Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1881, Page 4

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OF L— Brethren: Take nozice that the funeral of our iate Dresher Jusepn Wold will tuke place on Sunday, Maren 3) wt 11 o'clock, from nis late residence, Divisten-s. GEV, BERNSTELN, Soerotary. NO. 28, KNIGHTS CHICAGO COMMANDERY, Mondsy evening, GEMFLAR—Suned Conclave, March Zi, at 7:3) o'clock. ‘I'he order uf the Temp.e will be cunterred. | Visiting Sir Rnlshes always wel- come, By order of iL H POND, E.G B. GOODMAN, Hecorder. a QUEEN ESTHER CHAPTER, Ni iL, O. E, S.. will girea calico party Wednesday evening March 3), BI the Grand Army Hull, 167 Evst Wastington-st Music by Prof. Carr. SUNDAY, MARCH %, 1881. THe Pope has frritten to the Catholic Bishops of Russia instructing them to have prayers offered up and Requiem Masses said for the lute Czar, and to issug pastorals com- manding lay Catholics to be loyal to the new Czar. The Pope takes it for-granted that’ Alexander ILL will carry out all the prom- ises made by his father in relation to tolera- tion of the Catholic Church. —————— Gasmetra’s organ, the Republique Fran- caise, urges the Chamber of Deputies to pass the bill providing for electionson the scrutin- de-liste system, and to take the whole re- sponsibility of ‘the matter, as it is one that concerns the Chamber only. President Grévy is opposed to the measure, and a2 rupt- ure between himself and Gambetta is immi- nent. Itis probable that Gambetta will tri- umph, e PRESIDENT GARFIELD assured Gov. Mur- ray, of Utah, yesterday that he would use every means in his power to put an end to polygamous practices in that Territory, and that Gov. Murray could always rely on his support in pursuing the anti-Murmon policy hitherto adopted by him. As the first step in this direction, the, President has ap- nounced his intention to renominate Gen. Bane, au‘anti-Mormon, tor Receiver of Pub- lic Moneys at Salt Lake City. Tue Pall Mall Gazette (Radical organ) and the Standard (Tory organ) both agree in saying that war between Greece and Turkey is regarded as inevitable. , The utmost concession which Turkey will make to Greece is to cede to it the Island of Crete; the least that Greece will accept as a settle- uient of its demands is the cession of Thes- saly, part of Epirus, and Crete. It is not at all likely that Greece and Turkey will be allowed to fight it out between them, If Greece is being pushed to the wall England imust take ‘a hand, and so probably must Russia. If Turkey is being whipped, Aus- tria, Russia; and all the other Powers will have a scramble for the spoils. Alas for the peace policy! Tue new Czar agrees with Goldsmith that abold peasantry are their country’s pride, and is about to adopts policy which will tend to make the Russian peasants independent, prosperous, and happy. Rich tracts of land will be immediately thrown open to occupa- tion, the burdens of taxation will be lessened, and generally a great deal will be done for their coinfort and welfare. The peasant class has contributed very litle to the Nibilistie purty, which Is recruited mainly from scien- tific and professional men and mechanics, and these classes will, in consequence, be left Severely alone, uniess they develop Nihil- istic tendencies, in which ease the attention of the Government may not be welcome to them. THE present attitude of the World’s Fair project reminds one of the epitaph on the infant's gravestone: “Since I so soon am done for, I wonder what J was begun for.’ ‘The projectors of it sre getting discouraged. Gen. Grant is discouraged and is on the point of resignation. The Subscription Com- mittee, who have not yet collected a million of dollars, are discouraged, and well may be, Since it would take five or six million dollars . and half a dozen Gen. Grants to make it a success, The real cause of the coolness ot the people towards the project is their easy comprehension that it is too soon afier the Centennial to hold another fair, and the Svouer the projectors comprehend it and abandon their ill-considered project the soon- er will they save themselves much time, trouble, and money. The time for holding . the next Fair is 1900 and the place for it is Chicago. That is all appertaining to a ‘World's Fair that needs consideration now. ———— A ccRIous document was published in ‘THE Tampons of Saturday. It purported tobe a report of a “committee recently appointed by the Butter and Cheese Dealers’ Associa- tion to investigate ”” certain reports as to the Sule of bogus butt and bugus cheese. ‘The document is even more of a curivsity to those who know something about the cast than to tucse whe know less, The report tells sume things which are confessedly true, and makes some statements which are exceedingly. doubtful, while it omits to convey several items of information which would be news in- deed to a great many readers. For instance, it would beinteresting to know when and where the “Association” referred to was formed before it met to hear the report; that the two individuals most active in getting up the meeting have not been among the most active in selling bogus butter and bogus } cheese; and that one of them has not en- deavored to find country customers for “neutral,” which the uninitiated may be pleased to know is a substance to be added to thoroughly skimmed milk in order to make “cream cheese.” It would be reassur- ing to be informed by “men who know” that the vile stuff called “‘anti-huff” is not still used very extensively in Elgin. Also that the ‘use or oleomargarine has been abandoned by Western “manufacturers” simply because by usmig lard they can make a bogus article more nearly resembling the true=than by’ the use gf what the self-appginted Committee has eupho- niously designated as “oil and suet stock.” The “Committee” might also have told to the world how much its individual members have contributed to the fund tor prosecuting men who sell bogus butter, etc., and how much of a fund it would have been deemed necessary to raise if all the members of that Committee were guiltless of manufacturing the stuff and doing their worst to make West- ern butter and cheese become literally a stench in the nostrils of European consum- ers. .An understanding public will receive with many grains of allowance the prolific “assurances” which are contained In such a report, made to no one knows what * Asso- elation,” and which contains such a lamenta- bie lack of information in regard to points on which the “Committee” should be so well posted. A GLIMPSE AT RUSSIA, Aminterview which Mr. Jeremiah Curtin,- Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg from 1864 to 1870, has courteously accorded Tne ‘TRIBUNE, will serve lo throw some Jight upon the present situation ot affairs in Rus- sia, and his statements possess unusual in- terest because of the difficulty in acquiring information, either through newspapers or books, of the real condition of that country. Mr. Curtif’s statements bear directly upon the recent troubles, and also give some indi- eations as to the future. We, therefore, sum up his observations in the form of a brief, connected narrative. In the reign of Nicholas, the father of Alexander IL; the late Czar, Russia was compactly, logically, and symmetrically con- structed. Nicholas was a great landholder, and Russia was hisfarm. Under him was an immense number of smaller landholders. They were held responsible for good order in their districts, and if they were in need ofhelptoenforce it they could call upon the Government. The civil service was filled by men appointed by the Emperor. The vil- lage communes were under the landholders. Their structure was very similar to what it is now, but the landholders had greater power, so that the communes obeyed their wishes, Tiey also had three days*in the week or one-half of the time of the serfs, so that, as each landholder averaged at least 1,000 serfs under him, ne had the abso- lute control of the labor of 500 serts. - When, during the reign of Alexander IL, serfdom was abolished and the first of his reforms was thus introduced, Russia lost that symmet- rical form of construction she had up to that time possessed... As the peasants could not live without land the land was given to them in allotments varying from eight to seventy acres each, the amount varying according to its excellence, less being given where it was very fertile, and vice versa, so that the ‘ver- age was from nine to twenty acreseach, ex- cept in Southwestern Russia, where differ- ent conditions prevailed. To recompense the nobility the Government paid them for a part of the Jand in 5 per cent interest-bearing bonds and the remainder in ready money, and to recoup itself the Government made the peasants pay 6 per cent on the valuation given to the nobles, retaining the difference asasinking fund. If the peasant was dis- satisfied with the land allotted to him under thege arrangements he could take one-fourth of it for nothing. What he really holds in permanency is his garden, the land which he tills being re-allotted every five or six years. While the nobility received compensation for their land they received nothing for their loss of control over the labor of the serfs and the consequent logs of influence and -authority. They expected to receive political power as an equivalent, but, instead of . that, the result of the abolition of serf- dom was the increase of bureaucracy. The nobles were not only thrown out of their previous condition of influence, but they found their work done by others. They have some little influence through the Pro- vincial Assemblies in the administration of purely:local affairs, but the decisions of these Assemblies must be submitted to the Governors of the Provinces, who have the tight of veto, and the only appeal lies to the Minister of the Interior, whose decision ts final. They were in reality reduced to a condition of servants, They agitated the consolidation of the Provincial Assemblies into one Generali Assembly, in which all classes could be represented, but without avail. They petitioned that all class distinctions should be abolished, so that taxes should be pafd equally, for. while under serfdom the serfs paid the taxes, as soon as they were emancipated the mer- chants and nobles had to meetthem. This De.ition. was, of course, refused, and they found that there was nothing left for them to do except to serve the State as officials or work in Provincial Assemblies, where every- thing they. did could be set aside without protest from them or recourse of any kind, The discontent of the nobility, therefore, May be easily understood. So far as the Nihilists are concerned, there have always been wore or less of them in Russia, for the Siavonic mind is naturally radical and democratic; only the Peles are aristocratic, Among them are many unemployed and ‘discontented men. Their ranks have been recruited from these, and students, clergymen’s sons, and improvident young nobles have joined them. AN classes are represented among them except the peasants. ‘The nobility is not actively identified with them, and does not sympathize with them, except so far as they reflect the desire for a constitutional Government, It simply stands aside and says to the Government: “ You cannot put Nihilism down alone, butif you would associate us with you it could be dono quickly. But what can we do- without power?”” Mr. Curtin describes the present Czar asa, very able man, strong in mind, generous in his feelings. full of ambition to make Russia a mighty Power, far abler than his father, and, indeed, promising to be the best E.uperor Russia has had since the days of Peter the Great. His wife he also regards as’ a woman of more than ordinary ability, while she is a great favorit among the people. While he is of the opinion that his father went as far as he 1 could under the thes: circumstances, he be lieves that Alexander ILL will xo still far ther, since there are many questions in Rus- sia that cannot be settled uniil further re- forms are made, and beczuse he js not une : friendly to a constitutional furm of govern- ] ment. Alexander II, went as far as he could, but he only succeeded in bringing Russia into a position where she could not remain. Alexander IEL., after he has restored order and authority, Wr. Curtin believes, will go on With the work and will soon summon acouncil of representative men from the vari- ous provinces of the Empire who will draw up some plan that can be considered; From this point of view the future of Russia looks more hopeful. E nt THE LONG, HARD WINTER. Winter lingers in the lap of Spridg ina most scandalous menner this year. It is al- ‘ways an improper proceeding,and has now ex- cited the disgust of the'most tolerant people. Winter has grown to be a hoary old wretch. His calendar life is only three months, He came prematurely last fall, and has worn out his welcome by overstaying his time. We have endured him fully tive months al- ready. and at the present writing there is small prospect for his retiring for some time tocome.’ Ifthe present course of thé seasons be pursued, autumn and spring may as well be'exptinged from the almanacs. It will bea more honest way to give eight months to winter and four to summer without any deceptive intervals. m The present winter has been one to baffle the traditional readiness of the oldest inhab- itant. Some people who are not sensitive about their age are willing to go back as far as the winter of 1842~483 fora parallel, but that is clearly barred by the. statute ot lim- itations. It is entirely sate to accept the prevailing winter season as the drearlest and most trying evér known to anybody outside of Siberia. Ithas been Jong and relentless. Every new storm seems to have been actu- ated by some mysterious motive to exceed all the preceding storms in viclousness. The new “Probabilities” hs been completely obfuscated by the reversal of all the rules he and his predebessor followed. He caused The Tripuns to state in the first line,of yes- tefday’s paper that there would be “fair weather, with ogcasional rain or snow.” It is very difficult for anybody to get mad at ‘Tur TriBuNeE; but we cannot reasonably ob- ject if the people who began reading yester- day’s paper with that announcement, while the wind was whistling and the snow driving and cutting outside, lost for the moment their abiding confidence and unfatling respect for Tur Tripuye’s utterances. It was the fault of “Probabilities.” who ought henceforth to be called “Iimprobabilities,” and who is no longer entitled to any consideration. The Canadian weather-prophet, Vennor, seems to be in league with the evil spirit of storm. He predicted the storm now upon us, as he did that of two weeks ago. He is dis- agreeably accurate in these matters, and if he ever expects to be popular he had better begin predicting some fair and mild weather with equal certainty. It is said that Vennor proceeds upon astronomical signs and the theory of “weather cycles.” His method has certainly been proved to be a good one by the correctness of his predictions; but we ust still duubt the doctrine of “weather cycles.” The-idea of a cycle involves an idea of change at some time, and even hope- ful people have abandoned the prospect for change this winter. ‘The season {s certainly discouraging. The railroad and telegraph people, the street-car lines, and the truckmen and the laborers, the business-men and the housewives, have been engiged In a ceaseless combat with it, More than one economical housekeeper, we ven- ture to say, sat dowh and cried yesterday morning at the necessity for beginning anew the tussle with drifting snow which had al- ready cost her so large a share ot her allow- ancefor domestic expenses. The railroad bosses and hands swore roundly at this sur- charge of storm, while the large stockholders sat comfortably in their back parlors and be- moaned the loss of dividends, The chiidren howled in dismay at being condemned to pass another of their weekly holidays in- doors, and the people svho sought consola- tion on any side had their iabor for their pains. _ The storms of this winter have placed a serious embargo on business, and this latest —we dare not say last—wiil probably prova more embggrassing than any that has gone before it. ~The Northwest has been the largest Sufferer, for the other sections of the country have been spared to a certain ex- tent. . But-when the Northwest is retarded in its movement forward the rest of: the coun- try feels the pressure, as the body is par- alyzed when a main artery is choked up. The personal inconvenience of locomotion on the streets and travel by the steam cars is of small moment as compared with the hindrance to commerce. Tho local loss in this city in .time, and the wear and tear on appliances and energy, will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. There issome comfort to be found inthe reflection that the prosperity of the past year has enabled peeple to bear the strain with a certain equanimity, which has also been increased by the anticipation of re- newed activity when the break-up comes. The winter has been a hard one, but not nearly so trying as if the same long stretch of cold and storm had visited the country three or four years ago in the midst of business de- pression and widespread “poverty. This-re- flection may revive contidence in the fitness of things, and inspire the hope that we are coming out all right,—Mother Shipton and the relentless Vennor to the contrary not- wilistandin: ‘JUDGE DAVIS A DEAD WEIGHT. Nobody who has ever taken the most cur- sory view of Judge Davis, of Illinois, has any doubt that he has been a very “Sodom apple” to the Democracy, which they thought was gold, bit turned to ashes in their hands. To change the figure, he has been a dead weight. The Democratic party has more reason than anybody to appreciate the full force of the gentleman's ponderosi- ty. Judge Davis has been dragging that light-waisted nssociation down ever since he consented to hang on its skirts. When he jumped into the Democratic boat it began to sink. His election as Senator was the death- knell to all their cherished hopes of office. The Democrats were so short-sighted that they preferred to elect a wavering Republic- an to the Senate from Illinois tu securing the Presidency. Their scheme for the Electoral Commission was a doomed failure from the monent they made Judge Davis ineligible to serve. And from that time to this they have found no counter-balance to the dead weight they schemed and traded to secure. The very mention of Judge Davis’ name must re- call to the Democratic .politicians all he has cost them. Jf they had let him alone where he was on the Supreme Bench they had the machinery all fixed up for raising Tilden into the Presidential chair. If Tilden had ouce got in he would probably have been able to manipulate the patronage in such fashion as to be retlected. Thus eight years of Federal spuils were lost to the Democrats by coquet- ting with Davis, In the game of chess they were playing they sacrificed their king to gain o “fat knight.” Think of the places high and‘ low which were thus allowed ‘to slip from their eager grasp! Cabinet minis- ters, foreign ambassadors, comfortable con- Sulates, fat contracts, a legion of postmas- ters, a horde of subordinate officials in all the departments, the customs, the internal revenue, the pensions pickings,—all the vast and varied patronage of & great