Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1881, Page 4

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BXteon P8R0 PAPELcu. e v Elght and Twolvo Pago Paper. « Biltnon uga o b TRIBUNE BRANCIL OFFICES, A7 CITCAGO TRINUNE hos ostablished braneh officen for the recalpt of subscriptions nud advertises « goentsan follows: - NEW YORK~Room 2 Tribune Bullding. F.7.3Mc- FADDEN, Manager. GLASGOW, Hcollnnd—Allan's American News Agency, 81 ltenfeld-st. LONI Eng.—Amotiean Exchange, #9 Etrand, . Faverly's Theatre. Desrhorn sireet, corner of Monroe. tortainment. Minstrel one ITooley's Thentre. Tandolph.street, botwoen Clark and L Salle, En- gagemont of Morton & 1omor's Minstrels. | Aendemy of Muale. Halsted stroct, near Modison, lde. Engogo- .. yent of Georga W, Thompson. * Yucup' Olymplo Theatro. Ciark street, betwoen Lake and Itandolph, Engagee i montof Martino's Novelty Combination, . AfoVicker's ‘Thentre. Madison siroet, Uotwean Btato and Dearborn, + Engagemont of Mr, M. B, Curtls. *Eam’l of Posen.” Grand Opern-Honn Clark streat, opposit now Court-} wment of 20! Broitl Nussoll. * Edgewood 0. Engage: Folks,"” Centrnl Music-FHall Comor of Itandolph and Htate stroots. The Stod- |, Qard Lecturce. i Exposition Bullding. ! Lake front, opposite Adams street. Whale oxhl- . “pitton from Y a. . to 10 p W, . TRURSDAY, JANUARY @7, 1881, -1 Turnow Governor of Missourl hias found : | mway to clreumyent the State lnw, which /.{ xequires the removal of ofilcinls appolnted 1. by, him'to bo approved by the Senute, le . ' has exacted from ecach of his appolutees resignntionsigned inblank, tobo filled out and i, " tiled nt discretion, The practice Is, of course, a violation of the spirit, If not of the letter, " of the Constitution. But 1t makes the Gov- ! ernor master of the situatlon, Only n Mis- ;- souri ofiee-secker, and one very hard set for “. bread and butter at that, wonld subscribe to | & condlitlon so humillatin SexATor Epyusns proposes to investl- gnto the newspapers for printing the Chineso Treaty in advance of its approval by the Senate. Ilis eloquent remarks on the enor- ity of reportlng proceedings in executive ‘sesslon were themselvos duly reported, and -now ho desires to Investlgate this second .+ Dbreach of etiquet. It Senntor Edmunds 1 * goes on In this way to Investigate and fur- " nish matter for investigauon nt the same " time, thero. need bo no other business wnder- + taken by the Senate during his term of office, !.“'which docs not expire until 1857, The Sen- itors.can only prevent the reporting of pro- ceedings in exccutive session In one way: and that is by making them so dreary and flat that no newspaper wlll care to report them, ‘which 1s ordInarily the cas v !v \ i ¢ 1 It may besald of Judge Thurman that no s, part of his Senatorinl enreer becomes hilm so .+ ~vmuch oy the leaving of it. 1l rotives to i+ | vrivato life with the respect and good , will of 31t almost all his political opponents, When Gen, i1 Garfleld was clected to the Senate o yearago i1 hetaok oceasion to puy « deserved compli- ) ment to tho ability and purlty of Judge # "Thurman’s charactor, and both Gov. Foster 1;. =and Seeretary Sherman added thelr testimony ¢ tothesamo effect n short time ngo. No fact it stands out so conspictiously in his publie iife 23 his managewent of the Pucific Rallroad Funding acts. Tho great honor which ho gained from his services in that connectlon 1s o Just reward for his conduct, and a res { i aninder to other members of Congress that, s thorny, It-leads to a sufe end. Tue new system of money-orders, which .+ Thas lately come Into oporation [y Grent Brit- » aln, enables thd poorest person to draw n check for a'small amonnt without having n pank necoutit. Iencoforth, instead of buy- ipg o money-order in the old fashion, one - qrinted check, payhu one pound amd two * pencs for n one-pound check, and pro ratn | for larger or smaller sums, The Iden ought | 1o bo taken up and adopted in the United ¢ States, The rate for money-orders 1s now l too high, and the red-tape;connected with {1 getting them s excessive. 1t might bo pose i siblo at least to supplement tho presont sys- tem with registered ehecks or drafis, which i ghould be sold precisely ng o bank now dis- § poses of exchango on New York, the sender 1 taking the risk of losing by a forged Indorse- .| ment at the other end, which In practico very ! -seldom occur - ' BENATOR DE LANG'S Deol-Gambling bill, ;- now pending In the State Senate, i meeting with an opposition in that body which, to say tho least, Is unexpeeted, as it §s a bill to prevent the most insidious form of gnmbilng that tempts young men inour large citles, The chiet objectlon mado to it Is, that it s o blow ulwed ut farmers' fairs and agricult- aml assoclations.” Well 1t farmers’ falrs and agrleultural assoclutions* cannot Lo .maintalned without gmmnbling and other blackleg nppllances, then o bill should be promptly Introduced to abollsh farmers® fulrs and ngrienitural assoclations s public Lovils and nulsances of the ftest obnoxlous Kind, If a bill to preveut pool-selilng eannot Do passed In the 1ilinots Leglslature, then in the namo of a1l that is consistont leb it wipe out ull tho statutes agninst gumbling, for thg'uflwr forms of gambling there provided sufust are open and honest as compared With this curse of pool-selling. . Benuis, Jan. L—Muny agriculturists aro suruestly complaining ngaiust tho hinportation tuto Germuny of Awoerlean food productions, which thoy suy scriously uiTots thelr inturasts, This shuply means that the agriculturists “cof Germany hove not been able for two or +. three years past to produce enough food for the conammption of the Germmn people; « thereforo they are opposed to the Germun peoplo Mving Insthe cities and fowns sup- plylog thelr deticiency of food from the ‘American surpluses, Aud the disinterested ¥ gpasony s, that 1 e Amerlean supules wero may go to a,post-offico and purchase o. excluded, famine prices for bread and meat would exist In Gormany, and theso unseifish bauers could grow rich upon the misery nnd starvation of their fellow-gountrymen. Itis the preventlon of this corner on the food supplles which the German agriculturists say “‘serlously affeets their Interests,” The quickest way of breeding both a famine and o revolution woukl be to prohibit the im- portation of food from America and run prices up to starvation rates. ‘Tur:repudintionof theraitrond debtof Min- nesotn, ns the New York 7'ribune shows, Is a totally indefensible act, Whatever the origl- nal exense for it may have been, the State ts niow abundantly able to pay, and could better afford to liquidate the bonds twice over than