Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1881, Page 12

T-ELEC Has Been Besieged by Office-Seckers. .tél"h'e Spesinlly Vigorous Contest for ' Positions in’ His Cab- inet," . Gen. Garficll 1hs' Not Complicated 5 limself by . Promises to Ay Ones ™ Ho Will Tnko the Kind of Men Ho Do- sires, Wherover He Can Find i Them, 8 ‘Il;e Composition of s Cahinel Nob Likely fo Do Known Defore Bty Oficial dne nouncements 8pectat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. * Mexton, 0., Fet * In polities, where o many foul purpnses are yefled 1 fafr pretewses, the caleulution of char- i) acter 18 of primal importanee: but the process T Tequires Insight and toresight boyand whut peoc W o plo commanly exercise in peactical alfalrs, and Tho result & that miscondeption of men nmil events which has go often invelved Individuals and wovernments in frightful ealamities. A truo Judgment of nersons penetrates through the surfuce of tho centre aned Rubstance of thelr nturcs, and can even detect in pretenses which may deeelva the pretenders themselves that subtlle gullo which corrupt character al- ways infuses into the most celestinl professions 1. of morality or humanity,"—k. I’ Wiple. DId one not Know that tho greatest American writer ou character hnd produced the above i>Igtriking sentences from bis own vigoronus gen- * eralfzutlons more than twenty years ugo, ho would be led to suppose that they were written from personal observations of men and things in this bleak Luke-Erle hamlet during this present yearof grace, But, at any rate, they kerve as nn excelient text forn politicnl homily toter- - Bpersed with some observutions and news-notes, /" Jtbasgcemed to be & prejuducd conclusion ‘with many people that Gen. Garfleld had littie or no knowledge of tho men from whon it wus proper for bim to choose his wdvisers and neslst- ants: and the amount of help that s been tend- “ered him gratis 1TAS BEEN SO LARGE as even to excced his womderful eapnelty for rapld clnssification and generalization, This tato of nlfiirs suggests two very trite and some- . what contrndictory enyings, namely: * Proffered service stinks *: nnd “Two henus are better than one, If one i3 n sheep's hend.” Now, In tho lirst pince, thero {8 no question but .~ that most of tho nsslstance that hus been offered , tho Generpl {n tho sclcenion ‘of men has omi- unted from selfieh limputses; put this should not necessarlly condemn . Some of tho grandest work that bns ever heen ddne for hutmonity has been the most purely selfishy and, If the theory of those philosophers, wha elaim that sciflshness :*, 8tho malnspring of human action, I8 in any ienso trie, we muet oxpect this. In the second plaee, the fact {8 well known that tho wiseat men fnthe world hove admitted tho truth of tho " apothegm, that ** In a multiptiolty of counsel is With thus much of u preface, n few . VERY PLAIN STATEMENTS + mey be mude,—not ng belng dletated by Gen, Garfield, of by that mythical personage, * 8 go * tlemnn who hns spent much thne nt Mentor of . Inte,” but as generallzations which could but bie deduced by o person of ordinary observation whohind watebed the comings and golugs horo for the past ninety days. First—Qen, Garfield has been plensed to re- celve ull the help and advice he conkd get. Tt I3 only & man who secs one side of a question who fears counsel. .. ; .Second—IIc has trented all who have comeand Bone with that marked degree of courtesy ' which charncterized his informal recoptions of i Laueged durlog tho eampuign. " Third—Ile bus not committed himsell In nny ! respect tothose who have visited him since olec- tion, any more than he'did before election. fFourth—~He mude n vow to himself, on the . morning of the il of Novomber, 1880, which ke 1 hag since relixiously observed, that hio would E 1N .NO PARTICULAR COMPLICATE MIMSELF 7. by promises to noy one; thut ho wonll listen fo * all,and correlate tho information thus obtaiued, *and omploy it to tho best advantage within his . power i making up his mind upon the various :; sufbjects touchied upon, . Fifth—It hus been proved ngalo’'and again, in tho history of recent politics, tbat fn great . things tho peaple are much stronger, and gpenle wih mueh louder volee, In thls country, thin ‘political bossos, bo tho sakd bosses Natlonal, .'Stute, or Municipal in their charncter. Wero this not go, Bherman, Conkling, og sume similar - stateaman might to-day Lo tho President-elect, instead of tho quiet man of Mentor. .Bixth—~Cen. Gurfield underatands this perfeet- 1y well; and, whilo he will‘muke a reasonablo effort to huve tho varlous sections of tho coun- try and of the Republican purty represanted in the Cablnet, it will bo DISTINCTIVELY A GARFIELD CABINET, . He understands that the success of tho party .and of the comlng Administration deponds upon his bélng surrounded by hisown frionds, Tho people who clected him cxpect this, and they will be gratified with it, Boventh~It would seem to havo slipped tho minds of a great nuny people that Gen, Gur- 7. fleld 18 most eminently qualitied to choose nll . 1ho men that may be necessary ta the suceess of 1.'( his Administration; and that he hushad twenty ! _years of intlmato porsonnl nssoolation with the men who are to-duy in the foro front of Amerl- can polities, and hus seen atl tho varlous fue- tlons {n tho Hepubliean purty dovelop from thelr Jnoipioney. “Iliere 18 uo mon in tho world who ©An botter Judwo of the bearlugs of uny one of those fuctions upon the purty at Iarge than heg d thore 18 no man who onn” bottor steer his corse betweon sundburs und breakers than ho, o . Bighth—The tnlk of n great iouny pouple ' would indicate that . % MIl. CONKLING, for instance, would ruther see tha Democracy n Nutlonal ascendency than b crossed fn cers tain Idens of bis i regurd (o the tormution of 1he Cabinet. "This §3 o kerious mistuke, ulthough Thora 1S « somblinge ot re canclusfon, Uen. Garil ation of ulfalrs, su fur us Conkling Is concerned, #1710 the lu'thlm‘f of the cumpuign. When vor- Atnin threats of whut the New York Eonntor fzwould not do were brought: to hhn, he anhl: Tell Bonutor Conkling that 1 ean ax well aord &8¢0 the lepubllenn purty defeatedas ho gun,** This was Indeed the case, und l.now, and will be - equully 8o four yeara benco, Gen. dortield, 'nt tho anciiner of tho eniie E‘alxn. was A nowly-eleeted, - United States 4nator from u rensonnbly certaly Kupubifenn Btate. 1le would buve hud little* need for No- donnl patropuge to fortity himself for a roilees Hou at tho. end of six yeum, . Mr. Conkllng's Jeure of ofico wis nuch “shorter, und held by w okl e s RE 0 1 ENTIRELY AULE TO BEE THE MATTER AT THAT 10 and, inhis contegptuons uml hi s Bickingd o e MhnE: mmm“\‘:"gll. e e ] - Euat, ot thy success of the general suuse, ‘There may be little doubt that, utter ull bis pranting snd grumbling, ho wilt do the suine thing wealn, 4 und will bo uctuuted by tho sume seliish motive, ' For, I he may not get bisPom appoin his Dick conflined there every duie, Jui dewlres, bo gatw, nevertbeless, w pereeptibly omething: uud; under w Democrutio Aduitnis« rution, ue would bu tho very fel- o dow who o conld hupe to wet abioe “L,, sHutely nuthlug,—and ho knows [t Tho bosses do A7) shely grmnbling, Thut ts thule way of wuking Vi themselves felt, But, when tha ting comes, uu:rv il 1o the most zenlous party-workers In the world; and one who docs not uiderstund .this bus not nt'xllllgrv&muwruu ull the Intricucics of tho boss ¢ 'Now, to como down gradually from genorale 4 ;‘lzmgm particulars, It iy Lo “safd that in all he-probavility there never beforo wus u Presidunt @lueted who s been B0 PERSISTENTLY ALy % 13 pitay REEKEDRS, 1,0.0018 {8 owlinie, [0 w lurgy degree, 1o the fact that r& Gen, Gurlield was tho representitlve ol no soes }34-tion of the Itepublicnn party, 1le brs heen n A7 mewmber of the purty sinco’ its Airat_inceptioni 1,7 bins always Luci I tho forofront of the bittlos =« Ul hus sinply been u Republican In the bigbest sotwe of that fernme—pnd that s all, The fact that tho General's nominution wus i sire pride to_muny of the Gonerul's 1riends and to 2 the publio at Inrge, bide very muny of thoso, whohud ut somo tins or otber kiowi him, (ool Jtbat they werg cortiinly golog to bu called to £ sowe luportunt trust under bis Administration, ,_'81 colree 1t was urununecu of tuck thut Uur- 25 deld bud been nomlnuted,—und why should thoy 45 Rot b lue ? 