Nation were bar given up for the possession of this one man. And since they haye had Davis what comfort have the Democrats taken with him? When- ever he consents to vote with them in the Senate he does so under ‘protest, and with the formal.announcement, that he is ahamed of the company he is in, Tvere is a well-grounded suspicion that he does not even ‘lend them his vote except on occasions when he is pretty sure it will no@avail them, ' Perhaps he would not have voted with them on the organization of the Senate if he had not been satisfied that his ballot was to be offset by Mahone’s. It is certain that he derides the Democrats in pri- vate, condemns their persistent folly, and holds them in utter contempt. Judge Davis has probably enjoyed the discomfiture of the Democrats which was the result of. their capturing him; but have they enjoyed, ordo they enjoy, the possession of an aggregate of avoirdupols which continues to bear them down? Here is achance for an-open con- fession which may bring some relief to the sore-headed Democracy. . Pa a eae AMERICAN APPRENCICES AGAIN. . Yesterday TuE' TRmUNE commented on the‘unfértunate and deplorable policy adopt- ed by the trades-unions of excluding appren- tices from the workshops pf nearly all trades. One effect of this isto confine the privilege of working at all mechanical occu- pations to persons of foreign birth who have learned their trades in Europe or Can- ada. This results in a sort of Know- Nothingism, whereby Americans are practi- cally excluded from knowledge of mechan- {cal trades, and the country is dependent for mechanical or skilled Jabor upon emigrants from foreign conntries. In course of time these foreign-born me- chanics have sons of their own, who are in like manner excluded from the workshop, and, in common with allthe American youth, afe condemned to be unskilled laborers, or are driven into non-productive employments, or go to swell the army of idlers, street- loungers, loafers, hoodlums, and criminals who fill the saloons, and streets, and disrep- utable establishments of all large cities. This vast population of young men from 15 to 25 years, from which the criminal class is recruited, are those wno are denied and pro- hibited from learning trades by the arbitrary rules of the trades-unfons, which are, in turn, made up chiefly of persons of foreign birth, and who have learned their trades in fayeigu lands. wee The inventive skill of the Americans is largely devoted to labor-saving machinery. The country is reduced to foreign immigra- tion for its supply of skilled labor, the sue youths being excluded rigidly from y instruction in meéhanical arts. The Tesult, thorefore, is a constant struggle between the improvements of labor-saving machinery and the close corporations or urbi- trary monopoly of the trades-unions, * Ono of theso industries, is the trade or craft of cotton-spinning. This body of men absolutely determine, who of their number and how many of them shall be exhployed at any. cotton-mill in the United States. They are mainly Englishmen, and are the authors of all the Jabor disturbances and strikes in the cotton-factories of New En- gland. When they strike théy practically suspend all other operations in the mills. They permit no apprentices, and the supply is wholly recruited from England. “Against this tyranny and despotism there is ndé’appeal. Weknow the Communistic’ theory of in- ‘dustry denounces labor-saving inventions as something at war with human happiness and hunan rights, They and the trades-unions adopt the same theory and policy of limitinz and prescribing the: number of other men who shall learn any tradt or be allowed to work at it. They seck to maintain a monop- oly of each trade, and to this policy is due the fact that in this country thereare somany young men who have no trade and are wholly unfitted for any productive occupa- tion. Idleness carries in its train all the vices; idleness is. the fruitful producer of intemperance; idleness, to a large dxtent, compulsorily educates men in crime, and it is one of the most striking as well as-the most repulsive consequences of this Socialistic- trades-union exclusion of apprentices that the only way for an American-born youth to learn a mechanical trade is to learn that trade as a criminal In the State Prison. The theory that a limitation of thenumber of skilled mechanics is theonly way in which skilled workmen can maintain wageg in this country is clearly fallacious, because that limitation is abortive. Numbers of trades- unions refuse apprentices, thereby excind- ing American bogs—their own sous among them—from learning useful trades, when all 3 ‘the ports of the country are wide open to the mechanics of all Europe, who flock hither in such numbers that the unemployed surplus can at any time, and always do, beat down the wages whenever there is a struggle on that point. If, on the contrary, the trades-unions were open to all American boys, where ap- prentices could serve long enough to become skilled workmen, intelligent and educated mechanics, there would be more men. in each trade, but there would be a larger percentage of skillful men in each trade, and these skillful men could command higher and better wages, because their labor would be worth more than is now paid to thes exclusively foreign workmen, whose union laws establish horizontal wages,—the sanie to the skillful as to the ignorant and incum- petent. A Ghaatly Rivalry. Tho public Is familiar with the story of the Wisconsin gentieman wno, upon appearing be- forehis wife minus an ese, and with various other portions of his once prepossessing feat- urea in an extremely disreputable-looking con- dition, explained his shattered state by saying that he bad been to Oshkosh for the very luuda- ble purpose of bnving a little fun with the boys. Ever since this pleasing incident of life in Wis- consin was made public people have entertained reat respect, not unmixed with uwe, for the pleasant customs of Oshkosh, and that town brs fm consequence attained 2 celebrity that ft could not otherwise have hoped for, to tho great disgust of Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Milwaukee, and other eminently respectable hamlets, which have viewed with il]-concealed disgust the dizzy eminence of notoriety upon which Oshkosh has 80 long proudly rested. But while the places mentioned have sceretly chafed under the thought that they were being neglected, while the fame of Oshkosh was rapidly sprending to all quarters of the