Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1881, Page 12

: money wore our friends,” eadd the Judge, and 12 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY his business properly and successfully, The complainant tharcfore I8 ontitied to a deeree.” THE BANK TAX CASE, The tax case of tho Merchnnts' Snvings, Loan & 'T'rist Company ngainst Collector Farwell eame to n somewhat abrupt terminntion yesters dny morning before Judge Barnum, The ense caine up on a motion for Injunction, and was argued vigorously and at jeneth Wednesday, Yesterday mornimng the argutnents wero re- wme r. 1L 1. Hocon appearing for himself n= Sonth Town Supervisor, At tho ennclusion of his remarks Corporntion- Consel Adams rose and stated timt tho purtics had nereed to u compramise on tho husls of vne- half tho tax, Tho total usseased tax was §18, THE COURTS. Judge Caton's Appeal for Munici= pal Honesty. s His Argnment in the Caso of the Oity of Ottawn Bonds, Judge Jameson's Deflultion of What Con. stitutes Habitunl Drunken- g and tho bank had ogreed to pay $U.2 e, for fts tax on Its capital stock for W0 for clty, town, county, and South Purck purnpoee andd the dees fouking rell The eolpromise was ngrced to enterad fmmediately, the Judee d at ot belne compelled to eritl- elz¢ the netfona of tho State Board ot Equaliza- tion. ) ‘heground of thorellef on which the injunction was usked In this cnse was that tho enpltal stoek had all boen fnvested In Governmont bonds, that the tangiblo property hul pald a tax, and that heneo all the tax on'tho eapitnl stock was void, In the [our cnses hegun fu the United States Cirewt Court n Few days ako, tho ground nken fs entively dilferent, the privcipal claim thore huefiye that the tnxes are vold because of want of uniformity ot nssessment or valuation on tho samo cinss of property. A POST-MOR'TEM LITIGATION, A-sult was begun yesterday by tho County agalnst W, J. Onaban oad Philip A, Hoyne, tho hondsmen of the Into James Stewart, the Ree- anler ‘of Deeds, When ho was Hecorder tho business of keeplug tho abstracts wus put on bim whthout givine him any extra compoe tion, and he kept back about £1L.500 In all of his recelpta, which was tinpliod toward tho expensa of running the abstract departiment. About two veurs ago # ault similar to tho present one was The Morchanss' Savings, Loan & Trust Company Gots Rid of Half Its Taxes, Sational Printing Fompans—3udgments, New Suils, and Criinal Pusiness, JUDGE CATON'S ADVICE. Durlug the year 1RE-'70thore wero bunds is- sued In tho guin of §10,000 by the City of Ottnwa for the purpose of establishing certuin water- puwers in that piace, These honds were bought by 0 wumber of parties. Abont two yenrs' fie terest was puld on sukd bonds by tho City of Ot- tawa, ‘und the wunicipal nutborities of that pluce then enme to the conciusion that they would pay no more Interest untess compelled 10 do so. Thoy vnssed a resolution to this effect. A Fult was Iustituted by the bondhold. ers, ot whom Mr. Lester 11, Ennes was tho prii- cipal holder, This case eame wp some time 1go, hepun weafnst Stewart and bis bondsmen, but and Judyment was readored for tho defendnnt. [ (E R Hniesed Far want f proseon tion. This Judgmont wie reversed by the Supreme | List weelo i rerolution was pussed fn the Coun- 1y Board providing thut all “delinquent bonds. men shonld by prosecuted, and on this theory tho present ease [s begun., The damiiges are bnid nt 810,00, Stowart, it will be remotabored, diod 111 Apri, 1850, Court of the United States on the ground that the partles holding the bomis were funvcent purchasers, and, there belug récitals on the fuco of tho bonds atlegiug thut they were lssued for munleipal puvposes, the City of Ottawn was estopped from denying thede recltals fn the hands of nn fnnocent holder, A rehearing of the case was begun yesterdny before “Judge Blodgett, Judge Lidelage aml ex-Supreme Court Judge 1, D, Caton appeared for tho plaintitrs, and for the City of Ottuwa Judge Mon, Samnel tiehalson, and AT Judge Bldridce Introduced the bonds’ pur- chased by the pinintifTs as evidence, when Judgo DIVORCES, A il wns filed yesterdny In the Clrenit Court by Emlle Dupko ngalust ber husband for a di- vorco on the ground of cruelty and drunkens ness, - Smlfo Williams filled n bill ngainst Willlam Wilitams, usking for a decrco vn necount of hig long-continned t!ruult?“. i H, Minnrd nsked for a divorce from g cende y el i well 08 the 08 e w16 Py fog | Elzabet Minupd on the sround of desortion, tho Londs, which were crented for the | Franeea K. Crooker nljo mukes tho fame purpose tof wenernlly benefiting tho clty. charge ngninat her husband, William i, Crooker, he Judire rofecred to the Constitution | andndda to it an accusution that heis acons fivined deunkard. And Thomas J. Patterson jolned the snmo melencholy throng, his wife Theresin having taken French leave of him about two years ngo. UNITED STATES COURTS. ‘The Conncetieut Mutual Life Insuranco Com- pany tled n b yesterday ngninst Leonard Falch, Ellznbeth Faleh, Hugh A, White, and A. B. Gulld, Ir., and Julin Lomos, to foreclnso n nartgage for $10,000 on part of Outlot or Block 22(n the Canal Trustees Subdivision of Sce. ¥, 40, 14, bounded nu follows: cnmmencing at tho northienst coruer of suld block at the intersce- ton of the south line of Webster nvenue wi tha west line ot Hurlbut strect, running they west nlonw the north Hne, of enld Bloek 22, 125 feet, thonee south onu parallel with tho eust line of sull block to tho eouthwesterly line of sald block, safd southwesterly lino bLeitg the northeasterly line of Lincoln avenue, thence routheasterly along the wortherly line of suid Lincoln avenue to the eoutheast corner of suid Black, it the fntersection of the northeasterly o of snld Lincoln nvenua with the west lne of Hurlbut streot, amd thonee north nlong the cast lino of sald block 551 feet moro or less to tho plueo of beginning. STATE COURTS. 3 George 8. Hedlleld & Co. began a suit yes- terdny for the use aof the Tiflin Woolen Come pany, ngainst Abner M, Lewis and Addison B, Tuttle, claiming 31,000, Christlan Jounson sued William Johnson for §1,600. Georgo C. Morton, executor of tho will of J. T James, decensed, commencsd un action in tres- of 1848, which stipuluted that the Lesistuture conld confer wtpon cities und other mululplitics anthority to levy tuxes and borrow money for Tounicipnl or corporate purposes, The gquestion du this ease, argued, wis ot s to who bad Tonu file pessession ol the bonds, but whothor o npravement of the wilter-poter in tho vi- clnity of the City of Ottnwa was i munictpal or corporate purpose, ‘Phe Judge dwelt upon this, ani clted eases 10 show that the work fur which these hondd were created was s much n anuniciptl purposs ns was tho - sus- temnee of n police torce or tho hallling of n norinul fetionl. ‘Chie Leglsintura by mony neta hind given 1ts construction of tho fueaning of corpurnte or munlelpal piurposes ns used i tho Constitution by specinily anthorizlug towns and CitheR 1o 1ike moneys 10 pay bouatles for sol= diers, 1o tulld normal schools, and similar nets, These bud nll been sustalned by tho Supreme Court s Doy within the meaning of tho Con- stitution for munieipnl purposes,” 1t Tollowed, then, the Judge malutalned, 08 loglenl conelu- elon, that other nets not B0 forclgn Lo the ' fminedla poses of tho ity 18 these wero niso within the meaning of the Constitution, The Legleinture could not ex- fond tho meaniug of ihe Constitation by its enactnients, but was contined in the exercise of its power by that lustrument 18 mueh ns the corporation Itself, 'The ehnrter of thls eily con- ferred upon the elty nli”the power which tho Constitution allowed It 1o possess, and the Jegis- Iature coitld not by uny cnuetiwent hsve extend- ed it further, The Judge snld that when he opposed tho resolution 1o fasue thess bonds he il nover dreamt of offering it heeanuso tho purposn was ot it munieipal oue, He had never heard that the bends were not fssued for o munieipal phirpase untis be b heard that tho bonds lud heen repudinted, 1le wis n vltizen of Ottawa, and hi uls futegreity burdened by tho cffore | pass aguinst Martin Andrews to recover $5.000, to repudiante whut he constdered an honest debt. 1. 