to have Its good name disgraced and eredit Impatred. ‘The amount of the bonds when issued, In 1858, wns §2,295,000, With nceu- mulated interest the whole debt now amounts to about £0,000,000, DBut the nssessed valun- tlon of property In the Stato i3 8258055543, and the real value not less than §800,000,000. Ience the debt, with past-due interest, Is not more than three-fourths of 1 per cent of tha property in the State, "The tax-levy is very Iow, being only §1 on the 81,000 on a third of the nctunl value of property, or 10 cents on 1he $100, and ounly 28 centson the $100 in taxesof all kinds, ‘The whole debt eould probably be patd by disposing of the public Innds of the State. There Isno valid exeuse for the refusnl of Minnesota, which has aunadrupled in population and multiplied its property by elght since 1560, to pay its hon- est debts. There can Le no dispute about the legality of the debt. Tur argnments goncerning the effects of educeatlon, bnsed on thostatistics of crime in Texns and Massachusetts, don't hang . to- gether. The Galveston News, In an inde- nendent effort to show that erime Is pun- ished In Texns, snys; *Texas I3 the eleventh State In the Union in point of population, yet tho soventn in regard to the number of conviets,” Georgly, Massachusetts, Michl- gan, Now York, Ohlo, and Pennsylvania are tho States having o larger number. *‘The figures of other States,” the News goes on to B0y, ‘“are largely augmented by the petty offenders in reform-schools, work-houses, and houses of correction,—a class not ap- pearing in the siatistics of this State.” The lnst clause dispels the whole mystery, and cuts the ground from under the persons who were laborlously endenvoring to prove that eduention made eriminals In Massachusetts, while tho want of it cnused tho pcople of Texas to be moro virtious than they otherwise would be. ‘I'ho statistles of Massnchusetts are far more complete than those of ‘l'exas, IDesides, the pun- ishment of petty erime of nll Kinds fs more certain in the former Stato than In the latter. In tho hope of preventing her youth from growing upto be professionnl crlml- nalg, Massachusetts has established many Juvenile reformatorles, and the efforts nt pre- vention havo been used to prove that erhme abounds more in that State than in Texas, Faets like these knock the props from under MM, Richard Grant White's gorgeous argu- ment in favor of abolishing the public-school systen, ‘I'nx; **Ohlo idea” a3 construed by Presi- dent 1ayes seems to be as pertinaclous ns that other *Ohlo lien” orlginally devel-’ oped by Old Bill Allen and adopted by Senator Thurman, and the former might be as Injurious to the Ilepublican party ns the Iatter was to the Democratic party, if it were not for tho fact that it will explre Dy limitation on the 4th of Mareh next. I'his “Ohlo ldea” seems to Includo the appointent of an Ohlo man to every vacaney that way occur under the Prest dential - patronage that can, by any streteh of propricty, be brought within tench of that State. It has heen Hlustrated nrgain by the appolutment of Stanley Mntthews to the vaeancy on the Su- vreme Bench caused by the resignution of Justice Swayne. President Hayes lins thus seen flt to fuore the clatms’of this Judiclal cireuit which were yielded In the resignntion of Judge Davis, and also the strong claims which Michigun presented in the person of Judge Cooley. He has thus souglit to give. the Ohio District three out of the nine Julges of the United States Supreme Court, though there are thirty-seven other States In the Union, And In ‘order to do this he has turned o deaf ear to all the protests that have been imnde, not uerely ogalnst the hnpropriety of sclect- ing an Ohlo man, but also the speeial unfit- ness of the very man ho was determined, on personal grounds, to appolnt.” "This Is n case n whieh it is the duty of the Senate to exer- ciso Its constitutionnl diseretion of refusal to assent to an appolntment which s In so many respeets unwise and Improper. NATIONALIZATION OF PUBLIC S8CHOOLS, ‘Tho subject of Natlonal encourngement amd aid to popular eduention is nequiring o strong hold upon public attention. The ut- terances of President ayes in his spreches and messnges; the advancement made by the Republiean party In this direction in the decluration of its Inst platform that “it s the duty of. the Natlonal Govermment to nkd pop~ ular eduention Lo the extent of ita constitu- tional nbility "3 tho recognition of tho con- stitutional nuthority of the Government to establlsh and distribute n Natlonal educen- tonal fund Implied by the pussoge of the Burnsido bl fn the Senate; the attention which the subjeet is recelving from the lead- Ing Journals; and, wo may addd, the persists ence with which Tug Cricaco TrineNe hns urged this matter durlne the past year,—ull these nre ¢ircmmstances which can hardly fall to securo from the political Jeaders n se- tlous consldoration of the subjeet, Judge 'Fourgée, the author of “A Fool's Prrand,” clearly indleated In his later vol- ume—*Bricks Without Straw "—that the chlef hope of a penceful and favorable solu- tion of tho raca conflict ut tho South is thu spread of common-school eduention, In thy enrrent number of the North Awerican Te- vlcw the snuie gentleman contends nwn n- telligent line of argument, and considering tho matter malnly from u polltical point of view, that the Republican party hns o new wisslon before it fn tha establishment of a Natlona! system of ald and supervision for. the umintenanco and direction of the com- mon-school system, e predicts that the fultllhinent of this misslon whil prolung the careerand usefnluess of the Republican party hythus foresceing and averting an Impending danger through the Jgnorant use of the bul- Jot wul the subordination of the masses in certaln seetions of the country to the frands of demngogs and the superlor force of intel- ligenco unfulrly and viclously employdd, 1t somo of the leading minds In politfes will ndopt this view and press it to practical re- sults they may nvall thewmselves of an oppor- tunity for persunal distinction and publie usefuluess which no other field offers them, From the statlstics in regurd to llliterncy furnished by the census of 1870, which the late census will not materiully changein proportions, Judge Tourgée has mado up the following statement of facts bearlng upon the political conditjon of the South: 1, The sixteen Bouthern States contain about one-third of the dutire voting popula- tlon of the country and three-fourths of all its iiiteracy, A % About 43 per centof 1o voters of the . LM UMIVAGU CLKIBUINEG? Southern States aro unablo to read their ballots, 4, It only requires 6 per cent of the literate voters of tho South, added to Uts iiliterate voters, to control those States. P 4, IC the Mllterate vote of the South bo suppressed by forco or neutralized by fraud, 24 per cent of the entire vote of {hnt seetion mny control its potitienl nctlon. 