Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1881, Page 4

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M—Will hold their annual ball at the Palmer Honse, on Tues- day evening, Jan. 25, ISL Tickets limited, “Price. in- cluding supper, $5; ladies’ single tickets, & t¢ be prow Rares ae manlere of the Committee and officers of ‘Lo GAMES SMITH, WAL CHRMUESS, BRENAN, Booretary. W, M. SROWN, Chairman Ex. Committe. EXCELSIOR ENCAMPMENT, NO. Ios, 120. 0: F.— Will assemble in fatigue dress at the Tent. corner Mark and Washington-sts.. next Friday evening.Jah. 4, Tor ena. tala 3 of ofticarsand other imports ae eis L, B. BAIN, CP. E, D. BELNEBS, Scribe. D.C. CREGIER LODGE, No, 6, A. F. and A. M— ‘The members are hereby notified to moot in their hellthis Sunday, Jan 9, at 12 o'clock, to attend the funeral of Inte ‘Bro. A. E. Pardis, of Aurora Lodgo, No, 4, A 3 to Graceland. By order. JAMES KEATS, W. M. JOHN GINOCHIO, Secretary. PLELADES LODGE, No. 478, A.F. and A. Mega: Jar Commanication Thursday eventng, Jan. 13, hela at Plelades Hall, 20 and 222 South Halstod-st., tor the transaction of important business.__A fall attendance in requested. ‘DAN M. BOYNTON, W. M. E. F. NEWELG, Secretary. ‘THOMAS J. BR LODGE, NO. 409, A. F. AND A.M—Regular Communication ‘Thursday Evening, jan. 1, i, ab 7:30 o'clock. Business of importance. Er lempe! 0} ested to Very member 16 USE UN TION MM. NICHOLS, W. ML. WM. M, STANTON, Secretary. - LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, NO. 2 R. A. M—Hall 6 Monroe-st,—Stated Convocation Monday evening, Jan Wat 1a g'cloe cot eee on M. M. Degree. Visiting companions welcome. By order, Soa FORS if YTH, ME HP. WA. J. BRYAR, Secretary. WAUBANSIA LODGE, NO. 16, A. F. & A: M—An- nuni Convocation at their Sail, No, 7% Monroe-st, Exeoy evening, Jan. 16 2 7:8 o'clock, The att noe 3 m ET, “SE CHURCH, Secretary. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, NO. 6, R.A. M.—Stated Conrocation Monday evening, Jan. 10, at 7:2 o'clock. Work on the Mark Dogree. order. : ARTHUR WABKINGTON, E P. 5. 0, DICKERSON, Secretary. KEYSTONE LODGE, NO, 639, A. F. and A. M.—3pe- ciai Communication Wednesday, Jan. 12 at thoir hall, Gand é4 North Clark-st. Business of importance. Members are hereby notified to attend. | Visiting ‘brethren cordially ayited. B oe MIRIAM CHAPTER, NO. 1, 0. E. 8.—Will haves public installation of its ofticers-clect and appointed Bt Lakeside Hall, oorner of Indinna-ay, and ‘Tbirty- irst-st., on Saturday evening, Jan, 15, 1is1. Members Of sister chaptera are_cordinily invited to attend. 5 _JENNID HODGSON, Secretary. © APOLLO COMMANDBERY, NO. 1, KNIGHTS TEM- PLAB—3 ‘Conclave Tuesday evening, Jan. 11, IRL atTorclook. The Order of the Temple will be gonterred.. Visiting Str’ ‘Knighws are always welcome. ant Co! ‘By order of the vommander, ij HS. TIFFANY, Recorder. SUNDAY, JANUARY 9 1861. | Mn. E. G. Mason was elected President of the Chicago Bar Association last evening. Messrs, Thomas Hoyne, Julius Rosenthal, and LN. Stiles were chosen managers, _———— Wannry LANGMORE, @ youth of 9 years, has been indicted for murder in killing Freeman Wright, a companion of 8 years, at Pembroke, Me, His trial will commence on the 11th inst, ~ a ———EEEEe= Dunne the week just closed $1,017,000 worth of gold bullion arrived at New York from Europe. Since Aug. 1 $65,775,000 worth arrived, against $73,415,000 worth for thecor- responding perlod of last year. ——— ee SEVEN amnestied Communists, including the notorious Trinquet, arrived in Paris yes- terday. They were welcomed by Clemen- ceau, Rochefort, and Loulse Michel. The latter did not very much enjoy the appear- ance of Rochefort on the scene if she enter- tains the opinion expressed by her afew weeks ago, that Hochefort is ‘‘a fraud and 8 nave.” Tue Irish societies of Boston have set a good example to similar societies in other cities. They have decided to forego the usual parade on St. Patrick’s Day. They will instead attend lectures, the proceeds of which will be applied to aid the Land-League agitanon in Ireland. The Irish societies of Chicago adopted this plan last St. Patrick’s Day. It worked well, and it isto be pre- sumed that they will adopt the same course on the coming anniversary. Accorprne to a Roman journal, the Greek Premier. had a rather free and manly talk with the French representative at Athens with regard toan arbitration plan. He said that France primarily, and the Powers after- svards, raised the hopes of the Greek, people, led them to believe that they were to obtain the territory to which they think “themselves entitled, and that ever since the Berlin. Conference the course of the Powers, particularly of “ France, has been vacillating and delusive. _ Greece is determined to trust no. longer to 7 ¥ranks or Germans, and is inclined to think, with Byron, that in native swords and native ranks is her best reliance. ‘Tue average voter in English boroughs is not an .overserupuious person. He looks forward to a Parliamentary election with eagerness, There is in it a prospect.of un- limited beer, several free dinners, and soine- thing more substantial still Since, the last general election the members for fourteen English boroughs, one Irish borough, and one Scotch county have been. unseated for having procured their elections through wholesale bribery and corruption. Inquiries held into the circumstances have revealed an alarming amount of moral obliquity among the electors, particularly of the University. City of Oxford, the Cathedral town of Canterbury, and of the City of Boston. ‘The English -Attorney-General yesterday reported a bill to-the House of Commons providing various pains and penal- ties for the punishment of persons who cor- ruptly influence electors, and for the punishment of electors so influenced. It provides. that any expenditure over a certain. emount, proportioned to the size of the constituency, shall be deemed evidence of bribery and corruption; and, fur. ther, that any candidate will not at any tine pe eligible as the representative of the cun- stituency which ‘It-‘can :be#proved he has‘ bribed. A seat in Parliaments a very costly honor to some parties. Instances have been Known‘where as high as $200,000 . were ‘pal for a seat, and in some of the small boroughs. the possession of the franchise has been. the! sole source of men’s incomes. i Ar the investigation into the causes of the boiler explosion at Allentown,-Pa., which re- sulted in the death .of thirteen” men, one of the witnesses swore that he saw. the boiler leaking a week ago, and others testified that they saw the leak before the explosion. - It is quite evident that some law like the En- glish Employers’ Liability act is wanted} in Pennsylvania and other~ States. Manu- facturers and capitalists migh$ then {take greater precaution to pRevent accidents, and! thus