1. Gege llrl)lnihl Sult in efectment nguinst Iie lnmented thut even the clforl bud already | Geore W, Pariter, loying damages nt 8205, brought i stuln and u stigmae upon the com- munity in which he v that her evedit beforo tho workd was prostrated, and that no matier bow great her emergeney night be hereafier no man would dare 1o glve hig money o help her, Far bettor, suld tho speaker, even with the mravest donbts of 1ho city's 'labllity to pay thoso bonds, Ho wished to fuy his testinouy bie Tore tho little world in wihich ho lived that ho did not bellove in thiselfort, 1lo felt It n per- sonal reproach that the municipelity of Ottawa would ritise thetr hands, In spite of all he could By, ngainst paying this honest debt—n (bt which I every ‘mornl attitude in which it could, be “viewed wus a Just onv— simply beeauso the ngents Intrusted to oxpennl the noney had not perfurined tholr work Tafth- Cully, ‘Thu Fang, tho most (nve nte eannlbals of Afrlen, only dovour thely eneniics; thoy never puL their {ricnds on the svit. *The wen who eame forward und offered us I, L. Y rrllmunu cammenced & suit to recover C. Jovne, AMichaed Gillltan brought suit for 3,000 ngainst tho Lehlgh Valley Coal Company. ¥ Asahiel Gago begun o sult i ejectment against TFrancls 1t aAnderson, Charles It. Iurton, and Samuel M. Jontes, cluiming £2.000 damuges, Three more nttachment sulta wero begun Wednesday agalnst tho Insolvent Jewceler, Josepli Lederer, by Enstern ereditors, “All but one, that by E. I, Scery, for $1,200, were aup- pressed for service. CRIMINAL COURT. Defore Judge Maran yesterday the following cases were disposed of: J. M. Mitrray was sent to Jull for sixty days for petit Iarceny. Thomns Hawkins pleaded guiity to assavltto do bodily In- Jury, und was sent to tha Iridewcil for cight months, George Bost wus sent to tho Peniten- tiury for one year for larceny, Jamces Dixon and Henry O'llenren woro tried on tho charge of Jureeny and stequitted, Joseph Gormmn and Robert Breckenridgo are on triat for burglnry. Tho followlny cuses wore disposed of by Judie Huawes: August Georgmoyer was found gullty of hurglaryy nnd awarded’n, year in tho ‘i'unl- tontiury. Tred Heclor and Henry Thics, trled on u charge of larceny, Were ndjudged not gullty, Lizale Stackleyls on trnl for nlleyed munsianghier, Iy causing the death of Tshum :’\lll:‘lll;égu by striklug him with o hatehot lust etober. from nelther n worml polnt nue i el one eould he apgreeinte the elfort ut reptdfation, Heo ootseled the authoritics, i€ they watited to ave 1o Hfo of the olty, to retruco thol: steps at once, nbandon the repudintion poll « voliey which will bincken posterity, us w tho present generation, Thu spewier sald ho could ot fet this oecusion pass without entering hig protest mzninst the policy ot repudiation,—n Joliey which ho hoped dowa, Judgo Tlarllgo began an areument for the plulntitfa which wis broken into by the adjourn- wnent ol the Court untll this morning. bls Honor would put WIAT IS HABITUAL DRUNKENNTSS A finat deeree of divorce wis entered yestor- day by Judgo Jameson in the enso of Grrco Vie gl Gutes ngatnat Snmner B, Gutes, and a deelslon wus given which Is of some considern- Dble tuterest s defining what constitutes hublt- uul drunkenness within the moeaning of the statute, Tho Judge's views ure quite Hbveral on tho subject, oven for tho extremely liberal laws of 1llnols. Tho parties fu tho prosent ense wero marrled in 1871 ut Algouquin, and lived together until about the middie of Inst yenr, when Mrs, Gates Jeft hor hushund, und filed o bIL for n divoreo on tho kround of drunkenuess and eruety, Ho fnterlted an estate of ntiout $3,000 from his father, 8lmon B, Gates, and bis wife clalmed ho bud by his constant hablts of futemperanoa squundered a large part of his patrie mony; thut for the last tve years lo hnd been in the hnblt of drinking to exceess, nnd s 50 addicted to Hquoe thut o deetured ho wonld not glve it up como wout woulds iat ho hud nlso unusminerd bis intentlon of teking his utunt soi, 18 80on 4 1L wis okl enougy, o drinking and gumbling plices with him, Gutes tlled i it denying ull the chinrgoes mi aguinst uim und seeusing is wito of destry Judge Jnmeson has been engaged the past two Aoys In hearing tho ense of Whitney & Dutch nguinst tho Nuttonal Printing Company and Chrles 8, MeConnell, Involviog a question ns to the management and ownership of tho stoek of the I'rinting Company. Yesterduy a docreo wus entered dismlssing the bill for want of equity. T dudge suid MeConnell's explinstion in relis tlon to the report and resolution of tho Direut- ors and to tho alieged fruudutent proceodings relloved tho tter from uny hnproper surround- firs, 118 explanations, coupled with what was shown on the hooks, mnde iz entirely antls- fuctory o bim thut McConnell bad committed no fruwd nor made any misrepresontations, An appenl wis taken to the Appellate Court, ‘Tlie buukrupt estato of Kuto Havens was do- clured elosed yesterany and th Assignea dis- chiurgod, but i dischurgo was rotused to bier, COUNTY COURT, Mary Gilfoll, C, I, Lowell, Nick Waterloo, and Dauiel Kenny werg tried yesterday und adjuidged {ukane and paupors. ‘They were sent to tho County Axylu, n cso of J. W. Converso vorsus The Clty af Chienso, an action Lrought to recover #841 cluiined 1o bo duo wpon it cortitiento isucd hetoro thie grent firo of 183), the Court toard tha Arients of colnsol yesterday and took tho Lis homo hiappi by hier extenvigunt ubits, | matter under advisoment, The account suud Virulent tongue, snd nigovernably mpor, sl | npon contuing aa ltem of Ioterest amounting to of Lelng extremely tond 'of tho thentre’ und | #221, nely danelhur, tine elothes and tto hours thied ncross-bill usking tor n divan ground af desertion, but did not pu cuge wis heard withont any dofens HUNLUT OF WILIERSES WOTO 01 hed Untna fre B AL Of fotox Tho Judge, | tho care, suids “* 1L suppose 1o witness followed this dofendant Sronuday to duy, hore and n the conatry, so s to b gbte to swenr that he wos drunk’ every dny, Four witnesses havo testitled to UBYIVO drunkenness o good denl of tho time, Twa or three of o have eapressod the oplnion that his bubits nifeeted his capasily tor businuss, It 18 probutto thit oul of b fundrod wilnessos not ot would testity thit tho defendnit wis deank Ao thine, JU sueh wers the fuet; eaeh would suy that e bad seen hhn deank many tines, BOCE I HONTH, OF DHCE 4 Wi I, s stated. by one witness, olie husulred tmes in theew or four e nlso e PROBATYE COURT. In the matter of tho estate of John Dobilo, de- censod, letters of adminlstration were Jssued to Murln Doble und Henry 'Thics, under bond for $15,000, 1a tho mattor of tho estate of Putrick Parks, decewsed, fottors of indimtilstention wero fasued o Duvid W, Miteholl unler bond for $10,000, 1 the matter of the estute of Mugnus Nelson, deceaswl, lotters of wdministration were lssued to lolen B, Nelson under bond tor $10,800, TIHE CALT, Jenar DiuxsoNn—Qonoral business, Jenae Buovaerr—Puassed cuses und general business. No, 489, Carey va, Clty of Ottawa, and consollduted eases, on trinl, yeurs, Al wrree that bo drank oo mueh, wnd | Jubar Uany—Condomuation calendar, No wn:\mh:n‘-x hly mlx "l" ; I‘ he ‘\uu ousv on trial, . i uble o do Al " hing THIN BMITH=NO . :‘lél‘l“llt;fillui I'.' A (n‘l "'xl:“ 2L, i‘l;l'fill‘ ?’.mhplr“‘!l:u}nnmc"}!m'r:lv“lllcelfill g 3 S on " e Vi ' trial. Sl AECORAL. e s totho | iyer'va, Manierro, oy trial. it gonlul and gene runwilling. 19, utrd exp A I aamrded inunner, L discover hieru o desleo not 10 say too meh, but Trom all the evidence, 1t 14 elear that the dofund- nntbus for muoy yenrs had tho bubit of drinke UK R0 ICE B8 1o render Bin . uniit to uttend Property to hisduties i o husbanid, “Tho questlon here 18, or ought to b, not merely whether bo s ablo to earn money 10 e his wite u pepsonuble. support, but whether b I3 4 HEperson to assuelnte (0 tho mars ried rolation wilh © worman who, Thour Bee aps peirunee o o stand, seems 10 Lo ludy of Juncr WitLiAsoN—1ss, 139, 108, 104 to 200, 20 o 7. No, 187, Fadden vs. Lovy, on tri Jauuson—No cull, No. 20, Whitney ve. JUpAE JA; Metzonnell, on hearhg, JULUBE GARDNEI-- 1, 1 8, 3 Vi Hpuliahts o hesetiy, 1 1% 6044, Spolaht Jdubgie lummm—mif toDu3, inclusive, excopt o, .