallible evi- dence of death. The different available measures vary in their degree of simplicty and facility of application, ‘but the results are ail equally conclusive. —- THE VALIDITY OF THE SESPRATENY es results from the fact that even during the most reduced state of vitality carbonic acid ig perpetually generated in the system, and extricated therefrom through specially adapted air-passages. where Its escape can invariably be detected by proper appliances. Allowing a few hours to elapse after ap- parent death. so that an equilibrium may be established between the carbonic acid {a the air-chambers and the atmospheric air, if death is real the amount of this product ex- baled from the anterior opening of the air- passages will exactly correspond with that transpiring from an equal area of the skin: but, if the slightest vital action continues, the proportion thus expired In a given time will far exceed the whole cutaneous trans- piration, Collecting it at its point of exit, by a suitable contrivance, into .2 gmail trans- parent vessel containing clear lime-water, its merest presence, in contrast to any other gaent, will change this fluid at once, on shaking, into an opaque, milky solution. THE INNERVATION TEST is rendered practicable through the insepa- rable connection of this attribute with mus- cular contraction; for, even if contractility is inherent in muscle, its excitation is possi- ble only through the Incorporation of nerve- elements, As this manifestation of nervo- muscular energy can always be sensibly ex- cited by electritication during the persistence of the feeblest vitality, the utter failure to obtain such a result in_ parts the activity or which is essential to life, affords conclusive evidence of vital extinction. The respiratory arrangements of the glottis present a favorn- ble opportunity for prosecuting this special mode of experiment. At every inspiration the contractions of the associated inuscles stretch and separate the vocal chords, thus nearly doubling the area of aperture. In expiration the muscles relax, allowing the parts by their elasticity to re- sume their natural collapsed appear- ance. These changes can be observed by lacing the body before a bright lisht, and introducing a laryngoscope well back into the pharynx. so as to bring the superior laryngeal aperture into view. After death the rima glottidis presents the elongated nar- row form, from the close approximation of itschords. If, under the repeated transmis- sion of intense electric currents, properly di- rected, there is no responsive contraction so as to sensibly widen the aperture, death is certain. THE CIRCULATORY TEST, orthe attempt to excite an actively-congested State of the cutaneous capillaries, is pre- eminently the best, as it requires only simple and easily-procurable appliances, which al- ways yield decisive results either in the liv- ing or dend subject. The applicition of heat and the act of cupping are both effective top- ical.means for perceptibly arousing this pre- ternatural activity of the cutaneous cireula- tion, even in the most Tanguid condition of the system compatible with vitality. The entire absence of such distinctive physiolog- ical reactions and the occurrence of merely physical alterations, under the proper use of these respective measures, is undeniable proof of death. Over the heart is the most suitable region whereon to operate, as there the skin longest retaing its vital warmth; but corroborative experiments nay. be per- formed over other parts of the trunk. Hold the flame of a candle close to (but not 4ncontact with) the skin sufiiciently long to render the cuticle easily detachable from its subjacent connections: if the body Is dead, the parts beneath will present a crisp, yel- lowish-white, horny appearance, unaffected by pressure; if alive, there will be readily perceptible a vital redness, distinguishable from ali post-mortem discolorations by its repeated displacement and reappearance under alternating pressure by tip of the finger or otherwise. Exposing the part toa bright light, and examining it through a magnifying-glass, will render the different phenomena more evident. Kindle a piece of paper soaked in any aleoholic liquor, put it in any ordinary drinking-glass or goblet, and invert this over a part of the cutancous surface where all its edge will come inte accurate contact with theskin: if there remains a minimum de- ree of vitality, a state of superficial capil- lary congestion will be induced, with Its uninistakably recurrent characters; whereas the absolute inability to excite such vital re- action in any part of the trunk’s surface, and the production of solely physical effects by such potent agencies, are infallible evidence that all vital correlations are irreparably de- stroyed. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Abolish Distress for Rent. To the Eulitor of The Chicago Tribune. Cacao, Dec. 24.—It is a scandul and a dis grace to tho State of Illinvis that this old relic of feudaliem and barbarisin should be permitted to exist within her borders. There is no more rea- son why a landlord should have ‘!en for rent and a right to selze the goods of his tenant without legal warrant than that a grocer should have alien on the chinawaro for his bill, or the butcher a Hien on the kitchen furniture for hia account. Any trddesman or merchunt has ag good a claim uvon the person biring a house a8 bas the man who happens to own the house, And yet no man but a landiord bas the right’ to. issue. his own warrant and seize the ouds of another for the cullection of his debt. The thing is not only absurd, but it is a monstrous wrong. How many poor, struggling peuple have been robbed under this old heathen custom of their very beds ana necessary household goods, and then turned naked Into the streets. the guod Lord only knows. But it is time now that it should be stopped, and no more robberies of this k:nd be permitted. So I say abolish the rights, repeal the law, blot out forever all rights of distress forrent. We buve great volumes of laws for the rich and the powerful, for great institutions and corpurations,—our Legisiutures haven't done much of anything else. Now let us brye alittle law for the poor and the strusgling.—just one little line for the man who isdown. Be good enough to give, this matter such attention as it deserves, and help repeal this odious law. G50. A. SHUFELDT. South Africa. To the Editor of The Chtcago Tribune, Cnrcaco, Dec. 25.—It did me good to read your leader on the present troubles in South Africa. {have notseen such a fair statementof the facts in any other paper, but would request your permissfon to draw your attention to an- other point connected with this matter. When the annexation of the Transvaal was consum- mated a few years ago by the Colonial Govern- ment, and approved of by the Con- servative Home Government, then in power, the Liberals in England were nearly unanimous in condemning what they callea an act of injustice. They maintained thut the Colonial officials had no valid reasons for interfering with the internal affairs of the ‘Transvaal, and they predicted that Shepstone’s occupation of thut country would not prevent the Zulu war, which was then threatening. Ex~ rience hus proved that the Liberals were right Pirthoir predicuon; bit one would naturally guppose that, on coming into power, they would have undone an uct which they consid- ered as unjustifiable when their opponents were in power. But I suppose there is to such thing ag honesty in politics. I supy the actual possession of a certain thing is sufficient (in polltics) 8a reason for the permanent posses— sion of It. [suppose that as the Transvaul had been occupied, the Liberal Home Government tor Imperial‘reasons and for the “ honor of Ea- gland” felt iteclf bound to take steps to sup- press the insurrection of the Buers. The “honor of old England,”—as if that “honor” had not been lust the instant Mr. Shepstone set foot in the Transvaal! ‘Lhad always considered Mr. Gladstone to be a man who was generally to be found on the side of right and justice, even if that side was not the popular one. But he is silent now. The glorious struggle of theso sturdy and Honest. Boers to regain the independ- ence of the country which they have wrested from Nature after untold. burdships does not seem to kindle the enthusiasm of Mr. Gladstone's heart. The Liberals of Englund who were loud in their denunciation of Mr. Disraeli’s and Sir Burtle Frere’s acts, sume years ago, are silent now. ‘The Boers will fight bravely, but will have to |, lay down thelr arms before the powerful army that mighty England will bring {n the field; and theo these Boers will again Icave the country yital processes,—the utter Dera that belongs to them. that they have cultivated. They will begin “trekking” again nortbwurd, and eettle a new country, to be swallowed up again in years to come by England in its tosatia- bie thirst after power. ‘The Liberal party has shown itself to be a3 contemptible, as devoid of political honesty and sincerity, a3 