insure the ‘safety’ of thelr employés. Scarcely a day passes now that a-half-dozen or more deaths from boiler: explosions are not reportdd in’ thistcountry, and in nearly every instance these accidents’ are the result of criminal carelesness on the part of em- ployers, “Gov. Murray, of Utah, has decided to give a certificate of election to Allen G. Campbell, the Republican candidate for Con- gressional Delegate from the Territory at the Inte election, although George Q. Cannon, the Mormon-Democrati¢ candidate, received amajority of, the votes. The grounds on which Goy. Murray acted are, that Cannon fs not acitizen of the United States; that, } being a polygamist, and therefore & violator of the-law of the Natton, he is ineligible for citizenship, and consequent- ly to the office for which he aspired. It is likely that this last-phase of the question will bethoroughly discussed in Congress, and that some action will be takefi towards de- fining the status of Mormons with regard to citizenship. It is a little queer that the fact that Cannon has never’ been ngturalized—a fact which, by the way, has been fully estab- lished—was not discovered long ere this. ——_———— z ‘Taere was a long and apparently fruit- jess debate on the Wood Refunding bill in the House yesterday. ‘Several members, in-* cluding Claflin, Frye, Keifer, and Warner, thought that a 3 per cent bond could not be floated at par, while Messrs. Wood, Randall, Felton;. and Newberry had no doubt that: even a short-term bond, safof fifteen years, at 8 per cent could be easily flonted. Mr. Randall pointed out that the bankers and representatives of the moneyéd interests said a year ago thata 4 per ccent long bond could not be floated, and that the talk of a failure to float a 8 per cent bond now. was on a par with such preiictions. Messrs. Mills, Weaver, Gillette, Chalmers, and Burd de- clared themselves opposed. to refunding, and the latter gentleman predicted woes innu- merable.from the present condition of the National finances, among the least of which might be mentioned another pinic. The general impression seemed to-be thata Sper cent bond, redeemable after ten years and payable in thirty years, could be floated, and that a refunding bill embodying these ideas would probably be passed. Ong of the many remarkable phases of the present agitation in Ireland is that the agi- tators do not seém to dread being arrested. ‘When the British Government determined to break up the Fenian organization in Ire- Jana by the arrest. of . the leaders, there was an exodus from Ireland to Amer- ica and France of those who- had made themselves conspicuous in the “organization. We hear nothing of the flight of the leaders of the Land League. On the contrary, they seem to court arrest. It: was rumored ‘in Cork yesterday morning that.the officers of the Land-League branch in that city would bearrested during the day. Nothing daunted, the officers. proceeded to the place of meet- ing, surrounded by sympathizing friends, had officers elected to take their places in case of their being “jailed,” and were doubtless disappointed that no, policeman put in an ap- pearance. Noris itin Cork alone that the Land-Leaguers have shown their indifference- to the officers of the Jaw and their determi- nation to abide the consequences of their acts, They have manifested the same spirit throughout the country. eee CHANGES OF BUSINESS SITES AND IN- TERESTS. ‘The changes wrought by time and’the rap- id growth of this city, as shown in the re- moval and alteration of old municipal Jand- marks, are forcibly. called to mind by the rather feeble protests now- against the pro- posed transfer of the Board of Trade hall from Washington to Jackson street. Some of these changes are worth recalling. _ It does not. require a very long residence in Chicago to remember a two-story brick building in the middle of State street, with its south. entrance fronting on .Randolph street. The building extended north about 150 feet, and the lower story was used as a market-house, while the upper was a pub- lic hall, used for public meetings, balls, and other public entertainments. <A pre- ciseiy similar building, used for’ similar pur- ‘poses, was located on West Randolph street, extending west from Desplaines street. Chicago, in* time, grew too large for these- markets, which had , be- come an obstruction to travel on the streets, and, in short, a nuisance. ‘When it was. proposed to. remove the State street building there was a very loud pro- test; peopie claimed they had a vested right ina public market, and property-owners de- clared that they had bought-land and“had erected costly buildings on theimplied pledge that the market-house was to stand there for alltime. After years of trouble the Council plucked up courage enough at last to order the demolition of the building, and the prop- erty that was to be destroyed by this change found new uses and for far more profitable business. After the elevation of..the streets, following the adoption of the “high grade,” there was an improvement of the bridges and an incréase of travel over them. Therule then was for the bridges to open every time a tug wanted to pass, whether it had a vessel in tow or not. The Conneil finally by or- dinance required that, in place of opening the bridges for tugs havifig no tows, the tugs should lower their sinoke-stacks. There was.a Joud and violent protest from the tugs. They claimed a. vested right in-the free navi- gation of ‘a navigable river, and ata public meeting’ resolyéd never to submit to the op- pression. But after twenty-four hours’ idle- ness they submitted. - “* : + ‘Twenty-five years ago’ Chicago. was star- tled by the announcement that the officers of the United-States had selected the site of Dr. Dyer’s private residence and garden, at. the corner of Monroe and Dearborn étreets -(the latter then only half-opened),-for the Post- Office, Custom-House, ‘and -Courts, “Previ- ously the Post-Office had-‘been at 51. Clark street, under the old office of Ta TRIBUNE, and Jater at 83and85 Dearborn street, north of ‘Washington street. The protests were. very wild and vehement. The site was. denounced ag too far south of the business centre, ‘as lo- cated in a swamp, and reached only through analley, Public. meetings were held and remonstrances were made, but_ the change |, took place, and only twenty years ago that ' site was. occupied forthe first time. ‘Ten years later, in 1871-2, the United States of- ficers selected: the présent site, extending froni Adams to Jackson street, and ‘from Dearborn to Clark street, making a much “fonger stride to the south and to the west ‘than’ was nade in1855.. | A most notable and successful instance of; the claim of vested rights as a reason why. & “change in the location of a public institution should: not, be made -was in. the case of the attempted. transfer. of the jail from the basement rooms of the old Court. House to some other :locality., At that time the fairer portion of the prisoners had, rooms fronting oh Clark street, and by. day; and by night frequently held noisy, inter views .with passers-by... The jail in that local- ity was an outrage and a nuisance, but when the measure was proposed to remove the; ‘prisoners: to. some other. part of. the city, property-owners on the foursidesof thesquare. protested, claiming that thatsquare had been dedicated, among other purposes; toa pudlic. «jail; thet under ‘this dedication they had: bought the land and erected costly buildings, ' and'to now establish a new jail elsewhere. and remoye the prisoners would be a most: deplorable’ instance ‘of bad faith, {niflleting: irreparable loss upon. all the owners of prop-: erty fronting that square!’ The Board of; -Supervisors ‘yielded to the protest, and the! jail remained undisturbed until on the morn- ing of the 9th of October, 1871, there was a hasty departure of the prisoners before the, | fire: The presentremonstrances of the own- ers of the same property against the removal of the Board of Trade hall are‘ po more ‘earnest than those made years ago against the removal of the jail!. The ‘arguments are: identical ‘i : lt.is.not so very long.ago when the at-} tempt-to establish a Ine @Biborse-rallway on Wabash avenue nearly produced ,a revolu- ‘tion in the State Government, and ‘created immense excitement in this.city. "The légis- lation was only defeated~by Gov. Yates in-. terposing his proclamation dispefsing and dis- banding ‘the’ General Assembly. Who Is there now objects to the horse-railway on that avenue?: Public and private interests have changed, residence property has’giyen way to business, and Wabash avenue is now ; the great business thoroughfare of the South Division. In 18d¥the passage by the Legis- lature of the bil! authorizing the sale ot three blocks of the * Lake-Front” to’. the rail companies for depot purposes created almost as mbch excitement. in Chicago as did the arrival of the tea in Boston Harbor a hun- dred years before. The protest against that act recited the doctrine of vested rights even more vehemently than it had ever been recited ‘efore, and the owners of. property along the Lake-Front declared that- they never, never, |. never would consent toeuch a disposition of the free air and free view which they had bought with their property. The owners of the same property are now petitioners before Congress and the City Council that'that long and Horribly-aQused sale to. the railroads may now be permitted to be made. | ‘The men of 1869 wHo so valiantly demanded that the Lake Park should rémain a park, 50 that “generations yet unborn might bless those who had ‘preserved it from change,” ‘are. now as anxious that the railroad monopolists should lay their iron rails upon that tract. once so solemnly dedicated to health, pure air, etc, Some years: ago public spirit demanded that there should be a free’ public’ hospital established, and the County Board , provided therefor, and, inorder to remove it beyond the inhabited pats of the city, located it one block west of the corner of South Clark and Eighteenth streets. - Since then necessity has forced the location of that hospital two miles or. more further west, where it has already been overtaken and surrounded by the éver- increasing population. ‘An unesthetic owner of real estate on Wa- bash avenue, near Congress’ streat,:made the- preliminary steps in’ the way'of erecting some buildings to be used as stores, The indignant residents: protested against this ruthless attempt to introduce “business” oi that avenue dedicated to all that was esthetic and beautiful. The'rude man was nofified that not one inhabitant living on the avenue would ever,enter.one of his stores,.or- have any dealings with his tenants, and-the man abandoned the work. Times have changed since then. Bysiness has taken the place of the purely, beautiful, and Wabash avenue stores are among the finest and most success- ful in the city. Bg a The attempt to limit the. expansion of a elty like Chicago is as vain as to try to make a man -wear through life clothes of the dimensions and cut that‘he wore when 15 years of age. The illustrations we have givén of changes that have taken place un- der the pressure of increasing business, in- creasing population, and the demands of pub- lic convenience,—and these changes are all of comparative recent’ date,—show the folly of expecting that because a store, a block, ora neighborhood once served a public use, the public is therefore forever .debarred from making a change. When the Board of Trade moved from South Water and La Salle streets three blocks south to Washington street it only obeyed that Iaw of necessity which was irresistible, and which at the same time caused ‘the Baptists, _Presby- terians, Methodists, and Unitarians to aban- don their stately church buildings on Wash- ington street and go further south. Since then business expansion has far outstripped: the Board of Trade, and Jackson street ia by no means, so far away from the pusiness centre, even now, as was Washington street fifteen years ago. Long before the new building will be ready for occupancy the wonder will be ‘not that the change was made, but why it had been so long delayed. THE MAYOR AND THE CHICAGO RIVER. We have elsewhere referred to the com- plaints made by the inhabitants of the cities and towns along the Illinois River, on ac- count of the condition of the small and offen- sive (because small) supply of water carried by the canal and emptied into that river, .. We have alsq explained the action taken by our citizens in the matter, ‘not only in behalf of the city, but also in behalf of those. living further-down stream. ¢ of Chicago a year ago agitated and discussed this question fully. ;The remonstrances and warnings of the State Board of Health, the advice of the most experienced citizens, the urgent appeals. and offers of active cobpera- tion by the Board of Canal Commissioners, all combined to produce ‘a unanimity: that ‘was more than ordinary.. ‘The general plan of re- Nef. was to restore the lock and’ dam at Bridgeport, erect pumping-works, and lift into the®canal’ from 50,000 to 60,000 cubic feet of water per minute. This would in- crease the delivery of’ water into the canal to nearly three times its present quantity, and would serve not only to keep the Chicago River clean, but.would also furnish the Illi- nois River with a copious supply for naviga- tion and sanitary purposes.- - 3D ae ‘The City Council, responding to the public sentiment, appropriated $100,000, all that was estimated to be needed to erect a building, purchase the engines, arid build the dam and the lock..'