100 ‘o4 Then the tuwspapers huve done sama treuiens douy Jumbling I regurd 10 somo of-the minor ptipes, : i LIKE PRIVATE SECREgANY. >/Ihis §8 really one of tbe most dportant offices Sunder an Adulnistration, und thero bus bowa %‘{qm were sud levs suld ubout It than auytbiog o ED BY OFFICE- ela ‘arrespondents and _newanpaj hnve elmply nrsumaed that_any and overy person who bas ‘remalned ‘at Moentor for A fow days, and in any desgree assisted in the vist amount of” work that constantly accumus latos thore, ie tho sald Privitg Bceretars. Maj. Bwnin, Georwe Rose, Capt, Henry, To M. Nictiol, and, last of alt, Prof. HHiL, of Missontl, have, each in his tura, flled thisimportant posis ton, The last announcement, which was given on the authority of an Assnclated ils- puteh, ad published in every paper in the coutt- try. bl the jeast foumlation of nny, 1t was rivon some plausibllity, no donbt.—io the peo- Miasonrl, at least—berause Prof. 111 way or At ITlenm, aid n member of Qo Gartield's reghinent, and had Inst roturned from a viait to Cloveland, Prof, Hill wns an ap- plicant for quite another ofiee, and bis numo will never bo even thouuht of for the position ) named, 1T NEED NOT RE CTED that Gen, Oarticld wilt do any great nmount of narrow, hepatigtie nppolnting to ofice. e 13 not that aort of o man. He will take tho kind of men he desires, wherever he ean find thoms s, uniess there nre ity olher thinus that can he sald [ g eandiibite’s favor, it B now preity gen- erally conceded that the fact that 4 man eamo from ram er from Ohio will be ne recoms mendation, but rather w drawbnck, Onoof tie most remnrkuble things nbont the whole enupaiizn for the Cabinst-positions (s tho fact that, notwithatmiding ol thut has been snid of & prsitive natitro abott appoITICHts, ©le. nothine hus be trnceable to Gen, Gartield miscif, or his most intimate ndvisers. No one will atwolntely kaow who 18 golug to compuse {he Cabinet UNTIL 1T 18 OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED IN A nonY. A ward or two more, In conelualon, In regard to the important. ol T Private Secrotur very haed push bus b mudo i varions o have finy Runlgrers, retnine 1 )l probubitiny, will 1ot be suceessful The position 18 much’harder to 11 than an ordl- nary Cablnet-plnce, 1t i8 o somewhnt thankless place, and one that ereates much jenle withe n tho party. The fdenl Private Sceretary 18 a gentleman, n diplamntiat, and o scholar, “When o [luheock s the place infinit mischief muy ho dune to the party wnl o the President, When [ it ppers are given to the Beeretury for the Presi- | dent's lnspeetion, the promise that (s plven shoulil convey ‘un {den of certninty of fultill ment, and thén adl [3 well. Gen. Garfled doubit- less s the ‘Irl!per man i mind, Col, John Hay, of Clevelund, comes ns near Hiling the biit a8 nlmost any man in the world: but he 18 rlch, hns held hifrher Pnsluuns sinco hie rorved under lérvsl ent Lincoln, hns 1 good chanee 1o go to niress i he deslres, and would propably not accept the pusition if tendered bim,— Gany, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. The Hon, T. K. Mitcholls o the Eiditor af ‘Ine Chicagy Tribuncs DBroomisaroy, 1L, Feb. 2—1 sco that my in- formntion that the Hon. T F. Mitehell tmd been appolnted anoof the Ralirond Warchousoe In- vestigating Committee was Incorreet, 1 atn glad 10 nota the fact, 08 [ have nlways considercd Mr. Mitehell a falr mun. and for his own suke [ should hnve regretted to have seen him on this Comulttee. FIIEND TO AN MONEST COMMISSION, A Sngrestlons . To the Editor of The Chicagn Tribune, - Cuicaao, Feb. #.—You hnve frequently ex- posed the practico of ening people for small Aums and bringing such actions before « Justice twenty milesor moreawny. Without golngto the roundaboutsystem of nppenling on all ocensions to tho Legislnture, I nm of opinlon that It can be cured by tho practice of tho courts, For in- stance, let any of the Judges now slitlng b nfsl prius declure that all such nctions are on thelr fnee n frand, nnd 03 such will tnke as bail those hnving pmlmny mortgueed, A% 1n ease of appenls from such n court. 'The plaintlifeannot caglly objeet to lieht batl, This, T belleve, will completély upset the glving of cases to the Jurisdiction of Justices twenty and thirty miles otf, The only thing 1 fear {s, that the Juilges do not practieally enndemn this onteage—tatking fu the Criminal Court I3 shown to be usoless, WILLIAM FRANCIS. v An Inquiry. T the Tditor of The Chicagn Tribune. * Cnicaao, Feb. =1 bave Just read your edi- torial headed *'Tho flinds Bill~Femulo Suf- frage.” Wit you be kind enough to tell us in the next fesue of Tur Tuisuse Wherein tho Constltution of Tiinols diiTers from otherStutes, where by mithority of ‘the Leyinlature alone women are nilowed to yote on educational nr nny other speainl subjeet iu wuich they uradi- reotly interested?. 1 know nothine In which they aro 8o largely nnd sulteringly interestod as tom-, terance. ki Josewil JoNes, [We have no knowlaidge nf any State whose Constitution i3 liko that of Nlinols on suffeago where *women vote on ‘educutional and othor special subjects”; and If thore nro nny States witn Coustititions that permit women to voto on various subjects that fuct will not ennblo them to vote in 1llinols until tho Constitution of tlls Stato Is changed to ullow of tho same.] ‘Cho Hinds B, To the Editor of The, Chicayo Tribune. Crreano, Feb, d—Allow me to enfl attentlon 0 n misstatement of the provislons. snd ulms of tho Ilinds LIl In an cditorind.In Tue 'Finuse of Fobu 2. 1n this article the vory inegrrect stute- ment ismade that this bill; now befare tho Legls- Inture, providesand declures that nt Joeal optivn clections * Wamen ghull he legnl votors.' Tho Hinda bill mukes no provision for any votes whutever, nt any clection whatever, but” simply mitkes It feceasiry for i would-bo salvonkceper, to present with lisupplication for Heenge n petds don of the mujority of the inbnbltants (o wnd women) of the winrd o town [n which tho sateon {3 10 be located, for shuch licenso, Allow mao still further tostuto that tho thoory on which {8 hused tho legality and constitution- ality of the ind's bilk I3 this: Tho State Legls. lutiive huving authorlty to vest ‘tho powor of licensing, restraining, or prohibiting tho lguor- tralie In towns and vitles, mny condition thut power in any way sieomed ndvisable by it, In tho sunio mannoy oy tho smaller legisintiure of tho clty or town miy by an ordinanco condition s own netlon, os hns idrendy beon done fu half a dozen cities and towns fn the Btute, Many £, WILLAUD, “In Timo of Proxperity ¥Prepuro for Adversity.” 3 T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, WeEST DEreng, Wi, Feb, 22— In timo of ‘peace prepare for war,'' {8 o trite saylng: not less, however, thun this: % 1n tlino of prospority prepare for adversity." + In tbis country more than /oy, othor In the world we aro Hable to grent commereind thaetun- tlpns, reverses, und panics, tho enuses of which aro nlwayd to e ntiributed to certnin excesses that I underatood in thelr effects might buve sived tho country tho distross and loss that ulways fallows thelr culminution In n crisls or panle. To uvold thodu distressing roverses with allof o, dlscomfort, and ruln that follows tholr veeurrenco would be nn fnesthimable blesstug to our vountry, ‘It 1t 13 pussible is ng certiubn g thut tho liwe of progreds and couwls meree nre immutable, Lot the Govermment nrn\'lxlv for o Financo htrenn, churged with tho responsible duty of guthoring from ail dources fruets and statiation relating (o tho movemont of all produets, the production of uil mines, or all Ine dustrinl entorprises, aud u\'crymlmg ¢lso that constitutes any’ park o the country's wealth, fncome, industry, o necumulations, From theso faety,. properly complled and sctentifically olasitivd, n catmptont Burenn woull beeomo high juthority as o8 of the prabubilitles of the tutire; bo onebled to wdvise upon Nisnnelnl mpatters from o Jidipnent: tused und formud upgn i dutin comprebending thio facts of tho preseps compured with tho vx- perienco of tho pust. bt 1t 8 not my purpose to discuss In' dotall tho plun or merit arduct o Bureay, but atber to suggest [ta possible vidue und the Importnice to tho gountry of some eourso thut will' proteot ns waninst tho evils of sxcosses that urocoertain to result I punte and commeroli disuater, 1f Gen, Gurllond fu his Insugirgl