its opponent, the Conservative party, bas always beeu. P. VANDER WILLIGES. —— A REPLY. You ask me, Dare I dream a part of me Has right of converse with the Infinit Mind— J, a dull creature of dull flesh, confined In thia mud cabin of mortality, To converse with the Unbounded? Yea, but see ‘The cuge-born lark, eternal bars behind, Pining und panting for the sweet West wind, ‘The sunlit sky, the lessening fields, where he Hus uever warbled. So to us, who stand, Groping all blindly In this cros3_world’s night, Fiasbes a face, a tower, a sunset, ant Our souls at the instant are atiood with ght, Till at the Inst shall come to us a Hand, Which grasping, lo! we pass from faith to sight. $$ A Wonderful Swallower. Dover Democrat. George Wilson, more familiarly known as the “frog man,” died in Strafford a few days ayo. Last July be caught a frog and swallowed It afternoon he complained of a severe pain in the stomach. He was sick several weeks under the care of atphysician, and got better. The first of last month he came back to Strafford, but bad i Worked but a few days when be was tuken sick with inflammation of the stomach and bowels, There isnodoubt but what his death resulted from the swallowing of that trog. Wilsou Seemed to have s mania for swallowing living things. On one occasion he caught a greca snake more a fout long, and swallowed it alive, At another time he cnught a dlack suake about five fect long. cut it open, took out its hexrt, and swallowed it while pulsating. At the time he swallowed the frog. the first time he swal- lowed it, hig frogship. not icing hig quarters, turned around and exme back. Tt was not notil the gecund or third time he swallowed it that he succeeded in imprisoning him in bis stomach. ELI PERKINS. A Court-House Built on Fiat Prineiples —Temperance In linols—Indlana to Be Forever Republican—‘ Bill” Ene glish. To tha Editor of The Chicago Tribune. SPRINGFIELD, Ul, Dec. 20.—At Carlins ville, Ill, @ little village put down as the county-seat of Mncoupin County, is the Eighth Wonder of the World. In that vil- lage is perhaps the finest-finished bullding in the State of Ilinols. It is a Court-House which cost $1,750,000. The splendid iron dome of this Court-House rears, like the Pantheon, above all the surrounding build- ings. The best residences of the viliage look like dwarfed huts beside it. Two hundred years from now, when every building tn the county shall have passed away, this great pile of stone and iron will stana ax memento of the grand idens of the early set- tlers. This building will stand a thousant years, There is no reason why It shontt not stand as long asthe Cologne Cathedral, of bly the Parthenon at Athens. Itis bullt as wel FIAT FINANCIERING. When I asked a resident of Carlinville how much they paid for this building, he said: “Nota single cent, sir. We bullt it on (int money. We gave county bonds for it This is a Democratic county, sir.”” “* And the bonds—were they not pald?” I asked. “No. They were fiat bonds. There was no money behind them. We built this build- ing years ago, and we’ve never had a cen? in the Treasury since.” g “ Are the bonds good?” “Certainly. Why not? Macoupin County is the.richest county in the State. Of course her fiat money is good.’” is ea have you managed to pay the Inter- est? “ Issue more bonds, sit.—more flat moncy. Osir, wecan teach the world finance—Me conpin County can.” “ But dou’t the creditors, the holders of this fiat money, complain 2” “Ofcourse they do. When they clamor very hard real estate goes down around the Court-House. Some man figured up how much the county was worth one day,—allthe Tand in it—and {it was found to be worth $3,000,000. The lawyers said the whole coun- ty would have to be sold out.” “ But you didnt’t sell it, did you?” “O nol. Land went down all over the county. Farms worth $50 an acre went down to $10. The creditors found out that, if they sold us out at these low prices, the county would not bring enough to redeem its own money. Our money, you seo, differed fruin the bank money. Their money has gold ant silver behind it. It is fact. When they talked earnestly of selling out farms, they found our farms weren't worth anything. Nobody would “buy them.” “ Well, how do the creditors stand now?” Tasked. oa, “They’re waiting, sir. They’ve got our fiat money. It’sall right.” “ But they can’t pass it?¥ : .