‘The Mayor; for some ins¢rutable reason, was opposed to the matter.” The whole establishment, it was represerted, could be put in operation in six months. |” “The Mayor, however, took,:it upon:; him- self to defeat the action ot the Council and public wish. He raised objections: of all kinds, said the’ money appropriated was not sufficient, but did not expend’a dollar, of what was voted, or ask for more. He sat dow% on the whole project and pigheadedly refused to take any action or do any- thing but talk, object, and procras- tinate, At the close of navigation the |.1 lock and dam could have been put inj and the pumps and engines should have been purchased and iocated,- and ‘ell “things: in readiness to begin the moment the ice. left the ednal. ‘In the meantime riot a tiiing has been done.. The tax‘on'partof it has been collected, and some fiscal officer of the City , Administration is now drawing interest on it, ‘Ta thé meantime the complaints of ‘last’ year are all renewed, . The Mayor, 80 far as his acts reveal his intentions, seems determined to defeat this.wise, edonomical, and essential, measure by inaction, and to gratify an obsti- nacy for which there is .no. explanation - or apology. Pld er ties ay Ig that.work be,permitted to. fail this. year, through the hostility of ihe Mayor, then such inaction will be held to be @ criminal and seandalous disregard of official duty, and a -trifitig ‘with’ public health: and . interests that should be visited with ; public reproba- tion. Why should one man be allowed to’ revenge his disappointed vanity by inflicting and perpetuating a ‘caldmity upon the: 505,000 other residenits of:the city? . ‘The sug- gestion, is, that the Mayor is holding this $100,000 in order to shoiy that much surplus in the Treasury, and claim it as reason for his reBlection.’ Instead of applause, his con- duct merits unquallfied-condemnation, ‘The héalth of the city and the comforts of home have been greatly injured by this useless and obstinate perpetuation of the river stenches, For the bitter complaints of the cities and, towns below Lockport, and the threats of; retaliation for the injury and annoyance caused them by the inadequate dilution of “the South Branch sewage, the Mayor of Chi- “cago is alone responsible; for if he had per- formed his plain duty. the pumps would be ‘ready to set in motion now, or in the spring at the latest. ~ i : _ ‘The proposed enlargement ‘of the canal, ac- cording to the original deep-cut and broad- bottom plan, will edst from $6,000,000 to $6,000,000, The trial of the, pumping- works to be erected by Chicago will test whether a°supply of water three times as great ag the present supply can be exceeded by the proposed enlargement, Ifit cannot | be exceeded, or equaled, by the deepening and widening, at a cost of from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000, and no greater result can be .ob- tained than that secured by the use of the pumps, then the expenditure of millions for apurpose as easily accomplished by an ex- penditure of not to exceed $200,000 would.ba an unjustifiable waste. clty can find legal execution, the flow of water through the canal, and thence down to‘all the cities which use the Illinois River as a common sewer, will be in such quantity and of such purity that they will not only thank this city for its'action, but will seek fo forget the pettishness which ‘suggested the Desplaines feeder. as a substitute for Lake Michigan. : : THE! FUTURE “SOUTH CHICAGO. ‘About a week ago the South Park Commis- stoners made public their report for the year ending Dec, 1, 1880, The’ showing was of such anature as to almost startle taxpayers at firstsight. Nearly $8,000,000 have already been invested in the system of parks for the southern part of the city, and . there are still $822,000 of bonds outstanding. ' The indica- tion is that, notwithstanding the eight heavy annual installments which the people of the South: Division-.and -Hyde Park have peen-paying, including the accumulating in- terest, upon the purchase money of the land, ‘which were designed to ‘discharge all obliga- ‘tion of thisaccount; there will still be-a large deficiency. “Just how large this deficiency will be it does not Seem possible to déter- amine, since certain (portions of the land. are still in litigation; and it is to be regretted that the statement of the Board was not more explicit upon, this point; At. all-events, the Commission seems to owe $622,000 in_ bonds, with further payments on the Iand to be made, while the estimated resources, Includ- ing over. $400,000 of tax-oertificates and ap- pealed tax cases, are only $680,000, It ap- pears, in -addition to this, that about’ $2,500,- 000 have been expended in improvements, for which the Commission has to show two main boulevards,—Grand and Drexel,—a few auxiliary boulevards, and altogether 3l4acres ‘of improved area inthe two parks, as re- ported by the Board. The great bulk of the’ property still remains to be improved. . Estimating the total amount already prac- tically invested at eight millions, the total area of the parks—1,057. acres—would make the cost of the system, up to the present time and in its present comparatively primi- ‘tive condition, more than $7,500 per acre! If the sentiment of the taxpayers could be definitly expressed it would be found to de- mand some more satisfactory showing for the vast. sum of money that has already been raiged amd expended under the agreement that the eight annual installments should pay for the land, and some more accurate statement as to the future taxes for the land ‘that remains unpaid for, the improvements ‘yet to be made, and the maintenance of the system. It cannot be denied that these taxes have become a serious burden to the owners of property in the-south part of the city, and especially in Hyde Park; and these taxpayers may fairly claim: moré specific accounting than has ever yet been given them. : “This is one view of the case. From an- other view the South Park system offers’a compensation that aténes in the prospect of future benefits for the present unsatisfactory condition of things. It.has been contended by those who have opposed this extensive outlay for pleasure-lands tliat the two parks are too far removed from the populous sec- tions of the city ever to serve the full pur- pose for which they were projected. The rapid growth of the city southward during the past few years has done much to remove this impression, and the. completion of the Michigan avenue boulevard, furnishing a de- lightful driveway from the business portion of the ‘city to the parks, and the increased fa- cilities for reaching the parks by suburban ‘trains, will in a couplé of years. obliterate most of this objettion. But there is now, in addition to this, an apparenit benefit to be de- rived from the South Park system Which was hardly taken into consideration at the time the parks were originally laid out. We refer to,the growth of population around and south of the park most distant from the centre of the city, which will be of an ex- tent and character to derive more benefit and take more pleasure in the South Parks than were ever expected from them at the outset. The great Township of Hyde Park, nine miles long, is destined to be a large city,— part of Chicago, of course.