would bring tho mutter to tho mtention of Cougress u diss cunslon of the plan_ wanld undonhtediy develop 1 eourso thiut wouhl seoure somothing “practical and of juesthnablo valuo to the couigey's futs ure. C. A, WinnanD, Cartor and the Land Leaguors,. Tu the *iditor of Tha Chleago Tribune, CurcAnn, Fob, d,—For tho fnformation of tho publie, will you pormlt me to give the faocts nbout the nicetiog of tho Land Loeakuers ln tho Bhanth Ward Jast week, the procecdings of which have dropped so_heavy on Mr, Hutrlson's tocs thut heis compelies] to got some of his ollictals uf the North Blde ta idose him? Mr. Harrlson wiy not Invited by the Elghth Ward Loaguw, and when he camo thoro and wus cullud upon tospeak ho wud not introduced uy Cdrtor M, Hareison, but us *hls Honor tho BMuyor” When bo enme lnto the hall he rushed up to tho spenkor and handed hin u resolution, witloh 1ho speaker reported ns o dispateh whiel “hils Hanor the Muyor ' bl sent (o e S askod {f 1t wis signed by Carter 11, 1 lson or tho Mayor, He unsworcd it waa signed by tho Chatmun of the Boventeonth Wurd wuss-mepts . After the Mayor bad ot through sponking, ¢ ot up und thanked bho for bis expresdlons of sympushy for Irelund in bulall of tho Amerloun people und for hiwsclf, und, wishing to bave thoey kindly exprussions go where L would do the wmodt !lkmd. 1 moved u rusolution that s Hlogor the Muyor woutd tolegraph tha substunco of hilsspeoch 10 the Land Lengue of Dubtin, 'Fuld be rofused to do s Mayor, and that ended tho mutter, uniil the corns 1 stepped on va forth frult i tha North Slde. Evidently the Muyor und his friend wero hurt [ Jet wmo wsk tnonm vov guestion: 1t e dld not miewi whut be suld, why idid_bo luf“ll. and why -Il‘lifiulzll)“%wu 10 the Elgbih Wurd Land-Louguo A¥ 10 (b pervounl uitack wadvou wWe ut the IE CIIICAGO TRIBU BRUARY 4, IS8§1—TWELV E PAGES. Heventeonth Ward, 01 tho pubila undorstand thot James Lyman, Chuirmang Martin lerry, ), D. Lyons, anid the notortous Tom Cannon, of that wnrd, are wl employed, or iavo thelr friends in the city employ, it will give tho public somao Klen of the eharcter of ° tha 1nen who* dizown "' me, and whom Carter I, Hurrisan 18 forced to get n_character from. When thoy support Mr. Hirrlson by voting down a ‘resolus tlon of sympathy tor ['arncli and his compn- triots, T can niford to take thoir Lorrowed Innguage, prepared by thoir master, for 1 hopo to hve n character among g folliw-citizens and eountrymen when it will bo charityto for- g1 thefra. “To the Land-Lenguers I would say: Rewgro of tho demugogs, whether Demoeratie, Repiib- Ill‘mllm‘(lrl'l'llllllckur». and when they H |-nr 1 atu Lond-Lengue meoting to ke’ politienl capttal ot of poor Treland's snfTering hit them 08 hard usit secins I have hit Mr. LHnron. JNO, F. BCANLAN, Dralnnge and Puro Water. L To the Bditor of The Chicago Tribune, NEW Yo, Jan, 3l.—During tho pnat year Tur TainuNe has done mo thoe honor to publish a series af letters on tho above subject. In thosn letters tho liden wos lirst supgested, that o conduit, Trom the head of tho Enat Fork of the South Nraneh to the river below Jollet, would cnnse i constunt current of luke witter to course through the city, which, when the Chicajo River beeomes purified thereby, would only bo bur- dened with (ho daity sewnge of tho city, and whieh would bo nearly impereeptible in sich current: und that this wourld eifectunlly stop the outitow townid tho erlb, and thus pure water nand perfeet dralnuge would be aceomplished for nlt ttme to come. 1 nlsa stated my expeotntion that engineers, hrough Jenlousy or Interest, wonld oppuse; or Jgnoro, or.clse appropriute, any plan,or projoct, or suggestions not thelr own, end that * conse- guently this tmprovement would be kept biek Lor yeirs, nnd thus many Hves wonld be lost and the growth of tho eity retarded.” . Tho teuth of 18 ussertion §8 Hlustrated by too report of the Committes of tho Cltizens’ Agaoclation on mnjine draltioge, which was recently pubiished in Tue rnuNg, At tha thne those letters wero piib- lished [ elved letters from the Beeretary of tha Citlzens’ Aazocintion suying that my lotters T been publiciyrewd in the mectings of tho - Assoclution with niieh futerest, and “that tho Idens and sugiestions therein would be embodied in the reporton the subject of maln-dralnnge. "Thils wid the view of the sengible men composiog that Assoclution: but, whcn engingers wery called fu, the pluin, simple, and fnteiligible Prflpushlmu cuntiined in thosa lotiers wero guored, and 4 mnss of \'L'rl.rlurt‘. words which durken connsel, I8 tho result. Tho fact Is, thore 1s no profession or pursult in which thoro 18 so weh quackery und mrrognnce and huposition 13 nmong so-called elvil engineers, A nwyer 19 oue wha 18 thorouxh in his studies and who has fomething to study, and be muet be eandid in his pressutations and nrgnments, The nstrono- mer must and ean be exact in his enlenlntions of thu movements of the heavenly budles, Tho lm)‘slchuurlus to lenrn and hug something to cuen, and does learn from whatever suurco Iinawledge ean be obtuined. Shipbuilders, cans AUr wechunies, including hoy stnughterors us woll, g0 forwnrd with constuut lnprovements through now discoveries and nventions,: But what ¢an be snid of the horde of modern’ brief- less clvil engineers? Apart from mensuration and drawing, as upolled to 1 projected work, tho term elvil engineer hus no weaning. When a great work 13 projected, say i railway, an en- klnoer, or wore properly spenking n Burveyor and dralteman, Is required to give Ines tod fevels nud grades and curves, towcther with plits and drawligs, tho BLING 1S n chomlst oF ng- sayer 18 required to give analyses In his busi- ness, OF course, the work of un engincer s n noble work, and un_nbsolute necessity, but be- yond this there Is numlng they cun “learn ‘or now but what I3 matter of judgment and opin- fon, and which is in common with meehnnies or any other men. After the survey, and plitting, and drawitg, eomes tho work of the contritetors, who grude, und excavate, und blust thelr way throiigh hills and mountains, constantty on thio alert to meot and overcome unseen diftleulties; and then the builders, who construct the bridues and struetures, and tho mechanles who hutld the ponderous engines for opernting tho rond. How ean an englneer know concerning the work to Lo done, or of the strength, and l)l‘"purflol\!, and durabllity of materinls as well ns tho skilled workers ‘themnselves? 1o ean only know as ho Jenrna from them. 13ut now it hns come to pass thit the presuming und usurping guild of elvil engineors nttempt to ignore and - overrlde not only projectors and workers, but the com- mou kensy of tho community also. The fuot is that no_great work sueh ad tho Sucz Caonl, Ocenn Telegraph, tho Pacilio Knflway, or tho like, have vver bheen projected or © earvled through by professionnl oivil cngineers, Nolther has there been nny great inventions, or discoy- cries, or improvemonts made by then. ad ti progress of our rico been depondent on elvil engincors of the modern stansp, thelmafls would be eareled on the bLacks of indinns, tho only mouns of truvel and ortation would by army ghoes and piek m nuvigation wonld b contined to dug-nuts, and telegraphing would never have got boyond hundkerchie? tlirtations, Wihillo apeakinge Of the progressof VATIous pur- suits | wanted to ndd thint architecture was also progressing, but the thonght of the fautastic overnment buildinzs ull over the lund, of ve- cent contsetetion, notnbly thu New York Post- Uttieg, and the Depariment bulldings of the War and Navy at Washivgton, and the nuny deflcient fousndations, and tho shulky tumble-down struet- ures in our ettles,—great bulldings dependent on ndjolning htildings 16 hold them up.