globe, unother Wisconsin town has suddenly blossomed. fofth ina manner that bids fuir to eclipse all Tivals. This town jg Lu Crosse. Scorning tho ordinary means of obtaining public notice, La Crosse has adopted a method of advertising itself which is at once novel and effective, It being nothing less than a fierce competition and cut- ting of rates between the two undertakers of the place. These presumably estimable gen- tlemen aro named respectively Emery and Preston, and. so intense is their hutred of each other that’ the most extraordinary inducements todie are being offered daily to residents of La Crosse through tne medium'‘of the newspapers. Ordinarily, funerals are sol- emo and expensive occasions, upon which tno surrow that naturally rest? over the family of the deceased is deepened by the thought that a bill of such imposing proportions isin process of construction that unless the remains wasa person of more than ordinary wealth tho major part of his estate will be confiscated by the en- terprising and gloomily affable gentleman who furnishes the solemn trappings of wo. But in La Crosse, at the present time, it ia different. Gentlemen of a penurious turn of mind now hail with joy the pangs of approaching disso- lution, knowimg that the . ruinous competi- } ton between thelresteemed fellow-cltizens, Messrs, Emery anti Preston, will ussume 80 virulent a form upon the announcement of any citizen's decease that the job of conveying the cold und pallid tenement of bis once proud spirit to the cemetery which he may have selected for its tinal repose will bo a8 eagerly sought for as though jt involved profits that can only be computed on the basis of Court-House contract in Chicago. As before mentioned, this ghastly commercial warfare between Meesrs. Emery-and Preston 1s bearing fruit in thenewspapers. In onc journal Mr, Emery appeals to thetpublic in the following manly style: PONURAL NOTICE: Having recently purchksed of the manufacturers the most expensive and elezant hearse tor children ever brought to La Crosse, 1am prepared to make FUNERALS A SPECIALTY. I shall be glad to receive the patronage of the pub- Ue, contident thut with my incrcased facilites for supplying hearses und carriages Tf can ive sutisinc~ Hon. “My lurge hearse fur udults I stilt Keep on hand. Hageast Saul rensunule beurre ne oe if He Mey SEeHus EMERY. It must be truly gratifying to the grief- stricken parents of sick children to know that if the little buds of humanity are called for by the griin messenger their bodies can be conveyed to their flnul resting-pluco in “the most expensive and elegunt hearse ever brought to La Crosse,” and the grief at their untimely demise wii] no doubt in muny cases be sensibly mitigated by the comforting thought that ail this pomp gun be enjoyed ut the tow price of $5. To people in La Crosse who have attained yenre of discretion comes the sweet consolation that whenever they are called upon to perform tho acrobatic -teat which Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphin, has so neatly de- scribed’ as “climbing the olden stair,” the “large hearse for adults" which Mr. Emery “still keeps on band” can be: se cured by their sorrowing relatives. This fore- thought on the part of Mr. Emery, {9 certainty commendable, aud shows bim to be a gentleman of broad and liberal views, ready to extend to old and young alike the bospitalities of-his es- tablishment for the promction of funerals. But itisnot until the advertisement of Mr. Preston, which appenrs directly bencath that of Mr. Emery, bas been read that one really learns the allurements by whieu tho undertaking busi~ ness in Lu Crosse has been surrounded. Scorning the sordid motives whiek prompt his rival te in- trude upon the encred precincts of grief with an allusion to monetary considerations connected with hisservices, an@ appealmg at the same Ume to the universal love of draw-poker which pervades the breast of every resident of La Crosse, Mr. Preston appeals to bis fellow-citl- zens as follows: ‘WE DOLLARS: SETTER. Funeral Notice, Free Hearse, Yo any one wanting funeral rigs, havo two beauti- ful hearses, one waite one for children, und a dark one tor adults. To any one taking two or more cur~ Thiges, at the regular price, f will give thom the use of HEARSE FREE. ‘And further, to any poor people, not able to pay tor Tuneral carriages, cull on me, wad L wilt provide fur; thew just as quick us if the: ‘e rich. J. H. PESTON, Oukiwood Livery. The artful manner in which Mr. Preston neatly provides that the corpse shall ride as g dead- bead fg thoroughly commendable, and shows the author of the advertisement to possess talents for which the necessarily small field atforded by La Crosse 13 Inadequate, He should at onco come to Chicago, where genius is appreciated. With au uaolimited supply of winter cholera and froe heurses, tho temptation to depart for & botter world woutd be too great to be suacess~ fully, resisted. Astronomical. *Chicago (Trinunr office), nortlt:latitade 4ldeg, 521m. §78.; west longitude 42m. 18s. from Washington, and 5h, 60m. S0s. from Greenwich. Tbe subjoined table shows the time of set~ ting of the moon's lower limb, and the of- ficiul time for Nghting the figst street-lamp, in cach circuit in thls city, during the com-) ing weel, unless ordered sooner on account of bud weather. Also the following times for. extinguishing the first lamp: - - Day. Mom rists. Light. Extinguish, n 1:00 Bp. The moon will be in ber lust quarter at 9:40 p. m. Tuesday, and in apogee aLlout 5:0 p. m. Fri- day. Next Snturday she will bo “with” Mars, but leaves the planet a good way to the south of ber apparent path among the stars. The sun's upper limb will riso on Monday at 6:01 a. m., south at Tm. 7.258, p. m., and set at 6:14 p.m. ‘The sun's upper limb rises Friday next at fl, m., Souths at Sm. 530s. p. m., and sets at 6:. p.m. The siggreal time Thursday mean noon will be Oh, 69m. 20.803. ‘The sun is on the line at about 5:2353 a. m. to- day, marking tho beginning of tho spring quar- ter of the year. This interesting event docs not How occur ow.the 21st of March, as it used‘'to do inthe eurly part of the century. It, will pe moved forward to the 2lst by the dropping out of the intercalary day in the senr 1900; and will then drop slowlfuck during the next 100 yeurs, as it is doing in the present century. hs Mercury will south Thursday at 10:46 a.m. He isnow westof the sun, rising before him, but so obliquely that he is not favorably sit- uated for observation. His anzuiar distance froin the sun will Increase till April 7, the dato of bis greatest western elongation, 5 Mars will rise Thursday at 4:25 a. m.,and south at 9a. m. Ho is visible as morning star. Tuesday morning he willbe 1% degree north from Gamma, In Capricorn, and Thursday 113 degrees nortfr from Delta, of the same constella- tion. > ‘Venus is now “ rood way” to the northeast from tbe two planets with whom she hus been keeping company so tong, but will turn about a month hence, and rejoin them about the mitidlo of Muy, when all three will rise before the sun. Next Thursday they will move as follows with: reference to our meridian and hornzon: South. Set. Jupiter... -m, $03. p.m. Sutura.... §:12 p.m. Venus. 