\L:,l'(\l::s :unrlul.m . IR ANTHONY—] % 30, o lrlu‘l. Y—1067, 100, 172, 173, 174, 175, 170, % 8yik No. 4, Cotfoy va, Coltoy, Junu r:“'ivwr— TANNTA=N cull, No. 20, Bhumway v, t 101 to 104 on hey yespectubibity undg re ent, 18 ho fit, fn o e, on herin word, to bo tho tither of her chifdeent | Gy e Vi Jte aucstion fs ot Lk’ duwin *in’ T o ooy e Moran }n#'w:'ll.moh' sy gt At vory pees. | 108 Dadio HawoieNod, 153, 130, 1, 10, © one. The grentest eruelly Junoi Lounis—set 8, terun Nod, 82 and 1 eun possiuly bo dntticted upon u woina s Inuko Dot thu othor o it Hiers i b iy N 0sd, 1,00, 1,100, 1,110, voy dvuaknis, The. Lugiatntiee ol e | 210 W0t JAEL 148 % Jugtited 0 providing, whevo u in i s fis L T ulyed tn driak et g mads 1t probable 2wl tuke, by besitun o POURSEY, Lt SIeC bl Ko nd fir u divoree, uithougin o muy e ull other gee speers by n klud, rdugent husbaid, by wipd wiiliug o give s wate i abunding’ support, On tho waoie, | s satisded thoee 18 testimony Aough bere to estabinsi thag e defondany 14 < bubstaal dvgnsazd 1o the narroy taoke words g | a0 publt of drnking Lus d on by sl to such excesd Lor Two years noxt beforu o gty ot L1y Bl s seriouily ta {nterfera wih R capueity sad disposition to attvad to ),l JUDUMENTS, Usiven Brates Cincuir Counvr—Jupuy Brovaert—Nuttonnl City llank of Ottawa vs, Jubu ‘% Nickerson, &,513, RUrgmion Count—CoNvrssioNs—William T, avly ve, Hornued Goudutnn, 337060, , Juigie GAry=City v, Danu, condemuation; verdlot of #5010 In fuver of property-owiers for upentag Hinmun strout from Hoyns wvenue to Leavitt street.—City va, Spear, condemngtion; vordiet fur §35) in fuvur of property-ownurs for the uxtension of leving plucy through to West Mouroe strupt.—City w.'ilnkunwn Qwaerd, won Ve tutiited bl bl 4L Liks Lutn demnations verdict for £ weldening nn ol ninth atreet, between ¢ Ve Bromley, 130 foropening an alley throngh v;"llf the Canal Trustees’ subilivision 1M,18 foropening and from'Pwenty-glxih to T'wenty. rairie dnt Guimet o her tnder for fertilizer. Suthin® that would ke a man set his children to stealin® 8o he d give 'eim nwn; etin® om, ol ¢ and pot witnesaea’ fees for Have ver got nnything of that hint's the worst 1've got." eald the borelfled Irkeeper, * You can thke it or leave 18" ** The tnets 18, explained tho strunger, s ho poured dowit bl pint of tho muaterial withont a shudder, “ tho facta is, thnt I live In Dakotn, ond 1 was feelin’ homealek, 8o I thought i 1 coutdonly fret a taste of the genuine ol stud it would rafse my aplrita. Hut that isn’t tho whisky 1 winted, e mukes mo Feel fike londin atirond Company, § Bmery ve. Henry Scull, €11.00,—Luc i holf va. Horatlo® lirinkerhoff; verdict, $750, and motlon for new trinl, = WitLiANE0N~T. L. Wilson, use of T, . Valenting and Churlntte Baltz; aned wotion for new trinl, mone and it don't dome no good, Good-by, 1CUTT uiT—CoNFrsstoss=Qeorge . | barkeep.'” Knox ve, Archibald Sprott, $10, And tho homesick stranger turned mournfully JUnae nway. logrits—Edward 1L Travors vs. Mary D. Heany, $5.85 CURRENT GOSSIP. GO SLOW, Madge ERott in Ialduein’s Monthly, ‘When you n pair of bright eyes meet, That make your heart In rapture beat; When ono volee seeme to you moro sweet ‘Than any other volee you know— Go slow, my friend, go slow Tor brightest cyes have oft butrayed, Aund gweetest voleo of youth and matd ‘The very falsest thing have snid, And thereby wrowght a deat of wos Go slow, my frivnd, goslow! ¥ SUICIDAL I’ACTS, New York Times Tho Frenchman kills hin: ton very largo extent, No less than 140 Frenchmen commit pulelde avery year, This 18 what we might exvect of a people struggling to remember day by day whetlier they are Hving under 4 King or an Emperor or one of (wo or three kinds of Ite- publies, Tho reading of French newspaperam else ben prolific causn of Auleldo, Thoe veader f31lable nt almost any time ta bo shocked by finding a news puragraph setting forth some oe- curronco of not more than throe days old, 0 course, n Frenchman of a nervous temperament would bo goriously diaturied by o succesalon of such shocles hippenioe within a spaco of 8lx inonths, wd would very lkely in his excltement feek the sire sop th, Life Is bardly worth Living In a country where you may bedeag- wed out of hied at any hour in tho nlght by®ox- cited patrlots and sired to lend” n biand In upsetting the tovernn The wonder is, not that so many Frenchiien commit sitfcido, -but thut sitielda 18 not thoe universal proctice. One would fmaine that the Danes would v seldom kil thomselvy Thoy ha o smull country, the geogrnphy of which they can nas- ter ln Balf nhour, ind they nre belleved to ho o prosperons and happy people, exempt from rovolutlons and clectons, and to & very great degree from dully newsvupera and analarin, ertheless, ont of the sinall population of Denmnrk 258 persons kil thomsclves overy year, The fuct admits of but two explanations, neithicr of which will bo feit to be fully satisineiory, We minyenssume that 081 naition the Danes nra SUIL tryiog (o undeistand whnt was the femous BehlesivigeHolsteln question which led to the war with Prussin und Austran, and that many of thain nre thereby reduced to such o stte of lis- graco th they srek refuge In death; or, wa 1Muy suppose that the Mublhbich novels, which n fuw years ugo devistated this eountry, havo been'transtated into Danish and: are universnlly reml, These two canses would umlonbtedly be suflieient 10 wecount for nny quantity of sus eldes, bt It 13 not certinln that elther the Schles wig-Hotsteln question or tho Muhibneh novels cmnwre to any marked oxtent tho attention of the Danes of the present time, When you'ro convineed you are npaoty |~ And, wishing all the world to know ity * Call on oo editar to show It, Your verses fult of glow and blow, by Qo slow, my friend, go slow! For many 1 onio has done tho same, And thotghit to graap the hami of Fume, And yet hus never seen his In print. And why—wuste-bas Qo slow, iy frivid, ko 6 t. 218 knows Wi When you to greed for money yleld, And long tho tuihity PoW'r 10 Wield Thut's siwaye fonnid n goliden Held, With senseless pomp, nnd rrlnl . and show, Gu glow, my friend, jro slowl Tar thousunds, tempted by tho glaro OF weulth. huve fullen i tho shar Sot for the thief, And now despuir, Regrot, and shame have hrought thom lows Go slow, my friend, go slowl The good old Larth Is never wronr; Ench of her works takes Just so long; Months puss before a happy throug Of daisiea in tho meadows prows Go rlow, my frieml, go slow! Anid Spring gives Nilo to Suminer's How'rs, And Summor's sun and Snmmers show'rs Propire tho [ruft for Autumn bow'rs, And Autun frost brings Winter siuws Go slow, my friend, go stow! ORIGIN OF THE ¢ BAKER’S DOZEN.” Hlarper's Magazine for Murch, Close by Murketstreet (now Drondway) lived and prospered o baker,'tho flrst man that over baked New-Year enkes,—In fact, tho iuventor of them. ‘Tho tntuo of our friend was Volckert Jan TPictersen Van Amsterdam, commonly known s Baas, e wns Duteh from his Inrgo feot to his round Laukd head, nnd had 1o respect for any one or anything that was not Disteh, Ile was a regulor attendant ut the old Duteh Churet, Lut, nevertheless, ln constant fenr of belng be- witebed, His wire, Muritje, was . cconomienl evon to saving tho parings of her nully, und his ginger-bread bubles were always o in Imitn- tion of his chlldren, It wis New-Year Lve, 1055, and Nans was in his shop dealing out cukes for stmull pieees of money, called wampum, e hnd tnken an extra gliss of rum In honor of St Nicholaug, when he by A o sharp vip, and pie walked ns ugly no old woimnu us sver he bad set hls eyes on. * Iwant n dozen Now-Year cookles,” she screnmed. “Vell, den, you needn’ sbenk so loud,” replied Dans, *Doyvell Dan't teat, den.” A VIRGINTA M Washington Republican. Not long after tho close of the Robelllon Vir- ginin sent two Hepresentatives to the Lower Houso of Congress, one of whom wo will dusix- untons Judge 8. The Judge had siight backe wooda tendeneles and seornod tho uso of miny conveniences deemed Indispensible In polite snclety, and seenied espeelally verse to the use of pockot-hanakerchlefs, preferring the thumb, finger, and back of hiy hand instend, 1is cols league, who occeupied ngent eloge by, of