5. The Southern States have 138 Electoral votes, 72 per cent of o majority in the Iouse of Representatives, or the power toelectn Prestdent, and 84 per cent of amajority in the Senatfe. These faets are full of significnuce, The rule of n minority faction in the South hns been s direet resultof the prevailing Hlit- eraey. ‘Ihe only eseape from this Injustico which mennces the conlrol of the whola Na. tion as well nsof the South, Is in affording the illiterate the chance to acquire sufiiclent Inforinntion to judge ot thelr political duty, to see that thelr ballots represent theiv pref- crences, to nssure themselves that their votes are counted, and to protect themsclves agninst the frauds that now disfrauchise themn inInvge part. Al this is properly an affair of the Natlonal Governent. . 1t Is not neces- sary to follow Judge Tourgée's argument in regard to the constitutionality of tho procecd- tugs neeessary to exercise the authority in- volved, "That fs a question which whl un- doubtediy be deelded In the aflirmative when- ever there shall be a controlling disposition 1o proceed, Judge Tourgée's plan is to ralse n Natlonal fund, distribute it on the bosis of Hiiterney directly to the school districts, require that schools freo to all shall be mnintalned durlng n speeitied portion of the year, exact full reporls and exercise National supervision, provide for n foifeiture to the general fund In tho case of districts that fail to comply with the requirements of tho Jaw, ‘and confine the Natlonal ald to one- half the nmount necessary to maintain the publie schools,—the balance to be supplied by the State or private subsertption. The general principles of this scheme are correet, and it is not necessary to dliscuss the detalls of Itsoperation until these prinelples shall recelve recognition from the controlling nien in public life, But there s one notgble respeet in which Judge Tourgés lags behind Tue Trinuse, e does not suggest how ho would rajse the Natlonal cducationnl fund he proposes. 'I'ne: Tminuse hns repentedly pointed out the most popular method—viz.; to devote the revenue obtained from tho tax on spirits to this purpose, The points In favor of such a proceeding may be briefly res stated: 1, The revenue from the whisky-tax may be safely counted as surplus revenue for many years to come, 2, Sueh u tnx is not oppressive, but s paid by consumers In detall who are not con- scious of Its payment, 8, "Lhere is n peenlinr fitness In so taxing bad appetites, which cannot be suppressed, s tc make them yield a compensation for the ovil they do. 4. So long ng the whisky-tax be set aslde for educntionnl purposes, no faction or clique Wil bo.able to reduce It 6. "T'o the exteit that such o tax shall apply to tha malntenance of the common-school system, the real aud personnl property of the ey Is borrowed. pose by law after a contract Is made to change the stipulation is not only uneonsti- tutional, but Is rank dishonesty, “The adop- tlonof these bills, applicable to alt forms of credit, would result In the prohibition of ulf loans In llinols, and In any enso In Inerens- Ing the rates of Interest more than cnough to relmburse the lender for thoe taxesthat might be fevied on’ him for the borrower’s benelit. No sophistry can make such Intermuddiing between lender and borrowor right, wise, or expedient, It would be n great and Ignorant Dlunder to enact any such dishonest law, THUKSDAY, JANUAKY w7, 1881, 'WELVIEE PAGES. crs of these Ifens as joint owners in the land, apportion tho taxes among these ereditors and the supposed owner of the fee, and, fol- lowing these Individuals, residents and nons residents, colleet the taxes from them, In he meantime, under these bills the debtor Is released from the payment of taxes to the extentot the amountof the mortgnges. 1t Is of course unnecessary to sny that all the owner of a farmor elty lot will hnve to loisto exeente fictitlous mortgages to the full valuo of the property, and thua eseape taxation altogethier, while the State is hunting up all over the country tha supposed lholders of these morlgnges, Any departure from the present rule of collecting the taxes from the property taxed, without reference to tho legal or equitablo Interests of persons in the property, must prove most disastrous to thoe State, nnd fuvolve the tax-colleeting author- ity In endless litigation, At present tho State makes no attempt to find the owner; it levies Its taxes on tho vroperty, and leaves questlons of ownershin to the Courts, All the contracts In tho form of mortgages or other lens upon real estato in this State expressly stipulate that the mortgageor shall pay the tnxes, Ilow, thew, ean the law inter- post to violnte such contract and 1elease the mortgagear from the terins of the written agreement, and transfer the taxation upon the mortgagee? 1ie has no present property rlghts; 50 lung ns the Interest is paid he has no control whatever over the property, and can have none at any time until, fu ense of default of the payment of the wrincipal of the debl, he forecloses the mortgage nnd buys the property, or finds some other pur- chaser, Untll then he has no property-in- terest In the land upon which he holds mortange. "These bills proposing to make tho holders of liens pay the taxes on the property of their debtors in violation of exlisting eon- tracts are nothing more nor less than an ig- norant device to enablo men dishonestly in- clined to use the Stato law to chent their creditors and evade the payment of their debts, The State has no Interest between debtor amd ereditor In this mutter further than tocollect Its taxes. As to who ahall pay the taxes Is o matter of contract between the parties, and If the borpower requires the ITender to pay the taxes, or any part of them, Jet that watter be agreed on hefore the mon- But for the State to inter- CHARGING THE JURY. A gentleman living at St. Louls has writ- ten an interesting If not very Instructive pamphlet entitled “ Charging the Jury.” ‘Ihoe thine wns when the Court charged the jury Dboth as to the lnw and the facts, and verdicts were generally the echioof the Conrt’s charge, Sinee the chauge of the law by its growth, Jurles have become Judges of the faets, and Courts In this country have been restrained from Intimnting what thelr verdict should be. ‘Il Court, however, has the power to set astde the verdiet and to glve what is called a “new trial.” Nevertheless, the churge of tho Court, or what aro more gen- erally styled the Instructions of the Court, to citlzens will be released. 