—I suy tho thought of those rs compared with oller arehl teetnre a8 discournged the Inclination to pluco architeets amiong tho progressives, b But it was not to urge the conduit project 'ns an immedtate work, or to critielzo .civil cogln. cor, that Lant down to write; thereforo 1 will unlf’ make this brief méntion und leave thuse taples till a more conventent sensnson, Whant [ dodesiro to sny 18 to urge tho use of tho eanul for imweninte temporary deainnge, 1 st maine taln thut tho camal, us It I8, 18 quite sullicient for thit purpose, ‘Thore 14 nothing to do but to open the slulees and yites ut Lockppre and let the watoer ‘it 18, untll tho opching of naviga- tion, When thiy s done, if the water all rundg out of the ennal and it i3 not replaced by water 1rom the Chicago River 1 will hive to ndinit that this proposition I8 wllotle, But If tho water from the river tiows luto tho veid created in the eanul by opening tho gates, thon thut must, wgain “bo replaced from tho ko, and thuw u ourrent will bo established, Thon ns. the sediment becomes winshed out af tho cunal, thut currant will bo Incrensed and itg northorly’ winds provall, tho current witl Lo still more increased, ~Now [ do hopo thut Mr, "Cnows will not vush into print to usserr aud attempt to prove thut water will not run down Rl apzatast tho whid ns ho dhl Jast winter, until this plun haw been thorowghly tried, Let tho mutes bo opened 1o tho bottom of the eannl, nnd not inerely ut the surtuce, It muy boanld that thin process would nterforo with running tho mills ut Loekport, or dutuugo tho structitees of the ennal, or prrbups tood certuin tenots belore reaching the river below Jullot, Well, the mills eun nulr tho structures af tho eanal ¢an bo re- puired it pjured, and n chiunel enn b opened o obvinte uny overilow, it any. —Of course thig will not ereute such n current in tho Chiengo River us th ottt Lo, bt it will bo betts thun nowe. There are somo weoks yet befora nuvigation opens, which van be improved in this winy, Then, when nuvigntdon begins, tho ow cun bo checized, thuueh still loft ta the utmost that Is conslstent with nuyigation. But it tho mills ut Lockport uve of more sonsequence in the esthmution of the cunal nuthors {tles than tho health and comntort und well-being ,0f tho inhubitants of w gront city, then thero Swill be no dralnage through the canul. Thon ‘tho city must boar up under the present und the Lrapldly-fucrensing nulsunco untii the Indopond- ent chinnel enn, by constrneted, In the mean- . thuo ot us hupo that cholera or any such dread © disease may 1ot visic tho olty, /'hose ot us who ipussed th h the fnd scenes of tho terrible L vistuntlon 1 *40 and *50 would drend to be In Chi- [\ eago during w sitnliar visitatioy with the river in n it anmu «m"fiulun. . A ship-canal, ds proviovsly,. stated, 200 foet 7 wide and 11Tty feck duep, If poder the same man- . ugemunt or polioy.is at presont, would nnswer 10 BULLer DITposu AR 0 ineniis of drainuge t tho present cubal. How could ity 1¢ a dead ! luvelis to by maintained between Chiengo River and Lockport in o shilpecinnd, us §8 done at pres- ent, by holding the water ut lmuk;mrl] where Wwill e tho differenicy In the mutter of deainoeg Lotween ship-caunl and tho present cunut? A currnt for drinoge cun only ho proe dueed by an outtlow ut JLockpert. 10 there 18 nuy gowd renson why tho wator shourd bu held at Lok port now, tho satne reason witl bo Just a8 good thon, The lovel will bo tha sawie In'olthor s, and 1t will bo Just ws necessary to malntuin Ahut Jovel in 0no cusa ns tho othor, Bt 1 see no reson why the wuter should be bold now nny move thun m a sbip—or ruther steambost=— ennule Or wers o lock to bo construoted ut Iiridiepart and tho wator of tho river puinped Into tho canal and still held at Leckport, dendne ugo would not ho uccomplishicd. 1iow could it Lo, unicss, perhaps, 1 agnin bo pumped from tho c‘x'mll into the Whit 16 wanted {8 a diiferent eannl imanagument, Lt tho sluices and gutes Lo opened, Lot tho water go. q that In this matter Mayor tlar- rlson mud m 1 soe nilke, But it not, wo conio within ong’ of it noud If be camo ovorto my views. - J. 3, HANNAUS, —— SUBORNATION OF PERJURY, On n warritnt swori out by Poler &'rolmnth, of B24 Blaton avenue, Adolph Goldsehmbit was nre vosted and brought belore Justice Brown yes- terday’ morbur to answer to the churge of suburnation of porjury, 'Fhu case was cone tinuor, however, the defondant glving bonds In the st of §600. . Some tine ugo Mark W, 1111 had a caso In tho Cireuit Couvt uyainst Fendinand Putrowaky end Mina Goidschinidt, In which ensoe the defond- unty found in necessary to give n band, On this bond Froimuth went soeurity, aud u doy or twa B srrested on u warraut sworn out by it chitrglng tbat ho |F'xlmuth) hind committed pep- Sury In awearing th the ownership ot certaln Ixrupcfly whei e went scearity ou tha bhopd, 10 now turns ubont und bus Goldschmidi are ted, loctuving that the latier suborned to comnle tho perliry. ‘Fhis aotion on the purt af Frebmuth would uppenr to be a virtun) adiise wlon of gl fn the cuso ngninst him, Both cased are to be exaniued by Justico Brown nuxt wevk, e ——— " Tho way of tho trunégressor fu hurd” le wlie und buy Dr, Bull's Coyih Byru fursceuts, ctors of machinery, munutucturers, and’ Desplaines nt Willow Bpringsg hut 18, we would bo unanle TIHE JOHANSEN MURDER. Hultgren Tells a Straight 'Story to the Jury, And Donles in Detail that He Kuew Aug- thing;or the Killlng, & Sevoral Other Wfl_uums Teatify na to Tnim- portant L{{\Mom and Faots, Dotlt Sides Rest Thél'r (‘mc—‘flno “Arznments of (le Lawgers to Be Made To-Duy, Tho Johnnscn munder cnso entared iipon its fourth duy yesterday morning in the Criminal Court. ANDIIEW ANDERSON wasd reenlled by tho defense, and_ exnmined ae to his testimony biefora thio Coroner'sJury, 1lo hnd sworn that tho lnst he saw of Johangen and Hultgren July 3 was utthe end of tho Indian strect onr-line, 1Tedhl not know which way they went, but thoy sald they were kolng to Storm's, whero they bonrded, Wittiess drank with thom 1w suloon before ho purted with thom, Mits, ANDERSaN was reenlled, and sald it Aot testified be- fore the Coroner's Jury that Hultgron hnd told her that he got tho §2 given to bior husbund to keop from Sweden, - Mr. Starkey, the Court reportor, was enalled, and testitied that nothing hud been sald betore tho Coroner's Jury In reforence to the money having been gutton from Swoden by olther Mr. or Mrs. Anderson. The notes taken were rend to him, which ho suld were correet, nnd which showed that Mr. Anderson had testitied nt the first hearing thnt the lust ho saw of Hultgren and Jolinnsen, July 3, thoy were going south on . Wostern svonue towanl Storm's house, Mit, PRINCE wne recalled and testitied us to the locality where the defendant wns fnst secnt with the murdered man, gnd that | thoy were golng fouth they wero golug away from tho seenu uf the murder. ) Mr. 3iller, onoof the attorneys for tho de- fendant, was called nnd shown o map to locute Btorm's’ lhouso aud tho rullroud - Ungman's sbanty, CLAUS NULTGR was noxt called, u preter, Mr, Lundburg N, TIE DEFENDANT, testifled through an fnters il 1Lis full numo was Claus Albert Hultgren: he was born In Sweden, und was B2 yewrs old, e lived In Sweden until March I8, 18%), when he left for thls country, o was it tnuner by trades lved with bis purents uutll ho was 18 years uld,—went to school and worked around “the house. His fathior wus i Sergeant in the artny ut his home, Ho had worked most of gho thins [n Sweden, und named tho severnl peradng he huet worked for, e nd been i member of A ehirel, and had never been arrested before coming to this country, or had . sult of © oany kind, Had known the deccused in Sweden for several years, y bad been comrades, and thoro hutd or n tny troubla between them, They had always bees good friends, and had hourded toggther, Stared for Amerlen with Johansen Murch 19, 1880, ny cmigrants, ‘the tlekets costing 105 crowns, and belng througle 1o Chicago. n tho passge Vhl?' lived and slept togethor, nind reachied Chieago fogother by rail, Whien ho renehed New York he had i crownd in ensh and u draft for 0 crowns. Witness wus shown the druft, and [dentitied it und his fin- dorsement on the buaek of it, The draft bud been cushied In New York and the maney prid to hitn, nnd whon he reactied Chleugo he hud ust £22 {1 hlg poeket. [ie was not sure whother o hud any relutives in this country, but thought be hiel two cousing nt Rockford, 11 Mra. Storms, living i this city, wad o eausin, and Mr. Holms, who bnd _testified, was the only person living In thacountry that ho knew of who new him ln Sweden. l(cul:hll)‘zchlunun howent to tho Hotel Danmark, nud from thoro tio went to Mr. Storm's te boa wettinr work the second day he was hore, o worked for u rallrond and recelved abont €48, and next was omployed at o tannery, where he carned about €10,” He paid Storm’ 216 for bourd, and unother person ubout &7, which covered nll ho hid puld exeepe 81 to the hotel, Tl kept his savings In a vallse at Storm's, Witness