—andit may be confidently ‘predicted that, before thé next decenniat.census'shall be taken, that district will embrace at least 100,000 people, Of. this population a large-part. will be. composed of working people engaged in the enormous manufacturing interests which are growing up in the southern portion of Hyde Park, and thé South Parks will be as accessible to them as to- the people now: included within the present city Himits:° 5 > ‘There is no longer. any. doubt that the sec- tion now known in a general way as South Chicago'will at some day not very far dis- tant be one of thé largest manufactaring dis- tricts in the world, The location of the vast car-works to bé.managed by tne Pullman Car Company, and the construction of the Town of Pullman now. springing up like magic oi the west shore of Calumet Lake, nave assured thisfuture to South Chicago, x way is meant. to. include the southern portion of Hyde Park ‘Town- ship,. The city naw in process of. construc- “tion under the auspices of:the Pullman Com- pany. will probably: be the most complete manufacturing settlement on this continent. It willbe provided with vast:shops, model houses, gas, water, pleasure grounds, and all the accessories of comfortable modern exist~ ence, and it wii! have population of 10,000 people within a year.' It will havearailroad of ‘its own connecting with the belt railroad, and’ 80 with all the other railroads that centré in’ Chicago. A: canal {s'to-be constructed across ‘Lake Calumet, connecting pith’ the Calumet. River; and thus” bringing’ navigation up ‘to. |. Pullman. ’In’addition to the car-works now building, vast . locomotive-works will _.be 6 partial auspices of the same Company and will be located in the same neighborhood. These will attract other manufacturing. interests,.. Indeed, applica- tions for land to be used ‘in that. way have already been made, and the new improve-: ments, in addition to the large works already: in operation, suchas the Potter Rolling-Mills and the Brown Iron-Works, and’ the great! nail factory, will make this section within a few years the busiest and most enterprising’ of all American manufacturing ceutres. The ‘future growth of this portion of Chicago, as is may properly , be regarded, is assured be- Yond all .'peradventure .except universal: ‘panic, plague, or famine... : fa .. ‘The mission of the South Parksystem thus ; becomes broader and more useful than was -originally contemplated,. and the taxpayers! who have been, and are, so heavily assessed. for its purchase, ‘improvement, and -mainté-, nance may fairly-réegard’ themselvés as en- gaged -in a vast cliarity, At the same time, they have the right to demand, while provid- ing so handsomely for Chicago’s future, that those who’ control and manage their trust shall go back over the work of their prede-’ cessors, make acompleté showing of the cir- cumstances that haveled upto the impending deficiency, furnish. an approximate ,idea of the supplemental ‘assessment that will need | to be made to complete the purchase of the Jands, and limit, themselves in. the future to the exact outlay contemplated by the. assess- , ments to which: the proverty-owners tacitly agree by-payment there: : But so soon as the will of the people of this | WHO POLLUTES THE. ILLINOIS RIVER ‘The latest development of ‘the: canal-sew- age question is the preparation of plans and: estimates by which the waters‘of the Des- plaines River are-to beturned into the Lli-' nolis & Michigan Canal below the Surmit, the purposé being to supply that canal with water to the exclusion ‘of any from Lake Michigan “through .the Chicago River. Of course this scheme is one of, petty spite and impotent revenge altogether unworthy the | stantial. cause. pleaded as an apology for even the suggestion of such a measure is the alleged pollution of the Ilinois River and the failure of Chicago to take any effective steps to remedy or mitigate this annoyance. The facts in this whole business are worthy of ' attention not oily in Chicago, but also by all | the people living along the Illinois. River. | And we will just remark in this connection that from August to March, seven months of each year, the Desplaines only carrfey. 1,500 to 1,800 cubic feet per minute, or less’ than one-tenth as much water as the. canal dis- charges at Lockport. . . ‘The original design of the canal was to | connect by a deep cut and broad canal the | waters of the-lakes with the Illinois -River, and thence with the navigable waters of the Mississippi Valley.’ ‘This: plan: was. subse- quently changed toa shallow ditch,‘ which |. is now but afew feet below the level of the Jake; ‘the present discharge of water from the lake into the canal is about 20,000 cubic feet'per minute, ‘With the i¢e frozen to the depth of two feet, the discharge into the canal probably does not exceed 10,000 cubic feet per minute, and this is not equal to.puri- tying the water after its passage tprough the Chicago. River. This water, impregnated with the ‘sewage of the Chicago River, emp- ties into the Illinois ‘River, .and, .with its. strong. and, offensive..odor, is. carried down, passing all the cities and towns on the way until it islost in the Mississippi. River. Against this, the people of these. cities and towns - protest, and, owing to their. com- plaints, this scheme to disconnect the canal with Lake Michigan is proposed. - On the-Illinois River there are the follow- ing cities and towns: Lockport, Joliet, Mor- tis, Ottawa, LaSalle, Peru, Lacon, Peoria, Pekin, Lewistun, Havana, Beardstown, and yarious other smaller places. Into the Llli- nois River is .emptied the Kankakee, drain- ing Will, Iroquois,‘and Kankakes. Counties; the Fox River drains Kane and Kendall Counties, with the sewage of all the cities and towns, and the washings from the dairy farms along the whole route; Joliet, a large city with many’ manufacturing’ establish: ments, including the Penitentiary, with 1,500 prisoners, pours all her slops and sewage into the Llinois Rivers, the Kankakee | brings down the sewage from Kankakee, Wilming- ton, and the mining towns; Morris runs all her: swill, and. sewage into the Llinols, as do Ottawa, La Salle, Peru, and Lacon; all this putridity, the washings of eight or more counties, and all the sewage of the cities with their stock-yards, ‘dairy-farms, distil- leries, tanneries, prisons, slaughter-houses, and factories, «are . carried down - to Peoria.,. At, Peoria the water. of.. the Illinois River.is heavily loaded with..the sewage of that city of nearly 40,000 inhab- itants,‘and with the: offensive matter: from her glucose establishment, her numerous whisky distilleries, her cattle slop-pens, -her factories, added to the stuff that comes from above, she sends:the sluggish stream thus pollutéd down to’Pekin, Havana, Beards- town, and all the places below. ; ‘The Illinols ‘River from Lockport to Beardstown is a common séwer for: all the Cities and towns, and all the country drained by the Desplaines;-Fox, Kankakee, and Ver- milion Rivers, with all thelr tributaries?