6. The application of this revenue to the support of the schools will be the substitu- tion of a tax that is not felt for many miilions of dollars that are now taken directly trom the puckets of the people. 7 Theuse of the surplus revenito in the spread of Information and development of good vitizenship will remoye tho temptutlon to squander it among the substdy-hunters, 8. 'I'he money thus saved to the taxpayers in the various States will be worth twiee as mucl: to thea fn thelr own haids as it would be In the reduction “of n public debl which will cost them not more than 8i¢ per cent to enrry,—even if they could trust to such re- duetlon 1f the revenue were not used for edueationn] purposes, whieh 1s by no means certalu, ' It will be very strango If somo far-seelng man in publie Hife shall not selze upon the opportunity for a carcer which such n scheme ns this offers to cournge, enorgy, and abillty. TAXATION OF CREDITS, Wo have leretofore commented wpon a Vil now pending n the Legisluture of 1= nols, repenllng so much of the Rovenus taw as provides n tax on renl-estate mort- gages, mul providing that the tax on tho mortgaged premises hereafter shall be appor- tioned Letween the owner of the fee and the owner of the mortgepe, nccording to thelr respective Interests, A shmilar bill has been futroduced by Smith, of Sangmmon, hut whieh provides for tuxing all manner of re- corded indebtedness, and that the debtor shall be prohibited (under perhaps the penal- ty of felony) from paying any part of the principal or interest of the debf, unless the creditor shindl first pay the tax on the mort- guge or other Indebtedness, . ho tirst b1IL, und perhaps the second one, is founded on the unquestionable fuct that taxatlon of property and the taxation of mortgnges or other flens on the property is duplieate taxation, Fver sinco the passngo of the Revenuo aet of 187, Tui TrnuNs lins preseuted the trutle of that proposition to the ottentlun of the Legislnture, but the linols ** statesmen,” skilled in finance, who think the possession of eapital eriine to bo vopressed or punished, liave Insisted that the ovidence of a debt was property, aml therefore was of necessity taxn- ble, and should be taxed, No umount of rensoning has heon ably to remove this Im- presslon from the minds of thousandsof peaple even of the intelligont classes ontslile of thy Leglslature, Tha diseovery that to 1nx real estate and also a wortgage on the same property s double taxatlonls n hopeful slgn that in time the Legistuture will discovs or that taxation on ull torms of Indebiedness must of necessity bo double taxation, just ns mueh 8o ns the taxution of mortguges on real estate, and therefore should bo abollshed g an absurd wonstrosity, ‘The bills pencing In our Leglslnture, how- over, Instead of meeting the question falvly, propuso u most fncongruous, mul It put in the form of Inw, & most hazardous rewedy, [Thoy propose 1o depart from tho long-cstale Nshed practice sl prinelple of the law of this Statelo tux real estate without reference toownership, Thus, when a tract of land is owned by o nnnber of helrs, or by o number of persons holding undivided or severul In- terests, tho State Jgnores the partieulnr owne ership, mnkes no attelpt to fix the relntive Interests ov prowrietorship, but simply ana direetly valnes and taxes the Innd liself, and theso taxes ure, a lien on the property and .follow the property untll paid, » Tho State Tax law has never undertaken to. in- quive Inte ary man's Indebtedness on his and, when ereated, how mueh, or to whom tobo pald. It taxes the lund itself and not the slleged ot supposed owner, or part owns er, 'The tax Jaw has no Interest In nscer- tafnlng the degree of titlo any one hnston pleco of ground, or how 1uch or how little cupltal of other persons the landownor may have borrowed; tiat 1s his private affalr, and not & matter in which tho tax Jaw has the slightest regurd or intereat, "Theso Jegisiative bills propoess to abandon this wise polloy, and bave tho Assessor dls- ‘cover the amount of the debts which are llens on the propesty, and, treating the owns the jury, are still awimportant polut inevery trial. - ‘The Court isgencrally nsked by both sldes In the ense to Instruct the jury general- ly,~that I8, to explain and define to them the genornl principles of the law applicable to the pending ease. Skill In the preparationof thiess Instructlons s highly desirable; the- oretleally thoy may Influence the jury, but, whether they do so or not, they furnish o serles of polnts on which to base amotion for a new trint or an appenl, In case of an ndverso verdiet, Ttisn trial of skill on the part of the contending parties to entenp and entangle the Court into saying something, or into the use of some wortdl or expression, or into the rofusal of some abstract proposition of doubtful Import, that the ground may bo Iald for & now trinl, oran nppeal. It is now the Invariuble practice n this country for the defeated party Innense tried beforen jury to moave, nsamatter of course, forn new trinl, Courts nro compelled, therefore, to the utmost care, cven attho sacrificeof honest convictions, to endeavor to aveld error in thelr so-called Instructions, which Instructions have, in nine cnses out of ten, not the slightest Intluenco on the verdict, Mr. ‘Thompson, the author of this pamphlet, endeavors to show that the effort to free the Jury from the Inftuencoof the Court Lins been extended fur boyond nll reasonable propriety, Contrasting the reports of cases In the In- glish books with those In tho books in this country, Mr, Thompson polnts out the great number of decisions on the propriety ot giv- Ing or refusing certain instructlons, or ad- mitting or rojecting certnin evidence, * with searcely any attentlon paid to the question whethor tho verdiet is righty—decisions which, In tho eyes of an English jurist, would look trivial In the oxtreme,” Ileate tacks vigorously this modern practlee of pro- fecting the jury frow every shado of misdl- reetlon by the Court, nnd he says of thls Bystems: Under It the numbor of now trinis, of frivolous i uls, nnd the consequent deluys of Justice, have mo an ubdolute repronch 1o the lnws i Judicinl foreo Is nx]ulrml greatly in oxcess of whut would athorwise bu needed: the number of persons who are kopt away from their busi- ness in the performance of jury sarvico s so #reat na serfounly to inconvenlence tha husinoss community, and the exponse which uttonds tho administrition of Justice