propriety and neitaess combi Some ¢! weint 50 fur us to dectare himold mnidish by m of his notions, Onu day, 18 he suw his D brother going through with the customary man- euvers, o huppy thought straek bim, which ho carried Juio effect tho next worn- nu‘ by plachig upon the mewmber's desk a box” contulntug u dozen flne, hem-stitched nose-wipes, When the Jadge ey i he saw tho pnckuge, nddressed to hlmself, nnd pro- ceeded to vpen It with due deliberatlon, "Tukil out oue of the ni folded * Indlapensables,” e fiest guzed at it shook It to 1hio breezs hie bent ovor to Bis colleague with remark: *Them's handkerchiofs, WL geams 80,” wis tho response: 1, den. *1 want ndozen,” serenmed the old woutan, *and here s only twelve.” elly den, util vhit de duyvel {s dwalf buta dazen ¥ sud tho buker. k * 1 tell you | want one moro!” sho shirleked, @ el den,” said lie, * you may gotodo duyvel und get unodder; vou vow't get'it here,” From this time on onr baker's wite wnd him- self were munde uiserable, Their money und coukles wero tuken awuy Ly lnvisiblo landss thulr bread elthier rase ont of their sight or sank juto tho carth; their fanous brick oven was torn down, und poor Buns putted with bis own Lricks; Maritjo beenmo denls Buns was hluele and blue fron head to toes und sueh a lifo us he Jed was purgatory, Thricot the old woman np- peared, and thrico was she sent to **de duyvel.'” And nt st in - his ngony, Bans bothought him- selt of St. Nichotaus,who advised bim, on bearlng of hia troubles, when ho counted a dozea to count thirteen “ Py St. Johiunes do Doopar, put £t. Nieholaus 18 o greut plockbend]” thonght Buwe: utd white hio was thua thinkiog, 8t. Nich had vanlshed and in his stead was thu old woman. Sho repented her demand tor ® one mory,” nid Baas, rements bering St. Nicholuus, neceded to her demand, whon she exelabned, *Plic spell 1s broken, and heneceforwurd it dozen 18 thirteen, und thivteen 38 g dozen.” And teking u cookle with nn efligy of tho good enfut on it, sho mulo Bany swenr that over arterward 1welve should be thirteen, ns i type of tho thirtcen mighty Stated that shaull wrise out of the rulus ot tho Govermnent of Vaderlundt, 1t 18 well known how terribly St. Nicholnus re- vouged himself upon those who set themselves up ngainst the venerublo cusiomsof thelr unces. oes Congress furnish he next funuleed, “Dhetier usk the Sergeant-nt-Arm was tho reply, “Nou, 'tulw't worth while,” remarked Judize B., 18 he guvo his nose n tweak wnd drew undeenenth it the haele of his hand which he wiped on the hip of hig pantaloons: **'in't worth while, 1 never use the dumn things no- hows 'l Jeat frank ‘em homo to my wile.” And ho il 80 thos and thore, loaving lie accomuio- duting fricnd ont to the tune ol several dollurs, with no compensuting satlsfaction, und falrly ruging ut tho munner in which his wellsintended hint had been taken, QuIPrs, Noono evor yet saw n man who mnde o movoe to reparato two dogs engaged in battle, ns long s hly own dog wns huving the best of it Mother Bhipton has atrapped on her liver-pad, Lought n set of $10 teeth, o row of bungs, and u Lottie of ¥ Nlsom of Youth," and concluded to live down hor propheeles, The treasurer of o Vermont rallrond company, Invaving over £1,i0, the amount ndjudieed o vlctim for the loés of his ear by wn necident on tho rond, plllln!nrlllcnlll)’ observed; 1 dou't nstnd paging up when 1 reticet that, 0t the. rote of $LO0UTor such n litrlo our a8 yours was, tho company wonld have been thrown into bunk- ruptey It it had been a Milwaukes man's ear,” The loyaity of the Southorn women to the Contedernte "cause was proverbinl, A Moblio miss who bad a pet pundle was sitting on tho frout plazza one alternoon whilon detichiment toms, atcl refused the bomage to hlin to whose | of mm‘lm wis pasking. Suddenly the littie kool ollices It wus owing that this, hls favorit | favorit dorted from hor lap and ran toward the city bag surpnssed nll others In benutiful drw- | gaeden ente, barking furiously, Hls mistresd rushed ino the haltway, evyiug as It her heart would break: O i, Ing, come, down-stulrs, I'm afraid Gyp will bite tho ‘nrmy.'—Brooklyn A rgus, A qulctman was travellng n short thmo ago by rail, ind wus anuoyed by the nolse which two or three men in the same enr were nuiking, Ono of thom bnd heon telitng tremendous storles nbout himsell in u loud voiee, and had tricd onee ar twlee to draw out the quiet man, but . vik, At Inst ho turned to him aod xuid, rather offens sively, ** I fear, Kir, our noise huas rather incon- venfonced you.” *Not I the least,” ho replied, “f thowght,” remurked tho nolsy mun, * that youdld not seem Interested my slorles,"™ “Quite tho reverse, my dear slr” safid tho qulet onw: *Tam very much 8o; In fact, I am n bit of a lar myself.* —_——— 10WA BUTTER AND CHEESE ASSOCIATION, MosTicenLo, In, Feb, ZL—The Northern lown Dutter and Cheeso Assoclation met i conven- tion hero this afternvon. The attendunco 18 Jurge despite the snow-drifts of Instnlght, which Interfered with tho railrond travel, Visitors aro present from nelghboring States und from the sels, valorous younyg men, mince-ples, vllekooks, and Now-Year conkivs, JOIIN. Y SKA S BIG CITANCE, Caraon Clty (Nev.) dpveal. Alittlomore thon two years slico Johnny Bkae, whom everybudy knows, would visit Cir- gon soveral thnes n month, and 08 he passed down the street from the railrond dopot with au Independent awagger, and 0 more independ- eutloak In hils eye, men would enviously gaze after bim'and express tholr conviotions that ho would goon outatrip any single member of tha Donanza firm dn tho possession of willions, Thie was when Sierra Nevada and Unlon were selling nt from §230 und ver share, and Bkie was supposed to hold /0,000 sharves of the stuek of thuse two mines, At thut perlod be would have hud no diftienlty in reatiziug §10,000,000 i conl gold coln for bIS 8tock; but uo, ho was it Dittous, und desired no longer ta phy secotd- fidale, even to such n colussul finuncial vowor s tho Honnnza firm. o funciod that the pros- pective dividends of tha Slerra Novadn aml nlon Consolliluted mines woall bi greater by Eust, The Convention was welcomed Ly the on, 8. M. Forun.gCol, Littler, of Daveuport, re aponded In behalf of the Associntlon. The feed- g of eattla for the dalry wus discussed at Jungtlh, Iteports of comtulttees wero very ine toresting, giving, us they did, the rapld_advanes Towi {3 mnk ing us a dnlry Stite. A spechtl com- mittee of the Cedur Raphls Bourd ot I'vuda wng present, nud estended an Invitatlon to meet in that city. 'This evenlng tho Opura-Hunse 1s filled, and an Interesting mumln‘lf ondalry teps {es, Intorspersel with musie aud senthout, 18 ety enjuyed, —— tenfold tan those puid by the Calltornin and Consolidu Virginin mined, Johnny was o sunguines: ho Inugined hiinself o 109 mitionalre, whoso millions wore safely deposited o tho bowels of the earth, Of that ho el cortan 1n the meantime he entertwined his regal style, Ho invited them from Ean elsuo 1o puttlelpato ln princoly Nsh and pugne banguots, which were soread near the reservolr of the Vieginin and Gold itilt Wator- ‘Works, from which tho lusclous trout wero tnken, and in varlous otbor wiys extended his Tospitality to friends In such n tunnor tint thoy “rlhl.“wli'. ‘(;ulh:dl him "l'l"lll(:fl'“llllll." l“d“'u Tuldat of this, however, ho did one prudent thine, and thut wus fn scttling £:250,00 l':l bonds | Euglish ¥armers In Despair—=The Efe u.}un mr;wlhfle‘" lllullrlm: mu: th nmlml‘: lur the fect of Bad Jarvests umd of Amortean miues of which hu was s heavy a holder wia - = it giro o reuch it leust, SLOW per slarg, o Helum=topetaMCar thi die hypotheeatod the sumoe 1o the Novadu Hank, and_purchnsed sovoral thousand Ehares on i margin, Suon therentter tho mnvket evashed, aud it was not lonw before bid stocks were quoted nt &0 and § per share, Of course thut Nearly ruined SKio: DUt beftg & man oF Herve and desirous of retrioving bls lost opportunity, he kept on dubbling b stockys which at one vne wight hve placed bl inun enviably lisdeponds ont positlon, until,bo lost all that o bod suved frout tho first blow: and it I3 ovun sald thut tho $250,000 which he gottied upon his wifo went tho way o the rest. Now Johniy Skue 13 In Arizonn, n place of liviog i lnxsry and superhitivo ele- ganeo, seeking u bonunzi, which ho probably will pover thul. It i3 only onee fu u Hifotline that onu man i aoaniilion is ‘so enchinntingly smiled upon by Fortuno us Johuny Skav wua two and o bulf yeurs ugo. Tondon Econamist, 1t mnay be from fear of Amerlea, it may be from thio long continuance of unprofitable burs vests, it may be from the riso (n tho expendis peciully upon tbor, or It may vven be 0 dnerensed ntellivence, hut thore 1s n hopos tbout farmers” compliints which uxe L on, tamiline with tholr wiys, nov They hurdly touk for uny t. They du not speak of the buil coptional. 