0:2 p.m Venus is now intensely bright. She will obtain her maximum brilliancy next Sunday, and thea decrease In brightness, rapidly approaching the appurent pluce of the sun. About half of her illuminated side fs turned townrdsus yt present. Jupiter now presents an angular diameter of only 2 eeconds of are. The rings of Saturn are opening up rather widely, the earth being now depressed 10 degrees below the plane of the rings, ehowing us their southern face. The greatest appurent diameter of the ring systemis now 37 seconds, and tho least do. is 10 seconds of are. Uranus will south Thursday at10:39 p. m., be- ing then in right ascension 10 hours 504-min- utes, and north declination § degrees 164% min- utes. He is now coming into the position of morning star. Neptune will south Thursday at 2:93 p. in. Right uscension 2 hours 422{ minutes, and north declination 13 degrees 58 minutes. He will be 7 degrees sofith from Venus next Wednesday morning. re ‘Tuenz is'a very strong movement on foot to run A. B. Baldwin for Alderman in the Twelfth Ward. He would make a most excel- Ient member of the Council, but probably not more so than Ald. Everett, who has accepted a- pressing invitation to rua again. He bad de- clared his intention not todo s0, and Mr. A. B. Baldwin was nominated by some of the Precinct Clubs; but the pressure upon Everett to serte was too Strong to resist. [tig not netesqury for those candidates to sdbdilt their names to the Primary meeting. The ward {stabovt four to one Republican, and there is not the slightest chance of tho election of a Bourbon. The better way is for tho friends of Messrs. Everett and Buldwin to presént thélr men tothe people at the polls, and let them say which one shall take aback seat. A flittie rivuiry of this sort would be beneticla! for the city ticket in getting out a Tull vote. : 4 Speakinc of the Nihilists’ plots in Russia, the Nation says: . The quictus which Gen. Bfelfkoff’s policy was supposed to have put on the Nihilists has been clearly deceptive, and the renson undoubtedly is that its conciliatory features disappeared ont- Side of St. Petersburg. In the provinces the Governors-General were armed with absolute power, and they oxercised it under the savage traditions of the old régime, by ufllicting those atrocious punishments for which Russia has always been famous. During the past winter they have been banishing to Siberia swarms of ersons of both sexes on mere suspicion of hold~ ing revolutionury opinions, and banishment to Siberia 13 a frightful penalty, which makes men desperate. especially when inflicted without tell~ ing the crimjoni what his offense fs or who ac- cuses him, Most of these exiles, or agleust alurge portion of them, have been students, and numer- ous stories of suicide among the unfortunate after reaching their destination have come buck, ‘and, whether true or false, buve come to stimu- Inte the thirst for vengeance among their friends and companions at home. A feeble at- tempt at remonstrance bas been made by the nobles in one province, and by the Ze:nstov, or Depurtmental Assembly, in another, but with- outeffect. Now, there isone thingthe human race bas In Christendom apparently got beyond, and that is submission to absolutely arbitrary power.4fhe nen of our time will not necept unishment without trial or proof, and the Nibitists are a very unfortunate cluss to select for it, considering that they are alreaay in a state of “moral insunity.” They cannot be cured by Simple brute foree, and their success in killing the Czar will undoubtediy make them readier than ever to oppose ferocity to cruelty. At Kiev four mem were arrested only three weeks ago when preparing to* blow up the arsenal, und in the same place a “ Workingman’s Union * hns been discovered which mukes mur- der and arson its two principal means of elevat- ing the laborer. wy “ —__— »This is from the New York Times: = Another codperative store is just starting in Brooklyn, the purpose belng, to begin with ‘groceries only. A practical chemist will be em- ployed to make-nnalyses of articles most subject to ndulteration, If tho'scheme succeeds it is to be extended tu house-furnishing goods and dry gouds, us well as to coal, whieh the organizers Dope to sell for $2.50 per tou of 2.200 pounds. ‘This Is the published tigure. but, if not Incor- rectly stated, it Indicates that tne projectors are rather tov saheuine in their hopes. Some sixty persons are already interested. In undertaking gepceries first, the assogation bexin with per- ups the most ditfitule ting in practice, for the retail grocery trade, covering a large number of peculiarly peristuble articles, is one which con- tang n small margin of protit, and is subject to waany sses. On sugur. for exainple, the mar- gin fs ulmost nominal, but there is no loss from decuy; on the other hand, in tho large list of fruits and vegetnbles during the summer, a few hours cause ahenvy loss, The corner-grocery~ ket per visibly does not grow rich—be barely dives, and frequently fatls. Prices are enormous, especlully of vegetables and fruits, aod a quar ter-dollar Is lost to sight.in bis “small measure” without bringing inure thar bite for g moder- ate family, Groceries ure extruvagan(y dear, and it is noticeable that.while prices easily slide up ¥bove the nrean, they tind great dithculry in dipping below it. G oe '., Now that the Irish ex-post-facto ‘Coercion Dill and the Disarming bill have passed, the next thing for the Uritish Government to dois to proceed to coliect the rackrents for the English absentee land-robbers. | Henco,we are prepared for this sort of cable news: mee Duntry, March 1i.