s usarlous burden to suclety, . . AMr, Thompson ndvlses o return to the old system of allowing the' Court to really.in. struct the jury ns to the law of the case and In Jts bearine upon the facts, e ingists that the Influence of an intelligent, just, aud learned Court ought to Lo felt by o jury, and would bo appreciated by them, Then, upon a motlon for a new trinl, nid upon an appeal, tho Court shonld frst consiler whether tho verdlet was right, and, If so, then that ver- dictshould be permitted ta stand nnehanged, “The Nutlon, in colimenting upon this pub- Heation, poluts out how diffieult It must be to overcoms the now estublished soparation of the functions of the Court and jury, Con- splevous B this partleular is the respect for and dependence upon precedont in the An- glo-8axon syatem, That paper thus states the growth and power of precedent In our taws i Kvory Hitlgant bos an Inationnblo tight to make the wodt of every orror conmiited in the course of the Judivial dotermination of his rights by the Court, He is ontitled tou falr trisl, and, It he does uot ;{"t ono, to.n new teial, This right, howaver, mlght bo excrelsed every duy without any new rules of law belng established, wero it not for tho position rl\-un o precedont In our system, 1t 18 perfeetly onsy ta convelve of the right of_ uppen) buing oxerclsed without tho e s13lon of thu sppeal yolug wy furtbos than do- teemintug that (n the caso uf A ugalust il thoro et be & now trial. But with us whonovorsuch a declalon 13 reachud, it does fur moro than de- cidu the partieulur cage; it detormines u rulo ot law which in sl futiee cases of o slinflar char- uctor must be followed by mil lnforior courts. If interlor cuurte disregard the ruly, anothor avpeal setties it, since It may bo nssumed that tho court of lnss resort will ntmost Invarlably adbere to its own declslons. Now, cach now casy which arlses estublishes udditous to or qualifls catlons of tho rule, untll, fluully, whut wus simply {u the Nrst fostanoc a decision us to the righti of A and B beoowos a priuciple of juris- prudence lwbedded fn tha {aw liko a positive statuto enacted by tho Leglalature, but far inoro rinly, becauso acts of the Legislature may be ropenled, hut rules of lnw established by Ju du:llm Ieglslation aro judicially nimost wnrepeals able, “Tho Nation clnlms, also, that there can bo no roversal of this condition of things untit thero Is a raversnl of popular sentlinent on the general subject of tho relation of Courts and juries, and says that whenever thero s n n general feeling that Courts should bo strengthencd, that Justice Is better adminls- tered In tho long run by giving them all power needed,’thero may be n chuange, and possibly the eleetive judlelary system will be nbolished, and the_tenure durlng good be- havior restored. 1s 1t not, however, vossible to rectify tho now notorlous nbuses and failures of tho Jury system? ‘The statute law in this coun- try ia tho resnit of experience in tho defects in the common law, 1t Is the purpose of statutes to adapt the Inw to the over-chang- ing relations of business and of soclety, 1t tho separation of tho functions of the Courts and of the Jurles has heen too extreme, and 50 wide as to defent the great onds of justico and convert jury trials into publie farces, s thers not an adaptability in the legisin- tlon of tho country amd In the public sentiment that cun so far restrain and furn _back this tendency to separa- tion that the administration of Justice may be strengthened when It has become weak ? May not legisintton,whilo preserving ull tho great benefits of jury trinls, limit the excessive absurdities which now disgrace the system ? May not legislation strip the iaw of many of its technical inventlons and make tho verdlet of & jury when fornd upon re- view by an Intelllgent and skillful Court to be just and right in Its essentlal finding the finding also of the Conrt and the final jndg- ment of the law? Ought not justiee and right be the sole ends of all judicinl proceed- inus, and ought not yerdicts by jurles stand or fall nceording to their justice and merit, Instead of being afirmed or set aside for some techinlenl error in the proceedings in no wise affecting the morits of the case? With- out Indorsing to its full extent the remedy proposed by Mr, Thempson, we think his views are entitled to much welight and con- slderation. THE SITUATION IN IRELAND. The long and tedions trial of the “travers- ers” In the Irish Courts has come'to a close, ntul a disagreement of the jury—ten betng In favorof nequittal and two (‘Lories) of convic. tion—hns resulted in their discharge, ‘The denouement of this travesty upon justico.Is In nceordunce with equity, whatever reln- tlons it may bear to English law. The traversers were not gullty of any eriminal act, nor lnd thoy violated the peace. ‘They hod stolen nothing, nor had they advised any one to steal. They had murdered no ong, nor had they advised any ono to mur- der. Thoy had not resisted the authorities, nor had they advised any one to resist thom, Tho liend and front of thelr offending was that they hnd organized n I.eaguo for the ameliorntion of tho condition of the wretched people of Iretand, and, as a prominent fenture of their policy, organized the starving land -tenantry into on ime mense trades-union, which struck ngainst rack-rents and evictions for non-payinent of impossible rents, and refused to work for certain despicable tyrants. From the very outset the Court treated Parnell and his asso- clates ag If thoy were convicted crlminals, Ou the wotion to postpone the case, in its carlier stages, in the charde ta the jury, in eyery step of it, the Court, in definnce of all precedents and proctice, nssumed that they were guilly of nearly ail the crimes In the calendar and treated them with undisguisod prejudien and Insolence, and with a display of judlelal malice that hns rarely been cqualed in the records of tho Bench, With the enthusiasm which s pecullnr to that ex- citable people, all Irejand Is rejolclng nt the nequittal of the traversers, Crowds parnded the strects of Dubiin with torches and ban- ners, cheering thelr favorits and hootlng at all who were not sympathizers, and reserving thelr cholcest mmnledictions’ for the two jurors who had voted to conviet. Bonfires were ordered to be kindled all over Ireland ns a symbol of tho general rejoleing. 