-and yet the people of ‘these towns with one voice ery out that the impurity of the river is. the work of Chicago” alone! Joliet, Ottawa, and Morris call upon Peoria to denounce Chi- eago, and Peoria insists that Pekin is poi- soned by, Chicago!—each suppressizig the fact that these cities all use the river as their . Also ‘the ‘following State of Llinois or its officers.: The onlysub- |, only sewer, and pollute it as much as they can. a ‘Tho canal when {t,is open pours, 20,000. to 25,000 cubic ‘feet of Iake water‘ into'the Illi nois’ River ‘every mifute, furnishing it with the most of the water in summer, fall, and winter, above the junction of the Kankakee, that it contains, . During the summer and fall months, when the cafial is‘supplied from the lake, the water it discharges into the Tlli- nois River is comperatively clean.=Is in very little worse. condition than ‘the water of the Fox. But little complaint in regard to odor is heard until the surface'of the. canal. is frozen over -in. the winter, and the water. is thus prevented fromi being oxydized and Di fied by the air.. ItChicago uses the river as a sewer, she does no-more than all the citics, towns, and counties on the river and its trib- utaries now do, with. the addition that ‘she sends with 'it’a volume ‘of pure’ water suf- ficient in considerable degree, when it is por- mitted to run, to the déodorizing-and disin- fection of the Chicago sewage’ that passes ‘thro’ the canal, O'ER, Chicago, moreover, has not been entirely selfish, nor has’ she been wholly” indifferent to the conyenience and comfort of others. |. She-has, at A ‘provided for the purification, of the: North’ ‘Bronch‘of. her-river by, pumping its, impure’ waters into thelake, and not one drop of that | inipurity passes” into the’ canal-or-into the Tlinois River.» "* stay Peete LS me "The: present small flow of water into the’ canal from the lake {g ‘because of the thick: ice; not more than 10,000 cubtc feet per _min~ “ute can get through; when free of ice’the! natural flow 1s about 20,000 cubic feet per: ~The City Counell of Chicago a year ago, at the universal demand of her. citizens, voted “the money. estimated as sufficient for the pur-| pose for Increasing this discharge of lake. Water into the .canal-to. 50,000.or 60,000 cubic: ifeet per minute, ‘a volume of water: equal ta- making the Chicago: River - purer than. the llinois ‘River after its receipt of the Peoria sewage. - So far as the people of this éity'and the City Council are concerned, all that they could do to have that all-sufficient ‘sanitary measure in full and. satisfactory® operation. has been done. Why, it has not ‘been executed is explained elsewhere, . Astronomical..: :- * Chicago (Trmuxe office), north latitude Al deg. 62m, 573.; west longitude 42m. 183. from “Washington, and dh. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich. ‘Tho subjoined table shows the time of set- ting of the moon's lower mb, and the official time for lighting the first street-lamp in each cir~ cuitin this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooner-on account of bad weather. times for extinguishing the Tight. . Eatinguish. 1 ER: 2:25 a.m: 5:50 2, a : BB Jan. 16, 5:05 p.m. . The. moon will be in apogee about 10:00 p. m. next Thursday; and full at 6:43 a, m, Saturday. She will occult Zeta’ Arietts about half-past 4 o'clock this atternoon. hae te The sun's upper limb will rise on Monday at 722734 a. m., south at Ob. Bm. 2.36. p. m.,and set at 4:49 p. ma. “4 Dy Fa ‘The sun’s upper limb rises Friday next at 7:28 a.m, 80uths at Oh. Om, 32.5. p. m., and: sets at (4:58%% p.m. Syn ge any ‘Tho sidereal time Thursday mean noon will be 19h. 33m. 22.093, : " Mercury will south Thursday at 11:38 2, m., and rises before the sun, but near. bim, The superior conjunction will occur on the 25th Inst. Venus is now a brilliant’ evening: star. Next ‘Thursday evening she will’south ‘at 3:03 p. m., and set at 8:30 p. m.. She is now-among the stars of Aquaries,, and Saturday evening will pass Lambda of that constellation, less. than 1.de- gree north from that star, During the early part of the week ashe will be about 10 degrees south from the Urn, She willbe at her greatest eastern olongation from the sun the 20h of next month. + got eeren ‘Murs will south Thursday at 10:24, m. He is ‘now a morning star, situated near the Bow of Sagittarius, but not a brilliant object- Pee Jupiter will south Thorsday at 5:13 p.m., and’ set at 11:99. p. m.- He is nbout 314 degrees south- east from Delta Pisclum. He is still a brilliant object, but his distance from us is rapidly in- creasing. From 6:14 p.m. to 7:16 p. m, to-mor- row, ouly two of his satellites will be visible, the firat arid third being in eclips6, : * Saturn will south Thursday at 5:52 p.. m., and Set at13:19p.m. Heis now 9% degrees east- ward from Jupiter, and ¥ degree uortheast from ‘Mu Piacium. The’ appnrent diameters‘ of his ring system are, greatest 40 saconds, least 9% seconds; the. plane of the rings: forming an angle of a little more than 13. degrees. with the line of vision. The angle is slowly increasing. , Uranus will south Thursday at 3:23a. m.; right ascension 1b. Om. 233.; and declination 7 deg. 1 miu. north. Neptune will south ‘Thursday at 7:04, p. m.; | right ascension 2h. 38m. 403; and. declination north 18 deg. 85% min. ee yy ; There are now three comets around,’ but neither of, them.