was shown the vallse, which contalied a lot of eloth- ing, ete. 1o showed a poeket in an undersbirt found In the valise where he had kept hig money, Hoe did not know wheroJolnnsen bud ket his munoy, und all tho money witness hud spont ex- copt Tor s bourd wag 56 cents for a cout, and $1.60 for n palr of shoes. Tha cluthios he had on hind been given him after his arrest. He bad ALWAYS ILAD MONEY TO PAY 1118 BOAUD, and when lenving Siorm's he paid him up una tonk hils wuney with hiw, which amotintod te x50 —six ¥5 bills, and sowa chango, Hud glven Jo- huusen 88 ju silver nnd o §2 LI for two £ b8, July 8, but dil not notice whuthor any of the bills were patehed or not, Ho left Btorm's that duy between U aud 10 o'clock, drank some, and niet Johangon botween 6 and 7 o'clock in the ovening nfter bo hnd quit work, and thoy drank together; did not know that Jobinsen had been patd off, Whon hu mot Johunson u Mr. Olsen was with i, but he refused Lo drink o ur- fug the duy,—ubout threo glnsses of cach, 1e loft Johunsen in the siloon, but Jolned hinin fow ininutes luter on tho eidownlk, whore they parted, Johansen sald he wus going to buy shirt gnd puirof ghoes, und then go 10 his bonrd- ing-house, Witness wont, 8o far a3 ho kuew, in an apposlt direction from Jobanden, Ho drnk more ulter leaving him, but did not know where or with whom, nor which way Johunsen weat, Il did not ree. Johunsen aguin durlug the night. Winess slept in w barn thut wght, but did not Kuow whero 1t was, Hu wus givk tho next morning (Sun(lny}. nnd got out of tho barn window at an’ early hour, und after strolling nround found u saluon and took u drink of whisky.. o stopped in the viclnlly during the duy, except that he went down 1o th Hotel Danmuv in the forenoon, and was d tong. Bundity night ho slept under a shanty ve- cupied by Mr. Anderson, and Monduy ho walked around, deinking n litle, sud stopped ut Ander- #on’s houso tht night, Anderson told him that ho was short of money, and_witness lonned him 5, but he did not notlee that uny of the bilis were murked or ‘mulml, and he dld not think that Anderson didd, -The §18 he brought from Bweden was u pirt of tho $25, and hetold Ander- son of It ut the timo, lle guve m tho money nt tho shanty, ‘The next thne he suw Johansen ho was denl,—this was Wednesday night. Ho dlil not récognlzy tho body at flest, beentise it win dark, b Illmll nHghit belng wnade he rece ognized (1. Ho had nover buon ut the artesiun- well, aud did not know where it was. The wit- ness wus then asked, diroet: “DID YOU KILL JOIANSON " * Tho effect of tho question was 1o somewhnt oxcite the witness, His fuco beeamo flushed, i Hips pulvored, and his oyes, which hud bofore Dheon viteintly stacisg at the Judgo und Jury, ap- parentiy dropped, But nfter some hostintion he ungwored with n guttuenl fgound and n shnke of thio bead, which was lnterpreted to by Y Nol" ::E, you striko biu on tho bead?” i " I)‘Illl"'oll cut lifs throat?” No. o ‘:: }{Dldl JYou rob him of his monoy?" ot WDl you strip bis body nuked, and throw It m'(‘lkmlu pondy”. e No Al of tho answers were quife emphatie, and Aftor the tirit 0ne thy witness botrnyed searcely any Blgus of nervousness, exeltenient, or wentil suxioty, and tlgpuue«l himselt with hifs usual un- ‘eopern, 8 v . Do you know anything nbont the murder of JJohnnsent’’ wits the next auestip, P . Nothing wbatover,” wis the nuswur, % Tho witnesd was thon usked-bow bo came by +tho razar which had been found on him, &l he roplicd that ho chunged hiscot tint duy aud found it i bis pockot. Ho had never et iny ono with it. 118 valiso hud vontnined a book iy iwhich thogo o hnd worked for In Bwoiden hid ivon bim certifientes of oharaetor, but ho dil not knew what hnd hocomeof t, The delfeuso ‘endenvored 10 buvo tho withess show or expliin tho contonts of the book, but the Stute's Attor- ney objected, aud, after some parluy lug, theevis dinee was oxeluded, Witnesshd igreced to ealt 10 see tho dovensed u fow day's niter ho hist suw him 10 tell bim ubout bils siecesy i looking tor work, and ho Kopt his prowmise nid was arrestod, AL Thlg polnt tho witiiess was turned over to tho Btute's- Altornoy for cross-oxuminution: flo rus peated much of hie direet testinony, ndding it bo owed oue of his bourding-howse keops, ors sumething for keoping bim white ho wus sick. o did not know the amonnt, nor whothor Johansen had suttied, - DI not kuow how much he bud spont for drinks, but it ml 11"! havo buen a8 muchus ho bud pud for bonrd since in the country, Ilad louncd a4 man named Jobnson, Hiving on Chlengo nvenuo, but 1 suid that lio had boen robbed — Betore July i ho hind Inat seen Jolanson the provicus Tucsdiy, and met him by pecldent July 3. le rememe bored meoting Anderson . with Johunsen thut evening, aud drinking, butdid nut know what was talked about, - 1'rom the timo ho parted with Johanson and Anidesson up to kW v'closk ho remuined in the vielnity, enlllng ut sovernl mtloons. Flo slept that uhshl In the npper part of a barn, and was helped thoru by uine one, Ho could not vecolteot whers ho id been, but did recollect thut ho had tostified in tho watter beforo the Coroner's jury, whore ho ropoated tho story now tald. 1o ald not remembor to huvo stitted at thoe Coroner's inguest thut he Bpunt Butanduy nlaht at Storm's house, but he did vemember 1o huvo stated that ho spent Sun- day nlght under tho rallrosd thyginan’s shunty, Hoapent Bunduy 0 Vicinity, and ulso Mon- duy, but did ot upon any one, Had kept his ‘money in x pockethouk, which wos shuwin him and weognfzod, Jo had kept the pocket- Jbook in his vulise, but removed It Sutusdny morning becuuse tho valise kad no loek ou it, - and Htarn wont away. o did not remembor buviug displayed o razor, but whon ho parted with Johaneon Baturday ko went toward Btovin's, but did not go uear enouwrh to seo whothor or not thers wus a light fu the house, Did not kuow how much ho welxbed. AL GILY, AN ATTORNEY, was! the next witness. He testified that ho ught ho met the defondant In tho vicmity of Cavroll nnd Western avoutes the ovening of July 3 about 8:0 o'elock, und that he was under the Inifitonee of liquor, - Waanot positive that the defendunt was tho man ho saw, and could not deserlbie in detat] tho ‘n-wm ha had seen., Tho defense horo rested thelr eiso, und Ofliedr Kiploy wis reenllod by the Htate's Attorney. The prisoner hl so changed sinew ho first s flm that he could seareely recognize him. Mr. Sehwingendord was reenlied, nlso In rebuts tal, e know tho prisoncr, id by bad not been in his place tho nighit of July i fle enlled the noxt diy, however, and he ehinged n bill Yor him, Mr. Starkoy, tho court reporter, was recalled, o veported the evidenco ut the Coroner's In- quest, und the “rlmm-r made u stintement thon that he epent Satirvday nnd Bunday nights une der thin raflrond (lngemnn's shanty, .. Borh sldoa rested the ceae here, and this morn- fyr thto argumenta to the Jury will . Mr, Aits will open with o thictv-minite wdilross, and will be followed by oithar De Wolf or Miller for tho defenso, My Swott will follow with o tiwo hours' speech, and Mr. Mills wil close, Tho onse mny 1o the jury Inte in the nfternoon. it tho chunces are tiitt 1t wili run over until tU-Orrow. CURRENT GOSSID. TIE BUTCHERS LOVE. A butcher loved n tender makd, o woo hier were hils designs. And he sent her eoples of gushing verse— 1In fuzt, real tenderlotns, Tho girl, st ho could not suct— She wonld love him as n brother; But when implored to wnrey sul “Tripe, plense, and find another, Tho butehor stlll pursuesd the girl, His plens beeame msich bolder; The wirl nt last, o find rellet, Uuve to him i cold shoulder. Tie knew then that his hopes wero valn, It as he left e mala: W 8ioes yoir hinve eaused me snch diatress, Tl inunch you when Pmdead.™ He pined and grew so thin and pale He feit his end was night ut, his woo wins sieh ho did not know Whothor to liver die. Hotried to Irink to drown his cares, And thore found no rellef, Z But daily grew more wobe; You neyer suusuge grief, At Inst his wenry soul found rest, 11§8 rorrows now nre o'er; Nu tekle wnld now troubles him— Pork reaclier, ho's no niorel —Edwdrd Metunder. 4 SERVANTS’ COMMISSIONS, 3 New York Tribune. 