1t will be well if the demonstrattons are lim- Ited to this, and the enthusiasm does not cul- minate In somo sceno of Inwless disorder which will irretrievably Injure thelr cause. They have need of all thelr patience, and moderation, and good sense for thelr great trial Is yet to come. Ihe Coercion bill which hns been intro- duced in Parlinment, and is now belng de- bated, of course will pass, for it will com- mand the entire Tory vote, mid o Jarge part, if not the whole, of tha Liberal. ‘The ol structions offered by the Tlome-Rulers amount to nothing, and the situation does not brighten at all with any hopo of n Land- TReform bill after the coercion mensure has passed, ‘Che latter withdraws the right ot habeas corpus and holds Ireland at the nerey of military rule, with lts consequent arbitrary arrests by tho wholesale and con- vietions without jury., Iiven should, n Land-Reform: bill be offered In the louso and pnssed by §t, It would bo killed in tho llouse of Landlords, and that would be the Inst of reform, aud things would go on a3 before. Tha English Gov- ernment hns resolved itsolf into n collectlon ngency for the landlords, That Is tho sum and substanco of the situntlon. 1t has de- voted its physlenl power, lls army and uavy, to this purpose, aud all that that suffering country can do is to nicet tho situntion with ull the cnlmness and courage it can muster, and to protest firmly and persistently against the injustice, the cruelty, and tho brutality of English landlordism, 1t Is all well enough to talk of Innd reform and to scek to quict tho tenants with vagus promises, but the English Govermment will never mnke con- cesslons to Irlsh farmors that it will subse- quently have to mnke to English furmers, 1t wiilnover take the riak of granting proprieta. 1y interests to the Irish tenonts which it will nfterwards have to grantto the Euglish, Rather than do this It will continue its pres- ent Infquitous system, nnd entorco It with its military - power, That Is the mcan- ing of tho Coerclon DbHL Tt Is o bill to coerce the payment of exorbitant rentsy o bl to coerce those who cannot pay It out on the highways: n bill to contiscate svery tmpravement made by the tenants; a bill to reduco theso suffering wretehes to starvation or rive them pennlless out of the country to our own shores. There Is only left to these poor people the sncred rvight of protest. Some dny the world will hear It and compel :.Ilm English Government to do justly by eu, romr— 1y 1874 the United States Senate appointed n speoinl committeo, conaisting of Sonntora Willinm Window, John Sherman, Roscoe Conk- Ny, §1, G, Davis of Wost Virginla, ‘T, M, Nor- woud of Georgla,J. W, Johuston of Virgiuia, John 11, Mitohell of Orcgonggnd 8. B, Conaver of Florldu, to Invostigate the subjoct of inter- stato commerce, Tho Committeo devoted sove ceral months to the inatter, and examined {t thore ouglly, They roported na follows: ki L, 'That the powors of Congreas, whatever thoy mny by, wre dorived directly fram tho people of :go Iu\l'crl:l Htated, aud not from tho Btates omsclves, ; 11, ‘That every important word in tho clanses ‘which confor tho ** power to regulato comuorce among the soverul Btates™ and to “muku ull Iaws which shall be ucpcesary for currylng it intw execution,' hiag recolved leglslative, oxecu. tive, und Judiclal_construction, and undor such constructlon tho powor of Covngress ta regulute interstate transportation by rutirouds, aud to ald and tull.lmt: comuwierce, 18 clearly cstab- .Ill. ‘That in°the exerciso of this power Cone 5read 12 wutborized, undor tho graut of auslllacy power, to omploy such nionna aa are apuroprlato and pininty adapted to their oxecition, 1V, 'l'm\ivlu tho soicetion of monua hy whioh Interstato comtnerce shall be reguluted, Cons rosK may— " 1 I‘re!u:rlhn o rulea by which the Instris ments, vehictes, aml agenis ongnged I truns- portingr commodities from ony Btato Inta or through wnother shall bo governod, whothor auch transportution 1a by lnnd or water, 2, Thnt it may approprinie money for tho cone struction of rallwaya or eanuls, when tho suno abnll Lo nccossary for the regulntion of coms meren. 2 i, That it may fncorporate n compnny with n\mmrn{ to construet them, 4. That it may exarcise tho right of ominent domaln withln a State in order to provide for tho construotion of such rallways and eanalsi or, 3. It may, In tho excrofsu of tha right of ome fnent domain, take for public use, puylug Just componaation tharcefor, nuy existing raflway o cennnl owned by privita persons or corporations. The princlples of this report have - sinco heen nfitrmed by tho Courts, 14 It not thno thut some of thom shionld go into practienl operation? The Hemgan bill, defeetive na it is, hns morlt In It; and, If Jtwere proporly anmonded and supplo- manted -by other mensures, It might give somo mensuro of relfef. Why s It that Cougress hns pormitted this important sub- Ject to rest for alx years, duriug noarly all of which tima the Democeatio pnrty lins beon in control of one or both Houscs? ———————— ATz says he met an observer in New York who hng beena lung whilo thore, and whose quict looking on hns often given hima new gllnpse of atralrs, *Isald: * Whnt fs tho out- look?* He replied: * The sennte 18 golng to ho the mninstay of the raltrond corporations, Tho Reagan LI witl pass the Tlouso by a mnjority of fifty, but thoy will stop it in thoe Sennte. Yon sce tho rallronds understand how Scoatora are mnde; and Instond of throwing thelr money into the Congressionul districts, aid trylng to cronto a Lower Housofu their Intercats, they find it much ensler to make Benators. Here's Cannlen, i West Virginia, clected by tho Baltimore & Onlo Nalirond: Sewell, in Now Jersey, by tho Tennsglvanin Ratlrond: Platt, of New York, ja strongly under railrond control; ami oven In Michigan the railrond peoplo wero favornble to Conger, who gotit. 1donot charge that thoy Fpent any money to eleet Cougor, but they had ngood many of tholr hest workers up thoro I his favor. Meantime, Hubbell has announced nimsolf as o candidate from Michigan to suc- ceed Ferry: but I apprebend that Ferry witl boat htn. Iubbell 18 not o inan of much wman- ners, though ho gratifics his friends, 1fcis tho representative of tho old Chundler ring. Ferry is tho best errand-runner Michignn hns ever sent to Washington., 1fo spends hnif to three- quarters of every day around the Depnrtments dolng chores for othors, aml T think tho State hns got soused to hlm nnd hisservico that 1t cannot do without him. Io 1sakind of factos tum to Michigan.' " g ———— Tur Jowrnal of <nplled Solencs glives somo detailad iInformation ns to the production of beer, tho number of broweries, and tho con- sumption of beer per bead of the population In tho differont countries of Europe, Tho flgures nre ns unders - anmxmn No,of Cons'p'tn hrews per head, mlllng.nv. 0 reworles In the Gertnan Empire, Tavaria nloup had, whon the Inst -returns wero made, 