'Ihey da not, aniong ench other, ik of prices 18 sura to Improve, Above wil, thoy throw up thelr furmson appurently light provoention. Experloneed laa bgonis notico u total diiferenco of tone, an hidisposition o hugyle, n sort of deterimhiition to wake nuno bat low oifers, und to stick to them. The tenunts, a3 they sny, secm 1ot to want tho e {l\ll;l‘l:! mu: kllnlx:l“t t;lf{)‘ll}“llm:l!:lw‘ n{'lm \m:ur- o = " i a Jdnd o 5 ort, Very aften COULDN'T TEEf, AT 1IOMIE. N oftci ut L o Do Ot nd 1o id Hrooklyn Lnale, *Btranker, huvo yor got somo bitly' whisky, Buthi’ thut takes the lunards right by the ¢ Jur, and mukes o mun think he's Lr'ilin® for an hour afteswards 7" nskoed a pontleman in a but- ternuie it and n coon-skin cap, ata fushionuble Drooklyn bur yeaterday, *Lthink L've got wiit you wunt,” sald tho barkeoper. *Try this'" Thu steapger sclled It aud shook his head dulerully, * Do yo this would make n man dig up his dend enomies and Hek ‘em over wgain®” he usked, * Would n alug of this plzen get u fellow o juduce his motlier to murder hls wife, und thon run for Bherlif, 80 18 to huug tho old womun for tho crimo 1" " [dlon't know about that,'" sald tho barkeeper, umny strong Huid.” 1 know. liut 18 it strong enough to mako n man rob his own danghter xnd thon Hek tho daye light ot of her for loxlp' her money ¢ Would '§t be what you would use It you wantod to salt your wife down und deal hor out (nw boardin, ouse for boned turkey, exten primey Would you deink 1t It you fe chureh full of chiliy uf tholr boots Wt is vithor thrown upon tho jundiord's hands or goes out of Ccaltivetion, The latier acenrreaco wis formorly most unuguad in treat Airitaln, and secs nhuost impossible; but thers 14 10 renson to doubit the Blutements made that n oy ininty (i the Bouth and Fust Inryo numbera of turing formerly yielding goud rents aro lytng idie, the landlords belng anwilling to Tot gt low rents to mon who ask luisg leasve, unwilling to enltivate for themsolves or ubiv to biear u temporary joss, Wo know In our own cexporionoo of i district in which eleven furms, poorish to tule ns to sofl, ure desertod and une tiled, und fuive read sdvertizoments of o quito extrnoedinuey churuuter 10 1ho wuy of temptae ot 10 tenaits, OF fuems i the lundiont's lunds, aid of farms broken fnto two or three, there jo 0o end, while Jund Jowdest patehes hus sk 11 vitue i degroo Whicin surreats w kil of deuad wmomg Lonnte a8 weil o3 lind buyers, Thero 15 1 feeling of bopelestiess, iu tact, ubrowd ameng farmors of the Lolter chiss, und of To- Jueninee 1o venin i the Lusioess, which of itsoll ey produce lmportint elfeets, willingness (0 e Daviine heen un smportant element i tho tnde. 1t difTered from wll othors bn {25 u tenetion o2 u eluss—thoss who proferred vouns tey dlie, aud weve ontet ot unly with wodest protits, bur with ahinost m entive abseneo of those chunces which In m!lvli’ willks of o nro so aitenetive, Ngw that willlogaess hus disup- peured. e — COMPETITION ON THE PACIFIC, BAN Fuancisco, Feb, 2h—Ehuep compotition hus Lruken out tor the Chlnn trade between thy Paestic Mail and the Ching Merehunt Stoamship | Compuny, Tho stewuer Mo Foo, the sceond of the lutter e now 12 port, offes o, ke tour At §6 por ton, The Mail Comnprany, b1 roported oTers 1o ko it nt 50 centn le Ll beliuve horu that the Chinvse Cowpeay 18 backed by tho lwperisl Govelamoat, t llkye burning down a 0 18 to Kot tho nalld out the kind af Nguor § want™ » Hero's womo torrlbly il whisky, If that's what you nro ufter,' sulid the barkeevor, putilug oat aiother bottle, al}lmlln the strutiver smolled and shook his bead [ 0 surpeized at s burkeep, Yer don't underatand tho faee feehin’s, 1 wint sitoin’ g would wako mo rob the donutlon box of nn orpban usylutn, Butbin’ that would make e kick u wick wowun overboard wnd pound hor with a bourd sfiorwapds. 1 want liquor that nukes a fellow bury bis mother ulive aud plow 25, 1881—TWELVE PAGES, PUBLIC IIEALTIL stances, AN EXAMINATION OF TilF PLUMDING of tho house showed Ut no preenntions bad been taken to provent tho bueklig wp of the gowar-gna from the dealn, Tho wastespipe—i four-inch lron pipe, cementod nteach Joinl with it off tho kitchon wastes, I each of 18 tyas an (ron slop-hopper, Into which the wastes from the sink flowed, and, as tho whole line of sewerage, from the top of the Msitding 1o the entch-bisin, was freo from trag- e, tho grases bl perfeotly satirfictory exita at tho openings of the slop-toppers, at ench of which the pecallnt odor of sews 1y discernible, - To complele the very unsanitary eombination presented hore jtouly remaing to moutlon tho fuet thit, in the basement of the bulldlng, which hns no yurd whatever, soing half dozon privies are eolleeted, which, belng out of arder, nro In it diggracetnl condition, and sond forth stenehes of n niost overpoweriniy chnracter, Asn whole, this tenoment buslding, against whost Fear winll abitted the skie of tho most southerly of a lang row of murble=rronts on Ine diiny nvenue, whose uristocratic course is heve broken tnto by the fonced-In collection of tunes nunts and huinble frime resitences, 13 ano of tho most unkenlthy spoty in the city, and It somo of the wealthy resiifonts of tho neighborhond on thoothor side of tlie funco suffor fu the coming apring 1rom zymotie diseses it will pny thom to form n plumbers’ pmiso gud bave tho sanitary condition of this tenement house improved, Terhaps (8 would be better If somebody woukld Tve tho matter attended to before tho dan- ger makos (el puinfully appareat. THE LAST LOCALITY VISITED wna a frame tenement on tho cnst stdo of State stroet, Just north of T'wenty-second street, I'nntigh not a8 undesirnble a reskdonco quarter R the one Just viaited, it stlll presented fas which wero well worthy of censiro In tho lirst placeand of umcllorntion in the next. The plumb- iyg wis ol devoid of teaps, and nt each of tho Binks In the pussages the odor of sower-gas was 10 be found, The tennnts suld that of lita thoy b not had inuch enngo 1o complifn, bt thi in tho sunimcr-tinte the stenches whick arose from tho stnks uro ull but uncnditrable. Tho waters closets in the rear of the premises wero fornd 10 bo in n very bad state, und, nitogether, it was feen that the house needed a thorough overbaul- Iy vefore it could bo mudo n A1t residence for bumin bemgs. THE ADDIS SCANDAL, Furthor Fublic Washingof the Unclean Linen of This Unhappy Family—Nome Shocking Questions A«ked of Mru. Ad= Qin Touching the Virtue of Sevoral of Rier Sixtorn, Another Trip by this Paper's Health Commissioners. The Horrible Condition of a Van Bu- ren Strest Building, Discase-Breeding Materia Found in Enormons Quantities. A Tenement House That Needs a Thorongh and Immediate Ovorhanling, ‘The South 8ilo waa the scena of yesterday ft- cruoon's investigatlons by e Tninuse Henlth Commissloners, In driving nlong is streets and alloys, notwithstanding that the freshly-fullen snow hnd thrown a mantle of cleanllncss over tholr surfacen, tho exceeding nasiiness of tho collcetlons of flltl everywhere to bo seen shocked tho eyo and only fallad to vignrously assault tho nassl orgun beeause of tho prevalling low tem- wperature, Thoe cold wenthior I8 at present neting n4 & storer-up of docomposable muterinl ngninst tho warm spring and summer wenther, which, when it comes, will find the clty with an enor- monsly Inrgor quantity of digense-breeding tith in Its borders than was ever beforo lelt at tho closo of the winter senson. TIHE FIRST LOCALITY which the Commissioners visited wisa charneter- {stlc spevimen of the pest-holes which abound throughout the city, and which only awnit tho arrival of the proper conditinns to convert thom into contres of disease-propagation. Viewed fhom tho street the biock presented a fairly de- cent appearanco; It was only upon diving into the recesses of its back premiscs that the, in somo respects, unutterable flithiness of tho plice bacume npparont. The block 1 questivn 18 the onc standing on the southwest corner of Clark and Van Buron streets, consisting of rovernl two-story and basement bricks, of which tho upper staries are ocenpled as tenercnts, the lower tats belwe uscd ns places of business, Four of tho houses In the block aro on Van Buren strect and three of thom on Clark street, Speclal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, and It 18 In the square yard In thelr rear ll‘J (Jthe 1 GnaND Raving, Mich., Feb. 24.