3 It has been veported that butlers and other soryants, who buy provisions for families and clubs, make s prictice of exocting from the dealersof whom thuy buy‘n certain sum of money per month or o percentage of tho pur- clinges 18 1 compensation for thelr custom. A Tribune reportor recently nsked many dualerd about tho truth of tho stafement.. - Tho fvst plice visited was Fulton Markot, A number of doulers thero sald that thoy were not enlled on to give nny percentaga to stewnrds or servants, a8 they denlt prinoipally with hotels, and nlways direetly with tho proprictors. One large dealer In produce, however, ndniltted his nequuintance with tho practice, but wonld not talk about tho utter for fear of injuring bis trade, In Wneh- Ington Murket several denlers positively donfed tnt they ever pald sorvants for tholr omployers' custom, but snid thoy knew the practico was genersl in the uptown shops. The serve ants of the rich familles, they satd, did not buy extensively at thelr market, s it was 8o far awuy., They wiso #ald thut thoy sold ut fower rates” than the shopkeopers in tho uptown avenues and strectd, and 8o could not afford o give any commissions for custum. A praminent provigion deater in Tompkins Mar- ket denfed that ho evor gavo servints i coms wission, and did not think tho practice wis gei- oral in the murket, Ho sala be knew that the CUStont WS A COIRMOn one amony tho shiops up- town, mud that it wns huving @ bid elfect on his buelr As an Instunce, he sald thet new eustomer, u wonnu, culied one dny and pala hee first nonth'a bill for meat, In o conversation thut followed, tho woinitn pralsed the honest, of her survant glrl who dla her marketing, 4 short time nfter sho left the plico, thogir] culled and nsked for her commisslon of 4 per cent on the bill, Heiug tokl It was nguinst the prictico of the it 1o pay uny cannmlesion, she went awny, but never tiought any more ment of tho {ivnd, trunsferritg tho custom of her employor 10 un uptown shup, x At the shop of n long-cstnblished mnrketman in Broudway, nbove Unlon square, it was stutod that tho tiem pald no commisslons to seryants, but ofton mude them presonts un Now-Yenr's Day of &, or 1 bottle of wine, n turkey, or some othior detfenoy, to keep their good will, nnd i return for tiiofe patfunce sometimes when the sulesmon could not walt on thom lmmmlluwlf'. A lnrge dealer i meat nad provisions In dixth avenus ucktowledged rmnklfl that he gave tho servant uirls who patronized him £, &, or & o -montls tor’ their custom. He suld ho know tho cluswm to bo prevalent nit over the uptown por- o i of the cityybut thought it was most priucs in Sixth avenue. 1 don't like todo it sufd bie, * but I have ta do it It order to keep iy customers, Jf 1 donot send the cooks money, thoy will sodd the meat back. and say it was 1ot goud, Then their mistresses will tell thom to putronlze somo other butehor, 1 housckecpers would only look nt the mont themscives wo could get nlong, but muny of them trust vntirely o thelr dorv Some of uy customers d thelr own murkettng and sclect for thomselves, nned with Aliese L buve no trouble, Ium guita willhug, also, to_senil tholr conks some llttio presont on Now-Yonr's Duy, but this Emuw w0, throe, or yore dollurs A month to couks or serve anty, for cach of neurly i hundred customers, is w serlous denln on my protits, Suppose L senil 1 oustomer n plece ot corned beet, uml do not feu tho coolk; shu may cook it about half an hour und then Dput it on the table, whon, of caurse, ft 8._not to ent. Sho will tell her cmployer that tho meat Is toush and poor, and thit sho hus been cooking it hed € duy. Wo hud such un instanco recontly. We told tho employer to superintend tho cook- fug hevaolf, nnd sho ndmitted that it was as tng u pleee of-ment us shio ever ind, One butler had tho ¢oolness to ask wo to keap t books with lim—ong o show his employer, In which tho churges should be neurly n tird more thun 1n 1o book ho kept. ‘Cnen he wanted 10 per cont commigslon on that besldes, Of courso I de- elined to do this, ns it wns downright stenling from his em’xlnyur and 1 thought it 1 ever had ta stenl 1 would steal for myselt.” Tho man who dolivered "pravislons for this denlor snlil sume sorvinls, in buyluli( %5 worth of tigkots trom tho mllkman, would return him orul tiokots aud keep the price of them. Concnimen hivo nlso been known to rain up He- titious bllls nt the harnessmaker's mul black- RIS, und compel thu tradesmen to divide with thum, A grocer In Sixth avonie snhd that he froquently mulo predonts to tho servinis who bought Of him. Iuquiries of othier denlers xovenled the sume fuots. The commuigsion must of cottrse come ont of the pockot of tho ems ployer eventually, ns tho denlor cannot aitord 1t without churgiugenough in bis Biil to balunce it ROBBING AN EDITOR. Detrolt Free Press, - Boon after tho completion of tho plank-rond botween Detroil and Lanslong, 0 perlod of twens ty-soven or twenty-clght years ago, tho editor of n newspaper located nbout half=way between started for Detrolt ono eventug ou tho wagon of atenmstor, After travoling about an hour tho vehlolo was stoppeid by i highway robber. Tho teamstor shelled outnbout$12, but when tho cd- tor shuwed up tho *pot* only reached (0 conts,* “Yau've hlklden your monoy in your boots!' shauted the robber, and hd mude tha editor pull thewm off, No more onsh belng found, the robbiee insisted that cout and vest should como oif foru close sonreh, but at thoiend of a sonrch bo angrlly deminnded: 5 [ “Whit sort of nman arg you togot outon u Journoy with mily 50 conts fn your pocket" “Iam getting my rida for nothing, and 1 was golng to buy Wy oxpenses In Dotrojt by adver- sl the hutel nt which I stop,'™ . “ low ‘Xrl;.l.llll advertising wil} you elvo me to ot you of l"\ 8t n\l{;h! column per week for four weeks." Waell, Il tako It, and the tenmster {8 tho witness to our burgali. 'l send In tho copy In timo for tho next lssuc.'” B fho robbur ln'uwnll moved off Into tho wouds, unil_us the vehlelo oneo more rotted over umlpllnnk tllw aditor rubbed his hands togothar uml vhuekicds vEgnd] but lsn't this o lIfL for mel 1foundn chuuco 1o pass off a Logus hait dollar, got u sptendid jten) of news for my local, mud workeil upa cohnmn ad, to holr vidd me over tho dull scason! 1 tel the Herald will bo on & puy= ng Lasle in fuss thun u year!” S A CURIOUS CLIENT, Jtroukiun Eagle. 2 Not long ago n Brooklyn newspapor man res colved i notu frow o law firm, Sinith, Junvs & Bmith, ‘wotifylug him that a clafm ugainst him for sovéral dollurs tal been placed fu thelr handa far golloetion, and lngtructing him that ho could sufe himself samo trouble It ne'd como uround und talk the mattor aver, Tho Journule st wae’ pusfectly prepured to converso on tho subjeat, but distnclined to pay, 80 ho dropped ju on Bmith, Jones & Smith, and notilied them that 1o Liud some Lustness fur thom, # “'hiord's, a mnn fu this town that threatens to o me,” said be, * and I'm prepared tospend any amoynt’ ta beat him. Cun you undortako to curry yio (hrough " “ortaipiyd " ejnoulated Bmith, Jones & Smith, 10 whom the newspnpor mian wis a etrangor. *What 1 wuut 1o do I8 to bother hioy," ob- sorved the clien “un 1 bother him, whethor Tows hiw or not#* * Well, wo should smilel" remurked *Buith Jones & Bmith, ’l‘ll take bim tweuty yours, i# we work tho cuse." sand . “You ure struogers to me, gentiowen,” i tho ¢l »nt, * thowgh 1 honr yon highly spoken of, Now, supposo he should suo e, how would you £0 1o work?" rat, wo sould stavo off_the auswer, Then we would taka a lot of dopositions, de henr ersc. Just befora the trinl wo woild Jssno t comntnission toexnnine witneases (n Sibering other witneasos would bo taken: wo would have such enguge ments tint wo would atnve tho triul off, und i hegot o judgment we would appeal. Vs, aiey be'd tae ip twenty yenrs gotting thg money. il what woald tho inwyers on, tho othor aide Lo up to ail this thno? 1'm told they'ro prutty sminrt follows.” £ “Don't eore, Who are thoy?” & Liton't remember thelenames, bit I hnve got thoir letter, Iferdl Whnt's this? ll{“lm’o, Hone tlemen, they're Emith, Jones & 8mith!" The partriors louked milmn. 