6,624, white in Prussin tho munber of Lrewerles has fallen from over 10,000 to 7,210, though the qunntity of beer brewed has not dimlnished. Derlin, which supplies ucarly atl thie beer drunk In that eity, had fu 1856 only for- ty-nino brewerles, but they wero on 0 largo seale that thoy made, on an average, nearly 1,000,000 gallons onch. Tho same & tho easo In Saxony, where -the production of beer has trebled during,tho last forty yemss, whilo tho number of brewerles hos diminished, Nearly a fourth of the Austriun beer is browed fn Dohe- mia, and the hmports of Leer continue to dimin- 1sts, while the quantity exported Is geven or clight times greater than it wos twenty yers ngo. | ——————— Mavor 1Tannisoy Is not o success as o Tand-Leaguer. He s, unfortunately . einbur- rassod by hisoffice. Tie 13 willlng to do any- thing,—to tako John Bull by tha horns and ko things Lvoly In tho British Isles,—hut ho i3 80 Incumborod ofiicinlly with bis oflico that for i to do so whilo Mauyor might result in dec- laration of war by Great Britain agalnst Chl- cago. He wants to be n Land-Losguor, and with tho Land-Longuers stand, but he can't do ko s0 lang 08 ha I8 Muyor. If Jio was only out of oflice how ho would mnko the Uritish furily, and wolrldn't ho wake tho boys up allaver tho world} The Land-Leaguers of Chlungo ought to reltevo Cartor of his cmbarrassient, AllL thoy have to do to help him out of the Mayoralty, Once out of that office ho will e freo to take charze of the Land Lenguo nll over tho world, nnd sot- tlo the wholo question In sixty days. WIIl the Doys help him out of the oftice? e——— Tux Dubuque Thnes says:® — ‘Wo hopo Tk CHICAGO TRIBUNE feels proud of its mallcions nssnult upon Senutor Allison, I'ho Duveriport Gazelle snys: Tho Hepublicans of fowa wil bo woll-nigh ununimously plensed if tho counsel of Tue Cirt= cAu0 Titnuxs bo followed. ‘Which newspuper I8 to bu belleved? Can tho Dubuque Times honestly regand it ag**a mnll- clous ussanit” to uge the appolntment of n dis- tingulshed Senator to the oftice of Scerelary of tho 'Wrensury? Scnutor Alllson hus no truer friend nmong the newspapers of Towa than Tix Ciireauo Trinpse. He knows Ity tho Dubuquo Ttimes knows 1t, and tho people of lowa know ft. To spenk of o *mallelous assanlt’ wnde by this Journal on Seuator Allison {8 to Indulke In wild and absurd fulsehoud, Thero Is not a partlcle of foundation for the charge. 2 e e———— ‘T1niz rumor that Mrs. Garfield Intends to fol- lowtho oxamplo of Mrs, Hayesnd excludo wine from tho White House has crontedn panio {n tho diplomntia corps. The forolgn gentlemen huvo with difficulty survived tho past four yenrs,— tha practico of drinking out of abottlo on the front porgh intho chilly night nir being not at ull conduelva to health, If the snine rulo is to pre- vail for olihit yoars moro the diplomats feel that thoy mikht na well take thoir pnpors ut once. In this connoction, the statement of A, W.Camp- ‘bell of the Wheellng Intelligencer, who is known to bo s pegsonnl friend of Gen. Gnrileld, has p pawerful Interest, Ilo soys:- *Mrs. Iluyes has banlshed wine from tho White Houso table, and Mra, Garfiold will certalnly follow in her foot- steps,” Tug Springtield (Masy,) Republiean, re- plylng tonn {mpertinence as well as several falschoods of o rallway print,romarkss When a newspaper becomes o common earrier then it will bio timio to subject It to tho common Inw of eurriors, that tholr charges aoull bo rea- sopable. Tho public must patronizo common c'firrlura: thoy can lot nowsapapers ulono, [y dommon enrrier wantonly Inflates his eapital, so as to mnko chnrru appear *rensonable ™ that aro in tnet nuvdlesly lurge, it 18 wrong, and tho Btato ouht to interfore to provent Ik, - A socond objoction I8 thut watered stock is usunlly mndo on cariugs protessodly, ‘That 18, tho publio are taxed, first, to pay lurgo frolght and passenger ratos, atfording 10 tho carrier not meroly dlvi- dends but sdditional eapiial; second, to pay dive ideuds o that capitul thus converted, Tye annual report of the Now York Come missloners of Hmigration shows the total immigration of last year to that port to have footed up 72,880, of which 127,471 were nlicns. Tho tables of nationulity loave Germany with an cnsy lead of 104264, whila [reland comes sco ond, with a relatively roduced total of 60,000, Fagland, Scotland, and Wales sent in round numbers 47,000 omigrants, while tho Beandinne vian countrice—Sweden, Norway, and Donmark —sent about 60,000. OF tho urrivauly, 137,601 roe matned In Now York, whbile 1J2,110 went Weat, only 6,407 going to tho Houth, Of the Weatora Statos, J1lnola toak by far the greatest numbor— {2,641 Ohlo and Minnesota comlng next, with 18,800 and 12,640 respeciivoly. & o ——e——— .Tue dlscorning oditor of the Philadels phin Bulletin hns mode n study of the provalls ing plan of clty-pouscs In Boston, Now York, and Philadelphla, and expresses o declded prefe erouce for tho atyle of tho last-namodcity, The typlcal house {n New York hus [ittlo dopth from front to pack, but much hiteht, The lviug-roomns begindn tho collar, where the dining-room aud basemont uro Wsually fouud, unioss, indeed, the occupants choose to take their menls in tho back parlor, ‘The Boaton house s uneurly llke the New York houso, except thut 18 has & bulgy in frout. A Doston bullder- nover' any more droama o putiiog Up # hiouso Wi el trons | than n I'biladelphia bulldor doca af Jeayy, unsupplied with white marblo doorstops, & one and rows, and ruws of honses with v.m,,,,“““v talnly nro not handsome. Tho reprmm.m" Phllndelphin - house, though narrow, prlra great ndvantoge of depth. Tho drawing.yg, dining-rooin, nnd kitchen,are on (Lo flng';)"" with a first-rate eellar undernenth thom, ~ sitting-room is In tho sccond story, 1T, Thiludelphin houso hing all its oors fugy oven, and when o Philadelphla ouse (s buiiy thit plan it 18 1 model for city uses. whjn worthy of fmitatlon. Tho cditor doea oy et of conrao, to rich mon's howses. o sngy o whon ouo ean nfford ity R doubly houpe, ity Y wido haliway in the mliddle, flanked 'wm, L drawing-room on ono skio and n libr; 2 dining-room on tho otlier, I8 tho lest thy Lu desiigned, o — Mn. Srnixeen lias been wounded iy houso of his friends. The Buffnlo Courie, te tucks hiw for introducing n postal lcleml resolutlon, nnd snys: 1t Is tho theory of thy Triemocratio prrty that thé functionsof the oy . ermmnent should be narrowed rather thag J tended.” Very trucs that 18 the thears of 1 varty, Mr. Springor shouldn't let the fundy, mental Idens of his purty siip out of hhm(,,i_ They haven't an overplus on hand. It [y Mdticas nblo that the theorli's of tho Democraticpay, don't prevent it