~Mlss Aunn Ad- nemé of unsanltnry conditions seems tfi iy is, youngest daughtor, continued her testimony” Leen reached. ¥ *hla alternoon. Sue went over the whole gronnd ‘Tho yard {8 gomo feot lower than tho kiz/ ] we' the trustedeed sepueation swccoment, and which runs along its western side, and hence it | Mrs, Addis' card, publistied in the Dally Eagle, to Lins grndually becomo the receptacle, not only of | easodewn public oplnlon on Aduls, nt length. tho Mith tlumg Into 5t by the tensnts, but also of | Bhe Insisted, as had her mothor and Mrs. Sto- much that s been left upon the alley to await | phenson, that her mothor was vory reluctant fun deaperation the arrival of (ho consclentious | nbout tho signtug of all those docunients, and senvenger. ‘Tho southern slde of the yard Is | only did It at her son Wil's most urgent solle- ornamonted by elght privy hulldings, each stand- | itatlon, beeauso she was afratd Will woutd never fng atits own peculinr amelo, und ench pwenthor- | speak to her agalu, Wil nssertod, sho gald, and beaten and very disreputnble-looking structuro, | 8o did Judgo Harels, that the scitloment was ?.'.‘.‘1"2.':.‘.'5'3 i:‘,}fi“é’ ‘x‘;ml rm;fd:;lfilllsi." rlfilhtl o tho most favornble that could bo elfected, DAL e 1 v 0ll= | gud both neted angry or displensed when Mra. dition, Which tnust rewmaln wnmentioned, with | 486 BOEL BCE SHETY OF FBPIRIRET MEER W contest, and began her effort to break up tho settlemont. Her ovidenco as to.Judgo Marels” talk nbout regucing buil for Blodgett, ete., wis similar to that of Mra. Addls und Mrs. Stephens gon. Sho told of Addls' nildnight visit to the Adals residence, when she, Marln, nand Mrs, Stephenson were thore, and dosoribed It much an Mra, Stephenson did ns to hils agitation, his desire tosee hor mother, his rofusing to be o wanderer on the fuco of tho eartl, und the sleep- less nfxcht they had beeauso of fear of him. Bhosuid she told im that thore wis o warrnnt for him, and tbat Judeoe Hurris, who issued It, biul told her that If Addls would stuy In Cianads sIx yenrs 1t would outlnw, nd by conld thens come bnek. v, 100, had understood the trist- eovored SEL000 worth of property abovo ts, nud at thiut time ghie and Anma favoroed ft. She know of propositlons gent to Canuda by Wilt for gettlement of lllu'.rm[ms(:ll nrbitration fram £, 8, Balley, which Addls signod, wnd Mrs, Addis il not, and sald that her tather requested i noto from lier mothor reauesting him to meet her, He wis enjolned at that time, nud could not seo hier save ut hor request, and lier mothor dlin't write tho note, tud that fell through, Herfather eription. The waste-pipe lending from the | tulked of $I0,500 to her for her mother, self, aud Kitehen sink ran stralglit down throweh tho | sister, and that was refused. Ho sald ho wanted floor, and, n8 subseqnont Investization showed, | to do equnlly woll Ly othor menbiers of tho funi- emptled fit the busement nto w opper, situnted ily, and cu\lefl atfer no more, Sno told of keep- over an open tlle,—un areengement, of course, | {iig o memorandum of her father's remnrks the agsurance to tho render that, with the wiki- est tlight of Gmugiontion, no vne condd pleture ta himsuif anything so utterly vile and so forelgn to what_ought 1o exist in sucti 1 olty as Chi- eugo. There the nbominetion stands, however, Justtwo blocks mway from tho oflices of the 1ealth Depurtment. “Fhe shocking condition of those necessary nppendages to the block had of cotrro rendercd them unfit for use, and in dif- fevont parts of the yard tho Inevitable und ais- gusting result was apparent. There lay nlso pites upon plles of wrbmge. They covered the opon ground aml oceupled hidden cor- nera under tho el o mnd presents el nneven lurger nssortinent of decomposablo munterlnls_than the usual gachngy pile afords, the housekeeping tenunts nbove, thy tha gromd floor, and the Chinesa tun in tho basements combimuge to lend the churm of varlety to the stulf thoy flung vut into the yard benind them, -+ Having climbed a snow-hurdened stalrway leadiny to tho gallers. running along tho upper story of the block, the nvestigittors ENTERED ONE OF THE TE: nnd, after they had ' gotten somewhnt necus- tamed to the steneh which assalled thom, mudo an exwninetion of the plumblng of the place, and found that 1t was of u very primitivo de- which gave tho sewor-gas, whose presenco wis | nbout ber mothor or tho ¢uso whilo she wnd overpowering, w free passuge Al over the | Marlw lived with bim, the Tollowlng summier, nt premises, Godwin's yequest, and that her titber discov- *Ihis I3 n pretty bud smell yon have her ered it and told her sho would bo worry the Medieal Coiminias oner remnrked to the lndy e, 8ho and for it sowo tline, and she nlu!) who presided over the midodorous premises, Murln llveid with hlin until Sept. 0 tast, and then, ‘a8 1 sho answersd moekly no- | #hasald, ber futher turned Marin out of doors tieo St muel myself. 1 supposo I'vo gotuceis- | beeawse be sukd Maris called him e llue when ho tumed to it, Oy but just como round hiore In tho | assorted that hoth shu and Marln bud told h waurm weather.” that thoy suspeoted tholr mothor's intimn *In Yho summer you mean?"" muonths befors he did, and they said they nover Na Idon's menn any wartn day,—any day | told aoy such thing. that [t thaws, 1U's Just terrible, Cross-examination began, b which she sald *What do you do with your nshes and gar- | her father nevor had been violont ta heror to bago? lier sistor, 80 fur ns ahe knew; odu- “Wo Justthraw it out nuywhero, Whut can | cated hor, guve her oxponsivo musle we do alse? It's no use toput it in the alley, us | lessons, good clothes, Jewelry, wold n watch, eto. Sho begnn to hato biin when ‘tho tronbie began, nnd thought It woulil bave beun n good thie for tho famlly If ke had died sev- oral yewss ago, Iter cross-cxamination hore ceased, and Mrs. Addis' cross-exnminauon wus renewod, Tho Instances of personil violence while they lived at tho Hrooks Ilousn in Newayzo beeauso of Murs, Peets und u Mrs, Truesdell were considered at great lenith, On her direot examiuation It appoared that she was locked in her rootn in tho atternoon, did not see her daughters until tho nobady ever tnkes It away, amd it just rotls baclk nto tho yard ugnin.” “How' loug 18 it sinco theso privies were clenned out?