—Her Majesty's ship Val- -orous, stationed in Gulteuy Bay, yesterday took @ process server and eighty policemen to the islands of Lettermuilen and Feentsh, of the Connemara coust, ta serve ejectments. The islands belong to Mr. Blake Forster, whose ten- autry In Galway and Clare ate over $25,000 in arrears, There ure about two hundred and fitty tenunts on the islands. Mr. Forster, who [3 a maxistrate, accompunied the expedition, Tre new French Toan yvasa 3 per cent, is- sued ut 83 franes and 25 centimes for the nomi- Dal 10)-franc bond. Consequently the rate of interest is really equal to 83-5 percent. If ad per cent French bond‘ only sells for 8, how.is an American 8 per cent bond to be sold ut par? British 3 per cent consols are worth about % per cent, and ifthe Government wanted to sell 140 millions of pounds of 3 per cents it ig doubtful whether they would realize more than 90 per ‘cent of their face. 8 A CABLEGRAM from Brussels says that the Greek Government bas set aside 1,000,000 francs for bestowal on those who perforin deeds of gal- Jantry at ses. Consequently the Greek boatmen Propose to blow Hobart Pasha’s iron ships out of water the moment they show their noses out- side the Dardaneites. But: tho belief fs caining ground in Europe that the fight {s off. Turkey ———a——— erue Times, which is Harrison’s organ, naturally desires him re@lected. With this end in view it doesn't want the Republican Conven- tion to nominate a strong candidate. Hence it ig belitulmg and slurring Clark, and clair..ing that he has no show fur the nomination. {t'> pres- ent gume is,“ Anybody to beat Clark." ee Ler Everett and Baldwin both run for Alderman in the Twelfth Ward; it will add 500 to the Republican majority for ‘Mayor, bringtlg outa full vote. They ure pretty evenly matched, and it would be a closo race. Go in, gentlemen, and may the best man win. New York does not call herself the Em- Pire State for nothing. She bus gow three votes inthe United States Senate, and none of the other States has more than two. She hus Conk- ling, Platt, und Artbur. ; nes cae! : PERSONALS, ex-Secretary Schurz. Other, statesmen will pleuse tuke back seats. Let-us remember that, although the winter has been a hard one, the Hutchjnsoa family of singers bas not come West. A Justice of the Peace in Greenfield, Mass, who married an elderly coupte the other day was paid his fee in dried apples. “Deatht!to European monarchs!” shouts: Justus Schayab, It will be noticed that the sun- to be pestered for thétr intluence to the extent ot forty letters a day by former schoolmates who want posiuons. Harry Genet, the last of the Tweed Ring to go to prison, is 55 years of age. and rather above the medium size. His bajr and whiskers. which were once brown, are gray, and his eyes are dull and leaden-colored. 5 %&“ A Boston paper says that Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is*noted as s designer of wonderful embroidery. There ‘1s nothing Strange about this. All women are designing creatures.”"—Simon Cameron, A New York house has published a book entitied * Practical Hints to Bee-Keepers.” If you haven't thme to read the work, just step out where the bees ure and get the practical hints from them for nothing. There has been a good deal of talk lately about the good fortune of people who five in Ohio, but everything is not so roscate in that State as it might be, A series of piano recitals is now being given in Cincinnati. Jett Sectist and James Somers had a des- perate flyht at Greensburg, Pa., the other day, it befng the result of a dispute regarding ex-President Husea’ policy. It is astonishing over what small things men will quarrel, Mrs. J. W. Mackey is Mentioned by the Paris Fiyaro as a pretty brunet whose expression and figure recall the Princess Metternich, Figaro declares that happily for “in fumille Mackey” she possesses « remarkable amount He saya unto the editor: * _ Remember onr stuin sires.” ‘The Cditor the candidate From out bis presence fires. There is a picturesque story told concern- ing Seeretary Kirkwood and a person of high ejvil rank in Washington’ upon whom he once galled. The Idwa Scuator, who was personally tinknown t6 the official, waited his turn. After dismissing the several callers with such answers as their business required, the great man slowly turned his olfice chuir, and, looking the Senator over from crown to sule, said, coolly: * Well, my man, what can I do for you? You took as though you would be most at home on 2 farm!” “ Deacon,” said the widow, as she gently stroked in a feline-manuer the maltese tabby that evidently lay in her lap for that purpose, “don't you tong for spring, with its balmy breath, its warm sunshine, and its gentie show- ers, whieh awaken nature, and put life into everything that bas laid cold and dead during the long winter, and bring everytumg up out of the: cold, cold. ground into light and life?’’ “ Well, burdly, widow,” responded the old dea- con, * you know I buried my second wife inst fall.”—IWicked Ohio Editor. ht t Alderman Clark sti 8 Great Interest Taken Some of the Men Who 0. B, Phelps The Preferences of the Cin LOCAL POLITIC. = Ae ee Be the Coming is Man. — , be by Hani son’s Organ in the ata lican Nominee, . eae Wil B, Elected Aldermen Next * Month. : oH Again Sslected to Ri > sent the Third Ward, Ete Membery in Favor of Mr. Clark, The Fifteenth Warders and ‘the Probibie tion People Selecting a Oindidate, Entrae Statements About Md. Clark Dealed by Those Who Know Him, THE SITUATION. - ALD. CLARK KEEPS TIE LEAD, To-morrow night the Republican brimaria, Nene heid, and the brief est for the nomination for May, anend, What the result. will. be be at generally understood by those bias, and who have watched closely the dritr of public sentiment. and the movements of, those men who really have influence, ae Whose actions are apt to indicate how the + delegates from the wards in which they If will cast their vutes. : Teason for changing the conclusio atsome days ago, that Ald. ey It is not true that his friends him in favor of anybody contemplating casting their votes for knother man in case of nowination, a majgrity of the ballots, haye not looked out for a ‘Nor have they been fighting date; they have pushed Clark, buthave made no assaults on any oneelse, ‘TheClark herd quarters; in the Metropolitan Block, werg thronged yesterday with his workers in the Various wards, who met for the purpose of REPORTING Prot for to-morrow’s contest. wards which have been claimed for Clark ars Tegarded as doubtful, with the ‘éxception of the Fifth, which, having a candi own for City Treasurer, cannot be relied on, There is also @ strong