‘ amounts to much,’ in @ pop- ular senee.” The comet ‘Fechule'will ‘néxt Tues- day midnight be in 20 bours 50 minutes® right ascensionand 2: deg. 3 min. declination north, according to an ephemerts calculated -by S.C. Chandler, of Boston: The orbit is nearly coincident with that of the comet of 1807, which Bessel supposed to heye a period of not less than 700 years. e J. J. Mecm, ‘whose death was recently recorded, was one of the great men among the farwers of England. He employed the profits of a lucrative business in the purchase and im- proyement. of a worn-out, sandy, weedy, neg lected farm, which he speedily converted. into & productive garden. He devoted sll the spare energies of an active mind to the study of agri- cultural principles, and poured out money like wator in making experiments, the. results of which were freely given to the public. Wicld- ing a viorous pen, he assailed the follies of agriculture, and embodied common-sense’ views of husbandry in “plain language for plain people.” It.is doubtfal if his farming, 23 a. whole, ever paid. bim,’ but: it was highly bDeneficial to the agricultural public,-and -he was accustomed to remark that other farmers might learn more from his failures than his suc- cesses. He was the very essence of frankness in regard to his blundérs, Indeed, he dtd nothing ina ‘corner. His account. dnd balance-sheets, which were kept with great exactness, wetos open to the inspection’ and criticism of alt comers. Though he raised many crops at 8 loss tohimself, he was able to tell others howto grow them at a profit when he got through with them. . His failure in bdusiness' was snnounced on the 16th ult., and he departed this life in a fortnight atterward. It doesnot appear that bis financial ruin grew out of his farming, though the divétsion of capital in that direction may have contributed to it. His tailure is thoughtto have resulted from old-fashioned ways of doing business being supplanted by newer methods. —— : SPEAKING of wheat flour, the London Spec- tator of Dec. 25 has the following: a A. meeting of the. Bread Reform League was held at the Mansion House yestorday week, to promote the use of fiour made from the whole wheat after the outer husk or bran-busk has been taken otf it. by the process known as Dr. Morfit's. Bread so mado wus declared by the Rev. ‘Prof. Henslow, Prot. Church, ‘and other trained scientific chemists, to be far more nutri- tive and useful than either bread made with the whole busk including the bran, or the usual whito bread. It was said that the bran contains irritating elements which often prevent it from digesting well,, while the usual white bread is made only fromthe grain without that inner sbeath which has init much of the giuten, as well asof the pbospisates, essential to the tissues of the body. The strongest testimony by Baron Liebig th the value of this inner sheath of the wheat, as one of the-most valuable parts of the bread, was read to the meeting. An attempt hag been made by an American chemist, Prot. Hors- ford, toresture the: phosphates to the ordinary flour, so-that the bread . made by his and Messra. MacDougall’s ‘process _is as white as ordinary. baker's brend, while Prof. Horsford holds it to be as nourishing as the bread produced by Dr. Morfit’s process; and if this plan is really effect- ual, such bread, which {s perfectly. white, and of very good flavor, might find favor, even, where the semi-brown: bread that includes the inner se would be sejected for Frere certalaly 1s an ignorant prejudice in many quarters a any but the whiteat bread. ra :. Says the London Gazette: - Anexccedingly Interesting experimentin home colonization is now hernt tried tn Cheshire. : Mr. Binney, a Manchester solicitor, with a firm faith in the saving virtues of a peasant proprictary; was impelled a year aro by 2 suggestion made by Lord Derby to put bis theories to tho test of ractico. He bought an, estate of 150. acres at Whitley, in Cheshire, and: id it in Bmall lots of one, two, Or nore acres each “to.:men’ who were willing to settie-on the land. About halt the estate has been resold, and twenty. habita~ tions have already beon run up for the accom- teodation of the small land-owners. Enavh sat- ier owns the fee simple of bis plot, and, asthe colony is-within easy distance by rail from the great industrial centres of South Lancashire, they dan command’a stiever-falling market for their produce, -If.this colony of market-garden~ ers or peasant-proprictors should prove a. ** trade. success,” a practical step of the first: importance will bnve been taken to-solve one of most difficult-problems of our time. Me Hg ging mage $= ‘Tue many friends of John Russell Young, the journalis¢, will be pained to hear of the death of his wife, Mrs. Rosa Young, who died in New York City Tuesday.’ She ‘had ‘been in’ fraii health for a long’ time and accotipanied her husband to'California in’ the hope that ‘the climate would prove: beneficial, but the depres sion consequent: upon the loss of her children prevented such’ 2 result. It bas been Mr. Young’s sad fortune. by this loss to have the last member of his immealate family group re- uary notic ae this obig, Mrs. Jobn Russell Young, who di was tho daughter of Jona C. Fis een, | for forty years was an oflcer of thet i States Senate... She came -of an old Mette fatally, being the niece of Father HeaeaM Baltimore, ana of Sister Willlamanan fete toe head of Mount St, Vincent Sotioal, eect go wall known in New York. Mrs. Youre mw fered from a lingering illness, contre} 2 ing a visit to California, which was Inmate by the death of & daughter, her only suugeed onilg, in September Inst... from this Hye" * never recovered, and. yesterday sank, ay wa the 39th year of her age. She was a wonay rare dignity: sind boanty of: character, yan, accomplishments, endowed with charity qt deep, sincere, unosteutatious piety. en ie) ‘Tue high hopes, says the Pall Malt Gazety, which were raised in certain circles by tha ‘Jaing reports sont home'concerning the det King Mtesa, of Africa, to receive Christian sionariés have been somewhat rudely dather the latest advicés from Uganda. Altho 7. of the Roman Catholic missionaries had tho King of some disorder from which he suffering, and had, by his skill a doctor, a ‘some converts to his creed, the King himseip,«. i mained obdurate,; }He ta sald to hava relapti into a savagery from which it Is ex re doubtful that he ever emerged, and demonstrated” the reality of his apostasy by sacrificing 9 iy. ‘man belngs on the graves of his ancestors, at @ great council held twelve months ago, French,’ and Mohammedan missionarles wiry forbidden. to teach, and converts were threat, ened ‘with’ death." Tae assembled Chlet4 wen, of opinion that theyrequired noreligious tea, ers in Uganda, but guns, powder, and perms,” sion-caps.” And yet we cilt these mex te civilized!. The inner conviction of -nearly ¢, Cabinet in’ Christendom: has never beet tats” frankly expressed.; - : es 3 Tue London Telegraph (Tory) attributes” much of the misery of the Irish peasantry their incorrigible “ mania for early marriages -The existence of this * mavia” is Sirf ossummptiiy not justified the by facts. A pamphlet pabilsbag the dtherdey by Mr: Pim om tha Irish (questicg contained some -remarkable: statistics whicg may be commended to those who think tts premature matrimony is the chief source ¢ -{relanid's woes. ‘The Irish neither marryeatie nor multiply more rapidly than the English Scotch. ‘Quoting from the consusretainsof 17, | Mr. Pim shows that marriages were only 44 pe 1,000 in Ireland, against 7.1 in/ Scotland andalig . England. The increase ver 1,000 was5.Sin Ircng . 