* *# Not for o year and n half nny wa; Tho discovery that tho waetesplpe conveying ho refugt mntter of the hawsekeepers up-stii, the storckeepers on tho lirst fluor, und tho laun- drymen In the busement dischargod thelr con- tonts fnto open hoppems wies mindu 1n g busement ocenpied by some Chineso, AR usual, the Coles- tlul washers objected ut ftyst Lo any examination of tho Pruml»un belug tnde, and when | nexe movning, and Addis pounded her that o closo fnvestigution of the plumbing at | afternoon witth kindiing-wood Leewuse of Mrs. tholr washtuby wins dealred at - first | Peots, The eross wnde it np[lwnt thnt ho pushed doclined to supply o light for the purpose. Thoy | her nto her roum, tried to plneats bher, usgured came to torms, however, and the slght which tho ruys of the kerosene lump revented wus of n nuture ealettinted to turn in sdmirer of theyen- tlo aud maligned Mongolinn into a Kearneyite of tho most pronounced type. Like too nimy of tho things which the fnvesiigators meet with in thuir travels, it cannot be describeds sallico it to say thut 1t wis ovident thag rho city from which the Chilnumen oceupylng tho phico hud come could nover have bl o Hfealth Dopartment to instruct tho peoplo in snnttury methods, or, if it had, it must have lncked the oven ore impor- tant presence of a nowspuper ablo aud willing to Instruct tho Health Depariment, Al through the bluck the samo complnints wore repeated by tho tennnts. Tho stenches in siiner-the, ad tho stenchies and tho damp- ness In the wintor-time, the overilows in the Ber thnt ho lnd not dote wrony, and sho slapped bls face, Then he oponed the duor, went vat, and loft 1ho door wilocked. fate i $ho afturs noon she saw Mrs, Peets coming into the hotol agaln, und drove hor ont of tho house, throwing A stlck of stove-woou at her und hitting her, and that nlent, nfter shie hud gone to bed, palled her out ot bed by tho mir of her head, loosvned hee front teeth, pownded ber till her bordy wus black and hlue i welts, scratehod hor faee, ct Saphle, her second diuughter, testifiod 1 mothor the next morning showed her an the brufses, and theie were threo seratehes on hor nock, tho fongest perbans it quarter of 1 Inch loug. Mrs, Adidls testitied similarly os to two other outrages, Mr. Fltzgerald, aAddis® counsel, who wis conditetiug the eross-oXuminns tion, asked why she had dengied finto tho cuse tho fact that Addis beforo he basement, the peenlluy wiys of tho Chinese 0o to Am Inundrymen, the ith of the yard s its row of | and marrvicd hor had wronged & wou Lestind shantles, nll combined'to mnko thelr lifo | in glund, and had [ Lnsturd miserable, nid they besought thoir visitors to | ohlld, She adniitied she told Godwin, her coun- o somuthing ta remedy thoir condition, which, Delr 5ow for the flest thne brought to the ate tention of the llealth Departimimit,—two blocks distant 18 the crow flles,—will of courso Lo remedied nt the earllest opportunity, Iteserving iora future oceaston several highs snd handsome blo on the avenues which nre known to bo Infected with sewer-gas, ) #ol, tbout If, but thought he bad heard of it tirst from others, and wns not resvonsibio for pulting [t into tho case, thoush shu hud testifed abant it, Shu denied thut sho hud ciusod lier counset 1o deagg hee fon WIS time {into tho 50, with au fustnuntion that thore hud been controvursy us to whether lio or his futher wuy futher of un Hliegltimiate chlld in this county, tho thy Investigntors pukd u vis 1 e, had Inlkm‘lh with hoe lcounuul A LARGE T K BUILDING t, e new @ 18| Xll"ll‘nn Wis lylng between Thirteenth and Faurtopntn | folic. Me - Eitzworuld thon aeked her, tn o wunner assuming the answers to bo in tho alllrmative, it sho dld not huve sistery Polindel- phin, Keziuh, Elizaboth, Caroline, Faith, besldes shurity, formerly montioned, und it cach one or ulibut onudid not have children before they were murrled; If ono of them did not have i chili which hor Fuinily know hur own brother to b tho tuthor of -1t wiotuer did not live with tho wan who nurried herovern yoar hefore they Btrects ut one of thoss polnis near the luke shoro where the squalor of such plices oon- trusta \’l\'hlle’ with the triti appearance of tho avenuo resldence blocks ulone sido of which thoy stand, though separated froin thom I)K ees, which servo the purpuse of keoplug cucl Ighborbood " distinet, 'ho bullding known as * Sherman's Itock* tsa. three-story double brick, with accommedutions were mnrried, 'This eaused komething of o fort s famities, each of which in allowe b N - " 1 TS wechiy o, Hinag hionis At n rentag | dointion. ler counsel inatruotel ot to whole building,—u very butidsonie Feturn forthe 4 v tr) Now torriblo wers auch questions, but lllxl{llml thut hor slster hud nothiug to do with tho ease, und sho wouldn't nnswer, — Slio usserted thut sho nover at uny thne fn any way to Addls or wny one else admitted or contessod g she ind evor Ind Hiclt intercourse With auy mun, or auy lne praper relations. Thon the followlng tulter wus put ln evidence: GRAND LA, Mich,, March 11, 1830,—WILLIA: Ao ot kinw WhaL 10" say (o you. ' God ki UL, eould” do unyibing, Cfar “you L would Liitle i 1 think Cwh monvy expended in Wts ereotion. The tennuts hore gave forth ono universal compiuint, Tho aceommadations were vile, aud tho regularity with which tho ugent ealled round for bls reut on tho day it wis due wos equinled ouly by the certuinty with whichihe nover falled to break his ott-mado promisea to effect cortuin nmendiments n the housu's construction, for want of which tho tenunts wero sulforing sovorely, Fvery ten- unt hnd o griovance, and ‘I 10 cnsu did thoy seem ta be mulo b s enptiou spirit, Thoy uce | be whid 1o do_ ro. hen kuowiodgod it thole conditon “hid beon | §atiaittad thoss viloicharizos tu you Uit you wre ve ‘i i cnrnoat, 1L sueumod G bo the vitly i that would "fl,‘,"““",'m‘ L‘}'"m{,};‘ ":,“"‘.\:f’m'; “_.'_l,'," Cthie | mutisry you ny fins thue.” Lwlah yoi wonid try uhd do which hus not proviously Leen dong for "",‘;."“"1""”'“" TuryuREsALE it "“"""fl- f 1 yoars: but #inee this wu duono tho old sells had ha slnturo to this, was torn off, but M. Fltzgerald wssured thoCnurt thut boyond mortal question it would be proved Lo bo i letter she wrote Addls and sent him while ho was Cunndu by tholr son Wik, whon Wil went to et his father's slgnutiro 1o the trust-deed und settlemoent, t it sho thought it wus not bee bandwritiug, that it wus Addis’, and that 8hio dist not writo it Sho did writo o lutter 10 Adibis which Will toole, Sume of 1t sounded famillar, Sho read tho letter she did write to Mea, Btophenson, and to Muris and Anng, or thoy read §t before Will took it, Perhaps that revived fn full foree. 'ols scemml somowhit strinigo, wud, §n order that the veason for this npparent purndax shoutd be mndo comprehens- Kby, the cetlay was lavestigned, und thero it was found that tho cottents of the eutch«busin, Instewl of bemg removed from tho premises Diasd been seuttered over tho cellur-tioor, "This clegant Job was sceomplisbed In coli woathor, which froze the stult und rondered it for the tlmu bolng inodorous, Thon ecamo o thaw and the \-Nuhnum lflll.l l‘lurl:h 118 exhulutions, und sigant tho fcuntita Bt thole wascs wnd stothons | W eniUlt berors, T ook, I, SR At howse aeenpled by botween soventy und | ubly 16 was, though not absojutely cortain, Sha It HoUly, 1ho propordon Wi children poit | Sould nut expluli whut $ho ‘mount by + ddmit- Uity hirge, $0 it tho minsmatio gosed huyo | Hos those vile chineges”” und lusisted repeate sxcellont materlil upon which to work thole | ¢diy that sbo nuver kud confessed 1o niy such Gatenotive. willos, wrong dofug to AddIS oF iy ono elsu, » Low't yoi have any sicknoss resulting from | ave ono duy, when ste satd, fronically, that * Ot ila stute Of uifuirs ¢** tie Ductor asked angof | cotrse b hud slept with ull his hived men, and tho wumen who had congreguted nround bl ho supposed bo Kilw that” But that was not w1 abontd suy sol You wny suy the wholo | i confusslon, not intended us such, und,Aduls Louko slinost Buve bl suge thronts,” know It nt tho timo; wwl nothing else of wuy o Fhete's & Woumn uji-gtiirs that bad tho | 8Wch fmport had vver been Band, 1yphuld-fovor Iast summer.” When the Court udjourned to-night the wattor My littlo boy wus vury uoar having tho diph. | rested ut this poiat, theitis this very winte REAL-ESTATE TRANSACTION, 231y Busbutid 14 Iyfg sick nbed with _congosts ! Spectal Dispatch o Th Chicago Tribune tve ¢ H:}. ;uul ‘hhbld"ull;l‘r suyn it xvl!ll‘hc ll§ months beforo be 13 wble to get round tu wor! ™ Y nguin K Tavaverts, lnd, Fehgl. terday Sylvess Buch wero u fuw of the comments wmade by | ter Taylor, of Tuylor's Slution, thls county, soll wuy of showlig thut the placo was 1ot by any | pis homestend property of about thirty-two aneres to A, B MeMilien, the consideration bolng $13,000. This {3 ono uf the largest tenusuctions o o heaithy one, “’Tell me, what da you do with your garbage tarenl estato i ono salu i thls section for years, iy aud usbies?™ tho Noetor neked. At Wat explainod that ull thiey could do was to duwp theso refuso matlers * whicrovor they gob a ubun They il guld that they would ko to huvo them removed, but u sodyeiger was never scon {u the ueighborhovod, and ey consequents ot s and batm 1 toqr‘:lecgl'v:fihdm atid Vel Hew Buldn, T Iy Al tho best thoy could under tho cireums “SCLOOL Boapp,” A Regular Semi-Monthly Magy: ' Last Evening, vling Architect Baner Makes o Fj tack upon Inspoctor numi:ffi.