1 hopo thnt nothiug 've sald will_bo used againat mo," sl tho client, ooking from vhe to thoother, "1 trust, gentiemen, thot-you won't give e away In this matter, lds an awful blunder on my part, but 1 singerely hopo you won't take any nnuu(u of ft.” Swith, Jones & Simith bold g Urief consuita- lon, A :\m 1 in much perll?" asked tho olient anxl- ously, Vo think not,” responded 8mith, Jones, and Smith, % Wonre—ch—are—wo nre prepared to drop the vroceedings, We won't mentlon ity it you won't,” *1'll ngree nat to mentlon any namo, rentied the ellent with n gein, * and I} ‘promiso you my Lusiness In the future.” . ‘Thiere wis somp further conversntion at an ndlneent hotol; and. wentlo render, the only trouble 8 thelr munes wero uut Smith, Jotes, and Suitth, : SEITE BROTIERS MACKATY. Londan Corverpondence Huffuto Uonrier. Mr. Mackoy [of ‘tho Bonanza tirm], ns most Amerleans aro aware, I8 n Sootchinan by birthy is pative town being Alrdrle, Lannrkshire, T had known his family ull my lifo, and last spring had many long talks with hils brothoer, Itobert Mnckny, who is n member of a largo cugineerlug firmn in his native town, and 18 regarded ns one of tho greatest practleal meehanles living. But Mr. Mackny 18 u very unsclfish and modest man, othorwlise he might hive been aa rich to-day us s brother, "Though ha bas experimented and fuvented nli™is lire, he has never sought to reap tho Just rewardgof histolents, 1o Iscontent with diseovering new wethods of applying forco and to let othier people renp the benefit. And the United Stutes are not a little Indebted to hls inventive genius, He it was. in conjunction with o Mr, Gray, who iirst construeted o loco- motive for nseendiug !(L‘u? wrades; nnd it was from plang. furnished Ui' ilm and explinations iven to Amerlean mechunics who visited him i1 Scotlnnd thut the focomotives were bullt which tirst crussed tho llol.'ki" Mountains, ut he is one of thosomen, na I have sukd, who et no store by such nchlovements ns these: he spenks of this now Invention as If it werou very small_matter, Hetween hlm und his brother, gk romarknbly ke eueh other in porsonal appesroncy, thera 18 no community ot feeling or oven of fricodship, far less Kinship. But {t 18 many years sines millionnire Mackay broke off corregpondence with his father and mother und fumily, Of the muny titnes he has been i England durlng tho past ton years, ho I never visited his famlly or bis native town, Two yoars ngo noverthicless he sont his Secre- tary “down from London to Alrdrie to lnjulre after his mother and rolatives, ‘This gentlemnn put up at the Royal lotelin ixrununuc. and nftor be had abused overybudy sliont tho- hintel for tho meanness of tho aceommodation thoy could offer, ho sent for his emploper's brother, tho person T have snoken of nuove. 1H8 sure riso mny be_readily fmogined when ho was Rnlnrmud Ly Mr. Mackay that If his Lrother could not condeseend to come to Alrdrie ln por- son tn sco his triends, he would recelve no nformntion fram him:- furthoriore, M tary way specinlly instructed to inform b uster thut sines ho bud furgotten his family so lomy, the utier hud now 1o better medsige to convoy tohin than this.—to-wit, thar, for eared he could go to v climnte whore the . temperature wus ithvays ubova K0 in the shado, or words to that offect, DBut I think Mr. Muckny Judges his rich brothor harshiy, Though a mun of plnin speech, and entlively Innocent of il ustges of - grnniar n - communtonting kil thoughts orally, in seems to Yumflesu |vl|.-ut¥. of good, hand, prictiend sonsa, and, consideringhow rich hie Is, be I8 certainly not proud: but whatho Incks In the Jatter respect his wifo mnkes up. No Queen that ever lived could be prouder oc moro rious thin she. TOLICEMAN AND OBELISK. ; New York Sun. 3 An Incbriated polléemnn mistook tho obelisk, o few uighta ngo, for n dlsorderly polo player In ared ulster, and, golug up to tho monolith, ar- rested it. - Tha leo at the huse of tho stone ndded uncertainty to the policeman a footiug, and, 8 | he swayed around,. It scomed to him that while ho was ag firm a8 rocke his prisoner wis not only drunk: and ‘disorderly but wus trying to escnpé. Theu, with n presonce of mind alwoys presont, drunk or sobor, he drew out bis-club und began to make his mark nlongalde of tho anclent Egyptiat hicroglyplies. Huvingworked bimsult Into a secure position where be: no looger slipped. bo conluded that ho had brought u’ls prisoner to torms. Then ho doter- wined to got tha necessury pedigree for the po- llce voeords: What is yer namer”! “hothmes Obellskls." ¢ \Whera wero you born?” "onst . “»On ivhnt?"! #0n Byyptlan soll.” d “\Whar, yo lml)l(l'nllt doviz" * Hollopolls. ! furrin Jatber to me. Thate fir “ None ot riners, Mlud yez yer tn New Yawk now, tho mmlluluro! the Irish Itepubliv. Now, how otd aro youy" “ureo thousand flve humired nud cighty reinrs. . YU ow I know yer drunk. Marriedor single?'! “ I've got n sister” »Wah, L don't cey? of you bave fifty. llavo you a woifo and rumlI{V'f" < » There were forty in tho tamity.” AR d'ye mmanoe to sy yer the daddy of em all?” He jubbers, I you don't answer mo ques- tion VIl breuk yor skull J * You reter to my pyrimidlon, T suppose?” * Nonw ol yer !‘urr’n talk, I'tould ye. Now toll mo It you are warrled.” i wediled to sollftudel” o “ Yo belotr to a quure fumily.. Yer namo is Tommies O'lixkes, and yor wolfe's mune la Bully Tude, Be gorrw, [ belaivo you've n crooked i, Now, whut's yonr ocoupation? * A policeman. 1*va becn out on poat for,000 )l yenrs, *Are yo n Tammany man?* “ 1 don't understund.” At \l\.llm!u ;;ur bauker; who got yo onthoforce?" hnenoh,"™ “The one In Ann strect? Be gorra, muny of us huve tho same fntluence. Do yon got 1 stendy atake? Yando? Thin you must boa Coptain, No wondor you're tough,” aund, divining that ho nad nado wmistake, the policeman rat away ud st us nls Jews would tuka hifn, whilo the obellsic 100k unothor nap of & thousund yeura.* v QUIPS, ‘Vonico 18 tho richest elty in Italy—it 18 almost freo from dobt, Aud with ull thoso cunals, taot T8 VenotianiAldermen and Stateleglslutors aro feaviully behind tho nge.—Puck, o Even tho wisest Issomotimes o fool, For ex- ample, the philosopher who woro, his epectneles when ho was nsleep that bo might recdgnize friends ho might sco fu his drenms, 7+An Impertinent fop-mado sport ,of an okl farmer's lurge noso, mouth, and ghing but tho rold farmer sllenced him by snying,* Your nose, motth, an' ehin alt bad to be mndw, snuil 8o "at sthero'd b mutortal lote for your gheelk.” Thera nro &0 many inventlonaithat ! canno! (get out of order” wud “will inst. a Hotino 1out unybody who shall discover souething that’ ewill gret out of orider, -und will ‘only lusts long enough to bo earried boniy, will supply n long= felt wunt. i i #3r, O'ItniTerty,” snid tho Galy 'I(nn Itecordor, % the witnesses whl sny you kicked .1his geotlo= min and ealted bim wll ninnnerof vile numes.” 1 don't kinow what happencd, your:Honor, 1 L did thint 1am very-sorey Inddido.”” v Yes, you ought to regree it very mueh” T do, Indide, 1t's only wid o own futnfiy that 1 tako such l1b- ortles, und it § have beep tentin' such un fll-n vored scoundrel s 1f ha wid wmembor of nie own family, I'll regrot it to the lust day of me Heo, Lwill " —Galvestun News, ) Btoston Cammerelud Bulietin, .:t‘ l}nmnx orn born drunk arv both stimulating articled, " p . ‘When o man I8 a robbin’ ho 18 likely to bucou;n a Jall-blrd, - A good design for thoilve-cent ploco would bo aheud of 8t. Nickel us, The bee, nlthough sowowhat of n rover, thinks his first duty i3 to bumn, . Flora—Tho bean 18 tho best winter pot Elunt. Pot 'em Baturday night with plenty of "mr , und tl(m«)m:l‘: your Bunduy moraing brouktust-tublo with "ain, Gen, Qnrllold recolves his callers at Mentor witha .lnl, on tho shonlder nnd u * lellel - how ure you old followz " And ho mnkes uo distines tlond,—derid I L 1t 15 tho sumo wilh n groat muny men bore, only when the caller 480 poc dlor or 1 tramp tho ***o how ure you old felluw s loft olf the welcomo, 5 ‘Young (icorge D, having Importuncd his father for barso, tho fudulyent purent presonted him with tho aticlont steed which fur yoars hud oar- rled him abong tho clty sircets. ATow tuys nftor tho aifectionato son interviewed his futhor and runowud bis request, snylngt * Puthor, cun't you #ive o o borse i 1ttlo liewror iny owiL ugo that would be guore of u cumpunion tor me?" ——— Two Childron Hoxcued from a Burne Ing Bullding by a Jerofe Mother, New Pumavrnenia, 0. Fob, 1L—A fire oceurred at o little \llncu calted Stringtown, n fow miles east of hove, Inst Friday, which ening near resulting in the cremation of two children. About twelve o'cluck at night Mri. Amos Yengling, wifa of w well-to-do funer of Stringtowii, was aroused frow hor slutuber by roarlug and crackllug of ficg, and : =) awoke to find the fisrco finmes dgy, QWO ars vouring thy She TAradsar the i