“‘No; but they can keepit. The County of Macoupin is behind it. It’s rood.” © Do you think the county will ever pay these bonds,—redeem the flat money?” _ Why, ne. Why should it? Fiat money isn’t to be redeenied, Lvs to be used. But the other day we came a big financial scheme onthem. O it was a keen one!” “ What was it?” asked. “Why, we refunded. That’s agood word, —r-e-f-u-n-d-exl. Every debtor ought to know more about that word. We took in all the old fiat_ bonds draw Interest—flat in- terebt—at Tper cent, and issued new fiat bonds at 5 per cent. Then we made ’em take 70 cents on the dollar.” “Tn other fiat bonds?” “Ofcourse. Wedou’t use real money in Macoupin County. Then, after that,—-what d’you call it-—we funded the debt, That is another good word.—f-u-n-d-ed. Well, wa funded the $1,700,000 debt down to $1,200,000,” * And the creditors took it?” “Ofcourse. That took $500,000 right off of us, and our lands went up $10 an acre all over the county.” “ What will you donext 2” “Why, fund again; and then we'll keep on funding till these first bonds areall taken up, and then we'll have our seventeen-hundred- thonsand-dullar Court-Elouse, and our lands will be worth $50 an acre again.” The history of the Demucratic County of Macoupin would be the history of the Nation under the Democratic-Greenback party. TEMPERANCE IN ILLINOIS. : | The cause of temperance has been making remarkable strides throughout alt the West- ern States within the last five years. ‘The seed sown by the braving women in Hills- boro, O., six years ago, has certainly borne good fruit. T tind many counties in Ulinois in which there is not one Jyuor-saloon. The people are all temperate. There is not a tiquor-saloon in Fuiton, Green, Scott, or Macoupin County. In Fulton County they told me that the only way fora young man to get drunk was to ride miles into the ilinois Bottom, where they still drink whis- ky and vote the Democratic ticket. [tis an undeniable fact that whisky and Democracy go hand inhand. Many of the Republican sections of Missouri even have advlished liquor-saloons. INDIANA REPUBLICAN FOREVERMORE. On the Tadianapalis & St. Louis train from Indianapolis, I asked Mr. John _T. Dye, a protutnent Republican lawyer of Indianapo- is, if he considered the recent Republican yictory in Indiana a perinanent victory. " “Yes,” he replied, “* Indiana can hereafter be counted upon as asure Republican State. Nothing but gross Republican mismanage- ment can ever change her back to the De- mocracy.”” “ Indiana nsed to be Republican in Mor- ton’s time, didn’t it”? I suggested. “Yes; and, had Morton lived, Tilden and Hendricks never would have carried it; and still,” said Mr. Dye, ‘*Morton caused the Republican party to lose its foothold in Indi- ana, “How was that ?”” “Well, Morton was a soft-money. man——” “A Greentbacker—do you inean that ?” “Yes; Morton was a Greenbacker before it took thatname; and so were many of our jeading Republicansin Indiana, The Repub- lican Judges of our State were Greenbackers, In fact, thousands of our leading Republic- ans were ‘for soft mon¢y. ‘The bulk of the Republican party befure Morton died was for soft money. ‘To be sure, it had nottakenany name then; but Morton had infused the soft- money idea into the party. Well, Morton died, The Eastern Republicans declared for hard money. ‘The Nat.2nal Republican party préclaimed nard-money. principles. Then it was many bright Republicans In Indi- diana left the party. Thousands of visionary men, fond of argument, became Greenbsck- ers. They left the Republican party, and joined the Democratic party, which espoused their soft-money doctrine, ‘They were bap- tized in Democracy, and the Democracy was baptized in Greenbackism. At the last elec- tion these natural Republicans left the Democracy and came back again into the alive. This was in the forenoon, and in the- Republican camp. They are now satisfied with Garfield. ‘They see the delusion ef soft money. They see thathard money Is gooa enough. Sothe Republican party is solid again in Indiana.” ENGLISH. “ How does English stand his defeat 2” “Oh! very well. He simply wanted to be recognized by the American people. He wanted status, The election made bis naine prominent. ‘That’s allhe wanted. He was simply aclose_money-getter; now he is a public man, He was_willing to pay $10,090 for being freely adVertised. He paid his money, and got the advertisement. Ile’s suited.” LI PeRkins, — athe = Winchester’s Rypophosphites will cure consumption, coughs, weak tun: bronchitis, and general debility. Estabias twenty-one years. For half acentury the Shakers’ Sarsapnril hag been the standard Blood purifier. ther ona Iney remedy of physicians ruse throughout New Englund, ee ei