‘“ Which Results in tho Passage of a demnatory Resolution, oig A Lorge Amount of Important Mg, neous Business Disposed Of'.‘M““ A reginr meeting of th Ioard of 1 was held lnst uliht, Presidont e | chalr und all tho members pre. Messrs, Irenan, Armgtrong, and Stiles, I REMONSTIZA N sent to tho Common Councll agafnst posed ehanglig of the now schoal sl gy W, ron and Oukley (Venues 1o point fayrher o wis seat In from the Councll ang reg ‘"Mut tho Committet on Bulldings and Grounge " COMMUNICATIONS, A petition from the pugls of the night elayy, mechanten! drawing of tho Sewnmon Seumu‘ huva tho clnss continued was recelved gng x: ferred to the Superintendent. A communiention was reeelven fro; lucaticq Lntey g g, Hent oxeeyy tho yro. Chrtatophar O, Claster nsiche tho. fo oo Y puint An expert 1o eX; ho by Huming apparatis place ) trinl in the Douglnd und communication wus iled. ANCHITECT BAUEI'S TROUNLES, The Seeretury road o long commy from Be, A, Biter, Arohiect of sho. (et Aisswer 1o 1bo resolition Rdopted at u 3 oot providing that (ho Architeet o 120 gently superintend wlt work on school lulldy, thit ho sl eortily to no work that he personnily superintondod; and that by respunsible for all work certitied 16 by hin 1 pnyment. Mr. Her deeinred In his cop it cutlon thnt thy resolution was altegetier (. strict and unwarnnteds it ho conld oy s Bure the Bourd that tho centractors selecie | thom would fuithfwly execite nwlrmn(rm( nnd thit ho did not propose 1o be respuygyy for tho neglect of WOrk by persans o lected by tho Bonrd, Hefernng the Cottagy Grova School bullding mutter, Mr. Baner qi cluded b1z eommunientlon ns follows: Sin y) his I Iurroughs') witincks and uecusatfgy nude ngainst e and tho Contractor I the res uhir Board meeting In the bresence of the portors, and _consequently wphearlng 1y the dully papers, are solely Lused wpy u elanderous tetter recelved " by My, fyn roughs from u person, unknown o pe by the name of Hhls, o contraetor in tho ep, ploy of Archlteet Garogey, who 13 uilding o gelivol-hottse 1 JoNet. A Broduction s re Ing of tho Minds letter betore the Hoand whu phtinly show tho anlmus of Mr. Burronghy' s, 1acks npon mo und tho contretor, wnd wouly wonvines the Board that Mr, Bureoughs migst hive kuown that tho statements In the Hing letter were slanderous nd barefaced les,” BAUEK CENSURLD, The communication was flest Ll on the tatle, DUt wus afterward taken up ozulo o make g Tor the following resuitition, otfered by Mr. Barge lett, which wns wdopted: Tewolved, Thut the sl g communleation of A, Baner, Architeet, with vofercnce o the Cotteps Grove Schoal bullding, contulning i gross sof unwarranted attiek wpon a memboer of e Hourd, be returned Lo Mr, Bater a9 disrespectfal to this Board, A NEW SCHOOL. The Committes ou Duildings and Grounly were given authority 1o ndvertiso for proposit to ereet u gchool-building on the Wicker Pak lot, und on Jfuckson street, nhenr Callforna nventie: nlso to remove the old building on tts Wicker Pari tot to tho west side of 1he jol. Tis enme Committee gave notiee that the lriekon and Watluce Setools would e ready for oceu- poney Monduy, und it wis accordimgly oplered thnt tho Archer avenuoeand Thirty-foi th stea schools hoe wwed, The same Committee weny glven authority to advertise for proposals fie plustering and stenm-heating the Hurou sl Bheldou Street Sehoola, A ‘Tho Coimnlttes on School Funds and Propeny recommended tho leasing of nere jots of Che cago school proporty In ndjoining towns threc-year terms ut $2.00 perucre, Concund . PAYING SALARIES, Tho Committec on Finnnes and Auditng s ported In favor of payimr a second fistallues of sularles 1o tenchiers and othoer sehool e PloyGa for services rendered slnc nnd sl tho same rate as for the month o cinley T80, exeept whore nny tenchee or caph Jeaves betore the esd of Febiran eano {t vocommended that only 40 p Installment be pald. Repore adopted, X ING SCHOOLS, Mr, Hoyne, of tho Committeo on Behools, announced that the evenlng sebould would all eloss next week. GERMAN. Mr. Frankenthnl, of the Commirteo on Gen mun, reentmended tho grantig o the peihio for tho Introduction of Uermun ju the La and Hayes Schuols, Mr. Dunne objected so far as tho Hayes School coneorned, suyimr that thore were very fof erninn people i tho distriet, md that theize troditetfon of Germm in the schonl would s ously Interfere with the othor siudles, M. Muas siid thut o lurgo unber of Amee Tenns signed the petitton, M. Fraukentliul sald tho mime, but sald b would withidrnw the recommendation for t present Bo Uar as tho lnyes School wis cus eerned, and recommended “only the granting d thie petition o far us the L Sulle School ¥ coueerned, Tho recommendation wis thea et curred fn. MISCELLANTOUS, The Judlclary Commitiee recommended 1 ayment of u ‘voucher fn favor of the S Zritung for ‘advertsements, und ulso geo mended that tho pnper bo hotified that bee after o advortisig bills wonld be paid unist the advertiscments had been ordered by U4 1\h;nn|l llnsl«nd of by ofticers or commiitesk Adopied, "Tha liourd wave tho Commitice an Hules "'i‘ Regulations uthority 10 buve tho propes new rulosand regubitions, ns prepured by 10 Committee, printod for diatribution among 1 members of tho Jloard preparatory to besd neted upon, it “Chu Hourd now took up tho question—lelt ot At tho tast mecting—raltive t lensing & 1 tion of tho old_Post-Ottico property and U aubloiting a partof that portfon to tha l'“'n'{ Hoaed, Sehool-Attoruey’ Rieknby sont 1o 8 written opinfon on tuo subject, decinring B o tho praperty was not owned by the -lh-uv\liIL portlon af” It could bo leased and then AU Tho opinion wik accentod und ordered priste tho Bourd prococdings, done 1 tho premises, it Mr. Burrougls offored n resalutlon expeeists of tha deepost regret ut the antimel ‘M“Aw tha late Joseph F, Donlicla, ot one tine s 000 ber of the Board, and eutoglzing thy deadie asn gentlemun ot tha grentest worth, and champlon of edueation. Adopted imd fik A comuittee, compised of the Proskde i Mosars, Niobofl aud Burtlett, was uppoiatel s invostiito the roams bid aut for tho usew By Tiowrd b the now City Suitding, and to rep the HoXt mecting. i All vacaucies crented by tho resiguatith ) AMr, J, C, Richbery from the Bonrd were the nppolntment of Mr, Niehutf, urd ndjourned ——————— A QUESTION OF BIRTH. 5 Bpeclal Dispatch (o The Chiczp Tribunke VINCRNNES, In ~A ease of fl““‘,lr erblo futereat s b 4 g cult Court here, At tho N voung wan uumed Holeomb votgd e joun tickot, and was nfterwards e legal vothin—tho Stato cluimiu that B OFugo. Much of tho testimony Watel uinusing charncier, and uite Gty also, At the conelusion of the testingil Court stated thnt bo bnd recontly FeddU, cap Preatdont Artnur wis horn st thees €0, places: and [t wis very evident 1o dloneo in this case that Holeomh wis diferent times, aad I as anans P prisanor would, therefore, be pllowe W3 1o duto aud locutlon, ana was thei e —— A LONG TIME MI\RRIEDJ 2 To the Editar of The Cidenge 1yioun! s st COLDWATEIL, Mleh,, Feb, .—A fev 18 (o, n wrlter inono of tho morulig PApc G, cago fnformed the renders of it P"ll;‘"m.,,_q bad Just eclobrated tha slxty-tifih s ey 1130 of i mirrlago, sud mlsed the WIEE Gy one could maten bim, Coldwite? ll."' partiet 1ivo years bettar i u few months, A shull livo, On the &i day ot Julyin 4y year, Me. Caleb 1, Veckhum aid W0 o eity, will celobrato thy soventieth m:!m g, 4 thelr marciuuo, o Is pow 1 yean ¢ his wite s following, closo afier, ARG G s county n 18K, Now It ""L w “‘L . buat thut wo will grant thon tho Paiifty p g —s— nothing furtber bes 3 to choed dismisnd contrivances buving be 1bo baseuicnts under tho dMurke cord wan found runing alous DLaserent, Whero thu oud wis 11 of matches covered with il wood sutueated with oit. T ¥ with powder und bad been tircd, i tingutstivd by sumo means belurt o building., Susplelon wis nn.ul)r {;}Irm:kll ‘Eumlulm. who q;»:-:lwl\:lu (i ek, iin exeitod % about uu{ witalr, o was arrestiod s sulelded. I b[} wrltps A& Haulf a bottle of St, Jacebs Uoh 0 mk’“"" . Hunnl,of Youngstowny O CUFC b G b Yonea.had Deeu & sutferer with neuralgls.