other memborg of family wid began removing fhe hm\lt"‘! whean the hovrible thonght dawneq u(,m‘“) ? mind that her two 8ohS wern nsleey In ™ upper room where the fire wag Dlnzing ] ronrlng the flereest. Tho herole mo(‘?] bounded up the stairs and, entering the roi i ami the sumoke and Bames, fonl the gd]m fite, while the serenins of her ehildren sono pn‘nv "nluwlmf llllrun:;h Iw;— Iu-|urL nta ) grent presence of mind s Tier dartings aud roshed down-sty ‘h? ;,EI‘M the open air, and snnk prostiate over um"“ most lifeless forms of hier ehiliren, noll' chifdren and mother. wers burhed in'q 1§, i viblo minnner, thofi: face and Tinds pejrts blistered and seorehed almiost to mhn‘ "They nrg pow Hita eritienl conditlon, Ly g% recover, " Uay HE ARRESTED HIM, And- Now tho OversZenlous Con Is Raying the Ponalty in J“l;.lllnlc 8, Louts; Fob, L—CGregor Obershay, A Constable of Rlorlsant, o subnrban \-|I|a'p was sentenced ‘fa-dny in the Crlning) L‘muE to one year's Imprisonment i jall on convles tlon of the technieal charge of “eulpably negligence,” 'The nature of s “culpyyy uegligence” Is what makes the ease ong of vecullar Interest, One nlght in Fobrunyy, 187, Obershaw was out on the Natloya) Bridgs Rtond looking for n notorlous thigg named Louis olsehier, Obersiaw was g wagon at the thne with his friends. As they arrived b the point where they expected g meet thelr man thoy saw in the wmoonlight g orson who nnswered the description of Jolscher, 'l‘ln-r looked ot i, and cons cluded to wait tl he ceme right up to the, and then take him into custodys and ng they walted the fumu{ mnn opetied o wicket-gagg and started Into o yard leading to- a liongg, QObershnw stood up In his wagon, He hndy shotgun with him at the time, and, olnting the muzzlyof 1t ut the man mmxmselr 1o ba Holséher, ho velled, *1nit] balt! hatlr ‘The person enlled to, Instead of stopping, changed his puce from t Walk to nrun, andug he did this Obershaw opened fire upou him, ‘I'he shot took effect In the leg of the may ahined at, and brought him to the ground, Obershaw ran Into the yard, and, looking at tho'person he had shot, saw that it was ot liosehler, nud legged the stranuer's pardon for nhuodng‘ him, and expressed great regrey ot the migtake he ind made., 11e a0 offered to pay all the sloctor bitls that might accrug owing to the seeident, and to wmake all atones went In his p The person shiot proved to be Frank D , 1 yOung gentleuan who had been to o bell, wnd was retienlng ome, 1lis parents livel in the housce at the very }flnc« in which he was shot, Young Dimity's eir, Instead of beecoming whole again, fes tered, until amputation” beeame necessary, and was resorted fo. Then the parentsof the young wan lled sult nwalist Obershay, whieh resuited in a verdiet for § i fas vor of the plaintiff, The Stale also pross cuted with the result lirst above mentioned, o} e - A'STRANGE CASE. Supposed Donth and Burlal of n Young Mun="Tho Coflin Dugz Up and Found to Contain Nothing bnt Sand, *Speeial Dispaten to The Chleago Tribune, MAny vitsg, Mo, Feb. .—The village of Fille more In Andrew Connty, about twenty-fiye miles distant from this olty, was thrown Into & groat excltomegt to-dny upon the cxhuming what wus supposed to e tho remaing of James Rigeln, which hrd been interred there n few daya before. but, in consequence of the supposed decay'ed condition of the remalns, the collin wea not opened at the time of burinl. Riggls, = who wus engnged in mnrrlage to a young lady of' Andrew County, left sud- denly © one' day for tho Far West, but beforo leaving Insured his 1ifo in favor of his ugod mathor. 1le purchaged n ticket fortho I'acitie Const and arrived ns fnr_on his Journey 1ts Nortlh Platte, on tho Unjou Pacitie Rallread, where he stepoed from the train, entered & water-clogot, drew o revolver, and put an end to his Mfe. s brothor-in-luw urrived on the .8ceno, und, it 18 clalmed, took eharge of the Doy, gathered togothor the offects of Jumes Tigiin, closed the body In " cotiin, and rhipped the effeets und remaing via St Joseph to his mother at Flllnore, where the colin wns iIntorred nmid tho grief of many sorrowlng mourners. Applieation for tho fnsuranco wus made to tho Company why tiad [ssued the policy. Thoy commeneed an ine vestlgntion, which resulted In the exhumnlug of tho coflin at Flllmere and discloalng the fact that thoro was nothing in the coflin_but simply sund colleotod from Nebraska's fertilo soil. 1t 15 claimed that tho reming of James Riggin wore nctually placed In the cotlln, but If fint 1§ truo the detoctives clulm thoy must hoye heea stolon thorefrom whille cn routa to Flllmore. The ense §3 u curlons one, and sbyouled ia mystery, The bolinf of mun 18 not dead at all, and that he has been pructicng a decuptivn to get tho life-Insurance, , r—— A MATRIMONIAL FAILURE, Spectal Dispateh to The Chtcago Tribint. LAvAYETTE, Ind,, Feb. 3.—Man proposel snys tho old adage; and it mny be addel, woman dlsposes, sometimes, Last week thore eatno to Lafayette, from some obscure hamlet on the Lroud prairlesof Iiinolss man of fhiddle nge named FHull; and, golog to the liomo of o relative of n former wife, ha beeame suddenly selzed with n deslre to mar ry n young Indy of tho household, o sls the hostess, Il was an old acquaintance, and pressed- his sult with all the Emlnrnnd earnestness of o youth’s first love, " Constris Ing tho huly’s evasive answer to his proposal to ean consent, the would-be roun let 1o rnss grow under bis “feet until he hnd pre the necessary license, Lrom Ue Clerk's oflico he hastened o tho resldenceof aowell-known diving and enguced bis seris Tees for 7 o’clock pm, A8 the evening drew on, noting' no preparations ool toward o cmarrlnge, ho produced m% Heense, s andd f<informed the Iml{'. of his “employment of dlvine the Of course, sha_was . greally shocked athig consfuet, “especlilly us she hadn't ll\elr: wotest den of mareying himg and, \\'llUB}er wag Informing hint of this fact, the mll]l:[ nrrived. As she refused to have mmh“ to o with the wesdding, tha Ilinols man b to glve the domenie & Wink to come _ont o ‘Fhioye wis 1o ehildlike and bland smile on 18 face ns ho told thy roverend gentlend that wise women, llke wise wen, ch n thulr urlnlmm. and that the woman partloufnr hud eomo to tho C“.".""‘sl““lm‘ sho wonld ngf have him, ‘Tho mil A thered up hiditile and wended hlgdwha iomeward; wilile the Sucker refille 4 enrpot-suck and returned to his nnu\o:l\; i $2 poorer than when he came. Bot ‘m:ll porience ho has guined mui’ in_some o degres com pensate him for his finaneid . —_ e ————— 4 - LONGEVITY, *_8pectal Dispatch to e Chicago nmunnl Jn [ LiAvavETr, Ind, Fob, .=Ther d!flu fow dnys azo ot tha Sisters Hospltal lI!Id ity Ellen Foley, nwoman whe cl_nhn'\“l have been 108 years ohl, Mre. l'u’Ele o born In County Cork, Ireland, ol l't;lll this country in 1810, belng ot that time years of age. She had becomo blln;kflu her powers of “speech und umhgmsuw were so_grently Impaired In luter year e render It Inpussibly for Tier to & 3 f‘mmt of herself. Sho had noknv Vs, 51 P Moust Venvoy, Ind, Feb -’-mllf(" Tawv, tha olilest person In hulhullq "l Inst wight, sged (according w‘hl»fln 12t which was pretty cleasly estab Hw- 9 vears, 1te waa o body servant o, and ilorccr during the Afwerican Iu.-\r’-h.l“ e in clalmy that.at the thme of the mr‘ll)’- 1 Richmand fie had pussed his mjo ket came to the well-knowi P]unm.r s Plummer, i the eapaelty of host1e Iinaieusv‘({l of “"'"‘,“"“‘,"{;'R'{'.&un = during the eampalgn of k on tho public spuure, advoeating the eeet of Henry Cluy. —e— : - ASHES, To the Editer of The Chicago TH0UIE yq 0, Fou, 1—Xotloing your "l reof to-duy's TRINUNE regurdiug the f“"'cmmlvf Health Dopartment to nttend 10 ‘,hu{wu\i‘-"“' ndhey and garbage from the nllu-)_!- Avenger [} :m-lc-m;lllr ol wuum:;: ;‘)),:"‘;f'u e obliged to romove il . Nori Division, and b nocasion t0 €44 f pst Ifenith Oftico last stmner, § Wos thets oo the sonvenger would unly remove "; nnder 827 inte boxes or barrely, it not naln;m lght @ - clreunstunces, and “that tho l'l\!,'l'[ . thrown into the nliey, Respeet 1 su'usfl"“" U o [One man removes tho garbaye wid ¥ tho nalies.] e — b 4 but us ““Nover exporiment tao muehs bt Fiis, ikt preuns and thits securs Lo ‘L':‘:‘"gwflc A, F, Luehterhand, 135 C "-"-i'hw“'“"’[ foraman of P. Lally & Co. n.\l.\uil et had severa palu } kly ¢ oSSR ot L was qulekly aud ady’ bn‘flmw welly Aol Bl herels that Rigzle |