1 15.1 in Scotland, and 15.7.1n England. Thege sty. _| tistics as to early marriages are conclusfre, Iq 1871, 91 per cent of young men between thé agey of 16 and 26. were unmarried. In Scotland tiz .proportion was 8 per cent, and ip Engiand and Wales 77. Thus only 9 -per cent of Irishmeg ‘marry before they complete their 25th yeas, while ‘the percentage’ among Scotchmen. ff andaniong Englishmen 23°! ~ ; a ~ SPEAHING of the growth of cities, the New York Sun says: Ve ie 5 A eaee, S ‘The increase of the population of the- Berlio is altogether unparalleled in the See ‘of Capitals. In 1860 ita population was, while, according to the census taker thd other day, it now contains 1,118,600, an increase: ot more than twofold in twenty years. There are towns, indeed, which in a similar time hare sprung from ten inhabitants to a hundred thow. -sand, but not one which grown’ from half mniliion to a million. ‘This increase in the size Berlin is the mure singular inasmuch ‘as Berl ‘possesses no natural advantages whutever. It! nota port, or a grent centre of trade, ors grat [ix lat, Sterile country,..an almost barren sand-pl and ie river is only a dirty, sluggish, ‘putrid, insignit- cant stream. Berlin owes ita increase tothe immense, though temporary, prosperity induced by wplethora of money after the wave of com quest on the crestof which the Germans swett. & through France. People flocked from the ‘provinces after the war, because they belieyed-> ‘as peopte In rural districts ouce believed of Lon -don—that the streets were almost paved with gold. For a-time all went well; speculation of .§ every kind was rampant; building operation afforded employment to immense hosts of luboty ers; factories spring up, and immigrants fi in. The reaction came in: due time, andit probable that for years past the position of the average workingman at Berlin has been worst than that of his fellow In any other Capital id Europe, with the exception of St. Petersburg.::; manufacturing: city.. It Hes in a a saat ’ ‘Tre Philadelphia Press gives the follow a ing authoritative statement of the cause of th rupture between President Hayes and Ms .. The term of a prominent Federal officer # Maine was apprcaching its close.’ Mr. Blabt and Mr. Hamlin, the: two Senators from: thy State, were invited togive their views as {ote succession, and called tugether on the P: Civil-Service reform would have required ta Yeappointment ef the incumbent, and he acceptable to both Senators. The President however, indicated that he would not be reap: inted, and recounted several -names that hid en presented for the place. All of them wert fairly satisfactory’ eave one, and as to this ond ‘Mr. Blaine safd the appointment would b¢ sonally offensive tohim. The next day. f that the matter should be de ieee Blaine returned to the- White iiouse andre J ‘peated that the designation of the individual ia question would be personally offensive to bim self, Among most men stich an expression from such a source would be conclusive. Yetthe President turned around end sent that very fe name to the Senate. steal Carr. McGrarts, of the Chicago’ Post. Office, is not responsible for the late day de livery of the-Enstern newspaper’ mall.” Tht fault is chiefly with the railroad trains, which, although due at 10 a. m., far too frequently not arrive before 1 or- p. m., and sometime still later. ‘The roads leading east. aro:cripples along on a’single track each, when they.hart plenty of business for a double. track, om (watered) stock enough tasued, on. which ;t¥ public ‘is . paying. interest, to build the track.’ When the trains from the Bast fail to: rive before noon these newspaper mails are’ distributed ‘until the next “crew” of cletH, come on deck in‘ the ‘afternoon, about spit Between: this interregnum in tho ‘6 “crews "and the belatement of trains the é® livery of the Eastern newspapers 1s: ¥ untila late hour. - We don’t’ clearly.sce what'# to be done about.it except to growl. ? —— Does anybody suppose Gen. Garfield iso ing to, enjoy life muck dur! the next montbs?.. The compifeacons, which be must: fn selecting hia Cabinet grow in multitude every day. There is scarcely a State in the aie, where there ia not: some party qui ‘which Be 4s expected elther to smooth: down or di steer clear of. But bis Cabinet {s not te call problem. ‘There are the foreizn appoiatmeds and countless ‘home appointments which ‘s press.upon him from every quarter. at bee not a zealous disciple of an iron-clad Ch i Service system by the time he gets through these, nothing will ever make him one—A@ York Tribune, : ‘ ig ‘Ilfnois bas no party quarrel which be is oe pected to smooth down or steer: clear of." DM. ff all serene in the great Prairfe State. Nai frown or wiinkle ruffles ber calm and pesotal, brow. : nd) -‘Tne Cincinnati Commercial is mili. some of. the brethren jealous. Ono’ of thet tartly observes:. at wee Mr, Surat Halstead is now fixing up & Cabos tor Gen. Garfield. He has got Bis the seven members fixed, and these are 7 for Secretary of State; Foster for Secretary, Interior; Campbell, of Weat Virginia. for Eo master-General; Senator Bruce, late of Mt Sippl, new of Olio, for Secretary of tha Gr ‘Alligon, of towa, for tho ‘Treasury., Ue course of the ‘next sixty days Mr. fT ‘ee Probably be able to pick out the right mee the two places remaining. ‘There willbe however, for only one more Ohioman. —_, Tue Christiancy case in a nutshell: aie low who would do what Giro swears he naa a0 would commit perjury without a moment's beh itation. ; His testimony proves noshing. Oe letters prove everything—that 1s proved ba lottera were written by ‘a very silly and woman, but not’ by’ very bad woman. To may be-explained on the bypothesili of rots cence. They are easier explained 00 "a pothesis of guilt... In any case :th Dot yet suftsient to convict in a court of Jf, a June Fretb was. thé Bratus wht ont tho fron bome t6 the Southern soul in ety reme Court in County *(Va) case: The Pre ity of debts owing to citizens of Northern 78, though the same were ‘declared sequester the. Govéfameiit: of the Confederate’ pe The Savannah '(Ga.)’ News mourns the ped Indge Field from grace more ever: than cision which he was simply the means of "Te consuiiiption of beer In ines county as shown’ by tho -{nteroal-reventie TOT aay we tan twe faerease. During the uit a year taxes were pafd on 33,887,000 barrels ind OF Hiqior. Each’ barrel contains 31 rallou® anne consumption was, therefore, 424,000,000 es or 828 gullons per: capita per &anum equal to about 150: mugs ‘of beer. pert) 2; num for every man, woman, and -_ladeeniacspecin -ve4:taate 9 1 acne rene pa ences aieceAeseaemnseb ety baie rey ma ge eran ncinarres ane Re oT MR Cat tie Na RCT A