from indulging in vers libory practico In tha matter of npproprintions wh thoy bave cantrot of tho Itouse, il g e ——— Tur Southern cotton milly consumeq 45,000,000 pounds of cotton In 1830, and 1020, 000 pottuds fn 1840, They had 417,000 spindles "tho former year, and 514,000 fn the latter, But New England Is not at all frightencd by iy growthof tho indusiry in that scction, Ty, Southern mills mnko only the conrsest fabrgy, Thoy haven't the right kindof Inbor, norcncugy of It, to make the manufacture of finer gooty profitable, When New Eugland really appre. hends tho logs of its supremncy i cottonmg. ufacturing it witt adopt the tlne-honorod Souty ern polley and advocate tho abolition of pr. teetive duties, ——— G, WEAVER predicts that there will by 1o Democratle eandldnto for the I'reskiency i k81, *There will bo only two candidates in thy flekd o enys, * tho Republican, or strongGor. crnment, candidate, and tho Greenback cand dnte.” Ani ho expeets tho Greenbneker 1o wiy, Wenver nlso predicted last summer that gy woutd bo ensily cloeted. 1o was going to camy Alx Bouthern and eight Northern States, ang throw the clection into tho Iouse, whera biy friond e Ln Matyr, of Indinnapolis, held thy balunee of power and would elect him, Wearep 18 u grent prophot and comes of o rnco of scer, e ———— ‘T111: hanging of two negroes by & mobln South Carolinn givea tho Charleston News and Courier vcension to say that “ Lynch law fs thy higher law,” and ‘that “burning at tho stake or “chopping tho . offonder to mince-meaty were not too sovero punishment for certaly crimes. Granted that tho statoment 18 true, how will it apply when the offender 15 n whit man and the Injured porson 1 colored woman? Hnve thero been any burninga at the stako for Buch n crime In Bouth Carolina of late? ————————— Pror. Epwann I. Ilonnry, ‘the new Director of the Madison Observatory,is best known to tho public in geucral by his toxt-book on nstronomy, written in connectlon with Prof, Nowcomb, and by g * Life of Sir Willlam Hor gohet,” which has Just been published. Prot, ~Hotden {8 o gradunte of Washington University, Bt, Louls, in tho class of 1860, and tho West Polny Military Acadomy (1570), and hns been one of the nstronomers of tho Natlonal Observatory at ‘Washington since 1870. ————————— Fraxt Hunp bonsted in his election came prign lnst fall that bis bill for tho ereetion of public buildings at Toledo was' advanced over ubout fifty others through tho special favor of Speaker Randnll, The Iatter, in o letter to dr, Ielford, of Colorado, denied timt any such favee had. been granted to Hurd or nnybodyelss There is nn intoresting issuo of veracity betmesa Hurd and Randall, e atD————— Tins veteran editor of the Buifalo Coms merciul Advertiser, who hns latoly sct up in buek ness ns o rotall Hose, supported Crowley fn the Senatorlatcanvassnnd was handsomely whippel. He I8 now charged with having offercd a direc bribo of §100 to wancmber of tho Leglsinturela vote for Crowley. The ovidence 1s nat all in,bu things look dark for the editor, whoso fext hitberto hns rested chietly on tho inventiond lio epithot * half-breeds” to describe anti-mi chine Republicans. e ———— T1e Governor of North Carolina, in hisas nunt messnge, totally jgnored the existencect uny party In tho Btuto oxcopt tho ono whkd clected bim, e reforred to *“*our " failure to otoct the Preslilent, promised that * our” pary though defented: should mnot dio, It has beea suggested that tho titlo of tho Governor shoud o changed to rend “Governor of the Democratd party of North Carolinn.", 4 —_————— Junar Tounaee makes the point lbntj Natlonal educntionn! fund should bo expend only under Natlonal supervision, for the rwg that many of tho toxt-books authorized Southiorn States nro stuffed with treasonabis nonsonse. Tho polnt §s u good ono. Not é dollar should be given by the* Natlon to encoure ngo dofianco of 1ts laws, or to paliiate thoerizt of sccesalon, Gov. ConNELY lately took ocension tossy., that Gon. Grant, *more than Washington, xd *flrst in war, firat in pence, and firat in the heath of bis countrymen.' ** The Charleston Newverd Caurier, without reforenco to this statoweth matches it with anothor in an editoral on b4 unnivorsary of tho birthday of Lee, in whidih, snye: 1o was greator than Washington.” | e e——— — | 1x union there is usually strength, but oot for tolegraph compnnles; thoy own no Lo turcs or memburs of Coijgress, and have nosiet woliticu} powor as rulirond companies. Whealt comes 1o squaro 1ssno whethor Government | the consoliunted Western Unton shall contralib tolegraphio business of this country, thelstel will quickly ko to the wall. Tugne s o bill befor the Indiana Legi Inture to reduoo tho ruteof interest In mtsu‘ 108 por cont, which 1t 13 betioved will becomt Jaw, If 0 per cont is high cnough in lnfllfl: why I8 not that rato suttiolont fn Tlinole? 4 por cont Tate would savo tho peoplo s0m0 lona of dolturs a yoar In this State. —t—— e active.army of France for the !fi 1881 will Do 408,407 men, Out of thls pum! 8 - (3,550 aro In Algeria, Deduoting an n\‘erll‘m 39,000 mon representing slck, ubsent 08 m‘ ote., thoro remainya minimum of 43930 B under Rrms, —e——— Joun SwiNToN threatens tho v City membors who shall vote for _l_igflm, whipping-post bilt with drendful thinas, .‘W‘ “at tho polls amang othors. I8 wlro-be'w then, ono ¢f the approved principles of munism? New Yok e —— . Junak DAvis In voting to tako up L“;“‘; bill to rotiro Gon, Grant reflocted tho WESGL an enormous tnjority of his Illiuols €0 ™ conts, and wifl be nmply suatained i the o his voto indicates thut ho fntends to pursi e ————— T3 reblection of Maxey In Texas l&‘fu olection of Van Wyck In Nobruskn lnlhll fort aro dofeats of tho ratiroad attucuco 19 Biates. ————— PERSONALS. “Ilell Gato is reported fullof X fooliug bottor,"~—Hob Ingersoll. it Threo of Mr. Evarts’ daughters “:u ity marrlod this yoar, Tho Beoretary Sa¥e Tl sout to nll the ongagcmenta atouce: book foru, 3 saion The Now York T'ribunc 038 lh:\‘ e timo tno picturcs of J, F. dillet o :n abisd ovon tho modest sum of 84, Thero oaln strango about this, A great wasy mm’ prery cago couldu't givo pleturos of thewse e "I'hie Albany Evening Journat hnl!" e noutcod tha death of tho fon. Juisd ko which ovent, the Cinoluunath aud;[flm oot curred at Daltimora slx yoars 080 i gttt will fuil to soo anything rom-rknb;‘ 5 "bsaf —that {8, peoplo Who are acouston! papors. 2 e Mr, Bernurd Pratto 'Inflor.': 10 daya 180 Miss Julin Darby at 8t ,Louls 8 {¢! (g whon s littlo boy sont a valontine 10. o ,‘,. thon an jnfant; and tho Lo, whnn"“ -‘”‘4 vlder,-walked Ip hand and hand 88 /, hridomald at a.yeddlugn Bha- ¥ . o, 108