effurt making in the Fourth Ward to elect a Stewart ti Temark wi sionerStewart was undble to carry even thety end of hisown ward. ‘That netited him,and ne A s been making a strong effort to muster nis not. without influence in the neighborhoodin which he lives. It is considered doubtful, however, by those who are acquainted with the ground,. whether be will be uble to make any impression upon the Clark forces, As things stand now there is, pretty nearly all along the line. a consolidation of ‘the friends art; but it disini: 1 brief, contemptuous, and indifferent para- graphs, ‘Times, and this this Harrison fairs of the Republican pariy, must, be taken as reflecting directly the desires of Mr. Har- rison. He is anxious. through his pulllot ing organ, to force this, that, or the other candidate upon exceedi that a ct it Wo against him (J beat without any difficulty. It is not kel, however. that the Republican Convention will go to the Times, for information a5 2 whom it shall nominate; nor will it be apt io consult Mr. Harrlsup ‘ag to the gentleman who is to run against him It is notsafeto have nominations dicta by the enemy, ably use its own ir its homfnee a man whont it considers strongest, regardless of the wishes tur threats of the bulldozing organ of the risonian Democracy. 1 F There is city offices. tletuen who are in the fiel before. af to say anything. % have much to do with the make-up of ois mainder of the ticker: ai p head of chosen” from one divisio! are apt to be distributed among, the remala ing divisions. has been chosen it will be comparat to tell who will be City Treasurer, torney, and City Clerk. ied e pooF-rooms. ‘A3 regards the Aldermen, howe! ssible to arti Tit conclusions, In the First Wal Dixon will be renominated and the Second Ward the contest if Ballard is nominated, as he may oth be are so miny in the field, but Henry F. dan stands the best chance. In the Six! Seventh, and Eighth, it is impossible b ‘A. B, Baldwin; in the Fourteenth, Grath, probably; in the Sixteenth, no agony of the con be is pretty who hare no ‘There seems to be no Clark is ahead, have withdrayy else, or,fhat they arg his failure to seew They believe he wills eat and, therefore, « second choice, ‘any other cand> AND MAKING Pivay, ALRANGEMENTS None, ot those of its et, The imprudently made that Commis. Sin order to showahe people that he is will concede some territory, and the six Powers of the audidates who are Opposune Aud, ef Clark. This does not apply to the Tyeltth will constrain Greece to accept It. Ward, which Rawleigh is expected, tomar age single-handed; but in most of the others, notably st the opposition to Cl: chance unless they unite. they are putting up what they tiekets, hi of Spalding, C: hieenth, for instance, é that they have ilo In some HL unpledged ving on them the names of friends has th So therconitest ow ‘The display of it very plain that he will carry fond Ward declared for Spaling ONE OF THE MOST CURIOUS FEATURES of this campaign fs the {Intense interest whieh Mayor Harrisun’s devoted organ, the Chl cago Times,—one of its employés ts lis secre tary,—has taken as_to who shall be the Re ubfican nomiuee, Those who have observéd S course must have noticed the order In which it classifies the Republican candidates. * > The opera season in Cincinnati being over, | It has very many kind words to say for tho musicai critics of that city-have gone to | Mr. Spalding; it has nothing but’ praise back-driving again, . a ie BY Be Havdelet ae euloglses dade erie n ary at great length; 2 Buffalo Bill indorses the Indian polley of words of kindness for Commissioner Stew- es Ald. Clark iu a lew This attitude on the part of the persistent suterferenca, by emocratic organ in'the af the Republican party, and is y auxious to create the impression tin other candid of no earth It is very evident from Me. guinary Justus is still on this side of the water. | ly consequence. “ Mrs, Parnell says that if her son is ar- | Marrison’s course, as atlined, in oe rested she is going right over to Ireland und euaes mem et ee Oa aly take) churee Of teinges The Bastien Mon aay mistaken he may be in’ that Ald. Clark is Ranier pase. . the man who can most easily peat bim, and President Garfield’s two elder sonsare said | is, therefure, seeking to create the impression, i rough his organ, among Republicans Clark is a person of no canseyttence, hardly of, utterly untit to be put up st baat and whoin be coul larrison), for the Mayuralty, andthe Convention will pro judgment and plek out for ALDERMASIC, ETC, é little to be said as to the minor ‘Phe names of the varlons geny : ld have been givelh As to their chances it fs impossible. ‘The selection of Mayor wit, if the head ol idate for Mayor After the candidate Weise Until that. time It 1s might better be left ¢@ er, it {8 2 Cast def ve in some cases at prety sid, ted. Io ee verta suessing. and ‘of good sense with which to guide it through x clety. ‘iilbe returned; if not, x Democral Sa Eineisu ego Seren eee eee in the hind. Ward, 0.8 ‘The melancholy days haye come, Phelps, an old member, and a, mo ‘he saddest of the yéur; excellent man, will be chosen. a ‘The candidate now hourly>chews D. Wetherill, will probably Pith it The editorialear. © from the Fourth. In the jee there . is dificult to tell now positively, whe! ‘sneri> Inthe Ninth,-Ald. Peevey ba anything, “ be elected. Inthe Eleventh, Mr, Dean be chosen; in the Twelfth, “Ald, Everett oF J, J. Me- an Voss, on whom the Republicans erats have nuntted; it te Seventeenth Barr rett, the present Incumbents Eighteenth, Frank ML. Blair, Republicans —— in the THIRD WARD. TIE TOWN DELEGATES AND ALD! Notwithstanding the great storm the Tpird Ward Republican Club held a large © last evening at the So on Twenty-second street, near enue. Over 100 citizens were present, TM President, C. M. Henderson, occupied 00 chair. Among those present son, Buell, Isaae Howland, Henry W. Sherwooes D.A. Shorey, Lazarus Silverman,Sr. Sho all, D. HL Gile, J. Waaghop, EB. L. Jayne uth Side Gymnasiam, were: C. M. Hender: Ru. White, W. S. Eyerett, Ira We ; Rawleigh, and-Clark, * hoping that they may be gole tu secure votes enough to elect them,and thus deprive Clatkot ssome of his strength. } has not become one of Clark against Spald- ing or Cary ‘against Rawleizh, but dne of Clark against the field, with the chances de. cidedly against the field. Clark feeling at the Third Ward meeting [ast night, ma it, ‘Che See but that has all along been conceded te hiu. Indiana 8% |